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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated as "good" Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
It was placed in special measures in 2013 and the CQC's 2015 report said this should be lifted although it "required improvement" in some areas.
The trust's chief executive said she was "proud" of the rating following the August 2016 inspection.
The hospital was placed in special measures after an investigation into high mortality rates at hospitals in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
The chief inspector of hospitals, Sir Mike Richards, said "it should be acknowledged how far they have come in three years".
Sir Mike added: "It is clear the trust has worked hard to address the issues we raised, and I am pleased to be able to change its rating from 'requires improvement' to 'good'."
Sir Mike said the inspectors found a "number of areas of outstanding practice" including:
• A programme for supporting pregnant women with alcohol problems
• The radiology department's virtual post-mortem examination service where a CT scan could determine the cause of death
• The trust's direct access to electronic information about patients needing end-of-life care.
But the report also said the trust must ensure there were enough nurses to meet patient needs, medication fridges must be kept at the required temperature and at least one nurse each shift on the children's ward should be trained in advanced paediatric life support.
Trust chief executive Karen James said she was "immensely proud" of her staff, adding: "Our journey will never be complete, we will continue to improve the quality of services at the organisation."
BBC analysis has found, however, that its bed occupancy is 98% - 13% higher than the NHS's recommended safe level. | A health watchdog has praised the improvements at a hospital that was once placed in special measures. | 38883612 | [
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It was a scrappy effort, which saved the game from going to what had seemed an inevitable penalty shootout.
Stevie Mallan though had earlier missed the game's best chance for the home side when he failed to score from the penalty spot.
St Mirren now lead Group G by three points.
It might have been picture postcard weather for the first half in Paisley, but there wasn't much to write home about.
St Mirren were too predictable with long balls floated forward for John Sutton and David Clarkson up front, although Mallan's dead ball delivery was, as always, a threat.
Ayr started well enough and Paul Cairney had a real early chance, but after that Saints looked comfortable at the back.
St Mirren's best chance of the half fell for Calum Gallacher who got on to the end of a lovely ball from Clarkson.
It was screaming for the first-time volley, but he chose the wrong option in taking a touch and the opportunity melted in the evening sun.
Things, we hoped, could only get better in the second half.
They did. A bit.
Lewis Morgan was highly impressive down the left side for the home team, embracing the concept of dazzling wing play and hitting the by-line before delivering the cross. But no-one could cash in.
He won his team a penalty with another dazzling run. The usually deadly Mallan took the spot kick, but United goalkeeper Greg Fleming produced a wonderful save to his right hand side to urge the game toward further penalties after 90 minutes.
But then central defender Baird chipped in with his last-minute effort, bundling the ball over the line after a scramble in the box.
Enough to set Saints proudly at the top of their section.
St Mirren manager Alex Rae: "We struggled to get any intensity in the first half. I'm conscious of the fact it was really warm out there tonight.
"A lot of the boys are just not up to speed. This competition has come really early.
"Lewis Morgan tonight was sensational, driving at people. The boy is making a really big impact.
"I spoke to Stewart (Gilmour, the chairman) before the game, there may be funds for a loan deal, but we'll try and squeeze a few quid out of him."
Ayr United manager Ian McCall: "I thought it was a really poor game of football. We're a mile short in terms of bodies and fitness but a draw would have been fair. To lose one so late is hard to take.
"But, we've got two games left and if we win them two you never know.
"We need strikers. We need a wide player. We need a centre back. We're four or five short of where we want to be. The substitutes Alex (Rae) was able to make was the difference."
Match ends, St. Mirren 1, Ayr United 0.
Second Half ends, St. Mirren 1, Ayr United 0.
Goal! St. Mirren 1, Ayr United 0. Jack Baird (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Patrick Boyle.
Attempt blocked. Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. David Clarkson (St. Mirren) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Ayr United. Conceded by Jason Naismith.
Foul by Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren).
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. David Clarkson (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Ross Docherty.
Lewis Morgan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Foul by Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren).
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lawrence Shankland (St. Mirren).
Paul Cairney (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
David Clarkson (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by David Clarkson (St. Mirren).
Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Clarkson (St. Mirren).
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Greg Fleming.
Penalty saved! Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty St. Mirren. Lewis Morgan draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Kyle Hutton (St. Mirren).
Paul Cairney (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Lawrence Shankland (St. Mirren) header from the centre of the box is too high following a corner.
Corner, St. Mirren. Conceded by Paul Cairney.
Substitution, Ayr United. Craig McGuffie replaces Michael Donald.
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card.
Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Paul Cairney (Ayr United).
Foul by Tom Walsh (St. Mirren).
Michael Donald (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Stephen Mallan (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Tom Walsh replaces Calum Gallagher.
Substitution, St. Mirren. Lawrence Shankland replaces John Sutton. | Jack Baird scored a dramatic last-minute goal to preserve St Mirren's 100% record in this season's Betfred League Cup. | 36770773 | [
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Experts say the sinkhole opened up after heavy rain put pressure on the surface of the course.
Parts of the course are made over an old limestone mine and the hole opened up over a cave.
Unsurprisingly the area is now out of bounds until it can be repaired.
It's certainly one hole golfers shouldn't be able to miss! | A huge sinkhole has appeared on the 13th hole of a golf course in Texas, America. | 33240275 | [
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This huge housing project - now one of the most desirable addresses in Gaza - was built since 2012 with money from Qatar and named after the former ruler of the wealthy Gulf state.
So far, more than 2,000 Palestinians - mostly low-income families - have moved in.
The complex has a new school, shops, an impressive mosque and plenty of greenery. There is a constant whirr of construction noise as more buildings are erected.
But as the regional crisis over Qatar escalates, Palestinians here - as elsewhere in the impoverished territory - fear the loss of their major donor and ally.
"We're going to be the victims," says one resident, Baha Shalaby. "Everything's going to stop - the money, the support, the infrastructure, the building work."
In recent years, Qatar has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on new homes, a hospital and main roads in the Gaza Strip. It has pledged about $1bn (£780m) more.
It is not yet clear how its projects will be affected by the ongoing row with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab countries. They are trying to economically isolate Qatar, accusing it of fostering terrorism - a charge the emirate strongly denies.
However, the engineer in charge of fixing Gaza's main north-south road warns of the possible wider implications of any cuts.
"We have hundreds of workers, all supporting families," says Hanafi Sadallah.
"Levels of unemployment in Gaza are very high, so if the Qataris end our funding, they'll all just be left sitting at home."
Just over 40% of Gazans are out of work, according to Palestinian officials - one of the highest unemployment rates in the world.
One of Saudi Arabia's demands has been for Qatar to stop backing Hamas, which runs Gaza.
The Islamist group took over by force a decade ago - ousting Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces, a year after Hamas won legislative elections.
Hamas leaders insist that Qatari help to Gaza has been primarily charitable.
"The houses that were built are not for Hamas, the streets that were asphalted are not for Hamas," one senior figure, Mahmoud Zahar, tells the BBC.
"The humanitarian institutions - hospitals and schools, they're also for the Palestinian people. All attempts to hitch Hamas to Qatar are wrong and void."
Israel says Hamas has also used foreign funding to bolster its military infrastructure, which its blockade aims to keep from strengthening.
To try to prevent any such accusations against its projects, Doha set up its own coordination office in Gaza and deals directly with contractors or works with UN agencies.
Nevertheless, Qatar's initiatives have buoyed Hamas through difficult times - the tight border restrictions imposed by both Israel and Egypt, and three bloody conflicts with Israel.
There has also been political and diplomatic support from Doha.
The emir of Qatar is the only head of state to have visited the Palestinian territory since Hamas has been in charge.
Many leaders of the group - including its former head, Khaled Meshaal, have been living in luxurious exile in Doha.
Now as Hamas seeks to ease pressure on its patron, several have reportedly left at Qatar's request.
Last month, the group also announced a new policy document in Doha, which tempered its long-held position against accepting an interim Palestinian state, and made no mention of its parent organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood has been categorised as a terrorist group by Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The latest developments concerning Qatar come amid mounting political and economic strain on Hamas.
US President Donald Trump has said that, alongside the so-called Islamic State, al-Qaeda, and Hezbollah, Hamas is contributing to a regional "humanitarian and security disaster".
Last week, Israel agreed to a PA plan to cut power supplies to two million people in Gaza that will reduce their daily average of four hours of electricity by 45 minutes.
Hamas accuses its political rivals of plotting with the Trump administration and Israel to unseat it in Gaza.
Many of its members link local and wider regional developments.
"Qatar is being punished for speaking freely and supporting the Arab Spring," remarks Hamas parliamentarian, Yahya Musa, at a small rally in Sheikh Hamad City.
"It's being punished for supporting us and the resistance. We stand with our brothers to reject US plans against Qatar and the conspiracy against the resistance."
As he speaks, children wave Palestinian and Qatari flags, alongside signs reading "Solidarity with Qatar" and "We are all Qatar".
The Palestinians here are banking on a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Without one, they know they could end up paying the price. | In a playground in Sheikh Hamad City, children shriek with delight, while their parents chat in the cool shade of their peach-coloured flats. | 40325803 | [
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8 March 2016 Last updated at 17:25 GMT
Despite equal pay legislation being introduced in 1970 a gender pay gap still exists today. According to the Office of National Statistics, women are still paid 24.6% less than their male counterparts in skilled trades.
Video produced by BBC Rewind | Parity is this year's theme for International Women's Day so 46 years after the introduction of the Equal Pay Act, BBC Rewind looks back on the history of the gender pay gap. | 35755335 | [
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In articulating why the tournament needed a dramatic overhaul, Dodson spoke about "bleak prospects" and "perfect storms" if everything stayed the same. Browne went even further when pointing out a "potentially profound" risk to the professional game in Ireland if the Pro12 didn't get its act together.
It was all about money. The Pro12 brings in about £12m in television revenues - a relative spit in a bucket compared to the riches of the Premiership in England and the Top 14 in France.
The unions in Scotland, Ireland and Wales were all beside themselves with worry over the yawning financial disadvantage they were at compared to the English and the French as they attempted to keep hold of their marquee players.
In exploring the possibility of inviting two American franchises into the Pro12 in time for the 2018-19 season, Dodson spoke of the necessity to tap into new markets and find new money in order to fight off English and French clubs who may come looking for Scotland's finest. "To stay as we are is not an option," he said.
Things have changed. It's not the Americans who are in the frame now, it's the South Africans. And 2018-19 is not on the table anymore, it's 2017-18. It's the coming season, which begins in September.
On 7 July - this coming Friday - the South African Rugby Union will go through the Pro12's list of requirements for acceptance of two of their franchises - the Cheetahs from Bloemfontein and the Kings from Port Elizabeth - into the next Pro12 campaign.
They will have to make commitments on finance - each of the current 12 clubs from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales could be in line for an extra £500,000-£800,000 in revenues from the South African union and South African television - as well as commitments on squad enhancement. The last thing the Pro12 needs is two more also-rans.
The Cheetahs and the Kings are the poor relations of South African rugby. Of the six SARU franchises in Super Rugby, they are the weakest. They sit in their usual perch at the tail-end of the southern hemisphere club competition, a combined eight wins from 27 games this season and six wins from 30 games last season. Of the 27 players used by the Springboks in their 3-0 series win over the French this month, only two came from the Cheetahs and none at all from the Kings.
Super Rugby is a failing competition, the expansion to 18 teams - to include sides from Japan and Argentina in addition to those from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - has proved to be a calamity that now needs unravelling. The crowds are falling, the television audience is collapsing, there are too many teams in a bloated league format that is confusing and unloved.
Three teams will be culled at the end of the current season - the Cheetahs and the Kings are two of them. SARU could have killed off the pair of them or they could have rolled them into their four other franchises, but then the Pro12 option struck and now, according to sources close to the negotiations, this deal is 75% likely to happen in time for the coming season.
Already, behind the scenes, a provisional format for a new Pro14 is being put together. There are different scenarios but the most probable is that the 14 teams are split into two divisions of seven - two Irish, two Welsh, one Scottish, one Italian and one South African.
They'd play home and away - 12 games. All the regular local derbies would exist on top of that. Instead of two rounds of the 1872 Cup between Glasgow and Edinburgh there would be three. Play-offs would continue and fewer games would be played in international windows.
That's if SARU deliver the goods on Friday and everything goes smoothly thereafter. Don't discount a spanner in the works, but there is mounting confidence in this going through.
If it does, then the already rapid pace of change will go up another gear as the various unions attempt to sell this to their supporters, and their various commercial and logistical arms attempt to put plans in place. There's a fixture schedule to be organised, there are arrangements to be made over playing the South Africans in South Africa and having the South Africans playing in Europe.
The Pro12 already has too many uncompetitive teams and one of the pre-requisites of the deal would be that the decidedly underwhelming Cheetahs - who average just less than 8,000 fans per home game in a stadium that holds 48,000 - and the flops that are the Kings - who bring in just 7,000 per game in a ground that holds almost 49,000 - would be beefed-up by transplanted Springboks.
Quite how SARU are going to remove talents from the Stormers, the Bulls, the Sharks and the Lions without there being an uprising in Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and Johannesburg is anybody's guess. That's what they will need to sign up to, though. There's potentially a mountainous in-tray and precious little time to get through it. If Friday happens the way Pro12 officials think it may, they'd have eight weeks until the new league is supposed to start.
There is a surreal air to all of this. Supporters of the Pro12 clubs haven't really engaged with this story yet, partly, one suspects, because the British and Irish Lions are preoccupying their thoughts and, partly again, because they probably think this is just a flyer, a silly season story for the summer, a bottle of smoke.
It's hard to get your head around. The wrong kind of expansionism - plans are still afoot to bring in an American franchise next summer - has brought Super Rugby to a dark place. Why follow them?
How can you shoe-horn in, at eye-watering speed, two disparate South African franchises and expect to be taken seriously as a league? How can supporters buy into a competition that looks like a dog's dinner? The Pro12 knows that in terms of PR they have an Everest to climb. In their slippers. Going backwards. In a blindfold.
There's also the bottom line that Dodson and Browne and others have spoken about. As it is, the Pro12 is not doing it for them as a commercial entity. To sit on their hands and do nothing but moan about their lack of cash and their vulnerability to rich owners in England and France achieves nothing.
The Pro12 needs a radical shake-up, it's true. This would be radical, no doubt about it. A year ago, Dodson and Browne said they wouldn't be hanging about, that the time for action was now. Usually you take that stuff with a pinch of salt. For some, as they digest this, it'll be a shot of brandy that'll be required. | It was back in August last year that Mark Dodson, chief executive of Scottish Rugby, and Philip Browne, his counterpart in the Irish Rugby Football Union, truly raised the alarm about the Pro12. | 40464201 | [
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Ferries are stuck at Dover and part of the M20 has been closed as lorries wait to cross the Channel.
The action by MyFerryLink workers has also caused Eurostar services to be suspended for the day, after protesters got on to the tracks.
Migrant activity is reported to have increased, with people attempting to board Kent-bound lorries in France.
The Foreign Office has warned travellers to keep their car doors locked in slow moving traffic heading back to the UK.
A spokeswoman for the Prime Minister David Cameron said he was being "kept updated" on the situation.
P&O Ferries said the MyFerryLink workers feared for their jobs after their ships were sold by Eurotunnel to DFDS at short notice.
P&O Chief Executive Helen Deeble said the sale had taken place with neither party appearing to engage constructively with French staff.
She also said her company was bearing the brunt of the disruption.
DFDS said it had received confirmation on Monday that Eurotunnel had accepted its offer to buy two ferries.
Carsten Jensen, senior vice-president at DFDS Seaways, said: "I understand that this is a difficult time for MyFerryLink employees but this is not a good situation for anyone and we hope this action will end swiftly."
Eurotunnel has not yet responded to the criticism by P&O.
In Kent, cross-Channel freight traffic waiting to cross Dover has built up and Operation Stack has been brought in to close part of the M20 so lorries can queue on the motorway.
Despite the strike being due to end at 20:00 local time (19:00 BST), Operation Stack will continue throughout the night and into the morning.
Dover Harbour Board said the industrial action closed the Port of Calais in the early hours and all ferries to and from Dover were affected, apart from DFDS Seaways services to Dunkirk.
Kent Police has said extra Dunkirk crossings have been arranged.
Tensions over illegal migrants at Calais have been rising, with the deputy mayor of the town blaming the British government for the number of people trying to board lorries.
Philippe Mignonet told BBC Radio Kent: "We will block the port - as simple as that. We'll arrange to block the tunnel if nothing is done".
In response, a Home Office spokesman said: "Law and order in and around Calais is the responsibility of the French authorities, but the UK continues to work with its French counterparts to strengthen the security of the border to stop illegal immigrants entering the UK."
Lorry driver Chris Cary, from Rochester, said he tried to cross the Channel back to Kent early on Tuesday but then decided to attempt getting on a train instead.
But he said he found the road on fire as he approached the terminal with about 500-600 trucks waiting to cross.
"I didn't cancel my booking this morning for P&O, so I've literally just come back to the port and I'm now sitting back on the lane where I was at 03:10 this morning waiting for a boat," he said.
Freight Transport Association's (FTA) international manager, Donald Armour, said blockades had brought the main motorway near Calais to a halt.
He said the FTA was very worried about someone getting hurt with the worsening migrant situation there.
"There is a lot of fighting between the migrants who all want to be on the best part of the road to get on to the lorries," he said.
"We haven't had a fatality but it's not good. The situation is definitely worse than it has ever been."
Truckers have been being advised not to stop within about 60 miles (97km) of Calais, to stick with other drivers and keep padlocks on their vehicles.
Dover port has urged people travelling with DFDS Seaways, P&O and MyFerryLink to check with their operators before travelling.
MyFerryLink has said its operations will end after 2 July and all bookings after that date will be refunded. The ferry operator has not yet commented on Tuesday's strike action.
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Chelsea, the reigning Premier League champions, losing at home to Burnley (that's Burnley, the team that won once away in the whole of 2016-17) on the opening weekend of the Premier League season.
It is, of course, very early days. But should Antonio Conte be worried?
History suggests he should.
It's been eight years since a side staged a successful defence of the Premier League title, Manchester United under Sir Alex Ferguson in 2008-09.
And going back even further, since 2006-07 the Scot is one of only two managers - along with Manchester City's Manuel Pellegrini - to win the title and still be in his job come the end of the following May.
Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea, 2009-10), Roberto Mancini (Manchester City, 2011-12), Jose Mourinho (Chelsea, 2014-15) and Claudio Ranieri (Leicester, 2015-16) were all gone 12 months after winning English top flight's biggest prize.
That's four of the six title-winning managers before Conte.
There's also David Moyes, who took over a side just crowned champions under the retiring Ferguson but who failed to make it to the end of his first season in charge.
And if that's not enough to worry Chelsea's Italian manager, what about these stats?
Chelsea are only the second reigning Premier League champions to lose the opening game of the following campaign (after Leicester last season).
They are also the first title holders to concede three goals in the opening game of the next season, and the first side to pick up two red cards on day one.
Worrying times.
At least, not in August.
There's probably not a single person in your office who did not have Harry Kane in their Fantasy Football team, and why not? The Tottenham striker was the Premier League's top scorer last season with 29 goals.
However, there's a strange statistic about the deadly finisher - he has not scored a single goal in August in 11 Premier League appearances. Not one.
With six efforts against Newcastle, no-one had more shots on goal this weekend than Kane. The ball just would not go in the net.
Spend that Fantasy Football cash elsewhere...
Conte might have had a nightmare on Saturday but one manager certain to have slept soundly was David Wagner.
The Huddersfield boss led the Premier League new boys to a stunning 3-0 win at Crystal Palace, a result which meant the Terriers spent a night as the leaders of England's top flight for the first time since 18 August 1970.
Only a last-minute goal by Paul Pogba for Manchester United against the Hammers on Sunday denied the Terriers top spot heading into the second round of fixtures.
But we're sure Huddersfield fans will get over that disappointment when they read this statistic - of the 14 previous teams to win their Premier League opener following promotion, only four have gone on to be relegated.
If you watched Match of the Day on Saturday then you might have been scratching your head at the addition of a new statistic on the end-of-match stats - expected goals.
The metric is designed to assess every chance and determine how many goals a team should score in a game. Still confused? Head here to read more.
This weekend marked the first time "expected goals" had been rolled out for the Premier League, so what did it tell us?
What stands out from the table below is that Burnley and Huddersfield were clinical. Very clinical.
They both scored three goals in their respective games, despite their xG value being low. In fact, they are the only two teams to win their games despite having a lower xG value than their opponent.
What does that mean? Well, if your cup is half full it bodes well as they were clinical when they had half-chances.
But if you're of a slightly more pessimistic persuasion, it also suggests they conceded the kind of chances that, ordinarily, other teams will capitalise on.
It also shows that Southampton should have beaten Swansea comfortably but wasteful finishing let them down.
Speaking of taking your chances, Huddersfield's record signing - Steve Mounie - had a debut that will live long in his memory.
The Benin international, signed from Montpellier in the summer for a club-record £12m, scored two goals from his first two shots in English football. Talk about a way to make an impression.
There was also double delight for Romelu Lukaku on his Manchester United debut. The Belgium international made an instant impression at Old Trafford by getting two goals in Sunday's 4-0 win against West Ham. Lukaku now has 11 goals against the Hammers, more than against any other English side.
Is it rare to score more than one goal on your Premier League debut? Forty-three players have bagged a double in their first appearance but only one has managed a hat-trick - Fabrizio Ravanelli for Middlesbrough in 1996.
The first debutant to score this weekend was Alexandre Lacazette. Arsenal's record signing did so with his first shot, and his second touch, as a Premier League player; just one minute and 34 seconds into Friday's 4-3 win at Leicester.
Unfortunately for Frank de Boer, his Premier League debut was not one he'll want to remember for long.
The former Netherlands international was appointed Crystal Palace boss in the summer but the Eagles' surprise defeat by Huddersfield at Selhurst Park makes it one of the worst home debuts for a manager in Premier League history.
Alan Smith will have sympathy, although probably not much. His Palace home debut in August 1994 ended with a 6-1 loss to Liverpool.
Everton boss Ronald Koeman said Wayne Rooney was "still one of the best in his position" after he scored the only goal in his team's win over Stoke. Rooney himself said it was a "special moment" full of relief and emotion".
It also set a new Premier League record for the longest gap between goals for the same team.
His last league strike for the club he supported as a boy was in a 1-1 draw against Leeds on 13 April 2004. A few months later he was starring for England at Euro 2004 - before moving to Manchester United shortly before the transfer window closed.
His winner on Saturday came 4,869 days after his goal at Elland Road.
His header also means that he has now been involved in 300 Premier League goals - scoring 199 of them with a further 101 assists. Only Alan Shearer has been involved in more - with 324.
There was no Rooney at Old Trafford on Sunday, of course, but that did not affect Manchester United's incredible opening-day pedigree.
The Red Devils' 4-0 thumping of West Ham was their 17th round-one win in 26 Premier League seasons. Conversely, no top-flight team has lost more season openers than the Hammers (11).
The victory was also Jose Mourinho's biggest as Manchester United manager and his biggest home win in the Premier League since Chelsea beat Arsenal 6-0 in March 2014.
It's a bit of a familiar sight for Newcastle fans - seeing one of their players sent off.
Jonjo Shelvey's second-half dismissal against Tottenham was the fourth time a Magpies player has been sent off in their Premier League opener. Only Arsenal (six) and Charlton (five) have had more opening-day red cards.
In total there were three reds shown at the weekend, with the remaining two coming at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea's Gary Cahill and Cesc Fabregas were sent off.
That's quite a lot to kick the season off with, but not the most in Premier League history. The most red cards on an opening weekend is four, an unwanted record set in the 1994-95 and 2003-04 seasons.
Back when the Premier League was launched in 1992, Eric Cantona was the first, and only, French player involved.
Since then, 199 players have made the short trip across the Channel to play in English football's top flight, with Newcastle's Florian Lejeune becoming the latest on Sunday.
