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Selby beat Xiao Guodong 13-6 in the second round to set up a meeting with either Marco Fu or Neil Robertson.
The Leicester man, who beat Fergal O'Brien 10-2 in the first round, told BBC Sport: "I don't feel as though I have peaked, but that's a good thing.
"If you peak in the first or second round the only way you can go is down."
Selby won the first three frames of his final session against Xiao to progress.
He has only managed one century so far, but has looked comfortable and clinical after a consistent season which has brought him four ranking titles - including the UK Championship.
Selby, aiming for a third world title, said his good form meant he is not being troubled by the weight of expectation that comes with being the current champion.
"I don't feel under pressure as much, but I suppose that's because of the season I have had," the 33-year-old added.
"If I had come here not having won anything and struggling for form, it would have been a bit different with the defending champion tag on my back.
"But that's not the case. I am relaxed, enjoying my snooker and it seems to be showing."
Selby begins his last-eight match on Tuesday afternoon.
"I feel like my game has not been fantastic," he said. "But it's not been poor. I am happy with that going into the quarter-finals.
"My opponent will know that when they play against me they will be in for a battle. I never give in and that has always been my philosophy." | Reigning champion Mark Selby feels his World Championship defence is warming up nicely after a second routine win secured a quarter-final place. | 39697827 | [
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Labour suffered heavy losses at the hands of the SNP, with the Tories defying opinion polls to secure a House of Commons majority.
In a speech in London, Mr Miliband said it was "time for someone else" to take over the leadership and that he was "truly sorry" he did not succeed.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls was among the party's big-name casualties.
It also lost its election campaign chief Douglas Alexander and its leader in Scotland Jim Murphy.
Mr Miliband was applauded by staff as he arrived at Labour headquarters in central London.
He confirmed deputy leader Harriet Harman would be interim leader.
"I joined this party aged 17," he said. "I never dreamed I'd lead it."
He may have served in Gordon Brown's cabinet, but few people outside politics had heard of Ed Miliband before he was elected leader of the Labour Party in 2010, a post he has now relinquished in the wake of Labour's election defeat.
He had spent much of the first 40 years of his life in the shadow of his older brother David, the former foreign secretary.
He did the same course - Philosophy, Politics and Economics - at Oxford University, at the same college, and followed David into a similar backroom role in the Labour Party, albeit on different sides of the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown divide. The two even lived in neighbouring flats in the same building for a while.
In full: The Ed Miliband Story
He joked that he would spending his time "reacquainting" himself with his wife and children, thanked the public for the "selfies" and - in a reference to an online trend of teenage fans - "the most unlikely cult of the 21st century - milifandom".
Mr Miliband said he had done his best for five years, and that it was "not simply leadership that achieves change".
"I will never give up on fighting for the Britain that I believe in," he said.
He urged supporters not to "mourn" the defeat.
"We have come back before and this party will come back again," he added.
Speaking earlier after retaining his Doncaster North seat, Mr Miliband said his party had been overwhelmed by a "surge of nationalism".
Ms Harman confirmed she would step down as deputy leader once the new leadership is in place.
Labour MP Tom Watson - the party's former campaign co-ordinator - confirmed that he would consider running to replace her.
"I've always thought that the deputy leader role is the campaigning role," he told BBC News.
"We've got a mayoral election in Tower Hamlets to fight in six weeks' time. Who knows, we might even have a by-election for London mayor.
"So this party has got to keep campaigning whilst we try and understand what's gone on in the general election."
Mr Balls lost his Morley and Outwood seat to Conservative candidate Andrea Jenkyns by 422 votes.
"Any personal disappointment I have at this result is as nothing compared to the sense of sorrow I have at the result Labour has achieved across the UK, and the sense of concern I have about the future," he said.
Mr Balls said questions would arise about the future of the United Kingdom and Britain's position in Europe over the next five years.
Labour also lost previous leader Gordon Brown's former constituency to the SNP as the nationalist party almost swept the board in Scotland.
Mr Alexander lost his seat to a 20-year-old student after a massive 26.9% swing from Labour to the SNP in Paisley and Renfrewshire South.
Conceding defeat, Mr Murphy said: "The party that has traditionally been the tireless champion of the underdog now finds itself in the position of being the underdog.
"Scotland needs a strong Labour Party and our fight-back starts tomorrow morning."
Former Labour Home Secretary Lord Reid told the BBC "changing the captain" would not necessarily improve Labour's electoral prospects.
"They (the public) thought we were on the wrong side of all the major arguments - our economic competence, on the question of creating wealth rather than just distributing wealth, on the question of immigration, on the question of reform of the public services," he said.
Another Labour peer, former First Minister Lord McConnell, said his party had experienced a "catastrophic night".
"I think the Labour strategy for this election was always going to end up in this situation," he said.
"The idea that we could poll between 30 and 35% and pull off a victory was not going to work." | Ed Miliband has stepped down as Labour leader after his party's disappointing general election showing. | 32633388 | [
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The EAW is widely seen to have speeded up extradition proceedings in the EU, but there is also pressure to fix shortcomings in the system.
What is the EAW?
The EAW operates EU-wide and replaced separate extradition arrangements between the EU member states. The EAW was introduced in January 2004, and was prompted by the international anti-terror drive after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
A national judicial authority, such as a court, can issue an EAW to get a suspect extradited. For an EAW to be valid, the suspect must be accused of an offence incurring a maximum penalty of at least a year in prison, or must have been already sentenced to at least four months in prison.
The EAW means faster and simpler surrender procedures for suspects. EU states can no longer refuse to extradite one of their citizens on grounds of nationality. Extradition no longer requires a political decision for a suspect to be handed over. The EAW means mutual recognition of criminal justice systems in the EU.
