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The White Garden, at Kensington Palace, was planted to mark 20 years since Princess Diana died in a car crash.
The Duchess of Cambridge joined the princes on the garden tour.
A spokeswoman for Kensington Palace said: "The engagement will allow the princes to pay tribute to the life and work of their mother."
They met representatives from the causes and charities supported by Diana, including the Royal Marsden and Great Ormond Street hospitals, the National Aids Trust, Centrepoint youth homelessness charity and the Leprosy Mission.
Members of the public have been leaving tributes and flowers at the gates of the palace to mark the anniversary of Diana's death.
The Princess of Wales died on 31 August 1997 in Paris, when William, now the Duke of Cambridge, was 15 and his brother was 12.
The garden at their mother's former home has been inspired by memories of her life, style and image, such as her white "Elvis" Catherine Walker dress.
The White Garden, as it is known, follows a tradition first established at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, famous for its own white garden created in the 1930s.
Their Royal Highnesses met gardener Sean Harkin who designed the display and Graham Dillamore who knew the princess when he worked there some 30 years ago.
The garden has been open since spring and will continue into September with white roses, lilies, gladioli and cosmos.
It is the fourth London memorial created in tribute to Diana - the others are the Diana Memorial Playground at Kensington Palace, the Diana Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, and the Diana Memorial Walk at St James's Palace. | Prince William and Prince Harry have visited a London memorial garden for their mother on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death. | 41091477 | [
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Sir Bruce hosted Strictly for a decade until he stepped down last year.
Last week, he was forced to pull out of presenting a BBC variety show after slipping and falling at his home.
But the 87-year-old is expected to recover in time to co-host Strictly's Children In Need special, which will feature four stars from Call The Midwife, to be aired on 13 November.
Actors Jenny Agutter, Laura Main, Stephen McGann and Jack Ashton will compete in the one-off contest as part of BBC One's Children In Need telethon.
Children In Need will be hosted by Sir Terry Wogan, Tess Daly, Fearne Cotton, Rochelle Humes and Nick Grimshaw.
The evening will also feature Harry Hill giving his own history of television, while The One Show's Matt Baker and Alex Jones will perform the lead roles in the West End version of The Rocky Horror Show.
EastEnders pub The Queen Vic will host "a house band with a special guest lead vocalist" and stars including Ellie Goulding, Rod Stewart and Selena Gomez will be in the studio. | Sir Bruce Forsyth is to return to Strictly Come Dancing for a special Children In Need edition of the show. | 34514706 | [
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An eyewitness said Charing Cross underground station "filled with smoke" at about 15:20 BST.
One person has been arrested in relation to the incident, British Transport Police said.
The station was closed for more than half an hour until the smoke cleared.
Allie Elwell, who was in the station at the time, said there were "cops everywhere".
She said: "It was madness. There were fans singing and cheering down the tunnel.
"We turned the corner and could smell smoke. Fans seemed to just ignore it all, still singing and banging on the side of the escalator.
"Soon after, there was announcement on the PA to evacuate due to an emergency. We jumped on one of the last Tubes."
Crystal Palace play Manchester United in the FA Cup final at Wembley later.
The area is now safe and the fire alarms have been reset, with the station reopening just before 16:00
TfL did not say which group of fans were responsible. | A Tube station was evacuated after football fans heading to Wembley Stadium set off a smoke bomb and fire alarms, Transport for London (TfL) has said. | 36350319 | [
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Something Wicked this Way Comes, shown on a Sunday morning, featured the illusionist putting a plastic bag over his head and walking on broken glass.
Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom said children could have imitated Brown's "clearly dangerous behaviour".
It received five complaints about the show, which aired on UKTV's Watch channel on 6 December.
UKTV said the programme was broadcast in error and was unsuitable for a pre-watershed transmission.
In the 14-minute segment, Brown had sought to demonstrate a technique to limit pain and bleeding. He placed a transparent bag over his head and sealed it while a member of the audience tapped out his pulse rate on a drum.
Once his pulse rate had slowed to a stop, Brown - who appeared to be in a state of semi-consciousness - removed the bag from his head and walked barefoot on a path of broken glass.
At the end of the sequence, the camera zoomed on his feet to show that they had not bled as a result of contact with the glass.
Ofcom said: "Plastic bags are a common household item that children frequently have access to without parental supervision. They also present a widely acknowledged risk of harm to young children.
"Therefore, Ofcom took the view that Derren Brown's use of a plastic bag to asphyxiate himself was likely to be easily imitable by children in a manner that was harmful.
"This was particularly because self-asphyxiation was presented as a way to carry out acts which would not normally be possible because of the bleeding and pain that resulted.
"Further in this programme no negative consequences of self-asphyxiation were identified."
Ofcom also found that Brown's use of swear words during the segment breached the code on offensive language before the watershed.
UKTV said an internal investigation had revealed that "due to human error" the programme was "erroneously labelled" as being suitable for broadcast before the watershed.
It said it had implemented additional safeguards to prevent the same mistake happening again. | A programme in which illusionist Derren Brown suffocated himself as part of a trick has broken broadcasting rules. | 35630595 | [
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US lifeline for death row dog Stella
Stella was seized by Devon and Cornwall Police in 2014 and kept in a cage without exercise.
A campaign to save Stella has gained momentum with more than 20,000 signatures on combined petitions.
Police said the dog was "deemed too dangerous to walk due to her aggressive behaviour".
Nicole Bruck, from the pit bull rescue centre Animals R Family based in Connecticut said: "We will take Stella and fly her to the US at our cost. Breed specific legislation is banned in Connecticut.
"Breed specific legislation is wrong and ineffective. In the US, pit bulls are one of the most popular dogs for family pet."
Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed Stella's owner has "launched a late appeal against the destruction order against Stella" and she will "remain in kennels until the outcome of the appeal is known".
Owner Anthony Hastie had 21 days to appeal a destruction order passed by Torquay Magistrates' Court on 8 February.
Tina Wagon, from the firm Wheldon Law, is acting on behalf of Mr Hastie.
Ms Wagon said: "Plan A is that Antony would like his dog back. Plan B is for us to get some help."
Mr Hastie said: "The appeal has been lodged now. I want Stella back, but if that's not possible I just want to make sure she's kept alive."
Animals R Family states on its website: "We rescue cats and dogs who have been abused, neglected, abandoned, and provide vet care, training, food, shelter and lots of love, while finding them a loving, forever home."
A joint statement from Devon and Cornwall Police and the Police and Crime Commissioner on the forces website said "we wish to answer as many of the concerns as possible on this highly emotive issue".
Chief Superintendent Jim Nye said: "Many of you have been in contact following BBC Inside Out's story on dangerous dog Stella.
"We had to seize Stella, she is both an illegal breed and an extremely dangerous dog.
"The welfare of dogs are extremely important to us. In the past year we have seized in the region of 100 dogs, and only Stella has been assessed as too dangerous and unpredictable for kennel staff to walk.
"Stella was used on two occasions as a weapon by the owner in a threat to attack police personnel prior to being seized.
"The dog has then also attempted to bite a number of independent animal behavioural experts who tried to interact with her during their appraisals."
The statement did not say if any prosecution resulted from the alleged use of Stella as a weapon to threaten police, but Mr Hastie told the BBC he has never been arrested over the matter.
Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Hogg said: "The protracted legal process is wrong both in the way it has prolonged the dog's incarceration and in the cost to the public purse.
"It has cost the public £10,000 to keep the dog in kennels. The defence was responsible for 10 of those [11] adjournments so I am satisfied that the delay cannot be laid at the door of the police.
"Following the outcome of the appeal, we will encourage the force to seek recovery of the costs involved in this case from the owner." | A lifeline has been offered to death row dog Stella by an American pit bull sanctuary which has offered to fly her to the United States. | 35697900 | [
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Mr Trump said Mr Obama had learned well before the 8 November poll about the accusations and "did nothing".
His comments followed an article in the Washington Post which said that Mr Obama learned last August of President Vladimir Putin's "direct involvement".
The alleged meddling is the subject of high-level investigations in the US.
President Putin has repeatedly denied any Russian interference into the presidential election.
The Washington Post article says Mr Obama was told early last August by sources deep within the Russian government that Mr Putin was directly involved in a cyber campaign to disrupt the election, injure Hillary Clinton and aid a Trump victory.
The Post said Mr Obama secretly debated dozens of options to punish Russia but in the end settled on what it called symbolic measures - the expulsion of 35 diplomats and closure of two Russian compounds. They came in late December, well after the election.
The Post reported that Mr Obama was concerned he might himself be seen as trying to manipulate the election.
The paper quoted a former administration official as saying: "From national security people there was a sense of immediate introspection, of, 'Wow, did we mishandle this'."
Measures Mr Obama had considered but which were not put into action included planting cyber weapons in the Russian infrastructure and releasing information personally damaging to Mr Putin.
Imagine, for a moment, that you're Barack Obama in August 2016. You've just been informed by the CIA that Vladimir Putin has ordered a wide-ranging effort to disrupt the US presidential election.
What do you do? Mr Obama responded in typical fashion - cautiously. He alerted state officials, warned Russia and attempted (unsuccessfully) to fashion a bipartisan response with Republicans in Congress.
Now the second-guessing has begun. Some Democrats are saying the Obama team should have gone public with such a startling discovery before election day. The president feared such a move would prompt the Republican nominee to accuse him of meddling and undermine faith in the electoral process. He believed Mrs Clinton was going to win anyway, so it was best not to rock the boat.
Mr Trump himself is now questioning why Mr Obama didn't do more - a curious position given that he recently described the Russia hacking story as a Democratic "hoax".
These latest revelations add yet another wrinkle to a 2016 campaign that will be hashed and rehashed for the foreseeable future. The most pressing question now, however, is not what Mr Obama did. It's what the US government does next.
Mr Trump tweeted on Friday: "The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?"
He followed that up with two more tweets on Saturday, the second saying: "Obama Administration official said they "choked" when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election. They didn't want to hurt Hillary?"
He repeats the argument in an interview with Fox News, which will air on Sunday.
"If he had the information, why didn't he do something about it? He should have done something about it. But you don't read that. It's quite sad."
Allegations of collusion between the Trump team and Russian officials during the election have dogged the president's first five months in office.
He has repeatedly denied the allegations, calling the investigations a "witch hunt".
US investigators are looking into whether Russian cyber hackers targeted US electoral systems to help Mr Trump win.
US media say special counsel Robert Mueller is also investigating Mr Trump for possible obstruction of justice over the Russia inquiries.
They involve the president's firing of FBI chief James Comey, who led one of the inquiries, and Mr Trump's alleged attempt to end a probe into sacked national security adviser Michael Flynn. | President Donald Trump has accused his predecessor Barack Obama of inaction over alleged Russian interference in the US election in 2016. | 40395433 | [
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Defender Terry, 36, is leaving Chelsea this summer after more than two decades at Stamford Bridge.
Swansea, West Brom and Bournemouth have been linked with the former England captain, while a move to China or the United States appear other options.
"I've got options but nothing sorted or in stone," said Terry.
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"Everyone keeps asking me and no-one believes me when I say that I've not got anything sorted."
Terry was an unused substitute in Saturday's 2-1 FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal at Wembley.
He has made 717 appearances for Chelsea and is a five-time Premier League title winner with the London club.
He has also won the Champions League and Europa League, as well as five FA Cups and three League Cups.
Although he has yet to make up his mind whether to retire, Terry is keen to become a manager once he does decide to stop playing.
"I think I've got too much to give and I've learned too much not to pass that on," he added. "I do want to be a manager." | John Terry says he has not made up his mind whether to retire from playing and "needs a good week away to reflect" before making a decision. | 40079990 | [
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Several thousand people who lived at the camp were moved to new homes around France last week.
However, around 1,500 children still remained living at the camp in temporary shelters.
A week after the demolition first begun, these children have now been taken to special centres around France where they can be properly processed.
But why were these people being made to move? And why were they in Calais in the first place?
The jungle is situated at a place called Calais, which is on the north coast of France, right near to the UK.
Many thousands of people travelled across Europe and arrived at Calais in order to try to cross the English Channel to reach the UK, where they believed they could live a better life.
This is because Calais is one of the main ports for travelling from France to England, with lots of vehicles, ships and trains that travel to England from here.
However, the refugees were being stopped at Calais before they could complete the last part of their journey, as they are not allowed to simply enter the UK without going through an official process.
This means they had to set up temporary homes at Calais. As a result, the jungle had become home to thousands of people, desperate to finish their journey and make a new start in the UK.
Earlier this year, authorities in France announced plans to close the camp and an area of it was cleared. However, the final demolition of the Jungle shelters has now been completed.
The authorities did this because they did not believe it was a situation people should be living in, and they needed to find a better solution.
People had been living in very poor and dirty conditions. Furthermore, there were reports of violence and trouble in the camp, meaning it wasn't always a safe place for people to live.
Local people in Calais had also been campaigning for the Jungle to close down, as they did not want it in their area.
Many of those living in the Jungle had been making desperate attempts to reach the UK quicker, by jumping onto lorries that are travelling to England. This is extremely dangerous and is also illegal.
The thousands of people who lived in the camp have been made to leave their temporary homes behind.
Thousands of migrants have been taken to official centres all over France, where the authorities say the living conditions will be better.
Once they arrive there, French officials will register them and decide where they will go to live after this.
One of the big problems which the authorities faced when trying to sort out the refugees with new homes was the fact that many children travelled across Europe - and were living in the Jungle - on their own.
Around 270 children who have relatives in the UK - or who were considered to be particularly in need of help - have been brought over to the UK to be looked after here. | The French authorities have been carrying out the demolition of one of the biggest refugee camps in Europe known as the "Jungle". | 37749020 | [
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Her best-known films include 1938's Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows), in which she starred alongside Jean Gabin.
She also appeared in Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol and opposite Humphrey Bogart in Passage to Marseille.
In a statement, French president Francois Hollande said she "personified elegance and grace".
He said: "Michele Morgan was more than just a gaze. Her legend left its mark on many generations."
Morgan's Cannes award came in 1946 for her role as a blind woman in La Symphonie Pastorale (Pastoral Symphony).
In later life, she received lifetime achievement accolades at the Venice Film Festival and the Cesar Awards, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Morgan was considered for the role of Ilsa Lund in Casablanca, but lost out to Ingrid Bergman when film studio RKO refused to loan her to Warner Bros.
Her film career faded with the arrival of the French New Wave in the 1960s, although she continued to work in television and on stage.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Michele Morgan, the French screen star and glamour icon who won the first best actress prize at the Cannes film festival, has died at the age of 96. | 38389507 | [
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This quote - attributed to a Professor Aaron Levenstein - perfectly captures the dangers of making miscalculations, or generalisations, based on data sets.
When it comes to data, nothing is ever clear cut.
And 'The Thinning Blue Line' report released today by Reform Scotland, on how more Scottish police officers are solving fewer crimes, is a good case study.
Here, I pose and attempt to answer some key questions.........
On the face of things, the report's findings are correct.
On a per officer basis, the clear-up rate has decreased from 12 to 8 between 2006/7 and 2013/14.
The report argues this shouldn't be happening when crime rates are falling, and there are now more than 1,000 additional officers to work on fewer recorded offences.
There are a couple of problems I found when I quickly dug a little deeper into how the report presented the data.
One must also try and place these figures into context.
Surely more officers won't necessarily equate to more crimes solved. Each crime should be taken on its own merit. What leads are there? What forensic evidence is left behind? What about crimes that maybe take more than one year to solve? What about the rise of internet crime and its online perpetrators who can be trickier to bring to justice?
And, as one freedom of information request that I submitted earlier this year shows, what about the average 58 officers who were on stress-related leave between April 2013 and December 2014? On paper there are more officers, but in reality a number were on the bench unable to work on solving crimes.
The report makes assumptions, which may well be true, that any increases in unsolved crimes are due to more officers being placed into positions previously held by civilian staff - essentially taking officers off the streets.
However, the report doesn't seem to have the data or proof to categorically support this claim, but rather relies on "Underpants Gnomes" logic (go on - look it up).
Indeed the report quotes Chief Constable Sir Stephen House in stating to Holyrood's Justice Committee that "under the terms on which staff go, jobs are in most instances closed down, so in the vast majority of cases there is no backfilling [by police officers] to be done".
So if backfilling is happening, how many officers is it really impacting? To what extent is this a permanent occurrence, or to just fill in to cover an occasional civilian staff absence?
If ever a freedom of information request could be used to strengthen an argument, this would be it.
Although to be fair, backfilling civilian or administrative posts with police officers was a point the government failed to address in its official response. | "Statistics are like bikinis - what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." | 33096679 | [
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GB's 2008 men's 4x400m relay team moved up from fourth to third after Russia's Denis Alekseyev failed a drugs test when his sample was retested.
It had been suggested the medal ceremony could take place at the World Championships in London in August.
But next month's Anniversary Games also take place at London's Olympic Stadium.
A decision is yet to be made on when Rooney and team-mates Andrew Steele, Robert Tobin and Michael Bingham will receive their medals.
Rooney, 30, told BBC Radio 5 live: "I don't want to be distracted. I need to go to the World Championships and focus on that, so if we could get it done at the Diamond League, I'd love that.
"There's no way of getting back to Beijing and doing it that way, but if we can go to an Olympic stadium and be in front of a British crowd, that would be amazing.
"But whatever happens, whenever it happens, I just can't wait to get on that podium."
The International Olympic Committee has reallocated medals from Beijing after Alekseyev and compatriots Anastasiya Kapachinskaya and Inga Abitova tested positive for banned substance Turinabol.
Britain's women's 4x400m relay team have also moved into the bronze medal position.
Christine Ohuruogu, Kelly Sotherton, Marilyn Okoro and Nicola Sanders finished the race fifth but have moved up to third as a result of both third-placed Russia and fourth-placed Belarus being disqualified due to subsequent failed tests.
The men's Beijing medals are in the possession of the British Olympic Association and British Athletics but an announcement is still to be made on where they will be awarded.
They could be presented at next month's Diamond League Anniversary Games, or at the World Championships in London in August.
But, as the World Championships is an IAAF event, the IOC would have to give permission for any presentation to take place as Olympic medals fall under their jurisdiction.
British Athletics does not have possession of medals for the women's 4x400m team yet as legal proceedings are ongoing regarding athletes in their race.
Britons Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Jo Pavey, Sotherton and Goldie Sayers are among those waiting to receive Olympic and World Championship medals they were denied by drugs cheats.
Sayers has told the Guardian she would be "gutted" if she did not receive her medal at the World Championships this summer. | Britain's Martyn Rooney says he would rather receive his Beijing Olympic bronze medal at the Anniversary Games than at the World Championships. | 40365283 | [
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But the latest Cinderella is bucking the trend - and seemingly appealing to audiences as a result.
Directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh, Cinderella is a live-action version of Disney's classic 1950 animation that has taken $70m (£43.1m) on its opening weekend in the United States.
Yet this adaptation is completely faithful to the traditional story - including wicked stepmother, fairy godmother, glass slipper, handsome prince and happy ending.
British actress Lily James, best known as Lady Rose from ITV's Downton Abbey, stars as Cinderella. Cate Blanchett plays the stepmother and Helena Bonham Carter is the fairy godmother.
"Keeping it classic is the twist," says Branagh, who started his directing career in 1989 with his adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V.
"I always felt that it's better to do a modern version of a story using the historical perspective, than say, make a story of Cinderella in Brooklyn in 2015.
"I find that when you try and update Shakespeare to a contemporary setting too, you always pay a price.
"In this case, the original material of Cinderella is far richer than my ideas, so it seems to me that it's my job to make it simple. Just let the fairytale speak, because it affects us in a more complicated way than we think.
"Audiences have already come up to me saying the film is about patchwork families, about child bereavement, about the politics between women these days. Fairytales are a psychological brain-worm that need to be left alone to do their work."
Helena Bonham Carter says that at first she was dubious "as to whether a straight version would work".
"I think it's a really good film, but it could so easily have been bad. I was saying: 'So you're really going to do a completely straight version of Cinderella? No gimmicks, no extra frills, no 3D?'
"It's very classic, but they know me, and they allowed me not to be that straight in my own role."
Just as audiences seem to have taken to the film, critics such as the Guardian's Guy Lodge comment that "while it might have been nice to see the new-model Cinderella follow Frozen's progressive, quasi-feminist lead, the film's naff, preserved-in-amber romanticism is its very charm".
But James disagrees that this Cinderella is an old-fashioned heroine, pointing out that at the start of Disney's 1950 classic, Cinderella "is staring out of the window dreaming of the prince and waiting for him to rescue her".
"This Cinderella doesn't do that at all. I think we make it very clear that everything she does is her choice - even deciding to stay on at her parents' house with such wicked treatment from her stepmother.
"She is told by her dying mother to 'have courage and be kind' and this is the film's, and Cinderella's, backbone."
This is the first major leading role for Surrey-born James. "Not even a big TV series like Downton could prepare me for this fuss," she says.
"I am getting slightly carried away. I keep seeing giant posters of me all over the place in a big blue dress and people shouting my name.
"I'm trying to enjoy the magic actually - this is the fairytale aspect of it for me, personally. It's quite something that so many little girls are going to think I'm Cinderella."
James has dismissed speculation that her waist had been digitally altered to make it smaller as "irrelevant", claiming that fans were interested in Cinderella because of her "morals".
Cate Blanchett agrees that the core of the film is "kindness", adding that it is "an unusual quality these days. There's not a cynical bone in this film's body and that's its strength.
"There is cruelty and jealousy in the movie too, but too often we don't value kindness. In today's world you think someone who is kind is a doormat, and the fact this triumphs is really heart-warming."
Branagh, who previously directed Marvel's Thor, describes kindness "as its own super-power. It is a dark world and children do need to understand they need courage and resilience to get through it.
"People often compare the story of Shakespeare's King Lear in relation to Cinderella. There is a resemblance there - a father making a tragic error and three daughters; great cruelty and great kindness.
"This film is all about the difficult but simple choice to be good and kind. Whether you're dealing with Shakespeare or the great fairy stories, they are all great big metaphors for human nature.
"And regardless of what happens to this film version, I believe this is why the tale of Cinderella will keep enduring."
Cinderella is out in the UK on 27 March. | In recent years, Hollywood remakes and re-imaginings of classic fairytales have come thick and fast - all darker, more adult versions of tales that originally appeared in cinemas. | 32032471 | [
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The seminars will be run by the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in major English cities.
New legislation passed this year places a statutory duty on schools and colleges to counter radicalisation.
The seminars will be led by Kamal Hanif, head of Birmingham's Waverley School and an expert on Islam and citizenship.
The union says the aim is to offer support and guidance to senior school leaders in the wake of high-profile cases such as that of the three London schoolgirls who travelled to Syria in February and are believed to be in the city of Raqqa, a stronghold of Islamic State.
Their families later complained that police, the school and the local authority had failed to pass on information they said could have prevented the girls leaving.
The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 requires educational establishments to prevent young people being drawn into terrorism.
The seminars, in June and July, will help school and college leaders understand these duties and give them practical help and advice.
The aim is to maintain an atmosphere of equality and diversity in schools but also to help teachers understand how social media can be used "to groom young people into extremist ideologies", says the union.
"This is about having a greater understanding around the issues of radicalisation and extremism," said Mr Hanif.
He said the seminars would help head teachers "identify situations" and "deal with them in an appropriate manner, without overreacting and being alarmist.
"Young people spend a lot of their time on the web and social media and they can easily get drawn into extremist ideas without access to a counter-narrative.
"These seminars will help schools and, in turn, parents, who often have no idea that their children are accessing this sort of information, to pick up the signs, and use the appropriate channels in dealing with these concerns.
"They will help to equip heads with the counter-narratives to some of the false claims put out by extremists."
Mr Hanif will be joined by the counter-extremism campaigner Sara Khan, co-founder of the counter-extremism and women's rights organisation Inspire and by ASCL's parliamentary specialist Anna Cole.
Ms Khan said the seminars would clarify what schools were expected to do.
"Unfortunately, there has been a great deal of myth propagated about what the statutory requirements mean for both schools and pupils."
Ms Cole said the aim was to avoid criminalising young people by helping schools intervene "in the right way at an early stage".
"The key thing is to put in place proper risk assessments and have an open culture where different views and ideas can be discussed in an open way.
