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"Parents no longer have the certainty when they send their child to school that they will be taught by qualified teachers," says NASUWT leader Chris Keates.
Labour's Tristram Hunt says "this is nothing less than a scandal".
But the Conservatives say there are fewer teachers in school without qualified status than in 2010.
The NASUWT teachers' union, holding its annual conference in Cardiff, will hear claims that more teachers without qualified teacher status are being used in schools.
The union has asked its members about their experiences. Among the 4,600 who responded 61% said they were "working alongside unqualified staff", with 66% claiming the situation was "deteriorating" because of funding problems.
"This is jeopardising the educational progress of children," said Ms Keates who attacked the use of unqualified staff as a "crude cost-cutting measure".
Teachers responding to the union's survey included comments such as: "They lack any training in classroom management and discipline" and "I feel that parents are being misled by the quality of teaching within the school."
The use of unqualified teachers has become a general election issue.
Labour has campaigned against allowing academies and free schools to employ teachers who do not have qualified teacher status or who are training towards being qualified.
"The rising number of unqualified teachers in our schools shows yet again that the Tory plan is threatening standards and failing children and working families," said shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.
"David Cameron has removed the requirement for teachers to be qualified, and as a result over 400,000 children are now being taught by unqualified teachers without receiving training in skills vital to the profession such as classroom discipline, safeguarding and how to deliver effective teaching for all children."
The Liberal Democrats also want to require teachers to have qualified status.
But both Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives say there were more unqualified teachers in schools when Labour were in power. They reject the suggestion that the use of unqualified teachers is increasing.
A Conservative party spokesman said: "The number of teachers without qualified status has gone down since 2010. And we need to keep this in perspective - only 3.7% of teachers are 'unqualified'.
"But most importantly, we've given head teachers more freedom over the teachers they employ because we trust them to know what is best for their schools.
"There are some brilliant teachers who have not got qualified teacher status - nuns, great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists that inspire their pupils. They may have worked in the independent sector or have experience in the outside world."
A spokesman for the Liberal Democrats said they would "change the law to guarantee a qualified teacher in every classroom".
"Teaching must be recognised as the vitally important and high status profession that it is, able to attract and retain the very best people."
"It is good news that there are now fewer unqualified teachers working in schools than under the previous Labour government. However, every child deserves to be taught by a qualified teacher, regardless of what type of school they attend."
The most recent Department for Education figures available, for 2013, show the number of unqualified teachers rose compared with the previous year, from 14,800 to 17,100, but is lower than in 2010, when there were 17,800 of teachers without qualified teacher status.
However for academies, the proportion of unqualified teachers has risen each year since 2010, from 2,200 to 7,900. | A teachers' union is warning that schools are increasingly likely to use unqualified teaching staff. | 32174423 | [
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The 21-year-old member of parliament is named alongside Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and Noel Gallagher for the publication's People of the Year list.
NME said the politician impressed by becoming the youngest MP elected to the House of Commons since 1880.
Earlier this month, she was named Glasgow University's Young Alumnus of the Year.
Ms Black won the Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat in May's general election, before completing her MA Hons degree in Politics and Public Affairs. | SNP MP Mhairi Black has been announced as one of music magazine NME's People of the Year nominees. | 35133370 | [
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The idea will be looked at as part of a wider study of transport issues across southern Scotland.
Campaign for Border Rail spokesman Simon Walton said they would have preferred a report looking solely at rail services in the area.
However, he said it was welcome progress nonetheless.
Transport Scotland announced earlier this week that it intended to award the contract to look at wider transport issues across the south of the country to Jacobs UK Ltd.
It is hoped the study can get under way later this month and will take about seven months to complete.
Mr Walton said it was good to see the CBR's case for extending the railway was being recognised.
"It is a first step if not exactly a giant leap - it is certainly a move in the right direction," he said.
"We at the CBR would have been happier with a feasibility study looking solely at railway extension but this is a positive move.
"It does back our findings that it makes sense locally, socially and strategically to take the railway through Hawick and on to Carlisle." | Borders Railway campaigners have welcomed moves to examine the possibility of extending the route to Carlisle. | 39588110 | [
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One of the big draws is the new Titanic Visitor Centre, which so far has welcomed people from 111 different countries.
Belfast is no longer building ships, but it is now attracting them.
The peace process has transformed the city. During the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s the cruise ship industry steered clear of Belfast.
It was not until 1997 that modern luxury liners started sailing up Belfast Lough.
In recent years, numbers have soared. Next year, more than 50 are expected.
So what's the big attraction?
The Giant's Causeway, golf and Titanic Belfast are pulling in the visitors. However, there is also a human factor - curiosity.
Gerry Lennon, chief executive of the Belfast Visitor and Convention Bureau, said: "Curiosity is a huge driver for tourism. A lot of people are curious about Belfast and Northern Ireland.
"The political stability has given us that ability to go to the market-place and now say 'look what we have to offer'."
The Glens of Antrim, the walls of Londonderry and Belfast's shopping districts are also proving popular.
The recent three nights of rioting in one part of north Belfast do not seem to have put people off.
Money has been invested in Belfast Harbour to ensure it can cope with the increasingly large vessels sailing into the city, including the latest arrival, the 113,000-tons Emerald Princess.
Tony McAuley, commercial officer for Belfast Harbour, said: "Once we get people here, the facilities almost sell themselves."
The Titanic Visitor Centre has attracted more than 500,000 visitors since it opened six months ago - double what was expected.
The cruise ship business alone is worth an estimated £15m a year to Northern Ireland's economy.
There is a certain novelty factor to Belfast at the moment. This will wear off in time.
In the meantime, the city is enjoying riding the wave of international interest.
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A record nine players share the halfway lead on eight under.
These include first-day leader Welshman Bradley Dredge (72) and English Ryder Cup player Andy Sullivan (68).
Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat, South African duo Thomas Aiken and Jaco Van Zyl, Spanish pair Jorge Campillo and Nacho Elvira, Finland's Mikko Korhonen and South Korea's Jeunghun Wang are also in the leading nine-strong group.
Ireland's Paul Dunne is sharing 10th place, a stroke off the pace, after adding a 70 to his opening 67.
2010 US Open champion McDowell has dropped to 89th in the world rankings, and as it stands, is not in the fields for either the WGC World Match Play in March or the Masters a month later. | Graeme McDowell dropped five off the pace at the Qatar Masters after struggling to a three-over-par 75 in Friday's second round in Doha. | 38771725 | [
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The crash happened at Evanton at about 17:20 on Saturday. The fire service and the air ambulance was sent to the scene.
The occupants of all three vehicles were injured, but the extent of their injuries was not known, police said.
A spokesman added: "Inquiries are ongoing into this matter and no further witnesses are sought at this time." | Several people have been injured in a three-car collision on the A9 near Dingwall in the Highlands. | 36181254 | [
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Sheikh Obeikan, who was an adviser to the royal cabinet, opposed moves to relax gender segregation.
The dismissal comes shortly after Sheikh Obeikan attacked plans by "influential people to corrupt Muslim society by trying to change the natural status of women".
Saudi officials did not give a reason for Sheikh Obeikan's departure.
His recent comments were taken to be an attack on tentative steps towards relaxing some stricter interpretations of Saudi law.
King Abdullah has promised women the right to vote in future elections, has opened the country's first co-educational university and introduced measures against domestic violence.
The head of Saudi Arabia's religious police, the "mutawa", was also replaced in January, with the new head widely seen as more moderate than his predecessor.
Sheikh Obeikan achieved a degree of notoriety several years ago with a decree suggesting that unrelated Saudi men and women could mix so long as the man drank the woman's breast milk, thus creating a maternal bond between them. | Saudi King Abdullah has sacked one of his most hardline advisers, Sheikh Abdelmohsen al-Obeikan. | 18042467 | [
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Sheehan had been on the road with U2 for more than 30 years.
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They paid tribute to Sheehan on the video screens at Wednesday night's show, said Billboard reporter Shirley Halperin.
As he introduced the song Iris, from their latest album Songs of Innocence, Bono said: "U2 is kind of family. We look after each other and it takes a lot to put on a show like tonight.
"Last night we lost a member of our family. Dennis Sheehan was his name. He was U2's tour manager for 33 years. He loved, as we all do, the city of Los Angeles and he called the Sunset Marquis his 'home away from home'.
"He came to this city as a young man in the 70s, working for Led Zeppelin. He always thought maybe U2 could be the next Led Zeppelin, which of course is impossible."
Sheehan, who was in his late 60s, had worked with other rock legends including Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Lou Reed.
Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Chris Reade said a medical response team was sent to the Sunset Marquis hotel at around 0530 (1330 GMT) on Wednesday to reports of a man in cardiac arrest.
Sheehan was pronounced dead at the scene.
Global Music Live Nation chairman Arthur Fogel confirmed the death calling Sheehan "a dear friend to us all".
"Our heartfelt sympathy is with his wonderful family," he added.
Sheehan's death is the latest in a series of recent woes for U2.
Last year, Bono underwent extensive surgery following a high-speed bicycle crash, leaving him unable to play the guitar.
Guitarist The Edge then fell off stage on the opening night of the band's tour in Vancouver, gashing his arm.
The band were also derided when Songs of Innocence was automatically uploaded into customers' iTunes libraries.
Bono later apologised, saying the stunt was inspired by "a drop of megalomania". | Irish band U2 have mourned the death of their "irreplaceable" tour manager Dennis Sheehan, who has died of a suspected heart attack. | 32912761 | [
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The teenage pedestrian was knocked down by a Ford Focus in Oldgate Lane, Thrybergh, Rotherham, on Saturday, said South Yorkshire Police.
The car involved was thought to have been travelling towards Dalton at the time and its driver was not injured in the crash.
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It also grew 3.9% on an annualised basis, compared with a preliminary reading of 2.4%, and was much higher than forecasts of 2.7% growth.
The benchmark Nikkei 225 index ended flat at 20,457.19 points.
Shares were also lower despite a positive US jobs report on Friday helping push down the yen against the dollar, which is good for Japanese exporters as it makes them more competitive overseas and increases profits when repatriated.
The dollar was at 125.47 yen against 124.45 yen in Tokyo on Friday. It had briefly hit a 13-year high of 125.86 yen on Friday.
Chinese shares were up despite trade data showing that exports fell for the third month in May, while imports declined for a seventh month.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed up 0.21% at 27,316.28 points, while the Shanghai Composite finished the day up 2.17% at 5,131.88 points - its highest point since early 2008 and leading the region's gains.
Mainland shares of CRRC were up 10% after a month-long trading halt, as investors piled into the Chinese train maker that is now the world's largest in terms of market value following its merger.
CSR and China CNR, which had been the country's two largest train makers, announced last week that they had completed their government-driven merger through a share swap, which saw CNR absorbed into CSR and delisted.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index closed down 0.1% to 2,065.19 after falling to a near two-month low of 2,056.50 early in the session.
The government is trying to contain an outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) after the health ministry reported 23 new infections on Monday, bringing the total to 87.
Six people have died from the disease in South Korea, which now has the second highest number of infections in the world, after Saudi Arabia.
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The motion was tabled by Jim O'Callaghan, Fianna Fáil, amid fears that the planned march could lead to violence.
He wants Mr Frazer to cancel it.
A rally in Dublin in 2006 was abandoned after rioting erupted. Forty-one people were arrested.
A number of people, including Irish police officers, were injured.
Disturbances broke out in O'Connell Street, where the rally had been due to start. Stones and fireworks were thrown after republican demonstrators mounted a counter-march. | Councillors in Dublin are due to vote later on a motion against a Love Ulster march planned for March by loyalist campaigner, Willie Frazer. | 31088121 | [
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The authors, including a team from Edinburgh University, say children born to overweight mothers are at greater risk of health problems in later life.
They say every pregnant woman should have access to dieticians and psychologists to help protect the health of their future children.
During the three-year project several pieces of research were consulted.
In one of the most extensive studies to question whether the health of mothers-to-be can have long-term consequences on their offspring, scientists pulled together several pieces of research across Europe.
One key study, involving 13,000 individuals, revealed that babies born to overweight mothers are more likely to suffer heart disease or strokes or develop type 2 diabetes in later life.
Another analysis from Edinburgh University found that obese women eat a diet richer in saturated fats and poorer in vitamins and minerals during their pregnancy compared to slim women.
In early work, including animal studies, scientists found the placenta of females who ate a high fat diet offered less protection to the foetus from the stress hormone, cortisol.
Offspring were more likely to be small and to suffer mood disorders in later life.
Overall project leader Dr Patricia Iozzo, from the National Research Council, Pisa, Italy, said: "Attention needs to be devoted to the prevention of obesity and becoming overweight among young girls, representing tomorrow's mothers."
Dr Iozzo says the period at the end of pregnancy is particularly important. Her work suggests babies' metabolic health - including the fats and sugars in their blood - may be worse if mothers put on unhealthy amounts of weight at this time.
"I feel the message is a positive one. Mothers can do a lot during pregnancy to look after the future health of their children.
"They must under no circumstances stop eating though. They should ensure they have a balanced diet and make sure they are physically active.
"And I think every mother should have access to a team of health workers during pregnancy - including not just midwives and obstetricians but psychologists and dietitians too."
Louise Silverton, director for midwifery at the Royal College of Midwives, said:"Women should try to be an ideal weight before they become pregnant and, if not, should follow midwifery advice to manage their weight while eating a good diet rich in micronutrients.
"After birth, women need support to develop healthy patterns of eating and exercise.
"For women who are overweight or obese they need support to access weight-loss services to ensure that they are an ideal weight before they embark on their next pregnancy.
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In the last decade alone they've bought up Pixar, Marvel and Lucas Films which owned The Star Wars empire - leading to suggestions that they are now so powerful that they have colonised childhoods.
Children's author Michael Rosen says Disney can reinvent itself "like the Royal Family".
He told Radio 4's The World at One that Disney has been successful at selling itself by doing things "in an ambivalent way". | Disney has become the first film studio to take $7bn (£5.7bn) in global ticket sales for 2016. | 38469828 | [
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In one test, nearly half the subjects gave themselves mild electric shocks during 15 minutes of quiet time.
The findings, which came from shutting people away with no distractions and then quizzing them, have attracted criticism from some other researchers.
The contentious paper, in the journal Science, argues we are not very good at enjoyable, recreational thought.
Prof Timothy Wilson, who led the research at the University of Virginia, US, said: "Our study participants consistently demonstrated that they would rather have something to do than to have nothing other than their thoughts for even a fairly brief period of time."
This might not be a surprise if you are easily bored, or have ever picked at a painful scab in a quiet moment.
In fact, other researchers in the field have said the findings are overstated.
But the authors write that the question of whether people enjoy "just thinking" has been overlooked in psychological research.
Their work began with several trials involving university students, who were shut in a small room with blank walls and asked to sit at a table "entertaining themselves with their own thoughts".
After six, 12 or 15 minutes, they were asked whether the time was enjoyable and whether it was difficult to concentrate. On average, their answers were near the middle of a nine-point scale or worse.
To show that this was not a problem arising from the poky laboratory room, or a character flaw unique to flighty students, other experiments required a wider pool of volunteers, aged up to 77, to complete a similar test at home, sitting at a computer. Unpoliced in their own homes, many of them "cheated" by checking their phones or listening to music.
A control group was asked to find an external distraction, alone, like watching TV or browsing the internet, and they had a much better time than those left to try to daydream.
Finally, Prof Wilson's team did the electric shock experiment to try to find out if quiet, solo thinking was unpleasant enough that people would actually prefer something nasty to happen. Sure enough, 18 of 42 people, more of them men than women, chose to give themselves at least one mild shock on the ankle when left alone for 15 minutes.
"It was kind of like a severe static shock, it was not a huge jolt, but it was a little painful," Prof Wilson told the BBC's Naked Scientists programme. "They seem to want to shock themselves out of boredom, so to speak."
These were all people who had experienced the same shock already and declared that, if given $5, they would part with some of it in order not to be zapped again. People who didn't think they'd pay to avoid the shock were excluded - as was one man who pushed the button 190 times.
"I'm not sure what was up with him," Prof Wilson said.
Some UK researchers have questioned aspects of the study, including the level of shock delivered, which was higher for men than women (based on early results in which women rated shocks as more painful) but was not varied between individuals. They point to the fact that individual pain thresholds vary widely, and that hypothetical payments can exaggerate people's answers.
Prof Wilson says he isn't declaring humans incapable of contemplation. "I don't want to exaggerate this. I do think that all of us, in our daily lives, do find our minds wandering to pleasant topics or thinking about something we're looking forward to. I think what's hard... is doing this on the spot."
Prof Ivo Vlaev, a behavioural psychologist at Warwick University and Imperial College, London, thinks the findings are "very interesting" but the electric shocks could be over-emphasised.
"The bottom line is that they felt miserable," he told BBC News. "Research has shown that happiness is not only about experiencing pleasure. You need a sense of meaning and purpose - which you lack in these conditions. And when you have a task to do, you do have that sense - even if it's a simple task."
Dr Chris Chambers, a senior research fellow at Cardiff University's School of Psychology, was less impressed with the results.
"This is essentially a study showing that people don't like to be bored," he told BBC News. "How this could take up 11 experiments in a major scientific journal is a little mystifying.
"The most interesting aspect to the study is that their research subjects preferred to give themselves electric shocks rather than experience boredom. Perhaps the subjects simply did it to stay awake, and having now read the author's paper from beginning to end I can understand their plight." | People are unhappy in their own company and some prefer painful experiences to their own thoughts, a new study claims. | 28130690 | [
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The Japanese company posted a 9.9bn yen ($97m; £57m) deficit for the April-to-June months, compared with an 8.6bn yen profit for the same period a year earlier.
Sales were 8% lower, despite the release of a Mario Kart game in May - one of its most popular franchises.
The firm did not alter its prediction of a return to full-year profit.
It sank to a loss in its last financial year.
Nintendo said it expected the release of key titles over the coming months to boost demand before the critical Christmas shopping season.
These include new Super Smash Bros fighting games for its Wii U and 3DS consoles, as well as the action title Hyrule Warriors for the living-room machine and two Pokemon monster-collecting remakes for the handheld device.
Nintendo won praise for the innovative titles it showcased at the recent E3 video games expo in Los Angeles, where it unveiled a new open-world Legends of Zelda title and the paintball arena shooter Splatoon, both due to be released in 2015.
But one analyst suggested the releases would come too late.
"They have a relatively good games pipeline, but the big question is about its hardware," said Ed Barton, a games industry analyst at the Ovum consultancy.
"The Wii U is so far behind now, and the perception of the audience that it's a relatively under-powered console compared to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One is now pretty firmly cemented.
"Given how inaccurate some of Nintendo's forecasts have been going into their results in terms of hardware and software sales in the past, I'm not optimistic."
Nintendo originally forecast it would sell nine million Wii Us in its last financial year. In May it revealed it had sold only about 2.7 million units despite a price cut.
A further 510,000 Wii Us were sold over the most recent quarter, taking the total tally since its 2012 launch to 6.7 million consoles sold.
Nintendo did not host a conference call following the earnings release, as it normally does, meaning analysts were unable to quiz executives about the progress of previously announced plans to establish a health division and release new devices for emerging markets.
Its president, Satoru Iwata, had previously cancelled appearances at E3 and the firm's annual shareholders' meeting after doctors found a "growth" in his bile duct, requiring him to have surgery.
He wrote a letter late last month saying he had resumed work "by email and by other means" but was not yet ready to return to his regular schedule.
Documents posted online do, however, offer a couple of other insights:
The news was released after the close of the Japanese markets, but Nintendo stock traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange had fallen about 6% from its opening price by early afternoon. | Nintendo has reported a bigger first-quarter loss than expected, causing its share price to tumble. | 28565798 | [
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The Immigration Bill would force private landlords to quiz tenants about their immigration status and restrict access to bank accounts for people in the country without permission.
It also aims to streamline the appeals process in immigration cases.
Labour said the bill did nothing about bigger problems like the "shambolic" state of UK border controls.
The bill, which is expected to become law in spring 2014, subject to approval by MPs, will include measures to allow the UK to "deport foreign criminals first and hear their appeal later" when there is "no risk of serious irreversible harm".
BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani says this could lead to an increase in air fare costs for the Home Office, if it has to fly back migrants who are successful in their appeal.
A requirement is also included for temporary migrants, such as overseas students, to make a contribution to the National Health Service to prevent so-called "health tourism".
Other new measures in the bill include:
Immigration minister Mark Harper said: "The Immigration Bill will stop migrants using public services to which they are not entitled, reduce the pull factors which encourage people to come to the UK and make it easier to remove people who should not be here.
By Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
When you average them out, there's been one immigration bill roughly every two years since 1997 and the system apparently still needs fixing.
Each bill has seen a minister take legislation to Parliament and tell MPs that this is the one that will make the system firmer, faster and fairer - or words to that effect.
So what makes this latest attempt any different?
This bill is almost entirely about enforcement: it focuses on people the government wants to control or keep out.
Critics say much of it may prove challenging to implement: landlords will need to become experts in forged passports, there will be new court battles over the appeals process and, undoubtedly, complaints of poor and unfair decisions will remain.
The ultimate goal is increased public confidence in the system. Whatever measures are in this bill, that remains the most challenging aim of them all.
"We will continue to welcome the brightest and best migrants who want to contribute to our economy and society and play by the rules. But the law must be on the side of people who respect it, not those who break it."
Mrs May said the measures were about "making it harder for people who are here illegally to stay here".
She said it was a "point of principle" that people who used public services should be expected to contribute to them, but she would not comment on the cost to the country of "health tourism".
She denied claims that forcing private landlords to check the immigration status of prospective tenants would be unworkable, saying they would just be "required to ask some simple questions" in the same way that employers have to do when interviewing workers.
But an organisation representing private and public sector landlords said the measures would "make it much harder for non-British people to access housing even when they have a legal right to live in the UK".
Gavin Smart, director of policy and practice at the Chartered Institute of Housing, said: "Checking immigration status is complicated so landlords may shy away from letting to anyone who appears not to be British."
