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Question: Swiss bank UBS has announced it is cutting 10,000 jobs worldwide as it tries to cut costs and slims down its investment banking activities.

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The jobs will go over the next three years, and amount to 16% of its current workforce of 64,000, the bank said.
The bank would not comment on where the jobs would go.
But a source confirmed that 100 traders in London were sent home after being told that the part of the business they worked for was ceasing operations.
It is understood that they were met at reception by staff from HR who told them they were going to be made redundant.
They will receive full pay and benefits for the next three weeks in lieu of notice.
It is standard practice that bank employees are prevented from trading the moment they are informed that they are losing their jobs and are only able to collect any belongings under supervision.
UBS currently employs just over 6,600 staff in the UK.
UBS lost 39bn Swiss francs (Â£26bn; $42bn) during the financial crisis and had to be bailed out by the Swiss authorities. The cuts are aimed at saving 3.4bn Swiss francs.
UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti said: "This decision has been a difficult one, particularly in a business such as ours that is all about its people.
"Some reductions will result from natural attrition and we will take whatever measures we can to mitigate the overall effect."
Zurich-based UBS will focus on its private bank and a smaller investment bank, ditching much of the riskier trading business which was responsible for the bulk of its losses.
In a joint letter to shareholders, chairman Axel Weber and chief executive Mr Ermotti said: "We will no longer operate to any significant extent in businesses where risk-adjusted returns cannot meet their cost of capital."
UBS announced its restructuring plans as it reported its results for the third quarter of the year.
The bank reported a net loss of 2.17bn Swiss francs for the July to September period, compared with a profit of 1.02bn Swiss francs a year earlier. The loss was mainly due to an impairment charge of 3.1bn Swiss francs that UBS is taking to cover the cost of the changes to its investment bank.
UBS was one of the banks hardest hit during the global financial crisis.

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The US banking giant said net income in its corporate and investment banking division was $2.5bn, up $412m compared with the same period a year earlier.
But it also reported an after-tax charge of $487m for legal expenses.
And it set aside a total of $959m to cover bad loans, $109m higher than a year earlier.
JPMorgan's legal expenses stem in part from the fact that it still faces an investigation by the US Justice Department into its involvement in the manipulation of foreign exchange markets.
It also faces a probe into its hiring policy in Asia.
Meanwhile, Wells Fargo, the largest mortgage lender in the US, reported a 2.6% fall in profits in the first three months of the year and set aside more money to cover bad loans.
Net income was $5.46bn in the three months to the end of March ,compared with $5.61bn a  year earlier.
The bank said it was setting aside $617m for credit losses an increase of $198m on the same three months a year earlier.
JPMorgan said revenue from fixed-income bond trading rose 5% to $4.07bn, adjusted for the sale of businesses last year, including a commodities operation.
"We have an outstanding franchise which is getting safer and stronger, and is gaining market share over time," said chief executive Jamie Dimon.
"We continue to build the company for the long-term, we are investing in controls, infrastructure, systems, technology, new products and bankers."
The bank said it was increasing its second quarter dividend from $0.40 to $0.44.
JPMorgan's investment bank, along with its rivals, is under pressure to cut costs as customers have reduced their trading activity following the financial crisis.
Regulators have also demanded that big banks take fewer risks, hold more capital and improve controls.
The bank has said it wants to cut expenses by $2.8bn by 2017, excluding legal costs, though some of the savings are expected to be offset by more spending to improve risk controls.
JPMorgan and Wells Fargo are the first of the large US banks to report quarterly results.
Overall, results are expected to show that low interest rates have continued to hold down profits as consumers and businesses refinance loans at lower rates.


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Question: Modifications have been offered to properties close to a former landfill site which was blamed for causing the death of a seven-year-old boy.

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Zane Gbangbola died at his Chertsey home during the winter floods of 2014.
An inquest ruled it was due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a petrol pump dispersing the water, but his parents blame toxic fumes from the landfill.
Surrey County Council has now written to residents offering to replace sealed air bricks that might retain gases.
The authority said its records showed occupants had installed flood protection products in 2014-15 with a government grant.
"Since then, the Environment Agency has told us that products which restrict airflow beneath a building's floor, such as self-closing air bricks or air bricks with covers, may not be suitable for properties, like yours, which are close to a current or historic landfill site," the letter said.
It added that the council was "offering to make a contribution of Â£65 per air brick towards removal and replacement with a standard air brick, or the installation of an alternative flood protection product".
Zane's parents, Kye Gbangbola and Nicole Lawler, have demanded an independent public inquiry into their claim their son was killed by a hydrogen cyanide gas leak from the former landfill site.
Mr Gbangbola, who was paralysed from the waist down in the same incident in which Zane died, said the council's letter raised concerns that "migrating landfill gases" could build up beneath nearby properties.
"This is essentially what we've been saying all along," he said.
"The letter came after Zane's inquest and of course now it's quite clear that what we've been saying has been a problem from the outset."
In response, Surrey County Council said in a statement: "The Environment Agency brought to our attention that self-closing air bricks may not be suitable for a limited number of properties.
"As a precautionary measure we wrote to affected homeowners with this information and offered to help them with the cost of replacing this product."
Spelthorne Borough Council, whose area includes Chertsey, added that it related to potential risks from landfill in general and not specifically to the site in Chertsey.

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Meanwhile, South Korean men spend more on skincare than those in any other country.\nSuch a dedication to looking and feeling good means that South Korea is at the forefront of research into new skincare products, and its exports of such items are soaring.\nLast year, South Korea exported more than $2.64bn (Â£1.85bn) of cosmetics goods, a new high, according to the Korea Customs Service. This compares with $1bn in 2012, and $1.91bn in 2014.\nOne of the biggest export markets for Korean skincare products, which have been collectively dubbed "K-beauty", is the US, where the big rise in sales has been led by small firms, more often set up by young Americans of Korean ancestry.\nAnd the ingredients aren\'t ones traditionally found in American or European products. Snail extract, for example, is supposed to stimulate the formation of collagen and elastin, is used in moisturisers and spot treatments.\nIn a beauty salon in New York\'s Koreatown district, business partners Christine Chang, 34, and Sarah Lee, 35, are holding forth on the newest trends in skincare products from South Korea.\nMs Lee holds up a poster of a frilly, white, translucent mushroom, explaining that the fungus is a new "ultra-hydrating" ingredient being used in skincare.\nShe has the full attention of her audience, a select group of beauty editors diligently taking notes.\nBoth Korean Americans, Ms Lee and Ms Chang first met 10 years ago, whilst working for global skincare giant L\'Oreal in South Korea.\nBack in 2014 they decided to use their dual knowledge of Korean skincare products and the US to start their own company called Glow Recipe.\nTheir business imports such items from South Korea, and its website sells 150 products. Their bestseller is a face mask made from kelp covered in a hydrating serum, which retails for $14.\nMs Lee and Ms Chang says the business has been growing at an average 70% ever quarter since they launched.\nThe popularity of Korean beauty products in the US can be traced back to 2011 when, the  then unknown product, "BB cream" first launched in the country.\nBB cream is a hybrid moisturiser and foundation that Korean women had been using for years. In 2014 the US market for BB cream alone was worth $164m.\n"South Korea\'s beauty industry has seen phenomenal growth," says Sarah Jindal, analyst for market research firm Mintel.\nStill, there are some major differences between the Korean and the western approach to beauty. For example, while in the west it is typical for women to follow a three-step facial regime of cleanse-tone-moisturise, in South Korea there are 10 different steps, including the use of  "essence" and "ampoule" creams, and a "sheet mask".\nBridging this beauty gap is where people like Korean American Charlotte Cho come in. Ms Cho runs the online beauty blog and shop Soko Glam with her husband, and also recently launched a book about Korean beauty secrets.\nA native of California who moved to New York, Ms Cho, 30, says: "We helped drive this growth in 2012 [of the sale of Korean beauty products], when we started the company.\n"At the time, I felt like there was a huge gap between US and Korea. There was a cult following, but no proper bridge between the two."\nThe blog and the book help explain and spread the Korean "beauty philosophy", and Ms Cho is a proponent of the 10-step routine. 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Each of the dogs had to be put down after being walked in Forthquarter Park in Granton.
Two of the animals suffered internal bleeding.
The City of Edinburgh Council's environmental health team said there were no plans to close the park to the public.
A spokesman for the council said: "We have found no evidence so far to link the deaths of any dogs with Forthquarter Park.
"Preliminary investigations are still continuing, but the park will not be closing."
Concerns about the dogs' deaths were initially raised by the Friends of West Pilton group.
After learning of the deaths of six dogs with links to the park, they alerted the council and local politicians.
The park is owned by the National Grid and sits beside a former gasworks.
Extensive ground decontamination work was carried out before the park opened 10 years ago.


