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Question: Dundee United have reported annual losses of £1.55m, following their relegation from the Scottish Premiership last season.

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The club received £1m in transfer income after the sales of Nadir Ciftci, John Souttar and Ryan McGowan.
But United's revenue fell by 21% to £4.61m through reduced prize money and match-day attendance income.
The club say they expect to make £1.5m in cost-savings this season as they bid for promotion from Championship.
Administrative costs rose during the period by more than a third to £1.8m. The board say these were mostly football-related as the club took steps to avoid relegation.
United sacked two managers in that time, parting company with Jackie McNamara and Mixu Paatelainen respectively.
The Terrors are currently second in the Championship table, seven points behind league leaders Hibernian.
A club statement read: "The latest annual accounts show the adverse economic effect of a season of poor football results which led to eventual relegation.
"Revenue dropped by 21% to £4.61m through reduced prize money and the associated drop in match attendance income related to sitting at the foot of the Premiership from October 2015 through to the season end in May 2016.
"Broadcast revenue was also down as the club featured in fewer live televised cup games."

The 24-year-old joined Livingston from Stirling on a free transfer in 2014 and made 44 appearances for the club in 2015-16, scoring 16 goals.
White scored twice in the Scottish League One play-offs against Stranraer which saw the club relegated from the Scottish Championship to League One.
He scored 31 goals in two seasons for Livingston in 88 appearances.


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Question: British Basketball League side Plymouth Raiders have been sold to businessmen Richard Mollard and Ross Mackenzie for an undisclosed sum.

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The pair have taken over from Bob Widdecombe, who was owner for 10 years.
Raiders have missed out on the play-offs for the past four seasons, and head coach Johnny White left in May after his coaching CV was queried.
"We just want to see a successful team on court - we don't want the news to be about off-court issues," Mollard said.
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"It's been a bit of a rollercoaster the last couple of years, but this is why Ross and I are putting the heads above the parapet, to actually do something about it."
The club hope to appoint a new head coach by the end of the month, with the new season starting on 30 September.
Both Mollard, whose father Keith helped found the team in 1983, and Mackenzie are former Raiders players.
"We're fans - we want to bring the club closer to the fans," the latter told BBC Spotlight.
"If we can do that and we can move the club forward and break some good news for the fans, then I think really our job in some respects will be well under way."

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The 39-year-old played 371 times for the British Basketball League side, and managed them for three years before being sacked in September 2013.
Love's return comes after Raiders were sold to businessmen Ross Mackenzie and Richard Mollard on Tuesday.
"This is such an exciting time for the Raiders and I'm looking forward to being part of it," Love said.
He takes over from Australian Johnny White who left the club in May, with a year left on his contract, after his coaching CV was queried.


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Question: Individual website "click" targets for reporters at Wales' main media group could encourage them to sensationalise the news, a union has warned.

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The NUJ wants assurances from Trinity Mirror, which runs Wales Online and the Daily Post, that it is not dumbing down into "celebrity-focused 'click bait".
The Connected Newsroom strategy will include the targets from January.
The group said concerns were unfounded and the focus is on content that audiences want to read.
Martin Shipton, chairman of the NUJ's Trinity Mirror group chapel, said the announcement was made along with the net loss of three editorial jobs in its Cardiff newsroom.
"The group's strategy for audience growth is based on greatly increasing website clicks - yet reducing the number of writers will make that more difficult to achieve," he said.
"We are extremely concerned by the potential implications of setting individual click targets for journalists.
"At its worst, this could encourage reporters to sensationalise stories, to trivialise the news and make news out of trivia, and to give up on more challenging, public interest journalism that takes time to research and deliver."
Trinity Mirror said the concerns were entirely unfounded and said important stories would still attract readers.
"The ambition is to grow our local and engaged audience by sharpening our focus on providing content that is relevant to our audiences through the channels that suit them," said Neil Benson, editorial director.
David Higgerson, responsible for Trinity Mirror's regional websites, has written how the changes are not about chasing clickbait but about understanding what readers want - and this did not sound the death knell for investigative reporting.
"Data tells us that people value both the journalism which takes time and effort, and the stories which are quicker to produce too," he said.
While clickbait generally refers to the more provocative, sensationalised stories, the competitive online news market means all providers must attract an audience.
The principles behind clickbait aren't new. Since the infancy of print journalism, tempting headlines have enticed readers to buy papers, or more recently to click.
For commercial news organisations that still rely largely on advertising revenue, it's hardly surprising that journalists are expected to do all they can to attract an audience for their work.
But it's the suggestion that reporters' performance will be measured by the impact of their story that's got politicians worried.
Not every headline from the Senedd has the power to pull a crowd, and after previous warnings about the plurality of Welsh news sources, there's concern that journalists monitoring their clicks will focus only on the most populist stories, and allow the "democratic deficit" to deepen.
The publishers couldn't be clearer - falling newspaper sales means their futures depend on digital growth. It's not unreasonable to expect journalists to write compelling copy, they argue, or for online headlines to be snappy and enticing.
While editors may be counting clicks, the politicians will be monitoring articles to see if the less sensational Senedd stories are still published online under the new regime.
But Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies AM said the plans could have "disastrous consequences for Welsh journalism and in particular coverage of Welsh political institutions".
Liberal Democrat culture spokesman Peter Black AM has written to Trinity Mirror's chief executive expressing concern.
"A story about someone spotting a Kim Kardashian look-alike in Gorseinon could well get more clicks than an article about underinvestment in Wrexham's mental health services, but without more stories like the latter there will be fewer opportunities to drive forward improvements to public services," he said.
Plaid Cymru also fears a "race for website clicks".
Dr John Jewell of Cardiff University's school of journalism, media and cultural studies, said newspapers had always been businesses which needed advertising and answered to shareholders.
But even with a changing media landscape it was still possible for serious news to co-exist with trivia.
"It's not necessarily a race to the bottom," he said.
"If you look at BuzzFeed for example - we know it for listicles but behind that there has been real investment in serious journalism, foreign news and sending reporters out to war zones."

Dr Daniel Evans of Cardiff University said there was a "farcical situation" where people did not know who ran what, leading to a lack of scrutiny.
He pointed to findings that fewer than 5% of Welsh people read Welsh papers.
The assembly could play a part in supporting services such as blogs and hyperlocal websites, he added.
"Welsh people simply don't hear anything about Wales or Welsh politics," Dr Evans wrote in an article for the Open Democracy website.
"The general lack of coverage about the Welsh assembly or Welsh policy distinctiveness has led to a farcical situation whereby no one knows who does what, who is in charge of what, and so on.
"In my own field of education research, for example, teachers have told me how they are frequently confronted by upset parents scared about changes to education, unaware that the changes they have seen on the news only apply to England.
"This lack of information directly contributes to political disengagement and the uniquely low election turnout in Wales, as well as undermining the Assembly and devolution itself."
Dr Evans said the lack of a "truly national" Welsh newspaper led people to rely more heavily on the BBC.
However, he claimed that spending cuts on English language programming meant the corporation was "failing to accurately represent Wales".
As far as the solutions go, Dr Evans told BBC Wales he would like to see more "non-statist" media emerge, like the Wings over Scotland and Bella Caledonia blogs in Scotland and Welsh examples such as the Jac o' the North blog and the Grangetown community website in Cardiff.
Many new media organisations had been able to raise money for equipment from crowdfunding, he added.
Dr Evans said he also disagreed with people who said there was "no future" for print media, saying: "The Herald group is doing interesting things in Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire."
In November, Presiding Officer Elin Jones announced a digital taskforce headed by former minister Leighton Andrews to examine ways of promoting and explaining the assembly's activities through social media and other platforms.
Her predecessor, Dame Rosemary Butler, warned in 2012 of a "democratic deficit" caused by cuts at the BBC and the decline of the regional and local newspaper industry.
While stressing the need for independent scrutiny of Welsh politics, Dr Evans accepted there may be a role for the assembly to support local media.
"I'm not a fan of state intervention, but there could be some sort of pot of money to help fund the local press," he said.


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Question: Easyjet pilots are considering strike action that could fall over the October half term, the airline has confirmed.

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A ballot on industrial action is taking place and will conclude on 21 September, the pilots union Balpa said.
In a letter to pilots leaked to The Daily Telegraph, Balpa outlined strike action blaming a "dispute with Easyjet purely concerning pilot fatigue".
The airline said in a statement that it was "committed to finding a resolution to the issues raised".
If pilots vote in favour of industrial action, strikes could take place at any time after the ballot closes.
Balpa told pilots in its letter that "we have been forced to take such extreme measures".
It added: "The core issue of the dispute was that fatigue had risen year on year, to levels pilots and Balpa find unacceptable."
Easyjet, which has around 2,000 UK-based pilots, said pilots' workloads were set by the Civil Aviation Authority.
It said: "Although Balpa has informed us they are balloting their members, Easyjet and Balpa continue to work together...
"We still hope to reach a mutually agreeable solution".
Easyjet operates in more than 30 countries, flying to popular holiday destinations such as France, Italy and Spain.