Don Flynn, director of Migrants' Rights Network, criticised moves to restrict access to the NHS, saying: "There are very small numbers of migrants who come here with pre-existing health conditions and find themselves registering with the health service.
"I simply do not believe there is any significant evidence that something like the NHS is a pull factor."
The British Medical Association (BMA) is also critical of the plans.
Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chairman of the BMA's GPs committee, told BBC Radio 5live there is already a system in place for hospitals to recover the cost of treating patients who are ineligible for NHS care.
"Clearly that could be improved, but introducing a system for general practice could be a bureaucratic nightmare," he said.
"The reality is people don't come to the UK to use the NHS, they're more likely to come to work in the NHS."
Labour said there was nothing in the bill to tackle problems at the UK's "increasingly shambolic" border controls or to deal with "long delays in getting electronic checks in place, or the UKBA (UK Border Agency) bureaucratic failings that have prevented foreign criminals being deported".
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: "It doesn't seem to address some of the serious issues around border control and some of the problems about exploitation of immigration in the labour market, particularly low-skill immigration, which has caused concerns about jobs and wages."
Campaign group the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants welcomed what it claimed was a "climb down" by the Home Office, which had not included in the bill proposals to introduce immigration checks by GPs.
It said the new proposals would deter students from wanting to study in the UK but would have "no impact whatsoever on 'illegal' immigration - the declared intention of this bill".
UKIP said "pressganging landlords, doctors and private citizens under the threat of sanctions to carry out the work of border agencies is simply wrong" and the government needed to treat the cause of immigration problems rather than the symptoms.
And Simon Walker, of the Institute of Directors, warned that some of the government's rhetoric was starting to make the UK "look unwelcoming and hostile to the people on whom our export markets depend".
The Conservatives say they want to reduce net migration from non-EU countries - the difference between the number of people emigrating and arriving in the UK - to less than 100,000 a year.
But the latest Office for National Statistics figures show net migration rose to 176,000 in the year ending December 2012 - up from 153,000 people in the year to September 2012 - appearing to buck the recent downward trend.
There are no official estimates of the number of illegal immigrants in the UK. A 2009 study by the London School of Economics produced an estimate of 618,000 but the Migration Watch pressure group said this under-estimated the number of people who had overstayed their visas and the true figure was more like 1.1 million. | Illegal immigrants will find it harder to set up home in the UK under planned laws, says Home Secretary Theresa May. | 24469584 | [
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The study, published in Nature, has been described as a "milestone" moment that could help unlock new ways of treating and preventing the disease.
The largest study of its kind unpicked practically all the errors that cause healthy breast tissue to go rogue.
Cancer Research UK said the findings were an important stepping-stone to new drugs for treating cancer.
To understand the causes of the disease, scientists have to understand what goes wrong in our DNA that makes healthy tissue turn cancerous.
The international team looked at all 3 billion letters of people's genetic code - their entire blueprint of life - in 560 breast cancers.
They uncovered 93 sets of instructions, or genes, that if mutated, can cause tumours. Some have been discovered before, but scientists expect this to be the definitive list, barring a few rare mutations.
Prof Sir Mike Stratton, the director of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge which led the study, said it was a "milestone" in cancer research.
He told the BBC: "There are about 20,000 genes in the human genome. It turns out, now we have this complete view of breast cancer - there are 93 of those [genes] that if mutated will convert a normal breast cell into a breast cancer cell. That is an important piece of information.
"We hand that list over to the universities, the pharmaceuticals, the biotech companies to start developing new drugs because those mutated genes and their proteins are targets for new therapeutics.
"There are now many drugs that have been developed over the last 15 years against such targets which we know work."
Targeted drugs such as Herceptin are already being used by patients with specific mutations.
Prof Stratton expects new drugs will still take at least a decade to reach patients and warns: "Cancers are devious beasts and they work out ways of developing resistance to new therapeutics so overall I'm optimistic, but it's a tempered optimism."
There is also bad news in the data - 60% of the mutations driving cancer are found in just 10 genes.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are mutations so rare they are in just a tiny fraction of cancers meaning it is unlikely there will be any financial incentive to develop therapies.
But why do those genes mutate in the first place?
Mutations leave unique scars - known as mutational signatures - on our DNA and that allowed the team to identify 12 types of damage that cause mutations in the breast.
Some are related to family risk, but most are still unexplained.
One class of mutation seems to stem from the body attacking viruses by mutating their genetic code, but also suffering collateral damage in the process.
Whether any of these processes can be altered is still unknown in this nascent field, but researchers hope the findings could eventually lead to ways of reducing the risk of cancers.
Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, another researcher at the Sanger Institute, added: "In the future, we'd like to be able to profile individual cancer genomes so that we can identify the treatment most likely to be successful for a woman or man diagnosed with breast cancer.
"It is a step closer to personalised health care for cancer."
Dr Emma Smith, from Cancer Research UK, said: "This study brings us closer to getting a complete picture of the genetic changes at the heart of breast cancer and throws up intriguing clues about the key biological processes that go wrong in cells and drive the disease.
"Understanding these underlying processes has already led to more effective treatments for patients, so genetic studies on this scale could be an important stepping stone towards developing new drugs and boosting the number of people who survive cancer."
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The 17th Century miniature painting of Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, was painted in watercolour on vellum by Isaac Oliver.
It will be restored before going back on display as the star attraction at Powis Castle, near Welshpool.
It was bought for £2.1m by the National Trust with help from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund.
The artwork shows Herbert, who was a poet, socialite and philosopher, with his head resting on his hand as he lies stretched out along the banks of a stream running through a forest.
He bears a shield with a burning heart and the painting is said to reflect his life as a chivalrous romantic.
The painting was put up for sale on behalf of a private owner but was secured by the National Trust with the help of donations.
Painted by royal miniaturist Isaac Oliver between 1602 and 1617, it measures 23cm by 19cm (9in by 7in) and is mounted on oak board in a contemporary 17th Century tortoiseshell and ebony frame.
Justin Albert, National Trust Director for Wales, said the charity was proud to retain the "incredible" painting, which was of Welsh, British and European importance.
He said the painting was fragile and would be restored before possibly being loaned to museums ahead of returning to Powis Castle. | One of the "finest" portraits of the Jacobean era has been bought so it can remain at its home in mid Wales. | 37162764 | [
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The men entered the Post Office in Quarrywood Avenue, in the Barmulloch area, at 07:55 on Friday.
They threatened a member of staff with a knife and demanded money before escaping with the cash.
The 27-year-old worker was said by police to have been badly shaken but otherwise unharmed by the ordeal.
Both suspects are white, and one of them was about 35-40 years old with short brown hair and wearing a black jumper.
Det Sgt Raymond Hunter said officers had been carrying out door-to-door inquiries and were in the process of collecting CCTV images from the surrounding area.
He added: "There are a number of other shops in this area and people may have seen the two men prior to or after the incident.
"I am therefore appealing to anyone who was in the area or any local residents to contact us - any information you have could assist our enquiry." | Two men have stolen a five-figure sum of money during an armed robbery at a Post Office in Glasgow. | 32457391 | [
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Melanie Harris, 44, emptied the bank account of 65-year-old Ted Carter, who had cerebral palsy, and used it for shopping trips and family presents.
Harris, from Barnstaple, had denied one count of fraud but was jailed for two-and-a-half years for the thefts which took place between 2011 and 2013.
The Recorder said she had abused "a highly vulnerable housebound man".
Harris was responsible for looking after Mr Carter and his wife who used a wheelchair, at their bungalow in Wikley Close, Barnstaple, as a team leader with the private care provider, Cygnet Care.
Police described her house in Fremington as "looking like a show home", after Harris used the couple's debit card on a series of shopping trips, Exeter Crown Court heard last year.
Harris, who hid Mr Carter's bank statements to cover up the thefts, was caught after another carer noticed Mr Carter's money had been used for a baby shower.
Recorder Philip Mott said: "He trusted you with his card, PIN and passbook and trusted you as a co-signatory. As a result, you had complete control over his accounts."
The recorder said Harris was motivated by "family expenses", and cited the probation report which spoke of her "greed and a desire to fund a lavish lifestyle". | A care worker has been jailed for stealing £75,000 from a patient to spend on a "lavish lifestyle". | 35462667 | [
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In the app, the cartoon characters feature with the real world in the background.
The developers claim it is the first time in the UK that "augmented reality" has been used in this way.
They and Conwy council hope it will bring tourists to the town where the inspiration for Alice went on holiday.
The original launch of the app in August was delayed after key figures for tourists to follow were altered.
Virtual characters failed to recognise sculptures in the town after Conwy council painted them.
Next year marks 150 years since Alice in Wonderland was first published.
Simon Burrows, co-director of Alice in Wonderland Limited which has co-ordinated the project, said: "People who use the app can look at Llandudno landmarks on screen, while characters from the Alice books tell the story behind them.
"It's also possible to take a picture of yourself or your friends standing next to the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat or Alice herself."
The Alice in Wonderland story, and its sequel Through the Looking Glass, were written by Lewis Carroll (whose real name was Charles Dodgson).
He composed the original story to entertain a young girl called Alice Liddell, with whose family he was friends.
Alice Liddell's family lived in Oxford but had a house in Llandudno and spent many of their holidays there.
Company director Barry Mortlock said: "I've lived in Llandudno for 36 years now, and it worried me that the town wasn't doing enough in recent years to celebrate its links with the real life Alice.
"The app is now ready for next year's important anniversary.
"It has the potential to attract more visitors from overseas, where there's a huge interest in the Alice in Wonderland stories."
Graham Rees, Conwy council's cabinet member for tourism, said: "This will be a huge asset to Llandudno and really enhance what we can offer to visitors." | Characters from the Alice in Wonderland books will guide visitors on a tour of Llandudno in a new app which shows the town's links with the stories. | 29732793 | [
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The company blamed the "market decline in Eastern Europe" for offsetting strength in Asian markets.
Carlsberg shares are down more than 9% in Copenhagen.
Ukrainian sales fell by an estimated 17% "as a result of the deteriorating economic climate as well as significant price increases" applied to keep up with high inflation, the company said.
"For the full year, we therefore do not expect that the strong Asian performance will be enough to offset the weaker than expected results in Western Europe and the challenging market conditions in Eastern Europe," said chief executive Cees 't Hart.
Bad weather also hurt the brewer's bottom line in Western Europe.
The company also reported adjusted net profit fell 23% to 1.73bn Danish kroner (£163m) in the first half of the year.
Mr 't Hart joined the company in mid-June.
"While I'm delighted with the enthusiasm and commitment of our employees, I also recognise that we must step up further to achieve the full potential of the group," he said. "To do so, we have initiated a process of revising the group's strategy to re-establish and further strengthen our financial flexibility."
Carlsberg's brands include Kronenbourg 1664, Holsten Pilsner and of course, Carlsberg.
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Nathaniel Knight-Percival opened the scoring with a brilliant overhead kick and it was 2-0 when Shaun Whalley took advantage of poor defending to score.
Andy Mangan blasted in a loose ball for a third goal after 29 minutes.
However, Tom Aldred drove in from 15 yards before Danny Philliskirk fired into the bottom corner, but goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler ensured it stayed 3-2.
Leutwiler tipped Brad Potts' shot onto the bar to keep the points and move Shrewsbury up to 19th, level on points with Blackpool in 18th.
Shrewsbury Town manager Micky Mellon told BBC Shropshire:
"It's a great result and terrific performance and we have to be very pleased with the victory today.
"When we lost that second goal from a set-play it did give Blackpool a sense of belief - but we have a number of different qualities to win football matches and that was proven today." | Shrewsbury scored three first-half goals to beat Blackpool and end a run of three league games without a win. | 35509584 | [
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Vaughan joined Blues permanently from Huddersfield in the summer after a loan spell last season but has featured just once this term.
The 28-year-old former Everton, Derby, Leicester and Norwich striker is the Premier League's youngest ever scorer at 16 years and 271 days.
Vaughan has signed a two-year deal and can play against Walsall on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bury have signed striker James Vaughan on a free transfer after he left Birmingham City by mutual consent. | 37179219 | [
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Tries by Tom Habberfield and Tyler Ardron, converted by Dan Biggar, gave the home team a 14-point interval lead.
Ulster dominated after the break, but Brendan Leonard's try saw the game off before Jacob Stockdale's late score.
Ospreys need a point in their final game to secure a play-off spot while Ulster will have to beat Leinster for any chance of making the final stages.
They face Scarlets on 6 May with the west Wales region secure in the play-off places after a 30-8 win over Connacht.
Fifth-placed Ulster will need a miracle to overtake to overtake Ospreys in fourth place and will regret the number of missed opportunities after the break in Swansea if - as now seems likely - they fail to make the play-offs.
Stockdale beat most of the defence, only to see his final pass go to ground and later kicked the ball over the dead-ball line after outstripping the cover.
Charles Piutau dropped the ball close to the Ospreys' line as Ulster put the home team under pressure.
But the visitors were made to pay for their profligacy when substitute Leonard crossed for the Ospreys' third try two minutes before time in a rare second-half attack.
When Stockdale scored practically from the re-start, it left Ulster looking for a second try and conversion to claim a losing bonus point - only to lose possession at a breakdown for the umpteenth time.
Ospreys - coming into the game after three successive league defeats - weathered an early storm and scored from practically their first attack as centre Ashley Beck tied in two defenders to send the unmarked Habberfield over in the corner.
Paddy Jackson and Biggar exchanged penalties before the Welsh side took control in the lead up to half-time with only a combination of good Ulster defence and their own lack of composure keeping Ospreys at bay.
But on the stroke of half-time a long kick by Jackson saw home full-back and man-of-the-match Dan Evans carve the defence open before handing on to Habberfield who put Ardron over between the posts.
The conversion opened a 14-point gap which better reflected Ospreys' dominance.
It was Ulster's turn to dominate in the second half, but mistakes and stubborn defending left them wondering what might have been - and facing an almighty challenge in the final game at home to Leinster.
Ulster scrum-half Ruan Pienaar, who leaves at the end of the season, may have played his last game for the province after suffering a back spasm which saw him leave the field during the first half.
Ulster director of rugby Les Kiss said: "Frustrated and disappointed - two words that describe a lot of things because there's a fair bit of pain in that dressing room.
"Ruan [Pienaar] had a back spasm before the game started, he said he'd ride it out but within 20 minutes it was gone. It's a fairly significant spasm and those things can take a while.
"Stu McCloskey had a bad dead leg and Stuart Olding was hit hard with his first touch with an ankle injury, it's probably season-ending."
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Keelan Giles, Kieron Fonotia, Ashley Beck, Tom Habberfield, Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb (Capt); Nicky Smith, Scott Baldwin, Brian Mujati, Bradley Davies, Tyler Ardron, Sam Underhill, Justin Tipuric, James King.
Replacements: Scott Otten, Paul James, Rhodri Jones, Lloyd Ashley, Dan Baker, Brendon Leonard, Sam Davies, Josh Matavesi.
Ulster: C Gilroy, A Trimble (capt), L Marshall, S McCloskey, C Piutau, P Jackson, R Pienaar; A Warwick, R Best, W Herbst, K Treadwell, A O'Connor, I Henderson, S Reidy, R Diack.
Replacements: R Herring, C Black, R Ah You, F van der Merwe, N Timoney, P Marshall, S Olding, J Stockdale.
Referee: John Lacey (IRFU).
Assistant referees: George Clancy (IRFU), Ben Whitehouse (WRU).
TMO: Neil Paterson (SRU).
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Ospreys survived a second-half onslaught by Ulster to all-but claim a place in the Pro12 play-offs. | 39744454 | [
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Tom Lucking found a gold pendant inlaid with a profusion of garnets while metal detecting on farmland in 2014.
The 7cm (2.8in) item was found in the grave of a female and has been described as one of the "most elaborate...ever found".
It was declared treasure alongside other items at an inquest in Norwich.
Why is Norfolk a treasure hunting hotspot?
Mr Lucking, 23, a student from Felixstowe who is in his final year studying history at the University of East Anglia, said the discovery "had certainly given me a good dissertation project".
He said: "It makes me pleased I've put time and effort in metal detecting in that field and it was worth going out into the cold and rain over the years to find those things."
He unearthed the pendant whilst exploring a field near Diss, after initially detecting a bronze bowl.
After the inquest on Monday, Mr Lucking said: "You can hope, but never really expect to find something like this.
"It's not about the money value, it's about finding something that makes you re-think the whole history of an area."
Julie Shoemark, finds officer for Norfolk, said the burial dates to the cusp of the early Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England, around the middle of the 7th century AD.
She said: "Within a century of this lady's death, burial practices had completely changed and people were being interred with no associated grave goods, as seen in the burials from Great Ryburgh.
"She was undoubtedly a lady of some status in the community of East Anglia as the magnificent garnet inlaid pendant and associated grave goods demonstrate."
Dr Andrew Rogerson, of the county's Heritage Environment Services, previously described the pendant as one of the "most elaborate...ever found".
He said: "It would seem we have something of major significance."
The British Museum report for the coroner listed a number of precious coins and jewellery found alongside the woman's skeleton.
British Museum identification of items
Mr Lucking has been metal detecting since he was 11-years-old.
He said he will share proceeds from the sale with the owner of the land and his friend, Stuart Isaacs, who treasure hunts with him.
Norwich Castle Museum is understood to be interested in buying the pendant after it is formally valued by the British Museum. | A student who found Anglo Saxon jewellery of "national significance" said the discovery has made three years exploring the field worthwhile. | 38138267 | [
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Allardyce replaced Alan Pardew in December on a two-and-half-year deal with the Eagles one point above the relegation zone.
The 62-year-old, who had an ill-fated one-game spell as England boss, led the club to eight wins in 21 games to guide them to a 14th-place finish.
"I have no ambitions to take another job," Allardyce said in a statement.
"I want to be able to savour life while I am still relatively young, and when I am still relatively healthy enough to do all the things I want to do, like travel, spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager.
"This is the right time for me. I simply want to be able to enjoy all the things you cannot really enjoy with the 24/7 demands of managing any football club, let alone one in the Premier League."
Allardyce revealed his decision to chairman Steve Parish at a meeting in London on Tuesday. The Eagles are now looking for their eighth manager in seven years.
Although it took Allardyce six games to get his first victory - with BBC Sport asking if the 'Big Sam bounce had deserted Palace' - the former Bolton, Blackburn, Newcastle and West Ham boss maintained his record of never being relegated from the Premier League.
Only Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Harry Redknapp and David Moyes have managed more games in the Premier League.
Allardyce's final game in charge of Palace came on Sunday, a 2-0 loss at Manchester United, having guaranteed safety the previous week by thrashing Hull 4-0.
Following defeat at Old Trafford, Allardyce indicated his plans to improve the squad in the summer.
He had told BBC Sport: "We now need to grow, develop and invest. You need to choose the right players and not the wrong ones. Recruitment is the difficult task in the summer."
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Allardyce left his post as England manager by mutual agreement in September after only one match in charge.
It followed a Daily Telegraph investigation claiming he offered advice on how to "get around" rules on player transfers.
The FA said Allardyce's conduct "was inappropriate". He apologised, adding "entrapment had won".
"It sounds as if he's going to retire...people might be looking into it and saying 'don't worry he'll be back very soon', but from my understanding this is very much a personal decision
"In some ways, this has been a very difficult decision to make but in others it has been a simple one.
"I will always be grateful to Crystal Palace and Steve Parish for giving me the opportunity to go out with my head held high having helped keep the club in the Premier League.
"More than that, they gave me a chance of rebuilding my reputation after what happened with England. I felt I needed another shot at being a Premier League manager and showing that I still had the ability to achieve something significant. As I said last weekend, Palace gave me the chance of rehabilitation.
"That's why it's hard walking away now. I believe the club are heading in the right direction with a hugely supportive board of directors, a great squad of players and some of the most passionate fans I've ever met.
"But there comes a time when you have to take stock of what direction you want your life to take - and that's been the simple part for me.
"I want to be able to savour life while I'm still relatively young and when I'm still relatively healthy, even if I'm beginning to feel all my 62 years.
"While I've got the energy, I want to travel and also spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager. I owe that to my wife and family.
"This is the right time for me, I know that in my heart. I have no ambitions to take another job, I simply want to be able to enjoy all the things you cannot really enjoy with the 24/7 demands of managing any football club, let alone one in the Premier League.
"Steve Parish has been superb during our conversations today. I know it came as a shock to him that I would walk away but our discussions have been incredibly civilised with no recriminations and no fall-out.
"This is not about transfer targets, club finances or anything along those lines. This is me taking the decision I believe is right for my family and myself.
"I would like to thank everybody for their messages of support since the news broke. I've no doubt I will miss management but I certainly have no regrets at this decision. It's been a privilege to have worked for them for the past five months."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Sam Allardyce has resigned as Crystal Palace manager five months after he joined the Premier League club. | 40021059 | [
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Samuel Armstrong, 23, of Copt Hill, Danbury, Essex, is charged with two counts of rape and one of sexual assault.
He has been suspended from his position as chief of staff to South Thanet's Tory MP Craig Mackinlay.
The charge follows an alleged incident at Parliament in October.
Mr Armstrong was bailed to appear before Southwark Crown Court on 28 April.
He was ordered not to enter the Palace of Westminster and not to contact the alleged victim. | An aide to a Kent Conservative MP has appeared before Westminster magistrates charged with rape following an alleged attack at the Houses of Parliament. | 39455619 | [
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Mandy Fader, professor of continence technology at the University of Southampton, says their design has changed "very little" in 80 years.
In the BBC News website's Scrubbing Up column, she criticises low investment from industry and "weak" regulation
The Urology Trade Association says it is "simply incorrect" to say catheters have not improved in recent decades.
The urinary catheter is a much-used, but little-discussed, device designed to drain the bladder.
It is typically used in hospital to monitor how much urine patients have passed, or to make sure the bladder does not become too full.
This can be for a matter of minutes - but some people are discharged with a catheter, and may continue to use one for months or even years.