How much faster are extradition proceedings now?
Before the EAW was introduced extradition used to take an average of one year, but now that has been cut to an average of 48 days, the European Commission says. A suspect must be handed over within a maximum of 90 days after arrest. In cases where a suspect agrees to surrender the average extradition time is 16 days.
How many EAWs are issued and how many suspects handed over?
Figures for 2009 show that 15,827 EAWs were issued in total and of those 4,431 were executed. The breakdown, given in a European Commission report, shows that Poland issued the most EAWs - 4,844. Of those, fewer than half were executed - 1,367. Germany was second for the number of EAWs issued - 2,433, then Romania with 1,900. The figures for the UK were: 220 issued, 80 executed.
What are the arguments for EAWs?
A senior British police officer, Commander Allan Gibson, says the EAW has brought a big increase in extradition and has reduced delays and costs. Cmdr Gibson, of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), says the EAW has been a great help in cross-border operations against organised crime, such as joint UK-Czech and UK-Romanian action against people traffickers. In the UK, regional police forces can now issue EAWs, whereas previously extradition cases were all handled in London.
There have been some high-profile successes for the EAW. Fugitive teacher Jeremy Forrest, who fled to France with a schoolgirl, was extradited to England on an EAW issued in September 2012. In 2005 an EAW enabled the UK to quickly extradite from Italy a fugitive bomber, Hussain Osman, who with accomplices had attempted to carry out a terror attack in London. In 2012 a murderer, Jason McKay, was arrested in Warsaw and sent back to the UK within a month.
What are the criticisms of EAWs?
There has been much debate about proportionality - that is, the need to use EAWs only for the most serious crimes. In a debate on EU justice and policing Cmdr Gibson and Jodie Blackstock of the human rights group Justice said Poland had sent too many EAW requests to the UK.
A report by the campaign group Fair Trials International in May 2011 said EAWs "are being issued for minor offences and without proper consideration of whether extradition is proportionate". That concern was echoed by the European Commission, which said the use of EAWs for minor offences had undermined confidence in the system.
Fair Trials International also complained that suspects were "not being provided with legal representation in the issuing state as well as the executing state". According to Ms Blackstock, more needs to be done to ensure effective legal defence for suspects in cross-border cases. Often the defence lawyers are young and inexperienced in such cases, she says.
Baroness Sarah Ludford, a Lib Dem MEP specialising in EU justice issues, says EU justice officials should exercise more peer pressure on each other to prevent abuses of the EAW. If somebody has been cleared of charges they should be removed from the EAW alert system, she argues.
In one high-profile miscarriage of justice Deborah Dark, a British woman, was pursued across Europe because of an EAW issued by France, although she had been cleared of drug charges years previously.
Can a country refuse to execute an EAW?
Yes. There is the double jeopardy principle - a suspect will not be returned to the country that issued the EAW if he or she has already been tried for the same offence abroad. A refusal can be justified if an EU state's amnesty covers the offence in question. A refusal can also be justified under a statute of limitations - that is, if a time limit has passed for prosecution. And a state can reject an EAW if under its laws the suspect is a minor, below the age of criminal responsibility.
An EAW can also be rejected if legal authorities consider that extradition would violate the suspect's rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.
Concern that an EAW was motivated by prejudice on grounds of race, religion, politics or another factor can also be grounds to block extradition, under European law. The EAW is not supposed to be a tool for collusion in discrimination. | The UK government wants to claw back some EU powers over justice and policing, but is likely to remain in the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system. | 23239493 | [
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In his regular BBC Sport column, football pundit Robbie Savage looks at why Liverpool look a long way off repeating last season's title challenge, how they should line up against Chelsea and the physical and mental battle Steven Gerrard faces to secure a long-term future with the Reds.
It is only six months since Steven Gerrard's slip helped the Blues clinch a famous win on Merseyside that derailed Liverpool's title bid.
Back then, at the end of April, the title was in the Reds' grasp. This weekend, I think we will see again how far away they are from mounting another title challenge.
They are miles away from the level required for that, and will have to improve and work hard just to get in the top four.
If they manage it, then securing back-to-back seasons in the Champions League should be seen as success for Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers.
But not all their fans see it that way. I had some unhappy Reds supporters calling me up on 606 on BBC Radio 5 live last weekend to give their manager stick.
Part of Liverpool's problem is that they overachieved massively last season, which has raised expectations unrealistically. That is not Rodgers' fault.
Where he can be questioned is in the transfer market, especially up front.
Between them Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge scored 52 of Liverpool's 101 Premier League goals last season.
With Suarez sold and Sturridge playing only three out of 10 league games so far this season because of injury, Rodgers has lost a lot of goals from his line-up.
But he has had money to spend and I do not think he has bought the right strikers to fit his system.
Looking at Rodgers' options up front for Saturday, Mario Balotelli, Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini are his three available front men, and the bottom line is that they are not good enough.
It is not just that they do not look like scoring. There is a big difference in their work-rate compared to what Suarez and Sturridge gave the team.
That means Liverpool are not starting games with the same intensity they did last season, or pressing teams high up the pitch to force them into mistakes.
Doing that in 2013-14 Liverpool scored 59 first-half goals, 13 more than any other team, and scored in the first half of 34 out of 38 league matches - again the most in the top flight.
In their first 10 games of this campaign, they have only managed a total of four goals before half-time, in three different matches. Instead of being on the front foot, they are having to chase games.
They look pedestrian and that is not just the centre-forward's fault.
When I have watched them, no matter what formation they play, they do not seem to have any runners going past their striker from midfield.