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The German airline cancelled about 830 flights on Friday, with long-haul journeys facing disruption over the weekend as the dispute intensifies.
Lufthansa has cancelled more than 2,600 flights since pilots first went on strike on Wednesday.
The pilots' union said 88 long-haul flights leaving Germany on Saturday would be hit.
Short and medium-haul flights suffered the worst disruption on Friday, upsetting travel plans for more than 315,000 passengers.
Passengers have been advised to check if their flight is operating on LH.com, while the airline is notifying passengers of cancellations by text or email.
Lufthansa has urged the pilots' union to enter mediation, but officials have first demanded a better offer from its management.
Joerg Handwerg, of the Vereinigung Cockpit union, said: "We will have to keep striking as there is no basis for negotiations or arbitration with Lufthansa at the moment."
The airline has agreed deals with the main unions representing ground staff and cabin crew in Germany.
The pilots' union wants an average annual pay rise of 3.7% for its 5,400 members in Germany, backdated to 2012. Lufthansa has offered 2.5% over six years to 2019.
Carsten Spohr, chief executive of Lufthansa, has claimed that the future of the airline would be threatened if it met the pilots' demands.
Despite a record profit last year, the company said it was forced to slash costs to compete with budget rivals such as Ryanair in Europe and the likes of Emirates on long-haul routes.
Lufthansa estimates that the strike - the 14th time pilots have walked out since early 2014 - is costing about €10m a day.
Board member Harry Hohmeister said on Thursday the action was affecting mid-term bookings.
Other airlines owned by Lufthansa, including Germanwings, Austrian Airlines and Swiss, are not affected by the strike.
Lufthansa shares were down 0.2% at €12.57 in Frankfurt on Friday afternoon and are down 14% this year.
The company carried 107.7m passengers last year, up 1.6% from 2014. Ryanair's total rose 17% to 101.4m.
Separately, Virgin Altantic could be hit by industrial action over Christmas following a decision by the Professional Pilots Union to ballot its members.
The vote, which follows the collapse of union recognition talks, will close on 16 December. Action could potentially start on 23 December - one of the busiest days of the year for air travel - and continue throughout the festive season.
The union said any action would be "short of a strike" and involve "withdrawal of pilot goodwill", such as agreeing to work overtime.
That would still affect a "significant number" of flights, according to the union.


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Question: Bournemouth's Tyrone Mings could miss the start of next season after a delay in his recovery from a knee injury.

The 23-year-old defender was carried off six minutes into his Premier League debut against Leicester City last August after tearing anterior and medial ligaments.
Mings has now had a minor operation which is likely to put back his return date to September.
"He's had a slight setback, nothing major," said Cherries boss Eddie Howe.
"When he first suffered the injury we knew it was going to be nine to 12 months, but now we are looking more towards the 12 rather than a nine-month period," Howe told BBC Radio Solent.
"He's had some staples removed from his knee, it's not a serious operation but it's one that just delays the time of his comeback."
Meanwhile, striker Callum Wilson has returned to first-team training after almost seven months out with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
Wilson, 24, remains the Cherries' joint-top-scorer with five goals in seven Premier League matches.
"Naturally he was slightly ginger with his training to start with - he's had a serious injury so that's understandable," added Howe.
"But now we are starting to see more of the normal Callum - throwing his body here, there and everywhere, stepping across defenders and giving them a hard time in training. It's been good to see."

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The 22-year-old was ruled out for the rest of last season in January with an Achilles injury, having not featured since November with a hip complaint.
Thompson was returning to fitness but has suffered a similar injury which will keep him out until next year.
Sporting director Stuart Webber said the injury may see him miss the season.


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Question: In our series of letters from African journalist, Yousra Elbagir looks at how Sudanese youth are using social media to express their African identity.

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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has announced a strategic partnership with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional political organisation that brings together seven Arab states.
The move comes after a series of bilateral talks and a stream of multi-million dollar investments from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
While the East African nation's government leans ever closer to the Arab world - Sudan joined the Arab League two weeks after its independence in 1956 - millennials are taking to social media to celebrate their African heritage.
South Sudan's secession in 2011 came after more than 30 years of civil war and a dichotomy of a mainly Arab, Muslim north and a mainly African, Christian south.
The split further polarised those who remained in Sudan, especially those from the Nuba and Darfuri ethnic groups, who are marginalised in the government and in state-backed initiatives to promote a national identity.
President Bashir's focus is on "Arabisation" and establishing Arab supremacy. This is smothering the hundreds of diverse ethnic groups in Sudan, and the country's rich East African heritage.
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Many southern Sudanese in Khartoum bleach their skins to emulate the northerners they now live amongst.
Popular culture in the capital, Khartoum, is dominated by TV, film and music hailing from Egypt and the Middle East.
Arab celebrities are revered and imitated, sometimes with devastating consequences.
Skin bleaching creams are now an accepted norm, sold at pharmacies and supermarkets throughout Khartoum.
While the phenomenon is prevalent across much of Africa, many southern Sudanese in the city bleach to emulate the northerners they now live amongst. The northerners, in turn, whiten their skins to strengthen their claim to Arab ancestry.
The resultant raw, reddened skin is almost as much a symbol of the push to "Arabisation" as the government's political alliances in the region.
So what has changed to prompt this millennial movement to celebrate afro-centricity and Sudanese pride on social media?
Primarily, it is a space for identity expression that the government cannot control.
Jewellery designer Nawar Kamal has made a name for herself by using Instagram to promote and sell her African-inspired beaded pieces.
Photo shoots featuring Sudanese models wearing African prints, and exploring an Afro-Arab identity, are generating excitement across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
One shoot in particular, the "Dominance Series" by Enas Satir and Enas Ismail, shows Sudan's "African" face dominated by Arab culture, with a woman in a headscarf and Middle Eastern accessories overshadowing another woman wearing braids, beads and tribal markings.
This new-found - and public - celebration of African identity is not just controversial at home.
When Sudanese tweeters posted photos to the trending topic "#ILoveBeingAfrican", West Africans asked: "What is Sudan and why is it here?"
Sudanese users responded by flooding the hashtag with photos, asserting their right to join the conversation.
Twitter feuds aside, many of Sudan's artists - from painters to poets - are drawing inspiration from this conflicted identity, using artistic mediums to capture customs and traditions that are neither African nor Arab but distinctly Sudanese.
In Sudan, as in much of Africa, social media is home to the elite. The hope, though, is that this message of African pride reaches the far corners of the country.
In the western and southern regions where Darfuri and Nuba ethnic groups use cultural expression as a tool for resistance against a regime that denies them relevance.
Here, age-old traditions are not passing trends but an assertion of identity in the face of disenfranchisement and can often be a matter of life and death.
How poets are fighting censorship in Sudan
Why Sudanese people still feel like pariahs
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Shipping executive Jacob Sorensen glided into the Kenyan port of Mombasa, saying that he had made the 1,000km (620-mile) trip along the East African coast to highlight the need to tackle the root causes of piracy. He surfed every day, apart from one stopover in Dar es Salaam, the BBC's Ferdinand Omondi reports.
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At Mogadishu's International Book Fair Abukar Abdullahi Mohamed said he wanted to show that young Somalis had talent, despite the privations of growing up amid a civil war. With titles such as Don't Despise Women and Who Will Care for Neglected Children?, the teen author says he aims to enrich Somalia's society, culture and language.
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South African Mbongeni Buthelezi searches through rubbish on the streets around his Johannesburg studio to find plastic that he melts to create a unique kind of art, which he calls it "plastic fantastic", reports the BBC's Christian Parkinson.
It is not uncommon to find women marrying women in Tanzania's northern Mara region to overcome inheritance practices that favour men. And the age-old tradition is in no danger of dying out as domestic violence against women in the area is encouraging them to opt for such partnerships, reports the BBC's Tulanana Bohela.
Guitarist Rise Kagona, the founding member of one of Zimbabwe's most popular musical exports, told the BBC's Kim Chakanetsa that tins for polish and cooking oil worked best when he made homemade banjos when he first started out.
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Question: "You identify a million people who you'd like to take £1,000 away from and I'll do it."