The defender was also the 27th Frenchman to play for the Magpies in the Premier League.
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The Joiners Arms, in Hackney Road, east London, shut in 2015.
Regal Homes, which wants to build nine flats on the site, incorporating a bar, has agreed to the planning condition, believed to be the first of its kind.
Tower Hamlets Council imposed the condition after the area lost 73% of its LGBT venues since 2006.
The Joiners Arms originally opened as an LGBT venue in 1997 and included fashion designer Alexander McQueen among its customers.
Regal Homes, which bought the site in 2014 - a year before the pub closed - has said it will give an LGBT operator first refusal on a 12-year lease for a new bar.
It added the redevelopment was expected to create 1,073 jobs.
The council has been working with Amy Lamé, the mayor of London's "Night Czar", on how to bring back a LGBT venue to Hackney Road.
In the application she says protecting LGBT venues is a "key part" of boosting London's "night-time economy".
"They contribute to London's economy, generate stronger and more resilient communities and are vital for many people's freedom of expression," she said.
"London has lost a quarter of its pubs and half of its nightclubs over the last 10 years."
She added a University College of London report showed the capital had lost 58% of its LGBT venues over the past decade, while Tower Hamlets had lost slightly more.
The czar said the report specifically cited the closure of The Joiner's Arms as one of several high-profile LGBT venues to shut in recent years.
The development is expected to be given the go ahead at a meeting of the council's planning committee on Wednesday.
John Biggs, mayor of Tower Hamlets, added: "Tower Hamlets Council is committed to celebrating our great diversity, which includes serving the needs of our LGBT+ community.
"I am delighted that as a council we are leading the way in using innovative ways to protect spaces such as the Joiners Arms site." | Council officials have insisted a redevelopment of a former gay pub in London still includes an LGBT venue for the plans to go ahead. | 40842727 | [
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He was also being assessed for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder caused by witnessing or being involved in a frightening or distressing event.
People naturally feel afraid when in danger, but the legacy of some traumatic events is a change in perception of fear.
They may feel stressed or frightened in day-to-day life.
Any traumatic event has the potential to lead to PTSD including:
People will be generally affected within one month of the event.
There is no blood test for PTSD, it instead relies on the judgement of a doctor speaking to their patient about their symptoms.
There must have been an initial traumatic event involving a close brush with death or serious violence.
There are then four criteria which must be present:
"This has to impair day-to-day function," said Neil Greenberg, a defence professor of mental health at the King's College London.
"With properly skilled doctors it can be very easy to diagnose, it could take a few hours," says Prof Greenberg.
But he says doctors must have a good suspicion of PTSD before starting to diagnose someone, as patients may not bring up their trauma history.
It can also be a challenge because some people deliberately "overinflate symptoms", sometimes for financial reasons, while others seek to avoid the stigma of a PTSD diagnosis.
For many people, the symptoms will go away within a month - but others will need psychotherapy or, if that fails, medication.
Cognitive behavioural therapy can help change the way people think about the traumatic event in order to control fear and anxiety.
This involves going through the event in detail with a therapist.
Antidepressants, such as paroxetine, are used if psychotherapy does not work.
Prof Greenberg, who also works with the UK Psychological Trauma Society, says treatment is still effective many years after the incident.
However, after such a long time the symptoms are very unlikely to clear up without treatment. | A soldier who killed three colleagues and injured 16 others in a shooting at US Army base was being treated for depression and anxiety. | 26867615 | [
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Glasgow-based Gregor Smith was taken up and down Scotland's west coast in a friend's boat to create paintings and etchings of Lismore and Mull.
He also made several long drives north to Caithness, Sutherland and Wester Ross for paintings of Achiltibuie and sea stacks at Duncansby Head.
The collection, Far Shore, is being exhibited at Glasgow's Compass Gallery.
Smith said: "There are advantages to working from a boat, as it opens up so many more vistas and viewpoints.
"You have to work quickly though."
He added: "I travelled with my sketchbook, chalks, pencils and other materials and captured as much as I could, but if you're accustomed to using your eyes, you'll see and record a lot of it in your mind." | A Scottish artist captured many of the landscapes for his latest collection of works from the sea. | 35976385 | [
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The bank said profits before tax not including those settlements dropped 10% to £1.43bn for the July-to-September period.
The result comes a day after the bank confirmed Jes Staley would be joining as its new chief executive.
Barclays said it had seen slow progress with its so-called non-core businesses, which it is selling.
Losses for the package of businesses, which includes some investment bank assets and parts of the European retail banking operation, more than doubled to £337m.
Barclays provided £270m to settle claims in the US over mortgage bonds and £290m to compensate clients over bad foreign exchange rates.
For the businesses the bank plans to keep, including its UK High Street bank and Barclaycard, profit rose 1% to £1.76bn.
Including the £560m hit, and other costs and gains the bank considers to be one-offs, third-quarter profit before tax fell to £861m from £1.22bn a year ago.
Revenues dipped to £6.1bn from £6.4bn for the June-to-September period.
On Wednesday, Barclays announced that Mr Staley will be joining the bank as its new chief in December.
Mr Staley currently works for US hedge fund Blue Mountain Capital Management, and previously has worked for JP Morgan.
Barclays' previous chief executive, Antony Jenkins, was fired in July after falling out with board members.
Mr Staley will be paid £1.2m in salary, £396,000 in pension contributions and as much as £5.5m a year in bonuses, which will mostly be paid in shares. He will also receive £1.15m in shares per year that he will have to keep for five years before cashing in. That is a total of £8.2m for the year, if he is awarded the maximum bonus.
He will also receive shares in Barclays worth about £1.93m to replace shares in JPMorgan he will lose for leaving his former employer.
In a letter to staff on Wednesday, Mr Staley indicated he would focus on areas of investment banking that did not require as much capital - the buffer of reserves it keeps to protect it from unexpected losses. Analysts said this could include such areas as merger advice and trading in stocks. | Barclays has reported a fall in third-quarter profits and set aside £560m for more customer refunds and litigation. | 34660518 | [
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The incident involving a black Ford Ka happened on St Fillans Road at about 21:00 on Saturday.
The girl is being treated at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.
Police have asked for anyone who may have witnessed the collision, or who saw a black Ford Ka in the area at the time, to come forward. | An eight-year-old girl is in a critical condition after being hit by a car in Dundee. | 36879100 | [
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Staff at Breckland Council will not be paid in future for the time they take to have a cigarette after the proposals were given the go-ahead.
Simon Clark, from Smokers' lobby group Forest, said earlier that everyone was entitled to a break during work.
The council said the move was aimed at making the issue of smoke breaks fairer for individuals who did not smoke.
William Nunn, leader of the Conservative-run council, said: "We are not trying to stop smoking... what we are saying is when people go for a cigarette they should do it in their own time."
Mr Clark said: "Are they going to introduce clocking in and off for people who go on the internet, on Facebook, or people who want to have a cup of coffee?
"I am sure there are some smokers who abuse the situation and go out too often but if that is happening that is a failure of management."
A meeting of the full council voted to approve the measure on Wednesday. | Proposals to make workers clock off when they go for a cigarette break have been backed by a Norfolk council. | 11434494 | [
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Thailand's Aphibarnrat, twice a winner this year, moved a shot ahead after a 40-foot breaking birdie putt at 14.
But Fitzpatrick, 21, who has led since day one as he seeks a first European title, picked up his fourth birdie at 15 to join the Thai at 12 under.
England's Luke Donald, now 66th in the world rankings, carded six birdies in nine holes in a 65 and is four adrift.
Another former world number one, Lee Westwood, is two shots further back after a 67, with 16 players within five strokes of the lead.
Donald, 37, who has not won since November 2013, said: "I've put myself in a good position. I'd love to shoot another round like this and if I did I think that might be good enough."
Welshman Bradley Dredge, seeking his first European Tour title since 2006, withdrew shortly before the start of the round because of a viral infection.
The 42-year-old, who lost his tour card in 2012 but regained it after finishing 81st on the Race to Dubai last year, had been only two shots off the lead. | Englishman Matthew Fitzpatrick shot a 68 to share the British Masters lead with Kiradech Aphibarnrat at Woburn. | 34496845 | [
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My confusion stems from the proposals for tax, benefit and economic reform submitted by the Greek government to secure, at the very last minute of the last hour, a deal from their creditors to avoid tumbling out of the euro.
Having obtained a copy of this paper, headed "Greece: Prior Actions - Policy Commitments and Actions to be taken in consultation with the EC/ECB/IMF staff", it feels very familiar.
That familiarity stems from its great similarity to the bailout proposals put to Greece by the creditors - the eurozone governments, the European Central Bank and the IMF - last month.
Pretty much everything wanted by the creditors is there - with the odd tweak or softening, but nothing which looks as though it ought to be noxious to them.
So there is a pledge for budget surpluses rising in steps to 3.5% of GDP or national income by 2018; VAT would be raised to three rates of 23% (the standard rate), 13% (for food, energy, hotels and water) and 6% (for medicine and books) - increases that would raise revenue equivalent to 1% of GDP; and Athens is eating the dust of comprehensive reforms of pensions to make them more affordable; and so on.
So here's why I am a bit baffled.
Only a few days ago the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras won an overwhelming mandate from the Greek people, in a referendum, to reject more-or-less these bailout terms.
And today, on the back of that popular vote, he is signing up to the supposedly hated bailout.
This is big politics that would make Lewis Carroll proud.
Does that mean the eurozone can go back to life as normal, of inadequate economic performance but Greek Armageddon deferred (again)? Is a rescue done and dusted?
Not yet.
Tsipras has to get these proposals through the Greek parliament today - though his pax of earlier this week with the main opposition parties will surely deliver that (at the price of the splintering away of some of his own supporters).
Then there is the small question of whether eurozone ministers will stump up the 35bn euros requested by Greece from the European Stability Mechanism to meet debt repayments through to June 30 2018.
And Athens wants a nod that there'll be proper negotiations on reducing its completely unaffordable debt burden by around 30%, as per the IMF's recent sustainability analysis (which would be achieved through the backdoor route of rescheduling repayments closer to the end of time, rather than through the direct write-offs that so offend Germans and east Europeans).
Finally, and most problematically, something has to be done to take the banks out of intensive care. Given the recent melting down of the Greek economy, my sources tell me there is now a solvency problem for Greek banks, to add to the awkwardness for them that they are almost out of cash.
Here is the point. If a way isn't found to allow the banks to re-open within days - and the ECB simply maintaining Emergency Liquidity Assistance won't come anywhere near to achieving that, but the ECB has lost all appetite for throwing more good money after bad - the Greek economy will implode so that any bailout deal agreed this weekend will become irrelevant in weeks.
Because the Greek economy would be so melting down that tax revenues would collapse and Athens would need yet more eurozone handouts. Greece and the eurozone isn't yet fixed, not even close. | Not for the first time over the five years of Greece's euro crisis - or the eurozone's Greece crisis - I am confused. | 33475455 | [
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The London borough is the UK local authority with the highest rate of HIV.
Local councils and charities warn HIV test guidelines may not be implemented in England because of a lack of funds.
New guidance from the National Institute for Heath and Care Excellence aims to increase testing in people with undiagnosed HIV in England.
The guidance is published to coincide with World Aids Day.
It is estimated that 103,700 people are living with HIV in the UK and 17% of people with the virus are unaware of their infection, so risk unintentionally passing it on to their sexual partners.
Part of the new NICE guidance focuses on testing for HIV, which is the responsibility of local authorities, where there are high or extremely high rates of HIV. Two-thirds of late HIV diagnoses occur in these areas.
Over one-third of the 152 council areas have high rates.
The updated guidance recommends all patients in areas with high and extremely high rates of HIV be offered a test on admission to hospital, if they have not previously been diagnosed with HIV and are undergoing a blood test for another reason.
In extremely high rate areas, hospitals should offer the tests even if they are not having blood tests as part of their care.
GP surgeries in high and extremely high-rate areas should also offer patients an HIV test on registration.
NICE also recommends testing community settings in these high rates areas, such as pharmacies, the voluntary sector and venues where there may be high-risk sexual behaviour.
HIV experts have strongly welcomed the new guidance but told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme they are concerned the NICE guidance may not be implemented because of a lack of funds.
Dr Chloe Orkin, from the British HIV Association, said prevention was simply not "high" enough on the government's agenda given pubic health budgets are being cut by nearly 4% a year.
Councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, said achieving what NICE was asking was going to be difficult. "The strain placed on councils by the cuts by central government to public health budgets would make commissioning HIV testing in all surgeries and hospitals in high and extremely high-risk areas an unaffordable burden.
"Despite these limited resources, testing those in high-risk areas must always be a priority. Councils are commissioning HIV testing in a variety of settings."
But the Department of Health maintained councils had been provided with sufficient funding.
Nonetheless, the Elton John Aids Foundation feels councils need help and has offered to fund HIV testing in Lambeth for two years.
David Furnish, chairman of the Elton John Aids Foundation, said: "I believe everyone should have an HIV test. We know we can make a difference in Lambeth, but there is no reason why we can't do this in future in other high-rate areas."
Jennifer Reiter, of Lambeth Council, added: "We value Elton John Aids Foundation's support and are exploring ways with them to increase access to HIV testing."
The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays from 09:00 GMT on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. | The Elton John Aids Foundation has offered to finance HIV testing in Lambeth, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. | 38164600 | [
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The official violated the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) ban on political gestures.
Belarus' neighbours Russia are banned from the Games following state-sponsored doping.
"A hero has appeared amongst us," said Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry.
"This is the person who showed solidarity with people who were disgracefully treated in an inhumane way in not being allowed to compete at the Paralympics," Zakharova told Interfax news agency.
The official, identified by Russian media as Andrei Fomochkin, has had his accreditation for Rio cancelled by the IPC.
IPC head of media Craig Spence said: "I'd like to thank the media for ensuring there was a picture of the individual on Twitter pretty quickly. We managed to locate that individual and confiscate the flag pretty much within 20 minutes of the flag being displayed.
"It's seen as a political protest because he carried a Russian flag when he's in the Belarus delegation, and when you've got the president of the Belarus National Paralympic Committee being so vocal in the media before these Games saying he disagreed with our decision, then it's a pretty easy conclusion that it was a political protest.
"We check all teams before they go out into the stadium at every single Games, so that flag was pretty well hidden on that person because all of the Belarus team was searched before they went out and the flag was somewhere on the person that we didn't notice."
Fomochkin has received support from Belarus for his gesture.
"This was the right thing," Dmitri Mironchik, press secretary for Belarus's Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti. "If we need to answer for these gestures, then we will answer." | A Belarus official who carried a Russian flag into the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games has been banned from the competition. | 37310337 | [
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He vowed to recover billions of dollars "stolen" under previous administrations.
Mr Buhari held talks with state governors over the lack of money to pay government workers their salaries.
He and his All Progressives Congress won elections in March, ending some 16 years of rule by the Peoples Democratic Party.
He was sworn in less than four weeks ago, taking over from Goodluck Jonathan, who had been in office since 2010.
"The days of impunity and lack of accountability are over," he told state governors.
"The next three months may be hard, but billions of dollars can be recovered, and we will do our best," he added.
In an earlier briefing with journalists, he said it was a "disgrace" that government workers had not been paid for months.
African news updates
"This bad management we find ourselves in - we really need your help to protect us from people before they march on us," he said.
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo estimates that Nigeria's debts stand at about $60bn (£38bn).
However, former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has rejected the claim, saying the debt was much lower and most of it was incurred by states, rather than the federal government, AFP news agency reports.
The president won the elections on a promise to tackle corruption, and to lead Nigeria to greater prosperity.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer, but most of its citizens are poor. | Nigeria's treasury is "virtually empty", President Muhammadu Buhari has said. | 33239258 | [
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The Ibrox club had two bids rejected by the Canaries for the 30-year-old Scot, who becomes Pedro Caixinha's ninth summer signing.
Dorrans told Rangers TV: "It feels incredible. It has been a long couple of weeks, but to finally get it over the line is an incredible feeling.
"I just can't wait to get the boots on and get started."
Bruno Alves, Daniel Candeias, Carlos Pena, Eduardo Herrera, Dalcio, Ryan Jack, Alfredo Morelos and Fabio Cardoso have all made the move to Ibrox.
Dorrans made his senior debut for Livingston in a Scottish Premier League game against Kilmarnock in May 2005 and went on to make 91 appearances for the West Lothian club before joining West Bromwich Albion in July 2008.
He had seven seasons at the Hawthorns, spending his last four months on loan at Norwich, who he signed for in the summer of 2015.
He made 25 appearances in his first season and a further 24 last term.
After signing a three-year deal with the Ibrox club, Dorrans added: "I don't think there is ever a wrong time to come to a football club like this.
"The size of this football club is incredible - I've obviously had great times down in England, especially at West Brom, but growing up, I knew I always wanted to come to this football club and when the chance came around I jumped at it."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Rangers have signed Scotland midfielder Graham Dorrans from Norwich City for an undisclosed fee. | 40517207 | [
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Somebody had placed a garland of fresh flowers on the rusting wreckage of a tank. Men died here and were remembered. Although the fields were empty it was possible to imagine them filled with workers harvesting the sunflower crop.
This was the lull, the space between bombardments when the land reminded us of its true purpose: not a battlefield but a place of abundance.
I remarked to a colleague that the calm was our greatest enemy here. It lulled us into a false sense of ease.
And then it started. I heard shouts of "Go, go, go" in English and Ukrainian.
There were loud cracks and flashes in the fields nearby, then the surge of adrenalin; the fear - impossible to convey - of being caught in the open by artillery.
Another small moment in the life of a war we have reported on for the past year.
Much of that time has been spent in the villages around Donetsk airport, like Pisky.
Of a pre-war population of 3,000, there are now only around 40 people left.
We had come back to Pisky to spend a night in the company of a couple who refused to leave one of the most embattled places on the Ukrainian front.
Anatoliy and Svetlana Kosse, both aged 68, were among the few residents still here.
All around them were the ruins of houses struck by shellfire.
Their days and nights are punctuated by the noise of artillery, rockets, mortars and gunfire. But alongside this murderous back and forth there was a more hopeful soundtrack.
We heard it in the garden where Anatoliy tends his bees, in the kitchen where Svetlana cooked us dinner from the vegetables she grew and the eggs from her henhouse. It was the unrehearsed but determined music of life that refused to be yield in the face of war.
The village sat close to Donetsk airport and on the frontline between the Government and rebel armies.
There was no electricity or water. Food supplies were meagre: the couple survived on what they produced and on occasional aid deliveries.
"It is terrifying," said Svetlana. "Before I only had a few grey hairs here. And now you can see. When I look at myself with my glasses on, it is terrifying."
So why did they stay? Why did they not leave for the city? I asked these questions of Anatoliy as he tended the beehives.
"I am taking care of them, they are here, how can I just leave them?" he replied.
This was home. To leave would be to abandon all they had worked for.
In fact Svetlana did move to the city for several months. Anatoliy stayed behind to take care of the home they had created together with its crop-filled garden, beehives and neat rows of flowers.
We were sitting over dinner when Svetlana described what happened after she left.
"When he was alone here, every morning and evening we called each other. I had a strong pain in my soul and so did he. He was a lonely man here because all the neighbours moved away."
So she returned. They decided to endure the danger and the stress.
I asked Anatoliy what his wife meant to him. "How can I explain what she means to me?" he said. Then he smiled and leaned across and placed his head on her shoulder.
They both laughed.
The shelling and shooting went on. It was a perfectly clear, starlit sky. And below the stars, shining brightly, we could see the unmanned aerial drones searching for targets on the ground.
When we left the following morning I told Anatoliy and Svetlana that in war I had met all kinds of people but they were among the nicest and bravest I'd ever come across.
"You make too much of us," Anatoliy replied.
They laughed again.
I was struck by how much laughter there was in this home. Every day now I read of fighting in Pisky; I think of the beekeeper and his wife and I curse the war that threatens such decent people. | It was a perfect afternoon in early summer. | 32882502 | [
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The scores were level at the break with Theo Fages and Matty Smith crossing for the visitors and Alex Mellor and Patrick Ah Van going over for Widnes.
Saints took the lead when Mark Percival kicked a penalty, after the Vikings had been penalised for offside.
That looked to be the winning score, but the hosts eventually made their pressure tell when Ah Van crashed over.
The New Zealander's second try of the night gave the hosts a first home win of the season, and they are now just one point off 11th-placed Huddersfield.
Victory will ease some of the pressure on coach Denis Betts, but his team did it the hard way.
They were much the better team in the first half but went in level at the break after individual errors contributed to them failing to add to their 12 points.
Saints had a Luke Thompson try ruled out by the video ref at 14-12 up, before Ah Van's decisive score gave Widnes a vital two points.
Widnes: Hanbury, Thompson, Bridge, Runciman, Ah Van, Mellor, Gilmore, Dudson, Johnstone, Buchanan, Houston, Dean, Gerrard.
Replacements: Whitley, Burke, J. Chapelhow, D. Walker.
St Helens: Bailey, Swift, Fleming, Percival, Grace, Fages, Smith, Richards, Lee, Amor, Taia, Wilkin, Thompson.
Replacements: McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Walmsley, Peyroux, Knowles.
Whitehaven v Halifax in the Challenge Cup fifth round is live on on Sunday, 23 April on Connected TV and online from 14:55 BST, along with live text commentary online. | Widnes Vikings claimed just their second Super League win of the season with a narrow victory over St Helens. | 39634372 | [
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Haroon Syed, of west London, admitted preparing acts of terrorism after trying to source weapons including a suicide bomb and machine gun.
He was caught after approaching MI5 officers, who were posing as a fellow extremist, via social media.
Syed was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years and six months.
Last year, his brother was jailed for life for plotting to behead someone on Remembrance Sunday.
Judge Michael Topolski QC said Syed wanted to carry out "an act of mass murder" and therefore a discretionary life sentence was warranted.
Prosecutors say Syed's plans ranged from becoming a suicide bomber to staging a gun attack, and while he initially boasted of working with others, those people did not materialise.
Instead, over the summer of last year, he made increasingly urgent efforts to secure weaponry.
After he went online looking for help, a purported jihadist fighting overseas, known only as Abu Isa, introduced him to another extremist going by the name Abu Yusuf.
This second man was, in fact, a group of MI5 officers who were playing the role of a jihadist in what became weeks of social media chat with Syed.
Teen admits planning 'London bomb attack'
Duncan Penny QC, prosecuting, told the Old Bailey there was initially some "suspicion on both sides" before Abu Yusuf concluded that Syed was a "committed brother" he could deal with.
Syed then began talking about his aspirations and gave his contact a shopping list, saying he wanted "do martyrdom" after first causing "damage" with a machine gun.
"Can you get the gear?" asked Syed. "You will be involved right?
"Two things. Number one, machine gun and we need someone who can make a vest you know the dugma [button] one. So after some damage with machine gun then do itishadi [martyrdom] ... that's what I'm planning to do."
The undercover officer told Syed guns were expensive - but he might be able to get someone to build a bomb. Syed floated the idea of going to fight overseas with his new-found friend - but revealed his passport had been cancelled by the authorities.
He tried and failed twice to get fraudulent loans of thousands of pounds to cover the cost of firearms - and eventually agreed to meet his contact in a coffee shop in Slough, Berkshire, to finalise an alternative plan.
Over two meetings, he talked about his aspirations and then handed over £150, asking for a bomb packed with nails. The conversation was secretly recorded.
"I was thinking of Oxford Street," he told his contact. "If you put those things inside called nails, do you know what that is, nails? Those sharp things - lots of them inside.
"Good man, can't wait akhi [brother]. If I go to prison, I go to prison. If I die, I die, you understand? I have got to get to Jannah [heaven]."
The undercover officer later told Syed a "bomb-making brother" would have the device ready within days - and the suspect went online to narrow his list of targets.