"We want to reassure schools that these steps will help them meet the statutory requirements and protect young people."
The seminars in Bristol, Birmingham, Cambridge, London, Manchester, Leeds and Durham will be open to ASCL members and non-members. | Head teachers worried about protecting students from being radicalised are being offered seminars by a union. | 32591414 | [
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The world champions routed Wales 46-6 in Saturday's final Test, Wales' heaviest loss for nine years and their 29th in a row against the All Blacks.
Gatland's side conceded 16 tries in the three Tests, scoring five, but he says they have also benefited.
"We'll take a lot of lessons from what we've learned," he said.
"We need to make sure that we apply that to the next time we're back together.
"It's pretty disappointing. We thought there were a lot of positives out of the first two Tests... but in fairness to the All Blacks I thought they were absolutely outstanding."
Wales, without a win over New Zealand since 1953, were beaten 39-21 in the first Test at Eden Park, before a 36-22 defeat in Wellington.
Steve Hansen's side blew Wales away in scintillating spells in those games, crossing for five tries in each.
Gatland's team also suffered an embarrassing 40-7 defeat against Super Rugby side the Chiefs, who were missing all eight of their current All Blacks.
In Dunedin, Wales could only muster two first-half Dan Biggar penalties as the All Blacks ran in six tries without reply.
It was Wales' heaviest defeat since a 62-5 thrashing by England in 2007.
But asked if his players would be better for the experience, Gatland said: "Yeah, absolutely.
"Obviously they're disappointed, they're pretty gutted.
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"We've got to learn from those experiences, making sure that when we go back that we apply those learnings back into their regions and back when we're together the next time.
"Their back three caused us a lot of problems in terms of their pace and their counter-attacking, so that will be a big work on for us.
"The big thing is that collision dominance at the breakdown, just in terms of that acceleration into the contact area and that for us is a big work on that we need to continue to improve at because that creates that quick ball.
"That was definitely a difference between the two sides tonight and we need to learn from that.
"You can get away with it sometimes in the northern hemisphere because they are not as aggressive there at the breakdown, and the All Blacks were clinical in that area."
Gatland's side have conceded 21 tries in their last four Tests, including the 27-13 defeat by England in May.
But Hansen says Wales should not be judged on their performance in Dunedin, suggesting perhaps some Welsh players were already thinking about returning home as their long season came to a close.
"They go home tomorrow, so maybe some of them were on the plane, I don't know," he said.
"They'll re-group, they're a good team and they're better than that.
"They'll get a decent pre-season hopefully and come back and be a force in the Six Nations.
"It's always a difficult time for Test teams to be playing at the end of their season, particularly in the World Cup year when they don't get a break and they just play right through." | Wales will be better for the experience of their New Zealand tour despite suffering a 3-0 series whitewash, coach Warren Gatland says. | 36630080 | [
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They said this will amount to double the number of apprentices created each year - currently about 28,000.
All parties are promising to create more apprentices or equivalent schemes to get unemployment down.
Labour highlighted its pledge to create 100,000 additional apprentices.
The Lib Dems said they would fund their promise by moving cash from Jobs Growth Wales, the Labour Welsh Government's existing job-creation scheme.
Eluned Parrott, the Liberal Democrats' candidate for Cardiff Central, said: "Providing high-quality skills training is vital to boosting our economy and helping people to build careers and get on in life.
"Labour's own evaluation report said that Jobs Growth Wales locked people into low wages and that 73% would've found work without it.
"We all know this scheme is a failure, but Labour refuses to face the facts.
"The Welsh Liberal Democrats would instead invest in apprenticeships and training, which will actually give young people professional skills and help them get on in life."
On Labour's policy, Deputy Skills Minister Julie James said Wales already had "one of the best records in Europe" on apprenticeships.
"This pledge is the next step to ensuring that we have the skills base that projects like Wylfa Newydd and the South Wales Metro, will demand," she said.
"That is why so many voices within industry are so enthusiastic about this pledge."
Plaid Cymru has promised to created 50,000 new apprentices, while the Welsh Conservatives say they will lift the current 16-24 age restrictions on the Jobs Growth Wales scheme.
It helps firms employ 16-24-year-olds for six months by covering the cost of the minimum wage.
The Tories aim to replace it with a scheme called Journeys to Work, open to all ages, with jobs lasting for a year.
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The British Embassy in Rabat said Roger and Mathilde Lamb from Pensham, near Pershore, died in separate falls.
A spokeswoman said Mrs Lamb fell from a window of an apartment in the resort of Essaouira while Mr Lamb fell downstairs at a different building a few days later. They both died in hospital.
A Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spokesman said the exact circumstances of the deaths were being investigated.
The FCO is providing consular assistance to the family.
In a statement, the couple's families said they were "deeply shocked and saddened by their tragic deaths".
The couple, who have four sons aged between 11 and 17, were staying in the Moroccan resort of Essaouira.
Mrs Lamb's brother-in-law, Mark Rogerson, said the children were back in the UK being looked after by relatives.
He said they knew very few details about what happened, but were aware of Mrs Lamb's death last Thursday and then heard about her husband's death on Monday.
"We heard first of all that he was badly injured. And then on Monday we heard that he had died," he said.
Mr Lamb, who was an engineer and a graduate of the University of Birmingham, was working in Christchurch, New Zealand, while his family remained at home in Worcestershire.
The families said their main concern was for the couple's children.
"Roger and Tilly's families have been deeply shocked and saddened by their tragic deaths while on holiday in Morocco," the statement said.
"Our principal concern at the moment is to provide love and support to their four sons who have had to suffer the loss of both a mother and a father in swift succession.
"The boys are being well cared for by relatives.
"We would also like to take this opportunity to thank the British consular authorities in Morocco for their invaluable assistance."
The mayor of Pershore, John Grantham, said people who knew the couple had been saddened by the news.
He said: "They're clearly very upset, it's been quite a shock."
Mrs Lamb, who was known as Tilly, had relatives in Wiltshire.
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That was certainly the case when I met up with my friend Kerrie the other week and asked why she smelled of bliss on toast.
"Midnight Fantasy by Britney Spears," she replied.
Now, I obviously appreciate Britney as pop royalty, but I was surprised such an arresting scent would have a celebrity's name attached to it.
Not long ago, fragrances were associated with well-established, fashionable names such as Ralph Lauren or couture brands like Chanel.
But the number of celebrity perfumes on the market has rocketed in the last decade.
Why? Jennifer Lopez.
"Glow changed everything," says Chandler Burr, the former scent critic for the New York Times and author of several books on the subject.
He credits Lopez's first fragrance, which was released in 2002, with triggering a deluge of deodorants.
"Elizabeth Taylor was one of the first [to have her own scent], but Glow kicked the whole thing into overdrive," he says.
Lopez had sparked what Jezebel brilliantly described as the "scentocalpyse".
Suddenly, everyone and their goldfish had a scent of their own. And they sold by the truckload.
"Brands can see a huge surge in sales and awareness when a celebrity face resonates with their audience," says Gill Smith, managing director of The Perfume Shop.
She cites Beyonce and Ariana Grande's ranges as some of the store's most popular products.
So, what is the appeal of celebrity fragrances? "Identification and intimacy," says Burr.
"Scent is an affordable unit of a star. Assuming the celebrity has actually been involved in its creation, a scent constitutes identification with that star viscerally and intimately. It is, in a small way, meeting them."
Perfumes ideally have to match the celebrity's image while also appealing to their core audience (which explains why pop stars with younger fanbases have fragrances with sugary sweet smells).
Smith says: "We all still aspire to be more like our idols and connecting through a fragrance is one way of doing that.
"Britney Spears has stood the test of time. Diehard fans who wore Britney Fantasy over 12 years ago are still coming to us to try her new fragrances."
This is probably a good moment for me to make a confession. And, before I start, it's not something I'm proud of, ok?
It was August 2014. I'd been to Spain on holiday and was in the duty free section of Barcelona Airport.
Early, bored and trying to get rid of the last of my euros, I was spraying various aftershaves up and down my arm when one caught my nose.
I looked at the bottle and was surprised to see it was something called The Secret by Antonio Banderas.
So I bought it, and was duly mocked by my friends for having spent money on something called The Secret by Antonio Banderas.
But it did make me realise that, if something smells good, it will sell regardless.
For celebrities who don't want to release a fragrance under their own name, the mere act of endorsing an existing brand can have a huge impact.
"Johnny Depp as the face of Dior Sauvage has helped to drive awareness for that fragrance," Smith says. "Eighteen months after launch it's still one of our top 10 sales every day.
"Other examples include Gigi Hadid with Tommy Girl; Jared Leto with Gucci; and Estee Lauder Modern Muse with Kendall Jenner."
She adds: "More recently the announcement of Guerlain working with Angelina Jolie has given a more traditional fragrance house a celebrity boost."
The stigma around celebrity fragrances may have faded over the last few years - but now the sales are fading as well.
It's a decline that started several years ago in the US.
"We saw it in 2008 right after the crash, and it's now a given in the US industry that the celebrity market has collapsed - or at least hugely shrunk," Burr explains.
"Rihanna and a few others have scents that are doing well, but it's nothing like before."
Consumers in the UK appear to be turning their noses up at them too.
Figures released by market research group National Purchase Diary (NPD) show sales of celebrity fragrances declined by £12m in the UK last year - a drop of 22%.
But the fragrance market as a whole actually grew by 1.4% - so it's not that people stopped buying perfume, just that they're less drawn to celebrities.
Just look at the sales of couture brands like Prada, Chanel and Dior, which collectively saw a 6% increase last year.
"The decline in celebrity perfumes is something we noticed in the past two years - it's not something we see normally," says Teresa Fisher, senior account manager in UK Beauty at NPD.
That drop, she points out, could partly be down to fewer launches.
"The market was very healthy a few years ago because there were a lot of celebrity fragrances around," Fisher says.
"We saw One Direction and James Bond scents generate market growth, but now we aren't seeing as many celebrity launches."
There might be fewer celebrities cologne-ising the shelves (sorry), but Smith says the market is still strong.
"It's definitely not the end of celebrity fragrance, we do still believe there is a place in the market for them," she says.
"Customers still want celebrity perfumes as long as it is the right celebrity, and the right scent."
The right scent, of course, is the crucial part.
When he was the NYT's scent critic, Burr famously awarded Britney's Midnight Fantasy four stars, implying there should be no snobbery about celebrities if the smell itself is good.
He cites Sarah Jessica Parker's Lovely as one of the best of the celebrity fragrances he came across and is now even developing his own, called You or Someone Like You.
Fisher says: "I think overall what we're seeing is the polarisation of the fragrance market.
"At one end, consumers look for value for money, they go for promotions and maybe celebrity fragrances. But at the other, consumers are becoming more selective.
"Rather than buying 10 times a year maybe they buy five times a year. They're spending the same amount of money but going towards a more niche or premium offering."
The fragrance industry was worth £1.25bn in the UK last year, and shows no signs of slowing any time soon.
But if the current sales trends continue, there could well be far fewer famous faces plastered across perfumes in the future.
Expect your next birthday present to be a bottle of Jean Paul Gaultier rather than Justin Bieber.
Celebrity fragrances: A brief history
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The League One club have also signed Norwich City midfielder Ebou Adams on loan until January.
Adams, 21, signed from non-league Dartford in February 2016, will be making his second loan move from Carrow Road, having had a brief three-game stint with Braintree last season.
Jules, 20, did not play a first-team game for the Royals.
But he did make 10 Scottish Premiership appearances for Motherwell during a loan spell last season, and he was a member of the Scotland Under-20 squad that finished third at the recent Toulon tournament.
Shrewsbury have now made five summer signings, having previously brought in strikers Lenell John-Lewis and Arthur Gnahoua and midfielder Jon Nolan.
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It happened at the Mill Street level crossing in Leominster, Herefordshire, at 05:50 GMT on Friday.
The nearby A44 is likely to be closed all day, Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue service said. Rail services between Hereford and Shrewsbury are expected to be disrupted for most of the day.
No-one was injured in the crash.
Follow the latest on this and other stories in Herefordshire and Worcestershire here
A specialist firm was brought in to help move the lorry, which was left leaning at an angle against the house.
The house is damaged but inspections are still going on to see how bad the situation is, Martin Lown from Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service said.
"We've got a structural engineer on site and as the recovery continues we will monitor the situation," he said.
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The unemployment rate was 4.9%, down from 5.5% a year earlier but little changed from last month's report, the Office for National Statistics said.
Growth in average weekly earnings including bonuses slowed slightly to an increase of 2.3% on last year.
The proportion of people in work hit a record high of 74.5%.
The ONS said the figures, which only cover one month since the result of the EU referendum, show "continuing improvement" in the jobs market.
But Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, warned: "When you scratch beneath the surface, today's labour market figures are not as robust as they first appear."
The rise in people in work "remains supported by surging self-employment", Mr Tombs said.
"The strong growth also reflected a shift towards part-time working; total weekly hours rose by just 0.3% between April and July," he added.
Ben Brettell, senior economist at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the labour market is "still waiting for the Brexit effect", but that it will "gradually become clear over the next few months".
In August the claimant count, including Jobseeker's Allowance, actually went up from the previous month by 2,400 to 771,000.
The claimant count is treated with some caution, though, by economists as the move to Universal Credit has made it much harder to calculate.
One interesting nugget in the employment figures concerns the number of people employed in the public sector.
It is down to 5.33 million, the lowest level since the Office for National Statistics started collecting the figures in 1999 and a drop of 13,000 since March.
The former chancellor, George Osborne, often spoke about the need to "rebalance" the economy.
To an extent, he meant away from financial services and towards manufacturing.
But, more privately, he was actually very comfortable with an economy that was "rebalancing" away from the public sector towards the private sector, where wealth, he would argue, is actually created.
As cuts and wage freezes bite, the public sector has become less attractive as a place to build a career.
Yes, employment is at record levels, but it is the private sector that is on the up.
The unemployment estimates come from the Labour Force Survey in which the ONS talks to 40,000 households every three months.
Although it is a very large survey, there is still a margin of error. The ONS says it is 95% confident that the figure of a 39,000 fall in unemployment is correct to within 78,000.
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The views were expressed following a meeting of the EU Negotiation Joint Ministerial Committee in London.
Mr Davis said the UK government would keep Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland up-to-date about negotiations.
However, Mr Russell said transparency about UK government plans was needed.
Mr Davis said he wanted to hold a monthly meeting to share analysis as part of a "two-way information flow" with each of the three nations.
He believed that would allow the devolved administrations to voice their views as the Westminster government prepares talks with Brussels.
Mr Davis said: "Today's meeting was an important step in bringing the devolved administrations together with the UK government to discuss how we can work together to get the best deal for the whole of the UK.
"Naturally, there are different standpoints around the table, but the meeting was constructive and amicable. We will meet regularly and share our latest thinking as the UK shapes its negotiating strategy.
"We will work positively with the Scottish government, the Welsh government and the Northern Ireland Executive as we implement the decision of the people of the UK to leave the EU."
Mr Russell said it was "good" that the process of involving the Scottish government was under way.
But he added: "More than four months after the referendum the UK government has still not made its strategic intentions clear.
"There was a discussion over EU market access but we do not know whether UK ministers want to remain inside the single market or the customs union. This will remain a considerable problem as we continue to promote the interests of Scotland.
"The UK Government must provide greater clarity and transparency on its intentions."
He said he made it "absolutely clear" that membership of the single market "is essential for the economic prosperity of Scotland".
The UK government hopes the High Court judgment on how Article 50 will be triggered will be overruled on appeal to the Supreme Court next month.
However, the Scottish government will seek to oppose the UK government in the Supreme Court during the appeal.
The intention is for Lord Advocate James Wolffe, Scotland's most senior law officer, to apply to be heard in the case. | The UK's Brexit minister David Davis has hailed his latest talks with devolved ministers but Holyrood's Mike Russell has called for greater clarity on the "strategic objectives". | 37929488 | [
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The animal welfare charity received a call saying there was an injured or possibly dead snake at Green Street Park.
It said the caller had been "too scared" to get any closer.
SSPCA animal rescue officer Coreen Hill said it was "always better to be safe than sorry."
She said: "I expected to be met with an escaped corn snake that had been attacked by a cat or dog, but instead I discovered it was made of plastic.
"The caller believed they had spotted a snake in the distance whilst at the park and was too scared to get any closer to investigate.
"They could only tell that it wasn't moving and had its mouth open.
"This job can be very tough as we deal with severely injured animals on a daily basis, so it's quite nice when something like this makes us smile." | The Scottish SPCA was alerted by a member of the public to a snake in Forfar only to discover it was a plastic toy. | 40159910 | [
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The closure of the tunnel near Linlithgow in West Lothian will mean rail services between Edinburgh and Glasgow will be severely hit.
The work is part of a £750m upgrade to enable faster, bigger and greener electric trains to run on the line.
The disruption will last from 13 June to 27 July.
Engineers said the tunnel closure was necessary so tracks could be lowered to create space for overhead power lines for the new trains, which will be introduced at the end of next year.
The upgrade is the latest phase of the Scottish government's Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP).
Train operator ScotRail has a dedicated website to advise on the disruption, which will mainly hit travel between Glasgow - or Stirling/Dunblane - and Edinburgh but it will also have a knock-on effect in areas such as the Fife Circle.
Many passengers will have longer journeys or bus replacements. ScotRail advised passengers to add at least 30 minutes to their planned journey times.
The closure will mean passengers looking to travel end-to-end from Glasgow to Edinburgh will no longer be able to take a train from Queen Street high level platforms, as the trains will only go as far as Linlithgow.
Instead, they will have to switch to the slower Queen Street low level trains or travel on the longer route from Glasgow Central Station.
ScotRail said the main routes affected would be:
In addition, the following services will be busier than normal in both directions:
How will you be affected by the work?
Rodger Querns, programme director of EGIP for Network Rail, said the tunnel work over the next six weeks would see the track removed and the floor of the tunnel lowered to create headroom to install new electrification equipment.
He said: "We can't avoid the work in Winchburgh tunnel. We do appreciate the inconvenience this will cause passengers. We have planned the work meticulously and are working hard to minimise that disruption.
"We are working round-the-clock. We have engineers on the site 24/7 to get the railway back running as planned on 27 July."
Phil Verster, managing director of train operator ScotRail Alliance, said: "The EGIP programme is a £750m investment in this very important corridor between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
"It electrifies the line and the magnificent benefit it brings for our customers is we are going to have longer trains, about 30% more capacity, shorter journeys because we are going to run trains faster and shave about eight to 10 minutes off a 50-minute journey time, and it is going to be greener as well.
"So on all counts it is good for customers and good for the country."
About 150 years ago when this tunnel was built the challenge was creating enough headroom to allow the funnels of steam locomotives to fit through as they thundered along the track.
Today the challenge is about making enough space for the overhead lines for electric trains.
The engineers can't go up so they have to go down, dropping the level of the entire track.
Some have questioned why the rail improvement work was taking place at the same time as major upgrades to the road network in Central Scotland.
Work on the £500m M8 M73 M74 Motorway Improvements Project in Lanarkshire is already leading to disruption as traffic restrictions are in force.
Transport Minister Derek Mackay advised people to plan their journeys and assured them it would be worth it.
He said: "For both the road and rail network the best time to do it would be over the summer. That's when the least people will be travelling.
"These are major improvements and they are necessary improvements. We can't just let the infrastructure disintegrate.
"This is better than that. It is not just maintenance, it is upgrading of our rail and road infrastructure so it is fit for the future and can unlock even more economic potential and improve the connections in our country."
Mr Querns said the EGIP project would continue on sections of the line over the next year but most of the work would be carried out at night.
He said: "Next year we will be working in the Queen Street tunnel clearing that for electrification in April 2016."
Mr Verster said Glasgow Queen Street would be "transformed" by the changes, with the whole concourse being remodelled.
He said: "It will put Glasgow Queen Street on a par with what we have at St Pancras or King's Cross. It is going to be absolutely stunning." | Train passengers in Scotland's central belt face six weeks of disruption from this weekend when work begins on the Winchburgh tunnel. | 33068792 | [
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The details emerged during the sentencing of Arshid, Bannaras and Basharat Hussain at Sheffield Crown Court.
Arshid, 40, and Basharat, 39, were found guilty by a jury of 50 offences.
Bannaras, 36, pleaded guilty to 10 offences before the trial started.
Michelle Colborne QC said Bannaras Hussain met one victim when she was 12 or 13 and she performed sex acts on him.
"He was indifferent to whether she consented or not," she said.
"When her brothers found out, they were furious with her and would physically assault her because she was involved sexually with an Asian man."
She said Bannaras abused one victim in a car park next to Rotherham Police Station, and told the court how the sister of another of his victims described her sister as a "broken human being".
Ms Colborne said one woman had described the Hussain brothers as "a pack of animals".
Summing up the contents of a number of statements from the women abused by the brothers, she said: "They describe from their teenage years a life in the main of feeling dirty, ashamed and guilty.
"Between them, a plethora of emotional conditions - eating disorders, self-harm, agoraphobia, self-loathing and terminations for many of them from the age of 14 - events they have never been able to put behind them."
She said many of the victims have had relationship problems throughout their lives and have found themselves subjected to domestic violence.
Three associates of the Hussain brothers, their uncle Qurban Ali, 53, Karen MacGregor, 58, and Shelley Davies, 40, will also be sentenced.
Ali was found guilty of conspiracy to rape, while MacGregor and Davies were convicted of false imprisonment and conspiracy to procure a woman under 21 to become a common prostitute. MacGregor was also convicted of two counts of conspiracy to rape. | A victim of one of three brothers who raped and sexually assaulted 15 teenage girls in Rotherham was attacked by her own family when they discovered the abuse, a court has heard. | 35667923 | [
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The adware - dubbed Superfish - was potentially compromising their security, said experts.
The hidden software was also injecting adverts on to browsers using techniques more akin to malware, they added.
Lenovo faces questions about why and for how long it was pre-installed on machines - and what data was collected.
The company told the BBC in a statement: "Lenovo removed Superfish from the preloads of new consumer systems in January 2015. At the same time Superfish disabled existing Lenovo machines in the market from activating Superfish.
"Superfish was preloaded on to a select number of consumer models only. Lenovo is thoroughly investigating all and any new concerns raised regarding Superfish."
Users began complaining about Superfish in Lenovo's forums in the autumn, and the firm told the BBC that it was shipped "in a short window from October to December to help customers potentially discover interesting products while shopping".
User feedback, it acknowledged, "was not positive".
Last month, forum administrator Mark Hopkins told users that "due to some issues (browser pop up behaviour, for example)", the company had "temporarily removed Superfish from our consumer systems until such time as Superfish is able to provide a software build that addresses these issues".
He added it had requested that Superfish issue an auto-update for "units already in market".
Superfish was designed to help users find products by visually analysing images on the web to find the cheapest ones.
Such adware is widely regarded in the industry as a form of malware because of the way it interacts with a person's laptop or PC.
Security expert from Surrey University Prof Alan Woodward said: "It is annoying. It is not acceptable. It pops up adverts that you never asked for. It is like Google on steroids.
"This bit of software is particularly naughty. People have shown that it can basically intercept everything and it could be really misused."
According to security experts, it appears that Lenovo had given Superfish permission to issue its own certificates, allowing it to collect data over secure web connections, known in malware parlance as a man-in-the-middle attack.
"If someone went to, say, the Bank of America then Superfish would issue its own certificate pretending to be the Bank of America and intercept whatever you are sending back and forth," said Prof Woodward.
Ken Westin, senior analyst at security company Tripwire, agreed: "If the findings are true and Lenovo is installing their own self-signed certificates, they have not only betrayed their customers' trust, but also put them at increased risk."
Although Lenovo has said that it has removed Superfish from new machines and disabled it from others, it was unclear what the situation would be for machines where it had already been activated.
Prof Woodward said: "Lenovo is being very coy about this but it needs to explain how long it has been doing this, what the scale is and where all the data it has collected is being stored.
"There will be remnants of it left on machines and Lenovo does not ship the disks that allow people to do a clean install."
It raises wider questions about the deals that computer manufacturers do with third parties and the amount of software that comes pre-installed on machines.
Mr Westin said: "With increasingly security and privacy-conscious buyers, laptop and mobile phone manufacturers may well be doing themselves a disservice by seeking outdated advertising based monetisation strategies."