The tube is usually passed through the urethra and held in the bladder with a small balloon, though sometimes it is put in above the pubic bone via the abdomen into the bladder.
It is connected to a drainage bag which is usually strapped onto the thigh or above the ankle. This - in turn - must be drained regularly.
The catheter provides a site for bacteria to multiply and thrive, encased in a glue called "biofilm" which is resistant to detergent and antibiotics. This is a major source or urinary infection, blockages and leaks.
It is estimated in the UK there are at least 90,000 people with long term urinary catheters, using them for three months or more.
About one in five people who stay in hospital are fitted with a catheter, sometimes just as a matter of routine rather than requirement.
Research suggests more than one in four urinary catheters inserted in A&E are unnecessary.
This problem is being addressed in some hospitals.
In a scheme to reduce Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI), five trusts in south London are working together to reduce harm in a scheme called "No Catheter, No CAUTI".
The campaign, run by the Health Innovation Network, aims to ensure catheters are not used inappropriately, and are removed promptly. It is hoped this will reduce these infections by 30% and, if it is successful, it will be rolled out across the NHS.
Dr Adrian Hopper, the network's clinical director, said: "The general view is that CAUTI is the most common hospital acquired infection and vastly more common than MRSA and C-difficile which are the infections that everyone knows about."
Prof Fader says there is growing evidence that catheters are over-used, but the main concerns are about design and materials.
She argues such a commonplace device should be a state of the art product, but concludes in her column that "the lowly catheter has changed very little in the last 80 years".
And Prof Fader warns part of the problem lies with weak regulation, saying: "Unlike with new drugs, manufacturers do not need to show that any changes they make to catheters actually work on patients."
She also criticises catheter manufacturers: "What's needed is for industry to wake up and invest more heavily in new catheter designs and... materials that resist infection."
For too long the devices have been "easy money", she warns - with demand remaining high "without bothering with much innovation and improvement."
But a spokesman for the UK health regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), said there was a requirement that devices were designed and manufactured to minimise the risk of infection.
He added: "We have no evidence at this time to suggest that urinary catheter materials used in the UK do not meet the requirements of the Medical Device Directive."
Chris Whitehouse, chairman of the Urology Trade Association, called Prof Fader's comments "disappointing".
"Any suggestion that catheters haven't improved in 80 years is simply incorrect.
"Such an assertion ignores the efforts of manufacturers to develop catheters that meet patients' individual needs and that are safe, easy to use and discrete." | A leading researcher says industry must "wake up and invest more" in urinary catheters | 33270030 | [
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The French artist cut out paper shapes for collages when ill-health prevented him from painting, producing famous pieces such as The Snail and Blue Nude.
The Daily Telegraph said the London gallery must know it has a "winner" with its "outstanding" exhibition.
"I eat it with my eyes and never feel sated," said The Guardian's critic.
Many of the items will be seen together for the first time in the exhibition, which opens on Thursday and features about 130 artworks from the latter stage of Matisse's career.
The Telegraph said that "the joy of the cut-outs is their simplicity".
The paper's critic said the artworks were made from "modest materials" using "basic techniques" but that the artist "reduces art to the essentials of colour, shape and pattern".
"Yet precisely because they offer us instant visual gratification, it is easy to forget how innovative they actually are," he wrote.
The Guardian added that the show was "ravishing, filled with light and decoration, exuberance and a kind of violence" adding that it was "about more than just pleasure".
"Matisse created a universe that filled the room around him, spilling from the walls to the floor."
Matisse worked from a wheelchair after treatment for cancer and the exhibition compiles work dating from 1937 to 1954, when he died aged 84 of a heart attack.
Sir Nicholas Serota, the Tate director and co-curator of the show, told the BBC the works displayed great skill.
"Cut-out sounds a bit simplistic, they are very sophisticated objects.
"The brilliance is that he took the method of a child and deployed it with all the sophistication of an artist who had been painting for 60 years."
He said that the artworks were "incredibly influential" on a generation of American painters in the 60s and 70s.
"The colour is really intense, the colour is brilliant, it's really not quite what we associate with the immediate post-war years in Europe. He's really on his own."
The Economic Voice added that the exhibition "re-examines the cut-outs in terms of the methods and materials that Matisse used, and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately as permanent works through mounting and framing".
The exhibition will be at the London gallery until 7 September before it travels to New York's Museum of Modern Art in mid-October. It can also be seen by cinema-goers from 3 June with the launch of Matisse Live. | Critics have praised one of the largest collections of Henri Matisse's "cut-out" artworks ever assembled, for an exhibition opening at Tate Modern. | 27024200 | [
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Giving evidence to the Iraq inquiry, Baroness Manningham-Buller said the action had radicalised "a few among a generation".
As a result, she said she was not "surprised" that UK nationals were involved in the 7/7 bombings in London.
She said she believed the intelligence on Iraq's threat was not "substantial enough" to justify the action.
Baroness Manningham-Buller said she had advised officials a year before the war that the threat posed by Iraq to the UK was "very limited", and she believed that assessment had "turned out to be the right judgement".
Describing the intelligence on Iraq's weapons threat as "fragmentary", she said: "If you are going to go to war, you need to have a pretty high threshold to decide on that."
In a previously secret document from 2002, Baroness Manningham-Buller wrote to the Home Office saying: "We assess that Saddam is only likely to order terrorist attacks if he perceives that the survival of his regime is threatened."
The Chilcot inquiry is continuing to hear evidence about decisions taken in the build-up to the invasion and its aftermath.
Baroness Manningham-Buller, head of the domestic intelligence service between 2002 and 2007, said the terrorist threat to the UK from al-Qaeda and other groups "pre-dated" the Iraq invasion and also the 9/11 attacks in the US.
However, she said the UK's participation in the March 2003 military action "undoubtedly increased" the level of terrorist threat.
By Peter BilesBBC correspondent at the inquiry
The former head of MI5 chose her words very carefully.
Baroness Manningham-Buller was giving her evidence in public, although 35 witnesses have previously testified to the Iraq inquiry behind closed doors in order to protect national security or international relations.
Key to her evidence was the release of the declassified assessment which she wrote in March 2002, a year before the invasion of Iraq.
This played down the direct threat to the UK from Saddam Hussein's regime, and its possible links to al-Qaeda.
As was expected, the focus of her evidence remained on the implications of the 2003 invasion for Britain, rather than the actual decision to go to war.
Given the gravity of the situation, with 16 suspected terrorism plots uncovered in the UK between 2001 and 2008, it may be a surprise to some that she did not have direct conversations with Tony Blair during her time as head of MI5.
A year after the invasion, she said MI5 was "swamped" by leads about terrorist threats to the UK.
"Our involvement in Iraq, for want of a better word, radicalised a whole generation of young people, some of them British citizens who saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan, as being an attack on Islam," she said, before immediately correcting herself by adding "not a whole generation, a few among a generation".
The ex-MI5 chief said she shared her concerns that the Iraq invasion would increase the UK's exposure to terrorism with the then home secretary David Blunkett, but did not "recall" discussing the matter with Prime Minister Tony Blair.
MI5 did not "foresee the degree to which British citizens would become involved" in terrorist activity after 2004, she admitted.
"What Iraq did was produce fresh impetus on people prepared to engage in terrorism," she said, adding that she could produce evidence to back this up.
"The Iraq war heightened the extremist view that the West was trying to bring down Islam. We gave Bin Laden his jihad."
Lady Manningham-Buller said MI5 was given a budget increase after 9/11 and again in 2002 but the agency still needed far greater resources as a result of the Iraq invasion.
"By 2003 I found it necessary to ask the prime minister for a doubling of our budget," she said. "This is unheard of, certainly unheard of today, but he and the Treasury and the chancellor accepted that, because I was able to demonstrate the scale of the problem that we were confronted by."
Baroness Manningham-Buller was part of the government's Joint Intelligence Committee before the war, which drew up the controversial dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction in September 2002. The dossier stated the weapons could be activated with 45 minutes of an order to do so.
Asked about the dossier, she said she had very limited involvement in its compilation but it was clear, with hindsight, that there was an "over-reliance" on certain intelligence.
She added: "We were asked to put in some low-grade, small intelligence into it and we refused because we did not think that it was reliable."
She said MI5's responsibility was to collect and analyse intelligence and to "act on it where necessary" to mitigate terrorist threats, but stressed it was not her job "to fill in gaps" in the intelligence.
A year before the war, the former MI5 chief advised Home Office officials that the direct threat posed by Iraq to the UK was "very limited and containable".
In a newly declassified document, published by the inquiry, Baroness Manningham-Buller told the senior civil servant at the Home Office in March 2002 that there was no evidence that Iraq had any involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
While there were reports of links between the regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, there was no intelligence to suggest meaningful co-operation between the two.
In that letter, she said the possibility Iraq might use terrorist tactics to defend its own territory in the event of an invasion could not be ruled out.
But she stressed Iraqi agents did not have "much capability" to carry out UK attacks, adding her view of this never changed.
In his evidence in January, Tony Blair described Saddam Hussein as a "monster" and said the world was a safer place with him no longer in control of Iraq. | The invasion of Iraq "substantially" increased the terrorist threat to the UK, the former head of MI5 has said. | 10693001 | [
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Elizabeth Bowe, 50, was found badly injured in Bobby Jones Place in St Andrews at about 21:00 on Saturday 17 September.
She was taken to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee but she died three days later.
Her brother Charles Gordon, 51, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court on Tuesday facing a single charge of murder.
He made no plea or declaration and was remanded in custody.
The police were called out to Ms Bowe's home before the incident.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner's (PIRC) investigation was ordered by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).
A spokesman for the PIRC said: "The investigation will focus on the initial police response leading up to the incident.
"A report on the Commissioner's findings will be submitted to the COPFS in due course." | The police watchdog has launched an investigation following the death of a 50-year-old woman. | 37522151 | [
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Mr Hammond dismissed reports of angry rows between the two as "tittle tattle" although he jokingly acknowledged he occasionally swore.
Mrs May said she was "focused on 8 June".
Mr Hammond and Mrs May were speaking at a press conference they arranged to attack Labour's election manifesto.
Taking questions from journalists after claiming Labour's pledges created a multibillion pound "black hole", they were asked about reports of a rift between their offices since the U-turn over National Insurance in March's Budget.
Asked by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether they would "still be neighbours" after the general election - the chancellor's official residence is 11 Downing Street - Mrs May said: "I think it's true to say that the chancellor and I and every other member of my team are focused on 8 June."
She was also pressed to give an endorsement of her chancellor, replying that she was "very happy to do so".
"As Philip says, we have worked together for many years," she said. "Longer than we would care to identify - that's an age-related comment, nothing else."
Mr Hammond said he and Mrs May worked "very closely together".
He added: "What I candidly admitted - and my family will confirm this - is I do occasionally swear."
This morning the chancellor's admission that he sometimes swears, as he sought to play down reports of rows with Team May, won't have helped.
Nor will the PM twice refusing to say he would still be her chancellor if she is elected.
She did, at the third time of asking give him her endorsement.
And moving him after the election if the Tories win would be a dramatic and risky move.
But this morning's excursion won't have helped relations between the two addresses.
Read Laura's blog | Prime Minister Theresa May has laughed off questions about whether Chancellor Philip Hammond would still be in place after the general election. | 39948296 | [
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Lydia Wilkinson said she did not know at first whether her father Peter was going to survive the stabbing at their home in Stourbridge on 30 March.
She said looking after him was a "massive relief and an opportunity I didn't think I was going to have".
"I will miss them both so much," the 18-year-old added.
Aaron Barley, 23, of no fixed address, has been charged with their murders and with the attempted murder of Mr Wilkinson.
Lydia, who was at university at the time 50-year-old Tracey and 13-year-old Pierce were stabbed, spoke of her devastation.
Mrs Wilkinson was pronounced dead at the scene. Pierce died in hospital after paramedics battled to save him.
"For me especially it is a case of taking every day as it comes and counting your blessings and using the support around, definitely."
For more on this and other Birmingham and Black Country news
She paid tribute to staff at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth hospital who saved her father.
Lydia had been planning to collect Pierce from school the next day.
"I still can't believe that I will never see him again or pick him up from school on that Friday like I promised to do," she said.
"He was just so bubbly and full of life and he really did light up a room with his mannerisms and impressions."
Mr Wilkinson, who spent six days in intensive care, said he was "on the mend".
He suffered facial lacerations, "dozens of deep stab wounds and almost 100 stitches".
"It will take some time but obviously the emotional pain will take forever," he said.
Mr Wilkinson said: "I didn't find out until I woke up in intensive care that Pierce had not made it. It was devastating. Absolutely devastating."
He added his wife had been a "fantastic mum" and a compassionate, kind person."
"She was just beautiful, she was our angel," he said. | A student whose mother and teenage brother were stabbed to death is focusing on caring for her father who was also injured in the attack. | 39632704 | [
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The Ibrox club ripped up its contract with Mr Ashley after it was alleged Rangers only received about 7p in every £1 spent on club products.
Mr Ashley claimed the deal, struck with former Rangers chief executive Charles Green, was wrongly terminated.
He took his case to the High Court in London where it has been agreed his litigation can continue.
Deputy High Court judge Richard Millett issued a written ruling after hearing competing arguments.
The judge gave no date for the next hearing.
In May, Rangers' directors said they were going to rip up contracts held with a merchandise company, Rangers Retail, which they ran with a Sports Direct firm.
Rangers chairman Dave King, who took control nearly two years ago, and other directors were unhappy with the arrangement.
William McCormick QC, who led the Rangers legal team, told Judge Millett supporters were also upset.
He said fans became angry after learning the club only got about 7p of every £1 spent and had staged a merchandise boycott.
Mr McCormick said fans thought Mr Ashley, who owns Newcastle United FC, pocketed too much of their money.
He said there was a widespread view that no "self-respecting" Rangers supporter wore a replica shirt. | Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has won the latest round of a legal fight with Rangers over a merchandise deal. | 39535676 | [
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The former Sun and Daily Mail writer and sports editor for the Observer had been suffering from oesophagus cancer.
Mr Corrigan died on Thursday at a hospice in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, surrounded by his family, hours after watching his beloved Wales play England in Euro 2016.
His brother Chris, 69, said: "He could make you laugh in print, which not many people could do."
He added: "In every day life, he made people laugh - that's why he was so popular and that's how we'll remember him.
"Right up to the end, he always had a smile for the nurses."
Mr Corrigan was born and brought up in Roath Park, Cardiff, and had two brothers; Chris and Terry, 73, as well as son James and daughter Sally.
James Corrigan recently tweeted: "Just watched Wales win with my father in the hospice. At the whistle he said 'worth the wait' and went back to sleep. A lovely lovely moment."
Mr Corrigan co-wrote the autobiography of ex-Wales rugby star Jonathan Davies.
Mr Davies said: "Lost a very good friend today, RIP Peter Corrigan. Thank you for everything you did for me. I'll miss you."
He was also president of Glamorganshire Golf Club and was teaching his eight-year-old grandson Paddy how to play the sport he loved.
The club said: "The captains, officers and members of the club would like to extend their sympathy to Peter's family."
Mr Corrigan started his career at the South Wales Echo as a messenger when he was 16, working his way up before moving to London where he became a football writer for the Daily Herald.
He later moved on to cover golf and, after leaving the Observer in 1993, was appointed chief sports columnist for the Independent on Sunday and wrote The Hacker column, which he also published online.
Mr Corrigan said one story his brother was delighted with came when he bumped into Wales, Leeds United and Juventus legend John Charles on a beach while on holiday in Italy in the early 1960s.
"He said 'how you doing, Charlo?' and he said 'I'll give you an exclusive, I'm going back to Leeds.' It was a scoop he was very proud of."
Former editor of the Independent, Simon Kelner, said: "The world has lost a great man. Peter Corrigan, my friend, my mentor, died last night. He truly had bags of swank."
Ian Prior, the Guardian and Observer's current head of sport, tweeted: "RIP Peter Corrigan, former Observer sports ed. A wonderful writer, editor, and mentor to generations of journalists." | Highly-respected sports journalist Peter Corrigan has died aged 80. | 36559007 | [
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Researchers looked at three areas of England, 20 years apart, and found new rates of dementia were lower than past trends would suggest.
They say improvements in men's health is the most likely explanation.
But charities warn against complacency, with more than 200,000 dementia cases diagnosed each year in the UK.
Researchers, funded by the Medical Research Council and dementia charities, interviewed about 7,500 people aged 65 and over living in Cambridgeshire, Nottingham and Newcastle in the early 1990s.
The whole process, which included detailed questionnaires about cognition and lifestyle, was repeated in the same way two decades later.
They found rates of new cases of dementia had been fairly steady in women over this time, but had fallen in men.
Extrapolating their findings to apply to the rest of the UK, they say there would be 40,000 fewer cases of the disease than estimates put forward two decades ago would suggest.
Scientists admit they are unsure exactly what lies behind this trend but say it could be that men have become better at looking after themselves.
For example, better heart and brain health - with fewer men smoking, less salt used in food, and a greater emphasis on exercise and blood pressure medication may have helped, they say.
They acknowledge it is hard to decipher why the same trends are not apparent in women, but speculate men may be catching up on health gains that women already experience.
Despite this, they warn that other factors - such as rising levels of obesity and diabetes - may reverse this trend in years to come.
Prof Carol Brayne, at the University of Cambridge, and part of the research team, said: "I'm pretty optimistic that it's stabilising, but if we don't further improve health, then we would expect the numbers to go up with further ageing of the population, so it's a sort of cautious optimism."
Scientists say the most important finding is that a rise in dementia is not inevitable and can be fought.
And they call for a better balance of funds so more money is put into prevention in mid-life.
Meanwhile, Dr James Pickett, head of research at the charity Alzheimer's Society, said the research was encouraging.
But he added: "People are living for longer, and with other risk factors such as diabetes and obesity on the rise, there will still be over 200,000 new cases of dementia each year.
"That's still an enormous number of people who require better information and health and social care support."
Other experts point out the way dementia is diagnosed has changed over time and initiatives focusing on spotting the signs of dementia earlier may offset any reductions seen. | The predicted explosion of dementia cases may be less severe than previously thought, a study in Nature Communications suggests. | 36082872 | [
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The 24-year-old Australian lost 6-4 6-3 6-4 to Germany's world number 30 in one hour and 19 minutes.
Tomic was ranked 17 in January 2016 but has fallen to 59 in the world.
He said: "I think I don't respect the sport enough. You know, I'm going to play another 10 years, and I know after my career I won't have to work again."
Tomic, who has won three ATP Tour titles, has earned almost £4m in career prize money, including £35,000 for his defeat by Zverev.
When asked in his post-match news conference if he should repay the money from his limp defeat, he replied: "We all work for money. At 34, maybe I can donate to charity. If you ask Roger Federer if he'll do it, I'll do it."
Tomic, who has not won a tour title since 2015, has struggled for form this year, winning just nine matches overall and losing in the first round at the French Open and now Wimbledon.
"I felt a little bit bored out there," he said.
"The last sort of year or two, nothing motivates. It's not I don't give my best. I still try to go for it in a way."
Nine-time Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova
"It's disrespectful to the sport and disrespectful to the history of the sport. If you can't get motivated at Wimbledon it's time to find another job. The spectators paid good money to come here and watch Wimbledon and the guy shows up and doesn't try, he can't be bothered. Just stay at home.
Australian two-time Wimbledon doubles champion Rennae Stubbs
To say the things that he said in the press conference today is a disgrace.
You're an embarrassment to yourself, and not only to the sport but to Australian tennis.
Tomic was criticised for ruling himself out of the Rio 2016 Olympics because of an "extremely busy" schedule, a year after he was dropped by Tennis Australia - for a second time - from their Davis Cup squad.
He was left out in 2015 after accusing the governing body of abandoning him following hip surgery in 2014, but has since returned to the team.
Further questions were raised about his attitude when he held his racquet by the strings when facing match point in a Madrid Open match last year.
Tomic's career has also been affected by off-court controversy.
In July 2015, he was charged with resisting arrest and trespassing by police in the United States after refusing to leave a hotel room.
His father John was sentenced to eight months in prison for assaulting his son's training partner before the 2013 Madrid Open. | Bernard Tomic says he felt "bored" and could not find motivation during his straight-set defeat by Mischa Zverev at Wimbledon. | 40498212 | [
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The shooting appears to be the latest murder in an on-going gangland feud.
The man, who is in his mid-30s and originally from County Tyrone, was shot in the Sunset House bar near Croke Park at about 21:30 local time.
His name has not been released, although it is believed he was known to Gardaà (Irish police) for involvement with dissident republicanism.
A burnt-out car, believed to have been used in the shooting, was found nearby in the Drumcondra area.
Gardaà are keeping an open mind about who murdered the man, but are not ruling out the possibility that the killing is linked to an on-going gangland feud.
The violent dispute between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs has so far claimed the life of five men.
In February, a man was killed in a hotel that was hosting a weigh-in for a World Boxing Organisation fight in the city.
Days later, another man was murdered in what police believe was a reprisal for the Regency Hotel attack. | A man from Northern Ireland has died following a shooting in the north side of Dublin city on Monday night. | 36136292 | [
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Southwark Crown Court was told that Mr Clifford exposed himself to the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
She claims Mr Clifford forced her to perform a sex act on him and that she thought he would "rape or kill" her.
Mr Clifford denies indecent assault in his London office in the 1980s. The prosecution has finished its case and the trial was adjourned until Monday.
The court heard that Mr Clifford was asked about the allegation in his police interview.
Det Sgt Jason Price, giving evidence, asked whether Mr Clifford remembered coming out of his office, blocking the alleged victim's access to a stairwell and exposing his penis.
Mr Clifford said: "No comment."
Det Sgt Price then said in the interview: "You gyrated around, so one would assume by that it means moving your hips around."
Mr Clifford replied: "What? Dancing or something? No comment."
The alleged victim claimed that he put her hand on his penis and she said "I don't want to" but she "did as she was told" and only stopped when they were disturbed by a knock on the door.