That's what a former Tory benefits axeman in the 1990s used to tell fellow MPs who urged him to find an easy £1bn cut from the nation's welfare bills.
So, "all" that his successor, Iain Duncan Smith, and the Chancellor, George Osborne, have to do now is identify 12 million people they'd like to take £1,000 away from.
The two men met with the prime minister last Thursday to find agreement on how to find the £12bn they've promised to cut from the nation's benefit bill in the next two years. It is not clear that they have yet found it.
They have agreed the total sum they want to save; they've agreed the cuts the prime minister will not let them make - to pensioner and child benefits; they've heard his worries about targeting disability benefits; they've agreed some small popular down payments but they've a way to go before reaching detailed proposals to produce that sum.
That's one reason why the Budget on 8 July will only unveil some of the proposed welfare cuts. Others will have to wait until the Spending Review this autumn.
What, you might ask, about the promise to cut the benefit cap? Or to take housing benefit away from the under 25s? And how about freezing tax credits. Between them those measures would raise less than £1.5bn. Not nearly enough.
So, that's why the prime minister's speech signalled that tax credits are in his sights. They're worth around £30bn of the unprotected welfare spending bill of £77bn a year.
That's why he attacked what he called the "merry-go-round" of the Treasury giving cash to working people with one hand and taking it away with the other. He pledged to "remove perverse incentives" which discourage people from leaving benefits and returning to work and criticised the idea of handing a few pounds to poor people to get them above the poverty line.
This is what David Cameron calls "pitch rolling", preparing the ground for what is to come.
The likeliest target appears to be child tax credit, which is paid to those on low incomes who are both in and out of work.
Newsnight's Allegra Stratton got the first whiff of this a couple of weeks ago. She reported that ministers were studying the work of the Institute for Fiscal Studies which noted that £5bn a year could be saved by returning child tax credit to the level it was just over a decade ago. The IFS estimates that this would hit 3.7 million low income families by £845 per child - producing an average loss of £1,400 per year - although some of these would be future rather than current recipients.
The government have the IFS's backing for saying this would increase work incentives although critics at the Resolution Foundation have pointed out that it would be the 30% of the poorest usually out of work families who would suffer most.
The devil will, as they say, be in the detail. It's worth remembering that it is sometimes the smallest, apparently least controversial cuts that cause the most political pain.
Ministers are well aware that when it was first proposed the "bedroom tax" was regarded in Whitehall as a tidying-up measure and not a symbol of the government's wickedness.
Taking cash away from people who've yet to receive it by cancelling future entitlements or increases is usually easy to do, particularly when inflation is low and when real wages and the minimum wage are rising. What really hurts - people and governments - is taking cash away from families which have already got it.
So, anyone want to start drawing up that list of 12 million people?

The comedian hit headlines over his involvement in a tax avoidance scheme which the former prime minister, David Cameron, called "morally wrong".
"When you're in the middle of that [it's] like, 'could this be a career-ender?'" he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
"I guess with something like that, that's the worst case scenario."
He added: "Even worst case scenario, I've had a pretty good run in showbiz terms. I've been at the same level for probably 12 years now - that's very lucky to have a long, sustained career in showbiz.
"So it's going to disappear at some point."
The star was widely condemned for taking part in the K2 tax avoidance scheme - something he said was "a terrible error of judgement".
At the time, Mr Cameron was attending the G20 summit when he broke off from discussions to comment on the affair.
"If the prime minister breaks off from the G20 summit in Mexico - in a meeting with the 19 most important people in the world - and he comes out and makes a press statement about your tax affairs, that is going to need dealing with," Carr said.
"You've got to get out in front of it, and also you need to own it.
"Sometimes when footballers are involved in these things, people go: 'Well he probably didn't know what was going on and he got advice'.
"I don't think anybody was buying that line with me, I think people thought: 'He probably knew what he was doing'."
Carr said a financial adviser had told him of the scheme: "If someone comes to you and says, 'Do you want to pay less tax? It's totally legal, you can do this thing, and if it ever comes up you just have to pay them' - you go, 'yeah, fine, great'.
"In the end you make good and say: 'Right I'll pay every penny of tax I ever owed.'"
The comedian said the whole incident taught him that "when you have a friend in trouble, call".
"That was the big lesson.
"If you have a friend and they're in the paper or they're having a problem with something and you don't know what to say, or someone's just died or someone's been diagnosed with something, call them."
Carr was thought to be one of more than 1,000 beneficiaries who sheltered some Â£168m from the taxman each year through the K2 scheme. He has since paid all the tax.
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Question: Cult classic sci-fi series Blake's 7 is to be remade for the Syfy network, it has been announced.

FremantleMedia International said 13 hour-long episodes will be written by Heroes writer Joe Pokaski.
It added, in a statement, that Casino Royale and Goldeneye director Martin Campbell was also on board.
The original series, which ran on the BBC between 1978 and 1981, followed the exploits of a group of renegades and convicted criminals.
Roj Blake, played by Welsh actor Gareth Thomas, was a political dissident arrested, tried and convicted on false charges by a brutal totalitarian government, and then deported from Earth to a prison planet.
Stealing a spaceship, Blake and his team conducted a campaign against the ruling Terran Federation.
Comparing Blake's 7 with the hit US sci-fi series Star Trek, The Independent said in 1998: "No 'boldly going' here: instead, we got the boot stamping on a human face which George Orwell offered as a vision of humanity's future in Nineteen Eighty-Four."
At its peak, the series was watched by 10 million viewers and was sold to 40 countries. A range of Blake's 7 merchandise including books, magazines, annuals and toys were also released.
A radio adaptation, featuring This Life's Daniela Nardini as villain Servalan, was made in 2006.
According to FremantleMedia, the new series will be set in 2136 and will "tell the story of seven criminals - six guilty and one innocent - on their way to life on a prison colony in space, who together wrestle freedom from imprisonment".
It continued: "They acquire an alien ship which gives them a second chance at life and become the most unlikely heroes of their time".
Chief executive officer David Ellender said: "Blake's 7 was such a forward-thinking concept that the show continues to have resonance with audiences today."
The latest announcement is not the first time a remake of Blake's 7 has been attempted.
In 2003, a miniseries was shelved after actor Paul Darrow - who played Kerr Avon in the original show - left the project.
Later in 2008, Sky One announced it had commissioned two 60-minute scripts for a potential series but two years later said it had decided not to proceed.

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A new free-to-view channel, Spike, will show the award-winning series in its entirety when it launches on Freeview, Freesat and Sky TV on 15 April.
The first two series of the show were broadcast on both FX and Five USA, but later dropped when they failed to win a significant audience.
Series three, four and five have never been shown on UK terrestrial TV.
Spike, which already exists in the US, will also be the first UK channel to show series five of The Walking Dead.
It will also bring US pop culture phenomenon Lip Sync Battle, hosted by LL Cool J, to British screens.
The series was created by, among others, British comedian Stephen Merchant and John Krasinki, star of the US version of The Office.
Merchant will also star as one of the participants in the series.
"Spike is a driven, high-energy channel offering a point of view and programme mix I think is different from anything else on British TV right now," said Ben Frow, Channel 5's Programme Director - who will oversee the new channel's editorial content.
Both Spike and Channel 5 are owned by Viacom International.
The critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad concluded in 2013. It won five Primetime Emmys last year, including best drama series and best actor for Bryan Cranston.


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Question: Novak Djokovic raced into the quarter-finals of the China Open with a 55-minute win over home hope Zhang Ze.

The world number one took his record in Beijing to 26-0 in five visits as he beat China's number one 6-2 6-1.
Djokovic, 28, goes on to face Australian John Millman or American John Isner in the last eight.
Croatia's Ivo Karlovic became the all-time leader in aces as he hit 26 to reach 10,247, passing compatriot Goran Ivanisevic's record of 10,237.
"It's a great feeling," said 36-year-old Karlovic. "For the past year I knew it was possible and I was hoping that it would be this year. It's great that it happened here.
"I'm not done yet. There are many years in front of me and hopefully that number will go up and up."
Another strong serving display did not prevent the 6ft 11in Karlovic losing 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (9-7) to Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas, however.
Third seed Rafael Nadal is already though to the quarter-finals, where he will face American Jack Sock on Friday.
In the women's event, Spain's Garbine Muguruza sealed her place in the end-of-season WTA Finals with a 1-6 6-2 6-1 win over Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.
The 22-year-old joins Simona Halep and Maria Sharapova in the singles field of eight, with five more spots yet to be determined.
Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova beat US Open and third seed Flavia Pennetta 3-6 6-4 6-3, while US Open finalist and fellow Italian Roberta Vinci went down  6-1 3-6 6-2 to American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.

The 19-year-old German beat his 32-year-old Swiss opponent, the world number three, 4-6 6-2 6-1, setting up a tie with Nick Kyrgios or David Goffin.
Rafael Nadal also made it through, defeating France's Nicolas Mahut 6-4 7-6 (7-4). He plays American Jack Sock.
And Roger Federer beat Roberto Bautista Agut to continue his excellent form.
The Swiss, 35, secured a 16th win from 17 matches in 2017 with a 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-4) victory to set up a meeting with Tomas Berdych, who beat Adrian Mannarino of France 6-3 7-5.
Earlier on Tuesday, last year's defeated finalist Kei Nishikori of Japan booked his quarter-final spot with a 6-3 4-6 6-3 victory over Argentina's Federico Delbonis.
The 27-year-old, who lost to Novak Djokovic in last year's final, will face Fabio Fognini, who beat American Donald Young 6-0 6-4.


