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Sam Allardyce has held talks with the FA about replacing Roy Hodgson, who quit after England exited Euro 2016 in the last 16 to Iceland.
Gerrard, capped 114 times, said that pressure from the media created "huge fear" among the players.
But the 36-year-old insisted "it won't be long before fans are smiling again".
Sunderland manager Allardyce is favourite for the role, with Hull City saying on Thursday no approach has been made for another rumoured candidate, Steve Bruce.
Allardyce, 61, has not returned to the club's training camp in Austria after talks on Tuesday, but is said to be working on transfers from his desk.
United States head coach Jurgen Klinsmann and Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe have also been linked with the post.
Regardless of who gets the job, ex-Liverpool captain Gerrard - now at LA Galaxy - has "every confidence" that the national team can take it "to the next level".
He told Laduma: "The FA and the players and the new staff coming in will get it right. It will improve and it won't be too long before the fans are smiling again.
"This experience and this hurt will help all of those players moving forward because they won't want to experience it again.
"There's a huge fear amongst the group at the moment. The expectations are very, very high. But they will be used to it in years to come."
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The village of Jiangbei, in Jiangsu province, is being razed to make way for a high-tech development zone.
The couples found they could qualify for two new houses and at least $19,000 (£15,500) extra if they divorced and claimed compensation as singles.
Some are over 80, and most said they planned to continue living together.
Families who have been living there for generations have little choice but to move to new housing provided by the local government.
Each couple could expect to get one 220 sq m house.
China's rush for divorce
But the families read the fine print and realised that if they were divorced through the courts, they could also claim an extra 70 sq m property and some cash in compensation.
A law firm is charging more than $2,000 (£1,600) to help people with their divorces, China Daily reports.
Some of the couples are expecting to remarry at a later date.
"Everybody is doing this, we will deal with other things later," one villager told the Nanjing Morning Post.
It is not clear whether any of the couples will actually receive the extra compensation.
Officials say they are aware of the loophole and do not know whether the compensation arrangements will be changed.
Similar cases have occurred before in the area of Nanjing, Jiangsu's regional capital, China Daily reported.
Volunteers from the Skipchen organisation travelled to Lesbos in November to build a field kitchen.
Sam Joseph, co-founder of Skipchen, said other bodies had seen their work and want them to repeat the project on other islands.
The group had previously run a cafe in Bristol stocked with unwanted food.
Mr Joseph said they had always planned to return home once the Lesbos kitchen was up-and-running with local labour.
He said other agencies had seen their operation, next to the Lesbos migrant centre, and had asked if they would set up on other nearby islands where refugees are also landing.
Mr Joseph added many of those arriving were "heavily-traumatised" yet "full of hope" for their future.
"It's been a real learning curve working in these environments," he said.
"Sadly I don't think we're going to see these problems get better in the future... if anything they might get worse."
Earlier this week at least 34 people drowned off the coast of Turkey after their boats sank during an attempted crossing to Lesbos.
The narrow stretch of water is one of the key crossing points for the significant number of refugees and migrants from Syria and other countries trying to reach the EU.
The Higher Education Governance Bill had proved controversial, with the government agreeing to cut some measures from the legislation.
Labour backed the general principles of the bill, while the Lib Dems and Conservatives hit out at it.
The bill modernises academic boards with elected chairs and an enhanced definition of academic freedom.
It was passed by 92 votes to 17.
Education Secretary Angela Constance said: "This is an important day for the future of Scotland's world class universities and their students.
"The passing of the Higher Education Governance Bill will ensure greater openness and transparency in the governance of these important and influential institutions.
"Every voice on campus will be heard as part of elections for chairs, or senior lay members, with staff, students and union representatives involved in the whole recruitment and election process. The historic role of rectors in those universities that have them will also continue.
"We have listened closely to stakeholders and interested parties over the course of the bill's passage and made a number of amendments, both to clarify the bill, and to make sure it has maximum impact in improving governance practice."
She added: "Our higher education institutions are, and will remain, a great source of pride to Scotland. Our research work is known the world over and the student experience is of the highest quality.
"An enhanced voice on campus for those who may not have been able to contribute before can only improve the sector's standing."
Mary Senior, University and College Union (UCU) Scotland official, said: "We welcome the passing of this important bill. Reforming university governance and making our universities more democratic, transparent and accountable is something that UCU has campaigned for over many years.
"These changes will reconnect the way universities are run with those most affected by decisions - the staff and students - and allow our universities to remain the world leading institutions they are."
Emily Beever, NUS Scotland women's officer, said: "The bill provides for far greater levels of staff and student involvement in key decision making and ensures that our universities - charitable bodies, rightly in receipt of over a billion pounds of public funding every year - are more representative and inclusive of the communities they serve."
During the debate at Holyrood Labour MSP Mark Griffin said the Scottish government's proposals had caused an unnecessarily difficult process, pointing out that there had been "bad drafting, ministerial overreach and incompetence" in its progress.
But he commended the minister for listening and making changes and said his party would be scrutinising every detail as the policy moved into practice.
Scottish Conservative MSP Mary Scanlon said this was the first time she had "found legislation looking for a problem".
She claimed that every higher education institution in the whole of Scotland criticised the bill.
Lib Dem MSP Liam McArthur said that in the higher education sector, Scotland had something to value and respect.
He said the bill should be about ensuring that all staff and student voices were heard and said it was unclear what ministers were trying to fix and how the bill would make things better.
Although universities get a large chunk of their income from the Scottish government, unlike schools and colleges they are not part of the public sector or directly accountable to politicians.
The proposal which caused the most controversy was for directly elected chairs for university courts - students and staff would be able to take part in the vote.
But this was seen by some as a threat to the role of the rector at the ancient universities.
The role of the rector is sometimes seen as purely symbolic and ceremonial. However, supporters argue the best rectors can be powerful ambassadors for their universities and champions of the students' interests.
Murrayfield, with a 67,000 capacity, and the 52,000-capacity Hampden Park have been identified as possible options for more expansion in the UK.
London will stage four more NFL games this autumn, two at Wembley and two at Twickenham, after three games in 2016.
With overseas matches continuing until at least 2025, the league is keen to branch out into other European cities.
"It is great to see how passionate the fans are here," said Charlotte Offord, the director of marketing for NFL UK, on a promotional visit to Glasgow.
"They are travelling quite long distances to come to NFL games, which is great to see.
"Hampden Park and Murrayfield are two venues that are well equipped and have the right pitch size to host an NFL game.
"Although the focus for us right now is expanding the London games, conversations have certainly taken place and will continue to take place around whether a game is possible in Scotland in the future."
American football's profile in Scotland has plummeted since the demise of the Scottish Claymores, who competed in the World League of American Football (later renamed NFL Europe) between 1995 and 2004.
The Claymores were initially based at Murrayfield, before later alternating their games between the capital and Hampden Park. Officials at both venues would be keen to stage the sport again.
A spokesman for the national football stadium told BBC Scotland: "Hampden Park was the spiritual home for the successful Scottish Claymores...and a logical choice should the NFL seek to expand their horizons in the future."
And the Scottish Rugby Union said: "We are very open to welcoming NFL matches to BT Murrayfield. We have nothing planned, but always welcome discussions."
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The NFL claims it has 13 million fans in the UK, and its players are happy at the prospect of branching out into new territories.
"The more places we can go, the better," Christian Kirksey, a linebacker for the Cleveland Browns, who will play Minnesota Vikings at Twickenham in October this year, told BBC Scotland.
"It is all about expanding your fan base and letting people see you, rather than just watching you on TV.
"I think it is a good idea for us to keep travelling to different spots and get more exposure for the NFL."
Thomas Morstead, a kick-off specialist for New Orleans Saints, who play Miami Dolphins at Wembley later this year, would also be happy to play a regular-season game in Scotland.
"What's an extra 30 minutes or hour's flight?" said the 2010 Superbowl winner. "I don't think it matters where it is.
"If there are passionate fans that want to see us play, I am sure if they can fill a stadium and that the NFL would love to play here at some point."
Michael Laws' comments on his radio show last week were strongly condemned by Prime Minister John Key.
Laws is the second broadcaster from New Zealand to be accused of making "racist" remarks.
On Sunday, TVNZ host Paul Henry quit after provoking outrage over his comments about Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
On his show last week, Laws compared the governor general to an obese Monty Python character, Mr Creosote, who explodes after eating too much food.
He said Sir Anand's weight seemed "incongruous" on an Indian.
"I mean, we don't all expect Indians to be begging on the streets of New Delhi, but it's like Anand discovered the buffet table at 20 and he's never really left it," the radio host said.
Laws had initially refused to say sorry, but in a statement on Monday he said: "I apologise to the governor general for comments which were, upon reflection, uncharitable and inappropriate."
The prime minister said the remarks were unacceptable.
"I find Michael Laws' comments offensive because they're deeply personal and they're aimed at the governor general in a way that I don't think is appropriate for that office," news agency AFP quoted Mr Key as saying.
On Sunday, Paul Henry, who presented TVNZ's Breakfast programme, resigned after his on-air comments two weeks ago about Mrs Dikshit led to indignation both in New Zealand and in India.
He laughed a number of times as he mispronounced her surname, which sounds closer to "Dixit" in English, and said her name was "appropriate because she's Indian".
Indian officials condemned those remarks as "racist and bigoted".
India's foreign ministry registered a formal protest and New Zealand's government apologised for the remarks.
Mrs Dikshit, who has been overseeing arrangements for the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, said Mr Henry's remarks were "not appropriate".
Roozbeh Araghi's family said no-one had been in touch and their own attempts to get information from police had failed.
Four people died on the Thunder River Rapids ride at the Gold Coast theme park on Tuesday.
Queensland Police said it had contacted members of the family but would review how next of kin were notified.
Roozbeh Araghi, 38, died alongside partner Luke Dorsett, 35, Mr Dorsett's sister Kate Goodchild, 32, and Cindy Low, 42.
"We resorted to even ringing [emergency telephone number] triple-0 and trying to get through to the police station via that," Mr Araghi's brother, Simon, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp on Thursday.
"We had three of us on hold for well over an hour."
But Queensland Police said it had been in touch with the family.
"Officers have been in contact with members of the family from the beginning of this tragic event and will continue to maintain contact and support with the family through the investigation team's dedicated Family Liaison Officer," police said in a statement.
Dreamworld's parent company Ardent Leisure contacted the Araghi family on Thursday to express their condolences and offer support.
Ardent Leisure CEO Deborah Thomas said she would phone the families personally. She said she would also donate her company bonus to them via the Red Cross.
But Mr Araghi said he would have preferred Ms Thomas's call earlier.
"They apologised and I think wanted to see if they can work through things with us privately, but to be honest it's not really on our radar at the moment," he said.
Dreamworld cancelled a planned memorial re-opening on Friday and will remain closed until at least Monday.
The changes will focus on the so-called purdah rules, which stop ministers using public money to campaign for one side, from 28 days before such a vote.
The government had wanted to suspend these laws so ministers could continue to discuss European matters in public.
Some Tories argued this would favour the pro-EU camp and now restrictions are likely to stay but with exceptions.
The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 sets out a 28-day period ahead of any referendum, during which ministers, government departments and local authorities are banned from publishing material relating to the issue in question.
Prime Minister David Cameron claimed suspending these rules was necessary to allow the government to continue dealing with EU matters during the referendum period.
Ministers also said the purdah rules would stop them being able to defend the national interest in Brussels.
In June, 27 Tory MPs rebelled against the government plans for suspension of the rules, which avoided defeat only because Labour chose to abstain.
Then in July a report from the Public Administration Committee said it was also unconvinced by ministers' arguments.
In a critical report, it said such a move would "cast a shadow of doubt over the propriety" of the referendum on whether the UK should remain in the EU or leave.
BBC deputy political editor James Landale said the changes - set to be tabled later - were "designed to reassure the government's critics".
He added: "The changes are expected to restore the restrictions on ministers, with some exceptions."
One Whitehall source told the BBC: "There will be a pretty significant shift in the government position.
"There is no wish within the government to be in a position where doubt is cast on the fairness of the referendum.
"It has got to be fair. And it has got to be seen to be fair."
The amendments have to be published on Wednesday so there is time for MPs to consider them before debating and voting on them next Monday.
Meanwhile, allies of Mr Cameron, who has pledged to hold an EU referendum by 2017, are contemplating staging it as early as next April, BBC Newsnight understands.
Senior Tories would like to get the referendum staged earlier in Mr Cameron's second term, to allow him to capitalise on what Conservatives think could be Labour Party infighting over the potential election of leadership hopeful, Jeremy Corbyn, the programme reported.
A government source said a referendum in April was "possible" but pointed out that the referendum legislation was still likely to be held up in the House of Lords, as peers tried to amend it.
The SNP's foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond told Newsnight that there was no way the government would get parliamentary approval - the support not just of Tories but of opposition parties too - for a referendum as early as April 2016.
On Tuesday, the government accepted the Electoral Commission's recommendations to scrap plans for a Yes/No vote and instead ask voters if they want to "remain in" or "leave the EU".
Interior Minister Mario Fernandez said two police officers were found in the Maule River, adding to the deaths of four firefighters.
A giant Boeing 747 super tanker plane has been loaned from the US to battle the forest fires, Chile's worst in decades.
A state of emergency has been declared south of the capital, Santiago.
Chile's National Forestry Corporation said multiple blazes had affected 238,000 hectares (588,000 acres) and were increasing.
On Wednesday, a firefighter died after getting stuck while trying to help a family escape from their home near the city of Constitucion.
Three others have died and three were injured over the past week. More than 4,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.
The plane can carry 22-times more water and fire-retardants than more common single-engine air tankers.
The cost is being met by the Walton Family Foundation, created by Walmart founders Sam and Helen Walton.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet also asked for help from French counterpart Francois Hollande, who was visiting Chile.
The authorities also requested planes and helicopters from the US, Canada and Mexico and neighbouring Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Peru.
The blazes spread quickly in the dry and particularly hot summer that many South American countries are experiencing.
They have struck mainly in sparsely populated rural areas in the central regions of O'Higgins and El Maule.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said a firm that read a worker's Yahoo Messenger chats sent while he was at work was within its rights.
Judges said he had breached the company's rules and that his employer had a right to check on his activities.
Such policies must also protect workers against unfettered snooping, they said.
The judges, sitting in the ECHR in Strasbourg, handed down their decision on Tuesday. Countries that have ratified the European Convention on Human Rights, which include Britain, have agreed to abide by the ECHR rulings that involve them.
The impact on domestic courts differs. Under UK human rights laws, judges must take into account the ECHR's decisions but are not bound by them.
The worker, an engineer in Romania, had hoped the court would rule that his employer had breached his right to confidential correspondence when it accessed his messages and subsequently sacked him in 2007.
His employer had discovered that he was using Yahoo Messenger for personal contacts, as well as professional ones.
Because it believed it was accessing a work account, the judges said, the firm had not erred.
They dismissed the man's request, saying that it was not "unreasonable that an employer would want to verify that employees were completing their professional tasks during working hours".
The judges said: "The employer acted within its disciplinary powers since, as the domestic courts found, it had accessed the Yahoo Messenger account on the assumption that the information in question had been related to professional activities and that such access had therefore been legitimate. The court sees no reason to question these findings."
The man, named Bogdan Barbulescu, had already lost his case in Romania's domestic courts and appealed to the ECHR.
He argued that his right to a private life had been breached when his employer had read a log of messages on a Yahoo Messenger account he had set up for work, as well as that from a second personal one.
Mr Barbulescu's employer had banned its staff from sending personal messages at work.
To check his account, the judges said, it had been necessary for his employer to access his records.
The judges said this was a proportionate step because the firm did not access other information stored on his work computer.
And they added that Mr Barbulescu had had prior warning that the company could check his messages.
Despite claims about the second, personal account, the judges only discussed the work account in their ruling.
The device used to send the messages was owned by the employer, and the judges did not elaborate on whether it would have made any difference if he had used a personal device.
One of the seven judges disagreed with the decision, saying that a blanket ban on personal internet use was unacceptable.
Going forward, he added, all employers should clearly explain any rules that would allow them to check on their workers' online activities.
"All employees should be notified personally of the said policy and consent to it explicitly," he wrote.
Lilian Edwards, a professor of internet law at Strathclyde University, said the judgment was in line with UK law and past cases.
"In this case, the employers say clearly that you are not to use the internet for anything but work.
"Although it is not popular, it is completely legal.
"The employer seems to have played this by the book.
She added that blanket bans on personal internet use at work were unreasonable because people retained the right to their own private life even while working.
That was particularly important, she said, as people worked longer hours.
Sally Annereau, a data protection analyst at the law firm Taylor Wessing, said that UK law allowed proportionate checks on employees' communications.
"This judgment underlines the importance of having appropriate and lawful employee-monitoring policies in place and making sure both that they are communicated to employees and that they are adhered to by the employer," she said.
Three gang members were killed and two injured in the clash, police say.
Earlier on Monday about 50 men moved into the Paraguayan city of Ciudad del Este, blew up the front of a private security firm, and fired on police.
Unconfirmed reports suggest they could have stolen up to $40m (£31m; €37m).
After the robbery, the gang created a diversion by burning cars and attacking the local police station.
They escaped after a two-hour shootout that left one police officer dead at the scene after the company's vaults were blown up.
Police believe they fled in several of the security company's armoured trucks and then may have transferred their booty to waiting boats at the Parana river.
They were believed to have travelled 50km (30 miles) downriver to a region called Itaipulandia in Brazil, were they were intercepted by Brazilian police.
Brazilian federal police came across 12 men who exchanged fire and then escaped, Brazilian Globo website reported.
The men left guns, ammunition, flack jackets and explosives in the car they abandoned, police said.
A large security operation is under way to try to recapture the gang on both sides of the border.
It had the lowest turnout of any constituency in the UK at the 2015 general election. But fresh from a by-election and a fired-up electorate which overwhelmingly backed Brexit, could June's ballot see Stoke-on-Trent Central return to the polls?
"They are all just in it for themselves. I don't really see how my vote can change anything."
Mick Billington, Hanley town centre's postman, hasn't voted in years.
"The literature comes through my door from all the parties, but I don't read it. I just throw it in the bin," he says.
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"I thought about voting in the referendum. The Mrs kept saying 'come on, we should go', but you know how it is, you get in from work and you're comfortable."
He is not alone.
While many were moved to vote in the EU Referendum, Stoke Central's turnout at general elections has been falling steadily for 67 years - from a record high of 83% in 1950 to 51% in 2015, the lowest in the UK.
This once-proud Labour heartland - the party has held the seat every election since 1950 - is now home to an electorate that has become increasingly uninterested in politics.
Mr Billington's indifference for voting is not reflected in his views of the NHS.
His 86-year-old mother died six weeks ago, following a fall which saw her hospitalised for a fractured spine.
She'd suffered with dementia and when he visited her in hospital, Mr Billington saw for himself the pressures staff were under.
"People were lining the corridors [in their beds]. We're in 2017, not the 1940s or 50s," he says, his voice teetering on the edge of exasperation.
"I was saying to my wife only last night, I'd be happy to pay an extra £1 a week to help the NHS."
It's a rainy day in Hanley, one of the six Potteries towns that were amalgamated into the city of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910.
Over the years, it has become the city's main shopping centre, but it has suffered some decline as shops including Argos, JD Sports and much-loved independent bookshop Webberley's all closed.
While Stoke-on-Trent City Council is part way through regeneration plans - a four-star Hilton hotel is planned for the growing new Smithfield site and a shopping complex is due to replace the old bus station - some feel not enough is being done to breathe new life into the town centre.
As lunchtime approaches, some streets in the centre are virtually empty of shoppers. Several units are boarded up.
Carol Dugan works at JM Edwards tobacconist, opened by the late Tony Edwards in 1952.
"There's not enough done in Hanley to support us. Shops are boarded up but the council doesn't lower the rent to attract new ones in," she says.
"The druggies and the homeless have also become a really big problem."
A staunch Conservative, she chose not to follow her late father's own political beliefs.
"My dad was Labour. But he'd turn in his grave if he could see what was happening in the party now.
"I don't know why so many people don't vote. I vote because I'm a woman. Women died to give us the vote and we should use it."
Kevin Jones was a third generation Royal Doulton worker until he was made redundant when the china maker closed its last UK factory more than a decade ago.
He now runs Oatie Mostons in Market Square, selling Staffordshire oatcakes from his van.
"I haven't voted for a few year," he says. "After I was made redundant I became very disillusioned with things. They say the same things over and over but nothing ever changes."
Despite his apathy, Mr Jones felt strongly enough to vote to remain in the EU - something 69.4% of Stoke-on-Trent's voting population disagreed with.
He is a floating voter and says he will probably take part in the forthcoming General Election.
He likes Gareth Snell, who was elected to the Stoke-on-Trent Central seat over UKIP's Paul Nuttall in February's by-election.
"He's a people person. He comes into town and he talks to people," says Mr Jones.
"The Labour party should have more people like him and maybe they wouldn't have as many problems."
He also wouldn't mind paying more tax.
"I'd be prepared to pay more to pay for the right things," he adds.
"People are living longer - the money [to care for them] has got to come from somewhere.
"But I disagree in giving money to young people who haven't put anything in."
Mr Jones points to the pedestrian area outside his van, which is parked between Boots and Poundland.
"There are people begging here all the time. They come from outside Stoke - they know people here are generous. I've seen people give them £5 notes."
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Mr Jones talks of being told about families where three generations have never had jobs.
"It's a lifestyle choice for some, and it shouldn't be."
At the end of 2016, there was an estimated 17 rough sleepers a night on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent.
Tackling homelessness is on the agenda for the three main political parties.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn plans to make 4,000 homes across the country available to the homeless, while Lib Dem boss Tim Farron wants to introduce a policy that will place long-term rough sleepers straight into independent homes rather than emergency shelters.
The Conservatives aim to eradicate rough sleeping by 2027, and want to set up a homeless reduction taskforce.
For lifelong Labour supporter Janet Ellis, education is a top priority.
"Schools - I've got two young grandchildren, aged five and eight - and their education is very important," she says.
"These schools that have large classes and just one teacher in charge - how can that be good for them?"
She is in the town centre with her eldest grandson, Ethan Jenkins, having just given him a lift to an interview for an engineering apprenticeship.
Aged 18, he's looking forward to being able to vote for the first time.
"I'm voting because I've got the right to. A lot of people my age were in uproar that we couldn't vote in the referendum," he says.
"One person in particular was very angry and he's campaigning to get the voting age lowered to 16."
He's decided to back Labour, but not because his grandmother is a lifelong supporter.
"I'm not very political at all, but I've read a lot about what Labour is standing for, such as getting rid of hospital parking charges," he says.
"My step-dad works in the NHS and we've been a few times when relatives have been in hospital and you're there fumbling about with change."
Wearing a black T-shirt with "Too Glam to Give a Damn" in bright pink letters makes Laura Cook stand out among the rain-soaked shoppers.
Aged 23 and a manager at the Kurt Geiger concession in Debenhams, she and her partner have just bought a property.
Despite her glittery message, pay is a big issue for her.
"Costs of things are starting to rise but our wages aren't. Everything [previously] stretched quite well but it's becoming harder," she says.
"I'm only 23 - owning a property is a big deal. I'm not poorly paid and I'm very fortunate.
"I've worked since I was 16 - I used to work at Alton Towers.
"But the cost of living is rising for everyone. I've had to work and work hard."
She's voted in elections ever since she turned 18. "It's important. If you've got a vote you should use it. Plenty of people my age don't."
And plenty of people who aren't her age don't either.
Whether or not more constituents in Stoke Central will be fired up enough to cast their vote on 8 June is yet to be seen.
Underlying replacement cost profit for the quarter fell to $720m (£550m), down 44% from $1.3bn a year earlier.
BP also said it had "drawn a line" under its liabilities from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Earlier this month, the energy giant that the final bill for the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico would be $61.6bn.
In April 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and causing an oil spill that became the worst environmental disaster in US history.
BP said it had taken a further charge of $5.2bn in the quarter to cover liabilities from the disaster. Including these charges and other items, BP reported a $2.2bn loss on a non-underlying replacement cost basis, compared with a $6.6bn loss a year earlier.
The company also announced another cut to its planned investment budget for 2016 to "below $17bn".
BP chief executive Bob Dudley said: "Compared with a year earlier, the underlying second-quarter result was impacted by lower oil and gas prices and significantly lower refining margins, but this was partly offset by the benefit of lower cash costs throughout the group as well as lower exploration write-offs."
He added that the company expected "the external environment to remain challenging", but added that "we are delivering significant improvements to the business that will stick at any oil price".
On Monday, oil prices dropped to a three-month low, hit by rising concerns that a global oversupply of both crude and natural gas will dampen prices.
US crude fell to $43.11 a barrel, its lowest level since April, while Brent crude dropped to $44.75.
BP chief financial officer Brian Gilvary said: "We continue to reset our capital and cost base and are moving steadily towards our aim of rebalancing organic sources and uses of cash by 2017 in a $50-55 per barrel oil price range."
Richard Hunter, head of research at Wilson King Investment Management, said: "The sigh of relief emanating from BP HQ is almost palpable as the Gulf of Mexico spill is finally consigned to the history books.
"This is not to say that the challenges are over, not least of which is an underlying oil price still markedly short of the level which would provide comfort for the company."
BP's second-quarter profit was slightly below analysts' expectations, and in early trading the company's shares were down 1.8%.
The body has published a discussion paper to generate debate on how to improve publicly-funded legal services.
It said the current system was no longer fit for purpose.
The Scottish Legal Aid Board (SLAB) said any changes should be made alongside wider reforms of the justice system so as not to jeopardise access to justice for those who need it.
Last year, the Scottish Parliament passed new legislation which means some accused people have to pay towards their defence costs, with lawyers responsible for collecting the money.
The Law Society said the legal aid system has not kept pace with reforms to the wider justice system.
The discussion paper has suggested a number of possible change - although it conceded not all of them will attract "universal support from the profession".
It suggested reducing the eligibility levels for civil legal aid "to ensure that public funds are focused on those most in need", along with introducing "affordable legal assistance loans", which would be provided through the SLAB to help people with legal expenses.
The Law Society suggested that savings made should be reinvested into the legal aid system, while the block fee system for criminal legal aid should be streamlined.
It also proposed that changes to the system should be used to encourage the early resolution of cases.
The paper also said the "legal aid landscape has changed substantially" since being established in 1986 with the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act.
"The existing system lacks clarity, is inefficient and is administratively burdensome. It leads to unnecessary time and resources being spent by SLAB and solicitors at every stage of the process," it said.
Alistair Morris, president of the Law Society of Scotland, said: "The current legal aid system is almost 30 years old. In that time there has been extensive change which has resulted in a system that is hugely complex, with even highly-experienced solicitors reporting that they find it difficult to navigate.
"We don't believe that the current system is fit for purpose and, with the ongoing reforms to modernise the wider court and justice system, the time is right for root and branch change.
"We need to rethink legal aid as a whole and look at where efficiencies can be made and how savings can be reinvested to ensure that people can obtain legal advice when they need it most, regardless of their status or wealth."
Ian Moir, convener of the Law Society's criminal legal aid committee, said: "We are becoming increasingly concerned about the real term decline in expenditure on legal assistance which has been ongoing for years.
"We believe that re-investment of efficiency savings into legal assistance can deliver savings to the justice budget, to public services, the wider economy, and add value to both clients and communities."
The Law Society published the discussion paper days after SLAB chairman Iain Robertson warned savings would need to be made to the legal aid bill - which was just over £150m in 2013-14.
Responding to the paper, a SLAB spokesman said: "As we said at the publication of our annual report last week, there is scope for simplifying and reforming aspects of legal aid.
"However, changes to legal aid must be made in the context of the wider reforms of the justice system and should not jeopardise access to justice for those who need it.
"With the Scottish government, we will engage with the Law Society of Scotland, the Faculty of Advocates, other justice partners and the advice sector to look at delivering savings and maintaining access to justice for those that can't afford it."
James Wolff QC, the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, said meaningful access to justice depended on the availability of "effective and skilled legal assistance".
He added: "We should be proud of the way that Scotland's publicly funded legal aid system has helped to secure access to justice for people with legal problems of every sort, and any reform of the system should seek to improve access to justice for all who need it."
The Western lowland gorilla was delivered after her mother, Kera, developed the potentially dangerous condition pre-eclampsia.
The baby is being hand-reared by zookeepers as Kera is still recovering but "not quite out of the woods".
Keepers are asking the public to choose the baby's name from a choice of three.
Curator of mammals Lynsey Bugg said the gorilla's birth weight had almost doubled to 2.2kgs (4lbs 8oz) and she was getting "noticeably stronger week by week".
She said: "Her arm muscles are becoming more defined, her grip is stronger and she is increasingly alert and attentive.
"She might be small but she is already showing an assertive side to her personality and grunts and coughs at us if we don't give her her milk quickly enough."
Ms Bugg said gorillas developed "in similar ways to human babies" but reached milestones much earlier. Teething started at four weeks, she tried to roll over at five weeks old and at six weeks was becoming "increasingly vocal".
Talking about the mother, Ms Bugg said: "Kera has been very poorly with anaemia and a suspected chest infection, on top of recovering from the pre-eclampsia.
"There have been a few times when we have not been sure whether she would pull through, it's been a very delicate recovery for her and she is still not 100% better."
She said Kera had shown little interest in her daughter due to being ill and they were "exploring the possibility" of another female gorilla fostering the baby after they showed "good protective behaviour".
Bristol Zoo wants to name the baby, who is not yet on show, and is inviting the public to choose from a choice of three names.
Greipel, of the Lotto-Soudal team, surged to the front on the final straight of the flat 182km (113 mile) stage from Noale to Bibione, crossing the line in just over four hours.
The 33-year-old cited goals further into the season as his reason for quitting after his third stage win.
Bob Jungels retained the overall lead after finishing safely in the bunch.
Caleb Ewan finished the stage second, with Giacomo Nizzolo third.
Stage 12 result:
1. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto) 4hrs 16mins
2. Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita/Trek) Same time
3. Arnaud Demare (Fra/FDJ)
4. Diego Ulissi (Ita/Lampre)
5. Sacha Modolo (Ita/Lampre)
6. Maarten Tjallingii (Ned/LottoNL)
Overall standings
1. Bob Jungels (Lux/Etixx-Quick-Step) 49hrs 32mins 20secs
2. Andrey Amador (Crc/Movistar) +24secs
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +1min 7secs
4. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/LottoNL) Same time
5. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) +1min 9secs
6. Rafal Majka (Pol/Tinkoff) +2min 1secs
About 17,000 people ran the 13.1-mile (21km) course through the city.
The event saw course records set in the men's and women's elite races.
Roads were closed and public transport diversions put in place as runners negotiated the course.
After the elite athletes finished, Run 4 Wales chief executive Matt Newman revealed Cardiff will host a marathon in April 2017, after the success of this year's half marathon.
In the men's race, Kenyan Shadrack Korir set a course record and a personal best of one hour and 54 seconds, while three-time Welsh half-marathon champion and Swansea Harrier Dewi Griffiths crossed the line in eighth place, with a time of 1:03:26.
Kenyan Violah Jepchumba, 25, won the women's race in another race record time of 1:08:14, ahead of fellow Kenyan Flomena Daniel.
Ebbw Vale's Richie Powell comfortably won the men's wheelchair race in 1:02:41, with Gintare Gaigaliene winning the women's equivalent in 1:39:58.
All closed routes in Cardiff were expected to reopen by 15:15 BST.
Organisers claim the event, which started at Cardiff Castle, is now the third largest UK road race behind the Great North Run and London Marathon.
Elite runners joined charity fundraisers and fun runners on the route which takes in many of the city's sights including the Cardiff Bay barrage, Wales Millennium Centre and Roath Park lake.
Among those also taking part were three groups of women trained by former Wales rugby captain Gareth "Alfie" Thomas.
Their journey to the finish line will be documented in the BBC One programme Alfie's Angels.
The monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh fed seven-year-old Donna while touring a new £2m home for nine Asian elephants at the Bedfordshire attraction.
They also met 10-month-old Elizabeth, born the day before the Queen's 90th birthday celebrations last year and named in her honour.
Both elephants live in the Centre for Elephant Care, a new custom-designed barn.
The barn, which has one-metre deep soft sand flooring, is set among 20 acres of paddocks for the herd.
Professor David Field, a director for the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), said the Queen was "absolutely delighted" to learn 72 stone (460kg) Elizabeth was named in her honour.
Assistant curator of elephants Lee Sambrook, who demonstrated how keepers clean the animals' feet and inspect their teeth, said the Queen was especially interested to hear about the round-the-clock care they receive and compared it to keeping horses.
Asian elephants are considered endangered due to habitat loss, poaching and human conflict.
The ZSL charity - which runs the zoo and of which the Queen is a patron - is involved in more than 50 conservation programmes to ensure elephants and humans can coexist peacefully.
The centre will open to the public on Wednesday.
Platini, 60, was banned for eight years by the world governing body's ethics committee in December, as was 79-year-old president Sepp Blatter.
Both were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) "disloyal payment" to Platini.
"I've done nothing and I'm not afraid of anything," said the Frenchman.
"If I had anything to reproach myself for, I would be hiding in Siberia in shame."
Blatter's appeal against his ban was heard on Tuesday.
Like Platini, the Swiss denies any wrongdoing.
According to news agency Reuters, Blatter arrived at 07:30 local time in order to avoid cameramen and photographers who had expected him to arrive later.
The verdict could arrive later this week.
"Is it Blatter who put me in this situation? Not at all, he is in the same situation as me," added Platini.
"Someone pushed the button and I will try to find out who."
Uefa said last month that it will not hold an election for its presidency until Platini's appeals process has been concluded.
The Fifa appeals committee, which is chaired by Bermuda Football Association president Larry Mussenden, has the power to reduce, increase or overturn the ban.
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Meanwhile, Greg Dyke has denied that the Football Association has agreed to vote for Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino in the forthcoming election for Fifa president, to be held on 26 February.
Infantino, who joined Uefa in 2000 and has been general secretary since 2009, entered the presidential race in October last year.
FA chairman Dyke, speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, said that the organisation had come under significant pressure to vote for Infantino at a recent Uefa meeting, but added that no decision has been taken.
"We're going to discuss this at the FA board this week and the board will decide," he said.
"I went to the meeting at Uefa and we refused. We said: 'We are not telling you.' We came under a lot of pressure. There was a lot of pressure. There were half-a-dozen European nations who said: 'We're not deciding today.'"
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Richard Conway, the BBC's sports news correspondent, says that Infantino is confident of victory.
Conway said: "I understand Infantino believes he has secured over the half of the votes from the potentially crucial Concacaf region - 35 votes in total, drawn from North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
"Infantino's camp are growing in confidence and believe he has real momentum entering last two weeks of the Fifa campaign.
"It is understood that he has secured support from every Fifa region to the extent he now believes he is the frontrunner."
Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce will be confirmed as the new national team boss in the next 24 hours - but is the man affectionately known as 'Big Sam' the right person to take the national team forward?
We take a look at what England could look like under Allardyce.
"There will be discipline," says Kevin Davies, who played under Allardyce at Bolton. "He will put the laws and rules down. At Bolton he had a bible which everyone had to read and sign up to.
"It was the rules and regulations. The way we trained and prepared for games was all in there. It was a 20-25 page document that everyone had to adhere to."
Expect experience and steel too - think Davies himself, Gary Speed, Fernando Hierro, Ivan Campo, Radhi Jaidi, Joey Barton, Michel Salgado and Sunderland destroyer Jan Kirchoff, all recruited by the Dudley-born manager.
So will that mean a reprieve for 30-year-old defender Gary Cahill, one of the older members of a youthful Euro 2016 squad, or even a recall for John Terry at 35?
Don't forget flair - from the man who signed French World Cup winner Youri Djorkaeff, Nigeria playmaker Jay-Jay Okocha and Wahbi Khazri, as well as signing Mark Viduka at Newcastle and almost roping in Robert Lewandowski while at Blackburn. If it wasn't for that pesky volcanic ash cloud, Sam...
Because of his fondness for a 'wildcard player', might we see someone like wily Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere given a more prominent role?
And let's not overlook Kevin Nolan - his reliable charge. Perhaps the ex-Bolton, Newcastle and West Ham midfielder might link up with his boss for a fourth time - maybe as a coach following the 34-year-old's stint as Leyton Orient player-manager last season.
If you have a high work-rate on the pitch, train hard to be in peak condition and enjoy set-piece drills then join the club. You would also have to embrace modern sports science methods.
At Bolton, Allardyce embraced Prozone - a sports analysis company in its infancy. He wanted to use the statistics provided to get the edge on his rivals.
In a Guardian piece in 2015, Allardyce is said to have had "exact positions for players to gain the best possible chance of scoring" - this would be of paramount importance on throw-ins, free-kicks and corners. Hence, the now-renowned Allardyce meticulous preparation on set-pieces.
That could mean an end to Wayne Rooney as a deep-lying midfielder, Daniel Sturridge on the right wing and Harry Kane taking corners.
He is also keen that players take a holistic approach to preparation.
Former Bolton player Michael Bridges said: "Every week we would have yoga classes and it was the first time I had been given supplements to take with my food, which helped recovery and joint ache. We even had a psychologist who would sit down with us whenever we wanted to get advice or set ourselves targets."
Former Trotters striker Davies told BBC World Service: "Motivation-wise, he is fantastic, the best I have ever worked with. He knows how to get the best out of a player. He has proven that with the players brought in, and has got careers going again.
"He's just a good man-manager, he knows when to crack the whip and when to dangle the carrot."
So Allardyce could be a lifeline for the damaged confidence of Raheem Sterling and reignite the form of Everton pair John Stones and Ross Barkley.
West Ham striker Andy Carroll springs to mind for his physical presence in attack, while at Sunderland Jermain Defoe was one of his key players in the fight for survival.
Some 21% of the passes his Sunderland team played last season were long - compared to 8.7% at Arsene Wenger's Arsenal. So could Manchester United's Michael Carrick return? Or would he find room for Newcastle midfielder Jonjo Shelvey?
He signed left-back Aaron Cresswell when he was at West Ham and has previously questioned why Hammers central midfielder Mark Noble was excluded from the national team.
And, with his love of veterans, could he tempt Major League Soccer duo Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard, both closer to 40 than 30, out of international retirement?
Davies said: "He likes to have a dressing room which has good morale and a good belief in themselves. Anybody that goes in there and unsettles that squad will be out the door.
"That's what Sam does - he's ruthless, he won't stand for any nonsense, but he will create an environment where the players look forward to coming away. I think the atmosphere he will create will be similar to Wales or Iceland, that spirit, that togetherness along with the ability that we have lacked."
This article was first published on 13 July 2016.
England's next fixture is their opening World Cup 2018 qualifier against Slovakia on Sunday, 4 September.
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The resolution was presented by the US, UK and France, who reacted angrily to Russia's decision.
It was the eighth time Russia has protected its ally at the council.
The suspected chemical attack on rebel-held Khan Sheikhun on 4 April killed more than 80 people.
Western allies blamed the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and US President Donald Trump ordered missile strikes against a Syrian air force base in response.
The proposed resolution would have backed an investigation on the ground by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
The Syrian government would have been told to provide military information, including flight logs, from the day of the alleged attack, and provide access to air bases.
It denies it is responsible.
China - one of the five permanent Security Council members which hold veto power - abstained from the vote, as did Ethiopia and Kazakhstan. Ten other countries voted for the resolution, and Bolivia joined Russia in voting against it.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley condemned Russia's action: "You are isolating yourselves from the international community every time one of Assad's planes drop another barrel bomb on civilians and every time Assad tries to starve another community to death," she said.
In Washington, at a news conference with the Nato secretary-general, President Trump was asked by the BBC's Jon Sopel if he thought it was possible that Syrian forces could have launched the alleged attack without Russia knowing about it.
"I think it's certainly possible. I think it's probably unlikely," he said. "I would like to think that they didn't know, but certainly they could have. They were there."
He also said it was "wonderful" that China abstained at the UN, but, mentioning that he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping the previous night, said he was "not surprised".
China has vetoed six resolutions on Syria since the conflict began in 2011.
Earlier Russia's President Vladimir Putin rejected allegations that Syria was behind the chemical attack, saying Syria had given up its chemical stockpile.
Mr Putin, speaking on Mir television, also said trust had "deteriorated" between the US and Russia under the Trump presidency.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson echoed those comments, saying ties with Russia were at a low point and must improve.
After two hours of talks with Mr Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, he said that the "two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this relationship".
After the UN vote, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Russia was "on the wrong side of the argument", while French President Francois Hollande said it "bears a heavy responsibility" for continuing to protect Mr Assad and blocking a united international response.
But Russian Deputy Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov told the council the measure was "doomed" from the beginning.
"The outcome was pre-determined because we have consistently expressed our categorical disagreement with the content of the document," he said.
Russia has called for an independent international investigation, and questioned how Western powers could have assigned responsibility for what happened so quickly.
Graham Findlay, of Peterhead, spotted two sheep in either end of the bale near Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire, so drove home to get his camera.
One still had its head inside when he returned.
Mr Findlay, 57, told BBC Scotland: "You try to put your best pictures out there and then a quirky one like this goes 'whoosh'."
Mr Findlay, who works at Peterhead Prison Museum, added: "We came round a corner and saw a sheep at either end of the bale.
"We went home, picked up the camera and went back. It was just the one sheep by then.
"I wish I had got the two of them, but I posted the picture on Facebook and it already has more than 1,500 likes.
"The photo was too good an opportunity to miss. I did not realise there would be such an interest, but it's keeping people amused.
"I assume the sheep got out after feeding, as the other one did."
Thousands of samples were taken from members of the Yanomami tribe, in 1967 for genetic testing.
A Yanomami shaman, Davi Kopenawa, said the blood would be buried with special prayers.
He said his people had been horrified to discover it had been kept in freezers far from home for years.
Davi Kopenawa said, "I was 10 or 11, and the non-Indians [American scientists] came to our community. We had four different villages there who lived with a lot of missionaries. The missionaries told the village elders that we had to give blood."
In return, he said, the American scientists gave the Yanomami pots, pans, fishing hooks, rope, matches and knives.
"An [American] anthropologist talked to us about the blood, this blood that they should not have taken and we should not have let them take. That is how I remember it," Mr Kopenawa added.
He and a representative of Yanomami communities across the border in Venezuela went to the United States to talk to the American anthropologists to ask for the return of the blood.
He spent years pushing for the return of the samples.
Eventually, in May 2010 five research centres in the United States which had kept Yanomami blood for decades agreed to a proposal by the Brazilian government to return the blood to the tribe.
Mr Kopenawa said the scientists had not specified how the blood was used at the time.
"The white man tricked us so that they could take it away," he said. "The blood belongs to our people. We have the right to have it back."
The researchers, led by geneticist James Neel and anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon had been doing research to see if the Yanomami were direct descendants of the first people to cross the Bering Strait from Asia into the Americas thousands of years ago.
According to Survival International, when a Yanomami dies, the body is cremated and it is essential no physical remains or possessions of the dead are kept.
The Yanomami believe this is so that the dead person can depart and separate the world of the living from the world of the dead.
Mr Kopenawa said the blood would be taken to Yanomami territory on Friday to one of the villages where it was extracted in northern Brazil for a special ritual with other religious leaders and for prayers to mark its return.
Anyone who happened to peer through the railings of Doncaster Racecourse last week would have been met with a surreal sight.
India's 1936 Olympic hockey team were greeted by a cheering crowd as they climbed off a vintage coach, before Nazi officers viciously beat a couple of their overenthusiastic fans.
Behind them, giant swastika banners were draped from the racecourse's historic Clock Tower Stand.
But this was just a film set, and Doncaster Racecourse was doubling as Berlin's 1936 Olympic Stadium. It will appear in Gold, an epic new Bollywood movie that tells the story of India's Olympic hockey players in 1936 and 1948.
One of the actors in Doncaster was Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar, who is above the likes of Tom Hanks, Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds on Forbes magazine's latest list of the world's best-paid actors.
"I rank him in the top five actors in Bollywood," says Suhail Al Belushi, from Leeds, who is one of more than 5,000 local extras in the film.
Mr Al Belushi has taken time out of his day job as a freelance interpreter to appear in the film after seeing Akshay Kumar walk into a hotel in Leeds.
"When I saw him I was shocked," he says. "I thought maybe there's a guy who looks like him. If it was India there would be crowds everywhere, heckling him, following him, wanting photos."
Among the other locations being used, Bradford's Midland Hotel, Harrogate's Old Swan Hotel and Leicester's Grand Hotel are all standing in for different parts of the Bombay Club in colonial Mumbai.
Rotherham FC's old Millmoor stadium doubles as an Indian hockey pitch. Dalton Mills in Keighley is a German army camp. The homes of Bradford Bulls, Leeds Rhinos and York City FC have all had a sprinkle of Bollywood stardust.
"I came here because I liked the locations," director Reema Kagti says.
"For this film, because it's a period film, I needed architecture that's been maintained. Architecture that existed before the '30s and has been maintained till date, and Yorkshire seems to have a lot of that. They really seem to respect their heritage and look after it."
The UK has become the destination of choice for many global film-makers, with talent from both Hollywood and Bollywood making it their home from home.
Movie production in the UK has grown 72% since 2014, the Office for National Statistics has reported.
Last year, £1.3bn was spent by foreign film-makers in Britain, according to the British Film Institute (BFI) - double the figure in 2012.
Most of that came from Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Transformers: The Last Knight and The Mummy.
But there's a growing trend for Bollywood films to be shot in the UK too.
Source: BFI
There are a few reasons behind Britain's allure for overseas film-makers - tax breaks, the weak pound making it cheaper to film here, a readily available pool of skilled crew, plus the historic locations.
There are other attractions, too, for Reema Kagti. She has developed a taste for local beers. "If I do get any time out, I do go to a pub and drink some ale," she smiles.
Sue Bellarby has worked on 26 Bollywood film sets in the UK, including Gold, where she is unit manager.
"When I started in 2005 there was maybe one a year," she says. "Now we're getting five or six.
"There are three shooting in the north at the moment. There are another two coming in September/October."
In the past, Bollywood film-makers might have recreated British castles or stately homes in state-of-the-art studios in India - but now they are increasingly using the real thing, she says.
"They love the authenticity of shooting here. And I know they get some form of tax incentive. My experience of them is it's as cheap to film here as it is in India now, and they can actually film the locations for real."
And they are increasingly going outside London. Yorkshire and Humber had the fastest-growing film and TV industries in the country between 2009-15, according to Screen Yorkshire, an agency that has been crucial to the area's success.
Gold's location manager Martin Walker says it is becoming more difficult and expensive to film in London. "The costs are becoming prohibitive," he says.
"Unit bases - spaces big enough to get all your big facilities and trucks in - are becoming fewer and fewer as they get developed on or sold out from underneath us, and some of us London-based location managers do worry about how viable London will be in the future as a place to shoot if you cannot physically service your shoot by having your vehicles close by."
Getting out of London has other advantages. "You've got your hotel costs which are half price, you've got great transport links, and you've actually got a population who still finds filming interesting and fun and fascinating and are helpful," he explains.
"Unfortunately London has gone the other way. 'Oh, filming again? Right, £50 before I move my car.'"
Kate Smith, a Manchester-based hair and make-up artist, adds: "It is definitely becoming a lot busier up north - the north west, Wales, Yorkshire.
"It used to be at one time that you'd have to live in London to be able to get the work, and you'd move the crew to wherever it was going. But now, the Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland - it's all booming everywhere."
Bradford - which became the first Unesco City of Film in 2009 - has been the Gold production team's base as well as providing a number of filming locations.
David Wilson, director of Bradford City of Film, says more than 100 films and TV shows have been shot in the city in the last 12 months. That's double the number in 2012, when he reopened the city's film office.
"It's given the city a renewed confidence," he says. "The phone in the film office rings off the walls some days. Every week there's a significant enquiry.
"Sometimes they don't come to fruition but more often than not they do, and we've now gained a reputation as a film-friendly city, and we're reaping the rewards of that."
The money spent on crew and suppliers - from trucks to catering - all makes its way into the local and national economy. And after release, locations often see an increase in tourism, Mr Wilson says.
"You've got the initial production phase, but that also leads to people thinking, do you know what, we might go there. We might go to Yorkshire. It looked brilliant in that film. And so it does dovetail very much into that whole tourism offer."
So perhaps, a year from now, when Gold is released, there could be another surreal sight at Doncaster Racecourse if Indian movie fans are climbing off coaches to see where the movie was shot.
Gold will be released on 15 August 2018.
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But he admits that's a mid-term target.
Rodgers is concentrating simply on coaxing a better performance from his side than they produced in losing 2-0 at home to Borussia Monchengladbach.
"The process we're beginning, the experience this competition has given us, is the chance to build towards that," he said of their last-16 hopes.
Celtic face the Germans away on Tuesday night knowing defeat will leave their hopes of staying in Europe at all in severe doubt.
"It's step by step," said Rodgers. "They've arrived into this level, in the toughest group in the competition, and of course it's been difficult for them.
"We don't see it as a threat. It's a major challenge for us, but it's a great challenge to have.
"Each year we can arrive here, we can improve on it and hopefully get to the latter stages consistently.
"Let's see how the next game goes and take it from there."
More immediately, Celtic must attempt to take their hugely impressive domestic form on the road to keep realistic hopes of European football after Christmas.
"We were second best the last time, there was no doubt about that," Rodgers said of the home defeat by Tuesday's opponents.
"In terms of performance level, it was one of the few times we fell below a standard we have set.
"There is no doubt we can win here. If we perform to the level that we know we can then of course it is a possibility for us, or else we wouldn't be here."
Brushing aside questions about whether the last 16 was still attainable this season, he added: "It is about putting in a performance away from home and if we can do that then we know we have a possibility of getting a good result.
"They reinforced that they are a very good side. Even with the players missing, the level they are developing over the last couple of years is a level we are trying to get to obviously over time.
"At this level, there are very few opportunities and you have to take them while remaining very solid and super-competitive."
Gladbach sit third in Group C, one point behind Manchester City, and a victory over Celtic would put the Germans in a strong position to at least qualify for the Europa League even if they fail to reach the last 16.
Winger Andre Hahn, who scored in Glasgow, said: "Celtic and City have to get by us at Borussia Park and a few teams have had a problem there."
However, coach Andre Schubert said his side are "in the race. Nothing more, nothing less".
"It is one of our most important games," he added. "It could well decide whether or not we stay in Europe."
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Matthew Salmon, 29, of St Ann's, Nottingham, was found guilty of multiple child sex offences at Nottingham Crown Court in December.
The girl, then aged 10, came forward after the NSPCC visited her Derbyshire school as part of its Speak out Stay safe service.
Salmon was sentenced to 15 years with a further year on licence.
The court heard how Salmon carried out multiple sexual assaults on the girl, ranging from kissing to rape over a two-year period.
He was found guilty of nine charges, including three counts of rape and two of sexual assault.
Judge Gregory Dickinson QC said the girl had suffered the "full spectrum of sexual abuse" and, given her age, "she clearly had no idea how serious it was".
Det Con Sue Hough, of Derbyshire Police, said: "Hopefully this will go some way to providing closure for the family and allow them to move on.
"It has been the most horrific catalogue of sexual abuse I've ever had to investigate on a child."
The NSPCC's Speak out Stay safe campaign involves volunteers visiting schools to speak to children aged four to 11 about how to protect themselves from abuse and how to report it.
Since the service started in 2011, it has reached more than one million children at 15,000 schools across the UK.
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Ewan Gordon, from Bicester, Oxfordshire, grew out his hair and beard to emulate the film character, to run the length of the UK.
He ran about 26 miles each day (42km) for 42 days, from John O'Groats to Land's End.
Mr Gordon did it in memory of Thomas Laurie, who died last year from Cockayne Syndrome - a rare premature ageing condition.
Nine-year-old Thomas, who died last February at Oxford hospice Helen and Douglas House, was one of about 10 children in the UK who have the genetic condition.
Mr Gordon said the idea to run dressed as Forrest Gump started as a bet.
In the 1994 film, the title character, played by Tom Hanks, ran across America, attracting a group of followers.
Mr Gordon, who left John O'Groats on 4 May, said other runners had also joined him along the route.
"People just think it's really funny and a lot of people just shout 'run Forrest run'," he said.
On arriving at Land's End on Sunday, Mr Gordon said he was "delighted" to have finished.
He added: "I haven't got a single blister - your body just gets used to running that far every day."
Mr Gordon's run has so far raised almost £9,000 for three charities that supported Thomas and his family: Respite Nursing for Oxfordshire's Sick Youngsters, Helen and Douglas House, and Amy and Friends, a Cockayne Syndrome support group.
Thomas's mother Catherine Laurie said: "We are so very proud of Ewan and totally humbled by his fundraising in memory of Thomas."
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The group, which has Marxist-Leninist roots, was formed in the late 1970s and launched an armed struggle against the Turkish government in 1984, calling for an independent Kurdish state within Turkey.
Fighting flared up again after a two-year-old ceasefire ended in July 2015.
Now the PKK is being targeted in a bigger Turkish security crackdown, following the botched July 2016 coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan by mutinous Turkish officers.
The PKK's struggle is also part of the turmoil in Iraq and Syria, where Turkey is trying to assert its influence on a battlefield with many rival forces.
In a BBC interview in April the PKK's military leader Cemil Bayik said "we don't want to separate from Turkey and set up a state".
"We want to live within the borders of Turkey on our own land freely... The struggle will continue until the Kurds' innate rights are accepted," he said.
Turkey continues to accuse the PKK of "trying to create a separate state in Turkey".
More than 40,000 people have died in the conflict. It reached a peak in the mid-1990s, when thousands of villages were destroyed in the largely Kurdish south-east and east of Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled to cities in other parts of the country.
In the 1990s, the PKK rolled back on its demands for an independent state, calling instead for more autonomy for the Kurds.
Who are the Kurds?
The spotlight is now on Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party, People's Democracy (HDP), whose joint leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were arrested early on 4 November.
The Turkish government said they had failed to appear for questioning about alleged links to the PKK - which they deny. Turkey accuses them of spreading PKK propaganda. Ten other MPs were also arrested.
Acting with emergency powers, introduced after the coup attempt, the Turkish authorities have also detained the joint mayors of Diyarbakir, a mainly Kurdish city. The Kurds' main media outlets have also been shut down.
The HDP, the main pro-Kurdish party, is a broad coalition of groups including liberal and left-wing ethnic Turks. The party denies Turkey's claim that it is allied to the PKK.
It entered parliament for the first time last year, winning 59 seats, making it the second-biggest opposition party.
South-eastern Turkey has been wracked by violence since the ceasefire with the PKK collapsed.
Hours after the HDP politicians were arrested, a car bomb went off outside a police station in Diyarbakir. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said it had killed eight people, including two policemen - and he blamed the PKK.
The Turkish air force regularly carries out air strikes against PKK bases in mountainous northern Iraq.
The Turkish government has ruled out any negotiations until the group completely disarms.
There have been many PKK attacks on Turkish security forces in the south-east.
In August 2016 a PKK car bomb in Cizre killed 11 policemen and injured 78. Hundreds of people have died in more than a year of clashes in Turkey's Kurdish-majority region.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the EU and US.
Human rights groups say many civilians have died during Turkey's anti-PKK offensive in the south-east. Turkey has imposed curfews and used heavy armour in urban areas in its fight with the rebels.
Tears and destruction amid Turkey PKK crackdown
Turkey has twin concerns about the Iraqi-Kurdish push to oust so-called Islamic State (IS) from Mosul.
President Erdogan's AK Party, strongly rooted in Sunni Islam, does not want Iraqi Shia forces to spread their influence up to Turkey's borders and beyond.
Nor does Turkey want the armed Kurdish groups to join up along its borders, bolstering the PKK cause.
Turkey retains an army base at Bashiqa, not far from Mosul, and has trained a local militia force - the Ninevah Guards - consisting of Sunni Arabs, Turkmens and Kurds.
In war-torn Syria, Turkey views the Popular Protection Units (YPG) - a Kurdish force fighting IS - as linked to the PKK.
Turkey is allied to the US in Nato - but the US also supports the YPG in its anti-IS struggle.
Turkey-Iraq tensions over Mosul offensive
Turkey v Syria's Kurds v Islamic State
In July 2015, a suicide bombing blamed on IS killed 32 people in the mainly Kurdish town of Suruc, just inside Turkey, near war-ravaged Kobane in Syria.
Kurdish groups accused the Turkish government of not doing enough to thwart IS operations.
A Turkish military operation in August-September 2016, in support of allied Syrian rebels, ousted IS from border towns.
The PKK suffered a major blow in 1999 when its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, was arrested and jailed for treason.
In March 2013, he called a ceasefire and urged PKK forces to withdraw from Turkey. But that ceasefire broke down in July 2015.
PKK leader holds key to Turkish-Kurdish peace
It was not the first time a truce had been declared.
Shortly after Ocalan's arrest, the PKK introduced a five-year unilateral ceasefire and tried to change its image and widen its appeal.
It called for a role in Turkey's politics, more cultural rights for the country's estimated 15 million Kurds and the release of imprisoned PKK members.
Turkey refused to negotiate with it and offered only a limited amnesty to its members.
Between 2009 and 2011, high-level secret talks took place between the PKK and the Turkish government in Oslo, Norway, but they collapsed after a clash in June 2011, in which 14 Turkish soldiers were killed.
Richard Weston had previously dumped waste in the same spot in Derbyshire six times, so the council set up a motion-activated camera to catch him.
The council's environmental health manager said it was "a really dopey thing to do".
Weston admitted depositing controlled waste without an environmental permit.
Matt Holford, South Derbyshire District Council's environmental health manager, described one of the photos as "a one in a million".
"It's extraordinary. He obviously didn't spot the camera," said Mr Holford.
"It almost looks like he is joyously throwing machine parts into the hedge."
The camera did not capture Weston's car registration plate the first time he was photographed, but he returned to dump yet more waste and was then traced through the number.
When interviewed he said he had salvaged parts from old dishwashers and sold them online as a hobby to earn a bit of extra money.
"One of the hilarious things about it was that during interview, under caution, he almost gave an impression he didn't think it was a problem because every time he dumped something it would disappear," said Mr Holford.
"I think he thought a local scrap dealer was picking it up."
In reality, the council was picking up the cost of clearing the site in Sandy Lane, Caldwell.
Weston, 38, of Frederick Street, Woodville, was fined £215, ordered to pay £1,000 costs and a victim surcharge of £21 when he appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court.
The narrow-bodied passenger plane's development has placed a major strain on Bombardier's finances.
Bombardier is based in Canada, but it is Northern Ireland's largest manufacturing employer.
The Quebec government will hold a 49.5% stake in a limited partnership set up to complete the CSeries programme.
The wings for the CSeries are made at Bombardier's Belfast plant.
Bombardier has also confirmed it is cancelling the development of its Learjet 85 business jet.
Earlier this year, it suspended the Learjet 85 programme due to a lack of demand for the plane.
Wing components for the jet are also made in Northern Ireland, but Bombardier says the cancellation will have no impact on jobs in Belfast.
The company reported a quarterly loss of $4.6bn, largely due to writing down the value of its investments in CSeries and Learjet 85.
Alain Bellemare, chief executive of Bombardier, said the deal with the Quebec government comes at a "pivotal time" for the CSeries.
"The market is there, our leadership is in place, we have the best product and with the support of the government, we are ready to make this aircraft a commercial success."
Quebec said its investment will come from the economic development fund that is managed by Investissement Québec, a financing corporation set up to attract investment to the province.
The government will receive 200m stock warrants for its investment.
Each warrant will entitle it to buy a class B share in Bombardier at a price of C$2.21 per share within a five-year period.
Davy Thompson of the union Unite said the Quebec government's intervention was a lesson for politicians in Northern Ireland in how "government action can safeguard employment and support the manufacturing sector.
"We are hopeful that this investment by the Quebec government will give Bombardier breathing space to achieve its sales targets for the CSeries, will safeguard the long-term employment of the workforce here and the wider economic benefit from such high value jobs," he said.
Set 320 to win off 53 overs, Yorkshire lost Adam Lyth early on but opener Alex Lees and Gary Ballance (43) set the platform for an exciting run chase.
Lees (107), Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow accelerated after tea but the visitors lost quick wickets and were left hanging on for a draw, ending 257-9.
Number 11 batsman Jack Brooks survived the last two balls of the match from England's Stuart Broad to avoid defeat.
Broad trapped Steven Patterson lbw in the final over, but Brooks edged his first delivery for four through gully and safely defended his second as Yorkshire clung on for a third draw in three Championship matches in 2016.
Earlier, Chris Read's 101 helped Notts from their overnight 151-5 to 348 all out in their second innings.
A game that looked set to peter out to a tame draw came to life when reigning champions Yorkshire, 64-1 at tea and requiring 256 further runs to win, attacked in search of an unlikely victory in the final session.
Root, who made a first-ball duck in the first innings, scored a quick-fire 27 and England team-mate Bairstow added 35 off 20 balls, while lower-order hitters Liam Plunkett and David Willey were pushed up the batting order.
But that intent almost proved Yorkshire's undoing as they were pegged back by Jake Ball (3-68) and Harry Gurney (4-53).
In the morning session, Yorkshire's wayward bowling was punished by Broad, who hit a 44-ball half-century and scored at more than five runs per over during a seventh-wicket partnership of 104 with Read.
Captain Read was 97 not out when Jackson Bird (23) became the ninth Notts wicket to fall, but Gurney saw off five balls from Patterson before Read reached his first Championship century of the season with a boundary off Adil Rashid.
Nottinghamshire are now top of Division One, while Yorkshire are four points behind in fifth.
The Grammy Awards are seen as the most important and respected prizes in the music business.
Disney's Frozen also won at the star-studded ceremony picking up two awards for Let It Go and for best film soundtrack.
Pharrell Williams and Beyonce won three awards each.
Other British winners included Clean Bandit with Jess Glynne for their hit song Rather Be.
Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Rihanna and Kanye West were just of the stars who performed at the Los Angeles ceremony.
But the night belonged to Sam Smith, who has cemented his place as one of pop's biggest stars just nine months after the release of his debut album In the Lonely Hour.
It also approved his decision to declare a 90-day state of emergency.
Senegalese troops have reportedly moved towards The Gambian border ahead of possible intervention to force Mr Jammeh to hand power to President-elect Adama Barrow.
Thousands of UK and Dutch tourists are being evacuated from The Gambia.
The tiny West African state is popular with European holidaymakers because of its beaches.
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What happens next?
Adama Barrow: From estate agent to president
Holidaymakers to be returned
The Gambia was plunged into crisis after Mr Jammeh rejected Mr Barrow's shock victory in the 1 December election.
In a televised announcement on Tuesday, Mr Jammeh said "any acts of disobedience to the laws of The Gambia, incitement of violence and acts intended to disturb public order and peace" were banned under the state of emergency.
He said security forces were instructed to "maintain absolute peace, law and order".
Could there be conflict?
A Senegalese military source said they were "very seriously" preparing for military action in The Gambia, Reuters news agency reports.
Residents in two towns in southern Senegal told the agency they had seen columns of troops heading for the border.
Regional bloc Ecowas, the Economic Community of West African States, has mandated Senegal, which almost surrounds The Gambia, to spearhead military intervention, but only as a last resort and with the backing of the UN Security Council.
The US State Department urged Mr Jammeh to peacefully transfer power to Mr Barrow on Thursday.
"Doing so would allow him to leave office with his head held high and to protect The Gambian people from potential chaos," spokesman John Kirby said.
"Failure to do so will put his legacy, and more importantly The Gambia, in peril," he added.
The Gambia's entire armed forces is made up of only about 2,500 troops, making it difficult to see how they can defeat a regional force if it moves in, says BBC Africa Monitoring security correspondent Tomi Oladipo.
Nigeria's air force was contributing 200 "supporting" troops for the force, navy spokesman Capt Dahun Jahun told the Associated Press.
A Nigerian military source told our correspondent that a Nigerian warship was sailing towards The Gambia as a show of force.
However, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's foreign affairs aide, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, denied it was a war ship, saying a vessel had been sent to evacuate Nigerians if need be.
Where is Mr Barrow?
Mr Barrow, a property developer, has been in Senegal since Saturday. His aides said he would return to The Gambia for his inauguration on Thursday.
In his only comment since the state of emergency was declared, he tweeted: "We made history on the first day of December. Our future starts tomorrow."
Mr Jammeh's declaration of a state of emergency was seen as an attempt to block the ceremony, scheduled to take place at a stadium in Bakau town, west of the capital Banjul, from going ahead.
Mr Barrow could, technically, also be sworn in at The Gambian embassy in Senegal. However, there are currently no visible preparations under way there.
Could there be a refugee crisis?
At least 26,000 Gambians, mostly women and children, had crossed into Senegal by Monday evening amid fears that violence could erupt, the UN refugee agency said, citing Senegalese government figures.
"The flow has increased sharply since then," regional spokeswoman Helene Caux was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Travel firm Thomas Cook said it would fly back to the UK, over the next 48 hours, 985 customers from package holidays after the Foreign Office advised "against all but essential travel to The Gambia due to ongoing political uncertainty and potential military intervention following the presidential elections".
About 1,600 Dutch citizens are also being flown home after similar advice from their government.
Tourism has become the fastest-growing sector of The Gambia's economy, and the country, which has a population of about two million, was marketed to holidaymakers as "the smiling coast of West Africa".
But many of its citizens are poor and complain of political repression. Some, including the goalkeeper of the national women's football team, have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe in the hope of a better life.
Why is Mr Jammeh refusing to leave office?
He has ruled The Gambia since taking power in a bloodless coup in 1994.
The Gambia regularly held elections, which he won until his shock defeat in the latest poll.
Mr Jammeh has said there were irregularities in the election process, including the turning away of some of his supporters from polling stations, and errors made by the electoral commission.
The commission accepted that some of the results it initially published contained errors, but said Mr Barrow had still won.
Mr Jammeh has said he will stay in office until new elections are held.
Retaining power would also ensure he was not prosecuted in The Gambia for alleged abuses committed during his rule.
It's that time of year when delegations from across Europe - and further afield - come together to find out which country will be crowned the winner of the annual song contest-cum-live TV spectacle.
This year marks the 62nd edition of the international gathering that, over the years, has brought us such gems as Waterloo by Abba, Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz and Flying the Flag by Scooch.
For some it's a deluge of gaudiness, kitsch and music to make your ears bleed. To many aficionados, though, it's a yearly delight that can be relied upon to deliver emotion, tension and laughter in bucketloads.
Here's what you need to know ahead of this year's event.
When Eurovision started in the Swiss resort of Lugano back in 1956, only seven countries took part. Each country submitted two songs each, with host country Switzerland eventually winning.
But over the years there has been a steady rise in participating countries - so steady in fact that the contest is now preceded by two semi-finals.
The first semi takes place on Tuesday, with the second following on Thursday. The aim is to whittle the semi-finalists - 36 this year - down to a more manageable 20.
Those 20 progress to the final on Saturday, when they will be joined by the so-called "big five" - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK - and host nation Ukraine.
The "big five" get an automatic pass to the final as they pay the most towards keeping the contest going.
Once the final starts it's a level playing field, with all 26 acts at the mercy of the juries and viewers who cast their votes on the night.
The winning act is awarded a glass trophy in the shape of a microphone, and their country is given the right to host the following year's contest.
Before last year, each competing country's jury and public votes were combined and announced at the same time.
But now the votes are split, with each country's jury vote cast first, and votes from viewers in all countries combined and announced at the end.
This can result in dramatic reversals - as was shown at last year's contest, when Ukraine's entry leapfrogged Australia's at the last minute to claim the top spot.
There have been 61 contests to date, but 64 winners. That's because the 1969 contest resulted in a four-way split, with France, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK all ending up with the same points tally.
The so-called voting "scandal" led to a change in the rules that ensured there would always be just the one overall winner in future.
Ireland lead the way on the all-time leader board, having won the contest seven times between 1970 and 1996.
Sweden has won six times, while the UK has five victories under its belt along with France and Luxembourg.
The UK's last triumph came in Dublin 20 years ago, when Katrina and the Waves stormed to victory with Love Shine a Light.
Since then we've had distinctly mixed fortunes, with three last-place finishes and a dreaded "nul points" in 2003.
Recent attempts to better our lot by enlisting the likes of Blue and Engelbert Humperdinck have had little impact on how we've performed.
Indeed, it's been eight years since we even finished inside the top 10.
This year it will be Lucie Jones who'll be representing us with Never Give Up on You, a tender ballad co-written by the Danish singer-songwriter who won the contest in 2013.
Jones, 26, has dismissed suggestions she might suffer as a consequence of Britain's decision to leave the EU, insisting she is "not worried" about a potential Brexit backlash.
The decision to give Australia a wild card entry in 2015 was a surprise to many, not least those in possession of an atlas.
Yet it was considered a successful enough experiment for the Land Down Under to compete for real in 2016 - and they'll be back again this year to try their luck once more.
Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Firebrace, the first indigenous male to represent Australia at Eurovision, will be hoping he can go all the way with his ballad Don't Come Easy.
The appearance of Justin Timberlake at last year's event led to speculation the United States might also be invited to participate at future Eurovisions.
This year sees the contest make a return visit to the Ukrainian capital Kiev, 12 years since it was first held there in 2005.
This year's contest comes from Kiev's International Exhibition Centre, a giant complex with capacity for up to 11,000 spectators.
The run-up to the contest has been dominated by a diplomatic row between Ukraine and Russia over the Russian entrant, 27-year-old Julia Samoilova.
Ukraine refused to allow her to perform at the contest because she has visited Crimea, the peninsula seized by Russia in 2014.
Last month Russian broadcaster Channel One announced it would not be broadcasting this year's event, removing any chance of Russia taking part.
Thanks in part to the mocking asides that Sir Terry Wogan used to issue from his commentary booth, Eurovision-bashing has become a national pastime for us Brits.
Yet the competition is taken extremely seriously by some of our neighbours across the pond, many of whom see competing in the contest as a badge of national pride.
Eurovision's legion of die-hard fans take it very seriously too, travelling to the event in numbers to support their country's act and enjoy the party atmosphere.
And it can also launch careers, as Michael Flatley discovered when he took to the stage with Riverdance during the 1994 contest in Dublin.
The first semi-final will be shown on BBC Four on Tuesday at 20:00 BST. You can also follow it online on a special BBC live page.
The second semi on Thursday is on the same time and place - and there's a live page for that too.
The final will be shown on BBC One on Saturday, with Graham Norton commenting on the action from 20:00 BST. You can also follow the final online.
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About 30 people took part in a protest at Rossington, near Doncaster, over noise and flies which they claim are linked to recycling firm Morris Metals.
The group was shot at by a man wearing a balaclava and riding a quad bike. The injured man has been taken to hospital.
Morris Metals said it had taken action to reduce flies around its site and denied causing excess noise.
Police are investigating the shooting.
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Villagers in Rossington were protesting against the number of lorries running through the area and about insects which they say come from the recycling firm.
Villager Cheryl Moy said the problem was making people prisoners in their homes.
"When it is warm its hot because you daren't open your living room windows, you can't get air in the house without having lots of flies coming in. Its horrible".
The company said in a statement it did not believe it was the only source of the problem.
"We have had some issues with flies but have worked hard to eradicate them and we now no longer stockpile material that contains organic matter.
This will ensure that we won't be a source of this kind of problem in future."
It also added it was restricted to 10 to 12 lorries per day and had never breached its permits.
The Environment Agency said it understood the issue was causing "real distress" to residents and was taking action.
"We have visited all permitted businesses on the estate to ensure that they are operating properly, and have instructed Morris Metals to take action to reduce the number of flies," it said.
An army statement said troops and militiamen were advancing into Sheikh Miskeen on several fronts and had reached the main square.
Opposition activists said there were fierce clashes around the town and a heavy bombardment by Russian aircraft.
The government's offensive is the first in the south since Russia launched air strikes in support three months ago.
The region is the last where secular and nationalist rebel factions still hold substantial territory, and Sheikh Miskeen lies on one of the main routes from Damascus to the city of Deraa and the Jordanian border.
The army said on Wednesday afternoon that troops had taken control of eastern and northern parts of Sheikh Miskeen and reached the town's main square.
Earlier, a military source told the state news agency, Sana, that "terrorist organisations" inside Sheikh Miskeen had suffered heavy losses in the past two days and had started moving their operations centre to nearby Nawa.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, reported that there had been fighting around Sheikh Miskeen on Wednesday between rebels and advancing government forces, which it said were backed by Russian warplanes.
Russia's defence ministry has confirmed it carried out air strikes in Deraa province on Monday and Tuesday, but not whether they were in the Sheikh Miskeen area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that monitors the conflict in the country, said earlier that Russian air strikes in Syria had killed 2,371 people, including 792 civilians, since they started on 30 September.
Among the combatants killed were 924 rebels and 655 militants of so-called Islamic State (IS), which Russia says it is targeting along with "other terrorist groups".
On Tuesday, the US expressed concern at the "marked and troubling" increase in reports of civilian casualties in Syria since the start of the Russian air campaign.
The accounts of activists and non-governmental organisations suggested Russian attacks had "killed hundreds of civilians, including first responders" and "hit medical facilities, schools and markets", state department spokesman Mark Toner said.
Last week, Russia rejected allegations by Amnesty International that it had used cluster munitions and unguided bombs on civilian areas.
Syria's government and a US-led multinational coalition against IS are also conducting air strikes in Syria.
More than 250,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad erupted in Deraa in March 2011. Eleven million others have been driven from their homes.
The 35-year-old has only played one previous Test, but will partner Shane Watson at the top of the order.
"I've dreamt about this but I didn't necessarily believe it would ever come true," Rogers told BBC Sport.
Shane Watson: Scored 2,580 runs in 41 Tests, at an average of 35.34
Chris Rogers: Scored 19 runs in two innings in his only Test appearance, which was against India at Perth in January 2008
The untried partnership will first take on Worcestershire in Australia's final warm-up match starting on Tuesday.
The team for that match also features 19-year-old left-arm spinner Ashton Agar and seamers Jackson Bird and Ryan Harris.
Rogers, who scored only four and 15 in his solitary Test to date against India in Perth in 2008, has considerable experience of English conditions.
He is the current captain of Middlesex, having also played for Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Northants, and averages 50.38 from 239 first-class matches.
"This opportunity is one that is not going to come too often," added Rogers. "I have nothing to lose and hopefully I can take that attitude into the Test match.
July
10-14 1st Test, Trent Bridge (11:00 BST)
18-22 2nd Test, Lord's (11:00 BST)
August
1-5 3rd Test, Old Trafford (11:00 BST)
9-13 4th Test, Chester-le-Street (11:00 BST)
21-25 5th Test, The Oval (11:00 BST)
29 1st Twenty20 international, Southampton (18:30 BST)
31 2nd Twenty20 international, Chester-le-Street (14:30 BST)
September
6 1st ODI, Headingley (10:15 BST)
8 2nd ODI, Old Trafford (10:15 BST)
11 3rd ODI, Edgbaston (14:00 BST)
14 4th ODI, Cardiff (10:15 BST)
16 5th ODI, Southampton (14:00 BST)
NB Fixtures and start times are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made
"It's going to be about managing my emotions. In county cricket there are a lot less people watching the game so the intensity will be up - that's what I have to deal with."
Lehmann's endorsement of Rogers is a further example of the new coach stamping his authority on the side since taking over from the sacked Mickey Arthur on 24 June.
Last week, he confirmed Watson's return to the top of the order for the Ashes and the opener responded with a powerful 90 in the tour victory over Somerset.
Rogers's inclusion against Worcestershire sees regular opener Ed Cowan move down to number three, with all-rounder Steve Smith handed an opportunity at number six.
Bird and Harris are given a chance to stake their claim for Ashes places, with Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson and Peter Siddle all rested.
Agar was called into Australia's touring party in India in March after playing only two first-class matches.
Originally selected in Australia's A squad, he was drafted into the Ashes party last week as a development player and back-up to regular spinner Nathan Lyon and will now stay on for the entire tour.
The first Ashes Test in Nottingham starts on 10 July.
Australian XI to play Worcestershire: Michael Clarke (capt), Shane Watson, Ed Cowan, Chris Rogers, Phillip Hughes, Steve Smith, Brad Haddin (wk), James Faulkner, Ryan Harris, Ashton Agar, Jackson Bird, Nathan Lyon (12th man).
The Belgian, who masterminded the Cameroonians' triumph 11 days ago, is one of over 60 applicants for the job.
Several big names have applied, including Italians Roberto Mancini and Giovanni Trapattoni as well as Germans Lothas Matthaus and Bernd Schuster.
Hassan Shehata, who led Egypt to three Nations Cup titles, and Nigeria's Samson Siasia are also on the list.
The names of the coaches were revealed by the South African FA (Safa) on Thursday.
Safa also revealed that former internationals Lucas Radebe and Benni McCarthy would form part of the committee to find the new national coach.
Radebe was a long-standing captain of Bafana Bafana while McCarthy, who has just completed his Uefa Pro A coaching licence, is South Africa's record goalscorer.
"The committee … will draw up a short list, deliberate (on) it before naming the suitable candidate in (the) coming days," a Safa statement said.
Clive Barker, who guided South Africa to its sole Africa Cup of Nations win in 1996, and Neil Tovey, who captained the side that day, are also on the committee.
"We want to have the process expedited as Bafana Bafana have a bumper 2017 season in which they need to compete and qualify on three fronts," said SAFA President Dr Danny Jordaan.
"We need the coach to be in place when we play two friendly matches in March," he added.
In addition to contesting qualifying for the 2018 World Cup and 2019 Nations Cup, South Africa will try to reach next year's African Nations Championship, the tournament for Africans who play in their own domestic league.
South Africa's coaching job became vacant in December when Ephraim 'Shakes' Mashaba was sacked for "gross misconduct."
Those who lost loved ones, or were injured in the IRA's bombing campaigns, harbour painful memories.
But some say the pain has been soothed by McGuinness' recent legacy and his willingness to compromise for peace in Northern Ireland.
"Martin McGuinness' fingerprints were all over the Troubles, but they were also all over the peace process," said a man who lost his wife to an IRA bomb.
Alan McBride's wife, Sharon, was one of 10 people who died in the Shankill bomb, Belfast, in October 1993.
Others who suffered at the hands of the IRA were less forgiving.
Lord Tebbit said Martin McGuinness was a coward.
"The reason he suddenly became a man of peace, was that he was desperately afraid that he was going to be arrested and charged with a number of murders," he said.
Lord Tebbit was one of those injured by an IRA bomb in Brighton's Grand Hotel in 1984. His wife was left paralysed in the attack.
"It's not merely that these creatures crippled my wife, but they also murdered five of my close friends.
"I only hope that his death will help to bring some sort of closure to those families and friends of those whose murders he accomplished."
However, Jo Berry, whose father was killed in the Brighton bombing, does not share that view.
"For me it's about empathy. My passion is how we create peace - moving from blame to empathy," she said.
"Martin McGuinness' work was absolutely essential in securing peace.
"It's because people like him have sat down with their enemies that we have peace today."
Ann Travers' sister, Mary, died in an IRA gun attack outside a church in south Belfast in 1984. The target of the ambush was their father, Tom, a resident magistrate, who was badly injured in the shooting.
She said on hearing of Mr McGuinness' death: "My immediate thoughts were sadness for the families of Enniskillen and Claudy, Patsy Gillespie's widow and Frank Hegarty's family and Joanne Mathers' husband and children, because I feel that they now won't get any of the answers that they so richly deserve.
"There is a severe affliction of Troubles amnesia. Martin McGuinness was part of a terrorist organisation which catastrophically destroyed and changed lives forever."
She said that he later moved to a political agenda could only be welcomed, "but I'm just filled with sadness that he decided to pick up the gun in the first place".
She added: "Up until Martin McGuinness died he still justified the actions of the IRA, he was on record as saying that he lived by the green book of the IRA, his loyalty would be to the IRA until the day he died and so it was.
"So I see that, unlike Nelson Mandela, who whenever he left prison condemned all murder, from every side, including his own and said none of it was ever justified at all, Martin McGuinness was never able to do that."
Alan McBride took a different stance.
Despite the bombing that robbed him of his wife, he said the death of the former deputy first minister was "a huge loss" and that he had shown "courage and leadership," in the peace process.
Colin Parry's 12-year-old son, Tim, was killed when two IRA bombs exploded in Warrington in 1993.
"I don't forgive Martin nor the IRA and nor does my wife and children," he said.
But he added that he found Mr McGuinness "an easy and pleasant man to talk to".
"He was a man who, I believe, was sincere in his desire for peace and to maintain the peace process at all costs," he said.
"He deserves great credit for his recent life - rather than his earlier life for which I don't think anything in his recent life can atone.
"He was still a brave man who put himself at some risk within some elements of his own community in Northern Ireland."
Julie Hambleton, whose sister was among 21 people killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, feels that a chance to get to the truth about what happened that day has disappeared.
"With his death, the truth is buried," she said.
Stephen Gault whose father, Samuel ,was one of 11 people killed in the 1987 Enniskillen "Poppy Day" bomb, said he would remember Mr McGuinness only as a "terrorist".
"If he had been repentant, my thoughts might have been slightly different," he said.
"But he took to his grave, proud that he served in the IRA. There was no remorse or repentance from him even up to his death."
That view was echoed by Margaret Veitch, whose parents were also killed in Enniskillen.
"They died at the hands of the IRA in Enniskillen and it'll be 30 years and nobody has ever been brought to justice. Martin McGuinness was implicated in it and he'll go to his grave with secrets.
"I'm really sad today because of all of the innocent victims that will never get justice."
Kenny Donaldson, a spokesperson for campaign group Innocent Victims United, added that victims had been "denied accountability" by Mr McGuinness.
"Surely, if there was a conversion within him, that if he was genuinely understanding of the futility of the past, then he needed to account for what those individuals are going through."
PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton presides over a police service that suffered heavy losses in IRA attacks during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
He said society had suffered grievously and many police officers and their families were among those affected.
"Martin McGuinness believed in a better future for our community; and this is a vision shared by policing," he said.
"Martin's journey in life challenges all of us who care about the future; to be prepared to change; to demonstrate leadership; and to work to understand the world, not just from our own perspective, but from the perspectives of everyone in our community."
Michael McConville is the son of Jean McConville, one of the Disappeared - she was taken from her home by the IRA in 1972, murdered and secretly buried. Her body was found on a beach in the Republic of Ireland in 2003.
"The IRA came to our flat in Divis flats and came and took my mother out," he said.
"Twenty-seven years later, we were still looking for her body. They murdered my mother and buried her for so many years.
"The hardest part was not knowing where our mother was. These people took our mother away and these people killed our mother and these people belonged to the IRA."
At the same time, he recognised McGuinness' role in brokering peace.
"Martin McGuinness tried to do a lot for the troubles in Northern Ireland, I will say that about him," he said.
"He tried his best with the politics, I would say that about the man. He went from one extreme to another."
Former Ulster Unionist MP, Lord Kilclooney - John Taylor - who survived a murder attempt by the Official IRA, said: "As a victim of an IRA assassination attempt when I was minister of home affairs in Northern Ireland in 1972, I obviously watched the political progress of Martin McGuinness closely.
"He had an evil past, but became a peacemaker - of that I have no doubt."
"I extend my condolences to his family circle at this time but I look in despair at Sinn Féin for someone with the same leadership qualities as Martin McGuinness".
Alan McBride was clear on his view. Despite his loss in the Shankill bombing, he said Martin McGuinness was pivotal to peace.
Northern Ireland "owes a debt of gratitude" to him, he said.
Last man James Anderson was caught at leg gully off Shaminda Eranga from the penultimate ball of the final day at Headingley.
Anderson had survived for 20 overs in the company of Moeen Ali, who batted through the day for an unbeaten 108 off 281 balls, his maiden Test century.
But when Anderson failed to ride a bouncer, the ball looped to Rangana Herath to see England bowled out for 249 to lose by 100 runs.
Anderson, who was later in tears at the post-match presentation, slumped over his bat in disappointment, while Sri Lanka huddled on the pitch to celebrate their first series triumph in England, having won a one-off Test in 1998.
"Sri Lanka threw everything at that last over - it was almost a Bodyline strategy. It was a perfectly directed bouncer. Jimmy Anderson couldn't do anything else - his natural reactions just took over."
It also completed a clean sweep after victories in the Twenty20 and one-day series.
England captain Alastair Cook, out of form with the bat and criticised for his leadership during this campaign, insisted he had no intention of resigning despite the defeat, England's sixth in seven Tests.
The loss, in Peter Moores' first series since being reappointed as coach, comes before the five-Test rubber against India which begins on 9 July.
However, the spirit shown in this latest reverse at least saves some face for England following the surrender of an advantage that, at tea on the second day, looked impregnable.
A collapse of eight wickets for 87 runs, a masterful 160 from Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews and a fourth-evening slide saw England begin the fifth day 57-5 in pursuit of 350.
They began with Moeen - playing only his second Test - and Joe Root at the crease, the latter virtually shotless in defence as they survived to reach a rain-induced early lunch before Root offered a leading edge off Nuwan Pradeep to gully.
Soon after, Matt Prior fended Dhammika Prasad to short leg. Replays suggested Prasad was over the popping crease, but third umpire Paul Reiffel sided with the bowler to give him a first Test five-wicket haul.
1st Test v Sri Lanka, Lord's: Match drawn
2nd Test v Sri Lanka, Headingley: Sri Lanka won by 100 runs
9 July: 1st Test v India, Trent Bridge
17 July: 2nd Test v India, Lord's
27 July: 3rd Test v India, Southampton
7 August: 4th Test v India, Old Trafford
15 August: 5th Test v India, The Oval
When Reiffel was faced with a similar decision after Chris Jordan edged Eranga to slip, he gave the benefit of doubt to the batsman, allowing the Sussex all-rounder to add 52 for the eighth wicket with Moeen.
But when he and Stuart Broad were trapped lbw by the left-arm spin of Herath, England looked beaten.
That was to discount Anderson, who first saw off the occasional off breaks of Mahela Jayawardene - employed because of poor light - before repelling the pace bowlers.
When Sri Lanka turned back to slow left-armer Herath, Anderson was surrounded by as many as six close catchers but, bar the occasional optimistic lbw appeal, was relatively untroubled.
At the other end, Moeen, cutting through the off side and clipping through the leg, was nearing his maiden hundred.
When he got there with a fine leg glance off Pradeep, there were still seven overs remaining but, by that time, the last-wicket pair had already survived for 13.
The balls and minutes ticked down, the cheers for each ball survived grew louder and Sri Lanka became increasingly edgy.
Moeen pushed back the penultimate over, leaving Anderson to face the final six balls, perhaps expecting them to be delivered by Herath.
Instead, seamer Eranga was thrown the ball and, although Anderson repelled the first four deliveries, the fifth was one step too far and England were beaten.
Listen to Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott analyse England's series defeat by Sri Lanka in the Test Match Special podcast.
Gravity's Alfonso Cuaron became the first Latin American to win the best director award, adding to the film's six Oscars for technical achievement.
Cate Blanchett was named best actress for her portrayal of the heroine in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine.
Matthew McConaughey won the best actor Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club.
It is the second consecutive year the best director and best picture prize have been awarded to different films.
Cuaron praised the "transformative" power of film and singled out the film's star Sandra Bullock as "the soul, the heart of Gravity".
The film - which took five years to complete, and owes much to the technical prowess of British visual effects specialists - also won Oscars for film editing, sound mixing, sound editing, cinematography, visual effects and original score.
Gravity - 7 awards
12 Years a Slave - 3 awards
Dallas Buyers Club - 3 awards
Frozen - 2 awards
The Great Gatsby - 2 awards
Blue Jasmine - 1 award
Her - 1 award
Steve McQueen, the British director of 12 Years a Slave, dedicated the best picture Oscar to "all those people who have endured slavery".
"Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live," he said. "This is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup."
Based on a true story, it follows the life of a free black man - Northup - who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
Producer Brad Pitt praised "the indomitable Mr McQueen" - a Turner Prize-winning artist-turned-director - for "bringing them all together" to tell Northup's story.
Newcomer Lupita Nyong'o won the best supporting actress award for her film debut as slave worker Patsey.
The Kenyan actress paid tribute to her character and thanked her for her "guidance". "It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's," said the star, who turned 31 this weekend.
The film won a third Oscar for John Ridley's adapted screenplay. "All the praise goes to Northup," Ridley said. "These are his words."
In other developments:
Spike Jonze collected the best original screenplay for Her. Jonze's first film as sole writer and director stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with a computer operating system, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
As predicted, McConaughey took the best actor prize for his role as Ron Woodroof, a real-life rodeo cowboy who smuggled HIV drugs into the US.
The 44-year-old actor, formerly a rom-com regular whose roles centred on his good looks, lost 50lbs (23kg) to play Woodroof in the low-budget indie drama.
During his speech, he thanked God "because that's who I look up to".
"He's graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or any other human hand," he added.
Best actress winner Blanchett paid tribute to her rivals, including Dame Judi Dench - who was not at the ceremony - acknowledging "the random and subjective" nature of awards ceremonies.
McConaughey's co-star Jared Leto won the first Oscar of the night, picking up best supporting actor for his role as a transgender woman who becomes Woodruff's business partner and unlikely friend.
In an emotional speech Leto thanked his mother, who accompanied him to the awards, "for teaching me to dream" and dedicated his award to "those who have ever felt injustice because of who they are, or who you love".
"This is for the 36 million people out there who have lost the battle to Aids," said the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman, whose last film was six years ago.
Dallas Buyers Club also picked up a third award for make up and hairstyling - with the transformation of Leto and his co-star, Matthew McConaughey, rumoured to have been achieved on a budget of $250 (£150).
Frozen, which recently tipped $1bn (£600m) at the global box office, scored two Oscars.
The 3D film about an icy princess and her sister was named best animated feature film, with its song, Let It Go - performed by star Idina Menzel - winning best original song. It is loosely based on The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.
The Great Gatsby also picked up two Oscars, for costume design and production design. The awards were picked up by Baz Luhrmann's partner Catherine Martin.
But there were no awards for David O Russell's American Hustle, which had 10 nominations, including nods in all the acting categories. Nor were there any awards for Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.
The first British win of the night came for Tim Webber and his team from London-based company Framestore for their visual effects work on Gravity.
Webber paid tribute to his team, Gravity actors George Clooney and Bullock and director Cuaron "for having the vision to create this breath-taking film and the audacity to make it happen".
The second British win of the night went to director Malcolm Clarke, who won an Oscar for his documentary short The Lady in Number Six: Music Saved My Life.
The film follows Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest known survivor of the Nazi Holocaust and an accomplished pianist. Paying tribute to Herz-Sommer, who died last week at the age of 110, Clarke praised "her extraordinary capacity for joy and amazing capacity for forgiveness".
"She taught everyone on my crew to be a little bit more optimistic," he added, dedicating his award to her.
Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony, for the second time, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Night after night we would stand in the press gallery of the House of Commons at 10pm and watch as this MP and his small band of brothers tested John Major's dwindling majority to destruction as they opposed the Maastricht and other treaties.
In later years he carved a more lonely furrow, banging on about Europe when the rest of Parliament had moved on. As a member and then chairman of various committees, he has spent years scrutinising the detail of legislation pouring in from Brussels while other MPs lost interest.
To his opponents, he is a Eurosceptic bore who would blame the European Union for the weather if he could. To his friends, he is an heroic obsessive, the Eurosceptic conscience of the Conservatives who holds each and every Tory leader to account.
And yet so Eurosceptic has the Conservative party become that Bill Cash is now considered to be in the party's mainstream. And that is not my judgement but David Cameron's.
In a programme about the rise of Euroscepticism on BBC Radio 4 on Monday at 20:00 GMT, Mr Cash tells me of a recent encounter with the prime minister where they were discussing his promise of a referendum on Britain's membership of the Europe Union.
He says: "David Cameron actually said to me in a meeting I had with him a few weeks ago, 'Bill, you're mainstream'."
For me, that comment illustrates better than any other the change that has come upon the Conservative Party over the last decade in which Euroscepticism has grown from a minority sport to a wider political force.
Where once there was a battle between Tory Eurosceptics and pro Europeans, most Conservative MPs would now say they were Eurosceptic in some shape or form. Where once Tory associations pushed their MPs to be more hostile to Europe, many have now had the chance to choose more Eurosceptic candidates. And where once Conservative Eurosceptics defected to UKIP, there is now traffic the other way as the high profile defection of one of UKIP's MEPs, Marta Andreasen, proved last week.
But it is not just the Conservative Party that has changed. The rest of the body politic has become more accustomed to Euroscepticism.
Think of it - a serving British prime minister has promised an in out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, opening the door to Britain taking powers back from Brussels or leaving the European Union altogether. And yet the sky did not fall in, the pound remained steady and the continental upper lip stayed admirably stiff. The same promise 10 years ago would have provoked uproar in the House of Commons, spooked the financial markets and dismayed the rest of Europe.
The question is why? Tonight in This Eurosceptic Isle, I try to draw together a few answers.
In no particular order, these are just some of the themes that emerge: the selection of more Eurosceptic Tory MPs; the growth of UKIP as the anti-politics vote leaves a pro-European party (the Lib Dems) and joins one that opposes the EU; the silence of pro-Europeans who have let their side of the argument fall by default; the arrival of immigrants in the UK from the Eastern European reaches of the EU; the growing awareness of EU in everyday life; the impact of the eurozone crisis that has tarnished the EU brand and put wind in the Eurosceptic sails; and the changing international geopolitics that says we don't just have to look to Europe for markets, ideas and culture.
All that analysis with interviews from the likes of London Mayor Boris Johnson, George Eustice MP, the anti-euro campaigner Lord Leach, Charles Grant of the pro-European Centre for European Reform thinktank, the former Labour leader Lord Kinnock, and the former Labour cabinet minister, Lord Mandelson.
Just to give you a taster, here is Lord Mandelson on the role of the media: "It is very striking that the combined effect of News International, Daily Mail newspapers, the Telegraph, but in the middle of that the figure of Rupert Murdoch more importantly than any other has driven the media to a more hostile position than it was when we went into the then European Community in the 1970s.
"There are now newspapers that are just propaganda rags, there is no balance, no even-handedness. It is just straight forward Europhobia. It is bound to have an effect."
This Eurosceptic Isle will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 20:00 (GMT) on Monday, 25 February 2013. You can listen to it on iPlayer after broadcast
It is critical of MI6's collection and presentation of its sources; of the analysis by the wider intelligence community; of the way the Joint Intelligence Committee allowed its material to be used and of the way in which politicians talked about intelligence to the public.
The story of one particular MI6 agent, as told in the inquiry report, reveals much of what went wrong.
On 11 September 2002, MI6 reported it was on the edge of a "significant breakthrough". It had a new source inside Iraq with "'phenomenal access" which might be the "key to unlock" Iraqi's biological and chemical weapons programme.
The new source said Iraq had accelerated production of its chemical and biological weapons and built further facilities. And the promise was of more intelligence to come. The head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, was confident he had the access and that in a few weeks the source would produce a "CD with everything in it".
The dossier on weapons of mass destruction was being drawn up and word had gone out to MI6's agents to deliver. It seemed like they had.
The reporting was used to provide assurance in drawing up the dossier that its judgements were right and that Iraq did have the weapons. It was also shown directly to the prime minister whose statement in the foreword to the dossier was that the intelligence was "beyond doubt".
The new reporting was never shown though to the technical experts at the Defence Intelligence Staff who expressed some doubts about the overall language in drafts of the dossier.
"Sir Richard Dearlove's personal intervention, and its urgency, gave added weight to a report that had not been properly evaluated and would have coloured the perception of ministers and senior officials. The report should have been treated with caution," the inquiry notes.
One officer from MI6 - known officially as the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) - asked about confidence attached to the reports said it was thanks to "wishful thinking. We marketed that intelligence… before it was fully validated".
By 2 February 2003, the new source had failed to produce the goods. And by 18 February, the source was being described in MI6 notes as having been lying over a period of time.
On 17 February 2003, Dearlove sent messages to MI6's best sources in Iraq "emphasising the utmost importance of a major find in the next two weeks, and asking them to do everything possible to try and identify where materials are being hidden".
But MI6 "did not inform No 10 or others that the source who had provided the reporting issued on 11 and 23 September 2002, about production of chemical and biological agent, had been lying to SIS".
Amazingly, reports from the agent were still reissued in April - an MI6 officer failed to tell the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, John Scarlett, that the source was apparently lying and said there was no reason to dismiss his information.
And it turns out that even from September, some had concerns that the source had been watching too many movies.
The new source from September had described "spherical containers" filled with chemical warfare agents. MI6 in April acknowledged it had not been able to "verify fully" the details, but said it had "no reason to dismiss the bulk of this material".
However, MI6 also drew attention to the fact the source's description of the device and its spherical glass contents was "remarkably similar to the fictional chemical weapon portrayed in the film The Rock".
It even acknowledged that the similarity had been pointed out by one recipient when a report from the agent had been circulated.
In June 2003, MI6 finally met the agent. He had been involved in Iraq's chemical weapons pre-1991 and had been involved in destruction activities. He denied providing any of the material attributed to him. MI6 "concluded that its source was a fabricator who had lied from the outset".
In July 2003, the reports were officially withdrawn. "The withdrawal of the reporting was done in a very low key manner compared with the way in which the original intelligence was issued," the inquiry notes.
It was not clear why it was not drawn to some ministers' attention even when giving evidence to the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly. Tony Blair and then Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon only became aware during the later Butler Inquiry.
So when Tony Blair gave evidence to Hutton, he was under impression that the validation was still going on - he hadn't been told it had been withdrawn.
This was described by an MI6 officer as a "skid-up".
Similar problems also came to light in withdrawing the intelligence on Iraq being able to fire weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes - when MI6 say there might be problems after the war, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says their description of this as a "snag" was a "very major understatement".
The story of the "new source" of September reveals just how much reliance was placed on faulty intelligence. "Here was a chap who promised the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow," one MI6 officer told the inquiry.
Yet all he had done was, it seems, watch a Hollywood movie.
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She defended her Olympic title in the women's flyweight boxing to bring home another gold medal for Team GB.
So what's it like to be a double Olympic champion?
Ricky met up with Nicola to find out.
The match in Paris was called off after the attacks in the French city.
Warriors will now open their campaign at home to Northampton Saints, who defeated Scarlets 15-11 in their first match of the competition on Saturday.
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"From the way we have trained and the meetings we've had, we are now focused on our rugby competition," said Taylor.
The Warriors coach acknowledged it had been a difficult time emotionally for the players and said they had sympathy for those directly affected.
"We'll reflect away from our sporting activities, maybe at night, but the guys have been really professional and they are really focused," said Taylor.
"It was one of the best training sessions I've been involved with since my time here and hopefully that transfers into a good performance on Saturday."
Taylor said that it was beneficial that Northampton play a similar style of rugby to Racing.
"On the Saturday, we had a training run because we didn't have the game and we prepared a few things we want to do against Northampton," he said.
"Both teams are reasonably similar, so it was quite good going into this game that a lot of the things we prepared for Racing are similar to Northampton.
"A lot of the preparation for Saturday should help us reasonably well for this week even though we didn't have a game."
When Glasgow will be required to return to Paris to face Racing has yet to be decided.
"It is quite difficult as there are three competitions to work out the timings," said Taylor. "But we will just turn up when they tell us to."
Glasgow have secured two victories in the Pro12 since their squad was bolstered by players returning from the Rugby World Cup finals.
Taylor admitted that personnel changes disrupt any side, but he said: "We are starting to get into our rhythm.
"I feel it is beginning to gel and I've got a really good feeling about this weekend."
Vilhete tucked home in the 65th minute of a dour clash at Adams Park and, after Myles Weston saw red on his home debut, Akinde rubber-stamped the victory in injury time.
The hosts went into the clash with the third best home record in the division and could feel aggrieved not to lead at the break after Adebayo Akinfenwa's header was disallowed after referee Graham Horwood failed to play advantage.
Their best chance came early in the second half when Anthony Stewart unleashed a half-volley straight at Josh Vickers following a corner.
But it was the Bees who struck soon after as strong hold-up play by Akinde released Vilhete and the Portuguese 23-year-old's low shot crept under goalkeeper Jamal Blackman.
The hosts pushed for a leveller but lost Weston for two bookings in stoppage time, and Akinde then rounded the keeper to slot home and secure the Bees a vital win.
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Match ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Barnet 2.
Second Half ends, Wycombe Wanderers 0, Barnet 2.
Substitution, Barnet. Nana Kyei replaces John Akinde.
Attempt missed. Michael Harriman (Wycombe Wanderers) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Goal! Wycombe Wanderers 0, Barnet 2. John Akinde (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Tom Champion.
Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) is shown the yellow card.
Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
Joe Jacobson (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Barnet).
Foul by Adebayo Akinfenwa (Wycombe Wanderers).
Alie Sesay (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second yellow card to Myles Weston (Wycombe Wanderers) for a bad foul.
Foul by Myles Weston (Wycombe Wanderers).
Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Barnet) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is close, but misses to the left.
Dan Rowe (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Harry Taylor (Barnet).
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Matt Bloomfield replaces Dominic Gape.
Myles Weston (Wycombe Wanderers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Myles Weston (Wycombe Wanderers).
John Akinde (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Sam Muggleton.
Substitution, Barnet. Harry Taylor replaces Curtis Weston.
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Foul by Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers).
Alie Sesay (Barnet) wins a free kick on the right wing.
John Akinde (Barnet) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
(Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Foul by Aaron Pierre (Wycombe Wanderers).
John Akinde (Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Wycombe Wanderers. Conceded by Gavin Hoyte.
Attempt missed. Dominic Gape (Wycombe Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Scott Kashket replaces Garry Thompson.
Substitution, Wycombe Wanderers. Myles Weston replaces Nick Freeman.
Anthony Stewart (Wycombe Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Goal! Wycombe Wanderers 0, Barnet 1. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro with a cross.
The German was fastest in both sessions on Friday, ending the qualifying simulations in the evening 0.241secs quicker than the world champion.
Jenson Button was an encouraging third fastest for McLaren-Honda, ahead of Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel were fifth and sixth, well over a second down on Mercedes.
Digital coverage and audio commentary of Sunday's race is live on the Sport website.
Vettel was 0.218secs off Raikkonen and 1.6secs behind Rosberg after admitting he "messed up" his best lap with a number of errors.
There was not much evidence that Ferrari might be able to take the fight to Mercedes this weekend, with the Italian cars lagging some way behind the silver ones for the vast majority of the day.
Vettel did start his race-simulation run on the 'soft' tyres promisingly, lapping at a pace close to Mercedes for the first time all day.
But before a full picture emerged of the two cars' comparative pace the Ferrari ground to a halt out on track with 15 minutes of the session remaining.
Vettel told the team over the radio that the rear left wheel was not properly attached to the car.
After getting out of the car, he added that the team were not yet sure what had happened.
"I felt out of Turn Four I lost drive, so I decided to stop. We don't want to damage or risk the car at that point.
"Mercedes are the benchmark. They are the ones to beat but hopefully we can be a bit closer. The car feels all right and there are bits and bobs we can improve."
Mercedes believe they have evidence that Ferrari are protecting a fragility in their engine by restricting as much as possible the amount of time they run it at full power.
At Mercedes, Rosberg, who won the first race ahead of his team-mate, had an edge over Hamilton all day, with the Briton unable to match his team-mate's pace on one lap. Hamilton did look competitive on his race-simulation run, however.
Hamilton said he was struggling to find balance and lost 0.1secs because of traffic on his quickest lap, so the gap to Rosberg was more like half of what it appeared but that it would be hard to make up that time because it is one of Rosberg's strongest circuits and not one of his.
Despite his apparent struggles, Hamilton said it had been "a good Friday overall", adding: "The car is performing really well here. There were no surprises or issues to report throughout both practice sessions, which is always a good sign.
"There's some work to do tonight in terms of finding a few improvements from the car and also my driving style. I'm looking forward to getting back out there and making some more progress tomorrow."
Shortly after Vettel's car stopped, there was further drama as Romain Grosjean's Haas appeared to suffer a front nose failure.
Button's position in third place is unlikely to be repeated in qualifying on Saturday, but it was further evidence that McLaren and Honda are making significant progress after a difficult 2015.
Button's long-run pace was also relatively encouraging as the team prepared for the race.
The Englishman is being partnered by McLaren's reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne this weekend after Fernando Alonso was ruled out by FIA doctors as a result of chest injuries sustained in his 180mph barrel-roll accident in Australia two weeks ago.
The Belgian, who flew into Bahrain overnight from Japan and had not driven this year's McLaren car until the start of first practice, ended the session in 11th place, 0.7secs behind Button.
Red Bull and Williams completed the top 10 in alternating positions with Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat seventh fastest, ahead of Williams' Valtteri Bottas, then Daniel Ricciardo and Felipe Massa.
Meanwhile, Renault driver Kevin Magnussen, who was 16th fastest, will have to start the race from the pit lane after being penalised for missing a call to have his car weighed during the second session
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the deployment, initially to the United Arab Emirates, was in response to a specific US request.
Nearly 40 countries, including 10 Arab states, have signed up to a US-led plan to tackle the extremist group.
France is hosting a regional security summit on Monday.
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Paris late on Saturday after a four-day tour of the Middle East trying to drum up support for action against IS.
Last week, US President Barack Obama presented a strategy to fight the group in both Iraq and Syria.
Speaking on Sunday, Prime Minister Abbott said Iraq had made it clear that it would "very much welcome" a military contribution to restore security.
He said the force, which will also include up to eight Super Hornet fighter jets, was part of "an international coalition" not simply an "American-Australian operation".
Mr Abbott said no decision had yet been taken to commit the forces, which will begin deploying next week, to combat action.
The announcement comes two days after Australia raised its terrorism threat level from medium to high.
Security officials are thought to be concerned by the growing number of Australians "working with, connected to or inspired by" Islamist groups, Mr Abbott said on Friday.
Islamic State is now in control of large parts of Iraq and Syria and the CIA estimates that the group could have as many as 30,000 fighters in the region.
US air strikes have targeted IS in Iraq in recent weeks and President Obama has vowed to "hunt down" the group after it beheaded two American journalists.
Late on Saturday a video was also released appearing to show the beheading of UK hostage David Haines.
On Monday, French President Francois Hollande will welcome diplomats from up to 20 countries for a conference on Iraqi security.
The talks come ahead of a UN Security Council meeting next week and a heads of state meeting at the UN General Assembly later this month.
One country not attending is Iran, which voiced its unhappiness at not being on the "selective guest list" by dismissing the talks as "just for show".
"What would interest Iran is a real fight against terrorism in the region and around the world, not this selective one," deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told state television.
On Friday, Mr Kerry said the US would not be seeking the involvement of Iran in its coalition because of its "engagement in Syria and elsewhere".
Iran has backed the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, while the US and several European and Gulf countries have supported the rebel factions fighting to overthrow him.
The US stance was attacked in Iran, with one senior official accusing the US of playing a "central role" in "arming and training terrorist groups to topple the legal Syrian government".
"In taking a big jump ahead of international bodies, America seeks to emerge as a Hollywood-style hero battling a crisis of its own making," Admiral Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, told state news agency IRNA.
In recent months IS has expanded from its stronghold in eastern Syria and seized control of more towns, cities, army bases and weaponry in Iraq.
The US has already carried out more than 150 air strikes in northern Iraq. It has also sent hundreds of military advisers to assist Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, but has ruled out sending ground troops.
The 33-year-old midfielder has not been selected since last summer's World Cup, where England finished third.
Arsenal defender Alex Scott, 31, also returns after being left out of the last squad.
The Lionesses take on Germany, France and the host nation at the tournament, which begins on 3 March.
Chelsea forward Eniola Aluko, currently on 98 caps, has the opportunity to reach 100 after her selection.
But there is no place for Notts County forwards Jess Clarke and Ellen White or defender Amy Turner.
Manchester City and Chelsea both have seven players in the squad.
England's three matches at the SheBelieves Cup will be broadcast live on the BBC.
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Siobhan Chamberlain, (Liverpool), Carly Telford (Notts County)
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea), Alex Greenwood (Liverpool), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Claire Rafferty (Chelsea), Alex Scott (Arsenal), Demi Stokes (Manchester City,) Casey Stoney (Arsenal)
Midfielders: Katie Chapman (Chelsea), Isobel Christiansen (Manchester City), Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal), Jill Scott (Manchester City), Fara Williams (Arsenal)
Forwards: Eniola Aluko (Chelsea), Karen Carney (Chelsea), Gemma Davison (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Fran Kirby (Chelsea), Jodie Taylor (Portland Thorns)
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Wales trailed 16-0 at half-time and were 19 points behind at one stage before battling back to lose 25-21.
"We were second best and didn't really get out of the blocks in the first half which was costly in the end," Lydiate told BBC Radio Wales after the defeat at Twickenham.
"We just wished the game went on for another five minutes."
He added: "We've got to play for the eighty minutes, not for the second forty. It's not good enough at this level.
"If you're not firing from the blocks in the first twenty, then you'll be under the pump. We left ourselves too much to do.
"The boys came back into the game but it was too much for us to do and we were second in the races.
"We didn't come out firing. It's something we'd talked about all week. We needed to do (it) and it didn't happen.
"We found our feet better in the second half and started to play a bit which is encouraging but it was too little to late."
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Wales finish their campaign at home against winless Italy in Cardiff on Saturday and Lydiate admits an improved performance is needed.
"We'll look at the tapes and do some soul searching on Monday," he continued.
"We've got a big game and obviously we want to finish the Six Nations on a high especially in front of a home crowd.
"Hopefully we'll be looking for an eighty-minute performance this week not a forty-minute one like we showed today."
The 29-year old Welshman only fought once in 2016 and after being denied the chance to perform in Las Vegas, says he is desperate to return to the ring as quickly as possible.
In a red-hot featherweight division, there are several names being floated as potential opponents to face the Barry boxer.
So now the dust has settled on Leo Santa Cruz's victory over Carl Frampton, delaying or denying the prospect of a British super fight between Selby and Frampton, BBC Wales Sport assesses Selby's options going forward.
Jonathan Victor Barros - The IBF insist that Barros is still the mandatory challenger. They have told BBC Wales Sport that they still want this fight to still happen.
The Nevada Athletic Commission did not give an explanation other than the Argentine had not met its requirements when they refused to sanction the fight scheduled in Vegas.
If Barros is eligible for a return to the ring, he remains the most likely opponent.
Josh Warrington - If Selby v Barros does not happen Warrington is number two on their rankings list and next in line for a mandatory shot. Warrington has been calling out Selby for a couple of years and would love the opportunity. He recently signed a promotion deal with Frank Warren.
Oscar Valdez - The current WBO world champion and the favoured option of the Selby camp if the Barros fight does not happen. A unification bout would supersede a mandatory defence. Valdez might, however, prefer to seek a unification fight with Santa Cruz.
Abner Mares - WBA regular world champion. Selby would have to vacate his IBF title for this fight to happen. Mares has said he would be willing to come to Cardiff, but the fight is unlikely to be lucrative enough to justify Selby vacating his title. Mares is also being mentioned as an opponent for Carl Frampton, if there is any delay to Frampton v Santa Cruz III.
Carl Frampton - Former WBA world champion who lost rematch with Leo Santa Cruz in Las Vegas. Promoter Barry McGuigan favours a third fight against Santa Cruz, in Belfast, but uncertainty means Cyclone Promotions are looking at other options, including Abner Mares. A fight with Selby would also appeal.
Leo Santa Cruz - WBA world champion. He could favour a defence against Abner Mares or target a unification fight with Valdez rather than an instant third meeting with Frampton. A fight with Selby might be more realistic for 2018.
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There are limited option for Selby if he wants to fight in the near future, but it is understood he is already returning to the ring to begin training and that negotiations are underway to add him to one of the following cards.
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Jamie Sanigar (Selby's promoter): "There is a chance he could fight on March 4, but there are also opportunities in America and we're just waiting to work out what we can do."
Lee Selby (on Mares and Frampton): "Mares is a fight I would take straight away,"
"He's a big star in America so a fight between me and him, wherever it took place, over here or back in the UK, it would do massive numbers.
"The plan for Vegas was I would have boxed and won and looked good. "Frampton would have won and then that would have set up a unification fight for the summer back home.
"The worst case scenario was what happened. I didn't even fight and Frampton got beat. It's put things back a bit."
Josh Warrington: "I'm sick of hearing his (Selby's) name. If the contract gets put to me tomorrow I'll sign it no problem. If he comes to Leeds he's getting beat, simple as that."
Abner Mares: "I'll go to his (Selby) country and fight him. I've got no problem with that because that's the type of fighter I am."
Barry McGuigan (Carl Frampton's promoter): " I think it's important for him to get rid of the ring rust… Lee hasn't had a lot of fights over the past couple of years.
"We are interested in a fight with him at some stage in the not so distant future, maybe in the next fight."
Oscar Valdes: "I want to show the world I'm capable of fighting those kind of guys, the big names in that division."
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The 22-year-old beat the German 2-6 6-4 7-5 after a rain delay, and will meet either American Jack Sock or Israel's Dudi Sela in the last eight.
"I was really pleased to get through that," world number 45 Edmund said.
"It is nice to get wins under your belt and get some momentum for the rest of this hard-court swing."
Jamal al-Harith reportedly received £1m from the British government after being freed from Guantanamo Bay in 2004.
Lord Carlile said the payment was wrong as al-Harith was "plainly a terrorist".
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has defended his government's decision to free him from Guantanamo.
Al-Harith, who was 50 and from Manchester, was originally known as Ronald Fiddler.
He took the name Jamal al-Harith when he converted to Islam, but was known most recently by the nom-de-guerre Abu-Zakariya al-Britani, given to him by so-called Islamic State.
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Al-Harith was seized by American forces in Pakistan in 2001, before being sent to Guantanamo Bay - a US prison in Cuba for terrorist suspects.
US interrogators found he provided useful information about the Taliban's methods, and he was released after two years.
He later joined IS and blew himself up at an Iraqi army base in Mosul this week.
Lord Carlile - who reviewed terror laws from 2001 to 2011 - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It [the compensation] should never have been paid.
"There was absolutely no merit in paying him a penny, because plainly he was a terrorist."
He said he believed the settlement was paid to avoid disclosure in court of security service activities.
A Downing Street spokesman declined to answer questions about the reported payout, on the grounds it was an intelligence matter.
But Mr Blair released a statement accusing the Daily Mail of "utter hypocrisy" after it ran a story about al-Harith on Wednesday headlined: "Still Think He Wasn't A Danger, Mr Blair? Fury at Labour government's £1m compensation for innocent Brit".
He said the man's release in 2004 had "followed a Parliamentary and massive media campaign led by the Daily Mail... and strongly supported by the then Conservative Opposition".
The former PM continued: "He was not paid compensation by my government. The compensation was agreed in 2010 by the [coalition] government..."
Lord Blunkett, who was home secretary at the time of al-Harith's release, said he had never campaigned for his return, but "fully accepted that the situation of British citizens held without trial there, was unsustainable and legally and morally indefensible".
The government in 2004 had "acted responsibly" he said, adding that "public controversy" at the time had been about whether enough was being done to release detainees "and not the wisdom of providing balanced reassurance".
Lord Blunkett said those returning from Guantanamo Bay were kept under surveillance and monitored by the security services.
Jack Straw, who was foreign secretary in 2004, said he "never regarded" al-Harith as innocent "and neither Mr Blair nor I ever said that he was innocent".
"We judged that the risk was not so great as to prevent his release.
"Whenever you're making decisions about the release of prisoners you have to make a judgement, and sometimes those judgements are not borne out by events."
Leon Jameson, al-Harith's older brother, says they last spoke two years ago on the phone, before he went to Syria.
Mr Jameson described his sibling as "fun" when he was growing up and "always helping other people".
When asked about his brother's suicide bombing he said: "I can't actually commend him about it because it isn't right, but he's done it. It's something he believes in, so I'll leave that with him.
"He did what he could for other people, which is what he used to always be like.
And he said "it had been a struggle" for his brother ever since Guantanamo Bay. "If he didn't even listen to his wife, none of us could have really changed his mind."
His outspoken activism has put him on the hit list of Hindu nationalists on social media. Most recently, he was threatened after he tweeted that a Mumbai school principal, arrested on charges of molesting two students, had links to India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party.
Here he talks about the impact of the abuse he has received online.
I have, by now, become used to being called a "Traitor to Mother India". Undeserved, I hasten to add.
The first time was at the turn of the century by the then spokesman of the Bharatiya Janata Party, in power at the time. It was when I wrote and spoke in national and international forums about the burning down of village churches in south Gujarat's Dangs forests and the burning alive of Australian missionary Graham Staines in Orissa.
So sharp was the ruling party's indictment that several Catholic political leaders rushed to the press to disown me, with a few bishops following them. The call for a trial for treason, however, fell through.
Social media was then a dream, though email was catching up. Twitter and Facebook were aspirations by their now billionaire inventors.
If people did not like what you said, they phoned you up, abused you, and hung up. You had their phone numbers. Or they sent you an email. You had their address.
Once in a long while, someone would organise a small protest near your house. Specially if you were a politician or a "public figure".
There were not too many threats to anyone's life through the media.
If anyone wanted to kill anyone else, they did so, or hired someone to do the job.
I am a professional journalist and have logged four-and-a-half decades and more, mostly in newspapers but also in other forms, though I gave up employment in 2000 to focus on voluntary human rights work, investigating hate-crimes and targeted violence against tribespeople and religious minorities, particularly Christians.
Targeted violence against religious minorities has dominated the Indian landscape since the demolition of the Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya in 1992. Violence against Christians has escalated from 1998 to reach its peak on 2008 in Kandhamal in Orissa.
Writing and speaking about the violence, and advocating justice for the victims and survivors has made human rights activists face targeted hate themselves - vocal and often physical.
Twitter has added a new dimension to this targeting. And makes it a preferred platform for calling upon like minded people to "take out" someone they do not like, or to silence another.
The anonymity makes it a haven for cowards. The power of computers and electronics makes it exceedingly and ominously powerful.
For the victim, often alone, powerless other than from the courage within of conscience, it can be overwhelming. It is certainly depressing. The trolls win every time, or so it seems.
I abhor religious nationalism, and hold it responsible for much of the divisiveness and bloodshed India has faced since independence from Britain in 1947.
As a pro-life person, I also abhor capital punishment and am vocal in the campaign calling for its abolition.
Earlier this year, India hanged a Muslim, Yakub Memon on his birthday, for his alleged role in a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1992-93. I was among those objecting to the hanging, on principle.
A senior BJP leader went on social media to denounce us all and held us as guilty as the man hanged. His admirers, followers and supporters took up his cry. There was a barrage of hatred against me and Tushar Gandhi, a great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi who had spoken against the hanging on television channels.
But that was insignificant compared to what happened last week when my daughter, a journalist in another city, phoned to ask why I was "trending" on Twitter. "What had I done," she asked, "to invite such vitriolic hate and such cyber violence?"
Ordinary people almost never trend. It requires, according to technical experts, thousands of people writing a tweet on the person in a short period of a couple of hours or so. This can only be done through teamwork, resources and strong political motivation.
Your computer screen is inundated with hate, often graphically illustrated with flying bullets and other weapons of bodily harm. The words match the pictures. It can be scary.
It does not scare me, although I have lodged formal complaints with the police and cyber crime agencies. But it impacts the family, freedom of movement, and of expression.
It also terrorises friends and the leadership of the church who are afraid to come out in the open in your support. It can isolate you even though the silent lovers of freedom and peace support your stance.
Does this trolling end up in actual physical violence, in murder?
Police have so far not been able to find the killers of three people, all as old - or older - as me, who were murdered in Karnataka and Maharashtra for their writings and their campaigns, which irritated the votaries of religious nationalism. Possibly the police can tell if they were trolled or were trending.
The police say they have really no means to catch the offenders. And Twitter, zealous guardian of the freedom of expression, does not help.
Meanwhile, the threat increases for the freedom of thought, and dissent.
They are critical to a republican, plural democracy such as India, which is still evolving and trying to live by a modern constitution a mere 65 years old - two years younger than me.
John Dayal is an Indian journalist and human rights activist
The midfielder, real name Adilson Tavares Varela, was arrested on 25 January 2015 after the alleged incident in Gateshead.
The 27-year-old, who previously pleaded not guilty to the charges, will stand trial at Newcastle Crown Court on 25 April.
Cabral only made one Premier League appearance for Sunderland in 2013-14.
Sunderland AFC announced on 2 February 2015 that the player had left the club by mutual consent.
The former Swiss Under-21 international previously played for Lausanne, Sevilla and FC Basel. He currently plays for FC Zurich.
Sunderland AFC declined to comment.
Former Sunderland winger Adam Johnson, 28, who played for England 12 times, will be sentenced at Bradford Crown Court on 24 March after he was convicted of sexual activity with a girl of 15.
David Gilkey of National Public Radio (NPR) and Zabihullah Tamanna were travelling with the Afghan army when they came under fire and their vehicle was hit by a shell, NPR said.
The attack also killed the driver of the vehicle, an Afghan soldier.
Two other NPR employees travelling with the pair were unharmed, the US public radio network said in a statement.
The vehicle Mr Gilkey, 50, and Mr Tamanna, 38, were travelling in was struck by shellfire near the town of Marjah, NPR said.
Mr Tamanna was a photographer and journalist in Afghanistan, as well as a translator.
Michael Oreskes, senior vice president at NPR, paid tribute to the photographer.
He said: "David has been covering war and conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11. He was devoted to helping the public see these wars and the people caught up in them. He died pursuing that commitment.
"As a man and as a photojournalist, David brought out the humanity of all those around him. He let us see the world and each other through his eyes."
Mr Gilkey is the first US journalist outside the military to be killed in the conflict in Afghanistan.
He received a series of awards during his career, including a 2007 national Emmy for a video series about US Marines from Michigan serving in in Iraq.
In 2011, he was named still photographer of the year by the White House Photographers' Association, one of nine first-place awards he received from the body.
His work on an investigation into veteran medical care and his coverage of the Ebola crisis helped secure awards for NPR.
Last year, he received the Edward R Murrow Award for his coverage of international breaking news, military conflicts and natural disasters.
The death of the dog, called Diesel, during a police raid in Saint-Denis, sparked international sympathy.
Three people, including the suspected ringleader of the deadly attacks, were killed in the massive raid.
The German shepherd puppy was named Dobrynya after a knight from Russian folklore.
He was handed to the French ambassador in Moscow, who called it an extraordinary gift.
It is unclear how long Dobrynya is likely to have to spend in quarantine before joining the French police force.
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The company said Messenger Lite had the "core features" of the full app such as the ability to share text and photos.
The BBC's Chris Foxx asked Facebook's Stan Chudnovsky why the company had two competing message services - WhatsApp and Messenger.
The New South Wales Supreme Court gave Bianca Rinehart control of the trust. It was set up by her grandfather and is worth more than A$4bn ($3.1bn; £2bn).
Mrs Rinehart's children John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart launched the legal action against their mother in 2011.
They said she had acted "deceitfully" in her dealings with the trust.
Their sister, Hope Rinehart Welker, launched the suit with them but later dropped out. A fourth child, Ginia, has sided with their mother, saying that the case filed by her siblings was "motivated entirely by greed".
Justice Paul Brereton found that Bianca, 38, was better suited than any of the alternatives to administer the trust under the circumstances. He ordered Mrs Rinehart to hand over trust documents to Bianca.
Justice Brereton said it had become clear that Gina Rinehart had "gone to extraordinary lengths" to maintain control directly or indirectly of the trust.
He said it was reasonable inference that she would try to influence any trustee who tried to move against her interest.
Mrs Rinehart has a net value of $12.2bn, according to Forbes, making her the richest person in Australia. She heads up Hancock Prospecting - an iron ore trader.
In 2014 the company finalised a deal worth $7.2bn to develop Roy Hill - one the world's largest iron-ore mines.
The feud in the family began after Mrs Rinehart changed the vesting date of the Hope Margaret Hancock Trust from 2011 to 2068.
The trust contains part ownership of Hancock Prospecting and would make each of Mrs Rinehart's children billionaires.
Rail505.com is being piloted in parts of London and Kent covered by rail firm Southeastern, Network Rail said.
After the pilot, Network Rail will review the system and look at whether it could be rolled out across the UK.
Programme manager Ian Stevens said: "Passengers are the eyes and ears of the railway."
He said people were encouraged to speak to staff if they saw something they felt worried about, but could use the app if that was not possible.
Mr Stevens added: "It could be that someone has been sitting on a platform for a long time, appears distressed or looks to be too close to the tracks. As soon as we receive a report, help will be sent to the person to find out more."
British Transport Police Inspector Pippa Smith said the app would help people to be more aware of fellow passengers and take action if they had concerns.
She said: "By using the app the right help at the right time can be given to someone who might be at risk."
All reports received through the app will be kept confidential and people using it do not have to register or leave contact details.
Officials say the rule is to protect the town's newly laid tarmac road.
A letter told donkey-cart owners they must manage their animal's faeces "to avoid poop all over the tarmac road creating nuisance".
BBC Monitoring's Abdullahi Yusuf Osman in Kenya says cart owners are complying - some sharing tips on social media on how to attach nappy sacks.
Donkey carts are a common sight in Wajir's town centre, our reporter says.
A similar nappy order was issued in Limuru, about 50km (30 miles) north-west of the capital, Nairobi, in 2007 but it was never put into practice, he says.
The authorities in Wajir, which is more than 600km north-east of Nairobi, are probably keen to protect the new tarmac road after waiting decades for such development, our correspondent says.
The new road was built last year and is 27km long.
The nappy notice was issued on Monday and came into affect on Thursday.
"[The county government] appreciates the contribution of the donkey-cart operators to the economy of Wajir... However the town must be kept clean at all times," it says.
"In view of the above you are directed to manage your donkey poop (faeces).... No donkey will be allowed in town without this poop-collecting bag."
The folk in Fareham toil long and hard over their numbers.
So a release of new data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is always a cause for celebration.
And this time there's an extra reason to get out the balloons and cake. We've hit the big four-oh!
The median age of the UK population (that is the age at which half the population is younger and half the population is older) at mid-2014 was at its highest ever at 40.0.
Here's the graph to prove it:
The end of World War Two brought the first baby-boom. Then the 1960s added a new crowd - now in their fifties. Nearly one-in-five of us are now over 65 - a 47% increase on 1974.
It's not happened equally for men and women. People stopping smoking and better treatment for heart attacks and strokes has led to a faster improvement in mortality rate for men.
The number aged 75 and over has increased by 149% since the mid 70s whilst for women it has only gone up 61%.
Men's work has also become less physical and safer, in general, over the period. It's a blessing and a challenge, as the NHS and pensions try to keep up with a longer life expectancy.
The ONS has a little present to celebrate this milestone - it calls them a population pyramid - a natty visual illustration of the age structure of a local area.
Compare these two - Oxford and Poole in Dorset.
It's not just the ticking demographic timebomb that these graphs could help us defuse.
The row over tax credits has been driven by statistics, after the Institute For Fiscal Studies unpacked George Osborne's warm words in the budget, and turned them into cold dread of the letters they predicted would drop on people's doormats just before Christmas.
Just like the big four-oh birthday that many of us like to ignore - you're better off embracing the reality of the inevitable statistical truth than getting caught out when it's too late.
The fire in Glentaise Drive was reported to the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) shortly after 08:00 BST on Monday.
Residents got out before crews arrived.
NIFRS Station Commander Noel Darley said: "After initial investigation, we're treating the fire as a deliberate fire."
He said it appeared that the fire "started in the roof void of one of the properties and spread to an adjoining property".
"The prompt response from the Ballycastle crews undoubtedly prevented much more substantial fire spread to a further four adjoining properties," Mr Darley added.
Two fire appliances from Ballycastle Fire Station and one from Coleraine Fire Station were deployed to the scene.
They left the scene shortly before 09:45 BST and the arson investigation has been passed through to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).
Carl Michael von Hausswolff's picture was hanging in a gallery in the Swedish city of Lund until protests caused the exhibition to close last month.
Von Hausswolff said he had collected the ashes from the crematorium at Majdanek during a visit in 1989.
The prosecutors said they had still no evidence a crime had been committed.
If the artist is charged with desecrating human ashes, he could face up to eight years in prison.
It is estimated the Nazis murdered 80,000 people at Majdanek, three-quarters of them Jews, during the German occupation of Poland in World War II.
Writing on the gallery's website, Von Hausswolff said the ashes had remained in a jar until two years ago, when he decided to mix them with water and create a painting as a reminder of the people tortured and killed in the camp.
However, the museum at Majdanek, in south-eastern Poland, strongly condemned his statement and asked prosecutors to investigate, saying it was sure the artist had not obtained the ashes legally.
When the Soviet army reached Majdanek in July 1944, they found much of it intact despite attempts by the Nazis to destroy the camp before retreating.
Consequently, it is one of the best-preserved sites of the Holocaust and the original ovens of its surviving crematorium can still be seen today.
Salomon Schulman, a key figure in Sweden's Jewish community, told Swedish television that Von Hausswolff's painting was "repulsive in the extreme", according to news website The Local.
Writing in the Sydsvenskan newspaper, Mr Schulman questioned whether it should be called art at all. "Who knows, some of the ashes might come from some of my relatives?" he added.
The two Connacht rivals cancelled each other out in a gripping first encounter but Roscommon were unable to contain Mayo's goal-scoring threat during their second meeting at Croke Park.
Three Mayo goals in the space of just six minutes effectively ended the contest before the half-time break.
Cillian O'Connor's goal in the 46th minute helped to seal a 22-point win.
After Roscommon's Donie Smith scored a late equalising point in the drawn match, Mayo appeared determined to avoid another sluggish start.
Despite the surprise absence of Footballer of the Year Lee Keegan from their starting team, Mayo raced into a six point lead as they held Roscommon scoreless for the opening 20 minutes.
Roscommon's Enda Smith and Niall McInerney both scored to briefly reduce the gap to just four points.
But the Connacht champions were left reeling when Kevin McLaughlin and Andy Moran both netted for Mayo within the space of 60 seconds and Keith Higgins added a third in the 28th minute.
Mayo led by 3-08 to 0-04 at half-time and any prospect of a Roscommon revival were ended when O'Connor netted with a low shot.
In a further blow for Roscommon substitute Fintan Cregg was sent off for a second bookable offence after punching Diarmuid O'Connor while he was on the ground.
Having laboured to victories over Derry, Clare and Cork in the qualifier series, Mayo advance to their seventh successive All-Ireland semi-final and will now face Kerry in Croke Park on 20 August.
Mayo: D Clarke; B Harrison, D Vaughan (0-01), K Higgins (1-00); C Boyle, C Barrett (0-01), P Durcan; T Parsons (0-01), S O'Shea; K McLoughlin (1-00), A O'Shea (0-02), D O'Connor (0-01); J Doherty (0-02), C O'Connor (1-06, 0-06f), A Moran (1-01).
Subs: C Loftus for Doherty 46, D Drake (0-01) for McLoughlin 56, A Dillon for Moran 61, S Coen (0-01) for Vaughan 61, D Kirby for A O'Shea 62, S Nally (0-02) for Barrett 65.
Roscommon: C Lavin; S McDermott, N McInerney, D Murray; J McManus, S Mullooly (0-01), B Stack; T O'Rourke, E Smith (0-01); C Fitzmaurice, N Kilroy (0-01), C Devaney (0-01); Cathal Compton, D Murtagh (0-04, 0-02f), C Connolly.
Subs: C Murtagh for Compton h/t, G Patterson for McDermott h/t, F Cregg for Connolly h/t, D Smith (0-01) for B Stack 46, I Kilbride for Devaney 60, Colin Compton for E Smith 62.
The Securities Association of China said the firm inaccurately inflated the amount of its equity swap transactions in a report submitted in October.
Citic said the error occurred due to a system upgrade and has been corrected.
Probes have resulted in executives confessing to insider trading at Citic.
In September, shares of China's largest state-owned brokerage slumped after it reported that three executives, including its president, were under police investigation.
The firm has been part of a crackdown by China's regulators on irregular stock trading since mainland markets plunged dramatically in mid-June.
The securities association, which is partly overseen by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said it was investigating Citic's overstatement and would take further action if necessary.
It did add that the error did not affect the month-end net size of Citic's business.
The brokerage told the Reuters news agency that it had amended the figures at the start of November and the size of its swaps business was $6.2bn.
An equity swap is a type of derivative that refers to a cash exchange between realized gains on specific stocks and fixed interest rates over a certain period of time in the future.
Shares of Citic Securities fell 0.7% in Shanghai.
It is inviting all groups to "stand united against extremism and all forms of terrorism" by attending a dinner marking the end of Ramadan.
A minute's silence will be observed for the Nice victims, their families and loved ones at the event.
The Ahmadiyya community is known for its peaceful interfaith concerns.
In April, it launched a campaign promoting "peace, love and unity" following the death of Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah, who was a member of the Ahmadiyya community.
He died after an attack outside his shop on 24 March. Tanveer Ahmed, from Bradford, has admitted murdering him.
France has been in mourning since Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry into crowds marking Bastille Day, before being shot dead by police.
French President Francois Hollande has described it as a terrorist act.
In a statement, the Ahmadiyya community said it was extending a "very warm invite" to politicians, police and different community and faith groups, including Christian, Jewish and Sikh, to attend its annual Eid dinner in Glasgow on Sunday.
It added: "We are shocked and saddened to hear of Thursday's terror attacks in Nice in which dozens of innocent people have been killed.
"The victims of these barbaric attacks and their families never deserve this and they are in our thoughts and prayers.
"All forms of terrorism and extremism are completely against the true teachings of Islam. The Holy Quran has said that to kill even one innocent person is akin to killing all of mankind.
"We hope the perpetrators of these evil attacks are swiftly brought to justice."
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report said cockpit footage showed the plane "responding to the pilot's control inputs".
It also said pilot Andy Hill was thrown clear of the aircraft during the later part of the crash on 22 August.
The AAIB said it was not clear whether Mr Hill initiated his ejection.
The 51-year-old pilot is currently in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
The report says the Hawker Hunter's canopy was released at the initial impact. At this time fuel and fuel vapour was released and then ignited.
The jet split into four parts and both Mr Hill and his seat were thrown clear of the cockpit.
The report states: "The investigation continues to determine if the pilot attempted to initiate ejection or if the canopy and pilot's seat were liberated as a result of impact damage to the cockpit."
The AAIB's report also revealed there was no "blackbox" flight recorder on the vintage jet, however, there were two cameras positioned in the cockpit.
It revealed: "To date, no abnormal indications have been identified [from the footage].
"Throughout the flight, the aircraft appeared to be responding to the pilot's control inputs."
The AAIB said it has received a "large amount" of video footage and photographs of the aircraft, many of which were taken in high resolution, from a variety of locations on and around Shoreham Airport.
It said an analysis of the still and moving images using "photogrammetry techniques" will be undertaken to establish the parameters of the aircraft's manoeuvres, including flight path and speed.
A statement on their website says they are bowing out of all appearances in August because of his injury.
"The band apologise to fans but under the circumstances feel they can not perform without Gem and want to focus on supporting him," they said.
There are no more details of the accident, which took place on 1 August.
The statement continued: "Gem was released from hospital yesterday evening (Wednesday 7 August) and is recovering at home though remains under observation."
Shows in Belgium and Japan have already been cancelled.
They were originally going to play V Festival on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 August.
Beyonce, Kings of Leon and Emeli Sande are still set to appear at the event which takes place in Essex and Staffordshire.
Along with Gem, Beady Eye features lead singer Liam Gallagher and guitarist Andy Bell, who all found fame in Oasis.
Former Kasabian guitarist Jay Mehler joined the group earlier this year.
Beady Eye's second album, BE, was released on 10 June.
They worked with Yeah Yeah Yeahs producer Dave Sitek, who Liam described as "without a doubt the best producer I've ever worked with, a real outlaw".
He added: "When we were writing it, we really got our heads down - clear heads."
The band has featured on a number of festival line-ups this year, including T in the Park and Glastonbury.
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"The text assures the best performance for businesses and offers new rights to employees," he told a newspaper.
Protesters clashed with police last week during marches against the bill, which makes hiring and firing easier.
There are concerns the Euro 2016 football championships, which France hosts from next week, may be disrupted.
Tourism chiefs in Paris have warned that the unrest is putting off visitors to one of the world's top destinations.
"The scenes of guerrilla-type action in the middle of Paris, beamed around the world, reinforce the feeling of fear and misunderstanding," the tourist board said.
The capital's reputation as a safe destination was already dented by November's deadly attack by militants from the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group, who killed 130 people in gun and bomb attacks.
Meanwhile, thousands of public sector workers in Belgium are taking part in a 24-hour national strike against budget cuts, changes to working hours and a rise in the retirement age.
Police officers, teachers and some civil servants are joining train drivers and prison guards already on strike.
The railway strike began at 19:00 local time (17:00 GMT) and was expected to cause widespread travel disruption on national and regional networks on Wednesday.
The Paris Metro is due to go on strike from Thursday, and six of the country's eight oil refineries are still halted or running at reduced capacity due to union action.
Air France pilots have voted to strike for at least six days in June in a separate dispute over productivity targets.
The labour reform, which is aimed at making the labour market more flexible, was pushed through the lower house of parliament without a vote.
A new national day of action is planned by unions for 14 June, when the bill goes to the Senate.
Labour Minister Myriam El Khomri said on Tuesday she was waiting to hear from the CGT, the union leading the action, after hearing that its leader, Philippe Martinez, had called for new talks.
A local CGT leader, Olivier Mateu, called on President Hollande to reconsider the reforms on Tuesday.
"Maybe the government counted on the fact that with the arrival of spring and hot weather the whole country would be asleep?" he said in an interview for the Associated Press news agency.
"There is no shame in political leaders going back on their decision when they have made a mistake, to create the conditions to discuss social progress in this country," the trade unionist added.
Centre-left Le Monde says the authorities are attempting to "splinter the various fronts" (all links in French) in the strike by making them separate offers.
Ouest France, France's biggest-selling daily, dubs the split between the CGT and CFDT unions as a "union movement cut in two".
Conservative Le Figaro criticises the approach as "saying yes to everything and squandering public money".
Left-wing Liberation calls on both sides to show "good will" and compromise over working hours or else face "falling at the same time" by letting the right win the next elections.
Aviva's lease for its Pitheavlis site was due to expire before the end of next year, prompting local concern that the company might relocate to Glasgow.
The firm has now confirmed it is buying the building for an undisclosed sum after reviewing its property strategy.
The Scottish government welcomed the decision.
Aviva said buying the Pitheavlis building to serve as a centre of excellence for Aviva's UK general insurance business was "the best option from an economic, employee and customer care point of view".
There are currently 1,300 staff at the site, although some jobs there could be at risk.
In April, Aviva revealed plans to cut 6% of the company's workforce worldwide over the next few months.
The cost-cutting move will see about 2,000 people in the UK, Europe and Asia lose their jobs.
Ian Ferguson, chief underwriting officer for Aviva's intermediary and partnerships business, said the site purchase confirmed Aviva's ongoing commitment to Perth.
"This purchase meets Aviva's immediate financial needs whilst providing long-term benefits," he said.
"This is a sensible, sustainable purchase that supports our financial targets.
"The quality of our staff in Perth was another hugely compelling factor in choosing to remain here."
Finance Secretary John Swinney welcomed the news.
He said: "There has been a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the renegotiation of the lease, but the company's decision to purchase the site is a massive vote of confidence in the workforce in the city of Perth.
"I applaud Aviva for recognising the enormous strength and capability of the workforce in Perth that has resulted in such a long-term commitment to this facility.
"The Scottish government appreciates the open and positive working relationship we have with Aviva and look forward to continuing to develop that relationship in the years to come."
South Africa's Coetzee hit a seven-under-par 64 to lead Thorbjorn Olesen of Denmark by one stroke.
Spain's Jorge Campillo, China's Haotong Li, Italy's Matteo Manassero and Bernd Wiesberger of Austria are five under.
Willett, who needs to finish fifth to regain top spot in the Race to Dubai, said: "It's a lot better than it has been. My best is not far off."
The 29-year-old had led the rankings since claiming his first major title with the Masters in April, but was overtaken by Open champion Henrik Stenson last week.
Stenson was joint second at the World Golf Championships in Shanghai, where Willett finished 14 over par and 75th in the 78-man field.
"To be honest. after the last few weeks anything would have been good, but things are going in the right direction," Willett added.
"We're working hard, doing everything right and that's all you can do in this game. We have three weeks to try and do something special and I need to make some headway this week."
One Direction, actress Dame Helen Mirren and Sherlock actor Martin Freeman were among the host of stars featured in Friday's fund-raising show.
Dermot O'Leary hosted this year's fundraiser, replacing Sir Terry Wogan after the 77-year-old pulled out for "health reasons".
BBC Children in Need tweeted that the total raised was a "record-breaker".
The show was also presented by Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton, Saturdays star Rochelle Humes and BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw.
Sir Terry pulled out for the first time since the annual TV event's launch in 1980.
The veteran TV presenter is having a procedure on his back and is understood to have withdrawn in line with doctors' advice.
O'Leary said: "Thank you so, so much.
"To Terry, I hope you're feeling better, I hope we get to enjoy a drop of the pure very soon and we're all doing you justice here."
This year a special Star Wars sketch with characters C3PO and R2-D2 was featured.
There were also performances by Selena Gomez, Years and Years, Ellie Goulding and a special appeal by Sir Tom Jones.
British Transport Police (BTP) and Kent Police were called at about 11:40 GMT to part of the line close to Crismill Lane in Bearsted.
At 16:00 GMT Eurostar said the high speed line was shut in both directions, affecting services between London and Paris and Brussels.
A spokesman said the lines had since re-opened, with normal service expected to resume throughout Monday evening.
The 17:55 train to Brussels from London departed on schedule, while services into the UK have been cancelled until the 20:13 departure from Paris.
Nearly 20 trains to and from Europe were cancelled throughout the day.
Police said the death on the line at Bearsted was being treated as "non-suspicious".
A spokesman for Eurostar said although trains were now leaving St Pancras, passengers whose journeys were cancelled will not automatically be placed on later services.
Passenger Debra Page had been waiting at London St Pancras Station for five hours after her train to Paris was delayed.
"There have been no other announcements. They just keep telling us the delays are due to an incident," she said.
Several people have taken to Twitter to express frustration at the delays.
Passenger @AlexFirthh tweeted: "Our train finally arrives after a 7 hour delay, and they can't fit everyone on the thing. Don't worry @Eurostar, just waste my whole day!"
And Danielle Meder tweeted: "Delay level: ludicrous. This Eurostar is my new official residence."
Following the death, a spokesman for British Transport Police said: "Medics from South East Coast Ambulance Service also attended the incident, but the person was pronounced dead at the scene."
The statement added that officers were trying to establish the identity of the person and how they came to be on the tracks.
Green, 26, has been a second-row regular for Dean Richards' side, making 65 appearances for the Falcons since his 2014 move from Yorkshire Carnegie.
Young, 28, rejoined the Falcons in the summer of 2015 and has taken his tally of games to 120.
"It's great news that we have been able to agree new deals," Richards said.
"Calum is an extremely consistent performer for us who does the real nuts and bolts of the game, he is hugely valued for his work rate and is one of the mainstays of our forward pack.
"Michael is a quality half-back who brings a lot to the side. He has a huge amount of Premiership experience and he is a local lad, so it's fantastic that we have been able to agree these extensions."
Murray, seeded number one, came through 6-4 3-6 6-1 as he chases a record fifth Aegon Championships title.
Edmund, 21, put up a strong challenge before Murray took control in the final set.
The Scot will face Marin Cilic in the last four after the Croat beat American Steve Johnson 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 6-4.
"I train with Kyle, I know how good he is," Murray told BBC Sport.
"He's a big, strong guy with a very powerful game. When he's on he's very difficult to play in practice, and I felt it today as well. I expected it to be hard."
Murray knows Edmund well after inviting the Englishman to join him in Miami for off-season training for the past three years, but this was their first competitive meeting.
Edmund had beaten eighth seed Gilles Simon in round one and began with a confident service game.
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His heavy serve and forehand were in evidence, as well as some flashes of skill in the forecourt, with a sharp volley helping him recover an early break.
Murray broke again on his way to clinching the first set, a spectacular lunging volley bringing the crowd alive, but the top seed twice fell a break down in the second.
Edmund's big forehand took him 4-2 ahead - after a nasty slip at the net by Murray - and the world number 85 came through a dramatic game of three break points to level at one set all.
With grey clouds gathering, Murray stepped on the accelerator in the final set.
A brilliant running forehand in the first game and some typically sharp returning helped him to a 3-0 lead, and he closed it out from 15-40 down thanks to some good serving.
"I am pleased with the way I played and overall it's been a positive week for me," said Edmund.
"I thought I played well but Andy is so tough to beat because he makes it so difficult for you when it really matters."
Murray made his breakthrough in terms of public attention with a run to the last 16 at Queen's Club in 2005, when ranked 357th in the world, and he made a plea on Edmund's behalf.
"Kyle's the future of the game in this country," said Murray. "It's important that he's given time to develop at his own rate and not too much pressure is put on him.
"He's doing great, he's improving every year and he's got a really good team behind him.
"If he's given time and a little bit of space to keep developing and not too much pressure on the results at this stage, he can go very far."
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The A$5bn (£2.9bn, $3.8bn) airport will be located at Badgerys Creek, 50km (31 miles) west of the city's centre.
PM Malcolm Turnbull said the government would take on the project after the operator of Sydney's existing airport turned it down, citing financial risks.
It comes more than 70 years after the idea was first conceived, and follows promises from successive governments.
The current Sydney Airport, 8km south of the city, has become increasingly stretched amid increased demand in recent years.
Mr Turnbull described the airport as a "vitally important project" for both Sydney and the nation.
"The airport will be a major catalyst for jobs and economic growth in western Sydney, injecting more than A$1.9bn into the economy during the construction phase alone," he said on Tuesday.
"It is expected to deliver 9,000 new jobs to western Sydney by the early 2030s, and 60,000 in the long-term."
The Sydney Airport Group declined its first option to build the airport, citing "risks" to investors including demand and growth potential and construction costs.
The debate on the need for a second airport in Australia's largest city dates back to 1946.
"I think the community wants to see the project come to life as opposed to necessarily worrying about who builds or who operates it," New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
Details of the plan will be announced next week when Mr Turnbull's government unveils its annual budget.
They were so fed up with the status quo that they took a gamble on someone who had never held elected office.
It was a metaphorical "let's throw everything in the air and see how it lands - it can't be worse than it is".
Mr Trump is already delivering on his promise to be a disrupter.
In threatening to cancel a multi-billion-dollar contract (caveat - I've grown wary of using Mr Trump's tweeted figures, in this instance $4bn, until they are fact checked), Mr Trump hit at one of the historic symbols of US presidential power.
Swooping in to a foreign country in Air Force One is what American presidents do, except maybe this one won't.
Mr Trump is very happy with his own plane, which after all has his name emblazoned on the side, not that of some generic office.
Boeing's shares slid 1% on the prospect of the deal being cancelled. But it was only 1%, not 5%.
Maybe Mr Trump is right, a new mega-bird is a waste of taxpayers' money and cancelling the order, unthinkable though it seems, isn't such a bad idea.
China has already felt the fallout of Mr Trump's chaos theory of governing.
For 44 years, the US has stuck to a policy of recognising the sovereignty of China but not Taiwan.
But longevity is clearly no protection in an era of disruption.
American voters were no doubt left scratching their heads by the revelation in Mr Trump's tweet that Washington is happy to sell Taiwan millions of dollars worth of weapons (see caveat above) but isn't happy to talk to their president on the phone.
The foreign policy establishment can grumble about potential consequences, but many Americans feel the US has been on the losing end of this relationship for too long.
Why not play tough for a change? Isn't it worth a try?
The biggest indication of Mr Trump's belief that it's time for a shake-up to the existing order is his preference for less government experience over more government experience in the people he is picking for his administration.
In normal circumstances, if you want a job done well, you chose someone with experience doing that job.
But Mr Trump appears to believe that the job of government has been done so badly that that is exactly the wrong approach.
With a couple of exceptions, Mr Trump has chosen people with no experience running a government bureaucracy.
Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon who will now run the housing department, earlier took himself out of the running for a cabinet slot precisely because he didn't have government experience.
Here again, there's a possibility Mr Trump is right.
America is effectively ungovernable at the moment and has been for the past six years.
That's partly the result of divided power, which is a problem Mr Trump won't have.
But it may also be the result of the same people rotating through Washington and getting stuck in the weeds of government.
Maybe a fresh, outside approach can work. Perhaps people with no experience will be unfettered by protocol, history and existing structures and will be freer to cut through red tape.
None of us know whether this disruption will work or even be noticeably different once Mr Trump's team actually runs up against the realities of government.
But for political scientists, whatever happens over the next four years, it will be an interesting test of the notion that you need experience to run a government.
From Boeing, to Taiwan, to Ben Carson, to Chinese tariffs, Donald Trump is upending America's established order.
Through both the disruptive medium of Twitter and the conventional system of cabinet appointments, he is chucking protocol out the window and signalling that almost everything is up for review.
Even Air Force One.
The question is, will it work?
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The NSPCC said its existing support line could now advise parents worried about extremists grooming a child.
It said counsellors had been trained to spot warning signs such as children isolating themselves or "talking as if from a scripted speech".
Recent terror attacks "highlighted the growing problem of individuals being influenced by extremism", it added.
The charity said it had already started getting calls from people worried about the problem.
One caller said: "I'm concerned that someone is trying to force a young boy into having extreme beliefs. He has started acting differently recently and has become more withdrawn."
The training for NSPCC counsellors explained how extremist recruiters "befriend vulnerable targets, feed them ideologies and - in the worst-case scenario - persuade them to commit terrorist attacks".
The charity said potential targets often had low self-esteem, were members of gangs, or were victims of bullying or discrimination.
Radicals tell them they can be "part of something special, and brainwash them into cutting themselves off from their friends and family", it added.
Signs which may "hint at a child being radicalised" include increased anger, becoming disrespectful and asking "inappropriate questions", the charity said.
"I'm worried about a child I know," one caller told counsellors.
"I fear that they may start holding extremist beliefs because I've heard her saying some worrying things.
"She's also showing changes in behaviour and appears to be more aggressive towards her parents.
"I'm not sure how to approach this as I know the family well... I don't think staying silent is an option in the current climate."
NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless said: "The fact that a young person might hold extreme or radical views is not a safeguarding issue in itself.
"But when young people are groomed for extremist purposes and encouraged to commit acts that could hurt themselves or others, then it becomes abuse.
"That's why we've trained our counsellors to cope with this fresh danger to young people."
The charity's counsellors can also advise parents on how to talk to children who are anxious about terrorism or upset by recent attacks, such as those in France and Germany.
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Vaughn was also famous for his role as Lee in the Magnificent Seven, and television roles in Hustle and Coronation Street.
The actor died after a battle with acute leukaemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, told the BBC.
Vaughn died in New York on Friday morning surrounded by his family, he said.
David McCallum, from the hit TV show NCIS, who as Illya Kuryakin starred alongside Vaughn in The Man From UNCLE, told TVLine.com he was "utterly devastated" by the news.
"Robert and I worked together for many years and losing him is like losing a part of me. My deepest sympathies go out to Linda and the Vaughn family," he said.
Vaughn, who was "a few months shy of 84" had been seeking treatment for his leukaemia, Mr Sullivan said.
"He was a great human being. I enjoyed every day of working with him," he said.
Vaughn had only recently finished two projects - an appearance on Law and Order: SVU, and a starring role in the upcoming film Gold Star, about a young woman caring for her dying father.
Famous films Vaughn worked on included Bullitt and Towering Inferno, both with Steve McQueen, and he took the role of the villain in Superman III.
He was also well-known in Britain for his 1970s appearance as Harry Rule in the ITV series, The Protectors.
The plot featured three wealthy individuals getting together each week, usually in exotic locations, to solve crimes and protect the innocent.
Though extremely popular, it was later described by Vaughn in his autobiography as "tasteless junk".
Decades later, he would have another hit UK series with Hustle, a BBC series in which he played elderly con man Albert Stroller, responsible for setting up potential targets for a younger generation of grifters.
He is survived by his wife Linda and two children, Cassidy and Caitlin Vaughn.
On social media, fans paid tribute to his work.
"Robert Vaughn, such a fine actor, one of the best Columbo villains (no higher praise than that) and an utterly charming man," tweeted Stephen Fry.
Actor Jon Donahue said: "As an 80s kid, I grew up with Superman III... Robert Vaughn was a badass!" referencing Vaughn's role as Superman's nemesis.
Gavin Free, creator of the YouTube series The Slow Mo Guys paid tribute to Vaughn's work ethic. "I got to work with him on Hustle five years ago. He did his own slow mo stunts that day while in his late 70s," he wrote.
Fellow fictional secret agent, Sir Roger Moore, whose incarnation of James Bond came several years after The Man From UNCLE, said he was sorry to hear the news.
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The latest figures showed exports were up 1.6% over the month, following a 3.4% increase in January.
German firms had the most success in markets outside the eurozone where they recorded growth of 13.4% compared with the year before.
But the nation's trade surplus shrank to 13.6bn euros ($17.8bn; £11.2bn) in February from 15.1bn euros in January as imports grew strongly at 3.9%.
"German exports defied the general February freeze of the economy and increased for the second consecutive month," said Carsten Brzeski an economist at ING Bank.
"Last week's industrial data showed that the German economy is still flirting with a technical recession.
"More and more, the German economy's destiny is in the hands of its trading partners outside the eurozone," he added.
Last week figures showed that German industrial production fell 1.3% in February, compared with the previous month.
The fall was partly blamed on bad weather which hit the construction industry.
Renowned for his blistering serve - he once delivered 42 aces in a match at Wimbledon - the now-59-year-old also had to scrape together his kit by cadging free tennis shoes.
However, since those penurious playing days, he has gone on to spend a successful quarter of a century in the business world.
He now spends two days a week working alongside Dragons' Den entrepreneur Peter Jones, as well as being director of commercial partnerships for sports charity Street Games.
He also does work for Mr Jones's National Academy for Enterprise.
"We launched the academy for youths aged 16 to 19," he says.
"It is for those who were OK at school but maybe did not like being there, or were not sure about what it could do for them.
"They are youngsters who want to be enterprising and start their own business, not go to university to study traditional subjects."
He adds: "The students are competitive, and they really want to make a difference."
Meanwhile, a number of business ventures he launched in his crossover period from sport to business, in the mid to late 1980s, are still going strong.
"I was not a great tennis player, but it was a career," he confesses.
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"I actually started out with a cricket scholarship and switched to tennis when I was 16.
"My main playing asset was my big service."
Fortunately he was also quick on his feet off the court, and in 1985 at a dinner in Japan to promote Wimbledon, he nimbly took advantage of a chance remark by a fellow guest.
"I started talking to someone who said he worked for Yamaha - at that time I did not know they were a maker of tennis racquets and golf clubs," he says.
"They said they did not have a representative in the UK, and I immediately said I would do it."
He was soon selling their tennis racquets and bicycles to British customers, and before long went back to the Japanese firm to ask for a bigger market - Europe.
"Fortunately they agreed, and as I was on a percentage of the turnover I made money from the venture and was soon out of debt," he says.
Which was just as well because, the way he describes it, being a lower-ranking tennis player was far from a life of jet-set glamour.
Often he entered doubles tournaments by pairing up with scratch playing partners, and once in Italy he was pelted with coins when taking on a local favourite.
However, it was on that men's tennis tour where he first discovered his entrepreneurial spirit - selling tennis racquets and Fred Perry and Slazenger T-shirts on his travels to help pay his way.
"We used to take tennis shirts over to Europe and flog them when we were playing there," he recalls.
And when he contacted the company then known as Inter, and now called Hi-Tec, to ask for three free pairs of tennis shoes, he hit on another business venture.
"Once again, sport and business crossed over for me, and the company founder Frank Van Wezel was happy to do business with me," recalls Mr Feaver.
"I became their UK representative and signed up all the British players that I could, and the business flourished. I still do work for Hi-Tech to this day."
Meanwhile, he had overseen the transfer of the Yamaha concession from himself to department store chain Beales.
After those initial commercial ventures, he paused to take stock of what he had learned from the world of business.
"It had been a real learning curve," the former right-hander says.
"What I had learned was: play to your strengths, do business with people you trust, don't get out of your depth, and be honest.
"Loyalty is also very important."
He said that, having brought the discipline of a sportsman to business, he actually found it easier in some ways than life on the tennis court.
On the court his career on the ATP men's tour had lasted from 1973 to 1986, with one unusual highlight being his feat of beating Bjorn Borg twice in one week at the Beckenham tournament in the mid-70s.
"Not many people can say that," he says. "I beat him in the final of the under-21 event and the quarter-final of the men's event.
"I beat him 6-4 in the third set both times."
Back in the world of business, his next venture after his sports equipment deals was into the world of consultancy, with US public relations giant Hill & Knowlton.
Further high-powered posts followed as commercial director and international director for tennis governing body, the LTA.
"That came about because I contacted them and said I wanted to bring my skills into the business," he says.
For the duration of this year's Wimbledon he will be director of player relations at the tournament, a post he has held for the past 21 years.
For an ex-pro like himself from an earlier era, he must have noticed the huge amounts of money now in tennis and other sports.
"People nowadays might see success in sport by how much people earn, or by big sponsorship deals," he says.
"But it is about what you win and how you present yourself, and a top professional in any sport would tell you that."
But one thing has not changed from his experience - the pressure on tennis players lower down the ladder struggling to make a financial living.
"You also cannot get into certain tournaments unless you reach a certain ranking level," he says.
"So when I hear people [talking] about the pressure at the top, I think that they should have a look at the financial strain on those at the other end of the sport."
McCoy, regarded as the greatest jump jockey ever, has been made a knight while world champion boxer Frampton becomes an MBE.
Paralympic swimmer Diane McMillan, from Larne, former Ireland cricketer Roy Harrison and rugby official Ian Beggs have been appointed MBEs.
McCoy, 41, retired in April after riding more than 4,300 winners.
He was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010, the year in which he won the Grand National at the 15th attempt on Don't Push It.
As well as that long-awaited Aintree triumph, McCoy won the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice, three Champion Hurdles and the Champion Chase.
Earlier, this month the man from Moneyglass in County Antrim received a lifetime achievement award at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year show.
Frampton, managed by former WBA featherweight champion Barry McGuigan, is currently preparing for a big unification contest with England's Scott Quigg in Manchester on 27 February.
The 28-year-old, from north Belfast, holds the IBF super-bantamweight belt while Bury boxer Quigg has the WBA title.
Frampton turned professional in 2009 after winning Irish amateur titles, and became European champion in 2013 by beating Kiko Martinez.
Spaniard Martinez was again the opponent when Framption, nicknamed The Jackal, took the IBF world crown at Belfast's Titanic Quarter in September 2014.
McMillan, then Dianne Barr, won two gold medals at the Seoul Games in 1988 at the age of 16.
The below-the-knee amputee also won one silver and two bronze medals in Korea, and four years later got another Paralympic bronze medal in Barcelona.
She has been recognised for services to swimming and disability awareness.
Roy Harrison, a long-serving player and official of Waringstown Cricket Club, won three caps for Ireland and his brothers Deryck, Garfield and Jim were also internationals.
He was an opening batsman for Waringstown, scoring more than 9,000 runs and taking in excess of 300 wickets in a long and distinguished club career.
Off the pitch, Harrison was a dedicated and respected official, serving as president of the Northern Cricket Union in 2001 and the Irish Cricket Union five years later.
Ian Beggs has been recognised for his long service as an administrator with Carrickfergus Rugby Club and the Ulster Branch of the IRFU.
Beggs served as club secretary and was heavily involved in the successful Carrick Sevens tournament during an association with the County Antrim club which stretches back almost 60 years.
In 2012, he was elected an honorary life vice-president of the Ulster Branch, an honour which has been awarded on just three occasions.
The prescriptions could provide free visits to national parks or gardening sessions at National Trust properties, for example.
A small number of GPs already do this.
The LGA says it needs to become universal policy to tackle the nation's obesity crisis.
It's calling on NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups to drive the initiative forward.
In Dorset, doctors already prescribe walks, conservation work, gardening and sailing.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has developed an IT system which links up GPs with leisure centres so they can book patients directly on to exercise plans.
The LGA, which took on responsibility for public health under the recent NHS shake-up, says exercise prescriptions would encourage people to be more active, lose weight and keep fit.
Spokeswoman Izzi Seccombe said: "There are some instances where rather than prescribing a pill, advising on some type of moderate physical activity outdoors could be far more beneficial to the patient.
"There are already some good examples where this is being piloted in the UK and it is something we should consider on a nationwide basis."
The Royal College of General Practitioners said any decision to invest in social prescribing schemes, and roll them out more widely, must not be an alternative to investing in general practice services.
Spokesman Dr Steve Mowle said: "Social prescribing schemes can certainly be beneficial to a patient's overall health and wellbeing - as some pilots have shown - but to be effective, there needs to be better integration between health and community services, so that GPs and our teams can signpost our patients most appropriately."
One in four women and one in five men in England do less than 30 minutes of moderate physical activity per week - way below the recommended amount of 150 minutes per week.
Physical activity can help to prevent and manage over 20 chronic conditions and diseases, including some cancers, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and depression.
People who do regular physical activity have:
Source: NHS Choices
Carolyn Fairbairn, head of the business lobby group, said it was "impossible" that all the details of a new trade deal with the European Union would be in place by March 2019.
That is when talks about the UK's withdrawal are due to formally finish.
To minimise disruption, UK businesses need a "bridge" instead of a "cliff edge" for the new deal, she said.
Businesses are delaying investment because of the uncertainty, according to the CBI, whose members employ nearly 7 million people.
The government said it was working with businesses to ensure the Brexit process was "smooth".
"While we will be leaving the single market and the EU customs union, we want to achieve a comprehensive free trade agreement that allows for the most frictionless possible trade," a government spokesman said.
In a speech at the London School of Economics, Ms Fairbairn said it was "common sense" to stay in the single market and customs union until a trade deal was in place.
"This is not about whether we are leaving the EU, it is about how," she said.
"Once the Article 50 clock strikes midnight on 29 March 2019 the UK will leave the EU."
Her comments were backed by Labour, which said it wanted an early commitment to "strong transitional arrangements" on similar terms to those currently in place.
"Without that commitment, and without a bridge to new trading arrangements with the EU, there will be growing uncertainty for businesses and investment decisions will be delayed," said Keir Starmer, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the EU.
The CBI said businesses feared they could be forced to adapt twice - first to a transitional arrangement, and then to the final trade deal.
That would be "wasteful, difficult and uncertain in itself," Ms Fairbairn said.
She told the BBC that a survey of CBI members found that 40% had reduced investment plans due to Brexit uncertainty.
"The urgency is simply growing. March 2019 is tomorrow for a lot of businesses. They are having to make their plans now," she said.
The CBI's proposal was backed by a range of business bodies, including from retail, aerospace and manufacturing.
Terry Scuoler, chief executive of the manufacturers' body EEF, said: "The absence of any clarity for businesses makes this a sensible approach to transition."
The TUC also supported the move, saying "it's crucial that we get the transition right as we leave the EU".
However, Patrick Minford, chairman of the Economists for Free Trade and an economics professor at Cardiff University, said it was not clear what the CBI wanted.
"They are constantly arguing for remain through the back door and this sounds like the same thing," he told the BBC.
He said the UK and EU would have to reach some kind of deal by the end of March 2019 and that would involve transitional arrangements.
The CBI's comments come ahead of a government conference on Friday with business figures from sectors across the UK.
The event, to be hosted at Chevening House in Kent, is part of government plans to work more closely with industries over Brexit.
Business groups have increased their calls in recent weeks for the UK to maintain existing trading relations with the EU.
After last month's election, five business bodies - including the CBI and EEF - called for the government to maintain the economic benefits of the single market and the customs union.
The CBI has now gone further by urging that the UK stay in those trading arrangements until a final deal is in place.
A move would reunite Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, who had a stormy partnership at McLaren in 2007.
Rosberg, 31, retired five days after winning the Formula 1 world title.
"You have to consider Fernando," Wolff told Sky Sports. "He is a driver I respect a lot. He combines talent, speed and experience. It's all there."
However, the cost of buying out Alonso's contract and the Spaniard's turbulent relationship with Hamilton could yet prove to be stumbling blocks.
Alonso and Hamilton had one troubled season together at McLaren, leading to the Spaniard leaving the team after agreeing an early release from his contract.
Two-time champion Alonso is entering the final year of his contract, which may force Mercedes to look elsewhere.
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With testing due to begin in February, the constructors' champions will have to move quickly to find a replacement.
Former Mercedes test driver Pascal Wehrlein, 22, remains the most realistic target to join British three-time champion Hamilton, who recently said he "doesn't care" who Mercedes pick.
Wolff added: "He [Alonso] is in a contract with McLaren-Honda at the moment and we just need to weigh all the other options up.
"Both drivers will have equal status and equal opportunity to the best of our abilities. We owe it to the fans. You can't have a pecking order."
BBC Sport chief F1 writer Andrew Benson:
Mercedes would think carefully before trying to tempt Fernando Alonso away from McLaren.
For one thing, buying him out of his McLaren contract would be expensive and the Spaniard had a troubled relationship with Hamilton when they were team-mates at McLaren in 2007.
Then McLaren team boss Ron Dennis reneged on a promise to give Alonso priority status and the two fell out, leading to Alonso leaving the team after just one year of a three-year contract.
The favourites for the seat alongside Hamilton remain Mercedes junior Pascal Wehrlein and Williams driver Valtteri Bottas, who has close links with Wolff.
Taking Bottas would also require Mercedes to do a deal with Williams, to whom the Finn is under contract until the end of 2017, but this may be easier than with McLaren as the team use Mercedes engines.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel has appeared to rule himself out of the equation.
The four-time champion is under contract until the end of next season and the German said at a Ferrari event at the weekend that "it should be clear" he was not an option.
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When our 40-seater plane landed at Bamiyan airport, I wondered how it might be possible to hold a skiing race in such a remote part of Afghanistan.
The airport, without tarmac runway or passenger lounge, is a world away from Bamiyan's ambition as a tourism destination, but as you walk out, the clear blue skies and amazing mountain views are stunning.
I came to watch the 4th Afghan Ski Challenge, a competition for local and international skiers meant to promote winter sports in this mountain region. On the morning of the race I was as excited as the 50 male and female skiers who gathered at the Koh-e-Baba mountain range.
After the countdown, the group, including 30 Afghans, started racing up the hillside, a height difference of almost 500m (1640ft). No lifts here, but plenty of enthusiasm.
This year the ski challenge included a wooden ski category. Some locals are making their own skis from wood and plastic. One of the skiers told me that his father was too poor to buy him real skis. "It's easy to make something that you really want," he said.
Alishah Farhang was the first crossing the finishing line in the main race. "I tried hard to achieve this" he said, standing on the winner's podium. Later he told me how much it meant to him: "Since I came across skiing, my life has changed a lot, I have new experiences, new friends and new contacts."
Alishah is now working as a paid instructor for Bamiyan ski club. The club provide classes in the winter season as well as skiing gear for hire.
Amateurs were also trying their luck on the slopes, often with mixed results.
Prizes for the winners included a Swiss watch, a sport camera and a ski jacket. But many competitors just turned up in their normal everyday clothing.
I was one of the few outsiders among the spectators because Bamiyan is remote and difficult to get to. The province's highways are dangerous with insurgents frequently stopping cars and air travel is very expensive.
The race was guarded by some armed policemen, but luckily they were not called on and were mainly busy protecting themselves from the sun.
For most Afghans, skiing is a very alien concept. But the Bamiyan ski club and the Aga Khan Foundation which supported the event are determined to attract more people and spectators to the sport.
Bamiyan has the best winter conditions in all of Afghanistan according to the organisers who also run short ski schools. In time they hope that the sport may attract more tourists to the province, its hotels and markets.
He brought up the landmark with his second winner of the night at his local track - on Predilection, trained by John Gosden.
The 45-year-old Italian is the sixth jockey to reach the landmark in Flat racing.
He follows Sir Gordon Richards, Doug Smith, Lester Piggott, Pat Eddery and Willie Carson.
Three-time champion jockey Dettori, who earlier won on Ghayyar, said: "It's special. I'm very emotional because my family are here as well
"I'm very pleased for it to have happened at Newmarket because this is where I landed 30 years ago.
"It's not a big meeting, it's not a Royal Ascot - it's a mundane Friday night with 20,000 people. I'm relieved and very humble."
Two jockeys have reached the milestone in jump racing - champion jockey Richard Johnson and retired 20-time champion Sir Anthony McCoy, who had more than 4,300 victories in a record-breaking career.
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"Frankie is one of the best jockeys of the modern era and it is no surprise he has reached this landmark so few have achieved before him. He is stylish and strong, but it is his tactical nous that sets him apart from others in the weighing room.
"He is a fantastic ambassador for racing, his enthusiasm and charisma have been drawing fans to the sport for years."
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"I said to Frankie a few weeks ago at Epsom he'd have ridden 6,000 winners if he wasn't just a weekend and big-race jockey! Seriously though, Frankie's been riding winners in the UK for the best part of 30 years which is great to see.
He's a lively character which is good for British racing but more than that, he's an incredible jockey."
BBC Sport's Frank Keogh
"From flying finishes to flying dismounts, Frankie Dettori has been the poster boy of British Flat racing for two decades.
"It has been a rollercoaster ride. Stacks of big-race winners, including his famous 1996 'Magnificent Seven' at Ascot, but he also survived a plane crash and served a drugs ban.
"Three years ago he initially struggled when returning from that six-month suspension, but he showed formidable strength of character to defy the doubters and return to his best.
"And he may not be done for some time - Dettori has previously said he would like to carry on competing until the age of 50, at least."
Feet up and cigarette in hand, Rahim is lying on a wooden crate that serves as a bed, listening to Shakira on his laptop.
The thin plywood and plastic walls of his makeshift hut offer little protection against the cold, damp winter air, and he's wrapped in a blanket to keep warm.
Rahim is from Kabul and arrived in France six months ago in search of a better life.
A handsome and self-assured young man in his late 20s, dressed in a smart black shalwar kameez, he describes how he set up shop in the Afghan section of the infamous Calais jungle camp, opening a cafe offering cheap food and shelter for new arrivals.
The cafe which Rahim calls his "hotel" may be no more than a rickety shack, but business is booming.
As he tells his story, a succession of young Afghan men in cheap leather jackets come and go.
Some bring in water from a nearby stand-pipe. Others stir the cooking pots on a portable gas stove in the kitchen area.
Overhead, the walls are lined with wooden shelves full of jars of Indian spices and cans of beans and peas.
'I've got 20 men working for me here, and I pay them 25 euros a day," Rahim tells the BBC.
He even earns enough to send money back home.
Rahim's story is a clear illustration of the complex and often perplexing realities of life in the Calais camp.
He openly admits that his life wasn't in danger in Kabul.
"Thank God we were always well off," he says with a smile, "I never worked a day in my life."
But Rahim, and many young single Afghan men like him in the camp are all in search of something life back home could never offer - the opportunity to make something of themselves.
They do not think the world owes them a living. But they definitely think the world owes them the chance to try and live their dream.
For most of the Afghans that means finding a way - somehow - to reach the UK.
"The French are racist, there are no jobs here," says Rahim. "At least in Britain we can find a job or do business."
Everyone is waiting for their chance to scale the fences around the port and smuggle themselves onto a truck heading for the UK.
One of Rahim's friends Khan Zaman has already made two failed attempts.
"Last time I hurt my leg and ended up in the hospital," he says. "After that I decided to stay put for a while and make some money."
In recent weeks the determination to make it to the UK has put the Afghans on a confrontation course with the French authorities.
Local police are trying to clear parts of the camp close to the main road, and to encourage migrants to move into new purpose-built shelters.
"I'm not going anywhere," says Rahim. "It's either Britain or right here! How am I supposed to earn a living in the new camp?"
There have been regular night-time confrontations between the young Afghans and French police.
Rahim and his friends show us footage on their mobile phones of riot police firing tear gas at crowds of young men hurling stones back at them.
Among the piles of rubbish building up all over the camp, there are many tear gas canisters.
The Afghans are not happy with this state of affairs, but neither, for different reasons, are some of the other residents of the camp.
In another section of this vast and sprawling place there are many families from Syria and Iraq. It's here that most of the estimated 400 women and 100 children in the camp live.
Desperate to escape the squalor and freezing cold of the "jungle", these people are keen to move with their children into the safer and cleaner heated container city which the French authorities are building.
Some told the BBC off the record that they were angry with the Afghans for courting confrontation with the police and giving the whole refugee community a bad name by refusing to move.
Back in the Afghan section, night is drawing in and the makeshift cafes are starting to get busy.
At the "Three Star Hotel" - a rival establishment to Rahim's, a cook is busy rustling up beef and chicken soup at bargain prices.
Outside Rahim's cafe there's a commotion.
A group of Somali migrants have turned up selling winter coats and boots.
The Afghans call the Somalis the "black market" and it's clear the two groups have little sympathy for each other.
The Afghans accuse them of selling warm clothing sent by charities. But it doesn't stop them buying things.
"I got this from one of these guys for 20 euros," says Rahim, showing us his coat. "They make a profit from our desperation."
Rahim definitely needs his coat. On this freezing, wet January night the outside temperature is dropping towards zero, and it's not much warmer inside the cafe.
The bare earth floor is covered with a few thin sheets of cardboard, and there's a cold draft blowing through a hole in the wall that's patched over with a plastic bag.
Rahim and his friends and customers are huddled together eating plates of Afghan chicken stew.
The enticing smell of the food mixes with the oppressive smell of sewage that hangs permanently over the camp.
Later there's another smell - hashish, which many young men smoke here to help them get through the long days and even longer nights waiting for their chance to move on.
The names in this story have been changed to protect the identity of the interviewees.
Valentina Tereshkova told BBC News that she protested, writing a letter to the central communist party committee.
It took the authorities 19 years to send another woman into space.
Ms Tereshkova was speaking at the launch of an exhibition about the Soviet space programme at the Science Museum.
She told me: "On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?"
"We had been preparing for another female flight but it was (the head of the space programme) Sergei Korolev's decision not to risk women's lives because one of the women in the space corps already had a family."
I asked her whether she and the five other trained female cosmonauts disagreed with the decision.
"We were against that decision," she told me firmly. "We wrote to the central party committee disagreeing with the decision."
But history shows it was to no avail. The Soviet Union did not send another woman into space for 19 years, Svetlana Savitskaya, who became the first woman to fly on the Soviet Space station Salyut 7.
There is speculation that she was sent into space because the USSR was aware that the US was preparing to send their first woman into space - Sally Ride.
The revelation is at odds with what the Soviet leader at the time, Nikita Khrushchev, said in a speech at Red Square whilst standing beside Valentina Tereshkova on her return from space.
In it, he mocked the US for its sexual discrimination.
"The bourgeoisie always claim that women are the weaker sex. Now here you can see a typical Soviet woman who in the eyes of the bourgeoisie is weak," he said.
"Look at what she has shown to America's astronauts. She has shown them who is who!"
For Premier Khrushchev, Ms Tereshkova's flight was intended to be a clear signal of equal rights for women under his communist regime.
While in space, Ms Tereshkova spoke directly with Khrushchev, reporting that "all systems are working perfectly" and that she felt "excellent".
He replied: "Valentina, I am very happy and proud that a girl from the Soviet Union is the first woman to fly into space and to operate such cutting-edge equipment".
Ms Tereshkova became the first woman to go into space on 16 June 1963. She completed 48 orbits of the Earth in a trip that lasted almost three days.
Her call signal was "Seagull", and she shouted this joyful message as her Vostok-6 Spacecraft blasted off: "Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!"
It was at the height of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union. Each country had sent up six astronauts each in an effort to demonstrate national superiority to the rest of the world.
Fifty-two years later, Valentina Tereshkova's capsule is on display at the Science Museum, in an exhibition about the Soviet era of space exploration in the 1960s.
At the opening of the exhibition, she gazed at it lovingly and said she would miss it while it is on display in London - away from the astronaut training facility in Star City near Moscow.
"I reunite with it every day. I never stopped reuniting with this module. Not for a minute, not for an hour, not for a day," she said.
"Every time I meet it, I stroke it and say 'hello my darling' and then go back to work."
In the West, Valentina Tereshkova is one of the forgotten heroes of the space age. At first glorified and portrayed as a symbol of the social enlightenment that communism offered, and then left behind in the great era of Soviet space exploration.
For her own part, she is modest about her own achievement.
"One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution," she told me at the Science Museum.
And she issued a message to young women who wanted to follow in her footsteps: "Work hard and you will get there. I am very jealous of you!"
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The Office for National Statistics found prices north of the border rose by 0.4% in the year to November, compared with a UK figure of 7.7%.
House price annual inflation was 8.3% in England, 1.3% in Wales and 4.6% in Northern Ireland.
Scottish prices are now 0.8% below their pre-economic downturn peak of June 2008.
Excluding London and the south east, UK house prices increased by 5.8% in the 12 months to November.
Scotland shared the lowest increase in the UK with the north east of England.
Average house prices in Scotland stood at £195,000 in November.
This compared with £302,000 in England, £173,000 in Wales and £158,000 in Northern Ireland.
The court ruled on Friday that marriage for all is a constitutional right.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said clerks could be fined if they refuse to issue marriage licences.
However, he said that his office would defend them in court free of charge.
Despite the landmark ruling, opponents of gay marriage are preparing for more legal challenges. Many want to protect the interests of people with religious objections to the unions.
"This newly minted federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage can and should peaceably coexist with longstanding constitutional and statutory rights, including the rights to free exercise of religion and freedom of speech," Mr Paxton wrote in a memo to state employees.
Many gay couples in Texas have already wed since Friday's ruling. But couples in nearby Mississippi have been blocked from obtaining marriage licences.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said gay marriage would not be legal in the state until the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals gives the go-ahead. It is unclear when the court will act.
In Louisiana, an official had said they found nothing in the ruling stating the marriages must be available immediately, but the state began issuing licences on Monday.
"We don't have a choice," Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told NBC News on Sunday. "Our agencies will comply with the court order."
Mr Jindal, a Republican who is running for president, also sought to protect religious freedoms after the ruling.
"I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that violate our sincerely held religious beliefs," Mr Jindal said.
"We have to stand up and fight for religious liberty. That's where this fight is going," he added.
Gay marriages in the US only apply to secular unions so churches and clergy are not legally required participate.
However, some conservatives say florists, bakers and other businesspeople associated with weddings should not be legally required to serve gay customers if they have religious objections to same-sex marriages.
The petition was moved by MP Warren Enstch on Thursday.
As long as the violence "continues to be referred to as 'anti-Sikh riots' there can be no closure for the Sikh community", he said in the petition.
Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed after the assassination of then PM Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards.
The trigger for Mrs Gandhi's killing was the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar city four months earlier to flush out Sikh militants fighting for an independent homeland of Khalistan (Land of the Pure).
The petition, submitted by Mr Enstch, has been signed by 4,453 people.
It also called on the Australian government to urge India to take "all reasonable measures" to bring those responsible for the 1984 violence to justice.
A recent government inquiry found "credible evidence" that some leaders of Mrs Gandhi's Congress Party had incited crowds to attack Sikhs during the riots and that they were not spontaneous.
But 28 years after the riots, there have been no convictions in any of the cases.
A spokesman for Opel said about 5,000 workers at its Ruesselsheim and Eisenach factories would be affected. Opel is owned by US car giant GM.
The pound has weakened against the dollar and euro since the UK's 23 June vote to leave the EU, adding costs for firms exporting to the UK.
The UK is the biggest market for Opel's Insignia and Corsa models.
The Opel cars are sold under the Vauxhall brand in the UK.
The spokesman did not specify how many fewer hours Opel staff in Germany would have to work.
In late May the pound sterling was worth $1.46 and €1.3, but now it is worth $1.3 and €1.15.
GM's European division, which includes Vauxhall in the UK, reported a second quarter profit of $0.1bn, its first profit in five years.
But last month GM warned that cost-cutting was on the cards as the effect of Brexit could cost it up to $400m.
Most of the Opel cars sold in the UK are imported, even though Vauxhall has factories in the UK.
Another German car giant - Volkswagen - has also introduced short-time working ("Kurzarbeit") at several factories, but not because of Brexit. It has been hit by slow deliveries from some component firms, the German broadcaster ARD says.
The VW Passat factory in Emden cut the hours of more than 7,000 staff on Thursday. Production of Golfs at VW's Wolfsburg hub is likely to be suspended for five days next week.
More than 20,000 workers are likely to see their hours cut, as VW is also looking to slow production at plants in Kassel, Braunschweig and Zwickau.
Deputy chairman Charles Rolls almost doubled the number of shares he intended to sell following "significant" demand from investors.
He sold 4.5 million shares at £16.25 each, but retains an 11.2% stake.
The tonic water group has seen its share price rise more than 900% since it floated in late 2014.
This year alone shares in the group have risen more than 50%.
Fever-Tree's international sales have expanded rapidly, and more than 50% of its revenues now come from outside the UK.
Mr Rolls founded the company with Tim Warrillow in 2004. It is named after the colloquial term for the cinchona tree, from whose bark the natural anti-malarial drug and core tonic water ingredient, quinine, is produced.
The pair wanted to produce an upmarket tonic with no artificial sweeteners, preservatives and flavourings.
You don't get invited out on a US nuclear aircraft carrier all that often, and after writing this I might not get invited back for a while.
On the flight deck of the USS George Washington the noise is like nothing I've ever experienced. A few feet from where I am standing, 11 F/A-18 Super Hornets are lining up to be launched.
The first one is hooked on to the catapult; there is a massive crescendo as its engines roar to full re-heat. Then, in a cloud of white steam, the 15-tonne jet is thrown down the deck and off the end of the ship like a toy.
Seconds later, the deck crew in their multi-coloured smocks are calmly lining up the next one.
Watching the US Navy close up like this, it is hard not to be slightly awed. No other navy in the world has quite the same toys, or shows them off with the same easy charm.
But as I stand on the deck filming my report on how "the US is practising for war with China", I can see my host from the Navy public affairs office wincing.
You get used to hearing the PR rhetoric: the US Navy "is not practising for war with any specific country". But the US Navy has not assembled two whole carrier battle groups and 200 aircraft off the coast of Guam for a jolly, either. This is about practising what the Pentagon now calls "Air Sea Battle".
It is a concept first put forward in 2009, and it is specifically designed to counter the rising threat from China.
A few minutes later I am standing on the bridge of the George Washington with Rear Adm Mark Montgomery, the commander of Carrier Strike Group Five. The forces under his command are practising for what he calls an "anti-access, area denial" scenario.
"When we talk about our capabilities," he says, "we are talking about our capabilities to operate in unrestricted way in the waters of our choice".
"As some countries have been developing increasingly complex anti-access weapons, we have to develop our tactics, techniques and procedures to continue to operate in an unfettered manner."
Rear Adm Montgomery won't discuss the specifics of the exercise. But his ships and aircraft face an increasingly complex web of threats, from beneath the water, from air, land, from cyberspace and from space.
"It's generally understood that some countries have the ability to remove satellites or to limit satellite communications," he says, "so we have to practise working in a communications-denied environment."
China's People's Liberation Army Navy is still no match for the US Navy, and won't be for a very long time. Instead, China has been developing other weapons designed to keep America's precious carriers far away from China's shores.
These include new quieter submarines, long-range hypersonic anti-ship missiles and, perhaps most worrying, very accurate medium range ballistic missiles that have been dubbed "carrier killers".
As if on cue, an alarm bell starts ringing. A voice comes on the public address system:
"This is a drill, this is a drill! Black smoke, black smoke!"
The George Washington is under simulated attack. Part of the ship is reported to be on fire. Teams rush to contain the damage.
For the last 10 years, China's most important, and oft-repeated, political slogan has been "peaceful rise". It is designed to reassure Beijing's neighbours its growing military might is no threat.
But since President Xi Jinping came to power last year, there has been a distinct change. China is now asserting claims well beyond its own coastline.
Its ships are aggressively patrolling the Senkaku, or Diaoyu, islands in the East China Sea, long controlled by Japan. It is spending billions building new islands in the South China Sea.
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In August a Chinese fighter jet confronted a US surveillance plane in international airspace over the South China Sea, repeatedly buzzing it and, according to the US Navy, closing to within 20ft (6m).
According to Rear Adm Montgomery, all this makes the US Navy's role in the region even more vital.
"The US Navy is one of the single greatest contributors to the security and stability of the Asia Pacific region," he says. "We have been for nearly 70 years".
"I think the US Navy plays a good role whether it is in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Philippine Sea, stabilising things, assuring partners and dissuading adversaries from taking actions that are non-transparent or illegal."
China's leaders would no doubt disagree. Beijing's long-term aim is to dominate the waters close to its shores. If the US Navy tries to stop it, might that not make conflict more likely?
But from Tokyo to Taipei, Manila to Hanoi, there are governments that are very happy to see America's great carrier battle groups sailing these waters.
Both sides have won just two of their opening five Premiership matches.
"We know Northampton are a very good side, it'll be hugely physical, so big set-pieces, scrum battles, big line-out battles," Catt told BBC Radio Bristol.
"It's going to be pretty physical with both those sides looking to win that arm-wrestle in the pack, so it should be good fun."
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Catt, 27, signed a new contract with Bath in the week and he said he never had any intention of playing elsewhere.
"I always wanted to stay," he said. "I've been here a long time and came through the academy so I had no interest in leaving.
"I love being here, I love being with the boys so as soon as the opportunity came to sign on with the club it was a no brainer to me."
Catt missed a year through injury after a neck operation and shoulder injury kept him sidelined - but he says he is now close to working his way back to full fitness.
"After the first game I was in absolute pieces," he admitted. "It's going to take time for me to get back up to speed but with every game I'm getting that little bit sharper."
Newport council rejected plans to split the existing Duffryn High School site and create a new facility alongside it.
The school would have benefitted from a new building, but now has "virtually nothing", said head teacher Jon Wilson.
Newport's chief education officer James Harris said there were still plans for "substantial investment".
But he said the money would be used in a different way after the Welsh medium school proposal was rejected.
Mr Wilson said the school had been promised new buildings "time and time again" and called the situation "a mess".
After the proposal was rejected because of flooding fears, the council said it would begin searching for an alternative location for a Welsh-medium school.
The Tynesiders went ahead with the first real chance of the match as Mitch Brundle's floated free-kick allowed an unmarked Danny Johnson to hammer home.
Macclesfield nearly drew level almost immediately as Rowe's deflected strike went inches past the post but the midfielder would not be denied again, heading home from Jack Mackreth's cross.
John McCombe and Danny Whitaker cleared efforts off the line to keep the Silkmen level, while Gateshead midfielder Wesley York was twice denied by goalkeeper Craig Ross after the interval.
Ross again came to the rescue for the visitors, using his feet to keep out Brundle's attempt as Gateshead were forced to settle for a draw as they stretched their unbeaten league run to nine matches.
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Match ends, Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Substitution, Gateshead. Reece Styche replaces Sam Jones.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Paul Lewis replaces Kingsley James.
Liam Hogan (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Gateshead. Wes York replaces James Bolton.
Second Half begins Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
First Half ends, Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Goal! Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1. Danny M. Rowe (Macclesfield Town).
Goal! Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 0. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
NICE says a third of adults diagnosed with this common lung condition have no actual clinical signs of asthma.
Some may have had asthma in the past, but many have probably been given an incorrect diagnosis, says NICE, which has drafted new advice for doctors.
But people should not stop medication on their own, warn experts.
Anyone who is concerned should talk to their doctor, they stress.
And asthma charities say under-diagnosis and under-treatment is still a big problem.
Three people die every day because of asthma. Most of these deaths could have been avoided through better control of the disease, says Asthma UK.
Source: Asthma UK and NICE
Doctors already follow guidelines to help them diagnose and treat asthma patients. But the latest advice from NICE takes the most recent scientific evidence into account.
New NICE NICE guidelines for England, which are now out for consultation before final approval, say doctors should use more clinical tests to back up their judgement and avoid the danger of wrongly labelling someone as having asthma.
The best test to start with is spirometry - a machine which measures how much and how fast a person breathes out. Further breath tests may also be needed, says the guidance.
Prof Mark Baker, director of clinical practice at NICE, said: "Accurate diagnosis of asthma has been a significant problem which means that people may be wrongly diagnosed or cases might be missed in others.
"Our aim with this guideline is to give clarity and set out the most clinical and cost-effective ways to diagnose and monitor asthma based on the best available evidence."
Over-treatment is a concern because some of the drugs used to manage asthma can have significant side-effects.
Asthma UK welcomes the new guidelines - but warns there is also evidence asthma is under-diagnosed too - and that eight out of 10 asthma sufferers are still not getting the correct basic care.
Kay Boycott, Chief Executive at Asthma UK says: "Asthma has many complex causes which is one of the reasons why it is sometimes difficult to get a definitive diagnosis.
"It is also a highly variable condition that can change throughout someone's life or even week by week, meaning treatment can change over time.
"For anyone with an asthma diagnosis, it is vital they have the right medication and a plan to better manage their condition and any asthma attacks."
Last year's figure was the lowest this millennium, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said.
The number of recorded fires has fallen to its lowest level in any one year since records began in 1966.
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the figures could not be used as a justification for further cuts to services.
LFB said the reduction was mainly due to an increase in fire prevention work by officers.
Last year there were fewer than 20,000 fires and 30 people died, compared with 59 in 2010/11.
London Fire Commissioner Ron Dobson said: "Every fire death is a tragedy and we will never become complacent as so many could have been avoided and we will continue to target those most at risk to further reduce the impacts of fire in the capital."
LFB said the figures were the first to be released since the closure of 10 fire stations and the removal of 14 fire engines in January 2014.
Paul Embery, FBU regional secretary, said: "Fire cover should not follow the laws of supply and demand; it must instead be based on risk.
"Thousands of fires still break out in London every year, and it is crucial that there are sufficient resources to get to the scene quickly to save lives and protect property.
"Closing stations and slashing firefighter jobs makes it harder for us to do that."
The Science and Technology Select Committee, chaired by Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood, conducted proceedings in the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library.
It is the first time that the committee has met outside London, and is part of the commemorations to mark 750 years since the birth of Parliament.
Parliament last met in Oxford in 1681.
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The committee continued its inquiry into the lessons the UK can learn from the Ebola epidemic.
It was joined by about 80 sixth form students, taking part in Oxfordshire County Council's Find Your Voice project, which gives young people the chance to debate with politicians.
The Commons met in the University of Oxford's Divinity School in 1625 to avoid the plague in London.
Parliament met in the Divinity School in 1644, when Charles I brought his Court to Oxford during the Civil War.
The Lords and the Commons met in Oxford in 1665 in the Geometry School and Convocation House respectively.
Parliament met in the Divinity School in 1681, the last Parliament of King Charles II's reign.
Source: University of Oxford
Nick Rawlins, the pro-vice-chancellor of the university, called the sitting an "exceptional occasion".
Miss Blackwood said it was important for the committee to "get out of the bounds of Parliament".
She added: "I'm pleased to be in my home city of Oxford to chair this special session... and it is inspiring to be in the Divinity School which has an historic link with Parliament."
Lorraine Lindsay Gale, the council's cabinet member for cultural and community services, called the sitting "very significant".
"It will encourage young people to understand how Parliament and democracy works," she added.
Its proposal involves creating a "learning hub" on the 14-acre site of the former Western Infirmary.
The development was backed at a pre-determination hearing of the Glasgow City Council planning committee.
The university's masterplan, which includes a research and innovation hub, will now go to a full council meeting on 16 February.
The site is also to be used for new social sciences, health and engineering buildings.
An estimated 2,500 jobs will be created during the construction period.
An initial £450m is expected to be spent over five years at the hospital site, as part of a £1bn investment in facilities by the university.
The extension to the university's Gilmorehill campus will see a central square linking to Byres Road, and commercial opportunities in the form of restaurants, bars and a hotel.
A spokeswoman for the university said: "We are delighted to have received support for our plans at today's meeting. This is an interim but important stage of the planning process.
"The campus masterplan is due to go before a full council meeting... which we hope will give planning approval for this exciting and ambitious development which will transform the University's teaching and research provision as well as enhancing the amenities of the city's West End."
Robbie Powell, from Ystradgynlais, Powys, died at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, of Addison's disease in 1990.
His father William wants charges brought against doctors and officers involved in Robbie's death and an alleged cover-up that followed.
The CPS confirmed no review was underway ahead of the meeting.
Mr Powell has said that in the past charges were not brought by the CPS because of the passage of time since an alleged offence, but he felt more recent cases such as the spate of historical sexual abuse allegations against celebrities had changed that approach.
An inquest into Robbie's death held in 2004 heard a hospital consultant had ordered a test which would have picked up Addison's disease, which affects the adrenal glands, but the test was never carried out.
In the two weeks before his death, Robbie was seen seven times by five doctors, none of whom realised he might have Addison's.
The jury returned a verdict of natural causes aggravated by neglect.
An original police inquiry by Dyfed-Powys Police into Robbie's death did not lead to any prosecutions.
An investigation of the force's handling of the matter conducted by Avon and Somerset police found it was badly managed by senior detectives.
In 2003, Mr Powell met representatives of the CPS who said there was evidence of some grounds against a number of people involved in the case but concluded there was insufficient evidence for a jury to convict on some potential charges.
They said the passage of time since Robbie's death and earlier CPS decisions not to prosecute had led them to a similar conclusion not to act.
A spokesman for the CPS said of the current meeting: "There is no review into the case currently underway. The meeting is to allow Mr Powell the opportunity to explain his concerns to us."
Some parents at Llangennech school had objected to the county council's policy of extending Welsh medium provision.
The decision was made at a meeting of the council's executive board on Tuesday afternoon.
The plans will have to come back before the full council before a final decision can be made.
The council wants to extend Welsh medium provision in schools, partly in response to census figures which show a fall in Welsh speakers in the county.
It said replacing Llangennech Infant and Llangennech Junior schools with a new Welsh-medium community primary would ensure "bilingualism is increased" in the area.
Carmarthenshire's executive board member for education, Gareth Jones, faced a series of critical questions from parents at the meeting, some of whom accused the council of "social engineering" and "enforcing the Welsh language".
Cllr Jones said the changes were being motivated by "the best interests of children's education".
A petition previously submitted to the council said the move would have a "massive impact" on children in the community who seek an English-medium education.
The council has also been threatened with a judicial review if it presses ahead with the plans.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon pledged to raise Scotland's 2020 climate target from the current 42% cut in greenhouse gas emissions to more than 50%.
The new target would be contained in a Climate Change Bill if the party is returned to government at the 5 May election.
The current legislation requires a minimum 42% cut in emissions by 2020.
The Scottish government has missed its interim emissions targets for the last four years.
The SNP's Aileen McLeod said: "It has not always been easy but Scotland has been a genuine world leader in the area of climate change and green energy, and the latest evidence shows that we are on track to exceed our 42% target."
She added: "We hope other parties will back this move and work constructively to ensure Scotland continues to lead on this great global challenge. And we hope other countries will note Scotland's increased ambition in this area and raise their own efforts to reduce their emissions."
The party's manifesto will be unveiled on Wednesday at an event billed as Scotland's largest manifesto launch.
Ruth Davidson and Willie Rennie were interviewed on the BBC Sunday Politics Scotland programme, with both expressing optimism about their chances in the election.
Ms Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader, said she would be the opposition leader after 5 May.
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie insisted his party had learned from its mistakes.
Ms Davidson said: "We need a really strong opposition to the Scottish government because there has not been one in the last nine years and I can do that.
"I'm going to hold the SNP to account, I'm going to say no to a second referendum on independence and I'm going to say lets focus on the things that matter to the people in the country. "
The Scottish Conservative leader also defended her plans for a graduate contribution of £6,000 for an honours degree, said her party would offer local authorities the power to impose a moratorium on wind farms and fracking and stressed Brexit would not provide a mandate for a second independence referendum.
On the issue of the so-called Panama Papers revelations, Ms Davidson said David Cameron had put more information in the public domain than any other prime minister, but that, in retrospect it would probably have been better if he had released all the information at once.
Willie Rennie said there is no doubt the Lib Dems were "tarnished" during the coalition years at Westminster, but now there was a "progressive agenda on tax, guaranteeing civil liberties, protecting the environment and making sure we boost mental health services".
Mr Rennie conceded reneging on the tuition fees pledge, made ahead of the 2010 election was a mistake, but stressed "there is no doubt we are never going to make that mistake again".
He insisted people are coming to the Scottish Lib Dems due to its "positive upflifting agenda".
The Scottish Lib Dem leader insisted his party would not go into coalition at Holyrood, stressing his party had "punched well above its weight" in the last parliament.
Mr Rennie outlined plans for spending on education, from the £500m he said could be raised by adding one penny to the rates of income tax and stressed a return to local policing, without breaking up Police Scotland.
Meanwhile Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has been campaigning in Edinburgh, focussing on education.
Ms Dugdale said a Labour Scottish government would invest £40m a year in after-school sports clubs.
She says her party will use the Barnett consequential from the recently announced sugar tax to deliver funding worth an average of over £100,000 per secondary school, dependent on school rolls.
This investment would be part of a wider move to make local schools and the associated facilities the hub of community sport activity as part of Labour's plans to use the new powers of the Scottish Parliament to stop the cuts.
Ms Dugdale said: "This can be a revolution for after-school sport in Scotland. After-school clubs and extracurricular activities are where young people find out who they are and what they're good at.
"Cutting education will cut the opportunities our children enjoy. That's why Labour will use the new powers to stop the cuts and why we will invest £40 million a year in after-school sports clubs."
The teenagers were freed last week after a journalist helped them, but their families say that the police had on numerous occasions refused their pleas to get involved.
This Wednesday, with the case now generating headlines, the police finally arrested the tailor and two family members.
The two girls were aged just 11 and 12 when they were sent by their parents to the commercial capital Yangon.
For poor Burmese families it's a painful but depressingly common decision. The United Nations estimates that at least a million Burmese children are forced to give up on education and go to work.
These girls became maids in a tailor shop in the centre of Yangon. But what started as paid work allegedly turned into modern-day slavery. The girls say they were denied contact with their parents, were unable to leave and were no longer being paid.
Then there was the abuse. Visited by the French news agency AFP in their village after their release, the girls had injuries and scars on their arms which they say were inflicted by their captors.
"I have a scar from where an iron was stamped on my leg and a scar on my head as well," one of the girls, now 16, told AFP.
"This was a wound from a knife, because my cooking was not OK," she said, showing a mark on her nose.
The other girl, now 17, has burnt, twisted fingers - the consequence, she says, of them being broken deliberately by her captors as punishment.
The allegations of mistreatment are shocking, but it's the authorities handling of the case that has really enraged the Burmese public. Many see it as further proof of a judicial system stacked against the poorest and most vulnerable.
On several occasions over the last five years, the girls' families say they asked the Burmese police for help and were turned away.
It was only when a journalist called Swe Win became involved that things started to move. He approached the police, who again refused to help, before taking the matter to the national human rights commission.
To its credit, the commission did act, negotiating with the tailor for the girls' release and for a payment equivalent to about 4,000 dollars (£3060) to be made, effectively as back-pay. But there was public outcry when it emerged that no further measures were taken against the girls' alleged abusers.
"We figured at the time that we could solve the case satisfactorily to all parties involved with a compensation settlement," U Zaw Win, a member of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission told an angry news conference in Yangon.
With the girls' story now front page news and reverberating around social media, the Burmese police were finally spurred into action. On Wednesday evening the tailor was arrested, along with her two adult children. They all now face charges related to human trafficking.
Questions are now being asked as to why it took so long for the authorities to get involved. In a rare public intervention, President Htin Kyaw released a statement.
He said he had instructed the relevant ministries to assist and protect the girls, their families and the journalist Swe Win from possible reprisals.
The president has also asked for a report on how the police handled the case and said he would be taking a close look at the work of the human rights commission.
Swe Win is receiving a presidential award for his work on the case.
In 1970, Britain's Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, was widely expected to hold on to power in a general election he himself had called.
But when the voting verdict came in, Mr Wilson found himself being bundled out of Downing Street, and the Conservative leader, Edward Heath, taking his place.
And some sought solace in a simple explanation: football.
England had lost a World Cup quarter-final tie just four days before the vote, and this was no ordinary match.
Defeat had come at the hands of West Germany, the team England had beaten just four years previously to win the World Cup.
And right up until the end of the game, another England victory had seemed on the cards, with the side 2-0 up at half-time.
But then three German goals came in, one after the other.
"The sense of letdown could not have been greater," says Kier Radnedge, who watched the game as a young football reporter.
He believes it may well have affected the way some people then voted.
"It deflated the mood in the nation," he says, "therefore, they looked for something new. Something new in that case was voting in a new government."
Forty-six years later, the people of Britain will once again be voting in the wake of an international football tie, and that vote could prove more crucial than any individual election.
A referendum will decide whether or not the UK should remain a member of the European Union.
But just days beforehand, England, Wales and Northern Ireland will play the last of their group matches in the Euro 2016 championships.
"If England, Wales or Northern Ireland have won their group, then it will make people feel good about being part of Europe," says Mark Perryman, founder of the company Football Philosophy.
"If they come home early, people will ask, 'Do we really want to part of this continent?'"
Campaigning in the referendum will not revolve around footballing matters, of course.
Debate on EU membership has tended to focus on economic issues, particularly whether a Britain out of the EU would be able to trade as easily with EU member states.
Also crucial is immigration, opponents of the EU saying membership allows too many foreigners to live and work in Britain.
Supporters, by contrast, say foreign workers have been a benefit to the UK, not a cost.
But Mr Radnedge says too much credence is given to rationality in political argument.
"People are swayed by their moods," he says about voting.
"It really is a lot to do with how people are feeling on the day."
Mr Radnedge admits the effects of a football match would be marginal, but then marginal votes count in what may be a close-run contest.
"It is illogical, but then people are illogical," he says.
Whoever wins or loses, the European Championships will certainly compete with the referendum campaign for space on newspaper front pages, and on radio and television news bulletins.
And that is not good for the government in this case, according to a former government spin doctor.
Charlie Whelan, who served as the press man for Gordon Brown when he was Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, says they always avoided any political event clashing with a major football tie.
"You want to control the news agenda as much as you can," Mr Whelan says.
"If you have no idea what's going to happen on any given day, the agenda is set by 22 guys kicking round a football."
But the clash of ballot and ball this June will not represent a completely new mixing of two otherwise-separate fields, because football has always provided an outlet for nationalist passions, and therefore raised questions of nationhood and national identity.
The rise of English nationalism was illustrated by England supporters starting to wave the flag of St George, rather than the Union Jack.
And the presence of so many European players in British club teams has made supporters question whether they want the best team money can buy, or whether instead fewer foreigners should be allowed on board, in order to nurture more native talent.
"Football clubs are the most European institutions [in Britain]," Mr Perryman says, "their players, the managers, the owners, the sponsors. Do supporters like that? Yes - but only if their team is winning."
For more on this story listen to Paul Moss's report on The World Tonight.
Souvenirs and photographs from the bridge's opening day on 18 August 1966 are being sought for a mobile exhibition.
Organisers said people who worked on the bridge's construction have also come forward to share their stories.
A series of events is being planned to mark the bridge's half-century.
The bridge's operational manager Fiona Fraser said: "I'm very pleased at the response that we've had.
"I've invited some of the people in to record them because we're hoping to have an exhibition that will go mobile, possibly around libraries around Dundee, Angus and Fife.
"One person said he worked on the bridge when he was only 17 as a piping hand."
"I've also had the daughter of a traffic policeman, who was in the first car across the bridge before the Queen Mother, get in touch and I hope to speak to him."
Despite thousands of people turning out for the bridge's opening ceremony, Ms Fraser said not everyone in Dundee realised its significance.
She said: "One chap told me he was in the arcade spending his ninth-birthday money and he came out and the Queen Mother was passing.
"He didn't even know that was the opening of the Tay Road Bridge. There are lots of nice little stories coming out."
Newspaper supplements have been handed in to the team and Ms Fraser said they were keen to track down other souvenirs from the day.
She said: "A gentleman was cleaning his mum's house and found memorabilia of the bridge opening.
"There are pull-out pieces with the men who worked on the bridge.
"We believe there was a tapestry of the Tay Road Bridge and we're on the lookout for anyone who knows about that. We would love to track that down."
More details of the appeal can be found here.
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Since then millions have taken to social media to have their say on the apparent Islamist attack.
Some wrote messages of solidarity, while others followed breaking news as the hunt for the two gunmen continued in northern France.
Here are some of the popular topics that have emerged as the story has unfolded.
The hashtag expressing solidarity with Charlie Hebdo magazine and its staff - #JeSuisCharlie - was tweeted about 3.4 million times in the first 24 hours following the attack.
The phrase, appearing on placards, the media and across the internet, has become shorthand for support for freedom of speech and a free press.
One victim of Wednesday's shootings was a Muslim policeman Ahmed Merabet, who was shot in the street outside the Charlie Hebdo offices.
Thousands have paid tribute to the 42-year old using #jesuisahmed (I am Ahmed).
The first person to use the hashtag was a French magazine publisher living in Morocco, Julien Casters, who told the BBC: "It is a snub to the stigmatisation of Islam and a reminder that Muslims in France are not all Islamist radicals."
Just as many supported Charlie Hebdo - others saw it as magazine that could be racist or intolerant and pointed to a recent cartoon depicting the Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira, who is a black woman, as a monkey.
Many of these people - and those who were acknowledging that the 12 dead included a Muslim victim - chose to actively not identify with #JeSuisCharlie.
In a similar vein to #jesuischarlie, #NousSommesCharlie (We are Charlie) is being used to show solidarity to those who lost their lives in the shootings.
The phrase is being used worldwide (pictured above in the Dominican Republic) to reflect global support for the idea behind the #jesuischarlie trend with newspapers and magazines using the phrase.
A number of those using this hashtag - which translates to "against terrorists" - also shared a picture with the words: "I am Muslim. Islam is perfect, but I am not. If I make a mistake, blame me but not my religion!"
Despite Islamic leaders in France condemning the shootings, and appeals for calm, there have been reports of retaliatory attacks on French Muslims.
At the time of writing, a manhunt is continuing in France for a third day, with police chasing two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices.
The hashtag, which means tracking, was used by those following the live updates of the massive police operation.
#MarcheRepublicaine (Republican march) has been used to spread awareness for various marches happening across France following Wednesday's attacks.
Major cities including Paris and Lyon have organised marches this weekend.
Stephen Fry has told Newsbeat he will be travelling to the French capital this weekend as a mark of respect.
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The Brecon Beacons is home to the Ghurkha Wing (Mandalay) company at Brecon's Infantry Battle School.
The park said it was unable to take any more donations as the convoy trucks were now full.
Ghurkhas have been barracked in the town since 1974.
A park spokeswoman said: "We have been overwhelmed by the generosity from the people of Britain - so much so that I'm afraid we cannot accept any more items to go in this convoy.
"There will be some HGVs leaving Brecon for Aldershot to deliver all the supplies generously donated. Thank you again for all your superb efforts."
Mr Moon told the visiting top US military official that there must be a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
Gen Joseph Dunford said the US priority was diplomacy but he added that it was committed to defending the South against a possible military attack.
The North on Monday said any war could "only be turned into a nuclear war".
Also on Monday, China's commerce ministry issued an order banning a slew of imports from North Korea, in line with additional UN sanctions that were announced earlier this month.
The sanctions were introduced in response to a wave of missile tests and increased military rhetoric from North Korea.
In another development, Ukraine has denied supplying North Korea with rocket engines from one of its factories.
A report in the New York Times suggests that Soviet-era engines made at the Yuzhmash factory in Dnipro (the city known until recently as Dnipropetrovsk) were supplied to the North illegally.
US President Donald Trump has warned North Korea against threatening the American territory of Guam. The US has 28,500 troops in South Korea.
Speaking on Monday, Mr Moon said: "Our top priority is the national interest of [South Korea] and our national interest lies in peace.
"I am confident that the US will respond to the current situation in a calm and responsible manner in line with our policy direction."
He urged the North to "stop all provocations and hostile rhetoric immediately, instead of worsening the situation any further".
Gen Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said after meeting Mr Moon that the US sought a peaceful resolution to the crisis with the North.
"Our job is to make sure our leadership has an option available to them," he added, as quoted by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
"I believe there are two things we are clear about: one, our responsibility to defend against attack, two, our requirement to make sure we have a decisive response in the event of attack."
The US, he said earlier, had "viable military options in the event that the diplomatic and economic pressurisation campaign fails".
The general is due to travel on to China and Japan.
The North's news agency, KCNA, warned on Monday that a conflict could be sparked by "a minor incident".
"The problem is that if the war occurs, it can only be turned into a nuclear war," it said.+
On Sunday, US National Security Adviser HR McMaster said he did not think the sides were closer to war than a week ago, while CIA Director Mike Pompeo said he saw no intelligence to suggest the sides were on the cusp of a nuclear war.
Meanwhile, China has signalled it will halt iron, iron ore and seafood imports from North Korea starting on Tuesday, following the UN resolution on sanctions.
John Sudworth, BBC Beijing correspondent
China's announcement today formally incorporates the new tougher sanctions into its customs regulations but then it has signed up to the previous rounds of sanctions, only to be seen to drag its feet.
The big question is whether it's going to be any different this time.
There are signs that the much tougher line coming from Washington is having some effect on Beijing. It has already stopped imports of North Korean coal and the total value of all imports is down compared with this time last year.
But China has said all along that sanctions are for targeting North Korea's weapons programmes, not choking off the wider economy. Total trade, taking into account both imports and exports, has grown this year compared with last.
The Italian received the abuse after he tweeted 'Man Utd...LOL' during United's shock 5-3 loss to Leicester on Sunday.
The 24-year-old's post was retweeted more than 150,000 times and met with a string of racist and abusive messages.
A number of accounts that sent the abuse have since been closed down.
Police say they will first need to establish who sent the messages and where they originated from.
Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said other social media users alerted it to the racist tweets sent to the former Manchester City player.
"We extend our support to Mario Balotelli after the appalling racist abuse directed at him," a spokesman said.
"We have since reported this via True Vision - the Police's online reporting facility.
"During the 2013-14 season, 50% of all complaints submitted to us from across the game related to social media abuse.
"The issue has been escalating and we urge fellow social media users to assist in bringing this type of abuse to the attention of the authorities."
Balotelli, who played in Liverpool's 3-1 defeat by West Ham on Saturday, has been singled out for racist abuse in the past.
He was heckled by Italy supporters during a pre-World Cup training camp in May and was on the receiving end of numerous instances of racist abuse during his time at Inter Milan and, more recently, AC Milan.
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White was appointed as the county's head coach in November following Dale Benkenstein's departure.
Hampshire face White's former county Yorkshire home and away in their first three Championship fixtures.
"We've got to look at it as a real opportunity," he told BBC Radio Solent. "We going out to compete and to win."
Hampshire were reprieved from relegation to Division Two in October following Durham's punishment for financial irregularities and are expecting a tough test in the new eight-team top division.
They start at Headingley on Friday, and then host defending champions Middlesex in the following round of fixtures.
"It's a tough start, but I don't think there are going to be any easy games this year," White continued. "The boys realise that and they're up for the challenge that lies ahead."
Hampshire will be without seam bowler Reece Topley for the opener against Yorkshire but are expected to give starts to Kolpak signings Kyle Abbott and Rilee Rossouw.
Left-armer Topley, 23, is continuing to build his fitness after several injury setbacks over the past year - including fracturing a hand, developing a stress fracture in his back and requiring shoulder surgery.
Former West Indies paceman Fidel Edwards has been included in the squad but will have a late fitness test.
The package arrived safely at its destination in Cambridge, 13 minutes after being ordered.
A video showing the process details how the order was completed using an electrically powered drone flying at up to 400ft (122m).
One sceptic questioned how much of a "game changer" the limited trial of the service would be.
As part of the testing for the Amazon Air service, the delivery took place on 7 December, although it was only revealed on 14 December.
The Cambridge fulfilment centre is home to the drones, which, once the ordered package is on board, travel along an automated track to the launch area.
The drones then take off and fly completely autonomously, guided by GPS to their destination.
They are capable of carrying items weighing up to 2.7kg (5lbs).
The aim is that all orders made using Amazon Air will be delivered within 30 minutes.
The trial will be expanded to dozens of customers living close to the warehouse in the coming months.
The safety of drones has come under the spotlight in recent months.
There have been reports of near-misses this year between drones and aircraft at London Stansted and Cornwall Airport Newquay.
"Safety is our top priority," Amazon said on its website. "We are currently permitted to operate during daylight hours when there are low winds and good visibility, but not in rain, snow or icy conditions."
There are Prime Air development centres in the US, UK, Austria and Israel. The company is also testing its drone vehicles in "multiple international locations".
"This is a marketing coup for Amazon," said Natalie Berg, an analyst at Planet Retail.
"The real significance here is the impact it has on shopper expectations.
"Last year, same-day delivery was considered impressive; now it's all about 13 minute lead times.
"Over the past few years, we've seen a proliferation in delivery options as retailers scramble to cater to changing shopping habits.
"Fulfilment has become a firm battleground in retail and the most successful retailers today are those who can deliver products to shoppers in the quickest, most convenient and economical way.
"Drone delivery is another string to Amazon's bow, but it's certainly not an industry game changer."
Its economic crime command director, Donald Toon, told the Times that London prices had been "skewed" as a result.
He said prices were being artificially driven up by criminals "who want to sequester their assets here in the UK".
Mr Toon urged estate agents to report any suspicious activity.
The newspaper reported that Mr Toon said he was "alarmed" by the number of homes registered to complex offshore corporations - some of which will have been bought with laundered money.
The Treasury has earned £150m in the past three months from a tax on properties purchased by companies, trusts and investment funds, rather than individuals - supporting Mr Toon's claim, the Times said.
When the tax was first in operation in 2013/14, it raised £100m from 3,990 houses, with 80% of the revenue coming from two London boroughs - the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, it said.
Mr Toon said: "I believe the London property market has been skewed by laundered money."
He added: "Prices of high-end property are being artificially driven up by the desire of overseas criminals to sequester their assets here in the UK.
"What they are doing is distorting the market.
"If [estate agents] have a suspicion that there may be money laundering involved, then they absolutely should be submitting a suspicious activity report.
"You are at risk of committing a criminal offence if you do not do that."
Hundreds of billions of pounds are laundered in the City every year, according to the NCA, and it said investigations were intensifying.
The 17-year-old male was detained at just after 17:30 BST on Friday following a search by detectives from the Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit.
He was taken to the West Midlands area and is being questioned on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism, South Wales Police said.
He remains in police custody.
An amendment by Conservative peer Lord Mackay was backed by 270 votes to 128 - the largest in a series of defeats for the Welfare Reform Bill.
He argued it was unfair to charge lone parents who had tried and failed to get their ex-partners to pay maintenance.
The government said it would seek to overturn the defeat.
On Monday, the government was defeated in the Lords in a vote on its plans for a £26,000-a-year household benefit cap.
That amendment, put forward by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, was backed by Labour, Lib Dem and crossbench peers, but the government has insisted it will press ahead with the plan.
Wednesday's defeat over child support was by a majority of 142 - the previous largest defeat was a loss by 112 votes on plans to abolish the chief coroner.
The BBC's political correspondent Ben Geoghegan said the latest defeat was particularly significant, not just because of its scale but because the rebellion was led by a former Conservative minister and supported by so many party grandees.
The list of Tory rebels included former ministers Lord Lawson and Lord Carrington - who, like Lord Mackay, both served under Margaret Thatcher.
The current system costs the taxpayer £460m a year and ministers say it leaves 1.5 million children without effective financial support.
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They want to encourage parents to come to their own arrangements rather than relying on the state to set child maintenance payments.
They are seeking to introduce an up front charge of £100 or £50 plus a levy of up to 12% on maintenance payments if a single parent had taken "reasonable" steps to get the other parent to come to a voluntary agreement on child support.
The government says the poorest parents will only have to pay £20 up front and charges will not apply in cases where there has been domestic violence.
But Lord Mackay said: "I am entirely in favour of that but if that proves impossible where the woman is at the stage where there is nothing more she can do, the only thing she can do is pay.
"And what does that do? If anything that might make her not go to the Child Support Agency at all and the child may lose their maintenance."
Labour peer Lord Morris said he was "aghast" at the plan, asking: "What is the purpose of imposing on the most vulnerable people a charge of this kind?"
Tory peer Lord Newton of Braintree said he had "no problem with the case for reform", but the proposals were "not just".
Cross-bencher Baroness Butler-Sloss, a former family barrister and judge, said there were fathers "who would simply not pay".
She told peers: "The idea that a mother in very poor circumstances, where the father has left her with young children, who finds herself having to seek social benefit from the state which she may not have sought before ... she then has to pay a fee for the welfare of her children, where she may not have any money and he may have some, it is profoundly unfair."
Speaking on behalf of the government, minister Lord De Mauley said Lord Mackay's amendment would require the state "to try to arbitrate" on whether a parent had taken reasonable steps.
He said parents could challenge the decision, adding to the "cost and complexity" of the system, and even if they were allowed to offer a "self-declaration" that they had taken all reasonable steps, the scheme would cost £200 million to the end of March 2019.
He said there must be a "clear financial incentive" to encourage parents to reach their own maintenance settlements, adding: "We no longer require parents to use the CSA. We do not want it to be the default option.
"We don't want to return to the days when the state is encouraging parents to blame each other."
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: "We are disappointed that the Lords seem content to leave in place a system that has consistently failed children and we will seek to overturn this in the House of Commons.
"Our reforms would see a doubling of support for families going through a break-up to come to their own financial arrangements with a far improved statutory scheme in place for those that really need it.
"It is right and fair that there is a charge for using a service that can cost the taxpayer around £25,000 per case and almost half a billion pounds per year."
Megan Clark, 19, was raped by a man she met in Burger King when she was drunk after a night out in Manchester.
The trial sparked controversy after the judge said the drunken behaviour of some women was putting them at risk.
Miss Clark told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the judge told women to "be careful", saying it was "good advice".
The teenager, who waived her right to anonymity to speak to the programme, said she took the judge's comments in "a positive way", adding that she did not believe she was "victim-blaming".
"She was right in what she said," Miss Clark said, in her first interview.
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Last month, Ricardo Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, 19, was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of two counts of rape last July.
The court heard how he ignored Miss Clark's screams while he attacked her.
A witness who rang the police also filmed the attack on a mobile phone and Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes was sentenced to six years behind bars.
A second man was found not guilty.
Miss Clark had been drinking lager and vodka before the attack and had inhaled the party drug amyl nitrite.
At the end of the trial, Judge Lindsey Kushner said that "as a woman judge" she felt compelled to plead with women to protect themselves from predatory rapists who "gravitate" towards drunken females.
The judge - in her last trial - said women were entitled to "drink themselves into the ground", but their behaviour was also putting them in danger.
Her comments were described by campaigners as "outrageous" and "misguided".
Miss Clark told the programme she had initially blamed herself.
"I [now] know it wasn't my fault. It's never the victim's fault - they aren't the problem regardless of what I was doing.
"I felt I put myself in that situation. I need to be more careful."
She added: "I think the judge was using my case, it was her last one, and she wanted to make a point."
Miss Clark said she felt "judged" when she told people she had been raped, saying she felt some people blamed her for the attack.
"There is definitely still a stigma. Victim-blaming is such a big thing. I did tell people what happened and I felt judged after it.
"People blamed my behaviour. That's why people don't talk about [rape]."
She said she could see why people do not report rape and do not want to go through a trial.
Having gone through the legal system, Miss Clark said she was disappointed with the end result and the sentence handed down by the judge.
"I am angry and it feels so unfair. So many people go through it, people get raped, we need to deal better with it."
She said she would not have reported the crime if it was not for the fact a witness was filming the rape, footage she had to watch before being cross-examined in court.
"It was pretty horrible to watch. It was different to how I remembered it. But it wasn't nice to watch."
And Miss Clark said she would not go through the legal process again - but urged other victims to report rape.
"My message is don't be discouraged by the system letting us down, or people being judgmental. That will happen regardless.
"We all know it's not our fault. I would encourage people to report it."
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The global semiconductor company said it planned to move production to "more cost-effective" sites in Germany, Japan and the US over the next three years.
It does not expect any job losses before late 2017.
The Scottish government said it would "work closely" with TI to help secure a long-term future for the Greenock site.
About 365 people currently work at the Greenock facility.
The jobs affected will be in manufacturing, engineering, support and management.
In a statement, TI said the decision had been taken with its global operations in mind.
The company stated: "Our employees have done everything they can to keep the site cost-competitive, and we strongly considered ways to improve the site's efficiency, such as upgrading or expanding the facility.
"However, even with a considerable investment, TI's factory in Greenock would be far less efficient than our other larger, more efficient fabs (fabrication plants), which have open capacity available to absorb what's produced in Greenock.
"As part of this process, we are attempting to sell and transfer the facility as an on-going manufacturing operation (manufacturing related jobs, equipment, land and building).
"We have contracted with Atreg, a company that specializes in selling manufacturing properties, to help us with this.
"We are just at the proposal stage, and ending manufacturing operations is a lengthy process.
"If the plant closes, we expect it to take our Greenock employees as long as three years to transfer production to our other sites in Freising, Germany, Aizu, Japan and S. Portland Maine.
"We do not anticipate any job losses associated with the factory to happen any sooner than late 2017.
TI Scotland site manager Gerry McCarthy added: "Decisions like this are never easy, and we don't make them lightly.
"While the rationale for moving production out of our Greenock fab makes good business sense, we understand the impact it could have on our employees and the community.
"This is certainly not a reflection of the performance or commitment of our people but due to the efficiency of the site itself.
"We recognize this is difficult news, and our focus right now is on our employees and to ensure they have all of the information they need as we move forward."
Scotland's Business Minister Fergus Ewing said he was "disappointed" at the news.
He said: "This is a blow to the local community and will be a very anxious time for employees and their families.
"The Scottish government has been in touch with Texas Instruments and we will continue to work closely with the company to do all we can to secure a long-term future for the 365 jobs and manufacturing at the site.
"In addition, Scottish Enterprise is seeking an urgent meeting with local management.
"Should any redundancies proceed, the Scottish government's PACE initiative stands ready to support any affected employees.
"Through providing skills development and employability support, PACE aims to minimise the time that individuals affected by redundancy are out of work."
Inverclyde Council leader Stephen McCabe described the move as "a stunning blow" to the Scottish economy.
He said: "This announcement requires a significant response from local and national agencies.
"I am announcing the setting up of a dedicated task force and will be extending an invitation today to the Scottish government, their national agencies, local councillors in the area, our regional and constituency MSPs and our MP.
"It is time to once again stand shoulder to shoulder, as we did over the highly-successful Fergusons task force, and secure a future for this skilled workforce.
"We must also work together to ensure that national resource makes its way to Greenock to achieve that endeavour.
"I will also be seeking an urgent meeting with top level management at Texas Instruments."
The proposal, to change the use of council offices at Morgan Street in Cardigan, would mean the library is relocated from Canolfan Teifi, Pendre.
But there have been 13 letters of objection from the public, and a 1,000-strong petition has been handed to Ceredigion council.
Cardigan town council raised questions about parking and pedestrian crossings.
Objections from the public included access problems, a lack of computer facilities and that it would be located "on a very busy road and at a dangerous junction".
The move was also described as a "complete waste of money and time".
A report to the council said it had no control over the decision to close the existing library and that the new location was served by public transport and would be accessible by foot.
He is 30 years old but the Scottish number one believes he is only now approaching his peak and has plenty of room to improve.
It's a scary prospect for those hoping to dethrone the defending champ at Edinburgh Sports Club this weekend.
Ranked 34th in the world singles, Clyne has been training with national coach Paul Bell at the sport's high performance centre at the Oriam complex in the capital.
"I love playing at home against the players I train with a lot of the time," Clyne told BBC Scotland.
"You've got Dougie Kempsell and you've also got Kevin Moran and Rory Stewart. They are all playing well so it will be a good tournament."
Clyne has been competing on the professional circuit for about a decade and is feeling fit, strong and hungry for titles.
He points to players such as England's Nick Matthew (ranked fourth in the world, aged 36) and the French "physical beast" Gregory Gaultier (ranked third, aged 34) as proof that he has several seasons left in the tank.
"Most people are going into their peak roughly where my age is, maybe late 20s, early 30s. I feel like I'm still improving and getting better. I feel I'm in my peak at the moment and can last a lot longer.
"Making technical adjustments to my grip and swing has been great. It's showing on court.
"I'm also working with the psychologist on the mental aspects. That has helped massively."
Clyne has been playing squash since before he started school and has noticed big changes over the years, not just in terms of the physical dimensions of the doubles court and the lowering of the tin by four inches, but in the styles of play.
"The Egyptians have been coming through massively," he said.
"They've been dominating the juniors and now they are beginning to dominate the seniors. They have a lot of players up in the top 10.
"A lot of them play a new brand of squash, which is very attacking, very explosive, rather than the attritional squash, which is more associated with the English style."
Clyne is from the Black Isle, north of Inverness, which is also the hometown of another squash star in Greg Lobban, who is currently recovering from a hamstring injury.
And while the duo have a distance to go to hit the heights of Dunblane's tennis superstars the Murray brothers, the two former Fortrose Academy pupils have already brought glory to the Black Isle.
In August 2016 they won the World International Doubles Championship in Darwin, and Clyne is hoping that triumph was just the start.
"For me and Greg, in our first international tournament, to go there and win it was crazy, considering we are from the same school," he said.
"We get to defend our title in August [in Manchester]. We work well together and get on really well. We have different strengths and weaknesses and complement each other well."
Other highlights in Clyne's career to date were playing in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, where he and Harry Leitch came fourth, and playing in the Tournament of Champions in an iconic location in New York.
Clyne said: "Only the main draw is in Grand Central Station, and I managed to qualify and played Nick Matthew. They put up a glass court in the train station.
"Once you're on court you don't really think about what's going on, but if you did look through the wall you could see all these people walking past. It's an amazing event, everyone wants to play it."
The Irish FA ruled that the club concealed the fact that Gary Twigg was to be paid an extra 14 weeks wages.
However, the appeal against the charge of making undisclosed payments to Tim Mouncey was allowed.
"It is a fair and proportionate punishment for the offence of bringing the game into disrepute," said the IFA.
It added: "We do not consider that expelling Portadown from the Danske Premiership, relegating them or forfeiting points would be a proportionate or fair punishment for this particular offence.
"However, the offence committed by Portadown must be treated as a serious breach of sporting integrity."
The signing ban relates to players on a new professional contract until 1 June, 2017.
Portadown have responded to Friday's decision by saying that the punishment "for this minor oversight is wholly disproportionate and detrimental to the future of the club".
"We will consult with our legal advisors as to the options available to challenge the severity of the punishment."
Portadown have endured a troubled season, with long-standing manager Ronnie McFall stepping down from his position last month after 29 years in charge.
The club head into the final round of Irish Premiership fixtures this weekend still under threat of relegation in ninth place and only three points ahead of bottom-placed Carrick Rangers.
Medical staff had told Kirklees Council of concerns for the family, and social workers later removed the baby.
Care chiefs then "misled" a family court and falsely claimed the parents "agreed" to the child's removal.
A High Court judge has now ordered the council to pay the family £11,250.
The baby was returned to the parents, who cannot be named for legal reasons, more than two months after being taken.
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The High Court heard the mother suffered from minor mental health problems and other difficulties and the father had in the past been aggressive to others, but staff at the special care baby unit had no child protection concerns.
However, Mr Justice Cobb said medics had expressed worries about the couple's ability to care for the baby.
The father had, among other things, "expressed unorthodox views about the need for sterilisation of bottles and the benefits of formula milk".
Kirklees Council persuaded a family court to approve the baby being taken into emergency care as he was about to be discharged from hospital.
Mr Justice Cobb said the council had "misled" the family judge, wrongly claiming the parents had been "given notice" of the hearing and had "agreed" to the child being taken.
The boy was placed in the care of relatives and returned to his parents about 10 weeks later.
Finding in favour of the family, Mr Justice Cobb said in the year since being returned to his parents the boy had thrived.
He added: "There is no doubt in my mind, indeed it is admitted, that Kirklees Council breached the human rights of a baby boy and his parents.
"I am satisfied that the breaches were serious. The separation of a baby from his parents represents a very serious interference with family life."
He awarded the mother, father and the infant £3,750 each in damages.
Kirklees Council said in a statement: "The court and parties accepted that the council was correct to issue these proceedings, but mistakes were made which resulted in the court awarding the family compensation."
Damir Begmatov, 25, of London Road, Reading, was convicted of the murder of Bobir Esanov, a Uzbekistan national, on 27 December at a property on the same road.
A jury at Kingston Crown Court came back with a unanimous verdict on Wednesday.
Begmatov will be sentenced on 21 September.
Former Aberdeen player Duff, 35, spent a season with Astana's domestic rivals Kairat and knows the Kazakhstan Premier League well.
"It's very important that Celtic get a good lead, hopefully a couple of goals, at Parkhead," Duff told BBC Scotland.
"Astana is a very tricky place to play, Celtic found that out the last time."
The teams met in the third qualifying round last season, with the sides drawing 1-1 in Kazakhstan and Celtic winning 2-1 in Glasgow thanks to a late Moussa Dembele penalty.
Boss Brendan Rodgers believes Celtic's familiarity with Astana and previous trip to Kazakhstan will benefit them greatly this season.
Duff agrees and also believes the fact that the first leg is not until 16 August could also be crucial.
"Astana are very similar to last season - similar squad, same manager, similar danger players they had in the previous year," Duff explained.
"Astana have brought in a couple of Bosnians and a Hungarian player who have been doing very well for them in the league campaign.
"It's not the element of the unknown for Celtic as they've been there before, like Brendan Rodgers said. They know what they're going into.
"I'm confident that Celtic have got the attributes to hopefully win the game at Parkhead in the first leg, I think that's vitally important because it is a huge factor going over to Kazakhstan as they are very strong at home.
"They've had some very good home results in Europe - 3-1 against Legia Warsaw in the last round, and they are not a poor side at all.
"So I think it's very important that Celtic go there with a lead. It's very difficult playing on the 4G pitch over there and the atmosphere that the stadium creates.
"With it being a few weeks away, Celtic will have a couple more games under their belt and that will stand them in good stead. They will be up to match fitness and on their day,
"Celtic will be a match for any European team, at home or away - they're a very, very good side and I was so impressed with them last year.
"Astana are three quarters through their season, they will have the sharpness and touches. It should be an interesting tie but I have all faith in Celtic going through."
Lawyers argued that preventing families from giving children their mother's surname discriminated against women.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had earlier condemned the legislation - which dates from Roman times - and ordered Italy to change it.
Campaigners hailed Tuesday's ruling and called for parliament to endorse it.
"The court has declared the unlawfulness of rules providing for the automatic attribution of the paternal surname to legitimate children, when the parents wish otherwise," the constitutional court said in a statement.
The case involved an Italian-Brazilian couple who wanted to give their son both their surnames, as is traditional in many Spanish-speaking countries.
After their request was rejected by Italian authorities, they took the case to the ECHR, which ruled in their favour in 2014.
It said the law was incompatible with the principle of gender equality enshrined in Italy's modern constitution.
Italy's lower house has approved a bill aimed at changing the law, but it has been blocked in the Senate for years.
"The Constitutional Court has taken a decision of great importance for our society," campaigner and left-wing MP Fabrizia Giuliani is quoted as saying by AFP news agency.
"The senate no longer has any excuse for not abolishing this anachronism and giving women their right in this matter."
Unmanned boats and submarines will travel 500km (300 miles) across an area off the southwestern tip of the UK.
The aim is to test new technologies and to map marine life in a key fishing ground.
In total, seven autonomous machines are being released in a trial heralded as a new era of robotic research at sea.
Two of the craft are innovative British devices that are designed to operate for months using renewable sources of power including wind and wave energy.
The project, led by the National Oceanography Centre, involves more than a dozen research centres and specialist companies.
Marine robots come in a variety of strange shape and sizes, and no fewer than four different types are being deployed in this project, part of a new generation of devices designed to make marine research far cheaper and easier than with large crewed vessels.
Autonaut: Powered by wave action and solar panels, Autonaut looks like a canoe with an aerial on top. It bobs on the surface and provides a platform for instruments. The result of a partnership between a management consultant and a former Royal Navy commodore, Autonaut was designed and built by MOST in Chichester.
C-Enduro: Distinctively shaped with an in-built wind turbine reminiscent of an air-boat, C-Enduro is designed to operate on its own for up to three months. A diesel motor provides back-up power. Instruments record water and weather data, and a winch can lower sensors below the surface. The machine is designed and built by ASV in Portchester in Hampshire.
Waveglider: The Waveglider involves twin elements, one floating on the surface, the other being a system of miniature blades dangling underwater and harvesting energy. Billed as ideal for operating "for years at sea with no fuel, emissions or crew", the US makers have now turned out more than 100 units.
Slocum Glider: Named after Joshua Slocum, the first solo round-the-world sailor, this American device looks like a torpedo. It dives and rises through the water with a system of variable buoyancy. Every time it surfaces, the glider can relay information by satellite and pick up new instructions.
Chief scientist Dr Russell Wynn told BBC News: "This is the first time we've deployed this range of vehicles carrying all these instruments.
"And it's exciting that it's the first time we can measure everything in the water column and all the life in the ocean simultaneously.
"The ability to measure the temperature or the weather at the ocean surface, or dolphins and seabirds with the cameras on the vehicles - no-one's ever been able to do that at the same time hundreds of miles from the shore."
Data about the oceans is usually gathered by a combination of satellites, buoys and research ships, but all three have limitations in their coverage, and large crewed vessels are particularly expensive.
The motivation for exploring the use of massed robotic vehicles is to assess whether they can provide near-constant coverage at far lower cost - the equivalent of CCTV offering round-the-clock surveillance.
The target for the deployment is an area of ocean marking the boundary between Atlantic waters and tidal waters from the English Channel - what's known as an ocean front.
Fronts like this usually create upwelling that brings nutrients from the seabed towards the surface and encourages plankton to thrive. That in turn attracts fish, whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Most of the craft are being deployed from the Isles of Scilly for a three-week traverse of the ocean. The exact route of the journey is being withheld to avoid the risk of anyone interfering with the experiment.
Instruments will record key parameters of the ocean, ranging from the concentrations of plankton to the clicks and whistles of dolphins and porpoises. Cameras on the surface vehicles will also attempt to capture images of seabirds and other marine life.
According to Dr Wynn, the UK's 700,000 sq km of waters are highly productive as fishing grounds but the processes at work in them remain unclear.
"Actually understanding how that sea works and how the animals are distributed is a real challenge if you've only got a small number of ships and a few buoys dotted around.
"Having a fleet of vehicles that can go out, without humans on board, controlled by satellite, really gives us a chance to transform our ability to monitor the ocean.
"At the moment a lot of decisions about how we manage the oceans are based on very few data - relatively simple things like where do dolphins and seabirds go to feed? We actually have very little information on that."
Until now, companies developing robotic vehicles for use at sea have focused on military and commercial customers such as the US Navy and oil and gas companies, and American firms have dominated the market for automated submarines.
The British government's hope is that the UK may become a leader in unmanned surface machines - robotic boats - which can act as drones gathering information to help weather forecasters or do conservation work.
Ministers have identified robotics as one of the "eight great technologies" that can help rebalance the country's economy and drive growth.
Funding has allowed the National Oceanography Centre to support two UK companies, MOST and ASV, in developing their AutoNaut and C-Enduro robotic boats that are on trial now.
The first phase of the deployment is planned to end in three weeks' time, when the vehicles will be retrieved from the ocean and the results analysed.
Partners in the project include the universities of St Andrews and Exeter, Cefas, the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, the British Oceanographic Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey, UK Met Office, Royal Navy and DSTL. Corporate partners include MOST, ASV, J&S, RS Aqua and Liquid Robotics.
"Of course, I would love to play for England again.
"I thought I had a pretty good winter with the Lions, so I was pretty keen to come back in and continue that form here," the 30-year-old told BBC Sport.
Rankin has played one Test, seven one-dayers and two T20 matches for England since switching from Ireland.
He bowled with pace and hostility to help the Bears bowl Hampshire out for 319 after they had been 89-0 at lunch on the opening day of their Championship game.
With the ball swinging, captain Varun Chopra did not introduce Rankin until the 24th over, but he made the most of his opportunity.
"My role is to try and take wickets - thankfully that happened," he said.
Londonderry-born Rankin's sole Test match for England came in the final game of the Ashes series in Australia in January 2014, but he recently went on the second-string Lions tour to South Africa.
He took 28 wickets in seven County Championship matches last season, but is hoping for a more regular place in Warwickshire's four-day side this summer.
And he is hopeful that he can force his way back into the national set up through weight of wickets throughout the season.
"I am just concentrating on playing for Warwickshire at the minute, but you never know what might happen down the line," he added.
Some 70,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar into Bangladesh in the last six months, and the UN has gathered accounts of gang rapes and mass killings.
A Burmese official said the move was "not acceptable" as Myanmar was carrying out its own investigation.
China and India did not back the decision, however.
The two countries said they would "disassociate" themselves from the UN probe.
The UN resolution, which was brought by the EU and adopted by consensus, decides "to dispatch urgently an independent international fact-finding mission", with a view to "ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims".
The Rohingya say they are being targeted amid a military crackdown on insurgents in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. The campaign was launched after nine border policemen were killed in an attack in October.
Last month, the UN published a a damning report compiled after interviews with more than 200 Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
Nearly half of those interviewed by the UN said a family member had been killed. Of 101 women interviewed, 52 said they had been raped or experienced sexual violence from the security forces.
The report included accounts of an eight-month old and a five-year-old being slaughtered with knives as their mothers were raped.
The new investigation is at a lower level than the Commission of Inquiry which United Nations special rapporteur on rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, had been seeking. She has accused Myanmar's security forces of committing crimes against humanity.
The team of investigators is expected to give an update in September and to publish a full report in a year's time.
The BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher says the country may still block the investigation.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace laureate and former democracy activist leading the new civilian government, will have to choose between upsetting the powerful Burmese army or defying the wishes of the increasingly concerned international community, he says.
A spokesman for her party recently said the abuse allegations were "exaggerated" and an "internal" not "international" issue.
The Rohingya say they are descendants of Arab traders and other groups who have been in the region for generations, but Myanmar's government denies them citizenship and sees them as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
About one million Rohingya are estimated to live in western Rakhine state, where an outbreak of communal violence in 2012 saw more than 100,000 people displaced.
Tens of thousands of Rohingya remain in camps where conditions are poor and travel is restricted.
What didn't happen can sometimes spook people as much as what did.
The initial market reaction appeared relatively sanguine, sparking bafflement in some quarters.
But this piece in the Telegraph argues that this is because the markets have yet to grasp the scale of the rift between EU creditors and the new Greek leaders, and that a showdown is inevitable.
This piece in the New York Times argues that the vote for Syriza highlights a deeper fault line in Europe.
Elsewhere, the question is what exactly happens now. Who blinks first?
The stage is set for a challenge to Europe's prevailing economic orthodoxy, according to this analysis in the Wall Street Journal.
The New Yorker maintains that it was only a matter of time before Greeks turned to Syriza and that the vote sends a clear warning to the rest of Europe's leaders.
With just 100 days to go to the General Election, the Independent takes a close look at what it says will be the 100 seats that decide the result.
Goode, 35, played 17 Tests for his country and joined London Irish in the summer after leaving Wasps.
The former Leicester, Saracens and Worcester back is the second highest points-scorer in Premiership history.
"I can honestly say I've loved playing for every team and I feel immensely proud to have achieved what I have at each club," he said.
Goode joined Irish with the intention of playing one more season in the Premiership and Europe.
But, following consultations with the club's medical staff and his own physician, he will call time on his playing career and leave the Exiles.
"I'm really disappointed I can't continue my career at London Irish and I've really enjoyed my short period with them," Goode said.
During his first spell with Leicester, he was part of the side which won four successive Premiership titles and the European Cup twice.
He also spent time playing for South African Super Rugby side the Sharks and with Brive in France's Top 14.
Green Hedge Renewables has drawn up initial plans for the development of Baldoon Airfield near Wigtown.
They claim it could generate up to 20MW of renewable energy annually.
The developer outlined its proposal for the 53.8 hectare (133 acres) site in a "pre-application" submission to Dumfries and Galloway Council.
Rows of solar panels would be built on former runways and on farmland south-east of the airfield, under the plans.
Fixed at a 20 degree angle, the front of the panel would be 80cm (31 inches) from the ground, the back would be two metres (6.5 feet) high.
The farm would be surrounded by a two metre high boundary fence, with infra-red motion sensor CCTV cameras "to deter trespassing or any criminal activity".
The site borders the Crook of Baldoon RSPB reserve and it is close to two sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) - Wigtown Bay and the Cree Estuary.
The developers have mooted plans to re-seed the ground beneath the solar panels built on farmland.
It would allow sheep to continue to graze the land, therefore managing the growth of vegetation.
In a report to Dumfries and Galloway Council, project planner Adam Banting, of Green Hedge Renewables, stressed that the plans are at a very early stage.
He said: "Any proposal that is considered viable on this site will be subject to full consultation and liaison with the local community and other stakeholders who may have an interest in this proposal."
The energy it generates would be fed into the National Grid.
After 25 years, the development would be decommissioned, all equipment removed and the site reinstated to its current state, the developer said.
The Microsoft founder said he wanted to begin sending processing plants around the world after tests later this year.
The project was welcomed by WaterAid, which said that it could particularly help in urban areas.
According to the charity, some 748 million people worldwide lack clean drinking water.
In a video posted on his blog, Mr Gates watched as the human waste was fed into the processor, before drinking the end product from a glass.
"The water tasted as good as any I've had out of a bottle. And having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It's that safe," he wrote in the blogpost.
In the video, the developer of the Omniprocessor system, Peter Janicki, says the raw "sewer sludge" is first boiled, during which process the water vapour is separated from the solids.
Those solids are then put into a fire, producing steam that drives an engine producing electricity for the system's processor and for the local community.
The water is put through a cleaning system to produce drinking water.
"Why would anyone want to turn waste into drinking water and electricity?" Gates asked.
The answer, he wrote, was because "diseases caused by poor sanitation kill some 700,000 children every year, and they prevent many more from fully developing mentally and physically".
He added: "If we can develop safe, affordable ways to get rid of human waste, we can prevent many of those deaths and help more children grow up healthy."
According to a report released by the World Health Organization and Unicef in 2013, data collected two years earlier showed that 2.5 billion people worldwide lacked "improved sanitation facilities".
Figures from WaterAid suggest that the number of people in the world without access to safe water has fallen by about 20 million since then.
The charity said that the technology could "first and foremost benefit those who already have some access to sanitation, rather than those without".
"If the technology can be rolled out at a scale that makes it viable for smaller investors or entrepreneurs, then this could be a catalyst for changing the sanitation landscape in urban areas in the developing world," said its sanitation technical support manager, Ada Oko-Williams.
WaterAid said the introduction of this type of plant could "help to facilitate the need to complete the sanitation cycle, by creating a market for the creation of a sustainable services around the safe collection, transportation, treatment, disposal, and indeed reuse of human waste".
Mr Gates said that a pilot of the Omniprocessor was due to go ahead in Senegal later this year and that he hoped to begin sending working plants to India and other countries soon after.
"If we get it right, it will be a good example of how philanthropy can provide seed money that draws bright people to work on big problems, eventually creating a self-supporting industry.
"Our goal is to make the processors cheap enough that entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income countries will want to invest in them and then start profitable waste-treatment businesses."
But he acknowledged that "the history of philanthropy is littered with well-intentioned inventions that never deliver on their promise", adding that he hoped the planning undertaken on the Omniprocessor project would mean that it did not join this list.
The project was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Meryl and Jerry Butler bought the stone at an auction in Ruabon in the 1990s.
Academics say the inscribed carving could be an image of a 13th Century Cistercian abbot from the Valle Crucis Abbey in Llangollen, Denbighshire.
Archaeology Prof Howard Williams, from the University of Chester, said it was a "unique monument".
Mr and Mrs Butler were restoring a medieval and Tudor house when they spotted the stone fragment for sale.
"We just loved the smile on his face, so we bought it for the garden," said Mr Butler.
"It was on its side and we think it had been face down before that - had it been left face up you wouldn't have the detail now."
The monument spent 20 years alongside the fireplace of the couple's home until they decided to share it with the public.
They approached Llangollen Museum, whose manager Gill Smith quickly realised its significance.
Ms Smith in turn contacted Prof Williams, who spoke of his "awe and surprise" on seeing the stone.
"I realised we were looking at a unique monument," he said. "We couldn't think of anything like it from north Wales.
"Inscribed effigies are rare indeed. There is only one other comparable example, from Rhuddlan, and while there are a large collection of medieval grave slabs from Valle Crucis Abbey, none have an inscribed effigy.
"What is amazing is that he is smiling. In this monument, we have an individual depicted fully aware and awake, awaiting salvation."
Prof Williams believes the original Lombardic inscription - of which only the final fragment remains - is likely to refer to Hwyel, who was recorded as Abbot of Valle Crucis around 1295.
"It's wonderful that he has survived and we are thrilled to see him appreciated at last," added Mr Butler.
"I'm sure one day he will go back home to Valle Crucis and perhaps more will be discovered about his life and times."
It had previously been announced that branches at Buncrana Road in Londonderry and Belfast's Boucher Road were to close.
Now it has been confirmed that branches at Sprucefield, Ballymena and Craigavon will also shut.
B&Q confirmed later on Tuesday that about 300 jobs would be affected.
Kingfisher, the company which owns B&Q, is undergoing a major restructuring.
As a result, it is closing 60 stores across the UK.
Kingfisher is expanding its Screwfix DIY chain, so there may be some opportunity for redeployment.
In a statement, B&Q said that following a review of retail space requirements in Northern Ireland, it proposed to move "its business to four store locations in Northern Ireland by January 2017, with the closure of five stores".
It said the decision to reshape the store network had "not been taken lightly" and B&Q would "endeavour to find positions for as many employees who are affected by the change as possible, either at the four remaining B&Q stores or elsewhere in the Kingfisher Group, such as at Screwfix".
It said B&Q was in discussion with other retailers about the future of the store locations and job opportunities.
The ex-Liverpool and Chelsea striker fell heavily after an 85th-minute aerial challenge with Alex Bergantinos.
He will remain under observation but Atletico confirmed scans showed he has "no traumatic alterations or injuries".
The Spain international, 32, released a statement saying: "It was just a scare. I hope to come back very soon."
Speaking at his post-match news conference, Atletico coach Diego Simeone said he was "worried and nervous" when the incident happened.
"We heard the blow from the bench, we saw how he fell and we were afraid," he said. "We didn't know if that noise was Fernando's neck or not."
Atletico finished the game with 10 men, having used all three substitutes, but earned a point thanks to Antoine Griezmann's stunning 30-yard strike.
Deportivo had taken an early lead in Pepe Mel's first game in charge when Florin Andone capitalised on a poor Jan Oblak goal-kick.
"In the end I do not care about the result," said Griezmann. "I just want to know what's up with Fernando and hopefully he's fine. And he gets back to us soon."
Atletico left-back Filipe Luis added: "It's very ugly to see it, we were all scared but at least the news we have received so far is good and the most important thing is that Fernando is well."
The draw leaves Atletico fourth in La Liga - 11 adrift of leaders Barcelona - while Deportivo are now 17th.
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North Wales Police said it was working with Operation Hydrant "to ensure our response is coordinated and efficient".
More than 20 former footballers have recently come forward with allegations of historical sexual abuse in other parts of the UK.
A UK-wide hotline has dealt with more than 250 reports in just one week since it launched.
Operation Hydrant was set up in 2014 to help coordinate non-recent child abuse investigations relating to a number of settings.
Det Ch Insp Andrew Williams, of North Wales Police, said: "I can confirm that we are in receipt of a number of reports of non-recent sexual abuse within a football setting.
"The people who have courageously reported what happened to them are central in our considerations in this regard."
He urged "anyone who has been the victim of child sexual abuse" or those with information to report it to the police.
"They will be listened to, taken seriously and a thorough investigation will take place," he added.
The hosts were inches away from an early lead as Jordan Cook's effort deflected narrowly wide, while Barnet's Jack Taylor saw his volley stopped by Christian Walton.
The Hatters went ahead after 31 minutes when Alan Sheehan curled a stunning free kick into the top corner from 25 yards out.
However, Barnet levelled six minutes later when Taylor's cross-shot was nodded home by Bira Dembele with the home defence screaming for offside.
Danny Hylton went close to a second twice before the break, his fierce effort requiring a sharp stop from Jamie Stephens, and then hooking just over, while Cameron McGeehan scooped off target from a yard out.
In the second period, Jonathan Smith only just missed the bottom corner, before two goals in the space of seven minutes gave Luton complete control.
McGeehan notched his 11th of the season with a wonderful volley four minutes after the restart, before Alex Gilliead rifled home from 25 yards on 56 minutes to make it 3-1.
Barnet tried to mount a comeback as Michael Nelson headed just over and Sam Muggleton's free-kick went close, but the Hatters held on.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Luton Town 3, Barnet 1.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 3, Barnet 1.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Mauro Vilhete.
Attempt missed. Danny Hylton (Luton Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Sam Muggleton (Barnet) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Sam Muggleton (Barnet).
Jordan Cook (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Scott Cuthbert.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Jonathan Smith.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by John Mullins.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Christian Walton.
Attempt saved. Jack Taylor (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Scott Cuthbert (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Akinde (Barnet).
Alex Gilliead (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Luton Town. Olly Lee replaces Cameron McGeehan.
Foul by Alex Gilliead (Luton Town).
Bira Dembélé (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Christian Walton.
Attempt saved. Curtis Weston (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Sam Muggleton (Barnet) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Foul by Glen Rea (Luton Town).
Jack Taylor (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Barnet. Sam Muggleton replaces Luke Gambin.
Attempt missed. Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Bira Dembélé.
Substitution, Barnet. Nana Kyei replaces Alex Nicholls.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by John Mullins.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Scott Cuthbert.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Glen Rea.
Attempt blocked. Curtis Weston (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Elliot Johnson (Barnet) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Luton Town. James Justin replaces Alan Sheehan.
Attempt blocked. Mauro Vilhete (Barnet) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Michael Nelson (Barnet) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high following a set piece situation.
Foul by Jonathan Smith (Luton Town).
Luke Gambin (Barnet) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Luton Town 3, Barnet 1. Alex Gilliead (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jordan Cook.
Substitution, Barnet. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro replaces Jamal Campbell-Ryce.
But unlike her peers in the east Belfast school, seven-year-old Sala-Joy is blind.
She is not unusual, however, as many blind children in Northern Ireland are educated in mainstream schools.
A project which aims to help children like Sala-Joy - and their parents - get the most from education has been awarded almost £700,000 from the Big Lottery Fund.
The Family Insight project is run by Angel Eyes NI and the Royal National Institute of Blind People NI (RNIBNI).
Sara McCracken founded Angel Eyes NI after her own twins, who are now 11, were born blind.
"My twins are now at mainstream school with a statement of special educational needs," she said.
"But for parents the system can be quite daunting, and, as sight loss is very rare, the chances are that many schools and pupils won't have encountered sight loss before."
According to RNIBNI, there are more than 2,300 children and young people who have some form of sight loss in Northern Ireland.
The majority are educated alongside pupils in mainstream schools.
According to Sala-Joy's father, Gunther, that brings many challenges.
"Things like mobility, knowing her way around the school and how to get there and interaction with the other kids can all be difficult," he said.
"Sala-Joy needs a bit more assistance in finding friends, knowing what's going on and being able to join in with things."
Sala-Joy has a full-time classroom assistant, and works with the aid of a braille machine in class.
Her fellow pupils have learned to spell their names in braille using her machine, and their efforts are proudly displayed on the classroom wall.
Headteacher Philip Monks said that staff in Lisnasharragh have learned how best to help Sala-Joy in class, in the canteen and in the playground.
"We, as a school, were very keen to welcome her and to meet her needs," he said.
"As a school we have learned from her in many different ways."
Angel Eyes NI is using part of the five-year funding to employ a specialist worker who will focus specifically on providing educational guidance.
"We want to help visually impaired children access the curriculum like their peers," Ms McCracken said.
"Parents of blind children want their child to do their best educationally, like any other parent.
"Sometimes they don't fully understand all the support there is out there."
And although Sala-Joy's education journey is only beginning, she knows where she wants it to end.
"I'm longing to be a teacher," she said.
"I'm in a really good school, so I've decided to work in a school too."
So why is this suddenly an issue and what could it mean for society?
Well it is like a normal baby, but one that has been modified by altering their DNA - which is the blueprint for building a person.
Your DNA blueprint is far from perfect. Lots of diseases such as cystic fibrosis, bubble boy syndrome (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease) and the blood disorder beta thalassaemia are down to bad instructions in your DNA.
These defects could be corrected.
But a baby could in theory also be engineered to resist diseases. A single mutation can protect against HIV infection and there are also sections of your DNA which increase the risk of cancer which could also be altered.
Then there's the far more distant prospect of making alterations to alter height, beauty, hair colour or intelligence.
Nobody is on the cusp of doing this.
However, genetic engineering is progressing at a phenomenal pace and scientists say it is important to discuss what is acceptable now, rather than wait until someone crosses an ethical line.
Earlier this year Chinese scientists corrected the defect causing beta thalassaemia in embryos (they were then destroyed rather than implanted).
A few years ago a new way of editing DNA was discovered. It has transformed research and is now being used by biology laboratories around the world, whether they're working on plants, animals or human embryos.
The method combines a "molecular sat-nav" that travels to a precise location in our DNA with a pair of "molecular scissors" that cut it.
But that's a simple description.
The main method being used is called CRISPR-Cas9 and it is the way bacteria defend themselves against viruses.
A short section of genetic material precisely matches up with a section of DNA and then the enzyme Cas9 comes along and makes a cut.
Your DNA then tries to repair itself - this can turn off that section of DNA or allow scientists to insert new sections of DNA that they have engineered.
And it is cheap. And it is easy.
There are other techniques such as Zinc Fingers and Talens which have some advantages, but are harder to perform.
Well that's for you to decide, but in the eyes of the law at the moment then 'no'.
But it is worth noting the UK has already made a big shift - in 2015 it made the historic decision to allow the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man.
The reason was to prevent babies being born with "mitochondrial diseases".
It was the source of vigorous ethical debate - and it's one we may be hearing again soon.
The singer's lawyer said he would work "diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear his name".
A BuzzFeed report accuses the singer of brainwashing women, who got closer to him in an effort to boost their musical careers.
Kelly has faced previous accusations of sexual misconduct, but was never found guilty. He denies any wrongdoing.
The report, which quoted three unnamed sets of parents, said they had not seen or spoken with their daughters for months, and that the women, all of them over the age of consent, had their routines controlled by the singer.
That included rules about what they could eat and wear, when to bath and sleep and how to engage in sexual encounters recorded by him, they said.
Three former members of Kelly's inner circle were also interviewed, saying that six women lived in properties managed by the singer in similar conditions.
If they broke the "rules", they said, the women could be punished physically and verbally by the singer, according to to report.
Some of the parents reported their concerns to the police, but the women said they were not being held against their will.
The singer's lawyer, Linda Mensch, said in a statement: "Robert Kelly is both alarmed and disturbed at the recent revelations attributed to him. Mr Kelly unequivocally denies such allegations."
BuzzFeed has said it is standing by its reporting.
In 2008, R Kelly was acquitted of 14 charges of making child pornography after a videotape emerged allegedly showing him having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Kelly is one of the most successful R&B artists of all time, with 40 million records sold worldwide. His best known his include I Believe I Can Fly and Ignition (Remix).
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Worcester man Dave Dunbar, from Colour Blind Awareness, was concerned the only clue to the contents of sweets in a box of Sainsbury's Chocolate Treats was the colour of the wrapper.
He feared colour-blind people with allergies could eat the wrong sweet.
Sainsbury's said it would put allergy warnings on the wrappers themselves.
Mr Dunbar said a friend in the Colour Blind Awareness group has a son with a nut allergy and told him confusing the wrappers could be "a serious issue".
Mark Bartholemew, from the supermarket, said: "It's the right thing for our customers and we're delighted we can make this change in time for Christmas."
Source: Colour Blind Awareness
Kathryn Albany-Ward, the founder of Colour Blind Awareness, said some other chocolate manufacturers already put allergy warnings on wrappers, or use patterns to indicate what is in them.
Dollman suffered a knee injury in Exeter's Premiership final win over Wasps and will have a scan on Tuesday.
Ospreys prop Rhodri Jones has also been called up to the training squad as cover for Scarlets' Samson Lee.
Scarlets prop Rob Evans has been ruled out of the summer tour and has been replaced by Ospreys' Gareth Thomas.
"We have to accept that injuries are part and parcel of rugby at the very top level," Wales head coach Robin McBryde said.
"We will wait medical opinion following scans to Samson and Phil on Tuesday before making any further decisions."
Exeter's uncapped 32-year-old full-back Dollman had been called up by Wales in midweek to replace injured Cardiff Blues teenager Rhun Williams.
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He scored Exeter's second try against Wasps but limped off the field early in the second half after suffering a knee injury.
Scarlets prop Lee hurt his knee in Saturday's Pro12 final and will have a scan this week.
Wales will be without Scarlets forwards Jake Ball and Evans for the Tests against Tonga and Samoa.
Lock Ball is out with a shoulder injury while prop Evans suffered a hand injury in the Pro12 final victory over Munster.
Wales are training in Colwyn Bay before facing Tonga in Auckland on 16 June and Samoa in Apia on 23 June.
They face WRU National Cup winners RGC 1404 in a warm-up match at Eirias Park on Friday, 2 June.
"We are looking forward to a good week's training together as a squad at the fantastic Parc Eirias facilities and Friday's match will be an important part of our preparation before facing Samoa and Tonga," McBryde added.
The DfE has just published its accounts for 2014-15, nine months after every other government department.
The NAO says there is a level of "misstatement and uncertainty" that means the truth and fairness of the accounts cannot be verified.
The DfE says academies are subject to a "rigorous system of accountability".
While there is no suggestion that academies have misspent money, the NAO report warns that the rapid expansion of the academies programme in England has made it difficult to keep track of spending and land.
It also says the situation is likely to get worse given the government's drive to turn all schools in England into academies by 2020, or for them to have a plan to do so by 2022.
The report says: "The department's policy of autonomy for academies brings with it significant risks if the financial capability of the department and academies are not strengthened.
"And the financial statements do not present a true and fair view and meet the accountability requirements of Parliament.
"This will become even more significant in the context of the planned expansion of the academy sector."
The DfE is also criticised for not getting its accounts signed off in time.
The NAO says best practice means departments should aim to submit their accounts for scrutiny before the summer recess - a target all other departments met.
January is the official deadline, but the DfE asked for an extension until 26 April.
The DfE said this was necessary because schools work on the basis of an academic year, while government departments operate according to the financial year.
Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: "Providing Parliament with a clear view of academy trusts' spending is a vital part of the Department for Education's work - yet it is failing to do this.
"As a result, I have today provided an adverse opinion on the truth and fairness of its financial statements.
"The department will have to work hard in the coming months if it is to present Parliament with a better picture of academy trusts' spending... in 2017."
An "adverse opinion" is the most serious view an auditor can give on a set of accounts and it is the second time the NAO has given this warning - the first being in January last year.
Since 2012, the DfE's group financial statements have also covered the financial statements of academy trusts, its executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
Included in this are 2,824 academy trusts that operated 4,900 academies between 2014 and 2015.
A department spokesman said: "Academies are subject to a rigorous system of accountability and oversight, tougher and more transparent than maintained schools.
"This is reflected in the NAO's finding that there are no material inaccuracies in individual academies' statements.
"However, the consolidation of thousands of those accounts into the format required by Parliament is one of the largest and most complex procedures of its kind.
"All of these accounts are published individually by trusts ensuring they can be held to account by the department and the public."
He said the department had developed a new methodology for the financial year 2016-17, which the NAO had said would provide a solution to a number of these issues.
He added: "With the Education Funding Agency's rigorous oversight of the academy system and the expanding role of the regional school commissioner, we are confident that the accountability system for the expanding academies programme is robust and fit for purpose."
Shadow education secretary Lucy Powell said: "This is a damning and very serious report, which highlights both the opaque financial arrangements within some academy chains as well as the almost impossible job the Department for Education has set itself in trying to directly run thousands of schools from Whitehall.
"Forcing all schools to become academies will make this situation even worse.
"If this report was about a local authority, it would rightly be put in special measures and taken over."
Sterling later fell back below the $1.29 mark, reaching $1.2893. Analysts said the rise was partly due to polls putting Prime Minister Theresa May well ahead of the opposition.
The dollar also suffered from some disappointment over the lack of detail in Donald Trump's tax reform plans.
Sterling also rose against the euro, climbing 0.7% to 1.1870 euros.
On the stock market, the FTSE 100 index, which often moves inversely to the direction of the pound, closed down 51.55 points, or 0.71%, at 7,237.17.
A number of shares were trading lower after turning ex-dividend - or trading without the right to the latest dividend - including Legal & General, ITV and Informa.
Shares in private hospital group Mediclinic jumped 17.5% after the Abu Dhabi government dropped the need for a 20% co-payment for treatment at private facilities.
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Lloyds Banking Group shares rose 2.3% as investors welcomed its first-quarter results.
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Ceremonies took place at Powazki military cemetery in Warsaw, and at the crash site near a military airfield in Smolensk, western Russia.
However the late president's twin, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, boycotted the state ceremonies for the second year running and attended separate events.
He claims that the crash was an assassination.
All 96 passengers and crew were killed in the crash in 2010, when the plane attempted to land in foggy weather.
Several Polish politicians and officials, including the first lady, Maria, had been on board. They had been travelling to Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers on Stalin's orders by Soviet secret police during World War II.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk took part in Tuesday's ceremony with some of the victims' relatives in Powazki military cemetery, where many of the crash victims are buried.
President Bronislaw Komorowski attended a Mass in Warsaw, and laid flowers at a plaque commemorating the dead.
Polish Culture Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski and Russia's Parliament Speaker Sergei Naryshkin also laid wreaths in a ceremony at the crash site in Smolensk.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who leads Poland's opposition Law and Justice party, attended an alternative ceremony outside the presidential palace.
He said recently that he believed his brother was assassinated, and an unofficial investigation by his party concluded that there were two explosions before the plane crashed in heavy fog near the runway.
While many in Poland find the assertions ridiculous, there is widespread disapproval of the Russians absolving themselves of any blame for the crash, the BBC's Warsaw correspondent Adam Easton says.
Both the official Russian and Polish investigations have said that pilot error was the main cause of the crash.
However, the Polish investigation also said that the actions of the Russian air traffic controllers contributed to the disaster.
Lech Kaczynski's daughter, Marta Kaczynska, told Polish media that the sadness she felt when she first learned of her parents' death returned to her every day.
"I would like to express my gratitude to all those who remember my parents and have the courage to show it," she said.
McIlroy, 26, will now play Jason Day after the Australian beat American Brooks Koepka 3&2 to reclaim the world's number-one ranking.
Northern Ireland's McIlroy, who earlier beat Zach Johnson on the final green in the last 16, never trailed Kirk.
He won four of six holes after the turn to seal victory.
The win extended McIlroy's unbeaten run in the event to 12 matches, one short of the record held by former world number one Tiger Woods.
Woods won the event as a straight knockout tournament in 2003 and 2004 before losing in the second round to Nick O'Hern in 2005.
Day's victory allows the 28-year-old to overhaul Jordan Spieth in the rankings after Spieth lost his last-16 tie to Louis Oosthuizen.
South Africa's Oosthuizen, the 2010 Open champion, then beat Dustin Johnson 2&1 to set up a semi-final against Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello, who beat Ryan Moore 2&1 victory.
The semi-finals and final will be played on Sunday.
Kevin Devaney had taken advantage of poor defending to tap home his second goal of the season in the 24th minute.
Boyle fired in the equaliser 15 minutes from time and snatched victory with a left-foot finish in stoppage time.
The Candystripes have now won three league games in a row and are one of five teams joint top of the table.
The visitors went into the match unbeaten in their three opening fixtures of the campaign and looked set to extend that run until Boyle's late intervention.
Derry manager Kenny Shiels fielded an unchanged line-up for the third successive game as he hoped to build on clean sheet victories over Cork City and Bray Wanderers, following an opening night defeat by Finn Harps.
Devaney opened the scoring with a right-foot shot past Ger Doherty at the back post after Gary Shanahan had squared the ball across goal.
Former Derry player Enda Curran almost caught Doherty off his line before half-time while the home keeper saved from Shanahan's glancing header.
For the home side, Gareth McGlynn saw his free-kick tipped over by Conor Winn, who also denied Barry McNamee.
A well organised Galway side looked to be running out comfortable winners until Boyle levelled, and Winn produced a fine stop from Josh Daniels, who was also seeking his first goal for the club.
Boyle then latched onto a loose ball and unleashed a stunning effort to secure victory.
Derry are joined by Cork City, Dundalk, St Patrick's Athletic and Shamrock Rovers on nine points at the summit of the Premier Division.
His comments follow criticism of the policy from the body representing Welsh universities and opposition parties.
Mr Jones told BBC Wales he was "not attracted to the idea" of "putting huge amounts of debt on other students".
A policy review by Prof Sir Ian Diamond is due to be finished in September.
Students from Wales currently only pay £3,810 towards their tuition fees, wherever they study in the UK.
The rest, up to £5,190 a year, is paid for by the Welsh government.
The chair of Universities Wales has said tuition fee grants should be replaced by a means-tested grant to help poorer pupils.
Prof Colin Riordan has warned the policy threatens the future of higher education in Wales because tens of millions of pounds ends up in the coffers of universities in England.
But, in an interview with BBC Wales Today, Mr Jones said: "Means testing is not where we are going on this.
"We will have to look at what the Diamond review says but I am not attracted to the idea of simply doing what England does, and means testing and putting huge amounts of debt on other students.
"What we will never do is put Welsh students in the same financial position as their colleagues in England.
"That is the fundamental principle of what we will do in future."
The Welsh Conservatives have said they would scrap tuition fee subsidies and pay half of students' rent instead.
Plaid Cymru would also scrap the grants, and instead pay Welsh students working in Wales after graduation £6,000 a year, up to a maximum of £18,000.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats' policy is to replace tuition fee subsidies with maintenance grants, while UKIP says it would like to cut tuition fees.
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The 22-year-old won Olympic gold on Sunday after a dramatic countback win over Roberto Cammarelle, Italy's defending champion from Beijing.
Joshua won silver at last year's World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
"I'd like to become world amateur champion before I go professional," said the London 2012 gold medallist.
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It was Joshua's second victory over the Italian two-time world champion, having beaten him at the last-eight stage in Baku last year.
However, the Finchley ABC boxer was eventually beaten by home favourite Magomedrasul Medzhidov in the decider.
Joshua now wants to win gold at next year's event in Kazakhstan - and join Frankie Gavin and Savannah Marshall as Britain's only world amateur champions.
He said: "I know there's the World Championships next year. I need to rest my body first because it is in pain."
Joshua insists he is not motivated by money and is keen to emulate world amateur greats such as Ukraine's Vasyl Lomachenko who became a two-weight Olympic champion on Sunday.
"If fame comes I'm going to be OK with it, but I don't want to be hyped up and made out to be something I'm not," he added.
"I look at great amateur champions like Lomachenko and how he just goes out there and gets the job done every time, and that's the kind of attitude I want to have.
"I'm not interested in the money. I want to go out and get a burger and a big chocolate cake, then I want to go back to my flat just to kick back for a few days and enjoy some of my mum's home cooking."
The super-heavyweight sensation could also be tempted to stay in the unpaid ranks until Rio 2016 and help Great Britain improve on the five medals they claimed in London.
He added: "You look at the Cubans, the Ukrainians and the Chinese and all their double Olympic champions and imagine how great that would be.
"If Great Britain can keep this team together, we would be incredibly strong in Rio in four years. We are in a position where we could dominate amateur boxing over the next four years."
Since September last year, local authorities have been obliged to fine parents who take children out of school for unauthorised absences.
But the Local Government Association says the new rules do not recognise the complexities of family life.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said heads still had flexibility.
Until last September, heads could grant up to 10 days' leave a year for family holidays in "special circumstances".
But now head teachers can grant absence outside school holidays only in "exceptional circumstances".
And local authorities are obliged to instigate fines and enforce legal proceedings on behalf of schools.
This means parents who take children out of school during term-time, often to avoid very high holiday costs, can receive automatic penalty notices of £60 per child. This rises to £120 if not paid within 21 days.
Parents who fail to pay could face prosecution and a maximum fine of £2,500 or a jail sentence of up to three months.
The LGA said that while councils fully supported the Department for Education's stance that every child should be in school every day, there were occasions when circumstances should be given individual consideration.
These might include religious festivals, weddings, funerals or even once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.
David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: "Ensuring every child has a good school attendance is of paramount concern for everyone working with children.
"However, common sense must prevail in cases when mums and dads ask to take their child out of school during term-time if there is a legitimate reason.
"An outright ban is too simplistic and doesn't recognise that family life and circumstances aren't always so black and white.
Stewart Sutherland (above), a security guard, and wife Natasha, from Telford in Shropshire, set up a campaign group against the new rules after being fined £1,000 for taking their three children out of school for a family holiday in Greece. They say they both work shifts and find it difficult to get time off together.
"I couldn't get the time off work when the schools were on holiday and after the kids missing out on four years of not having a holiday for the same problem, I felt it was necessary to take them out of school because they deserve a holiday as much as anyone else," said Mr Sutherland.
"But then there's lots of reasons... for financial reasons, or there's people whose kids are disabled for example, and they don't want to go in the main season when there's too many people around because it causes problems on the holiday."
Many parents say they are unable to afford family breaks as travel companies raise their prices during the school holidays. Paul Cookson's "school holiday rant" on Facebook went viral after he said he was "sick and tired" of being "ripped off" by holiday companies.
His post prompted more than 170,000 people to sign an online petition asking the government to stop holiday companies charging extra in school holidays
Some parents say the savings on cheaper holidays during the school terms are worth the cost of being fined. Donna-Marie Hollingdale told the BBC that if she had taken her children out of school during term she could have saved at least £1,200 and paid the fine as well. "I'd happily pay the fine and take my child out of school when the holidays are a lot cheaper because I'd still be quids in and still save money."
Last year one primary, Bishop Bronescombe C of E school in St Austell, Cornwall, created an extra week's holiday at the end of the May half-term holiday so that low-paid parents could take advantage of lower prices.
He added that head teachers knew families' circumstances and "should be trusted to make decisions without being forced to issue fines and start prosecutions".
But a spokeswoman for the Department for Education said that heads had the option of allowing time off if necessary.
"We have been clear that all head teachers are free to grant pupils leave in exceptional circumstances.
"It is up to them to decide whether to grant time off, and how much to grant. This appears to be exactly what the LGA is calling for."
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: "The problem lies with the holiday companies and airlines and if this issue is to be addressed sensibly then there should be pressure put on them, not schools.
"Many teachers are parents and we entirely sympathise with the dilemma caused by price hikes for breaks during the school holidays.
"In particular, at this time of pressure on pay, our sympathies are with those on low pay who have little option but to take the cheapest holiday they can find.
"It remains the case that pupils can be granted time off in exceptional circumstances."
Lloyd's chief executive Inga Beale described the results as "strong", given the "challenging market conditions" that it faced.
Profits were helped by a "relatively benign" year for major natural catastrophes, Lloyd's said, as well as better returns on investment.
The Lloyd's market includes 94 syndicates who underwrite insurance.
Gross written premiums fell to £25.3bn, from £25.6bn the previous year.
"In the face of global challenges, an abundance of capital and the low interest rate environment, Lloyd's is being proactive in seizing the opportunities out there for growth and diversification," said Ms Beale.
"We will continue to engage with our global network of syndicates and brokers, to ensure Lloyd's remains at the forefront of innovation in the industry."
Lloyd's is looking to increase its international presence. It has opened operations in Dubai and China this year and is also opening an office in Mexico.
In addition, it said the Indian government had now passed legislation to allow it to operate onshore in India.
Ms Beale told the BBC that businesses around the world were collectively losing billions of dollars through cyber attacks.
"We are trying to raise awareness in the business community," she said.
She said the Lloyd's market held about 15% of the total insurance against cyber-attacks bought around the world.
Lloyd's was working with the UK government and other insurance players to help companies guard against attacks, she said.
The man doused an ants' nest in petrol before setting it alight, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said.
Flames quickly spread along a garden hedge before the man's house caught fire, melting plastic guttering, a plastic window frame and a garden chair.
A fire service spokesman said: "Using petrol to eliminate an ants' nest has to be a first for us."
The fire started at about 20:00 BST on Thursday.
The spokesman added: "We always tell people never to use petrol or other accelerants to get a fire going.
"The incident is a classic example of how even a small fire can so quickly develop into a much more serious incident."
Susan Mitchelson, 45, was found with more than 50 stab wounds at her home in Northumberland in November.
Newcastle Crown Court heard the boy, 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, suffered serious mental health issues and believed he was a demon.
He was sentenced to a hospital order after admitting manslaughter with diminished responsibility.
The court heard the boy suffered from several mental health issues, including schizophrenia and had sought help for two years, but it had been "to no avail".
Judge Paul Sloan QC said the boy had a "morbid interest in horror, death and killing" and was under the "delusional belief" he was a demon.
A statement from the boy's family, which was read out in court, said: "The death maybe could have been prevented if healthcare professionals connected with him had listened to our concerns due to his increasing mental state and aggressive behaviour."
They claimed that instead he was just given an increased dose of medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Mark Guiliani, prosecuting, said after the attack in November the boy was seen sitting on a park bench by a member of the public, who described him as looking in shock.
When police arrived he told them what had happened and said the knives were in a nearby bin.
Mr Guiliani said he had become "addicted to the internet" and would visit sites which shared horror and paranormal stories and asked users to submit their own.
The court heard medical evidence that the boy heard voices in his head and imagined people being decapitated and killed.
Jamie Hill QC, defending, said there would be a full inquiry by social and community mental health services into what had happened.
Judge Sloan described the boy as "an extremely dangerous individual" who would remain so for the "foreseeable future".
There were 3,259 arrests on suspicion of drink or drug driving in Northern Ireland from March 2015 to April 2016.
These resulted in 588 drug driving charges and 1,413 for drink driving.
Manchester had a total of 3,284 arrests, comparable to here, although Northern Ireland's population is smaller.
But Manchester had just 315 drug driving charges along with 1,842 drink driving charges.
Inspector Rosie Leach from the PSNI's Road Policing Unit said: "It is difficult to pinpoint what trends are going on because people use drugs and alcohol in combination.
"They sometimes use alcohol to mask the fact they have been taking drugs, so I don't know if we can say with absolute certainty that we are on a rise in terms of drug driving."
"It is mainly younger people but we also have older people who are maybe taking a combination of drugs, and unwittingly it is affecting their driving.
"If you get behind the wheel of a car, and you have been taking drugs, if you take them in combination with alcohol, then you are really in a very, very dangerous position," she added.
Seven men were sentenced at Preston Crown Court after what Lancashire Police said was one of their biggest drugs investigations in recent times.
Police said the men circulated a "huge amount" of cannabis in the Darwen area.
Among them was Kenneth Langford, who stepped down as manager of AFC Darwen shortly after his arrest last year.
Two other members of his family were also jailed.
Det Insp Mark Vaughton said: "Between them, the Langfords and their associates have blighted Darwen and the surrounding areas for too long, flaunting their criminal wealth.
"I hope these sentences reassure people that we will act on any information that is passed to us in order to make local communities safer."
Hua Haifeng was working undercover for the US-based China Labor Watch (CLW), which said he had witnessed examples of forced overtime and wage violations.
Two other activists involved in the investigation are missing, CLW said.
The supplier also makes products for other brands including Karl Lagerfeld, Coach and Nine West, it said.
CLW called on US President Trump to press for the release of Mr Hua.
Amnesty International has demanded the release all three activists, saying the two missing are feared to also have been detained.
"The trio appear to be the latest to fall foul of the Chinese authorities' aggressive campaign against human rights activists who have any ties to overseas organizations, using the pretence of 'national security'," William Nee, China researcher at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
There has been no comment so far from Chinese authorities, the Trump administration or the Ivanka Trump brand.
CLW said Mr Hua was detained in Jiangxi province on suspicion of illegally using eavesdropping equipment but that this allegation had "no factual basis".
The group's executive director, Li Qiang, told the BBC the firm Mr Hua had been investigating, Huajian Group, had "violated workers' rights in ways that included: forced overtime, wages lower than China's legal minimum wage, managers' verbal abuse of workers, and violations of women's rights".
In 17 years of investigating Chinese factories it was "the first time any [of] our investigators have been detained under a criminal process," Mr Li said.
Mr Hua's wife told the BBC she had lost contact with him on 28 May, but then police contacted her on Tuesday to say he was being held.
"I was shocked and freaked out," Deng Guilian said.
"I only know that my husband was investigating a factory based in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province. That factory manufactures US president's daughter's product," she said.
"I think he was detained for that. Police told me that my husband has been detained for illegal monitoring activities."
The other two men - named as Li Zhao and Su Heng - were working undercover at Huajian factories in Dongguan in Guangdong province and in Ganzhou.
China has seen frequent crackdowns on labour rights activists and rights lawyers in recent years, with campaigners being harassed, arrested or jailed.
Wiggins, 36, has five golds, one silver and two bronzes to surpass fellow cyclist Sir Chris Hoy's tally of seven.
He combined with Ed Clancy, Owain Doull and Steven Burke to complete the 4km race in three minutes 50.265 seconds to beat Australia by almost a second.
"It was gold or nothing. I'll be hungover tomorrow," said Wiggins.
"I'm trying to soak it all up. It was a horrible race to be in. It's over in a flash.
"It's a relief. Eighteen months ago there were doubts about whether I could come back and do this."
Asked whether he will now retire, the 2012 Tour de France winner said: "My kids need a proper dad in their lives. My wife needs a proper husband.
"I wanted to go out on top, and it was one of the best finals ever. Hats off to the Australians.
"I'm not doing Tokyo 2020. I'm happy and content with everything I've achieved."
GB's second track gold of the Games, following the men's team sprint victory, came in thrilling fashion, as world champions Australia led by 0.7 seconds at the halfway mark, before GB reeled them in and then pulled away in the final 500m to win by 0.83 seconds.
It cemented Britain's recent dominance in this event at the Olympics, having won gold at the past three Games. Wiggins was part of the 2008 success, but focused on the road to take time-trial gold at London 2012.
Clancy and Burke were part of the team that set a new world record at London 2012 and, along with Doull and Wiggins, sent that mark tumbling twice in Rio - in the semi-final victory over New Zealand and then again in the final.
Australia came into the contest on the back of a victory over Britain at the World Championships in March, but Wiggins said at the time he would "put my house" on his team claiming gold in Rio - and he was proven right.
Denmark won the bronze medal-race against New Zealand while, earlier in the session, Britain's defending individual sprint champion Jason Kenny progressed to the second round, where he will be joined by team-mate Callum Skinner.
Clancy, 31, now a three-time Olympic gold medallist, said: "This is the best gold of them all. If truth be told we haven't won a fat deal between London and now.
"We had some big downs and crossing the line there has made every single pedal revolution and every training session worthwhile."
Welshman Owain Doull, 23, said: "It's surreal. To pull it off now is unbelievable."
Burke, 28, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, said: "I really wanted to defend the title. It all came together at the right time. We've got the best team ever."
Wiggins celebrated with hugs for BBC Sport pundits Hoy and Sir Steve Redgrave - three Britons who have 21 Olympic medals between them - before performing an impression of British sprint cyclist Philip Hindes and sticking his tongue out during the national anthem on the podium.
Wiggins' tally of five gold medals is still one fewer than Hoy's six, with the Scot winning all of his on the track, but he draws level with rower Redgrave.
Sir Chris Hoy, six-time Olympic track cycling gold medallist: "Sticking his tongue out during the medal ceremony showed what a release of pressure it was. He's happy, relaxed and loving the moment.
"He's the greatest British cyclist of all time because of what he's done across the board in so many disciplines. Chris Froome has won three Tours de France, which is no mean feat, but Bradley has won road world titles, Tour de France, track titles and set the world hour time record.
"Tonight hasn't really changed that because he was the greatest before tonight."
Sir Steve Redgrave, five-time Olympic rowing gold medallist: "It was fantastic to be here. The atmosphere was very special. I wanted to be here to see the team pursuit win and to see Brad win.
"I admire him so much. For his character - he's very different, fresh and special.
"I am getting annoyed these cyclists are pushing me down the list!"
British Olympic Association chief executive Bill Sweeney: "Amazing, fantastic achievement. Our most decorated Olympian of all time and to do it in that fashion, one of the tightest men's pursuits you are ever likely to see.
"He is a great leader, fantastic athlete. He keeps coming back, the ultimate professional, always staying in shape and he inspires people to come in the sport and do the same."
Wiggins' move to the top of the combined British medal charts comes in the event in which he claimed his first Olympic medal 16 years ago.
Aged 20, Wiggins joined Paul Manning, Chris Newton and Bryan Steel to take team pursuit bronze at Sydney 2000.
He added three more in Athens four years later, taking individual pursuit gold, team pursuit silver and Madison bronze with Rob Hayles.
Beijing 2008 produced double gold in the individual pursuit and team pursuit and, with 10 world track medals to his name, Wiggins opted to change discipline and prove his skills on the road.
It was a spectacularly successful move, culminating in 2012 when he became Britain's first Tour de France winner and then took Olympic time-trial gold at the London Games 10 days later. He is the only cyclist to win both the Tour and an Olympic gold in the same year.
Wiggins' celebrity was launched in Britain, not only for his superb victories, but for his cool, laid-back demeanour. The trademark sideburns and his penchant for the mod style, made famous by bands such as The Who and The Jam, contributed to "Wiggomania" in the summer of 2012, as did his vibe of working-class boy done good.
His popularity with the British public was reflected by his BBC Sports Personality of the Year victory in 2012 and in the next year he was knighted to become Sir Bradley, although he admitted he felt "a little bit inferior" to others who received the title.
The relationship with Team Sky, with whom he won his Tour title, would become strained as Chris Froome's emergence pushed him to the sidelines, but he won the World Championships time trial title in 2014 before moving back to track racing and breaking the gruelling one-hour record.
Earlier this year he won a second Madison track world title with long-time friend and team-mate Mark Cavendish, before sealing his legacy as one of Britain's greatest ever Olympians by helping GB to team pursuit gold at Rio 2016, claiming the fifth gold of his career.
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There have been several reports of it happening on Church Lane near the Trunk Road flyover in Grangetown, Middlesbrough in the past week.
It is believed a group of five youths are responsible for damaging the roof of one car and smashing the passenger window of another.
Sgt Steve Pattison said someone could be "seriously injured or even killed".
"We repeat these warnings over and over again and a minority still refuse to listen," he said.
"How far does this need to go before they stop?
"It's important that parents know where their children are and what they are up to."
No one was injured in the attacks.
"Even if I am withdrawing into prayer, I will always be close to all of you... even if I remain hidden to the world," he told a meeting of Roman priests.
The pontiff, 85, shocked the world's biggest Christian Church on Monday when he announced his resignation.
He cited his advanced age as the reason for resigning.
According to the Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the Pope took the decision to resign after his trip to Mexico and Cuba in 2012.
The Vatican confirmed on Thursday that Pope Benedict had hit his head during the March trip to Mexico, but denied the accident had any role in his decision.
According to a report in Italy's La Stampa newspaper, the Pope was lightly injured after getting up in the middle of the night in an unfamiliar bedroom during the trip, with blood staining his hair and sheets.
Earlier this week, the Vatican said for the first time that Pope Benedict had a pacemaker, and that he had undergone surgery to replace the batteries three months ago.
The Pope appears to be planning a complete retreat from the public eye, the BBC's Alan Johnston reports from the Vatican.
However, he is expected to spend his retirement in a monastery at the Vatican and his relationship with his successor as pope is bound to be an endless source of speculation, our correspondent adds.
A new pope is expected to be elected by cardinals before Easter, which falls on 31 March this year.
Pope Benedict made his remarks at the Vatican in what amounted to a farewell address to hundreds of priests who serve in the Diocese of Rome, our correspondent says.
He appealed to the spirit of the reformist Second Vatican Council of the 1960s.
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"We must work for the realisation of the real council and for a real renewal of the Church," he said.
Speaking earlier, some of the unnamed priests gave their reaction to the pontiff's decision to resign.
"People are divided, some say that he was right in doing so, since he did not feel able to continue any longer, others on the contrary feel dejected," said one.
"As for me, I am grieved and I hope and I pray for Benedict XVI, hoping that the Church again finds strength."
"It was certainly a surprise for everybody," said another.
"Maybe in this moment we cannot easily understand it since all of us are feeling shocked but it is a sign that our pontiff wanted to act for the good of the Church.
"He steps aside not because he abandons Peter's boat, but because he wants this boat to be led with the help of the Holy Spirit through a person who is strong."
Next week the Pope will carry out no public engagements after which he will hold one more public audience on 27 February, in St Peter's Square.
On 28 February he will fly off to the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, where he will stay while Church leaders go through the complicated ritual of choosing a successor.
The eclipse, which was only visible from small sections of land, ended over southern parts of Chile and Argentina.
The eclipse started at 1815 GMT about 700km (440 miles) south-east of Tonga, and reached Easter Island by 2011 GMT.
The population of the island - a Unesco World Heritage site - doubled to about 8,000 for the event.
Some forecasters had warned that cloudy skies could dash hopes of a clear view of the eclipse.
But as the moment neared on Easter Island, stormy weather gave way to bright sunshine .
"It was like being in the stadium at night with artificial light. It was like being in a dark room with a 10-watt bulb," local official Francisco Haoa told AFP news agency.
"It started with a shadow. The skies were perfectly blue, with lots of wind which chased away the clouds. Everyone applauded."
In Tahiti, where the eclipse began, crowds of football-mad Polynesians turned away from the World Cup final on TV to look to the skies instead.
"It was like the Sun was smiling," said eight-year-old Hinanui. "The Sun seemed like a horizontal crescent, then the Moon covered up the bottom of the Sun which reappeared again as a crescent."
A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, blocking its rays and casting a shadow.
The eclipse followed an 11,000km (6.900-mile) path over the South Pacific. The longest time of eclipse - five minutes and 20 seconds - was over the sea.
Easter Island's governor has insisted it can cope with the influx, but there has been increased security at sacred sites, including for the famous Moai stone statues.
The island was partly evacuated after Chile's earthquake in February and the authorities want to show that it is back on the tourist map.
Local mayor Luz del Carmen Zasso told Agence France-Presse news agency: "Easter Island is an open-air museum, and the eclipse is part of this museum."
Paul Liam Duddy, from Ardnamoyle Park in Derry, appeared in court on Monday where he admitted possession of herbal cannabis, diazepam and viagra.
Police found the drugs in his bedroom when they searched his home in April.
The court heard he was threatened while he was serving a community service sentence for a separate conviction.
His defence solicitor told the court that the Probation Service was now trying to find another location outside Derry to enable Duddy to complete his community service.
He added that his client was now in rehab and had not used drugs since police made the seizure on 21 April.
The judge imposed a £250 fine on Duddy and ordered that the drugs must be destroyed.
Paceman Clint McKay took 4-37 for match figures of 8-84 as Essex were bowled out for 133 in their second innings.
It left the visitors with a victory target of 159 from 33 overs.
Opener Angus Robson made 56 off 75 balls, his second half-century of the game, as they stuttered home on 159-6 with just 11 balls to spare.
Essex began play on 22-1 and lost three wickets during a morning session which also saw a lengthy hold-up for bad light.
Tom Westley was lbw to Rob Taylor for 25 straight after lunch, and that proved to be the highest score in a disappointing Essex effort, in which their last five wickets went down for 32 runs.
It looked plain sailing for the visitors as Robson and Mark Cosgrove (38) added 53, but they both departed in the space of four overs before Neil Dexter finally hit the two runs needed at the start of the penultimate over to secure their second win of the summer.
The fire at M&R Commercials in Felinfach Industrial Estate, Fforestfach, involving 4,000 tyres, cylinders, waste and scrap vehicles, started at about 06:00 BST on Monday.
Nearby train services were affected.
About 70 firefighters were tackling the blaze at its height, but Mid and West Wales Fire Service said the it plans to let the fire burn itself out.
Nobody seems to have come up with a definitive answer, which confirms that we do indeed live in unusual times.
Stephen Crabb has spent Monday talking to DWP staff in their office at Westminster before confirming the UK government's U-turn on personal independence payments.
The U-turn was welcomed by his Labour shadow - Owen Smith - who welcomed him to the new job in Welsh and reminded MPs: "He and I have history at the Wales Office."
I interviewed Mr Crabb's successor, Alun Cairns, at Gwydyr House in Whitehall, where three vacant picture hooks confirm the ministerial flux.
I asked him how he would do the job differently. "I plan to follow the pragmatic approach that Stephen Crabb followed as secretary of state. I think that worked well both in his relationship with the Welsh Government but also in his relationship with the business sector, with local authorities, with communities across Wales. I want to be a pragmatic secretary of state."
The Welsh Government might dispute that view of their relationship but Mr Cairns was later grilled by MPs on the public administration and constitutional affairs committee, of which he was once a member.
Its chair, Bernard Jenkin, pointed out that he once wanted to merge the Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland roles in a single office of constitutional affairs - a point that prompted a gulp and nervous laughter from the new cabinet minister.
Costs already total nearly £6m for the past seven months.
The region also has the highest vacancy rate for senior medical staff in Scotland, with 20 consultant posts currently unfilled.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway said it was doing everything possible to recruit permanent staff.
Medical director Dr Angus Cameron said more doctors needed to be trained to address what was a national shortage.
He said that in the meantime the health board had no option but to foot the bill for temporary cover.
"We certainly do have a significant problem at the moment," he admitted.
"We have 20 consultant posts that are vacant - they are of course covered by locums or by doctors who have come back in after retirement - but there are still 20 posts that we need to fill.
"That is slightly more than 20% of the consultant workforce so that is highly significant."
He said there were nationwide and local reasons for the problem.
"There are national shortages of consultants in some specialities," he said.
"Dumfries and Galloway is also small so we have small departments.
"One of the problems with recruiting is that if you have got small departments you are one of three and you are on call every third night for the rest of your life," he said.
Dr Cameron said that compared with going to a big hospital in Glasgow where you might be on call "every two weeks for the rest of your life".
"So why would you want to come to Dumfries and Galloway?" he asked.
"That's a big problem for us."
John Downey, 62, from County Donegal, Irish Republic, is accused of killing Roy Bright, Dennis Daly, Simon Tipper and Geoffrey Young.
The Household Cavalry members were killed as they rode from their barracks in Knightsbridge.
Mr Downey also denied intending to cause an explosion likely to endanger life.
The bomb that Mr Downey is charged with planting was the first of two that caused carnage in London on 20 July 1982.
In the first incident, a nail bomb in a blue Austin car was detonated as the Household Cavalry members made their way through the park to the Changing of the Guard parade.
As well as the four men, seven horses were killed and a number of police officers and civilians were injured.
In the second explosion, less than two hours later, seven Royal Green Jackets bandsmen in a Regent's Park bandstand were killed.
Mr Downey, who was arrested at Gatwick Airport last May, entered the pleas at the Old Bailey. He remains on conditional bail.
It will put the question "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?"
Voters will have to mark an X in either the 'Remain a member of the European Union' box or the 'Leave the European Union' box.
You must be registered to vote to be able to take part in the referendum.
The deadline to register was originally midnight on Tuesday 7 June, but this was extended until midnight on Thursday 9 June, after a computer glitch meant some people were unable to submit their applications in time.
You can vote in this referendum if you are registered to vote in the UK, are 18 or over on the day and are:
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If you are an Irish citizen living overseas who was born in Northern Ireland, you need to go to the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website and download the correct form.
Applications to vote must now be submitted by midnight on 9 June, in order to vote in person on 23 June.
Online voter registration has only been around (in England, Scotland and Wales) since 2014, and the deadline for last year's general election - the new system's first major test - passed without any hitches.
Computer glitches are not new to the world of politics however. The deadline to register to vote in Labour's leadership contest was briefly extended in August after technical problems hit the party's website.
You need your National Insurance number and your passport, if you're a British citizen living abroad.
If you don't have a National Insurance number card, (they were axed in 2011) or the letter that replaced them, the number should be on your payslips, or on official letters regarding benefits or tax credits, or on a student loan application.
Once you have registered to vote, there are three ways you can vote in the EU referendum.
You might be registered at two addresses but it is a criminal offence to vote more than once.
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The referendum takes place on Thursday, 23 June 2016, between 07:00 and 22:00 BST.
Moray Council has confirmed that bills could rise by as much as 18% this year - which would see the bill for a Band D property increase by £204 a year.
It said the move was necessary to protect frontline services.
The proposals will be voted on by councillors next month.
Moray Council needs to cut spending by £11.9m in 2016/17.
But raising council tax rates would result in the Scottish government withholding £1.1m which would have been allocated to the council to offset the freeze, which has been in place across Scotland since 2007.
The country's 32 councils have until now complied with the policy and retained the freeze.
Moray, which has an independent/Conservative administration, had been facing a financial shortfall of £6.8m for the year ahead.
But it said that figure rose to £11.9m following last month's funding allocation announcement by the Scottish government.
The council said an 18% rise would see the council tax for an average Band D property increase from £1,135 - where it has been pegged since 2007 - to £1,339.
A Band A property would go up from £756 to £892 and a Band H from £2,270 to £2,678.
The level of increase which has been proposed would raise £5m next year, with the administration group proposing to take a further £5m from reserves.
With savings of £1.9m already identified, the council said it would be able to balance its budget for 2016-17.
Council leader Stewart Cree said that there was "no way" of achieving the level of savings required by efficiencies alone.
He added: "Equally, we do not believe that the people of Moray should have to see the services and facilities that they cherish so much continue to deteriorate and that is why we have decided to consider increasing council tax to a level that would protect services both now and in the future.
"In so doing, we are aware that we will have penalties imposed on us by the Scottish government and we will forfeit the £1.1m that we are currently allocated to offset the council tax freeze.
"However in light of the scale of the deficit we are facing, this £1.1m pales into insignificance when the only alternative would be further cuts to services - or even the loss of some services altogether."
Mr Cree said he had written to Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney to outline the council's concerns.
And said he believed the people of Moray "will understand our dilemma and that they will be prepared to pay a reasonable increase in council tax in order to see their services and facilities maintained".
But the leader of the council's SNP group, Gary Coull, said the administration was "once again getting Moray in the national headlines for all the wrong reasons".
He added: "This is a massive hike being proposed by the independents and Tiories and will really hit the pockets of Moray people who are already facing high living costs combined with frozen wages".
Highland Council's independent-led administration - which needs to save about £50m next year - is also examining whether it should rebel against the council tax freeze by raising bills by 5%.
The council's budget chairman, Councillor Bill Fernie, told the Press and Journal newspaper: "We're still firming up what we're going to do and we've got to speak to opposition groups as well.
"We would certainly take more confidence if a few more councils around us - for example Moray or Argyll and Bute - were likeminded."
Fife Council members are also studying budget proposals, including the possibility of ending the freeze, ahead of a meeting next month.
A Scottish government spokesman said it had fully funded the council tax freeze.
He added: "Indeed recent independent research found that, compared to inflation, we have over-funded the council tax freeze by £164.9m since 2008.
"We have included a further £70m in the coming year's settlement to enable councils to fully meet the costs of a council tax freeze so there is no need for an increase in council tax."
But Cosla, which represents most Scottish councils, said the package of measures for local government within Mr Swinney's budget, including the council tax freeze, had been "totally unacceptable".
A spokesman added: "We are still in active negotiations with the Scottish government around the 2016/17 settlement."
A cross-party commission has recently been established to examine alternatives to council tax and is due to report in autumn 2015, after the Holyrood election in May.
All six sites were blocked in May after being accused of infringing copyright by the Spanish anti-piracy federation.
The block meant mobile operators and internet service providers (ISPs) in Spain were told to stop letting customers get at the sites.
Now a court in Zaragoza has said there were "insufficient grounds" for maintaining the blocks and has called for them to be lifted.
The decision should mean that mobile companies and ISPs will lift the blocks in the next few days.
The court was considering the blocks after those running some of the accused sites appealed.
The sites blocked were SpanishTracker, PCTorrent.com, NewPCT.com, PCTestrenos.com, Descargaya.es and TumejorTV.com.
Traffic to sites fell sharply after they were cut off but some of them set up alternative domains and proxies to help regular users get around the block.
Spain has been a vigorous pursuer of pirates and has passed tough anti-piracy laws and jailed operators of file-sharing sites.
She spoke of a "sense of solidarity" felt in Scotland for people in London.
Four people have died after a car was driven at pedestrians near the UK parliament before the occupant jumped out and stabbed a police officer.
The Scottish Parliament suspended a debate on an independence referendum following the attack.
Ms Sturgeon said: "My thoughts, as I'm sure the thoughts of everybody in Scotland tonight, are with people caught up in this dreadful event.
"My condolences in particular go to those who've lost loved ones.
"My thoughts are with those who've sustained injuries and we all feel a sense of solidarity with the people of London tonight."
She said Scotland would consider whether there were any wider lessons for public safety.
The first minister added: "I convened a meeting of the Scottish Government's Resilience Committee to review what is currently known about the incident at Westminster and also to review any implications for Scotland.
"(But) it is important to stress that there is no intelligence of any risk to Scotland."
The Scottish Parliament had been close to concluding its debate on a call for a referendum on Scottish independence when Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh announced that the sitting would be suspended.
He said the incident in London was affecting the contributions of MSPs, and that the debate would resume at another time.
A vote had been due to be held at 17:30, but politicians including Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson called for the session to be suspended.
Parliament officials initially ruled that the debate should continue as planned, before Mr Macintosh decided that it should be halted.
The presiding officer said: "The fact that our sister parliament has had a serious incident is affecting this particular debate, and is affecting the contribution of members. And so it is for that reason we are deciding to suspend the sitting.
"We will resume this debate and we will be able to do so in a full and frank manner, but I think to continue at the moment would not allow members to make their contributions in the manner they wish to."
A decision on when the debate will resume is expected to be made on Thursday morning.
Conservative MSP Fin Carson tweeted ahead of the presiding officer's ruling that he had left the parliament chamber, saying: "I can't understand how this debate can go on. At least a suspension would have shown some respect."
However, some politicians were unhappy about the decision to suspend the debate.
Liberal Democrat MSP Mike Rumbles was among those to argue it was a "mistake", telling BBC Scotland that had huge sympathy for those affected by the attack, but that: "We should not be giving in to terrorism, and I believe we've done that".
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham was also unhappy with the decision - but was later said to agree entirely after learning the full details of the London attack.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had been expected to win the backing of a majority of MSPs for her plan to ask the UK government for a section 30 order, which would be needed to hold a legally-binding referendum on independence.
The UK government has already said it will block the move, and will not enter into any negotiations until after the Brexit process has been completed.
An increased police presence could be seen in and around the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood on Wednesday afternoon.
An email to MSPs, staff and Holyrood pass-holders from the Scottish Parliament chief executive's office said: "While there is no intelligence to suggest there is a specific threat to Scotland, Edinburgh or Holyrood, we have increased security with immediate effect at the Scottish Parliament as a precaution."
Police vehicles were seen outside the parliament building, with a spokesman for Police Scotland saying the force was "liaising with colleagues in London and will ensure appropriate safety and security plans are in place based upon what we know".
Homeless people had been camping at Martin Place in central Sydney for more than six months.
State legislators argued the camp was unauthorised and compromised public safety. They granted police powers to remove the tents, but residents began leaving pre-emptively on Friday.
Some said they had nowhere to go.
The man dubbed the unofficial "mayor" of the tent city, Lanz Priestly, said some people would go to "friends' places" or "friends' backyards", but others had no such option.
Debate over what to do with the camp had dragged on for months amid a political dispute between the New South Wales state government and Sydney City Council.
It also generated wider discussion about homelessness in Sydney, which has the second-worst housing affordability in the world, according to one study.
On Wednesday, the state passed new legislation giving police authority to remove those deemed to be obstructing the area. The law came into effect on Friday.
"Homelessness is a major challenge in our community and I am proud of our government's record to help our most vulnerable and of course there is more to do," New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said in a statement earlier this week.
"However we will not let protesters play political games with those in genuine need of support."
Mr Priestly said authorities were not taking the issue of homelessness seriously.
"They are not looking at the people - they are looking at the tents," he told Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
More than 105,000 people are homeless in the nation, according to Homelessness Australia.
