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Question: Sheffield has been given £10m to help create the UK's first sports medicine centre to promote exercise and fitness.

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The city, along with Loughborough and London, will host one of three hubs which will form the National Sports and Exercise Medicine Centre of Excellence.
The hubs will promote exercise and fitness and treat injuries caused by exercise and conditions caused by lack of exercise.
The Sheffield hub will be run by the city's two universities and the NHS.
The government is funding the £30m project as part of its Olympic legacy commitments.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: "Hosting the Olympics is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Britain and it provides a great opportunity for the NHS too.
"The centre will share research findings and best practice with the entire NHS so the whole country benefits."
Sir Andrew Cash, chief executive of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "The focus of the Sheffield arm of the three Olympic legacy centres of excellence is centred on the promotion of physical activity and improvement of the health and productivity of the people of Sheffield.
"The city is well placed to ensure this project is successful.
"Sheffield has world-class sport and medical facilities complemented by world-class research and educational programmes in the city's two universities."

Transport improvements are also planned for the London Cancer Hub in Sutton, ideally by a proposed £200m tram link.
The hub plans to create more than 13,000 jobs and deliver at least two extra cancer drugs every five years.
A community of 10,000 scientists, clinical and support staff will be brought together.
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Professor Paul Workman, Chief Executive of the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, said the ICR and The Royal Marsden were already "world leaders" in cancer research and treatment, but aimed to take its facilities "to a new level".
He said: "The ambition is to discover more innovative cancer drugs, to run more clinical trials, and to partner with industry to take even more treatments to patients."
Councillor Ruth Dombey, leader of Sutton Council, said the London Cancer Hub would create "thousands of employment and training opportunities for local people".
It is hoped that research and development space will also be created for biotech, pharma and software companies, and equipment manufacturers.
The new buildings will closely integrate research and cancer care - providing both laboratories and clinical facilities to promote interactions between scientists and clinicians.
Sutton Council also plans to create a new secondary school on the site which will specialise in the sciences.


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Question: Natalie Powell beat fellow Briton Gemma Gibbons in the -78kg to claim bronze at the European Championships in Russia.

The Wales judoka won by an ippon to secure Britain's second medal of the championships after Colin Oates took silver in the -66kg on Thursday.
She said: "My aim was to win the Europeans, but I am happy with bronze."
Only one of the -78kg judoka can be selected for the Rio Olympics, with Commonwealth champion Powell leading the race.
There are potentially three further competitions after the Euros for either athlete to take an advantage before the Olympic qualification period finishes at the end of May.
When Powell and Gibbons had last fought at the Paris Grand Slam, Powell had won on shidos, however this time she pulled off a big throw to take the contest.
The world number nine had earlier beaten Slovakia's Anamari Velensek with a waza-ari to take her to a semi-final contest with the Netherlands' Guusje Steenhuis where another waza-ari set up victory.
The European Championships in Kazan are the last major championships before the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in August with up to 400 qualifying points on offer.
Powell and Gibbons are part of a 13-strong GB squad in Russia.

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The 27-year-old won all her bouts by ippon on her way to beating Croatia's Marijana Hasanbegovic in the final.
Israeli-born Schlesinger, who last won a Grand Slam title in 2012, gained 500 qualifying points for this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janiero.
On Friday, Britain's Nekoda Davis (-57kg) and Ashley McKenzie (-60kg) took silver and bronze respectively.
Speaking about Schelsinger, elite performance coach Kate Howey said: "After a disappointing Europeans she came back in style. This should put her in a seeding place for the Olympics."
The final day of the Baku Grand Slam on Monday will see Britons Gemma Gibbons (-78kg), Natalie Powell (-78kg) and Ben Fletcher (-100kg) going for gold.


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Question: Article 50, under which a member may leave the European Union, does not specify which areas should be covered by a withdrawal agreement.

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The claim: Elmar Brok, who chairs the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, says the UK will have to negotiate its divorce agreement before its future relationship.
Reality Check verdict: We will not know for sure until after Article 50 has been triggered, but a number of senior European politicians support this two-stage process.
It had been widely assumed that trade would be a crucial part, but Elmar Brok, who chairs the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, has now told the BBC the UK would have to negotiate two separate deals with the EU:
Mr Brok said the negotiations could be held partly in parallel but the Brexit agreement would have to come first.
In July 2016, EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom also said the UK would be able to negotiate a trade deal with the EU only after Article 50 negotiations had been concluded.
If this is the case, Brexit negotiations would be likely to focus on issues such as how much the UK would pay to settle outstanding liabilities, including projects it has already agreed to support and pensions for EU civil servants.
It may also include cross-border security arrangements and relocation of EU agencies headquartered in the UK.
Open Europe has put together a useful list of possible areas.
None of this is certain - a European Commission representative told the BBC it would not speculate before Article 50 had been triggered on the specific areas that would be covered in the negotiations.
Once Article 50 has been triggered, Britain's exit from the EU would have to be negotiated within two years, a timeframe that can be extended only by unanimous agreement from the 27 remaining members of the European Council.
Should the UK be unable to reach an agreement with the EU within those two years and should at least one member of the council veto an extension of the negotiations, the UK would automatically exit the EU and all existing agreements, including those involving the single market, would cease to apply to the UK.
Two years is a very short time for a trade agreement to be reached.
And the EU's negotiations with the US (TTIP) and Canada (CETA) suggest reaching a comprehensive trade deal with it is far from straightforward.
The EU's trade agreement with Canada has been under discussion for seven years, although its agreement with South Korea was negotiated and signed within three years.
In addition, unlike the Brexit agreement under Article 50, which needs the approval of only a reinforced qualified majority (at least 72% of the members of the council representing member states comprising at least 65% of the population of the EU) a new trade deal between the UK and the EU would also have to be ratified, meaning it could be vetoed by any of the remaining 27 EU member states.
In Parliament on Wednesday, Prime Minister Theresa May said: "There's going to be lengthy negotiations over the course of those two years and more."

Graeme asks: Now that the EU referendum vote has been declared to leave EU, is it not possible for the government to have a second referendum vote just the same as SNP wants to have another referendum for independence.
It is unlikely that there would be a second in-out referendum, not least because there is little evidence it would have a different result.
While we should not read too much into the results of polling, in a post-referendum poll by ComRes, 92% of leave voters said they were happy with the outcome, while 4% of remain voters were happy (and, overall, 7% were indifferent).
Also, MPs (with a handful of exceptions) have been rushing to say that the result of the vote must be respected.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested there may be a second referendum on the terms of an eventual deal to the leave the EU, although that is not required by current legislation.
You can read the full Reality Check here.
Neil asks: Can Scotland make a deal with the EU separate to England without leaving the EU?
We can't say for sure as this is an unprecedented situation and the treaties do not refer to this set of circumstances.
If Scotland were to hold a second referendum, and become independent, it could apply to become a member of the EU in the usual way. And it is now more plausible that EU member states would try to speed up the process for Scotland than it would have been at the time of the 2014 independence referendum.
We cannot say if it would be able to keep the UK's membership without going through some sort of application process, but Spain and France have both said they are opposed to holding separate talks with Scotland before the UK leaves the EU, and any deal would require unanimous backing of member states.
You can read the full Reality Check here.
John asks: Is it not right that the USA has a Trade Agreement with the EU? I am sure that they have not agreed to freedom of movement. So why can we not negotiate a deal like them?
The USA does not currently have a free trade deal with the EU. It is in the process of negotiating a trade agreement called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP.
The wording and details of the agreement have not been finalised, but it is indeed unlikely that it will include freedom of movement.
The EU's deal with Canada has also been cited as a possible starting point for the UK.
Both the US and Canada will get access to the single market without actually being part of it, so they will not get full access - Canada's deal, for example, excludes some food items such as eggs and chicken.
The UK could negotiate a trade deal with the EU that did not include freedom of movement, but it would be unlikely to provide the same access to the single market that it currently enjoys.
You can read the full Reality Check here.
Matt says: Much has been made of the two-year exit period that invoking Article 50 will bring. Can anyone explain what might happen if that period expires without agreement on our exit terms? Would our membership simply cease? Or would we remain engaged to all of the terms and conditions that were in place prior to that time?
Once Article 50 has been triggered, there is a two-year time limit on negotiations for a new relationship between the UK and the EU.
If an agreement has not been approved by other member states and the European Parliament within two years, then the deadline may be extended if all parties agree to it.
Otherwise, the UK simply stops being a member of the EU and its treaties will no longer apply.
But negotiations on a new relationship could still continue after that point.
You can read the full Reality Check here.
John asks: How do you know how various ages voted?
We will never know the actual figures for how different age groups voted.
Like other elections, the referendum was a secret ballot.
However, there are post-referendum polls that give a pretty good indication.
They can't tell us the precise numbers but they're clear enough to confirm that young voters were more likely to vote Remain, and older voters more likely to vote Leave.
You can read more about what polls from before and after the referendum tell us here.
Adam asks: If the UK invokes Article 50 by stating its intention to leave, can we later withdraw this intention if, for example, we don't like the deal that is negotiated or will we be compelled to leave?
There is nothing in Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, or in any other EU legal document, that would tell us what would happen if an exiting country changed its mind, after the process of leaving had started.
A member state leaving the EU is unprecedented, so it's impossible to say what would happen if the UK decided it didn't like the deal and it wanted to stay.
However, the signals we have had so far, from both EU and UK politicians, suggest it is unlikely that EU members would allow the UK to change its mind and stay in the EU with all its opt-outs, the rebate and so on, if it didn't like the deal on offer.
Graham asks: The view of senior constitutional lawyers is that there has to be a bill passed by Parliament to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, before Article 50 can be invoked.  Won't MPs be duty-bound to vote in whichever way they consider to be in the best interests of the country?
The answer: Some constitutional lawyers think that there will have to be a vote in Parliament before Article 50 is invoked.
But others say it's a prerogative power held by the prime minister so no vote is necessary.
Even if there is a vote, many MPs will think their primary duty is to uphold the will of the people as expressed in the referendum - even if they had personally supported Remain.
Read more: The facts behind claims about our relationship with the EU