Users were particularly angry that they had not been told about the adware.
One Lenovo forum user said: "It's not like they stuck it on the flier saying... we install adware on our computers so we can profit from our customers by using hidden software.
"However, I now know this. I now will not buy any Lenovo laptop again."
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Here's a round-up in case you missed anything:
Baftas 2017: As it happened
Grammys mix hip flasks with politics
Eight things we learned from first Carpool Karaoke trailer
Love Actually cast to reunite for Comic Relief film
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Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | It's been a busy week in the world of entertainment - with the Love Actually cast reuniting, New York Fashion Week drawing to a close and awards ceremonies aplenty. | 39002459 | [
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In August, Scott initiated the investigation into a "disappointing" Olympic campaign that produced three medals from a target of five to seven.
A key finding of the report required Australia-based Scott to relocate to Britain, something he was unable to do.
Scott, who has been performance director since 2007, will step aside at the end of the month.
The Australian's removal allows British swimming to begin the search for a new performance director as attention turns to the next Olympics in Rio in four years' time.
"I respect this conclusion from the performance review I initiated following our results in London," Scott said.
"I wanted to make sure we left no stone unturned in understanding why we didn't achieve our goals.
"One of the key findings of the review requires a change to my current working practice by being based in Britain. However, for personal and family reasons, I'm unable to meet this recommendation and therefore offered my resignation." | British Swimming's performance director Michael Scott has resigned following a review into results at London 2012. | 20479857 | [
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Corporal William Savage, 30, from Penicuik, Fusilier Samuel Flint, 21, and Private Robert Hetherington, 25, both from Edinburgh, died in the blast.
They were killed on Route 611 in the Nahr-e-Saraj district on 30 April 2013.
The soldiers, who were in an armoured Mastiff vehicle, were unlawfully killed on active service, the coroner ruled.
Coroner, Darren Salter, will now write to Defence Secretary Michael Fallon.
The inquest was held at Oxfordshire Coroners Court.
Earlier, it heard that an improvised explosive device (IED) had been put in place using a tunnel and was triggered using a command wire from behind the 10ft wall of a nearby compound.
Post-mortem examinations concluded the three, who were with B Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland, would have been deeply unconscious virtually instantly and unaware of what had happened.
Mr Salter said the Mastiff was designed to resist improvised explosive device (IED) attacks.
There had been earlier damage to this one, the second of three evolutions of the vehicle, in a strike in 2009.
However, there was "no significant evidence" that the vehicle failed to provide the "expected level of protection", Mr Salter ruled.
He also noted that experts referred to the size of the explosion as a "blast overmatch" and that the men were seated in the rear of the vehicle, which was nearest to the explosion.
The men died when an improvised explosive device (IED) tore through their heavily armoured Mastiff vehicle on April 30 last year.
The Royal Military Police made inquiries to the Afghan National Police about the incident, but no-one was arrested over it.
The Mastiff, a protective patrol vehicle, had gone from Forward Operating Base Ouellette to another base at Lashkar Gah Durai and was on its way back again when the attack happened.
There were four vehicles in the patrol.
The driver of the Mastiff, Fusilier Paul Howell, said in a statement that the regular locks to the rear doors had been faulty, and he had reported them twice.
He told the inquest that on the day in question, though they were stiff, they were fully sealed when closed.
Extra battle locks were not deployed, but they were not supposed to be when the vehicle was in open desert, only when there were potential public order situations, he said.
He said in his statement that there were 20 ammunition tins under the seats in the rear, which was normal.
The inquest heard that the IED was buried under the road, had been placed there by tunnelling, and was triggered by a command wire, probably from behind the 10ft wall of a nearby compound.
Sgt David Boxwell, who was in command of the patrol, said he had not been told of any problems relating to the place where the blast took place.
As for tunnelling under the road, he earlier said: "I had never heard of it before."
Company Sgt Major Steven Main said: "Everything we had had was off the tarmac road. IEDs were placed in the dust - it's easier to conceal."
He said there was no sign on the ground of the IED.
"The wire was so deep that we would not have seen it." | Three soldiers killed in a Taliban bomb blast should have been warned about insurgent activity in the area, a coroner has said. | 30328180 | [
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But during a ceremony to honour the victims, one policeman refused the shake hands with the president and his prime minister.
Interviewed on TF1 television afterwards, he said "There are too many problems in the police. We've had enough." | French President Francois Hollande has vowed to improve the protection of police officers, after a police couple was killed by a militant this week. | 36563152 | [
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PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said: "It underlines the club's desire to look towards the future to construct one of Europe's biggest clubs."
Earlier this month, PSG paid Napoli £55m for Uruuay striker Edinson Cavani.
Marquinhos, whose full name is Marcos Aoas Correa, made a huge impact in his debut season in Serie A and was linked with moves to Manchester United and Barcelona.
"I am delighted to be joining Paris St-Germain, a club where so many Brazilians have played and helped write the club's history," he said. | French champions Paris St-Germain have signed 19-year-old Brazilian defender Marquinhos from Roma for £27m. | 23386494 | [
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Victory in the Cold War made it the hegemon in a unipolar world.
Few argued when the 20th Century was dubbed the "American Century", a term first coined in the early 1940s when the country was still overcoming its isolationist instincts.
Even the New Year's fireworks, which illuminated the obelisk of the Washington Monument in a way that made it resemble a giant number one, projected the country's supremacy as the world's sole superpower.
Over the past 15 years, America's fortunes have changed with dizzying speed.
First came the tremors: the dot-com bust and a disputed presidential election in 2000. Then came the massive convulsions: the destruction of the Twin Towers in 2001 and the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have exacted an enormous blood price - the lives of 6,852 American military personnel - not to mention immense financial expense, estimated to be as high as $6 trillion (£3.9tn).
The detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has undermined American ideals, just as the NSA and Wikileaks spying scandals have undercut American diplomacy.
George W Bush, a president with a Manichean worldview, was widely seen as over-eager to project America's military might, without adequately considering the long-term consequences.
Barack Obama, who campaigned in 2008 on a platform of extricating America from its unpopular and exhausting wars, has drawn criticism for disengaging too much.
Under both presidents - the first an impulsive unilateralist, the second an instinctive multilateralist content sometimes to lead from behind - America's global standing has been diminished.
Polls regularly show that Americans recognise that their country's international standing has waned.
Among the young, this trendline has fallen sharply. Only 15% of 18-29-year-olds believe that America is the "greatest country in the world", according to Pew, down from 27% in 2011.
Tellingly, however, there has been no great public outcry.
No longer is there much appetite for America playing its long-standing role of global policeman, even in the face of the rise of the group calling itself Islamic State.
The cost, human and financial, is considered too great. Americans increasingly think that other countries should share the burden.
Obama, while continuing to trumpet "American exceptionalism", regularly prefaces remarks on foreign affairs by acknowledging the limits of US power, again with little public outcry.
The upshot is that the United States is no longer so keen to exert leadership in an increasingly messy world.
Yet one of the reasons why the world has become so disorderly is because America is no longer so active in imposing order.
Over the course of this century Washington has lost its fear factor.
World leaders nowadays seem prepared to provoke the wrath of the White House, confident that it will never rain down on them.
It explains why the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after unleashing chemical weapons against his people, continues to bombard them with barrel bombs.
Why Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, and also offered a safe haven for the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
And also why Benjamin Netanyahu thumbed his nose at the Obama administration, by accepting an invitation from the Republican congressional leadership to address a joint session of Congress, a platform he used to lambast the Iran nuclear deal.
Assad's flouting of American warnings is especially noteworthy.
In killing so many civilians with chemical weapons, he flagrantly crossed the "red line" imposed by Obama, but escaped punishment.
The president was unwilling to carry through on an explicit threat, in what was the biggest foreign policy climbdown of his presidency and also one of the most significant in the past 50 years.
Even supporters of Barack Obama believe he made a fatal strategic mistake, because it demonstrated endless flexibility and a lack of American resolve.
Needless to say, despots around the world took note.
America's reluctance to launch new military actions has also had a major bearing on the nuclear negotiations with Iran.
Tehran has managed to extract notable concessions, such as the ongoing ability to enrich uranium, hitherto ruled out by the Americans.
It has played a weak hand strongly, because it knows that America has what the foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman calls "an empty holster".
Nor is it just America's enemies who no longer fear the White House to the extent they once did.
In recent months, two close allies, Britain and Australia, have defied the Obama administration by joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
By signing up to the AIIB, they are effectively endorsing Beijing's effort to establish financial rivals to the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which are dominated by America.
By seeking improved commercial and diplomatic relations with China, Britain and Australia are also hedging.
They suspect that America will not be the dominant Pacific military power indefinitely, nor the world's foremost economic powerhouse.
Other American allies would complain that the "dependability factor" has also gone.
Israel feels badly let down by the Obama administration over the Iran deal, and relations between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama are poisonous.
The president, by using deliberately ambiguous language, has even signalled that his administration might end its traditional protection of Israel at the United Nations.
Like Israel, Saudi Arabia has been enraged by the prospective nuclear deal with the Iranians.
Riyadh also knows that America is no longer so dependent on its oil, the cornerstone of the relationship since the end of World War Two.
Egypt was angered in 2012 when Obama said Cairo was neither an ally nor an enemy.
Later, the State Department issued an embarrassing correction, and reinstated Cairo as a "major non-Nato ally."
Maybe Obama's Egyptian error, and the slight it conveyed, was truly a Freudian slip.
After all, he hasn't invested the same energy nurturing alliances as his predecessors. The detached air that has been a hallmark of his presidency also extends to foreign affairs.
Here, I gather, Obama recognises intellectually that he could do far more in terms of massaging the egos of world leaders, but cannot quite bring himself to do so.
Indeed, a common complaint is that the Obama administration has prioritised normalising relations with its one-time enemies, Iran and Cuba, at the expense of fostering longstanding friendships.
Realising that America is no longer so supportive, and no longer so engaged in the Middle East, the Saudis have recently taken military action of their own in Yemen.
There's also been a warming of relations between Riyadh and Moscow.
And Egypt launched airstrikes in February against the Islamic State group in Libya.
America's standing in the Middle East has unquestionably waned, along with its ability to shape events.
More surprising has been its slippage in Africa, Obama's ancestral home, and Asia, the focus of his much vaunted pivot.
In Asia, America's median approval rating in 2014, as measured by Gallup, was 39%, a 6% drop since 2011.
In Africa, the median approval went down to 59%, the lowest since polling began, despite Obama hosting the US-Africa Leaders' Summit in Washington in August, last year.
It even dropped in Kenya, his father's birthplace.
America's diplomacy has also been complicated by the dysfunction and hyper-partisanship in Washington.
Republican lawmakers actively sought to derail the Iran nuclear deal by sending a letter to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
House speaker John Boehner invited Netanyahu to address Congress, knowing it would infuriate the White House.
Democrats with reservations about free trade have tried to sabotage the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the biggest trade deal since Nafta.
There's also been strong congressional opposition to one of the big plays of Obama's second term, the rapprochement with Cuba.
Should countries listen to the president or Congress?
America cannot even lay claim any more to its great, uncontested boast since 1872, of being the world's largest economy.
The IMF now estimates that China's economy is fractionally bigger.
Yet it would be a mistake to exaggerate the downsizing of American influence.
US military spending continues to dwarf its rivals, and up until last year amounted to more than the next 10 countries combined.
In 2014, America spent $731bn, compared to China's $143bn.
Even though China's economy is now larger, America's per capita spending power is in a different league - $53,000 to $11,868.
Though America is contending with the rise of the rest - China, India, Brazil, Germany and Russia - it has not yet been overtaken by emergent rivals.
Indeed, there are foreign policy thinkers here who predict that America will preserve its pre-eminence for at least another 20 years.
Yet the unipolar moment ushered in by the fall of the Berlin Wall has proved to be just that: momentary.
Moreover, hopes of a new world order following the collapse of the Soviet Union have given way to widespread pessimism about the spread, even the contagion, of global disorder.
Gone are the certainties of America's Cold War thinking, when the containment of communism governed its international actions.
Gone are the doctrines that gave US foreign policy such a rigid frame, throughout the Cold War and in the aftermath of 9/11.
Gone, too, is the notion that every fight is an American fight and along with it a redefinition of what constitutes the US national interest.
Barack Obama has instead advocated pragmatism and diplomatic dexterity, trying to steer a path between America being overextended and undercommitted.
Maybe the overriding challenge for US diplomacy over the next 20 years is to strike the proper balance. | Standing on the Washington Mall at the turn of the new millennium, it was impossible not to be struck by America's power and global pre-eminence. | 33440287 | [
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The Rhinos have been training across the city of Leeds since the river Aire burst its banks at Christmas.
Chief executive Gary Hetherington told BBC Radio Leeds: "It is looking like £1m in total. It has caused massive disruption.
"But sport throws up all sorts of challenges and this is another one."
All seven training pitches and the main building at the Kirkstall site the Rhinos share with rugby union side Yorkshire Carnegie were contaminated by flood water at the end of December.
The Rhinos, who begin the defence of their Super League title against Warrington on 4 February, say that 80 members of staff based at the site, plus 120 players, have been kept out for the last month.
"We couldn't get anywhere near the site," said Hetherington.
"When we were able to access it, the reality hit everybody. The whole site was under water. The changing rooms, medical rooms and gymnasium, and all the equipment was completely destroyed.
"All the pitches are contaminated so they need to be dug up and reseeded. The 3G pitch needs to be replaced. The buildings need to be replastered, all the floors need to come up.
"It will be the best part of six months before we can use the grass pitches and gymnasium." | Leeds Rhinos rugby league team face a £1m bill for flood damage that could keep them out of their training ground for a further six months. | 35412241 | [
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Attention is focusing on how Khalid Masood was able to enter the Carriage Gates entrance of Parliament before he was confronted and subsequently shot.
One security expert said the breach may have been a product of complacency.
Ministers insist the police did their job and Parliament can't be sealed off - and a security review is under way.
A Parliamentary spokesman said security was always under "constant review" but the building had to remain "open and accessible" for it to function.
The review follows the fatal stabbing of PC Keith Palmer in the grounds of the Palace of Westminster.
Ministers have declined to comment on unconfirmed reports that his alleged assailant was shot dead by a member of Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon's close protection team, who happened to be at the scene, rather than a uniformed officer stationed at the gate.
Some MPs regard the carriage gates entrance, which is used by government cars to drop off and pick up ministers, as a weak point in the security perimeter.
It is manned by two police officers but they are not always armed and the gate is often open, unlike other entrances to the Palace of Westminster.
The Times reported that a 2005 review had found the entrance to be a weak point, primarily due to the number of delivery vans using it.
The paper quoted parliamentary sources as saying any changes at the time had been regarded as "too cumbersome".
The Met Police said the current security arrangements had been in place for many years and were "designed to provide access to the seat of our government balanced carefully with security that is proportionate but not overly intrusive".
"Of course, after an incident like this, as would be expected, my team will work with parliamentary authorities to assess whether a different tone or a different balance is necessary," Assistant Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley said on Friday.
Parliament, which oversees its own security, said the arrangements should reflect the level of risk it faced.
"As is good practice following any significant incident, the Houses in conjunction with the police and other bodies will also be carrying out a review of security around this specific incident," a spokesman said.
Former Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has said there is now a case for all police officers guarding Parliament and other "sensitive sites" to be routinely armed.
There are two Metropolitan Police officers manning Carriage Gates at all times.
Behind the gates there is a hut staffed by a third officer, whose job is to monitor pedestrians exiting the estate.
All three officers are issued with stab vests.
They check to ensure the driver of a vehicle or bicycle has the correct parliamentary pass. Cars are security vetted beyond the gates. They all have two way radios so can call for help in emergencies.
Armed police are on patrol throughout the Parliamentary estate at all times but they are more visible at times of heightened security.
Security expert Professor Anthony Glees said the attack had demonstrated a "lack of protection" within Parliament.
"I am very disturbed by the complacent attitude," Prof Glees, who heads the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies programme at the University of Buckingham told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
"The fact is in immediate terms and wider terms, this was a failure of security policy.
"This is someone who got within 100 metres of where the prime minister was. If he had an explosive vest, we would be having a very different conversation."
Tony Long, a former armed police officer, said those stationed at College Gates were effectively "meeters and greeters and pass checkers" who were well known to MPs.
He told Victoria Derbyshire there had been a huge reluctance within Parliament, which oversees its own security, to have armed officers on patrol.
"There is a huge amount of tradition about that building," he said.
"I guarantee if those gates were shut, the first person to complain about it would be an MP or a cabinet minister."
Several MPs have warned Westminster should not be turned into a fortress.
"The idea that arming all police will be a panacea and a solution to this problem may well be mistaken," said Conservative MP Dominic Grieve.
"It is worth bearing in mind that in fact security wasn't breached. There was a tragic loss of life but in trying to breach security, he was stopped."
Kim Howells, a former chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee, said one must remember Parliament is a "working building with people moving in and out".
Asked why Masood had not been stopped from entering the parliamentary estate, he said: "This guy ran in through the gates. As a former rugby man, I know it is not easy to bring down a man in such a situation."
There was a major review of security at the Palace of Westminster in 2014 which was supposed to "assess the strengths and weaknesses of the current arrangements and to make recommendations". Its findings have not been published. | Questions continue to be asked about whether Wednesday's fatal terror attack in Parliament could have been prevented if more officers had been armed. | 39378806 | [
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Treating wounds in Welsh hospitals or in the home and at clinics by nurses costs the NHS in Wales around £156m a year.
The Welsh Wound Innovation Centre (WWIC) aims to improve treatments and lower hospital admissions and stays.
Based in Llantrisant, it will include working with patients at the nearby Royal Glamorgan Hospital.
Wound care - which includes dealing with problems like pressure sores and infection after surgery - is thought to account for around 5% of the NHS's overall budget and is rising.
The new centre is co-headed by Prof Keith Harding, head of Cardiff University's Wound Healing Research Unit, which has been researching wound healing for more than 22 years.
This has included pioneering work in the use of maggots for cleaning wounds.
In a typical hospital, between 25% and 40% of beds are occupied by patients with a wound, while nurses in the community can spend between 25-75% of their time treating them.
"Treating patients with wounds, whether chronic, acute or traumatic, is a surprisingly expensive problem for the health service - not to mention the emotional costs it inflicts on patients and their families," said Prof Harding.
He said the centre would look at improvements to wound prevention and treatment, aimed at fewer hospital admissions and shorter stays.
WOUND HEALING CASE STUDY - Lauren Brimble, 27, from Abertillery, had bilateral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and has suffered leg ulcers.
She took part in clinical trials for new dressings developed by the Wound Healing Research Unit.
"We found the Cardiff research unit on the internet and although I was out of the area I arranged to see them and they took me on.
"I was in excruciating pain with my left leg, I've never known anything like it and no pain killers would make a difference. But they got on top of it. I had different trials of dressings on each leg over the summer - the right one is fine now and the left one has improved significantly.
"The treatment is ongoing but it's been amazing. It's one of those things that unless you've had it you can't understand what it means and the effect it has on your life."
The WWIC was set up with £2.5m funding from the Welsh government, as well as the seven local health boards and the private sector. It hopes to be paying for itself within three years through grants and commercial sources.
The centre is already supporting the work of five small businesses based in Wales, as well American and Australian companies.
It employs 31 people and aims to attract at least 11 investments from abroad, creating a further 45 jobs over the next five years.
It recently won a research award from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to help scientists develop a diagnostic test to improve the treatment of chronic wound management.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said: "Our population is getting older and the time and cost associated with treating and managing wounds is set to increase. Only by looking at new ways of treating wounds can we manage this trend and improve people's quality of life." | A new £4m research centre to tackle the "silent epidemic" of wound care has been launched. | 29128620 | [
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Delivering his judgement, a judge said it was for the Stormont Assembly, and not a judge, to decide social policy.
A joint case was taken by the first lesbian couple and the first gay couple to enter civil partnerships in the UK.
The second case was brought by a couple who wed in England but want their marriage legally recognised at home in Northern Ireland.
The judge heard the cases together due to the similarities of the legal arguments.
Mr Justice O'Hara said: "It is not at all difficult to understand how gay men and lesbians who have suffered discrimination, rejection and exclusion feel so strongly about the maintenance in Northern Ireland of the barrier to same sex marriage.
"However, the judgment which I have to reach is not based on social policy but on the law."
Same-sex marriage is legal in England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland, but is banned in Northern Ireland.
Shannon Sickles, Grainne Close, and Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane were challenging Stormont's refusal to legislate for same-sex marriage.
Ms Close said she was "devastated" by the ruling.
"For us, this is a personal matter," she said.
"We have families and our children are being treated differently because of today's result."
Her partner, Ms Sickles, said they would continue their legal challenge.
Twelve years ago, Northern Ireland was the first place in the UK to introduce civil partnerships.
Ms Sickles and Ms Close made history on 19 December 2005 when their relationship was legally recognised in the UK's first civil partnership ceremony at Belfast City Hall.
They were closely followed by Chris and Henry Flanagan-Kane, whose civil partnership took place later that same day.
During the joint challenge to the law in Northern Ireland, the couple's lawyers argued that the ban breaches Article Eight of the European Convention on Human Rights, by denying respect for their private and family lives.
But a lawyer for Stormont's Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) countered that the ban was not a breach of human rights and that civil partnerships already met the minimum requirements set out under human rights law.
The couple who married in England had been granted anonymity, and their case was referred to as Petition X.
The campaign for same-sex marriage has been highly divisive at the Northern Ireland Assembly in recent years, and is currently one of the main sticking points in Stormont's continuing political crisis.
Assembly members (MLAs) have voted five times on whether or not to introduce same-sex marriage.
During the fifth vote in November 2015, MLAs voted in favour of legalisation for the first time, with the slimmest majority of 53 votes to 52.
However, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) used a Stormont veto, known as a petition of concern, to block the motion and prevent any change in the law.
Alliance MLA Paula Bradshaw said it was "shameful" the couples had been forced to take their cases to court.
"Last May both Sinn Féin and the DUP refused the Alliance Party's proposal to reform the petition of concern - the crucial reform that would make equal marriage a reality," she said.
"Now the challenge has been thrown firmly back at the politicians and it is essential we get Stormont up and running again to stabilise Northern Ireland and start delivering for everyone."
The marriage of the couple in the Petition X case was treated as a civil partnership in Northern Ireland, under the terms of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013,
The devolved distinction was made possible after negotiations between a previous Westminster government and a previous Northern Ireland Assembly.
The couple took their vows "because they believe in the traditional values associated with marriage," according to their solicitor.
"We sighed when the ruling was read out not through disappointment, but simply because the inevitable recognition of same-sex marriage has been further delayed in Northern Ireland," they said.
"The work will continue, the wind is to our back."
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said The LGBT community was "not a punching bag to be hit again and again".
"Ours is now the only small corner of these islands where we maintain a hierarchy of love," he said.
"We are increasingly isolated here and across Europe as a place where the commitment and compassion of a same-sex couple is not recognised or reflected in our law."
Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín said the issue was at the heart of the current political crisis in Northern Ireland - where the Assembly has been in limbo since power-sharing broke down in January.
"We need to see the implementation of agreements and an end to discrimination if we are to have sustainable political institutions," she said. | The High Court has dismissed two cases challenging Northern Ireland's ban on same-sex marriage. | 40954619 | [
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Paul Good, 53, and Darryl Shellard, 45, both from Liverpool were convicted of fraud and jailed for eight and seven years each.
Lee Doran, 45, of Huyton was sentenced to 16 months for admitting fraud.
Merseyside Police said one businessman even lost his home as a result of the scam.
The fraud involved sales staff, such as Doran, posing as cold callers from the emergency services to sell advertising for non-existent publications, said police.
Shellard, and Good of Knight Street, Liverpool, targeted small firms and start-up businesses sending a sample copy to their clients who were then given 28 days to pay in full.
Det Con Clare Walsh from the force's Economic Interventions unit said some offences dated back 10 years with victims spread across the UK.
"This type of fraud is not a victimless crime - while initial amounts taken were often small, in some cases bills eventually ran to thousands of pounds, which had a devastating effect on the business and individuals involved, with one business owner even losing his own home as a result of their actions."