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Question: Yahoo has announced a plan to spin-off its 15% stake in China's Alibaba Group and hand the business to its shareholders.

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In creating a separate company that is made up of its stake in Alibaba, Yahoo will avoid a large tax bill.
Yahoo also reported fourth-quarter earnings of $166m (??109m), a 52% decrease from a year earlier.
The company said revenue from display advertising fell by 4% to $532m from a year earlier.
However, investors were cheered by the company's decision to spin-off its Alibaba stake.
Shares in Yahoo increased by more than 6% in trading after US markets closed.
According to a release, Yahoo's remaining 384 million shares of Alibaba - worth about $40bn - will be owned by a newly registered company called SpinCo.
SpinCo shares will then be given to existing Yahoo shareholders.
By spinning-off the Alibaba shares into a separate company, Yahoo's chief executive Marissa Mayer will please investors - but also put renewed focus on her efforts to turn around the company.
Since taking over in 2012, Ms Mayer has led a string of high-profile acquisitions - most notably that of blogging platform Tumblr - but the company has still struggled to find other streams of revenue as its primacy as a search destination declines.
"I'm pleased to report that our performance in Q4 and in 2014 continues to show stability in our core business," she said in a statement.
"Our mobile strategy and focus has transformed Yahoo and yielded significant results," she added, noting that the company's mobile ad revenue was $1.26bn in 2014.
Separately, on Wednesday, a Chinese regulator accused Alibaba of not paying enough attention to illegal businesses conducted on its e-commerce websites and failing to take measures to eliminate issues such as the sale of fake goods.
The report was based on a meeting between Alibaba and government regulators in July before the company's record breaking share flotation in September.
Last month, Alibaba reported that it spent more than $160m (??103m) fighting fake goods on its websites between the beginning of 2013 and November 2014.

In February, the internet company announced it was offering its core business for sale, after several years of falling advertising sales.
She has attempted to turn the company's fortunes around with a mobile-first strategy since 2012.
But critics say she has failed to stem the decline.
A filing to the US Securities and Exchanges Commission says Ms Mayer will receive a package of cash, stock and other benefits if she is removed as chief executive within a year of any sale.
The internet media company's fortunes have changed drastically in the past decade, with sales falling from $7.2bn in 2008 to $4.6bn last year.
Ms Mayer received $36m in compensation last year, compared to $42.1m in 2014.
Other executives will also receive big severance packages in the event of of a sale. The company's chief financial officer, Ken Goldman, would receive more than $16.1m, and chief revenue officer Lisa Utzschneider would net $19.9m.
"I don't think this management team has done anything to merit a huge payout," Eric Jackson, managing director of SpringOwl Asset Management - a Yahoo shareholder - told the Associated Press.
A large part of the internet company's $32bn value is attributed to its shareholding in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. It also owns the online blogging platform Tumblr and photo-sharing site Flickr.
Companies including US communications giant Verizon and the UK-based owner of the Daily Mail newspaper have been linked to the sale of Yahoo, and analysts believe a deal could be agreed this year.


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Question: Police believe a missing man thought to have got into difficulties in the sea off Pembrokeshire is from southern France.

A search was held on 6 May amid reports of a man seen clinging to rocks at St David's Head, but he was not found.
Dyfed-Powys Police said they believed the missing man is Bernard Hoepffner, a resident of Dieulefit.
Officers have issued a photograph of him and are appealing for details about his movements.
A coat, believed to belong to the man, was found containing money but there was no form of identification.

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The bodies of Sean Sweeney, who was in his 30s and his son, Tyler Joyce 3, were found in a small amount of water in a stream behind the Ashington housing estate on Sunday afternoon.
It is understood the deaths are being treated as an accident.
The pair may have fallen from a height into the water.
Mr Sweeney and his son had been been visiting relatives in the Ashington estate at the weekend.


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Question: A man who died in a car crash in Neath Port Talbot was a "fun-loving character who doted on his two children", his family have said.

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Andrew Lee Thomas James, 26, from Penrhiwfer, Rhondda Cynon Taff, died following the collision on Afan Way, Port Talbot, at 21:55 BST on Sunday.
Three others remain in hospital.
In a statement, his family said: "He had such a heart of gold. He would help anyone at any time. He loved life and definitely lived it to the full."
The tribute added: "Andrew was a fun-loving character. He was a loving son, step-son,  brother, uncle and grandson.
"His death has left such a massive void in all our lives that can never be filled. He will be missed by everyone who knew him."
South Wales Police said the investigation into the collision involving a silver Suzuki Ignis and a black Ford Focus is continuing.

Sam Kelly, 26, was driving on the M6 when his car crashed with a flatbed lorry between junctions 19 and 20 near Lymm in Cheshire on Saturday.
Mr Kelly, from Northwich, was airlifted to hospital and later died.
Paying tribute his family said "Sam the Man" was a "beautiful, fun loving, go getter" who "will be sadly missed".


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Question: The deaths of four patients have prompted an investigation by police into an Alderney medical practice.

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Guernsey Police raided the Eagle Medical Practice at about 10:30 BST.
The surgery in Ollivier Street in St Anne's is run by Dr Rory Lyons. He has been suspended by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
Guernsey Police Chief Patrick Rice said: "It is likely medical records will be seized - no-one has been arrested."
Mr Rice said: "Concerns were raised with the Health and Social Services Department following the death of a patient who had been under the care of the Eagle Medical Practice.
"A preliminary internal investigation found three further deaths of concern were identified before it was referred to police."
Items, including documents, have been removed from the surgery, whose website says it has about 500 patients.
Officers left the scene at 15:45 after loading a vehicle with boxes. A private residence in Alderney has also been searched.
Dr Carol Tozer, chief officer of the Health and Social Services Department (HSSD), said: "Following our internal investigation a doctor was excluded from treating patients at the Mignot Memorial Hospital and the General Medical Council was informed.
"The GMC was also notified that this matter is now the subject of a police investigation.
"The GMC has confirmed that the doctor's practice is already under restrictions and he is being investigated."
She said senior staff had been sent to Alderney to provide information and advice to concerned patients.
Dr Tozer said the HSSD was "responsible for the health and well-being of the people of Alderney" and "while GP practices in Alderney are privately-run businesses, we act as the investigating authority for complaints involving our staff or incidents taking place in our facilities".
Mr Rice said the investigation would be "complex and take time to establish the full facts".
He said family liaison officers had been sent to Alderney and further information would be released when available and he urged islanders to "avoid partaking in any unhelpful speculation".

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The outbreak is believed to have happened in May and involved a ward which provides care for older people.
According to sources, two separate inquiries were undertaken at the hospital.
One investigated how the bacteria emerged at the ward in the hospital and how the outbreak was managed.
The second investigation was as a result of the first and involved a disciplinary matter.
C. diff is a bacterium that causes extreme diarrhoea in some patients.
The families of those patients who were originally affected have been kept informed.
The BBC further understands that the report into the C. diff outbreak is due to be completed within the next 10 days, while the investigation into the disciplinary matter is due to conclude imminently.
In July, a ward at the Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast was closed briefly and two patients affected following a C. diff outbreak.


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Question: Toymaker Hornby plans to cut the number of toys it makes as it strives to make the business profitable again.

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The firm, whose brands include Scalextric, Airfix and Corgi, said it would reduce the number of individual product lines by 40%, but said it would keep its most well-known toys.
It plans to raise £8m via a share placing to fund the restructuring.
The plans come after the firm reported a £13.5m loss in what it said was a "difficult and disappointing year".
The model trainmaker reported a £200,000 pre-tax loss for the 2015 financial year.
Chairman Roger Canham blamed the poor performance on the implementation of a new software system and supply chain issues due to the reorganisation of its European business.
Revenue for the year fell 4% to £55.8m, but the firm said it had continued to retain its core hobby customers.
Mr Canham said the overhaul of the firm's structure would result in a "smaller, more focused business" focused on its core UK brands, but warned that revenues were expected to fall by about a quarter as a result.
"I expect to see the impact of the plan from early 2017," he added.
Even after the overhaul, the firm said it would still have about 1,400 product lines.
And Mr Canham noted that just half of the firm's toys currently generated almost all of its profit.
The turnaround is being led by new chief executive Steve Cooke. Mr Cooke took the helm in April after previous boss Richard Ames stood down in February, just a week after the toymaker announced its second profit warning in a matter of months.
"The turnaround plan is intended to return the business to sustainable profitability and cash generation," said Mr Cooke.
The Kent-based company's roots go back to 1901, when founder Frank Hornby applied for a patent to protect an invention he called "improvements in toy or educational devices for children and young people".
The firm's first toy was construction system Meccano, before it went on to its famous model trains and then gradually expanded to own a host of other brands including Airfix, Scalextric and Corgi.
Its recent struggles have led to suggestions the toymaker has lost its relevance in an era dominated by computer games.
However, Mr Canham said that sales had been strong in the key Christmas season and since it had sorted out its supply chain issues, the business was now in an improved position.