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Question: Four more people have been arrested over a shooting in a residential street in Cheltenham.

The shooting on Wednesday at a house on Bouncers Lane in Prestbury, has been linked by police to a "criminal feud".
Gloucestershire Police said a man, 28, of no fixed address, and three men aged 26, 30 and 32, from Cheltenham, were arrested at the weekend and bailed.
Nine people arrested on Friday on suspicion of "a number of conspiracy offences", have also been bailed.
Up to four men were spotted by witnesses arriving at the house in two cars at about 22:45 GMT. They went inside and fired a number of shots  before driving off at speed.  Nobody was injured.
Det Insp Hannah Mackie said: "We still believe there are more people involved in this who we need to arrest and we're still working hard to identify who the main perpetrators are.
"We appreciate the patience and cooperation of the local community but are still urging people to come forward if they know something."

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Jayne Hickey and her son Christian were shot when two men knocked on their front door in Gillingham Road in Eccles, Salford on 12 October.
The gun was one of two firearms seized when a vehicle was stopped in Faulkner's Lane, Mobberley in Cheshire on 15 December at about 21:20 GMT.
Two men have appeared in court charged with possession of firearms.
A weapon has also been linked to a man's shooting in Ashton-in Makerfield, Wigan on 30 March.


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Question: A raccoon that turned up in Cambridgeshire may have travelled across the Channel from France in the back of a lorry, its rescuers believe.

The runaway mammal was spotted in March, and eventually caught after a protracted "cat and mouse" chase which ended on the roof of a house.
Volunteers at Fenland Animal Rescue found a microchip, showing she was registered in France.
"We think she hopped in a lorry in Calais," said volunteer Josh Flanagan.
"Her microchip has never been noted as being imported, and it was confirmed that she escaped her enclosure in France."
French authorities "weren't interested in repatriating her", he said, so she was sent to a sanctuary in Kent.
Mr Flanagan and his team had looked after the "rather vicious" raccoon since the rescue, which began when the critter was seen on top of a house in Broughton.
They were surprised to find out the "devilish" creature was, in fact, French, he said.
"We've had reports of a stray raccoon several times since September, so it's likely she's been living rough and fending for herself since then," he added.
She was eventually homed at the sanctuary near Rochester, "where she can live in a safe and secure environment with other raccoons to call friends", Mr Flanagan said.
The raccoon, or raton-laveur in French, is native to North America, and not usually found in the UK.

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The owners of 18-year-old George, who lives in Llanrwst in the Conwy Valley, were searching for him for more than a month before he turned up on a doorstep in Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
Gemma Davison-Lemalle said she thinks her pet must have sneaked into a nearby caravan site before being driven off.
"It's bonkers to think he travelled so far," she said.


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Question: We know what Prince Harry's giving up.

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We don't yet know what will fill the considerable void that the absence of a military career will leave in his life.
It's no surprise that Harry describes quitting the army as a "really tough decision".
He's cherished doing a job which he was given on merit - and not because he's a prince.
It's a job which, when he was in Afghanistan, included targeting and killing Taliban fighters.
In the coming months, as he undertakes voluntary work in Africa and the UK, he'll have to decide how to occupy himself in the years that lie ahead.
He's rejected, for now, the option of becoming a full-time senior royal.
Officials will be hoping he embraces something which fulfils him and which doesn't give him time to once again be cast as a party prince.
It's little wonder Harry himself talks of being at a crossroads.

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Lots of TV crews are there too, excited about the baby girl.
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Question: Warnings over the safety of MPs were repeatedly made in Parliament, a Welsh MP has said.

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Chris Bryant, shadow leader of the House of Commons, said preventing another attack on a MP "can't be guaranteed" but all precautions must now be carried out.
It follows the death of Labour MP Jo Cox, 41, who was stabbed and shot in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on Thursday.
Mr Bryant, MP for Rhondda, called for a "proper risk assessment" to be made.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight, he said: "A lot of us have been arguing, I've been arguing in Parliament for quite some time that... the real risk in many cases would be to a MP in their constituency.
"Of course, nobody wants to lose that precious jewel in the British democratic system which is that... you can go and see your MP, in many cases without even having to make an appointment, you just turn up.
"Every single one of us wants to preserve that. But I think there needs to be a proper risk assessment around the country. I'm aware that, especially since November last year, there have been a very large number of individual threats [to MPs]."
He added: "The truth is we all know that we can't guarantee that something like this won't happen again but we need to make sure that we have taken all the precautions."
Asked how he felt that despite his warnings, action had not been taken, a visibly upset Mr Bryant said: It's very, very difficult for anybody when they lose a colleague, especially somebody like Jo, and it's always very, very difficult for us to get the policing arrangements right that fit every single circumstance.
"But I'm just aware that probably every MP in the land will have had over the years five, six, seven different forms of death threats, maybe attacks.
"Knowing which ones to take really, really seriously, which ones just to ignore, which ones to brush off and so on, that's a really difficult thing to do.
"I hope now that all the security services, all the 43 police services in the land, will come together and say 'you know we are going to make sure we do this properly'."
Mr Bryant said he did not know a MP who had not "ended up with a stalker".
"It has been particularly bad in the last few months, in particular for women MPs," he said.
"I would hate the idea that there be a young person of real talent out there who is thinking of going into politics who would be frightened of doing so."
Meanwhile, vigils are being held across Wales on Saturday in memory of Mrs Cox, including in Llangefni, on Anglesey, and a multi-faith vigil in Newport.
On Friday, hundreds of people attended a vigil at the Senedd in Cardiff, with 150 in Swansea at similar event.

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The Herald reports that such a deal has been ruled out, despite a Holyrood committee warning that the country would suffer economic repercussions without it.
The committee has called on the UK government to allow the 181,000 EU nationals living in Scotland to stay, according to The National.
Meanwhile the Scottish Daily Mail leads with a warning for parents who drink a glass of wine a night. It reports that NHS chiefs are warning that people who drink more than 14 units of alcohol a week are more likely to neglect or abuse their children.
The length of time homeless families in Scotland spend in temporary accommodation has risen by almost a fifth in the last two years, according to the front page of The Scotsman.
President Trump features on the front pages of both The Times and the i newspaper.
The Times reports that his comments about Vladimir Putin have sparked anger in the US, after he conceded that the Russian president is a "killer". He went on to suggest that the United States operates in a similar way to Putin, the paper added.
The i newspaper reports that MPs in the UK have threatened to boycott a Trump visit to Westminster.
Katherine Jenkins has "rubbished" claims that she did not deserve her OBE, according to The Scottish Sun. It comes after the decision to award the Welsh singer an honour was allegedly criticised by David Beckham in hacked emails.
The Daily Record leads with news that "hard-up families" stand to win back Â£138m in tax credit benefits. It reports that 23,000 claimants will have their cases reviewed.
A driver was found to be using a dead relative's disabled parking permit in a major anti-fraud crackdown, according to the front page of the Aberdeen edition of the Press and Journal.
The Courier leads with an interview with SNP MP Chris Law, who has spoken out against "malicious" allegations which led to a police investigation.
Theresa May has ordered civil servants to draft laws allowing the UK to "slash taxes", according to the Scottish Daily Express.
And the Daily Star of Scotland reports that detectives investigating George Michael's death have ruled out foul play.