Again, last season that used to happen all the time, but I was at St James' Park last weekend to co-commentate on their defeat by Newcastle, and the only player to run beyond Balotelli in the first half was Gerrard, who did it once.
Another problem is set-pieces. Liverpool were lethal from them last year, scoring with more than any other top-flight team.
More than a third of their goals in 2013-14 came from corners or free-kicks, at a rate of almost one a game. That has dropped off dramatically.
Sadly for Rodgers, seeing the goals drying up is not his only problem.
Liverpool's defence was seen as their weakest link last season and, despite trying several different combinations, he did not get it right.
From Mamadou Sakho for £18m in 2013 to Dejan Lovren for £20m this summer, Rodgers has thrown a lot of money at the problem but is still trying to find an answer.
They still look all over the place at the back.
Statistically, they are no worse defensively than last season - but they are also no better.
Liverpool play and complete as many passes as before, and also keep as much possession. But with them no longer being able to outscore the opposition, it is no surprise their results have been affected.
What Liverpool lack at the back is a leader, and their goalkeeper does not give them much help there.
Simon Mignolet is clearly an excellent shot-stopper but I don't see him coming off his line enough, or commanding his box.
Rodgers tried three at the back against the Magpies, but I cannot see him doing the same against Chelsea.
He was criticised for resting players against Real Madrid on Tuesday but I agreed with him for doing it.
Liverpool can still qualify for the knockout stages in Europe if they win their last two games in Group B and their weakened team actually did better against Real in Spain than the full-strength side he picked at home.
Now he has to decide who to play against Chelsea, but whoever he picks, Liverpool will need to show a huge improvement on their recent displays.
My team to face Liverpool: Mignolet, Johnson, Skrtel, Toure, Moreno, Can, Gerrard, Sterling, Coutinho, Lallana, Borini.
For me, Lovren is the big signing who makes way, with Kolo Toure keeping his place after doing well at the Bernabeu.
It is a big call to drop Lovren when Rodgers has spent so much money on him, but he has just not been good enough.
It is hard to see Liverpool winning on Saturday because Chelsea are on a different planet
He was poor against Newcastle and has been poor all season.
Although he has got the height that Liverpool will need to defend set-pieces against Chelsea, I saw him get bossed around by Bobby Zamora when Liverpool played QPR at Loftus Road. You have to think that Diego Costa would make mincemeat of him if he is up front for Chelsea.
To compete, Liverpool will need a solid four in the middle, with their full-backs looking to join the attack.
Whether it be Glen Johnson on the right or Alberto Moreno on the left, when one goes forward, then the other should sit back.
That way, Liverpool will always have five defensive players to guard against Chelsea's counter-attacks.
Going forward, they need their full-backs to contribute in the same way they did last season when they overlapped down the flanks or broke forward with speed.
The trio of Adam Lallana, Philippe Coutinho and Raheem Sterling as attacking midfielders provide pace, trickery and creativity and, leading the line, Borini gives more energy than Lambert or Balotelli.
He will have to work hard down the channels to keep Chelsea's defence busy.
Even if all of that works, however, it is still hard to see Liverpool winning on Saturday because Chelsea are on a different planet to every other Premier League team at the moment.
Jose Mourinho's side have not been at their best in the last couple of games but they have not lost any of them either.
The only way you would describe their form as disappointing would be in comparison to the way they started the season, when they were electric.
The Blues do not seem to have a weakness and, just like in April, I see them leaving Anfield with three points.
There is no title on the line this time, but it will still hurt the home fans.
Whatever happens on Saturday will not make up for what was probably the worst moment of Gerrard's career. He may never make up for it, but there is no way he is finished.
He was Liverpool's best player against Newcastle and, despite it still being uncertain whether he will get a new Reds contract in the summer, I definitely see him as being part of their longer-term future.
Playing in that defensive midfield role, he can remain competitive in the Premier League. I cannot see him being allowed to leave Anfield but, if he does, he will end up at another top club.
The older you get, the harder you have to work, though, and extending his career will be a mental battle as well as a physical one.
At 34, he does not have to prove he can ping a ball 60 yards, deliver a great free-kick or make a crunching tackle.
What he has to show is that he can still get about the park well enough to do all of those things effectively.
Because, whether he likes it or not, every time he has a bad game he will hear the accusation that "his legs have gone".
Of course he is still fit and can still run. He is probably one of the fittest players at Liverpool. At 36, when I was at Derby, I was still in the top two or three players whenever we did the bleep test.
What happened against Chelsea last time probably destroyed Gerrard on the inside
But it is the recovery that will test him. When you are flying, you can close someone down, then charge into the next challenge or situation.
As you get older, it is harder to get to the next man in time to make a difference. That is what people mean when they say your legs have gone.
There is nothing worse as a high-energy midfield player to know that, two or three years ago, you could have made that next challenge - and now you can't.
I knew it when it happened to me. I would try not to think it but you cannot escape it and it was horrendous. I began to doubt myself and whether anybody would want me to play for them.
What does not help is what other people say. Managers and players told me I was finished but I had to keep believing in myself.
I knew I was not the player I was, but I still felt I had something to offer.
For me, Gerrard undoubtedly does too. Along with Sterling and Sturridge he is still one of Liverpool's most important players.
Of all the players I faced in my career, he was the one I would have loved to have played with.
He was a nightmare to play against because he had everything. At his peak he was the best midfielder the Premier League has seen.
Saturday will be a difficult occasion for him because what happened against Chelsea last time probably destroyed him on the inside.
Of course he will be thinking about it before the game - he must think about it all the time - but he has not let it stop him.