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Question: While Donald Trump has bragged in private about making unwanted sexual advances on women, a French commentator has gone a step further by kissing a woman on the breast on live TV.

Jean-Michel Maire found his requests for a kiss rebuffed by a young woman during a re-enactment of the Kim Kardashian robbery in Paris, so he went for her chest instead.
It is the latest in a series of scandals in France that together are prompting a backlash against "seduction a la francaise" - a traditional tolerance for male sexual opportunism, particularly by those in positions of power.
More than 250 outraged viewers - including women's rights minister Laurence Rossignol - complained to the media regulator and others called for Mr Maire to be prosecuted.
Mr Maire said he had watched the episode again backstage and "laughed about it", Marianne reported. He later tweeted a semi-serious apology. The show's host, Cyril Hanouna, said he did not think it was "that serious".
The woman, a 21-year-old dancer called Soraya, told L'Express magazine she had been shocked by Mr Maire's act - "I'm a human being, not just an object," she said.
Another prominent media personality, Jean-Marc Morandini, is already being investigated by police over claims he pressurised a minor to carry out a sex act on video at a casting at his home as well as claims of sexual harassment made by five other men who were acting in a web-based drama series.
Staff at iTele have gone on strike to protest against Mr Morandini's arrival at the channel.
Meanwhile a new website has been launched encouraging women working in French politics to report lewd behaviour and unwanted advances.
The launch of "Chair Collaboratrice" - a pun which sounds like "Dear Co-worker" but actually translates as "Flesh of my co-worker" - follows the resignation in May of the deputy speaker of parliament, Denis Baupin, over allegations including sexual assault.
He is alleged to have groped a Green Party member and sent explicit messages to others.
Last week, minister Jean-Michel Baylet was accused in parliament of hitting a female colleague in the face. Both men deny the allegations.
In an article in Le Monde newspaper, the women behind Chair Collaboratrice said "sexist language and behaviour occur on a daily basis for women in politics, whether they are elected or staff".
Several women have already shared anecdotes on Chair Collaboratrice.
In one incident, a woman recounted being in a meeting with an MP who broke away from official business to remark to her: "You know, it's funny, I've never slept with an Arab..."
"You know, it's funny, I've never slapped an MP!" she replied.
Another anonymous contributor said a man she was working at the French parliament for had given her a shoulder massage on her first day in the job.
"I lasted five months," she said.
Last year, 40 female French journalists wrote an open letter detailing what they described as their experiences at the hands of French politicians.

In a recording obtained by the paper, a voice similar to Mr Trump's purporting to be a media representative advocates for the billionaire businessman.
Reporters would hear from the "spokesman", John Miller or John Baron, when asking to interview Mr Trump.
Mr Trump denied the story to the Today Show on Friday.
"No, I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all," he said.
"I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and you can imagine that. This sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams. It doesn't sound like me.
"It was not me on the phone. And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that. It was not me on the phone."
Donald Trump is an unusual man who often behaves, shall we say, unconventionally. There's plenty of evidence for this, whether or not he made calls 25 years ago pretending to be his own publicist.
Many New York reporters are convinced that this is a bona fide recording of the billionaire, and the fact that he's (allegedly) boasting about his dating prowess and celebrity socialising probably isn't the kind of story Mr Trump wants circulating as he tries to present himself as a more serious general election candidate.
This is just the start, however. While Mr Trump has been in the public eye for decades, and New York tabloid scrutiny can be daunting, nothing compares to the glare of the presidential spotlight. Given that this is Mr Trump's first foray into public office, his past will receive extra scrutiny - with more revelations to come. The Washington Post, for instance, has assigned a team of 20 reporters to sift through Mr Trump's background, from his business dealings to oddball stories.
This latest episode definitely falls into the latter category.
However, in 1990, Mr Trump admitted in court he and one of his employees used the name "John Baron" in business dealings during a case about undocumented Polish workers constructing Trump Tower.
A lawyer for the workers said he received a call from someone named "Mr Baron" who threatened to sue if he did not drop a lawsuit over withheld pay for the workers, the New York Times reported.
A reporter for People magazine contacted Mr Trump's office in 1991 to interview him about the end of his marriage to Ivana Trump and his relationship with model Marla Maples.
The "media spokesman" called the reporter, Sue Carswell, back and began telling her about why Mr Trump broke up with Ms Maples for Italian model Carla Bruni.
"He really didn't want to make a commitment," said the man claiming to be John Miller. "He's coming out of a marriage, and he's starting to do tremendously well financially."
Once, Mr Miller slipped out of talking about Mr Trump in the third person in a conversation with Ms Carswell, but quickly corrected himself.
Mr Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee after pushing out more than a dozen Republican rivals in the race for the White House.
Traditional Republicans are warming to him to unify the party and beat likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The divisive candidate, who in the past has been a registered Democrat, has no prior political experience. He has made controversial calls to build a border wall with Mexico, deport undocumented immigrants from the country and ban Muslims from the US.
House Speaker Paul Ryan has still not officially backed him but the two recently met in Washington and had a "productive meeting".


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Question: Russia has summoned the Polish envoy in Moscow to protest against a ban on Russian bikers from entering Poland as part of World War Two commemorations.

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Russia's foreign ministry said it was a "cynical" move aimed at deliberately harming  bilateral ties.
Poland said it acted to ensure "the protection of public order".
The bikers - including the pro-Kremlin Night Wolves group - want to ride through Poland as part of a Moscow-Berlin trip to mark the end of WW2.
In a statement (in Russian), the Russian foreign ministry said Warsaw's decision "mocked the memory of those killed fighting against fascism" during the war.
Its response comes a day after the Polish side notified Moscow about the ban in a brief statement (in Polish).
Last year, Poland refused entry to a similar Russian motorcycle rally. However, a number of bikers then managed to get into the country.
Night Wolves leaders Aleksandr Zaldostanov again pledged that his bikers would be in Berlin on 9 May to raise their Victory flag there.
The planned 6,000km (3,720 mile) road trip would take them through Russia, Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria, before reaching the German capital.
The nationalist Night Wolves group has close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has taken part in their rides.
The Night Wolves are subject to US sanctions for alleged active involvement in Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and for helping to recruit separatist fighters for Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine.
The story features prominently on all the main Russian TV channels.
State-owned Rossiya 1 TV leads its main afternoon bulletin with the summoning of the Polish ambassador.
It highlights the Russian foreign ministry's statement saying the ban is a "particularly cynical and ill-intentioned gesture".
State-owned rolling news channel Rossiya 24 also pegs its report to the foreign ministry's "robust protest" over the ban.
Other TV channels - state-controlled Channel One, Gazprom-owned NTV and privately owned REN TV - report that some 30 bikers have already left Moscow for Berlin.
The hashtag "Dorogi Pobedy" ("Roads of Victory") is among the top 10 trending on Russian Twitter since the mid-afternoon.
Relations between Poland and Russia are currently difficult, the BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw reports.
Poland has strongly criticised Russia's actions in Ukraine in recent years.
The previous Polish government called last year's planned motorcycle rally a deliberate provocation by the Kremlin, and more than 10,000 Poles signed up to a petition against it on social media, our correspondent says.
In recent months, Moscow has also complained to Warsaw about the dismantling in Poland of several WW2 Red Army memorials.

A number of people were injured during the annual rally organised by far-right and nationalist movements.
The violence started when groups of youths broke off from the main march to attack a squat and set fires to cars.
They also set ablaze a rainbow-coloured arch symbolising tolerance, and tried to attack the Russian embassy.
The protesters - many of them wearing masks - threw firecrackers at the diplomatic mission. Several youths also tried to scale the building's fence but were stopped by the police.
"There is no justification for hooliganism," Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski said.
The authorities also said that at least four police officers were among those injured during the violence.
Thousands of people took part in the main march, which began noisily but peacefully. They carried white-and-red Polish flags and chanted: "God, honour, fatherland!"
For the third year in a row violence broke out during the march, the BBC's Adam Easton reports.
The rally commemorates the day Poland regained its independence at the end of World War One in 1918.
Before that, Poland had been carved up between Russia, Prussia and the Austro-Hungarian empire.


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Question: The Bank of England governor says low inflation is temporary and will return to its 2% target within two years.