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The chocolate firm said pre-tax profit fell 8.8% to Â£6.5m, with sales down 8.2% to Â£128.2m in the 28 weeks to 10 January.
It said an unexpected decline in orders from two of its major supermarket accounts hit Christmas sales.
Supply problems at its new Derbyshire warehouse also weighed on the group.
The firm, which issued a profit warning in December due to poor sales of its products in some supermarkets, said it remained "cautious" for the full year.
It said the economic environment remained "challenging" for its shoppers.
Thorntons chief executive Jonathan Hart said "there is still much to do" to turn around the group's fortunes.
"The performance of our business in the first half was not as we planned," he said.
"We continue to be cautious in our expectations for the full year. We are well positioned to take advantage of an improvement in consumer spending."
For the past three years, Thorntons has been revamping itself in order to revive its profitability, mainly by shutting unprofitable stores and increasing the volume of sales it generates via supermarkets and other stores.
It currently runs 247 shops and plans to cut that number further to between 180 and 200.


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Question: Mali's military junta has said it may charge ousted President Amadou Toumani Toure with high treason and financial misconduct following March's coup.

Putsch leader Capt Amadou Sanogo also called for a "national meeting" on the country's future as international sanctions begin to hit.
Landlocked Mali has to import all its fuel and in the capital long queues have formed at petrol stations.
Following rebel advances in the north, some aid groups have stopped work.
Renegade officers deposed President Toure last month saying he had not done enough to fight Tuareg rebels, who began their rebellion in January.
Since the military took charge, the rebels have made significant territorial gains in northern Mali - including taking the World Heritage Site of Timbuktu over the weekend.
International pressure is growing on the coup leaders and correspondents say the country will struggle to survive an economic blockade.
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The International Committee for the Red Cross told the BBC it had suspended most of its operations in the north and temporarily withdrawn its international staff after its warehouse in Gao was looted by Tuareg rebels.
According to the UN refugee agency, since January the violence has uprooted more than 200,000 people, including around 100,000 who have fled the country.
The coup and Tuareg rebellion have also exacerbated a humanitarian crisis in Mali and some neighbouring countries, with aid agencies warning that 13 million people need food aid following a drought in the region.
"The overall security situation really deteriorated over the weekend," Steven Anderson, spokesman for the Red Cross in North and West Africa, said.
"This is extremely regrettable because this food and other emergency items, such as blankets, such as hygiene material, were meant for tens of thousands of displaced people inside northern Mali that are really now living in very dire conditions," Mr Anderson said.
A spokesman for the Catholic chartiy Caritas told the BBC that its office in Gao and a local church were destroyed by the rebels, some of who are Islamists.
Ryan Worm said about 200 Catholics had gone into hiding - and most Gao residents are trying to stay indoors since the rebel takeover.
Ahead of Thursday's national meeting, an association of northern people, who live in the southern capital Bamako, are meeting to discuss the situation in the north.
The heads of Mali's Catholic and Muslim communities are also travelling to Burkina Faso to meet with President Blaise Compaore, who has been appointed as the mediator in Mali's crisis.
"We call the entire political class and all civil society actors to... a national meeting which will begin on April 5," Capt Sanogo told journalists.
He said the meeting on Thursday would determine "what will be best for the country in a consensual, democratic fashion".
He added that the ousted president "could be the object of judicial proceedings for high treason and financial wrongdoing", without giving more details.
The rebels are divided into two groups - the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), which wants independence for the northern Tuareg homelands, while Ansar Dine, which is linked to the North African branch of al-Qaeda, wants to remain part of Mali but impose Sharia.
The US, a former key ally of Mali, has expressed concern that the political crisis is allowing radical Islamists to gain ground, and threatening the country's territorial integrity.
There have been reports of extremist Salafi groups moving into towns in the north taken over by Tuareg rebels in recent days.
Residents in Gao and Kidal told the BBC that Islamist fighters have ransacked bars serving alcohol and banned Western music on local airwaves.
In Timbuktu, people told the BBC that Ansar Dine members are going from door-to-door telling occupants that they now have to live by the principles of Islamic law.
"The United States urgently calls on all armed rebels in the north of Mali to cease military operations that compromise the Republic of Mali's territorial integrity," US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
Some civilians are reported to be fleeing the central towns of Mopti and Sevare fearing a rebel advance further south.
On Monday, Mali's West African neighbours imposed tough economic sanctions, including the closing of the country's borders and the freezing of its account at the regional central bank.
The African Union and the US have now also imposed targeted sanctions on the coup leaders and anyone actively supporting them, including travel bans and asset freezes.
The UN Security Council is expected to release a statement on the crisis on Wednesday.

Roch Marc Christian Kabore won elections last month, the first since long-serving ruler Blaise Compaore was ousted in a popular uprising last year.
Mr Kabore was an ally of Mr Compaore before the two fell out.
About 20 soldiers were detained on Monday for plotting to free the jailed leader of September's short-lived coup, Gen Gilbert Diendere, officials said.
Several African heads of state attended Mr Kabore's inauguration in the capital, Ouagadougou.
Mr Kabore said he would defend the constitution and "ensure justice for all".
He once served as Mr Compoare's prime minister, but gained popularity after opposing his bid to change the constitution and run for a third term.
Mr Compaore fled to Ivory Coast after being forced out of office.
Gen Diendere, a powerful ally of the ousted president, staged a coup in September.
He was forced to return power to a transitional government seven days later, after the army sided with protesters opposed to the coup.
Gen Diendere was charged in October with 11 crimes, including threatening state security. He denies the charges.
The 20 soldiers accused of trying to free him were arrested during a raid in Ouagadougou, outgoing Prime Minister Isaac Zida said.
The group had also planned to free other coup plotters, and re-establish the elite presidential guard which organised the short-lived coup, he added.
At least 57 people, including about 20 presidential guard officers, are being held over the coup.
Both Gen Diendere and Mr Compaore have also been charged with the 1987 murder of former President Thomas Sankara.
They have denied any wrongdoing.


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Question: A grandfather says a council's refusal to allow him and his wife to adopt their own grandchild was partly down to how old they are.

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The couple from Essex, aged 58 and 70, were looking after the girl, three, until she was removed by social services, the Echo reported.
The grandfather, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said age was "one of two factors" behind the decision.
Southend Council said age was not the "deciding factor" in its assessments.
The girl was staying with her grandparents after her mother was hospitalised with mental health issues.
But the child was then taken into foster care, and social services obtained a court order to put her up for adoption following reports on her mother's health.
"We're very much able to care for her. We feel as though we want to dedicate our lives to our granddaughter, we love her so much," the grandfather told the BBC.
"The other factor they said was that my wife suffered from depression a few years ago.
"I can't see why we are in this position - they know we care about her. It's devastating, it breaks our hearts to be like this."
Southend Council's Executive Councillor for Children and Learning, Anne Jones, said while the authority could not comment on individual cases, age was not a deciding factor in its assessments of prospective carers.
"Though placing children in the care of relatives is our preference in all cases, we can only do so when this is consistent with the welfare of a child," she said.
The girl's grandfather said they would be appealing the family court's ruling.
"We just hope we can go through with it and bring her home to her rightful place," he said.