It's the first time the pound coin has been changed in more than 30 years.
The old coin became a problem as they were easily illegally copied which meant that lots of worthless pound coins have been in circulation.
The new coin was announced in 2014 and the Royal Mint, who create the coins, said that this one will be "the most secure coin in the world" making the pound coins harder to illegally copy.
The new coins look a lot different to the old ones but that's not the best bit.
It has a picture like a hologram that changes from a '£' symbol to the number '1' when the coin is seen from different angles with all sorts of added extras to the way the coin looks.
There is even a hidden high-security feature built into the coin to protect it from being illegally copied but the details haven't been made public.
The design on the 'tails' side of the coin features four emblems to represent each of the nations of the United Kingdom - the English rose, the leek for Wales, the Scottish thistle, and the shamrock for Northern Ireland - emerging from a single stem within a crown.
It was based on artwork by 15-year-old David Pearce, who won the competition to design the new coin.
You will still be able to use the round £1 coin until 15th October, after that date they then become worthless.
People will have to swap their old coins for new ones at the bank, so get those coins out of your piggy banks!
It's thought that around a third of the £1.3 billion worth of coins stored in piggy banks or saving jars around the UK, are the current £1 style.
Some of the coins that are returned by the public will be melted down and used to make the new 12-sided version.
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Did all the players do enough to keep their place in Michael O'Neill's team? Or is anyone in danger of dropping to the bench in Lyon?
BBC Sport's Lyle Jackson rates the players as Northern Ireland made a first appearance at a major tournament for 30 years:
Was called into action late in the first half, doing well to beat away a strong shot by Bartosz Kapustka, and couldn't fault him on Arkadiusz Milik's goal. Hasn't conceded more than one goal in any of his 12 appearances.
Deserves a lot of credit for making the leap from League One with Fleetwood Town to playing on the Euro 2016 stage. Many did not expect him to start, but he justified his inclusion.
Played his part in an impressive Northern Ireland defensive display, which blunted the threat posed by Europe's leading marksman, Robert Lewandowski. An ever-present in qualifying, he didn't hide his disappointment at the end.
The Watford man also contributed to keeping Lewandowski at bay. Picked up a 69th-minute yellow card for bringing down the Bayern Munich danger man.
Perhaps the most accomplished of Northern Ireland's defenders, making some important interceptions during a busy opening spell when Poland were piling forward. The 28-year-old's experience in big matches shone through on his 50th appearance.
Grew into the game after looking exposed in the early stages. Moved out of defence into a deep midfield role after the break but was replaced by substitute Conor Washington.
Having appeared in every match of Northern Ireland's 12-match unbeaten run, he covered plenty of ground and it would be 10 out of 10 for effort.
A solid, unfussy contribution from the experienced Derby County man. Put in a huge shift for the cause, operating just in front of the defensive unit.
Wasn't the young Manchester United player's day as he struggled to see much of the ball. When manager Michael O'Neill opted to change tactics at half-time, McNair was replaced by Stuart Dallas.
The one midfielder who always seemed to have time on the ball, even when Northern Ireland were seriously under pressure. He is a class act and almost grabbed an equaliser, just failing to get on the end of Oliver Norwood's clever free-kick late on.
Showed no signs of the groin injury he had sustained earlier in the week. The lone front man was energetic but suffered from a lack of support as NI failed to mount dangerous attacks.
Looked good when he came on for McNair at the start of the second half. The Leeds United midfielder may have been disappointed not to start, but has staked a serious claim for inclusion against Ukraine on Thursday.
Provided overdue support for Lafferty and helped Northern Ireland produce an improved performance in the final quarter of the match. If O'Neill goes with two strikers against Ukraine, expect to see the Queens Park Rangers forward in the starting line-up.
Came on for the last 15 minutes as Northern Ireland attempted to find an equaliser, but didn't manage a telling contribution in the limited time he had.
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David Roache, who was convicted in 2002 of murdering John Kelly, died at HMP Low Moss, near Bishopbriggs on Saturday.
Police Scotland have been advised of the death and the matter will be reported to the procurator fiscal.
The SPS said that the prisoner's next of kin had been informed and that a fatal accident inquiry may be held.
The Pole, whose right arm was partially severed in a rally accident in 2011, has driven Mercedes' F1 simulator.
Motorsports boss Toto Wolff told BBC Sport Kubica was "helping" Mercedes.
"If there's any chance of getting him back in a DTM touring car or F1 cockpit, we'd love to do it," said Wolff.
"Any team would love to have a Robert Kubica."
But Wolff, also the executive director of the Mercedes F1 team, emphasised that the former BMW and Renault driver was focusing mainly this year on his programme in the European Rally Championship.
"He is somebody I have known for 10 years but it's absolutely his call how he wants to help us and his main focus is rallying," said Wolff.
"This is where he wants to be successful and what he wants to do in the future."
Kubica, 28, is competing in rallying this season as he continues his recovery from the injuries that forced him out of F1 ahead of the 2011 season.
The Pole, who was one of the most highly regarded stars in F1, is undergoing regular rehabilitation on his right arm, which still does not have full movement.
Kubica posted competitive lap times earlier this year in a Mercedes DTM (German touring car championship) car - during a test arranged by Wolff - and admitted at the weekend that he had been in the Mercedes F1 simulator.
BBC Sport understands the door is open for Kubica to continue to use the Mercedes simulator should he wish to do so.
Kubica has made no secret of the fact that he wants to return to F1 eventually, assuming he can recover sufficient movement in his right arm to allow him to operate an F1 car within the tight confines of its cockpit.
"There is no guarantee I will or will not come back to F1," he told Autosport magazine on last weekend's Rally Azores.
He added: "Unfortunately, my F1, not career, but my F1 story got interrupted, so I found rallying was my best option to slowly come back. For this year, it was what I was looking for."
Kubica's former team Lotus, which changed its name from Renault ahead of the 2012 season, have also made it clear they would welcome Kubica back.
And Ferrari have in the past made no secret of their admiration for his skills.
But the fact Kubica is now being given access to the Mercedes simulator - one of any F1 team's most closely guarded secrets - suggests they would be his number one option should he recover sufficiently to allow him to race in the sport again.
The Super Eagles were toothless in front of goal in the first leg, which ended 0-0, and needed 52 minutes of the return game to make the breakthrough.
Moses Simon fired them ahead, finally ending the resistance of a team they were expected to sweep aside.
A second goal was added by Efe Ambrose on 88 minutes before Swaziland had Phumlani Dlamini sent off when he was shown a second yellow card.
Another of the continent's heavyweights, Ghana, secured their passage in very similar fashion to Nigeria.
Having been held 0-0 to Comoros in the first leg, the Black Stars hit two goals without reply in the return match to go through 2-0 on aggregate.
Wakaso Mubarak grabbed the opener and Aston Villa's Jordan Ayew added the second late on.
And just as Swaziland ended their match with 10 men, so too did Comoros when Omar Mdahoma received a second yellow card with eight minutes remaining.
Egypt made the most of Chad's late arrival to win easily 4-0 to go through 4-1 on aggregate.
Chad only arrived at the Borg Al Arab stadium in 30 minutes before kick-off.
This after their flight from N'Djamena was delayed due to a row over player bonuses and then the condition of the plane they were using for the journey.
The Pharaoh's were 2-0 up inside 10 minutes with goals from Mohamed El Neny and then Abdalallah El Saied.
Portugal based Koka then headed home twice in the space of five minutes before half-time to put the game beyond doubt.
Cape Verde, fourth in the Fifa rankings for Africa, beat Kenya 2-0 to overturn a first leg loss and win 3-2 on aggregate.
Heldon Ramos, who is on loan at Portguese side Rio Ave, with both goals for the Blue Sharks.
Kenya had only arrived in Praia hours before the match after a lengthy flight from Nairobi following a delayed departure as players and the charter airline demanded to be paid before they would take off.
Mali were another side to overcome a first leg deficit winning 2-0 against visiting Botswana to make 3-2 overall.
Bordeaux's Cheick Diabate made it 2-2 on aggregate with a penalty after only 10 minutes of play Bakary Sako of Crystal Palace, gave the Eagles lead on the half hour mark.
Senegal were pushed all the way in the first leg by Madagascar but were better at home in Dakar with a 3-0 victory to make it 4-2 overall.
West Ham midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate gave the hosts the lead midway through the first-half with Moussa Konate scoring the second eight minutes after the break.
Mame Biram Diouf, who scored in the first leg, made sure of the win with eight minutes remaining.
Tunisia eased past Mauritania with a second 2-1 win, to make it 4-2 overall.
Defender Syam Ben Youssef gave the hosts the lead early in the second half before Moulaye Ahmed 'Bessam' Khalil gave Mauritania hope with an equaliser.
Substitute Saad Bguir, who plays for local club Esperance, sealed the victory for the hosts.
African champions Ivory Coast were convincing 3-0 winners over Liberia in Abidjan to complete a 4-0 aggregate win.
Striker Giovanni Sio, who plays for Rennes in France, scored twice before half-time.
While Nice midfielder Jean Michel Seri was also on target for the Elephants.
Burkina Faso overturned a first leg deficit against Benin with a 2-0 victory in Ouagadougou.
Jonathan Pitroipa was on target from the penalty spot before Chelsea's Bertrand Traore completed the comeback and send the Burkinabe through 3-2 on aggregate.
Algeria crushed 10-man Tanzania 7-0 in Blida with Porto's Yacine Brahimi scoring as early as the first minute.
Napoli's Faouzi Ghoulam then scored the first of his two goals with a superb freekick from outside the area, he also scored from the penalty spot after the break.
Tanzania had to play the whole of the second half with 10 men after Mudathir Yahya was dismissed for a second bookable offence after 41 minutes.
Moments later Riyad Mahrez, of Leicester City, made it 3-0 at half-time.
Islam Slimani, who scored the goals to secure a 2-2 draw in the first leg, grabbed another brace in the second half including a penalty.
Carl Medjani was also on the scoresheet as the Algerians won 9-2 on aggregate.
South Africa needed an own goal to earn a narrow 1-0 win over visiting Angola in Durban.
Manucho Diniz was the unfortunate player who got the last touch on a corner to give Bafana Bafana the 4-1 aggregate win.
Libya were the first team on Tuesday to book their place in the next round after a 3-1 win in Rwanda gave them a 4-1 aggregate victory.
Khumaj put the visitors ahead in the second leg to put them in control of the tie.
Rwanda's Jacques Tuyisenge made it 1-1 on the day and offered his side some hope of a comeback but Libya pulled away thanks to a brace from Mohamed Ghanudi.
And Cameroon are through, despite being held to a 0-0 draw at home to Niger. The Indomitable Lions secured their passage in the first leg with a 3-0 win.
Congo finally emerged victorious after a fantastic tussle with Ethiopia, the Red Devils winning their second leg 2-1 to go through 6-4 on aggregate.
Ethiopia's Getaneh Kebede scored the opening goal of the second leg to level the tie at 4-4 on aggregate.
But Francis N'Ganga nudged Congo ahead overall when he made it 1-1 on the day and Thievy Bifouma's strike sealed his side's victory.
The final group stage begins next October, the 20 second-round qualifiers will form five groups of four teams with the winners of each group booking their place at the finals in Russia.
England host Malta on Saturday (17:00 BST) and visit Slovenia on Tuesday (19:45 BST) in World Cup qualifiers.
The Everton veteran's withdrawal from Gareth Southgate's first squad as interim boss increases the chances of a debut for Burnley's Michael Keane.
Keane, 23, was added to the squad after Glen Johnson also withdrew through injury.
Southgate called up winger Andros Townsend on Monday as a replacement for the injured Raheem Sterling.
But he has no immediate plans to call up a replacement for Jagielka.
Chelsea defender Gary Cahill missed training at England's St George's Park base on Friday with a sort throat but is expected to be fit to face Malta.
The injury to Jagielka is not thought to be serious with Everton's captain expected to be fit for the his side's trip to Premier League leaders Manchester City next Saturday.
England are behind Group F leaders Scotland on goal difference following a 1-0 win in Slovakia last month under former boss Sam Allardyce, who lost his job after just 67 days in charge.
Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Southampton), Joe Hart (Torino, on loan from Manchester City), Tom Heaton (Burnley)
Defenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Michael Keane (Burnley), Danny Rose (Tottenham), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kyle Walker (Tottenham)
Midfielders: Eric Dier (Tottenham), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Michail Antonio (West Ham), Jesse Lingard (Manchester United), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Dele Alli (Tottenham), Andros Townsend (Crystal Palace)
Strikers: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester)
The Met Office says cold weather will continue throughout Thursday and it will remain very cold until the beginning of next week.
The wintry weather gave snowboarders a chance to take to the heights of Divis Mountain in Belfast.
Many parts of Belfast were affected by the snow, particularly those on higher ground. Stevie Anderson's picture shows Woodvale Park at first light on Thursday morning.
The winter sun rises over the Glenshane Pass, as BBC cameraman Peter Jones captured this morning.
In Ballynure, Country Antrim, the snow made driving conditions difficult when several inches fell overnight.
Many parts of east Antrim experienced heavy snow and disruption, but it also gave Bob Farmbrough the opportunity to photograph the snow lying on the trees overlooking Carrickfergus.
Fields in Boardmills, County Down, were also covered with snow, as Dennis Sheridan's picture shows.
The snow also covered the peaks of the Mourne mountains, as this picture by Lauren Harte shows, taken from Newcastle.
BBC News reporter Julian Fowler took this image while filming, showing parts of the Clogher Valley in County Tyrone covered with snow.
The Met Office issued an amber weather warning for snow, which started falling on Wednesday evening. This picture by Philip Palmer was taken just under Dromore viaduct in County Down.
The judge indicated that the confiscation order could force Hayes to sell his family's home.
The Serious Fraud Office had targeted more than £2m of his assets, but described the order as "substantial".
Last year Hayes was jailed for 11 years for manipulating the Libor rate.
He was convicted an eight counts of conspiracy to defraud while working for UBS and Citigroup during the period between 2006 and 2010.
In his court ruling judge Judge Jeremy Cooke said: "I am satisfied that the defendant is unable to pay the full amount immediately and therefore order that whatever cannot be paid immediately to be paid within 3 months."
He added that if Hayes could only pay off the amount by selling his house, then the court could extend that deadline.
The court order identified several items that could used to pay off the order, including:
If Hayes fails to meet the terms of the confiscation order, then he faces another three years in jail.
Hayes's trading activities were based on Libor - the London interbank offered rate - an interest rate used by banks around the world to set the price of financial products worth trillions of pounds.
The ability to organise even minor movements in the rate had the potential to generate bumper profits for a trader.
During Hayes's trial, jurors were told that he promised to pay a broker up to $100,000 to keep the Libor rate "as low as possible".
The court heard that manipulating the Libor rate was so commonplace that an offer of a Mars bar could get it changed.
In January six City brokers were cleared of helping Hayes rig Libor.
Commenting on today's court order, Mark Thompson, head of the SFO's Proceeds of Crime Division, said: "The court acknowledged the challenges of quantifying the benefit from crime in this case.
"The SFO provided the court with all the available information and the outcome is a substantial confiscation order, which Mr Hayes will need to satisfy or face a further period of imprisonment."
Shi, a representative of Fosun, will move to the West Midlands next month to be involved on a "day-to-day basis".
He led negotiations on behalf of Fosun, which led to their £45m takeover of Wolves from Steve Morgan in July 2016.
"I think this will help us to work together even closer, and make our leadership team stronger," said Shi.
"Since Fosun became owners of the club, I have travelled over from China on several occasions, and it has always been a strong intention that I would relocate when the time was right.
"Despite the season having its highs and lows, I have enjoyed every minute of the challenge so far, and I believe we are well placed to make sustained and consistent progress over the next 12 months."
Wolves, who finished 15th in the Championship last season, have had four managers in less than a year under Fosun, with former Porto and Valencia boss Nuno Espirito Santo appointed last month.
She has left her job as human resource development minister, but will remain in the cabinet as textiles minister.
Mr Modi has also inducted 19 new ministers in his government in a bid to improve efficiency.
The new ministers, including former journalist MJ Akbar and MP Arjun Ram Meghwal, were sworn-in on Tuesday.
Ms Irani has been replaced by former environment minister Prakash Javadekar.
Senior cabinet ministers - Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar - have retained their posts.
Ms Irani's critics often accused her of bringing right-wing ideas to India's education system - allegations she always denied.
But under her watch, several universities witnessed protests from students over issues of discrimination and freedom of speech.
Twitter users were divided over the news, some praised Ms Irani for her work but others felt relieved that she had been removed from the education ministry.
Some who were happy with the change tweeted using the #ByeByeSmriti:
Meanwhile, the inclusion of three new ministers from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh is seen as an attempt to boost Mr Modi's party's chances of winning state elections due in 2017.
The government now has 13 ministers from India's most populous state.
Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 73 out of 80 seats in the 2014 general election and it is hoping for a big win in next year's assembly polls.
The state has been ruled by regional parties for the past 15 years.
Correspondents say that Mr Modi will expect his new ministers to promote his policies in Uttar Pradesh to attract voters.
This weekend saw only one team below the Premier League left unbeaten, two League One clubs joining forces to protest against their owners and another not quite hitting the spot on social media.
Here are five stories you may have missed from Saturday's EFL action.
It is very rare new managers are appointed mid-season because things are looking rosy.
A change of gaffer is a chance to provide fresh impetus, improve results and, hopefully, change the overall course of a season. Step forward Neil Warnock, Steve McClaren and Steve Bruce.
Warnock's Cardiff side had lost six of their past seven before Friday night's 2-1 victory over Bristol City, while McClaren's return to Derby County saw a 1-0 win over Leeds United.
In the West Midlands derby, former Birmingham City boss Bruce's Aston Villa could not make it a clean sweep as they drew 1-1 with Wolves.
Still, I'm sure all three chairmen will be happy - for now.
The game at Villa Park was arguably the biggest derby in the EFL this weekend - but there were also a couple you might be less familiar with.
In Greater Manchester, the 'M66 derby' is named after the stretch of motorway that separates Rochdale and Bury, and on Saturday Dale won a sixth game in a row as they came out on top 2-0 at home.
In League Two, two late goals in the so-called 'Dockyard derby' between Plymouth and Portsmouth saw it finish 2-2 at Home Park.
And, back to Friday, and Warnock's first game was also his first 'Severnside derby', which is what games between Cardiff City and Bristol City are called. So there you go, pub quiz fans.
We're now two months into the season and, with most clubs having played 13 league matches so far, only one EFL team remains unbeaten - League Two's Carlisle United.
Bradford City and the Cumbrians both went into the weekend as the only sides without a defeat, but the Bantams lost at Oxford United, leaving Keith Curle's side standing proud after they beat Hartlepool United 3-2.
Carlisle are third after their win, four points behind leaders Plymouth, with a record of six wins and seven draws.
The only time they have tasted defeat so far in the 2016-17 campaign was their EFL Cup second-round exit to Derby, when they lost 14-13 on penalties.
In a show of solidarity between two sets of fans unhappy with their clubs' ownership, Charlton Athletic and Coventry City supporters united on a protest march before their game at The Valley.
Addicks followers are unhappy with the way owner Roland Duchatelet and chief executive Katrien Meire are running their club, with Sky Blues fans taking issue with the way club owners Sisu are handling matters affecting their team.
After the march, the game was stopped for five minutes as plastic toy pigs had to be cleared from the pitch, having been thrown on by both sets of supporters.
Protests continued throughout the match, which Charlton won 3-0 to leave them 15th, with Coventry bottom of League One.
Social media can be a wonderful tool to connect with people all over the world.
Football clubs use it for behind-the-scenes footage, live coverage throughout games and also for team news as soon as it is announced.
However, Burton Albion's post revealing their substitutes' bench for their Championship game at Wigan Athletic was not the easiest to digest...
White font on yellow background - not the best choice?
The tweet was shared numerous times as Saturday progressed and the graphic got quite the treatment when it came to being reviewed.
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Speaking in London, he said: "Take a longer, more optimistic view of history."
Earlier, the US president visited the Globe theatre and watched actors perform scenes from Hamlet.
It came a day after he said Britain would be at "the back of the queue" for US trade deals if it left the EU.
His comments angered Leave campaigners. UKIP leader Nigel Farage accused him of doing Downing Street's "bidding" and "talking down Britain" and Tory Liam Fox said his views were "irrelevant".
Following his appearance at Lindley Hall in London, Mr Obama met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Mr Corbyn said he had had an "excellent" discussion with the president on issues including the challenges facing post-industrial societies, the power of global corporations, technology, inequality, poverty, and "very briefly" the subject of Europe.
Taking questions from young people at the earlier town-hall event, Mr Obama said change takes time.
"If any of you begin to work on an issue that you care deeply about, don't be disappointed if a year out things haven't been completely solved," he said.
"Don't give up and succumb to cynicism if after five years poverty has not been eradicated and prejudice is still out there somewhere and we haven't resolved all of the steps we need to take to reverse climate change."
Progress is "not inevitable" but must be fought for over the long term, he said.
Mr Obama said it was "inspiring" meeting young people, which "gives [him] new ideas".
Asked about security and attitudes to Muslims, he said keeping people safe and preventing terrorist attacks in the US and UK was "one of our biggest challenges".
The US president said there was "a tiny subset of groups that have perverted Islam" and our "greatest allies" in tackling extremism in the US were those "Muslim Americans who are historically fully integrated in our society".
He said Islamophobia was not only wrong but "as a practical matter... self-defeating behaviour if we are serious about terrorism".
Being careful with language used in relation to Muslims and respecting people's faiths were "security matters, not just feel-good, liberal political correctness", he said.
Mr Obama also praised Prime Minister David Cameron for being "ahead of the curve" on LGBT rights issues.
He said the campaign for marriage equality in the US and elsewhere had "probably been the fastest set of changes in terms of a social movement that [he'd] seen".
Asked about his legacy as president, Mr Obama said he would not have a sense until 10 years from now.
But he added: "I'll look at a scorecard at the end... I think that I have been true to myself."
He mentioned changes he had made to the US healthcare system: "That's something I'm proud of," he said.
"And saving the world economy from a great depression, that was pretty good."
Asked about skills in dealing with political opponents and finding common ground, Mr Obama said: "If you spend time with people who just agree with you, you become even more extreme in your convictions.
"Seek out people who don't agree with you. That will teach you to compromise.
"Compromise does not mean surrendering what you believe."
Mr Obama's comments came on the second full day of his three-day visit to the UK, and weeks ahead of the 23 June in-out referendum.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Mr Cameron on Friday, Mr Obama said the US "wants Britain's influence to grow - including within Europe".
"The UK is at its best when it's helping to lead a strong European Union. It leverages UK power to be part of the EU.
"I don't think the EU moderates British influence in the world, it magnifies it."
The university says new legislation proposed by the right-wing Fidesz government on Tuesday night makes it impossible for it to function.
The CEU's founder, philanthropist George Soros, has a strained relationship with the PM Viktor Orban.
But the government says it supports the university and does not want it to go.
Education Secretary Laszlo Palkovics said the proposed legislation followed a review of 28 foreign universities operating in Hungary, including the CEU in Budapest.
"This is not an anti-CEU investigation and not against Mr Soros," he said.
The Hungary-born billionaire founded the university in 1991 and continues to fund it.
He wanted the CEU to be a bastion of liberal thought and promote the values of an open society and democracy.
But the university appears to have become the latest target in a campaign by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government against liberal values.
The government says the CEU and other foreign-funded universities are operating outside the law, and that the new legislation aims to create a new legal footing.
The CEU, established and registered in New York State, is an independent, private university for masters and PhD students from more than 100 countries.
If approved by parliament, the law would mean the university can only continue working if an intergovernmental agreement between US President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is signed, and if the university establishes a campus in the US by February next year.
The first is unlikely - both Mr Trump and Mr Orban are sworn enemies of Mr Soros. The second is physically impossible.
Twenty-seven other foreign universities will be affected by the legislation, Education Secretary Laszlo Palkovics told the BBC, and all must abide by the new law.
Only the CEU has no campus in its home country, the US.
But CEU Rector Michael Ignatieff says the university is fully legal and the new law has been designed to disable it.
"We will defend our achievements vigorously against anyone who seeks to defame our work in the eyes of the Hungarian people," he said.
The new rules would force the CEU to change its name, set up a campus in New York, change its curriculum and become subservient to both the US and Hungarian governments.
Protesting staff and students are now seeking the support of other universities, both in Hungary and worldwide.
It comes at a time of deteriorating relations between US President Donald Trump and Mr Soros, who recently described the new occupant of the White House as "an imposter, a [political] conman and a would-be dictator".
Relations between Mr Soros and Mr Orban - a keen supporter of the US president - also became strained when Mr Orban accused him of wanting a role in Hungarian politics and supporting the influx of migrants into Europe.
Mr Orban recently claimed Hungary was "under siege" from asylum seekers.
The prime minister won a scholarship sponsored by Mr Soros to study at Oxford university and the pair were allies in the days immediately following the fall of communism.
But with the two now at loggerheads, NGOs partially funded by Mr Soros' Open Society Foundation are under pressure to close in Hungary.
A three-year ban is in place on killing fish outside estuary limits with strict controls on numbers in inland waters.
The Annan Common Good Fund holds the rights to traditional fishing methods such as haaf, poke and stake netting in much of the area.
It has estimated the annual cost of the regulations is nearly £17,000 and hopes to reclaim it from Marine Scotland.
The new regulations have sparked concerns for the future of some of the historic fishing methods used in the waters off Dumfries and Galloway.
When they were introduced the Scottish government said it was aware of the "cultural importance" of haaf netting.
Now the Annan Common Good Fund is being asked to submit a compensation claim for the losses it believes it will incur.
It is also being asked to agree take part in scientific research which will allow some salmon to be caught.
It claimed on Monday, in an article published on its English-language website, that censors had deleted an interview on the issue of free speech.
But by Tuesday evening that article appeared to have been deleted as well.
Chinese media is heavily regulated with government censors often removing content on websites and social media.
Caixin's latest article, which is now offline but still available to read as a cached version online, reported that the "government censorship organ" the Cyberspace Administration of China had deleted an interview on its Chinese-language site on 5 March.
The interview was with Jiang Hong, a delegate from the advisory Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, who said members should be allowed to speak freely, but because of "certain events, everyone is a bit dazed and doesn't want to talk too much".
Caixin, in its Monday article, said that editors were told the interview had "illegal content" and "violated laws and regulations". It also quoted Mr Jiang's reaction to the deletion as "terrible and bewildering... I couldn't see anything illegal."
Beijing-based Caixin is widely respected in China, and is known for its financial reporting and investigative journalism.
The move comes after last month's tour of state media outlets by President Xi Jinping. It was widely seen as confirmation of his desire to bring journalists to heel and to stamp out what his government derides as dangerous "Western values" such as freedom of expression, correspondents say.
In 2015, China was the world's top jailer of journalists with a record 49 reporters behind bars, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists., and Freedom House has ranked the country as the world's worst abuser of internet freedom.
The midfielder took a kick to the foot but Arsene Wenger said it was just a "precautionary" measure.
Leicester's Wes Morgan is out with a hamstring injury while Nampalys Mendy's season is over following an ankle operation.
Robert Huth is back after a Champions League ban, but Islam Slimani remains sidelined with a groin injury.
Simon Brotherton: "I love that picture of Arsene Wenger celebrating at the weekend as his team beat Manchester City at Wembley - an intense release of joy and relief and a rare moment for him to truly enjoy in a turbulent campaign.
"Wenger's reorganised defensive strategy seems to be working and a rejuvenated Arsenal will be put to the test both here and in the North London derby at the weekend.
"Leicester haven't won any of the last 20 league meetings against the Gunners but have won five of the last seven league matches under Craig Shakespeare, and are more than capable of making a game of this encounter."
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "It looks like we will [have to win all our remaining games to finish in the top four]. That has to be the target and to achieve that we have to win the next one [against Leicester].
"We have to take the energy level we showed on Sunday into the Premier League."
Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare: "I'm not sure how many points it will take [to avoid relegation] and the weekend proved that. Teams are capable of winning games and putting points on the board.
"We have to make sure we look after our own club. You are not sure what's round the corner."
"Seeing the Arsenal [FA Cup semi-final] match, it didn't look like turmoil to me. There were players fighting and they thoroughly deserved the win in the end, even though it was a close game."
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The 19-year-old centre-half becomes the third defensive signing made by interim manager Rob Page inside a fortnight.
Bournemouth loan man Stephane Zubar made his Vale debut in Tuesday night's 3-2 Johnstone's Paint trophy defeat, while West Bromwich Albion youngster Reiss Greenidge is yet to figure.
Vale, who are yet to keep a clean sheet this season, are likely to give Streete his debut on Saturday against Yeovil.
Streete, who has signed for an initial month, has been watched by Page and chairman Norman Smurthwaite several times in recent weeks for Newcastle's under-21s.
Its name is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, originating as it did in 1987 after the beginning of the first intifada, or Palestinian uprising, against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
It originally had a dual purpose of carrying out an armed struggle against Israel - led by its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades - and delivering social welfare programmes.
But since 2005, it has also engaged in the Palestinian political process, becoming the first Islamist group in the Arab world to win election through the ballot box (before reinforcing its power in Gaza by ousting its Fatah rivals).
Hamas as a whole, or in some cases its military wing, is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the US, EU, and UK, as well as other powers. Under its charter, the group is committed to the destruction of Israel.
To its supporters, though, Hamas is seen as a legitimate resistance movement.
In May 2017, the group published a new policy document for the first time since its founding. It declared a willingness to accept an interim Palestinian state within pre-1967 boundaries, without recognising Israel, and did not repeat the anti-Jewish language of its charter.
The text was seen as an effort by Hamas to soften its image, though the group made clear it did not replace the charter.
In 2006, Hamas won a stunning victory in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections, but tensions with the rival Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas heightened.
Deadly clashes between Fatah and Hamas erupted in Gaza in June 2007, after which Hamas set up a rival government, leaving Fatah and the PA running parts of the West Bank not under Israeli control.
Israel held Hamas responsible for all attacks emanating from the Gaza Strip, and has carried out three major military campaigns in Gaza - Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, Operation Pillar of Defence in November 2012, and Operation Protective Edge in July 2014.
The offensives were preceded by escalations in cross-border fighting, with scores of rocket attacks from Gaza, and air strikes against it by Israel.
Hamas emerged from the 2008 and 2012 conflicts militarily degraded but with renewed support among Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for having confronted Israel and survived.
The group nevertheless continued to struggle under the joint blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, and became increasingly isolated after falling out with regional powers in the wake of the Arab Spring. The overthrow in July 2013 of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a key ally, was a further blow.
In April 2014, Hamas agreed a reconciliation deal with Fatah that led to the formation a national unity government, but it has never been fully implemented.
Hamas came to prominence after the first intifada as the main Palestinian opponent of the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Despite numerous Israeli operations against it and clampdowns by the Palestinian Authority, Hamas found it had an effective power of veto over the process by launching suicide attacks.
In February and March 1996, it carried out several suicide bus bombings, killing nearly 60 Israelis, in retaliation for the assassination in December 1995 of Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash.
The bombings were widely blamed for turning Israelis off the peace process and bringing Benjamin Netanyahu - a staunch opponent of the Oslo accords - to power.
In the post-Oslo world, most particularly following the failure of US President Bill Clinton's Camp David summit in 2000 and the second intifada which followed shortly thereafter, Hamas gained power and influence as Israel clamped down on the Palestinian Authority, which it accused of sponsoring deadly attacks.
Hamas organised clinics and schools, which served Palestinians who felt let down by the corrupt and inefficient Palestinian Authority, dominated by the Fatah faction.
Many Palestinians cheered the wave of Hamas suicide attacks in the first years of the second intifada.
They saw "martyrdom" operations as avenging their own losses and Israel's settlement building in the West Bank, wanted by Palestinians as part of their own state.
After the death of Fatah leader Yasser Arafat in 2004, the Palestinian Authority was taken over by Mahmoud Abbas.
He viewed Hamas rocket fire as counter-productive, inflicting relatively little damage on Israel but provoking a harsh response by the Israeli military.
When Hamas scored a landslide victory in 2006, the stage was set for a bitter power-struggle with Fatah.
Hamas resisted all efforts to get it to sign up to previous Palestinian agreements with Israel, as well as to recognise Israel's legitimacy and to renounce violence.
Hamas's charter defines historic Palestine - including present-day Israel - as Islamic land and it rules out any permanent peace with the Jewish state.
The charter also repeatedly makes attacks on Jews as a people, drawing charges that the movement is anti-Semitic.
Hamas has, however, offered a 10-year truce in return for a complete Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967: the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
It insists though that millions of Palestinian refugees stemming from the 1948 war must be allowed to return to homes in what became Israel - a move that would threaten Israel's very existence.
Over the years Hamas has lost many members in Israeli assassinations and security sweeps:
After the death of Sheikh Yassin, Khaled Meshaal became the group's political leader in exile. He was succeeded by Gaza-based Ismail Haniya in May 2017.
Hamas's decision to stand in elections in 2006 was a major departure for the movement.
The new government was subjected to tough economic and diplomatic sanctions by Israel and its allies in the West.
After Hamas ousted Fatah from Gaza in 2007, Israel tightened its blockade on the territory, and rocket-fire and Israeli counter-raids continued.
In December that year, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead - a 22-day offensive aimed, Israel said, at halting rocket attacks from Gaza. More than 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.
Israel cited the same reason for Pillar of Defence in 2012- which began with an air strike that killed Ahmed Jabari, the Qassam Brigades commander. Some 170 Palestinians - mostly civilians - and six Israelis died in the eight-day conflict.
Palestinian sources say Hamas largely tried to maintain calm after the conflict ended, with the Qassam Brigades not joining in the rocket attacks on Israel.
But Hamas also did not move to halt the rocket fire altogether, apparently because it was concerned that Palestinians would see it as less committed to fighting Israel than rival militant groups, particularly Islamic Jihad.
Rocket fire increased in mid-June 2014 when Israel arrested many Hamas members across the West Bank while searching for three murdered Israeli teenagers.
Then on 7 July, Hamas claimed responsibility for firing rockets at Israel for the first time since 2012, and Hamas and Israel became embroiled in the most intensive fighting for months.
The fighting ended after 50 days with a ceasefire. At least 2,189 Palestinians were killed, including more than 1,486 civilians, according to the UN. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers were killed along with the six civilians.
US President Barack Obama said "energy is obviously a central focus of our efforts", acknowledging it "will have some impact on the global economy".
He was speaking after talks in Brussels with EU leaders.
In a keynote speech later, he said Russians "will recognise that they cannot achieve security, prosperity and status... through brute force".
"That's why, throughout this crisis, we will combine our substantial pressure on Russia with an open door for diplomacy," he told an audience at the end of his visit to Brussels.
Tensions are high between the West and Russia after Ukraine's southern peninsula of Crimea was annexed by Russian forces earlier this month after a referendum which Kiev and its Western allies considered illegal.
Mr Obama, along with EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barosso, stressed EU and US unity on the issue of Ukraine.
"The world is safer and more just when Europe and America stand as one," Mr Obama said. Mr Van Rompuy called it a "crucial" relationship.
Mr Obama praised the 28-nation EU bloc for the steps it had already taken - along with the US - to penalise Russia. These have included visa bans and asset freezes against a number of Russian officials.
He said those actions were taken after Russian forces moved in to annex Crimea, and they now must consider "the potential for additional, deeper sanctions" should Moscow attempt to do the same in other parts of Ukraine.
"We recognise that in order for Russia to feel the impact of these sanctions, it will have some impact on the global economy as well as on all the countries represented here today," Mr Obama said.
Acknowledging that some EU countries were more dependent than others on Russia for energy, he said "this entire event has pointed to the need for Europe to look at how it can further diversify its energy sources".
And he said Nato must remain a "regular presence" in those eastern European countries which feel vulnerable to possible Russian intervention. He also voiced concern at the falling defence budgets of some countries.
Mr Van Rompuy called Russia's actions in Crimea "a disgrace in the 21st Century, and we will not recognise it".
Pro-Russian forces began moving it to take key sites in Crimea days after Ukraine's pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted. He left power following months of bloody protests over his decision to seek greater ties with Moscow rather than the EU.
This is Mr Obama's first official visit to the EU headquarters in Brussels.
He began his trip to Belgium with a visit to a cemetery in Flanders, where US soldiers killed in World War One are buried.
He paid tribute to fallen US soldiers at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Waregem, to mark 100 years since the start of WW1. Belgian King Philippe and Prime Minister Elio di Rupo were also in attendance.
Mr Obama's talks with Mr Van Rompuy and Mr Barroso also covered plans to finalise a transatlantic trade partnership, as well as efforts to tackle Iran's nuclear programme and Syria's chemical weapons.
He then met Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen before delivering his keynote speech in Brussels' Palace of Fine Art.
The president flew in on Tuesday evening from the Dutch city of The Hague where he attended a summit on nuclear security with other world leaders.
Security is high in the Belgian capital, with police cordoning off areas near the EU headquarters and Mr Obama's hotel.
Some extra 800 police officers have been deployed on Brussels' streets for the duration of Mr Obama's visit.
In total, Belgium has spent 10m euros (£8.35m) on increased security.
The US president will stay in Brussels for less than 24 hours before travelling to Rome for a meeting with Pope Francis.
Another 37 people were given imprisoned for between three and 35 years.
The attacks, which left 39 foreign nationals and Saudis dead, were part of a campaign by an al-Qaeda offshoot that aimed to destabilise the Gulf kingdom.
The authorities subsequently launched a three-year crackdown on the jihadist group, imprisoning thousands of people.
Although al-Qaeda has since struggled to operate in Saudi Arabia, a number of Saudis formed al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in neighbouring Yemen in 2009 and have become senior operatives.
The five men sentenced to death on Sunday have not been named.
However, the Sabq news website said they had been found guilty of rigging the car bombs used to attack the residential compounds.
The Saudi Gazette newspaper reported that one was a former guard at al-Hayer prison who had "sheltered one of the wanted terrorists" and been involved in a gun battle with police at an apartment complex in 2003.
The Scotland Under-21 international has faced Rovers twice this season, for the Addicks and also on loan at Cardiff.
Watt, 22, began his career at Airdrie before moving to Celtic and has also spent time with Belgian sides Lierse and Standard Liege.
He becomes boss Paul Lambert's fifth signing in the January transfer window.
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People in Scotland pay the price of a local phone call when calling the advice service from a landline, with calls from a mobile often costing more.
The demand for a free service, by Tory health speaker Jackson Carlaw, comes as Westminster moves to introduce a free, one-stop number in England and Wales.
The Scottish government said it was also considering adopting the new, free-to-use 111 number.
NHS Direct - the equivalent service to NHS 24 in England - is gradually being replaced by the 111 service.
It is already operating in many areas south of the border, and is due to be rolled out across England and Wales this year.
When a patient calls 111, an operator - who is trained in the same way as a 999 operator - can send out an ambulance, put someone straight through to a nurse, book an out-of-hours GP appointment, or direct the caller to a pharmacist or dentist.
Operators answering calls to the existing NHS Direct service do not have the capacity to request ambulances or book appointments - and patients also receive a separate call back if they need to speak to a nurse or doctor.
Mr Carlaw said: "The SNP has ignored this issue for more than three years now, while the plans for an improved service have gone full steam ahead down south.
"This will be yet another area in health where patients in Scotland will be literally worse off than people elsewhere in the UK seeking vital health advice.
"Not only would this open up access to medical advice to those who may not have used it before, it could bring a number of other benefits.
"In some areas of England they have innovated very successfully, such as some GP practices allowing the 111 service to book emergency appointments with them."
A petition has also been lodged at the Scottish Parliament asking MSPs to urge the government to make calls for NHS 24 free from mobile phones.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Consideration for the adoption of the 111 number, for access to non-emergency healthcare services in Scotland is currently under way, and we expect to make a positive announcement soon.
"Should it be adopted, this number would replace the existing number for NHS 24 - the two key benefits for patients would be that the number is memorable and would be free to call from both a mobile phone and a landline."
EU foreign ministers in Brussels agreed that democratic reform should pave the way for "fair and free elections".
EU foreign affairs chief Baroness Ashton said talks with the opposition should take place immediately.
"It's absolutely critical that the government engage in open, frank, direct dialogue," she told reporters.
After a seventh day of demonstrations in Egypt, the EU's 27 member states agreed a statement similar to the stance taken by the US, stopping short of demanding Mr Mubarak's resignation or immediate presidential elections.
Diplomats told the BBC News website that they were focused more on Egypt's long term future and that this was not the time to talk about personalities.
Several ministers, including British Foreign Secretary William Hague and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, said it was important that Egypt did not fall into the hands of radicals or extremists.
Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg Foreign Minister, said the EU could not "export revolution" and had to show that it was ready to help organise elections but "not to interfere".
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said he believed that only free and fair elections would bring stability to Egypt.
Speaking after an emergency Cobra meeting, Ms Rudd said "there's always more" that could be done to protect against computer viruses.
She said 97% of NHS trusts were "working as normal" and there was no evidence patient data was affected.
The ransomware attack hit organisations in at least 99 countries.
Europol described it as "unprecedented" and said its cyber-crime team was working with affected countries to "mitigate the threat and assist victims".
Ms Rudd insisted the government had "the right plans" to limit the impact of the attack, which also affected the Nissan car plant in Sunderland.
The Liberal Democrats and Labour have both demanded an inquiry into the cyber-attack.
Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Lord Paddick said "it has left Britain defenceless".
Labour's Jonathan Ashworth also called for a "full, independent inquiry" into the cyber-attack.
As of 21:00 BST on Saturday, the following NHS England trusts were still reporting IT difficulties on their websites:
The 48 NHS trusts affected did not include GP practices. Thirteen NHS bodies were also affected in Scotland.
The Scottish government said most NHS computers were expected to be operational by Monday.
NHS England said patients needing emergency treatment on Saturday evening should go to A&E or access emergency services as they normally would.
However, a small number of non-urgent services may take some time to return to normal. For example, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has already cancelled routine appointments, tests and operations on Monday.
The malware spread quickly on Friday leaving hospitals and GPs unable to access patient data, with many doctors resorting to using pen and paper.
Their computers were locked by a ransomware program which demanded a payment to access blocked files.
Hospitals across the UK were cancelling operations and ambulances had been diverted from hospitals in some areas.
Lynne Owens, head of the National Crime Agency, said: "At this moment in time we don't know whether it's a very sophisticated criminal network or whether it's a number of individuals operating together."
Ron Grimshaw, 80, was halfway through an MRI scan to test for prostate cancer at Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, when staff became aware of the attack.
I got there at 11am, went through the usual formalities. Got my gown on, they put a feed into my wrist to send dye around my blood stream.
I was put in the scanner for 10 minutes and then I was pulled out again.
The nurses were saying something about a cyber-attack meaning their systems were down.
They weren't sure when it was going to start again so I waited for a bit. But it never happened and I went home.
I was meant to have a chest X-ray as well and that was cancelled.
I gave them my mobile number and they said they'd ring me back telling me when to come in.
You've got to sympathise with the nurses as they will have to work extra hours.
It was unbelievable you don't expect to go to hospital in the middle of a cyber-attack. Damn nuisance.
The virus, identified as WannaCry, exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows software first identified by the US National Security Agency, experts have said.
Kingsley Manning, a former chairman of NHS Digital, said the government and the NHS had been "very well aware" that a cyber-attack was a threat and "significant amounts of money" had been invested "in anticipation that this sort of thing would happen".
After the home secretary expressed disappointment that some health trusts were still operating computer systems on Windows XP, despite having been advised to upgrade, Mr Manning claimed that several hundred thousand computers were still running Windows XP.
He added that the government would have been aware of that.
Mr Manning told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: "Some trusts took the advice that was offered to them very seriously and acted on it and some of them may not have done.
"If you're sitting in a hard-pressed hospital in the middle of England, it is difficult to see that as a greater priority than dealing with outpatients or A&E.
"It's very difficult to get individual trusts to use the money for this purpose."
NHS Digital said that 4.7% of devices within the NHS use Windows XP, with the figure continuing to decrease.
The ransomware used in the attack is called WannaCry and attacks Windows operating systems.
It encrypts files on a user's computer, blocking them from view, before demanding money, via an on-screen message, to access them again.
The virus is usually covertly installed on to computers by hiding within emails containing links, which users are tricked into opening.
Some experts say the attackers used a weakness in Microsoft systems which is known to the US National Security Agency as "EternalBlue".
A cybersecurity researcher tweeting as @malwaretechblog has claimed to have found a way to slow down the spread of the virus after registering a domain name hidden in the malware.
He said that the malware makes a request to a domain name, but if it is live the malware stops spreading.
A security update - or patch - was released by Microsoft in March to protect against the virus, but it appears many organisations have not applied the patch - or may still be using outdated systems like Windows XP.
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Chief fire officer David Johnson said the homes in 61 streets in Jaywick were being evacuated with flood levels expected to reach 50cm (20in) from the top of the sea wall.
He said people should start packing some belongings and those who could voluntarily leave the area should.
Three severe flood warnings, indicating danger to life, have been issued.
They include the coast from Clacton to Lee Wick and at Mistley, Brantham and West Mersea.
More than 20 severe flood warnings are in force in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
Mr Johnson said the whole of Jaywick would be evacuated.
He said: "The information that we have from the Environment Agency is that the water is going to be about half a metre from the top of the sea defences, but obviously with some significant winds blowing there will be waves over the top of those defences.
"The decision has been taken to evacuate Jaywick as best we can as a purely precautionary exercise and I would urge people not to panic."
People will be evacuated to school buildings in the Clacton area, he said.
"If people are able to voluntarily leave and stay with friends and relatives overnight that is always a good idea and will be very helpful."
He said police officers would be knocking on every door in the village and asking people to leave.
"We can't force people to evacuate their homes, but as a purely precautionary exercise it would be sensible to do so," said Mr Johnson.
The rail line between Norwich and London was disrupted by damage to overhead wires caused by falling trees in Diss, Manningtree and Wivenhoe.
A Greater Anglia trains spokesman said: "At present there are no services in either direction between Colchester and Norwich.
"There is currently a reduced service running between London and Colchester in both directions with delays up to 60 minutes.
"Services between London and Southend/Southminster and stopping services between London and Shenfield are running a full timetable this evening."
Instead of repeated blood tests and injections throughout the day to keep blood sugar in check, a single dose of smart insulin would keep circulating in the body and turn on when needed.
Animal studies show the technology appears to work - at least in mice.
Scientists plan to move to human trials soon, PNAS journal reports.
Experts caution that it will take years of testing before treatments could become a reality for patients.
People with type 1 diabetes, who either do not make or cannot use their own natural insulin, rely on insulin injections to stay well.
Without these, their blood sugar would get dangerously high.
But injecting insulin can also make blood sugar levels dip too low, and people with type 1 diabetes must regularly check their blood glucose levels to make sure they are in the right zone.
Diabetes experts have been searching for ways to make blood sugar control easier and more convenient for patients, which is where "smart" insulins come in.
There are a few different types in development, but all are designed to automatically activate when blood sugar gets too high and switch off again when it returns to normal.
Dr Danny Chou from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been testing a smart insulin that he and his colleagues developed in the lab.
It is a chemically modified version of regular, long-acting insulin.
It has an extra set of molecules stuck on the end that binds it to proteins that circulate in the bloodstream. While it is attached to these, the smart insulin is in its switched off mode.
When blood sugar rises, the smart insulin switches on - glucose locks on to the smart insulin and tells it to get to work.
Dr Chou said: "My goal is to make life easier and safer for diabetics.
"This is an important advance in insulin therapy."
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has been funding work into smart insulins.
Karen Addington, chief executive of JDRF in the UK, said: "For many people living with type 1 diabetes, achieving good blood glucose control is a daily battle. Taking too much insulin can drive someone's glucose levels too low, leading to a 'hypo', while taking too little means glucose levels rise too high, which can have a serious cumulative health impact in the long term.
"A smart insulin would eliminate hypos - which are what many with type 1 diabetes hate most. It would enable people with type 1 diabetes to achieve near perfect glucose control, all from a single injection per day or even per week. That's really exciting."
Dr Richard Elliott of Diabetes UK said: "Years of further research and clinical trials will be needed to find out if a similar drug could be used safely and effectively by people with diabetes."
There are two main types: type 1 and type 2
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Buckingham became part of horse racing folklore when steering the 100-1 shot through a mass of fallers at the 23rd fence to win at Aintree 49 years ago.
Of 44 starters, only 18 finished.
"It was havoc. Three jockeys turned Foinavon down but I'd have ridden Dick's donkey to be in the Grand National," said Buckingham in a BBC interview in 2010.
"What people don't realise is that we'd got it all planned before we left the weighing room!"
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght:
Buckingham might not have been the best-known jump jockey of modern times but, unlike many of his higher-profile contemporaries, he has an indelible place in racing history.
Foinavon really was a complete no-hoper in the 1967 Grand National, and was so far behind when the melee took place that Buckingham was able to steer past the incident, and go so far clear that they weren't caught up.
It was quite likely the most dramatic staging in the race's history - at, ironically, the smallest fence on the track, later renamed Foinavon - and even to this day, a regular racecourse refrain is that such and such is "the biggest shock since Foinavon".
Healey suffered the injury during Saturday's 5-0 thrashing of Rotherham in the Championship.
The 22-year-old fell unchallenged and left the field on a stretcher during the first half.
"It soured everything really," Cardiff manager Neil Warnock said after the win.
"He's done so well for us, given us a new lease of life - his winner against Burton and getting the penalty against Derby the other night.
"To miss out on a nothing injury - I think his studs caught in the turf and it's a crying shame for the young lad."
The game against Rotherham was Healey's first home league start for Cardiff, who he joined from Welsh Premier League side Connah's Quay in 2013.
He has had loan spells at Colchester, Dundee and Newport County but forced himself into first-team reckoning for the Bluebirds with some impressive displays as a substitute.
Healey's injury was the one bleak note for Cardiff on Saturday as they recorded their biggest win since beating Bristol City 6-0 in 2010.
The Bluebirds' third successive victory keeps them 12th in the Championship table - a far cry from the dire situation when Warnock took charge in October with the club second from bottom.
The Millers, on the other hand, are firmly rooted to the foot of the table and are 15 points adrift of safety.
Warnock saved Rotherham United from relegation last season but, with the Yorkshire club now seemingly destined for the drop, the 68-year-old is saddened by his former side's decline.
"We didn't really give them a look-in in the second half. It's difficult for Rotherham," said Warnock.
"They're decimated by injury, they've got the two lads from us [on loan - Semi Ajayi and Tom Adeyemi], who can't play, they've got a few more problems and I've been there.
"I know how difficult it is. While it's a great win, I don't take any satisfaction at all from seeing the position they're in."
Mujati, 32, signed for Ospreys from English Premiership side Sale Sharks in February as cover for Dmitri Arhip and Ma'afu Fia, who were out with injury.
The former Springbok has started seven of the last eight games for the region.
"I've settled in really well here and I'm thrilled to be staying with the Ospreys longer-term," Mujati said.
He continued: "My family is here with me and everybody has made us really welcome. It's a good environment to be in.
"While I'm pleased to be with the Ospreys next season, we have some really important business ahead of us on the field and that has to be the focus for everybody over the next few weeks."
Mujati has played in South Africa's Super Rugby with Lions and Stormers, in Top 14 in France with Racing Metro, and in England with Northampton Saints and Sale.
"It's always difficult for a player moving to a new team in-season and having to learn on the go but Brian has adapted to what we want really well, like the professional that he is," Ospreys head coach Steve Tandy said.
"With the continued absence of Dmitri and Ma'afu, Brian has had a big role to play. With a good pre-season under his belt, I think we'll truly see the best of him."
The army said the militants "were given a fair trial" in military courts before the verdict was handed down.
The attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar last December, carried out by the Taliban, shocked the country.
In response, Pakistan lifted a seven-year moratorium on executions.
It also amended the constitution to allow for the establishment of military courts to try terror suspects.
Since December, 200 people have been put to death. Many of them were not convicted for terror offences.
A statement on the Pakistan military's website said seven militants were found guilty of links to the attack - only one had been given a life sentence instead of the death penalty.
"The convicts were given fair trial by following all the legal formalities and offering/providing them legal aid and defence counsels," the statement said.
"Today the sentences of death have been confirmed by the Chief of Army Staff."
These are the first death sentences to be handed out in connection to the Army Public School massacre, the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil reports from Islamabad.
Those facing the death penalty are not the seven who took part in the attack - all of whom died in the assault.
They scaled the walls to get into the school and set off a bomb before moving from classroom to classroom shooting indiscriminately at both the children and teachers.
The school was near a military complex in Peshawar and many of its students were the children of military personnel.
Peshawar, which is close to the Afghan border, had seen some of the worst of the violence during the Taliban insurgency in recent years.
John Langley, who is representing the party in Bristol's Stockwood ward, said he is an adult entertainment industry veteran who owns a production business.
He said he was "happy to confirm" reports he had appeared in and produced a number of X-rated films.
A party spokesperson said UKIP was aware of Mr Langley's other profession and supported him.
Mr Langley said: "I'm exactly the same as anyone else. On one side I have my performer side, and on the other I have my normal life."
"We in UKIP represent the ordinary working-class person who will go to the pub, they will read The Sun and they will look at adult entertainment.
"There are those who will be judgemental, and that is their choice."
Mr Langley said he thought party leader Nigel Farage would support him, and recognise his commitment to "to standing for his community".
A full list of candidates standing in the same ward is expected to be confirmed later.
The ex-New South Wales State of Origin representative, 35, also said players in Britain "need more of a voice" as demands on them are "ridiculous".
Hull FC travel to Catalans on Monday, having lost to Leigh on Friday.
In response, Ralph Rimmer of the RFL said: "Player welfare is paramount."
The chief operating officer continued: "The Rugby Football League does care about every player involved in the sport from community through to the top tier."
However, former South Sydney and Gold Coast Titans forward Minichiello, who has being playing in the northern hemisphere competition with Hull FC since 2015, said there are many things in Super League "that need to improve to get the game on the right path".
"I don't think the RFL look after their players at all," he told BBC Radio Humberside.
"They ask a lot of their players. It is a physical game we play and then we play two double-header periods in one season - that is ridiculous in my opinion."
Hull, like Catalans, have the most taxing travel over the Bank Holiday weekend as both have games in England and France.
They are both back on English soil for the following round, as Hull are at home to Wigan on Saturday, 3 June, while Catalans fly in to face Widnes a day later.
"We'll do everything recovery-wise to get our energy levels back up and our body in the right frame to play a game a couple of days later," Minichiello said.
"It is even tougher when have to fly to Catalans, but we will deal with that and do it as best we can."
The additional double-header in the Super League calendar this year, coming after the traditional Easter weekend fixtures, is the result of an England training camp being scheduled to take place in Dubai - a camp that was cancelled following consultation with Super League clubs.
"That is another thing that is absolutely crazy," said Minichiello.
"Start the competition a week later for a camp that didn't happen, then make players play three games in seven days twice in the year. I'd like to see them to do it."
Rimmer reiterated that the delayed start to the campaign was "collective decision in support of the national team".
Minichiello said players should have a voice when it comes to scheduling, but admits they lack a say because "players of the game don't have a united front".
"That allows the RFL to do what they want without consulting players," the Australian said.
"I know what it is like back home, all the players are on board and we are there to make sure the game is growing in the right direction and that everyone is looked after.
"It is easy to say and tough to do - there needs to be a collective player union where 100% of Super League players are involved.
"That is a great starting point to make sure the RFL has a point of call to go to and negotiate terms of play and the growth of the game.
"Players are the biggest asset the game has and we need a voice."
Despite the absence of a player union at an elite level since the demise of League 13 in 2015, the RFL said there is access to union representation through GMB.
"I know many do take up this option to support them with various matters," Rimmer said.
"Also, since being appointed as our rugby director, Kevin Sinfield has created a line of communication with club captains to regularly discuss different issues in the game with an aim to improve in any way we can."
Anne Milton won Guildford for the Tories with a 57.1% share of the vote, and in Woking Jonathan Lord kept the seat blue, with a majority of more than 20,000.
Labour has more than doubled its vote in the two constituencies.
In Guildford, Labour polled 6,534 votes compared to 3,700 in 2010, while the Lib Dems dropped from 13,000 to 8,354.
In Woking, Labour doubled its vote while the Liberal Democrats' support more than halved.
Follow all the latest from the counts on the BBC's election live service or see the latest from your constituency on the BBC News website.
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Nicky Clark opened the scoring when he followed up Gavin Reilly's saved shot.
Celtic loanee Paul McMullan and midfielder Joe Cardle stretched the Pars lead either side of half-time.
New Alloa signing Stefan McCluskey bagged a debut goal, before Greig Spence's close-range finish set up a frantic final few minutes.
Clark's ninth goal of the season had the Pars ahead with 12 minutes gone. Wasps keeper Neil Parry had blocked Reilly's shot but Clark was alert to fire home the clearance.
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Alloa tried to respond through Jordan Kirkpatrick, but his low shot lacked pace and proved easy pickings for Sean Murdoch in the Dunfermline goal.
Murdoch had to work harder to stop Kevin Cawley's 18-yard effort, launching himself to his right to make a fine one-handed stop.
Dunfermline were constantly pressing, though, and they went two-up just before half time when McMullan whipped a shot in from the left after a short corner.
Cardle came off the bench in the second half and made a quick impact, collecting a Clark pass and hammering home a shot from 16 yards on the hour mark.
But Alloa weren't done, and replacement McCluskey headed in six minutes later to keep the Wasps' hopes alive.
At the other end, Michael Moffat brought a good from Parry, then had a goal disallowed amid a frenetic finale.
Spence's strike gave Alloa the chance to snatch a replay in the dying minutes, but it proved too little, too late for the hosts.
Match ends, Alloa Athletic 2, Dunfermline Athletic 3.
Second Half ends, Alloa Athletic 2, Dunfermline Athletic 3.
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Neil Parry.
Attempt missed. Michael Moffat (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 2, Dunfermline Athletic 3. Greig Spence (Alloa Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner.
Attempt saved. Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Michael Moffat (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Foul by Calum Waters (Alloa Athletic).
Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Jordan Kirkpatrick (Alloa Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Andrew Geggan.
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Lewis Martin.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Rhys McCabe replaces John Herron because of an injury.
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by John Herron.
Kevin Cawley (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nathaniel Wedderburn (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt missed. Stefan McCluskey (Alloa Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Graeme Holmes (Alloa Athletic).
Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Graeme Holmes (Alloa Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dunfermline Athletic. Michael Moffat replaces Nicky Clark.
Goal! Alloa Athletic 1, Dunfermline Athletic 3. Stefan McCluskey (Alloa Athletic) header from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin Cawley.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Stefan McCluskey replaces Steven Hetherington.
Substitution, Alloa Athletic. Jamie Longworth replaces Iain Flannigan.
Kevin Cawley (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic).
Jordan Kirkpatrick (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Herron (Dunfermline Athletic).
Goal! Alloa Athletic 0, Dunfermline Athletic 3. Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Nicky Clark.
Foul by Kevin Cawley (Alloa Athletic).
Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
John Herron (Dunfermline Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kevin Cawley (Alloa Athletic).
Corner, Dunfermline Athletic. Conceded by Andy Graham.
Corner, Alloa Athletic. Conceded by Sean Murdoch.
Nicky Clark (Dunfermline Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kevin Cawley (Alloa Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic).
Attempt saved. Paul McMullan (Dunfermline Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Alloa Athletic 0, Dunfermline Athletic 2.
Russell Knox propelled himself into golf's winners' circle in Shanghai in November 2015 when he became the only Scot ever to triumph at a World Golf Championship event.
The four WGC tournaments are behind only the four majors in terms of importance and on Thursday the Inverness-born player tees off in another one - the WGC Bridgestone Invitational.
Knox, ranked 26 in the world, will be in fine company at 16:48 BST - out with world number one Jason Day and world number eight Adam Scott.
Those two Australians are also reigning champions in WGC events, though Irishman Shane Lowry is the man who holds the title at this one in Akron, Ohio.
Knox, 31, took up European Tour membership for the 2016 season in order to be eligible for the Ryder Cup at Hazeltine in September.
And although the Florida-based golfer currently lies outside the nine automatic picks - he is 20th on the World Points List, and 30th on the European Points List, there is still time to pick up the points required to make the team. Another fine showing at a WGC event would help.
One man eager for Knox to make Europe captain Darren Clarke's dozen to take on USA is 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie, a veteran of two Ryder Cups and one of Clarke's vice-captains at Hazeltine.
"The biggest thing about him is he's a really, really nice guy who works very hard," Lawrie told BBC Scotland.
"I like him and he's obviously a hell of a player. I played a practice round with him at the US Open and he really impressed me with his ball striking.
"But I personally would like Russell in the team because it would be nice to have a Scotsman in there fighting for the European cause and hopefully he'll make it.
"You'd hope he'd be pulling out all the stops to try and get in the team. Even if he doesn't get in the team [automatically] then he'll know that Darren's got three captain's picks."
Lawrie might seek to impart some of those sentiments in person at Castle Stuart next week, where Knox will a major attraction at the Scottish Open being staged a few miles from his native Inverness.
"I'd love to play nine practice holes with him, but he's obviously going to be busier than me because that's his homecoming," he added. "He'll be a boy in demand.
"What better than to win the Scottish Open in your hometown, for him it would be a fairy tale."
Lawrie's own ambitions are currently severely restricted by a niggling foot problem that refuses to go away.
"As soon as I hit 100 balls, my foot's just in total bits," he explained. "I can't hit any more. I've always been a golfer that, when I work hard, it gets better.
"I've got a bone spur on my foot and a cyst. It's kind of been bugging me for a while and it's getting worse.
"It's horrible when you don't play well and you're playing with guys beating you week in and week out. I don't like that."
Lawrie was cheered, however, by the news of fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie qualifying for this year's Open at his home course of Royal Troon.
"It's brilliant to see him get through," he added. "He obviously played a lot of golf there (at Royal Troon) and grew up there with his father being the secretary.
"I think everyone in Scotland got a big boost from that. I was watching some of the coverage and there was quite a few people walking round with him.
"He looked back to his brilliant, grumpy best at a couple of points - which was good to see! But for the tournament it's a massive boost; coming off the Champions Tour, where he plays all of his golf now, and still being able to come home and play links golf and get through a tough qualifying day."
It has sold four million copies since 1992, while Adele's 21 is at number two with 3.5m. Oasis album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? has sold 3.4m.
Gold's sales have been boosted by the musical Mamma Mia!, based on Abba's hits, which was also made into a hit film starring Meryl Streep.
It is 30 years since the CD format was launched.
Digital downloads account for greater than average sales of the rock, urban and dance genres, but the CD is today still the preferred music format for easy listening (79.7%), blues (78.2%) and classical (77.7%).
Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI, which represents the British recorded music industry, said: "The CD represented a great leap forward in sound technology, becoming one of the most successful consumer products in history as music fans embraced its sound quality, durability, instant track access and ease of use.
In a statement she said her father's status as honorary president of the party "does not mean he can take the Front National hostage".
Last week she condemned her father for repeating his claim that the Nazi gas chambers were "a detail of history".
She is widely expected to run for president in 2017.
In the statement (in French), she says her father "seems to have entered a veritable spiral between a scorched earth strategy and political suicide".
"Given this situation, I have told him I will oppose... his candidacy in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur," she said.
She said his "crude provocations seem aimed at harming me but, alas, they have dealt a very heavy blow to the whole movement".
The French media is now speculating on Jean-Marie Le Pen's possible ejection from the party he founded 40 years ago, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
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Earlier this month Mr Le Pen, the party's founder, gave a radio interview in which he repeated his controversial remarks on the Nazi gas chambers, as well as saying the French wartime leader Marshal Petain was unfairly maligned.
He went on to say that France is governed by immigrants - singling out the Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who is of Spanish heritage - and that France needs an alliance with Russia to save the "world of the whites".
His daughter condemned those remarks, leading Mr Le Pen to declare to a far-right newspaper that "one is only ever betrayed by one's own".
Last month the FN polled 25% of votes in the first round of local elections.
While lower than some opinion polls had predicted, correspondents say that performance showed that Marine Le Pen's strategy, including shutting down the party's overtly racist elements, is paying off.
However, the party has faced a turbulent time in recent weeks, with the European Parliament calling in the EU's anti-fraud squad to investigate possible financial irregularities involving the party.
Chris Eubank Jr, the 26-year-old British middleweight champion, is eligible for Rio after a rule change allowed professionals to compete.
But GB Boxing said amateur middleweight Anthony Fowler, 25, would represent Team GB in that weight category.
Fowler secured his place at Rio 2016 by beating German opponent Xhek Paskali at the European qualifier in April.
Eubank Jr will make the first defence of his British title against Welshman Tom Doran at The O2 in London on 25 June.
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The images in red, yellow, black and white depict humans, animals and insects, as well as skyscapes and abstract scenes.
The paintings were found in 11 different sites - but the walls of one cave were covered with 1,550 scenes.
The area in which they were found was previously thought not to have been inhabited by ancient cultures.
The paintings suggest that at least three groups of hunter-gatherers dwelled in the San Carlos mountain range.
Experts have not yet been able to date the paintings, but hope to chemically analyse their paint to find out their approximate age.
"We have not found any ancient objects linked to the context, and because the paintings are on ravine walls and in the rainy season the sediments are washed away, all we have is gravel," said archaeologist Gustavo Ramirez, from the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (Inah).
In one of the caves, the experts found depictions of the atlatl, a pre-Hispanic hunting weapon that had not yet been seen in other paintings in the Tamaulipas state.
The paintings are being considered an important find because they document the presence of pre-Hispanic peoples in a region where "before it was said that nothing was there", Mr Ramirez said.
Another archaeologist involved in the Inah study, Martha Garcia Sanchez, said that very little is known about the cultures who dwelled in Tamaulipas.
"These groups escaped the Spanish rule for 200 years because they fled to the Sierra de San Carlos where they had water, plants and animals to feed themselves," she said.
The findings were presented during the second meeting of Historic Archaeology, in Mexico's National History Museum.
Danielle Westerman's two-year-old son Declan has had two open-heart operations and is due to have another next year.
Ms Westerman, from Ilkeston, Derbyshire, says she already has trouble getting to Leicester as neither she or her partner can drive and rely on a lift from her elderly grandfather.
She said: "Where would we have to go now? How would we even get there?
"Glenfield is only an hour away from me, this is going to be so difficult. We struggled as it was."
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NHS England has told three units - in Leicester, Manchester and London - to stop complex surgery on patients born with congenital heart problems by April 2017.
The announcement comes after attempts to reorganise services had to be abandoned three years ago following legal challenges by local campaigners and the hospitals themselves.
Ashleigh Woods' six-year-old son Jack has had open-heart surgery four times at Glenfield.
Ms Woods, from Melton Mowbray, said: "We nearly lost him two years ago and he will need a heart transplant eventually.
"This has come as a massive shock. Where do we go? Birmingham is such a long way to go, it's risking your child's life.
"Will they pay travel costs? At Glenfield you can stay over.
"It's daunting to think what will happen. It will have a massive impact on us."
Sylv Hogan's son 12-year-old son Alex was was born with a congenital heart defect.
She said Alex had "infection after infection" from birth and in March 2005 he took a turn for the worse and was admitted to the Leicester Royal Infirmary.
"He was too poorly to be moved to Glenfield so we held our breath and waited," she said.
"Doctors from the heart unit came over every day to check on Alex until he was stable enough to move.
"I'm 100% sure that he would not be here today [without their help].
"[Stopping children's heart surgery at Glenfield] is not sad, it's criminal."
Card Ward, from Leicestershire, said his one-year-old son George has undergone two open-heart surgeries at Glenfield and is fortunate to be alive.
He said: "We feel absolutely mortified about the recent news, I feel sick to the stomach.
"Glenfield became a second home for us. Me and my partner were so fortunate to be able to commute the 20-minute drive, change shifts to stay with George and the other look after our other son at home after school.
"I feel so sad for Leicestershire and surrounding areas, in fact the whole country, as we met children who had been airlifted from hundreds of miles away to receive the special care and expertise."
Ranjit Singh Nagra, from Leicester, said on Facebook: "What a disgrace, my daughter had a heart surgery at Glenfield hospital and I feel sorry for the children and parents who will have to travel miles for surgery."
Hayley Spencer told the BBC the NHS England decision was "terrible news".
"My little boy River had open-heart surgery in October for tetralogy of Fallot [heart defect]," she said.
"What happens if he needs more surgery? Where will we go? Glenfield is so handy for us living in Derby."
Sharon Virgin, from Leicester, said: "My daughter needs open-heart surgery in a few months and she is devastated.
"They are not thinking how this will affect the children who basically live at the hospital. They should be ashamed of themselves."
Giles Peek, now a professor of paediatric heart surgery in New York but who used to be in charge at Glenfield, said the unit supported every hospital in the East Midlands and its closure could mark the "death of paediatric services" in the region.
UKIP candidate Iain McKie said he had been told of a "major health issue" suffered by Andrew Turner, after which he was advised against driving.
Mr Turner, who suffered a stroke in 2006, admitted a stay in hospital after feeling unwell, but insisted there were "no lasting effects".
Opponents from other parties said Mr Turner's health was not an issue.
But Mr McKie said: "The last five years have been difficult - the next five are likely to be tougher still. The Island needs an MP who can be a strong advocate in Westminster for its interests."
He accused the Conservatives of deciding to "keep the details of [Mr Turner's] health difficulties a secret until after the General Election."
In a written statement, Mr Turner insisted he had been "transparent" over his health.
He has suffered from aphasia since his 2006 stroke, and said: "I felt unwell one hot day last summer, and was advised to go to hospital for a check up which I did and stayed overnight for observation as I was alone in London.
"No problems were diagnosed and there were no lasting effects; the doctor put it down to the heat.
"One is more sensitive to feeling unwell after a major incident like a stroke as many other constituents will recognise."
Mr Turner, who survived a no confidence vote in January, said he resumed driving after "tests confirmed that there was nothing to worry about" and criticised his opponent for a "smear" over his health.
The BBC has seen a report from March by outgoing Conservative Association chairman Alan Wells in which he questioned Mr Turner's ability to continue.
Mr Wells, who has previously expressed doubts over Mr Turner's candidacy, said: "I am not at all convinced it is even in his best interests to embark both on a gruelling election campaign and then enter into a further term at Westminster during which his health and reputation will surely be under intense pressure."
Other candidates for the Isle of Wight seat dismissed talk of Mr Turner's health as a distraction.
Vix Lowthion, the Green Party candidate, said: "I wish that we could just get on and debate the issues."
Liberal Democrat hopeful David Goodall said: "I believe politics is about only one thing; how to help people live happier and more fulfilling lives. It's not about personal attacks on a candidate's health."
Stewart Blackmore for Labour said: "I know Andrew Turner's had his problems but my focus is on questioning his policies rather than his health."
Independent Ian Stephens said: "It's Andrew Turner's decision to stand and his team's willingness to back him. I'm fighting on my own ability to do the job."
Matt Wright, described as an "experienced pilot" by the Devon & Somerset Gliding Club, died in the crash at about 13:00 on Sunday.
Devon and Cornwall Police said a "man in his 40s from the Tiverton area" died in the incident and nobody else was on board the unpowered aircraft.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said its inspectors had begun an investigation.
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Club chairwoman Lisa Humphries paid tribute to Mr Wright, who posted videos of his flights on his YouTube channel.
The channel has more than 14,000 subscribers, with some of his clips having more than 30,000 views.
Ms Humphries said the pilot was a "friend to all of us at the club".
She added: "He was always full of energy and loved every aspect of aviation. Not only was he an expert glider pilot, but also an accomplished commercial airline captain, film maker and cartoonist.
"Our sincere condolences go to his family at this sad time."
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said inspectors arrived on Sunday and began examining the site early on Monday.
And the game in question is not even against a famous name but at the home of North West Counties first division side Whitchurch Alport on Saturday.
Mark Buckton is the Altrincham fan in question and he has travelled from Taipei via Kuala Lumpar on his way to England with his wife.
He is in the United Kingdom for two weeks but says his "wife didn't know but I planned the schedule around the whole game".
He added: "It is my first visit in nine years and I'm going to show my wife England and north Wales, but essential to the trip was that game."
At the start of his journey, he tweeted a picture from the airport before finding his flight had been delayed.
"Hope I make the Kuala Lumpar connection to London Heathrow to make Saturday's game," he added.
Following a message from Shropshire side Whitchurch Alport, Buckton is now set to mark the occasion by sponsoring the game.
"I'm looking forward to it. I'm going with family and my wife, who has no choice."
Lomu, 40, died on Wednesday.
Hart said New Zealand Prime Minister John Key's office had relayed a message from the Queen to Lomu's widow Nadene.
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"She has written to the prime minister specifically asking for a message to be sent to Nadene and the family to say how much she mourns the loss as well," Hart said.
Hart, who coached New Zealand between 1996 and 1999, has been acting as a spokesman for the family of Lomu, who died at his home in Auckland.
The legendary wing, who won 63 All Blacks caps, became a global star after scoring four tries against England in the 1995 World Cup semi-final. He was diagnosed with a rare kidney condition that year.
Hart said that it was possible that a public memorial could be held at Auckland's 50,000-capacity Eden Park stadium, but added that the family were still in discussions with central and local government in New Zealand about what was "most appropriate".
"I am delighted with the tremendous support we are getting from government and local government to celebrate Jonah's life," Hart added.
"We have agreed that there will be a public memorial service and that will be followed by a private family church service."
Listen again to BBC Radio 5 live's Jonah Lomu: The Man Who Changed Rugby
He condemned "scavenging" lawyers and "Zionist interests".
Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving two life terms for killings in the name of Palestinian and communist causes.
But he denies carrying out a grenade attack on the centre in September 1974.
Two people were killed and 34 others were injured in the attack.
In an often rambling statement in the Paris court on Monday, the 67-year-old said that any murders he had committed were carried out in the name of "the revolution".
"No-one has executed more people than me in the Palestinian resistance," he said, "[and] I am the only survivor. In all the fighting, there were collateral victims, it's unfortunate," he said.
Wearing a jacket with a red pocket handkerchief, Ramirez smiled and blew kisses upon first appearing in the dock before kissing the hand of his lawyer and long-term partner, Isabelle Coutant-Peyre.
He then embarked on a diatribe in which he condemned wealthy "Zionist interests" who he said were eager to crush anybody who stood up to Israeli aggression.
He said that lawyers prosecuting him for the shopping centre attack in Paris 43 years ago were "scavengers" for forcing him back to court.
Carlos the Jackal was given his nickname when he was one of the world's most wanted terror suspects.
He spent years on the run before being captured in 1994 in Sudan.
Ms Coutant-Peyre on Monday described his latest trial as a waste of time and money.
"What exactly is the point of having a trial so long after the events?" she said.
But Georges Holleaux, a lawyer representing the victims, said the families wanted the chance finally to see him in court.
"The victims have been waiting so long for Ramirez to be judged and convicted. Their wounds have never healed," he said.
In a newspaper interview which he later disavowed, Ramirez allegedly said he had carried out the attack in a bid to persuade France to release a Japanese communist militant.
Ramirez was dubbed Carlos the Jackal by the press, named after the fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, The Day of the Jackal, which was turned into a popular film.
Born in Venezuela, he was considered one of the most notorious political terrorists of the 1970s and 80s.
By the age of 24, he had joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and began his training as a militant revolutionary.
A few years later, he launched his first attack - on Joseph Edward Sieff, the then president of the Marks and Spencers retail chain in London. Sieff, a prominent Jewish figure, survived a gunshot wound to the head.
The self-professed "professional revolutionary" has since been found guilty of four bomb attacks in Paris and Marseille in 1982 and 1983, which killed 11 people and injured 150.
He was first convicted by a French court 20 years ago, and again in 2011 and 2013. If convicted of first degree murder charges, he could get a third life sentence.
Ramirez was arrested in the Sudanese capital in 1994 by elite French police, 20 years after the first attack for which he was accused.
The incident occurred over the Baltic Sea on 7 April, according to the United States European Command, which called the interception "unsafe" and "unprofessional".
US officials say the plane was in international airspace at the time.
The Russian defence ministry denied any wrongdoing on the part of its pilots, according to Russian media reports.
Russian Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said the US plane had been "steadily moving towards the Russian state border," according to Interfax news agency.
A Russian jet "was scrambled, which approached the unidentified aircraft [and] flew by it several times," after which it changed course, Maj Gen Konashenkov said.
US officials say the fighter intercepted the US aircraft at a high rate of speed from the rear, and then proceeded to conduct two more passes using "unsafe and unprofessional manoeuvres" in close proximity.
Russia has been accused of border violations several times by its Baltic neighbours in recent months.
Baltic states have expressed concern at increasingly frequent snap Russian military drills in the region amid tension over the crisis in Ukraine.
The Knights survived a late Yorkshire Carnegie comeback to win 30-17 in their away leg at Headingley.
Bristol were even bigger victors as they ran in six tries in a 45-16 win against Bedford at Goldington Road.
The second leg takes place next Sunday, 8 May at Ashton Gate at 15:15 BST while Doncaster's return match will kick off at Castle Park at 14:30 BST.
Tries from Will Hurrell, Andrew Bulumakau and a penalty try have given the Knights a 13-point lead to take into the second leg with Carnegie's retiring fly-half Kevin Sinfield scoring one of their three tries.
Bristol, beaten in the two-leg final by just a point at Worcester a year ago, finished the regular Championship season last weekend with a 39-6 win at Bedford.
They scored four first-half tries through Ollie Robinson, James Phillips, Ross McMillan and Jack Wallace with Philips adding another after the break and Jack Tovey got a sixth try.
Hooker Charlie Clare got Bedford's only try while stand-off Jake Sharp kicked three penalties as well as a conversion.
Then he was the first cabinet minister Theresa May sacked when she became prime minister, dispatching him to the backbenches.
Politics is brutal. But if Mrs May hoped the former chancellor would disappear she was wrong.
While David Cameron has opted for memoir writing and - it's safe to predict - a future on company and charity boards his old ally is staying in politics. With typical wily twinkle George Osborne said he would not be writing his memoirs because he didn't know how the story was going to end.
He will not want to be a sniping critic of the government he's been excluded from.
That would not endear him to the Conservative party inside or outside Parliament. But he will speak out as his fascinating Today programme interview demonstrated.
His cool support for Theresa May's grammar school plan; his readiness to say the new government initially "wobbled" in its backing for his Northern Powerhouse project; his suggestion the three month delay in approving the Hinkley Point power station had made little difference to the final deal.
George Osborne stressed he supported Theresa May and said the new government had made a "strong start".
But this interview showed he is keen to define his own reputation; a politician prepared to wait for the tables to turn again.
Operator Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) said it did not allow any political content in advertising.
A spokesman for SPT said the posters had "slipped through their net" and were deemed in breach of guidelines.
Stuart Campbell, who runs the Wings Over Scotland site, denied the posters themselves were political and accused SPT of suppressing debate.
An SPT spokesman said: "SPT advertising contract guidelines state that Subway sites should not be used to campaign or lobby for political benefit.
"Our advertising agency applies that standard to all commercial bookings but unfortunately this particular ad slipped through their net. The ad was taken down as a result."
Mr Campbell said he was "disappointed, but not exactly surprised" by the decision which he said had been made by an organisation "dominated by Glasgow Labour councillors".
He said: "The content of our website is political, but no more so than the numerous union-supporting newspapers the Subway does accept advertising from, and the advert itself made no political statements whatsoever.
"It simply advertised the site as a source of information."
One was a police officer who died after being stabbed, another was his alleged attacker who was shot by armed police.
Monmouth MP David Davies told BBC Wales: "The shots started, I was with other MPs, we immediately dropped to the floor and then hid behind pillars."
It came after a car crashed into several people on Westminster Bridge.
Scotland Yard confirmed there was a "firearms incident" on Westminster Bridge at 14:40 GMT on Wednesday following a car crash.
At least one woman is known to be among those killed, with many of the 40 injured being struck by a car on Westminster Bridge.
The police officer killed in the attack has been named by Scotland Yard as PC Keith Palmer.
The 48-year-old husband and father was stabbed by his attacker, who was then shot dead.
Acting Deputy Commissioner and head of counter terrorism at the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley said they believed the attacker was inspired by Islamist-related terrorism.
He also said police believe they know the identity of the man.
Downing Street said the prime minister was in Parliament at the time but had been taken back safely to Number 10.
Staff inside Parliament were told to stay inside their offices as proceedings in the Commons were suspended and they were later evacuated to Westminster Abbey.
Mr Davies told BBC News he had been walking with fellow Conservative MP Grant Shapps at the time of the incident.
"We were in New Palace Yard. We heard a load of shouting - I thought it was protesters," he said.
"The next thing there was at least one shot, I think I looked around and thought 'that can't be for real, can it?'
"And then more shots - I can't remember exactly, but I shouted 'get down', or 'everyone get down on the floor'.
"People started moving backwards, I waited for the shots to stop.
"I was behind a pillar, and I just took a chance and ran back to Portcullis House - I just didn't know what was going on."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns, who was in a meeting with the Prime Minister and cabinet members at the time of the incident, described it as a "tragic attack at the heart of democracy".
"My thoughts and prayers are with those who were tragically killed and injured and my undiluted gratitude goes to the police, house staff and emergency services for keeping us safe. I will be forever grateful," he added.
Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies said MPs had been voting at the time of the incident, and there was a "lockdown" of Parliament as police checked the area.
"We're a bit shaken as the reality of the attack sets in," he said. "My thoughts go out to anyone who's been injured."
Several Welsh MPs used social media to let family, friends and colleagues know they were safe before MPs were allowed to leave Westminster Abbey at about 19:30 GMT.
Among them was Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, who paid tribute to security services saying they had done an "amazing job".
"We're just constantly aware that people put themselves in harm's way to protect us and to protect our way of life," he said.
"My heart goes out to the people who have lost people.
"The idea that completely innocent individuals walking past - who have absolutely nothing to do with political life - might have lost their life is obviously very distressing."
Mr Bryant added he hoped Parliament would be open on Thursday.
"We need to be able to show that nothing will stop British democracy," he said.
Proceedings at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff were suspended on Wednesday afternoon in the wake of the incidents, and following the suspension of proceedings in the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament.
The presence of armed officers around Welsh Assembly buildings and in the surrounding area has been increased as a precaution, presiding officer Elin Jones said.
Interrupting a debate, Ms Jones said: "We are aware of the disturbing events at Westminster.
"I have spoken to our security personnel here in the Senedd and we are taking appropriate steps.
"I will be keeping this matter under review as the business of the afternoon progresses.
"I'm sure all our thoughts are with our colleagues and all involved at Westminster at this very difficult time."
First Minister Carwyn Jones tweeted: "Disturbing images emerging from Westminster. This is a terrible attack at the heart of our democracy; thoughts are with all those affected."
South Wales Police assistant chief constable Richard Lewis said additional security was being taken at key locations as a "sensible precaution".
But he said there was no intelligence of a specific threat to locations in south Wales.
The Kingsteps Quarry at Nairn has already been examined for the remains of aircraft instruments which were illuminated using radioactive paint.
Highland Council ordered the survey following "word of mouth" suggestions that planes were buried at the site after World War Two.
No evidence of such radioactive contamination was found at the quarry.
Highland Council has asked contractors to check for other forms of contamination by making a series of excavations next month.
The site was formerly a sand and gravel quarry and later used as an unofficial local dump. There are informal paths on the site used by local people for dog walking.
A report on December's investigations will be given to councillors in March.
After President John Dramani Mahama delivered his State of the Nation address two weeks ago, most of the discussions were on local and internal affairs, and this being an election year in the country, the debates were heated and will continue for a long time.
But hidden somewhere in the speech and lost in all the discussion was a major foreign affairs initiative which slipped by without media reporting or analysis and it seems likely people may have missed this completely.
Ghana's new visa-on-arrival policy for citizens of African Union (AU) member states, to be introduced from July, only came to light after an announcement from the pan-African body.
Nationals from African countries complain loudly about the humiliations they go through to get visas for Europe and the United States but the process for African visas is often just as frustrating.
Anyone who has tried to cross borders on the African continent will have experienced the difficulties with travelling in Africa.
Air fares cost more than anywhere else and few roads or railways connect the countries to each other.
The immigration and police check points turn the journeys into veritable obstacle courses.
We no longer have to go through Europe to fly to each other's countries, but flight connections are so few and so random, you are tempted to resort to the old routes through Europe to go to the country next door.
However, this is nothing compared to the hassle one has to go through to get visas for another African country.
Business people trading in the continent felt frustrated in the past at spending weeks trying to get visas for each country.
They pointed out that once armed with a European Schengen visa, they could travel through many European countries and conduct business without hassle.
Unsurprisingly Ecowas, the West African regional body established in 1975 was at the time considered an attractive union due to the introduction of visa-free travel among member states.
Continental organizations like the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), formed to foster cooperation between African states and its successor the African Union (AU), launched in 2002, have few passionate supporters these days in Ghana as they are seen as pointless bureaucracies that have no bearing on the lives of people.
President Mahama's policy could boost AU's significance once again.
African unity was taken very seriously here in Ghana. It was our first President, Kwame Nkrumah, who was the driving force behind the establishment of the OAU back in 1963.
During the struggle for independence, Ghana provided a place of refuge for many freedom fighters, especially from South Africa with many being given Ghanaian passports.
As countries gained independence, Ghanaians were dismayed to discover they were not particularly welcome in these countries.
In the early years of Ghana's independence, and before the establishment of Ecowas, there were visa exemptions for "persons of African descent" born in the neighbouring west African countries, and members of the Casablanca group, which consisted of Guinea, Tunisia, Mali, United Arab Republic, Morocco and Algeria.
But these arrangements were scrapped after the overthrow of President Nkrumah.
With the new visa policy, Ghanaians will be watching to see if the number of non-Ecowas African nationals coming to Ghana will rise.
We in Ghana have a reputation for restless feet and are always trying to find new destinations to get to.
Obtaining visas for travel is often the greatest obstacle to travel and any country that makes it easier for us to enter becomes very attractive.
Whilst many here will be feeling that Ghana is taking a lead in implementing an AU directive, there will be greater interest in knowing how many other African countries will be allowing Ghanaians to enter their countries on a visa-on arrival policy.
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N Srinivasan recently stood down temporarily as chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) following a Supreme Court ruling.
He owns a team in the IPL, the world's richest cricket tournament.
He is regarded as the world's most powerful cricket administrator.
He was elected chairman of cricket's world governing body, the International Cricket Council, in February and is due to take up the role in July.
Last month, former India captain and batting legend Sunil Gavaskar was installed as the interim head of the cricket board.
The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that the BCCI should appoint a panel to investigate the charges against Mr Srinivasan and 12 others, including some players.
"Having come to know the nature of allegations, we cannot close our eyes," the court said.
The court said when the allegations of corruption in IPL "were brought to his [Mr Srinivasan's] notice... he did not take any action. That means he was aware about the allegations and did not take it seriously".
The seventh edition of the 20-over tournament, which features eight teams, begins on Wednesday and runs until 1 June.
The last season of the IPL was dogged by allegations of spot-fixing and betting.
Spot-fixing involves players bowling wides and no-balls at certain times arranged beforehand with bookmakers.
Mr Srinivasan had "stepped aside" from his post as BCCI president in June last year after his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested over allegations of betting.
Mr Meiyappan was later freed on bail, and Mr Srinivasan returned as the head of the cricket board before he was asked to leave his post. Both men deny any wrongdoing.
The IPL is considered to be the world's showcase for Twenty20 cricket. Top Indian and international players take part, contributing to what is the world's richest cricket tournament.
Galwodd Carwyn Jones a Leanne Wood am "ddull cytbwys o fynd i'r afael â mudo, drwy gysylltu hawl i fudo â swyddi".
Daw'r cyhoeddiad yn dilyn araith gan y Prif Weinidog Theresa May yr wythnos ddiwethaf pan amlinellodd hi ei 12 egwyddor ar Brexit.
Dywedodd arweinydd y Ceidwadwyr yng Nghymru, Andrew RT Davies bod y neges sy'n dod o Gymru yn un "anhrefnus".
Ychwanegodd arweinydd UKIP yng Nghymru, Neil Hamilton bod y cynllun yn ymdebygu fwy i "faner wen" na phapur gwyn.
Mae'r Papur Gwyn, gafodd ei lansio yn Llundain ddydd Llun, yn galw am:
Mae'r Papur Gwyn yn ganlyniad i gytundeb rhwng Llafur, Plaid Cymru a'r Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol.
Dywedodd Mr Jones bod y papur yn "cydbwyso'r neges a gawsom gan bobl Cymru" am bleidlais Brexit "gyda'r gwirionedd economaidd sy'n gwneud cymryd rhan yn y Farchnad Sengl mor bwysig ar gyfer ffyniant Cymru, ac yn wir y Deyrnas Unedig yn gyfan, yn y dyfodol".
Ychwanegodd Ms Wood bod Plaid Cymru wedi "rhoi blaenoriaeth i economi Cymru".
"Rydyn ni wedi gwneud hyn gan fod dwy ran o dair o'n holl allforion yn mynd i Farchnad Sengl Ewrop," meddai.
Yn siarad ar raglen Today ar BBC Radio 4 fore Llun, dywedodd Mr Jones ei bod yn gwneud "dim synnwyr" i osod rhwystrau rhwng Cymru a'i farchnad fwyaf.
Dywedodd ei fod yn anghytuno gyda Ms May, a'i bod yn well ganddo system Norwy, sydd â mynediad llawn i'r farchnad sengl a ffiniau agored i'r rheiny sy'n gweithio.
"Mae hyn yn galluogi i ni barchu'r refferendwm," meddai. "Dydyn ni ddim yma i ail-frwydro hynny.
"Rydyn ni wedi cynnig cynllun synnwyr cyffredin ar fewnfudo, ble dy'n ni'n dweud bod rhyddid i symud i weithio.
"Beth fydden ni ddim yn ei ddweud yw bod rhyddid cyffredinol i symud, heb gyfyngiadau."
Mewn llythyr yn y Sunday Times, dywedodd Mr Jones a Ms Wood nad "rhestr siopa o ofynion" oedd eu cynllun, ond mai'r ffordd orau o ddechrau'r trafodaethau oedd sicrhau'r fargen orau i Gymru.
Dywedodd Eluned Morgan AC, sy'n gyn-Aelod Seneddol Ewropeaidd Llafur, mai mynediad i'r farchnad sengl fyddai prif flaenoriaeth arweinwyr y pleidiau yng Nghymru.
Mynnodd Neil Hamilton fodd bynnag nad oedd y Papur Gwyn yn cynnwys "unrhyw gynllun i reoli'n ffiniau" a lleihau mewnfudo.
"Mae e'n fwy o faner wen yn ildio i'r Undeb Ewropeaidd na phapur gwyn, a hynny cyn i drafodaethau hyd yn oed ddechrau," meddai.
"Petai Theresa May yn mynd â'r cynllun yma i Frwsel byddai'r UE yn cael popeth fydden nhw eisiau.
"Byddai'n golygu na fydden ni'n gadael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd o ddifrif."
Dywedodd Andrew RT Davies ei fod wedi gobeithio am gytundeb trawsbleidiol ehangach, ond nad oedd wedi cael gwahoddiad gan y Prif Weinidog.
"Mae'r neges sy'n dod o Gymru yn un anhrefnus," meddai, gan ychwanegu bod angen i Ewrop ymateb i fater mewnfudo.
"Pan gafodd y farchnad sengl ei chreu... doedd ymfudiad mawr o gwmpas Ewrop ddim yn ystyriaeth. Mae'n ystyriaeth heddiw."
Wrth siarad gyda BBC Cymru, ychwanegodd bod cynllun Llywodraeth Cymru "ychydig yn hwyr".
Mae Mr Jones wedi amddiffyn y penderfyniad i gyhoeddi eu cynllun wythnos ar ôl i Ms May gyhoeddi un Llywodraeth y DU, gan ddweud bod un Cymru yn fwy manwl a chynhwysfawr.
Ddydd Mawrth, mae disgwyl i'r Goruchaf Lys gyhoeddi eu dyfarniad ar a ddylid cynnal pleidlais yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin cyn bod modd bwrw 'mlaen â'r broses ffurfiol o adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd.
It was at precisely this time last Sunday that a band of 35 or so heavily armed men moved in on a checkpoint near the town of Sheikh Zuweid.
They caught the border sentries off-guard, just as they were settling down to break their day of fasting for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Amateur video captured the aftermath as medics rushed to help: the blood-soaked blankets and the limp bodies of 16 young soldiers.
Meanwhile, the attackers rushed for the border with Israel in stolen vehicles. The Israeli military says one exploded and it successfully targeted another in an air strike.
This was the most deadly assault on Egyptian forces here for decades, but it was not an isolated incident.
"Throughout this year, police stations and the army have been attacked by radical Islamic groups several times and the gas pipe to Israel has been hit many times," says Saleh al-Buluq, regional correspondent for al-Shorouk newspaper.
"Islamic groups here started with the people of Sinai only, but now they came from the other governorates of Egypt and also other countries."
After the evening's traditional iftar meal, I am served tea under a date palm tree with a leader of the Sawarka, one of the Sinai Bedouin tribes. He explains how local grievances have built up.
The Bedouin were treated like second-class citizens by Egypt's central government after the Sinai peninsula was occupied by Israel and then handed back under the terms of the 1979 peace treaty.
With few other economic opportunities, illegal activities like smuggling into the Gaza Strip and Israel, flourished in the border area.
"The problem is that the Bedouins are outside any economic or social considerations of the state. They have no importance in the political game," says Sheikh Khalaf al-Meneiy.
He thinks that Islamist extremists found it easy to attract sympathisers here.
"Some people have a religious belief, an ideology like al-Qaeda. They think it's OK for them to kill people without consideration," he tells me.
"This was an old problem, but after the revolution the Sinai became lawless, with no security, no monitoring. These groups restructured themselves and got stronger and more organised. We warned about it several times."
Now military action is finally being taken to fill the security vacuum.
In the past few days, I have seen dozens of armoured personnel carriers arriving in North Sinai. Military aircraft armed with missiles have also been used to target militant hideouts.
Figures have not been confirmed but it amounts to the biggest deployment in the region since the 1973 October war with Israel.
The armed forces say they are preparing for a decisive confrontation with the extremists.
Yet this build-up by Egypt has only been possible with the agreement of Israel. Their peace deal dictated strict limits on troop numbers in the Sinai.
Many analysts and ordinary Egyptians think that must now change.
"The number of troops has been increased rapidly and we have a good number but not for long. It's only for this operation," says retired Gen Sameh Seif al-Yazel, director of al-Gomhouria Centre for Political and Security Studies.
"They have to come back to the West Bank of the Suez Canal as soon as they've finished.
"We want the peace treaty to be amended. The long-term plan is that we must have more troops in Sinai, to allow armed helicopters and unmanned reconnaissance planes to be there as well."
In recent days, the military has claimed many successes. Commanders said at least 20 militants had been killed, although with the absence of bodies, Bedouin chiefs have questioned that. Several men have been arrested.
Overnight in the largest North Sinai town, el-Arish, the new interior minister, Ahmed Gamal al-Din, came to discuss the latest developments with tribal leaders. They gave their backing to the offensive.
The ministerial gesture appeared to be recognition that the Sinai security threat cannot be solved with force alone: the support of locals is also desperately needed.
Residents of this long-troubled area, many of whom voted for Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in recent elections, are hoping that this was more than a photo opportunity.
The Northern Irishman, 25, said on Tuesday that he was without his clubs, 24 hours after his arrival in Dublin.
"Landed in Dublin yesterday morning from Newark and still no golf clubs," McIlroy tweeted.
United Airlines replied: "Your clubs will be in tomorrow and we'll deliver them to the tournament for you."
McIlroy was returning from the US Open at Pinehurst in North Carolina, where he finished 15 shots behind runaway winner Martin Kaymer.
The Irish Open at Fota Island starts on Thursday, with McIlroy attempting to win the tournament for the first time.
The killing of Sarfaraz Shah was filmed by a TV cameraman and widely broadcast by Pakistani channels.
The soldiers belong to a paramilitary unit and are in jail awaiting formal charges. Pakistani prosecutors say they will pursue murder charges.
A security guard from the park where Mr Shah was killed is also in custody.
Police say they have completed their investigation into the incident and the case now rests with the prosecutors.
"We have been handed over the charges against the men by the police," public prosecutor Arshad Iqbal Cheema told the BBC.
"We are examining them and will present them in court once we have been satisfied."
The strongest piece of evidence is the video footage recorded by a cameraman for Awaz (The Voice) TV, a local Pakistani channel.
By Syed Shoaib HasanBBC News, Karachi
Police officials escorted the men into the court amid tight security. The accused had their faces covered to conceal their features.
Police officials say that they have asked for the men to be tried under Pakistan's anti-terror law, which also deals with especially horrendous crimes. They face a possible death penalty.
But public prosecutors say they still need to examine the evidence before asking for such a punishment.
Pakistan's government is under tremendous public pressure to punish the men. It is all part of a rising wave of anger against the country's security forces.
Many people are now calling for accountability in the face of instances of inefficiency and abuse of power.
The footage, which surfaced last week, showed Sarfaraz Shah, wearing a black T-shirt, being dragged by his hair in a public park by a man in plain clothes and pushed towards a group of Sindh Rangers who are in uniform and armed.
He pleads for his life as one of the Rangers points a gun at his neck and a little later a Ranger shoots him twice at close range, hitting him in the thigh. The young man is seen writhing on the ground, bleeding heavily and begging for help.
The paramilitaries did nothing to help him. He died from his injuries.
The Rangers say he was caught trying to rob someone. His family denies this.
Police said they recovered a fake pistol, which Mr Shah was carrying, as well as the two bullets which killed him. They have also interviewed 17 witnesses.
The video prompted further widespread criticism of the Pakistani security establishment, which is already under fire for the recent killing of a journalist, Saleem Shahzad.
Journalists, politicians and rights activists have accused the army's intelligence service, the ISI, of the murder, a charge which the ISI denies.
The Royal Navy said the exercise on a surface ship triggered a fire suppression system.
Emergency services were called to the naval base just after 05:30.
They were taken to the Royal Alexandria Hospital as a precaution. Their families have been informed, and an investigation has been launched.
A Royal Navy spokesman said: "We can confirm that there has been an incident on a surface ship alongside HM Naval Base Clyde this morning.
"A routine fire exercise triggered the fire suppression system, which resulted in a number of personnel inhaling a gas.
"Six personnel were taken to hospital as a precaution; all others were declared fit at the naval base's sick bay."
The Faslane base on the Clyde is home to the UK's fleet of Trident nuclear submarines.
US consumer spending jumped by 1% in April, the largest month-on-month gain since August 2009.
Consumer spending makes up two-thirds of US economic activity.
But in May, the consumer confidence index dipped to 92.6 from 94.7 in April, as Americans worried about the long-term outlook of the job market.
"Consumers remain cautious about the outlook for business and labour market conditions. Thus, they continue to expect little change in economic activity in the months ahead," said Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board.
The rise in spending, though, has solidified many investors' belief that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates when it meets in June.
Consumer spending was flat in March and rose by just 0.2% in February.
The positive news from April also included gains in wages, which rose 0.5%.
Spending on durable goods, which includes items such as cars, increased by 2.3%, while spending on non-durable goods, including clothing and food, climbed 1.4%.
Core inflation - which excludes food and energy prices - rose by 1.6%. The Fed has been closely monitoring inflation to determine when to raise interest rates and said it is targeting a goal of 2% inflation over the next few years.
At a speech on Friday, US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen said she expected the central bank would raise interest rates in the coming months.
The old adversaries squared up in an ugly first-half moment when Wenger shoved Mourinho in the chest in Chelsea's technical area after Gary Cahill's challenge on Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez.
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A semblance of order was restored although the tension still resurfaced - but as so often, it was Mourinho who had the last word with a win that puts the Blues five points ahead of second-placed Manchester City.
Eden Hazard's first-half penalty put them on their way after he was fouled by Laurent Koscielny, while Diego Costa's ninth goal in seven games since his £32m summer move from Atletico Madrid wrapped up the win.
This never threatened to be a repeat of Chelsea's 6-0 thrashing of Arsenal in March that marred Wenger's 1,000th match in charge of the Gunners, but there was rarely a moment when his side threatened to end his dismal sequence against Mourinho as they suffered their first league loss of the season.
The home side may not have produced the flamboyant football that has featured in some of their play this season, but the old steel at the back is still in evidence and, in Costa and former Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas, they have acquired a potent partnership.
Costa's goalscoring has caught the eye but the wonderful raking pass from Fabregas that set up the second goal silenced the taunts aimed from the visiting fans and was his seventh Premier League assist of the season.
It was the crowning moment of a Chelsea performance that was ruthlessly efficient and sounded an ominous note to those hoping to stop Mourinho reclaiming the Premier League title this season.
Chelsea even survived the early loss of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who was taken off before half-time and replaced by Petr Cech after taking a bang on the head in a collision with Sanchez, with the Belgian taken to hospital as a precaution.
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Courtois's problems started when he raced out to beat Sanchez to a through ball and there was an accidental clash between the pair - the young goalkeeper recovered after being flat out but was unable to complete the half, the Chelsea medical team eventually signalling to Mourinho that he need to be replaced.
If the action on the pitch took time to get going, there was no time-wasting between Mourinho and Wenger as their obvious personal animosity quickly boiled over.
Wenger took exception to Mourinho giving his view on Cahill's tackle on Sanchez, marching menacingly into the Chelsea technical area before giving his counterpart a very clear two-handed shove in the chest.
Mourinho, not surprisingly, was unimpressed and it took the intervention of fourth official Jon Moss to at least restore a small measure of calm between the pair.
Arsenal had acquitted themselves well without putting Chelsea under serious pressure, but were unlocked by the pace and trickery of Hazard to go behind after 27 minutes. Koscielny had no other answer to the Belgian's run into the area than to stick his leg out and bring him down, with Hazard recovering his poise to score from the spot.
Chelsea, while not being at their best, had restricted Arsenal to the extent that the visiting attacking threat was non-existent, but the Gunners had a genuine grievance when Fabregas stopped Jack Wilshere's shot from the edge of the area with raised arms just after the hour, only for referee Martin Atkinson to remain unmoved.
And while Chelsea were resolute in defence, there remained the ever-present threat of Costa. He had barely been in the game but pounced to put the match out of Arsenal's reach with 12 minutes left.
Fabregas, as he has been so often this season since joining Chelsea from Barcelona in the summer, was the creator, as a long pass sent Costa beyond Arsenal's defence to lift a finish over Wojciech Szczesny.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho:
"The start of the season is good, but it's just seven matches and beginning of October.
"'I'm even more pleased to win because we played against a good Arsenal. They played a good game and gave us a difficult game.
"We were able to deal with it without problems, which is fantastic. When we were 1-0 up the game was almost in the pocket."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"It was a very intense game and very tight as well.
"It was about not making a mistake and not giving the first goal away. After that we were 1-0 down.
"We had good opportunities in the first half and we have to turn these into dangerous situations and finish them.
"After that in the second half it was all us and we were a bit unlucky. We made a mistake on the second goal, and the second goal killed the game off."
Match ends, Chelsea 2, Arsenal 0.
Second Half ends, Chelsea 2, Arsenal 0.
Offside, Chelsea. Branislav Ivanovic tries a through ball, but Diego Costa is caught offside.
Danny Welbeck (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Danny Welbeck (Arsenal).
Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Calum Chambers (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kieran Gibbs.
Attempt blocked. Lukas Podolski (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Substitution, Chelsea. Willian replaces Oscar.
Oscar (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oscar (Chelsea).
Attempt missed. Lukas Podolski (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mesut Özil with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by John Obi Mikel.
Substitution, Arsenal. Tomas Rosicky replaces Jack Wilshere.
Attempt missed. Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Danny Welbeck.
Substitution, Arsenal. Lukas Podolski replaces Alexis Sánchez.
Goal! Chelsea 2, Arsenal 0. Diego Costa (Chelsea) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Cesc Fàbregas with a through ball.
Mathieu Flamini (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Diego Costa (Chelsea).
Attempt missed. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is just a bit too high. Assisted by Diego Costa.
Attempt missed. Calum Chambers (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Mesut Özil (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Obi Mikel (Chelsea).
Foul by Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal).
Eden Hazard (Chelsea) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Chelsea. John Obi Mikel replaces André Schürrle.
Substitution, Arsenal. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain replaces Santiago Cazorla.
Attempt blocked. Santiago Cazorla (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
André Schürrle (Chelsea) is shown the yellow card.
Delay in match Oscar (Chelsea) because of an injury.
Attempt blocked. Mathieu Flamini (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Welbeck.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Cesc Fàbregas.
Attempt blocked. Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Danny Welbeck.
Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eden Hazard (Chelsea).
Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Wojciech Szczesny.
Santiago Cazorla (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cesc Fàbregas (Chelsea).
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The boy appeared in Ballymena Magistrates' Court in County Antrim.
He is charged with attempting to possess a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life.
A police officer told the court that she believed the boy's intention was to intimidate another person using the weapon.
He was arrested at a retail park in Coleraine, County Londonderry on Thursday.
A police officer said the boy was detained when he met an "operative" at the retail park.
The court heard that the accused tried to give the operative £150 to pay for the ammunition and that he believed he could further purchase the gun.
It also heard that the defendant told the operative that "his intention was to intimidate a third party".
The police officer told the court that during an interview with police, the boy provided a pre-prepared statement naming a Jamaican man who he said had asked him to collect blank ammunition and a deactivated gun.
The officer said the accused told police he was to collect the deactivated gun in a few days.
She added: "It was in fact a live gun and ammunition."
The officer said the police opposed bail and alleged the defendant's only reason for purchasing the gun was to cause serious injury.
She said: "The account provided was somewhat unbelievable.
"He provided an account that he was purchasing a gun for a male that was a Jamaican national living in Northern Ireland who he was friendly with on Facebook."
She said none of his friends on Facebook matched the name given for the 40-year-old friend.
The officer said if the child was released he could destroy evidence by deleting any conversations he may have had online.
However, the accused's lawyer said there was no evidence presented to support what his client's intent was and described the police's assertions as "guesswork".
The judge released the defendant on bail of £500 with conditions that he stays at home overnight and does not possess a mobile phone or any other internet-enabled device.
He was also warned that he could spend months in a juvenile justice centre awaiting trial if he broke any of the conditions.
The 14-year-old is due to appear in court again on 25 April.
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The team - known as the Bluebirds - played in blue shirts at home on Saturday for the first time since 2012 after the club's owner agreed to change the colour back from red.
Owner Vincent Tan gave the go-ahead on Friday after a meeting with supporters.
On Saturday, chief executive Ken Choo said fans were "buzzing" just before kick-off amid a carnival atmosphere.
Earlier on Saturday, firefighters were called to the stadium after cladding on the roof of the Ninian Stand came loose after strong winds battered Wales overnight.
The controversial rebrand to red was introduced by Tan after he bought the club but was unpopular with supporters.
The red shirt - introduced in June 2012 to appeal to international markets - will remain as Cardiff's away kit.
The Football League has given its permission for Cardiff to change their playing strip mid-campaign.
The club's badge will also be changed to give the Bluebird mascot more prominence.
In a statement, Tan said his mother had been instrumental in his change of heart over the kit's colour.
"The Christmas and New Year period has given me time to reflect on events of the last year," he said.
"Spending time with my family has had a profound effect upon me, my mother... spoke to me on the importance of togetherness, unity and happiness.
"Cardiff City Football Club is important to me and I wish to see it united and happy."
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Eamon Kelly, 52, from Didcot, was described as "distraught" by his partner.
National newspapers have reported he admitted cheating in this year's race from Tarbes in France to his home town.
He allegedly registered 14 birds for the race, then kept them in his loft while sending another set to France.
The National Flying Club said it has now launched an investigation.
Ron Cook, a former member of the club and friend of Eamon Kelly, said: "There will be high level meetings over the next few days - where all the evidence will be examined.
"Until such time before the matter goes before the national flying club committee there is no more comment."
Mr Kelly is reported to be the reigning champion of the "Tarbes National" race from France, after winning last year.
The board generally grants premises extended hours at Christmas and New Year, unless there are reasons for refusing permission.
It has now started public consultation on a plan to apply the same approach to other times of the year.
Extended hours may also be made more readily available during big events.
These include the Royal National Mod.
Board chairwoman Maxine Smith said: "We are looking for as many people as possible to take part and let us know their views."
The consultation period runs until 17 April and the board will consider the responses at a meeting in Inverness on 12 May.
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The chastening loss at London Stadium ensured the host nation failed to reach the final of the tournament.
Bennett said his side "self-destructed" at times during Sunday's game.
The Australian added: "Right now, they don't believe. They just have to realise how good they can be - they don't get that part unfortunately."
England, who needed to avoid defeat to qualify for next Sunday's final at Anfield, led 6-2 after half-an-hour against the tournament favourites.
But they gave away a series of needless penalties and failed to make the most of the openings they created during a frustrating afternoon for Bennett and his team.
By the mid-point of the second half they trailed 28-6, and they conceded six tries in total.
"They have to recognise what is beating them," said Bennett. "They have got to fix it in their daily habits and they have got 12 months before the World Cup to fix it.
"There's lots of talent, they can play, the problem is that they have to learn to compete at this level under pressure."
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England lost their opening Four Nations match 17-16 against New Zealand but defeated Scotland before losing by 18 points against the Kangaroos.
It was England's 11th straight defeat against Australia but, despite criticising aspects of his players' performances during the tournament, Bennett was insistent the gap between the sides is not all that big.
"I have enjoyed being with the players immensely," added the 66-year-old, who was taking charge of England for the first time at the Four Nations. "They are great blokes to be around.
"It makes me more frustrated than ever, angry even in my case, because they are not showing how good they can be.
"They are not that far behind. I cannot fault them off the field, they have just got to get it right on the field.
"They are very capable and a better team than a lot of people realise. I thought there would have been a lot more issues when I took charge."
Australia will face New Zealand in the final after winning all three of their round-robin games.
However, skipper Cameron Smith felt the scoreline in London flattered his team.
"It was a high-quality game and England were very good," said the Melbourne Storm hooker.
"We had to come up with some special plays to get points against them. The scoreline did not reflect the contest.
"The gap is not widening, it might look that way but it was fairly tight through the whole 80 minutes."
Former England utility player Jon Wilkin, speaking to BBC Sport on Facebook Live:
Australia are world class and will win the Four Nations in style against New Zealand next week.
Half-back Cooper Cronk was sensational today, while the packs pretty much cancelled each other out.
Was the venue an issue? There were 35,000 people in the London Stadium, and the atmosphere was OK.
Maybe we can look at that and play to our strengths. I know we need to promote the game, and spread the game to the south, but we need to do what's best for the national team.
For coach Wayne Bennett, there were some real thought-provoking moments in the game. The question remains how England unlock the southern hemisphere teams.
Former Great Britain coach Brian Noble on BBC One:
There is room for improvement for England. You have to move pieces forward, you might get beaten initially in a game of chess but you hope it starts a winning game.
Hopefully, coach Wayne Bennett's principles of the 'smarts' and the things he has spoken about come to fruition. He clearly said he needs time with the players.
Former dual-code international Jonathan Davies on BBC One:
Australia did the softening-up period. They did the hard work, the had graft and hard yards, coupled with the good kicking and chasing.
They put the pressure on England in the right areas of the field and then turned on the style.
Centre-half De Havilland made 23 appearances for the Chairboys last season after signing from Sheffield Wednesday in July 2016.
The 22-year-old started his career at Millwall, before moving to Hillsborough in 2014.
"I really like it here - like Wycombe, it's a very tight-knit squad," he told the club website.
He returned to the top spot with What Do You Mean after being knocked off last week by Sam Smith's Bond theme.
The only other songs to reach number one three times are Frankie Laine's I Believe, Guy Mitchell's Singing The Blues and Pharrell Williams' Happy.
This week's number one album was a new entry from Rudimental.
We The Generation, the band's second album, includes tracks with Ed Sheeran, Bobby Womack, Ella Eyre and Lianne La Havas.
It took over the number one slot from Disclosure's Caracal, which slipped down to number eight.
Sheeren's X, which has been around for 68 weeks, is once again back in the top five, sitting at number two.
Editors' fifth studio album, In Dream, is a new entry at number five.
Bieber's What Do You Mean was the most streamed track of the week, with 2.91 million listens in the past week.
The Canadian pop star was in the news this week after photos of emerged of him naked on holiday. His lawyers have demanded websites remove the pictures, citing an invasion of privacy.
The UK singles chart saw R City's Locked Away, featuring Adam Levine, rise one place to number two, while Sam Smith's Writing on the Wall slipped to three.
A new entry into the top 100 was Alone No More by Philip George and Anton Powers, which reached number four.
The top five was completed by Ellie Goulding's On My Mind.
The UNHCR said this was the largest influx in such a short period since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011.
The Syrian Kurds are fleeing an advance by Islamic State (IS) militants, who have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in recent months.
IS fighters are reported to be closing in on the Syrian town of Kobane.
The capture of Kobane, also known as Ayn al-Arabon, would give the jihadists complete control of the area.
Even before the latest influx, Turkey was struggling to cope with more than a million Syrian refugees who have crossed into its territory since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began more than three years ago.
Carol Batchelor, the UNHCR's envoy in Turkey, told the BBC that such high numbers of refugees would place a strain on any host community.
The sheer number of refugees would overwhelm any country.
Added to that, they are Kurds from Syria, many of them deeply hostile to Turkey. For 30 years, Turkish forces fought Kurdish rebels in a civil war that killed 40,000 people.
The fact that Turkey is accepting tens of thousands of Kurds is a sign of how allegiances are being forced to change with the onslaught of Islamic State. But deep-seated tension between Kurds and Turks have again come to the surface, leading to border clashes on Sunday.
Turkey fears that Kurds will cross into Syria to join the Kurdish militia. The worry is that, renewed by fresh recruits, it could ally with the outlawed PKK and launch attacks on Turkish soil.
All the regional complexities, added to the refugee influx, make for a precarious situation here.
She called for "increased solidarity and international assistance" for those flooding across the border.
"The situation is deepening. It's becoming protracted. People are desperately in need," she added.
Ms Batchelor said food, blankets and winter clothing - particularly for children - were needed.
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said his country was preparing for "the worst case scenario" - an influx of hundreds of thousands more refugees.
"I hope that we are not faced with a more populous refugee wave but if we are, we have taken precautions. If necessary, we have planned how to send these people to safer and further places," he said.
Anwar Muslim, president of the Kobane regional government, told the BBC that Kurdish fighters had inflicted heavy casualties on IS and pushed the militants back.
He accused the group of killing women, children and the elderly.
"All our ministers, like ordinary people, have picked up arms. Our people believe we can defeat IS. Our morale is high," he said.
On Friday, Turkey opened a 30km (19 mile) section of its south-west border to Syrian Kurds fleeing Kobane.
Clashes then broke out on Sunday after protests by Kurds on the Turkish side of the border, some waving banners of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
The BBC's Mark Lowen, at the scene, said Turkish forces were trying to stop Kurdish fighters from entering Syria to take part in the defence of Kobane.
By Monday only two out of nine border posts in the area remained open, the UNHCR said.
Our correspondent says the Syrian conflict has reawakened old hostilities and shaken a fragile peace between Kurds and Turkish authorities.
The PKK, a banned militant group that fought a civil war for autonomy within Turkey for decades, has called on Kurds to join the fight against IS.
PKK-affiliated forces have been battling IS in northern Iraq for months.
In other developments:
The US has said it will attack the group in Syria, though so far it has carried out air strikes against IS only in Iraq.
On Monday, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France would not launch air strikes against IS in Syria despite having attacked the group in northern Iraq last week.
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair told the BBC on Sunday that air strikes alone might not be enough to contain the group.
"If necessary, we shouldn't rule out the use of, particularly, special force capabilities," he said.
US President Barack Obama previously ruled out the involvement of US ground troops, and has instead promised to provide arms and training to local forces fighting against IS.
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New counter-terror rules aimed at exposing radicalisation require schools to report suspicions about pupils to the police.
The National Union of Teachers says the rules are stifling debate in schools.
The Conservatives said the guidance made clear that no teacher should feel unable to talk about sensitive issues.
A party spokesman said teaching about "fundamental British values" actively encouraged such discussions.
But the NUT conference in Harrogate heard how teachers were becoming too nervous to discuss controversial issues such as Islamic fundamentalism.
One Wandsworth teacher, Jan Nielsen, said: "We are expected to be front-line stormtroopers who listen, spy and notify the authorities of students who we are suspicious of."
She told delegates of a Muslim pupil who had been questioned over comments he made after Friday prayers, even though he had made a strong argument against extremism.
And she gave a case of another boy being questioned after he applied for permission to visit his dying grandfather in Pakistan.
His laptop was seized and he was accused of looking at jihadi websites by the headteacher.
In response the boy said: "How can I argue against something if I don't understand it?"
Other teachers claimed Muslims were being demonised and turned into suspects.
Executive member Alex Kenny told delegates the union was already hearing that teachers did not know whether to open up discussions on such issues because they did not know "where they would go".
He added: "Prevent is shutting down debate and we must oppose it. Schools are places where teachers and children should be allowed to have discussions."
The "Prevent" strategy is part of the government's counter-terrorism strategy, designed to discourage people from supporting terrorism.
In certain circumstances teachers could also face prosecution if they failed to alert the police to any concerns they have about pupils.
Schools must also actively promote "British values" and are judged on how well they teach these as part of the school inspection process.
Delegates agreed a motion which said: "The government's promotion of British values, the Prevent agenda and the use of Ofsted to monitor these is having the effect of closing down spaces for such discussion and that many school staff are now unwilling to allow discussions in their classroom for fear of the consequences."
Speaking ahead of the debate, NUT general secretary Christine Blower gave the example of how teachers had felt conflicted when dealing with the issue of the attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo.
"When the appalling attacks took place at Charlie Hebdo, quite a few teachers said pupils were bringing it into class saying it is a big news story - what is happening here?," she said.
"After the attack, some students, particularly some Muslim students, said they felt if they expressed that they were offended by the cartoons, they would be labelled as extremist.
"The idea that young people themselves are shutting this down means that they are locked out of the discussion."
She said the way to deal with such controversial matters was "to have proper discussions within a robust framework".
And she argued that if any concerns about extremism or radicalisation among pupils emerged in schools, they should be dealt with under existing safeguarding procedures in schools.
Kalsoom Bashir of counter-extremism organisation Inspire agreed that early intervention was key.
She said: "Prevent really is about working with people whether they're members of the community, as mothers we work with, or with teachers, about the need to have open and frank conversations - and recognise when somebody maybe at risk of going down a criminal path and start having those conversations very, very early."
A spokesman for the Conservatives said: "The battle against extremism begins at school where young people learn to be active, resilient and tolerant citizens, ready to seize the rich opportunities of modern Britain.
"Teaching about the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and tolerance and respect for others is part of our promotion of British values and is at the heart of what every school has to deliver for children.
"We want all schools to promote these values throughout the curriculum, not just as a bulwark against extremism, but as a vital part of preparing young people to get on in life. It helps to open young people's minds, making them into citizens who respect difference, who welcome disagreement and who challenge intolerance."
It topped the rundown with combined chart sales of 38,000, according to the Official Charts Company.
The achievement comes after the group were named best British newcomer at the Brit Awards earlier this year.
"It's class to be number one with the new album. We're made up with that. Thank you!" the band told the Official Charts Company.
Drake's Views held firm at two in the chart, while Beyonce's Lemonade climbed one place to number three.
Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams jumped four places to four in anticipation of their Wembley Arena dates later this month, and ABC entered the chart at five with The Lexicon of Love II, their first top 10 in 26 years.
Fifth Harmony were another new entry at six with their second album 7/27, while last week's number one - Ariana Grande's Dangerous Woman - tumbled to number eight.
In the singles chart, Drake notched up his eighth week at the top with his single One Dance.
The track is now the longest-running UK chart-topper since Rihanna's Umbrella, which racked up an unbroken 10-week run at the summit in 2007.
One Dance sold just shy of 85,000 combined chart sales, made up of 23,000 sales and 6.15 million streams.
This week's highest new entry goes to Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson's new single Tears, which dropped in at number six.
The track gives last year's X Factor winner a second top 10, following her number nine peak with the winner's single Forever Young.
US singer-songwriter Gnash enters the top 10 for the first time with I Hate You, I Love You, up four spots to number eight.
There are two more big climbers: Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam's Sex - a reworking of Salt-N-Pepa's Let's Talk About Sex - which lifts six places to number 14; and Pink's Just Like Fire jumped 14 spots to 22.
Parent company Sahaviriya Steel Industries (SSI) said it expected "zero recovery" from the Redcar operation.
The Teesside furnaces and coke ovens were closed with a loss of 2,200 jobs in October.
Its liquidation meant SSI recorded an overall third quarter loss of 33,122m baht (£600m).
Group Chief Executive Mr. Win Viriyaprapaikit, said: "At present, the company on a conservative basis expects zero recovery after the completion of the SSI UK liquidation."
Redcar was founded in 1917, producing steel that was used to build iconic structures such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
SSI bought the plant from Tata Steel in 2011.
Mr Win said that SSI had been hit by a collapse in demand worldwide and in the last quarter alone sales from its upstream business, which included Redcar, fell 15%.
He said: "Global steel over-capacity and demand imbalance since late 2014 and the continuous decline in steel prices resulted in a huge operating loss for the group this year."
Health officials are being asked to approve plans first mooted in 2013 for additional facilities at Rhyl's Royal Alexandra Hospital so they can get the final sign off by the Welsh Government.
The aim is to offer a full range of care "closer to home" and 28 beds, according to a report.
The local AM said he was pleased progress was "finally" being made.
The plan is to refurbish the existing hospital and build a community hospital on the site.
The report to Betsi Cadwaladr health board said the additional services at Rhyl could reduce impact on nearby Glan Clwyd Hospital and alleviate strain on inpatient beds at community hospitals.
"Providing medical, nursing and therapist assessments and treatments, the unit will be designed to offer patients a faster and more convenient alternative to admission to inpatient beds," said the report.
The current Grade II-listed building was originally built as a children's hospital and convalescent home in the 1890s.
The plan is to refurbish the existing facility and build a community hospital on the site with costings revised from the £22m figure estimated in 2013.
The health board has been looking to improve patient care in north Denbighshire since the closure of care beds at Prestatyn Community Hospital in 2013.
Clwyd West AM Darren Millar said: "I am extremely pleased that progress is finally being made on this development - it's been a long time coming."
Vale of Clwyd MP Dr James Davies said: "When beds were lost at the hospital back in 2009 it only added to the pressure on services at Glan Clwyd as we pointed out to the Welsh Government repeatedly. I urge Cardiff to back this project so we can finally move forward."
The health board, which meets on Thursday, is being asked to rubber stamp the outline business case so it can be passed to the Welsh Government for final approval.
Work could begin in 2018 should the plans get planning consent and final approval.
About 200 people had to take refuge at a Porthmadog leisure centre when they were stranded overnight at the festival's end in early September.
Organiser Gareth Cooper said they were "truly sorry" for the "awful" ordeal.
However he said they had had no way of knowing what would happen in advance.
In a statement, Mr Cooper said: "The weather we experienced this year at Festival No6 was extreme to say the least and it was certainly our most challenging festival to date.
"The consequent ordeal faced by people at the park and ride was awful and for that we are truly sorry.
"However, despite the rumours and unfounded accusations flying around, we had no way of knowing this would happen and had no warning to that effect until the flood was literally in progress.
"Why would we knowingly risk people's property and our reputation? It simply makes no sense."
He also apologised for a perceived lack of personal contact with complainants seeking compensation.
"Large scale claims like this can take a while to resolve - we have worked around the clock to push this through at no small cost to ourselves and hopefully we have reached a conclusion in record time that will satisfy everyone affected," he added.
Mr Cooper confirmed the festival remained committed to holding the festival in the region, and thanked local people who came to the aid of stranded festival-goers.
The festival, named after a character in the cult series The Prisoner which was filmed at Portmeirion, is in its fifth year.
Luke Durbin, 19, of Hollesley, failed to return home after a night out in Ipswich on 11 May 2006.
No-one has been charged in connection with the case and the reward is the first to be put up since the investigation began.
His mother, Nicki, said: "My family and I desperately need answers."
Luke had spent part of the Thursday evening in Zest nightclub on Princes Street and was last seen on CCTV cameras near the Cattle Market bus station in the early hours of the following morning.
The reward has been put up jointly by Nicki Durbin, Crimestoppers, Suffolk Police, the East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Star.
Ms Durbin said: "It's more than nine years since I reported Luke as missing.
"We still believe somebody locally knows what happened to Luke and we're hopeful this reward can be the incentive that finally makes them come forward with the information that helps us find my son."
Det Supt John Brocklebank said: "We don't make decisions to offer rewards lightly because there are legal ramifications.
"We had enough lines of inquiry to pursue without offering a reward earlier and the timing is for operational reasons - we are now appealing for people who may have information who want or need the financial reward."
Suffolk Police said they also wanted to establish who was driving a white or silver Volvo 440 on Orwell Place at 04:09 BST on Friday, 12 May, 2006.
CCTV cameras captured a picture of the vehicle, but its number plate was not visible.
Police said they had confirmed there was a Volvo 440 in the Ipswich area with a M206 LYE number plate at the time, but it was registered under a false name and address and they are keen to hear from anyone who recognises this number plate so they can confirm whether it was the car in the CCTV images.
According to its website, it has 11 branches in Northern Ireland though some are located within HMV shops.
Those shops are thought to employ around 60 people. The company operates a further 71 stores in the Republic of Ireland.
Oxtermont, the Dublin-based holding company of the chain, was placed into liquidation on Wednesday morning.
The company said the move was a "direct result of the market decline of shop counter rental".
"This has resulted in a 30% drop year on year in over the counter DVD rental," the firm said in a statement.
In 2001, video shops in the UK made 198m rentals.
By 2014 that number was down to 36m and most of those were done through the post.
In that environment, it's surprising that Xtravision managed to stagger on as long as it did.
The liquidators Grant Thornton said their first priority would be to meet and brief employees at all 83 locations and process their entitlements for redundancy.
They added that over the coming days they will be in contact with all creditors of the company.
Any Xtra-vision gift vouchers will be honoured by HMV which is not affected by the liquidation.
Xtra-vision was bought by Hilco Capital Ireland in June 2013 for an undisclosed sum.
Hilco specialises in buying distressed retail businesses.
The company had previously been owned by Blockbuster and then an Irish investor.
Clive Rees, from Tumble, was celebrating his 65th birthday on the Caribbean island with his wife Sonia when he was hit by a car.
He is being treated in an intensive care unit after developing pneumonia and breathing difficulties.
Mr Rees is unable to return home on a commercial flight and the family is raising money for an air ambulance.
They have made a heartfelt plea to the public to help them reach their target following the incident on 13 May.
"You always think something like this will never happen to you," said daughter Tracy Rees.
"We just want him home."
Miss Rees said the response has been "overwhelming", with support from family, friends and local businesses.
"We've raised about £2,000 so far," she said.
"I just can't believe how generous everyone is. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."
The £65,000 air ambulance fee encompasses a return trip from the UK, refuelling and a team of medical staff to look after Mr Rees.
The company, which has about 20% of Scottish output of farmed salmon, produced 30,200 tonnes during 2014.
That was a 40% rise on 2013. The company said the growth of fish was helped by sustained warm water temperatures during the year.
More than two-fifths of output is exported, with six countries being added to its overseas markets in 2015.
The company, which has its headquarters in Edinburgh, has about 60 fish farms and hatcheries, with more than 400 employees.
The parent company in Oslo reported to the Norwegian stock exchange that the Scottish Salmon Company made pre-tax earnings of £13.7m, up from £3.5m in 2013.
That was on full-year revenue of £126m, up from £82.4m.
Managing director Craig Anderson said: "Salmon is Scotland's largest food export, to which we are a significant contributor.
"Scotland is quite rightly using 2015 to showcase its produce with the Year of Food and Drink. We're proud to be part of this and will showcase our salmon to the eyes of the world."
Output for 2013 is forecast to remain at about 30,000 tonnes.
The culprit left the Christmas paper after unwrapping and stealing £900 in items, including three Android tablets.
Sue Percival's grandchildren and daughter, Steph Summers, found the grim scene when visiting her home at Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taff.
Her four-year-old, Tristan, the first in the house, told her: "Mum, Santa's been. All the presents are open."
Grandmother-of-seven Ms Percival said: "We are devastated.
"I had finished all of my Christmas shopping because I started it in September.
"They stole the presents, including the electronic tablets I bought, all the alcohol and even all of my change that I had put in a coin counter for emergencies.
"The police said they think it is a personal targeted attack and that somebody might had waited for me to go to work."
South Wales Police's Sgt Adam Johnson said the burglar struck on Wednesday between 07:30-11:30 GMT.
He said: "The burglar forced the back door and made a search of the house, spending time to unwrap the Christmas presents which were in the house and choosing to take the high-value items and alcohol.
"The carnage was discovered by the children in the family who have now had their Christmas spoilt thanks to this callous person."
Among the items stolen were three computer tablets, trainers, perfumes sets and a large amount of alcohol.
Inside the brains of human subjects, they pinpointed the unique imprints of two visual memories that were triggered by the same word.
Then they watched as repeatedly recalling one of the images caused the second, interfering memory to vanish.
The study is published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
The results suggest that our brains actively delete memories that might distract us from the task at hand.
"People are used to thinking of forgetting as something passive," said lead author Dr Maria Wimber from the University of Birmingham.
"Our research reveals that people are more engaged than they realise in shaping what they remember of their lives."
Dr Wimber performed the study with colleagues from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.
She told the BBC the implications of the new findings were not as simple as a "one in, one out" policy for memory storage.
"It's not that we're pushing something out of our head every time we're putting something new in.
"The brain seems to think that the things we use frequently are the things that are really valuable to us. So it's trying to keep things clear - to make sure that we can access those important things really easily, and push out of the way those things that are competing or interfering."
The idea that frequently recalling something can cause us to forget closely related memories is not new; Dr Wimber explained that it had "been around since the 1990s".
But never before had scientists managed to confirm that this was the result of an active suppression of the interfering memory, rather than just a passive deterioration.
What made the discovery possible was identifying reliable indicators that her subjects were recalling a given picture, inside their visual cortex.
She did this by getting them to do a number of "boring" tasks in the brain scanner, before the memory trials even began. This might involve looking at a picture of Marilyn Monroe, or Albert Einstein, many times over.
"We show people visual pictures of these memories over and over again - and we can sample the prototypical brain response to those pictures," Dr Wimber explained.
This allowed the researchers to discover what was distinctive about the "Monroe" pattern compared to the "Einstein" one.
Then, by triggering them both with the same, unrelated word (eg "sand") but only asking for one to be remembered, they were able to watch, say, the Monroe trace persist while Einstein withered and faded.
Dr Wimber hopes the findings could prove useful in psychology, where erasing specific memories is sometimes exactly what patients need.
"Forgetting is often viewed as a negative thing, but of course, it can be incredibly useful when trying to overcome a negative memory from our past," she said.
"So there are opportunities for this to be applied in areas to really help people."
Dr Hugo Spiers, a senior lecturer in behavioural neuroscience at University College London, told BBC News the research was exciting and elegantly done.
"This is an example of good brain imaging research," he said.
"The results go beyond simply revealing that a brain region is involved in memory: they provide insights into the mechanisms used by the brain to achieve this."
The work also impressed Dr Eva Feredoes, who studies memory mechanisms at the University of Reading. She said the finding could even prove useful for tackling memory loss in dementia.
"We know that memories compete with each other at different stages while they are being remembered and when they are retrieved, with the losers of the competition forgotten from memory," Dr Feredoes said.
"Solving this complex 'competition' could pave the way for new research into new treatments in diseases that affect memory, such as dementia. Importantly, there are now several techniques to improve brain function. Combined with these results, we have viable mechanisms and brain areas to target with these techniques."
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Thomas Elmer, 27, and James Bibby, 24, died at the Sonae chipboard factory in Kirkby, Merseyside, when a conveyor belt started automatically in 2010.
Sonae and Metso Paper, which carried out maintenance work for Sonae, admitted failing to ensure the safety of their employees.
They will be sentenced on Friday or next week at Liverpool Crown Court.
The court heard the two colleague, both from Rossendale, had been repairing a worn sprocket on the conveyor belt when it dragged them into a large silo.
There was no emergency stop button on the belt and the men died from "catastrophic injuries".
The belt could start on its own on a signal from a computer if it were not isolated from its power source, the hearing was told.
Neither Sonae or Metso (now known as Valma Ltd) produced a risk assessment for the work to be carried out on the day the two men were killed.
The prosecution said Sonae's "generic" risk assessment only mentioned the isolation of machinery from a power source "in passing".
An inquest jury previously found there was a lack of training in how to use the factory's equipment.
The Sonae site, which opened in 2000, was badly damaged by a large fire in August 2011 in which a demolition worker - James Dennis Kay, 62, from Heywood, Greater Manchester - died.
The plant closed in September 2012 with the loss of 220 jobs.
Stephen Probert, 40, and Vicky Banks, 31, both from Caerphilly county, were on the run for two years before the BBC TV appeal helped police to catch them.
They posed as a couple hoping to buy a new car before stealing over 25 high-value vehicles.
They and other gang members have been sentenced at Newport Crown Court.
Cars, including an Audi A3 and a Volkswagen Golf, both worth £10,000, were stolen around Britain between June 2013 and October 2014.
Four of Probert's criminal gang were arrested, but ringleader Probert and Banks, both from Blackwood, went on the run.
Tip-offs from the public helped officers apprehend the couple, who were living in Cyprus and travelling back to Wales.
Probert pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal motor vehicles and was jailed for one years and eight months.
Banks was given an eight-month jail sentence, suspended for two years.
Probert was already serving 16 years for conspiracy to steal motor cars and and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Judge David Wynn Morgan called him "a devious and manipulative criminal".
Gang members Keri Davies, 31, of Risca, and Anthony Woodington, 40, of Maerdy, were jailed for eight months.
Neil Roberts, 33, of Trebanog, and Kelly Stephens, 32, from Risca, were each given a one year community order.
Samantha Wright, 28, of Mountain Ash, was bailed for a pre-sentence hearing.
The US company confirmed it had acquired the rights after reaching a deal with Mark Wolper, whose father David made the 1977 original.
It broke ratings records when it first aired and earned an unprecedented 37 Emmy nominations, winning nine of them.
It is hoped the new series will appear on screens some time during 2015.
The 1977 series aired over eight consecutive nights on ABC in the US, drawing 100 million viewers for its conclusion, nearly half of the entire country.
It was an unlikely hit with a largely black cast but is credited with helping to improve race relationships while blending fact and fiction into a soap opera package.
"We would like to revive that cultural icon for a new audience," History's Dirk Hoogstra told Deadline.
History has also acquired the rights to the book the mini-series was based on, Roots: The Saga Of An American Family, from the estate of author Alex Haley.
Writers are expected to draw on both sources from a contemporary perspective with Wolper acting as an executive producer.
Several big budget film projects have recently focused on the issue of slavery, including this year's Oscar hopeful 12 Years a Slave and Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film Django Unchained.
The History channel has also enjoyed success with blockbuster historical mini-series over the last few years, such as The Bible, Vikings and Hatfields & McCoys starring Kevin Costner.
"History in general is in the zeitgeist, which is great for us being a network whose name is History," Hoogstra said.
The eastbound carriageway was closed near junction 23, causing a traffic jam to junction 24 near Coldra.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had dealt with the incident.
All three lanes have since reopened.
The 47-year-old, who was detained in Londonderry on Saturday, has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
The three men who remain in custody are aged 36, 39 and 40.
The 36-year-old was arrested in Newry, County Down, on Sunday morning and a property was searched.
He was taken to Musgrave police station in Belfast for questioning.
Meanwhile, a 35-year-old man arrested in west Belfast on Saturday was later released unconditionally.
City lost 4-1 at home to Oxford United, their heaviest home loss since a 4-0 defeat to Huddersfield in October 2011 when the club was in League One.
"It was a pretty poor night. We had no real excuses for such a dismal performance," he told BBC Radio Devon.
"It was so poor in so many areas, it's hard to know where to start."
The result saw Exeter slip to 14th in League Two, having not won in their last four games, after a run of three wins in a row.
"We didn't look like a football side, we didn't pass the ball well enough, we didn't show for it, too many were shut down, it was just a generally dismal display," Tisdale added.
"I've not had as many as bad as that, but we just have to start again tomorrow and pick ourselves up."
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The Guinness World Record was last set in 2010, when 102 people met at Adventure Island in Southend in Essex to ride the Green Scream.
The new attempt was a fundraiser for Southend Hospital Charitable Foundation's Keyhole Cancer Appeal.
It was hoped 122 people would ride the rollercoaster, but only 57 took part.
They travelled from all over the UK, including Edinburgh, Newcastle and Swindon, to take part in the challenge.
Adventure Island operations director Andrew Renton said: "It's been an absolutely superb day with people all enjoying the chance to do something memorable, good fun and raise a large amount of money for a fantastic, local charity."
Lucy Thomas-Clayton, from Southend Hospital Charitable Foundation, said: "It takes a lot of nerve to take off all your clothes in front of complete strangers, plus the world's media - so we would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who was brave enough to bare all and raise such a huge amount of cash for our vitally important cause."
He swore at his teacher (using a particularly offensive word he just happens to like the sound of), he went over to a bigger boy in the park and licked his ice cream, then he told a woman out walking her dog that he doesn't like dogs except when they are turned into hot dogs.
All quite amusing really - Bruce Willis language aside - and all quite typical.
Dylan is autistic, you see, and so sees the world a bit differently. He finds it a stressful place; there is too much going on so he is prone to sensory overload, he also doesn't really get social interaction - how to act with other people, how to build and maintain friendships, how conversations work. I'm with him on that one, to be honest.
What autism needs isn't a cure, quacks claiming gluten causes it, or jabs or whatever; what it needs is simply greater awareness. No two autistic kids are the same, but there are similarities - the differently-wired brain, the sense of unease with a world which isn't autism friendly and is becoming less so, with brighter lights, more noise, just busier.
One of the best ways to think of it is with your own stress levels.
Maybe they're at one or two out of 10 right now. If something annoying happens - the wifi drops, you spill tea on your desk - maybe it goes up one. An autistic kid starts far higher, maybe at seven out of 10 - they go into a supermarket, a toy makes an unexpected noise and they're going up a notch to eight and you're soon into full-on meltdown.
For Dylan, a hand dryer can cause a meltdown, or the sound of an ice cream van, or a dog barking. As a parent, what you have is a kid who can't control themselves at this point. To anyone else watching, you have a six-year-old having a massive tantrum and parents who are weak, or flawed, or whatever.
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That's the negative side, though. Autistic kids can also have a unique sense of humour and a different take on the world.
Dylan is without doubt the funniest person I know, even if I'm the butt of his humour sometimes - like when he told the entire queue at the cinema that his dad is a bad man who sells tickets for the circus. Who knows where that one came from.
On Sunday, I'm going to be running the London Marathon in support of the National Autism Society.
They do great work raising awareness and generally supporting both people with autism and their parents. My wife and I went on one of their courses which was incredibly valuable - it's the sort of course which used to have council funding but is one of the first things to be cut in the name of austerity.
The more awareness there is, the more kids like Dylan can just be themselves. People will realise they are different, not naughty; their unique viewpoint will be valued not stifled.
Next time you see a kid have a meltdown you might see it differently, when a random kid grabs your arm to ask you if you know what Minecraft is you might see it just as their way of trying to engage in conversation.
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But now the Samaritans is offering to keep an eye out on your friends and family who may be vulnerable.
The app, called Radar, is essentially a monitoring service which will scan your friends' tweets for particular words and phrases that may suggest they're struggling.
Since it's launch, Newsbeat's been told the app's been downloaded "around a-thousand times" so far.
We spoke to one of the men behind it to ask him some of the questions we think you'd like answered.
He is Joe Ferns, the Director for Policy, Research and Development at Samaritans.
You'll know that our organisation takes confidentiality and privacy incredibly seriously. We can be trusted.
We are not collecting data. We will have records of the tweets that have gone through Radar but that is only at the level they are made public.
We don't have anyone's real names or any of the details they haven't shared with us so this is just looking at publicly available material.
We're not giving the data to anyone. This is not Big Brother peering over your shoulder. We are empowering people to make decisions about themselves and what they want to do.
Samaritans won't start contacting people out of the blue.
The app is learning to pick out some of that sarcasm.
For example, if someone uses that language and then they mention football, it'll know they're not being entirely serious with their language.
It will do some of that detecting, it will learn as it goes and it can pick out some of that sarcasm.
We can teach it be clever but, right now, we think we've got it about right.
We're on Twitter because that's primarily where the opportunity came from and that's where the technology exists.
Going forward we're looking at developing this in two parts.
Part one is we look at making the alerts tailored for more specific problems such as bullying or relationship issues and offer guidance accordingly.
Part two is whether it could work on other social media platforms and we are actively in conversation with Facebook about developing something in the future.
This is giving you a chance to see something you might have missed in your feed.
People will want to look after each other and I think all this is doing is giving people the skills and confidence to talk to each other about difficult stuff.
A lot of this is about the tweets that are sent overnight. with and you won't have seen them.
You might miss them because they're buried so deep in your timeline and you won't spot them on your way to college or work.
This is about creating better visibility. It doesn't take away from the humanity of the issue.
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The work in Selkirk to protect nearly 600 properties has seen burns rerouted and an "intelligent water management system" created at St Mary's Loch.
The Scottish government provided 80% of the funding for the project.
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham opened the scheme along with Scottish Borders Council leader David Parker.
"Flooding can have devastating consequences for individuals, businesses and communities and that is why we are working with partners and investing in schemes to protect against flooding," said Ms Cunningham.
"The opening of this new scheme is good news for Selkirk and will provide lasting protection for around 600 properties against the sort of flooding that has affected this area.
"We are committed to reducing flood risk across Scotland. We will continue to make available £42m a year to fund important new projects to protect communities most at risk from flooding."
Mr Parker said the project had already proved its worth.
"This Saturday, the Long Philip Burn would have flooded the rugby club had it not been for the Selkirk flood protection scheme," he said.
"So already it is demonstrating what it can do and the properties and businesses and homes that it will protect."
He said the town had gone through a lot of disruption during the construction phase of the project.
"The community of Selkirk have been first-class, they really do deserve a great deal of praise for the way they have worked alongside the contractors and allowed us to deliver the flood protection scheme," he said.
"What we have delivered is a massive asset to the town and surrounding community with many new facilities being provided as well as making sure we are protecting the town from flooding."
The poor farmer was devoted to the lively three-year-old: "I was always picking him up and playing with him. He was the baby of the family. I couldn't be without him for five minutes," he said. Now he is without him forever.
Abid died from diarrhoea and gastroenteritis contracted from contaminated water. His parents had nothing else to give him.
"We were drinking contaminated water and eating food washed in that water," Muhammad told me.
"After that he started vomiting. We took him to the doctor, but he didn't improve."
Muhammad is keeping the truth from his older son Hamid - now a lonely five-year-old.
"When he wakes he asks for Abid," he said. "He asks again in the evening. I say 'he's gone to play, and he'll be back soon'."
The stagnant flood water still surrounds him in Tharparkhar district, in southern Sindh.
It is on both sides of the road where Muhammad and many others are living in crude shelters. Two months on, they don't even have tents.
Muhammad's wretched settlement can only be reached by boat. In his area alone, there are 44 marooned villages.
Parts of Sindh remain hostage to the floods.
Our boat was carrying local men, returning from receiving aid at a United Nations World Food Programme distribution point.
One of those going home with a month's ration was Allah Batchayo, whose name means "Saved by God".
Once on dry land, he struggled under the weight of 30-kilo sacks of wheat flour and rice, but he is relieved to have supplies for his extended family of 15. Like many here, he said he could not rely on his own government for help.
"It very clear that the ruling party gives preference to its own supporters when it comes to relief aid, "he said. That claim is borne out by local and international aid workers.
One seasoned aid official told BBC News that ruling party politicians and local officials often tried to control where aid was distributed, favouring their chosen villages.
"It happens a great deal," he said, " but that pressure is resisted."
The major problem for aid agencies, however, is that there is so little assistance to go around. The international response to the floods disaster has been sluggish at best.
"Pathetic" was the verdict of one aid worker. The reaction from donors had been an "ominous silence", according to the International Committee of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Veteran aid worker David Wright, Pakistan Country Director with Save the Children, said it was the worst he had ever seen.
"I've been in this game now for 15 years," he said " and I've never seen a response that has taken so long to get off the starting blocks. These people have lost their homes and their livelihoods. It's bigger than the tsunami."
But the response is not.
The United Nations says more than 5 million people are struggling to survive without adequate food, water, shelter or medical supplies - but its appeal for the victims is only 20% funded.
That could mean that relief supplies dry up fast, said Robin Lodge, of the UN's World Food Programme.
"We've got enough for the next few weeks," he told me.
"After that no funding, no operation. We would have to stop and that would be catastrophic. We cannot invent resources."
Aid agencies said major Western donors were not digging deep because of the economic downturn.
They also admitted that there were concerns about corruption and bad governance here and worries about how their money was spent after last year's epic flooding which affected more than 20 million people across Pakistan.
The former head of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Agency, General Nadeem Ahmed, claimed recently that 5bn rupees donated last year had not been spent by March this year.
A government official denied that donations had gone unused and suggested there might have been an accounting delay.
Pakistan has been described as a "bad brand" by one diplomat. That may be so. But if donors don't give, it is the country's poor not corrupt politicians or officials who will pay the price.
Darshi, a labourer from the minority Hindu community, knows his daughter Jammi is alive because of foreign help.
He has the calloused hands of a man who battles every day for survival but when the floods destroyed all he had, he could not afford food for his daughter.
We last saw the malnourished 14-month-old 3 weeks ago. At that stage she was so weak she couldn't even swat away the flies that lingered on her face.
After a brief stay in a flooded local hospital she is back by the roadside in the district of Mirpurkhas. Thanks to high protein food aid, she is lively and alert.
But although Jammi is much stronger, she is still at risk from the contaminated water, just steps away from her tent.
"Where can we go?" Darshi asked. "We have to stay here. The water is polluted. At night we get bitten by mosquitoes. Sometimes we get relief aid. Sometimes we don't."
Jammi has just started to walk. During our visit she took a few steps into the waiting arms of her proud father - the bells on her ankle bracelet jingling as she moved.
But if food aid runs out, her fragile recovery could be reversed. And other young lives are at risk, if the world keeps looking the other way.
Aid workers are warning that this could become a forgotten emergency. Many flood victims believe it already is.
A member of the public alerted officers to the group of 15, who had entered the River Tees at Green Bridge in Barnard Castle after drinking alcohol.
The incident was reported at 22:00 BST on Thursday after the area had seen prolonged rainfall.
No-one was hurt, but police have warned about the risks of entering open water.
Pc Gary Dunn, who attended the incident, said the area was "pitch black" at the time and the group from Darlington were already having difficulties on slippery rocks.
He said: "After a week when so many lives have been lost in the water around the UK, I was truly flabbergasted at their actions.
"They had all been drinking and yet still entered the river. It was pitch black, with the only light coming from a pedestrian footbridge.
"As I approached the group they were putting their clothes and shoes back on, and were slipping and stumbling.
"They agreed in hindsight that having been for a meal and drinks in the town, the idea to go down to the river was dangerous in the least."
Acting Sgt Dave Williamson, from Barnard Castle police, added: "We want to reinforce the message that open water, whether on the coast, lakes or rivers can be potentially dangerous. The Tees is a fast flowing river and at night presents a dangerous place to be."
The governing body for athletics said it took the decision concerning Isaac Mwangi "in the interests of the integrity of the sport".
Meanwhile, Kenya has been given until 5 April to show it complies with the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) code.
If it fails to do show it could be banned from international athletics.
In regards to Mwangi, an investigation into "potential subversion of the anti-doping control process in Kenya" will now take place.
He denies wrongdoing and said he had wanted to leave his post for 21 days to clear his name prior to the IAAF announcing his suspension.
Wada said it was "most disturbed" by the claims.
"The allegations have caused me a lot of mental anguish," Mwangi said in a letter to Athletics Kenya.
"I am anxious to have my name cleared."
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Two suspended athletes claimed Mwangi had asked for money in exchange for more lenient punishments - allegations Mwangi said were "unsubstantiated".
"Mr Mwangi remains presumed innocent until the outcome of the investigation and the determination of any disciplinary charges which may follow from that investigation," added the IAAF statement.
BBC Sport revealed last week that Kenya had missed a deadline to prove to Wada it was tackling cheating in athletics, following a string of positive drugs tests and corruption allegations.
The east African country, whose athletes are dominant in distance running, finished top of the medal table at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing with seven golds.
But since 2011, more than 40 of its athletes have failed drugs tests.
Three other senior officials at Athletics Kenya were suspended last year by the IAAF while an investigation took place into allegations of "subversion" of the anti-doping process in Kenya and "improper diversion" of funds received from Nike.
Vice-president David Okeyo, a council member for the IAAF, president Isaiah Kiplagat, and Joseph Kinyua, a former treasurer of the national association, all deny any wrongdoing.
The 29-year-old Northern Ireland international is out of contract in the summer and is now free to talk to other clubs.
It is understood Aberdeen are comfortable about his situation and expect to have talks with him and his agent after the winter break.
McGinn joined the Dons after leaving Celtic in 2011.
He has made 33 appearances this season, scoring seven times for the side sitting third in the Scottish Premiership.
McGinn has 50 caps and was part of the Northern Ireland squad that reached the last 16 at the Euro 2016 finals.
Rumours about Facebook's privacy settings have resurfaced on the social network and been shared thousands of times.
One claimed that the firm planned to charge £5.99 to keep profiles private.
Facebook moved quickly to quash the rumour.
In a light-hearted post, it said: "While there may be water on Mars, don't believe everything you read on the internet today. Facebook is free and it always will be. And the thing about copying and pasting a legal notice is just a hoax. Stay safe out there Earthlings."
The two posts have been in circulation for several years but in recent days have taken on a new momentum, being shared thousands of times in users' timelines.
The first hoax post reads: "Now it's official! It has been published in the media. Facebook has just released the entry price: £5.99 to keep the subscription of your status to be set to "private". If you paste this message on your page, it will be offered free (I said paste not share) if not tomorrow, all your posts can become public. Even the messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. After all, it does not cost anything for a simple copy and paste. (Not worth risking it!)
Another hoax, purporting to be a legally binding statement reads: "As of September 28th, 2015 at 10:50 pm, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents.
"The content of this profile is private and confidential information... NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this.
"If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates."
Much of the fear among users could be down to the fact that Facebook is often mired in real privacy disputes - most recently in Belgium where it faces a probe over its use of cookies.
Its privacy policies can be perplexing for some users.
As security blog NakedSecurity puts it: "Facebook may pull some weird stunts, but making its users' posts public unless they fork over some moolah or paste a particular status message? Um, no.
"If the company up and decided to take our privacy, douse it with lighter fluid and then toss in a lit match - all without any notice whatsoever - but with the completely unheralded option of snatching it from the fire with a random bunch of sentences pasted into your status update, you'd have heard about it," it added.
At just over a month old Fatima has already lived through a lot.
Her life began, and could have ended, on a rubbish dump in the sprawling megacity of Karachi. Instead, Fatima was rescued by a charity and placed in the loving care of a childless couple.
It looks like a happy ending but it came about in the full glare of television cameras. The sleeping infant was one of two abandoned girls handed over during live broadcasts of "Amaan Ramzan", a blend of Islam and entertainment, which runs during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The dapper host Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain is already famous for giving away cars, motorbikes and household electronics.
Now the controversial showman has added babies to the list, calling it "a noble cause". He insists he is saving abandoned infants, not using them to boost his ratings.
"We were already top of the ratings before we gave away a baby," said Dr Aamir, who describes himself as "truly a legend" on his website.
"These children are not a part of garbage, are not a part of trash, so we took these children from the garbage, from the trash, and delivered them to the needy people, the needy parents."
His show is broadcast from a packed studio, where the audience sits beneath glittering lanterns and a huge chandelier, and fish swim under glass panels in the floor. This is where the sleeping baby Fatima was handed over to her adoptive parents, who embraced her and wept.
Her new father Riaz, a bearded civil engineer, told us Fatima was the answer to his mother's prayers. She died the day before the broadcast.
He and his wife Tanzeem waited 14 long years for a child. He refused to divorce her, as many advised, when she could not produce a child.
"When the baby came into my arms on the show," he said, "it felt like another soul had entered my body, like an angel came. She has brought us so much peace. She means more to me than my own soul."
As he spoke, his wife tenderly cradled Fatima in her lap. "I adopted her," said Tanzeem, who wore a black chador, a full-body robe. "But it doesn't feel like an adoption. It feels as if she is my own child, as if I gave birth to her. She is a gift from God."
Seated alongside her was another chador-clad woman now savouring motherhood - Soraya Bilquis. She and her husband waited even longer - 17 years - before getting a child of their own.
"My life is complete now because of her," she said, gazing down at baby Sayeda Zeinab. "I can't describe how happy I am because someone will grow up and call me mother. She is the light of my home."
Both couples said they saw nothing wrong with being given their daughters on live TV. Tanzeem said she hoped it would encourage others to adopt.
But child welfare advocates fear that other TV shows will copy the baby giveaway. They also worry that the lack of confidentiality could expose the children and their families to teasing and stigma in the future.
"The baby was given away the same way as a gift," said Seema Jamali, assistant director of child welfare for the Sindh provincial government.
"Though it was good to find parents for her, the baby was given like a car, laptop, or motorcycle. It's an insult to the baby and the parents. It should have been done quietly."
It was far from quiet, but it was quick. Both couples were vetted by a private charity, the Chhipa Welfare Association, in less than two weeks. That's a typical time frame here. Checks were carried out on their incomes, medical records, and homes, and there were investigations with the police, and in their communities.
But the babies were handed over in a legal vacuum, with no regulation by the state. Experts say that's how most children are given new homes here. Adoption does not exist under Islamic law, but couples can apply to the courts to become legal guardians of unwanted babies. Few do.
It's time for a proper legal framework, according to Sharjeel Memon, information minister for Sindh. "We want to make this process more transparent," he told us, "and there must be some legislation that people should go through."
But here in Pakistan there has been no public outcry about the fact that babies were given away on a TV show. Many are glad that they have a new start in life.
Their stories could have ended very differently. More than 300 dead babies are found every year in Karachi alone by Pakistan's largest welfare organisation, the Edhi Foundation. In a 10-day period in July they found 23 tiny bodies. Some had been suffocated.
At their spotless and welcoming home, Fatima's parents keep watch over their precious gift. They take turns to kiss her forehead and arrange her blanket.
"I have hardly had more than two hours' sleep a night since she came," said Riaz, smiling broadly. "We hope she will grow up to be a religious scholar, or maybe an engineer like me." As he spoke Fatima yawned, stirred, and clenched a little fist.
Kouame died at the age of 29 on Monday after collapsing during a friendly game with friends in Abidjan.
His colleagues tried to resuscitate him before rushing him to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"It's impossible to live without my son," Kouame's mother Sant'anna Cica Rachel told BBC Sport. "I'm overwhelmed."
A vigil will be held on 21 June for Kouame in his home neighbourhood of Gonzagueville, a coastal suburb of Abidjan.
He will be buried the following day in nearby Grand Bassam.
The death of Kouame, a free agent following previous spells in Turkey and Russia, came just a month after that of fellow Ivorian Cheick Tiote and has plunged the country's football world into mourning once again.
The former Newcastle United star died on 5 June of a suspected heart problem while training with Chinese side Beijing Enterprise.
Media reports suggest that Kouame, a father of five, also died because of a heart-related issue but this has yet to be publicly confirmed by medical specialists.
The forward started out with the famous ASEC Mimosas before a spell with fellow Ivorians Sewe Sports.
He eventually made his way to Turkey, where Kouame played for second-division club Boluspor in the 2011-2012 season.
In a statement, Boluspor club said it was 'deeply sorry' to hear of his death and offered condolences to the family.
Kouame spent 2012-13 with FC SKA-Khabarovsk, who will debut in Russia's top flight next season, and was being linked with an amateur Turkish side, Egirdirspor, at the time of his death.
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Montero picked up the injury after coming on as a substitute in the Swans' 4-1 home defeat by West Ham.
The 27-year-old Ecuador international has made 11 Premier League appearances for Swansea City this season.
Paul Clement's side are 16th in the Premier League, two points off the drop zone and play Burnley on Saturday.
The incident happened in Jedburgh at about 03:00 on Thursday on land situated close to the A68.
The victim challenged two men she came across on the property at that time and they attacked her, leaving her with facial injuries.
The men ran off into a wooded area after carrying out the assault. A quad bike was heard driving off following the incident.
Police have issued descriptions of the two men involved.
The first was white, in his 30s, about 5ft 7in tall, of thin build and of scruffy appearance with light stubble and acne scars.
He was wearing a grey tracksuit and trainers and spoke with a Geordie accent.
The second man is described as white, in his 50s, 6ft tall, of large build with black hair. He was wearing jeans and boots.
PC Claire White said: "This was a particularly frightening experience for the woman who was shaken.
"Whilst the assault happened in a remote area we have good descriptions of the two men and I want to speak to anyone who may recognise them."
She said a van was seen in a lay-by on the A68 shortly before the incident. It has been described as a rusty white Ford Transit with a 56 registration.
"Two people were seen inside the van smoking," she said.
"I'm keen to trace this van and its occupants as they may be able to assist with our inquiries."
The 36-year-old was in Milton Keynes on Tuesday for talks, but will take charge of Hearts' Scottish Premiership match against Rangers on Wednesday.
Hearts would go second in the table with victory at Tynecastle.
Neilson will replace Karl Robinson as manager of the Dons, who are 19th in England's third tier.
The former Scotland and Leicester right-back was given his first management job by his old club Hearts in May 2014.
He led his side to the Scottish Championship title and promotion in his first season in charge and they finished third in the top flight last term.
It is expected Neilson will take his assistant Stevie Crawford to MK Dons, who had previously been in talks with former England and Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
However, the 36-year-old said the vacancy came "a bit too soon" for him after his exit from LA Galaxy.
Robinson's six-year reign at MK Dons ended in October, following a poor start to the season having been relegated from the Championship last term.
Meanwhile, Rotherham United have said that they did not make an approach for Neilson, despite reports that he turned down the change to move to the Championship side as a replacement for Kenny Jackett, who resigned on Monday.
The assault on Jinnah international airport in Karachi began late on Sunday, with security forces gaining control in the early hours of Monday.
The Pakistani Taliban have said they carried out the raid as revenge for the killing of their leader last year.
A government spokesman said a full investigation was under way.
Asif Kirmani, a political secretary to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, also praised the security forces for their response.
The Karachi airport attack comes against the backdrop of a major split in the Pakistani Taliban (TTP) - and threats of retaliation following limited military operations against foreign militants in North Waziristan.
Given the violence, it seems clear that any pretence at a peace process is now over. Few seriously thought that recent talks between the government and militants were getting anywhere anyway.
The attack is also a reminder, if it were needed, that despite their divisions, the Taliban retain the capability to mount spectacular strikes across Pakistan.
Pakistan Taliban still deadly despite split
Pakistani officials said 10 heavily armed gunmen stormed the airport in two teams of five on Sunday at 23:00 local time (18:00 GMT).
The attackers, wearing explosives belts, are believed to have entered the area using fake ID cards, although some reports suggest they cut through a barbed wire fence.
They threw grenades and fired at security guards in the old terminal, used for cargo and VIP operations.
The airport was shut down, passengers were evacuated and flights diverted as security forces fought back.
Seven militants were shot dead in a gun battle with security forces which lasted until dawn. Another three attackers detonated their explosives.
The dead terminal staff were said to be mostly security guards from the Airport Security Force (ASF) but also airline workers. The initial death toll of 28 was raised after the Civil Aviation Authority said two more bodies had been found inside the terminal.
Hours after the airport reopened on Monday evening, there were reports that a group of airport employees were stuck inside a cold storage facility where they had taken refuge.
Their relatives gathered outside the terminal building, demanding urgent action to rescue them. A spokesman for the Civil Aviation Authority said it was being investigated.
The Chief Minister of Sindh province, Qaim Ali Shah, said the attackers "were well trained" and their plan "very well thought out".
Later on Monday, security forces displayed a large quantity of weapons and ammunition seized from the attackers, as well as food, indicating they had been prepared for a lengthy siege. They also displayed the bodies of the dead militants.
Army officials said there were indications that some of the gunmen may have been foreign nationals.
The Taliban later said they had carried out the attack, and that its aim had been to hijack aircraft, though they failed to do so.
It was "a message to the Pakistan government that we are still alive to react over the killings of innocent people in bomb attacks on their villages", said spokesman Shahidullah Shahid.
Pakistan has been fighting an Islamist insurgency for more than a decade, with the Pakistani Taliban the main militant group.
Prime Minister Sharif recently told the BBC he was still hopeful a peace initiative with the Taliban could succeed, but the violence has continued, with Karachi a frequent target.
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The move came after Prince William and Prime Minister David Cameron wrote to Fifa asking that England be allowed to wear shirts embroidered with poppies.
Fifa bans political, religious or commercial messages on shirts.
England and Wales have agreed to the compromise. Scotland will consult their opponents before making a decision.
England will wear the armbands in Saturday's friendly against Spain.
"The FA welcomes Fifa's decision and thanks them for agreeing to this," the Football Association said in a statement.
The Football Association of Wales confirmed its players will wear the armbands for their match with Norway on Saturday.
Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan said they hoped to adopt the same approach for the friendly against Cyprus in Larnaca on Friday night.
Regan said: "The decision is a pragmatic solution to the fact that Fifa's rules forbid the wearing of the poppy on the match shirt.
"Subject to the approval of the Cypriot FA as the host nation we will also adopt this approach in our friendly match on Friday night.
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"We believe this is a fitting way to show our respect for those members of the armed forces who have lost their lives fighting for their country."
The Fifa announcement of the compromise came shortly after it was revealed that the Duke of Cambridge had written a letter to world football's governing body in his position as president of the FA.
Clarence House said the Prince was "dismayed" by Fifa's initial stance ahead of Saturday's England match against Spain.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Cameron said he would also write to Fifa asking it to lift the ban ahead of England's game with the world champions.
"It seems outrageous," said Mr Cameron. "I hope Fifa will reconsider."
A spokesman for St James's Palace said the Prince was pleased with the compromise.
No poppies were worn when England played Brazil on 14 November 2009
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Cameron welcomed Fifa's decision, saying: "It's a sensible way forward."
As an alternative to having embroidered poppies on their shirts, the FA had previously said England players would wear black armbands during the game and lay a wreath on the pitch during the national anthems.
England and Wales' rugby league players will be wearing poppies on their shirts this weekend, along with the other two teams - Australia and New Zealand - involved in the Four Nations.
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Now with oil at a 12 year low, below $30 a barrel, how can airlines possibly be hitting passengers with a surcharge for jet fuel?
The point is they aren't.
But before you crack open the champagne and book a quick flight off to the Maldives - those surcharges haven't gone away.
They're just not for fuel any more. They're for - well it's not quite clear what they are for, apart from maintaining profit margins at the airlines.
To recap: the surcharges were introduced as a way for the airlines to distance themselves from the rising cost of oil, in the same way that they itemised government taxes on their bills.
Travel writer Simon Calder explains: "It was a way for the airline to say "this is nothing to do with us - don't blame us for the price rises".
Even when oil prices began to fall, for a while fuel surcharges were still acceptable because the airlines had hedged, buying much of that oil when the price was high.
"And let's not forget the oil price is paid in dollars and the dollar has been very strong over the last year," he adds.
That has meant that savings have been slow to come through. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reckons the final hedges which locked airlines into higher than market oil prices will unwind by mid-2016.
Even so, as the oil price raced downwards, the surcharge became virtually impossible to defend.
And, more important, the regulators were not going to let the airlines hoodwink their passengers.
In 2012 the US Department of Transportation had ruled: "When a cost component is described as a fuel surcharge … that amount must actually reflect a reasonable estimate of the per-passenger fuel costs incurred by the carrier".
So bit by bit the fuel surcharge has disappeared.
Has that meant fares have come down?
IATA's chief economist Brian Pearce says: "In 2015 air ticket prices on average still fell by around 5% (adjusted for exchange rate changes) and we expect similar reductions in 2016.
"That's a substantial reduction because at the same time airlines are seeing the costs like labour and airport charges going up."
But the interesting point is how the airlines have removed the surcharge.
Some airlines like Qantas and Virgin Australia did get rid of it altogether and absorbed it into their basic fare early last year.
Many of the budget airlines, such as Ryanair, boasted that they never had a fuel surcharge in the first place.
A few held on to it, most notably in Japan where it is strictly regulated, and accurately reflects the falling cost.
So the fuel surcharge for a JAL flight from Japan to Korea at the beginning of 2015 stood at 1,000 yen (£5.80; $8.40). A year later and it has sunk to 300 yen.
But many of the other airlines simply removed the fuel surcharge and replaced it with something different, often described as a "carrier imposed surcharge".
What that means is not exactly clear.
For instance BA's explanation of the charge is as follows: "Carrier imposed charges were introduced in October last year in response to a variety of factors.
"These include changing industry practices and to be consistent with changes that have been in place for flights originating in the USA for a number of years."
Lufthansa is slightly more illuminating. It introduced an "international surcharge" in 2014. Spokesman Boris Ogursky says: "The surcharge covers costs beyond our control such as air traffic control fees, emissions trading scheme payments and so on.
"It is important for the customer to compare the overall cost of the flight with other airlines. The total fare is steered by market competition - it's not just us making up surcharges and putting them up and down as we like.
"It is a highly competitive marketplace."
In some respects the name of the surcharge is irrelevant. As Simon Calder says: "You could call it a uniform charge if you want, and you can say it's to cover the cost of uniforms, it matters not a jot.
"It is just another way of charging the passenger."
However, it does matter to frequent flyers. In general, frequent flyer points can only be redeemed in exchange for basic fares. Surcharges and government taxes, with some exceptions, have to be paid for with cash.
So, by framing a large chunk of the fare as a surcharge, airlines can protect that income from discounts and loyalty scheme claims.
The bottom line could come as a bit of a shock to a frequent flyer eagerly queuing up to redeem points to buy a British Airways round trip to New York, say.
If they leave early this Saturday and come back on Wednesday, they will be faced with a total fare of £523.55.
Of that £155 is government taxes. No chance the frequent flyer points (known as Avios to BA customers) will pay for that.
£163 of the fare is the carrier imposed surcharge. The points won't pay for that either - unless there is a special offer available.
In the end the points will pay for just £205 of the £523.55 fare. The frequent flyer (not the points) ends up paying the rest.
Both sides began the match in the top two, and Boro came close in the first half when Albert Adomah hit the bar.
League leaders Boro took the lead when Jordan Rhodes finished from six yards.
The Clarets looked like they would drop out of the Championship automatic promotion spots with Brighton winning, until defender Keane forced home a corner to maintain their top-two place.
Keane's dramatic intervention stretched Sean Dyche's side's unbeaten league run to 20 games, a streak that goes all the way back to Boxing Day, and ended Boro's six-match winning run.
Aitor Karanka's side would have gone four points clear at the top of the table had they held on for victory, after Rhodes had turned home Daniel Ayala's knockdown of Stewart Downing's free-kick midway through the second half.
Boro, whose gap at the top remains at two points, had come the closest to opening to scoring in the first half when Albert Adomah smashed against the crossbar.
The Clarets regularly threatened following Rhodes' goal, with Boro defender Ritchie De Laet having to be on hand to clear George Boyd's strike off the line.
Matt Taylor's free-kick then deflected just wide for the hosts before, two minutes into injury time, his corner caused chaos in the Boro area and was tucked away by Keane.
The Clarets would have dropped a point behind Brighton had they been defeated, with the Seagulls thrashing QPR 4-0, but they remain in the top two on goal difference.
Burnley manager Sean Dyche:
"I'm really pleased with the whole group tonight, for the mentality. That's an important game, you go 1-0 down, that can defuel you. Not for us. We just kept on and on; eventually they cracked.
"[Middlesbrough] are a very good team; they've spent wisely. They've spent it really well, I think that was actually a compliment.
"I've got total respect for every manager. I mean it sincerely. We're all trying to do the job, to be successful."
Middlesbrough head coach Aitor Karanka:
"We had our chances to score the second and the third and with George Friend and Gaston Ramirez's injuries I had to make substitutions. The game was under control for us.
"If you look at the games where we scored against Reading and Bolton, we try to always play football. It's my decision, my style and I am really proud of all of them. When we lose, we lose with our style; when we win, we win with our style.
"I don't know if we are going to get promotion but I'm really proud of all of them. As a coach, you can't be prouder than I am now."
Match ends, Burnley 1, Middlesbrough 1.
Second Half ends, Burnley 1, Middlesbrough 1.
Hand ball by Sam Vokes (Burnley).
Foul by Ashley Barnes (Burnley).
Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Tomas Kalas replaces Stewart Downing.
Goal! Burnley 1, Middlesbrough 1. Michael Keane (Burnley) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Stephen Ward following a corner.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Ben Gibson.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Vokes.
Attempt missed. Matthew Taylor (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left from a direct free kick.
Ashley Barnes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough).
Attempt missed. Dean Marney (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Ben Mee with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Grant Leadbitter.
Attempt blocked. Matthew Taylor (Burnley) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Sam Vokes (Burnley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Burnley. Matthew Taylor replaces George Boyd.
Joey Barton (Burnley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough).
Hand ball by Dean Marney (Burnley).
Substitution, Burnley. Ashley Barnes replaces Andre Gray.
Corner, Burnley. Conceded by Dimitrios Konstantopoulos.
Attempt missed. George Boyd (Burnley) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right following a set piece situation.
Matthew Lowton (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough).
Attempt missed. Sam Vokes (Burnley) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Matthew Lowton.
Attempt blocked. Andre Gray (Burnley) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Adam Forshaw replaces Gastón Ramírez because of an injury.
Substitution, Burnley. Lloyd Dyer replaces Scott Arfield.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) because of an injury.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Burnley 0, Middlesbrough 1. Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Daniel Ayala with a headed pass following a set piece situation.
Foul by Ben Mee (Burnley).
Jordan Rhodes (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stephen Ward (Burnley).
Gastón Ramírez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Joey Barton (Burnley) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matthew Lowton with a cross following a corner.
Abdurraouf Eshati admitted collecting information for terrorist purposes.
The 29-year-old was sentenced at London's Old Bailey over the bid to get arms to the war-torn country.
The charge related to two documents on the purchase of ammunition and cargo plane hire.
Judge John Bevan QC said on Tuesday: "It's obvious that his involvement means that it was felt he could be trusted as a confidant in relation to large-scale arms supply."
Eshati was due to stand trial on Monday but changed his plea.
The court was told electronic documents found outlined a plan to send 1,100 tonnes of ammunition to Libya, via a contact in Italy, in support of the Zintan people of the eastern region.
During their investigation, police searched Eshati's room at Wrexham Islamic Cultural Centre where they found a number of letter-headed documents which were blank, apart from a stamp and a signature which the prosecution said was a forger's kit.
It is understood Eshati lived at the mosque and would occasionally lead prayers when no one else was available but he did not take any of the main prayer meetings.
Eshati was caught trying to get to France in the back of a lorry with 19 other people at the port of Dover in Kent on 30 November, last year.
On his mobile phone, police found an invoice from an arms supplier for the sale and delivery of ammunition to Tobruk in Libya and a document about chartering a cargo jet for £163,000 for use in Libya.
Eshati also had images on his phone of militia group activists, a beheading and armaments in action which, the prosecution said, showed his allegiance to the Zintan people.
On his arrest, he told police he had been in Britain since 2009 on a visa and later as an asylum seeker.
Eshati said his father had been a senior figure in the Gaddafi regime and was now in prison in Tripoli while his two brothers had been murdered. This, however, was a false claim.
On Monday, he admitted seeking leave to remain in the UK by deception on or before 14 December 2012, by falsely claiming he was at risk of persecution if returned to Libya.
Dr Ikram Shah from the Wrexham Islamic and Cultural Centre said in a statement the members want to disassociate themselves from Eshati's actions and added they feel betrayed by what he has done.
Speaking after the hearing, Det Ch Supt Terri Nicholson, head of operations at the Metropolitan Police's counter terrorism command, said: "There is no doubt trading arms in this way would endanger the lives of many Libyans, with the potential for use in other conflicts."
The Crown Prosecution Service said Eshati's arrest and the finding of these documents led to Italian authorities discovering large scale illegal arms supplies being imported from eastern Europe to conflict zones in Libya and other places.
It includes guidance on how to manage the big day itself and how to ensure your school gets as much BBC coverage as possible.
As you turn your classrooms into newsrooms, these printable posters, press passes, cut-out-and-make microphone cubes and certificates will help transform your building into a professional news-making environment.
Create your own dedicated web page
Prepare a simple holding page, with a "come back at 1600 GMT on 16 March 2017" message, and send the address of the dedicated web page (URL) to the School Report team. This guide - Prepare your school web page - provides some handy hints and tips for setting up the page.
Tell us what you're working on
The School Report team wants to know what news topics you are looking at. We may be able to offer some help and advice.
Find out more on teacher Jo Debens' blog.
We may even be able to visit your school to help your students turn their idea into a report.
In addition, schools contacting the team before the day may be featured on the School Report channels - streamed on the BBC website on 16 March - or be featured elsewhere on the BBC (e.g. local radio or websites).
Prepare some news features
During previous years, School Reporters have found it useful to prepare a few reports in advance, basing them on news themes which will still be relevant on the News Day in March.
Your reports can be uploaded to your dedicated web page now, or held back until the big News Day.
Inform your local news outlets
Local newspapers, radio and television outlets are always looking to cover interesting events such as School Report News Day.
However, journalists at local papers are often busy and don't have the time to visit your school. Why don't you take the initiative and write the story for them? That way your school stands a good chance of appearing in the paper.
Before News Day in March, you could send in a story about your plans for the day, or you could write up a report afterwards.
Newspapers often refer to stories sent in by the public as press releases - they are details about an event released to the press. You might find some good tips in this guide: How to write a press release.
Plan your News Day schedule
Teachers who have participated in previous years' News Days have found that the day naturally follows the news-making process: find, gather, write and broadcast, and have scheduled activities accordingly.
This timetable, devised by Oldham City Learning Centre, may be a useful template. It describes activities for students creating a TV and a radio bulletin, but may be adapted for students creating text-based reports.
Alternatively, you could use this guide, based on a practice day by Waldegrave Girls School in Twickenham, Middlesex.
Announce School Report in an assembly
Why not tell the rest of the school about School Report during an assembly?
Not only will this encourage students to look at School Reporters' work on the school website on News Day, but it is also a great way to run through your plans ahead of the day. Share your plans for News Day. Who are you interviewing? Which stories are already lined up?
For more ideas take a look at how the 2015 News Day unfolded.
Remind students of the School Report essentials
On the News Day, remind students of the School Report rules:
There's more information about these golden rules in the School Report guide to keeping your news safe and legal.
Dress your newsroom
Print copies of the School Report poster in the "cut out and keep" box at the top of the page and use them to dress your newsroom. You can also make your own School Report microphone cubes using the template provided.
Reward students with certificates
Download a School Report certificate from the "cut out and keep" box at the top of the page and distribute copies to your students at the end of the News Day.
And not forgetting, most importantly - have fun!
The money is to be used for health, education, cross-border trade and hydroelectricity projects, it said.
The announcement comes as World Bank head Jim Yong Kim and UN chief Ban Ki-moon start a tour of the region.
One person was killed when a mortar landed in Goma, a UN spokesman said.
Government and M23 rebel forces have been involved in heavy fighting near Goma since Monday, killing 19 people.
The clashes are the first since the M23 pulled out of the city last year under diplomatic pressure.
The UN says it will speed up efforts to deploy a 3,000-strong intervention force to eastern DR Congo to end the latest conflict.
Some 800,000 people have fled their homes since the M23 launched its rebellion last May.
The World Bank aid package is to support a peace deal signed in February between DR Congo and its neighbours, some of whom are accused of backing the rebels.
"This funding will help revitalize economic development, create jobs, and improve the lives of people who have suffered for far too long," Mr Kim in a statement.
The largest tranche of the aid - $340m - will go towards an 80-megawatt hydroelectric project in Rusumo Falls, providing electricity to Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania.
Despite its vast mineral wealth, decades of conflict and mismanagement mean most Congolese remain stuck in poverty.
The mortar fell in the Goma neighbourhood of Ndosho, killing one person and injuring four, said UN peacekeeping mission spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai, Associated Press news agency reports.
He said he did not know who fired the mortar.
Campaign group Human Rights Watch researcher Ida Sawyer told Reuters news agency that a two-year-old girl died and three members of her family, including a boy and girl, were wounded.
The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Goma says government and rebel forces have clashed in Mutaho, 10km (6 miles) east of the city for a third day.
Shells and rockets have been fired, he says.
Four government soldiers and 15 rebels were killed in the clashes on Monday, government spokesperson Lambert Mende told the BBC.
Mr Ban is due to visit Goma on Thursday.
The renewed fighting showed the need to speed up the deployment of the intervention brigade so that it would be "fully responsible as soon as possible", Mr Ban said.
The UN approved the creation of the force - made up of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi - in March to "neutralise" rebels in DR Congo.
The troops will have the most robust mandate ever given to UN peacekeepers to end conflict, officials say.
Mr Ban and Mr Kim are also due to visit Rwanda and Uganda.
Last year, a UN report accused the two countries of backing the M23, an allegation they denied.
On Monday, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told the BBC that UN troops had "in some cases" made the situation in DR Congo worse.
He said any military effort to bring peace to DR Congo needed to be "properly co-ordinated" with political efforts.
Col Muammar Gaddafi famously farted his way through at least one television interview.
But now there's a new master of the undiplomatic discourtesy on the world stage.
The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte - addressing a gathering of Chinese officials and businessmen here in Beijing - wasn't holding back.
"Americans are loud, sometimes rowdy," he is reported to have said. "Their larynx is not adjusted to civility." And this was just the beginning of the speech.
Unsurprisingly the remarks, including the announcement of the "separation" of his country from the United States, its longstanding ally, went down very well indeed.
For Chinese officials, right up to President Xi Jinping who warmly greeted Mr Duterte in Tiananmen Square just a few hours earlier, it is like all their Christmases have come at once.
For the Americans, it has left them simply baffled.
"It's not clear to us exactly what that means in all its ramifications, so we're going to be seeking a clarification on that," a State Department spokesperson told reporters back in Washington.
There are three possibilities. The first, the one the US is banking on right now, is that it is, in fact, all bluster.
That Mr Duterte, in a bid to ingratiate himself with his Chinese hosts, has been simply playing to the gallery and that, unless and until any formal steps are taken, everyone knows the trade and defence treaties with the US remain firmly in place.
A far more troubling possibility is that Mr Duterte does indeed mean business. Stung by the recent criticism of his human rights records by the US and mindful of the growing military and economic might of China, might his utterances signal something real and substantive in terms of a foreign policy shift?
Chinese ships currently occupy the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and however many international tribunals the Philippines win over the issue they are unlikely to alter the balance of power.
And the Philippines could certainly do with better access to the massive market of 1.3 billion consumers on its doorstep.
But there is a third more complex possibility, that Mr Duterte is trying to have his cake and eat it, to engage in a great power game by playing the US off against China.
It would not be the first time in recent years that a Philippine president has had to calibrate carefully his country's relationship with both superpowers.
There have been plenty of attempts at engaging with China in the past in the hope of putting the principles of the territorial dispute on the backburner in order to seek the mutual benefit of a resource sharing arrangement in the contested waters.
"Your fish is my fish," Mr Duterte told Chinese state TV ahead of this week's visit.
And yet such an approach would require deft diplomatic footwork and, you would think, a need for a careful weighing of words.
And what is even more baffling is that Mr Duterte, despite earlier assurances, appears to have made no attempt on this trip to raise the issue of the fishing rights of the Philippine fishermen currently excluded from their traditional grounds around Scarborough Shoal.
At home, his government also appears to be struggling to make sense of exactly what the strategy is. His trade minister insisted that there will be no formal break in ties with the US.
Another official asked reporters not to try to "interpret" the president's remarks but to wait instead until he returns to Manila.
Are the geopolitics of Asia really about to be turned upside down? Or should we be wary of reading too much into the barrage of insults and rudeness.
Despite Churchill's taunting of de Gaulle referred to earlier, Britain and France remained uneasy allies. Perhaps the US and the Philippines will too.
The alleged offences took place in Leigh Park in Havant between Monday and the early hours of Tuesday.
Hampshire Constabulary is carrying out searches at a property on the housing estate in Park Parade.
The men, aged 20, 36, and 43, from Havant, who are suspected of several sexual offences, were later released from custody pending further inquiries.
More on this and other stories from across the South of England
The three girls aged 15 and 16 are being supported by specially-trained officers.
The 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing or inciting a girl aged 13-17 to engage in a sexual act.
The 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child aged 13-17.
The 43-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of three counts of causing a female aged 13 or over to engage in sexual activity.
The force has appealed for anyone who may have been in the Park Parade area on Monday evening to come forward.
Albion named seven subs for their 2-1 victory on 28 February, when competition rules only allow five players on the bench.
The match will be replayed on Sunday at at Bognor Regis Town's Nyewood Lane.
The winners will face Sporting Club Albion in the last 16.
Shona Robison said that when she took up her post as health secretary, there was a suggestion only two were needed.
But she said there was now a consensus for trauma centres to be in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The Conservatives have accused the government of a "complete failure of forward planning".
Look back on the ministerial statement on Holyrood Live.
Scottish Labour called for the health secretary to apologise, but Ms Robison refused to accept the criticism.
She said the £30m network could save around 40 lives a year.
In her ministerial statement, she said the project could also help many more people enjoy an improved quality of life.
The network was originally announced in 2014 and was supposed to open in 2016. But last week it emerged they would not be fully implemented until at least 2020.
However, Ms Robison said the centres in Aberdeen and Dundee could be operational within 12-18 months.
She added: "It was right to take the time to build that consensus rather than push ahead with a model that didn't have that clinical buy-in."
She said that the 6,000 people a year who experience trauma in Scotland already get "first rate" care in accident and emergency departments.
The new network would provide "optimal care" for around 1,100 of the most seriously injured, she added.
General Zahir Zahir gave no reason for his resignation, his spokesman said.
Three South Africans were killed in a Taliban attack on a compound used by a US-based charity on Saturday, the third such attack in the past 10 days.
President Ashraf Ghani, who took power in September, has vowed to bring peace after decades of conflict.
There's been a clear pattern to the Taliban attacks of the past two weeks in the capital. Most have targeted foreigners, military or civilian, whenever and wherever possible.
At first it was the big, heavily fortified compounds on the Jalalabad road where many foreigners live and work, which came under attack. But the militants failed to get inside.
More recently the suicide bombers and gunmen have gone after softer targets, such as the aid agency building which was stormed on Saturday evening leaving three South Africans dead. It had very little protection.
With many Afghans also killed and injured in this spate of attacks, there is an uneasy atmosphere in the capital with people wondering who or what will be targeted next.
It is a set-back for President Ghani who has promised to restore peace to the country. It is also embarrassing for the police, military and intelligence agencies which seem incapable of disrupting the plans of the Taliban suicide bombers.
For now, it's the capital's police chief who seems to have paid the price for this security failure, but there must be other senior officials who bear responsibility.
Gen Zahir was himself the target of an attack in early November, when a suicide bomber infiltrated his offices - supposed to be one of the most secure buildings in Kabul - and killed his deputy. Gen Zahir was not there at the time of the attack.
In a spate of attacks in Kabul this week, two American soldiers were killed on Monday and two British embassy workers were killed on Thursday. Dozens of Afghans have also been killed and injured.
Saturday's attack was on a building used by the Partnership in Academics and Development (PAD), a small US education group.
PAD said on its website that three staff members were killed and several others injured in an attack by several gunmen, one of whom detonated a device.
A family spokeswoman, quoted by AFP news agency, named the three dead as Werner Groenewald, 46, who ran the charity, his daughter Rode, 15, and son Jean-Pierre, 17.
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Kabul says it was the deadliest in a series of suicide strikes in the capital over the past fortnight.
A senior Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said on Twitter that the target of the attack was a Christian missionary group.
Kabul is regularly subjected to Taliban bombings, with the military, police and government officials all targeted.
This week, Taliban militants also attacked the camp formerly known as Camp Bastion in Helmand province, one month after it was vacated by British forces.
The militants launched an attack late on Thursday night and fighting continued into Friday and on Saturday.
Officials say the militants breached the perimeter fence and accessed a barracks building, killing five Afghan soldiers on Friday. They say that 26 militants were also killed.
On Saturday, in a separate attack on a military base in Sangin in Helmand, 12 Afghan soldiers were killed and one is missing, a spokesman for the Helmand government said.
The Taliban have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country next month.
As part of the agreement on the withdrawal of foreign combat troops, some 12,000 Nato soldiers will remain to train and advise Afghan security forces from 1 January.
A separate US-led force will assist Afghan troops in some operations against the Taliban.
Malian officials said they had taken back the strategic central town of Konna, which rebels had secured just a day earlier as they pushed south.
The news came hours after France announced it had begun military operations in support of Mali's army.
Armed groups, some linked to al-Qaeda, took control of northern Mali in April.
The Islamists have sought to enforce an extreme interpretation of Islamic law in the area.
Regional and western governments have expressed growing concern about the security threat from extremists and organised crime.
Announcing France's military intervention, French President Francois Hollande said Islamists had been trying to turn Mali into a "terrorist" state.
He said the intervention complied with international law, and had been agreed with Malian interim President Dioncounda Traore. It would last "as long as necessary", he added.
By Hugh SchofieldBBC News, Paris
The rhetoric out of Paris suggests that from the French point of view, the situation in Mali has taken a dramatic turn for the worse in the last few days. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said it was vital to stop this new advance by the Islamists.
So it would seem that a country that has been a growing but still peripheral preoccupation for France - and for the West in general - is now at the very centre of their strategic plans.
There is a real fear that if the "terrorists" - as the French government calls them - succeed in taking over Mali, then it will become a rogue state much like the old Afghanistan.
Given the ties of family and trade with France, it would be France to pay the cost if that rogue state began to export its ideology. So a line has been drawn in the Sahel sand. For good or bad, this may well turn out to have been a momentous decision.
French officials gave few operational details. When asked whether there had been French air strikes, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed that there had been "an aerial operation".
Residents in Mopti, just south of Konna, told the BBC they had seen French troops helping Malian forces prepare for a counter-offensive against the Islamists.
Mr Traore declared a state of emergency across Mali, which he said would remain in place for an initial period of 10 days.
He used a televised address to call on Malians to unite and "free every inch" of the country.
"Our choice is peace... but they have forced war on us," he said. "We will carry out a crushing and massive retaliation against our enemies."
Late on Friday Malian officials said they gained control of Konna.
"Konna is under our control this evening but we are still conducting mopping-up operations," said Lt Col Diarra Kone, though he warned that some rebels might still be in the town.
The British government expressed its support for the French operation. US officials said Washington was considering providing intelligence and logistical support to French forces.
The west African bloc Ecowas said it was authorising the immediate deployment of troops to Mali "to help the Malian army defend its territorial integrity", AFP reported.
The UN had previously approved plans to send some 3,000 African troops to Mali to recapture the north if no political solution could be found, but that intervention was not expected to happen until September.
Mr Fabius said the aim of the operation was to stop Islamist militants advancing any further.
It was not clear how far the French would go in helping Mali's government retake territory in the north.
At least seven French hostages are currently being held in the region, and Mr Fabius said France would "do everything" to save them.
A spokesman for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said he considered the French operation a "Crusader intervention", and told France it would be "would be digging the tombs of [its] sons" if the operation continued, according to the Mauritania-based Sahara Media website.
France ruled Mali as a colony until 1960.
Steve Mackey, chairman of the Rhondda Tunnel Society, said they could not get any major funding until ownership is transferred to Wales.
But a Welsh Government spokeswoman said it was their understanding ownership was not required to take next steps.
She said the economy secretary would seek clarification.
Meanwhile the society has been invited to give a presentation to the European Commission to bid for funding.
The Rhondda Tunnel Society wants the Blaencwm tunnel, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, to Blaengwynfi, in Neath Port Talbot, to be re-opened for use by cyclists and walkers.
The tunnel is currently owned by Highways England, and the Welsh Government was criticised in February for not requesting its transfer.
Mr Mackey said the project had been "going round in circles" because £300,000 was needed for a structural survey to show it is a viable project before the Welsh Government would ask for ownership.
Mr Mackey said: "I don't blame the Welsh Government for looking into this deeply - they're not going to spend money opening it only to find out it's not workable - but I'm sure they could do it quicker.
"I believe Brexit could affect this project. Even if the Welsh Government just gave us a letter of intent [of ownership], we could move forward."
He said a meeting with Economy Secretary Ken Skates had been arranged for 10 January regarding the issue.
But a Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "We have been supportive of the Rhondda Tunnel Society's efforts to re-open the tunnel and in May we arranged a meeting between the society, Highways England and Welsh Government to discuss this project.
"During that meeting, Highways England advised the society on next steps and were very positive about how they could support the society's work to gain a better understanding of the tunnel's condition.
"We are surprised by these comments as our understanding following that meeting was that the transfer of ownership of the tunnel to Welsh Government was not required to undertake next steps.
"The economy secretary has asked officials to speak to Highways England to clarify the position and will be writing to and meeting with the society following that."
Wales MEP Jill Evans, who is setting up the Brussels visit for the society, said she wanted them to meet Michael Cramer, a keen cyclist who is chairman of the transport committee, and those in the European Commission who deal with transport funding, to examine possible applications.
"The ownership of the tunnel is another aspect we would have to discuss, but obviously time is an issue," she said.
"The Rhondda Tunnel Society have done so much work already and I hope that the EU can help to move things forward. It's certainly worth exploring all possibilities.
"As a member of the transport and tourism committee in the European Parliament I know of the increasing interest in cycling holidays and I believe we have something unique to offer."
Surging waters that have already caused extensive damage across central Europe are moving north and east along rivers including the Elbe and Danube.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited areas already hit by the deluge and promised 100m euros (£78m; $130m) in emergency aid.
Meanwhile river levels in the Czech capital Prague have begun to fall.
Large areas of suburban Prague were flooded but metal barriers protecting the historic city centre held as the floods peaked and the high waters moved north towards Germany.
Around 4,000 German troops have been deployed in four states, the military said, reinforcing dykes with sandbags and providing help to thousands of people forced to leave their homes.
By Stephen EvansBBC News, Passau
Chancellor Merkel came bearing gifts. She promised that the federal government would earmark 50 million euros in direct aid to flood affected areas, with the government of Bavaria matching the sum in the region.
That money may have to be spread over a wider area. All the signs were that the waters of the Danube were subsiding, but other rivers further north started to look more threatening.
In Saxony, the Elbe was rising to dangerous levels, as waters poured in from the Czech Republic.
The unanswered question is whether floods are getting worse and more frequent in this region. The two big floods in recent memory were 2002 and today's - both previously predicted to be very rare events.
But the big one before that was in 1954, before concerns about global warming.
The Danube is a busy commercial waterway which is much subject to man-made alteration, both to improve navigation and for waterside development.
This human engineering of the landscape is constantly monitored and debated in this region. The current floods will add to that debate.
The latest cities to be hit include Meissen on the Elbe. Nearby Dresden is preparing for water levels 5m higher than normal.
Officials in Saxony - home to both Meissen and Dresden - have warned that rivers could rise even higher than in the record floods of 2002, when both cities were devastated.
Chancellor Merkel toured some of the worst-hit areas on Tuesday, flying over Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia by helicopter.
In the stricken Bavarian city of Passau - where waters reached a level not seen in 500 years - she called the floods "an event of historic proportions" and promised 100m euros in emergency aid, half of it from the federal government
"I spoke to residents who are already busy with clean-up work and I am aware that it will take weeks. The damage and loss of income are a long-term problem and therefore our support will not dwindle," she said.
Across Europe at least 12 people have died as a result of the floods. As well as Germany and the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary have been affected.
Main roads in many areas have been closed and rail services cut. Thousands of homes are without power.
Hungary has declared a state of emergency as the surging waters move down the River Danube, with the peak expected on Thursday.
The Hungarian capital Budapest and the Slovakian capital Bratislava - both on the Danube - are on alert and flood defences are being reinforced.
In the Czech Republic, a nationwide state of emergency is still in force. Water levels were expected to peak in the north later on Tuesday.
As a precaution, Prague's metro system and central sewage treatment plant were closed, metal flood defences were erected and sandbags built up along the banks of the Vltava.
In Austria, the meteorological service said two months of rain had fallen in just two days.
Shipping was halted on parts of the Danube and Rhine in Germany, and the entire length of the Danube in Austria. The rivers are used heavily to transport commodities such as grain and coal.
The national head coach faces a qualifier against Slovenia at Hampden, four months after a 3-0 defeat at Wembley left the national team in the doldrums.
Of the Scottish-based players selected in the last squad, Craig Gordon, Jack Hamilton, Lee Wallace, James Forrest and John McGinn are all playing regularly. Callum Paterson and Leigh Griffiths are currently injured.
A question mark remains over Scott Brown's continuing involvement after the Celtic midfielder reversed his decision to retire to return to the team for the trip to face England, but he has yet to commit himself further.
Outside Scotland, Strachan currently has the usual mixture of players in form and others out of sorts.
Centre-back has always been an area of concern for Strachan, because of limited options. He has tended to select Russell Martin and Grant Hanley, more often than not, so it will be of some reassurance to the national manager that both played for the full 90 minutes in winning teams at the weekend. Hanley made only his second start for Newcastle United as they defeated Derby County 1-0, while Martin captained Norwich City to their 1-0 win at Cardiff City.
It has been a challenging season at times for Darren Fletcher, but he has always retained the faith of West Brom manager Tony Pulis and the result has been an upturn in form. Fletcher, the club captain, played for the full 90 minutes as Stoke City were beaten 1-0, following on from the midfielder's assist against Middlesbrough in the previous game and a goal against Sunderland before that.
The winning strike against Stoke came from James Morrison, the midfielder's fifth of the season and his third in five games.
Matt Ritchie, too, remains on goalscoring form for Newcastle, delivering the decisive effort against Derby, the winger's eighth goal in the Championship this season and his fourth in three games. Ritchie is also among the leading players for assists in the division, with six so far.
It is still a period of adjustment for Robert Snodgrass following his £10m move from Hull City to West Ham United. The attacking midfielder played for the full 90 minutes, though, in his side's 3-1 win away to Southampton.
Returning to Strachan's options at centre-back, Christophe Berra and Gordon Greer are both playing for the clubs, Ipswich Town and Blackburn Rovers respectively. A 2-2 draw at home to Reading told of Ipswich's mixed form, while Greer lasted 70 minutes in Blackburn's 1-0 win over QPR.
Barry Bannan turned out in central midfield for Sheffield Wednesday, as usual, and was part of a 1-0 victory over Wigan Athletic that kept his side in the Championship play-off places.
There are more troubling concerns for midfielder James McArthur, who lasted 62 minutes in midfield as Crystal Palace were beaten 4-0 at home by Sunderland, a result that prompted a dressing-room visit from the chairman, Steve Parish, afterwards and a demand from the manager, Sam Allardyce, for the players to be at training on Sunday morning at 7am.
Chris Martin can be comfortable about his immediate future since Steve McClaren wants the striker to extend his Derby County contract, but for now he remains on loan at Fulham, who lost 1-0 at home to Birmingham City.
A new manager and new circumstances for David Marshall at Hull City. The goalkeeper has been relegated to the bench in favour of Eldin Jakupovic and hasn't started a game since 2 January.
Stephen Kingsley remains on the periphery at Swansea City and was an unused substitute in the team's 2-1 defeat by Manchester City, having not made the match squad for the previous two league games.
A prominent role also still eludes Oliver Burke, who came on for 17 minutes as Leipzig lost 1-0 away to Borussia Dortmund.
Ikechi Anya also came off the bench for Derby, his second successive appearance as a substitute, and he has started only one of their five Championship games since the turn of the year.
For a striker, Steven Fletcher's timing could be better. He was sent off against Brighton last month and still has one match of this three-game suspension to serve after the weekend. His place in the side has been taken by new signing and Scotland colleague Jordan Rhodes, who provided the assist for Ross Wallace in the 1-0 win over Wigan.
Strachan has already spoken of his admiration for Tom Cairney, having watched a number of Fulham games in recent weeks, and the midfielder is widely expected to be called up for the next squad. Now Fulham captain, and playing in a central role, he has consistently impressed.
Missing out on the original squad for the England game last November seemed to spur Matt Phillips, since he went on a run of starts that delivered three goals and six assists in the Premier League for West Brom. The winger clocked in another 87 minutes against Stoke.
Andrew Robertson missed out against England through injury, but his form was impressive enough for Burnley to lodge a £10m bid during the January transfer window. That was rejected and the left-back played for 90 minutes as Hull defeated Liverpool 2-0.
It would be unsurprising if there was also a recall for Charlie Mulgrew, since the former Celtic defender has become a regular starter for Blackburn, mostly at left-back but also in central midfield. He could also offer an option at centre-back.
Ryan Fraser has taken time to settle to life in the Premier League, but in Bournemouth's last six games he has delivered two goals and three assists, including one in the 6-3 defeat away to Everton.
Having found himself out of the picture at Hull, goalkeeper Allan McGregor secured a loan move to Cardiff in the transfer window and has started the last five games, conceding four goals.
Mr Cook made his announcement to try to help people struggling with their identity, he wrote in a Bloomberg Businessweek article.
He has been open about his sexuality, but has also tried to maintain a basic level of privacy until now, he said.
This week Mr Cook challenged his home state of Alabama to ensure the rights of gay and transgender people.
"While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it either, until now," he wrote.
"So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he added.
He said he didn't consider himself an activist, but that he realised he had "benefited from the sacrifice of others."
"So if hearing that the CEO [chief executive] of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it's worth the trade-off with my own privacy," he added.
Mr Cook said that he had been open about his sexuality with many people, including colleagues at Apple, but that it still "wasn't an easy choice" to publicly announce his sexual orientation.
He quoted civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King, saying: "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' "
Analysis
Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News technology correspondent
Tim Cook's announcement may come as no surprise in Silicon Valley or across corporate America.
But that does not mean that we should underestimate the significance of the leader of the world's most valuable company talking openly about his sexuality.
Back in May, a piece in the New York Times asked "where are the gay chief executives?" and struggled to name any openly gay CEOs at America's 1,000 biggest companies.
Apple under Steve Jobs was not a company that took a stand on any issues which were not seen as relevant to its business.
Tim Cook has been more forthcoming on all sorts of issues, including equal rights for gay workers, and while he says he does not see himself as an activist, that is how many will now see him.
That could embroil him in controversy in the United States, let alone in other parts of the world with less liberal views of sexuality.
Mr Cook admitted that going public as a gay man was not an easy choice - but it certainly looks a courageous one.
This week Mr Cook referred to Martin Luther King in a speech in Alabama in which he called for equal rights for people based on sexual orientation and identity.
He said that Alabama had been too slow to ensure the rights of ethnic minorities in the civil rights era, and was now being too slow to guarantee gay rights.
"Under the law, citizens of Alabama can still be fired based on their sexual orientation," Mr Cook said.
"We can't change the past, but we can learn from it and we can create a different future."
Mr Cook has championed equality at Apple, but in August said he was "not satisfied" with workforce diversity at the company.
Outstanding, a not-for-profit professional network for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) executives, said on Thursday that many LGBT people in the UK felt it was "safer to stay in the closet" when at work.
In May a US study by LGBT organisation Human Rights Campaign suggested that 53% of US LGBT employees had not come out at work.
Former BP chief executive Lord Browne, who now chairs fracking company Cuadrilla, said Mr Cook had become a role model.
"By deciding to speak publicly about his sexuality, Tim Cook has become a role model, and will speed up changes in the corporate world," Lord Browne said.
The peer kept his sexual orientation a secret for decades, but was forced to come out after a boyfriend made his sexuality public in 2007.
Lord Browne later resigned after losing a court battle with a newspaper.
Its website now has a checklist to help patients recognise and avoid rogue companies offering dodgy deals.
Questions to ask include whether the surgeon who will be carrying out the operation is certified and insured and what to expect in terms of recovery.
Patients should also consider if their own expectations are realistic.
Dawn Knight, 48, from County Durham, underwent botched eye surgery at a private clinic in 2012.
She had wanted a blepharoplasty or eye lift to remove some excess skin from her lids.
But the surgeon took too much skin away, which meant she was unable to close her eyes and had problems with her vision.
She has since had corrective treatment on the NHS.
She says: "My experience has been one long nightmare, and I feel a sense of loss for all the time I've spent trying to correct the problems I've suffered.
"I had no idea my surgeon was not insured to work in the UK or that he was self-employed.
"People need to know the risks of procedures.
"The fact that medical knowledge is needed for these procedures gives people a false sense of security, and it's easy to be misled."
The new online resource is funded by the Department of Health, in the wake of the breast implant scandal of 2012, when it emerged tens of thousands of British women had been fitted with unsafe silicone implants that were prone to rupture.
The website advises: "Never feel rushed or pressured into giving your consent. Be wary of surgeons or staff who try to convince you to go ahead."
There were more than 51,000 cosmetic procedures performed in the private sector in Britain last year alone.
Mr Stephen Cannon, vice-president of the RCS, said people should do their research and think twice before opting for a cosmetic procedure.
"The vast majority of cosmetic surgery is carried out in the private sector and many people do not realise that the law currently allows any qualified doctor - surgeon or otherwise - to perform cosmetic surgery, without undertaking additional training or qualifications," he said.
"Our advice is that if you are thinking of having some kind of work done, make sure you consult a surgeon who is trained and experienced in the procedure you are considering.
"Look them up on the General Medical Council's register."
But what about East Belfast Ladies FC? Never heard of them?
The team only formed 18 months ago and entered their first league last year, but despite their inexperience, they did the double in their first season, winning the Northern Ireland Women's section 2 league and cup.
Moreover, they didn't form because of any particular passion for the sport, but because their then head coach, John Spence, wanted to do something about the lack of recreational groups for women in the area.
The group has mixed abilities. Leanne Watter joined because her husband encouraged her, and despite never having played football, was named 'Player of the Year' by her fellow teammates.
"I always enjoyed playing football in the back garden with my son," she said.
"I started at 31 years of age. I couldn't take a proper throw-in when I started, but with pure determination and learning, I could take one by the end of the year."
Many of the players do not have access to childcare in the evenings, so they bring their children along to the training sessions.
Trish Neil travels as far as Larne every week, just to attend training and be part of the team.
"I wanted to play somewhere that is sociable and fun," she said.
"I don't think I've missed very many training sessions all year, I really enjoy it and I bring the kids up with me. I've played for a few different clubs - in Ballymena and in America - but everyone works so hard, we all want it so much."
Leanne's husband Stephen Watter is the clubs assistant manager, but this year he is stepping into the role of manager, taking over from John Spence.
"In the first couple of months the turnout was great, but the football wasn't," he said.
"There were lots of different abilities and levels, so we took a few hammerings at the start.
"It was hard to keep the morale up, but once we got used to it, they were training a few times a week.
"They were dedicated and the enthusiasm was there, so the experience just followed naturally."
In a short time, the club has risen to prominence in the community.
Emma Shaw doesn't play football, but attended a community event about education in working class areas and she ended up helping the club behind the scenes.
"Within the last 23 months, we've taken a lot of courses, including autism awareness, first aid, community development and facilities management training," she said.
"It's not just about football, it's about what football can do for the community. We want to be more than a club and that is the aim for the team."
Stephen Watters said there are "so many talented girls out there in Northern Ireland, who don't even realise they are good footballers".
"I'd encourage all girls out there, even if you have a wee bit of an inkling that you would like to play football, try it out, find the time, and go out and enjoy it," he added.
Beamish Museum is replicating an end of terrace shop from Bow Street in the town for its new 1950s attraction.
A public vote is being held to decide whether it should be a hairdresser's, a toy shop and dolls' hospital or an electrical goods store.
The £10.75m 1950s-style development will also include shops, a cinema, cafe, community centre and houses.
People will be able to cast their vote during a series of events, starting on Tuesday at Captain Cook Square Shopping Centre.
The decision will be announced at the museum during the October half-term holiday.
Lisa Peacock, from Beamish, said: "This shop will be a replica of the one in Bow Street, Middlesbrough, so we wanted people from the town to choose what type of shop it will be.
"We'd also love to hear people's memories of shopping in Middlesbrough during the 1950s and see any photographs they may have."
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The development is part of a £3.4m scheme to regenerate the Pembrokeshire town.
It will be located on the site of the current Riverside Market and will replace the original building, which closed in 2012.
The Welsh Government-funded facility will also house a coffee shop, tourism information office and gallery.
Traders at the indoor market will be relocated to other premises in the town centre, which have yet to be decided.
Reg and Sandra Davies have run their engraving business in the Riverside Market for 33 years.
Mr Davies said being relocated was "not something they initially wanted," but following a "downturn in the market" they were looking forward to moving.
Of the 15 indoor market traders, 10 will be moved and five will be entitled to statutory compensation.
"There's not much resistance with the market traders anymore, there's only a few of us left," he added.
The council called it a "flagship" development and said the new venue could generate close to £1m of spending in the local economy and create eight to 15 additional jobs.
Keith Lewis, Pembrokeshire cabinet member for economy and communities, said the award was "great news."
It is hoped work will start in autumn, with an opening date some 12 months later.
The funding announcement coincided with the unveiling of a "draft masterplan" for the town centre.
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A new £285,000 library and gallery is set to be built in Haverfordwest.
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Police confirmed an operation was under way in a street close to the city's main station.
Swiss reports said the three wounded were all adults who had been found in Eisgasse, a small street where an Islamic centre is based.
There was no indication who carried out the shooting but local media said the attacker had fled the scene.
It was unclear if the Islamic Centre was targeted in the attack, which took place shortly before 17:30 (16:30 GMT) on Monday.
Police cordoned off the centre as they searched the building, reports said.
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The man, from Havant in Hampshire, was killed by an elephant he had been trying to photograph while on a jungle tour in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, police officers told the BBC.
The Foreign Office named him as Colin Manvell and said it was providing consular assistance to his family.
Police said he and two guides had illegally entered a sectioned-off area, reported the BBC's Natalia Antelava.
Officers said the lone animal had charged the men and hit the British man on the head with its trunk. The guides - who managed to escape the elephant - would be arrested, the police added.
Our Delhi correspondent said the area - which lies on the border between the southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu - is popular among tourists and home to large wildlife reserves.
Such incidents are rare, but resorts operating in the area are often criticised for disturbing animals and driving tourists to parts of the jungle that are not designated for safari tours, she said.
Meanwhile, the Times of India reported that police had not yet inspected the area of the Masinagudi National Park where the man, who is thought to have been 67 years old, was killed.
He is believed to have arrived in India from London.
He was treated at the local Masinagudi Hospital before being moved to Gudalur Government Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead, the Times said.
Mr Manvell, a retired geography teacher at Warblington School in Havant, also worked at the town's Avenue Tennis and Squash Club.
Paula Fuge, of Portsmouth Tennis Academy, who knew Mr Manvell, said: "He was a lovely guy.
"He has always been a part of the tennis scene, he's really nice, he was always there for the kids.
"I didn't believe it when I heard what had happened, you never expect that to happen."
Headteacher Julia Vincent said: "Mr Manvell retired from head of geography at Warblington School a number of years ago. Although I did not know him personally, he was well-known to the school community and has kindly donated a trophy for academic achievement in geography.
"We were saddened to hear of this tragic accident and our thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family at this sad time."
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A British tourist has been killed by a wild elephant while on safari in India.
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The accident happened just off the beach at West Mersea at about 12:00 BST on Saturday, the RNLI said.
The man, who was in his 60s, was rescued by an RNLI lifeboat crew from West Mersea with the assistance of the coastguard.
He was airlifted to Colchester Hospital where he later died. Police said they were trying to establish the events leading up to his death.
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A windsurfer has died after getting into difficulties off the Essex coast.
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Backed by 3-46 from in-form ex-Surrey all-rounder Rikki Clarke, Patel took his season's haul of first-class wickets against Surrey to 14.
Surrey looked in control at 110-1 midway through the second session.
But Patel claimed the wickets of Rory Burns (50) and Kumar Sangakkara (47) as Surrey folded to 252 all out, bad light preventing the Bears from replying.
Patel took 10-123, the best match analysis of his first-class career, when the Bears beat Surrey by 10 wickets inside three days at Guildford in July.
Surrey are without Ben Foakes (quad strain), rested as a precaution ahead of next Thursday's One-Day Cup quarter-final at Northampton, while Warwickshire made two changes,.
They brought back formert captain Ian Westwood for the out-of-form Andy Umeed, while Laurie Evans was also recalled from his loan spell with Northamptonshire to replace Sam Hain (shoulder injury).
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell told BBC WM:
"To be honest, I didn't think we got absolutely everything we deserved. In the morning the guys were outstanding and only got the one wicket but at the end of the day to bowl them out for 252 was a really good effort.
"It's a good wicket with a bit of pace and good carry and a bit in it for everyone. The bowlers did really well to keep them down to around two an over, especially with such a small boundary on one side. Jeetan and Rikki were the stand-outs but the bowlers collectively were very good.
"With regard to tosses, I've given up on them! Hopefully it will change at some point but it's certainly not helping us. I'll have to work on the technique over the winter and see if I can come back a bit better next season."
Surrey batsman Rory Burns told BBC Radio London:
"They were tough batting conditions. It seamed all day and it's quite tufty sort of grass, so it helped the spinner and the ball swung for them as well.
"I don't think we ever really felt in in any part of that innings but we have got to try to make 252 look as good as it can be. Hopefully conditions won't change too much. It might be a good score, you never know.
"Warwickshire's bowlers have pretty much given us the blueprint there. You've got to stay disciplined and hold your length and make batters come to you because there is so much assistance in the pitch."
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Warwickshire off spinner Jeetan Patel starred again at Edgbaston as he took 4-58 to help bowl out Surrey for 252.
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Mulder impressed in the Desert T20 earlier this month, where he was the competition's leading wicket-taker.
Table-toppers Ireland will be at full strength for the game with second-placed Afghanistan in Greater Noida.
Ed Joyce, Niall O'Brien, Tim Murtagh and John Anderson are named in the 14-man squad after missing the Desert T20.
"While we haven't been at our best in limited-overs cricket in recent times we have a great record in the Intercontinental Cup, where we've won all our four games taking full points," said Ireland head coach John Bracewell.
"Young Jacob Mulder was the standout bowler in the T20 and the selectors felt he deserved his opportunity in the longer format.
"With the conditions in India likely to be spin-friendly, his leg-spin gives us added variety which could be so important."
Ireland will also play three T20s and five one-day internationals against Afghanistan, all in Greater Noida.
The Irish will prepare for the games with a 10-day training camp in the United Arab Emirates, where they will play the hosts in two ODIs on 2 and 4 March.
Pace bowler Boyd Rankin is being rested for the matches in the UAE, but will join the squad during the camp to prepare for the Afghanistan games.
Cricket Ireland also confirmed that top-order batsman Nick Larkin had ruled himself out of the running for a place in the Ireland ranks for the time being.
"After a lengthy period of discussion between Cricket Ireland and Nick Larkin, the player has finally clarified that his focus right now is on advancing his career with the NSW Blues in Australia," said Ireland performance director Richard Holdsworth.
IRELAND SQUADS
ICC Intercontinental Cup v Afghanistan
William Porterfield, John Anderson, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Gary Wilson, Craig Young
ODI squad v UAE
William Porterfield, Andrew Balbirnie, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young.
ODI squad v Afghanistan
William Porterfield, Andrew Balbirnie, George Dockrell, Ed Joyce, Jacob Mulder, Tim Murtagh, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Niall O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Stuart Thompson, Gary Wilson, Craig Young.
T20 squad v Afghanistan
William Porterfield, George Dockrell, Josh Little, Jacob Mulder, Andrew McBrine, Barry McCarthy, Kevin O'Brien, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Greg Thompson, Stuart Thompson, Lorcan Tucker, Gary Wilson, Craig Young.
Fixtures
Ireland v UAE, 2 March (ODI)
Ireland v UAE, 4 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 8 March (T20)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 10 March (T20)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 12 March (T20)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 15 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 17 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 19 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 22 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 24 March (ODI)
Ireland v Afghanistan, 28-31 March (Intercontinental Cup)
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CIYMS leg-spinner Jacob Mulder is in line to make his first Intercontinental Cup appearance for Ireland in the game against Afghanistan in India in March.
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A BBC reporter in the city says the burial had to be halted at one stage as police struggled to control the crowd.
Mr Kanumba was famous for roles in Tanzania's soap operas and films shown all over east and central Africa.
Police say Mr Kanumba, 28, died after an accidental fall during an argument with his girlfriend Elizabeth Michael.
Ms Michael - also an actor, known as "Lulu" - is being held for questioning, Kinondoni Regional Police Commander Mr Charles Kenyela told the BBC.
The BBC's Erick Nampesya in Dar es Salaam says many people flocked to the funeral service to see for themselves that Mr Kanumba was dead.
President Jakaya Kikwete said he delayed a foreign trip when he heard the news of Mr Kanumba's death.
He praised the "talented young man who was playing a big role to develop the movie industry and marketing Tanzania abroad".
Nicknamed "The Great", Mr Kanumba was a household name in Tanzania.
He starred in most major "Bongo" films, as local movie industry is called.
He had also recently become popular in Ghana and starred in Nigeria's Nollywood films.
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More than 30,000 people in Dar es Salaam have attended the funeral of Tanzania's most popular film star Steven Kanumba, who died on Saturday.
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Kyle Edmund had just broken serve to lead 6-3 6-4 2-1 when frustration got the better of Shapovalov.
A default followed, giving Britain a 3-2 victory in the World Group first-round tie in Ottawa.
Britain go on to face France away in the quarter-finals in April.
"It was a strange way to finish," said Edmund. "I've never been part of something like that."
GB captain Leon Smith added: "A bit of a surprise what happened at the end there and I feel for the young lad. He's a great talent and he's learned a harsh lesson today."
Vasek Pospisil had earlier levelled the tie at 2-2 with a 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 3-6 7-6 (7-5) win over Dan Evans that lasted three hours and 23 minutes.
After the dramatic build-up provided by the fourth rubber, the decisive fifth looked to be heading for a relatively low-key conclusion as Edmund raced into a commanding lead.
Again, Britain had the advantage in terms of rankings, but Edmund also had five years and a growing bank of ATP experience on his side against the current Wimbledon junior champion, making his Davis Cup debut.
Shapovalov played much of the match in confident style, hammering down big serves and hitting flashing one-handed backhands, but his lack of experience showed with a handful of loose games.
With serve dominating, Edmund bullied the teenager with his forehand to earn the first two break points in game eight and Shapovalov offered up a double fault.
Edmund sealed the set with an ace out and wide, and repeated the formula in the second set - profiting from his opponent's errors to break at 5-4 and convert the set with another ace.
When Shapovalov framed a forehand wide to fall behind in the third set, there appeared little chance of a comeback, but that opportunity disappeared altogether when he angrily hit the ball off court.
It struck umpire Arnaud Gabas, giving the Frenchman a bruised eye, and after discussion with the team captains and match referee Brian Earley, the crowd were told that the tie was over as a distraught Shapovalov sat in his chair.
Canada's Davis Cup captain Martin Laurendeau said: "There's always a lesson to be learned from the good moments and the worst moments. If he wants to compete at this level he has to keep it together.
"Emotional control is the biggest factor in this game. He must learn the lesson and hope it serves him in the rest of his career."
John Lloyd, former Great Britain Davis Cup captain and player
Kyle Edmund has won this match but you don't want to win like this - it's a shocking way for it to finish.
This has taken a lot of gloss off for Kyle Edmund but he was going to win this match anyway. The incident looked worse the second time you saw it.
It was meant to go out of the stands, but Shapovalov got it completely wrong.
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
Umpire Arnaud Gabas was taken to Ottawa General Hospital for a check-up suffering from bruising and swelling of his left eye. Shapovalov made an impressive apology: he spoke of his shame and embarrassment and promised he will never do anything like that again.
He struck the ball with a serious amount of force. It was reckless and will live with him, but hopefully there will be no long term effect on Gabas' ability to umpire matches.
It may even force a tightening of the rules. Too many (much more experienced) players hit balls towards officials and the crowd in frustration, and this is a reminder of the potential consequences.
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Great Britain reached the Davis Cup quarter-finals after Canada's 17-year-old Denis Shapovalov was defaulted from the decisive match for hitting the umpire with a ball struck in anger.
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Heartlands Hospital in the Bordesley Green area of Birmingham said affected patients have been transferred to other areas of the hospital.
People needing emergency care should go to their nearest alternative A&E service, said the hospital.
Heavy downpours caused disruption in the city from 13:30 BST on Tuesday.
West Midlands Fire Service said it took 120 "weather-related calls" in two hours in addition to other calls, including dealing "with over 5,000 litres of water" at Heartlands Hospital.
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Parts of the Bullring shopping centre were sealed off after rainwater leaked through to the ground floor.
The connecting passage to Grand Central was also affected, with shoppers tweeting videos of people dodging drips from the ceiling.
Meanwhile, the Library of Birmingham is considering whether to reopen tomorrow after a flooded stairwell forced a temporary closure.
The fire service said it attended an emergency callout in Upper Gornal where a lightning strike to a TV aerial caused a fire affecting three properties. Nobody was injured.
Waterlogged streets across Birmingham and the Black Country caused travel disruption.
Birmingham New Street Station warned commuters should "expect delays and alterations" to their services.
Trams were stopped between West Bromwich Central and Handsworth Booth Street due to weather conditions.
The Environment Agency has warned more heavy showers are expected over the next few days.
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Sir Elton appointed Taylor as Watford manager in 1977, a year after the singer took ownership of the club.
Within five years, Taylor took the Hornets from the old Fourth Division to runners-up in the top flight, going on to reach the 1984 FA Cup final.
"We will cherish Graham and drown our sorrows in the brilliant memories he gave us," Sir Elton wrote on Instagram.
"This is a sad and dark day for Watford. The club and the town. We went on an incredible journey together and it will stay with me forever.
"I love you Graham. I will miss you very much."
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Taylor, who managed England between 1990 and 1993, died on Thursday morning following a suspected heart attack, his family said.
He was a highly successful club manager who also worked at Lincoln, Wolves and Aston Villa, guiding the latter to second place in the First Division in 1990.
After resigning as England boss in 1993 following the team's failure to qualify for the 1994 World Cup, he managed Watford for a further five years, between 1996 and 2001.
He retired from football in 2003, later becoming a respected BBC pundit.
Sir Elton sold his stake in Watford in 1987, the year Taylor left for Villa, but he returned again as chairman in 1997.
"I am deeply saddened and shocked to hear about Graham's passing. He was like a brother to me," he added.
"He took my beloved Watford from the depths of the lower leagues to uncharted territory and into Europe. We have become a leading English club because of his managerial wisdom and genius."
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Watford will hold a minute's applause in honour of their former manager before Saturday's home Premier League match against Middlesbrough, and their players will wear black armbands.
They will also organise additional tributes, involving officials and supporters from the club.
The club say they are "inviting supporters to tweet their tributes to the club's most successful manager by using the hashtag #thankyouGT".
The EFL said a minute's applause will be held before this weekend's fixtures, while clubs will have the option of wearing black armbands.
Football Association chairman Greg Clarke described Taylor as "a hugely popular and respected figure in the game".
He added: "He had an exceptional knowledge and a love for the game that never diminished over the years. He will be much missed by us all at Wembley and St George's Park."
Match of the Day host and former England international Gary Lineker said Taylor was "an outstanding manager, lover of football and thoroughly decent man".
He added: "He made me his England captain and I will be eternally grateful to him for giving me that honour."
Former England striker Alan Shearer, who made his international debut under Taylor in 1992, said he was "completely shocked" by the news of Taylor's death, adding he "held him in the very highest regard".
Premier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore said: "You will struggle to find a more decent individual in football, one who cared passionately about all levels and aspects of the English game."
Howard Wilkinson, chairman of the League Managers' Association - of which Taylor was the first president, paid tribute to his "lifelong friend".
"I greatly admired Graham for his honesty, tenacity, professionalism and his capacity for innovation, which earned him richly deserved success," he said.
"Football has lost one of its greatest servants and our thoughts and condolences are with his wife Rita, his daughters Joanne and Karen, and the rest of his family."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche, who was given his first managerial job by then Watford chairman Taylor, said: "For such a legend at Watford to be helping you have that chance, and helping me along the way as a young manager, I'm absolutely devastated."
Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne said Taylor's "enthusiasm for life and football was incredible".
Professional Footballers' Association chairman Gordon Taylor said he had known Graham Taylor since they were both aged 15 at England schoolboy trials.
"He was a real quality human being. He cared about his fellow pros and the good of the game. He should be remembered as a man who added to the game, who really showed his ability as a manager," he said.
"I'm proud and privileged to have been able to call him a friend."
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The body of Arnis Zalkalns, 41, was discovered in Boston Park, west London, on 4 October, four days after the teenager's body was found.
The coroner said a post-mortem examination found the cause of death was "consistent with hanging".
The inquest at West London Coroner's Court was opened and adjourned until December.
Convicted killer Zalkalns' decomposed body was identified by his dental records, the court heard.
Coroner's officer Lana Atkinson told the court: "Mr Zalkalns was found on 4 October and his body was found suspended by his neck in dense woodland in Boston Manor Park adjacent to the canal.
"A post-mortem conducted on October 6 found a conditional cause of death is consistent with hanging. There is no evidence of third party involvement."
The coroner's officer added police were still investigating the case.
Zalkalns had served seven years in prison in his native country for bludgeoning and stabbing his wife Rudite to death before moving to the UK in 2007.
CCTV captured Zalkalns cycling behind Alice on a tow path on the day she disappeared.
Alice, from Hanwell, in west London, disappeared on 28 August.
Her body was found wrapped and weighted down in a shallow stretch of the River Brent on 30 September.
Alice's inquest was opened and adjourned on 10 October.
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Vince, 25, has been named in England's squad for the first Test at Lord's from Thursday and is keen to build on his opening three Tests against Sri Lanka.
He scored just 54 runs in four innings and is keen to contribute more to the top order.
"Whenever you play for England, I think you're under pressure to do well," Vince told BBC Radio Solent.
"Runs are important as that's what keeps you in the team," the right-hander added.
"Hopefully this is a time I can go in and stamp my authority on a place and get some runs."
Vince followed up scores of 51 and 16 in the fifth one-day international and only Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka with 62 for his county against Essex in the T20 Blast on Friday.
With a recall for Yorkshire's Gary Ballance in the top order, Vince is unsure if he will be moved from the number five spot he has occupied so far this summer.
He said: "I'm assuming I'm still at five - but if there's a change, I'll find out when we meet up this week."
Some investment decisions are also on hold until there is clarity about the UK's post-Brexit trading arrangements.
Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, was giving evidence to the Treasury Committee on Tuesday.
He told MPs that investment appears to be falling back.
"We are putting together the data as best we can," he said. "But I sense certainly that the amount invested over the last 12 months will not be as high as the preceding one, two, three years."
He said that despite the decision taken by Nissan in the autumn to build two new models at its Sunderland plant, other companies appeared to be holding off key decisions.
"Certainly, I believe that companies are at least sitting on their hands... until there is a bit more clarity," he said.
UK car production has grown sharply in recent years on the back of record investment.
Investment in research and development hit £2.5bn in 2015. That was up 8.7% on the £2.3bn invested the year before, according to the SMMT's 2016 Automotive Sustainability Report.
Last year several firms set out investment intentions that will secure and create jobs in the years to come.
In October, Nissan confirmed it will build both its new Qashqai and the X-Trail models at its Sunderland plant following "support and assurances" given by the government.
Aston Martin also confirmed plans to build its new luxury car at St Athan, south Wales, with the creation of 750 jobs.
In light of Nissan's decision, Mr Hawes was pressed on why we had not seen investment decisions go against the UK despite the current uncertainty around Brexit.
"It was great news that Nissan did commit there," he said. "Each individual manufacturer will be in a different position. You can't draw too many conclusions from one manufacturer."
Mr Hawes told MPs that carmakers weighing up investment decisions today would be looking at starting production in about four years. So, they would be considering the likely trading and costs conditions in 2021.
"If the government can give some sort of assurance that it will be looking over those sort of timescales to give as much certainty as it can give in uncertain times, that will be much better received" he said.
Tony Burke, assistant general secretary of the Unite union, said: "Dozens of decisions, including new models to UK plants, must be made in the coming months. These crucial investment decisions will determine the future of the UK's car industry and wider manufacturing supply chain.
"While many workers voted to leave the EU, they didn't do so to be out of work or see their living standards suffer and rights at work torn up through a hard Brexit.
"The government needs to give the UK automotive industry certainty to unlock investment and ensure it continues to be a world leader."
News of a fall in investment reflects anecdotal evidence emerging in the sector, according to David Bailey, professor of industrial strategy at Aston Business School.
"The Brexit vote leaves considerable uncertainty over the nature of the UK's trading relationship with the EU," he said.
"That uncertainty has the potential to impact on foreign investment in the UK auto sector, especially when auto firms are looking to replace models.
"Plants and jobs could be at risk if that uncertainty isn't 'nailed down' as quickly in the form of clear parameters for a trade deal - and preferably one that is as close as possible to existing single market arrangements."
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BlackRock has told the chairs of the UK's biggest companies they must stop making big payments when executives leave, and in lieu of pensions.
It would only approve pay increases for directors if workers' wages also rose.
BlackRock is a major shareholder in almost every company listed on the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250.
It could vote against the re-election of directors if its advice is ignored.
The fund manager wrote in its letter: "Where we determine that executive pay is not aligned with the best long-term interests of shareholders, we will also consider this in our voting decision for remuneration committee members' re-election."
Pay packages for bosses should be "strongly linked" to "sustainable returns" over the long term, BlackRock added.
"We consider misalignment of pay with performance as an indication of insufficient board oversight, which calls into question the quality of the board", it said.
The fund manager has also said that severance payments should no longer be made to executives who are sacked, choose to leave, or retire.
However, its demands would only apply to new pay packages, rather than executives already in post.
Chief executives of FTSE 100 firms now have a median pay package of £4.3m, which is 140 times that of the average worker, according to the High Pay Centre.
Some companies may heed BlackRock's calls given increasing political attention on the issue.
Dozens of big companies will also put their executive pay plans to a binding shareholder vote this year under existing rules that require them to do so every three years.
Soon after Theresa May became prime minister in July, she said there should be annual binding votes on executive pay.
But a consultation announced in late November indicated that ministers had rowed back from that stance.
Greg Clark, the Business Secretary, said he wanted chief executives to be paid in line with performance. "The right thing is to give greater powers to shareholders to hold executives to account," he told the BBC then.
The government does not plan to force companies to put workers' representatives on boards - a practice that is common in countries such as Germany.
Among other measures under consideration are pay ratios, which would show the gap in earnings between the chief executive and an average employee.
The consultation will run until 17 February.
There was been a massive swing to the Labor opposition in the vote.
It looks as if Labor has 44 seats which with the support of an independent MP is enough to form a government.
The defeat of the state government - Mr Newman was among those who lost their seats - has been partly blamed on the unpopularity of PM Tony Abbott.
Governor Paul de Jersey says he will commission a new premier following the formal declaration of results - the cut-off for postal votes ends on Tuesday but final declarations could take days.
So far only 25 seats had been formally declared in the 89-seat parliament.
Mr Newman will remain caretaker premier until a definitive poll outcome is known.
Labor and the LNP have been haggling over who will run the state after neither side secured a clear majority in the 31 January vote.
Correspondents say though that with a predicted total of 44 seats, Labor is in by far the best position to form a government, especially after independent Peter Wellington pledged his support.
Opposition Labor leader Annastacia Palaszczuk hopes to visit the governor by Wednesday evening to seek permission to form a minority government.
As the counting continues, the LNP is expected to win 42 seats. It had 78 seats in 2012.
The party wants the state to stay in caretaker mode until all seats have been declared.
Mr Abbott at the beginning of this month vowed to learn the lessons from the Queensland vote, where the LNP lost the largest political majority in Australian history after just one term.
The prime minister has accepted his coalition had "difficulties" but said that government was about competence not popularity.
Mr Abbott - who survived a confidence vote in his leadership on Monday - has faced stinging criticism recently, including from his own party, over his decision to award a knighthood to Queen Elizabeth's husband Philip.
Wrth siarad â BBC Cymru Fyw dywedodd Julie Thomas o Aberystwyth ei bod hi wedi gadael cyffordd 35 traffordd yr M4 ers 09:10, a'i bod hi dal heb gyrraedd y maes parcio am 11:00.
"Mae'r peth yn ofnadwy - ni wedi bod ar y sliproad 'ma nawr ers awr a thri chwarter a dal ddim wedi cyrraedd y maes parcio.
"Mae'r ferch Sioned yn cystadlu gyda chôr cerdd dant Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth a ni fod i gwrdd am 11:15. Ni wedi gadael Aberystwyth ers 06:45 a ni yn panico. Ond y tebyg yw bod lot o bobl yn yr un sefyllfa."
Dywedodd yr Urdd fod disgwyl peth oedi gan mai dydd Mawrth oedd y diwrnod prysuraf, ond fod y sefyllfa'n gwella erbyn hyn.
Dywedodd un arall sydd mewn ciw wrth BBC Cymru Fyw mai dyma'r ciw gwaethaf iddi weld erioed wrth deithio i Eisteddfod yr Urdd.
Doedd hi ddim am gael ei henwi ond dywedodd: "Y peth gwaethaf yw nad oes neb yn dweud wrthon ni be sy'n digwydd - ac mae lot o loris yn gwthio i mewn o'n bla'n ni.
"Wi wedi bod yn mynd gyda'r ysgol i eisteddfodau'r Urdd am flynyddoedd lawer ond dyma'r 'steddfod waethaf eto - mae'r ciws yn ofnadwy."
Yn annerch cynhadledd i'r wasg yr Eisteddfod fe ddywedodd Cyfarwyddwr yr Eisteddfod, Aled Sion bod problemau wedi bod gyda thraffig, gan ddweud ei fod i'w ddisgwyl ar "ddiwrnod prysuraf yr Ŵyl".
"Dydd Mawrth yw'r diwrnod prysuraf, a gyda ddoe yn Ŵyl y Banc, mae mwy o draffig heddiw gyda phobl yn mynd i'r gwaith," meddai.
"Mae 'na dagfeydd wedi bod 'nôl i'r M4, ond yn amlwg dy'n ni'n cyfathrebu gyda'r heddlu ac erbyn hyn mae pethau'n dechrau tawelu.
"Heddiw yw'r diwrnod prysuraf yn draddodiadol, ond rydyn ni'n gofyn i bobl fod yn amyneddgar a gadael digon o amser ar gyfer y daith.
"Ni fydd yr un rhagbrawf yn cau - os oes 'na broblemau gyda dod i'r maes, bydd y rhagbrofion yn dal ar agor a bydd neb yn cael cam."
The Moscow city court accepted the arguments of Russia's justice ministry that as the term "Scientology" is a registered US trademark, the Church cannot be considered a religious organisation.
The organisation plans to appeal, reports said.
The court set a six-month timescale for the Church to close, the ministry said.
Created by science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard in 1954 and based in Los Angeles, California, the Church of Scientology has generated controversy around the world.
Critics say that it is a cult and that it scams its members, while supporters maintain that it provides spiritual support to its followers.
Having a baby there however, costs a little more than the seven guineas the first patients paid for a week's stay when it opened in 1937.
The basic cost, for 24 hours' care including a normal delivery stands at £5,215, rising to £6,745 for a Caesarean section, though the royal couple may be entitled to take up the hospital's offer of a 10% discount for returning parents.
Prince George was born at the Lindo Wing on 22 July 2013, weighing 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).
It is now the usual venue of choice for royal births. Princes William and Harry were born there, as were the children of Princess Anne, the Duchess of Gloucester and Princess Michael of Kent.
The Lindo Wing, which is part of the St Mary's NHS Hospital in Paddington, west London, describes itself as having offered "leading private obstetric and neonatal care for 60 years".
Recently refurbished, each room has a satellite TV with major international channels, a radio, a safe, a bedside phone and a fridge.
The expectant or new mother and her visitors can access the internet on wi-fi, and there is a choice of a daily newspaper delivered to the room each morning.
All meals are freshly prepared by chefs in a dedicated kitchen and tea and coffee are provided for mothers and guests throughout the day.
And should new parents wish to celebrate their happy event, the wing also offers a "comprehensive wine list should you wish to enjoy a glass of champagne and toast your baby's arrival".
If Prince William wishes to stay, he will be provided with a fully reclining chair next to his wife's bedside, and breakfast in the morning.
But aside from these hotel-like luxuries, staff in the Lindo Wing are experienced in catering for complex pregnancies and deliveries.
It has the benefit of being attached to St Mary's, with access to top-notch hospital specialists and facilities for premature babies.
While modern royal parents have opted for the Lindo Wing, a home birth would be more in keeping with tradition.
The Queen was born at a home belonging to her mother's parents at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London.
The current heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was born at Buckingham Palace, while his sister was born at Clarence House.
Alan Farthing, the current surgeon-gynaecologist to the royal household and fellow obstetrician Guy Thorpe-Beeston are believed to be set to lead the medical team who will deliver the baby.
The team who delivered Prince George was led by Mr Farthing's predecessor Marcus Setchell, who has since retired.
He helped save the lives of the Countess of Wessex and her elder child Lady Louise Windsor in 2003.
The countess was rushed to a hospital in Surrey after complaining of severe internal pains when she was eight months pregnant.
She was dangerously ill from blood loss and doctors performed an emergency Caesarean.
There may be less of a media scrum outside the hospital this time than occurred for Prince George's birth, when the world's press waited for weeks for the first glimpse of the future heir to the throne.
But there will still be many eager for the first sight of his new brother or sister when he or she emerges on to the steps of the Lindo Wing.
Wiggins, 35, wants to ride on the track at the Olympics in Brazil in August ahead of a potential British finale.
Tour of Britain director Mick Bennett said: "The Wiggins team have verbally committed to me, and hopefully that can be a lap of honour for them with gold medals around their necks."
The tour runs from 4-11 September.
Wiggins, who won the Tour de France in 2012 and is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, is riding at the Track World Championships in London in March.
"Bradley is such an icon, such a rock star, and it would be great for him to tour the country before closing down an amazing career," added Bennett.
"I don't know if this will be the toughest edition of the race yet but I think it should be the most exciting, and it's certainly the most spectator-friendly.
"Spectators will be able to see far more of the race than ever before."
The eight-stage Tour - which will coincide with the Vuelta a Espana in Spain - will begin in Glasgow before taking the riders through the Lake District, Cheshire, Denbighshire and south Wales.
It will feature a return to the popular summit finish at Haytor on Dartmoor, a split-stage in Bristol, which includes a time-trial and a five-lap road race, ahead of the circuit finish in London.
Last year's race was won by Edvald Boasson Hagen, racing for the MTN-Qhubeka team, which is now known as Team Dimension Data and includes British sprinter Mark Cavendish.
The US-owned company said it expected to end manufacturing by the end of this year following a "phased run down".
Nearly 100 "support-based employees" will continue to work at the base.
Jabil said a strategic review had concluded there was "unsustainable" demand to support manufacturing at the West Lothian site.
It has launched a formal consultation process with employees.
Jabil said its plant in Ayr would not be "impacted" by the move.
The news comes less than two years after Jabil announced it was creating more than 200 jobs with a £12.5m expansion of the site.
The move was supported with a £450,000 grant from government agency Scottish Enterprise.
The Livingston plant, which is owned by US-based manufacturing services company Jabil Circuit, builds systems for firms developing emerging technologies in sectors such as energy generation and telecommunications.
In a statement, Jabil said: "Following a detailed strategic review of the Jabil Livingston site business plan and future loading requirements, we have concluded that there is unsustainable current and future demand to support the viability of manufacturing at the site.
"After careful consideration of all possible options, we are today announcing the commencement of a formal consultation process with our employees, with the intention of a phased run down of manufacturing at the site.
"It is anticipated that manufacturing will cease by the end of calendar year 2017."
It added: "This announcement is in no way a reflection of the hard work, dedication and loyalty of our Livingston-based employees.
"We are committed to supporting them throughout the consultation process and subsequent career search."
West Lothian Council said it would do all it could to help those affected by the proposed closure.
A spokesman said: "News that the plant is to close is extremely disappointing and our immediate thoughts are with those staff affected and their families.
"We will seek to meet with the Jabil's senior management and our partners as quickly as possible to discuss all and any alternatives to safeguard these jobs."
West Lothian suffered a major jobs blow earlier this month, when pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson announced plans to close its surgical suture manufacturing plant in Livingston, threatening about 400 jobs.
Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of data-reading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible.
The innovation allowed more information to be stored on each disk platter.
The foundation behind the award said he had made Facebook, Google, Amazon and other online services possible.
"Parkin is a leading innovator in the field of spintronics, which relies on the magnetic spin of electrons rather than their charge to store bits and is one of the most successful fields of nanotechnology yet," said Technology Academy Finland.
"[His] innovations have led to a huge expansion of data acquisition and storage capacities, which in turn have underpinned the evolution of large data centres and cloud services, social networks, music and film distribution online."
Previous winners of the one million euro ($1.38m; £824,000) award - which is announced every other year - include web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and the Linux operating system kernel developer Linus Torvalds.
Those selected are judged to have invented something that either has changed or has the power to change people's lives for the better, ideally on a global scale.
Prof Parkin's field of expertise is a branch of physics called spintronics - or spin electronics.
In this case, the word "spin" refers to a quantum mechanical property of an electron that can be likened to a planet turning around its axis.
Just as planets can rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise, electrons are said to be able to spin up or down - an action that sets up a magnetic field.
The analogy is not perfect, but in short the phenomenon can be exploited to store bits of data on atomically-thin magnetic structures.
Prof Parkin made this possible by building on the observations of two Nobel Prize winners - Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg - to create a highly sensitive detector capable of discerning small magnetic fields at room temperature.
"The spin valve sensing device allowed one to detect much tinier magnetic fields and therefore smaller magnetic regions in a magnetic disk drive," he explained to the BBC.
"The information in a disk drive is basically stored as magnetic regions in a very thin magnetic film.
"So, now we could detect much smaller regions than was possible before, in fact about 1,000 times smaller because of the extreme sensitivity of the spin valve sensing device."
The work was carried out for IBM, and the firm commercialised the technology in 1997. It soon became an industry standard, allowing disk capacity to quadruple roughly once a year for several years.
That not only made it possible to store more information in computers but also meant it became affordable to build giant data centres.
"The modern world is sustained by our ability to store all our information in magnetic disk drives essentially in the cloud, so that you can instantaneously carry out Google searches, instantly stream music and movies," added Prof Parkin.
"None of those things would be possible without the immense capacities of magnetic disk drives at the very low cost that is possible today... thanks to this spintronic sensing device."
Racetrack memory
The professor continues to work for IBM, and is hoping to spearhead a further storage revolution with an experimental technology he is developing for the firm called Racetrack memory.
The goal is to exploit spintronics to create a new type of storage that would consume less energy than magnetic disk drives but be as high-performing as solid-state flash memory - a more expensive alternative.
"By building a three-dimensional device with tiny nanoscopic wires in which a whole series of magnetic regions are raced to and fro, it can increase the storage capacity of conventional solid-state memory 100-fold," he said.
"It would be as fast and reliable as conventional solid state memories but would be as cheap and capacious as a magnetic disk drive - basically containing the best of both worlds."
While the professor is keen to highlight how his work has made it possible for the internet to offer vast amounts of information and entertainment, he acknowledges that the technology has also been used for more controversial purposes - including the storage and analysis of large amounts of information about the public by cyber-spy agencies.
Even so, he said he had few regrets.
"Of course it's a concern if people misuse data if they can," he said.
"It's like any scientific discovery or development - it can be used for good and sometimes used for bad.
"In my mind the goodness certainly outweighs any downside. The discoveries that can be made possible and the knowledge that can be gained by having access to the information certainly outweigh any negatives in my mind."
The 18-year-old, who has made three starts in his 11 first-team appearances for Swindon, will go straight into Scott Sellars' Wolves Under-21 squad.
Randall, who signed for Swindon as an academy scholar, made his debut on the final day of the 2013-14 season - the day after his 17th birthday.
Swindon rejected a bid last July of about £150,000 from Bournemouth.
Randall's arrival at Molineux on an 18-month deal comes in the same week that top scorer Benik Afobe was sold to Bournemouth for a reportedly eight-figure fee.
"This is a great move for me for the stage I am at in my career and my development," he said. "When I came here last Friday for the meeting and had a look around the facilities I was blown away by everything.
"I have been at Swindon's academy from the age of seven right through to now at 18 and have nothing but good things to say about them. But it is a really good time to get this move.
"Playing in front of big crowds and getting that experience of men's football will help me as I aim to push on."
Meanwhile, Wolves Under-21 regular Eusebio Bancessi is to sign on loan for the club's non-league neighbours AFC Telford United.
The young striker is set to make his debut in Tuesday night's rearranged National League North game at home to Hednesford.
Former Benfica youngster Eusebio has not played for the Wolves first team, but had a month out on loan last season with Cheltenham Town, who were then in League Two.
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The 114,500-tonne ship ran aground on rocks off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January, with more than 4,200 people on board.
The number of people known to have died in the disaster stands at 17, with another 15 still unaccounted for.
Bad weather has already delayed searches and fuel pumping operations.
Dutch salvage company Smit had begun to remove the more than 2,300 tonnes of fuel on Friday, but says it now hopes to begin work next week, amid fears the fuel could leak and damage the vulnerable coastline.
Franco Gabrielli, head of Italy's civil protection agency, said the first goal of the recovery mission had been to find survivors.
"Now we have a single, big goal, and that is that this does not translate into an environmental disaster."
He said it would take up to two months for salvage companies to respond to a call for tenders from the ship's owners, Costa Corciere.
"Taking into account the constraints that weather and sea conditions may impose, it will take seven to 10 months to remove the wreck," he told the Ansa news agency.
"We already knew that this was a very long, drawn out case but I think it's important that everyone is very aware that it will have a very significant timeframe."
Experts monitoring the ship's stability on the rocks said it had shifted 3.5cm overnight on Sunday because of high winds and waves.
That forced divers to suspend their searches of the ship on Sunday morning amid safety concerns.
But Mr Gabrielli said searches for the missing passengers and crew would resume quickly, citing "the moral imperative to return the bodies to their families", AFP news agency reports.
The captain of the Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, is under house arrest in his home town of Meta di Sorrento, near Naples, while his actions are investigated.
He is accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship before all passengers were evacuated. He denies the allegations.
The first episode looks at the colourful forests of New England, on the east coast of the US, where the vivid greens of summer give way to the golds and reds of autumn.
This programme revels in the full glory of the spectacle, and reveals how this vibrant fiesta is created by the battles between the trees and the forests' inhabitants.
Moose, chipmunks, rattlesnakes and a bizarre mixture of caterpillars all play a crucial role.
But, surprisingly, the forest itself was made so colourful thanks to the hard work of a combination of beavers, ants and humans.
Here, we present a few images of some of the moments explored in the film.
Earth's Greatest Spectacles can be seen on BBC 2 on Friday 5 February 2016.
These come from the spacecraft's altimeter instrument.
A lot of work still needs to be done to get the Sentinel-3a tool ready for full science operations, but the first data look extremely encouraging.
The sample track on this page clearly shows features of the Gulf Stream.
This dominant flow of warm water that crosses the Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe stands proud against the surrounding ocean surface.
Seeing such currents in action will be just one type of observation made by the new Sentinel altimeter.
It will also assess the general height of the global oceans, measure wind speeds out at sea (by examining the state of the ocean surface), and track the size of waves.
In addition, it will sense oil slicks in pollution incidents; and in polar regions, it will even gauge the shape of the ice sheets and the thickness of marine floes.
"All this will feed into a range of different services," said Dr Craig Donlon, the senior scientist on Sentinel-3a for the European Space Agency (Esa).
"For example, the maritime sector can use ocean current data to plot more efficient courses for ocean passages.
"By working with currents, as opposed to against them, ships can reduce their fuel costs and limit their carbon emissions.
"But perhaps the most important measurement we will make with the altimeter is the direct measurement of sea level changes.
"As you know, there is a big challenge this century for coastal communities and small island states to be able to cope with global ocean rise, and with Sentinel-3 we will be contributing to these critical observations."
Sentinel-3a was launched two weeks ago. It is one in a series of Earth observers being procured for the European Union's Copernicus programme.
The data from this ambitious, multi-billion-euro project is expected to drive myriad applications, ranging from air quality updates to crop-performance monitoring, from water-resource management to transport infrastructure planning.
Esa acts as the technical agent on the Sentinels, scoping their design and then getting industry to build them.
The radar altimeter on Sentinel-3a works by constantly throwing down pulses of microwave energy at the ocean.
The time taken for these pulses to bounce back can be assembled into a map of surface topography.
Numerous measurements made over the ocean and averaged over a long period will eventually reveal millimetric trends.
Data-sets gathered by previous generations of satellites - and to which Sentinel-3a will now contribute - show that globally, seas have been rising at a rate of just over 3mm/yr over the past 20 years.
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Mark Jones, chair of ColegauCymru / CollegesWales, said three years of cutbacks will make it a "difficult" time for adult learners.
His warning comes as £28m could be cut from education and skills in the Welsh government's draft budget for 2015/16.
The Welsh government said it will work to manage the impact of any cutbacks.
Mr Jones, who is also the principal of Gower College in Swansea, said there are inefficiencies within other areas of the education sector in Wales.
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme, he said: "We've had two tough years already, we had a cut two years ago, we had a cut this year.
"The sector, for example, spent £9m on restructuring last year to get ready for this year.
"The sector this year will have a surplus of about 1% which isn't enough money to reinvest in all the facilities and equipment and the staff we need.
"On top of that 1% we're expecting somewhere between a 3.2% and 5% cut going forward."
He said he understood many cuts would affect adult learners aged 19 and over.
"Adult learning is very complex - it's not just about adults coming in to do a two-hour week IT or French course," he explained.
"It's all about apprenticeships, it's all about us working in industry to develop employees - there are different parts of adult learning, but that's likely where the hits are going to be."
Mr Jones said further education in Wales had been through lots of changes but the quality has improved "dramatically".
Julie James, the newly appointed Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology, conceded further education colleges faced difficult times.
"They are hit, there's no doubt that," she said.
"But they agree with our priorities and they've been extremely cooperative with us. We've put an enormous amount of additional funding into college buildings.
"We agree lots of the courses are going to be struggling a little but we have European Social Fund bids in to mitigate some of that and we expect our employers to step up to the plate as well."
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Hart, who is on a season-long loan from Manchester City, allowed Geoffrey Kondogbia's shot to slip under his body as Inter took the lead on 27 minutes.
Daniele Baselli and Afriyie Acquah put Torino ahead before Hart contributed to Inter's 62nd-minute equaliser.
The 29-year-old misjudged Cristian Ansaldi's cross, allowing Antonio Candreva to score from close range.
The draw leaves Inter in fifth place, five points behind third-placed Napoli, who fill the final Champions League spot.
Napoli face Empoli on Sunday, while leaders Juventus are at Sampdoria, and Roma, in second, host Sassuolo.
In Saturday's other match, AC Milan beat Genoa 1-0 to move up to sixth, with Matias Fernandez scoring the only goal.
Match ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Second Half ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Maxi López (Torino) is shown the yellow card.
Maxi López (Torino) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Hand ball by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Jeison Murillo (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Éder following a fast break.
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Sasa Lukic (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan).
Cristian Molinaro (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Candreva.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Luca Rossettini.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt saved. Andrea Belotti (Torino) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sasa Lukic.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Emiliano Moretti.
Miranda (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Miranda (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Substitution, Torino. Maxi López replaces Daniele Baselli.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Afriyie Acquah (Torino) because of an injury.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Attempt saved. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt missed. Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Afriyie Acquah (Torino).
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Daniele Baselli (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Hand ball by Andrea Belotti (Torino).
Substitution, Inter Milan. Marcelo Brozovic replaces Geoffrey Kondogbia.
Attempt missed. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
His hiring follows the sacking of Tykes assistant Tommy Wright, who was named in a Daily Telegraph investigation alleging corruption in football.
Wright has denied breaking any law or Football Association and Fifa rules.
Clapham, 40, left his previous role as first-team coach at League One side Coventry on 29 September.
He joined the Sky Blues coaching staff in June 2015, having previously worked alongside manager Tony Mowbray at Middlesbrough.
Pressure on the beef, cereal and vegetable sectors means the total reduction in spending power could be almost double that figure.
The claim was made by the head of a body set up by the Northern Ireland Executive to oversee expansion in the agri-food industry.
Tony O'Neill said the food industry was Northern Ireland's "economic priority".
The chair of the Agri-Food Strategy Board, which was established several years ago, said that in the face of an "unsympathetic" response from Westminster it was up to the assembly to take the lead in pushing for significant EU support to shore up the milk price.
The Ulster Farmers' Union is planning a protest of the agri-food sector at Stormont on Friday.
The Northern Ireland Food and Drink Association called on its members to support the protest.
It said that with a turnover of £4.8bn and employing about 100,000 people, the agri food sector's importance could not be "overstated".
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill, Northern Ireland's MEPs and the chairman of the assembly agriculture committee met the EU Farm Commissioner Phil Hogan on Tuesday.
Mr Hogan had been resistant to calls for an increase in the so-called intervention price at which the EU buys product to support the market.
There have been some indications in recent days that he may be reviewing that position.
Ms O'Neill said the delegation had emphasised the "unique circumstances" of Northern Ireland's farmers who are heavily reliant on export markets.
The milk price issue will be discussed again at a meeting of EU Agriculture ministers on 7 September.
The WHO's Bruce Aylward said it was confident the response to the virus was now gaining the upper hand.
But he warned against any suggestion that the crisis was over.
The WHO later said the number of cases globally had risen more than 3,000 to 13,703 since its last report, but that this was due to reporting reasons.
The number of deaths was put at 4,920, roughly the same as the last report four days ago. All but 10 of the deaths have been in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
In other developments:
The latest WHO figure of 13,703 cases is a significant leap on its previous situation report on Saturday, which showed cases rising above 10,000 for the first time - to 10,141.
But Dr Aylward, the WHO's assistant director general, said that this increase was due to data being updated with old cases, rather than new cases being reported.
Saturday's situation report put the death toll at 4,922.
The similar death toll in the latest report was mainly a result of a revision of the Liberian statistics.
Cases there rose from 4,655 to 6,535 but reported deaths dropped from 2,705 to 2,413.
Deaths in Guinea rose from 926 to 997 and in Sierra Leone from 1,281 to 1,500.
Liberia's Red Cross said its teams collected 117 bodies last week, down from a high of 315 in September. Treatment centres also have empty beds available for patients.
Dr Aylward said : "It appears that the trend is real in Liberia and there may indeed be a slowing."
"Do we feel confident that the response is now getting an upper hand on the virus? Yes, we are seeing a slowing rate of new cases, very definitely."
Dr Aylward said there had been "a huge effort to inform the population about the disease, to change the behaviours that put them at risk".
And he said there had been "a real step up in the work to put in place safe burials".
But Dr Aylward said the data was still being examined and cautioned against thinking the crisis was over.
He said: "A slight decline in cases in a few days versus getting this thing closed out is a completely different ball game.
"It's like saying your pet tiger is under control."
Later, US President Barack Obama praised the progress made in Liberia, but also warned: "This is still a severe, significant outbreak... We've got a long way to go."
He said again that the disease had to be tackled at its source in West Africa, adding: "If we don't deal with the problem there, it will come here."
Until Ebola was contained, he said, there could be more individual cases in the US.
On Wednesday, South Africa's first black billionaire, Patrice Motsepe, donated $1m (£620,000) to Guinea to help the country fight Ebola.
The mining magnate said he hoped it would assist with clinical management, social mobilisation and other key steps in controlling the deadly virus.
His donation was announced as the US welcomed the international aid effort.
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While councils are recording greater numbers there is no way of knowing whether some of that reflects a better understanding of home educating families.
Social media and access to a wide range of education material online may be making it easier for families to take on what is clearly a major commitment of time and energy.
There is a strong tradition in some rural areas of families organising themselves to help their children learn at home.
Others may arrive at the choice after an unhappy or difficult experience of their child not getting on well at school or not getting a place at their preferred school.
We don't have definitive data on what happens to home educated children, but there is no reason to think they can't do as well academically or otherwise as children who go to school full time.
That's partly because they are very likely to be the children of middle class, quite educated parents who are able to afford for one person to be at home.
Although it is a minority choice, home education does reflect reservations many parents will experience at some point about whether their child fits completely into a very structured school system.
Those reservations are not enough for the vast majority to ever step out of a system which is familiar, regulated and provides an immediate social network.
Home education also provokes uneasiness because by its nature it is outside the system, an alternative choice.
Local authorities have the power to intervene if there are concerns about a child's welfare, or ask for evidence if they are worried a suitable education isn't being provided.
But from time to time there are calls for greater monitoring or regulation.
The last major bout of this was in 2009 when the Badman review raised concerns that a lack of monitoring created opportunities for child abuse.
Plans for registration were dropped in the last stages of the Labour government amid strong opposition from home educating families.
Now another concern has emerged, that a small number of children may be at risk of being radicalised, or places in unregulated or illegal schools.
A government consultation is underway now on further regulation of anywhere teaching children for more than six to eight hours a week.
Perhaps in the light of the bruising arguments over implementing the Badman review the government has made clear it has no intention to intervene in the right to choose to home educate.
The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) made unannounced visits to Monklands Hospital on 16 and 17 March.
Inspectors praised staff for infection control procedures but found evidence of some dirty patient equipment and outstanding maintenance work.
NHS Lanarkshire said it had taken steps to comply with the four recommendations made by the HEI team.
Claire Sweeney, interim director of Quality Assurance for Healthcare Improvement Scotland, said the inspection had covered wards and theatre departments at Monklands.
"We found that staff demonstrated good knowledge of standard infection control precautions and were generally complying with hand hygiene practice," she said.
"In addition, we found that theatre department renovation works were being well managed.
"We also identified a number of areas for improvement however. For example, NHS Lanarkshire must ensure that the environment and all patient equipment is safe and clean."
The HEI inspection report found evidence in ward four of dust on patient scales and boxes storing needles, contaminated blood glucose monitors and commodes and intravenous lines with "splash marks and sticky residue".
Inspectors also noted: "We found that the general environment in many of the areas inspected had outstanding works such as damaged walls and doors, exposed and damaged woodwork, and exposed and protruding pipe work.
"This means that these surfaces cannot be cleaned effectively.
"Staff told us that this pipe work had been reported to the estates department over one year ago and that staff had scraped their leg on the pipe work. Staff also told us that the advice they had been given by the estates department was to cover the pipe with a dressing to stop staff injuring themselves."
Calum Campbell, chief executive of NHS Lanarkshire, said he was pleased that the report had acknowledged the efforts of staff and the health board had a "detailed action plan" in place to address the issues raised.
"I can give an assurance that they have either already been resolved or are in the process of being completed," he said.
"We will continually monitor progress to ensure we strive for the highest standards of cleanliness and infection control at Monklands."
Emer Shepherd, head of infection prevention and control at NHS Lanarkshire, added: "Inspectors commented that the majority of wards at Monklands were clean and the majority of staff demonstrated good working knowledge of infection control policies.
"Inspectors also reported from their observations and from talking to our patients and visitors that staff routinely wash their hands.
"This is positive feedback to note and tells us that our staff are committed to the highest standards of patient care."
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The Swans suffered their heaviest defeat of the season when losing 5-0 at Tottenham.
The defeat means they are bottom of the table after Sunderland's win over Leicester.
"We will be ready against Sunderland, which will be the start of an important run of games that are going to spell out what's happening," Bradley said.
"We know it's all to play for in the next five or six matches between now and the start of the new year."
Bradley says the controversial decision to award Tottenham a penalty was a "big turning point" in their 5-0 defeat at White Hart Lane.
Harry Kane converted from the penalty spot on 39 minutes to give Spurs the lead after Dele Alli appeared to dive in the box.
"For me it's a wrong decision. The penalty was a big turning point," Bradley said.
"And then Son's strike minutes later totally changes the game."
South Korea international Son Heung-min doubled the home side's lead before the break with Kane's second and two goals from Christian Eriksen sealing Swansea's fate.
The former United States coach acknowledged his side were "not good enough" against a team who had won just once in their past 10 matches in all competitions.
"We just weren't good enough, we were second best most of the time and when they pressed us we couldn't get the first pass out of pressure," Bradley added.
"There is a lot there in which we need to work on to get ourselves out of pressure now we have to focus on the important run of games.
"I still felt even in the first 39 minutes at times we were second best in terms of some of the duals.
"We all know that to get where we need to go, we cannot concede the number of goals we have in the last two games."
We're spending more than ever online, choosing to shop via the internet and eschewing the seasonal High Street struggle to find that perfect present - or at least something that won't need to be returned in the New Year.
Here are the most striking of this year's seasonal shopping figures:
And online spending is expected to carry on rising in the coming years as well, forming a greater proportion of all our shopping.
44.9%
Forecast growth in online retail spending over the next five years
£62.7bn Estimated online spending by 2020
17.1% of retail sales will be online by 2020 - up from 13.8% now
As the value of what we spend online goes up, so do the number of orders and parcels. And all this shopping is heavily skewed towards the Christmas shopping season, with almost one in four of the year's online orders being placed in November and December.
One result of this is that there are more delivery vans than ever before on UK roads.
The number of miles driven by vans and light trucks has soared by 70.4% over the past 20 years, according to the Department of Transport; far outstripping the growth in cars and heavy goods vehicles - up 14% and 2.9% since 1995, respectively.
312,369
New vans registered in the UK in 2015
46.9bn miles
Distance covered by van drivers in 2015
Since 1995 this mileage has risen by 70%
There is some evidence that shoppers actually slow down their shopping ahead of the discount period. This then creates a spike in shopping - what some have called an "online tsunami".
Last year UK retailers and logistics firms were taken by surprise by this. There were delays and bottlenecks and lots of disgruntled online customers.
This year firms have been making significant investments to deal with the online rush - DPD, for example, has opened a new £100m "super hub" in Leicestershire. And all have been taking on more staff.
But despite the headlines and the seemingly impressive sale numbers, it is worth bearing in mind that for retailers, turnover by itself does not necessarily translate into profits.
And if you are all distinctly unimpressed by it all - then you are not alone.
A recent survey of online shoppers by eDigitalResearch and IMRG found that while 31% of shoppers either "like" or "love" major discount events such as Black Friday, a further 30% "don't like" or "hate" them. The other 39% were unsure.
University of Leicester scientists said the moist environment combined with nutrients leaching out of chopped leaves created the perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
The researchers said they were shocked at the way the bacteria thrived, even in the fridge.
They advised people to eat bagged salad on the day they bought it.
Despite their wholesome nature, fresh green leaves and salad foods are often involved in food poisoning.
An outbreak that affected more than 2,000 people across Europe in 2011 was traced back to bean sprouts and this year, officials in England traced an outbreak that killed two people back to bags of rocket leaves.
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Studies have shown that salad can carry bacteria, but the research team showed the bag made things much worse.
Bags are often moist to help keep the salad crisp and fresh and the plants have often been chopped into individual leaves for convenience.
The study showed sugars, proteins and minerals escaped from the cut leaves into the water in the bag.
"That's a reasonable amount of nutrients if you're a bacterium," said researcher Dr Primrose Freestone.
The study, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, showed that an initial contamination of 100 Salmonella bacteria would increase to 100,000 within five days.
"That's more than an infectious dose," Dr Freestone said.
She said she was also "shocked" that the bugs did so well in the chilled environment in the fridge.
The studies showed that Salmonella did especially well in bags containing spinach, while E. coli loved rocket leaves.
Dr Freestone told the BBC News website: "Juices that naturally leach from the leaves have the potential to increase the growth of any pathogen that might be present and establish them so strongly that washing wouldn't be enough to eradicate them.
"Don't be alarmed, we still eat bagged salad, but don't keep bagged salad any longer than you need to, we normally buy it on the day we eat it.
"Buy the bag with the best sell-by date, avoid lots of mushed leaves and if it's inflated then don't use it."
There are also suggestions that the bacteria become more dangerous in the bags.
A genetic analysis of the Salmonella showed they had gained the mutations that would help them to infect people.
Dr Freestone told the BBC: "We did see bacteria whose behaviour had turned more to virulence.
"I think the bacteria are making a molecular mistake and mistaking chemicals in the salad leaf for ones in the host."
Giannis Koukkidis, who also worked on the project, added: "Despite a number of published reports on improving the microbiological safety of salad leaf production, very few studies have investigated the behaviour of Salmonella once the leaves have been bagged.
"Salmonella also attaches more aggressively to the inner surface of salad plastic bag when it comes in contact with salad juices."
Dr Jeri Barak, from the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: "It would be fair to conclude that if Salmonella is present in salads, it might grow to infectious doses.
"The rates of produce that have been found to be contaminated are between 0%-3%.
"Consumers should treat bagged salads as temperature-sensitive food products, like milk and ice-cream."
Dr Kimon Karatzas, from the University of Reading, said: "Avoiding fresh produce is not a solution, but if possible, it would be preferable to buy uncut fresh produce over chopped, and to always wash it before you eat - even the ones that are already washed.
"Furthermore, keeping these foods in the refrigerator is important."
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The Nigerian government is sending parents to Cameroon to attempt to identify the girl.
She told investigators in Cameroon she was one of 270 kidnapped in Chibok by jihadist group Boko Haram.
The abductions sparked international outrage and the #bringbackourgirls social media campaign.
While about 50 of the girls managed to escape, 219 of these girls remain missing. They were taken by the militants from the Chibok community in northeastern Nigeria.
Reuters news agency reported that one of two girls arrested in northern Cameroon on Friday carrying explosives claimed to be one of the missing Chibok girls.
The girls were arrested after being stopped by local self-defence forces in Limani near the border with Nigeria, the target of frequent suicide bombings in recent months.
"We hope that the Chibok parents will be able to identify the girl and determine whether she is indeed one of their missing students," Garba Shehu, a spokesman for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Mr Shehu said the government was keen to ascertain the girl's identity so she could be brought back to Nigeria and possibly assist the government in investigating the abductions.
He said the two parents from Chibok selected to embark on the trip to Cameroon are Yakubu Nkeki, chairman of the Chibok Abducted Girls Movement, and Yana Galang, the women's leader in the group, whose 16-year-old daughter Rifkatu is among the missing.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was criticised for his slow reaction to the Chibok abductions. Mr Buhari, his successor, ordered a new investigation into the kidnappings in January.
Although Boko Haram has been driven out from most of the areas it controlled in north-eastern Nigeria, it has continued to carry out suicide bombings and raids into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
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Administrators have been appointed to run the newspaper. There is no explanation for the court's decision.
Zaman is closely linked to the Hizmet movement of influential US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally.
Turkey describes Hizmet as a "terrorist organisation" aiming to overthrow the government. Many of its supporters have been arrested.
Mr Erdogan's government has come under increasing international criticism over its treatment of journalists.
Press freedom 'a major concern'
In a statement, Zaman said the country was going through its "darkest and gloomiest days in terms of freedom of the press".
It expressed "deep concern" at the latest court order - the culmination of pressure for more than two years on Turkey's "highest circulating newspaper, Zaman, and its sister publication Today's Zaman". It said the pressure had been through "accreditation bans, tax inspections, meddling with its advertisers and threats to its readers".
Editor-in-chief Sevgi Akarcesme told Reuters news agency this was "the practical end of media freedom in Turkey".
"The media has always been under pressure, but it has never been so blatant," she said.
Dozens of supporters gathered outside the paper's Istanbul headquarters after the announcement of the court decision.
One held a placard saying, "We will fight for a free press."
Amnesty International's Andrew Gardner said: "By lashing out and seeking to rein in critical voices, President Erdogan's government is steamrolling over human rights.
"A free and independent media, together with the rule of law and independent judiciary, are the cornerstones of internationally guaranteed freedoms which are the right of everyone in Turkey," he said.
The move against Zaman comes days after Turkey's Constitutional Court ordered the release from detention of two Turkish journalists charged with revealing state secrets.
Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, from the newspaper Cumhuriyet, were detained in November over a report alleging that the Turkish government tried to ship arms to Islamists in Syria.
The pair still face possible life sentences at their trial on 25 March.
Two newspapers and two television channels were put under state administration last year over their alleged links with the Hizmet movement.
The Turkish government has accused Mr Gulen, Hizmet's spiritual leader, of trying to run a parallel state.
On Friday, state-run Anadolu news agency said police had detained four senior officials of a company linked to Mr Gulen in the central city of Kayseri.
Turkey has asked the US to extradite Mr Gulen. The exiled cleric has allies in the Turkish police and judiciary, media and financial interests as well as a network of schools.
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Police said the men and women were found by officers in the back of the HGV.
They were given medical treatment by ambulance crews and then taken into custody by Border Force officers on suspicion of being in the UK illegally.
The driver of the lorry was also arrested, on suspicion of facilitating illegal entry into the UK.
The US Department of State released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report on Thursday, and downgraded China to one of the worst offenders.
The reports highlights the treatment of North Koreans who may have been trafficked and then sent home by China.
There has been no response from China, which could now face sanctions.
Countries placed in the third tier of three in the report - including North Korea, Sudan and Venezuela - can lose non-humanitarian aid. But Associated Press reports that presidential waivers mean Tier Three countries do not always get punished.
Afghanistan, Qatar and Malaysia were upgraded to Tier Two as they were seen to be making efforts to crack down on the practice, and improve conditions for those who have been trafficked.
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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said China was downgraded "in part because it has not taken serious steps to end its own complicity in trafficking, including forced labourers from North Korea that are located in China".
Too often, the report says, China sends North Koreans home without having screened them for signs of human trafficking - even though they could face torture or execution on their return.
Mr Tillerson said an estimated 50-80,000 North Koreans were working overseas in forced labour, often up to 20 hours a day.
While the report comes from the Department of State rather than the White House, it is nevertheless the most significant rebuke against the Chinese government by the US since President Donald Trump took office in January.
However, Reuters reported that Mr Trump was becoming "increasingly frustrated" over Chinese inaction on North Korea, and that he was considering trade actions in response.
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Among the other findings on China highlighted in the report:
The report, which covers 180 countries, is billed as the most comprehensive resource of efforts being done to stop trafficking.
China was among 21 countries downgraded by the State Department, perhaps for good reason.
Beijing made it off the lowest rank of the US human trafficking index four years ago, but has hovered just above it ever since.
This year it was determined that Beijing simply wasn't doing enough to protect victims and prosecute traffickers. But it's also true that the political preoccupation of the moment is North Korea.
The Trump administration has become concerned about North Korean labourers who are forced to work abroad, many in China, with their pay directly funding the leadership in Pyongyang. So it was interesting that Secretary Tillerson chose to highlight this issue in his comments about China's record.
Li Heping was sentenced in a closed-door trial, Chinese state media say.
He has defended other prominent lawyers, including Chen Guangcheng and Gao Zhisheng, as well as practitioners of the banned Falun Gong movement.
A representative of campaign group Amnesty International questioned the validity of the allegations against Li.
The lawyer was detained in 2015 as part of a wider government crackdown on dissent under President Xi Jinping.
His trial took place on Tuesday in the Tianjin City Number Two Intermediate People's Court and concerned state secrets, the court said on its Weibo social media account.
In its ruling, the court said that since 2008 Li had used social media and foreign media to "smear and attack state organs and the legal system".
It also said he had used foreign funds to "interfere in high-profile cases" and colluded with several people "harbouring subversive ideas", including lawyers and those "involved in illegal religious activities".
His jail sentence had been suspended for four years and he would be denied his political privileges, the court said.
The suspension means Li could be released imminently, although it is unclear whether he has been. His time spent in detention should also count towards his jail sentence.
Amnesty International's China researcher, Patrick Poon, said that holding the trial in secret showed allegations against Li were "groundless and weak".
Wang Qiaoling has not seen her husband for the best part of two years but, like a number of other wives of the lawyers detained in July 2015, she has been a tireless campaigner for justice.
Despite the risks, she has continued to conduct media interviews about the lack of due process in the case against her husband.
The suspended prison sentence, announced without warning, will on the one hand be a relief because it ought to mean that Li will now be released. But it will also almost certainly mark the beginning of another long period of surveillance and control for the family.
Ms Wang has already refused a request from the authorities to travel to Tianjin to meet her husband, insisting instead that he should come home to her.
"He is not free, the authority wants to keep controlling him, that's why the authority tried to take me to Tianjin to meet my husband to legitimise their unjust means," she told the BBC.
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But US officials have said one of the two attackers, Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to Islamic State on social media on the day of the shooting.
The other perpetrator, Syed Rizwan Farook, helped his wife Malik launch a deadly assault at a workplace event, killing 14 people
The discovery of pipe bombs at the scene and more bomb equipment as well as weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition at their home suggests a degree of planning, investigators said.
So who were the attackers and what evidence is there that they may have been extremists?
Farook's wife, 29-year-old Tashfeen Malik, pledged allegiance to IS on social media, the day of the shooting, US officials have said.
But much of her life in the US remains a mystery, the Washington Post reported. Days after the shootings, no-one has emerged as a friend - or even her acquaintance - in San Bernardino.
What is known about her is that she came from a prosperous Pakistani family that practised Sufism - a more liberal interpretation of Islam that is viewed with scorn by more radical followers of the faith.
Malik grew up in Saudi Arabia but in 2007 she returned to her ancestral homeland near Multan - in the Pakistani province of Punjab - to pursue a pharmacy degree at Bahauddin Zakariya University.
She was a hardworking student, according to friends - and never showed any signs of religious extremism.
"She was one of the top five students," Talal Shaheer, who studied studied pharmacy with Malik, told the BBC.
"She was social, she would talk to boys, she would participate in class activities... she was not a religious activist," he said.
Asked if she had spoken against the US, he said: "Never. Politics was not the topic of her choice. Her favourite topic was studies."
Another of her friends, Abida Rani, told the Washington Post that Malik changed around 2009, suddenly becoming more interested in Islamic studies than pharmacy.
Ms Rani told the paper that Malik would daily travel across Multan to a madrassa that was believed to be espousing the ultra-conservative Wahhabi branch of Islam - often cited as the ideology of Islamic extremists around the world.
The young student was reported to have declined being photographed at the end of her college life - believing it to be contrary to her new religious beliefs - and to have spoken Arabic much more frequently.
She is believed to have met Farook in Saudi Arabia during the Hajj pilgrimage of 2013, a source told the Associated Press news agency.
The FBI says Tashfeen Malik came to the US in July 2014 on a Pakistani passport with a fiance visa that required she get married within 90 days or leave the country.
The US government did not pick up on extremist messages posted online when Farook and his wife began chatting.
Farook and Malik talked about martyrdom and jihad as early as 2013, but they did not get on authorities' radars.
To get the visa, she had to submit to an in-person interview and biometric and background checks to ensure she was not a threat to public safety or national security, AP reported.
The couple were married in Riverside County in 2014 and celebrated the union at the Islamic Center in Riverside with a party for up to 300 people, Reuters reported.
David Chesley, a lawyer for the Farook family, on Friday said family members described Malik as "soft-spoken" and "like a typical housewife".
She did not drive, wore a burka and did not interact with male family members, Mr Chesley said.
Malik applied for permanent residency in September 2014 and received a permanent resident green card in July 2015 following further background checks by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
Syed Rizwan Farook was "living the American dream" and had "everything to be happy", people who knew him said.
The Chicago-born 28-year-old had a good salary, earning $71,230 (£47,500) in 2013 as an environmental health specialist for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health and had just become a father.
He was a religious man, loved cars and also enjoyed shooting guns, according to a dating website profile believed to have belonged to him.
"Enjoy working on vintage and modern cars, read religios books, enjoy eating out sometimes travel and just hang out in back yard doing target pratice with younger sister and friends," the badly-spelled profile under the username "farooksyed49" said, according to the Guardian.
The profile on the Indian dating website Imilap.com - reportedly written about six years ago - is now shown as being "under review".
His co-workers at the health agency appeared to like him, AP reports, holding a baby shower before his daughter was born in which they collected cash for him and his bride.
Investigators are now examining the possibility he may have been radicalised.
His two sisters, Saira Khan and Eba Farook, told the New York Times they had no idea that Farook and his wife were preparing for the assault and that the pair seemed happy with their six-month-old baby.
A lawyer for the Farook family, Mohammad Abuershaid, said it was "in complete shock".
Mr Abuershaid said the family had little indication that Farook was unhappy at work.
But Mr Abuershaid said Farook had recently told family members that co-workers had mocked his beard.
The lawyer said the family knew that Farook owned two handguns and two rifles that were kept locked up.
However, the family said were unaware of the massive arsenal that the couple had amassed.
He had been in touch with people in the Los Angeles area who had expressed extremist views and had also been in contact with people overseas who were "of interest" to the US authorities, NBC reported, quoting intelligence sources.
Farook travelled to Saudi Arabia in 2013 during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and returned to the country in July 2014, the LA Times reported, quoting a security source. There was no record of Farook having travelled to Pakistan - where his parents were born.
These trips did not attract the attention of the security services because they were short in duration and he did not travel to places where he could have spent a period of time in a jihadist training camp, a law enforcement official told the LA Times.
However, the newspaper reported that investigators were examining the possibility that pipe bombs attached to a remote-controlled device found at the scene of the shooting were based on a design found in Inspire magazine, an online publication run by Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Farook prayed every day at the Islamic Center of Riverside - but stopped abruptly three weeks ago.
The centre's director, Mustafa Kuko, said he had never shown any sign of holding extremist views.
"He's a very committed person and he looked like a decent guy, looked very nice, cool-headed person, never gets into arguments with anyone, never gets into any disputes. He speaks with a soft and gentle voice. He is somewhat up to himself a little bit, not that social person," he told the BBC.
Mr Kuko insisted the Islamic centre emphasised "issues of moderation, a balanced life, issues away from fanaticism" in its sermons.
There were also some indications that Farook may have had an unstable family background.
Court filings in 2006 and 2008 showed that Farook's mother Rafia filed restraining orders against his father, also called Syed, describing him as a mentally ill alcoholic who was taking medication and "threatens to kill himself on a daily basis", the Guardian reported.
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Sushil Koirala said the government was doing all it could but was overwhelmed.
The UN has estimated that eight million people have been affected - more than a quarter of the population. Foreign aid is arriving but being hampered by congestion at Kathmandu's sole airport.
The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude quake is now 4,356, but Mr Koirala said it could reach 10,000.
"The government is doing all it can for rescue and relief on a war footing" in a "difficult hour" for Nepal, Mr Koirala told Reuters news agency.
He has also admitted that lack of equipment and expert personnel meant the "appeals for rescues coming in from everywhere" in many cases could not be met.
Almost 8,000 people are known to have been injured when the quake hit and in numerous powerful aftershocks which have sent people fleeing from their homes to camp on open ground.
Water, food and electricity are in short supply and there are fears of outbreaks of disease.
"According to initial estimations and based on the latest earthquake intensity mapping, eight million people in 39 districts have been affected, of which over two million people live in the 11 severely affected districts," said the most recent report from the UN Office of the Resident Co-ordinator.
Landslips and periodic bad weather in the remote mountainous region around the epicentre are adding to the challenge.
Rebecca McAteer, an American doctor who was one of the first to arrive in the district of Gorkha close to the epicentre, told Associated Press that 90% of houses there were "just flattened".
She said most residents were older men and women and children, as the younger men had left to find work elsewhere.
Many have also lost livestock and have little food.
However, a spokesman for Nepal's home ministry told the BBC that helicopters were air-dropping tents, dry food and medicine - though they were yet to reach many isolated communities.
This camp had been set up on a playground and even now there are quite a few children playing. But it no longer resembles a safe place. There's rubbish everywhere, paper plates, wrappers and plastic glasses are strewn all over.
"It's getting quite bad," says one man who is here with his wife and four daughters. "We've been here for three days and we've been living on instant noodles. There's nothing else to eat."
His house is not badly damaged, but he is adamant that he will not go home despite the challenging conditions in the camp.
"We've heard all these rumours about more earthquakes and aftershocks. We will not leave this place, not for a while."
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The Nepal government has pleaded for overseas aid - everything from blankets and helicopters to doctors and drivers.
"We urge foreign countries to give us special relief materials and medical teams. We are really desperate for more foreign expertise to pull through this crisis," said Chief Secretary Leela Mani Paudel.
Many countries have sent aid including India, China, the UK and US.
But there is a logjam at Kathmandu airport, with individuals trying to fly out of the country while flights of aid and rescue teams wait to land.
On Monday, four Indian air force aircraft had to return to Delhi international airport after encountering "congestion" at Kathmandu, tweeted a spokesman for India's defence ministry.
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Almost the entire Nepali army and police have joined the search and rescue operations, officials say.
People are still being pulled from the rubble more than 50 hours after the tragedy.
Hospitals are unable to cope with the huge numbers of people in need of medical attention and some Nepalis have complained of aid being slow to reach them.
The country's most deadly earthquake in 81 years triggered avalanches that have killed 18 people on Mount Everest - the worst disaster in history on the world's highest peak.
More than 200 people had been trapped on the mountain but all the injured have now been evacuated, along with the dead.
Expedition leader Chris Harling described experiencing the quake on the north side of Everest, telling the BBC the camp "started to vibrate underneath us which increased in intensity up to the point where the ground was literally shaking backwards and forwards like a giant jelly.
"It was absolutely incredible."
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Edjenguele, 29, joins from Veria in Greece while Van der Struijk, 31, was at Willem II in his homeland last term.
"We had to be patient with both these signings," manager Ray McKinnon told Dundee United's website.
"We worked on these deals for a good few weeks and I am delighted to get them on board."
United have taken five points from their four Scottish Championship matches this season, are through to the quarter-finals of the League Cup and host Peterhead in the Challenge Cup on Saturday.
Van der Struijk has spent his club career so far in the Netherlands while Edjenguele has played in England, France and Switzerland. Both have made over 200 senior appearances.
"They will add experience and quality to our squad in an area I have been looking to strengthen. Both will play a part in Saturday's game versus Peterhead," added McKinnon.
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Un-Nooh had been set for the cash prize in the sixth frame of his third-round tie with 2013 champion Neil Robertson at the UK Championship in York.
But the 30-year-old world number 36 said: "£44,000? I wish you'd told me before the black.
"There was too much pressure," said Un-Nooh, who was knocked out 6-2.
"I am so disappointed. I have never done a 147 in a big tournament like this before."
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Australian world number three Robertson said he was "absolutely gutted" for his opponent.
"Poor Thepchaiya," he said. "That prize would have meant a lot to him.
"But I am delighted to win. I was 3-1 up and should have been 3-1 down. I am feeling really good.
"My game is definitely there and now I need to put it together at the business end of the tournament."
Scarlets face Connacht in Galway on 30 January, with Wales' trip to follow on Sunday, 7 February
Williams sustained a foot injury during the Rugby World Cup in October and has not played since.
"He trained during the week with us and trained very well," said Scarlets coach Wayne Pivac.
"He's passed all the tests so far, so it's all looking good for him to get some game time next week."
Williams is expected to spend two days in the Wales training camp early this week before returning to Scarlets ahead of the Pro12 trip to Galway.
Pivac does not expect to have any other Wales squad players available to him as his team bids to stay top of the table.
The west Wales region finished without a win in the European Champions Cup for the third time after their 22-10 home defeat by Northampton.
Wales and former Scarlets wing George North scored the Saints' bonus point try.
But Pivac says they switched focus after the first couple of rounds.
"You could see early on in that competition that our focus was the Pro12, it was just unfortunate with what happened in the Rugby World Cup [injuries to Liam and Scott Williams] and then injuries we picked up ourselves.
"When you get to Europe, the depths of the squads vary and we don't quite have the depth that some of these sides have.
"The results speak for themselves really."
The Scarlets had 14 senior players on the injury list for the Northampton defeat, with every position apart from half-back affected.
They will now lose scrum-halves Gareth and Aled Davies, as well as front-rowers Ken Owens and Samson Lee, to Wales training duties.
Flanker John Barclay will also be absent on Scotland duty when the Six Nations kicks off.
On Friday night, Donald Trump was asked about his national security advisor's pre-inauguration contact with a Russian ambassador and said he'd "look into" it.
"I don't know about that," he said. "I haven't seen it."
On Monday senior Trump advise Kellyanne Conway assured reporters that Mr Flynn had the president's "full confidence"
Hours later, Flynn was gone and Conway was left explaining how the situation had become "unsustainable".
Although this may be the end of Mr Flynn's tenure in the White House, it's just the beginning of the story. There are a number of questions that aren't going away just because Mr Flynn has.
According to the Washington Post, acting Attorney General Sally Yates had informed Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn shortly after inauguration day that surveillance of Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak revealed he and Mr Flynn had discussed US sanctions imposed by the Obama administration during their 30 December phone call.
This ran directly counter not only to Mr Flynn's public denials, but those of other Trump administration officials, including press secretary Sean Spicer and Vice-President Mike Pence.
So, if the Trump White House knew that Mr Flynn had lied - or, as he put it in his resignation letter, had "inadvertently briefed the vice-president-elect and others with incomplete information" - why did it take weeks, and multiple embarrassing media reports, for the national security adviser to be shown the door?
During his press conference on Tuesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Mr Trump had been informed that Mr Flynn had discussed sanctions with Mr Kislyak on 26 January and had instructed the White House counsel's office to investigate whether any laws had been violated. The conclusion was that that it was legal. Over the course of the ensuing weeks, however, Mr Trump's trust in Mr Flynn "eroded" to the point where he could no longer be effective as national security advisor. It was then that he was sacked.
Those were weeks during which Mr Flynn was putting Iran "on notice", conferring tableside at Mar-a-Lago as the president and Japanese Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe dealt with a North Korean missile launch and sitting front and centre in the East Room of the White House during Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mr Trump's joint press conference on Monday.
Democrats in Congress smell blood in the water and are already calling for a sweeping investigation into the circumstances behind Mr Flynn's resignation.
"The American people deserve to know the full extent of Russia's financial, personal and political grip on President Trump and what that means for our national security," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a press release.
Although Democrats would prefer a new congressional special committee be created to investigate the matter, that seems unlikely at this point. There are already planned investigations into the larger question of whether Russia interfered with the 2016 US presidential election, to be conducted by the House and Senate intelligence committees.
"I think we should look into it exhaustively," said Senate intelligence committee member Roy Blunt of Missouri, "so that at the end of this process, nobody wonders whether there was a stone left unturned and shouldn't reach conclusions before you have the information that you need to have to make those conclusions."
The House investigation will look into Russian intelligence activities and "links between Russian and individuals associated with political campaigns", according to a letter signed by the Republican chair and ranking Democrat on the committee.
John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two senators on the armed services committee, are also launching their own inquiry.
"General Flynn's resignation also raises further questions about the Trump administration's intentions toward Vladimir Putin's Russia, including statements by the president suggesting moral equivalence between the US and Russia," Mr McCain said in a press release.
Other Republicans in Congress seem less interested in the matter. Jason Chaffetz, the chair of the House Oversight Committee who made recent headlines with his pledge to continue investigating Democrat Hillary Clinton's email server, has so far declined from launching an inquiry into Mr Flynn's resignation.
"It's taking care of itself," he said.
Of perhaps greater concern for the White House is the status of a reported FBI investigation into Trump campaign ties to the Russian government. According to the Post, FBI Director James Comey was reluctant to inform the Trump White House about evidence contradicting Mr Flynn's accounts because "it could complicate the bureau's ongoing investigation".
Although the BBC has reported that there is a multi-agency probe into Russia and the 2016 election, there's never been an on-the-record confirmation of this by government officials.
Could the inquiry include a look at whether Mr Flynn violated the Logan Act, a 1799 federal law that prohibits "unauthorised citizens" from negotiating with foreign governments? Given that the law has never been used in an actual prosecution, that seems unlikely.
The more the FBI asks questions, however, the greater the temptation for Trump administration officials to mislead or misstate in order to avoid further political fallout from the matter.
That could open the door for obstruction of justice charges. It wouldn't be the first time a cover-up of a political scandal turned into a criminal case. Or the second. Or the third.
As this story unfolds, Mr Flynn and the rest of the Trump team may want to look back and see whether this whole mess was preventable.
Forget, for now, the puzzler that Mr Flynn, who once served as director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, was seemingly unaware or unconcerned that phone conversations by the Russian ambassador to the US might be under government surveillance. Could he have just come out and admitted that he did, in fact, talk with Mr Kislyak about sanctions as part of a wide-ranging discussion of US policy priorities under soon-to-be-President Trump?
Perhaps. There certainly would have been political fallout. Democrats would have cried bloody murder, given their sensitivity to the outcome of the Clinton-Trump campaign. They would have accused Mr Flynn of undermining Mr Obama's efforts to punish Russia for its alleged meddling and, in all likelihood, questioned whether the move constituted a violation of the Logan Act.
In addition, there would have been further calls for a full investigation into Mr Trump's relations with Russia's Vladimir Putin and allegations of pre-election communications between the Republican's senior campaign officials and the Russian government.
What seemingly undid Mr Flynn, however, was that Mr Pence and other Republicans had framed their defence of the general based on his insistence that sanctions definitely were not discussed. Mr Flynn embarrassed the vice-president, who wields enormous influence in the administration.
A united White House may have been able to ride out this storm. As soon as it fractured, Mr Flynn was finished.
Mr Flynn was one of the Mr Trump's most trusted advisers on national security, since the early days of the presidential campaign, and he will be difficult to replace.
The president has alienated much of the conservative foreign policy establishment and appears unwilling, at least so far, to consider enlisting the aid of experienced hands who actively worked against him during the campaign.
Following Mr Flynn's resignation, the White House announced that Keith Kellogg, who was serving as chief of staff of the National Security Council, would take over as acting national security advisor.
Since retiring as a general from the Army in 2003, Mr Kellogg had worked for a variety of defence contractors and advised Mr Trump on foreign policy matters during the presidential campaign.
Although Mr Kellogg will have the advantage of incumbency while the formal search is conducted, another high-profile name has already been floated for the job - former CIA Director David Petraeus.
Once considered a rising star in the Republican Party after his success organising the 2007 US military troop "surge" in Iraq, he was forced to resign from the CIA in disgrace and charged with sharing top secret documents with a civilian reporter with whom he was having an extra-marital affair. He eventually pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information
That, it seems, has not been a career-killing event, however - even though Mr Petraeus would have to get approval from his parole officer before taking a job in Washington.
Robert Harward, a former deputy commander of US Central Command, is reportedly also under consideration.
Whomever Mr Trump selects for national security adviser will be thrust into a key role in the administration's foreign policy team under less than ideal circumstances. The job requires the ability to co-ordinate multiple intelligence and security agencies with competing interests and priorities. The NSA has to be a diplomat and a facilitator, making sure the president is kept abreast of all relevant national security developments and his policy directives are effectively implemented.
It's not a job for the faint of heart even in the best of times.
In late January Ms Yates, an Obama administration holdover who was serving as acting attorney general, advised the Trump administration of problems surrounding Mr Flynn's role as national security adviser.
On 30 January Ms Yates announced that she would not enforce Mr Trump's executive order barring entry to the US for individuals from seven predominantly Muslim nations, warning that she considered the action of questionable legality.
She was fired by Mr Trump later that day.
Now the president's immigration order has been indefinitely suspended by multiple courts, which have said it may violate constitutional rights. And Mr Flynn is gone.
We already know the answer to this particular question, actually. Ms Yates probably feels pretty vindicated.
Anglo said it would cut 6,000 posts from office and other roles not directly related to production.
The company, which has some 150,000 workers worldwide, said employee numbers would fall by 35% after the cuts, which will be accompanied by asset sales.
Anglo posted a pre-tax loss of $1.9bn (£1.2bn) for the six months to 30 June.
The miner has been hit by multibillion-dollar write downs on the values of its assets following commodity price falls.
Iron ore was down 41%, platinum has fallen 19%, and copper is 18% lower.
Chief executive Mark Cutifani told analysts: "Quite frankly we didn't expect the commodity price rout to be so dramatic and in all likelihood the next six months are going to be even tougher. We have pulled costs out of the business but we need to do more because prices continue to deteriorate."
Most of Anglo's workforce is in South America and South Africa, with just 2,000 in Europe.
Profits from its De Beers diamond mining business fell by $189m to $576m.
Shares closed up 0.2% at 808.1p, valuing the company at £11.3bn. The stock is half the value of a year ago.
Meanwhile, Lonmin said it would cut 6,000 jobs as the fall in the platinum price forced it to scale back operations in South Africa.
In a quarterly production statement the miner warned it was heading for an annual loss at current platinum prices.
The price of platinum has fallen by 14.4% from $1,126 an ounce in March to $964 on Wednesday.
Shares plunged 17.4% to 62.3p, valuing the company at £366m. The stock traded at more than £10 a decade ago.
Lonmin said it would mothball several platinum mines to cut costs, which would create a "smaller more sustainable and agile business".
The miner added it expected normal platinum production over the next two financial years to fall by 100,000 ounces.
"Our objective is to save the majority of the positions in the company and create a sustainable business by taking urgent action and maximising liquidity to protect the business.
"All costs, not just labour costs, have to be reduced and productivity improved if the business is to be sustainable," Lonmin added.
The miner added it was reviewing the capital structure for the company given the "new pricing environment" and was considering the whether to refinance its debt.
Platinum sales for the quarter were 231,778 ounces. That was in line with refined production expectations and compared with sales of 206,039 ounces for the same period a year earlier.
But Lonmin said despite the increase in production the weaker price of the precious metal and the weakness of the South African rand had continued to hurt profits.
The platinum US dollar price decreased by 23.2% the same period a year earlier.
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Friday it was shocked by the decision to cut so many jobs.
"As the NUM, we are going to fight against any job losses. It is very painful to see that these mining companies take the decisions of cutting jobs easy," the union said.
The mine closures come three years after 34 people were killed after police opened fire on striking Lonmin miners in what has become known in the country as the "Marikana massacre".
The Lonmin-owned platinum mine became the centre of a violent clashes between police and strikers following a pay dispute with Lonmin that was exacerbated by tensions between two rival trade unions.
Richard Alston, 70, of Vinery Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, worked at Cavendish School in Ealing, west London, between 1975 and 1980.
He was the partner of the founder of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Alston was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court for gross indecency with a child under 14 and indecent assault.
The court heard Alston and his partner Peter Righton forced an 11-year-old boy at the school to watch pornography and then perform sex acts on him at their home in Greenford, west London.
Righton, who died in 2007, was a founding member of the group set up in the 1970s that campaigned to lower the age of consent.
Righton was 19 years older than Alston, who was 16 when they met. They spent 40 years together, the court heard.
It was the investigation into Righton - convicted of importing images of child abuse in 1992 - that led to MP Tom Watson using Parliamentary privilege in 2012 to allege there was "clear intelligence" of a VIP child sex abuse ring.
The victim, whose anonymity is protected, came forward to police in 2013.
The abuse happened between February 1978 and February 1980 when the boy was at the school described at the time as being for "maladjusted boys".
Judge Alistair McCreath told Alston: "I acknowledge that at the time you committed these offences you were in a very close relationship with an older man who had very particular and aggressive views about the propriety of sexual behaviour with minors."
He said while he had the "intelligence, maturity and ability to say no" to "some extent at least" his behaviour was influenced by Righton.
The court heard Righton and Alston's friend Charles Napier - now a convicted paedophile - would also be present on some occasions.
Napier, a former teacher from Sherborne in Dorset, was at one time treasurer of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Alston was found not guilty of four counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on one count each of the same offences and they will lie on file.
Cy Cooper, 44, was pulled from the blaze at the property on Bluebell Close at about 00:25 BST on Wednesday, but was pronounced dead at the scene.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died from multiple injuries, none of which was related to the fire.
Paul Anthony Noel Cain, 23, of no fixed abode, is to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court later.
Three men and a woman, who were all initially arrested on suspicion of murder, have been released without charge.
Detectives said the fire was being treated as arson and a joint investigation with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue was under way to confirm the cause.
Police received a number of calls after a big, bright flash or 'fireball' was seen - with people reporting seeing a blue, white or green light at about 6.45pm on Monday evening. Others said they had heard a rumbling sound.
Professor Keith Horne, from St Andrews University, said the meteor was probably about 10cm across, with the rumbling sound caused by a sonic boom.
The Met Office said the event was "not weather-related" as there were no thunder storms recorded on Monday night.
Professor Horne said the flash would have been caused by a meteor, the size of a tennis ball, travelling at about 30 kilometres per second.
"What you've seen is a piece of rock from outer space that has crashed into the earth," he said.
"When it hits the atmosphere it starts to burn up... It releases all this energy into the atmosphere which will cause a bright flash and sometimes bits of this explode."
One eyewitness who caught the flash on camera, Jenni Morrison, said "it was pitch black and then all of a sudden it was like a light switch went on. It became daylight - the whole sky lit up.
"I looked at my son, he looked at me and then it just went black again. It really didn't last long at all - literally seconds.
"We didn't realise what it was at the time until we looked back on my dashcam. We saw the ball of light over the trees on the left side coming down at some speed and then a massive flash.
"It was scary and amazing at the same time."
The costume, a full-body suit with brown skin, traditional tattoos, grass skirt and bone necklace, represents the character Maui, considered a demi-god and ancestor by many Polynesians.
Activists said it was "brownface", or mocking of the culture by creating stereotypes.
Disney said it regretted any offence.
"The team behind Moana has taken great care to respect the cultures of the Pacific Islands that inspired the film, and we regret that the Maui costume has offended some," it said in a statement.
"We sincerely apologise and are pulling the costume from our website and stores."
The film, due for release in November, tells the story of Moana, a young girl who teams up with the demi-god Maui to make an ocean voyage and save her people.
The character of Moana has been widely welcomed because she is feisty, independent and with a more realistic body shape than most Disney female leads.
She also has no love interest in the story, which was written by New Zealand Maori film-maker Taika Waititi.
But when the trailer for Moana was released in June, many people were offended by the depiction of Maui, saying he was an "obese" caricature of Polynesian men.
Among the merchandise promoting the film was the Maui costume, on sale for about $44 (£34).
It was advertised as helping children "set off on adventures", with his "signature tattoos" and clothing.
Among the angry responses were people saying "our skin is not a costume", and pointing out that white-skin outfits are never sold for white characters.
I understand the reasoning behind the grass skirt and the necklace, but the brown skin is too far, and the tattoos are culturally misappropriated.
Tattoos are deeply meaningful to Pacific people. Like a fingerprint, a tattoo is unique to each person.
Our markings tell a personal story that we carry with us on our skin, everywhere we go - constantly reminding us of our values, our people, and our identity.
It is considered taboo and extremely disrespectful in many Pacific cultures to wear the markings of a people or place that you are not spiritually or physically connected to.
After the release of Moana, Maui may be a Disney character to some, but to many Pacific people, he is very real - a hero, ancestor, demi-God and a spiritual guide.
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Police are investigating the breach and Sage is probing the "unauthorised access" of data by someone using an "internal" company computer login.
The information was accessed at some point over the past few weeks.
It is unclear whether it was stolen from the FTSE-listed firm, or merely viewed.
The company, which provides business software for accounting and payroll services to firms across 23 countries, says it is taking the breach extremely seriously.
The police are investigating and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), responsible for the enforcement of the Data Protection Act 1998, has been informed.
Sage has notified those businesses whose data may have been accessed and has advised them to look out for any unusual activity.
A Sage spokesperson said: "We are investigating unauthorised access to customer information using an internal login.
"We cannot comment further whilst we work with the authorities to investigate - but our customers remain our first priority and we are speaking directly with those affected."
Sage was founded in 1981 and now has more than 13,000 employees around the world.
The group has an annual turnover of £1.3bn, and is the only remaining technology stock on the FTSE 100.
If the ICO decides that Sage has been negligent there are a number of actions it could take, including criminal prosecution, non-criminal enforcement, or undertaking an audit at the firm.
How the system works
The report from the Care Quality Commission that a quarter of home care services are not meeting all the quality and safety standards makes depressing reading.
Evidence of rushed appointments, botched assessment and revolving door of carers suggests the system is on its knees.
The temptation is to think that will all change with the introduction of the cap on costs that the government announced on Monday.
But sadly that is not the case.
The complex nature of the system means the reforms should help reduce the need for people to sell their homes to pay for care.
But they do little - perhaps nothing - to improve the quality of services on offer.
The last decade has seen services squeezed until the pips squeak.
In fact, they have got so bad that just over a year ago the Equality and Human Rights Commission said some services were "breaching human rights".
Much of the system - both care homes and home care - is provided by private firms or voluntary sector organisations.
They look after a mix of self-funders - about 500,000 - and those who get state help from councils - just over one million.
Talk to them and they will describe how local authorities have been wanting more for less.
Research by the UK Homecare Association, which represents the firms providing carers to help the elderly with basic tasks such as washing, eating and dressing, shows that councils have been putting pressure on them to reduce the length of visits.
Three quarters are now less than 30 minutes in duration, including 10% which are less than 15 minutes.
Those paying for their own care are not immune - agencies have pared back on their visits to cover costs.
Councils understandably point out that they are doing the best they can.
They have been ploughing more and more into the system as a proportion of their resources at the expense of other areas such as leisure centres and libraries.
Social care, including services for younger disabled adults, now accounts for nearly half of their spending.
But the total pot for care is still shrinking as the huge cuts in government funding for councils - it is falling by over a quarter this parliament - means local authorities have been unable to protect the sector entirely.
The budget for social care stands at just over £14bn - a £1bn cut in real terms. If that happened in the NHS there would be outrage.
Councils have responded by rationing access to care so only the most needy can get it.
It means despite the ageing population the numbers getting help has actually fallen in the past five years, leaving an estimated one million without any help.
In years gone by these people would have been looked after by younger relatives. But with families more dispersed and the children of the elderly often pensioners themselves this is not always possible.
Stephen Burke, director of the United for All Ages charity and author of the Good Care Guide, is scathing.
He believes the government has pulled a "con of the worst sorts" by giving the impression it has solved the problem of old age care.
Other are more generous.
Councillor David Rogers, from the Local Government Association, has welcomed the cap as an important step forward, but says more needs to be done to tackle the quality issue.
"Without an urgent injection of money to meet rising demand in the short term things will continue to get worse."
With the over 65 population expected to rise by 50% over the next 25 years, expect to hear much more about the care crisis.
The case sparked a huge political row about freedom of speech. Last week the Justice Minister, Heiko Maas, sacked chief prosecutor Harald Range.
Public rallies had backed Netzpolitik.
The chief prosecutor's office said it now accepted the justice ministry's assessment that Netzpolitik did not leak state secrets.
But German media said investigations against unnamed state officials bound to secrecy were continuing in connection with a suspected breach of confidentiality.
In February, Netzpolitik alleged that Germany's domestic intelligence agency wanted additional funds to increase its online surveillance programme.
A later article in April investigated the spy agency's plans to set up a special unit to monitor social networking websites.
In the high-profile case, Netzpolitik founder Markus Beckedahl and blogger Andre Meister were accused of treason.
The decision to drop the investigation had been "long overdue", Beckedahl said on Monday, but added that "this doesn't go far enough for us".
"We want to know concretely whether, as part of the almost three-month-long investigation, we were victims of surveillance. And we want clarity about who knew what, and when, in the German government," German media quoted him as saying.
He called the investigation into his website "a judicial misjudgement".
"We hope that the intimidation attempt against us and all other journalists who cover surveillance activities... has collapsed big-time," he said.
Many Germans were outraged by the scale of US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropping exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is now a fugitive in Moscow.
Data protection is always a hot topic in Germany, because of the abuses inflicted by the Nazi dictatorship and the former communist regime in East Germany.
Creative Director Xanthe Hamilton said they would stage a smaller gala screening in November when plans for the fifth Branchage would be unveiled.
Miss Hamiliton said they plan to make next year's festival bigger and better.
She said there would be more community involvement and other arts events including comedy, theatre and poetry.
Branchage is a mixed media festival with screenings and performances at venues across the island from castles and barns to theatres and cinemas.
Miss Hamilton said: "Whilst I understand that many local filmmakers and film enthusiasts may be disappointed that Branchage won't be taking place in all its glory this year, I'm confident that the 'interim' events we have planned for November are going to be really special and unmissable for Jersey's film fans.
"When people see what we have planned for 2013, they'll hopefully agree with us that it'll be worth the wait."