Shellard, of Tancred Road, also admitted perjury in a civil court. | Three conmen have been jailed for a £4.5m fraud selling bogus advertising space to small companies who were taken to court if they did not pay up. | 31755020 | [
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The Scottish and UK governments have been locked in talks about a financial deal, with deadlines pushed back due to disagreements over key terms.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said the deal needs to be fair to taxpayers in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
Mr Swinney said UK taxpayers would "not lose a single penny" under his plans.
The fiscal framework is the financial structure which will underpin new powers being devolved north of the border as part of the Scotland Bill.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dismissed the Treasury's previous offer on the matter as resulting in an "almost £3bn cut" for the Scottish budget.
The two parties disagree on a principle called for by the Smith Commission on new powers for Scotland known as "no detriment", which underlines that neither the Scottish or UK budgets should suffer from the terms agreed upon.
However, they disagree on what form this should take, particularly over the matter of population growth. Scotland's population is expected to grow more slowly than that of the UK in the coming years, which could impact on the economy north of the border.
Ms Sturgeon said the Treasury seemed to be trying to argue in terms of what detriment should be imposed on Scotland, and her spokesman later described the UK government's position on the matter as "increasingly isolated".
Outlining his latest proposal to his Treasury counterpart Greg Hands, Mr Swinney said taxpayers in the rest of the UK "are no better or worse off" under his terms.
He said: "Under the Scottish government's method, taxpayers in the rest of the UK will see no detriment. They do not lose a single penny under these plans.
"And it will ensure that the Scottish budget bears the risk of population changes relative to the rest of the UK via the Barnett formula.
"In line with the Smith agreement, the Scottish budget will bear the full financial costs or reap the full rewards of decisions taken here in Scotland. And our proposals will see Scotland bear the economic risk of delivering growth, via tax receipts.
"This proposal addresses each of the specific technical concerns the UK government has raised publicly and privately. Agreement on indexation would allow us to focus on agreeing the remaining outstanding matters under the Fiscal Framework.
"I hope we now have the basis of a deal."
Mr Cameron told MPs at his weekly questions session that no-one was "keener" than he was to reach an agreement on the deal, adding that "there has to be fairness across the rest of the UK too".
However, in a letter to Ms Sturgeon he warned that the Scottish government must "be prepared to move towards us" to reach a compromise agreement.
The prime minister said it would be "very difficult" for him to "explain to taxpayers in the rest of the UK that Scotland will stop paying income tax into the central pot yet somehow still receive a share of it".
Holyrood's devolution committee has called for both sides to give a "full explanation of their position on a fiscal framework" by 23 February, when they will be called to give evidence before MSPs.
Convener Bruce Crawford said there would be "very substantial impacts" on the Scottish Parliament's ability to scrutinise the deal before dissolution on 23 March if a deal is not struck soon. | Scotland's finance secretary John Swinney has submitted a fresh proposal in talks to establish a "fiscal framework" for new devolved powers. | 35561614 | [
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The 34-year-old has been absent from the club since a training-ground row after the 5-1 Scottish Premiership loss at Celtic on 10 September.
Alongside agent Eddy Jennings, he attended a meeting with club officials last week.
Barton, who joined from Burnley in May, has repeatedly said he wants to return and fight for his Rangers place.
"Joey Barton has been told he will return to full-time training following the conclusion of a disciplinary procedure," read a statement on Rangers' website.
"The Auchenhowie [training base] management team will inform the player of appropriate training arrangements to which he must adhere for as long as he remains a Rangers player.
"Neither the club, nor the player, will comment further."
Barton is also facing Scottish FA charges for breaching betting rules. He was charged with placing 44 bets on games between 1 July and 15 September.
The former Manchester City, Newcastle United and QPR player, who has one England cap, left Burnley under freedom of contract at the end of last season, signing a two-year contract at Ibrox.
He has made eight appearances for Mark Warburton's side, who are second in the Premiership.
Barton was not available for comment but said earlier on Wednesday on Twitter that it was "a lovely day for a @Iceman_Hof session and a run!" in reference to Dutch ice bath training guru Wim Hof.
BBC Scotland's Richard Wilson
The fact that Joey Barton is returning to full-time training does not necessarily mean the resumption of his Rangers career.
Under Fifa rules, a player under contract at a club must be provided with training facilities.
The fact that the player was suspended reflects the view of the management team about the serious nature of a training-ground row in September.
Any return to the first-team squad would need to be handled in such a way as to not disrupt the mood and unity among the players.
Rangers' statement does not say that Barton is returning to the first-team squad, or will be available for selection, and only the management team at their Auchinhowie training base is mentioned, rather than first-team manager Mark Warburton.
Either the player does eventually return to the first-team squad, or his Rangers career effectively remains over and what happens in the January transfer window will be significant. | Rangers say midfielder Joey Barton "will return to full-time training" following a club-imposed suspension. | 37852374 | [
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Norris spoke on Tuesday of plans for a show in the NT's temporary theatre that was "very focused on disabled issues".
He added he was also in talks with "senior writers" about a play on the main Olivier stage addressing similar themes.
Norris was speaking at a public debate on diversity in UK theatre at the NT in London.
Act for Change, which organised the event, revealed statistics that showed over the Easter weekend only one actor with a "visible disability" had been noted across all theatre sectors, (the West End, regional and subsidised). That had been at the National Theatre.
Interviewed on the Olivier stage, Norris said he was considering whether to introduce quotas to improve diversity within the organisation.
"There is a big argument about whether there should be quotas. Across this year we will be testing that to see how desirable it is," he said.
"Our policy is quite simply to reflect this city and this country. That means in terms of gender, BAME [black, Asian and minority ethnic] and disabled. That's not a difficult policy."
Norris said that in 2014/15 the National's BAME on-stage figure was an unusually high 33% - driven in part by shows such as Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Here Lies Love. He said his aim was for 20% in any given year.
He admitted that it was "much harder" to achieve the same figures in permanent backstage staff.
Pressed on the issue of quotas, he said: "The last thing I'm saying is no. What I want is for this community to represent the country accurately and if that's the best way of doing it then, yes - why not?"
The Act for Change debate was chaired by Shami Chakrabarti, head of civil rights group Liberty.
Panellists included actors Adrian Lester and Cush Jumbo, director Phyllida Lloyd, critic Mark Lawson, shadow culture secretary Chris Bryant and Jenny Sealey, co†| National Theatre boss Rufus Norris has said he hopes to stage more work that will focus on the issue of disability. | 32978335 | [
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The Lib Dem leader said the Tories would have to cut 10,000 police officers, 28,000 carers and 25,000 military personnel to pay for the tax cuts promised by George Osborne.
He said the poorest would "bear the heaviest burden".
David Cameron has accused Mr Clegg of "running away from his record".
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Mr Clegg said the Tory plans to raise the income tax personal allowance to £12,500, and also increase the 40p rate threshold to £50,000 by 2020 would cost more than £7bn.
At a press conference at the National Liberal Club in London, Mr Clegg said: "To find that money they will have to do what Tories do best - cut.
"Gone are the days of compassionate conservatism. Now they promise to cut and cut and cut. Not because they have to, but because they want to.
"As George Osborne has said, the Conservatives will cut much deeper than is necessary to balance the books and make the poorest bear the heaviest burden.
"But at the same time they are promising tax giveaways for the wealthy, all of which must be paid for by yet more cuts to public spending.
"In the firing line are parents and police officers, soldiers and social workers."
This issue includes the wider economy and deficit reduction but also employment and the role of business.
Policy guide: Where the parties stand
But in an article in The Daily Telegraph Mr Cameron told the newspaper that Mr Clegg's attacks on him will fail, he said: "I don't think it works because you can't run on your record and run away from your record at the same time."
Mr Clegg also went on to criticise Labour and said Ed Miliband's plans for the deficit would mean an extra £134 from every taxpayer being spent on debt interest payments.
"If the Conservatives will cut too much, Labour will borrow too much.
"Labour will borrow £70bn more than we will - meaning an extra £4bn just to pay the interest on our debt," he said.
His sentiments were echoed by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander who said the "common thread" running through the Lib Dem approach to tax was fairness.
He said: "Fairness means that everyone should pay their taxes, zero tolerance of evasion and aggressive avoidance. Fairness means that as we finish the job of balancing the books, we should ask those who have the most to contribute to most."
But in response to Mr Clegg's claims Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said nobody could trust the Lib Dems.
He said: "They broke their promise not to raise VAT on families and pensioners and backed the Tory tax cut for millionaires.
"For all their claims, the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies says families have lost £1,100 a year on average when all this government's changes are taken into account - including the changes to the personal allowance. Like the Tories, the Lib Dems give with one hand but take much more with the other hand.
"Labour's plan will back working people with fully funded tax cuts and reverse the Tory and Lib Dem tax giveaway for millionaires to balance the books in a fair way."
Meanwhile, in an interview with The Economist, Nick Clegg has said that many of the voters who have stopped supporting his party "want to be entirely bereft of any responsibility".
He told the publication: "There is clearly a section of the support we had in 2010 that was virulently anti-Conservative.
"They're the ones who still scream and shout blue murder and have done so without pause for breath for half a decade.
"And they're loud and they're noisy and they're angry. And that was a significant chunk of support that basically wanted to be associated with any party that didn't have the remotest sniff of power.
"There just is a constituency out there that wants to be entirely bereft of any responsibility."
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. | Nick Clegg has attacked the Conservatives' plans for the economy as he stepped up his attack on his coalition partners since 2010. | 32201669 | [
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Anthony Tavernor has been restoring Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens, near Menai Bridge, on Anglesey for 20 years, describing it as his life's project.
But after days of heavy rain, a "tidal wave" of flood water swept through the garden in the early hours of Saturday.
It came as floods caused "chaos" across north Wales.
Former farmer Mr Tavernor has been restoring the 10-acres of garden and buildings at Plas Cadnant since buying the then overgrown 200-acre estate in 1996.
It now attracts visitors - both local and from abroad - and its fans include the Prince of Wales, who Mr Tavernor said had hoped to visit the estate.
But the force of the water from the flooded River Cadnant has now washed away many precious plants, including some rare botanical species.
It also demolished a wall dating back some 200 years, as well stone obelisks, platforms and seats.
"The garden sits down in the valley so a huge amount of water came down from the fields like a tidal wave, devastating everything in its path," said Mr Tavernor.
"I'm just devastated. This has been my life's project - my purpose in life - for the last 20 years and I live and dream it,
"It's everything. I'm so emotionally involved with the garden. We've had so much support from people since we put the pictures on our Facebook page. It's almost like a bereavement."
But he insisted he would carry on his work, despite the setback, and aimed to open as normal for visitors in February.
"I was hoping to have a legacy for the future generations," he added.
"I'm sure a lot of people would abandon it but I'm going to persevere."
Days of rain caused floods which led to roads being closed, trains disrupted and homes evacuated on Boxing Day.
Four flood warnings remain in place across north and west Wales, along with dozens of flood alerts. | A historical walled garden has been "devastated" by floods which have washed away a 200-year-old wall and rare plants, its owner has said. | 35186881 | [
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Her husband, Arif Yunus, was given seven years on similar charges. They have been in prison since their arrest nearly a year ago.
Both still face separate charges of treason, which carries a life sentence.
The couple say the case was politically motivated. Azerbaijan has repeatedly jailed human rights activists.
President Ilham Aliyev has ruled Azerbaijan since 2003 and has cracked down hard on political opponents.
Both Leyla, 59, and Arif Yunus are in poor health - she has diabetes and hepatitis C, while he has a heart condition and has suffered two strokes.
US-based Human Rights Watch condemned their prosecution as a "despicable political show trial".
Levan Asatiani, an Azerbaijan researcher at Amnesty International, said "the judicial system has once again revealed itself to be no more than a cynical tool by which President Ilham Aliyev crushes any dissent".
In a statement to the BBC the Azerbaijan government said the court process in the case was "open and free". It also said "the independence of judiciary and the rule of law have been fully guaranteed" in Azerbaijan.
Leyla Yunus was found guilty of fraud, illegal entrepreneurship, tax evasion and falsifying official documents.
She is director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy, a human rights group founded in 1995. It has worked with the Council of Europe - Europe's leading human rights watchdog - and other international bodies, informing them about actions to stifle political dissent in Azerbaijan.
Mrs Yunus had been pressing for reconciliation between oil-rich Azerbaijan and neighbouring Armenia, to defuse their frozen conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenian forces took control of the disputed territory in 1994 soon after the break-up of the Soviet Union. But sporadic clashes continue between them and nearby Azeri forces.
(Update 20 August: This article was amended to add the official viewpoint of the Azerbaijan government.) | A prominent human rights activist in Azerbaijan, Leyla Yunus, has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for fraud and tax evasion. | 33905690 | [
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PC Peter Hodgkinson discharged the weapon while Andrew Pimlott, 32, was holding a lit match at his parents' home in Plymouth in April 2013.
Mr Pimlott caught fire and died from his injuries five days later.
The officer said he only fired because he feared Mr Pimlott was about to send himself up in flames.
The inquest heard two police officers went to the home of Mr Pimlott's parents after his father called 999.
His father Kelvin said his son had a can of petrol and was threatening to set fire to the building.
The inquest previously heard the dead man had been served with a restraining order preventing him contacting his parents or going near their home.
After PC Peter Hodgkinson and PC David Beer arrived at the scene, they saw Mr Pimlott, who was in the back garden, douse himself in petrol from a can and strike a match.
"I deployed the Taser to reduce the risk the of harm to Mr Pimlott," said PC Hodgkinson.
"I tried to engage with him to put down the can. I believe he was going to set himself alight so I fired the Taser."
PC Beer said: "I heard the Taser sound being activated and Mr Pimlott went up in flames."
Independent fire investigator Steven Andrews said he made a "very strong finding" that Mr Pimlott was set on fire by the Taser.
The ignition point was on the belly where the Taser hit.
"The evidence does not support that he was set alight by the match," he said.
The inquest continues. | A police officer said he hoped a shot from a Taser stun gun would prevent a man soaked in petrol setting himself alight, an inquest has heard. | 34393416 | [
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The 33-year-old former captain takes over from Glamorgan wicketkeeper Mark Wallace, who retired on 10 February.
Mitchell, replaced by Joe Leach as captain for 2017, becomes the 14th PCA chairman since its creation in 1967.
"For Daryl to go through the process of being elected by over 400 of his peers show the regard he's held in," said PCA chief executive David Leatherdale.
"There were some strong candidates. But Daryl's been around for 13 or 14 years now. The players know him and what he stands for. He's trusted and respected.
"It's ironic that, having been his boss when I was chief executive of Worcestershire, he's now effectively my boss as chairman of the PCA."
Worcestershire opener Mitchell is scheduled to be in office for the next four years - also the length of the new contract he signed at New Road in December.
He won a closely-contested election ahead of four other candidates - Durham's former England fast bowler Graham Onions, Leicestershire opening batsman Paul Horton, Somerset middle-order batsman James Hildreth and Northamptonshire all-rounder Steven Crook.
Subject to approval at the PCA's AGM on 21 February, Mitchell will be the third Worcestershire captain to fulfil the role, following Tim Curtis (1989-96) and Vikram Solanki (2009-13).
"It's well known now that I wanted to continue as captain," Mitchell told BBC Sport. "I'm not going to lie. It was difficult for me in October but as soon as I made the decision to sign the new contract, that drew a line in the sand.
"Standing for election for this is something I'd have done anyway. I like being busy. But, looking back now, with a bit of water under the bridge, maybe not being captain as well will relieve a little bit of pressure and give me more time to focus on my batting next season.
"It's great to have this new role but I've still got be focused. And it might prove a blessing in disguise in that way."
The other 10 cricketers to have held the role of PCA chairman are Roger Prideaux (1967-68), Jack Bannister (1968-70), Mike Edwards (1970-73), Peter Walker (1973-75), David Brown (1975-80), Chris Balderstone (1980-84), Geoff Cook (1984-89), Matthew Fleming (1996-2003), Martyn Ball (2003-07) and Dougie Brown (2007-09). | Worcestershire's Daryl Mitchell has been elected as the new chairman of the Professional Cricketers' Association. | 38970848 | [
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Ross-shire Engineering has secured the potential investment across the next five years supplying equipment to Scottish Water.
The firm in Muir of Ord has already created 100 new jobs to allow it meet the needs of the utility company.
The investment has also provided additional job security to the existing 273 staff members.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited the company's premises near Inverness on Monday, following a tour of Nigg Energy Park on the Cromarty Firth.
She said: "Ensuring a strong rural economy is crucial to Scotland's success.
"This funding Ross-Shire Engineering has secured provides a hugely welcome boost in providing skilled jobs and investment across the Highlands, as well as providing vital utility services to Scotland's homes and businesses.
"In particular, I am delighted they will be investing in their already strong apprenticeship job programme, providing vital training and employment to young people living in the Highlands in a competitive jobs market."
The first minister added: "Last week when I set out my Programme for Government I promised to protect Scotland's interests, particularly our economic interests, in the wake of the EU referendum.
"Driving sustainable economic growth is at the heart of that, and I am committed to ensuring this government does all it can to ensure Scotland's rural economy remains prosperous for future generations." | Funding of up to £200m has helped create new jobs at a Highlands engineering company. | 37347562 | [
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Barca can restore their eight-point advantage and set a Spanish football record of 35 games unbeaten if they win at Rayo Vallecano on Thursday.
Third-placed Real Madrid travel to Levante on Wednesday. | Atletico Madrid easily beat Real Sociedad to close the gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona to five points. | 35687910 | [
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The 29-year-old, capped 77 times by Wales, will become the first active international to play in the match since Australian Dan Vickerman in 2009.
Roberts is currently studying part-time at Cambridge's Queens' College for a Masters degree in medical science.
He will join new club Harlequins after the Varsity at Twickenham.
"It is going to be a unique experience for me and something that will be different to any other game I've played at Twickenham - it's a different group of players, a different standard and different prize. But it is still a very, very important rugby match," said Roberts.
"It won't be like playing for Wales against England in the World Cup, the Barbarians against New Zealand or in an Anglo-Welsh Cup Final for Cardiff Blues as I've done in the past. But I can't wait."
Former Munster and Ireland A lock Ian Nagle will also play for Cambridge as they look to end a run of five successive Oxford victories.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Wales and British & Irish Lions centre Jamie Roberts will play for Cambridge University in the Varsity match against Oxford on 10 December. | 34968911 | [
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St Peter's RC Primary, Firrhill High and Braidburn Special Schools were built by the same contractor as Oxgangs Primary, which was closed on Wednesday.
A wall at Oxgangs collapsed during Storm Gertrude in January.
A safety inspection revealed there were issues with how the external wall was erected when the school was built 10 years ago.
The contractors were working under the Public Private Partnership 1 project.
St Peter's will be closed on Friday and will remain shut until the end of the Easter holidays. Edinburgh City Council said it was looking into alternative schooling arrangements for next week.
The school was closed following a detailed survey carried out by the Edinburgh Schools Partnership.
The survey focussed on the external walls of the school buildings which identified an issue with the width of the wall cavities and the wall ties.
Firrhill and Braidburn will be closed on Friday to allow "further detailed tests" to be carried out over the weekend.
Fencing will be put up around the affected area at Firrhill High with the school reopening on Monday.
The council said if Braidburn school could not reopen on Monday then alternative arrangements would be put in place.
Hundreds of bricks were blown from Oxgangs Primary school during the January storms. It is expected to reopen on 11 April.
Councillor Paul Godzik, education convener, said: "The health and safety of our pupils and staff is our top priority and therefore the council has decided to temporarily close these schools as a purely precautionary measure.
"Whilst the survey results have indicated that these schools could continue to operate in normal weather conditions until the necessary works are carried out we are unwilling to take any risk.
"We fully recognise the inconvenience caused by these closures and we would like to apologise to parents for this, however I am sure everyone will understand why we have taken these steps."
The council said it would update parents at Braidburn Special and St Peter's schools with more information as soon as possible.
Councillor Melanie Main, education spokeswoman for Edinburgh Greens, said safety must be a priority but questioned how parents could be expected to cope with the short notice.
She said: "On the face of it, it looks like something has gone badly wrong with the way these private school building contracts have been handled, both in building and in ongoing maintenance, that such rushed action has had to be taken.
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It is a question that has long seemed impossible to answer, since players from different decades can never face each other at their peaks.
Add in an element of nostalgia - who doesn't have a rose-tinted view of the teams they watched as a child? - plus the fact that fleeting glimpses of star players have been replaced by wall-to-wall television coverage, and it is quite a challenge to consider the merits of teams across eras.
Here, with the help of SAM, the super computer built by Salford University professors Ian McHale, Rose Baker and others, BBC Sport assessed every side to have played an international match and analysed every international result.
Taking into account a range of factors - including goals scored, goals conceded, the strength of the opposition faced and whether or not results were achieved in major tournaments - we have come up with the top 10 teams of all time.
There are no English or Italian teams. As for the winners? You might well be surprised.
Line-up: Sepp Maier, Berti Vogts, Franz Beckenbauer, Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, Paul Breitner, Rainer Bonhof, Uli Hoeness, Wolfgang Overath, Jurgen Grabowski, Gerd Muller, Bernd Hölzenbein.
West Germany had come close to winning the World Cup twice in the preceding decade, losing 4-2 to England at Wembley in 1966 and 4-3 to Italy in a spectacular semi-final in Mexico four years later - so the stage was set for it to be third time lucky for veteran coach Helmut Schoen and his team as the host country in 1974.
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They were guided on the pitch by an all-time great in the shape of Franz Beckenbauer. They had world-class defender Berti Vogts in their ranks. Wolfgang Overath was the midfield strategist and in attack they had the marksman supreme in Gerd Muller, scorer of 14 goals in 13 World Cup matches.
Their meeting with the Netherlands in the final got off to the worst possible start when they conceded a first-minute penalty, but through sheer determination, and no little quality, they fought their way back to win through Paul Breitner's penalty and, inevitably, a winner from Muller.
This West Germany side will not be remembered with the same fondness as some of the teams on this list but, like so many of their compatriots down the years, they got the job done.
Line-up: Fabien Barthez, Lilian Thuram, Laurent Blanc, Marcel Desailly, Bixente Lizarazu, Patrick Vieira, Didier Deschamps, Youri Djorkaeff, Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry, Christophe Dugarry.
Just look at that line-up! Built around star midfielder and three-time world player of the year Zinedine Zidane, this was the team that began the Euro 2000 final, a side so strong that two of Europe's finest players at the time, Robert Pires and David Trezeguet, could not get in the first XI.
It was a group consisting largely of the players who won France's first World Cup in 1998, but with a few tweaks.
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One, in particular, took the French to the next level. Out went striker Stephane Guivarc'h, scorer of just one goal in 14 internationals, and in came 22-year-old Thierry Henry, a forward who would go on to score 51 goals in an international career spanning 13 years.
With Laurent Blanc in for Frank Leboeuf in defence, Patrick Vieira replacing Emmanuel Petit in midfield and attacker Christophe Dugarry taking Christian Karambeu's place, France became the first team in 26 years to win a World Cup and European Championship back-to-back - West Germany won the Euros in 1972 and followed that by claiming the 1974 World Cup.
Line-up: Sergio Romero, Walter Samuel, Gabriel Heinze, Martin Demichelis, Nicolas Otamendi, Javier Mascherano, Maxi Rodriguez, Angel Di Maria, Gonzalo Higuain, Carlos Tevez, Lionel Messi.
Think Argentina and the mind instantly conjures images of Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. Two iconic players, global superstars, both of whom led their sides to World Cup finals - Maradona winning one in 1986 and losing one in 1990, Messi losing out in 2014.
But none of those three teams make it in to our top 10, and there is space for only one of Argentina's two most famous players.
For all Maradona's individual brilliance, the 2010 side featuring Messi - as well as Carlos Tevez, Angel Di Maria and Gonzalo Higuain - are considered the best Argentina has produced. Bear in mind the fact Sergio Aguero was predominantly only a substitute and you get a sense of their attacking strength.
"To any football fan, it is odd that the results show that the 2010 team would beat the 1986 team," says Professor McHale.
"But there are some things that data and statistics can't pick up on - the human spirit, mental fortitude, attitude when things aren't going for you. There is only so much it can tell.
"The 1986 team lost 11 times in the three-year sample period, in part because they often played weakened teams in friendlies for a variety of reasons. That helps to explain why a team as brilliant as Maradona's 1986 side do not make the list."