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Question: Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is to stop using A-levels grades as a way of selecting graduate recruits.

PwC, one of the UK's largest graduate employers, said using the grades to filter candidates could disadvantage those from poorer backgrounds.
The company said the policy could "drive radical changes" in social mobility and diversity.
Until now, the firm has not considered any applicants who failed to reach a defined threshold of A-level grades.
But PwC said it would no longer consider a potential recruit's UCAS score - the score that tallies their A-level grades and is used in university applications - because some able candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds were losing out.
Richard Irwin, PwC's head of student recruitment, said: "We want to target bright, talented people and extend our career opportunities to untapped talent in wider pockets of society.
"Our experience shows that whilst A-level assessment can indicate potential, for far too many students there are other factors that influence results.
"Competition and assessment for our graduate roles will be as tough as ever - but those that want to get on with a career in business can do so."
PwC receives 17 applications for every graduate role it advertises and has been rated the top graduate employer by the Sunday Times for the past 12 years.
Gaenor Bagley, board member and head of people at PwC, said: "Removing the Ucas criteria will create a fairer and more modern system in which students are selected on their own merit, irrespective of their background or where they are from."
Stephen Isherwood, chief executive of the Association of Graduate Recruiters, said: "Using a candidate's Ucas points to assess their potential is a blunt tool and a barrier to social mobility.
"This is an innovative step by one of the most significant graduate recruiters in the UK. Other graduate employers should follow their lead."

Instead of conducting three separate assessments over several weeks, it will now combine the process into one day.
The firm says the change will mean applicants will find out if they have got a job within two working days.
It made the change following research suggesting millennials were frustrated by lengthy recruitment processes.
KPMG said its survey- conducted among 400 of this summer's new graduates applying for a graduate job at a UK firm - found that more than one-third were annoyed about how long they had to wait to hear the outcome of an interview, and how long the recruitment process took.
But the biggest complaint, made by more than half of those surveyed, was about not receiving any feedback if they were unsuccessful.
KPMG chairman Simon Collins said the company felt it had to make the changes to make sure it could compete with smaller start-up or tech firms, which often offer a faster recruitment process, to secure the best graduate employees.
"We are competing with the full gamut for the best brains and talent leaving university: getting our graduate recruitment right is crucial to the long-term success of our business," he said.
The accountancy firm's move comes in the wake of several other big firms shaking up their graduate recruitment process.
In June, Goldman Sachs said it had scrapped face-to-face interviews on university campuses in a bid to attract a wider range of talent.
The US investment bank has now switched to video interviews with first-round undergraduate candidates, in a move aimed at helping it to attract graduate recruits from a broader range of disciplines.
And last year, professional services firm professional services firm Deloitte said it had changed its selection process so recruiters did not know where candidates had gone to school or university.
It said the move was aimed at preventing "unconscious bias" and recruiting a more diverse "talent pool".
Millennials will make up 75% of the global workforce by 2025.
Several surveys suggest that these younger workers are not motivated by the same factors as previous generations, such as a job for life, but instead value a good work-life balance and a sense of purpose beyond financial success.


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Question: A 73-year-old man has admitted conspiring to supply cannabis from his guest house in Denbighshire.

Owen McKay, from Llandyrnog, near Denbigh, changed his plea to guilty ahead of a trial at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday.
At a previous hearing, his wife and her son pleaded guilty to the same charge. The case centres on allegations they ran a cannabis factory at home.
They are all due to be sentenced in three weeks' time.
McKay's plea was on the basis that he had turned a blind eye to what was going on at the guest house between December 2013 and April 2014, the court heard.
Prosecutor Richard Edwards said there had been a strong smell of cannabis in the house but there was no forensic evidence to link the defendant with the drugs, as had been the case with teacher Susan McKay, 57, from Llandyrnog, and Michael McKay, 27, from Huntington, Cheshire.

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He has been charged with being concerned in the supply of a class A controlled drug and possession of a class B controlled drug.
The woman, who was in her 30s, died at a house in Orior Park in Bessbrook.


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Question: Ospreys wing Eli Walker has turned to yoga as he attempts to beat the series of hamstring problems that have plagued his career.

Once-capped Walker, 23, was denied both his Wales debut in 2013 and an initial World Cup place this year by injury.
"What's working for me in particular is yoga," Walker told BBC Wales Sport.
"I know it sounds quite strange, but yoga's helping me a lot in just stretching and strengthening in general."
Another Wales number 11 - Manchester United football great Ryan Giggs - credited yoga with prolonging his playing career in the Premier League, with the former national captain not retiring until he was 40.
Walker was first picked to play for Wales against South Africa in November 2013, but was forced to withdraw because of a hamstring strain, with a recurrence in February 2014 sideling him for the rest of the season.
He eventually made his Wales debut in August 2015, in a World Cup warm-up match against Ireland.
Walker was called into the World Cup squad as a replacement for Leigh Halfpenny in September, only to get injured again in training.
The wing was subsequently recalled to the squad to be in contention for a potential semi-final match, only for Wales to exit the tournament before he regained full fitness.
"There were a lot of ups and downs," said Walker.
"But as I mature I've just got to take the onus on myself and look after my body better, just doing stuff that's right for me."
Walker says both Wales and the Ospreys have looked after him by reducing his training on days when the team does double sessions.
"Both camps have modified certain aspects of training, maybe not doing complete sessions, but as things go on my strength's coming on pretty decently," he said.
"It's just about picking and choosing the aspects I need to see off, and doing rehab by myself."
Walker is set to feature in the Ospreys' Champions Cup trip to the Stade Marcel-Michelin to face Clermont on Sunday, whose wings include ex-England player David Strettle and Fiji-born France international Noa Nakaitaci.

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The 26-year-old was injured in last week's win over Exeter.
Director of rugby Richard Cockerill told BBC Radio Leicester: "With eight weeks of the season to go that is probably the last we will see of him."
Meanwhile, scrum-half Sam Harrison, 24, has signed a new deal, but the length of the contract has not been revealed.
Benjamin has been plagued by injuries since signing from Worcester in 2012, suffering a serious neck injury which delayed his first-team debut by 15 months.
He also sustained a knee injury that ruled him out for four months last term.
But Cockerill said: "It is certainly not too serious and he will make a full recovery in the next eight to 10 weeks."


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Question: A video of Barnsley FC supporters teasing Oxford United fans by chanting "You only sing when you're rowing" has been shared by hundreds of people.

The footage shows about 15 Barnsley fans in flat caps sitting on the floor of Wembley Way, London, pretending to row a boat ahead of the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final on Sunday.
Chris Basiurski, who filmed the clip, said the fans had been in high spirits
Barnsley came back from 0-1 down to win the game 3-2.
Mr Basiurski, a Manchester United fan, said he had gone to the game with two friends from Barnsley.
"I've been to Wembley a few times but my friends had not so I was giving them the full experience and having a drink on Wembley Way," he said.
"These guys had clearly been there for a while and were in high spirits.
"There was a lot of banter between both sets of fans but then one of the Barnsley fans started singing loudly 'You only sing when you're rowing'.
"People started joining in and it just snowballed from there. Within a few minutes an entire row of them were sat on the ground with their flat caps and cans of lager.
"It was one of the funniest build-ups to a match I've seen in a long time."