His web searches included "packed places in London" and "Elton John, Hyde Park, 11 September" - a major concert hosted by BBC Radio 2 which also featured Status Quo and Madness.
Prosecutors say Syed's character had begun to change outwardly in late 2014, coinciding with the growing support among British extremists for the self-styled Islamic State group.
During the course of the investigation, detectives found his web searches jumped about as he tried to satisfy himself that an attack on civilians was theologically justifiable.
One of his last searches, a week before his arrest, was: "How can I stop being upset about the UK killing innocent Syrians and get on with my day?"
When counter-terrorist detectives arrested him in September and asked him for the password for his phone, he replied: "ISIS - you like that?"
Syed's was one of 18 terror plots to have been foiled since 2013.
Mitigating, Mark Summers QC said it was a "crude, ill-thought-out" plan made at the behest of others.
The court heard Syed had fallen under the influence of members of banned extremist group Al-Muhajiroun, and that he now publicly rejected his past beliefs and condemned the recent bomb attack in Manchester.
But Judge Topolski told Syed: "You were not lured, you were not enticed, you were not entrapped.
"You became, and in my judgement as shown by your online activities away from your contact with Abu Yusuf, deeply committed to the ideology of a brutal and barbaric organisation that sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion for its own purposes and you wanted to be part of it."
Deb Walsh, deputy head of the counter-terrorism division of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: "Haroon Syed is clearly a danger to the public who was prepared to carry out indiscriminate attacks against innocent people.
"The compelling evidence presented by the CPS left him with no choice but to plead guilty." | A 19-year-old man has been jailed for life for planning a bomb attack that may have targeted an Elton John concert or Oxford Street in central London. | 40481325 | [
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Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, sent the image to friends and a co-accused branding the officer "kaffir" - non-believer - London's Woolwich Crown Court was told.
Prosecutors say Mr Hamayoon, Yousaf Syed, 20, and Nadir Syed, 22, plotted an attack using a Rambo-style knife.
The cousins deny all charges.
The image, allegedly taken on 19 September 2014, shows the back of the officer and was apparently taken by someone in a car.
Mr Hamayoon wrote: "Look at this kaffir. Hounslow parking lot."
Nadir Syed wrote back: "How can you pray in such a place?"
Mr Hamayoon replied: "You're right I'm walking out. This kaffir cop yeh. Looking inside every car who's in there. I gave him a dirty look."
Mr Syed replied: "He's looking for u mate. Mi5 sent him to keep eye on y."
The messages were exchanged on encrypted messaging service Telegram.
Prosecutor Max Hill QC told the court: "You'll see on Mr Hamayoon's mobile phone two photos taken that show a police officer or PCSO walking away from the car and around a car park.
"The photos are taken from the driver's seat of the car. Those images are created on the telephone. It's quite clear what Mr Hamayoon was writing messages about."
Two days later, IS militants issued a "fatwa" calling on followers to attack Westerners. It implored them to: "Rig the roads with explosives for them. Attack their bases. Raid their homes. Cut off their heads."
Prosecutors claim the trio plotted to carry out a terror attack in the UK.
Mr Hamayoon and Nadir Syed, from Hounslow, west London and Yousaf Syed, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, filmed themselves stamping on a Remembrance Day poppy and were obsessed with the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, it is claimed.
The trial continues. | A supporter of so-called Islamic State photographed a police officer in a mosque car park before plotting to carry out a knife attack around Remembrance Sunday 2014, a court heard. | 34530591 | [
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The Night Tube will provide services on several lines from September.
Aslef said it had been told that unless drivers agreed to rosters they would automatically be imposed and no pay offer would be made this year.
The union said LU had "closed down" negotiations, however LU said these claims were "completely untrue".
The new rosters would include covering all-night services on Friday and Saturday nights when they begin.
Finn Brennan, Aslef's district organiser, said: "London Underground has closed down the negotiations.
"Our members are entitled to a family life and to some sort of work/life balance.
"We aren't opposed to all-night services but we want them introduced in a fair and sensible way which rewards staff for their hard work."
About 80% of all London Underground drivers are members of Aslef.
Mr Brennan said drivers would have to work an unlimited number of weekend and night shifts for no extra pay.
The Night Tube services will initially run on the Piccadilly, Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines.
They will be extended to the Metropolitan, Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines by 2021, the London Overground in 2017 and the Docklands Light Railway by 2021.
The plans are part of a six-point long term economic plan that Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson said would add £6.4bn to the London economy by 2030 and create 500,000 new jobs.
Labour's London Assembly transport spokeswoman Val Shawcross said the Night Tube would be a great thing for London but "it's important it's done properly".
She said: "That means recognising the impact it will have on staff who will make the night Tube possible and listening to their concerns.
"Instead, last year the mayor announced a start date for the night Tube without any proper consultation with the staff and unions."
Nick Brown, chief operating officer for LU, said: "To suggest that we've closed down negotiations is completely untrue and it is extremely disappointing the co-ordinated response by the unions has been to announce their intention to ballot members.
"Talks have not broken down and we are committed to reaching an agreement that rewards our hard-working staff that is affordable, sustainable and fair." | Tube drivers on the London Underground (LU) are to be balloted for strikes in a row over pay for new all-night services, the Aslef union has said. | 32833436 | [
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The 24-year-old World Cup defender has spent the last three years with Ironi Ashdod in Israel's Premier League.
"I am happy because I have made a big step in my career by joining Hearts," Oshaniwa told BBC Sport.
"Starting from Nigeria and playing in Israel to land here in Scotland is a big progress for my career."
Oshaniwa, who has 17 caps, played in all of the Super Eagles' matches at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
But he only made 13 appearances last season as Ashdod suffered relegation from Israel's top flight.
"I thank God for the opportunity," said Oshaniwa of his move to Edinburgh. "I also thank Hearts too for the confidence and determination to bring me here.
"My immediate focus is to give my best and hopefully achieve many success stories with the club."
Oshaniwa only joined his new team-mates in training for the first time on Saturday morning and Hearts are still awaiting international clearance.
So it is too soon for the left-back to feature as Robbie Neilson's side kick-off their top-flight season against St Johnstone at Tynecastle on Sunday.
The head coach was delighted that the player who began his career with Kwara United before moves to fellow Nigerian clubs Lobi Stars and Sharks had finally arrived in Scotland.
Hearts, who were promoted after winning the Scottish Championship title, have already started their season with a 4-2 victory over Arbroath in the first round of the Scottish League Cup on Thursday.
"It's been a long process to get him here in Edinburgh, but he's here now and he's desperate to get started," added Neilson.
"He's a top-quality player and he'll bring a lot of qualities to our squad. We're all very happy with this move." | Nigeria left-back Juwon Oshaniwa has signed for Hearts on a three-year contract saying he is advancing his career by moving to Scottish football. | 33746444 | [
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Smoke bombs were let off and bricks thrown as police turned out in force to oversee hundreds of far-right demonstrators marching through town.
They clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators, leaving five people with minor injuries.
Kent Police said it seized more than 20 weapons including a knuckle duster.
Police said their operation ended at 17:00 GMT after they had arrested individuals for possession of offensive weapons, breaching the peace and public order offences.
Banners and placards carried by the right-wing marchers included those from the North West National Front, neo-Nazi organisation Combat 18 and the Scottish Defence League.
Counter-demonstrators included members of Kent Anti-Racism Network, anti-fascist group Antifa and people with Socialist Worker placards. They were addressed by Diane Abbott, shadow secretary of state for international development.
Earlier, six people were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder at a service station on the M20 which was closed after several coaches believed to be on the way to the demonstrations were damaged.
Police said officers were called to a disturbance at Maidstone services at junction eight at 10:51 GMT. Two coaches had swastikas daubed on them in blood following a clash between two rival groups.
A coach which left the scene was stopped at junction 11 services at Westenhanger.
During the day police took away weapons including a knife, pieces of wood, glass, hammers and bricks.
A police spokesman said he could not comment on the motives of those involved, or what groups they may or may not have been a part of.
Police warned on Friday the demonstrations were expected to attract large numbers of protesters, with businesses and residents told to expect disruption. | Three people were arrested amid violent scenes as groups demonstrating against immigration clashed with anti-racism protesters in Dover. | 35450115 | [
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The Public Accounts Committee says there has been a "systemic failing" in support to young people leaving foster care or children's homes.
Its chair Meg Hillier MP says young adults are "let down by the system that's supposed to support them".
The government says it is committed to improving the lives of care leavers.
The committee found outcomes for the 10,000 young people aged 16 or over who leave care each year are "poor and worsening".
Its report says the quality and cost of support to care leavers "varies unacceptably" between local authorities.
Ofsted has rated two-thirds of council care leaver services inadequate or requiring improvement, say the MPs.
"The scale of variability in the quality and cost of support, and a lack of understanding of what causes this, show that this is a systemic issue, rather than a problem in just a few local authorities," says the report.
Young people must leave local authority care by their 18th birthday "whereas 50% of all 22-year-olds still live at home" it notes.
These children have often had difficult lives with 62% in care because of abuse or neglect, it adds.
"Those leaving care may struggle to cope with the transition to adulthood and may experience social exclusion, unemployment, health problems, or end up in custody."
Some 41% of 19-year-old care leavers were not in education, employment or training in 2014 compared with 15% of the age group as a whole, says the report.
It welcomes government initiatives to improve the lives of care leavers and acknowledges more good practice is emerging but says there is more still to do.
"It's time the government reviewed its care leavers' strategy to make sure these young people get the full support they need," said Ms Hillier.
The Department for Education should take formal responsibility for improving the system, the MPs urge.
In particular they believe the DfE should improve care leavers' access to apprenticeships and training, suitable accommodation and better advice.
Town Hall bosses said 40% cuts to their budgets meant providing care leavers with adequate support was "becoming an increasing challenge" which councils could not handle alone.
"We urgently need to see the whole system properly funded and joined up to ensure children and young people receive the support they need, when they need it," said Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People's Board.
The Department for Education said its reforms would help care leavers make a successful transition to adulthood.
These include giving every care leaver a personal adviser and allowing young people to continue to live with their foster families after 18, though councils complain funding for the latter is "significantly underestimated".
A DfE spokesman said the government was also funding apprenticeship programmes for care leavers and encouraging Ofsted to focus more on care leaver support.
"But we want to go further, which is why we've committed to update the cross-government Care Leavers Strategy to improve support for these young people," said the spokesman. | Too many of the most vulnerable young people in England are "cut adrift when they need help the most", says the head of a powerful committee of MPs. | 34667481 | [
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The stark prediction is included in a briefing document prepared by the university and obtained by the BBC.
The document also warns of the impact of a "harder" border on staff working at the university's Londonderry campus.
"Should border checkpoints be re-established, this would have an adverse impact on staff mobility," it said.
Two-thirds of UU's staff from the Republic of Ireland work at the Magee campus in Derry.
"There is also some concern that the vote to leave the EU could result in prospective EU students withdrawing their applications," the document continued.
UU had 1,332 EU students in 2015/16 - including 1,206 from the Republic of Ireland - who paid a total of £3.3m in tuition fees.
UU are calling for the government to provide reassurances about the immigration status of EU students and clarification on their tuition fees and access to student loans.
EU students currently pay £3,925 per annum in tuition fees - the same as Northern Irish students.
EU nationals studying now will continue to receive current loans and grants until they finish their course.
However, the document said: "We are currently awaiting confirmation on ongoing arrangements for EU students in Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU."
It also estimated that UU's future share of EU research funding would be worth 17m euros every year.
For instance, the university has received almost 10m euros since 2014 from Horizon 2020, an EU research fund.
The document said that further funding of 10.5m euros for 2016/17 from that programme is currently in negotiation.
Horizon 2020 is worth 80bn euros and awards funding for research and innovation.
It is open to UK institutions while the country remains a member of the EU.
The document called for clarification "as to whether UK universities can participate in EU research collaboration and funding programmes after the UK formally leaves the European Union".
"In a context where we planned to double our external EU research grant income this is of grave concern to the university", it said.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond previously said EU-funded projects signed before the Autumn Statement later this year would be guaranteed by the Treasury after the UK leaves the EU.
However, the UU document warned: "There is already substantial anecdotal evidence that UK institutions (including Ulster University) are being asked to leave consortia applying for EU funding." | Ulster University risks losing some 20m euros (£17.5m) in European Union funding and tuition fees as a result of the Brexit vote, warns a report. | 37545720 | [
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The picture above would certainly make you think so.
Unfortunately, the reality is quite different: what looks like snow is actually harmful snow-white froth that floats up from the city's largest lake and spills over into neighbouring areas.
Over the years, the 9,000-acre Bellandur lake in India's technology capital has been polluted by chemicals and sewage.
IT professional Debasish Ghosh has been taking pictures of the lake of "harmful snowy froth" for months now. Here is a selection of his pictures. | Is it snowing in India's tropical southern city of Bangalore? | 34376988 | [
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Alice Gibson-Watt, 34, died in 2012 from a brain injury caused by a cardiac arrest, an inquest jury concluded.
A week earlier, she was restrained by police and ambulance staff in a case of post-partum psychosis, a month after giving birth to her first child.
The coroner ruled the use of restraint was not a factor in the death.
Her widower, Anthony Gibson-Watt, thanked the coroner for investigating the circumstances leading to the death of his wife.
"It will never bring Alice back, but it has given us a better understanding of how she came to die and in time may help us to move forward," he said.
The inquest heard that she was admitted to A&E at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital following the psychotic episode and then taken to the Lakeside Mental Health Unit in West Middlesex Hospital.
At around 03:00 GMT on 16 November Mrs Gibson-Watt, a jewellery specialist for Sotheby's, had a cardiac arrest.
A nurse checked and found no pulse, the inquest heard.
Her heart was recorded as restarted at 03:48, after emergency paramedics had used a defibrillator.
She was moved to a life support machine at King's College Hospital in London, but died on 20 November after a brain scan pronounced her "life extinct".
Doctors giving evidence at the inquest said that if there had been a proper response to the cardiac arrest, the brain injury that ultimately caused her death could have been avoided.
Mr Gibson-Watt had called 999 after his wife started screaming, wailing and crawling around on all fours on 13 November.
He told the inquest at West London Coroner's Court that she was suffering delusions that their daughter had died.
He also told the court that he and Alice met when she was 18 and he was 21. They had married nine years later.
"Our romance was long and wonderful," he said afterwards. "We were a lucky couple: best friends, soul mates with entwined interests."
He added that one day he will tell his four-year-old daughter about her wonderful mother.
"Alice insisted on a drug-free birth to give her daughter the very best start possible. She was enthralled by motherhood," he said.
Postpartum psychosis is a serious mental illness that affects around one in 1,000 women after they have a baby.
The main symptoms are hallucinations - hearing and seeing things that aren't there - and delusions - thoughts that are not likely to be true.
Experiencing psychosis tends to happen within the first two weeks after giving birth, but it can develop later too.
It can severely alter someone's thinking, emotions and behaviour.
Experts don't know why it occurs in some women, but fluctuations in hormones and changing sleep patterns are thought to play a role.
Women are more likely to develop the illness if another member of their family has had it too. | Neglect and gross failure by hospital staff to quickly attempt resuscitation contributed to the death of an Antiques Roadshow expert, an inquest has ruled. | 39736419 | [
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A spokesperson said it had taken the move because the post violates Facebook's community standards.
It comes after a series of paramilitary-style attacks in the Turf Lodge area.
The PSNI said they were not linking the post to recent shootings at this stage.
Police said such paramilitary style attacks in west Belfast had doubled in 2016 compared to 2015.
The police figures do not take into account the Turf Lodge shootings.
Speaking on the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme, before the post was removed, Sinn Féin MLA, Pat Sheehan, said that some people on the list had already been shot.
Mr Sheehan said the name of the 26-year-old, who was shot in both legs on Tuesday night, was on the list.
"My understanding is that this man's name has appeared on a list on social media, a list that contains eight names and photographs of people," he said.
Mr Sheehan added that the list accuses people of so-called joy riding.
There have been a number of shootings since the beginning of the year.
Mr Sheehan said: "A number of people on this list have already been shot and it's my understanding that police have begun to visit others whose names are on this list to warn them about their security.
He said the community did not believe there was a drugs link to the attacks.
"The people who have been shot, and I exclude the couple from last week, mostly have been involved in anti-social behaviour and petty crime.
"It's a well-known fact that these people who are carrying out the shootings actually tax drug dealers and if these people pay up their tax, they aren't being shot.
"The community is having to deal with the fall-out of all of this," he added.
West Belfast People Before Profit MLA, Gerry Carroll, said he was "deeply concerned" that an "apparent hit list" of people had been published on social media, with three of those on the list being the victims of recent punishment shootings.
"So-called punishment shootings are inherently undemocratic, inhumane and wrong," he said.
"Nobody in west Belfast selected the individuals who compiled this list as their judge, jury and executioner. This is a community that understands the effects of repression and injustice.
"People don't want an even more repressive 'punishment' system foisted upon them without their say." | Facebook has confirmed that it has removed a post on its site which included names and photographs of people accused of anti-social behaviour in west Belfast. | 38674687 | [
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The cels, from the 1937 release Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, were brought along to a valuation day in Leicestershire.
One image depicts the moment the Wicked Queen hands Snow White the poisoned apple.
Auctioneer Charles Hanson said that one alone sold for £10,500.
The other, depicting Snow White with animals, was sold for £5,600 when it went under the hammer in Etwall, Derbyshire.
Mr Hanson said the cels were sold on the internet to the same buyer.
"We had bids from all over the world: America, Italy... the theatre and drama in the saleroom felt like a magical movie moment," he said.
Snow White was released in 1937 and was briefly the highest grossing film of all time, before being overtaken by Gone with the Wind.
Source: IMDB
It is believed the images were first sold in 1938 at an exhibition in London of the original paintings for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Charles Hanson, from Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers, said: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Walt Disney is a film that has provided so much joy to so many people over the generations.
"Such familiar and famous characters are right here at the very beginning of this success.
"Of all the scenes that could be captured on a cel the famous poisoned apple takes some beating - it's the very heartbeat of the film." | A pair of original pieces of cine reel from Walt Disney's first animated feature-length film has sold for more than £16,000 at auction. | 40469143 | [
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It was the first time the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system had been used to select two members in the same ward in a by-election.
The SNP topped the vote in the Leith Walk by-election, while Scottish Labour won the second seat from the Greens.
The by-election was called after Deidre Brock of the SNP and Maggie Chapman of the Scottish Greens stood down.
The SNP's John Lewis Ritchie topped the Leith Walk poll with 2,290 votes. He was elected at stage one in the STV process with a swing in first-preference votes of 7.6% from Labour.
Labour's Marion Donaldson received 1,623 votes, ahead of Susan Jane Rae of the Scottish Greens on 1,381.
Ms Donaldson was elected at stage 10 of the voting process after other preferences had been considered.
The by-election was called after Ms Brock stood down when she was elected as the SNP MP for Edinburgh North and Leith in May.
Ms Chapman, of the Scottish Greens, resigned from her post to concentrate on standing for the Scottish Parliament in next May's election.
The turnout for the by-election was 25.1%.
The SNP also held the Midlothian West seat on Midlothian Council with a swing of 6.3% from Labour.
The party's Kelly Parry secured 1,540 votes, ahead of Labour's Ian Miller on 945 votes.
The by-election was called after Owen Thompson was elected as SNP MP for the Midlothian constituency. | Two new councillors have been elected in a by-election in the City of Edinburgh. | 34218922 | [
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Administrator FRP Advisory said a "sustained deterioration" since the EU vote had exacerbated Rivington Biscuits in Wigan's financial difficulties.
The company, which makes Pink Panther wafers, will cut 99 of its 123 staff, keeping 24 while it seeks a buyer.
The administrators said the firm would "fulfil orders into the New Year".
Rivington Biscuits, which trades from Ormside Close in Hindley Green, Wigan, is owned by Dutch company Van Delft.
A FRP Advisory spokeswoman said over the past year, the biscuit makers had "experienced particularly challenging trading conditions" and been "left with no viable alternative other than to seek the protection of administration".
"The problems were compounded by the sharp decline in the value of the pound against the euro," she said.
Russell Cash, partner at FRP Advisory, said the business was left "facing unsustainable cash-flow pressure" after "a sustained deterioration in trading conditions and significant additional pricing costs since the summer".
"As administrators, given the financial situation, we have had to take the difficult decision of making a large number of redundancies and our immediate priority is to assist those staff who have lost their job to make timely claims," he added. | A popular brand of pink wafer is under threat after a company went into administration following a "sharp fall" in the value of sterling after Brexit. | 38328388 | [
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A petition to the assembly wants it to be mandatory to scan microchips of all pets, dead or alive.
RSPCA Cymru said it backed mandatory identification of pets killed on highways so owners know what happened.
One of six councils which does not scan said it was reviewing its policy, but two others have no plans to change.
The petition says: "The microchip system can only be fully effective if animals that have been microchipped are scanned and this is vital for the owners who have to endure the mental torment of never knowing and continuing searches for weeks/months when a family pet goes missing."
The petition has more than 160 signatures - at present, petitions need 10 names before they are considered, but proposals are being discussed to increase that to 50.
Cats Protection wants it to be compulsory for people microchip their animals - a law covering dogs came into effect in April 2016.
When the Welsh Government developed microchipping regulations, a survey of councils found most routinely scanned dead dogs found on the roads and informed owners when possible, so compulsory scanning was not included.
The petitions said only Gwynedd, Anglesey, Cardiff, Newport, Blaenau Gwent and Neath Port Talbot councils do not routinely scan animals.
The rest do "when they deem the animal in a state to do so" but the petition calls for this to cover all domestic animals, regardless of their condition, and their owners notified.
"Whilst it is considered the unfortunate upset or distress the street clean may endure when scanning animals found in a bad way, the fact is they will handle these animals regardless of our proposed policy," it said.
Cardiff council said dead dogs were scanned and taken to the pound, but not cats - which the authority has been petitioned about separately.
Neath Port Talbot said it was reviewing the situation in light of several requests, Blaenau Gwent said it had no plans to scan, as did Anglesey - stating it was not part of its street cleaning contract with a private firm.
RSPCA Cymru said it was "deeply sad" owners of many animals killed on the roads were "unable to locate them or learn their fate".
The charity wants to see mandatory identification of pets and their owners notified in when they are killed on highways. | Animal lovers hope to make it mandatory for pets found by council workers to be checked for microchips so they can be returned to their owners. | 38991915 | [
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1 August 2016 Last updated at 07:19 BST
This summer's Games will have a lot to live up to after London hosted an amazing event with so many memories back in 2012.
Relive some of the best moments! | There's only four days to the start of the Rio Olympics in Brazil. | 36924084 | [
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Fosun is offering 451m euros (£355m; $580m) for the business, which is 51% owned by the Espirito Santo family.
The bid is higher than two rival offers from Portuguese healthcare firm Jose de Mello Saude and Mexico's Grupo Angeles.
It also marks the latest European target for Fosun, which has also been trying to buy resort chain Club Med.
The Chinese firm is run by billionaire Guo Guangchang, who has been likened to US investment legend Warren Buffett.
Fosun has spent billions since 2010 buying up foreign firms and says it is eyeing healthcare, tourism and fashion firms in the US and Europe.
It already owns a stable of Western brands ranging from the American clothing label St John's to Greek luxury jeweller Folli Follie.
In January, Fosun bought Portuguese insurer Caixa Seguros e Saude.
The Espirito Santo family has been looking to sell various parts of its business since applying for creditor protection in July.
ESS owns hospitals, clinics and elderly care homes across Portugal and the firm has become a target for investors betting on the growing need for facilities to cope with an aging population in Europe.
Shares of ESS have risen by more than 50% this year because of the takeover battle. | China's biggest privately-held conglomerate Fosun has joined a bidding war for the Portuguese hospital operator Espirito Santo Saude (ESS). | 29321688 | [
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A spokesman for the Judicial Office said Nick Harrington had resigned with immediate effect.