While Argentina 2010 are perhaps the surprise entry on this list, their results in the period suggest they deserve their place. Less than two months after Spain won the World Cup, the world champions were thrashed 4-1 in Buenos Aires, a result Argentina followed up two months later with a 1-0 win over Brazil.
Line-up: Felix, Carlos Alberto, Everaldo, Brito, Piazza, Clodoaldo, Gerson, Jairzinho, Rivelino, Tostao, Pele.
For many, the greatest team of all time. But not when judged by cold, hard stats.
Pele led the way for Brazil during this period, but the names of his colleagues roll off the tongue as a list of the game's greats: captain Carlos Alberto, Gerson, Tostao, Jairzinho, Rivelino.
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In 1970 alone, they played 14, won 12 and lost only once, scoring four or more goals five times. Therein lies part of the explanation as to why they do not feature further up the list - their opponents were often relatively weak, meaning victories earned them less credit in our ranking system.
This team, though, were the stuff of fantasy, regrouping after a below-par performance in England four years earlier when Pele was kicked out of the tournament. Mexico 1970 was the great man's World Cup finale after his first win in Sweden in 1958 and he bade farewell in style.
England pushed them closest in a classic group game in Guadalajara settled by Jairzinho's goal, and this was a team so good they were even able to carry a goalkeeping liability in Felix with no ill effects.
The final against Italy in Mexico's Aztec Stadium was their showpiece. Goals from Pele, Gerson, Jairzinho and the brilliant flourish of passing to set up Carlos Alberto for the most famous goal in the 4-1 win was the crowning glory for an utterly brilliant side.
Line-up: Jan Jongbloed, Ruud Krol, Wim Rijsbergen, Wim Suurbier, Wim Jansen, Arie Haan, Wim van Hanegem, Johan Neeskens, Johan Cruyff, Rob Rensenbrink, Johnny Rep.
One of the greatest teams never to win the World Cup. The Dutch were masterly throughout the 1974 tournament, demonstrating a tactical and technical ability far above every other team, guided on the pitch by the brilliant Johan Cruyff and off it by the master of "Total Football", the visionary coach Rinus Michels.
Cruyff led a team full of talent in defender Ruud Krol, midfielders Arie Haan and Johan Neeskens as well as forwards Johnny Rep and Rob Rensenbrink.
In the goalless draw against Sweden, the "Cruyff turn" was invented, as the great man bamboozled Jan Olsson with a piece of football ballet that will forever bear his name.
The Netherlands then gave masterclasses against Argentina, who they beat 4-0, and the fading reigning champions Brazil, where they won 2-0. The victory was far more convincing than the scoreline suggests.
There was a touch of arrogance about this side and it cost them in the final against West Germany in Munich. Instead of capitalising on Neeskens' first-minute penalty they wanted to humiliate their opponents - allowing the ruthless hosts to recover and claim the World Cup with a 2-1 win.
Line-up: Manuel Neuer, Holger Badstuber, Jerome Boateng, Mats Hummels, Philipp Lahm, Sami Khedira, Toni Kroos, Mesut Ozil, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Miroslav Klose, Thomas Muller
This was the team that laid the foundations for the World Cup win that was to follow in 2014.
A side which mixed the experience of Miroslav Klose (who would go on to become the all-time World Cup top scorer with 16 goals) and Bastian Schweinsteiger with a younger generation that included Manuel Neuer, Mesut Ozil and Thomas Muller, their quarter-final win against Greece at Euro 2012 was their 15th consecutive competitive victory.
The defeat by Italy in the semi-finals of that tournament would prove to be little more than a blip, as Joachim Low's side embarked on a new run of 18 competitive matches unbeaten, a sequence which included a remarkable 7-1 thrashing of hosts Brazil and ended with a World Cup final victory against Argentina.
Line-up: Julio Cesar, Dani Alves, Marcelo, Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Bernard, Paulinho, Oscar, Hulk, Neymar, Fred
A year away from hosting their own World Cup, Brazil could hardly have been better positioned to succeed on home soil.
An 11-game unbeaten run in 2013 culminated in five straight wins at the Confederations Cup, a tournament which doubled as a dry run for the main event the following summer. Not only did Brazil win that competition but they did so in style, beating France 3-0 and Italy 4-2 before hammering world and European champions Spain 3-0 in the final.
They were the world's in-form team and, with Neymar as their talisman, continued their impressive record in to World Cup year, recording 10 wins in a row and 13 out of 14 in total.
Yet for all that promise, this will be a team forever associated with one of the great humiliations in modern sport. A game away from a final at the Maracana in Rio, Brazil were 5-0 down to Germany in the semi-final inside 29 minutes and were eventually demolished 7-1.
It was a one-off - Brazil went on to win 11 straight matches after the World Cup, including victories against Argentina and France - but that defeat by Germany is a result that will always define them.
Line-up: Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Carles Puyol, Gerard Pique, Joan Capdevila, Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Xavi, David Villa, Fernando Torres
The inventors of tiki-taka, Spain imposed their own brand of football on the world from 2008 onwards, helped in no small part by the success of a Pep Guardiola-inspired Barcelona, whose players formed the core of the national team.
With Andres Iniesta and Xavi the heartbeat of the side, Spain became the first team to win back-to-back European Championship titles (in 2008 and 2012), while they ended their wait for World Cup success when they became the first European nation to win the competition outside of their own continent by lifting the trophy in South Africa in 2010.
It was a period of unprecedented dominance. Under Luis Aragones and then Vicente del Bosque, Spain set a new world record of 15 consecutive wins and went unbeaten for 35 matches.
The team of 2010 boasts an 84% win percentage and the majority of the players above were involved in all three tournament successes, but that is not quite enough to make the top two.
Line-up: Claudio Taffarel, Cafu, Roberto Carlos, Aldair, Marcio Santos, Dunga, Juninho, Rivaldo, Ronaldo, Bebeto, Romario
Brazil went unbeaten from November 1993 to January 1996, a period stretching 28 games, taking in a World Cup win and including victories against Argentina (twice), Netherlands and England, among many others. Their scintillating form continued, as they lost just once in 20 matches in the 1996-97 season, a campaign which culminated in a Copa America triumph.
Those runs are hardly surprising when you look at the players at manager Mario Zagallo's disposal - he had three of Brazil's six all-time leading goalscorers to choose from.
Ronaldo, scorer of 15 World Cup goals, was just three years in to his international career in 1997, working his way into a team which could boast two of the leading scorers at the 1994 World Cup - Romario (five) and Bebeto (three). Not a bad array of attacking power.
This side was made up of a group of players who won that World Cup and were beaten finalists in 1998 - a rare example of a team maintaining its strength over a four-year cycle and reaching consecutive finals.
Line-up: Gyula Grosics, Jeno Buzanszky, Mihaly Lantos, Borzsei Janos, Jozsef Zakarias, Jozsef Bozsik, Zoltan Czibor, Ferenc Szusza, Ferenc Puskás, Nandor Hidegkuti, Sandor Kocsis
Hungary, the best team of all time? Bear with us...
The Mighty Magyars dominated world football in the early 1950s, inspired by the genius of Ferenc Puskas. This was a team embarking on a run of more than four years without defeat, and they would go on to reach the 1954 World Cup final.
In 1953 they humiliated England, a stunning 6-3 victory at Wembley exposing the Three Lions' deficiencies as they lost a home game to a non-British or Irish team for the first time. England hoped for revenge in May of the following year in the return fixture but were left embarrassed once more as they were thrashed 7-1 in Budapest.
So strong was the Puskas led-side that, in that summer's World Cup, they would beat West Germany 8-3 and South Korea 9-0 in surely the greatest show of group-stage strength even seen at a major tournament.
They were only denied World Cup glory by the Miracle of Bern, with the West Germans defying the odds and memories of that heavy defeat weeks earlier to win the final 3-2 - after Hungary had gone 2-0 ahead in the opening 10 minutes. An ankle injury suffered by Puskas meant he was not fully fit in that game, hampering the Hungarians' attempts to cement their place as the world's greatest side.
For Hungary, their team of the time was perhaps the ultimate example of a "golden generation". As the graph below shows, it has pretty much been downhill ever since.
Here's how the top three nations look when plotted alongside one another.
No English team makes it into the top 10, but which Three Lions side does the super computer rate as the best?
Despite the 1966 squad winning the World Cup, it is actually the team from 1986 that comes out as the strongest England has produced.
With Gary Lineker the tournament's leading scorer, who knows how far they might have gone - and where they would appear in our top 10 - had Maradona and the Hand of God not intervened?
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Convicted murderer Sweat, 35, was shot twice and captured less than two miles (3km) from the Canadian border.
His prison-break partner Richard Matt, 49, was killed by police on Friday.
The two murderers escaped three weeks ago from the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora through the sewer system after using power tools to break out of their cell.
The spectacular escape set off a massive manhunt.
Sweat was shot and seized in the town of Constable on Sunday, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo told a news conference.
He said Sweat was shot twice in the torso and was now in hospital in stable condition.
The convict was spotted by a police officer on patrol and shot when he tried to run away.
"The nightmare is finally over," the governor said.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives wrote on its Twitter page: "#DavidSweat of the #PrisonBreakNY captured. Sleep peacefully New York."
The Buffalo News website earlier quoted a source who said that the convict's wound were "life-threatening" and he was bleeding badly.
Matt was shot dead near the town of Malone.
The pair had been making their way through rugged forests in upstate New York, stealing food and guns from woodland cabins along the way.
US officials have charged prison worker Joyce Mitchell with aiding the two inmates in their escape.
Prosecutors allege that she gave the men power tools that allowed them to saw through a steel cell wall before bashing a hole through a brick wall and crawling through.
Ms Mitchell denies the charges.
Clinton correction officer Gene Palmer is also accused of aiding the convicts.
Officials allege that he gave Sweat and Matt the frozen hamburger meat Ms Mitchell had used to hide hacksaw blades and a screwdriver.
Mr Palmer's attorney said his client had no knowledge that the meat contained the escape tools.
Matt was serving a prison sentence of 25 years to life for the killing and dismembering of his former boss.
Sweat was serving a life sentence for murdering a sheriff's deputy.
Manhunt timeline | Second New York State prison escapee David Sweat is in custody after being shot by police, US officials report. | 33306585 | [
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Perry made two centuries against Bingham, who became a father for the third time on Saturday.
Earlier, Mark Allen beat John Higgins 6-5 in a dramatic first-round match at Alexandra Palace.
Scot Higgins missed a black off the spot when on course to win the deciding frame, allowing Northern Irishman Allen in to make a 44 and take the match.
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"If you don't pot balls at key moments, you don't win snooker matches," four-time world champion Higgins said.
Allen, ranked 10 in the world, goes on to face Marco Fu or Judd Trump in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
Higgins, 41, started strongly, a 111 break helping him into a 2-0 lead before Allen hit back to level at 2-2.
A run of 54 saw the Scot nudge ahead again before breaks of 81 and 104 gave Allen, 30, a 4-3 advantage.
The seesaw nature of the match continued as Higgins levelled before a superb 67 break in the ninth frame forced a respotted black, only for Allen to take it with a stunning pot.
Higgins, the world number three, took it to a decider with a run of 77, but Allen held his nerve to repeat his 2015 first-round win over the Scot.
In the evening session, Perry took the first frame with a break of 116, before snatching the next after forcing a respotted black.
Bingham pulled one back with a century, but Perry made breaks of 77, 76 and 107 and after Bingham fouled the white, his opponent took all the colours to progress. Perry faces China's Ding Junhui in the last eight on Friday.
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Rather amusingly, it's because the word "patience" was removed from the statement. Of course, it depends on how far the US labour market improves since inflation isn't an issue, so the jobs market looms larger for the US central bank with its dual mandate to address unemployment and inflation.
Still, looking at the forecasts of the individual rate setters, the median projection is for the interest rate to end the year at 0.625%, so that's a rate rise from the current 0-0.25%.
Markets were expecting this, which helps. Stocks rallied in part because the rate raise may not be very soon, as the US economy is weaker than the rate setters thought back in December. The key forecasts for the economy and inflation were all downgraded. Now, the US economy is expected to grow by 2.3-2.7% versus a top growth rate of 3% in the December forecasts. Inflation is also expected to be below the Fed's 2% target through 2016 when it may hover between 1.5-1.9%.
No repeat history
Indeed, investors don't like to be surprised, so part of what the Fed has to do is to manage expectations. And one of the concerns that's percolating right now is whether Fed raising rates or tightening could result in a repeat of the 1930's.
The period between 1937-1938 is known as a recession within a recession. It's when the US fell back into recession eight years after the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression. It happened after four years of cash printing, which pushed up stock prices.
In 1936, the Fed started to worry about its "exit strategy". When it started to tighten the money supply in 1937, it coincided with the end of a fiscal stimulus that reduced the budget deficit by some 2.5% of GDP. Unemployment soared again to 19% after falling to 14% from 25%, and the Dow Jones lost around one-third of its value during the sharp economic slump of 1937-38.
If it all sounds too familiar for comfort, that's why some are concerned about the Fed's move toward "normalising" interest rates, as it moves rates above 0% and back to pre-crisis levels. The last rate hike was eight years ago in 2007 and it's been at rock bottom pretty much since the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing recession dubbed the Great Recession.
It shouldn't be surprising that the Fed will contemplate raising rates as it has been a long recovery. The delicate part is to manage expectations. But more than that, it's also ensuring that the economy is on a solid enough footing to normalise interest rates.
Acting prematurely could cause the Great Recession to truly parallel the Great Depression.
With growth and inflation both downgraded, but unemployment moving in the right direction, judging what "premature" means is no easy task. And communicating it to investors will also be crucial. | The Federal Reserve's latest statement suggests that the path is clear for an interest rate rise in June or September without surprising markets. | 31954809 | [
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The RMT union began the 72-hour walkout on New Year's Eve.
The action prompted warnings of widespread disruption for travellers during new year celebrations.
Southern's parent firm Govia Thameslink (GTR) is in dispute with both the RMT and Aslef unions. Another strike is set for 9 January.
The planned six-day strike involves train drivers from both unions. Most routes are expected to have no services.
The train drivers' union Aslef is continuing with a ban on overtime which is adding to the disruption.
The RMT and GTR have said they are available for talks and Aslef took part in negotiations in December at conciliation service Acas, but discussions ended without a deal.
RMT leader Mick Cash called on Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to make it his new year resolution "to get in a room with the unions and his contractors to sort out the current shambles".
Mr Grayling said it was frustrating the unions had decided to start a new year with the continuation of an old strike.
He said: "We are investing record amounts in improving our railways and we need everyone in the rail industry to work together to deliver for passengers.
"Now the unions need to come back to the negotiating table. Only they can end this misery for rail users."
Southern's deputy chief operating officer Alex Foulds said: "Our door remains open for meaningful talks."
The politics behind the Southern rail dispute
What's the Southern Rail strike about?
How bad have Southern rail services got?
The Association of British Commuters said disruption had caused health problems, forced people to move house and lose jobs.
The campaign group surveyed about 1,000 passengers and said the results highlighted the extent of suffering as a result of the "breakdown" of Southern services, with delays, cancellations and overcrowding.
Calling for government intervention, a spokesman said: "Thousands of people are now at breaking point."
The Department for Transport has said the dispute is between Southern and the unions and "not something the government is involved in". | A strike by conductors on Southern rail has entered its second day as a long-running row about the role of guards on new trains continues. | 38483300 | [
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Fire Brigades Union (FBU) members walked out at 18:00 GMT on Friday and are due back on 4 November.
Some fire brigades have warned the public could be left "vulnerable" and small fires may not be attended.
Fire Minister Penny Mordaunt said fire and rescue authorities have "robust" plans in place for the weekend.
Union officials say that under the government's proposals firefighters will have to work until they are 60 instead of 55, pay more into their pensions and get less in retirement.
The proposals will leave firefighters at risk of dismissal as their fitness declines into their 50s, the FBU said.
FBU members went on strike in England and Wales in August over the same dispute.
Strike action due to take place in Wales has been averted after a "significant" change of direction by the Welsh government, the FBU said.
General secretary Matt Wrack accused the Westminster government of "sickening hypocrisy".
"The real scandal is that their own pensions are by far the most generous anywhere in the public sector," he said.
One firefighter and his son carved pumpkins together and tweeted a photo in support of the strike.
"It's an issue which affects both me and my family and I have explained the dispute to him," said the firefighter, who asked not to be named.
The West Yorkshire brigade said the public would be left in a "vulnerable position" and asked people to take extra care this weekend.
The London brigade said it may not attend rubbish or small grass fires or help anyone stuck in a lift.
Industrial action over the past 18 months has seen fire authorities spend millions hiring contractors to cover for striking FBU members.
The FBU said it expected about 36,000 firefighters to walk out.
The fire minister said: "All fire and rescue authorities have robust and well-tested plans in place that include back-up support if needed.
"Public safety is the primary focus and if anyone needs emergency assistance, they should dial 999."
She said strike action was "unnecessary" after pension regulations laid in parliament on Tuesday mean nearly three quarters of firefighters will see no change in their pension age in 2015. | Firefighters across England are on a four-day strike in a row over pensions during one of the service's busiest weekends of the year. | 29846243 | [
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Jack Keene, 17, from Hertfordshire, was involved in a collision between a Renault Clio and a minibus on the A4086 near Capel Curig in which five other people were injured.
His family described him as a kind, loving and selfless person who "touched the lives of all he met".
They thanked the emergency services and the people at the roadside who tried to save Jack.
In statement, they said: "As a family we are beyond heartbroken to have tragically lost our treasured and much loved son, brother, uncle and friend to so many."
Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses.
Officers want to speak to the occupants of a silver or grey coloured pick up vehicle that overtook a white mini bus between Plas y Brenin and Penygwryd before the incident at about 07:00 BST.
Police said it was not involved in the crash, but the driver may have seen the other vehicles before the incident. | Police have named the teenager who died in a crash in Conwy county on Thursday. | 40753259 | [
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The police allege 28-year-old Nazrul, also called Nazu, was the man who raped the 74-year-old nun.
The man, allegedly a Bangladeshi citizen, was arrested at a railway station in Kolkata (Calcutta).
The incident caused outrage in India and led to street protests in many cities across the country.
This marks the sixth arrest in the crime.
Police have identified eight suspects in the attack, of which two still remain untraced.
"All the five accused arrested earlier have named Nazrul as the person who raped the nun," a police officer told the BBC.
Dilip Kumar Adak, deputy inspector general of the state's Criminal Investigation Department, told the AFP news agency that police acted on a tip off that Nazu, who had fled to Bangladesh after being identified from CCTV footage of the attack, was due to return to Kolkata by train.
In May, the police said they had arrested Milon Sarkar and described him as the leader of the gang which attacked the convent. They said it was not clear what role the man had played in the case.
During the attack in Ranaghat town on 14 March, money was stolen from the convent school and the building ransacked, before the nun was raped in the convent itself. | Police investigating the rape of an elderly nun in the Indian state of West Bengal say they have arrested a key suspect in the crime. | 33183140 | [
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Their appearance means they are being dubbed "goosebumps", which is a bit of fun given the comet's duck-like shape.
But if this interpretation is correct, it represents a major discovery.
"We still have to model this, but I think they really could be pointing back in time to the early days of the Solar System - to the formation of the building blocks of cometary nuclei," said imaging team leader Holger Sierks from the Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.
"Our thinking is that accreting gas and dust would have formed little 'pebbles' at first that grew and grew until they got up to the size of these goosebumps - about 3m in size - and for whatever reason, they couldn't then grow any further.
"Eventually, they'd have found a region of instability and clumped together to form the nucleus," he told BBC News.
Rosetta team-member Stephen Lowry said the goosebumps (which to some also look like a clutch of "dinosaur eggs") were among the most startling results to have come out of the mission so far.
"Remember, these objects would have formed at least 4.5 billion years ago. Where else could you see physical evidence of processes that were happening that long ago? So, it's very exciting, but we have to be sure that this regular lattice structure represents genuine cometesimals and is not some feature that has somehow been produced as a result of ices simply sublimating from the comet; because we don't see the goosebumps everywhere," the Kent University, UK, expert cautioned.
The presence of this lumpy texture on 67P is just one observation made in a slew of papers published as a special edition in this week's Science Magazine.
The papers are really a first take at trying to characterise the 4km-wide "space duck", which Rosetta will be following throughout 2015 as it sweeps around the Sun.
Cameras on the probe have now imaged 70% of the comet's surface. The unseen fraction, which lies in the southern hemisphere, will be mapped as it emerges from the darkness of winter.
The team has defined 19 regions on 67P, giving each the name of an Ancient Egyptian deity.
These zones - and more are likely to be added in future - display five basic terrain types, from areas of high dust accumulation to exposed craggy faces composed of rock-like material.
The researchers report some fascinating behaviours over and above the expected sight of jets of gas and dust hurtling away from the comet as its ices warm and vaporise.
For example, these jets produce strong "winds" that appear to drive dust particles into dunes.
"It sounds highly improbable," commented Nic Thomas from Switzerland's University of Bern. "We see sand dunes on the Earth, on Mars and on Venus, but all of those objects have gravity and thick atmospheres.
"On the comet, you have almost no gravity and it's not an atmosphere we could breathe. So, it really is difficult to conceive how you can make sand dunes on a cometary nucleus. The trick we think is that there are very strong winds there - 300m/s - and that these winds can, even though the density of the gas is very low, push particles around to make the dunes."
Another striking occurrence is a kind "fluidisation" effect that acts to smooth some surfaces.
Scientists think this occurs when ices change their structure. This results in a release of gas that can pick up local dust and make it move - albeit briefly - like a fluid. Something similar is seen on Earth when large volumes of hot ash tumble down the sides of volcanoes.
At the bottom of 67P, the so-called Imhotep region appears to have experienced repeated fluidisation events, recorded in defined layers.
The Rosetta pictures also pick up episodes of past explosive behaviour. In one shot, a block of material the size of a football field has been lifted up and dropped beside the gaping hole it left behind in the comet's surface.
Indeed, the violent release of gas at depth seems to be a common activity on 67P, followed by the collapse of material back into the void.
The data being gathered by the European Space Agency probe is going to keep scientists busy for years, but it is clear already that many of the old ideas about how comets are put together and how they behave will have to change.
It is obvious now that this comet is not a large lump of ice with some dust mixed in. Rather, it has a much more complex construction, incorporating significantly more dust and many rocky components. This is very evident from the ratio of dust to gas being ejected by the comet (four to one), and all those craggy cliff features where stiff, consolidated materials seem to dominate.
"We used to think of comets as 'dirty snowballs'; we now think 'icy dirt-ball' is a much better description," said Simon Green from the UK's Open University. "That's the way 67P looks - a solid object with ice vaporising from somewhere below the surface."
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | Scientists working on Europe's Rosetta probe, which is tracking Comet 67P, say they may have found evidence for how such icy objects were formed. | 30931445 | [
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As Iraq lurches deeper into turmoil and disintegration, Kurdish leaders in the already autonomous north are threatening to break away and declare outright independence.
And the militants of the self-styled Islamic State (IS), bulldozing the border between Iraq and Syria in June 2014, declared their intention to eradicate all the region's frontiers and lay Sykes-Picot to rest forever.
Whatever the fate of IS, the future as unitary states of both Syria and Iraq - central to the Sykes-Picot project - is up in the air.
In fact, virtually none of the Middle East's present-day frontiers were actually delineated in the document concluded on 16 May 1916 by British and French diplomats Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot.
The Iraq-Syria border post histrionically erased by IS was probably several hundred kilometres from the famous "line in the sand" drawn by Sykes and Picot, which ran almost directly from the Persian border in the north-east, down between Mosul and Kirkuk and across the desert towards the Mediterranean, veering northwards to loop around the top end of Palestine.
The region's current borders emerged from a long and complex process of treaties, conferences, deals and conflicts that followed the break-up of the Ottoman Empire and the end of World War One.
But the spirit of Sykes-Picot, dominated by the interests and ruthless ambitions of the two main competing colonial powers, prevailed during that process and through the coming decades, to the Suez crisis of 1956 and even beyond.
Because it inaugurated that era, and epitomised the concept of clandestine colonial carve-ups, Sykes-Picot has become the label for the whole era in which outside powers imposed their will, drew borders and installed client local leaderships, playing divide-and-rule with the "natives", and beggar-my-neighbour with their colonial rivals.