He will replace the current SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey who announced he is stepping down for health reasons.
Mr Diver will be formally endorsed at a selection convention on 22 December.
He is currently the party leader on Derry City and Strabane District Council and has been a councillor for 14 years.
"Pat Ramsey is a political legend locally," said Mr Diver.
"I am honoured to have been put forward and I look forward to the many challenges. I'm looking forward to being in Stormont.
"Foyle faces a number of challenges like economic disadvantages, infrastructure issues and the growth of the university."
Mr Diver has been working in the community and voluntary sector for 20 years.
"I want to focus on job creation and investment in the north west," he said.
"Derry and the Foyle constituency has never really got what it deserved.
"I'm going to bring my expertise to the table but it's not for Gerard Diver to make changes alone.
"I imagine I will be co-opted into the assembly early in January. I'm excited and look forward to the months ahead."
He has what has only been described as a "persistent infection" which his foundation says is unrelated to the prostate cancer he has had for 15 years.
Archbishop Tutu retired from public life in 2011 but continues to travel.
The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate cancelled a planned trip to Rome in December following another infection.
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Sope Peters drowned in October 2013, Luke Pearce died in May 2014 and Euan Coulthard was found dead in January. All had been out drinking.
Measures, including the provision of late-night taxis and student wardens have since been introduced.
Now fire chiefs are targeting 16 to 30-year-olds in a week-long campaign.
The events, run by County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service from Monday, will highlight the dangers of low water temperatures, underwater hazards like shopping trolleys and riptides and eddies.
Andy Bruce, assistant community protection and prevention manager, said: "As we know only too well in this region, water safety is of the highest importance.
"We hope that by highlighting the fatal five dangers during Drowning Prevention and Water Safety Week, we will stress the importance of taking care near inland waterways.
"The events the service has planned also aim to remind young people, in particular, to look out for themselves and their friends to prevent any more lives being cut short in such tragic accidents."
Since the deaths, up to 50 Durham University students have taken up roles as volunteer wardens.
They have received basic life-saving and alcohol awareness training and are equipped with radios, first aid kits, water and blankets.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on Friday that showed overdose deaths jumped 7% from just one year earlier.
The spike in deaths has coincided with a rapid rise in the abuse of opioid-based prescription painkillers such as oxycontin and hydrocodone.
The CDC said 61% of the deaths involved some type of opioid, including heroin.
Many abusers of painkillers shift to using heroin as it becomes harder to obtain the prescription medications.
"The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths," the CDC's report reads.
The report found significant increases in overdoses in 14 states across the country. All regions of the US - including the Northeast and the South - were affected.
Overdose deaths are up in both men and women, in non-Hispanic whites and blacks, and in adults of nearly all ages, the report said.
Rural West Virginia had one of the worse overdose rates in the US. The state rate was 35.5 per 100,000 people; the national rate was about 15 per 100,000.
In addition to drug treatment, the CDC urged increased use of naloxone, an overdose antidote.
Many police departments across the country have begun equipping officers with the fast-acting remedy in an effort to save lives.
The health agency has also provided guidelines for general practitioners that urge them to be more cautious about the medications they prescribe for chronic pain.
The Euro 2016 hosts eased to their win in Metz, with Olivier Giroud scoring twice before Laurent Koscielny's third.
"We have chosen to play some of the best teams in the world in the last four games to find out what we can do," Scotland manager Strachan said.
"Sometimes you have to take a hard lesson, which we have."
After wins against the Czech Republic and Denmark in friendlies in March, the Scots failed to shine against Italy in a 1-0 defeat in Malta last week before they were dismissed by Didier Deschamps's side.
With Scotland having failed to qualify for Euros this summer, Strachan will now prepare for their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier against Malta in September, a match which he believes will be all the better after his side's French experience.
"We have had four friendly games, we had to experiment, we have experimented and we take a lot of information from that, which is great, and we will debrief and see what is the best way to go forward," he said.
"I do believe after the performances in the qualifiers, we do know that we are better than some teams in it and definitely as good as some teams that are in it.
"We know from the last Euro qualifiers that we can play football and score goals and play attractive football.
"We will now try and improve with the information we have got."
Strachan praised the French side, saying: "If there is a better team than them then we are in for a fantastic Euros."
The former Scotland midfielder noted how well his players did, adding: "I'm not as tired as the players, that's for sure.
"Those guys kept plugging away, it would have been easy to fold.
"It is easier for us to sit and think we could have done this, we could have done that, but when you are out there playing against a world-class side, it is harder for them than it is for us to watch it.
"For us to get anything and make any sort of progress in the game we have to be at our best and at times that didn't happen."
The baton made its first stop in Glasgow, which hosted the last Commonwealth Games in 2014.
It is making a 142,915-mile (230,000km) journey over 388 days ahead of the Gold Coast 2018 event.
The baton's tour will take it through Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
It left Buckingham Palace in March carrying a message from the Queen and will arrive in Australia in December and travel through the country, finishing its journey at the Opening Ceremony on 4 April.
In Glasgow, the 42nd stop of its global tour, the baton visited a range of youth and community projects with a strong focus on the legacy of the previous games.
Michael Jamieson, Olympic and Commonwealth silver medallist in swimming, was the first baton bearer as the relay arrived at Glasgow School of Sport.
He was accompanied by Louise Martin, president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, and Jon Doig, chief executive of Commonwealth Games Scotland.
Accepting the baton on behalf of Scotland, Mr Doig said: "The Queen's Baton Relay is the iconic symbol of the Commonwealth Games and we are delighted to welcome the Gold Coast 2018 Baton to Scotland today.
"We have had tremendous enthusiasm and support from local authorities, schools and community groups across the country, helping to organise an exciting programme of events, using the QBR to connect their communities with the Games and embrace the values of the Commonwealth movement as a whole.
"The public support Team Scotland enjoyed for Glasgow 2014 was phenomenal and I look forward to seeing that passion sparked once again, as the baton journeys through Scotland this week."
The relay team was greeted by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Lord Provost of Glasgow Eva Bolander, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, and Angela Porter, director of the Glasgow School of Sport.
Ms Sturgeon said: "I am delighted to be able to welcome the Queen's Baton Relay to Scotland during its journey around the Commonwealth ahead of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
"Scotland hosted the most successful Commonwealth Games ever in Glasgow 2014 and we are looking to achieve our best away Games ever in Australia next year."
She added: "We will continue to invest for the future by creating world-class facilities and providing funding for coaching and training so that, from grassroots to elite, Scotland can be proud of its sporting achievements."
While in Glasgow, the baton is also visiting the former Commonwealth Games Village in Dalmarnock and the Cuningar Loop woodland park, a 2014 legacy project.
It is stopping at the Emirates Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome and The Legacy Hub in Dalmarnock, finishing the day in George Square.
Ms Bolander said: "It only seems like yesterday that we were welcoming our own Queen's Baton Relay to the city ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The people of Glasgow were so excited and enthusiastic, and it really was wonderful to see."
She added: "If the excitement today is any indicator, everyone in the country will be behind the Scottish athletes next April, cheering Team Scotland on as it aims for its best ever overseas medal haul!"
The baton will spend five days in Scotland.
Designed for each games by the host nation, the 2018 Queen's Baton has a distinctive loop design and has been made using macadamia wood and reclaimed plastic, sourced from Gold Coast waterways.
Mr Yang, who is also known by his pen-name Guo Feixiang, is accused of disturbing public order last year.
He has claimed that the trial, being conducted in the southern city of Guangzhou, is illegal and improper.
Chinese authorities have mounted a widespread crackdown on dissenters and critics in recent years.
Mr Yang, 48, and another activist Sun Desheng, 32, had organised a small protest calling for media freedom outside the offices of major newspaper Southern Weekend. Its journalists had complained about government censorship.
Mr Yang released a statement from prison on the eve of the trial saying there had been numerous violations of legal procedure.
He claimed his lawyers had not been allowed copies of evidence against him and he was unable to mount a proper defence.
"I express my strongest protest and condemnation of... this flagrant violation of the rule of law," he said in a statement posted on the website of activist network New Citizens' Movement, which he is a member of.
One of Mr Yang's lawyers told Reuters that the four lawyers representing both Mr Yang and Mr Sun were boycotting the trial because they were not granted at least three days advance notice to prepare.
Mr Yang is known for helping residents of a southern Chinese village organise themselves in 2006 against a local Communist Party official who they accused of illegally selling their land to enrich themselves, according to AFP.
He was later sentenced to five years in prison for "running an illegal business".
The BBC's Damian Grammaticas says Mr Yang's prosecution is being watched closely as it comes amid the broadest crackdown carried out by China's ruling Communist Party in recent years.
Dozens of activists and government critics have been targeted, many detained, and some prosecuted on broad public order charges, says our correspondent.
Earlier this year, the founder of the New Citizens' Movement, Xu Zhiyong, was jailed for four years earlier for disrupting public order.
Last month, well-known Chinese dissident Gao Zhisheng was released having allegedly suffering physical and psychological abuse in jail.
He said the authority could have power on funding decisions for English and Welsh output but would be "ultimately accountable to the BBC Trust".
He made the comments at the third annual Patrick Hannan Lecture broadcast on BBC Radio Wales on Tuesday night.
Most of S4C's funding is from the BBC licence fee but it remains independent.
An agreement between the UK government, S4C and the BBC Trust in 2010 led to the Welsh language broadcaster receiving around 90% of its funding from the licence fee.
It had previously been almost entirely funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
During the speech, Hewlett said that there was a "huge opportunity" following the last BBC funding settlement which put in place arrangements for S4C and the S4C Authority to run independently but be accountable to the BBC Trust.
"Could the S4C licence fee deal be the blueprint for a federal BBC?" he asked.
He said the S4C principle of having licence fee funding and independence under the BBC Trust could be applied across the "whole Welsh operation" with one authority overseeing services in both languages, having funding decisions and promoting on air plurality.
Hewlett called on both broadcasters to work more closely together and said a "huge and historic opportunity" might be missed if a "mutual distrust" between the two broadcasters was allowed to continue.
Focusing on the relationship between the two broadcasters, Mr Hewlett said they could either "stand together to become partners in what could be the vital beating cultural heart of the nation," or "hang separately".
In his lecture, the presenter of Radio 4's Media Show, also discussed the challenge of newspapers' falling circulations, and the impact the internet was having on TV viewing habits.
The outcome of the Scottish referendum on independence was also an opportunity for broadcasting in the UK, he argued, regardless of its outcome.
"If Scotland leaves the union then the opportunity will open up for Wales to become more independent within," he added.
"If Scotland votes to stay and so-called 'devo max' kicks in, then I reckon the same thing will happen. Either way, opportunity will knock for Wales."
Mr Hewlett also said the phone hacking scandal would lead to a more independent press regulator, but newspapers were also facing the "digital dissolution" of their historic business models as readers turn to the internet and their circulations and advertising revenues fall.
But he argued the internet was having a more positive effect on TV viewing habits, with the ability to discuss programmes on social media prompting more people to watch television live, rather than catch up later and miss out on the online conversation.
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Carroll, who will be 40 in September, is coming to the end of his first season with the Belfast club.
The veteran keeper's form has been important in Linfield's attempt to land the league and cup double.
Linfield are one point behind leaders Crusaders with four games left and have qualified for the Irish Cup final.
"Roy is an inspirational leader who sets the right example to all around him," said Linfield manager David Healy, who played with Carroll for Northern Ireland.
"His performances in goal for us have been exceptional, none more so than the crucial late match-winning saves in recent games against Dungannon Swifts and Crusaders."
Carroll's former clubs also include Wigan Athletic, Derby County, Danish side Odense and Olympiakos of Greece.
Harry Harper died in hospital after emergency crews were called to what is believed to be his grandparents' house in Ketley, Telford, on Tuesday morning.
The dog which bit Harry, a Jack Russell, has been destroyed.
West Mercia Police said its investigation was likely to continue for some time.
Supt Nav Malik said the death was being investigated as a "tragic accident" involving the family's pet dog.
He said: "Further detailed tests are still to be carried out and therefore at the present time no further information can be released."
The Telford and Wrekin coroner's office said an inquest into Harry's death would be opened on Monday.
A statement from his family, issued the day after his death, said there were "no words to describe the loss we have suffered".
They said they were "absolutely devastated" and asked to be "left in peace to grieve and deal with our loss".
Richard Bernard was found outside his flat in Trocadero Court, in Derby, on Tuesday night.
Det Ch Insp Dave Cox, of Derbyshire Police, said police believe the 51-year-old was attacked in his home before he collapsed and died outside.
A man and woman arrested in connection with his death have been bailed.
Police declined to say what offences they had been arrested on suspicion of.
Mr Bernard's mother Nita, sister Claire and brother Andrew said in a statement: "We are devastated to hear the tragic news about Richard."
A post mortem examination revealed Mr Bernard died from stab wounds.
Witnesses or anyone with information is asked to contact Derbyshire Police.
More than 20 firefighters helped tackle the blaze of polystyrene blocks at an industrial yard at 17:45 on Thursday.
The damage ran to a "low four-figure sum".
Police Scotland appealed for anyone with information about the wilful fireraising, or who saw anything suspicious, to contact them.
The singer was found unresponsive at lunchtime on Saturday, St Charles County police said.
Berry's seven-decade career boasted a string of hits, including classics Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B. Goode.
He received a lifetime achievement Grammy in 1984 and was among the first inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
In a statement on Facebook, the St Charles County Police Department said they were called to reports of an unresponsive man at 12:40 local time (17:40 GMT).
"Unfortunately, the 90-year-old man could not be revived and was pronounced deceased at 1:26pm," the statement continued.
"The St. Charles County Police Department sadly confirms the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry."
High-profile musicians were quick to pay tribute to Berry's talent and influence.
Motown legends The Jacksons tweeted: "Chuck Berry merged blues & swing into the phenomenon of early rock'n'roll. In music, he cast one of the longest shadows. Thank You Chuck."
Singer-songwriter Huey Lewis described him as "maybe the most important figure in all of rock and roll".
"His music and influence will last forever," he added.
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr quoted one of Berry's own lyrics on Twitter, saying: "Just let me hear some of that rock 'n' roll music any old way you use it."
"I am playing I'm talking about you," he wrote.
Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones covered Berry's songs, as did the Beach Boys and scores of other acts - including Elvis.
"If you tried to give rock 'n' roll another name," John Lennon once said, "you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones said that Berry "lit up our teenage years and blew life into our dreams".
Singer Bruce Springsteen called him "a giant for the ages".
The novelist Stephen King noted that Berry had a long life for a consummate rock'n'roller, tweeting: "Chuck Berry died. This breaks my heart, but 90 years old ain't bad for rock and roll. Johnny B. Goode forever."
Berry was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1926, and had his first hit, Maybellene, in 1955.
Last year, he announced he would be releasing his first album in nearly four decades. He dedicated it to his wife of 68 years, Themetta "Toddy".
Adam Campbell opened the scoring for the Magpies after Izale McLeod hit the post from Liam Noble's corner.
Notts keeper Roy Carroll saved from Luke Berry's header before substitute Barry Corr equalised from the spot after Alan Smith fouled Ben Williamson.
Carroll's clearance then hit Williamson and looped in before Berry finished off a counter-attack to secure the win.
Match ends, Cambridge United 3, Notts County 1.
Second Half ends, Cambridge United 3, Notts County 1.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Mark Roberts.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Roy Carroll.
Attempt saved. Ryan Ledson (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Jeff Hughes replaces Ben Williamson.
Attempt missed. Graham Burke (Notts County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Substitution, Notts County. Colby Bishop replaces Izale McLeod.
Goal! Cambridge United 3, Notts County 1. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ben Williamson.
Foul by Leon Legge (Cambridge United).
Izale McLeod (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Barry Corr (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Adam Campbell (Notts County) is shown the yellow card.
Attempt missed. Barry Corr (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Alan Sheehan (Notts County) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Cambridge United 2, Notts County 1. Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) with an attempt from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Adam Campbell (Notts County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Liam Noble (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Ronan Murray (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Ledson (Cambridge United).
Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Conor Newton (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Izale McLeod (Notts County).
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Elliott Hewitt.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Cameron Gayle.
Attempt blocked. Graham Burke (Notts County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Luke Berry (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam Campbell (Notts County).
Substitution, Notts County. Ronan Murray replaces Genaro Snijders.
Foul by Luke Berry (Cambridge United).
Liam Noble (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Mark Roberts (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Izale McLeod (Notts County).
Attempt missed. Izale McLeod (Notts County) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Foul by Mark Roberts (Cambridge United).
Izale McLeod (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Barry Corr (Cambridge United).
Alan Smith (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Greg Taylor (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Bill Etheridge, who represents the West Midlands, said it was time for "renewal and hope" outside the EU.
His announcement comes the day after North West MEP Steven Woolfe launched his campaign, promising to chase Labour's vote "ruthlessly".
North East MEP Jonathan Arnott is also running, while controversial rules have excluded some of the party's best-known names from the contest.
UKIP's ruling National Executive Committee said all candidates must have been a member for at least five years, excluding the likes of the party's only MP Douglas Carswell and suspended former spokeswoman Suzanne Evans.
Launching his campaign, Mr Etheridge said the UK's future was "beautiful, wonderful" and "democratic".
He is promising a 50% cut in alcohol and tobacco duty and to replace VAT with a local sales tax, BBC Black Country political reporter Rob Mayor said.
Mr Woolf, 48, is UKIP's immigration spokesman.
He said he wanted to tackle social mobility because it is a subject discussed "but never dealt with effectively", and said Labour were run by "champagne socialists, metropolitan, out-of-touch liberal elitists".
"We must ruthlessly go after Labour seats in the North and the Midlands," he said.
UKIP's deputy leader Paul Nuttall has ruled himself out of the race to replace Mr Farage.
Candidates must pay a £5,000 deposit to enter the contest, which will be refunded if they secure at least 5% of the vote.
Nominations will close on 31 July, with declarations to be held on 15 September.
Officers were found to have obtained communications data without judicial permission while trying to determine details of a journalist's sources.
Chief Constable Phil Gormley has asked Mike Barton, his opposite number in Durham Constabulary, to investigate.
MSPs have been holding their own inquiry, as have police watchdogs.
Police Scotland said it would review its approach to counter corruption after Derek Penman, HM Inspector of Constabulary in Scotland, called for an urgent overhaul in light of the case.
The Interception of Communications Commissioner ruled in November 2015 that officers had broken new spying regulations by obtaining communications data without permission on five occasions.
Officers had been attempting to find out how information about the investigation into the murder of Emma Caldwell in 2005 had appeared in the media. Sir Stanley Burton said the "failures" by police "could properly be seen as reckless".
An Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) involving the four people whose data was breached - reported to be serving and retired police officers - took place in Edinburgh earlier in July. No ruling has yet been issued.
However, Police Scotland confirmed that it had asked the Durham force to carry out an independent probe into "matters arising from a breach of communications data protocols".
Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said: "The Chief Constable has asked Mike Barton, Chief Constable of Durham Constabulary, to conduct an independent investigation into a number of non-criminal complaints, which relate to matters connected to the breach of communications data protocols and guidance.
"We await the findings of the IPT and will comply with any directions given.
"Police Scotland has fully accepted that standards fell below those required in this case. It would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage."
MSPs have also convened their own inquiry into the matter.
Then-Deputy Chief Constable Neil Richardson told Holyrood's justice committee that the rules had been broken due to a "misjudgement" by an experienced officer.
He said "the pace the new guidance came into being was very aggressive", which may have been a factor in the "error" subsequently made.
Mr Penman's review said information-handling processes at the unit were "significantly different from national standards for source and information evaluation, and fell below the standards I would have expected".
One officer, Det Insp Joanne Grant, told MSPs that she had not been aware when authorising communication interceptions on 1 May, 2015, that a new code of practice had come into effect on 27 March.
Three other officers were named as part of the inquiry - Ch Supt Clark Cuzen, Det Supt David Donaldson and Det Supt Brenda Smith. All four declined to appear in person before MSPs, although Ms Grant submitted a statement via her solicitors.
Mr Donaldson said he was reluctant to speak publicly because his evidence could be "key" to the IPT case, a reason echoed by Mr Cuzen.
The pedestrian was injured in a collision on the Newcastle Road in Dundrum shortly before 20:00 GMT.
Paramedics took the woman to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital for treatment and said her injuries were serious.
Police have closed the road and are advising drivers to avoid the area.
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Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas won four awards, including worst picture and worst actor, at Saturday night's 35th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony.
The tongue-in-cheek show, which celebrates movie-making mediocrity, took place a short walk from the venue for Sunday's Academy Awards.
Razzie winners, who rarely turn up, get a $4.79 gold-spray-painted trophy.
Saving Christmas won worst picture, worst actor, worst screenplay and worst screen combo - for former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron "and his ego".
"This is a vanity project that Kirk Cameron put together," Razzie founder John Wilson told BBC Radio 5 live after the ceremony.
"It's about on the level of a super 8 movie from when I was a kid. It has no cinematic value at all."
He pointed out that the film was rated number one worst movie of all time on international movie database IMDB.com
Saving Christmas is also only one of two films last year to score a zero rating on the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes.
The tag line on its film poster is "Put Christ back in Christmas".
Cameron Diaz was named worst actress for two comedies The Other Woman and Sex Tape.
The worst supporting actress prize went to Megan Fox for the reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction had led the field with seven nominations, but won only worst director and worst supporting actor for Kelsey Grammer.
Annie was named the worst remake, rip-off or sequel.
A new category - the Razzie Redeemer award - was introduced this year to reward a former Razzies target who has done good work in the past 12 months.
Ben Affleck was saluted in an online public vote for going from the much-panned Gigli to Oscar-winning Argo and Oscar-nominated Gone Girl.
His award was announced by real-life nun and veteran film critic Sister Rose Pacatte.
She told the audience: "We Catholic nuns are all about redemption."
The regular awards are chosen by 757 voting members in the US and abroad.
For the first time, the paying public were able to attend the irreverent ceremony - held this year at Hollywood's Montalban theatre.
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Mr Trump later stood by his claim in a televised debate in Miami, saying: "There is tremendous hatred, and I will stick with exactly what I said."
It led to an outcry, with Senator Marco Rubio launching an impassioned defence of Muslims.
There are clearly some radical Muslims who despise the US and other Western countries - including those who carried out the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
But what of Donald Trump's claim that Muslims in general hate the country?
No major polling agency has yet asked whether respondents "hate" America. However, several have measured broad sentiment among the world's 1.6 billion Muslims.
The Pew Research Centre, which surveys global attitudes, said anti-Americanism was strong around the word around the time of the US invasion of Iraq.
However, currently there is little evidence of profound anti-American sentiment except for in a handful of countries, it says.
Bruce Stokes, director of global economic attitudes at Pew, says sentiment towards the US varies widely between Muslim-majority countries.
"We tend to see more negative sentiment among Muslims in the Middle East, such as those from Egypt and Jordan," he says.
"But Muslims outside the Middle East generally have a more positive outlook," he adds.
In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, 62% of people hold a favourable opinion of the US, Pew's latest data suggests.
That figure rises to 80% in Senegal, a country which is over 90% Muslim. Mr Stokes points out that this is a stronger approval rate than Germany.
"Attitudes have also been changing over time. We've seen a gradual rise in positive sentiment since President Barack Obama came to power," Mr Stokes says.
"Even in the Palestinian Territories, where sentiment is 70% unfavourable, that's an improvement on 82% in Barack Obama's first year."
The BBC World Service commissioned its own poll of global attitudes in 24 countries in 2014.
Among other things, it asked respondents if they thought the US "had a mainly positive or mainly negative influence in the world".
Pakistanis generally held the worst view of the US, with 61% saying the US had a negative influence.
But both China and Germany were not far behind, scoring 59% and 57% respectively.
Turkey, almost 98% Muslim, was split between 36% positive, 36% negative and 28% neutral.
Dalia Mogahed, co-author of Who Speaks for Islam?, say religion is not the key driver of anti-American sentiment in Muslim-majority countries.
"It's nothing to do with religion and everything to do with policy," she says.
In Pakistan, for example, anti-US sentiment spiked by 7% in 2011, the Pew data shows - that was the year in which the US launched a raid to kill Osama Bin Laden, which many Pakistanis saw as an infringement of their national sovereignty.
"Also, compare Muslim sentiment towards America with sentiment towards Canada. Our neighbour to the north shares our dominant culture and religion but not our foreign policy. And global Muslim opinion towards Canada is generally very positive," Ms Mogahed says.
In the end then, it comes down to an old statistician's staple: Correlation does not imply causation.
Earlier this week, Paramount Pictures released a series of posters to promote upcoming sci-fi film Arrival.
One poster showed a UFO hovering above Hong Kong's iconic skyline - except the skyline also included Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower.
The blunder enraged many Hong Kong social media users, who flooded the film's Facebook page with the hashtag #HongKongisnotChina.
Hong Kong, a former British colony, was returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
But it is deeply divided over its relationship with China, and many in the territory have a strong sense of Hong Kong identity.
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One comment on the film's Facebook page said: "Please improve on the accuracy of your posters, the Shanghai tower does not belong to Hong Kong, remove that please. Please don't mix up Shanghai and Hong Kong. They are totally different, it's very offensive to a lot of people from Hong Kong."
"Hong Kongers are now feeling insulted and offended," said another.
Some went as far as to call for a ban on the film, which stars Amy Adams and is set for release in November.
The poster was later removed from the Facebook page and a statement was posted saying: "An error in one in a series of posters for 'Arrival' was made by a third party vendor."
"We are disappointed to have not caught the error."
Later a similar poster with the actual Shanghai skyline appeared.
Not everyone was pleased, though, with the fact Hong Kong's skyline had now been replaced with Shanghai's.
"The appearance of the Oriental Pearl Tower in HK was wrong, so you rectified it by keep the tower and replacing the city of HK with Shanghai? So HK's the "WRONG" part here?" Facebook user Jonathan Ip wrote.
Meanwhile, some people have made fun of the commenters, accusing them of overreacting, or having "glass hearts" - a Chinese phrase referring to fragile egos.
What are Hong Kong's localists angry about?
Hong Kong was handed over to China by Britain in 1997, under an agreement that certain rights and freedoms would be guaranteed for 50 years.
As a result, Hong Kong has its own legal system, and enjoys rights including freedom of assembly and free speech, which are restricted in mainland China.
However, there are growing concerns over what is seen as interference by Beijing into Hong Kong affairs.
In 2014 there were mass demonstrations demanding full democracy in Hong Kong, after the Chinese government said it would allow the territory to elect its leader - but only from a pool of Beijing approved candidates.
After that movement failed to win any concessions from Beijing, there has been an increase in localist sentiment, with some people demanding greater autonomy for Hong Kong, and protection against what they see as the dilution of the city's identity.
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John Radford, 70, was left in a coma after the dispute near Holmfirth in 2013. He died 16 months later.
Michael Gledhill, 24, of Bramble Bank, Holmfirth, was found guilty of dangerous driving in 2014.
He later admitted causing death by dangerous driving after Mr Radford died, Leeds Crown Court heard.
Gledhill, a former soldier, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison, with judge Christopher Batty telling him he had deliberately driven his car towards his victim in a fit of temper - an act motivated by "rage".
The court previously heard how words were exchanged between Mr Radford and Gledhill through the driver's side window as they travelled on the A616 Huddersfield Road in New Mill on 31 July 2013.
When Gledhill's car collided with the bike, Mr Radford fell into the road and sustained brain damage.
Mr Radford was the chairman of Huddersfield and District Cyclists and had been promoting a campaign calling for better investigation of road accidents.
In a statement, his family said: "Dad's death was unnecessary and today's outcome doesn't change anything for us as a family.
"As a family we have had to watch dad struggle and suffer on a journey that ended with the worst possible outcome."
The court heard Gledhill had served in Afghanistan and was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder at the time of the collision.
The incinerator near Connah's Quay on Deeside aims to create enough energy to power 30,000 homes.
But before it is given a permit, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) wants to examine any potential impact and hear from residents and health bodies.
A drop-in session will be held on Wednesday.
US company Wheelabrator has said its Parc Adfer facility would process up to 200,000 tonnes of household waste a year.
If all goes to plan, building work could begin on the site on the Deeside Industrial Park later this year and the incinerator could start operating in 2018.
The drop-in session will be held at Deeside Leisure Centre from 13:00-20:00 GMT. The public will have a month to comment.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board and Public Health Wales will also be asked to look at any impact on people's health.
Sian Williams, NRW head of operations for North Wales, said: "We will only grant the permit if we are satisfied that the proposed facility can operate without harming the environment or the health of people nearby."
Waste would arrive by lorry from Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Gwynedd. Any recyclable material would be weeded out.
Combined heat and power technology would then incinerate the waste, while at the same time generating steam, which would produce electricity through a turbine and generator.
Plans were submitted last October.
He said there were "real opportunities" for economic reform and new trade deals which meant Brexit could be a success.
He highlighted agricultural reform and a developing relationship with the Republic of Ireland as areas where the UK could be positive.
After Brexit, the Irish border will be the only EU-UK land border.
"I think the challenges we face mean it's not a bed of roses, no one should pretend that, but equally it is not the end of the world and there are some real opportunities that arise from the fact of Brexit we might take," he said in an interview with Radio 4's Today programme.
"There are many opportunities and I think we should look at it in a much more self-confident way than either side is approaching it at present.
"Being out of what is a pretty unsuccessful European Union - particularly in the economic sense - gives us opportunities as well as obviously great political difficulties."
Lord King suggested that Britain would be better off economically completely out of the EU single market and that there were "question marks" about staying in the customs union as that may constrain the government's ability to sign trade deals with countries outside the Union.
"I think it's more difficult to take advantage of those opportunities," Lord King said when asked about staying inside the customs union after leaving the EU - a position, for example, adopted by Turkey.
"I don't think it makes sense for us to pretend we should remain in the single market and I think there are real question marks about whether it makes sense to remain in the customs union.
"Clearly if we do that we cannot make our own trade deals with other countries."
The government has made it clear it wants to control immigration laws and be outside the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, two positions which appear to be incompatible with membership of the single market.
Lord King said the government should outline its policies on immigration "sooner rather than later" and that it would be a mistake to put the issue into the "basket" to be negotiated once Article 50 is triggered next year and the formal process of leaving the EU begins.
Lord King defended his successor, Mark Carney, who has faced criticism for being too "political" in warning about the possible economic consequences of leaving the EU.
The former governor said Mr Carney had been put in an "almost impossible position" because of the polarised nature of the debate and had remained well within the Bank of England's remit to outline the possible path of economic growth in the short term should Britain vote to leave the EU.
Lord King said it was too early to tell what the overall effect on the economy would be, despite data since the referendum result being more positive than many economists predicted.
In his first interview, Dominic Chappell told BBC Newsnight he apologised "sincerely and utterly" to the chain's 11,000 staff.
Mr Chappell bought BHS's 163 stores from retail tycoon Sir Philip Green for £1 in March 2015.
Mr Chappell said the plight of the staff "plays on" him deeply.
But, he said, had he not become involved the chain would have gone into liquidation far sooner. A spokesman for Sir Philip denied that claim.
Mr Chappell confirmed that he had received £2.6m in payments during his ownership, but defended that income as fair. "I took a big risk going in," he said.
"We live in a risk reward society - that's the way companies are built and fail. Did I take a lot of money out? Yes I did. But did the business fail because of the amount of money I took out? No it didn't.
"This was just a drip in the ocean compared to the money that was needed to turn around BHS."
His salary of more than £600,000 was, he said, established by an independent committee.
Mr Chappell blamed Sir Philip Green for the eventual demise of the business, saying the Arcadia owner had "tipped it over the edge", but he had heavy criticism, too, for Frank Field, the politician leading the inquiry into why BHS failed.
Mr Chappell branded the Labour MP "pathetic".
He also said that he came very near to completing a deal to pass BHS on to the Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley, at one point handing over the ownership certificate, only for the purchase to fail.
It is less than a year-and-a-half since BHS was bought for £1 by Retail Acquisitions, a company specially created for the deal and 90% owned by Mr Chappell.
Barely a year after that deal had gone through, BHS went into administration and the group is now in the final stages of being wound up.
The question of who should carry the blame for the collapse of the retailer is the subject of a number of different inquiries, including one led by MPs.
And much of the focus has fallen upon two men - the retail billionaire Sir Philip Green, who owned BHS for 15 years, and Mr Chappell.
Mr Chappell, who had no experience of retail when he bought the business, has been described as a "Sunday league retailer", "a chancer" and a "Walter Mitty" fantasist by politicians.
He told BBC Newsnight that he made no secret of his lack of retail experience, saying "Sunday League retailer" was a fair description, but said he was an expert in turnarounds, which made him a suitable owner.
"We took a chance on BHS. We were the only people to stick our heads above the parapet and give it a go. Otherwise Sir Philip would have liquidated the company and thousands of people would have lost their jobs straight away. We did everything we could to save the company.
"We were the only people who were prepared to take that risk to try to get it to break even, to try to make a profit. So if that makes me a chancer, well yes I am."
He laughed off suggestions that he had threatened to kill chief executive Darren Topp, saying he had merely said he would "sort him out", but confirmed he had intended to fire Mr Topp from his job.
Mr Topp has subsequently been very critical of Mr Chappell's ownership of the retailer saying "he had his fingers in the till".
Mr Chappell defended his decision to use company funds to pay for a £1.5m loan to his father, saying "it had no impact whatsoever on BHS - and yes, I needed to help my parents, which I did".
He also described as "absolute nonsense" claims that he tried to use company funds to pay for holiday flights.
As for Sir Philip, Mr Chappell told the BBC the pair's working relationship had started well but then deteriorated.
He told the BBC: "Philip has been in BHS for one thing only, and that was to extract as much money as possible, which he did within the first couple of years."
He said he was shocked by the dilapidated state of some of the BHS stores, blaming Sir Philip for failing to invest in the company.
"He put very little investment into BHS," said Mr Chappell. "You only need to go and look at some of the stores that were in terrible condition. I went with my team to 50 to 60 of the stores in the first year.
"Some of them didn't have air-conditioning or heating. Some had water pouring through the roof, some had two or three floors closed that had been closed for two or three years because they were hazardous, asbestos, God knows what else.
"He did not invest money back into the business as he should've done."
Mr Chappell said his own reputation had been "absolutely destroyed" by the failure of BHS.
"We had some very, very big problems all the way through and we had the tide against us all the way. There was not one day that went past when we had some luck on our side. But we didn't just walk in, rip the guts out, and walk out again."
As for his own future he says he's expecting "a very very difficult period".
"I think corporately it's going to be hard for me to slot back into another business although, believe it or not, I have been offered two or three other positions in major retailers over the last couple of weeks, so who knows?"
Dominic Chappell was speaking in an exclusive interview with BBC Newsnight - watch in full on the programme at 22:30 BST on BBC Two
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The £750m refurbishment has seen a new concourse, large atrium which lets the light into the station for the first time in years and a new shopping centre, Grand Central, complex being built.
BBC Midlands Today Transport Correspondent Peter Plisner spoke to rail passengers.
Martin Tom, of Beccles, was sentenced to five years and four months in September after he admitted attacking a woman in her bed in May.
The 26-year-old's jail term was increased to seven-and-a-half-years at a Court of Appeal hearing in London.
Police said the initial sentence had not "fully recognised" that the offence happened during a burglary.
During the initial hearing, Ipswich Crown Court heard that Tom entered the victim's home in Beccles and initially intended to steal her mobile phone, but then forced himself on her.
When he was detained by police nearby, he tried to bite police officers, the court heard.
Tom admitted rape and resisting a police officer in the execution of their duty.
Det Con Darren Winchester, who began the process of appealing the sentence, said: "We are very pleased that his sentence has been increased today, as the justices acknowledged that the nature of this incident, commissioned during the act of burglary, had not been fully recognised in the initial sentencing.
"This is the correct and proper result."
Firefighters said the train was "well alight" when crews arrived at the bridge in Knaresborough, at 23:26 BST on Thursday.
No passengers were onboard the engineering train owned by Network Rail, and no one was injured.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said.
The 19th Century stone viaduct is on a stretch of line between Knaresborough and Harrogate.
Jim Shanks set up a specialist wildlife camera amid rumours that a large cat was on the loose near his home between Hawick and St Boswells.
After three weeks, he finally caught two photographs of an animal about the size of a dog, with a very long tail.
"I'm pretty certain it's a wallaby," said Mr Shanks.
The former cheesemaker, from Belses, said a neighbour had seen a similar-looking animal crossing the road close to their homes.
Before setting up the camera, he had been concerned the mysterious creature could pose a threat to farm animals.
However wallabies, which are primarily found in Australia, are herbivores - mainly eating grass and plants.
Mr Shanks, 68, said: "I got a lend of a camera from a friend and I had it going for three weeks and I had just about given up looking.
"Then I left it for five or six days and I had 100 or so pictures of rabbits, squirrels, badgers and deer.
"But then there were two pictures of this animal. It was quite a bit of fun to find."
A colony of wallabies live on Inchconnachan, an island in Loch Lomond, after Lady Arran Colquhoun introduced them in the 1920s.
The National Housing Federation (NHF) study said the increase was due to a big rise in the number of private tenants claiming housing benefit.
The NHF said this particular group of people had grown by 42% since 2008.
In 2006, some £4.6bn in housing benefit was paid to private landlords, a figure which had more than doubled by 2015.
NHF chief executive David Orr said: "It is madness to spend £9bn of taxpayers' money lining the pockets of private landlords rather than investing in affordable homes."
"The lack of affordable housing available means that a wider group of people need housing benefit," he added.
Had these housing benefit claimants been living in social housing instead of renting from private landlords, taxpayers would have saved huge sums of money over seven years, the NHF report estimated.
It said that taxpayers paid £1,000 more per year, per family renting in the private rented sector, than they did for those in social housing.
This amounted to an average of £2.2bn a year extra being handed over to private landlords, at a cumulative additional cost of £15.6bn over the past seven years, the NHF analysis says.
If this extra housing benefit bill for just one year had been spent on creating new affordable housing, the NHF added, then nearly 50,000 new homes could have been built.
The report also points out that a larger proportion of families claiming housing benefit in the private rented sector are now in work.
"Today, nearly half (47%) of all families claiming housing benefit in the private rented sector are in work - this is nearly double the proportion it was six years ago (26%)," the NHF said.
A government spokesman said it had been taking action to bring the housing benefit bill under control.
He said: "Since 2012 the amount going to private sector landlords has actually been falling - something which the National Housing Federation fails to recognise."
"We are also committed to building the homes this country needs and investing £8bn to build 400,000 more affordable homes."
Chris Norris, head of policy at the National Landlords Association, said the private rented sector was responding to the increasing demand for homes from a growing proportion of tenants who are being failed by the social housing sector and housing associations.
"The NHF is clearly still reeling from the news that its members have been ordered by government to reduce spending over the next four years, so it comes as no surprise that they are looking to shift the emphasis and point the finger elsewhere," he said.
"However, the private rented sector plays a pivotal role in providing much-needed homes for tenants so there seems no real purpose in the NHF taking a cheap shot at landlords for what is a failure on behalf of successive governments to adequately allocate its housing budget and to incentivise the building of new homes."
The Vale of Glamorgan and Ceredigion councils have been given £100,000 from the Welsh government.
The year long trial will also look at using council vehicles to help people access health and social care.
It comes as some of Wales' largest bus operators have cut services blaming a reduction in subsidies they receive.
Last month Wales' largest bus operator, Stagecoach, confirmed it was cutting services in five counties.
And Cardiff Bus has also blamed a cut in subsidy for reducing its services.
But the Welsh government has said it wants the pilot projects to help find new ways of delivering public transport.
The aim is to see how bus firms and councils can work together to cut costs, plan routes and coordinate timetables to meet users' demands.
Vale of Glamorgan council's remit will include looking at how to encourage more people to use rural bus routes, setting up an online booking system and reducing the costs of services.
And new public transport routes to communities around Tregaron will form part of Ceredigion council's scheme, as well as using its own vehicles to bolster bus services.
The work to identify best practice from local authorities will report to the Bus Policy Advisory Group.
Transport Minister Edwina Hart said: "I want to ensure everyone in Wales is able to access jobs and services via reliable public transport.
"We must start looking at new and innovative ways of delivering these services, particularly in rural areas, by means of a sustainable and efficient network."
Ms Hart announced councils will have £25m in 2014-15 toward socially-necessary bus and community transport services, the same amount as in 2013-14.
But bus operators, including Stagecoach and Cardiff Bus, have blamed the Welsh government slashing its three-year funding package from £213.3m to £189m for the cutbacks they have made.
Stagecoach announced last week that it was cutting 14 bus services, putting 77 jobs at risk.
Last autumn Arriva announced the closure of its Aberystwyth depot as well as a number of route losses blaming cuts in public transport funding and rising fuel costs for the decision.
In February, BBC Wales revealed nearly 100 subsidised bus routes have been scrapped by councils in Wales in the past three years, with further cuts expected as authorities make savings.
The Welsh government has said the new reimbursement rate for bus operators was set following an independent review to ensure operators were "no better and no worse off" by taking part.
The 26-year-old, who has made 133 appearances for the Magpies, wants to leave following relegation from the Premier League last season.
Sissoko was involved in France's run to the Euro 2016 final this summer.
"I hope Real will come for me, I'm still waiting," Sissoko told World Football.
"If Real Madrid are interested in you then of course you will be happy, but right now I am still a Newcastle player."
Sissoko, who has claimed he has been training alone since returning to the club after Euro 2016, said supporters "need to understand" why he wants to leave.
"I spent three and a half years here. I gave everything for this club and I want to play some big games. For that I need to go somewhere else," he added.
"I want to play in the Premier League, I want to play for a big club who can get into the Champions League. That's why I said I want to leave this year.
"I've spent a lot of time here and now it's time to look forward. The fans need to understand my situation, I hope they will and that everything will be OK."
It said clean-up costs and compensation claims for those affected by leaks at the plant may exceed initial estimates.
Radiation leaks at the plant after last year's quake and tsunami saw thousands of people evacuated from the area.
The firm has already received 1tn yen ($12.5bn; £7.8bn) in government aid.
The utility was, in effect, nationalised after the government took a 50.11% stake in the group in exchange for the capital injection.
The total clean-up costs and claims were initially estimated to be around 5tn yen.
When contacted by the BBC, the company did not disclose how much it expected the costs to increase. However, according to some reports they are projected to double to 10tn yen.
Along with compensation claims, the firm has also seen its operational costs rise in recent times.
This was after the leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant resulted in other nuclear plants being shut, forcing it to rely on traditional thermal power stations to produce electricity.
These power stations require fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas to operate which are relatively more expensive.
The company, which provides power to some of Japan's most important economic areas, has already raised electricity prices in an attempt to offset the rising costs.
Tepco said it was putting in place further cost cutting measures to save an additional 100bn yen a year.
It had previously set a target of reducing its costs by 336.5bn yen a year for the next 10 years as part of its restructuring plan.
Some 5,000 people were stuck on the border and another 4,000 arrived at Piraeus port, as Macedonia said only Syrians and Iraqis would be let in.
Greece has protested at the decision, but Macedonia said Afghans were not being let in by other countries.
Last week Austria imposed a daily limit of 80 asylum claims.
Although EU officials said the Austrian decision was incompatible with human rights conventions, Balkan states along the migrant route from Greece have responded by implementing their own restrictions.
In the past year, the vast majority of migrants and refugees arriving in Europe have taken the route through Greece, in the hope of claiming asylum in Germany or other EU countries. More than 1.1 million people arrived in Germany alone in 2015.
After Syrians, Afghans made up the second largest number of people seeking asylum in the EU in 2015, according to official figures.
Last November, Slovenia and other Balkan countries announced they would only allow in refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, where armed conflicts were taking place.
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Macedonia said it was now halting access to Afghans as well, because Serbia had itself imposed restrictions, although that was disputed by the Belgrade government.
Police from Austria and the Balkan states agreed new guidelines for letting in migrants last week, which reportedly include a photo-document issued by the authorities on the Macedonian border with Greece.
The Athens government fears the new restrictions will prompt a build-up of migrants and refugees on its territory. The UN has already counted more than 94,000 arrivals from Turkey on Greece's Aegean islands since the start of this year.
Greece's junior immigration minister said he was hopeful the issue would soon be resolved with Macedonia but there were fears the number of stranded migrants could increase.
The first indication of that came with the arrival on Monday of four ships in the port of Piraeus carrying some 4,000 migrants from the Greek islands. They were intending to continue their journey to the Macedonian border at Idomeni.
Almost 5,000 people were already waiting either at Idomeni or on buses a short distance from the border.
German politicians have reacted with dismay to the change in Austrian policy, which includes a 3,200 daily limit on the number of migrants and refugees being allowed transit through the country.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere complained the number was far too high and sent the wrong signal.
"If others think that they will dump a greater burden on Germany, we won't accept that in the long term," he said.
His opposite number in Austria, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, complained that Germany was sending mixed signals.
Germany could not promise Greece that it would continue pursuing its open-border policy while also demanding that Austria stop everyone coming through, she argued.
Germans have been shocked in recent days by two anti-refugee protests in the eastern state of Saxony.
Dozens of protesters blocked a bus carrying families to a shelter in the town of Clausnitz on Thursday night, hurling abuse and chanting "we are the people".
Two nights later, a shelter for asylum-seekers was set alight in Bautzen as onlookers were filmed applauding the action.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert condemned the Clausnitz attack as cold-hearted and deeply shameful.
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A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
Mohammed Khalid Jamil, 34, from Luton, hired people at an Indian call centre to falsely tell victims their computers had a serious problem.
The targets would be charged between £35 and £150 for software Microsoft made available for free.
As well as the suspended sentence, Jamil was ordered to pay a £5,000 fine.
He must also pay £5,665 compensation and £13,929 in prosecution costs.
The decision has been hailed as a "landmark" case by Trading Standards.
"We believe it may be the first ever successful prosecution of someone involved in the Microsoft scam in the UK," said Lord Harris, chairman of the National Trading Standards Board, which oversees the work of the National Trading Standards e-crime team.
"It's an important turning point for UK consumers who have been plagued by this scam, or variants of it, for several years.
"Many have succumbed to it, parting with significant sums of money, their computers have been compromised and their personal details have been put at risk.
"Now that one of the many individuals who've been operating this scam has been brought to justice, it's a stark warning to anyone else still doing it that they can be caught and will be prosecuted."
Jamil had set up Luton-based company Smart Support Guys, which employed people based in India to cold-call Britons and claim to be working for Microsoft.
The victims, unaware of the scam, would offer remote access to the fraudsters - meaning their computers could be controlled from a different location.
Once given this access, targets' computers would be made less secure, at which point the scammers would offer, in return for a fee, to install software to fix the problem.
The software installed was available for free on Microsoft's website.
In court, Jamil admitted to unfair trading by allowing his staff to make false claims regarding computer support services.
He claimed he had tried but failed to control call centre staff and not adequately supervised them.
His jail term is suspended for 12 months.
The Glaswegian seventh seed won 21-15 21-13 against Pawar, the two-time former Scottish Open champion, but lost 19-21 21-18 21-17 against Schaefer.
Fellow Scots Alexander Dunn and Adam Hall reached the last eight of the men's doubles without playing a match.
They won by walkover against Bulgaria's Peyo Boichinov and Ivan Panev.
That followed a first-round bye.
Their team-mates Martin Campbell and Patrick MacHugh were not so fortunate, though, as they went down 21-13 21-10 against Japan's Keiichiro Matsui and Yoshinori Takeuchi.
In the first round of the women's doubles, Scottish champions Julie MacPherson and Eleanor O'Donnell lost to England's Chloe Birch and Jess Pugh 21-15 21-18.
The Spaniard, 23, lost 6-1 3-6 6-3 on a packed Suzanne Lenglen Court which gave its full backing to Mladenovic.
Seven-time Grand Slam winner Venus Williams' defeat by Swiss Timea Bacsinszky means a new major champion will be crowned in Paris on Saturday.
"It's a very painful defeat here in the French Open," said a tearful Muguruza.
"The crowd was really tough today. I can't really understand. I don't know how to explain.
"If you had been in my shoes on the court, I think you would have understood.
"I don't know what people were expecting. I'd rather not say anything more."
Mladenovic, 24, served 16 double faults but came through amid a raucous atmosphere on the second show court at Roland Garros.
"I don't think that they crossed the line," she said of the crowd.
"I mean, I noticed once - and I think it was bad - when they kind of screamed between her first and second serve, but that's because they thought it's a double fault because the first serve was a let or something.
"But that's the only thing that happened. Otherwise, they were quite fair."
No Frenchwoman has won the title at Roland Garros since Mary Pierce in 2000.
Thirteenth seed Mladenovic joins Bacsinszky, Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko in the last eight, with only three of the top 10 seeds still in the draw.
Muguruza, 23, left her media conference briefly because she was so upset, before returning to reveal she was glad to relieve the pressure of being French Open champion.
"I love this tournament no matter what happens," said Muguruza, who claimed not to have been distracted by Mladenovic's cries of "Forza!" after the Spaniard's errors.
"I'm going to be super happy to come back.
"Everybody is going to stop bothering me asking me about this tournament, so it's going to be a little bit like, 'Whew, let's keep going.'"
Second seed Karolina Pliskova, third seed Simona Halep and fifth seed Elina Svitolina will aim to reach the quarter-finals when they play their fourth-round matches on Monday.
Pliskova and Svitolina won their rain-delayed third-round matches on Sunday, while former world number one Wozniacki reached the last eight.
Williams, the 10th seed, fought back from 5-1 down to take the opening set against Bacsinszky.
But 27-year-old Bacsinszky broke Williams' serve in the first game of the second set as she won 12 of the last 15 games in the match.
Wozniacki, 26, reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros for the first time since 2010 with a 6-1 4-6 6-2 win over Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova, the eighth seed and 2009 champion.
Pliskova, the Czech, beat Carina Witthoft of Germany 7-5 6-1, while Svitolina of Ukraine overcame Poland's Magda Linette 6-4 7-5.
Writing in the journal Nature, scientists say the decline appears to be linked to rising water temperatures.
They made their finding by looking at records of the transparency of sea water, which is affected by the plants.
The decline - about 1% per year - could be ecologically significant as plankton sit at the base of marine food chains.
This is the first study to attempt a comprehensive global look at plankton changes over such a long time scale.
"What we think is happening is that the oceans are becoming more stratified as the water warms," said research leader Daniel Boyce from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
"The plants need sunlight from above and nutrients from below; and as it becomes more stratified, that limits the availability of nutrients," he told BBC News.
Phytoplankton are typically eaten by zooplankton - tiny marine animals - which themselves are prey for small fish and other animals.
The first reliable system for measuring the transparency of sea water was developed by astronomer and Jesuit priest Pietro Angelo Secchi.
Asked by the Pope in 1865 to measure the clarity of water in the Mediterranean Sea for the Papal navy, he conceived and developed the "Secchi disk", which must be one of the simplest instruments ever deployed; it is simply lowered into the sea until its white colour disappears from view.
Various substances in the water can affect its transparency; but one of the main ones is the concentration of chlorophyll, the green pigment that is key to photosynthesis in plants at sea and on land.
The long-term but patchy record provided by Secchi disk measurements around the world has been augmented by shipboard analysis of water samples, and more recently by satellite measurements of ocean colour.
The final tally included 445,237 data points from Secchi disks spanning the period 1899-2008.
"This study took three years, and we spent lots of time going through the data checking that there wasn't any 'garbage' in there," said Mr Boyce.
"The data is good in the northern hemisphere and it gets better in recent times, but it's more patchy in the southern hemisphere - the Southern Ocean, the southern Indian Ocean, and so on."
The higher quality data available since 1950 has allowed the team to calculate that since that time, the world has seen a phytoplankton decline of about 40%.
The decline is seen in most parts of the world, one marked exception being the Indian Ocean. There are also phytoplankton increases in coastal zones where fertiliser run-off from agricultural land is increasing nutrient supplies.
However, the pattern is far from steady. As well as the long-term downward trend, there are strong variations spanning a few years or a few decades.
Many of these variations are correlated with natural cycles of temperature seen in the oceans, including the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Arctic Oscillation.
The warmer ends of these cycles co-incide with a reduction in plankton growth, while abundance is higher in the colder phase.
Carl-Gustaf Lundin, head of the marine programme at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), suggested there could be other factors involved - notably the huge expansion in open-ocean fishing that has taken place over the century.
"Logically you would expect that as fishing has gone up, the amount of zooplankton would have risen - and that should have led to a decline in phytoplankton," he told BBC News.
"So there's something about fishing that hasn't been factored into this analysis."
The method of dividing oceans into grids that the Dalhousie researchers used, he said, did not permit scrutiny of areas where this might be particularly important, such as the upwelling in the Eastern Pacific that supports the Peruvian anchovy fishery - the biggest fishery on the planet.
If the trend is real, it could also act to accelerate warming, the team noted.
Photosynthesis by phytoplankton removes carbon dioxide from the air and produces oxygen.
In several parts of the world, notably the Southern Ocean, scientists have already noted that the waters appear to be absorbing less CO2 - although this is principally thought to be because of changes to wind patterns - and leaving more CO2 in the air should logically lead to greater warming.
"Phytoplankton... produce half of the oxygen we breathe, draw down surface CO2, and ultimately support all of our fisheries," said Boris Worm, another member of the Dalhousie team.
"An ocean with less phytoplankton will function differently."
The question is: how differently?
If the planet continues to warm in line with projections of computer models of climate, the overall decline in phytoplankton might be expected to continue.
But, said, Daniel Boyce, that was not certain.
"It's tempting to say there will be further declines, but on the other hand there could be other drivers of change, so I don't think that saying 'temperature rise brings a phytoplankton decline' is the end of the picture," he said.
The implications, noted Dr Lundin, could be significant.
"If in fact productivity is going down so much, the implication would be that less carbon capture and storage is happening in the open ocean," he said.
"So that's a service that humanity is getting for free that it will lose; and there would also be an impact on fish, with less fish in the oceans over time."
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The Meaningful Chocolate Company redesigned its purple advent box after a warning from its lawyers.
The advice followed Cadbury's victory in a dispute with rival Nestle over its rights to purple packaging.
But Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell said the confectionary giant should not be "so precious over purple".
Cadbury said it was protecting its trademark from other chocolate firms.
Bishop Stephen spoke out out after the Warrington-based Fairtrade chocolate company designed chocolate Christmas tree decorations with stickers telling the story of Christmas.
The decorations were to come in an advent purple box bearing a picture of Mary and Jesus on the front.
Bishop Stephen urged Cadbury to "relax", adding: "Cadbury should reflect that before they even existed, the colour purple was around and - perish the thought - after they have gone, it will still be here.
"Fighting some battles, even ones you win, can actually be demeaning. Far better to be generous, then no one loses," said Bishop Stephen.
David Marshall, of the Meaningful Chocolate Company, said: "We have been legally advised that we were on dodgy ground this year because we were using 'advent purple' for our Christmas products and 'advent purple' now belongs to Cadbury.
"For this reason we have changed the packaging of our religious Christmas Tree Decorations. This year advent is a warm red," said Mr Marshall.
Cadbury said its dispute with Nestle was to protect the Cadbury purple associated with its milk chocolate.
"We are not seeking to trademark 50 shades of purple, it is about making sure that the consumer is not confused into thinking this is a Cadbury product - that is the nature of a trademark," a spokesman for Cadbury said.
"We are not seeking to be precious about the colour purple," he said.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said it was investigating "an international syndicate which is believed to be attempting to corrupt the PSL".
The pair play for Islamabad United who won their opening PSL match against Peshawar Zalmi in Dubai on Thursday.
Both batsmen have now been sent home.
Three more players - fast bowler Mohammad Irfan (Islamabad United), left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar (Quetta Gladiators) and opening batsman Shazaib Hassan (Karachi Kings) - were also questioned by the PCB's anti-corruption unit.
PSL chairman Najam Sethi said on Saturday that the trio would continue to play for their respective franchises.
Sharjeel, 27, has played one Test match, 25 one-day internationals and 15 Twenty20 internationals for Pakistan while Latif, 31, has made five ODI and 13 T20 appearances.
The pair put on 107 for Pakistan in their nine-wicket T20 victory over England at Old Trafford in September.
Sharjeel is due to play for Leicestershire in the 2017 T20 Blast but the club have declined to comment.
The very Rev Dr Houston McKelvey will lead the Canons of St Anne's Cathedral on to Donegall Street for the annual event.
Dean McKelvey said, "It is probably going to be the toughest sit-out yet both economically and weather-wise."
The appeal raises money for various charities in Northern Ireland as well as Christian Aid.
This will be the last black santa sit-out for the Church of Ireland dean of Belfast, Rev Houston McKelvey, who announced he is to retire in April 2011.
Dean McKelvey said: "We will be in the street as usual each day from Thursday to Christmas Eve from nine in the morning to five in the evening.
"Relying as always on the tremendous generosity of the people, schools and businesses in our community.
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"I extend an invitation to everyone to come and see us or 'our day off' on Sunday 19 December, when we will present "Carols for the City" and celebrate the Christmas message of God's generosity.
"I would like to sincerely thank those who have already responded to our Postal appeal.
"It helps going on to the street knowing that £90,000 has already been given to this year's appeal."
Dean McKelvey plans to sit outside St Anne's Cathedral until Christmas Eve, continuing a tradition begun by his predecessors 30 years ago.
The charity vigil has raised millions since it began. Dean Sammy Crooks first started the collection in 1976.
Dean McKelvey first sat out for Christmas five years ago, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Dean Jack Shearer, who died in January 2001.
Dean Shearer was initially dubbed Black Santa by the media because of his distinctive clothing and the name caught on among the public.
The appeal raises money for various charities in Northern Ireland as well as Christian Aid.
Speaking at equality charity Stonewall's Rainbow Laces summit, Clarke said he had been working on the issue since starting his role at the FA in late August.
"We're trying to engage with them, to talk to them," Clarke told an audience at Manchester United's Old Trafford.
"But, to be perfectly frank, they are reticent to engage with me."
Clarke was on a panel discussing the problems faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in football.
"Despite nine months of going round and seeing people from athletics, from cricket, from rugby and many other sports, I've yet to meet one professional footballer who felt comfortable enough to have a private meeting at a venue and time of their choosing," he said.
"I said: 'I will come to you, I will travel, I will meet anywhere.'
"You can talk to people from the women's game, which is inclusive, which is safe. But something about the men's game is not right. If it was right, we could have those conversations."
Justin Fashanu, in 1990, was the first professional footballer in England to come out as gay. He took his own life in 1998, aged 37. No male professional player has since come out while playing in England.
Clarke told a Commons Select Committee in October that Premier League players may suffer "significant abuse" if they said they were gay.
More recently, he suggested gay male footballers should come out collectively rather than on their own.
Clarke says football will have "succeeded" when men's finals and competitions have the "same feel" as Saturday's Women's FA Cup final.
"It's not about how many training courses we run, how many processes we do, how much retraining we do for the people who got caught doing bad things. It's about when the men's game starts to feel as inclusive as the women's game, we're there," he said.
Clarke believes that point was still "a couple of decades" away.
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"People of 18, 19, 20 have different attitudes to people who are 58, 59, 60 and what will happen is as society transforms, the bad behaviour in football will become less and less acceptable," said Clarke. "Football leads society, but it also follows society.
"What we need to do is make sure we penalise bad behaviour, reward good behaviour, train people, work with people behind the scenes, make sure inclusion happens, make sure people who want to come out feel safe.
"But that is not going to be cracked in six months."
Premier League executive director Bill Bush believes football is more prepared for players to come out than is perceived outside of the game.
However, he feels social media and the potential reaction of some people online provides a barrier.
"These stories take a life of their own; they will live on social media in their billions of comments, some of which will be abusive," said Bush.
"The lack of restraint on social media, the lack of any kind of legal intervention... in fact one of the problems we're concerned about is that because of the normalisation of abusive language online, almost the clock is being turned back.
"Grounds have become much more tolerant places historically, but you can just feel that the abusive elements of the online world normalise the vocabulary in people's minds and they begin to think they can repeat it in real life."
The public inquiry will be "top priority" of the Liberal government, the newly elected leader said.
He called for a "total renewal" of the relationship between Canada and First Nations peoples.
Mr Trudeau promised increased funding for programming and a review of laws on indigenous peoples.
Calls for an inquiry have grown since a review found 1,181 indigenous women had been murdered or gone missing since 1980.
"We have made this inquiry a priority for our government because those touched by this national tragedy have waited long enough," he said at an assembly of First Nations chiefs in Gatineau, Quebec. "The victims deserve justice; their families an opportunity to heal and to be heard."
After Mr Trudeau's speech, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett and Minister of Status of Women Patricia Hajdu outlined the first steps of the inquiry.
"We will meet with the families in the national capital region with the goal of hearing their views on the design of the inquiry and what it needs to achieve," Ms Wilson-Raybould said. "And over the next two months, we will hear from more families, other indigenous peoples, national aboriginal organizations and a range of front-line services workers and others."
Ms Bennett said they would "apply what budget it will take to do it right".
Mr Trudeau said the Liberal government will provide more funding for First Nations education.
Every child and young person living in Canada deserves a chance for a good education, he said, and First Nations students are "no less deserving".
The 2% cap on funding for First Nations programs previously upheld by the Canadian government will be lifted, he said.
He said he is committed to implementing suggestions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including an implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
A report released this summer by commission, which was created in 2006 as part of a $5bn (£3.3bn) class action settlement between the government, churches and 90,000 First Nation students, found that First Nation children were often physically and sexually abused in state-funded church schools.
The Canadian government forced more than 150,000 First Nation children to attend these schools from the 19th Century until the mid-1990s. The schools sought to integrate the children into mainstream Canadian society, but in doing so rid them of their native culture.
"Working together as partners, I am confident that we can make meaningful and immediate progress on the issues that matter most to First Nations communities," Mr Trudeau said.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau won a parliamentary majority in a general election on 19 October.
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Roger John Leece from Union Mills suffered fatal injuries when he fell in the area of the Chasms in Port St Mary on 7 January.
His body was found after a search by the police, Coastguard and RNLI.
A constabulary spokesman said: "At this time there are are no suspicious circumstances. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends."
Seven carriages including the engine of the Amtrak train bound for New York went off the track on Tuesday evening.
Over 200 people have been treated in area hospitals, says Mayor of Philadelphia Michael Nutter.
Investigators are searching the wreckage in order to confirm that all on board have been accounted for.
Part of the US's most travelled stretch of passenger rail between Philadelphia and New York is closed as officials continue to try to determine the cause.
US media report that the train was travelling over 100mph (160km/h) as it entered a sharp curve in the track - twice the local speed limit.
President Obama called the section of rail, "a way of life for many" and that he was "shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the derailment".
Only two victims have so far been publically identified so far:
The National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched a team to the crash site on Wednesday, but they stress the priority is to confirm that all passengers are accounted for before the investigation into the cause of the crash begins.
The train recorder has been found and the information, including train speed, video of the accident, and the engineers steering attempts, is being downloaded. More than 240 people were on board Train 188, officials said.
NTSB representative Robert Sumwalt says that recorder will be "key to the investigation".
The train engineer was also injured in the crash, and is giving a statement to city police, says Mayor Nutter.
The train derailed where the tracks curve in the city's Port Richmond section, shortly after leaving the city's main station.
At least eight of the victims were listed as being in a critical condition at local hospitals.
Most of the injured sustained fractures, said Dr Herbert Cushing of Temple University Hospital, where many of the victims were treated.
"It is a devastating scene," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter told reporters. "Never seen anything like this in my life.
"We walked the entire length of the train area. The engine [is] completely separated from the rest of the train and one of the cars is perpendicular to the rest of the cars. It's unbelievable."
Daniel Wetrin was among more than a dozen people taken to a nearby elementary school afterwards.
"I think the fact that I walked off (the train) kind of made it even more surreal because a lot of people didn't walk off," he said. "I walked off as if, like, I was in a movie. There were people standing around, people with bloody faces. There were people, chairs, tables mangled about in the compartment ... power cables all buckled down as you stepped off the train."
The crash took place close to the scene of one of the worst rail accidents in US history. In 1943, 79 people were killed when a train travelling from Washington to New York derailed.
Amtrak is a national publicly funded rail service, serving tens of millions of people every year.
The coastguard co-ordinated a search and rescue operation when she disappeared after surfacing at 11:00 BST near the Farne Islands.
She was located at 14:30 BST and given medical treatment but she died a short time later, a coastguard spokesman said.
The rescue helicopter, lifeboats and rescue teams from Holy Island and Seahouses took part in the search.
The agent, named by the media as Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, is alleged to have been involved in more than 50 murders.
He denies the allegations.
Jon Boutcher, the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire, was appointed to lead the investigation, in June.
The investigation, codenamed Operation Kenova, is also examining the activities of current and former police officers, members of the army and MI5, and former members of the IRA.
In an interview for the BBC, Mr Boutcher was asked if he believed it would result in criminal prosecutions.
"I wouldn't be doing this investigation if I didn't believe that I could get the evidence to present a case to a public prosecutor to see a trial of those who are responsible for this," he said.
"I am determined to do everything I can to achieve that. Whether I do or not, time will tell.
"Everything that can be done to achieve justice for those victims, which is long overdue, we are going to do."
Mr Boutcher has assembled a team of 48 detectives, who will all be in place by 7 November.
As well as investigating the alleged activities of Stakeknife, the team will also examine the activities of police officers, military personnel and MI5 staff who have had direct dealings with him.
"We will be investigating the people who were hands on responsible," he said.
"We will be investigating any state actors, the security service, the military, the police, who may have been responsible for directing, tasking, receiving information about what happened to those victims to understand what they did or did not do."
He added that "if there is any evidence of criminal offences we will capture that evidence and will present that evidence with regard to any prosecutions that may be required".
However, the investigation's terms of reference do not stop there.
Freddie Scappaticci is alleged to have been a member of the IRA's internal security unit.
Nicknamed "the nutting squad", it was responsible for identifying and killing informers.
Mr Boutcher stressed that the investigation will include allegations about members of that IRA unit.
"Those murders were sanctioned, they were authorised, they were directed by senior members of the IRA, so we will follow that evidence," he added.
The head of Operation Kenova said he had been given "very clear assurances" by the police, the Ministry of Defence, the Army and MI5 that they will not do anything to obstruct his investigation, and will "co-operate fully".
He has also written to the agencies instructing them to retain any documents and information that could be relevant to his investigation.
Asked if he would have to seek permission from the security services to question or arrest the agent codenamed Stakeknife because he is in a witness protection programme, Mr Boutcher said that is not the case.
"If somebody is in a witness protection scheme, that scheme is there for their physical welfare, it's to make sure they can't come to harm because there might be a threat against them," he said.
"What it does not afford that individual is any immunity from any acts that they've committed in the past.
"What that doesn't afford that individual is any protection from any of the investigative leads, strands, opportunities that I or any other investigators in Operation Kenova may seek to take.
"To be very clear, that scheme and the fact that somebody may be on a witness protection scheme doesn't protect them from this investigation."
Mr Boutcher met relatives of some of the people alleged to have been killed by Stakeknife in Belfast this week and said significant new evidence has already been uncovered from those conversations.
He also expressed surprise that the killings and allegations against the Army agent Stakeknife had not been properly investigated much sooner.
"I won't criticise what's gone before, a lot of these offences occurred many, many years ago, at a very difficult time, a time that I probably can't properly comprehend because I wasn't here," he said.
"But those families, when I've asked them questions about any investigation that may have taken place, they've told me they've never spoken to any police officers about the deaths of their loved ones.
"I will say we've listened to what I would describe as very significant evidence with regards to the activities of people responsible for these murders that probably has never been heard before."
Mr Boutcher has established a panel of six international policing experts to act as "critical friends" and provide advice to the investigation team.
A second team of six victims' representatives has been appointed to address the needs of Stakenife's alleged victims and their families.
North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Arfon Jones said he feared counter-terrorism policing could be focused on ports in south-east England.
He warned it could leave ports such as Holyhead on Anglesey - the UK's second busiest passenger port - understaffed.
The commissioner added more security resources are needed, not less.
"I think we all know that criminals and terrorists are going to find the easiest way to get into the country, and they won't worry much if it's from Dublin or Heathrow," he said.
"If we cut down on the numbers of police officers in Holyhead, in Pembrokeshire, Lancashire and Scotland, it's going to make it easier for criminals and terrorists to come in."
Holyhead port carries 2.1 million passengers and 400,000 lorries between Anglesey and Dublin every year.
Mr Jones, who was elected to the post standing for Plaid Cymru last year, said he had quizzed the UK's security minister Ben Wallace recently, and was "told the Government were aware of vulnerabilities at the ports".
The Warwickshire force said the officer had completed 15 years service with the police, most recently based in the north of the county.
It said he was not named as this "may risk identifying vulnerable witnesses involved with the investigation".
The sergeant was dismissed "with immediate effect for gross misconduct". There will be no criminal charges.
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It said the hearing, chaired by deputy chief constable Karen Manners, was heard in private due to the vulnerability of witnesses.
The hearing followed a professional standards investigation that started after "concerns were raised around how the officer had engaged with a number of women whilst on duty," police said.
The force said following the hearing, which ended on Monday, the police sergeant was dismissed "with immediate effect for gross misconduct".
Det Supt Gary Watson, head of professional standards, said: "The Misconduct Hearing found that the behaviour of the former Sergeant fell below the standards we expect from our officers and staff and amounted to a breach of the Standards of Professional Behaviour.
"This fell outside the expectations made clear in our Code of Ethics and it is for this reason he was dismissed."
The Candystripes never really recovered from John Mountney's first-minute goal.
Michael Duffy hit the Derry woodwork before half-time and also went close on a couple of other occasions as he and Patrick McEleney both excelled.
David McMillan doubled Dundalk's lead from a 51st-minute penalty and Mourtney looped in the third on 81 before Duffy's late strike.
McMillan's penalty came after he was hauled down in the area by Dean Jarvis while Mountney's 81st-minute goal followed a defensive mistake by Darren Cole.
Derry did threaten on a couple of occasions with Aaron McEneff hitting the crossbar three minutes before half-time when the scoreline was only 1-0.
Barry McNamee missed another Derry chance shortly after the restart after being played in by Rory Patterson but Dundalk should probably have been out of sight before both those Candystripes opportunities.
Ronan Curtis started for Derry after his proposed move from Swedish club Ostersund fell through on Thursday because of his failure to agree terms.
However, the striker made little impression and was replaced midway through the second half.
Former Derry player Duffy tormented Lukas Schubert as the Candystripes badly missed the absent Conor McDermott.
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You can see highlights of Manchester United v Liverpool on Match of the Day 2 at 22:00 GMT on Sunday on BBC Two and the BBC Sport website.
Jose Mourinho's side will be full of confidence too. They are on a nine game-winning run, look strong and powerful and all their big players have been performing very well for the last couple of months.
Paul Pogba is definitely one of the United players who has hit form.
Along with two of United's other summer signings, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Henrik Mkhitaryan, the France midfielder is playing at somewhere near the levels we know he can.
Pogba's statistics show his growing influence on United's attack and I think he and Ibrahimovic in particular have built up a great rapport - they both seem to know each other's game now.
There might be an expectation from some people for Pogba to show why he is the most expensive player in the world against Liverpool, with a really dominant display in a match of this magnitude.
It is relevant which games you play well in, of course - because the best players always deliver when the big occasions come around.
However, I don't think that is an issue for Pogba just because he started the season slowly after joining United for £89m in the summer.
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If he did not play well in United's early matches against the leading teams - their defeats against Manchester City and Chelsea in September and October, for example - I would not necessarily put that down to who he was playing against.
It was more down to the 23-year-old settling in and the team finding its feet under a new manager. Now Mourinho has had longer with his players, they all look comfortable with their roles.
So, I do not expect Pogba to do anything against Liverpool other than play the way he has been playing for several weeks now - being confident and assertive on the ball and getting high up the pitch to hurt teams.
By doing precisely that, he has quite quickly become hugely important for United and he is now playing with a strut and a swagger, showing us what he is capable of.
Pogba's end product was questioned earlier in the season, when he was not getting enough goals or assists but, now United are using his attributes in the right areas, he is starting to look the real deal.
He is getting past people, getting shots off, getting in the box and scoring goals that he did not look like he would do earlier in the season.
The France international is able to get forward more without leaving United exposed defensively because he knows he can rely on Michael Carrick and Ander Herrera to cover him.
Together, those three have helped give United a balance in midfield that they were missing earlier in the season when I watched them lose at Watford for Match of the Day 2.
Back then, I wondered why Carrick was not getting a game and I am not surprised he has done so well since coming back into the team, starting with the win over Swansea at the start of November.
At 35, Carrick has the know-how to give United control of midfield by looking to keep possession at the right times but he also has the vision to play progressive passes when a lot of other players would play safe.
He has been a wonderful player for a long, long time - and maybe he has surprised Mourinho with his fitness levels and ability to master games the way he has been.
The midfield battle will play a key role in deciding the outcome of Sunday's game at Old Trafford, which is why it will be a big blow for Liverpool if captain Jordan Henderson is not fit enough to play.
For starters, Henderson is probably the only Reds midfielder who is physically capable of challenging Pogba's pace and strength.
But for a while now he has been a player that Liverpool have relied on not only for his athleticism and ability to break up play in the middle of the park, but also to set them off on attacks.
Henderson, 26, has definitely become more willing to try through balls and long balls. He always had the ability, it was just about having the confidence to take the risk.
His statistics for his number of touches and also the number of balls he has played into the final third of the pitch this season show how he is trying to affect games with his forward passing, not just keep possession or running around making tackles, which might have been people's perception of him in the past.
He has found a nice balance between keeping Liverpool ticking over and playing the ball up into the danger zones, a bit like Carrick for United.
If Henderson is missing against United, he will leave a big hole to fill. Lucas Leiva, for example, has done a great job as a holding midfielder for many years now and he is very steady, but he does not have Henderson's array of passing, or his athleticism either.
There is huge interest in the top six this season because they are all top quality teams who are capable of beating each other whenever they meet.
You could argue this is a good time to play Liverpool, with Sadio Mane away at the Africa Cup of Nations, Henderson and Joel Matip both fitness doubts and Philippe Coutinho only just back after a six-week injury lay-off.
While Liverpool will not be full strength, United are - and they are playing as well as they have been all season.
Mourinho will not underestimate the threat posed by Jurgen Klopp's side, because they have showed many times that they can hurt top teams away from home and still have lots of quality to call upon.
However, I think we will see a more open game because Mourinho will feel United can hurt Liverpool. I cannot see the visitors sitting back either, because under Klopp they are always on the front foot.
If the two teams do go toe-to-toe and have a real go at each other then, with the quality on show, I would expect some excellent attacking play and plenty of goalmouth action.
Sunday could be the complete opposite of United's 0-0 draw at Anfield in October - this time, nobody will be parking the bus.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Inspectors rated Meadowbrook care home, near Oswestry, "inadequate" after it failed to improve from a 2016 report.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it was not kept clean and hazard free and residents' dignity was compromised.
Improvements have now been made, including the recruitment of two new managers, the care home said.
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Meadowbrook was found to be neither caring nor well-led, with a high staff turnover and low morale. Personal information was not kept confidential, the report found.
There will be another inspection within six months and, if improvements have not been met, the home will be closed.
The unannounced CQC inspection took place on 4 and 5 April at the care home in Gobowen, which houses 50 people.
The home was found to have a high staff turnover and dependence on agency staff who are not always sufficiently trained.
Inspectors reported a lack of stimulation, with people often ignored by staff.
One person told inspectors: "I like it here but I wish people would talk to me. I feel so lonely."
At lunch time a person was seen "struggling to feed themselves in full view of staff".
The report also found dirty conditions including a soiled mattress and ants on a dining table.
Confidential files were left on a laundry trolley, outside bedrooms and being used to wedge a door open.
Meadowbrook said in a statement: "We are sorry that Meadowbrook Care Home has fallen well below the standards that we expect all of our homes to provide.
"Since the inspection we have been treating this as a priority and carrying out a comprehensive programme of improvements."
The woman, in her 70s, was alone at her home in Poole, Dorset, when two men knocked on her door and forced their way in.
They tied her up with duct tape before stealing her belongings.
Dorset Police are trying to trace a dark-coloured VW Golf, following the raid in Egmont Road, Hamworthy, which happened on Monday night.
Det Sgt Neil Wright said: "This was obviously a frightening ordeal for the victim, who was thankfully not injured.
"I would like to trace the whereabouts of this specific VW Golf and am appealing for information."
It was billed as a "bemusement park" with the anonymous artist himself describing the pop-up "family" attraction in Weston-super-Mare as "unsuitable for children".
Some 4,500 paying customers entered every day after it opened five weeks ago, egged on by hundreds of thousands of social media postings across the world.
Tourism chiefs in North Somerset predict it brought £20m of business to the seaside town; statistics that could make any national arts venue drool.
Based in a derelict seafront lido and also featuring work from Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer and Jimmy Cauty, it was his first show in the UK since 2009's Banksy v Bristol Museum, which brought 308,719 people to the gallery and £15m to the city.
"With figures like that he could do whatever he likes wherever he chooses," said David Lee, art critic and editor of The Jackdaw magazine.
"Local councillors will prostrate themselves when he comes calling."
But fine arts professor Paul Gough, who has written extensively about Banksy, is doubtful Dismaland will inspire other civic authorities in the same way.
"Perhaps they work best and with a rather touching poignancy when the place has a particular personal relationship to Banksy," he said.
"It gives the event that peculiar Banksy mixture of begrudging affection and droll humour."
Dismaland was the art phenomenon of the year.
It had room for 4,500 people per day, and many more probably would have gone if they could have.
In comparison, around 3,500 people per day went to the V&A's record-breaking exhibition of fashion designer Alexander McQueen in London earlier this year.
And the most popular exhibition in the history of The Tate - last year's Henri Matisse show - had 3,907 per day.
But when David Hockney exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2012, he attracted 7,512 a day.
Which begs the question - who is Britain's most popular living artist - Banksy or Hockney?
Visit Somerset described it as "a global phenomenon of major importance" for the area, and in the town itself almost every hotel and B&B bed was full throughout September.
Art producer Kath Cockshaw, who visited the dystopian display last weekend, said: "I think Dismaland will definitely help to put Weston-super-Mare on the map at a crucial stage in the town's development.
"Whether the legacy will be an artistic one I am not sure, but from a tourism perspective I know people who had never been will return to the town because of their visit to Dismaland."
Could anyone other than the elusive Bristolian have pulled it off? Mr Lee thinks not.
"No-one else will attempt anything as complex, tricky to organise or as expensive as Dismaland," he said.
"Only Banksy can muster the resources, financial and material, and mobilise the necessary droves of other contributors for that."
Ms Cockshaw added Banksy had a "unique approach to 'art with a message'" and his work stands "head and shoulders above the rest in terms of impact".
"Artist friends went to the opening and reported feeling incredibly moved by some of what they'd seen. They came back feeling that it was time for their own art to get political," she added.
But while lesser-known artists design their own methods to get noticed, David Lee believes they will never produce anything on as grand a scale as Banksy, who offers an "antidote to all that clever stuff".
"His art, being facile and superficial, is popular with those who don't generally like the sort of conceptualism foisted on them by the art establishment," he said.
And his art has set Weston-super-Mare alongside other British seaside resorts long associated with great painters and artist's colonies, according to Mr Gough.
"Who would have thought crowds would ever be queuing around the block in the rather faded, but in places still elegant, seaside resort?," he said.
"Not so much queuing the block but lining the beaches. It looked like the evacuation from Dunkirk.
"Banksy must have loved that sight."
The pressure group said it had only about 30 days' worth of funds with which to pay office costs and salaries.
India blocked the group's accounts last month, accusing it of violating tax laws and working against its economic interests.
Greenpeace says the restrictions are an "attempt to silence criticism".
The group, which says it is being targeted because of its campaigns on issues such as pollution and harmful pesticides, is preparing a legal challenge.
"We have one month left to save Greenpeace India from complete shutdown, and to fight MHA's [ministry of home affairs] indefensible decision to block our domestic accounts," Greenpeace India official Samit Aich said in a press release on Tuesday.
The group has been present in India for 14 years and employs 340 people.
An official in India's home ministry told the BBC they had not seen the Greenpeace release and hence could not comment on it.
In April, while freezing its bank accounts for six months, the government accused Greenpeace of not fully declaring the amount of foreign funds it brings into the country.
Greenpeace India rejected the charge - it said it had complied with the law governing foreign contributions.
In a long-running dispute India has accused the environmental group of "stalling development projects" by protesting against large infrastructure plans.
Since coming to power in May last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has pushed through a series of long-awaited reforms and new policies making it easier for companies to win approval for new projects.
Greenpeace activists have accused him of watering down environmental rules after the government allowed industries to operate closer to protected green zones.
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Helen Wilson was struck by the vehicle on Tuesday, just moments after stepping out of her own car, but escaped with a few minor bruises and a rip in her jeans.
Mrs Wilson said: "It's frightening to think about what could have happened but I try to focus on the good side that I'm still here.
"It was a very lucky escape. People keep telling me to buy a lottery ticket."
On a host of issues - economics, immigration, national security and social concerns - the two party nominees are sometimes wedded to party orthodoxy and at other times carve out new positions. In Mr Trump's case, he's occasionally done both (hence the double Trump heads on some of these charts).
Here's a look at how the two candidates stack up with each other - and where their views fit in with other world leaders.
Hillary Clinton is largely in the mainstream of the Democratic Party on environmental issues. She says climate change is a threat to American security, supports stringent regulation of the energy industry, and opposes expanded drilling in Alaska and the construction of the Keystone oil pipeline from Canada. She's rankled some environmentalists, however, by refusing to back a moratorium on the extraction of oil from shale deposits through a process called "fracking". Since she secured the Democratic nomination, Mrs Clinton has moved environmental issues to the back burner. As the Guardian recently noted, she mentions climate change only about half as often in her speeches as she did during her primary fight against Bernie Sanders.
Donald Trump has issued no position statements on environmental issues on his website. In speeches and debates, however, he has said he opposes what he views as economically damaging environmental regulations backed by "political activists with extreme agendas". He says he supports clean water and air, but wants to slash funding to the Environmental Protection Agency. He has also called manmade climate change "a hoax" and said he would "cancel" the Paris Agreement and other international efforts to address the issue.
Like Mr Trump, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has prioritised economic development over environmental protection. His administration has loosened regulations, allowing businesses to conduct their own environmental impact studies and pollution control monitoring, instead of relying on local governments.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has overseen her nation's transition away from an economy reliant on fossil fuels. In 2015 roughly a third of Germany's electricity came from renewables. She has also been a global leader on efforts to address climate change, pushing for more stringent temperature reduction marks and emission caps.
Hillary Clinton has enjoyed solid support from the black community, which has insulated her from the kind of criminal justice reform protests that have bedevilled other candidates. She's spoken out against "mass incarceration" and mandatory minimum sentences and said that there is still racial bias in police departments that must be addressed. She supports laws prohibiting racial profiling and wants to emphasise rehabilitiation over long prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders.
Violence and lawlessness is out of control in the US, according to Donald Trump. He says law enforcement agencies are unable to fight crime because of runaway "political correctness" and says they should be allowed to get tough on offenders. He says police profiling is necessary to prevent terrorist attacks on US soil and supports their ability to "stop and frisk" those they suspect of illegal activity. He has said convicts are often treated too well by the US criminal justice system and complained that the suspect in the New York bombings was receiving government-sponsored medical care and legal aid.
The Scandinavian nations, including Erna Solberg's Norway, have criminal justice systems that tilt heavily towards rehabilitation and away from punitive measures. Its incarceration rate is 70 per 100,000 people, compared to the 2014 US rate of 693/100,000. The nation also has a maximum sentence of only 21 years - in all but a few extreme cases.
On the other end of the political spectrum from Norway is Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines. The newly elected president has been accused of ordering extra-judicial killings in order to control the nation's drug crime. He campaigned on a platform of getting tough on crime - promising to kill "100,000 criminals" - and has said that he doesn't care about human rights.
Donald Trump has been warning that the US policy of admitting refugees from certain regions - the Mid-east or, more generally, Muslim nations - presents a serious threat to US national security. He's attempted to bolster his case by citing often debunked internet rumours, such as that Syrian refugees are largely young, single men. He's called for the US to suspend resettling refugees until "extreme vetting" procedures can be implemented, including ideological tests to screen out extremists. He asserts that nations in the Middle East - which already have received millions of Syrian and Iraqi refugees - must do more to create safe zones for those fleeing the violence.
Hillary Clinton has called for an increase in the number of Syrian refugees resettled in the US from the current 10,000 annual mark to 65,000 - which, Mr Trump likes to point out, is a 550% increase. She cautions that the refugees should be "carefully vetted", but notes that current procedures already involve a multi-year application process and refugees don't know in which nation they will be settled. She says the US has a history of welcoming those fleeing oppression and violence, which she wants to continue.
The Syrian refugee crisis was at its peak when Justin Trudeau campaigned in the Canadian general election last October. A photo of drowned three-year-old Alan Kurdi - who had family living in Canada - made the front page of world newspapers. Mr Trudeau pledged that his nation would do more to help and, since then, Canada has accepted more than 30,000 Syrian refugees and is processing around 15,000 more.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel became the face of the European Union efforts to resettle Midle East refugees - and has paid a political price for it. Ms Merkel implemented an "open door" policy toward refugees from war-torn nations that led to more than a million immigrants over the past 18 months. After her party suffered sweeping defeats in recent elections, she apologised for her policies, saying that the German government did not exercise sufficient control.
Ever since he descended his golden escalator to launch his unconventional campaign last June, Donald Trump has made immigration his signature issue. Despite critics who call it unaffordable and unrealistic, the Republican has stood by his call to build an impenetrable wall along the 2,000-plus-mile US-Mexico border. He's also called for reductions in legal immigration, ending President Barack Obama's executive actions deferring deportation proceedings for undocumented migrants and more stringent efforts to reduce the number of these migrants living in the US. The candidate has backed away from earlier calls for the forced deportation of the more than 11 million undocumented migrants living on US soil and temporarily closing the US border to all Muslims - but those positions are still front and centre on his campaign website.
Hillary Clinton has said she wants to continue and expand upon President Barack Obama's unilateral executive actions normalising the immigration status of long-time undocumented residents of the US and their families (some of which have been suspended by US courts). She has called for comprehensive immigration reform that includes a means for undocumented immigrants to obtain permanent legal residency and, eventually, US citizenship. She opposes privately run detention facilities and has said a wall is a "dumb way" to ensure border security.
Upon her elevation to prime minister following the UK's Brexit vote, Theresa May said that EU withdrawal negotiations will focus on establishing controls on the number of immigrants who can enter the nation. As a full member of the EU, the UK allowed unlimited entry for all EU citizens. Ms May has pledged that that system will end with the UK's withdrawal. She has stood by a Conservative Party pledge to reduce net migration into the UK to 100,000 annually, from its 2015 high of 336,000.
Japan has long had one of the world's more restrictive immigration policies, and the government of Shinzo Abe shows little sign of changing course. Non-Japanese make up 1.4% of the nation's workforce, compared to 16.7% in the US. The nation faces a shrinking, aging population, which has prompted some government officials to call for relaxed immigration standards. At this point, however, proposed remedies are limited to expanding the nation's guest-worker programmes.
During her tenure as a US senator and secretary of state, Hillary Clinton earned a reputation as a foreign policy hawk. She supported the US war in Iraq - a position which she says she now regrets - and was one of the leading Obama administration advocates for the US air campaign in Libya. She has called on the US to take on an expanded role in fighting the so-called Islamic State in Syria, including the imposition of a no-fly zone and arming Syrian rebels, although she says she opposes the commitment of ground troops (this blanket statement does not seem to include special forces, however). She also supports a continued US military presence in Afghanistan.
For the most part, Donald Trump has made a sharp break with the traditional foreign policy voices within the Republican Party. He has criticised the US War in Iraq (although his claims that he opposed it from the start are unfounded) and other US military action in the Middle East. He has called for closer relations with Vladimir Putin's Russia and says the US must make allies in Europe and Asia shoulder a greater share of the expense for their national defence and emphasises that US foreign policy must always prioritise American interests. On the other hand, Mr Trump has also taken a hard-line stance toward combating IS, asserting that Obama administration policy has been too restrained in dealing with "radical Islamic terrorism". He has even at times asserted that the US should commit tens of thousands of ground troops to the fight.
British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn stands firmly to the left of Hillary Clinton and is slightly more dovish than Mr Trump at his most isolationist. He opposes a nuclear-armed UK and has, in the past, criticised the nation's membership in Nato. He is firmly against "military interventions", including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and any UK involvement in Syrian air strikes.
Under President Xi Jinping, China has taken a somewhat measured approach to foreign policy. On issues of territorial sovereignty, the nation has veered toward sabre-rattling, including occupying and developing contested islands in the South China Sea. Elsewhere, his nation has pursued multilateral solutions, including support for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and a robust programme of foreign aid, particularly in South America and Africa.
Hillary Clinton takes the standard Democratic Party line on abortion. She is against efforts to ban the procedure after 20 weeks of pregnancy. She opposes state legislation that increases regulation of abortion providers and is in favour allowing the federal government to provide funding for non-profit organisations that provide abortion services for rape victims in war zones. She has criticised conservative efforts to cut off government funding for Planned Parenthood's women's health efforts because they also provide abortion services.
Donald Trump briefly took an extremely aggressive anti-abortion position when he said during a town hall forum in March that abortions should be illegal and he supported "some form of punishment" for women who had them. His campaign quickly backed down from that statement, however, and asserted that the candidate believed the legality of the procedure should be left up to individual states, with any criminal penalties being reserved for abortion providers. He has said he supports an abortion ban exception for "rape, incest and the life of the mother". He has called for defunding Planned Parenthood. As recently as 2000, Mr Trump supported abortion rights but has said that, like Ronald Reagan, he changed his views on the matter.
Abortion is banned by Ireland's constitution, but the nation and its prime minister, Enda Kenny, have been under increasing pressure to modify the blanket prohibition that only allows the procedure if there is "real and substantial risk to the life of the mother". In July the nation's legislature voted down a bill that would have allowed the procedure in cases where the foetus had fatal birth defects. Mr Kenny opposed the bill, but several of his deputies broke ranks and supported it.
Abortion is currently only legal in Poland in cases of rape, incest, serious birth defect or threat to the mother's life. Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, however, is supporting legislation that would impose a blanket ban on the procedure in all instances and a three-year prison term for anyone having abortion. The measure, which is backed by the nation's Catholic Church, is set to be debated by the Polish parliament in the autumn.
After facing a stiff primary challenge from Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton adopted a more aggressive programme to address income inequality through increased taxes on the wealthy. She has called for a 4% surtax on incomes over $5m, a boost in the capital gains tax, treating "carried interest" income earned by hedge fund managers as income and not capital gains, the closing of "tax loopholes" for the wealthy and an increase in the estate tax. She has also called for higher tax breaks for healthcare and education spending for middle-class families. According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, the top 1% would pay for roughly three-quarters of Mrs Clinton's tax increases.
Like many Donald Trump positions, the Republican nominee's tax plan has undergone some - ahem - revisions over the course of his candidacy. According to an analysis from the conservative Tax Foundation, Mr Trump's latest plan would cost the US government about $5.9 trillion in revenue over 10 years, about half as much as the proposal he set out last September. Mr Trump's current plan includes reducing the number of tax brackets from seven to three, cutting corporate taxes, eliminating the estate tax and increasing the standard deduction for individual filers. According to the Tax Foundation analysis, the top 1% of earners would see their income increase by double-digits, while the bottom quarter gets a boost of up to 1.9%.
If Bernie Sanders had won the presidency, his government fiscal policies may have ended up looking a lot like those implemented by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. In 2014 she spearheaded implementation of a tax reform programme that raised tax revenue by $8.2bn through an increase in the corporate tax rate and the closing of some tax loopholes. She used the revenue to guarantee free education for all Chilean students.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has called cracking down on tax avoidance a key part of her economic reform package - including holding tax consultants responsible for the tax they help others illegally avoid. She has said she is against any tax increases before 2020, and her government has suggested cutting business taxes in order to spur the nation's economy.
Once upon a time, Republicans were the party of unfettered free trade. Donald Trump has changed all that. While he says he is not opposed to trade in principle, any trade deals have to protect US industry. He is firmly against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and has said that he will re-open negotiations on already signed pacts, such as the North America Free Trade Agreement, and withdraw if US demands are not met. He has accused US trading partners like Mexico and China of unfair trade practices, currency manipulation and intellectual property theft, threatening to unilaterally impose tariffs and other punitive measures if they do not implement reforms.
Hillary Clinton once called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the "gold standard" for international trade agreements. Her husband, Bill Clinton, oversaw the passage of Nafta during his first term in the White House. With public sentiment turning against free trade deals, however, Mrs Clinton has backed away from her earlier support. She has said she now opposes TPP and the Central American Free Trade Agreement as they are currently formulated. "We have to trade with the rest of the world," she said during a primary debate in February. "But we have failed to provide the basic safety net support that American workers need in order to be able to compete and win in the global economy."
Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull continues to be a free trade advocate, but he is facing growing political headwinds in his country. He is a firm supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and advocated on its behalf during visit to New York City for UN General Assembly meetings in September. He called the TPP "a statement of American's commitment to the rules-based order which has underpinned the prosperity of billions of people and lifted billions out of poverty".
In August French President Francois Hollande called off trade talks with the Obama administration - perhaps a reflection of the changing mood toward such agreements both in the US and France. He criticised negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - which began in 2013 - as "too imbalanced". French Trade Minister Matthias Fekl said the negotiations are "dead", adding that "there is no political support in France for these negotiations".
Chances were few and far between until the Gulls' Brett Williams bent a magnificent shot past Magnus Norman from outside the area after 25 minutes.
The Sandgrounders however were more than a match for the hosts, and Andrai Jones forced Brendan Moore into a save with a smart volley.
The visitors proved their mettle in the second half when Callum Howe ventured forward and lobbed Moore with a cool finish, out-of-keeping with his defensive instincts.
Southport boss Steve Burr played a late masterstroke by throwing on James Caton, and the creative midfielder found space to slot home the winner with 15 minutes remaining.
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Match ends, Torquay United 1, Southport 2.
Second Half ends, Torquay United 1, Southport 2.
Substitution, Torquay United. Jamie Chamberlain replaces Nathan Blissett.
Jamie Reid (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Torquay United 1, Southport 2. James Caton (Southport).
Substitution, Southport. Ashley Grimes replaces Jamie Allen.
Goal! Torquay United 1, Southport 1. Callum Howe (Southport).
Substitution, Torquay United. Sam Chaney replaces Joe Ward.
Substitution, Southport. James Caton replaces Nathan Ferguson.
Second Half begins Torquay United 1, Southport 0.
First Half ends, Torquay United 1, Southport 0.
Goal! Torquay United 1, Southport 0. Brett Williams (Torquay United).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The pedestrian was knocked down by a dark-coloured hatchback in Cherry Street, Halesowen, at about 00:15 BST, police said.
"Despite the best efforts of medical staff the 34-year-old man was sadly pronounced dead shortly after," a West Midlands Police spokeswoman said.
Det Supt Tom Chisholm said: "We urgently need to speak to anyone who witnessed what happened."
It also found that one-day "booze cruises" across the Channel to stock up on alcohol and cigarettes are much less common than they used to be.
The Office for National Statistics found UK residents went on more than 45 million foreign holidays in 2016 - up from 27 million in 1996.
That represents a 68% rise in holidays over the last 20 years.
The ONS also said the most popular holiday destinations had largely remained the same between 1996 and 2016 - although visits to destinations including Germany and Dubai had shot up.
According to the ONS, one of the most likely explanations for UK residents going on more holidays than in the mid-90s is the growth of the budget airlines such as EasyJet and Ryanair.
It also found a "marked decline" in the popularity of two-week holidays since 1996 and the rise of short breaks.
"The week-long break is a lot more popular than before, and there's also been an increase in the number of holidays lasting 10 nights," it said.
That said, the survey found UK residents were making far fewer day-trips abroad than they did 20 years ago.
One reason put forward is because many of those visits were "booze cruises" - journeys across the English Channel to stock up on alcohol and cigarettes - which are no longer as cost-efficient.
"Duty-free sales within the EU ended in 1999, France has been ratcheting up the price of cigarettes since 2000, and in recent years the pound has fallen in value against the euro," the ONS said.
According to the research, Spain was the most popular holiday destination, both last year and in 1996. However, visits in that time have shot up by 87%.
France remained second most popular, but visits fell 9% as fewer families used cross-Channel ferries.
New options have also entered the top 10, including trips to Germany, while holiday cruises are now four times as popular as they were 20 years ago.
"This could be due to an ageing UK population," the ONS said, "but cruise operators are also trying to extend their appeal to younger holidaymakers too."
According to the survey, holidays to the UAE have also jumped almost 20-fold, largely because of the popularity of Dubai.
Interest in Iceland has also jumped, potentially because a fall in the currency after the country's economic crisis has made it more affordable.
Besides France, only four countries with significant visitor numbers suffered a decline in the number of UK holidaymakers since 1996: Turkey, Egypt, Kenya and Tunisia.
The ONS said that all had experienced terror attacks in recent years.
The missive - signed by six Assembly Members (AMs) and Ceredigion MP Mark Williams - called for a reversal of proposed budget cuts to BBC Wales and S4C.
It also said local newspapers should be re-classified as community assets.
The Welsh government said it had "made clear" its own concerns.
The UK government has been asked to comment.
"The media landscape across the UK is dominated by a handful of large corporations who fail to adequately represent the UK population and, in particular, the communities and cultures that exist in Wales," the letter read.
Unions, including the NUJ, Unite, Unison and BECTU, joined The Welsh Language Society as co-signatories, along with a series of media and journalism academics.
AMs from Welsh Labour, Welsh Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru also added their names to the letter, issued by the Media Reform Coalition.
The Jim Crowley ridden three-year-old impressed in his Group Two debut, having dominated from the front in last month's Coral Charge at Sandown.
The 9-2 shot finished two and a quarter lengths clear of 9-4 favourite Profitable, who was second.
Marsha was in third, but two-time winner of the race Take Cover ended fourth despite a quick start.
BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
The feeling that a new star is emerging amongst the leading British-trained sprinters continues, as the very speedy Battaash positively swept aside his rivals again.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about this easy success - which followed two straightforward wins at Sandown, one of them smashing the course record time - was his odds.
Conventional wisdom beforehand went that the rain-softened going wouldn not suit. But Battaash - described by his trainer as a "bull in a china shop" aged two - has matured in all areas, including his ground preference, it seems.
Kevin Toye, 29, of St Nicholas Road, Great Yarmouth, jailed for six years for killing his son Baylee Varley who died in 2014.
Norwich Crown Court was told Baylee had suffered brain and retinal injuries in 2008 consistent with shaking.
A detective said it had been their intention "to give Baylee a voice".
Judge Mr Justice Spencer said Toye's failure to acknowledge his involvement in his son's death six years after he was injured in 2008 was "an aggravating factor".
He told Toye though there was no doubt that he loved Baylee "your culpability remains high because the victim was a tiny, defenceless baby".
Det Con Mike Proctor said: "This has been an extremely tragic investigation from the very beginning, an investigation which has spanned several years and resulted in the eventual conviction of a father for the death of his own son.
"Baylee's early death was sadly inevitable given the extent of the catastrophic injuries he suffered when only a few weeks old.
"Our intention throughout this investigation has been to give Baylee a voice and to seek appropriate justice for him as today's sentence reflects."
The group was already in control of many areas of Syria, and its advance in Iraq has seen it take large swathes of the north of the country, including the city of Mosul.
Shortly after seizing Iraq's second city, IS declared the creation of a caliphate, or Islamic state, in the territory it controls.
Five leading analysts give their views on how IS can be stopped.
Islamic State can be damaged by airstrikes, but it will only be defeated if its Sunni allies turn against it and responsible governance redevelops on both sides of the Syrian/Iraqi border.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's removal is far from a panacea - for one, it only addresses the Iraqi side of the border - but it is the first step in what would be a long and perilous process of establishing a government in Baghdad capable of accommodation with all elements of the Iraqi population.
Frankly, I'm sceptical that Mr Maliki's successors will either want or be able to achieve that goal, but that is a risk that must be accepted.
Islamic State benefits from war and the fear it breeds - and the strategy to counter it must focus on bolstering stability: blunt Islamic State's advance; support states like Jordan on the Islamic State's periphery; help the Kurds defend themselves; support Sunni factions irreconcilably opposed to Islamic State; and try to bolster the Shia-led government in Baghdad without empowering Iranian-backed extremists.
This is a tall order and it is not likely to defeat Islamic State any time soon. But it is the strategy that should be pursued, with eyes wide open that some version of Islamic State is likely to be a threat for years.
Brian Fishman - New America Foundation
Three main objectives need to be achieved to decisively defeat Islamic State: strengthening state institutions - including armies - eliminating the group's freedom of movement, and co-opting its local and regional backers. The United States and Iran differ on a lot of things, but when it comes to IS, they clearly share a common objective.
Iran can facilitate military and intelligence cooperation between the Iraqi and Syrian governments.
If IS is only confronted in Iraq, it will retreat to Syria to come back another day. Tehran is also capable of ensuring that Shia militias won't go rogue and eclipse IS as a security threat.
There are many obstacles to overt, direct military and intelligence cooperation between Iran and the US at this point.
But if the Iraqi authorities play their cards right, they can once again act as a conduit for Iranian-American dialogue. Being a bridge instead of a battleground between Iran and America would greatly benefit Iraq.
If Baghdad and Irbil can pool military, intelligence and political assistance from Washington and Tehran, the efficacy of efforts to target IS as well as undermine both local and regional support for the group would be substantially improved.
Mohammad Ali Shabani - Iranian political analyst
This week's political changes in Baghdad will be more important than US air strikes in determining the fate of IS.
Haider al-Abadi has a honeymoon period in which he will benefit simply from not being Nouri al-Maliki. His ability to forge a basic political consensus with rival Shia, Sunni and Kurdish factions, against the common threat of IS, is vital to the future of the state.
In 2007-08 it was mainly Sunni militias that defeated IS's precursor, al-Qaeda in Iraq. Despite this, Sunnis have been disproportionately targeted as potential terrorists by Mr Maliki's government. Although IS's intolerant ideology is not popular, the Baghdad government is also hated.
Civilian deaths from air strikes - with the Iraqi air force reportedly firing barrel bombs into residential areas - will hardly help. Nor does the fact Baghdad has military help from Iran, which is helping President Bashar al-Assad violently repress what was initially a peaceful uprising in Sunni-majority Syria.
Confronting IS will also need a regional strategy to tackle its funding and recruitment, and above all to solve the conflict in Syria, where many of its fighters have been radicalised.
As IS condemns both the Saudi and Iranian regimes, could the two rival regional powers see some common interest in helping make peace in Syria, and helping Mr Abadi fight it?
Jane Kinninmont- Chatham House
Britain has a number of interests at stake in Iraq. Over 500 Britons have travelled to the region to fight alongside Islamic State and associated jihadist groups, Britain is closely allied to vulnerable neighbouring states like Jordan, and it was British jets that enforced the 12-year no-fly zone that sheltered Kurds after the Gulf War.
The UK has therefore watched the group's rise with concern, but ministers are wary of an open-ended military commitment the year before national elections.
Although the UK has only conducted airdrops of food and water thus far, the Tornado fighter jets it has deployed to Cyprus would allow it to quickly ramp up operations.
It could also contribute refuelling, reconnaissance, and transport aircraft, as well as deploying its special forces, who have extensive experience of Iraq, to gather intelligence and guide air strikes. Britain could thereby ease the burden on US forces.
But these UK forces are only likely to be used for a short mission, and in line with US objectives - defending Kurdish territories and relieving trapped minorities, not defeating IS.
To degrade Islamic State over the longer-term, the UK should focus on arming, training, and indirectly supporting Kurdish forces, and helping Haider al-Abadi's new government to rebuild his country's shattered army.
Shashank Joshi - Royal United Services Institute
The key to defeating Islamic State is not military, but political.
It is the ability of the new government to reach out to the Sunnis and Kurds, make it clear that the slide towards sectarian division is over, show that nation's political power and oil wealth will be shared, and demonstrate that it is returning to the creation of national Iraqi security forces rather than Shiite forces and militias.
The US can only help, and only succeed, if Iraqis are willing to unify enough to be able to help themselves. Even then the prospects of success are uncertain.
Nouri al-Maliki pushed the nation towards division and civil war too long, defeating IS will not be easy, and even its defeat or collapse may leave Iraq too divided.
Anthony Cordesman - Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Republican gave the go-ahead for non-essential services to be shut down - including the Island State Beach Park - over the 4 July holiday weekend because of a budget impasse.
"I didn't get any sun today," he said, before the aerial photos emerged.
The pictures show Mr Christie and his family on an otherwise empty beach.
Other visitors were turned away by police.
The governor defended his actions on Monday morning, telling Fox News that he had said earlier in the week he intended to spend time with his family at his beach property.
"The governor is allowed to go to his residences," he said.
Mr Christie said his family was spending the weekend at the governor's residence there and he was commuting to work by state helicopter.
"That's just the way it goes. Run for governor, and you have can have a residence there," he said at a news conference on Sunday.
"I didn't get any sun today," he added.
After being told of the photographs, his spokesman Brian Murray admitted Mr Christie had "briefly" been on the beach "talking to his wife and family before heading into the office", NJ.com said.
"He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on," Mr Murray reportedly added.
The image of Mr Christie lounging in a deckchair quickly spawned several memes, as Twitter jokers transplanted the governor to alternative locations.
Submissions included the Oval Office, and the beach from the 1953 classic film From Here To Eternity.
The partial government shutdown arose because New Jersey legislators had not passed a health insurance bill that Mr Christie said had to be approved alongside the state's budget.
The shutdown included the closure of Island State Beach Park, one of New Jersey's few free public beaches, and all other state parks.
Mr Christie had been trying to get the state's largest health insurer, Horizon Cross Blue Shield, to hand over $300m (£230m), some of which Mr Christie wanted to use to battle drug addiction, the New York Times reported.
New Jersey is one of at least nine states that were unable to meet their budget deadlines at the beginning of the month.
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She told the party's conference that some people were "worried" about her appointment because she was a vegan.
But she said much of the food she ate was produced by British farmers and she wanted the public to consume "more British lamb and British apples".
She also pledged to fight any attempt to repeal the hunting ban.
Ms McCarthy was a surprise appointment as shadow environment secretary earlier this month, given her previous criticism of environmental and welfare standards in farming.
She said she was honoured to be given the position, in which she said she would be a champion for the natural environment and rural communities as well as the British food industry.
She joked that although she was a vegan - meaning she consumes no meat, eggs nor dairy - she did "actually eat food".
"Let me make this clear, I support British farming and want it to be economically viable, environmentally sustainable and to have the very best animal welfare standards," she said.
Instead of being the "force for good" that it could be, she suggested the Department for Environment was letting down farmers and other rural industries.
"I know farmers are finding it tough, not being paid enough for what they produce, too much paperwork, late payments, being hit by the exchange rate, and a system of subsidies - the Common Agricultural Policy - that needs fundamental review.
"I would much rather see people buy British lamb and British apples than imports from half way around the world. We need better food labelling so we know where our food is from and what is in it...we can all get behind that whatever we eat."
She accused the government of trying to bring back the hunting of foxes with hounds in England by the "back door" and promised to fight any attempt to legalise what she described as a "cruel sport".
While recognising the damage done to farmers by bovine TB, she said she was opposed to the policy of badger culling which she said "inhumane and unscientific", describing the pilot culls in parts England in recent years as an "epic failure".
The national park authorities of Pembrokeshire, Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons have each received a share of £600,000 Welsh Government funding for a variety of projects.
They include improving accessibility to Cadair Idris, Snowdon's Miners Track and in the east Beacons.
Wheelchair access will also be installed at Freshwater East, Abereiddy and St Davids in Pembrokeshire.
The remainder of the funding will be spent on improvements to the 870 mile Wales Coast Path.
Work will be carried out at:
There is also an allocation to Natural Resources Wales to help it repair winter storm damage on the coast path, preserving it for years to come.
Ann Maguire, 61, was stabbed to death by Will Cornick at Corpus Christi Catholic College, Leeds, in April 2014.
A full inquest is scheduled to begin at Wakefield Coroners' Court in November.
The Maguires have said they have "many unanswered questions" and challenge the West Yorkshire Coroner's decision to exclude "vital" evidence and witnesses.
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Cornick, who was 15 at the time, was given a life sentence in 2014 after admitting murdering Ann Maguire, who had taught Spanish at Corpus Christi for more than 40 years.
Because he quickly admitted responsibility, police never fully reviewed the evidence.
A full inquest is not usually held following a successful prosecution but in January 2016 it was announced that one would be held into the death.
The family's lawyers, Irwin Mitchell, said the Maguires have "serious concerns" about the scope of the inquest.
Senior coroner David Hinchliff said it was "inappropriate" to comment at this stage.
Yogi Amin, of Irwin Mitchell, said: "The family hoped a full public inquest would examine the full chain of events and all the evidence available so lessons could be learned to reduce the risk of similar incidents happening again.
"They have become very concerned about the scope of the full inquest hearing scheduled for later this year.
"The police investigation was itself limited in scope, as the defendant quickly admitted responsibility meaning there was no examination of all the evidence publicly."
In 2015, the family was told no Serious Case Review would be held.
In November 2016, a report by Leeds Safeguarding Children Board said no-one could have predicted or prevented Mrs Maguire's murder.
Also in 2016, a council Learning Lessons Review was held, but a recent pre-inquest review revealed many conversations had not been recorded.
Crews from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service climbed 8,848m (29,029ft) - the equivalent of the highest mountain in the world - on Saturday
The firefighters, dressed in full kit and wearing oxygen tanks, went up the ladder 1365 times in about four hours to finish the challenge.
Chief Fire Officer of SWFR Huw Jakeway said it was a unique challenge.
Starting at 11:00 BST the team, from Cardiff Central Fire Station scaled the ladder outside St David's Shopping Centre in the Welsh capital.
The firefighters took four hours 17 minutes and 22 seconds to finish the world-record attempt, cheered on by Fireman Sam.
Mr Jakeway told BBC Wales plenty of shoppers in the city stopped to support the firefighters in their charity challenge.
He said: "This has never been done before so the team are looking to set the world record."
After the challenge the crew tweeted: "We did it! We climbed the height of Everest in Full Kit/ BA's! Great fun and great support."
On Monday Mrs Merkel said it was right not to gloss over differences with the US, while her foreign minister said Mr Trump's actions "weakened the West".
It comes days after the G7 summit, where Mr Trump refused to commit to the 2015 Paris climate deal.
Germany goes to the polls in September.
German opposition leader Martin Schulz accused Mr Trump of having tried to "humiliate" Mrs Merkel in Brussels.
It was unclear exactly what incident a furious Mr Schulz was referring to, but he accused the US president of "acting like an autocratic leader".
Speaking at a conference on sustainable development in Berlin, Mrs Merkel reiterated her call for Europeans to take their fate into their own hands.
The debate at the G7 meeting in Italy had shown it would be difficult to make the 2015 Paris climate deal work, she said.
Those putting on "national blinkers" on matters of international sustainability were going about things the wrong way, she said.
Mr Trump has said he will make a decision on the Paris agreement this week.
He has previously pledged to abandon the Paris deal and expressed doubts about climate change.
However, Mrs Merkel also said at the conference that she remained a "convinced Trans-Atlanticist". On Sunday she said Germany and Europe wanted friendly relations with the US and UK as well as with other regional powers, such as Russia.
Germans loathe Donald Trump - they dislike his rhetoric and his politics. And politicians of every hue are disgusted by his refusal to co-operate with the rest of the G7 on climate change and migration.
Angela Merkel's uncharacteristically candid tone has gone down well with the electorate and, given the general election is four months away, perhaps the public support of her main rival Martin Schulz should not come as a surprise. "It's Merkel versus Trump", exclaimed one headline.
But it is unlikely that Mrs Merkel expects - as some commentators would have it - to re-set the transatlantic relationship. Behind the scenes in Berlin, there is a grudging acceptance that, like him or not, Germany has to do business with Mr Trump.
The US is a vital trade partner and, as Germany's interior minister admitted on Monday afternoon, co-operation on security and defence is of immense importance and will be intensified.
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel meanwhile accused the US of "short-sighted policies" that he said were against EU interests.
"Anyone who accelerates climate change by weakening environmental protection, who sells more weapons in conflict zones and who does not want to politically resolve religious conflicts is putting peace in Europe at risk," Mr Gabriel said.
Mrs Merkel is on the campaign trail ahead of elections in September. Polls suggest she is on course to be re-elected for a fourth term.
Self-employed status leaves workers vulnerable to "exploitation", the Work and Pensions Committee concluded after an investigation into the issue.
Staff should be designated as workers, with full rights, by default, MPs said.
In response, Uber said the vast majority of its drivers were happy with their terms.
"Almost all taxi and private hire drivers in the UK have been self-employed for decades, and with Uber they have more control over what they do," a spokesperson said.
"The vast majority of drivers who use Uber tell us they want to remain their own boss, as that's the main reason why they signed up to us in the first place."
Last year an employment tribunal ruled that Uber drivers were wrongly classified as self-employed - the company is appealing against the ruling.
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Deliveroo was also among the companies that gave evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee as part of its inquiry in to the so-called gig economy.
Deliveroo said in a statement: "We receive 10,000 rider applications every week because people are attracted to the flexible way of working that we offer.
"Before Deliveroo existed, many workers in the food delivery business were paid in cash, in the black economy. All of our riders are registered to work legally and pay their taxes in the UK.
"Deliveroo is proud to offer well paid, flexible work to over 15,000 riders. Our riders on average earn well above the National Living Wage."
In the report by the Work and Pensions Committee, chairman Frank Field said companies were "avoiding all their responsibilities" in order to profit from "bogus self-employed designation".
"This inquiry has convinced me of the need to offer 'worker' status to the drivers who work with those companies as the default option."
If firms want to class workers as self-employed, they should be made to justify that move, he said.
Those changes would protect staff from "the appalling practices that have been reported to the committee in this inquiry".
Mr Field singled out Uber and its policy of charging drivers the costs of organising cover if they were off sick.
In its defence, Uber says it contributes towards a scheme that drivers can join, which gives a range of benefits including illness and injury cover.
Mr Field also said that self-employment caused "substantial" tax losses for the government.
Last year the government asked Matthew Taylor, former head of the Labour Policy Unit, to review employment practices.
The review will look at security, pay and rights and it will also examine whether there are ways to increase opportunities for carers, people with disabilities and the elderly.
Speaking on the subject last year, Prime Minister Theresa May said: "If we are to build a country that works for everyone - not just the privileged few - we need to be certain that employment regulation and practices are keeping pace with the changing world of work."
Cemetery Development Services withdrew proposals for a new private cemetery off Croydon Lane, Banstead last year because of local opposition.
It has now re-submitted plans to Reigate and Banstead Borough Council for the cemetery and chapel.
The company said there was a need for a new cemetery but residents say it should not be built on green belt.
Woodmansterne Green Belt and Residents' Association is among the objectors, saying the narrow strip of green belt is that separates Banstead village from nearby "urban sprawl".
They say the cemetery would increase traffic, causing safety concerns for drivers and pedestrians, and create a precedent for further development.
Justin Smith, managing director of Cemetery Development Services, said it was difficult to find vacant land in the borough that was not green belt.
"There is only one cemetery left and that is running out of space," he said.
"We have designed about 30-40 cemeteries and the topic of traffic always comes up.
"The amount of traffic that will be going to the cemetery will be very, very small compared with the existing traffic on the road."
Saudi Arabia is said to want to sell a 5% stake in the company as it plans to expand its economy away from oil.
Aramco is thought to be considering selling shares in London or New York, among other markets.
However, London listing rules suggest more than 25% of shares should be sold.
Regulators want to ensure enough shares are available to be bought and sold to make a functioning market. But exceptions can be made for companies who can show that will still be possible while selling a smaller stake in themselves.
But Ashley Hamilton Claxton, corporate governance manager at Royal London Asset Management, said the rules should not be bent.
"It would be highly inappropriate for us to be bending listing rules and bending benchmark rules to accommodate this one large company," she told the BBC's Today programme.
"There's lots of money to be made for investment bankers and advisers, but very little protection for pension savers and that's something we really need to keep at the heart of this situation."
Her view echoes that of the Investment Association, which has said there should not be special cases for share listings in London.
The company may attract a valuation of as much as $2tn, according to some estimates.
But Stephen Clapham, of consultancy Behind the Balance Sheet, said that price "doesn't make any sense to me".
Financial data for the company is hard to come by, he told Today, but he estimates Aramco's annual turnover is about $185bn. A $2tn price tag would suggest it is worth more than 10 times its sales, a scale of valuation normally reserved for technology companies that are reckoned to be in a growth spurt.
Mr Clapham said Aramco could duck the 25% rule by placing the stake in a separate holding company and selling all that company's stock in London. However, he added that a holding company like that would probably need to invest in other companies too.
Pogba, 23, arrived at United this week for a world record £89m fee, while Ibrahimovic, 34, joined on a free.
Statisticians at the University of Salford ran tests to see how many points Jose Mourinho's side would win with and without the two new signings.
They found the pair increase United's chances of winning the league by 4%.
SAM, the sport analytics machine designed by statisticians at the University of Salford's Centre for Sports Business, uses a series of algorithms to forecast the results of a variety of sporting fixtures.
To return a verdict on Ibrahimovic and Pogba's influence, the experts ran the full Premier League season through SAM 10,000 times.
Striker Ibrahimovic scored 38 league goals for French champions Paris St-Germain last season, and SAM has forecast that the Swede would account for eight extra points alone over the coming campaign.
French midfielder Pogba, meanwhile, provided 12 assists as Juventus won Serie A, with SAM predicting he would add an extra 1.3 points to United's total on his own - and that, together, they would add 10 points.
An extra 10 points for United last season would have lifted them from fifth place to second.
"Attacking players can make the biggest difference on the pitch and this just shows what a bargain Ibrahimovic could prove to be," said Ian McHale, professor of Sports Analytics at the University of Salford.
"Pogba, on the other hand, was expensive. Some may think he was overpriced and our stats show he is not likely to have as big an impact as Zlatan.
"But he is one for the future and if he helps propel United into the Champions League, then it will be money well spent."
SAM takes into account multiple factors, such as which team is at home, the strength of teams that both sides have played as well as the quality and the form of the players on the pitch.
"These results are entirely based on real data," added McHale. "Data is the fuel of our system, and the algorithms are the engine. It is entirely done using numbers, there is nothing subjective about the results that SAM comes up with."
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"I am ashamed I'm part of an industry that has never allowed a woman to work with a budget higher than what the budget has been on Wonder Woman," the Oscar-winning actress told Variety.
Directed by Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman was made for a reported $149m (£116m) and has made $746m (£582m) worldwide.
Theron, 41, also bemoaned the lack of female-driven action films.
Her comments come ahead of the release of Atomic Blonde, in which she stars as a British MI6 agent in 1980s Berlin.
The actress, who won an Oscar after working with Jenkins in Monster, played another action-oriented role in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road.
Speaking to Variety, though, the South African-born star rued the way the rare female successes in the traditionally male-dominated genre were not capitalised upon.
"We've had moments like this, where women really showcase themselves and kind of break glass ceilings," she said.
"And then we don't sustain it. Or there's one movie that doesn't do well, and all of a sudden, no one wants to make a female-driven film."
Theron sustained various injuries while shooting Atomic Blonde, among them a twisted knee and two cracked teeth.
"It was tough," she said of the film, released in the UK on 9 August. "You want to be in your best fighting shape, and it's hard."
Theron's other films this year include Fast and Furious 8, in which she played a villainous role opposite Vin Diesel and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.
Earlier this year Michelle Rodriguez revealed she was considering leaving the action franchise over the way it treated its female characters.
"I hope they decide to show some love to the women of the franchise on the next one," she wrote on Instagram.
Wonder Woman became the most successful live-action film to be directed by a woman last month after exceeding the takings of 2008's Mamma Mia!.
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County remain at the foot of the Premiership table after being taken apart by the champions on Saturday.
But McIntyre, who was handed the reins in September, refused to read too much into the home defeat.
"I knew the type of job I was taking on and I'm confident we will succeed in it - we've got good players who just under-performed today," said McIntyre.
The Staggies simply could not contain a dominant Celtic side in the Highlands, with an Anthony Stokes double and goals from John Guidetti, Jason Denayer and Callum McGregor doing the damage.
"We didn't start the game very well," added McIntyre. "Obviously Celtic played very well but the goals we gave away just don't give us a platform to get into the game. Two set plays are really poor from our point of view and we've dropped the runner twice as well.
"It was a tough day and one the players will learn from.
"We've been working far more on possession of the ball and trying to be braver on the ball, and that's something we never did today, which was disappointing."
County went into Saturday's game having picked up four points from their previous two league games, their only points of the campaign.
And despite the nature of the defeat against Celtic, McIntyre does not expect his players to suffer a hangover when they visit St Mirren next week.
"Morale will be fine," said the former Queen of the South boss. "They will be hurting right now, of course they will, and we will watch it back and learn from it.
"In the longer term, the picture doesn't change for us, we know what we need to do and we need to do it a lot better than we did today."
Prior to the match, Ross County signed free agent Paul Quinn, the former Motherwell and Cardiff City defender who had been on trial at Victoria Park.
The 16-year-old boys from Liverpool, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were cleared of murdering Lee Briggs in St Marie's Park in Widnes, Cheshire.
But a jury at Chester Crown Court found them guilty of manslaughter.
The pair, both 15 at the time of the offence on 16 May, admitted being involved in the supply of drugs in the park on the day of his death.
The jury heard the teenagers had travelled from Liverpool to Widnes to sell cocaine and heroin in the park and that Mr Briggs had tried to rob them.
One of the boys admitted stabbing drug-user Mr Briggs but said he only did so in self-defence after Mr Briggs HAD held a knife to his throat while demanding he hand over drugs and money.
The teenager, who had been concealing a flick knife in his underpants, stabbed Mr Briggs in the ribs.
The second boy was said by the prosecution to have "encouraged or assisted" the killing by picking up a machete which had been wrapped in a T-shirt and hidden in the park.
The teenagers will be sentenced on 20 January, said police.
The warning applies to TV viewers who control their Samsung Smart TV using its voice activation feature.
When the feature is active, such TV sets "listen" to what is said and may share what they hear with Samsung or third parties, it said.
Privacy campaigners said the technology smacked of the telescreens, in George Orwell's 1984, which spied on citizens.
The warning came to light via a story in online news magazine the Daily Beast which published an excerpt of a section of Samsung's privacy policy for its net-connected Smart TV sets. These record what is said when a button on a remote control is pressed.
The policy explains that the TV set will be listening to people in the same room to try to spot when commands or queries are issued via the remote. It goes on to say: "If your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."
Corynne McSherry, an intellectual property lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) which campaigns on digital rights issues, told the Daily Beast that the third party was probably the company providing speech-to-text conversion for Samsung.
She added: "If I were the customer, I might like to know who that third party was, and I'd definitely like to know whether my words were being transmitted in a secure form."
Soon after, an activist for the EFF circulated the policy statement on Twitter comparing it to George Orwell's description of the telescreens in his novel 1984 that listen to what people say in their homes.
In response to the widespread sharing of its policy statement, Samsung has issued a statement to clarify how voice activation works. It emphasised that the voice recognition feature is activated using the TV's remote control.
It said the privacy policy was an attempt to be transparent with owners in order to help them make informed choices about whether to use some features on its Smart TV sets, adding that it took consumer privacy "very seriously".
Samsung said: "If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature, voice data is provided to a third party during a requested voice command search. At that time, the voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV."
It added that it did not retain voice data or sell the audio being captured. Smart-TV owners would always know if voice activation was turned on because a microphone icon would be visible on the screen, it said.
The third party handling the translation from speech to text is a firm called Nuance, which specialises in voice recognition, Samsung has confirmed to the BBC.
Samsung is not the first maker of a smart, net-connected TV to run into problems with the data the set collects. In late 2013, a UK IT consultant found his LG TV was gathering information about his viewing habits.
Publicity about the issue led LG to create a software update which ensured data collection was turned off for those who did not want to share information.
Health chiefs urged patients to only call in a life-threatening emergency after they were forced to rely on a back-up programme.
It means call handlers have to write the 999 details by hand, rather than use a computer dispatch system.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said some of their vehicles' satellite navigation and mapping systems were also down.
It said engineers were urgently trying to resolve the problem.
Richard Lee, director of operations at the Welsh Ambulance Service, said that if an ambulance was dispatched, it would be "helpful" if someone could wait in the street to flag it down.
"Please only ring us if the situation is life-threatening, and use us appropriately," he added.
The mayor said potential changes to the way the national policing budget was divided could force a cut in the number of officers on the streets.
The government is expected to announce how the overall police budget will be allocated between forces in March.
The Home Office said the Met remained "the best funded force in the country".
In December, Sadiq Khan announced he planned to maintain officer numbers at 32,000 as part of his Police and Crime Plan.
However, the mayor said "continued pressures on the police budget" would make keeping the figure "increasingly difficult".
"If the government subjects London's police service to any further cuts, it will become near impossible to maintain the number of police on our streets," he said.
The force has already made £600m of savings since 2010 by reducing overtime, cutting managers and selling off 120 buildings.
It will have to make a further £400m savings in the next few years.
However, a spokesperson for the Home Office said the Met was well funded and there was "considerable scope to improve efficiency".
"It is vital our police forces are fit to face the challenges of tomorrow, and this government is giving policing the tools to achieve this," the spokesperson said.
The Home Office is currently working out what to award police forces throughout the country.
A public consultation will take place before any funding deal is put in place.
In a video posted on YouTube, the young man can be seen looking bewildered as shop assistant Ken Fernandez presents him with the Wii U.
Best Buy deny the act was a marketing stunt.
The clip was uploaded by another employee Rahiem Storr, who said the team wanted to "make a child smile".
Mr Storr does not work at the Valley Stream branch of the store in New York where the video was filmed, but was moved by the footage when it was shown to him and decided to post it online.
He wrote that the teenager in the video went to the shop "every single day" to play the display Wii U, so staff there had decided to act.
"We bought you a Wii so that you don't have to come in here every day and play," said Mr Fernandez in the video. "Everybody you see here, we all got together and chipped in so that you could have one for yourself."
He reassures the boy that he is serious and says the $300 (£235) console is an early Christmas present.
After posting the video Mr Storr received a barrage of abuse. He then published another video in which he says if viewers have nothing good to say then they shouldn't say "anything at all".
A Police Scotland spokeswoman described the crash near Larkhall, at 11:15, as "very serious". There is currently no information on the man's condition.
Following the crash, the northbound carriageway was closed between J10 Lesmahagow and J8 Canderside.
Traffic is being diverted on to the nearby B7078.
There are queues on the approach with delays on the diversion route.
It is not yet known when the northbound carriageway will be reopened.
President Ernest Bai Koroma has declared seven days of mourning while pleading for "urgent support".
Nearly 400 people are confirmed dead after a mudslide in the Regent area and floods elsewhere in Freetown on Monday.
The Red Cross has warned it is a race against time to find survivors.
Presidential spokesman Abdulai Baraytay told the BBC that bodies were still being pulled from the mud and rubble.
However, a planned a mass burial of victims on Wednesday to free up space in mortuaries has been delayed, the BBC has learned.
The BBC's Martin Patience, who is in Freetown, said workers there say they have been overwhelmed by the scale of this disaster. He described the rescue effort so far as "chaotic".
Abu Bakarr Tarawallie, a Red Cross official, said rescuers were "racing against time, more flooding and the risk of disease to help these affected communities survive and cope with their loss".
The British International Development Secretary Priti Patel said the UK already had "pre-positioned vital aid supplies" in Sierra Leone, while the United Nations said its local teams had mobilised and were supporting rescue efforts.
"Contingency plans are being put in place to mitigate any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and diarrhoea," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
By Umaru Fofana, BBC reporter, Freetown
The scene at Connaught mortuary was gut-wrenching. Bodies were lying on the floor because the mortuary had run out of space. There were hundreds of them, and I lost count of the number.
Expect more raw emotions when families go to identify the corpses.
My own emotions have reached a crescendo and I am finding it hard to sleep.
While at the scene of the disaster, even though the sun shone brightly, I was drenched in tears to the point that I went to the washroom.
The emergency workers thought it was for reasons of hygiene, but it was to wash away my tears.
Officially, a rescue operation is under way, but it is more like a recovery operation. Only corpses are being retrieved, and ambulances are taking them to the over-crowded mortuary.
Meanwhile, the community is still coming to terms with the scale of the horror.
Ben Munson, who works for the charity Street Child in Freetown, said the stories he was hearing on the ground were "horrific".
"One lady who our Street Child team was working with was inconsolable," he told the BBC. "She had injuries on her arms and her face and she was eating the food that we were handing out, but wasn't able to speak.
"My team later managed to sort of calm her down and she explained her story, and she was pulled out of the rubble after the disaster had happened and unfortunately she had lost all of her children and her husband."
Homes in the hilltop community of Regent were engulfed after part of Sugar Loaf mountain collapsed following heavy rain early on Monday. Many victims were asleep in bed when disaster struck.
President Koroma fought back tears as he toured Regent on Tuesday and said the devastation was "overwhelming us".
"Entire communities have been wiped out. We need urgent support now," he said.
He urged people to stay away from the affected areas.
"This tragedy of great magnitude has once again challenged us to come together, to stand by each other and to help one another," he said.
Flooding is not unusual in Sierra Leone, where unsafe housing in makeshift settlements can be swept away by heavy rains.
The rains often hit areas in and around Freetown, an overcrowded coastal city of more than one million people.
He was nominated for the post by the new Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar, who appointed his cabinet on Wednesday, his first day in power.
Mr Coveney was Mr Varadkar's rival in a party leadership contest earlier this month, but lost with 40% of the vote.
He tweeted he was "proud" to accept the foreign ministry and Brexit roles.
Announcing the appointment, Mr Varadkar said: "We face enormous challenges in foreign policy as relationships on this island, between these islands and across Europe change."
The taoiseach has tasked Mr Coveney to "work towards re-establishing devolved government in Northern Ireland" and "securing the best possible deal for Ireland on Brexit".
Mr Coveney replaces Charlie Flanagan, who had been Irish minister for foreign affairs and trade since July 2014.
Mr Flanagan had been heavily involved in negotiations at Stormont over the past three years and his departure as foreign minister comes at a time of great uncertainty for Northern Ireland's political institutions.
Stormont's devolved government collapsed in January when the late Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin resigned in protest at the Democratic Unionist Party's handling of a green energy scandal.
Mr Flanagan is moving to the justice ministry, replacing Francis Fitzgerald, who has been appointed as minister for enterprise.
Mrs Fitzgerald remains in her role as tánaiste (Irish deputy prime minister), while Mr Coveney has been named as deputy leader of the Fine Gael party.
Writing on his Twitter account, Mr Coveney, said there were "huge challenges" ahead in his new ministry but added he was "looking forward to it".
The politician first won a seat in the Dáil (Irish Parliament) almost 20 years ago and has been a government minister for the last six years.
Most recently, he served as housing minister and before that he held the agricultural portfolio.
Five years ago, Mr Coveney became the first Irish government minister to attend and address a DUP conference.
He was a keynote speaker at the event in November 2012.
"I hope we can develop the kind of friendship and kind of trust politically that's needed between the largest party in Northern Ireland and the largest party in the Republic of Ireland," he said at the time.
"This is another step in that direction."
The 44-year-old Corkman is married with three children.
He was educated at the exclusive Clongowes Wood boarding school in County Kildare, which has produced a number of high-profile Irish politicians and writers.
However, as a teenager, he was expelled from the school for drinking alcohol and bunking off lessons to attend a beach party.
In a candid interview with broadcaster RTÉ, he revealed he had suffered from a stutter when he was younger, and lived in the shadow of his more promising brother, who is now a successful businessman.
He went on to study management at the Royal Agricultural College in Gloucestershire, England, before his election as the youngest member of the Dáil in 1998, in a by-election caused by the death of his father.
Mr Coveney remained in the Dáil until 2004, when he was elected to the European Parliament.
Returning to the Dáil in 2007, he was appointed agriculture minister in 2011 and responsibility for defence was added to his portfolio three years later.
He had made no secret of his desire to lead the Fine Gael party and in contrast to Mr Varadkar, he was seen as the more centre-left candidate in the recent leadership contest.
When RTÉ asked the question about his intentions some years ago, he said: "I am very ambitious, so the straight answer is yes, some day."
The United Party for National Development alleges the poll on 11 August was rigged and wants a recount.
Mr Lungu was due to be sworn in next Tuesday after securing 50.35% of the vote, avoiding a second round.
But according to Zambia's constitution, any inauguration has to be delayed until the Constitutional Court rules on the case.
Zambia's election commission has insisted that the poll was free and fair.
But it also described the level of political violence ahead of the elections as unprecedented.
It was forced to suspend campaigning in the capital, Lusaka, for 10 days because of the unrest.
Opposition candidate Hakainde Hichelema, who took 47,6% of the vote, told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme that the election was stolen from him and did not reflect the will of the people.
"The first respondent did not receive more than 50% of the total votes cast. The voter register was not credible and its non-availability before the elections compromised the transparency of the electoral process," Reuters news agency quotes the petition as saying.
The Constitutional Court has two weeks to rule on the petition.
Caroline Lucas accused Theresa May of running an "arrogant and insulting" campaign focused on "extreme Brexit".
With one constituency undeclared, the prime minister says she will work with the DUP to form a government after failing to secure a majority.
Green co-leader Jonathan Bartley said it would be "a coalition of chaos".
Ms Lucas took the Green's one seat in the election, out of 457 candidates.
She said: "What is very clear is that Theresa May did not get the bigger mandate she was asking for, for the kind of extreme Brexit that she has been pursuing.
"I'm hoping very much the progressives across Parliament will work together to challenge that kind of a Brexit which is brutal, damaging and wrong."
The Tories are forecast to be the biggest party with 319 seats out of 650, ahead of Labour on 261, the SNP on 35 and the Lib Dems on 12. The DUP won 10 seats.
Mr Bartley, who did not stand in the election, said it was "extremely worrying" that the DUP could be "holding sway" over the government.
"The DUP I don't think are the kind of people you want calling the shots," he told BBC News.
"Now what's going to happen with the DUP and their climate change scepticism," he added. "Are they going to exact a very serious price for the Government being propped up in this way?"
Throughout the campaign, the Greens have called for a "progressive alliance", writing to Labour and the Liberal Democrats in an attempt to do deals and oust the Tories.
Although the parties shunned the idea nationally, some local activists have supported it and saw candidates step aside for one another.
In Ms Lucas's own seat of Brighton Pavilion, the Lib Dems stepped aside, while the Greens decided not to contest Labour-held Ealing Central and Acton, and Brighton Kemptown.
Some prominent figures have also backed the plan, including Lib Dem Sir Vince Cable, who was re-elected in Twickenham.
But after the exit poll was published, former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell told the BBC that the difference in approach to Brexit between the Lib Dems and Labour would stop any progressive alliance being formed.
Ms Lucas had tweeted on Thursday night - when exit polls indicated a disappointing result for the Conservatives - "hardly dare hope this is right. To be clear, Greens will *never* support a Tory government #HopeoverHate".
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Jill Nasralla told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she had not received an apology after the incident involving her son Adam, then 20, at Wast Hills.
He has now been given an out-of-court settlement by the hospital and police.
The hospital said patient welfare was its "number one priority".
Ms Nasralla said her son's behaviour had "deteriorated" since he was moved to the hospital at the age of 19, and that the hospital had removed her son's autism diagnosis without her knowledge.
In March 2014, after being restrained at the hospital Mr Nasralla was handcuffed, placed in a spit hood and detained in a police cell where restraints continued to be used, with no solicitor or appropriate adult allowed to visit him.
His mother explained: "One weekend he went into absolute crisis. I got a call saying they could no longer manage him.
"That morning they had rang the police and wanted Adam to be arrested for assaulting staff.
"By the evening they'd called the police again and told them he was culpable and had the capacity to make decisions, and they arrested him this time.
"He was handcuffed, placed in the cage in the police van. He went alone and had the restraint belt and spit hood. Adam must have been absolutely terrified."
Ms Nasralla said the hospital "hasn't even said sorry", and that her son - now 23 - had been left with PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder].
Wast Hills hospital said: "The health and welfare of both the people we support and our staff is always our number one priority.
"We co-operated in an open and transparent way with the serious case review and all its recommendations have been acted on."
Assistant Chief Constable Martin Evans from West Mercia Police said: "Every day our officers and staff have to make quick time decisions in difficult and challenging circumstances in order to protect our communities from harm."
The South African, 65, arrived at Murrayfield on a two-year deal in the summer of 2013 and agreed a one-year extension in May.
"While we have made good progress over the past two seasons, we still have some way to go," said the former Springboks assistant coach.
"I am pleased to be able to continue to build on what we have achieved."
Edinburgh made a strong start to the 2015-16 campaign, winning their opening four league matches, and sit sixth in the table after eight fixtures.
They have also won both of their group matches in the European Challenge Cup, having finished as runners-up in the tournament last season.
"Alan is successfully building on the improved performances achieved by Edinburgh Rugby last season," said Scottish Rugby chief executive Mark Dodson.
"The club has made a positive start to the new season and we wanted to ensure Alan was able to continue to develop the vision he started in 2013."
Solomons takes Edinburgh to former club Ulster on Friday evening, where he ended a three-year stint in 2004.
The measure was outlined in the Scottish government's response to last year's Vale of Leven inquiry report.
The probe, led by Lord MacLean, was heavily critical of care standards at the Dunbartonshire's hospital during a C. diff outbreak in 2007 and 2008.
Of the 143 patients with C. diff, it was a contributory factor in 34 deaths.
Announcing the Scottish government's response to Lord MacLean's report, Health Minister Shona Robison said: "I want to take the opportunity once again to say how sorry I am to all those who were affected and continue to be affected by this tragedy."
The government response said that it had taken on board all 75 recommendations from Lord MacLean's report and would "go beyond some recommendations in order to make hospitals as safe as possible".
It also said that since the C.diff outbreak at the Vale of Leven, improvements had been put in place.
This included the establishment of a Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) to provide "independent and rigorous scrutiny and assurance" that hospitals in Scotland were equipped to tackle infection rates.
Ms Robison said that under new measures Healthcare Improvement Scotland - which operates HEI teams - would have the power to close hospital wards to new admissions if inspectors had concerns over patient safety.
"Although NHS Scotland has made significant improvements since the Vale of Leven hospital outbreak in 2007, particularly around infection prevention and control measures, more can be done to achieve our aim of having a world class health service," she said.
"This is why we are going beyond some of the recommendations by working with NHS health boards and staff to assure the public that our hospitals are safe.
"While Lord MacLean's report focused on one hospital there are clear messages for everyone up and down the country who are working in and with the healthcare system."
Ms Robison added: "It is crucial that health boards continue to put systems in place to prevent mistakes happening, and when they do happen, to learn quickly from them."
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The high-speed accident happened in August while he was racing for Zielona Gora and has left the 23-year-old Australian confined to a wheelchair.
"I know that this is probably it forever. But I also know that miracles can happen in medicine in this day and age," he told BBC South Today.
Ward is now planning to return home to his native Queensland.
He was on loan from Poole to fellow Elite League side Swindon Robins before the crash, which he remembers vividly.
"I remember being in the pits before," he said. "I hadn't had the best meeting up to that stage and I wanted to go out in the final race and win.
"I remember tumbling over, it was all quite fast. I was lying there on the floor waiting for the ambulance to arrive.
"I couldn't feel anything, but I knew I'd broken my arm.
"Then I remember going to the hospital and that was it before I woke up after an operation."
Following a two-and-half hour spinal operation, Ward was transferred back to the UK within days.
In October, he appeared in person at a benefit meeting staged at Poole's Wimborne Road to help with his rehabilitation expenses.
Support continues to flood in for Ward, who was visited in hospital by former Formula 1 driver Mark Webber during the early stages of his recovery.
"It's been a good up and down career, but I wouldn't change anything for the world," said Ward, who plans to stay involved in speedway in some capacity.
His girlfriend Lizzie has been by his side throughout and is set to join him for the move back to Australia.
"It's pretty crazy, but she tells me she doesn't care about the wheelchair," he added. "She still sees me as Darcy and still sees me as very much the same. We're stronger than ever and she's a superstar in my eyes."
He was an assistant to Ian McGeechan on the 2009 2-1 series defeat to South Africa.
Four years later his Wales boss Warren Gatland hired then-England defence coach Andy Farrell for the 2-1 Lions win against Australia.
"I would be interested in going on another Lions tour," said Edwards.
"Every Lions tour is special, but when you are playing the world champions, it is doubly so."
After leaving his England role following their 2015 World Cup flop, Farrell has become Ireland and Munster defence coach.
New England coach Eddie Jones has backed Gatland to again be in charge of the Lions with Ireland's Joe Schmidt seen as his biggest rival for thr post.
Edwards has recently committed his future to Wales until after the 2019 World Cup in Japan.
The former Great Britain rugby league star said: "If anyone offers you a contract, then they are showing faith in you.
"To offer a four-year deal as well, it shows a lot of faith in me to do the job.
"I am very happy here. I like the way we work, and I like the people I work with. I respect the players I coach - they are very coachable."
Wales travel to Dublin to face Ireland in their 2015 Six Nations opener on Sunday 7 February.
Edwards hopes Wales can immediately regain the sort of form that saw them run South Africa close in the World Cup quarter-finals.
"The first thing we have got to do is try to get back to the level we finished at the World Cup [in October], when we were within a few points of South Africa," said Edwards.
"If we can get back to that, then we are in with a chance."
Lewes Crown Court heard Mark Manning was killed in Sussex in April 2014 following a row over a debt.
It is claimed Colin Gale inflicted the fatal blows and co-defendant Stewart Robertson helped dispose of the body.
Mr Gale, of Worthing, denies murder but has admitted preventing lawful burial. Mr Robertson, of Portslade, denies preventing lawful burial of the body.
The court was told a row over an unpaid debt owed to Mr Manning ended with Mr Gale deciding to "finish him off" at P&B Car Sales garage in Western Road, Lancing.
Prosecutor Duncan Atkinson QC said Mr Gale, 40, of Offington Lane, then enlisted Mr Robertson, 50, of St Aubyns Road, to help dispose of the body.
Jurors heard Mr Manning's remains were found after Mr Robertson was arrested in May 2016. He told police the corpse had been dumped on land at Hampshire Hill, near Slaugham.
Mr Atkinson said Mr Manning had two mobile phones and the last contact on one of them was a text message between him and Mr Gale on 19 April 2014.
He said Mr Gale told police he had dropped the victim at Worthing railway station that morning.
But Mr Atkinson said: "There is no evidence that he did such a thing."
Telephone analysis revealed both men were in the area of the garage in Lancing and blood spots on the wall of the garage matched Mr Manning's DNA, he added.
The court heard Mr Gale told his former wife, Chloe Birchley, he had killed the father-of-two.
Mr Manning, 54, had worked for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) which removes landmines and other hazards in some of the world's poorest countries.
The trial continues.
Citigroup got roasted by its investors. Aviva in the UK got the thumbs down on Thursday and companies like Barclays, Reckitt Benckiser and UBS have all been given nasty shocks.
The accepted explanation for this behaviour is that shareholders have been faced with declining returns and watched in increasing frustration as boardroom pay has gone ever upwards until, finally, they've lost their collective rags.
There is even some evidence to suppose this insubordination might be catching.
However the bigger question is why this didn't happen a long time ago.
While investors may well get upset in times of a crisis when they see their management walking away with big bonuses, they seem to have been remarkably insouciant when times were good, even though they were still seeing salaries outstrip their own returns. Why did they do nothing then?
The fact that they did so little suggests that when some kind of growth returns shareholders will return to their old negligent ways.
For illustration, you only have to look back at the first part of the last decade when shareholders could have expected to make handsome returns - if one regarded the rises in salaries of their chief executives as an indicator of their investments' growth and profitability.
According to the US-based Economic Policy Institute, pay for the average chief executive of a company making more than $1bn in revenue in the US rose 84% to $6.05m on an inflation-adjusted basis between 2000 and 2005.
The S&P 500 index in that time rose, er, minus 17%.
Comparing return on an investment with the growth in an annual salary is strictly speaking not a valid comparison - even so there is an obvious disparity here.
The greatest annoyance was over severance pay which displayed the most blatant mismatch of performance and reward.
For instance, Pfizer's former chief executive Henry A McKinnell was forced into early retirement after the company's stock price fell, but still managed to leave with an astonishing golden parachute worth more than $180m.
Mattel boss Jill Barad received $50m in severance pay after a disastrous internet investment at the peak of the tech bubble, which saw Mattel's stock price fall by 50%, wiping out $2.5bn in shareholder value.
Much of the rise in corporate remuneration comes in stock options, which are meant to reflect the performance of the chief executive - which they did, up to a point.
Often they can increase in value simply because the whole market is rising. That is becoming increasingly apparent as chief executives exercise options for huge numbers of shares granted them at the bottom of the market in 2008/9.
But there have been slow - some would say painfully slow - attempts at reform such as bringing in shareholder votes on executive pay in the UK.
In the US, shareholders won the right to vote on executive pay at most public companies under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
These are non-binding but as they start to be exercised more forcefully may start to impose greater restraint on board room pay.
Indeed the Citgroup vote was followed up by a shareholder suing the bank accusing directors of breaching their fiduciary duties by awarding more than $54m of compensation in 2011 to the executives, though the bank's performance did not necessarily justify it.
They may well stiffened by increased legislation.
The UK's Business Secretary Vince Cable is suggesting that shareholder votes might become binding and also that boards may have to have 75% approval to get their pay packages approved.
And then there is the case of individual shareholder activism, which rather than being constrained to fund managers, could start working all the way down the ownership chain.
Louise Rouse, of the UK's FairPensions campaign group, explains: "What we have been seeing over the last decade instead of a redistribution of resources to shareholders in the form of dividends is money going to excessive executive pay.
"So we want to see ordinary individuals holding the pension funds and the institutional investors to account asking them directly how they vote on pay packages.
"That sort of scrutiny would lead to greater action on their part."
As many as 320,000 people in the UK have familial hypercholesterolaemia - an inherited condition that causes dangerously high cholesterol levels.
Left undiagnosed and untreated, up to half of those with FH will develop heart disease before they are 60.
Testing is already available at seven centres in England. Four more will now be added to the list.
Scotland and Northern Ireland also do FH cascade testing and Wales has comprehensive service funded by the government.
People are offered the blood test if they and/or their doctor think they could have FH.
If they are found to have FH, their closest blood relatives - brothers, sisters and children - should get tested too.
With cholesterol-lowering drug treatment, lifestyle advice and careful monitoring, people with FH can have the same life expectancy as those without FH.
The British Heart Foundation is giving £900,000 towards the programme which is being run at the following trusts:
The charity says this will still not be enough to check all the people they believe are at risk.
Some parts of the country, such as Norfolk and Suffolk, do not have a testing centre nearby.
Prof Steve Humphries, an expert in FH, said: "I'd estimate there's still about three-quarters of the UK population that isn't adequately covered.
"In England it's a postcode lottery at best."
This means that people are having heart attacks that could have been prevented, he says.
Joanne Whitmore, the FH clinical lead at the British Heart Foundation, said: "If high cholesterol is left unchecked, fatty materials can build up in your arteries, increasing your risk of heart disease.
"FH is easily treated, so no family should have to go through the pain of seeing a loved one have a heart attack that could have been prevented. It's important to talk to your doctor if you think FH runs in your family."
The UK National Screening Committee is reviewing whether or not to take on the job of FH testing.
According to a report by Russia's Izvestia newspaper, the investigation was prompted by a complaint from Mikhail Marchenko, a Russian senator.
Mr Marchenko claims the symbols - which depict smiley-faced same-sex couples - violate a controversial 2013 law which prohibits promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships.
The law allows Russian authorities to block access to websites deemed to promote homosexuality.
Mr Marchenko said in his complaint that the emojis "promoted non-traditional sexual relationships", "denied family values" and showed "disrespect for parents and other family members".
In response to the complaint, media watchdog Roskomnadzor asked the youth group of President Vladimir Putin's political party, the Young Guard, to report on the matter.
Kirill Grinchenko, a spokesman for the Young Guard, told Izvestia that the group had not yet received a request to look into the matter but was "ready to deal with the protection of rights on the Internet under Russian law".
On Tuesday the founder of Children-404, an online community for LGBT teenagers in Russia, was fined 50,000 roubles (£520; $830) after a Russian court ruled that the site was guilty of distributing "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors".
Russia has faced international criticism for its anti-gay laws. Individuals can be fined 4,000-5,000 roubles if they are convicted of promoting so-called non-traditional sexual relations, with much higher fines for businesses and possible jail sentences for foreigners.
Apple first added emojis depicting gay couples to its operating system back in 2012. An update earlier this year introduced emojis showing gay couples with children, and hugely increased the racial diversity among the 300 symbols available.
Almost two million coarse fish were released, helping to restock populations where water quality was improving after years of pollution.
The species that were captive-bred by the Environment Agency included chub, bream, tench and roach.
The fish and larvae were bred at the agency's Calverton farm in Nottingham.
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Fish farm team leader Alan Henshaw said there were two main reasons why 2015 was a record-breaking year.
"One was the weather; it was a very good year for growing fish," he explained.
"Fish do not like surprises so if we have a summer where the temperature is consistent, that is far better.
"It is not good when the temperature gets over 24C or 25C (75-77F) because they get a little more difficult to grow because the water is warmer. Basically, a good year for growing fish is when it is not a good year for a sun tan."
The second reason was a result of the discovery that fish rearing was more successful when there was a larger mix of species within the farms tanks and ponds, he told BBC News.
"Before, we'd only grow three species in a pond - that would have been a bottom feeder, mid-water feeder and a surface feeder.
"But we have realised that if we keep the biomass - the total amount of fish - the same but make that biomass up out of five or six species, the fish do much better. It's called polyculture. We didn't invent it, they have been doing it in Europe since the Middle Ages. We've tweaked it and it is working really well."
In order to maintain the fitness and genetic integrity of the wild populations, the team at the fish farm do not keep brooding adults. Instead they collect adult fish from rivers each year in order to harvest eggs and sperm that will be used to grow the fish.
Mr Henshaw said: "The fish we produce here are never more than one generation from wild.
"It is not like a trout farm that is producing fish for the table. The whole idea behind our fish is that they are fit for purpose - they are not naive and they are prepared for life in the wild."
The fertilised eggs are incubated for 3-30 days, before the larvae is transferred to ponds under polytunnels to protect the tiny animals from predators and cold temperatures for the first year.
They are moved to outdoor ponds for the second summer of life, and are fed natural food and experience flowing water.
"We drop the food in the flow and if the fish want to eat then they have got to swim - and we feed them on natural food so they know what natural food is," Mr Henshaw explained.
"Our fish are effectively wild fish that have just so happened to have spent the first two years of their life growing on a fish farm. We have grown them in as natural rearing conditions as we possibly can."
Slovacko's Kone acted fast after Berkovec had collided with his Bohemians 1905 team-mate Daniel Krch.
He used his fingers to move Berkovec's tongue and stop him suffocating.
Berkovec later wrote on Facebook: "I would like to thank Francis Kone for rescue and emergency… I'm glad for the relief and thanks again!!!"
The versatile 23-year-old midfielder made 101 starts for Oldham.
The League Two club have also signed West Ham's versatile defender Alex Pike on loan for the rest of this season.
The 19-year-old, who can play at centre-back, full-back or wing-back, has been with the Premier League club since joining their academy, aged 10.
Pike's West Ham debut came in the Europa League in 2015 and he made three starts for the Hammers' Under-23 side in the EFL Trophy earlier this term.
Both players could play for Cheltenham when they host Accrington on Saturday.
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On Friday, the club said they had accepted the resignations of the manager, assistant David Weir and head of recruitment, Frank McParland.
However, Warburton insists this is not the case.
A statement released on his behalf says Rangers have not responded to "key questions" put to them by the League Managers Association (LMA).
"We would like to formally place on record, that at no stage did we resign from our positions at Rangers," said Warburton.
Following Friday's club announcement, chairman Dave King issued a statement of his own saying the the trio had come to an agreement to leave via their joint representative.
King also suggested Warburton lacked commitment to the Ibrox club.
Youth coach Graeme Murty assumed control of the first team for Sunday's Scottish Cup win over Morton.
Warburton, Weir and McParland added via Wednesday's statement: "At this stage, for legal reasons, it is inappropriate for us to comment in any great detail on our departure from the club.
"It is a matter of surprise to us, and to the LMA, which is advising all three of us, that despite its detailed public statements, the club has not answered key questions put to it by the LMA, in writing, requesting an explanation of why it suggested that we resigned from our positions."
The LMA statement went to say that it had been "an absolute privilege to work at a club that is so rich in tradition and history".
The deal, announced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, is Australia's largest-ever defence contract.
The Shortfin Barracuda submarines will be built in Adelaide using Australian steel, creating 2,800 jobs, he said.
Japan, which had been a frontrunner in the contest, said the decision was "deeply regrettable".
Defence Minister Gen Nakatani said Japan would "ask Australia to explain why they didn't pick our design".
Mr Turnbull said the decision, the result of a 15-month bidding process, was "securing the future of Australia's navy over decades to come".
"Australian workers will be building Australian submarines with Australian steel."
The government says the existing Collins Class submarine fleet is ageing and in need of replacement.
A strong submarine capability is seen as vital for an island nation like Australia to conduct surveillance operations, counter growing military strength from countries like China and to support Australian allies.
The Shortfin Barracuda is a 4,500-tonne conventionally powered submarine. It is closely related to the nuclear-powered Barracuda which weighs 4,700 tonnes.
DCNS has said the full details are confidential, but the vessel is know to be more than 90m long and to feature an advanced pump-jet propulsion system that is supposed to be quieter than propeller propulsion systems.
Mr Turnbull said the French bid "represented the capabilities best able to meet Australia's unique needs".
The Japanese bid, with a consortium led by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, proposed a version of its 4,000-tonne Soryu-class submarine, lengthened by between 6-8m.
Mitsubishi said it was "deeply regrettable that Japan's capabilities were not sufficiently conveyed".
The German bid, from company TKMS, offered a 4,000-tonne version of an existing 2,000-tonne Type 214 class submarine.
The French bid received unanimous support from the various experts in the government's competitive evaluation process, Defence Minister Marise Payne said.
Japan was an early frontrunner to win the contract, thanks to former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's close relationship with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe.
But its bid is said to have foundered because of Japan's inexperience in building military equipment for export.
The Japanese constitution was reinterpreted in 2014 to allow the export of military hardware. The lucrative submarine deal would have been its first such deal and a major victory for Mr Abe.
The Japanese government was also reportedly keen to further deepen its military ties to Australia as a counter to China's rise. Shared military technology would increase interoperability between the Japanese and Australian fleets.
The decision to reject the bid is seen as having ramifications for Australia-Japanese relations.
Mr Turnbull said he had spoken to Mr Abe and they were both "thoroughly committed to the special strategic partnership between Australia and Japan which gets stronger all the time".
She got tips from wrestlers Finn Balor, Enzo Amore, Big Cass and Bayley!
She also found out, that to become a wrestler you need a great name.
From Dwayne 'The rock' Johnson to Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Gran Metalik and Goldust, wresting has some pretty great character names.
So we wanted to know, what would your wrestling name be?
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I would be called JESSATRON because my name is Jess and I think I'd be very good!
Jess, 13, St Ives
If I was a wrestler my name would be the Green Anaconda
Kaidan, 9, Slough
I would love to be called the Flying Scotsman
David, 10, Renfrew
My wrestler name would be : Mike the Mizanin. I would pick this name because a real wrestler called The Miz inspired me to choose this.
Jude, 8, Peterborough
My wrestler name would be fireball
Edoardo, 11 Treviso (Italy)
Bootleg Bob
Alex, 12, Bedford
Chickenman Solo
Gabriel, 13, Luton
Here are some of our wrestler names: Des the destroyer, Khizy Kaz, Doctor Savage, Dab Master, Professor Wrecked, The Riz
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Taylor the terrible, Criminal Connor, Tyrific Tornado, Anamatronic destroyer, Caden 'catastrophic' Cooper,
Mercury Class, Littledown School, Slough.
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If i were a wrestler my name would be "Rebecca the Wrecker "!!
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If I were a WWE wrestler my name would be Nightshade!!
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But at the same time, they say they want more government support at home.
Governments in Europe should support the industry's efforts to cut car emissions, European car maker bosses agreed during a meeting in London.
But other governments should remove tariffs and other barriers to trade, they said.
The seemingly contradictory positions taken by the chief executives, during a board meeting of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, may not be as outlandish as it first seems.
The assistance the carmakers want at home relates to issues like like funding a national roll-out of the power charging infrastructure for electric cars.
They have also called for short-term assistance with research and development into electric cars and other new technologies.
"We in the industry have to take the lead," said Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of Daimler and president of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association ACEA.
He said European carmakers would invest billions of euros in green technologies.
"In Germany alone, the automotive industry will invest about 16 bn euros," he said.
"Over the next five years we will see no return on that investment."
The car chiefs say import tariffs and other barriers to trade - notably in India, China, South Korea and other large emerging markets for cars - should be scaled back.
The tariffs make it difficult for European exporters to compete with domestic manufacturers.
For example, India exports 250,000 cars to Europe every year, but only imports 5,000 vehicles from Europe, according to Paul Everitt, chief executive of the UK motor industry group SMMT.
And he said Japan should also do more to open up its market to imports.
"Our vision is for us to design, develop and manufacture high-value vehicles to export around the world.That is difficult if we don't get access."
Mr Zetsche said he was convinced the European motor industry was the most advanced in the world, and would be perfectly able to compete globally in a truly free market.
"We are asking for a level playing field," he said.
Developing countries often insist they need to protect their strategically important embryonic growth industries against powerful rivals from industrialised countries, in part because they want to create economic growth and reduce poverty at home.
Although this might be fair in some instances, said Mr Everitt, carmakers in India, China and South Korea were both large and resourceful and should no longer need protection.
The European Automobile Manufacturers Association points to its importance to the economic health of Europe and has urged EU governments to treat it as a strategic industry.
"Eight million jobs are related to the automotive industry in Europe, 700,000 of them here in the UK," Mr Zetsche said.
But the contract between the two requires a seven-year notice period unless Sports Direct agrees to end it.
On Wednesday, Rangers won their latest legal battle against the company controlled by Newcastle United owner and Rangers shareholder Mike Ashley.
Club chairman Dave King said: "The club has formally given notice to end the relationship with Sports Direct."
Sports Direct, which entered the joint venture with Rangers in 2012, this week halted litigation after claiming a breach of confidentiality over the commercial deal, with Justice Peter Smith describing its court action as "ridiculous".
However, the dispute with Rangers is poised to continue, with King saying the club are "reserving our right to proceed with challenges to the existing suite of contracts and side agreements in a court of law" despite handing in their notice to the retailer.
The retail arrangement, agreed by a previous Rangers board, means that the Glasgow club earn about 4p in every pound spent in their Ibrox store.
In a statement on the club's website, King praised the board for a "resounding success in court proceedings" against Sports Direct.
King also described the need to pay back a £5m loan from Sports Direct to keep the club solvent before his group launched its successful takeover in March as an "unanticipated investment".
The South Africa-based businessman told the club's fans that, despite that, Rangers' position was improving both financially and on the field of play.
"The club is in a substantially better position - on and off the pitch - than it has been for some time," he said on Rangers' website.
"The board continues to ensure that the club is run within the balance required to secure success on the pitch while simultaneously funding the cash shortfall that is required until we have a sustainable business model.
"The club has not secured fair value for much of its expenditure over the last few years. Under the present board, that is no longer the case."
King said the board had not only invested substantially during pre-season on player and management contracts but had stuck by its promise to back team boss Mark Warburton to improve the squad further during January.
He said that, in addition, there had been:
1. Substantial investment in Rangers' training ground at Auchenhowie, with a "broken operation that we inherited last year now being fully-functional again".
2. Investment in Ibrox Stadium and its surrounds, which had been "severely neglected by prior boards that were intent on massive cost-cutting measures" and this would "take some time" to complete.
Meanwhile, King said work was ongoing to merge existing supporters groups into a new organisation that would bring fans closer to the club and "increase the supporter shareholding position".
The Environment Agency (EA) is proposing £10m in works to reduce the flood risk from the Calder and its tributaries.
About 370 properties were flooded on 26 December as heavy rain affected the Calder Valley.
Construction work on the scheme is expected to begin by the end of 2016.
Adrian Gill, area flood risk manager at the EA, said: "We are working closely with partners and the local community to reduce the risk of flooding in Mytholmroyd and we are keen to progress quickly.
"This action plan marks an important step in setting out our proposals to reduce flood risk and how we will involve the local community in these vital decisions."
The outline plan includes:
A series of consultation events are expected to take place to allow residents and businesses in the area to comment on the proposals.
Improved defences for the area were promised by the Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss when she visited the area in January.
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The victory was the German's third in a row, giving him a boost ahead of 2016 after Hamilton won the title last month with three races still to go.
Hamilton tried an off-set race strategy in an attempt to beat his team-mate but Rosberg had sufficient pace in hand.
Kimi Raikkonen finished third, his Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel taking fourth from 15th on the grid.
The result easily secured the Finn fourth place in the championship behind Hamilton, Rosberg and Vettel after Raikkonen started the race a point behind his countryman Valtteri Bottas of Williams.
Hamilton had been determined coming into this final race to try to beat Rosberg and stop the German's run of five consecutive poles and two wins.
But experimenting with the car's set-up and tweaking an aspect of the suspension before qualifying backfired and Rosberg beat him to pole by more than 0.3 seconds.
Rosberg built up a five-second lead before his first pit stop on lap 10 but Hamilton came back at him in the second stint, closing the gap to just over a second before Rosberg's second stop on lap 31 of 55.
Hamilton then rolled the dice - he and engineer Peter Bonnington decided to delay his second stop to enable him to run harder for a shorter distance on his final set of tyres.
The decision was based on Hamilton's inability to pass Rosberg when following closely behind in the previous two races in Mexico and Brazil.
The idea was to allow Hamilton to have fresher tyres than Rosberg for the closing laps and therefore have a better chance to overtake.
Hamilton asked Bonnington before his final stop whether it was worth trying not to stop again and hold off Rosberg if he caught him. But he was told it was a "gamble that I guarantee would not pay off".
Hamilton made his final stop on lap 41, and rejoined 11.5 seconds behind his team-mate with 14 laps to go.
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"Pace is looking good," Bonnington said on Hamilton's second lap out of the pits, but although the world champion took more than a second off Rosberg on some laps in an initial burst of speed, his gains dropped off as the tyres wore out.
Rosberg was able to measure out his tyre life and pace and comfortably held Hamilton at arm's length to take his sixth victory of the year to Hamilton's 10.
"Austin was the low-point, it was a tough weekend," said Rosberg on the podium. "Since then I have come back stronger and I am excited about the way the end of the season went. Its great to end the season like this and go on holiday like this."
Hamilton said: "In hindsight, once Nico pitted I probably would have backed off and made the tyres go a lot longer. The tyres were fine at the end and I think I could have made them last. Going long was probably not the best thing to do but we gave it a try and I did the best I could."
"It has been an amazing year. I am happy. I am happy it is over for sure."
Raikkonen drove a controlled race to take third but the action at Ferrari revolved around team-mate Vettel, who started 15th after the team had made an error in qualifying and miscalculated the time needed to progress beyond the first knock-out session.
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In a mirror of his fightback following a pit lane start here in 2012, but without the luck he had in that drive when he hit a trackside sign and benefited from a safety car, Vettel lost no time in making up places.
He was quickly up into the top six and his race developed into a battle with Perez, who had impressed by qualifying the Force India fourth.
Vettel emerged from his second pit stop on lap 39 on the super-soft tyres about five seconds behind Perez and caught the Mexican within four laps, cruising past the Force India into Turn Nine shortly afterwards.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo finished sixth on a weekend when it emerged his team had finally secured a deal for engines for next season - they will continue with Renault.
McLaren's Jenson Button took 13th, one place down on his qualifying position, while team-mate Fernando Alonso had a torrid time on a weekend that had been dominated with speculation about the two-time champion's future.
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Alonso collided with Lotus's Pastor Maldonado at the start, pitted for a new front wing on lap one, then had to serve a drive-through penalty for the touch.
He managed to catch and pass the Manor cars but was a minute behind the rest of the field and midway through the race came on the radio to say he would retire the car if there was not a safety car to allow him to close up.
He did not, though, and continued to the end to finish 17th.
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In 1994, she staged a sit-in at Tower Colliery, near Hirwaun, in protest at British Coal's decision to close the pit.
The miners were given the go-ahead to re-open the colliery the following year, after pooling their redundancy money to take it over.
MP for Cynon Valley since winning a by-election in 1984, following five years as an MEP, Ms Clwyd has been sacked twice as a Labour spokesperson for failing to toe the party line.
In 1988 she lost her job as shadow minister for education and women's rights after defying the whips over the Conservative government's spending on nuclear weapons.
Seven years later she was dismissed again, as opposition spokesperson on foreign affairs, for missing a Commons vote without permission from party whips after travelling to the Iraqi-Turkish border to witness the plight of the Kurds.
As a member of the International Development Select Committee from 1997 to 2005, Ms Clwyd again raised concerns about the situation in Iraq, and the then Prime Minister Tony Blair made her a special envoy on human rights there in the run-up to the 2003 invasion.
Elected chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party in 2005, it was suggested her perceived closeness to Mr Blair was behind her failure to get re-elected to the position the following year.
More recently, Ms Clwyd's concerted campaign over standards in the NHS began when she complained movingly in the House of Commons in 2012 about the care her husband received at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in the days leading up to his death.
An internal health board inquiry upheld many of her complaints, but not her claim that he died "like a battery hen".
Last year, David Cameron put her in charge of a review of how hospitals in England handled complaints, after an inquiry at Stafford Hospital found failings in care which it said may have contributed to the deaths of patients.
While leading that review Ms Clwyd also received numerous complaints about standards at hospitals in Wales, prompting her to become a persistent critic of the Welsh NHS.
In February 2014, she announced she would stand down at the 2015 general election, calling the decision "not her swansong" but a "pause for breath".
There followed a row over Labour's decision to use an all-women shortlist to select her successor, which was strongly opposed by the local party.
Then, in September, she said she wanted to contest the seat after all, after "many requests from Labour voters in the Cynon Valley".
But Labour has now decided she must face re-selection, saying the process of choosing a new candidate is underway and the party has to stick to the rules.
Tom Watson, Caroline Flint, Ben Bradshaw, Stella Creasy and Angela Eagle will compete to replace Harriet Harman.
The field was widened when another candidate, Rushanara Ali, withdrew late on so her backers could help others over the 35 MP threshold.
The winner will be announced at a special conference on 12 September.
Mr Watson and Ms Flint had already secured enough votes to make it onto the ballot paper before Ms Ali's withdrawal.
Mr Bradshaw, who only secured enough nominations to stand after she pulled out, said the Bethnal Green and Bow MP's actions had been "incredibly selfless".
Labour's deputy leadership contest is running at the same time as the election to replace Ed Miliband as leader.
The contenders for this job, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Jeremy Corbyn, will go head-to-head in a live Newsnight debate from Nuneaton at 19:00 which will be shown on BBC2 and online on the Politics Live page.
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Ex-PC Colin Hart, 61, from Nelson, Caerphilly county, has been charged with seven counts of indecent assault and one of raping a girl under 16.
He has denied the offences, alleged to have happened between 1988 and 1990.
At Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, Mr Hart said she was "at least 17" when a sexual relationship began in 1992.
The court heard the pair met at a pub he visited frequently and after "banter and sexual innuendo" they started to talk to each other "much more intimately".
The jury was told they would meet at his home and at his parents' house in Cardiff.
Mr Hart said he thought she was "a willing participant" and sexual conduct had been "reciprocal".
Defending, Jeffrey Jones asked: "Did she indicate at any stage that she didn't want to be there or was unhappy with what you were doing?"
Mr Hart replied: "No."
Under cross-examination, Mr Hart admitted their affair had been "inappropriate" as he had been engaged at the time, but said he soon "came to his senses".
Martyn Kelly, prosecuting, said: "What you have done is pushed all the dates forward."
"No sir, I'm afraid she has pushed them backwards," he replied.
The trial continues.
Terry, 35, was ruled out of Tuesday's Champions League game at Paris St-Germain with a hamstring injury.
Hiddink said it was "difficult" to know whether he would return against City.
"That's why we prefer to leave him at the training centre, to have daily treatment and see how his development will be for the weekend," he added.
Defending champions Chelsea are 12th in the table, but victory at Stamford Bridge on Sunday will secure their place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
Terry was substituted after 38 minutes of Saturday's 5-1 Premier League win over Newcastle United, with right-back Branislav Ivanovic moving alongside Gary Cahill at centre-back.
Spain international Cesar Azpilicueta switched to right-back, with Baba Rahman coming on at left-back, and Hiddink is expected to name the same back four in the Champions League last 16 first-leg tie against the French champions.
United States defender Matt Miazga, 20, and 18-year-old academy defender Jake Clarke-Salter have also travelled to Paris and could feature on the substitutes' bench.
Kurt Zouma, Terry's first-choice partner at centre-back, was this month ruled out for the season with a knee injury.
"Of course not having John is a bit of a setback. He's a leader," said Hiddink, who has not lost in 12 matches since replacing Jose Mourinho in December.
"But I'm not the type of coach or manager who starts moaning and moaning.
"We go on and the players who will replace him, I have huge confidence in them."
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The unseeded American duo, who have won five Wimbledon doubles titles, triumphed 7-6 (7-3) 6-4 on Court One.
They will play Hungary's Timea Babos and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan in Saturday's final.
Serena Williams will also play in the women's singles final on Saturday, against Germany's Angelique Kerber.
Serena, 34, and 36-year-old Venus last took the Wimbledon doubles title in 2012 and have won 13 Grand Slam doubles events.
They also won Olympic gold in the doubles in 2000, 2008 and 2012.
Fifth seeds Babos and Shvedova won 6-4 6-2 against American pair Abigail Spears and Raquel Atawo.
Elsewhere, Britain's Heather Watson moved into the semi-finals of the mixed doubles as she and Finland's Henri Kontinen won 6-3 6-2 against American Scott Lipsky and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia.
Watson and Kontinen play Austria's Oliver Marach and Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia in the last four.
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On 30 November 1995, she accompanied her husband Bill Clinton to Belfast, as he became the first serving US president to visit Northern Ireland.
The couple were mobbed by well-wishers on both sides of the sectarian divide as they visited the Shankill and Falls.
They literally lit up the city, as they switched on its Christmas lights.
The couple's first trip to Northern Ireland was hugely symbolic, encouraging hope and reconciliation at a time of fraught political negotiations.
In Londonderry, the reception was even more enthusiastic, with crowds waving a sea of US flags in Guildhall Square, chanting: "We want Bill!"
A year earlier, Mr Clinton had taken a political risk by granting Sinn Féin's leader Gerry Adams a US visa, and during his Belfast trip, he controversially shook hands with him on the Falls Road.
Mrs Clinton, too, took a hands-on approach to peace-building.
She famously dropped into the Lamplighter cafe on Belfast's Ormeau Road where she met a group of Catholic and Protestant women involved in cross-community work.
During the encounter, the then First Lady was presented with a teapot by peace campaigner Joyce McCartan - who had lost several family members in the Troubles.
The teapot was reportedly brought back to the US and used in the White House.
Mrs Clinton described Mrs McCartan as an "inspiration" and has recalled the Lamplighter cafe anecdote many times in subsequent speeches about Northern Ireland.
The peace campaigner died about a month after the meeting, but when Ulster University honoured her with the Joyce McCartan memorial lecture two years later, Mrs Clinton returned for a solo visit to Northern Ireland to deliver the inaugural speech.
In 1998, the Clinton family was rocked by Bill Clinton's admission of an extra-martial affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Later that year, and under intense personal scrutiny, Mrs Clinton chose Northern Ireland as the location for her first public speech since the scandal broke.
Addressing a Women in Democracy conference, she received a standing ovation as she spoke about the rights and achievements of women in public life.
"If you listen you can hear the voices of women who withstood jeers and threats to make themselves heard in a political world once reserved primarily for men," Mrs Clinton said.
The couple's 1998 visit had a very sombre tone, taking place just weeks after the Omagh bomb claimed the lives of 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
The Clintons travelled to Omagh to meet and sympathise with some of those bereaved by the Real IRA explosion.
The First Lady returned to Northern Ireland the following year, without her husband, to reiterate the Clinton administration's ongoing support for the peace process.
She met the then First Minister David Trimble and Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon.
By 2004. Northern Ireland was hosting its eighth Clinton visit, and perhaps it was a sign that patience was wearing thin as the couple were booed as they left the Clinton Peace Centre in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.
It was not that they were no longer welcome in the town - the boos were from spectators who were disappointed when the couple left without the usual meet-and-greet contact that had been the highlight of previous visits.
Four years later, when Mrs Clinton was challenging Barack Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, she cited Northern Ireland as one example of her greater foreign policy experience.
However, she was criticised for "exaggerating" her role in the peace process after she told CNN: "I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."
Forced to defend her comments, she said: "I actually went to Belfast more than Bill did, as part of what I was doing to help the process."
Her critics included former Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble, who dismissed her claims as a "wee bit silly".
"I don't know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," Lord Trimble said at the time.
"I don't want to rain on the thing for her, but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player."
But Lord Trimble's fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner, SDLP leader John Hume who is a long-time friend of the Clintons, defended her contribution.
"I am quite surprised that anyone would suggest that Hillary Clinton did not perform important foreign policy work as first lady," Mr Hume said in 2008.
When she became America's top diplomat the following year, Mrs Clinton returned to Belfast to address the Northern Ireland Assembly.
She told MLAs that US investment had helped to create about 20,000 jobs in Northern Ireland since the early days of the peace process in 1994.
Secretary of State Clinton also appointed an economic envoy to Northern Ireland on behalf of the US government.
Stormont's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said Mrs Clinton had been "a true friend" to Northern Ireland.
She was back in 2012 but this time her trip coincided with the start of the union flag dispute, and Mrs Clinton was once again condemning violence on the streets.
She challenged political leaders to tackle sectarianism and political divisions at a grassroots level.
"What we have to do is get out of the ballrooms, out of Stormont and into the communities where people live, where they do not have that lasting hope of optimism," she said.
After giving her a personal tour of the newly built Titanic centre, the then First Minister Peter Robinson defended the peace process, saying "this ship is not going down".
Last year, Mrs Clinton was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame and used her speech to praise the role of women in cementing the Northern Ireland peace process.
She said she was accepting the honour "on behalf of all the remarkable women that I met and admired in Northern Ireland".
His assistants will be Alan Mulvanny and Douglas Ross, with Bobby Madden the fourth official.
There will also be two goal-line officials in place with Kevin Clancy and Don Robertson fulfilling these roles.
In the other semi-final, a day before, John Beaton will take charge of Hibernian's clash with Dundee United.
Beaton will be assisted by Graham Chambers and Stuart Stevenson while Euan Anderson is the fourth official. Andrew Dallas and Alan Muir will be the goal-line officials.
The Department of Infrastructure said its staff had been dealing with fallen trees at numerous locations, including one that fell on live power lines.
Winds of up to 53mph (85km/h) forced the cancellation of some flights as well as the overnight ferry to Heysham.
The Manx Met Office issued an amber weather warning for the whole island.
A spokesman said wintry showers remained possible in the strong to gale force winds.
The Isle of Man Fire and Rescue Service said it has dealt with two weather related incidents.
At 07:36 GMT, fire crews from Peel attended a collision at Ballacraine after high winds had caused a tree to fall on to a moving van.
Neither of the two occupants were seriously injured.
The fallen tree damaged overhead power cables, however, leading to loss of power to nearby houses.
Earlier crews from Douglas attended a car which had left the road and rolled 20m down a steep hill near Ballasalla.
Esmé Rose Weir died following the incident in Gladstone Road, Neston, at about 12:00 GMT on Friday.
She was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, but later died, Cheshire Police said.
In a statement, Esmé's parents said: "Our little princess has gone to heaven and will be deeply missed."
They added: "She will remain always with us in our hearts and thoughts.
"We would like to thank everybody who helped at the scene, residents of Gladstone Road, paramedics and all the staff at Arrowe Park Hospital.
"We have been overwhelmed with all the love, support and spirit of the community in Neston and all at St Winefride's church.
"God bless and sleep tight Esmé. Love always. Mummy and daddy."
The driver of the van, a 62-year-old man, was also taken to hospital for checks.
Any witnesses are asked to contact police.
The centre will employ 15 people, including software engineers and business analysts.
It will be led by Gary Kennedy, the company co-founder, who began his career at Newry-based First Derivatives.
The project is supported with an Invest NI grant of £75,000.
Mr Kennedy said the company had considered other locations but "the strength of the talent pool, the proximity to Queen's University and the support from Invest NI" made Belfast the best option.
Clarus operates in international capital markets and provides data, analytics and research services to its customers, who include investment bankers, hedge fund managers and regulators from the the UK, the US and Europe.
Figures released by the Department for Education (DfE) show nearly £2m has been spent on free schools that have failed to open since the first ones were launched in England in 2011.
The free school scheme was introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in 2010, the aim being to make it easier for charities, community groups and religious organisations to set up their own schools independently of their local authority, in an attempt to drive up education standards.
Trusts intending to set up a free school are entitled to a project development grant from the DfE to cover essential costs up to the point at which the school opens.
However, should a free school project be cancelled before opening, this funding cannot be reclaimed as long as it has been spent in line with DfE funding rules.
One that failed to open was Gateway Academy. Scheduled for opening in Brent, north-west London, in September 2015, it was due to educate 700 secondary school and sixth-form pupils. It folded after the free school trust failed to find a suitable site, costing the taxpayer more than £300,000. Of the 60 free schools planned to open in 2015, five failed to open.
Johnny Kyriacou, who was to be the head teacher of Gateway Academy, explained in a statement that this was due to rising land prices and competition against developers preventing a suitable site being found to accommodate the school.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "Our country needs more good school places for children. Free schools provide more options for parents so they can choose a place that really works for their child's talents and needs.
"We have a rigorous assessment and pre-opening process to help ensure that only the best projects are approved, and that only high-quality free schools open."
They added that 345 free schools had opened, "providing greater choice and more places in schools that are more likely than other state-funded schools to be judged outstanding".
The spokesman also said: "To maintain these high standards, schools open only when we are confident they are in a strong position to provide an excellent education to all pupils from day one. Costs are controlled very carefully to deliver value for money to the taxpayer".
Shadow education minister Angela Rayner told the BBC: "These new figures show that free schools have become a costly obsession of the government.
"Public money is being wasted on an ideological Tory obsession which is failing to deliver the good schools which all our children deserve. It's time Theresa May junked free schools, like she has junked forcing every school to become an academy."
Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said: "As the maintained sector heads for a funding crisis to squander money to little effect and waste such huge sums on schools that do not even open borders on the criminally negligent."
A spokeswoman for the New Schools Network, which supports the opening of free schools, said: "Free schools remain the most cost effective way of meeting the demand for new school places, short of putting Portacabins in school playgrounds."
Nicola Sturgeon is to take part in a question and answer session with 450 people from 24 different EU countries.
The event will follow a meeting of Ms Sturgeon's cabinet in Edinburgh on Wednesday, 17 August.
The Scottish government is examining its options in the wake of the referendum result.
While the UK as a whole voted to leave the European Union, voters in Scotland backed staying in by 62% to 38%.
The first minister has travelled to Brussels and Berlin for talks since the vote in June, and has had meetings with consuls from member states in Edinburgh.
Ms Sturgeon said Scotland "spoke loudly and clearly" when it delivered an "unequivocal" vote to remain in the EU.
She said: "It is my duty as first minister to speak on behalf of all Scottish citizens, including those who have chosen to come from other parts of the EU and make Scotland their home.
"They have brought a wealth of social, economic and cultural benefits and have enriched our society. And as I said on the day after the referendum, they remain very welcome here.
"My cabinet and I are determined to provide reassurance and certainty, wherever we can, to those who have come to Scotland and have contributed so valuably."
Ms Sturgeon has also outlined an economic stimulus plan in a bid to boost the economy and tackle uncertainty in the wake of the Brexit vote, and set up a Standing Council on Europe to provide advice.
The Reading forward, 30, says the team enjoyed the best preparation for success in Brazil after being crowned EuroHockey champions in August.
"Winning gold is something I have had my heart set on my whole career," Danson told BBC South Today.
"For as long as I can remember I have looked up to athletes who have won that sort of accolade."
Danson, from Odiham, was a member of the GB team that won bronze at London 2012, but believes they will have an even stronger squad in Rio next year.
They are currently ranked seventh in the world and will face Argentina, Australia, Japan, India and the United States in Pool B.
"It is going to be an absolute spectacle and it will be an incredible hockey tournament.
"The 16 athletes that go will be the fittest, the fastest, the best technically we have ever been," she said.
Danson made her international debut at the age of 16 and has played more than 250 games for England and Team GB.
Her form at the EuroHockey Championships led to her being nominated for the World Player of the Year award, alongside Delfina Merino, Jodie Kenny, Lidewij Welten and Mi-Hyun Park.
"To win it would be a complete and utter shock," she said. "It is a huge honour but the nomination is reflective of the team, I am very proud and it is an early Christmas present."
However, Danson may have to wait to unwrap her other presents on 25 December.
"We are actually training Christmas Day this year," she added. "The last time we trained before London 2012 at Christmas, we all wore Santa hats."
Brothers Billy and Geoffrey Midmore, from London, were detained in Gillingham, Kent. A 33-year-old woman was also arrested.
Carla Whitlock, 37, was attacked in Guildhall Square, Southampton, on 18 September.
She suffered burns to her neck and arms and said she feared she would "lose the sight in her right eye".
She added: "It has changed my life completely. I'm coping with it as best as I can."
The mother-of-six was attacked outside the Turtle Bay bar and restaurant in Southampton's Guildhall Square.
The arrests followed a joint operation by police in Hampshire and Kent.
The defender, 19, helped Birmingham knock out holders Arsenal in the quarter-finals before a semi-final win over Chelsea Ladies on penalties.
Manchester City are bidding to add the FA Cup to their 2016 WSL and Continental Cup (League Cup) titles.
"We don't fear anyone, especially not City," Carter told BBC WM.
"We have played them a number of times, we know what they are capable of and what they can do.
"We know we are good enough to compete with the supposedly better teams in the league, it's now about showing everyone else."
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Birmingham have drawn their past two league meetings with Manchester City, both of which were away from home, including 3 May's 1-1 draw in the Women's Super League One Spring Series.
The two sides were also level after 90 minutes in October's Continental Cup final, before England right-back Lucy Bronze won the game for Manchester City in extra-time.
"We don't fear them at all. Obviously they are a good team, they have a lot of great players," Carter said of the Women's Champions League semi-finalists.
"You show them a certain sort of respect, but you don't want to show them too much respect because they are just another player. It doesn't matter who they are."
Saturday's final at Wembley will see two close friends go head-to-head in Manchester City's defensive third, with centre-back Steph Houghton up against Birmingham striker Ellen White.
When asked about the threats Birmingham will pose, England captain Houghton highlighted her England team-mate White.
"My best mate Ellen," Houghton told BBC Two. "As a defender, she is one that you can't keep quiet. She is always trying to press the ball and she scores goals as well.
"I'm made up that she made the move to Birmingham. She is enjoying her football there."
White, 27, joined the West Midlands club from Notts County in January and netted the deciding penalty in 17 April's win over Chelsea in the last four.
The former Arsenal Ladies and Leeds Carnegie striker told BBC WM: "We have a lot of belief and ambition. We have beaten Arsenal and Chelsea. That has given us a lot confidence and momentum.
"We want to be competing and beating the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea and these top teams. This is the great stage to show what we are about."
At the other end of the field, Carter and the Birmingham defence will look to cope with World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd.
The United States forward, who has scored 96 goals in 235 international appearances, has netted twice in Manchester City's Champions League campaign, having signed on a short-term deal in February.
"Apart from ability, she brings her experience and leadership," Houghton added.
"No matter if you are a 17-year-old or someone like myself, who is more experienced, you are still learning from her and how she applies herself.
"She is always giving 100%, always wanting to do extra, always wanting to win. She has definitely brought a lot out of the other players and brought a lot to our side."
Brian Fakir, 59, appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday on behalf of MB Fire Consultants in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
He pleaded guilty to 13 charges in relation to checks he carried out at four St David's shops in south Wales.
Fakir claimed the assessments were "drafts".
The St David's Hospice charity shop in Pontypool caught fire in August 2014, and at one point fire crews were pulled back because of the ferocity of the blaze.
A few months later another shop in nearby Newbridge was also damaged by fire and had to be demolished.
No prosecutions were brought in either case, but concerns were raised that two similar properties had been destroyed within months of each other.
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service investigated, and found Fakir was paid as a consultant to produce risk assessments for many of the charity's shops across Wales.
It said none of the risk assessments he provided were suitable or sufficient in other premises such as Abergavenny, Cwmbran and Merthyr Tydfil.
He later pleaded guilty to 13 charges in relation to four premises with the most serious issues in Blackwood, Bargoed, Aberdare and Caldicot.
The court heard people were put at serious risk of death because of poor escape routes, a lack of fire alarms and insufficient precautions to reduce fire and the spread of fire.
At the Aberdare shop, there was insufficient emergency lighting, doors with inadequate fire prevention mechanisms and no mention of a neighbouring business which relied on a connecting door as its means of escape.
At the Blackwood shop, Fakir "entirely missed" the fact the building had a basement.
He claimed his assessments were drafts, but Judge Tom Crowther QC said there was no evidence of this.
"Your assessments failed to address the most obvious risks, and it seems to me they were valueless," he said.
"There can be little more frightening than a fire in a building.
"Those of us who work in the crown court have seen its consequences."
He ordered Mr Fakir to complete 180 hours of unpaid work in the community, and handed down a six month sentence, suspended for two years.
He added that the fact that someone could set themselves up to provide advice about fire prevention with no formal qualifications was "jaw-dropping".
South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it hopes the conviction will help bring in new rules to regulate the industry.
Honeywell is said to have offered $108 (£76) per share for United Technologies last week, a more than 20% premium to the share price at the time.
United Technologies said the two firms only held "preliminary" conversations.
A tie up would have created one of the aerospace industry's largest companies worth more than $160bn.
However, United Technologies broke off talks because a deal "would face insurmountable regulatory obstacles and strong customer opposition".
"[It] could either be blocked outright or conditioned on significant divestitures after a lengthy and disruptive review period that would destroy shareholder value," it said in a statement.
This isn't the first time Honeywell and United Technologies have held merger talks.
The two firms explored combining in 2000 but United Technologies ended discussions after General Electric submitted a rival bid.
The subsequent GE and Honeywell deal was rejected by European regulators on fears it would lead to higher prices for airlines and consumers.
The funding was awarded to help deal with a series of employment setbacks.
Scottish Borders Council submitted its spending proposals earlier this month including the immediate development of a number of key sites.
The local authority said ongoing negotiations meant specific details of the projects could not be released.
A second phase will see a feasibility studied carried out on other prominent sites in the town.
The council said the projects being funded would provide "new job opportunities to benefit the local community" and also "act as a catalyst for further potential property development in the future".
Mr Belhadj, a key brigade leader in the 2011 toppling of Col Gaddafi, plans to run in elections next month.
He is a former member of an Islamist insurgent group which sought to overthrow Gaddafi in the 1990s.
Mr Belhadj is currently taking legal action against the UK authorities, alleging they were complicit in his 2004 rendition to Libya.
He claims he was interrogated by agents from countries including Britain and United States while detained in Libya.
Mr Belhaj said he had handed in his resignation on Monday night, telling AFP news agency that it was "now time to turn to politics".
He said he quit as head of Tripoli's Military Council in order to compete in the elections next month as leader of The Nation party, which will be launched next week.
The polls see Libyans elect a 200-member Constitutional Assembly, which will draft a constitution setting out a political framework for the country after more than four decades of rule under Muammar Gaddafi.
Mr Belhadj told the BBC his message to other rebels and militiamen is to rebuild a new Libya, and that they need to join the state's security or civil institutions to do so.
Many rebels who fought to oust Gaddafi have been drawn into official security entities, but many more remain aligned to strong regional brigades, presenting a security challenge for the ruling National Transitional Council.
The BBC's Rana Jawad in Tripoli says Libyans have mixed views on Mr Belhaj's decision.
Some are wary of ex-military personalities joining politics altogether, she says, but others hope Mr Belhadj's move will encourage other rebel strongmen to abandon their guns and join Libya's political process to rebuild the country.
Meanwhile, Libyan political analyst Sami Khashkhousha told the BBC he believed Mr Belhadj's chances in politics were remote, saying liberal parties are likely to be more successful.
"The influence of Islamists on the future politics of Libya has been blown out of proportion by the media," he said.
Mr Belhadj was imprisoned in Libya following a secret rendition he claims the CIA carried out from Bangkok in 2004.
Earlier this year Mr Belhadj alleged that British ex-foreign minister Jack Straw and the UK government's various spy agencies were complicit in his rendition to Libya, where he says he and his wife were tortured.
Mr Belhadj told the BBC he is not asking for money, he only wants a formal apology.
Gaddafi was killed in October 2011 after a Nato-backed uprising forced him from power.
He reels off some of the problems he has faced: a five-point deduction, reports of the club entering administration, having to cut a four-figure amount from his weekly budget, one of his players coping with the sudden death of a close family member.
There is no exasperation to Burchill, though. The opportunity to manage came earlier than he expected, but he was fully prepared. "I started my coaching badges when I was 24, so I'm 11 years into a plan," he said.
"I could have picked 1,000 easier jobs for my first in management, but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
"I went into it with my eyes wide open. I've been in football for near enough 18, 19 years and there's nothing I've not seen in dressing rooms."
He has provided Livingston with hope. A season pockmarked by setbacks, disappointments, crises and tragedy has also delivered a Petrofac Training Cup success - which Darren Cole played a part in despite the loss of his cousin days before - and most crucially an opportunity to avoid relegation.
With one round of games left, Livingston stand second bottom of the Championship, ahead of Alloa on goal difference and one point away from the team in third bottom - Cowdenbeath - and safety.
That scenario alone is testament to Burchill's work. His first task, following the departure of John McGlynn last December, was a trip to Ibrox. Livingston lost 2-0, leaving them five points behind Alloa at the bottom of the league.
The previous month, the club had been docked five points for breaching Scottish Professional Football League rules relating to non-payment of tax, which contributed to the team being adrift.
Burchill's fourth game in charge was a home match against Cowdenbeath, which came directly after media reports that the club was about to fall into administration. "It was on the six o'clock news, so my team talk was, 'don't worry, we're not going into administration'," Burchill said.
"There have been another two or three off-field things that have not helped, but it's a fantastic learning curve.
"We've got a young squad and the whole situation has arisen because of the five-point deduction and then a lot of the games became more pressurised. The players started to feel that every game was a must-win. I was trying to go the other way and say, 'don't feel pressure. Let me feel the pressure and you go out there to express yourselves'.
"They've come to terms with that now, but we've had a wee bit of luck in games and won them, which is when confidence comes back."
Livingston had been bottom of the Championship for almost a full five months, but Burchill has led the team into a spell of rejuvenation. There was a time when the club looked beyond rescue, but Burchill has held his nerve and his principles. He did not seek relief or security in defensive tactics or a siege mentality.
A much-travelled striker - he has played for 14 clubs, including a spell in Cyprus - but still only 34, Burchill understood the dynamics of playing in the Championship but also the need to help and nurture his young, inexperienced squad.
"I know this division inside out, I know the players, and if you give people time on the ball in this division, they will cause you problems," he said. "But if you put people under pressure and play on the front foot, try to get in behind them, that's the way [to succeed].
"It's in my nature, I'm a striker, I want to play attractive football, fast-flowing, attacking. I'm not the kind of guy who is going to go out and defend.
"There have been times after games when I've thought maybe we should have sat in, but we ran Hearts close.
"In my first eight games we played Hearts three times and Robbie [Neilson] said to me that we were the best team he had faced, we pushed them very close.
"We're unlucky not to have been out of this situation sooner, we were playing better earlier on and should have got better results, but at least we're there now and in with a chance.
"I've been in relegation battles before and some of them have been very difficult places to go into because the guy at the top was feeling the pressure and it was passing down to the players. I've tried to not do that."
He does not identify a specific change that has led to the team losing only twice in their last nine games and haul themselves into a position where safety is now within reach. Livingston are simply converting more of their chances, and crucially have been scoring first in recent games, reducing the pressure on the players.
Burchill will not personally keep in touch with the game between Alloa and Cowdenbeath on Saturday, preferring to focus on trying to lead his team to victory over Queen of the South. Whatever happens this weekend, though, Burchill has impressed with the way that he has approached the job.
He is out of contract in the summer, and wouldn't rule out reverting to player/manager next season, having felt it was important to focus on the managerial side since December. The effort has been worth it. "I believed in myself and the Livingston players," he said. "I believed we could do it."
The Boeing 737-800 crash in Rostov-on-Don killed all 62 people on board, including seven crew.
Pilots speaking anonymously to the BBC say fatigue was a contributory factor in the accident - claims FlyDubai says relate to "confidential information".
One pilot reported previously falling asleep at the controls from exhaustion.
"We are unable to disclose confidential information relating to our employees," a FlyDubai spokesperson said.
"It is important, not least out of respect for the families involved, that we do not speculate about the circumstances of this tragic accident, whilst the independent investigating authorities carry out their work."
The pilots who spoke to the BBC say their colleagues are at "significant and obvious risk" from fatigue. One of the sources has already resigned and another says he will quit.
Poor visibility and high winds are being considered as the cause of the accident, which occurred after the passenger jet missed the runway as it attempted to land.
Reports say the plane abandoned its initial attempt to land and circled for two hours before crashing at the second attempt.
The three FlyDubai staff members said that the captain, Cypriot Aristos Sokratous, had already resigned and was serving out his three-month notice, stating fatigue and lifestyle as his main reasons for leaving.
"This crash was very close to home," a FlyDubai pilot told the BBC. "I don't want to speculate on what caused the crash, but I think that fatigue must have been a contributory factor. I'm also not surprised it happened.
"Crew are overworked and suffering from fatigue. It is a significant risk.
"Staff are going from night to day shifts without enough rest in between. I would say 50% of the airline's workforce are suffering from acute fatigue.
"I raised it with a senior member of staff at the airline who said 'we don't have a fatigue issue at FlyDubai'."
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Pilot fatigue has long been stated as a concern in the airline industry. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has previously proposed setting limits on the duration that pilots can fly.
"The attitude among crew before this crash was that it's a case of when, not if, there would be an accident," one of the pilots said.
"We were asking 'do we have to lose an aircraft' for things to change? So staff, while shocked, are not surprised.
"The writing was on the wall. Most crews are running on empty anyway. Everyone is tired.
"I am worried, but I wanted to speak out. Why should people have to lose their lives?
"Approximately 25 pilots out of 600 have resigned since the beginning of the year. From my understanding, most have cited fatigue, rosters and quality of life."
Another pilot who spoke to the BBC said he and colleagues had also raised the issue of fatigue with the airline's management and he had admitted falling asleep on the flight deck on one occasion due to exhaustion. He said he is going to resign from the airline.
"The degradation in performance is noticeable," the second pilot said.
"I have fallen asleep at the controls due to fatigue. I also didn't have full mental capabilities on approach, which is incredibly serious.
"I admitted it and raised it with senior staff but nothing was done about it.
"More of the travelling public should be questioning what's going on at the front of the airplane and should know more about the welfare of the people flying the plane.
"I am resigning because of constant fatigue. I am going to give my notice in the next couple of weeks."
In a further statement the airline said: "For FlyDubai the safety and welfare of our flight crew and cabin crew is of primary importance. The whole aviation industry is heavily regulated.
"We strictly follow authorised flying duty time regulations in compiling duty rosters, with special attention paid to the variables which affect our crews including report times, previous duty and the number of days off.
"If a member of flight crew feels that, for whatever reason, they have not been able to get enough rest before starting a shift, our Safety Management Systems (SMS), encourages pilots to declare themselves unfit to fly."
Fatigue has been linked to a number of previous high profile aviation incidents. It was listed among the causes of a TransAsia flight which crashed in a heavy storm on Taiwan's Penghu island July 2014, leaving 48 dead.
It was also cited as causing a pilot to send an Air Canada passenger plane into a dive over the North Atlantic in 2011, injuring 16 people.
Officials say the cockpit voice and data recorders recovered from the crash scene have been badly damaged and are unlikely to reveal much data.
FlyDubai is a low cost carrier airline, which launched in 2009. It has a hub in Dubai and operates flights to some 90 destinations.
Steven Whyte, 23, got out his car to have an argument with Katrina Michie, 46, at a roundabout.
Whyte then reversed into the woman, pinning her leg against the bonnet of her car in October of last year.
Whyte was found guilty of charges including dangerous driving and threatening and abusive behaviour at Aberdeen Sheriff Court.
The father-of-one, of Aberdeen, was also disqualified from driving for two years.
The victim suffered cuts and tissue damage to her leg.
The incident happened at the Tesco roundabout at Persley Bridge, in the Bridge of Don area.
Sheriff Annella Cowan told Whyte: "It's obvious that in moments of frustration you resort to violence.
"You deliberately drove backwards and crushed her leg."
Taylor, 31, will miss the rest of the current campaign with a hamstring injury but has been invited back for pre-season training.
"He's been such a positive influence around the place," boss Mick McCarthy told BBC Radio Suffolk.
Meanwhile, left-back Jonas Knudsen will not need surgery on the shoulder injury that rules him out of the run-in.
Former Newcastle centre-back Taylor went off in the first half of the 3-0 win over Wigan on Tuesday with a recurrence of the injury that had kept him out since February.
"If he's fit, he'll be a really good player," McCarthy said.
"He's a good pro, he trains brilliantly. If he wants to come back and have a pre-season next season , I'm sure everybody would be happy to see him."
Koffi, 20, left Ivorian giants ASEC Mimosas and penned a long-term contract with the three-time French champions on Wednesday.
Enyeama, who joined Lille in June 2011 and has made 164 appearances, said he was delighted with the arrival of another African goalkeeper.
"Koffi is a fantastic young goalkeeper and I'm very proud to see another African come to the club," Enyeama told BBC Sport on Thursday.
"It's heart-warming to see a young African goalkeeper earn a move to Europe; it says a lot about his qualities.
"My advice to him is that he should focus on what has brought him to France, keep working hard and concentrate on his job.
"I'll be available to help him settle and give him all the necessary support he needs."
Koffi arrives in Lille with a solid reputation as one of the continent's finest goalkeepers when it comes to one-on-one situations.
Other African players who have used Lille as a springboard to bigger things include Ivory Coast forward Gervinho, Nigerian Peter Odemwingie, Senegal striker Moussa Sow and Cameroon's Jean Makoun.
Koffi joined ASEC Mimosas from Racing club de Bobo-Dioulasso in his native Burkina Faso in December 2015 and helped the club to the 2017 Ivorian title.
Then his country third-choice goalkeeper, Koffi made his international debut as a late substitute against Uganda in March 2016.
He eventually took over the number one jersey from veteran Daouda Diakité in October last year.
Koffi has kept goal for the Stallions in their last nine internationals and played all six matches as the Burkinabe finished third at this year's Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.
Lille have also snapped up Ivory Coast international Nicolas Pepe from French rivals Angers.
Tthe 22-year-old has signed a five-year deal.
Victoria Thornley in the women's single sculls and Katherine Copeland and Emily Craig in the lightweight women's double sculls were among those who qualified.
Earlier on Saturday in Poland, Lauren Rowles and Laurence Whiteley won silver in the PR2 mixed double sculls.
Joel Cassells and Sam Scrimgeour also won silver in the lightweight men's pair.
That event was won by Irish pair Mark O'Donovan and Shane O'Driscoll, with Brazil taking the bronze.
Sunday's action sees Britain also compete in finals across the men's four, men's quadruple sculls, women's pair, the women's eight, the men's eight and the men's single sculls.
Live coverage begins on the BBC Red Button from 09:25 BST.
Swift said she made the move because she did not agree "with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free".
However Bragg accused the star of not being honest with her fans.
"[She should] say 'sorry, but [Google] gave me a huge amount of money... so I've sold my soul," he said.
Writing on Facebook, Bragg said: "What a shame that Taylor Swift's principled stand against those who would give her music away for free has turned out to be nothing more than a corporate power play.
"These worthy sentiments have been somewhat undermined by Swift making her new album and back catalogue available on Google's new Music Key streaming service…..which also offers listeners a free service alongside a premium subscription tier."
The musician suggested Swift's withdrawal from Spotify was intended to maximise sales of her latest album, 1989, which has topped the charts around the world.
"If Ms Swift was truly concerned about perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free, she should be removing her material from YouTube, not cosying up to it," Bragg said.
"The de facto biggest streaming service in the world, with all the content available free, YouTube is the greatest threat to any commercially based streaming service."
Bragg has been vocal against YouTube's new Music Key service.
He accused the company of trying to "strong-arm" indie labels into agreeing to "low rates" by threatening to block their material if they did not take part.
Bragg's own music featured on the service, as it was included as part of an agreement signed by a company representing indie label, but he previously told the BBC he had not been informed of the details.
"Google are going after Spotify and Taylor Swift has just chosen sides," Bragg added in his Facebook post.
"That's her prerogative as a savvy businesswoman - but please don't try to sell this corporate power play to us as some sort of altruistic gesture in solidarity with struggling music makers."
A spokesperson for Swift said: "Taylor Swift has had absolutely no discussion or agreement of any kind with Google's new music streaming service."
Cheltenham Town are two points ahead of rivals Forest Green Rovers at the top of the National League, with only one automatic promotion spot available.
Third-placed Grimsby are a further 12 points in arrears, too far back it seems to figure in the final sprint for the finishing line.
With only 20 miles between them, BBC Sport takes a look at the two West Country promotion hopefuls.
Manchester United v Liverpool, El Clasico, the Old Firm derby - while 'El Glosico' might not have the profile of football's most famous rivalries, it has been one of the closest this season.
The two sides have been inseparable in the league, drawing 2-2 at the New Lawn in September and 1-1 at Cheltenham two months later.
With so much at stake, there might perhaps be some bad blood between the clubs - not so, according to Cheltenham manager Gary Johnson.
"I think both teams have been respectful towards each other because we're trying to achieve the same thing," he told BBC Sport.
"For me, the best scenario would be that both teams would go up, that'd be good."
His view is echoed by Rovers' former Birmingham City and West Brom midfielder Darren Carter, who spent the 2012-13 campaign at Cheltenham.
"It's been great this year for Gloucestershire football that we both have been battling to get into the Football League," he said.
"We want to go up automatically and it'd be nice to see Cheltenham go up through the play-offs."
Cheltenham received some gentle mockery when they renamed their Whaddon Road home as the World of Smile Stadium in July, but Johnson's side have given fans plenty to grin about.
Having suffered relegation after a 16-year stay in the Football League last season, the Robins went 22 games unbeaten between September and March, beating a club record set in the 1994-95 season.
The team has been completely rebuilt for the new campaign, with 23 players signed on loan or on permanent deals.
"Myself and my brother Pete, our chief scout, made sure that we started very early, and we were writing names in the sand on holiday in the summer and thinking about who we could bring in," Johnson said.
"They all knew that what we had to do was win the league.
"I think people that didn't feel they could take that pressure probably turned us down.
"So we had that group that had confidence in me, in themselves and in our club to produce what we were saying - that was a big thing."
Despite being unable to stave off relegation after being appointed on an interim basis in March 2015, former Bristol City and Yeovil boss Johnson was given a two-year contract.
"I've known a few of our managers by being involved with the club over the years, but Gary is probably the best or one of the best we've ever had," fan-elected director Clive Gowing said.
"He's not a man who panics, he's very level-headed and he's certainly bought into the whole ethos of the club.
"If we do end the season the way we want to end it, massive credit must go to Gary."
Owned by Dale Vince, a multi-millionaire environmentalist and former new-age traveller, Forest Green are not your average football club.
They have taken pies and burgers off the menu as the world's first vegan football club, and plans are in place for a £100m 'Eco Park' to house a new 5,000-seater ground.
"It's a different experience, but it's a very friendly club as well and the chairman does a good job of making everyone feel welcome," Carter, who joined Forest Green after being released by Northampton, told BBC Sport.
"The ambition at the club isn't any different, it's just there's things that go on around the club and off the field that are a lot different."
Ady Pennock's side made the Conference play-offs for the first time last year and set a fifth-tier record by winning nine games to start this season.
It has been quite a turnaround by a club which was relegated in 2010, but reprieved when Salisbury were demoted for a breach of financial rules.
"We've already eclipsed the most points the club's ever got at this level," Carter added.
"I think 79 was the previous total and we're on 81 now. We're going to hopefully finish the season the highest that the club has ever finished, and hopefully do something that's never been done and get the club into the Football League.
"It's a big incentive for us as players that we can take the club somewhere it's never been and have a little bit of folklore of our own for the club."
With eight games to go, the final charge for the line has begun - and there can be no dead-heat.
Up to 150 people aged between 18 and 24 could benefit from the project which is designed to transform their housing, education and employment outlook.
The government money has been given to Aspire Gloucestershire - a partnership between the P3 and CCP charities - to be spent over three years.
It begins in January with the aim of "breaking the cycle of homelessness".
A spokesman for Aspire Gloucestershire said each person referred to them would have a link worker "who will provide intensive, personalised support that begins by helping them find a stable place to live.
"They will also be offered guidance on education, training and employment options for the duration of the three-year project that will help them avoid the cycle of homelessness," added the spokesman.
In April, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that the government was making £30m available to improve the prospects of up to 20,000 vulnerable young people.
Derek Sheerin, 24, was found dead in the east end of Glasgow in September 1994.
Officers from Police Scotland and the PSNI detained the man in Derry on Tuesday morning.
The suspect has been taken to Glasgow for questioning.
Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey has appealed to people in Derry who have any information about the death to contact detectives at Maydown using the non-emergency number 101, or by calling Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Thomas Allsopp's Audi A8 was clocked hitting 149mph on the M6 Toll - and he later told police he only stopped because he had run out of petrol.
He only had a provisional driving licence and was uninsured, so he should not have been on the road at all.
The 24-year-old, from Leicestershire, was given a suspended sentence.
PC Jim Barry, who works with the Central Motorway Police Group, said his driving was "extremely reckless and dangerous".
"At one stage he overtook a recovery truck on a blind bridge entering Minworth village," he said.
"Allsopp showed no remorse and said he had no intention of stopping for officers - only stopping because he ran out of fuel - and agreed he didn't give his three passengers any opportunity to exit his vehicle."
West Midlands Police officers on street racing patrols on the A38 originally spotted him parked across an emergency vehicle access slip road to the motorway on 27 December.
They approached him but he sped off down the A38, and was caught on camera weaving in and out of traffic.
Police followed him along the M6 Toll, where he ended up crashing through exit barriers.
Allsopp, from Roston Drive in Hinckley, admitted dangerous driving and other motoring offences.
He was given an eight-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday.
He was also ordered to carry out 80 hours of unpaid work and banned from driving for 18 months.
Dorchester's Grade-I listed Shire Hall was the scene of the significant moment in the history of the trade union movement in the 1800s.
Planning permission for the old courts and cells to be transformed into a £2.9m visitor centre has now been granted by the district council.
A bid for £1.1m of Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) cash is being put together.
If the Shire Hall Trust is successful in its bid this summer, West Dorset District Council will match the funding.
The project was initially awarded £69,000 by the HLF and £100,000 from the authority.
The six Tolpuddle Martyrs were agricultural labourers who formed a "friendly society" - a forerunner to a trade union - and swore an illegal oath to protect their falling wages in 1834.
They were sentenced to seven years' transportation to an Australian penal colony.
However, outrage about their punishment caused protests across England and after four years they were pardoned and returned home.
Novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was also magistrate at the court for 15 years.
As well as further funding the proposals for the building, on High West Street, also need the agreement of the secretary of state.
Firefighters are telling people living near Smugglers Way to close their doors and windows to avoid inhaling smoke.
About 80 firefighters are tackling the blaze, which comes five days after a previous fire at the site.
Station manager Darren Levett said: "The fire is very visible and is producing a lot of smoke which can be seen for miles around."
The Buckinghamshire-born youngster, 21, has been associated with Wasps since their High Wycombe days, when he joined from Beaconsfield.
Howe, who has two tries in 13 first-team appearances, played for England's Under-20s as they won the Junior World Championship title in 2016.
"Tom is a hungry, young player," said Warriors director of rugby Gary Gold.
"He will add further depth to our options in the back three. He has shone for Wasps when presented with the opportunity. Hopefully, he can use the resources around him at Sixways to flourish."
Howe has also had loan spells in the Championship with Jersey Reds, and in National League One this season at Coventry.
Wasps have also allowed a player to join Warriors' Premiership relegation rivals Bristol.
Loosehead prop Tom Bristow has joined Bristol for the rest of the season, making him available for Sunday's Worcester-Bristol match at Sixways.
Worcester will start Sunday's game two points ahead of Bristol, who beat them when the two sides first met this season at Ashton Gate on Boxing Day.
Meanwhile, Wasps back-row forward Alex Rieder has signed a new, undisclosed-length contract with the Premiership leaders.
It did not disclose how much it was paying but sources said the deal was worth around €800m (£550m).
France would become Lavazza's second biggest market, and the deal would almost treble the Italian company's turnover in the country.
The agreement is subject to approval from the European Commission and French authorities.
Under the terms of the offer, Lavazza will take control of the Carte Noire business within much of Europe, with exceptions including Carte Noire instant coffee.
The deal will include Carte Noire in-home roast and ground coffee, filter pads and its Nespresso-compatible capsules business.
Lavazza would also acquire Carte Noire's Laverune factory in Languedoc-Roussillon.
JP Morgan advised Lavazza on the deal.
The footballer posted a message to "Mummy" on Instagram with a picture of them together.
Thanking his "huge hearted" mother, Ferdinand said all he had wanted to do "was to make you proud".
In May 2015, Ferdinand's wife Rebecca, 34, died of breast cancer.
The ex-Manchester United defender referred to the support Mrs St Fort had given him and her three grandchildren following his wife's death.
He said: "At my most difficult time, you were my shining light and made it your mission to be there for me and my kids... trust me that will never forgotten."
Earlier this year, Ferdinand appeared in a BBC documentary, Being Mum & Dad, where he spoke about his difficulties in dealing with grief and finding the best way to talk to their children about the loss of their mother.
In an emotional eulogy to his mother, Ferdinand said: "You were fiery, you were protective, you were soft and hard faced when need be... you loved hard, you disciplined me, you were a grafter & you were my everything."
Ferdinand's brother and former Premier League footballer Anton also paid tribute to their "loving, caring and forever selfless mum" on Instagram.
"Mum for 32 years of my life you've done nothing but put me first!" he said.
"Always cared and worried about others before yourself, an inspiration to me, my brothers, sister and husband Peter and anyone she had in her life."
Friends and former colleagues tweeted messages of support to the brothers.
To Rio, Gary Lineker tweeted: "Thoughts are with @rioferdy5 and family. They've suffered way too much lately."
Sol Campbell tweeted: "So sad to hear my England team mate and friend's mother Janice passing away. My heart goes out to you and your family Rio @rioferdy5. RIP."
Former West Ham and Aston Villa footballer Marlon Harewood tweeted to Anton: "So sorry for your loss bro."
Mrs St Fort died at Guy's Cancer Unit in London Bridge Hospital on Thursday with her husband Peter and her four children at her bedside.
A Volkswagen Polo hit "a number of people" in North Street outside the main entrance to Guildford's The Friary Centre at about 10:35 BST.
A one-year-old girl and a man aged in his 60s were airlifted to St George's Hospital, in Tooting, south London.
The baby's two-year-old brother was taken to a hospital in Guildford.
The siblings were in a children's push-along shopping trolley, in the shape of a car, which was being pushed by their grandparents.
South East Coast Ambulance said a woman was taken to the hospital in south London with leg injuries and three other women were treated at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford for injuries "not thought life-threatening".
Later it tweeted: "Our thoughts are with all those involved in today's incident in #Guildford."
A Surrey Police spokeswoman said the driver of the car was a woman aged in her 80s, and there was a male passenger.
One of the first on the scene was student nurse Amy Liversidge, who said: "I saw people lying on the floor... I just checked over everyone to make sure everyone was breathing, everyone was conscious, and then I went to an elderly gentleman who had a head injury."
Witness Carly Stevens said: "I heard screeching and babies screaming and four workmen ran and took the two kids out of the buggy.
"They held them until the police and ambulance got here. I'm not sure if they'd been hit but they were screaming."
The area around North Street remained closed while a Surrey Police specialist crash investigation unit sought to "establish the circumstances surrounding the incident".
A spokeswoman for the force appealed for witnesses and anyone with information to contact officers.
The Friary centre manager Vicky Hickson said: "We are closely working with Surrey Police as they investigate an incident which took place today on North Street.
"The main entrance to The Friary on North Street was temporarily closed, but has since reopened.
"We would like to thank customers for their understanding."
There is still a fair degree of shock and confusion and concern about what has happened here in Guildford this morning.
Eyewitnesses said the silver car was driving down North Street, coming down the hill, when it hit a bollard before running up on to the pavement.
We understand it then collided with a small red children's ride-on car - the type used at The Friary Centre for parents to push around young kids.
An eyewitness said two young children were inside the plastic toy car when it was hit.
Seven people in total have been taken to the hospital. The two occupants of the car are both reported to be elderly.
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Businessman Sakher El Materi was convicted in absentia of corruption by a Tunisian court in July 2011.
He had fled to Qatar after the uprising that ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali last year.
Justice Minister Noureddin Bhiri said Tunisia has asked for Materi's extradition and he expected this to take place soon.
Fadhel Saihi, an adviser to Mr Bhiri, told Tunisian radio that Materi was arrested as he tried to enter the Seychelles using an expired diplomatic passport.
Materi was convicted of corruption along with his father-in-law and Mr Ben Ali's daughter Nesrine, who is Materi's wife.
Materi and Ben Ali were sentenced to 16 years in prison and Nesrine was given an eight-year jail term, all in absentia.
"Sakher El Materi went to the Seychelles after leaving Qatar," Mr Bhiri said.
"The Seychelles authorities opened an inquiry, because he was the subject of an international arrest warrant and because his passport had expired.
"The Tunisian authorities will do everything they can to get Sakher El Materi extradited."
Mr Bhiri was speaking at a seminar on recovering the assets of the Ben Ali family.
The Seychelles had been a regular holiday destination for the former president and his close family.
Ben Ali was toppled in an uprising that triggered the "Arab Spring". He then fled with his family to Saudi Arabia.
In June 2011 he was first sentenced - along with his wife Leila - to 35 years in prison for embezzlement and misuse of state funds.
Weeks later he was convicted of possessing illegal drugs and weapons and given 15 years in jail.
In June 2012 he was given a life sentence in absentia by a military court over the killing of protesters during the revolution.
Saudi Arabia has so far failed to extradite Ben Ali, despite a request by Tunisia's new government.
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He has already spent time on loan in League One this term at Port Vale, for whom he scored six goals in 28 games.
The 20-year-old began his career on the books at Reading before moving to Watford in July 2013.
Ikpeazu, who has yet to make a first-team appearance for the Hornets, has previously spent time out on loan with Crewe and Doncaster.
He becomes the Tangerines' fourth signing in January after Danny Philliskirk, Mark Yeates and Will Aimson.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Brian Dougan, 53, of Ballaghbeg Park in Newcastle faces charges of grievous bodily harm with intent.
He is also accused of making threats to kill against another man and possessing an offensive weapon, namely a stick with nails, with intent to commit grievous bodily harm.
Mr Dougan was remanded in custody to reappear in Downpatrick on 11 February.
The victim, who is in his 40s and was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital. He has since been discharged.
He was attacked outside a supermarket on the Castlewellan Road in Newcastle.
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Sixteen men were charged in connection with a "minor disturbance" on Chapel Street in the early hours of 28 July.
Three of the men lived locally and the rest were from Eastern Europe.
The Crown Office has now dropped all charges against the Eastern European men.
Only a handful of supporters attended the game from Slovenia to watch Maribor draw 1-1 with the home side.
A Crown Office spokesman said: "The procurator fiscal in Aberdeen received a report concerning 10 individuals in connection with alleged offences on 29 July, 2016.
"After full and thorough consideration of the facts and circumstances, the procurator fiscal decided there should be no further action."
Of all the UK nations, Wales saw the greatest fall in unemployment compared with the previous three months.
But despite the drop, the rate of unemployment in Wales, 5.3%, remains higher than the UK rate of 5.1%.
There were also 49,000 more people in work in Wales than the same time the previous year.
Unemployment in the UK as a whole fell by 60,000 to 1.69 million between October and December.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust was issued the warning notice by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following an inspection in January.
An inquest found neglect contributed to the death of Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, at Slade House in Oxford in 2013.
The trust said it was "completely focused" on tackling the concerns.
Last year an independent report blamed a "failure of leadership" for failing to investigate the unexplained deaths of hundreds of patients.
It was ordered after Mr Sparrowhawk was found unresponsive n the bath following an epileptic seizure at the Oxford learning disability unit, which has since closed.
The CQC found the trust's investigation of incidents, including deaths, was not robust enough.
It said not enough was done to learn from incidents to prevent future risks to patients, and concerns raised by patients, their carers and staff were not effectively responded to.
Dr Paul Lelliott, CQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals, said the safety of patients with mental ill health and or learning disabilities required "significant improvement".
"We found longstanding risks to patients, arising from the physical environment, that had not been dealt with effectively.
"The Trust's internal governance arrangements to learn from serious incidents or investigations were not good enough, meaning that opportunities to minimise further risks to patients were lost," he added.
Following the report's publication, trust chief executive Katrina Percy said she had been "clear and open" about the work needed to address concerns raised.
"Good progress has been made, however we accept that the CQC feels that in some areas we have not acted swiftly enough," she said.
"My main priority is, and always has been, the safety of our patients. We take the CQC's concerns extremely seriously and have taken a number of further actions."
Earlier this year the trust said there would be no resignations.
Mr Sparrowhawk's mother, Sara Ryan, responded to the report on Twitter by repeating her call for resignations from the trust's senior leadership.
She posted: "Completely baffled the board are still in place."
"Nothing else is needed. Just action. Why the feet dragging? Astonishing," she wrote in another.
Dan Scorer of learning disability charity Mencap, said the CQC warning notice showed little had changed since the independent report was published.
"Families are being left questioning whether the death of their loved one should have been investigated and whether the death might have been avoided," he said.
"The lack of urgency to tackle this national scandal is unacceptable," he added.
The trust is one of the country's largest mental health trusts, covering Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and providing services to about 45,000 people.
Children went missing from foster care on 13,305 occasions in 2013-14 - a 36% rise on the previous year.
Nearly six out of 10 missing cases were from independent fostering agencies, rather than a local authority, which have just under a third of placements.
The government now collects data on children who go missing from care.
The risks children face if they go missing from care were highlighted by the Rotherham child abuse case. At least 1,400 children were abused in the South Yorkshire town from 1997 to 2013.
According to the Ofsted statistics, during the year 2013-14, 4,245 children and young people were reported to have gone missing from foster care - 900 more than in the previous year.
Contact with family or friends was the reason given in nearly half (6,596) the cases.
And most of them went missing for less than a day.
However, 528 of these children who did go missing were deemed to be at risk of sexual exploitation, and 431 of the cases were said to be linked to substance misuse.
There was also a big increase last year in foster placements breaking down - up 21% on the previous year to 5,240. Although there has been a change in the way these are counted.
Earlier this week, Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said social workers were struggling to find the time to provide agencies with enough information to match troubled and vulnerable children with the right foster carers.
"Placements break down quickly when children with problems and complex needs are placed with the wrong family. The children often get returned to their birth families or moved to another set of carers - only to be removed again at a later stage.
"Some children get put on a merry go round of placements which is anything but merry. Each move to a new family distresses the child further and stores up behavioural problems for the future. Moves can also disrupt children's education and ability to sustain friendships.
"It's becoming harder to find families for children in care. Two things need to happen to avert a crisis.
"We need to work together so we can prepare carers better to meet the needs of the children they foster. And we need to look at the changing reasons why children are being taken into care - like sexual exploitation - and plan how we're going to respond to that."
A Department for Education spokesman said: "We are absolutely clear that there is nothing more important than keeping children safe.
"That is why we have placed a duty on councils to interview children who return from going missing within 72 hours, and for the first time ever we are collecting national data for all children who go missing from care, not just those missing for 24 hours.
"We have also repeatedly written to councils telling them they must improve the quality of data on children missing from care."
Is your cat restless, nervous and getting thinner by the day, despite a huge appetite?
Diabetes and hyperthyroidism are just two of the common human diseases thought to be on the rise in the pet world.
Human diabetes is on the increase, and Dr Stijn Niessen, of the Royal Veterinary College (RVC,) says the same trend can be seen in pet cats.
He suggests about one in every 200 pet cats now has type-2 diabetes, compared with some one in 900 just three decades ago.
"Cats are designed to be hunters - but now there are lots sitting in inner-city apartments getting little exercise and being fed frequently, often as a misplaced sign of affection," Dr Niessen says.
But he is quick to point out there are lots of fat cats that do not go on to develop diabetes.
In some cases, it is more about genetics than lifestyle.
When it comes to dogs, about three in every 1,000 have diabetes in the UK, according to the RVC.
Dogs do not get type-2 diabetes, but they are more likely than cats to have type-1 diabetes, where the body's immune system stops it from being able to produce insulin, a key hormone that helps store sugar safely.
In both cats and dogs (and sometimes monkeys, rabbits and even rats) with diabetes, owners often find their pets are constantly thirsty, urinating frequently and losing weight - diabetic symptoms humans and pets share.
Treatment can include giving insulin injections.
And some studies in cats suggest some can kick their diabetes into remission by getting rid of the extra pounds.
Hyperactive, restless cats that are losing weight despite eating ravenously may have hyperthyroidism.
Just like in humans, this condition occurs when the thyroid gland in the neck produces excess hormones.
One way to treat an overactive thyroid is to give the cat an injection of radioactive iodine.
The iodine ends up concentrated in the thyroid gland and emits radiation, killing overactive thyroid cells.
This is a good way to cure hyperthyroidism, but cats have to be kept in isolation for several weeks after as they are likely to be emitting radiation in their litter trays for some time.
Dogs, on the other hand, are more likely to suffer the opposite problem.
About four in every 1,000 pet dogs in the UK are seen by vets for underactive thyroids.
Owners might notice their pets are lazier and slower than usual and are piling on the pounds - some of the same symptoms humans with hypothyroidism share.
And just like with their human counterparts, thyroid hormone replacement therapy can help.
Dogs who are breathless or even collapse suddenly may end up being given Viagra.
The drug is famous for helping men with erectile dysfunction.
But before doctors prescribed it for this, scientists were studying it to see if it could be used as a treatment for high blood pressure.
And vets now use it to treat pulmonary hypertension in dogs - high blood pressure in the lungs.
One tells me she is sometimes asked by owners whether they can just give their own pills to their pets.
But the answer is no.
The drugs are licensed and formulated separately for people and pets.
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) attacks the cat's immune system, leaving it unable to fight off other infections.
In this way, it is similar to HIV in humans.
In the US, between 1.5% and 3% of otherwise healthy cats are infected with FIV.
Persistent fevers, a coat in poor condition and a loss of appetite are common in infected cats.
Inflammation of the gums and chronic infections of the skin, eyes, bladder, and upper respiratory tract are often signs too.
According to Prof Holger Volk of the RVC, about one in every 100 dogs has epilepsy.
Cats also get the condition, but it is less common.
It can cause convulsions, but in some cases the symptoms are not as easy to spot.
Animals can be treated with anti-epileptic pills, but they do not work for every pet.
Prof Volk's early work suggests a diet rich in certain fatty acids might help.
And he is now conducting larger trials to see if these results stand up.
Scientists in his department have also looked at videos featuring either animals or humans with epilepsy having seizures.
And they concluded the animals often received more sympathy from onlookers.
But sympathy and empathy aside, Dr Volk and Dr Niessen both say studying common diseases in pets could ultimately help us learn more about the diseases we experience ourselves.
The 21-year-old has played seven times for Spurs, but only one of those appearances was in the top flight.
Davies told Sport Wales he is determined to make the grade.
"It's frustrating at times. But coming here I was taking nothing for granted that I was going to walk straight into the first team," he said.
"I have to bide my time, take my chances and work hard, as I do every day.
"And when that chance arises to get the games in the Premier League, then I've got to be ready for that and take it with both hands."
Davies's only league appearance under Mauricio Pochettino came as a 72nd-minute substitute for Danny Rose against Liverpool, who were already 3-0 up.
But he has started four Europa League matches, and the League Cup ties against Nottingham Forest and Brighton.
He was also in the Wales side for their Euro 2016 qualifiers against Andorra and Bosnia-Hercegovina.
"I feel like I'm improving as a player every time I get the chance to get out there," said Davies.
"It's sometimes difficult not playing as many games as I'd like maybe in the Premier League, but that's part and parcel of it all."
Davies made his debut for Swansea as a 19-year-old in August 2012 and quickly established himself as first-choice left-back when Neil Taylor suffered a long-term injury.
He joined Spurs on a five-year contract in July and says he would not currently consider the possibility of returning to the Swans on loan.
"I'm 100% focused here at the moment and I haven't really thought that far ahead," he said.
"I think it would be silly of me to put that idea into my head right now.
"I've got to prove to everyone here, and to myself really, that I can do a job at this club and that is what I want to do.
"I want to push on as far as I can and be as successful as I can at Spurs."
You can see more of the interview with Ben Davies on Sport Wales on BBC Two Wales on Friday, 7 November at 19:00 GMT and on the BBC iPlayer.
He shared a 205-run fourth-wicket partnership with Adam Lyth, who made 111 before falling lbw to Sean Ervine.
The hosts had been 41-3 after Alex Lees and Gary Ballance fell cheaply and captain Andrew Gale was caught behind for a duck off Ryan McLaren.
Bad light stopped play with Yorkshire 270-5 and Bairstow unbeaten on 107.
Hampshire toppled Yorkshire's top-order with some good length bowling as Lees was caught at third slip by James Vince off James Tomlinson before Chris Wood had England hopeful Ballance caught behind.
However, Lyth and Bairstow steadied the ship and piled on the runs for the home side before the former fell just after tea to give Zimbabwean Ervine a wicket in the 200th first-class match of his career.
After remaining in the nervous 90s for 31 balls, Bairstow dispatched Fidel Edwards for successive boundaries to reach his ton off 166 balls, having hit 13 fours and a six.
Adil Rashid joined the 26-year-old wicketkeeper at the crease for Yorkshire, after Jack Leaning was caught behind for Wood's second wicket of the innings just before the end of play.
Meanwhile, Hampshire have been deducted a point for a slow over rate against Warwickshire during the opening week of the County Championship.
Two Afghan police and one security guard were killed in the dawn assault, along with seven attackers. The US consulate said its staff were safe.
The Taliban said they carried out the attack, which began with a huge blast at the compound gates, sparking a gun battle near consulate buildings.
Attacks continue despite the planned withdrawal of foreign troops in 2014.
Seventeen civilians, including women and children, were injured in the Herat attack.
By David LoynBBC News, Kabul
Herat city may usually be peaceful, but the Taliban are able to operate in the countryside nearby, and the US consulate, standing in a tall former 5-star hotel was a tempting target.
The attack followed a familiar pattern of a suicide explosion followed by other attackers.
In the week of the anniversary of 9/11, security forces were expecting the Taliban to attempt a 'spectacular' attack. The success of Afghan forces in repulsing a determined assault is a relief. Both the Afghan police and army are far better than they were, and Afghan police did most of the fighting in Herat, with US troops backing them up. Once again Afghan police bore the worst casualties.
But 12 years after the Taliban government was ousted, their ability and willingness to carry out attacks of this sort asks serious questions about the international strategy in Afghanistan.
Herat sits close to the Iranian border on a vital trade route across southern Afghanistan and it has been relatively peaceful in recent years.
The US consulate in Herat was opened just four years ago in a former five-star hotel.
The BBC's David Loyn in Kabul says this attack - carried out in the shadow of the anniversary of 9/11 - is a demonstration of the ability of insurgents to disrupt Afghanistan, 12 years after US-led forces toppled the Taliban.
In violence elsewhere, a truck bomb exploded near government offices in the volatile south-eastern province of Paktika, injuring several Afghan security personnel.
The force of the explosions in Herat left the road badly damaged and pieces of twisted metal and rubble could be seen in the vicinity of the consulate, reports say.
An Afghan army spokesman told the BBC that a huge truck bomb damaged the outer defences of the US consulate, allowing the attackers to breach the perimeter and shoot at the consulate buildings.
"A truck carrying attackers drove to the front gate, and attackers, possibly firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles, commenced attacking Afghan Protective forces on the exterior of the gates," US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.
"Shortly after, the entire truck exploded, extensively damaging the front gate [to the consulate]," she added.
The gunfire continued for some time, reporters at the scene said.
The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) tweeted at 04:00 GMT that the consulate was secure "with all enemy forces being killed". Isaf and Afghan National Security Forces were at the scene, it added.
Peter Bezkorowajnyj, who works in Afghanistan, told the BBC he could see smoke from the explosion from the roof of his building.
The explosion "rocked the building I am staying in", he said.
Earlier this month Taliban targeted the Torkham US base in eastern Afghanistan, sparking a lengthy gun battle in which three insurgents were killed.
Pole vaulter Anzhelika Sidorova, sprinter Kristina Sivkova and hammer thrower Aleksei Sokirskii all met the "exceptional eligibility criteria".
Russia's athletics federation remains suspended from international competition after claims of state-sponsored doping.
Sidorova, Sivkova and Sokirskii would compete as neutral athletes.
Their participation in competitions is still subject to approval by the organisers of individual events.
The three could compete in the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade and European Throwing Cup next month.
Long jumper Darya Klishina and sprinter Yulia Stepanova had previously been declared eligible and will remain so.
The IAAF has received 48 applications from Russian athletes to compete independently, 28 of which were endorsed by Russia's athletics federation.
In a statement, the IAAF said six applications had been declined, but did not give the names of the athletes in question.
Russian officials say they do not expect any more of their athletes to be cleared for the European Indoors as they expect the remaining rulings "no earlier than the middle of March".
IAAF president Lord Coe said: "The application process to compete internationally as neutral athletes is about our desire to support the hopes and aspirations of all clean athletes including Russian athletes who have been failed by their national system.
"While prioritising applications based upon the entry deadlines of the competitions concerned, the primary responsibility of the doping review board must always be to safeguard the integrity of competition."
Before last summer's Olympic Games in Rio, the governing body outlined "strict criteria" any Russian athletes must meet if they wanted to take part in the Games.
Only US-based Klishina was able to meet the criteria - and she entered as a neutral.
More than 100 people protested over job opportunities at a new £300m multi-fuel plant in West Yorkshire.
Chris Weldon, of Unite, said unemployed local workers "have got the skills but they are being overlooked".
Dion Venter, site manager, said: "We are committed to using local labour and subcontractors where possible."
Mr Weldon said: "There are over 300 CVs of unemployed local workers who live within 35 miles of the site."
Unite said the general contactor, Zurich-based Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI), had contracted work out to some employers who were not taking on local workers.
Mr Weldon said: "Most of the contractors are recruiting locally but there are two who are not sourcing local labour."
He said a delegation of Unite and GMB representatives and protestors had met with power company SSE to explain their concerns.
SSE would buy the electricity generated by the new plant.
Mr Venter, of HZI, said the company had been working with the Unite and GMB unions and all sides had signed an agreement on how contractors would be sourced.
He said the firm complied with national industry agreements and was "disappointed" about the protest.
The firm said about 80% of the current work force was UK-based and it would continue to work with the unions to "maximize local opportunities".
The new Ferrybridge plant by the River Aire in West Yorkshire, is to be completed by 2015.
It would use biomass, waste-derived fuels and waste wood to generate electricity.
In a statement, Bowie remembered him as "a wonderful musician" who had been "a major inspiration for whichever band he was working with".
His death was announced by rock band Uriah Heep, who called him "a world-class bass player".
Bolder, who joined the band in 1976, stopped playing with them a few months ago due to poor health.
"Trevor was an all-time great, one of the outstanding musicians of his generation and one of the finest and most influential bass players that Britain ever produced," Uriah Heep said in a statement.
Spandau Ballet guitarist Gary Kemp also paid tribute on Twitter, writing: "RIP another Spider from Mars, a kind and decent man, Trevor Bolder. Love and peace to his family."
Bolder, who was born in Hull, East Yorkshire on 9 June 1950, joined his first band, Ronno, with guitarist Mick Ronson in 1970 after meeting on the local music scene.
He joined Bowie in 1971 to play on his fourth album, Hunky Dory, along with Ronson and drummer Woody Woodmansey.
This paved the way for 1972's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which launched Bowie and his bandmates into international stardom.
They played together on the albums Aladdin Sane and Pin-Ups before Bowie separated from the Spiders From Mars and moved to the US.
Bolder went on to join Uriah Heep, making his first appearance on their 1977 album Firefly.
Ronson died in April 1993, also of cancer, at the age of 46.
The new position would be supplemented by tripling the number of trade enforcement officers.
Mrs Clinton made the promises during a speech at a factory in Michigan.
The speech focused on contrasting her economic policies with those of her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, including his take on global trade.
Mrs Clinton vowed to strengthen enforcement and oppose trade deals that did not meet her "high standards".
"I will stand up to China and anyone around the world who tries to take advantage of American workers," Mrs Clinton told the crowd. "I will stop any trade deal that kills job and holds down wages."
Mrs Clinton also criticised Mr Trump for his threats to start trade wars with China and Mexico.
"The answer is not to rant and rave and cut ourselves off from the world. The answer is to finally make trade work for us, not against us," Mrs Clinton said.
Despite that criticism, Mrs Clinton's promises echoed some of those expressed by Mr Trump. On Monday during his economic speech, Mr Trump vowed to place taxes on products from Mexico and label China a "currency manipulator".
Mrs Clinton threatened to impose "targeted tariffs" on countries that did not play by the rules set out in free trade deals.
She said too many companies lobbied for free trade agreement so they can export more product, but then move to countries with lower wages and sell their products back to American consumers once those deals are signed.
She vowed to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) because it did not meet her standards. Mr Trump also opposes the TPP.
As secretary of state, Mrs Clinton worked to craft the TPP but withdrew her support during the election when the final deal was announced.
Composer Harrison Birtwistle has become the most honoured musician in the RPS's history, winning for the fifth time in his 80th birthday year.
He won the chamber scale composition award for The Moth Requiem, also performed at last year's Proms.
US mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato won the singer award.
She was honoured for her role as Elena in Rossini's La Donna del Lago at the Royal Opera House and also her performance at the Last Night of the Proms. It is the second time she has won the award.
Other winners included Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who picked up the award for instrumentalist, while pianist Igor Levit won the young artists award.
George Benjamin won the RPS award for large scale composition for his opera Written on Skin at the Royal Opera House.
In a special presentation, the Society's highest honour, the RPS Gold Medal, was presented to the celebrated English bass Sir John Tomlinson.
He has joined an illustrious group of RPS gold medallists including Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle and Placido Domingo.
In a statement, the RPS said: "There are no pretensions about John Tom. For him, celebrity status is irrelevant - the crucial thing is singing; and it is the desire to sing and communicate, and the obsession to get it right every time, that drive him."
Welsh National Opera won the opera and music theatre award for productions including Lulu, Lohengrin and Paul Bunyan.
London's Southbank Centre picked up the festivals and series award for its year-long classical music festival, The Rest is Noise.
A special programme devoted to the RPS Music Awards will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday at 2200 BST.
Outgoing Proms director and controller of BBC Radio 3 Roger Wright said: "The range of the year's awards is another sign of the high quality in live music-making and new work.
"We are thrilled to have broadcast so much of the award-winning music and performers - and, in particular, to have been responsible through the BBC Proms for the remarkable Ring cycle conducted by Daniel Barenboim."
The lead actor is Sean Bean, who also starred in the Northern Ireland-shot Game of Thrones.
The series will be produced by Rainmark Films, whose director Frank Doelger is one of the Game of Thrones showrunners.
The production will be part financed by NI Screen, the Northern Ireland state film agency.
Set in 1827, the series is a reworking of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein that combines a detective drama with a horror thriller.
Bean will play Inspector John Marlott in the show, which begins filming in January
One of the series' creators, Benjamin Ross, said: "Marlott's investigation takes him into the dark corners of Regency London.
"He discovers an underworld of prostitution, drug smuggling, bodysnatching and murder for profit."
The series has been commissioned for ITV Encore, its subscription drama channel.
ITV director of drama Steve November said it was "an epic re-working of one of literature and cinema's most iconic stories".
Wiggins and team-mates Richie Porte and Chris Froome ramped up the pressure in the final 5km with 2011 winner Cadel Evans sticking stubbornly with them.
Briton Froome broke clear in the last 200m to win stage seven, with Evans and Wiggins finishing two seconds back.
Wiggins holds a 10 seconds lead over Evans in the overall standings.
You can't choose when you take the yellow. There's another tough day tomorrow then we've got the time trial and a rest day and we're halfway through the Tour. We'll defend it every day
It is the first time Wiggins, who is bidding to become the first Briton to win the race, has worn the yellow jersey in the Tour, following Tom Simpson (1962), Chris Boardman (1994, 1997, 1998), Sean Yates (1994) and David Millar (2000).
"It is an amazing feeling," said the 32-year-old, who justified his pre-race favourite tag with a solid ride to the finish. "It just went perfectly for us, the boys put it on the line and did a fantastic job.
"'Froomie' was mind-blowing - he is just going from strength to strength as a bike rider - and we got the yellow jersey so it is fantastic.
"This is what we have been training for all year, and I think it is fair to say we have peaked now.
"We are in the driving seat and we will look to consolidate in the coming days, more so in the time-trial [on Monday].
"Cadel is hot on our heels so it's not something we're going to accidentally try and lose to him.
"It is not over but with everything that is to come, just to be in the yellow jersey is something to be savoured. It is a childhood dream of mine.
"I'd sit on the home trainer watching my hero, my Tour de France hero, Miguel Indurain."
Wiggins, who crashed and broke his collarbone on stage seven of last year's Tour, started Saturday's stage, a 199km race in eastern France from Tomblaine to La Planche des Belles Filles, in second place.
He was seven seconds behind Fabian Cancellara who had led since the opening prologue seven days ago, however, the Swiss time trial specialist was not expected to keep pace with the main contenders and he duly dropped away on the final climb, a 5.9km category one ascent.
Seven riders who had broken clear just 15km into the stage were soon hoovered up as Australian Porte set a blistering pace up the mountain to split the peloton wide open, dropping established climbers such as Russia's Denis Menchov and Spain's Samuel Sanchez.
That stage could not have gone any better for Team Sky and Bradley Wiggins. It was a tremendous all-round team performance and an important psychological blow because Evans's team evaporated. That will give Wiggins tremendous confidence in his team for future days. It was an excellent ride by Froome as well, to have the power to ride away from Evans on such a steep gradient.
Pacemaker Porte eventually dropped away with 2km remaining, leaving 27-year-old Froome, who finished fourth behind Wiggins at this year's Dauphine, at the front.
Wiggins continued to be paced up the mountain with Evans, Vincenzo Nibali and Rein Taaramae also in the hunt for the stage win.
Evans attacked on a flat section near the summit but Wiggins followed and Froome launched a counter-attack on the 20% gradient 500m from the line before riding away for an unexpected victory while Wiggins followed the Australian over the line to take the race lead.
Kenyan-born Froome, who finished second at last year's Vuelta a Espana, one place ahead of Wiggins, also collected 20 points in the king of the mountains race and will wear the polka dot jersey on Sunday.
"It's a dream come true, I never thought of winning the stage, I'm chuffed to bits," said an elated Froome, who grew up in South Africa and has only ridden for Britain since 2008.
"From the start we were controlling the race. The guys did a fantastic job, Richie [Porte] set a blistering pace [up the final climb] and got rid of a lot of guys.
"It wasn't the plan to go for the stage but I'd seen the finish before and I thought 'I've got the legs' and I gave it a small nudge. I couldn't believe it when Cadel didn't follow. And having Brad two seconds behind, we couldn't ask for more."
Sunday's stage eight features seven categorised climbs as the riders race 158km from Belfort to Porrentruy in Switzerland. The final climb of the day is the category one Col de la Froix, although the race does not finish at its summit.
1. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky - 4h58:35
2. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC - @2"
3. Bradley Wiggins (GB) Sky - @ 2"
4. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas - @7"
5. Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - @19"
1. Bradley Wiggins (GB) Sky - 34 hours, 21 mins, 20 seconds
2. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC - @10"
3. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas - @16"
4. Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - @32"
5. Denis Menchov (Rus) Katusha - @54"
9. Chris Froome (GB) Sky - @1:32
Posts on the social media site are constrained to 140 characters but in this case joy, outrage and humour are being shared in even more condensed and pithy expressions.
Many Twitter users who had supported the leave vote used the hashtag to celebrate their victory and convey a message of optimism and pride.
Conversely, people who backed the remain vote expressed a mixture of sentiments including disbelief, sadness and anger.
Britain is often derided for its culinary culture compared to its European cousins and this was conveyed in one widely shared image.
Another theme was the apparent generational division - a breakdown of voting patterns had revealed that younger voters came out in a clear majority to remain in the EU while older voters proved more Eurosceptic at the ballot box.
One of the most liked and widely shared images under the BrexitIn5Words hashtag carries the simple caption, The British Are Leaving.
Many people are using the hashtag to highlight the uptick in Google searches for basic information on the EU, after the result was announced. One Twitter user wrote, "Too late to Google now", while another wrote, "Vote now Google 'EU' later."
With the UK preparing to leave the EU there has been some speculation about a possible domino affect with other European nations also opting to go it alone.
What term would be given if Portugal, Greece or Austria were to follow suit?
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The portfolio includes about 20 newspapers in Scotland.
They include the Greenock Telegraph, the Dunfermline Press, the East Lothian Courier, the Alloa Advertiser and the Border Telegraph.
It also has some titles in south-east England and one in Northern Ireland.
Romanes originated with the Dunfermline Press, which was founded by the Romanes family in 1859.
Newsquest chief executive Henry Faure Walker said: "Newsquest is focused on building one of the leading local multi-media publishing businesses in the UK, and I am delighted to welcome Romanes Media Group to the company.
"We operate in separate markets but this portfolio of good quality weekly titles provides a strong fit with plenty of opportunity."
Gillian Martin's backbench bill to make it a legal requirement for seat belts to be fitted on all dedicated home-to-school transport will now face further committee scrutiny.
There have been calls for the bill to be extended to cover buses used for school trips.
It is currently up to local authorities to demand seatbelts on school buses.
Just over half of Scotland's councils have it as a requirement within school transport contracts.
Rural economy committee convener and Tory MSP Edward Mountain said the committee was surprised the bill only covered home-to-school journeys and omitted school excursions.
Labour MSP Neil Bibby says the bill did not require that seatbelts were worn.
He said 74% of pupils at a school he visited said they were unlikely to wear, or would not wear, seat belts.
SNP MSP Stewart Stevenson said that requiring the fitting of seat belts in school buses was something the Scottish Parliament could now legislate for, but the law to enforce wearing those seat belts lay elsewhere.
Lib Dem MSP Mike Rumbles said he was "astonished" that this was not already a law and that all 32 local authorities had not yet stipulated this in their contracts.
The 22-year old, who is the younger brother of Tottenham and England defender Danny, most recently played for Mansfield Town.
"It is widely known that I want to add to our midfield options and Mitch is an ideal recruit," Westley explained.
"He is youthful yet experienced. And he adds to our options and brings a huge ambition with him here in South Wales."
The 63-year-old is rarely seen in public without the 5ft sword as well as steel helmet and tartan outfit.
He is standing as an Independent candidate in the Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency.
Scottish Borders Council has informed him he cannot take the sword to the count or polling places.
Mr Rae, from St Boswells, is best known for writing the hit Inside Out for Odyssey in 1982 as well as his own single, Over The Sea.
He has stood a number of times for political office and is one of seven candidates for the Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency.
He is up against the SNP's Calum Kerr, Conservative John Lamont, Kenryck Lloyd-Jones of Labour, Lib Dem Michael Moore, UKIP's Peter Neilson and Green candidate Pauline Stewart.
Returning officer Tracey Logan wrote to Mr Rae: "I must ensure that people are able to vote on the day without any perceived threat or risk."
A Scottish Borders Council spokesperson confirmed: "Mr Rae will not be permitted to enter polling stations or the count centre while carrying a claymore to ensure the safety of members of the public, presiding officers, poll clerks and other staff."
Mr Rae claimed the local authority was being small-minded.
He told the BBC Scotland website: "The letter is just tae try and humiliate me and embarrass me in front o' the press and media that they know will be at the count centre."
Three Guards also died in the fighting, Iran's Fars news agency cited their commander in Kordestan province, Gen Mohammad Hossein Rajabi, as saying.
Gen Rajabi said the rebels were linked to the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI).
The PDKI said several of its fighters and more than 20 Iranian troops had been killed in clashes in recent days.
The group has been striving for decades for autonomy for predominantly Kurdish areas in north-western Iran.
Gen Rajabi told Fars that the 11-strong group of "counter-revolutionaries" were "eliminated" in the Sarvabad region by Revolutionary Guards.
The rebels were pursued for 10 days before they were killed, he added.
A PDKI commander called Kaveh Javanmard was among those killed, according to Brig Gen Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of the Guards' ground forces.
It was not clear whether the 11 dead rebels included the five who the Guards said had been killed in clashes along the Iraqi border late on Saturday.
The PDKI said its Peshmerga fighters had come under attack from Guards personnel on Saturday in the village of Dorow, near the town of Marivan.
Two Peshmerga and a number of Guards were killed in the battle, it added.
Other Peshmerga were ambushed later on Saturday in the mountains of Koslan, in the Marivan region, sparking clashes in which more Guards died, according to the PDKI.
Further fighting on Sunday left scores of troops and a third Peshmerga dead, the group said.
The PDKI added that Iranian forces had shelled several Kurdish border villages since Saturday.
Gen Pakpour threatened on Sunday to launch cross-border raids on the PDKI.
"Since the main bases of these terrorists are in northern Iraq, if they don't follow through with commitments to stop these attacks, their bases will be targeted where they are," he said.
The estimated eight million Kurds in Iran, like other ethnic minorities, do not enjoy equal rights and the government consistently denies their right to use their languages in school, according to the US.
However, President Hassan Rouhani promised to open Kurdish-language centres during a visit to Mahabad on 1 June.
"The mother tongue of ethnic groups, especially of Kurds, should be respected and recognised," he said.
Mahabad was the capital of a short-lived Kurdish republic that was founded after World War Two and lasted 11 months.
Councillors agreed that the pool, with 500 spectator seats, be built the Alan Higgs Centre.
The new plans mean the centre will lose its indoor football hall from October 2017 which is currently used by Coventry City Football Club Academy.
The charity that owns the Alan Higgs Centre will transfer the building to Coventry and Warwickshire Award Trust.
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The council will contribute £10.5m towards the project with the remaining funding being sought from external third party funding, the council said.
The new sports village in Allard Way, could open in late 2018.
Leopold Angong Oben was fouled in the penalty area, earning his team a spot-kick during the first half of the match against Colombe du Dja-et-Lobo at the Reunification Stadium in the commercial capital Douala on Saturday.
He received treatment on the field and resumed play but collapsed minutes later.
"He collapsed in the stadium in the 33rd minute of the match.
"His team mates tried to revive him without success," said sports journalist Aime Moukoko, who was in the stadium reporting on the match.
The referee called for the assistance of Red Cross personnel present at the stadium, the Cameroon Professional Football League said in a statement.
"(Oben) was evacuated to a Douala hospital where he passed away minutes after," the statement said.
His cause of death has not been disclosed.
Oben was the second player from Dynamo de Douala to die in the span of three weeks after 27-year-old goalkeeper Ferdinand Mbog passed away following an unspecified illness.
The teenager will join the Cottagers' development squad for the remainder of the season, having agreed a three-year contract with the London club.
Grimmer became the youngest Dons player when he made his debut against Rangers in April 2010, aged just 16 years, two months and 13 days old.
He made three first-team appearances for the Pittodrie outfit but has not featured during this campaign.
Fulham paid a fee of about £200,000 for the midfielder, who was under contract until the summer.
"We received full value on the training compensation side, while agreeing to further add on terms," chief executive Duncan Fraser told the club website.
"We made Jack an extremely good offer to remain at Pittodrie, having signed him straight from school.
We are beginning to see young talent moving south before they are fully developed with the teams they signed for as youngsters
"[Manager] Craig Brown emphasised that he would continue to be developed by being involved with the first team, with a view to him becoming a full first team squad member next season.
"There is a bigger issue for Scottish football here in that we are beginning to see young talent moving south before they are fully developed with the teams they signed for as youngsters.
"It is an issue we shall seek to raise with the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football Association to see what steps can be taken to safeguard our clubs' interests."
Januzaj, 22, was told he could find another club this summer by United manager Jose Mourinho.
He returned from an unsuccessful campaign on loan at Sunderland and was left out of Mourinho's squad for the pre-season tour of the United States.
Januzaj, who has also had a stint on loan at Borussia Dortmund in 2015-16, is set to have a medical on Wednesday.
Januzaj joined United from Anderlecht when he was 16 and broke into the first team in 2013 during David Moyes' ill-fated spell in charge.
Deemed good enough to take Ryan Giggs' number 11 shirt, Januzaj signed a five-year contract extension that was not due to expire until 2018.
Real Sociedad finished sixth in La Liga last season and will compete in the Europa League group stage in 2017-18.
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The man, an EU national who has not been named, was spotted by divers off the coast of Dover at dawn on Sunday.
A Home Office spokesman said the man had become disorientated on his paddleboard.
He said: "The man was a German tourist in distress, but who was in the country legally."
He added: "He was not an illegal immigrant.
"He had been on the water for some time, having gone out on his paddleboard, and was picked up by HMC Valiant."
The move comes two years after the Edinburgh-based firm announced a partnership with one of China's top search engines, Baidu.
Founded in 2010, Youbibi specialises in comparing flights, hotels and package holidays in China.
Youbibi will continue to operate as a subsidiary of Skyscanner.
Youbibi's team of specialist engineers will continue to be based in Shenzhen, while Skyscanner's commercial and marketing hub for China will remain in Beijing.
Skyscanner, which operates under the Tianxun brand in China, generates one million hits a month in the country, about 10 times more than Youbibi's current rate.
Chief executive Gareth Williams said: "Since we established our China team in 2012, the number of visitors to our site and apps across the country has grown tenfold, yet we're still only at the start of the growth opportunity we see here.
"This acquisition brings the best of both worlds with Skyscanner's international coverage and Youbibi's domestic travel search and intimate knowledge of the Chinese traveller.
"The acquisition takes us from being a strong international travel specialist in China to a truly global travel service provider for Chinese nationals, domestically and internationally."
Krzysztof Druzgala, 21, had earlier admitted raping the woman at Swanfield Industrial Estate on 30 August 2014.
The court heard how the victim was attacked as she made her way to work in Leith.
Druzgala pinned her to the ground and punched her. He said later he was drunk and could not remember the attack.
A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh told Druzgala, through an interpreter: "The violence you inflicted in order to overpower her and have sex with her was both extreme in nature and prolonged.
"The girl was frightened for her life and attempted to co-operate with your demands in order to save herself.
"As a result she was badly injured and has been profoundly affected by the trauma you inflicted upon her, both physically and mentally."
The judge said the rape on a 20-year-old stranger in a public place was achieved through violence and threats.
Lord Burns said he would have jailed him for 10 years for the offence, but for his early guilty plea. He also ordered that he be kept under supervision for a further three years.
Lord Burns said the sex attacker's supervision may be a matter for the Polish authorities and pointed out he would be the subject of automatic deportation provisions.
He told Druzgala: "You will remain on the sexual offenders' register for life.
Druzgala was shown CCTV footage from the bus and identified himself. He said: "I don't remember if I met a girl. I was drunk and might not remember."
Druzgala was arrested in Constitution Street in Edinburgh after the attack.
His DNA was found on the fingernails and clothing of the victim.
Defence solicitor advocate Robbie Burnett said: "He deeply regrets his actions, but he has not got the slightest recollection of the incident."
Det Ch Insp Alwyn Bell, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a horrific ordeal for the young woman to endure and a thorough investigation was undertaken to identify the perpetrator.
"As a result of extensive CCTV enquiry Druzgala was identified and brought to justice for this crime.
"I would like to pay tribute to his victim at this time for her courage and continued assistance during our investigation."
The Open Golf Championship in St Andrews was suspended after just 32 minutes of play, with 40mph gusts of wind blowing balls across greens.
A welfare van opened early in Alyth to help residents affected by flash flooding which cut power off and forced people from their homes.
Storms also saw the evacuation of the Tiree Music Festival site overnight.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) now has just one flood warning for the Innerpeffray to Bridge of Earn area, with most of its flood alerts also stood down.
Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution was dealing with more than 750 homes in Alyth cut off at the peak of the problems.
Only a handful still have no electricity and Scottish Hydro said it was working to reconnect them "where it was safe to do so".
A company spokesman said a bridge over the Alyth Burn that carried cables was washed away.
At the golf, the lost competition time means The Open will be played through until Monday, instead of Sunday.
The Met Office has now lifted its severe weather warning, which had run through until 13:00 on Saturday.
The forecast for the rest of day is improving, becoming drier and brighter for most.
Rain should also gradually die away from part of North Argyll and the West Highlands.
Police said the suspicious object, which was found in the Brigade Road area of the city, was nothing untoward.
A controlled explosion was carried out on Thursday evening following the discovery of the object.
Homes were evacuated with residents who needed shelter moved to the Lincoln Court community centre. Roads were also closed to allow police to deal with the alert.
All roads in the area have re-opened.
Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson has prosthetic limbs after losing his legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2006.
He was due to carry the torch on 26 June on a flat route in Bennetthorpe but then heard it had changed, putting his participation in doubt.
The London 2012 organising committee, Locog, has now reversed its decision.
Lance Bombardier Parkinson was originally due to walk past the cenotaph in Bennetthorpe but was then allocated a stretch of the A630 Balby Road.
His mother, Diane Dernie, said he would be unable to walk on the route using artificial legs without the aid of crutches.
That decision has now been altered.
Mr Parkinson's family said they "were delighted at the change of heart at Locog".
Lance Bombardier Parkinson, who served with the 7 Para Royal Horse Artillery, also suffered brain damage and a broken back when his Land Rover was ripped apart by an anti-tank mine.
Ms Dernie said: "For Ben it's not just a matter of turning up and running. He's worked for this ever since he was nominated."
Ms Dernie said Locog had told her a wheelchair could be used to carry the Olympic torch but the suggestion was dismissed by Lance Bombardier Parkinson.
The Crawick Multiverse, designed by renowned artist Charles Jencks, has been created with materials found on the site in Dumfries and Galloway.
The £1m project on land near Sanquhar was funded by the Duke of Buccleuch.
It will be launched on Sunday with a performance by a cast of 30 dancers and musicians.
The Crawick Artland Trust, which manages the site, has said it hopes to attract international visitors and boost business in Sanquhar, Kelloholm and Kirkconnel.
The opening performance, which coincides with the Summer solstice, is called Oceanallover and it has been specially developed by artistic director Alex Rigg.
He said: "Through conversations with Charles Jencks and with the Duke of Buccleuch and the local community, it is clear to me that my job is to present something which is interesting to look at in itself but allows other people to see the potential of the site for future events."
The performance is likely to raise questions, rather than answer them, he said.
"It's likely to be quite abstract at times and certainly not a conventional piece of theatre," he added.
"The performance itself, until we have done it I can't describe what it is. I'll be waiting to hear what other people say about it, myself.
"I'll have discussions with other people, asking them what they thought it was and what they thought was interesting. It's a puzzler."
Mr Jencks previous work includes the Garden of Cosmic Speculation north of Dumfries, and the Beijing Olympic Park's Black Hole Terrace.
He has said the Crawick artwork "celebrates the surrounding Scottish countryside and its landmarks, looking outwards and back in time."
A BBC investigation revealed some staff at Omniserv - which provides special assistance at airports - were lifting travellers incorrectly and abandoning those who needed help.
Campaign group Disability Wales said the level of service was "shocking".
Omniserv has apologised to customers.
All UK airports must, by law, provide free support to any disabled passenger who needs it.
That special assistance service includes helping travellers through the airport and on to the plane itself.
It also covers the lifting of passengers on to their aircraft seat, while staff should stay with a disabled person at all times when help is needed.
But the Civil Aviation Authority has received 279 complaints about special assistance services at airports around the UK in the last two years.
BBC Wales' X-Ray programme has heard from disabled passengers who say they will never fly again after their experiences at Heathrow and Edinburgh airports.
Both airports use the company Omniserv to deliver special assistance services.
Mel Davies, from Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, who is paralysed from the waist down, said she was left in pain after being incorrectly lifted by Omniserv staff on two separate occasions.
Mrs Davies said she was expecting to be lifted by her arms, which she crosses over her chest - but one staff member lifted her under her armpits into her wheelchair, and another lifted her by her chest.
"As someone who's had surgery for breast cancer, I found it painful and upsetting," added Mrs Davies.
She said employees also left her at the aircraft door when her plane arrived at Heathrow. Airline staff ended up helping her into the airport.
Jan Crispin, from Winchester in Hampshire, was left waiting 90 minutes for Omniserv staff to help her off her plane at Heathrow after a nine hour flight from Canada.
When they did they tried to lift her under her armpits, leaving her carer to intervene and help, she said.
She was so delayed that the door to the baggage reclaim area had been locked.
"I wanted to cry," said Mrs Crispin.
"I was so tired and so worn down by it all that I really did start thinking, is it worth it? Is two weeks' holiday worth all this aggravation?"
Meanwhile, Heather McQueen, from Perth in Scotland, has vowed never to fly alone again following her experience with Omniserv at Edinburgh airport.
She said she was abandoned by Omniserv staff for so long that she missed her flight and had to wait alone for hours for the next available one.
"I was tired, I was in pain," said Mrs McQueen, who has multiple sclerosis.
"I had to increase my pain meds the following day because any form of sitting for any length of time causes pain."
Dr Natasha Hirst, from Disability Wales, said some of the complaints she had heard were "shocking", "humiliating" and "outrageous".
"They are actually leaving people stressed, anxious, upset and feeling perhaps they don't want to go on holiday again," she added. "It's not acceptable."
Former Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson, a member of the House of Lords, said she was "shocked" after X-Ray showed her the footage of Mrs Davies being lifted by Omniserv staff at Heathrow.
"If somebody needs help being transferred, the absolute basic thing you should do is ask how a person wants to be lifted," Baroness Grey-Thompson said.
"So to actually grab somebody under the arms, especially a woman, and grab them in the chest area is just absolutely horrible.
"It makes me feel cold even just thinking about it."
Omniserv, which also provides special assistance services at London Stansted and Liverpool John Lennon airports, has apologised.
Heathrow Airport said it was "deeply concerned" about the complaints.
Both Heathrow and Edinburgh airports added they were working hard to improve the journeys of their passengers.
X-Ray is on BBC One Wales on Monday, 13 February at 19:30 GMT
The moment the thieves levered the car park machine out of its hard-standing with rope attached to their 4x4 vehicle was caught on CCTV cameras in Sudbury.
The machine was pulled out of the train station car park at about 04:30 GMT on Thursday.
Babergh District Council said the theft was "simply not worth it".
Frank Lawrenson, portfolio holder for environment at the council, which owns the site, called it a "mindless, deliberate, act of vandalism".
"Babergh's machines do not have huge amounts of money kept in them overnight - a lot of people pay electronically or have a season ticket, and we empty the machines regularly," he said.
"It simply is not worth it for the thieves to take part in this type of activity."
Mr Lawrenson added there were no plans at present to replace the stolen machine, which is worth £4,000, as there were two others.
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The winner earns a place in qualifying for April's World Championship.
Hendry, 48, has consistently said he has no intention of entering qualifying for the Crucible, and has declined previous opportunities to participate.
"It is certainly not a foray back into the full-time arena," said Hendry.
He is the top seed for the Seniors event and will be joined by the likes of Cliff Thorburn, John Parrott, Dennis Taylor, Joe Johnson and Willie Thorne.
The Scot, who reached the quarter-final at his last World Championship in 2012, told the BBC: "I am looking forward to it, it will be fun.
"It can be a fantastic story for someone because anyone who is an amateur over 40 could qualify and beat one of us.
"I have to win the thing before I can even start to think about playing at the Crucible. I miss playing because it is what I am best at."
The firm says it is benefiting from the rise of the "flexitarian" diet.
This means more people have been reducing meat consumption in favour of more sustainable protein sources.
As a result, it is investing £150m to double production at its main plant in Teesside and expects to create 300 new jobs there in the next five years.
"We are proud to be contributing to the UK's export drive and to be investing in a British innovation that is vital to addressing the future need for protein across a growing global population," said Quorn chief executive Kevin Brennan.
"Our growth will continue as expected, regardless of the Brexit deal that is reached.
"In fact, today's investment is indicative of our confidence in becoming a billion-dollar brand in the next 10 years."
The firm, which has been owned by Monde Nissin of the Philippines since 2015, says it made a pre-tax operating profit of £13.7m in the first six months of 2017.
Quorn, a meat substitute made from fungus, is sold on its own for use in recipes at home or in ready meals and products that mimic items such as burgers and sausages. It is available in 15 countries.
Quorn Foods has 650 employees on three UK sites and internationally: Stokesley in North Yorkshire, Billingham on Teesside and Methwold in Norfolk, as well as Frankfurt in Germany and Chicago in the US.
Police were called to the Rivergate Centre in Irvine following reports that a man was carrying a knife.
A spokeswoman said: "About 14:05 police were called to a report of a man with a knife within a shopping centre in Irvine.
"Officers attended and a man has been detained in police custody in connection with the incident."
Thomas Conington, 28, caused a fire at the Central Mosque in September 2016. No one was hurt. The building sustained minor damage.
The High Court in Glasgow heard Conington admitted wilful fireraising, behaving in a threatening manner and a charge under the Explosives Act - all aggravated by religious prejudice.
Conington also set fire to the Central Mosque in Edinburgh in July 2015.
The court heard he returned last summer, shouting racist, bigoted abuse as he was ordered out.
He went back again last September, despite being out on bail, armed with a petrol bomb which he lit and threw over the gates in Potterrow.
He was remanded in custody pending sentencing next month.
The court heard Conington has a Nazi tattoo on his neck and has a swastika tattoo on his chest.
Prosecutor Jim Keegan described him as a "racist and bigoted individual".
It emerged the attack at the mosque happened after Conington had been involved in another racist incident at a supermarket.
He shouted at security guard Yakub Moro at the Tesco store in the capital's Duke Street on 3 March 2016.
Conington also admitted acting in a racially-aggravated manner in connection with the incident.
Matthew Auchincloss, defending, said: "His racism is not based on ideology, political thinking or being part of a movement.
"His racism is a very personal matter. It appears to be rooted in his own personal experiences.
"This is the conduct, as he sees it, of male Asian Muslims who have had contact with his family.
"That may be irrational - to some extent he recognises that - but he does accept he is a racist towards that particular group."
Lord Burns adjourned sentencing for reports until next month.
Kevin Parle, 35, is wanted over the deaths of Lucy Hargreaves, 22, and Liam Kelly, 16, more than a decade ago.
A witness reportedly said he believes he had a drink with Parle in Perth, Western Australia, prompting Australian authorities to launch an appeal.
Parle goes by the nickname 'Hemp' and is currently listed as one of Spain's most wanted fugitives, AFP said.
He is known to have links to the Torrevieja area of Spain.
Ms Hargreaves' murder in 2005 was described as "one of the most brutal and callous acts" Merseyside had seen.
Three men entered her house in Walton on 3 August 2005, and shot her while she slept on the sofa.
They then set fire to the building, before Ms Hargreaves' partner and toddler daughter escaped the fire by jumping from an upstairs window.
Teenager Liam Kelly was shot on a Liverpool street in the early hours of 19 June 2004.
Officers believe the teenager was approached by two men from different directions, both armed with guns.
He tried to run away and was shot in the chest and arm as he tried to get into a house.
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Group A - Brazil 0-0 Mexico: In the first match of the second round of group fixtures, Brazil were denied a second successive win by the brilliance of Guillermo Ochoa.
Neymar was denied twice by the Mexico goalkeeper, who also saved from David Luiz and Thiago Silva.
Raul Jimenez forced a good save from Brazil's Julio Cesar in stoppage time as it ended all-square.
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Group A - Cameroon 0-4 Croatia: Alex Song saw red as Cameroon crashed out of the 2014 Fifa World Cup with defeat against Croatia in Manaus.
Goals from Ivica Olic, Ivan Perisic and a brace for Mario Mandzukic ensured Croatia would go into their final group game against Mexico with a chance of reaching the second round.
Cameroon face hosts Brazil in their final game.
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Group B - Australia 2-3 Netherlands: The Netherlands fought back from 2-1 down to beat Australia in Porto Alegre.
Arjen Robben opened the scoring but Tim Cahill netted a stunning volley to level 70 seconds later and Australia took the lead from a Mile Jedinak penalty.
Robin van Persie equalised soon after before Memphis Depay hit the winner 10 minutes later, sending the Dutch top of Group B with six points.
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Group B - Spain 0-2 Chile: Chile pulled off a major shock as they knocked the reigning champions out of the World Cup at Rio's Maracana.
First-half goals from Eduardo Vargas and Charles Aranguiz saw the South American side guarantee their place in the second round.
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Group C - Colombia 2-1 Ivory Coast: Colombia survived a late comeback to claim all three points in a tight encounter against Ivory Coast in Belo Horizonte.
Goals from James Rodriguez and Juan Quintero put Colombia ahead before Gervinho pulled one back for the Ivory Coast.
Colombia went top of Group C with six points, and face Japan in their final game.
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Group C - Japan 0-0 Greece: Ten-man Greece held out for a draw against Japan in Natal.
Greece captain Kostas Katsouranis saw red after a second yellow card towards the end of the first half, but Japan could not find a way through after the break.
The draw left both teams with an uphill struggle to qualify to the knockout stages.
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Group D - Uruguay 2-1 England: Uruguay's Luis Suarez scored a brace as England were beaten at the Arena de Sao Paulo.
Suarez put the South Americans ahead before the break with a well-placed header, before Wayne Rooney gave England hope with his first World Cup goal.
However Suarez latched onto a long ball late on to rifle past Joe Hart and condemn England to their second successive defeat.
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Group D - Italy 0-1 Costa Rica: Bryan Ruiz netted the winner for Costa Rica against Italy at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife.
The Ticos had a strong penalty appeal rejected before Ruiz met a cross to the far post to head past keeper Gianluigi Buffon.
The result secured Costa Rica's path into the last 16, while Italy were left to face a showdown with Uruguay.
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Group E - Switzerland 2-5 France: Five different players scored for France as they continued their impressive form against Switzerland in Salvador.
Olivier Giroud, Blaise Matuidi, Mathieu Valbuena, Karim Benzema - who also missed a penalty - and Moussa Sissoko put France 5-0 up.
Blerim Dzemaili and Granit Xhaka scored late consolation goals for Switzerland.
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Group E - Honduras 1-2 Ecuador: Enner Valencia scored twice as Ecuador came back from a goal down to beat Honduras in Curitiba.
Carlo Costly sent in a powerful shot to put Honduras ahead before Valencia slotted in to equalise.
The forward then scored a header to earn his side's win.
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Group F - Argentina 1-0 Iran: Lionel Messi scored an injury-time winner as Argentina edged past Iran to book their place in the last 16.
Iran spent much of the first half under pressure but threatened to cause a huge upset after the break as Charlton's Reza Ghoochannejhad and Fulham winger Ashkan Dejagah both went close.
Dejagah was adamant that he should have had a penalty, but Argentina took the points through Messi's brilliance.
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Group G - Germany 2-2 Ghana: Miroslav Klose netted a World Cup record-equalling 15th goal as Germany came from behind to draw against Ghana.
After Germany took a fortuitous lead through Mario Gotze, Ghana fought back to score twice in nine minutes through Andre Ayew and Asamoah Gyan.
But 36-year-old striker Klose scored with his first touch after coming on as a second-half substitute to snatch a draw.
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Group F - Nigeria 1-0 Bosnia-Hercegovina: Peter Odemwingie scored the only goal to give Nigeria a victory that eliminated World Cup debutants Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The Stoke player struck in the first half to give Nigeria their first win at a World Cup finals since 1998.
The goal came just seven minutes after Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko had a goal incorrectly disallowed for offside.
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Group H - Belgium 1-0 Russia: Belgium substitute Divock Origi grabbed a winner two minutes from time against Russia to take his side into the last 16.
Origi turned in from Eden Hazard's cross to take Marc Wilmots's team into the knock-out phase.
Russia's hopes of following them into the knockout stages now hinge on their final group match against Algeria.
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Group H - South Korea 2-4 Algeria: Algeria moved up to second in Group H as they overcame South Korea in Porto Alegre for their first World Cup win since 1982.
Islam Slimani ran onto a long ball to flick in the first and a Rafik Halliche header put Algeria 2-0 up.
Abdelmoumene Djabou sidefooted in a third, before Son Heung-min's low shot pulled one back but Yacine Brahimi added Algeria's fourth and, despite Koo Ja-cheol scoring a second for Korea, Algeria held on.
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Group G - USA 2-2 Portugal: Silvestre Varela's equaliser deep into injury time kept Portugal in the World Cup following a dramatic draw with USA.
The substitute dived in to head in a Cristiano Ronaldo cross after it looked like Clint Dempsey had won it for USA.
Portugal were ahead through Nani, but Jermaine Jones's superb strike levelled the scores just after an hour.
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Reus, 27, missed the 2014 World Cup and has had recent injury concerns.
Fellow midfielder Schweinsteiger, 31, has not played since picking up a knee injury in March while away with Germany but has been selected by Joachim Low.
Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt, Karim Bellarabi and Hoffenheim's Sebastian Rudy have all been left out.
"The medical staff could not give a clear prognosis for Marco," Low said of Reus's omission, which comes on his birthday.
"He has massive injury problems and the medical staff was very sceptical about his ability to last through the coming weeks and such a gruelling tournament.
"It is a bitter decision and bitter for Marco."
Liverpool midfielder Emre Can, Arsenal's Mesut Ozil and former Gunners attacking midfielder Lukas Podolski, now at Turkish side Galatasaray, have all been included as the world champions search for their first European title since 1996.
Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona)
Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Emre Can (Liverpool), Jonas Hector (Cologne), Benedikt Hoewedes (Schalke 04), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia), Antonio Ruediger (Roma)
Midfielders: Julian Draxler (VfL Wolfsburg), Sami Khedira (Juventus), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray), Andre Schurrle (VfL Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United), Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund).
Forwards: Mario Gomez (Besiktas), Mario Goetze (Bayern Munich), Leroy Sane (Schalke 04)
In a statement, the ministry said it was not appropriate to allow in entertainers who have engaged in "bad behaviour."
"Justin Bieber is a gifted singer, but he is also a controversial young foreign singer," it added.
The statement was issued in response to a question recently submitted by a user of the bureau's website.
"We hope that as Justin Bieber matures, he can continue to improve his own words and actions, and truly become a singer beloved by the public," the statement said.
By John Sudworth, BBC Beijing correspondent
To its list of hostile foreign forces - one assumes ranking somewhere below the Dalai Lama and Taiwanese separatists - China has added the name Justin Bieber.
The news came in a statement from the Beijing municipal culture bureau, answering a question from a fan about why, with the singer about to embark on an Asia-wide tour, no venues have been scheduled in mainland China.
Justin Bieber is indeed "talented at singing" came the reply, but nonetheless it would not be appropriate to allow him to perform, because of what it called a number of incidents of "bad behaviour." It did not elaborate on exactly which of Mr Bieber's run-ins with the law it was referring to.
The pop star, who was allowed to tour China in 2013, joins a long list of musicians who have found themselves similarly blacklisted. Most though, like the British band Oasis and the US group Maroon 5, because of perceived political statements, rather than on the grounds of bad behaviour.
This hasn't been the first time the Sorry singer has caused controversy in Asia.
In 2014, Bieber caused upset on social media after he posted a photo of himself visiting the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
The shrine honours fallen warriors and pays tribute to convicted war criminals but in China and South Korea, the shrine is seen as a symbol of Japan not being sorry for its empire's past.
But despite the singer taking the photo down and apologising, the Chinese were outraged. Their foreign minister's spokesperson said he hoped the singer had left Yasukuni with "a clear understanding of Japan's history of invasion and militarism, and of the source of Japan's militarism".
Justin Bieber will be performing in Asia as part of his Purpose World Tour from September, and will be playing in Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.
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Papworth Hospital acquired seven acres (2.83 hectares) for its new base on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus near Addenbrooke's Hospital in December.
Work will begin shortly enabling it to move from Papworth Everard, 13 miles (20km) west of Cambridge, by 2018.
The hospital said its new base would "revolutionise cardiothoracic care".
The project will cost £165m, partly paid through a 30-year Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deal, and partly through the public sector.
The 310-bed hospital will replace the current 276-bed facility, which in 1979 carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant.
Prof John Wallwork, chairman of Papworth Hospital and former consultant cardiac surgeon, said: "This move will allow Papworth to revolutionise cardiothoracic care and treatment in the UK whilst allowing the hospital to offer the best possible care and treatment to our patients and future generations."
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has invited the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to assess whether Welsh Government reforms are "on track".
A previous report by the OECD said the government lacked a long-term vision for education.
It comes ahead of the OECD-run Pisa test results in December.
The performance of Welsh pupils in these international tests has fallen short of results in other parts of the UK.
Ms Williams has already outlined how the Welsh Government plans to reform teacher training, introduce a new school curriculum, support poorer students and secure additional resources for school improvements.
The 4,300 teams who entered the tournament back in January to compete across 11 categories had been whittled down to just 90.
They competed in groups, with the winners progressing straight through to the finals - two of which were decided by penalty shootouts.
The victorious teams won tickets to the FA Cup final in May, where they will be honoured at half-time on the pitch.
The day was covered by a special live text commentary and featured last-gasp winners, stunning goals, great celebrations and a wonderful sense of enjoyment and camaraderie.
There were also appearances from former player Kevin Kilbane, BBC presenters Ore Oduba, Harry Gration and Paul Hudson and Helen Rollason Award winner Bailey Matthews.
You can catch some of the highlightshere.
Here are just a few images from the hundreds taken at the weekend. You can find more by searching #PeoplesCup on social media.
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They backed changes to the Sovereign Grant - the funding formula for the monarchy's official duties - by 464 votes to 56.
The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the £369m refurbishment.
Officials say the essential work - set to take 10 years - is needed to avoid the risk of "catastrophic building failure".
Ageing cables, lead pipes, wiring and boilers will be replaced, many for the first time in 60 years, amid fears about potential fire and water damage.
Two Labour MPs - Rushanara Ali and Dennis Skinner- were among those who opposed the move, along with 46 from the SNP.
By Peter Hunt, royal correspondent
At a time of austerity, this significant increase in the money given to the royals has attracted little public criticism and minimal parliamentary scrutiny.
It was very different in the 1990s when the government suggested spending taxpayers' money on repairs to Windsor Castle after it was damaged by fire.
Two decades on, the Sovereign Grant increase has been approved after a committee of MPs considered the matter briefly, and after an overwhelming Commons vote in favour.
Next month, the Queen's funding will rise from £43m to £76m. And it will rise each year, for the next 10 years.
The focus now is on appointing consultants and finalising the refurbishment plans.
With the builders in for at least a decade, the Queen may be tempted, at times, to replace her crown with a hard hat.
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A review by the Royal Trustees - who include the prime minister and the chancellor - agreed that works to the palace should be funded by a temporary increase in the Sovereign Grant.
Profits from the independent property business Crown Estates go to the Treasury, which in turn gives 15% of the sum to the monarch in the form of the Sovereign Grant.
The grant will be raised between 2017 and 2027 from 15% to 25% of Crown Estate profits.
An online petition calling for the royals to pay for the refurbishment rather than taxpayers attracted more than 145,000 signatures.
But Shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who describes himself as a republican, said he backed the taxpayer-funded restoration, calling the palace a "national monument" that needed to be preserved.
The Queen will remain in residence during the work, which will begin in April.
The palace will also remain open to visitors, due to the decision to phase the works over a decade.
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said preparatory work will now begin on the "re-servicing programme".
"The first steps will be to appoint a programme director and tender for consultants. We will also finalise the design and planned phasing of the programme."
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A 30-second mobile phone video of the performance has been watched nearly 800,000 times on YouTube.
The policeman had taken a break to sit down at one of the pianos placed around central Prague for public use.
Still wearing his bright green reflective vest, he rattled off a few bars of a South Korean composition.
Police chief Martin Cervicek said the clip of the officer playing River Flows In You, by the South Korean composer Yiruma, had done more to improve the image of the force than anything he himself would ever achieve.
The young traffic policeman only joined the force six weeks ago but it is fair to say he is now the most famous officer in the Czech Republic, the BBC's Rob Cameron reports from Prague.
Mr Cervicek said he had spoken to the officer, whose name has not been released, and wished him the same success in his police career.
A superior had spoken to the new recruit about what he could and could not do on duty, he added, but the piano-playing policeman was not formally disciplined.
A report by the trade body said Scotch was now the biggest net contributor to the UK's balance of trade in goods.
SWA said last year's 2% cut in duty contributed to a £96m rise in revenue from spirit drinks for the Treasury.
It argued the move helped "to support the conditions for investment".
But SWA also said that despite the improvement, tax on an average-priced bottle of whisky still stood at an "onerous" 76%.
In its latest economic impact report, SWA estimated exports were worth almost £4bn in 2014, while imports such as packaging and casks amounted to £200m.
SWA said that gave the industry a trade balance of +£3.8bn.
That put it ahead of mechanical machinery (+£3.4bn), beverages (+£1.4bn) and works of art (+£1.2bn).
SWA claimed the UK's trade deficit of £34.8bn that year would have been 11% larger without Scotch's contribution.
Its report also estimated the industry directly added value of nearly £3.3bn to the UK economy - up 1.6% on figures it produced a year earlier.
Indirect and "induced" impacts added a further £1.7bn in value, it added.
The report also estimated the industry directly employed 10,800 people in Scotland, paying out £528m in salaries.
SWA chief executive David Frost said the figures re-emphasised how significant the Scotch whisky industry was to the Scottish and wider UK economy.
"Given the scale and impact of the Scotch whisky industry, we believe the government should re-double its efforts to support distillers.
"At home, in the short term, a further 2% duty cut in next month's Budget would be a major boost, supporting small businesses that rely on the home market and further investment in the sector."
A UK Treasury spokesman said: "Scotch whisky is a huge British success story, that's why we ended the spirits duty escalator and cut the duty on whisky and other spirits by 2% at last year's Budget.
"That means a bottle of Scotch whisky is now 70p cheaper than the duty plans we inherited in 2010.
"The government has also introduced the spirits verification scheme. This will help protect the integrity and high reputation of Scotch whisky by helping consumers in the UK and abroad to identify genuine products and avoid fakes."
It is seeking to strengthen its balance sheet by raising up to £82m through an equity placing.
The group, which has bases in London and Aberdeen, has also agreed "improvements" on the terms of its debt facilities.
It said the moves would "significantly improve" its liquidity position.
EnQuest has struggled with the decline of oil prices since 2014, reporting that "the continuing challenging oil price environment" had had a significant negative impact on its revenues, liquidity and available cash resources.
Its debts rose from $1.55bn at the end of last year to $1.68bn at the end of June.
Kraken, which is located about 125km (77 miles) east of the Shetland Islands, is due to come on-stream in the first half of 2017. It is one of the biggest new projects in UK waters.
The cost of getting it to production has been put at $2.6bn, down by $575m on the original estimate, as EnQuest has driven down supplier costs.
In September, EnQuest ended talks to sell a 20% stake in the Kraken field to Israeli conglomerate Delek Group.
EnQuest chairman Jock Lennox said: "We are very pleased to announce today a comprehensive package of measures to place EnQuest on a strong footing to deliver our Kraken development in H1 (first half) 2017 and ensure that we are well placed to deliver value to our shareholders in the medium term.
"Over the last two years, EnQuest has taken action to implement extensive cost-saving programmes to refocus the business for the low oil price environment, including reducing and re-phasing both capital and operating expenditures.
"Simultaneously, EnQuest has been working on a range of other funding and liquidity options, which culminate in the restructuring announced today."
Mr Buffett said he had "admired PCC's operation for a long time".
Berkshire Hathaway said it expected the deal, which is subject to PCC shareholder approval, to close during the first three months of next year.
If the deal goes through, it would be the biggest buy-out Berkshire has made.
"For good reasons, [PCC] is the supplier of choice for the world's aerospace industry, one of the largest sources of American exports," Mr Buffett said.
"Berkshire's board is proud that PCC will be joining [us]."
Talking to US media, he added: "When you get a chance to buy a wonderful company, there is usually some reason why you are getting that chance and perhaps a slump in oil and gas helps us in this case".
The oil price has fallen by more than 50% in the past 12 months, reducing demand for components in some industries, not least oil and gas exploration.
The price being paid represents $235 a share, and the announcement of the deal sent shares in PCC sharply higher in early trading, to $230, up almost 20% on Friday's closing price.
Mark Donegan, PCC chief executive, said the deal offered "compelling and immediate value for our shareholders".
Analysts said the deal was likely to go ahead.
"Although the takeout price looks a little low to us, we doubt if PCC's shareholders will say no to Warren Buffett, especially given the year-to-date performance in a tough equity market," said Robert Stallard from RBC Capital Markets.
In the past 12 months, shares in PCC have fallen almost 30%.
The company makes complex metal components for the aerospace, power and industrial sectors.
But for those who don't know what a Tory is and can't pronounce Plaid Cymru, here's a crash course in the UK's general election.
It's been a busy year in politics here.
Yes, there was an election in May 2015, where the Conservative Party defied expectations to edge a tiny majority in parliament - after having been in a coalition government with another smaller party.
Part of their election strategy was promising a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union - even though the party officially wanted to stay in.
The British exit (or Brexit) referendum happened in June 2016, and the result was a surprise to many. Voters chose to leave the EU.
But the prime minister at the time, David Cameron, had campaigned to stay - so after his defeat, he decided it was time to surrender the top job.
Theresa May became the prime minister (more on that later), and repeatedly said the government would serve its five-year term.
Then, in April, she suddenly called a new election for just seven weeks' time.
Why? She said she needed a bigger majority to guarantee political stability in the Brexit negotiations with the EU.
Opponents, though, believe she was tempted by poor polling numbers for the main opposition party, Labour - and saw a political opportunity.
Britain traditionally has two major parties: the Conservatives (who are nicknamed the Tories), and Labour (just Labour).
The Conservatives traditionally lean to the political right; Labour has its origins in the trade union movement, and leans left.
Those two titans are joined by the centrist Liberal Democrats, a once-strong party almost wiped out in the last election; the environmentally-aware Greens; and the pro-Brexit right-wing UK Independence Party (UKIP).
England accounts for 533 of the seats - it's got the biggest population in the UK by far.
In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) holds 56 of 59 seats - a dominant position it won in 2015 at Labour's expense. The nationalists want to hold on to that. Internationally, they're best known for campaigning for Scottish independence.
In Wales, Plaid Cymru - a Welsh term meaning the Party of Wales, and pronounced "PLIGHD KUM-ri"- has just three seats out of 40. And Northern Ireland accounts for another 18 seats.
The UK voting system for general elections is simple - whoever gets the most votes in their constituency wins the seat. No transfers, and no proportional representation.
That system tends to favour the big established parties over the smaller ones, and tactical voting is a big part of the process.
All of which means there's a sharp focus on not just the local candidates, but the party leaders who could be the prime minister.
Those leaders are Theresa May (Conservatives) and Jeremy Corbyn (Labour).
But both are unusual.
The Conservative leadership campaign was a political soap opera all by itself, with a dramatic drop-out on live TV, labelled by our political correspondent as "Richard III meets Scarface, with a bit of Godfather thrown in."
In the end, Theresa May was the only candidate left - and became Britain's new prime minister by default, without a vote.
On the other side, there's Mr Corbyn - a life-long socialist, whose election in 2015 as leader, aged 66, was one of the biggest upsets in British political history.
He reluctantly put his name down for the top job because none of his friends on Labour's socialist left wing wanted to do it. Bookies gave him odds of 200-1.
His election victory- fuelled by a grassroots movement of ordinary Labour members - split the party in two, and the party's MPs almost immediately attempted to depose him.
But his popular support has kept the bicycle-riding, left-leaning Labour leader in power - while his political opponents seek to capitalise on the party's perceived crisis.
In a nutshell, the Conservatives are looking for a big majority in parliament for the Brexit negotiations, keeping things "strong and stable", as they put it. And put it again, and again.
When Theresa May called the election, polls showed she was likely to win a landslide - and cement her political power. But things move quickly in politics.
Since then, almost three million people applied to vote - more than a million of whom are aged under 25. It's not clear how that might affect the outcome.
And opinion polls, for what they're worth, seem to suggest Labour is closing the gap.
The attack in Manchester on 22 May does not appear to have made much difference to the trend. The Conservatives are still widely seen as the most likely to win this election.
But if they end up losing seats in Parliament, it's possible - if unlikely - that someone with completely different plans could be sitting at the negotiating table in Europe.
Then again, Labour says it will still push ahead with Brexit - so it's a question of how rather than if.
There's another possibility - one recent poll, splashed on the front page of the Times newspaper suggested the Tories could lose seats, resulting in a "hung Parliament".
That's just a British term for no single party having an outright majority. That might be common in many nations that usually have coalition governments, but it's a little rarer in the UK.
Almost certainly. Immigration is a big issue on the campaign trail.
The current Conservative government wants to reduce net migration - the difference between people entering the UK and people leaving - to "tens of thousands" a year (it's currently about +248,000 a year).
The Conservatives' manifesto says they want to double the Immigration Skills Charge - a levy of up to £1,000 ($1,300) they introduced in April, charging companies for every foreign worker they sponsor.
They've promised to increase the minimum income someone has to earn to come on a family visa, and "toughen" visa requirements for students.
And the party says it will triple the Immigration Health Surcharge - a levy foreigners have to pay to let them use the National Health Service (NHS) - from £200 to £600.
Labour acknowledges that Brexit means the free movement of people from Europe will end - but promises it won't "scapegoat migrants".
Instead of raising income thresholds for migrants, Labour plans to end them - but oblige people coming here to survive without falling back on public money. Its manifesto contains a pledge to "protect those already working here, whatever their ethnicity" and says it won't count international students in the main immigration numbers.
But at the same time, it says it will recruit an extra 500 border guards.
Both the Liberal Democrats and the Green party support free movement between the UK and the EU. The Lib Dems say they would allow "high-skilled immigration", and, like Labour and Plaid Cymru, take students out of the immigration statistics.
The Greens also say their immigration and asylum system would be "humane". And Plaid Cymru says it will introduce a new, Wales-specific visa.
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The BBC's election team have put together a comprehensive guide where you can choose an issue and get a quick comparison, or find links to every manifesto in fill.
Not unless you already registered - the deadline was 22 May.
If you're not a UK citizen, you can't vote anyway - except for Irish nationals, or Commonwealth citizens living in the UK legally.
If you're from one of those countries and registered before - in the local elections or the Brexit referendum, for example - you might be on the electoral roll, which you can check with your local authority.
Isabella Lovin, who is also the country's climate minister, published a photo that shows her signing a new law surrounded by female colleagues.
The image has drawn comparisons with Mr Trump's photo in which no women were present.
Within hours the post was shared and liked thousands of times on Facebook.
"Wonderful Picture! Hope you sent it to the man on the other side of the ocean," writes one user.
"Make the Planet Great Again!" writes another.
Facebook user Kimini Delfos said in a post that such an image should not spark the reaction that it has, suggesting that people "calm down".
"Why is it so difficult to see a picture with just women and not difficult to see a picture with only men?" she questioned.
Meanwhile, users of the social media site Twitter have praised what is being described as Ms Lovin's "dig" at the US president.
"Love how the Swedish Deputy PM is taking a dig at Donald Trump in her publicity photo for passing climate change law," writes user Ian Sinkins.
Another, Mikaela Hildebrand, writes: "@IsabellaLovin signs new the Swedish climate law & issues funniest #Trumbburn foto! Epic!"
The comparisons are being made to a photo last month of Mr Trump signing an executive order to ban federal money going to international groups which perform or provide information on abortions.
The image of Mr Trump signing the document surrounded by male colleagues was ridiculed on social media.
On Friday, while signing Sweden's new climate law, Ms Lovin urged European countries to take a leading role in tackling climate change as "the US is not there anymore to lead".
The new law sets long-term goals for greenhouse gas reductions and will be legally binding for future administrations.
Ms Lovin said Sweden wanted to set an example at a time when "climate sceptics [are] really gaining power in the world again".
Mr Trump, who has previously called climate change a hoax, has raised speculation that he might pull the US out of the Paris Agreement, which aims to tackle greenhouse gas emissions and limit the increase in global temperatures.
The Swedish government, which claims to be "the first feminist government in the world", has also issued a statement affirming that gender equality is "central" to its priorities.
"Gender equality is also part of the solution to society's challenges and a matter of course in a modern welfare state - for justice and economic development," the statement reads.
The ruling was posted in a newsletter on the website of Norbreck Primary Academy in Blackpool.
Parents were told cakes taken into school would be "sent home uneaten".
Head teacher Karen McCarter wrote: "I hate to be a killjoy... there are many reasons for this, some of them serious."
She added: "We are not able to account for the ingredients in the cake, we could therefore unknowingly give a product to a child to which they are allergic.
"Even if we had a list of ingredients, in a busy school day, it is too much to expect teachers to read ingredient lists and then decide who can and who cannot eat the product."
Mrs McCarter also told parents: "In our modern society in which we are held accountable, we cannot take the risk."
In a statement the head teacher said cakes were rarely brought into school in the past but it was now happening so regularly the school day was disrupted.
She added: "I am sure that parents appreciate that a teacher's time is best spent educating their children rather than cutting up cake, handing it out and cleaning up afterwards.
"Also as many cakes are home-made the ingredients are unknown which could potentially lead to problems for children with allergies. "
Mrs McCarter said all children were "made to feel special when it is their birthday and the class teachers ensure that all birthdays are remembered and celebrated".
A Department for Education spokeswoman said each school had to be aware of a child's allergies and decide on appropriate policies.
Almost unanimously they agree that the 10-year prison term was unjust, because in both the original trial and then December's appeal, insufficient account was taken of the defendant's many years of suffering.
Certainly that was the case made by Jacqueline Sauvage's lawyers, and then in the online petition, signed by some 400,000 people in the last few weeks.
But there are dissenting voices. These people, mainly in the judiciary, are concerned about the precedent that Francois Hollande has set in exercising his rarely used right to pardon.
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Writer and former judge Philippe Bilger said it was worrying to see a media campaign wielding such influence on the conduct of justice. On two occasions, after due trial, juries consisting of professional magistrates and members of the public had examined the evidence against Sauvage.
Why should their conclusions be gainsaid by clicks on the internet?
"It is pretty dramatic… when political personalities of all types involve themselves in matters they do not know, and amid demagogy and confusion launch an attack on one of the fundamental institutions of our country," Mr Bilger wrote in Le Figaro.
"Those who know the facts passed judgment. Those who judge the judges know nothing."
Many in the magistrature feel that the act of presidential pardon has no place in a system where there is supposed to be a separation of powers.
In the case of Jacqueline Sauvage, Mr Hollande was careful to make a nuanced decision. Even after his pardon, she remains guilty of the crime of murder, and it will be up to magistrates to decide exactly when she is freed.
Nonetheless, the president intervened personally to have her sentence reduced to a minimum, reacting in so doing to what he perceived to be a groundswell of popular outrage.
For some, this right to pardon, enshrined in Article 17 of the constitution, is a throwback to a monarchical age and should be abolished.
The danger, for some jurists, is that emotion and public relations have become the arbiters in a complex criminal affair.
Lawyer Florence Rault said that a political cause, feminism, had trumped dispassionate dissection of the facts.
She said the case for the prosecution had received virtually no coverage in the media, so the public perception was shaped solely by Jacqueline Sauvage's defence.
"The aim is simple: to instrumentalise the justice system for purposes which are foreign to the justice system. To wit in this instance: promoting the idea of women as victims, and denying the possibility of violence done by women."
No-one denies that Jacqueline Sauvage suffered at the hands of her husband, though there were certainly questions raised in court about the reality of the relationship.
For Le Monde's justice commentator Pascale Robert-Diard, the truth of the matter is that her lawyers conducted a disastrous defence. And when it failed, instead of going to the high court of appeal, they turned to the media.
According to Robert-Diard, the lawyers should have admitted guilt and asked for a minimal sentence, pleading Jacqueline Sauvage's years of misery.
Instead they pushed for acquittal, based on the legally-unacknowledged argument of "deferred self-defence".
Twice this tactic proved unavailing. And in the end it was left to the head of state "to give to the defendant the kind of effective defence that she never got in court".
The Bibles are printed in neighbouring Indonesia mainly for Christians in the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.
Muslim groups have protested against the Christian use of the word Allah, saying it is an attempt to make Christianity appeal to Muslims.
Malaysia's constitution promises freedom of worship to all faiths.
Christian groups say Malay-language Bibles containing the word Allah have repeatedly been blocked at customs over the years, and they are "fed up".
They insist they have been using the word for decades.
Rev Hermen Shastri, general secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia, welcomed the government's decision to release the Bibles, but said more needed to be done.
"We maintain the position that it is an inalienable right for Christians to read their scriptures in any language," he said, adding this was a "basic human right".
The Home Ministry initially justified withholding the Bibles saying there was a legal case under appeal that needed to be resolved.
It was a reference to the ruling by Kuala Lumpur's High Court in December 2009 that allowed the Catholic newspaper, The Herald, to use the word Allah as a translation for God.
No appeal hearings have yet been scheduled.
Dozens of churches and a few Muslim prayer halls were attacked and burned in the wake of the 2009 ruling, highlighting the intensity of feeling about issues of ethnicity and faith in Malaysia.
The Prime Minister's office said the government chose to release the Bibles because it was "committed to resolve amicably any inter-faith issues".
It also said this decision would not jeopardise any future resolution of the larger legal conflict.
Analysts have noted that elections are likely soon in the state of Sarawak, where many Christians live, and the governing National Front parties need to shore up electoral support there.
Christian leaders say the word Allah has been used in their Bibles since before Malaysia was formed as a federal state in 1963.
Rising Malay and Muslim consciousness, sparked by Malay nationalist groups seeking political power, has brought the issue to the fore in recent years.
Malay Muslims make up almost two-thirds of the country's population, but there are large Hindu and Christian communities.
Ana Brnabic was chosen by the new President, Aleksandar Vucic. Her approval by parliament will be largely a formality, as his party and its allies hold an overwhelming majority.
Just a few years ago, the appointment would have been unthinkable.
But EU hopeful Serbia can present it as proof of increasing tolerance.
Ms Brnabic is not only Serbia's first openly gay PM, but also the first woman in that post.
"I believe that Brnabic has professional and personal qualities to be prime minister," Mr Vucic told reporters, "and that along with other ministers she will work on improvement and progress of our Serbia."
He made no mention of her sexuality.
The symbolism of the appointment is real, but it comes against a backdrop of ingrained and sustained antipathy towards homosexuality. It may be more of a harbinger of change than evidence that change has already occurred.
Police research in 2015 found that almost half its officers agreed with the statement "homosexuality is an illness that should be treated", reports the BBC's Guy De Launey in Belgrade.
Even the leader of one of the smaller parties in the president's coalition, Dragan Markovic Palma of Unified Serbia, said Ms Brnabic was "not my prime minister".
He was recently quoted as saying that the new prime minister "should be a family man who knows what children are".
They mean gay people face discrimination and threats to their physical safety. Belgrade's Gay Pride march was banned for three years in succession on grounds of public safety after far-right protesters attacked the event in 2010.
It was revived in 2014 amid huge security, including special forces and armoured cars.
But since then, civil society organisations have reported that some individuals taking part have lost jobs as a result.
It is in the region as a whole, and then there is the influence of the Church - whether Orthodox in Serbia or Catholic in Croatia, our correspondent explains.
Church-affiliated campaigners in Croatia forced a referendum in 2013 which rejected same-sex marriage. A 2015 referendum in Slovenia failed in its bid to legalise same-sex marriage.
Far-right parties, which represent a small minority of people in Serbia, have suggested the new prime minister was not a home-grown choice but "the choice of the West".
That's the cynical interpretation - that President Aleksandar Vucic is using Ms Brnabic's nomination to demonstrate Serbia's adoption of EU values in the hope that Brussels will overlook other shortcomings.
But symbolism may carry weight in this case, our correspondent says, and lead people to reassess their attitudes towards sexual orientation.
Another element is that Mr Vucic may see Ms Brnabic as a safe choice for prime minister - competent but without a party base - who will not be a threat to his own power.
She joined the government last year, serving as the minister for public administration - one of the least enviable jobs in the government.
Serbia's public sector includes many Yugoslav-era businesses, some in desperate straits, as well as a sizeable civil service. In office for less than a year, she was introducing an e-governance system designed to cut down on red tape and was behind the introduction of IT as a mandatory subject in schools, our correspondent says.
As a moderniser, she does seem well placed to continue the job of implementing the reforms needed for Serbia to gain accession to the EU - such as improving relations with Kosovo, reforming the judiciary, and promoting the rights of minorities - including the LGBT population.
Since joining the government last year, Ms Brnabic has tried to place the focus on her qualifications rather than her sexual orientation, asking: "Why does it matter?"
On accepting the nomination to become prime minister, she said she wanted to serve her country and would be working on goals "that are bigger and more important than all of us individually".
Nonetheless, her appointment was welcomed by Belgrade Pride organiser Goran Miletic, who told the Guardian that it "can only be a positive message".
Ms Brnabic will join a small number of gay prime ministers to lead governments in Europe, including Leo Varadkar in the Republic of Ireland and Xavier Bettel in Luxembourg.
Iceland had an openly gay prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir, in 2009-2013.
The BBC's Guy De Launey contributed to this report
Claire Sugden said the review would look at the "legislative framework" for certain categories of crime and other issues, such as unduly lenient sentences.
The minister said sentencing did not just affect the offender, but victims, families and the wider community.
Ms Sugden said recommendations would be put out to consultation.
She said sentencing played a "major part" in how the criminal justice system as a whole was perceived and "impacts on public confidence in the delivery of justice".
"I am aware of concerns that have been expressed from time to time about sentencing in some individual cases," she said.
"While such cases represent a very small part of the everyday work of the courts, they can have a significant impact on public perception and confidence in the justice system and the sentencing process.
"That is why I have decided that a comprehensive review of sentencing policy is needed."
The review will consider the following areas:
The minister stressed it was not a review of sentencing decisions, as in each individual case it was a matter for the judiciary and the courts.
"It is essential that their independence is maintained," she added.
"However, it is my responsibility to ensure the effectiveness of the legislative framework within which individual sentencing decisions are made, and, along with the Lord Chief Justice's programme of action, to seek to ensure that there is confidence in how those decisions are reached."
Tom Hogli and William Kvist were speaking on a video produced by the Danish players' association and published by world union FIFPro.
"That thousands must die to build stadiums has nothing to do with football," Kvist said.
The Qatari government has always rejected claims workers have died.
However, human rights organisation Amnesty International has accused Qatar of abusing World Cup workers, while Hogli said conditions were "cruel".
The BBC spoke to one English construction worker who left the country after two weeks because, in his words, the conditions were "an absolute disgrace".
Other critics have claimed that 1,200 workers have already died and up to 4,000 could perish before the World Cup begins, a figure denied by Qatar.
The country currently employs about 5,100 workers on World Cup sites, a number that will peak at 36,000 by 2018.
Fifa boss Gianni Infantino said last month that the organisation will establish a body to monitor working conditions for labourers at Qatar's World Cup stadiums and insisted the tournament would stay in the Gulf.
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The State Darwin Museum in Moscow is honouring the North Yorkshire vet and author whose real name was Alf Wight.
His books and the TV series about his veterinary work continue to be popular in Russia where he also has a fan club.