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The paper reports that a pensioner is breathing a sigh of relief after having the gigantic structure removed from her home.
Hazel Wilson said she was "terrified" because the only way in and out of her home in Antrim was past the nest.
"I have never seen a wasp nest as big as this," she told the paper.
She claimed she got in touch with Antrim and Newtownabbey Council who initially told her that it did not employ pest control services.
After contacting the Antrim Guardian and the Housing Executive (HE) it was agreed that the HE would remove the nest last Friday.
But Ms Wilson said she waited all day and no one arrived.
A HE spokesperson said: "Unfortunately our pest control sub-contractor has been very busy and was unable to attend to the property as agreed last Friday, however the nest is due to be removed on Monday."
A council spokesperson said: "Neither of the two legacy councils had a pest control service.
"Most common pests can be controlled or treated using products that are widely available through retail outlets."
However, the paper reports that the council's website states that it is "not advisable" to try to treat large nests or infestations yourself.
The Antrim Guardian also reports on a  robbery in Randalstown in which staff and customers were ordered to get down on the floor.
Masked men burst into Spar Drummaul and raided the tills, the paper reports.
No one was hurt but those involved were left badly shaken. Police have appealed for witnesses.
There's a big bill for Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, according to the Coleraine Chronicle.
The paper reports that the council has "accumulated more debt than any other local authority in Northern Ireland". The figures come from the Local Government and Auditor's report, issued last week.
The borrowings amount to £482 per person compared to a Northern Ireland average of £264 per person
However the council responded that it had inherited the debt from the old borough councils of Coleraine, Ballymoney, Limavady and Moyle, after they merged.
"(We) inherited the debt of four legacy councils, whereas all other councils inherited two or three portfolios," a council spokesperson said.
A renegade in a blue tractor has ruined part of a Council-lead biodiversity project in Garvagh.
A grass verge on the Drumcroon Road near Garvagh, which was part of a project to encourage wildlife, was mowed down by the rogue tractor driver.
The Don't Mow, Let it Grow project aims to change the management of council park grasslands and road verges.
Letting grasses and wildflowers grow on sites "provides nesting sites and feeding for important pollinators such as bees and butterflies".
The project managers are appealing to the driver to come forward so the benefits of the project can be explained to them, and to ensure same thing won't happen again.
The past few years have seen transgender issues thrust into the spotlight, perhaps due in part to the well-publicised transition of Caitlyn Jenner.
If you think about the subject, perhaps County Fermanagh may not immediately spring to mind.
However, the Fermanagh Herald reports that the small village of Derrygonnelly played host to transgender people from all over Europe as part of the European Trans and Intersex Summer Camp.
The camp was organised by Gender Jam NI and took place in the Tir Navar Centre holiday village for one week.
About 60 people attended from Ireland, Slovenia, Norway, Iceland, Russia and Germany.
Liam Jones, who runs Tir Navar, said: "The group were very emotional and sad to leave on Sunday - they really enjoyed their time with the community here where they were accepted."
The paper reports that local people were "delighted" with their visitors.
Meanwhile, the paper reports that a crisis has been averted in Bundoran.
A Fermanagh youth football team's training session nearly ended in "tragedy" on Saturday, but thanks to a group of hero surfers, the story had a happy ending.
Players and coaches with the team were enjoying a paddle after their session when they said a "freak current" pulled some of them out to sea at Tullan Strand.
The players, aged 16 and 17, got into trouble but a group of "quick thinking surfers" including lifeboat crew member Owen Murphy, entered the water on a surf board and helped the footballers to safety.
Well done those men.
More council spending, and The Ulster Herald reports that Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has been criticised because of a "big pay off for council staff".
The paper claims 21 employees were given "golden handshakes" totalling £1.6m during its first year of operation.
The Taxpayers' Alliance aren't happy and said there is a lesson here to make sure councils "negotiate the best possible contracts in the future".
However the council has robustly defended the pay-outs saying the costs were "exceptional".
"These payments were in line with the regionally agreed severance scheme that supported local government reforms and the contractual entitlements of the staff," it added.
Elsewhere in County Tyrone, the future's bright for young people, several with schools celebrating the success of a shared education project.
Castlederg High School, Killen PS, St Cairealls PS, Fermanagh PS, St Josephs PS and Ardshaw Jubilee PS all took part in the Shared Education Signature project.
It brings together young people from different communities to learn.
Co-ordinator Diane Moore said the project, which involved the children learning about diversity, technology, had got off to a "great start".
There's a happy-looking fellow on the front of the Down Recorder and a startling headline to go with it: "European journey with a mankini".
The man in question is Crossgar student Ciaran Crothers who, despite the headline, is not pictured in his mankini, but on rather on his bike, in respectable clothing.
Mr Crothers is cycling 6,000 km around Europe in just two months, in the hope of raising £5,000 for charity.
The mysterious mention of a mankini refers to a challenge his sister has set him. She says she'll sponsor him £500 if he cycles around Paris in a mankini.
Mr Crothers tells the paper that the item of clothing, popularised by the character Borat, is in his bag: "I think people underestimate the lack of respect I have for myself.
"It will be all in the name of fun though".
On a more serous note, the paper reports that a Downpatrick man who contracted hepatitis C in a contaminated blood scandal has welcomed the announcement of a public inquiry.
Brian Carberry, from Downpatrick, has been at the centre of a campaign for justice after imported supplies of a blood clotting agent are thought to have killed at least 2,400 people.
Thousands of people were infected with Hepatitis C and HIV through NHS blood products in the 1970s and 80s.
This week's announcement of a public inquiry from Theresa May came after six party leaders signed a joint letter calling for an inquiry.
He says he wants justice and "proof there's been a cover up for the last 30 years".
A Syrian family who escaped "hell" to start a new life in Armagh, has thanked the people of the city for the warm welcome they received when they came one year ago.
The Ulster Gazette reports that the Alisa family, from Aleppo, have re-established their lives in Armagh, with the children enrolling in local school and mum and dad Lena and Issa learning English.
Lena, a former teacher said, "When we arrived and saw the welcoming nature of people with their smiling faces we felt more at ease and relaxed."
There are now over 500 refugees living in Northern Ireland, with the latest group of ten families arriving last month.
Meanwhiel, officials in Armagh have thought of a new way to tackle everyone's favourite bugbear - dog dirt.
The council has started to spray paint, "Clean-up or pay up," on entrances to the Mall, in an ongoing campaign to reduce dog fouling.
The council hopes reminding people in a less than subtle way that they should clean up after their dogs or risk receiving an £80 fine will do the trick.
One park user told the paper that last autumn the level of dog mess was so bad he was forced to "walk with his head down" just to enjoy a stroll around the park.


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Question: A chronology of key events:

1500s - Ottomans absorb part of Yemen into their empire but are expelled in the 1600s.
Sanaa is one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities
1839 - Aden comes under British rule, and when the Suez Canal opens in 1869 serves as a major refuelling port.
1849 - Ottomans return to north, but later face revolt.
1918 - Ottoman empire dissolves, North Yemen gains independence and is ruled by Imam Yahya.
1948 - Yahya assassinated, but his son Ahmad beats off opponents of feudal rule and succeeds his father.
1962 - Imam Ahmad dies, succeeded by his son but army officers seize power, set up the Yemen Arab Republic, sparking civil war between royalists supported by Saudi Arabia and republicans backed by Egypt.
1967 - Formation of People's Republic of Yemen, comprising Aden and former Protectorate of South Arabia.
1969 - Marxists take power in south, rename state People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and reorient economy, society and foreign policy towards Soviet bloc.
1971 - Thousands flee to north following crackdown on dissidents. Armed groups formed in bid to overthrow government.
1972 - Border clashes between two Yemens, ceasefire brokered by Arab League.
1978 - Ali Abdallah Saleh becomes president of North Yemen.
1979 - Fresh fighting between two Yemens. Renewed efforts to unite the two states.
1982 - Earthquake kills 3,000.
1986 - Thousands die in south in political rivalry. President Ali Nasser Muhammad flees the country and is later sentenced to death for treason. New government formed.
1990 May - Two Yemens united as Republic of Yemen with Mr Saleh as president, as Soviet bloc implodes. Tension between former states endures.
1992 - Food price riots in major towns.
1993  April - Coalition government formed, made up of ruling parties of former north and south.
1993  August - Vice-President Ali Salim al-Baid withdraws to Aden, alleging that south is being marginalised and southerners are being attacked by northerners.
1994 May - Saleh declares state of emergency and dismisses al-Baid and other southern government members following political deadlock and sporadic fighting. Former armies that failed to integrate square off on old border.
1994 May-July - Al-Baid declares independence of Democratic Republic of Yemen. Northern forces capture Aden, southern leaders flee abroad and are sentenced to death in absentia.
1995 - Yemen, Eritrea clash over disputed islands in Red Sea.
2000  October - US naval vessel USS Cole damaged in al-Qaeda suicide attack in Aden. Seventeen US personnel killed.
2001  February - Violence in run-up to disputed municipal polls and referendum, which back extension to presidential term and powers.
2002 February - Yemen expels more than 100 foreign Islamic clerics in crackdown on al-Qaeda.
2002 October - Al-Qaeda attacks and badly damages oil supertanker MV Limburg in Gulf of Aden ,killing one and injuring 12 crew members and costing Yemen dear in lost port revenues.
2003 April - The 10 chief suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole escape from custody in Aden. Two are re-captured in 2004.
2004 June-August - Hundreds die as troops battle Shia insurgency led by Hussein al-Houthi in the north.
2004 August - Court sentences 15 men on terror charges, including bombing of Limburg tanker in 2002.
2004 September - Government says its forces have killed dissident cleric Hussein al-Houthi, the leader of a revolt in the north.
2005 March-April - More than 200 people are killed in a resurgence of fighting between government forces and supporters of the slain rebel cleric Hussein al-Houthi.
2005 May - President Saleh says the leader of the rebellion in the north has agreed to renounce the campaign in return for a pardon. Minor clashes continue.
2005 July - Police and witnesses say at least 36 people are killed across the country in clashes between police and demonstrators protesting about a cut in fuel subsidies.
2005 December - More than 60 people are killed when a landslide destroys a mountain village around 20km from Sanaa.
2006 March - More than 600 followers of slain Shia cleric Hussein al-Houthi who were captured following a rebellion he led in 2004 are released under an amnesty.
2006 September - President Saleh wins another term in elections.
2007 January-March - Scores are killed or wounded in clashes between security forces and al-Houthi rebels in the north.
2007 June - Rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi accepts a ceasefire.
2007 July - Suicide bomber attacks a tourist convoy killing eight Spaniards and two Yemenis in the province of Marib.
2007 August - Citizens banned from carrying firearms in Sanaa. Demonstrations without a permit are outlawed.
2007 October - Volcano erupts on the Red Sea island of Jabal al-Tair where Yemen has a military base.
2007 November - Clashes between Yemeni tribesmen and army personnel protecting a Ukrainian oil company leave 16 people dead in the south-eastern Shabwa province.
2008 January - Renewed clashes between security forces and rebels loyal to Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
2008 April - Clashes with troops as southern Yemenis protest against alleged northern bias in state job allocation. One man killed.
• 1992 December - Bombers hit hotel in Aden formerly used by US marines - first known al-Qaeda attack in Yemen.
• 2000 October - Suicide attack on destroyer USS Cole in Aden.
• 2002 October - French tanker Limburg (pictured) damaged by bomb-laden boat.
• 2007 July - 8 Spanish tourists, 2 local drivers killed by car bomb.
• 2008 September - 16 killed in car bombings outside US embassy.
• 2009 January - Saudi, Yemeni al-Qaeda branches merge to form al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
• 2009 August - AQAP bomber dies in failed bid to kill Saudi deputy interior minister.
• 2009 December - 'Underwear bomber' Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tries to down US airliner in plot claimed by AQAP.
• 2010 October - Parcel bombs, thought to have been made by al-Qaeda and dispatched in Yemen, found on US-bound cargo planes.
• 2011 May - AQAP fighters take control of southern city of Zinjibar.
• 2011 September - Al-Qaeda-linked, US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki killed in US air raid.
• 2012 February - Suicide attack on presidential palace kills 26 Republican Guards on day that President Hadi is sworn in. AQAP claims responsibility.
• 2012 May - 96 soldiers are killed by suicide bomber in Sanaa. AQAP claims the attack.
• 2012 June - Army retakes Zinjibar from AQAP after month-long offensive.
2008 March-April - Series of bomb attacks on police, official, diplomatic, foreign business and tourism targets. US embassy evacuates all non-essential personnel.
2008 September - Attack on US embassy in Yemeni capital Sana'a kills 18 people, including six assailants. Six suspects arrested.
2008 October - President Saleh announces arrest of suspected Islamist militants allegedly linked to Israeli intelligence.
2008 November - Police fire warning shots at Common Forum opposition rally in Sanaa. Demonstrators demand electoral reform and fresh polls. At least five protesters and two police officers injured.
2009 February - Government announces release of 176 al-Qaeda suspects on condition of good behaviour.
2009 August - The Yemeni army launches a fresh offensive against Shia rebels in the northern Saada province. Tens of thousands of people are displaced by the fighting.
2009 November - Saudi Arabia says it has regained control of territory seized by Yemeni rebels in a cross-border incursion.
2009 December - Yemen-based branch of al-Qaeda claims it was behind failed attack on US airliner. The government calls on the West for more support to help it combat the al-Qaeda threat.
2010 February - Government signs ceasefire with Houthi northern rebels, which breaks down in December.
2010 September - Thousands flee government offensive against separatists in southern Shabwa province.
2010 October - Global terror alert after packages containing explosives originating in Yemen are intercepted on cargo planes bound for the US.
2011 January - Tunisian street protests encourage similar demonstrations in other countries, including Yemen. President Saleh pledges not to extend his presidency in 2013 or to hand over to his son.
2011 June - After months of mounting protests, President Saleh is injured in rocket attack and flown to Saudi Arabia, returning home in September.
2011 September - US-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki is assassinated by US forces.
2011 November - President Saleh agrees to hand over power to his deputy, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. Unity government including prime minister from opposition formed.
2012 February - Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi inaugurated as president after uncontested elections.
2012 September - Defence Minister Muhammad Nasir Ahmad survives car bomb attack in Sanaa that kills 11 people, a day after local al-Qaeda deputy head Said al-Shihri is reportedly dead in the south.
2012 November - A Saudi diplomat and his bodyguard are shot dead in Sanaa. Security officials say the assailants, who opened fire on the diplomat's convoy, were dressed in police uniforms.
2014 January - National Dialogue Conference winds up after ten months of deliberation, agreeing a document on which the new constitution will be based.
Northern rebels, known as Houthis or Ansar Allah (Partisans of God), adhere to a branch of Shia Islam known as Zaidism. Zaidis ruled North Yemen for almost 1,000 years until 1962. They took control of Sanaa in 2014
Yemen crisis: Who are the Houthis?
2014 February - Presidential panel gives approval for Yemen to become a federation of six regions as part of its political transition.
2014 July - Tribesmen blow up the country's largest oil pipeline, disrupting supplies from the interior to a Red Sea export terminal.
2014 August - President Hadi sacks his cabinet and overturns a controversial fuel price rise following two weeks of anti-government protests in which Houthi rebels are heavily involved.
2014 September - Houthi rebels take control of the most of capital Sanaa.
2015 January - Houthis reject draft constitution proposed by government.
2015 February - Houthis appoint presidential council to replace President Hadi, who flees to Aden southern stronghold.
2015 March - Islamic State carries out its first major attacks in Yemen - two suicide bombings targeting Shia mosques in Sanaa in which 137 people are killed.
Houthi rebels start to advance towards southern Yemen. President Hadi flees Aden.
Saudi-led coalition of Gulf Arab states launches air strikes against Houthi targets and imposes naval blockade.
2015 June - Leader of Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, killed in US drone strike in Yemen.
2015 September - President Hadi returns to Aden after Saudi-backed government forces recapture the port city from Houthi forces and launch advance on Aden.
2016 April - Start of UN-sponsored talks between the government on one side and Houthis and former President Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) on the other.
2016 May-June - Islamic State group claims responsibility for a number of attacks, including a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 army recruits in Aden.
2016 October - Airstrike by Saudi-led coalition hits a crowded funeral in Sanaa, killing 140 mourners and injuring 500.

A selection of photos from across the African continent this week:


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Question: When it comes to recent events in Crimea, there are still more questions than answers.