It would have been easy for him to quit after a disappointment like that, but he has kept going like he always does.
It is that kind of desire that will keep him going beyond the end of this season too.
Robbie Savage was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan | Chelsea's return to Anfield on Saturday brings back unhappy memories for Liverpool and their immediate future is not much brighter either. | 29945991 | [
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Newark and Sherwood District Council plan to restore Newark's Magnus buildings into a museum about the 17th Century war.
The project will cost £5.4m in total and will open in September 2014.
The centre could attract more than 60,000 visitors each year, according to the authority.
Councillor Roger Jackson, the district council's cabinet member for leisure and culture, said: "The new museum will provide a hub for tourism, directing visitors to attractions across the district and Nottinghamshire."
Newark and Sherwood District Council said it has applied to other grant-funding bodies to make up the rest of the money needed.
The authority has worked with the Heritage Lottery Fund to put together plans to renovate the Magnus buildings, part of which date to 1529.
The Royalists surrendered Newark following a siege in 1646 towards the end of the civil war, which resulted in the defeat of King Charles I by the Parliamentarians.
In addition to Civil War displays, exhibition galleries will focus on the local history of the towns and villages of Nottinghamshire.
The Newark Torc, an Iron Age necklace found using a metal detector near the town, will also be displayed in the centre.
It will be the first time the item will be displayed in the district after being loaned to the British Museum. | Buildings in a Nottinghamshire town are set to become a National Civil War Centre after a £3.5m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund was secured. | 18267068 | [
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A feasibility study will look at options for a five-mile network linking the city centre and Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan.
The planned system would see passengers transported in gondolas along a route from Cardiff central train station.
CBC chairman Nigel Roberts said it would carry 2,500 tourists and commuters every hour.
He said: "The great thing about Cardiff Bay is that when you get up into the air you can get a phenomenal view."
If plans get off the ground, the gondolas would pass through the city's Central Square and Cardiff Bay before terminating in Penarth.
The scheme, which would cost about £20m per mile, could be funded from the Welsh transport budget, the private sector and sponsorship, Mr Roberts suggested.
He said funding may also be secured via the City Deal - a measure designed to help the Welsh economy grow - which Chancellor George Osborne announced in Wednesday's Budget.
"This would be a sustainable public transport method which would serve our growing city," said Mr Roberts.
The CBC chairman was unable to say when the line could, if financially viable, be ready to carry passengers.
"I would certainly like to sit on this in my lifetime," he added.
The news comes after CBC, Cardiff council's inward investment arm, revealed it had also drawn up plans for Wales' first commercial seaplane service. | Plans for a £100m cable car system in Cardiff are being explored by Cardiff Business Council. | 31991505 | [
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The proposed offer is worth £10.75 a share in cash, a premium of 36% to the closing price on 8 December.
Sky shares ended 26.6% higher at 999.8p in London following the announcement.
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch controls 21st Century Fox, which already owns a 39.1% stake in Sky.
Sky said that the independent directors of both companies had "reached agreement on an offer price" of £10.75 a share, but added that "certain material offer terms remain under discussion".
Fox said Sky's directors had indicated that they were willing to recommend the proposed offer.
According to Reuters' calculations, Fox would pay £11.25bn for the stake in Sky that it did not already own.
Sterling's 16% fall against the US dollar in the wake of the Brexit vote has made UK companies more attractive targets for foreign companies.
Fox is required to "clarify its intentions" by 6 January, or walk away for at least six months under UK takeover rules.
Alex DeGroote, analyst at Peel Hunt, said it was "not quite a done deal", but he would be surprised if it did not go ahead.
"Sky has not performed well in the UK stock market this year, and is seen as a Brexit loser. Fox is of course also a dollar bidder, and the collapse in sterling makes Sky a less expensive purchase than pre-Brexit," he said.
"There will also be cost synergies, which will reflect economies of scale in technology and content, such as sports and movie rights."
Fox chief executive James Murdoch was named chairman of Sky this year, fuelling speculation that the US media company would make a bid.
Almost 30% of Sky shareholders voted against the appointment of James Murdoch as its chairman at the annual meeting in October, with some saying he was too closely linked to Fox.
Piers Hillier, chief investment officer of Royal London, which owns a 0.35% stake in Sky, said at the time: "Should Fox make a bid for Sky, investors need a strong independent chairman to protect the interests of minority shareholders and negotiate the best possible deal."
Rupert Murdoch has sought to take full control of Sky for many years.
In June 2010, his company, News Corporation - from which 21st Century Fox was subsequently split off - made a 700p-a-share offer that valued Sky at about £12bn. It was rejected by Sky's directors for undervaluing the company.
The bid was ultimately abandoned in mid-2011 in the wake of widespread opposition and the fallout from the phone hacking scandal that prompted the closure of the News of the World newspaper.
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat business secretary at the time of the 2010 bid, said the new offer threatened media plurality in the UK.
"The way Theresa May's government deals with this is a test of their independence from the influence of large proprietors."
Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson said it was up to regulators to ensure competition concerns were addressed.
"The bid must also be judged on its likely impact on the UK news market and the provision of robust and independent journalism," he said.
"Finally, given the likely concentration of further media power in the hands of a single company, it is right that the 'fit and proper' test should be applied by Ofcom if the deal is approved by Sky shareholders."
News Corp owns newspapers including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal, as well as other assets such as publisher Harper Collins.
In July 2014 BSkyB, as it was then known, paid almost £5bn to take over Rupert Murdoch's pay TV companies in Germany and Italy. | US media giant 21st Century Fox has made a takeover approach for Sky that values the UK-based satellite broadcaster at £18.5bn. | 38267199 | [
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The incidents happened between 01:30 and 01:40 on Sunday 3 May at the Riego Street flats.