Staff at the World of James Herriot Museum in Thirsk have travelled to meet Russian museum officials and fans.
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The James Herriot books were loosely based on Mr Wight's own experiences as a young vet working in rural North Yorkshire.
His first book, If Only They Could Talk, was published in 1970 and despite a small initial print run of 3,000 went on to be published in 26 languages.
The long-running BBC series All Creatures Great and Small and several feature films followed.
But Mr Wight, who had first arrived in Thirsk in 1939, remained a vet and considered himself a part-time author. He died in 1995.
A real visit by Mr Wight to Russia accompanying a boatload of sheep in 1961 was fictionalised in one of his books.
Rosie Page, the author's daughter, said: "Dad knew how popular he was all over the world before he died but still these new things are happening. It's an amazing legacy he's left."
Ian Ashton of the Herriot museum said: "We are extremely honoured that this exhibition has been staged and delighted to have been invited to visit."
The two-year-old ran off to look for a dog being walked by his father, in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
Despite being able to hear his cries, his family could not find him among the tall stalks and the alarm was raised.
A police helicopter, about 50 officers and staff and members of the public joined the search for the lost child.
An infra-red camera on the helicopter eventually enabled police to locate the youngster, about two hours after he went missing on Sunday afternoon.
Insp Gav Whitehouse said the search had been hampered by the height of the crop, which meant those looking for the boy were also unable to see each other.
"He was reunited with his family and checked over by paramedics, but did not seem to be any the worse for wear following his ordeal," the officer said.
"Indeed, I could hear him crying from some distance and that's always a good sign."
He added: "I would like to thank everyone who responded, including HM Coastguard and other emergency services, and especially local members of the public who volunteered to help."
Marcelo Bosch and Sean Maitland crossed as the hosts moved into a 23-point lead at the interval before scores from Jamie George and Chris Wyles secured the try bonus point.
Sale had three players sent to the sin bin as Maitland completed his double and Richard Barrington touched down.
Victory makes it three wins from three for Saracens as they top Pool Three.
The hosts also had three tries ruled out by the TMO as Sale were condemned to a third straight defeat in this season's competition.
Saracens are now just one victory short of equalling Munster's record of 13 successive European wins set between 2005 and 2007.
While the emerge of Saracens as a force domestically was originally built on their 'wolf pack' defence, the current European champions' performance here epitomised how they have become a dominant all-round team.
Marshalled by the standout lock Maro Itoje, the hosts' set piece was almost faultless all evening, while the backs' handling was largely unaffected by the damp conditions and scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth showed great precision kicking from hand.
It was Wigglesworth who sparked Saracens' first try - bursting through a gap to find Bosch on his shoulder - before Owen Farrell rolled in behind a decoy runner to collect Brad Barritt's pass and feed Maitland for a simple finish.
Saracens' creativity was perhaps more evident in two tries they had ruled out.
Schalk Burger and Wyles showed their football skills to set up Wigglesworth, only for the scrum-half to be denied by Josh Charnley's try-saving tackle, and Alex Goode then strayed needlessly offside in collecting Farrell's deft reverse kick.
Mark McCall's side were comfortable enough to remove returning England international Farrell for Alex Lozowski at fly-half a minute after the restart but they lost none of their intensity.
Jamie George dotted down from a rolling maul - potentially advancing his claims for an England starting berth should Dylan Hartley be handed a lengthy ban following his red card on Friday.
They were even able to use the same move that led to Maitland's first try to give Goode time to thread a kick to the corner that Wyles collected to score, before Maitland showed great footwork to dive over in the corner for his second.
Barrington's short-range effort late on underlined the dominance of the Saracens pack, with Lozowski converting to bring up a half century of points.
Just as Sale have failed to put together a run of results this season, so they failed to ever gain a foothold against a Saracens side able to recall the England quartet of Farrell, George, Mako Vunipola and George Kruis.
The visitors were victims of bad luck when their own England squad man, captain Josh Beaumont, was forced off with a thigh injury after only 20 minutes but Sale were also undone by their ill-discipline.
Laurence Pearce was sent to the bin for a late tackle on Farrell in the build-up to Goode's disallowed try, Jon Mills was shown yellow for a culmination of team infringements and James Flynn collected Sale's third card for a high tackle late on.
The deficit could even have been worse for Steve Diamond's side - Vincent Koch saw his short-range effort ruled out by the TMO to go with Saracens' two disallowed efforts before the break.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall: "Owen is ready [to captain England]. He's one of those players who leads in every way because he leads from the front.
"Some of his defending in the second quarter was out of this world. He leads through his actions, but also through his messages and communication with the team.
"Jamie George [Hartley's understudy as England hooker] has been playing well for a long time. Everybody knows it will happen sooner rather than later."
Sale host Saracens in the reverse fixture next Sunday, while Toulon travel to Wales to face Scarlets.
Saracens: Goode; Maitland, Bosch, Barritt (capt), Wyles; Farrell, Wigglesworth; Vunipola, George, Du Plessis, Itoje, Kruis, Rhodes, Brown, Burger.
Replacements: Lozowski for Farrell 41 mins, Skelton for Brown 51, Brits for George 52, Barrington for Vunipola 56, Koch for Du Plessis 56, Earle for Maitland 57, Spencer for Goode 61, Conlon for Burger 67.
Sale: Arscott; Odogwu, James, Leota, Charnley; MacGinty, Mitchell; Harrison, Webber, Aulika, Beaumont, Mills, Curry, Seymour, Pearce.
Replacements: Nott for Beaumont 20, Neild for Webber 56, B Curry for Seymour 56, Flynn for Harrison 59, Parker for Aulika 59, Phillips for Mitchell 64, Mugford for Arscott 74, Jennings for Leota 75.
The first suggested that obese men who lost weight were more likely get their partners pregnant.
The second found that a cancer drug helped some infertile men have children.
Experts said the approaches were interesting alternatives to IVF and were opening up "real possibilities" for men.
Weight loss is already widely advised for women struggling to conceive and obesity has long been suspected as a factor in male infertility.
A team at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada say they have conducted the first study to help men lose weight and see if it improved the chances of conception.
In 65 couples who had been referred to a fertility clinic, the men were sent to weekly group sessions on nutrition and physical activity for a year.
The study showed the men who conceived were those who had lost the most weight.
The research group said they were "thrilled" by the results.
One of the researchers, Dr Jean-Patrice Baillargeon, said: "This is the first prospective study suggesting that male partners who improve their weight also increase the odds for the couple to conceive."
He believes obesity could directly affect the sperm count, but may also affect the quality of sperm by subtly altering the DNA.
And he added that both men and women should be encouraged to lose weight if they were trying for a baby.
The second study focused on the chemical letrozole, which has been used in breast cancer and as a fertility treatment in women.
The excess fat in men can alter the balance of sex hormones, which in turn affects sperm count.
Letrozole can stop testosterone being broken down into oestrogen.
Trials took place on 12 men who had developed hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism, a form of infertility, as a result of their obesity
Two were able to have babies after being infertile for at least three years.
Dr Lena Salgado, from the University of Montreal, said: "Letrozole is a very attractive fertility treatment with obesity-related hypogonadism."
Prof Allan Pacey, from the University of Sheffield, told the BBC News website: "These are quite interesting studies because we have almost no treatments to improve the sperm quality of sub-fertile men.
"All we can do currently is decide which assisted conception procedures will utilise their sperm the most efficiently and then cross our fingers and hope for the best.
"Therefore to have a couple of proven interventions up our sleeve, that we could use in selected men, would really be quite useful."
He said that poor lifestyle had long been suspected as a factor in male fertility and the findings "opens up a real possibility" for them to have children.
However, he cautioned that while the letrozole findings were indeed "encouraging" he said they would not be a "wonder-drug for all cases of poor sperm production".
The theatre has been closed since 26 August while the 30-year-old plywood stage was ripped out and boards that are 10cm thicker put in.
The orchestra pit has been refurbished and new ticket kiosks and 500 low-energy light bulbs have been installed.
Resident company the Birmingham Royal Ballet will give the first performance on the new stage on Wednesday night.
First soloist with the BRB Victoria Marr said: "[The old stage] had a lot of wear and tear: it had started to show signs of ageing and it got a little bit dangerous.
"For us, wearing pointe shoes which are inherently slippery anyway, any little lump or bump in the surface can make it precarious."
Birmingham Hippodrome's stage was last refurbished in 1982 and the theatre said it had become uneven and started to split in places.
It said the new stage was made from heavy duty 11-inch (28cm) plywood.
Chief executive Stuart Griffiths said the refurbishment had been "long overdue".
He said: "We've had probably 1,000 shows and about 10,000 performers a year - that takes its toll.
"It just got to the point where we needed to provide an even, stable stage especially for dance and ballet."
The money to pay for the refurbishment has come from donations from grant-making trusts, local businesses, while almost £113,000 has been collected from audience members, the theatre said.
Ricards Birzinsh put Manchester ahead early in the first period with Colin Shields levelling for the Giants at the start of the second period.
There were no more goals in normal time or during five minutes of over-time so a penalty shootout was required.
Mike Radja's penalty proved enough to secure Belfast's win as they regrouped from Saturday's defeat in Nottingham.
Radja's clinching goal came after Giants keeper Stephen Murphy had made a series of brilliant saves.
The new material is thin as well as hard and is made using alumina, an oxide of aluminium.
If successfully commercialised, it could increase the durability of glass used in the windows of buildings, cars and in smartphone displays.
The team from the University of Tokyo and Japan's Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute have published their findings in Scientific Reports journal.
The material belongs to a category known as oxide glasses, which mainly consist of silicon dioxide - but with their strength boosted by alumina.
However, attempts to increase the amount of alumina have faltered in the past because it would cause the mixture to crystallise when it came into contact with the sides of its container, preventing a useful glass from being formed.
Atsunobu Masuno from the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo and colleagues used oxygen gas to push the ingredients into the air and then used lasers to melt them.
The resultant glass was colourless, transparent and extremely hard. A property called Young's modulus, which is an indicator of stiffness, was greater than that of some metals, and on its way to values associated with steel.
Another mechanical property, called Vickers hardness, was comparable with the highest values previously reported for oxide glasses.
"We will establish a way to mass-produce the new material shortly," Dr Masuno told the Asahi Shinbun newspaper. "We are looking to commercialise the technique within five years."
There were 78,970 geese recorded at the Angus reserve last year, beating the previous record of 65,060 set in 2010.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust said 56,637 had been recorded so far this year, approaching the 60,000 annual average.
Emma Castle-Smith, assistant visitor centre manager at Montrose Basin, said: "We are hoping this could be another record-breaking year."
She explained: "Seeing these amazing birds en masse is breathtaking for anyone lucky enough to witness it."
The geese have migrated 1,200km (745 miles) from Iceland and Greenland for the winter.
About 372,000 pink-footed geese spend the winter in the UK, thought to be about 90% of the world's population.
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Fifteen crew members from Dorset Fire and Rescue Service pulled the pair out of the water in Factory Lane, Duntish at about 08:45 BST.
A vet was at the scene to sedate the horses, one of whom was called Elvis, while crews had to cut away undergrowth to reach them.
The horses are now said to be "recovering well" in a nearby field.
It will take the number of employees at Celtic Way-based Essentra to 330.
The new roles, supported by £400,000 of Welsh government cash, come following the creation of 70 last November.
In announcing the jobs, economy minister Edwina Hart said Wales has a "notable strength" in the pharmaceuticals services sector.
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The Gunners failed to register a shot on target in a lacklustre display that drew criticism from fans and pundits.
"If some people feel as if I am the problem, then I am sorry that I am the problem," Wenger told Sky Sports.
"But we want our fans to be with us even in a losing performance like that."
He added: "The only thing we can do is come back and give them a better performance."
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Wenger signed a new two-year deal at the end of last season, despite calls from some supporters for him to be replaced.
The club finished fifth in the league, meaning they missed out on Champions League football for the first time in Wenger's 21-year tenure, but won the FA Cup.
Wenger left club record signing Alexandre Lacazette on the bench at Anfield, but was able to give forward Alexis Sanchez a first start of the season.
However, the Gunners were overrun by goals from Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Daniel Sturridge and when asked what was wrong with the performance, Wenger said "everything".
"We were not at the right level from the first minute - physically, technically and mentally - and we were punished," said the Frenchman.
"Today our performance was not acceptable. It is true today we were an easy opponent for Liverpool.
"Our performance was absolutely disastrous. Not to become too emotional, we have to take some distance, and there are some reasons behind it, and the players now go on their international break, but we do have to take the consequences of our performance today,"
BBC Radio 5 live pundit Robbie Savage at Anfield:
Liverpool haven't beaten Arsenal, they have destroyed them. Thumped them. Torn them apart.
It doesn't matter what formation you play or your tactics, it's also about desire and winning second balls. I don't think enough Arsenal players want to play that kind of football.
Where are the leaders on the park for Arsenal, getting the likes of Granit Xhaka and Nacho Monreal by the scruff of the neck and demanding to know what they are doing?
If I was an Arsenal fan I'd want to see my manager. Arsene Wenger and Steve Bould are simply sitting there doing nothing. Get out there and give your team a rollocking.
Talk about body language. Think of the Arsenal teams of the past - leaders like Tony Adams, Martin Keown and Bould.
Former Arsenal striker John Hartson on Radio 5 live's 606:
When you travel to a notorious place, Anfield, mentally you've got to be prepared for a tough game, you've got to be prepared to run back, to tackle and to earn the right. Arsenal did not earn the right - they were lacking all over the pitch.
Blame Arsene Wenger all you want but if the Arsenal players cannot muster up some fight then there must be something seriously wrong at the football club.
I would have liked to have seen Wenger leave at the end of last season after winning three FA Cups in four years. He'd have left with the respect of the crowd and with his head held high.
The club needs freshening up.
The 21-year-old has been at Tannadice since summer 2013 but has only made one first-team appearance as a substitute.
Englishman Oyenuga began his career with Spurs and had loan spells with MyPa in Finland, Bury and St Johnstone before being released.
He spent a season with Conference club Hayes and Yeading United before heading for Tannadice.
Oyenuga spent the second half of last season on loan to Conference South outfit Boreham Wood.
Now he has joined Jimmy Nicholl's Blue Brazil in the Scottish Championship until January and could make his debut in Tuesday's League Cup tie away to Falkirk.
The defender, 33, rejoined the Easter Road club at the weekend, 10 years after leaving for Rangers.
And Whittaker says the side promoted from the Championship in April are determined to pip the likes of Aberdeen and Rangers to a second-place finish.
"I think (second place) is something we need to aim for, something we need to believe we can achieve," he said.
Celtic ran away with the Premiership title last term with Aberdeen second and Rangers third.
And Whittaker reckons the recent positivity at Hibs can help them finish best of the rest this season, with Celtic expected to lift the title again.
"It's a squad that is on the up," he added. "They have had two successful seasons and there is a good feeling about the club.
"The manager (Neil Lennon) has come in and demanded high standards so we will look to carry that on this season.
"We'll be expecting the best from ourselves and hopefully we'll get the best possible outcome that we can.
"There's no chance the manager will let us slack and we'll keep trying to produce."
Whittaker, who signed a three year deal with Hibs after leaving Norwich, the club he joined from Rangers in 2012, knows he cannot take his place in the side for granted.
As well as securing the Championship title under Lennon last season, Hibs also ended their 114-year wait for Scottish Cup glory in season 2015-16 under Alan Stubbs.
And David Gray, who scored the winning goal in the cup final against Rangers, just happens to play in Whittaker's favoured right-back slot.
"Depending on the opposition, the manager knows I can fill in along the back four or in midfield if needs be," the versatile former Scotland player said.
"So we will just wait and see what that brings. I'm just happy to be back playing and wherever that is I'll get on with it."
Whittaker quit Rangers following the Ibrox outfit's financial collapse in 2012.
Like team-mate Steven Naismith, he refused to transfer his contract over to the new company set up by Charles Green - sparking anger among Rangers fans.
Hibs visit Ibrox on 12 August and while Whittaker is unsure how he will be received, he is sure about what he hopes to take from the game.
"It was a difficult time for everyone," Whittaker said of his decision to leave Rangers. "A lot of pressure got put on the players when they were not to blame.
"We were trying to take care of business on the park with everything else going on outside, so it was difficult.
"But it was what it was and we all had to continue on as we chose.
"I don't know what kind of reception I'll get when I go back.
"I enjoyed my time there, I've got a lot of fantastic memories. It's a great place to go play your football and it's a game we at Hibs will look forward to and hopefully get the three points."
Six elements are considered essential for life - oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur - so the announcement in 2010 implied one of biology's golden rules had been broken.
The findings provoked an immediate backlash and now two new scientific papers suggest the bacterium needs phosphorus to grow after all.
The studies appear in Science journal.
One of the papers
is authored by Tobias Erb from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and collagues;
the other
comes from a team led by Marshall Reaves of Princeton University in New Jersey.
In December 2010, the
same journal published a paper
claiming to show that the GFAJ-1 micro-organism, found in the arsenic-rich sediments of California's Mono Lake, could incorporate arsenic into its DNA when phosphorus was unavailable.
The team, led by Felisa Wolfe-Simon - then based at the US Geological Survey (USGS) - had acknowledged very low levels of phosphate (a phosphorus-containing molecule) within their study samples.
But they concluded that this contamination was insufficient to permit GFAJ-1 to grow.
The new papers suggest instead that although the organism is able to survive in high arsenic and low phosphorus (phosphate) conditions, it still needs phosphorus to grow.
They conclude that Dr Wolfe-Simon's samples did in fact contain enough phosphate contamination to support GFAJ-1's growth.
The researchers argue that the bacterium - being highly adapted to the arsenic-rich environment of the lake - is thrifty, and has become adept at scavenging phosphorus under harsh conditions.
This helps explain why it can grow even when arsenic is present within the cells.
The latest studies also found no evidence that arsenic was incorporated into the microbe's DNA - as the authors of the original paper had suggested.
Despite the criticism directed at the December 2010 study, Science journal has never retracted the study by Dr Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues.
However, Science's editors have released a statement to accompany the new papers, in which they comment: "In conclusion, the new research shows that GFAJ-1 does not break the long-held rules of life, contrary to how Wolfe-Simon had interpreted her group's data.
"The scientific process is a naturally self-correcting one, as scientists attempt to replicate published results."
The original finding was the subject of a Nasa press conference, in which participants speculated about the finding's possible implications for life elsewhere in the Universe.
Dr Wolfe-Simon and her colleagues have
already responded to a number of specific criticisms
in the pages of Science journal, as well as in the press - where the subsequent debate was also played out.
The lead author subsequently left the USGS lab where she was based. It was originally reported that she was seeking a location with better molecular and genetic research facilities.
But in an
interview with Popular Science magazine
she said she was effectively "evicted" from the laboratory.
The blaze caused thousands of pounds of damage to Bishopbriggs Cultural Centre, in the town's Auchinairn Road, at about 02:20 on 17 November 2015.
The CCTV footage shows the man pouring liquid around and setting it alight.
He is about 5ft 10in tall and was wearing a blue tracksuit, a hat with an luminous rear band and dark shoes.
Det Con Stephen Cooke, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a deliberate and dangerous act which has caused extensive damage to the centre.
"I would appeal to anyone who recognises the man in the CCTV images to contact police as he may hold information vital to our inquiry."
William Tolcher, 51, denied attacking Alex Cusworth, 37, with the 10in (23cm) knife at Dartmoor Prison last November.
A jury at Plymouth Crown Court found him guilty of murder and he is due to be sentenced on Friday.
Tolcher, from Liverpool, is serving a life sentence for the murder of a woman in Newquay, Cornwall, in 1996.
Mr Cusworth suffered internal bleeding after the attack and died at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.
Judge James Dingemens said he was considering a minimum 30-year jail sentence.
Tolcher was convicted of murdering a woman in Newquay, Cornwall, in 1996 and was already serving a life sentence.
Here is what you need to know:
Britain first took over Hong Kong island in 1842, after defeating China in the First Opium War. After the Second Opium War, Beijing was forced to also cede Kowloon in 1860, the area on the mainland opposite the island.
In 1898, to enforce its control of the area, the UK leased additional land, known as the New Territories, promising to return them to China in 99 years.
Hong Kong developed rapidly under UK rule, becoming one of the world's major financial and business centres.
Then in 1982, London and Beijing began the difficult process of negotiating the territory's return to Chinese rule.
Hong Kong had developed a vastly different political and economic system from mainland China, which since 1949 had been under authoritarian one-party Communist rule.
China agreed to govern Hong Kong under the principle of "one country, two systems", where the city would enjoy "a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs" for the next 50 years.
Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region. This means it has:
The territory has its own mini-constitution to enshrine these special rights.
Called the Basic Law, it states that "the ultimate aim" is to elect the territory's leader, the chief executive, "by universal suffrage" and "in accordance with democratic procedures".
The leader is the chief executive, elected by a 1,200-member election committee. A majority of the members of this committee are viewed as pro-Beijing.
The parliament is the Legislative Council (LegCo). It is made up half of directly elected representatives and half by representatives chosen by professional or special interest groups.
Political activists argue that the election process gives Beijing the ability to screen out any candidates it disapproves of.
Pro-democracy activists have been campaigning for years for Hong Kong people to have the right to elect their own leader.
In 2014, Beijing said it would allow direct election of the chief executive, but only from a list of pre-approved candidates.
That lead to mass protests from people who wanted full direct democracy. The protests shut down central parts of the city for weeks. The move was later reversed.
There are also a lot of people in Hong Kong who are concerned that China is increasingly meddling in Hong Kong politics in other ways, undermining more politically liberal traditions.
So Hong Kong is increasingly divided into:
The anniversary of the handover is usually also marked by large demonstrations from both camps of the political divide.
That's the date after which mainland China is no longer obliged to grant the autonomy agreed on with Britain before the handover.
While there are some who call for full independence, China has ruled out that option.
The likely paths therefore will be:
With an increasingly politicised younger generation, most observers expect a tough political struggle over the city's future.
Drivers in the city spend an average of 31 hours a year in traffic, according to the latest figures from traffic information website, INRIX
However, the number of hours drivers in Belfast spend in congestion has dropped by nearly eight hours in 2012.
All of the 18 UK cities analysed showed a decline in traffic congestion in 2012.
Bryan Mistele, chief executive officer, INRIX, said: "There has always been strong correlation between the state of the economy and the level of traffic congestion on our roads.
"It tells us if people are employed and driving to work, going out to eat or doing some shopping, as well as whether or not businesses are shipping products," he added.
"Considering unemployment hit record highs in 2012 and European household wealth dropped 13.6% to 10.9 trillion dollars (£7.13 trillion) , it is hardly surprising that traffic levels have dropped significantly."
He is accused of two counts of fraud by abuse of position and conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation.
Mr Philpott is also charged with possessing criminal property and concealing criminal property.
He is expected to appear at Newry Magistrates Court on 19 October.
Police said a 52-year-old woman, also arrested as part of their investigation, has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.
Lenny Harper, who retired in 2008, led the investigation centred on homes such as Haut de la Garrenne.
He gave evidence to the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry over video link from Edinburgh rather than in person.
Mr Harper said this was on the advice of his lawyer over concerns Jersey law officers had prepared a "nasty surprise" for him.
States of Jersey Police said he would not have been arrested if he had returned.
Mr Harper said: "We were told by several people that the States lawyers had been discussing in the office that they had a nasty surprise for me if I arrived back in Jersey.
"Bearing in mind they had already launched investigations a few years back without telling me. The lawyer advised me against going back so I took his advice."
Mr Harper gave two days of evidence to the care inquiry this week about the historic child abuse investigation he led, called Operation Rectangle.
He said he did not know what form the "nasty surprise" would take, but suspected it was in connection with "baseless" allegations he had leaked documents.
"I have got previous experience of them manoeuvring so I don't know what they were planning.
"I am happy that the only crime I've committed in their eyes is covering up child abuse.
"I'm not losing any sleep over it but my lawyer felt their capability to produce anything out of the dishonest hat, it would be best if I gave my evidence from Edinburgh."
The show was broadcast at 18:00 BST on 6 October and featured Homer Simpson hanging by a noose from a tree.
A viewer felt this was "inappropriate for an early evening broadcast when families would be watching".
Channel 4 has apologised for "any offence caused" and said "it took its compliance responsibilities seriously".
The broadcaster added that, after receiving two complaints about the episode, edits considered necessary to correct it "were not put into effect".
The show, it went on, would not be repeated before the watershed.
Ofcom noted that the plot of the episode "prominently featured strangulation", raising issues around its scheduling.
Rule 1.3 of the watchdog's code of conduct says: "Children must... be protected by appropriate scheduling from material that is unsuitable for them."
The course, from Pearson's Edexcel exam board, will cover factors leading up to the banking crash of 2007-08.
It will also ask pupils to compare the crash and the way governments handled it, with the Great Depression of 1930s.
"It is vitally important that our A-levels reflect the realities of an ever changing world," said Mark Anderson, Pearson's UK managing director.
"We know that students and teachers are eager to study the biggest financial crisis to take place in our lifetimes, and it is so important that tomorrow's business leaders understand and debate these key economic events."
Pearson says its new A-level economics will ask students to consider the factors that contributed to the crisis "including moral hazard, speculation and market bubbles".
They will also look at the role of banking regulation and the methods governments adopted to deal with the crisis.
These include "quantitative easing" - when central banks print or create money electronically and use it to buy bonds from banks or pension funds to increase the amount of cash in the financial system, boosting lending to businesses and individuals.
The theory is this should allow them to invest and spend more, hopefully increasing growth.
Arguably government efforts to manipulate the money supply and interest rates in the recent recession helped avoid the crisis becoming a 1930s style depression.
Students will also for the first time study the use of "national wellbeing" and "national happiness" as economic measures.
They will also look at the limitations of these and more traditional economic measures in comparing living standards between countries and over time.
The syllabus will also include the study of economic theorists such as Karl Marx, John Keynes, Friedrich Hayek and Adam Smith, as well as a section on new theories in behavioural economics and the ways in which psychological, emotional and social factors contribute to people's economic decisions.
Students will also study emerging and developing economies and consider economic theories and concepts in different contexts.
Exam boards OCR and AQA have also redeveloped their economics A-levels in response to new government specifications for the subject.
These require students to develop an "appreciation of economic concepts and theories in a range of contexts and develop a critical consideration of their value and limitations" in explaining real-world events.
AQA qualifications manager Sam Livesey said his board's A-level economics course, developed with help from the Bank of England, would include the 2008 credit crunch "as a real-life example to teach students how the financial system operates and give them real-world knowledge of economics.
"The topic will give students an understanding of how financial crises occur and what measures can be put in place to avoid them," said Ms Livesey.
The chancellor is working with Whitehall officials and the international Financial Stability Board (FSB) on new regulations which will be imposed on the market. At the moment, foreign exchange (known in City shorthand as "forex") is largely unregulated and left to the bank traders who execute deals on behalf of global companies. Companies use forex deals to move money between different currencies and a large part of the market is dealt through London.
One senior official I have spoken to agreed that the public would be "very surprised" that such a major market was clearly open to abuse. The Treasury is likely to announce a set of measures to "clean up the market", probably in the next fortnight.
The prices in forex are set by traders who are doing the deals. Traders are able to pick a selection of the trades they have been asked to execute, meaning they can choose those most advantageous to their bank. The prices are set at the 4pm "fix", a daily City benchmark against which currencies are priced. I have written a short "How It Works" at the end of this blog on the allegation that forex is manipulated.
Regulators around the world including the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in London and the US Department of Justice are investigating allegations of forex manipulation. It has been reported that at least 15 banks are involved and nine are thought to have suspended or fired traders. No allegations have been proved and no admissions of fault made.
Martin Wheatley, the head of the FCA, said the allegations, if substantiated, could be "every bit as bad as Libor", referring to the revelations three years ago that the market which governs how banks lend to each other was regularly fixed.
As forex is an international market governed by international rules, the UK government is limited in what it can do alone. That is why it is working with the FSB - chaired by the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney - which is due to produce a major report on controlling the market at the G20 summit in Brisbane in the autumn.
Options include ensuring that a broader selection of trades are included in setting the price of forex deals; making the trading transparent on electronic trading platforms; limiting the negotiations between traders before the prices are set and changing the trading culture with the possibility of new professional codes of conduct for those executing trades. A single "fix" at 4pm could also be changed, giving a wider range of prices for currencies.
More importantly for Mr Osborne, there is a wider political point he wants to make, I am told. If the public is to regain trust in the financial system, then people must have faith that the markets are operating fairly. Allegations of manipulation around Libor and forex undermine that trust and leave the public believing there is one rule for them and another rule for "insiders", those close to the chancellor believe.
In a passage of his important speech on Inclusive Capitalism last week, Mr Carney laid out some of the key arguments which I am sure will be repeated by Mr Osborne in the near future. "In recent years, a host of scandals in fixed income, currency and commodity markets have been exposed," Mr Carney said. "Merely prosecuting the guilty to the full extent of the law will not be sufficient to address the issues raised. Authorities and market participants must also act to re-create fair and effective markets."
Ever the strategist, Mr Osborne is already looking towards the next general election in May 2015. Before the 2010 election, the then shadow chancellor made great play that Labour had failed on regulation and that the government was asleep at the wheel as the banks made hay (and lots of money) before the financial crisis.
The Coalition's nightmare scenario is that billions of pounds of forex fines are announced in 2015 and Labour accuses the government of a lack of action. Mr Osborne is looking intently at tightening the forex rules to try and head off just such an eventuality.
A picture of the former Labour leader blowing his nose was used by NBC to introduce a news item warning that not enough people were being vaccinated.
The photo was taken at the Labour conference in Liverpool in 2011.
On Twitter, Mr Miliband said he was "proud" of his "new role", coining the hashtag "#flulabour".
The photo, which NBC captioned "flu risk", is the top result from a search for "sneeze" on the Getty picture database.
It triggered a flurry of tweets after viewers recognised the ex-Labour leader.
With the Doncaster North MP blowing his nose in the background, the NBC presenter warned of "fresh concerns" that not enough people were being vaccinated for flu.
It is packed with saturated fat which can raise "bad" cholesterol, says the American Heart Association in updated advice.
Coconut oil is commonly sold as a health food and some claim the fat in it may be better for us than other saturated fats.
The AHA, however, says there are no good studies to support this.
The advice around which fats to eat can be very confusing.
Animal fats, such as lard, are generally seen as bad, while plant oils, such as olive and sunflower, are seen as healthier options.
That theory is based on how much of one particular type of fat - saturated fat or "sat fat" - these products contain.
Saturated fat is said to be bad for our health, although not everyone agrees.
Eating a diet high in saturated fat can raise the level of "bad" (LDL) cholesterol in the blood, which, in turn, may clog the arteries and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.
According to the AHA, 82% of the fat in coconut oil is saturated. That's more than in butter (63%), beef fat (50%) and pork lard (39%). And, like other saturated fats, studies show it can increase "bad" cholesterol.
Some claim that the mixture of fats in coconut oil still make it a healthy option, but the AHA says there is no good-quality evidence for this.
It says people should limit how much saturated fat they eat, replacing some of it with unsaturated vegetable oils - olive oil and sunflower oil, and their spreads.
According to the AHA, studies show swaps such as this can lower cholesterol by the same magnitude as cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Dr Frank Sacks, lead author of the AHA advice, said: "We want to set the record straight on why well-conducted scientific research overwhelmingly supports limiting saturated fat in the diet to prevent diseases of the heart and blood vessels."
In the UK, Public Health England advises people to cut down on saturated fat:
Nutritional labels on food display how much saturated fat is in products.
But experts stress that fat is still an essential part of a healthy, balanced diet. We shouldn't cut out too much. Fat is a source of essential fatty acids and helps the body absorb vitamins, such as A, D and E.
Victoria Taylor from the British Heart Foundation said: "To eat well for your heart health it is not just about reducing fat but reducing specific types of fat and taking care over what these are replaced with - unsaturated fats and wholegrains, rather than sugars and refined carbohydrates.
"Any change should be viewed in the context of a whole diet approach. The traditional Mediterranean diet has benefits for a range of risk factors for heart disease, not just cholesterol levels.
"We recommend replacing the saturated fats in the diet with unsaturated fats - using oils instead of butter and choosing foods like avocado, oily fish, nuts and seeds instead of foods high in saturated fats like cakes, biscuits, chocolate and fatty meat."
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the government will instead introduce faster trains with more seats and better on-board facilities.
He said: "We are making the biggest investment in the railways since the Victorian era."
Andy McDonald, Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary, accused him of "taking people for a ride".
Routes between Cardiff and Swansea, and between Kettering, Nottingham and Sheffield, and between Windermere and Oxenholme will be affected.
Mr Grayling said said the new trains on the Great Western and Midland Mainline would be bi-mode, meaning they could run on electrified sections of track and then transfer to non-electrified sections.
He said: "Thanks to this new technology disruptive electrification works... will no longer be needed.
"Passengers will benefit sooner and experience less disruption compared with putting up intrusive wires and masts along routes where they are no longer required."
However, Mr McDonald said: "The Tories have been promising the electrification of the Great Western Mainline from Paddington to Swansea since 2012 and today's announcement confirms that they have been taking people for a ride."
Eight years ago Network Rail dramatically over-promised how quickly and how cheaply it could electrify some of Britain's busiest rail lines.
Reality soon hit home.
A recent report by the Public Accounts Committee described the electrification of the Great Western line as "a stark example of how not to run a project".
The budget went from £874m in 2013 to £2.8bn two years later.
Why? Because when Network Rail first did their sums, it was based on guesswork. They hadn't looked in detail at what needed doing and it was just much harder than they thought to upgrade Victorian bridges and tunnels on a line that was being kept open at the same time.
So having kicked some of the promised electrification schemes into the long grass a while ago, the government's finally chopped them.
New trains which are part diesel, part electric, will be used instead.
Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Secretary, Jenny Randerson, said: "The Liberal Democrats secured vital investment for rail electrification when in government.
"That was then delayed by the Tories and now has been scrapped altogether."
The government said it would introduce new Intercity Express trains in Wales with around 130 more seats and faster services.
Wales' Economy Secretary, Ken Skates, told Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme: "I don't buy it."
He accused the UK government of "years of broken promises" and said Mr Grayling had not responded to his requests for a meeting on the issue.
"I'm urging the UK government to clarify the situation immediately," he added.
The Department for Transport said the new services meant long distance journey times from Nottingham and Sheffield would be reduced by up to 20 minutes in peak periods.
It said four direct services a day in each direction between Windermere and Manchester Airport will be introduced from May 2018.
He replaces Phil Blake and is making the switch from New Zealand along with new head coach Aaron Mauger.
Coaches Geordan Murphy and Richard Blaze have extended their contracts, with all four signing three-year deals.
"Aaron knows Scott very well and comes very highly recommended as a coach," Cockerill told the club website.
"He has worked in some top-class environments and we look forward to sharing that experience and knowledge with the playing squad here."
Blake is leaving the Premiership club, who are fourth in the table and will play Wasps and leaders Northampton in their final two games of the season.
"Aaron has already had a lot of input on our plans for next season, while he has continued to work with the Crusaders in New Zealand, and we look forward to having him here as we build up to next season," added Cockerill.
"We're delighted that Richard and Geordan have agreed new contracts, because they are outstanding young coaches with a big future."
Many people - not only journalists - will be disappointed.
In the High Court on Tuesday, Mr Justice Hildyard granted a second 24-hour adjournment after lawyers for both RBS and the thousands of shareholders who feel they were duped into putting extra money into the failing bank told him the two sides were close to a deal.
Back in 2008, RBS sold £12bn of new shares to investors at £2 each to bolster its finances. It wasn't sufficient and the government was forced to rescue it six months later with £45bn in taxpayers' money which wiped out most of the value of those new shares.
Shareholders big and small cried foul, saying the bank had misled them about how secure the bank's finances were when it asked them to put in their extra money.
Many of those shareholders, mostly big institutions, have already settled with RBS - accepting between 41 and 43 pence for each share. But thousands of smaller shareholders and some institutions fought on and proceedings were due to start on Monday.
A last minute offer of 82 pence was offered over the weekend and that was enough for the judge to grant one and now two extra days to try to get a deal preventing an already astronomically expensive case from rumbling on for many more weeks.
It seems very likely that the two sides will reach agreement later on Tuesday and that will make it very unlikely that those who lost money will have the satisfaction of seeing Mr Goodwin squirm under a spotlight he has successfully avoided for most of the last decade.
One shareholder I spoke to in court said that, while he would go along with any settlement, he was sorry that he would not get to see Mr Goodwin and the other directors face the music.
"I just want to see Fred and the directors who waved through his recklessness held to account," he told me.
In many ways it is a shame that we won't get to relive the sorry tale of the demise of what was once the world's biggest bank.
The RBS collapse continues to cast a huge shadow. The bank is expected to lose money again this year - for the 10th year in a row - with total losses for that decade expected to be around £60bn.
But more than the colossal sums of money lost, the RBS story is arguably the most significant episode in the way the relationship, the contract if you like, between business, government and society has changed since the financial crash.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett once famously said, "it's only when the tide goes out that you see who's swimming naked". The financial crash and the subsequent scandals like Libor exposed naked greed, vast pay and poor ethical standards.
The intense anger at having to foot the bill to clear up the mess may have subsided slightly, but the distrust of business and finance lingers on years later and is evident in the campaign manifestos of all political parties - including the Tories.
RBS remains more than 70% state-owned. The wider public may feel that entitles them to see the dirty linen of the past washed in open court. That now looks unlikely.
Nearly 400 others were injured at the Puttingal temple in Paravur when a faulty firework fell onto a large stockpile of fireworks.
A building at the temple then collapsed, causing many of the deaths.
Thousands had gathered to watch the fireworks display as part of a local new year festival.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who visited the scene and spoke with victims in local hospitals, said the incident was "heart-rending and shocking beyond words".
"The incident is so grave that it is very difficult to describe in words," he added. "People who were 200 metres away were also hurt."
In pictures: India temple fire
The explosion happened at about 03:30 (22:00 GMT Saturday), hours after the event started in Kollam district.
Yogita Limaye, BBC News, at the scene
Outside the Puttingal temple there was an eerie silence the night after the fire tragedy.
Rubble and firecracker shells were scattered all over the ground. And shoes. Lots of them.
A pink flip-flop, one black sandal, a white sports shoe that's upside down - they were all lying not far from each other, all signs of the mad scramble that erupted as people tried to save themselves.
Read Yogita's full report
There were scenes of chaos as emergency teams were slow in reaching the area and rescue teams used bulldozers to clear the area looking for survivors.
A power outage hit the complex after the first explosion, further complicating rescue efforts.
Many of the dead were charred beyond recognition and would have to be identified by DNA tests, said Kerala police chief TP Senkumar.
The temple had been denied permission on safety grounds to hold the fireworks display but it had gone ahead under pressure from the crowd, officials said.
Police are planning to take action against the temple administration and the contractors who were putting on the display.
Kerala's government said it had ordered a judicial inquiry that would work alongside the police's criminal investigation.
The incident happened as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in Mumbai for a seven-day tour of India and Bhutan, and Kensington Palace said the couple's thoughts were with those assisting victims.
Kerala is in the middle of an election for a new state assembly, but political parties have called off campaigning as a mark of respect for the victims.
Voice recording booths were popular in the UK and USA between the 1930s and 1970s and were fixtures at train stations, seaside arcades and tourist attractions.
While the discs they created have largely disappeared, one featuring women singing to a baby found in a Cardiff charity shop was the catalyst for the rediscovery of a long-forgotten way of communicating.
The story is told in a Radio 4 podcast called Keepsake For My Lover.
It began when the boyfriend of BBC radio producer Hannah Loy came across an old recording while sifting through records in a Cardiff charity shop.
"When he got it home, it actually played and we heard two women singing to a baby," she said.
"It was so exciting and evocative to hear those voices from the past, we created a whole back story to their lives."
Along with presenter Janine H Jones, Ms Loy began looking into the history of the booths, summing up their role in British culture by adding: "If you've seen Brighton Rock you'll know what we mean."
The 1947 movie, based on a Graham Greene novel, is a gangster film where a voice recording made at a fairground plays a central part in the plot.
One of the characters does not have a gramophone to play it on, with the content only revealed towards the end of it.
While most traces of the booths have long-since disappeared, the pair found details of somebody who still repairs them, living near Washington DC in the United States.
"Luckily, Janine was going on a trip to the states anyway so that's when everything fell into place," Ms Loy said.
"She spoke to everyone she could over there about the discs and the booths and came back with some amazing recordings."
Booths had a strict time limit and you spoke or sang when a green light came on.
Ms Loy added: "I think that flummoxed people, it was like a performance, people got tongue tied or their minds went blank.
"Often they spoke about mundane things."
To try and recreate the feeling of the booths, the pair set one up at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, putting on a time limit and one chance to record.
"People engaged with it straight away but what struck us was how similar some of the recordings were to the ones from over 60 years ago featured in the documentary," she said.
The podcast Keepsake for My Lover is part of the Seriously podcast collection for Radio 4.
"(It) emphasises the power and timelessness of recorded speech and the beauty and significance in mistakes and the mundane," Ms Loy added.
"[It is] particularly poignant now, when we live in a world where everything can be airbrushed, faked and edited."
A 48-hour walkout was staged by security staff at 11 airports operated by Highlands and Islands Airports (Hial) last week as part of the industrial action, which saw flights cancelled at Dundee airport.
Hial bosses said they would make a formal offer to "resolve this issue as quickly as possible".
The Prospect union welcomed the move.
Hial, which is owned by the Scottish government, operates airports in the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, Dundee, Argyll, Inverness and Wick.
About 120 staff from security company AMSL took part in industrial action last week as part of a dispute over pay.
Hial managing director Inglis Lyon said he hoped the issue could be swiftly resolved.
He said: "We will submit a formal offer to the union this week which we hope will provide the basis for a meaningful, constructive dialogue.
"It has always been the intention of the company to address the concerns of security staff, but it is impossible to do so under the threat of industrial action.
"It is important that we resolve this issue as quickly as possible. The threat of further industrial action is in no one's interests, particularly as we approach the busy summer season."
Prospect national secretary Alan Denney said he was "pleased" that Hial had "made progress".
He said: "We look forward to receiving a written offer and entering into a constructive dialogue with Hial on the basis of this. We hope this will lead to a swift resolution of our dispute.
"The legal mandate for further strike action remains, but if Hial makes a reasonable offer which addresses our objective of securing equal treatment for AMSL workers, we should not need to exercise that option."
Prospect represents 120 of AMSL's 160 workers at the 11 Hial airports.
Sophie Lindsay, 15, was reported missing after being last seen at about 13:15 in the city's Sherbrooke Avenue at the weekend.
At the time, police said she had been missing before but not for a prolonged period of time.
However, officers said on Wednesday that the teenager had been found safe and well.
A thumping 241-run victory in the first Test in South Africa was England's sixth win in 14 matches this year.
They regained the Ashes in the summer but lost to Pakistan in the UAE and drew with New Zealand and West Indies.
"There is still a lot of improvement in this team. It's only just the beginning of a journey for this young team," said Bayliss, who was appointed in May.
England, who are sixth in the Test rankings, needed only 24 overs on the final day in Durban to beat the team who top the standings.
"If you want to be the best team in the world you've got to put in consistently good performances and I think we've got a way to go in that," Bayliss told BBC Sport.
"We can by no means rest on one win. We know it's going to be a tough series.
"We've only got to look back at the Ashes. We were up and down in results and that's one of the things we want to work on - consistency over a series."
Nick Compton, playing Test cricket for the first time since May 2013, made a watchful 85 in England's first innings, while James Taylor scored 70.
Joe Root hit 73 in the second innings to take his total for 2015 to 1,385 Test runs, while Jonny Bairstow added 79 from 76 balls to ram home England's advantage.
Moeen Ali was named man of the match after taking 7-116, but all of England's frontline bowlers took wickets.
Bayliss said: "I thought it was a team effort. Most guys scored some runs and the wickets were shared around as well."
The Australian added he was "a little disappointed" with England's scores of 303 and 326.
He said: "I thought we left 100 runs or so out there in both innings so we've got things to work on. Our bowling before tea on the fourth day was a little ordinary as well, but we regrouped and hit those right areas.
"The very best teams that get to the number one position in the world have one or two guys that will make 130.
"We had some guys bat very well for 70s and an 80 but if one goes on and gets 130, 140, 150, it could mean 100 extra runs and then the result is completely out of reach. That's something we will work towards.
"Most of the guys in this team are fairly young and inexperienced, so I think naturally that will come, but we've got to keep challenging them to do that."
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Yasmin Kauser, 46, hit the single decker, causing it to crash into a Guide Dogs UK shop on Broadway, Peterborough, on Christmas Eve.
She had earlier admitted one count of careless driving.
Peterborough magistrates heard she had a clean licence for 20 years and her husband, who has cancer, relied on her.
The court heard Kauser, of Park Road, Peterborough, was driving her Kia Sportage at about 11:45 GMT on 24 December when she hit the side of the bus after failing to stop at a junction.
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"She pulled out without stopping or slowing," Graham Allen, prosecuting, said.
"This caused the bus to collide with the shop front, causing substantial damage."
The bus driver and several passengers were injured during the impact.
Kauser and her passenger also sustained minor injuries.
Although no-one inside the Guide Dogs UK shop was hurt, the front of the shop was destroyed and staff were forced to find a new office in the city.
At the time of the accident, Alex Caruso, a passenger on the bus, said: "We didn't see where the car was coming from.
"The bus driver started braking, veered away from other cars and came to a stop in the building, but to avoid any other people and cars was a miracle."
In mitigation, the court heard Kauser was normally a careful driver and needed her car to get to hospital appointments in Birmingham, where she was being treated for the autoimmune disease lupus.
Her husband, who had been diagnosed with cancer, also relied heavily on her.
Chair of the magistrates' bench, Alan Jones, said: "It is an unfortunate offence where one mistake has caused both injury and significant damage.
"Your driving record suggests you're normally a careful driver and we are prepared to deal with this as a one-off incident rather than general bad driving."
As well as the points and fine, Kauser was ordered to pay £105 in costs.
The Tunisian, whom Islamic State have named as Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani, lived in Jaafour until he was 19 or 20. He then went off to university at Kairouan but continued to visit the village regularly.
Officials said his named was Seifeddine Rezgui. He was shot dead by police after the attack on Friday.
His parents and sister and all of his close friends have been detained for questioning, but an uncle and a cousin in the village were both visibly extremely upset and shocked.
They seemed to have been pretty much traumatised by the news that it was their relative who carried out this deadly attack.
They said they had seen him literally two or three days before the event and that there was nothing in his behaviour to indicate he had been radicalised or that he was about to carry out an attack.
It seems that just the day before the attack, on Thursday, he was in Jaafour and he had his beard shaved off, presumably the better to make his way onto the beach without arousing suspicion.
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Everybody we talked to in Jaafour, whether his family or just fellow villagers, said he was just a very normal man - he prayed like other people here, he fasted like other people here, but he showed no signs at all of extremism.
The tendency in the village is to blame Kairouan - the big town where he went off to study.
Relatives believe he may been radicalised there but managed to hide it until he carried out this attack, leaving people in the village more shocked than they can say.
We've put together the seven deadly sins of internet use.
1. Pointless passwords
You use the same password for everything. Why waste valuable brain power? It's easy, isn't it? Maybe it is your name. Hard to forget that one.
Maybe it's your mum's name - her maiden name, you're clever eh?
And if you really are tired and stuck with all those passwords, why not go for that old faithful, yes, that's it: "PASSWORD". Every sucker's favourite.
Couldn't be easier and a million fraudsters across the world are sitting licking their lips, rubbing their hands together and primed to help themselves to all your worldly goods.
You never, ever update your software... and certainly not your virus software.
It's such a pain when that little box pops up. It's like your mother going on and on and on about cleaning up your bedroom when you have much better things to be doing on Tinder.
Nag, nag, nag, says the little box. Switch it off, why don't you?
But, like the tidying bedroom, you know you'll feel better when you sort it out.
You over-share.
You're on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - you even have an old Bebo account . You have 100,000 friends and you want to hug them all.
But tell them your date of birth, your mother's maiden name or the moniker of your cute cuddly pooch at your own risk.
Ask yourself... who's reading this? Keep asking.
That webcam. Turn it off.
George Orwell wrote 1984 years before Steve Jobs was a twinkle in his daddy's eye. But he knew the dangers. Big Brother is always watching.
When you're sitting there surfin' in your old jammies and dressing gown with a bucket of popcorn by your side, be very afraid. You are never really alone. Somebody out there could be watching.
Channel your inner Robert de Niro... "Are you lookin' at me? Are you lookin' at me?"Always assume somebody, somewhere is.
Turn off the camera or cover it up. Even Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, tapes up his webcam and mic! If it's good enough for him...
You've won a prize. You've won a big, big prize. You've won a lottery in Nigeria.
Lady Luck is smiling on you. All you have to do is hand over your bank details so they can send the lolly.
Honestly? What planet are you on?
Right so, Ted!
That strange email that popped into your in-box - It's got a good mate's name on it.
She's dying to share something really really funny with you - like that video of the robot vacuum cleaner that hit the dog dirt and boldly went all over the house with it or the cute cats playing pat-a-cake in French.
Come on ... you know you want to. But what really lurks behind that link?
Your finger hovers. You pause.
There's something not quite right about it. But hey, you've got an itch that needs scratched.
You click... the words tumble off your computer screen, letter by letter by letter.
It's Armageddon for you in cyberspace and Bruce Willis is off out somewhere Dying Hard or getting a hair cut.
You have been warned.
Approaching a computer late at night with a drink in one hand and a credit card in the other is so not a good look.
Wake up the next day and that nuclear bunker in Ballymena could be yours... really.
Or there's always the Tornado fighter jet - one for the lads' night out.
Personally, I'm in love with the big Chieftain tank, but the neighbours might not share the love.
The 31-year-old lock or back-rower has not played since April 2015, when he was injured against Cardiff Blues.
He said on social media a "gruelling" 13 months involving six operations has led to another.
"It's hard to take that I require the first op all over again #7 #devastated," Coombs wrote on Twitter.
Shaw was chopped down by Hector Moreno before being carried off early on.
After a long delay, Memphis Depay scored a weaving opener on his return to PSV, but in first-half injury time Moreno headed in from a corner.
PSV's Luciano Narsingh headed in a 57th-minute winner despite United dominating for long periods.
Unlike previous games this season where Louis van Gaal's side have struggled to turn their superiority into chances, they chalked up 17 shots on goal to PSV's six.
There were encouraging displays from Depay, who scored his third of the season, and Anthony Martial, who made his full debut following his wonder goal during the win over Liverpool last Saturday.
Poor finishing let the visitors down, although their biggest concern will be over Shaw who will now suffer a lengthy lay-off.
United started the game well but after 15 minutes they were rocked by the injury to Shaw, who has made a positive start to his second season at Old Trafford.
The England full-back burst into the box after riding two challenges, but as he bore down on goal he was scythed down by Moreno and from the Mexico defender's immediate reaction, it was clear that the injury to Shaw was serious.
Replays showed that his right leg appeared to be broken and after 10 minutes of treatment the 20-year-old was taken off on a stretcher to sympathetic applause from the PSV fans.
There was no punishment for Moreno, who equalised in first-half stoppage time.
With a lengthy absence to come, left-back Shaw's inclusion in the England squad at Euro 2016 must be in some doubt.
Depay may not have scored in the Premier League so far, but fresh from his £31m move from PSV to Manchester United in June, the 21-year-old looked at home on his return to the Philips Stadium.
The forward, who scored 22 league goals for PSV en route to the Eredivisie title last season, started down the left and linked up well with striker Martial, who showed no signs of nervousness despite his tender age of 19 and his £36m transfer fee.
Depay's goal was not dissimilar to Martial's effort at Old Trafford against Liverpool. Played through by Daley Blind, he cut inside, and beat Jeroen Zoet with some ease. When the scores were level, the Dutchman could have added to his tally after a smart one-two with Martial but struck straight at the PSV goalkeeper.
In addition to their profligacy in front of goal, United were also guilty of contributing to both PSV goals. The first, which came from Moreno's header, bounced off Blind's head and wrong-footed Ashley Young, who was well placed to stop the initial effort on the goalline.
The second was well taken by Narsingh, who headed in a delightful left-wing cross by Maxime Lestienne, but Matteo Darmian was guilty of giving the ball away in his own half.
There was plenty of time to recover, and Depay had several chances to double his tally despite switching onto the right side during the second half.
Juan Mata was perhaps guilty of the worst miss by failing to control a chipped ball by Bastian Schweinsteiger.
There was plenty of encouragement for Van Gaal's side, who will face Wolfsburg at Old Trafford on 30 September before travelling to CSKA Moscow on 21 October, and Martial gave them added power and pace up front.
But they will be disappointed not to have earned at least a point on their return to the Champions League after a year's absence.
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal: "It's the same game as against Swansea. We are dominating the game, we are creating chances and we are not finishing. The first chance they have, the corner kick, they scored.
"The second goal, we were attacking and then we lose the ball in the first phase and they scored. It's fantastic for PSV but for us it is very bad."
Match ends, PSV Eindhoven 2, Manchester United 1.
Second Half ends, PSV Eindhoven 2, Manchester United 1.
Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United).
Héctor Moreno (PSV Eindhoven) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Santiago Arias (PSV Eindhoven).
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Santiago Arias.
Attempt blocked. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.
Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stijn Schaars (PSV Eindhoven).
Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Marcos Rojo.
Substitution, PSV Eindhoven. Jürgen Locadia replaces Maxime Lestienne.
Substitution, Manchester United. Antonio Valencia replaces Ashley Young.
Attempt missed. Luuk de Jong (PSV Eindhoven) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Maxime Lestienne.
Attempt saved. Maxime Lestienne (PSV Eindhoven) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Davy Pröpper.
Corner, PSV Eindhoven. Conceded by Chris Smalling.
Attempt missed. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Memphis Depay.
Substitution, Manchester United. Marouane Fellaini replaces Ander Herrera.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Young (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.
Foul by Ander Herrera (Manchester United).
Davy Pröpper (PSV Eindhoven) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, PSV Eindhoven. Stijn Schaars replaces Andrés Guardado because of an injury.
Jeffrey Bruma (PSV Eindhoven) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Santiago Arias.
Corner, Manchester United. Conceded by Maxime Lestienne.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Andrés Guardado (PSV Eindhoven) because of an injury.
Chris Smalling (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Smalling (Manchester United).
Andrés Guardado (PSV Eindhoven) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ashley Young (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.
Attempt saved. Ander Herrera (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ashley Young.
Attempt saved. Joshua Brenet (PSV Eindhoven) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Davy Pröpper.
Foul by Marcos Rojo (Manchester United).
Jorrit Hendrix (PSV Eindhoven) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Memphis Depay (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Héctor Moreno (PSV Eindhoven) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ashley Young (Manchester United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Héctor Moreno (PSV Eindhoven).
Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Anthony Martial.
Vale made the perfect start when veteran midfielder Michael Tonge fired them ahead after only nine minutes with a deflected free kick from 25 yards.
Tonge, who signed a one-year deal after a successful pre-season, turned provider on 26 minutes by curling in a free kick for skipper Antony Kay to head in at the near post.
Crawley's Dutch striker Enzio Boldewijn threatened shortly after by bursting into the area, but his goal-bound shot was blocked by keeper Robert Lainton.
Vale could have been further ahead by the interval but winger Cristian Montano headed a Marcus Harness cross over.
The hosts reduced the deficit eight minutes after the break through Boldewijn, who latched onto a pass from Mark Randall to run through and score with a fine solo effort.
Boldewijn was inches away from levelling on 67 minutes when he put a Dannie Bulman pass just wide.
Crawley were much improved in the second half and substitute Dean Cox had a low shot saved after Boldewijn had earlier put the ball wide.
But Vale substitute Daniel Turner made the game safe eight minutes from time by heading his first goal for the club from a cross by Harness.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Crawley Town 1, Port Vale 3.
Second Half ends, Crawley Town 1, Port Vale 3.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Glenn Morris.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Josh Payne.
Foul by Dean Cox (Crawley Town).
Tom Pope (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Ben Whitfield (Port Vale) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Gavin Gunning (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Lewis Young (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Gunning (Port Vale).
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Danny Pugh.
Billy Reeves (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dean Cox (Crawley Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Billy Reeves (Port Vale).
Attempt saved. Dean Cox (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Dan Turner (Port Vale) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Substitution, Port Vale. Ben Whitfield replaces Marcus Myers-Harness.
Goal! Crawley Town 1, Port Vale 3. Dan Turner (Port Vale) header from very close range to the top left corner. Assisted by Marcus Myers-Harness.
Foul by Cedric Evina (Crawley Town).
Marcus Myers-Harness (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Thomas Verheydt (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt saved. Dean Cox (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Dennon Lewis replaces Enzio Boldewijn.
Attempt missed. Mark Randall (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Mark Randall (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mark Randall (Crawley Town).
Marcus Myers-Harness (Port Vale) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nathan Smith (Port Vale).
Attempt missed. Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Gavin Gunning.
Substitution, Port Vale. Billy Reeves replaces Michael Tonge.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Dean Cox replaces Jordan Roberts.
Attempt missed. Lewis Young (Crawley Town) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is just a bit too high.
Foul by Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town).
Lawrie Wilson (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Crawley Town. Conceded by Antony Kay.
Attempt blocked. Enzio Boldewijn (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Josh Payne replaces Josh Yorwerth.
Attempt missed. Jordan Roberts (Crawley Town) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Traditionally these were arranged by the two families and the weight of social pressure ensured divorces hardly ever happened.
But as it grows wealthier, so India's old taboos are being challenged, and the chances of this year's newly-weds staying together for the rest of their lives are slimmer than ever.
"There has been a huge change, a drastic change and divorce rates are increasing," Dr Geetanjali Sharma, a marriage counsellor working in Gurgaon, a wealthy Delhi satellite city, told the BBC.
"There's been a 100% increase in divorce rates in the past five years alone."
Most of those splitting up are members of India's thriving, urban middle class whose lives have been transformed by India's boom, and whose aspirations are radically different to those of their parents and grandparents.
Nowhere represents those changes better than Gurgaon, which only two decades ago was little more than a village.
Its buffalos and mustard fields have now made way for shopping malls, coffee shops and multi-national IT companies. A state-of-the-art metro line connecting Gurgaon with Delhi, 25km (16 miles) away, was only recently opened.
And while millions of Indians might aspire to live in Gurgaon's high-rise apartment blocks, they are, according to Dr Sharma, populated by many unhappy couples.
The pressures of the modern workplace make a bigger difference, she thinks, than whether it was a traditional arranged marriage, or a so-called "love marriage".
"I feel people are concentrating more on the careers and less on their personal lives," she said.
"I also feel they lack patience and tolerance. They don't want to put more efforts into a relationship to fix the issues, and they feel that escapism is the solution."
India still has one of the lowest divorce rates in the world, with about one in 1,000 marriages collapsing, according to recent studies.
But the courts are now seeing so many new cases that the government has proposed making divorce easier and faster, in line with other countries.
As things stand, contested divorces can drag on for years.
Delhi High Court is the only place where Mohit, who works for a successful IT firm, now gets to meet his wife.
They fell in love as teenagers, married in their early 20s and separated three years ago when she walked out.
While he awaits a final court settlement, Mohit (who did not want his surname to be made public) has been left contemplating what went wrong and why.
"I was way too young to realise that being in love and being married are slightly different - in fact humongously different," he told me.
"We used to fight about pretty much everything, you know. Let's say that the first fight we had was pretty early, as in just after we got back from our honeymoon."
Mohit puts the failure down to a culture clash between the old India and the new.
For a start, he says, his mother-in-law disapproved of their marriage, and his family also interfered.
He admits that sometimes he too found it hard to accept that his wife had her own career.
"Today the Indian male, as opposed to earlier, is a very complex entity. We want our wives to be really progressive, modern, so to say, which is why we married them in the first place," he said.
"But at the same time we still want our wives to cook food for us. We want our wives to be there when we get back home."
Swarupa (who also did not want her full name revealed) finalised her divorce in December.
She too left her husband - which she says is only possible for women who are financially independent or who have the support of their parents. In the past this would have been more or less unthinkable.
Swarupa believes that divorce has certainly become more socially acceptable in India, but there are still problems.
"Personally, I don't feel scared to tell people that I am a divorced person but stigmas are still there and it comes out in very odd places," she said.
"I've been house-hunting near my ex-husband's [home], but you know it is very difficult to get a house because people are very sceptical about giving it to a single woman."
It seems inevitable that the divorce rate is going to continue to rise - which is good news for some.
Vivek Pahwa, for example, runs a Mumbai-based matchmaking website for divorcees called Secondshaadi.com.
He claims to get as many as 4,000 new customers every month.
"Ours is a relatively young website, but in the three years since we have started, I have seen a remarkable shift in people's perceptions about divorce," he says. "It is not only limited to metros like Delhi and Mumbai. Business is good."
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) awarded the singer its global artist of the year prize in recognition of her "simply phenomenal" success.
Adele's achievement is particularly notable as her third album 25 was not released until late November.
It went on to become the fastest selling album in British history.
It sold more than 800,000 copies in its first week and with the album kept off streaming sites, its chart success was entirely made up of physical and download sales.
The record's lead single, Hello, also scored considerable international chart success - becoming the first single to be downloaded more than one million times in the US.
The second biggest selling artist of 2015 was Ed Sheeran - despite him not releasing a studio album during the course of the year.
He kept a high profile by winning songwriter of the year at the Ivor Novello Awards and by playing a world tour that included three sold-out nights at London's Wembley Stadium.
Sheeran and Adele are two of five British acts to feature in the IFPI's top 10 alongside Sam Smith, One Direction and Coldplay.
Taylor Swift, who won the award in 2014, fell to number three. She also did not release an album in 2015 but did complete an 85-date tour, the highest-grossing of the year.
The IFPI says its top 10 chart is the only music industry ranking to accurately capture the worldwide popularity of artists across physical formats, downloads and streams.
Previous recipients of the top prize include Swift and One Direction.
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The organisation has published a top 10 list of the most frequently used opening lines.
It found that "From a young age I have (always) been..." was the most popular opening line last year.
"The personal statement is supposed to be personal," warned chief executive Mary Curnock Cook.
"Learning to write about yourself in a compelling way is a vital skill when applying for jobs; using hackneyed phrases is not the best way to stand out," she added.
In 11th place, used by 148 applicants, was a quote from Nelson Mandela: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world".
UCAS said it hoped the list of top 10 phrases would encourage students to use language that makes them stand out in their personal statements.
The admissions system allows would-be students to apply up until the end of June.
The personal statement allows students to say why they are applying for a particular course or subject and to highlight any special skills or interests.
Aged just 19, the star has racked up seven hits in the last 14 months, including the tropical pop smash Lush Life, which spent more than a year on the charts.
Along the way, she's collaborated with Tinie Tempah and sung the official anthem of Euro 2016, but the highlight of her year was supporting Beyonce at Wembley Stadium.
"It was the best show on a tour I've ever seen. Wembley's such an incredible stadium. It's definitely one of the stadiums I want to stand on and have my own tour, one day."
Although she's already scored a number one single and album in her home country, Zara is starting from scratch in the UK - and releases her debut album, So Good, this week.
Outgoing and dynamic, she talked the BBC through her career to date. Here's everything you need to know (and a few things you probably didn't) about Sweden's latest pop sensation.
Writing on her Swedish-language website two years ago, the 19-year-old revealed she frequently has episodes of sleep paralysis.
"Oh my God, it's scary!" she tells the BBC. "Basically, you wake up and you literally cannot move. Your brain is active, but your body is not yet awake.
"It's weird. It lasts half a minute maybe - but it kind of feels like you're trapped there for half an hour.
"I get it a lot when I'm stressed out, or when I have a lot of things going on."
But Zara says there's an upside, too. Often, as she falls asleep, she's overcome by a sense of tremendous wellbeing (to paraphrase a certain Blur song).
"It's like a wave comes over me. Energy is just vibrating through your body and it's awesome."
In 2008, Zara entered Talang Sverige - Sweden's version of Britain's Got Talent - mainly because there was no age restriction, unlike X Factor or Swedish Idol.
Singing a heavily-accented, but vocally powerful, version of Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On, she won the contest, and its 500,000 krona (£42,600) prize.
"I sounded like a little guinea pig!" she laughs. But, incredibly, the contest led to nothing.
"Nobody really wanted to sign me, which I was devastated about," she says. "I was like, 'oh my gosh, my career's over and it hasn't even started yet!'
"I didn't really want to do anything with Nickelodeon or Disney, so I just went back to school."
The break may have saved her. Rather than becoming a novelty act, washed up before she was a teenager, Zara re-emerged as a bona fide pop artist on her 15th birthday, with an EP that turned people's heads.
"When I released the first song, a lot of the people didn't even recognise me," she says. "And the people that did were like, 'Oh my gosh, it's her!'
"So in Sweden, the talent show is like super-irrelevant. And that's great because usually it's very hard to wipe off that kind of Got Talent stain.
"It just stays on you - but it didn't for me."
...As we discovered when we played a game of "So Good or So Bad?" with Zara (watch above)
When Zara released Lush Life in January last year, a lot of people thought it was Rihanna's comeback single.
"I don't know where it comes from but even my mom is like, 'You sound like Rihanna,'" says the singer.
"I was very confused because I'd never really listened to her until pretty recently. It's not a bad comparison to have but I'm never going to be Rihanna, and I'm not trying to be.
From the moment Zara fired up her Instagram, pulled a condom over her leg and called out guys who "think they're too big to wear protection", it was clear Zara wouldn't be sticking to the record company script.
Since then, she's voiced her support for Kesha - who is suing famed record producer Dr Luke for alleged sexual assault - and engaged in a war of words with R&B star Chris Brown, calling him "a sexist, homophobic, transphobic trash".
"That's who I am," says the star. "I don't really have a 'vision' of who I want people to see me as.
"I just post whatever I feel like."
Larsson was born in Stockholm at the tail end of the 1990s, moving to the suburbs when her younger sister Hanna was born.
She was always singing - showing off to her parents' dinner-party guests; and serenading "ladies on the subway, when I was like three".
But she didn't come from a musical family. Far from it.
"My dad was a military man, working in Navy intelligence," she says, "so I know he can keep secrets, definitely."
While the exact nature of his job remains classified, Larsson swears he was the model parent.
"He's great and he's funny. You can ask him whatever and he always has the answer. Even if he doesn't, he will never admit it. So we had a lot of debates and discussions. That's the reason why I'm interested in everything.
"Now he's actually studying again - he wants to be a professor in war science."
Potential boyfriends beware.
Zara's breakout hit in the UK was Never Forget You - a duet with British producer MNEK that was written in just two hours.
"We work really well together," she marvels. "It's just no question marks. I feel very relaxed and honest and open with him. "
They collaborated again on Ain't My Fault, a sassy, sexy club track that became Zara's fifth top 20 hit, late last year.
"We wrote it in five minutes," says Zara, "Originally, it was about me stealing someone else's man. I was saying, 'It ain't my fault that you're not cute enough for him.'"
But after submitting the song to her record label, the singer had second thoughts.
"I was just like, 'Wait, hold up, I can't sing this'. It just didn't feel right. It felt like I'd broken the girl code, and I didn't want to do that."
As a child, Zara attended the Royal Swedish Ballet School.
"I was very flexible," she says. "It really taught me a lot about discipline and how to use my body. But these days I'm about as flexible as a… erm, a safe!"
In fact, she's so out of shape that a brief session with her personal trainer ended in disaster.
"I ran 200 metres and my trainer said, 'That was a great job, you ran pretty fast'.
"I said, 'I know!' so he told me to do it a second time. And when I came back, I threw up."
"I'm on my way to becoming a true performer," the star wrote shortly after singing Lush Life on The Voice UK last year. So, does she not consider herself a fully-qualified pop phenomenon yet?
"You're never finished," she says.
"My inspiration for performing is Beyonce. I don't think Beyonce ever wakes up and thinks, 'Oh great I'm Beyonce, I'm just going to chill today.'
"She wants to be better, she wants to do bigger things and she wants to keep on evolving.
"That's what makes her great, and that's what I want to do."
Zara Larsson's album, So Good, is out now on Epic Records; as is her collaboration with Clean Bandit, Symphony. She also plays the Isle of Wight Festival in June.
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Some fans of both clubs sang songs related to tragedies involving the other side in the 1-1 second-leg draw at Old Trafford on 17 March, with Liverpool winning the tie 3-1.
Uefa has already charged both clubs for crowd trouble, and Liverpool for illicit chants - reportedly critical of Manchester, rather than referring to the Munich air crash.
Europe's governing body was then made aware of the allegations of chanting about that disaster and the Hillsborough tragedy - and is expected to make a decision on possible new charges next week.
In 1958, eight Manchester United footballers were among 23 people who died after their plane caught fire and crashed in Munich.
The Hillsborough tragedy saw 96 Liverpool fans crushed to death at an FA Cup semi-final tie with Nottingham Forest in 1989.
The initial charges will be heard on 19 May.
Not counting basics such as cooking oil, flour and sugar, his family of five spends 43 euros ($58; £36) a week on food.
That is rather typical in a country where 1.5 million people out of a population of 10 million could not afford to properly warm their homes last winter.
But what is unusual about Janos and his family is that they have a new home, paid for by the state, when their mortgage payments to the bank on their old home became unaffordable.
Already 43 families have already moved into this purpose-built village 30km (19 miles) south of Budapest.
Each family was selected by the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service, on the basis of criteria that included having children and being sufficiently ambitious to find work.
The village is a unique and controversial social experiment, but Janos, who is physically handicapped, has only praise for the initiative.
"My wife found work quickly, my children settled in to the school. There is already a good community here," he says.
He and his family ran heavily into debt in their old home in Tokod, in western Hungary - just one of more than a million households who fell foul of mortgages denominated in foreign currencies when the economic crisis struck in 2008.
Interest rates in Hungarian forints had been traditionally high, and in the first years of the new millennium as money flooded the world markets, parent banks abroad encouraged their subsidiaries in Hungary to make available cheap loans, denominated in Swiss francs in particular.
Back in 2007 there were 150 forints to the Swiss franc, but today there are 250 to the Swiss franc, and more than one in five can no longer keep up with their monthly payments.
Hungarian households now owe about 10bn euros to the banks, with companies and local councils owing another 8bn euros.
Janos and his family pay about half the rent they would expect to for a house of this size. The Maltese charity also gives advice on finding work and retraining.
If a family can afford a car, Budapest is only half an hour away on the motorway. In the window of the charity office, there is even an advertisement for construction workers.
Nevertheless, the initiative has been savaged by opposition parties and all but the staunchly pro-government media, as a "debtors' ghetto".
There is no shop, post office, creche or school, and gas was not provided following fears the families would not be able to pay their bills.
Apart from the school bus, few other buses connect the estate with the town of Ocsa, 6km away. Much criticism has also been directed at the social stigma those living in the estate might feel, lumped together in one place for all the world to see.
Because of such negative media attention, few inhabitants are willing to be interviewed. Partly in consequence, there is little demand, for the time being, for the 37 homes that are still empty.
The government, though, is proud of its project, and defends it fiercely.
"You have to see the housing estate in the context of a wide raft of measures designed to help those in trouble with foreign currency mortgages," says Erika Asztalos, Deputy State Secretary at the Ministry for Human Resources.
"It was devised to keep families together who had either lost their homes, or were in danger of that happening."
Other measures already taken by the Fidesz government include a moratorium on evictions, and the artificial fixing of the exchange rates in 2011 to allow those who could pay off their debts with a single lump sum - usually borrowed from relatives - to do so.
Some 160,000 people took advantage of that scheme.
A state property-handling agency has also been established, to buy property from people who would otherwise have been evicted and their property auctioned by the banks.
The former owners are then allowed to continue living there, paying a low rent. The agency has already bought or is in the process of buying 11,400 homes.
Some debtors have also taken the banks to court for misleading them in the first place over foreign-currency loans, or for quietly changing the terms without consulting with the customers.
This week in the southern town of Pecs, Gyorgy Lehmann, a lawyer who is playing a prominent role in the "battle with the banks" won a landmark case.
The government has given the banks until the end of October to come up with a proposal to resolve the problem once and for all.
"The banks have been very, very slow to come to terms with the problem, and the strong regulatory tradition established in the UK and the US after 2008 has not yet been established in Hungary,' says Peter Rona a member of the supervisory board of the Hungarian National Bank.
"What I think the banks are now fearful of is that you are starting to see a series of court decisions which will create a particular trend that is highly inimical to their interests.
"Their ability to foreclose real estate - on the property that was used as collateral - is also being increasingly constrained, in part by court decisions," he says.
As a result, believes Mr Rona, the banks are interested in reaching a deal with the government.
The dispute is over how the burden should be distributed between the debtors, the banks, and the state.
Back in his new home, Janos says he has no regrets.
"Of course, we had fears before we came, but none of them have been realised. The whole family are glad we came here, to start a new life."
The full-back, 23, and Seymour, 27, both scored tries at Scotstoun, with Hogg adding a huge last-minute penalty.
On Thursday, Scotland's Hogg was named 2016 Six Nations player of the championship.
"He's riding high in confidence right now," said Seymour. "When Hoggie's got confidence, I don't think there's a better player around."
A total of 12 Scotland players returned to defending champions Warriors' squad for Friday's meeting with Ulster.
And victory put Glasgow level on points with their fifth-placed opponents, with a top-four place required to progress to the play-offs.
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"The boys were giving Hogg a bit of stick," Seymour told BBC Scotland.
"They were saying, 'listen, you better continue this form on now when you come back to Glasgow. You can't be getting player of the tournament and then not doing the same thing for Glasgow.'
"He showed that form with two pieces of skill, first with the try - to finish it off like that under pressure was fantastic - and I think the crucial bit was the penalty at the end.
"He's getting everything he deserves."
Seymour also highlighted the influence fly-halves Finn Russell and Duncan Weir had on his own try.
"Finn put the ball across and it was obviously a lovely weighted kick so it allowed me to not even break stride and take it on," he explained.
"It's great to see the 10s analysing the game and putting in the skill when it's needed."
Campbell-Ryce, 32, is eligible to play against Scunthorpe on Saturday.
He is in his second season with Sheffield United after joining from Notts County in 2014 and has played 53 times for the Blades.
Twenty-one of those appearances have come this season, although he has not featured since 16 February.
Campbell-Ryce had a loan spell at Chesterfield in 2004, playing 16 times and scoring once.
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Eye consultant Amar Alwitry was due to start at Jersey's General Hospital in December 2012 but was told a week before by the States Employment Board (SEB) his contract had been terminated.
Mr Alwitry said he had queried the safety of certain practices.
SEB said it was considering future legal action over the findings.
The board said it had noted the report's observations and expressed "significant disappointment" regarding a number of conclusions which it said it would not comment on.
Mr Alwitry, who was born in Jersey, said he was "absolutely gutted" when his contract was withdrawn "completely out of the blue".
He said: "I didn't eat for a week.
"My plan was always to come home to serve the people and so I've tailored my entire career to that aim."
The glaucoma specialist said he was told by senior staff at the hospital to "put up or shut up" when he suggested it would be unsafe for him to operate on a Friday unless senior colleagues could provide emergency care over the weekend.
The States Complaints Panel found managers had terminated Mr Alwitry's contract based on their subjective beliefs he was a "trouble maker" and the decision making process was not sufficiently transparent.
It said this reflected "19th Century" practices and it criticised the HR directorate and the then Solicitor General Howard Sharp QC for failing to recognise those problems.
"On a personal level the decision to terminate Dr. Alwitry's contract of employment has destroyed his professional life", the panel said.
Mr Alwitry said he had not found a permanent NHS position since he had resigned as a substantive consultant in Derby to move to Jersey and is considering legal action.
Hisham Geneina was fired in March, soon after estimating corruption cost Egypt $67.6bn (£46.3bn) over four years.
Mr Geneina said the figure was based on an exhaustive study, but a presidential commission concluded that he had misled the public with "foreign" help.
The former judge denies the charges and says they are politically motivated.
Critics say the prosecution raises questions about President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's avowed commitment to fighting corruption.
Reporters were barred from the opening of Mr Geneina's trial at the Cairo Misdemeanour Court, but the Associated Press reported that it was swiftly adjourned until 21 June after his lawyers asked for more time to study the case.
Mr Geneina earlier told the New York Times that the prosecution was politically motivated and driven by powerful enemies inside the government.
"I was expected not to touch certain corruption cases," he said.
The case is based on comments Mr Geneina made to two Egyptian newspapers last December, when he was still head of the Accountability State Authority (ASA).
The daily Al-Youm Al-Sabea quoted Mr Geneina as saying in an interview that endemic corruption had cost Egypt some 600bn Egyptian pounds ($67.6bn) in 2015 alone, mostly in corrupt land deals.
Mr Geneina later said that he had been misquoted and that the figure covered four years - a claim supported by a separate interview with another newspaper.
He also noted that it was based on a study commissioned by the Egyptian planning ministry and carried out with the UN Development Programme.
The president did not state why he dismissed Mr Geneina three months later, but it came after the presidential commission said he had exaggerated the figure.
Mr Sisi has made fighting corruption a top priority since coming to power after leading the military's overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Egypt was ranked 88th out of 168 countries on Transparency International's 2015 corruption perceptions index.
Two months ago, Mr Sisi's former agriculture minister was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption. Salah Eddin Helal was accused of taking bribes to sell state land to a businessman at a heavily discounted price.
A full collection of the books, from its first edition to the most recent published this year for the comic's 80th anniversary, went under the hammer at Curr and Dewar in Dundee.
The very first book fetched £2,800, with the second and third selling for £1,500 and £900 respectively.
An original piece of artwork by Beano artist Dudley D Watkins sold for £950.
The third edition of the Broons annual fetched £1,400 at the auction.
Auctioneer Steven Dewar said there had been "significant interest" in the comic collection from buyers.
The set of books was discovered by a man in his loft years after they had been handed down to him by his father.
The vendor, who opted to remain anonymous, was in the saleroom to see the books go under the hammer.
Mr Dewar said: "He is delighted, and so are we. There was a lot of interest and the sale has gone really well."
The full-size framed Lord Snooty cartoon, an original hand drawn by Dudley D. Watkins, shows German bombers suspending a bee hive from swastika adorned planes.
The artwork, which was published in the Beano in April 1940 was described by auctioneers as "an outstanding work".
Mr Dewar said the Oor Wullie books had been found in an attic by their owner after he had spotted an identical one on the BBC's Antique Roadshow.
Mr Dewar said: "He saw it and thought 'I've seen that' and went into the loft and there it was.
"They were his father's, but he has no family and so the time was right to sell them."
Mr Dewar said another seller approached him with the Dudley D. Watkins artwork after he put a note about the Oor Wullie books on the auctioneer's website.
Mr Dewar said: "The vendor says he almost certainly bought it from my father at auction in the 70s - and wouldn't have paid more than £20 for it.
"It was drawn for Beano number 92 and appeared on 27 April 1940.
"Whether there was a little bit of a government push to boost the people's morale we don't know.
"It is a great story - it really is."
She said he made the threat after she had shown reluctance to give evidence at the trial of her assistants, sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo.
The Italian sisters deny fraud.
Isleworth Crown Court has been told by their defence they were allowed to spend on credit cards by Ms Lawson in return for covering up her cocaine use.
She said that the allegations that have been made about her at the trial had followed "a long summer of bullying and abuse" from her then husband, to whom she referred as "Mr Saatchi" while giving evidence.
"I have been put on trial here where I am called to answer, and glad to answer the allegations, and [in] the world's press," she said.
Ms Lawson said she had been reluctant to give evidence in the trial, which had provoked an angry reaction from Mr Saatchi.
"He had said to me if I didn't get back to him and clear his name, he would destroy me," she said.
Ms Lawson said following the "awful incident at Scotts", the "false" drugs allegations began circulating on a "PR blog".
Mr Saatchi was cautioned for assault after images of him grasping Ms Lawson by the neck at the London restaurant appeared in a newspaper.
She said the allegations on the blog were "dedicated to salvaging Mr Saatchi's reputation and destroying mine".
On Friday, Mr Saatchi told the court that he had "no proof" that Ms Lawson had ever taken drugs.
The couple divorced in July after 10 years of marriage.
The Grillo sisters, Francesca, 35, and Elisabetta, 41, are accused of using credit cards loaned to them by the couple to spend more than £685,000 on themselves.
Ms Lawson told the court that Elisabetta did not have a strong moral compass, but she did not believe her "to be a bad person".
She said the 41-year-old was a "stalwart" who had helped her through the death of her first husband, John Diamond.
The TV cook said the allegations of fraud "broke our heart" when they were revealed to her and Mr Saatchi.
Ms Lawson said Elisabetta had been "a rock", adding: "I would have done anything for her."
Defending the Grillo sisters, Anthony Metzer QC asked Ms Lawson if Mr Saatchi had a temper.
She said he "did have a temper and I don't think that anyone can be in any doubt he had a temper", adding that she had confided in Elisabetta about Mr Saatchi's outbursts.
Ms Lawson told the court that Mr Saatchi used to shout and swear at her, and she told the defendant privately that "I don't know how long I can take this".
She added that it was "not beyond impossible to imagine" that Mr Saatchi had also lost his temper with Elisabetta.
Mr Metzer also asked about if she thought her background conflicted with Mr Saatchi's.
"I don't understand why my marriage is pertinent to you," she said.
Mr Metzer was then warned by Judge Robin Johnson that he should not "invite argument".
Ms Lawson also corrected the defence barrister, who had referred to her supporters as Team Nigella.
"No, they call themselves Team Cupcake," she said.
Ms Lawson also revealed that she once took £7,000 out of her own savings to pay for Elisabetta, or Lisa as she is also known, to have her teeth fixed, "giving her incredible confidence".
She added that when Elisabetta left her job at one point, the family continued to pay her for three months so she would not feel "too anguished" about finding a new job.
She continued: "I didn't want her to feel that she had to stay with me." However, after Elisabetta returned she became "increasingly bitter", Ms Lawson said.
The court also heard that Elisabetta wanted to move out of the family home "because she said she didn't want to live with Mr Saatchi ever again".
The case continues.
The UK's unemployment rate remained at 4.9%, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
According to the ONS, the number of people on the claimant count in July, the first month since the Brexit vote, was 763,600, down 8,600 from June.
Wages excluding bonuses rose 2.3% in the three months to June compared with a year earlier, the ONS said.
Including bonuses, earnings growth was 2.4%.
"The labour market continued on a strong trend in the second quarter of 2016, with a new record employment rate," said ONS statistician David Freeman.
"However, little of today's data cover the period since the result of the EU referendum became known, with only claimant count and vacancies going beyond June - to July for the former and to May-July for the latter," he added.
The jobless total is now at its lowest for eight years, while the unemployment rate is at its lowest since the summer of 2005, according to the ONS figures.
The employment rate reached a record high of 74.5%, with 31.8 million people in work in the three months to June - 172,000 more than the previous quarter.
Howard Archer of IHS Global Insight said that the UK economy showed "impressive resilience in the run-up to the EU referendum and the immediate aftermath of the vote to leave".
However, he warned: "It is premature to draw any firm conclusions from this... It remains likely that softening economic activity and heightened uncertainty will take a toll on the labour market over the coming months."
Hargreaves Lansdowne economist Ben Brettell said that while forward-looking surveys to gauge business confidence had suggested the Brexit vote had delivered a shock, "surveys are driven by sentiment, and can therefore overreact".
"The dramatic fall in confidence may not ultimately be borne out by activity, and today's claimant count number is a tentative sign that things might not turn out as bad as many predicted," he said.
Crews were called to the blaze, which is believed to have started in the coke oven, at about 08:00 GMT on Thursday.
A Tata Steel spokesperson said: "Initial investigations suggest the fire was caused by a lightning strike."
The firm said there were no casualties and production had resumed by 17:00 GMT.
"It's as near business as usual," said a spokesman.
"The fire ensued within the coke ovens but we have gone through the main systems in the works and they are able to be up running again," he added.
Last month, Tata announced 750 job cuts at the site, among 1,050 across the UK.
Dr Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health director, was responding to reports that the first embryos had been modified in China.
He argued there were "serious and unquantifiable safety issues", big ethical questions and no compelling medical reason to do it.
He said the NIH would not fund such research in the US.
The advent of "Crispr technology" - which is a more precise way of editing DNA than anything that has come before - has spurred huge progress in genetics.
But there had been growing concern these tremendous advances were making the modification of human embryos more likely.
Dr Tony Perry, a pioneer in cloning, told the BBC News website in January that designer babies were no longer "HG Wells" territory.
Concerns were also raised in the journal Nature as rumours circulated that it had already taken place.
Last week a team at Sun Yat-sen University, in Guangzhou, reported using Crispr to modify defective parts of DNA that lead to a blood disorder called beta thalassaemia.
Their world first, reported in the journal Protein and Cell, showed the correction was successful in seven out of 86 attempts.
However, there were a number of other "off-target" mutations introduced to the genetic code.
The embryos used were "non-viable" so could never have led to a child.
There have been repeated calls for a worldwide freeze on such research while society as a whole decides what should be allowed.
However, the US National Institutes of Health has made its position clear - that no such research should take place.
Dr Collins, who was also a key player in the Human Genome Project, released a statement saying: "The concept of altering the human germline in embryos for clinical purposes has been debated over many years from many different perspectives, and has been viewed almost universally as a line that should not be crossed.
"Advances in technology have given us an elegant new way of carrying out genome editing, but the strong arguments against engaging in this activity remain.
"These include the serious and unquantifiable safety issues, ethical issues presented by altering the germline in a way that affects the next generation without their consent, and a current lack of compelling medical applications."
Dr Marcy Darnovsky, from the Center for Genetics and Society in the US, argued: "There is no persuasive medical reason to manipulate the human germline because inherited genetic diseases can be prevented using embryo screening techniques, among other means.
"Is the only justification for trying to refine germline gene editing the prospect of so-called enhancement?"
More than 40 of the figurines were smashed and strewn across the track at Echills Wood Railway in Warwickshire.
The "gnome village" is a centrepiece of the family attraction, which is part of Kingsbury Water Park.
Dozens of people who were moved by the story have offered to donate replacements after staff at the park shared the news on Facebook.
A post about the attack - showing a picture of the damage - has been seen by thousands of people and shared hundreds of times online.
Signs and a crocodile head were also damaged when the attraction was targeted on Saturday.
Staff at the park said the response from the public to news of the "massacre" had been overwhelming.
"It's been quite profound. Who knew gnomes could be so emotive?" said Kingsbury Water Park countryside ranger Rachel Hextall.
Helen Perkins posted: "Oh no my two children love the gnome village. What the hell is wrong with some people????!!! This makes me so cross. Next time we come we will be sure to donate a gnome xxxx."
And Faye Nethercot added: "Vile, vicious vandals! So so upsetting. I hope you're able together with the generosity of the public to replenish and remake a beaut lil (sic) gnome village once more."
Warwickshire Police said it received a report of criminal damage being caused to signs, steelworks and a "significant number of ornamental gnomes".
It said the incident was believed to have happened between 21:00 BST on 8 September and 09:00 on 9 September, when an unknown offender or offenders gained access to the site.
Payments had been affected by major issues with a £178m IT system set up in Scotland to administer the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments.
Mr Ewing admitted the payments were not made quickly enough.
The government had been urged not to sweep problems surrounding EU payments to farmers "under the carpet".
Ahead of Mr Ewing's Holyrood statement, Scottish Labour said the handling of the process had been "chaotic and shambolic".
The money is meant to improve agricultural productivity and to ensure farmers have a reliable income. It is due to be paid out to farmers and crofters before a 30 June deadline.
Earlier this month, finance watchdog Audit Scotland highlighted "serious cost and operational issues" with the payment system.
Under CAP rules, about £4.6bn in European and Scottish government funding will be paid out between 2015 and 2020.
Mr Ewing opened his ministerial statement, his first in his new cabinet post, by saying "we are sorry", and "we are fixing it".
He called on MSPs to focus "not on recrimination, but on implementation" of getting payments out to farmers as quickly as possible.
While he underlined processing outstanding payments as his immediate priority, Mr Ewing said he would assess what lessons could be learned from the failures around the IT system and would report back to parliament.
Mr Ewing added: "My immediate priority is to ensure remaining payments are made as quickly as possible, to resolve the difficulties with the system and get the 2016 payments on to a proper footing.
"That is why I am absolutely focused on this issue and doing everything possible to assist farmers and drive forward the rural economy. I have already committed to update parliament quickly and I will do that."
New Scottish Conservative MSP Peter Chapman, himself an Aberdeenshire farmer, said the situation was "completely unacceptable" and had "eroded farmers' trust in government".
He asked if the government would commit to getting basic payments out by the next deadline of 30 June; Mr Ewing said "everything possible" was being done to achieve this.
The cabinet secretary said payments had been made to 84% of applications, amounting to almost £200m.
Mr Ewing said 30 June was a "challenging" deadline, and said his predecessor Richard Lochhead had made efforts with the EU to have it extended.
Several MSPs echoed a warning from Audit Scotland that the Scottish government could face hefty fines if the deadline is not met.
Scottish Labour's Rhoda Grant insisted that the handling of the payouts had had a devastating impact on the rural economy in Scotland.
She added: "The recent report by Audit Scotland confirmed what we have known for some time - major delays, IT problems and SNP government mismanagement has left farmers across the country out of pocket and in serious financial trouble.
"It's welcome that Fergus Ewing has answered Labour's repeated call for a statement to parliament, but he must avoid the usual SNP approach of dismissing any concerns out of hand.
"There remain too many unanswered questions for the SNP to try to sweep this under the carpet.
"With ongoing reports of farmers receiving partial payments and concerns about what lessons will be learned from this fiasco, the SNP government owes it to rural communities to provide clarity and reassurance that there is not a risk of this year's chaos happening again."
Mr Ewing's statement was welcomed by landowners' body Scottish Land and Estates.
Chief executive Douglas McAdam said the group was happy to help the government in the coming months to overcome the issue and minimise damage arising.
He said: "The farming payment crisis has placed immense stress on rural businesses throughout Scotland but the apology and update from the cabinet secretary is a welcome step in the Scottish government getting a grip on this matter.
"Mr Ewing clearly understands where the problems remain and whilst these will not be solved overnight, we believe that the new cabinet secretary is well placed to restore confidence moving forward."
A fire at the 150-year-old building in Beaumont Street was sparked by a flambéed beef stroganoff in its kitchen on 17 April, ripping through three floors.
Management originally said the hotel would reopen on Saturday, before putting the date back to Monday.
It now says it will not be guaranteeing when it will reopen its doors.
The hotel has not given a reason for the delay.
At its height, 14 fire engines were on the scene as crews battled the blaze whilst thick black smoke spread across the city.
However, only about 5% of the Victorian Gothic building is believed to have been damaged.
More than 80 people were evacuated, though there were no reported injuries.
Scaffolding has since been brought in to protect the roof gable ends from collapse.
A stretch of Beaumont Street remains closed to traffic, where diversions are in place.
The hotel was a regular feature in the TV series Inspector Morse, where it featured as one of the detective's favourite haunts.
A crew member onboard one of the vessels was airlifted to hospital with a serious leg injury following the collision on Sunday at the Brixham Heritage Regatta, the RNLI said.
Two lifeboats were deployed and two people onboard the other boat were reportedly treated for shock.
The RNLI described the incident as "serious".
The event, which involves several races for traditional sailing boats, has been held annually in Torbay since 1997, but has its roots in trawler races dating back to the 1800's.
Sunday's event was part of the busy Brixfest celebrations in the port.
An RNLI spokesperson said: "Two vessels taking part - Ivory Gull and Moya - had collided, resulting in a serious injury to one casualty aboard the Ivory Gull."
"The incident took place 1.5 miles out in Torbay, and HM Coastguard teams were also in attendance, along with Devon Ambulance Service," they added.
The IMF said world growth would now be 3.3% for the year, down from 3.5% forecast six months ago.
For the UK, it is forecasting growth of just 0.7%, after saying in January that the country's economy could expect 1% growth.
The figure is slightly above the 0.6% growth forecast in last month's Budget.
That figure came from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility.
The IMF's World Economic Outlook report also cut its forecast for the eurozone this year to -0.3%, with Germany, the strongest economy, expected to grow by 0.6%, but France on course to shrink by 0.1%.
The IMF said the UK was "progressing slowly".
It suggested the Chancellor, George Osborne, should consider reining back his austerity plan.
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The IMF's report said: "In the United Kingdom, the recovery is progressing slowly, notably in the context of weak external demand and ongoing fiscal consolidation."
It said economic weakness and a lack of willingness to lend were holding back the private sector.
The IMF rarely gives direct advice, preferring to give discreet prompts.
It said about the UK: "Greater near-term flexibility in the path of fiscal adjustment should be considered in the light of lacklustre private demand."
Stephen Gifford, director of economics from the business lobby group the CBI, said: "With recent data from our business surveys suggesting that growth at the beginning of this year was broadly flat, it's not surprising that the IMF has lowered its forecast.
"Consumers are being squeezed by high inflation and low wages and business confidence remains unsettled, so the pace of growth is expected to be muted through 2013."
Japan was the only developed economy to come out with a good prognosis from the IMF.
It said that the country, which has been mired in recession for much of the last 20 years, would see growth both this year and next, of 1.4% and 1.6% respectively.
It also said consumer prices would notch up 0.1% this year and hit a rare height of 3% in 2014, thanks to the Bank of Japan's new bout of monetary easing announced earlier this month.
More generally, the IMF said "the road to recovery in the advanced economies will remain bumpy".
Its report forecast US growth of 1.9% this year, an Chinese growth of 8% for the year as a whole, slightly higher than the 7.7% growth rate it reported this week.
Fans from across the world have been voting for their favourite since the five-player shortlist of Melanie Behringer, Ada Hegerberg, Hedvig Lindahl, Marta, and Christine Sinclair was revealed on 30 April.
The winner of the award will be announced on Tuesday, 30 May, during Sport Today on BBC World Service from 18:30 GMT (19:30 BST).
The BBC Sport website will also carry the announcement.
Here we look at the five contenders vying for the BBC World Service honour, which is in its third year.
Melanie Behringer
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Country: Germany Caps: 123 Goals: 34
Club: Bayern Munich Position: Midfielder Age: 31
Behringer won Olympic gold with Germany at Rio 2016, finishing as the tournament's leading goalscorer with five goals and completing her set of every piece of major international silverware.
She ended her 11-year Germany career with that victory, having already won the 2007 World Cup and the 2009 and 2013 European Championship.
She helped her German club Bayern Munich secure back-to-back Bundesliga titles in 2016 and was nominated for the Fifa World Player of the Year award 2016.
Read a full profile of Behringer here.
Ada Hegerberg
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Country: Norway Caps: 61 Goals: 38
Club: Olympique Lyonnais Position: Forward Age: 21
Hegerberg was part of the Olympique Lyonnais treble-winning side in 2015-16, claiming the French Division 1 league title, Coupe de France and Champions League.
She was top scorer in the French league (33) and Women's Champions League (13) that season. She scored more goals (18) than Real Madrid and Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo (17) in Uefa competitions in the calendar year of 2016.
Voted Uefa Best Women's Player in Europe for 2016, she also became the first woman in 20 years to win Norway's Golden Ball award for the country's best footballer.
Read a full profile of Hegerberg here.
Hedvig Lindahl
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Country: Sweden Caps: 136 Goals: 0
Club: Chelsea Position: Goalkeeper Age: 34
Lindahl was the hero in two penalty shootouts for Sweden at the Rio 2016 Olympics, helping her team win the silver medal.
She joined Chelsea Ladies from Swedish side Kristianstads DFF in December 2014 and shone in her first season there, winning the Women's Super League title and the FA Women's Cup. An ever-present in the WSL in 2015, she conceded the fewest goals in the division (10).
Lindahl has been named Swedish Women's Goalkeeper of the Year on five separate occasions and played for her country at three World Cups, three Olympic Games and several European Championships.
Read a full profile of Lindahl here.
Marta
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Country: Brazil Caps: 116 Goals: 108
Club: Orlando Pride Position: Forward Age: 31
Marta is arguably the most famous female footballer of the last 20 years, having won Fifa's World Player of the Year award five times in a row between 2006 and 2010.
For the Brazil forward, 2016 will stand out as the year she led out her country at her home Olympics in Rio. One of eight Olympic flag-bearers at the opening ceremony, she also helped her side finish fourth in the tournament.
Marta, who champions women's football across the globe through her ambassadorial work, left Swedish side FC Rosengard in April to join the recently created Orlando Pride in the United States.
Read a full profile of Marta here.
Christine Sinclair
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Country: Canada Caps: 257 Goals: 167
Club: Portland Thorns Position: Forward Age: 33
Sinclair inspired Canada to a second successive Olympic bronze medal, scoring the second goal against hosts Brazil in the bronze medal match at Rio 2016.
Under her captaincy, Canada reached their highest ever Fifa ranking of fourth, while her National Women's Soccer League club side Portland Thorns topped the table after the regular season in the United States, to claim the NWSL Shield.
She is second on the all-time list of women's international goalscorers with 167 international goals, surpassing her hero and former USA forward Mia Hamm's tally of 158 last year and creeping closer to ex-USA international Abby Wambach's record of 184.
Read a full profile of Sinclair here.
A parliamentary panel approved a long-awaited bill, effectively meaning it is guaranteed to become law, possibly as soon as Wednesday.
Analysts CSLA says Japan's casino market could be worth $40bn a year.
Las Vegas Sands shares closed 3% higher, while Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts both added 2%.
Casinos are currently illegal in Japan, though gambling on horse, boat and bicycle races is allowed through government-backed bookmakers.
And the prospect of the country becoming a gambling powerhouse has excited operators who are keen to find new markets, especially those in close proximity to China.
The new bill, which will now go before politicians in Japan's upper house, proposes allowing large-scale projects that will combine casinos with hotel, shopping and conference facilities.
Attracting tourists is one of the key economic policies of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and supporters say these developments will bolster the country's flagging economy and help support tourism after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
But there has been strong opposition based largely around fears of gambling addiction and other social fall-out such as organised crime.
And an opinion poll by public broadcaster NHK found 44% of those questioned opposed the plans, with just 12% supporting it and 34% of respondents undecided.
The most common form of gambling in Japan is Pachinko, the country's take on pinball. Played in parlours across Japanese towns and cities, the game is tolerated despite its legal status remaining vague.
However even if the bill is passed, it will not be an immediate green light to open casinos. Instead it will allow regulators to begin developing plans on how to license the industry.
Eighth-place Warriors are nine points adrift of the top four and a play-off place, but have a game in hand.
Townsend told BBC Scotland: "Nine games to go and there are a few tough ones.
"We play Dragons next. We've got to do a professional job, play well down there and keep the momentum going."
Bryce, who scored Glasgow's decisive fourth try in the 27-24 bonus-point win at Kilmarnock's Rugby Park in foul second-half conditions, said: "It's all about momentum in this league.
"We managed to show the Warrior spirit in the end and get the win. The boys are ecstatic. Hopefully we can kick on."
Munster recovered from two early tries by Glasgow prop Sila Puafisi to score two tries through a prop of their own, Dave Kilcoyne.
Glasgow's Duncan Weir and Mike Sherry for the visitors - while they were down to 14 men - traded tries, but it was Munster who led by two points before Bryce darted over in the corner to end a four-game winless run.
Townsend added: "I was concerned at half-time. We had started the game well but then Munster were outstanding.
"We played well when we had ball in hand. I thought we showed ambition and real pace in our game.
"Dragons next Thursday is a challenge for us because we won't see a number of our players at any training session because they will be with Scotland."
Glasgow number eight Josh Strauss was man of the match and may have shown enough to force his way into Vern Cotter's Scotland squad for the Six Nations match in Rome next Saturday.
"Josh was in really determined mood this week," said Townsend.
"By his own admission he had not got back to his best form coming off the bench in the last two games. He had been missing for the last four or five weeks.
"We thought he played really well before his concussion in the second Edinburgh game.
"He wanted to be captain this week. He had set a goal of a number of ball carries in the first half so you could tell he was up for it. When he plays like that he gives us real go-forward."
The concert at the Excelsior Stadium - the home of Airdrieonians FC - will take place on 24 June next year.
Securing a date on the Wonderful Crazy Night tour was hailed as "a major coup" for the club, stadium and town.
Sir Elton is not a stranger to touring across Scotland, having played Kilmarnock in 2005, Inverness in 2007, Perth in 2008 and Falkirk in 2012.
Excelsior Stadium owner Paul Hetherington and Tom Wotherspoon, owner of Airdrieonians FC, said in joint statement: "To have secured Airdrie FC's ground as the only Scottish venue of Sir Elton John's 2017 UK tour is something we should all take pride in.
"This will be a night to remember for all of us. Indeed, a wonderful, crazy night in our town."
The three other dates on the tour will see performances in Derby, Birmingham and Leeds.
The men's rugby team at Aberystwyth University was barred from competitions until the end of the year following the "degrading" initiations.
It broke a "total ban" on the controversial initiation ceremonies at the Welsh seaside university.
An investigation was carried out by the students' union.
A union spokesman said: "We are very clear that while social events for clubs and societies are an integral part of their activities, so-called initiation ceremonies are not.
"We received evidence from multiple individuals that Men's Rugby Union had been running initiation ceremonies through the year and felt the decision to suspend the club was a proportional response."
HMP Shrewsbury was put up for sale by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in February.
Nightclub owner Martin Monahan's bid is one of many under consideration to buy the Grade II listed building.
The agent organising the sale, GVA, said further discussions are needed before a buyer is chosen.
The former prison, which is known as The Dana, closed on 28 March 2013 as part of a programme of prison closures aimed at saving the MoJ £63m.
Mr Monahan, who owns four nightclubs and a restaurant in Shrewsbury, also wants to create business start-up units and a leisure complex at the site.
Any alterations would require the permission of the Shropshire Council because it is a listed building.
The property agents said there had been a "handful" of bids for the prison, which were discussed with the MoJ on Wednesday.
But it needs to ensure there is "substance to the proposals" and while the MoJ had a duty to get the best price for the buildings, it also had a responsibility to consider its heritage and ensure it would be developed responsibly.
The MoJ is in the process of selling off a dozen of its sites around the country.
A decision on the sale is expected next week.
The authority wants to rebuild Rhyl High School and revamp Welsh medium Glan Clwyd in St Asaph to accommodate growing numbers of pupils.
The money has been agreed in principle with the Welsh government, but the council must find half the costs.
Officials say consultation will begin locally once start dates are agreed.
The Welsh government called on local education authorities to draw up plans as part of its 21st Century Schools programme and agreed £1.4bn in improvements - £700m from the councils - in December.
But it has yet to reveal when the cash will be released in Denbighshire so the work can start.
The money is said to be badly needed at Rhyl High because parts are in a dilapidated condition, according to Jackie Walley, Denbighshire's head of modernising education.
She described the modernisation plans as exciting, and said pupils and teachers deserved better at the school, which has changed around its fortunes in recent years.
Special measures imposed due to concerns about education standards were lifted in 2010 with a new head teacher brought in.
"Our staff and students have worked so hard to improve our school," said head teacher Claire Armitstead.
"They have achieved the best GCSE results we have ever seen and ensured we have developed into a supportive, ambitious and achieving environment.
"The biggest future barrier we faced was our building. Its rebuild will enable us to go from strength to strength and become the outstanding school we want to become."
Council officials are now looking at ways of raising their share of the building costs.
But Mrs Walley said an added complication may follow May's county council election if there is a change in the political make-up of the authority and councillors' priorities change.
At Glan Clwyd a revamp is planned due to a shortfall in accommodation, coupled with an expected 20% rise in pupil numbers by 2016.
The Welsh government said the 21st Century Schools programme would begin in financial year 2014/15, "by which point we will have had the necessary discussions with all of the local authorities involved".
The software uses a 3D representation of every artery that is 1mm across or wider, scanned from a single person.
Its accuracy passed a first key test when physicists compared blood flow in the virtual aorta with the that of real fluid in a 3D-printed replica.
Flow patterns seen in the physical copy were a good match for the simulation.
This was the case even when the fluid passing through the plastic aorta - and the virtual blood passing through the simulated aorta - was moving in pulses, to mimic the way blood is pumped by the heart.
"We're getting extremely close results both in the steady flow and the pulsatile, which is very exciting," lead researcher Amanda Randles, from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, told BBC News.
She presented the findings - including the comparison with a 3D-printed aorta - this week at the American Physical Society's March Meeting in Baltimore. The whole-body simulation itself was first unveiled at a computer science conference in November.
It is called "Harvey" - a tribute to the 17th-century physician William Harvey who first discovered that blood is pumped in a loop around the body. At the core of Harvey's computer code is a 3D framework, built up from full-body CT and MRI scans of a single patient.
"It's not a common practice," said Dr Randles of the full-body scan. "But if we have it, then we can extract the arterial network.
"We get a surface mesh representing the vessel geometry, then we decide what's a fluid node and what's a wall node, and then model fluid flow through there."
That modelling takes place on a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
"It has 1.6 million processors, so it's one of the top 10 supercomputers," said Dr Randles, who worked in supercomputing at IBM before doing a physics PhD at Harvard, where she started work on Harvey.
"The first stage was simply a proof of concept: can we actually model at this scale?" Most other simulations, she explained, have focussed on smaller sections of the circulatory system.
"The largest, I think, before this, was maybe the aortal-femoral region - so, the aorta down to about the knees."
Modelling the flow inside every artery bigger than 1mm, at a resolution of 9 microns (0.009mm), a big step up.
One of the project's aims is to test how different interventions in cardiovascular disease - such as stents or other surgical modifications - might affect the system more widely.
"We'll be able to change the mesh file, representing the vasculature, to represent different treatment options," Dr Randles said.
"Typically you would look at the local haemodynamic changes, but by having a simulation of the whole body we can see how that would affect the large-scale haemodynamics."
To validate Harvey's virtual blood flow against some real-world measurements, she added, the aorta - the biggest artery of them all - was an obvious choice.
"You can end up having turbulent flow, which you're not going to see in other parts of the body.
"We figured if we can do it there, then we've a good chance - we'd believe the rest of the model."
So her team collaborated with that of David Frakes, an engineer at Arizona State University, on a physical comparison. They used 3D printing to create a plastic version of the scanned aorta, so that fluid could be pumped through it and its flow tracked using shiny particles.
Seeing a faithful reproduction of what the simulation had come up with, Dr Randles said, was "pretty rewarding".
"It's pretty straightforward to calculate analytical solutions for flow in a pipe, or flow in a curved tube. But to make sure we're really getting an accurate simulation in a complex geometry was much more difficult."
Next, she and her colleagues are turning their attention to the other half of the system; they are already building a mesh model of the same patient's veins.
Ultimately, they hope to link the whole thing together with capillaries - the tiny vessels where red blood cells release their oxygen in single file - and even to move from fluid modelling to predicting the movement of all the individual blood cells.
If that can be done, then simulating the progress of single cancer cells through the bloodstream will also be a possibility.
But that will require a future generation of supercomputers, Dr Randles said, with at least a thousand-fold more power.
Her other hope is that their current high-level modelling will reveal the most important parameters to be measured and studied - so that patient-specific assessments can be done without the need for a supercomputer at all.
"We're trying to figure out what parts of the model we need to include, when," she explained.
"The goal then would be to pare down the model and run it on something much more tractable."
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Kevin Hart comedy Think Like A Man Too topped the box office chart.
Eastwood's film, about Frankie Valli's group, based on the Tony award-winning musical, took just $13.5m (£7.9m) over the weekend.
It featured a mainly unknown cast aside from Christopher Walken and got mixed reviews.
Las Vegas ensemble movie Think Like a Man Too took $30m (£17.6m) in a slow weekend, narrowly beating 22 Jump Street, which took $29m (£17m) in its second week of release.
Dreamworks' animated sequel How To Train Your Dragon 2 slipped to third spot with $25.3m (£14.8m), ensuring that the weekend's top three were all sequels.
Think Like A Man Too only managed to get a 22% rating on the Rotten Tomatoes review site but that did not stop fans flocking to the cinema.
Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak, said its success was down to Hart, despite the fact it is an ensemble film.
It is the comedian's third film this year to open with $25m, following Ride Along and About Last Night.
"He's a bona fide movie star," Dergarabedian said.
"He's versatile, he's so well liked and he's super funny. Talking about what actors are bankable and consistent, he's right there in that group."
Jersey Boys won the Tony award for best musical in 2006, and productions of it have played all over the world, including in London's West End.
Nearly three-quarters of the first-weekend audience for Jersey Boys were over the age of 50, so producers will be hoping the film will be popular for a few weeks - older audiences tend not to rush out to catch a film on its opening weekend.
Time's Richard Corliss called the film "a turgid botch," while Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote: "What was blandly charming on stage - characters addressing the audience, ultra-broad jokes and showbiz patter - feels contrived, cheesy and cliched on screen."
But it had a 55% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so fared better with critics than Think Like A Man Too.
Angelina Jolie's live action fairytale Maleficent, rounded out the top five.
It passed the $500m (£293m) over the weekend at the international box office, making it Jolie's highest-grossing live-action film of all time, not accounting for inflation, according to Hollywood Reporter.
Her previous box office record was Mr & Mrs Smith opposite her Brad Pitt, who is now her fiance, which took $478.2 million in 2005.
Owen, 27, joined the region in 2012 from Ospreys, while wing Williams leaves Cardiff Blues having been on a season-long loan at Parc y Scarlets.
Williams, 25, has been out since the end of January after a shoulder injury.
"It has been a frustrating couple of months having to watch from the sidelines, but I'm looking forward to the next couple of years," he said.
"I feel that I've really settled in here at Parc y Scarlets since arriving earlier this season.
"There's a great bunch of boys here and I'm grateful to the coaches for giving me an opportunity."
Wing or centre Owen, who has represented Wales Under-19s and Wales Under-20s, added: "I'm delighted to have extended my contract here at the Scarlets.
"I feel that I've had more of an opportunity to show what I can do this season, and have stayed relatively injury-free, which has allowed me to put a decent run of games together."
Scarlets will clinch fourth place in the Pro12 if they beat Munster at Thomond Park on Saturday and Ulster lose at Ospreys.
It was just bought by Chinese buyers for A$88,888,888.88.
The number eight is considered lucky in Chinese as it sounds like the word for "prosperity".
That luck might come in handy - the deal comes just as Sydney was awarded the fourth spot on UBS's global housing bubble index.
Sydney follows Vancouver, London and Stockholm in the ranking which seeks to identify the world's most risky real estate markets.
The lucky price of A$88,88m (US$68.2m; £52.5m) bought 333 Kent Street in Sydney's central business district.
Fortunately it's not a triple four address, as four is pronounced similarly to the word "death" and so considered unlucky.
The offer was made by Chinese firm Bridge Capital and Australian iProsperity Group, who plan to turn the property into a residential building and hotel with a view of the Darling Harbour.
"This is not the first time that Chinese buyers have chosen to offer a price that includes numbers that are considered lucky," Vince Kernahan of Colliers International, the real estate company handling the sale, told the BBC.
In this particular case, "the buyer's offer was very close to several other offers. They just chose these numbers for luck and as it turned out their luck was with them".
According to Swiss bank UBS, the housing market in Sydney "has been overheating since the city became a target for Chinese investors several years ago".
The bank's annual housing bubble index looks at real estate markets around the world to spot the ones where the price rise is "out of touch with fundamentals" and "out of proportion to differences in local economic growth and inflation rates".
The report said housing prices peaked in the second half of 2015 and since then been slightly corrected. But the growing demand from foreign investors has led to the residential market "tripling in value over the last three years."
"Increasing supply and further tax measures to reduce foreign housing investments may end the price boom rather abruptly."
According to the UBS index, Sydney is followed by Munich, Hong Kong and San Francisco.
The former Manchester United and Wales winger is embroiled in a High Court dispute over money with wife Stacey.
He is no longer pursuing a bid to exclude the media from the hearings, it has emerged.
However, a ban on naming the pair's children and reporting financial details heard during litigation remains.
During a hearing on Friday, Mr Justice Cobb also said media outlets could report the couple's identities and the fact they were involved in a dispute.
Neither Giggs nor Mrs Giggs were present.
After the hearing, a lawyer representing Mrs Giggs said she "wishes to make no comment on the current proceedings other than to ask that her privacy and that of her family is respected".
"She understands that coverage of these matters has the potential to cause upset and distress, something which she is determined to avoid at all costs," said James Brown, a partner at Hall Brown Family Law.
Giggs, who was born in Cardiff, retired as a player in summer 2014.
He made a record 963 appearances for United and won 64 Welsh international caps.
The 43-year-old worked as United's interim manager for a short spell after ending his playing career. He has also become involved in property development.
Specialist lawyers are currently debating how much the public should be told about people involved in big-money divorce battles after High Court judges outlined opposing views.
The Yorkshire Silent Film Festival will show more than 30 films featuring stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy.
Organisers said the event would also mark the region's "special importance in the history of film".
The world's first film is reputed to have been shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888.
Film producer Jonathan Best said: "The first moving images were shot in Leeds, and Holmfirth was the home of one of the earliest British film makers, James Bamforth.
"Yorkshire is one of the places in which silent cinema was born."
The Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison are usually credited with pioneering the moving image, but their work came several years after Le Prince shot footage in Leeds.
Talking about the event, which celebrates the first 40 years of cinema, Mr Best urged people not familiar with silent film to come along, saying "it's like nothing else".
The festival, which starts in Doncaster, includes events in Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and Scarborough and runs at 13 venues from 6-30 July.
Each film will be accompanied by a pianist playing an improvised musical score.
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The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office also noted a history of heart disease, asthma and substance abuse.
Weiland, who was 48, was found dead on his tour bus outside a hotel in Bloomington, Minneapolis, on 3 December.
The medical examiner determined his death was an accident.
Bloomington police said at the time they recovered a small amount of cocaine on the tour bus.
Weiland rose to fame with the Stone Temple Pilots, becoming one of the most commercially successful US bands in the early 1990s.
After the band split up in 2003, Weiland went on to front supergroup Velvet Revolver alongside Slash, Matt Sorum and Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses and Dave Kushner of Wasted Youth.
Weiland had a long history of substance abuse-related arrests - in 1995, he was convicted of buying crack cocaine and sentenced to probation.
He was jailed in 1999 for violating his probation after being convicted of heroin possession in 1998, and four years later was sentenced to three years' probation for drug possession.
In 2008, he was sentenced to eight days in jail after pleading no contest to a drink driving charge.
Velvet Revolver frequently had to alter schedules to accommodate Weiland's court appearances and spells in rehab, parting ways the following year, blaming the singer's "erratic behaviour".
He later returned to the reformed Stone Temple Pilots - but in 2013 they, too, ejected him from the band, claiming he had been "misappropriating" their name to further his solo career.
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Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland died from a toxic mix of drugs including cocaine, alcohol and ecstasy, a US medical examiner has said.
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The city is intending to spend £18m on a year-long series of art events after being awarded the title in November.
Ms Millard, who was a student at Hull University, said it was an "honour and a privilege" to take on the role.
The council said it was now recruiting a chief executive and a programme director.
Ms Millard, now a freelance journalist, broadcaster and author, said: "I arrived in Hull to study at the university over 30 years ago and in my heart, I have never left.
"Hull now has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to use culture and the arts to transform perceptions of the city and to change the lives of local people.
"As chair of the culture company, I want to help Hull grasp this moment. "
Hull City Council claims the year-long event could bring more than £60m into the local economy and generate 7,500 new jobs.
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Former BBC arts correspondent Rosie Millard is to become chairwoman of the company running Hull's UK City of Culture activities in 2017.
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The trade body said the market was falling - for the fourth month in a row - amid "growing uncertainty" over plans for Brexit.
About 162,000 vehicles were sold last month.
So far this year, 1.56 million cars have been sold, down 2.2% from a year earlier.
Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said: "The fall in consumer and business confidence is having a knock on effect on demand in the new car market and government must act quickly to provide concrete plans regarding Brexit.
"While it's encouraging to see record achievements for alternatively fuelled vehicles, consumers considering other fuel types will have undoubtedly been affected by the uncertainty surrounding the government's clean air plans."
The government said last month it was to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 amid fears that rising levels of nitrogen oxide threaten public health.
Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics said the continuing fall in sales showed consumers were now holding back on "big-ticket purchases" because of a lack of confidence rather than just a shift in the timing of purchases.
Earlier this year, many customers had brought forward car purchases ahead of changes to Vehicle Excise Duty in April.
Mr Tombs warned that financial deals to buy cars may become more expensive, and the price of cars could rise by about 3% in both 2018 and 2019 because of the weaker pound.
"Car sales tend to lag consumer confidence by about six months - many of the cars registered in July will have been ordered several months ago - so the recent post-election slump in sentiment indicates that the downturn has further to run," he added.
There are two key points to be drawn from these figures.
First of all, the SMMT is now explicitly linking the fall in registrations to uncertainty over Brexit. That wasn't the case earlier in the year, when the figures were all too clearly distorted by the effects of a big change in the Vehicle Excise Duty regime.
And it is notable that the biggest fall in demand has come from business buyers - particularly those looking to buy 25 cars or fewer, although larger fleet purchasers also seem to be growing more cautious.
Secondly, the political backlash against diesel cars, driven by concerns about urban air quality, is having a significant effect. Registrations of new diesels were down 20% compared with the same period last year. Their market share has fallen considerably
Meanwhile sales of electric and hybrid cars are growing. A year ago they had a market share of just 3%. Now it's 5.5% - still fairly small, but gathering momentum rapidly.
A fall in demand for new cars this year had been widely expected, after a period of rapid growth. But today's figures suggest that the political climate is having a significant influence on the direction the industry is heading in.
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New car registrations fell 9.3% in July from a year earlier, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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The tours allow fans to scale Glasgow Central Station's glass roof and see the site of what was a Victorian village buried underground.
Tickets are £10 per person, with profits covering staff costs and improvements to the 135-year-old station.
The 90-minute tours will run three days a week, usually at weekends.
The move follows the overwhelming success in summer 2013 of a Doors Open Day, which allowed the public on the station's roof for the first time.
The limited number of tours sold out almost immediately and plans were drawn up to run more extensive tours on a permanent basis, with an initial start date of January this year.
However, a £2m series of renovations to the building's toilets and entrances at the beginning of the year, followed by the unprecedented surge in passengers during the Commonwealth Games, forced station managers to push back the project.
More recently, delays in completing the booking website for customers prevented the tours from getting under way by the start of November.
Network Rail, which owns the station, said the tours would explore "everywhere from the top of the glass roof - the largest in the world, with 48,000 panes of glass compared to Edinburgh Waverley's 17,000 - to the old steam engine boiler rooms and derelict tunnels in the basement".
Visitors will climb 90 steps and walk across catwalks above the station concourse to access the giant roof area.
At its highest point, the roof stands 40ft above the concourse.
It was completely renewed in 1998 as part of an £80m station renovation.
Once on the roof, visitors will be able to enjoy panoramic views across the River Clyde and city skyline.
From there, tourists will descend winding stairwells to see what remains of the Victorian streets of Grahamston village, which once bustled with shops and activity before the station was built over the top of it in 1879.
Ross Moran, the station's manager, said: "Central Station has played a vital role in the social and economic life of the city for 135 years and we are looking forward to being able to share the sights and stories of the station with the public.
"Previous events at the station, such as last year's Doors Open Day, have shown there is huge interest in the history of the building. The new tours will help bring that history to life, while also raising funds that can be reinvested in Scotland's biggest and busiest station."
More than 38m people a year use Glasgow Central, with about 1,500 train services a day arriving and departing from its 17 platforms.
Across the frozen plains of Colorado it is bitingly cold at this time of year. The temperature is often below zero on most days.
In the state's capital, Denver, America's new homeless venture out into the bitter evening air, victims of an economic downturn that started during the last presidential election year in 2008 and will continue into the 2012 election cycle.
Angelo McWilliams is one of those joining the new ranks of the homeless in Denver. A single father of three children, he has just joined the record numbers of Americans who face a bleak Christmas as the impact of the economic downturn filters through to the country's poorest citizens.
Mr McWilliams checks into the Aristocrat Motel, a boxy two-story building with a rather optimistic name run by the charity Volunteers of America. The US may be the richest country in the world, but the American dream seems a distant memory for him and his children.
When the paperwork is signed and the keys handed over, Mr McWilliams and his three kids haul a pile of bags upstairs to a small room. This will be home until they can arrange something more permanent. After losing his job at a catering firm, the harsh reality of hard times ahead has set in.
"It's hard. It's unforgiving. No one is really going to help you," he says.
The economy is likely to be the key issue in next year's presidential election, and the latest census data suggests that nearly one in two people in the US have either fallen into poverty or are struggling to get by on a low income.
Angelo McWilliams is not alone. Accurate figures are difficult to come by, but as many as 3.5 million Americans are thought to have had need of shelter at some point in the year. There has been a sharp rise in the number of people homeless for the first time, especially families with children.
Robert and Victoria Venegas and their six children have been living at the Aristocrat Motel for nearly two months.
From dawn to dusk it's a scene of well-oiled chaos in two cramped rooms. Clothes are piled in one corner, food in the other, and toys are stuffed under the beds. As his 18-month old twin boys bounce around the room, Robert tries to help his daughter with her maths homework.
With tears in her eyes Victoria talks about the rented property they once called home. The family had to leave when they were unable to meet the monthly payments when Robert lost his job as a painter and decorator this autumn.
"We had a home, we had a yard for the kids to play in. We had two dogs, two wonderful dogs that we don't have any more. And I was able to cook. I used to make dinner every night and now I can't even cook for my family. That's hard.
"My kids know we're not going to have much of a Christmas this year and they're OK with that. As long as we have each other."
She recalls the attitude of Brailin, one of her daughters: "She was like, mom, even if we do get presents, can we just wrap them up and give them to the other kids?"
Many Americans are dropping below the low-income threshold - roughly $45,000 (£28,700) for a family of four - because of pay cuts, a forced reduction of work hours or a spouse losing a job. Housing and child-care costs are consuming up to half of a family's income.
States in the South and West had the highest proportion of low-income families, among them Arizona, New Mexico and South Carolina. They have scaled back or eliminated aid programs for the needy.
The states with the most number of low-income homes were California and Texas, each with more than one million.
Detroit has been ravaged by the decline of the car industry and industrial decay.
The problem is so acute that in November, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing went public with his fears in a highly unusual televised address.
"Simply put, our city is in a financial crisis and city government is broken. This is fact," he said.
Mr Bing runs one of 29 cities across the US where reportedly more than one in four people who need emergency food assistance did not receive it.
Unemployment in parts of the city are over 20% - more than twice the national average - and house prices in some suburbs have collapsed. The city has the unwelcome distinction of being one of the most violent in America.
Bernadine and James Martin can be best described as survivors. They have lived through the worst that Detroit has to offer and refuse to leave even though they struggle to make ends meet.
They provide food, shelter and real-world counselling to the young men and women of the neighbourhood, through the organisation Building Better Adults.
We met a group of young men who have been dropping in to the couple's house for years. There they get a glass of Kool-Aid, perhaps a slice of pizza and some home-spun therapy in an area where poverty, drug-dealing and violence are often a way of life.
"Sometimes I get discouraged and I get weary and I tell my husband 'let's get out of here' but then I think about it and I think we're ordained to stay because of how the kids come to us, how they open up to us. I think that God placed us here to do this work," says Bernadine.
James adds: "I can't go. I've been here since 1957. It's worse now, no jobs. It's hard for the young men to make any money."
James and Bernadine volunteer at a local church which tries to feed both body and soul. Free food is handed out to the poor at least three times a week. Now they are stocking up for Christmas.
The Napoli striker appeared to push the referee and clashed with team-mates after a second booking on 75 minutes.
The league's leading scorer earlier drove home a fierce shot to cancel out a Bruno Fernandes penalty.
Fernandes saw a second penalty saved but made it 2-1 before Cyril Thereau added Udinese's third after the break.
Napoli also saw coach Maurizio Sarri sent from the dug-out in the first half as their hopes of a first league title since 1990 suffered a major blow following Juventus' 3-1 win over Empoli on Saturday.
Sarri was dismissed for protesting at the second penalty award, while Argentina international Higuain, 28, was booked twice in the space of 15 minutes.
The second followed an innocuous-looking foul on Felipe and provoked an angry response from Higuain, who had to be restrained by team-mates as he looked to remonstrate with Udinese players.
The defeat was Napoli's first in the league since losing to Juventus six matches ago.
Sarri said: "We can't take anything away from Udinese, they played great while we just never got to play at our usual level.
"The defeat will make us angry for a day or so, but it will also give us enough fuel for the next seven games."
One of those killed was a serving police officer who had tried to halt robberies at a petrol station.
The government announced last month that it would stop subsidising petrol and prices would gradually increase through 2017.
An increase of 20% came into force on 1 January.
It brought the price of a litre of petrol to 18 pesos ($0.85; £0.70).
That makes the average price of a gallon of petrol around the same as the daily minimum wage - 80 pesos ($3.77, £3.07) - and the raise has caused outrage among people dependent on petrol for their jobs.
President Enrique Pena Nieto has called for calm, saying the price hike is necessary after a rise in global oil prices.
In a televised address to the nation, he said keeping the subsidy would have put the country's whole economy at risk.
He said raising the petrol price was a "difficult and unpopular but necessary decision".
Traffic ground to a halt in Mexico City as transport workers and lorry drivers set up blockades. Protesters called for the president to stand down.
In the central town of Ixmiquilpan, two protesters died during clashes with police who were trying to clear a major road between Mexico City and Laredo.
In Veracruz, one person died after being hit by a lorry in which alleged looters were trying to escape the authorities, police sources said.
Hundreds of shops were looted, with some emptied of clothing, TVs and other consumer goods.
Some skirmishes have broken out between rioters and people who have armed themselves with planks, machetes and rocks in an attempt to prevent looting.
In Monterrey in northern Mexico, at least six protest marches convened on the state government's palace in the centre of town. Gunfire erupted and some of the 10,000 protesters threw stones and broke stained glass windows.
Graveney, who was a lower order batsmen and right-arm swing bowler, passed away at his home in Texas on Sunday.
In 1949 he took 59 wickets, including 10-66 against Derbyshire, the second-best innings analysis in the county's history before retiring in 1964.
"Everyone at the club extends their sincere condolences to the Graveney Family," said a club statement.
After his retirement, Graveney remained active behind the scenes at the club, serving as chairman of the general committee.
His brother Tom and his son David both had long cricket careers with Gloucestershire, and also both captained the county.
The Grantham and District Hospital unit began closing early in August, in a trial expected to last three months.
But a shortage of A&E doctors has forced United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) to keep it closed.
The trust says it is committed to reopening the unit and is trying to recruit staff.
Dr Suneil Kapadia, medical director at ULHT, said the trust needed to meet minimum staffing requirements without an overreliance on agency staff.
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"I recognise people want Grantham A&E to reopen 24/7... [but] it's important we aren't in a situation where we reopen A&E one day and then need to close it again the next week due to doctors leaving," he said.
"The reality is agency staff have the pick of places to work and can often leave a placement at short notice."
The trust said it was continuing to recruit staff both in the UK and overseas.
ULHT employs about 17 doctors across its three sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham, and needs a minimum of 21 to keep all of them open for 24 hours.
The trust previously took the decision to close the Grantham unit at night to enable it to maintain safe staffing levels at its two other A&E departments, both of which take a higher number of patients.
It acknowledged the decision was unpopular and added it supported the right of people to protest against it.
Campaigners have also branded plans to extend the A&E's opening times by an hour as "ridiculous".
The trust plans to open the unit from 08:00 to 18:30 at the end of March, instead of opening at 09:00.
Dame Sally Davies has written to all GPs and pharmacies to ensure they are prescribing the correct drugs after the rise of "super-gonorrhoea" in Leeds.
Her warning comes after concerns were raised that some patients were not getting both of the antibiotics needed to clear the infection.
Sexual health doctors said gonorrhoea was "rapidly" developing resistance.
A highly drug-resistant strain of gonorrhoea was detected in the north of England in March.
That strain is able to shrug off the antibiotic azithromycin, which is normally used alongside another drug, ceftriaxone.
In her letter, the chief medical officer said: "Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance."
But while an injection of ceftriaxone and an azithromycin pill are supposed to be used in combination, this may not always be the case for all patients.
Earlier this year, the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) warned that some online pharmacies were offering only oral medication.
Using just one of the two drugs makes it easier for the bacterium to develop resistance.
The letter, which is also signed by chief pharmaceutical officer Dr Keith Ridge, stated: "Gonorrhoea has rapidly acquired resistance to new antibiotics, leaving few alternatives to the current recommendations.
"It is therefore extremely important that suboptimal treatment does not occur."
The disease is caused by the bacterium called Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
The infection is spread by unprotected vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Symptoms can include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods. Often the person has no symptoms, however, but can still easily spread the disease to others.
Untreated infection can lead to infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy.
Gonorrhoea is the second most common sexually transmitted infection in England and cases are soaring.
The number of infections increased by 19% from 29,419 in 2013 to 34,958 the following year.
Dr Jan Clarke, the president of BASHH, told the BBC News website: "We're really pleased that the chief medical officer has stressed that gonorrhoea needs this approach to treatment due to the rapid development of resistance.
"We need to protect what we've got and we need to encourage pharmacists and general practitioners to follow first-line treatment."
Dr Andrew Lee, from Public Health England, added: "Investigations are ongoing into a number of cases of anti-microbial resistant gonorrhoea.
"Public Health England will continue to monitor, and act on, the spread of antimicrobial resistance and potential gonorrhoea treatment failures, to make sure they are identified and managed promptly."
China has banned red meat imports from Brazil, while the European Union said it would stop buying from companies implicated in the scandal.
The crisis was triggered by a huge federal police operation on Friday.
It found evidence that meat-packers had been selling rotten and substandard produce for several years.
The meat industry plays an important part in the Brazilian economy, with exports worth more than $12bn (£9.7bn) a year.
The Brazilian government has done all it could to avoid a total or partial ban on meat imports from other countries.
President Michel Temer held emergency meetings during the weekend and even invited foreign diplomats to a steak house on Sunday evening to try to reassure them.
"The Brazilian government reiterates its confidence in the quality of a national product that has won over consumers and obtained the approval of the most rigorous markets," said Mr Temer.
But the effort was in vain. China, the EU, South Korea and Chile have now announced restrictions on Brazilian meat products.
Together they accounted for nearly one third of Brazilian meat exports in 2016, O Globo newspaper reported.
Brazil is the world's biggest red meat and poultry exporter.
On Friday, federal police raided meat-producing plants and arrested more than 30 people.
The government suspended more than 30 senior civil servants who should have spotted the unhygienic and illegal practices.
They are being investigated for corruption.
Three meat-packing plants have been closed and another 21 are being investigated.
Mr Temer said the plants under scrutiny represented a tiny proportion of Brazil's meat industry.
"Only 21 units out of 4,837 in Brazil subject to government inspection are facing allegations of irregularities. And only six of them have exported in the past 60 days," said Mr Temer at a meeting with foreign diplomats on Sunday.
Operation Weak Flesh was launched in the early hours of Friday in six Brazilian states after a two-year investigation.
Federal police carried out raids in 194 locations, deploying more than 1,000 officers.
The investigators allege that some managers bribed health inspectors and politicians to get government certificates for their products.
They accuse more than 30 companies of a number of unhygienic practices. Among them are JBS, the world's largest beef exporter, and BRF, the world's top poultry producer.
"They used acid and other chemicals to mask the aspect of the product. In some cases, the products used were carcinogenic," the police said.
Both JBS and BRF said they followed high quality standards and sanitary regulations.
Prosecutors say a percentage of the bribe money was paid to two parties from the governing coalition - the PP and President Michel Temer's PMDB.
Chief executive Steve Rowe's turnaround plans will also see it open 200 new Simply Food stores as it shifts away from disappointing fashion sales.
He said M&S also planned to close loss-making shops in 10 international markets, including China and France.
The announcements came as M&S reported falling sales and profits in the six months to the end of September.
Mr Rowe said of the UK store closures: "This is about building a sustainable, more profitable business that's relevant for our customers in a digital shopping age."
He would not be drawn on job losses or which stores would close, amid warnings from trade unions that staff would be "extremely concerned" about where the axe will fall.
In total M&S said it would have about 60 fewer clothing and homeware stores in five years' time.
However, with new food outlets opening, the company will have more stores overall and "more towns will have an M&S", Mr Rowe told the BBC.
He added that customers still "love" M&S, but that it could do better.
The retailer has over 300 full-range sites, which sell clothing, homeware and food, and nearly 600 Simply Food shops in the UK.
It also plans to shut 53 international stores, including all 10 in China, half of its stores in France and all its shops in Belgium, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.
That represents more than a quarter of the international stores that M&S fully owns, and will cost £150m-£200m. The company said it would start a consultation with 2,100 employees over the proposals.
Among the sites being closed is its department store on the Champs Elysees in Paris - it will be the second time M&S has closed its flagship branch in France. In 2001 M&S closed all its European stores, before returning to France 10 years later under former boss Marc Bolland.
Retail Vision analyst John Ibbotson said: "M&S's humiliating withdrawal from 10 overseas markets is... a Dunkirk moment for [the] iconic British brand."
However, others said that rather than losing face, M&S was closing the stores so as to concentrate forces on turning around the UK business.
"It's not a huge part of M&S's profits. The UK is where they should be making their money, so it's about sorting that out before turning to international expansion," analysts at Liberum said.
M&S did not have the scale, speed or fashion lines of companies like Zara-owner Inditex to succeed in some of these markets, they said.
M&S's half-year results show the problems facing Mr Rowe in the UK, who took over in April.
Clothing sales in existing UK stores fell 5.9%, while its stronger performing food business saw sales drop by 0.9%.
Pre-tax profit dropped 88% to £25.1m, from £216m in the same period a year ago, partly due to higher pension costs.
The retailer also faces a further squeeze on profits from more expensive imports caused by the fall in the value of the pound.
"Our intention is that we won't have to pass those price rises onto the consumer in the New Year," Mr Rowe told the BBC.
Investors were unsure about M&S's results and store closure plans, with shares initially rising before falling quite sharply.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, said: "Cost-cutting will help to support earnings forecasts but this will only take M&S so far. To truly revive profits the company must get clothing and home right, and it is currently hard to argue that M&S has really found its fashion handwriting."
Liberum analysts said they had "wanted to see radical action from M&S", but that they saw Mr Rowe's plans as "medium radical".
Matthew Hopkinson, a director at the Local Data Company, said that although M&S was closing a relatively small number of stores, it would have "a big impact for the towns where they have been the High Street anchor for many years".
He also announced a national memorial day of 18 March, with events planned for Christchurch's Hagley Park.
On Sunday the treasury department said that quake recovery would cost the country NZ$15bn ($11bn; £7bn).
The death toll, at 166 so far, is expected to rise to around 200 as rescue work continues.
Rescue workers were relieved to find no dead in the rubble of the collapsed tower of Christchurch Cathedral; they had earlier pulled about 90 bodies from the Canterbury TV building.
Victims are being identified using fingerprints, DNA, dental records and other personal items such as jewellery.
The painstaking process could take months to complete, officials say, adding to the misery of relatives waiting for news.
Experts say there were cases after previous disasters and accidents overseas where the wrong body was returned to the family, compounding the grief of everyone involved.
To avoid such traumatic mistakes, the authorities in New Zealand insist their work will be meticulous.
Speaking at a news conference, Mr Key said New Zealanders must "brace ourselves" for the probable demolition of many heritage buildings as well as homes.
He said some parts of the city could not be rebuilt because of liquefaction - the weakening of the soil due to the rising of silt and water sparked by the quake.
The Earthquake Commission has begun land assessments and will begin assessing houses from this week.
A private building supply company has also begun emergency repairs to houses as part of a contribution to quake relief, Mr Key said.
Fiji tourism operators have meanwhile offered cheap flights and accommodation to quake victims in the Pacific Islands territory.
Earlier estimates of the cost of rebuilding the city were trebled in comments by Treasury officials.
"We estimate that GDP growth will be around 1.5 percentage points lower in the 2011 calendar year solely as a result of the February earthquake," the Treasury said in its monthly report.
Finance Minister Bill English said that paying for the earthquake was likely to involve "a bit more borrowing in the short term" and changing spending priorities.
Meanwhile, residents of the central zone of Christchurch were at last being allowed past police cordons to see the extent of damage to their homes.
The 70-strong UK Search and Rescue team has now left Christchurch.
Power is expected to be restored to 99% of dwellings in the city by the end of Monday.
Fixed in place on top of a spherical treadmill, a fruit fly walked on the spot while neuroscientists peered into its brain using a microscope.
Watching the neurons fire inside a donut-shaped brain region, they saw activity sweep around the ring to match the direction the animal was headed.
Mammals have similar "head direction cells" but this is a first for flies.
The findings are reported in the journal Nature.
Crucially, the compass-like activity took place not only when the animal was negotiating a virtual-reality environment, in which screens gave the illusion of movement, but also when it was left in the dark.
"The fly is using a sense of its own motion to pick up which direction it's pointed," said senior author Dr Vivek Jayaraman, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus.
In some other insects, such as monarch butterflies and locusts, brain cells have been observed firing in a way that reflects the animal's orientation to the pattern of polarised light in the sky - a "sun compass".
But the newly discovered compass in the fly brain works more like the "head directions cells" seen in mammals, which rapidly set up a directional system for the animal based on landmarks in the surrounding scene.
"A key thing was incorporating the fly's own movement," Dr Jayaraman told the BBC.
"To see that its own motion was relevant to the functioning of this compass - that was something we could only see if we did it in a behaving animal."
Hence, Dr Jayaraman and his colleague Johannes Seelig built an intricate set-up where the fly, already manipulated so that its brain cells would glow when they fired, walked on top of a freely rotating ball. They glued the fly to a metal rod, to hold it stationary, and focussed a powerful laser microscope on its brain.
For the virtual reality experiments, they surrounded the fly with screens displaying simple patterns of lines, whose movement was controlled by that of the ball.
It was time-consuming and fiddly work, for which Jayaraman praised the dexterity of his postdoctoral researcher Dr Seelig.
"We call him 'the fly whisperer' in the lab. He has a magic set of hands that allow him to do the most remarkably fine dissections, while leaving the fly comfortable enough to actually behave in its environment."
Unlike the situation in mammals, where this type of direction-sensitive cell seems to be quite scattered within the brain, the fly compass appears to be packed into a particular area called the "ellipsoid body" - which also happens to be circular.
This meant that the researchers could zoom in on this region and watch the compass in action.
"It's very seldom that you have a compass in the brain that really looks like a compass," Dr Jayaraman said.
He added that it was Dr Seelig who first saw the sweeping pattern of activity unfolding as the "needle" of the compass swung around to match the fly's own turning.
"He's an understated, Swiss guy. He came into my office and plonked this video down and he said, I think maybe there's something here.
"I looked at it and I wanted to jump up and hug him."
The researchers argue that the compass is surprisingly complex, considering the size of the brain making the calculations. As such, Dr Jayaraman said, "the fly may have a lot to tell us" about how bigger brains, including ours, accomplish similar tasks.
Prof Kate Jeffery studies head direction cells in mammals, in her own lab at University College London. She told BBC News this was a striking set of results.
"The novelty is that they're seeing a signal that isn't a simple transformation of what the sensory receptors see," Prof Jeffery said.
"These neurons are not purely visual. They're integrating information and they're abstracting something at a higher level."
To build up its representation of direction, she explained, this system must distil information from across different senses.
"It's a bit more like cognition - in a fly - which is kind of cool."
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He told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that other EU states "have a very strong interest in getting a good deal".
But he said that if the UK was only offered a "punishment deal" then it had to be prepared to "walk away".
His Labour shadow Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Davis should focus on getting the best deal, not "preparing for failure".
In his interview, Mr Davis also defended Theresa May as a "very good prime minister" - although said she was "under pressure".
When asked if it would be "catastrophic" for Brexit negotiations for there to be a Tory leadership contest, he replied: "Yes."
"Let me be absolutely plain about this, number one, I happen to think we have got a very good prime minister. I know she is coming under a lot of pressure at the moment, but I have seen her in action.
"I think she is very good. She makes good decisions. She's bold. She takes her time.
"Point number two is, I want a stable backdrop to this Brexit negotiation."
Mr Davis is heading up the UK side of negotiations, and began talks last week with his EU counterpart Michel Barnier. Of Mr Barnier, he said: "He wants a deal as much as we want a deal, I think."
Mrs May has been criticised by some for saying "no deal is better than a bad deal" with the EU.
Last week, Chancellor Philip Hammond said "no deal would be a very, very bad outcome for Britain" although he went on to say a "worse outcome" would be a deal "deliberately structured to suck the lifeblood out of our economy".
When Mr Davis was asked by Marr whether he was sure there would be a deal, he said: "I'm pretty sure, I am not 100% sure, you can never be, it's a negotiation.
Reminded of his past words that "we are guaranteed to get a deal", Mr Davis said: "You can be sure there will be a deal, whether it's the deal I want which is the free trade agreement, the customs agreement and so on - I'm pretty sure but I'm not certain."
On the prospect of no deal, he said a bad deal "would be better than a punishment deal".
"We cannot have a circumstance where the other side says that they are going to punish you. So if that happens then there is a walkaway, and we have to plan for that."
Mr Davis said he wanted to deliver an outcome "which helps both sides" and said it was likely there would be a transitional period, after the UK leaves the EU, for trade arrangements, probably of "one to two years".
Sir Keir Starmer, shadow secretary of state for exiting the EU, said "no deal is not a viable option as it would be catastrophic for British trade, jobs and security. The sooner David Davis realises this, the better.
"Instead of preparing for failure the government should be putting all their efforts into getting a Brexit deal that works for Britain - that means putting jobs and the economy first and dropping the no deal mantra."
Mr Davis also said he wanted to get a deal on the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens living in other EU states, "through now" and to discuss the issue of how the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will operate, although he acknowledged that it would not be concluded in the negotiations this summer.
He said the government wanted to have an "invisible border" between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and said there was lots of "technical stuff" to start working on now - such as number plate recognition and "trusted trailer schemes".
But the Liberal Democrats' Brexit spokesman, Tom Brake, said Mr Davis "inspires about as much confidence as a drunken trapeze artist".
"It is the country as a whole that will suffer when he comes crashing to the floor.
"These negotiations will affect our lives for decades, but he's only 'pretty sure' of getting a deal. It is simply not good enough."
Meanwhile Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett has been asked to clarify Labour's position on the single market after 50 Labour politicians signed a letter to the Guardian urging the party to back staying in.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has previously said he did not think remaining a member of the single market was "feasible" and Mr Corbyn has suggested Brexit would mean an end to the UK's single market membership.
Mr Trickett told BBC One's Sunday Politics that while Labour's position is to "have access to all of the tariff-free arrangements which exist within the customs union and single market" it was not wedded to any "particular institutional form".
He said: "We are pragmatic about it. Let's see how the negotiations go. We are not going to say one thing or another in terms of institutional relationships."
The prime minister has said the UK "cannot possibly" remain in the single market as to do so would mean "not leaving the EU at all".
EU leaders have warned that the UK cannot access the single market, which allows the free movement of goods, services and workers between its members, while at the same time restricting the free movement of people.
He won 48,152 votes, a 58.9% share, in the fifth round of voting after four other candidates had been eliminated.
Ex-minister Tessa Jowell, regarded as the frontrunner going into the contest, came second with 41.1% of the vote ahead of Diane Abbott in third place.
Mr Khan, the MP for Tooting, said he would seek to represent the whole of the city and make a "real difference".
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One, he said his top priority if elected would be tackle London's "housing crisis", ensuring "genuinely affordable homes to rent and buy".
Mr Khan said he would also focus on affordable public transport and confirmed he had changed his mind on the issue of a third runway at Heathrow Airport over air pollution fears, and would be campaigning against expansion.
A total of 87,884 legitimate votes were cast in the ballot, in which the other candidates were former ministers David Lammy and Gareth Thomas, veteran Labour MP Ms Abbott and transport expert Christian Wolmar.
Analysis by BBC London political editor Tim Donovan
As he now seeks a mandate from five million Londoners, his personal and political journey will be scrutinised like never before.
Sadiq Khan has a back-story that may appeal to people who've never cast a vote in their lives.
He grew up on a south London housing estate, one of eight children, his father a bus driver. His children went to the same primary school as him. The Tooting constituency he represented since 2005 is where he's lived all his life.
In the second decade of the 21st Century some might argue the fact he is Muslim should pass unremarked. But his accession to City Hall would, for many, be a powerful statement of the city's diversity.
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Mr Thomas was first to be eliminated, with his second preferences reallocated, followed by Mr Wolmar, Mr Lammy and Ms Abbott.
A breakdown of the vote revealed Baroness Jowell had won the most votes from Labour Party members in the first round, but among registered supporters - who paid £3 to be entitled to vote - she was third behind Mr Khan and Ms Abbott.
Mr Khan was also top among affiliated union members.
Commentators reacted by saying Mr Khan's victory, allied to the strong showing of Ms Abbott, increased the likelihood of Jeremy Corbyn being elected party leader on Saturday.
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said he suspected even Mr Khan - who nominated Mr Corbyn to be Labour leader - would be surprised by scale of his victory, adding that the "winds of change are sweeping though Labour".
Mr Corbyn was among a series of senior party figures to congratulate Mr Khan saying, regardless of Saturday's result, he looked forward to working closely with him "as we seek to reconnect everywhere for a better kind of politics".
Mr Khan said he had been clear that while he had nominated Mr Corbyn, he would not be voting for him and had backed Andy Burnham in the leadership contest.
Mr Khan, who was shadow justice secretary under Ed Miliband's leadership, said that growing up on a council estate in South London, City Hall had seemed "a million miles away".
He later said he would stand down as MP for Tooting if he was elected Mayor.
The Conservatives have yet to choose their candidate, with Richmond Park MP Zac Goldsmith seen as the frontrunner.
The Conservatives have run City Hall for more than seven years, with Boris Johnson combining the role of London Mayor with that of MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since his election in May.
The 28-year-old Scotland international has agreed a three-year deal and joins the Lancashire club for an undisclosed fee, thought to be about £3m.
The Clarets have also signed 19-year-old Chelsea midfielder Nathaniel Chalobah on loan until January.
Chalobah has yet to make a Premier League appearance, but has impressed during loan spells with Watford, Nottingham Forest and Middlesbrough.
Boyd, who signed for the Tigers from Peterborough midway through their promotion campaign in 2012-13, has made one league appearance this season.
The deals bring the number of summer signings at newly promoted Burnley to nine.
Hull manager Steve Bruce had revealed on Sunday that the player was nearing a move to the Clarets, adding: "I wish him well. I've been in the game a long time and if all professional footballers were like George Boyd my job would be easy."
He came off the bench against Stoke last weekend and started in Hull's first Europa League qualifying tie against Lokeren, which they lost 1-0.
Burnley have yet to win a Premier League game this season, but held Manchester United to a 0-0 draw at Turf Moor on Saturday.
The fragment, which historians believe could have been part of a sword, was discovered by Michael Beirne on Coleg Gwent land at Llanbadoc in March 2014.
The mount was first reported to the National Roman Legion Museum at Caerleon.
It will now be valued and bought by National Museum Wales with Heritage Lottery funding.
Dr Mark Redknap, of National Museum Cardiff, said the mount bears two incomplete inscriptions and is believed to date back to the 15th century.
He said the motto appeared to be a version of the commonplace inscription nul si bien / nul ce bien / nul sy bien (None so good, None this good), which was "appropriate for a fine sword".
He added it was likely the surviving fragment was only 50% of the original length, which would leave room on the missing section for another motto or a shields of arms.
Mr Beirne, 39 of Newport, who has been metal detecting for 15 years, said the find had "probably been my best one".
He added: "I'd like to think that the sword, which the find may have been part of, belonged to a Welsh or English knight."
Alex Anderson, head of estates at Coleg Gwent, said an Ordnance Survey map showed the mount was found close to the assumed site of the 1405 Battle of Pwll Melyn, fought by Owain Glyndwr's men, but it may have been lost at a later date.
It will rent up to 300 prison places from the Dutch, who already lease some of their extra capacity to Belgium.
Under the agreement, prisoners will be guarded by Dutch wardens, but the director will be Norwegian.
Norway has a current jail capacity shortage despite relatively low incarceration rates.
The nation is known for treating its inmates relatively humanely. Its non-violent offenders, for instance, are often held in open prisons with the freedom to move, work, enjoy recreational facilities and focus on rehabilitation.
However, according to a government analysis in 2013, there is now a backlog of renovation works needed that will cost an estimated NOK 4.4bn (£435m) and will involve temporarily shutting some jails or prison branches.
In addition, the growing queue of convicts needing prison spaces, which currently stands at 1300, is adding pressure to the demand on detention space.
"The situation is urgent, and we must consider short-term measures. Leasing prison capacity abroad may contribute to alleviating the situation. That is why we have started talks with the Netherlands," Norwegian Justice Minister Anders Anundsen said.
However, to begin the cooperation, the two countries must first conclude a treaty. There are a number of details to resolve, including how often detainees may be visited by family and friends living back in Norway.
The Netherlands has already been housing overflow prisoners from Belgium at a prison in Tilburg in the south, near the Belgian border, under a deal the two countries signed in 2009.
Last year, Norway explored the idea of leasing prison capacity from neighbouring Sweden, but the plan was dropped over Swedish reservations at having to adjust its legislation.
Norway, whose population is around 5 million, has an incarceration rate of 72 in every 100,000 people, about a tenth of the level in the United States.
Two rival groups each want to run an amateur event, known as a sportive, in Lincoln on the same day and route in May next year.
Cyclists are now said to be confused as to which event to sign up to.
The city hosted the British Cycling National Road Championships in 2015, attracting thousands of spectators.
Lawyers have been contacted to try to resolve concerns about the staging and marketing of the events.
ITP Events has been running an event in the city, known as the Lincoln Grand Prix Sportive, for five years.
Another group wants to stage a new event, called the Lincoln Sportive, as part of the Lincoln Festival of Cycling.
Ian Pemrose, of ITP Events, said: "We've run five editions of the Lincoln Sportive. We created that event and we're just carrying on with what we do under our trademark.
"If you'd spent five years building up a business and then somebody said 'actually I want want to do that', would you do that?"
Both events are being proposed for Saturday 14 May and would run on a route starting at Yarborough Leisure Centre and ending in Castle Square.
Dan Ellmore, organiser of the Lincoln Festival of Cycling, said: "It's one of the best events I've ever seen.
"Dragging the name through the mud like this doesn't do anyone any good and is really a destructive and negative approach.
"If the ITP event goes ahead as planned on the 14th, we'll move, however it seems a little crazy to me to move a three-day weekend".
Sunday's match was called off in stoppage time after players aimed punches and kicks at each other.
Television pictures showed Gimnasia players kicking Estudiantes goalkeeper Mariano Andujar when on the ground.
It comes a week after five players were sent off during River Plate's friendly with Boca Juniors.
In this latest incident, two players - Estudiantes defender Alvaro Pereira and Gimnasia goalkeeper Enrique Bologna - had been sent off, before Estudiantes' Santiago Ascacibar fouled a Gimnasia player from behind and was given the third red card of the game.
As he left the field, Ascacibar was surrounded by angry Gimnasia players, prompting Estudiantes substitutes to run on to the pitch to intervene.
Estudiantes coach Nestor Vivas, whose side were leading 1-0 when the game was abandoned, said: "The referee can make mistakes but it was the two teams who were in the wrong."
His family said he died in Los Angeles from complications from a stroke.
He and Bacharach wrote a string of hits for Dionne Warwick, including Walk On By and I Say a Little Prayer, but also wrote for other performers, such as Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield.
Their film work included Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, which won an Oscar.
David's wife, Eunice, told the Associated Press news agency that he had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again on Tuesday.
"Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," she said.
"He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric."
David's work was performed by a huge array of artists over the decades, including Perry Como, Louis Armstrong, the Carpenters and Sandie Shaw.
On Broadway, success came with the musical comedy, Promises, Promises, based on the Billy Wilder film, The Apartment.
Including the songs, l'll Never Fall In Love Again, and Knowing When to Leave, the original cast recording was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Grammy in 1969.
The pair also turned out songs for the movies, What's New, Pussycat, Alfie and the 1967 version of Casino Royale, which each earned them Oscar nominations for best song.
In 1974 David joined the board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and served as president from 1980 to 1986. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001 to 2011, and was Chairman Emeritus at his death.
The society's current president, Paul Williams, said in a statement: "As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic - conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music.
"It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs... the backdrop of our lives."
In 2011, David and Burt Bacharach were awarded the Gershwin Prize for popular song by the US Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team has been given the honour.
Joan Barnett suffered injuries at her home in Newlands Avenue, Tunstall, and later died in hospital.
William Levi Gales, 44 and of Borrowdale Street, Hartlepool, has also been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud.
He will appear at Sunderland Magistrates' Court 26 April, alongside three others also charged with fraud.
Fifty years after From Russia With Love, freelance operatives are once again to the fore on a rap sheet covering coup-plotting, election-rigging and thinly-veiled threats against Serbia's prime minister.
The only element missing is the poison-tipped toe caps of agent Rosa Klebb.
In October, Montenegro held a general election which then-Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic billed as a referendum on the country's accession to Nato and pursuit of EU membership.
Both issues have infuriated Russia, where Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin warned that Montenegro would "regret" joining Nato.
On polling day, police arrested 20 Serbian citizens whom they suspected of plotting a coup and the assassination of Mr Djukanovic. Those detained included a former commander of a Serbian special forces unit. Serbia quickly moved to deny any involvement in the affair.
Within days, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced that arrests had also been made in Serbia - and that those people had connections with an unnamed third country. He also claimed that intelligence agencies from both East and West were increasing their activities in Serbia.
This put the rumour mill into overdrive - and local newspapers reported allegations that Serbia had secretly deported several Russian citizens for nefarious activities.
This was followed by the unexpected arrival in Belgrade of the head of Russia's Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, as Montenegro accused Russian and Serbian nationalists of organising the alleged coup attempt.
Just when it seemed that eyebrows could not possibly rise any higher, police discovered a cache of arms hidden close to Mr Vucic's parents' home on the outskirts of Belgrade. The temptation to see this as an attempt to intimidate the prime minster was hard to resist.
Jelena Milic, of the Belgrade-based Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies, says that at the very least Mr Patrushev's visit indicated that Russia was trying to manage Serbia's response to the coup allegations.
"He was eager to suppress the fact that somebody was in Serbia, caught red-handed with the equipment and plans," said Ms Milic.
"So Patrushev came out of the blue to suppress the fact that little green men were caught here and they had left the country. Because it is big - it would really prove to everyone how big the hybrid approach by Russia to destabilise the entire EU is."
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Theories that Russia has turned to nefarious means of influence are given legs by its obvious disapproval of the "Euro-Atlantic path" being followed by the countries of the Western Balkans, as they head towards membership of the EU, Nato or both.
Montenegro's imminent accession means that all the countries along the Adriatic coast will be Nato members.
But Russia has plenty of supporters in Serbia.
Opinion polls suggest more people favour closer ties with Moscow than membership of the EU. Suggestions that the dark arts of the Cold War are back in play get a sceptical reception.
"I don't see the hand of Russia in all this," says Misa Djurkovic, the director of Belgrade's Institute of European Studies and author of The Illusion of the European Union.
"I don't see that it's in Russia's interests to overthrow the governments in Montenegro or Serbia. They are working with those in power. And they are most interested in their own backyard, which they are not yet capable of controlling."
"In Serbia, everything that has recently been going on was connected in the media with mafia and drug-trafficking structures. That's not, as far as I know, connected with Russia."
This analysis is certainly in line with more recent comments from Serbia's prime minister, in which he suggested his family had become the target of an unnamed organised crime figure.
But even if the more outrageous allegations remain unproven, it does appear that Russia is keen to maintain some influence in the Western Balkans.
The Russian-funded media outlet, Sputnik News, set up a Serbian-language service in 2014. Its slant on stories is distinctly pro-Moscow - and it finds a sympathetic audience among Serbians and Montenegrins who still vividly remember the Nato bombing campaign of 1999 - and romanticise a "Slavic brotherhood" with Russia.
"All our enemies in the Balkans were helped by the British, Americans, Germans and so on, and that's why people try to turn to the other side and project on that side many things that are not realistic," says Misa Djurkovic.
Among all the rumours and recriminations in the western Balkans, making a sober analysis of the precise state of the region's relations with Russia is a thankless task.
"It's very easy to fall into Balkan conspiracy theorising," says James Ker-Lindsay, an expert on the politics of southeast Europe at the London School of Economics.
"We know that Russia is trying to expand its sphere of influence in the western Balkans. So there is a certain plausibility to claims that Russia is getting involved."
"But the coup plot was incredibly amateurish. If you think that Russia was engaged in a process to overthrow the Montenegrin government, you'd think they would do it in a little more sophisticated fashion than sending over a few Serb nationalists."
In any case, none of the recent events appear to have stopped Serbia advancing its EU membership negotiations, with more "chapters" in the accession process due to open this week. James Ker-Lindsay believes that when all the skulduggery has been forgotten, economic pragmatism will dictate the region's next moves.
"There is a great deal of pragmatism in Serbian government circles. They don't want to alienate Russia, but when push comes to shove, it's quite clear that economic development is the priority - and investment comes from the EU, not from Russia."
Caixinha took charge on Monday and revealed he would be looking for an assistant with a knowledge of the Glasgow club and Scottish football.
Asked if he would be interested, Ferguson told BBC Scotland: "Of course, I've said that before.
"That's my club. That's where I was from an eight-year-old kid. I spent 20 years of my life at Rangers."
Ferguson left Rangers for a second time in 2009 to join Birmingham City and had his first taste of coaching as caretaker manager of Blackpool.
The 39-year-old resigned last month following three years with Clyde after a poor run of Scottish League Two results meant his side were destined to miss out on the promotion play-offs.
Ferguson had made no secret of the fact that he found coaching part-time players frustrating and would relish a chance to coach at a higher level.
But he insisted that "I've had no contact whatsoever" while stressing that "it is a club that means a lot to me".
Ferguson had previously said that he believed he thought he could help instil some missing passion into a side sitting third in the Scottish Premiership at the time of Mark Warburton's departure.
However, he was impressed with the 1-1 draw they achieved against leaders Celtic under caretaker manager Graeme Murty.
"I saw plenty of passion on Sunday from the team," said Ferguson.
"I don't know whether that was because there's a new manager sitting in the stand and they want to impress him.
"He would not have taken the job if there was not a bit of finance to go and get his own players, so for the next two months, those players are playing for their futures."
Caixinha, who has signed a three-year contract after leaving Qatari club Al-Gharafa, held his first news conference as manager on Monday and Ferguson liked what he heard from the 46-year-old Portuguese.
"I thought his interview was good," said the former Rangers and Scotland midfielder of the media conference.
"It is easy enough to get what Rangers is all about, but he looked like he is the fiery type of guy and I think that's what Rangers need just now.
"They need somebody who is going to go in there and fire the dressing room up."
The singer and drummer sang two songs with the middle school band at the Miami Country Day School, according to the Miami Herald.
He praised the school's musicians but admitted he was nervous about singing.
Collins announced his retirement in 2011, saying he wanted to spend more time with his young children.
At the time he said: "I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis."
His former wife, Orianne Collins Mejjati, told the Miami Herald that Collins had agreed to the school performance after being asked by their children.
He performed renditions of In the Air Tonight and Land of Confusion.
A former member of rock band Genesis, Collins went on to achieve huge success as a solo performer, including hit albums as No Jacket Required and ...But Seriously.
The winner of seven Grammy awards, he also won an Academy award for his soundtrack for the Disney animated film Tarzan.
Collins has an older daughter, Lily Collins, an actress who starred in the films Mirror Mirror and The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said he was not convinced "continuing to focus on 52 small areas is the most effective way to deliver for Wales".
Mr Sargeant told AMs a new Wales-wide approach would focus on employment, early years and "empowerment".
First Minister Carwyn Jones had already warned that some government schemes would be cut to pay for new priorities.
More free childcare, apprenticeships and a fund to boost school standards have been highlighted as Welsh Labour's key pledges ahead of next week's budget.
"I am minded to phase out the Communities First programme while establishing a new approach to meet the challenges of the future," Mr Sargeant said.
"Over the coming months, we will look afresh at how the Welsh Government can support resilient communities.
"This means communities that are empowered and engaged; communities that are ready and able to work; communities that can offer children the best start in life."
Communities First spends about £30m each year, with more than £300m spent since it was launched in 2001.
At one point it was supporting about 200 projects, before the number was reduced amid concern about its effectiveness.
In 2011, the head of a Communities First project in Wrexham was jailed for fraud after she diverted funds from the charity to herself and her family.
More recently, in 2015, it emerged that one project in Merthyr Tydfil spent most of its £1.5m budget over three years on salaries.
Plaid Cymru's Shadow Communities Secretary Bethan Jenkins said Communities First had done good work, but added: "If the goal here is the eradication of poverty, then the government needs to bring forward fresh ideas."
Welsh Conservative spokesman Mark Isherwood welcomed the rethink, saying: "With one in four people in Wales still living in poverty, it is clear the programme is not fit for purpose."
Bob Wellington, leader of the Welsh Local Government Association, said regional development efforts "have the potential to deliver better results than the targeted, area-based interventions that characterised Communities First".
Victoria Winckler, director of the Bevan Foundation think tank, told BBC Wales: "The time to end the Communities First programme has come.
"However, there are many excellent schemes run by Communities First, some of which have taken years to develop.
"Closing them down would be a further blow to communities that are already reeling from cuts to public services. The Welsh Government should transfer some of them to community ownership - a sort of social asset transfer - providing three year funding".
Orange fireworks were accompanied by a huge fanfare as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands opened the building.
The renovation, which cost 375m Euros (£320m), had been delayed by flooding, asbestos and a cycle access dispute.
But the museum's directors have said they predict more than two million people will visit it annually.
Here is a selection of comments in the press on the refurbished building:
Many of the world's museum directors wept. Never has a national museum reopened to such scenes of fervency. The restored, extended and rejigged Rijksmuseum is a triumph of curatorial intelligence and sensitivity.
Once again - at last - the world can experience the richness of the greatest art tradition ever produced by a tiny, sea-hemmed nation: from Vermeer to Van Gogh, Rembrandt to Mondrian.
The Dutch capital is cleaning up its act. Brothels and cannabis cafes are being closed. But the most significant transformation is the renovation of the Rijksmuseum. Stand in front of the Rijksmuseum's charcoal-painted walls and look again at those Golden Age pictures of church interiors and you will find depictions of dogs cavorting, gallants chatting up maids and market stalls trading within the house of God. There will always be many shades of grey in Amsterdam.
The Rijksmuseum will reach places that other art collections do not. Such as your heart.
The long winter of discontented tourists is over. The Night Watch is back in its rightful place at the head of the Gallery of Honour. The rejuvenated Rijksmuseum is back at the heart of Amsterdam, and it is time that you came back to this most creative of cities, which decorates the map of Europe so elegantly.
The Rijksmuseum is a showcase of what this country can do when it really wants something great. Work is not yet finished; this is merely the beginning of a new era for the museum.
After 10 years of comprehensive renovations, the Rijksmuseum—the Dutch national museum of art and history, where masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer mingle with 17th-century blunderbusses and Delft blue pottery—triumphantly reopens its doors in the Dutch capital to reveal a profoundly transformed institution, whose elegant public spaces and intelligent presentation of collections are likely to serve as models for other museums around the world in years to come.
After £300 million and a veritable army of architects, builders and curators, the wait has been well worth it. This vast building has been restored to the beauty and elegance that characterised it when it opened in 1885 but re-designed to present Holland's artistic treasures in a chronological journey through centuries of Dutch history.
The Rijksmuseum, the chief curator told me, is showing only 10% of its holdings at once. It is, therefore, far more digestible than most great national museums in a single visit, but I can imagine wanting more depth after a time. I missed a room of flower paintings, for example, one of the great glories of the nation.
Still, there are great splendours here and I recommend the carved rock-crystal vessels. It's good to welcome the Rijksmuseum back.
My favourite moment of discovery, as I explore the new Rijksmuseum, is the feeling I get when I push the heavy, creaking door to enter the library. What a Harry Potter fantasy: a four-tier booklover's delight, with high, arched, stained-glass windows and a single, wobbling corkscrew staircase to link it all together. This is open to the public for the first time in its history.
Were those 10 years worth it? Definitely. Architect Pierre Cuypers's magic, combined with modern-day technical wizardry, makes the Rijksmuseum a palace of dreams.
Fernandes and two other defendants are charged with the murder of Eliza Samudio, who disappeared in June 2010. Police say she was murdered and her body was fed to dogs.
The three all deny any wrongdoing.
At the time, Fernandes was the goalkeeper for Brazil's most popular club, Flamengo.
Ms Samudio had said that the married footballer was the father of her baby.
The trial in the town of Contagem, in the state of Minas Gerais, began on Monday morning and is expected to last two weeks.
It is attracting massive media interest in Brazil where it has been compared to the OJ Simpson trial in the US.
As well as Fernandes, two others are charged with murder: Luiz Henrique Ferreira Romao, known as Macarrao, and former policeman Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, known as Bola.
Two other defendants, Fernandes's ex-wife Dayanne Rodrigues and an ex-lover, Fernanda Gomes de Castro, face charges of abduction and false imprisonment.
Other accused people are set to face trial separately.
The prosecution case is that Eliza Samudio was lured to a hotel in Rio de Janeiro on the pretext of obtaining a DNA test to prove the footballer was the father of her child.
She and her baby son were then abducted and taken to the footballer's home in Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais.
There, it is alleged, she was held captive. According to police reports, she was then strangled, her body cut up and parts were fed to dogs.
The baby was found a fortnight later in the home of friends of Dayanne Rodrigues.
Prosecutors say Fernandes did not want to accept the child as his and have to pay maintenance.
All the defendants have denied the accusations.
Fernandes was jailed for four-and-a-half years in December 2010 after being found guilty in a separate trial of abducting and assaulting Ms Samudio the previous year.
Fernandes had been Flamengo's goalkeeper since 2006 and was hugely popular with fans.
The attack took place outside a nightclub on Christmas Day.
Officers were called to a disturbance outside the venue in Sackville Street at 04:20 GMT, and bullets hit the windscreen as an officer interviewed a victim in the vehicle.
Police said the shots were fired from a car that was later found burnt out in the Great Horton area of the city. 　　
On Saturday, police stopped a car on Great Horton Road and arrested a man inside on suspicion of attempted murder.
Three other men, all from Bradford, have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and are currently in custody.　
Another 21-year-old man who was arrested in Bradford on suspicion of attempted murder on Friday has been bailed.
The Volkswagen scandal underlined the inadequacy of standard lab tests which do not reflect the exhausts produced when driving in the real world.
But the University of Heidelberg team is now getting more reliable data by following behind city cars and buses to "sniff" their tailpipe gases.
Denis Pöhler described the set-up at the European Geosciences Union meeting.
"It's very simple. We've got a small instrument on the back seat of our car. We just suck in the air at the front of our car, taking in this plume from the vehicle in front, and get some values."
GPS tracks the location. A camera identifies the type of vehicle - motorcycle, car, lorry or bus - and the manufacturer.
The team is particularly interested in oxides of nitrogen, which are produced in the combustion process and can be a serious health hazard.
For two years, the Heidelberg scientists have been chasing motor vehicles through the streets of a number of Germany towns, with some often quite surprising results.
They have seen a lot of variability in emissions.
Yes, the newest models had, by and large, the cleanest plumes, but this was not always so.
The group would often come across high-polluting vehicles that had been built to comply with the very latest emissions standards (and before you ask: these were not all VWs).
This may indicate faults in the systems installed in these vehicles to clean up tailpipe gases.
Typically, many of the worst offenders were buses, in particular some older models.
Bizarrely, one of the buses in Mainz producing very high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide was emblazoned with a campaign urging people to get onboard in order to lower emissions.
One clear message, however, does seem to come out of the research: a relatively small number of vehicles on the road is responsible for a high fraction of total emissions.
In the case of Mainz, the plumes of 7.6% of vehicles contained more than 500 parts per billion by volume (about 1,000 microgram per cubic metre) of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). But if you could somehow take just these vehicles off the road, you would reduce emissions by 45%.
"So if you exclude only these high emitters, you have a big impact on air quality," explained Dr Pöhler from Heidelberg's Institute of Environmental Physics.
"If you were to do the same just with old cars, you would have a much smaller impact. It is really important that we focus on the small number of vehicles with very high concentrations."
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The project was unveiled on Friday at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Flint, with pupils from Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan in Abergele, Conwy, and Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St Asaph, Denbighshire.
It is part of an ongoing campaign by the force to tackle the issue.
Officers said it helped young people relate to the issues.
"I hope the film will have a positive impact and raise awareness of what child sexual exploitation is, particularly to children and young people across north Wales who may be being exploited and who may not have realised it until now," said Det Supt Jo Williams.
"Child sexual exploitation is not acceptable and there is only one person to blame for it - the perpetrator, not the child."
Some of the Year 11 and 12 pupils were studying for their GCSE and A levels at the time of filming and took a few hours after their school day to take part.
"The pupils are glad to have been able to use their performing skills to share such an important message with other young people," added Kevin Jones, head of drama at Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan.
Among 45 people the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was looking for, 12 were current or former employees of American Airlines.
A spokesman for the airline said it had a "zero-tolerance policy" for "this kind of activity".
Puerto Rico, a US territory, is a major drug shipment point in the Caribbean.
Three additional suspects were arrested in US airports, officials said.
"We have dismantled the two most significant drug operations at the airport," said Pedro Janer, acting special agent in charge of the DEA's Caribbean division.
In addition to the 12 people connected to American Airlines, warrants were issued for workers at Ground Motive Dependable, a company that provides baggage handling at the airport.
One government worker with Puerto Rico's Port Authority is also being sought.
The morning raid involved two investigations, one stretching from 1999 to 2009, and the other from 2010 to 2012.
According to the DEA, suspects in the first case would allegedly enter Luis Munoz Marin International Airport through employee entrances while carrying concealed drugs. They then passed the drugs to another person in bathrooms beyond security checkpoints.
In the second case, a group of 20 people are accused of smuggling 9,000kg (20,000lb) of cocaine by loading suitcases filled with the drug into the cargo area and ensuring their arrival at US mainland airports.
Some of the drugs belonged to Angel Ayala Vazquez, once considered Puerto Rico's top drug dealer, the DEA said.
Puerto Rico is seeking more federal funding to fight drug trafficking. US officials say more than 70% of the cocaine that arrives on the island is destined for the mainland.
Caldwell officially joined Town in February from Scottish club St. Mirren and has raised the concessions age on tickets to 18 years.
"We need to look at how we grow our fanbase here," Caldwell told BBC Radio Shropshire.
"The average age of our season ticket holders is, dare I say, too high."
Caldwell intends to use experience gained during his eight-year stay with St.Mirren, where he oversaw the club's move to a new stadium in 2009, to make a similar impact at Greenhous Meadow.
"We need to encourage young people, we did a lot of work with them at St.Mirren and engaged the local community and we have a great opportunity to market the club," he said.
"Even if they might have an affinity to Manchester United they're not going to be able to go there every week, whereas they can come to Shrewsbury.
"Improving the match-day experience is also on my hit-list. We have great facilities here and we can make the experience even more enjoyable and make sure people come back."
Shrewsbury are on course to secure their place in League One for next season with the club 17th in the table, nine points clear of the relegation zone, with 10 games to play.
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Police Scotland said that apart from her carers, the last independent sighting of Margaret Fleming was on 17 December 1999 at a family gathering.
The 36-year-old was reported missing by her two carers from her home in Inverkip at about 17:40 on 28 October.
Officers want to hear from anyone who knew Ms Fleming from her college days.
Ms Fleming, who is believed to have learning difficulties, is thought to have attended James Watt College in Greenock between 1996 and 1998.
Police said she had few contactable friends or family and checks on education, employment, health and welfare records had shown no trace of her.
An ongoing search of the house in Main Road which belonged to her carers, a man in his 70s and a woman in her 50s, will now extend into the garden.
Police said the work would be extensive, involving some excavation work.
Det Ch Insp Paul Livingstone said they had found no trace of a job, few friends, and no evidence of her contact with partner agencies and local services.
"One line of inquiry that I now must consider is the possibility that Margaret may have come to some harm," he said
"Our search will continue from the house into the grounds around it.
"This is a natural progression in the inquiry to assist our investigation to find Margaret."
However, he stressed it was still a missing person investigation.
"Margaret's carers have said that they believe she has a private side to her life and that she may have friends that they are not aware of," he said.
He told BBC Scotland that, according to her carers, she had friends she would sometimes visit.
"However, she kept that side very private, so we need to speak to anyone who has had any dealings with Margaret since 1999," he said.
Ms Fleming is described as about 5ft 5in tall, with collar-length black hair, brown eyes and has a heavy build.
When last seen, she was wearing a green tartan fleece or jumper, dark jeans or trousers, and dark Karrimor-type boots. She also had a satchel-type handbag.
It is believed Ms Fleming lived with her father in Port Glasgow before he died in October 1995.
She then lived with her grandparents and mother but moved in with carers, who were close family friends, in 1997.
She is thought to have been estranged from her mother since then.
Officers from the Major Investigations Team are now assisting police at Greenock with the investigation.
He later clarified his comments but the new Great British Bake Off host had lifted the lid on a big issue.
The beauty standards imposed on women in media are nothing new, but the experiences of their male counterparts have often been overlooked.
In recent years, more male stars have spoken out about their struggles.
This week, Blue singer and stage actor Antony Costa spoke about the fat-shaming abuse he faced on social media and explained the pressures of showbusiness.
"Me as a bloke being in this business, it's hard because you've got to keep up with the Joneses, you've got to been seen to have the six pack." he told ITV's Lorraine.
In a 2016 survey of more than 1,000 boys aged between eight and 18, 55% said they would consider changing their diet to look better and 23% said they believed there was "a perfect male body to strive for".
The survey also found that the four biggest sources of pressure on secondary school boys to look good were:
Despite the relentless pressure that young men can feel from the media, the survey found that more than half of the boys (56%) would find it difficult to talk to a teacher about their confidence and nearly one-third (29%) would find it difficult talking to their parents about it.
Here are nine male celebrities who have spoken out about body image and are calling on the media to change their attitudes.
After losing almost 50lb in a year, singer Sam Smith told NME magazine in October 2015 that negative body image has been something he has struggled with since childhood.
"I still feel pressured to look a certain way," he said. "For women, the pressure in this industry is horrendous and it's got to stop. But it's the same for guys, even though they won't speak about it."
He continued: "I want to be a voice for that: just because I've lost weight doesn't mean that I'm happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it's always going to be a battle in my head."
Yes, you read that right! Actor Chris Pratt - who plays the gun-toting, butt-kicking, ripped Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy - has struggled with body image, too.
In a press conference for the film in 2014, he said: "I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood. I'm sure I can't. But, I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally, and… to be sad and make yourself happy with food.
"And then to be almost immediately sad again and now ashamed and then to try to hide those feelings with more food. I know what that's like. It's a vicious cycle and it's a very real thing."
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2016, talk show host James Corden opened up about how he dealt with his confidence in school.
He explained: "If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school and you're me, you go, 'Right, I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school."
Corden also touched on his frustrations on the way Hollywood represents larger people.
He said: "I could never understand when I watch romantic comedies. The notion that for some reason unattractive or heavy people don't fall in love.
"If they do, it's in some odd, kooky, roundabout way - and it's not. It's exactly the same."
Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller opened up about his depression after being the subject of an internet meme joke by The Lad Bible in 2016.
Miller wrote in a Facebook post: "In 2010, at the lowest point in my adult life, I was looking everywhere for relief/comfort/distraction. And I turned to food."
He continued: "It could have been anything. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex. But eating became the one thing I could look forward to. Count on to get me through".
Alex Sharp starred alongside Lily Collins in Netflix drama To The Bone, which follows a girl's treatment for anorexia.
When Collins' character is admitted into a recovery home with six other patients, she meets Luke (played by Sharp), the only male patient in the house.
Talking to Broadway World about portraying a man struggling with an eating disorder, Sharp said: "It happens a lot and I think sometimes - because it is under-discussed and a taboo subject generally - when it is discussed it tends to be more about the female experience, because it is more prevalent, numerically.
"There had never been a representation of that in a feature-length movie. So that was something I was very interested in doing."
Iron Man 3 star Ashley Hamilton told People in 2013 that he had suffered from bulimia and anorexia since he was a teenager and that he used drugs and alcohol to control his food addiction.
"I've been free from bulimia for years but I still struggle with food, restricting or overeating. That's been the hardest for me in sobriety," he admitted.
He continued: "It's almost like drug addiction is totally acceptable to talk about in Hollywood. But food addiction? Nobody wants to talk about that. It's really shameful as a man to have that."
The chart-topping singer told Planet Radio in a 2014 interview: "I was never really happy with my image and then I realised it was because I was eating fried food and drinking beer every day. You don't have to kill yourself by getting into shape. Just eat right and don't drink every day."
Commenting on body image pressures in the music industry, Sheeran said: "There's enough fat people in the industry and there's enough skinny people in the industry and there's enough ginger people in the industry.
"There's enough of everyone in the industry, and usually the ones that aren't attractive are the ones that do the best."
Before starring in Orange is the new Black and How to Get Away With Murder, Matt McGorry used to be a personal trainer and competitive bodybuilder, which actually made him more critical of his body.
When asked what we could do to change the conversation around male body issues he told US TV show Today: "When we lock our boys away from these feelings, not only are they more likely to hurt themselves but they're also more likely to hurt others and to be the ones who are policing masculinity amongst other men."
Despite being nominated as one of the world's "sexiest men alive" in 2009, Twilight star Robert Pattinson has still admitted to feeling insecure.
In an interview with Australia's Sunday Style magazine in 2013, the Twilight actor revealed he suffers from body dysmorphia - an anxiety disorder that causes a person to have a distorted view of how they look.
"I don't have a six-pack and I hate going to the gym. I've been like that my whole life. I never want to take my shirt off," he said.
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The robotic version uses the same forces to jump as the water strider - pushing off without breaking the surface.
It takes off with a downward force that never exceeds the surface tension of water - the force that "glues" surface water molecules together.
The South Korea and US team's advance is reported in the journal Science.
Lead researchers Prof Ho-Young Kim and Prof Kyu-Jin Cho, from Seoul National University, used water striders from their local pond in the study.
"To explore [their] amazing semi-aquatic motility, we collected [the insects] and recorded them jumping on water in the laboratory with high-speed cameras," the scientists said.
"[These imaging experiments] revealed that the insect rises upward while pushing the water surface downward and closing four of its legs inward."
So the team set out to build that motion into the design of their robot.
Each robot's 2cm (0.8in) body is made of layers of thin material folded into a vee-shape, with a spring running across its length.
When powered up for a jump, the spring releases, but slowly, dragging the ends of robot's body and its 5cm insect-like legs downward with gradually increasing force to the limit the water surface will withstand.
The robots - and the insects - also rotate their legs inward "to maximise the interaction time between the legs and the water".
The researchers envisage an environmental application for their robotic water strider - monitoring pollution in waterways.
But they added their goal had been not to commercialise their miniature robot, but to explore "a new possibility [for] a robot's aquatic mobility".
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A search for her began on Sunday after a paper published an article about her alleged abduction, prompting a social media campaign demanding she be freed.
Her family say she was abducted from the south in August by a man who forced her to convert to Islam before marrying her in the northern city of Kano.
The man denies it was against her will.
The alleged abduction has ignited the debate about child brides and forced marriages in Nigeria.
The UN said more than one in three girls are married before the age of 18, mostly in poor rural families in Africa.
The family say they have made several efforts to bring Ese back from Kano, some 900km (600 miles) away from her home in southern Bayelsa state, but were told she was no longer their daughter.
There have been some 50,000 tweets using the hashtag #FreeEse since Sunday to put pressure on the authorities to rescue the girl.
The alleged abductor of the girl was a long-standing customer of Ese's mother, who is a food vendor, reports the BBC's Chris Ewokor from the capital, Abuja.
Prominent girls' rights activist and former World Bank Director Oby Ezekwesili and human rights campaigners have called for the prosecution of all those involved in the alleged kidnapping.
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There have been reports that the marriage took place at the palace of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, an influential Muslim leader in Nigeria.
But he has vehemently denied this.
The Emir said the girl was brought to his palace after her alleged conversion to Islam but he told the person to return her to her family because she was too young.
"We asked that if he really wants her he should wait for her until she turns 18 and then if she still wants him they can get married. No-one will stand in the way," Mr Sanusi said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper is reporting that the girl has said she wants to remain in Kano.
She told police she was not forced to convert to Islam, it reports.
In 2014, a 14-year-old girl used rat poison to kill a 35-year-old man she was forced to marry in the city.
In June, 17 men were sentenced for the sexual abuse of the vulnerable girl, which started when she was 12.
A serious case review found that between 2009 and 2011 opportunities were missed because there was not an "effective system" in place.
The report said services in the area had improved due to the case.
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Both West Yorkshire Police and Calderdale Council have apologised to the girl.
The Local Safeguarding Children Board's report said police and social workers were "unable to protect [her] because professionals in Calderdale did not, at that time, have an effective system for assessing and planning intervention for children at risk from sexual exploitation."
Det Supt Darren Minton praised the girl's "immense courage and bravery" in giving evidence against the men.
He said: "West Yorkshire Police accepts that opportunities were missed in the past to protect victims of child sexual exploitation, it is important to stress that child sexual exploitation is a top priority and we now have strong partnerships and better working practices with agencies."
The pedestrian, who is in his 30s, was walking at Mill Hill when the collision happened on Saturday morning.
He was was taken to hospital for treatment.
The road was closed for more than four hours between Ballylough Road and Clarkhill Road but has now reopened.
An inquest found Mary Muldowney, 57, probably would have survived if she had been transferred for surgery more quickly.
Doctors in Surrey had asked for an immediate transfer last July, but several units had no beds available.
Her son, Sean, said the family did not want the same thing to happen to another patient.
Ms Muldowney was first admitted to East Surrey Hospital with a suspected brain bleed.
Doctors requested an immediate transfer to a neurosurgical unit after a scan showed heavy bleeding.
Three units - St George's and King's College hospitals in London and the Royal Sussex in Brighton - refused.
Other hospitals also said they had no available intensive care beds.
The inquest heard Ms Muldowney was eventually transferred to Royal London Hospital after a Surrey doctor "went out of area" in "desperation", but surgery did not save her.
Ms Muldowneys' daughter, Sharon Callan, said: "It's really really upsetting to hear that your mum should and could be alive."
Her son Sean added: "Somebody needs to take responsibility for that, and unless somebody takes responsibility for that, and admits that there may have been a mistake somewhere along the line, you are not going to fix that error. That error will reoccur."
Irwin Mitchell solicitor Leanne Leighton said: "Her family want answers and to prevent it happening again."
Ms Leighton said: "The revelations at the inquest came as a shock to [the family].
"They were not aware of the full extent of the issues surrounding the availability of a bed. That is what we are going to investigate."
She added: "Tragically it is too late for Mary but her family want to prevent it happening again to another family."
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust both said at the time of referral Ms Muldowney "was not deemed to require life-saving surgery".
The Brighton hospital trust said it often took neurosurgical patients in emergency situations "even if we have no beds available", while St George's said it never "refused emergency admissions that require specialist care for any reason".
King's College Hospital said patient transfers were only accepted "when medical specialists have been consulted and it is clinically safe to do so".
It said it continues to see "high demand" but a new critical care centre was under construction and would add "significant capacity".
The Oak Leafers were denied a quarter-final meeting with Kerry as Conor Sweeney's two late points put Tipp into the last eight for the first time.
Mark Lynch scored a fine goal as Derry led 1-8 to 0-10 at half-time.
Kevin O'Halloran netted for Tipperary while Eoghan Brown got Derry's second goal to edge them into a narrow lead.
But Tipperary, better known as a hurling county, never gave up and got the stoppage-time points to earn a quarter-final meeting against Galway.
Derry had staged late comebacks to win in previous rounds against Louth, Meath and Cavan - but fell agonisingly short on this occasion.
They were outscored for most of the first half but Lynch's first-time shot into the net from Danny Heavron's lay-off gave them a huge boost.
But a mistake by Derry goalkeeper Thomas Mallon in the 48th minute was the big moment in what was an entertaining game.
Mallon slid as he kicked out, and the ball went straight to O'Halloran who advanced to find the net.
Three Michael Quinlivan frees and points by Josh Keane and sub Bill Maher had outsiders Tipp 1-18 to 1-13 up on 60 minutes.
Derry mounted a brilliant rally with Emmett Bradley, Heavron, Lynch, McGoldrick and Christopher Bradley all scoring.
Then came Brown's close-range goal from Ciaran McFaul's pass which edged Derry ahead.
The impressive Heavron added a point before having to off with cramp.
But it was not enough as Sweeney scored the points in time added on to end Derry's Championship season.
Saturday 23 July
All-Ireland SFC Qualifiers Round 4A
Clare 2-12 1-9 Roscommon
Derry 2-17 1-21 Tipperary
The Dow Jones and S&P 500 had their worst 5-day start to the year on record, both losing over 1% during Friday's trading.
The Dow Jones fell 167.65 points, or 1.02%, to 16,346.45.
The S&P 500 was down 21.06 points or 1.08% to 1,922.03 while the Nasdaq lost 45.80 points or 0.98% to 4,643.63.
US shares were hit hard this week by big falls in Chinese shares after trading was halted twice on the Shanghai market.
Better-than-expected jobs figures helped to lift the market in early trading. The non-farm payrolls figure showed the economy added 292,000 jobs in December.
The jobs report also showed the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5% in December, while October and November's figures were revised to show an extra 50,000 jobs were created.
But the figures were not enough to lift the markets as oil prices continued to spiral lower.
US crude reached $33.16 a barrel - the lowest point since 2004 - while Brent crude fell to $33.55 a barrel.
Petroleum linked stocks declined as a result. ExxonMobil finished 2% down and Chevron lost 1.1%.
Technology companies also suffered on Friday. Google's parent company Alphabet was down 1.6%.
One of the day's few winners was Campbell Soup, which rose 0.6% after the company announced it would label whether products contain genetically modified ingredients.
Campbell's is the first US company to take this step.
Zahid Iqbal, 31, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 25, Syed Farhan Hussain, 21, and Umar Arshad, 24, from Luton, pleaded guilty to terror offences in March.
They also arranged terrorism training, fundraising, and discussed the use of homemade bombs.
They will be sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court, in London, on Tuesday.
BBC home affairs correspondent Matt Prodger, who was at the hearing, reported that the four men smiled and giggled as the court was played recordings of conversations in which they discussed travelling to Pakistan for terror training, buying guns and making explosives,
They were also recorded talking about attaching an improvised explosive device to a toy remote-controlled car, driving it through a gap beneath the gate of the TA base, and detonating it beneath a military vehicle.
Iqbal was recorded telling Ahmed: "I was looking and drove past like the TA centre, Marsh Road. At the bottom of their gate there's quite a big gap. If you had a little toy car it drives underneath one of their vehicles or something."
Prosecutor Max Hill QC told the court the men were subjects of an intelligence-led joint investigation by counter-terrorism police and MI5 into the movement of individuals from the UK to Pakistan "for extremist purposes linked to al-Qaeda".
He said they had carried out physical training exercises in Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons in preparation for travelling to Pakistan - where they expected to join groups linked to al-Qaeda.
"They discussed making an improvised explosive device (IED) following instructions from an Inspire magazine which they planned to adapt," he told the court.
"They also identified a target for such an attack, namely a Territorial Army base in their locality, although they also discussed targeting multiple sites at one time."
Iqbal was the ringleader who organised travel and training, and Ahmed was actively involved in the radicalisation and recruitment of others - organising physical training for the men and the purchase of survival equipment, the court heard.
In a recording from 15 January 2011, Iqbal said: "At least you'll get to meet the brothers and then it's up to them.
"They might even use you for something else in the meantime, cos there's lots of different other things, innit. There's people making weapons there, helping them making the bombs and stuff, other people transporting - maybe they will use you for something like that… you will be checked out and stuff."
The four men were arrested following a series of raids at their homes in Luton in April 2012.
Search warrants issued at the defendants' addresses uncovered evidence from mobile telephones and SIM cards, computers and digital media, travel documentation, passports and quantities of cash, the court heard.
A search of Iqbal's house found a hard drive containing a number of items including a copy of 44 Ways to Support Jihad, by Anwar al-Awlaki, the court heard.
A copy of Inspire magazine including articles on how to bypass airport security and avoid detection by X-ray scanning equipment, how to transport explosives in printer cartridges and how packages were shipped to Yemen in cargo planes was also found.
"This evidence supports the product of eavesdropping and surveillance in showing the radicalisation of the defendants and their commitment to engage in violent jihad - in the sense of violent terrorist attacks against the military and civilian population of western states such as the United Kingdom," Mr Hill said.
The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday, when mitigation for the men will be heard before they are sentenced.
Patrick McLoughlin's suggestion comes after Met Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe called for offenders to get six points on their licence.
The increased sanctions would mean a driver could get banned if they got caught twice in three years.
A government spokesman said it was "considering a number of options".
It has been illegal to use a mobile phone while driving since December 2003.
As it stands offenders get three points on their licence and an initial £100 fine, which could increase to a £1,000 fine should the case go to court.
Mr McLoughlin's suggestion was made during a lunchtime briefing with journalists on Tuesday.
The Daily Mail reported that he said: "We've got to change this. I want to alert people to what they are doing.
"The person who is using their phone doesn't realise the damage or the danger that they could be in, so it ends up ruining different people's lives."
Figures released by the Department for Transport show that in 2012 there were 17 fatal accidents involving mobile phones and a further 67 "serious accidents".
Home Office figures show that in 2012 in England and Wales more than 92,500 fixed penalty notices were issued for using a handheld mobile phone while driving, which is a fall of 32% on 2011 when more than 123,000 notices were issued.
Julie Townsend, deputy chief executive of road safety charity Brake, said she would welcome the proposal should it ever become legislation.
She said: "We hope the government will implement it. Brake has long campaigned for tougher penalties for mobile phone use at the wheel because of the suffering we see the bereaved and injured victims of road crashes put through as the result of such a senseless and unnecessary risk."
A Department for Transport spokesman said: "Using a mobile phone while driving is extremely dangerous which is why we are considering a number of options to deter drivers."
In August 2013 the department increased the initial fine drivers received for getting caught using their phone from £60 to £100.
Shadow transport secretary Mary Creagh said: "Sadly under this government we have seen the first increase in motorway deaths in nearly a decade.
"Using your phone while driving is illegal and Labour will be pressing the government to take firm action to prevent these avoidable deaths."
Last week research by the motoring group the RAC suggested that a fifth of motorists did not know it was illegal to check social media websites on a phone while driving.
The data, obtained by the Financial Times, showed £2.7bn was collected in the six months after an online system was introduced in October 2014.
Critics had warned the change would lead to confusion among motorists.
The National Audit Office said the change had likely caused "an initial increase" in non-payment.
But it added that "overall non-compliance remains very low".
The figures obtained from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) show that between October 2014 and March 2015 some £2.7bn was collected in vehicle tax - £223m lower than the same period a year earlier.
Since the paper tax disc was abolished, authorities have been using a network of cameras linked to a database to work out which vehicles are being driven illegally.
Luke Bosdet from the AA said motorists were often caught out after changing address or not updating who is the registered keeper of a vehicle, meaning they missed any reminders from the DVLA.
"It's not surprising payments have fallen and ironically the change was supposed to save money.
"It looks like it will work itself out but there are still many people who are not familiar with the new system."
DVLA chief executive Oliver Morley said almost 99% of all vehicles on the road were taxed.
"That's around £6bn in vehicle tax passed to the Treasury every year," he said.
"We write to every registered vehicle keeper in the UK to remind them when their tax is due and we have introduced a range of measures to make vehicle tax easy to pay, such as direct debit or online.
"At the same time we are taking action against those who are determined to break the law."
The first assault happened in Derby Road, Lenton, near Hill Side at about 08:00 BST on Sunday, and the second in Woodyard Lane, Wollaton.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is accused of two attempted rapes and three sexual assaults.
He has been remanded in custody and will appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court on Friday.
Both victims are being supported by specialist officers.
A 17-year-old boy arrested earlier has been released without charge.
The blaze broke out at about 06:30 near Junction 3 of the motorway.
The crane was moved to the hard shoulder and one southbound lane was closed while an oil leak from the fire was dealt with.
Traffic Scotland said the incident had now been cleared and the motorway was fully open.
Amy Adams plays Dr Louise Banks, a linguistics professor chosen by the US Government to communicate with Heptapods, the species that suddenly appears on Earth in disc-shaped spaceships. She says she welcomed the chance for her character to lead the way.
"That was something Denis was constantly in touch with, that this film be all from a woman's perspective," she explains. "He was always saying 'at the end of the day, it's this woman's story, it's her journey, that's all we need to worry about. Nothing else matters as much'."
This is the third time the Quebec-born film-maker has chosen a woman as his lead character, and admits he often places them in dangerous situations - his last film, Sicario, saw Emily Blunt as a female police officer in a drugs raid in Mexico.
But he points out: "It shouldn't ever be a question as to why we would choose a female lead for an action movie, and I hope that one day it will be normal rather than unusual.
"In some ways it's not my choice this time as the short story on which Arrival is based, The Story of Your Life, depicts a woman scientist going through the process.
"But there is no doubt that a woman will have different reactions to communicating with alien life than a man, and it's no surprise that it's the woman in the group, Dr Banks, who is patient enough to break through and communicate with the Heptapods first."
Avengers actor Jeremy Renner plays a supporting role in the film as a scientist and explains that "being the back up in the movie" is the reason why he wanted the role.
"It's not like the character was a departure for me or someone I had never played before," he says, "but I loved the script, loved what it was about and I wanted to be there for Amy. That's a powerful female perspective Denis has put on screen and I was raised by women and am raising a girl - I wanted to support it."
The hard hitting sci-fi drama, based on the short story from 1998 by author Ted Chiang, focuses around humanity's efforts to communicate with Heptapods and learn their language - Heptapoid - in order to discover whether their purpose on Earth is friendly or not.
Villeneuve, who is currently in the middle of making Bladerunner 2, jokes that he "always wanted to make a science fiction story and now I have two at once".
"But really, I had been looking for a subject for a long time and then I read this short work that we ended up basing Arrival on. Initially I was worried I couldn't adapt it.
"The story is all about the linguistics, and it's beautiful, but without the dramatic structure you need. Fortunately we had a screenwriter who managed to bring drama into the framework.
"But Arrival's a different concept to a lot of previous explorations of extra-terrestrial life. It's really about how would you actually go about communicating with aliens. That was exciting to me."
While Renner and Adams's characters lovingly nickname the alien figures they meet as "Abbott and Costello", powerful politicians start talking the rhetoric of war. Adams believes the deeper message of Arrival - that language is the ultimate weapon - is timely.
"The wrong words can matter more than the right words and so being careful of what you say is important," she says.
"We live in a world where media is so quickly and immediately available and easily taken out of context. Some people do need to be edited - I won't name names - but hopefully we can have honest voices in society that aren't inflammatory."
Villeneuve agrees: "Language is available to be used as a weapon of hate and I have a strong feeling of regression at the moment.
"We hailed the start of the internet as something that could bring communities together and yet it seems full of the worst of humanity - speaking without reflection, and a general narcissism."
Arrival's first screening at Venice Film Festival drew praise from critics for its "eerie poetic grandeur" and "spectacular ideas" - although it's been pointed out that Adams may end up in competition with herself during awards season as she also takes the leading role in another heavyweight contender for Oscar glory, Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals.
While some critics have drawn comparison between her character's journey and that of Sandra Bullock's astronaut in 2013's Oscar winner Gravity, Adams dismisses the idea that Arrival is a "space film".
"This is so much more about language, and ideas about time, rather than just action and adventure. We present time in the film the way the aliens, the Heptapods, think of it - as circular and non-linear.
"It will make you think of time as very precious - that it's all too fleeting and too quickly become memory. That's the nature of being human - we are doomed to miss so much."
Arrival was screened as part of the Venice Film Festival and is also part of the Toronto Film Festival, which runs until 18 September.
The film is released in the UK on 10 November.
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The film, in which Elba plays an escaped convict, made $24.5m (£15m) on its debut, almost double its budget.
Feel-good release Dolphin Tale 2 entered the chart at two, while sci-fi caper Guardians slipped to third.
Guardians is the biggest film of the year so far in North America, taking more than $300m (£184.7m).
The Marvel release becomes the first film of the year to pass that milestone, while its box office takings around the world have reached the $600m (£370m) mark.
Another notable new entry in the rundown is The Drop, starring the late James Gandolfini and British actor Tom Hardy, which landed in sixth spot after opening in a limited number of cinemas.
No Good Deed, which co-stars Taraji P Henson as a woman terrorised by Elba's character, was hailed as a success by makers Sony, who marketed the film heavily prior to release.
"It's a movie that we really loved and felt that it was going to win," said Rory Bauer, the company's head of distribution.
He praised the leading pair's fantastic chemistry for making it a box office draw.
Box office analyst Paul Degaradebian said the film is the first post-summer release to make an impression, just a week after the slowest weekend of the year so far.
Overall ticket receipts were down 23% on the same weekend of 2013.
The film chart is rejuvenated after last weekend, when there was no new release inside the top 10.
Elba is best known for his portrayal of Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom, and playing the lead role as maverick police detective John Luther on BBC TV, which earned him a Golden Globe award in 2010.
This is according to a study of the performance of chimpanzees in a test called the "ultimatum game".
Traditionally, the game is employed as a test of economics; two people decide how to divide a sum of money.
This modified game, in which two chimps decided how to divide a portion of banana slices, seems to have revealed the primates' generous side.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was part of an effort to uncover the evolutionary routes of why we share, even when it does not make economic sense.
Scientists say this innate fairness is an important foundation of co-operative societies like ours.
Lead researcher Darby Proctor from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, US, explained why she and her colleagues chose to use the ultimatum game, which has been used in the past to illustrate the human tendency to share.
During the game, one participant is given an amount of money and asked to "make an offer" to the second player. If that second player accepts the offer, the money is divided accordingly.
But, if the second player refuses that offer, both players receive nothing. This is the basis of the fairness versus economics quandary; if the first player proposes a selfish, unequal offer, the affronted recipient might refuse.
And this is exactly what happens in humans. Although it makes economic sense to give away as little as possible and accept any offer that's proposed, people usually make roughly equal, or "fair" offers, and tend to refuse unequal or "unfair" offers.
Dr Proctor and her colleagues trained their chimp participants to play a similar game, using coloured tokens to represent a reward.
"We tried to abstract it a little - to make it a bit like money," Dr Proctor explained.
Discover how chimpanzees communicate
"We trained them with two different tokens.
"If they took [a white token], they would be able to split the food equally, and taking the other [blue] token meant that the first chimp would get more food than the partner."
The researchers presented both tokens to the first chimp, which would then choose one and offer it to its partner.
As with the human version of the game, if the partner accepted the token, both animals received their reward.
Three pairs of chimps played this game, and the results revealed that the animals had a tendency to offer a fair and equal share of the food reward.
In another experiment, the team repeated the test with 20 children between the ages of two and seven. They discovered that both young children and chimps "responded like humans typically do" - tending to opt for an equal division of the prize.
"What we're trying to get at is the evolutionary route of why humans share," explained Dr Proctor.
"Both chimps and people are hugely cooperative; they engage in cooperative hunting, they share food, they care for each other's offspring.
"So it's likely that this [fairness] was needed in the evolution of cooperation.
"It seems to me that the human sense of fairness has been around in primates for at least as long as humans and chimps have been separated."
Dr Susanne Schultz from the University of Manchester said the study was very interesting and showed "the potential for chimps to be aware of fair offers".
"It is interesting that changing the study design - primarily by not using food rewards it seems - one can elicit fairness behaviour in chimps," she told the BBC.
She added though that is was not clear that the chimps completely understood the design of the game and that, with just six chimps involved in the study, further evidence would be needed to show clearly that chimps had a natural tendency towards fairness.
Thirty-five others were injured by the blast in a commercial area crowded with people near the municipal stadium in Jableh, the Sana news agency said.
Three was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.
Last May, 45 people died in attacks in the town claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS) that targeted President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect.
Footage from the scene of Thursday's attack broadcast by state television showed charred, mangled cars, damage to shops, and pools of blood on the road.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, put the death toll at 15.
The bombing happened despite a week-old nationwide truce, which excludes IS and the rival jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham - known as al-Nusra Front until it broke off formal ties with al-Qaeda in July - as well as the Syrian Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia.
The initiative, negotiated by Turkey and Russia, is aimed at restarting peace talks in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, later this month.
However, several rebel groups said on Tuesday that they were halting preparations for the talks, complaining of major breaches of the truce by the government.
On Thursday, UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said there remained "tremendous dramas" for the country's civilian population, especially in Damascus were 5.5 million people have had their water supplies cut or severely reduced.
Rebel and government officials have accused each other of cutting the flow of water from Wadi Barada, a valley in the hills north-west of the capital that is the location of several springs.
Troops and Iranian-backed militiamen are trying to recapture the valley. The government says fighters from Jabhat Fateh al-Sham are present there - something rebel groups have denied.
Mr Egeland said the consequences for the population were "dramatic", with emergency efforts in place to supply water to schools, hospitals and bakeries.
He also said the government had denied the UN's requests for access for aid convoys for five of 21 locations they planned to visit in January.
Turkey and Russia, he added, had pledged to facilitate humanitarian access across the country as part of the truce.
The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, meanwhile said the Astana talks should aim to consolidate the truce and pave the way for UN-backed negotiations in Geneva in February.
He said the UN's new Secretary General, Antionio Gutteres, had been involved in internal "brainstorming" on the Syria crisis.
Aaron Lee, 19, from the Hamilton area, died after two cars crashed on the B7078 Carlisle Road at about 18:15 near Blackwood on Friday.
He was a passenger in a Seat Ibiza car. The 25-year-old male driver was taken to hospital where he was in a serious condition.
A five-year-old girl in the other car, is also in a serious condition.
That car, a Nissan Micra, was being driven by a 55-year-old man who is in a stable condition in hospital.
Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
The series includes Bangalore's landmarks as well as the artist's ancestral home.
"Ten years ago, our old house was torn down to build a set of apartments for me and my nine siblings. It was a huge house, with beautiful gardens and 40 fruit trees," Mr Fernandes says.
"When it all came tumbling down, it compelled me to look at the changing city. And I started drawing places that I remembered fondly while I was growing up."
The result is a collection of about 75 paintings and drawings - "completely nostalgia driven" - looking at the "good old days" in a happy, humorous way.
Here, Mr Fernandes explains the stories behind some of his works.
The Bangalore Club, one of the finest examples of British architecture in the city, is still looked after well. Established in 1868 by a group of British officers, the club boasted some exclusive members, including former British prime minister Winston Churchill who still owes the club 13 rupees (20 cents; 14 pence) in unpaid bills. It is also the place where famous filmmaker David Lean filmed parts of his critically-acclaimed Passage to India.
"It is still looked after very well and it still has very exclusive members," Mr Fernandes says.
In the "good old days", people didn't have to go to barbers; they instead came to people's homes.
"He would ride in on a bicycle, carrying his tools in a cloth bag. A chair would be brought out and placed under a tree and the entire family - men, boys and girls - would queue up to get their hair cut."
There was one disadvantage though, Mr Fernandes says. The barber knew only one style and he would cut everyone's hair in the same fashion.
"My sisters would show him fashionable hairstyles from international magazines and ask for a similar cut. They would, of course, never get one.
"And then in the 1970s, we all started to grow our hair, hippie-style," says Mr Fernandes. "The barber didn't like it one bit, he said it was bad for business."
The Coffee House on MG Road was "the centre of our universe", it was "very popular" and often frequented by journalists, Mr Fernandes says.
The place did - and still does - great coffee, it served dosa and omelette and was always packed at meal times.
"Sometimes, we would have journalists sitting on the next table and they would chat about headlines and it would be in the next day's papers. It was so thrilling."
Commercial Street was the centre of shopping in Bangalore - it's a place where one could buy anything, from clothes to jewellery to household stuff to footwear. It also had toyshops and many tailors.
"My mother would drive me and all my nine siblings there once a year at Christmas to buy us clothes," says Mr Fernandes. "She would buy the same bale of cloth, take us to the tailor who would take our measurements, and all of us would get identical clothes."
The Cubbon Park police station is a "very beautiful" building. It was an old British house that was converted into a police station in 1910 and it is still "pretty much the same".
"In the 60s and 70s, Bangalore was a very laid back place and there was no real crime, occasionally maybe a cycle would be stolen," Mr Fernandes says.
"I was in school then and my friends and I would cycle around the city and the policemen looked so silly in their flowerpot hats, so we would tap them and run away. But once I got caught and was detained in the room you see on top here. I was let out only after my mother came to the police station and apologised," he remembers.
This house in this illustration is the cartoonist's ancestral home and the girl was one of his sisters.
"She was very pretty and young boys would come by to greet her. A protective uncle would be hovering nearby, scowling, with an airgun, trying to scare away the boys," Mr Fernandes says.
Just below the British Council in Bangalore was the very popular Koshy's bar and restaurant. It is still hugely popular, so much so that even the state's chief ministers come here for a coffee or a drink. During a visit to the city in the 1980s, Britain's Prince Charles dropped by for a cup of coffee.
"This very picturesque railway line crossing is barely half a kilometre from my present home," Mr Fernandes says.
In the 1960s and 70s, a daily train from Madras (now Chennai) to Bangalore used to pass through the area and the gates would shut for 10 minutes.
"Whenever we were at the gate, we would wave at the passengers, and they would wave back at us."
The Brigade Road was Bangalore's "most iconic hangout" place in the 70s - all the city's fashionable people would go there in the evenings for fun.
An Indian-American couple set up a restaurant there and introduced Bangaloreans to apple pie and waffles, there were a couple of pinball machines and musically-inclined people would hang out with their guitars; and there was a coffin-maker nearby.
"In those days, we used to say you come to Brigade Road for recreation, sustenance and death. Unfortunately, it's all gone now, replaced by a huge mall," says Mr Fernandes.
The cartoonist's "sprawling home ground" was filled with trees, birds and dogs and this artwork shows a corner of that house.
"It was customary for gentlemen in the house to have a good lunch and a siesta in the gardens. It was a man's domain - by some unwritten rule a lady would never sit out there. I was told it was considered not dignified for a lady to sit there."
The Plaza was the iconic cinema hall where the finest Hollywood movies were shown.
"My favourite story of the theatre is when an aunt went there with her family to watch Gone With The Wind. When she came out of the cinema, she found that all four tyres of her car had been stolen.
"They were gone with the wind," he says.
Russell Market was built in 1927 by the British and was named after civic engineer TB Russell.
"It still exists as one of the busiest markets in Bangalore. It's crowded and wonderfully chaotic and you can buy nearly anything you want here," Mr Fernandes says.
Norman Lamb was being questioned by 26-year-old Newsbeat listener Annabelle Harris who is recovering from an eating disorder.
She started to develop the disorder from the age of 10 but it wasn't picked up until three years later.
After Annabelle told Newsbeat her story we took her to meet Norman Lamb.
She asked him some key questions about his plans on helping people.
The Liberal Democrat MP has pledged £150 million over the next five years in improving services, reducing waiting times and supporting families.
The idea is we introduce access waiting time standard so you know that you'll access support within a defined period of time.
Critically it has to be access to an evidence based service that will work - such as places like Slam in London.
It seems to me that they have a really impressive service, there is rapid intervention and it's community based.
Critically, it involves getting access to specialist support really quickly and results show that they achieve recovery much more quickly.
That's the approach I want to take but I just want it mainstreamed, it should be available everywhere but it takes time to build the capacity in the system.
We've made the judgement there is an overwhelming moral and economic imperative to invest in mental health across the board.
Will other parties do it? Well I just think we have to all hold whoever's elected to account on this.
I think we've got to that point in our history where mental health's time has come.
There's a growing understanding and recognition of the complete false economy in thinking you can trim back on mental health and no one will notice.
There is loads of evidence that if you invest in mental health you'll make further savings down the track and you can make a massive difference to people's lives
I think it is.
NHS England is leading on this - we've set the standard, we've got the money and the investment is there to do it.
We expect that standard to be met by April 2016 which includes six week standard to access psychological therapies for anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions.
But another critical standard is to access treatment within two weeks if you have first episode for psychosis which again has a massive impact on young people.
Labour says it will end the "scandalous'" neglect of mental health services if Labour takes power in May's General Election.
Ed Miliband says he wants his party to raise budgets for children's mental health services, expanding early intervention work and widening access to school-based therapy.
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Mr Xi was speaking at the swearing-in of the territory's new leader Carrie Lam, as Hong Kong marked 20 years since its handover to China from Britain.
On Saturday afternoon, after Mr Xi had left Hong Kong, thousands of people took part in an annual march calling for greater democracy.
During Mr Xi's visit there was little opportunity for protest.
An earlier protest had led to clashes with pro-Beijing demonstrators.
Mr Xi's visit to the city - his first since becoming Chinese leader in 2013 - came amid tight police security.
Several people were detained in the morning, when a small group of pro-democracy activists clashed with pro-Beijing demonstrators close to the site where the lavish ceremony took place.
Organisers said 60,000 people took part in the later pro-democracy march, though police said the figure was much lower.
Heavy rain affected the march, which started at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. Some protesters carried yellow umbrellas, a symbol of the demonstrations which gripped the city in 2014.
Lam Wing-kee, one of the five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in 2015 and re-surfaced in detention on the mainland, addressed the march.
The Chinese leader oversaw the swearing in of Ms Lam, the newly-elected chief executive of the territory, along with the rest of her cabinet. She is Hong Kong's first female leader.
In a speech he said that Hong Kong needed to "improve its systems to uphold national sovereignty, security and development interests".
"Any attempt to endanger China's sovereignty and security, challenge the power of the central government... or use Hong Kong to carry out infiltration and sabotage activities against the mainland is an act that crosses the red line and is absolutely impermissible," he said.
He added that Hong Kong now enjoyed more freedom than ever before.
But while the territory's Basic Law guarantees wide-ranging freedoms under the "one country, two systems" formula, Beijing's refusal to grant universal suffrage has triggered sometimes violent unrest.
In Saturday morning's small-scale protests, pro-democracy party Demosisto said police had arrested five of its members, and four members from the League of Social Democrats.
Among those said by the group to have been arrested was Joshua Wong, the leader of the so-called umbrella protest movement.
It was meant to be a routine demonstration by pro-democracy protesters.
The leaders of the League of Social Democrats and Demosisto had gathered to make their way to the square in the Wanchai district where the flag-raising ceremony was taking place. They were demanding greater voting rights for Hong Kong, as well the immediate release of the Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
But without warning, scuffles began between the demonstrators and the police. Faces were slammed to the ground. And then pro-Beijing supporters turned up, waving flags and blaring patriotic music. Each side was shouting abuse at the other.
The tussle went on for more than an hour, with it ending only after the leaders of the pro-democracy demonstration were led away by police, who called it an illegal gathering.
During the ceremony, the flags of China and Hong Kong were raised alongside one another to mark the 20-year anniversary of the city's handover of British rule.
Helicopters flew overhead as onlookers cheered at the ceremony in Golden Bauhinia Square, central Hong Kong.
On Friday, an official protest zone near the convention centre where Mr Xi was guest of honour at an anniversary banquet and variety performance was heavily patrolled, as demonstrators gathered chanting "end one-party dictatorship".
There is growing concern that the Chinese central government is undermining Hong Kong's more politically liberal traditions, despite its promise to give it a high degree of autonomy.
Joshua Wong and 25 other activists were arrested on Wednesday for "breaking the 'public nuisance' law" after climbing into a golden sculpture of a bauhinia flower, Hong Kong's emblem.
The sculpture, which sits by the city's harbour front, was a gift from China and an iconic landmark symbolising the handover.
Kathryn Burge, 41, died when she was in collision with a car on Main Road, in Kirk Michael, on Monday evening.
Police said a dark blue Range Rover was involved in the crash.
A spokeswoman from Noble's hospital, where Ms Burge worked as a physiotherapist, said she was "a valued and much loved member of staff", whose loss was "a shock".
She added: "We are so sad today- all of our thoughts are with Kate's family, friends and close colleagues at this difficult time".
Richie Stevenson, chairman of Manx Fell Runners, where Ms Burge was a member, said: "[She was] a very pleasant and likeable person and a talented athlete who could perform to a very high standard on fells, road and cross country.
"Manx Fell Runners would like to pass on their condolences to all Kate`s family and friends," he said.
Kim Yang-gon, 73, was a secretary of the ruling Workers' Party and was in charge of ties with South Korea.
He was part of a high-level delegation from North Korea that helped ease a stand-off with the South in August, after an exchange of artillery fire.
The state news agency called him Kim Jong-un's "closest comrade and a solid revolutionary partner".
"Comrade Kim Yang-gon, a Workers' Party secretary and member of the party Central Committee Politbureau... died in a traffic accident at 6:15am, Tuesday, at age 73," KCNA said, without giving details.
It added that Kim Jong-un would lead an 80-member state funeral for Mr Kim on Thursday.
Tension between North and South Korea increased in August when a border blast injured two South Korean soldiers.
Meetings at that time eventually led to the two countries stepping away from a military confrontation.
T53 wheelchair racer Kinghorn, 21, added the 100m title to her 200m gold and 400m bronze.
The Scot can claim a fourth medal in the 800m later on Sunday.
There were also British silver medals for Polly Maton in the T47 long jump, Jordan Howe in the T35 100m and Mickey Bushell in the T53 100m.
The hosts have now collected 39 medals, eight more than their total in Doha two years ago.
Kinghorn, who is paralysed from the waist down after an accident at her home in 2010, has announced herself in London as the top T53 sprinter in the world and clinched 100m gold in a time of 16.65 seconds ahead of Australia's Angela Ballard.
After missing out on medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, she is now a two-time world champion and will be among the favourites for the 800m at 18:51 BST.
"I literally had no idea where I finished. I was staring straight across the line. I heard the roar so I thought I must have medalled but had no idea where. I can't believe it," she told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I felt like halfway down I panicked a bit and I have some scrapes on my arm from slipping slightly.
"You don't know where you'll come in the 800m because it's tactical, so I'll get myself in a good position and hope for a sprint finish."
Heard will give half to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to prevent violence against women, and half to the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
The actress said she hoped to "help those less able to defend themselves".
She earlier accused Depp of striking her and throwing a mobile phone during a fight. He denied the allegations.
Depp's lawyer claimed she had made the accusations in order to obtain a more favourable settlement.
Announcing their divorce settlement on Tuesday, the pair said their relationship was "intensely passionate and at times volatile, but always bound by love".
In a statement, Heard said: "Money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in doing so, hopefully help those less able to defend themselves.
"As reported in the media, the amount received in the divorce was $7m and $7m is being donated. This is over and above any funds that I have given away in the past and will continue to give away in the future."
The 30-year-old said the money donated to the ACLU would have a "particular focus to stop violence against women".
She added: "I know these organisations will put the funds to good use and look forward to continuing to support them in the future. Hopefully, this experience results in a positive change in the lives of people who need it the most."
Heard married the Hollywood star in February 2015 and they announced their split this May.
She then took out a temporary restraining order against the 53-year-old obliging him not to get in contact and stay 100 yards away from her.
Their settlement came a day before a court hearing into the restraining order was due to take place. The order was then withdrawn.
A joint statement released on Tuesday said: "Neither party has made false accusations for financial gain. There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm."
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Celebrations carried on after dark in Gaza City on Tuesday, as people poured into the battered streets, clapping and singing, after the truce was announced.
On Wednesday, fishing boats ventured out to sea as restrictions were eased.
The ceasefire brokered by Egypt brings to an end 50 days of fierce fighting in which more than 2,200 people have been killed, most of them Palestinians.
Hamas, the militant Islamist movement that dominates Gaza, said the agreement with Israel represented a "victory for the resistance".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also claimed victory.
In a televised news conference, he said Hamas has been "hit hard" and threatened an even tougher response should there be so much as a "sprinkle" of rocket fire from Gaza.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz told the BBC's Hard Talk programme that the reoccupation of Gaza had been "seriously considered" during the conflict.
It would be the "only alternative" if Hamas were to resume rocket fire into Israel, he said.
Life in Gaza was returning to normal on Wednesday, as thousands of people began returning to their homes.
Engineers meanwhile struggled to repair infrastructure damaged by Israeli air strikes and shellfire.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly says while the streets were packed with celebrations during the earlier hours of the ceasefire, questions are now being raised by the price that was paid for it.
The beach here in Gaza is almost unrecognisable. It is busy again. There are children playing in the surf; fishermen are out tending to their nets. It is something we have not seen for a very long time.
It is more than 12 hours since the ceasefire was declared. Overnight, we did not hear any shelling from Israel or any rockets being fired from Gaza.
The big question is whether this ceasefire will hold. The previous eight did not, lasting for anything from a few hours to a number of days.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the ceasefire is "an opportunity, not a certainty". It does not promise peace. It allows normal life to resume in Gaza. A lot of work needs to be done to ensure this is a lasting truce.
In Israel, sirens warning of incoming rocket fire were silent and the military said there had been no violations of the ceasefire since it took effect.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the end of hostilities, but warned that a brighter future for civilians who have been affected depends on a sustainable truce.
"After 50 days of profound human suffering and devastating physical destruction, any violations of the ceasefire would be utterly irresponsible," he said.
The ceasefire deal calls for the relaxing of Israeli and Egyptian border controls to allow humanitarian supplies and construction materials into Gaza, and the widening of the territory's fishing zone.
5,226
air strikes on Gaza
4,591
rockets and mortars fired at Israel
2,104 people killed in Gaza - UN estimates 69% of deaths are civilians
6 civilians killed in Israel (including one Thai national)
67 Israeli soldiers killed
Both sides have agreed to address more contentious issues - including Palestinian demands for a seaport in Gaza and the release of Hamas prisoners in the West Bank, and Israel's demand for Gaza's militants to be disarmed - at indirect talks that should begin in Cairo within a month.
Israeli media reported that Mr Netanyahu had chosen not to put Egypt's ceasefire proposal to a vote in his security cabinet because of opposition from ministers who wanted to continue the offensive on Gaza.
Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on 8 July with the stated aim of ending rocket fire.
At least 2,140 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Gaza, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Another 11,000 people have been injured.
The Israeli authorities say 64 Israeli soldiers have been killed, along with six Israeli civilians and a Thai national.
The UN says more than 17,000 buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or severely damaged, and that there are at least 475,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), more than a quarter of the territory's population.
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The accident happened on the A75, two miles east of Castle Douglas, at about 15:35 on Wednesday.
The victim, who was from Dalbeattie, was the car driver. The 46-year-old van driver, from Dumfries, was taken to hospital with leg injuries.
The road was closed in both directions for a number of hours.
A diversion was set up via the A711, through Dalbeattie.
Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
Cafodd Arthur Ray Taylor sy'n naw deg oed ei weld diwethaf yn gadael clwb cychod Gwbert am 09:30 fore Sadwrn.
Mae'r heddlu yn dweud eu bod nhw wedi dod o hyd i'r cwch ond does dim sôn am Mr Taylor.
Mae Gwylwyr y Glannau wedi ymuno yn yr ymdrech i ddod o hyd i Mr Taylor, ond byddant nawr yn aros nes bydd llanw isel am 18:00 cyn parhau i chwilio.
The 29-year-old usually plays at centre-back or right-back but can also operate in midfield or up front.
He is the Seagulls' third loan signing in the past week and manager Sami Hyypia said: "With Aaron Hughes out injured we needed cover.
"Greg has an abundance of experience in the Championship and Premier League."
Hyypia added: "With Aaron out we wanted that level of experience to be replaced as well, so he is a good fit."
Halford has scored eight goals in 82 appearances since joining Forest in summer 2012 but he has not featured so far this season.
Albion defender Hughes, who can play all across the back line, is currently sidelined with an ankle injury while first-choice centre-backs Gordon Greer and Lewis Dunk are each one booking away from a one-match ban.
Halford, who began his career at Colchester and has had permanent spells at Reading, Sunderland, Wolves and Portsmouth, becomes the sixth loan player on Brighton's books - one more than the number permitted in a 18-man matchday squad in the Championship.
He fell to the floor after an attempted tackle on flanker Dave Ward in Sale's loss at Harlequins on 7 January but played on for the rest of the game.
The 27-year-old Samoan was not treated on the field but was assessed by the Sale team doctor after the tackle.
The report concluded it "was matter of clinical judgement by the team doctor".
"The team doctor's decision was based on his view of the injury mechanism in both real-time and following video review, and his direct assessment of the player's immediate and subsequent response to the injury event," it said.
"The team doctor was in the immediate vicinity of the player, reviewed the real-time video footage and was best placed to make that decision.
"In continuing to monitor, reassess and question the player, both during and after the match, the team doctor was continuing his responsibility to evaluate the player's condition for any signs of a suspected head injury or concussion; none was apparent."
The CMRG panel was chaired by Dr Julian Morris and includes the Rugby Football Union's director of professional rugby Nigel Melville and Premiership rugby director Phil Winstanley.
I was with the army as they detonated left-over munitions near a major battle scene.
"Here, crouch behind these sandbags," they told me as we stood, in protective clothing, a few hundred metres from the detonation site. "If shrapnel comes anywhere near, just duck."
I decided to retreat a lot further back. The thud was impressive.
We were in the devastated land which saw the last bitter fighting of the war. Many tall palmyrah trees had lost their tops.
Half-submerged in the arid ground I saw a single flip-flop and a plastic shoe. Who had worn them?
This is where tens of thousands of people cowered - trapped between the Tamil Tigers who conscripted their children and shot those trying to escape - and the army bombardments.
Large tracts are still mined. There are buildings sliced in half; buses with an end missing. Most poignant are the mundane things: someone's trousers, a plastic chair, cushions, a rusting bedstead.
I looked towards a damaged Catholic church (there are both Catholics and Hindus among the local Tamil population). The church had been cleared of mines and a Sinhalese soldier took me inside. "I'm a Roman Catholic," he told me - a minority in the mainly Buddhist military.
Sections of the roof had been ripped out, leaving a zigzag pattern of light. The soldier stood by the broken glass of a small shrine to Mary and told me he felt consoled that 13 of the 14 Stations of the Cross were undamaged.
Earlier I met a man born and bred in this place. He had lost his brother and his sister as this area was being besieged. "We were climbing over bodies," he said.
Only now, after demining, are families beginning to return to their plots in these villages, many coming on recce visits from refugee camps.
Surviving buildings are mostly unsafe and will have to be destroyed. And people here have little with which they can rebuild.
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Not far away, life seems more normal. A Tamil fisherman wades into the Nanthidakal lagoon and casts his net. There is a jetty and fishing boats here, a low causeway across which trucks trundle into the town of Mullaitivu.
There is little evidence of what happened here in 2009. Huge numbers of Tamils fled from the besieged zone across this lagoon. On its shore the body of the dead Tiger leader, Prabhakaran, was filmed, his scalp covered to conceal the fact that much of it was missing.
There is something which jars. There are many new signs in the neighbourhood, giving for instance the name of the lagoon or the government's account of what happened here during the conflict.
Indeed, a war "tourist trail" is already springing up for Sri Lankan tourists. But nearly all the signs are in Sinhala and English only - not in Tamil, the local language and, of course, the language of the people who lost so much.
This is repeated all over the area: at a museum of captured Tiger equipment; at Prabhakaran's bunker, now a tourist spot.
At the bunker there are in fact many Tamil visitors including schoolchildren from nearby, and expatriates from Germany. A Sinhalese soldier, fluent in Tamil, acts as their guide. That is impressive. But there is barely a word of Tamil on the signs.
At two places we ask the military why this is. "There was not anyone who could speak the language, but we would like to put up Tamil signs soon," one soldier says. Another, though, tells me he has mentioned it to the higher authorities - "but nobody is interested".
What does this say for reconciliation efforts in this country, whose war sprang partly from the fact that Tamils had said they felt like second-class citizens?
There are more immediate concerns. Along with the struggle to rebuild, there is little employment available.
By chance we met a former Tiger militant. He said there were no opportunities and no jobs. But he did not want war again.
The army presence is still massive. Travelling across northern Sri Lanka is like criss-crossing from garrison to garrison.
In fact the number of soldiers on patrol has fallen sharply. They have been asked to reduce their visibility. And many places like the army-run cafes and shops which had sprung up, have now been closed.
But the government says it still fears a resurgence of the Tamil Tigers and it is not loosening its grip.
In one place an officer told us the army's intelligence network had actually expanded. "We've been asked to keep a register of what people do and where they go," he said. "We even monitor schoolchildren's activities. We know what people eat for their lunch."
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Selman survived an awkward start and accelerated to reach the third century of his career.
Jacques Rudolph (58) and Colin Ingram (84 not out) played their parts in Glamorgan's best batting of the season.
Earlier the Foxes' last two wickets added 110 runs to frustrate the Welsh county's attack.
The big hitting of tail-enders Ben Raine, Clint McKay and Charlier Shreck looked to have swung the momentum in the home side's favour.
But Selman's increasingly confident innings and a mature knock from Ingram made sure that Glamorgan passed the follow-on target with just four wickets down, shortly before the close.
Leicestershire all-rounder Clint McKay told BBC Radio Leicester:
"They bowled quite nicely this morning but me and Charles (Shreck) got lucky enough to get away with a few and build that total past 400.
"(Rudolph) is a world-class player, he showed his class and batted beautifully, got them off to a nice start and we couldn't drag the scoring rate back throughout the day.
"I'd say it's even, four down on a very nice wicket, and the second new ball is going to be what makes the difference in the game."
Glamorgan batsman Nick Selman told BBC Wales Sport:
"Coming off the back of the last two games it was good to get some runs, me and Col [Colin Ingram] had the mindset of being busy and being positive.
"We got through a tough spell after lunch and reaped our reward afterwards, it was a shame to get out but hopefully Colin can kick on and get a big one.
"If we get through the new ball and get a good lead, the ball's going to be in our court."
Only 12 months ago they required a last-day victory against West Ham United at St James' Park to avoid relegation.
This time there was no escaping the drop into the Championship, confirmed by Sunderland's victory over Everton on Wednesday.
The long flirtation with the second tier is now a full-blown embrace, proof that survival only lasts so long amid poor management, bad choices and signings that were simply not fit for purpose.
So how has a club such as Newcastle United ended up in such a desperate plight and what does the future hold?
Manager Rafael Benitez is unanimously accepted as a force for good on Tyneside - the only regret being owner Mike Ashley did not sack Steve McClaren and appoint the Spaniard earlier to give him more time to mount a survival mission.
If Mike Ashley is decisive in business, he has paid a heavy price for inertia in football
And the pain of Newcastle's relegation is likely to be exacerbated by uncertainty surrounding Benitez, who has a "break clause" in the three-year deal he signed in early March.
At the time he said: "Some people can see this as special but it's normal. I am trying to stay in the Premier League and if I have a compromise for the future it's because I am convinced we will do well."
Benitez, after losing three of his first four games in charge, led Newcastle on a five-game unbeaten run with victories against Swansea City and Crystal Palace, as well as drawing from 2-0 down at Liverpool, before Saturday's damaging draw at Aston Villa.
It means that, despite relegation, Benitez has done his reputation within the game as an astute strategist no harm and will make his possible availability an attractive prospect for clubs throughout Europe with his pedigree of managing sides such as Liverpool, Inter Milan, Chelsea, Napoli and Real Madrid.
Will Benitez, at 56, want to take the next step of his career in the Championship, attempting to gain promotion from a division he has never experienced, when better offers are likely elsewhere?
Will he see his next step as digging out results at places like Brentford, Burton, Rotherham and Huddersfield?
It is a hard, perhaps impossible, sell for Ashley, who would almost have to offer Benitez the keys to his kingdom to tempt him - and even then with no guarantee of success.
Benitez may believe he can do better than the Championship and the odds must be on him leaving - adding this to the long list of missed opportunities for Newcastle United.
There have been suggestions Benitez has become so hooked on the passion of the Toon Army that he will stay despite relegation, but he is a cold realist not a romantic and he will want solid promises from Ashley before even considering it.
Ashley's public utterances are rare, but he was moved to speak on the final day of last season before Newcastle got that victory against West Ham to stay up.
He insisted Newcastle were not for sale at "any price" until they won a trophy. This promises to be a very long stay unless relegation changes his mind.
Newcastle put John Carver in place after Alan Pardew departed for Crystal Palace in January 2015 and only just stayed up after he only won three games and lost 12 out of 19.
Survival and Ashley's willingness to spend offered Newcastle a chance to build, but once again poor decision-making holed them below the waterline straightaway.
Instead of ambition, Newcastle's long-suffering fans got the uninspired low-key appointment of McClaren. This was a choice that seemed long in the making, despite McClaren lacking credibility and turning up as damaged goods after failing to take Derby County into the Championship play-offs despite heavy financial backing.
Newcastle managing director Lee Charnley was the man behind McClaren's appointment, described in the usual terms as "the perfect fit". He was far from it, winning only six games and losing 16 out of 28 before he was sacked in March.
Whereas Newcastle just about got away with Carver as a holding operation, Ashley and his colleagues must now know they made a mistake not getting rid of McClaren earlier.
He was clearly a lame duck a month before his departure but was allowed to survive to lose four of his last five games in charge. If Ashley is decisive in business, he has paid a heavy price for inertia in football.
It almost smacked of "it will never happen to us" complacency.
Benitez was available and another month working with those Newcastle players might just have saved the club. He was given 10 games to save Newcastle. Not long enough, even for a man of his experience.
Ashley, it seems, will never rid himself of his reputation as a malign figure at the club, despite spending £80m on eight players since the summer. He bought Sir John Hall's 41.6% stake in the club in May 2007 and took full control later that year but has never forged a bond with the fans.
This is a loveless relationship and perhaps relegation to the Championship - even though it would make a sale of the club much harder and less lucrative - may just persuade Ashley his time is up.
Newcastle are a giant sporting institution that attract 52,000 fans to its cathedral on the hill, the magnificent St James' Park arena so close to the city with just one club to call its own.
This status cannot shield it from reality, however, and one look at the results and rampant instability that have characterised Newcastle means this demise should not come as a shock.
In their past eight Premier League seasons they have finished in the top 10 only twice - fifth under Pardew in 2011-12 and 10th under him in 2013-14. They were relegated in 2008-09 and just scraped up into 15th last season. The pattern is there.
And what about the manager's chair? Since Graeme Souness was sacked in February 2006 - admittedly before Ashley's arrival - 11 managers have been in charge in one capacity or another.
Benitez is currently at the helm and there has also been McClaren, Carver, Pardew, Chris Hughton, Alan Shearer, Joe Kinnear, Kevin Keegan, Nigel Pearson, Sam Allardyce and Glenn Roeder.
There is only so much instability a club can take and Newcastle have overdosed on it.
Newcastle's next manager must study the squad and find out who is good enough to play in the Championship - and also who wants to play in the Championship.
The Toon Army squad is heavily built on foreign imports and it will be an alien environment where the right to play must be won, often in the heat of physical battle. Is this the arena they wish to perform in?
Newcastle will be well blessed in goal with Tim Krul on the road to recovery from a knee injury and Rob Elliot and Karl Darlow providing back-up.
But it is surely the end for the likes of 30-year-old Steven Taylor, while Fabricio Coloccini is 34 and troubled by injuries.
It is likely players such as Georginio Wijnaldum, signed from PSV Eindhoven for £14.5m and Chancel Mbemba, an £8.4m capture from Anderlecht, may feel they can look for better than the Championship. Will Aleksandar Mitrovic, the striker bought from Anderlecht for £14.5m feel the same?
Ayoze Perez is a 22-year-old striker of promise who will attract interest, while others who have been around a while such as Papiss Cisse and Moussa Sissoko may not be enamoured by the second tier. Their form has been so patchy they may well form part of a clear-out.
It could be that they will have to get on with it if Newcastle do not conduct a fire sale. If they can keep those players happy then the chances of a quick return may just be improved.
England duo Jonjo Shelvey and Andros Townsend were big-money buys in January for a combined total of £24m. Shelvey has been a mixed bag and will be on a reported £80,000-a-week in the Championship, while Townsend has been a rare success.
He has looked revitalised and may also attract suitors. There have been reports he can leave for £8m in the event of relegation.
There is some promise within the squad but the trick will be to keep them together - easier said than done once the cold reality of life in the lower leagues sets in.
Aston Villa's ability to survive in the Championship has been questioned; Newcastle's fiercely loyal fans will expect them to come straight back up to the Premier League.
Newcastle did it once when they returned immediately under Chris Hughton in 2009-10. Can they do it again?
The air must be cleared quickly on Tyneside but one glance around them will deliver the evidence that there is no guarantee of a quick return ticket, as clubs with a history more glorious than Newcastle United's have found.
Leeds United, floored by financial meltdown, were last in the Premier League in 2003-04 and spent three seasons in League One before returning to the Championship, while other hugely successful clubs in the 1970s and 80s have found it tough to come back.
Nottingham Forest, European Cup winners in 1979 and 1980, have been outside the top tier since 1998-99, while Ipswich Town have been away since 2001-02.
Newcastle, at least, have huge potential and are on a sound financial footing, but Ashley must act quickly to restore faith and optimism or perhaps decide it is a job for someone else.
Benitez's future must be top of the agenda before he or another manager begins addressing the matter of reshaping a squad for the Championship.
Newcastle's relegation is the result of years of poor decisions. They cannot afford any more after this latest devastating setback.
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This is the person who makes important decisions in their country.
There are 11 people who want the job.
But there is one candidate in particular, Marine Le Pen, leader of the party Front National, that many people have been talking about.
Martin has been looking into why people have very different opinions about her.
He said people will see "less first class in the future" with busy suburban trains having "one class" instead.
Mr Grayling suggested operators may be forced to scrap first class areas when franchises are awarded in the future.
Rail Delivery Group - which represents train operators - said it would work to increase seat numbers on key lines.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Mr Grayling said he was "absolutely" committed to scrapping first class carriages on shorter, commuter routes, at busy times of the day, and wanted train operators to take action if passengers demanded it.
"I absolutely understand what a total pain it is if you are standing on a train for 20 to 30 minutes on the way to work," he told the paper.
"I don't really see a case for a non-long distance journey for there to be any division between first and second class. There should just be one class on the train."
"People will see less first class in the future as we start to say that on busy suburban trains you can't start segregating," he added.
The Department for Transport issues contracts to run rail franchises in England, and can include conditions such as whether first class seating should be provided.
In March, ahead of contract negotiations to run the Southeastern franchise, passengers were asked if they wanted to remove first class seats at busy times.
The contract to run the line - which serves south-east London, Kent and parts of East Sussex - expires next year.
Other franchises to be renewed in the next 12 months include the West Coast Main Line from April 2019, and the East Midlands regional contract, which has three firms bidding to run the contract from March 2018.
However, some are not due for renewal for several years, with the Northern and East Anglia franchises currently not due for renewal until 2025.
David Sidebottom, director of Transport Focus - which represents passengers - said it was important train users have a choice, "as long as that choice is not to the extreme detriment of everyone else".
"A balance needs to be achieved between the number of standard and first class carriages a train has," he added.
"However, it is clear that where passengers are being squeezed into standard class carriages while there are plenty of empty seats in first class, this balance is not being achieved.
"In the long-term we need a big increase in capacity. This means continued investment in new and longer trains to meet existing demand."
Paul Plummer, chief executive of the Rail Delivery Group - which represents train operators - said firms were prepared to work with the government over the issue.
"We understand passengers' frustration when they can't get a seat which is why rail companies are working together to invest and improve journeys with thousands of new carriages and 6,400 extra train services a week by 2021," he said.
"We will continue to work with governments to increase seats on key routes to boost communities, businesses and the economy."
It was found at Weybourne in Norfolk on Tuesday and is now known to be a whale which washed up almost a month ago.
Norfolk cetacean recorder Carl Chapman said a species of giant squid could have matched its description.
"The theory that [sperm] whales were chasing squid remains valid," he said, although there was no evidence as yet.
"When we heard it might be a giant squid, we thought this could be significant."
He said: "I think at the moment people are very aware of the whale sightings and we are receiving a lot of reports which come to nothing."
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The minke whale carcass was washed off the beach at high tide on Wednesday morning and found at Sheringham.
The false alarm came after a seventh whale was seen in trouble off the coast at Mundesley on Tuesday morning.
The coastguard launched a search but could find no further trace of the creature.
It is hoped the whale safely returned to deeper waters.
A sperm whale died at Hunstanton last week, the second to die there recently, and four others were found dead in Lincolnshire.
There have been 30 sperm whale deaths in the North Sea this year.
The Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme, which examines all whale, dolphin and porpoise strandings in the UK, is working to establish why the whales came ashore and how they died.
This could help answer why the whales, thought to have come from the same bachelor pod normally living off the west coast of Norway, were in the North Sea.
Logan Peters was arrested in Plymouth on 7 May on suspicion of criminal damage. He was charged and released but was found dead the next day.
The IPCC will consider a complaint from the 22 year old's family that excessive force was used during the arrest.
IPCC Commissioner Tom Milsom will oversee the investigation.
Mr Milson, who will meet Mr Peters's family as part of the investigation, said: "I would like to assure them that we will look at the force used at arrest and all of the actions and decisions taken in relation to the risk assessments during Logan's time in custody.
"Additionally, we will look at the communication processes between the custody staff, and the period of detention, to determine whether all national and force policies and guidelines were adhered to."
The telecoms regulator Ofcom said Homeserve had been guilty of a serious breach of its rules on such calls.
Ofcom said it hoped the fine would send a "strong message" to all companies.
The Walsall based firm has offered to pay compensation of £10 each to the estimated 51,000 householders who were called in February and March last year.
The company blamed faulty equipment at a call centre firm which had been contracted to make the calls on its behalf.
"HomeServe identified the issue and promptly reported it to Ofcom, following an internal audit of all of HomeServe's telemarketing operations," the insurer said.
"The problem was identified as having resulted from the incorrect use of Answering Machine Detection technology via an outsourcer.
"HomeServe can also confirm that all of its dialler systems have been fully compliant with Ofcom regulations since 22 March 2011, following the rectification of the errors identified during HomeServe's audit," it added.
Ofcom's Consumer Group Director, Claudio Pollack, said: "Our rules are there to prevent consumers suffering annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety from silent or abandoned calls."
"We hope today's fine will send a strong message to all companies that use call centres that they need to ensure they are fully compliant with the rules or face the consequences."
Barclaycard was fined the then maximum fine of £50,000 for a similar offence in 2008.
The maximum potential fine was raised to £2m in September 2010.
Adam Scorer at Consumer Focus said he was pleased with the regulator's action.
"While silent and abandoned calls are usually caused by glitches in the technology rather than a deliberate act by sales staff, they are a nuisance and firms that do not control the technology show a lack of respect to consumers," he said.
Kier Starmer ordered a review after an expert said there was "no real prospect" of corruption convictions.
The trial collapsed in 2011.
The eight cleared former officers are suing South Wales Police for misfeasance in public office and false imprisonment.
Senior Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) lawyer Gaon Hart told the court sitting in Cardiff he was brought in as a "fresh pair of eyes" to consider the evidence.
But his view that the case would fail led to him being shouted at by South Wales Police's senior investigating officer Chris Coutts.
Mr Hart told the hearing the officer was "furious".
There was disagreement, too, with senior counsel Nick Dean QC the barrister who led the prosecution which eventually collapsed.
The relationship deteriorated to such an extent the-then DPP Keir Starmer intervened to manage the disagreement.
He handed the decision to another CPS expert Simon Clements, head of the Serious Crime Division, who decided to carry on with the prosecution.
Mr Hart told the High Court that he felt the police had a "slightly zealous attitude that they clear the name of the force in some way".
Former officers Graham Mouncher, Thomas Page, Richard Powell, John Seaford, Michael Daniels, Peter Greenwood, Paul Jennings and Paul Stephen are suing South Wales Police.
The case is continuing.
The artwork, named The Bristol Whales, has been installed in Millennium Square to mark the city's status as European Green Capital.
It represents the threat of plastic pollution in the world's oceans, particularly plastic bags and food and drink packaging, organisers said.
It will be on show until 1 September.
The six-tonne sculpture depicts a blue whale and a humpback whale swimming through an ocean of "upcycled" bottles, collected from the Bath Half Marathon and Bristol 10k race.
A Green Capital spokesman said the sculpture was "encouraging people to act now to reduce their consumption of single-use plastics and help protect our oceans for future generations".
He said Britons spent over £1.5bn on bottled water every year and sent 15 million bottles to landfill every day, and globally eight million tonnes of plastic ended up in oceans each year - equivalent to the body weight of 45,000 blue whales.
Sue Lipscombe, from Cod Steaks, which designed and built the artwork, said: "Whales are intelligent, beautiful, charismatic animals - they've become symbols of the world's oceans.
"They have a physical strength but they also represent resilience, the potential for recovery, provided we - as custodians of the oceans - take the right steps to protect them.
"We're confident that this sculpture will fuel discussion and debate about plastics in the ocean."
Bristol became the first UK city to be named European Green Capital when it took over from Copenhagen at the start of the year.
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The engine, which was retired from service in 1963, has been restored for York's National Railway Museum (NRM) in a shed in Bury, Greater Manchester.
Low-speed test runs begin later along the East Lancashire Railway.
It marks the end of a £4.2m complex restoration project, which began in 2006 by specialist engineers at Riley and Son Ltd, based in Bury.
Tom Ingall reports on the history of the famous engine.
Labs in the US states of Washington and Louisiana began "listening" on Friday for the gravitational waves that are predicted to flow through the Earth when violent events occur in space.
The Advanced Ligo facilities have just completed a major upgrade.
Scientists believe this will now give them the sensitivity needed to pick up what should be a very subtle signal.
The theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, one of the pioneers behind the experiment, went so far as to say that it would be "quite surprising" if the labs made no detection.
"We are there; we are in the ball park now. It's clear that this is going to be pulled off," he confidently told The Documentary programme on the BBC World Service.
Gravitational waves are a prediction of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
They describe the warping of space-time that occurs when masses accelerate.
But their expected weakness means only astrophysical phenomena on a truly colossal scale are likely to generate waves that will register on even the remarkable technologies assembled at Hanford in the American northwest and at Livingston in the southeast.
Sources that Advanced Ligo might observe include merging black holes and neutron stars (very dense, burnt-out stars), and, with luck, some exploding giant stars (supernovae).
Ripples in the fabric of space-time
The technique being employed is laser interferometry.
Both Ligo labs work by splitting a light beam and sending the two halves down separate, 4km-long, evacuated tunnels.
The beams are bounced back and forth by mirrors before being recombined at their starting point and sent to detectors.
If the delicate gravitational waves pass through the set-up, the laser light should show evidence of having been ever so slightly disturbed - either lengthened or shortened.
Advanced Ligo is looking for changes in laser-arm distance that are on the order of one one-thousandth of the width of a proton.
The equipment's peak sensitivity will be to waves with a frequency of around 100 Hertz, which in auditory terms is at the low end of what humans can hear. And it is for this reason that gravitational wave detection is often described as trying to pick up the "sounds of the cosmos".
"These detectors are like microphones where we're listening to the Universe," said Jamie Rollins from the California Institute of Technology, one of the project's lead institutions.
"It's sort of like we've been deaf to the Universe until now, and turning on these detectors is like turning on our ears."
The Documentary: A New Ear on the Universe will be broadcast first on the BBC World Service on Saturday, 26 September. Presented by Aleem Maqbool, and produced by Adrian Washbourne, the programme will also be available online.
The Ligo labs first began hunting for gravitational waves in 2002. They were then switched off in 2010 to undergo their more than $200m upgrade.
The improvements suppress further the "noise" in the instrumentation that would otherwise swamp real signals.
Important contributions have been made by the project's international partners, which include the UK.
British scientists provided the technology to keep the mirrors rock steady.
"The mirrors have to be super-quiet so that they're not disturbed by anything other than a gravitational wave. So they're suspended on four pendulum stages, the last stage being ultra-pure glass fibres," explained Sheila Rowan from the University of Glasgow.
The labs have been running in an engineering mode for some weeks, but they were switched to begin formal science observations at 15:00 GMT on Friday.
Like all instruments, they will need to be tuned to gain further improvements in sensitivity.
The upgrade was designed to give the detectors a 10-fold jump in performance over the old set-up. Refinements should achieve another factor of three by the end of the decade.
"The one thing I personally like about Ligo is it's used every bit of physics I know, from the most arcane solid-state and surface physics to lasers, electronics, quantum mechanics - everything," said Vern Sandberg, the lead scientist at the Hanford lab.
"And it's a very gratifying area to work in, a very frustrating area, too. Hopefully, we will know in a few months whether it's very fulfilling," he told The Documentary.
Scientists must now wait for the Universe to comply - for two black holes to spiral into each other, or, perhaps, for a supernova to go off in our Milky Way Galaxy.
Supercomputers will be sifting constantly the data for patterns that match the expectations from simulations - and even for those signals that stand out as so unexpected they may hint at something that goes totally beyond current understanding.
"Recording a gravitational wave for the first time has never been a big motivation for Ligo," said Kip Thorne.
"The motivation has always been to open a new window on the Universe, to see what I like to call the warped side of the Universe - an aspect of the Universe we've never seen before, objects and phenomena that are made either entirely from warped space and time, or partially from warped space and time. And it's going to be fantastic when we do."
He stretches out his legs towards a large fan whirring in the corner of his office. He seems keen to cool his toes.
Hamas' deputy foreign minister is hot but he is not bothered. A smile creeps across his neatly trimmed salt and pepper beard. He's very much in the pink.
"Everyone is celebrating. We are very happy. It was wonderful," he smiles.
And the reason for his good humour: The election of a new president. Not in Gaza but in neighbouring Egypt.
When it was announced last month that the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Mursi was to be Egypt's first democratically elected president, thousands of Hamas supporters in Gaza took to the streets to celebrate.
Gaza City's main boulevard - the Champs Elysee du Gaza, as some locals choose to call it - was filled with a cacophony of car horns and firecrackers.
Nearby, a succession of Hamas leaders took to a stage to cheer the Brotherhood's victory.
They see Mr Mursi very much as one of their own.
"The new voice, the new regime in Egypt will be more supportive for the Palestinians. Not only for Hamas but for the whole Palestinian question," says Mr Hamed.
Another reason for his upbeat mood, Mr Hamed says is what is good for Hamas, is bad for Israel.
"Israel is more isolated now. It has lost its most important friend in the Middle East. Things will not be like under Hosni Mubarak."
Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007, was originally founded, in the 1980s, as a Palestinian offshoot of the long-established Muslim Brotherhood.
"At the end of the day Hamas is part of the international Muslim Brotherhood organisation," says Mokhaimer Abu Sada, Professor of Politics at Gaza's al-Azhar University.
"Because Palestinians are under Israel's occupation maybe Hamas became a militant organisation dedicated to fighting that occupation. But at the end of the day both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt subscribe to the same principles."
Some analysts believe that having a powerful and now friendly neighbour will make Hamas more confident in its ongoing conflict with Israel.
In the days after Mr Mursi was elected, Hamas militants fired scores of rockets and mortars into Israel as the Israeli military carried out air strikes on Gaza.
It was the first time Hamas had directly engaged militarily for more than a year, although Israel accuses the Islamist movement of allowing smaller militants groups to launch attacks.
It is possible Hamas' military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, was trying to assert itself, testing the waters as to how Israel might react given the change in power in Egypt just days earlier.
Both Mr Hamed and Prof Abu Sada reject that suggestion.
They say the Hamas firing had more to do with internal politics among Gaza's militant factions rather than being connected to Mr Mursi's election.
Either way many will be watching to see how the Muslim Brotherhood reacts if Hamas chooses to fire rockets again.
The Muslim Brotherhood has said it wants to uphold Egypt's long-standing peace treaty with Israel.
Prof Abu Sada believes the movement will put pressure on Hamas to also maintain some sort of cold peace.
"Egypt is definitely not interested in provoking Israel. Egypt is much more concerned with solving its internal problems - poverty and unemployment," says Prof Abu Sada.
"Hamas has the same issues in Gaza. Hamas is much more interested in rebuilding the Gaza Strip instead of engaging in another war with Israel. Since the last war [with Israel from December 2008 to January 2009] Hamas has largely tried to restrain other resistance groups within Gaza."
Prof Abu Sada highlights the internal dilemma, which has faced Hamas ever since it came to power: Can it successfully run a government taking care of Gaza's 1.6 million people while at the same time continuing to act as a resistance movement fighting Israel militarily?
He believes the Muslim Brotherhood will try to steer Hamas towards the former.
"The Muslim Brotherhood will try to influence Hamas in a much more moderate and pragmatic way."
And Mr Hamed, who is widely considered to be one of the more moderate voices within the Hamas leadership in Gaza, says his government does not want the Muslim Brotherhood to be forced to choose between keeping its relationship with Hamas and keeping the peace with Israel.
"We are not interested in squeezing the Muslim Brotherhood into a corner or dragging Egypt into a confrontation with Israel."
Mr Hamed cautions that much will also depend on how much power the Muslim Brotherhood eventually wrestles from Egypt's military generals.
He believes it could take several years before the shifting dynamics of power in Egypt begin to settle.
But in the long term, he sees Egypt and Turkey, with its Islamist government, as the two big players in the region with the potential to influence the Middle East's most intractable conflict, that is between Israel and the Palestinians.
In the shorter term he believes the Muslim Brotherhood will work towards easing the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
He hopes it will move to further lift Egypt's blockade of Gaza which former President Hosni Mubarak imposed at the request of Israel and the United States, when Hamas came to power.
Mr Hamed points to the fact that immediately after Mr Mursi's election, Egypt greatly increased the number of Palestinians allowed to leave Gaza through Egypt each day.
Around a thousand people are now permitted to travel each day, up from around 500 just a few months ago.
Mr Hamed says the next target would be to see the border opened up to legal commercial traffic.
Currently hundreds of thousands of tonnes of goods, mostly construction materials, pass into Gaza through smuggling tunnels from Egypt every month.
The illegal trade, which has greatly increased since the fall of Mr Mubarak, has helped fuel something of a construction boom in Gaza with new buildings being put up on just about every street corner.
"We have had a building revolution in Gaza over the past year," says Rafik Hassuna, in front of a new classroom block that his company is building at Gaza's Islamic University.
Mr Hassuna runs one of the largest construction companies in Gaza. One of biggest projects is helping build a new wide tree-lined corniche road along the strip's Mediterranean seafront.
It is a huge undertaking, given that all the thousands of tonnes of building materials have to be carted in underground.
"It's crazy!" says Mr Hassuna shaking his head.
"We suffered from Mubarak who supported Israel and its siege of Gaza."
He now wants Mr Mursi to open up the border for trade.
"We hope the Arab Spring will bring fresh rains for Gaza. There is a commercial relation between Egypt and Libya, Egypt and Sudan. We hope to establish the same relation between Gaza and Egypt. We pray for this."
But there is one reason why such an opening up might not happen.
Some in Israel have suggested that the Egypt-Gaza border should be opened up, pushing responsibility for the Palestinian territory towards Cairo.
And that is why Mr Hamed says Hamas wants Egypt to be close but not too close.
"Gaza is part of Palestine. Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine are part of one political and geographical unity. Gaza is part of the Palestinian homeland - it is not part of Egypt."
Passporting rights let firms trade across the European Union without the need for separate licences.
New finance jobs fell in every English region in July and August, the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) said.
Eurosceptics have said the UK would not be harmed by leaving the single market.
The fall in vacancies after the Brexit vote was "striking as it is the only year in the past four where this trend has occurred", the IPPR said.
There was a 13.6% drop in job adverts in London, including for administrators, managers and chief executives, the research suggests.
Outside the capital, there was a 12.8% drop in job postings in the North East, an 11.4% fall in the North West and an 11.2% decline in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Clare McNeil, IPPR associate director for work and families, said: "As one of our largest sectors, the financial sector is vital to the wider wellbeing of our economy.
"The Prime Minister needs to end doubts around whether the government will pursue access to the single market and passporting rights as high priorities in the Brexit negotiations."
Recently, data from recruiter Morgan McKinley suggested financial sector job vacancies had dropped 12% in July, but grew 4% in August.
The recruiter warned that uncertainty around the UK's Brexit negotiations was still "casting a shadow over the second half of 2016".
According to the Financial Conduct Authority, 5,476 UK firms hold 336,421 passports to trade elsewhere in EU.
And 8,008 European companies use 23,532 passports to trade in the UK.
On Tuesday Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, said the risk of the UK leaving the single market was "significant" for business.
Ruscoe and Steve Evans have taken over from Craig Harrison who is the new Hartlepool manager.
TNS defeated the Gibralter side 4-3 on aggregate and face Croatian side HNK Rijeka in the second qualifying round.
"Hopefully we will be getting a go now," said Ruscoe.
TNS trailed Europa FC 2-1 from the first leg and managed to win the second leg 3-1 after extra time against opponents who had two men sent off in the match staged in Portugal.
Ruscoe will be waiting to see whether TNS chairman Mike Harris will give him and Steve Evans a long-term role.
"A few people were waiting for us to slip-up," said Ruscoe.
"We were the favourites, we were the seeded team and everyone was looking from the outside and thinking TNS should win this.
"A few people were thinking Scott Ruscoe and Steve Evans were not up to it.
"I am pleased and proud we have proved them wrong. It shows the players are behind us.
"Hopefully we will be getting a go now as a management duo.
"I will be speaking to the chairman and asking what his thoughts are."
But Ruscoe insisted talks over his long-term future must take a an initial back seat and won't affect the preparation for the second qualifying round first leg against HNK Rijeka in Croatia on Tuesday, 11 July.
"The team comes first and it's about preparing for next week," said Ruscoe.
"This Croatian side are very good. We need to be at our best and worry about them, not the situation as me as manager.
"It is going to be totally different again. We are under no illusions about how hard it's going to be.
"We are going to have a plan and be prepared."
He claimed the measure, inspired by Norway and Sweden, would restore trust in the system and reduce tax avoidance.
He also called for a specific chunk of taxes raised to be "hypothecated" - earmarked - for the NHS.
The Conservatives said Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn had said he did not favour a hypothecated tax.
Chancellor Philip Hammond will deliver his first full budget next Wednesday.
Outlining his thinking in a pre-Budget speech, Mr McDonnell urged the chancellor to "reverse the £70bn giveaway to the super-rich and giant corporations between now and 2021".
He said under a Labour government "there'll be no place to hide for tax avoiders".
'Urgent need for cash'
"Building on the successful Nordic model, we'll introduce legislation to make public the tax returns of those earning over £1m," he said.
"Transparency and fairness is at the heart of building a decent, open society. This will help restore public trust in the tax system and help clampdown on any avoidance."
Mr McDonnell said Mr Hammond must give the NHS and social care "an urgent injection of cash" when he delivers his first Budget next week.
He said the chancellor cannot continue to claim credit for improving economic growth figures while leaving health and social care without the funds they need.
"The experience on the ground of patients, doctors and nurses is of a treasured institution already drifting into the greatest crisis in its history," he said.
"Current plans from the government do not come anywhere near close to addressing the scale of the crisis, so it is essential that they now bring forward plans to close the funding gap if we do not want to lose our NHS."
'End discrimination'
He urged the government to appoint a politically neutral body, such as the Office for Budget Responsibility, to assess the levels of funding needed for the NHS in the long term, with 10-year budgets that show taxpayers their contributions are well-spent.
"Hypothecation, allocating taxes raised to specific purposes, can make absolutely clear where tax money is being spent," he said.
He accused the Conservatives of adding £750bn to the national debt since 2010, while at the same time imposing the first spending cuts on schools for 40 years and cuts to social care amounting to £4.5bn since 2010 that "have brought the system to the brink of collapse".
Mr McDonnell also called on Mr Hammond to end the "discrimination" which had seen cuts to public services "disproportionately" affect women.
He said "the cruel £3.7bn cut to Personal Independence Payment for disabled people must be halted", and he pledged that Labour would introduce a £10-an-hour Real Living Wage "to make sure work always pays fairly".
In response, the Conservatives said Mr McDonnell's speech highlighted divisions within Labour on the economy - pointing to comments made by Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn about hypothecated taxes.
A Conservative spokesman said: "Labour have today shown what a shambles they are - with the shadow chancellor suggesting a way of funding the NHS the Labour leader says won't work.
"The truth is that a strong NHS needs a strong economy, and only a Conservative government can deliver that."
In January, Mr Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I am not one that's generally in favour of hypothecated taxation but I'm prepared to consider it and look at it. The party will obviously consider it and look at it."
Asked if there would be a specific tax to raise money for the NHS under Labour, he replied: "We would guarantee the funding for the NHS. Whether we'd have a specific tax I doubt, but I'm prepared to consider it and discuss it as I'm sure all my colleagues are. But if you go down the road of hypothecated taxation then you're going to do hypothecated taxation for every other service. That's an issue."
The 28-year-old Ivorian joined the club on loan from Manchester City in August, but has scored just twice in 11 games and has not played since 27 December.
His contract allowed him to be sold to Chinese Super League clubs in January, but he chose to stay at Stoke.
"When you hear everything is fine and you don't play, it's crazy," he said.
Speaking to the BBC's World Football programme, the Ivory Coast international added: "It is more than difficult. This is something that I want to know why - the coach told me I'm training very well and my attitude is very good. It doesn't make sense. It's painful."
But Potters boss Mark Hughes says the striker is a victim of circumstance and faces competition from Peter Crouch and new signing Saido Berahino.
"He was away [at the African Cup of Nations] for a while and during that time Peter Crouch came into that side and did really well," said Hughes.
"It's been difficult for Wilf to get back in.
"We've bought Berahino in the meantime, so that's an extra striker on the books. So he's just going to have to be patient, as all players have to be."
Bony, who joined City from Swansea £28m in January 2015, said he was not tempted by the money on offer in China.
He added: "My agent told me there was an offer but I refused to go because my plan is to stay in the UK to show more - to show that I'm not at the end."
The 43-year-old, who finished fourth in the event in 2016, hit eight birdies to return a bogey-free round.
Dredge's round of 64 is his best since regaining his tour card last year.
Meanwhile, former US Open champion Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland started well and finished the day two strokes back in third.
McDowell opened with three birdies and reached the turn in only 30 shots after starting on the 10th tee.
The 37-year-old dropped just one shot, on the sixth, as he signed for a six-under 66.
"I understood today that the scoring was going to be good," Dredge said.
"It was an opportunity to go at more flags and get the ball closer to the hole.
"Without the wind, it certainly makes it a lot easier to get the score going and get the putts in."
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Police discovered chemicals and guns at a garage in the Paris suburb of Torcy, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
He said the detention of 12 suspects would be extended by 24 hours.
On Saturday, police carried out raids in several cities and shot dead a man said to be linked to a grenade attack against a Jewish shop last month.
The materials found in Torcy overnight included potassium nitrate, sulphur, headlight bulbs, and pressure cookers, Mr Molins told journalists on Wednesday.
"These are all products used to make what we call improvised explosives," he said. A handgun and a shotgun were also found.
"We are clearly confronted with an extremely dangerous terror network."
French converts
Those arrested at the weekend were targeted as part of an investigation into an attack on 19 September on a kosher grocery in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, in which one person was injured.
Mr Molins said that although two of the suspected organisers of the attack had been caught, it was not clear whether those who threw the grenade had been found.
The alleged leader of the group, 33-year-old Jeremie Louis-Sidney, was shot dead at his home in Strasbourg on Saturday in an exchange of fire with the police.
An ex-prisoner, who served time for drug-trafficking, he had recently converted to Islam.
Videos recovered from his apartment show him rapping about the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, and boasting that it was just the start.
Officials have indicated that those arrested were French converts. Several were said to have been carrying copies of their wills.
After Saturday's raids, blank bullets were fired outside a Paris synagogue.
French President Francois Hollande said there would be "total mobilisation of the state to fight all terrorist threats".
Indonesian law bans keeping endangered animals, whether dead or alive.
Cahyo Kumolo, the home affairs minister, proudly displayed his five stuffed Sumatra tigers and two Malayan sun bears during a televised tour of his home on 12 February.
There was a public outcry following the TV appearance.
Only 500-600 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild. Malayan sun bears are also rare; while there are no reliable figures for their population levels, they are classed as being "vulnerable".
The authorities say Mr Kumolo will not face punishment because he has surrendered his collection to the state. The stuffed animals are now being held by a conservation agency in Jakarta.
They are nihonium (with the symbol Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts), and oganesson (Og).
Until now, the quartet have been referred to simply by the number of protons in each atom - 113, 115, 117 and 118, respectively.
The elements are the first to be included in the famous table since 2011, and complete its seventh row.
The names must go out to consultation for five months, but if there are no objections their confirmation should be a formality.
This will come from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
All four elements are extreme - the synthetic creations of scientists.
None of them exist in the natural state and were made by bombarding two smaller (albeit still very large) atomic nuclei together.
Theory predicts there are "islands of stability" where certain combinations should stick and hold together - but even then this state is usually only fleeting.
No element heavier than uranium, with 92 protons and 146 neutrons, has been seen for a prolonged period outside the laboratory.
Nonetheless, the exercise does provide scientists with valuable insights into the structure of atomic nuclei and the properties that stem from it.
As is customary, the discoverers of the new elements got the right to suggest a name.
The rules state that this can reflect a mythological concept, a mineral, a place or country, a property or a scientist.
The name also has to be unique and maintain "historical and chemical consistency". This explains why there are a lot of "-iums" in the table.
Nihonium references the Japanese name for Japan. The atom was discovered at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator Science.
Moscovium was named after the Moscow region, the location of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.
Tennessine recognises the US state of Tennessee and the local contributions made to the discovery by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University.
Oganesson honours the nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian, who has played a leading role in the search for new elements including the one that will now bear his name.
South East Water said engineers worked overnight to carry out repairs after the burst main was discovered in the early hours of Saturday.
Properties affected were in Wadhurst, Flimwell, Stonegate and Ticehurst.
Head of engineering Desmond Brown said engineers isolated the burst and moved water around the network to limit the impact on customers.
The pipe has since been repaired.
The company later said that while there were 3,000 properties in the affected area, it had received 150 phone calls from people without water.
Exact numbers would be confirmed after an investigation had been carried out, a spokeswoman added.
About 287,000 people are living with hearing loss in Northern Ireland. It is estimated almost 2,000 are waiting more than nine weeks for treatment.
A proposed pilot scheme will try to cut audiology appointment waiting times.
It means patients will be able to go to a high street provider and have the bill paid by the health service.
A similar scheme has been operating since 2012 in England, where patients can go to Any Qualified Provider (AQP) for treatment.
More than 70% of people aged over 70 have hearing loss. Many people wait up to 10 years to seek treatment.
In some health trusts, it can take months to get an assessment and even longer to be fitted with a hearing aid.
Appointments are also required for follow-up care, such as hearing aid repairs.
Jim McGreevy lives in Crumlin, County Antrim, but his audiology care takes place at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, 12 miles away.
His wife, Margaret, said this was very inconvenient.
"We had a good service until he needed a little repair job done - we travelled into Belfast and discovered that the out-of-hours service had ceased, and to have any treatment at all he would have to make an appointment," she said.
"He couldn't use the phone, so I have to ring up and make an appointment and the time wait, we don't know."
Mrs McGreevy said not being able to communicate for a period of time can take its toll on her husband.
"He wouldn't hear someone at the door, he wouldn't hear the phone, and if there was an alarm and I was out of the house, he would not hear anything - all for the sake of a few seconds to replace maybe a little tube," she said.
The pilot scheme would treat hearing loss in a similar way to eyesight deterioration, where people can currently go to an optician as an NHS patient.
The proposed scheme has been welcomed by Jackie White of the charity Action on Hearing Loss.
"I think when people attend a hospital, they think of a problem or complaint as a medical issue, whereas if they could seek help more locally in their communities, it tends to remove the stigma that lots of people attach to hearing loss," she said.
"We'd like to see hearing loss normalised and people no longer worried to say that they have it."
The Health and Social Care Board has yet to confirm details of when and where the proposed pilot will take place.
But bad weather is hampering efforts to reach the Russian Akademic Shokalskiy, says the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA).
Earlier rescue attempts by Chinese and French icebreakers were foiled by the thick ice.
Seventy-four scientists, tourists and crew are on the Shokalskiy.
The vessel is being used by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition to follow the route explorer Douglas Mawson travelled a century ago.
The Shokalskiy remains well stocked with food and is in no danger, according to the team.
Despite being trapped, the scientists have continued their experiments, measuring temperature and salinity through cracks in the surrounding ice.
AMSA which is coordinating the rescue, said the Aurora Australis was having trouble reaching the Shokalskiy because of "poor visibility".
"The Aurora Australis is travelling slowly due to the conditions to ensure the safety of all on board," the agency said in a statement on Sunday night.
Expedition member Chris Turney earlier posted a video message online saying winds had picked up and it was snowing again.
The powerful Australian icebreaker can cut ice up to 1.6m (5.2ft) thick, but it is uncertain whether it will be able to plough through the estimated 3m wall surrounding the Shokalskiy.
If this latest relief operation fails, passengers could be winched to safety by a helicopter on board the Chinese icebreaker, which had to abort its rescue mission on Saturday.
The Snow Dragon came within seven nautical miles (11 km) of the Russian ship before stalling and being forced to return to the open sea.
The BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker, who is part of the expedition, said the helicopter flew around the Shokalskiy on Sunday to see if the Snow Dragon could launch another attempt to break through the ice.
A change in wind direction and slightly warmer temperatures had caused the ice to crack and form pools of water.
But our correspondent warned that Antarctica's extremely unstable weather made predictions very difficult.
The Shokalskiy was trapped on Christmas Day by thick sheets of ice, driven by strong winds, about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart - the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania.
Science volunteer Sean Borkovic earlier told the BBC: "I'll always remember this, that's for sure. It's brilliant. We've got some lovely light and the weather's pretty mild considering. The ship looks solid. I think we'll be good."
A visit from Secret Santa and a sumptuous Christmas dinner contributed to the mood of optimism.
The goal of the modern-day Australasian Antarctic Expedition is to repeat many of the original measurements and studies of the Mawson expedition to see how facets of the environment have changed over the past century.
Officers said "interference with signs" increased delays on roads around Weymouth on Sunday.
Drivers reported taking three hours to make a four-mile journey between Weymouth and Dorchester.
Organisers said despite advance warning, people had not fully understood the impact of the event.
Motorist Caroline Cooper, who said she arrived two hours late for a christening, wrote on social media: "It was a complete shambles. No diversion signs, no warning signs and nobody knew how to get anywhere."
Tim Brown said: "At no point prior was there any notice saying the road would be closed on Sunday."
Dorset Police said it would discuss feedback with the organisers to avoid issues during future events.
Insp Pete Browning said: "Unfortunately, there have been a number of incidents of interference with road signs. This irresponsible behaviour has exacerbated some of the traffic problems."
Peter Finney, Dorset County Council's Cabinet member for environment, infrastructure and highways, said a meeting would be held to discuss "all the positive and negative aspects of the event".
"We are aware of a number of issues with the traffic management for the event, including signage and marshalling. We will make sure lessons are learned and the necessary improvements are made to for any future events to keep inconvenience to a minimum," he added
Weymouth Ironman director Alan Rose said diversion signs on the perimeter of the event had been taken away or moved.
He added that more than 70,000 letters had been sent to warn people who lived on the 56-mile course.
But he said some drivers had not understood the likely impact of "biggest Ironman event the UK has ever hosted", involving 2,200 competitors.
Ironman, which takes place simultaneously at sites around the world, was previously held in Sherborne between 2003 and 2008.
A Citizens Advice league table shows that SSE had the lowest level of complaints, at just 22.5 per 100,000 customers.
EDF, British Gas and E.On took second, fourth and fifth spot respectively.
But big rivals Npower and Scottish Power came near the bottom of the league table, compiled for the April to June quarter this year.
A small supplier, Extra Energy, was worst of all the 21 firms measured, with a complaints rate that was 80 times greater than that of SSE.
The firm, which launched in 2014, apologised to customers and said it was now dealing with more complaints by its target of the end of the next working day.
"These figures reflect historic customer service issues that occurred during a period of time where Extra Energy saw our number of customers expand rapidly and unfortunately some of these complaints have taken longer than expected to resolve," said Ben Jones, the firm's managing director of operations.
Complaints are typically about late or inaccurate bills, or the difficulty some customers experience while simply trying to contact their gas or electricity supplier.
Citizens Advice said the performance of firms in dealing with complaints had fluctuated considerably in the first six months of the year.
"The latest league table shows some suppliers are getting much better at sorting out their customers' problems, but it's disappointing to see others getting worse at dealing with complaints," said its chief executive, Gillian Guy.
"Patchy and unpredictable customer service affects people in many ways - from the financial stress of being hit with a late bill, to the time wasted trying to get hold of a supplier on the phone."
The table shows that the overall gap between the best and worst firms was at its widest since Citizens Advice first started publishing its league table five years ago.
The results reveal that:
Claire Osborne, at the price comparison service uSwitch, said the latest results were encouraging, but some firms still had "work to do".
"Inaccurate bills, one of the main causes for complaints, are unfortunately much more common than we would like," she said.
"Our own research found that almost four million customers have been overcharged due to billing errors over the last year - leaving them £270m out of pocket.
"This data shows that there is more to choosing an energy supplier than price alone, so it's important to do your research before choosing a provider," she added.
Small Business, Consumers, and Corporate Responsibility Minister Margot James said: "Poor customer service can erode trust and cause unnecessary stress for bill payers.
"It's great to see that some companies are improving, but all energy suppliers should be treating their customers fairly and ensuring that any complaints are suitably addressed. If they don't, their customers will vote with their feet and switch to a different supplier."
If you have an unresolved complaint about a gas or electricity company, the Energy Ombudsman can help.
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The airport said the move was "not entirely unexpected."
There had been a commitment by International Airlines Group (IAG) to free up Gatwick slots used for Belfast and Dublin services as part of its takeover of the Irish carrier.
Ryanair is among the other airlines hoping to step in.
Any new Ryanair service would, however, likely be operated from Belfast International and there have been discussions between the parties.
Belfast International said it had no comment to make.
Belfast International Airport could be about to land Ryanair for the first time.
Perhaps a more intriguing question is would a Gatwick service be the start of something bigger?
Easyjet is, of course, a major presence at Aldergove.
Insiders often say the carriers are loathe to compete on the same routes from the one airport.
It is no secret the International has been courting Ryanair.
Talks have taken place but nothing is signed and sealed.
The length of the runway saw Ryanair pull out of George Best Belfast City Airport years ago.
Nothing has changed on that front - leaving the International as the option.
Ryanair does, of course, also run services from City of Derry Airport.
Aer Lingus will discontinue its Belfast City-Gatwick route from March 27, with suggestions it was performing poorly.
It apologised to customers who have existing bookings after that date, saying they would be offered alternative options or a refund.
A spokesperson for George Best Belfast City Airport said: "The continuing commitment by Aer Lingus to Belfast City is clear."
They said the airline is increasing capacity on flights between the City and Heathrow by using larger aircraft.
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There was an 89% increase in traffic jams during the morning rush hour, the daily newspaper El Pais reported.
Thousands of commuters got stuck on the capital's approach roads. There were also jams in Barcelona and Zaragoza.
Cars were diverted away from city centres. But one Madrid official blamed car accidents for the traffic queues.
The car-free day ("dia sin coches" in Spanish) initiative was part of "European Mobility Week", an annual campaign by the EU to promote clean, safe and sustainable transport in cities.
In Barcelona the authorities reported 90,000 fewer cars on the streets - a 4.3% decrease compared with normal working days.
In central Madrid, hundreds of school students went on a bike ride through traffic-free city streets.
Greenpeace environmental activists painted symbols of pedestrians, bikes, buses and electric cars on a main road - Bravo Murillo.
But on Twitter there were protests from drivers about the morning traffic jams in Madrid. The hashtag #DiaSinCoches was trending in Spain.
Alona Fdez Larrechi tweeted that "on the A1 they must have understood the #DiaSinCoches back-to-front, because the jam today is considerably bigger than the jam on other days".
Alberto Roldan tweeted that "we don't deserve such mediocre politicians". He called the "car-free day" a "day of stupidity".
Madrid councillor Percival Manglano also tweeted a traffic jam photo, with the ironic caption: "Those in the photo were all enjoying the landscape".
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A car-free day to curb pollution in Madrid has been cursed by Spanish drivers who got stuck in traffic jams, described as the worst for months.
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Details of the length of Wynter's deal with the Stones have not yet been disclosed.
The 23-year-old made 20 appearances in all competitions for League Two side Colchester last season.
Former Crystal Palace trainee Wynter could make his Maidstone debut against Maidenhead on Saturday, 5 August.
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National League side Maidstone United have signed defender Alex Wynter after his contract with Colchester United was cancelled by mutual consent.
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During its parade, one of Portela's floats depicted the destruction of the River Doce in 2015.
The dam was used to hold waste at an iron ore mine near the city of Mariana.
Portela is Rio's most successful samba school but it had not won the world-famous parade for 33 years.
A panel of judges gave it top marks in most categories, including costumes, rhythm and the quality of the samba song composed for this year's carnival.
Thousands of supporters began celebrating as soon as the final mark was read out at Rio's Sambadrome.
Portela scored 269.9 points to 269.8 for runners-up Mocidade.
One of Rio's most traditional samba schools, it had been eclipsed by younger rivals in the past decades, failing to win the carnival title since 1984.
"The wait is over," said Portela's president, Luis Carlos Magalhaes. "We won't need to mention that anymore."
In this year's parade, Portela focused on The Source of Life: the stories, myths and legends surrounding some of the world's best known rivers, including the Nile and the Mississippi.
It used its floats and the predominantly blue and white costumes of its 3,400 members to develop the story during the 75-minute-long parade.
"We deserved to win, more than anyone else," said Mr Magalhaes. "We worked very hard."
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A Brazilian samba school that highlighted the environmental impact caused by the collapse of a dam has been crowned champions of the Rio de Janeiro carnival.
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But those from more affluent areas are still far more likely to want to go to university, according to Ucas figures.
They showed 15.1% of youngsters from the poorest areas in Scotland submitted an application in 2015, up from 10.1% in 2006.
The application rate for the least-deprived areas was 52% this year.
That was up from 49.6% in 2006, the data showed.
There has been concern about an "attainment gap" in Scotland's education system between those from the wealthiest and least well-off areas of the country.
Education Secretary Angela Constance said the Ucas figures suggested that "welcome progress" was being made towards the long-term target of eradicating inequality in access to higher education.
But she acknowledged there was "undoubtedly more to do".
The Scottish government has set up a Commission on Widening Access, chaired by Dame Ruth Silver, which has begun its work to advise ministers on how best to tackle inequality in the education system.
Universities Scotland welcomed the the 50% growth in demand from those in Scotland's most deprived areas since 2006, which it said was testament to some of the work that universities were doing with young people and schools to raise aspiration in these groups.
Its director, Alastair Sim, said: "However, while the latest educational attainment figures published by the Scottish government earlier this week show that learners' attainment is improving in the most deprived areas they are still half as likely as the least deprived to achieve at Higher and Advanced Higher level.
"In order for these learners to fully realise their ambitions, and for universities to realise their goals to widen access, all education partners in Scotland must work together to close the education attainment gap."
NUS Scotland, which represents the country's students, welcomed the Ucas figures but urged universities and the Scottish government to ensure that the increase in applications translated to an increase in entries.
Its president-elect, Vonnie Sandlan, said the statistics suggested that the "hard work" done over the past few years to boost fair access to education was paying off.
She added: "It's clear that any lack of students from deprived backgrounds in our universities isn't due to a lack of aspiration on their part, as given the chance they have just as much potential to succeed as anyone else.
"It's incumbent on everyone working in Scottish higher education to carry this good work forward, and to ensure these increases continue.
"However, an increase in applications among young people from disadvantaged backgrounds doesn't necessarily equate to more of these young people actually being offered a place at university. The key will be ensuring that applicants become entrants."
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Serdar Mohammed was arrested in Helmand in 2010 but argues his subsequent detention breached his human rights.
In 2014, the High Court ruled UK forces had unlawfully detained Mr Mohammed before handing him to Afghan police.
However, the UK's Supreme Court has now allowed the Ministry of Defence to appeal against that ruling.
Mr Mohammed was seized on 7 April 2010 in the Kajaki district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, as he fled along a road where a rocket-propelled grenade launcher had been found after a firefight.
He was detained by British troops until 25 July 2010, when he was then transferred to Afghan authorities.
Mr Mohammed was subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for offences relating to the insurgency in Afghanistan.
However, Mr Mohammed claims British forces held him for an unlawful amount of time and he is seeking damages.
Under International Security Assistance Force procedures, suspects were allowed to be detained for a maximum of 96 hours - or four days - after which time they had to be released or handed over to Afghan authorities.
In November 2009, the UK government adopted its own policy under which ministers could authorise detention beyond 96 hours - if it was believed a suspect could provide new intelligence.
However, in 2014, High Court judge Mr Justice Leggatt found that while Mr Mohammed's arrest and initial detention for the initial 96 hours had been lawful, he had then been unlawfully held for a further 106 days.
Mr Mohammed's lawyers successfully argued in court that the UK's policy on detention had breached his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The MoD then challenged that ruling.
The Supreme Court judgement said that even if it can be shown the MoD contravened the ECHR in detaining Mr Mohammed for longer than 96 hours, it would not necessarily entitle him to damages.
BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said the case was now likely to go back to court as the MoD has to show there was an imperative security reason to detain Mr Mohammed.
However, our correspondent said the Supreme Court's ruling would be seen as a "partial victory" for the government.
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An Afghan national who was detained by British forces for more than 100 days has suffered a setback in his attempt to win damages from the UK government.
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The move follows a Police Scotland investigation into poisoning and the illegal use of traps at the properties in Stirlingshire and the Borders.
General licences allow land managers to carry out actions which would otherwise be illegal.
These include controlling some wild birds to protect crops or livestock.
The three-year licence restrictions have been placed on Raeshawe Estate and Corsehope Farm in the Borders, and Burnfoot Estate and Todhalls Farm in Stirlingshire.
Nick Halfhide, director of operations at Scottish Natural Heritage, said: "This measure should help to protect wild birds in the area, while still allowing necessary land management activities to take place, albeit under tighter supervision.
"We consider that this is a proportionate response to protect wild birds in the area and prevent further wildlife crime."
RSPB Scotland welcomed the restrictions which it said provided a "meaningful deterrent to the serious problem of the illegal killing of birds of prey".
Spokesman Duncan Orr-Ewing said: "The use of the open general licence to control what are considered by some to be 'pest species' of bird, including crows and magpies, for conservation and other legal purposes, is a privilege and not a right."
Scott Coupland, 48, claimed his computer had crashed and he had lost vital information which meant his VAT returns ended up being for the wrong amounts.
He was found guilty by a jury after a four day trial at Perth Sheriff Court.
Coupland, 48, of Crieff, made two false VAT repayment claims between March 2011 and November 2012.
The trial heard that Coupland, sole director of WDR Coupland (Produce) Ltd, aroused suspicion because of the large sums he claimed to have made in net value sales.
Sheriff William Wood said Coupland had made no attempt to pay back the money he had fraudulently obtained and had to go to jail despite his previous good character and service to the community.
Coupland was found guilty of submitting false repayment claims for £124,172 between 1 March 2011 and 6 June 2012.
He was also found guilty of submitting a false claim for £37,056 between 1 June and 30 November 2012.
Coupland offered to pay back £20,000 in an attempt to avoid a prison sentence but Sheriff Wood noted that no money had been paid back in four years.
The sheriff said: "I take into account the fact your business was a legitimate one and I dare say claims were made to fund your lifestyle and continue your children's education.
"It should have been clear your business was failing. You had a somewhat cavalier approach to corporate accounting.
"You have shown no remorse or acceptance of culpability and made no offer of restitution until today.
"I appreciate the impact this will no doubt have on your family, but I will sentence you to two years and six months imprisonment.
"You bear sole responsibility for these offences."
He told the BBC that boats should be turned back to deter migrants from attempting to make the journey.
And the UK should only accept "a few thousand" Christian refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean, he said.
His comments come after 800 migrants are thought to have died when boats sank off Libya at the weekend.
The UNHCR has described the tragedy as "the deadliest incident in the Mediterranean we have ever recorded".
Experts have warned that up to 30,000 migrants, including 2,500 children, could be killed in 2015 unless the crisis is tackled.
An emergency EU leaders' summit on the migrant issue will be held on Thursday.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Mr Farage said that unless action was taken by southern European countries "millions" of migrants would arrive on European soil over the next couple of years.
"The big message has to come from Italy, the big message has to come from Greece," he said, adding: "Unless you send a message that you're not going to unconditionally accept unlimited numbers of people, they will keep coming."
"That's not our decision but that is a decision that's got to be taken by those southern Mediterranean countries," he said.
The UKIP leader said migrants trying to reach Europe by boat "should be put on vessels that are seaworthy and taken back to where they came from".
He said there may be cases where people "genuinely need refugee status", adding, "if Britain has to give a helping hand and give, for example, some Christians refugee status, given that with Iraq and Libya there is almost nowhere for them to go, then fine".
"But," he continued, "Europe can't send a message that everybody that comes will be accepted. If it does then the numbers we're talking here could literally be millions".
Asked how many refugees he would be willing for the UK to accept, Mr Farage replied: "I would suggest a few thousand, because we as a country can't take unlimited numbers of people."
He said Prime Minister David Cameron would be under "intense pressure" at Thursday's EU summit on the Mediterranean crisis to take "very big numbers, and I am afraid we simply can't do that".
Mr Cameron has said the UK will contribute to search-and-rescue efforts in the Mediterranean, to help stop migrants becoming a "cargo of death".
London Mayor and Conservative parliamentary candidate Boris Johnson has suggested British special forces could be sent to Libya as part of European efforts to tackle human trafficking.
He told LBC radio action was required to "choke off the problem at source" to stop migrants being sent "to their deaths" on "unseaworthy vessels" travelling across the Mediterranean Sea.
The EU withdrew funding for Italy's "Mare Nostrum" search-and-rescue operation last year, replacing it with the smaller Operation Triton - a move which has drawn criticism, including from the United Nations.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for the rescue patrol operations to be restarted, and Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said it was a mistake to abandon Mare Nostrum.
The BBC's Great Debate prompted up to 150,000 viewers to use the #bbcdebate hashtag during the final chance for voters to hear the two sides' arguments on primetime TV before going to the polls on Thursday.
Two of the other most popular hashtags on the night were #projectfear, with 10,000 tweets throughout the debate, and #takebackcontrol with almost 5,000 tweets.
The "take back control" slogan - which was used widely by the Leave campaign but was also adopted by some Remain supporters - prompted some imaginative memes and gifs.
One tweeter wanted more facts, but other random themes and moments - including the Leave campaign's Boris Johnson's reference to Haggis exports being hampered by EU membership - were picked up by the social media audience.
Others turned to drinking games, reacting to some of the slogans on both sides of the debate.
In an increasingly lively debate, people on social media reacted to the participation of the audience of 6,000 at Wembley Arena.
Viewers also reacted with a mixed response to the jostling between current and former London mayors Sadiq Khan - from the Remain campaign - and Mr Johnson - from the Leave campaign.
And tweeters were quick to comment on debate moderator David Dimbleby.
For one tweeter, Marcus Payne, the whole thing resembled a German synth-pop gig at the famed music venue.
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency was alerted to the fire in the hold of the Maltese-registered bulk carrier "V Due" on Thursday at 16:30 GMT.
The 23,000 tonne ship, which had sailed from Liverpool, is 181m (593ft) long and has dropped anchor four miles away from the village of Moelfre.
The ship is said to be stable and there are no reports of any pollution.
The coastguard said salvors are currently on board the vessel to carry out an assessment.
Democratic Governor-elect Roy Cooper announced the repeal after Charlotte City Council voted to strike down a local law that prompted HB2.
The law requires transgender people to use toilets that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates.
The ruling led to boycotts by sports teams, businesses, and entertainers.
Public bathrooms have become a flashpoint in the battle over transgender rights in the US.
The Justice Department sued North Carolina over the law and US Attorney General Loretta Lynch likened that law to the policies of racial segregation. The state's Republicans argued that the law was necessary for privacy and safety.
But the incoming governor, Mr Cooper, said he had received assurances from the senate leader and House speaker, both Republican, that the law would be scrapped at a special session on Tuesday.
"I hope they will keep their word to me and with the help of Democrats in the legislature, HB2 will be repealed in full."
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The Charlotte City Council voted unanimously to invalidate its LGBT non-discrimination ordinance, which allowed transgender people to use restrooms based on gender identity.
Republicans have said the statewide law was passed to overturn the Charlotte rule.
The announcement comes just days after the Republican-controlled legislature called a special session to strip the incoming governor of some of his powers when he takes office next month.
Mr Cooper, the state attorney general, defeated incumbent Governor Pat McCrory in a contentious and protracted election in November.
Mr McCrory came under fire earlier this year for enacting the bill, leading to a huge backlash from campaigners, businesses and artists, with stars such as Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr cancelling concerts across the state.
Graham Wilson, a spokesman for Governor McCrory, blamed Charlotte lawmakers for the controversy.
"Governor Pat McCrory has always advocated a repeal of the over-reaching Charlotte ordinance, but those efforts were always blocked by Jennifer Roberts, Roy Cooper and other Democratic activists," Mr Wilson told the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
"This sudden reversal, with little notice after the gubernatorial election, sadly proves this entire issue originated by the political left was all about politics and winning the governor's race at the expense of Charlotte and our entire state."
In May, the Obama administration issued a directive ordering public schools to allow transgender students to use toilets that correspond to their gender identity.
The president's announcement prompted 12 states to announce they would sue the federal government over the directive, including in Texas, Alabama and Wisconsin.
In August, a Texas judge approved a temporary injunction suspending that directive.
References to Madeleine McCann, Adam Johnson and Josef Fritzl were displayed after fans were invited to post messages during the game.
The Barmy Army, an unofficial England fan group, criticised those who posted.
"It's a no-go area. It's a very sick thing to do," said Paul Burnham, the group's managing director.
Burnham said that he was not aware who was responsible for the messages that appeared during India's victory over England at the Wankhede Stadium.
"We're 99% certain that it is not anybody connected with us," he said. "If it was, we would not react well to that in terms of their membership.
"I completely condemn the messages. They're not funny at all. There's a line you don't cross, and this has gone well over the line. People shouldn't be allowed to do things like that and get away with them."
The comments posted by fans included a message about McCann, who was three years old when she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia de Luz, Portugal, in 2007, and has not been found.
There were also references to Fritzl, who kept his daughter Elizabeth captive in the basement of his home in Austria for 24 years, and former Sunderland footballer Johnson, who was sent to prison for six years in March for child sex offences.
In addition, there was a joke about Bobby Sands, an IRA hunger striker who died in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland in 1981.
Burnham added: "The way technology is now, it allows people to do things that they normally wouldn't. I hope that the media can track these people down."
South Korea forward Ji So-Yun put Chelsea ahead with a low first-half strike and Gilly Flaherty's header from a second-half corner made it two.
Liverpool went close through Katie Zelem and eventually pulled a deserved goal back through Caroline Weir.
But Chelsea held on to inflict a first league defeat of 2016 on Liverpool.
The defending champions had looked comfortable when Flaherty, who signed a new two-year contract earlier on Wednesday, nodded in their second.
But Chelsea goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl, who had done brilliantly to deny Weir before the break, had to be withdrawn after taking a knock.
Her replacement, Rebecca Spencer, then produced a superb reaction save to keep out Niamh Charles' late effort.
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Liverpool boss Scott Rogers told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "I thought we deserved a point. I'm delighted with the performance.
"They (Chelsea) are the champions for a reason. They've probably not performed at their best but they've still managed to win the game.
"They're a top class team and we've caused them a lot of problems tonight."
Chelsea Ladies boss Emma Hayes told BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "Credit to Liverpool. I thought they deserved something from the game.
"It just showed how much work we're going to have to do, if we're to progress any further. We lacked experience in the middle of the park."
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Benitez was unveiled as the club's new manager on Friday, hours after Steve McClaren was sacked.
"I don't think they would have stayed up if it had remained the same, but Benitez has given them a big opportunity," Shearer said.
Newcastle are 19th, one point from safety, but have a game in hand.
Shearer, who is Newcastle's record goalscorer and also managed the club in an ill-fated spell at the end of the 2008-09 season, said Benitez must be allowed to have full control over the team.
"It's a great coup for Newcastle to get someone like Benitez, if - and it's a big if - he can manage the football club the way he wants to manage," Shearer said.
"What's been clear is that every manager that Newcastle have appointed has come from a point of weakness, where they've not been able to set their own agenda.
"They've always had to work to a certain structure, whereas I think Rafa will be different - he'll set what he wants, he can demand that he controls the transfers, and he can run the football club as he wants to run it."
Benitez has previously managed Liverpool and Chelsea, winning the FA Cup and the Champions League with the former and the Europa League with the latter, and Shearer believes that record of success will endear him to Magpies fans.
"When you look at his success rate, almost wherever he's been he's delivered trophies," Shearer said.
"[Newcastle fans] will love anyone who gives them success. He's shown he can manage in tough situations.
"They're crying out for something to grab hold of up here. They just want people to sweat blood for the black and white shirt."
However, Shearer criticised the treatment of McClaren, whose sacking was widely reported in the media before it was confirmed on Friday.
"They did it all wrong," Shearer said. "The way they've treated McClaren this week has been so disrespectful.
"If they'd decided to make that decision, which obviously they had, they should have done it last Saturday night after the game, or Sunday morning.
"It was so unprofessional and so hard for Steve to take, and he shouldn't have been put through that."
You can listen to the full interview with Alan Shearer on BBC Radio 5 live shortly after 19:00 GMT.
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Swansea's Brett Johns was so poor he could not afford to travel home from the gym. So he stopped there.
As a man desperate to reach the top of MMA, there was no way he was letting a lack of money stop him from training.
"I went through a phase when I had nothing," he told BBC Wales Sport. "I couldn't afford the bus ticket home.
"I lived in the gym for the winter where there was no heating and all I had was a sleeping bag."
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That might explain the outpouring of emotion when he was told he had been called up to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
His manager filmed the video call he made to Johns and uploaded the Welsh fighter's moving reaction to Facebook.
"When I got the call, it just put me into tears," says Johns. "That seven years of hard work I've had to put in all came out in that moment.
"I'd hate to see what I'm going to be like when I win that UFC title if I'm like that when I'm getting called up."
The 24-year-old, who trains in Fforestfach, will make his debut at UFC Fight Night 99 in Belfast on Saturday.
He brings with him a record of 12 wins from 12 professional fights and is a two-time MMA world champion. Johns says the call-up was "a long time coming".
"It was very frustrating," he admitted. "I was thinking 'what more do I need to do?' Now I've achieved my dream."
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Johns was not the first Welsh fighter to be signed by the UFC. That title goes to a soldier from Monmouthshire.
Jack Marshman was signed just weeks earlier in October and he will debut on the same bill as Johns this weekend. Like his Welsh counterpart, the road to the top has been a long and difficult one.
Marshman estimates he was locked up 30 times as a teenager, but joining the Tillery Combat MMA Academy in Blaina kept him "on the straight and narrow".
"I was on the wrong path," he confesses. "But without a doubt MMA changed my life. I'm not trying to be cheesy but it genuinely did.
"Instead of going out on the weekend I was training Friday night and sparring Saturday morning."
Marshman has served in the 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, for nearly a decade and he toured Afghanistan twice but the middleweight says his call-up means he will soon leave the forces to fight full time.
"You can't get any bigger than the UFC," he says, ahead of his fight against Sweden's Magnus Cedenblad. "It's the highest we can go in our sport."
Wales waited a long time for its first UFC fighter. Now two have turned up at once.
The UFC calls itself the fastest-growing sports organisation in the world and both Welsh fighters believe it will transform the sport in their home country.
"It's huge for Welsh MMA and huge for Welsh sport," says Johns. "Going back a few years, MMA in the UK was very basic. Then we had a bit of help from [Republic of Ireland's] Conor McGregor.
"They go wild about those Irish fans but the Welsh fans can be crazy as well. So I'm hoping they'll transfer from football and rugby fans into MMA."
Marshman believes it will not be long before MMA becomes as popular in the UK as boxing.
"We've already got a massive cult following," he continues. "But now it's starting to get a bit more mainstream more people are going to watch it.
"In America I think it already is [as big as boxing]. The UFC just had its first event in Madison Square Garden and that's an historic boxing venue. It just goes to show how big the sport's getting."
For Brett Johns, those cold nights in the gym will seem a long way away when he walks out to fight South Korean Kwan Ho Kwak in Belfast. The bantamweight has signed a four-fight deal, but wants to stay much longer than that.
"One of my idols was Joe Calzaghe. He fought Mikkel Kessler at the Millennium Stadium. I don't see why I can't do that too."
The statement added directors are seeking "a long-term and stable financial solution for the club".
Macleod joined Brentford on Wednesday in a deal believed to be worth £1m.
Meanwhile, Rangers also confirmed a purchase of shares by Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor, who bought Laxey Partners' 16% in the club.
The three businessmen have also offered funding for the club, who need investment to see out the season. Over 40,000,000 shares are due to be issued in a fundraising offer in January.
The statement to the Stock Exchange read: "The Company has been informed that on 31 December 2014, George Taylor, Douglas Park and George Letham acquired 5,000,000, 5,000,000 and 3,299,415 ordinary shares of 1p each respectively, representing 6.14%, 6.14% and 4.05% of issued share capital.
"A DTR announcement is expected to follow in due course.
"The Board of Rangers is delighted that George Taylor, an existing Significant Shareholder, and George Letham, who provided the Company with a credit facility in 2014, together with Douglas Park have demonstrated their commitment to the Company through this purchase.
"The Directors welcome their continued enthusiasm towards contributing to the future success of the Company and club."
According to the latest States figures on kerbside recycling, the amount of black bag waste sent to Mont Cuet has dropped by 950 tonnes.
This is in comparison to when the trial started in March last year.
Deputy Scott Ogier said the plan to deal with the island's waste was heading in the right direction.
Mr Ogier said: "In just over 10 years, the proportion of household material being recycled has gone from less than 20% to more than 45%. That is something that we can all be very proud of."
Nearly 470 tonnes of additional materials have been recycled in the first full year of kerbside collections, the States of Guernsey reported.
Vanessa Sahinovic sustained multiple fractures and a head injury - but is not in a life-threatening condition.
Luna Pajer, 15, gained injuries to her arms and has also returned to Vienna for specialist treatment.
The Austrian Olympic Committee (AOC) said the team would still compete.
"It's a very, very sad day," said Dr Karl Stoss, AOC president. "It's a tough day for the team. Sporting motives and goals are not important at this moment."
Event organisers said the matter was now being investigated by police.
Team doctor Dr Robert Kandelhard accompanied Sahinovic and Pajer back to Vienna. The private jet belonging to Azerbaijan president Ilham Aliyev was used to fly the injured athletes back to their homeland.
"They have already landed and can get the best care there," added Stoss. "I'm not a medical expert but the treatment has been really good so far.
"It's a real shock for us and tough to motivate the team to focus on sport."
The AOC said the collision happened at 08:30 local time on Thursday, when the athletes were walking on the pavement in the Olympic village.
Verena Breit, 15, was also injured in the incident and she spent an hour in hospital in Baku with a thigh injury, but has now returned to the athletes' village.
A Baku 2015 spokesperson said: "This is a terrible accident, and at this time our thoughts and concerns are for the athletes involved, their families and the remainder of the Austrian delegation.
"The incident is now a matter of a police investigation and until that process is complete we will be making no further statement."
The inaugural European Games feature 20 sports, 16 of which will be included in next year's Olympics, and begin on 12 June.
Meanwhile, British newspaper the Guardian claims it has been banned from entering Azerbaijan to cover the event.
It says the decision "appears to be linked" to its report on the country's preparations for the event, which contained criticism of the government's "clampdown on freedom of speech and any political opposition".
Damien Chazelle, 32, said he aimed to "celebrate the act of dreaming".
He and many other directors also addressed President Donald Trump's travel ban in their speeches.
Mr Chazelle praised Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who has said he will not now attend the Oscars and said excluding filmmakers was "anti-art".
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He said Mr Farhadi - whose film The Salesman is nominated for an Oscar - came from "a country my government tells me I shouldn't be in dialogue with".
Iran is one of the seven mainly-Muslim countries affected by President Trump's order, which has been temporarily suspended by a federal court judge.
Last month La La Land broke the record for the most Golden Globe Awards, winning seven prizes.
Meanwhile Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu, who won an award last year for The Revenant, called the US political situation "a bad remake of one of the worst stories of the last century".
Other winners at the ceremony included Garth Davis for the film Lion.
It tells the true story of an Indian man who was lost as a five-year-old and 25 years later used Google Earth to retrace his steps to his hometown and his birthmother, not knowing the name of either.
The film had given some refugees the courage to find their families, he said.
The ceremony also saw Sir Ridley Scott, director of films including Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator, receive the 35th Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sgt Stephen Chilton, of Nottinghamshire Police, put the 17-year-old in an unapproved neck lock to restrain him.
Assistant Chief Constable Simon Torr said the allegations were unproven, adding the panel did not find the use of force disproportionate.
Sgt Chilton will be given further training before resuming full duties.
The misconduct hearing, the first the force has held in public, was shown video footage of Sgt Chilton holding the youth around his neck for 56 seconds and punching him in the stomach.
The teenager had been considered at risk of self harm and had attempted to barricade himself in his cell at Bridewell custody suite in Nottingham.
When Sgt Chilton entered the room, the youth allegedly lunged at him and he was cuffed and put in the neck lock.
Parvin Fernando, representing the force, said: "There was an opportunity for that neck restraint to be loosened or removed.
"Sgt Chilton persisted with the neck restraint applied to [the prisoner] despite it being obvious that it was unsafe to do so in the circumstances."
Earlier in the hearing, the panel was told by the force's trainer in officer safety that although the hold was not taught, it appeared to be a "dangerous and comparatively unusual situation".
Judging the allegations of misconduct to be unproven, ACC Tor said: "We do not find the force used was disproportionate to the perceived threat."
Exiles' 1-0 win over Accrington Stanley lifted them out of the relegation zone for the first time since November 2016.
They were 11 points adrift of safety when Flynn took over in March and have won six of their 10 matches since.
"I want to finish the job. Getting this close now and not doing it would be heartbreaking for me and the club," Flynn told BBC Radio Wales.
Ryan Bird's goal lifted Newport two points clear of Hartlepool who lost 2-0 at home to Barnet and they could secure Football League football for another season if they win at Carlisle on 29 February.
A week later the Exiles face Notts County at home in their final game of the season.
Hartlepool have matches at Cheltenham and at home to Doncaster to come.
"It's a great three points and I'm over the moon," said Flynn.
"If fingers are crossed and lady luck smiles on us we could be safe, but all we can do is take care of what we can look after and we'll see what happens at five o'clock next week."
He also played down the fact that his record since taking over could lead to a permanent position as manager.
"It's a good record, but there's nothing achieved yet," he said.
"It's not about Michael Flynn it's about keeping Newport County in the Football League and we'll worry about people's views after that.
"It has been a great turnaround and the boys have been fantastic. Again today, their work rate, their application and togetherness was everything that we've asked for.
"I would have wanted a few more goals because I'm going greyer by the minute but I'll take another couple of 1-0 wins before the end of the season, definitely."
Four people were killed in the collision at about 20:15 BST on Friday on the B1102 Freckenham Road in Worlington, near Barton Mills.
A man, 77, and a woman, 75, from Ely, in Cambridgeshire, and two men aged 24 and 28, both from Mildenhall in Suffolk died at the scene.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The man and woman from Ely were in a Hyundai i30, and the two men were in a BMW M3.
Suffolk Police said the vehicles appeared to be travelling in opposite directions when they smashed into each other causing the BMW to burst into flames.
People living nearby tried to put out the fire and save those inside, but the blaze was too fierce.
One woman said: "There was a horrendous noise and when we went outside the car was in the garden on fire... and it kept exploding.
"We tried to douse the flames, but there was nothing we could do."
Another witness said: "The BMW somersaulted and landed in the garden. We went out with a hosepipe to try to put the flames out."
It is believed the BMW was travelling in the direction of Worlington village when the collision occurred.
Friends and relatives have been laying floral tributes at the scene of the accident.
Police have appealed for witnesses who may have seen the collision or "the manner of driving of either of the two cars beforehand".
The road re-opened at 03:30 BST.
A few days ago, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) sent out a press release stating: "Latest statistics for Government-sponsored museums show two million more visits were made than previous year."