The anti-Irish tweet appeared on the Warwick district councillor's now deleted account during the Eurovision Song Contest but was widely retweeted.
Other tweets on the feed which "may have caused concern" are also being looked at, Warwickshire Police said.
Police confirmed on Sunday they were investigating the tweet, which contained offensive and racist language, and are treating it as a suspected hate crime.
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On Monday, a spokesman said officers were aware of other tweets, posted on the same account, which may have caused concern.
"These will be considered during the investigation," the spokesman added.
The leader of Warwick District Council, Andrew Mobbs, said he was also aware of other comments and it was up to a formal standards committee to purse all avenues before coming to any conclusions.
Mr Mobbs had already suspended Mr Harrington, who represents the Stoneleigh and Cubbington ward, from the Conservatives on the district council for six months saying his behaviour was unacceptable.
The Judicial Office said magistrates are required by the terms of their declaration and undertaking to inform their bench chairman and justices' clerk if they are subject to an investigation by the police.
An advisory committee will then consider whether a conduct investigation is required.
The national Conservative Party has suspended Mr Harrington, pending an investigation.
The district council has said it will wait for the police investigation to conclude before deciding what, if any, action to take. | A Tory councillor being investigated over a racist tweet which appeared on his account has quit as a magistrate. | 39926105 | [
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After taking part at London 2012, the four national football associations could not agree on sending a British women's team to the Rio Games.
A place was earned by England finishing third in the 2015 World Cup.
"To turn it down is a great shame. It's something we may look at in the future and try to compete in," Allardyce told BBC 5 live's Sportsweek.
"When you see the delight on Justin Rose's face after winning the gold medal in golf it shows what it all means."
England's Football Association had put forward the idea of sending Great Britain teams to the Olympics, but Fifa said it would need the agreement of the ruling bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, who were against it.
The other home nations fear such a move could affect their independent status within the sport's world governing body, Fifa, and at international tournaments such as the World Cup.
Team GB entered men's and women's sides at London 2012, with Stuart Pearce coaching the former and Hope Powell the latter. Both teams were knocked out in the quarter-finals.
For European nations, qualification for the Olympic football competition is via the Uefa Under-21 Championships for men and the World Cup for women.
England were the only home nation to compete at the Under-21 Championships, but failed to secure the required semi-final berth.
British Olympic Association vice-chairman and former sports minister Sir Hugh Robertson believes politics in particular has denied the women's game a perfect platform to build on the interest it received at London 2012.
A total of 154,998 people turned out to watch the four Team GB women's matches four years ago.
"From the British Olympic Committee's perspective, we would love to see Team GB football," Robertson told Sportsweek.
"It is particularly a powerful tool to promote the women's game.
"The tragedy is that the politics of football administrators impact on the athletes because women football players would want to be at the Olympics." | England manager Sam Allardyce would welcome Team GB entering football teams at future Olympics. | 37148094 | [
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The 67-year-old was attacked outside his Gateshead home on 25 January and suffered a broken collar bone.
Beautician Katie Cutler, 21, began a campaign to raise £500 but the target was quickly smashed.
A 25-year-old man has been charged with intent to rob and will appear at Newcastle Crown Court on 24 February.
Mr Barnes and Ms Cutler had not met before she started the campaign but say they have since struck up a firm friendship.
He intends to use the money to buy a new home as he does not want to return to the area where he was attacked.
Mr Barnes has lived with disabilities from birth after his mother contracted German measles when she was pregnant. He is visually impaired and stands 4ft 6in (1.21m) tall.
He said: "I've always wanted to do other things that I've found difficult with having my eyesight problem but she seems to have opened doors and I might be able to do it now. It's sinking in."
According to the Go Fund Me site's terms and conditions, 7.4% is deducted from the total donation in administration and processing fees and 20p is deducted from each individual donation, equivalent to £29,389.20 from the £330,135 raised for Mr Barnes.
A gala ball at Newcastle's Assembly Rooms will stage another presentation ceremony on Friday. The event is by invitation only but 150 tickets were put on public sale, at a cost of £10 each. | Disabled mugging victim Alan Barnes has been presented with more than £300,000, raised through online donations. | 31416768 | [
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An appeal will be made on the big screen and inside programmes during the team's match against Brighton at Bloomfield Road on Saturday.
Charlene disappeared near Blackpool's North Pier on 1 November 2003.
Police believe she was one of a number of girls who were groomed for sex.
Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Clive Grunshaw said: "Someone out there knows something about what happened to Charlene.
"Detectives believe the answer lies in Blackpool - and it could lie at Bloomfield Road on Saturday."
Det Supt Andy Webster said: "We have never given up our search for information about Charlene, who we believe was murdered more than a decade ago.
"We appreciate that a considerable amount of time has passed since Charlene went missing, but we would still encourage anyone with information at all to come forward and speak to us."
In 2008, a judge ordered a man to be cleared of Charlene's murder, after "grave doubts" were raised around evidence during his second trial. The jury in his first trial failed to reach a verdict.
The following year, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said police errors in gathering evidence had contributed to the collapse of the retrial.
The IPCC investigation concluded the investigating team was guilty of a strategic and tactical failure in the management of the material and several officers were disciplined, with one being forced to resign in 2011.
The resignation order was overturned by a Police Arbitration Tribunal in 2012. | Blackpool football fans are being asked to help solve the murder of a teenager who disappeared over a decade ago. | 31047271 | [
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Labour MP Keith Vaz said Coca-Cola was marketing a "real health hazard".
But Conservative city councillor Ross Grant told the Leicester Mercury that opening the sweet shop in 2013 "put him into the hypocrite category".
Keith Vaz has not responded, but previously said he opposed the way Coke is promoted, rather than the product.
"What we want to do is to make sure Coca-Cola indulges in a proper debate and has a proper engagement with health campaigners, such as Members of Parliament who are part of the All Party Diabetes Group, to make sure that they are much more responsible in the way in which they promote and sell their products," said the Leicester MP.
Public Health England also has concerns about the marketing of Coca-Cola.
Its chief nutritionist, Dr Alison Tedstone, said: "The evidence shows that this type of advertising increases children's preference for and consumption of sugary drinks, which are linked to tooth decay and too many calories leading to obesity.
"Worryingly, children and teenagers are having three times more sugar than the maximum recommended amount and the biggest source is sugary drinks."
Public Health England said evidence showed that restrictions on marketing, advertising and promotion of high-sugar products are likely to be more effective than adding a tax to sugary drinks, along with reducing the added sugar in processed foods and drinks.
Dr Tedstone said: "There is no place for sugary drinks in a child's daily diet - lower fat milks and water are ideal but swapping to no added sugar, diet and sugar free alternatives is fine."
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Coca-Cola Great Britain said its Christmas truck would offer two sugar-free variants.
"We're delighted to be visiting Leicester this year as part of the Coca-Cola Christmas truck tour," it said in a statement.
"Our Christmas truck tour also operates in line with our responsible marketing policy so we don't sample our drinks directly to under-12s."
Mr Vaz was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 13 years ago at a health awareness event in his constituency. | A diabetic MP who asked Coca-Cola not to take its Christmas truck to Leicester has been accused of hypocrisy for opening a sweet shop in the city. | 34744976 | [
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The 23-year-old midfielder was signed a year ago after being released by Hull City, but an ankle injury restricted him to only 13 league starts last term.
"It's been a frustrating few months with the injury but I am 100% fit now," he told Crawley's website.
"It [the contract] gives me the opportunity to hit the ground running in pre-season and hopefully impress the manager enough to get another one."
Henderson, who began his career at Arsenal, played only one first-team game during his year at Hull and was loaned out to Stevenage.
"This is a fresh start for Conor," said Crawley manager Mark Yates.
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And it was the Frontier Corps which found itself at the forefront of the violent tremors which flattened much of the town.
Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Arif is the officer in charge of the area, and saw his headquarters collapse before his eyes.
"My residence is on a small hill. From there, I saw the shockwave ripping through the town and destroying houses with it."
"It was a terrible sight which I can never forget."
Officials estimate that about 80% of the houses in the Mashkel area collapsed - either partially or completely - in the quake.
Army helicopters have been delivering tents from the provincial capital, Quetta.
But we saw family after family sitting amid the ruins of their mud-brick houses under open skies with no shelter.
Mashkel social worker Lareef Baloch says that most houses in the town are uninhabitable.
"The structures still standing are dangerous because they have cracks in them," he told the BBC.
"We see army helicopters flying in and out of town, but we haven't received any tents, blankets, medicines or food."
The relief operation has been hampered by the remoteness of the affected area. The road journey from Quetta to Mashkel is long and dangerous.
Since Tuesday, small aftershocks have continued to hit the area.
One survivor told the BBC that he was traumatised by the experience and now has difficulty sleeping at night.
The Pakistani army says it has tried its best in the rescue and relief effort.
But an army spokesman told the BBC that people of the area will need help from national and international aid groups in the rehabilitation and reconstruction process in the weeks ahead.
It could be that ties on the ground will also play a role in providing help to quake victims.
Residents of Mashkel have close ties with ethnic Balochs in Iran's Sistan province.
Many people have families and relatives on both sides of the border.
The town's economy depends on oil smuggling from Iran and the annual date harvest.
The BBC saw several vehicles with Iranian registration plates being used to transport people on sandy tracks.
When the earthquake struck this week, many people preferred to take their injured across the border to the city of Zahidan in Sistan province.
The Iranian authorities were quick to relax border movements to facilitate the relief effort.
The road journey from Mashkel to Zahidan takes a few hours, compared with the 15 to 18 hours it takes to reach Balochistan's capital, Quetta.
So far, one of the few Islamic charities that has managed to reach the remote town is Jamaat-ud-Dawa.
The group, considered close the Pakistani army, is led by Hafiz Saeed, the founder of the banned jihadist outfit, Lashkar-e-Taiba. | The worst affected area of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake which hit south-western Pakistan on Tuesday is the dust-strewn town of Mashkel, located just a few kilometres from the Iranian border in the province of Balochistan. | 22213813 | [
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The victim was queuing for food at the branch in St George's Street, Canterbury at about 02:15 GMT on Friday when the assault occurred.
Investigating officers said three men entered the restaurant and began being noisy and bumping into people.
It is believed one of the group then set light to the woman's hair.
Officers have released CCTV images of three men they are keen to speak to regarding the attack.
Det Sgt Barry Carr said: "Fortunately the fire was put out quickly and the victim was not seriously hurt, but things could clearly have turned out much worse.
"This was a nasty and extremely dangerous thing to do, and I urge anyone who recognises the men in the CCTV images to contact me as soon as possible." | A woman had her hair set alight in a "nasty and extremely dangerous" attack at a McDonald's restaurant in Kent, police said. | 31566848 | [
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In a statement, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons (OPCW) said the declaration was submitted three days ahead of schedule.
OPCW inspectors are also due to complete visiting the last four of 23 weapons sites declared by Syria.
The OPCW's mission was set up following outrage at a chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital in August.
Sixty inspectors have been in Syria since 1 October. The OPCW, which is based in The Hague, said on Friday that its team in Syria had visited 19 of the 23 sites disclosed by Syria.
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Under the UN resolution which set up the mission, Syria's chemical weapons production equipment must be destroyed by 1 November and stockpiles must be disposed of by mid-2014.
The organisation's work in Syria marks the first time the international chemical weapons watchdog - which won this year's Nobel Peace Prize - has been asked to oversee the destruction of a weapons armoury during a conflict.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in the fighting that has ravaged Syria for two-and-a-half years, according to the UN.
More than two million people have fled Syria and some 4.5 million have been forced from their homes within the country.
Casualty figures vary for the chemical weapons attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Syria's capital, Damascus, on 21 August.
It was estimated to have killed hundreds of people. The United States and other Western powers blamed the attack on President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
But Mr Assad accuses Syrian rebels of being behind it. | Syria has handed in a plan for the destruction of its chemical weapons to the watchdog monitoring the process. | 24695250 | [
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Services were halted near Woking, Surrey, on Thursday night following a signalling problem caused by a possible attempted theft of cable.
A group of passengers, including a heavily pregnant woman, said they were challenged by police at the exit.
South West Trains has apologised for a string of disruptions this week.
Network Rail said 60 trains out of London Waterloo were affected by the signalling fault.
It said further delays were caused when passengers went on the track, meaning power to the rails had to be turned off.
Emma Firth, from Farnham, who is eight months pregnant, was among the passengers who got off their train.
"Me and another man talked to each other and said: 'This is our only chance,'" she said.
"In my condition I wasn't going to sleep overnight on a train, I had no food or drink.
"So the man gave me a piggy back off the train and helped me walk down the track.
"One guard, with a torch, helped us walk across the track safely and was very polite but the police at the gates were very angry, saying we had trespassed.
"I got home around 2300 BST. I will not be using the train tomorrow, it will be a nightmare after this. I shall be working from home."
Another passenger, who asked only to be named as Keith, said he took the 18.33 South West Trains service from Clapham, which ground to a halt near Woking.
He said the passengers, who also included a diabetic man who need insulin, decided to get off the train after about two hours.
"There were constant announcements every five minutes from the train driver saying he did not know when we would be moving.
"There was about five of us and we decided to get off. We prised the door open and jumped.
"When we got to the gates the police tried to get our names, saying we were trespassing and that South West Trains take this behaviour very seriously.
"They didn't manage to get any of our names in the end. I got home at around 23.30."
A passenger on another train, James Bilderbeck, 39, from Basingstoke, told BBC News that the service he was on was stuck for more than four hours.
"It's a really miserable environment, stuck going nowhere. It's a distressing situation for all."
The company director described it as the worst delay he had ever known as a commuter.
Speaking at about 2330 BST, he said his train had finally got moving again and that he hoped to reach Basingstoke soon.
But he said that some passengers whose final destination was Weymouth could expect for their journeys to take up to seven hours.
MP for Mole Valley, Sir Paul Beresford, said: "It seems to me as though there was lack of communication between Network Rail and South West Trains, particularly as evacuation has to be done really carefully.
"Someone should have been telling the drivers and the drivers should have been telling people.
"OK, it doesn't make them move any faster but at least it gives them an understanding of what is going wrong."
A South West Trains spokesman apologised for the disruption, which was the latest in a series to hit passengers this week.
"A major signalling problem in the Weybridge area on Monday resulted in severe disruption," he said.
"A fatality at Mortlake, a line closure due to a damaged bridge and an ill passenger on a train at Earlsfield on Thursday morning resulted in many delays, cancellations and diversions.
"On Thursday evening, further signalling problems in the Waterloo and Woking areas resulted in a significant amount of delays.
"Working with Network Rail, we have endeavoured to minimise the impact of these problems, although this is of little consolation if you have been affected by one or more of these events."
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Bill Palmer, from Southampton, called the Alex Dyke show on BBC Radio Solent about his life after his wife went into a nursing home.
Dyke immediately ordered a taxi to bring Mr Palmer to the studio to allow phone-in listeners to chat to him.
A recording of the call has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook.
The 95-year-old, from Sholing, married his wife Sheila, 85, on 2 June 2014 after they had been friends for 30 years.
Shortly afterwards Sheila - who has dementia and colitis - fell and was taken into hospital. She was then moved into a nursing home, where she now lives.
Mr Palmer phoned the BBC Radio Solent programme on Wednesday during a phone-in on "Love - later in life".
Although he visits his wife every day, he said: "Every day is hell. I feel so alone".
The production team immediately arranged to take Mr Palmer to the studio in Southampton, where he sat in on the rest of the show.
Mr Palmer said: "I just sit with my wife and we tell each other we love each other, and that's it.
"She knows who I am and she often says 'we did get married on the second of June didn't we?' - and that's when it hurts.
"I listen to the radio and watch TV and have lots of friends, but unfortunately when you get old people don't visit - that's life."
Listeners phoned in to offer support and advice to Mr Palmer.
He was offered Sunday lunch, afternoon trips out and a ukulele orchestra to play for him, but he kindly turned them all down.
"I didn't know such kindness existed," he told one caller.
Dyke said Mr Palmer had "touched the hearts of thousands of listeners" and it was his "nicest moment in 30 years of broadcasting". | A 95-year-old invited into a BBC radio programme after calling in about being lonely has become a hit on social media. | 34603435 | [
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Berahino, 21, was travelling at 110mph when he was stopped by Cheshire Police near junction 20 of the southbound M6 in the early hours of 22 October.
He was found to have 101 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood - the drink-drive limit is 80 mg.
North Cheshire Magistrates in Runcorn fined Berahino £3,400 and offered him a drink-driver referral course.
If he completed the course, it would reduce the length of his ban to nine months.
The striker's excellent form this season earned him a call-up to the full England squad in November but he did not play in matches against Slovenia and Scotland.
His court case, originally scheduled for 19 January - the same day as the Baggies are due to meet Everton in the Premier League at Goodison Park - was brought forward late on Thursday.
The BBC understands that Berahino will be fined by West Brom under its usual disciplinary procedures - the maximum permitted being a fortnight's wages.
With the case having been dealt with before the scheduled Monday hearing, he is now likely to play that night at Everton.
West Brom will not be making any comment on the matter.
Berahino, who came to the UK from war-torn Burundi as a child, signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with the Premier League club in December 2013.
The England Under-21 international has scored 14 times in 25 appearances for the Baggies this season, and has been linked with a big-money transfer to a top Premier League club. | West Brom striker Saido Berahino has been banned from driving for 12 months after pleading guilty to drink-driving. | 30848162 | [
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The local authority said Richard Ellis was leaving on Friday at the end of his contract.
Ciaran Monaghan and Ewan Sutherland are both going under a voluntary redundancy and early retirement scheme.
Stephen Flynn, the leader of the opposition SNP group, said the departures were indicative of the council's inability to hold on to senior staff.
He said he expected further departures in the coming months.
Mr Ellis is the council's former interim director of corporate governance, and has also been acting as deputy chief executive for several months.
Mr Monaghan is head of the chief executive's office, while Mr Sutherland is head of human resources and customer services.
Council chief executive Angela Scott thanked the trio for their "dedication and professionalism". | Three senior officials are to leave their roles at Aberdeen City Council. | 40679217 | [
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Mooboo Bubble Tea - which sells the Taiwanese drink topped with tapioca balls - was attacked on social media and by campaign groups.
A petition to demand it pay staff properly collected more than 40,000 signatures.
In a statement, Mooboo said trainees would now be paid "company set levels".
Emails outlining the original terms were leaked to campaign organisation 38 Degrees.
Gordon Maloney from the group said it was an "outrageous way for MooBoo Bubble Tea to exploit people looking for work".
He welcomed the "turnaround" but said it was "very important to us that people who have worked for the chain for free under this policy should also be recompensed".
The company has branches in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Coventry, Gateshead, Hatfield, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow.
Successful interview applicants were offered 40 hours training, but warned this did not guarantee a job.
Mooboo said in a statement: "In view of the recent feedbacks, we are prepared to implement a new training process which all trainees will be paid according to our company set levels once the trainee has entered into our training contract."
It later confirmed to campaign group Betterthanzero that all staff would be paid at least the minimum wage from "the first hour".
The furore over the training contract led to other cafes being confused with the firm.
Bubble Boba in Coventry "suffered vandalism to our shop, slander and abuse to our staff", it said.
Directors Neil and Kristin McCoy-Ward said it was now "Mooboo's duty to set the example and follow UK regulations and pay bubble tea artists correctly for their work". | A cafe criticised for making trainees work unpaid for 40 hours, without a guaranteed job, has given in to public pressure. | 39165944 | [
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Mrs May is also aiming to allay Japan's concerns over Brexit and drum up trade.
She said Japanese firms continued to make "important" investments in the UK as EU withdrawal was being negotiated.
She hailed British carmaker Aston Martin's decision to invest £500m in Japan as a sign of the strength of the two countries' economic partnership.
The luxury brand announced on Wednesday it would significantly step up its exports to Japan, open a number of new offices next year and expand its dealer network.
Japan is preoccupied with the issue of North Korea's missile test over its northern Hokkaido island.
Speaking to the BBC after arriving for a three day visit, Mrs May urged China to exert its influence over Pyongyang.
"I want to work with other international partners to do what we all want to do which is to stop North Korea from conducting these illegal activities," she said.
"These are illegal tests. It is outrageous, it is provocative and they should be stopped."
The UK was working to see what "further pressure" could be brought on North Korea, including extending sanctions, and the role that China could play in facilitating such action.
But asked about the comments, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the focus should be on de-escalating tensions in the Korean peninsula and "just chanting about sanctions" was not the answer.
Meeting late on Tuesday in New York, the United Nations Security Council called the launch "outrageous", demanding North Korea cease all missile testing.
But North Korea has signalled plans for more launches, suggesting its firing of a missile over Japan was "the first step" of military operations in the Pacific.
Mr Abe greeted his counterpart when she arrived in Kyoto before the two leaders went to a teahouse for a traditional tea-drinking ceremony, followed by a formal dinner at the Kyoto State Guest House.
They then took the bullet train to Tokyo, where formal talks will take place on Thursday.
Downing Street said the two leaders had discussed the Brexit process to date and the UK's position on key issues.
Mrs May, who is being accompanied on the trip by International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and a delegation of business leaders drawn from a range of sectors, told her counterpart that the UK saw Japan's proposed free trade deal with the EU as a "good basis" for the beginning of a future UK trading agreement with Japan.
The UK is unable to sign any bilateral deals until it has left the EU in 2019.
Japan has been forthright in expressing concerns about Brexit's impact on its UK-based firms, which employ about 140,000 people.
Mr Abe will be seeking assurances from Theresa May about what kind of relationship the UK will have with the EU post-Brexit and that this will not be detrimental to Japanese businesses with bases in the UK.
Although the UK would be leaving the single market, Mrs May told journalists she had also made clear she wanted to minimise disruption for foreign investors by putting in place transitional arrangements to ensure a "smooth path" after the UK leaves in 2019.
She added: "Japan is a longstanding partner of the UK with significant investments in the UK. We have seen Softbank, Toyota investing in the UK since the EU referendum took place."
"These are important developments for our economy and relationship with Japan."
A special adviser to Mr Abe, Tomohiko Taniguchi, told BBC Radio 4's Today there was uneasiness about Brexit within the Japanese business community but talk of a crisis in relations was over-stated as Japanese firms had an "inherent preference" for doing business in Britain.
Nomura bank, Hitachi and carmakers Honda, Nissan and Toyota all have bases in the UK.
Earlier this year, Nissan said it would build two new models - the new Qashqai and X-Trail - at its Sunderland plant after the government promised that competitiveness would not be damaged by EU withdrawal. | Theresa May has said China must do more to help end North Korea's "illegal and provocative" weapons testing. | 41088404 | [
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It focuses on the death of Lt Colonel Rupert Thorneloe in 2009.
It was published in amended form after the first print run was destroyed by the MoD.
The judges said the book "takes us into the hearts and minds of the Welsh Guards in a way that is both interesting and visceral".
"It challenges every citizen of this country to examine exactly what we're asking soldiers to do in Afghanistan," the panel continued.
"Rather than offering easy answers it lets the soldiers speak for themselves."
Other awards presented included a posthumous honour for Christopher Hitchens, whose final book, Arguably, was included on the long list for the top prize.
Hitchens' widow Carol Blue accepted the award on behalf of the Vanity Fair writer.
The journalism prize was awarded to Amelia Gentleman for her work in The Guardian, while the blog award went to Rangers Tax Case - an online commentary on the ongoing financial problems at the historic Scottish football club.
The writers of the blog said they aimed to "provide the details of what Rangers FC have done, why it was illegal and what the implications are for one of the largest football clubs in Britain".
The winners were chosen from shortlists of six books, six journalists and seven bloggers, whittled down from longlists of 17 books, 12 journalists and 18 bloggers.
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The utility firm says the tunnel is the best way to stop sewage dumping in the River Thames.
A Thames Water spokesman said it was the most economical way to deal with the problem and no decision on financing the project had been made.
Prof Green, from Middlesex University, claims under current water industry regulations Thames Water would receive 4.5% every year on the super sewer investment.