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Yes, they might have flashier cars and a few more tattoos, but they also enjoy a party. And who doesn't?
Footballers celebrating is nothing new. But it seems this season, more than ever, we've been able to get an insight into what happens after the trophies have been lifted.
Here's how to celebrate like a footballer...
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Leicester City got their hands on the Premier League trophy on Saturday amid scenes that that were barely conceivable 10 months ago.
Out of all the chaos has emerged a man called Christian Fuchs.
The Foxes left-back, the gift that keeps on giving, could well have been lifted from an Inbetweeners script, in which they would probably call him the Archbishop of Banterbury, or something equally terrible.
Filming the celebrations from Jamie Vardy's living room like he's at a teenage house party, recording the actual moment his team lifted the Premier League title and then pouring a bottle of champagne over his manager Claudio Ranieri - the Austrian brings the fun times.
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Fuchs is not the only man who had the composure to film a trophy presentation.
Wigan's Kevin McNaughton kept his head - when all others were losing theirs amid ticker tape and pyrotechnics - to capture the first-person view of being handed the League One title.
The 33-year-old says what we're all thinking: "Scenes."
And when it comes to frothing the champagne, Middlesbrough and Burton showed they can fizz it up with the best of them.
Boro, who came second in the Championship to secure a return to the Premier League after a seven-year absence, posted shenanigans in the dressing room on YouTube.
The Brewers got in on the action too, with boss Nigel Clough getting a right soaking as a reward for taking the club to the second tier for the first time.
Just like supporters, players love a sing song.
Just like supporters, they are generally terrible at singing.
Just like supporters, they can't remember the words.
Here is the promotion play list as selected by the players of teams who secured a big finish to the season.
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Even the guys wearing the suits and ties know how to let loose it seems.
David Sharpe is Britain's youngest chairman, and this weekend he was being literally carried on the shoulders of Wigan supporters after the club secured an immediate return to the Championship by winning League One.
He even gets a wedgie for his troubles.
And while Sunderland cannot pop the champagne just yet, their keeper Vito Mannone was serenaded to the tune of the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army by his chairman Ellis Short, after helping his side to a much needed 3-2 win over Chelsea in the battle to beat the drop from the Premier League.
There there. Let it out. It's OK for fully-grown adults to cry about people kicking a ball around, honestly.
And it can often be two very different emotions that bring on the water works.
Spare a moment to consider the journey of Bristol Rovers boss Darrell Clarke.
Cheltenham Town's National League-winning players might have nipped over to the historic sights of Bellver Castle and La Seu Cathedral in Palma on the island of Majorca this weekend.
But only if they think they're going to a nightclub, you would expect.
Partying hard is, well, hard.
It's all a bit too much for some. Namely, Burnley's David Jones, who was recorded falling asleep on the team bus by sympathetic team-mate Joey Barton on the morning after their celebrations.
But the last laugh was on Barton, who was left without a medal during Burnley's trophy celebrations.
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Question: Deloitte and KPMG are being sued over their alleged role in Hewlett-Packard's controversial purchase of Autonomy.

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An HP shareholder says the US PC-maker paid too much for the UK software firm.
The lawsuit, filed in California on Monday, accuses the two auditors and other named defendants of failing in their duty to spot that Autonomy was not worth as much as it claimed, and then misrepresenting the deal's value.
Both firms have denied responsibility for valuing Autonomy at the time.
"Simply put, HP grossly overpaid for Autonomy," claims the legal action, which was brought by Philip Ricciardi, an HP shareholder since 2007.
Last week, HP announced that it was writing off $8.8bn of the $11.1bn it paid for Autonomy, of which $5bn was "linked to serious accounting improprieties, misrepresentation and disclosure failures".
HP's boss, Ms Whitman, said that her firm had relied on the work of the UK unit of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, which had acted as Autonomy's auditor prior to the acquisition.
She also said HP had relied on KPMG's audits of Deloitte's work.
The computer maker said it would be taking civil action itself to try and recover money for shareholders.
Shares in the US computer-maker have lost 60% of their value since the Autonomy deal was announced in August last year - including a steep fall on the day after the announcement - and are down by three-quarters since their peak in April 2010.
The legal case, which came to light on Wednesday, has been brought by the shareholder against the two auditors, as well as against Autonomy's former chief executive Mike Lynch, HP chief executive Meg Whitman, former HP chief executive Leo Apotheker, and Barclays and Perella Weinberg Partners, who acted as financial advisers on the deal.
It claims that the two auditors, as well as other advisers and employees paid to work for HP, failed in their duty to the company and "consistently misled the public with improper statements".
The two auditors "consciously disregarded numerous red flags" that should have alerted them to Autonomy's allegedly inflated value, the lawsuit said, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
KPMG has denied HP's claims, saying that it was engaged only to provide limited services and did not carry out any audit work.
For its part, Deloitte has insisted that it was not responsible for the due diligence work that HP carried out on Autonomy before going ahead with the purchase.
Barclays and Perella Weinberg could not be reached for comment.
It is the second such lawsuit to be filed by an HP shareholder over the Autonomy deal. Another investor, Allan Nicolow, filed a similar case at the same court and on the same day.
The other legal case has been brought against Hewlett-Packard, as well as various executives of the firm - but not against the two auditors or the two financial advisers - and seeks damages for HP's purchase of Autonomy, as well as an earlier purchase of Electronic Data Systems Corporation, which the suit also claims was overvalued.
Mr Nicolow's lawyers hope to turn his case into a class action lawsuit on behalf of all investors who owned shares in HP between 19 August 2011 - the day after the Autonomy acquisition - and 20 November 2012.
Autonomy's former head, Mike Lynch - who is a non-executive director of the BBC - has rejected HP's claims that former Autonomy management misled them as to the company's value.

The deal makes Micro Focus one of the UK's biggest tech companies, with total annual revenues of $4.5bn (£3.4bn).
It is acquiring assets from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), including former UK tech champion Autonomy which HP bought in an ill-fated deal in 2011.
Micro Focus was promoted to the FTSE 100 last week, replacing ARM after it was bought by Japan's Softbank.
A string of acquisitions has turned Micro Focus, based in Berkshire, England, from being a relatively small player to being worth over £5bn, with revenues doubling in 2015.
Shares in Micro Focus closed 14.5% higher at £22.38 after jumping as much as 21%, making it the biggest riser on the FTSE 100.
The rise and rise of Micro Focus
Kevin Loosemore, Micro Focus executive chairman, said the deal marked a significant milestone for the company.
Mr Loosemore said he approached Hewlett Packard Enterprise in February about a deal and was not put off by the market turbulence that followed the Brexit vote in the UK.
HPE has more than 50,000 customers including many of the biggest US companies.
We are accustomed to headlines bemoaning another UK industrial champion falling to a foreign predator. This morning the tide, if only briefly, is flowing the other way.
Micro Focus, a fast-growing technology firm based in Newbury, Berkshire, is merging with a division of the original Silicon Valley titan, Hewlett-Packard.
Although the combination will have a slim majority of shareholders from the US company, this is a British takeover. The new Micro Focus will keep its listing on the London Stock Exchange, and the management will be British.
The new entity should have a stock market value north of £10bn - about twice the market cap of Sainsburys.
While it is tempting to see this as a swallow that might herald a golden summer of takeovers by ambitious British companies, it has more to do with the weakness of an ageing tech giant rather than a resurgence of appetite on this side of the Atlantic.
Hewlett-Packard is rightly credited with having founded Silicon Valley, nurturing a string of high-tech entrepreneurs and technology companies that went on to conquer the world.
In 1968, it put the first personal computer on sale - a snip at $5,000. Only two years ago it still employed 210,000 people; after today's deal, that number falls to 50,000.
For Hewlett-Packard it is part of a dramatic downsizing from having been a giant of the computer industry with annual revenues of more than $100bn.
Under chief executive Meg Whitman the group has been stripped down to what she believes is its core strengths.
HPE was one part of Hewlett-Packard which split into two last year. The other part, HP Inc, focuses on computers and printers.
The software spinoff follows HPE's announcement of the sale of its business services division to CSC for $8.5bn.
"We are taking another important step in achieving the vision of creating a faster-growing, higher-margin, stronger cash flow company well positioned for our customers and for the future," said Ms Whitman.
The sale is also being seen as a way for Hewlett-Packard to finally shed itself of its ill-fated purchase of Autonomy.
After the takeover, Hewlett-Packard wrote off about three-quarters of Autonomy's value, claiming that "accounting misrepresentations" had led it to overpay for the firm.
Autonomy denied that, and a slew of legal action then followed.
Its founder, Mike Lynch, told the Financial Times that the deal "was a good thing".
"They can't really screw it up any more than it was. Hopefully there are still some gems in there," he told the paper.


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Question: Senior Republicans are speaking out against front-runner Donald Trump after his seven-state victory in the race for the party's presidential pick.