Its statistics reveal that 49 million visits were made in 2013/14 to the 16 national galleries and museums the DCMS directly funds, which represents a 4% increase on the previous year, and a record high since the data was first published in 2002/03.
On the face of it, the figures appear to confirm a continuation of the upward trajectory in visitor numbers that its sponsored institutions have enjoyed for over a decade.
But look beneath the surface and a slightly different picture emerges. Much of the boom in attendance is actually being driven by overseas tourists, with domestic visitors generally growing at a much slower rate.
And, in the case of The National Gallery and The Tate Galleries, UK visits have actually dropped by a conspicuous 20% since 2008/09.
The Tate has lost around a million domestic visitors in the last six years, dropping from a high of 4.5 million in 2008/09 to 3.55 million last year.
The National Gallery has seen its domestic visits fall by more than half a million, from 2.9 million in 08/09 to 2.3 million last year.
Neither institution was able to identify the reason for the drop, nor appeared aware of the fact it had occurred when questioned by the BBC.
Having given the matter some thought, the Tate said its figures fluctuate and that it was unable to account for the high number of domestic visitors six years ago.
The gallery said its overall audience had fallen and along with it the number of domestic visitors it receives. However, the Tate accepts that UK visitors now account for only 50% of its total audience, whereas they represented 60% when the overall figure was higher.
Why, though, is it that only the fine art institutions are seeing this marked fall, while The British Museum, V&A and Natural History Museum are enjoying increases in both domestic and overseas visitors?
The National Gallery thought it could be to do with the UK's "event" culture, whereby the British public will only appear for major exhibitions, which they have to pay for, as opposed to visiting their permanent collections for free.
If that is indeed the case, perhaps one reason might be the amount of money the institutions' marketing departments spend promoting special exhibitions that come with a ticket price attached, compared with the budget to advertise the free-to-view collections.
I went to the British Museum to ask some of its UK-based visitors why they had chosen to go there instead of either the National Gallery or Tate.
I was told by nearly all of those to whom I spoke that the British Museum was a more accessible, child-friendly museum, which had a collection that told a rich historical story and related directly to the school curriculum.
What can the National Gallery and the Tate do to regain those hundreds of thousands of domestic visitors that they have lost?
No doubt they will come up with a plan - part of which could be a commitment to make it a priority to remind us all about the world-class art they hold on our behalf, and which is available for us to see for free seven days a week.
Update: 9 March, 2015: The DCMS says it has made "changes and improvements" to the way it counts visitors to UK art galleries. As a result, it says, the number of UK visitors may have been "over-estimated" in the 2008/09 figures.
The health department already hoped to move patients from Giffard Ward, which has suffered from structural problems and leaks, into a temporary ward.
Now it hopes to also move the patients from the De Saumarez Ward, if planners approve of the temporary building.
A decision on future of the wards is due before the end of the year.
The updated plans for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital site involve building a second storey on the temporary structure.
The Welsh Premier champions host Europa FC of Gibraltar in the first qualifying round, first leg at Park Hall on Tuesday.
Saints' preparations for the campaign included a 1-1 draw against Scottish Premiership side Glasgow Rangers.
"It's always a special time of year, the European games," goalkeeper Harrison said.
"You don't need to be up for a game like this - it takes care of itself. Everybody's up for the game.
"We've had a few good friendlies, with Rangers probably being the highlight and we handled ourselves really well.
"We looked sharp going forward, defensively I thought we were outstanding in that game and up to now everything looks good."
Harrison, 32, is set to make his 31st appearance for Saints in European club competitions, equalling former team mate Phil Baker's record.
Summer signings Blaine Hudson and Tom Holland are set to make competitive debuts, at home.
Europa FC of Gibraltar will be making their Champions League debut after winning their first title since 1952.
The winners of the tie will face Croatian side HNK Rijeka in the second qualifying round.
The second leg against Europa FC will be played in Faro, Portugal, on Tuesday 4 July.
Interim manager Scott Ruscoe will be in charge of the side following the departure of Craig Harrison to Hartlepool.
"We're going to go and give it our best in this leg to give us the best opportunity when we go to Portugal and play them in the way leg," Ruscoe said.
"We're going to play on the front foot, be aggressive and play at our normal tempo and normal speed and give it a good go.
"They've got four key players that if we're not right could hurt us."
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The Durham left-hander, called up last week, was dropped before scoring but put on 99 with captain Alastair Cook (46) and went on to make 112.
Jennings, Moeen Ali, who made 50, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow all fell to Ravichandran Ashwin.
India lead 2-0 in the five-match series.
South Africa-born Jennings, 24, supported first by Cook and then by an increasingly confident Moeen, put England in a strong position, although they were helped by defensive fields from India.
India were gifted a route back into the game when Moeen was caught trying to slog-sweep Ashwin, and 230-3 became 249-5 when Jennings edged to gully and Jonny Bairstow was caught on the sweep.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said: "It was a tremendous day's play. It's a really good pitch - it's got a little bit of everything but there are runs out there.
"I would say England have just edged that day. Without Ravi Ashwin, India would be right on the back of a terrible day."
Umpire Paul Reiffel was forced to leave the field midway through the afternoon session after being struck on the back of the head by a lobbed Bhuvneshwar Kumar throw from the boundary. The Australian rested for the remainder of the day after a scan.
A former captain of South Africa Under-19s, Jennings made a century for the England Lions in Dubai the week he was added to the senior squad to replace the injured Haseeb Hameed.
He began tentatively but his innings turned round after he edged a short ball from Umesh Yadav on nought and a diving Karun Nair failed to hold on one-handed at gully.
Two balls later he struck his first boundary to get off the mark, setting the tempo of his innings. He mixed easy singles with reverse sweeps and cover drives, looking composed even as he neared three figures.
Watched in the crowd by Hameed, who returned to India with his family after having surgery on his fractured hand, Jennings struck 12 fours on his way to a composed century.
He celebrated calmly after reaching his hundred with a reverse sweep but could not hide his frustration when edging Ashwin to gully shortly after tea.
Jennings told Test Match Special: "If someone had said to me at the end of September you'd score as many runs as you had and have the opportunity with the Lions, I would have snapped their hand off.
"If someone said to me there would be a Test hundred waiting a couple of weeks later I would have jumped all over it.
"It's been a surreal seven, eight months. To top it off the way it has, with a Test cap and Test hundred, it's the best Christmas present I could get."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan said: "Jennings looked like he could go through the gears - he's got the game. There is a real calm confidence about his play.
"I see a future England team with Jennings and Haseeb Hameed both in, with Joe Root at four."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott added: "He looks nicely composed. He has an economy of movement - he stays very still. His footwork is good.
"Not every day will be good like this but it is a very fine performance. He got to his hundred with a reverse sweep. We didn't even know what it was when I played."
England's top order struggled during the third-Test defeat in Mohali after they won the toss on a good batting pitch and Cook and Jennings overcame some early worries here to keep England on track.
Cook's dismissal, stumped as he moved down the wicket to Ravindra Jadeja, was uncharacteristic but showed England's change in mindset when it came to playing spin, and India's slow bowlers were stunted during the afternoon session.
After Joe Root had fallen, superbly caught at slip by Virat Kohli for 21, Moeen looked frenetic at the crease. However, once he settled he looked in good touch, lofting Jadeja high into the crowd for six before falling on the sweep.
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Boycott said: "I'd like to ask the coach, 'what do you say to someone like Moeen when we've got them by the scruff of the neck and then you let them back into the game?'"
"Don't give the opposition a sniff. When you've got them down, keep them down."
Bairstow top-edged a sweep to be caught at deep backward square leg, but Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler saw England to the close without further loss.
The Highways Agency has published four possible routes that would allow the M54 to directly join the M6 northbound for the first time.
The designs suggest either a remodelling of the existing junction 10A of the M6 or a new road to join junction 11.
Consultation will begin this month, the Highways Agency said.
Talks are set to start with MPs and local authorities in the area, while public exhibitions are expected to take place later in the year.
The proposals first gained government support in 2003 and last year it announced plans to fund the scheme subject to contributions from developers.
Mark Prichard, Conservative MP for The Wrekin, said it would cost "hundreds of millions of pounds", but would bring "long-term prosperity" as well as improved access to areas along the M54.
Local authorities in the area have increased their calls for links northbound to the M6, with the building of the i54 business park and Jaguar Land Rover's new £350m plant off the M54 motorway.
They finished the regular Premiership season on a 15-game unbeaten run, but only secured second on the final day.
Until Exeter's streak, no side had ever achieved more than six successive maximum-point wins in the top flight.
"It shows you the quality of the Premiership and how well we've had to do," Baxter told BBC Radio Devon.
"It's still a bit scary when you look back and think. If any one of those eight successive bonus-point wins had been losses, we might well be sitting here in third and going away in the semi-final."
The Devon side host reigning champions Saracens in the last four on 20 May, as they look to reach the Premiership final for the second year in a row.
While Exeter have no game before then, Sarries play French club Clermont Auvergne in the Champions Cup final at Murrayfield on 13 May.
"Whether we play Saracens next or we play them later, we've got to do it at some stage, so I'm quite looking forward to bringing them to Sandy Park," added Baxter.
"We've actually had to put that run of games together to be where we are now, and that gives the players great credit for how they've held that together over such an extended period."
A curfew has been extended for a third day in riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar district. Clashes began on Saturday.
Hundreds of people have been arrested. Officials say security is improving.
Thousands of people fled their homes in the violence which was sparked by the killing of three men who had objected to the harassment of a young woman.
Uefa officials have rejected Jersey's application to become a member nation, on the grounds that the island is not recognised as an independent state.
But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will rule on the matter in June.
"We accept that Germany and England probably don't want to play us," Austin told BBC Radio Jersey.
"But why shouldn't we be in 'division two' playing against Gibraltar, Malta, Andorra and Liechtenstein?
"Our own view is that Uefa probably should divide itself in two and have a second division, if you like, for the smaller nations.
"And if we made progress and came top of that group, then we'd move up a little bit.
"So we understand the position of some of the big guys, but we don't see that as an excuse to keep us out of the whole programme."
Jersey, with a population of around 100,000, want to be recognised as an international side in their own right, but are currently classed as a county by the English Football Association.
The report calls for a move away from current guidelines which recommend pills only be prescribed if blood pressure is above a certain threshold.
But experts acknowledge lifestyle factors also have an important role to play in bringing blood pressures down.
The study appears in the Lancet.
High blood pressure has long been linked to a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
Current guidelines - issued by England's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - suggest patients should only take medication when their blood pressure levels reach 140 mmHg.
Until this point even those at highest risk, for example people who have had strokes, are offered monitoring but not pills.
Now a global team of experts are calling for doctors to focus on an individual's risks rather than rigid and "arbitrary" blood pressure thresholds.
Experts analysed the results of more than 100 large-scale trials involving some 600,000 people between 1966 and 2015.
They found those patients at highest risk - including smokers with high cholesterol levels and people over 65s with diabetes - would benefit most from treatment, lowering their chance of heart attacks and strokes.
In addition the report suggests once on treatment, blood pressure levels could be reduced even further than the targets currently used.
The study also adds to growing evidence that patients may benefit from lowering their blood pressure whatever their baseline levels - either through lifestyle changes or drugs.
But it shows the lower the person's blood pressure to start with, the lower the benefit they gain from reducing it.
The authors do not go as far as to suggest everyone should be given pills and caution side-effects of medication must be weighed up.
Prof Liam Smeeth, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, agreed the findings were important for those at highest risk.
But he warned: "One important caveat is that not everyone will be able to tolerate having their blood pressure reduced to low levels, and there is a need to balance possible drug side effects and likely benefits."
Heart specialist Dr Tim Chico, of the University of Sheffield, said medication need not be the only way to tackle the issue.
He added: "We can all reduce our blood pressure.
"We can do this safely, cheaply and as effectively as tablets by eating healthily, taking more physical activity, reducing alcohol intake, and maintaining a healthy weight."
It had been proposed that the existing Duffryn High School site would be split, with a new Welsh medium school being developed on part of it.
But Natural Resources Wales has objected to it because of potentially "dangerous" floods.
Council planning officials have now recommended the application be refused.
Newport council said it was legally required to provide secondary education in Welsh in Newport, and the site had been identified as the only viable one.
It said provided flood risks were properly addressed and mitigated, councillors may still be able to approve the application.
The £17m plans, due before the planning committee on 3 February, include two new three-storey teaching blocks, one for the existing school, the other for the new school.
But officials from Natural Resources Wales have objected to the new development at the Duffryn site in Lighthouse Road because the flood risk from the River Ebbw and tidal events on the Severn Estuary are too high.
A report to councillors warns that flood waters are predicted to surround the proposed two school buildings in events during and above a one in 20-year event.
Further, it warns that a flood could be very dangerous: "Significant depths and velocities of flooding surrounding the school buildings which would be dangerous to children, people and emergency services," it warns.
The report says Newport council does not have a vacant alternative site or sufficient funding for an entirely new-build school.
It had been hoped that the new school would help tackle a shortfall in Welsh-medium secondary school places in the area.
A starter class for the new secondary school is due to open temporarily at the Ysgol Bro Teyrnon site in Brynglas Drive in September.
Newport has never had a dedicated Welsh-medium secondary school and currently 390 pupils are bussed to Pontypool in Torfaen to attend Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw.
Eventually the new school would have space for 900 pupils, taken from three Welsh-medium primary schools in Newport and another at Caldicot in Monmouthshire.
Councillors have been told that Ysgol Gwynllyw will become oversubscribed this year.
Substantial funding was secured for new Welsh-medium developments in Newport under the Welsh government's 21st Century Schools programme.
Recently, Jon Wilson, head teacher of the existing Duffryn High School, wrote to parents to urge them to contact Newport council to back the new development.
Under the proposals, English-medium Duffryn High would be re-named John Frost School.
Duffryn High School head Mr Wilson declined to comment when contacted by BBC Wales.
He referred calls to the council.
Llanelli RFC is hosting a live extract of 'Grav' at the pitchside in Parc y Scarlets ahead of its first performance in Milford Haven next month.
Gravell played for Llanelli from 1970 until 1985 and was president of the club until his death in 2007.
He was capped for Wales and the British Lions, and worked on screen and radio.
Gravell was part of the 1972 Llanelli side that beat the touring All Blacks 9-3 at Stradey Park.
He played for his country 23 times and was considered one of the great centres.
After retiring from rugby he went on to appear in a number of film and television productions including Rebecca's Daughters alongside Peter O'Toole, and was a much-loved rugby commentator for the BBC and Welsh language channel S4C.
He died in 2007 following complications from diabetes.
Welsh actor Gareth John Bale, who helped devise the show along with Torch Theatre director Peter Doran, will take the role of Grav.
The 25-year-old, born in Pretoria, has a first-class batting average of 50.67 from 79 first-class innings.
The former South Africa Under-19 international has also taken 21 wickets in 38 Twenty20 matches and has played for the Northerns and the Titans.
"I'm excited to be here. It's an opportunity of a lifetime," he told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
"I qualify to play as a local now. My wife is British - that's the route I can qualify to play for the county team.
"Hopefully if I have a good season I can maybe push to play for England."
Gloucestershire head coach Richard Dawson told the club website: "It is brilliant to have Graeme join our squad for the next couple of seasons.
"He has a proven track record and will add to the competition for places."
The move would end Ecclestone's remarkable 40-year reign in the sport.
US giant Liberty Media is on the brink of completing its takeover of F1, which values the sport at $8bn (£6.5bn).
Ecclestone said in September he had been asked to stay on for three years but Liberty wants a revamp and mounting belief is he could be eased aside.
Liberty has already employed Chase Carey, a former executive at Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, as chairman of F1.
And senior F1 sources say American Sean Bratches, a former executive at television network ESPN, is poised to be appointed to run the commercial side of the sport, including sponsorship, marketing and media rights.
Ross Brawn, the former Mercedes team boss and Ferrari technical director, is expected to take up a role in charge of relations with the teams on the sporting and technical side.
BBC Sport has been told that some senior officials at Formula 1 Management, the company Ecclestone heads, think it unlikely he would accept an honorary role as life president if it was offered.
Senior sources expect that Ecclestone's departure will happen within a month, even if he does not go this week. He is currently on a skiing holiday.
Liberty refused to comment when contacted by the BBC.
Liberty last week cleared the final hurdles required before finalising its takeover, with approval of both its own shareholders of the deal and then that of F1's governing body, the FIA.
All that remains is for the final commercial deals to take place that will see Liberty take over from investment group CVC Capital Partners as the company running the sport.
Liberty's target, when it paid the first instalment of its buy-out, was for that to be completed before the end of the first financial quarter this year. But it is now expected in the coming days.
Gavin Donaldson, 37, was found dead on exposed moorland near Oxton in May last year.
Members of Borders Search and Rescue Unit helped police officers recover the body from steep ground.
After hearing evidence at a fatal accident inquiry at Jedburgh Sheriff Court, Sheriff Kevin Drummond said he would issue his findings later.
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The existing line is to be reinforced so it can carry more electricity.
The corridor is the area of land in which the route of the upgraded line would be built. SSE made its selection from three possible corridors.
The company said it has sought to avoid historic sites and landscapes, such as Culloden Battlefield and Bennachie.
The battlefield is near Inverness, while Bennachie is a hill with a number of distinctive rocky tops in Aberdeenshire.
Detailed plans are now to be made of the preferred corridor with further public consultation to be carried out next year.
SSE said consent for the upgraded line could be sought from the Scottish government in 2019.
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has previously raised concerns about the line being routed close to historic sites, such as Culloden Battlefield and the nearby Clava Cairns.
A Jacobite force led by Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated at Culloden by a government army in April 1746.
The fighting took place over a wider area than the parts in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.
Clava Cairns are prehistoric burial cairns built about 4,000 years ago.
The Bronze Age cemetery complex includes passage graves, ring cairns, kerb cairn and standing stones. The site also has the remains of a chapel of unknown date.
NTS said it was awaiting more details from SSE on the preferred corridor.
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Goatfell's handsome peak, the standing stones at Machrie Moor, and the doily-laden tea rooms with million-pound views and humbly-priced homemade Victoria sponge, are perhaps partly responsible for the island's tourism boom.
Another is that the cost of getting there is a lot cheaper than it used to be. Since the road equivalent tariff (RET) was introduced by the Scottish government in 2014, the cost of a return car journey on the ferry has fallen from £70 to £30.
Indeed, since fares were slashed there's been a 51% increase in car bookings on the Ardrossan-Brodick ferry and 60% on the Claonaig-Lochranza route.
It's great news for the island's 5,000 residents many of whom at least partly rely on tourism. In fact this year, they're expecting to host between 250,000 to 300,000 visitors.
So now would seem a good time to close all nine public toilets across the isle. Wouldn't it?
Rewind back to last spring and North Ayrshire Council announced that it was to close the conveniences to save £35,000 a year.
Many are decrepit after decades of use and are in need of repairs worth tens of thousands of pounds.
The local authority's justification included estimations that it cost "tens of pounds per pee" to maintain public loos in rural North Ayrshire.
Cue panic. Locals protested and an online petition to save the toilet blocks was launched.
Some villagers even offered to take the council up on its offer of a "community takeover" of their nearest toilet.
They enthusiastically debated the virtues of taking matters into their own hands to re-plumb, to replace doors, plunge blocked bowls and stock loo rolls. All for the sake of keeping Arran a "welcoming place".
Bill Calderwood who is chairman of Arran Community Council said there have been positive discussions which could see more than half of the conveniences reprieved thanks to volunteers.
"It's part of this making sure that Arran is seen as a welcoming and a good destination," he said.
"It's also a good thing for health and safety.
"That's the other thing - there is a requirement on councils to provide dog facilities but not for humans.
"It's a bit ironic for a tourist island to be faced with that."
Still at least three of the facilities appear doomed. For example, come April, good luck if you're out in Lamlash or Lochranza, and you get that sinking feeling.
Lochranza at the northern tip boasts the island's second (and very modest) ferry terminal. A mile away is a community hall.
Kate Hartley, who looks after it, said: "If the ferry has just left and you've arrived there you're going to have about an hour and a half before it comes back in again.
"People are not going to want to leave the queue in the ferry to go and find a toilet.
"So I think it's going to have a major implication, more on people visiting Arran which is what our livelihood is on the island nowadays."
As Ms Hartley spoke, there occurred an auspicious and comical interruption. The postman, who'd been circumnavigating the island's perimeter road in his red van all afternoon - dashed with haste into the hall and directly into the gentlemen's.
It's never polite to interview a fellow emerging from a toilet about unmentionable things like toilets. But postman Chris graciously weighed in to the debate.
"I think it's ridiculous, I really do," he said.
"What are you supposed to do if you need the toilet, like anybody who's disabled or on holiday here and can't find anywhere to go.
"If it wasn't for opening hours at the community hall just now, that'd be me. You'd have to tie a knot in it!"
Drive south to the island's largest village Lamlash, and you can drink in views of the breathtaking Holy Island which shelters the bay to the east, as well as a decrepit, dank and depressing block of toilets on the shoreline.
North Ayrshire Council is closing them and no-one is planning a replacement. The community balked at an estimated £6,000 for the initial refurbishment and about £6,000 a year for running costs.
Jane Howe owns the Pierhead Tavern directly across the road.
She said: "The consequences for us will be that everybody will come and use the toilets inside here which doesn't seem fair.
"The sailors will come and change, the children will come running in from the beach across the road, and people hiking in the hills come in.
"Once the business is closed at night time people are going to be using the street or the back of the car park to go to the toilet.
"Who's going to be responsible for cleaning the mess up?
"Indeed if the council says it costs £30 a pee, perhaps they could take that off our rates bill."
Ms Howe said a few years ago VisitArran approached North Ayrshire Council about a possible "comfort stop" scheme, where local businesses could gain something off their business rates if they allowed the public to use their facilities.
However, the proposal "went nowhere".
Craig Hatton, executive director of place at North Ayrshire Council, said there was major pressure on budgets.
"Since 2010, we've had to save £73m which is a considerable amount of money," he said.
"In terms of toilets we really value these facilities but we have a number of competing demands.
"The closures on Arran will save £35,000 a year.
"But we're hoping that in the longer term that most or all of these facilities will be transferred through community take-overs to remain open."
In the meantime an online petition calling for a rethink - with 1,600 signatures - has been submitted to North Ayrshire Council.
Are the cuts of £35,000 value for money or a false economy?
Whatever happens, islanders seem determined to do whatever it takes to keep up their reputation as a convenient place to visit.
The particle accelerator is best known for identifying a particle believed to be the Higgs boson in late 2012.
But following technical faults shortly after it first switched on, the machine has never been run at the full energies for which it was designed.
A programme of repairs and upgrades to the accelerator and its infrastructure should allow that in late 2014.
The LHC's beams were "dumped" early on Thursday morning, but it will take until Saturday morning for the machine's 1,734 magnets to warm up to room temperature.
Then an unprecedented period of upgrade and repair - dubbed "Long Shutdown 1" - will begin.
The machine ran at particle energies of 8 trillion electron-volts (teraelectronvolts; TeV) in 2012, up from the prior high point of 7TeV in 2011.
But when the shutdown concludes, slated for the end of November 2014, it should be set to run at 14TeV - far and away the highest-energy collisions ever attempted by scientists.
"We have been running successfully, but only at half the maximum energy, because we can only safely run the magnets at half the design current," said Tony Weidberg, a University of Oxford physicist who works on the LHC's Atlas detector.
How does the LHC recreate the first moments after the Big Bang?
The problem has been the connections between the giant magnets that help steer charged particles around the LHC's 27km-long ring.
A fault in 2008, just nine days after particle beams first circulated at the LHC, caused what is known as a "quench" in a number of the magnets, in turn resulting in a leak of liquid helium and sparking a repair operation that took more than a year.
"After the incident, the long-term plan was to get some running at intermediate energy and then have a long shut-down when we improve the connections between the magnets," Prof Weidberg told BBC News.
"That's a major operation, because you have to warm up all these superconducting magnets and go in and do repairs."
But the shut-down schedule also includes upgrades to all four of the LHC's detectors, the shielding of electronics, and even an overhaul of the ventilation system of the tunnel that houses the main accelerator ring.
The shut-down is due to conclude in late November 2014. after which the system will be put through its paces and experiments are expected to resume in February or March 2015.
In the meantime, scientists will stay busy analysing plenty of data from the 2012 data run, which thanks to improvements to the focusing of the LHC's beams as well as the slightly higher energies, provided more than twice as much data as the 2011 run.
Friends of the Earth Ltd lodged papers at the High Court in Belfast.
It wants a judge to review the decision of the Environment Minister Mark H Durkan not to issue a stop notice to the sand companies.
The notice would have meant an immediate end to dredging on the lough.
Earlier this year, Mr Durkan did issue an enforcement notice, ordering an end to the practice.
But the sand companies appealed it to the Planning Appeals Commission, meaning the work could continue pending the outcome of the appeal.
There is no appeal process when a stop notice is issued - it can only be challenged in the courts.
Around 1.7m tonnes of sand is sucked out of Lough Neagh every year by barges.
It supplies around a quarter of the construction in Northern Ireland.
Two years ago it emerged there was no planning permission for the extraction - which is considered a type of mining under planning regulations.
The lough is an internationally important bird sanctuary with EU protection.
Friends of the Earth said this placed a legal requirement on the department to protect it.
"Sand dredging should therefore cease through the issuing of a stop notice and should only resume if planning permission is granted and it's demonstrated that it will not cause damage to the lough," a spokesman said.
In response to the legal action Mr Durkan said he did not think he had made the wrong decision, but it would now be "for the court to decide".
"It's Friends of the Earth's or anyone's prerogative to challenge any decision a minister makes, but I believe I have taken responsible and sensible action to date," he said.
"They said, 'Can you do it like yours?'" Stigers recalled. She wore her hair in Sisterlocks, hundreds of tiny locks that allow women with coarse, tightly-wound hair to wear almost any style - from ponytails to braids, curly or straight.
She enrolled in a short training course in order to master the technique of creating Sisterlocks - a trademarked technique - with nothing but her two hands, a comb and small elastic bands. She registered as a Sisterlock hair braider online and requests from other people in the St Louis area poured in.
To meet the demand, Stigers needed to move her business out of her home. That's where her hair braiding business hit its first snag.
Stigers knew that hair salons were regulated by the Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners, but she wasn't sure that her business, which doesn't use any chemicals, heat or scissors, would also fall under the board's purview.
She phoned the board to ask if she would have to pay upwards of £8,189 ($10,000) and spend thousands of hours in cosmetology school in order to open up a hair braiding shop. Initially, Stigers said she was told that the regulations wouldn't apply to her.
The board later reversed its course. In mid-2014, Stigers started pursuing a lawsuit against the board after it told her that she and any other hair braiders running businesses in Missouri would need to get a full cosmetology license, which requires courses at a registered cosmetology school - courses that Stigers said don't teach any natural or African hair braiding skills at all.
"Hair braiding is an art really," Stigers said. "It's something that if I went to cosmetology school today, I couldn't learn how to do braiding."
Stigers joined another braider, Joba Niang, in a lawsuit against the board of cosmetology and barber examiners, seeking reprieve from the regulations.
A judge ruled against Stigers in September, 2016, but her lawyers finished filing briefs to appeal the case last week, just as Stigers settled into a new, larger storefront to accommodate a growing number of customers.
Stigers didn't get a license to braid hair, and many of her braiders lack licenses, though her business partner does have a cosmetology license to run the spa area in her new salon.
Thus far, the Missouri Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners has declined to enforce its rules while Stigers lawsuit is active, allowing Stigers and other braiders to continue working until the courts resolve the case.
If she loses, Stigers and other hair braiders will face the choice of getting the expensive cosmetology licenses or closing up shop.
Women who run hair braiding salons in up to 21 states face similar regulations.
Cosmetology classes mostly focus on how to cut hair, safely dye hair, and treat hair chemically to permanently curl or straighten strands. Hair braiders don't do any of that. The small amount of training that does touch on styling typically does not go into African-style hair braiding, though a few cosmetology textbooks do nod to the techniques.
The Missouri Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners does not comment on ongoing court cases, and could not discuss the regulations surrounding hair braiding. However, board members on cosmetology boards in other states have cautioned against loosening regulations because of concerns over sanitation and safety.
Jeanne Chappell, a board member on the New Hampshire Board of Barbering, Cosmetology and Esthetics told the Associated Press that diseases can be passed through the tools used during braiding and that licensing would allow the board to monitor and enforce against salons that don't use safe practices.
Pamela Ferrell, owns a braiding salon in Washington, DC, and successfully fought licensing regulations. She thinks racial biases and gaps in cultural knowledge play a role in the debate.
"It's a constant attack against our hair, our beauty standards, all under the guise of occupational licensing," Ferrell said. "It's culturally disrespectful. They're using irrelevant occupational laws to put this bias on a particular group of people."
While Stigers and her attorneys wait on a judge to set a date for the oral arguments Missouri is working to pass a bill that would make the lawsuit moot by deregulating hair braiding and imposing a simple £20 ($25) fee to register the business.
Governor Eric Greitens, a Republican, specifically called out Stigers' case as "burdensome" in his January state-of-the-state address.
"We need to end frivolous regulations like these so that our people can start their own businesses and create jobs," he said.
The conservative political powerhouse run by Charles and David Koch has also taken a stand against the licensing regulations as part of a £737,280,000 ($900m) campaign for a free market that encourages small business growth.
Former President Barack Obama issued a call to action to cut down on the state licensing regulations that require nearly one in four American workers to obtain an occupational license - a huge increase from the 5% who had to get licenses in 1950. His administration also allocated federal funds for states who reformed licensing regulations.
Stigers works a lot. She has to carve out time to testify in court and in front of the Missouri state legislators. She just expanded her salon to a new storefront that fits ten braiding booths and a full spa with manicure stations and a soon-to-come sauna.
When she's not braiding a client's hair, she's running to the bank, buying supplies, or discussing business with the eleven other women her business employs.
Stigers said she hopes her lawsuit will help other women realize their dreams of opening a hair-braiding salon.
"I am excited because it's something that, the other native African hair braiders, they see me moving and expanding and they don't have to be afraid of being out in the public eye," Stigers said.
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Rory McIlroy and Thomas Pieters briefly tied the scores by winning the first of the Saturday afternoon fourballs.
But the Americans restored their advantage through victories for Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, and Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar at Hazeltine.
Lee Westwood missed from three feet on the 18th when he and Danny Willett had the chance for a half.
The US need five points from Sunday's 12 singles matches to win the Ryder Cup for only the third time in 23 years, while Europe need 7½ to retain the trophy they have held since 2010.
Europe will no doubt draw on their experience at Medinah four years ago, when they won despite trailing 10-6 after two days, but then an Ian Poulter-inspired Europe had built up a head of steam going into the final day.
Here, the US rebounded from taking only 2½ points from the previous nine to win the final three fourballs matches on a glorious afternoon in Minnesota.
That, coupled with Westwood's miss - which would have cut the deficit from three to two points - has left the home side with the momentum.
The image of Northern Irishman McIlroy bowing to the gallery was the abiding symbol of Europe's Friday fightback, and baiting from the home crowd - he asked for one spectator to be ejected - drew howls and fist-pumps from the world number three on Saturday.
However, he was reliant on composed rookie Pieters, who ensured their partnership took three points from three matches together.
Back-to-back birdies from the Belgian put Europe four up with four to play and, even though the US won the next two holes, Pieters sealed a 3&1 win on the 17th.
That point ensured Europe had taken six and-a-half points from nine, but they were only briefly level as Mickelson and Kuchar outclassed Sergio Garcia and Martin Kaymer, who was recalled despite a poor first day.
While Garcia in particular missed opportunities on the green, Mickelson holed from 25 feet on the 10th and Kuchar drained a mammoth putt on 13.
Although Europe managed to extend the match to the 17th, Mickelson held his nerve to edge the US to a 2&1 victory.
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If McIlroy was the man to lead European cheers, then Reed provided encouragement to the home fans - not that it was needed.
Any suspicion that his formidable partnership with Spieth had crumbled after they gave away a four-hole lead in the morning foursomes was dismissed when Reed went five under between holes five and eight, including pitching in for an eagle at the par-five sixth.
When Rose and Stenson began to hole putts, they cut the deficit to one, but the fired-up Reed ensured there would be no repeat capitulation with birdies on 14 and 15 as the point was sealed 2&1.
With Europe set to be behind when the singles started regardless, Darren Clarke's men badly needed any sort of score from Westwood and Willett's tight tussle with JB Holmes and Ryan Moore.
Westwood, like Kaymer, was a captain's pick who struggled on day one, but looked to be proving his worth with delightful putts on seven and 10.
But, from all-square after 16, both Englishmen made bogey on the par-three 17th, only for a half to be seemingly guaranteed by Westwood's wonderful approach to the last. Then came the awful miss and a one-hole defeat.
Europe's Sergio Garcia speaking to BBC Radio 5 live about the atmosphere: "It has been quite poor. 85% of people are great. I love playing in America and my girlfriend is American, but the 15% that is really bad makes them look bad, and I feel ashamed for my girlfriend. But it is what it is."
Europe's Rory McIlroy: "Someone just said a few derogatory things I thought were over the line. I tried to get him removed. It fuelled me a lot. The more they shouted, the better we played, so I hope they shout at us all day tomorrow."
Europe captain Darren Clarke: "We're going to have to work hard tomorrow. It's been done before from a worse position. We need to believe in ourselves. There is a precedent."
USA captain Davis Love: "I kept wanting to take Jordan and Patrick out to rest. But Tiger has been watching them and he said 'no, no, no, don't take my guys out'. It worked and I'm going to put them to bed early."
USA's Patrick Reed: "We had a huge lead early in the first match and let it slip and I was not going to let that happen again. I live for this kind of stuff - let's go some more. I can't wait for tomorrow."
Europe's Danny Willett: "It doesn't change the job in hand. The job is to win all 12 tomorrow. No one is on 14½ yet."
BBC chief sports writer Tom Fordyce:
It was a chastening late afternoon for Darren Clarke after his team had done so well to claw themselves back across the previous two sessions.
At one point midway through Saturday's fourballs a European lead going into the singles looked possible; even at the death it appeared they might be just two points down, a tough ask but considerably better than Clarke could have hoped for after losing 4-0 on the first morning.
But those two short putts missed by his friend and wildcard pick Lee Westwood both raised questions over the selection and gave the US - inspired by the brilliant Patrick Reed - a stranglehold that they are unlikely to release.
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Tuesday marked the day on which they had to say whether they would sign the agreement and continue with the freeze on council tax.
Both Stirling Council and South Ayrshire Council confirmed their "reluctant" acceptance.
It had been claimed Scotland's 32 local authorities would have to make £350m in cuts to make the deal work.
None of the country's councils is expected to reject the offer on the table.
However, every local authority not run by the SNP branded the deal as unacceptable.
And a number of them are looking at the possibility of a legal challenge on some of the details.
The Labour leader of Stirling Council, Johanna Boyd, said it was "with a heavy heart and under duress" from the government that she had been "forced" to accept Scottish government's funding settlement.
South Ayrshire Council leader, Conservative Bill McIntosh, said he believed local communities would bear the brunt of the financial settlement.
He said: "Like many colleagues across the country, we have no choice but to reluctantly accept this brutal settlement from the Scottish government, which will undoubtedly have dire consequences for our finances and the services we currently provide.
"The Scottish government has made a very clear choice to allocate its funding in a way that lets the axe fall on local government and this means it's our people and communities who will bear the brunt."
Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland, the SNP leader of Clackmannanshire Council Les Sharp said he thought the deal was fair given the circumstances.
He said: "What John Swinney, and the Scottish government, have done is mitigate local authorities against the huge cuts that have been imposed on the local councils down south.
"What he is trying to do is to protect local government by looking at how we perform in our local areas. I think the way he's looked at the money and how we can change things is the right and proper thing to do."
The terms of the deal on offer make it even harder than before to propose putting up the council tax as any rise would need to be large to be effective.
Last week Moray Council dropped a proposal for an 18% increase.
It would be astounding if any council actually rejected the Scottish government's funding offer.
Councils are heavily dependent on the Scottish government for their money - to say no at this stage, with no prospect of a significantly better offer, would plunge them into crisis.
But this year's budget offer has strained relations badly between non-SNP councils and the Scottish government.
The immediate concern is straightforward. Many councils argue they will receive less than they had anticipated so are now contemplating bigger cuts and savings than they had forecast.
The government offer, as ever, includes money to compensate councils for not putting up the council tax.
The government points to research which demonstrates that, if anything, councils have been over-compensated for freezing the council tax which last went up in 2007.
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But then the so-called Islamic State (IS) group has never claimed any of the attacks in Turkey that it is believed to have committed.
The Turkish government and the CIA both say the assault on Istanbul's Ataturk airport bears all the signs of the jihadist group.
Over the past year, Turkey has been gripped by a wave of bombings across the country.
Those claimed by Kurdish militants have tended to hit organs of the Turkish state - police vehicles or military buildings - with which the PKK is fighting a renewed conflict.
But a high-profile international target is more the style of IS.
In a recent message, a supposed spokesman for the group called for specific attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is now. And Tuesday - the day the airport was hit - marks exactly two years since IS declared its "caliphate".
It's conceivable that this was an anniversary show of strength: the jihadists may have lost Falluja but they're certainly still in business.
Six big IS attacks in Turkey in the space of 12 months. What on earth is happening to the once stable corner of the Middle East?
As ever in Turkey, the answer depends on which side of the deep political divide you find yourself.
For the diehard supporters of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's polarising president, this is revenge for the country's fight against terrorism.
"[The West] left us alone in fighting Daesh that attacked Turkey," said Mr Erdogan last month, using another acronym for IS.
"None of those who said they're fighting Daesh have either made them suffer the losses or pay the price Turkey has done."
He and his government have even repeatedly suggested that IS and the PKK are working in cahoots to destabilise Turkey: a seemingly absurd suggestion, given the hatred between the two.
But for the arch critics of Turkey's president, the past 12 months show a litany of intelligence lapses and policy failures.
Known IS cells in Turkey, notably in the southern city of Adiyaman, were left to plot successive attacks in a murky tea-house before striking in Diyarbakir last June and Ankara in October - attacks that killed more than 100 people.
"We have the list of possible suicide bombers in Turkey - but cannot arrest them until they act", said the then Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
And, goes the argument, it proves the widely-held view that Turkey was too slow to wake up to the threat of IS.
Many believe that some elements within Turkey's Islamist-leaning government stomached, or even fostered, jihadist groups in Syria that tallied with their beliefs, creating an environment in which IS could grow.
For the first few years of the Syrian war, Turkey's border with Syria was somewhat porous, allowing jihadists and weapons to cross in both directions - until pressure from the US and others grew and Turkey tightened controls.
Ankara has always vehemently denied the allegations, claiming there is no proof of sinister cross-border movement and that the media and Western governments are attempting to besmirch Turkey while ignoring the fact that it has taken in almost three million Syrian refugees.
But what is clear is that as Turkey has become a more active part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State, it is considerably more vulnerable.
Any sympathies that the group thought it might have had in Turkey have been largely obliterated by successive attacks, making this country much more of a target.
Turkey's southern US airbase at Incirlik is used for nightly bombings of IS positions. Revenge is now a key reason why Turkey keeps getting hit.
And, as the attacks in Paris, Brussels and elsewhere have shown, IS remains a formidable force, albeit a depleted one.
Its militants have the ability to circumvent powerful governments with strong intelligence agencies. And in a country like Turkey, with a 500-mile-long (800km) border with Syria and 200 miles (320km) with Iraq, it has easier passage - and fertile ground.
Turkey is reeling from yet another devastating attack. Security across the country has been stepped up. But it's increasingly clear that the government is trying to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.
And the reality, for this nervous nation, is that more strikes will come.
The new policy, which will allow troops to transition gender while serving and will set standards for medical care, will be phased in over a year.
"This is the right thing to do for our people and for the force," said Defence Secretary Ash Carter.
It will ensure no-one can be discharged or denied re-enlistment based on their gender identity.
Jamie Ewing, who was kicked out of the US Army for being transgender, told the BBC she was happy to hear the news.
"I am very pleased," she said. "I look forward to re-enlisting and to hopefully wear my uniform again sometime in the near future as a soldier in the US Army."
But Republican Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma criticised the government for "forcing their social agenda" on the military and said the policy change should be put on hold.
Earlier at a press conference at the Pentagon, Mr Carter said: "Our mission is to defend this country, and we don't want barriers unrelated to a person's qualification to serve preventing us from recruiting or retaining the soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine who can best accomplish the mission."
He said a recent study by the Rand Corporation, commissioned by the military, estimates that there are between 2,500 and 7,000 transgender active service members in a total force of 1.3 million, with an additional 1,500 to 4,000 among reserve units.
The Palm Center, an influential think tank which studies gender in the military, estimates that there are about 12,800 transgender service members.
Transgender individuals will be able to enlist in one year, as long as they have been "stable" in their identified gender for 18 months.
Mr Carter called the policy "a matter of principle" and said he had consulted transgender service members over the years to discuss how best to meet their needs.
He also looked at policies in countries like the UK, Israel and Australia, which already allow transgender members to serve openly.
"I'm confident that we have reason to be proud today on what this will mean for our military," he said. "It's the right thing to do. Our military, and the nation it defends, will be stronger."
The Crues will have home advantage for the decider on 24 January.
"The Board of Directors of Linfield has serious concerns on how this venue was chosen and has raised objections to the IFA and Co Antrim FA," the club said.
Linfield hammered Ards in the semi-finals while league champions Crusaders progressed after beating PSNI.
The red kite was discovered injured by a walker on farmland around Nidd, near Harrogate, on Saturday.
North Yorkshire Police said it had been shot multiple times while it was flying and had to be put down by a vet because "its wing was so severely damaged".
It is the second rare bird to have been shot in the county within the last month.
An adult female red kite was found injured at Low Marishes, near Malton, on 25 March and was treated at a rescue centre.
Red kites are protected under schedule 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and anyone found killing one can face up to six months in jail.
Officers said the rare bird had survived the shooting but was unable to fly. It was found by the walker two days after it had been shot in the chest and underside of its wing.
PC Gareth Jones said: "Red kites are majestic birds that mainly feed on carrion and pose no threat to game birds, farmed animals or pets. It has taken many years to re-introduce red kites after their extinction from the UK by persecution.
"People in Harrogate have become used to seeing red kites soaring above the town and will be shocked by this meaningless and cruel act.
"I would ask members of the public who were in the areas of Nidd, Brearton and Scotton on Thursday or Friday last week to contact North Yorkshire Police if they have any information that could assist the investigation."
There are about 1,000 red kites in England.
Government troops launched an offensive in Ras Baalbek, the last remaining IS stronghold in the country, on Saturday.
The army says there are about 600 militants in the mountainous region, which IS has held since 2014.
About 20 militants have been killed in the latest operation and 10 soldiers have been injured, the military says.
The offensive is aimed at ridding the area of IS militants who are armed with anti-aircraft and armour-piercing missiles and drones, the Lebanese army said.
Youssef Roufeyel, a resident of Ras Baalbek, told Reuters news agency the people of his village would do whatever was necessary for victory.
"This battle requires help and support from the people, and we are behind the army and by their side," he said.
The Lebanese army later posted an image on its website showing its troops waving both a Lebanese and a Spanish flag in Ras Baalbek in what it described as a "salute from our troops" to the victims of the Barcelona terror attack in which 13 people were killed on Thursday.
IS said it had carried out the attack, which took place in the city's famous Las Ramblas district, though it is not clear whether any of the attackers were directly connected to the group or simply inspired by it.
The latest operation in Lebanon comes as IS faces a number of military strikes on territory it controls in both Syria and neighbouring Iraq, where a brutal fight to rid Mosul of its militants left the city in ruins.
Militants have long been active in mountainous eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, where a bloody civil war has raged since 2011.
Meanwhile, the Syrian army and the Lebanese Shia Islamist group, Hezbollah, announced their own offensive against IS, though Lebanon said that the two operations were not connected.
Manus Deery, 15, was killed yards from his home after a soldier fired from high above on the city walls.
The soldier maintained that he fired at what appeared to be a gunman about 200 metres away, missed, and the stray bullet killed the teenager.
A new inquest into his death identified the soldier as William Glasgow.
The Deery family have always disputed the Army's version of events and believe the teenager was killed unlawfully.
The jury in the original inquest in July 1973 returned an open verdict.
The Attorney General, John Larkin, ordered a new inquest into Manus Deery's death in 2012 but it was later delayed.
On Monday, the counsel for the coroner's court in Derry said the soldier, who is now dead, was no longer entitled to anonymity.
He said soldier "A" could be identified as a Mr William Glasgow.
Another soldier, called soldier "B", cannot be named for legal reasons and is due to appear on Thursday.
The court also heard that a Special Branch assessment of Manus Deery found he was not a known terrorist and was not known to be involved in terrorist activity.
Civilian witnesses with the teenager said he was unarmed at the time he was killed and the court heard there was no lead residue on the hands of the deceased.
On the evening of his death, the court heard how the 15-year-old was celebrating getting his first pay packet after starting work in a local factory two weeks earlier.
The inquest is expected to last for two weeks.
The centre-right Mr Macri took the oath of office in Congress but his inauguration was boycotted by his predecessor, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, in a row over the venue.
In his inaugural speech, Mr Macri vowed to tackle corruption, poverty and drug trafficking.
He also pledged "team work" and an end to confrontation in politics.
Mr Macri, 56, told Congress: "As president I want to be a citizen who can communicate with all Argentines.
"Politics for me is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.
"Today a dream is being achieved," he said.
Late on Wednesday, Ms Fernandez had bid farewell to supporters in an emotional speech, urging people to take to the streets if they felt betrayed by the new centre-right government.
This is the first time since the end of the military dictatorship in 1983 that a president has not attended the inauguration of a successor.
Mr Macri triumphed in last month's election run-off, beating Ms Fernandez's chosen successor, Daniel Scioli.
Mr Macri has promised to move from a largely state-controlled economy under the leftist Ms Fernandez to one that is more free market-orientated, easing trade and currency controls.
He has also promised to improve relations with the US.
In his speech in Congress he said: "We've got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting no-one wins, with dialogue, everyone wins.
"A new time is coming, a time of dialogue, a time of teamwork."
He said those who had voted for him wanted three goals - zero poverty, an end to drug trafficking and the unity of all Argentines.
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To applause, he said he wanted a judiciary cleaned of its political affiliations.
Marta Gabriela Michetti was sworn in as vice-president.
Mr Macri then travelled to the presidential palace to receive the sash and baton of office.
Ms Fernandez had insisted that the handover of the symbols of office should also take place in Congress, where her party holds a majority of seats.
She argued this was a tradition established by her and her late husband and predecessor in office, Nestor Kirchner.
The Buenos Aires Herald says Ms Fernandez's last day showed her "at both her best and her worst" with a "display of petty political mischief" but with "a grip on the popular imagination". She is "leaving not with nostalgia but with a rallying cry", it concludes.
La Prensa describes Ms Fernandez's failure to manage the handover ceremony as "a loss without precedents" and "a bitter lesson learned too late", adding that new president is now firmly "in control".
Left-wing newspaper Pagina 12 is more sympathetic, showing images of the huge crowds of supporters gathered in the Plaza de Mayo, along with the headline: "The Hug."
In Brazil, right-wing magazine Veja writes of "the follies of Cristina Kirchner" while Chile's El Mercurio says Mr Macri is taking power "surrounded by controversy".
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Mr Macri argued that according to presidential protocol, the handover should be held in the palace, as it was before 2003.
Local media reported that Mr Macri's decision was probably driven not just by tradition but also by a concern that followers of Ms Fernandez could disrupt the ceremony in Congress.
After Ms Fernandez declined to attend the ceremonies, Mr Macri's party sought a court injunction affirming that her term ended at midnight on Wednesday.
Ms Fernandez told her supporters on Wednesday evening: "I can't speak long because at midnight I turn into a pumpkin."
Investors are concerned that the setback casts doubt on whether he can push through other business-friendly tax and spending changes.
The Dow Jones slipped by 4.72 points to 20,656.53 points, while the wider S&P 500 shed 2.5 points to 2,345.96.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq index dropped 3.95 points to 5,817.69.
Shares in Ford slipped 0.9% after the carmaker said that it expected its pre-tax profits would be lower this year due to higher costs.
The heavily indebted businessman was to receive the money as settlement after being ousted from the firm in February.
But a consortium of banks and creditors has demanded the money should be used to settle Mr Mallya's outstanding debt to them.
The businessman is said to have some $1.4bn of unpaid debts after his Kingfisher airline collapsed in 2013.
A debt recovery tribunal on Monday blocked the payment and will review the case again on March 28.
"Diageo and United Spirits Ltd shall not temporarily disburse the amount to Mallya," the presiding officer of the debt recovery tribunal said in his order.
Mr Mallya had been due to receive $40m of the settlement immediately and the remainder over the course of five years.
In 2012 his Kingfisher airline was unable to pay staff, airports, tax authorities and lenders, having lost money for five years in a row.
A consortium of banks and creditors also sought Mr Mallya's arrest and asked for his passport to be impounded after he said that he wanted to move to Britain to be closer to his children.
The flamboyant businessman, who is a household name in India, sold a large chunk of United Spirits, which he inherited from his father, to Diageo in April 2014.
But the UK-based drinks giant had been reportedly trying to oust him as chairman after an internal inquiry found financial irregularities.
Mr Mallya, once dubbed by Indian media as "India's Richard Branson" and the "King of Good Times" for his lavish lifestyle also owns a stake in the Formula One team Force India.
By Friday morning more than 131,000 people had selected their best XI from a long-list of the star performers in the group stage.
And here is your team of the tournament so far, slotted into what was overwhelmingly the most popular formation - 4-4-2.
It was an extremely close-run thing in several positions - Northern Ireland goalkeeper Michael McGovern, currently without a club - was selected 33,000 times, 1,000 more than Germany's Manuel Neuer.
Germany's Jerome Boateng was the most popular pick in the centre of defence with 55% of people naming him. Italy's Leonardo Bonucci was second, just ahead of Azzurri and Juventus team-mate Giorgio Chiellini.
England midfielder Eric Dier and Croatia's impressive wide man Ivan Perisic were extremely unlucky to miss out - both just 1,000 selections shy of Germany's Toni Kroos.
But by far the most popular pick was Gareth Bale, selected in 95% of teams, followed by France's West Ham forward Dimitri Payet, who appeared in 88% of your selections.
Three players from the home nations made it into the XI - and all are back in action over the next few days.
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Cliffe Castle Museum now houses the object that was displayed at London's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851.
It was acquired by millionaire textile manufacturer Henry Isaac Butterfield when he created Cliffe Castle in Keighley in the late 19th Century.
The piece was made in St Petersburg from malachite a green, copper mineral.
The ornate fire surround was bought at auction by Mr Butterfield in 1880. In the 1950s it was removed to another house and Cliffe Castle was turned into a museum. When the chimneypiece's latest owner died, it was bequeathed back to the museum.
One similar piece survives at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, according to Cliffe Castle.
Former Portsmouth, Blackpool and Blackburn boss Appleton, 41, has been in charge of the U's for three years.
He guided them to automatic promotion from League Two as well as two Wembley finals in the Football League Trophy.
Neither Appleton, Oxford United or Leicester City have responded to BBC Sport for comment since Thursday.
Appleton is understood to have told Oxford players over the weekend that he will be leaving to join Craig Shakespeare's managerial team at Leicester.
Shakespeare was confirmed as the Foxes' permanent manager on a three-year deal earlier this month having temporarily taken charge in February following Claudio Ranieri's sacking.
The uncertainty surrounding Appleton's future at Oxford was compounded on Saturday as transfer target Liam Lindsay opted not to join from Partick Thistle.
Partick had accepted a £300,000 bid for the 21-year-old centre-back, but Lindsay was understood to be reluctant to move if a managerial change was imminent.
Griffiths, who had earlier scored a penalty, was replaced by Scott Sinclair during the second half at Firhill.
The visitors won 5-0 and Rodgers said of Griffiths: "He is a brilliant boy.
"All strikers will be the same so he just needed a wee reminder that it is not about him, or any individual, this is about the culture of the team."
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With Moussa Dembele currently recovering from a hamstring injury, Griffiths has been leading the line for Celtic.
"For a minute he forgot himself," Rodgers said. "For a minute he thought about himself instead of the team.
"This is a team that is selfless. That's why I can change it about, the players know I trust them in their work.
"He was outstanding but he understood afterwards that I needed to protect him as the only fit striker at the moment. There is no drama."
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The deal includes coverage of Super Bowl 50 on TV, radio and online, while a weekly highlights show will run on BBC Two and online from early November.
All three matches at London's Wembley Stadium will be broadcast live on either BBC Two or the BBC Red Button.
The BBC Sport website and mobile app will carry the best on-demand video clips throughout the new season, which begins on Thursday.
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"NFL has a growing fanbase in the UK and I'm delighted that the BBC can bring it free to air for our audience," said BBC director of sport Barbara Slater.
NFL UK managing director Alistair Kirkwood said: "We are very pleased and excited to be back on the BBC."
New England Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2015, beating Seattle Seahawks 29-24.
The fragments were detected around a frozen lake near Chebarkul, a town in the Chelyabinsk region, where the meteorite is believed to have landed.
Viktor Grohovsky, of the Urals Federal University, told Russian media that the material contained about 10% iron.
Russian officials say the strike caused damage costing 1bn roubles ($33m).
Fireballs were seen streaking through the skies above Chelyabinsk, about 1,500km east of Moscow, followed by loud bangs on Friday morning.
An estimated 200,000 sq m of windows were broken; shattered glass causing most of the injuries reported in Chelyabinsk.
While some 9,000 people have been helping in the clear-up and rescue operation, scientists have been concentrating their search for fragments of the rock around Chebarkul Lake, where a 6m (20ft) wide crater had been found following the strike.
"We have just completed the study, we confirm that the particulate matters, found by our expedition in the area of Lake Chebarkul indeed have meteorite nature," Mr Grohovsky was quoted by Russia's Ria Novosti news agency as saying.
"This meteorite is an ordinary chondrite, it is a stony meteorite which contains some 10% of iron. It is most likely to be named Chebarkul meteorite," he added.
A search of the lake bottom by a group of six divers on Saturday had found nothing; and it was thought the search would be delayed until the snow melts in the spring.
Russian scientists say the meteor weighed about 10 tonnes before it entered the Earth's atmosphere, travelling at some 30km (19 miles) per second, before breaking apart 30-50km (20-30 miles) above ground.
However, the US space agency Nasa said the meteor was 17m (55ft) wide and weighed 10,000 tonnes before entering the atmosphere, releasing about 500 kilotons of energy. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 was 12-15 kilotons.
Scientists have played down suggestions that there is any link between the event in the Urals and 2012 DA14, an asteroid which raced past the Earth later on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200 miles) - the closest ever for an object of that size.
Such meteor strikes are rare in Russia but one is thought to have devastated an area of more than 2,000 sq km (770 sq m) in Siberia in 1908.
Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown, 95, the last surviving pilot to have flown the first British jet, the Gloster E28/39, unveiled a plaque to mark the occasion.
The museum's collection of aircraft has been in storage since 2000 when the main hangar was demolished.
Volunteers campaigned and raised money to get the collection back on permanent display at Staverton.
Museum chairman John Lewer said: "We're privileged to have Capt Brown at our museum to renew his acquaintance with some of the more than 480 different aircraft types he has flown during his distinguished career."
Ian Whittle, the son of the jet engine pioneer Sir Frank Whittle, and 94-year old Sidney Dix of Longlevens, Gloucester, who worked on the top secret jet project at the Gloster Aircraft Company and witnessed the first flight in April 1941, also attended the opening ceremony.
The museum will house delicate aircraft, such as a 1925 Gloucester Gamecock, and contain archive photos and documents.
Gardner, 27, is the Latics' first signing this summer and joins after he turned down a new deal.
After a short stint in the Celtic youth system he has also played for Crewe and Halifax as well as loan spells at Bury and Tranmere.
Edmundson, 19, has signed a new two-year contract with the club.
He came through the Latics youth system and made his debut in September 2015 at Shrewsbury, with the deal including an option of a further year.
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Stephen Jolley, 43, was given a five-year jail term for the attack on John Mercer outside a Great Barr restaurant in September, 2013.
Police said Mr Mercer's brain injuries were "so catastrophic he never regained consciousness" and died last July.
Jolley, who is already in jail for the assault, admitted manslaughter after the death of the 28-year-old.
The sentence, passed at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday, means Jolley will serve an additional year in jail.
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West Midlands Police said the two men had got into an argument while drinking at the Special Spices bar and restaurant and Jolley followed Mr Mercer on to Newton Road.
Jolley's punch caused Mr Mercer "to fall backwards and hit his head on the pavement," suffering injuries that would be fatal, police said.
Det Sgt Stewart Nicol, who led the investigation, said he was killed as the result of an unprovoked and senseless act of violence.
"This was a thoughtless act that robbed a popular young man of his life and his devoted family of someone they loved so dearly."
Mr Mercer's family said in a statement he was a hard-working builder who loved his job.
"He was the most kind, considerate, handsome person you would wish to know, and a credit to us as a family.
"We think about him every day and we all miss him so much," they said.
The Stanford University team says the World Health Organization needs to step up its response - but the WHO says this could breed drug-resistant infections.
Currently, eradication is focused largely on school-aged children living in high-prevalence areas.
The Stanford team's research recommends mass treatment of whole communities.
Worms affect a quarter of the world's population.
They are transmitted by eggs passed in the faeces of infected people that contaminate food or water supplies.
One type of worm, hookworm, can hatch in soil and burrow into a person's skin, for example, if they walk barefoot on contaminated soil.
People with mild worm infections have few or no symptoms - but as the worms multiply in the bowel, they feed on the host, causing malnutrition, weakness, diarrhoea and abdominal pain.
A flatworm found in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, causes a disease called schistosomiasis or Bilharzia which can cause progressive damage to the bladder, kidneys, liver and spleen.
All of these parasites can be treated with drugs that are cheap and widely available.
The Stanford researchers calculated the costs versus the benefits of using these medicines in different communities in the Ivory Coast - a region where parasitic-worm infections are common.
The end goal they looked at was averting transmission, along with reducing ill health, in pre-school children and adults, as well as children of school age.
And they used a measurement known as the disability-adjusted life-year, a standard WHO measure to gauge the impact of disease.
By their calculations, outlined in The Lancet Global Health journal, it would cost about £109 per person per year, which they say is highly cost effective.
Lead researcher Dr Jason Andrews said: "We found that when you do so, the results strongly support a much broader treatment scope than has been historically recommended."
But the WHO says it has no plans of changing its current strategy. Targeting more people risks the development of drug resistant infections, it says.
"If drug pressure is too intense, it may promote selection of resistant worms, as has occurred in veterinary parasitology; repetition of the same error in tackling human health should be avoided," a spokesman said.
In 2013, more than 368 million children were treated with anthelminthic medicines in endemic countries, corresponding to 42% of all children at risk.
The global target is to regularly treat at least 75% of all children in endemic areas.
The Vietnamese foreign ministry said the airfield was built illegally on a part of the Spratly archipelago that lies within its territory.
China said it has complete sovereignty over Fiery Cross Reef and had used a civilian plane to test the airstrip.
Several nations dispute China's territorial claims in the area.
China claims almost the whole of the South China Sea, resulting in overlapping claims with several other Asian nations including Vietnam and the Philippines.
They accuse China of illegally reclaiming land in contested areas to create artificial islands with facilities that could potentially be for military use.
The United States has said it was concerned that Saturday's flight had exacerbated tensions.
Pooja Jhunjhunwala, a spokeswoman for the US State Department, said there was "a pressing need for claimants to publicly commit to a reciprocal halt to further land reclamation, construction of new facilities, and militarisation of disputed features".
"We encourage all claimants to actively reduce tensions from unilateral actions that undermine regional stability, and taking steps to create space for meaningful diplomatic solutions to emerge," she said.
Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China conducted the flight to test whether the airfield facilities met the standards for civil aviation.
"China has indisputable sovereignty over the Nansha Islands and their adjacent waters. China will not accept the unfounded accusation from the Vietnamese side," she said, referring to the Spratly Islands by their Chinese name.
Hanoi's foreign ministry said Vietnam handed a protest note to China's embassy and asked China not to repeat the action, the Reuters news agency reported.
It called the flight "a serious infringement of the sovereignty of Vietnam on the Spratly archipelago".
Satellite images published by IHS Jane's Defence Weekly in April showed China making progress with building the airstrip on reclaimed land on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands.
The landmass could accommodate a runway about 3,000m long, the report said.
It also showed dredging to the south of the reef, in apparent work to improve the reef's port facilities.
China says its work is legal and needed to safeguard its sovereignty.
Jonathan Theobald, 65, left Staffie-type dogs Daisy, Mitch and Rascal in a vehicle in Peterborough for about five hours on 16 June.
RSPCA inspector Justin Stubbs, the investigating officer, said they "may have slowly cooked, essentially".
At Peterborough Magistrates' Court, Theobald admitted causing unnecessary suffering by confining them in the car.
He is expected to be sentenced at a later date.
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The dogs died after being left in a car on Ashbourne Road while Theobald went to a gym.
The court heard that when he returned, two of the dogs were dead. He attempted to resuscitate the third but a vet, who he had called, pronounced it dead.
The weather on the day in question was "overcast, not hot, but warm and humid", Mr Stubbs said.
The temperature ranged from 16-19C (61-66F), but humidity levels were high.
The animals would have suffered a "long, slow, agonising death", the inspector said.
"The dogs would have overheated, they would have had fits. They may have slowly cooked, essentially."
It was, he said, a "tragic accident" but leaving animals in cars for any length of time in such conditions was like "putting your dog through torture".
Speaking before his court appearance, Theobald, who was visibly distressed, said: "I am so sorry. I am appalled by what happened.
"I have shed a lot of tears since then."
"I understand the RSPCA has a job to do and I don't want this to happen again."
Theobald, of Lincoln Road, Peterborough, was charged under Section 4 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
In court he admitted one count of causing unnecessary suffering to the dogs by confining them in an environment which was detrimental to their well-being and led to their death.
Speaking at a preview of the first episode of his final series on the BBC show, he admitted he'd be "very sad" to say goodbye to the programme.
The story - titled The Pilot - introduces the Doctor's new companion Bill Potts, played by Pearl Mackie.
It sees the Doctor, Bill, and Nardole, played by Matt Lucas, battling a shape-shifting alien across time and space.
Capaldi, 58, who took over the Time Lord role in 2013, announced in January that he would leave the show in the 2017 Christmas special.
Speaking to an invited audience at the screening in London on Tuesday, Capaldi said: "It's an incredible thing to wake up in the morning and go 'Oh, I'm still Doctor Who!' and go and blow up some monsters - and that's how you spend your day.
"When you walk around, people don't see Peter anymore - it's Doctor Who they see - and he gets many more smiles than I do. It'll be sad to say goodbye to him."
Asked about who might take over his role, the Scottish actor chose his words carefully.
"I'm sure whoever that person is will be wonderful," he said.
"Doctor Who is a wonderful part, and they are going to make - if they haven't already done so - a wonderful choice, whether that's a man or a woman."
Speculation has been mounting over who will take over the role, with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge among the bookies' favourites.
Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat said after the screening that he was surprised at the "fuss" over Bill's sexuality.
Last week it was revealed that Mackie's character would be the Time Lord's first openly gay companion.
"We are not expecting any kind of round of applause or pat on the back for that," Moffat said. "That is the minimum of representation you should have on television. The correct response would be: 'What took you so long?'"
"It is important we don't make a big fuss of this in a children's show that communicates directly with children.
"You don't want young kids who regard themselves as boring and normal and happen to fancy their own gender, we don't want them to feel as if they are some kind of special case."
Addressing journalists in the audience, he added jokingly: "It is not your job to frighten children - it is my job!"
Capaldi said he enjoyed the fact that the Doctor was seen "grounded" on Earth as a university lecturer in the opening episode.
"I loved being at university," he said. "I love it when Doctor Who roots itself in something recognisable and normal."
Doctor Who returns on BBC One on Saturday 15 April.
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Arkadiusz Jozwik, 39, was left with head injuries after an unprovoked attack in Harlow, Essex, on Saturday night. He died on Monday evening.
His friend, a 43-year-old man, suffered hand and stomach injuries.
Harlow MP Robert Halfon said the killing would be "all the more disturbing and shocking" if it turned out to be a hate crime.
Five 15-year-old boys and one 16-year-old boy, all from Harlow, were arrested on suspicion of murder. All but one 15-year-old have been bailed.
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In a statement published on Twitter, the Polish Embassy said it had been "shocked" by Mr Jozwik's death, and was liaising with Essex Police.
Ambassador Arkady Rzegocki visited The Stow, where the attack happened, to lay flowers, telling the media his country and the UK must show solidarity in the wake of the death.
"We are shocked but we are also thankful for local support since the attack," Arkady Rzegocki said, as he stood with Mr Halfon.
"Poles have been present in Britain for centuries, and I hope this never happens again."
Mr Halfon said he had been contacted by some Polish members of the community who were "incredibly scared and upset at what has happened".
"I give my heartfelt sympathy, not just to these men's families and friends, but to the whole of Harlow's wonderful Polish community," he said.
The MP added he has contacted Essex Police's chief constable to ask what measures were being taken "to protect our communities, particularly those who are ethnic minorities or migrants".
A 48-hour dispersal order has been granted to police and will be in place from 19:00 BST on Wednesday.
It means officers can order anyone to leave the area if they have reasonable grounds to believe the person is harassing residents or likely to be involved in crime or disorder.
Supt Andy Mariner said: "Over the last two months we have received reports of nuisance and anti-social behaviour in The Stow, which have affected the quality of life for residents and shop owners.
"These complaints relate to groups of youths congregating in the area, riding bikes and motorbikes and generally acting in an anti-social manner.
"In our discussions with the public we have been made aware of further incidents of anti-social behaviour that had not been previously reported to us."
Harlow has one of the highest concentrations of EU nationals from eastern Europe, roughly one in 17 residents, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
The town is in the top 30 local authorities in England and Wales with the greatest proportion of eastern European nationals.
Ivona Schulz-Nalepka, director of Harlow Polish School, said: "Some people in the Polish community are frightened about what happened.
"The is the first time something as serious as this has happened in Harlow so of course we are worried."
Jacek Gora, who runs a Polish shop in Harlow, has started collecting signatures on a Polish flag from people who knew Mr Jozwik.
"For everyone it's really strange, as he was the quietest person... He was a really good guy," Mr Gora said.
"Everyone wants to help. All the Polish shops in the town centre are doing this."
Architect Sir Terry Farrell said his designs will eliminate queues and speed up passenger transit at the West Sussex airport.
The plan for a new runway at Gatwick is one of three options being considered by the Airports Commission.
It is expected to report within days on whether Gatwick or one of two scheme at Heathrow should be approved.
Sir Terry said a second runway at Gatwick would "turbocharge" economic growth in the South East in the same way the 2012 Olympics had benefited east London.
He said: "Our proposals for Gatwick are not just for another runway but an entirely new world-class airport for London and the UK."
The men bought weapons and two Italian scooters ahead of the raid at the Mappin and Webb store in March 2015.
But police were tracking them and moved in before they could act.
Officers spotted four of the London-based gang in a reconnaissance of the Fife town a week before the planned raid.
Kevin Mulheron, 34, who was originally from Glasgow, was sentenced to seven and a half years imprisonment.
The gang used his brother's flat in Govan to finalise plans for the robbery.
He was joined by Peter Attwood, 44, his son Louie, 21, and Kai McGinley on a trip to St Andrews in late February last year.
The court heard that Peter Attwood hired a BMW in London while his son bought sledgehammers, holdalls, motorcycle helmets, jackets and waterproof trousers.
Two Piaggio scooters were ferried north having earlier been stolen in London, the jury was told.
In court, Attwood was jailed for nine years while his son was imprisoned for five years.
McGinley was also sentenced to five years.
'Caught in the act'
All seven members of the gang were arrested in St Andrews as they prepared to carry out the heist.
Paul Hogwood, 56, was jailed for 10 years.
During the trial, the court was told that Hogwood made a telephone call while on remand.
During it, he said: "If they had turned up 10 minutes later, they would have caught us right in the act."
Thomas Slayford, 20, received a five and a half year sentence and Benson Aluko was jailed for five years.
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Research from the Institute for Policy Studies found that in 2014, bonuses paid to Wall Street employees had been double the annual pay earned by all Americans who worked full-time at the federal minimum wage.
So, 167,800 Wall Street employees were paid $28.5bn (£18.2bn) in bonuses, while 1,007,000 full-time minimum wage earners made about $14bn.
One particularly eye-catching blog on the subject carried the headline: "If You Own a Pitchfork, You Will Grab It When You See This Chart".
I wondered if this statistic was also true in the UK.
The best proxy we have for the Wall Street bonus pool is the ONS figure for bonuses paid in the finance and insurance sector, the most recent figure for which was £14.4bn in the financial year 2013-14.
The Low Pay Commission says that excluding apprenticeships there were 1.3 million jobs in 2014 that paid the National Minimum Wage (NMW) of which 40% were full-time, so that's about 520,000 jobs.
Assuming everyone earned the highest level of minimum wage, the average level of the NMW for 2013-14 was £6.25.
If we assume that they worked 37.5 hours a week (that's the average number of full-time hours given in the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings for 2014) and that they work 48 weeks a year, their total earnings come to £5.9bn, which is less than half the amount paid in bonuses by the finance and insurance sector - it's about 40%.
Before you go and buy a pitchfork, remember that there are differences between this figure and the US one. For example, the bonuses in the UK finance and insurance sector were shared between more than a million employees - considerably more than on Wall Street. There were people paid very high bonuses but also people paid much more modest ones. The average overall was £13,300, but I would expect that to mask quite a range.
But the other question is, what is this an indicator for and what would make it rise or fall?
So, for example, imagine that 100,000 people earning minimum wage suddenly received a pay rise of £1 an hour. They would no longer be earning minimum wage, so the total amount paid to workers on the minimum wage would fall considerably and as a result the amount paid out in bonuses would be a higher multiple of it. But it would be hard to argue that their pay rise had increased inequality.
Nonetheless, if you were outraged by the figure from the US then you will be just as outraged that the same appears to be true in the UK.
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A statistic in March provoked outrage in the US media about inequality.
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Social services documents requested by a family member from Wokingham Borough Council went missing after the delivery driver left them outside the requester's home in August 2013.
They included details of allegations of neglect and abuse carried out by the requester's ex-partner.
The council has agreed to take action.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which carried out the investigation, said the driver had not been told about the sensitivity of the information, or that the delivery required a signature or returning to the council if no-one was available.
The council had also failed to arrange a suitable delivery time with the requester, it added.
Stephen Eckersley, ICO's head of enforcement, said a "series of errors" by the council led to a social services record being delivered "with no consideration given to its content".
The council has agreed to ensure future deliveries containing sensitive personal information are carried out securely.
It said it would also make sure its staff receive regular training in data protection and information security.
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A council breached the Data Protection Act after sensitive records relating to the care of a young child were lost, an investigation has ruled.
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The Good Morning Britain presenter will fall silent on the social media platform for 24 hours this Friday if donations reach £50,000.
Lord Sugar was one of the first to pledge money to the "Shut Piers Up" campaign - donating £5,000.
The Apprentice star described it as the "bargain of the century" in a video message posted on Twitter.
"It's going to be a wonderful day without that nutter clogging up Twitter with his nonsense for the whole day," Lord Sugar said of his frenemy.
After the fundraising campaign was announced, Twitter featured it as a news story on the site.
To which Piers responded: "I'm now a 'Twitter Moment' because @Lord_Sugar paid £5k to silence me on Twitter. I believe this is called 'irony'."
The presenter has also pledged to wear a Tottenham Hotspur football shirt if the donations reach £50,000.
Gary Lineker - who has clashed with Morgan in the past - said he would donate £2,000 if the presenter kept the shirt on all day.
Arsenal fan Piers agreed. Reluctantly.
Sure enough, Lineker's name promptly appeared on the donations page.
Gary Neville, Robbie Savage and Emma Freud were among the celebrity supporters of Piers's sacrifice.
Although Neville's donation was conditional on Piers never saying anything negative about Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger ever again...
This isn't the first time someone has been keen to silence Piers.
At the National Television Awards in January he appeared on stage gagged alongside his co-presenter Susanna Reid.
It was a reference to Ewan McGregor's refusal to share a platform with the presenter on Good Morning Britain.
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Sean Turner died in March 2012 from a brain haemorrhage after previously suffering a cardiac arrest while a patient at Bristol Children's Hospital.
His parents, Steve and Yolande Turner, from Warminster, Wiltshire, said they blamed staff shortages and lack of training on Ward 32 for his death.
The inquest at Flax Bourton continues.
Giving evidence at the start of a two-week hearing Mrs Turner said she felt Sean was moved "from the safety of intensive care" to Ward 32 too soon after his operation on 25 January 2012.
"Steve and I were not happy and asked that Sean remain in intensive care.
"We were told that Sean was not critical and was taking up a bed for a critical child."
Mrs Turner told the inquest she could see Sean was deteriorating.
"We could see it but nobody listened to us," she said.
"We asked so many times and so many staff - from ward doctors, outreach nurses, cardiac liaison nurse and the nurses - if Sean could go back to intensive care.
"We tried so hard to get him some help and kept asking the cardiac liaison nurse to speak to doctors for us.
"Nothing happened, nobody seemed to help. Nurses were concerned but they seemed too busy to give the time needed to care for Sean at the level he needed.
"Every nap he had I sat and cried as I felt so desperate and so helpless. Why would no one listen?
"All we can do now is put our faith in this court to find the truth."
Up to 10 families are believed to be taking legal action against the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust over treatment on Ward 32.
In November last year, Avon Coroner Maria Voisin recorded a narrative conclusion at the inquest of seven-year-old Luke Jenkins, who died in April 2012 following surgery.
Following the coroner's conclusion, Luke's mother Faye Valentine, 28, said she believed the hospital could have done more to save his life.
Miss Valentine, from St Mellons, near Cardiff, claimed Ward 32 was understaffed and accused doctors and nurses of ignoring her concerns.
Two more inquests involving the hospital are scheduled for February and March.
Councillors approved a multi-million pound deal for Wasps Rugby Club to buy into the Ricoh on Tuesday.
But president of Coventry Rugby Club Peter Rossborough said he was disappointed to be "omitted completely" from any discussions with the council.
"It's a bit of a blow to us but we're very resilient," he said.
Councillors said on Tuesday they supported a deal to sell the authority's 50% share in ACL - the company that runs the Ricoh Arena - to the Premiership rugby club.
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) said the Professional Game Board (PGB) had also agreed to the deal.
Wasps have confirmed Jaguar Land Rover as new sponsors.
The club, traditionally a London team, have played at Adams Park in High Wycombe for the past 12 years.
Coventry Rugby Club was formed more than 130 years ago and currently play in National League One at the Butts Park Arena in the city.
Former England international Mr Rossborough said they would "bounce back" to work closely with Wasps "to create the best possible future for both of our clubs for our city."
Nick Eastwood, Wasps chief executive, said the decision had not been taken lightly.
"The reality of our situation is clear - less than two years ago Wasps was just hours away from going out of business."
He said the club would continue to communicate with season ticket holders to explain what they will offer them to thank them for their loyalty.
He also said the move did not now mean people had to choose between Coventry Rugby Club or Wasps.
"It's about collaboration to make sure both clubs thrive and help each other, building attendances for each club and giving supporters even more rugby to enjoy.
"Wasps will work hard to become part of the community and help support the development of grassroots rugby in Coventry and Warwickshire."
In August, Coventry City announced their return to the city by playing their League One games at the 32,000-seat stadium.
Mr Eastwood said Wasps were "delighted" to see them back and added: "We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with the Sky Blues."
But Mr Rossborough said City fans were "dismayed", like he was, not to have been consulted over the Wasps move.
"It's been a massive exercise in non-democracy," he said.
About 27,000 people came to see Coventry City play their first game at the Ricoh last month but crowd numbers have fallen since then.
But Mr Rossborough said he hoped the relocation by Wasps would have a positive impact on sport in the city.
"Wasps could spark a genuine interest in not just rugby but all sport across the city," he said.
"Even with the Sky Blues being at the Ricoh, it was great that first game when 27,000 turned up, but there hasn't been huge crowds since."
The council said the move guaranteed the football club's continuing tenancy at the stadium and they would also have "primacy over match fixtures".
Sky Blues chairman Tim Fisher told BBC News on Wednesday he felt positive about the move but had not spoken to Wasps.
But more than 2,000 Wasps fans have now signed an online petition to try to keep the club in the London area.
Wycombe Wanderers chairman Andrew Howard said Wasps' departure from Adams Park would have a "significant impact" on the football club's finances.
He said it was "a shame" Wasps were "moving so far north".
Mark Huckerby, who watches Wasps with his family, said: "I've already said very, very clearly that if we are playing in Coventry next year, my Wasps shirt will be returned in the post. I won't be needing it any more. I won't be able to go, my parents won't be able to go and the family thing that we've done for 18 years will be no more."
Edward Overend, who has been going to Wasps since he was five and now has three boys, said: "How am I supposed to tell my children that Wasps have disappeared? Three hours away effectively from where I live.
"What am I supposed to tell my six-year-old who is so into the club that it was his birthday at the weekend and all he wanted was Wasps gear."
Wasps fly-half Andy Goode, from Coventry, was criticised by some fans on Twitter when he described the news as "exciting times".
But he replied: "To the Wasps fans who are upset, I understand but all will become clear and please stay with us. To the abusers you're not real fans."
It is thought the team's first game at the Ricoh Arena will be in December against either Castres or London Irish.
Welsh Pro 12 side Ospreys also share the Liberty Stadium with football Premiership side Swansea City.
The pair regularly exchanged messages while conducting their affair and regularly used Google's web-based email service Gmail.
The messages were also key to the FBI's investigation and helped it, once it had followed a trail of digital fingerprints, unearth evidence of the affair.
Initially, however, FBI investigators had no idea about the magnitude of what they were to uncover. Instead the investigation began when Tampa resident Jill Kelley told a friend in the bureau that she kept receiving emails threatening her and telling her to stop fraternising with senior US military staff.
As a favour the friend started to look into the case thinking, reports NBC, that it was a simple case of cyber-harassment.
The FBI quickly escalated the investigation because the threatening emails regularly quoted detailed information about the private movements of generals involved with the US Central and Southern Commands.
The investigation almost stalled because the email accounts from which the messages originated had been registered anonymously. However, what was not concealed was the IP (internet protocol) address of the computers from which the messages were sent.
Jacques Erasmus, a veteran computer security investigator at Webroot, said tracing an IP address was the starting point of any digital forensic investigation.
"It's definitely one of the first things you do," he said. IP addresses are essential to the running of the internet, he said, and are needed so data knows where to travel to and from.
"Once you have the IP address you run it through domain tools to get some more information," he said.
Domain tools reveal who owns a particular IP address. Because almost every IP address has been assigned to a company, government, agency or ISP (internet service provider) this helps narrow down which network the messages in this case came from.
Other tools, such as Maxmind, would help find out the physical location of a particular IP address, he said.
"It's roughly accurate," he said, "but it won't give you the street and house number."
Armed with information about where the messages originated, the FBI is believed to have drawn up a list, as far as was possible, of who was at those locations when messages were sent.
One name kept cropping up in that list - Paula Broadwell. It soon became obvious that messages were being sent from hotels where she stayed during a tour to promote the biography she wrote of Gen Petraeus.
Once it knew Ms Broadwell was the sender of the threatening messages, the FBI got a warrant that gave it covert access to the anonymous email account. This led it to uncover evidence of the affair and the "trick" Gen Petraeus and Ms Broadwell used to conceal their affair.
This trick, said Mr Erasmus, is well known in intelligence and cyber-crime circles as a way to thwart surveillance.
It involves two people knowing the login name and password for a web-based email account. Instead of sending messages, the two write draft messages that are never sent. Instead, the messages sit on the email services server and are seen when any account owner logs in.
As no messages travel, this ruse can hinder an investigation as there will be less information to go on.
The lengths that people went to in order to conceal IP addresses varied, said Mr Erasmus, by the skill of their adversary. Using a shared Gmail account was probably thought to be safe enough as neither ever thought they would be investigated by the FBI.
By contrast, he said, many cybercriminals went to extraordinary lengths to conceal IP addresses because, he said, knowing that fragment of information can be the key that cracks a case.
Often, he said, an investigation only succeeded because criminals made a single mistake that experts capitalised on. For instance, he said, the gang behind the Koobface worm were unmasked thanks to dogged digital detective work done on a single email address.
However, said Mr Erasmus, progress in any investigation was linked to the resources an organisation could commit to it.
"I suspect the FBI are going to bring more resources to bear than I ever could when trying to track someone down," he said.
The 25ft (7.6m) by 30ft bush in Ladysmith, British Columbia, is now in peak bloom and putting on quite a show.
The 115-year-old botanical wonder - known as Lady Cynthia - will carry about 4,000 spring blossoms over the next couple of weeks.
The rhododendron is often confused for a tree but is actually a shrub.
Former Ladysmith councillor and local historian Rob Johnson, 73, has convinced the town's Chamber of Commerce to promote "the marvel of nature" as an attraction.
"It's the size of a small house and is a vibrant pink colour," said Mr Johnson.
When it is not in bloom, Mr Johnson says it is "just a nice, big, green shrub".
He said he realised "we should capitalise on this" when he saw the rhododendron attracting comment online.
Local residents in the town of 8,100 have grown accustomed to the huge shrub, which has been in Ladysmith since around 1904.
The first owners of the property are said to have brought Lady Cynthia to the forestry community on a sailing ship from Scotland.
Clearly visible from Ladysmith's harbour, the rhododendron is on a hill in front of a home owned by a lawyer from Texas at 226 Kitchener Street.
Ladysmith's rhododendron is so named because it is a Cynthia hybrid of the plant.
It was first developed in Devon, England, in the mid-19th Century, but thrives in the mild climate of the Pacific Northwest.
Earlier this month, BBC bosses ordered an investigation, after Jeremy Clarkson was accused of attacking one of the other people who works on the show.
Now the BBC says that Jeremy Clarkson shouted at and then hit the man.
The boss of the BBC, Tony Hall, says that Jeremy Clarkson had to go
"I've always been a great fan of his work on Top Gear and I also believe his voice and voices like his have a place, an important place, on the BBC... but not at any price." said Lord Hall.
Many people think that the BBC was right to get rid of Jeremy Clarkson.
But lots of people support him. They say the BBC has handled the whole thing badly.
Since the whole thing happened a million people have signed a petition called "Bring Back Jeremy Clarkson".
The decision has caused a big argument.
Jeremy Clarkson is one of the most famous faces on TV in the UK and around the world .
Top Gear is shown in dozens of countries and watched worldwide by around 350 million people.
But the presenter won't be on the show again.
He should be brought back because he made Top Gear funny and it would not be the same without him.
Robert, London
I think Jeremy Clarkson should NOT be brought back because it is wrong to harm anybody in any way!
James, Blackpool
I don't think he should have been dropped because they are now thinking of stopping Top Gear!
Louis, Shropshire
I think he should get sacked because he has committed several acts that are bad.
Charlotte, Manchester
I think they made the right choice as violence is never the answer.
Olivia, London
I like Jeremy Clarkson, but he definitely did the wrong thing and should have been sacked. It's not a good example to set.
Grace, Birmingham
I have always loved the show but I would still love it even though he has gone!
Danny, Portishead
Yes and No, Jeremy does deserve to be dropped as its wrong to hit people. But the show was so funny when Jeremy was on the show.
Sophie, Surrey
I don't think he should stay on as he doesn't have a right to punch anyone. He might make it funny but it still doesn't make it right.
Farah, London
I think it is right to sack him as if you hit someone there will always be a consequence.
Thomas, Rugby
But Heathrow bosses insist that expansion there would better improve Scotland's links to global markets.
It comes as the Airports Commission is due to give its recommendation to the UK government on whether a new runway should be built at Heathrow or Gatwick.
The chief executives of both London airports are to appear at Holyrood.
The UK's need to expand its airport capacity in a bid to meet growing demand for air travel means introducing an extra runway in the south east of England.
The short-listed options include a new runway for Heathrow, a new runway for Gatwick, or the extension of an existing runway at Heathrow.
Stewart Wingate, chief executive of Gatwick Airport, believes Scotland's direct air routes would be at risk if Heathrow were to gain a monopoly by being chosen over Gatwick for expansion.
He said: "The choice boils down to competition versus monopoly. Do we want to protect and strengthen Scotland's growing network of routes by creating a competitive system across the UK, or put that at risk by creating a monopolistic mega-hub at London Heathrow?
"The Airports Commission itself found that in every future scenario, Scotland will have a larger share of the UK airports market if Gatwick expands.
"That amounts to 14% more daily scheduled international services from airports outside London and 50 million more passengers through Scotland's airports."
But John Holland-Kaye, the chief executive at Heathrow, claimed that an expansion at Gatwick would result in Scottish firms losing out to rivals based near London while a Heathrow option would "drive more value for the Scottish economy".
He said: "It would mean 16,000 new jobs in Scotland, £14bn to the Scottish economy and that's because Heathrow helps connect Scotland to more global markets that aren't serviced by Scottish airports directly."
Mr Holland-Kaye added that there are currently 15 to 20 long-haul direct routes to and from Scottish airports and a further 75 routes are covered by Heathrow.
He conceded that flights between Scotland and Heathrow had reduced but added that this was because "Heathrow is at capacity so airlines have had to make a choice between adding new flights to long-haul destinations and maintaining flights to Scotland".
Both Mr Holland-Kaye and Mr Wingate are due to appear before a cross party group on aviation at the Scottish Parliament.
The Airports Commission will deliver its final recommendation to Westminster in the coming weeks.
It follows concern about pupils' performance and damning reports into some of Wales' 22 local education authorities (LEAs).
Education Minister Leighton Andrews warned the review will not rule anything out.
But local government leaders said they were "vehemently opposed" to cutting councils out of the system.
In a statement to the Welsh assembly, Mr Andrews said: "I have given local authorities time and money to get their house in order, but the evidence is overwhelming that this has not occurred."
He said the "fragmentation" of education services with the creation of 22 councils in the mid-1990s was a factor behind a downturn in performance by pupils a decade later.
The Welsh government launched a programme of reform in education following disappointing results from an international comparison of school standards in 2009.
LEAs have been grouped into four regional consortia that have been charged with a responsibility to improve schools.
They have been up and running since September, but Mr Andrews told the Senedd chamber that "overall progress is, to put it mildly, patchy".
Options for the review, which will report by the end of March next year, include:
Mr Andrews warned it could go as far as a proposal to remove all education functions from local government and create regional school boards accountable to the Welsh government, possibly without local council representation.
Since introducing a new inspection process in 2010, the schools inspectorate Estyn has not given any authority its top "excellent" rating.
Two of them - Anglesey and Blaenau Gwent - have been put in special measures.
An earlier report in March 2011 said a review should be conducted in autumn 2013 to decide whether structural changes were needed, but Mr Andrews said he was not prepared to wait until then.
'Lost patience'
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said it was "vehemently opposed" to removing education from councils and that recently-introduced changes need time to bed in.
WLGA leader Bob Wellington said: "This will fundamentally damage the principle of local democratic control and accountability, and undermine the ability of local communities to shape the educational future of young people."
Mr Wellington, who is also Labour leader of Torfaen council, said councils had met many of Mr Andrews' demands, including passing on more funding to schools and grouping schools into performance bands.
Opposition parties said the review was an admission of failure by the Labour minister.
Conservative education spokeswoman Angela Burns said: "Do we honestly think that centralisation is the best course of action?"
She added: "We have massive problems of underperformance in our education system, but we need a level-headed evidence-based approach to driving up standards not a bull in a china shop."
Plaid Cymru's Simon Thomas said education must not be a used as a "wedge to drive through local government reform".
"It is widely agreed that educational standards across Wales need to be improved and I am glad that the minister has opened this debate," he said.
Liberal Democrat AM Aled Roberts said: "Rather than providing stability and direction, today's decision throws a question mark over the whole future of education in Wales."
Philip Dixon, director of teaching union ATL Cymru, said the minister had "clearly lost patience" with local government.
"Some of the possibilities outlined are very radical indeed and could see local authorities lose any say over the delivery of education," he said.
The NAHT Cymru union said apart from rare exceptions, schools had not had a positive experience of the consortium system.
Union director Anna Brychan said: "Clearly the minister is hearing the same messages."
She welcomed the review, but said there needed to be local accountability for education standards and delivery.
NUT Wales secretary David Evans said teachers had to be consulted as part of the review.
He said: "There has been a lack of consistency from local authorities and the rush to instigate regional consortia working has not helped and left many schools in limbo."
The Bacc was introduced about a decade ago to offer a more rounded education.
Researchers at Cardiff University found students were 15% less likely to achieve a first or 2:1 degree.
The Welsh government said the Bacc will be more rigorous from September 2015, and it will address many findings in the report, which it commissioned.
The Welsh Bacc brings together traditional qualifications like GCSEs and A-levels with the Bacc "core," comprised of a range of modules including team enterprise activities, community participation and Wales' place in Europe and the world.
There are currently more than 78,000 learners registered on Welsh Baccalaureate courses studying at more than 250 schools and other institutions.
"Participation and progress are kind of connected," Prof Chris Taylor from Cardiff University, a co-author of the report, told BBC Radio Wales.
"On the one hand you'll find that students are significantly more likely to get into university with the Welsh Baccalaureate. Crucially, they are more likely to get into a leading Russell Group university, which is very good news.
"However that seems to come at the expense then in terms of their successes of degree outcomes.
"Although we find significant results, it does appear that students without the Welsh Baccalaureate are more likely to get a first or a 2:1."
He added: "The number of students who are not likely to get a good degree isn't as significantly as large as we first thought."
Prof Taylor said the Welsh Bacc's success in terms of getting students into university "far outweighs" the disadvantages found in terms of their results.
But he said: "We do make the recommendation that it could be more challenging. It could be more tailored to the particular needs of the students in terms of their choice of subjects at university they're going to study.
"We also recognise there needs to be greater support for the qualification because it has some added value.
"There are clearly some benefits to some students in terms of essay writing skills, in terms of time management and independent learning that most other qualifications don't offer.
"But it doesn't translate in terms of degree results and that may be because it's at the expense of subject knowledge which is missing."
"On the one hand it's a core qualification that every student should undertake and it provides a set of core skills that everybody like employers, labour markets and higher education universities can understand is there but at the same time it's got to be challenging, got to be tailored to the individual needs of students.
"That challenge is very difficult for sixth forms and FE colleges."
Last year, a study by the Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) also suggested undergraduates completing the Welsh Bacc fare less well at university than those who have not.
The Welsh government said the research by Cardiff University was commissioned to help with the development of the Welsh Bacc.
A spokesperson added: "Our independent review of qualifications addressed many of the findings in the WISERD report, and we are already taking action to deliver the review's recommendations regarding the Welsh Baccalaureate.
"As a result, we are working towards delivering a more rigorous Welsh Baccalaureate to be taught from September 2015.
"This will provide further assurance to higher education institutions about the ability of Welsh Baccalaureate learners and will help university admissions tutors make offers to prospective learners."
The crash happened in Stalbridge at about 15:20 BST.
The rider, a 37-year-old man from Blandford, died at the scene from his injuries. The driver of the tractor, registered to a Stalbridge firm, was unhurt.
Dorset Police said the road was closed for investigation work but has now reopened.
The government today introduced its Data Retention Bill in a surprise move.
The bill would give law enforcement agencies access to two years' worth of customer "metadata" without a warrant.
The government says the laws could be used to target illicit downloading of movies or music, and make it easier to identify suspected paedophiles.
"Access to metadata plays a central role in almost every counter-terrorism, counter-espionage, cyber security, organised crime investigation," Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull told parliament.
He said criminal investigations had been hampered by authorities' lack of access to metadata.
The bill does not clearly define metadata but the government said it would not include the content of calls or emails, web browsing history or website addresses.
At a press conference, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said the scheme would help crack down on online copyright infringement.
"Illegal downloads, piracy, cyber crimes, cyber security, all these matters - our ability to investigate them is absolutely pinned to our ability to retrieve and use metadata," the commissioner said.
The bill is the second part of the government's national security reforms. On Wednesday, the Senate passed its "foreign fighters" bill that will allow the government to suspend passports at short notice and make it an offence to travel to certain areas without a valid reason.
There are concerns the bill would impinge on people's privacy but Attorney-General George Brandis said at the press conference the bill was not about granting security agencies greater powers.
"It is about consistent laws about metadata," he said. Mr Turnbull added that the bill did not aim to create new classes of data to be retained.
The Greens, Liberal Democrat Senator David Leyonhjelm and independent Senator Nick Xenophon are not expected to support the bill. The Labor party wants more community consultation before the bill is passed.
Meanwhile, Mr Brandis has sought to address concern that a new law carrying a prison term for those revealing information about certain secret operations - known as "special intelligence operations" - could hit journalists.
The attorney-general said the move was aimed at "a Snowden-type situation", referring to the US National Security Agency whistleblower who leaked classified information.
The law has sparked major concern from Australian media outlets.
Opposition leader Bill Shorten on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, saying the legislation had the "potential to impinge upon public interest reporting on national security issues''.
Mr Brandis said a safeguard would be added giving the attorney-general of the day a veto over prosecutions of journalists.
"It's a very powerful, practical safeguard for a minister, who is a practising politician, to assume personal responsibility for authorising the prosecution of a journalist,'' he said.
Ben Broadbent, the deputy governor for monetary policy at the Bank of England, told the BBC that some of Mr Trump's economic plans could help the UK.
Mr Trump has promised to cut taxes and boost US infrastructure spending, but also erect trade barriers.
"Financial markets have taken a relatively optimistic view so far of what it means," he told BBC Breakfast.
"You've seen business confidence rise, particularly in the US, you've seen financial markets get more optimistic, and I think that has had some impact on us," he said.
However, he added that it was too early to know what the full effect of Mr Trump's policies would be.
Global markets were boosted by the so-called "Trump effect" after investors bet on Mr Trump's policies of infrastructure spending and lower corporate taxation coming to fruition and boosting the US economy.
That economic plan would probably help global growth, Mr Broadbent said.
The US Dow Jones share index broke through the 20,000 point barrier in late January for the first time ever as investor confidence built.
However, US markets have eased back this week amid growing uncertainty.
Mr Broadbent sounded a note of caution about some of Mr Trump's policies.
"There are other things the US administration has said that people may worry more about, or have done in some markets," he said.
"And I should say overall that... there's a lot we have yet to see about the detailed plans, including those for fiscal policy, for government spending and taxes and so forth, so we'll have to wait and see.
"But so far, at the margin, yes, it's been positive for global sentiment, and for that reason, and to that extent, for us as well."
Power powered a superb 25-yard free-kick into the top corner before two goals in as many minutes.
James' shot found the roof of the net, and seconds after the restart Jacobs raced through to score.
Ollie Banks scored a late consolation for the visitors but the Latics avoided a repeat of the midweek comeback by Sheffield United to stay fifth.
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell told BBC Radio Manchester:
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"We showed real hunger from the first minute.
"Everyone was hurting on Tuesday night but the players hurt the most.
"You could could see from the first minute, Tuesday night, it hurt our players and disappointed our players and they responded in the right way with a real positive performance today."
He said the Curia - the administrative pinnacle of the Roman Catholic Church - was suffering from 15 "ailments", which he wanted cured in the New Year.
Pope Francis - the first Latin American pontiff - also criticised "those who look obsessively at their own image".
He has demanded reform of the Curia.
Addressing the Curia on Monday, Pope Francis said some power-hungry clerics were guilty of "cold-bloodedly killing the reputation of their own colleagues and brothers".
He compared the performance of the church's civil servants to that of an orchestra playing "out of tune" because they fail to collaborate and have no team spirit.
Clearly Pope Francis is meeting opposition among the nearly 3,000 strong staff of the Italian-dominated Curia.
He had never worked in Rome before his election as pope last year, and - as a Vatican outsider from the other end of the world - is clearly frustrated by the slow-moving and creaking Vatican bureaucracy.
He is trying to reform it with the help of a new group of cardinal advisers he has called in from every continent to draw up a new Vatican constitution.
Before his election in March 2013, the pontiff encountered internal opposition to some of the reforms he wants to carry out.
He has set up a series of specialist bodies to fight corruption and poor management, appointing a team of advisers.
The Pope also launched a clean-up of the Vatican Bank, officially known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR). The IOR has long had a poor reputation, after a succession of scandals.
Pope Francis has also suggested that the Curia's power - concentrated in Rome for centuries - could be diluted to some extent by giving Catholic bishops around the world a bigger say in Church doctrine.
The pontiff himself did not work in the Curia before he was elected.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that there was silence at the end of the Pope's speech.
Samira Lupidi, 24, of the Undercliffe area of Bradford, was arrested following the deaths of Jasmine Weaver, 1, and Evelyn Lupidi, 3, on Tuesday.
Post-mortem examinations found they both died from multiple stab wounds.
Ms Lupidi was remanded in custody after a hearing at Bradford Magistrates' Court and is due at Bradford Crown Court on 23 November.
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The newly-created copy of The Illustrated Chronicles of Ivan the Terrible was given to the university by the Russian Consul General.
The original 10-volume work was created between 1568 and 1576, but was separated and lost for 400 years.
The text, which includes 17,000 illustrations, will be a key resources for history staff and students.
The entire book has only recently been recovered, compiled in order and reproduced by a charity called the Society of Ancient Literature Lovers.
Also known as the Tsar Book, the text deals with biblical history along with the histories of Rome, Byzantium and Russia.
Ivan the Terrible ruled at a time when Russia grew in size and international importance, but his reign was a turbulent time. When he died in 1584 without a legitimate successor, the country was plunged into a chaotic period known as the Time of Troubles.
Edinburgh University is home to the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, which was founded in 2010 to build on a history of academic contacts and exchange of ideas between Scotland and Russia.
Russian Consul General to Edinburgh Andrey Pritsepov said it was a "great privilege" to present the text to the university's principal Prof Sir Timothy O'Shea.
He said: "For hundreds of years, the Chronicles were scattered in the remote places of Russia, and only a few people were able to study these invaluable pieces.
"Only now has the text been recovered, providing a glimpse through the eyes of a medieval man of the turbulent currents of our distant history."
Prof O'Shea added: "I am very pleased to accept this great text on behalf of the University. It will provide an excellent opportunity for scholars who seek to gain more detailed knowledge of the circumstances that led to this fascinating period of Russia's past."
The firm claims Project Valerie is the world's first portable laptop of its kind.
Two additional screens slide out from the central display via an automatic mechanism.
One analyst praised the design, noting that gamers were increasingly splashing out on high-end laptops.
All three screens are 17in (43cm) in size.
When folded up and closed, the laptop is 1.5in thick. Razer said this was comparable to many standard gaming laptops, which tend to be chunkier than home and office devices.
"We thought, 'This is crazy, can we do this?'," a company spokesman told the BBC.
"The answer was: 'Yeah, we are crazy enough, we can do it'."
Project Valerie is still a prototype and Razer has not yet published a possible release date or price.
Gamers commonly used more than one monitor these days, said gaming analyst Jonathan Wagstaff at Context.
"Although it is unusual, it doesn't surprise me," he told the BBC.
"It is something people will buy - I think it will sell."
He added that increasing numbers of gamers - particularly those who travel to e-sports tournaments - are in the market for portable computers with high specs.
But Mr Wagstaff added that industry data he had reviewed suggested widening interest in such machines from architectural and graphic design firms, as well.
"That is interesting, that is traditionally the territory of Apple's products," he said.
Project Valerie was just one of several gaming laptops shown off at CES.
Computer maker Acer unveiled a large, 21in model called the Predator 21X, which costs $8,999 (£7,250).
Consumer electronics giant Samsung also launched its first gaming laptop - called Samsung Notebook Odyssey - in 17in and 15in models.
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For years, online retailers have been learning about their consumers by analysing their internet traffic but it's been impossible for bricks-and-mortar retailers to track shopping patterns in the same way.
Until now that is. New technology is giving retailers a clearer picture of what consumers are doing in the physical world by turning mobile phones into virtual tracking devices.
Retailers and other businesses with high foot traffic - such as pubs, cafes and restaurants - are increasingly offering free access to wi-fi networks and asking consumers to grant access to their digital data in return.
Retailers are then collecting, collating and analysing data about shoppers' gender, age and browsing habits.
It's an exciting development for retailers but one that some experts say consumers should think twice about.
Many shoppers might not be aware that logging on to free wi-fi is giving the corporate world access to their data, says Australian retail and consumer behaviour expert Brian Walker.
There is a "Big Brother" element to the technology, he admits.
"There could be some ramifications once shoppers understand this. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of revolt as the realisation hits."
Consumer advocacy group Choice warns that digital data could be the new battlefield between shoppers and retailers.
"Most people don't realise that such services that are advertised for free can cost you a lot in terms of being targeted with advertising," says Choice's Tom Godfrey.
The largest and oldest retail property in Australia, the Queen Victoria Building in the heart of Sydney, has carried free wi-fi networks since September 2012 to attract more customers.
Research shows free wi-fi keeps shoppers in the centre longer and helps management build a rich customer database for marketing purposes.
The latest retailer to follow the trend is Australian shopping centre juggernaut Westfield, which also owns retail malls in the US and UK. Westfield has just rolled out free wi-fi networks across 21 shopping malls in Australia. As shoppers log in, Westfield will collect data.
Beginning later this year, it will use that data to deliver personalised offers to shoppers' mobile phones as they walk in and out of stores, says John Batistich, director of marketing for Scentre Group (Westfield Shopping Centres).
"We want to use the data to send out compelling news, offers, fashion content and information on events from later this year via a partnership with Optus," Mr Batistich told the BBC.
Mr Batistich says Westfield completed two shopping mall trials recently, which tracked between 2,500 and 3,500 wi-fi sessions a day.
For now, the technology doesn't let Westfield track where or how much money shoppers spend but as people increasingly use their mobile phones to make purchases, that level of detail will also be available, he says.
The technology was developed by Australian company SkyFii. Chief Executive Officer Wayne Arthur says the free wi-fi-data swap is a fair exchange and shoppers can unsubscribe from the network at any time.
"We'll be adding value to the consumer when they give up their information, which will provide them with a far more personalised shopping experience," he says.
Mr Walker says businesses are rushing to gather data and learn how to interpret it.
"From a branding perspective, this move provides enormous value to Westfield and others, giving them the ability to create far more tailored marketing than ever before."
Data collection and analysis also opens up the potential for new revenue streams, he points out.
"Whether Westfield on-sells the data is another matter entirely. This could well be a very concerted effort to make more money."
So how can consumers protect their data? Technology expert Rob Livingstone says everybody should check the default privacy and location settings on their mobile devices and apps and change them if necessary.
"The bottom line is, if it's free, you are the product and your privacy is the currency."
Labour said 160,000 people would lose out as a result of changes to Personal Independence Payments (PIPs).
The disability minister said new rules to clarify eligibility criteria for payments would ensure those most in need received maximum support.
The action follows two court judgements on how benefits claims are scored.
Labour said the government was not listening to criticism of how payments are assessed.
The Liberal Democrats said the government was using court losses "as an excuse to severely restrict disability benefits".
Disability rights campaigners said the changes were one of a number of cuts and changes faced by disabled people and those in ill health.
Two tribunal rulings came in late 2016. One found someone who needed support at home to take medication or monitor a health condition like diabetes would score the same on the benefits criteria as people who needed help with a therapy such as kidney dialysis.
A second ruling said people who struggled to travel independently because of conditions such as anxiety scored the same as someone who was, for example, blind.
The government said the combined effects of the rulings would have added £3.7bn to the benefits bill by 2023.
The benefit payments are aimed at helping people cope with the extra costs of living with ill health or disability and are made according to the points a person scores in an assessment of their needs.
The replacement of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), which was partly self-assessed, with PIPs, where eligibility is tested by a company, has been controversial.
Eligibility for PIPs is reviewed regularly and the qualifying criteria are also stricter.
In a written statement to the House of Commons on Thursday, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work Penny Mordaunt said the government monitored how effective the payment was in supporting those facing the greatest barriers to leading independent lives.
She said that PIPs were designed to give "non-physical conditions... the same recognition as physical ones".
But she added: "Now, over two thirds of PIP claimants with mental health conditions get the higher Daily Living award, worth £82.30 per week, compared to 22% under DLA."
She said amendments to the criteria would "provide greater clarity", saying: "This will not result in any claimants seeing a reduction in the amount of PIP previously awarded by DWP (the Department of Work and Pensions)."
But Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, Debbie Abrahams, said: "Instead of listening to the court's criticisms of Personal Independence Payment assessments and correcting these injustices, the government has instead decided to undermine the legal basis of the rulings."
It was an "unprecedented attempt" to subvert a tribunal judgement, she said.
She said Labour would fight changes to "strip" entitlements from more than 160,000 disabled people - describing them as a "step too far, even for this Tory government".
A Lib Dem work and pensions spokeswoman said it was "utterly outrageous" the government was using the ruling to "make matters worse" for disabled people.
"What makes things even worse is that they have sneaked this announcement out under the cover of [Thursday's] by-elections," she said.
Campaigners said the government should instead embrace the tribunal's findings.
Philip Connolly from Disability Rights UK said the changes showed "escalating levels of unfairness" in the government's approach to a benefit it had created.
People with "very serious conditions" including dementia, learning difficulties and diabetes would be hit, he said.
This change was one of several benefit cuts disabled people faced, he said.
Campaigners are due to stage a protest in Westminster on Wednesday about a £29-a-week cut to employment support payments.
A DWP spokeswoman said the government was "committed to ensuring our welfare system is a strong safety net for those who need it.
"That's why we spend around £50bn a year to support people with disabilities and health conditions."
The Birmingham City supporter was injured as he filmed police outside Villa Park ahead of a derby clash in September.
The West Midlands Police officer said he struck the man amid a volatile situation and feared for his safety.
He will be retrained in first aid and the use of force, the police watchdog said.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) conducted an investigation after the supporter, described as Mr A, claimed he was the victim of excessive force.
The unidentified officer, known as PC K, was with a unit responsible for moving Blues fans to Villa Park before the game, where a high level of disorder was expected.
Mr A was among a large crowd escorted to the ground before they were stopped by police near some gates, behind which where Aston Villa fans.
He said the crowd was amicable and he began filming them on his iPhone, which had emitted a bright light.
He said he was then struck by something on his left hand and dropped his phone.
He was later diagnosed with an impacted fracture.
Evidence from PC K and British Transport Police staff said the crowd was aggressive with "a definite intention to be violent".
PC K said he was temporarily blinded by a light close to his face. He said Blues fans had used "flashbang" grenades earlier and thought the light was a similar device.
He said he raised his baton and used enough force "to get that light out of my eyes".
The watchdog concluded the officer had a case to answer for misconduct over the force he used, but no criminal offence had taken place.
West Midlands Police will give the officer training, the IPCC said.
The hosts dominated the opening half an hour with Rob Hall, Carl Baker and Josh Murphy all shooting wide.
But it was Leeds who went ahead when Baker brought down Charlie Taylor with Chris Wood converting the penalty, before Taylor made it 2-0.
Samir Carruthers was shown a late red card for a tackle on Stuart Dallas after Simon Church had cut the lead.
Hall had the first notable chance for MK Dons when he smartly beat two Leeds defenders before striking off target.
Murphy, on loan from Norwich, then had two carbon-copy chances for the Dons when he cut inside from the left-wing and curled just wide when attempting to find the far corner of Marco Silvestri's net, before the Leeds goalkeeper denied the same player at the near post.
Karl Robinson's side then had their best chance to go ahead as Hall's shot was tipped onto the woodwork by Silverstri but Sam Gallagher somehow smashed the rebound over.
That miss was to prove costly as Leeds immediately went down the other end and won a penalty when Baker clumsily brought down Taylor and Wood sent David Martin the wrong way to score his fourth goal in six games.
Taylor's run and shot then doubled Leeds' advantage, before MK Dons saw their own appeals for a penalty for handball waved away by referee David Webb.
A low-key second half was sparked into life when Church converted the dangerous Murphy's cross for his first goal for the club.
Despite Carruthers' dismissal, it was the hosts who pushed for an equaliser at the end, but Leeds held firm for their second Championship win of the season.
MK Dons manager Karl Robinson: "The refereeing was atrocious.
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"We've played here and we've been the better team. Someone has to say something.
"He should have to tell you why he sent Samir Carruthers off. Then two and-a-half minutes later (Luke) Murphy has a scissor challenge on the 'D', and there's no booking, and it's his eighth challenge of the game.
"We ask for consistency, and integrity, which they give us all the time, but the performance was way below par today I think from the referee."
Leeds United manager Uwe Rosler: "I felt the way we managed the first 15-20 minutes of the second half was very impressive. We went for another goal and we could have easily scored another goal in that period.
"Then the panic button came into play, even with a man more.
"All credit to MK Dons, they made some tactical changes, they put Carl Baker in the right-back position, and he put ball after ball in our box. We found it difficult to get the ball down and play, and use our man advantage.
"You need to find a way to win, even when you're not playing over 90 minutes prettily, and that's what we did."
Aftab Ahmed denied making threats to kill but was found guilty at Newcastle Magistrates' Court.
The court heard the threat occurred during a phone conversation with David Robinson-Young on 21 April.
Ahmed, 45, and of Winchcombe Place, Newcastle, was handed a 12 month community order.
He was also ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work in community and told to pay £1,660 court costs, in addition to a £60 victim surcharge.
The court was told that Mr Robinson-Young, 62, who was standing for the constituency of Newcastle East in May's general election, was feeling extremely concerned about his personal safety.
Someone called Mr Khan had called him after receiving a UKIP leaflet, wanting to talk about the Middle East.
The conversation became heated and the threat was made.
Ahmed was later arrested after the number was traced to his parents' home.
Sentencing him, Judge Stephen Earl said: "I'm still not convinced if I know who you are. A character I can most align you with is Walter Mitty."
He added that he did not think the remark had been serious and that it displayed a "lack of mature thought".
"I am satisfied that the threat that was made from your point of view was a throw away remark at the end of an agitated phone call," he said.
There were no reported injuries or deaths on the Turkish side.
Turkey deployed at least 150 troops into northern Iraq last year, but it has been the subject of dispute between Turkey and the Iraqi government.
Turkey says its troops are only there to train Iraqi forces, but Iraq says Turkey is violating its sovereignty.
Turkey later acknowledged that there had been a "miscommunication" over the troop deployment.
The Bashiqa camp lies near Mosul, a city controlled by Islamic State (IS) since June 2014.
Turkey is part of the US-led coalition against IS, which has taken control of large parts of Syria and Iraq.
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Stuart Lancaster was the obsessive planner who failed to see this coming, the workaholic who gave his all but did not have enough of what ultimately would prove decisive.
When he became England head coach almost four years ago, it was not meant to end as it did - out of a home World Cup a mere three matches in, his final game a meaningless victory over minnows Uruguay with a mish-mash team in a tournament that had already moved on.
Because Lancaster, whatever else he lacked, had a vision: a team loved by its supporters, a team feared by its opponents, a success on the pitch driven by the culture off it.
He looked as straight-laced as the PE teacher he used to be. White polo shirt, buzz-cut, navy tracksuit bottoms, trainers. In the black diary habitually carried under one arm came the funkier stuff.
There was the emotional: giving each of his players a letter written by their parents and added to by coaches, teachers and friends, telling them what it meant to see them playing for England.
There was the inspirational: talks from Gary Neville and Sir Bradley Wiggins, visits from British Army veterans and coaching sessions with junior players.
At the games it was like never before. Stopping the team coach in Twickenham's West car-park so the players walked to the ground through a tunnel of their own supporters.
A plaque next to each peg in the changing-room inscribed with the names of England legends who had played the same position. A huge St George's Cross in the corridor leading to the pitch that was made up of texts and tweets from supporters across the country.
It was all lovely stuff. For a while it seemed to matter. Then the more prosaic sporting truths kicked in.
On the ceiling of England's changing-room hung a large disc picked out with five illuminated words: teamwork, respect, enjoyment, discipline, sportsmanship.
No mention of speed, or precision, or tactics, let alone winning.
Lancaster believed all of that would follow. His favourite book, and one he kept on his bedside table, was written by former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh: The Score Takes Care Of Itself.
For Walsh, blessed with the extraordinary talents of quarterback Joe Montana, wide receiver Jerry Rice and running back Roger Craig, it did. For Lancaster it proved a cruel illusion.
Culture? Before the World Cup he lost Manu Tuilagi and Dylan Hartley to acts of violence, one off the pitch and one one it. His team never really replaced them.
After the tournament it became just as chaotic as it had in 2011: the storm over Sam Burgess' inclusion and then emigration, revelations of player discord, exposure of cracks and criticism in what was supposed to be a rock-solid unit.
Unknown himself to the wider sporting public when handed the reins, Lancaster banked early credit by giving similarly callow and unfamiliar players a chance too.
His first squad contained eight uncapped players, including Ben Morgan, Joe Marler and Owen Farrell. Later he would pick George Ford, Joe Launchbury and Anthony Watson at a similarly young age.
Maybe any coach would have done. Ford was the 2011 world junior player of the year, hardly a bolter. Of Lancaster's first squad of 32 only 12 made it to the World Cup, one of the reasons why his stated aim in 2012 to have a team by 2015 containing 600 caps fell so short.
More damagingly, each Six Nations brought a defeat and every autumn at least one more. When the big reverses came - the 30-3 thrashing in Cardiff in 2013, losing yet again to the Springboks in 2014 to make it five defeats on the bounce - the usually imperturbable coach was taken aback by the pressure that came with them.
He would go for midnight runs around the streets of England's training base in Bagshot to clear his head, but the closer the World Cup came, the more muddied his thinking became.
England ended this year's Six Nations with 18 tries, nine more than anyone else. Despite that, the key men in that system and then the attacking philosophy that bound them was jettisoned when Wales and Australia came calling.
Lancaster had been seen as the antitheses of predecessor Martin Johnson: one a big name but never before a coach, the other an outsider who had coached his way up from the grassroots.
It was inaccurate and ultimately misleading. Lancaster was both an RFU insider (he had been head of elite player development as long ago as 2008) and desperately short of experience at the very highest level. Never before had he been to a match in South Africa, at the Millennium Stadium nor the Stade de France.
The hope was he could both learn on the job and surround himself with experts. Initially he appeared to have done just that. Andy Farrell brought an aura and enviable playing record from rugby league and a promising start at Saracens, Mike Catt enormous World Cup experience, Graham Rowntree the endorsement of the previous regime and Lions.
Compared to those he was up against, it was still raw material. Lancaster had one season in the Premiership with Leeds behind him. Warren Gatland came to the World Cup having coached Connacht, Ireland, Wasps and Waikato and with two Grand Slams and a World Cup semi-final to his name with Wales.
Australia's Michael Cheika won the Heineken Cup with Leinster and the Super Rugby title with the Waratahs. New Zealand's Steve Hansen had coached at Canterbury and Wales and been assistant All Blacks coach for seven years.
His overall record in charge is not in itself damning. He won four of his first five matches; Johnson lost five of his first seven, while Sir Clive Woodward's first win did not come until his sixth game in charge.
But he lost the big matches - a Grand Slam decider, a World Cup must-win match - and he lost repeatedly at what was supposed to be Fortress Twickenham, eight times to Woodward's four.
His strenuous efforts with the media (shaking hands before interviews, phoning journalists to explain key decisions, inviting others to team dinners) were both appreciated and advantageous, perhaps until the end protecting him a little from more critical scrutiny.
His attitude towards previous regimes and players was harder to justify. There had been issues with the team he inherited, but at least they won the Six Nations title and reached a World Cup quarter-final, albeit from a group that contained Argentina and Scotland rather than Australia and Wales.
And insisting that he was instilling new pride in wearing the white jersey when that team included kamikaze patriots like Lewis Moody and Jonny Wilkinson was misjudged at best.
Was it all his fault? While he got key selections wrong - 18 combinations of fly-half and centres, still no-one sure of his preferred option - those who appointed an international novice can also be questioned.
Lancaster had hoped to be given a second chance, as Woodward was after World Cup disappointment in 1999 and Graham Henry after the All Blacks were stunned by France in the quarter-finals of 2007.
But his case was different. New Zealand's defeat was such a shock because of their track record for the preceding four years had been so outstanding. They suffered one defeat, to an inspired team. Henry had already coached Auckland, the Blues, Wales and the Lions. Woodward had been in the job just two years; his team lost away in Paris, not twice in the group stages on home soil.
England had a slogan under Lancaster: "Hundreds before you. Thousands around you. Millions behind you."
It was both laudable and true. In the end it mattered less than 15 Welshmen three points ahead. By the time the World Cup ended, England long forgotten, the gap between his side and the best in the world had become a chasm.
Their headline pay offer is worth 1% - but some want big rises to even out inequalities between different colleges.
The row comes amid continuing debate over the impact of a huge shake-up in the college system.
Overall budgets have fallen, colleges have merged and there are far fewer part time students.
National pay bargaining has been re-introduced for college lecturers for the first time in decades.
But according to the EIS Further Education Lecturers' Association (FELA) there are still widespread disparities between pay at different colleges.
The union argues staff at some colleges are receiving £7,000 a year less than others doing the same job somewhere else.
The union wants all unpromoted lecturers to earn up to £40,386, amounting to an uplift of between 3.3% and 25% across the best and worst-paying colleges.
The EIS FELA will decide what steps to take next at a conference later this month. But general secretary Larry Flanagan believes industrial action is likely unless progress is made.
He said "Scotland's college lecturers deserve a fair pay award.
"It is simply unacceptable for the management side to drag the pay round for almost a year, only to then offer exactly the same cash-terms percentage pay rise that was previously proposed and rejected. It is also extremely disappointing that the final offer reinforces the pay imbalance across the sector.
"The pay gap is already extremely wide, amounting to almost a £7,000 difference in some cases, for lecturers doing the same job in different colleges.
"This is not what Scotland's further education lecturers hoped for or expected from a return to national bargaining, and the management across the sector must now rethink both their negotiation tactics and their unrealistic pay offer. The Scottish government should also now take action to ensure a satisfactory outcome to this process."
The threat of a national pay dispute comes at a time when the whole college sector is under scrutiny.
Colleges have gone through a huge shake up in recent years. A series of mergers to create what have been dubbed "regional supercolleges" led to 1,000 job losses.
Earlier this week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon argued colleges were now "fit for the future" when she opened City of Glasgow College's new riverside campus.
But critics contend that there is little evidence to suggest the mergers have actually benefited students. Colleges now focus primarily on recognised qualifications, mostly for young people, but there are far fewer part time places.
Earlier this month, members of the governing body at Glasgow Clyde College were fired by Education Secretary Angela Constance. There had been a longstanding row at the college where the principal was suspended in February.
There have also been concerns about the pay offs at some colleges. A particular concern involves the former Coatbridge College where there have been allegations of collusion.
John Doyle, the college's former principal, and John Gray, the former chairman of the college board, defended themselves at Holyrood's Public Audit Committee on Wednesday.
Mr Doyle, who earned £116,000 a year by the end of his service, received 30 months' pay in total. Mr Doyle and six others shared half of a £1.7m severance pot between them.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she was personally "appalled" by the pay-offs, which Auditor General Caroline Gardner described as one of the most serious failures in governance she has ever encountered.
Mr Doyle told MSPs his reputation had been unfairly trashed.
An audience of 7.2 million tuned in to watch head judge Len Goodman's final appearance on the show after 12 years.
But the Queen's Christmas message - shown on both BBC and ITV - had the most viewers for the third year running, with an audience of 7.7m.
The BBC had eight of the day's top 10 most-watched programmes.
Radio DJ Melvin Odoom - the first contestant to leave this season of Strictly Come Dancing - won the show's Christmas special, which had a festive movies theme.
The pre-recorded show drew to a close on a number involving the contestants and judges dancing to "Auld Len's Syne" in a tribute to Goodman.
Other celebrities who took part included chef Ainsley Harriott and pop star Frankie Bridge.
But the Queen's speech drew the largest audience, up from 7.2m viewers in 2015.
She missed her annual Christmas Day visit to church in Sandringham due to a heavy cold, but in the pre-recorded speech she paid tribute to the UK's Olympians and Paralympians and spoke of her admiration for "unsung heroes".
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The third most-watched programme was the first instalment of The Great Christmas Bake Off, which was the final outing for the tent on the BBC before the programme moves - without judge Mary Berry and presenters Mel and Sue - to Channel 4.
Returning contestants Cathryn Dresser, Ali Imdad and Norman Calder took on a number of festive challenges, watched by 6.3m viewers.
But it was 2011 runner-up Mary-Anne Boermans who took the Christmas crown after an impressive show-stopper.
The second episode is on BBC One on Boxing Day at 19:00 GMT.
In the battle of the soaps, EastEnders came out top, but Coronation Street and Emmerdale also made the top 10.
The overnight TV ratings refer only to live television viewing and do not include online or catch-up audiences.
The Scot, 30, begins his title defence against Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik in the first round at 13:00 BST.
Murray, who is fit following a hip injury, hopes to match fellow Briton Fred Perry as a three-time champion.
British number one Johanna Konta is also in action on day one, along with Venus Williams and Rafael Nadal.
Defending women's champion Serena Williams is absent as she awaits the birth of her first child.
The weather forecast for the early days of the tournament suggests little or no rain but play is guaranteed on Centre Court thanks to the roof, which has been in place since 2009.
Court One will be even more open to the elements than usual this year as work has begun on installing a roof there in time for the 2019 Championships.
The earliest places in the famous queue for tickets were taken 48 hours before play starts by those prepared to camp out.
Approaching half a million spectators will pass through the gates of the All England Club across the 13 days of play - and they will consume 28,000kg of strawberries and 10,000 litres of cream along the way.
And after 647 matches, the two singles champions will walk away with record prize money of £2.2m - double the winners' cheques of just six years ago - while first-round losers will take home £35,000.
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Much of the focus will again fall on Murray, who hopes at add to his victories of 2013 and 2016, having overcome the worst of a hip injury he suffered in the build-up.
He will carry the burden of knowing his number one ranking is under threat from Nadal, Wawrinka and Novak Djokovic, as well as trying to retain his title.
"I don't feel like I'm coming in trying to defend something," said Murray.
"I'm going out there trying to win Wimbledon again. I want to try to win the competition.
"Maybe it adds a little bit of extra pressure. Maybe a few more nerves, especially at this Slam with the way the scheduling is, that you're the first one out there on Centre Court.
"You feel like you're opening up the tournament a little bit, and that adds a few more nerves.
"But I feel OK. I've felt fairly calm the last few days, considering how I've been feeling."
Konta, 26, has her highest ever seeding at a Grand Slam at sixth, but she too is on the mend after injuring her spine in a heavy fall at Eastbourne on Thursday.
"It's much better," she said. "Definitely it was medically the right decision to not continue playing in Eastbourne, to give my body that chance to recover.
"It was a bit of a traumatic fall on the body."
While both Murray and Konta have serious ambitions for the next two weeks, Switzerland's seven-time champion Roger Federer and Czech players Karolina Pliskova and Petra Kvitova are the favourites for the men's and women's titles.
Federer, 35, is trying to win a record eighth Wimbledon title and his first since 2012, and has enjoyed a superb 2017 that began with victory at the Australian Open - his 18th Grand Slam title.
He skipped the entire clay-court season, taking a 10-week break that leaves him fresh for the challenge of Wimbledon.
"That was the decision for me - no compromise really," said Federer, who would surpass Pete Sampras with an eighth title.
"To give myself the best chance for the grass, so I would never look back and have regrets once I came here."
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Kvitova, 27, is playing only the third tournament back since suffering a career-threatening injury to her hand during a knife attack at her home in December.
She will follow Murray onto Centre Court when she takes on Sweden's Johanna Larsson, with Swiss fifth seed Stan Wawrinka then up against Russia's Daniil Medvedev.
Five-time champion Venus Williams opens play on Court One against Belgian Elise Mertens.
Nadal is fully fit and looks like a title contender once again, having last won Wimbledon in 2010, and the Spaniard follows Williams in his match against Australian John Millman.
Konta completes the line-up on Wimbledon's second show court when she plays Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan.
Britain has 12 players involved in the singles draws - four through their ranking, seven offered wildcards and one, world number 855 Alex Ward, having come through qualifying.
Jamie Murray and Brazil's Bruno Soares are seeded third for the men's doubles, while Gordon Reid, Alfie Hewett and Jordanne Whiley defend their wheelchair titles.
Seven Britons are in singles action on day one: Murray, Konta, Heather Watson, Naomi Broady, Laura Robson, Aljaz Bedene and Cameron Norrie.
Alex Ward and compatriot Kyle Edmund are sure to carry plenty of support when they meet on Tuesday.
A further incident was reported following an appeal on Wednesday, after a woman was assaulted twice in three days..
Officers said the suspect approached lone women in the afternoons of 4 July and 7 July, off Oystermouth Road, and touched them inappropriately.
He is described as Asian, about 5ft 5ins (165cm) and in his teens.
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The Briton, 28, suffered a season-ending Achilles injury after just missing out on selection for last summer's Olympic Games in Rio.
"Missing Rio was absolutely devastating," she said. "It's the worst thing I've had to go through.
"It's always going to be in the back of my head but that feeling drives me on."
Having missed the Olympics, the 2014 Commonwealth champion put her energies into winning the World Triathlon Series, only to have her hopes dashed by injury.
She makes her comeback in the first race of the new season, with qualification for the 2018 Commonwealth Games one of her priorities.
Having been based in Morzine in the French Alps with coach Darren Smith, she spent her first winter at home for eight years after switching to the British Triathlon set-up in Loughborough under head coach Ben Bright.
"It was probably my most challenging winter," said Stimpson, who won last year in Abu Dhabi.
"It was definitely a slower progression than I'm used to but things have finally started to come together and I'm excited to get out there and start the season off."
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Olympic bronze medallist Vicky Holland will sit out the opening race of the season along with Non Stanford, who finished fourth in Rio. Fellow Olympian Helen Jenkins will miss the entire season as she is pregnant.
Lucy Hall, Jess Learmonth, Sophie Coldwell and Georgia Taylor-Brown will all be seeking to make an impression this year.
Of the men's team, double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee is focusing on longer ironman events, but will defend his world series title in Leeds, his home city, on 10-11 June.
Younger brother Jonny, the Olympic silver medallist, will focus on becoming world champion, having been pipped to the title by Mario Mola in dramatic circumstances last year. He is expected to make his series debut in the Gold Coast in April.
With Commonwealth places up for grabs, Gordon Benson, the third member of the Olympic men's team in Rio, Adam Bowden, Tom Bishop, Marc Austin and Gordon Sheldon will seek to make their mark on the eight-race series.
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However, Mr Kogan will only revive the firm's online retail business, not its physical stores.
Dick Smith, which employs about 2,500 staff in Australia and New Zealand, went into receivership in January.
No details were available about the future of the retailer's staff, a Kogan.com spokesperson told the BBC.
Dick Smith Holdings has some 360 stores across Australia and New Zealand and receivers Ferrier Hodgson said there would be "a transition period" during the closure of its bricks and mortar network .
Kogan.com, Australia's biggest online-only retailer, will operate the new online business from 1 June 2016. It did not disclose how much it paid for the company.
Receivers Ferrier Hodgson said last month that Dick Smith Holdings owed 390m Australian dollars ($271m; £187m) to creditors.
The founder and chief executive of Kogan.com said he was "thrilled" to be able to keep the Dick Smith brand alive and to keep it "Aussie owned and run".
"I remember as a kid always visiting Dick Smith to look for parts to upgrade my computer," Mr Kogan said.
"There is a strong history of passion in the Dick Smith community for how technology can improve our lives, and we look forward to helping make it more affordable and accessible for all."
The receivers said they had received "a significant number of expressions of interest" for the business, including from local and overseas buyers, but that that none of the bids had been acceptable.
"The offers were either significantly below liquidation values or highly conditional or both," said Ferrier Hodgson's James Stewart.
Several big brand names in Australia, such as Harvey Norman, had said they were not interested in buying any parts of Dick Smith.
The electronics giant was founded in 1968 by entrepreneur Dick Smith - who was at the time a young electronics technician. He started the company as a car radio installation business in Sydney.
It was later taken over by Australian supermarket giant Woolworths, which expanded the company quickly.
Anchorage Capital Partners then bought the firm in 2012 and it was listed in Australia in December 2013. Its shares were halted from trade earlier this year.
Hamilton beat Vettel by 0.186 seconds for his second pole in two races, while the German edged the second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas by 0.001secs.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen made it the same top four on the grid as at the season-opening race in Australia.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fifth but 1.355secs off the pace.
The Australian's team-mate Max Verstappen was 19th after an engine problem.
China has underlined the impression created at the Australian Grand Prix that Mercedes and Ferrari are incredibly closely matched at the start of a season where huge regulation change has produced faster and more demanding cars.
And as in Melbourne, it was Briton Hamilton who made the difference, pulling out the stops when it mattered in the final qualifying session as it appeared Ferrari might have the edge.
Vettel was fastest in final practice and in the first part of qualifying, and Raikkonen of Finland topped the second session.
But 32-year-old Hamilton produced the first lap under one minute 32 seconds all weekend at the start of the top 10 shootout, beating Vettel by 0.184secs despite a slide at Turn 11.
Hamilton and Vettel both lowered their times by a little over 0.2secs on their final runs and the Mercedes man kept the advantage.
It was Hamilton's sixth pole in a row - dating back to last year's US Grand Prix - and his sixth in China, where his record of four wins is better than any other driver.
However, he will surely know he has his work cut out to beat Ferrari in the race after Vettel's impressive victory in Australia two weeks ago.
The race could well be wet, with overnight rain predicted and cooler temperatures than qualifying, which was dry and bright.
Governing body the FIA has taken steps to ensure the cars can run after farcical scenes on Friday, when practice was badly disrupted because the medical helicopter could not operate.
A wet race would be a complete unknown for the drivers - not only did they get hardly any running on Friday but they have not driven these new cars in the wet before this weekend, and Pirelli has designed new wet tyres for this season after complaints the previous ones were not effective enough.
The first session of qualifying ended with a heavy crash for Sauber driver Antonio Giovinazzi.
The Italian lost control coming out of the last corner in the closing minutes of the session, dashing the hopes of Force India's Esteban Ocon, Haas' Romain Grosjean and Renault's Jolyon Palmer of improving and getting into the second session.
Giovinazzi, ironically, qualified 15th - fast enough to get into Q2, but was unable to take part because of the damage to his car.
He was on a lap that was on target to beat team-mate Marcus Ericsson, but even so ended up less than 0.1secs behind the Swede.
After qualifying Englishman Palmer and Grosjean of Switzerland were each handed five-place grid penalties by race stewards for not slowing sufficiently under the waved yellows for the crash.
Palmer's team-mate Nico Hulkenberg was an impressive seventh, and just 0.5secs behind the Red Bull, which uses the same engine, underlining the progress Renault have made over the winter. The German was just pipped for sixth by Williams' Brazilian driver Felipe Massa.
"The Ferrari looked so fast and we knew it was going to be close, and we knew we had to pull out all the stops and I managed to do a very, very perfect lap," Hamilton said.
"It started off not as good as the first lap, maybe because of tyre temperature, but it got better and better. It felt strong.
"Coming into the last corner knowing I was up a couple of tenths is always nervous because you want to gain some - but you don't want to lose everything you've gained.
"It's exciting for me because we're really fighting with the guys and that is what racing is all about. It pushes you to raise the bar every time you go out, which I love."
Vettel said: "It was a nice session. I enjoyed it a lot. I was very happy with the lap I had. Last corner I lost a little bit, maybe chickened on to the brakes a bit too soon - but we just had enough margin to make it on to the front row."
The 25-year-old wicketkeeper, who was overlooked for England's squad to face Pakistan in the first Test at Lord's, was struck by the ball while trying to stop a Luis Reece delivery.
He still scored Lancashire's fastest-ever T20 fifty, off just 20 balls.
Lancashire said the injury "will be managed conservatively".
The county have not put a timetable on his likely return to action.
Lancashire play Derbyshire on Wednesday in the T20 Blast and Buttler could play just as a batsman, with Alex Davies stepping in as wicketkeeper.
Buttler hit four sixes and seven fours in his 57 as the holders chased down their 199-run victory target in 18.1 overs at New Road.
His match-winning innings came three days after an unbeaten 73 in England's T20 win over Sri Lanka at the Ageas Bowl.
The pitches at this year's finals in Gabon came in for heavy criticism, with the state of the turf in Port Gentil blamed by then-Ghana coach Avram Grant as responsible for causing injuries to players.
"That is a lesson for us to make sure we have better control of better management in future," Caf secretary general Hicham El Amrani told BBC Sport.
"We are taking it very seriously.
"One way to do things is to be in touch with the Local Organising Committee way in advance, even before a pitch has been laid, and to provide them with our knowledge in terms of selection of suppliers.
From a football perspective, we are also very happy. We saw beautiful games
"Of course we would have been happier if certain things had been better managed - and I'm not going to go back on the everlasting issue of the pitch in Port Gentil.
"But overall we are very happy with the tournament and we congratulate the host nation for their tremendous efforts."
The pitches aside, and Caf denied they resulted in any injuries, this year's finals were largely successful with the focus on the entertaining football rather than any off-field incident.
Gabon was chosen at short notice to stage the finals in April 2015, after the tournament was removed from original hosts Libya the previous year because of civil conflict in the country.
El Amrani says that talks have already started about preparing the pitches for the 2019 Nations Cup in Cameroon, whose team won this year's finals.
Having staged the Women's Africa Cup of Nations last year, some pitches have been laid long in advance - in stark contrast to the turf in the new stadiums in both Oyem and Port Gentil.
"We just need to make sure we keep offering the best conditions but obviously taking into account the environment in which we operate," he added.
"From a football perspective, we are also very happy. We saw beautiful games."
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Gabon was supposed to be the first men's Nations Cup to have fan parks - but El Amrani says this was cancelled after the violence that followed August's disputed presidential elections.
Three people died in street protests according to the government, while the opposition party claimed the death toll was far higher.
"Because of some delays that we encountered following some turbulences after the presidential elections, we decided it would be more effective not to deliver the fan parks," the Moroccan explained.
"We had to focus our energy and effort on delivering the stadiums, which was obviously more important."
Caf plans to have fan parks in Cameroon, where they were a feature of last year's hugely-popular women's tournament.
"We cannot have them for the Women's Cup of Nations in Cameroon and then not for the men's one," he said.
"I think we need them anyway, not only for Cameroon but also for other teams. People in Cameroon are so crazy about football that we might need stadiums for 200,000 people, which we obviously cannot have."
On a separate note, El Amrani denied that Caf had removed this year's Under-17 finals from Madagascar after the country's FA head, Ahmad Ahmad, chose to challenge long-standing ruler Issa Hayatou in March's presidential elections.
"It is not true but if the media wants to find links or comment on that, I will not get into that area," he said.
"When decisions are being made to grant a tournament, take it away, delay or whatever decision is being made, it is a collective decision that is made based on concrete factual reports."
With the exception of Ahmad himself, all others on the Caf Executive Committee decided to withdraw the tournament from Madagascar - citing the 'reports of inspection teams' - and move the May event to Gabon.
De Gea, 24, has not played for United this season as boss Louis van Gaal felt he could not focus with interest from Real Madrid, who failed to sign him on deadline-day.
He played his first competitive game of the season for Spain against Macedonia in a Euro 2016 qualifier on Tuesday.
"I felt good," said De Gea.
He added: "I really wanted to play. Now I need to keep working and see if I have some good fortune at my club as well."
Argentina international Sergio Romero has been in goal for all of United's games this season.
De Gea had been poised to join Madrid on deadline day but the move collapsed as the necessary paperwork was not submitted in time.
He has since been included in United's Champions League squad.
De Gea added: "My future will be the same as now: remain calm, keep working and improving. In concrete terms, enjoy my football. I am happy."
United host Liverpool at Old Trafford in the Premier League in their first game back following the international break, on Saturday.
The blast at Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Ellesmere Port on 14 November 2013 caused more than £20m of damage. No-one was injured.
Operators Essar Oil UK Ltd pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
As well as the fine the firm was also ordered to pay almost £58,000 legal costs.
The Health and Safety Executive, which brought the prosecution, said problems started during the start-up of its main distillation unit when extremely flammable hydrocarbons were allowed to enter an unignited furnace.
The heat from another furnace nearby triggered the explosion which destroyed the furnace and started a number of fires, said the HSE.
It was reported to the European Union as a major accident under schedule 7 of the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations 1999.
An HSE investigation found Essar Oil UK Ltd failed to take all measures necessary to prevent or mitigate a major accident with three key failings:
• A safety critical valve was ordered and installed incorrectly and Essar failed to correctly validate its operation
• It failed to adequately assess the installation of a "safety critical trip" in missing it had a by-pass line
• Essar's policy was to isolate main fuel lines to the furnace but hydrocarbons entered the furnace via a secondary fuel line which had not been isolated when shut down
An Essar spokesman said it accepted responsibility from the outset for the incident and that "measures were put in place to ensure it could not happen again".
HSE principal inspector Joanne Eccles said after sentencing: "The industry should take notice of this case, there were no injuries but mistakes were made and could have been prevented."
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Official data released by councils to the BBC, Press Association and ITN shows some areas have seen the voter register increase by more than 10%.
There was a surge in interest after the election was called on 18 April, with 150,000 applications made on that day.
A total of 46.9 million people will be able to vote, up from 45.8m in December 2016.
It is higher than the last general election in 2015, when there were 46.4m registered voters.
In Leeds North West, there are 68,152 eligible voters, 16% up on the total at the end of the year.
Leeds Central was also one of the biggest risers, with 13%.
In 46 of the UK's 650 constituencies, the number of people on the register has fallen since December 2016.
The biggest drop was in Banbury, where there are 6% fewer voters.
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People were given until 22 May to register to vote.
The Electoral Commission had warned that about seven million people across Britain who were eligible to vote were not registered at the time the election was called.
This included 30% of under 34s and 28% of people who had moved home in the past year and not updated their details.
The 150,364 people who applied to register on 18 April was the biggest total recorded for a single day since the EU referendum campaign in 2016.
A spokesman for the Electoral Commission, said: "We work hard to make sure everyone who is eligible has the opportunity to register to vote and knows how to do so. We are pleased to see high numbers of people applying to register to vote before the deadline for the general election on 8 June."
He jumped in the cab and drove off down the tracks.
The unusual joyrider, whose getaway options were clearly limited, fled less than two stations down the line before he was caught and arrested on Sunday.
Police said the 36-year-old, who has confessed to stealing the tram, was an ex-employee of the transport company.
As investigations continued on Monday, they said there was no obvious motive and they do not believe it was an act of revenge against his former bosses.
The man stole the vehicle, operated by Wiener Linien transport company, at Rodaun station in the city's south-west, and took it for a trip along route number 60.
A police officer said the rogue driver made an announcement, telling passengers they should not be on board as it was a special ride, according to Austrian news site Die Presse.
However, the trip down memory lane was cut short, when the company realised something was amiss and shut down the power.
When the real driver returned from his bathroom break, he found an empty space where his tram once was.
He told police he had locked the vehicle and it is unclear how the joyrider was able to take control.
Local media said the former member of staff left his job years ago and had long returned his activation key, which is used to set the trams trundling down the lines.
He was released from police custody but has been charged with theft of a public vehicle.
The investigation is continuing.
The party did not contest the first assembly election that year.
In those days it strongly opposed the very existence of the institution.
And at the general election a couple of years later, UKIP got 12,552 votes across Wales, just 0.9%. It lost all 25 of its deposits.
Spool forward 14 years to the spring of 2015, and UKIP had risen to third in the popular vote in Wales, ahead of Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats.
It got 204,330 votes at the general election - 13.6% - and came second in six constituencies.
That result followed UKIP's success at the European election in 2014 where it finished second in Wales, beaten by Labour by just 4,349 votes.
The rise of the party has brought with it significant growing pains.
The build-up to this election has been beset by arguments over candidate selection.
UKIP originally planned to have a central committee pick its regional candidates, the ones who will have the best chance of getting elected.
That angered some long-serving UKIP Wales members.
The matter was belatedly put to a vote of the membership, but only after some fierce criticism of UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill.
A petition calling for his resignation was organised in February, amid claims he had failed to show leadership on the selection issue.
Several in the party in Wales felt candidates who were not part of UKIP Wales were being "parachuted in" to a contest where UKIP stood a good chance.
Kevin Mahoney, a councillor in the Vale of Glamorgan, left the party in protest against former Conservative MPs Neil Hamilton and Mark Reckless, and former aide to Nigel Farage Alexandra Phillips, seeking selection.
Behind the scenes, Mr Farage and Mr Gill strongly opposed Mr Hamilton's candidacy.
The argument also brought to the fore bitterness among some members in Wales over the fact Mr Gill was appointed as leader rather than elected.
It is now likely a leadership election will happen after 5 May.
The increased support UKIP has seen in Wales since 1999 has not yet been significantly rewarded in terms of seats.
Nathan Gill is an MEP for Wales but UKIP has no Welsh MPs or AMs.
And it only has one representative in Welsh local government: Gethin James in Ceredigion, who had been elected as an independent.
Because of the proportional representation element of the assembly system, UKIP now has a good chance of picking up some seats to reflect its level of support.
But with UKIP's raison d'etre - getting the UK out of the EU - being put to the vote just weeks after the assembly election, attention in Wales is likely to then switch to the question of what a UKIP group of assembly members is for.
Taiwan's foreign minister announced the relaxing of all 11 measures, including a freeze on hiring Filipino workers.
The Philippine coast guard shot fisherman Hung Shih-cheng on 9 May.
On Wednesday Manila recommended homicide charges against eight coast guards who admitted firing weapons.
"The government of the Republic of China [Taiwan] announces that the sanction against the Philippines is removed immediately after the Filipino side has displayed apology and goodwill in written statements and action," AFP news agency quoted Taiwan's foreign ministry as saying on Thursday.
Mr Hung, 65, was shot in waters which both sides say lie within their 200-nautical-mile from shore exclusive economic zone.
The Philippines initially said the shooting - which sparked a serious diplomatic row - was an act of self-defence, but has now concluded that its coast guard officers used excessive force.
The Philippine president sent special envoy Amadeo Perez to visit the fisherman's family in southern Taiwan on Thursday.
"I have been authorised by President Benigno Simeon C Aquino III to personally convey the president and the Filipino people's deep regret and apology to the family of Mr Hung Shih-cheng over the unfortunate loss of life of their beloved one," said Mr Perez.
The family has accepted the apology and reached an agreement with Manila on compensation for their loss.
The two sides have begun fishing talks in which they both agreed to not use force in dealing with each other's fishermen, reports the BBC's Cindy Sui from Taipei.
They also agreed to inform each other about the arrests of the other's fishermen and to set up a system for handling detentions and release of fishing crews.
Taiwan was angered by what it considered to be a slow and insincere response from the Philippines, our correspondent adds.
Its hiring freeze had prevented around 10,000 Filipino migrant workers from obtaining work permits.
Taiwan's government on Thursday said it hoped to restore good relations with the Philippines.
But it asked Manila to prosecute the responsible officers in a timely manner and schedule a next round of talks on fishing rights to prevent similar incidents from happening again, our correspondent says.
The 25-year-old former Plymouth forward plays in the fifth tier for Camborne but has been an integral part of Cornwall's County Championship success.
"He's the full package," Dawe told BBC Radio Cornwall. "He's extremely skilful, knowledgeable and fit but most of all he puts his head where it hurts.
"If I was given the vote I'd give him world player of the year," he joked.
Matavesi's brothers Josh and Joel will both play in the top tier next season, having signed for Newcastle.
He is expected to feature as Cornwall host Hertfordshire in Camborne on Saturday in a game which will see them reach the Twickenham final for a fifth year running if they avoid defeat.
"I've got a massive amount of respect for him," added Dawe. "He could be a Premiership player, couldn't he?
"What the selectors and coaches have done is nothing short of a miracle really, to get these bunch of players together and produce a really homed unit."
Richard Clarke, who is the Archbishop of Armagh, made the comments at a service held at St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast for the anniversary of the start of WW1.
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Secretary of State Theresa Villiers attended.
Prince Andrew represented the Queen.
Dr Clarke said the occasion prompted "sadness at the loss of so much life, young and old," "pride in the unselfish actions of many people," "horror at the inhumanity that always accompanies war" and "determination that if this Great War was most certainly not a 'war to end all wars', nevertheless you and I will strive to bring God's peace and light into God's world."
During the service, five candles were lit, each representing a year of the war.
A list of names of Ireland's war dead was carried down from the altar and laid next to a candle, which was then lit by Prince Andrew.
Dean John Mann of the cathedral said: "One of the things we're very conscious of is how easy it is for countries to move in to a war situation and how difficult it is to move out of that.
"We're very conscious of what's happening in the world today."
Northern Ireland also marked the 100th anniversary of World War One with a gun salute over Belfast Lough.
A single cannon shot was fired from Grey Point Fort in County Down at 13:00 BST.
The Belfast Lough gun salute was attended by Environment Minister Mark H Durkan, from the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and Jeffery Donaldson from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
Grey Point Fort is a former coastal defence site that overlooks the entrance to the lough.
Situated at Helen's Bay, the artillery site was completed in 1907 to defend the city from naval attack.
The fort has been preserved as a visitor attraction and features a pair of 23ft long bore guns, each of which has a 6in diameter.
Soldiers across Northern Ireland have also attended services and vigils to mark the centenary.
At the headquarters of 38 (Irish) Brigade in Lisburn, County Antrim, members of the armed forces and their families attended a service during which the lights went out one by one until only a candle remained to light the stained glass window. It, too, was extinguished for a two-minutes' silence.
Similar services were held at Palace Barracks in Holywood, County Down, and at Aldergrove, County Antrim, where soldiers and aircrew were joined by air force cadets currently on their summer camp.
Personnel also marked the centenary at Army reserve centres around Northern Ireland.
Speaking at a commemoration in Glasgow Cathedral, First Minister Peter Robinson said: "The key themes of remembrance and reconciliation are relevant to all of us in Northern Ireland as we continue to build a peaceful and shared society.
"It has often been said, but we must never forget the supreme sacrifice of so many to build a better future for us."
Historians have estimated that more than 200,000 Irish-born soldiers served in the British Army and Navy from 1914 to 1918.
The names of 49,400 Irish casualties of WW1 are listed on the Republic of Ireland's National War Memorial at Islandbridge, Dublin.
Many soldiers from Northern Ireland fought for the 36th (Ulster) Division.
The division was one of the few divisions to make significant gains on the first day on the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.
However, it came at a heavy price, with the division suffering 5,500 men killed, wounded or missing in two days of fighting.
The Ulster Tower, a memorial to the men of the 36th Division, is situated in Thiepval in northern France. World War One was one of the costliest conflicts in history with fighting continuing until 11 November 1918.
A candlelit vigil was held later on Monday evening at Belfast City Hall.
Homes and businesses in the Lustrum Beck area were among those worst affected by floods in 2012.
The Environment Agency has issued the grant to protect the 183 properties from future floods.
A spokesman for Stockton Council said it was important they tried their "utmost" to ensure there was no repeat of 2012.
The work will include raising the banks at Browns Bridge, improving the flow of the beck downstream to prevent blockages and improvements at Durham Road bridge to allow water to pass more rapidly and easily.
Councillor David Rose, the council's cabinet member for the environment, said: "We know how devastating flood damage is and want to do our utmost to ensure there is not a repeat of the Autumn 2012 floods in the Lustrum Beck area.
"We have worked tirelessly with the Environment Agency in recent years to find a way of securing funding to allow us to build the much needed flood defences so I'm delighted that this scheme is now set to progress."
Stockton Council has also invested £100,000 in emergency flood barriers and pumps to provide "more on-the-ground flood support" across the borough.
The council and the Environment Agency will start work in the summer.
The robber stole a three-figure sum from the Niddrie Licensed Grocers in Niddrie Mill Drive during the incident, which occurred around 13:10 on Thursday.
Police have appealed for three customers who were in the shop moments before the robbery to get in touch.
The suspect has been described as a white man aged around 30.
He is around 5ft 10in - 6ft tall (1.8m) and of gaunt appearance.
The man was wearing a black hooded top, a black scarf covering his mouth, black jogging trousers and white trainers.
He was carrying a black and white polythene shopping bag and fled the shop on foot.
Police have said he used a handgun during the incident.
Det Sgt Robbie Wallace said: "While the shopkeeper was not physically harmed, this was a very distressing experience for her.
"We are keen to trace the suspect as quickly as possible, and ask that anyone with information should contact police immediately."
The Nanjing Number One Secondary School has rolled out a scheme where student can "borrow" marks to top up low scores so they can pass their tests.
The school said it was aimed at reducing the stress of taking exams.
The scheme has become a talking point in China which has seen rising concern over an education system still reliant on high-pressure examinations.
According to media reports this week, the school introduced the scheme in November last year for 49 students in an elite programme aimed at grooming them for entry into US colleges.
They can "borrow" marks from the bank for certain subjects deemed to require more effort in studying, such as languages, biology, chemistry and history.
So far 13 students have taken part in the scheme.
They incur a debt when they "borrow" marks, and are expected to repay it with marks scored in subsequent tests.
To encourage students to improve in their subjects, they can be charged "interest" if they do not repay their loans quickly enough.
And just like in a real bank, the students will be given "credit scores", based on their behaviour records, school attendance and fulfilment of classroom cleaning duties.
Students can also be "blacklisted" from borrowing if they fail to repay their loans on time.
If teachers approve, they can even ask a classmate to pay their loans on their behalf.
"I missed some classes because I was sick, and I didn't do well in a geography test. But the 'marks bank' gave me a chance to save the situation," one student named Xiaozhu told Yangzi Evening Paper.
The school did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for an interview.
But director Huang Kan said in interviews with Chinese media that the scheme was aimed at changing China's exam culture and "exploring a new evaluation system".
"In past exams, scores have become everything, and the pressure on students has become immense," she said.
"The purpose of an examination is to measure, give feedback, correct, and elevate standards - and not to make things difficult, punish or damage a student's enthusiasm."
She added that the scheme would encourage students to have "greater responsibility and a greater aptitude for learning".
China's education system has often been criticised as being too rigid and reliant on tests such as the infamously gruelling Gaokao national exam.
A 2014 study by a Beijing-based non-profit education group found that most cases of student suicides could be attributed to pressure from school tests.
The "marks bank" has generated intense interest in Chinese media and online.
While some believe it is a good move, others have questioned whether it may inadvertently send the wrong message to students.
"Exams may lose their rigour. If you don't do well in a test you can just take it again. But life often doesn't give you second chances," said one Weibo user.
Beijing News quoted an education expert as saying that the scheme was a "double-edged sword" as some students may take exams less seriously and end up developing "inertia".
But Ms Huang has defended the idea.
"The 'marks bank' is not a charitable institution aimed at giving out marks to lazy students, rather it is a nurturing cradle aimed at giving opportunities to diligent students," she told Xiandai Kuaibao.
Reporting by the BBC's Tessa Wong
UK ministers want Carwyn Jones to hold a referendum on devolving control over 10p in the pound of income tax.
But he appears to have dropped his insistence that a referendum is needed.
The UK government said it was "right" that Mr Jones was "now willing to embrace income tax powers for Wales".
Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats have welcomed the change of stance, but said it should have come sooner.
However, the first minister maintained his insistence that income tax powers should not be devolved until a new funding deal is struck with Westminster.
In a speech in London on Friday he said he will "always consider proposals providing they are fair to Wales".
"I am instinctively pro-devolution and I can see the merits, in principle, in different parts of our Union being able to decide on the balance between levels of taxation, including those on personal incomes, and the level of resources for public services.
"But I have been absolutely clear that until we have a fair funding settlement it is not in the best interests of Wales to have income tax devolved."
The first minister added: "Having the flexibility to set taxes to respond to the needs of Wales and the preferences of Welsh citizens within a fair funding model is a logical next step."
Mr Jones has previously said that a referendum must be held before powers over income tax are given to the Welsh government.
But before the speech he told BBC Wales: "It's beginning to look increasingly strange of course that Scotland is getting a raft of powers - way beyond what Wales would get - without a referendum.
"I've no doubt ... if income tax-varying powers were offered to Northern Ireland there wouldn't be a referendum there, but in Wales we have to have a referendum."
Referendums should be reserved for "major constitutional issues and not for a bit of power here and there", he added.
Asked if Welsh voters should expect a referendum soon, he said: "We are not at that stage. We know the first thing to do is to consider a financial settlement that's fair to Wales and then consider what happens next."
In response, a Wales Office spokesman said: "We note with interest the first minister's comments that a referendum is not needed before income tax is devolved.
"This echoes the views of some others in the emerging debate around more accountable government in Wales."
Plaid Cymru welcomed "any late conversion" of Mr Jones to its position against the need for a referendum on income tax devolution.
Party leader Leanne Wood said: "It's a shame that previously both Labour and the Conservatives together have insisted on putting obstacles in the way of progress on Welsh income tax."
Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said it "would have been nice" if the first minister had possessed the "strength of character to speak up a little bit earlier".
"I welcome his change of heart, but his challenge now is to convince his party of the same argument," she added.
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Mr Jones should concentrate his efforts on "the significant problems in the public services he runs, not least within his NHS".
Public spending per head is higher in Wales than in England, but Welsh politicians claim the so-called Barnett formula used by the UK Treasury to allocate resources is too generous to Scotland and Northern Ireland, and underfunds Wales by as much as £300m a year.
The UK government is planning a guaranteed minimum level for the Welsh government's annual grant - expected to be between 13% and 16% higher than English public spending levels.
Opponents say Carwyn Jones has changed his tune.
But the first minister's aides say the opposition is making mischief. This is a change in tone, not policy, they say.
Mr Jones is sticking to his line that Wales needs a guarantee it won't lose out before receiving these tax powers.
However, whereas in the past Labour has stressed the risks of tax devolution, Mr Jones has now laid out a path towards making it happen, providing a deal can be struck on the size of the Welsh budget.
A patient infected in Dallas, Texas, is likely to have been infected by sexual contact, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told the BBC.
The person had not travelled to infected areas but their partner had returned from Venezuela.
Zika is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
It is spreading through the Americas and the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the disease linked to the virus a global public health emergency.
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The American Red Cross has meanwhile urged prospective blood donors returning from Zika-hit countries to wait at least 28 days before donating their blood.
The "self-deferral" should apply to people returning from Mexico, the Caribbean or Central or South America during the past four weeks, the Red Cross said in a statement.
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Meanwhile, Brazil - the country worst hit by the outbreak - has revealed it is investigating 3,670 suspected cases of microcephaly in babies linked to the Zika virus.
A total of 404 cases have so far been confirmed - up from 270 last week - while 709 cases have been discarded, the country's health ministry said.
The ministry also said 76 infant deaths from microcephaly, either during pregnancy or just after birth, were suspected.
Analysis: James Gallagher, health editor, BBC News website
The main way Zika is spread is by mosquitoes.
But if Zika can also spread through sex, then it poses a risk to every country not just those with the Aedes mosquito.
So far, authorities have said sexual transmission is rare, but last year they would have said any case of Zika was rare, too.
This explosive outbreak has caught the world by surprise and many key questions remain unanswered.
Exactly how common or rare is sexual transmission? Can it be spread by the 80% of people who show no symptoms? How long does the virus persist in semen? When is it safe to have sex again?
What should men do after visiting affected countries? Can women also spread the virus through sex?
However, this is not a new HIV/Aids moment. HIV infection is incurable and dramatically shortens lives without daily medication.
Zika infections are short, mild and pose a significant threat only in pregnancy.
Texas has seen seven other Zika cases all related to foreign travel.
But Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director for CDC, said this was the first case it had dealt with involving a "non-traveller".
"We don't believe this was spread through mosquito bites, but we do believe it was spread through a sexual contact."
A statement issued by the CDC said the best way to avoid Zika virus infection was "to prevent mosquito bites and to avoid exposure to semen from someone who has been exposed to Zika".
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said the latest development would be discussed at its daily meeting later on Wednesday.
"We certainly understand the concern," he told Reuters news agency. "This needs to be investigated to understand the conditions and how often or likely sexual transmission is, and whether or not other body fluids are implicated".
It is not the first known case of sexual transmission in the US. A doctor from Colorado returning from Africa in 2008 is thought to have passed on the infection to his wife. There was a case in 2013 in French Polynesia, according to the CDC website.
The CDC recommends that pregnant women avoid travel to more than two dozen countries with Zika outbreaks, mostly in the Caribbean and Latin America, including Venezuela.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said her government was focused on eradicating the mosquito that transmits the virus and has pledged considerable funds to do so.
European countries were warned on Wednesday that they too needed to make preparations once the Aedes mosquitoes become active on the continent during the spring and summer months.
WHO's Europe Director Zsuzsanna Jakab urged countries to act in a co-ordinated way to control the mosquitoes, inform people about the risks, keep a check on cases, step up research to understand the disease and develop vaccines.
Police Scotland said they were called to the scene, near the Murcar roundabout, at about 09:15 on Saturday morning.
A spokesman said the drivers of both vehicles had been taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The road was closed northbound for several hours to allow officers to deal with the aftermath of the crash.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
Sgt Steve Manson said: "A southbound grey Vauxhall Astra motor car and a northbound silver BMW 320 motor car collided head-on resulting in the drivers, and only occupants, of both vehicles having to be cut free by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
"Both were taken to hospital with serious injuries."
She was arrested in Fivemiletown last month after the firm told police it had concerns about its accounts.
The 41-year-old is accused of fraud by abuse of position, concealing criminal property and making, having and supplying articles for use in fraud.
She will appear at Dungannon Magistrates' Court on 1 July.
Lynne Sandford, 41, from Dorking, Surrey, has argued for her son Michael, 20, to be returned home after he was placed on suicide watch in prison.
He is due to stand trial in Las Vegas in August and denies several charges.
Ms Sandford said her son has OCD, severe depression and Asperger's syndrome.
It is alleged Mr Sandford tried to snatch a policeman's gun during a rally at a Las Vegas casino on 18 June. Officials claimed he said his plan was "to shoot and kill Donald Trump".
He denied charges of disrupting government business and official functions and being an illegal alien in possession of a gun.
Ms Sandford said: "If found guilty of the charges, Michael could face up to 30 years in prison in the USA.
"He is now shackled and handcuffed in a US mainstream prison, and has been put on suicide watch."
Ms Sandford has set up a crowdfunding campaign on the Crowd Justice website to raise money for his legal team.
She said her son was "totally unable" to deal with the "threats and stresses" of being in a US mainstream prison.
Ms Sandford added: "Because of his severe mental health problems, his family, who love him very much, want him returned to the UK.
"We want him to serve his sentence in a safe institution for vulnerable people, where he can receive appropriate help."
Michael Sandford is due to attend a court hearing on 11 August and stand trial on 22 August.
It means prisoners could serve the last quarter of their sentence under a system called home detention curfew.
The subordinate legislation was approved at the second time of asking.
The committee refused to do so last week after Legal Affairs Minister Annabelle Ewing was unable to provide statistics to support the proposals.
Conservative MSP Margaret Mitchell, the committee's convenor, had accused Ms Ewing of being "totally unprepared" when she appeared before the committee last week.
Ms Ewing returned to the committee on Tuesday morning with the statistics that had been requested, and the committee agreed to approve the changes.
Home detention curfews have been used in Scotland in 2006 and allow prisoners, mainly on shorter sentences, to serve up to a quarter of their sentence - for a maximum of six months and a minimum of two weeks - on licence in the community, while wearing an electronic tag.
The licence requires prisoners to remain at a particular place for a set period each day. Prisoners who fail to comply with the curfew or other licence conditions can be recalled to custody.
The aim is to help the offenders reintegrate into society once they have served their sentence.
The Scottish government is also proposing a radical extension of the ways electronic tags can be used on offenders, which could see sobriety tags, GPS tracking and tagging as an alternative to remand used for the first time.
Dubliner Shiels won the Open race on his Cookstown BE Racing Suzuki and followed it up by taking victory in the feature event of the meeting.
Dunlop, 30, triumphed in the two Supersport 600cc races, aboard the CD Racing Yamaha.
Malachi Mitchell-Thomas came home first in the Supertwins and Magherafelt rider Paul Jordan enjoyed 125cc success.
The opening Supersport race, carried over from Friday, was reduced to five laps after Bolton man Mitchell-Thomas slipped off while holding second place, bringing the red flags out.
Dunlop added to his victory at Tandragee last week by taking the chequered flag from Manxman Dan Kneen, with Derek McGee from Mullingar third.
The Ballymoney man repeated the feat in race two, with McGee getting the better of Mar-Train Yamaha pilot Kneen to occupy the runner-up spot.
Sheils saw off the challenge of McGee in the Open race, with new road racing sensation Mitchell-Thomas completing the rostrum positions.
The 33-year-old former Irish champion made it a double by finishing ahead of team-mate Mitchell-Thomas in the main race of the day, with Kneen coming with a late charge to take third.
McGee, Dunlop and Waterford rider McCormack made up the top six.
The decision was announced in a blog post and will be phased in over coming weeks.
In 2013 Prime Minister David Cameron put pressure on internet service provider [ISPs] to make online filtering mandatory, saying it was the best way to protect children.
His request caused controversy among politicians and the internet industry.
Since then most of the UK's ISPs have offered filtering software for parents concerned about what their children may be able to access online but few have offered this by default, opting instead to allow parents or other customers to turn the filters on if they want them.
Sky's Broadband Shield is designed to filter out content deemed to be unsuitable for children aged under 13. It has been offered as default to new customers for a year.
But now the firm has decided to also offer it to all its existing customers, some 5.3 million in total.
In her blog post, Lyssa McGowan, Sky's brand director, explained why it was changing its policy.
"What we're doing now is simply making sure that the automatic position of Sky Broadband Shield is the safest one for all - that's 'on', unless customers choose otherwise," she said.
In the next few weeks Sky customers who have not chosen to either activate or disable its Broadband Shield would be emailed "giving them the opportunity to make a decision one way or the other", she said.
Once activated, users will not be able to access a filtered site without altering their settings.
Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group (ORG), was dismayed by the news.
"Censorship should never be turned on by default," he said.
"ORG's Blocked project (www.blocked.org.uk) has shown that filters block all kinds of websites, including some that provide useful advice to children and young people. Customers need to understand the implications of filters before deciding whether or not they want them."
All the UK's big four ISPs - BT, Virgin Media, Sky and TalkTalk - offer filtering systems to help parents prevent their children viewing inappropriate material online.
They have said that they will make sure all customers are aware of the filters.
In October, BT started interrupting browsing sessions for customers who had not set up the parental controls asking them whether they wished to activate them but not obliging them to.
Most of the systems used by ISPs work at a network level, which means that all devices that connect to a home router will be subject to the same filtering system.
Andrew Ferguson, founder of broadband news site ThinkBroadband, said that parents should not rely solely on filters to protect their children from online nasties.
"As ever the filters don't block all unsavoury material so are not a replacement for parenting and the embarrassing questions all parents have to face," he said.
The victims have been named locally as 38-year-old mother of three Maria Wallis, originally from Derry, and Kiara Baird, 19, from County Dublin.
The crash happened at about 16.15 local time outside the town of Ballybofey, on the Glenties Road.
Local Sinn Féin councillor Gary Doherty, who knew the mother-of-three, said it was "absolutely tragic".
"Her son actually goes to school with my son. Last night the young people were in a state of shock," he said.
"This woman actually has three children so it is absolutely tragic that this should happen to her.
"Unfortunately we have a long history of road traffic collisions and deaths on our roads and this year has been probably more harrowing than any in recent memory.
"The community will come together at a time like this but I think the wider issues are something that we cannot allow to continue."
The cause of the single car collision is not yet known, and Irish police have appealed for witnesses.
Garda Insp Michael Harrison said: "For some reason or other the vehicle lost control, went off the road, rolled a couple of times and the two ladies unfortunately died as a result of the impact."
A man in his 40s, who was also in the car, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The county has seen a high number of road deaths in recent months - in July five people were killed on the roads within the space of two days.
Dutchman Van Gerwen lost the first set but recovered to set up an encounter against England's Terry Jenkins.
Jenkins did not lose a leg in trouncing Australian qualifier Laurence Ryder 4-0 and missed a double 12 that would have given him a nine-dart finish.
Fourth seed Gary Anderson beat Jelle Klaasen 4-3 in a classic encounter.
Scotland's Anderson was 3-1 down but finished with a three-dart average of 103.02 to see off the Dutchman, winner of the rival BDO World Championship in 2006.
In other matches, English eighth seed Dave Chisnall lost 4-2 to Benito van de Pas of the Netherlands.
Ninth seed Robert Thornton beat England's Ronnie Baxter, with the Scotsman also coming close to a perfect leg.
Scot Peter Wright, runner-up to Van Gerwen last year, rounded off the afternoon session with a 4-1 win over Belgium's Ronny Huybrechts.
What is an Employee Benefit Trust?
A trust enables an individual to own an asset on behalf of someone else. The first person is the "trustee" and the second is the "beneficiary". Company pension schemes are a common example of a trust.
With EBTs, the employer deposits money in to the trust, which is paid out to the beneficiaries in the form of tax-free loans.
Trusts are often postponed and are sometimes refused by the trustee, who is, in theory, acting independently of the employer.
In many cases, the loans are never repaid.
Why are Rangers in a court dispute with HMRC over EBTs?
Payments from an EBT should not be made on a contractual basis, as it would make them part of an employee's salary and subject to tax and National Insurance.
HMRC claims that Rangers' EBT scheme was a tax scam as it was contractual, which forms the basis of the so-called "Big Tax Case".
HMRC also insists it has proof of this in the form of documents and emails between former directors at Rangers and players' agents.
In 2010, HMRC issued Rangers with a bill for £35m in unpaid tax and interest, and £14m in penalties which Rangers challenged at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, but the verdict has not been announced.
Have any other Scottish football clubs been involved with EBT schemes?
BBC Scotland Investigates wrote to all of the Scottish Premier League's member clubs and asked whether they had ever operated an EBT scheme.
Celtic confirmed that it established one EBT scheme in April 2005, which BBC Scotland understands was for the benefit of the Brazilian midfielder Juninho Paulista. The scheme was worth £765,000 but the club did not declare the trust payment to the Scottish Football Association or the Scottish Premier League.
The payments made to the trust were declared in Celtic's annual report for 2004/2005, but in 2008 the club became aware of an event giving rise to a potential tax liability which was subsequently paid after agreement with HMRC.
The remaining 10 SPL clubs replied and confirmed they had never set up an EBT scheme for any of their employees.
Who set up the EBT scheme for Rangers and the Murray Group?
A former lawyer who advised companies on tax strategy known as Paul Baxendale-Walker. He was struck off the roll of solicitors by a disciplinary tribunal in 2007. Mr Baxendale-Walker is the author of two books on EBT tax strategies and advised Rangers on how to set the scheme up and operate it.
He subsequently became involved in the porn industry, producing, directing and acting in films under the name Paul Chaplin.
How much did Rangers and the Murray Group pay into their EBT schemes?
Between 2001 and 2010, Rangers paid a total of £47.65m in to their Employee Benefit Trust. Details of the amounts paid in to the trust were declared in the club's annual accounts.
Rangers also operated another tax avoidance scheme for two former players, Tore Andre Flo and Ronald De Boer, between 2000-01 and 2002-03 known as a 'Discounted Options Scheme' - commonly referred to as the "Wee Tax Case". HMRC issued Rangers with a bill of about £4m for outstanding amounts owed from the discounted options tax scheme, which was settled, but has not been paid.
BBC Scotland understands the Murray Group paid at least £10m to the trust.
How many beneficiaries were involved the Rangers EBT scheme?
A total of 111 sub-trusts were set up between 2001-2010 for Rangers directors, players and other staff - along with employees of Murray International Holdings and its subsidiary companies.
A total of 53 Rangers players and staff received side contracts giving undertakings to fund their sub-trusts with cash, according to documents seen by BBC Scotland.
How much money did the beneficiaries withdraw in loans from the scheme?
The amounts varied from a total of £6.3m received by Sir David Murray to £7,500 for Bellshill-born defender Steven Smith, who left the club in 2011.
Former Rangers captain Barry Ferguson received a total of £2.5m while ex-Ibrox player/manager Graeme Souness received £30,000 from the scheme almost 10 years after leaving the club.
The average amount received by Rangers and Murray Group employees was about £445,000.
What if Rangers players have received side-letters?
BBC Scotland has also seen evidence, which was submitted to a court, suggesting that 53 Rangers players and staff had side-letters giving undertakings to fund their sub-trusts with cash.
According to the Scottish Football Association's registration rules, payments received by a player solely relating to his playing activities must be fully recorded and declared, otherwise the player has been improperly registered.
If a player is deemed to be improperly registered, the norm is for his team to forfeit any match in which he has participated.
So, could Rangers be stripped of past titles and trophies?
Precedence exists for this kind of rule-breaking and subsequent punishment in football and other sports.
In 1994, Marseilles were found guilty of financial irregularities and a match fixing scandal involving then president Bernard Tapie.
The French club was forcibly relegated to Ligue 1 and lost its 1992-93 Division One title and the right to play in the Champions League in 1993-94, the 1993 European Super Cup and the 1993 Intercontinental Cup.
Rangers: The Men Who Sold the Jerseys was broadcast on BBC One Scotland on Wednesday 23 May, and will be available afterwards for one week on the iPlayer.
The jobless total fell in May by 300 to 31,200.
However, official figures show a continued rise in the long-term problem of economic inactivity, which reflects the number of people neither in work nor looking for a job.
It now stands at 27.2%, after the biggest quarterly jump in eight years.
The last Northern Ireland Executive developed a strategy to tackle the issue, but it was never implemented for budget reasons.
If conditions in Delhi favour slow bowling, uncapped left-armer Liam Dawson would be an option to join Moeen and Adil Rashid in the England line-up.
"It's definitely a possibility," Moeen told BBC Sport.
"We have to look at the wicket and adapt to conditions. If there's spin there, why not?"
If Dawson does make his international debut, it would be a remarkable rise for the 26-year-old, who coach Trevor Bayliss had not seen play in a competitive match before he was named in the England squad in February.
England, World T20 winners in 2010, will move closer to a place in the semi-finals if they defeat Afghanistan, the only nation outside of Test cricket left in the tournament.
Eoin Morgan's men arrive in Delhi on the back of a record run-chase of 230 to beat South Africa in Mumbai on Friday, a victory that halted a run of six successive defeats in white-ball cricket.
"That's given us a boost," said Worcestershire all-rounder Moeen, 28. "Before the defeats we were very confident, so that has been restored a little.
"The guys have been lifted, but not over the top. We know Afghanistan will be a tough game.
"They're a dangerous side who we won't be taking lightly. We have to play against them in the same way we would any other side."
The Bees had the better of the chances in the first half with Harlee Dean, Nico Yennaris and Romaine Sawyers all going close, but the hosts led through Paul Robinson's looping strike.
A fierce Sawyers shot deservedly drew the Championship side level.
Watkins and Shaibu earned victory with a goal in each period of extra-time.
Watkins curled in a fabulous 15-yard strike in time added on in the first period.
And substitute Shaibu sealed a place in the second round with a low right-foot shot with a minute remaining.
Match ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 3.
Second Half Extra Time ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 3.
Attempt saved. Alfie Egan (AFC Wimbledon) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 3. Justin Shaibu (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ollie Watkins.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Paul Robinson.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Maxime Colin.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Lyle Taylor (AFC Wimbledon) because of an injury.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Maxime Colin.
Attempt missed. Florian Jozefzoon (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Anthony Hartigan (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nico Yennaris (Brentford).
Attempt missed. Josh McEachran (Brentford) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is high and wide to the right.
Second Half Extra Time begins AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 2.
First Half Extra Time ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 2.
Goal! AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 2. Ollie Watkins (Brentford) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Florian Jozefzoon with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Paul Robinson.
Attempt missed. Harlee Dean (Brentford) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by George Long.
Attempt saved. Henrik Dalsgaard (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Ollie Watkins (Brentford) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Brentford. Justin Shaibu replaces Neal Maupay.
Substitution, Brentford. Henrik Dalsgaard replaces Ilias Chatzitheodoridis.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by George Long.
Attempt saved. Florian Jozefzoon (Brentford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt blocked. Romaine Sawyers (Brentford) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Florian Jozefzoon (Brentford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
First Half Extra Time begins AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 1.
Substitution, AFC Wimbledon. Egli Kaja replaces Andy Barcham.
Second Half ends, AFC Wimbledon 1, Brentford 1.
Adedeji Oshilaja (AFC Wimbledon) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Neal Maupay (Brentford).
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Paul Robinson.
Attempt blocked. Harlee Dean (Brentford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Andy Barcham.
Attempt blocked. Nico Yennaris (Brentford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Barry Fuller.
Corner, AFC Wimbledon. Conceded by Yoann Barbet.
Corner, Brentford. Conceded by Barry Fuller.
Adedeji Oshilaja (AFC Wimbledon) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Noor and Alam can't stop hugging and crying. They haven't seen each other for more than seven years.
Noor, who is 22, can't quite believe how much his brother has grown. ''Look, he is a big man'' he says, pointing in disbelief at 16-year-old Alam. ''He was just a child.''
They hold hands as they walk through the wasteland of Calais' so-called ''jungle'' migrant camp. They giggle with delight, ''I'm so happy. Now I know I'll enjoy my life,'' says Noor. ''I found my family.''
The brothers say they became separated in Afghanistan after a local warlord killed their father and burnt their house down. Their mother fled to Pakistan with Alam. Noor was sent by his family to Europe.
Noor arrived in Calais more than seven years ago and then made his way to the UK in the back of a lorry carrying agricultural chemicals, The Home Office gave him leave to remain. Through the Red Cross, he tried and failed to make contact with Alam and his mother. He gave up hope of ever seeing them again.
It was a chance encounter two years ago, in a café in Pakistan, that led to their reunion.
Alam had been sat in the cafe chatting to a man who was visiting from Britain. The man showed Alam pictures on his phone of his life in England. Alam was amazed to see Noor in one of the photos: ''I was so excited. I couldn't control my heart,'' Alam recalls. ''My heart jumped.''
He begged the man to put him in touch with Noor. But the man didn't believe they were brothers and was reluctant to help. He did give Alam his number but once back in the UK, he did not return Alam's calls.
Alam cries as he tells of how his mother died never knowing what had happened to Noor. ''She slept with a photo of him next to her.'' he says. ''She died broken-hearted.'' After she passed away, Alam made his way to Calais, where he has been living for the last eight months.
He approached a BBC Today programme journalist in the camp and begged him to help him find his brother.
A week later, the programme got in touch with the man who had the picture of Noor on his phone. With his help, Noor was found by the programme living in London.
In theory, Alam could legally join his brother in England and apply for asylum under an EU agreement known as the Dublin III. Once in the UK, he would need to prove to the Home Office that he is Noor's brother and take a DNA test.
But he could have to wait many months in Calais for the authorities in both countries to process his claim. The charity Citizens UK, which works with unaccompanied children in the camp, says that more than 150 people are also waiting to be allowed to join relatives in Britain.
Alam is desperate to join his brother in England. Sat on the floor of the plywood hut he now calls home, he tells Noor that most nights he tries to board the lorries heading for the UK.
Noor tells him to stop taking such risks and warns him that children have died trying to make the crossing. He pleads with him to be patient. But as they say goodbye, and hold each other tight, it seems clear that Alam is unlikely to take any notice of his brother's advice.
**The boys' names have been changed.
Zoe Conway's report is on the Today programme on 12 July and will be available later via BBC iPlayer.
The 40-year-old has made 334 appearances for Boro since joining them in 2008 after leaving Millwall.
Day has won promotion twice with Boro, the first coming in 2010 when they reached the Football League, while the second came the following year through the League Two play-offs.
He will be on the coaching staff under new permanent Boro boss Darren Sarll.
Third Energy submitted an application to extract shale gas at a site near Kirby Misperton in Ryedale in May.
North Yorkshire County Council told the company earlier this month it needed more time to respond to the plans.
It has set a provisional decision date of 9 February. The delay contravenes the government's push to deal with fracking applications in 16 weeks.
Third Energy said it was disappointed by the news.
A decision was expected on 18 November after the initial consultation on the application at the KM8 well site ended in October.
However, the authority requested further information from the company, prompting a new consultation which was due to end on 25 November.
A letter sent to Third Energy this week said it needed further time to speak to the Environment Agency and Highways Authority about the plans.
It said: "Every endeavour continues to be made to process the application with due diligence and timeliness."
The Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) at the University of St Andrews will conduct the three-year study.
Marine scientists will attach telemetry tags harmlessly to the fur at the back of the heads of a number of seals.
The scientists said the tags were lightweight and would drop off when the seals moulted.
The marine tags, which work in a similar way to smartphones, will use technology to send vital information from the seal when it surfaces or beaches directly back to SMRU for analysis.
The technology, provided by Vodafone, is the same as that which is found in new cars, heart monitors and smart meters.
Data will be gathered on a seals' location, dive behaviour and its oceanic environment.
The study by SMRU is being carried out at the request of the Scottish government and Scottish Natural Heritage which have concerns for the future survival of harbour seals in areas of Scotland.
Harbour seals - one of two seal species in the UK - have declined in numbers by up to 90% in some areas in and around the north and east coast of Scotland, including Orkney, since 2000.
Professor John Baxter, marine principal adviser at Scottish Natural Heritage said: "This exciting, collaborative study is vital to help us to better understand the drivers of population change in Scottish harbour seals, and to evaluate the potential conservation and management options open to us."
SMRU's deputy director Dr Bernie McConnell said: "Over the last 15 years, many of the harbour seal populations in the Northern Isles and on the north and east coasts of Scotland have been declining.
"Marine data collected during this project on Orkney will help to assess the causes, management and mitigation options in relation to the harbour seals decline and to prioritise future research directions."
14 February 2017 Last updated at 17:18 GMT
The hats donated to Royal Derby Hospital help keep the babies warm in the crucial first days after birth and help staff and parents understand which level of care is right for each individual baby.
Jane Haslam, head of midwifery for Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "[It] is really important to make sure that babies are kept at the right temperature, as if they are too warm or too cold it could be a sign that they are developing an infection.
"This plan helps to make parents and staff aware of the signs indicating changes in temperature, and helps them to take action."
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Along with New York and Dublin, it is one of the biggest events of its kind in the world and centres around the "Irish Quarter" in Digbeth.
Anne Tighe, chairman of the St Patrick's Festival Committee, said although numbers were down from last year the event was going well.
"There's a lovely atmosphere," she said.
She said last year was "massive" with about 90,000 attending the event but early estimates suggested the numbers this year were down.
"It's going really well. People seem to be enjoying the event, even though it is freezing cold, but it is dry," she said.
Ms Tighe said the cold weather and people doing other activities for Mother's Day may have led to fewer people attending.
The theme of this year's event is the Irish contribution to Birmingham's development.
The parade, featuring hundreds of floats, carnival costumes and marching bands, took place for two hours until 14:00 GMT.
It started at Camp Hill and was led by the Birmingham Irish Pipes and Drums band.
Live music, street fairs, a market and children's events are also taking place.
Other celebrations are planned into the night, including performances from local bands and musicians, as well as artists visiting from Ireland.
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Shafique Shah, said: "Just as our Irish community here are proud to be Brummies, they now invite all Brummies to be Irish for the day and join in the wonderful celebrations".
The 19th annual event is the last one to benefit from £20,000 council funding, but organisers say it will retain its quality despite cuts.
Colin Williams, head of Moreton School in Bushbury, Wolverhampton, is facing an independent investigation.
GCSEs can only be taken at different times in exceptional circumstances, an exams boards body said.
The school's governors said they were treating the allegations "very seriously" and the head had been suspended for the time being.
The school's governing body is due to appoint an investigator to look at the claims and the exact circumstances surrounding them.
Wolverhampton City Council said it would not comment on allegations the pupil was going on holiday the intended day of the exam.
A spokesperson for the local authority said there was currently no timetable for when the investigator would report back.
Rob Hewer, chair of governors, said he hoped the investigation could be concluded "quickly and efficiently".
He said the welfare of pupils was "of paramount importance" and an acting head had been appointed.
The school was expected to be supported by both the city council and a neighbouring school, Mr Hewer said.
He added the governing body would not comment further until the investigation had concluded.
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), which represents the UK's largest exam boards, said pupils were only allowed to sit exams at different times if papers clashed or they required extra time due to access arrangements.
Even then, it said the exam had to be taken "on the same day".
The JCQ said holiday plans, weddings, work experience, and sporting events were not suitable reasons for altering the exam timetable.
Legislation introduced in 2013 means pupils are only allowed to take holiday in term time in exceptional circumstances and with the school's permission.
The musician, who is the only person to have won the prestigious Mercury Prize twice, will be joined in the box by her band, producers and engineers.
The enclosed box will have one-way glazing so they will have no idea when people are watching.
The sessions could be anything from improvisation to recording a bass drum.
"I want Recording in Progress to operate as if we're an exhibition in a gallery," she said.
"I hope people will see the attention and the labour and the care that goes into making a recording. I hope people will see the interactions between everyone involved."
The box will be situated in the New Wing, which was once used as the Inland Revenue's staff gym and rifle range.
The Devon-born musician's last release, 2011's Let England Shake, a collection of songs inspired by conflicts around the world, was her second Mercury winner, taking the prize for the best album of the year 10 years after Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea was honoured.
Carlton Rock Ltd proposes constructing the seven storey property on the site at Glebe Street, overlooking the River Ness.
The hotel would have 165 bedrooms, a restaurant and lounge bar, gymnasium and conference rooms.
The site of a demolished public swimming pool has been vacant for several years.
Planning officers said a number of 17th Century gravestones nearby would need to be preserved and protected from the construction work.
Highland Council's south planning applications committee will consider the hotel plans at a meeting on 21 January.
Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died in the country in July.
Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel is accused of her murder while her father Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid is being held as a suspected accessory to the crime.
The pair will next appear in court in Jhelum, in the northern Punjab province, on 26 November.
Both were returned to prison following a request by a lawyer acting for Ms Shahid's second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, for more time to review the case.
Neither Mr Shakeel nor Mr Shahid have been formally charged and their lawyers have previously argued there is no evidence against them.
Last month Ms Shahid's mother, Imtiaz BiBi, and sister, Madiha Shahid, were both declared proclaimed offenders in Pakistan meaning police believe they were involved in her death and want to question them.
Arrest warrants were issued by a judge when they did not appear in court.
Police are applying for a red notice - an international alert for a wanted person - from Interpol. The process is expected to take weeks or even months before one is issued.
The BBC understands extradition requests have not yet been made to the UK authorities.
Ms Shahid, a beautician, married Mr Kazim in Leeds in 2014 and the couple moved to Dubai.
Mr Kazim has claimed his wife, who died while visiting relatives in Pakistan, was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage.
Initially it was claimed she had died of a heart attack but a post-mortem examination found she had been strangled.
The deeply disjointed and rudderless visitors trailed 16-9 when Laidlaw entered the fray in the 50th minute.
They led 6-3 early on with two penalties from Henry Pyrgos but the hosts hit the front with a breathtaking 90-metre try finished by Kaito Shigeno.
But Laidlaw landed four kicks to avert a nightmarish end to Scotland's season.
It started a year ago with a summer training camp and the first of four pre-World Cup warm-up matches last August, but their 16th Test in a little over 10 months brought valuable ranking points before next year's draw for the 2019 event.
The Test - or at least the second half - was watched by the Imperial couple - Emperor Akihito and and Empress Michiko. This was the first time they have ever seen Japan play live and they should really have seen them win, too.
Scotland created virtually nothing all day while Japan played most of the rugby. They have good cause to feel aggrieved by some of the penalties given against them by referee Marius Mitrea. They were harshly dealt with at times.
That first half was a horror show for Scotland. Sure, the heat and humidity was a factor but they built an error mountain out there, any hope of momentum getting checked early by a battery of mistakes.
The Scots were ahead 6-3 coming to the end of the first quarter - two Pyrgos penalties to one from Yu Tamura.
In the midst of all of that, Ruaridh Jackson's telegraphed pass had been picked off by Tim Bennetts, the Japan centre, who went all the way to the posts. Play was called back and the try chalked off. That was Scotland's warning. They didn't heed it.
Japan's try was a score for the ages, a piece of brilliance that would - OK, might - have had the Emperor on his feet in giddy applause had he not delayed his arrival until half-time. It had its origins inside Japan's own 22.
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An epic breakaway came roaring out of defence, sweeping left and drawing the Scotland defence, then in a glorious blur sweeping across field. It was all done at breakneck speed and with unerring accuracy. Scotland were panting and wheezing in an attempt to keep up. They couldn't.
It was testament to Japan's mindset - and footballing ability - that a number eight, Amanaki Mafi, and an open-side, Shoukei Kin, were the ones who punched the final holes and unloaded the final pass, to Shigeno, who darted away to score.
Tamura added the conversion to worsen Scotland's plight. Pyrgos put over a third penalty to reduce the damage but Tamura merely knocked over one of his own soon after. Scotland looked an error-ridden, rudderless mess.
Vern Cotter replaced his entire front row at the break, then brought on John Hardie for the injured Ryan Wilson in the back row. Japan's response was to add another three points from Tamura's boot.
It was at that point that Cotter pressed the emergency button, taking off Pyrgos and replacing him with Laidlaw in an attempt to bring some direction. Laidlaw's boot swiftly made it 16-12 and then 16-15.
It was a one-point game now, a game that South Africa-based centre Huw Jones had been thrust into for his debut at the expense of the lost Jackson, Peter Horne moving to 10.
Japan kicked on from there but couldn't land a blow. They mounted some huge assaults on the Scottish line, looking for all the world like they had to score until Kosei Ono lost the head, dived for the line and lost the ball.
They came again, but Scotland held out. And then they struck out.
The Scottish scrum proved decisive, winning a penalty within Laidlaw's range, the captain proceeding to bang it over as you knew he would to give the visitors an improbable 18-16 lead with 10 minutes left.
Laidlaw wrapped it up with another penalty three minutes from time.
Japan: Riyika Matsuda, Male Sau, Tim Bennetts, Harumichi Tatekawa, Yasutaka Sasakura, Yu Tamura, Kaito Shigeno; Keita Inagaki, Shota Horie (captain), Kensuke Hatakeyama; Hitoshi Ono, Naohiro Kotaki; Hendrik Tui, Shokei Kin, Amanaki Mafi.
Replacements: Takeshi Kizu (for Horie, 61) Masataka Mikami (for Inagaki, 71), Shinnosuke Kakinaga (for Hatakeyama, 61), Kotaro Yatabe (for Ono, 66), Ryu Koliniasi Holani, Keisuke Uchida (for Shigeno, 62), Kosei Ono (61), Mifiposeti Paea.
Scotland: Stuart Hogg, Tommy Seymour, Matt Scott, Peter Horne, Sean Maitland, Ruaridh Jackson, Henry Pyrgos (capt), Rory Sutherland, Stuart McInally, Moray Low, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray, Josh Strauss, John Barclay, Ryan Wilson.
Replacements: Fraser Brown (for McInally, 41), Gordon Reid (for Sutherland, 41), Willem Nel (for Low, 41), Tim Swinson (for Barclay, 68), John Hardie (for Wilson, 44), Greig Laidlaw (for Pyrgos, 50), Huw Jones (for Jackson, 58), Sean Lamont (for Maitland, 80).
Attendance: 34,073
Referee: Marius Mitrea (Italy)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had abused it powers by arresting Abubakar Sidiq Usman, the governing party's youth wing said.
His followers have launched a #FreeAbusidiq campaign on Twitter.
Last week, Mr Usman published allegations that EFCC acting chairman Ibrahim Magu was bullying his staff.
Mr Usman is an extremely popular blogger and the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) has also said it is deeply concerned about his arrest, reports the BBC's Nasidi Yahaya from the capital, Abuja.
He is a strong backer of President Muhammadu Buhari, and a founding member of the youth wing of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement posted on its Facebook account, the APC youth wing said he was being held on "spurious charges".
The EFCC was formed to investigate financial crimes and had overstepped its jurisdiction by detaining him, it said.
On Monday, the EFCC said Mr Usman was being questioned for "offences bordering on cyber-stalking", and he had been offered bail.
He remains in detention and has not been charged in court.
Mr Usman is the third blogger to be arrested in Nigeria since the Cyber Crime Act came into force in 2015, a local newspaper reports.
Former manager Mehrez Saadi told the inquests into the British deaths that gardeners had briefly doubled as security guards the previous year.
Islamist gunman Seifeddine Rezgui killed 38 people in total at the five-star Riu Imperial Marhaba, near Sousse.
The attack was the deadliest on Britons since the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
UK officials had also been told of security concerns in Sousse six months before the attack in June 2015, but decided against discouraging all travel to Tunisia, the inquests heard.
The inquests, being held at London's Royal Courts of Justice, heard a report by a UK embassy official in January that said there was "little in the way of effective security" to protect an attack from the beach.
In a statement, Mr Saadi also revealed just four unarmed, untrained security guards were protecting the 631 guests and the CCTV camera at the front entrance was not working on the day of the attack.
However, he said the hotel had purchased metal detectors detectors to check people entering the hotel and mirrors to check under vehicles.
Andrew Ritchie QC, who represents 20 of the victims' families, quoted from the heavily-redacted report into the security of about 30 hotels, including the Riu Imperial Marhaba, in three neighbouring Mediterranean resorts on the Tunisian coast.
He said the report had paid particular attention to beach access points after an attack on the Riadh Palms Hotel in Sousse October 2013 was launched from the beach.
Rezgui was shot dead by police about an hour after the attack began, but Mr Saadi said police were slow to respond when he called them to report what was happening.
"Security services did nothing to stop the attack during the whole time," he said. "I didn't understand why."
The government's travel advice website had warned in June 2015 that there was a "high risk of terrorism" in Tunisia, but stopped short of telling tourists not to visit.
This was despite an attack on the Bardo Museum in the country's capital, Tunis, four months earlier, in which 24 people were killed, including 20 tourists.
In a YouTube video from December 2014 mentioned in the report, extremists linked to the self-styled Islamic State group also warned they would target tourists in the area.
Jane Marriott, the Foreign Office's Middle East and North Africa director at the time of the Sousse attack, told the inquests there had been "little public desire for a more intrusive police presence in Tunisia", which had been a dictatorship before the Arab Spring revolution in 2010.
She added: "This made it difficult for the authorities to be proactive with security."
The inquest was shown an extract from minutes of a meeting between UK embassy officials and tour operators in Tunisia shortly after the Bardo attack.
It said: "Following the incident, the knee-jerk reaction was to pull British tourists out of Tunisia.
"Embassy staff... lobbied hard to retain the tourists here in Tunisia, but agreed to strengthen the text of the travel advice to reflect the severity of the incident."
Ms Marriott also told the court that Hamish Cowell, the UK ambassador to Tunisia from 2013 until December last year, had taken his family to Sousse on holiday in May - two months after the Bardo attack and less than two months before the beach shootings.
The court also heard from survivor Paul Thompson, who had been advised by his travel agent TUI that it was "100% safe" to go to Sousse.
Mr Thompson had gone to a shop in his home town of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in May 2015 with his daughter, where he was told that the Bardo attack had been a "one-off", Mr Ritchie told the inquest.
Over the next seven weeks, the inquest will examine whether the UK government and travel firms failed in their responsibility to protect British tourists.
The government has applied for some details to be kept private because of national security concerns.
The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the group was located in a house in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, east of the capital.
A third suspect was held in the raid. One agent was slightly hurt.
The suspects are said to be Russian citizens who had undergone training in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
The committee statement said: "During an active special operation the bandits were cut off, but when they were called on to surrender they opened fire."
"Thanks to the decisive actions of the law-enforcement agents, an attempt to carry out a terrorist act in the capital was thwarted."
Unnamed official sources told Russian news agencies the group's target was a mass event in central Moscow, but further details were being withheld while the plot was investigated.
All three were Muslims and had been under observation for a month, another source told Interfax news agency, adding that they had been trained in North Waziristan, a mountainous region of north-west Pakistan and a stronghold of Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants.
The authorities are investigating possible links between the suspects and the militant Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the source said.
Kurdish forces, known as YPG confirmed that Nazzareno Tassone, 24, was killed alongside Briton Ryan Lock, 20, in December.
In a letter to Tassone's family, the YPG said their bodies had been taken by IS.
Tassone left Canada for Turkey last June to fight with the Kurdish forces.
His uncle, Frank Tassone, and his sister, Giustina Tassone described him respectively as someone who was "goofy" and a "giant goofball" as a child who grew up to take a keen interest in the military and international affairs.
Ms Tassone said her brother had a strong sense of right and wrong, which is what led him to volunteer with the Kurdish fighters.
"He believed every human deserved decency and common rights," she said.
Her brother, who lived in Edmonton, told the family he was travelling to Turkey to teach English.
Although his family had their suspicions over the past six months, he kept his involvement with Kurdish forces a secret.
While she wishes he had been open with what he had chosen to do, she knew he did not want his family to worry.
"We worried anyway," she said.
The family has started a Facebook page to urge the federal government to help bring Tassone's remains back to Canada, and have reached out to Global Affairs Canada and their local member of Parliament.
"I want my nephew home so we can bury him," his uncle said. "I don't understand why they would take his body."
In a letter to Tassone's family dated 23 December, the YPG say that he died along with Lock and three other fighters in an offensive against IS on 21 December in Jaeber village in the battle for the Syrian city of Raqqa, and that the bodies were taken by IS.
The YPG offered condolences to his family, saying that he "crossed continents for the destiny of our people and humanity".
Canadian officials say they have contacted the family and that consular officials are in touch with local authorities to gather more information about the circumstances.
A spokeswoman for the federal government said consular efforts are limited by the civil war in Syria but that there were ongoing attempts to assist the family.
Lock's family is also asking for help from the YPG and the UK government to help repatriate his remains.
Tassone is the second Canadian volunteer fighter to die in Syria.
In 2015, Ontario native John Gallagher, 32, was killed in Syria while volunteering with the YPG.
Nasa astronaut Mark Kelly said his wife's reaction to the doctors' decision had been to pump her fist and say: "Awesome!"
Ms Giffords narrowly survived the shooting spree by a gunman in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people.
Mr Kelly is commander of the Endeavour, due to lift off on Friday.
It will be one of the last space shuttle missions and the launch will be attended by President Barack Obama and other VIPs.
"I have met with her neurosurgeon and her doctors, and... they have given us permission to take her down to the launch," Mr Kelly told CBS News. "I'm excited about that," he added.
Ms Giffords suffered a bullet wound to her brain's left hemisphere, which controls speech and movement for the right side of the body.
"Her personality's 100% there," said Mr Kelly.
"You know, it's difficult for her to walk. The communication skills are difficult, at this point."
Dong Kim, Ms Giffords's neurosurgeon, told The Arizona Republic newspaper on Sunday that that doctors were "comfortable with her travelling".
He said Ms Giffords was "maybe in the top 1% of patients in terms of how far she's come, and how quickly she's gotten there".
"I think the question then becomes, how far is she going to go?" he said.
The Democratic congresswoman is due to undergo more surgery in May to repair a section of her skull with a cranial implant.
CBS will broadcast its full interview with Mr Kelly on Monday.
Jared Loughner, 22, has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to the attack at Ms Giffords's constituency event in Tucson on 8 January. Thirteen other people were wounded.
The fire started in mixed commercial and residential buildings in Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes, on Sunday afternoon.
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire Service said a drone was used to try to find out how the blaze started because it was too dangerous to enter.
The service said the technology proved "invaluable".
At the height of the blaze, nine fire engines were at the scene including crews from Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire.
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The parents of Emwazi, 26, told Kuwaiti authorities they were last in contact with their son in 2013 when he called them from Turkey.
They said he told them he was going to do humanitarian work in Syria.
Meanwhile the Department for Education is to investigate schools with links to pupils who have travelled to Syria.
Quintin Kynaston Academy in north-west London, where Emwazi had been a pupil, is to be investigated along with another six schools.
Emwazi, from west London, who is also known as "Jihadi John", has been named as the man in several IS videos where hostages have been beheaded.
He first appeared in a video last August, when he apparently killed the US journalist James Foley.
Intelligence officials in Kuwait are believed to have questioned his mother and father in the past day.
Authorities are investigating what Emwazi did, where he went and who he met there during his 2010 visit.
Emwazi's father said his son was a devout Muslim from a young age, and the last contact he had had with him was in the middle of 2013 from Turkey - when he contacted the family to tell them he was going to join a charity in Syria.
Kuwaiti officials have described Mohammed Emwazi as being "an illegal resident" when he lived in Kuwait.
They confirmed to the BBC that he had never held Kuwaiti nationality nor held any Kuwaiti documentation such as medical or educational certificates.
Although Emwazi was born in Kuwait in August 1988, his family are from the so-called "Bidoon" or "stateless" community of southern Iraqi immigrants, many of whom were deported after Kuwait was liberated from Saddam Hussein's forces in 1991.
Meanwhile the Department for Education (DfE) announced it would carry out a review of schools that had links with pupils who had travelled to Syria.
A DfE spokesman said it had set up the Due Diligence and Counter Extremism (DDCE) division to improve its understanding of extremism and help schools with pupils or former pupils who have since travelled to Syria or "other areas of concern".
It said the task force would consider "if there are any lessons we can learn for the future".
The announcement came as Home Secretary Theresa May defended her decision to scrap control orders after Labour suggested it had helped terror suspects join fighting overseas.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the relocation powers contained in control orders should not have been ended.
Mrs May said she could not comment on individual cases and that control orders would not have stopped Britons travelling to Syria.
Earlier, a former head teacher of Emwazi denied he had been radicalised at school.
Two other pupils from the same school are also thought to have gone to fight in Syria and Somalia.
Jo Shuter, former head teacher at Quintin Kynaston Academy, said there had been no indication that any pupils were becoming radicalised.
She said: "I am not prepared to say when the radicalisation took place. All I can say is absolutely hand on heart, we had no knowledge of it. If we had we would have done something about it."
Arthur Jones, 73, from Denbigh, has not been seen since 19 June two days after arriving in Crete and sending a postcard telling his family he was planning a walking trip.
Speaking at Prime Minister's Question Time, Mr Cameron said he would talk to the Foreign Office to make sure help was available.
Local MP Chris Ruane raised the case.
Mr Ruane said Mr Jones's family were "frantic with worry" since Mr Jones went missing. He asked David Cameron to ensure the FCO continued their excellent work and co-operate with the Greek government "to make sure that Arthur is found".
The prime minister said: "I will certainly do everything I can to help you with your constituent and have discussions with the Foreign Office about all the consular assistance that is being given and anything else that they can do."
Earlier, North Wales Police appealed to anyone who had been on holiday in Crete or was going to report any sightings Mr Jones during their time there.
They said holidaymakers who had returned could contact them with information, and urged anyone going who might see Mr Jones to speak to the police locally.
They are assisting police locally in Crete.
On Tuesday Mr Jones' family said they were hopeful a local TV appeal on the island would lead to more sightings.
Mr Jones, a keen walker, was staying in the city of Chania. Despite his plans, possessions he would have used to go walking were still in his room.
Det Sgt Haydn Williams from North Wales Police said: "Arthur is keen walker and could be anywhere in Crete. The Crete Police and Arthur's family have become increasingly concerned for Arthur's welfare.
"I'm hoping our appeal will be seen by holidaymakers or other travellers who visited the island between 17 and 24 June and who may have information about his whereabouts to contact us and we can pass on to local police.
"I'd also appeal to anyone who is planning to visit Crete in the near future to consider the plight of Arthur's family and report any sightings or information to local police on the island.
"Arthur's family are being supported by North Wales Police and I'm sure they will be very grateful for any assistance the public are able to provide."
Mr Jones is described as 5'6" tall, medium build with short grey hair and a grey moustache.
His son Jeff from Prestatyn and others have been handing out 1,000 leaflets on the island, hoping British tourists will remember bumping into Mr Jones.
People in Denbigh are due to hold a candlelit vigil on Thursday for Mr Jones.
Stanford finished fourth in Brazil behind Great Britain team-mate and then house-mate Vicky Holland.
The 28-year-old missed out on the 2014 Commonwealth Games through injury, but is aiming for success in Australia.
"The Commonwealths is a special occasion and my priority for the next year," Stanford told BBC Wales Sport.
Stanford, the 2013 world champion, took a break following her Olympic disappointment.
"After the Games I took myself away from my Leeds environment and spent some time in Australia just to refresh myself," said Stanford.
I would just love to go [to the Gold Coast] and pull on the Welsh jersey. I don't really get a chance to represent Wales because it's always Great Britain
"It was important to step away from my fantastic every day environment where I have spent the last six years engrossed.
"It's healthy for everyone to take a break.
"You spend every day with this fantastic group of people, but a couple of weeks apart has done us all good and we are ready to go again."
Holland has since switched her training base to Bath, and Stanford insists they remain great friends despite what happened in Rio when the English woman ran away to win the bronze medal.
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"I was disappointed with the Games, but what happened, happened and I have to move on," said Stanford.
"We always said before and after the race our friendship came first and whatever happened on the course was just racing.
"Neither of us would have taken it personally. When it came down to the running it was every woman for herself and that's how it played out.
"Off the course we are still great friends. Vicky has left Leeds, but we talk nearly every day."
Stanford will begin her World Series campaign at the third event of the season in Yokohama, Japan in May as she starts the process of qualifying for the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast next April.
"I was disappointed to miss out in 2014 through injury at Glasgow so ever since then the Commonwealth Games has been firmly in my sights," added Stanford.
"I would just love to go there and pull on the Welsh jersey. I don't really get a chance to represent Wales because it's always Great Britain."
Stanford is also planning to try to make the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
"The aim is to qualify for Tokyo and get myself on that start line and once again do battle for a medal," said Stanford.
"A four-year cycle is a long time and you never know what is going to happen.
"I am going to take each year as it comes, enjoy the sport and racing and hopefully the four years will roll along quickly."
Boone Isaacs praised the "wonderful work" of the nominees but said she was "heartbroken" at the lack of diversity.
Lee said on Instagram he "cannot support" the "lily white" awards show.
Jada Pinkett Smith said in a video message on Facebook that she would not be attending the awards ceremony.
Boone Isaacs added that "dramatic steps" were being taken, saying: "In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond."
The 6,300 members, made up of people from the film industry, vote on who is nominated for the Oscars each year.
"This is a difficult but important conversation, and it's time for big changes," she said.
"As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. but the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly."
She said such a move was not "unprecedented" for the Academy, and that in the 60s and 70s younger members were recruited and that today's mandate was about inclusion: "gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation".
Boone Isaacs has also tried to make the show on 28 February more diverse, bringing in black comedian Chris Rock to host.
This is the second year in a row there have been boycott calls, sparked by a list of nominees that is mostly white.
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Among those overlooked for this year's Oscar nominations were the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton for best picture and Pinkett Smith's husband Will Smith, for best actor in NFL film Concussion.
Pinkett Smith said: "Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. And we are a dignified people and we are powerful."
She and Lee made their announcement on Martin Luther King Jr Day, a national holiday in the US to remember the civil rights leader.
"Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all," said Lee. "We can't act?!"
Hollywood trade paper The Wrap spoke anonymously to some Academy members, many of whom applauded Isaacs' comments.
"They're not embarrassed today," one Academy member and former governor said.
"They're disgusted."
Another member said: "The problem is not the nominations. It's the make-up of the Academy, and more than that the make-up of Hollywood."
Another said: "The irony is, if Hollywood is not open to diversity, then we're in real trouble as a country, because Hollywood is supposed to be liberal and open."
But others were sceptical: "Any way you slice it, it's a knee-jerk reaction," one member told The Wrap.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday, Doctor Who actor Colin McFarlane, said of Lee's decision to not attend the Oscars: "You've got to be at the party to change the conversation but I completely understand the frustration - black actors are being written out of history.
"The game is changing and I think it needs to change on both sides of the Atlantic - the Baftas and the Oscars - and there should be more women.
"(Black) kids need to see themselves on TV and in the movies."
Last year, there were similar calls to boycott the Oscars ceremony but Lee and Pinkett Smith are the first high-profile figures to carry out the threat.
Neil Patrick Harris presented the show and the audience figures were down 16% to a six-year low.
The hashtag "OscarsSoWhite" was heavily used after Thursday's announcement.
The Reverend Al Sharpton said: "Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher up you get the whiter it gets and this year's Academy Awards will be yet another Rocky Mountain Oscar."
The holders face Chile in the Maracana and must get something from their second Group B outing following their stunning 5-1 defeat by the Netherlands.
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Australia v Netherlands (17:00 BST, Estadio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre)
Mark Lawrenson: "Australia will give everything, again, but they just do not have the quality to test the Dutch.
"The only thing for Netherlands to watch out for is complacency. Yes, they had an outstanding win over Spain but they cannot just turn up and think they will win comfortably - they have to apply themselves as well."
Lawro's prediction: Australia 0-2 Netherlands
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Spain v Chile (20:00 BST, Maracana, Rio de Janeiro)
Lawrenson: "The defending champions suffered a complete collapse in the second half against Netherlands but if David Silva had scored from a great chance when they were 1-0 up before half-time, I am sure they would have gone on to win from there.
"Yes, I expect Spain manager Vicente Del Bosque to make some changes, including replacing Iker Casillas in goal, and possibly in the way that they play.
"But I also expect Spain to win. Chile beat Australia but that is the game in this group that the other three teams will be expecting to win."
Lawro's prediction: Spain 2-0 Chile
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Cameroon v Croatia (23:00 BST, Arena Amazonia, Manaus)
Lawrenson: "Croatia need to pick themselves up because they spent two days moaning about the decisions that went against them against Brazil, and that is probably long enough.
"They need to concentrate on the positives because they played well and caused Brazil some problems, especially Ivica Olic down the left. Cameroon, in contrast, were very poor against Mexico."
Lawro's prediction: Cameroon 1-2 Croatia
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Chile's Jorge Valdivia is a lavishly gifted playmaker. He has courted controversy off the field, but has rewarded coach Jorge Sampaoli's faith in him and scored the second goal in the 3-1 win over Australia on Friday.
This classic number 10 has served two lengthy bans from international football for alcohol-related indiscretions, and was kidnapped in Brazil in 2012.
However Sampaoli has called the 30-year-old an "irreplaceable talent", and compared him favourably to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Now playing his club football with Palmeiras in Brazil for the second time, Valdivia's goal against Australia was only his fifth for his country and his first since May 2010.
Barcelona forward Alexis Sanchez could face several of his club-mates, and potentially condemn them to an early exit from the tournament, when Chile play Spain in Manaus.
Sanchez, who became the most expensive player in Chilean football history with his £23m move from Udinese in 2011, scored one and laid on another in the 3-1 victory over Australia that has given his country such a good platform going into their meeting with the World Cup holders.
The 25-year-old's Barca colleague Gerard Pique has been a mainstay of Spain's success in recent years, and could be set to play against Sanchez, but Del Bosque has admitted he could make "some changes" to his side in the wake of the defeat by the Netherlands that sent shockwaves through the tournament.
If Pique retains his place in Spain's back four, how he and his fellow defenders cope with Sanchez will go a long way to determining whether or not the World Cup holders' title defence ends a lot earlier than many would have predicted.
Chile have never beaten Spain in their 10 previous encounters, losing eight and drawing two.
Spain's 5-1 defeat by the Netherlands was the heaviest margin of defeat by a reigning World Cup champion in the history of the tournament. The previous heaviest were Brazil losing 3-0 to France in 1998 and West Germany losing 6-3 to France in 1958.
By netting against Spain, Robin van Persie and Arjen Robben became the first and second Netherlands players to score in three different World Cup tournaments - 2006, 2010 and 2014.
Tim Cahill, with four goals and one assist, has been involved in 56% of Australia's nine goals in World Cup history.
Cameroon only had one shot on target in the whole of their opening group game against Mexico - in the 91st minute.
Croatia have not won any of their past five World Cup matches, losing three and drawing two, with their most recent finals victory coming in 2002, when they beat Italy 2-1.
Spain beat Chile 2-1 in South Africa four years ago, but their first World Cup encounter took place at today's venue, the Maracana, in 1950 when Spain won 2-0.
Both Chile and Australia were in action on 18 June at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, having been drawn in the same group as the hosts and East Germany.
The Socceroos' interest in their first World Cup finals was effectively ended by their 3-0 defeat by West Germany, and it was to be a further 22 years before Australia made it to another tournament.
On the same day, Chile were held 1-1 by East Germany in West Berlin, and after a goalless draw with Australia in their final group match, the South Americans were also heading home.
Spain's vital match with Chile takes place at the Maracana, one of the most famous footballing venues in the world.
It hosted Brazil's ill-fated meeting with Uruguay in 1950, where the host nation, needing only a draw to win the World Cup, were defeated 2-0 in front of 200,000 people.
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The result was deemed a national catastrophe and dubbed O Maracanaco, a Portuguese term roughly translated as 'The Maracana Blow'.
Nevertheless it has subsequently witnessed such memorable moments such as Pele's 1,000th career goal and an emotional memorial service for Garrincha, one of Brazil's greatest and most loved footballers.
The refurbished 73,500-capacity stadium will host the final on Sunday, 13 July.
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Although medically safe and not illegal, the chemical can cause a drop in blood pressure, fainting and heart attacks when used on a regular basis.
But those using it publicly in Lambeth can now be issued with an on-the-spot fine of up to £1,000.
Councillor Jane Edbrooke said using the gas was "not harmless fun".
The Global Drug Survey says it is the UK's fourth popular recreational drug.
In 2013-14, some 470,000 people took nitrous oxide, according to the Home Office.
It is especially popular with young people, with 7.6% of 16 to 24-year-olds taking it that same year - a greater proportion than took cocaine (4.2%) and ecstasy (3.9%).
There have, however, been 17 fatalities related to the use of laughing gas in the UK between 2006 and 2012, according to research.
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs says there was one death in 2011 and five in 2010. The US records about 15 deaths a year.
It is illegal to sell to under-18s if there is a risk they will inhale it, but it remains available for adults to buy.
Lambeth Council has now used new powers allowing local authorities to make their own laws to tackle local problems.
Ms Edbrooke said the council hoped the ban would get a message across to the public.
"It's not healthy, just because they're caused legal highs does not mean they're good for your health," she said.
Local police and council officers will both enforce the ban.
She secured 50.5% of the vote with 99% of ballots counted, while incumbent Ivo Josipovic was close behind on 49.5%.
Mr Josipovic has conceded defeat and congratulated his opponent.
The challenger's win is a sign that Croatia may be shifting to the right after the centre-left coalition's failure to end six years of downturn.
The election was seen as a key test for the main parties ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held towards the end of 2015.
The gap between the two candidates remained at about one percentage point throughout much of the second round.
Turnout was 58.9% - some 12% more than in the first round held two weeks ago, which was equally close.
Ms Grabar-Kitarovic is a politically conservative member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which pushed the country towards independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
The 46-year-old is a former foreign minister and assistant to the Nato secretary general.
"I will not let anyone tell me that Croatia will not be prosperous and wealthy," she told jubilant supporters in the capital Zagreb, calling for national unity to tackle the economic crisis.
Mr Josipovic, a 57-year-old law expert and classical composer, had been president since 2010.
The BBC's Guy De Launey says Mr Josipovic had been so popular for so long that it seemed impossible he could fail in a bid for re-election.
His problem was that he was backed by the governing, centre-left coalition that has failed to pull Croatia out of a six-year-long recession.
Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic apologised for being a "burden" to the outgoing president. His government may also pay the price in elections later this year, our correspondent adds.
Croatia, which became the newest member of the European Union when it joined in July 2013, has an unemployment rate close to 20%.
The Croatian president has a say in foreign policy and is head of the army, but running the country is primarily left to the government.
Mr Josipovic proposed constitutional changes in a bid to solve the economic crisis - including increased powers for the president.
The 21-year-old impressed on loan at Peterborough United in League One last season, playing 45 games and winning the players' player of the year award.
McGee has signed a three-year deal at Fratton Park.
"He's come through Tottenham's academy system and they've produced a lot of good players," assistant manager Joe Gallen told Portsmouth's website.
"It's great that we've been able to bring in a goalkeeper who's good enough now and is going to improve in the future."
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Chris Ashton's last-minute try denied Scarlets a memorable win against Champions Cup holders Saracens.
English and French sides have won Europe's top-tier competition in each of the last four seasons.
"It's good to see that gap appears to be closing," Pivac said after a campaign in which his side beat Toulon.
He added: "There are a lot of good performances from the Pro12 sides and we've put our hands up as well."
Scarlets' 22-22 draw against Saracens ended the Welsh region's slim hopes of qualifying for the Champions Cup quarter-finals.
Pivac's men were dealt a tough hand at the start of the campaign, having been drawn against current holders Saracens, the winners of the three previous tournaments Toulon and English Premiership side Sale.
The New Zealander has been encouraged by the efforts of the Llanelli-based region, who end their European campaign with a trip to Sale next Saturday.
"It's a pretty tough pool but certainly to beat Toulon and to have this game run so close and end up with a draw [against Saracens] shows we've made a lot of improvements," Pivac added.
"We've still got to keep improving.
"We're still a point away from the top four in the Pro12 so that's obviously a big goal for us, to make the play-offs.
"The hardest thing for us is getting into those play-offs. If we can get there, on our day, we can compete with most sides."
The review by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons also found handcuffs were used excessively and some people spent too long in cells.
But a report concluded care and safety was generally better in north Wales than elsewhere.
HM Court and Tribunals said it was working to improve secure custody.
During the July 2015 inspections of 26 courts, assessors raised concerns some custody staffing levels compromised detainees' safety and care.
They pointed to Wrexham Magistrates' Court, where cell bells were not answered quickly, some defendants were not checked regularly and staff were sometimes left alone in the custody suite.
Inspectors said the process of identifying vulnerable detainees was inconsistent across Wales and staff needed more training to better understand mental health, drug and alcohol problems.
They also found some workers put too much focus on security rather than the treatment of detainees, but said aspects of care in north Wales were better than elsewhere.
This could be down to workers having more time than their colleagues in busier areas such as south Wales, the report said.
But the review found the use of force to restrain people when needed was rare and most custody staff had good people-skills which helped them calm conflict.
Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons, Martin Lomas, said: "This report raises concerns about safety and risk management, as well as staff training, and we have made a number of recommendations, some to be resolved nationally, that would contribute to improvements in the care of detainees, particularly the most vulnerable."
A spokesman for HM Courts and Tribunals said it was working to improve and deliver safe and secure custody and to make better use of video links to avoid prisoners being brought to court unnecessarily.
James Fairweather, 17, was given two life sentences for killing James Attfield, 33, and Nahid Almanea, 31, in Colchester in 2014.
Mr Attfield was stabbed more than 100 times while Saudi Arabian student Ms Almanea was stabbed with a bayonet.
Simon Spence, QC, said his client was appealing against the "excessive" minimum sentence.
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Fairweather, from Colchester, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, but was found guilty of murder after a trial at Guildford Crown Court.
His defence argued he had been bullied at school and the killings were a result of a combination of his autism, paranoia and voices in his head.
The prosecution and jury rejected the claims.
Mr Spence said the application would be considered by a high court judge who would either grant leave for a full appeal or reject the application.
A date is yet to be set for the hearing.
He said the system would stop people from buying too much of a single item.
But the opposition in Venezuela rejected the plan, saying the policy treated all Venezuelans as thieves.
Critics said fingerprinting consumers of staple products was tantamount to rationing and constituted a breach of privacy.
Up to 40% of the goods which Venezuela subsidises for its domestic market are smuggled to Colombia, where they are sold at much higher prices, the authorities say.
"The amount of staples smuggled to Colombia would be enough to load the shelves of our supermarkets," Gen Efrain Velasco Lugo, a military spokesman, told El Universal newspaper earlier this week.
The opposition blames what it says are the failed left-wing policies of the past 15 years - initiated by late President Hugo Chavez - for the country's economic crisis.
Dissatisfaction with the shortage of many staples, as well as rampant crime and high inflation, led thousands of people in the western Venezuelan states of Tachira and Merida to take to the streets in January.
The protests quickly spread to the rest of Venezuela, which faces similar problems.
Earlier this month Venezuela launched an anti-smuggling operation on its border with Colombia.
It deployed 17,000 troops along the border and began closing all the crossings at night.
The one-month ban will be lifted in mid-September.
Correction 11 September 2014: This report, originally published on 22 August, contained a reference to the border closure being agreed by the two countries, based on statements by Venezuelan officials. This has been removed as Colombia later called it a "unilateral decision".
Portugal led through Ronaldo's 71st international strike and an Andreas Granqvist own goal.
But a Viktor Claesson double and Cavaco Cancelo's injury-time own goal secured a remarkable turnaround for the Swedes.
Ronaldo is expected to attend a naming ceremony at the airport on Wednesday.
The 32-year-old Real Madrid star, who captained his country to become European champions last year, was born in the Madeira capital of Funchal before joining Sporting Lisbon and then Manchester United.
Some local politicians had opposed the decision to change the name of Madeira Airport to Cristiano Ronaldo Airport.
"Sometimes, national gratitude has short memory, but Madeira doesn't," Miguel Albuquerque, the president of the Madeira government, said when the name change was announced last year.
Funchal already has a Ronaldo statue and museum, as well as a hotel complex in honour of the Portugal captain.
This was his first appearance for Portugal on his home island, where he paraded the European Championship trophy before kick-off.
But the celebration was somewhat tarnished by a superb Sweden comeback, earning them a third consecutive international win.
Both sides are second in their respective World Cup qualifying groups at the midway point.
Match ends, Portugal 2, Sweden 3.
Second Half ends, Portugal 2, Sweden 3.
Own Goal by João Cancelo, Portugal. Portugal 2, Sweden 3.
Foul by Renato Sanches (Portugal).
Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Eder (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Niklas Hult (Sweden).
Foul by Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal).
Sebastian Larsson (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sweden. Oscar Hiljemark replaces Filip Helander.
Corner, Portugal. Conceded by Sebastian Larsson.
Attempt blocked. Nelsinho (Portugal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ricardo Quaresma.
Foul by Renato Sanches (Portugal).
Jakob Johansson (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Sweden. Marcus Berg replaces Christoffer Nyman.
Foul by Nelsinho (Portugal).
Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Portugal. André Gomes replaces Gelson Martins.
Renato Sanches (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christoffer Nyman (Sweden).
Goal! Portugal 2, Sweden 2. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jimmy Durmaz with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Sweden. Conceded by Nelsinho.
Attempt blocked. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christoffer Nyman.
Hand ball by Viktor Claesson (Sweden).
Substitution, Sweden. Mikael Lustig replaces Emil Krafth because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Viktor Claesson (Sweden) because of an injury.
Substitution, Sweden. Jimmy Durmaz replaces Sam Larsson.
Bruno Alves (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Pontus Jansson (Sweden).
Corner, Sweden. Conceded by Nelsinho.
Attempt missed. Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) right footed shot from long range on the left is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Renato Sanches.
Attempt saved. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Portugal. Ricardo Quaresma replaces Cristiano Ronaldo.
Goal! Portugal 2, Sweden 1. Viktor Claesson (Sweden) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner. Assisted by Christoffer Nyman with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Niklas Hult.
Luís Neto (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Isaac Kiese Thelin (Sweden).
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
João Cancelo (Portugal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
The Spanish world number four had won all 17 of his matches on clay this year, including against Thiem in the Barcelona Open and Madrid Open finals.
But Thiem, ranked seventh, dominated on Friday, frequently forcing Nadal behind the baseline to set up a 6-4 6-3 win.
He will face world number two Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the semi-finals.
Djokovic beat Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro 6-1 6-4 after their rain-affected match was completed on Saturday.
American John Isner beat Croatia's Marin Cilic 7-6 (7-3) 2-6 7-6 (7-2) and will meet Alexander Zverev in the last four, after the 20-year-old German saw off Canada's Milos Raonic 7-6 (7-4) 6-1.
After triumphs in Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Madrid, 30-year-old Nadal was looking to win his fourth straight title on clay this year before the French Open, which starts on 28 May.
However, Thiem could now prove to be a major obstacle as Nadal aims to win a 10th title at Roland Garros.
The 23-year-old Austrian raced into a 5-1 lead with a double break and held his nerve to serve out the first set after Nadal had broken back to make it 5-4.
He continued to thrive by playing closer to the baseline than in recent defeats by Nadal, breaking in the seventh game of the second set.
Thiem then saved break points to hold, before breaking Nadal again to claim only his second win in six meetings with the 14-time Grand Slam champion.
Defending French Open champion Garbine Muguruza came through to claim a 6-2 3-6 6-2 victory over Venus Williams, who beat Britain's Johanna Konta in the last 16.
The 23-year-old Spaniard took the first set with a double break before American Williams, 36, hit back to level, but Muguruza responded in impressive fashion to win the decider with another double break.
In the semi-finals, third seed Muguruza faces eighth seed Elina Svitolina after the Ukrainian upset second seed Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic with a 6-2 7-6 (11-9) victory.
Romania's Simona Halep reached her third straight clay semi-final as she won 6-2 6-4 against Estonia qualifier Anett Kontaveit, who knocked out world number one Angelique Kerber in round two.
Halep, 25, will play Kiki Bertens in the last four after the Dutchwoman beat unseeded Australian Daria Gavrilova 6-3 6-3.
Dyfed Powys Police, assisted by the Health and Safety Executive, are investigating the death Ranger Michael Maguire at Castlemartin.
The Pembrokeshire coroner has also been informed following the incident on Wednesday.
His company commander at The 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, described him as "extremely popular".
Ranger Maguire's next of kin has been informed.
Company commander Major Richard Bell said: "Michael was always going to stand out from the crowd. Not only because he stood a towering 6' 7'' tall, but because of his vastly cheerful outlook on life, natural charisma and irrepressible good humour.
"All of this ensured that he was extremely popular throughout the company and his loss is keenly felt."
The MoD said it would be inappropriate to comment while a police investigation is ongoing.
Ranger Maguire, who is understood to come from the Irish Republic, joined the battalion in May 2010, prior to being deployed to Afghanistan later that September, according to his commanding officer, Lt Col Colin Weir.
"The entire battalion is deeply shocked by this tragic event and all our thoughts and prayers are with Ranger Maguire's family at this difficult time," he said.
Nid oedd cyfle i gwmnïau eraill wneud cais am y gwaith gan Gyfoeth Naturiol Cymru (CNC), a hynny'n bosib yn groes i reolau cystadleuaeth yr UE.
Dywedodd Nick Ramsay, cadeirydd pwyllgor cyfrifon cyhoeddus y Cynulliad, fod y sefydliad yn euog o "gamfarn ddifrifol".
Yn ôl llefarydd ar ran CNC mae cynllun gweithredu mewn grym, a dywedodd bod y corff dan bwysau ar y pryd oherwydd bod y sefyllfa "yn ddifrifol iawn".
Mewn adroddiad hynod feirniadol, dywed y pwyllgor bod "pryderon difrifol" wrth ddysgu taw un swyddog yn CNC wnaeth drefnu'r cytundeb.
"O ystyried y symiau o arian cyhoeddus dan sylw, credwn ei bod hi'n gwbl annerbyniol na chynhaliwyd proses ail-dendro lawn, agored a theg," medd yr adroddiad.
Dyw enw'r cwmni ddim yn ymddangos yn yr adroddiad yma nag adroddiad blaenorol gan Swyddfa Archwilio Cymru ond mae BBC Cymru yn deall mai BSW Timber yw'r cwmni dan sylw.
Maent wedi ei lleoli ym Mhontnewydd ar Wy ym Mhowys.
Methodd y cwmni ag agor llinell lifio newydd yng Nghymru, oedd yn rhan o'r cytundeb 10 mlynedd â CNC.
Mae'r pwyllgor wedi argymell fod CNC yn adolygu'r ffordd mae'n darparu cytundebau, a'i bolisi tuag at reolau Ewropeaidd, sy'n atal ariannu'r sector breifat drwy'r pwrs cyhoeddus.
Dywedodd cyfreithwyr wrth CNC nad oedd y rheolau wedi'u torri, ond clywodd yr ACau nad oedd ymdrech i gymryd cyngor cyfreithiol tan dair blynedd wedi i'r cytundeb gael ei arwyddo.
Yn ôl CNC roedd angen cwblhau'r cytundeb yn gyflym i reoli'r clefyd coed Phytophthora Ramorum, oedd yn effeithio ar nifer fawr o goed llarwydd ar y pryd.
Fe wnaeth llefarydd ddweud bod CNC yn derbyn holl argymhellion yr adroddiad, a bod angen delio gyda materion gafodd eu hamlygu.
Ond ychwanegodd "nad oes unrhyw hunanfoddhad wedi bod gan CNC wrth ymateb i'r materion... roedden ni'n delio gyda sefyllfa ddifrifol iawn o haint llarwydd ar y pryd, ac roedd angen gweithredu ar frys".
The Zaventem facility has been closed since a twin suicide bomb attack on the departures hall on 22 March.
The SLFP police union told the BBC that security measures put in place for the reopening were insufficient.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it carried out bombings of the airport and metro system that killed 32 people.
Vincent Gilles, the president of the SLFP, the largest police union in Belgium, said: "We are on strike because of what happened on 22 March - we cannot continue as if this day has not happened.
"The police feel the security measures put in place by the airport company are insufficient for those who work and use the airport."
He called for more controlled access to the departures hall, including the use of metal detectors, body scanners and x-ray machines for luggage.
"We also need to check if all the people and luggage that pass through the area are in fact flying to further destinations," he said.
In an earlier statement, the airport's operators had said a partial reopening would be possible on Friday evening, after a temporary check-in system had been tested and made ready.
However, it said the departures area, which was severely damaged by the bomb attacks, would only operate at 20% of normal capacity, receiving only 800 departing passengers per hour.
The operator said on Friday this could not now go ahead because of the strike.
Belgian media said the government was still considering the possibility of a reopening.
Defence Minister Steven Vandeput said: "We must find a balance between economic needs and security needs."
The airport operator's chief executive, Arnaud Feist, said earlier this week that the airport would take months to reopen fully.
In an earlier open letter to authorities published by Belgian broadcaster VRT (in Dutch), police had said they had sent "strong daily signals regarding the overall security at the airport".
They also alleged that too many airport employees had criminal backgrounds.
Police are still searching for the third man who took part in the airport attacks. The man, pictured on CCTV wearing a hat, was said to have fled the scene without detonating his explosive device.
The two airport bombers who died have been named as Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui.
Bakraoui's brother, Khalid el-Bakraoui, blew himself up at Maelbeek metro station.
Police later found a computer in which Ibrahim el-Bakraoui left a final message.
The BBC has learned that the same computer contained plans and photos of Prime Minister Charles Michel's office and home.
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The 25-year-old broke the world number 25 in the opening game and dropped only four points on serve in the first set.
The world number 10 wasted four match points on her own serve in the eighth game of the second set, but broke Gavrilova in the ninth to seal victory.
Konta will play Russian world number 26 Daria Kasatkina in the quarter-finals.
The 19-year-old beat world number one Angelique Kerber earlier. Third seed Dominika Cibulkova and fifth seed Svetlana Kuznetsova were also beaten on Tuesday.
Konta said: "It's such a strong tournament, such depth. I know going into every single match that it's going to be a tough one and I'm just going to have to, first and foremost, take care of things my end."
Shire led through Thomas Orr but Jordan Cairnie's headed own goal levelled matters.
Scott McLaughlin nodded Clyde in front and Sean Higgins struck their third.
The visitors had David March dismissed and then conceded when Kris Faulds netted but Higgins' second made sure of victory late on.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the jobless total fell by 17,000, or 0.6%, over the three months to April to stand at 109,000.
The Scottish unemployment rate now stands at 4%, which equals the figure recorded between March and May in 2008.
The UK rate is 4.6%, with a total of 1.53 million unemployed people recorded in the latest quarter.
Meanwhile, employment in Scotland rose by 14,000 over the same period to stand at 74.1%.
But the ONS also reported a fall in UK average earnings, which grew by 2.1% in the year to April - down by 0.2% on the previous month.
The fall was greater when measured over a three-month period, confirming that wages are falling behind the 2.9% inflation rate.
Employability and Training Minister Jamie Hepburn said: "Scotland's unemployment rate is at its lowest rate since the recession and matches the lowest on record for Scotland since the series began.
"With the employment rate rising, it's clear this is hugely positive news for our economy and the jobs market."
The UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said: "Today's figures show that Scotland's labour market continues to improve and I am pleased that the unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest rate on record.
"But a number of significant challenges remain and I want to see Scotland's economic performance improve, catching up with the rest of the UK.
"This is why it is more important than ever that Scotland's two governments work together to help ensure Scotland's prosperity."
Dr Stuart McIntyre, from the Fraser of Allander economic research institute, said: "At a time when the Scottish economy is struggling, at first glance the labour market appears to be holding up rather well.
"However, almost all of the growth in employment over the year to the latest quarter is accounted for by growth in self-employment rather than in traditional employee jobs.
"Not nearly enough is known about the nature and composition of this recent growth in self-employment to judge whether this is a positive development."
Scottish Chambers of Commerce welcomed the figures but said there were still "some areas of concern", with average earnings continuing to lag behind inflation.
Chief executive Liz Cameron said: "Low productivity rates dictate that earnings growth may be unlikely to improve significantly over the short term and, with inflation having risen by more than expectations, the pressures on consumer demand, business margins and future business investment continue."
She added: "Scotland has also experienced a significant rise in the number of people dropping out of the labour market altogether over the past year.
"Coupled with continued reports of hard to fill vacancies amongst Scottish businesses, this underlines the need for government to increase investment in training opportunities, not only for young people but also for older workers, to enable people to upskill and reskill and get back into the workforce."
Police issued a description of a suspect following the incident in Newhame Road on 17 December.
Officers said the pensioner was left shaken by the incident, but was uninjured.
A report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal and the man is expected to appear at Forfar Sheriff Court on Friday.
I've seen similar statements repeated across the board since China's surprise move to devalue its currency yesterday and then by allowing it to weaken further on Wednesday.
As currency analyst Philippe Gelis, CEO and co-founder of Kantox told me: "China's rapid U-turn in monetary policy highlights that the nation's economic situation is reaching desperation point.
"Despite previously stating that the currency would let the yuan float, China has instead opted for a clear currency war".
Strong words, for what seem on the surface to be small moves.
Let's look at the numbers. China devalued its currency against the US dollar by 1.9% yesterday and cut its reference rate by a further 1.6% today. China sets its own exchange rate for its currency - although it's now saying that the new mechanism it has used to change the value of the yuan will be more market oriented.
But still - those are tiny devaluations in the big scheme of things.
Also the devaluations are unlikely to have an immediate effect on exports. DBS Bank in its daily breakfast note said "A proper devaluation is 10 - 30%, and it has to stay the course for a year before exports start to show any change".
But the question we should be asking isn't how much did China's devalue its currency by - but why now?
China's been under international pressure to allow its currency to be driven by market forces as opposed to by the government for years. The US has been its biggest critic - saying that Beijing keeps the currency artificially low to help boost exports.
So in theory, China says it is doing what the US and the international community wants. According to the language of the Chinese central bank, China will now allow the yuan's value to be more flexible.
This has already got it a nod of approval from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which overnight said China's new mechanism for setting the daily reference rate for the yuan was a "welcome step".
Remember China wants to enter the IMF's elite global currency club - something it can't do without more of a more market driven exchange rate.
So again - in theory - the US should have welcomed this move too.
But overnight, the US Treasury department said:
"We will continue to monitor how these changes are implemented and continue to press China on the pace of its reforms…Any reversal in reforms would be a troubling development."
So let's go back to that key question: why did China devalue its currency now - and allow for market forces to play more of a role now?
Well some economists say the timing of the depreciation appears to be far too sudden, a kneejerk reaction to the weaker than expected export figures.
Over the weekend export figures showed a slump of more than 8% from last year. Analysts say Chinese officials are clearly concerned about the fact that rebalancing their economy and moving from exports to consumption is taking longer than they expected.
But Chinese factories employ millions of people - and any sharp slowdown could affect their livelihoods - and lead to massive job losses, which could make the Chinese government unpopular - and possibly lead to social unrest.
The reality is that rebalancing takes time - but it appears that it may be taking too long for Chinese officials to allow the economy to re-engineer itself.
China's move is already having repercussions around the region. Asian currencies are reacting by all falling even lower than the levels they've been trading at. So this move could be seen as a race to the bottom - one in which nobody wins, as one DBS report put it:
"So China goes back to producing stuff that generates lower and lower profit margins - stuff that is increasingly surplus to what the world can consume…. That would be unsustainable. "
But China has already said it's not trying to manage the money markets - in a statement the People's Bank of China said "Looking at the international and domestic economic situation, currently there is no basis for a sustained deprecation trend for the yuan."
Whether the market will remain convinced of that though, will depend on what China's next move will be.
Glasgow Warriors' Mark Bennett will make his debut at outside centre and Adam Ashe will play at number eight.
"We've selected a group we believe can do the job against Argentina," said head coach Vern Cotter.
"There is a genuine desire for this squad and those selected for the Test to play well for the jersey."
On 17 November 2013, Jonny Gray made his debut for Scotland against South Africa, replacing brother Richie just after the hour mark.
Ten of the starting XV are made up of players selected from Glasgow Warriors, who have started the PRO12 campaign in blistering form with only one loss in seven matches this season.
"We have several performance-related themes, and have looked for people who have the ability to control games, take initiative, can pick up the ball and run with it, who like physical confrontation and can keep the ball alive," said Cotter.
"These are things that we have prioritised in our selection and we're now all looking forward to getting out there and putting in a good performance in front of the Scottish people on Saturday."
On debutant Bennett, Cotter added: "I really appreciate what Mark has done because he has been very patient and has been developing his performances week in, week out for Glasgow Warriors.
"Patience and working hard is what you want from your players.
"You can see his determination in the way he breaks the line and scores tries. I'm really pleased he's developed that over the last couple of years and will now make his debut for his country, which is a very special achievement."
The Gray brothers will support an experienced front-row trio of Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford and Euan Murray, who share a total of 173 caps going into the game.
The forwards are completed by the back-row combination of flankers Rob Harley and Blair Cowan forming a unit with Ashe for the first time.
In the backs, all but one player - captain Greig Laidlaw - have been picked from the Warriors' attacking stable, with Finn Russell the half-back partner at stand-off, and Alex Dunbar starting alongside Bennett in midfield.
The back three of Stuart Hogg, Sean Maitland and Tommy Seymour in the wide channels complete the side.
Cotter reaffirmed his desire to empower his players' attacking form, adding: "When the players run out they'll do it with a lot of pride and a lot of respect.
"There will be a common cause to have the confidence to attack and take the initiative against Argentina, which is arguably the most improved country in the world.
"We'll try and put a cohesive effort out there technically and tactically, but I can assure you the players are, emotionally, very attached and are working extra hard to put in a good performance.
"So let's be strong, let's be passionate as we always are; play for the people that come to the stadium and the Scots in this country and around the world."
Scotland: Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors), Sean Maitland (Glasgow Warriors), Mark Bennett (Glasgow Warriors), Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors), Tommy Seymour (Glasgow Warriors), Finn Russell (Glasgow Warriors), Greig Laidlaw CAPTAIN (Gloucester), Alasdair Dickinson (Edinburgh Rugby), Ross Ford (Edinburgh Rugby), Euan Murray (Glasgow Warriors), Richie Gray (Castres), Jonny Gray (Glasgow Warriors), Rob Harley (Glasgow Warriors), Blair Cowan (London Irish), Adam Ashe (Glasgow Warriors),
Replacements: Scott Lawson (Gloucester), Gordon Reid (Glasgow Warriors), Geoff Cross (London Irish), Jim Hamilton (Saracens), Alasdair Strokosch (Perpignan), Henry Pyrgos (Glasgow Warriors), Duncan Weir (Glasgow Warriors), Sean Lamont (Glasgow Warriors),
Referee: Wayne Barnes (RFU), Assistant referees: George Clancy (IRFU), Marius Mitrea (FIR), TMO: Eric Gauzins (FFR)
The theatre's foyer will be doubled in size, access will be improved and a recording studio built.
More than half the money has been provided by the Big Lottery Fund, with the rest coming from charitable trusts.
Workington Playgoers Club said it would allow the venue to be used by a wider cross-section of the community.
The group has formed a partnership with Soundwave, a local music charity, which works with more than 3,000 children and young musicians every year.
Stella Kanu, director of Soundwave, said: "Having our own dedicated recording studio alongside specialist spaces for our workshops is priceless.
"It will allow us to enrich the lives of many more young people from Workington and beyond."
Almost 600 16 to 24-year-olds were asked to choose the most important moral issue from eight options, with 59% opting for caring for family.
Some 4% said having religious faith or beliefs was the most important.
The poll also suggests 51% of young people believe they are less concerned with morals than their parents.
The poll, commissioned by BBC Religion and Ethics, asked young people to choose their top moral issue, with options including buying ethical products, being faithful to a partner and caring for the environment.
Looking after family was the top choice, with "putting others first" coming some way behind in second.
Four per cent listed practising a religion as the most important moral issue, the same percentage as said paying taxes.
When asked for the least important issue, religion came out on top with a third of respondents citing it.
New figures from the British Social Attitudes survey - published alongside the poll - suggest that about half of Britons as a whole have a religious affiliation, sharply down from 20 years ago when it was two-thirds.
Barely a quarter of young people now identify themselves as religious.
Of the eight moral issues, the poll found:
The poll was carried out by TNS BMRB to coincide with the opening of the BBC's Re:Think Festival.
The festival takes place in Salford, Greater Manchester, on Wednesday and Thursday and will include a debate on the relationship between science and religion between Professor Richard Dawkins and the country's Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks.
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The 34-year-old former Saracens and Leeds Carnegie lock has played 232 Premiership matches, including 138 for Bath, who he joined in 2008.
Hooper's 10th and final appearance of this season came in March's 21-19 win at home to Newcastle Falcons.
"You need to be 100% to play for Bath at this level, so my playing days are now over," he told BBC Radio Bristol.
"I did the injury in December against Leicester. I missed five or six weeks initially, got it back to a stage when I could play, but didn't get it right unfortunately.
"I implicitly trust their [the surgeon's] judgement. Now I'm very, very excited about the next challenges in life."
Hooper, who sits ninth on the all-time list of Premiership appearance makers, became Bath's captain in 2011.
His side are currently ninth in the Premiership.
"To lead like he has done is a great tribute to the man," said Bath head coach Mike Ford. "To get this far is a great achievement, to play in the position that he plays for 16 years at the top level.
"Stuart made a decision at the beginning of the season that this was going to be his last. It's not quite on his terms but it's only four games off his terms. Some people have to retire with years left in them.
"He's had a fabulous career and we're hoping and planning that he stays around the club and works both with me and the commercial side as well. He's not going away.
"He's a fantastic individual of great character and the club have recognised that we need people like that in the organisation. He'll be here for a long time."
Kennedy, then 28, predicted "Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived".
"He had in him the stuff of which legends are made," he continued.
Kennedy wrote the entry in the summer of 1945 after touring the German dictator's Bavarian mountain retreat.
It is thought by historians to be the only diary ever kept by the 35th US president.
The original copy will be auctioned for the first time on 26 April in Boston by longtime owner Deirdre Henderson, who worked as a research assistant for Kennedy while he was a US senator with White House ambitions.
He wrote that Hitler "had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him".
The 61-page diary was kept by Kennedy around four months after Hitler committed suicide.
At the time, the young American was touring Europe as a newspaper reporter after finishing his military service aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean.
Some two decades later Kennedy would address crowds in West Berlin as US president.
He gave Ms Henderson the diary in order to inform her of his views on foreign policy and national security, she said.
In a description of the auction, she wrote: "When JFK said that Hitler 'had in him the stuff of which legends are made', he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world."
"Nowhere in this diary, or in any of his writings, is there any indication of sympathy for Nazi crimes or cause," she continued.
The diary also contains JFK's thoughts about the British election and Winston Churchill, who Ms Henderson called his "idol".
The winning bid is expected to be around $200,000 (£160,000).
Billy Vunipola muscled over for a late try to give England a 35-11 win in a disjointed display at Twickenham.
"It was a big occasion and there were a few nerves. We got a good lead but didn't put the nail in the coffin," Lancaster told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We had to work hard and that last try late in the game was a massive relief."
Listen to Lancaster talk about England's performance on BBC Radio 5 live's In Short
Two tries from full-back Mike Brown and the impact of a superior set of replacements saw Lancaster's men home.
However, had Fiji been more clinical with their kicking the scoreline would have been closer.
England face Wales in their next Pool A match at Twickenham on 26 September and, after his substitutions worked so effectively, Lancaster hinted at changes to the starting XV.
"We didn't get our game plan into action," he said. "We have to be more direct; we were a little bit lateral. Our bench made us much quicker.
"Overall it was a big game to play and if you'd have offered me a four-try bonus I'd have taken it.
"We definitely have some decisions to make - we have two days to dwell on that. We'll watch the game again, meet on Sunday and narrow down our selection next week."
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Captain Chris Robshaw told Radio 5 live: "With the emotion of the opening ceremony there were nerves, but now we're into it.
"The opening game can be edgy and you have to give a lot of credit to Fiji.
"We knew it was going to be tough. We knew it would come down to the last five or 10 minutes because Fiji were hard to break down.
"The bonus point might be hugely important."
He posted a video online saying too much money was spent on defence and it should go to the NHS instead.
New submarines carrying nuclear weapons are being designed at BAE Systems in Barrow, Cumbria.
Barrow Labour MP John Woodcock said he would rather be protected by a nuclear deterrent than an "eccentric comedian".
In his own online video he said: "This is a substantial investment, but the overall majority of this goes on employing the many thousands of the most highly-skilled engineers and manufacturers.
"I want us to have more to be able to defend this country than a sharp-witted, eccentric comedian.
"Come to Barrow and meet some of this workforce. Let's do this thing properly."
Brand had asked how the country could have a "properly-funded NHS".
"Is it at the expense of the arms industry? The answer is obviously yes," he said.
"As the NHS struggles against a £2bn funding gap this year the money diverted into Trident - £3.3bn being spent in the assessment phase, not to mention the £2-3bn we spend every year just running our current Trident system - reflects the choice our government has made."
He appeared to be quoting a New Statesman article by Kate Hudson from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in part of what he said.
Brand was unavailable for comment on Mr Woodcock's remarks and BAE declined to comment.
The firm's Barrow shipyard employs about 6,900 people. Around 1,400 of those are currently working on the Successor submarine replacement programme.
The government has put the cost of replacing Trident at £15-20bn, but campaigners have argued it will cost at least £34bn.
The replacement submarines are expected to come into operation in 2028.
The funding is part of a £1.25bn package of increased spending on children and adolescents' mental health services announced in March's budget.
The money for 2015/16 is short of the £250m Department of Health officials had expected to be spent this year.
A further £30m will be spent helping people with eating disorders this year, the department said.
The details are likely to include a guarantee that by 2020, 95% of patients will be seen within four weeks of being referred, with the most urgent cases seen within a week.
On mental health spending, a department spokeswoman said they had reduced this year's spending to ensure the money was properly invested.
She added they were fully committed to spending the whole £1.25bn over the course of the Parliament.
Children's mental health services in England are under severe strain, with long waiting times for treatment and few hospital beds, forcing some children to travel large distances for treatment.
Sarah Brennan, head of the charity Young Minds, said: "I'm not worried about how much they are spending this year as long as it's spent well, that the money is spent intelligently.
"They should use it to gear up this year, organise themselves and hire the right staff, allowing them to make next year a year of real transformation."
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, the former care minister, said the shortfall in 2015/16 should be spent next year.
He added: "We also have to ensure that the government don't cut the money they give other areas of mental health funding, such as local authorities, who fund many psychiatric services for young people."
Dr Martin McShane, national clinical director for long-term conditions at NHS England, said: "The number of children and young people with an eating disorder is on the rise and it is right that the government has made this a priority and that we now have a clear waiting time standard.
"It is clinically proven that patients recover most quickly when we treat them as early and as close to home as possible.
"By prioritising our focus on doing this we can minimise the number of young people who end up needing more specialised in-patient care."
Outside Trump Tower, you don't see many people wearing Make America Great Again baseball caps or hear them chanting "build a wall!"
Despite boasting he could turn the Empire State red, Hillary Clinton won in a landslide. In New York City, she took 79% of the vote.
Of the city's five boroughs, Trump took Staten Island, a blue-collar stronghold, but was beaten badly in the other four. In Manhattan, his long-time home, nine out of 10 voters supported Hillary Clinton.
New Yorkers have voiced their displeasure with a Big Apple mix of in-your-face boisterousness and creative flair.
Not only have there been large and vocal demonstrations, but also more subtle forms of dissent, like the Post-it protest at Union Square subway station, where an entire underpass has become a multi-coloured collage of mainly anti-Trump invective.
Last week, residents at apartment buildings on the Upper West Side adorned with the Trump brand successfully agitated to have those five offending capital letters removed.
Since his unexpected win, Manhattan has taken on the feel of a real-life Gotham, with the billionaire cast by his many detractors as an evil super-villain.
In his eponymous skyscraper he resides, tweeting maniacally, as protesters swirl angrily below fearful that he poses a mortal threat to their city and their planet.
Trump Tower also looks more and more like a gilded cage. Only twice since election night has the billionaire left its Louis XIV-inspired confines.
While he boasted during the election that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose voters, he has not stepped foot onto its sidewalks as president-elect. Now Fifth Avenue is lined with heavily armed police to prevent people from harming him.
Tellingly, most of his tweet-storms since election day have been aimed at Big Apple targets.
First off, it was the protesters themselves, whom he initially claimed were professional agitators and sore losers. Then came the New York Times, for what he claimed was its inaccurate reporting about the chaos within the transition.
Next in the cross-hairs were the cast of Hamilton, Broadway's hottest show, for its curtain call plea directed at Vice-President Mike Pence to respect the rights of all Americans.
Finally it was Saturday Night Live, a show billed as being "live from New York" which has always fed off the late-night non-conformism of this city.
Nothing lays bare Donald Trump's thin skin quite like criticism from his hometown.
This was noticeable as well during the campaign. In the summer, Trump lashed out at "Little Michael Bloomberg," after the former Mayor of New York City called him a fraud at the Democratic convention. "I'm a New Yorker, and I know a con when I see one," said Bloomberg.
In February, the billionaire also went after the New York Daily News, along with its owner Mort Zuckerman, after the tabloid likened him to the Batman villain, The Joker.
"Dopey Mort Zuckerman, owner of the worthless @NYDailyNews, has a major inferiority complex," harrumphed Trump. "Paper will close soon!"
Only this morning, Trump renewed his online trolling of the New York Times, firing off three Tweets after cancelling a meeting with its executives and editors. "Perhaps" a new meeting would be set up, he wrote, but, "In the meantime they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!"
What appears to have angered him is a story published by the New York Times raising questions about his business conflicts of interests, specifically at a British wind farm.
It was also the story that prompted Trump to suggest that Nigel Farage should become the UK ambassador in Washington.
Trump, who critics claim is a narcissist, feeds off adulation, but he receives little of that in Manhattan. The city's super-rich club has long regarded him as a vulgar self-publicist with questionable business acumen and, by their standards, a small bank balance.
Trump has never mustered the requisite wealth or displayed the requisite level of civic-minded altruism to join an elite whose surnames are found on hospitals, academic institutes and art galleries, rather than residential apartment buildings.
After spending much of the past year or so watching and travelling with Donald Trump, I've been struck by how his physical demeanour changes when he appears in public in New York City. Not in the atrium of Trump Tower, his personal fiefdom, where his incendiary rhetoric ricochets off the marble walls, but rather when he steps outside that self-congratulatory echo chamber.
Two episodes come to my mind.
The first was when he attended the Al Smith dinner in the final weeks of the campaign, the event where candidates are supposed to make gentle fun of each other and themselves.
Faced with a hostile crowd of New York's white-tied elite, who booed parts of his speech, Trump seemed almost sheepish. The catcalls of rich New Yorkers seemed especially wounding, and it was the first time during the campaign when he looked like he had been cowed.
Likewise on election day, when he cast his ballot at a polling station in Manhattan, he seemed to recoil at being booed by a crowd outside. "New York hates you!" shouted one heckler. As he cast his ballot, there was none of the I-own-the-room showmanship and braggadocio that were the hallmark of his rally appearances in the south, in the Rust Belt, in Florida. Again, he seemed humbled by hometown hostility.
Much of New York has rejected Donald Trump because Donald Trump's candidacy seemed to reject the idea of New York.
To so many of its residents, this city is synonymous with multiculturalism, tolerance, religious freedom and globalism. Just ride the subway.
Though its welcoming tradition is often romanticised - Ellis Island was a brutal entry point for millions of new arrivals - it has nonetheless been a gateway for immigrants drawn to this country by the rich promise of the American dream.
In the eyes of many progressive-minded New Yorkers, Donald Trump's campaign was primarily about hate rather than hope.
It explains why the iconic symbol of this city, the Statue of Liberty, has been used as a weapon against him by so many cartoonists.
After the release of the Access Hollywood tape, a cartoon in Rolling Stone depicted Trump molesting Lady Liberty. Another showed Lady Liberty behind an office desk being told "You're fired."
The Economist's cartoonist Kal showed the statue repelling the billionaire with an anguished face and out-stretched arm. "Come on Babe!" says the cartoon incarnation of Trump. "Give your new boss a kiss!"
During the Republican primaries, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas tried to torpedo Trump by saying he had New York values, which was code, among other things, for being soft on abortion and supportive of gay rights.
But it is precisely because the Trump presidency appears to pose a threat to New York values that so many people here are taking to the streets, some of whom have never before protested in their lives.
The great anthem of this city, belted out in karaoke bars the world over, posits that if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But Donald Trump's success flies in the face of what might be called the Sinatra Doctrine.
Politically he has made it elsewhere, but if New York truly were a city-state - a small island off the north-east coast of America, as some of its residents sometimes prefer to think of it - the billionaire would have been buried in a landslide.
Donald Trump may be about to become the most powerful individual on the planet, but to many in his home city he is persona non grata.
The operator said there were just under 500 people on the Penzance to London Paddington service when it stalled near Pewsey, Wiltshire, on Sunday.
It said the delay was "unacceptable" and refunds would be given.
Passengers described the journey as "horrific" and claimed they were "treated like cattle".
The train was at a standstill for five hours and 40 minutes, arriving at Paddington at about 22:15 BST.
It was caused by a fractured air pipe, which caused the brakes to lock.
A woman on board told the BBC: "They ran out of food pretty quickly. They ran out of food the first or second hour into the breakdown and then water - I think they were giving out water to children and the elderly but that was about it."
Another passenger added: "The train was overcrowded before it even broke down. There was probably 20 or 30 people in each carriage who couldn't sit down."
The BBC was also told toilets were not functioning before the train broke down and passengers who had been standing after the train stopped were told they would have pay extra to make use of available seats in first class.
Dan Paynes, from First Great Western, said the upgrade demands "absolutely shouldn't have happened. It was completely unacceptable".
First Great Western managing director Mark Hopwood said there was "no doubt it wasn't a good experience in any shape or form last night".
He said: "Clearly what I need to do is say sorry.
"We are sorry. We need to investigate what's gone on and we need to learn some lessons quickly from this.
"It took a lot longer to find the fault than we wanted."
He added that all the affected customers would receive a refund and "appropriate compensation".
A spokeswoman for First Great Western added that a "delay of this magnitude is unacceptable and a full investigation will be carried out".
She said: "Our priority was to make sure our customers were looked after on the train and to get them moving as soon as we could.
"After extensive work to the train to get it moving, customers were met at Reading and London Paddington to make sure they could get to where they needed to go."
A number of people on board the train vented their frustration on Twitter.
One passenger, Sarah, tweeted that they had been "treated like cattle", adding: "No food, no water, no air con, no toilets flushing!
"Management on trains not communicating with passengers at all."
Mike Haydock tweeted: "Horrific journey with @FGW - train just started moving again after a five-and-a-half-hour standstill."
It also warns that many patients are confused about who to turn to when they need urgent medical help, so too often they go to A&E units.
The review - led by NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh - says there should be a much simpler 24/7 system.
Sir Bruce said the review offered an "excellent opportunity" to improve.
Urgent or unplanned care leads to around 100m NHS calls or visits each year, the report says.
A growing number of frail elderly patients, more long-term illnesses, new treatments and "increased public expectations" have all contributed to increased demand.
Sir Bruce was asked to look at the issue by the NHS Commissioning Board.
Concerns have been raised recently about A&E care - deemed to be on a "cliff-edge" by one NHS leader. GP out-of-hours services have also come under scrutiny.
However this review looks at all kinds of urgent and emergency care - including walk-in centres, telephone advice lines and minor injury centres - and concludes there is pressure throughout the system.
A key issue is "fragmentation and variation" in services.
This leads to confusion among patients who are then likely to "default" to A&E because they know where it is, that it will be open and offer a full range of care.
The report says: "The fragmentation and diverse nomenclature of urgent care services across England causes confusion amongst patients and healthcare professionals in terms of services offered.
"This can lead to patients presenting at services that may not best suit their needs."
It adds that there is an increasing reliance on telephone advice.
But the report warns that some patients "lack confidence" in such care and says they will often seek a second opinion anyway, leading to a "duplication of service provision".
Other issues identified include a lack of patient-awareness about the care which community pharmacists can provide, and the need for senior staff to be on duty more of the time, such as at weekends.
Prof Keith Willett, who is chairing the review's steering group, said: "We know that A&E is the pinch point of the health and care system and that staff are working very hard to provide the care they know the public need.
"To relieve the pressure and design a system that is sustainable and fit to meet future challenges, we need as many patients, doctors, nurses and NHS colleagues as possible to get involved."
Voting will be held in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, Bengal and Pondicherry, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said.
Polling will be held from 4 April to 16 May. Votes will be counted on 19 May.
Citizens from enclaves that India swapped with Bangladesh will also be eligible to vote.
Mr Zaidi said a total of 170 million voters would be eligible to cast their votes in the five states.
Regional parties are expected to play a dominant role in the elections.
Voting will be held in the eastern state of West Bengal in six phases on 4, 17, 21, 25 and 30 April, as well as 5 May.
Residents from Cooch Behar will also vote on 5 May. The district is home to 16,000 people who received Indian citizenship after India and Bangladesh swapped control of some 160 small pockets of land on each other's territory.
Mr Zaidi said his department was taking measures to ensure that enclave residents received voter identification cards to enable them to participate in the "country's largest democratic exercise".
The north-eastern state of Assam will go to polls in two phases - 4 and 11 April.
The southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry will all go polls in a single phase on 16 May.
People like 36-year-old Lee Hall from County Durham, who does not "understand politics at all", for example.
"I wouldn't know who to vote for," he says. "I wouldn't know how to."
It is not uncommon for journalists, out gathering opinion, to find people who do not know there is an election on, which party is in power or who the prime minster is.
Martin Hearn, 31, from Middlesbrough, sees how lack of knowledge might put people off voting but when "information is so easy to get hold of these days that it does seem like a weak excuse".
But "people have lost faith in politicians and don't know who to trust or what to believe", he says.
And the "press and other media outlets" do not help.
In some cases, neither do election leaflets, delivered to your door and full of useful election "facts".
A leaflet from Redcar Liberal Democrat candidate and local councillor Josh Mason gives the impression his party came a much closer second at the last general election, locally, than it did.
It also makes the claim that UKIP "can't win" in Redcar - showing a grey bar half the size of the Liberal Democrat's yellow bar - although the two parties had an almost identical share of the vote (18.4% and 18.5% respectively).
Mr Mason excuses this by saying the "leaflet does not depict a graph".
"The image depicts the order in which the parties finished and is not, in fact, a representation of the number of the votes cast," he says.
Lack of trust in sources of information - politicians, political parties, media and social media - is a problem, says Dr Stuart Fox from Cardiff University.
But trust has "never been that high", even among people who do vote.
What is "far more important" is lack of interest, he believes.
Data from political research and education charity the Hansard Society suggests older, white, more affluent and further educated people are more likely to vote.
They are also more likely to call themselves politically knowledgeable.
The research suggests the reverse is also true: younger, poorer and less educated people are less likely to vote and they claim lower levels of political awareness.
Dr Fox says "undoubtedly" there is a link between lack of knowledge and unwillingness to vote.
"They're too scared" to try to inform themselves, he says.
They can be interested but "quite daunted and intimidated by the whole process and can't find information that they feel is accessible or useful for them", he adds.
But, he cautions, some claim lack of knowledge when, in fact, they are just not motivated to take part.
In some countries, where voting is compulsory, motivation is beside the point.
North Korea, for one, claims a turnout of more than 99% and makes it easy by having only one candidate.
In more democratic Australia, voting is also compulsory - but at least there is a choice of candidates - and polling stations have "massive queues", says BBC librarian Leanne Nijemeisland, who moved from Melbourne to the UK.
"Not like here," she says, wryly.
"From a very young age you're taught how important it is to vote; there's this whole culture."
Non-voters "really, really aggravate" her and lack of knowledge is "not a good enough excuse", she says.
"You just have to take an educated guess.
"I don't trust politicians either, but you just have to go on what you think on the day based on the information you have."
"Do you know what year it is? Who the prime minister is?" A doctor would run through the standard list of questions to gauge whether a patient is confused.
But even those who are not have struggled to name some of the UK's leaders.
A North East hospital consultant describes how perfectly compos mentis patients often could not name John Major. Gordon Brown was also forgettable.
One No 10 incumbent - recalled clearly enough for medical reassurance - was often simply described with a shudder as "that man".
Another doctor - a psychiatrist - said patients would name Margaret Thatcher automatically, long after she had left power.
Jake Smith, a 22-year-old postgraduate student at Cardiff University, believes a debate on introducing compulsory voting to the UK is "long overdue".
He argues the compulsion would extend to the politicians themselves, forced "by electoral necessity to pay attention to those groups which previously did not vote".
Marking a "none of the above" option, if there was one, would give a voice to those who wanted to protest, on top of the option of spoiling a ballot paper.
A campaign in Australia for this option on ballot papers has so far proved unsuccessful though Marianne Lloyd, who lives in Melbourne, might appreciate it.
Dr Lloyd feels "powerless" and frustrated at having to choose "usually between a number of highly incompetent morons".
"You're forced to weigh up who is the lesser evil in the grand scheme of things," she says.
"Bearing in mind that election promises are often broken and you can totally be wrong with what you thought was that lesser evil."
Although Australian voters must attend a polling station they are not forced to pick a candidate - but most do.
The proportion of "informal" votes - spoilt, blank or otherwise invalid - was just over 5% in the last federal election, the equivalent to the UK's general election.
There are those, like Dr Fox, who argue that introducing the same system in the UK would be a "massive improvement".
David Rumble from Durham, who is in his 20s, says he would "probably put a little bit more effort into researching what party to vote for" if the law made him.
But he thinks all politicians are "pretty much the same" and has no intention of voting if he does not have to.
Dr Fox thinks another solution to lack of engagement would be any political education in schools that is better and starts earlier than the "woefully inadequate" and "inconsistent" current offering.
Young people rarely think voting is a civic duty, he says.
Whereas their grandparents believed, even if you were ill-informed or did not care, "you were a citizen of this country, you had a responsibility to vote".
If the voting age was also reduced to 16 - as proposed in the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green party general election manifestos - schools would have more of an incentive to teach politics, Mr Smith believes.
Although some question the "quality and impartiality" of political education in schools, it could be an effective way to boost knowledge, he says.
As Leanne Nijemeisland points out, in Australia it's "an exciting thing when you're at school, you're coming up to the age where you're allowed to vote".
And "if you don't go and vote, you don't get to moan about it later", she says.
The Facebook-owned company also revealed it is working on its own handheld controller system called Oculus Touch.
The Rift headset will be released early next year. Until now, only a "developer" version had been sold.
It will compete with rival VR headsets such as Sony's Morpheus and HTC's Vive.
Google has made a more basic entry into the market with its Cardboard product, which uses a person's smartphone to create a VR effect.
The deal with Microsoft means Oculus owners will be able to stream Xbox One games to the headset and see them as if they are being viewed on a huge "home cinema" screen.
Microsoft's gaming boss Phil Spencer made a surprise appearance at the event to introduce the partnership.
But he did not discuss whether the Xbox One would offer VR games of its own - allowing players to experience immersive 360-degree views - via the headset.
However, Mr Spencer hinted that more information would be shared at next week's E3 conference in Los Angeles.
"The Microsoft deal with Oculus seems like a risk-free way to try and undermine Morpheus' advantage," commented Piers-Harding Rolls, a video games industry analyst at the IHS consultancy.
"But streaming XBox One games... is not going to sell Oculus.
"The video of the experience didn't look compelling."
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey said his firm had been looking at new ways for gamers to interact with virtual reality beyond using a console gamepad.
He showed off the prototype Oculus Touch system, which consists of two wireless handheld controllers fitted with buttons, joypads and sensors.
He said they were designed to make sense of the kinds of gestures people made naturally with their hands.
Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight, said the launch put Oculus in the "driver's seat" in the VR market.
"With Facebook's resources it has a huge head-start over rivals and its already delivered two iterations of its developer platform," he told the BBC.
"Furthermore, it's the brand that is synonymous with virtual reality technology."
The Rift headset began its life as a crowdfunded Kickstarter project, raising $2.4m (£1.5m). It was later bought by Facebook for $2bn in 2014.
"We consider virtual reality has the potential to be one of the most disruptive technologies for a decade," said Mr Wood.
"You only have to look at the huge investments being made by companies like Facebook, Google, HTC, Sony and many others to realise we are on the cusp of something huge."
Jason Rubin, head of Oculus Studios, introduced some early titles designed for the Rift, including Eve Valkyrie, a first-person shooting game, and role-playing game Chronos.
Oculus' head of development strategy Anna Sweet also announced a $10m fund for independent developers to spur on the creation of games for the platform.
Attracting developers to the Rift will be critical to Oculus's success, said Brian Blau, an analyst at Gartner.
"They're all going to be competing hard for those developers to support their platforms - that's where you're going to see the real competition," he said.
"Games developers are going to have a lot of difficult choices to make."
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It was in April 2014 when he oversaw Chelsea's 2-0 win at Anfield that caused Liverpool to stumble and lose the title almost on the finishing line - and he was cast in the role of villain again by The Kop on Monday.
Manchester United's stifling, smothering performance in a mediocre goalless draw bore all the hallmarks Mourinho has perfected in a career laced with success, and the travelling fans seemed happy enough at the final whistle.
So what did this attritional 90 minutes say about Mourinho's Manchester United?
In many ways, this was vintage Mourinho, a throwback to his great nights with Chelsea and Inter Milan when opponents had the creativity strangled out of them, floundering on the meticulous defensive organisation the Portuguese had brought into play.
Is it, however, the Manchester United way? It is certainly a far cry from the flamboyance and all-out attacking intent of the Sir Alex Ferguson era.
Times, however, have changed and so have Manchester United.
Mourinho has not inherited an all-conquering force of former years. Management's arch-pragmatist happily flicked through his old tactical playbook at Liverpool and will make not a single apology for doing so.
For all the social media chatter and criticism from Liverpool fans, where Mourinho's crime appeared to be a refusal to allow Klopp's side to play in a manner in which they would win, United's manager was realism personified.
It was functional, not easy on the eye and brought predictable accusations that Mourinho had parked the bus. He will respond, with justification and a point in his pocket, that United came away with a draw at a place plenty will leave empty-handed this season.
United had only 35% possession, their lowest figure since statisticians Opta started compiling in 2003, although Mourinho returned to Anfield's media room after his main press briefing to dispute the finding, claiming they actually had 42% of the ball.
Juan Mata was confined to the bench, alongside Wayne Rooney, while Marouane Fellaini was back in midfield in a big, physical side designed to give United strength all over the pitch.
And man-of-the-match Ander Herrera was key in midfield, not giving Philippe Coutinho or Roberto Firmino any time or space. The Spaniard made 11 interceptions, the most by any Premier League player this season.
Mourinho deals in realism not romance. And this was a realistic approach - one United's fans who still crave the devil-may-care approach of the Ferguson era will have to get used to.
This was Mourinho's analysis, and it was as far removed from Ferguson's mantra as it was possible to get as he said: "It is not the result we wanted but it is a positive result. It is a result that stops a direct opponent getting three points at home so not a bad result.
"I think it was a positive performance. This is a point that stopped them winning three."
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Former Old Trafford great Paul Scholes helped set the agenda for Manchester United's meeting with Liverpool by saying they have yet to form an identity under Mourinho.
Ironically, United looked more like a Mourinho team against Liverpool than they have at any time since he arrived in the summer.
And yet there is weight to Scholes' observation.
The Portuguese manager has to find a formula to accommodate a squad that still looks to mix-and-match and which has yet to get the best out of £89m midfielder Paul Pogba, who was pedestrian again.
Pogba, the world's most expensive player, delivered one cross that provided United's best chance but which was headed badly off target by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Too often, though, Pogba either lost, or was knocked out of, possession too easily.
Zlatan himself, the ageing centrepiece of United's attacking plan, looked ponderous and off the pace and made a complete mess of their best opportunity, seemingly caught in several minds as he headed wide.
Mourinho has questions to answer before he will be able to present evidence of the identity Scholes desires, although this was a display of real steel and organisation.
It is not just Wayne Rooney's long-term future that is up for debate. Where will he utilise Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Mata when they are all available - and does anyone know where £25m Henrikh Mkhitaryan is, let alone where he might play?
Mourinho's United are still, understandably, a work in progress but more cohesion and structure will be expected soon given the money spent in the summer.
For now, though, United can feel a draw at Liverpool represents a glass half full.
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It was exactly a year ago to the day since Klopp took charge of his first game as Liverpool manager, a goalless draw at Tottenham.
And it has been very clear from day one how the German wants Liverpool to play. He wants a passionate, intense, aggressive attacking style that taps into the emotions of The Kop and the extended Anfield, whose towering new stand was gracing its first night game on Monday.
Klopp's approach worked a treat against pliable opponents such as Leicester City and Hull City at home, against whom they scored a total of nine goals, and when facing Arsenal and Chelsea away.
Liverpool did not find it so easy in defeat at Burnley, when manager Sean Dyche ensured his side sat in a rigid defensive shape and let Klopp's team have the ball and against opponents as obdurate and organised as Manchester United.
Mourinho ensured United set about Liverpool from the start, making sure they could not gain momentum and intensity. When it came to high pressing, United started by turning the tables on Liverpool. It worked to perfection as the home side became hurried into making too many mistakes and poor decisions.
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Liverpool will have better days than this but one factor that was made clear is the increasing importance of Adam Lallana, who was only fit enough to start as a substitute.
Klopp's side lacked drive and invention without the fast feet and creation of Lallana and it was no coincidence Liverpool's threat increased from the moment he was introduced for the struggling Daniel Sturridge on the hour.
Liverpool lacked the balance and that swift movement the triumvirate of Lallana, Coutinho and Firmino gives them until that change. It is a sign of Lallana's rapid development under Klopp.
Georginio Wijnaldum's injury also robbed them of composure that would have served Liverpool well in a game Klopp described as hectic - although the German has always given the impression of revelling in hectic.
The rising frustration around Anfield after the stadium started awash with expectation was an illustration of the success of Mourinho's approach - but also perhaps the sound of realisation that Klopp and Liverpool still have plenty of room for improvement.
Chasing 218, the Irishman hit exactly 100 and shared a crucial stand of 81 with Ateeq Javid (42 not out) as the hosts reached 218-6.
Earlier, Sussex were bowled out for 217 as Australian George Bailey made 59.
Warwickshire play Kent on Wednesday at Edgbaston with victory likely to seal a last-eight spot.
Warwickshire's chase got off to a poor start when skipper Varun Chopra was bowled by Chris Jordan for a duck with the third ball of the innings.
Three quick wickets in the middle order then left the Bears 130-5, but Porterfield put last year's beaten finalists on the verge of victory with a 124-ball century which included 13 fours.
He was out the ball after reaching his ton, bowled by Jordan (3-39), but the hard work had already been done and Keith Barker sealed the win with a boundary.
Sussex, who are without a victory in this year's competition, looked well placed at 112-2 in their innings, but lost their last eight wickets for 105 for a total which proved to be well below par.
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South Africa's currency fell close to a record low against the dollar on Thursday morning as the markets were digesting the news.
The sacking comes as South Africa's economy is struggling to grow.
So what impact will it have? BBC Africa Business Report's Lerato Mbele reports.
Their conduct is one of a series of issues that will be examined by The Charity Commission in its inquiry into 1st Knight Military Charity.
BBC Scotland secretly filmed the charity's founder selling T-shirts emblazoned with offensive messages.
Andy Linihan also sold badges alluding to the shooting of suicide bombers.
The Charity Commission announced it had launched an investigation shortly after the BBC documentary, The Great Military Charity Scandal, was broadcast earlier this month.
The programme revealed the charity was selling Nazi-themed T-shirts and hooded jumpers, some emblazoned with neo-Nazi emblems.
Velcro badges, designed to be placed on uniforms or baseball caps, featured a picture of an assault rifle and the words '72 Virgins Express'.
The Charity Commission has now outlined the issues that will be examined by the inquiry:
Mr Linihan said he accepted the items filmed by the BBC were "products which ought not to be sold by the charity".
He added: "As a result of your visit, we have withdrawn the products from the shop and removed them from the internet."
Robert Burgess, 31, died after his Yamaha bike was involved in a crash with a Nissan car in Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick, on Saturday morning.
Mr Burgess, who lived locally, was a retained firefighter. The fire service described him as "dedicated".
His family said he was a "loving and caring son" who would be sadly missed by friends and family.
Their statement added: "His untimely passing has rocked us all and we are in a state of shock as we come to terms with what has happened.
"Robert always gave his all in anything he did including working as a retained firefighter, which he loved. He was also a keen motorcyclist and had a wide circle of friends.
"His loss has left us devastated and we ask for peace to grieve at this very difficult time."
Senior fire officer Alasdair Perry said: "We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of our colleague Robert Burgess.
"Robert served with the retained crew at North Berwick Fire Station in East Lothian and was a popular and much respected firefighter who was dedicated to serving his community.
"He was a dear member of the fire and rescue service family and will be very much missed."
The Home Office quotes a figure of £95m for shutting the service, which once employed 1,600 people.
But Dr Chris Maguire said it would be between £300m and £350m when other expenditure, such as taking forensics work inside police forces, is included.
The FSS had been losing £2m per month when its closure was announced in 2010.
The government said allowing it to go into administration would have endangered criminal justice.
Its plan was for private enterprise to expand into the gap left behind by the FSS.
The work by Dr Maguire, from Northumbria University Centre for Forensic Science, is one of the first independent estimates of the cost to the British taxpayer of shutting the service.
He spent 30 years as a scientist with the FSS, before taking up his academic position in 2010.
Compiled using publicly available data as well as details gathered through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, the results are outlined in the scientist's written evidence to a select committee follow-up inquiry into the closure.
Dr Maguire is preparing a full paper on the matter for submission to an academic journal.
"The actual costs of FSS closure must lie somewhere between £300m and £350m, if all of the costs of the police in-sourcing of forensic science activities formerly delivered by [forensic science providers] are taken into account," Dr Maguire explains in his written evidence.
"In-sourcing" describes the practice by which police forces bring forensic work in-house in order to make cost savings.
The calculation includes the £60m cost of running a Metropolitan Police lab in Lambeth - where 120 FSS staff were transferred after the closure - over 10 years - a cost, says Dr Maguire, "that is being borne by the Met Police as opposed to anyone else".
It also factors in the cost of operating the national forensic archive for 10 years (£20m), the £21m spent on the construction of a new laboratory in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and an £18m loan that was written off.
"What has actually been the cost? It's not simply the cost of paying off the staff, paying off contracts to run buildings, or getting out of leases," Dr Maguire told BBC News.
He said the level of expenditure needed to shut down the service could have maintained the FSS in perpetuity even if the government had pumped in £1m per month.
In December 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague wrote to the European Commission stating that the closure of the FSS required support of about £100m.
In its submission to the follow-up inquiry, the Home Office estimated the final cost of closure would be around £95m.
It explained that it had excluded a £20m provision to cover a deficit in the accrued pension benefits for FSS staff, which the government is protecting. But the Home Office argued this liability was not a cost of closure as it reflected an existing deficit in the pension scheme.
Private providers complain that the practice of in-sourcing acts as an impediment to the expansion of the forensic market.
Private forensics firm LGC estimates that the size of this forensics market, outside the work police do themselves, fell from roughly £155m in 2010 to £70-80m in 2012.
In 2011, crime and security minister James Brokenshire said the external market was likely to contract to 110m, but only by 2015.
A Home Office spokesperson told BBC News: "The Forensic Science Service was losing £2m a month and had to be wound down in order to protect taxpayers from further costs. The total direct cost of closure is around £95m and the figure provided by Dr Maguire is not accurate."
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A magistrate in Australia allowed Father Denis "Chrysostom" Alexander more time to make a bail application.
He has always denied allegations that he abused boys at the former Fort Augustus Abbey boarding school in the Highlands.
He was remanded in custody with the next court hearing due on 13 February.
The magistrate is then expected to decide whether or not there will be a contested extradition hearing
In 2013, Fr Alexander was confronted by BBC Scotland in Sydney as part of a documentary into alleged abuse by monks at the school, which prompted a major police investigation.
Another former Fort Augustus monk is due to face trial in Scotland for a series of assaults, while a further seven cases remain under consideration by the Crown Office in Scotland.
Fr Alexander was returned by the Catholic Church to Australia in 1979 after allegations of abuse were made by a Fort Augustus Abbey pupil, and continued working as a priest for a further 20 years or more.
He was stripped of his priestly faculties in 2013 after the BBC programme.
Not Mette Lykke, chief executive of sports tracking app firm Endomondo.
Ms Lykke and her two co-founders had all worked for the prestigious US consultancy McKinsey.
But in 2007, they held their breath and jumped ship together to try to create something for themselves.
Luckily, the first idea they chose to pursue became a global winner. After seven years, the app they created has 25 million users.
And Endomondo has moved into profit - providing employment for 32 people in a historic canal-side warehouse in Copenhagen.
At last it is payback time for the founders, who lived on their savings and bank borrowings for the first 18 months, but were later assisted by local angel investors and Danish venture capital fund SEED Capital.
The Endomondo app is downloaded from Android, Apple and other app stores and enables fitness fans to track their progress, share statistics and compete with their friends.
It works with numerous sports including running, cycling, walking, rowing and swimming.
"Initially it was just going to be a website," recalls Ms Lykke. "But we quickly realised we needed to create something super-useful. Nokia were the first to include GPS on their phones, and we realised a downloadable app was the answer."
The team found a developer who produced a first version of the app in exchange for a share in the company.
"It was more of a brainstorm. We thought, 'Wouldn't it be cool if it could do this?' We came up with features and somebody started hacking away."
New versions and features rapidly followed.
Denmark is a small country. So with an eye to export markets, the app was in English from the start. The first five years were all about trying to achieve scale and loyalty by promoting the free app and its features.
The team would turn up at running events, displaying Endomondo's capabilities on a big screen.
An initial goal was to get 100,000 users on board, but it was hard going. As Ms Lykke recalls, some days, nobody signed up at all.
Getting onto the BlackBerry app store was a definite breakthrough, though Ms Lykke is loath to identify any single tipping point.
It is only recently that the firm has started to focus on charging for premium services. For a monthly subscription you can get extra motivating features, such as a personal training plan, while employee fitness plans are available for businesses.
Now the firm is considering new innovations.
Talking to Ms Lykke, it is clear that the team's McKinsey training helped shape the rigour of Endomondo's development programme.
McKinsey graduates are steeped in time-honoured techniques to assess and monitor business decisions.
Yet what they did not know in the firm's formative years was that at least two other rival outfits in different parts of the world were also working on similar sports apps.
Each seemingly only found out about the other as they became successful and got Apple and Android listings.
So to remain a market leader, Endomondo is having to box clever.
It is trying to engender loyalty on two fronts. Firstly, it claims its feedback is more sensitive to an individual's performance and capability.
Secondly, Endomondo's app offers a strong social element by allowing users to race friends, compare performance and encourage their peers when they are flagging.
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"Interaction with friends and spouse is very motivating, it shouldn't just be about bragging to your friends on Facebook. You are likely to be where your friends are, so once you are with us, you will stay with us," says Ms Lykke.
For Ms Lykke and her co-founders, the rewards to date are less than they could have earned had they all stayed with McKinsey. But the gradual realisation of their shared vision has driven them all on.
"We always had the feeling we were on the right track. Though it was probably a good thing that we didn't know we would be without salaries for 18 months."
Endomondo is certainly out of its start-up phase and Ms Lykke freely admits she is having to adapt as a manager and needs to hone her ability to motivate others.
But all of the team say that the best reward remains the constant feedback they get from users, some of whom say improving their fitness has helped them through illness or changed their whole lives for the better.
The local authorities in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Highland, Orkney and Shetland are to hold a summit aimed at addressing the issue.
Ministers and officials from the Scottish government and the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) are among those also involved.
Councils have already tried individual initiatives to ease the problem.
Launching the initiative ahead of the 7 October summit, the councils said the challenge had been recruiting and retaining "sufficient numbers of high-quality teachers to provide the best possible education" for pupils.
This is in the face of low application numbers for teaching jobs, and rising pupil numbers.
The objective of the new drive is to find a resolution to teacher recruitment and retention on a local and national level.
Consideration will be given to issues such as whether pay weighting should be introduced for those in the north and north east, similar to that given in London, and a national campaign to promote teaching.
The event has been led by Aberdeen City Council.
Council Leader Jenny Laing said: "Many councils in the north and north east of Scotland are experiencing higher than normal levels of teacher shortages - particularly at senior management levels.
"Whilst not yet at crisis levels it is nevertheless a serious issue that we want to tackle now to protect the interests of pupils.
"We urge the Scottish government to work with us on finding a solution at a national level. This is a case where one-size does not fit all councils."
In 2013, Aberdeenshire Council sent staff to Canada and Ireland to try to recruit new teachers.
Last year, Aberdeen City Council offered to pay the tuition fees of staff who want to become primary school teachers in a bid to tackle the shortage.
And earlier this month, the first teachers took advantage of an offer of free accommodation for six months to teach in Moray.
The council teamed up with a local developer to provide 10 new two-bedroom properties for new recruits.
The local authority said there had been a significant increase in the number of applicants for teaching posts.
A Scottish government spokesman said: "We are committed to ensuring schools have the right number of teachers with the right skills.
"That is why we acted to safeguard teacher posts for the next year by committing a £51m package of funding for Scotland's local authorities to maintain teacher numbers and pupil-teacher ratios at 2014 levels in 2015-16.
"In each of the last four years the Scottish government has also increased student teacher numbers.
"We welcome the opportunity to engage with local authorities to discuss potential further action to address the issue of teacher recruitment. We look forward to receiving the invitation to the summit and a representative from the Scottish government will attend."
The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) welcomed the announcement of the joint summit.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "The EIS is willing to engage constructively with councils to explore ways to improve processes for teacher recruitment and retention.
"Attracting teachers to some parts of the country - for example rural or remote areas or areas with a lack of affordable housing - is an ongoing challenge for a number of local authorities.
"While pay and conditions for teachers will continue to be agreed nationally through the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers, it is open to local authorities to explore additional incentives or other means of attracting qualified teachers to come and work in their schools."
And Scottish Parent Teacher Council executive director Eileen Prior said of the news: "Our children deserve no less."
There are a number of possible explanations for the problems in northern Scotland.
For example, the cost of housing in some parts of the north east - an important factor in the overall cost of living - may deter people from moving there if they know their salary would go further in another part of the country.
In rural areas, it can be a challenge to find the right person for any skilled job.
Young people from rural areas who want to become teachers will usually have left home at 18 to study - many may simply not fancy returning to a rural community, at least while they are in their 20s or 30s.
It is important to distinguish between the drop in the overall number of teachers in Scotland in recent years and the all-too-real challenge some councils face filling advertised vacancies.
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BBC Midlands Today's Kevin Reide reports that fans of both Wasps and Coventry City Football Club have been angered by the move.
It is the former Wham! star's seventh solo number one.
"Thank you so much... it's so nice to be able to savour this wonderful moment. I am a lucky man," Michael told OfficialCharts.com.
His album sold 20,000 copies more than Minogue's. Meanwhile, Duke Dumont scored his second number one single with I Got U featuring Jax Jones.
His last - Need U (100%) featuring A*M*E - kept Ding Dong The Witch is Dead off the top of the album chart following the death of Margaret Thatcher last April.
Also in this week's chart, The Human League have landed their highest charting single for almost 20 years following a campaign by fans of Aberdeen Football Club.
The group's 1981 number one Don't You Want Me has become a fan anthem and climbed to number 19 following Aberdeen's Scottish League Cup win last weekend.
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Symphonica is Michael's first new album for almost 10 years and was recorded during the singer's 2011/12 world tour.
Route 94's My Love featuring Jess Glynne kept its place at number two, while John Legend's ballad All Of Me climbed three places to third spot.
Pharrell Williams' Happy and last week's number one - Tsunami (Jump) by Dvbbs, Borgeous and Tinie Tempah - rounded out the top five.
Little Mix's official Sport Relief single, a cover of Cameo's Word Up, was the second highest new entry at number six.
On the album chart, Pharrell Williams' GIRL remained at number three, Paloma Faith's A Perfect Contradiction dropped two places to number four and last week's number one, Elbow's The Take Off And Landing Of Everything, fell to number five.
About 100 farmers - many driving tractors - and three cows gathered outside Morrisons distribution depot in Middlewich on Thursday evening.
Farmer Mike Gorton said if business did not pick up he could be "out of a job" by Christmas.
Retailers said prices were going down because of a drop in the global demand and an oversupply of milk
Mr Gorton, from Lower Alderley, said it cost 24p to produce a litre of milk and farmers were getting 16p in return from retailers.
He urged customers to "pay more" so that he could survive another winter.
Phil Latham, vice chairman of Cheshire's National Farmers' Union, said: "We've got intense competition between the supermarkets which are having their own competition for footfall and because milk is such a prized product by consumers they are devaluing it in order to move footfall to their stores."
However, the British Retail Consortium said retailers were "not to blame".
Julian Bailey, spokesman for Morrisons, said: "We've asked our processors, the business we buy milk from, we've asked them not to take any further price reductions.
"Of course we will help farmers where we can and we are talking to the National Farmers Union about how to move forward."
Researchers found that long-chain hydrocarbons are significantly under-reported in car manufacturers' data.
These hydrocarbons are a key component of two of the worst air pollutants, ozone and particulate matter.
The authors believe these "hidden" emissions are having a large impact on air quality in cities like London.
The exhaust pipes of diesel-fuelled trucks and cars produce an array of emissions that have different impacts on the air that people breathe.
The nitrogen dioxide and particles that are emitted from burning diesel have a direct impact on human health in cities.
But diesel also contains more complex, long-chain hydrocarbons, whose role in air pollution has been little understood until now.
They can form dangerous air pollutants, especially ozone and particulate matter, which are emitted into the air as unburned fuel or diesel vapour.
Researchers from the University of York have been able to detect these complicated compounds in the London air, using sophisticated measuring technology.
"It's definitely been hidden until now," lead author Dr Jacqueline Hamilton told BBC News.
"What we found is that there's actually a lot of this unburned material from diesel that we haven't seen before."
"That might be having a bigger impact on ozone and particle formation than petrol cars are, and historically no one has looked at these emissions at all."
The researchers found that close to 50% of the ozone production potential in London in winter was due to these diesel elements. In summertime, it was around 25%.
The authors believe that these hydrocarbons are having a direct effect on health.
"I think it is having a large impact on air quality in our cities, the number of deaths associated with particle pollution are much higher than those from nitrogen dioxide, this is a route to increase particle pollution so it could have a major impact on human health."
The study also found that the scale of these hydrocarbons in the air was far in excess of the levels expected by government, which are based on data from car manufacturers' emissions tests.
For some types of these diesel emissions, the real world samples were over 70 times greater during winter compared to the regulatory inventories.
The authors say these emissions are "massively under-predicted" but they are uncertain if this is a deliberate attempt by car manufacturers to conceal the scale of the problem or simply an omission through ignorance.
"Volkswagen have admitted they have deliberately turned off the emissions controls, and if these controls lower emissions of hydrocarbons, if you just turn that off, you are definitely gaming the system," said Dr Hamilton.
"If you look in the real atmosphere, compared to the test data, there's a lot of NOx and a lot of these hydrocarbons as well."
Other researchers praised the study as a step forward in scientific understanding.
"It is science that has come up with this discovery, but it definitely has public policy implications," said Prof Paul Monks, from the University of Leicester, who is also the chair of the UK government's air quality expert group.
"It raises yet another question about diesel vehicles. They are implicated heavily in NO2, they are implicated in toxic particulate matter, and this points to another deleterious environmental impact from diesels."
The authors are calling for a review of the way emissions from car and trucks are measured, with much more emphasis on real world testing and increased testing for a wider spectrum of substances coming out of the tail pipe.
"We have a policy in the UK to look at these sorts of hydrocarbons from petrol cars, but we really have to start thinking more seriously about measuring these from diesel cars."
The research has been published in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
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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
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Nivolumab was one of the drugs labelled a "milestone" therapy at a major cancer conference last month.
It has been approved for lung cancer through the UK's Early Access to Medicines Scheme and has been given an EU license for melanoma.
The drug has been shown to stop skin and lung cancers from progressing, in clinical trials.
The immune system is a powerful defence against infection. However, there are many "brakes" built in to stop the system attacking its own tissues.
Cancer - which is a corrupted version of healthy tissue - can take advantage of these brakes to evade assault from the immune system.
Nivolumab takes the brakes off.
One trial of nivolumab, alongside an already approved medicine ipilimumab, stopped melanoma advancing for nearly a year in 58% of patients.
A separate trial in lung cancer showed the drug more than doubled survival times in some patients.
The treatment has now been allowed in the UK for both skin and lung cancers.
Gill Nuttall, from Melanoma UK, said: "There has been an alarming rise in the number of cases of melanoma in the UK over recent years.
"Today's news is therefore very welcome as it provides more options for patients and the potential of better, longer survival."
Once again, politicians are debating what to do about gun laws in the US following a tragedy.
There were similar moves after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which left 26 people dead, most of them children.
But those pushing for change see signs that things might be going their way, while those opposed to reform can point to several factors that suggest the status quo will remain.
Led by Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, whose state went through the Sandy Hook school shootings, the filibuster lasted 14 hours.
Mr Murphy said he wanted to force Republicans and Democrats to agree on legislation to deny terrorism suspects the right to buy guns and require universal background checks.
As a result of the filibuster, the Senate will hold a vote on gun control measures next week, though passing a bill is unlikely.
President Barack Obama has challenged the Republican-controlled Congress to pass new gun laws.
And Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton has also been campaigning on the issue.
But gun control is a very divisive issue in the US, where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the constitution.
Likely Republican nominee Donald Trump has pledged to protect gun rights and has said he would get rid of "gun-free zones".
He said more guns in the Orlando nightclub might have saved lives.
"Not one of Donald Trump's reckless ideas would have saved a single life in Orlando," Mrs Clinton said.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, many states tightened up their gun laws, including Connecticut, California and New York.
Six states have expanded background checks. But people wishing to purchase guns can usually travel to another state to do so.
And Kansas, Texas, Arkansas and Wisconsin, are a few states that have made gun rights more expansive than ever since Sandy Hook.
Lawmakers are increasingly being lambasted for only offering "thoughts and prayers" following shootings.
A visibly emotional Tammy Baldwin, a Democratic senator from Wisconsin, displayed a photo board of the victims as she spoke during the filibuster late on Wednesday, saying repeatedly: "Our thoughts and prayers are no longer enough."
Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan called for a moment of silence on the House floor on Monday and Democrats shouted him down, with a handful walking out.
This week Mr Trump said he was speaking to the National Rifle Association (NRA) on how to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists.
Republican Senators John Cornyn (Texas) and Pat Toomey (Pennsylvania) are both working on proposals that would be an alternative to the Democrats' plan for banning suspected terrorists from buying guns.
Mr Cornyn's plan has been endorsed by the NRA while Mr Toomey hopes to strike a deal that would please both Democrats and Republicans.
There used to be an assault weapons ban in the US, but it expired in 2004 and has failed to pass again. After the Sandy Hook shootings, President Obama included an assault weapons ban in his proposals for sweeping gun reform, but it went nowhere.
Vice-President Joe Biden said this week that it took seven years for Congress to approve the assault weapons ban, and there is "no reason" why Democrats should ever stop trying to get it passed again.
Harvard University researchers published a study in 2014 that showed that, according to their calculations, there has been a rise in public mass shootings and that they tripled from 2011 to 2014.
However, homicides with firearms have declined from a decade ago, and the overall murder rate in the country has gone down in recent years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The powerful National Rifle Association still influences many lawmakers.
The group says it has about five million members, though it is hard to confirm that number.
Membership increased sharply following the Sandy Hook massacre, though its financial disclosure forms for 2014 show its revenues dropped by $47 million (£33 million) from 2013 to 2014.
Wayne LaPierre, the president of the organisation, and officials who lobby Congress have been blamed by President Obama for preventing gun-control legislation and having an "extremely strong grip on Congress".
NRA supporters say their group is being unfairly blamed for shootings it did not commit and that mental health is the issue, not guns.
Why is US gun lobby NRA so controversial?
Many agree with Donald Trump when he says more "good guys with guns" would save lives.
One survivor of the Pulse nightclub shootings told the BBC that she wishes she had had a firearm to defend herself.
Kassandra Marquez, 23, survived the attack, but her cousin died.
"They need to have a gun control, but from my experience, the way I'm looking at things, until then, get your gun licence, because you're not safe anywhere."
The majority of vendors at gun shows are licensed but often, unlicensed sellers meet at the shows to show off their collections or sell guns, and unlicensed sellers do not put buyers through a federal background check.
Alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof was able to buy a gun because the FBI did not complete a background check on him within three business days, due to a clerical error. Arms dealers, under current law, can sell guns to individuals if they have not been notified by the FBI within three days that the sale would be illegal.
Despite lobbying from medical groups, the Centers for Disease Control is still banned from using federal funds to research gun violence in the US, thanks to a provision enacted in 1997.
Just this spring, a group of 141 medical organisations sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to restore funding for gun research. They wrote that the provision "has had a dramatic chilling effect" on researching gun violence.
"A central part of preventing future tragedies is through conducting rigorous scientific research as this has been a proven successful approach in reducing deaths due to other injuries," the letter reads.
Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that Amona must be demolished because it is built on private Palestinian land.
But hundreds of activists threw stones at and resisted police officers as they moved in to enforce the court order.
Hours earlier, the Israeli government approved plans to build 3,000 new homes at settlements in the West Bank.
It is the third such announcement since the inauguration 12 days ago of US President Donald Trump, who has hinted he will be more sympathetic to settlement construction than his predecessor.
A Palestinian official, Hanan Ashrawi, condemned the latest approval and warned that chances for peace were being destroyed.
More than 600,000 Jews live in about 140 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
There are also more than 95 outposts - settlements built without official authorisation from the Israeli government - across the West Bank.
Located on a hilltop near the settlement of Ofra, north-east of Ramallah, Amona was built in 1996 on land registered as privately-owned by Palestinians.
In 2006, following a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court, nine permanent structures in the outpost were demolished, sparking violent clashes between settlers and security forces.
In December 2014, the court ordered the Israeli government to completely remove Amona within two years. But the deadline was recently extended until 8 February.
The BBC's Yolande Knell, who is at the outpost, says many of the 50 or so Israeli families who have been living there remained in the homes as bulldozers approached on Wednesday.
"We won't leave our homes on our own. Pull us out, and we'll go," one settler was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. "It is a black day for Zionism."
The settlers were joined by hundreds of supporters, many of whom confronted the lines of Israeli police acting on the Supreme Court's order.
"A Jew doesn't evict a Jew!" the protesters chanted as they linked arms.
By late Wednesday afternoon, 12 families had agreed to leave and 12 houses had been evacuated, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
Seven protesters had been arrested and 200 others had been removed from the area, he added. Sixteen officers had also been lightly injured by stones and caustic liquid thrown at them.
Our correspondent says the demolition of Amona has proven highly divisive for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition, which includes members who strongly support settlements.
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, called the Amona settlers "heroes" and said a bill currently before the Israeli parliament that seeks to retroactively legalise other unauthorised outposts would soon be passed.
"Thanks to the campaign in Amona, thousands of families will be rescued from being evicted from their homes. I call on the pioneers of our generation, the settlers of Judea and Samaria, to lift up your heads," he said, using the Biblical name for the West Bank.
The bill is expected to be approved by parliament next week, but it is opposed by Israel's attorney-general and legal experts say it is likely be overturned by the Supreme Court.
The 45-year-old says he was "in awe" of United manager Jose Mourinho when the Portuguese took charge of Chelsea, while he was Fulham's Under-18 coach.
The duo later worked together when Clement - who was appointed Swansea manager in January - took a job at Chelsea's academy.
"It was brilliant for me," he said.
"He was the professor and I was the student."
Swansea travel to Old Trafford (12:00 BST) three points adrift of safety with four games remaining.
Clement said he had learned a lot from Mourinho, who he said kept players and staff on their toes.
He added: "You were never quite sure where you stood with him.
"He created a distance between people. He was very strong on the psychological side, on managing people - both players and staff."
There have been 51 murders in Greater Vitoria since Saturday, compared with four in January, the police union says.
Schools remained closed on Monday and local football matches were also postponed due to the spike in violence.
Officials said they would sit down for talks but only once the strike ended.
Relatives of the striking officers have been demonstrating in front of police stations as the officers themselves are barred from protesting.
They are demanding better pay for military police officers, including additional pay for night work and danger money.
The officers stopped patrolling the streets of the city on Saturday morning.
The commander of the force has been sacked and a new commander has been tasked with "restoring order and discipline", Espirito Santo security chief Andre Garcia said.
Police officers found parts of Tracey Woodford's body in a bath along with a saw and knives three days after she had been reported missing, Cardiff Crown Court was told.
Ms Woodford, 47, was discovered at a flat in Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on 24 April 2015.
Christopher Nathan May, 50, of Graig, Pontypridd, denies her murder.
Mrs Justice Nicola Davies warned the jury that some of the evidence would be "distressing" during the two-week trial.
Jurors heard that, after the discovery in the bathroom, the arresting police officer asked where the rest of Ms Woodford's body parts were, and the defendant replied: "Some is in the cupboard and some in the storm drain at Pontypridd RFC."
The court was also told a woman's decapitated torso was recovered from a black bag in a kitchen cupboard and a right thumb was found in a handbag along with a purse with Ms Woodford's bank cards.
Roger Thomas QC, prosecuting, said the defendant claimed he either acted in self-defence, it was an accident or he lost self-control.
"The defendant admits his actions were responsible in causing her death but disputes his conduct amounts to murder," said Mr Thomas.'
"The prosecution submits, quite simply, this was a deliberate, brutal, vicious and sexually-motivated murder."
He added: "The circumstances surrounding her death are harrowing and distressing. After her death she was mutilated and dismembered.
"These actions were carried out deliberately and methodically with the clear intention of concealing the body parts, and thereby evading detection and arrest."
The court heard Ms Woodford, who lived with her brother and mother, visited a number of pubs after shopping at Pontypridd's Cash Generator store on 21 April.
She was refused alcohol after appearing intoxicated at the town's Skinny Dog pub at about 19:45 BST, but joined Mr May and two other men who were drinking at a table.
A barmaid said the men were "merry" after drinking six to eight pints, the barrister added.
After the group left the pub at 23:20 BST, Ms Woodford was seen walking with Mr May in the general direction of his home in Andrew's Court.
"That was the last time that anybody saw her alive, apart from, of course, the defendant," Mr Thomas said.
He explained how, three days after she had been reported missing, enquiries led two police officers to Mr May's flat on Friday 24 April.
Mr Thomas said they discovered a "truly gruesome sight".
"When the officer pulled back the shower curtain he was confronted with a sight he had never seen before and certainly did not expect," he said.
The trial has been adjourned until Wednesday.
Scotland's World Cup performances and the fact they have a settled side give them the advantage, according to Jones.
"We've only had six training sessions together so there is an enormous pressure on Scotland to perform and not so much on us," he said.
"The bookies might have us as favourites but Scotland have to be."
Scotland have lost their last seven Six Nations games.
Their only win in their last 12 championship games was a 21-20 win over Italy in Rome in February 2014.
They have not beaten England, runners-up for the last four years, since 2008.
The sides meet for the Calcutta Cup on Saturday, 6 February (16:50 GMT).
Scotland, coached by Vern Cotter, reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup, losing narrowly to Australia, while hosts England surprisingly bowed out in the group stages.
England's displays ultimately cost Stuart Lancaster his job and led to former Australia and Japan coach Jones taking over.
The Group I winners could be joined by the second-placed Danes or third-placed Albania, who are a point behind them.
Albania missed the chance to qualify when they lost 2-0 at home to Serbia on Thursday, almost one year after the reverse fixture was abandoned.
However, a win over bottom-team Armenia on Sunday will be enough as Denmark have played all their games.
Albanian fans had been banned from attending last year's qualifier because of a turbulent relationship between the two Balkan nations.
But when a nationalist Albanian banner was flown above the pitch and caught by a Serbian player, it sparked clashes involving players and fans on the Partizan Stadium pitch in Serbia's capital, Belgrade.
The game in Albania was played in front of a vociferous but well-behaved 13,000-strong crowd, Serbia and Manchester City left-back Aleksandar Kolarov and forward Adem Ljajic scored stoppage-time goals for the visitors.
Portugal and Northern Ireland sealed their route to France 2016 on Thursday, joining the hosts, and already qualified teams Austria, Czech Republic, England and Iceland.
Match ends, Portugal 1, Denmark 0.
Second Half ends, Portugal 1, Denmark 0.
Offside, Denmark. William Kvist tries a through ball, but Nicklas Bendtner is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Nicolai Jørgensen (Denmark) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Michael Krohn-Dehli with a cross.
Attempt saved. Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Tiago.
Attempt saved. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ricardo Quaresma.
Corner, Denmark. Conceded by Rui Patrício.
Attempt saved. Daniel Agger (Denmark) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Portugal. Jose Fonte replaces João Moutinho.
Corner, Denmark. Conceded by Rui Patrício.
Attempt missed. Yussuf Poulsen (Denmark) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Michael Krohn-Dehli with a cross following a set piece situation.
Danilo Pereira (Portugal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Daniel Agger (Denmark) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Danilo Pereira (Portugal).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) because of an injury.
Foul by Martin Braithwaite (Denmark).
Cédric Soares (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simon Kjaer (Denmark).
João Moutinho (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolai Jørgensen (Denmark).
Rui Patrício (Portugal) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Portugal. Ricardo Quaresma replaces Nani.
Substitution, Denmark. Yussuf Poulsen replaces Christian Eriksen.
Attempt missed. Nicklas Bendtner (Denmark) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross.
Offside, Portugal. Rui Patrício tries a through ball, but Nani is caught offside.
Substitution, Portugal. Danny replaces Bernardo Silva.
Attempt saved. William Kvist (Denmark) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Riza Durmisi.
Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Portugal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Tiago.
Foul by Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal).
Simon Kjaer (Denmark) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Denmark. Nicolai Jørgensen replaces Daniel Wass.
Daniel Wass (Denmark) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fábio Coentrão (Portugal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Wass (Denmark).
Goal! Portugal 1, Denmark 0. João Moutinho (Portugal) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top right corner.
Corner, Portugal. Conceded by Nicklas Bendtner.
Attempt blocked. Tiago (Portugal) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nani with a cross.
It was understood the fire was in the roof space of the Spean Bridge Hotel in Spean Bridge.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the incident at 15:30.
Two fire appliances were sent to the scene with two more expected to arrive later.
The Manchester City striker, 29, was found guilty of violent conduct after their 3-1 Premier League win in August.
In its written reasons for the ban, the FA "unanimously felt that the video evidence before them was conclusive".
Aguero, who has scored six goals in four matches this season, is serving a three-match suspension.
"All three Commission members felt that in their opinion, having been knocked off balance by Winston Reid, Mr. Aguero had thrown out his left arm in an aggressive manner that was excessive in force and brutal, which clearly endangered the safety of Mr. Reid," the FA commission's statement said.
"Indeed, even though the point of Mr. Aguero's elbow did not connect with Mr. Reid, his flailing forearm did and this contact between forearm and throat/neck clearly hurt Mr. Reid."
Manchester City contested the violent conduct charge and argued that "the standard punishment would be clearly excessive".
However, the commission noted "the clenched fist of Mr. Aguero as he threw his left elbow towards Mr. Reid, the upward angle of the movement and the force of the movement".