At the start of the interview, Clifford gave a statement in which he denied the allegation.
His statement said he had never engaged in sexual relations with someone without their consent and "neither have I ever needed to coerce someone".
After his statement was read out in the interview, he answered "no comment" to the majority of the questions and said of the allegation: "Everything about it is totally untrue."
Some of the biggest names in show business, including pop mogul Simon Cowell, late reality TV star Jade Goody and boxer Muhammad Ali, were represented by Mr Clifford, of Hersham, Surrey, during his career
Mr Clifford will give evidence on Monday. | Former celebrity publicist Max Clifford "gyrated" in front of a 17-year-old girl, a court has heard. | 36670793 | [
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Robert Trigg was convicted of murdering 52-year-old Susan Nicholson in 2011 and of the manslaughter of Caroline Devlin, 35, who died in March 2006. Both were treated as not suspicious at the time
Trigg, 52, was told he would serve a minimum of 25 years in prison.
In a statement in court, Ms Nicholson's elderly mother questioned why she had been able to gather enough evidence to bring the case to court but not police.
Despite initial investigations into both deaths, in Worthing, West Sussex, finding nothing suspicious, Ms Nicholson's family refused to believe them.
They started what would be a five-year campaign to get to the truth.
Ms Nicholson's parents Elizabeth and Peter Skelton complained on three occasions to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) but were unsatisfied with its response.
In 2014 they hired a barrister and a forensic pathologist, Dr Nathaniel Carey, to re-examine the original pathologist's report.
He concluded that Ms Nicholson was suffocated by having her head forced into the bed.
In Ms Devlin's case, he found her death was was caused by a blow to the back of her head.
In a victim impact statement read out in court, Mrs Skelton said the family wanted answers over why she and her husband, now both in their 80s, were able to bring Trigg's case to court and not the police.
She said the fight for justice had caused "mental torture" which triggered a mild heart attack in her and caused depression in Ms Nicholson's brother.
During the sentencing hearing, judge Mrs Justice Ingrid Simler said Mr and Mrs Skelton had "fought doggedly and continuously since their daughter's death for the police to re-investigate her death".
She added: "The efforts of Ms Nicholson's family led to a review and re-investigation of her death and its cause."
Addressing Trigg, the judge said: "The grief and sadness of these two families will never leave them.
"These were senseless deaths and nothing can now restore their lives, nor can any part of this sentencing process restore them either."
During the trial the court heard both women suffered domestic violence at the hands of Trigg during their relationships with him.
He was described as a "possessive, controlling and jealous" man and by one former girlfriend as a "Jekyll and Hyde" character who drank heavily.
The Skeltons said officers had never warned their daughter about Trigg's history of domestic violence.
Sussex Police has apologised to both families of Trigg's victims for not presenting all the facts to prosecutors following the original investigation.
Asst Ch Con Laurence Taylor said: "I am sorry it has taken so long to get the justice they wanted."
The IPCC said it upheld two complaints into the way Sussex Police dealt with complaints about its investigation into Ms Nicholson's death. A third appeal was not upheld, a spokeswoman said.
Sussex Police has now referred the case to the IPCC for "an independent view and advice", Mr Taylor said.
Brandyn McKenna, the youngest son of Ms Devlin, said outside court on Wednesday: "We have always said that it was all down to the Skelton family that we finally got justice."
During his trial Trigg was described as "no more than a drunken slob who could act in a loutish way".
The court heard in both cases after the women died, a neighbour called 999 after Trigg failed to do so despite knowing they were dead.
In the case of Ms Devlin, Trigg had gone out for milk and made a coffee before telling one of her four children - then aged 14 - to go upstairs and check on his mother, knowing she was already dead.
In Ms Nicholson's case, he bought cigarettes before phoning his brother and then phoning a neighbour who lived upstairs.
Duncan Atkinson QC, prosecuting, told the jury Trigg's presence, actions and inaction after the deaths of both women bound them together. | A man who killed two girlfriends five years apart has been jailed for life. | 40519705 | [
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The skull of an adult male was found by the M54 slip road on Thursday by workers surveying a roundabout near Telford.
The find sparked a West Mercia Police inquiry and led to the discovery of "further skeletal remains".
The remains have now been recovered and post-mortem tests on Tuesday will help to identify him, police said.
Officers said the remains had been there for at least two years.
Police have contacted neighbouring forces asking for information about people who had been reported missing. | A post-mortem examination is to take place on human remains found near a motorway slip road in Shropshire. | 34032795 | [
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The baby was found alone and abandoned at about 15:30 local time on Friday on Steelstown Road.
Police said the child was tended to at the scene by their officers and medical staff. She was taken to Tallaght Hospital.
Her condition is described as stable.
Police said they were concerned for the welfare of the child's mother and were appealing for her to seek immediate medical treatment and contact them. | A newborn baby girl has been found close to business premises in Rathcoole, County Dublin. | 32664720 | [
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The Italian top flight is one of the leagues trialling VAR this season.
Juve beat Genoa 4-2 on Saturday with both sides having penalties awarded following video consultation.
"They are overusing it and making mistakes. I don't like it this way, it's not good," keeper Buffon said.
"It's something which, if used sparingly, could give us excellent results and be a good thing for football.
"In this way, we won't know the real value of a referee. If everyone was a little calmer and more objective, and accepted mistakes, we would accept results with more humanity.
"Another thing is that in football, it's not a penalty every time there is contact. You can't stop the game every three minutes - it makes it like water polo."
Juve also conceded a penalty to Cagliari on the opening day using VAR, although Buffon saved it in a 3-0 win.
Coach Massimiliano Allegri is also unimpressed.
"Another thing is that the matches become very long and we don't know when they're going to finish," he said. | Gianluigi Buffon thinks Serie A referees are overusing the video assistant referee system after Juventus conceded a penalty using the method for the second game in a row. | 41063856 | [
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Laurence Shahlaei, originally from Cheltenham, took the title in Leeds from two-time title holder Hafthor Bjornsson who is also famed for his role in the popular television series.
Mr Shahlaei, nicknamed "Big Loz", said: "He's a great strongman but it was my day and it felt really good to win."
The 32-year-old is the first Englishman to win the title in 27 years.
Standing at 6ft 2in (1.9m) and weighing 22 stone (145 kg), the Wiltshire-based athlete had to overcome injury last weekend to take the crown.
"I've had a rough few years with injuries and to come back and win Europe's Strongest man has just meant the world to me," he said.
"There's five different events that you have to do. I did a 420 kilo dead lift, which was good enough for joint second and then we did a frame carry - it's a race and you're running a 20-metre course while carrying 450 kilos, which is close to 90 stone, and I won that event."
Competitors also had to lift a 177kg (28 stone) block above their heads "as many times as possible" as well as tackling the infamous Atlas stones - an event synonymous with strongman competitions.
But it was running 20m (65ft) with a Volkswagen Beetle on his shoulders in around 11 seconds that clinched the title from Iceland's Hafthor Bjornsson.
"My favourite of the competition was the car walk. Imagine Fred Flintstone running in his car - that was basically me," he said.
"I actually broke the world record on that event. They made the car even heavier this year and I managed over a second off my world record - which was really, really good." | Game of Thrones star "The Mountain" has been beaten to Europe's Strongest Man title by a man from Swindon. | 36819042 | [
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Italian artist and sculptor Maurizio Cattelan created the fully functional 18-carat gold lavatory, which he has titled America.
The, ahem, interactive exhibit has been installed in one of the Guggenheim's public bathrooms, reports the New Yorker.
The Fifth Avenue museum describes the piece as "a bold, irreverent work".
The lavatory replaced one of the Guggenheim's porcelain toilets in a one-person, unisex restroom.
Visitors who pay museum admission will be able to use it as they wish.
The Guggenheim said the piece is "ultimately reminding us of the inescapable physical realities of our shared humanity".
The exhibit is aimed at "making available to the public an extravagant luxury product seemingly intended for the 1 percent", according to the museum.
"Its participatory nature, in which viewers are invited to make use of the fixture individually and privately, allows for an experience of unprecedented intimacy with a work of art," said the Guggenheim.
Cattelan, a Milan-based artist and a truck driver's son, hinted earlier this year that his creation had been inspired by economic inequality.
The exhibit has also drawn comparisons with Marcel Duchamp's avant-garde "Fountain", the porcelain urinal he exhibited in New York in 1917, causing a sensation in the art world.
Cattelan, 55, is known for his provocative sculptures, including La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), which depicted Pope John Paul II floored by a meteorite. | Members of the public are being invited to spend a penny in a solid gold toilet at New York City's Guggenheim Museum. | 37370109 | [
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Greater Manchester Police (GMP) apologised for racial stereotyping for using a fake terrorist shouting "Allahu Akbar" in the mock terror attack.
Organisers of the meeting at Longsight Saath Saath are demanding an inquiry.
GMP said it has no plans to issue any further statements on the training exercise staged at the Trafford Centre.
The scenario for the mock suicide bombing was by an extremist Daesh-style organisation although GMP had said the event was not linked to any specific terror threat.
Syed Azhar Shah, who chaired the meeting attended by about 30 people, said GMP assistant chief constable Garry Shewan's apology was not enough and "only acceptable" if those responsible resigned.
He said while the training exercise was a good idea but it was "shocking to portray Muslims as terrorists" and that only one group would commit terrorist acts.
He said: "It is also shocking what our children and community who live in this country will see themselves as; terrorists or British citizens?"
Mr Shah said further events would be held to "condemn this" and "ensure this would not happen again".
He said one apology "would not mend so many hurts".
One of those at the meeting said using a Muslim as a terrorist sent out "the totally wrong message" and "puts a wedge" between the community and GMP.
"We are all British citizens. As far as Islam is concerned it does not permit any killing."
Greater Manchester's police and crime commissioner Tony Lloyd, said it was "frustrating" the operation had been "marred by the ill-judged... and unacceptable decision" to have the terrorist shout 'Allahu Akbar' before setting off fake bombs.
Other locations in the three-day counter-terrorism exercise include Redbank Community Home in Newton-le-Willows. | Police have been accused of "institutional racism" for portraying a suicide bomber as an Islamist terrorist, a protest meeting heard. | 36266131 | [
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The naked man was spotted outside his hotel on Chorlton Street, at about 04:30 BST.
Greater Manchester Police said it was a "genuine case of sleepwalking".
GMP tweeted: "We checked with officers; was proper somnambulism, not a dare. Person grateful for our help + saw the funny side themselves."
The man's identity has not been revealed by police. | A man was helped back to his hotel after sleepwalking into the street in Manchester city centre without any clothes on, police have said. | 36354361 | [
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Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Marseille's billionaire owner, said in April that she would sell the club following poor results and protests from fans.
McCourt, speaking at a news conference, said: "I'm very excited about making Marseille a champion again."
A deal is set to be completed by the end of the year and no fee has yet been disclosed.
Appearing alongside Louis-Dreyfus and Marseille mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin, 63-year-old McCourt said he wants a team that can compete "year in, year out" to win Ligue 1.
Marseille, who finished 13th in 2015/16 and lost to PSG in the French cup final, are 11th after three games this season. | Frank McCourt, the former owner of the LA Dodgers baseball team, is set to buy French Ligue 1 club Marseille. | 37215160 | [
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Exports fell 2.1% compared with October, German's Federal Statistical Office reported, while imports rose 1.5%.
Meanwhile, factory production fell by 0.1% from October as energy production fell and construction activity decreased.
The latest news follows weak industrial order figures this week.
"Things are certainly not rosy," said Bankhaus Lampe economist Alexander Krueger. "The geopolitical situation, especially the Russia conflict and the related economic uncertainty, is limiting growth,"
On a seasonally adjusted basis, the country's trade surplus shrank to €17.7bn (£13.9bn) in November.
Germany exported goods worth around €95.8bn and imported goods valued at €78.0bn in the month.
In December, Germany's economic affairs ministry said the country's recovery was "progressing at a slow pace."
This is a disappointing batch of German data. It pours cold water on hopes that the Eurozone's traditional economic powerhouse will drag its neighbours out of the gloom in the near future.
The figures don't necessarily point to a renewed contraction in the German economy. But they are consistent with no significant acceleration from the feeble 0.1% growth that Germany recorded in the third quarter of last year, following a contraction of the same magnitude in the previous three months.
There were also declines in French and Spanish industrial production, adding another layer of gloom to the picture.
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It is the first professional contract for the former Bristol Rovers trainee.
"When my agent told me that Forest Green were interested I was totally thrilled," Davies told the club website. "I can't wait to get started."
Forest Green - who finished second in the National League in 2015-16 - gave a first senior deal to 18-year-old striker Olly Mehew last Thursday. | Forest Green Rovers have signed Wales Under-19 international striker Blake Davies on a one-year deal. | 36518235 | [
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called it a "jihadist attack". It is believed an Islamist cell of at least eight militants was involved.
In June 2015, Spain raised its terror alert level to four - one short of the maximum, level five. And since June 2016, Spanish security sources say, police have detained 164 suspected jihadists.
The use of a van zig-zagging at high speed through a pedestrian zone recalls the jihadist attacks in London, Berlin and Nice.
In December, Spain's interior ministry recommended installing barriers to stop any vehicle being driven into Las Ramblas, but the city did not do so, the ABC daily reports.
The Barcelona attack was claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), though nothing confirms a direct IS link to it yet.
Five suspected jihadists were shot dead by police on Thursday night in Cambrils, a town 120km (75 miles) south of Barcelona.
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In recent years Spain has intensified its security co-operation with nearby Morocco. There is believed to be a Moroccan connection in the Barcelona case.
The van driver is still on the run, but police have arrested four suspects - three Moroccans and a Spaniard from the North African enclave of Melilla.
One of the Moroccans was named as 28-year-old Driss Oukabir. The hunt is on for his brother Moussa, thought to have rented the van using Driss's name.
Barcelona has just seen Spain's worst attack since the Madrid train bombings of March 2004, in which 191 people died and more than 1,800 were injured.
Islamist militants detonated 10 bombs on four commuter trains in the capital, in what remains Europe's bloodiest terror attack this century.
Spain has long been a potential target because hundreds of its soldiers are in the international coalition against IS. They are training Iraqi security forces but do not have a combat role.
In recent years Spain has seen a home-grown problem of Islamist radicalisation, said political violence expert Javier Argomaniz of St Andrews University.
Since 2013 about half of the suspects arrested have been Spanish-born, mostly very young, from poor, marginalised immigrant families, he told the BBC.
"There is radicalisation both online and through peer groups, but the online element is very strong," he said.
The violent Basque independence campaign waged by Eta for decades led Spain to pour resources into anti-terrorism units. The lack of major terror attacks in Spain since 2004 may be evidence of their professionalism.
What is Eta?
The last terror attack in Barcelona was the murder of a policeman by Eta militants in 2000.
Facing up to the Eta threat saw Spanish anti-terror expertise shared with the French police, who played a key role in sapping the group's capability.
Eta is now disarming. The last Eta attack on Spanish soil was in Majorca in 2009, when a car bomb killed two Civil Guard officers.
Islamist radicalisation has been concentrated in four areas of Spain in recent years, the Spanish daily El Pais reports. Barcelona - with a large Muslim community - is the main area where it has happened.
The others are: Melilla, Ceuta (Spain's other North African enclave), and Madrid and its suburbs.
As part of its anti-terror measures, Spain brought in new laws against funding of terrorism, self-radicalisation through social media and travel abroad to train or fight with a jihadist group. All those crimes carry prison sentences.
Most of the 178 Spanish citizens who have gone to fight for IS or other jihadist groups have been from Ceuta or Melilla. About 10 times more jihadists have gone to the Middle East from France, it is believed. | Spain was already on high alert for a possible attack when a van smashed into the crowd on Barcelona's famous Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 13 people. | 40973190 | [
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Pakistan seemed to be cruising to a draw before debutant Adil Rashid - who returned 0-163 in the first innings - turned the match with five wickets.
Needing 99 to win, England sent out Jos Buttler and Ben Stokes in the top four.
But they were eventually beaten by the fading light, finishing 25 runs short of a famous victory on 74-4.
The tourists could not find the boundary frequently enough before the umpires brought the teams off, with Joe Root 33 not out.
However, this was a hugely impressive performance from England and one that will fill them with confidence ahead of the second Test in Dubai, which begins on Thursday.
After England concluded their innings on 598-9 in the morning, Pakistan looked assured at 113-3 shortly after tea, leading by 38 with seven second-innings wickets remaining.
But the match turned when veteran batsman Younus Khan, playing in his 102nd Test match, mistimed a wild heave to give Rashid his first Test wicket - caught at point by Stokes.
Rashid - whose figures in the first innings were the worst ever by a debutant - then quickly added a second victim, having Asad Shafiq caught behind for six.
The door was opened for England, and Rashid and Moeen Ali barged through it as they polished off the last five wickets for 14 runs.
Pakistan skipper Misbah ul-Haq - who had played with restraint for his 51 - inexplicably aimed an uncharacteristic slog at Moeen and was bowled.
Moeen then removed Wahab Riaz caught behind, before Rashid claimed the final three wickets - all superbly caught at first slip by James Anderson.
England sensed an unlikely victory, but their reorganised batting order could not score quickly enough as Pakistan's tactic of spin from both ends and fielders on the boundary brought them regular wickets.
Makeshift opener Buttler was trapped lbw for four, Moeen and Stokes were caught on the boundary in quick succession, and Jonny Bairstow was stumped attempting a big shot.
However, in truth it was mistakes earlier in the match that ultimately proved more costly as England fell just short of their first win on the subcontinent since beating India in Kolkata in 2012.
In Pakistan's first innings, Ian Bell dropped Mohammad Hafeez (98) and Shafiq (107) at slip early in their innings.
And Shoaib Malik, who made 245, was dismissed off a no-ball by Stuart Broad.
England captain Alastair Cook, whose record-breaking 263 in the first innings was ultimately in vain, admitted England were frustrated to come so close to victory.
"We'd have liked another three or four overs at the end but that's the way it goes," he said. "I can't fault the guys for hanging in there on that wicket.
"The pitch did deteriorate and spun more today which gave us hope, so it's a bit of a bittersweet finish. We knew we had to put the pressure on Pakistan and then on the last day you never know.
"We played a good game and so did Pakistan. They were a bit sloppy today and we put them under pressure.
"It was brilliant from Adil Rashid who I think got some unfair criticism after the first innings. He's a very fine bowler."
Overall this was a vastly improved overseas display from England, who were whitewashed 3-0 on their last tour of the United Arab Emirates and have not won any of their last three away series.
In contrast to their limp displays with the bat in the 2012 series against Pakistan and more recent overseas disappointments in Australia and West Indies, England's victory charge was built on a superb total of 598-9 declared in their first innings.
Resuming on 569-8, England added 29 quick runs in the morning session, with Rashid out for 12 in his maiden Test innings.
But the innings hinged on Cook's magnificent 263, the longest-ever innings by an Englishman, compiled over days two, three and four.
England's pace bowlers also showed that they could be threatening on the dusty, spin-friendly tracks of the UAE, with Ben Stokes taking 4-57 in the first innings and Anderson also taking four wickets over the course of the match.
With England's new-look opening partnership of Cook and Moeen adding 113 for the first wicket in the first innings, and the under-pressure Bell scoring a half-century at number three, England will head to Dubai knowing that many parts of their team are in good working order.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "Many people will be watching and listening and wondering why they can't continue and I agree with them. This goes back to last night when they came off and you wonder was there a real threat to the players then. It shouldn't take the shine off what has been a good day from England and Adil Rashid."
Former England spinner Graeme Swann: "I am proud of the way England played. The only way they were going to win this game was to persevere and stick it at - and they did that even though they didn't get the result in the end.
"I'm really pleased for Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali who copped a load of stick in the first innings. I don't buy into the Pakistan time-wasting because anyone in their shoes would do the same."
Richard Oelmann: Umpires had no choice with current rules - Rules need changing though. England would have done the same as Pakistan if positions reversed.
Chris Tudor: England have been 'saved by the bell' loads of times. No-one complained when play stopped at EXACTLY 6:30pm at Cardiff in 2009.
Jonathan Wilson: England robbed. Cook out off a no ball delayed things. Lbw in Pakistan inns not given. England win if these called correctly.
Rachel T: England will take huge heart from being within an ace of winning, having been almost written off beforehand.
Flemming Jensen: Get rid of the light meter. Also, Pakistan being allowed to meander along at an over rate of less than 12 is an utter disgrace. | England had to settle for a draw after an extraordinary final session on the fifth day of the first Test against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. | 34560658 | [
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The carriageway was closed between junction 15 near Northampton and Newport Pagnell Services, with congestion stretching back as far as junction 15a for Towcester.
Police were called to the incident at about 18:45 BST on Thursday and have also closed two northbound lanes.
A Northamptonshire Police spokesman said traffic was being turned around in an attempt to get it off the motorway. | A lorry fire has closed a southbound section of the M1 in Northamptonshire. | 14757265 | [
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The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed its investigation after it found no evidence of a defect in the vehicle.
Joshua Brown was killed when his car collided with a lorry while operating in Autopilot mode.
Tesla has stated Autopilot is only designed to assist drivers, who must keep their hands on the wheel.
The feature is intended to be used on the motorway, where it lets cars automatically change lanes and react to traffic.
The NHTSA report said data from the car showed that "the driver took no braking, steering or other actions to avoid the collision".
Bryan Thomas from the NHSTA said the driver should have been able to see the lorry for seven seconds, which "should have been enough time to take some action".
The investigation did not find any evidence that the car's systems "did not perform as designed".
However, Mr Thomas said there was "industry-wide" concern about the way driver-assistance features were explained and advertised to customers.
"These systems require continual and full attention of the driver," he said.
"It's not enough to put [information] in the owner's manual and hope drivers are going to read that.
"Manufacturers must anticipate how drivers would use the functionality, and that some don't read the manual."
He said systems should be designed with the "inattentive driver" in mind.
The NHTSA said it would continue to monitor the safety of Autopilot and would take further action if necessary.