The resulting order inherited by the Middle East of the day sees a variety of states whose borders were generally drawn with little regard for ethnic, tribal, religious or linguistic considerations.
Often a patchwork of minorities, there is a natural tendency for such countries to fall apart unless held together by the iron grip of a strongman or a powerful central government.
The irony is that the two most potent forces explicitly assailing the Sykes-Picot legacy are at each other's throats: the militants of IS, and the Kurds in the north of both Iraq and Syria.
In both countries, the Kurds have proven the Western coalition's most effective allies in combating IS, although the two sides share a determination to redraw the map.
"It's not just me that's saying it, the fact is that Sykes-Picot has failed, it's over," said the president of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, in a BBC interview.
"There has to be a new formula for the region. I'm very optimistic that within this new formula, the Kurds will achieve their historic demand and right [to independence]".
"We have passed through bitter experiences since the formation of the Iraqi state after World War One. We tried to preserve the unity of Iraq, but we are not responsible for its fragmentation - it's the others who broke it up.
"We don't want to be part of the chaos and problems which surround Iraq from all sides."
President Barzani said the drive for independence was very serious, and that preparations were going ahead "full steam".
He said the first step should be "serious negotiations" with the central government in Baghdad to reach an understanding and a solution, towards what Kurdish leaders are optimistically calling an "amicable separation".
If that did not produce results, he said, the Kurds should go ahead unilaterally with a referendum on independence.
"It's a necessary step, because all the previous attempts and experiments failed. If current conditions aren't helpful for independence, there are no circumstances which favour not demanding this right."
Iraq's Kurds are landlocked and surrounded by neighbours - Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq itself - which have traditionally quashed Kurdish aspirations.
Under threat from IS, they are more dependent than ever on Western powers which are also strongly counselling them to stick with Iraq.
But whether or not the Iraqi Kurds achieve full formal independence in the near future, they have already established an entity with borders, a flag, international airports, a parliament and government, and its own security forces - everything except a passport and their own currency.
To that extent, they have already redrawn the map. And next door in northern Syria, their fellow Kurds are essentially doing the same, controlling and running large swathes of land along the Turkish border under the title of "self-administration".
As for IS, its territorial gains have already peaked. But the chaos in both Iraq and Syria that allowed it to take root have yet to run their course - the alienation of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority (and the Kurds), and Syria's fragmentation in a vicious sectarian civil war.
The unspoken struggle is over whether formulas can be found for different communities to live together within the borders bequeathed by 20th Century history, or whether new frontiers will have to be drawn to accommodate those peoples - however that concept is defined.
"Sykes-Picot is finished, that's for sure, but everything is now up in the air, and it will be a long time before it becomes clear what the result will be," said the veteran Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.
The Sykes-Picot agreement conflicted directly with pledges of freedom given by the British to the Arabs in exchange for their support against the collapsing Ottomans.
It also collided with the vision of the US President Woodrow Wilson, who preached self-determination for the peoples subjugated by the Ottoman Empire.
His foreign policy adviser Edward House was later informed of the agreement by UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, who 18 months on was to put his name to a declaration which was to have an even more fateful impact on the region.
House wrote: "It is all bad and I told Balfour so. They are making it a breeding place for future war." | Reaching its centenary amidst a general chorus of vilification around the region, the legacy of the secret Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 has never looked more under assault. | 36300224 | [
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BBC pundit Alan Shearer explains why Arsenal's defensive display played as big a part as their attacking power in securing their one-sided FA Cup final win over Aston Villa.
Just about every tactical decision that Wenger made for the final came off, starting with him picking Theo Walcott up front instead of Olivier Giroud.
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He also got his team playing at the right tempo. They put their stamp on the game from the start, unlike the way they started against Reading in their semi-final.
That day, they struggled to impose themselves against Championship opponents. Against Aston Villa I never thought they were in any danger of losing, right from the first minute.
In the past, Arsenal have not always performed under pressure and people have asked whether they can cope when they are expected to win.
On Saturday they answered that question and better than ever before.
Arsenal were outstanding. They were by far the better team and thoroughly deserved their victory.
Starting with Walcott, not Giroud, was a big call - and Wenger would have got a lot of stick if he had got it wrong.
After seeing Walcott score a hat-trick against West Brom on the final day of the season, I said on Match of the Day that I thought Wenger should - and would - stick with him. He did and it proved to be the right decision.
My only worry about the way Arsenal had started the game was the fact they could not find a finish, but Walcott showed with his goal why he can be an out-and-out striker with his movement into the box and then his ruthless finish.
Arsenal could have been two or three goals up by the time Walcott scored and they were great to watch when they came forward.
But they were also exceptional without the ball, in the way they stopped Villa from posing any threat whatsoever. They did not even manage a shot that reached the Arsenal goal.
None of the things that Tim Sherwood has changed and improved in Villa's attack since he took charge in February were evident at Wembley.
Villa were brilliant going forward in their semi-final win over Liverpool but Liverpool allowed them to play like that. Arsenal's defensive discipline did not let it happen.
This time we did not see anything of Tom Cleverley, Fabian Delph or Jack Grealish on the ball and that meant Christian Benteke could not do any damage. Villa were totally outplayed.
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I have twice felt the pain of losing an FA Cup final. It will be worse for Villa after a performance like that.
The fact Arsenal were so good will not be any consolation to Sherwood because his team did not turn up.
I know him well from our days playing in the Blackburn team that won the Premier League title in 1995 and he will be devastated and angry at the way his team performed.
He was proud to have reached the final and also of the fact he kept Villa up, which was his main aim, but he will be hurting after that defeat.
Could he have done anything differently? I don't think so.
There was a gulf in class between the two teams and Sherwood could only play with what he had. He clearly did not have enough to live with Arsenal - sometimes it is as simple as that.
Arsenal were by far the better team but they had some brilliant individual displays too.
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I know Santi Cazorla was fantastic but my man of the match was Alexis Sanchez and not just because of his magnificent goal.
I am always a bit biased towards forward players but Sanchez's energy has lifted his team all season and it was no different at Wembley.
He jinked past players as if they were not there and also leapt above Villa's defence to set up Walcott for his side's opener.
It seems he can do just about everything and he is one of the big reasons why Arsenal can look forward to next season with real optimism.
Alan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan | Arsenal's players put in an outstanding performance to win Saturday's FA Cup final but Gunners boss Arsene Wenger deserves just as much credit. | 32949061 | [
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The 11-month-old is on life support at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
Charlie has an exceptionally rare genetic condition called encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS).
Although he appeared perfectly healthy when he was born, his health soon began to deteriorate.
Charlie now has severe brain damage.
He cannot open his eyes or move his arms or legs.
His condition also means he is unable to breathe unaided, which is why he needs to be on a ventilator.
Charlie's heart, liver and kidneys are also affected, and his doctors say it is not clear if he feels pain.
Charlie's parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, from Bedfont in west London, want Charlie to have an experimental treatment called nucleoside therapy.
A hospital in the US has agreed to offer Charlie the treatment, and Charlie's parents have raised funds to take him there.
But Charlie's doctors at GOSH do not think this is the right care for Charlie.
They say they have explored various treatment options, including nucleoside drug therapy, and none would improve Charlie's quality of life.
They say Charlie's life support should be switched off and he should be allowed to die.
Charlie's doctors say his brain is extensively damaged at a cellular level.
They say the US clinician offering the experimental treatment agrees it will not reverse this brain damage.
GOSH applied to the High Court for judges to decide Charlie's future.
The High Court agreed with the GOSH doctors.
Charlie's parents then appealed against the decision, but courts ruled that the original decision should stand and that it would be in Charlie's best interests to be allowed to die with dignity.
GOSH says it has applied to the High Court for a fresh hearing "in light of claims of new evidence" relating to potential treatment for Charlie's condition.
Two international hospitals and their researchers have been in touch with GOSH with more information about nucleoside therapy - drugs designed to help treat MDDS.
Meanwhile, the Pope and US President Donald Trump have offered to intervene and support Charlie's parents' plea.
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The president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, however, says such interventions from high-profile figures, no matter how well-intended, are "unhelpful".
Charlie's doctors say their view has not changed - they still think the experimental treatment would be unjustified.
But they believe it is right to seek the High Court's view again.
The therapy is a treatment, not a cure. And it is highly experimental.
It has been used on some patients, but none with Charlie's type of MDDS.
There haven't yet been any trials in mice to see if it would work in Charlie's condition, which is caused by a mutation of a gene called RRM2B. The faulty DNA means Charlie's cells can't easily make energy to power his muscles and brain.
Doctors say it doesn't look as though there will be time to run such tests before reaching a decision about Charlie's care.
GOSH did apply for ethical permission to attempt nucleoside therapy on Charlie.
By the time that decision was made, however, Charlie's condition had greatly worsened and the view was that his brain damage was too severe and irreversible for the treatment to help.
Prof Julian Savulescu, an independent ethics expert at the University of Oxford, said: "More than six months have passed since experimental therapy was first considered. We don't know how bad Charlie's brain damage is now. Whether experimental therapy is still warranted depends on whether there remains any prospect of any meaningful life."
The High Court is now being asked to judge the evidence on this crucial point. | Doctors have asked the High Court to hear new evidence in the case of terminally ill Charlie Gard. | 40554462 | [
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Former Liverpool and Chelsea striker Fernando Torres scored the pivotal goal on 72 minutes as Atletico moved within eight points of leaders Barcelona.
Antoine Griezmann put Atletico ahead and Denis Cheryshev equalised for Valencia before Torres struck.
Valencia had Anderlan Santos sent off on 80 minutes before Yannick Carrasco completed the scoring.
Neville suffered just a second defeat in seven games as goalkeeper Diego Alves endured a tough night.
Atletico made the brighter start so it was no real surprise when they went ahead in the 24th minute.
They squandered possession 25 yards from goal and Griezmann let fly with a low shot that crept inside the near post with home goalkeeper Alves slow to react.
The lead lasted just four minutes, however, before Valencia scored as a long pass was cushioned by the head of Paco Alcacer to Cheryshev, who lashed home a left-footed drive from 15 yards.
Cheryshev lifted a shot over the crossbar from another Alcacer header seven minutes before half-time as Valencia grew in confidence.
Alcacer had a chance to put Valencia ahead just before the hour mark when he latched onto a pass by Sofiane Feghouli but fired straight at goalkeeper Jan Oblak.
Moments later Alves made up for his earlier error with a fantastic, one-handed save to keep out a powerful effort by Luciano Vietto.
But the keeper could do nothing to stop substitute Torres, who was making his 300th Atletico appearance, putting his side ahead with 18 minutes remaining as he slid in at the far post to turn the ball home after Jose Maria Gimenez flicked on a corner.
Santos saw red for two bookable offences with five minutes remaining and Carrasco made it 3-1 five minutes later when he fired straight at Alves, who allowed the ball to creep in under his legs.
Earlier in the day, Barcelona kept up their run with a comfortable win at Eibar. | Atletico Madrid kept their La Liga title hopes alive with victory over Gary Neville's Valencia. | 35727391 | [
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From music festivals to corporate expos, trade fairs to charity auctions, we spend about £375bn a year on events worldwide - £40bn of that in the UK.
It seems we gregarious humans still love to press the flesh, chat in person and see things for ourselves, despite the availability of online collaboration tools, teleconferencing and email.
And technology is "transforming the meetings and events space," says Mr Aggarwal. "It's a market ripe for automation."
Going digital has enabled organisers to send out invitations via social media, email and mobile, and provide attendees with a more integrated registration, travel and hotel booking experience.
"We've seen two major changes in the space since we started [in 2006]," says Renaud Visage, co-founder of San Francisco-based Eventbrite, a tech firm that offers an events organising platform.
"Social media, which is very important for marketing, and mobile, which can be used for event apps and for checking-in attendees."
The company has grown fast, processing about $3bn (£2bn) worth of tickets and powering a million events last year, says Mr Visage.
Innovations include dynamic pricing for online seat reservations, depending on where they are in the venue, and the ability to sell merchandise around the event as well.
One company benefiting from event technology is Children's Inn, a charity providing accommodation for kids suffering from the rarest forms of disease.
Lauren Stabart, assistant director of corporate giving and special events, told the BBC: "Our service costs millions of dollars a year to run, so raising money from sponsors and ticketed events is essential for our survival.
"Cvent helped set up our webpage event management platform, where people can purchase tickets and we can offer special promotions, discounts and so on.
"Moving from paper-based registration to digital - checking people into events on tablets - was just so seamless and easy," she says.
Organisers' guest lists are updated automatically so everyone has access to the same information on their hand-held devices.
Technology is also helping to make the events more interactive, she says, with features like "social wall", which projects live tweets onto a wall for guests to read during the event.
Since it was founded in 1990, the charity, based in Bethesda, Maryland, has given a temporary home to about 13,000 seriously ill children and their families.
Now when you go to a big conference the prospectus and schedule is likely to be included in a dedicated app, perhaps incorporating video content of the presentations and an interactive map of the venue.
A company like Eventbase, which developed apps for the 2012 London Olympics and the US South by South West (SXSW) music, film and technology festival, specialises in creating these bespoke apps.
At this year's SXSW more than 1,000 iBeacons were installed around the venue. These small devices communicated with Eventbase's smartphone app to establish visitors' exact locations.
This enabled anyone who opted in to the service be found by other visitors - useful for networking and socialising.
If you missed a speech because you were too busy networking or sampling the refreshments, a well-run event will upload it to the app soon after.
"If I hear a great speaker I want to be able to share the recording five minutes later, not two weeks later," says Mr Aggarwal, whose company services 13,000 clients worldwide, including companies like Roche, Rolls-Royce and Yale University.
"With easy access to all the presentations, the event extends beyond the weekend and the content lives longer."
Event apps and location technology also make it easier for brands to showcase their wares online as well as in the venue, and to target certain visitors with specific messages as they move around.
This targeting is helped by visitors detailing their preferences and areas of interest when they register online for the event.
With about 20 million events happening each year, but only 50,000 currently offering attendees an in-conference app, according to industry estimates, this a rich area for growth for tech companies.
Within the venue, internet-connected devices, such as tablets and smartphones, can make for a more interactive relationship with visitors.
Live polling can enliven a presentation, say, and interactive bidding at charity events using technology from the likes of iBid, can help raise more money.
Bidders can see the latest bids on a large digital screen, adding to the excitement and the spirit of competition.
Nowadays events also encourage tweets and social media updates from visitors which are then projected onto "social walls" around the venue. Mr Aggarwal envisages quadcopter drones buzzing round fulfilling this function in future.
And more often, attendee passes and wristbands have RFID (radio frequency identification) and NFC (near field communication) technology built in, so you can log in to interactive displays or register for offers with a simple wave or tap of your device.
Mr Visage believes connected wristbands will also act as digital wallets, allowing festival goers to pay for food, drink and merchandise so they don't have to worry about losing payment cards and cash.
Technology is also playing an increasingly important role in brand marketing at events, where competition for visitors' attention is fierce.
Product displays are integrating voice, face and gesture activation technologies to make them more fun and interactive, says Nick Thompson, founding partner of Knit, a UK technology design company.
His firm has developed Twitter-activated jukeboxes, LED light displays activated by sound and gesture, and social media integration with NFC-enabled wrist bands, amongst other digital delights.
Virtual reality (VR) headsets will be the next trend at events, he believes.
"At some automotive shows this year there have been more VR headsets than cars," he says.
"Immersive content is going to play a huge role in how brands engage consumers in brand experiences."
Some thought digital technology would kill the live event. Instead, it seems to have given it a new lease of life.
You can follow Matthew on Twitter here: @matthew_wall | Events organising is "the biggest industry you've never heard of", says Reggie Aggarwal, chief executive of US technology company Cvent. | 34335055 | [
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Seagrass was deemed to be heading for extinction in this region before the otters returned.
But scientists found that the animals triggered a chain reaction of events that boosted the water-dwelling plants.
The research is published in the journal, PNAS.
The urbanisation of California has led to a huge increase in nutrient pollution in coastal waters, from increasing use of nitrogen-rich fertilizers.
This is said to be the reason for the dieback of seagrass, which has also been declining worldwide.
This research suggests that the hunting to near-extinction of sea otters in the late 19th and early 20th Century may have exacerbated the problem, and conversely that their reintroduction is helping revive ailing seagrass populations, even in the face of hugely nutrient-rich water.
The researchers assessed seagrass levels over the past 50 years in the Elkhorn Slough in Monterey Bay, and mapped their increases and declines.
They looked at a variety of changes that may have affected the grass, but the only factor that really matched the changes in seagrass was sea otter numbers.
They theorised that sea otters were eating the crabs which prey upon small invertebrates in the water.
These invertebrates eat a type of algae which blooms when there are more nutrients in the soil. It grows on the leaves of the seagrass, shading them from sunlight and causing them to die back.
This is quite a complex cascade of effects, so the researchers tested out their theory by comparing similar estuaries with and without sea otters, and by doing experiments in the lab, and in the field.
These experiments, which included putting cages that sea otters either could or couldn't access, down on the seagrass, confirmed their hypothesis.
Brent Hughes, lead author of the study, said: "This estuary is part of one of the most polluted systems in the entire world, but you can still get this healthy thriving habitat, and it's all because of the sea otters.
"So it's almost like these sea otters are fighting the effects of poor water quality."
Hughes described seagrass as "the canary in the coalmine" in terms of predicting levels of nutrient pollution in the water.
It also acts as a nursery habitat for many species of fish and it uses CO2 from sea water and the atmosphere, thus potentially helping with climate change.
Not only that, but it acts as protection to the stability of the shoreline.
Hughes said: "It's what we call a foundation species, like kelp forest, salt marsh or coral reef. The major problem from a global perspective is that seagrass is declining worldwide. And one of the major drivers of this decline has been nutrient inputs from anthropogenic sources, via agriculture or urban runoff."
These findings are of particular interest at the moment, as a ban on sea otters moving along the coast to southern California was lifted last year. The ban was in place as there was a fear the sea otters would impinge on fisheries in the area.
Hughes told BBC news: "That's important because there's a lot of these kind of degraded estuaries in southern California because of all the urban runoff from places like Los Angeles and San Diego.
"Coastal managers will now have a better sense of what's going to happen when sea otters move in to their systems.
"There's a huge potential benefit to sea otters returning to these estuaries, and in to these seagrass beds that might be threatened." | The return of sea otters to an estuary on the central Californian coast has significantly improved the health of seagrass, new research has found. | 23814524 | [
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The blaze at the former Pontins resort at Brixham destroyed the 42-acre site in June 2014.
Rick Edwards, of Higher Green, South Brent, was given a 12-month jail term suspended for two years at Exeter Crown Court.
The 20-year-old was also given a year's supervision order to prevent further offending.
Prosecutor Gordon Richings said Edwards had lit a small piece of wallpaper and the flames had rapidly got out of control. He admitted in interview he started the blaze "for fun".
"A report on the fire indicated the arcade area had been completely demolished and the pool area and former ballroom were also damaged," he said.
Kevin Hopper, for the defendant, said his client had never intended to cause such a serious incident.
Mr Richings said the fire increased the final cost of demolition because it made it more difficult to isolate and remove asbestos. | A man who set fire to a derelict holiday park "for fun" has been sentenced. | 35730337 | [
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Cesare Prandelli resigned as Azzurri coach after they were knocked out in the World Cup group stage.
Former Italy midfielder Conte, 45, quit as Juventus boss last month, having won the Serie A title in each of his three seasons in charge.
He has also managed Bari and Siena to promotion from Serie B, as well as having spells at Arezzo and Atalanta.
The Italian Football Federation said in addition to his salary, Conte would receive a bonus for qualifying for Euro 2016, an added bonus for climbing at least five places in the Fifa rankings - Italy are currently 14th - and a third bonus if they reach the final of Euro 2016.
Conte is the second big appointment by the Italian Football Federation this week.
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The 25-year-old man reportedly calls himself Harald Hitler.
The man, sporting a side parting and a trademark moustache, had been seen having his photograph taken outside the house in Braunau am Inn in which Adolf Hitler was born.
The lookalike had recently moved to the town on the German border, police spokesman David Furtner told the BBC.
Mr Furtner said this was not a joke or a piece of performance art.
"The young man knows exactly what he is doing," the police spokesman said.
He said the man had also been spotted in Vienna and Graz.
Pictures of the man were published by Austria's Heute.at news website on Monday.
Glorifying the Nazi era is a crime in Austria.
Last October, the Austrian authorities decided to demolish Hitler's birthplace house to stop it becoming a focal point for neo-Nazis.
Hitler was born in a rented room on the top floor of the building on 20 April 1889.
During Nazi rule, the house was transformed into a shrine to Hitler as the town drew in a wave of tourists.
But as the Nazis began to lose control in 1944, it was shut. | A Hitler lookalike has been arrested in Austria on charges of glorifying the Nazi era, local officials say. | 38960193 | [
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Forestry officials say a survey, using hidden cameras, counted 106 tigers in the wild on the Bangladeshi side of the world's largest mangrove swamp, and about 74 on the Indian side.
The figures mark a sharp decline from the 440 animals recorded 10 years ago.
Experts say the decline is mainly down to rampant poaching.
But they add that lower numbers also reflect more accurate surveying techniques.
All previous surveys counted tiger paw prints - which are unique to each animal, but difficult to spot, collate and analyse.
The hidden cameras yielded lower - but more accurate figures, they say.
Experts say the gangs killing the tigers trade in tiger skin and body parts.
"The numbers have declined largely because of poaching, which is the main threat to the tigers in Sunderbans," Dr Anwarul Islam, Professor of Zoology at Dhaka University, told the BBC.
"The threat comes not only from stray poaching, which is rampant, but also from organised gangs of poachers.
"Unless we have an independent, dedicated anti-poaching unit, the future is not bright for the tigers in Bangladesh."
There are now fewer than 2,300 Bengal tigers left in the wild - mainly in India and Bangladesh, but with smaller populations in Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar (also called Burma).
The Sunderbans is made up of 10,000 square kilometres of dense forest straddling India and Bangladesh. | Bangladesh has only a little more than 100 Royal Bengal tigers living in the Sunderbans forest, far fewer than previously thought, new figures show. | 33672602 | [
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Some fans and politicians were angry that poppies were not worn by players.
In a statement, Ulster Rugby said several other Pro12 clubs had not worn a poppy during games at the weekend.
It said its players had observed a minute's silence and it would hold a memorial service on Tuesday.
The Belfast Telegraph reported that some fans had described the absence as "shameful".
Robert McCartney, a former soldier who runs the Beyond the Battlefield charity, told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme it was "an insult".
"I honestly believe they did cause an insult yesterday," he said.
"It is a mark of respect, the reason they are able to play the sport themselves is because of the freedom these men gave them and if they can't put the poppy on their shirt for one day and show that respect, then they really did disgrace themselves yesterday.
"We lost an awful lot of people in the wars and probably members of their family as well and for them not to wear it was a complete insult to the country."
Doug Beattie, an Ulster Unionist councillor and former army captain, said he believed remembrance was a "personal thing".
"The Ulster Rugby team had a remembrance service on that day, they had a minute's silence before the match and everybody is complaining about the symbolism of wearing a poppy, well I just don't get it," he added.
"I don't like the word poppy fascism or poppy Stalinism, there are people who are passionate about the poppy and remembrance and me and Robert have got more in common than we don't, but on this issue I feel that people should wear the poppy if they want to wear the poppy if they don't then they should not.
"I would rather stand beside somebody who is wearing it for a reason than somebody who is wearing it because somebody has told them if you don't you are unpatriotic."
The Ulster Rugby statement said "players and supporters respectfully observed a minute's silence prior to the fixture against Newport Gwent Dragons on Sunday".
"Kingspan Stadium has a permanent War Memorial Arch, which pays respect to those fallen during WW1 and WW2," it added.
"Each year, Ulster Rugby pays respect in its usual and traditional manner with a memorial service at the arch, during which a wreath is laid by the Ulster Rugby President."
The statement added that Newport Gwent Dragons and Cardiff Blues were the only Pro12 clubs who wore a poppy on their sleeves at the weekend. | Ulster Rugby has responded to criticism after poppies were absent from players' jerseys during their Pro12 game against Newport Gwent Dragons on Remembrance Sunday. | 34768002 | [
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Zanzibar, which is officially part of Tanzania but has its own government, was given unanimous approval at the Confederation of African Football's general assembly in March.