Hammers defender Reid could not talk after the clash, according to his captain Mark Noble, and was substituted.
Aguero served the first game of his ban during last weekend's Manchester derby and will also miss the upcoming home league game against Bournemouth (Sat, 17 Sept) and EFL Cup trip to Swansea City (Wed, 21 Sept).
Mr Obama met Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the White House on Monday. The two leaders also discussed climate change, the war in Afghanistan and trade.
The visit marks the 60th anniversary of the Anzus military alliance between the two nations.
It is Ms Gillard's first official visit to the US since taking office.
By Katie ConnollyBBC News, Washington
Australia has long had a close, warm relationship with the US, epitomized by the 60-year-old Anzus treaty. America has "no stronger ally", according to President Obama.
But it's the personal chemistry between the countries' leaders that is often the subject of scrutiny.
John Howard got along famously well with President George W Bush. Mr Bush invited the former Aussie PM to spend time at his Texas ranch, and gave him a pair of cowboy boots.
Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama - both cerebral centrists with a deep interest in world affairs - were said to have a strong personal rapport.
Ms Gillard, it seems, is no exception. Barack Obama told reporters he was "immediately charmed" by Australia's first female prime minister. He gave her a "hearty welcome" to the Oval Office, while she smiled proudly for the assembled cameras.
Bryant's blog: Barack and Julia
The situation in Libya and anti-government protests across the Middle East were high on the agenda. The two leaders presented a united front against violence in the region.
"We have no stronger ally than Australia," Mr Obama said. "Australia joined with us in imposing swift and firm, comprehensive sanctions against the Libyan government."
Both leaders emphasised the warm friendship between their nations, with Ms Gillard saying they were "great mates".
She also affirmed Australia's ongoing commitment to the war in Afghanistan, while admitting that the mission was "hard".
Other topics raised during the bilateral meeting were security, the economy and trade, particularly in the Pacific region.
Ms Gillard said she hoped that Mr Obama was able to provide leadership on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a multilateral free trade agreement focused on the Pacific and Oceania, which both the US and Australia are in negotiations to join.
Mr Obama offered his condolences to victims of Australia's recent floods.
Mr Obama and Ms Gillard, a former education minister, then visited a Washington area school where they took questions from history students.
During the session, Ms Gillard boasted about the virtues of Vegemite, an iconic Australian food spread which Mr Obama called "horrible".
Earlier Ms Gillard visited the Lincoln Memorial, where she announced a $3.3m (£2.0m) investment in an education centre honouring Vietnam veterans.
On Tuesday, she will join Senator John McCain, a former presidential candidate, to unveil an art exhibition commemorating the US-Australian alliance in the US Capitol building.
In her appearance with Mr Obama, Ms Gillard declared the alliance "60 years young", saying that she envisioned a great future for the continuing partnership.
Ms Gillard will address a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday.
She will be the first foreign dignitary to address congress since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections.
While in Washington, Ms Gillard will also have meetings with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, US Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Approval for the energy plant, on the site of the former Bilsthorpe Colliery, was granted in November.
However, Mark Spencer, Conservative MP for Sherwood, asked Eric Pickles to review the decision on environmental and community grounds.
The county council's planning chairman said he was surprised by the decision.
Mr Spencer opposed the plans at a meeting on 18 November saying concerns over the technology had not been properly addressed.
The proposals were given the go-ahead but Mr Spencer then wrote to the communities secretary.
He said he was "delighted" the application will now be fully scrutinised by Mr Pickles.
However, councillor John Wilkinson, chairman for planning at Nottinghamshire County Council, said he was disappointed the secretary of state did not give a reason for calling the project in.
He said: "For a planning application to be refused, there needs to be sound, material planning reasons for doing so.
"The application was examined in great detail by professional planning officers and the committee, who came to the same view that no such grounds existed."
The firm behind the plans, Peel Environmental, said the site would handle about 120,000 tonnes of non-hazardous waste each year and create enough power for about 23,000 homes.
It added the centre would use the latest gasification methods to recover energy from rubbish, which previously would have been buried at landfill sites.
The project is expected to create 46 jobs at the site, which ceased coal production in 1995.
Willem-Alexander acceded to the throne in 2013 but his other role, in the cockpit, has continued.
"I find flying simply fantastic," he told De Telegraaf newspaper.
He intends to carry on as co-pilot but will spend the coming months learning how to fly Boeing 737s.
Until now Willem-Alexander has worked behind the joystick of a Fokker and it was already known that he had appeared as a "guest pilot" before being crowned king, in order to maintain his pilot's licence.
What was not clear was that he was co-piloting passenger flights incognito, twice a month as king, often with KLM Captain Maarten Putman.
The Dutch government said last month that he had flown Fokker 70 aircraft for both the government and KLM Cityhopper service, and that the plane was being replaced this year with a 737. Cityhopper flights are aimed mainly at business travellers in dozens of European destinations, particularly in the UK, Germany and Norway.
Willem-Alexander once said that if he had not been born in a palace, his dream would have been to fly a big passenger plane such as a Boeing 747, so it is no surprise that he intends to retrain for the updated plane.
He told De Telegraaf that he never used his name when addressing passengers and was rarely recognised in uniform and wearing his KLM cap. However, he admitted that some passengers had recognised his voice.
"The advantage is that I can always say that I warmly welcome passengers on behalf of the captain and crew," he said. "Then I don't have to give my name."
Passengers were more likely to realise they were being flown by royalty before the 11 September attacks on the US in 2001 as the cockpit door was unlocked. But there was now less contact with the cabin, he said.
The Dutch king's appetite for flying was apparently encouraged by his mother, Beatrix, who abdicated as queen in 2013. And he is on a long list of royal pilots:
In his interview, King Willem-Alexander appeared enthusiastic about his future prospects as a co-pilot.
"It also seemed nice to fly to other destinations one day, with more passengers and bigger distances. That was the real motive for training on the 737," he said.
The king explained that the most important thing for him was to have a hobby he could fully concentrate on and that flying was his biggest way of relaxing.
"You have a plane, passengers and crew and you are responsible for them. You can't take your problems with you off the ground. You can completely switch off for a while and focus on something else."
Speaking at the NASUWT annual conference in Cardiff Bay, Huw Lewis said "ideology has been put before standards".
He claimed millions had been wasted on "vanity projects such as free schools".
The Liberal Democrats accused Mr Lewis as having double standards and the Tories said Labour was letting young people down in Wales.
Plaid Cymru has warned proposed public spending cuts by any future Labour or Conservative UK government would lead to cuts to the Welsh government's future budgets.
17 March 2017 Last updated at 18:32 GMT
Jonathan Anderson - creative director of the JW Anderson and Loewe labels - has put together the Disobedient Bodies exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery.
He has placed fashion items next to sculptures to show how designers and artists have tackled the human body - and how art has influenced what we wear.
The exhibition, which opens on Saturday, includes designs by Anderson himself as well as Vivienne Westwood, Helmut Lang and Yves Saint Laurent, plus works by sculptors Alberto Giacometti, Sarah Lucas and Louise Bourgeois.
The fund said it expects a growth of 3% for this year, down from its projection of 3.25% in June.
The eurozone crisis has dented demand in the region and hurt South Korea's exports, which account for nearly half of its economic output.
The IMF said that South Korea was well placed to handle any further risks.
"In the event of a significant downside scenario, the economy has sufficient policy space to respond, especially on the fiscal side," the IMF said in a report on the Asian economy.
According to data released earlier this month, South Korea's economy grew less-than-forecast in the April to June quarter, hurt by a slowdown in exports and investment.
That prompted policymakers to announce two separate stimulus measures targeted at boosting domestic demand.
The first one was a stimulus package worth $5.2bn (£3.2bn), that included tax breaks on personal incomes and purchases of homes and cars.
Then the central bank, the Bank of Korea, said it would inject 1.5tn won ($1.3bn; £825m) into banks, which will use it to provide low-interest rate loans to small businesses.
The IMF said that South Korea's central bank had room to cut interest rates in bid to further boost demand, if global issues continue to hurt growth.
However, it said that economy was likely to "bottom out during the course of 2012, regaining momentum towards the end of the year, in line with the global recovery".
The fund forecast that the South Korean economy would grow by around 4% in 2013.
Thangam Debbonaire, 48, said her consultant had told her the cancer was "perfectly treatable" and that she is "expected to make a full recovery".
Ms Debbonaire said she had picked up the symptoms via a public health campaign and urged women to check their breasts regularly.
The Labour MP said she had arranged backup and support in parliament to cover her absence.
"No matter how I'm feeling, I will ensure I represent and support the people of Bristol West effectively, with the help of a first-class constituency team," she said.
Ms Debbonaire is due to start treatment at Bristol Oncology Centre on 3 July.
She received 35.7% of the vote in the constituency during May's general election taking the seat from Liberal Democrat Stephen Williams.
The team at the University of Chicago showed a group of bacteria - Clostridia - could block peanut allergies in mice.
They hope to harness the bacteria in a pill form - or replicate their effects with a drug - in order to treat allergies.
Experts said it was a "very exciting" discovery.
For every one cell that builds up the human body there are ten bacteria living on or in us.
There is an emerging school of thought that this "microbiome" may be helping to fuel a rise in allergies around the world.
The research group performed experiments on mice brought up in perfectly sterile environments and had no bacteria in their gut.
These animals had a strong immune response to peanut - an allergy that can be deadly in some people.
The team then investigated whether adding different bacteria to the digestive tract of the animals had any effect.
Only the Clostridia group of bacteria - which includes some disease causing species such as C. difficile - could prevent the allergic reaction.
Lead researcher Dr Cathryn Nagler told the BBC News website: "The first step is for an allergen to gain access to the blood stream, the presence of Clostridia prevents the allergens getting into the bloodstream.
"Clostridia are known to be closely linked to the intestinal lining, they are spore forming which makes them tricky to work with, but down the road they would be a candidate to put in a to pill as they are highly stable."
Another option the researchers are investigating is finding a drug which would have the same effect as the bacteria.
It is hoped that using bacteria can help with desensitisation therapies, which involve giving people regular, but tiny, doses of the substance provoking the allergic response until the immune system becomes used to it.
Previous research has suggested roles for our microbiome in everything from obesity to autism.
Dr Cathryn Nagler says we should not be surprised how powerful an effect these bacteria, fungi and viruses can have on our body.
"We have co-evolved with our microbiota and it has an enormous impact on our health.
"It's having a negative impact now because we've disturbed it with antibiotics, a high fat diet and c-sections."
Commenting on the findings, Prof Colin Hill, a microbiologist at University College Cork, told the BBC: "This is really interesting.
"This paper identifies a group of bacteria which could be important in protecting against these prevalent diseases.
"While we have to be careful not to extrapolate too far from a single study, and we also have to bear in mind that germ-free mice are a long way from humans, it is a very exciting paper and puts this theory on a much sounder scientific basis."
If you want to find out more about what you can do to reduce you or your children's chances of becoming allergic watch Horizon - Allergies: Modern Life and Me, broadcast on BBC Two at 9pm on Wednesday 27th August.
Yorkshire's four batting bonus points ensured that all three contenders can still clinch the title on Friday.
Somerset added 208 runs in 32 overs and, having reached his second century of the game at Taunton, captain Chris Rogers declared at lunch on 313-5.
Set 541 to win, relegated Notts were bowled out for 215 to lose by 325 runs.
Former Australia Test opener Rogers, who scored the 76th first-class hundred of his career off 139 balls to add to his 132 on day one, announced his retirement at the end of the game.
Somerset now face an agonising wait to discover if they will be crowned champions and would be denied by a positive result for either side at Lord's.
Yorkshire appear best placed to do so after Tim Bresnan's 142 not out ensured they matched Somerset's tally of bonus points for the final round of games, meaning a victory would seal a third successive title win for the Tykes.
Down in Taunton, Notts openers Steven Mullaney and Jake Libby put on 48 but then three wickets fell for seven runs, two of them being run-outs.
Roelof van der Merwe (3-59) trapped Michael Lumb lbw with the second ball after tea and Somerset accelerated towards victory once fellow spinner Jack Leach (4-69) had removed Chris Read and Brett Hutton in the space of three balls.
Billy Root's unbeaten 66 could not prevent Somerset earning their sixth Championship win of 2016.
Earlier, Ryan Davies (59) and Peter Trego (55) had scored swift half-centuries in support of Rogers (100 not out) as the home side scored at more than six runs per over in the morning session before declaring.
Who joins Nottinghamshire in being relegated to Division Two next summer will also be decided on the final day of the season, with Warwickshire, Lancashire and Hampshire battling to avoid the one remaining relegation place.
The Bears look favourites to seal the win that will secure their survival after reducing Lancashire to 28-3 at Edgbaston in their second innings, requiring another 319 runs to win.
However, a win for Hampshire, who closed on 176-7 with a lead of 226 over Durham, would relegate the loser of the Warwickshire-Lancashire game.
Meanwhile, a draw at Edgbaston and a Hampshire win would send the Bears down - while an unlikely Lancashire win would mean a draw would be enough for Hampshire to stay up at Warwickshire's expense.
In that last scenario, Hampshire and Warwickshire would both finish on 160 points, with the same number of wins, but the south coast side would stay up by virtue of fewer defeats than the Bears.
The 28-year-old former Derby and Southampton player featured eight times on loan at St James Park this season and had expressed his desire
The club has not disclosed how long a contract Holmes has signed.
"I'm delighted that Lee has chosen to stay with Exeter City," Exeter manager Paul Tisdale said.
"He is a very talented footballer and he ingratiated himself into our dressing room very quickly during his loan spell here.
"We saw plenty of evidence of his ability during his short time with us, so the prospect of working with him in pre-season and over the next year is extremely exciting."
The UK-wide action will see signallers, maintenance staff and station workers, walk out from 25 May on the busy holiday weekend.
It follows a decisive vote for action from RMT union members and will be the first UK-wide rail strike in 20 years.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin condemned the strike and said Network Rail had made a "fair offer".
"Rail passengers will not thank the unions for inflicting this unnecessary disruption," he added.
The RMT insists the main impact on passengers will be felt on Tuesday 26 May, but the action is expected to hit what is traditionally a busy Bank Holiday travel period for millions of rail users.
Network Rail has previously said it will do anything possible to keep services going if strikes go ahead.
The union said the latest pay proposals from Network Rail fell "well short" of what is required to maintain living standards and job security for nearly 16,000 staff.
Members have rejected a four-year deal worth £500 per worker this year, followed by three years of increases matching inflation as well as a no compulsory redundancy commitment to December 2016.
Network Rail runs and develops Britain's rail tracks as well as looking after signalling, bridges and tunnels. They also run stations in the UK, including 10 in London.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said Network Rail had left members "with no option but to move to a rolling programme of industrial action".
The union had a "massive mandate for action" from members angered at "attacks on their standards of living and their job security", he said.
Network Rail's proposals were "wholly inadequate" and failed to recognise the "massive pressures staff are working under to keep services running safely at a time when the company is generating profits of £1bn", he added.
The action is the first major industrial relations challenge for the new Conservative government, which is committed to tightening the rules on strike ballots - particularly covering essential public services.
"All industries are being disrupted.
"Farmers in Ghana are saving time and money by using their smart phones to trade their products before the long walk to market begins, and underprivileged women in South Africa are breaking out of the cycle of poverty after training means that they can help US customers with their technology problems.
"Even the animal videos posted online, much mocked by some, are now enabling scientists to gather meaningful data about animal relationships that would never have been accessible before.
"But beyond the hyperbole, this 25th birthday and as part of that, I hope, this debate is a good moment to reflect on all of the different aspects of the web."
"My contribution is inspired by my first-hand experience of a 94-year-old friend who is determined not to be excluded, who has combated bereavement, loneliness, kept mentally active and even perhaps deferred or diminished the onset of mental illness by becoming internet proficient.
"In the UK today, there are 10 million people over the age of 65, and by 2050 that will be over 20 million. 11% of one-person households over state pensionable age had internet access in 2000 and today it's over 40%.
"However, my lords, there are still around six million pensioners who have never used the internet. 75% of people in the UK who are over 75 years old consider themselves lonely.
"My 94-year-old friend would never consider himself lonely. For him the internet is infinitely flexible. Online book groups, staying in touch with friends via email and text, Skype calls, downloading music and videos: that's what keeps him so alert and interested in the world outside."
"We celebrated the universality of the web at the Olympics opening ceremony, with Sir Tim Berners-Lee tweeting: 'This is for everyone.'
"I still find the speed of development since I first used the Netscape browser quite extraordinary.
"Sir Tim and the early pioneers of the web deserve huge recognition for their setting of the open and neutral standards which ensured the growth of the world wide web."
"Online pornography; the objectification of women; the bullying of young people: there's a dark side and we shouldn't be surprised at that, given that this is human nature engaging with a wonderful invention with all kinds of dark possibilities.
"I'm reminded from my experience of being a university teacher that when students in writing an essay search the web to fill up a couple of pages, you could always tell because it just didn't fit in the main argument, because they didn't understand what kind of angle it came from.
"The point of that, of course, is that information, that the web is wonderful at making available, information needs interpretation, and wisdom is interpretation on a very wide scale of the big picture."
"Unlike the early cry of 'free, open and democratic', we are all aware that the web has become monetised with a value that is entirely dependent on harvesting data, data created by interacting as much as humanly possible with the commercial platforms on the web.
"The millions spent on the vast and incremental experimentation of combining neuroscience and technology to keep us attached to our devices is not actually disputed by those who do it, but it does fuel a culture of compulsion and disclosure, and distraction that has a particular implication for young people who are not yet fully formed."
"The internet has been the greatest transformative force in history bar none, because of the speed of the transformation: 20 years.
"The invention of writing is perhaps the only parallel. That took 5,000 years and was only the prerogative of elites.
"There's never been anything like this before in history, so it's not surprising that it's rather difficult to come to terms with its long-term impact."
"One hundred and eighty three billion emails are sent every day. Had we had the wit at the outset to place a 1p levy on each email - these are unaudited figures, I hasten to add - it would generate today, worldwide, £730bn [a year].
"That's 29 times the amount spent by the UN and all of its agencies each year, it is more than the global aspiration for development and climate change mitigation, recommended by any agency.
"This tiny levy could totally change the landscape of aid worldwide.
"I realise it is rather late in day to suggest this, but it has another advantage: if there was such a levy, it might just allow people to pause momentarily before hitting that quite dreadful 'reply to all' button."
"If our banks exploited information about our private transactions in the manner of Google, there would be uproar.
"If the ugly, threatening sexist abuse that is harboured routinely on Twitter took place in the pub, it would more often be prosecuted.
"Online fraud takes place on a gigantic and global scale. In the UK we neither measure its impact on our citizens, nor do we do anything material to counter it.
"The task of the next 25 years is, without threatening in any way the precious, priceless benefits that the world wide web have brought us, is to extend to it civilised standards and the rule of law."
Rahm, 22, has made a major impact since turning professional after enjoying a distinguished career as an amateur.
The Spaniard has moved up to 13 in the world rankings in the wake of a win at the Farmers Insurance Open in January, followed by four more top-10 finishes in consecutive PGA Tour tournaments.
Rahm will also play in the Scottish Open and the Open Championship in July.
News of his proposed participation at Portstewart was reported in the Spanish Ten-Golf website.
His presence at Portstewart in July will come as a major boost to the event, and provide him with some practice in playing links golf before heading to Royal Birkdale for the third major of the year.
For Rahm, it will be his first European Tour event since turning professional last year, although he did play in the Open at Royal Troon in 2016.
He played in the same group as Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy for the first two rounds of the Masters at Augusta last week and ended in a tie for 27th position.
The Barrika golfer's next tournament will be the Players' Championship at Sawgrass, the PGA Tour's flagship event, in mid-May.
His achievements in the amateur game include being the only two-time winner of the Ben Hogan Award in 2015 and 2016, an award that recognises the outstanding male amateur and collegiate golfer of the year.
Massoud Barzani said that Iraq was already "effectively partitioned".
While the Kurds would play a part in a political solution to the crisis caused by jihadist-led Sunni Arab rebellion, independence was their right, he added.
Meanwhile, the first session of Iraq's new parliament has been adjourned after deputies failed to elect a new speaker.
Acting Speaker Mahdi al-Hafez called off proceedings after most of the Sunni and Kurdish members of the House of Representatives did not return after a break, meaning there was not a quorum present.
It had been hoped they would discuss forming a unity government.
The current Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, is facing calls from his Sunni, Kurdish and Shia rivals to step down because of his handling of the crisis.
However, as the leader of the bloc that won the most votes in April's elections, he has demanded the right to try to form a governing coalition.
Huge swathes of northern and western Iraq are now in the hands of Sunni rebels led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis). On Sunday, the al-Qaeda breakaway declared a caliphate in the territories under its control in Iraq and neighbouring Syria.
The United Nations has said that at least 2,417 Iraqis, including 1,531 civilians, were killed in "acts of violence and terrorism" in Iraq last month, when Isis launched its offensive.
The death toll does not include fatalities in the western province of Anbar, where the Iraqi authorities say 244 civilians were killed in June.
In the past month, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have moved into previously disputed areas that have been abandoned by Iraqi security forces in the face of Isis's advance, such as the oil-rich region of Kirkuk.
"Everything that's happened recently shows that it's the right of Kurdistan to achieve independence," Mr Barzani told the BBC.
"From now on, we won't hide that that's our goal. Iraq is effectively partitioned now. Are we supposed to stay in this tragic situation the country's living? It's not me who will decide on independence. It's the people. We'll hold a referendum and it's a matter of months."
Analysis: Jim Muir, BBC News, Irbil
Massoud Barzani has always harboured the dream of independence for Kurdistan, and now clearly believes it is closer than ever.
He and other Kurdish leaders say that for 10 years they have done their best to help build a stable, federal Iraq by participating fully in the Baghdad central government.
Now, as the rest of the Iraq is being torn to pieces, they feel justified in giving up and going their own way.
They have not only fresh motivation, but greater means. The oil of Kirkuk, which they seized as army troops fled, may boost their exports to a million barrels a day.
But it is not an easy path. The Kurdistan Regional Government is strapped for cash, and lacks the infrastructure to increase exports substantially.
And the the Kurds of Iraq are landlocked. Neighbours Iran, Turkey, Syria, and Iraq itself have always frowned on the notion of independence. They may be busy with problems now, but not forever.
The Kurds have long striven for an independent state but they remain divided between Syria and Turkey, Iran and Iraq.
The international community, including neighbouring Turkey and the US, remains opposed to the break-up of Iraq.
Fresh clashes have meanwhile been reported between Sunni rebels and government forces around the Iraqi city of Tikrit.
Witnesses said there had been a wave of air strikes and that former President Saddam Hussein's palace had been hit.
US President Barack Obama announced he was sending about another 200 troops to protect the US embassy in Baghdad.
That means some 750 US soldiers will soon be deployed in Iraq, but Mr Obama has ruled out sending troops to fight alongside Iraq's army.
William McGreevy, 39, from Strandburn Park, faced four charges dating back to 14 June last year.
The incidents included the robbery of the off-licence on the Belmont Road and threatening a delivery driver with a bottle of Buckfast.
McGreevy will serve two years in custody and two on supervised licence.
Belfast Crown Court was told that McGreevy was intoxicated and under the influence of prescription drugs at the time of the offences.
A prosecutor said on the evening of 14 June, the defendant was walking along the Belmont Road, drunk, with a branch in his mouth.
McGreevy entered a Tesco store, and as he was standing in the queue brought a knife out of his pocket, then replaced it and repeated this action around six times.
The prosecutor told the court the member of staff working the till was "large", and that it was the Crown's case that despite the presence of the knife, McGreevy "wasn't going to take his chance" and left the store.
As McGreevy was walking along the Belmont Road, he stopped a man he vaguely knew who was a delivery driver for a Chinese restaurant and asked for lift, but was told by the delivery man that he was busy.
McGreevy then walked into an off-licence 100 yards from the Tesco store. Still with the branch in his mouth, the defendant then brought out the large black-handled knife and pointed it at a female member of staff.
After threatening the employee, the defendant went behind the counter and demanded money, before ransacking the display counter.
He then issued more threats to the employee and a male colleague, warning them he would stab them if they did not open the safe.
The male worker took McGreevy into the back of the shop to show him the safe and explained they could not open it.
He left the off licence with around £260 in cash and £818 worth of cigarettes and alcohol in plastic bags.
The prosecutor said that following the robbery, McGreevy again approached the delivery man, and got into the passenger seat of his car.
He was told to get out by the driver, who was then threatened by McGreevy who was brandished a half bottle of Buckfast.
When McGreevy threatened to hit the driver, he "realised it was not a joke" and feeling under intimidation, he drove McGreevy a short distance home.
Officers viewed the CCTV footage from Tesco and McGreevy was recognised and arrested.
During interview, he said he had been drinking on the afternoon of June 14, consuming around 10 pints.
He said that he could not remember being in Tesco or the off-licence.
He pleaded guilty to four charges - two counts of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place, robbery and hijacking.
A defence barrister said her client had a long issue with alcohol, especially during times of stress, which had brought him before the court in the past.
Former House of Commons speaker Andrew Scheer, 38, beat 12 other contestants in a razor-thin victory.
He emerged as the winner on the thirteenth ballot in the leadership contest, narrowly defeating his primary rival, former foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier, with 51% of the vote.
Mr Scheer will lead the party against Justin Trudeau's Liberals in 2019.
Speaking on Saturday to party faithful gathered in Toronto, Mr Scheer offered a message of unity to the party built some 14 years ago on a coalition of progressive, populist and social conservatives.
"We all know what it looks like when Conservatives are divided," he said. "We will not let that happen again. We win when we are united."
More than 141,000 Conservative party members cast a ballot in the contest.
Unlike in federal elections in Canada where the winner takes all, the Conservative leadership race used preferential ranked ballots, which means that Mr Scheer was not everyone's first choice.
Still, Mr Scheer was seen as a consensus candidate who received strong support from the party caucus.
Few of the contestants in the crowded race were household names, except for businessman and reality TV star Kevin O'Leary, who unexpectedly dropped out of the contest in April.
Mr O'Leary threw his support behind Mr Bernier but that backing failed to get the Quebec politician, who ran on a free-market, libertarian slate, across the finish line. He ended the night with 49% of the vote.
Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper resigned in 2015 after he was defeated in the federal election by Mr Trudeau's Liberals.
Mr Harper held together the right-of-centre federal party for a decade, winning three consecutive elections between 2006 and 2011.
He was replaced on an interim basis by Rona Ambrose, a veteran federal politician who recently announced her retirement from federal politics.
Nothing matters more than the parliamentary numbers and Theresa May's lack of a majority. The politics of the coming months and perhaps years will be dominated by this one fact.
Now the prime minister could try to get her legislation through vote by vote, issue by issue. But that would be a recipe for instability and unpredictability.
So she has announced that she will try to do a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party, Northern Ireland's largest unionist party.
The DUP have 10 MPs and if they vote with the Conservatives, the government will be able to get its business through Parliament.
The easiest way for the government to ensure regular DUP support in Parliament would be to agree what's called a "confidence and supply" arrangement.
The DUP would promise to back the government in votes of no confidence and supply - or budget - issues. In return, the government would support or fund some of the DUP's policies.
These deals tend to be loose and a long way short of a formal coalition.
Minority governments like this are not uncommon.
The Scottish National Party ran a minority government in Scotland a decade ago. John Major survived without a majority in the dying days of his administration in the mid-1990s. Harold Wilson and James Callaghan governed with minorities for much of the 1970s.
But these governments can be quite constrained in what they can do, passing as little legislation as possible to avoid defeat.
They can also be unstable and short lived, if the deal between the parties breaks down and fresh elections have to be called.
So any arrangement between the Conservatives and the DUP would have a large question mark over it, particularly over how long it could last.
The Institute for Government think-tank says that for minority governments to last and work, ministers, MPs and the media have to change the way they think.
Ministers have to be less majoritarian in their outlook, and be less ambitious and more realistic about what they can achieve. MPs need to learn how to do deals and make compromises.
And the media have to stop viewing every defeat as a confidence issue.
But this does not always happen.
Minority governments can linger on, scrabbling around for votes, spraying around taxpayers' money in return for parliamentary support.
What this means is MPs having to hang around the Palace of Westminster at all hours just in case there are unexpected votes.
This can mean whips - or parliamentary managers - rushing round doing deals with MPs from other parties, threatening some, bribing others. When votes are really tight, it can mean sick MPs being brought from their hospital beds in ambulances so their votes can be counted.
The biographies of MPs from the 1970s can be eye-watering in their depiction of the reality of minority government.
There are also specific risks for the Conservatives in doing a deal with the DUP.
They will be in hock to a party whose views and policies they will not always find palatable.
Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's chief of staff in Downing Street, told the BBC: "The Conservatives have made a big mistake. Theresa May has made herself a hostage to the DUP."
In terms of the politics of Northern Ireland, it may make it harder for the British government to play its traditional role of neutral mediator.
In terms of UK politics, it hooks the Tories to a party that is not known for its social liberalism.
A woman who once described the Tories as the "nasty party" may find herself having to make some rather socially conservative choices.
There are also risks to the Brexit process. A key issue will be the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
All sides are worried about the potential impact on the political settlement if border posts and guards are reinstated, a reminder of the divisions and violence of the past.
Some MPs fear that the DUP could shape this part of the negotiation in a way that could disrupt the sensitive status quo.
The days of the Troubles are gone, and the border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic lie rusting and unused.
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And then there is just the sheer lack of numbers.
Even with the DUP, many of the votes will be tight. It will take discipline and stamina to ensure that all MPs turn up day after day to push through complicated and contentious legislation, such as the enormous Great Repeal Bill transferring EU law into UK law.
This cannot be guaranteed.
Theresa May called this election because she concluded she could not get Brexit through the House of Commons with a majority of 17. She may struggle to do it with a similar majority that is made up of another party's MPs.
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Tobacco is the biggest culprit, causing 23% of cases in men and 15.6% in women, says the Cancer Research UK report.
Next comes a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in men's diets, while for women it is being overweight.
The report is published in the British Journal of Cancer.
Its authors claim it is the most comprehensive analysis to date on the subject.
Lead author Prof Max Parkin said: "Many people believe cancer is down to fate or 'in the genes' and that it is the luck of the draw whether they get it.
"Looking at all the evidence, it's clear that around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we mostly have the power to change."
For men, the best advice appears to be: stop smoking, eat more fruit and veg and cut down on how much alcohol you drink.
For women, again, the reviews says the best advice is to stop smoking, but also watch your weight.
Prof Parkin said: "We didn't expect to find that eating fruit and vegetables would prove to be so important in protecting men against cancer. And among women we didn't expect being overweight to be more of a risk factor than alcohol."
In total, 14 lifestyle and environmental factors, such as where you live and the job you do, combine to cause 134,000 cancers in the UK each year.
About 100,000 (34%) of the cancers are linked to smoking, diet, alcohol and excess weight.
One in 25 of cancers is linked to a person's job, such as being exposed to chemicals or asbestos.
Some risk factors are well established, such as smoking's link with lung cancer.
But others are less recognised.
For example, for breast cancer, nearly a 10th of the risk comes from being overweight or obese, far outweighing the impact of whether or not the woman breastfeeds or drinks alcohol.
And for oesophageal or gullet cancer, half of the risk comes from eating too little fruit and veg, while only a fifth of the risk is from alcohol, the report shows.
For stomach cancer, a fifth of the risk comes from having too much salt in the diet, data suggests.
Some cancers, like mouth and throat cancer, are caused almost entirely by lifestyle choices.
But others, like gall bladder cancer, are largely unrelated to lifestyle.
The researchers base their calculations on predicted numbers of cases for 18 different types of cancer in 2010, using UK incidence figures for the 15-year period from 1993 to 2007.
In men, 6.1% (9,600) of cancer cases were linked to a lack of fruit and vegetables, 4.9% (7,800) to occupation, 4.6% (7,300) to alcohol, 4.1% (6,500) to overweight and obesity and 3.5% (5,500) to excessive sun exposure and sunbeds.
In women, 6.9% (10,800) were linked to overweight and obesity, 3.7% (5,800) to infections such as HPV (which causes most cases of cervical cancer), 3.6% (5,600) to excessive sun exposure and sunbeds, 3.4% (5,300) to lack of fruit and vegetables and 3.3% (5,100) to alcohol.
Dr Rachel Thompson, of the World Cancer Research Fund, said the report added to the "now overwhelmingly strong evidence that our cancer risk is affected by our lifestyles".
Dr Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research UK, said leading a healthy lifestyle did not guarantee a person would not get cancer but the study showed "we can significantly stack the odds in our favour".
"If there are things we can do to reduce our risk of cancer we should do as much as we possibly can," he said.
Glyn Berwick, of Penny Brohn Cancer Care, which specialises in offering nutrition and exercise advice, agreed.
"We know from years of experience the positive impact that changing lifetsyles can have."
The president of the Royal College of Physicians, Sir Richard Thompson, said the findings were a wake-up call to the government to take stronger action on public health.
"The rising incidence of preventable cancers shows that the 'carrot' approach of voluntary agreements with industry is not enough to prompt healthy behaviours, and needs to be replaced by the 'stick' approach of legislative solutions," he said
The government said it was intending to begin a consultation on plain packaging by the end of this year.
Diane Abbott, Shadow Public Health Minister, said: "The government is failing on all the main public health issues.
"And the message from Labour, the Tory-led Public Health Committee, campaigners like Jamie Oliver and even some the government's own policy panels is clear: the government's approach to tackling lifestyle-related health problems is completely inadequate."
Public Health Minister Anne Milton said: "We all know that around 23,000 cases of lung cancer could be stopped each year in England if people didn't smoke.
"By making small changes we can cut our risk of serious health problems - give up smoking, watch what you drink, get more exercise and keep an eye on your weight."
The Mercedes driver, 31, has already described it as the "worst-looking" modification in Formula 1 history.
"I understand safety is a huge issue and something we have to work towards, but this is not the one," he said.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel said the device can be as "ugly as possible" as long as it helps save lives.
The German, a four-time world champion, said Henry Surtees and Justin Wilson would "still be around if we had this type of system".
Surtees and Wilson were both killed when hit by debris while racing in other forms of motorsport.
"Nothing justifies not having these guys around anymore," said Vettel.
Hamilton said F1 cars had lost "the cool look they used to have in the 1980s and 1990s", adding: "It is not F1 for me.
"If they do implement it, I hope we have a choice of whether we have to use it and are not forced to, because ultimately it is our safety."
It is a structure that fits over the cockpit to protect the driver from flying debris, but retains an F1 car's open feel.
A prototype version has been tested by Ferrari at this week's final pre-season test in Barcelona, with a view to it being rolled out to all cars in time for 2017.
To protect drivers from large pieces of flying debris following a series of deaths and injuries across motorsport.
It has the support of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, of which the vast majority of drivers are members.
The design was agreed by all the teams and sport's governing body, the FIA, after years of research.
However, it is not necessarily the definitive design that will be used next year as further testing still needs to be done on the strength of the mounting points.
You've read what Hamilton and Vettel think, but other drivers have had their say, too.
It's fair to say that the 'halo' has split opinion, with some drivers all for it and others against because it 'sterilises' the sport.
Vettel thinks it will, but it remains to be seen. Some observers have questioned whether it could restrict visibility.
Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who did two laps with it on Thursday, said his view was "a bit limited in the front" but said the design could still be tweaked.
Ferrari team-mate Vettel said "you can see what you need to see", adding: "I tested it in the simulator and I think we will see evolutions of it very soon."
Hamilton, obviously, but Force India driver Nico Hulkenberg is not a fan either.
The German insists F1 needs to retain an element of danger to remain "sexy and attractive".
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso says it is a "step in the right direction" because "head protection is the weakest link in safety".
Hamilton's team-mate Nico Rosberg thinks the device is "quite cool" to look at and a "really massive step in safety".
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo commented: "The cars from 2008 to 2009 had a big change [visually], the cars were ugly. The halo isn't as dramatic as that."
"I heard Hulkenberg say some things I don't agree with, because there's no need to be a hero about the situation.
"It doesn't change the sport, or the speed of the car - it's just if there are any flying objects, it's an extra bit of protection for us.
"I don't know why he's puffing his chest out for something like that, it doesn't make sense."
Red Bull are proposing a different solution, which one source described as a "half canopy".
Team boss Christian Horner says they plan to run it on a show car next month, but one senior insider told BBC Sport that the design "doesn't look very promising".
F1 bosses are pressing ahead with plans to introduce the 'halo' in 2017.
It still needs some fine-tuning - and the mounting points to the chassis have not been subject to comprehensive load-testing yet - but it seems inevitable that F1 cars will feature a design similar to that seen on the Ferrari this week.
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The former Wales under-20 captain had limited opportunities in west Wales last season, starting only five games.
Myhill, 24, joined the Blues in May aiming to play more first team rugby.
"The last couple of years I had the feeling that whatever I did it wasn't going to change," he said.
"If I played well I still wasn't going to play, so I needed a change - a fresh start and just to kick on in rugby, really."
The presence of Wales internationals Ken Owens and Emyr Phillips at Parc y Scarlets meant Myhill faced a battle for first-team appearances - but he says he understands the reasons.
"There's two good players [Owens and Phillips] and a couple of young boys as well. They're all good players so I can see why the coaches came to the decisions they made," he added.
"There's no hard feelings or anything like that.
"I support the Scarlets anyway. I grew up supporting them. But now I'll just concentrate on the Blues and try to do well for them and win something."
Myhill was captain of Wales under-20 team that beat New Zealand in 2012.
He hopes the move to the Welsh capital will provide a new impetus to his senior career.
"I want to play more, try to improve and enjoy rugby again - because when you're not playing you don't really enjoy it," he added.
"But I'm really enjoying it with the Blues."
Myhill will again face tough competition for first-team selection, with current Wales squad player Kristian Dacey at the region and former Wales captain and British and Irish Lions hooker Matthew Rees having signed a one-year contract.
Myhill sees that front-row experience as a bonus.
"I learned most of my stuff off Smiler [Rees] at the Scarlets," said Myhill.
"I'm a young hooker so it's good to pick up stuff off him and the other internationals there, like [props] Gethin Jenkins and Rhys Gill."
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The 27-year-old lock has won 18 caps since making his international debut against Tonga in 2012.
Lemalu will provide cover for England second row George Kruis, who is out for 12 weeks with a knee injury.
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All of the dead were reportedly members of a family whose house in Babka was hit early on Thursday.
A monitoring group also said at least 22 jihadists had been killed in air strikes in neighbouring Idlib province.
It was not clear who was behind the various attacks, which took place despite a week-old nationwide truce.
The truce covers government and rebel forces, but not members of so-called Islamic State (IS) or the rival jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which was known as al-Nusra Front until it broke off formal ties with al-Qaeda in July.
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The pro-opposition Local Co-ordination Committees and Aleppo Media Centre reported that warplanes carried out several air strikes on Babka.
The AMC said nine people were killed, while LCC put the death toll at 10.
Both added that dozens of other civilians were wounded and that rescue workers were searching through the rubble of destroyed buildings for survivors.
Meanwhile, in the rebel stronghold of Idlib province, 24 hours of air strikes had left at least 22 jihadist fighters dead, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Some of the attacks were carried out by government aircraft, others by those of the US-led multinational coalition against IS, the UK-based monitoring group said.
One coalition strike on a convoy killed 16 members of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, including two of the group's commanders, it added.
However, the coalition said it had not targeted the area on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The nationwide truce, brokered by Turkey and Russia, has largely held since taking effect on 30 December. However, clashes have continued in some areas.
One of them is Wadi Barada, a rebel-held valley in the mountains north-west of Damascus, where the LCC reported that six civilians had been killed by government bombardment on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the governor of Damascus Countryside province told state media a deal had been agreed for the army to enter the valley and repair infrastructure at the Ain al-Fijeh spring, which supplies 70% of the capital's water.
Alaa Ibrahim added that some local rebel fighters would also hand over their weapons, while those not originally from the valley would be evacuated.
Opposition sources denied there was any such agreement, but dozens of men were photographed by state media apparently queuing to leave the valley.
On Thursday, UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura said five rebel-held villages in Wadi Barada had agreed to a truce, but that two others had not.
Some 5.5 million people living in and around Damascus have been deprived of running water since 22 December because of damage to the spring.
Rebels and activists have blamed government bombardment. The government has said rebels polluted the spring with diesel fuel, forcing it to cut supplies.
In a separate development, the US treasury imposed sanctions on 18 senior Syrian officials in response to findings by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and UN that the government had used the toxic chemical chlorine as a weapon against its own citizens in three attacks.
The state department also blacklisted a subsidiary of the Syrian defence ministry, Organisation for Technological Industries, which it said was boosting the Syrian government's ballistic missile programme.
Visitors to the Twitter and Facebook page for the Peeple app have been met with messages explaining such content is unavailable or that it doesn't exist.
Similarly, the app's website returns a "Not Found" error for many users.
The Peeple app sparked a storm of controversy when it was announced last week as a way to rate individuals.
While the official website for the app is inaccessible for many, some users have reported being directed to a landing page that reads: "Join the positive revolution #oct12".
Julia Cordray, one of the founders of the app, told the BBC in an email: "We look forward to October 12, 2015 where we will be taping for an exclusive talk show and expose our concept to the world.
"World's largest positivity app for positive people launching November 2015 on iOS and Android."
However, Ms Cordray did not provide any details about the talk show or explain why the Peeple social media accounts have been disabled.
Over the weekend, some began to speculate that the app, which wasn't due to launch until November, was in fact a hoax.
Myth-busting website Snopes.com, for instance, considered the online footprint of both the app and its founders - and the fact that several details released about the service remained curiously vague.
However, Ms Cordray directly denied suggestions that the app was a hoax in a blog published on LinkedIn.
She said that she had received death threats and insulting comments since news of Peeple went viral.
She added that a previously announced feature of the app, in which negative comments made about individuals would be posted after a certain time limit, would now no longer be part of it.
"I want the world to be positive and this is how I'm going to inspire it by creating the world's largest positivity app," she wrote.
Uproar over the app was "unsurprising", according to social media researcher Dr Ansgar Koene at the University of Nottingham.
"The obvious thing is the equating people with objects, with services that are being provided," he told the BBC.
He also criticised the company's management of negative comments on social media.
"If you looked at things like the Facebook page that the CEOs of the company made it was interesting to see how they blatantly just ignored any of the negative messages."
Dr Koene added that, although part of him "hopes" it is a hoax or joke, he would have expected a statement announcing this to have been published by now.
The trust owns 48.5% of the shares in Portsmouth and has three members on the club's board of directors.
The rest of the club is owned by 16 'presidents', 12 of whom have voted in favour of the deal.
The votes mean the sale of the club can continue, as more than 75% of the equity holding has agreed to the deal.
Eisner and his Tornante investment group have offered £5.67m to buy 100% of the club and invest £10m in equity.
"This is true fan ownership and democracy at work," PST chairman Ashley Brown said.
"Our fans decided who the next owner of our club would be - and it will be Michael Eisner and Tornante.
"We believe he understands the importance of the custodianship of Pompey and will be an owner all fans will be proud of."
Eisner's takeover would mean the removal of the PST's three representatives from the club's nine-member board.
However, he has pledged to form a heritage board which would protect the club's name, colours, badge and guard, while also preventing relocation to a ground more than 15 miles from Portsmouth city centre.
Analysis of data shows 43% of pupils at England's outstanding secondaries are from the wealthiest 20% of families.
The study from education charity Teach First also shows poorer pupils are half as likely as the richest to be heading to an outstanding secondary school.
Ministers said plans for new grammars would create more good school places.
Under the admissions code, state schools in England must follow strict rules to ensure fair access to school places.
Teach First, which fast-tracks high-flying graduates into schools in deprived areas, also commissioned a survey of 2,000 adults on their views on gaining access to good and outstanding schools.
It showed nine out of 10 parents felt it was very important that their child went to a highly rated school.
Teach First said there was very little variation between parents from different social groups.
About 93% said attending their first choice school was key to their child's future, and nearly three-quarters said they would appeal if they did not get their first choice school.
The Teach First research coincides with a separate study by the social mobility charity Sutton Trust, which suggests poorer children in England are much less likely to gain places at the 500 comprehensives that achieve the best GCSE grades.
Analysis of figures from the National Pupil Database for the charity found over 85% of schools in the top 500 took a smaller proportion of disadvantaged pupils than lived in their immediate areas.
In the average state school, 17% of secondary pupils were eligible for free school meals, compared with 9% in the top 500, the researchers found.
About half this difference is due to these schools having catchment areas with fewer disadvantaged pupils, but the rest is due to social selection.
The study also found a house price premium of about 20% near top comprehensives
A typical house in one of these catchment areas costs about £45,700 more than the average property in the same local authority.
This means pupils whose families can afford to buy in these areas are more likely to get places at the top secondary schools, pricing poorer pupils out, says the charity.
Faith schools, which make up a third of the top 500 schools, and admit pupils on religious grounds from outside their immediate neighbourhood, were particularly socially selective.
Faith schools in the top 500 took 6% fewer pupils on free school meals than lived in the area nearest the school - compared with 2% fewer in non-faith schools, the researchers found.
Last year, 62,301 appeals were lodged for primary and secondary schools (3% of total admissions) of which 22% were successful.
Both sets of research come as parents across England receive details of which secondary schools their children have been offered.
Last year, 84% of applicants for a secondary school place were offered their first preference school.
And about 95% received an offer from one of their top three preference schools.
A Department for Education spokeswoman called selection by house price "simply unfair", adding that the government had already set in motion plans to tackle it.
"We plan to create more good school places in more parts of the country by scrapping the ban on new grammar schools, as well as harnessing the expertise and resources of our universities, and our independent and faith schools," said the spokeswoman.
The stand-in captain faces a ban if found guilty of a similar offence in the next 12 months.
The rest of England's players were fined 10% of their fee after the fourth match of the seven-game series, which Sri Lanka now lead 3-1.
Morgan, 28, was acting as skipper in place of the banned Alastair Cook.
Cook was serving a one-match suspension for previous slow over rates in Sunday's six-wicket defeat.
The service took place at the Ahmadiyya Muslim mosque in the Yorkhill area of the city.
The 40-year-old was found seriously injured in Minard Road in Shawlands at about 21:05 on Thursday 24 March. He died in hospital.
Tanveer Ahmed, 32, from Bradford in Yorkshire, has appeared in court charged with his murder.
Police Scotland had previously described the incident as a religiously prejudiced attack and said both men were Muslims.
Mr Shah was an Ahmadiyya Muslim, a group known for its non-violence and interfaith concerns, that is persecuted in many parts of the world.
Ahmadiyya are banned by the constitution of Pakistan from referring to themselves as Muslims.
Friends and family of Mr Shah, as well as politicians, attended the funeral at the Bait-Ur-Rahman Mosque at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Centre.
A message on the wall inside the hall at the mosque reads "Love For All Hatred For None".
Prayers were led at the hour-long service by Mansoor Shah, vice president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK.
After the service, Mr Shah said: "I think it was an extremely important service. I have been to Pollokshields this morning and I saw the bunches of flowers and I met a couple of neighbours down there and it was very moving.
"I was attached to this man. I saw what a lovely man he was and I was extremely sorry to see someone so lovely go away like this.
"We are the Islamic community and we do not believe in any kind of extremism. We must live in this country as law-abiding citizens.
"We are glad that the people of Scotland have come together. And shared their views with us and stood behind us. And we are extremely grateful to all the people of Scotland for having shown this solidarity."
Abdul Abid, president of the Ahmadiyya community in Scotland, said: "We are sad that a very popular man of our community is not with us anymore.
"I don't know how we will survive without him. He was a polite, gentle person.
"Today's service is in his memory and we are proud to have had such a wonderful person amongst our community."
Lawyer Aamer Anwar said: "There has to be a legacy of Asad Shah. This city has seen sectarian strife for over 150 years. We need to make sure that we don't import the politics of hatred, of sectarianism from Pakistan into our communities and to our streets.
"Anybody who attended the vigil, anybody that attended the funeral today of Asad Shah would know that Asad Shah was a well-loved man who has devastated his family by leaving them behind. We can't have another life lost to such hatred."
Mr Shah was killed just hours after he posted an Easter message on Facebook to his customers.
This message said: "Good Friday and a very happy Easter, especially to my beloved Christian nationx"
The night after he died a silent vigil was held outside his shop attended by hundreds of people including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Hundreds of floral tributes were also left at the scene.
A fundraising page on GoFundMe, set up to help Mr Shah's family, has raised more than £111,000.
Mr Shah was born in Rabwah, Pakistan, and moved to Glasgow in 1998 to join his father in business.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was founded in 1889. Its origins are in British-controlled northern India. The community identifies itself as a Muslim movement and follows the teachings of the Koran.
The community's website says it has tens of millions of members across 206 countries. Its current headquarters are in the UK.
The Ahmadiyya community takes its name from its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who was born in 1835 and was regarded by his followers as the messiah and a prophet.
Ghulam Ahmad saw himself as a renewer of Islam and claimed to have been chosen by Allah.
The community "categorically rejects and condemns every form of terrorism" and also endorse a separation of the mosque and state.
He told an NBC News interviewer on Sunday that he's a "reasonable person", however, and he'd listen if someone can come up with a "reasonable explanation for why they would like to kill a baby". Women, however, should not look at their foetus as "the enemy".
To illustrate his point, Mr Carson - whose understated yet forceful condemnations of liberal orthodoxy made him a darling on the conservative lecture circuit before he launched his presidential bid - offered an analogy that compared women seeking abortions to slaveholders.
"I know that's one of those words you're not supposed to say, but I'm saying it," Mr Carson began. "During slavery, a lot of slave-owners thought they had the right to do whatever they wanted to that slave, anything that they chose. And what if the abolitionists had said, 'I don't believe in slavery, but you guys do whatever you want'? Where would we be?"
Mr Carson has made a habit of saying what he's "not supposed to say" and then deriding the subsequent firestorm as attacks from "politically correct" critics.
The retired doctor has said President Barack Obama's healthcare reform was "the worst thing" since slavery and that the US government is acting like Nazi Germany. He asserted that being gay is a choice, Muslims aren't qualified to seek the US presidency, the Holocaust could have been prevented if persecuted Europeans owned more guns and - just a few days ago - that the US government should cut off funding to universities that are found to exhibit "extreme political bias".
Mr Carson's comments on abortion have set off yet another cycle of outrage from the left - a reaction that he will likely wear as a badge of honour.
"Carson's comments are part of a larger disinformation campaign by Christian fundamentalists and other elements of the American right in which examples from the United States' slave regime are used to delegitimise women's full equality and freedom," writes Salon's Chauncey Devega.
The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart writes: "Carson is a crackpot who should get nowhere near the White House, let alone the presidential nomination of a major political party. His incendiary and ignorant comments - not political correctness, not racism - are the cause of the 'relentless attacks' on him."
At one point, according to the New York Times, Mr Carson's political team was concerned about their candidate's propensity to make off-the-cuff statements that provoked outrage. In the end, however, they decided to "let Carson be Carson" - and the results have validated their instincts so far.
Much like fellow Republican frontrunner Donald Trump before him, Mr Carson has soared in public opinion polls of likely Republican primary voters despite controversial statements that would sink more traditional politicians.
In recent surveys of Iowa, the state where voters will first help select presidential nominees, Mr Carson has tied or even taken the lead from Mr Trump. In a Monmouth University poll released Monday, Mr Carson is backed by 32%, 14 points over second-place Trump.
This development has prompted the New York billionaire to begin targeting Mr Carson.
He remarked this weekend that the soft-spoken candidate is "super low on energy". He told a CNN interviewer that Mr Carson wouldn't be able to make deals with nations like Japan and China.
He tweeted that Mr Carson wasn't a job-creator and would abolish, the government-run healthcare system for the elderly. He also raised questions about Mr Carson's particular brand of evangelical Christianity.
"I'm Presbyterian," he said during a campaign stop in Florida. "Boy, that's down the middle of the road. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about. I just don't know about."
In the same interview where he made his abortion remarks, Mr Carson said the he wouldn't get in the "mud pit" to respond to attacks, but noted that he had the energy to conduct 20-hour surgeries when he was a practising physician.
As the Washington Examiner's Byron York points out, Mr Carson presents a tricky opponent for the other Republican presidential hopefuls. While Mr Trump has decided to go on the attack, others have been reluctant to follow suit by criticising the physician's lack of governing experience.
Veteran political operatives, he writes, are concerned that Mr Carson's high popularity in polls means any attack will backfire.
"Republican candidates have a Ben Carson problem," York writes. "He's ahead of most of them. They want to win. But how do they defeat him without offending the voters who admire him? No one has yet found the answer."
With just over three months before Iowans head to the polls and other states quickly follow suit, the clock is ticking.
Candidates in (and out of) the Republican presidential field
A report by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) said officers were sent within 35 minutes on 19 April 2016, but were then diverted.
The commissioner said the delay was caused by a lack of ownership of the initial call within Police Scotland.
The report said the man was expected to make a full recovery.
The incident happened when a City of Edinburgh Council neighbourhood support officer phoned Police Scotland with concerns about the 72-year-old who has regular welfare visits but had not been seen for a few days.
There had also been no reply at his home.
The PIRC report found while the initial call to police was correctly prioritised as a Grade 2 incident, which requires a response within 15 minutes, officers were not sent for 35 minutes.
On the way to the call, those officers were diverted to another incident and it was not until some time later that it was realised that no-one had attended and other officers were then dispatched.
When those officers arrived at the property later in the day, they found the man was seriously ill and he was taken to hospital for treatment.
The commissioner, Kate Frame, said: "Fortunately in this case, the medical opinion suggests that the delay in the police attending is unlikely to have had a significant impact on the seriousness of the man's illness.
"Police Scotland has since carried out a review of the circumstances and put new safeguards in place for dealing with this type of incident, which requires supervisors to more closely monitor the actions of staff."
McLaren chairman Ron Dennis gave one of his better to-the-point interviews to the BBC after the Japanese Grand Prix and tried to give the impression everything was all right with drivers Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button.
But the reality of the situation is that, even though McLaren have contracts with both for next year, it is far from certain at this stage whether either will stay.
This has all come about because of Honda's lack of performance, the lack of progress in terms of engine development during the season and the lack of belief from either the drivers or the team that Honda has a clear sense of how to improve things for next season.
He has two more years remaining on his McLaren-Honda contract, but the team radio messages he gave during the Japanese Grand Prix betrayed his frustration - as did him saying afterwards that he did not know whether he would still be in F1 next year.
I know he has since put out some statements saying effectively: "Nothing to see here, everything's OK."
But I'm as sure as I can be that we can take it as read that this is little more than a PR exercise.
The fact is, Fernando could walk away from McLaren at any time if he was not happy, and the only thing he would forfeit is money, not face or honour.
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We have not seen a driver just walk away from a situation for many years - Nigel Mansell retired after two races for McLaren in 1995 and James Hunt and Niki Lauda both quit partway through the 1979 season.
Having said that, I'd be surprised if he left McLaren at the end of this year.
McLaren's competitiveness is not going to change between now and the last race - Alonso admitted that himself at the weekend.
So I expect he will ride it through to the beginning of next year.
As we saw with Ferrari's big step forward on the engine front last winter, a lot can change from one season to the next.
Alonso will get an indication of where Honda are in pre-season testing next year and then validation at the first race of the season in Australia.
If it looks like Honda has taken a significant step forward, he will probably go marching on. If it doesn't, I could well see someone like that going: "Ladies and gentlemen, Fernando Alonso has left the building."
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As for Jenson, it is a question of whether Dennis's statement after the race that he had told Button on Thursday that McLaren would not be taking their option to release him caught the wave of his commitment.
The frustration that Button betrayed after the Singapore race the week before Japan, and which convinced the British newspaper reporters that he was on the point of retirement, was partly to do with a difficult race, partly the lack of the performance of the car and partly Dennis's inaction on confirming whether he wanted Button to stay next year.
We filmed a feature with Jenson on Thursday and, while he was in a good enough mood, he was not giving away hints about his future.
And when I asked him about it, he said: "Whatever happens, I am in a happy place."
All of which did make it seem it was not quite as slam-dunk as Dennis's statement that the contract would be taken up as is would suggest.
My personal experience of Dennis is that once he has looked you in the eye and shaken your hand, he honours it. But anything less than that and you might find him later falling back on claiming that he had not quite said what you thought he had.
The reassuring thing was to hear him admit that this was the worst time McLaren had had in F1. That sort of honesty is refreshing, but also suggests that he does realise they have hit rock bottom and the only way forward is to confront the issues head on.
We should not be in any doubt that Red Bull are serious when they say they will quit F1 if they cannot get a competitive engine for next season.
Whether you agree with it or not, they have been entirely consistent in their frustration with the situation with Renault, in whom they have lost confidence. They will split at the end of the season.
It's not unlike the situation with Alonso and Button. If people feel there is a genuine will on behalf of their partners to find solutions, they don't bad-mouth them. They try to defuse the difficulties. When they don't, that's when the problems start.
There are a number of people at the top of F1 now who say what they see and whether you agree with it or not, they tell you what they think. Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz and adviser Helmut Marko are among them, along with Mercedes' Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda.
Red Bull have made it very clear their relationship with Renault has broken down. They have tried to get Mercedes engines but their attempts were rejected.
What we have now is a situation where a billionaire who owns two teams is not prepared to accept second best. It is an understandable position.
It's one thing to have a Renault V8 under the previous engine formula that was 5% down on the best and make that up with the excellence of the car.
It's another to be in the hybrid era and to be offered second-grade Ferrari engines when you are a Grade One team. I wouldn't accept that if I owned Red Bull either.
In that situation, why should Mateschitz carry on pumping hundreds of millions a year into F1 and the show it provides to TV viewers while accepting he cannot win, until such time as he finds a better solution down the road?
It all adds up to a pivotal point in F1 history. If the heads of agreement signed by Renault to buy Lotus does not turn into a full sale, and if Red Bull do not get parity on engine power with the works Ferrari team, there could be six fewer cars on the grid next year.
It is an interesting period in F1 right now, with everything going on behind the scenes.
It seems to me, the thing that binds it all together is communications - or lack thereof.
If Red Bull and Renault had good communications, the relationship would not have broken down. If McLaren and Honda had good communications, they would not have even started this season with such a bad engine; Honda would have waited another year.
Button and McLaren, too - lack of communication.
It all goes to show - it's good to talk. Clearly these guys aren't.
Following Lewis Hamilton's victory in the Japanese Grand Prix, the world championship is all over bar reliability issues.
Hamilton has been a winning machine this year. Nico Rosberg is a talented racing driver and without Hamilton in the team he would be world champion.
But, for me, F1 is not about just being a champion, it is about putting yourself against the best and finding out whether you are capable of beating them - and then becoming champion.
Rosberg drove a very solid race to come back from fourth place to finish second in Japan, but it was all about the start.
Rosberg was slow off the line from pole, but he still had an opportunity to fend Hamilton off into Turn Two and he was not able to make it stick.
He went off the track because Hamilton drove him off the track by not giving him a line - which is perfectly legitimate.
If Rosberg had gone off the track because he braked too late in an attempt to keep Hamilton behind, that would have showed aggression and intent.
It is like when Hamilton ran a little wide at Silverstone back in July to try to take the lead at the restart. He didn't need to do that - but he was prepared to take the risk because he wanted to get the pass done.
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That is what we have not seen from Nico. He made mistakes and ran off the track last year when leading in Italy, which handed the win to Hamilton, and on the first lap in Russia, when he was poised to take the lead.
Hamilton makes mistakes, too - but not when he's at the front. He makes them trying to get past people.
He is prepared to put things on the line and deal with the consequences and, good as Rosberg's pass was on Williams's Valtteri Bottas in Japan, we have not seen Nico do that against Lewis.
He can drive poles, take wins, and make passes. But he needs to be able to do it against everyone, and from lights out to chequered flag.
Most of Rosberg's wins have come from the front. People such as Hamilton and Alonso can win from behind as well.
If Alonso was in the second Mercedes instead of Rosberg, this title battle would be a hell of a lot closer than it is now.
David Coulthard was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson
Holyrood gained temporary powers from Westminster for September's vote, but Nicola Sturgeon said it should have explicit responsibility to do so again.
However, she told the BBC she would still prefer to act by agreement between Scottish and UK ministers.
Ms Sturgeon will succeed Alex Salmond as first minister in the next week.
Ahead of the referendum, Mr Salmond and Prime Minister David Cameron signed a deal allowing the vote to be staged by the Scottish Parliament on a fully legal basis, which became known as the Edinburgh Agreement.
By Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland political editor
"The power to call the September referendum was transferred to Scotland under the terms of the Edinburgh Agreement between the Prime Minister and the First Minister.
"Nicola Sturgeon negotiated those terms with Michael Moore, then Scottish Secretary.
"But that power was temporary. For one referendum only, held on a single date, with a single question.
"That power has now lapsed. Ms Sturgeon wants it restored permanently."
The arrangement has since lapsed, but Ms Sturgeon said: "The Scottish Parliament should have the ability to make that decision, but notwithstanding that I think we would always seek if possible to do that on the basis of consensus."
The current deputy first minister, added: "If there had been a 'Yes' vote in September, then the Edinburgh Agreement would have become very, very important because, as we went into negotiation, not just with the UK government but also with our partners internationally, we would have had the fact that the referendum had been agreed and consensual and both the UK government and the Scottish government had signed up in advance to respect its outcome."
The constitutional issue falls within the ambit of the the Smith Commission, announced by Mr Cameron in the wake of the referendum "No" vote to look at new Holyrood powers.
However, it is expected that supporters of the Union would resist Ms Sturgeon's call.
The policy proposes suspending the stamp duty for three years, so it would in effect present a tax holiday, rather than a tax abolition.
The idea is to get more people onto the housing ladder and make the process of buying a home cheaper.
However, there are concerns that the policy could push house prices higher.
Matthew Pointon, from the research company Capital Economics, told the Guardian that, over the short term, Labour's policies "will act to push up prices".
There are a few reasons why this might be the case.
First, prospective buyers, who no longer have to spend as much on transaction costs, might be tempted to offer more money to beat rivals. Similarly, vendors might be tempted to increase sale prices, knowing buyers might have more cash at their disposal.
Second, the policy is designed to increase the number of buyers.
That means more demand for housing at a time when supply is constrained.
Earlier this month, the Royal Institution for Charted Surveyors said that the number of houses coming onto the market fell for the second month in a row. And the House of Commons Library says it is widely accepted that successive governments have failed to build enough homes.
It should be noted that Labour's changes would not apply to Scotland, where stamp duty has been devolved to the Scottish Parliament and there are different rates. But it would take effect in Wales, where stamp duty will not be devolved until 2018. Stamp duty is not devolved to Northern Ireland.
This isn't the first time that changes to stamp duty have prompted commentary about increasing prices.
In December 2014, George Osborne overhauled stamp duty. Under the old system, stamp duty was paid at a single rate, depending on the sale price.
Now, stamp duty is spread out so that there is less of a spike in the amount of tax paid when the sale price creeps above a stamp duty threshold. It works much like income tax so that the first proportion of a purchase price is taxed at one rate, the next portion at another and so on.
The coalition's reforms also prompted concerns that house prices could be forced up. However, four months after the reforms came into effect there is little data to show homes are more expensive as a result of the tax changes.
In March, Halifax said that that "so far there are no signs of any marked changes in behaviour as a result of the changes made to stamp duty at the start of December".
As Halifax said, it is still early days. And, unlike Labour's proposals, the coalition government's reforms to stamp duty were permanent so people may feel less pressured to complete a house transaction before a given deadline.
In 2012, the estate agency Savills analysed the effects of previous stamp duty holidays in 2005-6 and 2010-12.
Savills found that the tax holiday led to a spike in transactions towards the end of the holiday period, as home purchases were brought forward.
This was followed by a lull in house-buying activity after the holiday ended. However, there was little evidence that the tax breaks actually led to an overall increase in the number of homes being sold.
So it is probably too early to draw conclusions on what will happen. However, there is not much evidence to show that, over the longer term, the policy would lead to an increase in the number of transactions or to higher house prices.
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Greater Manchester Police said the couple and two young children were surrounded by six men with balaclavas and masks in south Manchester.
The gang threatened the family with a gun but could not steal the car because of the keyless ignition system.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of robbery.
The family was confronted by the men as they returned home on Woodpecker Road, Chorlton, in their white Mercedes C Class.
The gang stole the car after threatening the family with a gun but had to flee empty handed when they could not start the car.
The arrested man was detained following a police chase which ended on Plymouth Grove, in the Longsight district of Manchester.
Appealing for witnesses Det Insp Tony Lea said : "This was a terrifying robbery targeting a young family, purely because they have a nice car.
"Luckily there were no injuries, but we could have had a tragedy on our hands."
"I canny change the laws of physics, but I can try and return stolen property and solve crimes." PSNI Foyle's Facebook page posted, Scotty style.
The cards from the hit sci-fi series were stolen last Tuesday.
They are galactic treasure for Trekky fans.
They range in price from £1 to a couple of hundred pounds on online auction sites.
In their post, police used a number of fans' favourite quotes including: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one" and "Live long and prosper".
Police in Derry achieved success with a similar post when they appealed for the safe return of a stolen dog, called Pixie.
Stephen Timms said the 18 new MPs who were among the 48 rebels should focus on supporting the party.
The Commons backed the Welfare Reform and Work Bill by 308 to 124 votes.
Former Labour home secretary David Blunkett said the party was suffering post-election "emotional trauma".
The SNP said it was "disgraceful" that Labour had not joined it in opposing the bill.
Labour had told its MPs to abstain on the bill, which includes plans to limit child tax credit to two children.
Rebels included leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn and London mayoral candidates Sadiq Khan and David Lammy.
First Harriet Harman took a stand - saying Labour had to wake up and listen to voters on welfare.
Then she compromised - tabling an amendment designed to sidestep a row. And then almost 50 rebels ignored her instructions.
Were she Labour's permanent leader, her authority would be in tatters.
But it's not about her; she'll be gone by the autumn.
The real question is: could any of her would-be successors persuade the party that welfare must be reformed now?
Would they want, or dare, to try?
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Mr Timms told BBC Radio London the rebellion was "smaller than quite a lot of people expected", and included a number of MPs who regularly defy the party whip.
He added: "There were also a number of newer members who broke the whip and I hope as we go into the summer recess they will conclude that they really want to be supporting our party's efforts to replace the current government rather than undermining them."
But one of the new-intake rebels, Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens, told BBC News she did not agree, saying the bill, which include £12bn in welfare cuts, was focusing on working families.
She said she did not criticise any of her colleagues for the way they had voted but that there "may be a new approach" when a new leader is in place in September.
Apart from Mr Corbyn, all the leadership contenders - Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall - followed Ms Harman's lead and abstained.
Ms Stevens said they had "no choice" as they were bound by collective responsibility.
Ms Harman has faced criticism for her stance, with many MPs saying she should have been more outspoken in her opposition to curbs on child tax credits and cuts to other in-work benefits.
A Labour amendment seeking to derail the legislation was defeated by 308 votes to 208.
Mr Corbyn denied he was fuelling a split in the Labour Party, saying the revolt had "strengthened" Labour's position against the Conservatives.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme society ought to be "deeply concerned" about child poverty and deprivation levels.
During a five-hour debate, Labour MP John McDonnell said he would "swim through vomit" to oppose the legislation.
Reacting to the vote, Labour MP Diane Abbott tweeted: "Just voted against Tory welfare bill. Sorry for colleagues who knew it was wrong but abstained. We weren't sent to Parliament to abstain."
Conservative MP and chief secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands tweeted: "47 Labour rebels on welfare tonight. Huge. Biggest Labour rebellion for some time. Leadership crisis without actually having a Leader!"
Mr Blunkett, who also served as work and pensions secretary, said the party was in "emotional trauma", and was "not debating enough about where we go from here".
"Last night again focused on us being divided," he said, adding that the Welfare Bill was "clearly not a moment for setting out the alternative".
MPs who won their seats in May were "very lucky" and should ask themselves "why others didn't", he added.
The bill, which also seeks to lower the overall household benefit cap from £26,000 a year to £20,000 outside of London, and £23,000 in London, as well as to train a further three million apprentices, has now cleared its first parliamentary hurdle and will move on to more detailed scrutiny.
In a passionate debate, Conservative MPs lined up to support the measures.
As well as Labour MPs who did not support the bill, it was opposed by the SNP, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Greens.
SNP employment spokeswoman Hannah Bardell said: "Labour had the perfect opportunity to join the SNP in a progressive coalition to oppose the Tories - but with some honourable exceptions they sat on their hands."
On Twitter, SNP MP Pete Wishart said it was "apparent" that Labour and the SNP together could have defeated the bill.
Tim Farron, in his first Commons speech as Liberal Democrat leader, said his party was voting against the "unfair, unwise and inhuman" proposals.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said Labour was beset by "internal fear and loathing" and that the bill would put welfare funding on a "more sustainable footing" while protecting those most in need.
Speaking after the vote, he said: "Nearly 50 Labour MPs have defied their leadership and opposed our welfare reforms which will move our country from a low wage, high tax and high welfare economy to a higher wage, lower tax and lower welfare society.
"It's clear that Labour are still the same old anti-worker party - just offering more welfare, more borrowing and more taxes."
Abbott, Diane - Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Abrahams, Debbie - Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth
Ahmed-Sheikh, Tasmina - SNP MP for Ochil and South Perthshire
Anderson, David - Labour MP for Blaydon
Arkless, Richard - SNP MP for Dumfries and Galloway
Bardell, Hannah - SNP MP for Livingston
Black, Mhairi - SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Blackford, Ian - SNP MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Blackman, Kirsty - SNP MP for Aberdeen North
Boswell, Philip - SNP MP for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Brake, Tom - Lib Dem MP for Carshalton and Wallington
Brock, Deidre - SNP MP for Edinburgh North and Leith
Brown, Alan - SNP MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Burgon, Richard - Labour MP for Leeds East
Butler, Dawn - Labour MP for Brent Central
Cameron, Dr Lisa - SNP MP for East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Campbell, Gregory - DUP MP for East Londonderry
Carmichael, Alistair - Lib Dem MP for Orkney and Shetland
Chapman, Douglas - SNP MP for Dunfermline and West Fife
Cherry, Joanna - SNP MP for Edinburgh South West
Clegg, Nick - Lib Dem MP for Sheffield Hallam
Clwyd, Ann - Labour MP for Cynon Valley
Corbyn, Jeremy - Labour MP for Islington North
Cowan, Ronnie - SNP MP for Inverclyde
Crawley, Angela - SNP MP for Lanark and Hamilton East
Davies, Geraint - Labour MP for Swansea West
Day, Martyn - SNP MP for Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Docherty, Martin John - SNP MP for West Dunbartonshire
Dodds, Nigel - DUP MP for Belfast North
Donaldson, Jeffrey M - DUP MP for Lagan Valley
Donaldson, Stuart - SNP MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Dowd, Peter - Labour MP for Bootle
Durkan, Mark - SDLP MP for Foyle
Edwards, Jonathan - Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Farron, Tim - Lib Dem MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale
Fellows, Marion - SNP MP for Motherwell and Wishaw
Ferrier, Margaret - SNP MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Flynn, Paul - Labour MP for Newport West
Gethins, Stephen - SNP MP for North East Fife
Gibson, Patricia - SNP MP for North Ayrshire and Arran
Glindon, Mary - Labour MP for North Tyneside
Godsiff, Roger - Labour MP for Birmingham, Hall Green
Goodman, Helen - Labour MP for Bishop Auckland
Grady, Patrick - SNP MP for Glasgow North
Grant, Peter - SNP MP for Glenrothes
Gray, Neil - SNP MP for Airdrie and Shotts
Greenwood, Margaret - Labour MP for Wirral West
Haigh, Louise - Labour MP for Sheffield, Heeley
Harris, Carolyn - Labour MP for Swansea East
Hayman, Sue - Labour MP for Workington
Hendry, Drew - SNP MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Hosie, Stewart - SNP MP for Dundee East
Hussain, Imran - Labour MP for Bradford East
Jones, Gerald - Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
Jones, Helen - Labour MP for Warrington North
Kaufman, Sir Gerald - Labour MP for Manchester Gorton
Kerevan, George - SNP MP for East Lothian
Kerr, Calum - SNP MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Khan, Sadiq - Labour MP for Tooting
Kinahan, Danny - UUP MP for South Antrim
Lamb, Norman - Lib Dem MP for North Norfolk
Lammy, David - Labour MP for Tottenham
Lavery, Ian - Labour MP for Wansbeck
Law, Chris - SNP MP for Dundee West
Lewis, Clive - Labour MP for Norwich South
Long Bailey, Rebecca - Labour MP for Salford and Eccles
Lucas, Caroline - Green MP for Brighton, Pavilion
MacNeil, Angus Brendan - SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Marris, Rob - Labour MP for Wolverhampton South West
Maskell, Rachael - Labour MP for York Central
Mc Nally, John - SNP MP for Falkirk
McCaig, Callum - SNP MP for Aberdeen South
McDonald, Andy - Labour MP for Middlesbrough
McDonald, Stewart - SNP MP for Glasgow South
McDonald, Stuart C - SNP MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
McDonnell, Dr Alasdair - SDLP MP for Belfast South
McDonnell, John - Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington
McGarry, Natalie - SNP MP for Glasgow East
McInnes, Liz - Labour MP for Heywood and Middleton
McLaughlin, Anne - SNP MP for Glasgow North East
Meacher, Michael - Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton
Mearns, Ian - Labour MP for Gateshead
Monaghan, Carol - SNP MP for Glasgow North West
Monaghan, Dr Paul - SNP MP for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Moon, Madeleine - Labour MP for Bridgend
Morris, Grahame M - Labour MP for Easington
Mulholland, Greg - Lib Dem MP for Leeds North West
Mullin, Roger - SNP MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Newlands, Gavin - SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North
Nicolson, John - SNP MP for East Dunbartonshire
O'Hara, Brendan - SNP MP for Argyll and Bute
Osamor, Kate - Labour MP for Edmonton
Oswald, Kirsten - SNP MP for East Renfrewshire
Paisley, Ian - DUP MP for North Antrim
Paterson, Steven - SNP MP for Stirling
Pearce, Teresa - Labour MP for Erith and Thamesmead
Pugh, John - Lib Dem MP for Southport
Rimmer, Marie - Labour MP for St Helens South and Whiston
Ritchie, Margaret - SDLP MP for South Down
Robertson, Angus - SNP MP for Moray
Salmond, Alex - SNP MP for Gordon
Saville Roberts, Liz - Plaid Cymru MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Shannon, Jim - DUP MP for Strangford
Sheppard, Tommy - SNP MP for Edinburgh East
Sherriff, Paula - Labour MP for Dewsbury
Siddiq, Tulip - Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn
Skinner, Dennis - Labour MP for Bolsover
Smith, Cat - Labour MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood
Stephens, Chris - SNP MP for Glasgow South West
Stevens, Jo - Labour MP for Cardiff Central
Stringer, Graham - Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton
Thewliss, Alison - SNP MP for Glasgow Central
Thomson, Michelle - SNP MP for Edinburgh West
Weir, Mike - SNP MP for Angus
Whiteford, Dr Eilidh - SNP MP for Banff and Buchan
Whitford, Dr Philippa - SNP MP for Central Ayrshire
Williams, Hywel - Plaid Cymru MP for Argon
Williams, Mr Mark - Lib Dem MP for Ceredigion
Wilson, Corri - SNP MP for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Wilson, Sammy - DUP MP for East Antrim
Winnick, David - Labour MP for Walsall North
Wishart, Pete - SNP MP for Perth and North Perthshire
Wright, Iain - Labour MP for Hartlepool
Zeichner, Daniel - Labour MP for Cambridge
The pets were taken in by Snowdonia Animal Sanctuary, after 72 year-old Jennifer Taylor was killed in a crash near Betws-Y-Coed in Conwy.
Susie, a 12-year-old collie and Jilly, a 10-year-old cairn terrier were brought into the sanctuary in October.
"They didn't eat for two days," said Anne de Berry, owner of the sanctuary.
"They were very stressed, so quiet and so frightened, they kept looking down the road for her."
The dogs are both now "a lot happier", so the centre hopes to find them both loving new homes, although not necessarily together.
"I don't think they're bothered about being homed together, they just tolerate each other", Mrs de Berry said.
The dogs' owner Mrs Taylor lived in Dolgarrog.
She was the passenger on a BMW bike when it collided with a Nissan Qashqai on the A470 close to Waterloo Bridge in the town on 4 October.
The eurozone was "tearing itself apart" and the UK would not be "unscathed", said its governor Sir Mervyn King.
He also confirmed that the Bank has been making contingency plans for the break-up of the euro.
The rate of inflation will remain above the government's 2% target "for the next year or so", the Bank said.
Sir Mervyn was presenting the
Bank's quarterly inflation report
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He told a news conference that the euro area posed the greatest threat to the UK recovery, and there was a "risk of a storm heading our way from the continent".
"We have been through a big global financial crisis, the biggest downturn in world output since the 1930s, the biggest banking crisis in this country's history, the biggest fiscal deficit in our peacetime history, and our biggest trading partner, the euro area, is tearing itself apart without any obvious solution.
"The idea that we could reasonably hope to sail serenely through this with growth close to the long-run average and inflation at 2% strikes me as wholly unrealistic," Sir Mervyn said.
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Andrew Balls, the managing director in London of global investment firm Pimco, said it was reasonable for Sir Mervyn and other policymakers to plan for a Greek exit.
"Yes, maybe they should plan for an exit, but the thing is, speculating about it can make the event more likely, so the Europeans really do have a mess there," he told the BBC.
"If Greece is to slide out of the euro and collapse, how are they going to protect Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy?"
Separately, Prime Minister David Cameron also spoke of the financial storm clouds across Europe, warning that eurozone leaders must act swiftly to solve its debt crisis or face the consequences of a potential break up.
He said during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons: "The eurozone has to make a choice. If the eurozone wants to continue as it is, then it has got to build a proper firewall, it has got to take steps to secure the weakest members of the eurozone, or it's going to have to work out it has to go in a different direction,
"It either has to make up or it is looking at a potential break up. That is the choice they have to make, and it is a choice they cannot long put off."
The Bank's report said, however, that the eurozone crisis was not the only issue weighing on the UK economy, with volatile energy and commodity costs, and the squeeze on household earnings also having an impact.
It all meant that the UK economy would not return to pre-financial crisis levels before 2014, Sir Mervyn said.
Nevertheless, he remained optimistic about the longer term. "We don't know when the storm clouds will move away. But there are good reasons to believe that growth will recover and inflation will fall back," he said.
On quantitative easing, he said that no decisions had been made whether or not to continue pumping money into the economy. The last stimulus programme was still "working its way through the system".
Sir Mervyn's comments came on the day that official unemployment figures showed a fall in the jobless rate, underlining recent surveys that the private sector had become more confident about hiring labour.
He said the fall in joblessness was consistent with the expected gradual recovery in the UK economy.
But Graeme Leach, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said of the Bank's report: "Talk about kicking an economy when it's down.
"On top of the euro crisis and a double-dip recession, the Bank of England is now saying inflation may not fall fast enough to permit more quantitative easing.
"Actually we think the inflation outlook is probably better than the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) thinks, with the impact of the euro crisis, declining real incomes and weak money supply growth suggesting inflationary pressures may recede later this year and into 2013.
"After many years of underestimating inflationary pressure let's hope the MPC is now making the opposite mistake by overestimating it".
Ed Balls, Labour's shadow chancellor, said: "The Bank of England has once again slashed its growth forecast for Britain, but despite this the government says it will just plough on regardless with policies that are hurting but not working.
"The governor is right to warn of a coming storm from Europe. That is why we warned George Osborne not to rip up the foundations of the house and choke off Britain's recovery with spending cuts and tax rises that go too far and too fast.
"What happens in the eurozone in the coming weeks and months will have an impact on our weakened economy," Mr Balls added.
The 35-year-old former Ghana international was released by the Cumbrian side in the summer after an 18-month spell, but has now returned.
"He has dynamics I like and things I don't think we currently have in our squad," said boss Keith Curle.
"He can still scare the life out of defences and his assets are great assets to have."
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Simon Walton put the Lions ahead from the penalty spot in the 32nd minute after James Wesolowski was upended in the area.
The visitors, who remain just one place above the relegation zone, equalised with a spot-kick of their own when substitute Bobby-Joe Taylor converted in the 64th minute.
Adam Lockwood's men, unbeaten in seven league games at home, still had time to earn all three points and Rankine buried Will Hatfield's pass seven minutes from time to claim his first goal since October and move Guiseley to within one point of their opponents in the table.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Guiseley 2, Maidstone United 1.
Second Half ends, Guiseley 2, Maidstone United 1.
Goal! Guiseley 2, Maidstone United 1. Michael Rankine (Guiseley).
Substitution, Maidstone United. James Rogers replaces Reece Prestedge.
Substitution, Guiseley. Joel Logan replaces Jordan Preston.
Goal! Guiseley 1, Maidstone United 1. Bobby-Joe Taylor (Maidstone United) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Maidstone United. Bobby-Joe Taylor replaces Tom Mills.
Jamar Loza (Maidstone United) is shown the yellow card.
James Wesolowski (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Guiseley 1, Maidstone United 0.
First Half ends, Guiseley 1, Maidstone United 0.
Simon Walton (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Guiseley 1, Maidstone United 0. Simon Walton (Guiseley) converts the penalty with a.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Dons goalkeeper Kelle Roos prevented Stevenage from taking a first-half lead, keeping out two Greg Luer efforts before the interval.
Adam Marriott nearly put the hosts ahead but his long-range effort curled just wide.
Wimbledon's best opportunity fell to Sean Rigg, but the winger scuffed his shot.
Cambridge's 2-2 draw with Plymouth meant the Dons will finish inside the top seven and achieve the best league position in their history.
Formed in 2002 following Wimbledon's relocation to Milton Keynes, AFC Wimbledon won five promotions to reach the Football League in 2011.
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Craig Jones had given Westfields, who play in the ninth tier of English football, a dream start when he fired a ninth-minute penalty low and hard into the net to put his side in front.
Curzon, the Greater Manchester side from National League North, enjoyed the majority of possession but the home side always looked dangerous on the counter and deserved their lead going into the interval.
Marshalled by the superb James Febery, the Westfields defence stood firm and the home side almost doubled their advantage when Jones met Richard Greaves' pass on the hour mark.
But the linesman's flag came to Westfields' rescue when Kane Kahaki turned the ball into his own net with 20 minutes to go.
And with less than 10 minutes remaining, Westfields' hearts were broken as Morgan was quickest to react when a Luke Clarke corner created panic in the goalmouth.
Ashton continued to press in the closing stages but Westfields goalkeeper Kieron Blackburn claimed a number of dangerous crosses to ensure the game finished level and set up a replay for his side.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Westfields 1, Curzon Ashton 1.
Second Half ends, Westfields 1, Curzon Ashton 1.
Attempt missed. Chris Ham (Westfields) right footed shot from long range on the left is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Sam Archer-Plane.
Attempt missed. Connor Hampson (Curzon Ashton) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Rory Gorman with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Kane Kahaki.
Attempt blocked. James Baillie (Curzon Ashton) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rory Gorman.
Joe Guest (Curzon Ashton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Ham (Westfields).
Substitution, Westfields. Jamie Saunston replaces James Febery.
Offside, Curzon Ashton. Paul Ennis tries a through ball, but Adam Morgan is caught offside.
Foul by Paul Ennis (Curzon Ashton).
Kane Kahaki (Westfields) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Kane Kahaki.
Substitution, Curzon Ashton. Paul Ennis replaces Niall Cummins.
Attempt missed. Jamie Stott (Curzon Ashton) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Luke Clark with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Kane Kahaki.
Rory Gorman (Curzon Ashton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sam Gwynne (Westfields).
Goal! Westfields 1, Curzon Ashton 1. Adam Morgan (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a corner.
Connor Hampson (Curzon Ashton) hits the right post with a header from very close range. Assisted by Rory Gorman with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Sam Gwynne.
Attempt blocked. Luke Clark (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Rory Gorman (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Niall Cummins.
Alex Brown (Curzon Ashton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Ham (Westfields).
Attempt saved. Niall Cummins (Curzon Ashton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Morgan with a cross.
Attempt saved. Luke Clark (Curzon Ashton) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by James Baillie.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Sam Archer-Plane.
Attempt saved. Craig Jones (Westfields) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Richard Greaves.
Substitution, Westfields. Sam Gwynne replaces Aidan Thomas.
Substitution, Curzon Ashton. Adam Morgan replaces Iain Howard.
Offside, Curzon Ashton. Connor Hampson tries a through ball, but Niall Cummins is caught offside.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Keiron Blackburn.
Attempt saved. Niall Cummins (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joe Guest.
Substitution, Curzon Ashton. Rory Gorman replaces Ryan Hall.
Attempt missed. Jamie Stott (Curzon Ashton) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Luke Clark.
Attempt blocked. James Baillie (Curzon Ashton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Joe Guest.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Aidan Thomas (Westfields) because of an injury.
Corner, Curzon Ashton. Conceded by Chris Ham.
She used her speech to spread the party's net wider than ever, across the whole of Scotland and the UK and indeed various international issues, and asked for members to put their trust in her to lead them forward.
The speech sums up the conference as a whole; the weekend has been all about how the SNP has grown, in membership, in power and influence, and in ambition.
As well as being in power at Holyrood and boasting more than 114,000 members, the party now has unprecedented sway - something Ms Sturgeon seems keen to capitalise on.
As if being the third largest party in Westminster wasn't enough, Ms Sturgeon is pitching the SNP as the "only effective opposition" to David Cameron's government.
It was a common theme at the conference. Labour is in disarray, speakers on stage repeated time and again; this is the SNP's moment.
With such ambition comes an expanded policy platform, extending even as far as the UK's foreign policy, with Ms Sturgeon and indeed her predecessor Alex Salmond putting pressure on Labour over intervention in Syria.
There were also pledges on health and social care, childcare and the NHS - a broad range of policies befitting what is now a very large and diverse political party.
Her core message was summed up in one phrase: "Independence matters, but what we say about jobs, schools and hospitals matters just as much."
Ms Sturgeon took to the stage like a rock star, and won endless applause as the faithful hung on her every word. She also needed to come back twice for additional bows, before taking a series of selfies with the adoring crowd.
However, despite the overwhelming air of unity, throughout the conference there was an occasional feeling of activists straining at the leash, wanting to do more and go further than the party was ready to.
Delegates rebelled against a couple of motions - there was a tight vote on whether the party should commend the moratorium on fracking or call for an outright ban, and a resolution on radical land reform was actually sent back to be made more radical.
At a particularly rambunctious fringe event discussing the future of the BBC, culture secretary Fiona Hyslop explicitly stated that she wouldn't be drawn into criticising the broadcaster - only for another elected SNP representative to draw parallels with Nazi propaganda to widespread applause.
This too though could be seen as a measure of how professional the party has become; for the most part it steered clear of controversy throughout the slickly-presented conference.
And of course there's the small matter of Scottish independence, (the elephant in the room).
The party's footsoldiers by and large are hungry for a second referendum, while its leaders are far more cautious.
Ms Sturgeon and her deputy John Swinney both pitched appeals to "No" voters, stressing a broader policy platform beyond independence.
Angus Robertson, group leader at Westminster, underlined that there should only be another referendum when those in favour of a "Yes" vote are certain that they will win.
Many of the activists agree - but they want to do it tomorrow, not years down the line.
T-shirts bearing "Yes2" slogans were much in evidence in the halls of the AECC. Even during the debate on fracking on Friday, one speaker underlined that "independence is the prize we all want".
Independence is the cause that drew many activists to the party, particularly new members, and still a big priority for them. And this will remain the case no matter how wide the party's scope grows or how many other issues it embraces.
That's not to say there was disquiet in the auditorium, of course - more an overload of excitement.
By and large the delegates, conference veterans and first-timers alike, have had a ball throughout the three-day event.
Countless selfies have been snapped, with people posing for pictures with party banners, and the SNP merchandise stall has done a roaring trade in everything from T-shirts to branded Christmas cards.
Fringe events frequently ran long because so many people wanted to ask questions or voice their opinions.
A picture of political engagement in a nutshell could be the hardy group who stood through an hour-long, high-brow discussion of the spending review because there were no seats left - at 08:30 in the morning. Or indeed those who got into an impassioned debate over a report titled "The Intensification of Grouse Moor Management in Scotland".
All of this peaked with Ms Sturgeon's speech; delegates leapt to their feet to applaud after hearing Ms Sturgeon's closing appeal to "trust us - trust me" - a significant moment in itself.
Her army of 114,000 are willing to follow where ever she leads - but still, their patience will not be boundless. Scottish independence remains priority number one in the hearts of many activists.
Ms Sturgeon has been cautious in mapping out the road ahead for the SNP - but for all the party's dominance, that road will need to lead to a second referendum sooner or later.
No criminal charges have been filed, according to an unnamed official quoted by the AP news agency.
The attack on the Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital took place last October during a campaign to retake the city of Kunduz from Taliban forces.
A US military inquiry has already found that the attack was "human error".
The Pentagon is expected to release a full report on the investigation on Friday.
The service members, including some special operations personnel and one general officer, received administrative punishments, AP said.
They include letters of reprimand, which could have a career-ending effect on those involved.
An AC-130 gunship aircraft mistook the clinic for a nearby government building that had been seized by Taliban fighters.
US officials initially claimed that American forces had struck the hospital because they had come under fire from the area. The military then admitted the strike was a mistake and launched an investigation.
Medecins Sans Frontieres called the incident a war crime. In a report, the group said its staff contacted US-led forces several times during the attack, saying they were being bombed.
The charity also said the co-ordinates of the hospital were well-known and had been communicated again to all sides three days before the bombing.
It repeatedly asked for an independent international investigation into the bombardment.
Army Gen John Campbell, the top US commander in Afghanistan at the time, called the incident a "tragic but avoidable accident caused primarily by human error".
US President Barack Obama apologised for the air strike, which was one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in the 15-year Afghan conflict.
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Valon Behrami, Daryl Janmaat, Adrian Mariappa, Roberto Pereyra, Isaac Success, Ben Watson and Miguel Britos are definitely out, while Stefano Okaka and Craig Cathcart are doubts.
Tottenham defenders Jan Vertonghen and Kyle Walker are both suspended.
Toby Alderweireld returns after a virus, but Eric Lamela remains out.
Steve Wilson: "Tottenham bring up the halfway point of their season at Vicarage Road, just as they did last year, when they won 2-1 thanks to Son Heung-min's late goal.
"They should certainly make the short trip with confidence after ending a run of eight away games without a win by overcoming Southampton at St Mary's.
"Whilst Spurs points tally is a little better than at this stage last season, Watford are seven points worse off. Perhaps most tellingly of all is that the Odion Ighalo/Troy Deeney strike partnership had scored 19 Premier League goals then - and only five now.
"Speaking of goals, have a look at Glenn Hoddle's chip for Spurs at Watford from September 1983 - it should keep you smiling long into 2017."
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Watford head coach Walter Mazzarri on his side's injury list: "The club knows already the situation.
"We will try to get some players in as soon as possible. January is very difficult, you need to think of not getting players for only a few months, but also about the future.
"The club knows what to do and we will try to do it as soon as possible."
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino: "For us the most important game is Watford to try and reduce the gap on the top four.
"We need to be focused on Watford, that's the most important thing for us.
"Chelsea are a long way ahead. It will be tough for all the contenders. They have a good gap to second and 10 points to us but we'll fight to reduce the gap."
Even before Tottenham put four goals past Southampton I looked at Spurs and thought they have just got something about them at the moment.
Watford, in contrast, looked ordinary in their draw with Crystal Palace. I don't see them stopping Tottenham from making it four wins in a row.
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One person was jailed for life, three people to 15 years and 45 others to five years, a military statement said.
The defendants were accused of opening fire at soldiers during riots in the port city of Suez last month.
The riots followed a deadly crackdown by security forces on two pro-Morsi protest camps in the capital, Cairo.
Hundreds of people, mostly members of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, were killed when the sit-ins outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque and at Nahda Square were cleared on 14 August.
The unrest in Suez, 140km (87 miles) to the east of Cairo, on 14 and 16 August left more than 30 dead.
It is not clear if those convicted on Tuesday are Brotherhood members. But if they are, the verdicts would be the first affecting the Islamist group since the military launched a campaign against it after ousting Mr Morsi.
Earlier, military sources said 11 Morsi supporters had got life sentences.
State prosecutors announced on 1 September that after almost two months in detention at a secret location, Mr Morsi would stand trial for inciting murder and violence.
The charges relate to the deaths of at least seven people during clashes between opposition protesters and Brotherhood supporters outside the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo in December 2012.
Fourteen other senior Brotherhood figures, including Mohammed al-Beltagi and Essam al-Erian, will be tried on the same charge.
The group's general guide, Mohammed Badie, has also been arrested.
Also on Tuesday, a court in Cairo ordered the closure of four television stations, including the Brotherhood's Ahrar 25 TV and al-Jazeera's Egyptian affiliate Mubasher Misr, saying they were operating illegally.
The stations were seen by the authorities as being sympathetic to the Brotherhood.
In the evening, thousands of supporters of Mr Morsi took to the streets in towns and cities across Egypt to denounce the military-backed interim government.
The marches in the capital, the Nile Delta, Upper Egypt and along the Suez Canal were held under the slogan "The coup is terrorism", a reference to the government's portrayal of its crackdown on the Brotherhood as a fight against terrorism.
Hundreds of people in Nasr City, an eastern suburb of Cairo, chanted "the revolution will continue" and "down with military rule", according to the Reuters news agency.
Interim President Adly Mansour warned that "internal and external forces" would "spare no effort to block the implementation" of his transition plan, which envisages an amended constitution to be put to a referendum within months and parliamentary elections to be held by early 2014.
"We have seen the violent incidents witnessed by the country. In their own words, they are trying to paralyse Egypt," he told state-run Nile News.
"The state, with all its agencies, will not allow any party to stand before satisfying the aspirations of the people," he added.
Mohammed Humza, 20, changed his plea to guilty partway through his trial for murdering Carl Campbell.
The 33-year-old was shot in the head in High Street, West Bromwich on 27 December.
Jaspal Rai and Vikesh Chauhan deny murder and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life at Birmingham Crown Court. Humza denies the second charge.
The trial continues.
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The education minister asked for an action plan earlier this year to tackle the weakest of the core subjects taught in schools in Wales.
Huw Lewis said performance has improved but there is "more still to do".
The group has made 14 recommendations, including addressing problems in recruiting maths teachers.
The independent task force was set up in January, as maths teachers from across the country were brought together for a summit. Mr Lewis said Wales needed to "raise its game".
For those who took maths GCSE in June, just 47.5% of pupils managed a grade of A*-C, - another drop compared with 50.6% last year and 52.8% in 2013.
But when the results of students who took the exam early are taken into account, they show an overall improvement of 2.7% on 2014.
Mr Lewis said this figure of 64.4% getting A*-C in maths was the best performance to date and he was "keen to build on our success".
"I can absolutely see the value of a centre of excellence for maths, particularly in supporting school-to-school working and peer support," he added.
The minister said he was happy to accept all the 14 recommendations.
Task force chairman Michael Griffiths said the hubs would be based at schools "which have a record of developing excellence in mathematics teaching".
They will be set up as part of the work at pioneer schools, which are developing the new curriculum in Wales over the next few years.
Mr Griffiths, former head of Cardiff High School and now an education consultant, said: "We have come to the conclusion that the often heard quote 'I'm just no good at maths' is a myth.
"This belief is often a feature of western culture, whereas in countries that perform best in international tests, for example some countries in the Far East, inborn talent is considered less important than hard work, persistence, resilience, good teaching and self confidence."
Batsman Smith, 27, scored three half-centuries in limited-overs cricket this season, while 21-year-old seamer Kitt has yet to make his first-team debut.
Director of cricket Mick Newell said: "Greg has developed his game, particularly in 20-over cricket, where he played some crucial innings.
"We were looking at this year as a really important year for Ben and he has surpassed expectations."
Kitt has been handed a first professional contract, having taken 101 wickets in a combination of Second XI and academy cricket this summer.
Newell continued: "He can also bowl long spells and as he gets older he'll continue to develop his skills.
"In a similar way to Jake Ball, he's been here a while and is now kicking on, which is good to see."
Smith joined Nottinghamshire from Leicestershire ahead of the 2015 season and scored a crucial 50 off 33 balls in their T20 Blast quarter-final victory over Essex this summer.
"There's no reason why he can't expand his game to get more involved in red-ball cricket and become a top four player across all formats," added Newell.
"I'm very impressed with the way he has improved. Can he improve again in 2017? That's the challenge."
The Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, was also affected, with flight delays and cancellations at its two airports.
The National Weather Service has maintained an alert throughout Buenos Aires province.
About 100 people were evacuated from the city of Bragado, 200 km (124 miles) west of the capital, reports said.
The city suffered power cuts and damage to property after roofs collapsed and trees fell.
The authorities in the city of Lujan, near the capital, have called on residents to leave their homes because of rising water levels.
The violent storm affected several other towns and cities and caused chaos in transport systems, including the metro, commuter trains and buses in Buenos Aires.
In 2013, one of the heaviest storms recorded in Argentina killed dozens of people in the province and forced thousands more to evacuate.
Six sites across the country have been shortlisted to host the dump, which would be Australia's first.
The facility would house low-level and intermediate waste, which is currently stored across more than 100 sites.
Resources and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said no community would be forced to take on the facility.
"We won't unilaterally pick one, this is a voluntary community consultative process," Mr Frydenberg told the ABC.
He said landowners stood to receive four times the value of their property if it was purchased for the development.
Any community prepared to host the site would also receive A$10m towards local projects, he said.
The six shortlisted sites are Sally's Flat in NSW, Hale in the Northern Territory, Cortlinye, Pinkawillinie and Barndioota in South Australia and Oman Ama in Queensland.
They were chosen from a list of 28 locations nominated voluntarily by landholders.
A final decision is expected after Australia's next federal election.
Mr Fydenberg said low-level waste included items such as gloves, goggles, paper or plastic that were used in nuclear medicine.
Intermediate waste could include steel rods used in nuclear reactors, he said.
"More than 100 sites across the country, including hospitals and universities, are licensed to store this waste on an interim basis," he said.
Former Yugoslavia defender Mihajlovic, 46, has signed a two-year deal after leaving Sampdoria earlier this month.
Inzaghi, 41, who played for Milan from 2001 until his retirement in 2012, replaced former team-mate Clarence Seedorf as Milan coach last June.
Milan finished in 10th place in Serie A, 35 points behind champions Juventus, after only 13 wins in 2014-15.
Mihajlovic played for Roma, Sampdoria, Lazio and Inter Milan during a 20-year senior career in which he won 63 international caps.
Having retired while at Inter, he began his coaching career there as assistant to Roberto Mancini.
He had brief spells in charge at Bologna, Catania and Fiorentina before he was appointed coach of Serbia in April 2012, winning seven and losing eight of his 19 matches in charge.
Mihajlovic joined Sampdoria in November 2013 and took them to 12th place that season, improving to seventh place last term.
Inzaghi, meanwhile, became Milan youth-team coach after retiring as a player before succeeding Seedorf, who only lasted five months in the role.
AC Milan have won 18 Serie A titles and seven European Cups.
The April attack led to the closure of Garissa University College, which has had an impact on the local economy, the activists say.
Some students are also complaining that they are missing out on their education since the college was shut.
Al-Shabab has pledged a "long, gruesome war" against Kenya.
The activists have organised a four-day arts and culture festival in the north-eastern town of Garissa to challenge the perception that the place is no longer safe.
"We believe that you cannot fight terrorism with the gun, that will never succeed," the man behind the festival Lolani Kalu told BBC News.
He said that 200 people had attended the opening of the event and sang the national anthem in several Kenyan languages in a sign of unity.
There was a candle lighting ceremony to remember the victims and also the start of a project to plant 148 trees.
In an effort to show that things can get back to normal, 60 of the people at the festival are sleeping in the college dormitories where students were murdered, Mr Kalu said.
The government has not yet said when the college will reopen with the next academic year beginning in just over a month's time.
The 35-year-old surpassed 1,000 Championship runs for the first time in his career last season, helping Somerset finish second to Middlesex.
Trego has played 207 first-class matches since his debut in 2000.
"2016 was such an exciting year for us all and in many ways increased my passion for the coming years," he said.
"Not only did we nearly reach the Holy Grail of the Championship, we witnessed all of our young talent become top-class performers."
Trego has scored more than 16,000 runs and taken over 600 wickets in all formats of the game during his career.
His only major concern was finding a place he could smoke.
The former Soviet army officer has been charged, along with his colleague Andrei Lugovoi, of murdering Alexander Litvinenko nine years ago, using the radioactive substance polonium-210.
Mr Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, had fled to Britain after accusing his agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), of corruption and carrying out assassinations.
It was during a meeting with Mr Kovtun and Mr Lugovoi at a London hotel in November 2006 that he drank tea containing a fatal dose of polonium.
The official inquiry into the murder, which finally opened in London in January, has heard a stream of evidence linking the two men to the murder.
But it's only now, just as the lawyers were about to make their closing statements, that Mr Kovtun has decided to co-operate with the inquiry and give his version of events via video-link from Moscow.
"I decided to participate now because after observing the hearings in London, I heard many things that can be easily refuted," he said.
"I can tell that a lot remains unclear in this case, and I am the only person to have the answers. I believe light shall be shed on many key issues here, and that could really change things a lot, as the British investigation is still groping in the dark for answers."
But the timing of Mr Kovtun's intervention has caused consternation at the inquiry, with lawyers and the chairman, Sir Robert Owen, all questioning the real motives behind the decision.
One lawyer said he had "grave concerns as to what might be behind these developments", while a source told the BBC "the Kremlin seems to be mobilising".
The fear is the inquiry could now get bogged down.
Already the schedule has been put back.
A further concern is that if Mr Kovtun now becomes a "core participant", to which he is entitled, he would then have access to all the documents, including some classified material.
Mr Kovtun insists the decision to testify now was his and says he's prepared to be cross-examined by any of the lawyers and the police.
But he admitted that getting access to the documents was one of the motives for co-operating.
"Being one of the major participants allows me to question certain people myself and gather some materials, including some classified ones," he said.
"Based on these, I can make my own conclusions."
He also claims to have material which will undermine some of the most important evidence presented at the inquiry implicating him and Mr Lugovoi.
"I am not participating in this process to make people's lives more complicated, to twist something or to prolong it. No tricks," he said.
Instead, he says he wants to try to clear his name.
"I can state that I have absolutely nothing to do with [Litvinenko's murder] and nor does Lugovoi."
So if it wasn't not them, who did kill Mr Litvinenko?
"No idea," he says. "In fact I don't think anyone killed him. I think it was an accident of some sort."
The 27-year-old, who joined the Cherries in May 2014, will remain at the club until at least 2021.
He made 34 Premier League appearances in 2016-17, scoring three times.
Manager Eddie Howe said: "Despite only being 27, Dan also has plenty of Premier League experience and that is crucial for a team that is still relatively new to the division."
Gosling began his career at Plymouth before spells with Everton and Newcastle.
"I've really enjoyed my three years here," Gosling told Bournemouth's website. "In that time we have gained promotion and spent two years in the Premier League, so it couldn't have gone any better."
Gosling's new contract comes after Bournemouth signing Chelsea defender Nathan Ake for a club record fee, understood to be in the region of £20m, England striker Jermain Defoe on a free transfer from Sunderland, and Chelsea goalkeeper Asmir Begovic for an undisclosed fee.
The number of extra jobs was sharply down from an upwardly revised July figure of 275,000.
It was also a smaller rise than the average monthly increase of 204,000 seen during the previous 12 months.
Economists now think the chances of the US central bank raising interest rates this month have been reduced.
The official data for the country's "non-farm payrolls" shows that the number of people out of work was unchanged at 7.8 million in August.
The US economy has been expanding steadily since the end of the last recession in 2009.
Many US economists had expected a larger rise in the number of new jobs being created, more in line with the 190,000 jobs per month added during the previous three months.
But despite the apparent slowdown in August, the continued expansion of employment in the US still points to the possibility that the central bank, the Federal Reserve, could raise interest rates later in the year, most probably in December.
Last week Janet Yellen, the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, said the country's economic growth and a stronger jobs market meant "the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened in recent months".
Chris Williamson, chief economist at the financial data service Markit, said: "The data-dependent Fed will most likely see the payroll numbers as taking pressure off any immediate need to hike interest rates, significantly reducing the scope for further policy action in September."
"However, with survey data suggesting some of the recent slowdown in hiring and business activity is due to uncertainty ahead of the presidential election, a rate rise later in the year, most likely December, remains on the table providing the economic data flow picks up again in the fourth quarter."
This view was supported by Luke Bartholomew at Aberdeen Asset Management.
"This should cool speculation about a September hike," he said.
"December is once again shaping up to be the mostly likely date of the next [rate] hike."
Doncaster goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann saved an early Sam Foley penalty, but Foley made amends to put Vale ahead with a header on 35 minutes.
Uche Ikpeazu doubled the lead just after half-time.
Byron Moore's backheel two minutes from time secured the points, but Rovers are yet to win in League One and have not scored since the season's opening day.
One teacher recently put their foot through a floor, according to a letter from Taverham Junior in Norfolk.
Head teacher Paul Stanley said it was "particularly galling" when money was being spent building new free schools.
Norfolk County Council said a report into Taverham's classrooms was being compiled, but had yet to be completed.
Mr Stanley said the classrooms had been at Taverham since the 1990s.
He said: "Children's learning is suffering, despite the excellence of the teaching, and they're having to live in completely sub-standard accommodation.
"We're quite happy being a local education authority school, but it is frustrating that there is money for other sorts of schools and local authorities are paying-off debts of schools that are becoming academies [out of local authority control].
"If there are schools with worse mobiles, I'd really like to see them."
A statement from the county council, the local education authority, said it was aware of the school's concerns over classrooms.
"After commissioning a report into their condition, [the council] is in touch with the school on the issue.
"All this in the context of limited funding for a remaining stock of aging mobiles.
"In the case of Taverham that process has started but is not yet complete - it is hoped a recommendation will be made to elected members of the council during the latter half of the autumn term."
The council said decisions on prioritising replacements for mobile classrooms had to consider which schools were in areas of population growth and whether better use could be made of existing permanent buildings on site.
Officers arrived at Arthur Millwood Court, Salford at 17:40 BST on Monday following reports of a man falling from a balcony.
They found the 29-year-old with serious injuries next to the tower block on Rodney Street.
Police said one line of inquiry is examining whether he had taken a legal high known as Spice.
Discussions over his legacy often descend into two separate camps of those who love "Misha" (as he is commonly referred to) and those who harbour a less-than-generous opinion of him.
The shock announcement on Saturday, that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had appointed him as governor of the southern region of Odessa, elicited a similarly varied response.
Mr Poroshenko's choice of such a divisive, head-strong character was interpreted as a sign of weakness, or a demonstration of strength. A stroke of genius - or a blunder of gargantuan proportions.
Those in the "for" camp tout his numerous and Western-style reforms in the years following Georgia's 2003 Rose Revolution that brought him to power, transforming a country on the verge of complete collapse.
In the "against" camp, many point to his impulsiveness - which may have provided the spark to Georgia's disastrous war with Russia in 2008 - and his heavy-handed methods in dealing with political dissent.
Odessa is one of Ukraine's most critical and sensitive regions, one that has been convulsed by extreme political violence in the last year, and which appears to be coming under increasing pressure from pro-Russian separatists.
And the former Georgian leader is also a well-known adversary, to put it lightly, of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Lethal divisions persist in Odessa
Saakashvili gives up citizenship for Ukraine
President Poroshenko's relationship with the Russian leader is fragile and often appears about to disintegrate completely, but it nevertheless still exists, and the two men need to keep their their lines of communication open.
The question is whether Mikheil Saakashvili's strident anti-Putinism, now given a very public forum, could disrupt the delicate balance in Ukrainian-Russian affairs.
Both sides' reactions were immediate. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tweeted a message amounting to "the circus continues," in reaction to the Georgian's appointment.
Mr Saakashvili shot back, describing the message as "hysterical."
Most importantly, he has been tasked to reform what some say is Ukraine's most corrupt region, and rein in the extensive influence there of the country's richest men - the so-called "oligarchs".
"He (and whatever team he appoints around him) will have several difficult battles ahead - the most obvious being with the notoriously corrupt customs at Yuzhny, Illichivsk and Odessa ports," said Nikolai Holmov, who writes a blog on Odessa.
"By extension, that will also bring him head to head with organised crime and the Odessa mafia, as well as some other nefarious vested interests within the ports," he added.
No-one questions Mr Saakashvili's reputation as a reformer. The question is whether he can clean out the high level of graft, given that he is a complete political outsider with no grassroots structure of support to turn to.
"It shows how empty Petro Poroshenko's bench is, how little he trusts Ukrainians, and how he's running out of options," said one Western analyst, who asked not to be identified, because of the sensitivity of the subject.
On the other hand, his lack of political connections - and therefore obligations - could be a strong point.
Brian Mefford, a political analyst who keeps a blog on Ukrainian politics, wrote recently that President Poroshenko had killed two birds with one stone with the appointment: he had replaced the previous governor, widely seen as close to Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, without shifting "the balance of power amongst competing business interests in the region", as a locally-chosen candidate would have done.
"In appointing Saakashvili as Odessa governor, it would appear that Poroshenko has assigned a strong leader to govern a key region under pressure by the Russians," he wrote.
The other looming question, of course, is why Mr Saakashvili, a former world leader, would accept a position as a provincial governor, especially as he had already turned down a more senior post as a Ukrainian deputy prime minister.
Making this even more confusing is the fact that in accepting the Odessa position, he gave up his Georgian citizenship, which was the main reason he originally gave for turning down the other post.
Mr Saakashvili said the situations in Georgia and Odessa were closely connected.
"If Odessa ever falls, God forbid, then Georgia might be wiped out from the map," he told the BBC. "That's so obvious, if you look carefully at the geo-politics of the region."
One thing most seem to agree on is that this was an unquestionably audacious move by President Poroshenko.
Mr Saakashvili himself commended the Ukrainian president's boldness.
"I think the president gets it," he said. "My appointment shows that he is prone to very unusual, very radical decisions that took many people by surprise."
"It's not business as usual, you know," he added.
Many of those who died were killed by roadside bombs or in clashes with insurgents while on patrol. Others died as a result of accidents, so-called "friendly fire" strikes, suicide or natural causes.
The six-year British military mission came to an end in April 2009.
The names and details of all the servicemen and women who died are included in the page below.
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Causes of death classed as "Other" include servicemen who died from natural causes, heatstroke, as a result of an accident and a soldier killed while clearing cluster bombs.
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The letter signed by Theresa May that formally begins the UK's departure from the EU has been delivered in Brussels.
Mrs May is telling MPs that this will mark "the moment for the country to come together".
However Nicola Sturgeon said the prime minister still could not answer basic questions about what Brexit would actually mean.
Mrs May's letter to European Council president Donald Tusk was delivered by the British ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow, at about 12:20.
Addressing the House of Commons as the letter was handed over, the prime minister said Brexit would lead to a "significant increase" in the powers of the UK's devolved administrations, including the Scottish government.
Ms May also promised to "represent every person in the whole United Kingdom" during the negotiations - including EU nationals.
She added: "It is my fierce determination to get the right deal for every single person in this country.
"For, as we face the opportunities ahead of us on this momentous journey, our shared values, interests and ambitions can - and must - bring us together."
The letter to Mr Tusk makes one mention of Scotland in its six pages - saying that the government "will consult fully on which powers should reside in Westminster and which should be devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland" after they return from Brussels.
The letter adds that "it is the expectation of the government that the outcome of this process will be a significant increase in the decision-making power of each devolved administration".
Speaking as she confirmed more than 300 jobs will be created over the next five years by a global professional services firm in Glasgow, Ms Sturgeon told BBC Scotland that she hoped Brexit "goes well".
But she predicted that the formal triggering of Article 50 would bring "a lot of concerns for a lot of people".
Ms Sturgeon added: "There is no doubt that what is happening today does represent something of a leap in the dark.
"Some nine months after the EU referendum, the prime minister still can't answer basic questions about what Brexit will mean for businesses, for the economy generally, and for the type of society we live in."
At the same time as the Article 50 letter was delivered, the Scottish government received a letter from Brexit secretary David Davis responding to the Scotland's Place in Europe paper of options laid out by Ms Sturgeon in December.
It highlighted some common ground between the governments, but said the proposals put forward were not workable.
The first minister, who had talks with Mrs May in Glasgow on Monday, said the letter amounted to "a dismissal of our compromise proposals".
And she said there had not yet been any commitment from the UK government that powers over areas such as fishing and agriculture would be returned to Holyrood rather than Westminster after Brexit.
For Nicola Sturgeon, Article 50 brings both challenge and opportunity. To be clear, she believes that quitting the EU is a calamitous mistake, particularly as it involves leaving the single market.
Ms Sturgeon sought to obtain a distinctive deal for Scotland within Brexit. She argued that, even if the UK was intent upon leaving the single market (which she regretted), Scotland should be enabled to retain membership, perhaps via the European Economic Area.
Failing which, says the first minister, she wants the powers to hold a further referendum on Scottish independence.
The first minister is adamant that she is genuinely seeking compromise within the ambit of the UK. Her rivals say otherwise: that she has engineered conflict and always intended to move to a referendum.
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The first minister also confirmed that a letter asking the UK government for talks over a second independence referendum would be sent later this week.
Ms Sturgeon said the letter would "set out the expectation of the Scottish government that the will, the mandate, of the Scottish Parliament should be respected, and it will seek sensible, grown-up discussions with the UK government."
She said she agreed with Mrs May's assessment that "now is not the time" for a referendum, but added that when the terms of Brexit were clear it would "the time for Scotland to have a choice about its future rather than having that future imposed on us".
Scottish secretary David Mundell said on Tuesday that the UK government would not enter into any discussions about a referendum "during the Brexit process".
He said this could include the negotiations with the EU, any potential transitional measures, and also "significant implementation time" afterwards.
But Ms Sturgeon insisted that the UK government's position was unsustainable, and "will be shown to be unsustainable over the weeks and months to come".
The Scottish Parliament voted by 69 to 59 in favour of seeking permission from the UK government for a referendum - with Ms Sturgeon's minority SNP government being backed by the Scottish Greens.
But the Scottish Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats voted against.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said the triggering of Article 50 was a "deeply divisive moment in our country's history" and would have a "seismic impact on Scotland's economy, risking thousands of jobs and livelihoods".
Brian Carberry, 49, from Downpatrick, received haemophilia treatment as a child in the 1970s.
In the 1970s and 1980s, some blood products used to treat the disease were imported from the US.
They included donations from prisoners, who were at risk of hepatitis C or HIV.
Mr Carberry was one of about 6,000 people across the UK who became infected with hepatitis C because of the contaminated blood that they received. More than 1,500 others were also infected with HIV, the virus that can lead to Aids.
Some countries, including the Republic of Ireland, have compensated all those who received contaminated blood.
Mr Carberry said he cannot work because of his condition. Haemophilia is a rare inherited bleeding disorder in which the blood does not clot normally.
He said he suffers from irritability, depression, joint problems and is 20% more likely to develop liver cirrhosis.
"It's not necessarily about claiming, the government has acknowledged but they haven't accepted responsibility," he said.
An independent, privately-funded inquiry into what led to the blood products being contaminated was carried out in 2007, but the UK government has never held an official investigation into what happened.
Successive governments have set up five different trusts to make financial support to patients who were treated with the blood products.
The schemes provide different levels of payments - one for individuals who develop chronic hepatitis C, while those who develop cirrhosis or liver cancer are eligible to receive a further second payment.
However, Mr Carberry, who is still deemed stage one, told BBC News NI that the government should provide the same level of compensation for all victims, no matter what stage their illness is at.
"Payment schemes don't work, by the time you get to stage two you're on the last part of your life but you don't get anything until you reach that stage," he said.
"Part of me wants to move onto stage two so I get something, but I know if I move on to stage two I've only a couple of years left (to live)."
In a statement he says: "I am leaving because I want to be a normal 22-year-old who is able to relax and have some private time out of the spotlight."
Harry, Louis, Liam and Niall have said they'll continue touring as a four-piece and will record a new album.
It's not the first time a group has opted to carry on after a member has left the band.
Geri Halliwell left The Spice Girls in the middle of their world tour in 1998.
Baby, Posh, Sport and Scary continued with their North American tour and released another album after Ginger went solo.
They had two number one singles after Geri's departure, before each went their separate ways in 2000.
All five girls reunited in 2007 for a Spice Girls world tour and performed at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic games.
Robbie Williams left Take That in 1995. It's never been made clear whether he was pushed out or left because he wanted to.
The band continued without Robbie for another year before they announced they were disbanding.
Following that announcement the Samaritans set up a special helpline to help fans come to terms with the fact Take That were no more.
In 2005 the four-piece reunited and went from strength to strength.
Robbie rejoined the group in 2010 but left again in 2014, along with Jason Orange.
In 2005 the Pussycat Dolls released their debut album with singles Don't Cha, Stickwitu, Beep, Buttons, I Don't Need A Man, Wait A Minute and Sway.
Carmit (the redhead) left the group after the first album, saying they used to argue about where to go for dinner, but nobody really noticed.
They released their second album Doll Domination as a quintet. It did alright, but then things all went a bit sour.
The others thought Nicole was getting too much attention so Jessica left the group and then Ashley did followed by Kimberly and Melody.
Before Beyonce was Mrs Carter she was in Destiny's Child and their line-up changed quite a bit.
The most-famous line-up was Kelly, Beyonce and Michelle and they once came into the Radio 1 studios and met Scott Mills.
Before all that though LaTavia Roberson, LeToya Luckett, Farrah Franklin (who?) had all at one point asked people to "say their name".
Destiny's Child didn't do bad, despite losing three members over the years. They ended up selling more than 60 million records worldwide.
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The Airlander 10 - a combination of a plane and an airship - took off at 18:15 BST on Tuesday near its base at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire.
During the flight, which lasted about three hours, the 302ft (92m) long craft reached 3,500ft (1,067m).
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) said it was "a hugely successful flight".
This is the second successful flight flown since the £25m aircraft nosedived during a test flight on 24 August.
No-one was injured in the accident, but the airship's cockpit was effectively destroyed.
The aircraft, which is the length of a football pitch, was given a pair of "giant inflatable landing feet" as part of a package of improvements following the crash.
The accident was due to the Airlander climbing to an excessive height because its mooring line caught on power cables, an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report found.
HAV developed the vessel, which is quieter and emits less pollution than traditional aircraft, and believes it could be the future for air travel.
The firm is hoping to build 12 Airlanders a year by 2018, some as passenger aircraft that will carry up to 48 people at a time.
Other plans include assisting with coastguard duties and providing military and civil surveillance.
It could also be used for filming and academic research, or delivering heavy equipment to remote corners of the world or for humanitarian missions, the developers have suggested.
Airlander 10 in numbers
The RMT union said a planned ticket office reorganisation would threaten 130 jobs, pay and safety.
GTR intends to close 34 station ticket offices and staff 49 others only at peak times on Southern, Thameslink and Great Northern.
Instead "station hosts" would assist passengers around stations.
The two sides are already in a long-running dispute over the role of train conductors on Southern.
The RMT said 70% of its members voted in favour of strike action and nearly 80% supported action short of a strike. It has not yet announced any strike dates.
A GTR spokesman said only one in four (26.9%) voted for strike action with more than half of RMT station staff members ignoring the ballot.
He added: "While disappointed, we urge the union to stop this dispute and save our passengers and staff further pain by becoming part of the solution rather than the problem."
Stations listed for reduced ticket office hours include Chichester, Crawley, Dorking, Huntingdon, Hove, Lewes, Reigate, Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City and Worthing.
Ticket window closures include Alexandra Palace, Caterham, Cricklewood, Lancing, Purley and Sutton.
Judge Jeanette Traverso said the evidence presented by the prosecution fell "far below the threshold" of what a reasonable court could convict on.
She said the evidence of the prosecution's main witness was "riddled with contradictions".
Anni's family said they had been failed by the justice system.
Announcing her ruling, the judge said the only reason not to grant the application would be in the hope that Mr Dewani would implicate himself if he gave evidence.
But to do so would be a "manifest misdirection", she said.
Mr Dewani, from Bristol, was extradited to South Africa this year to face trial accused of planning the murder of his wife in November 2010.
He listened intently as key evidence against him was criticised by the judge as she gave her ruling over almost three hours.
Mr Dewani, 34, went straight down to the cells to prepare for his release, following the decision, as his family embraced.
It is believed he left the court, without making a comment, through a side entrance.
Mrs Dewani's family, who had said it would it be a "nightmare" if the trial did not continue, immediately left the court room.
They bowed their heads amid shouting from the public gallery.
Speaking outside the Western Cape high Court, Mrs Dewani's sister Ami Denborg said: "Today we feel as a family that the justice system has failed us and we are deeply disappointed.
"We came here looking for answers and we came here looking for the truth and all we got was more questions.
"We waited patiently for four years to hear what really happened to Anni and to hear the full story of what happened to our dearest little sister.
"All we wanted was to hear all the events and the hope of actually finding that out has kept us, as a family, going.
"Unfortunately we believe that this right has now been taken away from us."
Her uncle, Ashok Hindocha said the family would be going through the case with their lawyers to confirm whether they can file a lawsuit against Mr Dewani in the UK.
"We would have preferred to have known about his sexuality before he married our precious Anni," he said.
"She gave herself to him, mind, body and soul and she hoped to have been cherished and loved. But she would not have married him if she had known about his secret sex life with male prostitutes and the activities he engaged in."
The judge ruled it was not necessary for Mr Dewani to give evidence, saying a defendant was entitled to be discharged if there was no possibility of conviction unless he entered the witness box and incriminated himself.
The judge said the evidence from the three criminals already convicted over Mrs Dewani's murder was "so improbable, with so many mistakes, lies and inconsistencies you cannot see where the lies ended and the truth begins".
Dewani, 34, has always denied plotting with others to murder his bride, who was found shot dead in the back of their taxi after the couple were hijacked during a late-night tour of a township.
Prosecutors said bisexual Mr Dewani had long planned to get out of the relationship to Swedish-raised Anni, and arranged the attack in which he would escape unharmed and Anni would be killed.
Judge Traverso said it was crucial for the state's case to prove that Mr Dewani entered into an agreement with others to have Anni killed.
Tongo was the only accomplice witness, she said, adding that such evidence should be treated with "caution".
Tongo's version needed to be corroborated specifically where it implicated the accused, she said.
Details such as where he picked up and dropped off Mr Dewani and his wife did not provide corroboration, the judge said.
It is what was said during these events which is at issue and for that there is only the version of Tongo, she added.
She said the same applied to phone calls between Tongo and Mr Dewani.
"This telephone communication does not in itself corroborate what was said during those calls, it merely confirms that communication took place."
The prosecution had alleged the men carried out the killing for Mr Dewani for 15,000 rand (about £830).
The judge said Tongo and accomplices Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni were "intelligent men" and dismissed the prosecution claim that they would have carried out a contract killing for Mr Dewani for "a few thousand rand".
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Speaking outside court, South African National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Nathi Ncube said they were disappointed with the outcome but would respect the decision of the judge and not appeal.
"It is unfortunate that Mr Dewani has been acquitted because we believe that he was involved," Mr Ncube said.
"The court did not find that he was innocent, the court said it could not rely on the evidence given by three witnesses who themselves had been convicted of the crime."
Mr Ncube also denied that the case had collapsed because of a "shoddy police investigation".
He said: "The judgment centres around evidence that was given by three people. Nothing has been said about the police, nothing was said about how the prosecution could have done better.
"The fact of the matter is that we were relying on people who were themselves involved and implicated in the case."
Tongo is serving an 18-year jail term for his role in the murder and Qwabe is part-way through a 25-year jail sentence for his role.
Mngeni was serving life for firing the shot that killed Mrs Dewani, but died in prison from a brain tumour.
The judge confirmed Monde Mbolombo, a self-confessed "link man", would no longer be granted immunity for his part in the plot.
The hotel receptionist admitted telling lies to the court to protect himself when the investigation first took hold. He had initially been granted immunity by prosecutors in return for being a state witness.
But the judge said: "As his evidence progressed, it became more and more clear of his involvement."
It will now be up to prosecutors to decide whether Mbolombo should face criminal proceedings.
Paul and Sandra Dunham, from Collingtree, Northamptonshire, had always denied any wrongdoing and had fought extradition to the US.
But they admitted $1m (£640,000) of expenses fraud and money laundering in plea agreements with US authorities.
The pair had spent the money on a Barbados timeshare, luxury bedding and a dog sofa.
A US Department of Justice spokeswoman said other personal expenses, falsely described as business expenditure, included "personal legal fees, expensive furniture, and a domed pet residence".
In an agreement with the US Attorney in Maryland, both admitted "conspiracy to commit wire fraud".
Mr Dunham, 59, pleaded guilty to an additional charge of money laundering.
Between 2002 and 2009, the pair had charged personal expenses to their corporate credit cards when they worked for PACE, an electronics repair company.
They had also billed the European arm of the company for expenses they had already claimed from the worldwide arm.
The couple had sought to avoid extradition to the US by appealing to the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights, but their bids were rejected.
In May, Mr and Mrs Dunham were taken to hospital on the day they were due to report to police and be flown out of the UK.
On 22 May, they were handed over to US Marshalls at Heathrow's Terminal Four by officers from the Met Police's extradition unit.
Earlier this month, their trial in the US was postponed until next year.
The couple had been staying with friends in North Carolina who offered their house as collateral.
Mr and Mrs Dunham have agreed to pay back the $1m they claimed.
Mr Dunham faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for the expenses fraud and money laundering.
Because of her plea agreement, his wife, 58, will be sentenced to 60 days in prison.
The pair will be sentenced in January.
Who are its leaders? What exactly do they want? How many are there? Are they prepared to negotiate?
It seems some of them are. Hassan Taib, from an older generation of campaigners who largely abandoned their armed struggle against the Thai state in the 1990s, has just signed an agreement with Lt-Gen Paradorn Pattanathabutr, secretary general of Thailand's National Security Council.
It sets out a loose framework for talks between the two sides, due to start in two weeks.
That is significant progress. It commits the Thai government to recognise the insurgents as a negotiating partner with political demands that must be listened to.
But who does Hassan Taib represent? He is from one of the many factions of PULO (Pattani United Liberation Organisation), which has had little role in the recent insurgency.
Now he calls himself a leader of the BRN (Barisan Revolusi Nasional), another broad umbrella group with little influence over the fighters on the ground.
Last year, he was involved in a previous attempt at peace talks with Thaksin Shinawatra, the exiled former prime minister and sister of the current Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Those talks went nowhere. There was an uproar in Thailand when it was revealed that Mr Thaksin was involved.
The movement thought to be closer to the fighters, or juwae as they call themselves, is a more militant breakaway from the BRN, the BRN-C. But it has no clear leadership and is not thought to be involved in this latest initiative.
Indeed, the young men who carry out the almost-daily attacks in Thailand's southernmost provinces have shown no signs of being ready to talk about anything.
They do not speak to journalists or officials or make any demands.
If there is one man who might be able to act as a bridge between the militants and those like Hassan Taib, who say they are negotiating for them, it is probably Sapae-ing Basor, says Don Pathan, who has been reporting the southern conflict for more than a decade.
He is the former head of an Islamic school who is often referred to as a kind of spiritual leader for Malay Muslims in Thailand.
But he has been in hiding since criminal charges were brought against him eight years ago. The Thai government has not indicated any willingness to reach out to him or offer him immunity.
Nor has the Thai side expressed any readiness to discuss political concessions like autonomy, which might tempt some of the insurgents to support the talks.
Yingluck Shinawatra did air the idea of autonomy in her election campaign of 2011, but swiftly dropped it after strong opposition from the army.
The Thai military, which is the dominant force in the far south, is uneasy about any concessions which might give the insurgents greater legitimacy or threaten the integrity of the state.
So why has this initiative been announced now, with such fanfare?
The enthusiasm of the Malaysian government is one factor. Prime Minister Najib Razak must call an election within the next few weeks - success, or the appearance of it, in helping fellow Malays over the border might help bolster his sliding support.
Ms Yingluck too would like to be able to show some progress, after a daring raid by the insurgents on an army base this month brought home to Thais how little has been done to end the conflict.
Perhaps, once the talks get started, they may acquire enough momentum to attract the interest of some of the fighting groups on the ground.
Only when they are involved, along with civil society groups with strong roots in the far south, is any meaningful progress likely to occur.
Lottery cash of nearly £4.7m has been awarded to the scheme, which will see a WW2 hangar moved from its position on top of the track and restored nearby.
The finishing straight will be restored to its 1939 appearance when the circuit was in its heyday, museum staff said.
Brooklands opened in 1907 and went on to make motoring and aviation history.
After restoration, the final stretch will return to use for motoring and aviation activities.
The restored Grade II listed World War Two Wellington Hangar - which was used for the assembly of Wellington bombers in the 1940s and later for other industrial purposes - will become The Brooklands Aircraft Factory, where visitors will see how aircraft from biplanes to Concorde were designed, developed and built.
And a new annexe, the Flight Shed, will also be built to house more of the museum's collection, including active aircraft such as its Sopwith Camel and Hurricane which will be kept ready to roll out on to the refurbished race track.
Museum director Allan Winn said the aircraft assembly building would be the only place in the country dedicated to showing how aircraft are designed and built.
He promised visitors "an unmatched, immersive and imaginative experience".
Stuart McLeod, head of Heritage Lottery Fund South East, said Brooklands had played an important role in the country's history, and the airliners and "glitzy" Grand Prix of today could all be traced back to innovation that had taken place at Brooklands.
He said the project would help visitors understand the "pivotal role" the UK has played in engineering.
The museum has raised over £1.2m and has been awarded £4.681m by the lottery fund. It still needs to raise a further £775,000.
Work on the scheme is due to start in the next couple of months and be finished by summer next year.
-Brooklands saw the first public demonstration of powered flight in the UK in 1909
-The first person to travel over 100 miles in one hour, Percy Lambert, did so at Brooklands in 1913
-The first British Grand Prix took place at Brooklands in 1926
Source: Brooklands Museum
In a presentation to supporters, owner Ann Budge said she hoped the structure would be open for September 2017.
The Edinburgh club also said they are confident it will be "completely paid for, with no bank debt at all."
They say funding plans will be revealed "shortly", with the formal design plans yet to be submitted.
The club will now enter into a period of public consultation.
Hearts add that they have been in discussions with supporters' group Foundation of Hearts, who are aware of how the project will be funded.
The new stand will bring the capacity of the stadium up to just under 21,000.
They have flirted with disaster more times than they would care to mention in their years outside the top flight.
Owners and managers have come and gone at an, at times, alarming rate, while a return to English football's elite has rarely looked on the cards.
However, there is a feeling that maybe it could be about to change.
Under head coach Garry Monk, United have turned around a slow start to the season and are seventh in the Championship after 17 games.
Craving a return to the Premier League as much as Leeds' fans is midfielder Kalvin Phillips, the winner of the EFL Young Player of the Month award for October.
The 20-year-old was only eight years old when Leeds were relegated from the Premier League, and knows better than most what promotion would mean.
"I went to Elland Road for the first time when I was nine years old. I was sat in the top tier and the atmosphere was mad, I just remember thinking 'imagine if I was out there'," he told BBC Sport.
"Making my home debut was a really special day for me and my family, and to score a goal is something that'll always be in my heart. When I walked out for the game I thought it was mental."
He added: "It would be a dream come true for me to be in the Premier League with this team.
"When I was younger, Leeds were in the Premier League and you could see what it meant to the fans. It hasn't really happened these last few years but if we could do it this season it would be fantastic."
Phillips might have grand ambitions, but to say he is grounded would be something of an understatement.
He still lives at home with his parents, four miles from Elland Road, and credits his team-mates and coaches for his recent stellar performances.
Phillips is part of the latest crop of players from the Leeds academy to be turning out for the first team.
Full-backs Charlie Taylor, 23, and Lewie Coyle, 21, and midfielders Alex Mowatt, 21, and Ronaldo Vieira, 18, [Vieira's younger brother Romario is also in the club's academy] have all featured regularly this season.
"It's good to play with them and I've got a lot of trust in them because we grew up together," he said.
"It's a bit weird because a lot of teams are more experienced than us but we've got no fear. We just play our football. Hopefully we can bring more young players through."
It could perhaps have been a little different for the combative midfielder.
Phillips played the majority of his youth team football for Wortley Juniors before being invited for a trial at Leeds when he was 14.
Despite it taking a little longer than some to get spotted, Phillips always backed himself, although he did inadvertently give the Whites false hope about what kind of player they were getting.
"I just enjoyed myself when I was playing and it got to the point that people started approaching me and I knew there was a good chance somebody would pick me up," he said.
"I eventually came here on a six-week trial and scored four goals in my first three games and got signed. I didn't score for the rest of the season after that!"
It is a sign of the times that Phillips has now played under four different managers at Elland Road.
He made his goalscoring debut against Cardiff under Neil Redfearn in April 2015 before starting three of Uwe Rosler's 12 matches in charge last season.
Steve Evans used the youngster more sparingly in his time at Elland Road, restricting him to just seven substitute appearances.
After starting this season on the bench, he has been ever-present in the past nine games, helping his side pick up 16 points.
Monk found himself answering questions about his future after September's defeat by rivals Huddersfield, which saw them slip into the Championship's bottom three after six games.
Italian owner Massimo Cellino is not known for his patience but it seems that on this occasion he realised that time was what was needed.
"Garry has added understanding and awareness to my game and helped me understand the position more," Phillips said.
"It's crazy how things are right now. I go on social media and it's just incredible seeing how buzzing all the fans are about us being up near the top six.
"We'd had a couple of new players come in at the start of the season and a few of us younger guys had never really played in the first team but the team's so together now.
"There's a massive buzz around the club and in the changing room because we're up where we should be."
Port Vale defender Nathan Smith won August's EFL Young Player of the Month award, while Bristol City striker Tammy Abraham collected the prize in September.
It comes as Prime Minister David Cameron prepares to outline UK government plans to accept more families fleeing Syria.
Local authorities in Wales have said they are willing to "play their part" but asked for help to meet the costs.
The Welsh government has said the UK government should pay as the matter is not devolved.
Representatives from charities and local government are expected to be invited to the summit, at a date and location to be confirmed.
Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews and Communities Minister Lesley Griffiths will also attend.
A spokeswoman for the Welsh government said: "The First Minister believes the Welsh government has an important co-ordination role in how Wales responds to the refugee crisis.
"We want to bring key agencies and service providers together in one room, so everyone can have a clear idea of the challenges and responsibilities we are facing, and so we can jointly develop the most effective and collective response.
"We have said that Wales stands ready to play our part in responding to the crisis, and that will be the starting point for discussion."
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Ryan joined Fleetwood from Chesterfield in June 2015, making 67 appearances in his two seasons with the club.
The 28-year-old has also previously had spells with Accrington Stanley, Scunthorpe and Shrewsbury.
"He has an unbelievable passing ability and is able to take control of games," Blackpool manager Gary Bowyer said.
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The team, led by Ian Bell, includes James Tredwell, Scott Borthwick, Rikki Clarke and Graham Onions, who have all played Test cricket for England.
Surrey pair Rory Burns and Ben Foakes are also in the side, along with Essex batsmen Nick Browne and Tom Westley.
The four-day Champion County match in Abu Dhabi starts on Sunday, 20 March.
A T20 tournament takes place beforehand, with Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara part of the MCC squad.
The competition on Friday, 18 March will be contested by Yorkshire, MCC, Lancashire and the United Arab Emirates.
John Stephenson, MCC head of cricket, said: "We have put together a squad with a great mixture of youth and experience that are capable of challenging Yorkshire.
"In Ian Bell, we have one of the best England cricketers of recent years, and there is plenty of international experience throughout the rest of the group - as well as a number of young players with the potential to play for England."
MCC squad (in batting order):
Nick Browne (Essex)
Rory Burns (Surrey, ex-Cardiff MCCU)
Scott Borthwick (Durham)
Ian Bell (Warwickshire, Captain)
Tom Westley (Essex, ex-Durham MCCU)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
Rikki Clarke (Warwickshire)
James Harris* (Middlesex)
James Tredwell (Kent)
Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire)
Graham Onions (Durham)
Kumar Sangakkara** (Surrey)
*Champion County match only
**Emirates T20 tournament only
Harry Monaghan poked home the opening goal in the 39th minute after the ball had been headed down inside the area.
Nathan Boyle sneaked in at the back post to hammer home his eighth goal of the season after 48 minutes.
For the Candystripes, it was their third victory over Bohs this season. Kenny Shiels's side having also won two league encounters between the sides.
Shiels opted to rest a number of players for the third round tie, including striker Rory Patterson, who was named among the substitutes.
Patterson had scored the match-winning goal in both Premier Division clashes between the teams, including a 1-0 triumph at the same venue four weeks ago.
With regular central defensive pair Ryan McBride and Aaron Barry both injured, former Alicante defender Christian Castells was handed his debut, while it was revealed prior to kick-off that Austrian centre-back Max Karner had been signed until the end of the season to provide further cover.
Keith Ward, Monaghan and Ronan Curtis came into the starting line-up as Derry continued their bid to win the FAI Cup for the sixth time in their history, their last final appearance having come in 2014.
The Brandywell men had sealed their place in the last 16 with a 2-1 replay win away to Drogheda in round two in May, the sides having drawn 1-1 in the initial tie.
The hosts had a couple of first-half chances but Stephen Best headed straight at Ger Doherty and Mark Quigley's headed effort went over the bar.
At the other end, Dean Delany saved from Curtis, before the impressive Monaghan nudged his side in front, and Boyle extended the visitors' advantage.
Derry had opportunities to add to their tally, Curtis flashing a header narrowly wide, Conor McCormack firing a 25-yard shot just over and Patterson seeing an attempt cleared off the line.
For the home side, Dan Byrne headed over and Paddy Kavanagh struck the woodwork, before Doherty saved the rebound from the same player on the line.
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Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said the multi-billion pound commitment would be a "central plank" of Labour's next manifesto.
"The communities who stand to lose out most from Brexit must be looked after first," she told Labour's conference.
The government has said it will guarantee EU-funded projects signed before November's Autumn statement.
It has also said agricultural funding now provided by the EU will continue until 2020.
Ms Thornberry told conference delegates in Liverpool the government's offer was "hedged in conditions" and claimed it had "said nothing" about after 2020.
"Without long-term certainty over funding, our most deprived regions and communities cannot plan ahead. They cannot attract other investment. They cannot make progress," she said.
"So thanks to John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, we can guarantee that a future Labour government will make up any shortfall in structural funding into the 2020s and beyond."
Regions likely to benefit most from the scheme would be Wales, which is allocated £2.1bn under the current seven-year programme.
South west England is due to receive £1.3bn and the North West has been allocated £979m.
In her speech, Ms Thornberry also praised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was re-elected on Saturday, and accused the government of having "no plan" for Brexit.
"We cannot turn the clock back and run the Brexit vote again. We have been given our instructions by the British people and we must act on them," she said, promising Labour would "stand up" for EU migrants, UK businesses and workers' rights.
Labour also committed itself to opposing any attempts by the government to scrap any of the legal rights and funding programmes derived from Britain's membership of the EU.
It will publish a document setting out the full range of such benefits, saying regional funding is "one of the most directly and imminently under threat from the Tory government".
It will say: "The Labour Party therefore commits that - as a central plank of our future manifesto and budget plans - we will establish a properly-managed domestic fund for less prosperous regions currently in receipt of EU structural funds, and we will ensure that level of funding is protected in full, into the 2020s and beyond.
"Funding this commitment will be our top priority for allocating the estimated net savings deriving from Britain's withdrawal from the EU."
The procession, which included floats, pipe bands and dancers, set off at 12:00 GMT in the Digbeth area of the city.
Last year, more than 80,000 people turned out to celebrate the occasion.
The parade, which has passed through Digbeth since 1996, is regarded as the third largest in the world after those in New York and Dublin.
This year's celebrations have been taking place on the actual date of St Patrick's Day and have the theme of The Gathering, which organisers say is about encouraging people of Irish descent to visit the county, town and or village of their ancestry.
Pat Murphy-Wright, cultural development officer for the charity Irish in Birmingham, said: "The parade is about people embracing their roots and helps to teach children at local schools about their cultural background."
John Lines, the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, told BBC News the celebrations were going really well.
He said: "The weather looks fine and everyone's smiling. Such wonderful costumes - people must have spent all year preparing for this.
"Aren't we lucky in Birmingham?"
The Scot, 24, won silver medals in the 500m and 1,000m in Moscow, Russia.
She finished 0.273 seconds behind Fan Kexin of China in the 500m and missed the 1,000m gold by 0.052 secs, with South Korea's Choi Minjeong winning.
Christie's participation in Moscow had been in doubt after her paternal grandmother died earlier this month.
GB Short Track performance director Stuart Horsepool said: "I'm really proud of Elise."
Christie won the European title earlier this year and stormed to victory at the World Cup in Turkey last month.
She said: "Under the circumstances, I'm really pleased with silver, but I believe I could have got more out of it if my head was in a different place."
Christie was controversially denied medals in each of her three events at last year's Sochi Winter Olympics.
She became the first British woman to win an individual short track speed skating world medal by finishing third at the 2013 Championships in Hungary.
Briton Wilf O'Reilly won a gold and silver at the 1990 and 1991 World Championships.
Tricia Lorenz, a patient at the North West Regional Spinal Injuries Centre in Southport Hospital, married her partner of four years, Steve McEntee.
Ms Lorenz, from Wrexham, north-east Wales, was left paralysed and on a ventilator following a medical procedure in March last year. She has been in hospital since.
About 50 family and friends gathered to watch the couple take their vows.
Staff from the spinal unit also joined in the celebrations.
Special permission from the registrar was given for the couple to marry in the centre's day room.
Suppliers to Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust donated the food.
Ms Lorenz said: "We've had such a lovely day. Steve and I would like to say thank you to all the staff who have made our wedding possible, and to our family and friends who have travelled here to be with us."
Her husband is supervising the adaptation of his home in Frodsham, Cheshire, for when she can leave hospital.
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JacobTaute crossed the line either side of Andrew Conway's score and the hosts were awarded a penalty, with Rhys Buckley hitting back for the Dragons.
Munster led 31-10 at the break before Elliott Dee's converted try gave the visitors hope of a comeback.
But this was Munster's night as Dave Kilcoyne and Ronan O'Mahony touched down to seal a six-try win.
Munster began well and out-half Tyler Bleyendaal kicked their first penalty although the Welsh side responded through a Dorian Jones penalty.
It was 3-3 after 11 minutes but the Munster forwards put in all the work before Duncan Williams' pass sent Taute over for a try in the 14th minute.
Bleyendaal converted and then brilliantly set up Conway's converted try - the fly-half intercepted a pass near his own line and kicked down-field for Conway to re-gather and touch down.
Munster led 17-3 after 20 minutes and it got worse for the visitors when Springbok Taute scored his second try in the 28th minute.
Bleyendaal added the extras again and despite a consolatory try from Buckley in the 37th minute, Munster secured the bonus point before half-time.
Williams' pass was about to send replacement Dan Goggin over in the corner, but a deliberate knock-on from Carl Meyer meant that the Dragons number 15 got yellow and Munster had a penalty try.
Munster led by 21 points at half-time but after Darren O'Shea got a yellow card for a shoulder charge on Jones at ruck-time, the Dragons pressurised their opponents and mauled their way over the home side's line for Dee's try in the 59th minute.
Dragons trailed 31-17 at that stage and the losing bonus point was in sight but Kilcoyne touched down in the 64th minute and O'Mahony in the dying seconds.
Munster: Conway, Sweetnam, Taute, Scannell, R. O'Mahony, Bleyendaal, Williams, Kilcoyne, Marshall, Archer, Kleyn, Foley, D. O'Callaghan, O'Donnell, O'Donoghue.
Replacements: D O'Shea for Foley (24), Goggin for Conway (31), Saili for Sweetnam (55), Griesel for Taute (73), McCabe for Kilcoyne (71), O'Byrne for Marshall (59), Scott for Archer (56), Oliver for Kleyn (41).
Sin Bin: D. O'Shea (56)
Newport Gwent Dragons: Meyer, Hughes, Morgan, Warren, Howard, D. Jones, Knoyle, Hobbs, Buckley, B. Harris, Screech, Landman, Griffiths, Cudd, Evans.
Replacements: O'Brien for D. Jones (61), T. Davies for Hobbs (64), Dee for Buckley (52), Fairbrother for B. Harris (64), Crosswell for Screech (53), Keddie for Griffiths (41) Pretorious for Knoyle (60), Beard for Warren (60).
Sin Bin: Meyer (40)
Ref: Mike Adamson (SRFU)
Jeremy Middleton said the new role should be free from "party politics", with voters expected to go to the polls in May 2017.
The position is being created as part of the government's Northern Powerhouse plan.
Labour accused him of "acting in self-interest" over fears voters would be turned off by his Tory links.
Mr Middleton, a former parliamentary candidate and ex-chairman of the Conservative National Convention, told the BBC the North East had "suffered from London Westminster politics".
The 55-year-old said: "I want to challenge the government about the deal we have for the North East. I also want to challenge our local leaders.
"The region has been let down. If you look at our situation in relation to Scotland or in the way we've come to devolution late, you see our quality of leadership is poor."
He announced his intention to stand as a Conservative in February, but now says the contest is being used "to fight party political battles".
Mr Middleton is the only candidate in the region to have so far put himself forward for the position.
Jude Kirton-Darling, Labour Member of the European Parliament for the North East of England, said: "This is Jeremy Middleton seeing Jeremy Middleton's best interests.
"Somebody who stood eight times as a candidate for the Conservative Party and failed eight times is obviously concerned that if he stood as a Conservative candidate he might fail to become the mayor of the North East. This is self-interest really, not above party politics."
During this period, cash tills in shops hardly stop ringing as the mainland tourists flock to the international designer labels, snapping up luxury branded goods.
It is a "golden period" for retailers and other businesses, which would generally see a boost to their bottom lines.
But recent events have taken the shine off the beginning of this year's Golden Week.
Since the weekend, tens of thousands of protesters in the Occupy Central movement have stationed themselves in several parts of Hong Kong for pro-democracy rallies in the lead-up to China's National Day, despite a call by Hong Kong leader CY Leung to work with Beijing.
And that could pose a threat to Hong Kong's retail and tourism sectors.
"It is believed that some visitors will postpone or even cancel their plans to visit Hong Kong for the time being," the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) told the BBC, without giving any details.
"The HKTB has been closely monitoring the development of the movement."
Based on the tourism board's records, international visitor arrivals into Hong Kong, including from the mainland, during the Golden Week have been increasing by a minimum of 10% over the last few years.
"Naturally, the protests will put a dent on tourism from the mainland, but bear in mind that in general October is not peak season for mainland visitors to Hong Kong," says David Yang, who covers political and regulatory risks at consultancy firm IHS.
"Golden Week brings a slight bump, but by my estimate it amounts to a modest extra 100,000 to 200,000 visitors."
Mr Yang says the category most likely to be affected are tour groups coming to Hong Kong for overnight stays, who make up about a third of the mainland tourist traffic.
"In a 'normal' year, about 30,000 to 60,000 extra mainland visitors would arrive with tour groups during the Golden Week. According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board, the average overnight visitor spends 8,123 Hong Kong dollars ($1,046; £644) during his or her stay."
He adds that the sectors most likely to be affected are retail, food and drink, and accommodation. "The impact will last for as long as protests continue."
The protesters want China to withdraw plans to vet candidates for the next Hong Kong leadership election in 2017. Their rallies have gathered at the main sites in the Central business district (Connaught Road), Causeway Bay and Mongkok.
Around the corner from the protest area in the city's Central, Lan Kwai Fong (LKF) houses more than 100 bars, restaurants and retailers. The bustling entertainment and shopping district ranks high among the places to visit in Hong Kong and comes alive after sundown.
Allan Zeman, chairman of Lan Kwai Fong Group which manages the district, told the BBC that businesses within LKF generally see a 20% boost to their revenues in the month of October, from the extra tourists flowing through Hong Kong during China's Golden Week.
But that could change this year.
When the protests began, several restaurants and bars decided to close earlier than usual, says Mr Zeman. "Obviously safety is our first priority."
The number of revellers and patrons in the area has dropped by about 15%.
"There will be an impact from the protests, but not too much," he says. That is because even though the number of tour groups may have dropped, they are not the main customers at LKF. Instead, the group's typical customer is "the FIT" (Free Individual Traveller).
Despite the proximity to the protest zones, Mr Zeman is confident there will be no spillover from the demonstrators.
"We are an entertainment and dining district, and we do not anticipate Occupy Central will move into LKF. It is not a political place and we also have a lot of experience dealing with crowds."
Not everyone is cancelling their planned trip to Hong Kong though.
Curtis Bergh, a Singapore-based businessman from the US, travels to Hong Kong about four times a year, for both business and leisure.
Last week he booked a 10-day trip to Hong Kong starting on 2 October. He is still going ahead with the trip.
"I don't feel it's necessary to cancel my trip as the protests are still quite concentrated in certain areas of Hong Kong and most of my plans and activities are away from the protest zones," he says.
"I've adjusted my itinerary to avoid the protest areas as much as possible. I'll just have to keep an eye out on the situation as it is very fluid, and adjust my movements and plans accordingly."
While tourism is one area of economic growth for Hong Kong, it is not the main driver.
"More important to Hong Kong are domestic retail spending, banking and finance, and social services," says David Kuo, director at investment advisory firm Motley Fool Singapore.
He says that as the protests have been well contained to parts of Central and Mong Kok, and have generally been promoted as being friendly and good-natured, they "should do little to affect the rest of the country or its position as a place to do business".
And he points out that China, politically, needs Hong Kong more than it would like to admit.
"Hong Kong, with its sound legal framework, freedom of speech and fair judicial system, is and will remain, the acceptable face of China to the outside world."
He adds: "There could be a short-term impact on tourism but it is something that Hong Kong has learnt to weather over the years. Hong Kong people are a resilient bunch."
"The Blade" is the first in a series of temporary commissions marking Hull's year as UK City of Culture.
The 28-tonne structure will remain on display in Queen Victoria Square until 18 March.
The artwork was transported from the Siemens factory on Alexandra Dock, where it was made, through the city overnight in a complex operation.
More than 50 items of street furniture had to be removed to allow it to reach the square.
It arrived on Sunday morning and large crowds gathered to watch it slowly lifted into its final position by late-afternoon.
Project director Richard Bickers said it had been a demanding effort.
"Blade is not only a dramatic artistic installation, but in terms of its transportation and exhibition, a significant engineering feat.
"A major challenge we encountered was manoeuvring the structure through Hull's narrow city centre streets."
The artwork has been designed by Nayan Kulkarni who said he was impressed by the smooth operation to install it.
"They did a study, they did a drawing, they planned the route meticulously.
"The drawings looked difficult, the movements through the city were graceful, I mean it looked effortless."
B75 rotor blades - which would normally form the top of a wind turbine - are the world's largest handmade fibreglass components to be cast as a single object, organisers said.
Martin Green, CEO and director Hull 2017, said: "It's a structure we would normally expect out at sea and in a way it might remind you of a giant sea creature, which seems appropriate with Hull's maritime history.
"It's a magnificent start to our Look Up programme, which will see artists creating site specific work throughout 2017 for locations around the city."
Weir, a highly-rated midfielder, joined Bristol during the mid-season break in 2015 but could not prevent the Vixens from being relegated from WSL 1.
The 20-year-old previously lifted the FA Women's Cup with Arsenal in 2014.
"Liverpool Ladies are a really ambitious club and I am confident that we can win more trophies over the next few seasons," told the club website.
"It is a great move for me. There are so many talented players here and I am really looking forward to playing alongside them in order to develop my game."
The teenager was hit by a van while she was walking near the Merrions Close turning on Birmingham Road on Wednesday morning.
West Midlands Police said Zoe, a pupil of Q3 Academy in Great Barr, was taken to hospital but died soon afterwards.
Her mother Jo Corbett, from Malvern, confirmed Zoe was the second child she had lost in recent years.
Her son, Max Corbett-Gardener, died aged four in 2013 from complications associated with severe epilepsy.
A 42-year-old man from Walsall was arrested at the scene of the accident on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been released on bail.
PC Julie Lyman, from West Midlands Police's collisions investigations unit, said inquiries were ongoing and officers were supporting Ms Shapiro's family.
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Few scientific facts are known about the hapless bird, which was last sighted in 1662.
A study of bone specimens shows the chicks hatched in August and grew rapidly to adult size.
The bird shed its feathers in March revealing fluffy grey plumage recorded in historical accounts by mariners.
Delphine Angst of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, was given access to some of the dodo bones that still exist in museums and collections, including specimens that were recently donated to a museum in France.
Her team analysed slices of bone from 22 dodos under the microscope to find out more about the bird's growth and breeding patterns.
"Before our study we knew very very little about these birds," said Dr Angst.
"Using the bone histology for the first time we managed to describe that this bird was actually breeding at a certain time of the year and was moulting just after that."
The scientists can tell from growth patterns in the bones that the chicks grew to adult size very rapidly after hatching from eggs around August.
This would have given them a survival advantage when cyclones hit the island between November and March, leading to a scarcity of food.
However, the birds probably took several years to reach sexual maturity, possibly because the adult birds lacked any natural predators.
The bones of adult birds also show signs of mineral loss, which suggests that they lost old damaged feathers after the breeding season.
Ancient mariners gave conflicting accounts of the dodo, describing them as having "black down" or "curled plumes of a greyish colour".
The research, published in Scientific Reports, backs this historical evidence.
"The dodo was quite a brown-grey bird, and during the moulting it had downy, black plumage," explained Dr Angst.
"What we found using our scientific methods fit perfectly with what the sailors had written in the past."
The research could also shed light on the dodo's extinction about 350 years ago, less than 100 years after humans arrived on the island.
Hunting was a factor in the dodo's demise, but monkeys, deer, pigs and rats released on the island from ships probably sealed their fate.
Dodos laid their eggs in nests on the ground, meaning they were vulnerable to attack by feral mammals.
Dr Angst said the dodo is considered "a very big icon of animal-human induced extinction", although the full facts are unknown.
"It's difficult to know what was the real impact of humans if we don't know the ecology of this bird and the ecology of the Mauritius island at this time," she explained.
"So that's one step to understand the ecology of these birds and the global ecosystem of Mauritius and to say, 'Okay, when the human arrived what exactly did they do wrong and why did these birds became extinct so quickly'."
Julian Hume of the Natural History Museum, London, a co-researcher on the study, said there are still many mysteries surrounding the dodo.
"Our work is showing the seasons and what was actually affecting the growth of these birds because of the climate in Mauritius," he said.
"The cyclone season, when often the island is devastated with storms - all the fruits and all the leaves are blown off the trees - is quite a harsh period for the fauna - the reptiles and the birds on Mauritius."
The dodo, which is related to the pigeon, evolved on Mauritius.
However, bone samples are rare, making it difficult to trace the evolutionary process.
Although many specimens of the dodo ended up in European museums, most were lost or destroyed in the Victorian era.
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Beating Bowel Cancer found wide variation within the NHS in England in diagnosing the disease.
It says 3,200 lives could be saved each year if every NHS region did as well as the best performing areas.
In some regions, less than a third of cases are detected before the cancer has started to spread around the body.
Part of the problem is people not coming forward for checks.
A bowel-cancer screening programme was introduced in England in 2006, but figures show that uptake among the eligible 60- to 74-year-old age group has been around the 60% mark.
Early detection is vital.
Those diagnosed with the disease in its advanced stages have a 7% chance of living another five years.
This compares with a 97% chance of survival if the cancer is detected at the earliest possible stage.
The regional diagnostic figures quoted by Beating Bowel Cancer come from the National Cancer Intelligence Network's Cancer Commissioning Toolkit.
It captures data from more than 150 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) caring for hundreds of thousands of NHS patients.
Mark Flannagan, chief executive of Beating Bowel Cancer, said: "It's unacceptable that there are CCGs in England that diagnose less than one in three patients at an early stage.
"If they all performed as well as the best, thousands of lives could be saved and millions of pounds could be freed up to be used for other bowel cancer treatments, which patients are frequently told are unaffordable.
"This will require further improvements in screening, renewed efforts to raise awareness of signs and symptoms, and investment to support improvements in GP performance in investigating and referring patients appropriately."
In the UK, about 41,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year and about 16,000 die of the disease.
Nick Ormiston-Smith of Cancer Research UK said: " There are a number of reasons why cancer may be diagnosed at an advanced stage - for some cancers, symptoms are often only noticeable once the tumour has already started to spread. But for many others there are chances for the cancer to be picked up earlier.
"It's vital that people are aware of their body and if they notice anything unusual they should visit their GP."
The main symptoms to look out for are:
The four stone sculptures have been there since the bridge across the Menai Strait first opened in 1850, but the A55 crossing was built over them.
Almost 200 people have signed a petition to raise two of the limestone big cats onto the bridge.
Some are concerned the bridge would not cope with moving the 80 tonne lions.
Tim Snow, who started the "Raise the Lions" online petition, is calling on Network Rail to move the sculptures up, saying it would boost tourism.
"They are part of our local heritage," said Mr Snow.
"It would be great for visitors and locals alike to be greeted by these magnificent lions."
Bob Diamond, Gwynedd's former director of highways and now treasurer of the Menai Heritage centre, said the bridge would "probably not be strong enough" to hold cranes that would be needed to lift the big cats.
"They were actually finished in situ. If you try and take them apart to raise them you would in effect be destroying a work of art," he added.
Mr Diamond also worries the sculptures could distract motorists if they are placed by the A55.
The four lions - two on each side - are made from limestone from Penmon. They survived a fire which damaged the bridge in 1970.
As the Britannia Bridge is a grade II listed structure any proposed alterations would need planning permission from the local authority, Network Rail said.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "As a publicly funded organisation committed to delivering our railway upgrade plan to provide a bigger and better railway, we would be unable to provide financial assistance but would be happy to meet with campaign members to discuss the structure and to offer any guidance we can".
TrawsCymru's new T1C service replaces the previous 701 service which was operated by Lewis Coaches before it went into administration in August.
It will run alongside the hourly T1 bus service between Aberystwyth and Carmarthen, which connects with the rail line at Carmarthen.
The service will be reviewed after six months.
Economy and Infrastructure Secretary Ken Skates said he was "delighted" TrawsCymru was able to take on the "important route".
"Following the sudden closure of Lewis coaches, we've acted quickly with the local authority and others to ensure that critical services were continued with as little disruption as possible," he added.
The 20-year-old from Newtownards made one senior appearance for Watford having come through their academy.
Doherty, who can also play in midfield, moved to Orient last summer and had a month-long loan at Altrincham before his release earlier in January.
He has won five caps with the Northern Ireland U21 side and also played for the U17 and U19 teams.
David Morris, Conservative MP for Morecambe, said a link between Heysham and Barrow would benefit business.
He told Transport Minister Robert Goodwill it would also help hospitals on either side of the bay.
Mr Goodwill said the government wanted to boost growth through road improvements and suggested he approach Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP).
LEPs - boards of business people and councillors in charge of developing local economies - were set up by the coalition after Regional Development Agencies were scrapped.
Speaking in a House of Commons debate, Mr Morris said a road link under Morecombe Bay would cut travelling time from an hour and a half to under 30 minutes.
"On the Cumbria coast there are BAE Systems and Sellafield and the national nuclear laboratory", he said.
"If the workers at Heysham power station in my constituency could access these sites more easily it would create a greater scope for them to work together.
"It would also improve communications between hospitals in the Morecambe Bay Trust, as it is currently difficult to transport staff and patients between ones on either side of the bay."
No costing has been made for creating the tunnel and Mr Morris said there was still much work to be done on the subject of funding.
Its 15-mile length would mean it would be equal in size to Norway's Laerdal Tunnel, which is the longest road tunnel in the world
Mr Goodwill described Mr Morris's plan as "a bold vision".
He said: "The government believes it is local people and organisations which are best placed to understand the needs of areas and support and boost growth.
"Therefore, while I support my honourable friend's ambition, at this stage I would suggest he engages actively with the Lancashire and Cumbria LEPs to promote this further."
Andrew Dosiuk, 33 was shot dead at his home in Laneham Avenue, Nottingham, in November 2013.
A jury at Nottingham Crown Court found Michael Furniss, 50, guilty after more than a week of deliberations.
During the six week trial, the court heard Furniss, of no fixed address, had gone to Mr Dosiuk's home on 11 November last year and shot him three times.
The prosecution claimed that Furniss had been hired as a hit man by his friend James Stacey, 30, who was under increasing pressure to pay Mr Dosiuk £7,000 as part of a drugs debt.
A third man, Stuart Hall, 23, had acted as a middle man, said prosecutor David Herbert.
Mr Hall of Forest Road, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and Mr Stacey of Seeley Avenue, Nottingham, were cleared of murder charges.
Furniss's barrister Icah Peart said 33-year-old Mr Dosiuk had many enemies.
He said Mr Dosiuk had also been awaiting trial for the supply of cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine and ketamine but was killed days before it was due to start.
Furniss will be sentenced on Thursday.
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The Rams were top of the Championship on Boxing Day, but are now seven points behind leaders Hull City and are without a league win in five matches.
Clement, whose side host Preston on Tuesday, told BBC East Midlands Today: "It's a massive month for us. We've got to have a really good, strong month.
"We are glad to see the back of January with performances and results."
Since their Boxing Day win over Fulham, Derby have lost to Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Burnley, while drawing with Leeds and Reading.
The Rams also bowed out of the FA Cup with a fourth-round defeat at Manchester United last Friday.
"We are going to try and be robust defensively," continued Clement.
"We have lost our way with our defending as a team recently. We've conceded a lot of goals.
"That wasn't a characteristic of our team in the early months and that's something we will have to get right."
Ms Davidson said figures obtained from the Student Awards Agency of Scotland showed £60m would be spent on bursaries in 2016, compared to £104m in 2007.
She said the SNP had "gutted" the funding for poorer students.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was reducing the attainment gap "faster than the rest of the UK."
Ucas figures have shown that pupils from more affluent areas are far more likely to want to go to university, with 15.1% of youngsters from the poorest areas in Scotland applying for places in 2015, compared to 52% in the least-deprived areas.
At First Minister's Questions, Ms Davidson said the SNP policy of opposing university tuition fees had "failed to produce a more egalitarian outcome compared to the rest of the UK".
She produced a Freedom of Information request to the awards agency which showed bursary support had fallen from £104.8m in 2007/8 to £63.6m in 2014/15.
She said: "Not only are those people from the most deprived areas not getting their foot through the door, but their bursary support has fallen too.
"How can she explain to them that when the SNP came to power there was more than £104m in the pot, but next year it will have plummeted to just £60m?
"The SNP is slashing college places and has cut bursaries - and now the universal free tuition policy designed to counter those things has been shown not to work."
Ms Davidson backs introducing a graduate contribution, which would see students pay back some money once in work and earning a certain amount.
Scottish Labour later joined the attack, with Iain Gray saying the SNP were "strangers to the truth" over student debt, adding: "Thousands of young people from poorer families who have the grades to access the best courses can only get the extra support they need by borrowing more. We need to deliver better student support for our young people."
Ms Sturgeon hit back at the claims, saying more students from disadvantaged backgrounds were making it into higher education.
She said: "The number of people from our most deprived communities achieving a university qualification has increased under this government by 24%.
"The number of 18-year-olds from our most deprived areas applying to university is up by 50%.
"Those are the facts and what will certainly not help us make any further progress is to go down the road of the Tories by taking away bursaries from all students.
"We will continue to make sure that we have a funding support package for our students that supports students, particularly those from the poorest backgrounds, to go to college and university."
She also said that with the Conservative chancellor George Osborne announcing the UK government would "abolish all bursary support" in his Spending Review, she would "take no lectures whatsoever" on the matter from Ms Davidson.
The Met Office said winds are likely to pick up in places from 17:00 GMT on Friday, especially near coasts.
It has also warned snow in north Wales may settle on high ground in the evening.
The warning follows high winds from Storm Barney which hit the country on Tuesday.
Britain's second named storm left more than 7,500 homes and business in Wales without power.
Saints led 8-0 at half-time after Zeb Taia crossed over on 19 minutes.
Adam Milner's try reduced the arrears but James Roby and Jonny Lomax stretched Saints' lead to 14 points.
A spectacular Joel Monaghan try was just a consolation for Cas and Roby's second try secured St Helens only their third away win of the season.
Castleford, who lead by 10 points at the top of the table, were beaten in front of their own fans for the first time since Warrington won 42-26 in July last year.
The visitors went ahead when Taia burst past Zak Hardaker's challenge to go over and Percival added the extras, before converting a penalty five minutes later.
Kyle Amor had a score disallowed for a knock-on to deny St Helens a second try, while the hosts had one chalked off for offside.
Matty Smith's drop-goal attempt for the hosts fell well short on the stroke of half-time, but St Helens went to the break with an eight-point lead.
Milner jinked in under the posts from close range and Luke Gale's conversion reduced the deficit to two points, but St Helens surged back when Lomax's short pass set up Roby for his fifth Super League try in the past six matches - and then Lomax pounced on a bobbling ball from Smith's low kick.
Monaghan's one-handed dive in the right-hand corner gave the hosts a ray of hope, before Roby powered over from close range to secure a convincing victory for the Saints, who move third in Super League.
Castleford boss Daryl Powell:
"I don't think there was much between the teams, but they defended pretty well and there were some key turning points in the game.
"It was pretty tight leading up to half-time, but I thought Saints played really well and I expected them to.
"We haven't had this feeling for a fair while, but I think it will probably help us moving down the track. Our effort was fantastic and the intensity of the game was great, but they were the better side."
St Helens boss Justin Holbrook:
"It was always going to be a tough game, we knew that and we expected it, so to come here and get the win, I couldn't be happier.
"No matter how much homework you do, Castleford are still a very dangerous side and it was up to our boys to continually make the right decisions in defence.
"We did that and it was really pleasing, plus James Roby is as a good a nine as I've seen. He's not just tough and creative, he's also fit and he's a great guy."
Castleford: Hardaker, Monaghan, Minikin, Shenton, Hitchcox, Roberts, Gale, Millington, McShane, Sene-Lefao, Foster, McMeeken, Massey.
Replacements: O. Holmes, Milner, Cook, Patrick.
St Helens: Lomax, Makinson, Morgan, Percival, Grace, Fages, Richardson, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Roby, Thompson, Taia, Peyroux, Wilkin.
Replacements: Smith, Walmsley, Amor, Knowles.
Referee: Robert Hicks (RFL).
The slump was large enough for trading in stocks of the Japanese industrial giant to be automatically halted.
Shares had already fallen 12% on Tuesday after reports of the likely write-down began circulating.
Toshiba said the possible heavy one-off loss was linked to a deal done by a US subsidiary, Westinghouse Electric.
Westinghouse bought the nuclear construction and services business from Chicago Bridge & Iron in 2015. There is now a dispute over the costs of the deal and the value of the assets it took on.
Toshiba president Satoshi Tsunakawa apologised for "causing concern".
Rating agencies Moody's and R&I both downgraded Toshiba's credit rating, which will make it more expensive for the company to borrow.
R&I warned that it could issue further downgrades, while Moody's cautioned that further impairments could lead to Toshiba breaching agreements with its banks.
The warning was a blow for the firm's corporate reputation, which is still struggling to recover after it emerged in 2015 that profits had been overstated for years, prompting the chief executive to resign.
Since then, Toshiba has been trying to slim down the business, including selling its medical devices operations to Canon.
While the share price slump is a blow for investors, 2016 had still been a pretty good year given that the stock had risen more than 77% before this week's falls.
The sculpture, by Paul Day, also marks the contribution made by civilians in the conflicts. It is formed of two stone monoliths and a bronze medallion.
Its unveiling in Victoria Embankment Gardens followed a service for 2,500 veterans on Horse Guards Parade.
More than 800 UK military personnel and civilians died in the three wars.
Before the unveiling, the Queen and other members of the Royal Family attended a "drumhead" service - a religious service held in the field of battle which uses drums as an improvised altar - with veterans and other guests.
After the new monument was revealed, the Queen received a posy from the Lunn family - Serjeant Mark Lunn, 29, who was awarded the Military Cross for his actions during a fire-fight in Basra, his wife, Corporal Michelle Lunn, 26, and their two-year-old son Alfie.
But the toddler appeared a little reluctant to meet the monarch, squirming and wriggling as he met her.
Prince Harry served in the Army for 10 years, including two tours of Afghanistan. Prince William served in the armed forces for eight years.
The guests included current service personnel, veterans, former prime ministers, civil servants and charity workers.
Among those at the service was Tony Blair, whose presence at the ceremony attracted some criticism on social media.
In 2016 the UK's Iraq War inquiry said Tony Blair overstated the threat posed by former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein, sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had "wholly inadequate" plans for the aftermath.
Former prime ministers David Cameron and Sir John Major were also there.
The £1m monument was funded by a campaign by the Sun on Sunday newspaper.
The unveiling itself was relayed to screens on Horse Guards Parade.
Mark Collins, a former RAF wing commander who did two tours of Afghanistan, said the memorial would be a focal point where people could reflect on the good that went on overseas as well as the sadness.
He said he would remember a US marine from his team who was killed by a suicide bomber, leaving a physical absence in the team as well as frustration and anger for his loss.
The sun shone on Horse Guards Parade for the drumhead service.
Bands from the Royal Marines, the Scots Guards and RAF played solemn music.
The Metropolitan Police Choir sang Nearer My God to Thee.
And Prince Harry, himself an Afghanistan veteran, read one of the lessons.
The prime minister looked on, seated close to her three predecessors, John Major, Tony Blair and David Cameron, in office between them throughout the 25 years of conflict.
Afterwards the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were taken across Whitehall to unveil the memorial itself in Victoria Gardens, between the Ministry of Defence and the Thames.
It towered above the diminutive figure of the Queen, a huge brass disc between two stone pillars by the sculptor Paul Day.
Sculptor Paul Day also created the Battle of Britain monument, which stands nearby on the Embankment, as well as the Meeting Place, the sculpture of an embracing couple in St Pancras station.
This design consists of two large stone monoliths which appear to support a bronze medallion.
The Portland stone, quarried from under Portland's cricket pitch, weighs 33 tonnes.
The stone is finely carved on three sides but left jagged and rough hewn on the fourth side to suggest the rocky terrains of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr Day said he also wanted to suggest how the outcomes of both campaigns were not fully resolved, and the "division within the British people" over them.
Former MI6 boss Sir John Sawers told the BBC's Andrew Marr that the UK would be shut out of decisions on the "crucial" issue of data sharing.
But Justice Secretary Michael Gove, who backs the campaign for the UK to leave the EU, said Sir John was "flat wrong".
He told the programme many security experts did not think that "Brexit" would harm Britain.
Security is the latest battleground in the run-up to the referendum on the UK's EU membership on 23 June.
Cross-border policing and security collaboration but also freedom of movement.
Sir John and ex-MI5 chief Lord Evans stepped into the debate with an article in the Sunday Times.
Sir John told the BBC that he and Lord Evans, who led MI5 until three years ago, had waited to intervene until after Thursday's elections.
He said: "The reason we would be less safe [if the UK voted to leave], is that we would be unable to take part in the decisions that frame the sharing of data, which is a crucial part of counter-terrorism and counter-cyber work that we do these days, and we would lose the abilities of thing like the European Arrest Warrant."
He said the UK leaving would also threaten wider European stability, saying: "We are only secure because the wider Europe is secure, pulling out will make it more dangerous."
Sir John said that, thanks to data sharing within the EU, the French had been able to transfer DNA and fingerprints of one of the Brussels bombers - the kind of thing which used to take months - within minutes.
He rejected claims that the European Court of Justice was getting in the way of security, adding: "I think judges tend to err on the side of human rights rather than erring on the side of security. That's beginning to change as judges understand the scale of the security threat that Europe faces."
Mr Gove told the BBC the ECJ had interfered in the UK's capacity to share data and intelligence with the US and stopped it deporting people "whose presence here is not conducive to the public good".
He said the European Criminal Records Information System did not allow the UK to know whether or not criminals had entered the country. "We only find out whether or not people have criminal records after they commit an offence in this country. It's a gossamer-thin protection."
He argued that removing the UK from the ECJ's remit post-referendum would be among "immediate steps in order to make this country safer".
He said many security experts did not agree with Sir John' analysis.
"Ron Noble, who's the head of Interpol, says that the European Union's open borders policy is like hanging out a welcome sign for terrorists.
"Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, says that open borders policy, and also the way in which European courts operate, is against our interest. Richard Walton, the most recent head of anti-terrorism at the Met, say that we would suffer not one whit by being outside the EU."
Sir Richard, who led MI6 from 1999 to 2004, wrote recently that the cost to Britain's security of leaving the EU would be low.
It found Wales less dependent than England on large firms such as Southern Cross, which collapsed in 2011.
But experts said high capital costs, uncertain income and staff shortages deterred existing firms from expanding their operations, and new entrants.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the report would help shape the debate about the provision of care.
The Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW) said financial pressures on care homes had made it more difficult for new entrants to enter the market.
Some existing operators were interested in expanding, but the report said they were put off by the capital costs involved, uncertainty over future demand, and the rising costs of care as people needed more intensive support.
The researchers urged the Welsh government and local councils to monitor services, ownership, financial stability, staffing and quality of care to plan for the future.
Mr Drakeford said: "The sector is facing pressure in terms of changes in home ownership, demand for care and the current challenging financial climate."
He added that checks on the state of the care home market would have a "fundamental role" in a new regime of closer co-ordination between health boards and local councils.
"It is our intention that this type of assessment will ensure that a failure similar to that of the former Southern Cross group does not happen again," he said.
Southern Cross was the UK's largest provider of care homes, with more than 750 properties, around 30 of them in Wales.
The company collapsed in 2011, with ownership of the homes passing to their respective landlords.
Waves gouged out a 2m (6ft) deep hole in the sea wall at Teignmouth in Devon.
The Environment Agency and Teignbridge District Council rebuilt the sea wall despite "challenging" weather conditions.
The agency said the wall breach put Teignmouth homes at risk of flooding, so it was "essential to carry out repairs quickly".
Anthony Stokes went to ground in the box as he was challenged by Killie's Michael Nelson but referee Willie Collum waved away spot-kick appeals.
The incident took place after Dieter van Tornhout headed the only goal.
"You've got to take your chances and we missed simple chances. We should've had a penalty," Lennon told BBC Scotland.
"It's a penalty and a sending off at a big moment in the game. I'm not saying we would've scored the penalty but I think the referee's got that one completely wrong."
Lennon cited missed opportunities for Gary Hooper and Stokes as he reflected on Celtic's defeat, which ended his side's hopes of completing a domestic treble.
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"If we had got one, we might have gone on to win the game comfortably," Lennon told BBC Scotland. "We conceded a poor goal from our point of view.
"We dominated the game so Kilmarnock can count themselves pretty fortunate that they've won the game. And maybe that's down to a lot of luck on their part and poor finishing from us.
"We couldn't have played that bad. He [goalkeeper Cammy Bell] has made six or seven great saves to keep Kilmarnock in it. That happens in a cup final.
"I'm very disappointed for our players but we've got a league championship and a cup to win so we'll lift them again and go again."
Lennon also said news of a suspected heart attack for Kilmarnock midfielder Liam Kelly's father had put things "into perspective".
"My sympathies go to [Liam] and his family," added Lennon. "All my thoughts go with the family.
"It makes my pain pale into insignificance to what he's feeling."
Lamont, 35, will win his 102nd cap in Cardiff, with Wasps' fly-half/full-back Ruaridh Jackson coming onto the bench.
Scotland are aiming to end of a run of eight straight defeats against Wales, and eight losses in the Six Nations stretching back to February 2014.
Maitland had recently recovered from a hamstring injury before facing England.
He played the full 80 minutes at Murrayfield in Scotland's 15-9 defeat last Saturday, but has suffered a recurrence of the problem.
"Sean had a twinge in his hamstring earlier in the week," explained head coach Vern Cotter. "He thought it was OK at the captain's run yesterday but then felt it again, so we thought it was probably best he didn't take the field."
The teams were separated only by goal difference before the match and that was reflected in the closeness of the contest.
The difference was the presence of a proven match-winner in the visiting ranks.
Kane Hemmings' 24th and 25th goals of the season rendered Kris Doolan's effort meaningless.
The win moves Paul Hartley's side three points clear in seventh place, with the Premiership now split in two for the final weeks of the campaign.
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Hemmings' first goal came marginally against the run of play, with Dundee goalkeeper Scott Bain having earlier had to move sharply off his line to block Ryan Edwards' goal-bound shot.
But after Gary Harkins skewed a shot wide, team-mate Hemmings showed typically predatory skills to put his side ahead.
He darted towards the near post as Paul McGinn burst down the right, but as the cross came in, Hemmings checked his run and tapped in unmarked from close range.
Thistle were always well in the game and Doolan was denied by the impressive Bain, who tipped the striker's shot round the post.
But the Thistle frontman did notch his 10th goal of the season 20 minutes before the end to give his side hope of victory.
Abdul Osman drifted a cross in from the Thistle left and Doolan headed past Bain to the delight of the home fans.
But they were to be disappointed before the end as the excellent Greg Stewart played a perfectly-weighted pass in behind the Thistle defence, allowing Hemmings to race through and slip a shot between the legs of keeper Ryan Scully.
David Amoo blasted over the bar from point-blank range in injury-time when he should have earned his side a draw, as Dundee again left Glasgow's west end with all three points.
The hosts took the lead through Marley Watkins' free header at the back post.
QPR turned the game around with two penalties, as Tjaronn Chery fired down the middle and Sebastian Polter placed his strike into the corner.
Conor Hourihane's spectacular free-kick levelled and Scowen finished on the half-volley to snatch a dramatic win before Rangers had Grant Hall sent off.
The defender was shown a second yellow card within half an hour in injury time for pulling down Stefan Payne.
Barnsley move up to seventh in the table with their second win of their season, while QPR are fifth on goal difference.
The hosts were unchanged from their victory over Derby on Saturday and a good start saw them take the lead when Alfie Mawson headed the ball across the box for Watkins to nod in from three yards.
Scowen glanced a header wide but QPR grew in strength as the game went on and Chery's free-kick came back off the crossbar.
Just 30 seconds into the second half, Chery made it 1-1 from the spot after Polter was brought down by Marc Roberts.
Polter then netted a penalty himself when James Bree clipped the heels of Yeni Ngbakoto.
But Barnsley won it with a dramatic turnaround as Hourihane's free-kick flew into the top corner and the winner arrived when Scowen pounced after Payne's nod down.
Barnsley head coach Paul Heckingbottom told BBC Radio Sheffield:
"I'm delighted with the result. Adam Davies didn't have a shot to save, apart from the two penalties.
"We watched a lot of QPR in the first few games and they really dominated teams with the aggression, organisation and running power, but we more than matched them.
"We got what we deserved and the pleasing thing is we can get better."
QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink:
"Barnsley were the better side in the first half, but we got ourselves together in the second half and played better and got the two goals from deserved penalties.
"But if the referee is going to give one of those soft free-kicks for their second goal, that he hasn't been giving all game, I think that is painful.
"And then the third goal, what is the difference between the second goal? The player is in the air, trying to win the ball, he gets a nudge, what is the difference? I don't understand it.
"Referees need to make decisions and it looked like the wild west out there. They could do what they wanted, there was no authority."
Match ends, Barnsley 3, Queens Park Rangers 2.
Second Half ends, Barnsley 3, Queens Park Rangers 2.
Second yellow card to Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers) for a bad foul.
Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers).
Stefan Payne (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers).
Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Karl Henry.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Conor Washington replaces Jordan Cousins.
Goal! Barnsley 3, Queens Park Rangers 2. Josh Scowen (Barnsley) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Stefan Payne.
Foul by Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers).
Josh Scowen (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Sebastian Polter.
Jordan Cousins (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Aidan White (Barnsley).
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Abdenasser El Khayati replaces Yeni N'Gbakoto.
Offside, Barnsley. Alfie Mawson tries a through ball, but Stefan Payne is caught offside.
Substitution, Barnsley. Sessi D'Almeida replaces Marley Watkins.
Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Kent (Barnsley).
Attempt missed. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by Sebastian Polter with a headed pass.
Goal! Barnsley 2, Queens Park Rangers 2. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) from a free kick with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Foul by Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers).
Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Adam Hammill (Barnsley) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Goal! Barnsley 1, Queens Park Rangers 2. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty Queens Park Rangers. Yeni N'Gbakoto draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by James Bree (Barnsley) after a foul in the penalty area.
Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Josh Scowen (Barnsley).
Offside, Barnsley. Josh Scowen tries a through ball, but Ryan Kent is caught offside.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Alfie Mawson (Barnsley) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jordan Cousins (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sebastian Polter.
Substitution, Barnsley. Stefan Payne replaces Tom Bradshaw.
Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers).
Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Conor Hourihane (Barnsley) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Ryan Kent.
Labour leader Ed Miliband appealed to Scottish pride and patriotism in his final push to win votes.
Conservative leader David Cameron visited a farm shop near Dumfries, where he urged voters to think about the future of the country.
And Nick Clegg predicted the Lib Dems would do better than expected.
First Minister's Questions, which was held a day earlier than usual to avoid a clash with polling day, was dominated by the election campaign, with Ms Sturgeon fielding questions from her political rivals.
Earlier, the SNP leader told supporters in Edinburgh her party was on the brink of making history.
She said: "We are within touching distance of doing something the SNP has never done in our history.
"We are within touching distance of winning a Westminster election. And if we do that, then the voice of Scotland is going to be heard more loudly at Westminster than it has ever been heard before."
She added: "We can lock the Tories out of government but then we can make sure that the Tories are not simply replaced by a Labour Tory-light government, they are replaced by something better."
Meanwhile, in his final message to the people of Scotland ahead of the vote, Mr Miliband said: "I understand the patriotism and pride you feel in your nation.
"I know you want change. And I know you want a more socially just and fairer country. That's what I want too."
The Labour leader added: "If I'm prime minister I will hold Scotland's interests in my heart and my head.
"My party is based on values long held in Scotland and has been driven forward by great Scots like Keir Hardie and John Smith throughout our proud history."
Mr Clegg has been making his way from Lands End to John O'Groats in his election "battle bus".
On the way, he stopped off at a nursery in Bearsden where he claimed the Lib Dems would be the "surprise story" of election night - doing better than pollsters had predicted.
He said: "At the beginning of this campaign we were written off and yet tomorrow, when the polls close, the Liberal Democrats will be the surprise story of this general election campaign because we are going to win.
"We are going to win here against the SNP, we are going to win against Labour, we are going to win against the Conservatives.
"I'll tell you why we are going to win - because we work harder than any other political party. Because what we offer the British people is in tune with their hopes and their dreams and their aspirations for the future. And because our values are right."
David and Samantha Cameron paid a fleeting visit to Scotland as they dropped into Kilnford Barns Farm Shop near Dumfries where they met staff and apprentices and picked up some cheese and sausages.
Mr Cameron told reporters: "The key thing here is to think about the future of our country as you hold that pencil in your hand and choose to vote.
"The SNP's agenda is to break up the United Kingdom. Don't mistake their agenda for anything else, that's their aim.
"If you want a party that will keep going with a strong economy and a strong United Kingdom then you need to vote Conservative."
The Scottish Greens said they would help to build a fairer society as they campaigned in Edinburgh.
Co-convenor Patrick Harvie said: "It's time to move away from a fossil fuel dominated economy which is lurching from crisis to crisis and build a fairer, more equal society.
"Only a Green vote will put those values into the heart of our political system''.
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The householder had reported seeing a spider "the size of her hand" hiding in a downstairs cupboard.
Inspector Nikki Denham was prepared with gloves and nets to trap the spider, but after shining a torch in the cupboard saw it was plastic.
The RSPCA said the woman was "obviously embarrassed".
Ms Denham said the householder in Alresford had closed all doors to prevent the spider's escape before she arrived.
"It was dark under the stairs, but I could see legs behind a vacuum cleaner that certainly were tarantula size.
"However, as I shone light in I could see that it was in fact a toy plastic tarantula," she said.
She said the toy was shown to the woman's young son who confirmed it was his - "with an angelic innocent face".
A RSPCA spokeswoman said the organisation was called on to rescue 275 genuine tarantulas in 2016.
The 34-year-old sustained the damage in the opening minutes of Saturday's 2-0 at Celtic.
The former Scotland international, who has been an ever-present for Motherwell this season, will undergo surgery next week.
Motherwell are currently 10th in the Premiership, three points above the play-off spot.
Mark McGhee's side are at home to Dundee on Saturday and a win would move them level on points with the sixth-placed visitors.
Meanwhile, Motherwell have added to their backroom staff, with the return of Steve Robinson as first-team coach.
The 42-year-old was sacked by English League One side Oldham last month after six months as manager.
He first joined Motherwell in February 2015, serving under Ian Baraclough and McGhee, before leaving Fir Park for Boundary Park in July.
The colourful phenomenon was visible in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but was also spotted as far south as Anglesey in Wales and Staffordshire in England.
Aurora Borealis occurs when electrically-charged particles from the sun enter the earth's atmosphere.
Many people took to social media to share photographs of the dramatic show.
Forecasters had predicted a solar storm and good conditions for Aurora Borealis, and sightings of green, pink, purple, red and yellow lights were reported for several hours from about 20:00 GMT.
Gavin Chambers, an RSPB warden, tweeted pictures of vivid green in the sky over Lake Vyrnwy in Powys, Wales, saying: "Well worth getting back out of bed for!!"
Donna Butcher tweeted: "Just been watching an amazing display of Aurora from Staveley, Cumbria. Shafts of light streaming directly towards Polaris."
You can email your pictures and video to [email protected], and find out more about the Northern Lights here.
President Barack Obama withdrew his opposition to a bipartisan bill that was unanimously passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
However, a Congressional No vote would not be binding and could be vetoed by Mr Obama.
An outline agreement on the future shape of Iran's nuclear programme was reached after marathon talks in April.
The US, Iran, and five other nations have set a deadline of 30 June to finalise a deal which would ease western sanctions in exchange for restrictions on Iran's nuclear programme.
Mr Obama agreed to sign the bill giving Congress the right to reject any forthcoming agreement with Iran.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani immediately attacked the move.
"What the US Senate, Congress and others say is not our problem... We are in talks with the major powers and not with the Congress."
Some Republicans have argued against the nuclear deal, saying Iran has received too many concessions.
They have always insisted they must have a say if any agreement means economic sanctions levied by Congress against Iran will be lifted.
The Israeli government, which has been fiercely critical of the deal with Iran, welcomed the agreement between Mr Obama and Congress.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Mr Obama was not "particularly thrilled" with the outcome, but US media have pointed out that in the event of Congress rejecting a deal with Iran, Mr Obama would be able to use his presidential veto.
A two-thirds majority would then be needed for Congress to override the veto, which is viewed as unlikely.
The bill is now likely to clear both houses in the Republican-controlled Congress.
An earlier version of the bill had placed a 60-day halt to any plan by Mr Obama to lift sanctions on Iran.
But that review period has been reduced to 30 days.
Mr Obama will still be able to lift sanctions he himself imposed through executive action but he would be unable to ease those imposed by Congress.
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Advocate depute Paul Kearney was making his closing speech in the trial.
Antoin Duffy, 39, his cousin Martin Hughes, 36, and Paul Sands, 32, deny being involved in a murder plot against Mr Adair and Sam McCrory.
Mr Adair and Mr McCrory were once high profile figures in the UDA.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Mr Kearney told the jury: "You must put aside all emotion and act like judges."
The prosecutor said: "The two subjects of this conspiracy are not nice men. They are convicted terrorists."
He told the jury that audio evidence was "compelling".
The jury has heard that Mr Hughes and Mr Duffy drove from Glasgow to Ayrshire on October 1, 2013.
Undercover police also followed Mr Hughes' car, which had been bugged by police, and saw Mr Sands get into the car with them. They were heard to chat about guns and the best places to shoot Mr Adair and Mr McCrory as they drove around the area where Mr McCrory lived.
Mr Kearney said: "It is the clearest evidence of agreement of a conspiracy. It can't be denied what was said. It is a lengthy and detailed discussion of a plan to murder while they drive round the area.
"There is mention of Adair and McCrory. There is a discussion about what order it would be better to carry out the murders, what weapons to use. There is considerable and compelling evidence that all three men are conspirators."
Two other men Craig Convery, 37, and Gordon Brown, 29, are also on trial accused of charges of being involved in organised crime. They deny the charges against them.
The trial before judge Lady Scott continues.
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A prosecutor has told a jury there was "considerable and compelling evidence" that three men conspired to murder former Loyalist leader Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair.
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The Donegal middleweight is now 12-0 in his professional boxing career after a knockout win against the Puerto Rican in California earlier this month.
The win was on the undercard to Bernard Hopkins and Joe Smith Jr's fight.
"I'm in this sport to become multiple world champion and make as much money as I can," Quigley told the BBC.
"Beating him (Melendez) in the style and fashion that I did puts me higher up those rankings and gets me that one step closer to the world title shot.
"The way the fight panned out I made it very easy for myself and that's exactly what you do, you don't get paid for overtime in boxing."
Melendez came into the bout with a 28-8-1 record, with 26 KOs.
But the former amateur world silver medallist stopped his opponent in the first round and made short work of what was scheduled to be a 10-round bout.
The next 12 months are expected to be a breakthrough year for the man whose career is being steered by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions.
"Billy Joe Saunders, Canelo, Golovkin, Danny Jacobs... these are the boys that I need to beat, so these are the boys I have my eyes on," Quigley said.
"For me, my next fight is going to be the end of February, start of March. So 2017 is going to be a massive year for team Quigley.
"I just keep my head down and keep working hard because I want to keep climbing that ladder and getting those belts."
The hosts resumed on 394-5 but were all out for 463 despite Zafar Ansari's 53, with Tim Groenewald (5-94) taking three wickets in the morning session.
Trescothick and Tom Abell put on 66 for the first wicket, before Abell was caught off the bowling of Mark Footitt.
Rain and bad light caused an early end, with Trescothick's 68 from 82 balls helping the visitors close on 99-1.
The 40-year-old former England opener hit 11 fours and one six, including three boundaries off one Footitt over to bring up his half-century, and became the second-highest run scorer in first-class cricket for Somerset.
Earlier, Groenewald had taken his first five-wicket haul since joining Somerset in 2014 to help limit the damage caused by Kumar Sangakkara's 171 for Surrey on the first day.
Ansari, playing in his first game since dislocating his thumb late last season, added 25 more runs to his overnight 28, but was also involved in two run-outs as the home side collapsed in the morning session at The Oval.
Abell's dismissal ensured Surrey remained in a strong position despite Trescothick's efforts, as the visitors were still 364 runs behind at stumps.
Surrey all-rounder Zafar Ansari told BBC Radio London:
"We probably didn't start the day as well as we would have liked, losing those wickets, but we're in a good position.
"If we can take a couple of wickets early tomorrow then we'll be in an even better position.
"With that many runs you always feel that you're in the game. We just need to come back and bowl well on that pitch because it is a good pitch to bat on."
While no specific plot has been identified, IS has "aspirations" for mass casualty attacks, he said.
In a Sunday Times interview Mr Wallace said there have been reports of IS using poisonous gas in Iraq and Syria.
"They have no moral objection to using chemical weapons... and if they could, they would in this country," he said.
He also pointed to a recent Europol report, which said there was evidence that IS has shown an interest in the use of chemical or biological weapons, and the potential realisation of "everybody's worst fear" in Europe.
Mr Wallace told the Sunday Times: "The ambition of IS or Daesh is definitely mass casualty attacks.
"They want to harm as many people as possible and terrorise as many people as possible."
He said that Moroccan authorities raided an IS cell in February which had substances that could have been used to either make a bomb or a "deadly toxin".
Mr Wallace also warned of the "enemy within" - with terror groups, Russia and cyber attackers trying to plant "traitors" in the government, the military and leading businesses.
He said: "The insider threat, as we would call it, is real and it can be exploited and there are people trying to do that as we speak.
"If it's hard to get in the front door, then what you try and do is get someone on the inside."
Last month, the head of MI6 said the scale of the terrorism threat to the UK is "unprecedented".
Alex Younger said UK intelligence and security services had disrupted 12 terrorist plots since June 2013.
He said many of the threats came from ungoverned spaces in the Middle East - namely Iraq and Syria.
Mr Younger also warned that "hybrid warfare", which included cyber-attacks and subverting democracy, was becoming an "increasingly dangerous phenomenon".
The threat level for international terrorism in the UK has been severe - meaning an attack is highly likely - since August 2014.
There are five threat levels - low, moderate, substantial, severe and critical - set by MI5's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre.
Under the Hunting Act 2004, foxes cannot be killed by dogs as part of a hunt in England and Wales.
The claims come after figures obtained by the BBC show no prosecutions have been made in Devon and Cornwall since the ban was introduced.
Devon and Cornwall Police said it would "always consider any evidence".
However, the force has made two arrests on suspicion of illegal hunting, in 2011 and 2014, a freedom of information request has shown.
Although private prosecutions have been mounted by the League Against Cruel Sports, and the RSPCA, there have been no cases brought on the basis of police investigations.
Hunting was a major issue throughout much of Tony Blair's government but with the introduction of the ban it became much less prominent.
That could change after the general election, as there are clear differences between the main parties which could see the law revisited.
Labour has promised to defend the ban, the Conservatives say they will offer parliament a free vote on repealing it, while the Liberal Democrats say hunting is not a priority, but would allow their MPs a free vote if the issue arises.
Peter Anderson, a trustee of the league, said: "Devon and Cornwall Police has not viewed the ban as a priority and enforced it properly, which is very disappointing.
"There have been large numbers of prosecutions in other regions, which show the ban works."
But Tim Bonner, director of campaigns for the Countryside Alliance, said: "These figures show the Hunting Act was a waste of 700 hours of parliamentary time.
"It isn't working and just leads to unfounded allegations of criminality against law abiding people."
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In a statement, Assistant Chief Constable Paul Netherton said: "Devon and Cornwall Police will always consider any evidence brought to our attention regarding the Hunting Act - and any other crime.
"This will be investigated proportionately and advice sought from the Crown Prosecution Service as to any charging decision."
Devon and Cornwall makes up one of the most heavily hunted areas of Britain.
Parliament passed the Hunting Act in late 2004 and violent exchanges between enthusiasts and opponents were widely reported.
He found prominence for his landscape paintings, many of his native Anglesey.
After teaching and studying art at Croydon Art College in London during the 1960s, he returned home to the island in the 1970s before retiring to focus on painting in 1996.
He has had international success, with works held in public and private collections in The Hague, Paris, New York, Australia and the UK.
"The loss of a fine artist is always sad, and none more so than the news of Wilf Roberts' death after his illness of the past 18 months," friend and gallery owner Martin Tinney said.
"His integrity shone through when preparing for a new exhibition - not for him the churning out of numerous works to please an audience - he released pictures from his studio only when he was happy that they were 'ready'.
"Over the years, I was delighted to become a friend of Wilf and his devoted wife Sue. She has been his rock over the past difficult months and my heartfelt sympathy goes out to her and the family."
"Never forget 84" and "We want justice #84" have been sprayed on the base of the statue in Leicester's Golden Mile.
Police are investigating after the vandalism was discovered on Saturday.
Sikhs from Leicester and around the UK are marching through London to mark the 30th anniversary of the storming of the Golden Temple by the Indian army.
They are also using the event to protest about what they claim was India's failure to prevent the killing of thousands of Sikhs in rioting later in 1984.
Leicester East MP Keith Vaz said damaging the Gandhi statue was "foolish".
"To think that somebody has felt it necessary, either an individual or a group of people, to vandalise in this foolish and idiotic way, such an important part of the heritage of India, as well as the heritage of Leicester, I think is a disgrace," he said.
The storming of the Golden Temple, codenamed Operation Blue Star, was aimed at flushing out Sikh separatists who had been been demanding an independent homeland - called Khalistan - in the Punjab.
According to the Indian government, about 400 people were killed, including 87 soldiers - but Sikh groups dispute this figure, saying thousands died.
Operation Blue Star led to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was killed by her Sikh bodyguards in revenge.
Despite her name, Indira Gandhi was not related to the assassinated independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi, who promoted non-violent civil disobedience.
Leicestershire Police said the graffiti was due to be removed from the Mahatma Gandhi statue on Sunday, and appealed for anyone with information about how it got there to contact them.
Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme denied Vincent Sasso early on and also made a double save to foil Steven Fletcher and Fernando Forestieri before the break.
But Jon Dadi Bodvarsson hit the bar and Joe Mason fired his follow-up over as Wolves ended the first-half strongly.
Mason then hit the post with a shot before Matt Doherty had a strike cleared off the line by Adam Reach.
The draw left Wednesday sixth in the Championship table and in the play-off places, with Wolves - just the second team to keep the Owls scoreless at home this season - remaining 18th after 25 games.
In a bright start, and Wednesday's strongest spell of the game, Ikeme did well to keep a Sasso header out from a Barry Bannan free-kick.
And while Fletcher and Forestieri again had the visiting keeper scrambling before the break, he was rarely troubled after that.
At the other end, a penalty shout was turned away as Owls keeper Keiren Westwood appeared to bring down Doherty late in the half which ended with Bodvarsson's effort against the woodwork and Mason's miss.
The visitors continued to pressure after the break, carving out chances but failing to take them, while Wednesday fashioned a number of chances of their own with Forestieri having the best of them saved by Ikeme.
Sheffield Wednesday head coach Carlos Carvalhal:
"I think it was a typical game after such a short break of 48 hours. You try your best, you put the best team out to win the game but you also have to put out the team who has recovered the best.
"I think the scoreline was correct. We had chances, they had chances. We wanted to do better in this game, but we did what we could have done under the circumstances and the draw was the fair result.
"I don't know if we win one point or lose two points but I think the time off now will be very good to us."
Wolves manager Paul Lambert:
"I think anybody at the stadium saw that we deserved to win. If we walked out of the stadium winning 3-0 I don't think anybody would have questioned it.
"I thought the pressing was fantastic. The game-plan was perfect, other than the goals we deserved to get. Everything about us, the passing, the tempo. I'm just disappointed we've managed not to win.
"It shows you how far we've come. It wasn't that long ago that Sheffield Wednesday came down to our place and beat us quite easily, so the progress we've made is huge."
Match ends, Sheffield Wednesday 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.
Second Half ends, Sheffield Wednesday 0, Wolverhampton Wanderers 0.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Vincent Sasso.
Attempt missed. Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Jack Hunt.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by Danny Batth.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt blocked. Lucas João (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sam Hutchinson.
Attempt blocked. Joe Mason (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson with a cross.
Nouha Dicko (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Vincent Sasso (Sheffield Wednesday).
Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lucas João.
Attempt blocked. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Sheffield Wednesday. David Jones replaces Steven Fletcher.
Attempt blocked. Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Reach with a cross.
David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Steven Fletcher (Sheffield Wednesday).
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Keiren Westwood.
Attempt saved. Joe Mason (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Danny Batth.
Attempt missed. Ross Wallace (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Fernando Forestieri.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Nouha Dicko replaces Connor Ronan because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Connor Ronan (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adam Reach.
Attempt blocked. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Lucas João.
Ivan Cavaleiro (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jack Hunt (Sheffield Wednesday).
Attempt missed. Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Barry Bannan.
Attempt missed. Vincent Sasso (Sheffield Wednesday) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Barry Bannan (Sheffield Wednesday) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Sheffield Wednesday. Conceded by David Edwards.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Ivan Cavaleiro replaces Hélder Costa.
Sam Hutchinson (Sheffield Wednesday) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt blocked. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Jack Price (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Fernando Forestieri (Sheffield Wednesday) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
The 87-year-old, who has not been named by police, was attacked after answering the door of her home in Townhill Road, Hamilton.
A man forced his way in and robbed her of cash. The women was injured during the assault.
She has been in Hairmyres Hospital since the incident on 3 September but died on 4 November.
Police officers investigating the attack say the woman's death is being treated as "unexplained".
Det Ch Insp Raymond Brown said: "Extensive inquiries are ongoing into the circumstances surrounding the robbery. At this time it is unknown if the lady's death is connected to the robbery and further inquiry is required.
"It is essential that anyone with any information about the robbery comes forward to help establish the full circumstances.
"I would ask members of the public who were in the area of Townhill Road on Saturday 3 September 2016, to please cast their minds back and think about whether they saw anything at all suspicious. No matter how insignificant you think your information may be, let us decide that."
He added: "What you tell us could prove vital to our investigation and help provide answers for this lady's family."
The letter to 95-year-old Ada Davies said she would no longer get a reduction as she had "passed away".
Her son, Christopher Davies, from Bristol, said: "It says dear Mrs Davies the reason for the calculation is that you've passed away."
South Gloucestershire Council said it was extremely sorry for causing upset.
"Shortly after her death, I received a letter from the council saying that they had ended her reduction for council tax and she still could claim for a reduction if she'd like to ring them up and complete a form and send it off with proof of earnings, which is really bizarre.
"It was very upsetting at the time, and when you're going through your own emotions it was extremely insensitive," said Mr Davies.
Mrs Davies died on 27 February. The first letter was sent on 6 March informing her she had lost her council tax reduction, despite her son telling the council about her death.
After Mr Davies' complaint about the first letter, his mother then received a second one dated 15 March. This contained her council tax bill for the next financial year, without the discount.
He said he now wanted to prevent other families from being treated in the same way.
"It may very well be an automated system but it doesn't take a lot to see that if the reason for deduction is death, don't print or don't send, it's simple as that," he said.
A council spokesman added: "We have updated our records to ensure that this incident doesn't happen again and we would once again like to thank Mr Davies for bringing this to our attention."
Mr Crabb, who represents the area as MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, was talking to workers and their families at an open surgery.
He was joined by his assembly counterpart Paul Davies at the discussions in Milford Haven.
All but 60 of the plant's 400 jobs are set to go after a deal to save it from closure collapsed.
Speaking after the surgery, assembly member Mr Davies said: "Understandably people were very concerned about their futures and were questioning why the sale process had collapsed so late in the day.
"Naturally the people we met were gutted and clearly very concerned about their prospects.
"Of course, it would be very helpful to understand from the potential buyer, the Klesch Group, why the sale did not go through.
"I believe that the company has a moral obligation to explain the rationale behind the sale not proceeding given that our communities' expectations had been raised.
"The news is devastating not only for Murco employees, but also those that indirectly rely on the refinery.
"It's absolutely crucial that every support possible is now given to the people affected by this devastating news."
A task force will meet next week to discuss bringing new jobs to the area.
It will be led by Wales' Economy Minister Edwina Hart and comes after Mr Crabb said both the UK and Welsh governments will work to "minimise the significant economic impact the closure will have on our county".
Local councillor Huw George said the task force would be up and running next week and Jobcentre Plus would hold a jobs fair.
On Thursday, Plaid Cymru MEP Jill Evans called for European Union funding to be sought to help affected workers.
She said money should be available under the EU's Globalisation Adjustment Fund which has benefitted many workers in other European countries to retrain, look for new work or set up their own businesses.
The oil refinery has been up for sale for four years without finding a buyer.
The sale of the firm to the Swiss-based Klesch Group was called off on Tuesday night.
In addition to its own workforce, the refinery employs a further 200 contractors and is understood to support a further 4,200 jobs across south west Wales.
Developer Memoria Ltd wanted to build the facility between Kelsterton Lane and Oakenholt Lane, Northop, near Mold.
But it was refused at a meeting of Flintshire councillors on Thursday in a vote of 13 against and eight in favour.
An application to build a crematorium on another section of land at Northop was rejected last year after being put forward by a local funeral director.
Memoria's separate plans for a crematorium at St Asaph in Denbighshire have also been rejected.
The nearest crematoria serving Flintshire residents are in Colwyn Bay and Chester.
RSPB Scotland and National Trust for Scotland raised concerns in October that the faeces on Ben Macdui posed a potential health risk.
The RSPB said there had been no incidents of irresponsible toileting detected since last year.
The two charities own the 4,295ft (1,309m) mountain.
Ben Macdui, second on the list of the UK's tallest peaks after Ben Nevis, is in the Cairngorms.
Some of the waste was left at the ruins of the stone-built Sapper's Bothy.
A spokesman for RSPB Scotland said: "We believe that the problem may have been something of a 'one-off' and have not received any calls about the problem recently.
"I think we can say that people are, on the whole, respecting the mountain environment and we are grateful for that."
Scarlets' Williams, 24, is out of the competition because of a foot injury he suffered in the defeat to Australia.
Forwards coach Robin McBryde said Wales' coaching team were deliberating over who to call-up ahead of Saturday's quarter-final against South Africa.
"There's a discussion on who the best candidate would be," McBryde said.
Wing or full-back Williams, 24, left the field in the closing stages of Wales' 15-6 Pool A defeat by Australia and will play no further part in the World Cup.
McBryde confirmed flanker Dan Lydiate and prop Gethin Jenkins would be available to face South Africa after both missed the Australia game with minor knocks.
Wales beat South Africa for the first time in 15 years in Cardiff in November 2014, after losing the second summer Test in Nelspruit in the last minute.
McBryde says discipline will be key if Wales are to beat the Springboks for only the third time in their history and secure a semi-final spot.
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"In the autumn, I'm not being disrespectful but they weren't at their strongest, fielding a side that wasn't the side we're used to seeing," McBryde added.
"They're going to be a different challenge this week."
South Africa are expected to have veteran Victor Matfield back fit for the game at Twickenham, but the younger pairing of Lood de Jager and Eben Etzebeth have impressed during his absence.
"There are some familiar names coming back into fitness, they've definitely got strength in depth" said McBryde.
"The experience Matfield's got but the other two have posed a question for the coaches."
The Shrimps are 19th in League Two having lost four of their last five matches, though they remain 13 points clear of the relegation zone.
That run has coincided with chairman and majority shareholder Peter McGuigan placing the club up for sale.
"The players deserve criticism because they're the ones out there," Bentley, 39, told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"But I've got to take it on the chin as it's me that picked the team, it's my team.
"I'll be asking serious questions of myself as I think this is the lowest I've been.
"We're in a poor run of form - we're nearly safe but you can never take anything from granted in football.
"It was a shocking day for us. Terrible in regards to performance but I'm captain of the ship and I've got to be the one who is going to come out and say it as it is, and I've got to look at myself as well."
The 84-year-old, at the F1 helm for 40 years, wants the assessments quashed, and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) held to an earlier April 2008 agreement.
The new figure is believed to cover the period from the tax year ended 5 April 1996 to tax year ending 5 April 2006.
Mr Ecclestone's lawyers have applied for permission to seek judicial review.
They say that following the April 2008 settlement, HMRC should not have attempted to make the tax assessments.
High Court judge Mr Justice Kenneth Parker ruled that one of the billionaire's grounds for review was "arguable".
But the judge said that Mr Ecclestone's application should be stayed while his legal team pursued alternative proceedings in the Commercial Court.
He also said the tax and interest being demanded from Mr Ecclestone was more than £1bn.
Mr Justice Parker said HMRC had written to Mr Ecclestone in December saying he had withheld information that made the 2008 agreement invalid.
The case revolves around the Ecclestone family's Bambino trust which was set up in Liechtenstein in 1997 for the benefit of Mr Ecclestone's now ex-wife, Slavica, and daughters Tamara and Petra.
The UK tax authorities re-opened their investigation of Bambino after a high-profile bribery case in Germany last year, said the judge.
In that trial it was disclosed that the trust had made a payment to German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky whom Mr Ecclestone claimed had threatened to report him to British tax collectors.
Mr Ecclestone has repeatedly said he has nothing to do with the management of the trust funds and does not benefit from them.
When contacted by BBC Sport about the latest court hearing, Mr Ecclestone said: "The lawyers are dealing with it. That's why it's in court. It's very technical."
Asked if he was worried about the developments, he answered: "No".
Officers found the body at 10:40 GMT on Sunday 15 January in the river near Broadrock in Chepstow and have formally identified it as Mr Stubbs, a 46-year-old teaching assistant at Monmouth Comprehensive and Monmouth cricketer.
Police said they are not treating the death as suspicious.
They have notified Mr Stubbs' family and officers are providing support.
Mr Stubbs, from Monmouth, was reported missing on Saturday 20 November 2016.
He was last seen in Monmouth's WH Smith store at 13:00 GMT on 19 November.
In a letter to Hong Kong's police, they said Lui Por, Cheung Chi Ping and Lam Wing Kee were suspected of "illegal activities".
The three are among five men linked to a Hong Kong bookshop and publishing house to go missing in recent months.
Some people in Hong Kong believe they were detained by China because of a book about President Xi Jinping.
No further information was given on the location or status of the men, and Hong Kong police have not made the letter public.
Hong Kong book 'author' attacks China
Causeway Bay Books and the Mighty Current publishing house which owns it are known for producing and selling works critical of China, which are banned in the mainland.
A US-based Chinese writer has told the BBC he was the co-author of the book some believe to be at the centre of the case.
He said he had now published the book online to challenge China, and that he should be held responsible, not the booksellers.
Hong Kong police said the letter they received said Mr Lui, Mr Cheung and Mr Lam were suspected of being involved in the case of another of the missing booksellers, Gui Minhai.
They had "criminal compulsory measures" put on them, said the letter, according to Hong Kong police.
Mr Gui, a Swedish citizen and the owner of the Mighty Current publishing house, disappeared from Thailand in October.
He recently appeared on Chinese state TV saying he had voluntarily handed himself over to the authorities over a historic drink-driving fatality.
Hong Kong police said they had also been given a handwritten letter from the fifth bookseller, British passport-holder Lee Bo, in which he turned down a request to meet Hong Kong police.
Mr Lee disappeared from Hong Kong in October - a previous letter from him said he had gone to China voluntarily.
Under the "one country, two systems" principle, Hong Kong is supposed to enjoy high degrees of autonomy from China.
The case has sparked international concern that China could be attempting to rein in freedom of expression in Hong Kong.
Mighty Current publishing house disappearances
1. Lui Bo, General Manager, goes missing in Shenzhen, 15 October
2. Cheung Jiping, business manager, 32, goes missing in Dongguan, 15 October
3. Gui Minhai, co-owner, 51, goes missing in Thailand, 17 October
4. Lam Wingkei, manager, 60, last seen in Hong Kong, 23 October
5. Lee Bo, shareholder, 65, goes missing in Hong Kong, 30 December
The 16-month-old boy was airlifted to hospital after emergency services were called to Tontine Street just before 09:30 BST on Saturday.
His injuries are not thought to be serious but he remains in hospital undergoing checks, Kent Police said.
The 22-year-old suspect has been bailed until 9 June, the force confirmed.
The catalyst for the win was their impressive first-half display against a Shakers side which have now gone 16 league games without a victory.
Full-back Harry Toffolo, re-signed from Norwich on loan for the rest of the season, set the ball rolling in the eighth minute, finding the back of the net with a deflected shot from 25 yards.
After 19 minutes they doubled their lead when former Bury player Stephen Dawson raced clear from the halfway line and fired into the bottom corner.
Against the run of play the Shakers pulled a goal back four minutes before half-time via George Miller's deflected shot.
Crucially there was still time for Josh Morris to crack the ball home direct from a free-kick and restore the hosts' two-goal advantage.
Bury took the game to the Iron after the break and were rewarded when substitute Kelvin Etuhu squeezed a 67th-minute shot inside the post but they could not find an equaliser despite some decent periods of pressure.
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Match ends, Scunthorpe United 3, Bury 2.
Second Half ends, Scunthorpe United 3, Bury 2.
Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ishmael Miller (Bury).
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Duane Holmes replaces Kevin van Veen.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Richard Smallwood replaces Sam Mantom.
Foul by Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United).
Taylor Moore (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Jacob Bedeau.
Foul by Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United).
Reece Brown (Bury) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Sam Mantom (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United).
Jack Mackreth (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Bury. Ishmael Miller replaces Tom Pope.
Attempt saved. George Miller (Bury) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Sam Mantom (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Jordan Clarke (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Craig Davies replaces Tom Hopper.
Attempt missed. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kelvin Etuhu (Bury).
Attempt missed. Sam Mantom (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Goal! Scunthorpe United 3, Bury 2. Kelvin Etuhu (Bury) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Callum Styles.
Foul by Charlie Goode (Scunthorpe United).
Tom Pope (Bury) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tom Pope (Bury).
Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Mackreth (Bury).
Attempt saved. James Vaughan (Bury) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Tom Pope (Bury) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Charlie Goode.
Attempt blocked. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. George Miller (Bury) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Bury. Conceded by Harry Toffolo.
Attempt saved. Tom Pope (Bury) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Jack Mackreth.
The students said dedicated prayer or "quiet rooms" are available in many other universities and public buildings, including airports and hospitals.
They said they have no alternative but to say their prayers in corridors, libraries, corners or wherever they can find a secluded spot within QUB.
QUB said it is reviewing its amenities.
Muslim student Nadira Nazir, who is from Malaysia, said: "If we had a room to ourselves it would be easier for us females, to be honest.
"We have to rush between classes to find any [empty classrooms] available and just go in and do our prayers.
"Sometimes you get students already coming into the class and they see us praying. I am glad for their understanding as they have to wait for us to finish [before] they start their lecture, because we are literally using their class."
Approximately 1,200 international students from over 80 countries currently study at QUB and more than 400 are thought to be from the Islamic faith.
Encouraging more students from abroad to study at QUB is a major priority for the university.
Ahmed Amer from the QUB Muslim society said that was more of a reason for the university to provide prayer or "quiet" rooms.
"These rooms are not something new that we have invented," he said.
"These facilities are provided by all universities across England, pretty much, and in the Republic of Ireland. The Ulster University has them."
Mr Amer said the provision of QUB prayer rooms "would be a sign that the university can accommodate people from all different backgrounds and different religions".
"There is no extra cost involved in providing them," he added.
QUB Muslim chaplain Dr Ashraf Ahmed said the prayer room or rooms could be used by all denominations.
"It would be great if we could have a multi-faith prayer room. All would be welcome from all backgrounds and all faiths," he said.
The Belfast Islamic Centre has two venues in south Belfast where Muslims pray. One is located on Rugby Road, the other at Wellington Park, but neither are connected to QUB.
QUB declined a BBC interview request, but in a statement, a spokesperson said: "A key priority in the Vision 2020 strategy for Queen's University, Belfast, is to increase the number of international students studying at the university.
"Accordingly, the university is currently reviewing all amenities in the context of its charter and statutes to ensure that staff and students from all backgrounds have access to appropriate facilities."
It said a "quiet room" has been created at the Queens Elms halls of residence.
While this was not a dedicated multi-faith or prayer room, it said students could use it for the purpose of prayer.
However, one Muslim student said the room in question was inappropriate, and pointed out that Queens Elms is further from the main university campus than either of the two south Belfast mosques.
Their campaign has been backed by the Catholic Bishop of Derry, Dónal McKeown, who said he was generally in favour of creating quiet rooms within public buildings that could be used by people of all religions and none.
The bishop told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme: "I think the university has to respond to the reality of new minorities in its midst who have particular needs, and I think we have to find ways of living together that respects the needs of others."
But speaking on the same programme, the former leader of the UK Unionist Party, Bob McCartney, said QUB was "a non-denominational, non-religious educational institution".
"For the university to accept that it has a duty to provide, and presumably pay for, facilities for a particular religion to exercise its rituals would, in my view, constitute a precedent that could give rise to future difficulties," Mr McCartney added.
The North Coast 500 involves travelling 500 miles (804km) round the coast of the Highlands.
The trust has been driving the route in fully electric and also hybrid cars using charging points along the way.
Rebecca Fretwell, of the trust, said such a trip would not have been possible a year ago.
The trust has been visiting communities along the way, including Tongue, Wick, Lybster and Brora, to raise awareness about electric cars.
Cars made by Tesla, BMW, Nissan and Renault are involved.
There are 11 rapid charging points, which recharge batteries to 80% in about 30 minutes, on the NC 500, and others available in Inverness and Dingwall.
Ms Fretwell told BBC Alba: "We could not have undertaken this journey last year. There were just not enough charge points.
"Highland Council, the Energy Saving Trust and Transport Scotland have been investing in the rapid charge points network.
"There is now a rapid charge point within many communities within the Highlands."
The NC 500 is promoted as a tourist route to holidaymakers in the UK and abroad.
It involves long stretches of single track road and also several challenging ascents and descents, including the Bealach-na-Ba at Applecross.
The unclassified road rises to about 626m (2,053ft) over about four miles (8km).
Last month, seven women cyclists set a time of 36 hours to complete the NC 500 in a non-stop team time trial.
Their time set a new record for cycling the route.
Scottish endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont previously completed the NC 500 solo in 37 hours 58 minutes.
Route 66 was one of America's original highways and was built in the 1920s. Today it continues to be promoted as a tourist route between Chicago and the west coast.
A total number of 188,449 visitors were recorded - almost 10,000 higher than last year and 805 more than the previous record attendance at Ingliston in 2010.
This year more than 30,000 children attended the show for free.
The annual four-day event showcases Scottish farming, food and drink and rural living.
Visitors included Princess Anne, who is patron of the Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth (RASC), First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead.
The show is Scotland's largest outdoor event, contributing an estimated £47.1m to the Scottish economy last year.
Stephen Hutt, chief executive of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland (RHASS), said: "Once again the Royal Highland Show has lived up to its reputation as one of Scotland's most enduring and iconic events.
"Along with being the place to experience the best of farming, food and rural life, it is also still very much the place to 'do business', with trade space selling out in record time this year."
The animal has been given a temporary home in the town while efforts are made to return it to Leverburgh where it is looked after by local fishermen.
Argyll Animal Aid said it was one of a group of feral cats that fishermen use to control rat and mice populations.
The charity hopes transport can be found for its return journey.
Jean Sutherland, of Argyll Animal Aid, told BBC Radio Scotland, the female cat had boarded a chartered yacht.
She added: "It was found on Friday by a lady and being an animal lover she managed to coax it into a carrier and took it to a local vet.
"They have looked after it over the weekend to check all is well and in between times we have been trying to find out where it had come from."
And Frankie Dettori, champion jockey, Epsom Derby and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero and A-list celebrity, puts much of his fame and fortune down to a dry and bright Saturday afternoon at Ascot on 28 September 1996.
In a BBC interview to mark the 20th anniversary of that date's unprecedented 'Magnificent Seven' - when he went through the card, taking all seven races that made up the Festival of British Racing, a precursor to British Champions Day - Dettori declares it the outstanding accomplishment of his record-breaking career.
Barely 13 and a half minutes' work, staged over a combined total of less than eight miles, changed his life forever, plus those of thousands of Dettori-following punters who placed accumulator bets on the seven. It left the betting industry in a state of near meltdown.
Their combined odds amounted to 25,095-1 (at starting prices), or nearly 236,000-1 for anyone taking advantage of the morning odds on offer.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, the 45-year-old jockey - who in August passed the 3,000 winners mark in Britain - said: "For sporting achievement, it's my greatest thing that I've ever done, and in horse racing. It would be very hard to match something like that.
"And, second, there's a fairytale scenario where bookmakers lost £40m, and wherever I went, in every part of the country, I had so many people coming up to me who'd won so much money on that day, and it changed people's lives, so it's a very amazing thing.
"I moved the stock market [because of fears about bookmakers' losses]. It was crazy what happened, but it's nice that it can happen and people made a lot of money."
Two decades on from the day when the jockey's trademark flying dismount first reached a wider audience, he remembers events "like yesterday… every detail", reeling off the names of the horses involved, and how he was rating their prospects as he left home in Newmarket for the 100-mile journey to Ascot.
"I thought I had a couple of chances on the day," he said. "I thought I'd definitely win the first [on Wall Street] because it was a small field and we'd get a nice, easy lead.
"Diffident [race two] I didn't fancy at all; [2000 Guineas winner] Mark Of Esteem I thought had a great chance in the QEII [featured Queen Elizabeth II Stakes] but had the great filly Bosra Sham to beat; Decorated Hero, my fourth one, had top weight and a bad draw - I couldn't see him winning.
"Fatefully [race five], she had a chance, but it looked a very tricky race and a big field; then came Lochangel in a small field which looked to be a match race between me and Pat [Eddery], so I was pretty hopeful; my last horse, Fujiyama Crest, had won the race the year before with a small weight but was completely out of form and was carrying top weight so I couldn't dream of him winning."
I too have a clear memory of the disbelief that mounted as the successes kept being clocked up, though my recollection is not from the stands or paddock at Ascot, but from a friend's wedding at which many of the guests were followers of a variety of sports.
The groom had been circulating, updating us with bogus football scores - he claimed Dettori's beloved Arsenal, who had just appointed Arsene Wenger as manager, were being beaten by Sunderland, though they actually won 2-0 - and I quickly dismissed his insistence that the then-25-year-old reigning champion jockey had won "another at Ascot" and a few minutes later "another".
The Lochangel success - making it six - equalled a British record held at the time jointly by Sir Gordon Richards (at Chepstow, 1933), Alec Russell (at the now defunct Bogside, 1957) and Willie Carson (Newcastle, 1990), all more 'bog-standard' fixtures compared to Ascot on one of the marquee days of the season.
"After Lochangel, the euphoria came out, and I was delighted," says Dettori. "I sprayed champagne at everyone, it was great.
"Never in a million years did I think I'd win the seventh, but I remember putting my colours on and giving the saddle to Michael Stoute [trainer of Fujiyama Crest] and I said to him: 'Look, I'm on fire, so if this horse gets beat, it's all your fault', and he laughed.
"We went out and got a standing ovation from the public which was very touching, but I was very relaxed and serene because I didn't really believe the horse could win."
However, sent off as 2-1 favourite, having been six times those odds earlier, Fujiyama Crest led all the way and clung on for victory by a neck from Northern Fleet and Eddery, who was runner-up four times during the afternoon.
Dettori believes that the horse - who ultimately spent his retirement with his jockey's family, and only died last year - had a "sixth sense" that something was up and performed beyond his ability.
Ascot was a picture of cheering crowds and long queues in front of ashen-faced bookmakers, some of whom actually went bust as a result of the day's events. For the hero of the hour, there were countless media interviews to perform and thousands of autograph hunters to satisfy before the return home.
"I didn't know what to think," he recalls. "Because I did everything right - usually you think, I should have done this on this one, I should have done that on that one, but that was the first time everything went right.
"And then I got home and my wife Catherine - she was my fiancée then - dragged me to a friend's birthday party, where I didn't want to go, and so we ended up having a bit of an argument, so it was a bit of a sad end to a great day to be honest with you.
"I got up next morning and opened the door to get the papers, and there were a few cameras outside my house and I was in my underpants - it was one of those Notting Hill embarrassing moments - and only then did I realise this was really headline news."
During the 20 years since, Dettori has continued to make headline news, though not quite on the scale of Ascot. There have been many more big-race winners, of course, and regular TV appearances, on Top Of The Pops and Question of Sport and, more recently, Celebrity Big Brother.
But low moments too: the 2000 plane crash at Newmarket in which pilot Patrick Mackey died; losing his job as number one jockey to Sheikh Mohammed and being written off in some quarters; and a six-month drugs ban for cocaine use.
Dettori, now riding principally for Qatari Sheikh Joaan Al Thani and his Al Shaqab operation, describes himself as "colourful" and his career as a "rollercoaster", and he intends to continue for a few years at least.
"I've achieved everything I wanted to achieve," he said. "Now I'm at a later stage of my career, I'm really trying to enjoy it, and embrace it, as much as I can because I'm not going to be here forever [though] I'll get to 50 riding, no problem,"
And, nearly 30 years on from his initial success in Britain, in June 1987, as an Italian teenager speaking little English, is the enthusiasm still there? The answer is immediate and emphatic: "More than before because I know that I'm running out of time."
After playing into a gale, Blues trailed only 6-3 at the interval.
But they failed to take advantage of the elements after the break and left Wilson frustrated.
"After all the hard work we did in the first half in the second half we let it get away from us," Wilson told BBC Radio Wales.
"Our execution of the game plan in the first half was excellent, the boys played into the wind really well.
"In the second half our execution of the game plan was poor."
Blues almost salvaged a win when Josh Navidi's late converted try brought them back to within a point with three minutes remaining.
But fly-half Rhys Patchell's last-minute drop-goal attempt was charged down.
The result leaves the Blues ninth in the Pro12, and struggling to be in contention for European Champions League qualification.
It came a week after a shock 13-7 defeat away to Benetton Treviso - two results Wilson fears will have a profound effect on their ambitions.
"Last week was a huge missed opportunity and I feel the same this week," he said.
"For us to have a real good crack and trying to get in to that top six we needed to win either last week or this week and we've failed to do so."
But the motion has been blocked after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) deployed a petition of concern that required the proposal to achieve a cross-community majority.
While 41 nationalists backed the proposal, it was approved by only four unionists, meaning it could not pass.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where gay marriage is not legal.
Fifty-three MLAs supported the motion brought by the SDLP and Sinn Féin, while 52 voted against.
One MLA, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt, abstained, while the SDLP's Alban Maginness was not present for the vote.
It is the fifth time same-sex marriage has been considered by the assembly.
Four earlier votes on the issue have fallen on a simple majority basis.
The previous vote, in April, was rejected by 49 MLAs, with 47 voting in favour.
Sinn Féin's Caitríona Ruane said "history had been made" with the proposal receiving majority support for the first time.
"This signals a major shift in society with more and more people supporting marriage equality for our LGBT community.
"This is a historic day but the campaign for marriage equality is not over and will not be until we have equality enshrined in legislation."
But the DUP MLA Peter Weir said many people had been "notably quick to dismiss the other four occasions that a majority rejected this same proposal".
"If it requires a process of attrition to alter a result it does not demonstrate a great deal of force behind the argument," he added.
The SDLP's Colum Eastwood said a majority of MLAs had sent a message "to the young people struggling with their sexuality that they are loved".
But he added: "The abuse of the petition of concern by the DUP in this way is wrong and it cannot continue.
"These institutions must be reformed so that no party can pervert such a critical instrument for protecting minority communities."
The measure was designed as a way to safeguard minority rights in Northern Ireland's power-sharing assembly.
If a petition of concern is presented to the assembly speaker, any motion or amendment will need cross-community support.
In such cases, a vote on proposed legislation will only pass if supported by a weighted majority (60%) of members voting, including at least 40% of each of the nationalist and unionist designations present and voting.
Effectively this means that, provided enough MLAs from a particular community agree, that community can exercise a veto over the assembly's decisions.
Trevor Lunn, of the Alliance Party, backed the proposal for the first time, having either opposed it or abstained from voting on previous occasions.
He said the vote had been a "moral victory" for those supporting marriage equality, but criticised the DUP's use of the petition of concern.
Kieran McCarthy was the only Alliance Party MLA to reject the motion.
Ulster Unionist Andy Allen was the only member of the two main unionist parties to support the proposal, and said his view was one of "live and let live".
But his party leader, Mr Nesbitt, said he had abstained as the vote had been "rendered utterly meaningless by the DUP's pre-cooked petition of concern".
John O'Doherty, director of the Rainbow Project, an LGBT support organisation, said, it had been a "momentous day".
The human rights organisation Amnesty International said the "battle for equality in Northern Ireland will now move to the courts".
Two couples won permission in June to challenge Northern Ireland's ban on same-sex marriage by way of a judicial review.
Patrick Corrigan, of Amnesty International, said the majority vote showed that "slowly but surely, politicians are catching up with public opinion".
Last week, same-sex marriage legislation was signed into law in the Republic of Ireland after it was passed in a referendum in May.
The 75-year-old suffered fatal injuries after falling from Striding Edge, Helvellyn, on Monday afternoon.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team said the man was "properly equipped and experienced". It is the fourth fatality on the mountain this year.
Team leader Mike Blakey said his thoughts were with the man's family, friends and walking companions.
Of course, sport is all about taking things one step at a time, focusing on the event you're in at that moment, but winning in Australia two weeks ago was a great first step.
It's such a difference from last year, when I had to retire from the first race of the season and was 25 points down in the championship before I had even got going.
Last year, I left Melbourne pretty much as low as you could be from a sporting point of view and came back strongly here in Malaysia.
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This year, it has started with the most positive weekend possible, but I am going to approach this weekend with the same attitude as I did last year and try to repeat the result, which was one of my best races of the year.
I have stayed over in Asia since Melbourne, which I have done every season since I started in Formula 1.
On one level, it's a good idea - you stay on the time zone and you can get acclimatised to the heat and humidity for what is possibly the toughest race of the year.
But I'm not sure I will do it again if there is a two-week gap between the two races next year because it has felt like a very long stay.
You lose so much time that you could put to better use, whether that is at the factory, with friends and family or just being comfortable in your own bed.
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My Mercedes team obviously had a strong weekend in Australia, and we have picked up pretty much where we left off last year.
That has led some people to call for the engines to be equalised in F1 to create closer competition, but you won't be surprised to hear that I think that is a bad idea and would be very unfair.
F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.
Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.
After years of trying, we have finally got ourselves into a position where we have the best car and have done the best job with the same rules as everyone else.
It's not like Red Bull or Ferrari have less money or fewer resources than Mercedes. We have just done a better, more efficient job.
That's what happens from time to time in F1.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Ferrari were dominating and won five championships in a row. They were not equalised with everyone else - the others had to catch up, which they eventually did. And the same goes for Red Bull at the beginning of this decade.
Now it's our turn.
I understand that there might be a desire to improve the spectacle, but that sort of thing needs careful thought and planning, not knee-jerk reactions.
In any case, we are only one race into the season. We don't know how it will develop, and I expect this year to be very close again between me and my team-mate Nico Rosberg, just as it was last year - just as it has been many times between team-mates competing for the title before.
I'm pleased to see that Fernando Alonso is back racing this weekend and that he is well again after the accident in pre-season testing that forced him to miss the first race of the year.
An accident such as Fernando's reminds you that F1 remains a dangerous sport. But there is a never a moment when I get in the car when I think something like that could not potentially happen.
Of course no-one wants to get injured, and we are all still very sad about Jules Bianchi's accident last year in Japan.
With Fernando, I think it's still unclear exactly what happened to him and I will be interested to hear what the FIA, F1's governing body, says about it.
It's great for F1 that he is back out on track, but it is going to be a hard year for him.
He left Ferrari, who had been very loyal to him for a long time, on what I don't think was a particularly good note, and that team are looking pretty awesome this year. They have done a great job to become the second fastest team and have a lot of potential to keep improving. And he has gone to McLaren, who are having a tough time.
I would much rather he was at the front racing with me. You want to be competing against the best of the best, and he is certainly that.
You might have seen in the news that my brother Nic is to race this year in the British Touring Car Championship.
As you can probably imagine, it has not been easy for Nic being the sibling of someone who is successful at something, and the fact that he has a disability has made things 10 times harder for him in life than it was for me.
But he is a massively determined and motivated young man and he has worked really hard against all odds to get to where he is.
Nic has cerebral palsy, and when he was born my dad and step-mum were told he would not walk.
To go from being in a wheelchair, through having a big surgery when he was five years old to be now racing cars against and beating people who have no disability is hugely inspiring.
I am excited for him.
Naturally, being the older brother, I worry for him and always want him to be seen in the best light and for things to go his way, because he is such a nice kid.
It's going to be hard for him, though - he only has five days of testing at the moment before the season starts.
But he always wants to do things on his own. That's the Hamilton stubborn streak coming out and I can tell you, he is so much more stubborn than me!
Obviously, I hope it goes well for him, but it's ultimately not just about winning, it's about going out and competing as an equal despite having a disability.
What he can do in a car, despite everything he has against him, is pretty special.
Because I've been away for some time, I haven't really been following what's been going on with Jeremy Clarkson.
All I can say is that Top Gear is a great show, people love it all around the world and I have very much enjoyed being on it and driving the reasonably priced car.
Wherever I am in the world, people are always saying: "Hey, when are you going on Top Gear again?"
Jeremy has that really cool voice, a great passion for cars and his laid-back, classy on-screen attitude was really cool.
I hope the show continues, but it's hard to think of it without him because, really, Jeremy is Top Gear.
The National Front (FN) has not built on its first-round triumph. Marine Le Pen will not be giving press conferences as president of the north. The FN has been kept in its box.
The relief felt in the Socialists and among former President Nicolas Sarkozy's Republicans is not entirely unjustified.
What the elections have shown is that there is indeed a ceiling to the far right's progress.
At any given moment there will always be more people who oppose the FN than support it. And that means that Le Pen ever coming to power in France is most unlikely.
And yet. Who really comes out of this electoral race smiling?
Certainly not President Francois Hollande's Socialists. They may have "saved the furniture" - as the French expression has it - by holding on to at least five regions.
And they did the moral thing (in their own eyes) by standing down in the two regions where the FN had the best hope of winning.
But look more closely and you can see the Socialist disaster. In the five years since the last regional election, their vote collapsed by 16 percentage points.
Worse, while in office President Hollande has overseen the inexorable rise of a party he says is a threat to the country's very existence. It is his own failures - in employment, wages, security - that have fed the FN's popularity.
Finally one might add that in two regions - the North and Provence - which have been Socialist strongholds, there is now not a single left-wing assembly member.
That is the direct result of the party's abdication. From now on in those regions, the only opposition is the FN.
As for Les Republicains (LR) of Mr Sarkozy, their smiles are even more forced.
They had hoped to sweep the board in these regional elections - in the same way that the left swept the board at the last ones in 2010.
Instead they have maybe five regions - and two (or three if you count Alsace) won with the help of Socialist voters.
This is hardly the sign of a vigorous opposition.
There is now bound to be bitter argument over whether Mr Sarkozy's tactics are the right ones - and indeed whether he is even the right man for the job.
The former president says the country is increasingly right-wing so it would be madness not to follow the drift. He happily raises FN themes like Islam and immigration.
But others say if the party loses touch with the centre, it can never win.
Mr Sarkozy's critics inside the party are more and more vociferous. He seems to have lost his touch. Significantly several LR candidates asked him to stay away from their campaigns.
So that leaves Marine Le Pen. How did she fare?
There can be no hiding that the results of the elections are a big personal blow.
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.
Marine's prospects for power may be limited; but her appeal is as strong as ever for France's growing numbers of disgruntled and disaffected.
That "ouf" of relief? It's also the noise you make when you get a fist in the abdomen.
Broadcast media are mainly commercial and are open to diverse comment. There are three terrestrial TV stations and a handful of cable channels. The main newspapers are privately-owned.
Jamaica enjoys a top 20 ranking in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index.
BBC World Service radio is available on FM.
Jamaica had 1.6 million internet users in June 2012 (via Internetworldstats).
The cornerstone of the Temple of Divine Providence in Warsaw was laid in 1792, but a Russian invasion and two world wars stalled progress.
The most recent work began in 2003, attracting €50m (£43m; $54m) in private donations.
For Poland's conservative government, the shrine is an emblem of perseverance - and nationalism.
The country has a large Roman Catholic majority, and the Church continues to influence its politics and social affairs.
An inaugural Mass was celebrated at the temple, with Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and President Andrzej Duda in attendance.
Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki cited John Paul II, the Polish former Pope, in calling for a "responsible" use of freedom and warning against the "arrogance of power".
Even after two centuries, work on the church is is not yet over. Some painting is unfinished and the stained-glass windows are yet to be completed.
Around €7m more in donations is needed to finish the job.
Not everyone in Poland approves of the building, whose stylised rotunda has earned it the unflattering nickname "the giant lemon juicer".
In reward for their 224-year wait, visitors to the temple will be treated to superb acoustics, and lighting which can be changed to reflect different periods of the Church calendar.
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As well as the church, the complex includes a pantheon of great Poles, and a museum commemorating Pope John Paul II and Stefan Wyszynski, the leader of the Catholic Church in Poland under Communist rule.
The temple was lit up in Poland's national colours of red and white to mark the nation's 98th Independence Day.
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On Sunday, the ruling AIADMK party announced Sasikala Natarajan would become the next leader, two months after the death of influential politician J Jayalalitha.
O Panneerselvam, who had taken over after her death, resigned on Sunday.
He now says he had to make way for Sasikala, who prefers to be known by her first name.
On Tuesday evening, Mr Panneerselvam visited a "monument" erected in honour of Jayalalitha at Marina beach in the capital, Chennai (Madras).
He meditated there for 40 minutes before announcing that Amma (mother), as Jayalalitha was popularly known, wanted him to be chief minister and that he had been compelled to put in his papers by a group of legislators on Sunday.
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Mr Panneerselvam told reporters that he was not "convinced of the decision" taken by this group, but "by then they had collected the signatures of the legislators" in favour of Sasikala, a close confidante of Jayalalitha.
For close to three decades, Sasikala, known as Chinnamma (younger mother) to her supporters, had been an almost permanent fixture in Jayalalitha's life, and was often seen with the former chief minister on public platforms.
"Finally she [Sasikala] held my hands and asked me to obey the decision, for the party, as she did when she insisted me to take the chief minister's post," he said.
Mr Panneerselvam also said he was willing to withdraw his resignation "if people wanted".
Some leaders of the AIADMK, who owe allegiance to Sasikala, have criticised Mr Panneerselvam's remarks and called him a "betrayer".
Reports say he will need the support of at least 118 of his party's 134 lawmakers if he wants to continue as the leader of the government.
Correspondents say it is unclear whether Mr Panneerselvam will be able to garner the requisite support, although many people in the state have opposed Sasikala's elevation.
Tamil Nadu's main opposition DMK party also criticised the decision saying that "the people of Tamil Nadu did not vote for anyone from Jayalalitha's household to become chief minister".
The governor of Tamil Nadu will now have to take a call on whether to ask Mr Panneerselvam to demonstrate his support in the state assembly, or swear in Sasikala as the next chief minister.
Never given any formal role by Jayalalitha in the party or the state government, Sasikala's role was always that of aide and confidante.
But analysts say her proximity to power allowed her and her extended family to wield huge influence in the party and the government.
Sasikala's influence over Jayalalitha also became the source of intense media speculation and tabloid gossip.
They also faced corruption charges together. A Karnataka high court order in 2015, which cleared them of involvement in a corruption scandal, paved the way for Jayalalitha's return to power after a setback in September 2014 when a trial court found them guilty of corruption.
India's Supreme Court has heard an appeal in the case, and is expected to issue a verdict next week.
If convicted, Sasikala will not be allowed to hold public office for six years.
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India's southern state of Tamil Nadu is in crisis after the chief minister revolted against his successor.
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Torrential rain and high winds along Australia's east coast earlier in June killed three people, left homes without power and caused extensive flooding.
Rescue groups found the 18-month-old pup "malnourished and exhausted".
Nicknamed "Elvis", the seal spent two weeks with veterinary officials from Sydney's Taronga Wildlife Hospital and made a speedy recovery.
"Elvis was one of the lucky ones," said senior veterinarian Larry Vogelnest. "He was pretty feisty when he first arrived, a good indicator that he'd be suitable for short-term care and release."
He added that Elvis received round-the-clock care, antibiotics and a daily diet of fresh fish.
Officials tagged the young pup with a microchip and released him into waters outside the entrance to Sydney Harbour.
Zoo experts said Elvis was likely to stay in waters around Sydney in the short term, before eventually heading south.
"He looked fantastic and alert in the water, so we can only hope he grows up to be a big, healthy seal," said Taronga Zoo spokesman Paul Fahy.
The National Education Workforce Survey suggested that more than 88% of teachers asked said they did not think they could handle their workload in agreed hours.
Plaid Cymru said it was a "damning reflection" on the Welsh Government; the Conservatives called it "alarming".
But the government said only 14% of the workforce took part.
The workforce survey spoke to 10,408 individuals. A total of 5,115 of those were school teachers.
The survey suggested that 33.6% of school teachers indicated that they intended to leave their profession in the next three years.
More than a third of teachers - 38.6% - said they were either not very or not at all familiar with the content and recommendations in Professor Graham Donaldson's report Successful Futures, which laid out proposals for changes to Wales' curriculum.
Full-time school teachers said they regularly work an average of 50.7 hours during an average working week.
Workload was shared as the least rewarding aspect of 78.1% of school teacher's roles.
The ability to manage workload within agreed working hours was a key issue for 88.3% of teachers, who either disagreed or strongly disagreed it was achievable.
Plaid education spokesman Llyr Gruffydd said: "This report is a damning reflection of the Labour Government's failure to make teaching an attractive profession for people in Wales.
"Not only are the figures alarming in terms of the number of those who note they cannot cope with workload demands - a staggering 88% - the survey also shows the potentially damaging impact of this failure to protect staff welfare on the education sector as a whole."
Welsh Conservative Shadow Education Secretary Darren Millar AM said: "These findings paint a picture of a teaching profession that's overworked and disillusioned about the future.
"That a third of Welsh school teachers plan to quit within the next three years, signals a looming staffing crisis of unprecedented proportions."
However, the government pointed to findings that 47% of teachers wanted to continue to develop their practice.
Ms Williams said in a statement to AMs that she was disappointed that only 14% of a workforce totalling 72,497 took part.
"There isn't a single answer to the diverse range of issues raised and there are no easy answers," she said.
"There are clearly a number of positive findings, such as access to professional learning and confidence in the delivery/use of ICT.
"However, we as a government must also acknowledge that there is more to do in ensuring our workforce feel they have the best possible support available.
"As a priority, I remain determined to tackle the long running issue of workload and ensuring teachers have the space and time to teach to the best of their ability, reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and ensuring that they are supported by excellent higher level teaching assistants and learning support workers."
As well as school teachers, of the respondents, 961 were further education teachers, 257 were further education support workers, 1,306 were school supply teachers, and 2,179 were school learning support workers.
The ceremony took place in New Orleans, with the bride and groom arriving on matching white bicycles.
White and ivory were the colours of the day, being worn by husband, wife and almost all of the guests.
The bride's mother Tina Knowles, her 10 year old son Daniel and niece Blue Ivy were also there.
In May, footage of Solange arguing and fighting with Jay Z in a lift in New York went viral.
Afterwards, the pair, along with Beyonce, said they'd "moved forward as a united family" since the incident.
Solange told Vogue magazine: "Everyone I worked with on the wedding are friends who I love. Everything was a labour of love."
The festivities began on Friday with Solange and Alan treating Beyonce and about 50 of their friends to cinema night at the Indywood movie theatre.
On the big day the colour theme was pretty strict, with even the vinyl being played by DJ, Roots drummer Questlove, having to be white.
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Commissioners said two options are being looked at on how care is delivered in Lincoln and Boston.
One involves having specialist consultants on one site, the other, a modified two site service, possibly with a single shared team.
Campaigners in Boston have called for the public to be involved in any decision.
Chief Executive of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust Jan Sobieraj said nothing had been decided about where a centralised service would be based, if it happened.
He stressed the plans were not about saving money, but how resources could be best used to care for women needing specialist treatment during pregnancy.
Mr Sobieraj said there had already been some successes where a central specialist service had been introduced.
"Ten years ago if you said life expectancy would improve on the east coast by removing local services for cardiac care, and moving it to Lincoln... people would have questioned that," he said.
"But, that is exactly what happened."
He added that any changes could take years to implement and the public would be engaged in the whole process.
The proposals were discussed at a meeting on Wednesday with campaigners, the Boston Focus Group.
Its chair, Phillip Bosworth, said he hoped the public would be fully consulted.
"People in this area won't want to be travelling 50 miles on a cold winter's night in the snow when they are having difficulty in labour," he added.
Plans to introduce more community midwives are also being considered.
Rabbits Require Rights Scotland's 2,044-name petition was given a second hearing in Holyrood on Tuesday.
The campaign group said it was "good news" that its petition remained open.
It calls for rabbits to be given the same protection as cats and dogs as well as regulations on breeding and the minimum size of housing.
Southgate, 46, was in charge for four games as interim manager and is the only candidate.
Ex-England striker Chris Sutton criticised the FA and said it was a "slap across the face" for Southgate.
But Bevington said: "Personally, I don't think it is overcomplicating it."
England Under-21 coach Southgate was interviewed by a five-person panel on Monday but no announcement is expected until any appointment is ratified at a full FA board meeting at the end of the month.
England won two World Cup qualifiers - 2-0 against Malta and 3-0 against Scotland - and drew another 0-0 away to Slovenia during Southgate's short stint in charge.
They also drew 2-2 with Spain in a friendly.
"Why make this meeting public?" Sutton told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Why couldn't they have had this meeting behind closed doors and then announced Gareth as manager?
"It's a little bit undermining, a bit of a slap across the face."
Bevington defended the process, adding: "I understand why there's the debate about why you need a formal process.
"It makes perfect sense if you've had an interim manager to have three or four days pass and then come back and review it with a clear head.
"I think Gareth's a pretty measured individual and getting back to the point of why it's in the public domain, those people around the table would have preferred for that not to be in the public domain."
The previous facility at Bootham Park hospital closed after inspectors found it unsafe.
People needing inpatient treatment since Bootham Park was closed have had to travel to Middlesbrough, about 50 miles (80km) away.
The new Peppermill Court in North Yorkshire had been due to open earlier this year but was delayed for various reasons, including a fire in August.
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Ruth Hill, of Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust, said: "We understand how difficult it's been for service users and their families.
"Over the last 12 months we've done all we can to support people, including helping with travel arrangements and costs but we know it hasn't been easy."
The trust is in consultation about a permanent hospital to replace Bootham Park and hopes to open a 60-bed facility in 2019.
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Trust was given five days notice to close the Grade-I listed hospital, in September 2015 after inspectors said there were serious risks to patients poor hygiene and not enough staff.
The Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust took over mental health services in the Vale of York on 1 October.
Nick Loeb said he wants a surrogate to carry and give birth to two embryos he and Vergara created through in vitro fertilisation before they split up.
He said the actress, who plays Gloria in the ABC comedy, has refused.
Vergara, who has been named the highest-earning actress on TV for the last three years, declined to comment.
Writing in the New York Times, Loeb said he and Vergara had signed a document at the time of the IVF stating that any embryos could only be brought to term with both parents' consent.
However he is trying to have that document declared void because it did not specify what would happen if the couple separated.
"When we create embryos for the purpose of life, should we not define them as life, rather than as property?" the businessman wrote.
He said he had offered to pay all expenses and take full responsibility for raising the children.
"A woman is entitled to bring a pregnancy to term even if the man objects," he said.
"Shouldn't a man who is willing to take on all parental responsibilities be similarly entitled to bring his embryos to term even if the woman objects?"
He added that he did not want "the two lives I have already created be destroyed or sit in a freezer until the end of time".
Asked whether she had anything to say about Loeb's article at the premiere of her new film Hot Pursuit in Hollywood on Thursday, Vergara said: "No."
Her lawyer Fred Silberberg also declined to comment.
The actress has earned Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award nominations for her role in the mockumentary-style comedy, which is into its sixth season and is shown on Sky 1 in the UK.
The former British colony became a special administrative region of China in 1997, when Britain's 99-year lease of the New Territories, north of Hong Kong island, expired.
Hong Kong is governed under the principle of "one country, two systems", under which China has agreed to give the region a high degree of autonomy and to preserve its economic and social systems for 50 years from the date of the handover.
But Beijing can veto changes to the political system, and pro-democracy forces have been frustrated by what they see as the slow pace of political reform.
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Electoral reform is a particularly sore point. Currently, half the territory's legislature is not directly elected, but chosen by professional and corporate groups that favour Beijing loyalists.
The territory's chief executive is indirectly elected by an electoral college effectively controlled by Beijing.
China has pledged to allow the chief executive to be elected by direct universal adult suffrage by 2017, but wants all candidates to be chosen by a nominating committee.
Pro-democracy activists say the public should be involved in deciding who can stand. Beijing worries this could undermine its control over the territory.
Tensions spilled over into mass protests in the city centre in September 2014, with calls for full democracy and the resignation of Chief Executive CY Leung, and the territory's Legislative Council rejected the proposed changes the following year.
China controls Hong Kong's foreign and defence policies, but the territory has its own currency and customs status.
Hong Kong's economy has moved away from manufacturing and is now services-based. The region is a major corporate and banking centre as well as a conduit for China's burgeoning exports. Its deepwater port is one of the world's busiest.
Companies based in Hong Kong employ millions of workers in the neighbouring Chinese province of Guangdong.
China ceded Hong Kong island to Britain in 1842 after the First Opium War. Britain later added parts of the Kowloon peninsula and the many smaller islands surrounding Hong Kong to its holdings.
In the 19th and 20th centuries Hong Kong's population was boosted by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants from China, many of whom were fleeing domestic upheavals.
Industrialisation gathered pace, and by the 1970s Hong Kong had become an "Asian tiger"; one of the region's economic powerhouses.
With little room for expansion across its hilly terrain, high-rise Hong Kong has among the highest population density in the world - about 6,300 people per square kilometre.
Skyscrapers and temples, shopping malls and traditional markets sit cheek-by-jowl. But amid the urban hustle there are quiet parks and green spaces, beaches and mountain-top views.
The oystercatcher liked the new "Attenborough's Walk" in Norfolk so much that it decided to move in.
All wild birds in the UK are protected by law, so the path has been closed to protect its nest and eggs.
Experts say that the chicks will probably hatch in a couple of weeks, and the footpath will be reopened then.
The 25-year-old has only started one league match this season and has been a peripheral figure under Steve McClaren.
Weimann's move sees him reunited with Wolves boss Paul Lambert, who managed the Austrian at Aston Villa.
Rams boss Steve McClaren said Weimann was "a good player", but he had "too many players in that area".
Weimann joined Derby for an undisclosed fee in June 2015 and has played 45 games, but only 16 have been starts.
He is available to play in the FA Cup, having only been an unused substitute in the competition so far this season.
Wolves play Liverpool in the fourth round at Anfield on Saturday, 28 January.
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Missile strikes by US drones against al-Shabab and al-Qaeda leaders are "vital" and will continue, according to the government of Djibouti, from where the controversial drone strikes are launched.
Washington has been building up a large military base in Djibouti and training regional armies to fight al-Shabab in Somalia.
Beneath a blazing sun, gunmetal grey helicopters line the runway at this former French Foreign Legion base, now leased by Washington from the government of Djibouti.
The helicopters and rows of other US aircraft are equipped for long-range missions, some covert, some more conventional.
The Pentagon's recently created East Africa Response Force (EARF) is here. Its soldiers flew at short notice to South Sudan in December to protect the US embassy and its staff, a lesson learnt from the catastrophic attack on the poorly defended US consulate in Benghazi.
The US taskforce here, under the catchy title of "Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa," or CJTF-HOA, was set up nearly 12 years ago.
Back then, Washington's aim was to stop al-Qaeda operatives from migrating westwards from Pakistan into East Africa, by interdictions and showing nations in the region how to improve their security.
This week I put it to the Task Force Commander, US Brigadier-General Wayne Grigsby, that while that migration may have been checked, the Horn of Africa region is hardly a success story when it comes to security.
Al-Shabab in Somalia have become proficient in laying roadside bombs and have launched attacks beyond their borders in Kenya and Uganda, while al-Qaeda in Yemen has three times succeeded in getting explosive devices on board international flights. All this, while CJTF-HOA was doubling in size.
"It's a complex problem," admits Gen Grigsby, who only assumed command this year. But he says the Pentagon's aim is to get others in the region to take on the burden of defeating al-Shabab.
"Our mission here is to enable our East African partners to actually neutralise violent extremists throughout eastern Africa.
"It also enables strategic access and freedom of movement. The purpose is to protect the United States and its interests abroad."
Djibouti, an impoverished former French colony, has close links to the region's two most troubled nations, Yemen and Somalia, where US boots on the ground would not be popular.
But Djibouti has decided to throw in its lot with Washington and the West, becoming effectively the region's garrison town.
The French still maintain a major base here with over 2,000 servicemen and women, their Mirage fighter jets thundering down the runway shared with the civilian international airport.
The Germans, Italians and Japanese are all here, conducting counter-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden and beyond.
But the biggest presence by far is American - there are more than 4,000 people on the base at Camp Lemonnier.
Housed in a compound within a compound are hundreds of highly secretive Special Forces operatives from JSOC - US Joint Special Operations Command.
They bypass normal camp authority, taking their orders direct from their own command in Florida.
Huge men with beards and steely expressions, they keep to themselves, often deploying at night. Their primary target is the command leadership of al-Shabab across the border in Somalia.
Since four gunmen from that group killed more than 60 shoppers in Nairobi's Westgate mall in September, Washington has injected a new urgency into its hunt to track down the leaders before they can plan more attacks.
One controversial tool in JSOC's arsenal is the use of missile strikes by unmanned Reaper drones. Until last September they took off from this base but after a number of crashes and near misses the Djibouti government asked the Americans to move them out to a desert runway.
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The drone strikes have continued, sometimes killing civilians and attracting condemnation from human rights groups as "extrajudicial killings".
So I asked Djibouti's Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Ali Youssuf if this bothered him.
"We feel that really Djibouti is one of the top targets of al-Shabab in the region," he replied, adding that: "These people are very dangerous, the al-Shabab and al-Qaeda elements. So whatever it takes.
"If we can contain them, ok, if we can get rid of them it's better.
"But we don't have to waste time in asking each and every time ourselves if we should use drones or not".
It certainly looks like America is here to stay. Fresh building work is still under way at the camp.
So as long as this remains a troubled region and Djibouti is happy to play host, Washington has a firm foothold on the Horn of Africa.
The drone strikes against militant leaders look set to continue.
A second-half own goal from Lloyd Jones gifted Cobblers the lead, while Luke Norris headed a late equaliser only for John-Joe O'Toole to grab the winner moments later.
The hosts were quickly out of the blocks, Marc Richards fired wide and Keshi Anderson's effort was kept out by Lawrence Vigouroux.
The Cobblers should have broken the deadlock from a seventh-minute penalty when Fankaty Dabo fouled Anderson. But Richards missed a spot-kick for the second time in three games as Vigouroux saved his effort.
The home side continued to create chances, Michael Smith headed off target and also shot wide while Richards saw his near-post header saved by Vigouroux. In between, Charlie Colkett forced Cobblers keeper Adam Smith into action.
Smith was denied by Vigouroux before Dion Conroy squandered Swindon's best chance when he shot over the crossbar.
After the restart, Swindon came into the game more. Ben Gladwin shot wide and Raphael Rossi Branco's header was saved by Smith.
But Cobblers finally broke the deadlock in the 64th minute when Jones could only help the ball into his own net after Smith flicked on Neal Eardley's cross.
Cobblers almost doubled their advantage when Anderson hit the post from the edge of the box. Hiram Boateng was thwarted by Vigouroux as Cobblers looked for the vital second goal.
Swindon mounted some late pressure and equalised in the 81st minute when James Brophy raced down the flank and his cross was headed home by Norris from close range.
But O'Toole won it just a minute later when he turned Matt Taylor's inswinging corner in at the near post, while Richards was twice denied by Vigouroux in the closing stages.
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Match ends, Northampton Town 2, Swindon Town 1.
Second Half ends, Northampton Town 2, Swindon Town 1.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Lawrence Vigouroux.
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. James Brophy (Swindon Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Gregg Wylde (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Charlie Colkett (Swindon Town).
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill.
Jak McCourt (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Goddard (Swindon Town).
John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luke Norris (Swindon Town).
Attempt saved. Marc Richards (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Gregg Wylde replaces Keshi Anderson.
Substitution, Northampton Town. Jak McCourt replaces Matthew Taylor.
Foul by Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town).
Lewin Nyatanga (Northampton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Northampton Town. Conceded by Lloyd Jones.
Goal! Northampton Town 2, Swindon Town 1. John-Joe O'Toole (Northampton Town) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matthew Taylor with a cross following a corner.
Goal! Northampton Town 1, Swindon Town 1. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by James Brophy.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Neal Eardley.
Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Smith (Northampton Town).
Foul by Hiram Boateng (Northampton Town).
Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Smith (Northampton Town).
Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. John Goddard (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Swindon Town. John Goddard replaces Dion Conroy.
Foul by Lewin Nyatanga (Northampton Town).
Luke Norris (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Hiram Boateng (Northampton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Keshi Anderson (Northampton Town) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the left side of the box.
Substitution, Swindon Town. Luke Norris replaces Jonathan Obika.
Own Goal by Lloyd Jones, Swindon Town. Northampton Town 1, Swindon Town 0.
Attempt saved. Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Michael Smith.
Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Raphael Rossi Branco (Swindon Town).
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The Belgians were leading through Andy Najar's 71st-minute header when Wenger brought on Joel Campbell, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lukas Podolski.
And two goals in the final two minutes from Kieran Gibbs and Podolski earned an unlikely 2-1 win in Brussels.
"It's a gambling situation in these games and it worked," said Wenger.
Arsenal dominated possession without creating many clear-cut chances and were punished when Honduras winger Najar gave Anderlecht the advantage.
And they were fortunate not to fall further behind as Najar and Anthony Vanden Borre wasted chances to double the home side's lead.
"In the last five minutes in the Champions League the nerves play a part and we had to get into these five minutes without conceding a second goal," said Wenger.
"I had hope, it maybe didn't look like it, but it happened.
"The crucial point was when we were 1-0 down and they couldn't take advantage with the chance for the second goal."
The Gunners' remarkable fightback leaves them well placed to reach the Champions League knockout phase for the 12th consecutive season.
Second-placed Arsenal have six points at the halfway stage of Group D, three behind German side Borussia Dortmund who have a perfect record of three wins.
Anderlecht's late capitulation - which means they have not won in their last 11 Champions League ties - leaves them five points adrift of Wenger's team ahead of next month's return fixture at Emirates Stadium.
Then, the Gunners host Dortmund on 26 November before their final group game at Galatasaray on 9 December.
"It (the win) was vital for us to have a chance to qualify," said Wenger, who celebrated his 65th birthday on Wednesday.
"We are in a strong position now. It's down to us now. Win our home games and we are through."
One of the blocks in the proposed development on a 1.5 acre site on Midsummer Boulevard could be more than 20 storeys high.
This will make it twice the height of the town's current tallest building.
The scheme will consist of offices, flats and a skyline restaurant.
The Milton Keynes Development Partnership (MKDP), which commissioned the scheme, said the final height will depend on how much of it is office space and how much is residential but the developers, Sterling Property Ventures, anticipate it will be twice the height of the 12-storey Hub building, which is off Avebury and Silbury Boulevards.
When Milton Keynes was designated as a new town in January 1967, planning guidance initially stated no building was allowed to be taller than the tallest tree, however, this was later changed by what was then the Milton Keynes Partnership which decided the town needed "landmark buildings" and elevated the allowed height.
The MKDP said it now wanted to "step change" the quality, height and viability of office provision in Central Milton Keynes.
John Silver, director at Doone Silver Architects, said it would be a "distinctive addition to the skyline" which will "signal a new era of development for the city".
But Theo Chalmers from the Urban Eden, which promotes the original Milton Keynes master plan, said the proposals would mean the removal of "hundreds of parking spaces".
"There are already empty office buildings on the north side of Midsummer Boulevard that aren't used because the people who [should] work in them haven't got enough parking spaces and the site they are building these tall buildings on is a car park," he said.
A public consultation on the proposals will open this summer, with the plans submitted to Milton Keynes Council later this year.
The iconic events venue has developed over the past 30 years and the site now includes the Clyde Auditorium (Armadillo) and The SSE Hydro.
Live entertainment has now become significant part of its business.
SEC chief executive Peter Duthie said the rebrand aimed aimed to reflect these changes and showcase its ability to stage large-scale events.
He said the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and the Ignition Festival of Motoring were both "great examples of utilisation of all areas of our campus, internally and externally".
"The name Scottish Event Campus (SEC) better describes the site, is more representative of what we do and reflects a vision for the future," he said.
"We believe that this is the perfect time for a revamp of our brand, building on the success of the business to date.
"Historically, we have found that many people don't necessarily realise that all of our buildings are part of the SECC."
Separately, the three buildings will be known as The SSE Hydro, SEC Armadillo and the original building, SEC Centre.
The SEC worked with local Glasgow design agency Freytag Anderson on the rebrand.
More than 6,000 birds were found dead in August 2012 at Hawksmill Farm in Great Leighs, near Chelmsford.
Paul Flatman, 65, of Church Road, Colchester, had admitted six animal welfare offences at an earlier hearing.
The chickens died in poorly-ventilated sheds during a heatwave.
Essex Trading Standards, which brought the prosecution, said the three sheds housing the birds were also overcrowded.
Alison Lambert, prosecuting, said it was impossible to be sure of the exact death toll "given the scale of putrefaction."
The discovery was made when a government vet visited Flatman's farm after an anonymous phone call reported concerns about how chickens were being kept.
Miss Lambert said when the vet got to the farm "the putrid smell was horrendous".
The vet concluded the birds had "died due to heat stress [which] could have been avoided".
The poultry farm was one of six then run by Mr Flatman, who, in March, admitted charges including not ensuring the chickens were protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease.
Roger Walters, Essex County Council lead member for Trading Standards, said: "This case shows that we will not tolerate livestock being kept in these kinds of conditions."
Flatman was banned from keeping poultry for five years, and handed a five-and-a-half-month jail sentence suspended for 12 months, when he appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court.
He was also ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid work and pay £12,500 costs.
They served as stretcher-bearers at the Battle of the Somme, performed concerts to lift spirits and their bass drum was even used as a communion table.
The Somme took the lives of Lance Corporal Joseph Scott, from Moore Street, and Rifleman George Mills, from Pine Street.
They were killed on 1 July but many more would die before the end of hostilities.
Established in 1856, the Hamilton Band is one of the oldest in Northern Ireland.
They formed the nucleus of the regimental band of the 10th battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Following completion of training in Ireland, the 10th Inniskillings moved to England and subsequently to France.
Once there, the men encountered combat and the awful reality of trench warfare for the first time.
After the Armistice those members who had survived the war undertook the process of re-building the band.
They had a bit of work to do as the battalion band had taken most of the instruments with them to the front.
It meant that when the band was revived, all of the drums and most of the flutes were missing.
Eventually the original drums were returned and Ian Bartlett, curator at St Columb's Cathedral, said they now hang in the Chapter House.
"This (bass drum) was in use right through the First World War and was, in fact, used to form a communion table on the battlefield on Sundays when the band celebrated the sacrament of Holy Communion.
"It was re-presented to the band when it reformed in the city after the war. They used it, I believe, until the 1970s when it was then laid up in the Chapter House."
Robert McGonagle, Hamilton Flute Band secretary, praised the men's courage.
"I just wonder would it happen now if we met such circumstances?
"The dedication and the bravery of all those people that joined up and went away into the unknown was amazing and probably wouldn't be repeated nowadays."
Those who lost their lives will be honoured during the act of remembrance at the war memorial in Derry.
This year there will also be a special drum service held at St Columb's Cathedral to mark the contribution of the Hamilton Flute Band.
"We felt that a wonderful way of marking the commemorations was to have a piece of music specially composed," said Robert.
"We commissioned a piece built around the Battle of the Somme and how the members joined up, marched to the war and went over the top of the trenches."
You can hear more about the Hamilton Flute Band and their remarkable story here.
The West Yorkshire club prop up the fledgling table having lost all seven of their opening games but they showed signs of progress on a rain-sodden pitch.
In the 36th minute, striker Jordan Preston hit the post after good work from Adam Boyes and Oli Johnson, while Luke Porritt smashed the ball just over the visitors' crossbar midway through the second half.
Chez Isaac threatened to grab a late winner for Braintree, who reached the play-offs last season, but his swerving shot missed the target nine minutes from the end.
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REACTION: Guiseley caretaker manager Adam Lockwood speaks to BBC Radio Leeds
REACTION: Braintree manager Jamie Day speaks to BBC Essex
Match ends, Guiseley 0, Braintree Town 0.
Second Half ends, Guiseley 0, Braintree Town 0.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Joe Maybanks replaces Brandon Goodship.
Substitution, Guiseley. Michael Rankine replaces Adam Boyes.
Substitution, Guiseley. Luke Porritt replaces Oli Johnson.
Second Half begins Guiseley 0, Braintree Town 0.
First Half ends, Guiseley 0, Braintree Town 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
L/Cpl Craig Roberts, from Conwy county, died during the Brecon Beacons march on one of the hottest days of 2013.
L/Cpl Edward Maher and Cpl James Dunsby also collapsed and later died.
On Friday, coroner Louise Hunt told the inquest which has been sitting for four weeks that she intends to make her findings known on 14 July.
The men died after suffering heat exhaustion during an SAS reservist exercise in July 2013.
The closing submissions at the hearing in Solihull, West Midlands, raised the issue of whether the coroner could consider a verdict of unlawful killing.
Other issues of consideration include whether there was a gross failure on the part of the Ministry of Defence in ensuring that the exercise was done safely.
Supporters who bought their tickets from the allocation given to the respective FAs will be in segregated areas at Lens' Stade Bollaert-Delelis.
But police expect British-based fans to have bought the bulk of the remaining tickets, which are not segregated.
They appealed for fans to behave while in Lens for the match on 16 June.
The stadium has a capacity of 35,000, the second smallest in the tournament.
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) was allocated just over 5,000 tickets and England's FA just over 6,000.
Supt Steve Furnham, of South Wales Police, who is in charge of Wales' police liaison for the tournament, said he expected that "the vast majority of people inside that stadium will be British nationals supporting either England or Wales".
He said he had full confidence in both the French police to cope, and in the fans themselves.
"The French police have got tried and tested procedures and they are well-versed in policing operations and football operations," he told BBC Radio Wales' Good Evening Wales.
"Lens has held games there before and this is not new to our colleagues in Lens or Lens itself, but obviously with thousands of British nationals descending on that town we can expect to see people mingling."
Supporters travelling to France for the tournament can also expect far higher levels of security following the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels and Supt Furnham asked for that to be borne in mind.
"What Welsh fans must have in their mind is that the French police are there for the football, but also there for the counter terrorism operation and that will be at the forefront of their mind," he said.
"What we would please, please ask Welsh fans is to behave whilst out there.
"What we do not want to be doing is giving our French colleagues any additional concern or worries on top of what they have got to deal with."
He also revealed that bags will be banned from Euro 2016 stadia.
Similar measures were in place for France's Six Nations matches earlier this year at the Stade de France in Paris.
The Mayor of Lens previously urged fans without tickets to stay away from the town on the day of the match itself.
A teenager died in the capital Caracas and a woman was killed in San Cristobal, near the Colombian border.
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand new presidential elections and the release of jailed opposition politicians.
President Maduro has accused the opposition of attacking the police and looting shops.
He said more than 30 arrests had been made. Supporters of the government are holding a rival rally in Caracas.
Despite having the world's largest proven oil reserves, Venezuela has suffered for several years from high inflation, rampant crime and a shortage of basic goods.
What is behind the turmoil?
The protests taking place across the country were expected to be the biggest in three years, putting extra pressure on President Maduro to negotiate with the opposition and find a way of easing the country's economic crisis.
Anti-government protesters have described it as Venezuela's "second independence day".
Elections are not due until 2019, but the opposition says the country is on the verge of collapse. Inflation is expected to top 700% this year, the IMF says.
The latest crisis was triggered by last month's Supreme Court decision to officially take over power from the opposition-controlled parliament.
The Supreme Court reversed its decision after three days, but it was too late to prevent a new wave of protests.
Venezuela has now seen weeks of clashes between demonstrators and the police. The latest deaths bring the number killed to at least seven, with many more injured.
The visitors had the better of the early possession but it was Annan who came closest to scoring, Peter Weatherson's free-kick tipped on to the post by Kevin Walker.
Berwick netted through Blair Henderson but he was flagged offside.
And Flynn's sweet strike in off the post sealed a late win for the hosts.
The 23-year-old was released by Poire sur Vie before the closure of the transfer window.
The French club had been relegated to the equivalent of the National League following financial sanctions.
Argyle are in the last automatic promotion place with 10 matches left, despite losing to fellow promotion hopefuls Accrington on Saturday.
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The 34-year-old, who is a one-club man, said this week that he would not be retiring just yet and could continue his playing career away from Anfield.
"I explained to Steven's representative that I want him to be part of what we're doing here," the Reds boss said.
"He's been a brilliant captain for me. I want to keep him here."
Rodgers added: "I relayed that information to the owners.
"I'm sure they'll go away with that and with Steven's representatives, hopefully organise a deal. He's a unique player and a unique person."
Meanwhile, Rodgers said Liverpool were short of confidence in attack after Saturday's 1-0 defeat in the early kick-off at Newcastle left them nine points behind leaders Chelsea - who stretched that margin to 12 points when they beat QPR 2-1 later that afternoon.
The Reds were third in the Premier League at this stage last season and had scored 17 goals, but with Luis Suarez sold and fellow striker Daniel Sturridge injured they have been less of a threat.
"It's not working for us at the moment," said Rodgers.
"We will continue to hope we get that wee bit of luck and the confidence in final third can return."
His side have managed 13 league goals so far, but have conceded an equal amount as opposed to the +7 goal difference they had established by the 10th game last campaign.
At St James' Park, they rarely threatened, with headers from Martin Skrtel and Philippe Coutinho, the closest they got to beating Newcastle keeper Tim Krul.
Striker Mario Balotelli, who has yet to score in the Premier League on his return to England, had a free-kick and shot comfortably saved by the Dutchman.
Their opponents scored what proved to be the winner in the second half, when Spaniard Ayoze Perez pounced after Liverpool's defence failed to clear Paul Dummett's cross.
"We made a mistake and that cost us the game," added Rodgers, who led Liverpool to second place last season.
"That's the biggest disappointment. If you can't score the goals to win the game, you have to make sure you don't concede. Up until the first goal, we were solid defensively."
When asked whether Newcastle were the hungrier of the two sides at St James' Park, Rodgers said: "One thing I won't question is their hunger, commitment and desire to one, play for Liverpool, and two, in the game.
"In terms of commitment, my players showed 100% commitment."
Merthyr RFC players showed signs of injury after their Welsh Cup semi-final defeat to RGC 1404 at Pontypridd RFC's 3G pitch at Sardis Road on Saturday.
The WRU, the pitch contractors, Rhondda Cynon Taf council and Pontypridd RFC officials have now inspected the pitch.
"Further testing will be conducted" and the WRU will inspect again next week.
"We know that 3G pitches are an established, proven and successful playing surface widely utilised by rugby union," said the WRU statement.
"We are therefore hopeful that a solution can be found to the well-publicised recent issue at the venue."
Merthyr's club doctor has called on the game's governing body to conduct more research on artificial pitches.
A spokesman for Pontypridd RFC said the club had no comment to make.
Before Pontypridd's £500,000 3G pitch was first used last September, the club's website described it as a "synthetic carpet" with "sand and rubber crumb" in it.
Merthyr, who host Pontypridd in the Welsh Premiership this Saturday, also play on an artificial pitch at their The Wern ground.
Sardis Road is due to hold an international under-18s tournament next month and the WRU and World Rugby have reiterated the importance of player welfare.
Drugs with a total street value of £2m were seized in raids at two homes in Clement Royds Street, Rochdale.
Officers also recovered £53,000 in cash in the operation on 23 March, a Greater Manchester Police spokesman said.
Detectives are now trying to trace Imran Hussain, 32, and Shazana Kauser, 24, in connection with the operation.
They are known to have links with the Rochdale and Leeds areas, police said.
A spokesman said officers made "initial inquiries" at one of the properties before finding a large proportion of the drugs in two bags after returning to their van.
Sadir Hussain, 61, Inayat Bibi, 60, Rehana Kausar, 25, and Rezwan Hussain, 26, all of Rochdale, have previously been charged with drugs supply in connection with the discovery.
Det Insp Andrew Butterworth said: "This was an excellent result and an example of how police are determined to come out on top when it comes to drugs within the community.
"Thanks to the hard work of our officers we have managed to keep these drugs off the streets and stop them from causing harm to the local community."
As in 2012, leading designer Stella McCartney, in collaboration with Adidas, has been selected to create the outfits to be worn by Britain's squad.
On being announced as creative director last year, McCartney promised her designs would deliver "cutting-edge" innovations, "allowing GB athletes to perform to their very best ability on the world's biggest sporting stage".
UK Sport has predicted Britain could win as many as 79 medals in Rio, where the Games begin on 5 August.
Mo Farah will be attempting to win another Olympic double after taking 10,000m and 5,000m gold in London, while Jessica Ennis-Hill will defend her heptathlon crown.
The 2016 Games have been beset by organisational problems, with Brazil in a deep recession that is affecting all aspects of the Olympics.
Organisers recently had to scrap plans for a 4,000-seater stand at the rowing and canoeing venue as part of a $500m (£353m) cost-cutting measure.
The tough economic situation may also be the reason for slow ticket sales to date.
Figures published by BBC Business last month showed just 12-15% of Paralympic tickets and 47% of Olympic tickets had been sold.
Concerns over Zika also remain, with venues to be inspected daily in the lead-up to and during the Games in an attempt to minimise the impact of the virus.
Noel Jones served 12 years for the manslaughter of 15-year-old Janet Commins.
But he told a fresh murder trial at Mold Crown Court that he was not responsible - and a confession was made up by police.
Stephen Hough, 58, denies rape, sexual assault, murder and manslaughter
On Tuesday, the jury heard evidence from retired police officer Albert Roberts, who left the north Wales force in 1981.
In 1976, he was a detective inspector who interviewed the chief suspect Jones.
In one interview, Mr Roberts told Jones: "You told us a number of things which only the person that was with Janet at the time...would be able to say. How can you explain that?".
The court heard Jones replied it "must have been in the papers" - despite later agreeing that he could only read "a little".
The jury was told that Jones later walked police through a reconstruction, describing where and how the attack took place.
But under cross-examination by the prosecution, the former detective rejected claims made by Jones that he put the suspect under pressure.
He said that was "absolute nonsense".
Asked if he bombarded Jones with questions, Mr Roberts said: "He seemed all right to me. He seemed to be answering them all right without any difficulty."
The questioning followed defence evidence on Monday from Mr Hough, who was arrested in 2016 after DNA matching his was found on the dead schoolgirl's body.
But he told the jury he could not explain the DNA findings, and also denied once telling his ex-wife that he had killed someone.
Asked by his barrister, Patrick Harrington QC: "Did you have anything to do with her death?"
"No sir," he replied.
The trial is continuing.
Sixth-formers now have fewer chances to try a subject at AS-level before committing to taking the full A-level.
This means their subject choices carry more weight, according to the Russell Group, which represents 24 research-intense UK institutions.
The warning came as the group published its updated Informed Choices guide.
The guidance gives students and schools advice on the subjects and subject combinations that are most useful for courses offered by Russell Group universities.
"Up to 15% fewer students are taking AS-levels after changes mean they no longer count toward A-level grades," the Russell Group said.
"Students therefore may have less opportunity to try a subject before taking it to A-level and their choices now bear more weight."
Director general of the group, Dr Wendy Piatt, said: "We are wholeheartedly committed to ensuring our doors are wide open to talented and able students from all backgrounds, but our universities can't offer places to those who do not apply or do not have the right grades in the right subjects.
"Too often, students disadvantage themselves by choosing a combination of subjects at A-level that will not equip them with the appropriate skills and knowledge for their preferred university course.
"Subject choice at GCSE and A-level or equivalent affects everyone's options for degree courses, so we make sure that the most useful and relevant information is available to students everywhere, through Informed Choices."
In April, the consumer group Which? said too many university applicants realised too late that they had chosen the wrong subjects at age 16.
The consumer group surveyed more than 1,000 UK 18- and 19-year-old university applicants and found almost a third (28%) said they wished they had chosen different subjects and 41% wished they had considered which subjects would be of most use.
Under a major overhaul, AS-levels have been decoupled from A-levels to form a standalone qualification.
New tougher two-year A-level courses, with exams at the end, are being introduced over a three-year period.
Johnson, 32, carded a par 71 on the final day to finish on 17 under with compatriot Scott Brown and Belgium's Thomas Pieters tied second on 12 under.
The US Open champion had to play both his third and fourth rounds on Sunday after storms disrupted the tournament.
England's Justin Rose finished in a five-way tie for third as he shot a fourth-round 68 to finish on 11 under.
"I believe in myself. I think I'm a great player," said Johnson after Sunday's victory in California. "To finally get a win at Riviera feels good because I've finished second here a couple of times, lost in a play-off, and felt I should have won a couple of other times."
Nearly seven hours of play were lost during Friday's storms with the second round delayed by a further two hours on Saturday to clear up the course.
Johnson was unable to start his third round on Saturday evening as bad light suspended play 17 minutes before he was scheduled to tee off.
But the American continued his fine form from the first two rounds, dropping only two shots over the entire weekend.
Victory preserves Johnson's record of having won at least once in each of the 10 seasons he has been a professional.
The Masters, the first major of the year, takes place in Augusta from 6-9 April.
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On Monday, a tank containing mercaptan, which has been described as a pungent chemical, will be decommissioned at Zeon Chemicals in Barry.
The local authority said that while most smells will be destroyed, some may be noticeable to nearby residents.
These will not be harmful and could also be mistaken for a gas leak.
England won the U20 World Cup and the Toulon Tournament in June, after the U17s lost the Euro 2017 final in May.
The U21s face Germany in the Euro 2017 semi-finals on Tuesday in Poland.
"There is a great future. They're winning things; we'd love to do the same," Chambers told BBC Radio 5 live.
"There is the senior first team as well. They have lots of good young players already."
England beat Poland 3-0 on Thursday to qualify for the last four as Group A winners.
It is the first time they have reached the semi-finals since 2009, when Stuart Pearce's side beat Sweden on penalties before losing the final 4-0 to a Germany team that featured Manuel Neuer, Mats Hummels and Mesut Ozil.
"The competition here between the teams is very high, but we've dealt with the pressure well," added 22-year-old Chambers, who spent last season on loan from Arsenal at Middlesbrough.
"That's due to the experience we have from playing at tournaments together in the past - like when we won at Toulon last summer. That has helped us get the results we needed.
"There is a good vibe; the boys are confident. Everyone is happy we've made it through the group stages and we are looking forward to the match.
"We've practised penalties, too, so if it comes to that, we'll be ready."
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The rise, from 32.36% of total playing time in 2013-14 to 36.08% until 1 October, can be solely attributed to newly promoted Burnley, who used just one non-UK player.
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Take away the Clarets and the second annual State of the Game study found restricted opportunities for English players at the top clubs.
State of the Game comes six months after Football Association chairman Greg Dyke announced his plan to get more English players playing in the Premier League with the ultimate aim of winning the 2022 World Cup.
Former Chelsea player Michael Woods, signed by Jose Mourinho aged 16 in a £5m deal but now 24 and playing for Hartlepool, called for an English player quota to give domestic players a chance.
But BBC Sport pundit Robbie Savage said if you were "good enough you will make it", while former England boss Graham Taylor said the "foreign influx could not be stopped".
Click here for an interactive guide to all the data from the State of the Game study
Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham and champions Manchester City used the most non-UK players in the league.
Argentines were the big movers, up to the third most represented non-UK country after France and Spain, and now outnumber Welsh players in the Premier League.
The 2013-14 top eight used 44 new signings this season during the matches analysed by the study - and 33 were foreigners.
A quarter of the 373 foreign players in the top flight played fewer than 10 games last season.
Burnley used the most English players (13) while Chelsea, Stoke and Man City each used the least (three).
In 2013-14 just five English players took part in all 38 matches.
The study analysed the total minutes played by each nationality in the Premier League, Championship and Scottish Premiership to 1 October, as well as last season's data.
Scottish players had more time on the pitch in the Premier League this season, up from 3.68% to 4.87%, the fourth highest total.
Wales slipped to 10th, down from 3.11% to 2.45% of playing time, while Northern Ireland came 13th after a fall from 1.79% to 1.53%.
In the Scottish Premiership, Scottish players spent fewer minutes on the pitch, from 55.66% to 50.78% of the total.
England's Championship saw the percentage of minutes by English players fall to 46.38% from 52.11% last season.
Click here to read the findings for Scottish players
Click here to read the findings for Welsh players
September 2013 FA Commission is set up on how to improve the national team's fortunes. Aim set for 45% of Premier League players to be English by 2022. England last at this level in 2000. It was 69% 20 years ago.
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May 2014 Four-point plan is put forward by FA: a new tier within the Football League for Premier League B teams, a reduction of non-homegrown players in squads from 17 to 12, a cap on non-EU players and "strategic loan partnerships" between clubs.
June 2014 England are knocked out of the World Cup at the group stage for the first time in 56 years.
September 2014 Close of a record transfer window, with Premier League clubs spending £835m, with 63% of that going on foreign stars. FA releases draft proposals to reduce the number of non-EU players by 50% through tighter visa controls.
Robbie Savage, BBC Sport pundit: "The easiest thing to say is that, if an English player or a British player doesn't make it, his excuse is 'well, they bought a foreign player'. It is a ready-made excuse.
"You are not telling me now that if Everton had bought a youngster from a foreign club that would have stopped Ross Barkley from coming through?"
Dan Jones, partner at accountants Deloitte UK's Sports Business Group: "It's a virtuous circle. You have the best TV deals, which gives clubs the ability to bring the best players here.
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"Because the best players are here, more people watch on TV which means the TV deal goes up. The Premier League has been in that circle for at least the last 15 years if not 20."
Graham Taylor, former England boss: "We have to understand we are not going to stop the foreign influx in our game, particularly with European laws.
"When I was manager I could see a game and 15 or 16 on the pitch were English, now it is the other way around."
Michael Woods, who left Chelsea in 2011 without making a league appearance: "I don't think introducing three English players in each team would detract from the Premier league being the best in the world. You're still going to have your Sergio Agueros, your Luis Suarezes."
Click here to read Woods tell his story in intimate and emotional detail.
Sean Dyche, Burnley boss: "[The number of English players at Burnley] is not done by design. Nowadays you need a more European-based recruitment staff and we've had to build that.
"The challenge has been more financial than the actual thought of whether they are British players or not."
Study group the CIES Football Observatory last week reported that Europe's big five leagues had an average foreign player ratio of 45.9%, with Ligue 1 at 31.6%, Spain 38.9%, Germany 43.5% and Italy 54.8%.
According to State of the Game, the Premier League's non-UK ratio is 55.07% and 63.92% for non-English.
In 2002, German officials launched an overhaul of their youth system, an intervention heralded as a key moment in their journey to winning the 2014 World Cup.
Lutz Pfannenstiel, first-team scout at Bundesliga club Hoffenheim, said: "We were like other European countries, signing foreigners for the sake of it. When we restructured we decided as a country to go for young players and if possible German.
"Now any player from another country has to be absolutely outstanding. We no longer see the point in taking a player we can maybe find at the same level in Germany."
Plans include only allowing children to start primary school once they have reached the age of four and moving to monthly bin collections.
Outsourcing waste collection, franchising school catering services and halving funding for Powys theatres are also being considered.
Council leader Barry Thomas said "very difficult choices" had to be made.
Other proposals include:
The cuts are in addition to reductions of nearly £40m the authority has made since 2012.
Mr Thomas said: "The cabinet's proposals will now be taken forward to a budget seminar for all members of council on 16th September, and later in September, the public will be consulted by an online budget simulator.
"This is a process where the public can indicate their priorities for achieving the required saving of £27m, and the outcome of this process will provide vital information for the cabinet and council to consider as the budget process moves forward."
The 27-year-old man's body was found at an address on Bottom Boat Road, Stanley, at about 09:35 GMT on Thursday.
West Yorkshire Police said he had "suffered serious stab injuries".
Appealing for information, Det Supt Elizabeth Belton, of West Yorkshire Police, said: "This is a very serious incident which is now being treated as a murder enquiry."
She added: "A forensic post-mortem [examination] will take place to determine the exact cause of death but it is apparent the victim suffered stab injuries some time before he was found."
The setting created by Dattatec.com has clocked more than 9,000 downloads in a few hours, after "going viral".
Despite the pro-Argentina stance of the game, the developers say they mean no disrespect.
Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falklands, but last month islanders voted overwhelmingly to remain British.
The game opens with a promotional video that says "in 1982, Argentines fought the English to claim back the sovereignty of the Malvinas" - the Spanish name for the islands.
As in any Counter Strike game, there are two opposing groups of four players: police and terrorists.
In the Falklands version, the Argentines are the police and start the game in the Argentine Cemetery.
Their foes have their base in Port Stanley, the Falklands capital, but it is identified with its Argentine name, Puerto Argentino.
The Argentine web hosting company responsible for the online game told the BBC it was not seeking controversy, but wanted to honour Argentine troops who died in the 1982 Falklands conflict.
"It's a tribute. We wanted to honour our fallen heroes. We went to the Malvinas last year and deposited a bottle in the cemetery, full of messages people left for the soldiers," Dattatec press officer Fernando Llorente told the BBC.
Local landmarks are reproduced in the game, but no Union flags can be seen.
"In the Malvinas map, there are no English flags on show due to the respect, glory and honour to the fallen," the company's press release says.
The game's release comes amid tension over the islands, as Argentina continues its diplomatic campaign for sovereignty.
On Tuesday, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman asked the United Nations to mediate in the dispute.
Mr Timerman presented his case at meetings with the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, and the head of the UN Decolonisation Committee, Diego Morejon.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has also asked the newly elected Pope Francis, who is Argentine, to intercede in the dispute.
In a two-day referendum on the Falkland Islands earlier this month, just three residents out of 1,517 voted against remaining British.
In 1982 Argentina's military invaded the Falklands but was repulsed by a British task force.
An estimated 650 Argentines, 255 British servicemen and three islanders died in the conflict.
Output, new orders and employment numbers all declined in February among manufacturing firms surveyed on behalf of Ulster Bank.
Its monthly Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) says the NI manufacturing sector "is enduring more difficult conditions than its counterpart in Great Britain".
However, the NI service sector is "outperforming" its UK equivalent.
As a result, overall the private sector has maintained a "solid start to the year".
New orders picked up to their fastest rate in eight months.
The bank's chief economist, Richard Ramsey, said: "It should be remembered that whilst Northern Ireland is enjoying stronger rates of growth than the UK as a whole this is from a lower base.
"We are playing catch-up. Our recovery until now has been slower and is therefore at a less advanced stage."
The bank's monthly PMI is a survey of firms that tracks indicators such as new orders, employment and exports.
The double Grand Slam winning coach led the Lions to their first series win for 16 years in Australia in 2013.
Lions chief executive John Feehan confirmed the 52-year-old was the "leading contender" for the three-Test Tour to Gatland's native New Zealand.
Gatland said: "If I was offered the job it would be difficult to turn down."
Joe Schmidt, who led Ireland to Six Nations titles in 2014 and 2015, is the most likely challenger to fellow Kiwi Gatland as coach for the 2017 tour.
But the Ireland boss insists he is not considering the Lions job because his contract does not allow it, describing it as a "moot point".
The Lions, who have won just one series against the All Blacks in eight tours, will play three Tests against the world champions as well as facing all five of New Zealand's Super Rugby franchises.
Asked about a possible Lions duel with his compatriot Schmidt, Gatland joked: "He can have the job if he wants!
"It's the hardest place in the world to go and play, not just from a rugby perspective but from a travel and organisation perspective. Looking at that schedule of New Zealand, if I wasn't involved it wouldn't bother me.
"It is such a tough schedule for five or six weeks - five Super Rugby sides, the New Zealand Maoris, three Tests and other games.
"There's probably a part of me that says please don't pick me to be the Lions coach. I'd rather go and enjoy it as a spectator."
Only Ian McGeechan has coached more than one post-war Lions tour and Gatland, who led Wasps to Heineken Cup success in 2004, was his assistant on their 2-1 series defeat in South Africa in 2009.
Connor Beck had last been seen in Lochmaben High Street at about 09:30.
A major search operation was carried out and the public was asked to check sheds and outhouses in the area for the Lochmaben Primary pupil.
Police confirmed in late afternoon that the boy had been traced unharmed.
In 2005 officers were alerted to 365 fires in the capital, but last year there were only 112 - a fall of 69%.
The 572 calls to Brigade Control on Bonfire Night in 2014 were down 58% on 5 November 2005, when 1,372 were made.
More people tend to go to organised displays now rather than letting off their own fireworks, an LFB spokesman said when asked to interpret the data.
"It's fantastic that people are heeding our safety advice and reducing the number of calls and fires we have on 5 November," said operations director Dave Brown.
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Nearly 1,000 fires were attended across London over the Diwali, Halloween, and Bonfire Night period from 24 October to 10 November in 2014.
During the corresponding period in 2006 LFB attended 2,293 fires.
Hoax calls have also seen a sharp decrease during the last decade, with officers attending 54 malicious calls between 24 October and 10 November in 2014, down from 185 in 2006.
The Fire Brigades' Union (FBU) agreed there had been a downward trend, but said recent cuts still "jeopardise people's safety".
A spokesman said: "With the closure of 10 fire stations in London last year, removal of 16 fire appliances in London alone and the loss of 600 frontline fire fighters, data shows that response times were increased.
"Last week, a man in Camden lost his life because response times were double what they should have been."
The borough with the highest number of fires attended on 5 November was Tower Hamlets, with 374 on Bonfire Night since 2006, whereas the City of London only had six.
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Perhaps the first minister will get a better reception here than he feels he's had in London.
UK ministers think they have been very accommodating. Brexit secretary David Davis says they've "bent over backwards" for the devolved administrations.
And yet Mr Jones complained this week about letters to Downing Street going unanswered and the difficulty of arranging meetings.
He also put AMs on notice of a possible "constitutional crisis".
Today the UK Government has publish its European Union (Withdrawal) Bill - previously described as the Repeal Bill - copying EU regulations and pasting them on to the statute book.
As part of the "bending over backwards strategy" a draft copy has been sent to Cathays Park. But the Welsh Government is unimpressed.
At issue is what happens to powers returning to Brussels in devolved policies.
All sides say new UK-wide rules - on paying farm subsidies, for example - will have to be agreed upon.
But while the Welsh Government thinks the powers should come directly to Cardiff before talks start, the UK Government has talked about powers stopping off in London en route in a "holding pattern".
At least that was the plan before the general election. If the bill published today doesn't satisfy the first minister, he'll invite the assembly to withhold its legislative consent.
That would be a symbolic defeat for the UK Government, but Theresa May need not necessarily pay much attention. Such votes are not legally binding on Parliament.
Possibly of more interest is the Welsh Government's threat to publish a mini repeal bill for Wales - the Continuity Bill. This will transpose EU rules that apply to the assembly into Welsh law.
What will happen if the UK Government ignores the Continuity Bill and carries on regardless?
Mr Jones told AMs this week: "It's the issue of whether the UK Government and House of Lords particularly would see it as constitutionally proper to overturn legislation that's passed in this assembly, thus prompting a constitutional crisis."
If he pushes ahead - and a lot of preparatory work on a Continuity Bill has happened behind the scenes - Mr Jones will publish the bill in the autumn. He would also ask to change the Assembly's rules so legislation can be sped through before the repeal bill passes in Westminster.
As one of his aides put it to me, with so much work on their hands, why would UK ministers want to "pick a battle on the home front as well"?
Counselling sessions for girls who gave their location as Scotland rose from 53 in 2015-16 to 108 in 2016-17.
Calls from boys was up from five in 2015-2016 to 20 last year.
With some callers not giving their gender, the total number of counselling sessions delivered rose from 106 to 150.
UK figures revealed that Childline gave 3,135 counselling sessions on exam stress in 2016-17 - a rise of 11% over two years.
More than a fifth of those took place in May as pupils faced upcoming exams, with many telling counsellors they were struggling with subjects, excessive workloads and feeling unprepared.
Children aged 12-15 were most likely to be counselled about exam stress.
But this year saw the biggest rise - up 21% on 2015-16 - amongst 16-18-year-olds, many of whom were preparing for exams to determine university places.
The charity said young people consistently told counsellors exam stress was contributing to "depression, anxiety, panic attacks, excessive crying, low self-esteem, self-harming and suicidal thoughts".
Joanna Barrett, acting national head of NSPCC Scotland, said: "Every year we hear from thousands of children who are struggling to cope with the pressure to succeed in exams.
"For some this can feel so insurmountable that it causes crippling anxiety and stress and in some cases contributes to mental health issues or even suicidal thoughts and feelings.
"Exams are important but worrying and panicking about them can be counterproductive, leaving young people unable to revise and prepare.
"It is vital that young people are supported by family, friends and teachers during the exam period to help them do the best they can.
"Childline is also here 24/7 for any young person needing confidential support and advice."
Cao Chengle, 72, lives in a ramshackle home surrounded by reminders that many migrant workers from his village have been much luckier than his son.
"Look at the other people," he tells me. "They've all made it and have built big houses. But we're living like cavemen."
In 2004, as a BBC reporter based in London, I was sent to Morecambe Bay to cover the aftermath of the death of 23 Chinese workers cut off and drowned by the rising tide as they collected cockles from the sand.
I interviewed the lifeboatmen who pulled the dead bodies from the water that night. I spoke to people still busy raking up shellfish, some of them foreign migrants. And I wondered, of course, about those lost lives.
Who were they? What kind of homes had they left behind?
Now 10 years later and 6,000 miles (10,000km) from Morecambe, Cao Chengle is answering those questions for me in the village of Cangxi in China's eastern Fujian province.
In late 2003, his son Cao Chaokun, then 35 years old, paid a gang of people-smugglers to take him to Europe.
A little more than a month later, he found himself working in England, on a bracing cold beach, along with a large group of fellow Chinese migrants.
It was hard, poorly paid work in a landscape which, to the untrained eye, could appear dangerously, deceptively serene.
On the night of 5 February 2004, they ventured far out on to the sandbanks in the dark, with the tide already beginning to turn.
A few hours later, they were marooned and then engulfed as the waters swept in around them.
The recordings of the desperate phone calls made in broken English to the emergency services that night make chilling listening.
It is the sound of 23 unregistered, undocumented lives slipping away beyond the reach of a society they'd never been part of.
For the British public, the disaster offered a glimpse into the risks and abuses inherent in the illegal economy.
It played into the already charged immigration debate and led directly to a new law regulating the agents who employ groups of vulnerable agricultural workers.
But today, for the families left behind in China, it continues to mean just one thing; hardship.
"It would be much better if he was still here," Cao Chaokun's father tells me.
"He'd be making money, he'd be able to support his family. Now the burden is on us, two people in their seventies, and our daughter-in-law."
Standing on the sands in Morecambe back in 2004, I remember speculating about the kind of desperation that would drive people to come so far at such a cost.
On reflection though, standing now in one of the villages they left behind, that question somehow seems to have missed the real point.
There is certainly poverty in eastern China, but there is no starvation or serious deprivation.
In fact, the most striking sight is that of the big houses that Cao Chaokun's father so badly craves. They're everywhere.
Giant, ostentatious, multi-storey piles that at first glance you could easily mistake for apartment blocks until you realise they are almost all single family homes.
And many of them have been built with money earned by family members working overseas.
At this house, a husband away in Australia doing interior decoration; next door, a son in America working in a restaurant; over the road, a brother in South Africa importing and selling Chinese-made goods.
The scene is repeated in every village we drive through.
Fujian provides a stark illustration of what motivates economic migrants everywhere.
Not always a flight from squalid desperation but often just a simple desire to do better.
A European Union-funded study published last year suggests that since 1980, from Fujian alone, more than one million Chinese migrants have gone overseas in search of that better life.
Up to half of them, according to Chinese government research, may have gone through illegal channels.
When Cao Chaokun drowned at Morecambe, his son, Cao Xianyong was just six years old. Today, the teenager still lives in the village of Cangxi and shares a humble one-room home with his mother and sister. It is surrounded on every side by the taller, newer buildings.
And despite what happened to his father, he is keen to follow in his footsteps.
"When I'm older I want to make money to save my mother from working too hard," he tells me.
"I want to go abroad. I want to go the US and start from the beginning, take it slowly and when I have enough money, open a restaurant."
The Cangxi village officials introduce me to another mother and father who, they tell me, also lost a son in England.
It appears to be a welcome and unexpected chance to hear, first-hand, about the effects of the Morecambe tragedy on another family and they agree to be interviewed.
"The last words my son said to me were 'mother don't cry'," 69-year-old Chen Yuying tells me. "He said he'd only be there for a few years.'"
But suddenly my translator is looking baffled and I can sense her searching for clarification as the conversation continues in a mixture of Mandarin and the Fujianese dialect. Then there's an awkward pause.
"Their son didn't die at Morecambe," she tells me. "He died a few years earlier, in June 2000."
Cao Xiangping was one of the 58 Chinese migrants found suffocated to death in the back of a lorry at the port of Dover.
His parents, of course, had no idea that we'd come to Cangxi to focus only on one tragedy and for the somewhat superficial purpose of marking its anniversary.
But that two families, living a stone's throw from each other in one village in China, should suffer the same loss four years apart is not just a coincidence.
It underlines the fact that so many people from this part of China have gone abroad and the risks that they take in doing so.
The same EU-funded study cited above suggests that illegal Chinese migration, particularly people-smuggling, is now in decline.
Since 2004, the number of alternative, legal and much safer ways of leaving China has increased, including a big jump in Chinese student numbers.
The destinations of choice appear to be changing too.
In Fujian, people tell us that back in 2004, the UK was one of the most popular destinations.
Today, they say few people want to go there, heading instead for what they see as the better economic opportunities on offer in Australia or America.
And the statistics appear to confirm that trend. Over the 10 years prior to 2008, the UK population of migrants from mainland China, both legal and illegal, was growing at an average of 35,000 a year.
But since 2008, when Britain's economic boom ground to a halt, it has slowed to just 10,000 a year - although it should be noted that these figures are broad estimates with a significant margin of error.
If nothing else, they suggest that while tougher controls and tighter borders are easy political promises to make, in the end, a recession might be a more effective tool in curbing illegal immigration.
In one regard, the families of the Morecambe Bay cockle pickers have been lucky.
The money to pay the human traffickers was borrowed, around £20,000 pounds ($33,000) each, leaving their surviving relatives with the large debts.
These have since been covered by a generous charitable donation, more than half a million pounds in total, raised by the British public.
But in Fujian, we learned of two other children whose father died at Morecambe already working abroad, one in Australia, the other in Zimbabwe.
Those who haven't gone already are more than likely to be dreaming about doing the same.
Six people attended the hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court, while a further five accused did not appear.
They are the first to face criminal proceedings as a result of a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation into alleged manipulation of Euribor.
The rate is used to set trillions of dollars of financial contracts.
It is a cousin to the UK's Libor and is the average interest rate at which eurozone banks lend to each other.
The 11 traders are accused of conspiracy to defraud by manipulating the rate between 2005 and 2009.
At the hearing on Monday, Christian Bittar, 44, a former senior trader at Deutsche Bank, was ordered to pay a £1m bail.
Achim Kraemer, 51, who the court heard still works for Deutsche Bank, was ordered to pay a security of £100,000.
Four former Barclays traders also appeared in court and were given bail orders: Colin Bermingham, 59, from Aldeburgh, Suffolk; Carlo Palombo, 37, from California; Philippe Moryoussef, 47, of Singapore; and Sisse Bohart, 38, of Denmark.
Former Societe Generale banker Stephane Esper was not present. Four other Deutsche Bank employees who were due to face charges also did not attend.
In August, former City trader Tom Hayes became the first person to be convicted for fixing the Libor rate.
He later had his sentence reduced from 14 years to 11 years in prison.
The crash happened on the London-bound carriageway of the M20 at about 02:10 GMT, Kent Police said.
The London-bound carriageway was closed between junction 11 for Hythe and junction 12 near Ashford while officers investigated the crash.
The section of the motorway was reopened at 11:45, a police spokesman said. Any witnesses have been asked to contact Kent Police.
North, 24, landed on his head after a high tackle from Adam Thompstone in his side's 19-11 defeat against Leicester Tigers on Saturday, 3 December.
"I read some reports he must finish and stop playing. He doesn't want to be treated like that," Mallinder said.
"All George wants to do is get back and play rugby."
The Wales international previously had a six-month spell out of the game after suffering a series of blows to the head during matches, including a serious concussion when scoring a try against Wasps in March 2015.
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The former Scarlets winger will sit out Northampton's game against Sale Sharks on Boxing Day because of the incident, despite saying he was not knocked out.
"He said he can remember going up in the air, he remembers landing on the floor, he remembers his head striking the floor and he said he wasn't unconscious," Mallinder told BBC Look East.
"That's not saying that he was not knocked unconscious briefly. If he thought he had been concussed, then George is sensible enough to put his hand up and say 'I'm concussed and I need some time out of the game'.
"He went to see the specialist on Tuesday, who backed up that he hasn't got any symptoms. But because he may have been knocked unconscious, we must treat it as a concussive episode and therefore we will not play him for a couple of weeks."
A concussion review group was formed to investigate how North's case was handled and whether the club have a case to answer, but Mallinder is not worried.
"I want it [the report] to be favourable towards the medics and the rugby club, because I know that they haven't intentionally done anything wrong," he continued.
"I hope it's honest and accurate."
A photo of the stricken bird, wrapped up safely, was posted on social media by police after the rescue from the M5 near Stroud, Gloucestershire.