Mr Thomas warned manufacturers that if safety defects were found in semi-autonomous cars, they would have to be recalled, even if the vehicles were capable of receiving over-the-air software updates.
Following the closure of the investigation, Tesla's chief executive Elon Musk tweeted that the report was "very positive". | Tesla will not be ordered to recall its semi-autonomous cars in the US, following a fatal crash in May 2016. | 38678494 | [
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The popular game for mobile devices was removed from online stores on Sunday by its Vietnamese creator, who said its fame "ruins my simple life".
Dong Nguyen, who created the game in just two to three days, was making as much as $50,000 (£30,482) a day from the game's advertising revenue.
In several Twitter posts, he said the game's removal was not due to legal issues and that he may make a sequel.
Mr Dong, who describes himself as a "passionate indie game maker", also said on the micro-blogging site that he will not sell Flappy Bird but that he will still make games.
Flappy Bird has been downloaded more than 50 million times, making it this year's most popular mobile game so far.
Launched in May 2013, the game was free to download and required players to tap the screen to keep the bird in flight.
Despite its simple graphics, Flappy Bird was a notoriously difficult game since many users could only keep the bird in the air for a few seconds before it hits an obstacle and falls.
The game went viral after being promoted almost entirely by social media users and was reviewed on a YouTube channel by more than 22 million subscribers.
The official version was only available for Apple and Android devices. It quickly became the number one free game in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store charts.
Several news sites had noted the similarity between the game and an earlier title called Piou Piou, by a different French developer, as well as the fact that Flappy Bird's main character and obstacles resembled the Cheep-Cheep birds and green pipes found in Nintendo's Super Mario Bros series.
Forbes had even suggested that Mr Dong could be sued for intellectual property infringement as a result. However, the developer has stated that his decision to pull the title was "not anything related to legal issues".
After Mr Dong took the game down, many fans turned to social media to petition for its return.
On Twitter, there were widely-used hashtags of #RIPFlappyBird and #SaveFlappyBird, with several "Save Flappy Bird" accounts being spawned as well.
The game is no longer available through online stores, but it still works on phones that had previously downloaded it.
As a result, some online users have offered to sell their smartphones still containing the Flappy Birds app for large sums of money.
However, some fans expressed their relief that the game was gone.
One user describes Flappy Birds as "an addictive game that everyone hates to love" while another said, "I think it's for the best, and for the best of all the cracked phones out there."
At least one user has tweeted a photo of a cracked iPhone screen - apparently as a result of frantic tapping whilst playing the game. | Flappy Bird is flapping its wings no more. | 26114364 | [
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Families with one parent with a taxable income of more than £50,000 will lose some of the benefit, and it will be withdrawn entirely if one parent earns above £60,000.
The government hopes to save £1.5bn a year to help reduce the deficit.
David Cameron described the move as "fundamentally fair" but Labour said it was a "huge assault" on families.
Defending the policy, the prime minister said: "I'm not saying those people are rich, but I think it is right that they make a contribution.
"If we don't raise that... from that group of people - the better off 15% in the country - we would have to find someone else to take it from."
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the government should tax the richest, rather than make changes that affect those on middle incomes, and described the changes as a "complete shambles".
The change comes the day before a key Commons debate over the welfare system, when MPs discuss plans to break the link between benefit rises and inflation.
Chancellor George Osborne has proposed a cap of 1% - which is below the expected rise in the cost of living - on increases in most working-age benefits, such as Jobseeker's Allowance and maternity pay, and tax credits for three years from 2013-14.
Child benefit, housing benefit and universal credit will be capped for two years from 2014-15.
All these changes will affect millions of people.
More than 250,000 high earners have already opted out of receiving child benefit but several hundred thousand others who missed a deadline to declare they will no longer qualify will now have to fill in self-assessment tax forms.
Campaigners say this has created complexity in the system.
They have also pointed to the fact that a family where two parents work and both earn £49,000 a year will keep their benefits, while a family with a single earner on £51,000 - where the other parent may have chosen to stay at home in a caring role - will lose part of theirs.
Child benefit is paid at the rate of £20.30 a week for the first child, and then £13.40 a week for each child after that.
It lasts until each child reaches 16, or 18 if they are still in full-time education, and in some cases until they are 20.
More than a million people are set to be affected by the cut, with the Institute of Fiscal Studies estimating that they would lose an average of £1,300 a year.
Any child benefit paid to high-earners who have failed to opt out will be clawed back through the High Income Child Benefit Charge, administered by HM Revenue and Customs.
If somebody earning more than £50,000 or their partner keeps claiming child benefit, then the higher earner will have to admit this in a self-assessment tax form. The IFS estimates that 500,000 extra people might have to fill in these forms as a result of the change.
They will need to register for self-assessment, if they have not already, by 5 October or face a fine.
A Treasury spokesman said: "Withdrawing child benefit on the basis of the combined family income would require intrusive means-testing of all eight million households getting child benefit. The way we are doing it is simpler for the vast majority of families."
But the stance has not been welcomed by many people who would be affected.
Paul, from West Sussex, who has a six-year-old son was one of a number of people who reportedly failed to receive a letter from HMRC explaining the options for higher earners on what to do.
He told the BBC: "My salary goes up and down, but we will continue to claim it. But my tax affairs are very simple so the one thing I don't really want to do is the self-assessment thing."
The deadline has now expired for higher earners to opt out of receiving child benefit. They will still be able to do so, but may still face a tax charge for the time still in the system since 7 January.
The latest official figures from HM Revenue and Customs show that 191,873 people have opted out of receiving child benefit - mostly because they know they will consistently earn more than £60,000 a year, or earn over £50,000 and do not want to be pulled into the self-assessment system.
That figure was expected to rise above 250,000 over the weekend. These figures will be confirmed later. | More than a million better-off families will lose some or all of their child benefit, under rules now in force. | 20912268 | [
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British sliders have won medals at all six Olympics in which the sport has featured, and in Yarnold and Amy Williams, Team GB can boast back-to-back Olympic champions.
Yarnold is also the World Cup champion and team-mate Shelley Rudman the reigning world champion. Rudman's Olympic silver medal at Turin in 2006 and Alex Coomber's breakthrough bronze in 2002 add to the medal haul, plus world championship and World Cup titles for Kristan Bromley in the men's event.
So just how does Britain, without its own track, rule the skeleton scene?
The sport evolved in the Swiss resort of St Moritz in the late 19th century when wealthy British tourists took to cavorting around town on sleds, looking apparently, like skeletons. The sport featured in the 1928 and 1948 Olympics, with Britain bagging bronze both times, before sitting out the next 54 years. It was reinstated for Salt Lake City in 2002, when a 29-year-old female Royal Air Force officer named Coomber kick-started a rich heritage.
"Prior to 2000, skeleton was a sport done by the Army, Navy and Air Force for recreation, and that was probably the only route into the sport," explained British Skeleton's first performance director Simon Timson, who is now performance director at UK Sport.
"Somebody asked BAE Systems to build a sled and they assigned a PhD student to it. He was called Kristan Bromley. None of the soldiers would try Kristan's sled, so the only way he could test it was to ride it himself, so that's how he got into the sport.
"Kristan produced a bullet of a sled in the late 1990s and that led to him and Alex Coomber becoming overall World Cup champions in 1999. The sport gained Olympic status later that year and UK Sport invested National Lottery funds.
"We really got through to 2002 on Kristan producing the world's best sled, and the pure luck that probably the most natural slider ever to do the sport, Alex Coomber, had fallen into it through the RAF. Alex's bronze medal secured the funding and then we began to really systematise the sport.
"We put a very simple plan in place: to identify athletes with the potential to be the fastest starters in the world, put them on the ice every day - because there used to be a big sliding deficit to the other nations - employ the world's best coaches, and put them on cutting-edge equipment. Really for the last 14 years, all the sport has done is ruthlessly and relentlessly pursue that formula."
Simon Timson: "If you live in Koenigsee in deepest Bavaria, your Wednesday afternoon PE lesson from age six is luge. It's a finer, more difficult skill to master and takes a lot longer. You can't actually start bobsleigh or skeleton until you are 16, legally.
"So even if we don't start athletes like Amy Williams until they are 19 or 20, we don't have that same deficit in practice to make up that we have in luge, because realistically, how many British six-year-olds are going to be on a luge track every week?"
Britain does not have its own ice track but does have an impressive 140m push-start facility at the University of Bath.
The track, built in 2001, features wheeled sleds running on rails, and allows athletes to work on their sprint starts all year round. Around the world there are tracks in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, France, Norway, Japan, Canada and the United States of America. The British team mainly uses the Igls track in Austria as a base.
Timson: "For developing athletes, we aim for a minimum of 60 runs a year on ice, which doubles to 120 in year two. From then on we're chasing the magic figure of 120-150 runs a year, which is comparable to all the other countries. You're pulling five Gs [five times the force of gravity] so it might only be a minute's run, but it is incredibly attritional on the body. There is a limit to what you can do in a day."
Training, travel, talent identification, research and development, administration and staffing costs all come out of the UK Sport grant, plus private sponsorship.
British Skeleton received £2.1m of National Lottery and Exchequer investment from UK Sport for the four-year cycle leading up to Vancouver.
Williams's gold medal saw this rise to £3.4m for Sochi, making skeleton the most funded British winter sport.
"We knew someone had to win a medal in Vancouver or the sport wouldn't have received funding," said Williams. "That gold medal allowed this funding for Lizzy's programme to exist. That's the brutal side of it."
Timson's initial talent identification programme in summer 2002 picked out six aspiring athletes. They included Williams, Rudman, Greg Kirk, who won the world junior championships in 2004, and Adam Pengilly, who was a silver medallist at the World Championships in 2009 and is now an International Olympic Committee member.
Another talent campaign by UK Sport and the English Institute of Sport in 2008 called Girls4Gold spotted Yarnold, a county-level heptathlete. Four years later, she was the junior world champion and is now the Olympic champion.
A new scheme called Power2Podium for potential male and female sliders between 17 and 25 was launched in 2011 and will open again after Sochi.
"Power, speed, explosiveness out of the blocks," said Williams, a talented sprinter at the University of Bath.. "A fast push is so important - one-tenth of a second at the top could be two at the bottom.
"You are in the gym doing strength sessions every day to get that power off the block.
1924: Men (curling)
1936: Men (ice hockey)
1952: Jeannette Altwegg (figure skating)
1964: Tony Nash & Robin Dixon (two-man bobsleigh)
1976: John Curry (figure skating)
1980: Robin Cousins (figure skating)
1984: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (figure skating)
2002: Women (curling)
2010: Amy Williams (skeleton)
2014: Lizzy Yarnold (skeleton)
* Madge Syers won figure skating gold at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London
"Your head is also pushed into the ice by the G-force, so you have to have a very strong neck. You do similar things to rugby players in regards to strengthening the neck in training.
"The new breed of girls coming through are bigger and heavier than they have been in the past. Lizzy fits that profile perfectly.
"Plus, having the mindset and psychology of an athlete, being able to lie on that sled and be calm under pressure and react quickly to mistakes, not in five corners' time."
But as well as athletic ability, the selectors were looking for drive.
Williams explained: "For me, every decision, every single day was, 'Will this help me win gold, yes or no?' Is this ice cream going to help me? No? Then don't eat it. It was as brutal as that.
"It's all those little tiny decisions that give you confidence and all affect your performance. If you can perfect every part of your training in the summer when you are not on the track, it all mounts up."
Yarnold added: "Gold medal winners are made in the gym by getting there first and leaving last and you complete every rep to the best of your ability. That's what I have learnt from Amy - that normal girls can become champions. You just have to put in the effort, the time and the dedication."
Sled technology, as well as that for helmets and suits, is an ongoing quest for speed and better aerodynamics. Within certain boundaries, anything goes.
Bromley was nicknamed "Dr Ice" after earning his PhD from the University of Nottingham with a thesis entitled "Factors affecting the performance of skeleton bobsleds".
Bromley's early prototypes sparked the ongoing success of British skeleton, and he and Rudman still race on sleds designed and produced with his brother Richard by their company, Bromley Technologies Ltd.
UK Sport also has technology partnerships with BAE Systems and McLaren, of Formula 1 fame, who work with a number of British sports, including skeleton, cycling, sailing, rowing and canoeing, to provide cutting-edge research, design and engineering.
There is a big science behind this sport - it is not simply lying down on a sled.
"Williams's sled, which she called "Arthur and was designed by engineering post-graduates at the University of Southampton, was a product of this programme, as is Yarnold's sled "Mervyn", named after one of her early sponsors.
A sled costs up to about £15,000, but with the technology and research and development that goes into each GB sled the figure rises to £100,000.
"There is so much that goes into the skeleton that nobody sees," said Williams. "From the technology, to the runners on the sled, to the hours in the wind tunnel to perfect your aerodynamic positioning.
"Even before the race you are sewing up everything so nothing on your suit is flapping in the wind and causing drag. I could talk about all the details for hours.
"There is a big science behind this sport - it is not simply lying down on a sled.
"When I started, no-one taught me the science - the corners, the pressures, what the sled does, I had to figure it out. Now they get instruction straight away and the learning curve is massive."
In line with British Skeleton's early ethos to secure the best coaches, they landed Andi Schmid, an Austrian luger and former world skeleton champion. The 52-year-old from Innsbruck is supported by a team of world-class coaches and support staff.
"Starting from the very beginning, 12 years ago, there was nothing - just good ideas and strong people, but we had to start from scratch," said Schmid, who has had stints as both head coach and performance director.
"Because we don't have our own track, we have to be really strong in understanding how we coach and how we identify the right athletes."
Williams added: "It's really important to have coaches and athletes who are on that same wavelength. Lizzy and Andi have got a winning formula, like I did four years ago. The way they talk about her lines, the tracks and the steers, they've gone from strength to strength." | Lizzy Yarnold's gold medal in Sochi has cemented Britain's status as the dominant power in world skeleton. | 26200509 | [
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Jack Beales, 93, of Rhyl, carried out the attacks while she was a young girl, mainly when he was in his 70s.
He denied five charges of rape and six other sexual offences but was unanimously convicted by the jury at Mold Crown Court on 9 December.
Sentencing him on Wednesday, Judge Rhys Rowlands said Beales had destroyed his victim's childhood.
His victim, now aged in her 30s, took to the witness stand to read her victim impact statement.
The court heard the abuse began when she was aged six and continued for about 10 years.
She said she had wanted to commit suicide and hoped, when she confronted Beales last summer, it would bring some kind of closure.
But she said it had not and she was still on strong medication for depression and anxiety, and was awaiting counselling.
The court had heard she confronted Beales at his home and he admitted in front of her mother and his wife he had groped her as a child.
He later said "that was what men did".
The woman said every time she came into contact with Beales he made hurtful comments.
She said: "Once again I felt suicidal and felt I could not continue suffering while he was living a happy and carefree life, with no apparent suffering."
The woman said one of her biggest wishes in life was to start a family.
But she added: "I worry that there may be internal physical damage due to the abuse which may mean I am unable to conceive or carry a child to full term."
She said she felt she could not trust anyone and saw the world "as a very dangerous place".
"I am hyper vigilant when kids are left unattended or unsupervised around men," she told the court.
"I feel unable to relax, and as though I have a responsibility to be watchful over others."
Defending barrister Andrew Green said Beales had no previous convictions and accepted some acts had taken place but he denied other allegations including all the rapes.
Jailing him, Judge Rowlands said Beales did not have "an ounce of remorse" and was "devoid of any moral compass at all".
He will have to serve a further 12 months on licence.
Det Insp William Jones, of North Wales Police, said: "John (Jack) Beales was a manipulative and depraved sexual predator who committed multiple offences over a sustained period of time. He is now thankfully behind bars.
"No child should ever have to experience what the victim went through."
An NSPCC Wales spokesman said the victim "must be commended for showing incredible bravery in reporting what happened to her so Beales could eventually face justice for his crimes". | The victim of a pensioner jailed for 13 years for horrific sex attacks has told of the abuse that ruined her life. | 38320357 | [
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James Warnock, 56, has been convicted of the "horrifying" killing of Yiannoulla Yianni, 17, in 1982.
She was attacked while home alone in Hampstead, north London, the Old Bailey heard.
Warnock, formerly of Harrington Street, north-west London, was 22 at the time, and had denied the charges.
The case was one of the Met Police's unsolved murders before DNA samples from the scene matched to the former tiler in December last year.
In a victim impact statement Yiannoulla's family said: "For over half a lifetime we have had to live with the daily torture of what happened to our daughter and sister Lucy.
"All who knew her, loved and adored her.
"We now pray that we can move forward with the rest of our lives having some peace in knowing that her killer has been brought to justice and that a very dangerous man is no longer a threat to anyone else."
It was not until 1999 that DNA could be extracted from the bedspread in the case.
The court heard the Met Police got a "lucky break" in December when Warnock was arrested over indecent images of children and had to give a DNA sample.
The sample was found to be a match to semen found at the murder scene.
Reporting restrictions were lifted when Warnock admitted six indecent images offences relating to photos of young children and a baby in 2013 and 2015.
Warnock had earlier described himself to the court as having been very slim with dark hair, styled like the actor John Travolta, at the time of the murder on 13 August 1982.
Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told the trial that Yiannoulla had been with her parents parents Elli and George Yianni at their shoe repair shop a short distance from their home on the day of the attack, but went home early to prepare supper.
A man in his early 20s was spotted chatting with to her on the doorstep, before a neighbour heard a scream about 20 minutes later, the jury heard.
Her parents returned home to find jewellery scattered on the stairs and called out to her, before finding her partially naked body on their bed.
During the trial he claimed he had been in a sexual relationship with the schoolgirl after meeting her at the family's shop, but the court heard she was a virgin before the attack.
Warnock was living about half-a-mile from Yiannoulla's house at the time of her death, the court heard. Police said he had continued to live in the community in the years since the attack.
After the killing, a public appeal, including a televised reconstruction featuring the victim's sister Maria, went out but despite more than 1,000 people coming forward with information, no real suspects were identified.
Following the verdict, Det Insp Julie Willats said: "Lots of people came forward. Hundreds and hundreds of statements were taken over the years.
"I got a lucky break. It's the science that has solved this one for us."
"He must have known we would be coming for him.
"I'm sure Warnock thought he'd never be caught but historic murders such as this are never 'case closed'." | A man who described himself in court as looking like John Travolta has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a teenager 34 years ago. | 36794901 | [
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One Direction, an English-Irish boy band, is particularly popular. For most of November, the top hashtags trending in Russia either directly referenced One Direction or were promoted by the band's fans.
One example is "#1DRU" (which stands for "One Direction Russia") and another is "#PurposeFollowsMITAM" (which references recent albums by Justin Bieber and One Direction).
On most other days, the top-trending hashtags in Russia were also associated with Western pop culture, or its fans. Particularly active were followers of the bands My Chemical Romance and 5 Seconds of Summer, and TV or film series such as The Hunger Games, Teen Wolf and Shameless.
There was only one day in November when the top hashtag had anything to do with the day's news in Russia. On 24 November, Turkey shot down a Russian bomber on the border with Syria, and "#plane" was the top trending hashtag.
The starting point is usually a single tweet.
"Wow, I only need 33 more followers, let's trend #PerfectFollowsHistory," says a One Direction fan, mixing English words with Russian slang, and referring to an album and a song authored by the band.
The hashtag was trending within three hours, being tweeted more than 40 times a minute.
The main point of such "Twitter storms" is to get more followers. This tactic seems to work well, as some Russian One Direction fans boast tens of thousands of followers. User @vodkaforharry, for example, has 82,300.
The tweets are worlds away from the mood music in Russia's mainstream media, which echoes the Kremlin's belligerent rhetoric towards the West.
Russian pop fans, it would appear, do not see Twitter as a place to discuss the Ukrainian or Syrian conflicts.
Twitter is by no means representative of the whole of Russia. But the top-trending hashtags show that despite the political tensions, Western pop culture still casts a spell on many young and tech-savvy Russians.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Young Russians are using Twitter en masse to share their reverence for Western pop bands and TV series - in sharp contrast to Russia's mainstream state-controlled media. | 35064427 | [
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Those detained include players and directors from around 30 clubs from Italy's third and fourth divisions.
More than 70 people are also under investigation in the inquiry led by prosecutors in the southern town of Catanzaro.
Police said that some of those charged had links to mafia organisations.
Catanzaro prosecutors said they had uncovered an alleged network between club presidents, coaches, players, and some management members.
Those arrested are suspected of "conspiracy to commit sporting fraud", ANSA news agency said.
Police said they were studying suspicious results in dozens of matches.
Reports say that the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate is believed to be behind some of the match-fixing.
The syndicate is a network of clans in Calabria - in the 'toe' of Italy - that dominates the country's cocaine trade.
Local media said that one police officer was also involved in the scandal.
It is not yet clear whether Tuesday's police inquiry is linked to a previous anti-match-fixing operation.
Police had already placed more than 100 people under investigation for suspected match-fixing since 2011.
But prosecutors in the cities of Cremona, Bari and Naples had been focusing on Serie A and B matches. | Police have arrested more than 50 people as part of an investigation into suspected match-fixing in Italian football. | 32793892 | [
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They cited an unnamed government spokesman saying Friday's strike was an "intolerable act of aggression against a sovereign state".
The strikes followed Wednesday's suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held Syrian town which killed 89.
North Korea has carried out tests to develop a nuclear missile.
The UN has banned it from missile or nuclear tests.
But it has repeatedly broken those sanctions. It has successfully tested nuclear bombs of increasing power and claims to have been able to make warheads small enough to fit on a missile, but some experts have cast doubt on those claims.
On Friday, US missiles struck a Syrian airbase, killing at least six people. It was the first US attack on a Syrian government facility, although the country had previously targeted the Islamic State group in the region.
"The US missile attack against Syria is a clear and intolerable act of aggression against a sovereign state and we strongly condemn it," a government official in North Korea said, as quoted by the KCNA news agency.