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Russian state TV channels have broadcast footage of men confessing to a plot to carry out terror attacks on the peninsula that was annexed by Russia in 2014.
The suspected saboteurs tell interrogators they were acting on orders from Kiev. Ukraine denies any involvement and calls it a provocation.
Local residents near the scene do report hearing shots fired last Saturday night, when the FSB security service says it intercepted the first group of men.
But the FSB statement describes a second attempted incursion of Crimea accompanied by "massive fire from the neighbouring state and armoured vehicles of the Ukrainian armed forces".
No video footage or independent confirmation of that incident has yet emerged.
What actually took place therefore remains a mystery. But it is what happens next that matters most, as the incident raises tensions between Moscow and Kiev to dangerous heights.
Q&A: What's going on in Crimea?
So is Moscow planning to retaliate militarily against what it is describing as an act of terror masterminded by Kiev?
Vladimir Putin has already pledged that he will "not let such things pass".
In that context, the subsequent deployment of S400 air defence missiles to Crimea could well seem menacing. Russia's Defence Ministry has also announced military exercises on the peninsula next week.
It all underlines Russia's intent to defend the territory it annexed from Ukraine two years ago in a move condemned as illegal by Kiev and the West.
Some see signs that a Russian military offensive is building.
They argue that the timing is ideal, with the US busy with elections, the EU distracted by Brexit and the Olympic Games as an all-round diversion. Here in Moscow though, many are sceptical.
"Nothing is impossible. However I do not think that corresponds to recent tactical moves we've seen by Moscow," counters Andrei Kortunov of the Russian International Affairs Council.
He describes a "micro-detente" in relations with the West and sees signs that Moscow wants to get Western sanctions over Crimea lifted, not reinforced. The stubbornly low price of oil adds to pressure for that.
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"I would be surprised if this is a smokescreen for war as I do not see what Putin has to gain now," Mr Kortunov concludes.
Moreover, he sees a "trend to flexibility" on sanctions from the West.
"It's not a good time for a real war, now the economy has dipped. So these are only words, albeit tough ones," argues Andrei Kolesnikov of the Carnegie Moscow Center.
He believes the latest crisis will pass in a matter of weeks.
"But we do know that frozen conflicts can become hot at any time," he cautions.
So is Russia's tough response, or even the entire incident, for domestic consumption?
The language Vladimir Putin has chosen is certainly striking.
He has accused the authorities in Kiev of supporting terrorism and returned to his old practice of referring to them as having "seized power".
After making up with Turkey last week, Moscow could well be looking for a new external enemy for Russians to rally round, reinvigorating a sense of "us-against-them".
There is logic to that, given concern that an economic downturn could shrink support for pro-Putin parties at next month's parliamentary elections.
Just last May, Russia's prime minister was filmed being harangued by women in Crimea complaining about their pitiful pensions. In an awkward moment, he admitted there was no money.
"Putin needs to consolidate society," Andrei Kolesnikov says. "So a small war, a war of words, is important for this.
"Whenever there's conflict, Putin's rating grows - whether it's trade wars with the West, the sports doping scandal or a real conflict like in Syria."
Staging something so risky - or reacting so forcibly to whatever happened - seems extreme for the sake of a few votes.
So is Russia's reaction aimed at the Ukraine peace process?
Vladimir Putin made it very clear that peace talks on Ukraine are now "pointless". They had been proposed by Kiev on the sidelines of the G20 summit next month.
But it seems more likely that Moscow is trying to shape the process, than walk away for good.
"The Minsk process is at an impasse, neither side can implement it," says Andrei Kolesnikov, referring to the ceasefire deal signed in Belarus' capital. "But Putin won't exclude himself from Minsk, he's just trying to make the situation more tense."
Russia's president was explicit, calling on the West to pressure Kiev to deliver results. Implicit within that was a threat: that Moscow will not play along with the talks forever.
Kiev blames Moscow for the impasse, pointing to ongoing clashes with pro-Russian rebels in the east; Moscow argues that Kiev is stalling on the big political reforms it needs to implement.
"Russia wants the regions (controlled by pro-Russian militants) re-integrated as a blocking share in the Ukrainian political system," Andrei Kortunov says. "The aim is to guarantee that Ukraine does not join Nato or move too far from Russia."
Of course that is what the Ukraine crisis has been about from the very beginning. This is just the latest tense and unpredictable chapter.

With the thunderous explosions from the referendum vote still ringing in our ears, Read my thoughts on the new battle lines being drawn up.


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Question: The UK's busiest railway station is in the midst of a huge engineering project - but what does this mean for passengers?

The £800m overhaul at London Waterloo has closed half of the platforms and diverted many of the 270,000 journeys made back and forth each day.
The work, expected to last three-and-a-half weeks, is to expand the station to take 30% more passengers at peak times.
Here are answers to some of the questions online readers asked us.
South West Trains (SWT) said it did not offer compensation ahead of the work because it had put measures in place to reduce the likelihood of major delays.
During the engineering works all passengers are entitled to compensation as they are any other day of the year.
But claims for delays will be judged against the published temporary timetable for August, not the standard timetable that season ticket holders may be used to travelling by.
If disruption is particularly severe, SWT can declare a 'void day' when refunds are available for day tickets and season ticket holders will be compensated on renewal.
The passenger's charter has all the details of how to make a compensation claim.
Each platform will be extended by around 40 metres so that the number of carriages that can stop there can increase from eight to 10.
These longer trains will run from the end of this year on platforms one to four.
The whole project will put 30 new trains into service providing 150 extra carriages.
They are. Work started at 01:00 on Saturday, 5 August and about 1,000 people are working 24 hours a day to get it finished in the early hours of Tuesday, 29 August.
Transport for London said other buses and trains were "busy but not significantly" busier than expected during the school holidays.
The answer is no, according to Owen Johns at Network rail.
"The country's railway network has been built over the last couple of centuries with different height platforms and it is not feasible to retro-fit the thousands of stations around the country," he said.
It was not a simple case of just running trains into the platforms - the International Terminal has been completely redeveloped, said Mr Johns.
Much of the work has now been completed and trains are able to run this August, but work will continue until December 2018, he said.
Eurostar trains are 18 carriages long, but nothing that long runs on domestic services, and only six Eurostar trains were able to run to and from the International Terminal every hour, he said.
"So, we have already shortened the platforms and installed new sections of track which means we can now run 18 trains per hour into the International Terminal, which is much more suited to a high frequency metro-style service that runs between Waterloo and Windsor/Reading," he said.
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Southern and Thameslink trains will not call at London Bridge station from 20 December to 4 January.
From 22-24 December, some Southeastern Charing Cross services will not call at London Bridge in the morning peak.
The disruption will result from work to open two new platforms.
Construction work has involved the clearing of Victorian arches beneath the station that will become the new passenger concourse.
Plans for the 178-year-old station - London's oldest surviving rail terminus - include the concourse that will be bigger than the pitch at Wembley.
Works will also take place to modernise nearby track and signalling equipment as part of the £6.5 billion Thameslink works programme.
Thameslink programme director Simon Blanchflower said: "In the long run our work here will improve the journeys of millions of passengers across the South, but we understand that until we've finished some people may have to change their journey to or from London."
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Question: Environmentalists are demanding to know why a council sent incorrect air pollution data to the government.

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Auditors believe the number and nature of the inaccuracies means human error is "unlikely" to have been responsible.
"It's in nobody's interest to be kept in the dark about the true scale" of pollution, Friends of the Earth said.
Cheshire East Council said it would not comment while an investigation establishes "the reason for the errors and who is responsible".
Jenny Bates from Friends of the Earth said the public must be given accurate information about air quality and health problems caused by pollution.
All UK local authorities are obliged to monitor local air quality and submit their findings to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).
According to a council email sent to Defra which has been seen by the BBC following a request under the Freedom of Information Act, issues were found in data submitted by the local authority between 2013 and 2015 "and possibly earlier".
Another council email to the department reveals the "nature and extent" of the anomalies means that "on the balance of probabilities it is unlikely that they are random or the result of human error".
An internal review by council auditors in 2016 found data submitted was different to the original data provided by the laboratory that analysed readings from the council's monitoring equipment.
The council's auditors found effective "air quality management policies (and) procedures" were not in place, and recommended an external investigation.
That investigation is said to be "ongoing".

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Marine life in the area is the most protected in Europe, they say, but legal protections are being ignored.
The campaign has been ongoing for years.
Waste dredged in Devonport Dockyard is deposited in Whitsand Bay near Rame Head in southeast Cornwall.
The practice, approved by the Marine Management Organisation, allows larger ships to access the harbour.
Phil Hutty, Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for south east Cornwall, said: "We're very grateful we now have the support of the environmental law foundation and our solicitors, who have asked to take on our case for judicial review."
In a judicial review, High Court judges examine whether public authorities are acting within their legal powers.
They can order authorities to cease unlawful activities and can award damages.
The Marine Management Organisation, which regulates the marine industry, confirmed the campaigners have applied for a judicial review.


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Question: Lewis Hamilton says he is confident he can return to the form he needs to reclaim the championship lead and win his fourth world title this year.