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"What's important is that workers and businesses understand this is a temporary phenomenon," Mark Carney told MPs.
He said the nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee would "bring it back to the target in a reasonable horizon", which he said would be within two years.
Inflation stood at 0.3% in January, well below the Bank's 2% target.
The figure marks the lowest rate of UK Consumer Prices Index inflation since estimates of the measure began in 1988.
Mr Carney said that three-quarters of the current weakness in inflation was due to falling prices of oil and food, which he said was a "temporary, one-off development".
He also said there was no evidence of "deferred consumption" - in other words, people putting off purchases in the belief that prices could fall further, a potential threat to economic growth.
Mr Carney stressed that if there was any evidence of a sustained fall in inflation, the Bank could "if necessary" cut interest rates from their current 0.5% low to zero, but he emphasised that the "focus of policy is towards tightening".
Mr Carney said earlier this month that inflation in the UK could temporarily turn negative in the spring because of falling oil prices.
The Bank's base rate has been at a record low of 0.5% for nearly six years. Markets are currently expecting an interest rate rise in early 2016.
However, in written evidence to the Treasury Select Committee, Martin Weale, one of two members of the MPC to have voted to raise interest rates late last year, said it "may be appropriate to raise Bank Rate rather earlier than financial markets currently anticipate".
His warning chimed with an earlier speech by MPC member Kristin Forbes, who said there were risks to the economy if interest rates remained at their record low rate for too long.
She said a rate hike might be needed "in the near future".

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"We talk to a lot of bosses and there has been uncertainty whether it's for the election or the referendum," said Mr Carney on the BBC's Today programme.
Analysts fear businesses may delay making investments while there is uncertainty over Britain's future in the EU.
David Cameron has promised a vote on whether the UK stays in the EU by 2017.
"[Businesses] have not yet acted on that uncertainty," he said. "Or to put it another way, they are continuing to invest and they are continuing to hire."
But he added that it was in everybody's interests to resolve the uncertainty.
Companies may also be investing less in technology than they otherwise would do as a result of the wide pool of available workers.
Older people willing to work and workers seeking more hours added 500,000 to the labour force over the last two years, said Mr Carney.
Migrant labour also expanded the workforce, but its impact was only a tenth of the size according to Mr Carney.
Mr Carney told the BBC's Today programme that he would "really dampen down" the argument that foreign workers were to blame for lower productivity.
As the number of jobseekers falls, attention will turn to productivity, he added.
"Now that spare capacity is being used up," said Mr Carney. "For the economy to move forward, it's going to be a story of increased productivity.
"We think that it's going to start to pick up over the next few years."
Analysis:  Jonty Bloom, BBC Business Correspondent
British productivity is awful and has been for years.
Take computerised lathes, hi-tech equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of pounds to buy. You might think that British and German workers with such a piece of kit would make the same number of widgets or car parts or whatever.
But they don't. Experts tell me there are two main reasons. German workers are more highly trained, so get more out of the machine. The second is that when it breaks down or needs reprogramming, they can do it themselves. British workers turn off the lathe and wait for an expert to come and fix it.
Just one example of a much wider problem that explains why a German, French or US worker can produce as much as a British one and still take every Friday off.
The UK's level of productivity per worker fell during the global economic crisis.
"This is one of the great costs of the financial crisis," said Mr Carney. "What you have in economies after a financial crisis is a sharp drop in productivityâ€¦ There is a huge opportunity cost."
Productivity levels have taken longer to recover than expected.
"We have been successively disappointed with the productivity performance of the UK," Mr Carney told the BBC.
"[Productivity] matters in terms of the speed limit for the economy and for when we should raise interest rates," said Mr Carney. "We think the most likely path for interest rates is up."
Mr Carney warned on Wednesday that "persistent headwinds continued to weigh on the UK economy", which would mean more gradual increases in interest rates than had previously been the case.
Inflation was 0% in March for a second month, well below the Bank's 2% target.
Carney said that the UK might fall into deflation next month, but inflation was expected to pick up, notably towards the end of the year.
"Our aim is not just to get the inflation rate back to 2% but to keep it there," said Mr Carney. "In order to get it there and keep it there, there will be limited and gradual increase in interest rates over the next few years."


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Question: Human civilisation developed in a cosy cradle.

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Over the last 11,700 years - an epoch that geologists call the Holocene - climate has remained remarkably stable.
This allowed humans to plan ahead, inventing agriculture, cities, communication networks and new forms of energy.
Some geologists now believe that human activity has so irrevocably altered our planet that we have entered a new geological age.
This proposed new epoch - dubbed the Anthropocene - is discussed at a major conference held at the Geological Society in London on Wednesday. Yet some experts say that defining this "human age" is much more than about understanding our place in history. Instead, our whole future may depend on it.
The term, the Anthropocene, was coined over a decade ago by Nobel Laureate chemist, Paul Crutzen.
Professor Crutzen recalls: "I was at a conference where someone said something about the Holocene. I suddenly thought this was wrong. The world has changed too much. No, we are in the Anthropocene. I just made up the word on the spur of the moment. Everyone was shocked. But it seems to have stuck."
But is Professor Crutzen correct? Has the Earth really flipped into a new geological epoch - and if so, why is this important?
Dr Jan Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester is one of the leading proponents of the Anthropocene theory. He told BBC News: "Simply put, our planet no longer functions in the way that it once did. Atmosphere, climate, oceans, ecosystemsâ€¦ they're all now operating outside Holocene norms. This strongly suggests we've crossed an epoch boundary."
Dr Zalasiewicz added: "There are three ideas about when the Anthropocene began. Some people think it kicked off thousands of years ago with the rise of agriculture, but really those first farmers didn't change the planet much.
"Others put the boundary around 1800. That was the year that human population hit one billion and carbon dioxide started to significantly rise due to the burning of fossil fuels in the Industrial Revolution," he explained.
"However, the really big changes didn't get going until the end of the Second World War - and that's another candidate for the boundary."
To formally define a new epoch, geologists must show how it can be recognised in the layers of mud that will eventually form rocks. As it turns out, there is enormous practical advantage in fixing 1945 as the beginning of the Anthropocene.
"1945 was the dawn of the nuclear age," explained Dr Zalasiewicz. "Sediments deposited worldwide that year contain a tell-tale radioactive signature from the first atom bomb tests in the States".
So, thousands of years from now, geologists (if any still exist) will be able to place their finger on that very layer of mud.
Nonetheless, the choice of 1945 for start of the Anthropocene is much more than just convenient. It coincides with an event that Professor Will Steffen of the Australian National University describes as the "Great Acceleration".
Professor Steffen told the BBC: "A few years ago, I plotted graphs to track the growth of human society from 1800 to the present day. What I saw was quite unexpected - a remarkable speeding up after the Second World War".
In that time, the human population has more than doubled to an astounding 6.9 billion. However, much more significantly, Professor Steffen believes, the global economy has increased ten-fold over the same period.
"Population growth is not the big issue here. The real problem is that we're becoming wealthier and consuming exponentially more resources," he explained.
This insatiable consumption has placed enormous stresses on our planet. Writing in the prestigious journal Nature, Professor Steffen and colleagues recently identified nine "life support systems" essential for human life on Earth. They warned that two of these - climate and the nitrogen cycle - are in danger of failing, while a third - biodiversity - is already in meltdown.
"One of the most worrying features of the Great Acceleration is biodiversity loss," Professor Steffen said. "Species extinction is currently running 100 to 1000 times faster than background levels, and will increase further this century."
"When humans look backâ€¦ the Anthropocene will probably represent one of the six biggest extinctions in our planet's history." This would put it on a par with the event that wiped out the dinosaurs.
But perhaps more alarming is the possibility that the pronounced global warming seen at the start of the proposed Anthropocene epoch could be irreversible. "Will climate change prove to be a short-term spike that quickly returns to normal, or are we seeing a long term move to a new stable state?" asked Professor Steffen. "That's the million dollar question."
If the Anthropocene does develop into a long-lived period of much warmer climate, then there may be one very small consolation: the fossil record of modern human society is likely to be preserved in amazing detail.
Dr Mike Ellis of the British Geological Survey told BBC News: "As a result of rising sea level, scientists of the future will be able to explore the relics of whole cities buried in mud".
In New Orleans, large areas of the city are already below sea level. The disastrous combination of rising sea level and subsidence of the Mississippi Delta on which it is built suggest that it will succumb at some point in the future.
Although the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts less than a metre of sea level rise over the next 90 years, more than five metres of sea level rise is possible over the coming centuries as the Greenland and West Antarctic ice caps melt.
One application for exploring the changing coastlines of the Anthropocene world is Google Flood. It allows users to raise sea level by up to 14 metres and zoom into street level to see the effects.
Sea level rise of this magnitude will mean that the lower storeys of buildings will be preserved intact. Such "urban strata will be a unique, widespread and easily recognisable feature of the sedimentary deposits of the human age", Dr Ellis commented.
Geologists of the future may also hunt for other, more unusual, "markers" of the Anthropocene epoch, such as the traces of plastic packaging in sediments.
But geologists like Dr Mark Williams from the University of Leicester hold much more serious concerns: "One of the main reasons we developed the Anthropocene concept was to quantify present-day change and compare it with the geological record," he explained. "Only when we do so, can we critically assess the pace and degree of change that we're currently experiencing."
Dr Williams added that while the Anthropocene has yet to run its course, "all the signs are that the human age will be a stand-out event in the 4.5 billion year history of the Earth".