"The reality of today shows that we must stand against power with power and it proves a million times over that our decision to strengthen our nuclear deterrence has been the right choice.
"Only military power of our own will protect us from imperialistic aggression.
"We will keep bolstering our self-defensive military might in various ways in order to cope with the ever-intensifying US acts of aggression." | North Korea says a US missile strike on Syria "proves a million times over" that it was right to strengthen its nuclear programme, state media report. | 39541391 | [
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The revolutionary technology will allow wind power to be harvested in waters too deep for the current conventional bottom-standing turbines used.
The Peterhead wind farm, known as Hywind, is a trial which will bring power to 20,000 homes.
Manufacturer Statoil says output from the turbines is expected to equal or surpass generation from current ones.
It hopes to cash in on a boom in the technology, especially in Japan and the West coast of the US, where waters are deep.
"This is a tech development project to ensure it's working in open sea conditions. It's a game-changer for floating wind power and we are sure it will help bring costs down," said Leif Delp, project director for Hywind.
So far, one giant turbine has already been moved into place, while four more wait in readiness in a Norwegian fjord.
By the end of the month they'll all have been towed to 15 miles off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, where they'll float upright like giant fishing floats.
While the turbines are currently very expensive to make, Statoil believes that in the future it will be able to dramatically reduce costs in the same way that manufacturers already have for conventional offshore turbines.
"I think eventually we will see floating wind farms compete without subsidy - but to do that we need to get building at scale," said Mr Delp.
The operation to begin shifting the first of the 11,500 tonne giants happened dramatically in the half-light of a Norwegian summer night.
Crews secured thick cables to tug boats and used remote-controlled submarines to check for obstacles.
Finally the giant was on the move, floating on a sealed vase-like tube 78 metres deep, its bottom filled with iron ore to weight the base and keep it upright in the water.
The price of energy from bottom-standing offshore wind farms has plummeted 32% since 2012 - far faster that anyone predicted.
The price is now four years ahead of the government's expected target, and another big price drop is expected, taking offshore wind to a much lower price than new nuclear power.
The Hywind project is being run in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi firm Masdar. The £190m cost was subsidised by bill-payers under the UK government's Renewable Obligation Certificates.
The bird charity RSPB Scotland opposed the project - not because it dislikes the technology but because it believes too many offshore turbines in the area have already been approved.
It fears thousands of sea birds may be killed by the offshore wind farms, although it admits that estimates are hugely uncertain because it is impossible to count bird corpses at sea.
The RSPB's Aidan Smith told BBC News: "Generally we are very enthusiastic about floating wind technology because it allows turbines to be placed far offshore - away from seabird nesting sites, and it helps us tackle climate change.
"We oppose the Hywind project because it adds to a situation we already believe is a problem."
Floating turbines may create a new frontier for energy - but scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warn far more investment in additional new technologies is urgently needed for governments to keep promises on reducing emissions.
Follow Roger on twitter @rharrabin | The world's first full-scale floating wind farm has started to take shape off the north-east coast of Scotland. | 40699979 | [
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Boro were the busiest Premier League club in July, making a total of eight new signings.
"We are not in a rush. We have the nucleus of the team so we just need to keep going," Karanka told BBC Tees.
"The better players we have, the more chance we have to stay in the Premier League."
Having narrowly missed promotion via the play-offs in 2015, Boro drew with promotion rivals Brighton on the final day of last season to earn promotion on goal difference and seal a return to the top flight after a seven-year absence.
The Teesside club have since been unbeaten throughout pre-season, but went a goal down after only 14 minutes of their 3-1 win over Aston Villa on Saturday - and Karanka is concerned about defensive frailties.
The 42-year old continued: "We need more [players], especially central defenders. That's the danger, where we need to improve.
"I don't want to put all the pressure on Dael Fry for example. He's brilliant, his future is more than brilliant and he's improving a lot every single day.
"But he needs to keep going forward doing the right steps and for that reason I think we need to bring [more players]."
Whilst Karanka wishes to bolster his defence, the Spaniard's priority is that any new signings fit into the team quickly.
"The main things for me is that [the new players] are settled in the team really well," he added.
"We are mixing players who two-and-a-half years ago were fighting to stay in the Championship with players who were playing in the Champions League two years ago, one year ago.
"But the spirit of the changing room is the same."
Middlesbrough will begin their Premier League campaign at home on Saturday, 13 August against Stoke City. | Boss Aitor Karanka says Middlesbrough are in no hurry to make further signings as they prepare to return to the Premier League. | 36942136 | [
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The ex-Bury and Sheffield United player was abused while at Crewe Alexandra from the age of 11 to 15.
His abuser, Barry Bennell, was jailed for nine years in 1998 after admitting sexual offences against six boys.
Warnock said Mr Woodward gave other alleged victims the courage to speak.
Mr Woodward, was the first to go public last week, and has since been followed by several others who have made allegations about being sexually abused by coaches as children.
Cheshire Police said 11 people had come forward after Mr Woodward waived his anonymity, including his fellow ex-Crewe player Steve Walters, 44, who said he had been abused by Bennell, when he was 13 or 14, during a trip to Anglesey.
A dedicated NSPCC hotline - 0800 023 2642 - set up after the abuse claims came to light, received more than 50 calls within its first two hours.
Abuse claims: Who has spoken out?
Football abused 'could number hundreds'
We must protect next generation - FA chief
Warnock said he had spoken to Mr Woodward before he went public.
''I had an hour with him on the phone and in that conversation he broke down in tears because it's horrific,'' the Cardiff manager said.
''It's alright saying it's a long time ago but to actually confront it in the media takes so much guts.
''I've told him how proud I am of him and I think by his bravery it will open up everything now and it will be a relief for so many ex-players that have been through the same situation.''
He added: ''I wasn't aware how bad it was at the time when I helped him. He was at Bury and I thought he was outstanding so I'd promised to take him with me when I went to Sheffield United.
''But then he just lost his form overnight with no real reason, until he spoke to me. I felt I had to carry on and take him because I'd given him my word.
''When you listen to his story and when I look back now, I couldn't understand it at the time and I don't think any of us could ever envisage what Andy and the other lads have had to go through.
''I think it becomes easier now. Now it's out in the open I think they can get on with their lives and I think Andy will help a lot of people. He's that type of person who will talk to those who want privacy and help them.
''It's a good thing he's set in motion because I think what Andy brought out is the tip of the iceberg and we'll see that in the coming months.''
Warnock said measures had been put in place in recent years regarding checks on young players' coaches and there was now support for those who need it.
He said: ''I think there has to be changes but we have everything in place, financially and everything, we have no excuse to let young lads down now.
''The helplines they are setting up at every level, if a parent's worried, there's help there. It has to be, not just the professionals, but the Sunday Leagues." | Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock has praised the bravery of his former player Andy Woodward for speaking out about being sexually abused by a coach as a child. | 38105791 | [
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Among those arrested were six suspects in Italy, four in Britain, and three in Norway. Police say some of the suspects may have travelled to Syria or Iraq.
Italy's Ansa news agency said the suspects were accused of international terrorism association.
The network was allegedly plotting to free its leader, Mullah Krekar, who is already in detention in Norway.
Krekar, the Iraqi-Kurdish founder of the radical Islamist group, Ansar al-Islam, is one of those held in the operation.
Two other suspects were arrested in Norway. The three of them are suspected of plotting attacks in Norway and other European countries, according to Italian police.
They face extradition to Italy.
Krekar - born Najm Faraj Ahmad - has served several jail sentences in recent years, including for praising the killing of staff at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January.
The anti-terrorism operation included investigations in the UK, Norway, Finland, Germany and Switzerland, Italian police said.
Arrest warrants were issued for 17 people and at least 13 were arrested.
The detainees are suspected of involvement in a group called Rawti Shax, described as a "terrorist organisation of Kurdish-Sunni origin".
Some suspects could not be located, as they are believed to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join jihadist organisations, according to the EU's judicial co-operation agency, Eurojust.
Sixteen are Kurdish or Kosovan, according to Ansa news agency.
In a statement, Eurojust said Rawti Shax - or Didi Nwe - represented "an evolution" of Ansar al-Islam, which is listed by the UN as a terrorist organisation affiliated with al-Qaeda.
According to the Italian investigation, it was founded in Europe, with cells operating via the internet. | Police have targeted 17 people in raids in several European countries connected to a suspected jihadist network. | 34798126 | [
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After decades of struggle for a more equal society, it is now presumed that every disabled child will get the opportunity to attend a mainstream school where possible.
However, what does real inclusion mean in practice and is the system a success? Or are disabled children drifting to the back of the class?
In my documentary Am I Included? - which is being shown this week at 19:30 on Wednesday on BBC One Scotland - I get the opportunity of putting this question to not only the professionals, but also to the students and their families.
Thinking back to my own experience of school in the late 1960s and 1970s, things were very different for disabled people.
There were no technological solutions that would help, like talking computers, video magnifiers and the myriad of phone apps which can tell you colours, count your money, give you travel directions and so on.
The school buildings were generally inaccessible for many youngsters with physical disabilities. It wasn't until the last 15 years, when we began building new schools, that accessibility actually improved.
So it's much easier today to include children with disabilities into their local schools, which should enable a fairer education.
However, is being included just about being able to get in the front door? Does this mean that you are properly included in all aspects of school life?
The issues, of course, are extremely complicated. It does come down to a long list of factors: the disability itself and what impact it has on the child; how they are assessed; the attitudes of teachers and all the staff and children; and the school ethos.
Do the teachers have experience of teaching life skills to a child with disabilities? Is the funding there to make it happen? Plus, and this is really important, is the child actually thriving within the school?
As a blind person, I feel I can speak with some experience, as I've experienced three different kinds of education systems: mainstream primary education; a specialist secondary school for a range of children with various disabilities; and, latterly, a college education aimed exclusively at visually impaired students.
The Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford was the best for me. It is an institution aimed not only at academia, but also towards developing a person who can function as independently as possible in their own community.
They focused on mobility, daily living skills, social skills and academic qualifications. They even taught me Braille which, for an 18-year-old, was far too late - I should have been taught how to use this from the age of five!
It was the lack of support from a peer group which I missed throughout my primary and secondary education.
It was not until the age of 18 that I met up with other people who had a visual impairment like mine.
Finding out about the world with other visually impaired people was essential for me to understand my own value.
It helped me understand that my experience of the world could be understood by my peers. I fitted in with ease and we had a common bond which made us stronger.
Fundamentally, I received specialist input from people who understood my disability.
Clearly there are plenty of children with disabilities who do very well in mainstream schools across Scotland, but there are also plenty who are struggling.
I know the documentary will raise more questions than it answers.
If it does nothing else, I hope it reopens the debate.
Am I Included? will be broadcast on BBC One Scotland at 19:30, and later available on the BBC iPlayer. | We have now had 16 years of mainstream education for children with disabilities in Scotland. | 38380525 | [
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The 91-year-old, alongside the firm's former chief financial officer Howard Smith, is accused of engineering bogus transactions to hide the insurance giant's financial difficulties.
Both have denied the allegations.
The charges were filed by then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in 2005, but Mr Greenberg and Mr Smith have fought them, saying they have no merit.
However, the Court of Appeals said there's enough evidence for the trial to proceed.
Current New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he wanted to pursue the case to show "no one, no matter how rich or powerful, can evade responsibility for misconduct."
Mr Greenberg's lawyer, David Boies, has said he believes the lawsuit was driven by Mr Spitzer's political motivations.
"This case was brought by Eliot Spitzer expressly because he was angry at Hank Greenberg," Mr Boies said.
The trial before Justice Charles Ramos of New York state court in Manhattan, which will take place three days a week, is expected to last for up to six months.
The insurance giant almost collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis.
The firm, which issued credit guarantees for sub-prime mortgages, was bailed out by the US government, which took an 80% stake in the firm and provided nearly $185bn in aid.
Sub-prime loans are those given to people with patchy credit histories or who cannot prove their incomes.
Mr Greenberg resigned from the firm in March 2005. | Former AIG boss Hank Greenberg is to go on trial in New York this week over a decade after civil charges were filed. | 37355711 | [
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The prime minister said Labour had a "brass neck" to claim they were on the side of ordinary working families.
Under the £350m Conservative plans, the amount of state-subsidised childcare for three and four year-olds would be doubled to 30 hours a week.
Labour said it was "another unfunded announcement", accusing the Conservatives of "desperation".
The Liberal Democrats said the plans "ignore working families with the youngest children".
BBC political correspondent Carole Walker said Mr Cameron was attempting to switch the focus of the campaign to one of his party's key announcement after several days dominated by warnings about the SNP and a future Labour government.
The party is likely to face questions about how it would ensure sufficient childcare places are available, she added.
Currently, all three and four-year olds in England are entitled to 570 hours of free early education or childcare a year, which works out as 15 hours each week for 38 weeks of the year.
The Conservatives said the 30-hour offer from 2017, announced a week ago, would result in more than 600,000 extra 15-hour free childcare places every year.
They said the proposal would be funded by reducing tax relief on pension contributions.
Labour has pledged 25 hours of free childcare a week and the Liberal Democrats 20 hours, although both parties also plan to extend the offer to younger children.
Mr Cameron said his government inherited a "shocking" situation, "where couples were spending as much on childcare as one of them took home in earnings".
He added that "for many second earners, work didn't pay because the cost of childcare was so high".
A Conservative government would expand on the changes made in the last Parliament, Mr Cameron said.
"If you're a working parent with one child you can rest assured that by the time they're three they'll be able to go to nursery for 30 hours a week completely free," Mr Cameron said.
"And we have legislated also for tax free childcare for anything outside that - so if you spend ten thousand pounds on childcare you'll get two thousand pounds back for each child."
But Labour's shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: "Hard-working families will not be fooled by the £600m gap in funding for this policy, as announced last week."
He said Labour had a "better plan" including a "guarantee of access" to childcare between 08:00 and 18:00 for primary age children.
And Liberal Democrat equalities minister Jo Swinson said: "Tory plans for childcare ignore working families with the youngest children, which could leave some parents locked out of the labour market for years on end."
She said her party would extend early-years education to all two-year-olds and ensure free childcare support kicked in as soon as paid parental leave ended for working mums and dads.
"This will help with the cost of childcare and ensure working parents have a genuine choice about when to return to work," she added.
The UK Independence Party says it will continue to fund the current free 15-hour a week childcare scheme and in-coming tax-free childcare scheme - although they would de-regulate childcare provision "to address the shortage places and cut the cost to both parents and the state".
* Subscribe to the BBC Election 2015 newsletter to get a round-up of the day's campaign news sent to your inbox every weekday afternoon. | David Cameron says he will create 600,000 extra free childcare places if he is returned to power next month. | 32407934 | [
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The medicine does not contain the ingredient that produces the high associated with recreational cannabis.
The treatment, called Epidiolex, is based on one of the non-psychoactive components of the cannabis plant, CBD.
Early studies in the US have shown treatment with CBD may reduce the frequency and severity of seizures in children with severe forms of epilepsy.
The new trial marks the first time the treatment has been tested in the UK.
Patients are being enrolled for a trial of the treatment at Edinburgh University's Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, based at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow and Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool are also driving the study.
There are further centres in the US, France and Poland.
Their initial focus will be on children with Dravet Syndrome, a rare but serious type of epilepsy that is difficult to treat. Some children will receive the treatment while others will receive a placebo.
In a further phase, researchers will also study the effect on children with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.
Only children whose seizures cannot be controlled with existing medications will take part in the trial.
Dravet Syndrome usually takes hold in the first year of life. It causes seizures that are often prolonged, lasting longer than five minutes.
They then develop other seizure types. This has a significant impact on the child's development and can be fatal in some cases.
Epidiolex has been developed by the British biotechnology company GW Pharmaceuticals, which is sponsoring and funding the trial.
Dr Richard Chin, director of the Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre, said: "Many children with serious forms of epilepsy do not respond to the medications that we currently have available.
"We need new means of treating these conditions so that we can give back some quality of life to these children and their families." | Children with severe epilepsy could be helped by a new treatment derived from the cannabis plant. | 30496780 | [
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Jed Wallace almost broke the deadlock midway through the first half of the replay but his brilliant volley was saved by Shots keeper Phil Smith.
Molesley wasted a good chance for the hosts after the break when he headed wide while Dan Holman had a shot saved.
But Molesley bundled the ball home after a huge scramble from a corner.
The goal came with 10 minutes remaining and sparked celebrations inside an atmospheric Electrical Services Stadium.
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It was an incredibly scrappy goal, with Portsmouth spurning several opportunities to clear the corner.
The last of these fell to Alex Wynter, who was off balance on the line and could not manage to kick the ball to safety.
The first tie had finished 2-2, with Molesley also on the scoresheet at Fratton Park.
And after the victory on Wednesday, the midfielder said: "You can see what it means to everyone. The FA Cup gives a lifeline to so many clubs and boy do we need it. It was a gritty performance, a blood and thunder cup tie and that suited us."
The result means that Pompey are still looking for their first victory in the FA Cup since they defeated Tottenham in the semi-final of the 2010 competition.
The Shots can now look forward to testing themselves against a League One side when Rochdale visit on 7 December.
Aldershot Town manager Andy Scott told BBC Surrey:
"It's fantastic - we've played two games against a big club like Portsmouth and been the better side over those two games.
"It's been a fantastic effort from the lads and it's great to have another clean sheet. We are on a good run of form and that is absolutely brilliant.
"They've always believed in themselves and we have had a tough time but they keep working ever so hard in training and they are a great bunch to be around."
Match ends, Aldershot Town 1, Portsmouth 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 1, Portsmouth 0.
Attempt missed. Danny Hollands (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Nigel Atangana.
Foul by Danny Hollands (Portsmouth).
Nabi Diallo (Aldershot Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Aldershot Town. Conceded by Alex Wynter.
Attempt saved. Miles Storey (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jed Wallace.
Foul by Jed Wallace (Portsmouth).
Jordan Roberts (Aldershot Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jaydon Gibbs (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ricky Holmes (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jaydon Gibbs (Aldershot Town).
Attempt missed. Ricky Holmes (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Danny Hollands (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Molesley (Aldershot Town).
Substitution, Portsmouth. Miles Storey replaces Craig Westcarr.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Patrick Agyemang replaces Ryan Taylor.
Goal! Aldershot Town 1, Portsmouth 0. Mark Molesley (Aldershot Town) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Glenn Wilson (Aldershot Town) right footed shot from very close range is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Joe Oastler (Aldershot Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Brett Williams (Aldershot Town) header from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Jordan Roberts with a cross.
Corner, Aldershot Town. Conceded by Paul Jones.
Attempt saved. Dan Holman (Aldershot Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Jaydon Gibbs.
Attempt missed. Manny Oyeleke (Aldershot Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Kieran Forbes.
Corner, Aldershot Town. Conceded by Paul Robinson.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Ben Chorley replaces Jack Whatmough.
Attempt saved. Dan Holman (Aldershot Town) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Joe Oastler.
Jack Whatmough (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jack Whatmough (Portsmouth).
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Attempt blocked. Nigel Atangana (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Jed Wallace (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Manny Oyeleke (Aldershot Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kieran Forbes following a corner.
Corner, Aldershot Town. Conceded by Paul Jones.
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Danny Hollands (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Manny Oyeleke (Aldershot Town).
Joe Oastler (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ricky Holmes (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Joe Oastler (Aldershot Town). | Non-league Aldershot Town will play Rochdale in the second round of the FA Cup after Mark Molesley struck a late winner against League Two Portsmouth. | 29999399 | [
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The Star Wars superfan made £15,000 selling a single Boba Fett figure, and now he's selling another 15 rare items.
Craig Stevens sold the pristine, unopened bounty hunter toy at auction house Vectis last month.
Now the next batch of his galactic goods are expected to fetch between £28,000 to £40,000.
The most highly valued item this time is a Palitoy FX-7 medical droid from The Empire Strikes Back.
A similar item sold last year for around £8,400.
What makes his profit margins seem more out of this world, is that the Boba Fett figure would have set you back £1.50 in 1980.
If you're reading this thinking it's a no-brainer for Craig, he agrees.
He said: "I'm living in a rented flat in my home town. You think to yourself, 'I'm in a flat and I've got a box of figures worth as much as a house'.
"There's no contest really."
He might even be able to run to a swimming pool - he's got 10,000 more items in his collection of Star Wars memorabilia.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Most collectors would probably tell you they couldn't put a price on their beloved collectables, but Craig Stevens probably had to re-think that one. | 31599368 | [
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For weeks he has come under pressure to step down as investigations continue into allegations that his wife was paid large sums of public money for a job she did not do.
But having won a battle with his centre-right party, what now are Mr Fillon's chances in the fight for the Elysee Palace?
He will have his work cut out if he is to claw back the lead he once held in France's presidential race. The latest opinion poll on Tuesday placed him third, on 19%, several points behind centrist Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen of the far-right National Front.
Mr Fillon has stuck fast to his hard-core base for the past six weeks, as an investigation into his wife's employment whipped up a storm around his campaign.
As centrist supporters deserted him in droves, he barely blinked.
When his campaign manager and senior spokesman quit, Mr Fillon brushed it aside.
When dozens of MPs deserted him, he retorted that he would do without them all.
When polls suggested that he would struggle to reach the second round run-off, Mr Fillon ploughed on, determined to show that he retained the support of his most loyal followers.
In that sense, his management of the scandal seems to have been a success.
Tens of thousands of people turned out in the rain to rally around him on Sunday. But his handling of the allegations against him, and the media attention surrounding them, have also marked a sharp change in tone for France's most establishment presidential candidate, with new tactics borrowed from the populist playbook.
Sunday's rally was initially described by Mr Fillon as a protest against political interference in the judiciary. He has complained of an "institutional coup d'etat", suggesting that the Socialist government is behind the allegations currently being investigated.
At press conferences recently he has presented himself as the victim a "political assassination", of a "lynching" by the media, and he has accused investigators of leaking only one side of the evidence in his case.
Mr Fillon has said he will leave it up to the voters to judge him, not a "biased [judicial] process".