The "swan selfie" sparked a pun-filled response on Twitter with many comparing the incident to the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost comedy film.
Another said the pair were involved in a game of "cobs and robbers".
The swan was driven away from the scene unharmed.
Hot Fuzz was released in 2007 and followed two hapless police officers investigating deaths in the fictional town of Sandford.
But much of the film was shot in the city of Wells in Somerset.
NHS England introduced new waiting time targets in 2016 to ensure fast treatment for under-19s with disorders like anorexia and bulimia.
But eating disorder charity Beat said too many young people were still waiting too long for treatment.
And it said many others were suffering in silence.
This is the first time data has been released on waiting times for children and adolescents with eating disorders in England since the targets were introduced.
The targets state that there should be no more than one week between referral and the start of treatment for urgent cases and four weeks for routine cases.
After one year the stats show that, on average, 65% of young patients started urgent treatment within one week during 2016-17 - equivalent to 660 children and adolescents.
A total of 10% had to wait longer than four weeks to start "urgent" treatment, with 13 individuals delayed for more than 12 weeks for their first treatment.
For routine cases, 73% of patients started treatment within four weeks last year - equal to 3,102 youngsters.
One in four had to wait longer than the target four weeks for routine treatment and 5% waited three months or more.
NHS England said it showed that "a substantial proportion of children and young people are receiving the care they need swiftly".
By 2020, 95% of children and young people should be treated within these time frames, NHS England says.
Eating disorders can develop at any age but young people are most at risk of developing these serious mental illnesses, with girls making up around 80% of cases.
In total in the UK, 725,000 people are thought to be affected by eating disorders.
An NHS England spokesman said targets were part of a drive to improve services at a local and national level.
"Alongside the new waiting time standard, 67 dedicated community eating disorders services are being developed and recruitment to get the teams up to full capacity is well under way.
"Our goal is to ensure that increasing numbers of children and young people will receive swift, effective eating disorder treatment," he said.
Tom Quinn, from charity Beat, said the number of people not getting treatment could be much higher than the figures suggest.
"The report shows only those who have been referred to eating disorder services and we know that many are not referred for treatment when they should be, or are still suffering in silence.
"There is more work to be done to ensure that the figures are accurate and also not skewed by sufferers being denied access to treatment."
He said he was pleased the government had started the process of improving access to treatment for young people - but there was more that could be done.
"Of course, eating disorders do not disappear when someone becomes an adult, and so we must see equivalent targets established across all age groups.
"Whoever forms the next government must ensure there is adequate funding and staffing levels so everyone gets the treatment they deserve."
Dr Dasha Nicholls, chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' eating disorders faculty, said the figures showed "a dramatic improvement" in accessing child and adolescent eating disorder services.
"This is a phenomenal achievement when compared to standard healthcare targets such as the 18 week wait for non-urgent hospital operations."
"There is work to be done, but getting to this point just 12 months into a 5-year plan is extremely encouraging and a step in the right direction."
GLAdys - named after the airport's international code - will entertain passengers in the departure area with songs, dancing and stories.
She is said to be the first robot to be used by a UK airport.
GLAdys is part of a trial that could eventually see more robots used to interact and help direct passengers around the airport.
The 4ft humanoid has been dressed in a Santa outfit and programmed to sing and dance to Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rocking around the Christmas Tree and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, as the airport prepares for Christmas.
It is the latest development in the airport's digital passenger experience project, designed to explore how customer engagement can be enhanced through digital technology.
Former Germany Under-21 international Hofmann joined Brentford from Kaiserslauten for an undisclosed fee in July 2015.
The 24-year-old featured in only 33 games in two seasons with the Championship club, scoring four goals.
"It is a move that is in the best interests of all parties," co-director of football Phil Giles said.
"It is fair to say that things haven't worked out as well as either Philipp or Brentford would have hoped since he signed in 2015.
"We were therefore keen to find a new club for Philipp to give him a fresh start and a chance to play games."
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Sam Habergham sliced Jake Cassidy's cross into his own net to gift Guiseley a 12th-minute lead at Sincil Bank.
The Imps responded with an Alan Power penalty on 57 minutes before Adam Boyes was sent off for Guiseley with 10 minutes remaining.
Lincoln took full advantage to score late goals through Sean Raggett and Nathan Arnold, while Danny Lowe was also given his marching orders in a frantic finish.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Lincoln City 3, Guiseley 1.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 3, Guiseley 1.
Substitution, Guiseley. Elliot Green replaces Jordan Preston.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Callum Howe replaces Matt Rhead.
Goal! Lincoln City 3, Guiseley 1. Nathan Arnold (Lincoln City).
Second yellow card to Danny Lowe (Guiseley) for a bad foul.
Goal! Lincoln City 2, Guiseley 1. Sean Raggett (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jack Muldoon replaces Alan Power.
Second yellow card to Adam Boyes (Guiseley) for a bad foul.
Bradley Wood (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Terry Hawkridge (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Guiseley 1. Alan Power (Lincoln City) converts the penalty with a.
Ashley Palmer (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Adam Marriott replaces Theo Robinson.
Marcus Williams (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Lincoln City 0, Guiseley 1.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 0, Guiseley 1.
Alan Power (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card.
Adam Boyes (Guiseley) is shown the yellow card.
Own Goal by Sam Habergham, Lincoln City. Lincoln City 0, Guiseley 1.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Southwold mayor Melanie Tucker said her chain of office, from the 1800s, was taken along with those of her consort and deputy over the weekend.
They were stolen from Southwold Town Hall.
Ms Tucker told the BBC: "The town hall has been violated by people who have broken in and who appear to have known what they were looking for."
Suffolk Police said thieves forced entry via the rear of the building on Market Place and made "an untidy search" before taking the three civic chains.
Ms Tucker said: "The mayor's chain is a splendid item with discs on it that show the mayors' names over the years - it is a formal ceremonial chain and something that is very precious to us.
"The boxes that the chains were stored in were ripped off the wall so there has been some damage, but fortunately no damage to individuals."
Police said the break-in happened at some point between Friday and Monday.
Community Links co-founder David Robinson was invited to Downing St in May to discuss the social policy idea.
But in an open letter he urged the PM to "allow us to draw breath" and phase in plans to remove Legal Aid funding.
The government said charities could not be immune from cuts but it aimed to open up new funding sources.
Mr Cameron has championed the concept of the "big society", which encourages greater personal and family responsibility and community activism.
Community Links, an east London-based charity which provides welfare services, such as housing and debt advice, employment support and youth clubs, was praised by Mr Cameron as an "inspiring" organisation.
Mr Robinson was among charity representatives invited to Downing Street to discuss it with the PM and Deputy PM Nick Clegg after the general election.
In his letter, he said he admired the prime minister's "big hearted vision" and respected his "clear sighted perseverance" in pursuing it.
But he said he was worried about the impact of spending cuts and that organisations like his, which should be the "bedrock of the big society", were "wobbling".
Mr Robinson drew particular attention to changes to Legal Aid and the New Deal which, he said, put most of Community Links' budget for 2011-12 at risk.
With big changes to the welfare system due to come in, he said the government had acknowledged there would be initial confusion - and expected agencies like his to provide support.
"Removing legal aid funding for advice on welfare benefits will wipe out agencies who would otherwise resolve these problems and there is next to no chance of local councils picking up the tab when most are stopping funding, not increasing it," he said.
He said many of the disadvantaged - particularly the elderly - would instead struggle on until they reached crisis point - illness or eviction.
Warning against a "barrage of uncoordinated cuts that hit the poorest hardest" he urged the PM to phase in planned cuts and do a "serious and urgent impact assessment", giving groups more time to adjust. He proposed allowing Legal Aid to support groups giving advice until welfare reforms were "bedded down".
"Allow us to draw breath or you will kill off the agencies you need to build the society you seek," he said.
"You've staked your political future on the prospect of a stronger, more compassionate society. Don't let your own government's policies undermine it."
Plans for a "Big society bank" were announced by the prime minister in July. The independent organisation would help generate income for voluntary groups and social enterprises, using funding from money reclaimed from dormant bank accounts - the aim was to have it established by April 2011.
Mr Robinson said £5bn was needed for the sector, not including the unclaimed assets, to fund preventative work with people "at risk" from social problems.
The Cabinet Office said Britain was "in an appalling financial mess" and charities and social enterprises "cannot be immune from the necessary reductions in spending".
But a spokesman said: "Despite having had to take difficult decisions, the government is determined to open up new sources of funding for charities and voluntary groups to give them independence from state hand-outs and cut away the red tape that holds them back.
"The big society bank will use money from dormant bank accounts to help capitalise the sector and we have worked quickly to open up a £100m short-term fund to help charities and voluntary groups through this transition period."
He added that a total of £470m would be invested in the four years to 2014-15 to support charities and voluntary groups and money would be "targeted where it is needed most" - including a £50m Community First Fund for the most deprived areas and, £10m to match fund private donations.
Hay Castle Trust bought the site in 2011 and architects have spent the past year working on the project.
It will include creating a route which links the castle and Hay-on-Wye town.
If Brecon Beacons National Park Authority approves the plans when it meets in March, building work could start at the end of the year and be complete by early 2018.
But her previous comments have caused controversy and claims of anti-Semitism in student politics.
Ms Bouattia was the co-author of an article describing Birmingham University as "something of a Zionist outpost".
She has also been accused of not supporting a motion condemning the so-called Islamic State.
But the NUS says this was because she disputed the wording of the motion and not the principle.
"Some committee members felt that the wording of the motion being presented would unfairly demonise all Muslims rather than solely the group of people it set out to rightfully condemn," said an NUS spokeswoman about the vote in 2014.
The NUS says a subsequent motion condemned "the politics and methods of ISIS" and that this re-worded policy was supported by Ms Bouattia.
"NUS does not support ISIS and has always condemned violent terrorism," said a union spokeswoman.
The newly-elected NUS leader has promised to put "liberation at the heart of our work".
"From cuts to maintenance grants, college closures, the black attainment gap and the Prevent agenda, the number of voices and groups being silenced by this government grows by day."
Ms Bouattia's campaigns have included "Why Is My Curriculum White?" and she has opposed the government's Prevent counter-extremism strategy.
In 2011, she co-wrote a blog for a Friends of Palestine campaign group saying that "the University of Birmingham is something of a Zionist outpost in British Higher Education".
The group also publicised that they were "re-enacting an Israeli checkpoint outside the university's main library".
In a 2014 video from a Gaza and Palestinian Revolution event she questioned the value of the Middle East peace talks and warned of the influence of "mainstream Zionist-led media outlets".
BBC Newsnight has found that the election of the new president has raised questions about whether some student unions could face calls to leave the NUS, including both Oxford and Cambridge universities.
"Cambridge students should be given a chance to decide whether or not to remain part of the increasingly toxic culture and management of the NUS. Our students' union should represent what we want," said student Jack May.
But Wes Streeting, a Labour MP and former NUS president, said: "This is not the time to walk away."
"Students have never needed a strong, credible national voice more than they do now and moderate, mainstream students need to reclaim control of NUS," he told Newsnight.
The Labour MP had earlier tweeted: "NUS is lost I'm afraid." He said "it no longer represents students well".
Last week Ms Bouattia responded to an open letter signed by university Jewish society leaders, rejecting claims of prejudice.
"It seems I have been misrepresented. I am extremely uncomfortable with insinuations of anti-Semitism.
"I want to be clear that for me to take issue with Zionist politics is not me taking issue with being Jewish.
"In fact, Zionist politics are held by people from a variety of different faiths, as are anti-Zionist politics.
"It is a political argument, not one of faith," she said.
But Labour MP John Mann, and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism, said the NUS "is not doing enough to combat anti-Jewish hatred, and as such is failing in its responsibilities to its members".
George Osborne repeated claims that working families would pay £3,000 more in tax under a Labour government.
Labour's Ed Miliband said the figures were "made up".
And Mr Osborne was pressed on whether his party planned to roll child benefit into Universal Credit - which Labour claimed would mean more than four million families losing £1,000 a year.
Throughout the day, senior Conservatives have been repeatedly asked to identify a specific cut from the £12bn they have committed to reducing from the welfare budget.
Asked a number of times at a press conference, Mr Osborne reiterated the Conservatives' stance that they have set out their principles on how to make further cuts.
"You can look at our track record, the £21bn we've saved in this parliament. You can look at the principles we'll apply to future such savings. It's perfectly achievable.
"Anyone who thinks the job of reforming welfare has somehow been completed, I think, is mistaken.
"We want to go on creating a welfare system that rewards those who work and the aspirations of families and protects the most vulnerable."
Mr Osborne also refused to rule out explicitly wrapping child benefit into Universal Credit.
This election issue includes access to benefits (apart from pensions), poverty and inequality.
"If we wanted to put child benefit into the Universal Credit, we would have done it when we set up Universal Credit," he told reporters.
"We've got a track record. We've got a plan based on clear principles. I've given you a very clear answer, and you have to be a contortionist to think I've not given you a pretty clear answer."
The Conservative exchequer secretary, Priti Patel, was also asked if this wrapping of child benefit would be used as part of savings to the welfare budget.
"We've made it clear and we've said that we need to find £12bn in welfare savings", she said, adding that such a wrapping was "not our policy... and there are other ways in which we can find those savings".
Universal Credit is the coalition government's welfare reform which aims to simplify the benefits system by rolling a string of benefits and tax credits into one payment.
It is being rolled out in stages after being hit by delays and IT problems but will eventually take in jobseeker's allowance, income-related employment and support allowance, income support, child tax credit, working tax credit and housing benefit.
During his press conference, Mr Osborne attacked Labour's economic plans, saying the party would create a "permanent, never-ending budget deficit".
Labour would spend more than they raised year after year which would lead to them borrowing £30bn a year to fund capital spending, he added.
He repeated the claim of a £3,000 tax hike for working families, a figure which had been dismissed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies as "unhelpful".
Speaking during a question-and-answer session at a science park in Bristol, Mr Miliband said of the tax figures: "They're wrong on every level… they're made up.
"All it shows is that they've got nothing to say about the future of our country.
"I think it is the most negative, poor and pathetic campaign being run by the Conservative Party,"
Mr Osborne also said earlier that Tony Blair was doing the Conservative Party a "very good service" by "advertising the Conservatives' promise of a referendum on European Union membership".
"Mr Blair will do the minimum asked of him during the election campaign to avoid being blamed for Labour's defeat 'when it comes'," Mr Osborne told reporters.
He also claimed Mr Blair's refusal to share a platform with Mr Miliband showed that Mr Blair thought he was "weak".
Mr Blair made his speech in his former constituency of Sedgefield in County Durham, while Mr Miliband was in the west of England.
Mr Blair "can speak for himself," Mr Miliband said. Mr Blair's intervention was "quite important" on its own terms, he added.
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After the deal closed, a renamed Yahoo will mainly hold a stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which had a blockbuster day on Wall Street.
Yahoo's gains helped lift the Nasdaq 0.4% to 6,321.76 points.
The Dow Jones was almost flat at 21,182.53 points, while the broader S&P 500 fell very slightly to 2,433.79.
Verizon investors appeared more sceptical of the $4.5bn deal, which was delayed after Yahoo disclosed data breaches, falling 0.7%.
Verizon expects to cut about 2,000 jobs after its purchase of Yahoo's internet business goes through next week, according to reports.
Consumer-focused firms also closed down despite a 10% bounce for Nordstrom, which said it was considering going private.
But financial stocks outperformed, as Republicans pressed ahead with a bid to roll back financial rules imposed after the 2008 crisis.
Although the measures are unlikely to become law, the bill's success in the House signals commitment to some type of reform.
Ocwen Financial rose 2.7% after the loan servicer came under pressure from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which would be seriously weakened under Thursday's measure.
Goldman Sachs closed up 1.4%, JP Morgan Chase added 1.25% and Bank of America climbed 1.6%.
The markets generally were overshadowed by political news, as UK voters headed to the polls and former FBI Director James Comey answered questions in Washington about his dealings with President Donald Trump.
Mr Trump fired Mr Comey earlier this year amid an FBI investigation into Russian ties to the Trump campaign. The move has generated political backlash and hurt the president's standing in Washington.
Tia, 12, disappeared on Friday on her way to shop at the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, south London.
Officers from West Yorkshire Police are involved to draw on their expertise.
Police warned local searchers not to enter private property after two people were threatened with a weapon.
Eighty officers are involved in the search for Tia, who went missing after a visit to her grandmother's house in New Addington in Croydon.
The disappearance of nine-year-old Shannon in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, prompted a large-scale police search in 2008.
Twenty-four days later she was found alive under a bed in Batley Carr, less than a mile from her home.
Shannon's mother Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan - the uncle of Ms Matthews's partner - were convicted in December 2008 of the child's kidnap, which they committed in a plan to claim £50,000 in reward money.
Tia was last seen her grandmother's home a week ago.
Her uncle David Sharp told reporters at the spot: "Everyone is trying to do their best by sticking together and keeping everything tight and supporting each other.
"I don't know what has happened to Tia. I don't want anyone to think the worst has happened to Tia."
In a message to her, he said: "Come home. There is no trouble. Walk through that door."
The partner of Tia's mother, 29-year-old David Niles, added: "Just find my little girl, just find my little girl please."
A Met spokesman said it was "routine" to liaise with all forces that have dealt with similar cases.
"This case is like the Shannon Matthews case," he said.
"This is a missing persons case and we are putting all our resources into finding her."
Stuart Hazell - the partner of Tia's grandmother Christine Sharp - was questioned by police as a witness for more than two hours on Wednesday.
The search for Tia has prompted a huge community effort with hundreds of people turning out to search woodland and fields and hand out leaflets.
But police have confirmed that at about 00:15 BST on Thursday two people from a search party were threatened with a weapon as they tried to search a garage in Foxcombe, New Addington.
A Met police spokesman said: "Two people from the search party were confronted by the homeowner.
"It was alleged the homeowner threatened the residents with a weapon.
"This was later reported at a local police station and officers from Croydon CID are now investigating. No arrests were made."
The police force has reminded people not to enter private property without permission.
Local councillor Carole Bonner said police had asked residents to concentrate on giving out leaflets and not to conduct their own searches.
She said: "People want to be doing something."
The councillor added that local people had "proved their worth" in their "fantastic" efforts so far.
Sue Randall, secretary of Croydon Rugby Club, which had become a gathering point, said she has been advised by police to close the club until further notice.
About 200 people turned out there to search woodland on Tuesday.
Ms Randall said: "They have told us to concentrate on handing out leaflets.
"I suppose they don't want people to go out on their own and contaminate evidence."
Mr Perez is the third opposition politician to be disqualified in the past week.
The state prosecutor's office barred a former congresswoman, Maria Corina Machado, and a former mayor, Vicencio (Enzo) Scarano for 12 months.
Both were expected to run in December's parliamentary elections.
Mr Perez was not running for parliament.
It was not clear on what grounds he was barred, but he was given 15 days to appeal against the decision.
"Another attack against democratic dissidence", he wrote on social media.
The opposition says the government of President Nicolas Maduro is clamping down on the opposition ahead of December's elections.
Opinion polls have suggested the government could lose the vote.
The state prosecutor's office has in the past barred politicians from office for alleged corruption or lack of full disclosure in their wealth declarations.
The civil case against former chief executives Charles Green and Derek Llambias, former director Imran Ahmad, former financial director Brian Stockbridge and Ashley has been brought at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.
With Ahmad currently believed to be out of the UK, notice of his citation was published in Monday's Times newspaper.
Rangers had no comment to make.
Last week Rangers withdrew the rights for Rangers Retail Limited, a commercial joint venture with Ashley's Sports Direct, to use the club's trademarks.
The company can no longer produce or distribute merchandise that bears the club's badge.
Rangers Retail was set-up in August 2012 while Green was chief executive of Rangers. At the same time, Ahmad was a director and Stockbridge was the financial director.
Rangers Retail, which is 51% owned by Rangers and 49% by Sports Direct, was established to run the club's retail operation. Fans have protested against the agreement, believing the club does not earn enough from the joint venture, and some have stopped buying merchandise.
Llambias, the former managing director of Newcastle United, the club Ashley owns, was appointed chief executive between December 2014 and March 2015, when the current directors ousted the previous board at an extraordinary general meeting.
A month ago, the Halifax said house prices were rising by 10.1%.
The slow-down follows a rush to beat the new stamp duty tax rates for buy to let and second homes at the start of April, the Halifax said.
Compared with March, prices actually fell in April - by 0.8% - although the monthly figures can be very volatile.
A record 165,400 UK properties were sold in March ahead of the tax changes, which was 11% more than the previous peak in January 2007, according to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
Previously the Nationwide said annual house price inflation dipped from 5.7% in March to 4.9% in April.
Dr Howard Archer, chief economist at IHS Economics, said that uncertainty over the EU referendum was also likely to "rein in" housing market activity for the next few months.
"Nevertheless, we expect housing market activity to regain limited momentum in the second half of 2016 on the assumption that a vote to stay in the EU reduces uncertainty and supports a pick-up in economic activity," he said.
"Current market conditions remain very tight as the severe imbalance between supply and demand persists," said Martin Ellis, Halifax's housing economist.
"This situation, combined with low interest rates and rising employment and real earnings, should continue to push house prices up over the coming months."
However, the Halifax also said that confidence in the housing market was at its lowest level in over a year.
Hughes was left in a critical condition after being struck by a bouncer from New South Wales fast bowler Sean Abbott while playing for South Australia.
Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers' Association will work together to arrange support.
CA chief James Sutherland said every player involved in the game in Sydney would get the "utmost support".
ACA chief executive Alastair Nicholson added: "We were obviously shocked to learn of the seriousness of the incident involving Phil.
"While we have faith that he's receiving the best available treatment, the situation will impact his family, friends and those directly involved on the field. The ACA is therefore working closely with CA to arrange the appropriate counselling for those affected."
Hughes, 25, collapsed after a delivery from Abbott struck him on the head, missing his helmet.
The left-handed batsman was carried off on a stretcher and taken to hospital, where he was put in an induced coma following surgery
Australian media reported that Hughes stopped breathing at one point and needed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at the side of the pitch.
The Sheffield Shield match was eventually abandoned.
CA, who said Hughes had been "struck on the back, lower left side of the head", added that no blame could be attached to Abbott, a 22-year-old who made his Australia debut last month.
Australia batsman David Warner was fielding for New South Wales when the incident occurred and was alongside Hughes when he was taken off the field of play.
He wrote on Twitter: "Thoughts are with my little mate Hughesy and his family. He is a fighter and a champion and he will get through this. Praying for you buddy."
Other cricketers, past and present, added their support for Hughes.
Legendary Australia spinner Shane Warne wrote on Twitter: "Hang in there buddy, we are all fighting with you."
Former Australia fast bowler Brett Lee told reporters that Hughes is "a terrific guy", adding: "He's got his whole career ahead of him and deserves the best."
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A number of England players also spoke out in support of Hughes.
England bowler James Anderson said it was "sickening" to learn what had happened, while international team-mate Stuart Broad urged Hughes to "fight hard", adding: "Everyone's thoughts are with you and your family."
Ex-England spinner Graeme Swann described Hughes as "a cracking bloke" and said he had "everything crossed for a full and speedy recovery".
The rest of the cricketing world also registered their concern.
India batsman Virat Kohli called Hughes "a top man", while South Africa one-day captain AB de Villiers said he was "hoping for a speedy recovery" for Hughes.
There was also sympathy for pace bowler Abbott, with ex-Australia wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist urging him to "stay strong".
Former Australia bowler Glenn McGrath also tweeted support for Abbott.
Hughes is well known in England, not just for his appearances for Australia but because of stints with Middlesex and Worcestershire.
"All our thoughts and prayers are with Phillip," added England captain Alastair Cook, who is in Sri Lanka for a one-day series.
"We have guys who played with him from Worcester, Middlesex, and quite a few of us have played against him. It's a sad incident and I hope he can show the same fight he's shown his whole career."
Councillors have agreed to approach the Scottish government, which has said it will fund one pilot by 2018.
Lorries, vans and buses which did not meet emission standards could be fined for driving within the designated area.
Glasgow has already declared an interest in the idea. Friends of the Earth said it was the frontrunner to host the first one.
A City of Edinburgh Council spokeswoman said: "We are committed to addressing air pollution as a priority through a range of integrated projects, including reducing congestion and investment in improved public transport, cycling infrastructure and active travel, in addition to exploring the potential for a low emission zone.
"We now intend to write to the Scottish government expressing our interest in establishing the country's first low emission zone, as part of our work with the Scottish government, Transport Scotland, Health Boards and Scottish Environment Protection Agency to assist with the development of the Scottish National Low Emission Framework."
Dr Richard Dixon, director of Friends of the Earth Scotland, said: "It's great to see Edinburgh keen to create a low emission zone to protect people's health from deadly traffic pollution.
"With its bigger death toll, Glasgow is the front runner but this is a very serious offer from the capital.
"With air pollution coming rapidly up the agenda, the Scottish government need to spell out how and when they will help councils create the second, third and subsequent low emission zones.
"Low emission zones are a really important tool in reduce emissions from traffic, by keeping the dirtiest vehicle out of the most polluted areas.
"They are likely to apply to buses, lorries and vans initially. The council have wisely pointed out that they need the Scottish government to commit finances to making Low Emission Zones happen."
Cats, Cakes and Coffee opened on Saturday, offering animal lovers the chance to "snuggle" with 10 cats while having food and drink.
Leicester City Council said it has had three reports from concerned members of the public.
But Lisa Rivers, the cafe's owner, said her cats are all happy and the cafe is hygienic.
"Regarding hygiene, the cafe is cleaned at the beginning and end of each day, plus in between each session," she said.
"The cats have three sealed litter trays to choose from, which are also checked and cleaned as regularly as the rest of the cafe is cleaned."
The 10 cats used to live in Ms Rivers' home before she moved them to the cafe.
She said they "laze around most of the day and are very relaxed and happy" as they are used to living together.
Dominic Shellard, vice chancellor of De Montfort University in Leicester, tweeted that he was "very disturbed" when he visited the cafe.
He said there was an "overpowering smell of cat faeces" and the cats "looked very sad".
He added that he was "worried about the cats - and you certainly wouldn't want to eat there".
Ms Rivers said the food is outsourced and none is prepared on the premises, for hygiene reasons.
She said Mr Shellard had been booked for a session starting at 13:00 BST but arrived an hour early, while her son was looking after the cats, then did not return.
Other visitors have given positive reviews, she pointed out, including on the Clarendon Spark blog and on the cafe's Facebook page.
Leicester City Council said its officers were due to carry out a routine food hygiene inspection next week.
A 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital following the attack in Penilee Road on Friday.
A 54-year-old man police had said they wanted to trace in connection with a murder and attempted murder was arrested on Saturday.
A police spokeswoman said he had been located in the Dumfries and Galloway area.
Ms Watt, 52, who worked for Barnardo's Scotland, died at the scene in Penilee Road at about 16:55 on Friday.
The 16-year-old boy was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where medical staff described his condition as critical.
Barnardo's Scotland staff paid tribute to their colleague.
Martin Crewe, director of Barnardo's Scotland, said: "We are shocked and deeply saddened to learn of the death of our colleague Alyson Watt, who was a much-valued and long-standing member of staff in Paisley.
"Our thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy and we are continuing to support police with their inquiries."
The 2012 Kelso Ram Sales are being staged at Springwood Park.
The event can trace its history back to 1836 and has been held annually since then.
Ron Wilson, of the Border Union Agricultural Society (BUAS), said it was certainly the biggest one-day ram sale in Europe and probably the world.
The first ram sale was held in 1836 when the BUAS acted as arbiters between private sellers.
The first sale by auction two years later saw 120 animals purchased.
By 1993, the reputation of the event had grown to such an extent that the £2m barrier was broken when 6,000 tups changed hands.
Numbers have evened out but the sales remain one of the most famous in the world.
Last year the top price fetched by a ram was £15,000.
The average amount paid per animal was a little under £650.
Ulster finished second in Pool One but must wait to discover if they are one of the best three runners-up.
Rob Herring, Darren Cave, Rory Scholes and Sean Reidy scored tries to put the hosts 28-3 ahead at half-time.
Craig Gilroy, Robbie Diack, Ian Humphreys and Jared Payne added touchdowns after the interval.
It was an attacking and hugely entertaining performance by the Belfast side who did everything they possibly could to snatch a place in the last eight.
Ulster's fate in the European competition will be decided by the results elsewhere in the final round of pool fixtures and, having played first, their 18 points will be the target for their rivals.
The teams in second place in the other pools - Wasps, Stade Francais, Clermont and Northampton - could all overtake Ulster with wins this weekend, although all but Wasps may need bonus-point victories.
Wasps entertain Leinster and Northampton visit the Scarlets on Saturday.
Stade host Leicester while Clermont are at home to Bordeaux on Sunday.
Ulster winger Andrew Trimble: "We kept the pace up from the first minute.
"Scoring eight tries was a brave effort, but keeping our line intact was important as well.
"We were first up so we had no target. We just put as many points as possible on the board.
"Turning the screw for 80 minutes is hard to do but we are pleased with our performance."
TEAMS
Ulster: Payne, Trimble, Cave, L. Marshall, Gilroy, Jackson, P. Marshall, McCall, Herring, Lutton, O'Connor, van der Merwe, Diack, Reidy, Williams.
Replacements: Scholes for Cave (62), Humphreys for Jackson (51), Shanahan for P. Marshall (67), R. Best for Herring (73), Wilson for van der Merwe (51), B. Ross for Williams (59).
Not used: Black, C. Ross.
Oyonnax: Denos, Ikpefan, Bousses, Taufa, Codjo, Clegg, Blanc, Tonga'uiha, Bordes, Vepkhvadze, Power, Fabbri, Ursache, Gunther, Wannenburg.
Replacements: Sheridan for Taufa (62), Lespinas for Clegg (55), Delboulbes for Tonga'uiha (67), Maurouard for Bordes (51), Pungea for Vepkhvadze (41), Metz for Power (51), Faasavalu for Ursache (66).
Not used: Cibray.
Ref: Marius Mitrea (Italy).
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The 29-year-old Belgium international had been linked with Manchester United in Italian media, while Chelsea were also reported to be interested.
"I think I have demonstrated that this is what I always wanted," Nainggolan said.
"I'm very happy that the club and I can continue our adventure and move forward together."
Nainggolan has played 161 times for Roma since joining from Cagliari in 2014.
He has scored 27 goals for the Italian club, 14 of which came last season as Roma finished second in the league, four points behind Juventus.
Hans Reid appeared at the city's sheriff court after the bus was taken from Aberdeen Bus Station on Saturday night.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
The charges included theft and culpable and reckless driving. He was also charged with a number of road traffic offences.
These included offences relating to driving under the influence of drink or drugs, having no licence, no insurance and failing to stop.
Mr Reid was also charged with assaulting a police officer, vandalism and failing to give his details.
The bus was reported to have collided with other vehicles. No-one was injured.
The majority of the jobs, 43, are posts that are being transferred from the firm's offices in the US and Europe.
The remaining 24 positions are to be created as a result of "projected natural growth at its Belfast office over the next three years".
Invest NI has offered the firm £348,400 to support the move.
The money is in addition to the £2.5m that Invest NI gave them two years ago, to support the firm's decision to relocate to Northern Ireland.
It is understood that the 43 employees whose jobs are due to be transferred to Belfast will be offered the option of relocating to the city.
Should they decline, their posts will then be advertised.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster welcomed the announcement as "positive news for our economy and the legal services sector".
"Having located here in 2011, Allen & Overy has rapidly grown its presence and is already well ahead of its recruitment schedule with 300 people employed across a range of support and legal functions," the minister added.
In February 2011 the firm announced it was moving 180 back-office jobs from its base in London to its new office in Belfast, and said it believed it could save £10m over five years through its relocation to Northern Ireland.
At the time, the firm also said it hoped to employ as many as 300 staff based in Belfast by 2014. The jobs announced on Thursday are in addition to that 2011 figure.
Andrew Brammer, Head of Allen & Overy's Support Services Centre, said: "Since our investment in 2011 we have been continually impressed with the contribution our Belfast office has made in supporting the delivery of high quality legal services to Allen & Overy's international client base.
"We are ahead of where we thought we would be in terms of recruitment under the original investment as we have found a wealth of highly skilled and talented people from which to grow our operation.
"In a difficult global economy, Northern Ireland has provided us with an effective and competitive location from which to grow our business," he added.
"Do the Maths 2015" says the government is not providing enough cash for new school places needed in the capital.
The report, from London Councils, says 78,000 secondary and 34,000 more primary places will be needed by 2020.
The government says its free schools programme will create 270,000 school places in England over five years.
London Councils, which represents the 32 London boroughs, plus the City of London, fears crunch time is rapidly approaching for the capital's education budgets.
There has been "unprecedented growth in demand" for school places in London, says the report.
The number of school-age children (aged five to 19) increased by 112,000 in London in the five years to 2015.
Local authorities have a legal responsibility to ensure there are enough school places. So far, schools and London boroughs have managed to provide these places.
But London's school-age population is forecast to rise by another 12% over the next five years, nearly twice the rate for the rest of England.
By 2020, there are expected to be 146,000 more five to 19-year-olds in London than there are now.
This represents about a quarter of the overall increase expected in England.
The authors warn that while the focus so far has been on primary schools, demand has now reached secondary schools, which are more complex, requiring specialist facilities such as art blocks and laboratories.
Providing new secondary places could cost up to twice as much as primary places, says the report.
The report asks the government to fully fund the continued expansion of schools in London by allocating at least £1.5bn to create new school places in the two years from 2018 to 2020.
So far, says the report, councils in London have had to borrow, sell assets and divert funds from school maintenance to provide extra places.
They warn this is not sustainable as the places crunch continues.
"At a time when budgets are under pressure across the board, boroughs cannot continue to subsidise the cost of school places in London," said Peter John, London Councils' executive member for children, skills and employment.
"Time is running out for the government to fully support councils' efforts to provide primary and secondary school places in the capital over the next five years.
"Councils in London have worked exceptionally hard with school heads and governors since 2010. But without sufficient resources it will be extremely difficult to manage complex primary expansions and meet the rising demand for secondary school places in the future," warned Mr John.
The report says the government's commitment to new free schools will help meet some of the need for places but urges the Department for Education "to ensure all new free schools are prioritised in areas of need".
The government said it had doubled funding for school places to £5bn during the last parliament, creating half a million new school places since May 2010, with a further £7bn committed to create more places over the next six years.
A DfE spokeswoman said: "London has benefited significantly from this investment, receiving almost £2bn in the last four years, almost 40% of all the funding provided to local councils for new places.
"In London alone, free schools have already created almost 50,000 school places.
"Today, we have approved a further two new London free schools and 18 more are opening in the capital this term, creating an extra 9,000 school places, giving parents more choice than ever before."
Rovers went ahead on 24 minutes through midfielder Liam Noble, whose free-kick from the wing went all the way in for his first goal for the club.
Darren Carter doubled the lead when his left-footed strike left Chester goalkeeper Jon Worsnop helpless, giving the visitors much needed breathing space.
Chester pulled a goal back when Elliot Durrell finished from Jordan Chappell's through-ball with 11 minutes remaining, but it was not enough as Rovers overhauled Tranmere at the summit.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
REACTION: Forest Green manager Mark Cooper speaks to BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Match ends, Chester FC 1, Forest Green Rovers 2.
Second Half ends, Chester FC 1, Forest Green Rovers 2.
Matt Tubbs (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Sam Russell (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Fabien Robert replaces Keanu Marsh-Brown.
Goal! Chester FC 1, Forest Green Rovers 2. Elliott Durrell (Chester FC).
Substitution, Chester FC. Jordan Chapell replaces James Alabi.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Matt Tubbs replaces Rhys Murphy.
Blaine Hudson (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Chester FC. Matty Waters replaces Tom Shaw.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Elliott Frear replaces Ben Jefford.
Tom Shaw (Chester FC) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 2. Darren Carter (Forest Green Rovers).
Second Half begins Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
First Half ends, Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Ben Jefford (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Chester FC 0, Forest Green Rovers 1. Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers).
Darren Carter (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
The Conservative idea that caught my eye is "flash incarceration".
This is a new kind-of jail term for prolific offenders, which, according to their manifesto, will deliver a "short, sharp" spell in custody - a throwback to Willie Whitelaw's "short, sharp shock" of the 1980s.
Under the plan, offenders who breach community orders would be detained for 48 hours in police cells.
But how will over-stretched police forces cope with that?
And will the scheme, based on a programme across 18 US states which the Tories say has significantly cut re-offending, prove to be more than an election gimmick?
Labour's law and order offering includes a commitment to "keep police on the beat", with a guarantee that neighbourhood policing will be protected in every community.
They have identified hundreds of millions of pounds of savings to safeguard 10,000 police officers they claim will be cut under the Tories.
I would like to know if Labour will promise to maintain officer numbers across the full five-year parliament - and how they can reach their savings target when many forces already complain that they can't make further efficiencies without compromising safety.
The stand-out Liberal Democrat proposal is on drugs, an issue that has hardly featured in the campaign.
The Lib Dems would end imprisonment for people caught with drugs for personal use; users wouldn't get a criminal record, but receive civil penalties and be diverted into treatment or education.
But are the Lib Dems worried about the message that might send to young people who are considering experimenting with illegal substances and would they reverse it if they found it led to an increase in the number of users?
This election issue includes policing, crime prevention and the criminal justice system.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
Central to UKIP's crime policy plans is a pledge to remove foreign criminals.
But, as successive governments have found, however hard you try to remove foreign offenders, you can't if the receiving country won't take them. Why should UKIP's ideas be any different?
The Greens would expand the use of restorative justice and operate a smaller prison system, with inmates given the right to vote. But are their plans workable?
Restorative justice isn't suitable for all crimes, it relies on the victim to take part and the results are often mixed.
As for Plaid Cymru, the main plank of their proposals is to devolve criminal justice policy to Wales.
But how does that fit into a world in which cross-border crime is said to be on the increase, and the National Crime Squad is playing an increasingly influential role in co-ordinating the fight against serious and organised crime?
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Helen Birtwhistle, director of the Welsh NHS Confederation, said 20,000 English patients were registered with Welsh GPs compared to 15,000 Welsh patients with English GPs.
No extra money comes to Wales for the additional 5,000 patients, she said.
She was giving evidence to the Welsh Affairs committee on Tuesday, in the wake of a bitter political row over Labour's record running the NHS in Wales.
Addressing a UN summit on development goals, Mr Xi said investment would reach $12bn over the next 15 years.
He also said China would cancel debts to the world's least developed nations, including small island nations.
Beijing, he added, would assist in 600 overseas projects in the next five years and offer more scholarships.
'End poverty' - and 16 more UN Global Goals
"Looking around the world, the peace and development remain the two major themes of the times," the Chinese leader said at the summit in New York.
"To solve various global challenges, including the recent refugee crisis in Europe, the fundamental solutions lie in seeking peace and realising development.
"Facing with various challenges and difficulties, we must keep hold of the key of the development. Only the development can eliminate the causes of the conflicts," Mr Xi said.
His pledges of aid give a big boost to the launch of the UN's new Global Goals for Sustainable Development - the day after all members states committed themselves to a hugely ambitious programme, the BBC's James Robbins in New York reports.
The plan aims to eradicate poverty and hunger by 2030.
It was China's extraordinary record shifting so many families out the ranks of the poor which ensured that the overall global record in poverty reduction under the previous Millennium Development Goals was substantial, our correspondent says.
But it was very patchy, he says, adding that now China is offering to help other countries - particularly in Africa - make the same transformation.
This new initiative also suggests China is willing to take on more of the responsibilities that go with its status as emerging superpower, our correspondent adds.
The incident took place after the victim said "no" when asked if he had a cigarette by two men on Oldham Street at 20:25 GMT on Wednesday.
Greater Manchester Police revealed details of the "hate crime" on Twitter.
The force said officers were looking at CCTV and offering support to the victim.
Military officials believe hundreds, possibly thousands, of people remain trapped in districts close to the city centre in which mopping-up operations against the last remaining Islamic State (IS) fighters are continuing.
They may have gone into hiding hoping that Iraqi forces will clear their areas as soon as possible.
A few hundred did manage to escape. About 60 families were taken to safety in the nearby town of Habbaniyah by the security forces on Tuesday night.
They were rescued hours earlier near the former government compound and were handed food and water.
Among them were many women, children and elderly people.
"We tried to get closer to where the army was and we screamed for help. When they heard us, they rushed towards us," Ferdous Shabban said.
She explained that IS fighters wanted to take them to another district but that many families refused and shut their doors. The jihadists then opened fire on their houses.
Ramadi largely emptied in the months leading up to last week's offensive as Iraqi forces progressively surrounded the city to suffocate IS fighters, who took control in May.
Tens of thousands of people sought shelter in Habbaniyah or in camps set up on the road leading to the capital, Baghdad, about 90km (55 miles) to the east.
Ibrahim Najm took his family to "Habbaniyah Tourist City" in August.
This is a tourist resort that was erected on the shores of Lake Habbaniyah in the late 1970s and quickly became an attractive destination for tourists from all over the Middle East.
It is still called "Tourist City" - even in aid agencies' reports - but tourists have long been replaced by displaced people.
"The conditions here are terrible," Mr Najm said over the phone.
"We've been living in a tent all this long, it doesn't protect us from the rain; it's very muddy."
Mr Najm's family was given a heater to cope with the cold. But they worry they do not have enough fuel for the whole winter.
Local authorities are distributing food to displaced people in Habbaniyah Tourist City but Mr Najm complains that it is "far from enough."
"They give us 1kg (2.2lbs) of flour every five days to make bread but we are twelve in the family!"
"We survive on different kinds of beans."
More than 300 families have been squatting in one of the derelict resort hotels, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
It says the building has no running water, heating or electricity while stagnant water on lower floors is damaging its foundations.
Conditions in the hotel are so dire that aid agencies are building a new camp nearby to relocate these families into new shelters.
Ramadi is a city that has been sacrificed in battle. The scale of destruction is enormous, delaying the prospect of return for those who lived in areas that have been liberated.
"We hope to go back as soon as possible, but we heard on the news that it has been so destroyed I know it's not going to happen any time soon," lamented Mr Najm.
The UN says it will be essential to ensure conditions are in place for people to return in safety.
Areas are still insecure, littered with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and booby-traps; electricity and water services have been damaged.
The government is planning to hand over responsibility for securing and stabilising the city to Sunni tribal fighters, local and federal police, allowing Iraqi security forces to move to other battlefields.
Shia militias have been kept from the frontline to avoid a sectarian backlash following reports of abuses after they played a central role in the retaking of the predominantly Sunni northern city of Tikrit earlier this year.
A failure to prevent reprisals by Shia militia fighters against the Sunnis of Ramadi could put the stabilisation process at risk.
But we are not even there yet, and it may take days before Iraqi security forces regain full control of the city.
In the meantime, aid agencies are providing emergency assistance to the displaced people - plastic sheets to insulate tents, jerry cans for water and toiletries.
"It makes me feel bad to see my family in a tent all day," Mr Najm says. "We have nothing to do, we're even bored."
"All day long I wonder: 'What is our future?'"
Fabio Barone covered the nearly 11km (6.8 mile) route in just 10 minutes 31 seconds, on 21 September.
The road has 99 sharp turns on its way up Tianmen Mountain, rising from 200 to 1,300 metres above sea level.
He had his Ferrari specially modified for the attempt, shaving crucial kilos off its weight by swapping metal for carbon fibre parts.
Mr Barone is not new to racing hairy mountain roads, having set another speed record last year on the Transfagarasan mountain road in the Transylvanian Alps in Romania.
Tianmen Mountain is no stranger to extreme motor sports either, having hosted a Red Bull "drift king" event, for adrenaline-seeking drivers to slide their cars around its tight bends.
England, emboldened by their three-goal lead, knocked it about as if toying with the tired Scots. They passed and passed and passed and, all the while, the visitors chased and chased and chased. Forlornly.
The scene had an audible and visual backdrop. England supporters cried 'Ole!' and, in the air, they waved their white tee-shirts - a gift from the FA. Wembley basked in Scotland's hopelessness.
You wonder how many of the home crowd were around when Scotland lorded it in this place nearly 50 years ago, but there were echoes of that here.
There was nobody of Jim Baxter's class and no mocking keepy-uppy of that storied victory in 1967, but in those closing stages on Friday, the English message was the same as the Scottish one all those years ago - this is easy, oh so easy.
The Tartan Army could have closed their eyes to avoid it all, but there was no respite in the dark either.
No matter what you do, there is no escaping the fact that Scotland are now fifth in their World Cup group. Fifth - despite being seeded third - and on life support in terms of a shot at qualification.
Gordon Strachan said that the game was cruel on his players - "really cruel" - but it wasn't. Footballing cruelty is borne out of an unlucky break or a refereeing blunder, not from your own inability to convert the chances you create and your own shortcomings in dealing with the chances created by others.
How could Grant Hanley's first-half header, which threatened the floodlights more than Joe Hart's goal, be deemed cruel? How could Leigh Griffiths' terrible error of judgement in shooting, instead of playing in Robert Snodgrass, be presented as a hard luck story? How could James Forrest's weak shot, early in the second half, be considered an example of the Gods being against the Scots?
Cruel was not the word. And this game wasn't even the place where the damage was done.
Everything would not look so thunderously awful today had Scotland not been so bad in their two previous games. Had there been three points against Lithuania and even one point against Slovakia, people could have taken a 3-0 defeat against England on the chin and not folded in a heap.
As it is, another campaign has all but gone and this is a natural end for Strachan now. He refused to talk about his own position in the aftermath of Wembley, but it is untenable and surely he knows it.
People will indulge in fatalism. 'We don't have the players.' 'Changing the manager will make no difference.' 'It goes much deeper than one man.'
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Of course it does. It goes very deep. Scotland's demise as a nation - one which, for decades, produced a torrent of world-class players - is an epic story, a tale retold more often than The Mousetrap.
Have the debate (again) about the cause of all of this. Commission another blueprint. Get in the politicians and the sports management boffins if you like. Navel gaze to kingdom come.
Attempting to make things better in the future doesn't preclude you from trying to make things better in the present. Scotland needs a new manager.
Again the mantra goes that no man can conjure up a formidable set of centre-backs or the kind of predators in front of goal that were so absent on Friday. It's true, but the history of football is full of international managers who have inherited a failing squad and then hauled them forwards.
Strachan managed to do it himself for a short while. You don't have to look too far to find other examples.
Over in Dublin, Martin O'Neill inherited a Republic of Ireland squad that had, not long before, shipped nine goals in two qualifying games against Germany. They then dropped four points out of six against Scotland. O'Neill slowly turned things around.
The Republic went from losing 6-1 and 3-0 to Germany to beating them in what was the seminal moment of their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign. They then beat Italy at the Euro 2016 finals to make the knockout stage.
It's too easy to say that the Republic's players are much better than Scotland's. Better? Yes. Is there a big gulf? No. Or, at least, there shouldn't be.
O'Neill's management has made them mentally strong, thoroughly organised and harder to break down. In terms of entertainment and class, they're no oil painting, but they're efficient.
The Irish team that beat Italy in France had defenders from Blackburn Rovers, Derby County and Burnley - all Championship clubs at the time. Behind their lone striker, they had a three-man unit drawn from Derby, Ipswich Town and Norwich City.
They had Shane Long up front. Long is a good player, but O'Neill's Ireland were hardly a team of all the talents.
Travel further north and you find a prime example of a manager making a difference. Before Michael O'Neill took over Northern Ireland, they were a soft touch and were utterly irrelevant and largely ignored in European football.
In the campaign before his appointment - Euro 2012 - Northern Ireland won just two of their 10 games. They drew 1-1 with the Faroes and lost 4-1 to Estonia. Things were grim.
The things you are hearing now about Scotland just not having the players is precisely what they were saying in Northern Ireland five years ago. No players, no prospect of players, no hope of any manager being able to alter that.
The squad that O'Neill took to the last 16 of the Euros last summer had just five players who were performing most weeks in the Premier League. He had four from the Scottish Premiership, one from Melbourne City and the rest from the English Championship and English League One. His three goalkeepers came from Hamilton Accies, St Johnstone and Notts County and had a combined age of 109.
On Friday night, as Scotland were losing at Wembley, Northern Ireland moved into second place in their own qualifying group following a 4-0 victory over Azerbaijan in Belfast. Azerbaijan had beaten Norway at home and had got a 0-0 away to the Czech Republic, but Northern Ireland put them away with the minimum of fuss.
In his starting line-up, O'Neill had players from Fleetwood Town, Millwall, Norwich, Blackburn, Charlton Athletic and Brighton. On the bench, he had two from St Johnstone and one each from Rangers, Aberdeen, Ross County, Sunderland, Wigan Athletic, Shrewsbury Town, Rochdale, Burton Albion and Kerala Blasters in India.
O'Neill, who lives in Edinburgh, has done a magnificent job. He has made a little go a long, long way. With his assistant, Scotsman Austin MacPhee, they are doing what Scotland are failing to do - and they're doing it with meagre playing resources compared to the ones at Strachan's disposal.
Forget Wembley. Would O'Neill's team have failed to beat Lithuania at home? Would they have surrendered so meekly against Slovakia away?
Northern Ireland have made the most of what they have - and there is a lesson in that for Scotland.
If the curtain comes down on Strachan's reign, then O'Neill would be a good starting point in the search for a new manager. Would he take it? The time is fast approaching when Stewart Regan needs to start asking that question for himself.
The 23-year-old's deal is subject to a medical, which will take place after he returns from Chile, where he has been playing for Brazil in the Copa America.
Firmino, who has scored 47 goals in 151 games for Hoffenheim, becomes the Reds' second most expensive player.
The Anfield club made Andy Carroll their record signing when he joined them for £35m from Newcastle in 2011.
They also paid Southampton £25m for Adam Lallana in 2014, and have already brought in Burnley striker Danny Ings, goalkeeper Adam Bogdan, defender Joe Gomez and midfielder James Milner this summer.
The Reds have so far resisted two offers from Manchester City for England forward Raheem Sterling.
Firmino, who has spent the last four and a half seasons in the Bundesliga, was on target for Brazil in their 2-1 Copa America victory over Venezuela on Sunday.
In the absence of Neymar, who has been suspended for the rest of the tournament, Firmino and Philippe Coutinho, who is already a Liverpool player, are set to start again in Saturday's quarter-final against Paraguay.
The North York Moors National Park commissioned report has looked at the impact of the nearly five-year construction of the site.
Developers Sirius Minerals claimed the mine would create 1,000 direct jobs.
The park authority will make a decision on whether to grant permission for the mine at a meeting on 30 June.
Even after completion of the York Potash Project, consultants Amec Foster Wheeler believe it could cost a further £5m a year to the tourism industry.
The tourism sector is of key importance to the economy of the National Park and of Whitby, bringing in £177m - £104m of it to Whitby - in 2013, according to a separate report.
But a spokesman from York Potash said the company had already committed to contribute £500,000 a year during construction.
He said this would be split between Welcome to Yorkshire, the North York Moors National Park Authority, Visit England and Visit Britain, and was predicted to generate a return of £60.3m over the construction period.
York Potash said it would also double train services between Whitby and Middlesbrough, and give £400,000 for directional signage to the North York Moors National Park from main roads nearby.
Amec Foster Wheeler raised particular concerns about the volume of HGV traffic on the area's roads as a result of the mine.
The report said there was a "legitimate concern" that visitors may choose to go elsewhere if they know there is a major construction site.
Potash is a salt which contains potassium and is usually used in fertilisers.
Councillors at Redcar and Cleveland Council have already approved plans for the mine and mineral transport system but Sirius Minerals - which owns York Potash - still needs permission from the national park.
A tunnel planned to run underground from the Doves Nest Farm site to a processing plant at Teesside would be 37km long.
Looking forward there has been a warning that the government's planned £8bn a year extra by 2020 will not be enough.
Looking back, it has become clear that the Department of Health only just kept within the budget agreed by Parliament last year.
First, the department's annual report for the 2014/15 year and what it tells us.
If this sounds dull and technical and not everybody's idea of a gripping read, please bear with me.
The report was issued on Tuesday in the final hours of the parliamentary session and shone new light on what it costs to keep the NHS in England afloat.
On the important day-to-day spending definition (known to the cognoscenti as RDEL), the Department of Health shelled out £110.5bn in the financial year which ended in March.
The annual report says this was an under-spend of £1.2m on the total agreed by Parliament.
That may sound like a reasonable cushion but in Whitehall terms it's nothing - equivalent to 0.001% of the budget. It is rather like ending the month with one penny in the bank account after paying the mortgage and all the bills.
Given that only two years ago the department ended the year with an under-spend of £1.5bn, the £1.2m result in 2014/15 is put into some sort of context.
The job of finance chiefs in steering the department through to the end of the year within the agreed budget has been likened to landing a Harrier jet on a tennis court.
For the year just ended it must have been like landing that jump jet on a flower bed.
All this is more intriguing because the Department of Health only just scraped by despite an injection of £890m in extra funding over the course of the financial year.
This consisted of £250m of money quietly transferred from Treasury reserves, with the rest moved from investment budgets into covering day-to-day running costs.
So it was a close-run thing in 2014/15, and the current financial year does not look as if it will be any easier.
Deficits at health trusts seem set to be bigger than last year.
Simon Stevens, head of NHS England, told MPs on Tuesday that the single biggest factor was the rapid growth in spending on agency staff. It was critical, he said, that this was dialled back in the months ahead.
Further afield, ministers are hoping that the £8bn annual funding boost by 2020 which they have promised will be enough for the NHS in England to continue delivering current levels of care. But a report out on Wednesday by two leading think tanks challenges that assumption.
The Health Foundation and the King's Fund have called for more investment over and above the £8bn to create what they call a transformation fund.
This vehicle, the authors say, would invest in measures needed to create longer-term efficiency savings - for example, the retraining of some frontline staff and the development of new ways of caring for patients.
The NHS, they argue, will not become more productive without upfront investment of an extra £1.5 - £2bn per year.
But the think tanks received short shrift from the government, with a spokesperson pointing out that the NHS had asked in its five-year strategy paper for the £8bn by 2020 and now had to get on with the job of finding efficiency savings.
But the thorny question of money and what is deliverable by the health service will continue to cause furrowed brows in Whitehall and Downing Street as the autumn spending review approaches.
The reigning world champion, Nico Rosberg, has walked off into the sunset. The cars have evolved, with new rules allowing them to become bigger, faster and more aggressive-looking.
But the most significant transformation has taken place behind the scenes.
Formula 1 is under new ownership. Control has passed from private equity firm CVC Capital Partners to the US group Liberty Media.
As a result, former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, the man who is credited with turning F1 into one of the world's most lucrative sports, has finally stepped down at the age of 86.
The new chief executive is Chase Carey, a veteran of the US media industry and a former associate of Rupert Murdoch. He has already suggested that F1 "needs a fresh start".
So what might actually be changed?
In commercial terms, Formula 1 is a curious beast. It is certainly lucrative. In 2015, its revenues reached $1.7bn, according to motorsport analysts Formula Money. Yet teams towards the back of the grid often struggle to make ends meet.
Earlier this year, the Manor team finally closed down after several years of financial problems. Its collapse followed those of HRT and Caterham, who folded in 2012 and 2014 respectively.
And even as revenues have been rising, TV audiences have been falling.
The sport claimed 400 million viewers in 2016, down from a peak of 600 million in 2008. That may be partly due to a shift towards pay-TV in major markets such as the UK, Italy, France and Spain.
Formula 1 is an expensive business: even the smallest teams employ about 200 people, and it costs at least $100m just to get on to the starting grid. Remaining there, however, is the biggest challenge.
Small squads that don't win races and that don't get much television airtime often struggle to raise the sponsorship they need.
And although roughly half of F1's revenues are distributed among the teams, they are not divided equally.
Part of this is merit-based. The higher you finish in the World Championship, the more money you get. But some teams get extra bonuses, irrespective of how well they perform.
Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes and Williams all get extra funding. And Ferrari gets more than $60m simply for turning up, because of its place in the sport's heritage.
The smaller teams think this is deeply unfair and argue that because in F1, success is heavily linked to financial resources, it distorts the competition. In 2015, the Sauber and Force India teams lodged a formal complaint with the European Commission.
Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn says she hopes matters will change under Liberty Media.
Talks so far, she says, have been "very encouraging". Although altering the way payments are made would inevitably mean some of the larger teams getting less, she thinks they will co-operate.
"Why shouldn't it happen?" she says. "The big teams know that the show has to be a healthy show.
"If viewing figures continue to go down and we don't have that 'aha effect', sponsorship will go down and they will suffer equally, probably more, because they need more money to keep their operations going."
Graeme Lowdon, a motor racing entrepreneur who helped to found the Manor team, agrees that a more level playing field is needed,
"What people want to see in F1 is a sport where skill is rewarded," he says.
"The sports that have grown in the past few years are the ones that are focused on parity, such as the NFL."
Another area where change may be needed is in how F1 reaches out to its fanbase.
In recent years, the sport has focused on maximising its revenues, but despite expanding into new markets, it has arguably failed to attract a new generation of enthusiasts.
Races have been held in countries with little or no F1 heritage or established audiences, but where governments have proved willing to pay ever-higher sanctioning fees in exchange for the glamour associated with hosting a grand prix.
At the same time, fewer events have been held in the sport's European heartlands, where organisers are less willing to pay more than $30m for the privilege.
Liberty Media appears keen to reverse that trend and introduce new races in the United States, in an effort to broaden the sport's appeal.
That could mean getting rid of lucrative but controversial events like the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which Liberty Media's chief executive Greg Maffei recently said "does nothing to build the long-term brand and health of the business".
However, according to Formula Money's Christian Sylt, that strategy may not work if F1 wants to keep its revenues at their current level.
"I do not believe there is a 'big ticket' alternative revenue stream to race hosting fees", he says.
But perhaps the biggest challenge of all is to bring in a new generation of enthusiasts.
"We need to do something to connect with younger fans," says Sauber's Monisha Kaltenborn. "You know, we don't want people who are just 40-something watching the sport. We have to go into digital media and social media far more.
"That's not a question about instantly making money, but it's about positioning yourself towards young people, so that tomorrow they'll come and watch a race."
Former Jordan team commercial manager Ian Phillips puts it even more bluntly. "At the moment Formula 1, it hurts me to say it, is just not that exciting," he says.
The problem, he thinks, is cost. Champions Mercedes spend upwards of $400m a year on their cars, and other teams simply can't compete. So the racing becomes boring.
"I have a 13-year-old son who just watches the first lap, then he goes away," he says.
So wealthy F1 may be - but if it can't attract the kids, it may well find itself overtaken by other, more appealing sports before long.
You can hear more on this story on Business Daily: Financing Formula 1
Susan and Terence Greer, of Merseyside, admitted conning vulnerable people into believing grants were available for their windows and doors.
They advertised their company Green extensively until they were stopped by Denbighshire council in 2013.
They also lied about selling top quality glass, Mold Crown Court heard.
Gary Parle, who supplied the windows, was ordered to pay £30,000 compensation and £10,000 costs.
He told the court he had got involved because he wanted to recover a debt owed to him by the Greers.
All three defendants admitted a fraudulent trading charge.
The court heard the Greers led a number of elderly and disabled people in Rhyl and Rhuddlan to believe they were entitled to government and EU grants on UPVC products.
But the 14 complainants did not receive the windows they believed they would be getting and felt conned.
Judge Niclas Parry told the Greers: "You gave the impression that you were helping them. In fact, what you were doing was taking advantage of their vulnerabilities".
He said false documents and leaflets showed there was significant planning and the scam had been "pre-meditated".
Mrs Greer, 54, and her 76-year-old husband, who live in Birkenhead, were given a two year prison sentence suspended for two years. Mrs Greer, who was said to primarily operate the company, was also ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work.
Yale Howarth was spoken to by staff at Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen, Denbighshire, after the girl said she was not sure if she had sex with a boy at a party, before later naming him.
He was found by his father at the family home in Chirk in January 2013 and died the next day in hospital.
The inquest is due to last three days.
During the hearing, Sally Roberts, assistant learning manager at the school, said the female pupil told her she had been to a party and "she didn't know if she'd had sex with a boy or not".
Initially, the girl did not name any individuals, and was taken to a local chemist where she was given a morning after pill.
Later, she named the boy as Yale and, on 22 January, he was spoken to by staff at the school, the inquest was told.
The girl also told the school's inclusion manager Wendy Gwilliam she had been to a party and "was drunk and didn't remember anything". The girl also told her: "I don't know if I had sex."
Ms Gwilliam said she believed she had to report the incident because she knew the girl had been drunk.
After discussions with colleagues, they contacted social services the following day, who said the matter needed to be referred to the child protection team.
Ms Gwilliam said social services also advised them to speak to Yale about the matter.
In written statements, Yale's parents, Mark and Della, said they had no idea what happened at school earlier that day as their son returned home as normal and went into their converted garage which he used to rehearse with his band.
They tried to resuscitate him using CPR after finding him in the garage.
They alerted paramedics who took him to Wrexham Maelor Hospital, where he died.
It costs just over £10 to buy, but sits alongside a £30,000 white gold rattle and a teddy bear from the President of the United States.
They feature on a list of presents given to the royal baby in the year since her birth.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, Mr Hogan explained how the hand-made gift ended up in the princess's possession.
"In May last year, the Prince of Wales came over to Galway and I thought it would be a nice idea to give it to him.
"He gave it to Charlotte, I don't know when exactly, the first I heard of it was when I saw the rattle on the list of gifts.
"I can imagine that not all the gifts for the princess make it through, so I was really chuffed to find out mine had."
He said the rattle was made from willow and contained seven stones, which symbolised the seven deadly sins.
"When the child shakes the rattle, she is shaking away those evils", he said.
When quizzed about how the rattle would stand the test of time he said it could "go a bit soggy" if Princess Charlotte decided to chew the top as many babies do.
Threatening calls and emails were made to the billionaire, whose 2005 takeover of the club was fiercely opposed, according to Associated Press.
One threat involved a man with a British accent who made menacing calls saying he wished Mr Glazer was "dead".
No-one was charged as the source of the threats could not be identified.
The FBI released more than 120 pages of records, including details of the threats, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press news agency.
The papers show that on 12 May 2005 - the day Mr Glazer became the majority shareholder at Old Trafford - a man with a British accent called the headquarters of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the American football franchise also owned by the Glazer family.
He ended the call by saying he wished Mr Glazer was dead.
A second call, made by a man identifying himself as a member of a supporters' group, warned that Mr Glazer's family would be in danger unless he backed down from his takeover bid.
In a third call, a man claiming to be the same caller said he knew people who "were ready to take action against Glazer".
The caller said: "I am giving you another warning" and set a deadline for Mr Glazer to abandon his takeover bid.
Glazer, who never actually set foot inside Old Trafford, gradually bought out United shareholders between 2003 and 2005 before launching a £790m takeover largely funded by loans secured against the club's assets.
At the time, many Manchester United supporters opposed foreign ownership, and launched protests, fearing the businessman could sell off the stadium, raise prices and saddle the club with debt.
Greater Manchester Police also investigated alleged threats made against the American, who died in May aged 85, but no-one was charged.
Striker Luuk De Jong got the home team on their way from Luciano Narsingh's pass and Memphis Depay made it 2-0 with a superb free-kick.
Joey van den Berg pulled a goal back for Heerenveen but De Jong headed in his second from Jetro Willems' cross.
De Jong turned provider to set up Narsingh in the closing stages as PSV won their 22nd league title.
The victory moved PSV 13 points clear of second-placed Ajax, who have only 12 left to play for.
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) said she had received a complaint relating to Andy Marsh's role in Hampshire Constabulary's investigations at Stanbridge Earls School in Romsey.
A 2014 inquiry by Essex Police cleared him of misconduct allegations.
Another force is now set to investigate the complaint.
During Mr Marsh's tenure as Hampshire chief constable, the force investigated two rape claims against students by a girl at the independent school for pupils with special needs in 2013.
Following allegations of misconduct against Mr Marsh over his handling of the investigation, a report by Essex Police found "no grounds to justify" the claims.
Avon and Somerset PCC Sue Mountstevens said she had received a complaint relating to meetings held by Hampshire Constabulary during its investigation into the rape claims.
"I reviewed this latest complaint and given the background and the previous 12-month investigation I felt the complaint could be dealt with locally and directly with the complainant," Ms Mountstevens said.
"The complainant has the right to appeal my decision.
"They have used that right, and the Independent Police Complaints Commission has referred the complaint back to me for local investigation, which means I will ask another police force to look at this."
Following the police investigation and Ofsted inspections which raised concerns about safeguarding of pupils, the independent school, which had boarding and day pupils aged from 10 to 19, closed in 2014 after calling in administrators.
Mr Marsh replaced Avon and Somerset chief constable Nick Gargan, who quit after being found guilty of misconduct by an independent panel.
It comes a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged to try to find a solution to the UK's drive for reform.
Mr Fischer, an architect of European foreign policy, told the BBC that the UK was not a priority for Mrs Merkel.
Mr Cameron is starting renegotiation of the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a referendum.
But Mr Fischer said his advice to David Cameron was: "Don't lose yourself in wishful thinking.
"Angela Merkel will do nothing which will endanger the basic principles of the common market, of the EU," he told BBC Europe editor Katya Adler.
"And she has a much bigger problem to address - how to find a compromise in the currency union with Greece. That's her priority number one now."
Mr Fischer said it would be an "illusion" to think the UK would get special treatment because it is a major contributor to the EU budget.
He added: "What will the UK be without the EU? Go to Washington, ask them. The answer is very clear, very negative."
Last week, Mr Cameron made a whistle-stop tour of Europe trying to gather support for changes he wants before holding the UK's EU membership referendum.
After talks with the UK prime minister in Berlin, Mrs Merkel said she did not rule out future treaty changes in Europe.
"We would like to be a part of the process that is going on in Great Britain at the moment and we would like to be a constructive partner in this process," she said.
Mrs Merkel said her "clear-cut" view was that the UK should stay in the EU.
Mr Cameron has not set out in full detail the reforms he wants but analysts say they will include tougher rules to prevent migrants claiming benefits.
He also wants safeguards to protect the City of London in the event of closer eurozone integration and an exemption for Britain from the EU drive for "ever closer union".
The UK's in/out referendum will take place before the end of 2017.
Brian Tozer, 46, was struck by a vehicle in Andover in the early hours of Sunday and was found lying in the road by a passing motorist.
He was taken to Southampton General Hospital but died of his injuries. A 28-year-old man has been arrested.
Mr Tozer's family said they were "deeply saddened" by his "tragic and sudden death".
A statement said: "Brian was a wonderful, son, brother and uncle and will be greatly missed by us all including his extended family, friends and work colleagues."
A man from Andover was arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and has been bailed until 28 June.
The crash happened near the Folly Roundabout, Redon Way, at about 00:45 GMT.
Poppi Iris Worthington died in December 2012, and her father, Paul, 46, and a 30-year-old woman were later arrested.
An inquest in October ruled the cause of death could not be ascertained and their bail has now been cancelled.
Police said the inquiry was continuing and a file had been passed to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration whether to bring criminal proceedings.
Lynden Scourfield, a former manager with HBOS, pleaded guilty to six counts including corruption.
Five other defendants, including so-called turnaround consultants, were also convicted.
In exchange for bribes, Scourfield told customers to use the turnaround firm.
Mark Dobson, who was also a manager at HBOS, David Mills, and Michael Bancroft, were convicted at Southwark Crown Court on counts including bribery, fraud and money laundering.
Alison Mills, and John Cartwright were also convicted for their parts in the conspiracy while one other defendant, Jonathan Cohen, was acquitted.
Scourfield had been convicted after pleading guilty at an earlier trial last year.
The five newly convicted people will be sentenced on Thursday.
HBOS: A highly unusual case
The CPS special prosecutor, Stephen Rowland, said the case was one of the largest and most complex the special fraud division had ever prosecuted.
"It involved millions of documents, a lot of the material we had to look at was electronic and of course in this day and age the capacity for electronic media is huge," he said.
"So we had a very large amount of material to work through and to consider."
Businessmen Bancroft and Mills arranged sex parties, exotic foreign holidays, cash in brown envelopes and other favours for Scourfield between 2003 and 2007.
In exchange for the bribes, Scourfield would require the bank's small business customers to use the firm of consultants run by Mills and his wife Alison, Quayside Corporate Services.
Quayside purported to be turnaround consultants, offering business experience and expertise to help small business customers improve their fortunes.
But far from helping turn businesses around, Mills and his associates were milking them for huge fees and using their relationship with the bank to bully the business owners and strip them of their assets.
In cash fees alone, according to prosecutors in the trial, £28m went through the accounts of Mills, his wife and their associated companies.
But the true value to Mills of the corrupt relationship with Scourfield was much greater.
"What Scourfield gave Mills in addition to fees was the opportunity to take control of the various businesses and, in some cases, to acquire ownership of them," prosecutor Brian O'Neill QC told the court.
"Mills and his associates used the bank's customers and the banks's money dishonestly to enrich themselves."
Mr O'Neill said there was a pattern of abuse of small business customers whose companies were "run down by incompetency or as a deliberate policy or as a combination of the two".
This included:
The bank, which was rescued by Lloyds Banking Group during the financial crisis, internally estimated the cost of Scourfield's lending activity as more than £300m in early 2007.
However, that figure excludes further losses crystallised since that date and huge losses to business customers, many of whom have been ruined.
Sources close to the investigation say the total value of the fraud may be closer to £1bn.
Once appointed as turnaround consultants, Mills and Bancroft would put forward inflated cash flow forecasts and other figures.
HBOS would then extend far more money than the businesses needed, which Quayside would siphon off not only in fees but in loans that were lent on to other companies controlled by Mills and others - loans that would never be repaid.
If the business had good prospects, Bancroft or Mills would use their relationship with the bank, threatening owners that if they failed to accept their instructions, the bank would pull the plug.
They would then insist on a seat on the board, or a shareholding, or eventually, control of the business.
"Scourfield paid absolutely no regard to his overriding duty as an employee of the bank to protect its financial interests. Neither was Scourfield, nor Mills nor Bancroft, troubled by the proper interests of the directors, shareholders and creditors of the various companies," Mr O'Neill said.
"Many individuals suffered great financial loss and considerable personal trauma as a result of their callous disregard for the businesses they had established, owned or managed."
A decade on, HBOS's owner Lloyds Banking Group still has not acknowledged the full scale of the fraud - or offered to compensate its victims.
HBOS said: "The trial highlighted criminal actions that bear no reflection on the behaviours of the vast majority of the employees of HBOS at the time or in the group today."
The affected bank customers included music publishers Nikki and Paul Turner, who uncovered the fraud in 2007 by investigating publicly available records even as the bank sought to pull the plug on their business.
When they presented their evidence to the bank's board, first HBOS and then Lloyds Banking Group, the bank dismissed their allegations and instead sought to repossess their home.
File on Four will have a special report about the case on BBC Radio Four on Tuesday 31 January at 8pm.
No-one was killed but a BBC Arabic correspondent in Damascus says some people were injured.
The explosions triggered widespread panic and smoke was seen coming from the embassy compound.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described it as "a terrorist attack".
"This is... most likely intended to intimidate supporters of the fight against terror and prevent them from prevailing in the struggle against extremists," he said.
"Together with the Syrian authorities, we are now trying to establish those responsible."
Moments before, demonstrators had been waving Russian flags and holding up photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin, witnesses said.
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Rebel forces based in the suburbs of Damascus have previously targeted the embassy. Last month, Russia demanded "concrete action" after a missile struck the embassy compound.
One person was killed in May when mortar rounds landed near the embassy, and three people were hurt in April when mortars exploded inside the compound.
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Russia began its campaign of air strikes in Syria late last month.
The Kremlin says it is attacking the Islamic State (IS) group and other jihadists, but the US says other rebel groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad - an ally of Russia - have been targeted.
A US military spokesman said American and Russian jets came within kilometres of each other over Syria on Saturday, at around the same time both countries' officials held talks over how to avoid conflict.
In a 40-minute message released on Monday, Abu-Muhammad al-Adnani, an IS spokesman, confirmed the death of the group's second-in-command, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayal. The US had declared him dead in August after an air strike in Iraq
Adnani also called on Muslims to join a jihad against the US and Russia. It is the first time the group has made threats against Russia.
On Monday, the head of the al-Nusra Front - a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria - described Russia's intervention as "a new crusade".
Abu Mohammad al-Golani called on rebel groups to unite in the wake of the air strikes and also urged Muslims in the Russian Caucasus to attack civilians there.
In another development on Tuesday, a report by Amnesty International accused Kurdish forces in northern Syria of carrying out a wave of forced displacements and mass house demolitions that amounted to war crimes.
It said the Popular Protection Units (YPG) had razed entire villages after capturing them from IS.
The YPG has consistently denied accusations of forced displacements.
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Monti Shortt said the return of her dog, called Gog, "saved her life" and she praised the police and public for helping her find her pet.
The police are still investigating the theft.
He said firms in the EU were hampered by too much "cumbersome" regulation.
Mr Klesch, who runs his own investment fund, Klesch & Co, specialises in turning round struggling companies.
His intervention comes amid a series of large companies writing to staff in support of Britain staying in Europe.
BT, Rolls-Royce and today Unilever have all told staff the uncertainty engendered by Brexit could hurt investment and sales.
Mr Klesch has in recent years bought steel mills and refineries in Germany and Holland.
He was an unsuccessful bidder for the Milford Haven refinery complex in Pembrokeshire last year, and also tried to buy Tata Steel's plant in Scunthorpe.
How trade and the UK's economy are affected by membership of the EU.
He said that international investors would find the UK more attractive if it left the EU.
"The model is a very static model, a very regulated model. England is a part of that now. With Brexit, it can go to a dynamic model.
"It's not just me. Everyone [investors] talk about Asia, America and last of all Europe. The big advantage is that once you move into a dynamic environment it allows for explosive growth."
He said there was no doubt there would be an economic shock were the UK to leave, saying there was "no such thing as a risk-free transaction".
"There will be short-term pain, but long-term gain."
The UK should be confident of its position and status in the world economy, he said.
"I'm offended by the President of the United States coming over here and saying we will have to go to the back of the queue - when [the UK has] the fifth-largest economy in the world. Has he talked to Ford? Has he talked to Apple?"
The UK votes on whether to leave the European Union on June 23.
The media watchdog said there were no grounds to investigate after receiving 17 complaints about the attire of Channel 4 News presenter Fatima Manji.
"The way in which the presenter chose to dress in this case did not raise any issues under our rules," Ofcom said.
The watchdog will not be "taking the matter forward for investigation".
The Ofcom spokesman also said that "the selection of a presenter is an editorial matter for the broadcaster".
Manji co-presented the Channel 4 News bulletin, produced by ITN, from London during coverage of the lorry attack in Nice which killed 86 people on 15 July.
So-called Islamic State subsequently claimed responsibility for the attack.
Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie questioned whether the Muslim presenter should have appeared on the bulletin.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has received some 1,700 complaints over his remarks, including one from Manji herself and one from Channel 4 news.
The programme's editor, Ben de Pear, said last month that the correspondent had been a victim of "religious discrimination".
"ITN believes the article was in breach of a number of provisions of the Editor's Code, in particular discrimination, harassment by intimidation and inaccuracy," he added.
De Pear said a "further complaint" had been made by ITN chief executive John Hardie "which fully supports and endorses the grounds and reasoning of Fatima's complaint".
A ruling from Ipso is not expected until the autumn.
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Orchestras from across the UK are being urged to sign up and compete for the chance to perform at a major public event later this year.
Five finalists will compete in a grand final, to be broadcast on BBC Two.
The search is part of BBC Music's Get Playing initiative, which encourages people to try their hand at music.
Thousands of amateur musicians meet across the UK every week - with one government estimate suggesting there were 11,220 groups playing regularly.
In London alone, there is an orchestra composed of lawyers, one of medics, one which plays exclusively in basements and the London Gay Symphony Orchestra (which is open to everyone).
But they rarely get mainstream recognition, with a few notable exceptions such as the CBSO Chorus, which regularly performs with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
The BBC competition is open to orchestras with between 40 and 75 members. They must have been playing for at least a year and all entrants must be aged 16 or over, meaning most school orchestras will be ineligible.
A complementary series, The UK's Best Part-time Band, was announced last October, and will be broadcast on both BBC Two and Four.
Cassian Harrison, editor of BBC Four said: "We want to go beyond the stars to celebrate the passion of amateur music makers who captivate, entertain and transport audiences up and down the country every week, and hoping to inspire a new generation to pick up a musical instrument."
The conservation groups want licences to help protect rare birds of prey.
It comes after two cases against gamekeepers were dropped because prosecutors decided video footage was inadmissible as evidence.
But gamekeepers say any decision which could impact on jobs should be based on proof, not "suspicion".
The Scottish Raptor Study Group (SRSG), the Scottish Wildlife Trust and RSPB Scotland believe a licensing scheme will give protection to birds of prey in Scotland.
The RSPB said the illegal killing of birds of prey such as eagles and hen harriers was a "stain" on Scotland's reputation.
The call to work together to set up a licensing scheme comes after Holyrood's environment committee agreed to keep open SRSG's petition on creating the new regulations earlier this week.
Committee convener Graeme Dey has written to Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham asking her to look at "a licensing system for shooting businesses based on civil law".
Logan Steele of the SRSG said: "We accept that many within the shooting industry are law-abiding and are as keen as we are to bear down on the criminal element within their ranks.
"A government-sponsored inquiry, into how a licensing regime might work, presents an opportunity to work in partnership with forward-looking representatives from the industry, and other stakeholders, towards creating a sustainable upland environment where our birds of prey can thrive alongside legitimate shoot management."
The call comes after the Crown Office said video evidence provided by the RSPB in two cases was not admissible in court because it was filmed for the purposes of gathering evidence.
RSPB director Stuart Housden said the "illegal killing of our birds of prey has been a constant stain on the reputation of our country" for more than two decades and there was an increasing recognition that self-regulation had "failed".
A Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) spokesman said it, and others in the game industry, had put forward proposals to the Scottish government aimed at ending wildlife crime.
He added: "The SGA will not defend wrongdoing and has taken strong action when its position on wildlife crime has been breached by its members.
"We also believe honest working people, in the overwhelming majority in our profession, deserve to have their rights to employment protected.
"Any decision which could ultimately see a business, in any field, ended, with resultant loss of employment, ought to be taken on the appropriate, substantive standard of proof rather than on the basis of suspicion."
Plans were submitted to the government for 24 turbines on the Talladh-a-Bheithe estate, an area of moorland between Loch Rannoch and Loch Ericht.
Hillwalkers said the plans would affect the views for miles around.
The Energy and Climate Change Directorate ruled that the application was legally "not competent".
It noted that the application was received on 23 June 2014 but Talladh-A-Bheithe Wind Farm Limited was not registered as a company until 28 August that year.
This meant that the applicant was not a "legal entity" at the time the application was made.
The Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) had campaigned against the plans, claiming the 125m tall turbines would affect views from Schiehallion, Ben Alder, Glen Lyon and Loch Tay, and would be visible from the A82.
MCofS director for landscape and access Dave Gordon said: "Although the decision was based on a specific legal point, which meant that the application was not competent, many people thought the very idea of wind farm in such an unspoilt area was incompetent.
"We hope that Rannoch is now free forever from the threat of wind turbines and does not have to suffer repeated applications, as many communities have."
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It is not yet known how the carriage's pantograph - which connects the train to the overhead lines - came to hit the roof of the central London station.
The Thameslink train to Sevenoaks crashed at about 09.55 GMT. No-one was injured and the train has been removed.
Southeastern, which runs the service on First Capital Connect trains, said it was investigating the crash.
Passengers who were on the train, which had left St Albans at 08:58, were able to use their tickets on London Underground services to continue their journeys.
First Capital Connect said there were delays of up to 45 minutes on the line as a result of the crash.
A total of 706 people died as a result of drug abuse last year - the largest number ever recorded, according to a report by the National Records of Scotland.
It represents a 15% increase on the figure for 2014, when 613 people died.
The number of drug deaths in Scotland have been steadily increasing since 1995, when 426 deaths were recorded.
The report also reveals the effect of drug abuse on older users - almost three-quarters (73%) of deaths were among people aged over 35.
Other findings include:
The Scottish government said the health risks posed by older drug users was a "key challenge" for Scotland.
Aileen Campbell, the minister for public health, said ageing drug users were experiencing increasingly poor health.
"This is a legacy of Scotland's drug misuse which stretches back decades," she added.
"To address this we have funded research to investigate the issues associated with older drug users through the Scottish Drugs Forum.
"We have also achieved significant reductions in treatment times for those needing treatment for their drug problem.
"We remain committed to tackling the scourge of illegal drugs and the damage they do to our communities, and to support those who are struggling with addiction."
She added that drug use is falling in Scotland, with the number of young people taking drugs at its lowest level in a decade.
However a spokeswoman for Addaction Scotland said the group was "deeply concerned" about drugs death trends.
She highlighted a reduction in the number of fixed site needle exchanges, which are often users' entry point for treatment.
She added: "The situation of increasing drug related deaths is not helped by the uncertainty of current and future funding of services.
"Across Addaction we are concerned when essential services like ours are often being asked to make efficiency savings of around 20%."
Dave Liddell, the director of the Scottish Drugs Forum, said the statistics were a "wakeup call to redouble efforts to reduce this tragic and largely preventable loss of life."
Earlier this year a new group, the Partnership for Action on Drugs in Scotland (PADS) was set up to reduce problem drug use.
It is chaired by the minister for public health and includes representatives of agencies including Harms Group.
Harms Group chairman Prof Roy Robertson said the drugs death statistics "represent a situation which demands attention".
He said: "The time has undoubtedly come for action at all levels. New resources are required and ownership of this national problem at a high level must now be seen."
Health professionals and drug charities have called for supervised heroin consumption to be approved to allow users could receive drugs safely.
One answer being proposed by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is a pilot service for heroin-assisted treatment in Glasgow city centre.
A report in June 2016 from NHSGGC, "Taking away the chaos," suggested injectable, pharmaceutical-grade heroin would be administered in a specialist outpatient facility operating under clinical supervision with strict safeguards.
The health board argued such a move would benefit both users and the wider community.
The number of drug-acquired HIV infections in Glasgow rose to 47 in 2015, from a normal annual average of 10 - and is expected to top 60 in 2016.
And it said public injecting in the city centre, in closes, lanes, car parks and public toilets causes a further risk.
They said they plan to involve 20,000 people in the project, which aims to find out what makes some people vulnerable to the illness.
It will also look at other people who experience stressful events without becoming depressed.
Those carrying out the research said it may help people avoid depression, or receive more appropriate treatment.
Kerry McIver had to give up her musical career after experiencing severe depression.
She said: "I spent most of my 20s in hospital. I think for the first year I wasn't (in hospital) but then it was in and out, in and out.
"I'd be in for six months then out for six weeks, and I'd be back to square one again.
"I does rob people of their lives and it robs people of their vitality.
"Even now, although I consider myself much better, my motivation to do things - my get and up and go - it's not what it used to be."
Depression is a very common disease. At least 12% of the population can expect to become clinically depressed at some point in their lives.
The Scottish study will be led by Dr Andrew McIntosh.
"We're going to invite them to answer questions about depressive symptoms they may have suffered from, some life events and coping strategies they may have had," he said.
"We're also interested in people's resilience to mental health problems.
"So we're actually going to ask individuals whether they've faced adversity in the past and faced perhaps some very severe forms of life event that might reasonably have been expected to cause depression in many people, but for some reason they've managed to negotiate these changes and not develop depressive illness as a result."
Researchers say the term "depression" covers a wide range of conditions and in order to treat them a wide range of factors have to be analysed.
Organisations campaigning for greater understanding of illnesses like depression have said they hope the study will help their work.
Alex Stobart, of Action on Depression, said: "It could be that one can draw links between other conditions in other ways that the brain behaves as the brain reacts and thereby persuade a wider and deeper approach to tackling this issue.
"It could very well be that we discover families and we discover people and reasons for depression occurring and then are able to understand what a better treatment might be that we can offer.
"But it's a long way to go."
Of the 667 people to have played for England, none have more runs than Cook, who passed Graham Gooch's record of 8,900. It's quite brilliant.
On day one of this Headingley Test against New Zealand, I talked about the ups and downs of James Anderson's 400 Test wickets, with the achievement being made all the greater because of past struggles.
Cook, like Anderson, has been at rock bottom. Between 2008 and 2009, Cook went 29 innings without a Test hundred, a slump that was not fully arrested until a century in the final Test of the 2010 summer against Pakistan secured his place on the Ashes tour.
More recently, against the backdrop of a struggling England team and the Kevin Pietersen saga, the opener went 35 innings without a ton, a run ended in the West Indies.
Both barren spells were characterised by the same technical issues - not getting fully forward into the ball, slightly falling over.
But, if you are to have a long career, you will experience problems and you usually return to the same person or coach to help solve those problems. For much of Cook's career, that mentor has been Gooch, though we do not know how much Gooch has had to do with this latest return to form.
Still, it is ironic that Cook has beaten the record of his long-time mentor, and it is probably true that he is England's bravest and most determined cricketer since Gooch.
Who knows what might have happened to Cook had he not come out of that early poor trot. If he hadn't, he might have missed out on that 2010-11 Ashes tour, which is where I think he was at his best for England.
The left-hander scored 766 runs, including three hundreds and a match-saving double century in the first Test at Brisbane. For me, that is his best innings for England, not least because the Ashes may not have been won without it.
It is difficult to compare eras, to fully evaluate where Cook ranks in comparison to England batsmen of the past. The familiar argument is that there is more Test cricket nowadays, often against much weaker opposition.
I would have loved to have seen Cook bat at the other end to Gooch, to see how he would have coped with the ferocious pace attacks that his fellow Essex player came up against in the 1980s.
However, the suspicion is that if you can bat beautifully in one era, there is no reason for you not to be able to do it in another. Cook would probably have done just fine.
It was clear that England had a very special talent on their hands when he announced his arrival with a debut hundred in India in 2006.
Cook had flown from the West Indies, arriving into a fairly shambolic tour where the captain and vice-captain had gone home, with Andrew Flintoff thrust in as skipper.
In almost unbearable heat in Nagpur, Cook made 60 and 104 not out. We knew he would be good, but he's been much more than good.
Will his legacy be affected by how he is viewed as a captain? In fairness to Cook, he's done some very good things as captain, not least winning in India when he first took the job.
Some will choose to remember the 5-0 defeat in Australia and the Pietersen row, in which Cook has been embroiled.
But you only had to be at Headingley to see the affection that England supporters have for Cook. The applause when he passed Gooch's record with a drive for four off Tim Southee was loud, warm and sustained.
There have been some horrible and unkind things written about him in the press, painting a picture of a man who is self-obsessed.
That could not be further from the truth, for you could not wish to meet a more down-to-earth individual. Indeed, that is one of his great strengths.
When he is not playing, he returns to his family, his friends and his mates, totally getting away from the game.
I wouldn't say that I know him well, but I have certainly worked with him a lot. There was probably a time last summer when Cook was sick of me asking difficult questions.
Yet he is always friendly, unfailingly polite and with the impression that he is pleased to see you. That character is also obviously one that he has around his team-mates, who have immense respect for him.
When he retires from playing, you can imagine him walking away from cricket completely. I suspect the only place I will see him is at Melton market, buying sheep.
That is still a long way off, though. He is only 30 and could play for four or five more years, notching another 40 or 50 Test matches and probably passing 11,000 runs.
His immediate concern is Australia and he will begin the task of winning the Ashes back with the record out of the way, some good form under his belt and with a team that is creating some positive headlines for English cricket.
During the first Test I spoke about how this summer could be his last as captain, but I don't think it would be a good thing to push Joe Root into the firing line yet.
The best for the England team would be for Cook to remain as captain until at least the tour of South Africa at Christmas and perhaps into next summer too.
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The County Antrim-born star was in high spirits during Saturday night's fight and appeared to slur his speech during a TV interview in the boxing arena.
Nesbitt said that the next day, he felt like he too "had been through 12 gruelling rounds" with Frampton.
He sent belated congratulations to the boxer via the BBC's Nolan Show.
"I was hoping to congratulate you on the night, but was unable to speak to you," Nesbitt said.
"But to be fair I was unable to speak - a little bit too much hospitality beforehand.
"What a performance, and indeed you weren't bad either," he joked.
Nesbitt was in the crowd in Manchester Arena to support Frampton, alongside some other well-known faces from Northern Ireland including County Antrim jockey Sir Anthony McCoy and Irish football manager Martin O'Neill.
The actor's impaired speech was the subject of much comment on Twitter, with comedian Jake O'Kane speculating: "The big question tonight is will Jimmy Nesbitt hit the canvass before Quigg or Frampton?"
Frampton beat Scott Quigg via a split decision in Manchester to add the WBA super-bantamweight title to the IBF title he already owned.
The actor recorded a video message to the new world champion, while taking a break from working on location in Singapore, saying it was as far away as he could get after his TV interview on Saturday night.
"We are incredibly proud of you, and indeed on Sunday morning I felt as if I too had been through 12 gruelling rounds with the world champion - Northern Ireland's very own Carl Frampton," Nesbitt said.
"Everyone is so proud, well done."
Elizabeth Manley faces 30 misconduct charges between 2013 and 2015 when she was at Lumsden Primary, Aberdeenshire.
They include allegations she threatened a parent and acted aggressively towards staff.
Mrs Manley is expected to be struck from the register by her own consent during a hearing at the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS).
It is due to take place in Edinburgh on Thursday.
Aberdeenshire Council said it took appropriate action when the allegations came to light and Mrs Manley was no longer employed by the council.
Alexander Mackey, 21, from Plymouth, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a goldfish by swallowing it.
The fish was won in a game last October at the Goose Fair in Tavistock, Devon by one of Mackey's friends, Plymouth Crown Court was told.
A few days later a video was posted on a friend's Facebook account and a complaint was made to the RSPCA.
Mackey was ordered to pay a fine and costs totalling £752 for the crime.
The RSPCA commissioned a vet's report which it said confirmed the fish died in his stomach as a result of a lack of oxygen and would have suffered a lot of pain.
The court heard that Mackey had drunk at least eight cans of lager before and during the fair.
Lindi Meyer, representing the RSPCA, said: "The defendant opened his mouth and dropped the fish in, swallowing it whole. He opened his mouth to prove it was not there.
"He said he was aware of the footage on Facebook and when asked if he thought that was acceptable he said 'No'.
"He said it did not cross his mind at the time and he would not have done it if he was sober and he was sorry."
Jen Warren, from Rugby in Warwickshire, lost the use of her left leg in a skiing accident in 2008.
The former Army medical officer is part of all-woman team Enable, racing in the Arch to Arc triathlon from Marble Arch to the Arc de Triomphe.
The group is hoping to become the first disability team to complete the gruelling challenge.
Mrs Warren is one of 24 injured military personnel who are raising money for Help For Heroes.
The relay team has completed the 87 miles from Marble Arch in central London to the Dover coast.
They reached the coast just in time for their swimming tidal window to cross the English Channel to the French coast.
Next they face a 181 mile race from Calais to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Mrs Warren was introduced to Coventry Godiva Harriers Wheelchair Academy to aid her recovery.
Grant funding from the charity has enabled the 34-year-old to buy a specialist racing wheelchair and a hand-bike to support her progression with the sport.
She said: "This is about showing people that your only limit is your imagination and what you can do.
She added: "It is you, the chair, the road and it is up to you how far you push it. But the triathlon bug has bitten me bad."
Mrs Warren has taken part in the Help for Heroes Big Battlefield Bike Ride on a tandem with her husband, the Lewa Marathon, the Great North Run, ParaTri and the Bolton Ironman.
The HGVs travel down High Street as a shortcut in and out of Desford, Leicestershire, residents say.
But people have been "trapped" against walls and houses struck when the large vehicles get stuck trying to negotiate the street.
Haulage experts said weight restriction breaches were a police matter.
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Desford resident Juliette Minto was captured during a stand-off with a HGV looking to turn into High Street - which has a 7.5-tonne weight restriction, except for loading.
Councillor David Sprason said lorries were seemingly "ignoring" weight restriction signage - including a sign on the corner of High Street, which residents say has been bent by an HGV.
Mrs Minto, who set up Desford Traffic Watch on Facebook seven months ago to raise awareness of the problem, described the current situation as "horrendously dangerous".
"We have had people trapped against walls, pushchairs that can't get past when the lorries mount the pavement," she said.
"It's only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt."
In a statement, Leicestershire County Council said it would be installing additional signage and further reviewing the Desford area.
Chrys Rampley, from the Road Haulage Association, said continual weight restriction breaches must be enforced by the police.
"It's often a mixture of things," she said. "It could be drivers have a sat-nav which has not got truck attributes on it. Basic car sat-navs are not necessarily fit for purpose.
"Some people instructing drivers may not be au fait with the roads around them, and we have had problems with drivers ignoring weight restrictions."
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Electrical equipment exploded underneath Stratford Road in Shirley on Monday, causing smoke and then flames to repeatedly shoot out of the pavement, in front of a row of shops and parked cars.
The passer-by managed to film the explosion on his mobile phone.
West Power Distribution said engineers were despatched after receiving a call at about 17:00 BST.
They isolated electricity supplies and cordoned off the area before repairing an underground link box. A spokesman described the incident as very rare.
The surrounding footpath and tarmac was replaced on Tuesday.
But it seems the internet giant may just have found its politest searcher - 86-year-old May Ashworth.
The grandmother's request read: "Please translate these roman numerals mcmxcviii thank you."
Ben John, from Wigan, tweeted a photo of his nan's very polite search on Google that so far has been retweeted nearly nine thousand times.
The 25-year-old had been visiting his nan when he went on her computer and saw what she had typed into Google.
"I live with my boyfriend and we don't have a dryer at our house, so I usually go over to my nan's to do our washing," he said.
"While I was waiting I thought I'd go on the internet and that's why I opened her laptop."
Ben realised she had not switched it off, she had only closed the lid.
He glanced at the page she had open and nearly closed it before he noticed what she had put into Google.
Ben's nan likes to watch TV and it seems she has an interest in knowing when programmes were made.
Television shows still use Roman numerals on their credits to show the year of the programme.
"She saw a TV show the other day but couldn't work out from the credits when it was made, so she put the numerals into Google," said Ben.
"It made me chuckle so I thought I'd take a photo and put it on Twitter for my friends to see. I didn't expect so many other people to see it!"
But hundreds of thousands of people have seen the tweet - and many have expressed how much they loved it.
Ben said his nan doesn't use her laptop much. "She goes to a silver surfers' club at the local library to learn about computers and the internet, but she hardly ever uses her laptop."
"I asked my nan why she used 'please' and 'thank you' and it seemed she thinks that there is someone - a physical person - at Google's headquarters who looks after the searches.
"She thought that by being polite and using her manners, the search would be quicker."
As well as social media users, Google UK was also charmed with Ben's nan May. The company noticed the photo of the search and tweeted Ben's account with a message for her saying: "In a world of billions of searches, yours made us smile."
Ben said he's surprised at the amount of attention his tweet has received. "I posted the photo on Thursday, and it wasn't immediately picked up by the media. I've even had calls from the US for me to speak on their shows."
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A new clause will be added into all new and renewed grant agreements to ensure funds are spent on good causes, rather than on political campaigns.
Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock said "the farce of government lobbying government" had to stop.
But a senior charity source said it was an attack on freedom of speech.
The Cabinet Office said the government gave the voluntary sector about £10bn in grants last year.
Mr Hancock said: "The public sector never lobbies for lower taxes and less state spending, and it's a zero sum game if Peter is robbed to pay Paul."
But the senior charity source told the BBC: "Charities are not only about Tiny Tim on his crutch, but espousing the cause of the disadvantaged.
"That will sometimes be uncomfortable for any government."
Under the rules, which will take effect in May, charities can still use privately-raised funds to campaign as they like.
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The social network has already added vanishing stories to its Instagram and WhatsApp products.
The BBC's Chris Foxx asked Facebook's Peter Martinazzi why people would want to post disappearing selfies on so many apps.
The Rugby Football Union had proposed removing one of the two weeks when games are not played to create space for a new global international season.
But the 2018 and 2019 Six Nations will be played over seven weeks as in previous years.
"We think it's very important from a player welfare perspective to retain the seven weeks," Davies said.
"Some would argue the seven weeks is too short, especially at the intensity, speed and power that these guys play today.
"Looking back to last season, Scotland played France two weeks before they played us.
"If that game had been played on successive Saturdays they would have been eight players short.
"That, at the end of the day, does nothing I think for the integrity of the competition and why subject the players to added pressures.
"Also from the fans' point of view, being on the road or coming to Cardiff five weeks on the trot is pretty demanding and perhaps unreasonable on the supporters."
Wales have hosted six of the seven Friday night games since they were introduced in 2009 but had declared their wish not to host any matches in 2018 or 2019.
Davies is also pleased Six Nations organisers had listened to their wishes with Wales' only Friday night fixture in the next two years away to France in February 2019.
"We think we've done our bit over the years and perhaps someone else should carry that burden, if it is a burden," Davies added.
"France seem reasonably relaxed about Fridays, therefore they take that.
"At the end of the day I think each nation has to be inconvenienced, if that's the right term.
"I'm sure we'd all love to kick off at 3pm on a Saturday but obviously broadcast revenue is significant for all the countries.
"We have to be mindful of the broadcasters, who obviously want all the games live on television and therefore playing at your optimum spot of 3pm on a Saturday isn't possible for all.
"What's been reached I think is a reasonable compromise."
Davies is disappointed Cardiff Blues head coach Danny Wilson and Scarlets backs coach Stephen Jones will not be part of Wales' coaching team for the summer tour but respected their decisions.
Jones pulled out because of Scarlets' Pro12 commitments while Wilson opted to miss the two-Test tour against Tonga in New Zealand and Samoa in Apia due to increasing regional commitments.
"It's a blow from my perspective, not for the team or its performance in the short term, but a blow to the development programme of future Welsh coaches," Davies said.
"It was great opportunity for Danny and Stephen but we respect their wishes.
"It's been a long season with the Scarlets still hunting a trophy.
"Going out for three or four weeks to the southern hemisphere and coming back straight into the middle of pre-season training is very demanding."
The crime happened in the Dyce area sometime between Friday 28 November and Saturday 29.
The men are described as white and in their late 20s or early 30s.
One was of medium build, wearing a blue jumper, dark scarf and navy hat. The other was slim, wearing a grey jumper, dark hooded top and green and red hat.
Reporters Without Borders says that the authorities have installed a system to block access to the Tor network - a "hidden" layer of the internet, used to allow anonymous online communications.
Users already face up to 15 years in jail if they use Skype or similar internet call services.
Addis Ababa said it was only illegal to use Skype "for fraudulent activities".
"The Ethiopian government is trying to attack every means of information exchange," Ambroise Pierre from the Reporters Without Borders Africa service told BBC News.
"There's already a very strict control over written press, and last year several journalists were arrested, and now the government is tackling communications over the internet.
"More and more people in Ethiopia are turning to new technologies, and some are even able to bypass censorship, which explains why the government is trying to use effective methods to control internet communications."
But a governement spokesman told the BBC's Anne Waithera in Addis Ababa that Skype was "not illegal" in the country.
"Skype is not illegal. What is illegal is using Skype for fraudulent activities such as making unathorised calls," he said.
"Some people even come from other countries with their sim cards and operate here illegally.
"We need to have regulations, that is standard in all countries. In any business you have to be licensed.
"This law is in the public interest and the right of individuals to communicate is protected by our constitution."
Al Jazeera recently reported that Ethiopia passed a law on 24 May criminalising the use of VoIP (voice over internet protocol) calls. It said the maximum sentence was 15 years in jail.
Other local reports have said that individuals providing such services face sentences of up to eight years, and users could also be imprisoned for using banned social media sites.
The BBC could not independently confirm the details.
While criminalising such acts may be new, Ethiopia has long restricted internet use.
"I used a British internet telephony provider, but [the government eventually] blocked the ports," said Elizabeth Blunt, the BBC's former Ethiopia correspondent who worked in Addis Ababa between 2007 and 2009.
She added that there were two reasons for the authorities to prohibit internet communications.
"Internet cafes may be allowing people to make calls for far less than the cost of Ethiopia telecom, the state's telecommunications provider that has the monopoly and charges very high prices - and doesn't want to have its service undermined," says Ms Blunt.
"But there is also the issue that Skype can't be listened to so easily and can't be controlled."
The Internet Society, an international organisation which promotes equal access to the net, also raised concerns.
"Placing restrictions such as banning VoIP goes against our belief in an open and unencumbered internet," said its vice president for public policy Markus Kummer.
Reporters Without Borders said it was worried the latest effort to block access to Tor might be the first step towards creating a system that would allow the authorities to intercept any email, social network post or VoIP call made in the country.
"This is a country where surveillance is very important - due to years of all the conflicts and political rivalry," said Mr Pierre.
"The opposition and the media are being listened to, and people usually take care when they talk on the phone.
"We've had in the past certain cases of blocking websites of independent and opposition parties, so censorship isn't new - but now it's a new stage, and what Reporters Without Borders is worried about, is that [by criminalising] communications by Skype, the government is implementing a system to have a general policy of internet control."
The document, to be revealed in Edinburgh, stated the Labour movement "offers the hope and the contemporary solutions to society's problems".
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale accused the SNP government at Holyrood of prioritising independence over day-to-day governance.
She called on the SNP to respect the verdict of the 2014 referendum.
In her manifesto foreword, Ms Dugdale wrote: "Labour is the only party which knows it is the power of the whole UK working in partnership which benefits the many, not the few - that is at the root of our belief that together we're stronger.
"That is why Labour opposes independence and a second divisive independence referendum. Independence is not the answer to dealing with Scotland's flagging economy or our pressured public services."
The manifesto states that another vote on independence is "unwanted and unnecessary", and with Labour pledging to "campaign tirelessly to ensure that Scotland remains part of the UK".
"The SNP needs to respect the verdict of the majority of Scots in 2014 and abandon its divisive plan to re-run the referendum," it says.
Scottish Labour's focus on its opposition to independence comes as both the SNP and the Scottish Conservatives have sought to define the election as a two-horse race between their parties.
The Tories, who have squeezed Ms Dugdale's party into third place, have repeatedly led their campaigning on a hardline message of opposing another referendum.
Scottish Labour's manifesto will also include a series of pledges aimed at delivering "transformative change" in Scotland.
These include commitments to bring forward Member's Bills on banning MSPs from holding paid second jobs, extending breakfast clubs into every primary school, banning onshore fracking, improving access to sanitary products to tackle "period poverty" and scrapping the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act.
Scottish Labour won one Scottish seat in the 2015 General Election.
Labour's UK manifesto also confirmed it opposed an independence referendum.
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has previously said it would be wrong for Westminster to block a second referendum if the Scottish Parliament voted in favour of one.
Writing in the manifesto foreword, Mr Corbyn said: "In Scotland, child poverty is increasing, the number of those working but still classified as poor is at its highest level since devolution, and health inequalities stubbornly persist. Rather than tackle poverty, the SNP obsesses over another reckless referendum that threatens people's futures.
"Labour is opposed to independence because it would inflict turbo-charged austerity on the Scottish people. We will stand firm in our opposition to a second referendum because we know that together we're stronger and unity is still our strength.
"Historically, it has been the solidarity and common endeavour of our Labour and trade union movement that has transformed the lives of the many, not the few, in our great country.
"Just as it has always been the case, only our movement offers the hope and the contemporary solutions to society's problems. Nationalism, in whatever form, does not."
The Scottish Conservatives, who launched their manifesto last week, will be campaigning in the south of Scotland to promote the new Borderlands Growth Deal.
The SNP will launch its manifesto on Tuesday.
Jay McEveley's mistake allowed Motherwell striker Scott McDonald to run through on goal unopposed and knock the ball past goalkeeper Scott Fox.
However, McEveley made amends when he headed in Martin Woods' corner.
Louis Moult headed Motherwell back in front from Chris Cadden's corner and, despite chances from Alex Schalk and Liam Boyce, the visitors held on.
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Motherwell came into this off the back of two defeats by Rangers, with uncertainty surrounding the future of McDonald who has been the subject of interest from Australia.
The script was written and he delivered. Any doubt about his focus was quickly extinguished, mainly thanks to McEveley's lack of it.
He let a simple ball slide under his boot straight into McDonald's path and he did what he does in such situations with a composed finish.
He nearly added a second from close range before Moult flicked the ball off a post from an offside position.
Moult delivered though with a firm header after being allowed too much space from a corner.
There was a lot to like about Motherwell. They were comfortable on the ball and caused problems for the County back-line by pressing early.
They had to defend more as the match wore on but they stood firm, which will delight Mark McGhee.
Stephen Pearson will sign on to bolster the midfield and if McDonald is retained with interest in Celtic's Nadir Ciftci very much alive at time of writing, this could prove to be a pivotal evening for the Fir Park side after a well-earned win.
Manager Jim McIntyre talked before the match about the need for his players to cut out unnecessary errors and maintain concentration.
McEveley must take responsibility for allowing the ball to skid under his foot with little danger, straight to McDonald who netted.
You could see in McEveley's reaction to his equaliser how much it meant; he knew he had made a disastrous error beforehand.
Their goal was typical of County at set-pieces. It was straight off the training ground with McEveley's looping header evading Craig Samson, although the goalkeeper felt he was impeded by Schalk.
County create chances and score goals, but they are conceding too many too cheaply, as was also the case for Motherwell's second.
Schalk came close on three occasions while Boyce might have done better from a few yards out.
Michael Gardyne should definitely have done better from an angle but screwed well wide.
Consecutive defeats here and against Kilmarnock have been damaging for their top-six hopes with Rangers at Ibrox next.
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Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: "Again, even in games we've won, we've had calamitous moments that have led to us gifting teams goals and we've got another two tonight.
"We never played well at all tonight but created opportunities - but until we stop gifting teams it's tough to win games.
"There's no doubt Motherwell were playing the better stuff. We had a poor 45 minutes at Kilmarnock and it carried on tonight.
"I think if it continues to happen, [players] have to be left out. It comes from a lack of concentration. It's not good enough at this level.
"Nobody's questioning the boys' attitude or effort but I'm certainly questioning that mentality."
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee: "I thought it was tidy. I was disappointed to lose a goal from a corner. That was a set-back but we dug in and I feel comfortable that we deserved to win.
"That's why we've been desperate to keep [Scott McDonald]. He leads the line so well. I thought the two up front were brilliant.
"I hope McDonald stays you just never know right up to the last minute but we do want him to stay."
Match ends, Ross County 1, Motherwell 2.
Second Half ends, Ross County 1, Motherwell 2.
Milan Lalkovic (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Milan Lalkovic (Ross County).
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Motherwell. Lionel Ainsworth replaces Louis Moult.
Tim Chow (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Carl McHugh (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Chris Cadden (Motherwell) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Alex Schalk (Ross County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Martin Woods (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Keith Lasley (Motherwell).
Attempt blocked. Jason Naismith (Ross County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Motherwell. Zak Jules replaces Steven Hammell because of an injury.
Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Carl McHugh (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Craig Clay (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Scott McDonald (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Michael Gardyne (Ross County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Steven Hammell.
Substitution, Motherwell. Craig Clay replaces Lee Lucas.
Foul by Kenny van der Weg (Ross County).
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Milan Lalkovic (Ross County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Stephen McManus (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Stephen McManus (Motherwell).
Liam Boyce (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Keith Lasley (Motherwell).
Attempt blocked. Martin Woods (Ross County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Keith Lasley.
Substitution, Ross County. Michael Gardyne replaces Jim O'Brien.
Tim Chow (Ross County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tim Chow (Ross County).
Milan Lalkovic (Ross County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Keith Lasley (Motherwell).
Alex Schalk (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ben Heneghan (Motherwell).
Goal! Ross County 1, Motherwell 2. Louis Moult (Motherwell) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Steven Hammell with a cross.
This year's re-enactment of the battle fought on 14 October 1066 took place on Saturday and Sunday with horses, encampments and drifting wood smoke.
The event took place a year ahead of the 950th anniversary.
English Heritage has already started drawing up plans for 2016.
Next year, part of William the Conqueror's abbey - the Great Gatehouse roof at Battle Abbey - will be opened to give visitors a view of the landscape where the battle was fought.
Inside the Great Gatehouse, a new exhibition will give an account of the day of the battle from dawn to dusk.
It will also explore the lead-up to the conflict, what is known about the location of the battle and the legacy of the clash.
New information points will be installed in the visitor centre and across the battlefield.
English Heritage chief executive Kate Mavor said the battle defined England's political, social and geographical landscape for centuries.
And last month, BBC News readers voted Hastings the third most decisive battle in British history, behind Bannockburn and the Battle of Britain.
Conservation work is starting on the Great Gatehouse, which will see repairs to the masonry and work to weather-proof the turrets and roof.
And curators are carrying out research on two forgotten staircases that may shed light on later uses of the building.
It is thought the staircases could have been used for secure treasuries, English Heritage said.
Staff at the Uddingston contact centre were told it will close on 31 March.
Owner Ageas said it had suffered the consequences of a change in the way people buy insurance.
After closure plans were set out in November, a team involving the council and government agencies sought to find a way of keeping the workforce intact.
However, none was found to be workable.
Ageas will now focus on finding alternative work for the 521 staff being made redundant. It claims to have identified 1,800 possible local vacancies this year, and about 40 employers that could use a similar range of skills.
Ant Middle, chief executive of Ageas Direct and Partnerships, said he regretted the decision to close the Uddingston office, but said the interest from other employers "not only evidences what we already know - that we have capable, skilled and experienced people - but also that there are many good opportunities in the local area".
He added: "We will do all we can to support our people in securing alternative roles.
"I know this has been a difficult and unsettling time for all of our employees and I want to thank each of them for their professionalism throughout the process."
The government-backed service Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (Pace) is to open an office at the Tannochside site to provide employees with advice on dealing with redundancy and finding alternative employment.
This will be backed up by Penna outplacement services, and there will be recruitment fairs.
Business Minister Paul Wheelhouse said he was "very disappointed" at the decision by Ageas to close the site.
He said: "The Scottish government, our enterprise and skills bodies and North Lanarkshire Council have been working hard with Ageas to look at all possible options to secure the future of the site and its workforce.
"Unfortunately, despite the significant and ongoing efforts of all involved, the company decided that closure could not be avoided.
"A substantial number of companies have already expressed an interest in the employees, which is very encouraging, and I have confirmed that we will work with Ageas to help the individuals affected access new opportunities."
Mr Wheelhouse added that Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International would also work closely with Ageas to market the contact centre site to investors in the UK and internationally.
North Lanarkshire Council leader Jim Logue said it was "clearly disappointing" that Ageas had been unable to find a business to take over the site.
He said: "Council staff have worked tirelessly to identify potentially-interested parties.
"However, it is encouraging that many of these other businesses have expressed an interest in providing employment opportunities for the dedicated and skilled workforce at Kwik Fit Insurance."
He added: "We will play a full part, through our employability specialists and working with partners, to ensure that affected staff are given every chance to take these opportunities with other businesses."
Ageas bought Kwik Fit Insurance Services in July 2010, for £215m. Since then, it has had no connection with the garage business of that name, with which it was founded in 1995.
But its overgenerous offer of fuel subsidies meant it could cost taxpayers an extra £490m.
The fall out has now caused the collapse of the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive.
BBC News NI looks at those who have found themselves in the spotlight over the scandal.
Northern Ireland's former first minister, Arlene Foster, headed up the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (Deti) when the RHI scheme was designed.
Crucial controls to limit the scheme's cost were not introduced, something she has since said is her "deepest political regret".
But the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader fiercely contested claims by Jonathan Bell - her party colleague and successor as enterprise minister - that she ordered him to keep the scheme open.
In the wake of his allegations, Mrs Foster faced calls to step aside to allow a judge-led public inquiry into the scheme.
Mrs Foster re-stated in January that she would not be standing down over the issue, adding that some calls for her to do so were "misogynistic".
In the end, her time as first minister was brought to an abrupt end when the Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, resigned, forcing an election.
Jonathan Bell was the minister at Deti during the period that the RHI scheme did the most damage to the public purse.
A total of £485m was committed when applications suddenly flooded the department in October and November 2015.
But in an explosive interview with the BBC's Stephen Nolan earlier this month, Mr Bell said he tried to close it down before that point, only to be thwarted by DUP advisers.
He also accused the advisers of trying to alter documents "without my knowledge, without my consent".
The DUP MLA has called for a public inquiry into the scandal, and has since been suspended by his party.
Although he shies away from the public eye, Timothy Johnston (above left, with former DUP leader Peter Robinson) has long been regarded as perhaps the most powerful official behind the scenes at the DUP.
In the days when the party opposed David Trimble's Ulster Unionists, Mr Johnston was its communications director, working particularly closely with Peter Robinson.
He was involved in the negotiations around the St Andrews Agreement that led to the restoration of devolution in 2007, and has been an adviser at Stormont Castle for Ian Paisley, Peter Robinson and now Arlene Foster.
The Paisley family publicly blamed Mr Johnston for compiling a critical survey about Dr Paisley's leadership before the party founder resigned, a claim he said was regrettable and inaccurate.
He is one of two DUP advisers that Jonathan Bell has claimed would not allow the RHI scheme to close in early-autumn 2015, but he has rejected that allegation.
As an adviser to Arlene Foster, he is paid the maximum salary allowed for a special adviser - £91,809
A son of a farmer from Beragh in County Tyrone, Dr Andrew Crawford is a former employee of the Ulster Farmers' Union.
He was an assistant to the former DUP MEP Jim Allister before the North Antrim politician quit to form the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV).
Dr Crawford was an adviser to Arlene Foster when she was enterprise minister during the time the RHI scheme was created, and followed her to the Department of Finance and Personnel last year.
Jonathan Bell accused him of preventing the closure of the scheme, but Dr Crawford has denied that claim.
He was also named by senior civil servant Andrew McCormick, in a PAC hearing, as the adviser who exerted influence to keep the scheme open - although Dr McCormick said he had no evidence for his claim.
These days, he advises another DUP minister, Michelle McIlveen in the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
Dr Crawford's poultry-farmer brother is a claimant of the RHI scheme.
A qualified barrister, Richard Bullick is one of the DUP's most important policy advisers and has been deeply involved in various political negotiations down through the years.
Last year, he gave evidence to a Stormont committee about contacts between ministers and bidders involved in the controversial Nama property deal.
In the more distant past, he was a junior barrister to Jim Allister and was involved in the DUP's decision to lure Mr Allister back from the legal world to replace Ian Paisley as an MEP.
But the DUP's leadership came to regret that move later, when Mr Allister rejected its deal with Sinn Féin and set up his own party, the TUV.
Mr Bullick now works as an adviser to Arlene Foster in the Executive Office, and is paid the maximum allowed for a special adviser - £91,809
Jonathan Bell said Mr Bullick was present for his "hostile" meeting with the first minister, but the adviser has said he was not there.
One of the more recognisable of the DUP's advisers over the years, Stephen Brimstone is no stranger to controversy.
He was an aide to the former social development minister Nelson McCausland, during which time he became entangled in the Red Sky housing maintenance scandal, and his treatment of then DUP councillor Jenny Palmer over that affair led to her whistleblowing on a BBC Spotlight programme.
Mr Brimstone was later promoted to advise the first minister but resigned from his role in November.
According to Jonathan Bell, Mr Brimstone was one of three advisers who witnessed a tense and angry exchange between him and Arlene Foster over the proposed closure of the scheme in early 2016, but he, like Mr Bullick, said that was not the case.
He has confirmed that he is a claimant on the RHI scheme, but Arlene Foster has said his link to it was not a factor in his decision to quit his £91,809-a-year job.
His brother, Aaron, is also a beneficiary of the green energy initiative, the Irish News reported in December.
Timothy Cairns was Jonathan Bell's adviser at Deti, and offered advice to the minister about the controversial RHI scheme.
But he has said that the ultimate decisions about it were for the minister to make.
Mr Bell said his adviser told him that other DUP advisers were preventing the closure of the scheme.
Timothy Cairns previously worked as an aide to Peter Robinson when he was first minister, but is no longer employed as a DUP adviser.
As the permanent secretary at the Department for the Economy, formerly Deti, Dr Andrew McCormick is the man who has to clear up much of the mess of the RHI scheme.
He arrived at the department in 2014, long after the scheme was conceived, and drew Jonathan Bell's attention to major concerns over its operation in the summer of 2015.
In an email in January 2016, Dr McCormick said there was "some initial reluctance" to limit the generous tariff offered by the scheme shortly before a crucial spike in applications that led to a spending commitment of almost half-a-billion pounds.
And appearing before Stormont's Public Accounts Committee in November, he said a whistleblower flagged concerns with the scheme two years before its closure, but she was not believed by officials.
A former permanent secretary at Deti, David Sterling has denied trying to "duck responsibility" for his role in the RHI scheme's set-up.
"I'm not seeking to pass the buck," he told Stormont's Public Accounts Committee. "I accept responsibility for failures which occurred during my time."
But he told the committee's inquiry on the RHI fiasco that he had "no satisfactory answer" for why a planned review of the initiative in January 2014 did not happen.
Mr Sterling moved to the top civil service post in the Department of Finance and Personnel in July 2014.
Jonathan Bell claimed that Chris Stewart, his deputy permanent secretary at Deti, sought a one-to-one meeting to blow the whistle on an attempt by DUP advisers to remove references to Arlene Foster from official documents about the RHI scheme.
The former minister said Mr Stewart was willing to back his claims in a public inquiry, but three days later the civil servant disputed Mr Bell's version of events.
He said he "did not seek a meeting as a whistleblower".
He did acknowledge that a DUP adviser changed wording of a Deti document, but added that Mr Bell later "advised that he had dealt with the matter to his satisfaction".
Up until June 2016, John Robinson was the DUP's director of communications, a role he relinquished when he was appointed as a special adviser to the Department for the Economy.
Jonathan Bell named Mr Robinson on the Assembly floor as one of two DUP advisers - the other was Timothy Johnston - with "extensive interests in the poultry industry".
At the time, Mr Robinson said his family farm has chicken houses which are not part of the RHI scheme but did not mention his in-laws had benefitted from the green energy subsidy.
The party described Mr Bell's comments as "nothing short of mud-slinging".
When the Press Association revealed his father-in-law's involvement in the scheme, Mr Robinson issued a statement explaining that, before he got married, his father-in-law purchased two 36kw boilers for his poultry business in May 2015 and applied to the scheme on 3rd August 2015.
He said he did not discuss RHI with his father-in-law and that neither he, nor his wife, had any role or benefit in his in-laws' farming business.
The reports suggest between two and five banks have been targeted, including Wall Street giant JP Morgan Chase.
JP Morgan Chase declined to comment on the reports directly, but said companies of its size experienced cyber-attacks "nearly every day".
The FBI did not indicate who it suspected of being behind the attacks.
A statement from the bureau said it was working with the US secret services to determine the scope of the attacks.
But Bloomberg News, which first reported the attacks, said the investigation was looking at the possible involvement of Russia, amid worsening relations with the US over crises in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Bloomberg quoted security experts saying that the capabilities of the hackers to breach several layers of security appeared to be "far beyond the capability of ordinary criminal hackers".
But others questioned why this attack involved the apparent theft of data, rather than the disruption of services more characteristic of retaliatory attacks from state actors.
"This is very different from the alleged Iranian attacks earlier in 2012 and late 2013 that were purely of a denial-of-service nature," said Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer at security firm Imperva.
"I find it odd that someone who was actually able to break into a bank is not using it for making immediate profit.
"Everyone is trying hard to tie this with the whole political situation with Russia. However, it is well known that for a few years now, a large portion of banking attacks and financially related hacking has consistently been coming from Eastern Europe."
A spokeswoman for JP Morgan Chase said: "Companies of our size unfortunately experience cyber-attacks nearly every day.
"We have multiple layers of defence to counteract any threats and constantly monitor fraud levels."
Two goals in the space of two minutes from Peter Harte helped the Red Hands to a 2-8 to 0-7 half-time lead.
Connor McAliskey and Rory Brennan added further goals early in the second half, before Cavan's Cian Mackey netted.
The points continued to pile up for both sides, as substitutes Mark Bradley and Jack Brady traded late goals.
Tyrone are aiming for a first Ulster title triumph since 2010, the last time they contested the provincial decider.
Cavan's 19-year wait for an Anglo-Celt Cup success continues however as their bid to reach a first final since 2001 ended in failure.
Re-live the semi-final action at Clones as it happened
The replay was the fourth meeting between the sides this season, with Tyrone having beaten their Ulster rivals twice in the Football League, including the Division Two final on 24 April.
Despite conceding three goals in the drawn game a fortnight ago, Tyrone manager Mickey Harte made just one change in defence, with Niall Morgan replacing Mickey O'Neill in goal, thereby offering his side an extra free-taking option, an area which has been problematic for the Red Hands.
Prior to throw-in, it was revealed that Justin McMahon and Ronan McNabb would replace Mark Bradley and Darren McCurry, with full-forward Eugene Keating coming in for Seanie Johnston in the Cavan line-up.
The opening exchanges were evenly contested but with Tyrone leading by a point, 0-6 to 0-5 after 22 minutes, a quick-fire brace of goals from Harte put his side in the ascendancy.
Harte completed a fine move by his team for the first, accepting a pass from Cathal McShane, before blasting the ball left-footed past Raymond Galligan.
Soon after, the same player toe-poked the ball into the net after Tiernan McCann was fouled in the build-up, but referee David Coldrick played the advantage.
Further points from Harte and Morgan extended the advantage to nine, but Gearoid McKiernan ended a 15-minute period without a score for the Breffnimen with his second and third points of the match.
Having spurned some early opportunities for a goal, including Keating hitting the bar, Cavan were denied a chance to find the net in the final minute of the first half as Tomas Corr looked to be brought down inside the penalty area, but Coldrick waved play on.
The first score of the second half took nine minutes to materialise, Sean Cavanagh gaining possession and McAliskey picking up the ball in the middle of the field, before running through on goal and shooting right-footed past Galligan.
The Cavan goalkeeper kicked a free but was forced to pick the ball out of his net again in the 50th minute after substitute Brennan palmed the ball home.
Terry Hyland's demoralised side trailed 4-12 to 0-10 when Mackey slotted the ball home for a consolation goal on the hour mark, then Harte passed up an opening for a hat-trick, firing over the bar with the goal gaping.
The prolific points-scoring continued while Bradley took advantage of the wide open spaces in their opponents' defence to score his team's fifth goal in injury-time, with Cavan replacement Brady grabbing his side's second three-pointer six minutes into added time.
Tyrone will play Donegal in the Ulster final on 17 July, the first time the counties have met in the decider since 1989. Cavan face Carlow in Round 2A of the All-Ireland Qualifiers at Breffni Park on Saturday 9 July, with a 17:00 BST throw-in.
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte:"It was a good day but not a great day - I'm happy with the score we built up but 2-17 is a serious score to concede.
"We played an open expansive brand of football and it was pleasing to score five goals, that made such a difference from the initial game two weeks ago.
"We will relish the fact that we are in the final but we know what we are up against and Donegal will pose a serious challenge for us."
Cavan manager Terry Hyland:"It is rare to have such a high-scoring game in the Championship and it is not like Cavan to concede five goals, I can't remember ever doing that in my time in charge.
"Tyrone were exceptionally good but we created a number of goalscoring chances ourselves in the first half but didn't take them. That swung the pendulum in Tyrone's favour."
Tyrone: N Morgan, A McCrory, R McNamee, C McCarron, T McCann, N Sludden, P Harte, C Cavanagh, M Donnelly, C McShane, Justin McMahon, R McNabb, C McAliskey, S Cavanagh, R O'Neill.
Substitutes: M O'Neill, R Brennan, P Hampsey, C McCann, K McGeary, D McCurry, M Bradley, P McNulty, C Meyler, J Monroe, B Tierney.
Cavan: R Galligan, K Brady, R Dunne, J McEnroe, F Flanagan, C Moynagh, N Murray, T Corr, K Clarke, D McVeety, G McKiernan, M Reilly, D Givney, C Mackey, E Keating.
Substitutes: A O'Mara, J Hayes, C Brady, B Sankey, P Faulkner, J Brady, L Buchanan, S Johnston, M Argue, G Smith, J McLoughlin
Referee: David Coldrick (Meath)
Attendance: 20,225
The Bishop of Chester called for more curbs on what young people can access on the internet.
And he warned that porn users can become addicted to it like people who are dependent on alcohol or drugs.
The government has promised new laws forcing "adult" websites to introduce age restrictions.
The Bishop of Chester cited a Bristol University study of 13 to 17-year-olds found that 40% had suffered sexual coercion "ranging from rape to being pressurised into unwanted sexual activity often with elements of physical violence".
And a BBC survey of 700 children aged 12 and 13 suggested that 20% had seen porn that shocked or upset them, and more than 10% had made, or taken part in, a sexually explicit video, the Bishop told peers.
He confessed to peers that he had "limited knowledge" of pornography - but said two of his clergy had been prosecuted for downloading illegal images of children.
"I understand that the sheer volume of cases of down loading child pornography has overwhelmed the police to the point where prosecutions are no longer routinely brought," the Bishop said.
Quoting the author DH Lawrence, the Bishop said: "Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."
Labour's Lord Giddens, a well known social scientist, said more research on the impact of pornography was needed before "intrusive policy" of the kind being considered by the government was introduced.
"We just don't know at this point how far regular exposure to pornography on the part of minors affects their actual sexual behaviour, how far it damages relationships, leads to addictive behaviour and so forth, or crucially, on what scale, we just don't know on what scale," he told peers.
He backed government efforts to protect vulnerable children but argued much of the data on the subject was "superficial".
"There is a very fine line to tread. If children are shielded too much and for too long they may not be able to cope simply when plunged into the maelstrom that is sexuality today," he added.
Conservative peer Lord Farmer warned that the "premature sexualisation of young minds" was reinforcing outdated stereotypes that women were "primarily sex objects to provide men with sexual gratification".
For the Liberal Democrats, Lord Scriven said the "underage" had to be protected but cautioned those who thought there was a technological solution alone through online filtering.
"We need to be much cleverer," he said. "It's about parents talking openly with children about sexuality and the issues around pornography."
If consenting adults wanted to watch porn "to spice up their sex lives", legislators had a "very limited" role to play in this, Lord Scriven said.
Lord Collins of Highbury, for Labour, said "good quality, age appropriate, sex and relationship education is vital" to enable young people to understand what was appropriate and inappropriate behaviour and resist pressures.
Prime Minister David Cameron has promised legislation to protect children from online pornography by forcing sites to introduce "age filters," something several UK service providers have already done on a voluntary basis.
Speaking earlier this month at prime minister's questions, he said the UK had secured an opt-out to an EU ruling which demanded all online traffic passes "without discrimination, restriction or interference".
At the height of the conflict between the Colombian government and left-wing Farc guerrillas, Mr Bermudez - then a 26-year-old policeman - was on patrol in a rural area in the south of the country when he stepped on a land mine.
The explosion left him completely blind and with terrible facial injuries.
Eleven years and dozens of medical procedures later, Mr Bermudez is no longer angry with the guerrillas who probably laid the mine that maimed him but he is frustrated with a deeply divided society, which he says has missed a chance to move on and pursue a lasting peace.
"If I and all the other victims of violence can find the strength to forgive and to compromise then those people, sitting behind their desks in the cities, who have not suffered in the same way can surely do the same," Mr Bermudez tells me in his modest Bogota home.
He lives here with his wife and two young daughters, children he has never seen because of his blindness and whom he dotes on.
Scrapping by on a police pension and as a part-time musician, Mr Bermudez worries about what kind of country his girls will grow up in now that a peace deal between the government and the Farc guerrillas hangs in the balance after Colombians' surprise rejection of the deal in a referendum on Sunday.
'Fundamental flaw'
Other Colombians are more optimistic, even interpreting the "no" vote as a positive development.
Jaime Castro is a former mayor of Bogota and was a prominent campaigner against accepting the agreement that had taken four years to negotiate.
"The fundamental flaw with President [Juan Manuel] Santos' strategy was that it was a single-party, political approach rather than a national policy," says Mr Castro.
"If what we now end up with is a multi-party solution, acceptable to everyone, it could strengthen the process."
Earlier this week I took a short stroll through La Candelaria, the old colonial quarter of Bogota.
There is plenty of poverty, misery and crime in Bogota - like any other Latin American metropolis - but the Colombian capital is a much safer and more tranquil place than I remember when I first started reporting from here in the 1990s.
Indeed no one wants a return to the violence that ravaged the country and its institutions for decades.
Juana Acosta was an adviser to the peace talks, which were held in the Cuban capital, Havana.
She worked specifically on the issue of justice and political participation.
It is one of the most contentious parts of the existing agreement and Ms Acosta admits that it is probably one of the main reasons why it was narrowly defeated in the referendum.
"Which former guerrillas, who are accused of abuses and violations, will be allowed to take part in the political process and what punishment they must serve for their crimes is one key area that Farc negotiators are going to have to look at again," Ms Acosta tells me.
The adviser, who hopes to be returning to Havana for fresh talks, added: "Colombian society cannot allow again the presence of child soldiers. We cannot allow again atrocities against the civilian population. We are not prepared again to live through such violence so we're going to have to find a way through this and to sign a new peace agreement."
Those close to the talks, like Ms Acosta, realise that time is now a crucial factor.
In recent weeks and months, thousands of Farc guerrilla fighters have been gathering in jungle camps, preparing to hand over their weapons and uniforms.
The plan was for them to rejoin society after demobilising, receiving guaranteed monthly payments from the state and limited immunity from prosecution.
But after the result of the plebiscite, no one is really sure what will happen next.
The longer the hiatus remains, the greater the risk that the Farc members will sink back into the jungle, re-arm, perhaps join other smaller left-wing organisations or criminal gangs making money from the drugs trade.
For now all sides say they are committed to peace but in his latest pronouncement, President Santos warned that a mutually agreed ceasefire between his government and the Farc would expire at the end of October.
While Colombia's ministry of defence has since said that the ceasefire can be extended again beyond that date, Mr Santos' statement was interpreted as a thinly veiled warning to negotiators that they would have only weeks to put their heads together and resubmit a modified agreement.
The president's words also elicited an ominous response from the Farc leadership, with the question; "What happens when the ceasefire expires? Does the fighting start all over again?"
It is a thought most Colombians, especially people like Edgar Bermudez, who have suffered so much already, dare not contemplate.
Fifteen members of a group Respect the Flag face street gang charges from the incident near Atlanta in late July.
Pick-up trucks decorated with the Confederate banner drove past the party in Douglasville and shouting broke out.
Residents told local media the people in the trucks used racial slurs but they say they were attacked.
On Monday the Douglas County district attorney's office said that, following an investigation, the individuals from Respect the Flag were being charged with violating the state's law on street gangs and with making "terroristic threats".
Two of them are also charged with battery in relation to a separate incident at a petrol station the same day.
The Confederate battle flag became a potent symbol for the southern states fighting the Civil War and is seen by some as an icon of slavery and racism.
Earlier this year, there was renewed debate in the US about its place on public buildings after a man accused of killing nine worshippers at a black church in South Carolina appeared in many photos holding the flag.
Lewis Hine posted the video to mark his 16th birthday and it has been viewed more than 20 million times on Facebook.
It prompted Sir Elton John to phone him to say it had moved him to tears.
Lewis, from Portsmouth, wanted to raise £15,000 for teenagers who had missed their school proms through illness or disability to have their own party.
The teenager has undergone brain surgery more than a dozen times since he was diagnosed with the tumour aged 17 months. He still encounters daily seizures as a result.
He set up a project called Friend Finder, to help other youngsters who had spent a lot of time away from school and found it hard to make friends.
The online appeal was set up to help fund a prom event for young people aged 15-19 planned for Portsmouth Guildhall in June.
Earlier this week, Lewis said: "The kindness and support from around the world has been unbelievable."
He added that after the prom is funded all extra money raised will go towards making the project accessible all over the world "to make sure everyone has a friend".
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Ollie was born at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales in February 2014 with encephalocele, a condition which caused a golf-ball sized mass to develop on his nose.
His mother, Amy Poole, 22, of Maesteg, Bridgend county, said the 21-month-old has endured some "pathetic" abuse.
But she told the BBC he is "the same" as any other child.
"Hopefully he will grow and he will be happy. Hopefully he doesn't get bullied, but then that's the world we live in these days - I'll be there," she said.
Ms Poole said she was "terrified" when she was told at the 20-week stage of her pregnancy that Ollie had a growth on his face but she was relieved it was not cancerous.
Encephalocele is a defect in the embryo's neural tube during foetal development, which causes protrusions through openings in the skull.
In Ollie's case, a sac of brain fluid and membrane developed after his nasal bones failed to fuse together during the pregnancy.
In November 2014, he had surgery to remove the mass at a specialist centre in Birmingham, with other operations helping to improve his breathing.
Ms Poole said she "wouldn't change" Ollie in any way, adding: "He's my baby."
However, she has been left furious by some "absolutely awful" looks, comments and laughter people have directed towards him on the street and online.
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The next step for Ollie will be reconstructive surgery and dental work to help reposition his teeth.
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With just a week to go that remains the case. But if the opinion polls are to be believed, it is far from certain who will come second, while there is also a key battle for fourth place.
Since the Easter weekend, six polls of how people intend to vote in the election on 5 May have been conducted and published, each of them done by a different company.
Collectively these polls give us the best guide to the likely outcome. The average level of support for the principal parties across all these six polls is shown in our table.
The SNP are credited with 52% of the vote on the constituency ballot and 45% on the list.
On the constituency vote this represents a seven point increase on what the party secured in the last Scottish Parliament election in 2011, though on the list vote it is just a one point increase.
The SNP's performance in 2011 was regarded at the time as remarkable, not least because it proved sufficient to give the party an overall majority. Yet it seems that the party might do even better this time around.
Labour's poll support, in contrast, is well down as compared with what the party achieved in the ballot boxes five years ago. The party is credited with 20% of the constituency vote, down as much as 12 points. On the list it stands at 19%, down seven points.
Bad enough though these figures are, what will alarm Labour even more is that they the party only narrowly ahead of the Conservatives.
The polls suggest Ruth Davidson's party is standing at 17% on the constituency ballot, up four points on 2011, while it is perhaps doing even better on the list, with 18% (up six points).
That means the two parties are reckoned to be no more than one point apart on the list vote. Given the uncertainties that surround any opinion polling, this means that nobody can be sure who will come second on the list vote.
So far as winning seats is concerned, both Labour and the Conservatives are likely to be primarily, if not wholly, dependent on the "additional" seats that are allocated to the parties' on the basis of their share of the list vote.
So the closeness of the race for second place on the list vote means that it is also far from certain which party will have the larger presence in the next parliament.
The Liberal Democrats trailed badly in 2011, winning just 8% of the constituency vote, and 5% of the list ballot. The polls suggest the party finds itself in a similar predicament this time around; its average tally is just 6% on both votes.
But whereas five years ago the Liberal Democrats' performance was still good enough for the party to be the fourth largest party at Holyrood, this time that may not be the case.
The Greens, who for the most part are only putting up candidates on the list ballot, are at 9% on the list vote, up five points on their 2011 performance.
That means the party is three points ahead of the Liberal Democrats. If that were to be what emerges from the ballot boxes next week the Greens would almost undoubtedly secure more MSPs than the Liberal Democrats.
Still nobody who remembers the problems that bedevilled the polls in the general election a year ago will want to put too much faith in what they say now.
Meanwhile all the parties, however high or low their current standing, will be doing their best to win over voters in the week that is left - and so, they hope, prove the polls wrong.
20 January 2017 Last updated at 02:06 GMT
Gwen, 24, from Pennsylvania, hosted an "ask me anything" (AMA) session on the online community site Reddit.
She received almost 2,000 questions and comments, mostly from "supportive and respectful people".
"I figure very few of you know trans people in your everyday lives and might be afraid to ask questions at the risk of offending someone, so I thought I'd give you all the opportunity to learn from someone who will answer your invasive questions," she said.
One Redditor wrote: "I think you just won over half of Reddit right there."
Another said: "You're very beautiful, and I'm glad you found the happiness that you were searching for. Thanks for sharing with us."
In this video, Gwen responds to some of the questions she was asked.
Video journalist: Hannah Gelbart
Helen Titchener had been taken to court for stabbing her husband, Rob, following two years of domestic abuse but was cleared of attempted murder by a jury in a special hour-long episode of the BBC Radio 4 soap.
However, domestic violence charities say the conclusion to the court case would probably be the beginning of a long road of recovery for a survivor of abuse. So what now for Helen's character?
Polly Neate, CEO of Women's Aid, said: "Sadly this is not the end. Domestic abuse perpetrators don't stop because somebody has told them to.
"It's important to get the right support through domestic abuse support organisations to help with the road to recovery."
Sandra Horley CBE, chief executive of Refuge, said: "The control a domestic abuse perpetrator exerts over 'his woman' can last long after a relationship has ended.
"Helen may be free, but she will now have to face the impact Rob's abuse has had on her and her family.
"It can take a long time to begin to recover from these experiences but with specialist support from a charity like Refuge, women like Helen can rebuild their lives, free from fear."
The storyline began more than two years ago when Rob started emotionally abusing his wife which culminated in a dramatic episode where Helen stabbed her husband.
The plot was inspired by a new law against "coercive or controlling behaviour" in relationships, with writers consulting lawyers, charities and abuse survivors to get the details right.
Ms Neate said that while Helen's character could report Rob to the police under this new charge, it is likely her main focus will be her recovery.
Controlling or Coercive Behaviour in an Intimate or Family Relationship (Serious Crime Act 2015 - England and Wales)
She said: "Helen will be suffering from post-traumatic stress. You can't unlive an experience like that. But survivors can get the specialist support they need to recover and overcome the experience."
Helen will next face her abuser at a family court hearing which has been set for 14 September where custody of her two sons will be decided.
Fans of the programme were left with the chilling threat that Rob issued to Helen after she was discharged from the court room following the not guilty verdict.
He told her: "You might have fooled everyone else but you haven't got rid of me - and as long as we have a child together you never will."
The threat has led to suggestions that Rob will continue to try to control Helen - a situation many domestic abuse survivors may be confronted with.
Ms Horley said: "I don't know what the storyline now holds for Helen, but it is clear that for Rob, it is far from over. Abusers are rarely truly remorseful and they often blame women for the abuse.
"If the storyline continues to reflect the reality for thousands of women who have experienced domestic violence, Rob may now continue to abuse Helen through the family courts."
An estimated 1.3 million women and 600,000 men in England and Wales reported experiencing domestic abuse in the year ending March 2015, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.
A survey by charity Solace Women's Aid found 95 out of 100 female survivors were victims of coercive control.
Women's Aid reports that on average two women are killed by a partner or ex-partner in England and Wales every week.
About two-thirds of the residents living in domestic violence refuges are children, according to the charity Refuge.
Children living with domestic abuse can suffer from a range of psychological emotions including withdrawal, aggression, nightmares and anxiety, the charity says.
Helen's difficult journey may be set to continue but domestic abuse charities say the ending of the court case sends out an encouraging message for other survivors.
Ms Neate said: "I think the verdict is hopeful as there were jurors in the court who understood domestic violence and cohesive control.
"Hopefully it will make more people understand what domestic abuse is. It sends out a positive message of awareness and understanding."
Millions of fans tuned in for Radio 4's special show and reacted with relief at the not guilty verdict, but as The Archers' outgoing editor Sean O'Connor has suggested the story still has "a long way to go".
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The Chinese economy expanded by 6.7% in the first three months of the year, the slowest quarterly growth in seven years.
Chinese markets edged lower, with the Shanghai composite down by 0.26% to 3,074.26.
In Hong Kong, the benchmark Hang Seng index was also lower by 0.16% at midday to 21,304.21.
In South Korea the Kospi index there was down 0.1% at midday to 2,014.55.
Over in Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index edged down 0.34% - or 56.68 points - to 16,854.37 at the lunch break. Investors stayed at the sidelines, waiting for full assessment and impact of a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in southern Japan.
Australia was the only market in the plus column on Friday. The benchmark S&P ASX 200 was up 0.4% at midday, to 5,144.1.
US stocks had closed mostly unchanged on Thursday.
US banks reported lower profits, but beat analysts earnings estimates. Bank of America and Wells Fargo both reported a fall in first-quarter profit after they put aside more cash to cover bad loans to energy firms.
Intermune, which is based in Brisbane, California, makes a medicine for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a deadly disease which scars the lungs.
The deal is the latest in a string of mergers in the drugs sector.
It is also the largest by Roche since 2009 when it bought the remainder of Genentech for about $47bn.
Roche will pay $78 per share in InterMune, which is a premium of 38% on top of the value of the shares at the end of last week.
Recent deals in the drug sector include US drug firm AbbVie's purchase of the UK pharmaceutical company Shire for £32bn.
UK High Street chemist Alliance Boots was bought up by US pharmacy giant Walgreens in an agreement earlier this month.
In May, pharmaceutical company Pfizer dropped a bid for UK company AstraZeneca.
Pearce, 51, was a hugely popular figure among fans during 12 years as a Forest player, but has rejected the chance to replace Billy Davies after initial talks with owner Fawaz Al Hasawi.
Pearce spent 12 years at Forest where his trademark crunching tackles earned him the nickname "Psycho". His playing days ended in 1997 after a brief stint as caretaker player-boss.
He played for Newcastle United, West Ham and Manchester City after leaving Forest and was Manchester City manager for two years from 2005 before taking over as England Under-21 boss in 2007 - a job he held until June 2013.
Former England Under-21 boss Pearce had emerged as the preferred choice.
Forest are still keen on Gianfranco Zola, Glenn Hoddle and Malky Mackay.
Ex-West Ham manager Zola, 47, resigned as head coach of Watford with the club in 13th place in December, having led them to the Championship play-off final last season.
It has been almost eight years since former England boss Hoddle, 56, last had a job in management, when he was in charge of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Mackay, 42, was controversially sacked as Cardiff City boss in December, having seven months earlier overseen their promotion to the top flight for the first time since 1962.
Neil Warnock has already rejected the chance to take over as manager.
Forest are seventh in the Championship, two points outside the play-off places following a nine-game winless run, with eight games of the season remaining.
The 22-year-old batsman had surgery in early October after being diagnosed at the end of last season - and was cleared to go to Australia to play grade cricket in Perth.
But a small area of cancer in his lymph nodes has been detected in a CT scan.
He must now stay in England to have a course of chemotherapy.
Fell had returned from Australia in time to set off on the county's pre-season tour to Abu Dhabi, but he now does not expect to be back in action until June.
"It came as a complete shock because I did a blood test in Australia and that was all fine," he said. "I got back here and had the CT scan, which detected a little bit of cancer in the lymph nodes that hadn't been there before.
"It is very small at the moment and they've got hold of it early but the only option now is to have the chemotherapy. I will have three sessions of chemo starting from the end of next week and each cycle lasts three weeks.
"If I'm feeling OK, there is no reason why I can't be back up and running by June and hopefully playing again at that stage.
"The important thing is to live your life, not mope about and get on with things. It is the best way to deal with it."
Fell scored 1,084 runs, including three centuries, at an average of 41.69 in last summer's County Championship.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes added: "Obviously we are absolutely gutted for Tom. He enjoyed his time in Perth and was looking forward to the pre-season tour.
"However, his health is the most important thing to all of us here at Worcester and we wish him a speedy recovery."
Jack Salter, 18, posted an image of the "bomb" on Facebook.
Army ordnance experts were called and found that Salter's creation was not a viable explosive, but looked realistic to the untrained eye.
Salter, of Fort William, was dealing with his father's death at the time, the court heard.
Sheriff Margaret Neilson ordered Salter to be detained for 16 months after he admitted behaving in a threatening manner by exhibiting a device that looked like a bomb on 19 June last year.
The sheriff said: "I accept that at the time you were at a very difficult stage of your life and not coping well.
"But the charge is of such gravity that no other disposal other than a custodial one is appropriate."
Solicitor Hamish Melrose pleaded with the sheriff not to impose a period of detention, saying: "He acknowledges the consequences of what he did - inconvenience is too light a word.
"He was having difficulty coming to terms with his father's death but that is no longer the case. Just a week before he died, he had to perform CPR on his dad to bring him back around.
"At one stage it was very difficult to get anything out of him, but he is in a stable relationship now and has plans to go to college."
Mr Melrose added: "He gave police a very emotional interview and a doctor had to be present. It was put to him that he had done this to get help and he agreed.
"It was not a viable device but gave the impression of being one. That is what he wanted. He put it on Facebook and advertised it in effect."
However, the solicitor conceded that Salter also told police the incident "was just so the cops didn't lift me at the weekend" for road traffic offences.
Procurator fiscal Roderick Urquhart showed Sheriff Neilson Salter's Facebook page with an image of the hoax bomb which had been made at the flat where he was staying at the time.
It was constructed from two gas cylinders, a golf club, a scarf and a deodorant canister.
Police and firefighters were called before an Army ordnance disposal team was sent north from its base in Edinburgh.
Mr Urquhart said the call-out left the Army with a "lesser-equipped standby truck" to cover the whole of Scotland for a period of eight hours.
The fiscal said the military personnel established that it was not a viable advice, but "the set-up of it created a visual effect such that it would appear viable to the untrained eye".
The emergency services were called to the scene on the A494 at Bethel, between Bala and Corwen, at around 12.20 BST.
A North Wales Police spokesman said: "Sadly the motorcyclist involved in the collision has passed away."
Police are appealing for witnesses.
The 23-year-old England international was persuaded to move after Reds boss Brendan Rodgers made it clear the player was not part of his plans.
"It's great to be here at West Ham and all signed up," said Carroll. "I want to be playing games and obviously hoping to score some goals.
"I know the manager well and some of the lads, so it is nice for me to come to a place where I know people."
Carroll played under West Ham boss Sam Allardyce at Newcastle United. The forward also played alongside Hammers skipper Kevin Nolan when they were at the Magpies.
"I know Sam from Newcastle and he was a massive reason for me coming," added Carroll. "It was a no-brainer really."
Allardyce said: "For all parties, this is a great signing. Andy is an all-round footballer but, because he is 6ft 3in and one of his strengths is his aerial power, everybody dismisses the ability he possesses on the floor.
"Hopefully he can score goals for us and we will be in a very good position at the end of the year in the Premier League."
It is understood there is no commitment from West Ham to buy Carroll, although the Hammers have the option to complete a permanent deal for an undisclosed fee next summer.
Liverpool manager Rodgers said: "It is very simple. The club have made a monumental investment in big Andy. At the moment he is not playing. He made it very clear he wanted to play games and this is his last chance to do that."
Having conceded defeat in their chase for Carroll earlier this month, West Ham were given signs of encouragement on Thursday.
The deal could allow Liverpool to free up funds to move for Fulham striker Clint Dempsey, while Arsenal's Theo Walcott also remains a target.
In the meantime, Liverpool have completed the signing of 18-year-old striker Samed Yesil from Bayer Leverkusen. The fee for the German Under-18 international is understood to be in the region of £1m.
Wildlife groups said trawlers fishing illegally had not used devices to stop turtles getting entangled in nets.
Experts say such a large number of turtles has not been found dead on the southern Indian coast for 10 years.
Olive ridleys are endangered in India. They are one of five species of marine turtle to mate and nest on its shores.
The turtles were found dead near an estuary along the southern coast of Andhra Pradesh, about 130km (80 miles) north of Chennai (Madras).
"The trawlers are supposed to fish beyond eight kilometres [five miles] from the coast. But we found out that this time they were fishing in less than four kilometres from the beach to catch shrimps. As a result, many turtles got entangled in the nets," Dr Supraja Dharini of Tree Foundation, a marine conservation organisation based in the city, told the BBC.
Tens of thousands of olive ridley turtles come to the shores of eastern and southern India to lay eggs every year between January and April.
In 2003 more than 3,000 olive ridleys were found dead on the eastern coast of Orissa state.
The firm has recently suggested investment in the factory could cease if its economic competitiveness is affected by Brexit.
The factory is Britain's biggest car plant and employs almost 7,000 people.
A government spokesman said talks with the company were "ongoing".
The Wearside factory produced 475,000 vehicles last year, of which 80% were exported.
Chief executive Carlos Ghosn was speaking to reporters at the Japanese company's headquarters in Yokohama, news agency Reuters reported.
It followed a meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May at Downing Street last week.
He said: "We're not asking for any advantage [from the British government], but we don't want to lose any competitiveness no matter what the discussions."
Ghosn said he had received reassurance that the British government would be "extremely cautious" in "preserving the competitiveness" of the plant.
"As long as I have this guarantee... I can look at the future of Sunderland with more ease."
Production of the next Qashqai model is expected to begin in 2018 or 2019.
The time it takes to bring a new car into production means Nissan needs to decide where to make its next-generation model soon.
Businesses have been concerned that Britain is headed towards a "hard Brexit", which would leave it outside the single market and facing tariffs of up to 10% on car exports.
The six-seater plane came down off Barwon Heads on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, about 25km (15 miles) south of Geelong.
The accident happened just before 12:30 local time (01:30 GMT), said Victoria Police.
The cause of the crash is not yet known, but weather conditions were reported to be poor.
The emergency services were dispatched to the area, including two air ambulances and Coast Guard boats.
Police later said three people had been found dead. It was not immediately clear how many people had been on board.
Barwon Heads is on the south coast of Victoria in one of the southernmost points of mainland Australia.
When relatives of those shot dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston faced the suspected gunman, Dylann Roof, in a court hearing on Friday, they met him with words of forgiveness.
"I forgive you and my family forgives you," said a representative of Myra Thompson, 59, one of those killed on Wednesday night. "Repent and give your life to Christ and change your ways. You'll be better off than you are now."
Dr Eddie S Glaude, professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton University, says: "What we saw in court today was the best of the black tradition - that your evilness, your hatred will not distort the faith.
"There is a tendency to normalise black forgiveness and, in doing so, lose sight of what a miracle it is."
The African-American church has a deep history of forgiveness rooted in faith and tied into the history of white supremacy in the US.
"It has long been recognised in the Christian community that we live in a social order that has been other than friendly," says Dr Alton Pollard III, dean of the Howard School of Divinity.
"Still [members of the black church] believe in the ethos of the founding figures. All persons are created equal in the sight of God."
That notion is what makes it easier to forgive.
"God is always greater and because of that, even in horrific conditions, we can still be faithful," says Dr Pollard.
"Because of faithfulness, we have the capacity to forgive."
The ability to forgive has emerged as both an act of mercy and a tool against oppression.
Martin Luther King, himself a reverend, famously said: "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
"When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."
As she stood in the courtroom addressing Mr Roof, Bethane Middleton-Brown, the sister of victim Rev Depayne Middleton-Doctor, said it simply.
"We have no room for hate so we have to forgive."
Dr Pollard echoed the sentiment. "Where there is no forgiveness there can be no love. The only thing more endemic to humanity than pain is the love of God.
"These families have forgiven but they have not forgotten. They still feel rage, they still hurt."
The victims of the Charleston shooting
They described a controversial off-the-record meeting with the attorney general as "constructive".
They said officials expressed a commitment to altering guidelines on issuing subpoenas in criminal investigations involving reporters.
Several major US media organisations boycotted the meeting.
The New York Times and Fox News were among them.
The justice department is facing questions over its seizure of phone records and emails from journalists.
The records were taken as part of investigations into leaking classified information to the media.
A review of how the justice department conducts investigations into reporters prompted this round of off-the-record meetings.
After the first of them, on Thursday, executives from news organisations which chose to be present said government officials agreed to significant changes.
Executive editor of the Washington Post, Martin Baron, said it was a "constructive meeting".
"They expressed their commitment to the president's statement that reporters would not be at legal risk for doing their jobs," he said.
Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, said there was also a renewed commitment, from the government, to supporting a federal shield law for journalists.
Such laws are in already in force in many US states to protect journalists from having to reveal confidential sources.
The Associated Press news agency had said it would not attend, but would "offer our views on how the regulations should be updated in an open letter".
New York Times Executive Editor, Jill Abramson, said it would not be "appropriate" for the newspaper to attend an off-the-record meeting.
"Our Washington bureau is aggressively covering the department's handling of leak investigations at this time," Ms Abramson said.
CNN, CBS, Huffington Post and Fox News were also absent.
Politico Editor-in-Chief, John Harris, explained the publication's attendance by saying he routinely has off-the-record conversations to discuss news coverage and newsgathering practices.
Mr Baron said he would prefer to meet on the record, but added: "Journalists routinely participate in off-the-record sessions, whether they prefer those conditions or not."
The 33-year-old has made 16 appearances for Teddy Sheringham's strugglers since joining in the summer.
McCombe, who left Doncaster after playing 59 games over three years before moving to Stevenage, last played on 16 January in the 3-2 defeat by promotion contenders Plymouth.
He becomes the second Stevenage player to leave by mutual consent in two days, after fellow defender Mark Hughes.
It brings the country close to breaking the Netherlands' record of modern-era uninterrupted economic growth.
Australia's economy had contracted in the third quarter but the surprise 1.1% rise pulled the annual figure back to a 2.4% growth rate.
The recovery was attributed largely to strong exports and consumer spending.
Mining and agriculture enjoyed relatively strong growth in the three months to December.
Iron ore and coal are Australia's biggest exports and reduced demand from China has cooled a mining boom and hurt the Australian economy.
Australia has not had a recession - defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth - since June 1991.
It is now just one quarter short of the Dutch record set between 1982 and 2008.
Treasurer Scott Morrison welcomed a 2% rise in business investment in December - the first rise after a dozen quarters of decline.
"Our growth continues to be above the OECD average and confirms the successful change that is taking place in our economy as we move from the largest resources investment boom in our history to broader-based growth," he said.
ANZ analysts said the figures confirmed that the weakness in the third quarter "was only temporary, and underlying momentum in the economy remains solid".
Capital Economics chief Australia economist Paul Dales said the economy was firmly "back on track".
"The decent rebound in real GDP in the fourth quarter doesn't just dash any lingering fears that Australia was in a recession, but it also boosts hopes that the surge in commodity prices will trigger a rapid recovery," he said.
"The outlook for the next year is reasonably bright," Shane Oliver of AMP Capital told the BBC. "We are seeing a pickup in export volumes and we have seen a big rebound in key commodity prices."
Mr Oliver added: "Growth should probably get back to 2.5%, maybe 3% over the course of this year."
Estimates by the country's central bank point to economic growth rising to about 3% for 2017 on the back of recovering commodity prices.
A Defence Ministry spokesman said he saw "nothing specific and nothing new" in the report.
He also denied the Russian military used cluster munitions in Syria.
The human rights group said it had evidence that the first two months of Russian air strikes in Syria had killed at least 200 civilians.
Some of the attacks "may amount to war crimes", one Amnesty official said.
Amnesty is also researching concerns about the US-led coalition air strikes in Syria, its report said.
The US has rarely acknowledged civilian deaths in its air bombardment of the so-called Islamic State (IS), which began in September 2014, although some monitoring groups say the toll could run into hundreds.
'Russian strikes kill scores' in Syria
Activists criticise Raqqa air strikes
Russia began air strikes in September 2015, saying it was acting at the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is targeting IS and other groups it designates as terrorists - some of which are backed by the West.
"We examined this report," Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told a briefing in Moscow.
"Once again there was nothing specific or new that was published, only cliches and fakes that we have already repeatedly exposed."
In the report, Amnesty said it had "researched remotely" more than 25 Russian attacks that took place in Homs, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo between 30 September and 29 November.
It said there was evidence that Russia's military "unlawfully used unguided bombs in densely populated areas and inherently indiscriminate cluster munitions".
It had interviewed witnesses to the attacks by phone or over the internet - and had audio and video evidence, as well as "advice from weapons experts".
However Maj-Gen Konashenkov said that as Amnesty International carried out its research remotely, it had no way of checking on the ground that there were no military targets in areas where civilians were killed.
He pointed out that militants used weapons mounted on vehicles and that "each vehicle is considered a tactical unit and represents a legitimate military target".
As for cluster munitions, "Russia does not use them... we have no such weapons on our base in Syria."
Attack on market : Idlib province : 29 November 2015
One of the deadliest attacks detailed in the report occurred in Ariha, Idlib province, on 29 November. Amnesty says at least one suspected Russian warplane fired three missiles into a market when there was no obvious military target nearby.
A local activist group said 49 civilians were either dead or missing feared dead.
"It was a normal Sunday - there was nothing unusual. People were buying goods - children were eating," activist Mohammed Qurabi al-Ghazal told Amnesty.
"First there was a loud explosion - dirt flying in the air - followed immediately by shock. In just a few moments, people were screaming, the smell of burning was in the air and there was just chaos."
The armed group Jaysh al-Fateh controlled the area, but did not have any presence inside Ariha itself, he said.
A report by another group, Human Rights Watch, three days ago accused Syrian government forces and their Russian allies of making "extensive" use of cluster munitions against rebel groups.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday Russia was "conducting its operation in strict conformity with principles and norms of the international law".
The Kremlin has previously described similar reports as "information warfare" aimed at discrediting its operations in Syria.
President Vladimir Putin said in October that reports of alleged civilian casualties had emerged before the first air strikes were even carried out.
More than 250,000 people are believed to have been killed and millions of people have been forced to flee their homes since the conflict began in Syria in March 2011.
Central Sussex College has said it will close its East Grinstead campus this summer and its Haywards Heath campus next summer, with the loss of 43 jobs.
Principal Sarah Wright said the college's debts were too high and it had to reduce its costs.
Sir Nicholas Soames, Mid-Sussex MP, said "catastrophically bad decisions" had been made.
Chairman of governors Chris Maidment said the college would now focus on delivering vocational education. Technical courses will be moved to its Crawley campus.
Ms Wright, who joined the college in 2013, said decisions were taken between 2008 and 2011 which saw the college take on mortgages worth £30m.
She said it then borrowed government money in 2013 to keep running but the financial situation was a "significant, ongoing struggle".
The priority was to minimise disruption to students and deal fairly with affected staff, she said.
"We've taken these decisions with very deep regret and very deep reluctance," she added.
In a briefing on its website, the college said 19 academic and professional/technical staff will be made redundant this year and a further 24 staff would leave next academic year.
Students who are halfway through A-Level and vocational courses will be able to finish their studies.
Sir Nicholas said he had written to education secretary Nicky Morgan for help.
West Sussex County Council said it was working to identify alternative further education opportunities for young people in the area.
Talks are under way between the college, council and government about whether the Haywards Heath campus could become a school.
Gareth Davies retains the scrum-half spot ahead of Rhys Webb, who is named among the replacements.
Webb, 27, was recalled to the squad after six months away from international rugby with injury.
Lock Luke Charteris is on the bench where Paul James comes in to cover the injured loose-head Gethin Jenkins.
"We've named a pretty experienced side for Saturday," said Gatland.
"We have a couple of guys back from injury on the bench, Luke Charteris, Paul James and Rhys Webb and that is a bonus.
"There is a huge amount to play for on Saturday and it will go a long way to deciding the Six Nations.
"It's great to have Rhys back in the squad. He has been training really hard and brings a lot of energy and experience to the team."
Webb made his comeback from injury for Ospreys in mid-February and has not played for Wales since injuring a foot against Italy in September which led to him missing the World Cup.
Davies took his place at the tournament and scored a crucial try when Wales beat England 28-25 at Twickenham.
Charteris played in the opening two games of Six Nations campaign, but missed the 19-10 win over France with a knee injury and resumed training on Monday.
Record cap holder Jenkins suffered a calf strain against France so will not add to his 122 Wales appearances.
Both teams are unbeaten going into Saturday's match, with England boasting a 100% record under new coach Eddie Jones in pursuit of their first Grand Slam since 2003.
Wales have beaten Scotland and France after drawing 16-16 with Ireland in their opening game.
Wales Team: Liam Williams; Alex Cuthbert, Jonathan Davies, Jamie Roberts, George North; Dan Biggar, Gareth Davies; Rob Evans, Scott Baldwin, Samson Lee, Bradley Davies, Alun Wyn Jones, Dan Lydiate, Sam Warburton (capt), Taulupe Faletau.
Replacements: Ken Owens, Paul James, Tomas Francis, Luke Charteris, Justin Tipuric, Rhys Webb, Rhys Priestland, Gareth Anscombe.
Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 20, who was killed at a hostel in Queensland in August, did not die as a result of terrorism, police have said.
Despite this, her death was included on a list of 78 alleged "terror" attacks released by the Trump administration.
Rosie Ayliffe said Mia's death must not be used to persecute innocent people.
How the BBC covered Trump's list of 'under-reported' terror attacks
The White House released the list of attacks to back up Mr Trump's claim the media was "under-reporting" attacks committed or inspired by the Islamic State group.
The list included the Bataclan theatre attack in Paris, the shootings in Sousse, Tunisia, which killed 30 British tourists, and Ms Ayliffe-Chung's murder.
The 20 year old, from Wirksworth, died from multiple stab wounds, during the attack at Home Hill, near Townsville.
Australian police have ruled out the possibility her death - which was widely reported by media in the UK and abroad - was the result of a terror attack.
Mr Trump's comments come amid a legal bid by his administration to restore a travel ban on visitors and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
In an open letter to the president, Mrs Ayliffe said: "Treating immigrants as disposable commodities and disregarding their safety causes deaths throughout our so-called civilised world."
French national Smail Ayad, 29, has been charged with the murder of Ms Ayliffe-Chung and that of Thomas Jackson, 30, from Cheshire, who was also stabbed and later died in hospital.
Mrs Ayliffe added: "The possibility of Mia and Tom's deaths being consequent to an Islamic terror attack was discounted in the early stages of the police investigation.
"This vilification of whole nation states and their people based on religion is a terrifying reminder of the horror that can ensue when we allow ourselves to be led by ignorant people into darkness and hatred."
Mr Trump has insisted "the threat from radical Islamic terrorism is very real" and has vowed to have the travel ban reinstated.
Gavin Dawes, 33, ploughed into Jonos Sasvari while driving in excess of 80mph in a 30mph zone, a court heard.
Pedestrian Mr Sasvari was killed when Dawes went through a red light at a crossing on Brighton's seafront.
Sentencing at Lewes Crown Court, Judge Jeremy Gold said: "This was an appalling course of driving as is possible to imagine."
He added: "You, Gavin Dawes, are solely responsible for the death of a 78-year-old man."
Officers began to pursue Dawes when he failed to stop for them in the Bear Road area.
After mowing down Mr Sasvari, he drove away with his front windscreen smashed, bonnet dented and number plate hanging off.
Dawes, of Phoenix Rise, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of dangerous driving at an earlier hearing.
He was sentenced to nine years, but will serve an additional 15 months for a previous dangerous driving incident which he was sentenced at the same time. It will run consecutively, totalling 10 years and three months.
He was also disqualified from driving for 10 years after his release from prison.
Daniel Frier, defending, said Dawes felt "guilt, remorse and sadness".
Richard Woolgar, 35, of Donald Hall Road, Brighton, was also jailed for 12 months for dangerous driving.
He was seen driving erratically alongside Mr Dawes, in the minutes before the crash, but the vehicles went separate ways.
There is an ongoing investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) into what happened, including "the actions and decisions of the police officers who were in the area at the time".
Shaminder Singh spent about 40 hours a week, over 10 months constructing it by hand at his home in Coventry.
The 31-year-old forklift truck driver said: "After finishing work in the morning at 06:00 I just have a couple of hours sleep and then I get back on to this."
Mr Singh has offered to auction the model for charity.
Construction of the 50cm by 20cm (19.5in by 8in) model began in Mr Singh's living room in Wyken, Coventry, in September 2016.
Details such as the royal box, grand folding roof and corridors were all created using bamboo toothpicks bought from supermarkets.
"It's been hard work. Small work and it's taken a lot of time to make it," he said.
Hours were spent scouring the internet for photos of the real Wimbledon to double check the intricate detail as he's never actually seen the building.
"I would like to go but tickets are very expensive," he said.
The model maker has previously built a tiny Old Trafford and a plastic miniature stadium in memory of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes.
The British rider's comments follow a damning report into doping and criticism from former Olympic road race champion Nicole Cooke.
Froome, who has never failed a drugs test, tweeted: "If it can help clean up the sport I love, let's do it."
But Cooke believes he should not have been granted a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to race in and win the 2014 Tour de Romandie.
She also criticises Brian Cookson, the new boss of the International Cycling Union, for failing to get to grips with the abuse of TUES, which legally permit riders to use banned substances for medical conditions.
Team Sky's Froome, who won the 2013 Tour de France, was granted a TUE for a steroid because he was suffering from a chest infection.
"I don't think it is at all right that Chris should have the race and prize money taken off him retrospectively, but Cookson needs to issue a very clear message: he should be apologising to the rest of the riders for failing them," Cooke wrote in The Guardian.
The 31-year-old Welsh cyclist added: "That TUE application should not have been approved; Froome and Sky should have had a clear choice of either riding without steroids or pulling out."
Cooke said Cookson, a founding board member of Team Sky, had left himself open to accusations of favouritism, although she praised him for commissioning the report in the first place.
Responding to Cooke's accusations, Cookson said: "I made it a firm pledge that I would separate myself from all anti-doping processes, specifically to avoid any potential conflict of interest."
The design work for the centre, at Ddole Road in Llandrindod Wells, is complete and the council is looking to appoint a construction company.
The unit will be able to house thousands of records, with documents dating from 1318 to the present day.
The work is due to be completed next summer, to open early autumn.
It followed concern from the National Archives about the council's ability to meet legal obligations in 2011.
The bottle reached a beach on St Mary's where it was spotted among rocks by Francesca McCarthy.
Inside was a message from a couple from the US who had dropped the bottle in the sea to mark a second honeymoon.
Ms McCarthy said William and Catherine Tallman were "ecstatic" to hear of the find.
The pair, from South Carolina, had dropped the message in a bottle into the sea while on a yachting holiday in May last year.
Ms McCarthy, who runs the Karma St Martin's hotel, said: "The message was so well preserved, I was really surprised to find it had come all the way from the Bahamas."
Mr Tallman, 45, who dropped the bottle into the sea to mark his second honeymoon, said he was "very surprised" the message had been found.
"It must have travelled about eight miles a day, which is sometimes faster than I sail," he said.
"I have dropped eight or 10 bottles over the years out of curiosity but this is the only one that's been picked up."
The amateur photographs are among the few records of excavations at Sutton Hoo in 1939, the National Trust said.
School mistresses Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff took pictures as archaeologists studied the construction of an Anglo-Saxon burial ship.
Their photographs are now on show at the Sutton Hoo visitor centre.
It said it believes Ms Lack and Ms Wagstaff were tipped off by an archaeologist and arrived on site shortly after a helmet, gold jewellery and other treasured possessions had been removed.
The impending outbreak of war meant the keen amateur photographers captured a phase of the excavation that received little public attention.
During their time at the site, archaeologists were looking into the ship, now thought to be used to bury Anglo Saxon King Raedwald, who was laid to rest with the artefacts already found.
The National Trust said the photographs showed archaeologist Basil Brown, who made the discovery, and visitors including Princess Marie Louise, the granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
The collection also includes some of the earliest colour images from an archaeological site, which have allowed experts to gain further insight into the painstaking nature of the excavation, the National Trust added.
Until now, the majority of the prints have been kept in storage to conserve the collection and only a handful has previously been seen before, published in books.
Angus Wainwright, the National Trust's regional archaeologist, said: "These photographs are important not only for the light they shed on the excavations, but as a historic collection in its own right. The fact that there were only a few British women photographers around at that time makes the collection even more special.
"We hope that this exhibition will help us unearth more about the ladies behind the camera, as well as trace the individual who kindly donated this amazing collection to Sutton Hoo."
Rachel Lynn, whose surname was McIntyre at the time of the incident in Inverness, had been holding the baby by its ankles over her shoulder.
Following a hearing, the Nursing and Midwifery Council panel has determined that she should be struck off.
Ms Lynn has 28 days to appeal the decision.
An interim suspension order prevents her from working as a nurse while she considers whether to appeal.
The panel said her fitness to practice was "impaired".
The hearing was held after Ms Lynn was convicted in January this year of wilful ill-treatment of the child while under the influence of alcohol and in June 2014 of a drink-driving offence.
She was ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work following the incident involving the four-month-old child on Lawers Way in Inverness on 16 June 2014.
Inverness Sheriff Court heard that the child, who suffered a fracture to its skull, made a full recovery.
The girl was found in the Green Park area near Wimpson Lane, Southampton, at about 17:30 GMT on Tuesday.
She was taken to hospital for treatment following the attack but has since been discharged.
A 13-year-old girl arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm has been bailed until March.
Hampshire Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Thailand's army, which took power in a coup in May, declared martial law over on Wednesday after almost a year.
But a section of the new constitution has been invoked instead under which the military retains significant power.
Critics have said Article 44 could lead to more draconian leadership and gives PM Prayuth Chan-Ocha unchecked power.
Security forces are still able to make arrests without warrants and detain people without charge, while Gen Prayuth - who led last year's coup - can rule by executive order in the name of national security.
The media remains heavily restricted and political gatherings of more than five people are still banned.
The US said it had wanted to see an end to detentions and the limits on freedom of expression.
"We are concerned that moving to a security order under Article 44 will not accomplish any of these objectives," a State Department official said.
"We would welcome the actual, full restoration of civil liberties in Thailand."
The move was also criticised as inadequate within Thailand.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist and director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, told reporters Thailand was "functionally in the same boat".
"Similar restrictions are still in place. And where there are pockets of dissent and political expression it is likely to be more draconian."
The Thai military government - officially known as the National Council for Peace and Order - has promised to restore democracy and hold elections in late 2015, but there is concern it is consolidating its power before then.
Officials had said the civil restrictions were necessary to maintain stability after the political unrest that preceded the coup. But the government had come under increasing pressure both from rights groups and from the vital tourism sector to end martial law.
On Wednesday, Gen Prayuth insisted Article 44 would be "exercised constructively", telling Thais: "Don't worry, if you're not doing anything wrong, there's no need to be afraid."
Jersey Fire and Rescue's inshore rescue boat was called out on Monday afternoon after reports of a woman trapped near to the lighthouse.
The woman was taken from the rocks unharmed and back to St Helier in an RNLI lifeboat.
It is understood she had been taking photographs and had not noticed the tide surrounding her.
La Corbiere is on the south western corner of Jersey and is popular with tourists, although the area is known to be rocky with a strong swell. The fire service said the incident highlighted the need for visitors to be aware of the tide times.
Rice and oil plantations accounted for 38% of mangrove deforestation between 2000 and 2012, the research showed.
As well as being important carbon sinks and rich in biodiversity, mangrove forests provide fuel and food for coastal communities.
The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Aquaculture has largely been held responsible for causing mangrove deforestation, particularly in countries like Thailand and the Philippines," explained co-author Daniel Richards from the National University of Singapore.
He told BBC News that a study of eight countries around the world between the 1970s and the early 2000s found that 54% of deforested mangroves were replaced with aquaculture ponds used for fish or shrimp/prawn production.
"Our study found that aquaculture was still important but we were surprised that in South-East Asia between 2000 and 2012, just 30% of deforested mangroves were replaced with aquaculture.
"The impact of other drivers, like rice and oil palm agriculture, was greater than we expected."
Mangroves - natural defences
•Mangroves are salt-tolerant evergreens that grow along coastlines, rivers and deltas
•Found in more than 120 tropical and subtropical nations
•The plants' root systems have been shown to dissipate wave energy
Dr Richards observed: "Almost 25,000 hectares of Myanmar's mangroves were converted to rice paddy between 2000 and 2012."
He added that while there had been a few previous studies that had highlighted the role of oil palm production as a cause for mangrove loss, they had no idea of the scale of the deforestation.
"Sixteen percent of all deforested mangroves in Southeast Asia were replaced with oil palm plantations during our study period," he said.
"We usually think of oil palm as an issue which affects tropical forests on land but our study shows that demand for oil palm is also driving deforestation in coastal mangrove forests."
Dr Richards and his colleague, Daniel Friess, used Google Earth to monitor how land was used once mangrove forests had been felled.
"We viewed [more than] 3,000 deforested mangrove patches, and recorded the land-use that they were replaced with," Dr Richards said.
"This study also builds on some great existing data sets that were provided by scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Geological Survey."
He warned that mangrove forests in the region were "very threatened":
"Our study focused on quite a recent period of time but mangroves in South-East Asia have experienced widespread deforestation for decades.
"Previous research suggests that around 90% of Singapore's original mangrove forests have been lost."
The region is home to about one third of the world's mangroves, including some of the most biodiverse.
The researchers said mangroves were important to people because they provide fish and crabs, wood and charcoal, and can help protect coastlines from erosion.
Mangrove forests also stored very high densities of carbon so had a role in regulating carbon in the atmosphere, they added.
In other regions, such as Sri Lanka, the value of intact mangrove forests has been recognised by authorities and measures have been put in place to protect them.
Dr Richards said that the importance of mangrove forests is becoming better understood, but it was a slow process.
"It is encouraging that our study found low rates of mangrove deforestation in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Brunei, and this is partly due to stronger protection of mangroves in these countries.
"There are initiatives to restore mangroves in some countries: the Mangrove Action Project in Thailand, and Blue Forests in Indonesia, are working with governments and local communities to protect and restore mangrove forests."
But he warned that more needed to be done: "Indonesia has more mangrove forests than any country in the world, and the mangroves in the more remote parts of the country, such as Indonesian Papua, are almost intact.
"However, these mangroves may be at risk of deforestation [as a result of] recent plans to grant concessions and develop the agriculture industry in this region.
"If we want to protect Indonesia's remaining mangroves then we need to act quickly."
16 December 2016 Last updated at 15:41 GMT
When we celebrate New Year at midnight in the UK, in some parts of the world it will still be 2016.
And it will have been 2017 for around half a day in places like New Zealand and Australia!
Want to find out who gets to celebrate first, where's left 'til last and why? Check out Jenny's video.
The Crewe captain, 23, was also a target for Wolves and Blackburn Rovers.
Murphy led Crewe to a mid-table finish in League One last season and also at Wembley.
Luke is young, hungry, wants to work hard and very obviously talented
"I feel he was the best player in his division last year," Leeds boss Brian McDermott told the club website.
"Luke certainly fits the profile of player that we're looking to attract - he is young, hungry, wants to work hard and very obviously talented.
"I'd like to thank the owners for making this deal happen. We had spoken about Luke earlier in the summer being one for the key signings we're looking to make."
Murphy is the latest on a long line of Crewe players to move on to bigger things, following last summer's most recent departures of Nick Powell to Manchester United and Ashley Westwood to Aston Villa.
"Luke's going is another proud day for us as a club, because it would be another million-pound plus player leaving us," Crewe manager Steve Davis told BBC Stoke.
"We cannot kid ourselves and we never have at Crewe, for when the time is right for a player to move on. Then they go with our blessing.
"Our young players know, especially the ones that have come through the Academy, that we wouldn't stand in their way when it comes to the right career move."
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Leeds City Council has approved plans to hand over the reins of The Grand Theatre, City Varieties Music Hall and the Hyde Park Picture House.
All three venues have reported "significant annual deficits" in recent years, a council report said.
Council leader Keith Wakefield said the move would allow the venues to "move to a new level of success".
The decision to hand over control was taken after an assessment was carried out by Festivals and Events International (FEI).
FEI reported the three venues had made deficits, before Leeds City Council grant funding, over the last six years ranging between £196,000 and £716,000.
Ahead of the decision being approved Mr Wakefield said: "While there is no doubt that this new approach will, if given the go-ahead, offer a change in how the company is managed, what will not alter in any shape or form is the council's continuing commitment to both support and protect them in the future."
He said: "We believe these recommendations in the executive board paper offer this security and also an opportunity for these undoubted jewels in our city to really prosper and move to a new level of success."
The report said that while the venues, have struggled financially, recent improvements mean they have "potential for a break-even position for the current financial year".
They are currently managed by Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House Limited, a charity owned by the council.
It said the trust would have the freedom to sub-contract the running of each venue to a commercial organisation, but that decision would lie with the trust.
The Grand Theatre, in New Briggate, the City Varieties, in Swan Street, and the Hyde Park Picture House, in Brudenell Road, put on more than 1,500 screenings and performances during 2013/14.
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He will be with League One Vale until January and is set for his debut against Southend on Saturday.
The 21-year-old began his career with West Bromwich Albion before moving to Blues on a two-year deal in 2015.
Jones almost joined A-League club Wellington Phoenix in the summer but paperwork was not completed in time.
New Vale boss Bruno Ribeiro saw his new-look team draw their opening League One game at Bradford before losing their EFL Cup first-round tie against Carlisle.
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At about 18:00 BST on Wednesday, a man forced a woman out of her car at Union Street in the city centre.
He drove off but crashed into a parked vehicle a short distance away. He then ran off.
About 35 minutes later in north Belfast, a man armed with a knife threatened a driver who had stopped at traffic lights on the Antrim Road.
He ordered the motorist to sit in the passenger seat then drove off, but after travelling for a short distance, he drove into a garden fence at a house.
The hijacker ran off after crashing the car.
The man whose car was hijacked was still in the car when it crashed.
He is said to be shaken by his ordeal but was not injured.
Police have appealed for information.
It is billed as a grand community reception, and 60,000 Modi supporters - almost all of Indian origin - are expected to crowd into the sports stadium in north London on Friday afternoon.
It will be his first visit to Britain as prime minister and many in the Indian community have been eagerly awaiting this moment.
"People are going mad for Modi, Modi, Modi," says CB Patel, a London-based publisher and columnist and longstanding supporter of India's prime minister. "I call it Modimania."
Wherever Mr Modi goes - and he has spent a lot of time globetrotting in the 18 months he has been in office - he seeks to talk directly to the Indian diaspora.
He has drawn huge crowds at venues ranging from New York's Madison Square Garden to Dubai's cricket stadium, as well as many smaller events in places ranging from the Seychelles to Paris.
The gathering at Wembley just a few days after the Hindu religious festival of Diwali is expected to be his biggest yet.
The organisers say they can't meet the demand for the free tickets.
The cost is being met largely by donations - 10,000 people are said to have contributed - along with businesses that are both supporting the event and paying to advertise.
Not all the 1.5m people of Indian origin living in Britain are cheerleaders for Mr Modi and his Hindu nationalist party, the BJP.
A Modi Not Welcome campaign is organising protests during his visit, complaining of religious intolerance and an autocratic style of government.
Part of his purpose, say these campaigners, is to create a worldwide network of Hindu right-wingers - something they regard as worrying.
But there is broad enthusiasm among the Indian diaspora for Narendra Modi. Here's why:
The courting of Indians abroad is in part about money. The 30 million Indians living outside the country contribute an estimated $70bn (£45bn) to the economy each year in remittances.
Narendra Modi has already taken steps to encourage diaspora investment in India, as well as making it easier for those with foreign passports to spend time in what many regard as their mother country.
Some wealthy Indians overseas are also said to contribute generously to political parties back home.
Political financing in India is notoriously murky, and views differ about how important diaspora money is to the BJP - but academic experts say there is little doubt that right-wing movements do well from this source of funds.
While in London, Narendra Modi will want to remind David Cameron that India may prove a more reliable Asian ally than China, whose president, Xi Jinping, recently enjoyed a conspicuously successful trip to Britain.
As a head of government, Modi won't get the full pomp and pageantry that greets heads of state such as President Xi.
And while the British government's overture to China is seen as a bold and distinctive foreign policy initiative, there's not the same diplomatic buzz about the Indian leader's arrival.
But British MPs and political leaders - many of whom are being invited to the Wembley event - are bound to be impressed by Narendra's Modi's ability to mobilise large numbers of supporters.
It is not often a UK politician attracts a stadium-size crowd.
Andrew Whitehead, a former BBC India correspondent, is honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and at Queen Mary, University of London.
Unlike products such as condoms and sunscreen, sanitary products attract the 10% goods and services tax (GST) because they are deemed non-essentials.
A recent petition against so-called tampon tax attracted 90,000 signatures, and a rap was created and rallies held to campaign against it.
But the treasurers' meeting on Friday failed to agree on removing it.
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Treasurer Joe Hockey had promised to raise this tax issue with state treasurers, saying he believed tampons and sanitary pads were essential items.
But removing it would have left an estimated tax shortfall of at least $30m Australian (£14m; $22m) annually.
The treasurers did agree, however, to expand the GST to include all online purchases of goods and services sold into Australia from offshore from 1 July, 2017.
Currently, the tax only applies to foreign products and services bought online that are valued over A$1,000 ($731; £466).
Australian "bricks and mortar" retailers have long argued that offshore vendors enjoyed an unfair advantage because of the way the tax was applied, particularly in light of the growing popularity of online shopping.
Mr Hockey told reporters at a press conference that local retailers were suffering a competitive disadvantage because they were paying more tax than their foreign online competitors.
"This has put our businesses, our workers at a competitive disadvantage," Mr Hockey said.
The rhea - nicknamed Chris by officers - was seen near the village of Thriplow over the festive weekend.
There have been sightings in the villages of Foxton, Newton and Fowlmere.
The bird, which originates in South America, can reach running speeds of up to 40mph (64km/h).
RSPCA guidance say rheas "have the potential to be dangerous as they are strong, fast and have sharp claws" and says people should keep away and call the charity if they see one.
It is not known whether the bird was being kept in the area.
It is not the first time a rhea has launched a bid for freedom locally.
In January, police were called when one of the giant birds emerged from a children's playing field in Terrington St Clement, near Wisbech.
And in May 2015, a rhea that escaped from a smallholding was shot at Barkway Park Golf Club, near Royston in Hertfordshire, by a gamekeeper.
Government analysis has shown that GCSEs are slightly better predictors than AS-levels of whether a student will get a good degree, writes Mr Laws.
Labour says it will reverse many of the coalition's planned A-level changes in England if it wins the next election.
From 2015 the government says AS-levels will not count towards full A-levels.
Under the changes new A-level courses to be taught from September that year will depend on linear exams taken after two years in the sixth form.
AS-levels will still exist, but as stand-alone exams.
Many universities base their offers of places to students on the results of AS-levels which are taken in the first year of sixth form study. Students also use the results to decide which subjects to take as full A-levels.
Decoupling the two sets of exams would reduce the importance of AS-levels and the plans have drawn criticism from many teachers and universities, including Cambridge, which argues that they will "jeopardise over a decade's progress towards fairer access".
Earlier this month, Labour's Shadow Schools Minister Kevin Brennan pledged that Labour would not support a "policy that undermines both rigour and equity".
The government has argued that A-levels and AS-levels in their current form do not help students develop a deeper understanding of their subjects.
Now government statisticians have cross referenced GCSE and AS-level results with degree results, looking specifically if top school exam results are accurate predictors of a degree at 2:1 or above.
"The analysis showed that knowing GCSE results alone allows a university to correctly predict whether a student will receive a 2:1 in 69.5% of cases," writes Mr Laws in a letter to Mr Brennan.
He added that AS-levels alone correctly predicted the outcome slightly less frequently in 68.4% of cases.
"Knowing AS-levels as well as GCSEs does not add significantly to an admission officer's ability to predict outcomes. Knowing both increases the prediction accuracy only slightly from 69.5% to 70.1%", concludes Mr Laws.
He argues that GCSE and AS grades both "record essentially the same information about the student: their general academic intelligence and willingness to work hard."
"Once you know a student's exam results in one set of these exams, you learn little by knowing the results in the other set of exams," he argues.
He says that this is why he government has decided to prioritise additional teaching and learning over additional time devoted to exam preparation.
He argues that the government's plans will "help move us away from the current state of affairs in which English students are subjected to constant streams of exams".
A spokesman for the University of Cambridge said the government analysis did not reflect its own research where AS scores were found to be a better predictor of success than GCSEs.
"But this is about more than just the admissions process, loss of AS- impacts on student choice, flexibility and deprives them of the chance to apply to university with confidence.
The spokesman added that some 10% of Cambridge entrants do very well at AS-level despite poor GCSE performance.
"If offers were to be based on GCSE results these students would not present a true picture of their ability, nor of their positive progress in sixth form. Around 75% of this group come from state schools and colleges."
Mr Brennan said: "The minister's response to my letter falls short of the mark.
"His plans will undermine widening access to university. They will narrow choices for young people. A linear exam at the end of a two year course is not always the best way to assess learning.
"In pursing these socially regressive plans, he is damaging the learning opportunities for young people."
Condor Ferries has recently faced a series of problems with its new ship, the Condor Liberation, and said staff had been verbally or physically abused.
The sign reads "if you're abusive, threatening or disruptive...you won't be travelling with us."
It has been placed in ports, aboard the ships and in other places staff are in contact with customers.
A spokesman for Condor said: "This is following a series of unpleasant events where customers have threatened or been abusive to staff, either verbally or physically.
"Our hardworking staff do not deserve to be subject to this kind of behaviour.
"We are also distressed to read some of the comments about individual employees which have been circulating on social media and would urge the public to refrain from this sort of intimidation."
The £50m vessel's first problem came after suffering minor damage while mooring in bad weather in St Peter Port, Guernsey, the day after its first commercial sailing.
Since then it has had to cancel a number of sailings or be redirected due to problems with high winds.
The spokesman added: "Whilst we recognise that the reliability and punctuality of Condor Liberation has been below the standards which our customers and we expect, the latest data shows a steadily improving picture.
"Condor Liberation has now operated 92% of her permitted sailings since coming into service, two thirds of which have been early or on time."
The fall contrasted with growth of 0.7% for the UK as a whole.
Scottish government statisticians found output was flat in the service sector - and down in production and construction, by 0.9% and 0.8% respectively.
Scottish GDP grew by 0.4% over the calendar year - compared with growth of 1.8% for the UK as a whole.
Reacting to the figures, the Scottish government said the impact of the Brexit vote contributed to lower growth in Scotland last year.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay said: "Before the EU referendum, the UK government told us Brexit will make us 'permanently poorer'.
"What is now quite clear is the economic reality of the Brexit vote.
"We have already seen significantly lower consumer confidence in Scotland since the vote last summer.
"Now we see that feeding through into our growth figures and all of this is before the UK actually leaves the EU."
The Scottish Conservatives said the country was now "on the path to recession" under the SNP.
Finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said: "Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish government must take responsibility for this mess.
"She has made Scotland the highest-taxed part of the UK and created more instability and uncertainty with her threat of a second referendum.
"Now we see the real-life impact of her mismanagement.
"These figures also smash the SNP's claim that Brexit is to blame for a slowdown.
"If that was the case, why is the rest of the UK powering ahead, while Scotland comes to a standstill?"
There may be one positive that comes out of the negative number issued on Wednesday morning by the Scottish government.
With a decline of 0.2%, October-to-December output from the Scottish economy certainly grabs attention - because if there's another quarter of contraction, it's called recession.
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Scottish Labour's economy spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said the figures provided "further compelling evidence that the last thing Scotland needs is another divisive independence referendum".
She added: "With Scotland's economy flatlining and Brexit creating unprecedented levels of uncertainty, it is time the SNP government in Edinburgh started taking some responsibility for its failures and acted to address them.
"The SNP should take a second referendum off the table and get back to governing the country."
Fraser of Allander Institute director Prof Graeme Roy said the latest figures were "deeply disappointing" and confirmed a more general slowdown in Scotland's economy.
He said: "With the Scottish economy shrinking in the final quarter of 2016, this means that the Scottish economy did not grow at all through 2016.
"At a time when the UK economy grew at 1.8% over the same period, this is a serious cause for concern.
"With any Brexit uncertainty affecting the UK as well, it's hard to argue that Scotland's relatively weaker performance can be explained by the outcome of the EU referendum."
He added: "While the downturn in the oil and gas sector remains part of the explanation, it is difficult to ignore the substantial declines in construction over the past year (-6%) or in manufacturing (-7.3%) - with all areas of manufacturing, not just those tied to the North Sea supply chain, shrinking during 2016."
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce called for urgent government action to restore confidence in the Scottish economy.
Chief executive Liz Cameron said: "The news that Scotland's economy is contracting at a time when the overall UK economy is growing healthily must ring alarm bells for both the Scottish and UK governments.
"While Scotland's growth has been sluggish since the fall in oil prices in 2015, the evidence now shows that no sector in the Scottish economy is experiencing growth, with production and construction falling and our service sector flatlining."
The Federation of Small Businesses described the latest growth figures as "anaemic".
Scottish policy convener Andy Willox said: "If Scotland is to avoid recession, we need to see action from governments in Edinburgh and London to boost local firms.
"Scottish government and UK government ministers need to avoid fixating on inward investment - and put real effort into developing genuinely resilient local economies."
Nick Alexander was the only Briton among 89 people killed at an Eagles of Death Metal concert at the theatre..
A pre-inquest review into his death heard that 37 witnesses have been identified who were at the Bataclan.
Mr Alexander died from gunshot wounds to his stomach and chest, a previous hearing found.
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The 35-year-old, from Colchester, Essex was selling band merchandise when he was killed on 13 November.
His mother Shelagh Alexander and sister Zoe Alexander attended the 20 minute hearing at Chelmsford Coroner's Court.
Senior Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray thanked them for giving her an order of service from his funeral.
"This is my first opportunity to express sympathy to you upon the loss of a much loved and admired son and brother in the most appalling circumstances.
"He was clearly a gifted and charismatic young man," she said.
Det Chief Insp Philip Howarth, from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said the French investigation into the attacks is continuing under the leadership of a judge, and it is not known when it will be concluded.
He said: "A lot of evidence has been gathered from eyewitnesses and 37 witnesses have been identified at the Bataclan theatre.
"We have obtained 22 statements. There are further individuals who can provide statements but some are not resident in the UK."
The court heard the full inquest is likely to take place at the end of May.
The 28-year-old Portugal international has signed a one-year deal with the Championship club with the option of a second year.
Silvio spent last season on loan at Benfica and is the second Portuguese to join the club this week after winger Helder Costa joined from Benfica.
Wolves appointed Italian Walter Zenga as their new boss on Saturday, just 11 hours after sacking Kenny Jackett.
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The 64-year-old from Bowdon, Greater Manchester, is alleged to have committed the offences between 1968 and 1983 when he was a teacher.
Four of the alleged victims attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and one was at Elgin High in Newcastle.
Mr Talbot was granted bail at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court.
Judge Jeffrey Lewis granted bail until a further preliminary hearing at the same court on 27 May.
Mr Talbot will face a trial on 19 January.
His bail conditions are that he must live at his home address and have no contact with witnesses and alleged victims, nor any unsupervised contact with a child.
Mr Talbot is best known for his work on the ITV programme This Morning in the late 1980s and 1990s when it was hosted by Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan.
He was a regular on the floating weather map in Liverpool's Albert Dock.
Yet Dr Jason Payne-James said pava spray causes a burning sensation that can make someone cough or inhale.
The forensic examiner gave evidence at the Milford Haven inquest into the death of drug addict Darran Hunt.
Mr Hunt began choking and lost consciousness after being arrested in Llanelli in February 2015.
The inquest jury heard Mr Hunt was an unemployed drug addict who was known to police.
CCTV footage showed Dyfed-Powys Police officers trying to arrest Mr Hunt in Llanelli's Sunken Gardens when he put the packet in his mouth.
The inquest heard police used the spray in order to help bring him "under control".
When they realised he was choking, they tried using back slaps and the Heimlich manoeuvre but despite paramedics removing the bag, he died at the scene.
The bag was later found to have been 8cm (3.1in) long and contained a combination of drugs including cannabis and the heroin replacement drug subutex.
Dr Payne-James said it was "impossible" to tell if the use of pepper spray by officers caused him to swallow it.
The hearing continues.
Rain in the morning meant there was no play until 13:40 BST and, after Durham had collected their third batting point, the covers were brought back on.
Umpires Ian Gould and Graham Lloyd called off play just after 15:00 BST.
Both sides have drawn their opening two Championship matches of 2016 and will go in search of a first win on Sunday.
Middlesex are away at Hampshire, while Durham are at The Oval to face Surrey.
Resuming on 46-2 in pursuit of an unlikely 284, England lost four wickets for 11 runs in the first hour and were eventually bowled out for 156.
On a pitch turning sharply, only Alastair Cook resisted with 63 and was the ninth England wicket to fall.
Yasir Shah took 4-44 and Shoaib Malik 3-26 to give Pakistan's spinners a total of 17 wickets in the match.
In contrast, England's trio of slow bowlers returned combined figures of 7-423 from 115.2 overs.
England, who have lost seven of their past nine Test matches away to Pakistan, are without a series victory abroad for three years and slip from third to sixth in the world rankings.
Though England were found wanting against the turning ball, they ultimately paid the price for errors over the first four days.
While they can rightly point to losing Ben Stokes through injury, England must also reflect on a first-innings collapse that saw their last six wickets fall for 78 runs.
Not only were England's spinners very poor in the second innings, but Mohammad Hafeez, who made 151, was afforded two dropped catches and a missed stumping.
Cook's men came some close to winning the first Test and were competitive for large parts of the series, but were defeated by batting collapses, fielding errors and inferior spin bowling.
If the suspicion was that England's Adil Rashid, Moeen Ali and Samit Patel failed to make the most of helpful conditions, it was confirmed by only the 10th ball of the day.
A Yasir short ball scuttled along the ground, leaving the helpless Joe Root plumb in front.
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Zulfiqar Babar accounted for James Taylor and Patel, caught at slip and lbw respectively, either side of Jonny Bairstow's ugly sweep to Yasir.
England's numbers three to seven managed only eight runs between them - the fewest for 118 years. Going back to the fourth evening, the total collapse was six wickets for 25 runs.
Only Cook had the patience, technique and fortune to resist, looking set to become the first England player to bat through a completed innings since 1997.
But he was stumped when beaten by a Malik off-break and, in the next over, Stokes fell in similar fashion to Yasir to seal England's fate.
With former England opener Geoffrey Boycott saying that Cook's men have a "glaring hole at number two and number three", there is much to ponder before they face South Africa's fearsome pace attack.
Alex Hales looks to be next in line to open the batting, while a decision on Ian Bell must be made before the first of four Tests begins on 26 December.
Before that, nine of England's Test squad remain in the UAE for four one-day internationals and three Twenty20s against Pakistan.
Pakistan, now ranked second in the world, are not scheduled to play another Test until they travel to England for four matches next summer.
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Her comments were widely criticised by government MPs, the opposition and disability rights advocates.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is close to passing A$23.5b (£14b; $18b) in extra funding to Australian schools.
But to pass legislation he will rely on the support of Ms Hanson, who leads the anti-immigration One Nation party.
"These kids have a right to an education, by all means, but, if there are a number of them, these children should go into a special classroom and be looked after and given that special attention," Ms Hanson said on Wednesday night.
"It is no good saying that we have to allow these kids to feel good about themselves and that we do not want to upset them and make them feel hurt."
Experts were quoted in local media saying that research showed inclusive education is beneficial to students with and without disabilities.
Labor MP Emma Husar, who has a 10 year old son with autism, said she was "angry and disappointed" by Ms Hanson's comments.
"She owes an apology to every single autistic child in this country, every one of the parents who are like me because we got better things to do than to defend our kids," Ms Husar said.
"I have got one thing to say to every single child on the autism spectrum who is going into a classroom today, whether that's a mainstream class, whether that's a support unit or a school with a specific purpose - that you matter.
"That you can be included and you ought to be included. And that even on the days that are hard, when you're frustrated and your disability makes you angry, you're still better than she is on her best day."
Ms Hanson stood by her controversial comments on Thursday and said they have been taken out of context, saying: "Go back and watch my tape."
In March, Ms Hanson made comments advocating the discredited theory which links vaccines with autism. She later apologised only for suggesting that parents subject their children to a non-existent test for vaccine allergies.
A songwriter called Katie Farrah Sopher claims Disclosure's White Noise, Latch and You and Me feature song words taken from her personal songbook, according to the Mail on Sunday.
Sopher is claiming a reported £200,000 in damages for the tracks.
She accuses ex-boyfriend Sean Sawyers of stealing the songbook and selling lyrics to music industry contacts.
The songwriter claims the book features lyrical content inspired by a "toxic" relationship with Sawyers.
In addition to the accusations towards her ex-boyfriend, Sopher is personally suing Disclosure and their collaborators on the three tracks; Sam Smith, AlunaGeorge and Eliza Doolittle.
White Noise, which features AlunaGeorge peaked at number two in the UK, while You & Me featuring Eliza Doolittle reached number 10.
Latch, got to number 11 in the UK and features Sam Smith.
All three of the tracks appear on Disclosure's number one debut album Settle.
Sopher, from East London, is also seeking damages from dance duo AlunaGeorge, both for their contribution to White Noise and because she claims she wrote lyrics which appear in their top 20 single Attracting Flies.
According to the Mail On Sunday, Sawyer denies all allegations and says he's never seen the book in question.
Newsbeat has contacted all of the artists accused of using Sopher's lyrics but there has been no comment.
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Police visited the house where Khalid Masood's mother lives in Trelech, along with properties in Birmingham and London on Thursday.
Four people were killed and dozens were hurt after Masood drove a car on to a pavement, stabbed a policeman before he was shot dead by police on Wednesday.
Police said nobody living at the house was a suspect.
A Dyfed-Powys Police spokeswoman said on Thursday: "The Wales Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit, supported by officers of Dyfed-Powys Police, have today provided assistance to The Metropolitan Police, following yesterday's incident in London.
"In doing this, they have conducted a search of one property in Carmarthenshire - this search has concluded.
"The occupants are receiving appropriate support. They are not suspects and have not been arrested."
The force added there was no threat to the area.
Police said more arrests were made overnight and officers have seized thousands of items which were now being analysed.
South Wales Police and Gwent Police have said they are reviewing respective security arrangements in light of the incident and there would be an increase in police presence in busy areas.
The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind the attack.
The Metropolitan Police said there had been no prior intelligence about Masood's intention to carry out an attack.
He was known to the police and had previous convictions for causing grievous bodily harm, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.
He was believed to have been living in the West Midlands and is also believed to have lived at various times in Crawley, West Sussex, and Rye and Eastbourne, both in East Sussex.
But it is unclear if he had any contact with his mother in west Wales.
Peers voted by 327 to 234, to give a majority of 93 to a Labour motion forcing the plans to be debated by a cross party select committee.
Labour fears it could lose £6m a year under the Trade Union Bill proposals.
Labour's Baroness Smith of Basildon rejected government claims the bill would not hurt her party financially.
She told peers democracy would be damaged if the government pushed through the changes on funding without them being scrutinised by a select committee first.
As it stands, the legislation would require Labour-affiliated union members to "opt in" to paying a levy to the party instead of having it automatically deducted.
Lady Smith said: "Our genuinely held concern is that this aspect of the bill will have a significant impact on the resources of one major political party - my party, the Labour Party.
"And in doing so, it will both disrupt the political balance in the UK and have a damaging effect on the electoral process and our democracy."
Conservative and Lib Dem peers suggested the government should rethink its proposals.
Tory peer Lord Forsyth said: "It will take away funding from the Labour Party at a time when the Labour Party is perhaps not at its strongest... our Parliamentary system does depend upon having a strong and effective opposition."
Labour is also reported to be set to lose out by about £1.3m a year when state funding for opposition parties - known as Short money - is cut.
Junior business minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe, responding for the government, said Labour's motion would shift the focus of scrutiny on the Bill to party funding and away from its central purpose of trade union reform.
She added: "This Bill is a package of measures and it's disappointing that the party opposite has chosen to misinterpret our intentions."
Steve Tyler, of the Gin Tub, blames social media for "killing pubs".
He has built an electronic shield, known as a Faraday cage, into the walls and ceiling to stop the signals penetrating the building.
But one social media expert suggested the move would not attract younger drinkers to the East Sussex bar.
Mr Tyler said he wanted to force "people to interact in the real world" and remember how to socialise.
"If the person you are with goes to the bathroom, the problem with mobiles is they insulate you from talking to other people," he said.
"I want you to enjoy the experience of going out."
The tables at the bar, in Hove, East Sussex, feature old-style phones for drinkers to call for another round or chat to people on other tables.
But, social media expert Zoe Cairns said: "Mobile phones are every part of our life now and if we go into a bar, a club and we are looking for our phones, it does take away that socialising aspect of it.
"But I do believe [the idea] is going to isolate that particular generation."
The Faraday cage, a metal construction which traps electromagnetic waves, is named after 19th Century British scientist Michael Faraday.
Not only does it affect mobile signals, any device containing a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip, such as a passport, travel card or credit card, is unable to receive or transmit data.
Mr Tyler claimed use of the cage was permitted under the 2006 Wireless Telegraphy Act, unlike phone mobile jammers, which transmit their own signal to prevent a handset accessing its base station.
Trevor Joyce, 36, is charged with the murder of 61-year-old Justin Skrebowski in the Abingdon branch shortly after 11:20 GMT on Monday.
The Abingdon man appeared over a video link from HMP Bullingdon and spoke only to confirm his name.
He is due to return to the court for a plea and case management hearing on 7 March next year.
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Thames Valley Police said it had voluntarily referred itself to the IPCC following the stabbing.
Only the 2024 Games are due to be awarded at an International Olympic Committee summit in Lima, but a working group may bring forward the 2028 race.
"All options are on the table, and this includes also the `24-'28 procedure and vote", said IOC president Thomas Bach.
Paris is favourite for the 2024 Games ahead of Los Angeles, but the loser could get the 2028 Olympics.
"We have two excellent candidates from two major Olympic countries. This is a position you like to be in," said Bach.
"It will be up to the working group how to best explore, how to best exploit, the positive situation. We should not miss the opportunity to explore this opportunity."
Football's world governing body Fifa voted Russia and Qatar as hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup in December 2010. It was the first time since the 1960s that multiple World Cups had been awarded at once.
The 33-year-old made 80 league appearances for the Iron after joining in January 2014, but finished the season on loan at Doncaster.
Defenders Niall Canavan, 25, and Andrew Boyce, 26, and midfielder Sean McAllister, 28, have also been let go.
Boss Graham Alexander told the club website: "All of these players have shown their qualities for Scunthorpe and added to the club's success."
But the 29-year-old never arrived at court in Hammersmith, west London.
Her journey to work that day from her new flat in the Barbican complex in the City of London ended in tragedy on the Circle line near Aldgate.
Miss Stevenson had dreamed of becoming a lawyer ever since she did some work with a local firm of solicitors at the age of 14 and harboured a long-term ambition to work for the UN.
That determination was driven by a strong sense of human injustice which burned brightly within her, according to her boss Colin Reynolds, of central London law firm Reynolds Dawson.
"Her entire career history was a testament to her dedication to representing those ensnared in the criminal justice system, but unable to defend themselves," he said.
"Fiona was a hard-working, conscientious and supremely able criminal lawyer. The firm will forever be the poorer for her loss.
"Within a small practice her bubbly personality, care and compassion for colleagues, as well as clients, were cherished qualities, which will be sorely missed."
In a statement to the inquest her family said: "She had a wonderful zest for life. As far as she was concerned, life was not a dress rehearsal, and she was determined to live it to the full."
They had last heard from her on the evening of 6 July.
He family said she was "happy and contented, full of optimism for the future" and was looking forward to coming home a couple of days later at the weekend.
Then, on the following day, when there was no response from her mobile, the family received the tragic news from her employer that she was missing.
Bruce Lait, a professional dancer, who was on the train when the bomb exploded, told the inquest how he became aware of the injured Miss Stevenson lying across his lap as the dust settled.
Mr Lait said he held her hand felt her squeeze his as she slipped away.
'Superb company'
Miss Stevenson was born in Cheshire on 22 June 1976.
In 1986, she moved with her parents, Ivan and Emer, and younger sister Andrea, to Little Baddow, Essex, and attended New Hall School in Chelmsford and King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford.
Her schoolfriend Oliver Nash recalled her "infectious laugh whenever she caught the bus to secondary school" and said she "was polite and superb company".
Miss Stevenson went on to Sussex University where she studied law and then took a gap year working for several organisations including the Medical Defence Union and in Paris.
She joined the north London firm of Galbraith Branley in 1999 as a trainee solicitor and after qualification in 2001 worked mainly on criminal cases.
She also represented clients at Mental Health Tribunals and early in her career was said to have felt great pride in preparing a judicial review and successful appeal at the Court of Appeal.
Miss Stevenson joined Reynolds Dawson in 2003. There, she worked as a duty solicitor in court and police stations, and become involved in the firm's main area of expertise - representing clients in fraud and extradition cases and undertook regulatory work.
Unpaid sabbatical
Spurred on by her desire to apply these skills in a different way, Miss Stevenson took a four-month unpaid sabbatical to Belize in 2005.
As a volunteer for Challenges World Wide, she worked with the government to develop a staff training manual for child care proceedings there.
This opportunity meant she could also indulge her passion for diving, and she completed two qualifications and a dive in the Blue Hole while in Belize.
She also competed in the 180-mile long, Ruta Maya four-day kayak race and on arriving back in UK in May 2005, announced that her next project was to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
Miss Stevenson returned "refreshed and energised" from her sabbatical. She was interested in gaining higher court rights and also expressed a desire to do a masters in Human Rights.
In her spare time, she liked music and dance, played the piano and enjoyed golf.
In a statement issued through police in 2005, Miss Stevenson's family said: "Fiona's tragic loss is immeasurable to her family, friends and colleagues. She is so greatly missed and irreplaceable and words cannot express the continued loss.
"She has been described as articulate, strong-willed, vibrant, energetic, caring, generous and, as her friends and sister always said, she never held a grudge."
The hosts of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! and Britain's Got Talent take over from actor James Corden, who hosted the event from 2011 to 2014.
"We're really excited to be hosting the Brits again next year," the duo said. "It is undoubtedly the biggest night in the British music calendar."
Brits chairman Max Lousada said it was "a real honour" to have them back.
"Ant and Dec are two of the most popular TV broadcasters this country has ever produced," he said.
"It's great that these two pillars of British TV will be part of a night about celebrating icons in British music."
The return of Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly comes in the wake of them reaching number one last year with Let's Get Ready to Rhumble - a re-release of their 1994 hit.
The duo said they would be offering attendees advice on "how to have a number one hit, as long as they're prepared to wait 19 years for their records to top the chart like ours did".
The 2015 Brit Awards take place on 25 February at the O2 Arena in London, where winners will receive trophies designed by artist Tracey Emin.
Previous incarnations of the Brit statuette have been designed by Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst and Dame Vivienne Westwood.
The last time Ant and Dec hosted the Brits, staged at London's Earls Court, Robbie Williams took home three awards and U2 collected two.
It was also watched by an average audience four million higher than this year's show. Some 4.6 million tuned in to watch the ceremony in February - the lowest since 2006.
But construction methods have moved on since the decades-old fairy tale and the use of straw bales as a housing material has become increasingly popular in the UK in recent years.
Straw bale homes are cheaper to build, have a reputation for providing good insulation, are sustainable and tend to be built using locally-sourced materials.
One example of the end product can now be seen in a suburb of Leeds, where residents of what is said to be the UK's first affordable, green co-housing project have finished moving in this week.
LILAC, or Low Impact Living Affordable Community, is a development of 20 homes on the site of the former Wyther Park Primary School in Bramley.
Residents of the now-named Lilac Grove say they are committed to low-impact living, avoiding unnecessary travel and excessive energy use.
Their scheme has been hailed as pioneering, not just because of its eco-friendly ethos but because of the way it is financed and the fact that it is also based around the Danish co-housing model.
The site sees residents' needs for their own space in private homes mixed with shared facilities in a common house.
Evening meals are shared in the communal space twice a week, laundry facilities are shared in the building and the space is to be regularly used for other get-togethers.
The area around the homes is car-free and largely green space, so Lilac Grove's children can run in and out of each other's homes and play together safely.
Paul Chatterton, one of the founding members of the scheme, is settling in with his partner Tash and son Milo.
He said: "It has been six years and six months since the original idea. To be handed the keys after all these years was a bit surreal.
"The neighbourliness has been unbelievable. It's not even on a level you can compare anything to. The kids are just flourishing.
"One person said 'how could we ever not live like this'. It feels very different but at the same time it feels very natural."
Groups as nearby as Chapeltown and as far afield as Edinburgh have looked to Lilac Grove for inspiration while coming up with their own schemes.
Mr Chatterton and some of his new neighbours have held workshops to help show others how they could finance and build their own projects.
He said: "Groups doing this have got to prepare themselves for highs and lows. It's not all high points, there's the stress of moving and making sure everybody's getting on.
"We don't want to hold ourselves up as a template because it's not for everyone but there are elements that people can borrow from us. And we are still learning, it's not like we have all the answers."
The UK Cohousing Network, which offers advice and support to new and forming co-housing groups, says there are 15 built communities and more than 40 developing projects in the UK.
Jo Gooding, from the network, said interest in co-housing was increasing as people became more aware of the concept and sought out affordable homes and a sense of community.
"In the last six months there's been a huge growth," she said.
"We are a small organisation but we have seen an increase in inquiries from individuals and groups who have picked up on stories in the news."
The Chapeltown co-housing group are planning to build a scheme similar to Lilac Grove and hoping to build on soon-to-be-available land off Roundhay Road.
Spokesman Bill Phelps said: "We have had some negotiations with the planners and asset management people, trying to persuade them there's a better use for the local community than just putting another Tesco there.
"Largely Lilac were the inspiration. We had heard about co-housing before but actually seeing a group get off the ground and achieve something made us think we perhaps can do it too.
"One of the trickiest things is ending up with something that's affordable. We don't want to put together a trendy housing scheme in Chapeltown that people living around have no possibility of joining in.
"Community life is a strange concept for a lot of people but we don't want to put more barriers in the way.
"And we don't want it looking like a hippy commune."
The Sydney-born 25-year-old made 14 Premiership appearances for relegated Welsh this season, having signed from Brumbies in July 2014.
McCaffrey has previously had spells with Brumbies' Super Rugby rivals Waratahs and Western Force.
"He is an athletic, ball-playing back-rower with the ability to play in a few positions," director of rugby Richard Cotterill told the club website.
"He's had some experience of the English club game this season and we think there is more to come from him in this environment."
Meanwhile, the club has also announced that versatile back Niall Morris and lock Sebastian de Chaves have signed new contracts with the club.
Morris, 26, has made 68 appearances for the Tigers since signing from Irish club Leinster in 2011.
South-Africa-born de Chaves, 24, has played 33 times for Leicester having joined the club from Mont-de-Marsan in 2013.
Hundreds of seals were moved after coastal flooding hit the Donna Nook reserve earlier this month.
Staff had opened gates and cut holes in a fence along a viewing area to allow the seals to escape the surge of water.
The dead seal is believed to have become disorientated and failed to find its way back.
The accident happened on Tuesday evening on Marsh Lane - a minor road leading to the reserve.
Rachel Shaw, of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, said because of the damage to the fence the seals had managed to go much further inland than they normally would.
Three other seals were also found stuck in a ditch about three miles away, she said.
It was the first time she had ever heard of a seal from Donna Nook being involved in an accident with a car.
In 2011, about 75 pups died after a series of high tides hit the colony, but they perished as a result of being separated from their mothers.
For most of the year, grey seals at Donna Nook are at sea or on distant sandbanks.
In November and December, up to 60,000 visitors come to see the pups along the six-mile stretch of beach - based on an active Royal Air Force weapons range.
However, because of the damage caused by the tidal surge the reserve has been closed for the rest of the season.
The teenager was found at a property in Taylor Place on Sunday.
Police said her death was being treated as unexplained pending further investigations.
A bomb disposal team had been called to the scene after the woman was found to deal with items "requiring further examination". The items are not believed to be linked to the death.
In 2011-13 there were 603 cases diagnosed for every 100,000 Britons, compared with 540 in 1993-95 - when there were 253,000 diagnoses a year.
Experts say the rise is mainly due to the ageing and growing population.
And while the chances of getting cancer have increased, they say the chance of surviving it has also improved.
But the charity warns despite more accurate tests, better treatments and many cancers being spotted earlier, there are some cancers where survival rates are still low.
More needs to be done to tackle survival rates for lung, pancreatic and oesophageal cancer as they tend to be diagnosed at a later stage when they are harder to treat, the report says.
Nick Ormiston-Smith, Cancer Research UK's head of statistical information, said: "People are living longer so more people are getting cancer.
"But the good news is more people are surviving their cancer.
"There is still a huge variation in survival between different cancer types and there's a lot of work to do to reach Cancer Research UK's ambition for three in four patients to survive their disease by 2034."
Prof Peter Johnson, also from the charity, added: "People often think cancer is down to their genes or just bad luck.
"Although genes do play a role there are still many things people can do to reduce their cancer risk.
"The most important is not to smoke. Most people know smoking causes lung cancer, but it is also linked to at least 13 other types.
"We also know that maintaining a healthy body weight, exercising and eating a healthy balanced diet is important."
Temperatures have risen above 40C in at least seven states, which is highly unusual, and local media reports say that more than 100 people have died of sun stroke.
The BBC's correspondents in affected areas describe the situation in their respective localities:
Kolkata is a city where people like warmth. During the "winter" month, when temperatures dip to 15C or so, the city streets are full of people wearing woollen "monkey caps" and thick ear muffs.
But even here people are fed up with the heat - every morning they wake up and pray to various gods and goddesses for rain.
But there is not a cloud in the sky and it's getting hotter and hotter with temperatures soaring above 40C every day.
Manish Nag, who has lived in this city for more than 60 years, has not left home for the past week.
Sitting under a slowly whirring fan in his flat, he says that he has never experienced such heat and is scared that he will fall ill if he ventures out.
He may have to stay indoors for a while, as there is no sign of rain.
Government schools are shut, the streets are full of brightly coloured umbrellas, coconut water sellers are cashing in and people, desperately searching for some shade, are crowding under trees.
It is election time here and politicians are promising voters everything under the sun. But they cannot stop it from shining.
In south India, temperatures are at least two to three degrees above normal.
It feels more like the end of May rather than middle of April. This is mainly due to the absence of April showers that the region is accustomed to.
Summer vacations in schools in Telangana have been extended by a week, while government offices will open at 8.30am and shut at 1pm.
According to local Meteorological department officials, a heatwave still cannot be declared in the regions of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and north Karnataka until temperatures rise at least another 5C.
But dozens of people are believed to have died in the region and disaster management departments are worried about a severe shortage of water.
''If it doesn't rain in the coming week, it will certainly lead to a heatwave. We are closely monitoring the situation," a Karnataka government official told the BBC.
In the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, summer arrived very early.
Bilaspur town recorded a temperature of 40C in just the second week of March.
The rise and fall in temperature has been constant in the state, but elderly people who live in towns like Bilaspur and Durg insist that they have never seen such harsh summers before.
On Thursday, the temperature in Bhilai reached 44C. It was the same in many towns in the state on Friday.
Weather experts say the temperatures are likely to remain the same in the near future.
The summer is well and truly underway in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
The temperature in the state capital, Bhopal, has crossed 40C while in the cities of Khajuraho and Khargon, it's even higher at 42C.
Many other districts in the state are also witnessing high temperatures.
According to the Meteorological department, there will be no respite from the heat in the next fortnight.
As a precautionary measure, the state authorities have ordered schools to shut at 1pm.
Jamshedpur is the hottest city in the central Indian state of Jharkhand with temperatures rising to 42.6C on Thursday.
Many other towns, including Ranchi, Chaibasa, Dhanbad and Palamau, are also in the grip of a heatwave, recording temperatures between 40C and 42C.
Many parts of the state are facing water scarcity as well.
Authorities have ordered all government schools to shut at 11:30am while even private schools in Ranchi are not holding classes beyond 12:30pm.
The education department has asked officials to ensure water supply in all schools and hold health camps on Saturdays.
A senior Met department official in Ranchi, Upendra Srivastava, told BBC Hindi that the temperature now is running three to four degree Celsius above normal and is likely to rise further.
He was making his last address to the Dáil before resigning after six years as head of the Irish government.
He is the longest serving Fine Gael taoiseach (Irish prime minister) and the first in his party to serve two consecutive terms.
His successor Leo Varadkar has appointed Simon Coveney as his deputy.
The two men ran against each other in the party's leadership contest. Mr Varadkar said that together they would re-energise Fine Gael and guide its role in government.
Mr Kenny's tenure as taoiseach is likely to be remembered as being marked by the positive turnaround in the Republic's economy, the country's exit from the EU's bailout programme and the same-sex marriage referendum.
However, many in opposition parties are critical of how his government made €10bn (£8.8bn) in budgetary adjustments during the recession.
Enda Kenny came to power at a time of great uncertainty for the Republic of Ireland and Europe as a whole.
He was elected taoiseach in 2011, four months after the state was forced into a humiliating international financial bailout.
Despite having helped to steady the ship, navigating a path from crippling debt to economic recovery, it was not enough to prevent a slow mutiny.
He leaves the helm with new storms on the horizon - the biggest being Brexit.
The UK's exit from the European Union and the collapse of devolved government in Northern Ireland are just two of the challenges he hands on to his successor.
It is not the legacy nor the timescale he would have chosen, but Mr Kenny has dealt with his fair share of inherited problems.
Read more here.
In his last address to the Dáil (Irish parliament), he said while he would be the first to acknowledge he did not get everything right, his motivation was always to get the best for the Irish people.
Mr Kenny, who was due to return his seal of office to Irish President Michael D Higgins. later on Tuesday, said he understood people's disillusionment with politics and suggested that one way to counter this was for politicians to treat each other with respect.
Paying respect to the outgoing taoiseach, Micheál Martin, the leader of Fianna Fáil, the main opposition party, described Mr Kenny as a "courageous... Irish patriot and an Irish democrat."
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said there had been successes for Enda Kenny, including the marriage equality referendum.
But Mr Adams added that there had been failures including:
After returning his seal of office, Mr Kenny will remain as acting taoiseach until his successor as Fine Gael leader, Leo Varadkar, is elected by the Dáil on Wednesday.
Mr Varadkar is not predicted to make significant changes to the cabinet, although junior ministers Michael Ring and Eoghan Murphy are expected to be promoted.
Mr Kenny's career spans more than 40 years as a deputy in Ireland's parliament.
The annual National Student Survey (NSS) of nearly a third of a million students found 86% in Wales are satisfied with the quality of their courses.
Aberystwyth, which scored only 83% last year, has risen to 92% and is now above Oxford in the top 10.
Bangor and Swansea universities both scored 90%.
Among further education colleges in Wales, 92% of students at Merthyr and 91% of students at Grwp Llandrillo Menai said they are satisfied.
But satisfaction levels at the University of South Wales are still lower than its benchmark figure, with 81% of students surveyed saying they are satisfied.
Aberystwyth has faced claims of low staff morale, with falling applications and a drop in the Complete University Guide "league table".
The latest NSS finds it ranked highest for student satisfaction in Wales and only universities such as St Andrews, Keele (94%) and St Mary's University College in Belfast (95%) are above it.
Aberystwyth is also above its suggested benchmark figure, which was 86%.
Recent business management graduate Josh Stacey, from Rhondda Cynon Taff, praised the "really good student experience" at Aberystwyth.
"It's a unique place with a real sense of community - it's friendly, it's safe, it's a great student town and an excellent place to go to university," he said.
Professor John Grattan, acting vice chancellor at Aberystwyth University, said the sector had been through a "big upheaval" since the introduction of higher fees in 2011.
"In this brave new world, we have redoubled our efforts to ensure that every aspect of student learning and living in Aberystwyth is exceptional," he said.
Students were also asked questions about their courses, teaching and resources available.
The survey found 91% of students in Wales said staff are good at explaining things and 87% said they were enthusiastic about what they were teaching.
The overall satisfaction-rating average in Wales is slightly higher than the 85% average in England, which was also the Welsh figure in 2015.
Analysis by Bethan Lewis, BBC Wales education correspondent
For more than a decade the National Student Survey has asked students about a range of issues including the quality of teaching, IT facilities and whether the timetable works well.
But what is the significance of being up or down in the student satisfaction rankings?
On one level, universities are multi-million pound businesses and being able to show customer satisfaction could help to attract more students in future - a good ranking is sure to feature on next year's promotional material.
They can currently charge fees of up to £9,000 a year and need to show they are providing value for money.
And the data may be useful to tailor their services and highlight the areas which need some work.
But universities also receive millions in public money and so the survey is also an exercise in accountability.
There has been a lively debate about higher education funding in Wales, tied up with the grant the Welsh Government gives Welsh students towards their fees.
Universities claim it is unsustainable and diverts cash away from Welsh institutions. A long-awaited report on the future of higher education funding in Wales is due to report next month.
These survey results will not be the key factor in deciding that debate but, in arguing for more funding, universities have to show they are delivering a good service for students and the wider taxpaying public.
Dr David Blaney, chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, said: "After remaining steady at a high level, we are pleased to see that overall satisfaction has edged even higher in Wales.
"We know there is some excellent work going on at universities to make university teaching even better and to improve the experience students have of higher education."
Universities Wales said the results reflected a "positive interaction" between staff and students.
Sony Music Entertainment UK will now put out future releases from the pair - whose full names are Joe Woolford and Jake Shakeshaft.
The duo's single You're Not Alone won the public vote on the BBC's Eurovision: You Decide show last month.
They will now perform the single at the grand final of the contest in Sweden in May.
Sony Music Commercial Group managing director Phil Savill said: "Joe and Jake are a fantastically talented pair of artists and You're Not Alone is an outstanding song.
"We are delighted to be working with the guys on making this year's UK Eurovision entry a huge international hit and launching the careers of this amazing act"
Joe And Jake said: "We are so excited to be signed by Sony. This whole experience has been a dream come true and we cannot wait to hit the stage at Eurovision.
The singers met after auditioning separately for BBC One's The Voice UK, both passing the blind auditions stage and being mentored by Rita Ora and Will.i.am.
Shakeshaft reached the battle rounds while Woolford made it to the live shows, the final stage of the contest.
"We were good friends on The Voice but once it was over we spent more time together and started working together a lot more," Shakeshaft told BBC Newsbeat last month.
The pair started recording music as a duo and recorded You're Not Alone, which went on to beat five other songs in a public vote to become the UK's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
My first thought is that we really do live in a golden age of macroeconomic commentary. This is the sort of argument that used to play out slowly in academic journals and behind closed doors in seminars, today though anyone with an interest can read along in real time.
The question at stake is the issue of "secular stagnation", which is probably the biggest and most important controversy in macroeconomics today. This is not though a debate for the ivory tower, it's an issue with significant real world implications.
Whilst I doubt we'll hear any politician utter the phrase "secular stagnation" in our own general election campaign, it is (beneath the surface) one of the issues at stake.
Labour and the Conservatives are fighting the election on the basis of very different public spending plans, the largest gap between the parties in a generation.
At least in part, differing views on secular stagnation provide theoretical underpinning for these positions. George Osborne rejects the notion while Ed Balls co-chaired a commission that took the idea very seriously.
So what is secular stagnation? It's an idea that originated in the late 1930s with the US Keynesian economist Alvin Hansen. He worried that growth was fundamentally slowing and emphasised demographic factors (such as slowing population growth) as a driver of this. He was quickly proved wrong, in part by the postwar baby boom.
Larry Summers revised and updated the hypothesis in late 2013. Since then a veritable who's who of prominent macroeconomists have weighed into the debate on both sides.
In a nutshell secular stagnation is an attempt to explain the weakness of the global recovery in advanced economies since the 2008 crisis.
The central idea is that something has happened to the economy which means that the interest rate required to generate enough investment to bring the economy to full employment is now negative in real terms (i.e. after adjusting for inflation).
When inflation is low - as it is now across the advanced economies - that means it is exceptionally hard for central banks to set interest rates low enough to generate full employment.
If inflation is 2%, then an interest rate of 1% equates to a -1% real rate. But if inflation is zero, then an interest rate of 1% is still positive in real terms.
This is the issue of the "zero lower bound", the fact that (until recently anyway) there was widespread believe that interest rates could not be cut below zero.
Simply put, the Summers thesis is that advanced economic growth over the last few decades has been increasingly reliant on a series of financial bubbles (whether in tech stocks or housing) to generate enough investment to achieve full employment.
For Summers, the logic of secular stagnation points to a more expansionary fiscal policy.
If monetary policy is less effective due to the zero lower bound and low inflation, then fiscal policy (especially more government spending on infrastructure) should play a bigger role in driving growth.
Summers has restated the theory in a recent blog post.
Ben Bernanke takes issue with the idea of secular stagnation. His most important critique is that one has to consider the international dimension. He argues that if the rate of return on US investments was so low that investors would not be willing to investment without a negative real rate, they would seek higher returns abroad.
The availability of better investments abroad should help defeat secular stagnation at home.
As money flows out of the US that should weaken the dollar and help boost exports, which could help the economy get back to full employment. For Bernanke, secular stagnation in one country is unlikely to last.
He offers an alternative explanation for the macroeconomic history of recent decades, one focussed on international capital flows. It's a return to a previous theme of his own, the existence of a "global savings glut".
This the idea that, from the late 1990s until the late 2000s, there was a large excess of desired savings over desired investment in countries in East Asia and the oil producers in the Middle East.
These savings flowed to the US (and other advanced economies), pushing down interest rates and holding up the value of currencies such as the dollar. This led to large trade deficits in the US, as imports were cheap.
The observed behaviour of an economy suffering from secular stagnation or the impact of a global savings glut appear similar - low interest rates, low inflation and an inability get to full employment but the correct policy response is very different.
Under secular stagnation it is, as Summers argues, a fiscal expansion. But if the problem is a global savings glut then the right policy is to focus on what is driving the situation - i.e. over-saving abroad.
Bernanke argues that the big source of the previous glut was China but more recently it has been Germany.
Paul Krugman has now weighed into the debate. He agrees with many of the broad points made by both Summers and Bernanke.
Krugman points to the experience of Japan in the 1990s and early 2000s as an example of how a country can find itself trapped in a state of secular stagnation even with international capital mobility. Despite interest rates being much lower in Japan than, say, the US the real interest rates in the two countries were very similar.
The existence of deflation (falling prices) in Japan had a big impact on the real rates of return available. As Krugman explains:
"The moral of the Japanese example is that if other countries are managing to achieve a moderately positive rate of inflation, but you have let yourself slip into deflation or even into 'lowflation', you can indeed manage to find yourself in secular stagnation even if the rest of the world offers positive-return investment opportunities."
Professor Krugman argues that the current global savings glut - driven by Germany - is likely to persist. Poor demographics are likely to lead to weak demand in Europe, a continuing excess of desired savings over investment and persistently weak euro.
The problem for Krugman is that a secularly stagnating Europe is exporting much of that weakness abroad through a weak euro, which supports their own economy through boosting their exports but causes problems for producers overseas.
So whilst accepting much of Bernanke's analysis when it comes to policy, Krugman lines up with Summers. He thinks that if Europe's trade and investment balances are fundamentally about weak demand then the required response is boosting demand through fiscal policy.
So, who is right? Summers, Bernanke or Krugman?
All three make compelling cases and there are no doubt important elements of truth in all three cases. What we can say at this point, is that when three of the world's most distinguished economists disagree, it's worth paying attention to the debate.
I would add three observations.
The first is that Professor Krugman may (and it's just a "may" at this point) be too pessimistic on Europe. It sometimes feels like too many obituaries have been written on eurozone growth.
The second is that the debate between the three so far has focussed mainly on the demand side of the economy.
If we are trying to explain a historically weak global recovery it may be that neither secular stagnation nor a global savings glut offers the full story.
Certainly in the case of the UK, productivity growth (the ultimate driver of higher living standards) has been exceptionally weak. And even if the UK is an exceptional case, productivity weakness has been widespread globally - as Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Martin Weale has recently argued.
As Karl Whelan has argued, there are reasons to worry that this reflects a longer term trend rather than just a hang-over from the financial crisis.
In other words, if we are trying to explain weak growth we may need to pay as much attention to the supply side of the economy as the demand side. In fairness to Professor Summers, his broader secular stagnation thesis does take into account supply side factors which have reduced the desired rate of investment.
My final observation is one that is especially relevant during a general election campaign - that, to quite a large extent, the political debate on the economy suffers from an illusion of control.
Whether one listens to Krugman, Bernanke or Summers there are powerful global forces at work. Flows of capital and the state of world demand have a large impact on the size of the government's deficit, the level of interest rates and the economy's rate of growth.
In much of the British political debate most of these outcomes are assumed to be under UK policy makers' control.
I don't mean that be taking fatalistically or to imply that political choices don't matter for the economy - they very much do. But they aren't the only factor at work.
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Ben Howlett told BBC Newsnight there was "institutionalised bullying" in the party's youth wing, after he stepped down as its chair in 2013.
More on this story here - watch the full report on BBC Newsnight at 22.30 GMT on Wednesday on BBC Two. You can catch up afterwards on iPlayer
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Ties broke down after the Israeli navy raided a flotilla trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010. Ten Turkish activists were killed.
The deal will see Israel compensate families of those killed while Turkey will drop all claims against Israel, the unnamed official said.
There has been no official confirmation yet from either side.
The agreement is reported to have been reached at a meeting between senior Israeli and Turkish officials in Switzerland.
According to the official, the deal will also see the renewed exchange of ambassadors.
Talks will also begin on laying down a natural gas pipeline from Israel to Turkey, the official added.
Could Turkey-Israel hiatus be ending?
Flotilla raid explained
Turkey is currently embroiled in a row with key gas supplier Russia over the downing of a Russian fighter jet by Ankara.
Israel and Turkey had been firm allies until the deadly raid on the flotilla, which had been trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Israel tightened maritime restrictions on Gaza from 2007, leading to a blockade which it says it a vital security measure against the militant Islamist group Hamas, which administers the territory.
Pro-Palestinian activists on board clashed with Israeli commandos who boarded the lead vessel in international waters, about 75 miles (120km) from the blockade zone.
Ten of the activists, one of them a Turkish American, were killed and 10 commandos were injured.
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Michael Blake, 28, died in hospital after neighbours found him near his Manchester Road home in Westhoughton, Bolton, on Thursday night.
Police said he had left his home "willingly" with a man in a light-coloured van, but there appeared to be "no motive" for the killing.
Mr Blake's family said he "would do anything for anyone".
"Michael was a wonderful son, brother, friend and father," they said in a statement.
"He was always happy and smiling, and hardly ever gave his mother any reason to worry.
"He was always hard working and trying to better himself."
Mr Blake had recently bought a house with his girlfriend, and was "looking forward to settling down for family life", his family continued.
"We are all devastated by the way Michael has been cruelly taken from us and would like to appeal for anyone with any information to come forward and speak to the police."
Det Supt Jon Chadwick, of Greater Manchester Police, said he believed those responsible had meant to kill Mr Blake.
"If you're going to [shoot someone in the head], you're not trying to warn them, you know they are going to die," he said.
Mr Blake was known to police, but "not recently, and certainly not for any major crime," he said.
"We don't know why Michael was killed and we are still in the early stages of our investigation. So we really need the public's help."
The rare European Wolf cubs, which were born four weeks ago, were filmed playing by a keeper at the centre.
The cubs' arrival came as a surprise as their parents successfully bred only two months after their arrival at the zoo.
Staff thought the pair would not breed until next year at the earliest as part of the European breeding programme.
The mother, Aurora, was born at the Highland Wildlife Park in 2013 and the male, Loki, was born in 2012 in the Netherlands.
Kellie Ross, the keeper who looks after the wolves, said: "We have set up cameras with motion sensors and I was down changing the memory card.
"I was lucky enough to be there at the same time the cubs were out playing.
"I feel really privileged that the parents trusted us enough to let the siblings stay out of the den at this early stage while I was close by.
"It is lovely to see them playing like normal puppies. It really is something special."
Bradly Yule, the zoo's network manager, said staff were "very excited" to see the wolves with the cubs, which have yet to be named.
He said: "This is an important event in the role of our zoo and these pups will enhance the population.
"They will also serve as ambassadors to help reduce the pressure on wild environments where these wolves come from.
"The first-time parents have taken to parenthood extremely well and have adopted comfortable roles in upbringing their cubs.
"Our male, Loki, has been feeding and sharing food with female, Aurora, who has been carefully rearing her young"
But Abaaoud died in a police raid the following week in Seine-Saint-Denis and there has always been a suspicion that he was more of a participant than the chief organiser.
Now US-based terrorism research centre TRAC identifies Frenchman Salim Benghalem as the real ringleader behind the atrocities that claimed 130 lives.
Early in January, a Paris court sentenced Benghalem, who left for Syria in 2013, to 15 years in jail in absentia.
A notorious jihadist convicted of recruiting others to so-called Islamic State (IS), he has long been known to French authorities and is widely implicated in other attacks on French soil.
In September 2014 he was cited on a US list of 10 Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).
"Salim Benghalem is a Syria-based French extremist and ISIL member, who carries out executions on behalf of the group."
The true nature of Abaaoud's role in the Paris attacks has never been clear. In the aftermath of the atrocities he was identified as the ringleader and Belgian authorities had for months tried to track him down on suspicion of co-ordinating a terror cell in Belgium.
French authorities implicated him in four out of six foiled attacks in the months leading up to November.
A propaganda video of nine of the Paris attackers either in Syria or Iraq circulated by IS is also preceded with a rant by Abaaoud, so he is clearly being promoted as a major player.
But French authorities have long suspected that the plot must have emanated from Syria and TRAC Director Veryan Khan agrees.
"Abaaoud was the on-site coordinator but according to our sources didn't have control of the capacity to carry out a very professional attack on such a scale," he told Belgian newspaper De Morgen (in Dutch).
And would the ringleader have taken part in the bar and restaurant attacks himself and endured such an ignominious end? In the four days after the murders he is said to have lived hidden in undergrowth beside a main road. Eventually he emerged with the help of his cousin and both died when police raided their flat hours later.
Who died in the November 2015 attacks on Paris?
Who were the November attackers?
Who was Abdelhamid Abaaoud?
He certainly has a higher profile than Abaaoud.
Within a month of the January 2015 Paris attacks, Benghalem appeared on an IS propaganda video from Syria praising the killers and appealing to others in France to launch attacks as "lone wolves".
Benghalem had known all three attackers while being part of the radical Islamist Buttes-Chaumont group in Paris. They had followed similar routes from low-level delinquency to violent jihadism.
Benghalem was radicalised while serving time in jail for attempted murder and is thought to have come under the influence of the group's leader, Mohamed El-Ayouni. Later, he became friendly with the two Charlie Hebdo killers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, and kosher supermarket gunman Ahmedy Coulibaly.
He joined one of the Kouachis and Coulibaly in a botched attempt to spring a Paris Islamist from jail in 2010 and is thought to have travelled with Cherif Kouachi to Yemen in 2011 where both came under the influence of Anwar al-Awlaki, then leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
By 2013 he was in Syria earning a reputation for Islamist brutality.
Three days of terror in Paris: Charlie Hebdo attacks
The victims of the January 2015 Paris attacks
Benghalem also forged a friendship in Syria with another Islamist, Mehdi Nemmouche, the man on trial for four murders at the Brussels Jewish museum in May 2014.
The pair had acted as jailers for four French hostages held in Aleppo between July and December 2013.
One of the four, Nicolas Henin, described how Nemmouche had tortured Syrian prisoners and mistreated him too.
But one source told French media that Benghalem was in charge. "When Nemmouche struck, it was Benghalem asking the questions,"
French intelligence are said to believe he may be part of an IS "police force", taking part in executions and corporal punishment, according to Le Monde, as part of a self-styled Islamic Tribunal near Aleppo.
It would make sense that the Paris plot was hatched and supervised in Syria but Benghalem does not appear to be linked to the November attackers in the way he was close to Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers.
More individuals are yet to be exposed. Ominously, the EU's police agency Europol has now warned of similar potential plots in other European cities with the main purpose being "mass casualties".
If Salim Benghalem was behind the November atrocities in Paris, he may not be alone.
Six police officers and two soldiers were injured in the dawn shoot-out.
The attack comes a day after a girl was killed and eight other children injured when a rebel grenade hit their school in the south-western town of Caloto.
Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon said a commission of experts would meet on Monday to devise a new military strategy against the guerrilla group.
Around 30 members of the security forces repelled the Farc offensive against Las Mercedes police station, which came under mortar attack and rifle fire.
Among those injured are both the commander and the deputy commander of the station.
School attack
Meanwhile, in Caloto, in south-western Cauca province, 500 locals have been displaced by fighting between the rebels and the security forces.
The fighting follows a rebel attack there on Saturday, when Farc guerrillas launched a home-made explosive device at a passing military patrol.
The device missed the patrol and hit a school, killing a young girl and injuring eight children.
One of the injured girls is in a serious condition.
Cauca has seen an increase in rebel attacks since the beginning of the year, as the Farc have increasingly resorted to hit-and-run raids.
New strategy
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday called on the Farc to down arms.
Speaking in Marquetalia, where the Farc was founded 47 years ago, President Santos said those willing to give up the armed struggle would be helped to re-integrate into society.
"Demobilise, give up arms, renounce violence, renounce terrorism, and we'll be there to give you an opportunity to re-integrate into civilian life," he said.
President Santos earlier this month appointed new military commanders and a new defence minister in an attempt to devise new strategies to combat the rebels and other armed groups.
New Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon has orders to give the Farc the "final blow".
He has asked a commission of international experts and members of the police and military to draw up a new strategy to combat the Farc.
It will meet for the first time on Monday.
It happened at about 20:10 GMT on Friday on the A167 near the junction with Central Avenue in Newton Aycliffe.
Police said a Mercedes E350 collided with a Skoda Octavia taxi.
The taxi driver, aged 36, was airlifted to hospital. His two passengers, a man, 50, and a woman, 45, suffered minor injuries, while the Mercedes driver, a 26-year-old man, was unhurt.
The 42-year-old race leader reached the South African coast in 17 days, 22 hours and 58 minutes on Thursday as he broke the record by over five days.
Thomson also set a record-breaking time from the equator to the Cape of Good Hope in a time of eight days, 15 hours and 56 minutes.
Averaging 20 knots since setting off, he has led the fleet since 12 November.
With 18 days passed since the race began, the skippers still have to reach Cape Leewin and Cape Horn before turning north and sailing through the Atlantic on the way to the finsih line in Les Sables d'Olonne.
Gosport-based Thomson says he is "going strong" in the journey, as he aims to be the first British skipper to win the solo non-stop round-the-world race.
The Vendee Globe is renowned for being one of the most gruelling sporting challenges, with only 71 of 138 sailors to date have finished since the first race in 1989.
The three-day festival, beginning on Friday, is organised by influential spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
Organisers say 3.5 million visitors are expected to attend from 150 countries.
Environmentalists warn that the event on the Yamuna banks will cause lasting damage to the area's biodiversity.
They had petitioned the National Green Tribunal to cancel it.
During its two-day hearing, the tribunal had posed tough questions to the government, asking them how they could allow such massive construction on the floodplains.
On Wednesday, the government also faced protests in the parliament with the opposition parties questioning why the event was being allowed on the river bed and why was the army roped in to help with organising a private festival.
The World Culture Festival would be held across 1,000 acres (400 hectares) of the river bank and would feature a seven-acre stage for 35,000 musicians and dancers.
According to the invitation cards issued by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to attend the festival opening and President Pranab Mukherjee is to be present at the closing ceremony.
After complaints from the green activists, Mr Mukherjee pulled out from the event. It is still not clear whether the prime minister would be attending the event or not.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a modern-day spiritual icon among many in India's middle and upper classes.
He also has a massive fan-base globally and his foundation runs yoga and spiritual centres in many parts of the world.
McGeehan scored his first penalty after Jamie Turley's foul on Danny Hylton.
Jennison Myrie-Williams levelled for County direct from a corner after substitute Jon Parkin's presence caused problems in the Luton defence.
Johnny Mullins was sent-off for the hosts but McGeehan's stoppage time penalty secured victory.
Darren Jones was punished for his challenge on Pelly Ruddock, a decision which infuriated Newport players and staff.
Newport County manager Warren Feeney told BBC Radio Wales: "You could see by their [Luton] reaction that they got out of jail free tonight.
"I think the first [penalty] was a foul but we should have dealt with it. But the last one was an absolute disgraceful decision.
"I thought our boys were absolutely outstanding tonight. I think you could see the desire and passion and to get done by an absolute joke of a decision is heart breaking for them."
Match ends, Luton Town 2, Newport County 1.
Second Half ends, Luton Town 2, Newport County 1.
Foul by Jon Parkin (Newport County).
Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Ben Tozer (Newport County) is shown the yellow card.
Darren Jones (Newport County) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Luton Town 2, Newport County 1. Cameron McGeehan (Luton Town) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Jon Parkin (Newport County) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty Luton Town. Pelly Ruddock draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Darren Jones (Newport County) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Olly Lee (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Foul by Jon Parkin (Newport County).
Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Luton Town. Isaac Vassell replaces Jack Marriott.
Dan Butler (Newport County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Scot Bennett (Newport County).
Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Ben Tozer (Newport County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Joss Labadie (Newport County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Olly Lee (Luton Town).
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Ben Tozer.
Attempt blocked. Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Luton Town. Akin Famewo replaces Jordan Cook.
Foul by Jamie Turley (Newport County).
Danny Hylton (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Jon Parkin (Newport County) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Second yellow card to John Mullins (Luton Town) for a bad foul.
Sean Rigg (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Mullins (Luton Town).
Substitution, Newport County. Ben Tozer replaces Mark Randall.
Foul by Jon Parkin (Newport County).
Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jon Parkin (Newport County).
Olly Lee (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Jennison Myrie-Williams (Newport County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
John Mullins (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jon Parkin (Newport County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Mullins (Luton Town).
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Dan Butler.
Cardiff Crown Court heard the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, planned the sex attack with Stuart Bailey, 54, in text messages.
Bailey, of Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taff, was jailed for 13 years after the pair were found guilty of conspiracy to rape.
The offences came to light when the woman's partner found the texts.
The court heard the pair exchanged dozens of messages and the woman also sent Bailey a naked picture of the girl and bought sleeping pills to drug her.
At an earlier hearing, the woman admitted distributing five indecent images of a child and Bailey admitted possessing those images.
The mother, described as "vulnerable and gullible" by recorder Eleri Rees QC, asked Bailey what she would get out of the plan to rape her daughter and he mentioned sums of £200 to £300.
Judge Rees said Bailey was "prolific" in contacting a number of women on a dating website.
An investigation discovered that he was having similar discussions with other women.
The court heard the pair planned to rape the girl during the Whitsun school holiday and talked about drugging her.
Judge Rees said that despite speaking to her doctor, who advised against giving a child sleeping tablets, the mother went ahead and bought some online.
"By your own admission you tried it out a week before the rape was due to take place," she added.
Alex Greenwood, defending the mother, said she had been "bullied, cajoled and blackmailed" by Bailey.
Lucy Crowther, defending Bailey, said her client was "totally ashamed of his behaviour and his actions".
Both defendants were made the subject of sexual harm prevention orders and given one year of additional licence to serve.
Gemma Vincent, senior Crown prosecutor, said "This case demonstrated a gross breach of trust on behalf of a parent. Fortunately, the matter came to the attention of the police before the sickening acts described in the texts could be carried out."
Children's charity NSPCC Cymru welcomed the "significant sentences" given to the mother and Bailey.
"It is difficult to comprehend how a mother could voluntarily offer her own child to be sexually assaulted in this way," a spokesman for NSPCC Cymru said.
"This should send out a message that the sexual abuse of children will not be tolerated and that those caught planning such heinous crimes will face the full force of the law."
Longbourn, by Jo Baker, was snapped up by US and UK publishers last week.
"Jane Austen was my first experience of grown-up literature," said Baker.
"But as I read and re-read her books, I began to become aware that if I'd been living at the time, I wouldn't have got to go to the ball; I would have been stuck at home with the sewing."
The 39-year-old British author said she drew her inspiration from her family's years in service.
"Aware of that English class thing, Pride and Prejudice begins to read a little differently," she explained.
Longbourn follows a romance between a newly arrived footman and a housemaid in the Bennet household that runs parallel to the love story between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.
"I sent it out last week," said Clare Alexander, Baker's agent. "[US publisher] Knopf bought it Monday. On Wednesday, it was bought by Doubleday in the UK.
"By Thursday the film rights had gone. By Friday, we had signed up two foreign translations."
"Longbourn is a piece of art that emerges from a much-loved classic," said Alexander of Baker's fifth novel.
"It is immensely satisfying to have worked with a talented writer from the outset and to see her take flight. Longbourn will make her a literary star."
Translation rights have been sold in Spain, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Brazil, France and Sweden, according to the book's UK publisher Transworld.
Film rights have been bought by Random House Studio and Focus Features, which distributed the 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice in the US.
"Jo Baker fully inhabits the lives of her characters, and in Longbourn they are ones who previously existed in the background only," said Focus Features' James Schamus.
"By compellingly exploring new avenues in the world of Pride and Prejudice, she has fashioned a tale of a calibre that film-makers dream about."
Two centuries on from her death, Austen's novels continue to inspire adaptations and spin-offs both in book and film form.
A contemporary version of Sense and Sensibility, written by Joanna Trollope, will be published later this year, one of six Austen re-workings by modern-day writers.
This year's Sundance Film Festival saw the premiere of Austenland, a comedy about a girl obsessed with the BBC's 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice.
Longbourn will be published in hardback and e-book format later this year, with a paperback release to follow in 2014.
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Hope, 23, became the first man to hit hundreds in both innings of a first-class match at Headingley with 118 not out as the tourists chased down 322 to win the second Test by five wickets.
Victory levelled the series at 1-1 after a heavy defeat in the first Test.
"We hope our fans back home will be happy," said Hope.
"They want to see us back on top so this is a stepping stone. We just need to continue and try to get more wins under our belt."
West Indies lost 19 wickets in a day as they fell to an innings-and-209-run defeat in the first Test at Edgbaston, and have been criticised by legendary former players.
"We're Test cricketers for a reason," said Hope.
"We know that we came here to play and that we have the fight, the belief and the players to do it, so we just needed to go out there and execute.
"I was just pleased to get the win, that was the main thing, just to get us back in the series."
The deciding match of the three-Test series is at Lord's from 7-11 September.
Victory would mean West Indies win a first series away from home, against a team other than Bangladesh or Zimbabwe, since 1995.
Hope averaged 18 in 11 Test matches prior to Headingley and had scored only one half-century - 90 in the second innings as West Indies beat Pakistan by 106 runs at Bridgetown in April.
Head coach Stuart Law said it was "just a matter of belief" that had prevented Hope from making more runs.
"I'm really proud of Shai," he told Sky Sports. "He's been going through a form dip but hopefully the pretty 20s are gone and the pretty 120s are here to stay.
"When he came out on day five, he just looked in total control."
Law added his side had "put a lot of doubters to bed" and it "took a lot of character" to recover from being thrashed in the first Test.
"After the kicking we got at Edgbaston, to get the boys back up and looking forward and then to achieve what they've done in the last five days was huge - I'm very proud of them," he said.
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England all-rounder Ben Stokes: "Even though we were on the losing side this Test match it was a great game to be involved in... on to Lord's for the decider."
Former Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara: "Fantastic win by West Indies. Character and guts. Congratulations to Shai Hope and the entire team."
England bowler Stuart Broad: "Excellent Test match. We gave everything. Exhausted. Credit to the Windies for a brilliant chase. On to Lord's for the decider!"
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "Declaration was very good - the skipper was thinking of winning the game. West Indies were just too good."
A joint agency task force seized 274kg (604lbs) of ephedrine, which is used to make crystal methamphetamine, the Australian Federal Police said.
The drug was hidden in bags labelled as "basmati rice", officials added.
At least three men, including two foreign nationals, have been charged in connection with the case.
The federal police said in a statement that a task force with agriculture and customs and border protection authorities has resulted in "one of the largest single seizures of ephedrine in Australian history".
They added that the amount seized "could be used to manufacture up to 200kg of crystal methamphetamine".
"Dependent on purity this would have an estimated potential street value of up to A$200m [$187m, £117m]," the federal police said
The operation started in July, following the inspection of an estimated 3,600 bags labelled as "basmati rice", which arrived at the port in Melbourne from India.
Arrest warrants were eventually executed in Melbourne and Sydney.
Those charged in connection with the case include two Canadians and an Australian, police say.
An Indian national was also reportedly detained by local police in India.
Officials quoted in local media say this was the third-largest seizure of its kind in Australia.
The Met said it was alerted to the incident in Uxbridge Road, near Shepherd's Bush Market, at 15:20 GMT
London Fire Brigade is also at the scene and has set up a cordon alongside road closures. BBC Travel has more.
Carl English, who saw it happen, said: "Roof collapsed moments from me on Uxbridge road. Bricks flying, the guy I walked past got hit, hope he's ok."
The Grade II listed Greestone Building, in Lindum Road, had been modified to make way for the centre - the first of its kind in Lincolnshire.
The college will accommodate about 640 students studying science, engineering and maths, from September.
UTCs were created by the government to address the country's lack of qualified engineers.
People living nearby had claimed the redevelopment of the 19th Century building would be a "blot on the landscape".
However, contractor Willmott Dixon said it had been "sympathetically renovated" while preserving original features.
Principal Rona McKenzie said: "The old and the new have been brought together wonderfully and it feels like it's meant to be, the original and new building fit together perfectly."
Built in 1893, and designed by architect John Watkins, the Greestone Building was originally a girls' school and was later adopted by the University of Lincoln.
GamCare says it received about 3,000 calls for help from 18 to 24-year-olds in 2013-14.
But the NatCen for Social Research says 83,000 16 to 24-year-olds in England and Scotland, most of them male, were classed as problem gamblers in 2013.
"The reasons people with problems fail to seek help are complex," says Simon Perfitt from Rethink Gambling.
"They include a number of factors such as a lack of knowledge about the different help options available and a low awareness of opportunities for seeking help."
The Nat Cen for Social Research says 73,321 of the 83,000 young problem gamblers identified in 2013 were men with 10,083 women.
Newsbeat hasn't been able to get equivalent figures for Wales and Northern Ireland.
Gamblers Anonymous and the NHS National Gambling Clinic also told Newsbeat that there were problems for young people trying to find help.
GamCare, an independent national charity part-funded by donations from the gambling industry, gives advice and support over the phone.
A proportion of its clients are sent on to its network of local counselling centres across the UK.
All their treatment services are free.
"Probably only a small number get specialist help, probably around 10% of that [overall number of gamblers]," says GamCare Chief Executive Dirk Hansen.
"It's often a secret addiction, it's not visible like other problems... people don't want others to know they have this problem.
"They feel if they seek help that it may become known to others, even a third party or a professional, and that it's going to cause problems for them."
Figures released exclusively to Newsbeat show a substantial recent rise in calls to its helpline by young people.
"Problem gambling is heavily concentrated in 16 to 24-year-olds," says Professor David Forrest from the University of Salford, who's studied gambling misuse.
"Overwhelmingly it's a male thing, it's a young person's thing."
Dave Hopson is a 24-year-old welder from Stafford and says he wouldn't know where to begin to get help.
"It's almost shameful to ask for help with this sort of an addiction because you feel embarrassed," he says.
"You ask for help of people that you love and they look at you like you are nothing.
"Where do you start? Do you go to A&E? Where do you start to look? I was never taught about addiction [like this] at school."
There are other groups, as well GamCare, that offer support such as Rethink Gambling but there is only one dedicated NHS clinic in the UK.
The National Problem Gambling Clinic in London deals specifically with gambling addiction.
People can refer themselves or be referred by their GP or probation officer.
It says of 2,177 people who have been referred there over the last three years, just over a third were under 30.
It says the average debt for those under-30s is more than £10,000 when they arrive at the clinic but they've lost a total of £60,000 on gambling overall.
People get help at the clinic including psychological treatment and behavioural therapy.
The Gambling Commission is a government body which regulates gambling in Great Britain.
They say all organisations "must have measures in place to minimise any harm caused by gambling".
In a statement they told Newsbeat: "These measures include having information readily available to customers on how to gamble responsibly and where they can get help if they think they have a problem."
The Association of British Bookmakers, which represents gambling shops, says it is planning a responsible gambling campaign for January.
Their spokesman Peter Craske says: "Staff in shops are trained to interact and will attempt to advise anyone who appears to be exhibiting problem gambling behaviour.
"Online customers can set deposit limits to manage their accounts, and all bookmakers will offer self-exclusion - the opportunity to 'ban' yourself from shops or websites."
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Flights from East Midlands Airport were temporarily suspended after problems with a light aircraft on 14 January.
Faults with the private plane's landing gear while it was on the runway also caused some flights to be redirected.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) stated the source of the problem was the "incorrect fitment of a set screw."
The pilot was being taught how to fly the Cessna G-MAPP aircraft.
When it landed at the airport, at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, the left wing began to sink.
The plane was forced off the runway and onto the grass.
None of the three people on board were injured.
"The cause of the landing gear collapse was most probably the incorrect fitment of a set screw in the downlock link," the AAIB's report said.
The AAIB recommended the aircraft's manufacturer tells operators how to ensure the set screw is properly installed.
It also said the aircraft's maintenance manuals are adjusted to include this information.
Left-back Steven Smith will have a scan next week on a hip problem that is affecting his groin.
It leaves the new manager without three defenders for Saturday's Scottish Premiership visit by Dundee.
Darryl Westlake also remains out with an ankle problem, having been on the sidelines since September.
Connolly underwent surgery after spending a long period playing through pain.
The 24-year-old defender, who has been troubled by the problem since the summer, had said on Twitter: "Time to get sorted! Been a long eight months trying to play with this injury. Today's the day I get back to myself."
Connolly has only made 10 appearances for Killie during this campaign.
This time last year, Connolly broke his collarbone against Inverness Caledonian Thistle and was out for three months.
He returned for the last few games of last season, despite not being fully recovered, to help Killie remain in the top flight.
Connolly then suffered the hip injury in pre-season training and could have undergone surgery then.
However, that would have sidelined him for another three months, and, having just been given the captaincy, he decided to soldier on.
On 22 August against Ross County, he suffered knee and ankle injuries, which sidelined him for 12 weeks.
On his return, Killie managed a 0-0 draw against Celtic in Glasgow in November, but Connolly has only played in four games since, making his last outing in December.
Now he hopes the Ayrshire side can secure their top-flight status without him, so that after rehabilitation he returns fully fit for the next campaign.
The Ulster Bank surveys private sector activity every month, in what is considered a reliable indicator of the economy.
It shows that in December the retail sector had its sharpest monthly increase in business activity in more than 10 years.
The figures also suggest that employment continues to increase in the retail sector.
The bank's chief economist, Richard Ramsey, said the last three months of 2016 showed "the strongest set of quarterly retail sales figures in the survey's 14-year history".
He added: "Demand from the Republic of Ireland is boosting exports and retail sales considerably.
"As a result, Northern Ireland's retail sector continues to post the fastest rates of job creation of all the sectors."
However the survey continued to point to growing inflationary pressures, as the weak pound increases the cost of imported goods and materials.
Selling prices at retailers rose at the fastest pace since the survey began in January 2003.
The UK retail sector as a whole appears to have had a good Christmas.
Major supermarkets, department stores and fashion chains have reported year-on-year sales increases.
Consumer spending has been supported by an increase in unsecured debt, such as credit cards.
Total unsecured debt in the UK for 2016 reached £270bn, a record high.
Here, correspondents covering the Brussels summit from around Europe describe how the UK's demands are viewed in their countries.
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The question of UK membership is certainly a big issue for France, people understand it's also a big issue for Europe.
There's a feeling that Mr Cameron is protesting too much, and asking maybe too much.
In France I think they are fed up with the British complaining. And if Britain were to leave the EU many French people wouldn't really be sad. There is interest but I don't think people understand the real debate.
President Francois Hollande has said France doesn't want any possibility of the UK having a veto over eurozone decisions. And he doesn't want any emergency brake on the functioning of the eurozone.
But I do think the French government is ready to make some concessions.
The government doesn't say much about migrants' benefits. But I think ordinary French people are certainly not against raising this issue, because the situation is almost the same in parts of France.
French people understand that if the UK were to leave it wouldn't be good for Europe, certainly not in military and economic matters.
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Denmark hopes that Britain will stay in the EU, and that a deal on welfare benefits is structured such that Denmark can use it too, especially when it comes to indexation of child benefits.
It's something that a majority in the Danish parliament would like to make use of too.
Danes feel more closely related to Britain when it comes to EU policy: they like the rhetoric about cutting red tape, the scepticism.
But the main interest is that this is a real issue, not just another Brussels deal. It might be for the first time a country leaving the EU, and it's Britain, a country we have been closely allied with.
The UK joined the EU together with us in 1973. And now they might leave. That is a huge issue for Danes.
If the deal ends with a Commission promise not to extend the child benefits proposals to other areas, for example [migrants'] pensions, then that would go against Denmark's wish.
Danish trade with the UK is about €5.5bn (£4.2bn) a year - we love selling bacon, butter to the British.
The refugee crisis is the big topic in Germany, so people have not followed the UK debate so much. And there hasn't been much discussion about migrants' benefits. I think these reforms are just a UK thing.
Most Germans want the UK to stay in the EU. Nobody in Germany can imagine the EU without the UK. It's an important export market for Germany, especially for German cars.
But for Germans the big problems are migration and terrorism.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has lost a lot of support, but this summit will not decide her future.
Many Germans wonder why Germany is so alone in the refugee crisis: where is the community? Other countries are not showing solidarity.
Poles are not following this UK debate as closely as I expected, even when this debate is about benefits for EU workers in the UK.
The internal changes within the new, Law and Justice (PiS) government are so absorbing that they are dominating over international developments.
A huge majority of Poles want the UK to stay in the EU, more than 60%, and it's mainly for geopolitical reasons. Poles are thinking about our neighbour Russia and the need to have a strong EU.
The conviction is that with the UK in, the EU will be stronger. That's more important than jobs and benefits.
When Law and Justice was in opposition it raised this issue of defending Polish citizens' rights, on the benefits issue. But now they are in government, they have to face reality and understand they have to make compromises.
On child benefits, more Polish children have parents working in Germany than in the UK. More than 40% of Poles who work abroad and claim child benefits are in Germany.
There is support in Poland for the EU competitiveness argument and for a clear declaration that states should not have to pursue closer integration.
At the moment the Spanish media agenda is very focused on domestic affairs and who will be in Spain's next government.
But the current Spanish government is acting as caretaker, so it has to get a mandate from parliament in order to approve a deal at this summit.
All the big parties gave the green light to a deal, but [left-wing] Podemos says no, because they warn that Spanish people in the UK could lose benefits. There are about 200,000 Spaniards in the UK.
In general, Spaniards feel the EU would be worse off without the UK economically. The UK is not in the euro, but very important for the single market.
The Spanish are still quite pro-EU, despite the economic crisis. There is also a big question about what happens to the one million Brits in Spain if the UK leaves, and the Gibraltar government has said it wants to stay in the EU.
The 24-year-old former Chelsea youngster had a spell with Notts County in 2013-14, scoring one goal in eight appearances in all competitions.
Coombes will be eligible to make his debut for the Ravens against Tranmere Rovers on Saturday.
"We needed to fill the gap out wide with the departure of Anthony Cook and injuries," said manager Mark Goldberg.
Changes were made to tie them in with the new National 4 and 5 qualifications that replaced Standard Grades.
Some students will sit a mix of both the old and new exams, with many schools choosing to defer some new of the new Highers for a year.
The first exams taking place are in drama and economics.
More than half a million exams will be sat by more than 132,000 candidates, who are taking courses at 473 schools and colleges.
The new Highers are directly comparable with the old ones and are worth the same when students apply to colleges and universities.
Schools were given the option to phase in the new Highers, with provisional figures released by Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) earlier this year showing almost half (45%) of pupils will sit the existing and not the new qualification this year.
All pupils are due to study for the new qualifications from the 2015/16 school year on, but teaching unions have raised concerns about the implementation of the reforms and their impact on teacher workload.
This year also marks the last year of the Intermediate courses - which were stepping stones on the way to more advanced qualifications.
Minister for Learning Dr Alasdair Allan insisted the reforms are benefiting young people as he wished exam candidates well.
He said: "Scottish education now offers more flexible learning opportunities for our young people.
"This year marks an important milestone in the ongoing implementation of Curriculum for Excellence with the introduction of the new Higher.
"Curriculum for Excellence has been designed to equip our young people with the skills they need to succeed both in Scotland and in the global workplace, with local authorities having the freedom to shape education to meet the needs of our pupils, whatever their background."
Dr Janet Brown, SQA chief executive and Scotland's chief examining officer, said: "All of our qualifications, including the new Higher, provide candidates with the opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding they've acquired and prepare them for further study, employment or training.
"Our qualifications are robust, relevant and designed to equip young people with a wide range of skills."
The exam period will finish on 5 June with candidates due to receive their final results on 4 August.
Jan Karbaat is suspected of fathering about 60 children at the centre he ran in Bijdorp, near Rotterdam.
Tests will now be conducted on items seized from his home after his death in April, at the age of 89.
A lawyer for his family said there was no evidence to support the claims.
Jan Karbaat called himself "a pioneer in the field of fertilisation".
His clinic was closed in 2009 amid reports that he had allegedly falsified data, analyses and donor descriptions and exceeded the permitted number of six children per donor.
At a court hearing last month, a lawyer for the 22 parents and children said that the suspected cases included a client's child who had brown eyes when the sperm donor was supposedly blue-eyed and a client's son who physically resembled the doctor.
'This is a huge step' - lawyer representing donor children
The DNA profile will remain sealed until the children can show there is cause to believe he is their father, the BBC's Anna Holligan, who was at the district court in Rotterdam, reports.
Eventually, if the DNA profile matches, the children, most of them born in the 1980s, hope to sue the doctor, possibly on the grounds that they should not exist, our correspondent adds.
Joey, who believes Jan Karbaat may be his father, told the BBC: "It means everything to me... We hope to get the answers."
The Karbaat family's lawyer argued against any DNA tests taking place. While alive, the doctor himself refused such tests.
However, last month, Jan Karbaat's son donated his DNA for tests, which showed that the doctor could be the father of 19 children, born though IVF, AFP news agency reports.
It is not clear whether the 19 are among those involved in the court case.
The prince visited the site in the Republic of Ireland where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten died in 1979.
The bomb, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, also killed Lord Mountbatten's grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, 14, and 15-year-old Paul Maxwell.
Paul's mother, Mary Hornsey, said she felt a "healing balm".
She was speaking after attending service of peace and reconciliation at St Columba's Church in Drumcliffe, also attended by the royal couple on the second day of their visit to the island of Ireland.
Ms Hornsey said the day started off being very difficult.
"I didn't know how I was going to react coming back here again," she said.
"I could see the place where it actually had happened and I felt my stomach tightening. I was full of apprehension, I didn't know how I was going to react.
"But after the church service in Drumcliffe, which was absolutely wonderful, there was such a sense of healing, it was like a healing balm was present and a sense of forgiveness, and a great sense of hope.
"I came out feeling really euphoric."
It was the first time the prince had visited Mullaghmore.
He earlier said that the compassion shown by people there "has done much to aid the healing process".
He said the murder of his great-uncle and three others had given him a profound understanding of how people affected by the Troubles suffered.
Ms Hornsby said: "I would not have missed this day for the world. It was one of the most wonderful experiences I have had, turning a very tragic event into something that is healing and forgiving."
Outside it was a gloriously sunny winter's day. The mountains that loom above the city silhouetted against a cloudless blue sky. But inside the house was dark and the curtains drawn, so that the neighbours could not see in.
This was the safe house in Kabul where Gulnaz and her child had found refuge. The women there asked not to be identified in case their house was burnt down.
Just 21, Gulnaz had been released that week from prison, where she had given birth to her daughter Moska. Gulnaz seemed younger than her years, but she held my gaze almost defiantly as she told her story.
She had been imprisoned in a Kabul women's jail after her cousin's husband raped her.
The crime came to light when the unmarried Gulnaz became pregnant.
The police came and arrested both Gulnaz and her attacker. Under Afghan law she too was found guilty of a crime known as "adultery by force", with her sentence increased on appeal to 12 years.
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When the case aroused condemnation abroad, President Hamid Karzai intervened and Gulnaz was pardoned.
Looking bewildered at her sudden freedom, she told me all she wanted was to go home to her family. In order to do that, she was prepared to marry the man who raped her - otherwise their families would be enemies.
The problem for Gulnaz is that if her attacker will not marry her - or cannot come up with a substantial dowry - the "stain" on her family's honour will remain, perhaps with lethal consequences for Gulnaz and her child. That may mean she can never go home.
For a single mother, unskilled and unqualified, there are few ways for a woman to survive in Afghanistan without family support.
An American lawyer in Kabul, Kim Motley, has taken up Gulnaz's case. She is trying to raise money for her to fund a new life, somehow, somewhere, if Gulnaz cannot go home.
Rescued from violence
I was still wondering what would happen to her when we went to meet 15-year-old Sahar Gul, as she lay in a hospital bed recovering from her injuries, too traumatised to talk.
Married off to a 30-year-old man for a dowry of about $4,500 (£3,000), Sahar had been kept locked in a cellar for several months, starved and tortured by her husband and his family. It is still not really clear why.
Sahar may not have been able to speak, but her injuries did.
Burns to her arm and her fragile body, a swollen black eye, clumps of hair torn out. One small hand was scarred, where her fingernail had been pulled out.
The abuse aroused public indignation in Afghanistan, as well as horror abroad.
But Sahar was perhaps, in a strange way, lucky.
She did not run away from a violent marriage, as some Afghan brides have, but was instead rescued from it by police. So she cannot be found guilty of what might otherwise be deemed a "moral crime", as other young Afghan women have been.
Both Sahar and Gulnaz's stories are extreme. But they made me wonder how many other women in Afghanistan still suffer in silence, 10 years after the fall of the Taliban.
There are laws banning violence against women, but enforcing them is hard. Tradition and family or community honour is often seen as more important than an individual's misery or misfortune.
Poverty and lack of education also mean under-age marriage remains common.
When Sahar did try to escape her torturers, it was apparently the neighbours who brought her back to them, before the police intervened.
In a quiet, book-lined office in Kabul - a world away from the controlled chaos of the hospital and the dimly-lit safe house - I asked the head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission what she thought.
A no-nonsense woman with steely grey hair, Dr Sima Samar has long risked her own life to speak out for the principles she believes in, equality and justice.
Her answer was clear: She and her colleagues in Afghanistan will carry on fighting to improve the lives of women like Gulnaz and Sahar.
But Dr Samar, like many others, fears the international community is no longer quite so interested in keeping up the pressure on women's rights, as the West seeks to wind down its military campaign.
When Western soldiers no longer patrol the streets of Afghanistan, it will be easier to ignore what goes on behind locked doors and closed curtains in a faraway place.
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Some of the first dinosaurs could have come from the UK.
This is according to new research by Matthew Baron, a scientist from the Natural History Museum.
He suggests that what we know about the evolution of dinosaurs, and where they first came from, might be wrong.
By looking at fossils Matt thinks that some of the first dinosaurs might have been around nearly 15 million years earlier that we thought.
And the exciting thing is, they could have lived around 245 million years ago in an area called Laurasia, which is now the UK.
The 23-year-old tore a medial ligament in the Gulls' 2-0 loss at Tranmere.
The former Plymouth Argyle player missed much of last season after a similar injury in the other knee.
"It's another real blow for him. He took it as well as you'd expect and hopefully he'll see the positive, kick on and come back stronger," manager Kevin Nicholson told BBC Sport.
It is expected to take between four and six months for Young to recover from the injury, which may require surgery.
"Everyone knows what a good player he is and if it wasn't for his injuries, the chances are he wouldn't be with us because I think he would have kicked on higher," Nicholson added.
"I want him to go on and do good things in the game, so it hurts me for him.
"From a management point of view I've got to find a way around it, but I want Youngy to make sure he comes back fit and ready."
The first minster's proposals will draw on schemes with a proven track record, including the London Challenge.
The scheme will be backed up by a new Attainment Scotland Fund which will provide £100m of investment over four years.
Scottish Labour has outlined a £125m plan over five years to address education inequalities.
Ms Sturgeon outlined details of the Scottish Attainment Challenge on a visit to St Joseph's Primary, Victoria Park Primary and Balgay Hill Nursery campus in Dundee.
She said it would "draw heavily" on the influence of the London Challenge which helped significantly improve school performance among poorer pupils in the UK capital.
The new scheme will be aimed at boosting literacy, numeracy and health and well-being in some of Scotland's most disadvantaged communities.
The London Challenge was launched in 2003 by the then Labour government at Westminster with the aim of giving young people a good or better education.
It reportedly saw a dramatic rise in standards by encouraging collaboration between schools across the city.
Similar programmes were later extended further north in England and they were collectively identified as City Challenge.
Ms Sturgeon said: "We know that much more needs to be done as too many of our young people have life chances narrowed by circumstances out of their control.
"The establishment of the Scottish Attainment Challenge, backed by the Attainment Scotland Fund, signals how strongly we are committed to righting that wrong."
The first minister said her government was already working to close the gap in outcomes between pupils from affluent areas and those from deprived backgrounds.
The latest plan will see attainment advisers appointed in each local authority area.
The first minister stressed the importance of learning "not just from good practice here in Scotland, but also from elsewhere in the UK and overseas, to find ways of working that have the greatest impact".
She added: "I have been particularly impressed with the results of the London Challenge in transforming school performance in that city and so, while not all of it will be appropriate to Scottish circumstances, we will draw heavily on it in developing our own Attainment Challenge.
"We must do all we can within the powers and resources we have to narrow the gap and drive up standards at all levels."
Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, welcomed a focus on tackling inequality but said that new schemes had to be backed up by adequate funding and resources.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "We can learn valuable lessons by looking at the successful elements of schemes from elsewhere in the UK and further afield, and adapting these to the meet the needs of Scotland's education system and its pupils.
"The London Challenge, in particular, was underpinned by substantial investment and significant increases in staffing resource to support the scheme.
"The key to tackling poverty and inequality is to step up investment in our schools while also increasing the number teachers working with pupils in our classrooms."
At the weekend, Labour leader Jim Murphy set out a £25m plan to raise attainment among Scotland's poorest children if it wins the 2016 Holyrood elections.
The party has pledged to double the number of teaching assistants in every primary school associated with the worst-performing 20 secondary schools.
It would also introduce a new literacy programme and provide extra support for pupils in each of those 20 schools.
Labour's education spokesman Iain Gray told BBC Radio Scotland: "In a modern, 21st century democracy we simply cannot sit back and accept the idea that your chances in school depend on how well-off your family is rather than anything else.
"That is something that we absolutely must begin to turn around."
The Scottish Conservatives said they had been calling for "radical reform of the school system" for decades.
The serial killer, 69, who was convicted of murdering 13 women, has been housed at high-security Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire since 1984.
The BBC understands a report by medical experts suggests he be moved from the psychiatric unit to prison.
The Ministry of Justice said the final decision would be made by Justice Secretary Michael Gove.
Decisions to move prisoners from secure hospitals are based on "clinical assessments" by independent medical staff, it said.
Any transfer back to prison is likely to take in the region of six months.
The son of Sutcliffe's first victim Wilma McCann said he was willing to leave the decision to medical experts and had let go the anger over what had happened to his mother.
Richard McCann said: "My initial thoughts were that, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really change a great deal for us; it does not bring Mum back.
"But, having thought about it, I've woken up thinking it's only right that he's returned to prison, as is any prisoner who is deemed fit to return to prison.
"There is a difference between Broadmoor and prison, but I'm not in a position where I'm full of anger and hatred and want to see him in a cell.
"I am not sure whether he needed to be in Broadmoor or not, but what I do believe is, he is ill, he must have been ill to have done the things that he did.
"It is 40 years since it happened and I'll let the professional make the decisions. Hopefully they've made the right one."
Former lorry driver Sutcliffe was originally held in HMP Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight following his conviction in 1981 for the murder of 13 women.
He was later moved to Broadmoor after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
David K Ho, a consultant forensic psychiatrist who has previously worked at Broadmoor, said the decision would have been made by the staff who were treating Sutcliffe.
"Loosely speaking, schizophrenia is a little like diabetes in the sense that when you treat it its symptoms get less, when you stop treating it, it may recur," said Dr Ho.
"So I don't think it's the case that his mental disorder has completely been cured, but I think it perhaps has reached a stage where its symptoms are under control."
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a diagnosis doctors use if someone is experiencing a cluster of psychological symptoms.
These include "psychotic experiences, such as hearing voices or seeing things that don't exist (hallucinations) and having unusual beliefs that are not based on reality (delusions).
There are different subtypes of schizophrenia - paranoid schizophrenia is one example and this is when the person experiences false beliefs of being persecuted or plotted against.
Schizophrenia is a fairly common mental health condition, affecting about one in every 100 people.
He said it was not uncommon for patients to be returned to prison after a long period of assessment and treatment.
Dr Ho added that while a psychiatrist makes a recommendation pertaining to the Mental Health Act, the approval for a transfer needs to come from the Ministry of Justice.
In 2010, the High Court ordered that Sutcliffe, who was given 20 life sentences, should never be released.
Brian Dow, director of external affairs at the charity Rethink Mental Illness, said: "There's no cure as such. There's no medication that will make it go away, but people will often be able to manage their symptoms to a point where they can lead a very normal life.
"Presumably... he is sufficiently well that he no longer needs to be treated in a clinical setting.
"That's very possible as the treatments he may have had may have got him to a point where they deem him to be able to be incarcerated in a prison rather than a high-security ward."
Beavers, an invasive exotic species, were introduced to the area in 1946 to offer locals work in the fur trade.
With no natural predators, the beavers have reproduced rapidly and are a threat to the native forest, environmentalists say.
The plan is to eradicate the North American beaver completely from the archipelago, local officials say.
According to the officials, the beaver situation is "totally out of control" in Tierra del Fuego, where the rodents have destroyed an area double the size of the city of Buenos Aires.
Adrian Schiavini, who heads the National Strategy for Invasive Exotic Species, told Argentine radio that "humane traps" would be used to cull the animals "quickly and effectively".
Mr Schiavini said the species had caused huge damage to Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of Argentina, by building dams in its unique river system.
Biologists say that whereas some North American trees can grow back after being damaged by beavers, South American trees tend to die off after being gnawed by the rodents.
The dams they build moreover create bogs in which many native trees are unable to grow. Dams built by beavers can reach a length of 100m (328ft).
Mr Schiavini said the plan was to bring in experts in beaver hunting from North America.
"The idea is to train a group of hunters and then choose the best from this group and put them to work in seven pilot areas on Isla Grande in Tierra del Fuego."
He said he hoped that after four years, the authorities would be able to significantly step up the speed of the cull.
Gray, 25, died in hospital a week later, sparking riots in Baltimore and protests across the US about the use of lethal force by police.
Gray's injuries were similar to those suffered in shallow-water diving, the report found.
Six Baltimore police officers have been charged in the case.
The driver of the police van, Caesar Goodson, faces the most serious charge - of second-degree murder.
The officers have pleaded not guilty and the trial is expected start in October.
The prosecutor in the case, Marilyn Mosby, condemned the leaking of the report, saying trial evidence should remain confidential.
The state medical examiner's report found Gray's death was not an accident because officers did not properly secure Gray inside the van.
It said that Gray was "at risk for an unsupported fall during acceleration or deceleration of the van".
After Gray's arrest on 12 April, officers shackled his wrists and ankles and placed him inside the van on his stomach.
The authors of report surmised that Gray got to his feet and was eventually thrown into a wall when the van abruptly changed direction.
Gray was arrested after he fled from police officers. Many including Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts have questioned why Gray was detained in the first place.
He is the first to be charged as part of the US Justice Department's year-long criminal probe into the firm's rigging of federal air-pollution tests.
James Liang pleaded guilty to violation of the clean air act, a wire fraud count and a consumer fraud count.
Volkswagen has already agreed to spend up to $16bn (£12bn) to address environmental, state and owner claims.
Mr Liang, who is a German national, worked in VW's diesel development department in Germany from 1983 to May 2008, before moving to the US.
He was part of a team of engineers based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that conducted emissions tests on the diesel engine at the heart of the controversy.
He could face five years in prison although by cooperating with the US federal government, he could reduce his jail time.
His trial will be held in January.
The scandal blew up after an investigation found that many Volkswagen cars being sold in America had software in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested.
The so-called "defeat device" changed the performance of the engines accordingly to improve results.
The German car giant has admitted cheating emissions tests in the US.
Analysis: Theo Leggett, BBC Business Correspondent
Mr Liang is the first VW employee to face charges over the emissions cheating affair, but he almost certainly won't be the last.
One word that is repeated time and time again in the indictment is "conspiracy". Clearly, he didn't work alone. And since he is now cooperating with prosecutors, others are bound to find themselves in the firing line.
The question, as ever, is just how high did the conspiracy go? Mr Liang was an engineer. His title, which now seems deliciously ironic, was "Leader of Diesel Competence".
But were any of the senior suits involved? We still don't know.
What is clear is that in many ways this alleged conspiracy was pretty clumsy.
The indictment quotes from emails in which engineers first congratulate themselves on the success of a defeat device, then later search for ways to deal with queries from regulators about excessive emissions.
Among the increasingly panicked comments: "We need a story for the situation!", and later "We still have no good explanations!!!"
Tierney received treatment during Celtic's win at Kilmarnock and tried to play on but was replaced by Dedryck Boyata before half-time.
The uncapped 18-year-old has been named in Scotland's squad to face Denmark at Hampden later this month.
"I don't think it is a big thing, hopefully not," Deila told BBC Scotland.
"But it is too early to say whether he is going to be with the national team or not.
"We will see tomorrow."
Scotland coach Gordon Strachan named separate squads for the friendlies with Czech Republic and Denmark, with the Scots playing in Prague on 24 March.
Tierney, who has played at Scotland Under-18 and Under-19 level, made his Celtic debut late last season and has been a regular in Deila's side this term.
South Western Ambulance Service's systems for "caring" were rated as outstanding but other areas required improvements.
These included emergency and urgent care provision and patient transport.
The inspection was carried out in June after a previous CQC report which found the trust's 111 service was inadequate.
In the latest findings inspectors also raised concerns about call centre staff being too busy to report verbal abuse from the public.
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Among the areas requiring improvement, the report said the trust had to ensure "work intensity and fatigue" was monitored to mitigate risks to staff.
It also said controlled medicines had to be stored securely in ambulances and cars when crews were not present.
The ambulance service covers the greater South West of England, including include Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
Chief Executive Ken Wenman said the report, which rated the service overall as "requires improvement", was fair.
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The Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance has about 45,000 members working across the public sector.
On Friday, delegates to the union's conference voted in favour of a pro-Brexit motion by 68 votes to 58.
But the trade union umbrella group, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), wants the UK to remain in the EU.
In April, delegates to the ICTU'S Northern Ireland Committee conference overwhelming passed a motion of opposition to a British exit (Brexit) from the European Union.
The committee called on workers to vote to remain "for the stability of the economy of Northern Ireland, for the security of their jobs and for their rights as workers".
The UK's largest trade unions - Unite, the GMB and Unison - are all in favour of remaining in the EU.
The RMT transport union is in favour of leaving.
The motion debated by Nipsa members on Friday described the EU as "a club for the rich" that does not provide "meaningful assistance to workers".
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Northern Ireland's largest trade union, Nipsa, is to recommend to its members that they should vote for the UK to leave the EU.
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Mr Shkreli's lawyer informed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, that he would invoke his right against self-incrimination.
The former hedge fund manager hit the headlines when his company raised the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000%.
He also faces separate criminal charges that he defrauded investors.
The committee sent a letter to Mr Shkreli requesting he testify about his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals' decision to raise the price of the drug Daraprim.
In a statement, Congressman Elijah Cummings, a member of the committee said: "If he [Mr Shkreli] plans on trying to use his own intentional inaction as some kind of bogus excuse for not showing up at Tuesday's hearing, people will see right through such a juvenile tactic."
On Wednesday, Mr Shkreli posted a picture of the subpoena letter on his Twitter account and wrote, "Found this letter. Looks important."
In December, Mr Shkreli was arrested in New York on charges he defrauded investors at a drug company he previously ran, Retrophin, and a hedge fund, MSMB Capital Management, where he was a fund manager.
He has denied the charges and was released on bail pending the trail.
The FBI allege Mr Shkreli "engaged in multiple schemes to ensnare investors through a web of lies and deceit".
The US Securities and Exchange Commission separately charged him with defrauding investors to hide poor investment choices.
Neither of those cases are connected to Daraprim's price increase or Turing Pharmaceuticals.
Mr Shkreli stepped down as Turing's head after his December arrest.
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Former pharmaceuticals chief executive Martin Shkreli has said he would remain silent if called to testify at a congressional hearing on drug prices.
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They were taken offline for two months last May while extra sea defences were installed after a review into Japan's Fukushima disaster highlighted risks.
Barrie Botley, of Kent Against a Radioactive Environment, said not enough details were given at the time.
EDF said it had ensured that everyone knew about what was happening.
A massive earthquake and tsunami which led to the nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima reactor in 2011 prompted new research into the flood risk at Dungeness.
The review concluded that there was "a theoretical but plausible scenario in an extremely rare case where water could have got on to the site, potentially up to waist height", the BBC understands.
EDF issued a statement last May saying Unit 21 was offline for "planned refuelling" and Unit 22 for "improvements to flood defences for extreme events".
It said both units were expected to be returned to service that month.
Mr Botley said that did not make clear that both reactors were completely out of action,
"They betrayed us all and I think it's absolutely disgusting. They're supposed to be very open nowadays and they're not," he said.
But Martin Pearson, station director at Dungeness B, said: "The language we've used is language we've used for 30 years.
"If there's more of an interest from the public, and that is seen as a very positive move, then we'll need to review some of the language that we use."
EDF stressed the site was never unsafe and was now protected against the kind of extreme weather expected to happen "only once in 10,000 years".
A flood defence wall between 5ft 2in (1.6m) and 6ft 6in (2m) high has been constructed all the way around the plant at a cost of £2.3m.
It is part of a £5m investment in flood protection including work inside the station, such as sealing trenches, installing dam boards and raising equipment height.
Both Dungeness B reactors automatically shut down during the St Jude's Day storm on 28 October, when electricity to the site was cut off.
EDF said that during the recent floods and storms it had operated normally.
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EDF Energy "betrayed the public" after safety fears led to the closure of both reactors at Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent, campaigners have said.
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The blaze broke out at a property on Mill Croft, Wolverhampton, just after 10:30 GMT on Thursday.
The occupant, 37-year-old Lisa Skidmore, was found in a first-floor bedroom. A post-mortem test has since revealed she died from strangulation.
Police said they believed a man assaulted her before setting fire to the room and making his escape.
Ms Skidmore's 80-year-old mother was also found injured at the property.
She was treated for severe facial injuries and officers said they believed she disturbed the intruder, who then assaulted her.
West Midlands Police said they were looking for a black man in his 20s, about 5ft 6in tall, with a medium build. He was described as wearing a dark-coloured, long-sleeved jacket, dark trousers and leather gloves.
Plans for Ilkeston station was approved in 2013, but flooding and the discovery of protected newts delayed the project.
Work on the site, which will have two platforms linked by a footbridge, is scheduled to begin on Monday.
Derbyshire County Council said 160,000 people will use the £10m station in the first year after it is due to open in the autumn.
Ilkeston station, which will be situated between Millership Way and Coronation Road, will link the town with Nottingham, Chesterfield, Sheffield and Leeds.
The town, which is one of the largest in the UK without a railway station, once boasted three - the last one closed in 1967 as a result of the Beeching Report, published in 1963.
Councillor Dean Collins, of the county council, said the new station would be a "great boost" to the area.
"It will mean much quicker commuting times, helping to reduce congestion on the roads, and it will improve connectivity to nearby major towns and cities helping to encourage visitors and bring new business opportunities to the area," he said.
Great crested newts, which are protected by law, were found at the site in the winter halting work while they were moved elsewhere.
The authority added that it had to seek new planning permission following advice from the Environment Agency over flooding concerns.
Hussain, like two of the other bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, was a second-generation British citizen whose parents were of Pakistani origin.
He grew up in Holbeck, on the outskirts of Leeds. The youngest of four children, he was still living with his parents when he died.
He was not a high achiever academically, and although he liked sports, he was never outstanding.
He was involved in a brief period of racial tension at the school, but was not a known troublemaker.
Hussain left school in July 2003 with seven GCSEs and went on to study business, a course he finished a month before the bombings.
One neighbour described the family as "very nice people".
"We all knew them but I wouldn't say I knew them well. They were just a very nice family," he said.
A year before leaving school, Hussain went to Mecca to do the Hajj pilgrimage and went to Pakistan to visit relatives.
On his return to the UK, he was noticeably more religiously observant - he grew a beard and began to wear traditional robes - something he later stopped doing as he began working on the bomb plans.
Not long after his return from the pilgrimage, someone noticed he had written 'Al Qaeda - No Limits' on his religious education school book.
He would speak openly of his support for the radical movement and said he believed the 11 September bombers were "martyrs".
He also told teachers he wanted to become a cleric when he left school.
Much of his social life was based around the local mosques, youth clubs and the gym in the neighbouring district of Beeston, where fellow bombers Khan and Tanweer grew up. Hussain was part of their inner circle, attending the same events and gatherings, sharing their most intimate plans and thoughts.
What appears to have happened is that by 2004, he was signed up to Khan's jihadist cause - although it was not clear during that year what Khan specifically wanted to do.
When MI5 were watching another plotter who met Khan in the early part of that year, the Leeds man appeared to be talking about going abroad to fight. In the bugged conversation, Khan refers to "another brother we've got who's just coming in…" He suggests that this unnamed 18-year-old becomes a contact point for others if he himself goes to fight overseas.
In the months before the attacks, Hussain had rented a small flat in the Chapeltown area of Leeds that was to be the first property used as part of the plot.
When the landlord tried to visit to warn his new tenant about a possible electrical fault, Hussain blocked the keyhole and warned him he could not enter because he was possessed.
Hussain explained away his trip to London by telling his family he was going to visit friends.
But when he failed to return, his parents reported him as missing to police, fearing for his safety in the emerging reports of the bombings.
He had in fact boarded the No 30 bus in London armed with enough explosives to rip it apart and to kill 13 people. His driving licence and cash cards were found in the wreckage.
In a statement, his family later said Hussain had been "a loving and normal young man who gave us no concern".
"We are having difficulty taking this in," they said.
"Our thoughts are with all the bereaved families and we have to live ourselves with the loss of our son in these difficult circumstances.
"We had no knowledge of his activities and, had we done, we would have done everything in our power to stop him."
Joe McCann was shot by soldiers in disputed circumstances in Joy Street in the Markets area close to his home on 15 April 1972.
The review team's report said: "Joe's actions did not amount to the level of specific threat which could have justified the soldiers opening fire in accordance with the Army rules of engagement."
The Historical Enquiries Team has carried out an investigation into his death.
Members of the Parachute Regiment shot Joe McCann several times as he ran away from police in Belfast, a team of detectives said. He was unarmed at the time.
Mr McCann's daughter, Nuala, said: "The shooting of our father was not justified. It was unjustified."
The report also stated that the review team was unable to question the officers present on that day. "The lack of access to their identities has been a major inhibitor in being able to provide a full and comprehensive review of all the circumstances of Joe's death."
Mr McCann's daughter Aine said that the failure of the the PSNI to reveal the identity of the police officers involved on the day was 'shameful': "It has not been possible to question the Special Branch version of events because, incredibly, the RUC then and the PSNI now, claim not to be aware of the identities of the two Special Branch officers that were following Joe that day."
He was one of the Official IRA's most prominent activists in the early days of the Troubles.
At the inquest into his death, soldiers said they had expected him to be carrying a weapon. He was unarmed when shot. It is also thought that he had disguised his appearance.
The HET is a unit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland set up in September 2005 to investigate the 3,269 unsolved murders committed during the Troubles (specifically between 1968 and 1998).
The team aims to bring closure to many bereaved families who still have unanswered questions about the death or disappearance of their loved ones.
The unit is based at Norton Manor Camp where the event was held for staff, friends and family only.
Warrant Officer Daz Joyce said: "It's 75 years since 40 Commando was formed and we're celebrating that in the way of a formal parade."
The Royal Marines unit has been based Norton Manor Camp since 1983.
The unit supported Special Forces in the hunt for Osama bin Laden in the Tora Bora mountain caves in Afghanistan.
It has since taken on the role of Lead Commando Group, which means it can be deployed anywhere in the world with five days' notice.
"There's continuous training and the guys are often deployed on exercise around the world and are prepared on quick notice to move around on operations.
"It's the families that are left behind who have to stick by them and we need to honour that and support them," added WO Joyce.
As part of the anniversary activity, a group of Royal Marines from the unit is joining in a national challenge of running 16.64 miles every day for 100 days.
The overall aim is to clock up 1,664 miles, to represent the figure 1664, the year when the Royal Marines was formed.
There are now 88,000 people unemployed and looking for work - 5.9% of the working age population, according to Office for National Statistics figures released on Wednesday.
But the unemployment rate in Wales is still higher than the UK rate of 5.2%.
Although unemployment is down, the employment level has also fallen and there is a rise in economic inactivity.
This includes people who are not working or classed as unemployed, for example studying or caring for a family member.
The Welsh government said over the past year, Wales had "outperformed almost every other part of the UK", recording the joint largest fall in the unemployment rate and the second largest increase in the rate of employment.
Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said the "fruits of Welsh economic recovery" were evident across the country.
But he added the mixed figures show "there is absolutely no room for complacency" and the recovery was "fragile".
Saliva and urine samples will be collected during the new campaign, after studies showed they could provide swift indicators of head injuries.
It could lead to a handheld device to assess if a player is fit to play on.
"We are keen to give it our full support," Premiership Rugby's Corin Palmer said.
During matches in 2017-18, players with confirmed or suspected concussion will provide saliva samples immediately following the injury and will give follow-up samples as they go through the return-to-play protocol.
These will be compared to players from the same game who did not suffer head injuries and those who had other injuries.
The study will run alongside the existing Head Injury Assessments, but if the results support those found in laboratory tests, it could eventually see tests being carried out pitch-side on a device.
It is being carried out by the University of Birmingham, in association with the Rugby Football Union (RFU), Premiership Rugby and the Rugby Players' Association.
Neurosurgeon Professor Tony Belli, who is leading the study, said: "The University of Birmingham recently made a significant breakthrough after identifying molecules, which can be found in saliva and act as biomarkers to indicate whether the brain has suffered injury.
"If these biomarkers are found reliable, we can continue our work with industrial partners with the hope to have a device available within the next two years that will instantaneously diagnose concussion on the pitch-side with the same accuracy as in the laboratory - a major step forward for both sport and medicine."
Dr Simon Kemp, the RFU's chief medical officer, added: "This is an important addition to the breadth of research we are undertaking into concussion.
"There is currently no reliable or proven biomarker or objective test for the diagnosis of concussion and this lack of objectivity is the biggest challenge facing medical professional in dealing with this type of injury."
The first involved a motorcycle and a BMW at about 12:10 BST between Merthyr and Nant Ddu.
The second happened 20 minutes later near Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taff, involving a motorcycle and another vehicle.
Diversions are in place in both areas with drivers advised to expect delays. Anyone with information is asked to call South Wales Police on 101.
Eleven million documents were leaked from one of the world's most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. They revealed in detail how parts of the offshore industry work.
We asked you what stories over the last 12 months you wanted to hear more about and in response many of you asked - what happened as a result of the Panama Papers?
So we spoke to the journalists who brought the story to the world.
The first casualty was the Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, who resigned only days after the leaks showed he and his wife owned an offshore company that he had not declared on entering parliament.
Other world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, addressed their countries to denounce the leaks and any allegations of being linked to money laundering.
In the UK, it caused political embarrassment for then-Prime Minister David Cameron, who admitted that his family had benefited from a legal offshore fund set up by his late father, Ian.
Authorities in the US and countries in Europe and Asia launched investigations into whether their rules were breached by those named in the leak.
Through it all, Mossack Fonseca has maintained it operates beyond reproach and has never been charged with wrongdoing.
Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier are the two journalists at the heart of the leaks.
One night in 2014, Mr Obermayer was looking after his sick children when he received a message.
"Interested in data?" it said.
That data turned out to be millions of documents from Mossack Fonseca and the shell companies it sets up for wealthy people. The whistleblowers called themselves John Doe and their identity remains secret.
The journalists received hundreds of files a day and were soon overwhelmed with information from hundreds of thousands of offshore companies. They involved an international journalists' network and teams of reporters from around the world, including the BBC.
Eight months on from the publishing and broadcasting of the Panama Papers, what do they think it has achieved?
"We, together with the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), did a follow-up," Mr Obermaier told the BBC.
"We found out in 79 countries around the world there have been inquiries, 6,500 taxpayers and companies are being investigated globally and Mossack Fonseca have had to close nine offices. They have even put down their sign boards at their headquarters in Panama."
Mr Obermaier said the Panama Papers had shown how the offshore world could be used to help aid terrorism.
"It is striking for me that Europol found 3,469 probable matches between their own files and the Panama Papers - 116 between them on a project on Islamic terrorism alone."
Mr Obermayer agrees and said the leak had revealed that the offshore world was not only a place for rich people to avoid taxes. He said the Panama Papers showed the secrecy of shell companies could be used to hide criminal activity.
"I wasn't shocked that rich people use offshore to dodge taxes. I was shocked that there were so many crimes. I think the vast amount of offshore companies are used because someone wants to hide something."
Mr Obermayer argues there have been concrete changes as a result of the leak's publication.
"A lot has changed, in Germany. Our finance minister just introduced a new 'Panama Law' (requiring citizens to declare if they are using a shell company) and Panama itself is more open for change now.
"Some countries have announced registers for beneficial owners and others are also arguing for that for the first time ever.
"The pressure on tax havens is as high as never before and the Panama Papers have done that. They have directed the spotlight at the problem.
"But still, what hasn't changed is that the very industry that helps tax dodgers is still alive and kicking. They have huge influence, huge power, huge lobby groups. We don't see the end of offshore - but we do see that offshore is shrinking."
Both journalists argue for a global register of beneficial owners to end tax secrecy. A beneficial owner is the person who has significant control of a company and its profits.
Richard Brooks, Private Eye journalist and author of The Great Tax Robbery is more pessimistic than the Panama Papers journalists.
"Whatever register you have, you would somehow have to police it," he said.
"You need law enforcement having sufficient resources to be able to investigate it. The serious money launderers and criminals would be able to make something up.
"The Panama Papers did give efforts to open up tax havens a bit of a boost, but it was not enough and there is evidence already of some backsliding. Britain's own tax havens, for example, will not open up the ownership of their shell companies to the public.
"We know that these territories are ill-equipped to police any international rules on information exchange imposed on them so, until they are completely transparent, we will be a long way from resolving the tax haven problem."
Attempts to establish transparency are being pushed back. For example, the EU has had to compromise on its plan for a public register of beneficial ownership after resistance from various member states.
The effectiveness of the measures being taken across the world as a result of the Panama Papers is still open to challenge.
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Turner, who spent nine years as a player with Peterborough before winning back-to-back promotions as manager in the early 1990s, was diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia in 2006.
He died on 27 April at the age of 64.
Fans from both teams attended the funeral at Peterborough Cathedral.
Turner, who also played for Cambridge United, Luton, Swindon and Southend, started his playing career at Peterborough in 1969, making more than 300 appearances for the club.
He retired as a player in 1984 and took over as Cambridge United boss the following year, managing them until 1990.
His successful reign at Peterborough ended in 1992, when he stood down to become chairman.
Turner's family and friends were joined at his memorial service by fans, staff and players from both clubs, including former Cambridge United and Manchester United player Dion Dublin.
A Peterborough Cathedral spokesman said 730 people attended the service while dozens of others stood outside to pay their respects.
Tributes were paid to Turner, including one from a fan sporting a "Posh at Wembley 1992" commemorative hat.
"I've come along to represent my family to say well done and thanks to Chris because he gave us the most amazing days of our footballing career," she said.
"He was a manager who made fans feel like they were part of a great big team."
Phil Adlam, from Peterborough United, confirmed the club was working "to find a way of commemorating Chris that is fitting, and to make sure we celebrate the life of Chris in the right way".
After being diagnosed with dementia, Turner's wife Lynne said doctors told her the illness was "caused by heading too many balls" and called for greater research into the health risks surrounding the sport.
Jonathan Norbury, 35, from Swansea, denies having sex with three girls under the age of 16.
He was cleared in court in January 2015 of alleged offences with two of the girls, who he did not teach.
The Education Workforce Council (EWC) will decide if the allegations are true.
The hearing in Cardiff was told Mr Norbury was sacked from Casllwchwr Primary School, in Loughor, for gross misconduct.
Yet Swansea council gave him a reference which described him as a "valued and conscientious teacher" who "always put learning outcomes and the needs of pupils first".
The hearing was told his relationships with the three girls amounted to unacceptable professional conduct.
Case presenter Ms Cadi Dewi said the girls - referred to as Girl A, Girl B, and Girl C - all met Mr Norbury when they were about 15 and began relationships with him between 2005 and 2010.
Ms Dewi said the relationships allegedly involved flirty text messages and later, sexual contact.
All three girls - who are now adults - were said to have "moved on with their lives", before being contacted by police in 2010 after an anonymous tip off to the NSPCC.
David Harris, representing Mr Norbury, said his client admitted having an "inappropriate relationship" with two of the girls after they turned 16.
Mr Harris said the reference, which was written by Mr Norbury and the wording agreed to by the council, was "fundamentally at odds" with the local authority's decision to fire him.
"They could have said 'we have dismissed you for gross misconduct, there's no way on earth we're giving you a reference', but that's not what happened," he said.
Mr Harris added Mr Norbury did not want to return to education and received the £8,000 settlement from the council after mediation.
If the EWC panel decides the allegations are true, he faces a range of sanctions, including being banned from teaching.
An estimated 15,000 prisoners are believed to have been tortured to death at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum during the Khmer Rouge regime.
Survivors of the Khmer Rouge said playing the game at the site, which is now open to visitors, was an insult.
Pokemon Go launched in several South East Asian countries last weekend.
It has already been a huge success in others areas of the world.
The Khmer Rouge regime, in power from 1975-1979, claimed the lives of up to two million people, one of the worst mass killings of the 20th Century.
Photographs of many of the victims who were taken to Tuol Sleng in Phnom Penh - also known as S-21 - are now on display in the rooms in which they were tortured.
Officials and tour guides told local media they had seen people playing inside the prison grounds.
Bou Meng, 76, one of a handful of people to survive Tuol Sleng, told news agency AFP: "It is a place of suffering. It is not appropriate to play the game there.
"It is an insulting act to the souls of the victims who died there."
He called for the museum to be excluded from the game's maps.
Pokemon Go, which sees players hunting virtual monsters in the real world through phones, finally launched in 15 countries in the region last week.
In Taiwan, officials say more than 1,200 people have been caught playing Pokemon while driving, leading to the National Freeway Bureau asking game creator Niantic "not to place any Pokemon treasures" on highways and rest stops.
Taiwan's railway authorities have also said they would look into removing station and trains from the game.
And Thailand's National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission said that it had plans to make places such as the Royal Palace grounds, Buddhist temples and hospitals off limits to Pokemon players.
Great Britain did not field a team in Rio last summer because the four home nation football associations could not come to an agreement.
But FA chief executive Martin Glenn says talks have taken place about entering a team in three years' time.
"They're not going to actively support us, but they're not going to stand in the way," he told BBC Sport.
"We've worked really hard with the other home nations to get them behind the idea that a British team would be good for football both in England but also in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"We were very disappointed that for the Brazil Olympics we couldn't put in a British team because, for women's football, Olympic tournaments are disproportionately important compared to men's football."
England's FA had put forward the idea of sending Great Britain teams to the 2016 Olympics, but Fifa said it would need the agreement of all the ruling bodies.
Stewart Regan, the Scottish FA's chief executive, was among those to voice concerns that a Great Britain team could impact the home nations at future international tournaments such as World Cups.
A spokesman for the Scottish FA told BBC Sport: "Our position remains that the Scottish FA does not support the playing of Olympic football under the Team GB banner, preferring all organised international football involving Scottish players to be played in the name of Scotland."
In April, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, Jonathan Ford, said he could now see the "merits" of a GB women's football team.
In a statement to BBC Sport, the Irish Football Association said it "would not be in favour of sending players to a GB Olympic team. This is to protect our independent status within Fifa."
England's women, led by Mark Sampson, won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup and earlier this month reached the semi-finals of Euro 2017.
Glenn says the strength in depth through the nations could be key to further success.
"We would want to pick from the best of British talent and there's a number from nations outside of England and we know that would be good for the game."
Team GB entered men's and women's sides at London 2012, organised by the English FA.
Stuart Pearce took charge of the men and Hope Powell coached the women, with both teams being knocked out in the quarter-finals.
Scotland midfielder Kim Little, who represented Great Britain at London 2012
I am Scottish and British and am proud to represent either.
It is a great opportunity for individual players and women's football in general. It is a great platform to raise the game and London 2012 certainly did that. It was a great shame not to have a team at Rio. To show backing for a team at 2020 is great for the women's game in general.