But he claims the utility firm could borrow the money required to build the tunnel for around 2% a year.
The professor said: "If you want to change this we are going to have to change the price incentives."
Prof Green said the regulatory regime - run by Ofwat - has created an incentive to invest money rather than to operate more efficiently.
A spokesman for Thames Water said: "Detailed and independently-chaired studies have identified the Thames Tunnel as the most economical way to deal with the 39m tonnes of sewage that overflows to the Thames in a typical year.
"We do not yet know who will finance and build the tunnel, but it is by no means certain that it will be Thames Water."
"The rate of return for investors will be set independently by Ofwat," he added.
Prof Green also claimed Thames Water would also see a rise in returns once the loan to build the tunnel was paid off - although this may not happen for 30 to 40 years.
"Even when the loans have been paid off for the tunnel we (the consumer) will have to go on paying for the full capital value of that asset.
"The way the price system works Thames Water will then be getting a return of about 14% upon their share value, just because of the tunnel."
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An Ofwat spokesperson said: "We are working with Thames Water, Defra and other stakeholders to support the development and financing of the Thames Tunnel and to ensure that any incurred costs are efficient and continue to represent best value to customers."
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has been campaigning for a cheaper solution to London's sewage problem - such as a shorter tunnel.
Councillor Harry Phibbs said: "It is quite within the rules, but what is happening is that within the rules they will be able to charge customers a much higher rate for the money they are borrowing than they are actually paying themselves.
"This means that they have got a huge financial interest in the scheme going ahead on the most expensive gold-plated basis possible."
He called on the government to "call in the scheme" and look seriously at the alternatives. | An expert has claimed controversial plans to build a £3.6bn 'super sewer' in London are motivated by profit. | 15479709 | [
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At an event in Hove, the prime minister said all good schools should be able to expand and his government had supported that right.
The Weald of Kent girls' grammar school wants to open an annexe in Sevenoaks.
The Department for Education (DfE) is considering the plans which have the backing of Kent County Council.
The law forbids the opening of new grammar schools, but changes made by the coalition government in 2012 allow enlargement of existing schools.
"I strongly support the right of all good schools to expand. I think that's very important and that should include grammar schools," the prime minister said:
"Under this government grammar schools have been able to expand and that is all to the good."
Mr Cameron was responding to a question about the the proposed satellite grammar school in Sevenoaks.
But he would not be drawn on when the government was likely to make its decision.
"As for the decision that the Department for Education has to take, they have to take that having [looked] at all the evidence and after having proper consultations and making the decision in proper time," he added.
Sevenoaks is the only major Kent town that does not have grammar provision.
Bids made in 2013 were turned down because the DfE said they did not comply with the law.
But the current plans put forward by Weald of Kent girls' grammar school are believed to have met the criteria.
If approved, the annexe could pave the way for more grammars to open satellite campuses.
General secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Christine Blower, has previously called the plans for grammar school expansion "yet another unnecessary distraction". | David Cameron has voiced his "strong support" for the expansion of grammar schools during a visit to the South East. | 31508030 | [
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust was criticised by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in March 2015.
A re-inspection in April this year found it had made "positive progress" in some areas, but improvements were still needed.
The safety of patients at high risk of suicide had been deemed inadequate but has now been improved.
The trust currently has about 27,000 patients across the county and more than 2,000 members of staff.
Dr Paul Lelliott, deputy chief inspector of hospitals for the CQC, said there was now "good care" for the population served by the trust.
"We saw staff treating patients with kindness, dignity and respect," he said.
The use of volunteers and therapy dogs was praised, as was the patient-run café and the range of paid job opportunities, including gardening and car valeting.
In March 2015 patients at risk of suicide were found not to be kept safe, but the trust said it now monitors "ligature risks", which are fixed points which someone could use to harm themselves.
"Heat maps" are also used to show patients at high risk of suicide.
Dr John Brewin, trust chief executive, said: "I am pleased that the work of all of our staff has been reflected.
"Our staff have a real focus on providing high-quality care for our patients and this latest report is testament to that commitment."
Improvements are needed in the areas of care plans, staff supervision, bed availability and delays in patients accessing psychological therapies, the CQC said.
The trust was also found to have good relationships with the community and police. | An NHS mental health services provider has been upgraded from "inadequate" to "good" following a recent inspection. | 40220630 | [
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At a Buckingham Palace garden party in pouring rain on Tuesday, the Queen commented, "Oh, bad luck" when told a Metropolitan Police commander had led the police operation around the Chinese leader's visit.
The Queen's unguarded comments are atypical for her, but also pose some unanswered questions about the visit.
In short, we don't know. Police Commander Lucy D'Orsi was "seriously, seriously undermined by the Chinese", according to the Lord Chamberlain, who introduced her to the Queen.
Commander D'Orsi said it "was quite a testing time" and that "they walked out of Lancaster House and told me that the trip was off".
The Queen clearly knew all about the incident concerned and interjected: "They were very rude to the ambassador."
"They walked out on both of us," replied Ms D'Orsi.
Did Ms D'Orsi mean that Chinese officials threatened to cancel the whole state visit? Or just part of the itinerary?
Was any conflict to do with security arrangements (as Ms D'Orsi was clearly under pressure) or of wider diplomatic significance?
We simply do not know. The police have not issued any statement.
President Xi and his wife Madame Peng were guests of the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace for the state visit so perhaps it is to be expected that the Queen would be aware of such details.
The Metropolitan Police had to defend itself from human rights groups' accusations that it dealt inappropriately with protesters during Mr Xi's visit in October 2015.
Commander D'Orsi issued a statement in the immediate aftermath of the visit saying she was disappointed at hearing the view expressed that the Met was "working to the bidding of the Chinese to suppress protest".
The Queen's comments were picked up by the microphone of the camera filming the garden party event, operated by Peter Wilkinson, the monarch's official cameraman
His footage was released to broadcasters under the "pool" arrangement which is standard procedure for royal events (to avoid all broadcasters sending their own crews to every engagement).
It was only then that the uncharacteristically undiplomatic comments were spotted.
Indeed. At the time Mr Xi said he believed his visit would lift UK-China relations to a "new height".
Buckingham Palace would not comment on a "private conversation" but said all parties worked closely to ensure the visit proceeded smoothly.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said the president's trip to the UK was very successful and "marked the start of the Golden Era between China and the UK".
We now know, thanks to the Queen's comments, that it was a testing time behind the scenes, at least for the police commander and the British ambassador to China. However, that does not mean that overall the trip was not a success.
Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies at King's College London, and a former senior British diplomat in Beijing, told the BBC that it was striking that even someone with the Queen's six decades of diplomatic experience still found dealing with the Chinese protocols and machinery tough:
"In terms of the atmospherics between diplomats in China and the UK, it's not an easy relationship and that comes through in the freight of emotion that was in her comments."
At the moment, there is no coverage whatsoever of this in mainland China, says BBC Monitoring's China Media Analyst Kerry Allen.
"This is not unusual. The comments the Queen made will be regarded as highly embarrassing by China's elite, as the concept of 'maintaining face' - one's sense of dignity or prestige - is incredibly important within the country," she says.
"Owing to the sensitivity of her comments, state media will be required to hold off covering this until the government decides what official response to give.
"Some users of popular microblogs like Sina Weibo though are commenting on it and quickly gaining responses. However, the censors are catching up and censoring comments to limit impact."
The BBC's World News TV channel goes temporarily to black in China whenever the story about Mr Xi's visit is mentioned.
Probably not. | The Queen has described Chinese officials as having been "very rude" during last October's state visit to the UK by President Xi Jinping. | 36265224 | [
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The animal had been shot twice in the shoulder and once in its left back leg, which vets had to amputate.
The charity said the one-year-old cat was "incredibly lucky" to survive.
Last year the Scottish government held a consultation on licensing air weapons, but a majority of responders opposed the plan.
One-year-old Teenie was found injured by her owner Sarah Nisbett in NiddryView, Winchburgh, at about 16:30 on Friday 14 March and taken to the Scottish SPCA.
Mrs Nisbett said the cat was now having to learn how to walk again.
"The gun that was used must have some power because the pellet actually went through her back leg, that's why it was so badly damaged," she said.
"She's now learning how to hop around the house, it's terrible.
"The fact that it was three shots is crazy. We live in a housing estate and there are lots of kids. That just makes it worse because any of them could have been hit in the crossfire."
She added: "There's some sick people out there, hopefully somebody will know who's done this and let the police or the Scottish SPCA know."
Scottish SPCA Ch Supt Mike Flynn said: "Teenie's owners are understandably very upset and keen for us to find the callous person responsible to ensure no more cats come to harm.
"This is an alarming incident which only highlights why the Scottish government should implement the licensing of airguns as a matter of urgency."
He added: "The new licensing regime should ensure that only those with a lawful reason are allowed to possess such a dangerous weapon. It will also help the police trace anyone using an air gun irresponsibly."
Last year the Scottish government launched a consultation on licensing air weapons, with a large majority of those who responded opposing the plan.
Under the proposed scheme, anyone wanting to own an air gun would need to demonstrate they had a legitimate reason for doing so.
A total of 87% of respondents rejected the idea - with some describing it as "draconian" and "heavy-handed". A small number of people felt ministers were not going far enough.
The Scottish SPCA urged anyone with information about the incident to contact them. | An animal charity is calling for the licensing of air guns after a cat in West Lothian was left injured after being shot three times. | 26668081 | [
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Security forces are still searching for the missing students, who were abducted by Boko Haram Islamist militants on 14 April.
The military fuelled confusion in the immediate aftermath by incorrectly saying most of the girls had been rescued.
Parents and some girls who escaped say more than 200 students were seized from their school in Chibok in north-eastern Borno state by gunmen overnight. A local government official confirms the incident, saying the exact number of missing students is unclear but puts the number at around 100.
Nigeria's military says most of the girls managed to escape or were freed and releases a statement saying only eight girls are still missing.
Locals say many remain unaccounted for and parents of the missing girls head into the Sambisa forest near the Cameroonian border to search for them. On their return they say they did not see any Nigerian soldiers in the forest.
Major General Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, says a report stating that most of the girls had been freed was incorrect but was "not intended to deceive the public." Parents insist that more than 200 girls are still missing. The military has not rescued any of the girls.
Asabe Kwambura, headmistress of the school in Chibok, appeals to the government to do more to save the girls and calls on the kidnappers - thought to be members of the Boko Haram group - to "have mercy on the students."
Ms Kwambura tells the BBC that at least 190 girls are still missing, contradicting a local state governor who said that around 80 of the students were yet to be found. Footage emerges of the school shortly after the attack, showing the classrooms after they were set alight by gunmen.
A government source tries to explain the discrepancy, by telling the BBC it was initially thought only science students had been seized ahead of their exam but there were also 105 art students in the hostels at the time, which the authorities had not realised.
Nigerians take to social media to show their anger at the government response and Ibrahim M Abdullahi, a lawyer in Abuja, sends the first tweet using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls.
Hundreds march through Abuja to protest at government "indifference" to the mass abduction. A community leader from Chibok warns that the girls may have been taken to neighbouring states and forced to marry militants. He says that 230 girls are missing - another increase in the figure.
Desperate parents in Chibok stage a protest calling on the government to do more in the search for the missing girls. Protests are also staged again in towns and cities across Nigeria.
Nigerian police say militants are holding 223 girls, after 53 of the initial 276 girls who were abducted managed to escape. He explained the higher figure by saying pupils from surrounding schools had gone to Chibok to take exams, as it was believed to be safe.
President Goodluck Jonathan make his first public comments since the abduction, saying his government is seeking assistance from the US and other world powers to tackle Nigeria's "security challenge".
In a video statement, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau says his group were behind the abduction of the girls and threatens to "sell" them in the market as "slaves". The US says it has information that the girls may have been moved into neighbouring countries but Chad and Cameroon deny the girls are being held on their soil.
Barack Obama says the "heartbreaking" abduction" may be the event that helps to mobilise the entire international community" to finally act against Boko Haram. He says US experts are being dispatched to help find the girls. Eleven more girls are abducted by gunmen from nearby areas of Borno state.
The #BringBackOurGirls hashtag hits 1 million tweets and US First Lady Michelle Obama joins the online campaign, posting a picture of herself on photo-sharing site Instagram holding a piece of paper with the hashtag on. Nigerian police offer 50 million naira (£180,000; $300,000) for information that could help track the girls down.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a shooting by Taliban insurgents, joins the #BringBackOurGirls campaign and says the world must not stay silent over the abduction.
Experts from the US and UK arrive in Nigeria to help with the search for the missing girls.
Amnesty International accuses Nigeria's military of ignoring warnings before the abduction. The human rights group said credible sources told it that the army were notified of an impending attack four hours before it happened but did nothing. The government says it doubts the report but will investigate.
The governor of Nigeria's Borno state says he has information on the whereabouts of the girls and has passed reports of possible sightings to the military. He says he does not think they have been taken across the border to Chad or Cameroon.
Boko Haram release a new video claiming to show around 130 of the abducted girls at an unknown location. In the video, the group's leader says he will not free the girls until authorities release all imprisoned militants. He also says the girls have converted to Islam. | Nigeria's government has been accused of being too slow in its response to the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from a school in the north of the country. | 27342757 | [
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The head of Queen's, Prof Patrick Johnston, told the BBC's Inside Business programme a rise in tuition fees, or a return to public funding, was required to bridge a £100m gap.
"We have some very critical decisions as a society to make very, very quickly, because we're already in trouble" he said.
"We're bringing corporation tax in in 2018, we actually today don't have the graduates to fill those jobs.
"We have to either come up with a number of solutions, one of which might be the public purse begins to fund the full investment in higher education that is needed, either fees or we have to get back to public funding."
Inside Business is on BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle at 13:30 BST on Sunday. | The vice-chancellors of Queen's University and Ulster University have said serious decisions need to be taken over the future funding of higher education in Northern Ireland. | 35334911 | [
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Neil Ward, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales Trust, said the diminishing sports budget was leading to "unrealistic" expectations.
The Welsh Government said it was "totally committed to making Wales a more healthy and active nation".
But its funding via Sport Wales has fallen by 14% in the past seven years.
Mr Ward told the BBC's Sunday Politics Wales programme he was concerned about the limit to what could be achieved with the Sport Wales budget of about £22m a year.
His comments came a year after Wales' historic quarter-final win over Belgium at Euro 2016.
Mr Ward said the FAW had committed to investing its profit from the tournament - about £4m - in infrastructure projects which would benefit grassroots football in Wales.
But he said more public money was needed too.
"The government is going to be asking the sport sector to do more with the £20m that it presently receives, and to expect sport to do even more with what is a diminishing budget is unrealistic."
"This is a public health issue," Mr Ward added.
"If we don't protect the facilities we get, if we continue to increase facility charges, it means those who are less well will have to pay more.
"They're probably going to disengage further from physical activity and we know there are a million people in Wales who are physically inactive."
The FAW Trust said the number of registered young players in Wales had increased over the past year with 900 more boys playing the game and 1,100 more girls.
Former Wales international and FAW Trust board member Prof Laura McAllister told the programme the biggest problem was finding places for them to play.
"It's no good them being enthused by Gareth Bale, Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen if then when they go out and try and play there aren't sufficient pitches for them to enjoy the game," she said.
"There was a lot of celebration amongst our politicians as much as amongst the public for the success that we saw in the Euros but there has to come a time where we put our money where our mouths are."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "What we must continue to focus on is looking at different ways of working together to maximise our investment in sport and physical activity, and deliver greater outcomes so we translate existing participation levels into lifelong physical activity habits and encourage those who live a sedentary lifestyle to become more active.
"We also recognise the importance of ensuring that there are better quality facilities for people to take part in sport and physical activity and are undertaking a facility review so we gain a better understanding of our priorities for the future."
A spokesman for Sport Wales, which distributes the Welsh Government's sports funding, said it had invested in schemes to develop new artificial pitches and further spending has been committed. | Grassroots sport needs more money to ensure more people are physically active, according to Welsh football's development arm. | 40459606 | [
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Martyn Graham, 58, also seriously injured two other motorists in the crash of the A421 Bedford bypass on 12 January 2016.
A web cam in his cab showed the brake lights ahead for 17 seconds before the collision.
Graham admitted two counts of causing death by dangerous driving.
He also pleaded guilty to two charges of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
A collision report said Graham had not reacted or braked at all, and the court heard the cause of his inattention remained a mystery.
He was not using a mobile phone, was not tired or ill, and had driven about two million miles over the previous years without incident.
Wayne Cleaver, prosecuting, told Luton Crown Court the couple who died were grandparents Martin Spratt, 70 and his wife Evelyn, 68, of Buckden, Cambridgeshire.
Davina Stubbs, 54, from Bedford sustained serious injuries and had to be cut free from her Vauxhall Corsa. She now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Danny Delasalle, 32 from Stevenage, who was driving a flatbed Transit van, had to wear a neck brace for three and a half months after the crash, the court was told.
Judge Philip Bartle QC said the crash had "devastating consequences" for those involved.
Graham said later he had no memory of the events leading up to the accident and could not explain why he had not braked.
Ian Bridge, defending, said Graham was thoroughly remorseful and thought of the accident every day and had sleepless nights.
Graham was also banned from driving for five years. | A lorry driver who ploughed into a queue of traffic without braking, killing a retired couple, has been jailed for four years and eight months. | 39009386 | [
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Dear Alison
I am compelled to write and seek review of an historic case of rape. Unusually, and contrary to current practice and the ACPO/CPS Guidance on the Investigation and Prosecution of Rape Cases, the investigation into the serious allegations in this case was dropped before the suspect was interviewed.
The elements of lack of freedom and capacity to consent - which may even have triggered the "no consent" legal presumption - make the decision highly irregular. This is shocking in itself. It further troubles me that the senior police officer who dropped the case revealed to the victim he apparently took a series of worthless stereotypes and other irrelevant points into consideration. He did this after apparently consulting with an unnamed CPS official. Most of these stereotypes have been blown out of the water in recent months. Or so I thought.
There has been a sea change in the climate surrounding rape, historic cases in particular. Why is it that the tide has not reached this case? I am driven to the unpalatable conclusion that the identity of the alleged perpetrator - Leon Brittan - may in some way have influenced treatment of the case. I hope I am wrong. But in my view the case demands your personal attention and an immediate review by the CPS Area Head of Sexual Offences.
As you know, I have been working with the Metropolitan police on a number of cases involving sexual crimes over the last 18 months. I have been the recipient of a considerable amount of information from victims directly, much of which I have passed on to the police. You will know that some of this information has already led to arrests. I anticipate that, under your leadership, more work will follow.
I enclose a contemporaneous note written by victim _________ of a rather blunt conversation she had with DCI Settle concerning his decision to drop the case. I invite you to note, in particular, that he told the victim - who had been locked in a flat and tried to escape from the bathroom window:
"There is no evidence he asked you for sex, forced you to have sex, or asked you to take off your clothes, which you did voluntarily"
This was apparently considered to be a fatal deficiency. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the victim has not has this confirmed in writing as promised.
I asked _______ to share her thoughts after her experience of reporting a crime. These are her words:
"My feelings are that I have been brutally misled having been encouraged by the DPP statements to come forward with my historical case following the Savile affair. All the public pronouncements after Savile suggested that these investigations would be treated sensitively, non-judgmentally and in a victim-centric way. I have been interviewed twice in long, harrowing video sessions first by ______ Police, then MPS [Metropolitan Police Service]. I have been encouraged by the MPS to believe that my evidence is both credible and corroborated. I have repeatedly had to relive the most harrowing night of my life, long pushed to the back of my mind. Then, when I had the temerity to question a police decision I have been turned on by a senior police officer, apparently with the support of the CPS. I have been implicitly accused of making an allegation against someone because 'it is all about who he is'. I have been implicitly accused of being a slut because I sat on a bed. These are attitudes that women of my generation associate with the police and prosecution authorities of the sixties and seventies, not an enlightened and publicly accountable twenty- first century service. It was these attitudes that made me think I would get nowhere if I proceeded with the case when the rape happened. It seems nothing has changed". I have found myself appalled at the conduct of this investigation. I would like to believe that it is not typical of the CPS and Metropolitan police as a whole. However the case raises some very serious questions which are likely to remain unanswered without your attention.
In the light of this, please could you confirm to me that:
Everyone is complicit in the failures of the past. But we have an opportunity now to put matters right. Any attempt to perpetuate a CPS in which a victim's acquiescence in or inability to escape rape is a barrier to prosecution would fail, with grievous consequences, and would be wrong. There is a strong public interest in getting this right.
I have every confidence that your leadership, and personal intervention in this case, will take the CPS in an altogether better direction. | Below is the full letter that deputy Labour leader Tom Watson sent to the director public prosecutions Alison Saunders in April 2014 urging her to look again at the Lord Brittan allegations. | 34509582 | [
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The prospect of losing a vital source of income would force Mexico into a "one-time payment" of $5-10bn (£3.5-7bn), says Mr Trump.
But US President Barack Obama said the plan was "half-baked" and unworkable.
Mr Trump made his remarks as voters in Wisconsin go the polls to pick their presidential candidates in each party.
The vote could reshape the Republican race, with front-runner Mr Trump, who has never held elected office, facing a strong challenge from Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
In a memo to the Washington Post, the businessman says he would threaten to change a law to cut off cash transfers.
Building a border wall with Mexico has been a core message of Mr Trump's campaign since day one, when he said there were rapists, drug addicts and criminals coming across the border.
If Donald Trump isn't the 2016 Republican presidential nominee - if some time between now and the end of the party convention in late July the prize slips from his grasp, Wisconsin could be where it all started to go awry.
At this point it's conventional wisdom that Mr Trump has had a terrible week on the campaign trail.
His top aide was indicted for accosting a reporter. He stumbled when trying to answer questions about abortion, angering both the left and the right. Wisconsin's popular Republican Governor Scott Walker endorsed his opponent, Ted Cruz. And Mr Trump saw his lead in this pivotal mid-western state evaporate.
By Sunday evening, at a rally in a half-full downtown Milwaukee theatre, the front-runner was showing signs of frustration. He mocked his opponents in the #neverTrump movement, which has vowed to fight the New Yorker to the July Republican convention and beyond.
Is it all going wrong for Trump in Wisconsin?
The wall plan has been widely condemned by, among others, Pope Francis. Mr Trump has also pledged to deport all 11 million undocumented migrants.
The Mexican central bank said that money sent home from overseas hit nearly $24.8bn last year, more than its oil revenues.
In dismissing the plan, Mr Obama said it would cause the Mexican economy to collapse, sending even more migrants north to find work in the US.
"This is another example of something that's not thought through and put forward for political consumption," he said.
The law Mr Trump wishes to change, as outlined in his memo, is part of the US Patriot Act - he would stop anyone living illegally in the US from sending money overseas.
Just the threat of enacting this would make Mexico "immediately protest," the Trump memo reads, and they would be compelled to pay for the wall.
He also proposed raising visa fees and cancelling visas for Mexicans.
If Mr Cruz wins in Wisconsin, as polls suggest, it will help him close the gap on Mr Trump in the all-important delegate count.
Delegates represent their states at the party's convention in July and are accumulated by the votes in each state.
A Wisconsin defeat would make it is far less likely that Mr Trump will have the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination.
If he falls short, his unpopularity with sections of his party means he could be deprived of the nomination at the summer convention.
Currently, Mr Trump has 735 delegates, Mr Cruz 461 and Ohio Governor John Kasich 143.
Democratic voters are also voting in Wisconsin, with Hillary Clinton facing a strong challenge from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders after his string of wins. | Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump has said he would stop cash sent home by Mexicans based in the US, until the country pays for a border wall. | 35971035 | [
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Terence Brannigan, chair of the Maze/Long Kesh development Corporation, was speaking after roads around the former prison site were congested on the first day of the event.
Mr Brannigan said rural roads were "not designed for that kind of traffic"
But he said work was under way to put the new infrastructure in place.