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Before Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix, Hamilton is eight points behind team-mate Nico Rosberg with six races to go.
The 31-year-old world champion said: "It's going to take some good results to get back in front and stay there.
"But I've had plenty of those in the past there's no reason to think they won't come back to me again."
Fellow Mercedes driver Rosberg has won the last three races to turn around what had been a 19-point deficit for the German at the end of July.
Rosberg heads into Malaysia after recording probably the most convincing victory he has ever taken over Hamilton in Singapore last time out.
The 31-year-old German dominated the entire weekend and Hamilton could only finish third.
"Singapore was a difficult weekend for me, so to come away with a podium in the circumstances was pretty good damage limitation," the Briton said.
"Ultimately, Nico did an exceptional job and I didn't have my best weekend.
"But that's the way it goes. We're both fiercely competitive. Some weekends he does great, some weekends I do great.
"It's a combination of things that all come together to make a strong weekend and every one is different.
"I have no idea if the momentum will swing back to me or when it might. But we still have six races left, so I just have to keep giving it my all and hope for the best. That's all you can do as a sportsman."
Rosberg said: "I've had a good run lately and I'm enjoying the moment. But as far as the next race goes, or the next one after that and so on... it's anyone's game.
"Red Bull and Ferrari are both pushing us really hard, so there will be some tough weekends ahead."
Malaysia was one of only three races that Mercedes did not win last year, Sebastian Vettel taking his first victory for Ferrari thanks to a better strategy and tyre usage.
Mercedes can win the constructors' championship in Malaysia if they score 36 points more than Red Bull.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said: "Like Singapore, this was a race where we underperformed last year, so we will need to push hard to put that right.
"We can guarantee that the drivers will be doing just that.
"This year more than ever, we've seen that they are pushing each other to new heights," he added.
"We're entering a gruelling phase of this record 21-race season, where the physical and mental challenge of a championship reaches its absolute peak.
"We're in good shape - but we must remain on our toes to get the ball over the line."

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With the news that Silverstone's owner, the British Racing Drivers' Club, has activated a break clause to cease hosting the race after 2019, would a home-grown winner lift the doom and gloom around F1's most famous circuit?
Jim Clark and Alain Prost may sit top of the pile with five British Grand Prix victories each, but Lewis Hamilton can draw level on Sunday - and equal Clark's record of four in a row.
With Valtteri Bottas picking up steam in Austria and Sebastian Vettel still ahead in the championship, predict who you think will be front of the grid.
Pick who you think will master qualifying for Sunday's British Grand Prix


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Question: Hollywood stars have been paying tribute to Irish playwright Brian Friel who has died aged 86.

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Friel passed away at his home in Greencastle, County Donegal after a long illness.
The County Tyrone born writer won three Tony Awards for Dancing at Lughnasa in 1992. The play was later made into a film starring Meryl Streep.
"We've lost a tender dramatist, an insightful humanist and a lovely man," she said.
Obituary: Brian Friel
Reflections on a 'literary giant'
"Friel introduced the people of Donegal to us as if we were all members of his family and community," the three-time Oscar winner told BBC News NI.
"We couldn't help but recognise the people we loved in our own towns and lives, the people who make us laugh and make us furious."
Actor Liam Neeson, who performed in five of Friel's plays during his early career, told BBC News NI "it was a joy to say his words and to feel secure in the hands of a master craftsman".
"Brian was Ireland's Chekhov," he said.
"All his plays touched on the parochial and the universal.
"Their themes described the complexities of the Irish character with enormous wit, grace and love.
"I hope he and Heaney are having a 'wee one' together now and sharing a giggle."
Actor John Hurt tweeted: "Ireland has lost a great playwright, acerbic and brilliant wit and a great humanitarian. Vive Brian Friel! With my love."
Irish President Michael D Higgins said Friel was "one of the giants of Irish literature, and a great Irishman".
"To have had the privilege of knowing Brian Friel as a friend was an immense gift," he said.
"He was a man of powerful intellect, great courage and generosity.  These were talents that he delivered with great humour, grit and compassion.
"His legacy to the Irish people is immense."
Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume described Friel as a "genius who lived, breathed and walked amongst us".
"His loss will be felt terribly by his family and his fans. However, we can count ourselves lucky that the treasure of his work will be with us forever.
"He had a unique ability to transform the local to the global and bring the past to the present which enthralled people the world over."
Friel was born on either 9 or 10 January 1929, with the precise date never being confirmed.
He began writing while working as a teacher in Derry. In 1954, A Sort of Freedom - his first play - was broadcast by the BBC.
In the same year, he married Anne Morrison and the couple had five children: Mary, Paddy, Judy, Sally and David.
His major breakthrough came 10 years later when Philadelphia, Here I Come was performed on Broadway.
In 1980, he co-founded the Field Day Theatre Company with actor Stephen Rea.
Their work became known as an artistic response to the violence and politics that divided Northern Ireland at that time.
Previously, Rea had described the writer as being "completely in tune with Irish audiences".
"There is something innate in the plays where he speaks very directly to an Irish audience and we found the audience for him."
Apart from his original writing, Friel was also known for his adaptations of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
His other achievements include serving as a senator in the upper house of the Irish parliament between 1987 and 1989 and being elected to Aosdana, the Irish association to honour those who have made an outstanding contribution to the arts, in 1982.
The playwright is due to be laid to rest in Glenties, County Donegal, on Sunday.

Kelly was a veteran of stage and screen, his career lasting 60 years.
He had more recent roles in Emmerdale and Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie.
Kelly revealed last November that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, although he said he would continue to work.
He had received the all-clear from bowel cancer in 2011. He was treated for skin cancer last year and also had heart problems.
The actor passed away exactly 18 years after the death of his Father Ted co-star Dermot Morgan.
Morgan died on Sunday 28 February 1998. His son, Don Morgan, tweeted about the coincidence of the date.
Graham Linehan, the writer of Father Ted, tweeted his condolences.
"Just hearing from various sources that Frank Kelly has passed away," he tweeted.
"Terribly sad news. Thanks for everything Frank."
The sitcom's co-writer, Arthur Mathews, also responded on Twitter.
"Sad news," he said. "Comedy legend. So thrilled we had him in Father Ted."
Kelly's co-star Ardal O'Hanlon, who played Father Dougal McGuire, called him a "gentleman".
"Very sad news. We had lunch together at Christmas when he was in his usual feisty form," he said.
"Frank was an all-round talent, an institution in Irish entertainment, a very determined professional and he'll be greatly missed by all who knew him."
Brendan O'Carroll, star of Mrs Brown's Boys, spoke fondly of working with Frank Kelly in Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie,
"News of Frank Kelly's passing just reached us in Australia. Such a lovely man and a joy to work with," he said.
Irish president Michael D Higgins described Kelly as "a friend" and "a distinguished actor who made such a wide and valued contribution both on the stage and in film".
"He will forever be remembered for his roles."
"To his wife Bairbre and his family I send deepest sympathy; for theirs is the greatest loss of such a great and loving person."
The actor is survived by his wife of 51 years Bairbre, seven children and 17 grandchildren.


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Question: The Internet Movie Database (IMDB), which provides listings on actors and films, is suing the state of California over a law requiring it to remove actors' ages at their request.

IMDB, owned by Amazon, says the law violates its free speech rights.
Hollywood actors have long reported cases of ageism in the film industry.
In particular, actresses, among them Helen Mirren, have said they are often overlooked or typecast as they get older.
In 2014, Zoe Saldana, 38, who plays the female lead in the film Guardians of the Galaxy, told the Telegraph newspaper: "By the time you are 28, you're expired, you're playing mummy roles."
IMDB says the law, known as AB 1687, was unfairly tailored to apply only to it.
Its legal action says: "IMDB shares the worthy goal of preventing age discrimination, but AB 1687 is an unconstitutional law that does not advance, much less achieve that goal."
A representative of the California Attorney General's office said: "While age information on Hollywood's biggest stars is available from other online sources, this bill is aimed at protecting lesser-known actors competing for smaller roles."
A Seattle jury ruled in favour of IMDB in 2013, after actress Huong Hoang, who did not want her age listed, sued the company for age discrimination.

Gary Fung announced the settlement with Music Canada via a blog published at the weekend.
Isohunt was shut down in 2013, when Mr Fung agreed to pay $110m to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
One researcher said the cases could set a "worrying" precedent for those who run sites that may link to pirated content.
A court order associated with the decision details the fees as follows: 55m Canadian dollars in damages, C$10m in "punitive, exemplary and aggravated damages" and a further C$1m to cover legal costs.
The total amounts to 50m US dollars.
The case dates from a legal order sent in May 2008 by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), now known as Music Canada.
Previously, Mr Fung had promised users that he would not disclose their data - including email and IP addresses - during legal proceedings.
"I've kept my word regarding users' privacy," he wrote.
Isohunt did not host pirated media, but rather provided users with a directory of sources from where illegal files could be downloaded.
The same model is used by The Pirate Bay, which is currently blocked in the UK.
It's possible that cases like this could set a "worrying" precedent for social media websites, according to Ben Zevenbergen, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.
"Think of social media websites like Facebook where everyone shares their favourite songs with their friends - would these services need to employ full-time copyright police?" he said.
He added: "Further, I truly wonder whether a penny of these fines ends up on artists' royalty checks, but I highly doubt it."