A team from America have looked at how ants have evolved and found that the insects had complex underground farms, growing different types of fungi.
Not only that, the ants had taken fungus from its natural environment to nests in much drier climates.
The fungus couldn't survive without the ants so it is a very early example of agriculture.
Agriculture is what we call the practice of farming. Such as preparing soil for growing crops and raising animals for food and other products such as wool.
Dr Ted Schultz who specialises in ants and works at the Museum of Natural History said that "Ants have established a form of agriculture that provides all the nourishment needed for their societies using a single crop that is resistant to disease, pests and droughts at a scale and level of efficiency that rivals human agriculture."
There are many species of farmer ant, over 250 have been found in tropical forests, deserts and grasslands in the Americas and the Caribbean.


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It did not go well.
There were several variations on the resist/persist theme and one that promised to "Make Congress blue again", referencing the colour associated with the Democratic Party on electoral maps.
Drawing the most attention - and scorn - however was: "Democrats 2018: I mean, have you seen the other guys?"
Opposition to President Trump and Republicans has been a uniting and motivating factor for Democrats since last November. It has led to massive protests in cities across the US and a fundraising windfall for many politicians and activist groups. At this point, however, some on the left are hoping for a message that's a bit more affirmative; that offers something to vote for, not against.
For them, the bumper sticker was a reminder that the Democratic Party doesn't have a cohesive pitch to voters.
"Democrats are faced with a dilemma heading into 2018: Are they willing to stand up for the idea of universal healthcare, or do they really think they can win with 'have you seen the other guys?'" writes Charlie May on the liberal website Salon.
Drew Magary of GQ was even more blunt.
"The political hopes of a majority of Americans currently reside in the hands of a party that has all the strategic acumen of Elmer Fudd and, even worse, still doesn't realise its shortcomings," he writes.
If the Democrats lack a clear vision, if their message to America seems to some like it's been crafted by a committee, part of the reason can be simply explained. A vision demands a visionary; a message requires a messenger.
The party's rank and file are in search of a champion, and a rotating cast of Democratic politicians have taken the spotlight in the past few months, only to cede it to the next contestant.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a Senate floor speech that drew the ire of Republican leader Mitch McConnell, launching a thousand "but she persisted" gifs. Freshman California Senator Kamala Harris had her star turn, sparring with Attorney General Jeff Sessions during his recent committee testimony on Russian election hacking.
Even Hillary Clinton, who still generates mixed feelings from some Democrats after her electoral defeat, edged in on the action last week, thanks to a snide Republican National Committee tweet accusing Democrats opposed to Mr Trump's healthcare reform of not offering their own solutions.
"Where's your plan?" the Republicans asked of the former secretary of state.
"Right here, includes radical provisions like how not to kick 23 million people off their coverage," she wrote back, linking to a policy paper on her campaign website. "Feel free to run w/it."
Then there's Bernie Sanders, who rode a grass-roots tsunami in the Democratic presidential primaries last year to record levels of fundraising, massive crowds and more than 13 million votes.
He's still around, he's still raising money, and he's still speaking to huge audiences. Even though Mr Sanders will be 78 in 2020, Vox's Matthew Yglesias says he should be considered the party's presidential front-runner.
"He's doing exactly what a candidate who fell short needs to do to run a second time," he writes. "He's established a national political organisation, he's improved his ties with colleagues on Capitol Hill, he's maintained a heavy presence in national media, and he's travelling the country talking about issues."
Of course, if Mr Sanders becomes the face of the Democratic Party, he will take political fire the likes of which he has not yet seen.
Republicans have generally held their tongues, but the Vermont senator could feature prominently alongside House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in mid-term election adverts.
Democrats vying for the spotlight will be less reluctant than Mrs Clinton was in 2016 to engage the self-processed democratic socialist. With front-runner status comes a very large target painted on one's back. Just ask Jeb Bush.
Mr Sanders' political perseverance is also a reminder that the divide within the Democratic Party that was exposed in the Sanders-Clinton primary fight still exists, even if it's been subsumed, somewhat, by anti-Trump fervour.
In a New York Times opinion piece, former 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn and New York City Democratic politician Andrew Stein recommended their party head "back to the centre", saying that "the siren calls of the left" have weakened the party.
The piece prompted howls of outrage from progressives everywhere.
"The whole op-ed is really just an endorsement of centrist white nationalism filled with catastrophically asinine proposals that, if adopted, would enrage most Democratic voters," Mark Joseph Stern writes in Slate.
That could be just a taste of the internecine warfare to come.
The Democrats hit bottom last November, with Donald Trump's elevation to the presidency, continued Republican control of Congress and decimation at the state legislative level, and they've been scraping along the bedrock ever since.
While they've over-performed in several special elections in traditionally conservative congressional districts, "better than expected" results won't stop Republicans in 2018 or Mr Trump in 2020.
Then again, the Republican situation seemed equally hopeless after Barack Obama's big wins in 2008 and 2012.
The political wind almost certainly will be at Democrats' backs in the mid-term elections next year, even if there is no clear-cut leader giving voice to their cause. And heavily contested presidential primaries - as 2020 will almost certainly be for Democrats - are an excellent way of discerning who has the most potent political message for a party. Mr Trump himself was evidence of that last year.
It's still very early in the game. That's both the good news for Democrats and - when each week in the Trump presidency seems like a lifetime - the bad news.

Republicans made historic gains in the mid-term elections and now control both legislative chambers.
Incoming Senate leader Mitch McConnell said he would make the ineffective Senate function and pass bills.
Mr Obama said he was "eager to work with the new Congress to make the next two years as productive as possible".
The election campaign was characterised by widespread frustration expressed by voters about the inability of Congress to work together.
To the Americans who voted for change, the president said: "I hear you."
He told a White House news conference that both parties must address those concerns, but he admitted that as president he had a "unique responsibility to try to make this town work".
On Friday, he will host a meeting at the White House with Democratic and Republican leaders.
"We can surely find ways to work together," Mr Obama said. "It's time for us to take care of business."
But he warned he would act on his own to reduce deportations and improve border security - action he had delayed until after the election, to the fury of some Latino voters.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr McConnell pledged to make the Senate more productive.
"The Senate in the last few years basically doesn't do anything," he said. "We're going to go back to work and actually pass legislation."
He also vowed to "work together" with Mr Obama on issues where they can agree, such as trade agreements and tax reform.
Working within a two-party political system did not mean "we have to live in perpetual conflict", he added.
Also on Wednesday, the chairman of the Republican National Committee called resounding Republican mid-term victories a "direct rejection of the Obama agenda".
"[Americans] want nothing to do with the policies of Barack Obama," Reince Priebus told reporters.
Barack Obama's unpopularity in the run-up to these mid-term elections is hard to exaggerate. One of the things that is lost in the big picture of the night is some of the sidebar poll findings - the American people are fed up with all their politicians. It's not just the occupant of the White House, though as Harry Truman most famously noted, the buck stops with the president.
Mitch McConnell will be conscious of that, and will know that in two years' time, when it is not just the Senate but the presidency in play, the American people could be venting their spleen on him. Be fearful of the blame game.
That leaves the Kentucky senator with some important tactical decisions to make.
Sopel: Obama's mid-term headache
Mitch McConnell: DC insider with a mission
Throughout the campaign, Republicans focused on voter dissatisfaction with Mr Obama, a Democrat, describing the vote as a referendum on his presidency.
As the first results came in late on Tuesday, it became clear they had made the six gains they needed to win control of the Senate.
The Republicans won in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia. The party now controls 52 seats, and is tipped to win at least one more as votes are counted in other states.
100 Women elected to Congress - including Mia Love - first black Republican female
1st African American, Tim Scott, elected in the South since 1870
3rd George Bush - grandson and nephew of two former presidents
18  Age of Saira Blair, the youngest elected state legislator
30 Age of Elise Stefanik, youngest woman elected to US Congress
Their victory came on the back of a wave of discontent expressed by voters on the campaign trail - unhappy with an economic recovery they fail to feel the benefits of, and frustrated by political gridlock in Congress, which has already reached historic levels.
But echoing his successor's sentiment of unity, current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid congratulated Mr McConnell in a short statement.
"The message from voters is clear - they want us to work together," said Mr Reid of Nevada, whose role in the soon-to-be Democratic minority remains uncertain.
"I look forward to working with Senator McConnell to get things done for the middle class."
The Republicans are also projected to increase their majority - by at least 10 seats - in the House of Representatives to levels not seen since before World War Two.
They also made gains among the 36 governorships up for re-election.
The Republicans will now have the power to complicate, if not block completely, Mr Obama's agenda in the last two years of his tenure in the White House.
Control of the Senate will also enable the Republicans to stymie his ability to name new federal judges, cabinet members and senior government officials.
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In the governor's races, Republican incumbents survived some tough re-election battles and scored some surprising victories, cementing their success across several levels of government.
Voters approved ballot measures legalising cannabis in Oregon and Washington DC.
And three states - South Dakota, Arkansas and Nebraska - approved increases in the minimum wage.