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Mr Trump has declared himself a "unifier", but he is strongly opposed by veteran Republican politicians.
Senator Lindsey Graham warned on Wednesday that Mr Trump would lose in November's election.
Meanwhile retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who has performed poorly, has signalled he may drop out of the race.
In a statement on Wednesday, he said he saw "no path forward" for his presidential campaign and will not attend Thursday's TV debate.
But he stopped short of ending his race completely.
Meanwhile, former nominee Mitt Romney has said he would make a speech on Thursday in which he is expected to challenge Mr Trump.
He has been fiercely critical of the businessman, whose hardline stance on issues like immigration goes beyond the Republican mainstream.
His victories on so-called Super Tuesday consolidated his position as the most likely Republican candidate to vie for the White House against the Democratic nomination.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz walked away with three states, bringing his total to four, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio won his first state (Minnesota) in the primary race to date.
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Several party leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, have spoken out against Donald Trump's controversial policies and positions in recent days.
His latest controversy centres on his failure to disavow David Duke, a leader of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan, who endorsed him. He later said he had on several occasions in the past disavowed Mr Duke.
Mr Ryan forcefully denounced the real estate mogul on Tuesday, saying: "They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people's prejudices."
"Let me make it perfectly clear, Senate Republicans condemn David Duke and the KKK, and his racism," Senator and majority leader Mitch McConnell commented.
Influential congressman Peter King joked he would leave politics if Mr Trump became the nominee.
And Marco Rubio indicated in his speech on Tuesday that the Republican establishment was unlikely to back the former reality TV star.
"If this was anybody else as a front-runner, there'd be people right now saying 'Let's all rally around the front-runner,'" he said, adding, "that will never happen with Donald Trump".
According to the New York Times, some party donors are already trying to raise funds for an anti-Trump effort.
Meanwhile, The Center for Public Integrity reports that Republican super PACs ran as many as 8,500 adverts in the run up to Super Tuesday to try to discredit Donald Trump's election campaign.
Mr Graham warned that Republicans would "lose to Hillary Clinton" with Mr Trump as their party nomination.
"We may be in a position where we have to rally around Ted Cruz as the only way to stop Trump," he said. "And I'm not so sure that would work."
Mrs Clinton also won seven states on Tuesday, consolidating her lead in the Democratic race over rival Bernie Sanders.

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The issue of immigration loomed large in the south-western state, the biggest prize in the latest round of contests.
Polls showed that Mr Trump's anti-immigration message resonated with the state's conservative voters.
With Arizona's growing Latino population, Mrs Clinton continued her success by courting minority voters.
Keeping his campaign in the race, Democrat Bernie Sanders decisively won caucuses in two smaller states, Idaho and Utah.
The Utah Republican caucuses were won by Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
He also received a welcome boost with the endorsement of former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who pulled out of the race last month.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump effectively held serve in Tuesday's slate of primaries and caucuses. Both posted sizable wins in Arizona, which - thanks to the state's population - balanced out losses elsewhere.
For Mr Trump to have a realistic path to securing the Republican nomination before the party's convention he needed Arizona's winner-take-all primary. The state proved to be fertile territory for the front-runner's anti-immigration, border-security pitch.
Mr Trump is still on pace to near the magic delegate number of 1,237. Unless momentum changes significantly, it's going to be a nail-biter.
The New Yorker's Utah loss was notable for its size, denying him any delegates there and proving that while Mr Trump has broad appeal among Republicans, that does not extend to the state's sizeable Mormon population.
There's only one Utah, however, and many more states ahead that could be friendlier to Mr Trump.
Mrs Clinton's comfortable win over Bernie Sanders in Arizona was more surprising, as the Vermont senator had invested considerable resources there. He dominated the smaller Utah and Idaho caucuses, however - offering further proof of his appeal in states with a less diverse voter pool.
Mr Sanders made little, if any, headway in the delegate count, however. He needs more big wins, without setbacks like Arizona - and soon.
During a victory speech in Seattle, Mrs Clinton addressed the terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, pushing back against the Republican candidates' response to the bombings.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Trump reiterated his plan to ban Muslims from travelling to the US and suggested that the US should torture terrorism suspects.
"We live in a complex and dangerous world," Mrs Clinton said. "And we need a commander-in-chief that can provide leadership that is strong, smart and above all steady in taking on these threats.
The last thing we need are leaders who incite more fear," she said, alluding to Mr Trump.
The Republican primary in Arizona was a winner-take-all race, adding 58 delegates to Mr Trump's sizable lead.
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The property tycoon's win complicates efforts by Mr Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich to stop him from securing a majority of delegates.
If Mr Trump falls short in the delegate count, the party could hold a brokered or contested convention where party leaders, not voters, choose the nominee.
However, that scenario is looking less likely as Mr Trump continues to win states.
Arizona residents' preference for early voting, with many mailing in their ballots, may have affected the race.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who left the race on 15 March, secured more than 70,000 votes.
As the final voters headed to the polls on Tuesday, the Republican race took another nasty turn.
Mistakenly believing the Cruz campaign had produced an attack advert about his wife Melania, Mr Trump on Twitter threatened to "spill the beans" on Mr Cruz's wife, Heidi.
Mr Cruz responded saying his campaign did not produce the advert, calling Mr Trump "classless" and a "coward".


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Question: The Undertones are celebrating 40 years together and have recorded an anniversary show for BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle.

27 May 2016 Last updated at 19:28 BST
It goes out next week and BBC News NI Arts Correspondent Robbie Meredith has had a special preview.

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The 66-year-old will host two shows as part of a festive line-up that includes Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash and Metallica's Lars Ulrich.
"To come up with the tunes that fit the concept of each show, I've had to dig back to things that I haven't heard in a long, long time," said Iggy.
"I thought I better check these old numbers to see if they still made the grade for me. They still do."
The Lust for Life singer, who released his first album with the Stooges for six years earlier this year, will present two programmes on the BBC digital station over the Christmas period.
Iggy Pop's first Show - on Christmas Day - is entitled Rockin' Rebels and will be followed by an interview with Metallica drummer Ulrich as part of Matt Everitt's The First Time strand.
A second Iggy show, on New Year's Day, will explore Heartbreak and Heartaches.
"I've listened to all this music for the shows and it all flows for me," said the veteran rocker, adding that he hoped to "reach out and touch" the listener.
The BBC said the shows would offer an "exclusive insight into the mind of one of the most influential rock stars of the last 40 years".
This is Radio Clash, a two-hour special presented by Jones and Simonon, will air on Boxing Day afternoon.


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Question: A chronology of key events:

1500 - Portuguese land in the area and claim it for the Portuguese crown.
1822 - Son of Portuguese king declares independence from Portugal and crowns himself Peter I, Emperor of Brazil.
1888 - Slavery abolished. Large influx of European immigrants over the next decade.
1889 - Monarchy overthrown, federal republic established with central government controlled by coffee interests. Brazil produces 65% of world's coffee by 1902.
1930 - Revolt places Getulio Vargas at head of provisional revolutionary government.
1937 - Vargas leads coup, rules as dictator with military backing. Economy placed under authoritarian state control, start of social welfare revolution and reform of laws governing industry.
1939-45 - Brazil initially declares itself neutral but in 1943 joins Allies in World War II.
1945 - Vargas ousted in military coup. Elections held under caretaker government. New constitution returns power to states.
1951 - Vargas elected president, but faces stiff opposition.
1954 - Vargas commits suicide after military gives him the options of resigning or being overthrown.
1956-61 - Juscelino Kubitschek is president, helping Brazil achieve rapid economic growth.
1960 - Kubitschek moves capital to Brasilia.
1960 - Janio Quadros elected president, but resigns after several months, plunging country into constitutional crisis. Succeeded by left-wing vice-president Joao Goulart.
1964 - Goulart ousted in bloodless coup, flees into exile. Military rule associated with repression but also with rapid economic growth based on state-ownership of key sectors.
1974 - General Ernesto Geisel becomes president, introduces reforms which allow limited political activity and elections.
1982 - Brazil halts payment of its main foreign debt, which is among the world's biggest.
1985 - Tancredo Neves chosen as first civilian president in 21 years under the electoral college system set up by the military, but falls ill before he can be inaugurated and dies shortly afterwards. His vice president Jose Sarney becomes president at time of economic crisis.
1986 - Sarney introduces Cruzado Plan, freezing prices and wages in effort to control inflation. But inflation explodes when freeze is lifted.
1988 - New constitution reduces presidential powers.
1989 - Fernando Collor de Mello becomes first directly elected president since 1960. Introduces radical economic reform but promised economic improvements fail to materialise, and inflation remains out of control.
Foreign debt payments are suspended.
1992 - Earth Summit in Rio.
Collor resigns after being accused of corruption. He is later cleared. Replaced by vice president Itamar Franco.
1994 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president after helping to bring inflation under control. Makes controversial moves on land issue, seizing land for distribution among poor, and allowing indigenous land claims to be challenged.
1995 - President Cardoso acknowledges the existence of slavery in Brazil and pledges to tackle the problem.
1996 - Police kill 19 Amazon peasants in town of Eldorado dos Carajas.
1997 - Constitution changed to allow president to run for re-election.
1998 - Cardoso re-elected. IMF provides rescue package after economy hit by collapse of Asian stock markets.
2000 - Celebrations to mark Brazil's 500th anniversary marred by protests by indigenous Indians, who say that racial genocide, forced labour and disease have dramatically cut their population from an estimated 5 million before the Portuguese arrived in 1500 to the current 350,000.
2001 - Government says it is prepared to amend a development programme which critics say will have a catastrophic impact on the Amazon. Government expects to spend $40 billion over seven years on roads, railways, hydroelectric projects and housing in the Amazon basin.
2001 May - President Cardoso abolishes two development agencies for the Amazon and the north-east. The authorities say the agencies set up bogus projects to steal development funds estimated at more than $1 billion.
2002 March - Members of the Landless Workers Movement, demanding land reform, occupy President Cardoso's family ranch.
2002 June - Fans jubilant as Brazil triumphs in World Cup - the football-mad country's fifth such victory.
2002 July - Currency hits all-time low and financial markets panic over the prospect of left-winger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva winning October's presidential elections.
2002 October - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula, wins presidential elections. The former shoeshine boy heads Brazil's first left-wing government for more than 40 years. At his inauguration in January 2003 he promises political and economic reforms and pledges to eradicate hunger.
2003 August - Space rocket explodes on the ground at the Alcantara launch base, killing 21 people.
2004 April - Wave of land invasions, dubbed "Red April" by activists.
2004 September - Brazil, along with Germany, India and Japan, launches an application for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
2004 October - Brazil launches its first space rocket.
2005 February - Murder of US-born missionary and campaigner for Amazon peasant farmers Dorothy Stang throws conflict over land and resources in Amazon into spotlight. Government unveils plan to protect part of region from encroachment.
President Lula strove to help Brazil's poorest while fostering growth
2005 March - Death squad kills at least 30 people on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, the city's worst massacre in over a decade. It is suggested that rogue police are responsible.
2005 June-August - Corruption allegations rock the governing Workers' Party. A wave of resignations ensues. The president makes a televised apology.
2005 October - Voters in a referendum reject a proposal to ban the sale of firearms.
2006 May - Scores of people are killed in gang attacks and a police backlash in Sao Paulo state. The violence is sparked by a series of prison uprisings.
2006 October - President Lula is re-elected.
2007 July - Anti-slavery team frees more than 1,000 people from a sugar-cane plantation in the Amazon.
2007 August - Government officially recognizes for first time human rights abuses carried out under military dictatorship between 1964 and 1985. More than 500 people are believed to have been killed or "disappeared".
2007 December - The speaker of the Brazilian Senate and a key ally of President Lula, Renan Calheiros, resigns in order to avoid an imminent impeachment hearing following a long-running corruption scandal.
2008 January - The EU halts all imports of Brazilian beef, saying its foot-and-mouth disease checks are "unacceptable".
2008 May - Environment minister Marina Silva resigns, after conflicts with the government over Amazon development.
2008 July - A congressional commission rejects a bid to legalise abortion in the world's most populous Catholic nation.
2008 August - Government launches scheme offering cash payments and immunity for illegal weapons, in an effort to get 300,000 guns off the streets.
2008 September - President Lula suspends intelligence chiefs amid allegations their agencies spied on officials, politicians and judges.
2008 October - Brazil turns down an invitation from Iran to join the international oil cartel, Opec.
2009 June - Brazil says it will offer $10bn to the International Monetary Fund, to help improve the availability of credit in developing countries.
2009 July - Brazil and Paraguay reach a deal to end their long-running dispute over the cost of energy from the giant Itaipu hydro-electric plant on their border.
2009 October - The government says it is to set up a truth commission to investigate abuses committed during military rule in Brazil from 1964 to 1985.
2009 November - Brazil's two largest cities - Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo - are hit by major blackouts due to a problem at a massive hydro-electric dam.
2010 March - President Lula begins push for bigger Brazilian diplomatic role with visit to Middle East. Weeks later he goes to Iran.
2010 August - Brazil gives formal approval for construction of controversial hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest, expected to be the world's third largest.
2010 October - Dilma Rousseff, of President Lula's Workers' Party, wins second round run-off to become Brazil's first female president.
2011 January - Opening of controversial road connecting Brazil's Atlantic coast with Peru's Pacific seaboard.
2011 May - Chamber of Deputies votes to ease restrictions on the amount of land farmers must preserve as forest, raising fears of further deforestation in the Amazon.
Amazon is home to 30% of all plant and animal life
Iron ore mining dilemma in Amazon
2011 June - Brazil grants building permit for Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon, a project opposed by indigenous groups and environmentalists.
2011 June - Security forces occupy one of the biggest slums in Rio de Janeiro, as part of a major crackdown on organised crime ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
2011 June - President Rousseff's chief of staff resigns amid corruption allegations.
2011 June - Government launches Brasil Sem Miseria (Brazil Without Poverty) welfare scheme, aimed at lifting millions out of extreme poverty.
2012 August - Parliament approves affirmative action law for universities that requires them to reserve 50% of their places for state school students, and increases the number of spaces allotted to black, mixed-race and indigenous students.
2012 October - Brazil enacts controversial law meant to protect forests and force farmers to replant trees on scattered swathes of illegally cleared land. Aspects of the law are criticised by both the farm lobby and environmentalists.
2013 June - A wave of protests sweeps the country. People take to the streets in dozens of cities to demonstrate over poor public services, rising public transport costs and expense of staging the 2014 World Cup. The protests continue into the autumn.
2013 October - The rights to explore Brazil's biggest oilfield are awarded to a consortium led by the state-run energy giant Petrobas backed by French, Anglo-Dutch and Chinese firms. Critics say that allowing foreign companies a stake in the Libra oilfield will damage national interests.
2014 October - Incumbent Dilma Rousseff wins another term as president.
2015 March - Petrobras state oil company implicated in massive corruption scandal that brings hundreds of thousands onto the streets in protest at President Rousseff, who was company chairperson during the period in question.
2015 August - Hundreds of thousands of protesters march to demand President Rousseff's resignation, blaming her and the leftist Workers' Party over alleged large-scale corruption and looming recession.
2015 October - Top finance court says government borrowed billions illegally to offset 2014 budget shortfall. Election commission reopens probe into allegations that President Rousseff misused funds during 2014 presidential election campaign.
2015 December - Congress agrees to launch impeachment proceedings against President Rousseff.
2016 February - World Health Organisation declares a global public health emergency following an outbreak of the Zika virus centred on Brazil.
2016 March - Junior coalition Democratic Movement Party leaves government. Judge bars President Rousseff from appointing ex-president Lula da Silva to her cabinet after he is accused of money-laundering, which he denies.
2016 April - Lower house of Congress votes overwhelmingly in favour of sending impeachment motion against President Rousseff to Senate. She rejects the accusations that she manipulated government accounts during the 2014 presidential election campaign and accuses her opponents of launching a "coup d'etat" against her.
2016 May - Senate votes overwhelmingly in favour of subjecting President Rousseff to an impeachment trial. She is suspended from her post pending the trial.
2016 August - Olympic Games are held in Rio de Janeiro.
2016 August: Senators vote to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for illegally using money from state banks to bankroll public spending. Michel Temer is sworn in to serve the rest of her term to 1 January 2019.
2016 November - President Michel Temer says he will block attempts to approve controversial legislation giving amnesty to politicians who received illegal donations from private companies for their electoral campaigns.
Violent anti-austerity protests take place outside the Brazilian Congress.
2016 November - A plane carrying the Brazilian football team Chapecoense Real crashes in Colombia killing 71 people.
Government freezes Rio de Janeiro state's bank accounts, ordering the struggling state to pay up to 53m US dollars in overdue debt.
2016 December - Senate approves 20-year government spending freeze billed as the centrepiece of the government austerity reforms aimed at restoring economic health to Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro if awarded UNESCO world heritage status.
2017 January - Around 30 inmates are reportedly killed in a prison riot at the Alcacuz prison in the northeastern state of Rio Grande. It is the latest in a string of prison riots in Brazil in which around 100 inmates have died.

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


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Question: Grammy-winning choreographer Trish Sie has been confirmed as the new director of Pitch Perfect 3.