One woman was indecently assaulted and the other was assaulted.
A 25-year-old man was detained following a CCTV appeal and will appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday. | A man has been charged after two women were attacked at student accommodation in Edinburgh. | 32917452 | [
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The Labour leader said the election was "not a clash of two nations but a clash of two visions".
His party has been attacked by the Tories over potential alliances with the SNP in a hung parliament.
The Conservatives said it was a legitimate argument because Labour "can't get a majority without the SNP".
And Labour former Scottish first minister Henry McLeish said Mr Miliband may have little choice but to negotiate with the Scottish Nationalists.
"At the end of the day, Ed is not going to exclude himself from being prime minister by not talking to anyone," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme
'No child benefit cuts'
In an appeal on the last weekend before the 7 May poll, David Cameron urged people not to vote tactically, but to "vote for your preferred prime minister".
"Don't take a risk thinking 'I'll vote Liberal Democrat and hope I get the prime minister I want' or vote UKIP and hope somehow it emerges," he told BBC Breakfast.
"If you want me to carry on leading the country, making sure we have that stability and security in our economy, vote accordingly because we are only 23 seats short from that overall majority."
He also insisted there would be no cuts to child benefits as part of Conservative plans to shave £12bn off the welfare budget.
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The prime minister spoke out as Mr Miliband continued to insist he would not lead a government if it involved any deal with Nicola Sturgeon's party.
In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Miliband accused the prime minister of having "entirely withdrawn from the central issues facing the country... in a bid to distract voters from the big choices".
The Labour leader also told the Guardian that 10 of his manifesto proposals would be introduced as bills by the end of May if he formed a government.
These include a "strong economic foundation bill; freezing energy prices until 2017; banning recruitment agencies from hiring only from overseas, and cutting university tuition fees in England to £6,000.
In other election news:
Mr Miliband has urged voters in Scotland not to "gamble" with the SNP, but the Conservatives insisted the SNP would be "the monkey on Labour's back".
However, Mr Miliband insisted: "What this election really comes down to is not a clash of two nations but a clash of two visions.
"Two different plans ideas about how our country succeeds."
He said the Conservatives would offer "huge tax cuts" for the "rich and powerful", whereas Labour thinks "Britain succeeds when working people succeed".
Mr Cameron highlighted his party's commitment to the "triple lock" on state pensions, which means they rise by whichever is higher out of inflation, average wages, or 2.5%.
He said the triple lock - which Labour says it is also committed to - would take the annual pension to £7,000 a year by 2020.
The prime minister also outlined other previously announced proposals including the protection of benefits such as free bus passes and TV licences, and giving people more freedom to invest and spend their pensions.
He suggested a Labour government "would mean a return to higher taxes, spending and borrowing and pensioners would be particularly vulnerable because many of them do not have the option of increasing their incomes".
Labour has claimed the Tories plan to cut child benefit as part of their planned £12bn welfare savings.
The Tories say they will freeze working-age benefits, including child benefit, for two years. There is some speculation that freeze could last the duration of the next Parliament.
On BBC Breakfast, Mr Cameron was asked if there would be no increases to child benefit cuts if he resumed office.
The PM said: "That's right, I've said it stays as it is. I've been very clear on child benefit. I could not have been clearer."
He said: "It's very important for family's budgets to be able to plan, and they can know with me that it stays as it is - and we've been very clear about this."
He said "billions of pounds" would be raised by freezing in-work benefits, like unemployment benefit.
"I think that's right because we should be making sure you're better off in work," he said.
The best of BBC News' Election 2015 specials | Ed Miliband has accused the Tories of using the SNP to distract voters from their record as he tries to kill off talk of post-election deals. | 32560887 | [
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Matthew Oliver paid more than one thousand pounds for the seed which came from the current world record holder grown in Switzerland.
The winning pumpkin weighs 165 stone, so Matthew's would need to weigh-in at more than a tonne to beat that. | It may be five months until Halloween, but for one gardener it'll be a nail biting wait to see if his seed grows into the biggest pumpkin in the world. | 36264301 | [
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The accident happened shortly before 22:00 GMT on the New Lodge Road on Tuesday.
The man's condition was initially described as serious, but police have said he is now critical but stable in the Royal Victoria Hospital.
The New Lodge Road was closed for a time following the incident but has since re-opened.
Police have said they are following a number of lines of inquiry.
Det Insp Jenna Fitzpatrick said: "Information suggests that the car had been seen being driven dangerously in the area in the time leading up to the collision.
"The car was abandoned a short distance away from the scene at Donore Court."
Another car was struck by the green Ford Focus as it left the scene. | A man in his 30s who was hit by a car in north Belfast is in a critical condition in hospital. | 31834336 | [
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Since regaining its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Estonia has become one of the most economically successful of the European Union's newer eastern European members.
Ruled at various times during the middle ages by Denmark, the German knights of the Livonian Order, and Sweden, Estonia ended up part of the Russian Empire in the 18th century.
It experienced its first period of independence in 1918, following the end of the First World War and the collapse of the Russian Empire.
Country profiles compiled by BBC Monitoring
But the new state, which underwent periods of both democratic and authoritarian rule, was short-lived.
After only 20 years, Estonia was forcefully incorporated into Soviet Union in 1940, following a pact between Hitler and Stalin. German troops occupied Estonia during World War II, before being driven out by the Soviet army.
Few nations formally recognised the Soviet annexation, and Estonians consider it an illegal occupation.
One of its legacies is a large Russian minority - about a quarter of the population, according to the 2011 census. In Soviet times, the influx of non-Estonians led some to fear for the survival of Estonian culture and language.