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Question: Jordan Spieth will go into the final round of the Masters nursing a four-shot lead over England's Justin Rose with three-time champion Phil Mickelson heading a charging pack behind.

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Rose conjured up five birdies in his last six holes, including a chip-in from the bunker on 16, to finish on 12 under and remain in the hunt for his first Green Jacket.
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His hopes of winning might also be buoyed by some uncharacteristic errors by Spieth towards the end of his round. He double-bogeyed the 17th and sliced his approach to the 18th green into the crowd, but recovered his composure to save par.
Spieth's late wobble sets up an enthralling Sunday afternoon after a low-scoring thriller of a third day saw contenders rise and fall in their pursuit.
The young Texan's two-under-par 70 left him on 16 under, a new Augusta record after 54 holes, and kept him on track to become the second youngest Masters champion in history behind Tiger Woods.
And Woods's record score of 18 under, made in his epoch-changing debut win in 1997, is also in danger from a performance that for most of the first three days has borne striking similarities.
But Rose is on his tail after fighting back from a dropped shot on the first and another on the fifth to storm through the back nine, draining a horrible downhill birdie putt from the fringes on the last to go clear in second.
Mickelson's five-under 67 puts him on 11 under, his six birdies igniting the galleries around the sun-baked course, with Woods and world number one Rory McIlroy both scoring 68s to tie for fifth on six under.
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All three piled the pressure on the precocious Spieth until late dropped shots hurt McIlroy and Woods, with Mickelson missing another birdie putt by a fraction on the 18th.
Charley Hoffman, second overnight, remains in contention at 10 under after shooting 71 to add to his 67 and 68 over the first two days.
Not since Ray Floyd in 1976 has a Masters champion led from start to finish, indicative of the way this course can snare and punish even a man in rare form.
The history of the tournament is also littered with the tales of players who blew big final day leads - Greg Norman spurned a six-shot advantage in 1996, McIlroy four in 2011.
On a day rendered perfect for low scoring by warm, still conditions and greens far softer than usual at Augusta National, McIlroy had eagled the par-five second.
He then birdied the eighth and ninth to go out in 32, before picking up another shot on the par-five 15th only to bogey the par-three 16th and drop another shot with a sloppy putt on the last.
It was a disappointing end to a round that had got off to a promising start, and McIlroy feels he would need to shoot either "a 61 or a 62" or Sunday to have any chance of victory.
There was a positive for McIlroy, though, in that he carded birdies on all the par-fives, meaning he is 11 under in 12 opportunities, a strategy set out before he arrived at Augusta.
Woods, three pairings behind, was another to cash in, his putter and short irons again working wonders after more problems with his driver.
The four-time Masters champion matched McIlroy's 32 on the front nine and then picked up an extraordinary birdie on the par-five 13th when he looked certain to drop at least one shot.
His drive hooked left as his clubhead hit the turf before making contact with the ball, but he managed to first find his ball and then chip out, before a brilliant wedge to 20 feet was followed by a wonderfully judged putt.
Mickelson, three times a Masters champion, is loved in these parts like no other player.
Four birdies on the front nine took him to 10 under, taking four shots out of Spieth's huge overnight lead.
He also understands exactly what is required on this capricious course, and despite a dropped shot on 17 will still fancy his chances of another inspired final day.
McIlroy, by contrast, will almost certainly have to wait another year to become only the sixth man in history to complete the career grand slam.
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The champion in two of the last three years, Bubba Watson, double-bogeyed the first and then took back those dropped shots with birdies over each of the next three holes.
It set the pattern for an uneven round in which he parred only five holes, and at one under his challenge this year seems over.
England's Paul Casey had looked at one stage that he could be a potential challenger to Spieth, as a birdie on the third moved him on to eight under.
However, bogeys on the seventh, 16th and 18th means he signed for a two-over 74 and will start Sunday five under, 11 shots off the pace.
Ian Poulter produced his best round of the week, carding five birdies in a bogey-free five-under 67 that moved him to four under for the tournament.
Finally, Lee Westwood shot a two-under 70 and is even par after three rounds, compatriot Danny Willett carded a 76 and is two over while Wales' Jamie Donaldson and Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell both hit 76s and are tied on five over.
European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke had eight bogeys and three birdies in a five-over 77 that dropped him to six over.

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Hoffman, 39, birdied nine holes including five on the back nine, but bogeyed the 16th to finish one stroke shy of the course record in Texas.
Compatriots Dustin Johnson, Roberto Castro, Scott Brown and Morgan Hoffmann are tied for second after rounds of 65.
Jordan Spieth is two shots further back on five under, with Scotland's Martin Laird one behind the world number two.
Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler are on three under alongside Ryder Cup star Jamie Donaldson of Wales and England's Greg Owen.
Rory McIlroy and world number one Jason Day are both missing the Houston Open, preferring to prepare for next week's Masters at Augusta away from tournament action.


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Question: Tony Adams' Granada have been relegated to the Spanish second tier after a 2-1 defeat at Real Sociedad.

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Carlos Vela and Juanmi, formerly of Arsenal and Southampton respectively, scored the hosts' goals as Granada suffered a fourth successive defeat under Adams.
"We are all sad, the players, the fans, everybody," said Adams.
"There's been a lot of mistakes. We're going to try to rectify it and rebound very quickly."
The 50-year-old, who took charge on 10 April, has a contract to the end of the current campaign.
However Adams has been working at the Spanish club since November and is vice president of the company owned by Granada's club president.
"If the team played like this at the beginning of the season, there's no way we'd be in this situation," he added.
"I thought they were incredible today, but it's not a day for incredible, it's too late, you're down, you're finished, it's over."
Granada's relegation ends a six-season spell in the top flight. They play Real Madrid at home in their next match on 6 May with fans having walked out of previous defeats in protest at how the club is being run.
Match ends, Real Sociedad 2, Granada CF 1.
Second Half ends, Real Sociedad 2, Granada CF 1.
Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Uche (Granada CF).
Jon Bautista (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sverrir Ingi Ingason (Granada CF).
Corner,  Granada CF. Conceded by Mikel Oyarzabal.
Hand ball by Juanmi (Real Sociedad).
Corner,  Real Sociedad. Conceded by Guillermo Ochoa.
Attempt saved. Sergio Canales (Real Sociedad) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Martin Hongla (Granada CF) is shown the yellow card.
Juanmi (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Martin Hongla (Granada CF).
Foul by Zaldúa (Real Sociedad).
Andreas Pereira (Granada CF) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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Attempt missed. Raúl Navas (Real Sociedad) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Sergio Canales following a set piece situation.
Ezequiel Ponce (Granada CF) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Asier Illarramendi (Real Sociedad) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ezequiel Ponce (Granada CF).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Uche (Granada CF) because of an injury.
Substitution, Real Sociedad. Jon Bautista replaces Carlos Vela.
Attempt missed. Yuri (Real Sociedad) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Mikel Oyarzabal.
Corner,  Real Sociedad. Conceded by Victorien Angban.
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Substitution, Granada CF. Jeremie Boga replaces Aly Mallé.
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David Mainz slotted in from close range in the second half to give the Segunda Division B side a shock lead.
But teenager Carles Alena drilled in from outside the box to level for Barca, who were without star forwards Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar.
Barcelona next face arch rivals Real Madrid in La Liga on Saturday.
The champions will go into El Clasico (kick-off 15:15 GMT) in second place in the table, six points behind Zinedine Zidane's leaders.
Luis Enrique's Barca side have now drawn their last three domestic matches, following league draws with Malaga and Real Sociedad.
The second leg against Hercules takes place at the Nou Camp in three weeks' time on Wednesday, 21 December.
Meanwhile, Atletico Madrid thrashed third-tier side Guijuelo 6-0 in their first leg tie, with Yannick Ferreira-Carrasco scoring twice for Diego Simeone's side.
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Question: US investigators are still unable to unlock a phone owned by one of the attackers involved in the shootings in San Bernardino last year, the FBI says.