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Sie, who previously directed 2014 dance film sequel Step Up All In, takes over from Elizabeth Banks, director of last year's Pitch Perfect 2.
Production on the third film about an all-girl a cappella group was halted after Banks announced in June she would not return to the director's chair.
Banks, who stays on board as producer, announced Sie's involvement on Twitter.
"#PitchPerfect has a new leader," the actress wrote on Thursday, adding she was "so excited" Sie was on board.
Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and other cast members of the previous films in the series are expected to return for the third instalment, due to reach cinemas in December next year.
Pitch Perfect, released in 2012, made $115m (Â£86.6m) at the global box office, while its sequel took $287m (Â£216m) worldwide.
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Oscar-nominated actress Abigail Breslin, who shot to fame in Little Miss Sunshine and currently stars in horror comedy show Scream Queens, will play the lead role of Baby Houseman.
The three-hour adaptation will be directed by Wayne Blair, the Australian behind 2012 film The Sapphires.
An airdate has not been specified and no other cast members have been announced.
Set in the summer of 1963, Dirty Dancing is the song-and-dance love story about 17-year-old Baby, originally played by Jennifer Grey, who falls for her working-class dance instructor, Johnny Castle - played by Patrick Swayze.
That role helped Swayze shoot to stardom and also saw him record the song She's Like the Wind for the film's soundtrack.
Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote the screenplay for the original movie and was also behind the successful Dirty Dancing musical, is on board for the small screen adaptation to be produced by Lionsgate TV.
Previously in 2011, Lionsgate announced plans to remake the film for the big screen, with Kenny Ortega - who choreographed the original and directed High School Musical - at the helm.


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Question: One in five people with motor neurone disease (MND) waits more than a year to see a brain specialist for help with diagnosis, a snapshot survey suggests.

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The MND Association report, based on responses from 900 patients in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, says the delays stop people getting early care.
While the charity accepts a diagnosis can be "notoriously difficult" to make, it urges GPs to be vigilant about MND.
GP leaders have worked with the charity on a scheme to improve diagnosis.
About 5,000 people in the UK have motor neurone disease.
It is a progressive and incurable condition causing damage to the nervous system - which can lead to problems including difficulties with walking, speaking and breathing.
More than 50% of people with MND die within two years of being diagnosed. But care - such as breathing assistance and feeding tubes - can ease symptoms.
The MND Association says an urgent referral straight to a neurologist (a brain and nerve specialist) is crucial to people getting appropriate help as soon as possible.
But two in five of the people surveyed said they went to their GP at least three times before a referral to a neurologist was mentioned.
About half were seen by other healthcare staff first, including physiotherapists and ear, nose and throat specialists.
Karen Peace of the MND Association said: "The problem is there is still no single diagnostic test for MND and we appreciate that it is also challenging for GPs, who might only see one patient with MND in their whole career.
"Symptoms can be similar to other conditions so people can spend months seeing various specialists and undergoing unsuccessful treatments until MND is suspected. However, there are things we can do to improve this."
Bob Keats, 61, from the Isle of Wight, was diagnosed more than a year after noticing his first symptoms. During that year he had a series of visits to doctors - including GPs and ear, nose and throat specialists - but it was his wife's dentist who eventually suggested he should see a neurologist.
He told the BBC: "I'm not critical of the process as it is such a rare disease that most doctors will not have come across it."
But he added: "MND is a real threat. It requires a higher profile and with that comes quicker recognition by doctors and neurologists and better support in terms of preparing the patient for the sad news that they have a life-shortening disease."
The association says a scheme put in place together with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) to help GPs spot signs earlier, appears to be having some success.
RCGP leader Dr Maureen Baker agreed early diagnosis was essential but said the constraints of a standard 10-minute consultation added to difficulties in reaching a diagnosis.
"When you consider that GPs across the UK make in excess of 1.3 million patient consultations every day, it brings home just how difficult identification of such a rare condition is at initial presentation."
About 900 people with the condition (28% of all those asked) responded to the questionnaire.

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And 16% of emergency bowel cancer patients had seen their GP three times or more with relevant symptoms.
Overall, these symptoms were less common in patients diagnosed at an emergency stage rather than earlier on.
The study looked at data on diagnoses in England from 2005 to 2006.
The researchers, from University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, focused on what had happened to patients in the five years leading up to their cancer diagnosis.
They analysed National Cancer Registry data that was linked to GP data for 1,606 patients from more than 200 GP practices.
They found that in England 35% of colon cancers and 15% of rectal cancers were diagnosed after an emergency presentation.
Although many of these patients often did not display obvious symptoms for bowel cancer, making it harder for GPs to diagnose their cancer early, 17.5% of colon cancer patients and 23% of rectal cancer patients did have "red flag" symptoms.
These symptoms include rectal bleeding or blood in the stools, a change in bowel habit and stomach pain.
The researchers say these figures indicate there could have been opportunities to pick up the disease earlier.
Paul, 47, from Manchester, started to feel unwell in 2007. He had no energy and constantly felt worn out.
Something was wrong, but the GP told him to lose some weight and come back if things did not improve.
He did go back - several times - and eventually, after he noticed blood in his stools, his GP arranged for a sample to be sent away for tests.
But there was a delay after his name was not put on his sample. And then, the test came back saying everything was OK.
However, he was increasingly concerned at feeling tired all the time. Sometimes after work, as a self-employed builder, he had to go straight to bed.
Finally, early in 2008, with the encouragement of his family and friends, he decided to pay to see a specialist privately.
Within days of having an internal examination and a scan, he was diagnosed with bowel cancer that had spread to his liver and lungs.
The following week, Paul had the first of several major operations to remove the cancer.
He says: "I was practically begging them in the end to do something.
"They told me that if I'd left it another couple of months, the cancer would have spread and I would have had no chance."
Doctors removed more than 2ft (60cm) of his bowel before taking half of his liver out too, then chemotherapy followed.
"My energy levels are back to a certain extent, but I'll never be the same as I was," he says.
"I can't do all the things I used to do because of all the surgery I've had - but I count my blessings."
Most patients, regardless of how they were diagnosed, visited their doctor in the year before their diagnosis.
And patients tended to see their doctors more often in the months and days leading up to their cancer diagnosis - whether it happened in an emergency or not.
The research team suggested that specially trained nurses could support GPs and act as a safety net during consultations.
Easier access to specialist advice for GPs was also important, the study said.
Cristina Renzi, lead researcher from University College London, said patients diagnosed with cancer after an emergency presentation did not fare as well as patients diagnosed by their GP.
"However, in most cases they visit their doctor for various reasons multiple times during the months leading up to their diagnosis, which could represent opportunities to diagnose the cancer earlier.
She added: "It's important to find ways to ensure these patients can be diagnosed at an early stage.
"And this study highlights the need to support GPs and give them the tools to diagnose and refer patients promptly when they feel it's necessary."
Dr Julie Sharp, head of patient information and health at Cancer Research UK, said diagnosing patients who were not showing typical symptoms of bowel cancer was very difficult.
"So research like this, to understand more about people's symptom histories, is crucial to find better ways to diagnose the disease at an early stage, when treatment is more likely to be successful."
If you have any concerns about bowel cancer you can speak to the Beating Bowel Cancer nurse helpline on 020 8973 0011 during office hours.


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Question: Those of you who have followed my ramblings for some time will know that at this time of year I like to catch up with the 24 photography project, which involves 24 photographers capturing the first 24 hours of a new year for 24 years.

Each photographer is assigned an hour of the day in which to shoot their picture, wherever they are in the world. The original 24 photographers met while studying at Central Saint Martin's in London, though some have now left the group and been replaced by others.
Claire Spreadbury, the founder of 24photography, said: "The exhibition is going from strength to strength and now in our 13th year we've really developed an identity and feel that we're an established part of London's art calendar."
This year's show has been curated by Brian Harris, who is well known for his work on the Independent and the Times. He said: "This was a challenging brief well executed by 24 completely different photographers over a 24-hour period of time, giving us 24 different ways of seeing our world. I thank them all for opening my eyes to yet another way of seeing."
Here is a selection of images from the project, on show in Soho Square, London, until 18 March.
You can see more images from the series on the group's website www.24photography.org/.