"In 12 months time it won't be the same," he said. "But let's not pretend that in 12 months time we are going to have two roads linking up to the motorway network.
"The work is going on now, as we speak, in respect of putting two links into the motorway, one from the east and one from the west.
"We are doing environmental studies now in order to get clearance. We will then have to go to planning and from that we will then be able to build the two roads."
Up to 80,000 people are expected to attend the three-day event, which has moved from its previous home at the King's Hall in Belfast.
On Wednesday, First Minister Peter Robinson said he hoped any problems with access would be overcome.
Mr Brannigan said getting the infrastructure sorted had been a priority for the corporation, but acknowledged there was a "rigorous process" to complete.
"If people have to sit in queues for a long period of time, it can spoil what is a magnificent show, a fantastic event and the showcase for Northern Ireland," he said.
"The money has been ring-fenced so we can't complain that we haven't got the money, we can't complain that we are not getting the support.
"But there is a due process we have to go through. It is frustrating, nonetheless it is a process we must go through."
Visitors to this year's show have been urged to use public transport.
The Balmoral Show website contains details of how to get to the show by car or by public transport. | About £20m has been pledged to construct two major roads linking the new site of Balmoral Show to the motorway network, it has been claimed. | 22553177 | [
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Nadine Foster, 18, was a passenger in a Ford Focus when it hit a wall in Stourbridge, in the West Midlands, in April.
She was taken to hospital but died a few days later, police said.
Dylan Stringer, 22, and Joseph Chance, 24, both from Stourbridge, are accused of causing death by dangerous driving and are due before magistrates in Walsall on Wednesday.
Mr Stringer, of Wychbury Road, and Mr Chance, of Murcroft Road, are also charged with causing death by driving a vehicle unlicensed and uninsured in relation to the crash in Hagley Road.
More news from Birmingham and the Black Country | Two men have been charged after a teenage mother died in a car crash. | 38208926 | [
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The law, which is set to become a world first, aims to close the wage gap between men and women.
Companies face auditing and possible fines if they do not comply.
Iceland was ranked first in the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap Index, followed by Norway, Finland and Sweden.
However, according to Iceland's statistics for the same year, the unadjusted gender pay gap remained at 17%.
The bill, which was presented on Tuesday, is supported by the centre-right coalition government and the opposition.
Applying to both the public and private sector, it would prohibit any discrimination not just on gender, but also on race, religion, disability, occupational disability, age and sexual orientation grounds.
"The bill entails that companies and institutions of a certain size, 25 or more employees, undertake a certification of their equal-pay programmes," Thorsteinn Viglundsson, the minister of social affairs and equality, told news agency AFP.
The bill will now be subject to a series of debates, and if it passes, it will take effect from January 2018.
In Iceland's parliament, nearly 50% of lawmakers are women, and a voluntary measure for equal pay across the country was introduced in 2012.
However, many still do not think enough is being done.
In October, thousands of women left work early and headed out on to the streets of the capital, Reykjavik, to protest against earning less than men.
It echoed the 1975 Icelandic women's strike, when women did not go to their paid jobs, or do any housework or child-rearing at home for one day. | Iceland's parliament is examining a bill that would require companies to prove they offer equal pay to employees. | 39501616 | [
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Dr Barry Morgan said the Wales Bill, passed last week after a vote of approval by AMs, was unjust.
He added that Scotland and Northern Ireland were offered "better deals".
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has previously said it meant people in Wales would get more say over "everyday decisions in their lives".
Dr Morgan is due to retire after 14 years leading the Church in Wales.
The Wales Bill offers to extend the transfer of powers over tax, energy, transport and the assembly's own affairs but there have been claims it would reduce AMs law-making powers
Dr Morgan told the BBC's Newyddion9 programme: "Devolution in Wales is a matter of equality and fairness and we have not reached that point yet, as far as Wales is in the question in my opinion."
Asked if devolution needed to go further and faster, he said: "Of course. And I don't believe the latest bill which was passed is a just settlement.
"But, on the other hand, this is the only thing we'll be given at the moment.
"In 20 years we have reached a very good point. We now have a government which is responsible for a number of things in Wales and it's much better than having a Welsh secretary and two ministers controlling Wales.
"That is much better but it has not gone as far as it should, because Scotland and Northern Ireland have been given better deals than Wales."
Dr Morgan, who is retiring on Tuesday, has supported numerous causes while at the helm of the church, including more powers for the Welsh Assembly. | The devolution settlement for Wales is less fair than those offered to Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Archbishop of Wales has said. | 38774843 | [
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McCourt, who previously owned the Los Angeles Dodgers, told L'Equipe he planned to invest 200m euros (£180m) in the club over the next four years.
Nine-time Ligue 1 winners Marseille, who finished 13th last season, are 12th in the table after nine games.
"Today a new chapter opens in the great history of Olympique de Marseille," said McCourt, 63.
"We're going to put our club back on the road to glory."
Last season, angry Marseille fans criticised then owner Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, describing her as an "incompetent rich heiress". | American businessman Frank McCourt has bought French Ligue 1 club Marseille for 45m euros (£40.6m). | 37685865 | [
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Sofia Ashraf, 29, posted a Facebook live video of her singing a song, My Vote Is Not For You, in front of the new chief minister's residence.
Sasikala Natarajan, a close aide to the late chief minister J Jayalalitha, was appointed to the post on Sunday.
The decision has fuelled anger as Ms Natarajan has never held public office.
She was made general secretary of the AIADMK party after Jayalalitha's death in December.
The recording of Ms Ashhraf's live video has been viewed 45,000 times and shared almost 1,000 times since it was uploaded to Facebook 18 hours ago.
Tamil Nadu to get second woman leader
The Indian rapper who took on a multinational
"The youth are getting increasingly agitated, and this appointment of a woman who has never stood for election being made chief minister was the straw that broke the camel's back," Ms Ashraf told the BBC.
"It has made us lose faith in democracy."
The AIADMK had earlier explained its choice of chief minister.
"Like Amma [mother], we wanted a strong woman leader to serve the people," party spokesperson CR Saraswathi told the AFP news agency, referring to Jayalalitha by her popular nickname.
Ms Ashraf says she was performing at a venue two streets away from Ms Natarajan's residence in Chennai (Madras) when her band decided to change the lyrics to one of her songs.
She and others marched towards the house and transmitted it live on Facebook.
Police tried to stop the recording, but Ms Ashraf told the BBC that those accompanying her argued that she was doing nothing illegal.
"In Tamil Nadu there is a culture of bullying. There is no space for dissent. If you protest on the streets you are arrested, and if you protest on social media you are charged with defamation. This protest was my way of reclaiming both those spaces," she said.
"Party workers are asking us to give Sasikala a chance, but let her stand for election first."
Ms Natarajan's appointment caused a lot of chatter on Indian social media, both in Tamil Nadu and outside, with many expressing opposition to the decision. | A young Indian rapper has taken on what she calls the "undemocratic" appointment of the new chief minister of southern Tamil Nadu state. | 38880819 | [
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Sturm won a split decision after a superb fight with two judges favouring Sturm by 116-112 and the other seeing it 115-113 for Macklin.
Sturm's sharper work in the second half of the contest swung the fight his way.
Macklin made a blazing start which gave him genuine hope of an upset before fading late on.
Sturm is unbeaten in five years and was making his 10th defence in his second reign as WBA middleweight champion, on his own show in his home city.
But if the odds were stacked against Macklin, who had himself not tasted defeat since 2006, he shrugged them off in an explosive start in which he slung hooks to Sturm's body and made the champion cover up.
Far from blowing himself out, Macklin appeared to grow stronger as the early rounds progressed with Sturm relying on single, accurate shots to repel his opponent's continuous advances.
But Sturm finally got to grips with fight as it moved deeper into the second half, gaining control behind a stiff jab which had scarcely been in evidence in the opening stages.
Sturm enjoyed a big 10th round when a crashing uppercut followed by a right cross had Macklin temporarily in trouble, but the Irishman continued to fight back in pursuit of his dream.
Sturm caught the eye again in the last, finishing the contest with a furious assault which left Macklin almost out on his feet. Although both men claimed victory at the end, the verdict went with Sturm.
Macklin insisted: "I should be champion. I believe I was the better fighter, but it is not Felix's fault, he wasn't a judge."
But Sturm said: "It wasn't a wrong decision, but it was close.
"It was not my most outstanding performance, but I have had a few clear shots and Matt worked hard. In my view, the decision was absolutely correct.
"We will definitely have a second fight, we have already agreed it."
Meanwhile, Kell Brook kept his world title ambitions on course with a comfortable points victory over Lovemore N'Dou in his home city of Sheffield.
Brook now has 24 wins and no defeats, although he was unable to extend a run of eight wins inside the distance against the wily veteran. | Germany's Felix Sturm edged a tough contest against Birmingham-based Irishman Matthew Macklin in their WBA middleweight title fight in Cologne. | 13907777 | [
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Edinburgh University found chronic pain is caused partly by a person's genetic make-up and partly by as-yet-unidentified risk factors shared by partners in the same environment.
The team also identified significant overlaps between the risk factors for chronic pain and depression.
The scientists said chronic pain is a common cause of disability.
Scientists hope the research will help explain why some people suffer from the condition and not others.
The study used data from more than 100,000 people taking part in the Generation Scotland and UK Biobank projects - major studies investigating genetic links to health conditions.
The results of the collaboration with Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow universities are published in the latest edition of the journal PLOS Medicine.
Prof Andrew McIntosh, chair of biological psychiatry at Edinburgh University, said: "We hope our research will encourage people to think about the relationship between chronic pain and depression, and whether physical and mental illnesses are as separate as some believe." | Partners of people with depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain, a new study suggests. | 37094361 | [
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The 76-year-old, who received the £25,000 prize for Squint (19) at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery, was one of the shortlisted artists in 1991.
Simpson, who has also made the prize longlist on three other occasions, said finally winning was "very nice indeed".
Judge Ansel Krut said Squint (19) was "quite extraordinary", even though it was a "difficult painting to look at".
The work depicts a leper squint, which Simpson said were "holes made in the sides of medieval churches so the undesirables could look through to the service and somehow take part".
He said it was one of a series of paintings he has been working on, some of which were "much bigger".
The relatively small size of Squint (19) - which is about 7ft (2.1m) in height - was one of the reasons Simpson entered it into the competition, though he also admitted that it "seemed to be a good idea to send one that I was conversant with and was working with".
He said the prize money would be spent on "stretches, canvas and - particularly - good quality paints".
"I spend a lot of money on materials, so this money is going to go to a good cause."
Krut said Simpson's piece was "a little bit like a tone poem - when you spend some time with it, it gradually starts to build a picture".
"Technically, it's very subtle and his language is very minimal, very reduced, but when you enter into it, you get into this broad field of great sympathy, because of the subject matter.
"We couldn't have asked for a better painting."
Established in 1957, the biennial John Moores Painting Prize is one of Britain's oldest art awards.
Previous winners include David Hockney and Peter Doig. Sir Peter Blake, who is now the prize's patron, won the junior title in 1961. | Michael Simpson has won the John Moores Painting Prize, 25 years after he first came close to taking the title. | 36738377 | [
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"And on the Monday there was no one there. There was a complete hush, it was extraordinary," says Mr Haynes who used to work on the floor of the London Stock Exchange, and is now chief executive of the trading venue Aquis Exchange.
The Monday he's referring to was 30 years ago. It was the day of the Big Bang - when, in one fell swoop, the City of London was deregulated, revolutionising its fortunes and turning it into a financial capital to rival New York.
London's switch in 1986 from traditional face-to-face share dealing to electronic trading helped it outpace its European competitors and became a magnet for international banks.
Even if London now loses access to the single market, many believe the Big Bang's legacy is a financial infrastructure with foundations too deep to be moved.
But many also say it sowed the seeds of the 2008 financial crisis.
There were three key elements to the Big Bang revolution:
By ending fixed commissions Big Bang allowed more competition; by ending the separation of dealers and advisors it allowed mergers and take-overs; and by allowing in foreign owners it opened London's market to international banks.
Coupled with the new magic of electronic trading - the City jumped from the 19th Century to the threshold of the 21st.
It is generally thought that Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister drove through Big Bang as part of a programme of deregulation, but there were already powerful forces at work.
By the early 1980s the competition authorities were threatening to take the stock exchange to the Restrictive Practices Court.
Nicholas Goodison, then chairman of the Stock Exchange, believed it would be better to pre-empt the lawyers and avoid being forced to tear up its rule book.
In any case the world was already changing. The US had abolished fixed commissions in 1974, and in 1979 the Conservative government abolished exchange controls - triggering for many the UK's financial and economic rebirth.
"And there were other developments," says David Buik, now a market commentator at Panmure Gordon.
"You have to remember that LIFFE (the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange) had started up in 1982 and already attracted the big American and Japanese banks - not to mention the privatisations of British Gas, British Airways and so on."
In the end it was Mr Goodison, Trade and Industry Secretary Cecil Parkinson, and Chancellor Nigel Lawson, who persuaded Mrs Thatcher to back the reforms that changed the City for ever.
City traders were then strictly divided into two; jobbers and brokers. Brokers liaised with clients and then gave their orders to jobbers who did the actual trading, face-to-face in "open outcry", on the exchange floor.
Up until 1967 trading was done at the old Capel Court exchange, known as The House, where "waiters" would water the floors with watering cans to keep down the dust.
Nowadays the pre-Big Bang City has a bowler hat image, where a good lunch and long friendships were more important than profit. But it wasn't all like that, according to Brian Winterflood, later the founder of Winterflood Securities, who had been a jobber at Greener Dreyfus since the 1950s.
"We had lunch but we never stopped trading," he said in a 1990 interview. "If we were too busy for lunch we wouldn't go to lunch, and you'd snatch a half an hour now and again."
Crucially for the subsequent development of London as an international financial centre, the Big Bang produced a free-for-all, as brokers, jobbers and the City's traditional merchant banks merged.
Some were bought by UK clearing banks but many more were snapped up by much bigger US, European and Japanese banks.
The 300 member firms of the stock exchange had all been domestic - but within a year 75 were foreign-owned. With this came electronic trading, cutting costs as the competition increased. The jobbers vanished and the trading floor became deserted.
All this meant that the volume of trade that flooded through the new terminals soared, averaging more than $7.4bn a week after Big Bang compared with $4.5bn a week beforehand.
And costs also came down.
"When I started out it cost a fortune to trade, the spreads between buying and selling were huge. Now you can trade on your mobile phone for a fiver," says Mr Haynes.
It is said that Big Bang created 1,500 millionaires. Some 95% of the firms had been owned by partnerships, and dazzled by the massive sums on offer many sold up and retired.
It also changed the geography of London. Until then the Bank of England had insisted that all of London's banks had to be within 10 minutes' walking distance of the governor's office so, it was said, in a crisis he could summon the lords of finance to his parlour with half an hour's notice.
But the Securities and Investments Board (later the Financial Services Authority) replaced the Bank's regulatory role.
On the day of Big Bang an advertisement in the Financial Times promised a new financial centre, three miles to the east of the City at Canary Wharf, which would "feel like Venice and work like New York".
Yet not everything went to plan. In the short term there was a problem of massive overcapacity. The banks found they had overspent.
The following years saw them closing down venerable firms like Vickers da Costa, Scrimgeour Kemp-Gee, Fielding Newson-Smith, Wood Mackenzie; names that now appear only in history books and at the bottom of senior financiers' resumes.
By 1992 Canary Wharf was forced into bankruptcy as it struggled to find tenants.
But in the 1990s and 2000s, profits, salaries and bonuses boomed. Even Canary Wharf recovered and thrived.
The result was a financial sector many believe is Brexit-proof. "The banks built a huge infrastructure in technology, transport, education and telecoms, and that infrastructure is unique," says Mr Haynes.
"People who say we are going to move off to Paris or Frankfurt don't understand you can't build an infrastructure like that overnight. It can't be rebuilt quickly just anywhere in the world."
But with the wealth came something more ambiguous, and dangerous - a change of attitude. "It became much more of a dog-eat-dog environment," says David Buik.
"In the old days you would have been very careful to look after your client, you had a relationship. But it became a competition on rate and pricing. And the earnings became colossal."
Much of this was based around a bonus culture which rewarded the best deal, while short-term trumped long-term.
Some people understood better than others what was happening.
David Willetts, who was then working in the No 10 policy unit but went on to be a Conservative minister, co-authored a paper for Mrs Thatcher on the likely impact of the Big Bang.
He expressed concern about "unethical behaviour" and that financial deregulation could lead to "boom and bust" But he concluded while there might be "individual financial failures" he did not expect "a systemic problem".
On this he was wrong. The 2008 financial collapse was systemic. It prompted a new wave a regulation, trimming some of the City's freedoms.
However, no one, save perhaps the odd elderly broker, dozing now in his Surrey mansion, would dream of returning to the days of bowler hats when the waiters watered the floors in Capel Court. | "I was used to the hustle and bustle, the crowd on the floor," says Alasdair Haynes. | 37751599 | [
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Adventures in the Anthropocene is her record of the people and places she encountered on a huge global tour.
The book details how humans are altering the planet, but it also tells the stories of how we are learning to limit and cope with that change.
The Royal Society Winton Prize is worth £25,000 to the winner.
"Anthropocene" is the word used by many scientists to describe the epoch of humanity's profound influence on the Earth.
There are arguments over when our activities started to distort natural processes, but there is no doubting the effects today.
Pollution, species loss, over-exploitation of water and mineral resources, and of course climate change. The list goes on. This is "the age we made".
Gaia knew all the data from her job as a science reporter, but she wanted to see the impacts first-hand. So, she put on hold the nine-to-five existence and bought a one-way ticket to Kathmandu, to start a personal odyssey and directly sample some of the global upheaval.
She expected to be gone no more than six months, but two-and-a-half years later, she and her backpack were still travelling and still talking to people about their experiences.
Adventures in the Anthropocene is not simply a book of doom and gloom. It has many inspiring characters.
These are the individuals with bottom-up approaches to meeting the particular challenges they are facing - like the man making his own glaciers in the Indian Himalayas to store water for his neighbours, or the Belize man who has built an island habitat out of rubbish that he's collected from the sea.
"I really wanted it to be an optimistic book, because I'm an optimist; because we are incredible, we are ingenious, we are this resourceful species," she told me.
"So, yes, although we've put ourselves in this position, and are reaching all sorts of crises in various different ways in terms of food, water, energy, etc - we're also very capable of turning things around.
"I met incredible people all around the world who are already doing things for themselves.
"They're not waiting for someone in Berkeley, or Yale, or Oxford to come up with amazing solutions (although perhaps that's where the solutions will come from); they're also coming from the people who are living in conflict with our massive changes. We need to learn from them."
You can listen to Gaia talk about her book in the audio interview at the top of the page.
And still available to hear online is The Age We Made series of radio programmes that Gaia presented for the BBC World Service.
The four episodes (1, 2, 3, and 4) can also be downloaded as podcasts.
Gaia Vince blogs at Wandering Gaia
Last year's winner was a book called Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik that explored the importance of modern materials.
The full shortlist for the 2015 prize was:
You can read sample chapters from all the books at the Royal Society website.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | The UK's premier prize for science books has been won by Gaia Vince - the first female writer to claim the award outright in its near 30-year history. | 34363448 | [
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The event in Sarasota-Bradenton takes place between 24 September and 1 October.
European champion Victoria Thornley continues in the single scull, having also won two World Cup silver medals this season.
Thornley moved to the single scull in 2017 having won silver with Dame Katherine Grainger in the double scull at the Rio Olympics.
Rio gold medallists Moe Sbihi and Will Satch are included in the men's four, while another Rio champion, Tom Ransley, is part of the men's eight.
London 2012 gold medal-winner Katherine Copeland is named in the lightweight double scull.
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Pair:
Tom Jeffery, Tom George
Coxed pair:
Tim Clarke, Tom Ford, Harry Brightmore (cox)
Lightweight pair:
Joel Cassells, Sam Scrimgeour
Four:
Matt Rossiter, Moe Sbihi, Mat Tarrant, Will Satch
Eight:
Ollie Cook, Callum McBrierty, Jacob Dawson, Adam Neill, Tom Ransley, Alan Sinclair, James Rudkin, Lance Tredell, Henry Fieldman (cox)
Single scull:
Tom Barras
Lightweight double scull:
Sam Mottram, Jamie Copus
Quadruple scull:
Jack Beaumont, Jonny Walton, John Collins, Peter Lambert
Lightweight quadruple scull:
Gavin Horsburgh, Peter Chambers, Ed Fisher, Zak Lee-Green
Men's reserves:
Frazier Christie, Cameron Buchan, Oliver Wynne-Griffith
Pair:
Holly Hill, Melissa Wilson
Eight:
Anastasia Chitty, Rebecca Chin, Fiona Gammond, Katherine Douglas, Josephine Wratten, Holly Norton, Karen Bennett, Rebecca Shorten, Matilda Horn (cox)
Single scull:
Victoria Thornley
Lightweight double scull
Katherine Copeland, Emily Craig
Quadruple scull:
Beth Bryan, Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne, Holly Nixon (fourth rower to be confirmed)
Lightweight quadruple scull:
Maddie Arlett, Robyn Hart-Winks, Eleanor Piggott, Gemma Hall
Women's reserves:
Alice Baatz, Georgia Francis, Ellie Lewis
PR1 single scull:
Andy Houghton
PR3 mixed coxed four:
Oliver Stanhope, Grace Clough, Giedre Rakauskaite, James Fox, Anna Corderoy (cox) | Great Britain has selected 17 crews for the World Rowing Championships in Florida. | 40888616 | [
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A Spanish court has suspended a ban on the former France midfielder and World Cup winner, 42, coaching Real Madrid Castilla.
The Spanish football federation punished Zidane and fellow reserve team coach Santiago Sanchez for not having the required qualifications.
Media playback is not supported on this device
Real said they would "pursue every legal avenue" to overturn the ban.
The European champions said Zidane was awarded the necessary licence by the French football federation.
He was appointed Real reserve-team boss this summer after working as assistant to first-team coach Carlo Ancelotti last season.
Zidane won the World Cup with France in 1998 and was named World Footballer of the Year in 1998, 2000 and 2003.
He spent five seasons with Real as a player after joining from Juventus in 2001 for £45.8m - then a world record fee - and scored the winner in the 2002 Champions League final.
Castilla were relegated from the second division last season, before Zidane joined the coaching staff. They are currently 14th in Group 2 of the regional four-group Segunda B, the third tier. | Zinedine Zidane can continue coaching Real Madrid reserves until his appeal against a three-month ban is heard. | 29856320 | [
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The 23-year-old striker, on loan from Al Hilal, pounced on a sloppy pass from defender Daniel Ayala and slotted a fine finish past Darren Randolph.
Boro forward Martin Braithwaite should have levelled at Molineux before the break, but headed wide while unmarked.
Britt Assombalonga was denied by goalkeeper John Ruddy as Boro pressed late on and Wolves held on for victory.
Wolves' new manager Nuno Espirito Santo handed starts to seven summer acquisitions, including the Championship's record signing Ruben Neves in midfield.
Finding a prolific striker was one of Nuno's priorities ahead of the campaign, after midfielder Dave Edwards and winger Helder Costa, missing through injury, topped Wolves' scoring charts last season.
And it was former Brazil under-17 player Bonatini who made the difference with the most composed of strikes after some terrible defending.
Ayala attempted to pass the ball to Ben Gibson, but it was woefully short allowing Bonatini to nip in and place his effort into the bottom corner.
Middlesbrough also struggled to find the back of the net in 2016-17, scoring just 27 times as they were relegated from the Premier League.
New boss Garry Monk started three of his new forwards - Ashley Fletcher, Assombalonga and Denmark international Braithwaite - but they could not find a way through a resolute Wolves defence.
Wolves head coach Nuno Espirito Santo:
"It was a tough game and in the first half we played very well. We controlled the game and this is the way we should work.