But attacking the nation's institutions while running for office has not gone down well with some party colleagues. Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, on French radio, called it "dangerous" and "irresponsible".
The man Mr Fillon beat to become Republican candidate, Alain Juppe, accused him of leading the campaign into an impasse. "He had a wide open road before him," he said. "What a waste."
There was a sceptical response, too, to the claim by Mr Fillon's team that Sunday's rally had drawn 200,000 people to the Trocadero in Paris.
Several journalists remarked that the plaza only held around 35,000 people when full. The claim of 200,000 is still prominently featured on Mr Fillon's campaign website.
There is now talk of a "Trumpisation" of the centre-right candidate, with several commentators and news outlets comparing him to the US president.
It is a very different side of a politician many saw as calm, unruffled and rather phlegmatic; "impervious to demagoguery and exaggeration", as Le Monde put it.
But will the same tactics work to win back the broader votes he needs in the election itself?
Mr Fillon might claim legitimacy from the people, but he is still a risk for his party. He is due to appear before a judge on 15 March and says he expects to be placed under formal investigation.
Attacking the media, government and judiciary might work with his most loyal supporters, but it has driven many other voters away.
If this is the new face of Francois Fillon, some might wonder what that says about the future of French politics itself. | French presidential candidate Francois Fillon has avoided an abrupt end to his campaign by securing the support of his divided Republican Party. | 39196979 | [
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Scientists agree that such attacks are extremely rare - and that sharks are not the man-eaters depicted in Hollywood blockbusters such as Jaws.
But they will try to determine why the sharks were lured into shallow waters, and what prompted them to carry out a series of attacks that left one person dead and several more injured.
So far, two sharks - an oceanic white tip and a mako shark - have been caught by local fishermen, but experts say there is no evidence so far that either of them are responsible for the attacks.
There is an abundance of oceanic white tip sharks - Carcharhinus longimanus - in the Red Sea. Divers have spoken of diving with oceanic white tips without feeling threatened.
Sources: International Union for Conservation of Nature and International Shark Attack Files
But Ian Fergusson, a shark biologist and patron of the Shark Trust, a UK conservation organisation, said the presence of the short-fin mako shark was intriguing.
Oceanic white tips frequent the region but it was unusual for swimmers to encounter them in shallow waters, he said, and it was very rare for shortfin makos to be found in the Red Sea - and exceptionally rare to find them close to shore.
He said the last time a short-fin mako attacked in the area was in 1970s, when a tourist was wounded in an attack off Eilat's reefs.
Mr Fergusson, a regular visitor to the area, said it would not be difficult for a shark to get close to the shore in Sharm el-Sheikh.
"That particular part of the coastline is bordering on deep water. You don't have to go far offshore to find yourself in 500 metres of water. Sharks can get within half a mile of the shore easily. They don't, for example, have to cross reefs to get there."
According to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack Files, there are an estimated 70-100 shark attacks on humans per year, resulting in about five to 15 deaths. Of those, the oceanic white tip is responsible for only a small number.
But the large oceanic sharks were also the main culprits behind countless attacks on sailors and airmen who, after air and sea battles, found themselves adrift in the Pacific during World War II.
So what could have prompted the latest attacks?
There has been speculation that animal carcasses were recently dumped into the Red Sea, not far off the shore. Some reports have suggested the remains could have been thrown overboard by a ship carrying animal cargo.
"If you start dumping carcasses, you couldn't ask for a better way of baiting for sharks," said Mr Fergusson.
David Jacoby, who specialises in shark behavioural ecology at The Marine Biological Association of the UK, agreed that if this is the case, it was likely to be a significant factor in the sharks' behaviour.
"Pelagic, or oceanic, species of shark often feed opportunistically because the open ocean can be a sparse environment for food," he said.
While less is known about the movements and behaviour of the oceanic white tip, compared with some other species, Mr Jacoby offered another possible explanation as to why the sharks might have been in shallow water.
Based on evidence, experts know that in other shark species, larger females move into warmer, shallow waters to either aid gestation - which can be between 9-12 months in white tips depending on the temperature - or to pup, although from what little evidence there is, it seems that oceanic white tips probably pup in the early summer.
"Both species [white tips and makos] rarely encounter people as they spend large amounts of their time in blue water - open ocean," said Mr Jacoby.
"Like other species, the oceanic white tip is opportunistic and can be fairly aggressive. It is hard to speculate why they attack but they might if they felt they were threatened.
"They are not coming specifically to attack humans - they are not seen as a food source. But if a white tip or mako felt threatened, felt cornered by lots of people in the water, or next to a reef, for example, it might display more aggressive behaviour as a defence mechanism.
"They are opportunistic and it could just be a case of people being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Or, he said, they could be cases of mistaken identity - the shark misinterpreting a human for its normal prey.
Mr Jacoby said shiny objects in the water could attract attention from sharks - so if the sharks were already in the area, shiny jewellery might be a trigger.
There has also been speculation that sharks could have have moved to shallow water because of the depletion of local food sources in the area, but Mr Jacoby disagrees with this.
"This would surely have the opposite effect," he said.
He explains that sharks adopt search behaviour aiming to maximise their encounters with food sources. Therefore, there is likely to be a relationship between natural prey distributions - fish, squid etc - and shark distributions, as the sharks generally try and go where the food is.
However, if a potential food source such as carcasses have been discarded close to shore, some sharks would naturally pick up on this and opportunistically feed there. This would increase the numbers of sharks in the area, making interactions with people more likely.
In the past, shark attacks on snorkellers have been blamed on shoddy diving practices such as "chumming" - attracting sharks by throwing solid bait or pouring chum, a mash of fish oil and blood, into the water.
This type of activity aims to attract sharks such as oceanic white tips, which tend to stay out in the ocean.
But Mr Fergusson said he didn't "buy" this theory.
"Recent studies in South Africa have shown that chumming has limited effect on shark behaviour.
"This is partly because these sharks are such migratory species, and mainly because this is a Marine National Park, any feeding is prohibited - anyone found doing it would be arrested and jailed."
He said a more compelling argument could be a continued decline in pelagic fish stocks having an impact on the natural foraging behaviour of certain shark species.
While any degradation to the ecosystem of the local reef wouldn't necessarily affect the oceanic white tip because this is outside of its natural habitat, Mr Fergusson said this could "point to a larger issue of general offshore fishing of tuna and other big fish whittling down and influencing the food chain".
In Egypt, the hunt is still on for the shark that carried out the latest, fatal attack.
Mark Murphy, who runs a scuba diving holiday firm in London, told the BBC that the local authorities would probably aim to have a "quick clean-up of the area".
"There are over four million visitors a year to the Red Sea and there hasn't been a single incident within the last five years," said Mr Murphy.
"I am saddened that the Egyptian government has decided to slaughter sharks indiscriminately. Over 70 million sharks a year are killed by humans and they are an essential part of the marine ecosystem."
In any case, according to US-based shark expert Samuel Gruber, finding the predator or predators would be extremely difficult. | International shark experts are arriving in Egypt to help investigate the attacks off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh that have baffled local officials. | 11926406 | [
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A proposed amendment to the Finance Bill by the SNP and Plaid Cymru, which would have prevented the increase, was defeated by a majority of 295.
A Labour-backed amendment calling for the move to be delayed pending an assessment of its impact on vulnerable groups was also defeated.
Ministers have said the tax rise is "unavoidable" to reduce the deficit.
In a further vote, MPs approved the VAT rise by 321 to 246, a government majority of 75.
The votes came during a lengthy debate on the bill, which enacts last month's Budget, in the Commons.
Chancellor George Osborne has said the planned rise in the main rate of VAT from 17.5% to 20% is estimated to raise £13bn towards reducing the £155bn deficit.
The move was controversial as the Conservatives said they had "no plans" to raise it during the election while the Lib Dems attacked the Tories - now their now-coalition partners - saying their plans would necessitate a "VAT bombshell".
But neither the Conservatives, Labour nor the Lib Dems ruled out raising VAT before the general election.
MPs discussed a group of 16 opposition amendments - including a bid by the SNP to scrap the rise altogether and several Labour amendments, including one which would delay the VAT rise until the government has assessed its impact on pensioners, children and those on low fixed incomes.
The SNP amendment was defeated by 316 votes to 21.
Another Labour amendment, which was also defeated, would have exempted groups such as charities, local authorities and other groups from the VAT rise.
A Lib Dem MP, Andrew George, tabled an amendment to peg the rise to just 0.5% - from 17.5% to 18%.
"Of all the measures to restore the public finances it seems to me that a VAT rise has to be among the least welcome of all of the alternatives," he told MPs.
Treasury minister David Gauke said VAT was "one of the few levers available" to the government to address the shortfall in the public finances.
"Any sensible government would consider it. And, given the circumstances we're in, any government would do it." He added: "We had to raise VAT because there was no money left."
But shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne said Britain's pensioners may face "an £8bn VAT bill over the course of this Parliament".
In an interview with the BBC's Daily Politics earlier, shadow chancellor Alistair Darling confirmed Labour had looked at raising VAT to 18% or 19% and said he did "not have a philosophic problem with that" as long as "you do something to help people on low fixed incomes" like pensioners and to ease the effect of spending cuts.
He said Labour's amendment was not a "blanket refusal to put up VAT" but a "reasoned and considered amendment" which was calling on the government to do more to help those worst hit by a VAT rise. | The government has seen off calls in Parliament to scrap its planned rise in VAT to 20% from next January. | 10617724 | [
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Rashan Charles, 20, was wrestled to the ground in Dalston, east London, on 22 July, and died about an hour later.
On Friday, clashes broke out in Hackney as protesters blocked part of Kingsland Road and set mattresses alight.
A spokesman for Mr Charles's family said they understood the anger but called for "dignified" protest.
"Burning down homes will not give justice," he said.
Mr Charles was pursued by officers and became ill after trying to swallow an object, the Met has said.
He died soon after in hospital. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating.
Police warned that anyone using Mr Charles's death "as an excuse to commit crime" would be "dealt with robustly".
Appealing for calm, family spokesman Stafford Scott said: "We understand your frustration, we understand your anger - don't feel that the family doesn't feel the anger and the frustration too.
"But what the family knows is taking it to the streets doesn't give you justice.
"Burning down your own homes, burning down your neighbourhood is not going to give you justice."
Mr Scott, who runs race advocacy group Tottenham Rights, said black people had historically found it difficult "to win the hearts and minds of people".
"We get no empathy, we get no sympathy. But this case is different - for once we've got the evidence.
"For once we're not relying on the IPCC or the police to gather the evidence. The world has seen it and will feel it if we don't get justice."
He added the family needed to "fight this properly" and had sought the best legal support.
Mr Scott said the family asked the community "to support them in their struggle, to be dignified when they expect us to be wild".
Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott told the protest she supported Mr Charles's parents and would not rest until questions were answered.
In an earlier statement, the shadow home secretary said: "The anger and upset at the death of Rashan Charles is understandable.
"But Rashan's family have explicitly spoken out against hostile actions. We must respect their wishes and any protests must be peaceful."
The anger of the protesters is clear. Many chanted "Justice for Rashan", clutching pictures of him along with their placards.
Some confronted the police officers there to keep an eye on the demonstration, demanding answers.
There were none forthcoming. That's because the investigation is now in the hands of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. It will be their job to determine exactly what happened.
Some campaigners, though, say there are too many of these investigations, too many lives being lost.
They feel that their voices are too often not heard. There was much talk of the CCTV footage that captured the moment Rashan Charles was restrained.
That has been pored over frame by frame, with many different interpretations of what happened, and many questions raised by it.
Despite the anger, the vigil passed off peacefully, but the campaigners say they will not be silenced. They left though with the words of the family ringing in their ears: "We want peace on the streets."
On Friday evening, demonstrators blocked part of Kingsland Road.
At one point protesters, some wearing masks, jumped on to a lorry and clung to the wing mirrors as it drove through the barricade.
Scores of missiles were later launched at police as they attempted to disperse the group.
Police in Hackney tweeted: "Officers have been subjected to abuse and violence. Whatever the frustrations, this is patently not what the family of Rashan Charles wanted."
The Met Police has since said that the violence that erupted on Friday night was "separate" from a peaceful protest that was held earlier in the day.
Det Supt Claire Crawley said: "Thankfully nobody was seriously injured, but there was inconvenience to local residents and road users and damage caused to vehicles, a cash machine and a number of windows.
"We will always support the right to lawful protest but behaviour such as that seen last night cannot be tolerated." | The family of a black man who died after being apprehended by police has appealed for peace after violent protests in the wake of his death. | 40764673 | [
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The future of the outdoor pool in Milford Haven was uncertain after the county council voted to cut its £1,000 annual budget.
But the town's Astoria nightclub and the Church at Nantucket donated £1,000 to keep it open this year.
Members of the Milford Haven Ladies Circle also offered to prepare the pool ready for its opening in July.
Pembrokeshire council said it would work with elected members, the town council and the community to "ensure a bright future for the town's paddling pool".
Mayor of Milford Haven, Colin Sharp, said the pool had "always been an important feature in Milford Haven" but its future was still unclear. | A Pembrokeshire paddling pool which had its funding cut will open this summer thanks to donations. | 40117772 | [
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Most of the deaths resulted from a stampede as hundreds of students rushed to escape the blaze through two exits, the Kano state officials said.
Twenty-five others were injured in the fire which broke out as students were sleeping at the government-run girls school in Jogana village, they added.
It is not being treated as suspicious.
Fire-fighters spent seven hours trying to put out the blaze, an eyewitness told the BBC's Hausa service.
The government has closed the boarding school and ordered a full investigation into the fire. | At least seven female students have died after a fire at a boarding school hostel near the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday night, officials say. | 34964564 | [
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Indongo, unbeaten in 21 fights prior to this unification contest, forced his fellow 34-year-old on to the back foot for much of the fight.
Burns rallied in the fifth and sixth rounds but the tall southpaw emerged a worthy winner.
That was reflected in the judges' scoring - 120-108, 118-110, 116-112.
"The better man won on the night, no excuses," said Burns. And no-one could argue.
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This was Burns' third fight at the Hydro and 13th at world title level, while Indongo - "on a mission" from Namibia's president Hage Geingob - was fighting overseas for only the second time as a professional.
On his first, in December, he knocked out IBF champion Eduard Troyanovsky in Moscow.
It was clear from early in Saturday's fight that Indongo would try to use his greater height and reach to throw jabs at Burns' head, and he did this to good effect in the opening three minutes.
Burns has started slowly in recent fights before finding his rhythm, and the Namibian began much the livelier, bouncing around the centre of the ring against a hesitant home fighter.
Indeed, he looked to have won the first four rounds by dint of his greater work-rate and accuracy, though Burns was beginning to connect with his right.
With their man having 47 bouts under his belt to Indongo's 21, the home fans may have wondered if the tactic was to use his experience to let his opponent tire himself out.
Rounds five and six signalled an improvement in Burns' form, with his aggression rewarded as Indongo was forced backwards for the first time.
The lead Indongo had built was thanks to the accumulation of cleaner shots rather than anything that badly hurt the Coatbridge fighter in his 17th year as a professional.
And, though Burns was still strong in defence, by the time the ninth round had ended he must have realised he was trailing heavily on the scorecards.
His task in the remaining three rounds had to be to stop Indongo for the first time in his nine-year career.
That looked increasingly unlikely as he struggled to get inside to inflict damage. Too often he was over-stretching to land a meaningful shot, and when he did trouble Indongo his opponent snuffed out the attack with footwork and by holding on.
It leaves Burns' dreams of a further unification bout against Terence Crawford in Las Vegas in tatters, though it would be a surprise if he was considering retiring.
Ricky Burns: "He was so so awkward. He was a lot better than we thought he was going to be. He can hit as well.
"I'm going to have all the doubters saying I'm finished - but I'll come again.
"He started the rounds fast and the height and reach advantage meant he was out of my distance."
Julius Indongo: "I feel very proud. My home crowd are watching. It's for the whole of Africa. This is so great.
"I am very proud for opening my doors and now the world can see me."
Adam Booth, David Haye's former trainer, on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra:
"It was pretty one-dimensional from Ricky Burns, who was trying to jump in from long distance on a fighter who was bigger, with longer arms and a heavy puncher.
"Indongo was dominant, knew what he was about, kept swinging dangerous bombs and didn't let Burns in at all.
"In the last two rounds, when he had the match won, he still wanted to dominate, and like true champions, wanted to get rid of his challenger.
"He ticks all the right boxes. It is going to take a high-level operator to cope with him. I think Terence Crawford is that kind of guy." | Scotland's Ricky Burns failed to unify the super-lightweight division as his WBA title was taken by IBF and IBO champion Julius Indongo in Glasgow. | 39611722 | [
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Wednesday's matinee was curtailed before that evening's show was called off completely.
Ticket holders for both shows will be offered refunds, a show representative has confirmed.
Thursday's performance will go ahead as scheduled at London's Cambridge Theatre, it has since been announced.
An audience member at Wednesday's matinee told the BBC the show was stopped after approximately 30 minutes.
A representative for the theatre then came on stage and said the actress playing Matilda was unable to sing the rest of the songs, so would speak the lyrics instead.
The show's interval was then extended by around 15 minutes.
At the end of the interval, the theatre representative returned and said the actress's voice had deteriorated further and that the performance would be cut short.
The rest of the cast then performed three songs from the second half of the show while a member of the production team narrated the story.
One audience member who was at Wednesday's matinee said the afternoon had left her "genuinely gutted".
She continued: "£75 a ticket is not cheap, and not having a healthy understudy for that price is unacceptable."
"Obviously we were disappointed not to see the whole show," tweeted Debbie Stoddart, another member of the audience.
"But it was evident from the first song that Matilda wasn't well so it was the right thing to stop the show.
"The most important thing is the well-being of the cast, specifically the younger ones."
The Royal Shakespeare Company's production is based on Roald Dahl's popular children's novel.
It was adapted for the stage by playwright Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin.
The show became a huge box office success when it opened in London's West End in 2011.
The following year the production won seven Oliviers, a record at the time. It later transferred to Broadway.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | One performance of West End musical Matilda was cancelled and another cut short after several members of its cast and their understudies became ill. | 38403061 | [
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Morgan Owen, from Buckley, Flintshire, died after being restrained on 5 December. He had also been stunned with a Taser by police two days earlier.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) backed North Wales Police's actions.
An inquest jury concluded the death was accidental through taking cocaine.
The inquest in Abergele, Conwy county, heard Mr Owen, 24, suffered cardiac arrest as a result of taking the drug. He was found to have "toxic" levels of cocaine in his body.
He collapsed shortly after being held by members of the public because he was kicking cars as he made his way along Farm Road.
Police were called and Mr Owen was handcuffed but officers noticed almost immediately he had no pulse and attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
The inquest focused on the attitude of the officers towards him.
Officers had also been called to other incidents in the days before Mr Owen's death including the one where the Taser was used.
The jury was told of concerns that more was not done to respond to his mental state and questions were raised about whether he was treated appropriately given the behaviour he was demonstrating.
The IPCC investigation looked at a number of complaints from Mr Owen's family about the police handling of the incidents.
It found where police used force, including deploying the Taser, it was necessary and appropriate.
It added police had taken steps to assist Mr Owen's welfare and to protect others and tried along with a member of the public to resuscitate him before paramedics arrived.
IPCC Commissioner Jan Williams said: "Ultimately this was a very sad series of incidents.
"Our investigation found that North Wales Police officers did act in a proportionate and reasonable way in their interactions with Morgan." | Action taken by police on a soldier who died after being handcuffed during a disturbance was "reasonable and proportionate", an investigation found. | 34619234 | [
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Nama sold its entire Northern Ireland portfolio to Cerberus, a US investment fund, in 2014.
The Irish Times has reported that the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) will say that failings in the sales process could have resulted in "hundred of millions of euro" not being realised.
Nama, an Irish state agency, was established in 2009 to take control of billions of euro of bad property loans which were damaging the Irish banks.
Controversy around the sales process has centred on the role of the businessman and former Nama advisor Frank Cushnahan.
While working as an advisor to Nama he began talking to a US investment fund, Pimco, which was interested in buying the portfolio.
He then left his Nama role and went on to assist the fund with its bid.
He was due to be paid £5m if the bid succeeded - but it collapsed when Nama learned of Mr Cushnahan's role.
Subsequently only two other firms made offers to buy the Northern Ireland portfolio.
The highest bid of £1.24bn - a fraction above the minimum reserve price - was made by Cerberus.
The other offer from Fortress was for £1.1bn, which was below the reserve.
Earlier this year, the BBC Spotlight programme broadcast a covert recording in which Mr Cushnahan claimed he was also due to be paid a fee in relation to the Cerberus deal.
The Irish Times reports that the C&AG will say that "while it impossible to be definitive", shortcomings in the sales process meant Nama did not receive hundreds of millions of euro that it might otherwise have.
A Nama spokesman said: "We're not making any comment and will respond when the report is published."
In a statement, the Department of Finance in Dublin, said: "'The minister will brief his cabinet colleagues at an upcoming government meeting.
"The report will be published thereafter. No further comment will be made until after publication."
Mr Cushnahan has always denied any wrongdoing in relation to his Nama role.
Cerberus has said that the sales process for the loan portfolio was "conducted with full integrity" on its part.
Earlier this week, BBC NI's Spotlight programme reported that Mr Cushnahan was recorded accepting a £40,000 cash payment from a Nama borrower.
Mr Cushnahan, who was advising Nama at the time, has denied any wrongdoing.
Following the broadcast, First Minister Arlene Foster rejected a call by Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness for a cross-border Nama inquiry saying it was "not appropriate".
Mr McGuinness said he supported such an inquiry following new revelations in the Spotlight programme about Nama's role in Northern Ireland's biggest ever property deal. | The Republic's spending watchdog has reportedly concluded that the £1.2bn sale of Nama's Northern Ireland loan portfolio had "irregularities" and "shortcomings". | 37327622 | [
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Stocktrade is being transferred to the Dundee-headquartered firm for £14m in cash.