The Russians' status has been a cause of controversy. Some, including the Russian government, criticise requirements needed to obtain Estonian citizenship - especially the need to show a proficiency in the Estonian language - that left most ethnic Russians stateless after independence.
Estonia says the criteria for citizenship are similar to those of most nations around the world, and have been in any case gradually eased. It says the number of stateless persons has dropped by 80% between 1992 and 2013.
Since independence, Estonia has politically and economically anchored itself firmly to the West, joining the EU and Nato in 2004. It sent a contingent of troops as part of Nato operations in Afghanistan.
Russia's intervention in the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 has triggered some nervousness in Estonia over President Vladimir Putin's intentions towards other former Soviet states. The Estonian government has been fiercely critical of Russia's behaviour and has affirmed its pro-Nato stance in response to the events in Ukraine.
Estonian governments have tended to pursue strongly free-market economic policies, privatising state enterprises, introducing a flat-rate income tax, liberalising regulation, encouraging free trade and keeping public debt low.
There has also been a strong emphasis on making Estonia a world leader in technology, leading some to speak of an "e-economy".
This has included creating one of the world's fastest broadband networks, offering widespread free wireless internet, encouraging technology start-ups and putting government services online. In 2007, Estonia was the first country to allow online voting in a general election.
The country experienced an investment boom in the early 2000s, especially after EU membership, with high annual growth rates hovering between 7-10%.
In 2008, Estonia's economy was hit by the global financial crisis. The government adopted tough austerity measures and won plaudits for getting the economy back into shape.
The country joined the European single currency in January 2011.
The Estonian language is closely related to Finnish and - more distantly - Hungarian, but not to the Indo-European languages of the two other Baltic states - Latvia and Lithuania - or Russian for that matter.
The country has unique musical and dance traditions, including a long tradition of choral singing. | Estonia is the most northerly of the three Baltic states, and has linguistic ties with Finland. | 17220811 | [
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The 45-year-old and six other men originally faced charges relating to the acquisition of the club in May 2011 and its financial management.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Mr Whyte heard that he is currently the only person being prosecuted.
Mr Whyte has yet to enter a plea to the charges against him. The case was continued for a further hearing.
Mr Whyte was the only person in the dock, flanked by two security guards.
Advocate depute Bill McVicar revealed that charges have been dropped against Gary Withey, 51, David Grier, 55, David Whitehouse, 51, and Paul Clark, 51, saying: "There will be no further proceedings."
In relation to Charles Green, 63, and Imran Ahmad, 46, proceedings have been dropped in relation to the indictment involving Mr Whyte.
Mr McVicar said that Crown counsel are considering the position in relation to Mr Green and added: "I think it's fair to say any proceedings relating to Mr Green would be dealt with separately.
"Any proceedings against Mr Ahmad would be dealt with, with Mr Green."
Judge Lord Bannatyne said: "You are saying the only person left in the dock is Mr Whyte and I can proceed towards a trial."
Mr Whyte, who has not entered any plea as yet to the charges against him, sacked his senior counsel Tony Graham.
His junior counsel Allan MacLeod is still instructed and asked for the case to be continued for a further preliminary hearing in July.
The court heard that the Crown intend to revise the charges against Mr Whyte.
Lord Bannatyne told Mr MacLeod: "I would expect you to be in a position to say what is going to happen. I would expect some plea to be entered so that a trial can be fixed."
Defence counsel Claire Mitchell, representing Mr Whitehouse, appeared in court, along with her client - although he was not in the dock, to hear that proceedings had been dropped against him.
Mr Clark was also in court to hear that he no longer faces prosecution.
In a statement issued through their solicitors, Mr Whitehouse and Mr Clark, who acted as administrators for Rangers in 2012, said they were "relieved" at the outcome.
"They are grateful to their families, friends, colleagues and legal teams for their support during a very difficult period," the statement said.
"They will now be considering what further steps might be open to them to address the damage caused to their reputations and careers by a prosecution which should never have been brought." | Former Rangers owner Craig Whyte is now the only person facing fraud charges relating to his time at the Ibrox club. | 36445747 | [
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It's perceived as the least corrupt country, with the longest surviving multiparty democracy on the continent, and boasts one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
But, following the global economic downturn in 2008, and increasingly volatile commodity prices, the country's reliance on diamonds has come into question.
For the first time Botswana finds itself cash strapped, in negative growth, and having to go to international donors.
The country is looking to diversify its economy by strengthening existing sectors like tourism and cattle farming, and investing in burgeoning industries spawning from technology and entrepreneurship.
Yet diamonds by far outshine any other industry in Botswana, accounting for one-third of GDP, 70% of export earnings, and about one-third of the government's revenues.
However, production has peaked, and experts believe reserves of the precious stone may run out by 2030.
Unemployment is also on the rise, with official jobless rates nearing 20%, and an estimated 45% of Botswana's population living below the poverty line.
Economic growth was also negative in 2009, and the industrial sector shrank by 30%.
Signs of labour unrest have also began showing following public sector strikes in recent years.
As Linah Mohohlo, who has been governor of the Bank of Botswana for 15 years, put it in a recent interview with BBC Africa Business Report: "It is a serious concern to government, for many years now strategies have been put in place to diversify the economy away from mining."
In many ways Botswana is seen as becoming a victim of its own making.
Policies have favoured and protected the diamond industry, and strategies and institutions that assisted and protected its growth for decades have made implementation and expansion of newer, alternative industries difficult.
The strong role of the state in the economy, plus bloated bureaucracy, often also makes it difficult for investors to enter the market.