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Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people in the Islamic State-inspired attack in California.
A mobile phone belonging to Farook was recovered but FBI Director James Comey said encryption technology meant they had not been able to access it.
Such technology was "overwhelmingly" affecting law enforcement, he warned.
Mr Comey made the comments at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
"It affects cops and prosecutors and sheriffs and detectives trying to make murder cases, kidnapping cases, drugs cases.
"It has an impact on our national security work but overwhelmingly this is a problem local law enforcement sees."
This story goes to the heart of the law enforcement vs Silicon Valley debate.
How can it be right, police ask, that the phone of a terrorist can't be accessed by police?
It is an argument FBI chief James Comey has been making for months now, and he argues that encrypted devices are hindering police investigations.
But Silicon Valley's defence has always been the same. If you provide a way for law enforcement to access a criminal's phone once it has been locked, they say, then you're also opening the door to hackers.
All phones - yours, mine, everyone's - would be inherently less secure.
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Mr Marquez, 24, was shackled when he answered "not guilty" as he was asked for his plea.
He was the first person arrested over the deadliest terror attack in the US since 9/11, and could face up to 50 years in prison if convicted.
The attacks in early December left 14 dead at a health centre in California.
Mr Marquez is charged with plotting with gunman Syed Farook to attack a university in 2011 and 2012, as well as providing the two rifles that were used by Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in the attacks.
Mr Marquez told the authorities that he bought the weapons because he looked white, while Farook looked like he was of Middle Eastern descent.
Police killed Farook and his wife in a shootout a few hours after they open fired inside a holiday party attended by Farook's co-workers.
According to the criminal complaint, Mr Marquez phoned the authorities hours after the San Bernardino shooting and told the dispatcher that the attackers "used my gun".
Mr Marquez then divulged the earlier terror plots that were never carried out, including a plan to attack a local university where he and Farook were once students.
They had also planned to attack a motorway by dropping pipe bombs on cars and shooting people and police officers, he told investigators.
Several pipe bombs were used in the San Bernardino attack early last month, however none of them exploded.
A trial by jury for Mr Marquez is scheduled for 23 February.
On Tuesday, the FBI appealed for help from the public in piecing together the couple's movements following the attacks.


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Question: Former Celtic boss Neil Lennon has been named as the manager of Championship bottom side Bolton Wanderers.

Lennon, 43, out of work since leaving Celtic in May after four years in charge, succeeds Dougie Freedman, who left the Trotters earlier this month.
Bolton have won only one league game in 11 so far this season.
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The Northern Irishman officially takes over at Bolton on Monday, with his first match in charge being Saturday's trip to Birmingham City.
"I've got a big job on my hands, but that's the challenge," Lennon told BBC Radio 5 live. "I'm very excited about that.
"My objective is to put right the results that have gone against us recently and get them playing a style of football that will please the Bolton fans."
Lennon led Celtic to three league titles and two Scottish Cups and took them to the Champions League last 16.
Victory over Barcelona in the group stage of Europe's elite club competition in November 2012 was Lennon's highest-profile achievement at the Glasgow club.
"I've left one great club with a great history and I'm going to another club with a great history," added Lennon.
"They are great football people, but they are hurting with the situation the club finds itself in at the minute. They have entrusted me to change that and I am very lucky."
Johan Mjallby, Lennon's number two in Glasgow, also joins the Trotters as assistant manager with Garry Parker, another who served at Celtic Park, arriving as first-team coach.
Lennon had last month expressed interest in vacant posts at Bolton's Championship rivals Cardiff City and Fulham.
A statement on Bolton's website said: "The club are delighted and excited to appoint Neil Lennon. He brings with him experience at the highest level and an infectious enthusiasm to take the club forward."
Bolton were relegated from the Premier League at the end of the 2011-12 season and have since failed to challenge for promotion from England's second tier, twice finishing outside the play-off places under Freedman.

Peter Shirtliff also returns as a coach, having worked as assistant manager at the end of last season.
Ex-Sheffield United chief scout Lee Turnbull also joins the backroom staff.
The Latics continue to search for a manager to replace John Sheridan after he left for Notts County.
Steve Evans, most recently of Leeds United, rejected the offer to manage Oldham despite agreeing personal terms.


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Question: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has dismissed as "nonsense" allegations that he has secretly accumulated a vast fortune including country estates.

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The corruption allegations came in a video by opposition campaigner Alexei Navalny, viewed by millions on YouTube.
Mr Medvedev's properties include a vineyard in Italy, a mountain villa, and two luxury yachts, it is alleged.
"They pick up any old tosh, nonsense, about me or my acquaintances, and people I've never heard of," he said.
It is the first time he has commented on the claims published by Mr Navalny's anti-corruption network on 2 March.
Mr Navalny said the prime minister profited from a complex business network which concealed "bribes" by using offshore schemes and charity foundations.
The claims stirred up mass protests which saw thousands of Russians march against the government in several cities on 26 March. Hundreds of demonstrators were detained, many of them young supporters of Mr Navalny.
The following day a court jailed Mr Navalny for 15 days for disobeying a police officer.
Mr Medvedev said the "provocative" video was "expensively produced - financed by private sponsors" and "aimed at achieving a specific political result".
"They lure young people via social media, and those youths come out with certain slogans, unfortunately in violation of the law. In essence, they expose them to the machinery of law enforcement, and those youths suffer as a result."
He was speaking to workers at a bacon factory in the Tambov region, south of Moscow.
Mr Navalny - a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin and his Kremlin associates - plans to run for the Russian presidency next year.
Mr Medvedev said he had "strong nerves" which protected him from such attacks. "If I reacted each time to such attacks I simply wouldn't manage to get on with my job as normal."

Mr Putin was speaking for the first time since the leak of millions of confidential documents from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.
The papers revealed a number of offshore companies owned by close associates of Mr Putin.
They suggest the companies may have been used for money laundering.
Putin friend in 'money laundering ring'
Mr Putin, speaking live on TV, said Russia's Western opponents "are worried by the unity and solidarity of the Russian nation... and that is why they are attempting to rock us from within, to make us more obedient".
He said that because they could not find Mr Putin in the Panama papers "they've made an information product".
"They've found a few of my acquaintances and friends... and scraped up something from there and stuck it together."
He referred to Wikileaks tweets which accused the US international development agency USAID and an independent journalistic consortium - the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) - of producing and funding "the #PanamaPapers attack on Putin".
The OCCRP was among a network of 107 organisations - including the BBC - which received the documents from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The papers name Mr Putin's long-time friend and godfather to his daughter, the cellist Sergei Roldugin, as the owner of two offshore firms, International Media Overseas and Sonnette Overseas.
According to the papers, the firms were involved in a number of suspicious deals, including one in which International Media Overseas received a loan of $6m (Â£4.2m) in 2007, which was written off three months later for just $1.
Mr Roldugin has not yet publicly commented on the allegations.
Mr Putin did not go into the details of allegations against Mr Roldugin or other Russian offshore interests, but he praised his friend.
He said he was proud of people like Mr Roldugin, who he said had spent nearly all the money he had earned on musical instruments and donated money to state institutions.
Several countries are investigating possible financial crimes by the rich and powerful following the Mossack Fonseca leak.
Iceland's prime minister stepped down earlier this week after it was revealed he owned an offshore company with his wife which he did not declare when he entered parliament. He denies any wrongdoing.
The mass leak revealed the extent to which Mossack Fonseca appeared to help some clients evade tax and avoid sanctions, although the firm has denied it has done anything wrong and says the information is being presented out of context.
Panama said on Thursday it was creating an international panel to help improve transparency in its offshore financial industry.
Update 3 April 2017: This report has been changed to reflect that the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is an independent organisation and not an agency of the US government.


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Question: Relegated Crewe slumped to a seventh successive loss as Luke Williams' brace helped Scunthorpe to victory.

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The Railwaymen's four-year stay in League One was ended last week but they went ahead when Oliver Turton's 25-yard shot dipped over goalkeeper Joe Anyon.
Williams lashed in a right-footed effort to equalise before Hakeeb Adelakun turned in a cross for 2-1.
It was 3-1 when Williams bundled the ball in from close range meaning Marcus Haber's flick was just a consolation.
Crewe boss Steve Davis, whose side have not won since 6 February, was targeted by angry home fans throughout as they look set to finish the season rock-bottom, while Scunthorpe dropped to 10th.

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The Glovers took an early lead as Harry Cornick reacted quickest to head home after Liam Shepherd's deflected shot looped into the air.
John-Joe O'Toole and David Buchanan almost levelled before Nicky Adams finally found the net for Northampton.
Adams converted John Marquis's pass to keep up Town's four-month unbeaten run.
Northampton's unassailable lead at the top of the table was cut to 12 points after Accrington's 3-0 win at relegated York City.