The archipelago has long hoped to become a member of the international football community and had its previous application rejected by Fifa in 2005.
"Following admission of Zanzibar into CAF, TFF has now formally submitted application for Zanzibar to become a member of FIFA.," TFF president Malinzi wrote on his official Twitter account on Sunday.
The Zanzibar Football Association (ZFA) has already fulfilled a crucial requirement which states that national associations must be affiliated to continental confederations before they can join Fifa.
Should Fifa accept Caf's 55th member association, then it will become the 212th member association of world football's governing body.
It will also be granted the right to vote on global football issues and the national team will be able to take part in the 2022 World Cup qualifying competition.
Zanzibar was previously an associate member on the continent, allowing its clubs to play in Caf competitions but its national team was excluded.
The semi-autonomous territory is expected to participate in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying. | Tanzania's Football Federation (TFF) president, Jamal Malinzi, has confirmed Zanzibar's fresh bid to become a member of Fifa. | 40153414 | [
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The champions paid for a lacklustre first half, where they created clear openings for Jamie Vardy and Robert Huth, but surrendered the ball all too easily.
Eddie Howe's side saw 70% of the ball before the break and Marc Pugh scored for the hosts on his first league start of the season with a controlled drive from 18 yards out.
Leicester improved but ran into a stubborn home defence and goalkeeper Artur Boruc produced a key save to deny Leonardo Ulloa from six yards in the final minute.
Relive Bournemouth's hard-earned win
It means Claudio Ranieri's side set an unwanted record as their haul of one point away from home is the lowest total by a defending top-flight champion from the first eight away games of a season.
They remain 14th, four points above the bottom three, while the Cherries move to eighth.
Boruc's late save followed a key block from Steve Cook to thwart substitute Shinji Okazaki. The two interventions epitomised Bournemouth's resilience and Howe described it as a "heroic" defensive display.
His side had conceded nine goals in three games before kick-off, prompting him to call for more solid showings and that is what he got.
Good home possession early on killed any momentum Leicester hoped to carry from Saturday's thrilling victory over Manchester City.
And Bournemouth's reward for a fifth home win of 2016-17 is to be five points better off than they were at the same stage last season.
Pugh added to the positives with an excellent all-round display, showing good technique in keeping a bouncing ball on target for the winner after Benik Afobe's shot was saved.
Howe - who refused to set a target of European qualification after the win - described the match winner as "the model professional" for his patience in waiting for his chance start a league fixture.
The statistics get uglier for Leicester, who have no back-to-back wins in the league since April.
The Foxes have conceded 19 goals on the road, one more than in all 18 away games last season and have managed 21 goals in 16 games - 13 fewer than at the same stage last term.
And against Bournemouth they looked one-dimensional going forward. They mustered 12 shots but many of them arrived in a late flurry. Vardy - a hat-trick hero three days earlier - had 26 touches, the same number as Islam Slimani, who was taken off at the break and just six more than Okazaki, who replaced the Algerian.
Huth's early volley - deflected wide moments before Pugh's winner - could have significantly changed proceedings but with just 37% possession on the night and only 68% of their passes finding a team-mate, Leicester were not good enough.
Their display on the south coast was confused. They were slow from the off and limited in their reaction until it was too late.
Ranieri - who has now managed 200 games in the Premier League - will have to find answers.
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Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "It didn't feel anything like routine. It was dramatic playing the champions, we know their qualities and the lads did particularly well. It was a heroic defensive display. I thought we were magnificent in that respect."
Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri: "The result is too severe against us because we created more chances than Bournemouth. I wanted a little more in the first half. A little more and we can score goals, recover more second balls. The second half was much better. If we continue to fight at this level, sooner or later we will get a good result."
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Bournemouth host their south-coast rivals Southampton at 13:30 GMT on Sunday, while Leicester will look to end their dismal away run by taking points at Stoke City on Saturday (15:00).
Match ends, Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 0.
Second Half ends, Bournemouth 1, Leicester City 0.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Luis Hernández (Leicester City).
Substitution, Bournemouth. Tyrone Mings replaces Callum Wilson because of an injury.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Callum Wilson (Bournemouth) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jamie Vardy.
Foul by Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth).
Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Harry Arter (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leonardo Ulloa (Leicester City).
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Luis Hernández (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Wilson (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luis Hernández (Leicester City).
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Steve Cook.
Attempt blocked. Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.
Attempt missed. Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Adam Smith.
Marc Pugh (Bournemouth) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Luis Hernández (Leicester City).
Wes Morgan (Leicester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wes Morgan (Leicester City).
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Steve Cook.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Simon Francis.
Attempt blocked. Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Leonardo Ulloa.
Substitution, Leicester City. Leonardo Ulloa replaces Robert Huth.
Foul by Steve Cook (Bournemouth).
Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Bournemouth. Steve Cook tries a through ball, but Callum Wilson is caught offside.
Substitution, Bournemouth. Dan Gosling replaces Joshua King.
Jack Wilshere (Bournemouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Daniel Amartey (Leicester City).
Hand ball by Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City).
Attempt missed. Shinji Okazaki (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Robert Huth (Leicester City) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Jack Wilshere.
Substitution, Leicester City. Ahmed Musa replaces Marc Albrighton.
Corner, Leicester City. Conceded by Nathan Aké. | Bournemouth moved to the highest league position in their history as Leicester's miserable run away from home continued with defeat at Vitality Stadium. | 38217809 | [
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Margaride Rufino, 38, and Anthony Roberts, 37, were found dead at an address in Cross Road, Idle, on Sunday evening.
Their two-year-old daughter, who was not present at the property, is being cared for by family members, police said.
Detectives are treating the incident as murder but are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths.
Officers were called to the property after receiving reports of a domestic incident.
Ms Rufino, known as Guida, was found with serious neck injuries while Mr Roberts was discovered with leg injuries.
They were both pronounced dead at the scene.
Two knives were recovered from the property and West Yorkshire Police has appealed for witnesses come forward. | A couple whose bodies were found at a house in Bradford have been named. | 35464461 | [
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It is the first time that a non-premium brand has come first in the annual study by consultancy J.D. Power.
The survey of more than 80,000 car buyers found that Kia had the fewest problems in the first 90 days, followed by Porsche, Hyundai, Toyota and BMW.
Worst performers were Daimler's Smart, Fiat, Volvo, Land Rover and Mini.
In the ranking of 33 cars brands, 21 saw an improvement over the past year.
The study also showed that for only the second time in the past 30 years, US brands received better marks collectively than foreign cars.
J.D. Power said that in past years, electronic features such as Bluetooth, voice recognition and touch screens had often been prone to glitches dragging down the results and that this year carmakers had managed to improve their reliability.
Together with its affiliate Hyundai Motor, Kia is the world's fifth largest automaker by sales. | South Korean car maker Kia has come top in a closely watched US car quality ranking, edging out the luxury brands that usually claim the crown. | 36603772 | [
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Elizabeth Passmore's final report before retirement complains admissions are too often "unnecessarily complex", "unfair" or unclear.
Schools which are their own admissions authorities, like academies or faith schools, are more likely to be at fault, says the report.
The government said it would review the findings and take action where needed.
England's School Admissions Code requires places to be offered in a fair and open way, with arrangements set out so that parents can "understand easily how places for that school will be allocated".
Admission arrangements run by local authorities for community and voluntary controlled schools "are almost always clear and uncomplicated so it is easy for parents and others to understand how places will be allocated" says the report, published late last year.
But "the complexity of some schools' admission arrangements continues to be a matter of concern," writes Dr Passmore.
"The arrangements set by some own-admission authority schools have so many levels of priority that often it is unclear how the arrangements could actually be applied."
These complex arrangements can include numerous oversubscription criteria, different sub-categories of places, more than one catchment area, feeder schools, banding tests and aptitude assessments, says the report.
"The complex arrangements of some schools do not serve local children well," adds Dr Passmore.
Too often, says the report, admission arrangements are hard to find on school websites or not published at all, while some faith schools ask parents to fill in supplementary forms, asking for information prohibited under the code.
Dr Passmore says banding tests are proving a particular problem.
Schools say they use them to ensure a comprehensive intake but the report suggests they can be used to increase numbers of higher ability pupils.
"Children living near the school, but placed in a band with many similar children, may not be allocated a place," says the report.
"The first hurdle in gaining a place is to take the test."
These tests are also expensive, up to £500 per child to administer, and the report questions the effects of banding on children, its purpose and costs.
Dr Passmore also said she was "surprised and concerned" by an increase in schools operating as their own admissions authorities employing lawyers when they receive objections to the criteria they use to admit children.
"Schools should be able to construct lawful arguments to their arrangements without recourse to legal advice," she writes.
Overall the report notes the adjudicator dealt with 218 admissions cases in 2014-15, down from 274 the previous year, but the number upheld or partially upheld rose to 159, from 99 in 2013-14.
And local authorities withdrew 284 offers of school places because of fraud, up from 186 the previous year.
Margaret Tulloch of the Comprehensive Futures campaign group described the report as "very disturbing" and called for a "wholesale review of school admissions".
"She is right to raise concerns about own-admission authority schools failing to meet the requirement of the code and about so-called fair banding.
"These problems will only increase as more schools become academies."
A Department for Education spokesman said the government wanted every child to have the opportunity of going to a good local school.
"The chief adjudicator's annual report helps us identify how we can continue to improve the admissions framework to ensure fair access for all children.
"We will review her findings and take action where appropriate." said the spokesman. | Too many schools in England break the rules on admissions arrangements, says the outgoing chief schools adjudicator. | 35261625 | [
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A couple of superb blocks by home captain Emma McMaster helped Northern Ireland hold out before Lucia Garcia put Spain ahead on 30 minutes.
Spanish captain Patricia Guijarro doubled the lead with a tremendous dipping shot in the 52nd minute.
While Spain bossed the game, Abbie Magee went close for the hosts.
Substitute Magee tested Spanish keeper Noelia Ramos in the 74th minute after a brilliant run out of defence by Megan Bell.
The hosts are making their first appearance in the finals while Spain have been runners-up in three of the last four Uefa Under-19 women's tournaments.
Also in Group A, Germany beat Scotland 3-0 while in Group B England edged out Italy 2-1 at Mourneview Park. The Netherlands beat holders France 2-1 at the Ballymena Showgrounds.
Northern Ireland will be back in action in Friday's second round against Scotland at Mourneview Park with England taking on the Dutch at Windsor Park on the same day.
In front of a record 4,200 crowd for a women's match in Northern Ireland, Spain missed two chances in the opening four minutes as McMaster cleared a point-blank Laura Perez chance off the line before the same player then blazed over with the goal gaping.
As Northern Ireland full cap McMaster continued to make a number of brilliant interventions, the dominant Spaniards were frustrated until Perez's run set up Garcia to poke into an empty net in the 30th minute.
Northern Ireland's defensive discipline continued in the second half and it took skipper Guijarro's brilliant 52nd-minute dipping shot to beat Northern Ireland keeper Lauren Perry again.
The Spaniards continued to miss chances and Magee almost pulled a goal back 16 minutes from time after Bell sprinted from the edge of her own penalty area to the Spanish half.
Northern Ireland manager Alfie Wylie said he was proud of his players' efforts in frustrating the talented Spaniards for long periods.
"Despite being 1-0 down at half-time, they refused to feel sorry themselves in the second half and kept battling," said Wylie, who is also the Northern Ireland women's senior manager.
"They gave it absolutely everything tonight and I'm so proud of them." | Spain clinched a dominant 2-0 victory over battling hosts Northern Ireland at Windsor Park as the European Under-19 Women's Championship kicked off. | 40870428 | [
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Eric, as it was called, was originally built in 1928, and was the UK's first humanoid robot, impressing audiences with his movement and speech.
He travelled the globe as a showcase for futuristic technology - but disappeared in the 1930s.
Now, the museum is trying to raise £35,000 to rebuild him and has received more than £6,000 in four days.
Eric was created by British duo Captain William H Richards and Alan Reffell. Made mostly from aluminium and weighing 45kg, he could stand, move his limbs and rotate his head.
Perhaps most impressive for the time, Eric could apparently respond to voice commands and "speak" - but only in carefully stage-managed appearances.
"Eric holds a unique place in our history. He was everything we now imagine a robot to be - a talking, moving mechanical person," Museum curator Ben Russell said.
The team behind the project tracked down relatives of Eric's inventor to collect as many documents as possible, including photographs, drawings and technical diagrams.
Working with robotics artist Giles Walker, the plan is to reconstruct Eric as faithfully as possible using modern components.
"It's one of our human instincts to anthropomorphise; we've built machines that look like us," Russell said in an interview with Wired Magazine.
"Robots are almost like mirrors, they reflect back on ourselves, tell us who we are and how we are and what we think is important. When you take that long view you realise the places where you tend to find robots say a lot about the time and why they were important."
Eric was first built at short notice for the London Engineering Exhibition of 1928, when the keynote speaker dropped out of his opening address. Instead, the robot was scheduled to make the opening speech.
Writing about the unveiling at the time, Popular Science Monthly said: "The Thing's enormous size and the stark immobility of his face gave him a really terrifying quality... [the crowd] returned his lifeless gaze.
"They felt subconsciously that here was some strange symbol of relentless Fate itself."
Eric stood up and began his speech as any human might: "Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, it gives me great pleasure..."
Robots, at the time, were a relatively new concept. Mechanical automatons had existed for many years, but the term "robot" was coined in a 1920 play "RUR" by Czech writer Karel Capek. Those letters - for Rossum's Universal Robots - appeared on Eric's chestplate.
The mechanical man proved a hit with audiences and Eric went on tour to technology exhibitions across the world, from Germany to New York.
Some time in the 1930s, however, he disappeared without explanation: lost, dumped, or possibly recycled.
If the museum's project is completed, Eric will form the centrepiece of a new robotic exhibition, which is due to run from February to September 2017.
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The France player's emoji was shown on advertising boards around the pitch in his side's 1-1 draw with Liverpool.
Pogba, 23, missed a first-half chance and conceded a penalty at Old Trafford.
"Social media is part of the game now," said forward Ibrahimovic, who scored the late equaliser on Sunday.
Pogba, who re-signed for United for a world-record £89m in August, referred to his performance against the Reds with a Facebook post on Monday, saying: "I'd like to thank the supporters who are always there and keep believing in me. At least we did not lose."
Former Sweden striker Ibrahimovic, 35, has 4.3m followers on Twitter, which is 1.24m more than Pogba.
"I think Paul likes the pressure because without it, we would not be on our toes," said Ibrahimovic. "If you want to play at the top, the pressure is 24 hours and if you play well the pressure becomes even greater."
Ibrahimovic said pressure from the press and fans has little impact on top players, adding that he personally puts more pressure on himself.
"I want to be more than perfect, in every game and even in training," he added.
Ibrahimovic's equaliser on Sunday was his 14th Premier League goal of the season. It puts the former Barcelona and Inter Milan forward level with Chelsea's Diego Costa and Alexis Sanchez of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League Golden Boot standings.
"Me winning something and not my team-mates is not the way I want it," he added.
"I'd prefer Manchester United to be first in the table and me to have five goals with the media saying 'He can't do it in the Premier League'. I am here to win."
Take part in our Premier League Predictor game, which allows you to create leagues with friends. | Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba would not have felt any extra pressure on Sunday after launching his own Twitter emoji, according to team-mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic. | 38636434 | [
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Owain Doull, who won team pursuit gold with GB in Rio and was third in the 2015 Tour of Britain, will also race.
The eight-day event concludes in London on 11 September.
"The field for this year's Tour of Britain is without parallel, with star quality wherever you look among the teams," said race director Mick Bennett.
Thirty-time Tour de France stage winner Cavendish will make his first appearance since winning omnium silver at the Olympics, in a field that also features omnium gold medallist and Team Sky rider Elia Viviani of Italy, as well as the Manxman's sprint rival Andre Greipel of Germany.
Wiggins is joined by Dylan van Baarle as former Tour of Britain winners in the field.
A total of 21 teams will take part, including 11 UCI World Tour outfits, the highest number to have competed in Britain since the 2014 Tour de France Grand Depart.
Seven British teams will compete, led by Team Sky and also including Team Wiggins and a Great Britain national team.
The rider list also includes six current national road race champions, led by British champion Adam Blythe, who will ride for Great Britain.
There are also six national time trial champions, including former UCI world hour record holders Alex Dowsett and Rohan Dennis and three-time world time trial champion Tony Martin. | Sir Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish have been confirmed among 126 riders for the 2016 Tour of Britain, which begins in Glasgow on Sunday. | 37262571 | [
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Son Paul Cooke was jailed for almost 30 years for a robbery and knife attack that led to the death of Ronald Smith, in his 60s, in West Bromwich.
Colin Raymond Cooke, 62, who was jailed for seven years, has had his term increased to 11-and-a-half years at London's Criminal Appeal Court,
He had been convicted of conspiracy to rob and assisting an offender.
The father had been jailed for seven years at Wolverhampton Crown Court in May this year.
Paul Cooke was one of several men who plundered Mr Smith's house in Cottage Walk in May 2015. Others involved in the raid have not been traced. | A man who helped his son plot a robbery, during which a man was killed, has had his jail term increased. | 40692024 | [
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Terrie Kirby, 16, Alexandra Binns, 18, Ryan Beal, 20, and Brandon Brown, 20, died following the crash on the A6201 between Upton and Hemsworth on 27 September.
The men from South Yorkshire will appear at Wakefield Magistrates' Court in May.
Police said they have all been bailed.
Those charged are:
Daniel Raynor, 23, from Barnsley, has been charged with four counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of dangerous driving.
Matthew Todd, 21, from Barnsley, has been charged with four counts of aiding and abetting death by dangerous driving
Clark Henfrey, 19, from Barnsley, has been charged with dangerous driving and with encouraging and assisting in the commission of a dangerous driving offence.
Sam Rowley, 19, from Sheffield; Stephen Hebden, 22, Lee Fisher, 28, Mark Mason, 23, Jack Dickinson-Ellis, 19, Jake Hackleton, 20, and Nathan Jackson, 20, all from Barnsley, have all been charged with encouraging and assisting in the commission of a dangerous driving offence. | Ten men have been charged in connection with a collision between a quad bike and a sports car which killed four people from West Yorkshire. | 35888920 | [
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Mark Fitzpatrick's store was destroyed after explosives lit up the sky at neighbouring Southern Firework Factory in Southampton on 13 May.
Hampshire Fire said plastic-wrapped cardboard boxes ignited after they were stacked close to a 300 watt lightbulb.
Mr Fitzpatrick said rebuilding the business was a priority.
He said he was "absolutely devastated" when he discovered the blaze at the family business on Bitterne Road West.
"When I was coming over the Itchen bridge , I saw the smoke and I began screaming. The business is my life. The feeling I got when I saw the shop ablaze was absolutely horrendous - a feeling I never want to experience again," he said.
No-one was injured during the incident but homes and properties within 100 metres (328 ft) of the fire were evacuated. Bitterne Manor Primary School was also closed.
"There was just nothing I could do. It was gone. We were just lucky that nobody got hurt."
Mr Fitzpatrick's daughter, Jessica said she feared her father would suffer a heart attack following the "emotional rollercoaster".
"We have lost a lot - including three olive trees worth £2k each. The fixtures and fittings also need to be replaced. I don't know how much the clean-up bill will be - but it will be a lot."
The family said they have set up a market stall in Southampton but hope to rebuild the store "as soon as possible". | A florist whose business was destroyed in a fire which set off explosions at a neighbouring fireworks factory has pledged to rebuild his business. | 36467805 | [
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The 31-year-old has been without a club since leaving English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, where he spent nine years.
He did not play at all for Tottenham in the 2014-15 season and spent the previous season on loan with Queens Park Rangers.
"Officially at St Etienne so happy - back in football," he wrote on Twitter.
Assou-Ekotto has not played for Cameroon since the 2014 World Cup in Brazil when he was involved in an argument with his team-mate Benjamin Moukandjo and even appeared to headbutt him. | Cameroon defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto has signed a one-year deal with French Ligue 1 side St Etienne. | 33344216 | [
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In the longer term, the average cost to households could be up to £6,400, according to the Centre for Economic Performance.
It says a decline in trade would cost the economy "far more" than would be gained from lower EU contributions.
But Vote Leave described the claims as "ridiculous" and lacking "credibility".
The Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) is a think tank based at the London School of Economics.
In reaching its conclusions, the CEP starts from the standpoint that about half of the UK's trade is with the EU and that as a member of the EU the UK benefits from there being fewer barriers to trade.
It says post-Brexit the UK would do less trade with the EU because there would be higher tariffs on goods. But also there would be other non-tariff barriers to trade, such as British exporters to the EU having to prove their goods were made in the UK.
Also in the longer term the UK would get less benefit from future market integration within the EU.
According to the researchers, in the best case scenario the UK negotiates a deal with the EU similar to Norway's.
Norway is a member of the European Economic Area and has a free trade agreement with the EU, so there are no tariffs on trade between the two.
However, there are some non-tariff barriers to trade. After deducting the savings that would be made by the UK no longer having to make contributions to the EU budget, the researchers say there would be a fall in UK income of 1.3% - which equates to £850 a year per household.
Analysis: Anthony Reuben, BBC Reality Check
The problem is that any such predictions involve making big assumptions about what would happen in the event of the UK leaving the EU.
The conclusions are extremely sensitive to such assumptions. For example, the losses double if you move from the "optimistic" to "pessimistic" conclusions about what sort of trade deal a post-Brexit UK would reach with the EU.
Read more here: Would Brexit cost every household £850?
In the worst case - the researchers assume that the UK cannot negotiate a new trade agreement with the EU and all trade between the UK and EU is governed by World Trade Organization rules. This they say would mean bigger increases in trade costs.
It would mean a fall in UK income of 2.6% - or £1,700 per household, according to the CEP.
"In the optimistic scenario where incomes shrink by only 1.3% we would - like Norway and Switzerland - have to pay into the EU budget and accept EU regulations that we had no say in deciding," says Thomas Sampson, one of the report's authors.
"What's more there would still be free migration of labour.
"Given the politics, this makes the pessimistic outcome more likely," he adds.
Longer term the report says the fall in trade experienced by the UK outside the EU would lower productivity. That would translate into a fall in GDP of between 6.3%, or £4,200 per household, and 9.5% or £6,400 per household.
However, the CEP's findings have been strenuously rebutted by Leave campaigners.
"These ridiculous claims lack credibility as they come from the same economic sages who said we would be better off scrapping the pound," said the chief executive of Vote Leave, Matthew Elliott.
Among the points Vote Leave takes issue with is the report's assumption that trade would be reduced as a result of leaving the EU. This it says is wrong.
"It's principal claims are based on leaving the EU 'reducing trade'. Even pro-EU campaigners admit that the UK would have little difficulty striking a free trade agreement with the EU following withdrawal," it goes on.
It says the assumptions about non-tariff barriers to trade in the report were "extremely pessimistic".
It also attacks the CEP for having received funding form the European Commission. The CEP says less than a 10th of its income comes from that source.
Earlier on Friday, the co-founder of stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown told the BBC the "unknown" of leaving the EU could help stimulate Britain".
Peter Hargreaves, who backs the UK's withdrawal from the union, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a fresh start could help Britain innovate.
Demand for UK fashion and cars, as well as the attractiveness of the UK as a market for the EU, would ensure good trade deals, he said. | If the UK leaves the European Union, British households could be on average as much as £1,700 a year worse off, a think tank has said. | 35842333 | [
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The Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) said it was hit by "exceptional mortalities" amounting to 1,300 tonnes - about a fifth of its potential harvest.
SSC also said "biological challenges", such as sea lice, had led to a lower mean weight of fish harvested.
As a result, operating costs increased and earnings dipped, it added.
The Oslo-listed company reported losses of £1.4m in the quarter before interest and tax.
This was despite a 39% increase year-on-year in revenue as a result of increased harvested volumes and higher market prices.
Revenue stood at £25.5m, while volumes rose from 5,130 tonnes to 5,486 tonnes.
SSC managing director Craig Anderson said: "This quarter has been challenging and, like many other operators in the sector, results have been impacted by biological issues.
"We have been working for some time to develop effective long term solutions to tackle these industry wide issues, such as the use of cleaner fish to combat sea lice.