One that is currently under way is the 12 by 12 challenge, a set of month-long photography challenges that aim to help develop your skills.
Each month, a photographer will set you a task, and the first of these this year was set by Vanessa Winship, who asked the group to:
Those taking up the challenge on Flickr or Instagram soon got to work, and here is a selection of entries that caught Winship's eye.
I drive my sons to school 195 days of the year. My route is the same and one I'm very familiar with and yet I have never walked it.
The challenge gave me the opportunity to explore this piece of landscape I drive through, allowing me to discover things that I only normally have a chance to glance at through my car windscreen.
I chose this route as I had been working in Shoreditch for the previous couple of weeks but other than that, hadn't visited the area for a while. I was struck by a couple of things - firstly the level of development going on and secondly the disproportional number of barber shops  - but then I guess somebody has to cater for the maintenance of all those 'big' beards.
I really like the area as it still has a feel of grungy subversiveness about it -  this obviously isn't going to be the case for much longer as the place is full of cranes and pile drivers.
This shot was taken in the Sennaya Square, St Petersburg, on International Women's Day. On this day, every man thinks it's his sacred duty to give his wife some flowers. The elderly man and woman came to the kiosk and returned not with the usual tulips but instead held in their hands a plant in a pot. It was very touching.
Kathleen Bridget Austin
I love to portray the street, however, I find that most town and city centres are, along with their public audience, now so brand and style-conscious that going back to the indoor and outdoor markets is the best way to reveal a true street theme.
There are many genuine characters and great shooting opportunities reveal themselves amongst the eclectic mix of tat, second-hand, antique and genuinely interesting product stalls. It is the people that make street shots, and the people in these markets are REAL people.
I was wandering the streets of Portland and came across great afternoon light. The kind of light that I am always looking to find.
I knew I wanted to use instant film and so I decided to take a walk around my neighbourhood and just take shots along the way. I found I was faced with lots of hedges, brick walls and fences on the first part of the walk. When I looked back through the images later, those barrier shots seemed the most connected, so I decided to explore the idea further.
It was interesting to see the different types of barriers that people put up (or inherited) between their front doors and the rest of the world. I ended up walking around several different streets (always shooting every 100 or so steps) to get the final selection.
I think the narrow framing of the Instax mini film works very well with this series too. It sort of reinforces and contains the idea in a way that other larger instant formats might not.
For the brief I chose a route which I was quite familiar with, but had rarely photographed. Normally I use the car or bike to reach my workplace and thus pass interesting places, but this time I took a little bit more time for a walk and went on this alternative trip, discovering a lot of spectacular details.
I normally drive my girlfriend crazy with my continual stopping to take photos and so the every "100 steps" part of the task, which placed a reasonable limit on my usual distraction, really helped maintain domestic harmony that day.
Taken on a very rainy day, I had started walking but soon got very wet. As I got back in the car, the steam from inside, and the rain outside, made for a softening of the image.
If you are interested in this then head over to the 12 by 12 site to see what the current challenge is.  Of course you can also take part in our weekly photo-challenges here on the BBC.


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Question: Homeowners who live near the proposed HS2 rail line between London and Birmingham are to get extra financial compensation, ministers have said.

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People living up to 120m from the line who do not want to sell up will be offered a cash sum equivalent to 10% of the "unblighted" value of their home.
And those living between 120m and 300m from the proposed route will be eligible for up to £22,500 in support.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said people would be "looked after".
But the HS2 Action Alliance said "barely 3,000 homeowners" would benefit despite the fact that 172,000 households were within 1,000m of the phase one line, and 43,000 within 500m.
The announcement, which follows a government consultation, came as MPs said they were "sceptical" about whether the £50bn project would deliver value for money.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee said the budget for the scheme included a "generous contingency" which could be used to mask cost increases and suggested ministers lacked a "clear strategic plan" for the wider rail network.
The first phase of HS2 is due to open in 2026, followed by a V-shaped phase two taking the line from Birmingham to Manchester and Yorkshire.
Friday's package of compensation comes on top of existing guarantees to those living closest to the line.
Anyone living within 60m is being offered the chance to sell their properties to the government for their full value plus 10%, with stamp duty on a new home, legal costs and a share of moving costs also paid for.
As an alternative to the voluntary purchase scheme, the government is now offering assistance - in the form of a cash sum linked to the value of the property - to homeowners and businesses who want to remain where they are.
Those living between 120m and 300m from the line will qualify for cash payments of either £7,500, £15,000 or £22,500 depending on their proximity to the line.
Ministers say the payments, which will apply only to those living in rural areas and will be available if and when the legislation authorising the construction of HS2 is passed by Parliament, will enable people to "share early in the benefit of the railway".
Finally, the government said it was relaxing the criteria for helping those who live along the route "at any distance" from the route who want to sell their houses but cannot do so at their market value.
Those who have a "compelling reason" to sell will be eligible for a new "need-to-sell scheme" paying the full "unblighted value", including those who do not need to move immediately.
HS2 Ltd, the government-backed firm overseeing the project, said it had so far purchased 192 properties for phase one of HS2 and 41 for phase two of the line, at a total costs of £157m.
Mr McLoughlin said the package of support went "well beyond" the government's legal obligations and a new "residents' charter", overseen by a commissioner, would ensure people were treated fairly.
"This comprehensive package of compensation and assistance is looking after those people who live along the HS2 route while balancing our responsibilities to the taxpayer," he said.
But campaigners opposed to the rail line said it was "a white elephant trampling through the countryside" and restated their calls for the project to cancelled immediately.
"It is deeply unfair that so many ordinary people, who through no fault of their own happen to live near to the planned HS2 line, continue to be left to bear these losses with no help from the government," HS2 Action Alliance director Hilary Wharf said.
"People were promised 'full and fair' compensation and this promise has been broken time and time again."
The Commons Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises government spending, has said it remains concerned about the government's ability to deliver HS2 on time and on budget.
The contingency fund gives the government a 95% assurance of delivering within budget, the committee said, but it added: "We are concerned that this will simply be used to mask cost overspends, rather than valid calls on contingency funds."
This week HS2 Ltd executive chairman Sir David Higgins told a House of Lords committee: "We should not assume the contingency will be spent."
The committee said the government had yet to publish proposals for how Scotland would benefit from HS2 and questioned the recent government backing for an "HS3" link between northern cities. Labour MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the committee, said the government had not assessed HS3 before giving the go-ahead to HS2.

UK firms Carillion, Costain and Balfour Beatty are among the consortiums who will build tunnels, bridges and embankments on the first stretch of the new high speed rail line.
The contracts will support 16,000 jobs.
The final routes of the Manchester and Leeds branches of HS2 are due to be announced later.
It will include a decision over its path through Sheffield.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said: "As well as providing desperately needed new seats and better connecting our major cities, HS2 will help rebalance our economy."
But critics say the £56bn project will damage the environment and is too expensive.
The first trains are not expected to run until 2026.
Mr Grayling told the BBC's Today programme that the high-speed rail network will be "on time, on budget" and the government has "a clear idea of what it will cost".
He disputed a report that emerged over the weekend detailing a study by quantity surveyor Michael Byng who estimated that the cost of HS2 could balloon to more than £100bn, making it the most expensive railway in the world. Mr Grayling described the figure as "nonsense".
Commenting on the decision to spend on infrastructure amid the 1% cap on public sector pay, Mr Grayling said: "That's a very different issue because we are talking about capital investment over the next 15 years. We are not talking about current spending that the chancellor will decide on come the Budget."
The contracts to design and build areas of the high speed rail line have been split into three groups: south, central and north.
Carillion, which last week issued a profit warning and announced the immediate departure of its chief executive, has won two "lots" within the central area. Its share price rose by 7.7% to 60.5p on Monday but it has fallen by more than 76% over the last 12 months.
This includes one of the most controversial and complex areas of the route that runs between the Chiltern tunnels and Brackley.
Carillion, which is part of a consortium with three other companies to design and build the two lots, announced on Monday that it had appointed accountancy firm EY to support a strategic review of the business.
The decision over its route through the North of England has been delayed for several years due to a series of disagreements, the most controversial of which has been which route it should take through Sheffield.
The government's preferred plan for the route through Yorkshire would mean bulldozing the newly built Shimmer estate in Mexborough.
The government says HS2 is "on time" but they're clearly not talking about the route for the second phase, which was first promised in around 2014.
I remember flying a drone over a farm in Cheshire four years ago, filming the proposed route at the time.
The farmer has been waiting ever since then to find out if he'll lose his business.
He got in touch with me last year saying, "obviously we know nothing more today than we did when you were with us nearly 30 months ago, as the decision for HS2 Phase 2b has been put off yet again".
Anyone affected by the line now gets a year or two to put their case together and present it to a special committee of MPs who'll go through thousands of fears and objections before recommending any changes to the final route or the way it's designed.
When you talk to people adversely affected by HS2 they all say the same thing. Their lives go into limbo, often for years, just waiting for answers.
Parliament granted powers to build the first phase of the line between London and Birmingham in February.
Preparatory work has begun and major construction work is due to start in 2018-19. It is due to open in December 2026.
A Bill to deliver Phase 2a from the West Midlands to Crewe will be published by Mr Grayling later on Monday. Services on this section are due to begin in 2027.
Phase 2b from Crewe to Manchester, and Birmingham to the East Midlands and Leeds, is due to open in 2033.
The companies who have won the contracts to design and build the first phase of HS2 are:
Area South
Area Central
Area North