Most contracts are also government sponsored, making it hard for entrepreneurs to set up shop and compete.
Despite being in the relatively stable southern African region, an electricity crisis in South Africa, and political uncertainty in Zimbabwe makes it a bit of a rough neighbourhood.
In response Ms Mohohlo says she's more worried about competition from the country's neighbours, especially for foreign direct investment, and says Botswana needs to "sharpen its pencils".
The manufacturing industry, for example, has "not done what we expected it to do", she says. The sector accounts for an estimated 5% of Botswana's GDP, and employs more labour than mining.
In addition, Botswana has a small domestic market of only two million people and having to compete head-to-head with South Africa is a challenge.
Botswana needs to come up with unique enterprises to compete effectively with South Africa, says Dr Tebogo Seleka, executive director of the Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (Bidpa).
"We are both in SACU (Southern African Customs Union), that means goods can enter freely, so if we chose those enterprises that South Africa is more competitive at, that puts us at a disadvantage," he says.
The key to Botswana's future diversity, many believe, lies in private sector development, and attracting foreign direct investment.
Dr Seleka also believes that due to the country's proximity, combined with its diminutive population, investors tend to set up shop next door.
"If a firm from overseas wants to locate in southern Africa, because of Botswana's market size we are at a disadvantage," Dr Seleka says.
"We also need to look at technology readiness, if you look at the types of technologies firms use, and the rate of adoption of new technologies in Botswana it is still not up to scratch."
One of the solutions to beefing up diversity in the country's economy may lie with its most abundant animal population.
Cattle outnumber the human population by over a million, and beef is the country's third-largest earner.
But despite this, agriculture, in its entirety, only makes up 3% of Botswana's economy.
Bakang Tsheboagae, a cattle farmer from Dutlwe, a village in the Kweneng District of Botswana, says the techniques his family have used for generations to manage their cattle herds have hindered his growth.
Historically our way of tracking cattle are earmarks, which are identical, and you can only brand them once they reach a certain age," he says.
"Livestock multiply, and as you multiply it becomes so difficult to count them, or to know which one is where."
Botswana's cattle and beef industry is driven by exports to Europe, and in order export their beef, farmers must produce traceability records.
"I would say whoever has livestock; small, medium or large scale, ultimately you need a tool that will help you account for whatever you are doing," says Mr Tsheboagae.
Enter a new breed of entrepreneur, using technology to modernise the sector.
Thuto Gaotingwe, 26, has developed cattle tracking software Modisar - named after the Tswana word for a herd boy.
Mr Gaotingwe has managed to realise his vision through the help of a one of the government's new entrepreneurial incubators, the Botswana Innovation Hub.
Known as a "quasi government institution", the innovation hub is described on its website as part of the state's "national strategic goal for the diversification of the country's economy… set up to support new ventures and existing companies."
Modisar is a productivity software application that can be installed on a farmer's computer or laptop, and allows the farmer to capture information about his or her farm faster.
Mr Gaotingwe explains: "We are trying to say, 'look you can make money off livestock farming, only if you do it the right way'.
"So we have built Modisar, and it allows farmers to keep records of his farm assets. Then it allows farmers to know more about livestock diseases."
Although criticised for being reactive as opposed to proactive, the government has implemented a number of policies, strategies and incentive schemes to encourage diversification.
An Economic Diversifiation Drive (EDD), for example, has been implemented to strengthen the private sector.
The EDD plans to leverage the government's purchasing power, estimated at $2.1bn (£1.3bn) per annum, to stimulate local production and consumption by buying from locally based manufacturers and service providers.
Linah Mohohlo also explains that government has also begun exploring diversification options with in mining sector.
"You are now seeing other minerals, such as coal, uranium, copper, nickel coming on-stream," says Ms Mohohlo.
Despite facing obstacles, with the right long-term developmental strategies, Botswana has huge potential to diversify. | In Africa, Botswana is often seen as a diamond in the rough. | 30546498 | [
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The man suffered serious neck injuries after falling from a low roof at Melbury Lodge, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, in December 2015.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) brought the prosecution against Southern Health, who run the Winchester hospital.
District Judge Philip Gillibrand adjourned for sentencing in October.
Paul Spencer, representing Southern Health, entered a guilty plea at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court to the offence of failing to provide safe care and treatment and failing to assess risk to patients at the unit.
The court heard the patient, named in court as "AB", had already climbed onto the roof during an earlier stay at the unit.
Paul Greaney QC, prosecuting for the CQC, said Southern Health had failed to take action to prevent patients from gaining access to the low rooftop between 2010 and 2016.
"The trust was aware of that dangerous state of affairs but did nothing sufficient to stop it until late April 2016," he added.
Judge Gillibrand said Southern Health faced an unlimited fine for the offence.
He added: "It's clearly a case of considerable public interest and concern."
Southern Health has previously been criticised over its failure to properly investigate the deaths of hundreds of patients in its care between 2011 and 2015.
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The East Superleague side fell behind when Paul Quinn fired in from a corner for his second goal in two games.
Rose drew level through a Jamie Reckord own goal, but Graham and Alex Schalk put the Premiership side in control.
However, the semi-professionals refused to buckle and Ruari MacLennan scored his fourth cup goal before Graham pounced to finally settle the tie.
While County move into the quarter-final draw, the first junior side to reach the last 16 of the competition were far from disgraced.
It is an indication of the strength of his squad that County manager Jim McIntyre was able to make six changes to the side that beat Celtic in last week's League Cup semi final.
There was certainly no sign of disruption early on as the Premiership outfit raced into the lead in their first serious attack after a bright start by the visitors.