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Question: The Indian Ocean contains a distinctive layer of fresh water from rain and rivers which may influence the South Asian monsoon, scientists have said.

They are urging meteorologists to include the less saline water in their weather forecasting models.
Meteorology officials in South Asia admit they have been slow to consider the role of fresh waters.
They are already struggling to forecast monsoon rains due to a range of factors including climate change.
Monsoons account for 70% of the rainfall in India and neighbouring countries between June and September.
But longer dry periods and heavy rainfall within a short space of time during monsoon season in recent years have caused concern in South Asia.
And this is already being seen this year, with higher rainfall than normal in June - whereas July and August are predicted to have lower than normal rainfall.
Some meteorologists based in the region believe the freshwater element could be a vital missing link.
Major rivers such as the Ganges, Bramhaputra and Irrawaddy flow into the Bay of Bengal.
A team of international scientists are currently researching the issue.
"Freshwater inputs from both rivers and a large amount of rainfall make the Bay of Bengal a rather unique place, and that is not properly being taken into account in the monsoon forecast models," said Professor Eric A. D'Asaro, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, who has been researching the Bay of Bengal with scientists from India and the US.
"And that's one of the reasons they are not able to forecast what are known as monsoon breaks - in other words the variations on monthly time scales through the monsoon season.
"The fresh water makes the surface layer of the ocean water much thinner and lighter and that reacts with the monsoon clouds more strongly whereas saline water would do so more slowly and that would have less effects on the monsoons."
Researchers with the Ocean Mixing and Monsoon project say they have found a "sharp separation between river water and seawater on scales ranging from 100m to 20km".
The deputy director general of Bangladesh's Meteorology Department, Shamshuddin Ahmed, is receptive to the research.
Their monsoon prediction model is currently based on the speed of wind, its direction and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.
"I am not aware of any modelling in our region that considers the role of fresh waters in shaping the monsoon," said Mr Ahmed.
"But I think for accurate long-range monsoon predictions, we need to do some serious studies on fresh waters and get it in our models."
Pakistan's meteorological officials said they downgrade the data from the global model and look for the sea surface temperature to predict monsoon rains for their country.
They admit fresh water is not something they look into even when they are using the sea surface temperature.
Around 60% of the total rainfall in Pakistan comes from the Indian monsoon, while the remaining rains are from winter monsoons from the Arabian sea between December and February.
"It's not just scientists from Pakistan but from the entire South Asia region who are not familiar with the fresh water concept and we need to take it into account," said Mohammed Hanif, a director with Pakistan's meteorological department.
Scientists with the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, an autonomous body, agree that their models need to be updated, factoring in the interaction between fresh waters and the monsoon.
However, the head of the Indian government's meteorology department, LS Rathore, said the issue was still unclear.
"Sea surface temperature certainly effects monsoon circulation but that has more bearing on the long term.
"So far, there is a very hazy kind of understanding on this subject: let research make things clearer first."
But scientists say even if countries around the Bay of Bengal really wanted to factor fresh water into their monsoon prediction models, detailed data was not available.
"At present we only have long-term mean data on the river discharge and we have no data for year-to-year variability because of the sensitivities between countries in the region," says Professor BN Goswami, an Indian climatologist involved in the research project in the Bay of Bengal.
"The year-to-year variability data for fresh water inputs into the ocean will be very important to understand their influence on the monsoon."
Sharing of water resources data has been a contentious issue between India and its neighbours for years.
"The countries will have to reach an understanding if they really want to understand what fresh water is doing to the salinity of the ocean and the monsoon systems," said Professor Goswami.

They say the monsoon advancing towards the west of South Asia combined with westerly winds for an unusually long time and with an extraordinary intensity, which resulted in days of torrential rains.
Weather authorities in India and Pakistan have warned there is still a threat that the dangerous combination will cause more devastating floods.
At least 560 people are known to have been killed and thousands are missing in northern India. The death toll is expected to rise further.
The worst-affected areas are in India's Uttarakhand state, where floods have flattened homes and swept away roads and bridges.
More than 40,000 people, many of them Hindu pilgrims, are still stranded in what the government has described as a "national crisis."
"Such interaction (between the two weather systems) does happen at times during this season but the intensity this time and the duration is something we have not seen for quite some time," BP Yadav, director at the Indian Meteorological Department, told the BBC.
The interaction lasted three days he said, the first such event for many years.
In Pakistan, experts said the westerly weather system arrived unexpectedly and had covered almost all of the country.
Qamar Zaman Chaudry, former director general of Pakistan's Meteorological Department, said this was highly unusual at this time of the year - the first occasion in 26 years.
He said May and June normally represented the dry season in Pakistan, with monsoon rains from July to September.
"The westerly weather system should be here only between October and April, but - quite bizarrely - we are seeing it at this time of the year and all over the country: from the Himalayan mountains to the coastal zones."
Mr Chaudry said the cause was unknown, adding: "It is difficult for us to link this single phenomenon to climate change."
But he added: "When we look at the abrupt changes in the climate and weather patterns in our country during the last 10 to 15 years, it becomes easy to link this to the changes taking place around the globe."
Bill Hare, visiting professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, agreed that it was an intensive interaction between monsoon and westerly winds that resulted into the torrential rainfall.
"But the question is: is this intensity of interaction and resulting rainfall in any way linked to global warming?
"In this specific event, we simply don't know but what we do know with a high degree of confidence is that these kinds of events, as a general statement, will be occurring more often in the future and will be more damaging as the globe warms.
"I think that's a fairly solid analysis from the physical science community," Prof Hare said.
The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, in its fourth assessment report, says that it "is likely that warming associated with increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will cause an increase of Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability".
"Changes in the monsoon mean duration and strength depend on the details of the greenhouse gases emission scenario."
Debates continue on whether global warming has any role on the changing rainfall patterns around the world, but soot and urban smog pollution have also been blamed for disrupting the south Asian monsoon.
A report by the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation in 2011 said: "They disturb tropical rainfall and regional circulation patterns such as the Asian monsoon, affecting the livelihoods of millions of people.
"They can change wind patterns by affecting the regional temperature contrasts that drive the winds, influencing where rain and snow fall."
Experts, however, say not much is known about why westerly winds reach the South Asian region when they are not supposed to.
"That is still an area which is still pretty unclear scientifically," says Prof Hare.
"But anything that brings a lot of moisture into the region and interacts with the convective energy of the monsoon will probably contribute to more extreme rainfall events."


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Question: Shrewsbury Town have signed defender Ryan McGivern and striker AJ Leitch-Smith, whose contracts are due to expire at League One rivals Port Vale.

Leitch-Smith, 26, the Valiants' top scorer in 2015-16 with 12 goals in 43 games, rejected a contract offer.
Northern Ireland international McGivern, also 26, was released by Vale, having played 32 times last term.
In addition, Swiss goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler, 27, has signed a new two-year deal with the Shropshire side.
Leutwiler has played 90 times during his two years at Shrewsbury, who finished 20th in League One after being promoted from the fourth tier in 2014-15.
"The environment and everything to do with Shrewsbury is very important to me," he said. "That was a massive factor in me re-signing here."
Shrewsbury boss Micky Mellon has now signed three Port Vale players in little over a week, following the arrival of Louis Dodds.
Leitch-Smith, who came through Crewe's youth system, joins up again with another former Alex Academy product, defender Matt Tootle, who missed over half of last season, having been sidelined by an Achilles injury.
"The manager is very ambitious," said Leitch-Smith. "And so are the type of players he is bringing in at the minute."
Mellon has now made six summer signings, having also brought in Fleetwood winger Antoni Sarcevic, Southend midfielder Gary Deegan. and Rochdale defender Oliver Lancashire.
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Midfielder Kevan Hurst's departure from Roots Hall had already been confirmed earlier in the week.
Hunt, winger Myles Weston, plus defenders Cian Bolger and Luke Prosser will leave when their contracts expire.
Midfielder Gary Deegan has had his contract terminated by mutual consent, while Jamar Loza's loan deal from Norwich will not be made permanent.
Sam McQueen and Glen Kamara will also return to their parent clubs, Southampton and Arsenal respectively, after loan spells at Roots Hall.