"I think that we deserved the three points and we are pleased with the boys.
"We are still not the final product and every game will be better. This is the line that we want from the boys, always progress, always get better."
Middlesbrough boss Garry Monk:
"In the first half Wolves were the better team and we made too many mistakes and obviously one of them led to a goal.
"But I thought we were the better team in the second half and we upped our level of urgency. We need that at the start of games.
"We had the best chances in the game and on any other day we could have taken one or two of them. That is football and is sometimes the way that it works out."
Match ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1, Middlesbrough 0.
Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Adam Forshaw (Middlesbrough).
Jordan Graham (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Hand ball by David Edwards (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Offside, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Matt Doherty tries a through ball, but David Edwards is caught offside.
Foul by Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough).
Jordan Graham (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Cyrus Christie (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jordan Graham replaces Diogo Jota.
Attempt missed. Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Rudy Gestede replaces Jonny Howson.
Attempt saved. Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jonny Howson.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. David Edwards replaces Bright Enobakhare.
Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Cyrus Christie (Middlesbrough).
Attempt blocked. Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by John Ruddy.
Attempt saved. Britt Assombalonga (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Patrick Bamford with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Jonny Howson (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Adam Clayton following a set piece situation.
Foul by Willy Boly (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Patrick Bamford (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Willy Boly (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Barry Douglas with a cross.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Adam Clayton.
Attempt blocked. Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Barry Douglas with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by George Friend.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Adam Forshaw replaces Marten de Roon.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Marten de Roon tries a through ball, but Adam Clayton is caught offside.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Conor Coady.
Diogo Jota (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Cyrus Christie (Middlesbrough).
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Marten de Roon.
Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Diogo Jota (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough).
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Nouha Dicko replaces Léo Bonatini.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Patrick Bamford replaces Ashley Fletcher.
Attempt missed. Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner. | Brazilian Leo Bonatini scored on his debut to give Wolves an opening-day Championship win against Middlesbrough. | 40760787 | [
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The National League club's ground is undergoing refurbishments this summer.
The Hive, home of Barnet, hosted Arsenal for the 2017 Spring Series as a new pitch was laid at Meadow Park.
"We're delighted to continue our long-standing relationship and pleased to contribute to these improvements," said Arsenal club secretary David Miles.
Boreham Wood chairman Danny Hunter told his club's website: "This long-term partnership and a grant from the Premier League, through the FSIF (Football Stadia Improvement Fund), have helped us to undertake an incredible range of Premier League-type ground improvements."
Meanwhile, former WSL 1 champions Arsenal have given a new deal to Netherlands international goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal.
The 27-year-old, who joined the Gunners in 2015, has agreed an undisclosed-length contract with Pedro Martinez Losa's side. | Arsenal Ladies have agreed a deal to continue playing their home games at Boreham Wood's Meadow Park home until 2027, along with Arsenal's youth teams. | 40420825 | [
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Have the media lost interest? Is it a question of chronic political fatigue? Are our brains simply not wired to think long-term?
The BBC World Service's The Inquiry hears from four expert witnesses.
Max Boykoff founded the Media Climate Change Observatory a decade ago.
"We monitor 50 sources around the world across 25 countries on six continents. We seek to put our fingers on the pulse of the ebbs and flows of coverage of climate change over time, month to month.
"It's not an exhaustive reading of all media accounts everywhere around the globe across all platforms, but rather is a way to get us talking productively.
"In 2004 there were relatively low levels of coverage. Around 2006, into 2007 there was an uptick. There was a high water mark in 2009 [at the time of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen].
"From that high water mark to 2014, coverage has dropped: 36% globally; 26% in the US; and as much as 55% in the UK.
"Within the last year here in the United States, National Public Radio reduced its environment reporting team from three to one reporter.
"We see examples of this unfolding quite regularly. There's certainly newsroom pressures. There's shrinking time to deadline, there's reduced resources to cover complex issues such as climate change that require a certain level of investigation, a certain level of familiarity with the contours and the nuances of the topics."
Jennifer Morgan is the Global Director of the climate change programme at the World Resources Institute.
"Copenhagen was supposed to be the moment when over 190 countries came together and agreed a new legally binding agreement to address climate change. It was very much a great excitement and anticipation of trying to finally get a global agreement after the Kyoto years.
"I remember walking in with a colleague of mine, and saying 'Okay, we have to do it. We have to get this done, these moments don't happen very often'.
"But it soon became clear that negotiations weren't going to plan:
"In the middle of the second week normally what happens is the options start to get narrowed down, and you can see the package emerging. That wasn't happening, and that's when we all started to get very concerned."
China's chief negotiator was barred by security for the first few days, sessions were routinely suspended in the name of finishing on time, developing countries said they were ignored, and the EU was missing from a final meeting where a last-minute, non-binding deal was drawn up.
"It was terrible. [We felt] an exhausted defeat, just a deep fatigue, particularly from the European side, of just wanting to take a break. The personal sacrifice - it sounds crazy - but believing and trying to make something happen, I think it was a trauma, just to put so much blood, sweat and tears into it.
"Right after Copenhagen, there was a sense that there needed to be a bit of a time out on the world leaders' side of things. So it definitely went into a very low level of attention for a few years. The relationships of some of the Heads of State after Copenhagen were quite strained.
"Even months after, it was almost like [they] had been being psychologically burned by this.
"That's had a real impact on the willingness of these individuals to stay engaged."
Environmental psychologist Robert Gifford researches why even those who accept a link between human behaviour and climate change are reluctant to act.
"Our brain physically hasn't developed much for about 30,000 years. At that time we were mostly wandering around on the Savannah, and our main concerns were very immediate: feeding ourselves right now, worrying about anybody who might try to take our territory. There was very little thinking about what might happen in five years, 10 years, or 100km away.
"We still have this same brain. Obviously we're capable of planning, but the kind of default is to stick into the here and now, which is not very good for thinking about climate change, which is a problem that, for many people, is more in the future and farther away, or at least we think it is.
"[And] as any advertiser knows, if you don't change your message people will just tune out. And so environmental numbness is 'yes, I've heard that message before'. We're always open to new messages, and paying more attention to new messages. So if governments or policymakers repeat the same message too often, people just tune out after a while."
We also tend to tune out when we feel helpless:
The Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays from 13:05 GMT
Listen to the programme
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"'What can I do about this global problem? I'm just one person, and there's 7+ billion people on the planet. I just don't have much control over this, so therefore I'm not going to do much about it, because my contribution, even if I did everything, wouldn't make much difference.'
"Most of us who are trying to do something about this have realised, for example, that the polar bear metaphor is not a great one. Yes, we have some sympathy for this poor polar bear, but it's not close enough to our own lives.
"Uncertainty is a really big problem. We've learned in my own laboratory from experimental evidence that when people feel a bit uncertain about an environmental problem - if the future temperature might vary from a half a degree increase to a one and a half degrees increase - people will say 'well, it's probably only going to be a half a degree increase, so I'll keep flying to some tropical place'.
"It's a natural human tendency to interpret information in a way that suits our personal interests.
Joe Smith teaches geography at the Open University and argues the narrative around climate science must evolve.
"I'm not sure that people need to engage with climate change at all. It's more or less unreportable if you just describe it on the page. It's complex, interdisciplinary, the findings drip out over time, and the boundary between science and policy and politics is a very messy one. It's a real challenge for the media.
"The idea that we will mobilise any more people with fear messaging is wrong. I think we've knocked at the door of everyone that might respond to such a thing, but you've also got to ask whether it's an accurate way of telling the science. I think it is more respectful to the nature of the science to say that it's one of humanity's most ambitious questions.
"There was a tactical wrong turning in suggesting that by insisting that the debate is over, we can move onto the action. It somehow implied that the science was complete, and that, of course, left lots of space for those people who have arguments about the actions on climate change to stand in the way of us having a proper public conversation about those actions because they were able to pick apart minor details in the science.
"It's not just that climate science isn't finished, it's actually unfinishable.
"The rest of science - particle physics, cosmology - is allowed to be rather saucy. I would love to get to the point where we allow climate change science to simply be interesting, enchanting even, as fascinating as any area of science because it's a hugely ambitious and compelling mission.
"If you want to talk to a business person, you talk about energy security for their business or energy security for their nation. If you want to talk to a parent at the school gate, you talk to them about the health of their child, their experience of the trip to school - wouldn't they be happier walking and cycling?
"Talking about climate change doesn't have to involve 'talking about climate change' to lead us to some really substantial actions.
"We don't need to wear a climate change t-shirt."
The Inquiry is broadcast on the BBC World Service on Tuesdays from 13:05 GMT. Listen online or download the podcast. | Since there is a consensus amongst the majority of the world's scientists that temperatures are rising - most likely driven by human behaviour - why does climate change coverage seem to be drying up? | 32131142 | [
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Sources say there has been a rise in avalanches, landslide-dammed rivers bursting, glaciers cracking and glacial lakes dangerously filling up.
Studies by Chinese scientists have shown glaciers and permafrost rapidly melting in Tibet.
Earthquakes also continue to destabilise them.
A recent study has shown Tibet topping the list of places across the globe that has experienced an increase in water.
Mining and dam construction in the Tibetan plateau have further fuelled concerns in downstream countries.
In the absence of early warnings from Tibet, water-related disasters can cause human and property losses downstream in Bhutan, Nepal, India and potentially Bangladesh.
One recent event took place in July when buildings in Nepalese towns bordering Tibet were swept away by a sudden flood.
Authorities in Nepal say it was the result of landslides in Tibet that dammed the Bhotekoshi river.
This is one of several rivers that run through Nepal which originate in Tibet.
Most houses in Liping, the main town bordering Tibet, have either been swept away by floodwaters or brought down because of soil erosion caused by the floods.
In Barabise and other smaller settlements, the BBC saw several houses precariously perched on the edge and all set to collapse because of the flooding.
This was one of the most affected areas during last year's earthquake.
"That is where my house used to stand and now all you see is a cliff overlooking the river," said Nimji Sherpa, a shopkeeper.
"That night I received a call from my relative upstream that a flood was hurtling towards us. I dragged my old husband to higher land."
"The next morning we came back to see that our house and all that we had was gone. Last year the earthquake destroyed my house and we had come here to start afresh and now floods have taken everything," she said, with tears in her eyes.
Further up, a stretch of the Arniko highway, that links Nepal to Tibet, is gone which has disrupted traffic.
"The authorities have told us to move 100 metres higher at night to sleep because we don't know what is coming our way," said Nimji Sherpa.
"How long can we live like this?"
Officials in Sindhupalchok district said they were able to evacuate people during the July flash flood.
"We were lucky that we could save people because of our own early warning system but timely information from the Tibet side could have helped us save properties as well," said Gokarna Dawadi, chief government official in the district, who recently left this role.
"We have approached the Chinese side a number of times to discuss this issue as we fear future disasters but it has not moved anywhere."
In the past 80 years, scientists have recorded 10 occasions when glacial lakes burst out in Tibet and the flood waters reached Nepal.
Officials in the Nepali capital Kathmandu said the Bhotekoshi disaster was an eye-opener.
"So far we have no communication between China and Nepal regarding the early flood warning system," said Rishi Raj Sharma, director general of Nepal's department of hydrology and meteorology.
"There has been some initial dialogue with the Chinese meteorology department but we need to raise this more seriously through our foreign ministry."
Residents of the Nepali towns bordering Tibet are having sleepless nights but settlements far away from the Tibetan territory are also at risk.
The Bhotekoshi river is a tributary of the Kosi which flows down from Nepal into India to meet the Ganges.
Locals in Sunsari district in south-eastern Nepal, where the Kosi is at its widest and most powerful, said they have heard about floods from Tibet and were concerned.
The Kosi, known as the sorrow of Bihar flooded in 2008, displacing tens of thousands of people in Nepal and India.
A local water expert Dev Narayan Yadav said fears of future floods were not unfounded.
"Our people here know how the bursting of glacial lakes in Tibet have flooded rivers in western Nepal and also in the Brahmaputra basin of India," Mr Yadav explained.
"And because the Kosi disaster of 2008 is quite fresh in their memory, they are really wary of what might be happening upstream."
The Kosi barrage was built by India to control flood water and is operated by Indian authorities.
It was built in 1962 and there are concerns it is no longer fit for purpose. The Indian government is planning to build a major dam upstream in Nepal.
"Big structures like these make us more scared because they will multiply the disaster and we will suffer," said Mr Yadav
The Central Water Commission of India is tasked with planning and building the new dam.
Officials say they have concerns about flooding from Tibet too but they're focused on the dams China is building on Tibetan rivers.
"If waters from them are released in a larger quantity, they may become floods and if we have no storage in the Indian portion, that may create havoc," the commission's chairman Ghanashyam Jha told the BBC.
"We have an arrangement for sharing flood information but all the desired information is not available."
The water resource department of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh that shares a border with Tibet has stressed the proper networking of co-basins for flood warnings.
"The flash flood of Pasighat during 11 May 2000 is an example in which the loss of lives and properties could have been minimised had there been proper networking and sharing of information to the downstream county," it says on its website.
The Chinese authorities in Beijing did not respond to our questions.
Officials in Tibet, however, said flood information was being shared with India and Bangladesh.
They said they would only do the same with Nepal if they received instructions from the Chinese ministry of water resources.
The United Nations wants all parties to work together.
"I think there should be cross-boundary cooperation between countries in the region and unless it happens we cannot control floods," says Vijay Singh, a senior official the United Nations Development Programme Nepal office, who has worked on flood management in the country for years.
"We are creating a platform so that governments of Nepal and China can come together and realise the importance of information exchange between the two but it will take some time." | India and Nepal say a lack of information from China about glacial lakes and rivers in Tibet could hamper their ability to plan for flash floods. | 37249193 | [
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Walter Oakley received a letter from the Russian and US leaders thanking him for his help in televising the meeting.
No agreements were signed at the summit but it was said to mark the end of the Cold War.
Mr Oakley from Low Fell, Gateshead, was holidaying when CNN asked him to help organise filming.
Newcastle auctioneers Anderson and Garland said the value is impossible to know.
Mr Oakley came across the letter again while researching a book about his family and has decided to sell it so more people can see and enjoy it.
His wife Diane said the letter has meant a lot to the family but it belongs in a collection or museum.
She said: "No matter how busy they were, they had the time to sit down and write the letter.
"He was Walt to both of them. He said they were both very nice guys, very easy to get along with. You wouldn't think they were the presidents of the two most powerful countries in the world."
Auctioneer Fred Wyrley-Birch said: "It's impossible to say how much the letter is worth because something like this has never been up for sale before to my knowledge.
"We'll start the bidding at £1,000 and see where it goes from there.
"Looking at the political situation between the US and Russia at the moment, it's a very interesting glimpse back to 27 years ago when there were increasingly friendly relations."
The letter will be auctioned during the Anderson and Garland's Fine Art sale from 22 to 24 March. | A letter sent to a TV engineer by Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush after their 1989 summit in Malta is being auctioned. | 35851426 | [
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The miner said it would sell 27 billion shares at 1p per share. That compares with a share price of 16.25p on Friday.
Its shares have already tumbled 90% this year as it has also struggled to cope with strikes and rising costs.
Lonmin had already stated that its shares would be issued at a "significant discount".
Shares in the platinum miner rose nearly 10% to 17.75p in early trade on the London Stock Exchange.
Lonmin will use the cash raised to help secure $370m (£246m) in bank loans which will mature in 2020. Those loans will replace an existing $543m of loans, which are due to be repaid next year.
The company urged shareholders to approve the cash call, saying the injection was crucial to its survival.
It said if shareholders did not approve the rights issue, its lenders would not allow it to refinance its debt.
Platinum prices have fallen by about 22% in the last year.
"The rights issue has been fully underwritten and we hope shareholders vote positively. We firmly believe that the rights issue is in the best interest of our shareholders," Lonmin chief executive Ben Magara said in a statement.
The rights issue came as Lonmin reported an annual loss of $2.2bn, compared with a loss of $326m a year earlier.
The majority of its losses came from a $1.5bn impairment charge at its Marikana mine in South Africa, where 34 miners were killed by police during strikes and unrest in 2010.
Miners have been suffering heavily in recent months as a result of lower commodity prices. But Lonmin was also hit hard by another miners' strike in South Africa in 2014.
In July, it announced plans to close or mothball several mine shafts, putting 6,000 jobs at risk.
It said on Monday that about 3,100 people had since left the company.
Last month, Glencore announced the sale of two of its copper mines in Australia and Chile, in an effort to reduce a debt pile of £19.5bn created by its 2013 takeover of Xstrata.
The share sale is the second in three years at the embattled platinum minter.
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He said his party was on course to win its first ever seats in Cardiff - where it is campaigning heavily - and in the Northern Ireland and London Assemblies.
It was "50-50" whether the party would gain representation in the Scottish Parliament for the first time, he said.
He declined to put a target on UKIP gains in English council elections.
UKIP is campaigning on multiple fronts as it seeks to become the only UK party to get people elected to the National Assembly of Wales, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly as well as the Greater London Assembly.
The party has focused much of its time and resources in Wales, where it won 13% of the vote in last year's general election.
Opinion polls suggest UKIP is set to win seats for the first time despite a row over its candidate selection process.
Mr Farage told the BBC's Daily Politics: "There will be a breakthrough in Wales. I think we are going to win five seats - we may do slightly better than that. Let's see."
As for England, Mr Farage would not be drawn on how many seats it would gain but said its record in local government was a good one and he predicted it would consolidate its position in its existing strongholds in Essex and South Yorkshire.
"We will make gains. To try and guess how many is virtually impossible. In Thurrock, I think we will become the biggest party on that council, in Rotherham we have a chance of becoming the biggest party on that council.
"There are 500 local UKIP councillors. Our local base is growing, the people who have had elected have behaved, on the whole, pretty well and been very diligent and worked very hard. Yes, we will improve."
There has been speculation about the future of the party, and a possible change in direction, whatever the outcome of June's referendum on EU membership.
Mr Farage said if there was a narrow vote to stay in the EU, a lot of Conservative and Labour supporters would be unable to reconcile themselves with the result and their party leadership's stance and UKIP could find itself "a lot bigger than it is now".
If there was a vote to leave, he said UKIP would need to "stay around" to ensure that the people's will was "implemented" but he conceded that it would need to show it could talk about issues other than Europe.
And he rejected suggestions that UKIP - which only managed to get one MP elected in last year's general election despite winning 12% of the vote - was treading water nationally, citing a recent YouGov opinion poll which put it on 20%.
"We are now at the highest we have ever been as a party - what more can I do?" | UKIP will win at least five seats on the Welsh Assembly as part of a UK-wide "breakthrough" in Thursday's polls, its leader Nigel Farage has said. | 36195492 | [
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The Labour MP, who was shot and stabbed after holding an advice session for her constituents in West Yorkshire, had campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU and championed the contribution of immigrants to British society.
She was also an active supporter of Syrian opposition groups against the country's President, Bashar al-Assad.
US politician Gabrielle Giffords, herself the victim of an assassination attempt at a political rally in 2011, wrote on Twitter that she was "absolutely sickened" by the killing, praising Mrs Cox as "young, courageous, and hardworking. A rising star, mother, and wife".
Ms Giffords survived being shot in the head in an attack that left six people dead and many injured. She was put in an induced coma and endured weeks of slow recovery.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the killing was "an assault on everyone who cares about and has faith in democracy".
Germany's government tweeted about the "sad and terrible news of British MP Jo Cox", adding that "our thoughts are with her husband and children".
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Twitter that the assassination was an attack on the democratic ideal and called on people to "never accept that!"
Spanish Prime Minster Mariano Rajoy said in a letter his British counterpart that "violence has no place in democracy" and asked Prime Minister David Cameron "to convey our deepest and sincere condolences to their families, relatives and all the British people".
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who also chairs the group of eurozone finance ministers, tweeted that the UK was "a beacon of peaceful politics, I hope the people of the UK can make their democratic choices serenly and in safety next week".
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tweeted he was "saddened by the terrible murder" and included a statement from Mrs Cox's husband in his tweet.
Media in Europe and the US report the killing, stressing the role of Mrs Cox as a determined campaigner for Britain to remain in the European Union in the forthcoming referendum on 23 June.
The motive for the murder is still unclear but witnesses say the killer shouted "Put Britain first!" before repeatedly shooting and stabbing Mrs Cox.
Campaigning in the EU referendum has been temporarily suspended, with British politicians widely condemning the attack and expressing their condolences for the family.
Mrs Cox's role as a vocal supporter of Syrian opposition groups and refugee rights has also brought many expressions of solidarity and condolence.
The Syrian White Helmets non-partisan volunteer rescue group tweeted: "Our thoughts and prayers are with @Jo_Cox1 and her family."
The British MP had given a passionate speech on the crisis in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo and was co-chair of a recently formed cross-party parliamentary group on Syria.
Syrian journalists in exile have also expressed their grief at the death of someone who they saw as a strong voice of support.
Before entering Parliament, Mrs Cox worked for a number of charities including Oxfam and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Oxfam chief executive Mark Goldring tweeted that all at Oxfam were "devastated at the loss of our much loved and admired former colleague #Jo Cox MP". | Tributes to British MP Jo Cox have poured in from politicians and public figures around the world. | 36551809 | [
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Encore recorded 20,000 combined sales, the Official Charts Company said.
In the singles chart, The Chainsmokers go top with Closer, the DJ duo's collaboration with US singer Halsey.
The Chainsmokers, aka Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, said they were "beyond grateful at all the support from our UK fans".
"As a relatively new artist, it means a lot to us and gives us a lot of confidence in the music we have coming up," they said,
DJ Snake and Justin Bieber's Let Me Love You remains at two for the fourth straight week, one place above last week's number one record.
After five unassailable weeks in pole position, Cold Water - from Major Lazer and featuring Justin Bieber and MØ - drops to number three.
Calum Scott's Dancing On My Own and Twenty One Pilots' Heathens are non-movers at four and five respectively.
Twenty One Pilots occupy the same spot in the album chart, thanks to the US duo's fourth album Blurryface jumping six places to five.
The remainder of the top five is made up of Frank Ocean's Blonde at three, and Dolly Parton's Pure and Simple at four.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Glory, Britney Spears' latest release, has been beaten to the top of the UK album chart by the 35th studio album from US music veteran Barbra Streisand. | 37258977 | [
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Inspectors found staff at Complete Utilities Ltd were not fully trained to operate plant vehicles, and the work site was "chaotic and disorganised".
At Gloucester Crown Court, the firm was also ordered to pay costs of £27,000.
Employee Spencer Powles, 62, from Coleford, died 10 days after the incident on October 24, 2012.
He suffered severe injuries to his abdomen when a telehandler lurched forward, pinning him against a metal shipping container at the firm's Maisemore site.
A telehandler is a four-wheel drive machine, mostly used in farming and industry, which has an interchangeable bucket on the end of a telescopic arm.
Speaking after sentencing, health and safety inspector Caroline Bird said: "This terrible incident could have been avoided and Mr Powles would still be here today if Complete Utilities had provided proper training to staff in the operation of this telehandler.
"It is not acceptable to put drivers into vehicles that they have not previously operated, or without the necessary training by a qualified and competent instructor."
The BBC has tried to contact Complete Utilities Ltd for a response to the case and the criticisms of its operations. | A Gloucester-based firm has been fined £80,000 after a man was crushed between an industrial vehicle and a shipping container at work and later died. | 30458100 | [
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The cameras will be operated by the Canadian Urthecast company, which intends to stream high-resolution video of the planet to web users.
Russian cosmonauts completed the attachment in a six-hour spacewalk on Monday.
It followed an aborted installation attempt in December.
On that occasion, there was a difficulty in getting telemetry through to Moscow mission control.
In a statement on Tuesday, Urthecast confirmed that both cameras were passing data to the ground following the latest effort.
"During the installation, we were able to complete all of the intended tests during the spacewalk," the statement read.
"At this time, all telemetry received and analysed is within our expected results."