I was grateful and proud to be one of two Scots in the team at London. I can honestly say it was one of the best experiences I have had as a professional footballer. For the other three nations it provides an incentive for players, another platform to perform on at a major tournament.
Since 2012 Olympics, the England team went to the World Cup and were the best European team and they did well at the recent European Championship. I think getting together a GB team with other players from the home nations added to the England team, then whatever team comes together will have a real chance of doing something great.
I love playing football, so to be able to do that as a Team GB athlete and a Scottish athlete, I would be more than happy to do that.
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In this third item, Waterloo expert John Wells shows us rarely seen illustrations of the Duke of Wellington's funeral procession.
This footage is part of an interactive video which can be viewed here.
Rita King, 81, who had dementia, was shot dead at De La Mer House in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, in December.
Her 87-year-old husband Ronald King, who is disabled, admits killing her but denies murder.
From the witness box at Chelmsford Crown Court, Mr King said his wife had told him she had "had enough".
The trial jury heard he had also considered shooting his older sister Eileen, who is also a resident at the care home, as well as himself.
He put three rounds in the revolver, the court heard. One bullet for Mrs King, one for his sister and one for himself, he said.
When asked why he wanted to involve his 92-year-old sister, Mr King said: "She lived on a big bed, she stayed on it all day - she was a living corpse."
He also told the court he modified the bullets by cutting the fronts of them off. He said he remembered reading about a "dum-dum bullet" which "leaves a hole as big as your fist, there's no chance of getting better".
Asked whether he ever told Mrs King he was going to shoot her, her husband said: "Not really, not straight out. I decided to kill us both.
"It's easy pointing a gun straight, you try turning it round, bloody hard."
Asked whether he still loved his wife, Mr King said: "Course I did. I still miss her. I've kept her ashes. When I go we'll be mixed together."
The case continues.
That's what a Labour official told me just after this week's marathon meeting of Labour's National Executive committee, which had decided to put Jeremy Corbyn automatically on the leadership ballot without the need to demonstrate any support from his fellow MPs.
But that wasn't the consensus view amongst the anti-Corbynistas on Labour's ruling body.
"We can beat him," another told me, enthusiastically.
He recalled that Mr Corbyn had won a smidgen less than 50% of the vote amongst existing party members last September - his much-talked about mandate of nearly 60% from all participants in the leadership election was bolstered by trade union affiliates and the cut-price supporters who had signed up for the vote by paying £3.
So this optimistic anti-Corbynista delighted in pointing out that the current party leader had been talking to the media en-route to a supporters' rally - at the very point the NEC was deciding two crucial issues.
First, the "£3" would have to pay eight times as much to participate in the forthcoming leadership election - £25 to be precise, and have just two days to sign up.
And fully-paid up members would have to have joined the party on or before 12 January to participate.
The current membership stands at 515,000 but was only 388,000 in January.
The assumption was that many of the more recent members signed up to back the beleaguered leader - even though his opponents in the "Saving Labour" group had also been drumming up support - so at a stroke of an NEC pen they were disenfranchised.
Even though the party moved to the left between last year's general election and January, there is also an assumption that the longer people have been members, the more disillusioned with the leadership they become.
So who's right? Those who think Mr Corbyn will win or those who think - with the help of that membership freeze - he is vulnerable?
Professor Tim Bale is the author of Five Year Mission, an account of Ed Miliband's time as leader of the opposition. But his study of Labour members since the general election demonstrates how the rank and file has both expanded and moved leftwards.
He and his colleagues at London's Queen Mary University and at Sussex University have examined the views and the background of those party members who had joined before February this year - so it's pretty close to those who will be eligible to vote in the leadership contest.
With just a narrow 48-hour window - opening on Monday and closing on Wednesday - for supporters to sign up, Professor Bale's "subjects" are likely to form the bulk of the selectorate.
And his research suggests that Owen Smith is quite astute in badging himself as a left-wing anti-austerity candidate. Angela Eagle, too, has said she would lead the party from the left, though her longer track record in Parliament might become a liability rather than an asset these days.
Given that his findings suggest 95% of members believe that government public spending cuts have gone too far, 94% distrust big business, and 92% - in the words of the Levellers (the pop group not the Civil War radicals) - see wealth redistribution as the new solution, the candidates have little choice.
And while many in the parliamentary party are worried about a growing gap - on issues such as immigration and the EU - with supporters in what were once Labour heartlands in northern England, leadership candidates would probably be wise not to concentrate in the next couple of months on reflecting those concerns.
That's because the membership are strongly in favour of immigration. Asked to say - on a scale of one to seven - whether they thought immigration was good for the economy, the collective score was 5.74. Eight out of 10 wanted to remain in the EU, compared with a little more than six out of 10 Labour voters.
Their attitudes on other issues are overwhelmingly liberal - 84% back equal marriage, just one in five want tougher sentences for criminals.
And fewer than you might think live in some of the areas where Labour traditionally drew its support - nearly half of members (47%) live in London and southern England. Just over one in four - 28% - live in northern England.
Some 75% of members belonged to the social classes ABC1 - professional, managerial and skilled workers - and 57% have a degree.
As the party faces an influx of new members last summer to support Mr Corbyn, officials tried to weed out those who didn't share Labour values.
That was straightforward where an applicant had stood for a rival party against Labour, but it was far more difficult to become "thought police". So if a potential member had voted, rather than stood for a party to the left of Labour, who was to say that they hadn't just changed their mind?
Rather than widespread "entryism" from Trotskyists - though there clearly was some - Prof Bale has discovered that many of those signing up last year were defecting from the Greens.
Former Green Party voters now account for nearly one in 10 of Labour's members. The average age of members is 51, suggesting that many who perhaps previously left over Iraq or because of Tony Blair's rightward shift, have now rejoined.
Now, Mr Corbyn's opponents may portray themselves as not too far to his right, and argue strongly that the main factors dividing them from him aren't so much policies but competence, and an ability to reach out beyond a left-wing core.
However, the research suggests only one in five members value in a leader an ability to unite the party - only one in four are looking for strength and authority.
So can Jeremy Corbyn win the leadership a second time? It's likely that he will face a greater struggle, and he will be under greater scrutiny. But his supporters are likely to look at the make-up of the membership and declare "Jez He Can".
If, however, a legal challenge to force him to seek nominations from 51 MPs and MEPs succeeds, then that - not the selectorate - is far more likely to scupper his chances.
Hundreds of Syrians, some with gunshot wounds, have fled into Lebanon, according to reports.
At least four civilians were reportedly killed by security forces during house-to-house raids and at funerals held for those killed in Friday's rallies.
Dissidents plan a conference on Monday to discuss how to resolve the crisis.
Protests against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have gone on for more than three months. Activists say more than 1,300 demonstrators have been killed by security forces and government supporters.
The Damascus government says it is tackling armed groups.
The village of Najia, near the border with Turkey, is the latest to have Syrian army troops and tanks move in, activists say.
Najia is near the town of Jisr al-Shughour, where the government sent reinforcements earlier this month after saying 120 security personnel had been killed by gunmen.
The official Syrian news agency said the troops had completed their sweep of border villages without any shots being fired.
So far nearly 12,000 people from the region have fled into Turkey.
They show no sign of readiness to come back, despite promises from the Syrian authorities that the situation is stable and there will be no retribution.
Further south, near the border with Lebanon, activists said the town of Qusair was attacked by security forces and pro-regime militiamen after a big demonstration there on Friday.
They said tanks had moved in and many local people had been detained.
At least two civilians were shot dead during Saturday's funerals for victims killed on Friday in Kiswah, south of Damascus, Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP news agency.
He added that another two civilians were shot dead by security forces in Kassir, near the Lebanese border.
Residents in the Damascus neighbourhood of Barzeh say a number of people have been arrested there and a curfew imposed, following unrest after Friday prayers.
A Syrian with relatives in Barzeh told the BBC that one dead protester had been used for propaganda purposes by the Syrian security forces.
They had put a gun in his hand and filmed him so that he could be depicted as a gunman on state television, he said.
President Assad has blamed gunmen for the violence.
Scores of dissidents and intellectuals critical of the regime are planning to hold a conference in Damascus on Monday, for the first time since the uprising began in March.
They say the authorities have not banned the one-day gathering.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says that if the meeting goes ahead, it could be a sign of greater tolerance of dissent from a regime that says it is preparing comprehensive reforms.
President Assad ordered a general amnesty on Tuesday in a bid to quell the unrest, a day after offering a "national dialogue".
"Just the tiny thing of this place being here on the road reminds people that what is in their neighbourhood is completely abhorrent is enough for me."
Leona's cause is the removal of nuclear missiles from submarines based at the Faslane naval base on the Clyde.
She is one of just six permanent residents at the peace camp, which has been by the side of a road outside the west of Scotland base for 30 years.
However, she feels there is going to be a "resurgence" in the anti-nuclear movement.
"It has waned a lot in the past 10 to 15 years but I feel that young people are going to come on board with this, especially with the link to Scottish independence.
"Scotland has the potential to set the ball rolling for the world's nuclear disarmament. Hopefully we will see a lot more anti-nuclear faces around here."
The peace camp began as a protest against the Thatcher government's decision to purchase the Trident nuclear missile system but 30 years later the camp is still there - and so are the nuclear warheads.
It was set-up as a kind of Scottish version of Greenham Common and over the years it has evolved, putting down roots and installing the occasional comfort such as a couple of flushing toilets.
In the early days the support of the local district council saw protesters make a semi-permanent settlement by the side of the A814 near the naval base.
But the mood changed in the 90s when attempts were made to evict them.
There has been a tradition of anti-nuclear protest in Scotland since the early 1960s when the US Navy established a base for their submarines at Dunoon on the Holy Loch.
At the time the nuclear weapons system was Polaris but in the early 1980s, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced the UK government would be replacing that ageing missile system with the more powerful Trident.
Anti-nuclear protesters believed the government was going against what had been agreed in the non-proliferation treaty. So they set up the Faslane Peace Camp in the summer of 1982.
Brian Mackenzie, chairman of the Royal Naval Association in Scotland, who was in service on nuclear submarines, says anti-nuclear weapons was "a popular bandwagon to jump on at the time".
He says he believed nuclear weapons acted as a deterrent from attack by other countries.
But Louise Robertson, one of the founders, says the threat of "mutually assured destruction", with bombs being dropped by Russia, was very real at the time.
Jane Tallents, who lived at the peace camp between 1984 and 1990, says: "Things seemed so much more urgent in the 80s. The Cold War was at its height. People really feared we were going to end up in a nuclear war."
Jane went into hospital to have her son Sam on the same day the diggers moved into the Coulport armaments depot, a part of the Clyde naval base about eight miles from Faslane, to update the facilities for Trident.
Sam Jones, now 26, lived at the peace camp with his parents during his childhood.
Sam says: his parents tried to keep him away from the action when he was young but he did see them getting arrested on numerous occasions as they staged protests at the base.
He says: "That was obviously quite terrifying when I was a child but as I got older and learned more about why they were taking these drastic steps and why we didn't have much money because they were spending all their time campaigning against nuclear weapons."
By the age of 15, Sam was himself taking part in direct action against nuclear weapons.
Ms Tallents says she has been arrested more than 40 times over the years on various protests at the naval base.
One of the protesters, who wants to be known as Dave, who lived at the peace camp from 1995 to 1999, said he had been arrested at least 60 times.
He says: "The number of times you have been arrested was how you gained status. Going to prison was a cool thing."
Eric Thompson was commodore of the naval base in the mid-90s.
He says: "Our original security concerns were Russian special forces, for which we had a barbed wire fence.
"Then we started worrying about the IRA, so we had a double-barbed wire fence but it was actually the peace camp and political embarrassment which kept us on our toes."
He recalls one incident in which three peace campers managed to get into the base dressed as Santa Claus.
Mr Thompson says: "They got over three of our internal fences using ladders they had found and managed to get down to one or our submarines. They were actually in the sights of an armed Royal Marine guarding the jetty and he could have taken all three of them out but he decided shooting Santa Claus was not going to be a good idea."
Most of the residents at the peace camp had been involved in other protests but one of them, Craig McFarland, came from a very different background - he had been a soldier in the Scots Guards.
He says: "It was ideal really. I loved it. I was involved in a lot of actions but one I had taken on myself was swimming into the base. It was really easy actually. I swam over that bit of water and before you knew it there was a big nuclear submarine in front of me."
While McFarland left the military to join the peace camp, Dave made the opposite journey - joining the Territorial Army (TA).
He says: "Some people find it bizarre that I moved from the peace camp to join the TA. It does look, on the face of it, a bit of a jump. But I was never a pacifist even when I was a camper. You learn a lot of good things in the TA - self-discipline, fitness - and you get paid. The standard protest mentality is that all the military is bad. You are betraying the ideals of being a protester by joining the military. They were appalled by it."
Dave says a state of war developed between the council and the peace camp after the local government reorganisation in 1996.
Faslane became part of Argyll and Bute Council and their new councillors wanted the camp evicted.
Conflict with the council attracted a whole new breed of peace campers, he says.
He calls them "eviction junkies", who were looking for a battle. They built tree houses and tunnels and "lock-ons", everything was done to make it as difficult and expensive as possible to evict the campers.
Dave says he left the camp when he realised the council did not have the resources to evict them.
The decree to evict the peace camp still stands to this day.
George Freeman, an Independent councillor on Argyll and Bute Council, says: "We don't see the point in going to substantial costs and effort in trying to evict them when they could set up on the next grass verge and we would be no further forward.
"I don't think the public would be sympathetic to the council in spending potentially £150,000 to £200,000 for no real effect at the end of the day. The handful of people who live in the camp have no impact on the community or the workings of the base."
Mr Thomson, who is now a resident of nearby Helensburgh, says most people accepted the right to protest but many people in the town, which relies heavily on the base for employment, are in favour of basing the nuclear submarines there.
The Trident nuclear submarine system will need to be renewed in the next decade or so but a decision on whether to go ahead with committing billions of pounds to a new system has been put back by the UK government until after the next election in 2015.
Scotland's first minister Alex Salmond has pledged that an independent Scotland would be nuclear free.
BBC Radio Scotland - Gie's Peace is on Monday 28 May at 1405
The figure, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), was worse than expected and compared with a 0.9% increase seen in September.
Manufacturing output was 0.1% lower than in October a year ago.
On Monday a survey by industry body the EEF said UK manufacturing was suffering from the "gathering gloom" of the global economy.
The EEF cut its manufacturing forecasts, expecting a 0.1% fall in output this year, with 0.8% growth in 2016.
Despite the fall in October's figure, analysts said the underlying picture was not so bad.
"The fall in manufacturing output seen in October was weaker than the consensus forecast and left output marginally down on the level a year earlier," said Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY Item Club.
"This was the fifth consecutive month to see the sector contract on an annual basis. However, October's fall only reversed a minority of September's hefty 0.9% rise. And there appears to have been some erratic factors at work in pushing output down. For example, the repair and maintenance of aircraft saw a colossal 21.5% month-on-month contraction."
The ONS figures showed that the wider measure of industrial production increased by 0.1% in October from the month before, and was 1.7% higher from October last year.
These numbers showed three out of four sectors increasing, with mining and quarrying the best performer, growing by 8.5% from a year ago.
However, the ONS said the level of industrial production was still almost 9% below its pre-recession peak reached in early 2008, while manufacturing output was 6.1% below its peak.
The 72-year-old has led the judging panel since the programme started 12 years ago.
"This adventure began when I was 60 and now that I've reached my 70s, I've decided after this year it's time to hand the role of head judge to someone else," he said.
"I'm looking forward to my last series very much and to whatever comes next."
Goodman will be joined by fellow judges Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood for his final series, which begins in the autumn.
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will continue to present the BBC One series.
Speaking about his time on the programme, Goodman said: "In 2004, I was asked to take part in a brand new BBC Saturday night show and who would have thought me, old Len Goodman, would still be part of this amazing series more than 10 years on.
"It is an honour being part of the wonderful Strictly Come Dancing."
Charlotte Moore, director of content at the BBC, said: "I know we are all going to miss him tremendously, but I also know Len's final series is going to be full of unmissable moments and I hope audiences will give him the special send-off he so deserves."
It is not yet known whether he will continue to work on the US version of the show - Dancing with the Stars - which runs for two seasons each year.
Last August he announced he would be leaving the US show, and was absent for the winter 2015 season.
But three months later, he appeared to reverse his decision and returned to the programme for its spring run, which finished in May.
Bookmaker Coral has made Strictly dancer Anton Du Beke 2/1 favourite to replace Goodman on the panel.
Analysis - Lizo Mzimba, entertainment correspondent
Strictly Come Dancing rapidly became one of the BBC's biggest hits after its launch in 2004 - and its original head judge, Len Goodman, has been a stalwart on the show ever since.
He became a household name soon after the programme's debut, providing some much-needed balance between the comparatively grumpy Craig Revel Horwood and the excitable Bruno Tonioli.
Goodman's lovable demeanour helped him remain a constant on the show while other dancers, judges and presenters such as Sir Bruce Forsyth, Alesha Dixon and Arlene Phillips departed.
A feature called Len's Lens - where he would shine a spotlight on the detail of contestants' dances - also became a public favourite.
He will be remembered for his warm encouragement of even the most hopeless contestants, and, of course, the way he yelled "Se-VEN!" when awarding dancers seven points.
Strictly's head judge will no doubt be given a warm send-off from the new series when it concludes in December. His replacement will likely not be announced until next year.
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The prime minister said it was "shocking" to know people abroad were still being "threatened, tortured - even killed" because of their faith.
Labour's Mr Miliband wrote that people in the UK "must do everything we can" to condemn oppression, highlighting the plight of Christians in Syria and Iraq.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg condemned Thursday's killings in Kenya.
Some 148 people were killed as militant group al-Shabab attacked students at Garissa University.
As the pace of general election campaigning slowed on Easter Sunday, Mr Cameron published his Easter message on YouTube, highlighting the role of the Church at home.
The prime minister hailed the Church as a "living active force doing great works" for the poor and homeless and urged Britain to "feel proud to say this is a Christian country".
The Conservative leader, whose severely disabled son Ivan died in 2009, said that he knew "from the most difficult times in my own life, that the kindness of the Church can be a huge comfort".
And on the oppression of Christians, he said: "We have a duty to speak out about the persecution of Christians around the world too.
"It is truly shocking to know that in 2015, there are still Christians being threatened, tortured - even killed - because of their faith".
He added: "In the coming months, we must continue to speak as one voice for freedom of belief."
Mr Miliband, who published his message on Facebook, highlighted statistics from the International Society for Human Rights, which suggest Christians are the victims of 80% of acts of religious discrimination in the world.
The Labour leader wrote: "We must all do everything we can to speak out against this evil and work to alleviate the suffering of those who are persecuted simply for their creed."
He also praised church members and charities who "provide support and hope to those in need" in the UK.
He wrote: "In the months to come I hope that we will all stand up for justice, serve the most vulnerable and work to positively transform our communities together."
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, meanwhile, wrote on Twitter: "While politicians in the UK are busy on the campaign trail, we must not forget the cruel and barbaric killings that took place in Kenya."
He added: "The thoughts of people here are very much with the families and friends of the murdered students in Garissa University."
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The Great Run Company announced dietary supplement company Herbalife was their official nutrition partner last week.
But it has now said: "Having taken into account feedback, we have decided not to proceed with a partnership with Herbalife."
The supplement firm has been approached for comment.
The Newcastle to South Shields half marathon has had a number of sponsors and partners since it began in 1981.
Announcing the partnership with Herbalife, organisers said they were "delighted to welcome such an exciting and innovative brand on board".
But, last year, Herbalife was investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over whether it misled customers about the potential value of reselling its products.
In adverts, Herbalife suggested those who agreed to buy its products and become sales people could make a lot of money.
But, in July, the FTC said most "made little or no money" and some made losses.
"The incentives were to recruit more people who would then buy more product - whether or not there was a market to sell it," it said.
In July, the firm agreed to pay $200m (£150m) to settle the accusations.
The terms of the deal require Herbalife to reorganise its systems to reward retail sales more than recruitment.
In a statement made last year, the firm said it believed many of the FTC's allegations were "factually incorrect" but agreed to the settlement to avoid the "financial cost and distraction of protracted litigation".
Cataract operations carried out at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton in May left some with blurred vision.
The procedures were carried out on 62 people in a mobile unit by by private provider Vanguard Healthcare. Twenty-five of them had a "normal recovery".
Ophthalmology staff voiced concerns but operations continued, the report says.
The first operations happened on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the start of the month. The hospital had planned to operate on 400 people.
But by the Tuesday, some patients had come to back to the hospital complaining about their vision.
The report claims that three patients needed further surgery because of retention of lens matter, two suffered eye burns while six patients were found with microscopic metallic fragments in their eyes.
One told staff they were "shouted at" for moving, the report said.
Initial internal staff emails focused on a lack of follow-up arrangements for the patients and said it was unusual to have three patients complaining of problems.
The national average rate for complications in this type of surgery is 4.64%, but the report said the figure on patients sent to the mobile unit differed "10-fold" from this.
Ophthalmology staff also told managers in emails that "one a year would have been an issue".
Hospital managers decided to review all patients who had been operated on, but also gave the go-ahead for new surgeries to take place while previous patients were still being checked.
Source: NHS cataract surgery
These new operations then had to be stopped after staff assessing patients who had previously undergone procedures found some also had eye problems.
On the final day of surgery, there were seven operations despite the warnings over previous complications.
A statement from the hospital said: "The decision to allow surgery to go ahead on 9 May was taken following a number of teleconference conversations with all parties involved during that week."
But the hospital said that not everybody included in the email was in the hospital that day and "there was a delay in the email being seen".
"Surgery was stopped during the morning as a result of the email and feedback from the review clinic that was also being held at the same time," the statement added.
The report investigated whether surgical technique could have been to blame but said this could not "provide the whole explanation".
The Vanguard mobile unit was brought in to help lower waiting lists for the eye operations.
The firm's CEO, Ian Gillespie, said he wanted to "personally convey" his sympathy for any patients affected.
"The investigation does not identify any one cause, but instead points to a number of different factors which may have led to the complications experienced by patients," he said.
"No issues have been identified with the Vanguard mobile theatre facility itself; however there are clearly lessons to be learnt by all parties."
Musgrove Park Hospital had initially refused to release its internal report citing legal issues with its publication.
But it was released following a Freedom of Information Act request by the BBC.
The Mercedes drivers, with Rosberg 23 points ahead in their championship battle, were 0.323 seconds quicker than Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen beat Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel to third.
Jenson Button struggled for McLaren, in 16th, eight places and 0.413secs behind team-mate Fernando Alonso.
How Friday practice unfolded
The 2009 world champion was complaining that the car lacked balance and felt no different from the morning session, when he was unhappy with its feel.
Hamilton has five races left to try to claw back his deficit to Rosberg. He had hoped to start this weekend in the same fashion he conducted the last race in Malaysia, when he was demonstrably faster than Rosberg and was on his way to a comfortable victory until his engine failed late in the race.
Instead, Rosberg was fastest in both sessions, albeit by a small margin in the afternoon as clouds came over Suzuka.
"It's been a really good day with no problems on the car which is great," said Hamilton. "But there's still some work to be done overnight in order to find more pace.
"Hopefully we'll be going into Sunday in good shape."
Rain had been expected overnight and for qualifying but the forecasts are now less confident of that and the weather is uncertain, as it so often is on this eastern coast of Honshu, between mountains and Pacific Ocean.
Rain would enhance the chances of Red Bull mixing it with Mercedes in qualifying but the race-simulation runs later in the second session suggested that they could keep the world champions honest in the race as well.
Verstappen and team-mate Daniel Ricciardo matched Hamilton's lap-time average on the soft tyres that will be used in at least the first stint of the race.
Ricciardo, winner in Malaysia on Sunday, was only 12th as he did not complete a lap on his qualifying simulation run because it was interrupted for a virtual safety car period after Esteban Gutierrez's Haas stopped on track.
Ferrari's race pace was hard to judge because of off-set tyre choices. Raikkonen's headline lap time, set with a new front wing the team have brought to Japan, suggests they could be in the mix, although the Finn was complaining of a lack of front grip on his race run.
Force India looked to be comfortably the fourth quickest team, while Alonso's pace in eighth suggests McLaren should again be able to get at least one car into the top 10.
It was a relatively incident-free session, with no crashes, although Renault's Kevin Magnussen, Williams' Felipe Massa and Sauber's Felipe Nasr all ran wide before rejoining.
Japanese Grand Prix second practice results
Japanese Grand Prix coverage details
The allegations stem from an undercover report on the TV show Le Iene, in which an anonymous employee explained how tickets made their way onto such sites.
The MD of Live Nation Italy, Roberto De Luca, then admitted to the practice.
He said "a very limited number" of tickets were sold in this manner.
De Luca initially denied the reports but, when interviewed by journalist Matteo Viviani, retracted that statement.
"I want to be clear that, to your question if Live Nation issued tickets on secondary sites and I answered no… In fact we issue some tickets, a very limited number of tickets on other sites, in this case Viagogo.
"But I must make clear that Live Nation sells around two million tickets every year and the tickets that we issue on the secondary sites are equal to 0.20% of our tickets sales. We are not talking about tens of thousands of tickets, but hundreds of tickets for a concert."
The investigation was prompted by a Coldplay concert in Milan, where hundreds of tickets appeared on secondary sites within minutes of going on sale, often at inflated prices. The band were not implicated in the report, however.
Viviani stated that the show had tracked the journey of a ticket for a separate gig as its price increased from 50 euro (£43) to 1,050 euro (£911), using testimony from an employee of one of the companies and various documents, invoices and contracts obtained via an anonymous source.
Since the programme was broadcast last week, several Italian artists have cut ties with Live Nation.
Management firm Giamaica, which looks after one of Italy's most famous artists, Vasco Rossi, said it had "suspended all trading relations with Live Nation" and may consider legal action against the company.
Italian consumer organisation Codacons has also submitted a complaint to the public prosecutor of Milan against Live Nation Italy.
Politicians have also tabled an amendment to Italy's budget law, which would curb the activities of secondary ticketing websites.
Culture minister Dario Franceschini said in a statement that the practice is "an intolerable phenomenon and recent events show that self-regulation is not enough".
In a statement to trade publication Music Week, Live Nation sought to clarify the reports emerging from Italy.
"Live Nation Italy would like to make it clear that the allegations in Le lene relate to a small number of tickets for a handful of international artists," the company said. "Live Nation Italy has never been asked to list any tickets on secondary markets by Italian artists."
In the UK, a special meeting of the House of Commons Select Committee will discuss the secondary ticketing market on Tuesday morning.
The FanFair Alliance, which lobbies on behalf of artists for stronger regulation of the market, urged politicians in the UK to take note of Italy's stance.
"The situation in Italy has become a national scandal, and it appears the Italian government is now prepared to take action to protect fans and recalibrate the market," they said in a statement to the BBC. "That's to be applauded and... you can only hope that UK politicians are taking note.
"We feel the UK's ticket resale market is similarly out of control and will be repeating our call for the urgent enforcement of existing consumer law to flush out such bad practice and make ticket resale far more transparent, as well as measures to disarm and disrupt the online touts."
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The ceremony at the city's Hampden Park was watched by a peak audience of 7.7m, according to overnight figures.
Proceedings saw Glasgow officially end its tenure as host city and hand over to Australia's Gold Coast for 2018.
Scottish stars Lulu and Deacon Blue also performed in a party atmosphere which gathered all athletes together.
BBC One easily captured the lion's share of the TV audience on Sunday night, with 36% of viewers watching the ceremony from Glasgow at one point.
The live broadcast which lasted more than two hours and included a seven-song set from Minogue.
Her performance was briefly interrupted by Australian athlete Genevieve LaCaze, who danced on stage before being ushered away by security staff.
However, the audience substantially slid towards the end of the programme at 2300 BST, with five million people staying until the close.
The late evening news bulletin, which followed the conclusion of the games, pulled in 3.3 million viewers.
Other performers during the evening included Australian singer Jessica Mauboy, leading a segment which sang the praises of the Gold Coast, which will host the next games in four years' time.
Earlier this year, Mauboy performed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen to honour Australia's association with the event.
The gala also involved the participation of more than 2,000 volunteer performers.
The Commonwealth Games opening ceremony on 23 July was a bigger TV draw, bringing in an average 7.6 million viewers and peaking at 9.3 million.
Meanwhile, Saturday night's coverage of the games, featuring Usain Bolt in the 100 metres relay and Tom Daley claiming gold in the diving, had a detrimental effect on ITV's usually robust schedule.
More than eight million viewers tuned into the action from Glasgow on BBC One, while Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith on ITV drew in a little over one million.
There are hopes of creating 500 new jobs over the next five years.
The Wales Co-operative Centre will operate the Social Business Wales project, backed by £6m in EU funding and £5m from the Welsh government.
It says social businesses "often fill the gaps the private sector won't consider and the public sector can't support".
Social enterprises include ventures set up with a community focus and have a strong presence in deprived areas.
Nearly a third operate in the health and social care sector, and similarly in culture and leisure.
The project aims to help 500 businesses, including co-operatives, worker-owned companies and social enterprises.
It will also help charities take forward commercial ideas.
The investment comes at a time when more than two thirds of Welsh social businesses expect to increase their turnover in the next two to three years.
Finance Minister Jane Hutt said: "The social business sector plays an important role in supporting local economies, particularly in disadvantaged areas."
Chief executive of the Wales Co-operative Centre Derek Walker added: "We believe that social businesses have great potential for further growth in Wales."
CASE STUDY: 'WE KNEW WE WERE DOING SOME GOOD'
The project announcement is being made at the Digital Accessibility Centre (DAC) - a social business in Neath.
It works with firms and organisations to make sure websites, apps and other digital media are accessible to people with visual and mobility impairments, dyslexia and learning disabilities.
The business provides work for people with disabilities and has a client list which includes Fujitsu, Santander and Channel 4.
How long has DAC has been going and how many people work there? Gavin Evans, director of operations: We have been operating for nearly four and a half years and have 21 employed staff and four volunteers at present.
Explain what a social business is - how does it differ in how you are set up and operate? My understanding of a social business is that the organisation requires investment in order to have some form of social gain. We have commercial and social missions and goals, the social impact being the big focus. We reinvest 100% our profits back into the business, as we operate on a not-for-profit basis. We initially placed all the investment in ourselves, and had some small amounts of funding for computer equipment from Welsh funding organisations.
We operate on a commercial basis, we sell our services. However, with investment and a good business plan, we can do a whole lot of more social good.
Any advice for someone thinking of setting up a social enterprise? I think the key advice to offer is to have belief and confidence in what you are doing. When Cam (other co-founder and director) and myself set up the company, the first few months were extremely difficult. But we knew we had a good model and, after all, we knew we were doing some good. I think that is key really, to know that there is a socially-beneficial goal at the end of it, and believe in what you are doing will benefit the wider community. DAC does this by ensuring other organisations' digital products are accessible to everyone. However, we also provide sustainable employment for individuals with disabilities. So there are two key drivers for us really.
The service was evacuated following the stoppage at about 17:30 BST, with those on board transferred to a rescue train.
Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said between 400 and 500 people were affected after a "technical incident" forced the train to stop mid-tunnel.
The rescue train had to first travel back to Calais before going to the UK.
The failed train was towed back to Folkestone with the passengers' cars and belongings on board.
Eurotunnel said at 23:25 that "all trains have now arrived" and apologised for the delays..
Passenger Aggie Anim told BBC South East that after the train stopped "it was very hot, and we were all concerned about the oxygen".
She later tweeted: "The emergency train is moving!! People cheering... But wait we are heading back to France?! Booo Eurotunnel stuck."
She said staff on board the broken down train had been "very friendly and communicative".
In a statement on its website, Eurotunnel said services were currently operating with some timetable disruption.
It said there was a waiting time of about two hours at its terminals in Calais and Folkestone.
Victoria Gayle, 32, pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to preventing the lawful and decent burial of a body.
The offence, which relates to a son born in 2004, only came to light after the death of Gayle's young daughter last year.
Investigations are under way into possible failings by the police and local authorities.
There is no record of any official agency having seen Gayle's son after he left hospital with her in February 2004, the BBC understands.
He is thought to have died when he was 10 to 15 months old.
On 31 May this year homicide detectives found a boy's skeleton at the home of Gayle's parents in West Hendon, north London.
The body had been placed in a box and wrapped up.
Gayle had been arrested a day earlier on suspicion of murder.
Following the discovery of the body, detectives re-arrested Gayle on suspicion of preventing a lawful and decent burial.
An investigation had started following a case review after the death of Gayle's two-year-old daughter in 2015.
She had died after swallowing a battery at the home of Gayle's parents.
The BBC understands that, over several years, Gayle told official agencies that her son had moved away, but that the agencies failed to establish whether or not this was true.
During court proceedings in 2014 Gayle had provided a statement that said her son had gone away with his traveller father.
But her son had already died and his father was not a traveller.
Tests, which are attempting to show how the baby died, are ongoing.
Three other people arrested in connection with the investigation remain on police bail.
Gayle has pleaded not guilty to two counts - perjury and perverting the course of justice - which have been left to lie on file.
In a statement, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it was directing an investigation by the Met's Directorate of Professional Standards.
"The IPCC investigation is to establish what interaction, if any, officers from the MPS [Metropolitan Police Service] had with the family of the child and whether there were any missed opportunities, either before or after the death."
A serious case review, which started in October, is looking at the circumstances relating to both deaths.
A Barnet Council spokesperson said: "The death of any child is tragic and we are working with Barnet Safeguarding Children's Board to provide information for their Serious Case Review and to establish any learning from our involvement with the family."
Gayle was bailed ahead of sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on 3 February 2017.
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Patients who had eye operations at a hospital where staff raised concerns about the procedures said they suffered pain and felt rushed, a report claims.
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Nico Rosberg edged title rival Lewis Hamilton by just 0.072 seconds to set the pace in second practice at the Japanese Grand Prix.
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Calls have been made for the secondary ticketing market to be curtailed in Italy, after concert promoters Live Nation admitted giving tickets directly to the resale website Viagogo.
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The closing gala of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, which featured a set by Kylie Minogue, was watched by an average of 6.8m viewers.
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A £11m programme to help increase the number of small social enterprises and co-operatives is launched later.
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Hundreds of Eurotunnel passengers were stuck inside the Channel Tunnel when a train travelling from Calais to Folkestone broke down.
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A mother has admitted covering up the death of her child for 12 years.
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NI Parents for Change was started by the mothers of three children at Hill Croft Special School in Newtownabbey.
It began after a playpark opened in the area with only one item, a roundabout, that a child in a wheelchair could use.
The lack of proper changing facilities is another concern being highlighted.
The group's Morag Mullan, whose seven-year-old son Luke uses a wheelchair, said that while there were changing facilities for babies as well as disabled toilets, these did not cater for older children who cannot stand.
"We have had to lie our children on the floor in a toilet to change them," she said.
"There's no dignity for kids in that, or for their adults.
"It's just getting harder and harder to find places we can actually take our kids to where we don't feel ostracised, because you're walking round thinking there's nothing here, he needs to the toilet, there's nowhere to go, so what do we do, do we stay at home?
"I know legislation says that they have to provide a disabled toilet, but they're not providing any facilities for disabled people."
Mrs Mullan said that the nearest playpark to her where every apparatus is accessible for wheelchair users is in Portstewart - 50 miles away. It includes a swing adapted for children in wheelchairs.
"You can't say 'let's go to the park and we'll go to Portstewart today', it's just not feasible," she said.
"The day that we were there, the amount of people that came to watch him [Luke] on that swing, they just thought it was absolutely fantastic."
Mrs Mullan said the lack of facilities in Northern Ireland contrasted with other countries she had visited, including the United States and Spain, which provided for disabled children.
She and her husband had raised the issue with local politicians, but nothing had been done, she said.
"It just seems like disability - push it under the table and people will forget about it," she said.
"But you just never know when it's going to come knocking on your own door, people don't have to be born disabled, it can happen any time in life."
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Osama Bin Laden and his most senior lieutenants had been killed, and the peaceful uprisings of the Arab Spring seemed to be ushering in a new era of freedom and democracy in which al-Qaeda and its jihadist terrorism looked outdated - if not anachronistic.
Journalists, academics, and even senior policymakers were ready to move on. Talk about the "strategic defeat", "decline", and "fall" of al-Qaeda was common.
By the end of 2014, it is no longer al-Qaeda or jihadism that look outdated but the predictions of their imminent demise.
Far from nearing defeat, jihadist groups everywhere have regrouped and taken advantage of new conflicts and instability - often in the very countries that saw popular uprisings during 2011.
The most spectacular newcomer is Islamic State, a group that has declared the creation of a caliphate, holds territory from the Syrian city of Aleppo to the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and has rivalled - if not replaced - al-Qaeda as the leader of global jihadism.
Over the past three months, I helped the BBC produce a global snapshot of this phenomenon. Our aim was to record all the reported deaths that were caused by jihadist violence during the month of November.
This task was made possible by combining the vast intellectual, journalistic and professional resources of the BBC World Service, BBC Monitoring, and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College London.
The findings are both important and disturbing.
In the course of November, jihadists carried out 664 attacks, killing 5,042 people - many more than, for instance, the number of people who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks.
While comparisons to earlier periods are difficult, the overall picture is that of an increasingly ambitious, complex, sophisticated and far-reaching movement:
The project tells the story of a movement in the middle of a profound transformation - one whose final outcome is impossible to predict.
Our immediate focus, however, was the terrible human cost: with, on average, more than 20 attacks and nearly 170 deaths per day, jihadist groups destroy countless lives - most of them Muslim - in the name of an ideology that the vast majority of Muslims reject.
If anything, this highlights the movement's scale and ambition, but also the long-term political, social, ideological, and military commitment that will be needed to counter it.
Peter R Neumann is Professor of Security Studies at King's College London and directs the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR). He served as the BBC's principal academic adviser for the Jihad: Counting the Cost project.
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Former England Under-21 international Morrison is training with the Latics.
It is the latest attempt to kick-start the troubled career of a player rated as one of the best to emerge at Manchester United since Paul Scholes.
Joyce said: "If you asked Paul Pogba to name the best he has played with, Ravel Morrison would be up there with them."
The 23-year-old has left Italian side Lazio after making just eight appearances in 18 months.
It is the latest chapter in a career that has failed to ignite in the same way as that of Pogba and Jesse Lingard, who were part of the same 2011 FA Youth Cup-winning team.
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Morrison's ability has never been in question.
Lee Clark, who managed Morrison at Birmingham - one of his six clubs and where he made most appearances, 30 - described him as the best English player since Paul Gascoigne.
His attitude has been questioned though.
His boss at United, Sir Alex Ferguson, excused a number of misdemeanours before eventually losing patience and releasing him in January 2012
Sam Allardyce, who worked with the player at West Ham, suggested Morrison was not prepared to play through pain.
But the major issues have been away from the pitch.
When he was 16, Morrison was a passenger in a car that was stopped by police and found to contain drugs and guns in the boot.
In 2008, he was cautioned for common assault.
He pleaded guilty to witness intimidation in February 2011 and was fined £600 three months later for throwing his girlfriend's phone through an open window during an argument.
Wigan manager Joyce was Morrison's manager for Manchester United's reserve team from 2010 until the player left for West Ham in 2012.
Latics coach Paul McGuinness was in charge of the Under-18 side including Pogba that beat Sheffield United 6-3 on aggregate to win the Youth Cup, with Morrison scoring two crucial goals in the second leg.
Between them, the pair hope to get Morrison back to the player his early promise suggested he would become.
"It is a long shot on his fitness but we have nothing to lose," said Joyce.
"He was one of the stars of a team that included Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard and Will Keane. Talent-wise he is an X-million pound player, among the very best I have worked with.
"Some of the things he can do with a ball are phenomenal really. His balance and the way he glides around players is something a coach would be deluded if they claimed to have helped.
"Unfortunately, outside influences gave him guidance for their own ends.
"I am trying to help him get his career back on track.
"But it has to be on a timescale that is going to help us now, not in four months' time."
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Ricky Miller's calm one-on-one finish seemed set to earn Dover a shock replay victory over their League Two visitors.
However, Mark Roberts shot home in the 90th minute to force the extra period.
A stunning Aswad Thomas volley restored the hosts' lead, but Leon Legge levelled and late goals by Medy Elito and Ben Williamson sealed victory.
Defender Legge converted a Roberts cross with 10 minutes remaining to make it 2-2 and, after Elito fired in a third away goal, Williamson's solo effort sealed a second-round tie against Coventry in the 121st minute of a pulsating match.
Match ends, Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 4.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 4.
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 4. Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Uche Ikpeazu.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Josh Coulson replaces Piero Mingoia.
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 3. Medy Elito (Cambridge United) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamie Grimes (Dover Athletic).
Attempt saved. Mitchell Pinnock (Dover Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
James Dunne (Cambridge United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by James Dunne (Cambridge United).
Loui Fazackerley (Dover Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United).
Sam Magri (Dover Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ricky Modeste (Dover Athletic) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Ross Lafayette.
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 2. Leon Legge (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Mark Roberts with a cross.
Corner, Cambridge United. Conceded by Richard Orlu.
Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sam Magri (Dover Athletic).
Attempt missed. Ross Lafayette (Dover Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Mitchell Walker.
Attempt saved. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Piero Mingoia.
Second Half Extra Time begins Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 1.
First Half Extra Time ends, Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 1.
Attempt missed. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by James Dunne.
Foul by Brad Halliday (Cambridge United).
Ricky Modeste (Dover Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Cambridge United. Blair Adams replaces Greg Taylor because of an injury.
Goal! Dover Athletic 2, Cambridge United 1. Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner following a corner.
Corner, Dover Athletic. Conceded by Piero Mingoia.
Attempt saved. Uche Ikpeazu (Cambridge United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Greg Taylor.
Attempt blocked. Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ross Lafayette.
Attempt missed. Loui Fazackerley (Dover Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Ross Lafayette (Dover Athletic) header from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Mitchell Pinnock.
Attempt missed. Luke Berry (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Piero Mingoia with a cross.
Attempt missed. Leon Legge (Cambridge United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Piero Mingoia with a cross.
Hand ball by Aswad Thomas (Dover Athletic).
Ben Williamson (Cambridge United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Loui Fazackerley (Dover Athletic).
Corner, Dover Athletic. Conceded by Greg Taylor.
Foul by Leon Legge (Cambridge United).
The former Leeds United and Rotherham boss has been seeking assurances over the club's close-season transfer policy before committing to a new deal.
Warnock, 68, whose contract ends in the summer, had a meeting with Bluebirds chairman Mehmet Dalman on Monday.
A source at the Championship club has told BBC Wales Sport "progress" was made during the informal discussions.
Cardiff were in the relegation zone when Warnock took over in October, but have moved up to 12th after three successive victories.
Before Saturday's 5-0 win over Rotherham, Dalman told BBC Wales Sport he was confident of keeping Warnock.
Owner Vincent Tan will have to consider Financial Fair Play regulations when agreeing to make funds summer available in the summer.
Providing Tan gives the go-ahead, the club hierarchy will be keen to reach a new agreement with Warnock as soon as possible.
The so-called black route would cut across the site and Associated British Ports warned the height of the carriageway would be too low for the biggest ships to get in and out.
Newport, the UK's second biggest steel-handling port, supports 3,000 jobs.
The aim of the relief road is to speed up journeys for commuters and ease congestion.
The proposals - first put forward 25 years ago - are for a 15-mile (24km) motorway and six-lane bridge over the River Usk to ease problems from the bottleneck at the Brynglas tunnels.
Bodies such as CBI Wales are impatient for work to start, with its chairman saying the congestion on the motorway into south Wales would "embarrass" the Victorians.
A Welsh Government study this year described what it said were some of the benefits:
The overall assessment of the project said the benefits outweighed the costs by three to one, with the road "expected to improve perceptions of south Wales as a place to visit and do business and stimulate new investment".
But ABP said its Newport operation was worth £186m a year to the local economy and the black route - to be built across a 25m (82ft) high flyover over the River Usk and the docks - could put a dent in that.
Matthew Kennerley, ABP director for south Wales, said it "effectively cuts the port in two".
"It would take more than 80 acres of land from us - about 20% of the space we've got to handle current business and where we want to further develop in the future.
"The motorway would come in through the centre of the port at a height of 25m, that means the ships entering the north dock would be restricted in their air draught - so about 50% of the vessels would not be able to go there in the future."
ABP are officially objecting to the compulsory purchase of about 87 acres of land to make way for the project.
The company said it believed viable alternatives to the black route exist and a compromise was still possible.
The deadline for objections is on Tuesday.
ABP said it would need a "significant" increase in the height of the motorway so it could operate, with not only ships but movement of cranes and other plant affected.
The port handles 1.75 million tonnes of materials a year ranging from timber to animal feed.
Mr Kennerley said it was not about compensation but having a port that was flexible and the company had suggested an alternative crossing point for the motorway, slightly further north, with no luck.
M4 RELIEF ROAD - WHICH WAY FOR THE PARTIES?
Up-for-sale Vale, who still have an outside chance of reaching the League One play-offs, currently have only nine contracted players for next term.
Dickinson, one of those whose deals expire this summer, told BBC Radio Stoke that the players would be difficult to replace.
"We work hard for each other. Sometimes that's hard to find," said Dickinson.
"We have to keep this nucleus together. If something can get sorted, that would be brilliant.
"Everyone's fighting for their future," added former Stoke City defender Dickinson, who joined Vale from Watford in 2013, initially on a one-year deal, prior to signing a two-year contract the following summer.
"I don't want to be in limbo. It's horrible. I've got a wife and kids to think about."
Vale chairman Norman Smurthwaite has already warned that the club's budget may have to be cut by a further £800,000.
Playing as a wing-back in a new 3-5-2 formation at Gillingham on Saturday, Dickinson scored the second goal in Vale's 2-0 away win.
Coming after the 3-0 win which relegated neighbours Crewe, Vale are now back up to 11th, six points behind sixth-placed Gillingham.
And Dickinson believes those successive victories, which followed a damaging run of just one point in four matches, shows Vale are still firing on full cylinders.
"Everyone's fighting for it. I've heard it being said that we're already on our holidays, and that's rubbish," he said.
Top scorer AJ Leitch-Smith notched his 10th league goal of the season in Saturday's win at the Priestfield Stadium.
"It was a fantastic goal," added Dickinson. "It shows what he brings us. And his work-rate goes unsung too."
BT chairman Sir Mike Rake told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Openreach would also be handed more power to make investment decisions.
Competitors have accused BT of not investing enough in Openreach, which runs its phone and broadband network.
Ofcom will report on Tuesday on how Openreach ought to be run.
Sir Mike said: "We are absolutely willing to form an Openreach board, that will have an independent chairman and a majority of independent directors."
When asked about the company's customer service record, he said, "Our customer service is not good enough yet," but that improvements, including bringing more customer service to the UK, were in progress.
In May, BT outlined plans to invest £6bn over the next three years in faster broadband and mobile services.
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, Vodafone and TalkTalk have all suggested Openreach should be separated from BT.
On average, UK households received speeds of 29Mbps last year, according to regulator Ofcom.
Flames leapt several storeys high above the Interstate 85 highway before the collapse at 19:30 local time (23:30 GMT), reports said.
Residents said they thought the sun had set early or a storm had arrived because of the thick black smoke.
No one was injured and no cars were on the overpass when it fell.
Police stopped traffic and turned cars away from the highway bridge just minutes before it collapsed, according to Atlanta Fire Department spokesman Sergeant Cortez Stafford.
The fire caused widespread traffic jams and road closures, stranding many motorists for hours.
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in Fulton County, which covers most of the Atlanta area.
It is unclear what caused the fire beneath the overpass, but the governor told reporters the fire appeared to be fuelled by a large pile of PVC piping stored under the structure.
Georgia Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry said the fire began in an area "as a storage location for construction materials, equipment and supplies. The site was a secured area containing materials such as PVC piping, which is a stable, non-combustible material".
Airport firefighters were called in to spray foam typically used in airline crashes on to the flames.
Atlanta police told residents not to drive in order to keep roads clear for emergency services.
Government offices in Atlanta were set to open late on Friday to give people extra time to travel to work.
The interstate is a major thoroughfare in Atlanta, carrying up to 250,000 vehicles per day. It is unclear when it will be reopened.
Army spokesman Maj Gen Wuryanto said the halt came into force in December and a broad range of activities were affected, including joint training.
Australian Defence officials confirmed Indonesia had halted all defence co-operation over "teaching materials".
Bilateral relations have been tense at times in recent years, although there were recent signs of improvement.
"All forms of co-operation with the Australian military, including joint training, have been temporarily withheld. I hope it can be resolved as soon as possible," Maj Gen Wuryanto said.
Australia's Defence Minister Marise Payne said later in a statement: "Late last year concerns were raised by an Indonesian TNI (Indonesian National Armed Forces) officer about some teaching materials and remarks at an Army language training facility in Australia."
"The Australian Army has looked into the serious concerns that were raised and the investigation into the incident is being finalised."
'Offensive material'
Indonesian special forces group Kopassus trains with the Special Air Service in Perth, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC).
An Indonesian newspaper, Kompas, reported that a Kopassus instructor had found "laminated material" at the training facility which he considered to be offensive to the Indonesia's founding principle of Pancasila.
When asked about this, Maj Gen Wuryanto said there were many reasons for the suspension, without giving further details.
The countries' navies had been expected to take part in multinational training exercises next month.
"Whether or not we will continue with the joint exercise, I will have to get back to you on that," First Admiral Jonias Mozes Sipasulta, from the Indonesian navy, told the ABC.
Australia has stopped conducting joint training exercises with the Kopassus before, after accusations of abuses by the unit in East Timor in 1999 in the lead-up to the former Indonesian territory's independence.
The co-operation resumed in 2006 amid a renewed focus on counterterrorism after two Bali nightclubs were bombed in 2002, killing 202 people including 88 Australians.
In addition to the 2013 allegations of Australian spying, ties were also strained in 2015 following Indonesia's executions of Australian drug smugglers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, and its criticism of Australia's border protection policy.
In December 2015, the nations signed a "memorandum of understanding" after Indonesia arrested nine people over an alleged terror threat following a tip-off that reportedly came from Australian Federal Police.
In September last year, the first joint training exercise on Australian soil since 1995 was staged in the northern city of Darwin.
In November, the nations flagged the prospect of joint military patrols in the South China Sea - something Australia already does with the US and India.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said at the time that maritime co-operation between the nations was strong and included training and personnel exchanges.
The 35-year-old Swiss has not played since a Wimbledon semi-final defeat by Milos Raonic in late July.
World number two Serena Williams has also withdrawn from the IPTL.
This year's tournament features one fewer team than last year, and has been undermined by financial difficulties.
Federer, a 17-time Grand Slam champion, is expected to be fit for January's Australian Open.
"We have had challenges this year, and we were hoping to get past them," said IPTL founder Mahesh Bhupathi.
"With the current economic climate in India and the uncertainty of spending money, I reached out to both Roger and Serena to explain the situation."
Now in its third year, the IPTL is a team competition featuring four city franchises - Indian Aces, Japan Warriors, Singapore Slammers and UAE Royals.
Teams face each other in fixtures in Tokyo, Singapore and Hyderabad from 2-11 December.
There are seven players in each team, with each fixture played over five sets comprised of a men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles match before a 'past champions' singles, featuring iconic players.
Kei Nishikori, Tomas Berdych and Nick Kyrgios are the only top-20 singles players involved this year, while 'past champions' include Mark Philippoussis and Goran Ivanisevic.
World number one Andy Murray played in the 2014 and 2015 tournaments.
She was taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary at 03:16 GMT and is said to be in a critical but stable condition.
Northumbria Police investigating what the drugs were and where they were bought have closed the Happy Chippy on Waterloo Street.
Three men aged 17, 26 and 38, have been arrested on suspicion of drugs offences.
Detectives have asked anyone with information to contact Northumbria Police or Crimestoppers.
The world number one and defending champion, 30, plays 24th seed Querrey on Centre Court at 13:00 BST.
Murray expects his return to be tested against the serving prowess of Querrey, 29, having beaten four unorthodox opponents on his way to the last eight.
Roger Federer, 35, plays Milos Raonic in the second match on Centre Court.
The Swiss seven-time champion, seeded third, lost to Canadian sixth seed Raonic in last year's semi-final but has looked in imperious form so far this year.
On Court One, Serbia's three-time winner Novak Djokovic plays Czech 11th seed Tomas Berdych, after Croatia's seventh seed Marin Cilic plays 16th seed Gilles Muller of Luxembourg, conqueror of world number two Rafael Nadal in round four.
After rain disrupted play on Tuesday, Wednesday's weather is forecast to be dry, overcast and cool, at about 21C.
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After overcoming the unpredictable talents of Alexander Bublik, Dustin Brown, Fabio Fognini and Benoit Paire to reach the quarter-finals, Murray faces a much clearer task against the 6ft 6in Querrey.
The 29-year-old from California is second in the aces chart with 99 and a fastest serve of 137mph.
However, Murray has won more points at the net as he has been sent scurrying all over Centre Court in his first four matches, testing out the sore hip that disrupted his build-up.
"Like I said at the beginning of the tournament, I'll be able to get through seven matches if that's what I have to do," the Scot said after his win over Benoit Paire on Monday.
"Obviously I want to try to get to the final. I've done a good job so far here."
Murray has won seven of their eight previous matches for the loss of just two sets, but Querrey has played his best tennis at Wimbledon over the past two years.
The American upset then world number one Djokovic in the third round last year on his way to a first Grand Slam quarter-final, and has matched that feat 12 months on.
"He obviously likes the conditions here," said Murray. "He played really well last year.
"I maybe played one or two service games in the first set [against Paire] that weren't the best. Against Querrey, you can't really afford that. He's not an easy guy to break.
"When he's standing up on the baseline, hitting forehands, dictating, he's a very dangerous player."
Querrey knows what to expect from Murray, who has an excellent record against big servers and will play his 10th consecutive Wimbledon quarter-final.
"I haven't really learned anything [from previous matches]," said Querrey.
"He makes a ton of balls. He plays great defence. Who doesn't know that? I have to try to beat him playing my game."
Yet to drop a set and with just two losses to his name in 2017, Federer is the favourite to reclaim the title he last won in 2012.
Twelve months ago, he lost to Raonic in a five-set semi-final that proved to be his final match of 2016, before he took an extended break to let his injured knee heal properly.
It worked better than anyone could have imagined as the 35-year-old returned at the start of the year to win his 18th major title in Australia, and is still riding that wave of confidence.
Raonic, 26, is not quite in the form of last year but remains a fearsome opponent on grass, with a fastest serve so far of 142mph.
"To beat a big server is a different kind of match," said Federer. "It's more of a penalty shootout.
"On the return I've got to keep going for it, keep staying aggressive. Positive attitude. I do believe good things can happen."
Djokovic, 30, returns to action for the second day in a row after his fourth-round match against Adrian Mannarino was delayed by rain, but the Serb won in three comfortable sets on Tuesday.
Berdych, 31, has impressed in reaching his first Grand Slam quarter-final for a year but is on the wrong end of a crushing 25-2 career record against Djokovic, having lost the last 12.
"For me, it's important to start off well," said Djokovic. "I've played him many times. I know what I need to do. Hopefully I can execute that."
The opening match on Court One will see a clash of two of the best grass-courters, with Muller hoping to build on his win over Nadal and Cilic through to a fourth straight Wimbledon quarter-final.
"I played Marin not too long ago at the Queen's Club in the semi-finals," said Muller, 34.
"I lost to him in three tough sets. Obviously he's playing good."
OHB System of Bremen and SSTL of Guildford have so far produced all of the fully operational satellites in the constellation.
This latest batch - assuming no launch failures - would take Galileo to the status of a full network with spares.
The deal will be done here at the Paris Air Show.
OHB, as prime contractor, will sign the paperwork with the European Space Agency. Esa acts as the technical and procurement agent for the European Commission, which owns Galileo.
So far, so good. But then comes the thorny issue of Brexit.
It is highly unlikely that SSTL, which assembles the timing and navigation payloads on the spacecraft at its Surrey factory, will have completed its share of the production effort by Friday 29 March, 2019 - the date for Britain's withdrawal from the EU.
That's problematic because there are restrictions on "third countries" working on classified EU information and technologies - which Galileo incorporates, specifically in the form of PRS.
Short for Public Regulated Service, this is a restricted, robust and high-precision signal that Galileo satellites will be transmitting to be used by government agencies.
In short, unless some way can be found to surmount the third country matter, it will become "illegal" for this classified work to continue in Guildford. Other work could, but not PRS.
You might ask therefore why SSTL was given the work as part of the OHB-led consortium knowing that Brexit is on the horizon? But the UK remains a member of the EU until it leaves, and as such its companies must be treated no differently than any other European firm in a tender process.
To display any bias would invite a legal challenge that has only one outcome. OHB-SSTL won the satellites fair and square.
Europe's Galileo system under construction
So, the pair of them, Esa, the European Commission and the UK government now have just over a year and a half to figure this one out.
For their part, British ministers seem very keen to keep the country inside the Galileo programme.
Continued collaboration on major science, research and technology initiatives was stated as one of the guiding principles in the Brexit White Paper last year. Galileo was named as an example.
No wonder. Satellites were recently touted as one of the "eight great technologies" that could help rebalance a services-heavy economy and deliver strong growth. Indeed, the UK space sector has outperformed the economy as a whole for quite some time now.
Esa and the Commission likewise are loath to lose the services of SSTL, which now has unrivalled expertise in what it does. Dropping SSTL on Brexit day would bring programmatic delay, as well as increased risk and cost to Galileo. And remember, this is a project that is already many years behind schedule and substantially beyond the budget originally envisaged for it.
The incentives are there on all sides to make something happen, but what?
As for so much that's related to Brexit, the clock is ticking.
The obvious solution is that the Commission and the UK reach an early deal or some transitional arrangement that allows the German-UK consortium to continue as before, moving components and people seamlessly between them across the Channel. But there is no guarantee at this stage that such an outcome will arrive in time.
Some creative solutions have been floated, such as SSTL setting up a subsidiary in an EU-27 member state (perhaps down the road from OHB in Bremen) to conduct sensitive work there; or for it to use its parent company in some way. This is the pan-European aerospace giant Airbus.
However, this may not be so straightforward either, not least because in some EU countries only their nationals are permitted to work on classified technologies. This could still frustrate the Guildford team in doing its job.
For everyone's sake, a satisfactory outcome must be found.
Positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies are getting "under the skin" of everyday life, as every smartphone and every prototype driverless car will testify. And there are huge economic possibilities that have barely been imagined, let alone tapped.
I'm thinking here of the coming "internet of things", where absolutely everything is connected and all elements of a network know precisely where they are in relation to each other - even inside buildings and underground.
It's reckoned that by 2030, the global market in navigation services, equipment and applications will be worth some €250bn a year. As a developed, hi-tech bloc, Europe should expect to take a third share in that activity - about €70-80bn annually. It’s nowhere near that level currently. It can and should be doing better.
And it's part of the reason why the UK delegation that turned up to the Esa ministerial meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, in December, committed more money than any other nation to the agency's future PNT programme.
It's going to look a bit strange if the country most invested in helping to scope the next-generation of Galileo suddenly finds itself not fully inside the first generation.
*Esa and the EU are separate legal entities, although they share many of the same member states. They cooperate under a framework agreement. The Commission relies on the technical competence of Esa to manage the EU's two big space programmes - Galileo and the Copernicus Sentinel Earth-observation satellites.
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In a regulatory filing, the iPhone-maker's head said he would get a salary of $1.4m and a bonus of $2.8m for 2012.
Most of his money from 2011 came from a grant of shares awarded for becoming the chief executive, and Apple said he would not get any new shares.
"Mr Cook's target cash compensation remains significantly below the median for CEOs of peer companies," it said.
Last year, following the death of co-founder Steve Jobs, Mr Cook received a bonus in the form of stock of more than $370m, making him reportedly the best-paid boss in the US.
His base salary was $900,000 in 2011, which has now been increased. His predecessor, Steve Jobs, famously had an annual salary of $1.
Mr Cook's salary was raised to $1.4m and he received a bonus of 200% of his salary for exceeding Apple's own targets in a year when its profit grew 61% to $41.7bn and Apple became for a time the most valuable company in the world.
"Mr Cook did not receive an RSU [restricted stock unit] award in 2012 in light of the RSU award he received in connection with his promotion to CEO in August 2011," Apple said.
It added: "Following a recommendation by Mr Cook to the Compensation Committee, the company adopted stock ownership guidelines for the CEO and the non-employee directors. Under the guidelines, Mr Cook is expected to own shares of company common stock that have a value equal to ten times his base salary."
His colleagues received hefty pay packages after a successful year. Bob Mansfield, senior vice president of technologies, will get almost $86m and chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer will receive $68.6m.
Earlier this year, Apple's shares reached a high of more than $700, making the company the world's most valuable firm.
Apple's share price has dropped 24% in the last three months and is now around $515 a share.
The event recalled 18 August 1940, when Bromley's Biggin Hill and other South East military bases came under attack from the German Luftwaffe.
It became known as the "hardest day" as both sides recorded their greatest loss of aircraft during the battle.
The Battle of Britain lasted throughout the summer of 1940.
It was the first major campaign fought entirely in the air.
What a sight. Watching those iconic World War Two aircraft take to the skies above Biggin Hill was something to behold. Spectators gasped as they then circled the airfield in formation.
The roar of the Merlin engines and the grace with which the Hurricane and especially the Spitfires, climb, bank, dive and weave through the air is a joy to behold.
All the aircraft have now landed with spectators invited to see them up close and take pictures.
And although they are beautiful to look at on the ground, it is in the sky where they truly shine.
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The Luftwaffe flew 850 sorties, involving 2,200 aircrew, while the RAF resisted with 927 sorties, involving 600 aircrew. The RAF and German Air Force lost 136 aircraft in one day.
The special commemoration, staged from the former RAF airfield at Biggin Hill, now a commercial airport, honours the pilots, engineers, armourers, operations staff and ground crews who faced attack that day.
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More than 3,000 spectators went to Biggin Hill to see the aircraft including squadron leader Tony Pickering who flew on the "Hardest Day".
He said: "I don't think I was ever afraid. You've got to make sure you don't get too enthusiastic. You couldn't take on the German air force by yourself.
"It's lovely to see these aircraft. Beautifully designed aircraft and there's no doubt about it. The people who made them... they did a good job."
Will Curtis, managing director of Biggin Hill Airport, said it was remarkable that the Spitfire was "still a joy to fly", adding that "real credit" goes to its designer RJ Mitchell.
He said: "It is as finely tuned and as well-balanced, if not better balanced, than a modern aircraft."
The day was marked with three flight formations, which took off from the airport at 13:00 BST:
On 10 July, aircraft including Hurricanes and Typhoons took part in a flypast over Buckingham Palace as part of the 75th anniversary.
It said there had been a "serious failure" by Sweden's prosecutor to complete an inquiry into sexual assault allegations dating back to 2010.
Mr Assange has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy, where he has asylum, for nearly five years.
He fears he will be extradited to the US if he leaves the building.
The Australian national is concerned the US may seek his arrest over Wikileaks' release of 500,000 secret military files on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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The sex assault accusations - which Mr Assange denies - relate to a visit he made to Stockholm to give a lecture in 2010.
He is accused of raping a woman, named in legal papers as SW, at her home in August that year. But Mr Assange says the sex was consensual and believes the allegations are politically motivated.
In December last year, Sweden's chief prosecutor travelled to London to question the Wikileaks founder for the first time over the case, although no details of the meeting were released.
In a letter sent to the Swedish government this week, the Ecuadorean authorities accused the chief prosecutor there of a "lack of initiative".
It also raised recent comments from members of US President Donald Trump's administration on the case, including CIA boss Mike Pompeo who described Wikileaks as a "hostile intelligence service", suggesting this constituted an "obvious risk" for Mr Assange.
Last month, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said arresting Mr Assange was a "priority". However, there was no official confirmation from the US justice department at the time about impending charges.
British police say he will be arrested if he leaves the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he is beyond the reach of the UK authorities.
Part of the Swedish investigations were dropped in 2015 because of a statute of limitations.
The facility at Newcastle Science Central will have a flexible auditorium and lecture theatre for 2,200 Newcastle University students.
Pro-vice-chancellor Prof Suzanne Cholerton said the facility would provide an "excellent environment" for learning and research.
The £350m hub is based on the site of the old Scottish and Newcastle brewery.
The new building will have a "sustainable urban drainage system" to hold back rainwater running off the site.
It will also house an exhibition space and a number of seminar rooms.
Design team Sheppard Robson said it had a "strident design that resonates both with the campus context and the city's history of scientific innovation".
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Telford admits players were initially "wary" of being released as early as December, when taken over as part of Hardy's purchase of Notts' men's side.
"To leave it this late, we are all now left in a boat sinking quite quickly," she told BBC East Midlands Today.
Hardy says he "left no stone unturned" to try to save the club from folding.
A number of players had been housed in club-funded accommodation as part of their contracts with the Women's Super League One side, who finished sixth last season.
"No player will be evicted from the houses. If it takes three months, four months, five months, I will personally stand by their houses," Hardy added.
"I'm absolutely devastated and gutted that we have to say goodbye to the club, but I can't afford it."
Notts' players were told the WSL 1 club would cease to exist only moments before Friday's announcement and just two days before their first scheduled league game of 2017, away to Arsenal on Sunday.
A winding-up petition against the women's team had been adjourned twice, in February and March, with the English top-flight side owing debts to Revenue and Customs.
Notts and Wales midfielder Angharad James told BBC Radio Wales: "It's a devastating day. We were only told five minutes prior to it going out on social media. It is not a good day for women's football all round.
"We're jobless and we're homeless. As cliche as that sounds, it's the truth. We've got to deal with it now and hopefully things will come into place.
"We knew there were issues at the start of the season, with regards to finances at the women's side, but we'd been told that was all going to be sorted and that the majority had been sorted.
"From our perspective we knew nothing else. We had signed players; we bought new players in from other clubs. So everything looked fine.
"The majority of clubs will be full now and will have blown their budgets as well. We're hoping that some clubs might still have room for players. It might be that I don't have a club for six months and I'll have to find another job."
A statement from the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) said: "The decision to put the club into the hands of a liquidator just days before the start of the season is clearly devastating for our members and the WSL 1 as a competition.
"The PFA has been in contact with our delegate at the club and provided information to our members on the impact of the club's actions on their contracts.
"We have also been in discussions with the FA and FAWSL to ensure that players can register with other clubs outside of the transfer window given the exceptional circumstances the players find themselves in due to no fault of their own.
"We will continue to provide support and guidance in an attempt to obtain the best possible outcome for our members."
A Football Association spokesperson said: "The FA is aware of the situation and is liaising with all involved parties.
"Our priority is the welfare of the players and we will work closely with them, the PFA and wider stakeholders to support them through this time."
England boss Mark Sampson has been in touch with Notts' England players to offer support, the BBC understands.
Telford, who has made seven senior appearances for England and is part of the squad for Euro 2017, added: "I'll have to sort something quickly because there is the Euros to prepare for and finding a club to keep playing football.
"I feel just a bit numb. At first I was in shock, it didn't seem real.
"Then you look around the room seeing people are upset, people crying, livelihoods ruined, people homeless and jobless."
Notts players have also been critical of Hardy for not meeting them in person on Friday to deliver the news of the club's liquidation himself.
"Time is a great thing, and I deeply regret not being able to be there," local businessman Hardy added to BBC East Midlands Today.
"Very rarely do my family take priority over football but they have been away for 10 days and unfortunately I had to collect them from Gatwick Airport at 10:00 BST this morning. It is unfortunate that it coincided with this day."
Many of the players could now face difficulty finding new clubs so close to the new season, as other WSL 1 sides may well have allocated their budgets for the Spring Series.
WSL clubs are allowed to register up to 40 players in their squad for the campaign.
"To leave it so late and leave girls in the predicament he has is the hardest thing," Telford continued.
"We get his situation, he doesn't see it as a feasible business. But to leave it this late when the takeover was done so long ago, to now come to the conclusion two days before kick-off that he doesn't want to do it anymore is heartbreaking.
"He could have released us, got rid of us when the takeover was happening. We were wary of not being kept on then. We could have gone in the transfer window, found another club and settled."
Hardy responded: "We were having conversations and meeting with the big universities to see what sponsorship and support they could give us.
"I was optimistic as long as I could be and I always hoped something would be around the corner, but eventually I arrived at dead ends everywhere and that was a very sad day for me."
BBC broadcaster Jacqui Oatley told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I'm not surprised that it's happening but I'm very surprised by the timing. You don't expect it to happen two days before the start of the Spring Series.
"I know that most parties involved thought they would at least be OK for this season. It is a very big shock for everybody.
"Just when you feel (the women's game) is making progress, it's a huge shock."
Full details are not yet known, but it is thought the cap would probably be on standard variable tariffs (SVT).
But British Gas parent firm Centrica, and fellow supplier E.On both said market competition was essential.
And trade association body Energy UK said a cap could risk "billions in investment and jobs".
Scottish Power said that if the Conservatives were going to intervene it would be better to abolish standard variable tariffs, which they said were the cause of the problem not just the symptom of current price pressure.
"As Scottish Power recommended to the Competition and Markets Authority, a deadline should be set to abolish SVT so that all customers can engage even more in the competitive market."
There were further misgivings from price comparison site uSwitch.com which said "heavy-handed" price intervention could have the unintended effect of leaving consumers worse off.
A price cap has already been introduced for households using pre-payment meters earlier this month - prompted by the release of a report by the Competition and Markets Authority which said customers were overpaying by £1.4bn.
But that report also said it had been found that previous market interventions in the energy sector had contributed to lower switching rates and "softening competition".
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After a two-year-long investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority published its final report last June into the energy sector. Much to the chagrin of those who feel that Britain's energy market is rigged and that prices are unnecessarily high, the CMA found that competition was in fact working.
It suggested a number of remedies to improve things but steered clear of outright price caps - with the exception of the pre-paid energy meter market.
The government, regulators and especially smaller energy firms are all agreed that regular switching is the key to driving up competition and driving down prices. And although a record 7.7 million people changed their energy suppliers last year, 56% of households still have never switched.
After the Conservatives suggested some sort of price caps, the aggregators uSwitch said that caps would do more harm than good because it would lead to even fewer people switching energy suppliers, because they may feel changing to be no longer necessary.
The law of unintended consequences would prevail again.
Under the price cap being promised by the Conservatives, consumers will benefit if wholesale prices fall.
But the Tories say that their policy is different from one proposed by Labour under its former leader, Ed Miliband.
"We would have [market watchdog] Ofgem setting the limit, so it would be a cap, so it would be more flexible, it would be able to reflect market conditions - so the market would still have an influence," the Work and Pensions Secretary, Damian Green, told ITV's Peston on Sunday.
"And that would mean in practical terms that if the oil price fell again then consumers would benefit in a way they wouldn't have done under Ed Miliband's proposal."
Iain Conn, chief executive of Centrica, which owns British Gas, said the UK energy market was highly competitive, with more than 50 suppliers.
"Price regulation will result in reduced competition and choice, stifle innovation and potentially impact customer service," he said.
He said his firm's average dual-fuel bills over the decade since 2007 had increased by just over 3% per annum, or £273 per household.
He said of this figure, transmission, distribution and metering cost increases have been about £150, and environmental and social policy costs about £100.
"Our profits have been flat to slightly falling. Increases have been because of the costs of changing the energy system and policy costs, not profiteering from suppliers."
Energy firm E.On said it did not want to comment on the government's proposal without seeing the full details.
But they added: "We firmly believe that engaged consumers and a competitive market are the best way to deliver for customers."
Meanwhile Lawrence Slade, chief executive of Energy UK, said that last year the government's competition regulator decided against introducing a wider price cap, instead opting for the pre-payment cap.
"Intervening further would undermine so many of the positive changes that we are seeing in the retail market. It would be giving up on competition, and at a time when we need engaged consumers more than ever.
"Intervention on this scale will additionally create huge uncertainty around government intentions, potentially putting at risk the billions in investment and jobs needed to renew our energy system.
He added that competition should drive innovation, while ensuring that there was targeted support for those customers most in need.
And Richard Neudegg, head of regulation at uSwitch.com, said a price cap on standard variable tariffs "would do more harm than good".
"Price caps may sound like a magic bullet, but heavy-handed price intervention could have the unintended effect of leaving consumers worse off.
"Instead of lowering bills, previous market interventions in the energy sector have led to lower switching rates and higher prices - a finding backed by the Competition and Markets Authority in its energy market investigation."
Energy firms Npower and EDF said they would not be making a response at the moment.
The island hosts the tournament this year, having won it when it was last played in Malaysia in 2014.
Jersey went on to be relegated from World Cricket League Division Four later in 2014.
"What we're thinking about is getting up to World League Four and that's our sole focus," MacRae told BBC Jersey.
"It's exciting times now that we've got a settled squad with a lot of young players and a big tournament at home."
The island's last tournament was the ICC World Twenty20 qualifying tournament, where the island finished second-from-bottom of their group.
But MacRae feels the experience of playing against the best non-Test-playing nations will stand his side in good stead.
"We've got the potential to move forward through the divisions," he said.
"Because of the nature of the tournament cricket that we play, we don't like to look too far ahead. We think we've got a strong squad going into Division Five - we want to win that tournament and move to Division Four.
"Division Three is a possibility. We played against sides in Division One during the T20 tournament in Ireland last summer and held our own, so the difference in standard isn't necessarily the only factor, timing's a big issue as well in terms of having your full squad at tournaments."
St Helens forward Mark Flanagan, Widnes prop Phil Joseph, Huddersfield prop Craig Kopczak and Warrington half-back Gareth O'Brien will join next season.
North Queensland stand-off Robert Lui and Penrith Panthers prop Ben Murdoch-Masila have signed from NRL clubs.
Prop Olsi Krasniqi has agreed a two-year deal after joining in June.
Sheens, 64, coached Australia to World Cup victory in 2013 and joined Salford permanently in June after an initial advisory role.
He could not stop Salford finishing in the bottom four, but after head coach Iestyn Harris left he assisted Ian Watson as they secured a Super League place for next season by finishing third in The Qualifiers.
Watson will remain in charge of the team, with help from Sheens, Garreth Carvell and Martin Gleeson.
Sheens said of Salford's new additions: "The club has been working on a number of major signings in recent months and we are now in a position to make these announcements now our Super League status has been confirmed.
"I have been greatly impressed by the desire and the commitment of these players to join the club and they are all very determined to develop their careers further as the club continues to build," he told the club website.
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The Irish FA deal is said to be worth £500,000 a year and will run until the end of the next Euro qualifying series.
O'Neill, 46, appointed in December 2011, will become the highest-paid manager in Northern Ireland's history.
In June, Northern Ireland will play in the final stages of a major tournament for the first time since 1986.
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The contract extension, which will begin after Euro 2016, will include a release clause which would see the IFA being entitled to compensation if O'Neill was to be lured into club management.
Last October, O'Neill told BBC Sport his preference was for a four-year deal, rather than the IFA's usual two-year policy.
O'Neill's side won their qualifying group, finishing ahead of Romania and Hungary. The team won six and lost one of their 10 games.
They will face matches against Poland, Ukraine and Germany at the finals in France, with the first match on 12 June.
O'Neill became Northern Ireland manager in December 2011 after taking League of Ireland club Shamrock Rovers to the Europa League group stages.
In December, the former international midfielder was named coach of the year at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony.
The life of patients with prostate cancer could be prolonged by up to two years by combining hormone therapy with a drug, researchers believe.
The Wales Cancer Research Centre was involved in a trial of 1,776 men.
The results were revealed earlier this year but have now been published in The Lancet.
It claimed patients who took a chemotherapy drug alongside hormone therapy lived, on average, 10 months longer.
Study vice chairman Prof Malcolm Mason said he was "thrilled to see such positive results".
The international research study is called Stampede - or Systemic Therapy in Advancing or Metastatic Prostate cancer: Evaluation of Drug Efficacy.
Nearly 20,000 people have prostate cancer in Wales and more patients took part in the research from Wales than any other area.
Hormone therapy is used to stop a tumour growing but in most cases, over time, it starts to grow again.
The trial has looked at using other treatments in combination with it.
The drug Docetaxel was used alongside hormone or radio therapy in 1,184 of the trial patients.
It was compared with the results of 592 men who received the standard therapy.
The drug is commonly used and is inexpensive, although it has temporary chemotherapy side-effects.
It is usually prescribed when therapy has failed.
Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff has been one of the main participants in the research.
Prof Mason of the Wales Cancer Research Centre said: "In Wales, we put more patients into this trial than any other region, so this is really a big success for NHS Wales.
"Based on the results, we would recommend that Docetaxel should be incorporated into the standard of care for men with metastatic prostate cancer who are starting long-term hormone therapy for the first time and are fit enough to receive chemotherapy."
The trial has been financed by Cancer Research UK and five pharmaceutical companies.
Prop Tom Rowland, England Under-18 back Iwan Hughes, lock James Dun and centre Matt Welsh have all signed on.
Joining them are Wales Under-18 hooker Nick Freeman, back row Dan Thurston an versatile wing Tom Hargan.
"This is one of the strongest age groups to have come through the academy set-up for a long time," academy boss Mike Hall told the club website.
The 31-year-old was arrested at a business address on Tuesday afternoon.
He was detained on suspicion of "being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism".
The man is being held in custody in a central London police station, while officers search a residential address in south London.
Armed officers were present when the man was arrested, but no shots were fired.
The arrest comes during a period of increased counter-terrorism activity.
Police have been making about one arrest a day in connection with alleged terror offences, and have been conducting hundreds of investigations.
A total of 315 terrorism-related arrests were made in the year ending September 2015, recent Home Office figures revealed - the highest yearly figure on record, and an increase of a third on the previous year.
The data also showed that the number of women and girls being detained had more than doubled compared to the previous year.
Abbott Laboratories encouraged its sales teams to market Depakote for uses that were not approved by regulators, the US justice department said.
The drug should be used in epilepsy and bipolar disorder cases.
However, it was sold to treat conditions such as dementia and autism.
According to a US justice department statement, Abbott maintained a specialised sales force to market the drug in nursing homes.
It said the drug could be used for the control of agitation in elderly dementia patients, despite the absence of any credible scientific evidence that Depakote was safe and effective for that use.
The illegal conduct was not the product of "some rogue sales representatives," US Attorney Timothy Heaphy said. The company engaged in the strategy from 1998 to at least 2006, he said.
Reuben Guttman, a lawyer who represented some of the company whistle-blowers, said that Abbott had preyed on two vulnerable categories of patient - the elderly and children.
The company "violated basic norms of health care and ethics", he said.
The company also marketed Depakote to treat schizophrenia, but clinical trials failed to demonstrate that the drug was any more effective than anti-psychotic drugs in treating the condition, according to court papers.
Abbott Laboratories will now pay $800m to federal and state governments, $700m in criminal penalties and a further $100m to resolve consumer protection issues.
The company has also agreed to a five-year probationary period to ensure that there is no repeat of the misconduct.
As the South African athlete faced charges of "premeditated murder" in a Pretoria courtroom following the shooting dead of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, his sponsors went into crisis-management mode.
Nike swiftly pulled the unfortunately-worded ads last week, as the perils of celebrity brand endorsement were brought sharply into focus once again.
Mr Pistorius, who has strongly rejected the murder charge, is thought to have earned several million pounds from sponsorships with Nike, BT, Thierry Mugler, Oakley, and Ossur, the Icelandic firm that makes the prosthetic carbon fibre blades he wears for races.
But in the brutal world of sports sponsorship, the "Blade Runner" stands to lose everything, even presuming his innocence.
On Thursday 21 February, Nike suspended its contact with the athlete, thought to be worth about $2m, saying: "We believe Oscar Pistorius should be afforded due process and we will continue to monitor the situation closely".
Fashion house Thierry Mugler, which chose Mr Pistorius as the face of its A*Men fragrance in 2011, also withdrew all its campaigns featuring the athlete on Wednesday.
Another of Mr Pistorius' sponsors, M-Net Movies, a South African pay TV channel, pulled its TV ad campaign featuring the athlete, last week tweeting: "Out of respect and sympathy to the bereaved, M-Net will be pulling its entire Oscar campaign featuring Oscar Pistorius with immediate effect."
John Taylor, director of a sports sponsorship company and a veteran of the industry, told the BBC: "Even if Pistorius is found innocent, he is damaged goods. Brands need to act quickly and distance themselves from him; they cannot afford to wait until the case is heard.
"It's not like rats deserting a sinking ship, it's just the sensible thing to do."
Nigel Currie, director of sports marketing agency Brand Rapport, agrees, saying: "This is very different to the Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong cases; this is life and death. There's no coming back from this."
Telecommunications group BT, which was recently shortlisted in the Best Sponsorship of a Sport Team or Individual category of the Sport Industry Awards 2013 for its campaign featuring Mr Pistorius, said: "Our thoughts are with all those affected by this tragedy. Given the ongoing legal proceedings, it would be inappropriate for us to comment further."
Ossur said it was "highly premature" to make any decisions regarding its relationship with him.
Even his South African management agency was saying little on Friday last week. Peet van Zyl, joint managing director of In-Site Athlete Management, told the BBC: "Oscar has been my client for six years. It's my business to know how much he earns in sponsorships, but we're not in any position to give you any comment at the moment given the sensitivity of the situation."
The global sponsorship industry is worth an estimated $50bn (£32.2bn; 36.4bn euros) a year, according to consultancy IEG, with more than 80% of that being spent on sports.
Nike, which makes annual revenues of over $24bn, spends tens of millions of dollars on sports sponsorships a year. For example, its recent sponsorship deal with Rory McIlroy, the Northern Irish golfer, will reportedly cost the company $100m to $125m (£62m to £77m) over five years.
When its previous brand ambassador, golf titan Tiger Woods, was exposed as a philanderer in 2009, Nike stuck by him even though many other brands cast him adrift.
"Nike's whole golf proposition was built around him. They had spent millions of dollars and simply couldn't afford to drop him", says Alan Ferguson, managing director of The Sports Business, a sports marketing consultancy.
Nike chooses sports stars that seem to embody and reinforce its high-energy brand. "My body is my weapon. This is how I fight," says one video featuring Mr Pistorius and other South African athletes. Its 2012 annual report contained a headline: "We are on the offense. Always."
As Oscar Pistorius demonstrated values of tenacity, valour and triumph over adversity, it made him an obvious fit with the sportswear giant.
But in the light of recent events, Mr Ferguson warns: "I think many brands will be taking stock and re-evaluating their celebrity endorsements now. At the very least they will be doing more detailed background checks on their sports stars."
Tattooed on Oscar Pistorius' back is a quotation from St Paul's first letter to the Corinthians (9: 26-27): "Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified."
In the unforgiving, hard cash world of sports sponsorship, Mr Pistorius could find himself being disqualified, whether innocent or guilty.
The new directive brings new definitions to "dressing decently".
Women are not allowed to:
While men must:
Adah Muwanga, human resources director at the Public Service Ministry, said the new circular was needed because of complaints - especially about female public officers - from male counterparts, who say "body parts should be covered".
Civil servants are made aware of the dress rules at induction, says Moses Sempiira, a teacher.
"Each profession has got its code of conduct.
"When you're at work, you have to dress up the way you're expected.
"I have no problem with it."
However, Rita Achiro, head of the Uganda Women's Network, describes the order as a diversionary move.
"How does dress code affect service delivery?" she asks.
"What Ugandans need are more teachers and nurses.
"We have high maternal mortality, children in schools without teachers.
"I don't see how the banning of mini-skirts and bright-coloured shirts is going to fix that."
The debate on hemlines and neck-ties has gone beyond the formal setting of the public service.
In May, photos of two Makerere University students were shared widely on Facebook, with many Ugandans criticising them for wearing revealing skirts to a party.
Rebecca Naddamba, one of the two young women in the photos, was a final-year education student. She was dressed in a two-piece red outfit, with a long skirt made up of strips of cloth, showing her legs.
"People have asked me whether I am sane. Some said I shouldn't be allowed to become a teacher," she says.
The university wrote to her, citing "misconduct at a university function" and asking her to explain why she should not face disciplinary action.
Ms Nadamba thinks dressing should simply be about appropriateness.
"I am looking forward to becoming a teacher. I will tell my students that there is a difference between dressing for a classroom, a place of work and a party."
Her case raised questions on whether Uganda, as a society, spends too much time and effort nit-picking what people should and should not wear.
"If decency was contained in clothes, we would spot a rapist or a corrupt politician from miles away"
Lawyer and activist Patience Akumu calls it the "institutionalisation" of the policing of women's bodies. She thinks that public entities like Makerere University "shouldn't pick and choose when to moralise".
"Recently a girl jumped out of a window to near-death, after a friend allegedly tried to rape her," she continues.
"Makerere did not issue a statement. Why are they now suddenly enraged?"
Uganda is caught up in rapid social change.
It takes only a short time for the latest trends seen in American films and pop music videos to arrive on the streets of Kampala.
Ripped jeans, crop-tops, micro-minis and tight trousers for men are everywhere.
On one side of life is the tabloid press, which thrives on daily pictures of half-naked women and columns about sex exploits. On the other, you have government officials telling people to cover up.
And there has been a spate of attacks on women deemed to be wearing clothes that are too revealing.
Lindsey Kukunda, an artist and writer, thinks it is an obsession with culture and religion - a fusion that oppresses women.
"If you're a woman, your decency is in your clothes.
"If decency was contained in clothes, we would spot a rapist or a corrupt politician from miles away," she argues.
The founder of Not Your Body, an online movement that documents incidents of harassment, Ms Kukunda has herself been a victim on Kampala's streets.
"About a year ago, I was standing on the roadside waiting for a friend to pick me up. I was wearing shorts.
"Men started calling me a prostitute. I sought help from a traffic cop, who looked me up and down and said: 'Well, isn't that what you want?'"
For her, this is a sign that those in authority constantly promote the thinking that women should be questioned, or even punished, for their clothes.
Mrs Muwanga, from the Public Service ministry, says wearing a mini-skirt to work is tantamount to sexually harassing male colleagues, and if the new orders are violated, public officers are likely to face disciplinary action.
Ms Kukunda says her online movement is against this sort of thing.
"If there were more Lindsey Kukundas saying: 'No, I will not let you inconvenience me because your eyes have a problem with my dimpled knees', the people who push this attitude will start to keep quiet."
Radio presenter and social critic James Onen believes men and women should wear whatever they want, but should accept the consequences of their choices.
"It is universally accepted that there are a certain set of physical attributes that men generally find appealing in women.
"When a woman dresses in such a way as to call attention to those physical attributes, it's difficult for most people not to view it as deliberate action to draw attention," he says.
Uganda's Minister for Ethics and Integrity, Fr Simon Lokodo, referred me to the 2014 Anti-Pornography Act, when contacted for an interview. But the law says nothing about a national dress code.
Confusion over a clause that was removed before the bill became law, led to incidents of Ugandan women being publicly undressed.
When a group of women tried to get to the parliament building to protest against the public strippings, they were surrounded by heavily armed anti-riot police.
Ms Akumu, who was among the protesters, says little has changed since the grossly misinterpreted law was passed.
Ms Achiro, from the Uganda Women's Network, refers to the new public service directive as a celebration of being colonised.
"We are insisting on neckties and suits. What does a man who likes to wear his African-batik shirt do?
"Our rights are being taken away piece by piece and soon we will have no space to speak," she says.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) data suggests the number of people who cohabit has doubled to 2.9 million since 1996.
This includes both heterosexual partners and same-sex couples who have not had a civil partnership ceremony.
There are 12.2 million married couples, down 457,000 over the same period.
The statistics were contained in the Labour Force Survey - a study of households in the UK - which encompassed 102,421 individuals in 43,642 homes between April and June 2012.
The number of people aged 35 to 44 who cohabit increased from 7% to 15%.
"This may be related to the increasing age at marriage," the report stated.
Its findings included:
Some 38% of married couples have dependent children, and 39% of cohabiting different-sex couples have dependent children.
The report notes: "Although married couples are more likely to have children than cohabiting couples, they tend to be older on average than their cohabiting counterparts so children may be older and have left home.
"Cohabiting couples are more likely to be in the right age groups for childbearing.
"These two competing factors of age and likelihood of childbearing mean that a very similar percentage of married couples and opposite-sex cohabiting couples have dependent children."
There are now two million lone parents in the UK, up from 1.6 million, the survey suggests.
Some 29% of households are made up of only one person, while almost 20% are families of four or more people.
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Officials said Mohammed Abdulrahman Abu Niyan, a Saudi citizen, confessed to the murders which took place in the capital, Riyadh, earlier this month.
He received instructions, cash and weapons from IS elements in Syria, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Saudi Arabia is keenly aware that it is a key IS target, correspondents report.
IS has vowed to take over Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest mosques - and last year issued a call for followers to carry out attacks against Saudi targets.
Abu Niyan confessed to the 8 April attack on the police officers in a patrol car in the capital, the interior ministry said in its statement carried by state media.
The 23-year-old is also said to have admitted wounding two other policemen in a similar shooting in March.
According to officials, he carried out the attacks after contact with an IS representative in Riyadh.
The ministry said it was also offering a bounty of 1 million riyals ($270,000; £176,000) for the capture of an accomplice, Nawaf bin Sharif Samir al-Anzi.
The Sunni Muslim-dominated Saudi kingdom is part of a US-led coalition waging an air war against IS, which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq.
Thomas, 21, had handed in a transfer request to the management and was cleared to move to Victoria Park.
He had made 21 appearances for the Stags so far this season, following a summer move from Motherwell.
"I'm pleased to get Nathan because we've needed a bit of quality in the wide areas," Pools boss Ronnie Moore said.
"It was disappointing that we lost Kal Naismith but now Nathan is here and he has quality.
"He's a genuine left-footed player who will bring a bit of sparkle to the team and he's one of those who can excite the supporters when he picks the ball up and runs."
The Ingleby Barwick-born forward returns to the north east to add to previous spells at Newcastle, Sunderland and Darlington.
"He's only a 'baby' and has been around the country to try and settle and plant some roots for him and his family [during his early career]," said Stags boss Adam Murray.
"An opportunity presented itself for Nathan where he has more security - a move which takes him back home. I have let him go with a heavy heart."
Pools boss Ronnie Moore will have Thomas, who has also played for Plymouth, available for Saturday's visit of Wycombe Wanderers.
The 49-year-old Frenchman replaced Tim Sherwood on a three-and-a-half-year deal in November, but departs after six successive defeats.
His last game in charge was a 1-0 defeat at Swansea City on 19 March, a result that left Villa 12 points from safety with seven games remaining.
Villa won only two of their 20 league games during Garde's tenure.
A club statement thanked the former Arsenal player for his efforts "during a difficult period" and said Eric Black would take temporary charge.
The decision to part company with Garde followed eight days of negotiations that concluded late on Tuesday, according to BBC Sport's Pat Murphy.
The announcement came on the day the club said it had begun working with former Football Association executive Adrian Bevington.
Birmingham businessman Steven Hollis has already become the club's new chairman in a boardroom reshuffle.
Former Governor of the Bank of England Lord King, ex-Football Association chairman David Bernstein and former manager Brian Little have also become directors.
Chief executive Tom Fox and sporting director Hendrik Almstadt left the club earlier this month.
Owner Randy Lerner, who put Villa up for sale last May, has upset fans who are unhappy about the lack of investment and the decision-making at the club.
Former Lyon boss Garde was said to be considering his future at the club after being unable to make any signings during the January transfer window.
He has also been among those who have criticised the players for a perceived lack of desire.
Garde had become increasingly dispirited by performances and said he felt "humiliated" after a 6-0 defeat by Liverpool last month. It was the first time the Midlands club had let in six at home in a league game since October 1983.
His only victories came against Norwich City and Crystal Palace in the league, and League Two Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup.
He recently refused to comment on reports Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas is keen for him to return to the Ligue 1 club next season.
Villa's next Premier League match is against Chelsea at home on 2 April.
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BBC Radio 5 live football reporter Pat Murphy:
Asked about the timing of the decision, announced during England's friendly with the Netherlands on Tuesday, Murphy said: "A good day to bury bad news? I honestly don't think so.
"Negotiations have been tortuous and labyrinthine. I think it's just the usual cock-up, yet another farcical period in Villa's recent history.
"Garde didn't think much of the players and the feeling was mutual. He was promised players when he signed, but Lerner turned the tap off and he felt badly let down.
"I don't think Villa could go any lower. But the players who got them into this situation are still standing. They should be looking over their shoulders."
Murphy says Villa approached former Everton, Manchester United and Real Sociedad manager David Moyes last year, but he was "unimpressed".
However, Murphy says Moyes, who was sacked by the La Liga club in November, would now "like talks".
Other candidates include Burnley's Sean Dyche, Hull's Steve Bruce, Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy and former Leicester manager Nigel Pearson.
The Monarch of the Glen, painted by Sir Edwin Landseer in 1851, features an iconic image of a Highlands stag.
A partnership between NGS and the painting's owner, drinks firm Diageo, was agreed in November last year.
Under the agreement, Diageo will gift half the painting's value to allow the gallery to buy it for £4m by 17 March.
This will allow the painting to remain in public view in Scotland.
The campaign has already raised £3.25m towards the final target, supported by donations such as the Heritage Lottery Fund, which pledged £2.75m, and Art Fund, which gave £350,000.
Sir John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, said: "There has been a great response to the news that we have a fantastic opportunity to acquire this iconic image for Scotland.
"However, we still have some way to go to reach our £4m target and with only one month left until the deadline, we are keen to reach out to the public to help ensure that The Monarch of the Glen can stay in Scotland to be enjoyed for generations to come."
Culture Secretary Fiona Hyslop said: "I congratulate the National Galleries of Scotland on securing significant sums from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund to support their acquisition of the iconic Monarch of the Glen painting.
"I wish them every success with their campaign to raise the remaining funding to ensure the painting can remain in public display in Scotland so that visitors from across Scotland and around the world can continue to enjoy it."
The Monarch of the Glen has been in private and corporate collections since it was painted.
He cited the Budapest government's treatment of refugees, independence of the judiciary and freedom of the press.
"Hungary is not far away from issuing orders to open fire on refugees," he suggested.
Hungary said Mr Asselborn "could not be taken seriously".
EU leaders meet in Slovakia on Friday to discuss the union's future.
Mr Asselborn's interview with German daily Die Welt is likely to inflame passions ahead of the summit.
The EU could not tolerate "such inappropriate behaviour", he said, and any state that violated such basic values "should be excluded temporarily, or if necessary for ever, from the EU''. It was "the only possibility to protect the cohesion and values of the European Union,'' he said.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto hit back, saying that his Luxembourg counterpart had "long left the ranks of politicians who could be taken seriously". Mr Asselborn was a "frivolous character", he said, adding that he was "patronising, arrogant and frustrated".
Mr Asselborn's remarks also drew condemnation from Latvia's foreign minister, who spoke of "megaphone diplomacy".
And German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a personal friend of the Luxembourg minister, said while he could understand some in Europe were "becoming impatient, it is not my personal approach to show a member state the door".
Hungary joined the EU in 2004 and while the European Union can reject or delay a candidate from joining, it is not thought to have the power to expel an existing member state.
When the far-right Freedom Party joined Austria's government in 2000, EU member states responded by freezing bilateral diplomatic relations with Austria. Later that year the EU ended Austria's diplomatic isolation.
Hungary was caught up in an enormous influx of migrants and refugees a year ago as more than a million people headed through central Europe from the shores of Greece towards Germany and other Western European countries.
Eventually, it sealed its borders with Serbia and Croatia and built a 175km (110-mile) razor-wire fence to stop people crossing on their way to Austria. Some 10,000 police and soldiers have been deployed to guard the frontier.
Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has reacted with fury.
The head of Hungarian diplomacy described his Luxembourg counterpart as a "classic nihilist" who worked tirelessly to destroy Europe's security and culture. By way of contrast, Hungary was defending not only its own territory, but that of the EU as well, the foreign minister insisted.
"Only Hungarians have the right to decide who they wish to live with."
The number of migrants trying to enter Hungary has fallen dramatically in recent weeks.
At the Horgos Transit Zone on the Hungary-Serbian border, only 80 were waiting on Monday, down from 800 on some days in July.
Beside the Kelebia Transit Zone there were about 60, mostly from Syria and Iraq. Some had been living in atrocious conditions next to the razor wire fence for more than 10 weeks.
Approximately 4,500 migrants are currently in camps in Serbia. Most are now trying alternative routes to Europe through Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia.
A referendum takes place on 2 October when Hungarians will be asked to decide on an EU quota to take in refugees. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has strongly criticised the EU's plans to relocate 160,000 refugees across the bloc and his government has campaigned vigorously for a No vote.
Mr Asselborn, whose country is a founder member of the EU, complained that Hungary's border fence was getting higher, longer and more dangerous.
His remark that Hungary was not far from ordering live fire is likely to refer to a decision by police earlier this month to recruit 3,000 "border-hunters". The new force will carry pepper spray and pistols with live ammunition as part of their task to keep migrants out.
In the Treaty on European Union (Article 2) EU values are spelt out as "human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities".
The EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights became legally binding on national governments as well as the EU's institutions, as part of the 2009 Lisbon Treaty.
Those rights and freedoms range from freedom of thought and expression to the right to asylum, a fair trial and fair working conditions.
As a condition of membership of the EU, a candidate country has to fulfil 35 separate chapters of requirements including an independent judiciary.
The eponymous hero of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is so bored with his job as a manager at Sunshine Desserts that he fakes his own death so that he can start a new life.
Forty years on from Reggie Perrin's world, the default retirement age has been scrapped and the government is urging those over 50 not to down tools and leave the labour market.
So, if we really are all going to be working across four or even five decades into our late 60s or beyond, how do we avoid the Perrin-esque feeling of heading down a cul-de-sac?
The career path many of us embark on could be described as follows: learn the job, do the job, get promoted, become a manager - and perhaps stop doing the job that we've actually got quite good at.
In some cases that promotion might come after what Clive Hutchinson, the owner of engineering firm Cougar Automation, calls "the tap on the shoulder".
In his industry that tap heralded a move from engineer to the better paid role of project manager. But in his opinion that convention didn't play to people's strengths.
"You'd have a really good engineer who wanted more money and more status and recognition, and it took him away from being a really good engineer and often into being a really bad project manager."
When Clive and his business partner took over the company in 2003 they decided that, in order to meet their target of giving their customers the best possible service, they needed to change the way they looked at career progression - to reconcile people's desire to get on with keeping them in the roles they were best suited to.
Their answer was to make both the salary and the grading structure much more flexible.
They introduced a transparent pay system and a martial arts-based framework of banding for all the roles within the company.
Project managers were no longer automatically paid more than the rest of the team, it was easier to move to different projects, and the new freedom meant experienced engineers felt they had more options than before.
"I got very frustrated," says Jim Allen, a software engineer at Cougar, of his experience of being a manager. "I just didn't enjoy coming in in the mornings.
"At the time I thought, 'What can I do? I've got no way out of this, perhaps move offices, move companies even, and go back to engineering.' And fortunately here they said, 'There's no problem coming back to being an engineer.'"
Jim returned to a job he describes as "massively broad" with the added incentive of a "bit of a pay rise", but as an engineer with 20 years' experience, he says that at his stage the job is actually more about how well the project went than large leaps in salary.
Research backs him up on that. Figures from one study suggest that workers might see pay growth of 60% in their 20s, but then see that increase slow, with a salary peak for women at 39, and for men at 48.
That leaves a lot of years of work ahead.
Dr Jill Miller, a research adviser at the CIPD, the professional body for HR and career development, says the secret to keeping motivated is what she calls lifelong learning, as much as salary.
"It's more about development opportunities," she says. "So it's work that's fulfilling, inspiring, engaging and it challenges people because I think... being bored sometimes can have detrimental effects of being stressed and that's what's going to cause people to be demotivated and leave the organisation."
Ros Toynbee, director of The Career Coach, agrees. She sees people who are often a few years into their working lives and have suddenly found they've fallen out of love with their workplace, whether it's because they've reached a milestone in their lives or they're not getting the opportunities they want.
"It may be that they're being ignored by a boss, they're not being recognised," she says. "They want to be able to progress, but are finding for some reason they can't."
So what advice does she give most often to those who feel their career has run into the sand?
"The most important thing is to keep on doing interesting things that keep you employable. Be looking out for trends, and training yourself. Don't expect your company to pay for you, because many will not."
Ms Toynbee's advice to choose skills that will ensure "longevity of career" is echoed by professional bodies such as the CIPD, as it anticipates a workplace populated by an increasing number of over-50s.
It's a change that is already happening - in 2016 there were 9.8 million people over 50 in employment in the UK, compared with 5.7 million 20 years earlier.
Nevertheless, the proportion of older workers in employment drops sharply between the ages of 53 and 67.
In its report on how we can achieve longer and more fulfilled working lives, the CIPD suggests employers should adopt a system of career reviews for older workers where their development needs are discussed.
And it says the UK could follow the example of countries such as Denmark, where many companies regularly hold "senior conversations" with their employees, covering all aspects of their career.
Would a senior conversation with his unappealing boss, CJ, have made Reggie Perrin feel less despairing about his job? Maybe not.
Better advice for him, perhaps, comes from the CIPD's Dr Miller who thinks we could all take a leaf out of the millennial generation's book by not expecting a job for life and being content with moving sideways, rather than up.
"Younger workers perhaps have more of a mindset that they have more options," she says, "that it's not like you need to choose a career when you first enter and stick with it and grow within it. They've got more of a fluid mindset."
The Shore was filmed on Terry George's family cottage at Coney Island near Ardglass.
It stars major Northern Ireland actors, including Ciaran Hinds, Maggie Cronin and Conleth Hill.
Mr George was twice previously nominated for his screenplays for Hotel Rwanda and In the Name of the Father.
He paid tribute to the people of Northern Ireland after receiving the Oscar.
"Our little film was inspired by the people of Northern Ireland, Protestant and Catholic, who after 30 years of war, sat down, negotiated a peace and proved to the world that the Irish are great talkers," he said.
"I want to dedicate this to them.
"This is about reconciliation in Northern Ireland, it is really close to my heart."
He also praised his daughter Oorlagh, who raised money for the film and acted as its producer.
"I'd like to thank the Academy because now I don't have to wait for her wedding to tell the world how brilliant she is," he said.
The Shore is about a man who emigrated to America 25 years ago to escape the Troubles and is now bringing his daughter back to meet his childhood friends, while harbouring a dark secret.
Maggie Cronin said she was thrilled to learn of the film's success at the Oscars.
"We were leaping about the place," she said.
"It ticks all the right boxes, it looks beautiful and I think it is a film we can all be proud of.
"It was a very good shoot to be involved with carried by some lovely performances."
Northern Ireland Culture Minister Carál Nà ChuilÃn said the award was a "fantastic achievement" by the Northern Ireland film industry.
"It is wonderful that local talent and hard work is being recognised on the global stage," she added.
Richard Williams, chief executive of Northern Ireland Screen, said an Oscar triumph represented "the best possible international industry endorsement for film talent worldwide".
"Terry and Oorlagh George have done us proud," he said.
"With their help, the profile of both the film industry in Northern Ireland and indeed the beauty of our place have received a major boost.
"Hundreds of thousands of short films are produced every year around the world and for Northern Ireland to win one really underlines the world class talent we have working in the industry here.
"The Shore is a beautiful, poignant and funny film."
Danny Moore, of Lough Shore Investments, which helped to fund the film said the company were delighted at Mr George's achievement.
"When Terry first conveyed the powerful vision of Northern Ireland he wanted to communicate to the world, we had no hesitation in getting involved," he added.
"For us, The Shore afforded a very unique means through which we could showcase Northern Ireland abroad, both as a place to do business, film or otherwise, and as a rapidly expanding tourist destination."
Official Chinese media say the US marine presence there is the behaviour of a "repeat offender", and criticise President-elect Donald Trump for his outspoken social media comments on the incident.
They hint that China will take a much heavier-handed approach once Mr Trump becomes president in January.
Chinese state media have long accused the US of "interfering" in the South China Sea, over which China claims full sovereignty.
China's leading paper for foreign affairs, Global Times, praises the Chinese navy for "identifying and inspecting" the drone, and dubs US surveillance in the region "typically hegemonic behaviour" and "bullying".
The overseas edition of People's Daily describes the USNS Bowditch, which released the unmanned drone, as a "repeat offender... that has conducted many surveillance operations on China".
It says this latest incident "shows the US remains questioning or even hostile towards China" and risks "barring mutual trust".
The media in particular highlight Mr Trump's social media comments.
Although Twitter is blocked in China, media, including the English-language paper China Daily, shared screenshots of Mr Trump's 17 December post, including his grammatical error that the drone was stolen from the US in an "unpresidented act".
Global Times says it fails to "see a sense of responsibility" in his comments, adding "Trump doesn't look like a president-elect".
"If these are remarks from media commentators or simply social media users trading abuse, they would be understandable," it says.
"But even the US military has not used the word 'steal' to describe China's move. Trump's tone... shows he isn't afraid to hype-up the issue - this raises concerns that he may treat relations as a game between the two major countries."
The press suggests that China will go harder on Mr Trump once he takes over in January.
China Daily says that, although an understanding "through direct engagement, as the Pentagon put it", has been reached, "Trump may not care for such an ending."
"It is good for both countries that Trump is still commander-in-waiting, or we might have a situation where cooler heads are pushed aside by surging emotion," it says.
Global Times also warns that China may take a firmer approach come January.
"China is being restrained in its response towards Trump's words, because he hasn't officially taken office yet," it says.
"But such an attitude will certainly change after Trump is in the White House."
On social media, a strongly worded post via the military page on the popular Sina web portal prompted thousands of angry comments.
It questioned US "moral integrity", saying the presence of the vessel left them "stunned".
Users voiced their approval of the Chinese navy for having removed the drone. "Onlyzyz" says: "The US supports environmental protection, so we are just picking up the rubbish!"
Thousands also commented on Mr Trump's remarks, which popular user "Guda Baihua" shared.
"Vee1119" says Mr Trump should "open an account on Weibo", China's popular micro-blogging site, to hear the Chinese public's views.
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Budge will seek election at the annual general meeting on July 20
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawell and Partick Thistle managing director Ian Maxwell also intend to stand.
However, Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson has decided not to vie for one of the three available positions.
Robertson, who joined the Rangers board just over a year ago, said after "much thought and consideration" he would not seek election.
In a statement on the Rangers website, the club said they were "confident its views are being listened to and treated with the utmost respect" by other Premiership clubs.
They added "it is accepted that Rangers' voice is being heard within Hampden, both at SFA and SPFL levels."
Dundee United's Stephen Thompson beat Budge to the Premiership position last year after three rounds of votes, but quit the board in protest at the club's three point deduction and fine for fielding ineligible players in a match against Inverness in May.
He will seek election for one of the two vacant positions in the Championship alongside Hibernian's Leeann Dempster and Eric Drysdale of Raith Rovers.
In Leagues 1 and 2, from which there will be one position, Brechin City's Ken Ferguson is the sole nominee.
Kenneth McLean, 48, was caught with 57 bottles of rare malt hidden in his loft by police acting on a tip off.
They were investigating complaints that valuable whiskies had gone missing from a storage vault in Grangemouth used by drinks giant Diageo.
McLean was given a community sentence for possessing stolen goods.
He admitted the criminal offence of reset and was ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work at Falkirk Sheriff Court.
The court was told that the whiskies had gone missing from the bonded warehouse last July.
Officers were subsequently told that McLean had a large quantity of spirits in the attic of his home in Avonbridge, near Falkirk.
Nine bottles of 37-year-old Port Ellen, worth almost £2,500 each and seven bottles of Brora 1977 worth a total of £12,250 were among the whiskies recovered.
None of the bottles, which had a total value of £39,272, had been duty-paid and could not have been legally sold in the UK
McLean was arrested and in an initial police interview he claimed he had bought the whisky for cash, paying up to £2,500 for some of the bottles.
He told officers he intended to keep the whiskies for five or 10 years, then sell them at a profit.
However, it emerged that McLean told social workers compiling a report that he had accepted them as rent, and had been "wilfully blind" to the probability they were stolen.
Solicitor advocate Martin Morrow, defending McLean, said: "He acknowledges he has been extremely foolish."
Having won the toss and elected to bat, Middlesex never really recovered from losing both Dawid Malan and Paul Stirling inside the first two overs.
George Bailey's 46 helped them to 132-7, with Rory Kleinveldt taking 3-24.
Adam Rossington struck 67 not out as the hosts reached 135-3 with 11 balls remaining to join Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston on 20 August.
Notts beat Essex by 39 runs in the competition's first quarter-final on Monday.
Northants, winners in 2013 and runners-up last year, always looked in control against a Middlesex side who had made it out of their group for the first time in eight years.
Dawid Malan's team needed to take regular wickets to remain in contention and, although the hosts lost Richard Levi and Josh Cobb during the powerplay, the strength of their batting line-up proved the difference.
Rossington clubbed four sixes during his 53-ball knock, while the in-form Ben Duckett provided good support with 29 from 25 deliveries.
Gloucestershire host Durham in the third quarter-final on Wednesday, before Glamorgan take on Yorkshire on Thursday.
Single mother-of-two Karen Lucas was made redundant from her job as a financial analyst and was out of work for almost two months.
She says it will affect her for "a good number of years to come".
And she is not alone.
One in three families in England is unable to afford their rent or mortgage payments for more than a month after losing their job, according to a study for the charity Shelter.
High costs for housing and a lack of personal savings are cited as the main reasons. The government says "strong protections" are in place for "those who fall on difficult times".
Karen, from Basingstoke, said: "I lost my job in May, having been headhunted into the role and then told I wasn't needed after three months' probation.
"I had relocated and changed my plans to take up the role and was then left with £1,200 monthly rent to pay on just £73 per week jobseeker's allowance.
"I was able to cover one month's rent from money I had in the bank - but even that was a struggle.
"I had to apply for discretionary housing benefit and move my debts on to a payment plan, which will now affect all my future credit rating.
"Although I found a new job last month, I'm now on significantly less money than I was.
"I'm now taking home £2,000 a month, with £1,300 childcare and £1,200 rent. My tax credits and housing benefits amount to £900. So it doesn't leave me much and I'm on a payment plan for my credit cards.
"The effects of losing my job and being out of work for seven weeks will give me a headache in dealing with it for a good number of years to come.
"This has never happened to me before, having worked constantly for 20 years. It has totally knocked my confidence and my concern now is how do I move forward?
"I have to pay for full-time nursery, holiday clubs and before and after-school clubs to enable me to work.
"I'd be in serious trouble if it happened again. I already feel like I'm in this horrible loop and I can't see where I'll get out. It was even worse when I was out of work.
"It's a very scary place to be.
"There's help out there but it's not easy to find.
"Rents need to be reviewed by the government and as my credit rating is now affected I doubt I would be able to rent another house, even if it's cheaper, as I wouldn't pass the credit checks.
"So I have no idea what we are meant to do when we fall on hard times again. It isn't a short-term issue. It all has lasting effects."
The 31-tonne, 42m structure was lifted into place by a crane last week. The bridge it replaces will be removed.
Meanwhile, work on another crossing in the Highlands has been suspended due to high winds.
The road bridge is being constructed on the River Ness as part of the new Inverness West Link road scheme.
High winds, which are forecast to continue on Wednesday and Thursday, have affected the operation of a large crane.
The project to deliver the new River Nevis crossing involved Highland Council and Nevis Landscape Partnership.
It was funded by the council, Heritage Lottery Fund, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Rural Development Programme and Sport Scotland.
The area around the Glen Nevis Visitor Centre has about 65,000 visitors a year.
The Welsh government signed a deal with BT in 2012, backed with £205m of public money, to provide broadband to 700,000 homes and businesses where there was no planned commercial rollout.
Auditor General for Wales, Huw Vaughan Thomas, wants the Welsh government to do more to tell people about it.
The Welsh government expect the rollout to be complete by the end of 2016.
The report by Mr Thomas said broadband access was available to just over half of the target number by the end of 2014, but many difficult-to-connect places remain.
It also noted initial weaknesses in the programme and project management by the Welsh government, but said there are now "clear and appropriate arrangements in place".
Its analysis argues that exports from non-EU countries to the single market have grown faster than the UK's, since its creation in 1993.
That lends weight to the argument that no EU deal is better than a bad deal, the author argues.
Other economists say the UK has benefitted from EU membership.
Theresa May will start talks on the UK's departure from the EU on 29 March.
The prime minister will officially notify the EU of the UK's intention to leave by triggering "Article 50" and writing to European Council president Donald Tusk.
Civitas, whose research has previously been cited by pro-Brexit campaigners, said the UK's export growth to the EU had been outstripped by many economies in the last 20 years.
Michael Burrage, the report's author, said that before joining the single market in 1993, the UK's exports to the EU grew at a faster rate than major economies such as the US, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Norway, South Africa and Brazil.
But since joining, export growth from those countries to the EU has now overtaken that of the UK's - a development he said was counterintuitive.
This usually refers to the European Union's single market and is perhaps the most ambitious type of trade co-operation.
That's because as well as eliminating tariffs, quotas or taxes on trade, it also includes the free movement of goods, services, capital and people.
A single market strives to remove so-called "non-tariff barriers" - different rules on packaging, safety and standards. Many others are abolished and the same rules and regulations apply across the area.
There are EU-wide regulations covering a whole host of industries and products on everything from food standards and the use of chemicals to working hours and health and safety.
For goods, the single market was largely completed in 1992, but the market for services remains a work in progress a quarter of a century later.
Other economists disagree. Jonathan Portes, economics professor at King's College London, said there was plenty of evidence to suggest that the single market had been good for the UK.
"A lot of industries are dependent on the EU not just for zero tariffs, but also for regulation," he said, pointing in particular to the car and pharmaceuticals sectors.
After leaving, the two alternatives are either setting up the country's own regulatory structure, which takes time and is complicated, or using the EU's, in which case we end up using the same rules as previously but have no say in how they are made, he said.
"It won't be the end of the world, but it won't be pain-free either," said Mr Portes.
Over the past two decades, 14 economies - including Canada, India and the US - that trade under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules had increased their exports of goods to the 11 founding members of the single market faster than the UK, the study said.
"The evidence shows that the disadvantages of non-membership of the EU and single market have been vastly exaggerated and that the supposed benefits of membership, whether for exports of goods and services, for productivity, for worldwide trade, or for employment, are largely imaginary," the study said.
"The government appears to have decided to leave the single market on the basis that we should return full control of UK laws to the UK, but trade data also offers strong support for the decision and provides comfort for those worried about relying on WTO rules if no deal emerges," it added.
Mr Burrage said that UK exports have grown faster to 111 countries with which it trades under WTO rules than to the 14 other early members of the single market.
Robert Dawson, a former detective sergeant, had been investigating a rape allegation in 2010 when he began "an inappropriate relationship" with a "vulnerable victim", the Met said.
A misconduct panel found his behaviour breached standards of "respect, courtesy duties and responsibilities".
He was dismissed without notice following a hearing on Wednesday.
The panel concluded the former detective's actions breached the Met's code of professional standards "in such a serious way" that it amounted to gross misconduct.
Mr Dawson, who was attached to the specialist crime and operations team, had been found not guilty of wilfully neglecting to perform duty and wilfully behaving with misconduct at Southwark Crown Court on 12 June last year.
It features interactive displays, including projections, drone footage and a computer generated reconstruction which shows how the castle would have looked hundreds of years ago.
The 13th Century fortress was built by Welsh princes Llywelyn the Great and Llywelyn the Last.
It was captured by Owain Glyndwr in the last major Welsh rebellion against the English.
The £450,000 visitor centre is part of a wider £2.6m project to improve heritage sites across Wales.
Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Infrastructure, Ken Skates, said it was an example of "combining the latest technology with the country's rich history to enhance the visitor experience".
It came as 86 out of 100 MPs asked in another survey said they thought they were trusted by constituents.
The polls were published by campaigners calling for changes to the government's Recall of MPs Bill, which goes before the Commons on Tuesday.
The 38 Degrees campaign group said public trust in politicians had sunk to "crisis point".
Under the government's plans, an MP could be recalled after being convicted of an offence and receiving a sentence of 12 months or less.
MPs could also be recalled if they were suspended from the House of Commons for at least 21 sitting days.
Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith has said the criteria for recall are "too narrow" and has tabled amendments aimed at making MPs more accountable.
Mr Goldsmith believes an MP should be recalled if 5% of voters in a constituency sign a "notice of intent to recall" and 20% of voters then sign a "recall petition".
Speaking during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, David Cameron suggested the government would listen to proposed changes.
He told MPs: "I will look very carefully at all amendments that come forward because, frankly, in getting this Bill together we have come up with the minimum acceptable for recall, but I think there are a lot of very good arguments to be had about how we can go further, and I look forward to having them in the House of Commons."
YouGov carried out the public poll, of more than 1,600 people. Respondents were asked if they trusted their MP to represent them in Parliament - 24% said Yes.
The survey of MPs was carried out by Dods Polling.
David Babbs, executive director of 38 Degrees, said: "Giving voters the power to get rid of bad apple MPs would be the first step towards restoring people's faith in politics.
"This vote will be the acid test of whether MPs trust their constituents - or whether they want to keep real power locked within Westminster."
Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: "Quite simply, the voters who have the power to hire MPs should also have the right to fire them.
"If MPs want to regain public trust, a vital first step would be to trust voters with real recall powers."
Robert Fidler built the home at Honeycrock Farm, in Salfords, Surrey, in 2002 and kept it hidden behind hay bales for four years.
He was told to knock it down by 26 June after losing a High Court appeal.
Reigate and Banstead Borough Council said it has lodged a claim for contempt of court proceedings.
A hearing will take place at the High Court on 22 October.
In 2008, Mr Fidler said he hid the "castle" because he believed a house that stood for four years without objection had a legal right to remain.
The four-bedroom property, on greenbelt land, includes a kitchen, living room, study, a gravelled forecourt and a conservatory.
In April Mr Fidler said he accepted he had no choice but to demolish the house, but in June he said it would be like Picasso destroying one of his paintings.
Shahzaib died in hospital on Monday after he was struck by a car on Moss Street West in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.
Three men aged 19, 23 and 27 have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
Javid Hussain said his son was "always happy and jolly".
Mr Hussain said they were walking home from the mosque when the collision occurred.
"We'd just said our prayers and my son was in front of me, just a few steps away.
"He'd not even put his foot on the footpath and he was hurled into the air."
Prayers were held for him on Monday night.
A car thought to have been involved in the crash was found later by police and is being forensically examined.
The group were arrested in January in Kachin state, close to the Chinese border, during a military operation to crack down on illegal logging.
Two 17-year-old boys were also given 10-year jail terms, and a woman in the group was given an additional 15 years for drug possession.
China has expressed concern about the severity of the sentences.
Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China had repeatedly raised the issue with Myanmar since the arrests of the group, who it says had been tricked into carrying out the logging.
It was asking Myanmar to "consider the actual situation of those loggers and deal with the matter in a lawful, reasonable and sensible way", China's Xinhua state news agency quoted Mr Lu as saying.
Life sentences in Myanmar usually last 20 years.
Logging - often using working elephants - was rife under Myanmar's military junta, depleting much of Myanmar's forests.
The military-backed civilian government, which came to power in 2011, has been trying to rein in the industry, and last year banned the export of raw timber.
But critics say illegal loggers are often able to make deals with the warlords who operate in remote regions close to the border.
The Chinese group were arrested during an operation against illegal logging allegedly sanctioned by the Kachin Independent Army, an ethnic rebel group active in the area.
The rebels denied their involvement.
The energy firm earlier confirmed it is to lose 2,400 jobs in the UK by 2018.
Npower has several bases in the north, with 1,200 staff in West Yorkshire, 2,500 at Rainton Bridge near Sunderland and 500 in Peterlee, Co Durham.
It confirmed its site in Scarcroft, Leeds, which employs 672 people, would close by 2018, with plans to move staff to the nearby Limewood office.
The German-owned company has announced its Burton upon Trent site in Staffordshire is to close, with the loss of up to 200 jobs.
A spokesperson said it would reduce its current 26 sites and focus on "three regional hubs" in the North East, Yorkshire and the West Midlands.
"In terms of losses in specific sites, we are unable to give figures at this stage," the company added.
Leonie Sharp, from Unison in Yorkshire, said: "There's been no detail provided about where these 2,400 job losses will come from, who they will be, which sites will be targeted.
"It's creating awful uncertainty for our members, a lot of fear and a lot of anxiety."
The job losses come as Npower announced annual losses of €137m (£106m) compared with €227m profit in 2014.
It said the cuts would be among both its directly employed staff and contractors.
Tom Allison, regional organiser for the GMB union, said they currently had "very limited detail" on the affected areas and establishments.
He said: "The uncertainty isn't a good situation.
"We have a chancellor whose mantra is the Northern Powerhouse, I suggest the scale of these job cuts, if they do materialise in our region, this could be a northern poorhouse."
The energy firm, one of the UK's "big six" energy providers, currently employs 11,500 people in the UK, of which 6,668 are in full-time posts.
The emergency services were called to the scene near the Invergarry Hotel at about 13:30.
An air ambulance was involved in transporting those who were hurt to hospital.
Police have closed the road in both directions and said it would remain shut for some time.
A spokesman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said everyone was out of the bus by the time their crews arrived on site.
Firefighters were involved in "stabilising the vehicle".
It not known how many passengers were travelling in the bus at the time.
Faletau, 24, has been linked with a move to English Premiership side Bath having not been among Welsh players to sign dual deals between the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and regions recently.
The British and Irish Lion says he has been offered one but that changing his agent had "delayed" things.
"I hope it's still on offer to be honest, but I don't know," he said.
Faletau returned from Six Nations duty to come off the bench for Dragons in last Saturday's 32-17 Pro12 win at Treviso.
They host Cardiff Blues in the European Challenge Cup quarter-finals this weekend and Faletau says he has no immediate plans to leave Rodney Parade.
"I've got another year here, so that's my plans for the future," he said.
Director of rugby Lyn Jones was non-committal over any dual contract for Faletau, but did say he was "100%" confident the player would still be at the region at the start of 2015-16.
Christine Evans called for help as Martin Bowen, 24, was texting her, in breach of a harassment warning in 2014.
But officers did not attend her Newport home, and hours later Bowen stabbed her in the neck and chest.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found there was a case to answer for misconduct.
Gwent Police said it was continuing to "make progress" in the way it responds to "incidents of this nature".
Ms Evans had been judged to be at high-risk of harm from Bowen because of previous domestic violence incidents.
The IPCC said Gwent Police could have arrested him after she reported he was texting her and knocking on her windows and doors in the days before the attack, but they did not attend or record the incident as a crime.
Five days later he "sent messages to the effect 'I want to see you one more time'" which were recorded as a priority for police to attend within 60 minutes.
But the officer assigned was redirected elsewhere and the incident log was left open.
Bowen was later jailed for eight years for the attack after admitting grievous bodily harm.
IPCC Commissioner for Wales, Jan Williams, said the investigation showed a lack of understanding and confusion among officers around risk assessments and some failure to follow force policies and procedures.
"Christine Evans merited a priority response on the evening before the attack, yet no police officer attended," she added.
"The high volume of open call logs that the force control room was attempting to handle at the time was very concerning, and in our view raised wider issues around public protection."
Responding to the IPCC findings, Gwent Police Ch Con Jeff Farrar said: "Over the past 18 months Gwent Police has made dramatic operational and organisational changes which have addressed all of the issues rightly raised by the IPCC.
"Staff have received additional training and structural changes have significantly increased levels of public satisfaction."
Following the investigation, one officer received a final written warning, one was given a written warning, and a third was given management advice.
A call handler, who failed to update logs and was also found to have a case to answer for misconduct, also received management action.
The 28-year-old has signed a two-year contract with the Championship side until the summer of 2018.
Madl made 13 appearances and scored one goal after joining the club on loan in January.
"I've enjoyed the past five months with Fulham where the fans have made me feel so welcome from the very first day," Madl told the club website.
"I'm looking forward to a new exciting season in the Championship and I'm confident that I can be part of something special with the club."
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"Today begins the journey to take America back," he said in a campaign event in Kentucky.
Mr Paul, a Kentucky senator, stands out from the Republican pack because of his comparatively libertarian views.
He becomes the second Republican to enter the contest that concludes in November 2016.
Speaking in front of a large crowd at the official campaign kick-off, he said: "The Washington machine that gobbles up our freedoms and invades every nook and cranny of our lives must be stopped."
A first-term senator hailing from one of the country's most well-known libertarian families, Mr Paul first held elected office when he rode a wave of Tea Party popularity to the US senate in 2010.
Once there, he soon drew attention when he spoke for more than 12 hours in protest about President Barack Obama's drone policy and the nomination of John Brennan to lead the CIA.
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He has proven to be a thorn in the side of many of his fellow Republicans, openly challenging them on issues such as government surveillance, drone policies and sanctions on Iran and Cuba.
He has also questioned the size of the US military and proposed relaxing drug laws that lock up offenders at a high cost for tax payers.
It is not clear how successful Mr Paul will be amongst mainstream Republican supporters.
His father, former member of the US House of Representatives Ron Paul, ran several unsuccessful presidential campaigns that had strong appeal to libertarians who favour limited government and lower taxes.
On a stormy Tuesday morning, deep in the bowels of the massive 1,200 room Galt Hotel in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, Rand Paul launched his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Mr Paul doesn't sound like your average Republican presidential candidate, and at times his event didn't look much like a traditional Republican presidential kick-off. Very early on, he criticised both Republicans and Democrats for being creatures of a political establishment that is unresponsive to the American people.
"Too often when Republicans have won we have squandered our victory by becoming part of the Washington machine" he said "That's not who I am."
The morning started with a video by country music singer John Rich featuring a blue-collar factor worker being laid off and the refrain, "Here' in the real world they're shutting Detroit down" - interspersed with wonky sound bites of the Kentucky senator talking about "economic freedom zones".
Enter, the 'fuzzy' libertarian Rand Paul
Mr Paul is expected, however, to run a very tech-savvy campaign that could create appeal to new Republican demographics, like young voters.
Indeed, the campaign's official announcement first came in a post on his website several hours before he appeared on stage in Louisville, Kentucky.
"I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government," he said in the online message.
He joins Senator Ted Cruz as the two most prominent declared candidates.
He could face up to 20 other fellow Republicans doing battle for the nomination, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, both of whom are expected to enter the race soon.
The triumphant individual is widely expected to battle with Hillary Clinton, the Democratic favourite and former US Secretary of State.
Ms Clinton has yet to officially announce her candidacy, but is expected to do so in the next two weeks.
Mr Paul attended Baylor University, but did not graduate. He later attended Duke Medical School.
Mr Paul lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky. His wife Kelly and he have three sons.
Known as the Dirty Cow bug, the vulnerability has been present in many versions of Linux for almost a decade.
The warnings come as malicious hackers start exploiting it to take over vulnerable computers.
The vulnerability gets its name from the Linux sub-system, called Copy-On-Write or COW, in which it appears.
Updated versions of Linux that no longer suffer the bug are now being widely distributed. Millions of computers, including a majority of web servers, run Linux or one of its variants.
"The nature of the vulnerability lends itself to extremely reliable exploitation," Dan Rosenberg, a security researcher at Azimuth Security, told tech news site Ars Technica. He added that it was the "most serious" bug of its type ever found in Linux.
The vulnerability allows attackers to steadily increase the amount of control they can exert over a target system.
Security expert Graham Cluley said the bug was of a type that did not normally prompt action because they were less likely to be exploited. However, he said, Dirty Cow should be taken seriously because there was some evidence that it was being actively abused.
Attack code that capitalised on the weakly protected sub-system was captured by developer Phil Oester as it was used in an attempt to take over a server he runs.
Mr Oester told the V3 tech news site that the vulnerability was easy to use and was "almost certain" to be more widely used by cyberthieves.
Donald, 38, shot a closing 67 for a 16-under total, five shots adrift of Kim.
Kim, 21, shot a second-round 60 to take command in North Carolina, and sealed his first PGA win with a 67 on Sunday.
Spain's Rafa Cabrera-Bello shared fifth and is in Clarke's side, with three wild cards to be added next week.
Clarke's fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell, who holed the winning putt in 2010 and has played in the last four European sides, was one of the players to tie for fifth with the Cabrera-Bello.
Donald's compatriots Matt Fitzpatrick and Andy Sulllivan secured their automatic places in Europe's Ryder Cup team following the European Tour's Czech Masters, which also finished on Sunday.
They join Rory McIlroy, Danny Willett, Henrik Stenson, Chris Wood, Sergio Garcia, Justin Rose and Cabrera-Bello in Clarke's team for the matches at Hazeltine in Minnesota next month, as Europe seek a fourth consecutive win over the US.
Kim is the fifth South Korean to win on the PGA Tour and the youngest to triumph in the Wyndham Championship since Ryder Cup icon Seve Ballesteros claimed the title in 1978.
Lancashire Police said her silver Honda Jazz hit a brick wall at the junction of Blackpool Road North and Heyhouses Lane in Lytham St Annes on Sunday night.
She was taken to Blackpool Victoria Hospital, where she later died.
The road was closed for three hours following the incident, and police have appealed for any witnesses to contact them.
Extra Energy, which launched in 2014, attracted 1,682 complaints per 100,000 customers between January and March.
This is the highest ratio of complaints over the five years the data has been collected.
The company described the start of the year as "challenging" and has apologised to customers.
Extra Energy has more than 500,000 customers after consistently offering some of the cheapest tariffs in the market since its launch, but said it had struggled to cope with demand.
"It is true to say that the first quarter of the year was a challenging period and some customers were affected. We apologise unreservedly to every single customer who has experienced problems," said Ben Jones, managing director of operations at Extra Energy.
"Unfortunately we did not put customer service resources in place quickly enough. Thankfully these problems are largely a thing of the past."
Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said: "Energy consumers continue to face a gamble when it comes to good customer service.
"The latest league table results show both small and large suppliers delivering a good service, proving that a company's size is no excuse for poor performance.
"It should be every consumer's right to receive a high quality service from their supplier and standards must be improved across the board."
SSE was the best performer in terms of how effectively customer complaints were dealt with by energy companies, according to the Citizens Advice table.
The paper wrongly claimed that Liverpool fans "picked the pockets" of some of the 96 victims of the 1989 tragedy and urinated on medics.
On Thursday, Mr MacKenzie said Liverpool reporters supplied the story.
But on Friday, he told the BBC he had got it wrong.
He said: "Having just checked with the Sun's news editor at the time, it is clear that the story didn't come from the Liverpool agencies.
"I apologise for getting it wrong but it was 21 years ago."
Speaking on BBC Two's Daily Politics on Thursday about the Sun's coverage, Mr MacKenzie said: "That story came from a Liverpool news agency and Liverpool journalists."
Chris Johnson, editor of Mercury Press in Liverpool, later demanded an apology and said he was consulting his lawyers.
He said: "I feel slighted and absolutely insulted, not only for my agency, but for every journalist in Liverpool, and certainly for every freelance journalist in Liverpool."
He said his agency "absolutely categorically 100%" had nothing to do with the story and described Mr MacKenzie's comments as "vile allegations".
When asked to respond to Mr Johnson's comments on Friday morning, Mr MacKenzie initially said he stood by the remarks and that Mr Johnson should check back through his files.
But he later contacted BBC News to say his original remarks had been wrong.
Mr Johnson said: "I remain shocked and disgusted that Kelvin MacKenzie was prepared to trot out a complete lie that defamed my agency and rubbed more salt into the wound in Liverpool - on top of damage he had already caused in 1989."
He said he wanted a direct apology for both the agency and the people of Liverpool.
"As for the matter of damages, I will leave that to the lawyers," he said.
He said the agency had received abusive phone calls and emails, following Mr MacKenzie's comments.
Some suggested it was an alien invasion, while others thought it may have been some sort of aircraft.
It was, in fact, a "sporadic meteor" according to Tolis Christou from the Armagh Observatory.
"This doesn't look like it's associated with any of the meteor showers of the year," he said.
"On average, we can see something this bright, if we are lucky, once a year," he said.
"The sparks we saw behind the meteor were bits falling off - the stress of our atmosphere causes it to disintegrate".
The meteor was recorded at 22:10 BST on Sunday evening, moving north west towards Scotland, where it was also observed.
Councillor Robert Evans said Uber drivers caused "nightmare" congestion for people in Oaks Road, Stanwell.
"I have seen confrontations between residents and the taxi drivers when there have been 15 to 20 in a very small stretch of road," he said.
Uber said it was monitoring the situation closely.
Mr Evans said Uber drivers were not breaking the law but prevented residents from parking outside their houses and blocked traffic.
"There has been a lot of rubbish and coffee mugs and so on thrown down around here and I have heard plenty of reports of drivers urinating in the road because they wait for a long time," he said.
Uber, which operates in more than a dozen cities in the UK, has removed the nearby village of Stanwell Moor from the mobile phone app so drivers no longer wait there, Mr Evans said.
"Hopefully we are going to get this part of Stanwell decommissioned from Uber as well, so people won't be able to use it in the way they have, but of course that will be pushing the problem further away," said Mr Evans.
Uber said it had changed its processes and there had been a dramatic and immediate reduction of the number of cars in the area.
"We are monitoring the situation closely and continuing to advise partner-drivers of our updated policy," said a spokesman.
"We would like to again apologise to local residents and reassure them that we are continuing to treat this issue with the utmost seriousness."
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Camp residents and aid workers were among those killed when the air force bombed Rann, in Borno state, thinking it was a base of Boko Haram militants.
It was the biggest known botched attack in eight years of fighting the group.
The Nigerian army says it is engaged in a "final push" against the Islamists.
Commanders have apologised for the "accidental" bombing, which they said was because of "the fog of war".
Human Rights Watch said this did not absolve them of responsibility, and called for compensation for the victims.
A local government official from the area, Babagana Malarima, said a mistake had been made when it was earlier reported that the number of those killed had risen to 236.
The error had been made by those in the camp settlement who had added the number of dead to the number of injured to come up with the figure, he told the BBC.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack last Tuesday, the medical charity MSF said 52 people had died.
The wounded were treated in an MSF tented clinic as there are no hospitals in Rann, where displaced people are living in makeshift shelters.
An aid worker told the BBC that the attack, in which at least two bombs were dropped, caused terror and chaos at the camp.
He said he saw dead children lying on the ground, others left as orphans and terrible injuries among survivors.
Aid workers estimated 20,000-40,000 people had been sheltering in Rann, near the border with Cameroon, after fleeing attacks by Boko Haram.
The emergency services official, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, said all those who had died at Rann had now been buried.
Those critically injured were still receiving treatment in the state capital, Maiduguri, while others were being treated locally by international aid agencies and local services.
The Red Cross has said it has distributed food to more than 25,000 people in Rann since Saturday.
It said they had received enough rice, beans, oil, salt and corn soya blend to last for five weeks.
"People in Rann were happy to receive food. They have been isolated by rains and poor quality roads since June and running very low on food supplies," said Red Cross economic security coordinator Mohammed Sheikh-Ali.
"At the beginning of January, we laid sand bags on the road for our trucks to be able to cross. We got 12 trucks full of food to Rann last week on the day of the air strike, which prevented us [from distributing]. As soon as medical evacuations were over, we organised the distribution with the help of the community."
Twenty aid workers from the Nigerian Red Cross were among the casualties in the air attack.
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The roundabout at the end of the Luton South spur road will be replaced by a flyover, to allow uninterrupted movement from the M1 to London Luton airport.
The Department for Transport said relieving traffic congestion created a "sound need" for the scheme.
Luton Council, said the plan was "vital" for business growth.
The council put the flyover proposal to the DfT in June 2012 because it believed the roundabout was the weak link in allowing traffic in and out of Luton after an £800m spend on widening the M1.
It said the junction experienced "significant queues and delays, particularly at peak travel times" and worked with the Highways Agency, Central Bedfordshire Council and designer URS on a solution.
As well as removing the Kidney Wood roundabout, the plans also include the widening of the spur road and the A1081 Airport Way.
New slip roads and roundabouts will allow access for traffic heading for Luton town centre or Harpenden.
Nearly £25m of funding will be provided by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' Regional Growth Fund.
Granting the order for the scheme to go ahead, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the improved accessibility would "promote economic growth, relieve congestion and ensure the vitality of Luton town centre".
The order will also allow the council to acquire designated green belt land for the scheme.
However, the department said because the scheme must be located at and around the existing junction which lies in the green belt, it would "not be inappropriate development".
Luton Borough councillor Sian Timoney said the new junction was "vital to securing jobs and business growth" in the town.
"It will not only significantly improve safety and reliability of journey times for motorists and business transport but will also crucially unlock development of several key regeneration sites," she said.
Luton Borough Council said preliminary work could begin within three weeks with major construction to get under way early next year.
It said the new road could be open by summer 2015.
Accusing the US of pushing to start a war, it vowed to exercise its right to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack against its aggressors.
The Security Council meets later today to approve fresh sanctions against Pyongyang over the 12 February test.
Earlier this week, North Korea also threatened to scrap the 60-year truce which ended the Korean War.
"As long as the United States is willing to spark nuclear war our forces will exercise their right to a pre-emptive nuclear strike," said North Korea's foreign ministry, in a statement carried by the KCNA news agency, without giving further details.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says most analysts believe Pyongyang is unlikely to start a war with the US, and may instead be trying to provoke a fresh stance from Washington ahead of the UN vote.
But the atmosphere on the Korean Peninsula is more tense than usual, our correspondent adds, after North Korea said that it would tear up the armistice agreement next week.
The two Koreas remain technically at war in the wake of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended with an armistice, not a formal peace treaty.
North Korea's military command said it would end that armistice on 11 March, threatening "surgical strikes" on its southern neighbour and the use of a "precision nuclear striking tool" in response to the sanctions and ongoing South Korea-US military drills.
South Korea warned earlier this week that it would respond to any provocation from its northern neighbour.
The agreement provided for:
The Korean War armistice
On Thursday, a spokesman for the South Korean Defence Ministry, Kim Min-seok, said Pyongyang had been observed carrying out "various drills involving the army, navy and air force," and that further exercises were being prepared, the Yonhap news agency reports.
He said South Korea was taking "great interest in these activities," giving the view that such training could be "extended into a provocation at any time".
Officials also told Yonhap the North had imposed no-fly and no-sail zones off its east and west coasts, an indication that it could be planning to test-fire missiles.
Seoul is itself conducting military drills at the moment, in its annual joint manoeuvres with the US army, involving some 13,000 troops from both sides. The North views the drills as a provocation and as preparation for war.
The UN Security Council, meanwhile, will vote on the sanctions resolutions on North Korea at 10:00 EST (15:00 GMT).
The resolution, which is expected to pass, was proposed by China and the US, and will target North Korea's diplomats, cash transfers and access to luxury goods.
It will also impose asset freezes and travel bans on three individuals and two corporations linked to North Korea's military.
The sanctions have been described by Washington's UN ambassador Susan Rice as "some of the toughest sanctions" the UN had ever imposed.
Meanwhile, Australia has put on hold plans to reopen a North Korea embassy in its capital, Canberra.
Patrick Low, a spokesman for the Australian foreign ministry, said there was still "some merit" in having a North Korean embassy in Australia, including enabling more direct communication on human rights issues.
But said the plans had been frozen "until further notice" while Australia worked with the UN Security Council on its response to North Korea's nuclear test.
North Korea first opened an embassy in Australia in 2002, but closed it in 2008 for financial reasons.
The nuclear test, North Korea's third, followed its apparently successful launch in December of a three-stage rocket - a move condemned by the UN as a banned test of missile technology.
Pyongyang claims its nuclear test involved a smaller and more powerful device - prompting concerns it could be moving closer to creating a warhead small enough to arm a missile.
The collision, on the A947 Fyvie to Oldmeldrum road, happened just before 03:30 and involved a black Peugeot 208 and a lorry.
Alan Geals, of Turriff, was the car driver who died.
The 31-year-old lorry driver suffered minor injuries and was taken to Inverurie Hospital for treatment. Police appealed for witnesses.
The road was closed to allow an investigation to be carried out, but later re-opened.
The Public Health Agency (PHA), that advises on health and well-being, is to lose about £2.8m.
The union Nipsa warned that jobs would be affected.
Alison Millar, deputy general secretary, said: "Nipsa has met with the PHA and has been advised that a cut of this magnitude will have a devastating impact on the agency with a projected loss of 45 to 50 jobs."
While the overall health budget is being protected, in order to make savings, cuts are being made to the budgets of the various arms-length bodies, including the health board and the PHA.
Health Regulators, the RQIA, the Business Services Organisation and the Medical and Dental Training Association will also have to work with less money. It is thought that cuts to those budgets could range from between 3 and 15%.
There are also cuts to the budget of Northern Ireland's Guardian Ad Litem Agency.
A spokesperson for the health board said it would ensure that any impact on staff would be minimised.
"It was outlined in the executive's 2015/16 budget that arms-length bodies within the department of health will have to make savings in the new financial year," she spokesperson said.
"The Health and Social Care Board is now considering a range of proposals to reduce its overall budget, and will ensure that any impact on staff will be minimised."
Jeremy Hunt said anyone phoning with possible symptoms would be asked about their travel history and referred to local emergency services if necessary.
He said paramedics sent out would have "appropriate protective equipment".
The health secretary also said it was now "more likely than not" that Ebola would reach the UK.
The government has already announced screening starting this week at some airports and Eurostar terminals.
Prime Minister David Cameron said the UK was taking "very vigorous steps" to protect people.
In the US, President Barack Obama said hospitals should improve safety measures after a nurse in Texas who treated an Ebola patient tested positive for the virus.
Officials said the female health worker had become infected with the virus despite wearing full protective clothing.
Mr Hunt is to update MPs later on the UK's readiness to cope with a potential Ebola outbreak.
The health secretary said he would announce changes to procedures "across the NHS" and provide an estimate of the number of cases the UK needed to prepare for in the next three months.
It comes after the UK held an exercise on Saturday to test the national response.
People who call 111 and report symptoms such as respiratory problems or vomiting will be asked about their travel history, Mr Hunt said.
He said anyone who had "recently been to West Africa and is at high risk of having been in contact with Ebola" would be assessed by emergency services.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Hunt said he thought "very few" people would use the service.
"But we have to prepare for the situation getting worse. And in West Africa now the incidence of Ebola is doubling every three to four weeks," he said.
"So I want to make sure we are prepared for the fact it is now more likely than not that someone will arrive in the UK with Ebola and one of the most crucial things in that situation is what happens when they make their first contact with the NHS."
He added that the risk to the public in Britain "remains low".
On Sunday, Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the government was at risk of promising "stuff that doesn't really make any sense".
He said screening - which is due to be introduced at Heathrow and Gatwick airports and Eurostar terminals from this week - was "far from perfect".
Mr Johnson said blood tests could not be done on every passenger and temperature checks would not pick up infected people who had not yet developed symptoms - which can take up to three weeks.
Passenger screening is expected to focus on people who have recently been to the worst-affected West African countries - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
Dr Ron Behrens, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said identifying possible sufferers through the NHS 111 service was "very resource-intensive" and would offer "low-quality detection" of cases.
And in an email seen by the BBC, a consultant has called the screening programme a "political gesture" which was "unlikely to provide public health benefits".
But Mr Cameron said: "There are no direct flights from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone but people are coming in indirectly.
"We should be trying our best to screen them and that will begin this week.
"Not only are we doing more than almost any other country in the world to deal with this problem at source in Sierra Leone and other countries, we are also taking very vigorous steps here to make sure we keep our people safe."
The government's chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, said although the programme was a "blunt instrument" it would save lives.
Screening is under way at New York's JFK airport, and checks at some other US airports are due to start in the coming days.
Figures published by the World Health Organization on Friday showed there had been 4,024 confirmed or suspected Ebola deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone during the current outbreak.
WHO director-general Margaret Chan said on Monday that the Ebola outbreak had shown "the world is ill-prepared to respond to any severe, sustained and threatening public health emergency".
In a statement she said: "I have never seen a health event threaten the very survival of societies and governments in already very poor countries. I have never seen an infectious disease contribute so strongly to potential state failure."
The money will pay for a second stereotactic body radiotherapy treatment (SBRT) machine at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff.
The machine targets tumours, but causes less damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
The funding will allow the hospital to offer twice as many people SBRT.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said there had been an 8% increase in the number of courses of radiotherapy given at the centre in the past two years and a 10% rise in the number of attendances for treatment.
He said the new machine, which replaces an older model, would help the centre meet this demand and would see fewer people having to travel to Sheffield for treatment.
United, considered the favourites by many bookmakers, are the only British side left in Europe's secondary club competition.
Jose Mourinho's side beat French side Saint-Etienne 4-0 on aggregate in the last 32.
"It is a bad draw in every aspect," said Mourinho. "It is far and difficult -and comes in a bad period."
The two-legged ties will be played on Thursday, 9 March and Thursday, 16 March.
Last season's Russian Premier League runners-up Rostov are the lowest-ranked team left in the Europa League, with Uefa's system rating them as only the 93rd best team on the continent.
They are competing in the last 16 of a major European competition for the first time.
Rostov are seventh in their domestic league at the mid-season winter break, having won two of their previous eight league matches.
A 4-0 first-leg victory against last-32 opponents Sparta Prague set up a comfortable 5-1 aggregate win and booked their first meeting against three-time European champions United.
They dropped into the Europa League after finishing third in a Champions League group containing Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich and PSV Eindhoven.
"They had a very good Champions League campaign," added Mourinho.
"They beat Ajax and Anderlecht in qualifiers, managed important results against Bayern and Atletico, got third position to knock PSV out.
"The team is very defensive and physical. A bad draw."
The Isaan plateau of north-eastern Thailand is poor, dry, and far from the sea. Home to around one third of the country's population, most of them ethnic Lao in origin, it is renowned for its spicy and inventive cuisine, using whatever ingredients are available.
Where there are rivers or lakes, they use the smaller fish they catch in a pungent dish called koi plaa. The fish are chopped up finely, and mixed by hand with local herbs, lime juice and live red ants, and served up raw.
It is very popular, but also dangerous.
For decades, certain populations in the north-east have been known to have abnormally high levels of liver cancer.
In men it comprises more than half of all cancer cases, compared to an average of less than 10% worldwide.
The high prevalence has long been linked to infection by liver flukes, a kind of parasite, found in raw fish.
But it is only in the last decade that a serious effort has been made to get people to change their eating habits, by cooking koi plaa to kill the flukes before they eat it.
Dr. Banchob Sripa at the Tropical Disease Research Laboratory in Khon Kaen University is the man largely responsible for this effort.
"We have been studying this link in our labs for over 30 years", he said.
"We found that the liver fluke can make a chemical that stimulates a host immune response - inflammation - and after many years, this becomes chronic inflammation, which then becomes cancer."
His team found that in some communities up to 80% of people were infected by the fluke, some as young as four years-old, but that the cancer rarely developed before people reached 50. Once it does, though, there is little hope for patients.
At the university hospital they receive around 2,000 patients a year with a specific form of liver cancer called cholangiocarcinoma.
Only around 200 of those can be treated, usually by surgery, cutting out the tumour from the liver.
The others are given palliative care, easing their discomfort, usually by draining bile ducts, until they die.
The only effective remedy is prevention.
So Dr. Banchob and his team are running a community-based health education programme in the villages along the great wetland, known as Lawa Lake, south of Khon Kaen, where liver fluke infection rates are highest.
They started by using the most effective methods for this region; recruiting respected community leaders to do most of the talking, and injecting plenty of north-eastern music and humour, which can be as pungent as the local cooking.
They have composed songs that press home easily understood information about the life-cycle of the fluke.
The larvae, embedded in the fish's flesh, are consumed and grow into an adult flukes inside the liver.
The eggs are then excreted, passing back into the water system where they are eaten by a particular snail, before the larvae move back to the fish again.
They also take a portable ultrasound machine around the villages to screen people for liver fluke infection.
It is striking how many older people have high levels, indicating that they still eat their koi plaa raw.
"Sometimes I cook it, but sometimes I forget," said 61-year-old Jongluck Laonongkwa after his screening. His liver was infested with flukes.
"I think 60% do understand the causes of the liver cancer" said Dr. Banchob, "they are aware of the liver fluke.
"But 10% are still eating raw fish. I believe that 10% probably cannot change. So we should change the environment, make the fish cleaner, to get fewer infections."
Part of the education campaign focuses on getting people to use proper toilets, and not defecate in the lake, which reduces the number of fluke eggs.
In the villages where the campaign has been running, infection rates are coming down sharply, to below 10% in some.
It will take more time for liver cancer rates to fall significantly, but the attitude of younger people is encouraging.
Kamphan Sapsombat, 71, is being treated in hospital for an inoperable tumour. He is jaundiced, with yellow eyes which is a clear sign of a blocked bile duct.
His daughter, Rattana, said her father had eaten raw fish all his life. But the rest of her family had stopped it years ago, she said.
They understood all too well that the risk of ending up like her father was not worth it.
Her case, which was supported by the Equality Commission, was settled out of court with no admission of liability.
The woman, who has been in the UK for 16 years, holds a British passport.
Speaking afterwards, she said: "I thought then, and I still think now, I was stopped because I am black."
The woman was leaving her mother-in-law to the airport when the incident occurred.
After the drop off, she and her children were waiting to be collected when she was approached by an immigration officer who asked to see her passport or ID.
She claimed that the officer told her she "looked foreign and not from here".
The woman showed the officer her driving licence and explained that she was British, that she was not travelling and was simply dropping off a relative.
The officer asked for details about her mother-in-law and a friend who had driven them to the airport, before checking her immigration status over a radio link.
After the case, the woman said: "I was doing what many other people do without incident - dropping off my relative for her flight.
"I've worked in the UK for 16 years, the most recent two of them in Northern Ireland, and I was really upset by this incident and the way it was handled by the Immigration Service."
She said the experience has had "a negative and unsettling effect" on her entire family.
"One of my children has asked me if we now have to carry our passports everywhere with us," she said.
Dr Michael Wardlow, Chief Commissioner of the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland, said he found the case "extremely disturbing".
"In effect, it has left a woman feeling she has been singled out and had her identity questioned in full public gaze," he said.
"And if a person feels, as this woman did, that they are singled out because of their skin colour, it can be particularly upsetting and humiliating - as it was for our complainant and her children, who witnessed the event.
"It is quite simply unacceptable that she feels she was challenged in a public place only because of the colour of her skin. It is vital that we challenge such simplistic stereotyping of people."
Dr Wardlow described as "ironic" the fact that the woman does not want to be publicly identified because of the fear of negativity or intimidation.
The Home Office has apologised to the woman for any offence caused.
I admit that consuming alcohol can be involved, just occasionally. But normally that's only after the cameras have been packed away. Not so this time.
My twin brother, Dr Xand and I have a long standing debate:
Given that blokes like us are "allowed" three to four units of alcohol a day, is it better to get a whole week's worth out of the way in one binge and give your liver a chance to recover afterwards?
Or to spread the booze across the week, just a couple every night, but never giving your liver a rest?
It seemed like a question BBC's flagship science show Horizon could answer, so we shared it with them… and walked straight into a serious challenge.
The first thing we found out as we started to look into this idea, was that there's very little medical evidence supporting the recommended daily guidelines.
This was a worry from the start - what were we going to find out, and how long would we need to find it?
Obviously you can't do this sort of thing without guidance, so we were pleased that Horizon put us in the hands of a team of specialists at the Royal Free Hospital.
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They had some experience of this kind of thing after a running a pilot study the year before.
With their help we devised a plan. Xand and I needed to get our livers to a level playing field to start with, and that lead to the first hardship … a whole month completely dry. No cheating.
After a very dull month off the booze, Xand and I went to the Royal Free for the first of many medicals, a kind of liver-MOT.
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This is actually where it started to get really serious.
As I watched Xand get pricked and poked and scanned, my mind ran through the gallons of beer and wine that must have been through my body, and the hammering my liver must have taken through medical school.
I actually grew quite apprehensive about the results - of course all I really wanted to hear was that my liver was healthier than his.
But I needn't have worried. Incredibly, both Xand and I passed the medicals with flying colours.
After one month off the booze our livers were soft, healthy, and most important for the test ahead, they were identical.
But then the drinking started.
I was pretty pleased with my lot, an enforced three units - one big (250ml) glass of wine - every night for a month.
To be honest, that's probably less than I normally drink over an average month, but I don't think I've ever gone so long without a day off.
I was genuinely interested to find out whether I'd start to go off the idea after a week or so. On the other hand, Xand was only going to be allowed to drink once a week.
Xand and I met up for the first session. While I supped my three units, he was to down a whole week's worth - 21 units - in that one night.
On camera. I think it's fair to say we were both quite looking forward to it.
We opted for vodka, as it was going to be easier for him to drink 21 shots over the few hours we had with the camera crew than eight or nine average-strength pints.
And then one of the strangest nights of socialising I've ever experienced began. Basically we sat alone in a bar, with a crew of burly camera men watching, while I suffered the company of my increasingly incoherent brother as he consumed three quarters of a bottle of vodka.
I went through so many emotions that night. It was funny to begin with. Xand really was pretty far gone. But it really made me think about what the alcohol was doing to his liver and his heart and his brain - and what it does to mine every time I overdo it like that.
By the time I got Xand home, he was pretty helpless. I had to play the responsible brother and help him get to bed. And at that stage I was starting to get concerned for him - but the next day was even more sobering.
Luckily for Xand the camera crew didn't arrive until late in the morning so he had a bit of a lie in.
But when we looked at all the readings we'd taken, he'd clearly been in a dangerous state the night before. He was actually at his worst a few hours after we'd gone to sleep, when the level of alcohol in his blood was, according to the text books, enough to put him at danger of death.
That wiped the smiles off our faces - along with his inability to recall anything about the journey home, or his descent into a blubbering idiot. And this was just the first of four binges he had ahead of him.
While Xand started his week-long recovery, I got into my daily routine of three units a night. To start with it wasn't difficult. In fact it felt odd to stop at just three units.
That's precisely the point where I normally start feeling such a warm glow I think "Ooh yeah, come on let's have another …" So it was actually quite frustrating having to stop there.
What I did notice was that my work started to suffer quite quickly. At the time, I was processing data in a laboratory, so it was quite easy to measure my productivity.
Although I didn't feel much different I was certainly achieving less, and that really surprised me.
After that, I started to find drinking a bit of a chore, like taking medicine. And so by the second week I began finding ways to add some variety - I spread the drinks out over a day, had a glass of wine at lunch for example. But it wasn't quite as easy as I'd expected it to be.
Plus, I began to feel protective of Xand, especially when it was apparent how much he came to relish his binges after six days of recovery.
The results of the final tests truly shocked us. And the medics. Sure, Xand's binges did him no good at all. But they actually affected him for many days afterwards, meaning he never fully recovered between binges.
But even more shocking were my results - which were almost as bad as Xand's. I got the feeling my liver had basically returned to its normal state- and it wasn't any better than Xand's binge-bashed liver.
So what now? To binge or not to binge? Well there are two things I learned from our test.
First, the current guidelines of three to four units a day for a man like me need looking at. It's a good job they're under review right now, and I look forward to seeing the results announced this summer.
Second - our livers can bounce back, but they need much longer to recover. This was so clear, that the medics behind our test have launched a full clinical study.
They're measuring the effects of a dry month in well over 100 volunteers. Watch this space to find out what that study reveals.
Horizon: Is binge drinking really that bad? - on BBC2 at 21.00 BST, Wednesday May 20th
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Third-top Hibs looked on their way to victory with Jason Cummings goals early in the first half and then again, from a penalty, with nine minutes remaining.
The visitors already had Aaron Muirhead red-carded with 16 minutes left.
The second-top Bairns' comeback was stunning, starting with David McCracken's header and completed by another header from sub Bob McHugh.
Against all odds, Peter Houston's team remain six points clear of Hibs, albeit having played two more games than Alan Stubbs' side.
This was a game that Hibs had to win, not just because they needed to eat into Falkirk's advantage over them in the battle for second place - and the avoidance of those extra play-off games.
But also for Scottish Cup semi-final reasons. Hibs needed some feel-good ahead of that meeting with Dundee United at Hampden on Saturday.
All they got was a sucker-punch.
They got off to a perfect start. For Hibs, Cummings' opener was a joy. For Falkirk, a total calamity.
A harmless punt downfield became a nightmarish spectacle for McCracken and his goalkeeper. Their breakdown in communication led to the defender heading past Danny Rogers as he was charging from his goal.
The ball trickled goalwards, Cummings helping it on its way. It was going in anyway, but with just one goal in eight games, Cummings was hardly going to shepherd it to the line. Instead, he rifled it into the net.
There was an aggression in the game that reflected the stakes on offer. Lusty tackles flew in, some clumsy, some cynical, some that could have brought a red card instead of a yellow long before Muirhead walked.
There were a couple of penalty appeals from Hibs that provoked anger when they were waved away. Then a row broke out. It wasn't the last one either.
Hibs were well on top, Falkirk an attacking let-down in that opening half. The home team, in truth, should have doubled their lead before the break, but Anthony Stokes wasted a headed chance from three yards out.
Stubbs' side continued to create the chances, but when Falkirk got it together there was an anxiety in that Hibs defence that was obvious and that would haunt them for a finish.
McHugh went painfully close to equalising midway through the second half, but goalkeeper Mark Oxley was in the right place to deny him.
When Muirhead got a second yellow for a daft tackle on John McGinn, it looked like lights out for Falkirk, a feeling that intensified when Cummings scored again.
Falkirk complained bitterly about that penalty decision, given against McCracken for a foul on Paul Hanlon.
It looked desperately harsh, but their fury fell on deaf ears. Crawford Allan, the referee, was having none of it. Neither was Cummings. He smashed his shot into the roof of Rogers' net.
McCracken's frenetic night continued when he sparked the comeback three minutes from the end.
Hibs' defensive frailties were exposed in that moment. Their inability to deal with a delivery into their penalty area cost them one goal and then, incredibly, another when McHugh seized on the chance and levelled it.
All of this was played out in front of the delirious Falkirk supporters. Hibs fans, by contrast, were hushed, much like their shell-shocked team.
The victory sets up a last-four meeting with number two seeds Kai Lu and Yaqiong Huang.
The Adcocks, seeded third, were beaten by the Chinese pair in the semi-finals at the All England Championships earlier this month.
Defeat meant they missed out on being Britain's first finalists in a decade.
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John Jackson from the States of Jersey environment department said there were 1,500 fewer animals in the island than 10 years ago.
He blamed the drop in the number of cows on several dairy farmers who left the industry.
Mr Jackson said more than half of the 5,000 left were used for milking and producing other dairy goods.
He said that the local market was the largest part of the dairy industry in Jersey but that was limited.
"100,000 people on Jersey can't drink massive amounts of milk, they can only drink what they need which is about 9m litres, we currently produce 13m litres," said Mr Jackson.
"The difference between those two figures go into butter, yoghurt, ice cream, all sorts of dairy products."
Afrobasket 2015 is being held in Rades, on the outskirts of the capital Tunis, having moved from the coast after two deadly attacks on tourists this year.
In June, an Islamist gunman killed 38 people at the beach resort of Sousse.
The winners of this year's tournament will be crowned African champions, as well as qualifying for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The other three semi-finalists will go into an Olympic qualifying tournament next year.
The opening match of the event is between Egypt and Gabon.
Defending champions Angola are favourites to win the tournament.
Cambridge United supporter Simon Dobbin, 42, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, was brutally assaulted after his team played at Southend United on 21 March.
He suffered a head injury and is critically ill in hospital.
His sister Victoria Forsythe said she and her family were "not in any way upset or angry" at Southend fans.
She said that in fact, they felt "much the opposite" as Southend supporters had "supported us through this tough time and continue to do so".
"As a family, we are hopeful and are holding on to the miracle that Simon will wake up."
The grandfather remains in a medically-induced coma at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
He also sustained a broken hip and broken nose during the attack in the Essex town's East Street.
Police said Mr Dobbin and his friends had left the Blue Boar pub when they were assaulted by a group of men who had come out of another pub.
The fight was broken up by police using CS spray.
Det Ch Insp Martin Pasmore said: "He is a decent family man who was simply enjoying a day out.
"It is my intention to identify everyone involved in this sickening attack and bring them to justice."
A fundraising appeal has made nearly £10,500 to help Mr Dobbin's family.
Four men, aged 19 to 33 and all from Essex, have been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and released on bail.
The museum was housed at Waterbeach Barracks, north of Cambridge. The entire site is set to close in early 2013 as part of Ministry of Defence (MoD) cuts.
Artefacts gathered since the station was opened in 1941, including photographs and medals, were set to be dispersed before villagers got together to ensure that would not happen.
They set up a trust and the museum's contents have been officially signed over to them.
Oliver Merrington, the museum's curator, said he was extremely pleased "to have found such an excellent group of trustees" which includes retired army staff.
About 900 personnel and relatives from 39 Engineer Regiment have moved off the base and been deployed to the former RAF base at Kinloss.
The barracks site is currently being considered for development by South Cambridgeshire District Council.
Adrian Wright, chair of the Waterbeach Military Heritage Museum, said: "The museum is part of the heritage of the village and the heritage of so many squadrons that were stationed there.
"It's so good that we've had this opportunity to save this museum for the future."
The items will be stored in the village while a new venue is sought.
They include the medals awarded to Walter, Jack and Clifford Day who were born in Waterbeach and died in World War I.
The former curator, retired major David Hornby, said: "Little was known about the brothers until a local man found the medals at a Norwich auction a few years ago.
"He purchased them for the village and they were given to the museum."
The museum was set up by the Royal Engineers in 1985, to commemorate the men and women who served at RAF Waterbeach station from its opening until 1966 when 39 Engineer Regiment moved there.
It also tells the story of the regiment since its arrival in Cambridgeshire.
Much of the material in the museum was donated by members of 514 Squadron who flew Lancasters from the station during World War II.
Veterans from the squadron return to the village every summer for a reunion, and hope to continue this tradition.
Maj Hornby said: "They come from all over the world and they want to keep returning to the museum."
He said the barracks site also contained a memorial garden where the ashes of 13 squadron members had been scattered.
Bernard Yeomans, 91, who was a Leading Aircraftsman at RAF Waterbeach from 1942, has attended the reunions for more than 15 years.
"A lot of the photographs in the collection are of people I recognise," he said.
"I don't think people realise the casualty rate among Bomber Command.
"The first 1000-bomber raid by 514 Squadron was from Waterbeach - the last one was a disaster because we sent eight aircraft and we only got four back."
Mr Merrington will spend next year cataloguing the collection and creating a photographic record of each item.
He hopes the museum will reopen on the airfield when it is developed.
"We have had an assurance from the most likely developers of the MOD-owned airfield and barracks that the inclusion of a museum will form an important part of the site's heritage," he said.
Maj Hornby added: "This is 72 years of the history of Waterbeach and it's important that we retain that history forever."
Paul Terrington, who is also the head of accountancy firm PWC, said there was a stark contrast with the other devolved regions of the UK.
He was speaking on the BBC's Inside Business programme.
The crisis was sparked by the murder of a former IRA man last month and the impasse over welfare reform.
Unionist ministers have withdrawn from the executive as a result.
More talks to try and resolve it are set to take place on Monday.
"I guess there is something of a sense of fatigue in the business community around the continuing crisis at Stormont," Mr Terrington said.
"My colleagues in the other area of PWC around the UK say their business communities are embracing that whole devolution agenda with zeal and enthusiasm and a real relish to be able to grab more and more powers for decision-making to be able to shape local economic strategies.
"If we run counter to that trend I think it's only to our disadvantage."
Borko Ilincic, 33, is accused of being involved in the spectacular 11m euros ($15m; £9m) robbery of a jewellery store in Dubai in 2007.
Spanish police said he was arrested as he tried to leave a hotel in a Madrid suburb in a rental car.
He was carrying a false Bosnian passport, though police said his real nationality is Serbian.
The Pink Panthers are an international band of jewel thieves, many of whom hail from the Balkans, who are known for their daring robberies and burglaries.
Interpol says the gang has stolen over 330m euros ($450m; £270m) of jewellery since 1999, and is linked to 340 robberies in 35 countries.
Many of the robberies took place in the French Riviera, but the gang has also struck as far away as Dubai, Tokyo, and London.
The Pink Panthers were given their name when police in London made an arrest in 2003, and found a diamond ring hidden in a jar of face cream - a ploy used in the original Pink Panther comedies starring Peter Sellers.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the move had opened up a second front inside the Syrian city. They entered the eastern part earlier this week.
Its fighters were engaged in fierce clashes with the jihadists, it said.
The SDF, supported by US-led coalition air strikes, has spent months encircling the city.
"The SDF captured the western half of the Al-Sabahiya neighbourhood and are reinforcing their positions there," the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP news agency on Saturday.
"They then advanced north to the adjacent district of Al-Romaniya and are fighting IS there."
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A statement from the SDF's Operation Wrath of the Euphrates said its fighters had stormed Al-Romaniya and were locked "in fierce fighting inside the district".
Raqqa, which has been held by IS since 2014, is an important hub for the jihadist group's operations and is reportedly defended by up to 4,000 fighters.
The SDF is an Arab-Kurdish alliance that was formed in 2015.
As well as holding part of Al-Sabahiya in the west, the alliance also has a foothold in Al-Meshleb in the east. But it has struggled to advance from the city's north, which is heavily defended.
"IS has reinforced the northern approach to Raqqa much more, thinking that's how the SDF would try to advance on the city," Mr Abdel Rahman said.
"The western and eastern entrances to the city were much less fortified."
Traces of the mosquito-born virus were found in the baby's umbilical cord.
The baby had been born with an underdeveloped brain, a condition known as microcephaly, which health experts suspect is linked to the virus.
Brazil suspects most of its 860 cases of microcephaly are related to Zika.
The Panamanian baby's mother had not reported any symptoms of Zika during her pregnancy.
Her baby died four hours after being born.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global public health emergency over the possible connection between the mosquito-born virus and microcephaly.
The current Zika outbreak began almost a year ago in Brazil.
Microcephaly cases have been centred in north-east Brazil, but the outbreak has affected people in more than 20 countries in the Americas.
Some governments have advised women to delay getting pregnant, but before now no infants with microcephaly have tested positive for Zika outside Brazil in the current outbreak.
Some cases of the brain condition were reported in an outbreak in French Polynesia in 2013.
Poppy-Arabella Clarke and her mother Rachel were struck by John Place's car as they crossed Chester Road in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, in July 2016.
Her mother was also seriously injured in the crash.
Place, 72, admitted causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
At the time of the incident the traffic lights were on red and the green light was flashing for pedestrians, police said.
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Place, of Bakers Lane, Sutton Coldfield, was jailed at Birmingham Crown Court.
He told police he was not wearing his glasses and that he had not seen the red light or the crossing itself.
In a family statement, Poppy-Arabella's parents Rachel and Phil said their daughter had spent the morning "playing with mummy" and "was excited to be heading to nursery to see her friends".
The family's lawyer called for a "Poppy-Arabella's law" requiring medical professionals to report people unfit to drive to the DVLA.
The statement added Place "did not swerve, he did not brake and he did not stop".
He only stopped when flagged down by another driver.
Poppy-Arabella's parents are calling for a change in the law, requiring medical professionals to report people who are unfit to drive the DVLA.
Their call follows the introduction in 2013 of "Cassie's Law", named after Cassie McCord, who was 16 when she died in 2011.
Colin Horsfall, 87, mounted a pavement at speed in Colchester, Essex, striking Cassie, having failed a police eye test days earlier.
Police had been in the process of getting Mr Horsfall banned after he refused to surrender his licence.
A campaign by Cassie's mother Jackie led to a change in the law, giving police more power to revoke driving licences.
Police previously had to write or fax a request for licence removal, but the change means they can now telephone or email, with a dedicated email for police to use.
Email confirmation from the DVLA means the licence is revoked so police can stop someone driving there and then.
A police spokesman said Poppy-Arabella's parents "continue to suffer enormously from their loss".
He added: "Place should not have been driving that day as, quite simply, his vision was severely impaired."
Paying tribute to his daughter, Poppy-Arabella's father Phil said: "We will miss her forever, we will love her for always.
"We have been left with a life sentence without our little girl, whose entire life was stolen from her in a fraction of a second."
Place has also been disqualified from driving for five years from the date of his release from prison.
At a previous hearing, the court heard Poppy-Arabella's parents were unable to have any more children and said Place had so far shown them no remorse.
Officers were lured to Ballycolman estate on 23 October to investigate reports of a bomb thrown at a police patrol vehicle the previous night.
The alert was a hoax but then a real bomb, packed with nails, was discovered in the garden of a nearby house.
The men, aged 29 and 43, had been questioned at Antrim PSNI station.
They had been detained in Strabane on Tuesday morning.
A number of houses were searched and two cars were seized during the operation.
The nail bomb was defused by the Army, and more than 130 schoolchildren and a number of householders were moved as bomb disposal officers dealt with the device.
On 4 May councillors will face the electorate, with all 1,254 seats up for grabs in Wales' 22 county and county borough councils.
Will Labour's low UK poll ratings mean the party will take a big hit in seats here? And will the politics of Brexit hurt - or benefit - the parties?
Labour is the party with the most seats in Wales - 580 - and therefore has the most to lose.
It did well at the last elections in 2012, adding 231 seats to its previous total.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has already warned that the elections will be tough for the party, in what appeared to be an effort in managing expectations.
Labour currently has a majority on ten councils across south Wales - stretching from Swansea to Newport - and also leads the Vale of Glamorgan and Flintshire as the largest group.
But some Labour activists fear it could lose its grip in areas such as Blaenau Gwent, where the party had a scare in the 2016 assembly elections.
And could Bridgend - Mr Jones' local council - slip into no overall control if the Tories gain seats and cut into Labour's majority?
If they have a really bad night, could Labour see numbers fall in north Wales?
Plaid Cymru has the second highest number of councillors at 170.
It had a bad night in 2012 when the party lost a council leader amid the Labour revival.
The party - which has a majority on Gwynedd council - will also be aiming to take overall control of Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, both of which it runs as a minority administration.
Plaid will also be looking for gains in the south Wales valleys.
The party will not discuss targets publicly, but there is potential for the party to do well in Rhondda Cynon Taf - where leader Leanne Wood won a seat at the assembly election last year.
Plaid will also work hard to get a majority on the Isle of Anglesey, where it is currently short by just four.
And could the party rebuild its councillor base in Caerphilly - an authority it has previously led?
The Welsh Conservatives currently stand in third place with 104 seats, and will be hoping it can benefit from Theresa May riding high in the polls.
The party - which runs Monmouthshire with Lib Dem support - could also do well in Swansea and in the Vale of Glamorgan, the local council of both Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns and Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies. Any gains might mostly be at the expense of Labour.
Newport was led by the Tories as a minority administration with the Liberal Democrats from 2008 to 2012, and the Conservatives would undoubtedly think they can take a step forward in the city again.
The 2012 election left the Welsh Liberal Democrats the biggest losers - the party lost 66 seats, leaving it with 75 seats to defend in May.
Being on the losing side of the referendum has re-energised party activists, and they will be hoping to make gains in central Cardiff, where the party had an MP until 2015.
The Lib Dems lost control of Cardiff and Ceredigion at the last local election. Both council areas voted Remain in the EU referendum.
And could the party make gains in Swansea?
It will surprise many how big the independent presence is at local council level. Independents are defending a large number of seats - 325.
They are a significant presence at Flintshire, Wrexham, Powys, Denbighshire, Conwy, Carmarthenshire, Ynys Mon, Pembrokeshire, Monmouthshire and Gwynedd.
And then there's UKIP. Its first AMs were elected in 2016, but its big issue is organisation on a local level. The former Welsh chair of the party, Chris Smart, has claimed the party is unravelling.
With no councillors in Wales currently, any seats won would be a boost.
If there is a natural home for UKIP in Wales, it may be the south east, where the party will want to capitalise on its strong showing at the general and assembly elections in Labour stamping grounds like Torfaen and Newport.
A big question at this election will be whether the EU referendum result will have any impact.
The Lib Dems will hope to rally voters around its strident pro-Remain views.
Plaid Cymru has pushed for years to expand its base in the south Wales valleys, but could its pro-EU stance damage those efforts in areas that voted heavily for Leave?
The same question could be raised of Labour, which is defending its running of councils in such areas.
But those parties may be helped by UKIP's difficulties, and the traditional weakness of the Conservatives in the Labour heartlands.
Most but not all councils count overnight. Nine out of the 22 will not start full counts until the next day.
Overnight counts:
Friday counts:
While laws are made at Westminster and the Welsh Assembly, councils operate services at a local level.
They do not run everything, but what they do run includes:
They also set rates of council tax.
Unlike the assembly elections, all councillors are elected on a first-past-the-post basis.
Voters in multi-member wards, though, would have the chance to select more than one councillor.
If you need to register to vote, you will need to do so by midnight on Thursday 13 April. You can do that at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Alternatively, paper forms can be downloaded or collected from local registration offices and need to be completed and handed in before the offices close that day.
If you want a postal vote and have not had one before, you have to apply by 18 April.
New proxy vote applications need to be made by 25 April.
Now the Conservative party has announced plans to scrap the Human Rights Act if it wins the next general election.
Prime Minister David Cameron wants to replace the legislation - which allows European rulings to overrule UK courts - with a British Bill of Rights.
Here's a reminder of some of the reasons the Tories and other critics want to scrap the act.
When the UK wanted to deport the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan to face trial on terrorism charges, the European Court of Human Rights blocked the move.
Judges feared that evidence obtained by torture would be used against him.
Ministers in the UK fought a long and expensive legal battle until the cleric finally agreed to drop his case.
He was eventually flown to Jordan in July 2013 and has now been cleared of terror charges.
It was nine years ago that the European Court of Human Rights first told the UK it had to change the law to allow some inmates to vote.
But most MPs in the UK don't agree, and parliament still wont let any prisoners put an x on a ballot paper.
A political compromise means the saga will go on for yet another year.
Europe says it will take no action until at least September 2015.
The Ministry of Defence has had more than 1,000 damages claims made against it for breaching human rights during conflicts overseas.
Some challenges are from former enemies on the battlefield.
Others have been brought by the families of soldiers who have died on active service or during training.
All this takes time and cost money. Some say it undermines the ability of the forces to do their job and keep us safe.
But supporters of the Human Rights Act say it's essential for our human rights to be protected by the European court.
Tim Hancock, from Amnesty UK, says under the Tories' plan, "human rights would be reserved for only those people the government decides should get them."
Here are some ways people from around the UK say the Human Rights Act has helped them.
Steven Neary has autism. He was 21 when his father, Mark, put him in temporary care for a few days.
But the authorities were concerned over Steven's behaviour there and moved him to a special unit, where he was kept against his family's wishes, for a year.
Mark took the case to court and a judge decided the west London council had violated Steven's human rights to liberty, and respect for private and family life.
Mark told Newsbeat "Steven wouldn't have come home if it hadn't been for the Human Rights Act".
In 2013 a teenager known in court as ZH was awarded damages of £28,250 after it was found that police breached his right to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment, and his right to liberty.
When he was 16, he was taken on a school trip to a swimming pool in West London.
As he stood by the side of the pool, he became fascinated by the water and wouldn't move.
The pool staff were concerned, and called the police. But when they arrived, he jumped into the pool. Several police officers got into the pool, lifted him out, pinned him down, put him in handcuffs and leg restraints, and placed him in the back of the police van, alone.
Jenny and Tim Paton and their three children lived in the same house in Poole for more than 10 years.
But, their local council received an anonymous tip-off that they were lying about living in a particular school catchment area.
The local authority set up covert surveillance and for three weeks officials sat outside their home, making notes and taking photographs.
The family felt violated and took the case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal and the council was found to have breached their human rights.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced the tour would go ahead after conducting a security review.
Nazmul Hasan Papon, president of the BCB, has offered security for players, fans, family members and media.
He said no nation is "100% safe" but no other country's board "provides such security".
England will play two Tests and three one-day internationals between 7 October and 1 November.
"The security aspect, well it's almost the same everywhere," Papon told reporters in Bangladesh. "One can't say that any country in the world is a 100% safe. It can happen anywhere.
"However, the security plan that we gave them and the Bangladesh government is providing, I don't think any other board provides such security.
"Lastly, when we handled so many teams during the Under-19 World Cup, I don't think it will be difficult to handle one team for our security agencies. So I was confident that they would come."
Papon also said safety would be provided not just to the England team, but to all those travelling as part of the tour, including relatives, supporters and media.
"We will make sure that not just the players but the fans, the family members, the reporters - if they let us know as to where they stay and they contact us, we will arrange security for them no matter where they are, be it in the stadium or next to the hotel, wherever," he said.
"We believe that there won't be any problem with regards to this England tour."
England's matches will take place in Chittagong and Dhaka, where 20 hostages died when a cafe was attacked in July.
On Saturday, Bangladeshi police said they had stormed a hideout near Dhaka and killed the suspected planner of that attack.
Australia postponed their Test tour of Bangladesh in October 2015 over security concerns.
Barnes beat India's Devandro Singh Laishram 23-18 in the quarter-final contest at the ExCel Arena in London.
The Beijing bronze medalist led 7-5 after the first round and extended his advantage to 17-10 after Laishram picked up a two-point penalty.
Barnes was also deducted two points in the final round but progressed to a semi-final against China's Zou Shiming.
I knew he would come out all guns blazing but I felt stronger than him.
Shiming defeated Barnes at the semi-final stage in Beijing and the pair will clash again on Friday.
Laishram was penalised for use of the head while Barnes received a warning for holding on the inside.
The victory takes Northern Ireland's medal tally for the Games up to a new record of five.
Barnes sparred with Laishram when the Indian team trained in Dublin ahead of the Olympics.
"I knew he would come out all guns blazing but I felt stronger than him.
"He caught me with a few silly shots although I knew I had the fight in the bag and I coaxed it to the end.
"I've trained hard and I know how good I am. I'm confident in myself.
"Let's not forget bronze is for losers - I'm going for gold," Barnes joked, referring to his comments after losing 15-0 to Shiming in Beijing.
Barnes becomes Ireland's fourth guaranteed boxing medallist at these Games after team-mates John Joe Nevin, Katie Taylor and fellow Belfast fighter Michael Conlan.
Values have been dropping since 2009, the most sustained fall in 30 years, however estate agents denied the property bubble had burst.
The average price of £375,000 for a two-bedroom house last year was the lowest recorded since 2007.
The States statistics unit said since the last peak in 2009, average prices have fallen about 6%.
Katie Falle, from the unit, said: "Since 2009 one and two-bedroom flats have held their value.
"However houses have lost more value on average. We've seen four-bedroom houses fall on average by £50,000. Three beds have come down by about £40,000."
Ms Falle said it was the most sustained fall in 30 years.
Estate agents on the island denied the housing bubble had burst.
Roger Trower, the managing director of Broadlands Estate Agents, said: "Things were going flat out in 2007/8.
"We had a 100% mortgage product in the market which was supporting first-time buyers which was pushing everything else forward, then that was removed.
"Immediately the market had to readjust, so we've been fairly static since that time."
It is one of the most complete sets ever found in the state.
The animal was an adult male in its 40s, and researchers excavated its skull, tusks, vertebrae and other bones, says the Detroit Free Press.
The discovery was an accident. The farmers were digging a drainage ditch when they hit what they first thought were large pieces of wood.
University of Michigan researchers say there is evidence the mammoth lived 11,700-15,000 years ago. It may have been killed by humans and left in a pond for storage.
Dr Dan Fisher, director of the university's Museum of Paleontology, told reporters that the bones could help scientists determine when the first humans arrived in the area.
The landowner could only give researchers a single day to unearth the bones because of a tight harvest schedule, so excavators worked feverishly until sundown on Thursday.
Only 30 mammoths have been discovered in Michigan, and it is extremely rare to find a skeleton as complete as this one, says Fisher.
Police said he died of natural causes. A report said he had retired in recent years due to Alzheimer's.
Hanson won an Oscar in 1998 for best adapted screenplay for LA Confidential. His directing credits included The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Wonder Boys.
He also directed Detroit hip-hop movie 8 Mile starring Eminem, who led the tributes.
"Curtis Hanson believed in me and our crazy idea to make a rap battle movie set in Detroit," the rapper said in a statement. "He basically made me into an actor for 8 Mile. I'm lucky I got to know him."
LA Confidential actor Russell Crowe wrote on Twitter: "Thank you for believing in me & standing your ground. In reality you made my job a career. Love & respect my friend."
Hanson, born in Reno, Nevada, started as a writer for the magazine Cinema before moving into screenwriting and directing in the early 1970s.
"I got into the business kind of through a side door," he said in 2005. "I felt my best avenue was through screenwriting, because to write, all you need is a typewriter and an idea."
But it was only in 1992, with The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, that he found mainstream success.
He went on to direct The River Wild with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon in 1994, and he co-wrote the screenplay for 1997's LA Confidential, adapted from James Ellroy's novel about crime in 1950s Los Angeles.
"LA Confidential was the first movie that I produced as well," he revealed in 2005.
"My attitude was very calculated. I knew I was using up the leverage I had earned on those other two movies and making a picture I really wanted to make."
In 2000, he filmed Wonder Boys with Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire, who described Hanson as "a generous and talented man", adding: "I'm grateful to have known and worked with him."
On Twitter, Bacon said: "So sad to hear about Curtis Hanson. great director. Great man. Riding that river with him was one of the greatest gigs of my life."
Most recently, Hanson directed the HBO film Too Big To Fail, about the financial crisis.
Actor James Woods added his tribute. He wrote: "This saddens me deeply. Great director and the nicest man. RIP, dear friend."
Rob Lowe, who acted in 1990's Bad Influence, said it was "an honour to make Bad Influence with Curtis Hanson. So smart, so kind and a great storyteller. I will miss him".
Hanson's final project was 2012 surf movie Chasing Mavericks, with Gerard Butler and Elisabeth Shue. However, Curtis dropped out during filming due to an undisclosed illness and was replaced by Michael Apted.
Actress Abigail Spencer, who also starred in Chasing Mavericks, posted: "So honoured I got to work with the dear Curtis Hanson - the most lovely and wonderful. Heartbroken. My condolences to his family."
When asked to describe his career in 2005, Hanson told the BBC: "Thematically I just go to what interests me. I'm always asking myself, is this a world I want to go into?
"To use the analogy of a traveller, I'm someone who likes to go to different countries rather than return to the same country all the time."
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Members of Unite and the GMB will vote in the coming weeks on whether to launch action after talks with the Offshore Contractors Association (OCA) broke down on Wednesday.
The move comes after union members voted last month to reject a new pay offer from North Sea employers.
OCA said it was "extremely disappointed" at the news.
In a statement, Unite said it would press ahead with preparations for official industrial action ballots, following the failure of talks which involved the conciliation service Acas.
Unite regional officer Tommy Campbell said: "Unite members gave a significant mandate to hold a ballot for strike action in this dispute with the OCA employers.
"Offshore workers are gearing up to campaign for a yes vote. It is time for all union members to stand up now, and fight back for better terms and conditions."
OCA chief executive Paul Atkinson said: "We are extremely disappointed that the trade unions appear unwilling to engage on the issues which are so important to their members.
"Our priority has always been to find ways of avoiding any disruption.
"We approached our meeting today as a constructive opportunity to take the next step in bringing this dispute to a resolution.
"We believe that the OCA has acted as a fair negotiator throughout this process and that our approach balances the needs of employees with the requirements of business."
He added: "Industrial action will only serve to make investment in the North Sea less attractive and jeopardise the long-term future of the industry.
"We remain firmly committed to doing all we can to find a lasting solution to this dispute."
The Welsh government has said it has yet to confirm the budgets for Snowdonia, Pembrokeshire Coast and Brecon Beacons national parks.
But John Harold from the Snowdonia Society said an anticipated 5% reduction represented "serious cuts" to the organisations running the parks.
They have said jobs could be at risk.
The society believes the cuts could make the parks more vulnerable to calls for local councils to take over some of their work, including planning policy.
Funding for national parks in England has been protected for five years by Chancellor George Osborne in his Autumn Statement.
But as well as a 5% cut for next financial year, Welsh national parks have been warned they could face another similar cut the following year.
Snowdonia National Park chief executive Emyr Williams said the cuts mean services and jobs could be at risk.
And last week Brecon Beacons National Park Authority said it faced cutting jobs as it stood to lose £200,000 from its budget.
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "It is essential we get the best outcome from the funds available in order to keep delivering for the people of Wales, and our national parks are at the heart of that delivery.
"We have to take difficult decisions in terms of spending priorities, but have informed partners of our spending plans throughout the process, to ensure they are able to continue to plan effectively."
The memorial service is being attended by Canadian Minister for Justice Peter MacKay and Indian Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan is representing the government.
The flight was en route from Toronto to Delhi when the explosion happened mid-air about 120 miles off the south-west coast of Ireland.
It was one of the worst aviation disasters in history and Canada's worst terrorist attack.
No-one survived the attack.
Dead, jailed and acquitted
Deadly puzzle pieced together
Relatives of loved ones who lost their lives have gathered in a memorial garden at Ahakista.
For relatives - mostly Canadians of Indian extraction - south-west Ireland remains a place of pilgrimage.
A memorial service is held every year to remember those who died.
The bomb was placed in the suitcase of a man who had checked in his luggage but did not board the flight.
The attack was the work of Sikh militants who wanted to strike at the Indian government after the Golden Temple at Amritsar - the most important shrine in Sikhism - was stormed by troops in June 1984.
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The 22-year-old is yet to play a competitive first-team game for Porto but has had loan spells with Academica Coimbra and Rio Ave.
He will not be available until after September's international break because of an ankle injury.
"Fulham has a reputation of a Premier League club and this season I want to help put the club back in the place it belongs," he told the club's website.
Fulham say they fought off "two major European clubs" to sign Soares, who has been capped by Portugal at under-21 level.
Tony Khan, vice-chairman and director of football operations, said: "Rafa was worth the effort to pursue and, once he steps onto the pitch, our supporters will also see that he is worth the wait.
"We were well aware of his injury during the recruitment process and are more than comfortable moving ahead, as Rafa's talent as a defender speaks for itself."
Fulham's attempts to sign Cardiff left-back Joe Bennett were thwarted when he turned down a move to Craven Cottage.
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O'Neill told BBC Five Live's Sportsweek Coleman's operation had been a success following his injury in the World Cup qualifier against Wales on Friday.
"I'm not sure, I would only be guessing," said O'Neill, when asked how long Everton's Coleman could be out.
"Even the doctors and surgeons wouldn't be terribly sure."
The Republic boss added: "Sometimes there are complications afterwards and injuries can be more prolonged, other times it can be clean and clear sailing.
"It will take some time but Seamus has great determination and sometimes those things work very much in your favour, in terms of recovery."
At this stage, the Republic captain looks highly unlikely to feature in any of the remaining five World Cup qualifiers over the next seven months, with the possibility of an additional play-off double-header in November.
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O'Neill revealed that the 28-year-old defender's operation took place early on Saturday morning following Friday night's goalless draw.
"He has realised everything that has happened and is obviously very disappointed," said O'Neill.
"It will take some time to heal, it's a double break but it has been pinned up now and screwed in.
"I know the doctors and surgeons are all very, very pleased with the way the operation has gone and now it's time for recuperation."
Aston Villa defender Neil Taylor was sent off for the tackle on Coleman and O'Neill described the challenge and Gareth Bale's earlier tackle on John O'Shea as "very poor challenges".
The draw meant the Republic missed the chance to return to the top of Group D, after Serbia beat Georgia on Friday, with Wales four points behind in third.
The Republic's next qualifier takes place against Austria in Dublin on 11 June.
The closures follow an announcement in May, when Reddit said it would be enforcing its anti-harassment policy more vigorously.
More closures of other chat forums, or sub-reddits, would follow if they too were abused in the same way, it said.
The action has been widely criticised, with some saying it marks a significant policy shift for the site.
Many Reddit members responded by flooding the site with images related to the banned forums or directing abusive comments to the site's administrators.
The closures were announced in a post placed on Reddit, saying the sub-reddits had been banned because they had broken community rules on harassment and the forum's volunteer moderators had not taken action to stop the behaviour.
The sub-reddits directed abuse towards overweight, black and trans people as well as gamers.
The post said Reddit's operators wanted as "little involvement as possible" in overseeing what people said to each other on the site.
However, they said they would intervene when privacy and free expression were threatened or if people suffered abuse.
In a separate explanation, Reddit added that the sub-reddits had not been banned because of the opinions expressed within them.
Instead, it said, those forums had been used to recruit gangs of people who had then subjected someone to sustained harassment.
And this "brigading" had affected the lives of people being picked on, who "worry for their safety every day, because people from a certain community on Reddit have decided to actually threaten them, online and off, every day".
"We're banning behaviour, not ideas," it said.
Other forums that people found distasteful or annoying would not suffer bans unless they too prompted offline action against people, Reddit said.
It encouraged Reddit users to report sub-reddits engaged in sustained abuse.
The announcement and bans sparked a huge debate on the site, with the main discussion thread garnering almost 25,000 comments.
Reddit members who commented said the ban was "horrible", "not well thought out" and a "bad business decision".
Others argued that it was better to keep a "bigoted community" in a separate sub-reddit because shutting that down would mean the abuse would then spill over into other forums.
Commentators pointed out that similar decisions to ban discussions by social news site Digg had started an exodus from that site and ultimately led to its demise.
Vettel was 0.239 seconds clear of Red Bull's Max Verstappen, with Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen also quicker than Hamilton.
Drivers headed out early to get to work before expected rain, making for a hectic session with many incidents.
The biggest was a heavy crash for Kevin Magnussen's Renault after Turn Eight.
The Dane appeared to make a mistake and lose control under power on a slow lap, possibly because his tyres were not up to temperature.
The incident brought an early end to the session.
Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat came close to a crash, too, spinning down the escape road at Turn Four.
Hamilton and Rosberg were among those to miss the fast final chicane after misjudging the entry; Vettel one of several to run wide at the preceding hairpin for the same reason.
This is characteristic of a very difficult circuit, which lacks grip, and features high-speed sections leading into generally slow corners.
Friday's sun was replaced by cooler temperatures and grey skies and the anticipated rain arrived about halfway through, at first spitting, then developing into a very light drizzle.
The track never became particularly wet, but there was enough humidity to render the last 20 minutes or so of the session irrelevant in terms of fast lap times.
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Hamilton, who had been fastest in both sessions on Friday, never topped the times and ended the session 0.415secs off the pace and just 0.018secs slower than Rosberg two places ahead of him.
Hamilton is 24 points behind Rosberg in the championship after finally getting his title campaign off the ground following a difficult start to the season with victory in Monaco last time out.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, who will be a serious contender for pole and victory if it is wet, is a further 16 points adrift.
Ricciardo was sixth, ahead of Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz and McLaren's Fernando Alonso, who was the only driver in the top 10 to set his fastest time on the theoretically slower super-soft tyre rather than the ultra-soft.
Force India's Sergio Perez and Williams's Felipe Massa completed the top 10, with the second McLaren of Jenson Button 13th.
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The 24-year-old, ranked 17th in the world, said he often had strong reactions to insect bites.
"I cannot be 100% sure about my safety from the Zika virus," he said.
World number one Jason Day and Rory McIlroy also pulled out of Rio with concerns about Zika as golf returns to the Olympics after 112 years.
"Although I realise that my potential success would help grow the game in Japan, I have come to the conclusion that I cannot put myself or my team member's health at risk," Matsuyama added.
The Zika virus is mosquito-borne and has been linked to defects in newborn babies, prompting those looking to start a family to take extra precautions.
Olympic chiefs and the World Health Organisation have issued guidance for athletes and visitors to Rio and say the risk of catching Zika is low.
HMS Ganges at Shotley Gate was last occupied in 2001.
The developers were granted approval in 2013, but planning objections were raised by neighbouring villages.
Babergh District Council has confirmed approval and said it was finalising legal agreements about what the developer would spend on community facilities.
The Royal Navy left the site in 1976 and it was last used as a police training base.
Galliard Homes' plans also include a 60-bed nursing home, a hotel, retail and commercial units and a commitment to restore the listed ceremonial mast.
Babergh's planning officers said they had secured a commitment from the developer to spend £1m on education and healthcare facilities and a local cycle path.
However, spending of £6m on affordable homes, a cycle path to Chelmondiston, bus services and other facilities have been deferred because the developer deemed economic conditions made them unviable.
Rex Thake, vice chairman of the council's development committee, said: "I am confident the developer will be required to spend this money and our officers will be able to rule, at regular intervals, on whether it is viable.
"I've been visiting this brownfield site for over 20 years and it's good news that development can get under way finally."
Freston, Woolverstone and Chelmondiston parish councils still had concerns about increased traffic on the B1456 road from Ipswich, but Shotley Parish Council supported the plans.
The developers were not available for comment.
It is the first of 11 towns which will be at the centre of the traditional festivities over the summer.
The Hawick festival celebrates the capture of the English flag by a group of local youths at Hornshole in 1514.
It also recreates the "Riding of the Marches", a tradition dating back to the 12th century when the town's boundaries were checked on horseback.
The towns of Selkirk, Melrose, Peebles, Galashiels, Jedburgh, Duns, Kelso, Langholm, Lauder and Coldstream will also host Common Ridings in June, July and August.
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England prop Dan Cole claimed the try which clinched it six minutes from time just after Bath were reduced to 14 men.
Tigers defied the weather to fight back from a try by England's in-form Anthony Watson as they led 11-5 at the break.
But the highlight of the game was Leicester left winger Telusa Veainu's stunning 80-metre interception try.
Tommy Bell failed with his conversion but did improve Cole's try, as well as also landing three out of five penalty attempts in difficult kicking conditions, while England stand-off George Ford slotted two penalties.
Both sides had to contend with savage conditions, driving wind and rain almost throughout. Kicking at goal was not easy, which may have accounted for the visitors' late decision to squander a kickable penalty, and a possible losing bonus point, by opting to kick for the corner.
But they had been hampered by the loss of sin-binned debutant David Denton for the last eight minutes - just seven minutes after coming off the bench. Two minutes after his yellow card, following more Bath indiscipline at a driving line-out, Cole crashed over for the clinching try - the 28-year-old 56-times capped England man's first try in 78 appearances.
Bath have not won at Welford Road in the Premiership since 2003 - but they made a bright start when, following the loss of injured home full-back Matthew Tait after a first-minute tackle, a rapid break created the space for lively full-back Watson to go in at the left corner.
Ford missed with his kick from the left touchline before Bell was more successful with his first penalty attempt. Then came the game's highlight, when Veainu intercepted prop Nick Auterac's pass before galloping down the left to score. Bell again missed the kick but was then successful with a penalty attempt to earn an 11-5 lead at the interval.
Ford wiped out that lead with two early second-half penalties before Tigers lock Ed Slater received the game's first yellow card
Bath, however, failed to cash in on their man advantage. Bell's next penalty attempt fell short and wide before he did finally land a third three-pointer to put his side 14-11 up. And no sooner than Bath had been reduced to 14 men following Denton's yellow card than the Tigers struck.
A video verdict ruled that Cole had managed to keep hold of the ball and ground correctly, allowing Bell to add the extras.
Leicester Tigers director of rugby Richard Cockerill:
"I am delighted for the players that they found a way to win because we played pretty poorly at times. But our guts, attitude and trust got us over the finishing line.
"Dan Cole probably came back from the World Cup with a dent to his confidence. He's had a bit of criticism but there's always speed bumps along the way in life. But Leicester is the place to come back to.
"We just got on with it and the lads took the mickey out of him. Coley is back among friends. He's a man of few words who likes to work his way through it in his own way and he has done that very well.
"Coley is not that old. He's got a lot of rugby left in him. He has been the standard at tight head for four or five years. There are young guys coming through but he will get better as time goes on."
Bath head coach Mike Ford:
"We are better than we showed here. I was disappointed to go in at half time losing. We were the better side. The interception was a turning point.
"We got back to 11-11 and had great possession and position to take the game by the scruff of the neck. We never took those opportunities."
On the decision not to take the kick at goal for a bonus point:
"We will analyse it on Monday but the call was to go for goal.
Leicester Tigers: Tait; Thompstone, Betham, Smith, Veainu; Bell, B Youngs; Ayerza, T Youngs, Cole, Slater, Fitzgerald, Williams, O'Connor, McCaffrey.
Replacements: Catchpole for Tait (1), Harrison for B Youngs (48), Croft for McCaffrey (57), Bai for Catchpole (65), Bateman for T Youngs (76), Aguero for Ayerza (78), Balmain for Cole (78).
Not Used: Kitchener.
Sin Bin: Slater (52).
Bath: Watson; Rokoduguni, Banahan, Eastmond, Agulla; Ford, Matawalu; Auterac, Batty, Thomas, Hooper, Ellis, Garvey, Louw, Houston.
Replacements: Cook for Matawalu (54), Catt for Auterac (60), Lahiff for Thomas (61), Dunn for Batty (65), Denton for Ellis (65), Priestland for Eastmond (69), Homer for Agulla (69).
Not Used: Mercer.
Sin Bin: Denton (72).
Attendance: 22,530.
Referee: JP Doyle (RFU).
Photographer Steve Franck has set out to photograph 100 people, 52 who voted leave and 48 who wanted to remain in the EU.
The project continues, but here we present 10 of those photographed, five from each side of the argument.
"I listened to both sides of the argument just to make sure I knew what I was doing was the right thing for me. I wanted independence for our country, not to stop immigration or anything like that, but something so we could have our set of rules because I felt we'd been gathered up into Europe when our country's quite different to the Europeans."
"I voted to remain because I felt that it was the best way forward for the economy and politics. If you think back over the last 100 years and the number of wars we've had in Europe, I think that the EU is a means to prevent that ever happening again. I think if you resurrected any of the people killed in World War One and asked them is this a good idea, they'd all say yes."
"The referendum for Brexit seemed very binary and the reason to stay or leave was based on two decisions. The benefits of staying or leaving were clouded over by the headline campaigns - immigration and bleak outlook for the economy versus regaining our sovereignty.
"Looking at the wider debate and the many reasons to leave or stay, the decision for me to vote leave was based on my opinion that the eurozone is not a level playing field. Having relations in the farming industry, they have struggled with competition from the eurozone.
"Although they receive subsidies, they are not equal to those afforded to their counterparts across Europe. Bringing prices down is not always bad, except here it is at the cost of the British farming industry, similarly with the UK fishing industry."
"I voted to remain because despite the EU's faults it achieved a lot in terms of protecting workers' rights and our environment. It was also very effective at redistributing wealth across EU nations - something I'd seen first hand in Malta where my family originate from.
"I also voted to remain because of migration. As someone under 30 and a second generation immigrant, I understand how important freedom of movement is - from a human rights perspective, for work and education and for economic benefit. And I am a direct beneficiary of migration."
"Born and bred in Liverpool and growing up with a fairly 'left wing' view of life I was too young to vote on joining the EEC, but I do remember it being a very exciting time. I have a great number of friends, family and work friends who are from European countries (EU and non-EU) and have always felt 'part' of Europe.
"However I have also always been unhappy with the bureaucracy and wastage that appears to come with the EU. My largest concern is probably the process where the EU remit evolved from a single trade agreement/market into an organisation that has grown its remit to even include making laws that member countries have to uphold - and all this change made with very little public visibility.
"I voted leave and strongly believe it was the right choice - and I still do. There has been much pain on both sides since the vote and my biggest personal regret is that I have lost some friends over the vote, simply because they believed a vote to leave the EU was a vote 'against them'."
"I voted remain. I voted from the heart, I didn't delve too much in the political statements made by either side to be honest. Instinctively I felt that we should not leave the EU. We gain a lot from being part of it, freedom and mobility for instance.
"The ability to explore countries and cultures that are on our doorstep with such ease can only help our understanding of the world and the intricacies of its people. Every one of us could do with a bit more understanding."
"The ruling classes always needed a large pool of cheap labour, in the past they've had it from the Irish, then they had it from the West Indians, now they've got it from the EU and that's what they want to keep.
"There are now three million EU citizens in the UK. As far as I'm concerned they should stay, at least temporarily until they can do something about their circumstance. You can't just boot them out. There are too many people working for the working class in this country instead of with them and I think that is a major point."
"Well for me it's quite simple. First of all I don't have enough information about what exactly they're talking about and the devil you know is better than the angel you don't.
"I don't know what's going to happen if we're out, what's the best thing for me, so I voted in. I think we've managed to live like this for so long, why change the way it is and what are the benefits, what are the pros and cons? No-one's able to tell you. "
"For a long time I was remain and then as it got closer to the event, I thought I should actually ditch all the press and do my own research so I spent days looking for information, finding out how the EU works. I was absolutely horrified.
"There are more than 10,000 members of staff employed by the EU who earn more than our PM. And the fact that the MEPs have absolutely no power whatsoever, they're just there as a token gesture, everything is decided behind closed doors, the minutes of all the meetings never have to be published, so we are told essentially how to live our lives by someone who we have no power to unelect. I do not like to be dictated to."
"My instincts throughout my life have been what I would call just left of centre. The EU has been one of the greatest redistributors of wealth downwards, but a lot of the people who benefit from that don't understand that there are many projects and improvements in their areas with money from the European Regional Development Fund.
"I was open to listening to the Leave campaign, but I think to change the status quo they've got to make a strong case for change and I don't believe they did. Their main plank was reducing immigration but they didn't explain how they would do it, when they would do it and I'm not convinced they will do it to any great degree."
All photographs by Steve Franck
Yum also lowered its full-year earnings growth forecast in its key market of China.
The firm blamed a stronger US currency against the yuan for its poor results.
But it also still recovering from a food scandal last year.
The group's KFC restaurants in China suffered in July last year after a television news story linked the brand to supplier Shanghai Husi Food, which was accused of selling meat that was out of date.
"The pace of recovery in our China Division is below our expectations," said Chief executive Greg Creed in a statement.
"While it remains difficult to forecast China sales, we are now estimating full-year same-store sales to be low single-digit negative," the firm said.
"Given a slower-than-expected recovery in China sales, particularly at Pizza Hut Casual Dining, as well as stronger foreign exchange headwinds, we now expect full-year EPS (earnings per share) growth to be low-single-digit positive."
Globally, Yum Brands reported third-quarter earnings per share growth of 14%, with adjusted third-quarter earnings of $1 (??0.65) a share and revenue of $3.43bn (??2.25bn).
Expectations were for earnings per share growth of $1.06 per share and revenue of $3.67bn.
"Outside of China, our Taco Bell and KFC Divisions continued to sustain their positive sales momentum," said Mr Creed, "while Pizza Hut was relatively flat."
"Given our lower full-year expectations in China, combined with additional foreign exchange impact, we now expect 2015 EPS growth to be well below our target of at least 10%."
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lin-Manuel Miranda and 22 others will receive a large cash prize paid over five years.
The winners who range from scientists to designers to artists and historians received surprise calls in recent weeks announcing that they had won.
Many said they would use the money to support their work in the future.
The winners, known as MacArthur Fellows and who did not apply for the award, received calls from the selection committee describing their work and congratulating them on their award.
The award totals of $625,000 (£412,635) per person paid over five years.
"You think it's a prank until you hear everyone on the [conference] call describing your work," said grant recipient Matthew Desmond, a sociologist who lived in temporary housing to study evictions.
The foundation cited Mr Miranda's In the Heights, a story of gentrification in New York City, and his show Hamilton, which infuses hip hop and US history, as reasons to award him the grant.
In July, US President Barack Obama took his daughters to a sold-out showing of Hamilton in New York City.
Mr Coates was cited for his unique blend of "personal reflection and historical scholarship" in his writings about race relations in the US.
The foundation highlighted his 2014 essay, The Case for Reparations, which it said "prompted a national conversation" about the treatment of black Americans.
Other MacArthur "geniuses" include:
A list of all the winners and their full biographies can be read on the MacArthur Foundation's website.
Awards were not limited to those in the humanities, economist Heidi Williams was praised for her work studying the healthcare market, and biologist Lorenz Studer was recognized for his work on stem cells to combat neurodegenerative diseases.
Other winners included Michelle Dorrance, a tap dancer and choreographer, who said that she was going to use the money to pay off debts she incurred promoting her art. She went on to say that the grant would "turn heads toward this art form".
The MacArthur Foundation says that the awards are selected based on a candidates "exceptional creativity, as demonstrated through a track record of significant achievement, and manifest promise for important future advances".
Parents kept many children home from school, and some people stayed away from work. Across the country, Pakistanis were glued to their television sets in anticipation of riots on the streets by those who revered the former bodyguard who killed Punjab governor Salman Taseer for advocating blasphemy law reform.
But what protests there were were sporadic and not well attended. And though they burned tyres and beat up a couple of journalists, the protesters showed no inclination to target the security forces.
The mood of the crowds at Tuesday's funeral for Pakistan's most notorious death row prisoner was equally restrained. More importantly, news anchors of dozens of Pakistani television channels, who would normally be hysterical at such a development, seemed not to notice.
Instead, crime in Karachi and hints of a possible cancellation of an upcoming India-Pakistan cricket match dominated the headlines. So why the media silence when there was a golden chance to boost ratings?
"Obviously, they have been sent a piece of advice by an authority they can't ignore, and that authority is definitely not the political government," says Ayesha Siddiqa, a defence and political analyst.
For most in Pakistan, the only authority that has been able to chastise a once-unbridled Pakistani media has been the military.
In an unprecedented move in April 2014, it was able to force one of the largest TV news channels, Geo, off air after it accused the ISI intelligence service of orchestrating an attack on one of its top journalists. The ban was "fronted" by the civilian-led media regulatory authority, Pemra, but observers saw the military pulling the strings behind the scenes.
On Monday, the day Mumtaz Qadri was hanged, Pemra held a meeting in which it threatened with closure TV channels that covered "events that glorified criminals". The message for Qadri's supporters was clear.
But Pakistan's hard-line Islamists were not always like this.
In 2012, a conglomeration of religious forces styling itself as the Pakistan Defence Council (PDC) took the country by storm, holding big rallies in every corner of the country to sell a virulent anti-American and anti-Indian agenda.
In the words of Dawn newspaper's Cyril Almeida, the campaigners included "jihadists, sectarian warriors, orthodox mullahs, Islamic revivalists, all banding together… to defend Pakistan".
The PDC showed no restraint at its rallies and Pemra did nothing to enforce its so-called responsible journalism guidelines.
The military establishment was widely seen by analysts as having played a role in the PDC, for two reasons: to deflect American pressure for action against the Taliban, and to frustrate the then government's plans to extend preferential trading status to India.
In 2014, thousands of activists loyal to former cricketer Imran Khan and a firebrand cleric Tahirul Qadri occupied Islamabad's high-security Red Zone for months, paralysing the government.
On one occasion they broke into the offices of Pakistan Television and put its various channels off air for several minutes. The military refused to intervene, claiming it was an "apolitical" institution which supported democracy.
The protests were seen by many as having had a nod from elements in the security establishment, again for two reasons - forcing the newly inducted government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to back down from a treason case it lodged against former army chief Pervez Musharraf, and to frustrate its aspirations to normalise relations with India, which had been one of Mr Sharif's main election slogans.
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Analysts point out that with Nato's planned drawdown in Afghanistan, the Pakistani military is reordering its security policy to ensure its continued influence in Afghanistan and to prevent what many pro-establishment analysts describe as "Indian hegemony".
On the heels of this development has come the proposed $46bn economic corridor the Chinese are planning to build through Pakistan. This investment is seen by many as more than making up for the drying pipeline of American aid for a military that has been holding its own within a chronically cash-strapped economy.
In order to fully benefit from this investment, forces that can cause internal chaos must be quietened.
Many say this is what has been on display in Rawalpindi this week. Apart from paving the way for Chinese investment, this also sends out a message to the international community that Pakistan has the wherewithal to control militancy when it wants, says Ayesha Siddiqa.
But since there are still no signs a similar call has also been given to groups focused on India and Afghanistan, Pakistan is likely to continue to dabble in the tricky business of separating "good" militants from "bad".
Myron Yarde, 17, aka Mdot, was stabbed five times in the leg in New Cross, south-east London, on 3 April.
Fauz Richards, 19, known as Mags or Maggie, and two youths both aged 16, were found guilty following an Old Bailey trial.
Judge Nicholas Cooke said "the evil" of knife crime had "to stop".
"Too many young men lose their lives in this way," he said.
The court heard Myron had lent his bike to 16-year-old Leoandro Osemeke, another promising rapper who was known as Showkey.
He would have been a witness at the trial but he too was fatally stabbed in an unrelated attack at a party in Peckham, south-east London, in August.
The court heard he had ridden the bike to buy pizza in the rival Monson neighbourhood where it was snatched.
When Myron - who was said to have been armed with a machete - went to get it back, he was attacked in Camplin Street after being cornered.
On hearing on Snapchat that Myron had been seriously injured, the 15-year-old defendant allegedly asked why Myron had come to Monson, followed by: "I think I've killed him".
When he was arrested four days later, he told officers: "Some people deserve to die, I just mean not everyone is innocent, including that boy that died."
The court heard that a kitchen knife found in Richards' back garden had Myron's blood on it.
All three defendants were initially on trial for murder.
Charlotte Edmonds, 32, and Jamie Kennedy, 31, of New Cross, were convicted of perverting the course of justice.
They will be sentenced on 13 January.
It meant some five-year-olds in Wales were having up to nine teeth removed in one go, Cardiff University's senior lecturer in dental public health said.
Maria Morgan said: "I think people don't realise that you should start that early."
She wants the dental profession to work with midwives to get the message out.
The latest figures show the proportion of five-year-olds with tooth decay in Wales is continuing to fall - from 47.6% in 2007-08 to 34.2% last year.
But chief dental officer, Dr Colette Bridgeman, said the Welsh Government's Designed to Smile programme - which encourages child dental health - would be "re-focusing" on those aged zero to five.
And Mrs Morgan said parents of babies might need more of a nudge.
"No book can prepare you for life when you have a baby," she said.
"When that lands on your plate with all the different things you have to do and fit in… brushing teeth might not be the highest priority in the day. Sometimes it can get left.
"The messages might not be getting to everybody," she added.
About 14% of three-year-olds have a decayed, missing or filled tooth, Maria Morgan said.
She added: "We are having some children at five, six or seven who are having five, six, seven, eight, nine teeth removed in one go.
"There are some children in Wales who are having teeth extracted under general anaesthetic, that's approximately 8,000 children a year, and while some children will need to have dental treatment delivered that way because of special circumstances, [like] special needs children, it shouldn't be that great a number."
Mrs Morgan said children should have their teeth brushed twice a day "as soon as teeth show in their mouth".
She said it was essential that parents "actively supervised" their children's teeth brushing until the age of seven.
In 2013, Cardiff University asked the parents of 1,400 three-year-old if they brushed their child's teeth twice a day, with 75% saying they did.
Leah Ennis, 29, of Cornelly, Bridgend county borough, is a mum to a three-year-old and a three-month-old.
When her eldest was six months old her health visitor gave her a pack that included a baby toothbrush and toothpaste but she said she received no instructions on how to use them. So far, no-one has mentioned dental hygiene for her youngest, she said.
"Growing up I was shown good dental hygiene that I can pass onto my children but not everyone is," she said.
Miss Ennis said there was a lack of information and she was "not surprised" to hear some parents were not brushing their baby's teeth.
"Pregnant women could be given this information through pregnancy [but] I didn't see anything up on the wall in hospital waiting rooms - that would be a good place to start. I had no information from midwives," she said.
"If parents aren't told they're not going to go and look for the information."
In a leaked letter, the Department for Education told Kent County Council the site on Seal Hollow Road was "ideally suited" for the Trinity School.
The council wants to build an extension to two existing grammar schools.
The site is currently occupied by the Knole Academy, which moves out in 2015.
In the letter to the council, John Nash, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Schools, wrote: "I am minded to exercise the Secretary of State's powers... to transfer a freehold interest in the site to Trinity School in time for September 2015."
Lord Nash said under the Academies Act 2010 it was "immaterial if there is an intention of the local authority to use the site... for a different school".
He added: "I am persuaded that Trinity School is being driven by parental demand and has the support of the community.
"I believe it will benefit both the parents and pupils of Sevenoaks by improving choice and driving up the quality of education in the area."
The new "satellite schools" are expected to take in 120 pupils and would be linked to grammar schools in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
Trinity School, a free school in Riverhead, has expressed an interest in moving to the council-owned Wildernesse site when Knole Academy's lease runs out in 2015.
Paul Carter, leader of the county council, said: "I would describe the letter as far from helpful.
"We strongly believe there is no need for an additional free school in Sevenoaks. There is a significant demand for grammar school places in West Kent."
He added that the council needed to meet the government "to find a resolution to this conundrum".
Sarah Shilling, of the Sevenoaks Grammar School Campaign, said: "I don't think they [the government] really understand the legal situation.
"All the while that site is in educational use, as it will be, the way I understand the law, the government can't touch it."
Mr Carter added: "The law is unclear and we believe that Academies Act only applies to surplus school sites where there is no other provision being considered."
The Academies Act 2010 said it was "immaterial if there is an intention of the local authority to use the site... for a different school".
Matthew Tate, the head teacher of Trinity School, said: "We believe that the site is big enough to share with the grammar school and that would be the best way forward for the children of Sevenoaks."
Following the publication of the letter, the Department for Education said in a statement: "The Trinity Free School is due to open on a temporary site in Sevenoaks this September.
"We are proposing using part of the Wildernesse site as the free school's permanent home.
"However, we are clear that this site is large and there would be plenty of space for both the Free School and another school to operate there."
The 29-year-old from Caerphilly failed to report for an out-of-competition test on 1 December 2015.
Clabby was playing in the Welsh Premiership for Bedwas at the time.
His ban is backdated from 28 January 2016 until 27 January 2020 and he becomes the 15th registered WRU player to be on UK Anti-Doping (Ukad)'s list of banned sportspeople.
Clabby was told by Bedwas coach Steve Law that he was among four players who had to submit a sample following a training session, but could not be found or contacted by telephone when the anti-doping official had dealt with a colleague.
He later claimed to have had a work emergency, but his supervisor gave evidence that he had tried to call Clabby without success before the training session.
Clabby was found to have deliberately avoided the drug-testing official to evade his test.
Ukad chief Executive Nicole Sapstead said: "Kurt Clabby's decision to evade sample collection is not just a serious breach of the rules but it also goes against the spirit of sport and his responsibility as a sportsperson.
"We treat violations such as this with the upmost seriousness and we will always seek to impose the maximum possible sanction on any individual who decides to consciously cheat the system."
A WRU statement said: "Following a four-year suspension to Kurt Clabby of Bedwas and Nelson for evading, refusing or failing to submit a sample collection, the WRU has reiterated its call for players to 'stay onside'.
"The Welsh Rugby Union has increased its level of anti-doping education across all levels of Welsh rugby and has invited community clubs to nominate club integrity officers to receive further guidance.
"There is no place for doping in Welsh rugby."
The Dadaab camp in Kenya is home to more than 300,000 Somalis.
Mr Nkaisserry said Kenya would work closely with the UN and the Somali government to repatriate the refugees.
Dadaab was set up in 1991 to house families fleeing conflict in Somalia, and some people have been living there for more than 20 years.
Kenya says it wants to close the camp over security concerns, saying attacks on its soil have been planned there.
Mr Nkaisserry said the decision was final.
Kenya did not follow through on a previous threat to close down the camp, made last April following the deadly attack by Somali militant group al-Shabab on a university 100km (62 miles) away.
The al-Qaeda linked group has staged several attacks on Kenya in recent years.
Kenya has set aside $10m (£6.8m) for repatriation, which Mr Nkaisserry insisted would carried out in a humane manner.
Dana Majhi's wife Amang, 42, died from tuberculosis in the district hospital in Bhawanipatna town in Orissa state.
Mr Majhi said his village was 60km (37 miles) away and he couldn't afford to hire a vehicle.
The hospital authorities have denied his charge.
"The woman was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday and died the same night. Her husband took away her body without informing any hospital staff," senior medical official B Brahma said.
Mr Majhi, however, alleged that his wife died on Tuesday night and that he began walking with her body on Wednesday after the hospital staff kept asking him to remove the body.
"I kept pleading with the hospital staff to provide a vehicle to carry my wife's body, but to no avail. Since I am a poor man and could not hire a private vehicle, I had no choice but to carry her body on my shoulder," he said.
Early on Wednesday, he said, he wrapped up the body in cloth and began the long trek to his village in Melghar for the last rites, accompanied by his 12-year-old daughter Chaula.
He had walked for about 12km when some people on the way intervened and an ambulance finally arrived.
The cremation took place on Wednesday evening.
The district collector for Kalahandi (where Bhawanipatna town is located) Brunda D said she arranged a vehicle to transport Amang's body as soon as she came to know about it.
"I have asked the local officials to provide 2,000 rupees ($30; £22) to the family under the Harischandra Yojana [a government scheme which entitles poor people the amount to cremate a family member]. Besides, the family would also get 10,000 rupees from the Red Cross," she said.
In February, the state government had announced a scheme to ensure that a mortuary vehicle was available to carry the bodies of the poor from the hospital to their homes.
But in a telling commentary on the state of the healthcare services in Orissa, at least half a dozen cases of bodies being transported on bicycles, trolley rickshaws and even wooden cots have been reported from remote areas in the past few months.
After reports of Mr Majhi's ordeal emerged, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik formally launched the scheme on Thursday.
But there are strict rules about their usage, which has led some to come up with innovative ways to fly such vehicles more safely.
"I'm using a dog leash for a small dog," says roboticist Sergei Lupashin as he demonstrates a new kind of consumer-friendly drone at the Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference in Vancouver.
By tethering it, he hopes the Fotokite, as it is called, can avoid some of the issues faced by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are banned without a special licence because of safety and privacy concerns.
"It doesn't rely on GPS [ Global Positioning System], sophisticated machine vision, radio, it doesn't even use a compass. Most crashes today happen because of GPS, radio or piloting issues," says Dr Lupashin.
"Should something happen, the leash gives a robust fail safe - the vehicle reduces thrust and it automatically comes back to the operator," he adds.
The inspiration for the device came during street protests in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, when he realised it could be an invaluable tool for reporting protests around the world.
"For journalists it is good to get that perspective, to show the scale of the event without adding to the tension," says Dr Lupashin.
But he also sees potential for amateur and professional photographers, archaeologists, architects and even as a toy for children.
His prototype device uses a shop-bought quadrocopter with "a basic action camera attached" which, in turn, is connected to a standard dog lead. It can shoot both video and stills.
Drones have long been associated with the military, but increasingly they are finding their way into civilian life, for a wide range of uses including delivering medicines in the developing world, for farming and as a low-cost way of getting broadband to remote parts of the world - something both Facebook and Google are actively pursuing.
They are also useful tools for both professional and amateur photographers, providing the opportunity for a bird's eye view of people and places.
"Aerial photography is a fascinating new application for small, unmanned vehicles but the remote-controlled ones are very complex and can be difficult to use. They are also dangerous," says Dr Lupashin.
The safety issue took centre stage last month when an Australian triathlete was injured by an aerial drone taking pictures of the race she was competing in.
A drone on a lead is likely to be treated with far less suspicion, says Dr Lupashin.
"People treat you normally - it is like a flying pet. It always has a physical connection to the operator," he says.
The BBC, along with other news organisations, already uses drones for filming, but it is constantly looking to update its kit.
Andy Armstrong, a consultant looking at emerging broadcast technologies, recently tested the Fotokite for the BBC. Its ease of use and portability makes it useful for journalists in the field, he says.
"Anyone who's walked a dog without losing it can operate Fotokite," he adds, although he notes that "to get really stable shots you need almost completely still air".
Its lack of anonymity could also be a problem though.
"There are certain scenarios where you wouldn't want to attract that much attention," he says.
Jake Berger, a BBC programme manager, wanted a UAV that would be able to safely film aerial shots of the crowds at an open-air theatre show.
"The fact that Fotokite was tethered - flown on a retractable dog leash - meant it was suitable," he says.
"Unfortunately, the British weather confounded us on the day of the performance - it rained continuously for about six hours.
"This would have both blown the electronics on Fotokite and risked electrocution from lightning."
Currently the use of commercial drones in the US is banned by the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). Anyone wishing to use one has to obtain a special licence.
The question of whether a tethered drone would be exempt from this is unclear.
According to Ben Gielow, general counsel for the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems Internet, even a drone on a lead would be against the law.
He says the FAA told one company that wanted to fly a tethered drone that "until we have new regulations in place, the only path for you to fly your aircraft in the National Airspace System (even tethered) is to obtain the special airworthiness certificate in the experimental category".
Others though, who are developing similar tethered drones, say they have been told by the FAA that such UAVs would be exempt from current guidelines.
The reality is that, in the US at least, there are no clear rules yet about the use of UAVs, tethered or not.
"The FAA has been dragging its feet for four years and are now faced with an explosion of this technology. People can buy inexpensive, sophisticated systems off the internet and it doesn't have the resources to govern or control these unmanned aircraft," said Mr Gielow.
There are guidelines governing the use of model aircraft in the US - they must always be:
This led the FAA to ban Texas-based search-and-rescue group EquuSearch from using a remote-controlled plane to help search for missing people.
In response the group has launched legal action challenging the validity of an FAA ban and similar cases are also going through the courts.
"Their frustration is that if they were using such an aircraft for fun it would be allowed but because they are using it for search and rescue it isn't," says Mr Gielow.
The lack of clarity about the use of UAVs has led to anger among US manufacturers who fear being left behind by other countries, such as the UK, France and Israel, which have much clearer guidelines regarding drone use.
The US Congress has given the FAA until 2015 to create such rules, and this month it opened its first test facility in North Dakota.
But, for the time being at least, it seems that much about the use of such unmanned flying vehicles remains up in the air.
West Sussex County Council said work was scheduled to begin this spring, but had to be postponed while the bridge design and figures were reviewed.
The authority said the £5.8m budget was based on estimates but the costs of the work had increased by the time construction was planned to go ahead.
The council said it was working to achieve the earliest start date.
Pieter Montyn, cabinet member for highways and transport, said: "The new footbridge will cost a significant sum of money to construct.
"The county council has a responsibility to ensure that we get value for money. Therefore it is important that sufficient time is taken to check and agree the contract price for the construction of the bridge."
Llanelli MP Nia Griffith said the Indian-owned giant must meet a guarantee on no compulsory job losses and new investment.
Welsh Economy Secretary Ken Skates also called on the UK government to prioritise the steel industry and plough more money into research.
Workers voted on Wednesday in favour of a new reduced pension deal.
"It's been a terrible choice for the workers to make, between taking a lower pension payment or seeing the jobs go," said Ms Griffith.
"Having made that decision now, we really need Tata to stick to its promises, to step up to the mark, and get investment in there so we get the state-of-the-art plant, which means we can compete on the world market."
The MP, who is also Labour's shadow defence secretary, said, following a year of uncertainty for workers, it was "really incumbent on the company to build up that trust again".
Members of three unions at steel sites in Wales, Scotland, South Yorkshire and Teesside all supported the new pension proposals.
Under the proposed changes, the British Steel Pension Scheme will close to future accrual, replaced with a defined contribution scheme with maximum contributions of 10% from Tata and 6% from workers.
A one-off pension contribution of up to £10,000 could be made to Tata workers in their 50s who plan to retire early.
Tata's offer also included a £1bn investment commitment at Port Talbot and no compulsory job losses.
Discussions on the next steps for the steelmaker are continuing.
But economy secretary Mr Skates said he wanted to see pledges honoured.
"It's for Tata now to keep its side of the deal - to make sure that the £1bn of investment of the next 10 years begins as soon as possible," he told BBC Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.
Both he and Ms Griffiths also called on the UK government to get behind the steel sector, by examining issues like the costs of carbon and energy taxes on the industry.
Mr Skates also called on UK ministers to use a "sizable proportion' of a proposed £2bn research and development fund to aid UK steel makers.
"I've pressed for the notion of a 'steel deal', which is included in the UK industrial strategy, to be considered at speed," said Mr Skates.
On Wednesday, Koushik Chatterjee, group executive director Tata Steel and executive director for its European business, said there was "much more work to be done to make Tata Steel UK more financially sustainable".
"We look to other stakeholders such as the UK government to play their part in addressing the UK's manufacturing competitiveness position especially with relation to energy prices."
The UK government has described the decision by steelworkers to back the pension deal as "an important step forward".
A spokesperson added: "The government will play its role in supporting the steel industry to help deliver a sustainable future."
The roof of the Grade I-listed Great Barn, which is owned by the National Trust, has been damaged by jackdaws since it was re-thatched in 2013.
Ed Coney, who re-thatched most of the roof in that £100,000 project, said the damage was "soul destroying".
The National Trust said a long-term solution was being sought.
"We did the job and were very proud of it and everything was fine, and then slowly it's been pulled to pieces," said Mr Coney.
Thatcher Alan Lewis said: "It is a Grade I-listed barn, the centrepiece of a world heritage site, and it should be reflecting the best in British craftsmanship."
He said birds had only damaged part of the roof that was re-thatched most recently, but they had left alone an older part.
"The National Trust are looking at the effect, that the jackdaws are having pulling straw through the netting onto the surface of the thatch, but I think the cause is somewhere else.
"It may be a difference in quality of the two materials used."
National Trust building surveyor Carl Papierz, said: "We've tried umpteen solutions to the problem... eventually they've all failed.
"I'm beginning to tear my hair out. It's so frustrating."
He said extra netting would be put up over the whole barn "in the next two or three weeks" to protect it.
"We're then open to solutions to find a long term solution and if we find a permanent solution the netting will come down."
The former threshing barn is now used as a museum.
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Cyclist Andy Rolfe posted the video on social media showing the bus, in Denbighshire for the Tour of Britain, narrowly missing him while overtaking.
Sky said the driving was "unacceptable" and that drivers will be "reminded of their responsibilities".
"Encouraging people to get out and on their bikes is a huge part of what we stand for as a team," a statement read.
"We are a team of cyclists and we know how important it is for us to set an example when it comes to ensuring cyclists are able to use the roads safely."
Rolfe described the incident as "crazy" and said the video needs to be shared "for the safety of cyclists".
UK Cycling's senior road safety campaigner, Duncan Dollimore, said: "Team Sky employees should know better than most the dangers of close overtaking of cyclists."
Burgess' thumping header from Carl Baker's corner 14 minutes before half-time handed Pompey victory at a sold out Fratton Park.
The win would have been more commanding but for Gary Roberts missing a late penalty.
Gareth Evans and left-back Enda Stevens both went close to doubling Pompey's lead as the hosts dominated the first half.
Evans should have done better in the opening seconds of the second half when he failed to convert a free-header from Baker's cross.
Roberts passed up the chance to seal the points in stoppage-time when he blazed over from 12 yards after Noel Hunt had been fouled by Olly Lee.
The win completed a double for Pompey over Luton following their 3-1 triumph at Kenilworth Road.
The Hatters' misery was compounded as midfielder Cameron McGeehan was taken to hospital after sustaining a 16th-minute injury in a challenge with Pompey captain Michael Doyle.
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Match ends, Portsmouth 1, Luton Town 0.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 1, Luton Town 0.
Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Mullins (Luton Town).
Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card.
Noel Hunt (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) right footed shot is just a bit too high. Gary Roberts should be disappointed.
Penalty Portsmouth. Noel Hunt draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Olly Lee (Luton Town) after a foul in the penalty area.
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town).
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Enda Stevens.
David Forde (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card.
Christian Burgess (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Isaac Vassell (Luton Town).
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Christian Burgess.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Amine Linganzi replaces Danny Rose.
Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth).
Isaac Vassell (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Noel Hunt replaces Carl Baker.
Foul by Enda Stevens (Portsmouth).
Stephen O'Donnell (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town).
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by David Forde.
Attempt saved. James Justin (Luton Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Enda Stevens (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Hylton (Luton Town).
Corner, Luton Town. Conceded by Matthew Clarke.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Gary Roberts replaces Kyle Bennett.
Isaac Vassell (Luton Town) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth).
Danny Hylton (Luton Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Smith (Portsmouth).
Pelly Ruddock (Luton Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Michael Smith (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by John Mullins (Luton Town).
The group of nine men became stuck on Breydon Water, near Great Yarmouth, when they steered their boat away from a marked deep channel.
Lifeboat crews took five hours to rescue them one by one.
The boat's owners had expected the recovery to take three weeks, but expert John Cressey devised a way to retrieve the stricken craft in hours.
Mr Cressey and his team marked a route through the mud to aid its recovery.
He said: "We waded in dry suits and life jackets along a deep gulley that the boat must have followed and marked its route.
"I believe the men were trying to follow the river wall but were getting closer to the mudflats.
"When they stopped and the tide fell they became stranded.
"About 25 years ago a boat was stuck on Breydon Water mud for about three and a half months.
"It took us about four and a half hours to get this boat back."
But it also took several days planning and a reconnaissance trip in a rowing boat.
Langford Jillings, of boat owners Alpha Craft, said the cruiser was about 600 yards (550m) from the main channel.
"We expected recovery to take up to three weeks and that would have meant visitors losing their holidays," he said.
"But thanks to John the boat was ready for its next booking.
"It's hard enough to make a living so we're glad we did not have to lose any money."
The cruiser became stranded overnight on 29 May and was back in action by the Thursday.
"It was not damaged just very muddy," Mr Jillings said.
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Triumphant on home soil in 1966, the Three Lions have yet to reach such heights again but do have a chance to reminisce when they face current world champions Germany, the beaten finalists at Wembley 50 years ago, in Berlin on Saturday.
However, that iconic image of Bobby Moore lifting the Jules Rimet trophy could have been very different but for the crucial intervention of a mixed breed collie called Pickles.
Fifty years ago this weekend, the Football Association was left panicking over the theft of the World Cup less than four months before the tournament was due to begin.
Step forward, Pickles.
The Jules Rimet trophy was on display at a stamp exhibition in central London but on Sunday, 20 March - just the second day it was on show - it was taken from its case in Westminster's Central Hall.
With the security guards absent on a break, the exact circumstances of how the cup was taken remain a mystery.
"The idea there were people by the display case all the time is just not true," said Doctor Martin Atherton, author of the book 'The Theft of the Jules Rimet Trophy'.
"The whole thing was amateurish - the fact the FA let the trophy out, the security arrangements and the whole recovery of the trophy.
"It came out one of the security guards was 74 years old or something. The security was quite inadequate.
"We think two people broke in through an emergency exit, took the trophy and walked out again."
Police at Scotland Yard took control of the investigation but had few leads.
"There were two separate descriptions of two clearly different people - a tall person and a short person," said Atherton.
"The description the police put out was an amalgamation of the two."
In the meantime, the FA secretly commissioned a replica of the trophy to be made by silversmith George Bird.
A ransom note for the trophy was received by then FA chairman Joe Mears, signed by someone called Jackson, demanding £15,000.
On police advice Mears, who was also chairman of Chelsea, pretended to agree to the deal.
An undercover policeman met Jackson - who was really a former soldier called Edward Betchley - in Battersea Park with a suitcase stuffed with newspapers covered with a layer of £5 notes, and Betchley was eventually arrested.
With the trophy still missing despite Betchley's arrest, the crucial moment of discovery came on the evening of Sunday, 27 March.
Dave Corbett left his flat in Norwood, south London, to make a phone call and take his dog Pickles for a walk. Little did he know they were about to hit international headlines.
"Pickles was running around over by my neighbour's car," explained Corbett.
"As I was putting the lead on I noticed this package laying there, wrapped just in newspaper but very tightly bound with string.
"I tore a bit off the bottom and there was a blank shield, then there were the words Brazil, West Germany and Uruguay printed.
"I tore off the other end and it was a lady holding a very shallow dish above her head. I'd seen the pictures of the World Cup in the papers and on TV so my heart started thumping."
Corbett went to his local police station to present the trophy and was initially met with disbelief.
"I slammed it on the desk in front of the sergeant and said 'I think I have found the World Cup'.
"I remember his words: 'Doesn't look very World Cuppy to me, son'.
Eventually, a detective was summoned and Corbett was taken to Scotland Yard for questioning.
"It suddenly dawned on me that I was number one suspect," he added.
"After an hour or so they ran me back home. When I got back to Norwood there was all the world's press outside."
Once the police cleared him of any wrongdoing, Corbett - and in particular Pickles - became the subject of the international media spotlight.
Pickles was awarded a medal by the National Canine Defence League and received several other rewards.
The collie became a TV star and even appeared in a film with Eric Sykes called The Spy with a Cold Nose.
"He won Dog of the Year, Italian Dog of the Year and appeared on television on Blue Peter and Magpie," said Corbett, now 76.
"He lapped it up and was perfect under the lights.
"He was invited to most countries in the world but in those days it was six months' quarantine when you came back."
Corbett, meanwhile, got pay-outs from sponsors and the cup's insurers, which totalled almost £5,000.
The pair were invited to a celebratory dinner after England beat West Germany 4-2 following extra time in the final.
"We went into the hotel with all these celebrities and Pickles walked over to the lift shaft and did a wee. I felt so embarrassed," recalled Corbett.
"All the wives of the footballers were there but they weren't invited up to the main reception. I have never met so many angry women.
"Afterwards, the England team went out on to a balcony and the street was full of people. We went with them and Bobby Moore picked Pickles up and showed him to the crowd, and there were cheers."
Corbett bought a house in Surrey with his reward money and was a prosecution witness at the trial of Betchley, who was subsequently sent to jail.
However, Pickles did not live much longer to bask in his newfound fame - passing away in 1967.
"He was a perfect dog, except he didn't like cats," said Corbett.
"He was outside with my son and had a choke-chain on when a cat shot across the alleyway. Pickles pulled the boy, he let the lead go and the dog went away.
"We were looking everywhere and at the back of garden there was a tree and he was halfway up there. I think he must have broken his neck."
Pickles is now buried at the bottom of Corbett's garden in Lingfield.
As for the Jules Rimet trophy, it was given to Brazil following their third triumph in the competition in Mexico in 1970.
However, it was stolen from the Brazilian Football Confederation's building when it was on display in 1983 and never recovered. It is believed that it was melted down for gold.
The replica, returned to Bird and kept in a box under his bed until his death, was bought at auction by world governing body Fifa in 1997 and is now in the National Football Museum in Manchester.
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Photographer Erik Scraggs snapped the moment Shane O'Reilly was struck by the animal as he cycled in Phoenix Park.
Mr O'Reilly from Blackrock in County Dublin told Irish broadcaster RTÉ that he was left with a cracked helmet following the incident on Sunday, but managed to carry on.
The park is home to around 500 deer.
"The helmet definitely saved me," Mr O'Reilly added.
"Apart from that, my shoulder was a bit sore and I had a headache."
The competitor completed the race in two hours 25 mins.
Mr Scraggs told the BBC he never thought deer would "try and leap over the cyclists".
"I had a feeling they might make their way across the cyclists' path, so I tracked them though my lens," he said.
"I never envisaged that they would actually try and leap over the cyclists. It all happened so fast, It was a really heavy crash.
"It was a relief to see the competitor get back to his feet and continue."
It is understood the deer has also recovered.
Officers were called to an address in Bryn Heulog, Old Colwyn, at 20:30 GMT on Thursday. David Kingsbury, 35, was found dead nearby.
Two 30-year-old men and a 50-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are being questioned.
A 38-year-old woman arrested on Thursday has been released on bail.
A post-mortem examination revealed Mr Kingsbury died from a single stab wound.
In a tribute, Mr Kingsbury's family said: "David was a very loving, affectionate son, brother and uncle with a good heart.
"We all loved him to bits and will miss his happy, easy going nature, his infectious smile and sense of humour."
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A home win over Greece on 8 October will earn a finals spot but in-form striker Kyle Lafferty is among a trio set to miss the game because of bans.
Chris Baird is ruled out after his red card in Monday's 1-1 draw with Hungary while Conor McLaughlin is also suspended.
"You have to be able to deal with suspensions," said O'Neill.
"We have options. Kyle being out is a blow, of course it is, but someone else will step up."
Baird was sent off after 75 minutes of Monday's game after being cautioned for two separate tackles in the same passage of play.
After the game, manager O'Neill hinted that there might be an appeal against Baird's ban but this possibility appears to have receded after International Football Association Board secretary Lukas Brud told the Irish FA that the decision had been correct.
With Northern Ireland away to Finland three days after the Greece game, draws in both their concluding fixtures will be enough to secure O'Neill's squad a spot in France.
Lafferty's last-gasp equaliser against the Hungarians was his seventh strike of Northern Ireland's 12 goals during the Group F campaign.
But despite Lafferty's huge contribution, O'Neill believes that Kilmarnock striker Josh Magennis and a fit-again Jamie Ward will be able to shoulder the attacking burden against the Greeks.
O'Neill also says the experienced Aaron Hughes is an obvious replacement for banned full-back McLaughlin while Manchester United's Paddy McNair is a possible replacement for midfielder Baird.
"We've seen little glimpses of what Josh Magennis can offer up front. He's a physical presence, he's powerful and I don't think people fully appreciate what he gives to this squad.
"With Conor (McLaughlin), we have Aaron Hughes who has played right-back, Paddy McNair can play there too and he is also an option in the middle of the pitch where Bairdy plays.
"Hopefully we'll be stronger in other areas come October too, Jamie Ward will hopefully be back from injury and Jonny Evans will have more minutes under his belt by then."
Magennis undoubtedly has the biggest boots to fill.
Lafferty has been a revelation in qualifying, with only Poland's Robert Lewandowski and Germany's Thomas Muller bettering his goals tally - not bad company for a player who was surplus to requirements at Norwich last season and has yet to play domestically due to injury this term.
Magennis has played 14 times for his country, but has started just once and has yet to open his account.
The 21-year-old won the club's player of the year award in 2016 after joining from York City Knights.
Minikin has scored six tries in 16 appearances and will remain at Wheldon Road until the end of the 2019 season.
"We have a bright future here at Castleford and we're aiming to win some silverware, if not next year then in the near future," he said.
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The execution of Abdul Kader Mullah came despite dire warnings of civil strife, and in defiance of international calls to stay the execution.
Mullah, a senior leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, was convicted on five counts of murder and genocide by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), a domestic court set up three years ago.
The hanging marks a watershed in the country's short but often bloody history. This is the first time a senior politician has been tried in a civil court and hanged for offences committed in 1971.
The ICT has so far convicted 10 people, eight of whom have been given the death sentence.
The government has clearly taken a calculated risk in carrying out the sentence at a time when the country is already in the grip of nearly a month-long opposition strike.
A few weeks earlier, Jamaat leaders said they would ''set the country ablaze'' if Mullah was executed.
During the past few days, thousands of mobile phone users have received messages from an unidentified number, warning it would lead to civil war.
The government of Sheikh Hasina had also come under pressure not to carry out the death sentence from the UK, US, the EU and the UN's human rights body. They worry that the hanging could derail delicate negotiations over upcoming general elections scheduled for 5 January.
The government's determination to see through Mullah's trial to the bitter end has also generated great debate in Bangladesh.
Jamaat-e-Islami is aligned to the country's largest opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Jamaat has claimed its leaders were being targeted for trial as part of the governing Awami League's efforts to destroy the opposition.
Jamaat supporters unleashed widespread violence in February when their charismatic leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi was sentenced to death. Nearly 100 people died in nearly a week of clashes.
However, initial reaction to Mullah's execution has been fairly muted. There have been reports of scattered violence and small-scale protests in some parts of the country, but this was part of a wave of agitation that was already in progress.
For nearly a month, the entire country has been under a rail and road blockade by the BNP and its allies. It has cut off routes between Dhaka and much of the country, including the vital port city of Chittagong.
The BNP has rejected the 5 January date set for general elections, and called for action to bring down Ms Hasina's interim government.
The BNP and its allies want a neutral caretaker government to oversee the polls, arguing that Ms Hasina cannot be trusted to deliver free and fair elections.
Opinion polls, including one commissioned by the Awami League, show overwhelming public support for elections under a neutral government. But at the same time, there is great deal of public disquiet over the opposition's agitation programme, which has left at least 50 people dead since 26 November.
Most of the dead are ordinary citizens travelling on buses, trains or other public transport, attacked by suspected opposition activists with petrol bombs.
The deepening crisis has generated a speculation about the possibility of a state of emergency being declared.
During a similar crisis in 2007, the military stepped in and installed a caretaker government to carry out political reforms. They failed in that task, but managed to steer the country back to constitutional rule through largely free and fair elections.
The Awami League came to power in 2009 through a landslide victory.
There are fears that, if Mullah's hanging does trigger violent protests on top of the blockades and strikes, then the government would find reason to call in the army. This would end hopes of elections for some time.
However, it is possible the government has calculated differently. They are aware of the damage a well-organised and well-funded Jamaat can do. The government is also confident it can tackle the violence with security measures.
And it is possible the BNP may even rein in its smaller coalition partner, and warn Jamaat not to rock the boat. The BNP senses it can win the next elections, if a level playing field is ensured.
The government accuses the BNP of carrying out its agitation as an effort to foil the war crimes trials. The BNP denies this and does not comment on the trials.
The US and countries in the European Union have called for a compromise so that an "inclusive election" can take place, and senior leaders from the two parties have agreed to talk.
Soon, they will have to address the critical question of an interim government that both could live with.
The government appears adamant to go ahead with elections on the scheduled date, but the negotiations suggest they may consider rescheduling the polls.
But the entire negotiating process, fragile as it is, could go completely off the rails if the protests over Mullah's hanging reach the intensity of February's unrest.
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The broad-shouldered, fifth-generation Texan built his first fortune through Houston property in the 1980s.
At one stage the 6ft 4in (193cm) father-of-six was 205th on the Forbes rich list of Americans, and estimated to be worth $2.2bn (£1.5bn).
In 2006 his love of sport led to the development of his own cricket tournament, with a purpose-built ground in the West Indian island of Antigua.
But the Stanford empire had lowly beginnings during the Great Depression in 1932, when his grandfather Lodis founded the first company in the small Texas town of Mexia.
After making his first fortune in property, Allen Stanford began expanding the family firm.
At its most successful, the Stanford Financial Group, described as a global wealth management company, claimed clients from 140 countries with assets of $50bn (£35bn) under management.
Stanford rubbed shoulders with some of the world's most prominent business people, politicians and sports stars.
One of the companies and divisions under the Stanford umbrella was the Stanford International Bank, based in Antigua, which was at the centre of the fraud case.
Among the schemes launched before his arrest was a $2bn investment fund earmarked for upscale development projects in the Caribbean, his website said.
Before his arrest Stanford, who separated from his wife Susan, lived in St Croix in the US Virgin Islands. He holds citizenship for Antigua and Barbuda, where he was the largest employer after the government.
In 2006, he became the first American to be knighted by the islands - with his earlier citizenship allowing him to call himself Sir Allen. In 2010, the knighthood was revoked.
But he built influence far beyond the world of commerce and finance.
In 2008, he caused controversy by staging a $20m cricket match between England and his own team, the Stanford All Stars, made up of West Indian players.
The controversy was not just contained to the money and the match. Stanford had to apologise to the England players for being over-friendly with some of their wives and girlfriends after pictures showed one of them sitting on his knee during an earlier game.
The Stanford name is also linked with other sports tournaments including golf, tennis, polo and sailing. In addition, he signed endorsement deals with top golfer Vijay Singh and footballer Michael Owen.
Away from the sports field, Stanford used his money to get noticed among the political establishment in Washington.
He personally gave nearly $1m to US politicians from both sides, although mostly to Democrats, according to the Centre for Responsive Politics, a group that tracks campaign spending.
The group says that since 2000, the Stanford Financial Group also contributed $2.4m, through its political action committee and employees.
In addition, it lists more than 100 politicians who, in the past, have received contributions from the Stanford empire, among them US President Barack Obama and his 2008 presidential challenger, John McCain.
Both men since said they would return the funds or donate them to charity, according to reports in the US media.
Stanford was seen giving a hug to the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, at the Democratic National Convention of 2008, while ABC News reported that former US President Bill Clinton publicly thanked Sir Allen's firm for helping to finance a convention-related forum and party.
The financier said very little when charged with investment fraud by US regulators, the Securities and Exchange Commission, in February 2009.
Documents in the civil court case show Sir Allen pleaded the Fifth Amendment - the right to withhold potentially self-incriminating evidence.
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"If it was a Ponzi scheme, why are they finding billions and billions of dollars all over the place?" he said at the time.
In June, he turned himself in to the Virginia office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to answer a criminal fraud indictment.
In March 2012, he was convicted in a Houston court of 13 of the 14 charges. Three months later, he was sentenced to 110 years in prison.
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An Oisin McManus goal helped Down lead by five points early on before Derry gained control.
Two goals from sub Corey Riley sealed the victory, after Brian Cassidy had fired in a first-half three-pointer
Shane McGuigan, Cassidy, Paddy Turner and Conor McAllister all produced superb displays for the Oak Leafers.
After ending Antrim's hopes of a ninth straight title last week, Derry went in as strong favourites but Down got off to a fast start, going five points ahead inside the opening five minutes, helped by McManus' goal.
However, three Daragh Cartin frees got Derry back into the game despite the loss of the influential John Mullan to injury.
McAllister brought them level in the 12th minute, and although the Ardsmen got their noses back in front through Coulter, outstanding wing back McGuigan powered over a fine score to get the Oak Leafers level again.
And they struck for a goal in the 26th minute, Cassidy getting in to net from close range.
Cassidy's point sent Derry in with a 1-9 to 1-5 interval lead, and an immense second half display from midfielder Conor McAllister ensured Collie McGurk's side remained on top.
Down could never match their hunger and intensity, and while Marty Mallon's men did pull back scores through Daithi Sands and Pearse Og McCrickard, they lacked the penetration to get themselves back in contention.
Cassidy, Ciaran Steele and the accurate Cartin kept the score-board ticking over, and by the end of the third quarter, they led by seven.
And they put the game beyond any doubt late on when substitute Corey Riley grabbed two goals in the space of a minute later on, both created by Cassidy.
Down finished with 14 players after midfielder Jordan Doran received a straight red card.
Derry: F McEldowney; S Higgins, P Turner, P McNeill; R McCartney, C Steele (0-1), S McGuigan (0-1); C McAllister (0-2), J Mullan; E McGill, S Cassidy, O McKeever (0-2); D Cartin (0-7, 4f, 1 '65), C O'Doherty (0-2), B Cassidy (1-2). Subs: C Riley (2-0) for Mullan, N Smyth for O'Doherty, P Burke for McKeever.
Down: H Flynn; B Myers, D Mallon, P McManus; M Fisher (0-2, 2 '65), E Coulter, R Courtney; L Savage, J Doran; B Trainor (0-1), D Sands, (0-1) R Campbell (0-1); O McManus (1-0), P McCrickard (0-1), C Coulter (0-3, 3f). Subs: M Pattterson for P McManus, N Breen for C Coulter, O Duggan for O McManus.
Referee: C Cunning (Antrim).
An uncrowned green harp flag was flown above Liberty Hall by the Irish Citizen Army in the week before the rebellion.
But it was taken by a soldier when the British Army shelled and stormed the building, and it was later given to a military museum in County Fermanagh.
It has now been presented to the Irish president ahead of events to mark the revolt's centenary this weekend.
President Michael D Higgins praised the move by the Inniskillings Museum in Enniskillen, saying it was a "magnificent contribution to the 1916 commemorations".
The rising was a short and ill-fated republican rebellion in 1916 against British rule in Ireland.
In spite of its military failure, it is seen by many historians as a significant stepping-stone in the partition of the island and the eventual creation of the Republic of Ireland.
The Irish Citizen Army helped plot the rising and manufactured weapons in Liberty Hall.
The Proclamation, one of the most important documents in Irish history, was printed in the building the night before the rebellion.
A green harp flag had been hoisted above Liberty Hall on Sunday 16 April 1916 in a ceremony led by James Connolly, the commander of the Irish Citizen Army.
Nine days later, soldiers from the Enniskillen-based Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers arrived in Dublin to quell the rebellion and the next morning an armed patrol yacht opened fire on Liberty Hall in preparation for their assault.
By that stage, the building was virtually empty.
Acting Corporal John McAlonen, a 21-year-old fusilier, retrieved a flag, made from green tabby weave wool with an appliqued yellow wool harp, from the ruins of the hall.
It was presented to the Inniskillings Museum in 1935 by Col John McClintock, who was the commanding officer of the 3rd Inniskillings during the Rising.
The museum has said months of analysis and research indicate the flag in its possession is the same one flown above the Dublin hall at the time of the rising.
It contacted the current occupiers of Liberty Hall, the Irish trade union SIPTU, and a decision was taken to conserve the flag and loan it for public display.
Angela Wrightson, 39, was found in her blood-spattered Hartlepool home in 2014 with at least 103 injuries.
Two girls, then aged 13 and 14, deny murder at Leeds Crown Court.
The older girl said she thought people could only die from "cancer, being shot in the head and being stabbed in the heart".
The girl, who has admitted manslaughter, described the attack on Ms Wrightson, telling the court the pair of them "stamped on Angie's face", threw a television and printer at her and together picked up a table and "whacked Angie in the face with it, two times".
The older girl told the jury the younger girl had "shouted at her and made her do it".
She said: "I knew I was going to hurt [Ms Wrightson] and I didn't mean to but I was being told to."
The girl described Ms Wrightson as "mumbling" and "having all blood in her face" and "splits in her head".
She said she asked the younger girl why Ms Wrightson was mumbling, and she replied it was because "that's what happens when you're dying, you get flashbacks and that".
The older girl claimed she told the younger one to call an ambulance but she refused.
Instead the pair telephoned the police to collect them and take them home.
The girl said she thought about the attack "all the time".
She said: "At night I see blood up the walls and my hands go sweaty and I start hurting myself."
The trial continues.
President Obama said the US would prioritise trade negotiations with the EU and Pacific nations over a UK deal.
Japan has warned of "drastic changes" after Brexit and said the potentially "harmful effects" must be minimised.
But Mrs May has insisted that the UK can prosper outside the EU and become a "global leader in free trade".
Mrs May is also facing questions over Chinese investment in the UK ahead of a meeting with leader Xi Jinping later.
Asked whether she "trusted" the Chinese government - amid claims she is reviewing China's planned investment in a new nuclear reactor in Hinkley Point on security grounds - she said the UK "had a relationship" with China she wanted to build on.
While acknowledging that the UK had enjoyed a "golden era" in its relations with China under her predecessor David Cameron, Mrs May said there were a number of other countries that the UK wanted to develop trade links with.
Her comments come amid reports that Australia could be the first country to sign a free trade agreement with the UK once it leaves the EU.
The two-day summit in Hangzhou is Mrs May's first opportunity to meet a number of international leaders since she became prime minister in July, in the wake of the UK's vote to quit the EU and David Cameron's subsequent resignation.
Analysis by James Landale, BBC diplomatic correspondent
The phrase "Brexit means Brexit" has seen the government through the summer, but has now reached the end of its usefulness.
It was designed to persuade doubting Remainers that the UK really will leave the EU, something Theresa May was once again forced to confirm during her news conference with President Obama here in China.
But over the months the slogan has inverted into something different, a symbol of the government's uncertainty about what Brexit will actually mean for our relationship with the EU. This lack of clarity reflects the divisions within ministerial ranks over what deal Britain should aim for. Read more from James
She has held talks with Mr Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin among others at the meeting of the world's largest economies.
After their meeting, President Obama said the "special" relationship between the two countries remained strong despite Washington favouring the UK remaining in the EU and that the US would do everything to make sure Brexit did not affect this status.
The two leaders said their respective countries would begin a consultation on future trade links in the new landscape while Mr Obama played down his claim during the EU referendum that the UK would have to go to the "back of the queue" for trade talks.
BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said Mrs May's goal was to reassure other leaders that the UK was "open for business" and was a "dependable partner" but had received a number of "blunt" responses, including from Mr Obama, over Brexit.
Ministers have insisted the UK's economic and diplomatic status will not be diminished and Brexit could actually enhance relations with countries beyond Europe.
But an official Japanese government briefing has warned of the repercussions for the thousands of people employed by Japanese car, finance and hi-tech firms in the UK and has sought assurances over continued access to the single market, tariff levels and other trade privileges.
"It is of great importance that the UK and the EU maintain market integrity and remain attractive destinations for businesses where free trade, unfettered investment and smooth financial transactions are ensured," the document said.
"In light of the fact that a number of Japanese businesses, invited by the government in some cases, have invested actively to the UK, which was seen to be a gateway to Europe... we strongly request that the UK will consider this fact seriously and respond in a responsible manner to minimise any harmful effects on these businesses."
Ahead of her meeting with the Chinese leader, Mrs May is facing questions over the future of plans to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point - underpinned by billions of pounds in Chinese investment - which are currently under review by the government amid reported concerns over cost and security.
Speaking to reporters, Mrs May said the Hinkley decision would be taken later this month and that the UK had a multi-faceted relationship with China.
Analysis by Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
Perhaps the real difficulty for the now not so new prime minister is that the biggest demands on her abroad are the same as those at home. Other countries want more details of her plans for Britain's life after the EU.
But with no consensus, or anything like the details of post-Brexit Britain yet from government, there isn't that much that she can really tell them.
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"We have seen significant Chinese investment into the United Kingdom," she said.
"What I want to do is build on that relationship, but I also want here at the G20 to be able to build on relationships with other countries. As I say I want the UK to be a global leader in free trade."
Our correspondent said this marked a notable change in the UK's tone towards China, from the stance of David Cameron and George Osborne who aggressively courted Beijing and had marketed the UK as China's "gateway to Europe".
Prime Minister Theresa May also said she wants a "frank and open relationship" with Russia during her first meeting with President Putin.
Relations between the UK and Russia have been strained, particularly following the UK inquiry which blamed the 2006 poisoning death of former spy Alexander Litvinenko on Russian agents and said it was "probably" approved by Mr Putin.
Other contentious topics have included Russia's support for the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the annexation of Crimea and fighting in Ukraine.
Mrs May said she had urged the Russian leader to do all he could to end the indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Syria and allow aid convoys into cut-off areas.
Speaking more broadly about the future of Anglo-Russian relations, she said: "While I recognise there will be some differences between us, there are some complex and serious areas of concern and issues to discuss."
Andrew Salter, 22, now a first-team regular, will return to Australia for a second successive 'winter season' to play grade cricket in Sydney.
He will be joined by Glamorgan second-team player Owen Morgan, 21.
Morgan will be at the Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy and playing club cricket in Adelaide.
Former England spinner Peter Such is in charge of developing young bowlers for the ECB.
"The most important factor in a player's development, particularly for spin bowlers, is match-play overs to hone the skills and work out how to apply them effectively in game situations," he said.
"There is no substitute for this.
"We are looking to expose our spinners to cricket overseas during the off season, for the experience of competing overseas, taking more personal responsibility and also to continue their development by bowling those much-needed match play and practice overs."
Ben Currie touched down Kurt Gidley's chip to put the Wire ahead, before Joe Westerman powered over a second try.
Lineham crossed to make it 16-0, despite having Gidley sin-binned, with Iain Thornley then going over to reduce the deficit for the visitors.
Two further tries from Lineham and one from Daryl Clark sealed the points, despite Kieran Dixon's consolation try.
Warrington ought to have had the game won before half-time, with Westerman and Daryl Clark both held up over the line as the hosts applied constant pressure to the visitors' line.
Kevin Penny also looked to have gone over, but the try was ruled out for a forward pass in the build-up.
The hosts finally made possession and territory count in the second half, with the result capped off by Clark's tackle-breaking individual run and score late on.
Thornley and Dixon's scores were the only highlights for Rovers, who also lost forward James Donaldson to a serious-looking arm injury midway through the second half.
Warrington Wolves head coach Tony Smith:
"The lead-up play was very good and the performance overall was solid. We had a real mix with some brilliance and some mediocrity.
"Our defence was very much on but it was disappointing to concede a second try, although it was a fantastic finish by Kieran Dixon.
"We were fairly dominant in a lot of areas but Hull KR stuck with it and kept battling away."
Hull KR coach Chris Chester:
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"The scoreline blew away in the last few minutes but our effort was first class.
"We defended our line really well but were poor with the ball.
"You can't afford to give a side like Warrington so much possession, and we need to be better."
Warrington: Westerman; Hughes, Westwood, Sims, Clark; Hill, Sandow; Gidley, Lineham, Currie, Evans, Penny, Russell.
Replacements: Dwyer, King, Atkins, Cox.
Hull KR: Cockayne; Dixon, Thornley, Minns, Sio; Blair, Kelly; Green, Lawler, Tilse, Horne, Clarkson, Allgood.
Replacements: Walker, Mulhern, Donaldson, Holker.
Referee: Ben Thaler.
Now it is up to Russell Slade and his squad to lift the post-relegation blues which endured last season.
Even with the support of owner Vincent Tan, the affable Slade is in one of the most pressurised jobs in the Championship.
The way Cardiff cope with a tough looking opening group of fixtures may give us a decent indication of how much that pressure will build.
For the most part it was absolutely dismal, an immediate return to the Premier League never looked remotely possible. But there were signs of improvement towards the end.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's frenzied recruitment resulted in a squad of quantity, not quality. He departed after just nine games.
Slade, lured from League One side Leyton Orient, was the unexpected choice of Vincent Tan.
A section of Cardiff fans remain sceptical - though his main drawback initially appeared to be his name was not Tony Pulis.
Slade brought a degree of stability at a club where that is often in short supply, while instigating the owner's austerity measures in slashing the wage bill. Sometimes it was not pretty.
But January's return to playing in blue removed a hugely divisive negative, Paul Trollope's arrival on the coaching staff seems inspired and Cardiff's late season form brought an 11th placed finish.
The unveiling of their new blue kit this summer, brought the most positive reaction from fans towards the club since promotion to the Premier League.
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Now there is some sort of reconnection, the Bluebirds players need to inspire the supporters and use the fervent backing to help make the Cardiff City Stadium a fortress, as it was in the Championship title season of 2013.
The loss of goalkeeper David Marshall - linked with West Brom - would be a real test, but at least Cardiff have defensive depth and no little ability in the impressive Bruno Ecuele Manga.
An influential Peter Whittingham would be a real boost, particularly for striker Joe Mason. If Anthony Pilkington and Kigasho Dikgacoi can remain injury free, Cardiff have a sound base.
A good start seems essential, not least for Slade to convince the doubters he can cut it at this level - and keep owner Tan sweet.
If Cardiff can be challenging in January, the fans will hope the lucrative lure of the new Premier League television deal to start next season will encourage Tan to loosen the purse strings in the winter for the final push.
But as Solskjaer and Malky Mackay found - for different reasons - getting to the new year is not a given for a manager.
The Championship is a famously tough division. But Cardiff fans will demand their team are in contention towards the end.
It's a huge opportunity for Joe Mason. After three loan spells at Bolton he now has the opportunity to call Cardiff City home once again.
Mason seems to be the focus of the Cardiff attack and has the intuitive movement and cool finishing ability to prosper. Fingers crossed he avoids injury and Whittingham can supply him with plenty of ammunition..
Simon Moore may have to step out of the considerable shadows of David Marshall and with (hopefully) the Euro 2016 finals to think about it would be great to see Wales international Declan John find his best position, get a chance, and fulfil his obvious potential.
Title - 25/1
Relegation - 15/2
Manager sacking - not available
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A roller-coaster, headline-grabbing ride with plenty of distractions - it is what we have come to expect at Cardiff by now.
They still need attack and midfield reinforcements before this window shuts, but the squad is fitter, better organised and seems relatively settled.
Play-offs have to be the aim but they probably need to strengthen to secure that.
Championship: 8th. FA Cup: Fourth round.
Russell Slade: "Our aim? It will be top six despite the ins and outs and whatever goes off. We're trying to keep the group really tight that we've got and we know we can focus on and move forward with and that's important for us. We can't allow anything else to distract us.
"I think we're all on the same page now and we know what's required.
"I'm optimistic, but I think I am that by nature. If we can build on where we were last season when we were in the top six over the last 10 games we have to progress from there, and if we can then the future is going to be bright for the football club."
Former Wales striker and BBC Wales pundit Iwan Roberts: "To finish top six, I think it is a tall order. You feel for Russell Slade because they haven't got millions to spend, they're going to go in a different direction.
"I think the players have to take responsibility; you can't always hide behind your manager. You need big personalities in that dressing room.
"I think they are good enough though, they've got good players, players who've played in the Premier League."
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We often compare Usain Bolt to Muhammad Ali - not for his political convictions but his charisma, for the effect he has had on his sport, for the impact he has made on the world outside it.
Coming into this World Championships 100m final on a dark, sweaty night in this giant ball of cold steel, it seemed that we might get the old showmanship but not the old magic.
The best we could hope for, with the twice-banned Justin Gatlin on a 28-race unbeaten run, with Bolt injured for much of the summer and stumbling in his semi-final, was a defeat to set up a future redemption.
Ali's defeat by Joe Frazier at the Garden in 1971, without which the Thrilla in Manila could never have happened; Bolt knocked out in the Bird's Nest to set up the Revival in Rio in 12 months' time.
Yet it seemed too great a burden for a man who has looked not only mortal this summer but for the first time truly fallible.
Bolt had raced the 100m on just two days this season before arriving at the scene of his unforgettable coronation in 2008. So bad was his pelvic injury that not until late July did he record a time that hinted he could even be competitive in Beijing.
Ali could compensate for his declining speed and the power and fury of his rivals with ringcraft and tactics, by scheming and slipping and refusing to surrender until the other man had fallen.
The 100m does not afford those nuances. Nine-point-something seconds. Which man gets there first. There is no hiding place and no time for comebacks.
And yet Bolt, once again, proved us all fools.
His was an ugly heat and a horrible semi-final. He almost fell from his blocks and had to fight with eyes-wide desperation to even make the final.
What could he possibly do up against the relentless consistency of Gatlin? These have been the American's times this year: 9.74secs, 9.75, 9.75, 9.78. In his heat he ran 9.83, in his semi 9.77.
When Ali went to Zaire to take on the dead-eyed might of George Foreman, witnesses to the build-up spoke of the fearsome percussive force of the ascendant's right hook on the heavy bag.
So it was with Gatlin's times. Bang. Bang. Bang.
I spoke to Gatlin's camp in the afternoon before this showdown, heavy grey skies and dark thunder clouds over the city, a portent for the superstitious of what might lie ahead for the sport if a man who has twice been banned for drug offences were to win its premier event.
There was not just confidence but near certainty. There was talk of a 9.6-something. There was talk of how much the 33-year-old American wanted the lane next to the ailing Jamaican, so he could shock Bolt mentally in the first few metres before destroying him physically in the next 95. There was talk of a new era.
Even on the blocks Bolt seemed beset by self-doubt. There were the usual games - pretending to smooth his hair back, playing peekaboo into the camera's lens when the world looked closer - but also sweat on his brow and a flicker to his eyes.
Lots of people have never seen Bolt beaten. He has been - by Yohan Blake at the Jamaican trials in 2012, by Gatlin himself in Rome two years ago - but never when it really matters, never on the world stage.
This seemed the moment for the old narrative to fall apart. Instead it was Gatlin - relentless Gatlin, predictably brilliant Gatlin - who cracked and fell.
From the blocks Bolt was ahead. At 20 metres he was relaxed. By 40 he was driving, and by 60 Gatlin was tying up - technique coming apart, rhythm going, those 28 victories falling away in his slipstream as the yellow blur to his left refused to come back to him.
Ali beat Foreman through rope-a-dope and bravery and immense mental fortitude. Bolt found his own way: belief when others wondered, speed when we feared it gone, a strength in body and mind that Gatlin could not match.
Bolt's reaction time to the gun was six thousandths of a second faster than Gatlin's. By the end the margin had stretched only a little, to a single one-hundredth of a second. A fraction between them, a chasm in charisma and class.
This was never good vs evil, as some tried to bill it in advance. Gatlin is a dope cheat, not a serial killer or child abuser.
Neither is it a new plot line. There have always been dopers and deceit among the fastest men and women in the world, whether it is Ben Johnson in Seoul or Carl Lewis failing three tests before he even got to those 1988 Olympics, Marion Jones winning in Sydney 12 years later on a blend of EPO and human growth hormone or her one-time husband Tim Montgomery using the same to break the world record before ending his career in jail for dealing heroin on the streets.
Bolt said before Sunday that he couldn't save the sport on his own. He hasn't. There were three other one-time dopers in this final. Tyson Gay, Mike Rodgers and Asafa Powell send out a message of their own: cheat and you can still prosper, cut a deal and you can come back in the time it takes a torn hamstring to heal.
But on a night that could have ended with the sport no longer teetering on the abyss but plummeting over it, the victories of Bolt and, a few hours earlier, Jessica Ennis-Hill in the heptathlon, gave the believers something to cling to and the doubters reason to perhaps think again.
One day Bolt will be gone, and with him the greatest wonder of our sporting age. Athletics must learn to both flourish without him and win some of the battles he has fought almost singlehandedly over the past few years.
For now we should give thanks for him and Ennis-Hill: smiling assassins of cynicism, unstoppable reminders that sport can sometimes be about hard work and heroics as well as the darker, dispiriting side of human nature.
Fellow comedians Lee Mack and Josh Widdicombe and presenter Zoe Ball will be the first three guests on the show.
They will reveal watching "hidden gems to guilty pleasures" from locations including a tour bus and make-up chair.
The first Frank Skinner On Demand With… will be available from 13 November.
"As a kid, I had a recurring dream that I was alone in the local toy shop and could help myself to anything I fancied," said Room 101 host Skinner.
"BBC iPlayer feels a bit like that dream. But now I'm allowed to take a playmate, to show me the things they love that I might have missed. And everything they reach for tells me more and more about them. Come and join us in the best toy shop ever."
The BBC said 40% of people watching the iPlayer on their computers, smart phones and tablets watch mainly new productions.
It hopes the new 15-minute programme will promote the "breadth and variety of content" and encourage people to discover something "beyond the big hitters".
Last year, the iPlayer broke records with 3.5 billion requests for TV and radio programmes, with the catch-up window also extended from seven to 30 days.
Victoria Jaye, head of TV content for BBC iPlayer, said she hoped Skinner's new show would soon be "reinventing 'word of mouth' for the on-demand audience".
The broadcaster said the BBC should "be with us forever" but that it was in danger from "having to spread too much money out over four channels".
His comments follow the BBC's recent absorption of cost of the TV licence for over-75s and the BBC World Service.
A government green paper is also demanding a full review of BBC finances and services ahead of charter renewal.
Speaking at the Radio Times Festival at Hampton Court on Sunday, Sir Bruce told the audience we should value the corporation's "worldwide appeal".
He also had praise for the BBC's news coverage, but said: "Do without three and four, and concentrate on channels one and two. That's what I'd do if I were Director General."
Also speaking about the BBC at the festival was comedian and writer Barry Cryer.
He said the corporation was "under siege" and needed to be preserved.
Cryer, a regular panellist on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, talked about the government's review, the future of the licence fee and the BBC's range of services.
He said that while he thought a lot of the corporation's problems were "self-inflicted" he added "if it's at the mercy of the politicians, God help us.
"We've got to hold on to it because it's public service broadcasting.
"I'm an idealist, we need to preserve it."
The government green paper and consultation into the future of the BBC was published in July by the culture secretary John Whittingdale.
It demands full scrutiny of the corporation's services and funding ahead of the renewal of its public service broadcasting charter in 2016.
The green paper came a week after the BBC agreed to take on the cost of free TV licences for the over 75s, a policy which could cost it up to £650m.
In 2014 it also took on the full cost of running the World Service, which was previously part-funded by the Foreign Office.
The green paper focuses on key themes, including governance and impartiality.
The culture secretary also wants to look at whether the BBC should do away with "highly commercial" entertainment shows like The Voice.
An examination of other funding models, including a household tax, subscription and a means-tested licence fee are to be considered.
And the size and scope of the BBC's website will also be under scrutiny.
Anabel Flores Salazar was taken by the men on Monday morning from her home near the city of Orizaba, where she worked for several newspapers.
At least 15 journalists have been killed in Veracruz since 2010.
Relations between the Veracruz governor and the media have been tense.
State Governor Javier Duarte has accused some journalists of having criminal ties.
He went on to warn them to "behave", arguing that if anything were to happen to them, he would be "crucified".
Some local journalists saw this as a thinly veiled threat against them.
In the case of Anabel Flores Salazar, prosecutors say they are investigating all her "possible ties".
The office said she had been seen in the company of a leader of the local branch of the Zetas drug cartel two years ago.
Veracruz is the most dangerous place to be a journalist in Mexico, which itself is deemed one of the most unsafe countries for journalists.
Nationwide, 88 journalists have been murdered since 2000, according to free speech organisation Article 19.
Fourteen journalists from Veracruz state alone have died since Governor Duarte took office in 2010.
At least seven people died and more than 50 were injured when the quake struck in the early hours of Sunday.
The magnitude six tremor, centred north of Bologna, destroyed or badly damaged many historic buildings.
Italian officials say the priority is to find safe accommodation for an estimate 3,000 displaced people.
Civil protection officials in the town of Finale Emilia organised the setting up of tents on a football pitch to accommodate hundreds of residents.
Many had seen their homes destroyed but others were simply too afraid to return home.
"The current situation is really tense but not dramatic," said co-ordinator Diego Gottarelli.
"People are obviously afraid of staying inside their homes so we are setting up these emergency camps to let them spend the night and maybe some days in a safe environment, until these earthquakes finally stop. We are trying to make the citizens feel safe."
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One woman said she just wanted her elderly parents to have shelter for the night.
"We are going to sleep in the car, it is not a problem for us. The important thing is that they (Civil Protection authorities) finish setting up the camp so that my parents can go inside," she said.
A 5.1 magnitude aftershock struck Sunday afternoon, destroying several buildings already weakened.
One firefighter was seriously injured after falling from a wall in Finale Emilia.
The original earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 10km just after 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Sunday.
Its epicentre was between the towns of Finale Emilia, San Felice sul Panaro and Sermide, about 35km (20 miles) north of the city of Bologna.
It was felt across a large swathe of northern Italy, as far away as the cities of Milan and Venice.
Italian TV showed many historic buildings reduced to rubble. Cars lay crushed under fallen masonry.
The roof of a recently renovated sixteenth-century chapel in San Carlo, near the city of Ferrara, collapsed, leaving statues of angels exposed to the elements.
Architect Claudio Fabbri told AFP news agency that the restoration had taken eight years, adding despondently: "Now there's nothing left to do."
Firefighters in Finale Emilia rescued a five-year-old girl from the rubble of a house after a series of phone calls between a local woman, a family friend in New York and emergency services, AP news agency reported.
Officials said that warehouses storing more than 300,000 wheels of Parmesan and Grana Padano cheese - with an estimated value of more than 250m euros (£200m; $320m) - also collapsed.
Stefano Berni, head of a consortium that protects the Grana Padano designation, told Ansa news agency: "It's a very heavy loss, but there have been no casualties, which is a great relief."
The victims included two workers at a ceramics factory in Sant'Agostino.
Another person - believed to be a Moroccan national - died in Ponte Rodoni do Bondeno and a worker in Tecopress di Dosso died when the roof of a foundry collapsed, local media reported.
Three women were also reported to have died as a result of heart attacks or other illness induced by the tremors.
Sunday's earthquake was the worst to hit Italy since the L'Aquila tremor killed nearly 300 people in 2009.
Northern Italy is frequently rocked by minor earthquakes, but the country is well-prepared to deal with them, the BBC's correspondent in Italy, Alan Johnston says.
In what is one of Brazil's biggest environmental disasters, about 62 million cubic metres of mud spilled from the dam and flooded a vast area.
At least 17 people were killed. Two are still missing.
The cause of the burst is still unclear but the Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against Samarco, the joint venture between mining giants BHP Billiton and Vale, which owned the dam.
The area was closed off for four weeks while rescue workers and investigators searched the mud.
A month after the disaster, Brazilian journalist Nina Neves and photographer Ismael dos Anjos travelled to Bento Rodrigues and nearby Paracatu de Baixo to examine the damage caused.
It was afternoon when Bento Rodrigues was swallowed by a river of mud.
The residents, who had had no warning of the impending disaster, could do little more than run for their lives.
The force of the mud took everything in its path, bending metal and flattening homes.
The site has been abandoned since the mud flow hit.
Children's toys and people's belongings are scattered throughout the village, a stark reminder of the lively village Bento Rodrigues once was.
Some areas of Bento Rodrigues look like twister has torn through it, with metal rods and pieces of wood littering the ground.
The force of the mud flow carried washing machines far from the homes where they once stood.
But some smaller items, such as these religious statuettes, survived the impact.
Behind the ruins of Bento Rodrigues's school, the swings are suspended in mud, giving a strange illusion of motion in the deserted village.
Paracatu de Baixo was the second village in the path of the mud flow.
Residents here were luckier than those of Bento Rodrigues as they received some warning of the disaster and could take refuge.
No-one died here, but a tree left standing bears the marks of the mud and shows the height it reached.
Some residents have been back to look for remains of their belongings in the rubble, but most found very little that was salvageable.
Mayka Marica Kukucova, 26, is charged with murdering businessman Andrew Bush, 48, at his mansion near Marbella on the Costa del Sol in April 2014.
Prosecutors at the Ciudad de la Justicia in Malaga told the court he died after being shot three times, once in the shoulder and twice in the head.
Ms Kukucova has not entered a plea.
The court heard the pair met when Ms Kukucova - a Slovak national - was working at a jewellery store owned by Mr Bush in Bristol.
In an account of the events leading up to his death, she told the court she had gone to his home to collect her things when he returned unexpectedly from a trip with his new girlfriend Maria Korotaeva.
She said: "When he came and saw me he told his girlfriend to go out to the car.
"He started shouting and hitting me and took me strongly by the arms. I said I wanted to go but he said no.
"He was shouting that he was going to kill me and my family."
After a struggle down the stairs, Ms Kukucova said: "Then the gun was in my hands. I threw myself on him and we were fighting and then the gun went off.
"I couldn't hear anything. I was just trying to get away. I didn't want to hurt him."
She said she had tried to go back upstairs but there was another struggle on the staircase as Mr Bush came after her.
"I don't know how many times the gun went off," she said.
The court heard Ms Kukucova then left the house and told Ms Korotaeva to get out of Mr Bush's car before driving off.
Her defence counsel Carlos Larranaga said: "The facts are that a person has died. There was a homicide but we have not accepted that my client is a murderer.
"My client shot him."
He told the jury: "You must decide if Mr Bush was killed in an aggressive way, or as a method of defence."
She handed herself in to authorities in Slovakia four days after the shooting and was extradited back to Spain to face charges of murder and vehicle theft.
The trial continues.
Traffic Scotland said the Skerrington roundabout in Cumnock was closed after the incident on Wednesday afternoon.
It is not yet known if anyone has been injured.
A local diversion has been put in place through Cumnock.
Those who missed no opportunity in recent years to denounce his every word and did everything they could to drive him into isolation are now describing him as a pillar of the revolution and a comrade of the supreme leader.
Such is the politics of the Islamic hardliners. They sense a massive collective grief at the death of an influential and popular figure of the Islamic revolution who championed the cause of moderation in recent years.
The hardliners have decided they are better off joining the crowd. They fear they may appear isolated in public opinion, particularly at a time when we are only four months away from the presidential elections.
Hardline newspapers that saw him as a seditious enemy of the revolution have today carried his pictures on their front pages mourning his death.
The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who at one point would not even take a call from his long-time friend and comrade, will perform the ceremonial prayers over Rafsanjani's coffin before burial.
The fact is the Islamic hardliners lack popular appeal and electability. Association with Rafsanjani, even now, after his death, could provide a degree of acceptability.
At the same time his death has left a big hole in the confidence of the moderates and the reformist movement in Iran.
The former president was one of the most influential figures of the revolution. He knew the most intimate secrets of 37 years of upheaval in Iran.
Although he began politically as an Islamic hardliner, Rafsanjani had increasingly moved to the centre of Iranian politics in the last two decades, and in recent years, he became a champion of the reformists and a strong moderating influence, gaining huge popularity.
He was in favour of better relations with the West, he was against Iran's involvement in Syria and he believed he could swiftly mend relations with Saudi Arabia and end the ongoing bloodletting in the region.
At home he was in favour of an economy run by the private sector. He strongly backed the nuclear deal that Iran reached with six world powers - a deal which saw the lifting of international sanctions against Iran in return for the curbing of the country's nuclear activities.
He believed extremism was eating the fabric of the society from within.
In 2013 when the hardliners barred him from standing as a candidate in the presidential elections, he threw his weight behind Hassan Rouhani, who duly won the elections. Now his death has robbed the reformists of perhaps their most important backer.
But it has to be said that many in Iran have not forgiven Rafsanjani for widespread human rights abuses during his tenure as president and speaker of parliament in the first couple of decades of the revolution.
Many lost their sons, daughters, fathers and mothers to the executioners of the regime that Ayatollah Rafsanjani endorsed and largely led. Memories of this kind are not easily erased, although he moved on to become a voice of reason and compassion in his later years.
But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is unlikely to view the death of his long-time rival with relief. Rafsanjani was an agent of continuity as well as a force for the stability for the regime.
Iran has lost a moderating voice at a time when the country remains in flux in the ever intensifying struggle between the moderates and the hardliners.
In these conditions, a big change, such as the sudden absence of a figure like Rafsanjani, who acted as counterweight to the hardliners, could bring with it a period of uncertainty, even instability.
Sinclair signed from Salisbury in June and is set to make his first appearance for the Pirates in Saturday's Conference opener against Grimsby.
Speaking about the prospect of making his debut, the 26-year-old told BBC Radio Bristol: "It's such a big moment in my career.
"When I look back at where I was, I can think that I've done well."
He added: "I'd put it up there as one of my biggest achievements, after signing for Rovers."
Sinclair started his career as a youth player at Luton but failed to make a first-team appearance before his release in 2005.
He went on to play semi-professionally in the lower echelons of non-league while also working as a personal trainer.
Last season was his first as a full-time footballer and he made 37 appearances for Salisbury.
"I always held that dream [to play full-time]. I said I'd never give up until I was 35 or 36," he said.
"Don't get me wrong, I was enjoying what I was doing back then, but there's nothing better than this. This is what it's all about."
Salisbury finished 12th in the Conference last term but financial issues saw the majority of their squad leave, and the club have since been demoted.
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Sinclair was picked up by Rovers manager Darrell Clarke, who he worked under at the Whites, and is one of eight summer signings for the club, who are playing in non-league for the first time in 94 years.
And Sinclair is hoping he can become a fans' favourite by helping Rovers back into the Football League at the first time of asking.
"It would be a massive thing for me. It's the ideal - you want your fans to love you and to think you're doing well, and appreciate the effort you put in," he added.
"I'd thank any fan who comes to watch me. At one point in my career, I only had three fans coming to watch me so I definitely appreciate them.
"Now, I just want to keep progressing and keep going higher. Hopefully we will push back into the league."
Elliott Johnson, 21, was later killed by a train after lying across railway tracks in Sandy, Bedfordshire.
Coroner Tom Osborne concluded Mr Johnson, of London, took his own life last September.
"Elliott Johnson... suffered severe injuries and died instantly," he said.
Senior Bedfordshire and Luton coroner Mr Osborne said: "I find that in letters his state of mind confirmed that he believed himself to have failed with money, with politics, his parents and with life.
"And he believed at the time of his death that he had been bullied and had been betrayed."
The inquest in Ampthill, focused on the fact Mr Johnson believed he was being bullied and on his being made redundant by pressure group Conservative Way Forward (CWF), shortly after making the allegation.
In a detailed complaint, he had accused former Conservative activist Mark Clarke of bullying, following an altercation in a central London pub during a friend's birthday party on 12 August.
During the exchange, Mr Clarke was alleged to have threatened to "squash" him "like an ant".
Paul Abbott, former chief executive of the CWF, told the inquest Mr Clarke harboured a "vendetta" against CWF, and there had been other complaints by the group's volunteers against him.
However, Mr Osborne said he found "no connection" between Mr Johnson's complaint and CWF's decision to make him redundant.
Mr Johnson's father Ray said he believed Mr Clarke, who denied the bullying allegations, had "ruined" his son's career.
"We were unaware of, at the time, a victimisation campaign by Mr Clarke towards Elliott and other members of the Conservative Way Forward, which was getting steadily worse," he said.
Mr Johnson's allegations eventually sparked an investigation and the resignation of former party chairman Grant Shapps.
Khalid Baqa, 52, from Barking, was on a flight from Lahore, to Heathrow in February when it was diverted due to an unrelated "disruptive passenger".
Baqa had failed to tell his car insurer about penalty points when he renewed his policy, magistrates heard.
He was given a conditional discharge.
Baqa, an unemployed former revenue officer at Hackney Borough Council, was jailed for two years in 2013 for possession and dissemination of terrorist material.
At the time of the diversion on 7 February, Essex Police said the incident was "not believed to be a hijack situation or terror matter", and there had been reports of a disruptive passenger on board.
However, Pakistan International Airlines said in a statement that UK authorities had received "some vague security threat through an anonymous phone call" regarding the flight.
He was due to have been arrested anyway when the flight arrived at Heathrow before it was diverted, police said at the time.
No information about the background to Baqa's arrest or whether he was linked to the flight diversion was given at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Thursday.
The court heard he had been arrested and charged for failing to tell car insurers Liverpool Victoria about three penalty points he received in 2015 for going through a red light when he renewed his policy.
Prosecutor Fabio Vitiello told the court: "The premium would have been £175 higher, therefore the prosecution case is that by not disclosing the conviction he made a benefit for himself by not paying the higher price."
Baqa, of Priory Road, was ordered to pay £115 in costs and victim surcharge after being convicted of fraud by failure to disclose information.
Christi and Bobby Shepherd were poisoned by carbon monoxide at the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel in 2006.
Peter Fankhauser spoke privately with the children's parents Neil Shepherd and Sharon Wood earlier and said he was "grateful" the family met him.
Mr Shepherd and Mrs Wood have previously criticised the firm for not apologising to them directly.
Mr Fankhauser made a public apology on Wednesday and admitted the firm "could have done better in the past nine years" in the way they had responded to the tragedy.
The family are expected to comment on the meeting later.
Christi and Bobby Shepherd, from Horbury, near Wakefield, were on holiday with their father, Neil Shepherd and his now wife, Ruth, when they died.
All four were found by a chambermaid in a bungalow at the hotel.
Their father and stepmother had also become ill and were in a coma when they were found but recovered in hospital.
An inquest jury ruled last week the children, aged seven and six, had been unlawfully killed and said Thomas Cook "breached its duty of care".
A criminal trial was held in Greece in 2010 following a long campaign by the children's family.
Three people, including the manager of the Louis Corcyra Beach Hotel and two members of staff, were found guilty of manslaughter by negligence and sentenced to seven years in jail.
Thomas Cook was cleared of responsibility and was awarded damages against the hotel's owner.
On Monday, the company revealed its insurers had taken half the £3m payout for legal costs and it had donated the remainder to the children's charity Unicef.
Ian Paterson denies 20 counts of wounding with intent against nine women and one man between 1997 and 2011.
During the seven-week trial, Nottingham Crown Court heard the 59 year old exaggerated or lied about the risk of cancer, possibly to earn extra money.
Mr Paterson, from Greater Manchester, said the suggestion was "abhorrent".
He said notes he made at each patient's consultation were "a much more reliable record of what happened" compared to the evidence they provided during the trial.
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"I'm not calling any of these patients liars, I just think they remember what they remember now," Mr Paterson told the court.
Jurors have heard that one woman looked like "she had been involved in a car crash" after undergoing an "entirely unnecessary" mastectomy despite only having benign growths.
Another alleged victim, a mother, is said to have agreed to two "unnecessary operations" leaving her unable to breastfeed.
A third patient was left with a "significant deformity in her visible cleavage area" after needless operations on her left breast, the court heard.
During the opening for the prosecution in February, Julian Christopher QC said the operations were ones which "no reasonable surgeon at the time would have considered justified".
"The principle issue in this case is likely to be whether [the patient] was harmed lawfully or whether the prosecution are right that what Mr Paterson did fell quite outside the realms of reasonable surgery.
"Firstly, because it was completely unnecessary and no reasonable surgeon would have carried it out and because, the prosecution suggest, Mr Paterson was carrying it out not because he thought it was in the best interests of the patient but for his own, perhaps obscure, motives."
The trial has examined procedures Mr Paterson, of Castle Mill Lane, Ashley, Altrincham, carried out at two West Midlands' hospitals, the Heart of England NHS Trust and the privately run Spire Healthcare hospitals.
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In an unprecedented challenge to elite performance funding agency UK Sport, the group have joined forces to call for an urgent review of what they call "a two-class system that runs counter to Olympic ideals".
National Lottery money is currently allocated on the basis of medal potential, helping to transform the country's sporting fortunes.
But amid an athlete welfare crisis and various governance problems, UK Sport has faced mounting criticism over its approach.
The 11 sports - archery, badminton, baseball/softball, basketball, fencing, handball, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, wheelchair rugby and table tennis - were all left without funding when UK Sport announced its £345m plan last December.
This was despite badminton meeting its medal target at Rio 2016 and table tennis and weightlifting showing signs of progress.
Instead of UK Sport's "no compromise" approach to picking winners, the unfunded sports want a "tiered support structure" that would guarantee every Olympic and Paralympic sport a base level of funding.
Incoming UK Sport chair Dame Katherine Grainger told BBC Sport she understood why the sports had taken a stand, but said: "It's not fair to say we're narrowly focusing on a few sports."
The unfunded sports believe they can all be backed if UK Sport cuts the amount it spends on bringing major events to this country, its budget for getting British administrators into international federations and the £67.4m it gives to the English Institute of Sport (EIS), the organisation that provides sports-science services to most Olympic and Paralympic sports.
The EIS's headcount has been growing and will top 300 next year, but it has taken on more responsibilities, works with the vast majority of British athletes and is considered to be a world-leading service.
In a joint manifesto calling for "a new approach" to investment, the 11 sports - which include Archery GB, British Basketball, British Weightlifting, Badminton England, GB Wheelchair Rugby and Table Tennis England - all of which have suffered funding cuts - said the existing approach to National Lottery investment "has been conspicuously successful in winning medals, but has disenfranchised many of the country's elite sportsmen and women, creating a two-class system that runs counter to Olympic ideals.
"Providing opportunities for elite British athletes in all relevant sports to compete in the Olympics and Paralympics need not run counter to the pursuit of medals, and will make the nation even prouder of TeamGB's and ParaGB's triumphs.
"We call on Dame Katherine Grainger to recognise the dangers inherent in the current direction of travel. We urge UK Sport to recognise that medal targets alone should not be the sole criteria for its funding.
"We believe UK Sport should adopt a revised investment model that embraces every Olympic and Paralympic sport, with a tiered support structure".
The sports say their new approach is "readily affordable from economies within UK Sport's support costs, and from within the English Institute of Sport. Time is pressing and debate must begin now".
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Adrian Christy, the chief executive of Badminton England - which lost all of its £5.74m funding from UK Sport this year in the wake of Rio 2016 - told BBC Sport: "We have a very clear view that every sport in this country matters.
"We've seen lots of sports that have lost their funding, we're one of those. And as a consequence of that it's really difficult to see how your long-term development of athletes can continue to inspire a nation. We've made a third of our staff redundant in the last several months, we've cut our performance programme in half.
"This is a demand for UK Sport to take a long hard look and say 'are medals and medallists the only metric which investments into sports can be made?' We don't believe it is."
With Team GB winning 67 medals in Rio, and Para GB then claiming 147 medals, many are reluctant to change a system that has transformed British success since 1996 when the country finished 36th in the medal table.
But Christy disagrees.
"We are not for one second asking to take money away from sports," he said. "The target around medals would still be the same. We believe there are opportunities for UK Sport to look within their own budgets and save money elsewhere. We've been thrown under a bus.
"We don't believe the cost of funding the sports is more than 4% of the overall total pots of money of UK sport. 4% to say another 11 sports, the maths of that is about another 100 athletes in a position to represent Great Britain - and who knows, add to the medal table that we won in Rio."
Former rower Dame Katherine Grainger, who takes up her new role as chair of UK Sport on Saturday, said: "If I were in their shoes I'd be doing the same. In any organisation, you do everything you can to protect the athletes. So when that funding is cut you'd do anything to get that back.
"So calling for a review is a very realistic and credible thing to do and I'm not surprised they've done it now.
"There will be a review, there is every four years. Obviously, things change, the climate changes, sports change, pressure of resources changes, so that's why it's always worth looking at again and I'm very confident to see that it will be reviewed again, it just won't happen instantly."
However, Britain's most decorated female Olympian added: "If you look at the success of Rio, then we got more medals across more sports than we've done before. Our actual breadth of success is growing all the time, so it's not fair to say that we're narrowly focusing on a few sports.
"What is fair to say is that our money is finite and it's not stretching. As more sports are more successful, the irony is that the money can't go as far.
"If there is anything that can be cut, but not at the expense of success, then it will be. But right now that's the situation we're in.
"People I've met in my short time here so far are really passionate about improving things, so actually if 11 sports do come and say 'we want things done differently, is there a better way to do this?' then actually let's look at it."
Ed Warner, who recently stepped down after a decade as chair of UK Athletics, said: "Winning medals is important, but more important still is winning them in the right way.
"Katherine Grainger's arrival at UK Sport is a wonderful opportunity for her to challenge the groupthink that constrains the current system and to put in place a new funding structure that embraces all Olympic and Paralympic sports, because every one of them matters."
But Grainger also added a cautionary tale from her own experience.
"I started rowing at a time when we kept our boats on scaffolding poles under a bridge - we didn't have the set-up we have now. The facilities have been transformed," she said.
"So you look not just at the medal success but at the level of support we have, the coaches, the training camps. I don't think many athletes would like that to slip back to a stage where we just wouldn't be competitive internationally."
A British Olympic Association spokesperson said: "We fully understand the anxiety of those sports as they face the reality of current funding decisions.
"We are constantly looking at ways to support unfunded sports within our membership, including through the allocation of Olympic Solidarity funds to athletes where possible.
"If we are to increase third party funding of sport then we must work to protect our country's stellar performances in the medal table, and in doing so the work of our colleagues at UK Sport in developing an acclaimed World Class Programme."
A British Paralympic Association spokesperson said: "We are very proud of the success of the ParalympicsGB team - second in the medal table at Rio 2016 and winning medals across more sports than ever before - which has provided the inspiration not only to get more people engaged in sport but fundamentally to challenge and change attitudes to disability in society.
"We must look at the overall public funding system for sport at all levels and at what alternative streams can be developed to ensure that sports can continue to maximise their opportunity and impact."
Tegwen Roderick from Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil, suffered an "open wound" leg fracture at Ysbyty Cwm Cynon, Mountain Ash, and died six days later in May 2014.
The Aberdare hearing heard "no-one had admitted to causing the injury", while police will take no further action.
An inquest will take place in July.
Friday's pre-inquest hearing heard Mrs Roderick had been "bed-ridden and unable to move".
It is believed she sustained the leg injury overnight between 29 and 30 May 2014 but it was not reported until 10:00 BST the next day.
Coroner Sarah Richards said two pathologists reports had not provided "a definitive cause of death".
Her two nieces and nephew both attended the hearing and said they had concerns about her care, guidelines to lifting and handling, nutrition and hydration and "knowledge of dementia".
The coroner said she would look into concerns raised by her family at the inquest.
The 23-year-old Bosnia international, who joined the Toffees in July 2014, was injured while playing against Manchester United in Wayne Rooney's testimonial on Wednesday.
The former Ferencvaros player made 17 appearances for the Goodison Park side last season.
He tweeted: "Six months out! #devastated."
The emergency services were called to tackle flames on the 371 bus on High Street, Kingston, at about 09:00 GMT.
The driver was treated at the scene by crews from the London Ambulance Service for the effects of breathing in smoke before being taken to hospital
No passengers needed treatment. Local properties were evacuated as a precaution and road closures put in place, a spokesperson for the Met said.
The fire was brought under control by London Fire Brigade. Its cause is not yet known.
Olaf Cunitz, the city's head of planning, said the soldiers were believed to be from Napoleon's Grand Army retreating from Russia in 1813.
He said they had probably died from battle wounds or from typhus.
Battles fought near Frankfurt in 1813 claimed 15,000 lives, Mr Cunitz added.
The skeletons were found in the city's western Roedelheim district.
Andrea Hampel, heritage and historic monuments director for Frankfurt, said it appeared that the mass graves were dug "in an emergency".
She said that the victims had been buried in coffins which were aligned in a north-south axis, rather that the traditional east-west orientation, suggesting they were buried in haste.
More than 30 skeletons have been excavated so far and work on the others is expected to take four to six weeks.
Napoleon's 600,000-strong Grand Army invaded Russia in June 1812 and took Moscow in September. However, it suffered catastrophic losses and was forced to retreat. Of the original invasion force, only about 90,000 are believed to have made it back to France.
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A tornado caused severe damage in the town of Buetzow, near Rostock, hurling cars 70m (230ft) and damaging buildings.
In the city of Hamburg, a 26-year-old man was killed and his pregnant girlfriend injured when debris was blown on to their car.
High winds, torrential rain and lightning also halted bus and train services, causing travel chaos.
The files are a series of daily reports by the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
Those from 1 June 1915 until 5 June 1915 were released on Monday.
They include details of intelligence gathered at a number of locations in Dublin, including the Parnell Street shop of Thomas J Clarke, one of the key republicans behind the rising.
The report for 5 June 1915 states: "I beg to report that on the 4th inst. the undermentioned extremists were observed moving about and associating with each other as follows.
"Visited Thomas J Clarke, 75 Parnell Street: George Irvine for ten minutes between 11 and 12am; Thomas Byrne, Major John McBride, P Beasley, P Tobin, C Colbert and Miss Bolger, Enniscorthy, all in conversation with Clarke for close on an hour from 12.40pm."
There are several references to marches by Sinn Féin members.
A report from 4 June 1915 states: "Thirty members of the Sinn Féin Volunteers without rifles assembled at 25 Parnell Square at 6.30pm and afterwards in charge of P Beasley went route marching towards Fairview.
"They returned at 10.30pm. About the same hour 44 Sinn Féin members without rifles and in charge of Frank Fahy marched from 21 Parnell Square towards Glasnevin.
"They returned at 10pm and dismissed without further parade."
Announcing the release of the documents, the Irish Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys, said they give a fascinating insight into the events leading up to the 1916 Rising.
Last year, military pension records of those who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and Irish War of Independence were made available to the public online.
Carmarthenshire-born Gareth Hughes, who died in 1965, later gave up his A-list Hollwood life to be a church minister to a tribe of native Americans.
Kelvin Guy, a relative on his Hughes' grandmother's side, unveiled a blue plaque at 38 Princess St, Llanelli, where Hughes was living, aged six.
It comes 10 years after a bronze plaque was unveiled in Parc Howard Museum.
That plaque was unveiled by Hughes' niece Nansi Howells and Hughes biographer Stephen Lyons.
Mr Lyons said Hughes was largely forgotten despite being an "immense" figure, becoming a star on stage in America before moving into the nascent Hollywood film industry.
He said: "You have your famous Welsh actors and famous Welsh ministers but here you have someone who had such an overriddingly varied life.
Hughes, born in Dafen, Carmarthenshire in 1894, is said to have walked to London as a teenager to join a theatre company of Welsh actors, although Mr Lyons said he could find not any record of that in his research.
On tour in America, Hughes went on to receive rave reviews, becoming a favourite of JM Barrie, before going into films and making a fortune which he later lost in the Wall Street Crash.
Mr Lyons said: "He was known as the Metro Boy boy stars - for Metro Pictures which later became Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
"He had a town house, a chauffeur, a groom for his horses. He lived quite well.
"He had all the trappings of a star but although he was a star in Hollywood, he never became an international star such as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford or Charlie Chaplin.
"And he didn't continue his careeer. He genuinely got God. He became a Protestant Episcopalian minister."
Mr Lyons said Hughes is still fondly remembered by the Paiute people to whom he ministered in later life.
"He had an immense impact on them and is remembered above all ministers."
In 2008, Mr Guy, from Burry Port, made a documentary, Desert Padre, about his relative's life and work.
Bruce Smith, 58, was one of about 750 people fired by Beef Products Inc, maker of lean, finely textured beef.
He is seeking $70,000 (£43,000) in damages, saying the company and workers were "maligned" by the "unfair" phrase.
The firm closed three plants and fired workers at its South Dakota office.
A social media campaign against use of the beef led to heightened public concerns over its health and safety.
Federal regulators said the beef ingredient met food safety standards, but critics argued the food was unappetising and possibly unsafe.
The US Department of Agriculture eventually chose to allow schools to stop serving the product.
Lean finely textured beef is made from beef heated and spun in a centrifuge to separate the meat from the fat, before the final product is treated with a puff of ammonium hydroxide gas to kill any bacteria.
Mr Smith, formerly senior counsel and director of Environmental, Health and Safety at Beef Products Inc, filed his lawsuit in Dakota County District Court, Nebraska.
The filing names Jamie Oliver, food blogger Bettina Siegel, ABC News, its journalists Diane Sawyer and Jim Avila and 10 other unnamed defendants.
The company "and its employees were unfairly and unnecessarily maligned and accused of producing a food product that did not exist, a product that critics unfairly labelled 'pink slime'," Mr Smith said in a statement.
He also claims that chef Jamie Oliver used his TV show and social media to target his former employer.
"Defendant Oliver proceeded to use his celebrity chef media notoriety to place pressure on American fast food company McDonald's, and others, to immediately stop using (lean finely textured beef) LFTB ground beef in its retail menu food products," the lawsuit alleges.
In a blog post, Bettina Siegel - who petitioned the US government to change its food policy - remained unrepentant.
"I'm confident the First Amendment protects the rights of all Americans, including bloggers like myself, against meritless attempts at censorship like this one.
"I will vigorously defend my right, and the rights of all of us, to speak out on matters of public importance."
Beef Products Inc has also sued ABC News separately for defamation, asking for damages of $1.2bn.
Neither ABC News nor Jamie Oliver made any comment on Mr Smith's lawsuit.
Michael Blake, 28, died in hospital on 4 November after he was found injured near his Westhoughton home in Bolton.
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Nathan Quigley, 30, from Hulme, and Nathan Daniels, 27, from Stockport, were also charged with the same crime.
Another 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and has been bailed until 16 December.
A 52-year-old woman, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, was bailed until 25 January.
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A musical work based on Elizabeth I's medical and scientific adviser, Doctor Dee will have its premiere in July at the Manchester International Festival.
It will then be staged at the home of the English National Opera as part of London's Cultural Olympiad programme.
The Manchester festival will also feature the debut of Bjork's new show during a three-week residency.
Other original productions will be created for the event by immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, film-makers The Quay Brothers, comedian Victoria Wood and performance artist Marina Abramovic.
Manchester International Festival director Alex Poots said the event, which started in 2007 and takes place every two years, was "a home for major artists to realise their most ambitious projects".
Albarn's Chinese opera Monkey: Journey To The West was a highlight of the first Manchester International Festival four years ago and the Blur and Gorillaz singer will present his next production at the city's Palace Theatre.
Albarn did not appear in Monkey but will perform in Doctor Dee.
The show has been co-produced by the English National Opera and the London 2012 Festival and will be staged at the London Coliseum next year.
It will be directed by Rufus Norris, who staged Don Giovanni at the ENO last year and whose Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses was nominated for five Tony Awards in 2008.
"It will be a big, spectacular show," Mr Poots said. "I know that Damon's passionate about it and he's already written some incredibly beautiful songs, some anthemic songs."
Bjork will launch the Manchester International Festival on 30 June with a show based on her new album Biophilia.
The project combines her interests in music, science and nature and is billed as a "multi-media project encompassing music, apps, internet, installations and live shows".
There will be an app for each song and the singer has invented a range of new instruments for the shows, including a 30-foot (nine-metre) pendulum that harnesses the earth's gravitational pull to create musical patterns.
She will perform six times over three weeks at the Campfield Market Hall.
Elsewhere, the Quay Brothers, celebrated for their dark, disjointed films and animations, will team up with Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova to stage chamber music in a promenade setting.
Punchdrunk will return after creating the acclaimed theatrical experience It Felt Like A Kiss with Damon Albarn at the last festival. Their new show, The Crash of the Elysium, will be the company's first for children.
Amadou and Mariam, a blind musical duo from Mali, will attempt to stage the world's first concert in total darkness, while comedian Johnny Vegas will present a new theatre show.
Victoria Wood is writing and directing That Day We Sang, about the 1920s Manchester Children's Choir, which will open at the Manchester Opera House.
Hollywood actor Willem Dafoe is to star in The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic alongside the Serbian-born performance artist. The production will feature music written and performed by Antony Hegarty from the Mercury-prize winning Antony and The Johnsons.
The festival will also involve rapper Snoop Dogg, singer Sinead O'Connor, artist John Gerrard, the Halle Orchestra and French composer Mark Andre.
Manchester City Council's executive member for culture and leisure, Councillor Mike Amesbury, said the festival "makes a massive contribution to the cultural offering of our great city and has helped establish us on the world stage as a leading artistic powerhouse".
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