"In the shorter term, we are using a range of established best practice methods to manage the situation.
"We remain focused on growing our business and developing our export markets to enable us to capitalise on the continued demand for premium Scottish salmon.
"Maragay Mor, our new site in the Hebrides, has been commissioned and is an important element in delivering our strategy of long term sustainable growth." | A Scottish salmon producer has reported third-quarter losses after suffering an "unprecedented" level of deaths at its fish farms. | 38078741 | [
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The sturgeon, named Steve, swam out of World of Water in Romsey, Hampshire when it was inundated by flood water in early February.
But now staff at a car wash a mile from the centre have discovered him in a deep puddle.
A larger koi carp fish named Chadwick escaped at the same time but, despite sightings, has not yet been retrieved.
Centre manager Mark Bradbury said he was "hugely relieved" Steve had been recovered and "only a little worse for wear for his travels."
The seven-year-old fish was used as part of the shop's displays, but Mr Bradbury said similar fish would retail for up to £1,000.
"He must have crossed the road and got to the petrol station through the flood water. He's got a few bumps and scrapes but is happy to be back with his friends," he explained.
The centre has now re-opened after being closed for three weeks because of the floods. | A metre-long fish that escaped from an aquatic centre during recent flooding has been found. | 26504109 | [
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Richard Duffy fired Vale in front after Neil Collins headed down a corner for the defender to coolly latch onto.
Scunthorpe's Paddy Madden could have levelled later on but fired the ball over the crossbar from close range.
But Wootton's late goal rescued a point and prevented the visitors from taking their first win in eight games.
The Iron remain in 17th, a point above 18th-placed Vale who are three points above the League One relegation zone.
Scunthorpe manager Mark Robins told BBC Radio Humberside:
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"We were by no means at our best tonight but we've created enough chances to win the game.
"We gave them one shot at goal and they scored.
"The changes we made had an impact no doubt about that - I told Kyle (Wooten) to go make a name for himself which he has thankfully gone and done." | A dramatic injury-time equaliser from teenage substitute Kyle Wootton gifted Scunthorpe a point against relegation rivals Port Vale. | 32199778 | [
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A masked man holding a gun approached him at about 10:35 BST in a car park in Glenarm on Sunday and demanded the man's car keys.
He then made off from the car park on New Road in a red Ford Fiesta.
A robbery at a shop on Coast Road in Ballygally in County Antrim was reported about 15 minutes later.
A masked man with a gun entered the premises and left with a sum of cash after demanding money from staff.
The red Ford Fiesta was found abandoned at about 11:15 BST on Dickeystown Road in Glenarm.
Police believe the two robberies could be linked.
No-one was injured in the incidents but both the man whose car was stolen and the shop staff were left "very badly shaken", police said.
Police are appealing for anyone who saw the car to contact them. | A man has been robbed at gunpoint as he was taking photographs in a village on the County Antrim coast. | 40697179 | [
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Paramedics were called to attend a sudden death at Joe's Bar in Dungiven at 06:00 BST on 6 October 2014, Limavady Magistrates Court was told.
Police arriving a short time later found several people still at the bar.
Till receipts showed alcohol was being served as late as 04:49 BST. The judge ordered its closure for three months.
Colleen O'Neill, 43, of Kevin Lynch Park in the town, was charged with two counts of allowing the consumption of liquor outside licensing hours.
James Thomas, 44, of the same address, faced one count of the same charge.
A defence solicitor told the court that the licensing laws in Dungiven "were not strictly adhered to".
He said it was clear that the premises had not been run in a proper manner and had been running well into the morning.
The judge said Ms O'Neill, who is the license holder, had "an appalling record" and expressed concern that he did not have power to impose a custodial sentence.
"This was as bad a case as I have come across and as bad a record," he said.
Ms O'Neill was also fined £3,000, while Mr Thomas was fined £1,000. | A sudden death at a pub in County Londonderry alerted police to alcohol being served hours after closing time, a court has heard. | 32221351 | [
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Peers defied the government by backing calls to set up a joint parliamentary committee to look at the proposals.
Lord Lawson and Lord Forsyth were among Conservative peers to rebel as the government lost by 320 votes to 139.
Ministers have had to redraft plans to give English MPs an effective veto on laws deemed to apply to England only and to delay a vote amid opposition.
The Conservatives made a manifesto commitment to give English MPs a decisive say over legislation exclusively affecting England but have run into trouble over the details of the plan and how it will be introduced.
The plan is for a new Commons stage to be introduced for laws passing through Parliament with England's MPs asked to accept or veto legislation only affecting England before it passes to a vote of all UK MPs at third reading.
Ministers say this will address the longstanding anomaly by which Scottish MPs can vote on issues such as health and education affecting England but English MPs have no say on similar matters relating to Scotland, where such policies are devolved.
A similar process would be used, including Welsh MPs, where matters covered only England and Wales.
But the SNP has said they will be excluded them from votes on matters affecting Scotland and create two classes of MP in the Commons while Labour has said the proposals are being rushed and need more detailed scrutiny.
Peers have now backed calls by Lord Butler, the former cabinet secretary and crossbench peer, for a special committee of MPs and peers to look into the proposals in depth.
Lord Butler said he backed the principle of requiring laws affecting England to have the consent of a majority of English MPs but there were better ways of approaching what has long been known as the "West Lothian question"
"Surely it is more important to get the proposals right than to rush them through," he said.
The vote does not bind the government unless the House of Commons also agrees to such a move.
The Leader of the Lords, Lady Stowell, maintained that peers would get a debate on the plans in the autumn, but after 30 years of trying to find a solution to the problem of English-only laws it was time to take action.
"There does come a point where we need to stop talking and get on with taking some action," she said. | The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over plans for so-called "English votes for English laws". | 33612925 | [
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The first film, starring Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne, is due out in cinemas on 18 November.
JK Rowling, who wrote the film script for Fantastic Beasts, will also write the sequel.
Warner Bros said the second film "moves deeper into an increasingly dark time for the wizarding world".
Rowling previously said the Fantastic Beasts film series - based on her book of the same name - would be made up of three movies, but this is the first time Warner Bros has confirmed the plan. | Warner Bros has announced a follow-up to upcoming Harry Potter spin-off film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. | 36973000 | [
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More than 350 Roma people had lived in the camp on La Petite Ceinture since mid-2015. Activists said many left early ahead of the police action.
The site belongs to the national rail authority SNCF.
France has one of Europe's toughest policies towards Roma. Most live in camps that are regularly demolished and every year thousands are deported.
Amnesty International urged city authorities to find a lasting housing solution for those evicted in Paris - saying they would become homeless in mid-winter.
Hundreds of thousands of Roma - mostly from Romania and Bulgaria - have moved to western Europe since the 1990s.
The Council of Europe, the region's main human rights body, warned that evictions were "counter-productive" because they disrupted education and healthcare for Roma children.
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland said it was crucial for French authorities to provide "adequate, alternative accommodation" for those evicted, "particularly as they have decided to take this action during winter".
France's unwanted Roma | Police have cleared hundreds of Roma people from a slum-like camp built on a disused rail line in north Paris. | 35482175 | [
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Of 1,763 would-be students who had contacted or applied to UK universities, almost half said Brexit would make UK study less attractive.
But 17% told international student recruiters Hobsons that Brexit would make UK universities more attractive.
The Vote Leave campaign said it was crucial to ensure there were enough places for young people from the UK.
Hobsons managing director Jeremy Cooper said: "A vote for Brexit would represent a further challenge.
"For universities in the UK, the conditions for recruiting international students are tougher than ever before."
The survey participants had applied for or enquired about study at 15 UK universities - including two from the elite Russell Group and seven new universities.
Three-quarters were from countries outside the EU, two-thirds were interested in post-graduate study, just over half were female and almost two-thirds were aged under 24.
Of the 1,529 who expressed an opinion:
There was considerable variation between EU and non-EU students, with 82% of EU students saying Brexit would make the UK less attractive compared with 35% of non-EU students.
Although they admit accurate predictions are impossible, the researchers believe international student applications could be at risk if attitudes change as the survey suggests.
Based on 2014-15 figures, when there were 240,767, international students in the UK, 113,116 international students "could be at risk of being put off" studying in the UK, says the report.
It suggests the UK could potentially lose 50,056 EU and 63,060 non-EU students.
Paul Blomfield MP, co-chairman of the newly formed all-party parliamentary group for international students, called the report "worrying"
"Leaving the EU would make the UK a less attractive destination for study, and that is bad news for our economy," he said.
"Across the country, hundreds of thousands of jobs would be at risk."
His co-chairman, Lord Bilimoria, said the findings were consistent with views he had been hearing from around the world.
"It is not scaremongering," he said. "It is reality. The whole world thinks we should stay in the EU.
"International students are one of our biggest most important export earners.
"They affect our economy and our soft power - building bridges with our country for generations."
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, warned that "leaving the EU and putting up barriers to work and study are highly likely to mean that international students choose to study elsewhere, strengthening our competitors and weakening the UK's universities".
But a Vote Leave spokeswoman pointed out that only a small percentage of students from outside Europe believed the referendum result would make any difference to their opinion of the attractiveness of studying at a UK university.
"The UK has some of the best universities in the world and gaining a place is often extremely competitive. That's something we're rightly proud of as a country.
"Understandably, the calibre of our universities attracts a large number of applications from foreign students - but arguably the most important thing is to ensure that there are sufficient places for our young people."
And a spokesman for Scientists for Britain noted "a huge difference between the 'UK study less attractive' response from non-EU students (35%), who contribute up-front and pay higher tuition fees, and EU students, who pay lower fees and are eligible to access UK student loans".
"Given that the financial contribution of non-EU students is significantly more important to the UK Higher Education sector, we are reassured that the vast majority of non-EU students (65%) recognise that Brexit is much less of a concern for them, and may even level the playing field in terms of being able to secure student visas to study in the UK." | UK universities could find it harder to recruit international students if the UK leaves the EU, suggests a survey. | 36286057 | [
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The European research centre announced its spoof discovery with pictures showing its scientists using The Force in everyday life.
It was one of many April Fools jokes seen on websites around the world.
Others included a selfie shoe, driverless pizza delivery and thought-powered web search.
"The Force is what gives a particle physicist his powers," said Cern scientist Ben Kenobi of the University of Mos Eisley, Tatooine in a press release.
Many scientists at the centre were already using The Force, said the release, to communicate over long distances, influence minds and for "lifting heavy things out of swamps".
Microsoft used the background image for its main Bing search page to tout its April Fools joke in which it claimed the search system could read palms and minds to ensure people got the results they really wanted.
Anyone could try thought-powered search by putting their right hand on a screen where the Bing homepage indicated.
"The innovative new search function intelligently analyses the electrical signals transmitted through the hand to calculate the relevant search term," said the software firm.
Many other firms and sites produced spoof announcements and products for 1 April.
Smartphone maker Samsung produced a spoof page for a Blade edge version of its Galaxy smartphone that, it claimed, was designed for cooks. The limited edition handset incorporates a diamond-edged blade so the phone can also be used to chop food when it is not being used for calls, texts, or browsing the web.
HTC joined in with fake product pages for the Re-Sok - the "world's first truly smart sock". The technology-enhanced footwear is engineered with GPS so pairs of socks can easily find each other and have an automatic hole warning system to alert owners when their intelligent footwear is running thin.
For its April Fools parody, Motorola went to the trouble of making a lavish video showing two craftsmen producing selfie-sticks out of wood and leather.
New York-based footwear maker Miz Mooz joined in and produced a pair of shoes that have smartphone docking ports in each toe so each one can be used to take selfies.
Other parodies included cab-calling firm Hailo introducing piggy-back rides around cities; Domino's pizza introducing a driverless pizza delivery system using autonomous scooters; BMW making the ultimate rugby mouth guard and Sony making a wearable add-on for the PlayStation so players can take part in games when they are swimming. | The Force - the mysterious energy field used by the Jedi in Star Wars - has been discovered by researchers at the Cern laboratory. | 32145885 | [
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Police have confirmed paint was thrown over doors and windows at Crumlin Orange Hall some time between 2300 BST on Monday and 1000 BST on Tuesday.
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns condemned those behind the attack which he said was "pointless".
"They can only harm and destroy, they can only cause pain and hardship and useless expense to taxpayers and ratepayers," he said. | An Orange hall in County Antrim has been the target of a paint bomb attack. | 10621800 | [
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Kieran Ridley, 32, poured petrol onto a nearby bin and lit it, the High Court in Edinburgh was told.
He then left the property at Mallaig, Lochaber, having locked the front and back doors and some windows.
Mr Ridley denies the charges. His lawyers argue he was not criminally responsible due to mental disorder.
The court was told that 11 people were inside the property including four children between the ages of two and 16.
In a statement agreed by the Crown and Mr Ridley's defence team, the court heard that Mr Ridley turned on the gas valves on the kitchen cooker late on 27 October last year.
At some point between 23:00 and 23:30 he poured petrol onto a nearby waste bin and set fire to it, causing cladding and a skirting board to catch light.
He then left the house, having locked both front and rear doors and some of the windows.
The trial heard that Mr Ridley, whose address was given as HMP Inverness, was detained by police later that night at Cameron Avenue, Mallaig
The people in the house - called Mallaig Mhor- included his mother, brother, children aged two, eight, 15 and 16 and five other adults.
The trial, before judge Craig Scott QC continues on Monday. | A man accused of attempting to murder 11 people at a remote Highland holiday home started a fire after opening gas valves on a cooker, a court has heard. | 37593371 | [
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The Ayrton Light, located above the Great Bell - known as Big Ben - needs to be fully dismantled and restored. A temporary light will replace it.
Installed in 1885, it was previously turned off only during both world wars.
Big Ben will not chime regularly until 2021 because of repairs to the tower.
The light is said to have been installed at the request of Queen Victoria, so that she could see from Buckingham Palace when members of either the Commons or the Lords were sitting after dark.
It is named after Acton Smee Ayrton, a Liberal politician who was First Commissioner of Works between 1869 and 1873.
It is not yet known when the light will switch off, or how long it will be off for.
Big Ben will not be heard from midday on Monday. The House of Commons has said it will look again at the length of time it will be silenced after "concerns".
Parliament said it had to protect workers carrying out the renovations.
But Prime Minister Theresa May said "it can't be right" that the bell will not chime regularly again for four years.
It will still sound for important events including New Year's Eve and Remembrance Sunday. | A lamp at the top of Elizabeth Tower - which is switched on in the evening whenever Parliament is sitting - is to stop shining for the first time in more than 70 years. | 40985192 | [
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The Kidman cattle empire is Australia's largest landholding, encompassing some of the driest and toughest country Australia has to offer.
Its story begins in the 1890s with Sir Sidney Kidman and his elder brother Sackville, who embarked on an ambitious venture that would transform agriculture in Australia.
The two brothers wanted to grow livestock in the country's dry centre, supported by Queensland's channel country rivers - the Georgina, the Diamantina and Cooper Creek.
The plan was that tropical rain from the north would deliver water needed for farming to flourish in this harsh environment.
The Kidmans' ambition, wrote biographer Jill Bowman, was to establish "a chain of stations that were almost drought-proof, places that when linked together would provide a substantial water supply".
Sackville Kidman died in 1899, but Sidney turned their dream into reality, founding the company S. Kidman & Co the same year.
Today the business encompasses 19 properties across the Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia.
It owns 101,411 sq km (39,155 sq miles) of land in total - that's more than 1% of Australia's land mass and larger than Ireland. One of its properties is Anna Creek, the world's biggest cattle station, which stretches across 23,677 sq km.
The Kidman family has owned and managed the business for 116 years. But in April this year it was put on sale for a projected sum of A$325m ($232m; £152.3m).
On Thursday however Australia's government decided to block the sale to foreign investors.
Selling so much of Australia's outback to foreigners would be against the national interest, Treasurer Scott Morrison said.
His reasoning? Part of property is inside the Woomera Prohibited Area (WPA), a military weapons testing range in South Australia.
The country's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said the sale was blocked on national interest grounds and there was no discrimination against any particular buyer.
About Sir Sidney Kidman
Kidman & Co's business focus has long been on growing grass-fed beef for domestic and international markets.
Headquartered in Adelaide, the firm says it supplies about 15,000 tonnes of beef carcass every year to markets around the world.
It is not clear if prospective buyers would maintain this focus, but there's no argument they would enter Australia's agricultural scene at a pivotal time.
As the mining boom subsides and the country looks elsewhere for economic growth, the business of farming the country's vast land for meat and other agricultural commodities has never been more important.
Mr Morrison indicated that the government may be willing to see Kidman broken for sale. So foreign investors may yet possess at least some of its vast cattle empire.
Simon Talbot, head of the National Farmers Federation, told the BBC that opening up agricultural growth in northern Australian areas couldn't be done without foreign investment.
Even where large agricultural properties were foreign owned, the produce grown on them needed be transported using Australian infrastructure and jobs would be generated for Australian workers, he explained.
"People are starting to realise that as the mining boom is over, agriculture could become the next pillar of the Australian economy - but unfortunately we're not going to get there without significant investment," he said. | Two Chinese conglomerates were the last standing in a bidding war to buy an extraordinarily large slice of Australia and its pastoral history in November. | 34865755 | [
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Prop Mako Vunipola, 25, and 23-year-old brother Billy, started their careers at Thornbury Rugby Club.
Both have become England regulars since joining Saracens, with Mako winning 29 international caps and Billy 23.
They were both junior members at the club on the outskirts of Bristol in South Gloucestershire.
Roy Black, who was chairman of Thornbury RFC at the time, said they were "big lads" when they were 11 or 12 and caused the opposition "a lot of problems"
"If you saw them in Thornbury and they were walking to the club or to school they'd always have a rugby ball in their hand and throwing it from one side of the road to the other over the traffic," he said.
Mr Black also recounted the time when Lloyd Spacey, their PE teacher at nearby Castle School, was knocked to the ground by Mako after asking him "did he play rugby".
"Mako grunted 'yes', so Lloyd picked up a tackle bag and Mako ran straight through him when he was about 13," Mr Black said. | Two international rugby stars have returned to their home club to help coach an under-10s team and to watch the first XV in action. | 39015201 | [
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The draft legislation was approved by 494 votes to 122, and now moves to the House of Lords.
Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis was one of 52 Labour MPs to defy party orders to back the bill and he resigned from the front bench.
PM Theresa May wants to trigger formal Brexit talks by the end of March.
She will do this by invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, but requires Parliament's permission before doing so.
Mr Lewis, who earlier said he was undecided on whether to support the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, announced his resignation as MPs began voting for the final time.
He said he "cannot, in all good conscience, vote for something I believe will ultimately harm the city I have the honour to represent, love and call home".
Leader Jeremy Corbyn said he understood the difficulties the vote presented some of his MPs but said they had been ordered to back the Article 50 because the party would not "block Brexit".
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who missed last week's initial vote on the bill, backed it this time.
She told the BBC she had "a lot of misgivings about the idea of a Tory Brexit" and predicted the UK would "come to regret it", but added: "I'm a loyal member of the shadow cabinet and I'm loyal to Jeremy Corbyn."
The Labour rebellion was five MPs up on last week's vote, while former Chancellor Ken Clarke was again the only Conservative to vote against the two-clause bill.
During the voting, SNP MPs were reprimanded by deputy speaker Lindsay Hoyle after they started singing Ode to Joy, the European Union anthem.
Afterwards, Brexit Secretary David Davis hailed the "historic vote", adding: "It is now time for everyone, whichever way they voted in the referendum, to unite to make a success of the important task at hand for our country."
Peers will now consider the draft legislation, and a government source told BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg: "If the Lords don't want to face an overwhelming public call to be abolished they must get on and protect democracy and pass this bill."
Earlier the bill survived several attempts to change its wording and add extra conditions.
These included Labour MP Harriet Harman's bid to protect the residence rights of EU citizens in the UK, which was outvoted by 332 votes to 290, with three Conservative MPs rebelling.
A Liberal Democrat bid for a referendum on the terms of the UK leaving the EU was defeated by 340 votes to 33.
Afterwards, Mr Corbyn tweeted: "Real fight starts now. Over next two years Labour will use every opportunity to ensure Brexit protects jobs, living standards and the economy."
But Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon accused him of giving the Conservatives a "blank cheque".
She tweeted: "You didn't win a single concession but still voted for the bill. Pathetic."
The bill will be debated in the House of Lords after it returns from recess on 20 February.
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron vowed the party's peers would seek to amend the bill in the Lords, including another attempt to ensure a referendum on the final Brexit deal. | MPs have overwhelmingly agreed to let the government begin the UK's departure from the EU as they voted for the Brexit bill. | 38902484 | [
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Some have seen increases of as much as 900% after a recent revaluation and the situation has been called "ridiculous".
It means virtually all of their profits are being handed over to councils, with some energy schemes now making a loss, BBC Wales has heard.
The Welsh Government said it was aware and considering the case for specific assistance.
The British Hydropower Association accused ministers of "sitting on their hands" while Community Energy Wales said it was "ripping the guts" out of projects.
Community energy schemes are often small enterprises run by volunteers, designed to generate income for their area.
But the way business rates are calculated means hydro schemes are hit hard:
Business rates in England and Wales are calculated by an independent body - the Valuation Office Agency - but the Welsh Government is in charge of how they are raised here.
The British Hydropower Association has written to Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford to ask for support.
Chief executive Simon Hamlyn said: "Community hydro schemes are suffering and those businesses will say we can't afford to pay these rates and they'll abandon these schemes and that's the last thing we want."
Keith Jones, director of Community Energy Wales, said the average increase was 300%.
"No-one could foresee this coming, we didn't even put it down as a risk in our business plans that such a blunt instrument would be used to get more money out of us."
Mr Jones said the Scottish government had extended a 100% business rates relief for community energy schemes while in England they were capping the increase at £600.
Gavin Gatehouse helps run the Ynni Anafon hydro scheme in Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd, which has seen its monthly rate rise from about £900 to more than £2,000.
It took five years to set up and could generate up to £40,000 of disposable income per year for projects in the area.
A charity has been formed so groups and individuals can apply for grants, but this increase means there will be less money to hand out.
The community hydro at Bethesda is predicting it will now make a loss.
"It's very frustrating and I'm very angry about it," Mr Gatehouse said.
"We'll be seeing a huge proportion of our profit eaten away to substitute for lack of government provision of grants to local authorities."
Mr Drakeford has said more than £210m of rate relief was being provided for 2017-18 to businesses including community energy projects.
"We are going to prepare a new scheme for rate relief for small business from 2018 onwards. I am happy, as part of this, to consider the case for specific assistance and support for some projects, including the community energy projects and community hydro projects."
The Green Party said it would remove subsidies to fossil fuels and scrap "regressive taxes" on the community energy sector.
Welsh Liberal Democrats pledged to review business rates exemptions and make a presumption in favour of renewable energy projects "in or on suitable publicly owned buildings and land".
Plaid Cymru's shadow cabinet secretary for energy, Simon Thomas, said his party would introduce a rates relief package and loans for pre-planning application costs, which would only be repaid if planning consent was given. | The future of many community hydro schemes is in jeopardy due to a sharp rise in business rates, operators say. | 39874843 | [
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In 2008, elderly residents were moved out of Greyhound Opening in Norwich and senior city council officers moved in.
The council's head of neighbourhood and strategic housing, Kristine Reeves, was later sacked over the affair.
The development proposals, put forward by Norwich City Council, include 60 flats and 45 houses.
The report to the council says 35 of the houses and flats will be for social rent.
A report to Norwich City Council's planning committee, which meets on Thursday, advises councillors to approve the plans.
Elderly residents were moved out of Greyhound Opening and nearby Goldsmith Street seven years ago after Norwich City Council agreed to redevelop the site.
The council agreed that new employees relocating to the city could move in temporarily ahead of demolition.
However other staff, including Ms Reeves, also moved in, in contravention of council policy.
The council resisted calls for a full independent inquiry.
Its own investigation found safeguards covering conflicts of interest were in place but not followed.
In February 2009, London-based architects Riches Hawley Mikhail won a competition to design a new social housing development on the site, but they were never commissioned.
During that year homes on the derelict site were demolished, but the site has since remained untouched. | Plans to build 105 homes on the site of a housing scheme in Norwich - which was at the centre of a "homes for staff" scandal - have been put forward. | 34364586 | [
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