The cameras were made for Urthecast by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK.
The high-resolution video unit should provide a resolution on the ground of about 1m per pixel. Large crowds and moving vehicles would be visible on this scale.
The second camera will provide static imagery at a medium resolution of 5m per pixel.
"Testing of every part of the camera system will now follow. Once that's completed, we can expect the first imagery to be released publicly," said Prof Richard Holdaway, the director of RAL Space.
"We'll be helping Urthecast. We'll be checking the optical alignment and focus, to see that it is everything we expected," he told BBC News.
Urthecast hopes to build a business around space station imagery. One of the customer sectors for the hi-res video, for example, is likely to be news organisations that want moving pictures of major events, such as war zones and regions of the Earth hit by natural disasters.
It is hoping also to generate social media buzz around its imagery products, by enabling people to tag and share pictures through a special web portal.
Urthecast is one of a group of Earth observation start-ups currently in the process of launching and commissioning space hardware.
Skybox Imaging of San Francisco has already started to showcase video of Earth acquired by its small, free-flying SkySat-1 satellite. And Planet Labs, another San Francisco venture, has a "flock" of 28 nano-satellite imagers that are about to be released out of the airlock on the ISS.
The station itself is increasingly becoming a platform for Earth observation. This is quite a challenge, however.
The movement of the astronauts inside the ISS makes it flex, and there is a constant vibration from onboard equipment.
All this requires cameras to have dampers built into their rigs to maintain a steady shot.
The US space agency (Nasa) will be launching another two Earth-observing instruments to the station this year. One will study ocean winds and storms; the other will examine small particles in the atmosphere that can influence the climate. | Two British-built Earth-observation cameras have been successfully installed on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) | 25928132 | [
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Brock Turner, 21, who was a swimming champion, assaulted the woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house.
He was freed from the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, California, after serving three months.
Inmates in California typically serve 50% of their sentences before release.
Turner, who left the jail without commenting to journalists, apparently intends to return to Ohio to live with his parents.
Under the terms of his release, he faces three years of supervised probation and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
The local sheriff's office in Ohio said Turner would be treated "no differently than any other sex offender we monitor".
The former swimmer's sentence prompted an outcry, with critics saying the judge had been overly lenient and sex assaults on US campuses were not being treated seriously enough.
Prosecutors had demanded a sentence of six years in state prison.
Judge Aaron Persky, who handed down the sentence, expressed concern about the impact of prison on Turner. In his decision, he said positive character references and Turner's remorse and lack of previous criminal record were mitigating factors.
Turner's father, Dan, also sparked outrage during the case, saying his son should not have been jailed for "20 minutes of action".
Two witnesses said they had seen him sexually assaulting the woman, who was lying on the ground unconscious.
The victim, referred to by the pseudonym Emily Doe, released her victim impact statement publicly. It was read by millions, and praised by US Vice President Joe Biden.
She criticised Turner for not admitting the crime and putting her and her family through an "invasive" and "aggressive" trial.
Later, she expressed disappointment at the "gentle" sentence her attacker received.
California attorney general Kamala Harris added her voice to the criticism, questioning whether the facts "merit that kind of mitigation".
Protesters have called for the recall of Judge Persky, who last month asked to be assigned to the court's civil division.
Earlier this week, legislators in California closed a loophole in sexual assault cases, whereby more lenient sentences could be issued if the victim did not resist.
In California, the use of force in a sexual assault results in a mandatory prison sentence. In cases where no force is used - when the victim is unable to defend themselves - no mandatory sentence exists.
State assembly members voted unanimously to amend the law, and prevent the use of probation in such cases. The bill has been passed to Governor Jerry Brown for approval, but has not yet been signed into law. | A student at a top US university whose six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 was widely criticised for being too lenient has been released from prison. | 37259537 | [
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In January, the loyalist campaign of protest against Belfast City Council's vote to limit the flying of the union flag to designated days only was still at its height.
By December, attempts by dissident republicans to disrupt pre-Christmas trade captured the headlines.
In one shocking incident, a man set himself alight, apparently when a firebomb he intended to plant detonated prematurely.
However, those seeking to cause disruption did not have matters all their own way. Fermanagh played host to what was commonly acknowledged to have been the most peaceful gathering of G8 leaders in recent years - an event quite unthinkable during the Troubles.
In Belfast's Waterfront Hall, the US president. Barack Obama, told 2,000 school pupils that the terms of peace might be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of the peace process was up to everyone, young and old.
Meanwhile, Londonderry spent the year basking in its status as UK City of Culture. Early fears that Irish republican qualms about the city of culture's "UK" label would overshadow the year receded once the extraordinary procession of events, such as a musical hot air balloon overflight, a lumière lighting up the city, and the massive fleadh cheoil Irish folk festival got under way.
With no general elections to fight, 2013 might have been a year during which relationships between the main Stormont parties eased, enabling the power-sharing executive to make progress on a number of fronts.
In reality, the tensions raised by the Belfast union flag dispute prevented any mid-term détente, making it impossible to bridge policy gaps on outstanding issues like welfare reform.
Under pressure from the Northern Ireland Office and Downing Street, the first and deputy first ministers did make an ambitious sounding declaration - setting 2023 as their target date for bringing down Belfast's peace walls.
Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness also announced plans for new shared education campuses, and schemes intended to bring young Protestants and Catholics together in work placements or summer camps.
The payback from London came with confirmation that the G8 summit would take place in Northern Ireland and a package of financial assistance to the executive as they sought to provide prosperity and stability.
However, the big prize Stormont politicians still pursue, the devolution of corporation tax, was not forthcoming as the Treasury chose to delay any decision until after the Scottish independence referendum.
Even as they announced their 10-year target for bringing down the peace walls, the first and deputy first ministers acknowledged they had not been able to resolve the "tough issues": flags, parades and the past. They needed help from a neutral arbiter, so approached the respected former US envoy, Dr Richard Haass.
Before Dr Haass had a chance to start work, relations between Northern Ireland's leaders hit a new low.
During the summer, there were renewed tensions over Orange Order and other parades in Belfast, and a Sinn Féin commemoration for dead republicans in Castlederg, County Tyrone.
In a letter from his holiday home in Florida, Mr Robinson put on hold the executive's prestige Maze Peace Centre project. The decision infuriated Mr McGuinness and made for an awkward week in New York as the two politicians lobbied together for fresh investment, trying their best to hide their obvious disagreements.
For the Ulster Unionists, the DUP decision to halt the Maze centre was a cause for celebration. They had campaigned against the centre as a potential "shrine" to the IRA, and their leader, Mike Nesbitt, began his annual conference speech with a picture of the Maze behind his podium, just to drive home his tactical victory.
The hard line taken by the Ulster Unionists on the Maze followed the loss of two of their most liberal assembly members.
Basil McCrea and John McCallister opposed their party's decision to support a unionist unity candidate in a Westminster by-election in Mid Ulster in March. Sinn Féin's Francie Molloy won the election, replacing Mr McGuinness as an abstentionist MP.
The articulate duo of McCrea and McCallister formed a new liberal unionist party, called NI21.
NI21 are new arrivals - the Traditional Unionists have been around a bit longer. 2013 was a good year for the TUV leader Jim Allister, who succeeded in getting his Special Advisers Bill passed.
Prompted by the outcry over the appointment of a Sinn Féin adviser convicted for her part in the murder of magistrate's daughter Mary Travers, the bill prevented anyone with such a serious conviction getting a similar job.
Mr Allister also impressed in his cross-examination of the DUP Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland who faced questions about his handling of some Housing Executive contracts.
Both the SDLP and the DUP promoted some younger faces during 2013.
The DUP replaced its East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson with its Strangford MLA Simon Hamilton at the finance department. Whether Mr Wilson decides to give up his Westminster seat or his Stormont post in 2015 will be an interesting pointer not just to the future of the DUP but also where senior politicians believe the centre of gravity now lies.
The SDLP replaced their environment minister Alex Attwood with one of their Foyle MLAs, Mark Durkan, nephew of the party's MP of the same name. The young minister proved his mettle when he withdrew a major planning bill rather than allow the DUP and Sinn Féin to graft on major amendments that he opposed.
However, the most unexpected development, so far as the SDLP was concerned, was not Mr Durkan's promotion, but the dramatic fall from public life of a man widely predicted to be a future party leader.
When the BBC initially questioned Conall McDevitt about using his wife's firm for assembly research, the matter seemed a little local difficulty. But when it emerged that Mr McDevitt had also not disclosed some earnings from a public relations firm at the outset of his career in the assembly, the South Belfast MLA decided he had no option but to quit politics entirely.
The economy and traditional green/orange concerns dominated Stormont proceedings. But the politics of health and morality also drew considerable attention.
Health Minister Edwin Poots of the DUP faced criticism over plans to close care homes for the elderly. He also found himself centre stage after losing a court case challenging his policy preventing blood donations from gay men.
Then there was his department's delay in issuing new abortion guidelines - and the legal confusion highlighted by cases of pregnant women having to travel to England for terminations even though they had been advised their baby had no chance of survival.
The issue posed challenges not just for Mr Poots but also for the Alliance Justice Minister David Ford, who announced his desire to consult on changes to the abortion law.
Another moral matter that involved both Mr Ford and the DUP was human trafficking and prostitution. DUP peer Lord Morrow is keen on introducing a Swedish-style ban on paying for sexual services, but Mr Ford remains unconvinced.
The Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams might no longer sit in the assembly, but his name continued to feature strongly in Stormont exchanges.
Many of these concentrated on the conviction of Mr Adams' brother Liam for the rape and abuse of his daughter Aine. Unionist MLAs accused Mr Adams of not doing enough to report his brother's abuse - a claim he strongly denied.
Mr Adams also faced criticism of his alleged involvement in the IRA's abduction and murder of one of the Disappeared, Jean McConville, and his comments about the "laissez faire" attitude of two RUC officers whose deaths were investigated by the Smithwick tribunal.
The publication of the Smithwick report and the broadcast of a powerful BBC/RTE documentary on the families of the Disappeared served as a reminder of the darkest days of the Troubles.
Those memories were also on display in their most raw sense as survivors and the relatives of victims marked the 10th anniversaries of the IRA's Shankill bomb and the UFF Greysteel shooting.
When Dr Haass started his work in earnest in September, most commentators believed he and his co-chair Meghan O'Sullivan might make progress on two items on their agenda, flags and parades.
However, dealing with the past seemed too traumatic and too complex. That impression was strengthened by the furore that followed a suggestion from the Attorney General, John Larkin, that Troubles prosecutions should be brought to an end.
Yet as 2013 came to a close, a surprise appeared in store. Stormont politicians remained deadlocked over flag flying. But there seemed to be more agreement on replacing the much criticised Parades Commission and designing an entirely new architecture to deal with the past.
The Haass blueprint brought together several different agencies tackling aspects of the past into a single 'Historical Investigations Unit'. Alongside the unit an 'Independent Commission for Information Retrieval' would have the power, when a victims' family gave the go ahead, to offer limited immunity to anyone who came forward with information that might answer the family's questions.
However, despite many gruelling hours of negotiations the US talks team were not able to broker a compromise. Both Sinn Féin and the SDLP indicated they would back the Haass proposals but unionists remained concerned about a new code of conduct on parades and the proposed examination of broad themes related to the Troubles such as collusion.
Dr Haass hoped his proposals would eventually gain acceptance, but he boarded his plane home to New York without the New Year's Eve peace deal he must have really wanted to achieve. | Attempts to disrupt Belfast city centre bookended 2013. | 25537209 | [
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But keeper King, 19, and defender Potts, 23, are set to stay, while the club's option on Frank Musonda's contract will be taken up.
Luton were beaten by Blackpool in the League Two play-off semi-finals.
Youth team captain Kavan Cotter, who made his senior debut in the EFL Trophy last August, has been offered his first professional contract with the Hatters. | Luton Town have released five players, but Craig King and Dan Potts are to be offered new contracts. | 39992090 | [
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Jenny Stephen expected BT to connect her home to a telegraph pole visible from her window at a holiday village in Corton, Suffolk.
But BT Openreach quoted her a price of £18,799 plus VAT, saying it was due to the "huge" civil engineering task of laying 400m of underground cables.
Mrs Stephen said: "Maybe it's because I'm old, they think I'm stupid."
She retired to Waterside park on the coast 18 months ago and since then has tried to get BT to install a phone line.
More on this and other Suffolk stories
A neighbouring property has been linked by an overhead line to the telegraph pole on The Street, which is adjacent to the holiday park.
But BT told Mrs Stephen it would have to dig up the road to install her landline.
"[I'm told] there's no option, although a radio link or a link to another house would work," added Mrs Stephen.
"I just want to make a phone call but I can't get any sense out of anybody."
BT said: "The price quoted is due the huge civil engineering task to provide an underground service to one customer in Waterside Holiday Park.
"In this instance nearly 400m of cabling is required, as well as the need for surveys and complex underground duct work to be installed."
The owners of Waterside said it would be happy for BT to run overhead cables to Mrs Stephen's maisonette. | A woman who asked BT to install a landline at her home was told it would cost more than £22,500. | 35411025 | [
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Scientists have struggled to explain the so-called pause that began in 1999, despite ever increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
The latest theory says that a naturally occurring 30-year cycle in the Atlantic Ocean is behind the slowdown.
The researchers says this slow-moving current could continue to divert heat into the deep seas for another decade.
However, they caution that global temperatures are likely to increase rapidly when the cycle flips to a warmer phase.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), global average temperatures have increased by around 0.05C per decade in the period between 1998 and 2012.
This compares with a decadal average of 0.12 between 1951 and 2012.
More than a dozen theories have been put forward on the cause of this pause in temperature growth that occurred while emissions of carbon dioxide were at record highs.
These ideas include the impact of pollution such as soot particles that have reflected back some of the Sun's heat into space.
Increased volcanic activity since 2000 has also been blamed, as have variations in solar activity.
The most recent perspectives have looked to the oceans as the locations of the missing heat.
Last year a study suggested that a periodic upwelling of cooler waters in the Pacific was limiting the rise.
However this latest work, published in the journal Science, shifts the focus from the Pacific to the Atlantic and Southern oceans.
The team, lead by Prof Ka-Kit Tung from the University of Washington, US, says there is now evidence that a 30-year current alternately warms and cools the world by sinking large amounts of heat beneath these deep waters.
They've used observations from a network of devices called Argo floats that sample the oceans down to 2,000 metres.
The researchers say that there was another hiatus between 1945 and 1975 due to this current taking down the heat, that led to fears of a new ice age.
From 1976 though, the cycle flipped and contributed to the warming of the world, as more heat stayed on the surface.
But since the year 2000, the heat has been going deeper, and the world's overall temperatures haven't risen beyond the record set in 1998.
"The floats have been very revealing to us," said Prof Tung.
"I think the consensus at this point is that below 700 metres in the Atlantic and Southern oceans [they are] storing heat and not the Pacific."
A key element in this new understanding is the saltiness of the water. The waters in the Atlantic current coming up from the tropics are saltier because of evaporation. This sinks more quickly and takes the heat down with it.
Eventually though, the salty water melts enough ice in Arctic waters to lower the saline level, slowing down the current and keeping the heat near the surface.
"Before 2006 the saltiness was increasing, this indicated that the current was speeding up," said Prof Tung.
"After 2006, this saltiness is diminishing but it's still above the long-term average. Now it is slowly slowing down.
"Once it gets below the long-term average, then it is the next period of rapid warming."
As well as the data from the Argo floats, Prof Tung has also examined the Central England Temperature record, that dates back over 350 years. He believes that this confirms the regular 70-year cycles of warm and cold spells.
This historic pattern, he says, could extend the current period of pause.
"We probably may have another 10 years, maybe shorter as global warming itself is melting more ice and ice could flood the North Atlantic, but historically we are in the middle of the cycle."
Several other researchers in this field acknowledge the Tung analysis is part of a growing body of evidence that suggests the Atlantic has a role in the pause.
Prof Reto Knutti from the ETH Zurich has recently published a review of all the current theories on the hiatus.
"I see the studies as complementary, and they both highlight that natural variability in ocean and atmosphere is important in modifying long term anthropogenic trends," he said.
"A better understanding of those modes of variability is critical to understand past changes (including differences between models and observations during the hiatus period) as well as predicting the future, in particular in the near term and regionally, where variability dominates the forced changes from greenhouses gases."
Other scientists say that the Atlantic hypothesis is interesting but a much longer range of observations is needed.
"We really don't have a lot of data," said Dr Jonathan Robson from the University of Reading, UK.
"So if there is this 60-year oscillation in the ocean, we haven't observed it all, basically we've observed the impact of it. We may have to wait 15-20 years to know what's going on."
Prof Tung believes that whatever the cause and the length of the pause, we are on a "rising staircase" when it comes to global temperatures that will become apparent when the Atlantic current switches again.
"At the end we will be on the rising part of the staircase, and the rate of warming there will be very fast, just as fast as the last three decades of the 20th Century, plus we are starting off at a higher plateau. The temperatures and the effects will be more severe."
Follow Matt on Twitter. | The hiatus in the rise in global temperatures could last for another 10 years, according to new research. | 28870988 | [
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The device was discovered on Foreglen Road on Wednesday morning following a telephone call to a local hospital.
The road has reopened after a security alert in the area. The device was taken away for forensic examination.
Det Insp Bob Blemmings said: "We appreciate that the alert caused traffic disruption and are grateful for the patience and support shown by the community and commuters." | The PSNI have found a "viable" pipe bomb in Dungiven, County Londonderry. | 40108528 | [
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The 22-year-old told his 3.6 million subscribers, as well his followers on Twitter, in a six-minute video called Coming Out.
I'm just going to be really honest," he said. "2014 is truly the year that I have accepted who I am and become happy with that person.
"Today I want to talk to you guys about that and be open and honest, and tell you that I'm gay."
Connor said he'd struggled with his sexuality since he was 12 and at first ignored his feelings.
"Growing up I knew that I was a little bit different than everyone else," he said. "I always just had this feeling that I wasn't the same.
"But it wasn't until I was 12 years old until I really had pinpointed what that was.
"For some reason, my seventh-grade year, I had this thought in the back of my head, 'What if I'm gay?' I immediately was so terrified.
"I'm from a small town in the Midwest. That's not a normal thing there. I didn't know what the word meant. I'd only met a couple of gay people in my entire life.
"It was terrifying to me to have to think that I was something that I knew nothing about, so I immediately pushed it away and tried to not think about it."
But Connor admitted he couldn't ignore what he felt and says he became depressed during his second year at university.
"As anyone who's gone through this knows, you can't not think about it.
"I was up all night for I can't tell you how many nights, just thinking about this. I was scared of it, I never told anyone.
"I tried to avoid it at high school by dating girls. All I wanted to be was like everyone else... but I would feel nothing.
"I felt so isolated... and it wasn't until my sophomore in college until I really thought about it."
He says after telling a friend at university, he then told his friends, parents and siblings.
"They didn't look at me differently, they didn't treat me differently" he said.
"Everyone was so great. They just said, 'OK,' like it was no big deal.
"This whole thing that I had built up inside me to be this huge deal for 22 years, wasn't.
"In just one year I've honestly felt like I am so happy with who I am."
Connor's fans also rallied round the star with hashtags like #weloveyouconnor and #proudofconnor trending in the US.
However, some of his female followers said on Twitter that they were upset that they wouldn't be able to marry him.
Connor Franta joined YouTube in 2010.
His videos include Walking Around Naked, Dirty Habits, Getting Over Someone and 5 Ways To Get Your Crush To Like You Back.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | YouTube star Connor Franta has revealed to his fans that he is gay. | 30392522 | [
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It is believed to be the first alleged breach of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures (TPim).
The suspect appeared at the Old Bailey accused of failing to contact a monitoring company and report to a police station twice in January.
The Home Office has refused to comment on the case.
TPims replaced control orders in January 2012.
The suspect - who can only be referred to as BM - was one of nine British citizens subject to a TPim when the figures were last disclosed in March.
The BBC is not aware of anyone else who has appeared in court charged with a breach of a TPim.
The Home Office said: "We do not comment on individual cases. The police investigate all breaches of TPims and will prosecute where that is viable."
Those subject to a TPim can be ordered to stay overnight at a specified address and report to a police station every day.
Other measures include a ban on contacting particular individuals, going to certain areas and places and travelling abroad.
Labour has argued that TPims have "weakened" public protection against terrorism.
In March, the independent reviewer of terror laws, David Anderson, said TPims could prove less effective than control orders because they can be imposed for a maximum period of two years only.
The court heard that BM is charged with two counts of breaching Section 23 of a TPim order.
The allegations are that on 16 January he failed to contact a monitoring company, and on 27 January failed to report to a police station.
BM, who has a grey beard and was dressed for the hearing in a white shirt, cannot be named nor have his address published for legal reasons.
The prosecutor Louise Gray asked for a provisional date of 2 July to be set for a plea and case management hearing.
The defendant was granted unconditional bail although he remains subject to the restrictions imposed by his TPim.
A trial date was not set. | A suspected terrorist has been charged with breaching conditions imposed as part of the government's new terror monitoring powers. | 18298438 | [
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The Lancastria troopship was carrying between 6,000 and 9,000 people when it was sunk by German dive bombers on 17 June 1940.
Only about 2,500 people survived in the largest single loss of life for British forces in the whole of World War II.
Relatives and survivors have until 15 May to apply for a commemorative medal.
The Scottish government commissioned a medal in 2008, issuing more than 375 since.
The upcoming 75th anniversary of the event signals the closure of the commemorative medal application process.
The Lancastria, a converted Cunard liner built on the Clyde, was carrying servicemen - including about 400 Scots - and a number of civilian women and children when it was bombed by German planes, sinking within minutes off the coast of France.
At the time news of the disaster was suppressed by the British government because of the impact it might have on the country's morale.
Nearly six weeks later the New York Times broke the story, printing dramatic pictures of the disaster.
Veterans' Secretary Keith Brown said: "We in Scotland feel a strong bond with the servicemen and women who have served us throughout the years and continue to protect the democratic freedoms we still enjoy today.
"The commemorative HMS Lancastria medal from the Scottish government is a lasting reminder of our gratitude to those who made the ultimate sacrifice on that fateful day. Their memory is honoured, their place in history is secured."
Mr Brown appealed for anyone who believes they or a family member is entitled to a medal to come forward and make a claim. | Survivors and descendants of those killed during Britain's worst ever maritime disaster are being urged to claim medals honouring them. | 32187297 | [
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Carissa, who's 11, has become the youngest ever chess master in the US.
So how did she get so good? The BBC went to meet her to find out.
YOUR COMMENTS:
My greatest achievement is being in a BAFTA winning film. It was nominated for an Oscar too.
Aaron, Belfast, Northern Ireland
I am really great at running and I run for my local club.
Bradley, Leeds, England
My biggest achievement this year would be that I have changed my class' opinion on what feminism is: from women being better than men to equality.
Silvia, Oxford, England
I'm proud of coming 3rd out of 10 in a national cheer leading competition.
Sarah, England
My two best achievements were passing my Grade 1 piano exam and winning 2nd place in a gymnastics competition!
Freya, Surrey, England
I'm very good at Gaelic.
Michéal, Donegal, Ireland
I have achieved a 3A in literacy and am a school councillor.
Emily, Andover, England
I am best at guitar because I am on Grade 4 and have been practicing from the age of 8.
Sassy, Bristol, England
My achievement is when I played hockey and we got 2nd place in our group and 5th overall!
Justina, London, England
I'm really good at playing the steel pans. I recently achieved my bronze award, which is like a GCSE achievement.
Anna, Newcastle, England
My best ever achievement is getting a distinction in my dance exams.
Mary, London, England
I am great at golf. I am even better than my dad!
Arjan, Birmingham, England
I'm extremely proud of swimming for my county.
Dominic, England
This chat is now closed | Imagine being so good at something that at the age of 11 you're beating players who are the best in the country. | 32771338 | [
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