Its most recent annual revenue was £9m, with £1.3m in pre-tax profit.
Last September, Stocktrade had £4.3bn of assets under management. The buyer said it now stands at £4.6bn, bringing 48,000 new customers.
That should increase the scale of Alliance Trust Savings to £11.5bn in assets under management, with 105,000 customers, allowing for more efficient operations.
It will also increase the Dundonians range of services, including telephone and online share dealing services for pension providers, building societies, company share schemes and corporate Individual Savings Accounts.
Brewin Dolphin said the sale would only clear a net gain of £1m, after paying for separation costs.
The deal still requires clearance from regulators, and is expected to close during this year.
Alliance Trust Savings was part of the strategy last month criticised by Elliott Advisers, the hedge fund and activist investor in parent company Alliance Trust.
In criticising the Dundee company's management, it succeeded in getting two new directors appointed. They could have sought to block further expansion of the financial retail platform. But it appears, from this deal, that they have agreed to expenditure on growth.
Alliance Trust believes that the expansion could help its savings division into profit by 2016, apart from the cost of integration.
Patrick Mill, managing director of Alliance Trust Savings (ATS), said: "Stocktrade is a great strategic fit for ATS, giving us access to new customers, an increase in assets and the opportunity to build a strategic partnership capability.
"It also gives us the ability to align a traditional stockbroking business with our innovative, scalable and cost effective approach by offering customers online access alongside our in-house customer service team." | Alliance Trust Savings has announced plans to buy an Edinburgh-based share trading company from Brewin Dolphin. | 32737984 | [
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The 44-year-old will work alongside Andy Hessenthaler, who was appointed as Orient boss last week.
Former Southend, Birmingham and Peterborough defender Edwards joined the east London outfit in 2009 and has been coaching in the club's academy.
He assisted with first-team affairs at the end of last season while Hessenthaler was in caretaker charge. | League Two club Leyton Orient have appointed Andy Edwards as assistant manager. | 36499148 | [
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Three open-top buses took the first team, youth team and family members on a parade from Stamford Bridge towards the King's Road in west London.
Chelsea ended their campaign eight points clear at the top after a final day win over Sunderland on Sunday.
The match also marked Didier Drogba's final game for the club after he announced his intention to move on.
Following the championship win, manager Jose Mourinho said: "We have art in our game but we also have fantastic spirit, organisation and pragmatism.
"We are a complete team and that is why we are champions."
The side had topped the Premier League table for a record 274 days ensuring they would be crowned champions for the first time in five years. | Thousands of football fans turned out to watch Chelsea's victory parade following their Premier League victory. | 32874153 | [
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The Oscar-winning John Ford film has been conserved in the US National Film Registry for its "cultural, historical, or aesthetic" significance.
But brawling and boozing feature prominently in the 1952 film, which was shot in County Mayo and County Galway.
An official warned "the theme is not likely to be well received here".
Although counsellor Joseph Brennan said the film's colour was "beautiful" and its scenery "delightful", he raised fears it would provoke protests from Irish-Americans.
His concerns were addressed to the Irish government's Department of External Affairs in a letter dated 17 April 1952, The Irish Times reports.
He asked for a swift reply as he wanted to gauge the reaction to the film in Ireland, but no response was received until June.
Another missive from the embassy official in July added: "If it were to be taken completely at its face value it would be accepted as a rollicking farce and no harm done.
"But I fear it will be regarded by the Irish-American element here as purporting to portray actual life in Ireland.
"We may then have protests."
Mr Brennan's concerns are outlined in the latest volume of documents on Irish Foreign Policy 1951-1957 which are due to be published later this week.
The Quiet Man, which starred John Wayne as boxer Sean Thornton and Maureen O'Hara as Mary Kate Danaher, won Oscars for Best Director and Best Cinematography.
When it was added to the film registry in 2013, O'Hara described it as "the first great movie about Ireland" and said it had endured as it was "a simple and timeless story about people in love". | The Irish embassy in Washington feared protests by Irish Americans against the romantic comedy The Quiet Man, newly released documents reveal. | 38076271 | [
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The 24-year-old, capped 32 times by England, has been out of action since November with a knee injury.
However, it is understood his recovery has progressed quicker than expected.
Vunipola could now be in contention to face Scotland on 11 March, or Ireland a week later.
He was one of England's outstanding performers throughout their unbeaten year of 2016, and his ball-carrying and dynamism has been missed by Eddie Jones' side.
There were initial fears Vunipola would miss the whole of England's Six Nations title defence, but it is understood he has looked sharp on his return to full training this week, and is targeting a quick return to international rugby.
Vunipola's older brother, Mako, recently made his own comeback from a knee problem, and came off the bench in the win over Italy. | England number eight Billy Vunipola is set for a shock early return to action for his club Saracens against Newcastle on Sunday, boosting his hopes of a 2017 Six Nations call-up. | 39141044 | [
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Dyddgu Hywel, Mel Clay and Sioned Harries all crossed in the first eight minutes with Alisha Butchers' try making it 24-0 at the break.
Clay again. Jess Kavanagh-Williams and Elen Evans added second-half tries with Elinor Snowsill converting four.
RAF and Wales full-back Charlie Murray scored a late Forces consolation.
Clay's second after 51 minutes was the pick of the bunch as the rangy lock ran in from a Keira Bevan break out of defence.
It was a second Wales victory of the month after beating Scotland 15-0, as they prepare for the Six Nations and 2017 World Cup.
Woman of the match Elinor Snowsill told BBC Wales Sport:
"I'm chuffed with the performance of the whole squad, we scored tries early on, then we had a 20-minute period where we switched off, but we came back out, finished the game off and scored some nice tries.
"It's a massive positive that we threw on a lot of subs, we made a lot of positional changes, and still kept our structure.
"We're really thankful for the chance (to play autumn internationals), it gives us time to work on different combinations, and you blow out the cobwebs to keep moving forward into the Six Nations and World Cup.
"I only switched to left-foot (goal) kicking two weeks ago, I'd always struggled with my right foot kicking for the posts, so I gave the left a go and it worked."
Wales: Dyddgu Hywel (Scarlets); Jess Kavanagh-Williams (Scarlets), Kerin Lake (Ospreys), Rebecca De Filippo (Dragons), Adi Taviner (Ospreys); Elinor Snowsill (Dragons), Keira Bevan (Ospreys); Cerys Hale (Dragons), Carys Phillips (Ospreys, capt), Amy Evans (Ospreys), Siwan Lillicrap (Ospreys), Mel Clay (Ospreys), Alisha Butchers (Scarlets), Sioned Harries (Scarlets), Shona Powell-Hughes (Ospreys).
Replacements: Lowri Harries (Scarlets), Gwenllian Pyrs (Scarlets), Catrin Edwards (Scarlets), Charlie Mundy (Ospreys), Rachel Taylor (Scarlets), Sian Moore (Dragons), Robyn Wilkins (Ospreys), Elen Evans (Scarlets), Jodie Evans (Scarlets), Nia Elen Davies (Scarlets)..
UK Armed Forces: Charlie Murray (RAF); Jade Mullen, Gemma Rowland, Sarah Mitchelson (capt), Bethan Dainton; Katie Hancock, Gemma Stonebridge-Smith; Sarah Batley, Rae Metters, Bianca Dawson, Ellie Gattlin, Heidi Silcox, Erica Mills (all Army), Sian Williams (RAF), Alexandra Hardy (Army).
Replacements: Paula Robinson (Army), Maria Waghorn (RAF), Fran Athawes (Army), Kat Dale, Kate Edwards (RAF), Charlotte Fredrickson (Navy), Mariette Claasens (Army), Chrissy Siczowa (RAF), Carrie Roberts, Jessica McAuley-Roberts (Army). | Wales made the most of a flying start to beat the UK Armed Forces 43-5 in a special Armistice Day match at the Arms Park. | 37936981 | [
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Debate over the niqab came to a head during the 2015 Canadian elections.
Mr Harper was accused of using the issue stir up fears against Muslims.
Newly elected Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opposed the appeal during his campaign.
The official court application for the appeal has been discontinued, officials have said, according to the Canadian Press.
"Canada's diversity is among its greatest strengths, and the Liberals are ensuring that successful citizenship continue to be included in the Canadian family," Justice Minister Jody-Wilson Raybould and Immigration Minister John McCallum said in a statement.
Zunera Ishaq, a Pakistani-born woman, had challenged the Conservative government's law against wearing niqabs when swearing an oath to become a Canadian citizen and won.
While serving as prime minister, Mr Harper angered many when he pledged to set up a police hotline to report "barbaric cultural practices" after taking a hard line on the niqab debate. | The Liberal government in Canada has abandoned a legal challenge that sought to require women to remove their niqabs or face coverings during citizenship ceremonies. | 34837242 | [
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They include schemes to revamp Newport and Bridgend centres, move people back into empty homes in Port Talbot and make properties in Pontypridd energy efficient.
Vacant flats above shops in Swansea will also be converted into homes and derelict sites in Merthyr Tydfil will be built on.
Schemes totalling £36m for north Wales were announced by ministers last week.
The funding is from the Welsh government's Vibrant and Viable Places initiative.
Housing and Regeneration Minister Carl Sargeant said he was "delighted" with the range of projects being supported.
"There are several excellent projects targeted at renovating empty properties, derelict buildings and empty shops, attracting more people to live in town centres and making the necessary improvements to existing housing stock," he said.
"I've also approved significant funding for a wide range of different projects, from a state of the art business facility in Pontypridd to an integrated transport hub in Port Talbot.
"Facilities like these, in conjunction with the new homes, will create jobs, improve links and breathe new life into town centre centres." | Projects worth £58m to regenerate areas across south Wales have been approved. | 27811065 | [
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The five-storey Bursledon Windmill had its wind shaft and sails replaced following a £94,000 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant.
Built in 1814, it is believed to be the only working windmill in England that retains a wooden shaft.
Miller Jonathan Cook said it was "long-lived technology that works as well as when it was invented".
It is hoped the windmill will produce its own flour again by summer 2015.
Mr Cook said: "These are important buildings, any opportunity to see a windmill restored to a working condition is great news"
The Grade II-listed structure was rescued by Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust in the 1970s.
Annabel Cook of Hampshire Cultural Trust, which runs the windmill, said such mills were "a revolution in the way food production was carried out".
"We're hoping to bring to life what the idea of windmilling was and its importance in people's lives," she added.
The HLF funding for the latest restoration project was secured by Hampshire county, Eastleigh borough and Bursledon parish councils, as well as Hampshire Buildings Preservation Trust.
A further £47,000 came from local councils to recruit and train more volunteers in traditional milling skills and help to run guided tours, workshops and special events.
The original timber wind shaft, which drives all the mill machinery and turns the sails, is expected to become an exhibit in an on-site museum.
The building is believed to be one of 27 such windmills regularly working in Britain. | A 200-year-old windmill in Hampshire has reopened following a two-year restoration project. | 30252179 | [
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Justine Curran said the force had to restrict leave during summer and Christmas for operational reasons.
Head teachers in England can only grant absence during school time in "exceptional circumstances".
Ms Curran has asked head teachers to use their discretion to "fully consider" holiday requests.
In her letter, Ms Curran wrote: "I fully support the notion that every child needs to attend school regularly and absences should be minimised wherever possible."
She said that over the summer Humberside officers would be helping to police the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the Nato Summit in south Wales.
Paul Yeomans chairman of the Humberside Police Federation, which represents junior officers, said his members supported the chief constable's call.
"They're not able to take their leave during the peak times and it is not their fault," he said.
If parents in England and Wales fail to ensure their children attend school, they may be issued with penalty notices of £50 to £100. Prosecution can result in a fine of up to £2,500, a jail sentence of up to three months or a community sentence.
In a letter to Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Education Secretary Michael Gove said the Department for Education guidance to head teachers "does not specify what constitutes exceptional circumstances".
He added: "Neither have we said that leave of absence can or cannot be granted to families of certain occupations."
John Killeen, head of South Cave Primary School and local representative of the National Association of Head Teachers union, said there was "inflexibility in a lot of professions".
"We have sympathy with the police service but it would make the head teacher's position untenable with the rest if the parent body if they started making exceptions." | The chief constable of Humberside Police has written to schools asking for the children of officers to be given holiday leave during term time. | 28226694 | [
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Jerome Lavrilleux said the former president was not aware of the "slip".
It comes after a lawyer for an event organiser accused the UMP of ordering almost 11m euros ($15m; £9m) worth of fake invoices to cover overspends.
Reports say the scandal could damage the party and complicate any efforts by Mr Sarkozy to be re-elected.
Police searched the headquarters of the UMP in Paris on Monday afternoon.
"There have been anomalies," Mr Lavrilleux, a deputy director of Mr Sarkozy's 2012 presidential campaign, told France's BFM TV. with tears in his eyes.
"There was no wrongdoing, there was a terrible spiral, a train going at high speed and people who should have pulled the emergency alarm and didn't, and I was probably one of them," he said.
He said Mr Sarkozy, UMP Chairman Jean-Francois Cope and Batien Millot, the founder of the events company Bygmalion, were not aware of the actions taken.
It comes after Patrick Maisonneuve, the lawyer for Bygmalion, told the same television station that the centre-right UMP had ordered fake invoices to cover exploding campaign costs.
He said it was made clear to Bygmalion that if it did not comply, it would not be paid.
The UMP's chairman was already facing growing speculation that he will have to step down after the French newspaper Liberation reported this month that the party paid some 20m euros to a unit of Bygmalion, founded by two associates of Mr Cope, to organise campaign events.
Mr Cope told BMF TV earlier on Monday that he knew nothing of any wrongdoing.
He said he had put his trust in the people who were responsible for the party's accounts and did not think he had to look over their shoulders.
Mr Cope was already expected to face challenges for the leadership of the party after the UMP's poor result in the European Parliament elections. It came second to the far-right Front National.
Mr Sarkozy, who lost the presidency to Francois Hollande in 2012, is rumoured to be preparing to make a comeback in 2017.
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He is the first American Secretary of State to visit the city.
In a meeting with Somalia's president under tight security at the airport, he said: "Next time I come, we have to be able to just walk downtown".
The US backs the Somali government in its fight against Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which still controls many rural parts of southern Somalia.
African news as it happens: 5 May 2015
The meeting with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and civil leaders was held at Mogadishu airport, as Mr Kerry isn't leaving its heavily fortified perimeters.
Mr Kerry said: "I visited Somalia today because your country is turning around".
The more recent changes he pointed out were Somali forces pushing al-Shabab out of big towns and a "determined international effort" to put virtually all of Somalia's pirates out of business.
BBC Somalia analyst Mary Harper says the US plays a crucial if controversial role in Somalia, supporting the weak central government in its fight against al-Shabab.
Al-Shabab leaders have been killed in US drone strikes.
Our correspondent points out that America is careful to take a less visible role than it did in the 1990s, when the bodies of US servicemen were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. | The US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on an unannounced visit. | 32589556 | [
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Saturday's loss to Liverpool was the Swans' third in succession, leaving them a point above the bottom three and increasing the pressure on Guidolin.
Although they are alarmed by the club's predicament, Swansea's owners are understood to have no immediate plans to sack the 60-year-old Italian.
"I am sure in the future this team can turn this situation," said Guidolin.
"The relationship between my players and me is perfect. The best thing in these nine months is to meet my players. I am sure they have good qualities, good character.
"I am worried for the table, not my position. It is not good. We need more points."
Swansea's American owners, Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, were at the Liberty Stadium for the Liverpool game, but have yet to decide on Guidolin's future.
However, they are compiling a shortlist of potential successors should they sack the Italian.
Chairman Huw Jenkins has met former United States coach Bob Bradley, while former Wales and Manchester United captain Ryan Giggs would be interested in the manager's role if it was to become vacant.
Bradley and Giggs are not the only options, with Swansea's hierarchy thought to be considering several other possible candidates in the event of Guidolin's departure.
It is likely the nature of Swansea's performances will have as much bearing on Guidolin's job prospects as the results, and the Swans were much improved against Liverpool.
Guidolin, however, is in the dark about his future.
"I don't know what happens tomorrow, or next week," he said.
"My job is to work with the players and prepare the team for games. This is my job. I don't know if the next games brings."
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We look at a new gadget which helps blind and visually impaired people read text and recognise faces, we talk to a tech giant about its progress in making software more accessible, and we ask what role AI could play in opening up technology for everyone.
We are joined on the show this week by Johny Cassidy, a producer in the BBC's Economics Unit who has masterminded the Disability Works series across our TV, radio and web output this week.
Johny lost his sight as a teenager and for the programme he tried out a new gadget called Orcam. It consists of a camera which you clip onto a standard pair of glasses and a separate unit which provides an audio description of what the device is seeing.
The idea is that you can point it at text and it will read it or it can be programmed to recognise faces. This was the feature which worked best - it quickly recognised me and producer Jat Gill when we stood next to each other, reading our names out to Johny.
This impressed him, but the text readout proved very clunky and slow. Johny showed us the technology he uses every day to work on a computer, a screen reader system which allows him to sort through his emails and scan online articles at breakneck speed.
It seems evident that Orcam, priced at a hefty £2300, is trying to solve a problem that is already being addressed far more efficiently in software - but perhaps it will improve over time.
When he took over as chief executive of Microsoft, Satya Nadella made it clear that accessibility was going to be a priority - an admission perhaps that the company hadn't been moving quickly enough. Key to that was the appointment of a new chief accessibility officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie.
She tells us that, with an unemployment rate for people with disabilities in the United States twice the average, there is much to be done. The screen reading technology which we saw demonstrated by Johny Cassidy is going to get more upgrades and she described an accessibility checker built into Office that allows users to check that the documents or presentations they send can be read by anybody.
Jenny, who is profoundly deaf, talked to us in our London studio from the West Coast of the United States and I was curious about how that worked. She explained that a colleague was listening into the call from another part of the US and sending her the text of my questions.
At the moment, she has an interpreter who often accompanies her to meetings, but she's trying out new technology such as real-time captioning in Skype. And she points out that some ideas you might think were developed for people with disabilities, like subtitling on web videos, are now being used by everyone.
Much of the progress made recently in artificial intelligence has been about teaching computers to see, hear and understand in the same way as humans do. That is changing the way we all interact with computers - we can talk to them, and they are beginning to understand our facial expressions, making them more accessible to everyone.
That is the message we hear from IBM's Dr Guru Banavar, the man guiding the Watson AI project. "That's going to be the game changer with AI," he says. "Machines have to be natural with people see and hear like people do."
Technology used to be a big barrier for disabled people hoping to thrive in the workplace - but in the future it could augment human capabilities, making working life easier for everyone. | This week we devote the whole of Tech Tent to a special programme on assistive technology - that's tech to help disabled people take advantage of all the advances we've seen in recent years. | 39077592 | [
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The red-throated diver was photographed by a visitor to a lochan in a remote part of North Uist.
The birds are on the RSPB's amber list after a recent decline in numbers.
Jamie Boyle, site manager of the RSPB's Uist reserves, said plastic bags can kill birds if they eat, or become entangled, in one.
He said: "We urge people to take great care in the way they dispose of plastic bags or, indeed, any other rubbish, particularly balloons and Chinese lanterns.
"They pose a direct threat to our wildlife and it is depressing to think that plastic bags are even reaching remote lochans in a place like North Uist."
Mr Boyle added: "Marine birds such as red-throated divers are particularly at risk both at sea and on their breeding grounds where they can mistake the bags for fish or mistakenly use it for nesting material." | RSPB Scotland has urged people to discard unwanted plastic bags carefully after a rare bird was photographed with one caught in its beak. | 28243554 | [
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Britain's last world title was secured by Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson, while Chris Adcock partnered Imogen Bankier to world silver in 2011.
The Adcocks are the reigning European and Commonwealth champions.
"We have a good track record in Glasgow and hopefully we can get the crowd behind us and challenge for a medal," Gabby Adcock told BBC Sport.
The World Championships run from 21-27 August and are being held in the venue that hosted badminton events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
After receiving over £5m in the build-up to the Rio Olympics - where Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis won bronze - GB Badminton was hit with the "devastating" news late last year that it would lose all UK Sport support leading towards the 2020 Games.
As a result, half of the English players and support staff had to be cut from the programme in Milton Keynes.
"It was tough and a massive kick in the teeth, but as athletes and support staff we'll bounce back together," said Gabby Adcock.
The Adcocks, who married in 2013, remain part of a 12-strong group of English players looking to challenge for honours and despite their struggles off the court the pair claimed silver at the World Superseries Finals in Dubai and became European champions for the first time in April.
"Obviously it's been a lot harder and an emotional time when people have been losing their jobs, or unable to train but on court we've channelled that into working even harder," Chris Adcock told BBC Sport.
Gabby Adcock added: "Winning a medal would be huge and it's one of the wish-list to tick off.
"Commonwealths was one and Europeans was another so it's now world and Olympic medals and, as we're coming into our prime over the next four years, I feel like it's definitely achievable."
Chris Adcock continued: "It's been a painful time but we've moved on and even though UK Sport aren't funding us, our ambitions haven't changed."
The Adcocks as well as Ellis and Langridge and Scottish Commonwealth silver medallist Kirsty Gilmour have received first-round byes at the World Championships and begin their campaigns on Tuesday. | Chris and Gabby Adcock will this week bid to become the first British badminton world champions since 2006. | 40924307 | [
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Greenwood, 22, featured in the 2015 Women's World Cup and is the club's eighth signing of the transfer window.
"This is a fantastic move for me and I am really enthusiastic about the new season," she told the club's website.
"I had a great year at Notts County but this represents an exciting, new challenge and one that I am really looking forward to."
The fee, which is undisclosed, is a club record sale for Notts County who "reluctantly" accepted the offer from Liverpool.
"We received a significant bid from Liverpool, which was close to our valuation for the player, and considering her wish to leave we reluctantly accepted the offer," Notts County Ladies chief executive Matthew Alexander said. | Liverpool have signed England defender Alex Greenwood from fellow Women's Super League One side Notts County. | 35472790 | [
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