Colin Leiper nearly headed Ian McShane's corner into his own net with Ryan Baptie clearing off the line, but the ball broke to Quinn, who hammered home from 12 yards for his second goal since his return from Aberdeen.
Many would have expected the Rose to wilt after that fourth-minute setback, but they showed real character to take the game to the Staggies and create a couple of decent chances.
Conor Kelly fired a shot over the bar from the edge of the box then Tommy Coyne swapped passes with Graham Weir before forcing Gary Woods into a save from a similar distance.
County's main threat continued to be from set pieces, with Quinn and Raffa De Vita going close, while Linlithgow goalkeeper Ally Adams made an outstanding diving save low to his left to prevent Brian Graham converting Jonathan Franks' inviting cross.
Rose have shown resilience throughout their Scottish Cup adventure and, after Ruari McLennan then Blair Batchelor had shots blocked, Scott Boyd blasted it off the goal-line against Reckord and into the empty net to spark wild celebrations among the Rose players and their large travelling support.
They continued to give as good as they got at the start of the second half, with Batchelor forcing Woods into a save, but the Premiership side's superiority at set pieces paid off.
McShane whipped in another corner from the left and Graham raced clear to head home from six yards.
Schalk finally killed off the tie five minutes later as Jackson Irvine found space in the box to head on for the Dutchman to slam the ball in from close range.
Back came the junior side with a slick passing move climaxed by MacLennan's finish in 75 minutes only for the Staggies to spoil any chance of a fairytale finish.
Graham scored his seventh goal of the season with a shot from the edge of the area to leave Rose to concentrate on next week's Scottish Junior Cup tie away to Kilwinning Rangers. | Brian Graham's double helped Ross County end junior side Linlithgow Rose's brave Scottish Cup run. | 35447721 | [
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He was killed in his vehicle near the presidential palace in the capital, Mogadishu, the officials added.
The president has cut short his visit to Ethiopia following Abas Abdullahi Sheikh's killing, state radio reports.
He grew up in a refugee camp, and became Somalia's youngest MP in November and a minister in February.
Somalia has been wracked by conflict since the long-serving ruler Siad Barre was ousted in 1991.
It is currently battling militant Islamists from the al-Shabab group, which is affiliated to al-Qaeda.
Security forces on patrol came across a vehicle blocking the road and, thinking it was being driven by militants, opened fire, police Major Nur Hussein told Reuters news agency.
Mr Abas was killed "by mistake - they opened fire on his car accidentally. May God rest his soul", Mogadishu mayoral spokesman Abdifatah Omar Halane was quoted as saying.
A rising star has been killed: Abdirizak Atosh, BBC Somali, Nairobi
Somali youth have been robbed of a role model following the shocking death of Mr Abas. Always polite and well-dressed, the former child refugee was widely admired for his determination to succeed.
Coming from a prominent religious family, Mr Abas studied at Kenya's prestigious Nairobi University and entered politics last year.
He became an MP for the port city of Kismayo in Somalia's Jubbaland region after an electoral college chose him ahead of a government minister who had been on the political scene for more than two decades.
Mr Abas' victory showed that Somalis were fed up with the old guard, and were demanding change. Sensing his popularity with the youth, the president appointed him to the cabinet in March.
Less than three months later, this rising star has become the latest casualty of more than two decades of violence in Somalia. But in this case some are asking: Has Somalia lost a future president?
Mr Abas was given a state funeral in Mogadishu attended by President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo, members of parliament, Somali youth and elders.
President Farmajo has ordered security chiefs to "immediately get to the bottom of this unfortunate tragedy" and make sure the perpetrators were "brought to book".
Information Minister Abdirahman Osman said several people had been arrested, but did not give details, state-owned Radio Mogadishu reported.
Troops are sometimes nervous, and have previously shot officials - and each other - by mistake, says BBC Somalia analyst Abdullahi Abdi.
But Mr Abas, the public works minister, is probably the most high-ranking official killed by "friendly fire", he adds.
Mr Abas grew up in Dadaab camp in Kenya, home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis who fled drought and conflict.
The president appointed Mr Abas to the cabinet following his surprise election victory in February.
President Farmajo promised to improve security and establish an effective government in Somalia.
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Lynn Davies, 58, from Neath, was given a deal by Cardiff Crown Court judge Patrick Curran QC in October and given six months to repay the cash.
The court heard on Friday Davies had paid up before the deadline and his jail term was suspended for two years.
He charged victims £500 on top of every £1,000 borrowed and loaned £23,395 over seven years, pocketing £33,425.
Davies, who threatened his victims if they did not pay, was caught out after an anonymous tip-off to the Wales Illegal Money Leading Unit.
Davies previously said he did not have the funds to pay back his five victims but has since repaid the profit he made, which waa almost £10,000.
Prosecutor Timothy Evans told Cardiff Crown Court: "The money has been paid into a bank account. Where it has come from is a matter to him, but his victims have their money back."
Davies told one of his victims he would "smash her partner's head in" if she failed to meet his demands.
Father-of-one Davies, who lives in Melyn, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of unlicensed money lending.
Judge Patrick Curran QC said: "If the money was repaid, the court would consider suspending your sentence and I have been told that you have paid the money.
"The law is in place to protect the weak from people such as you.
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The BBC said it will now revert to its original Today at Wimbledon format.
A spokesman said this year's show will "have a traditional look and feel" and will "bring highlights of the day's action and insight from our expert pundits".
Last year, the corporation made major changes to its TV highlights coverage, replacing host John Inverdale with Clare Balding and introducing a chat show-style format.
At the time, The Guardian said "the whole show is a mess", while a scathing review in the Daily Mail referred to it as "super right-on" and "tooth-achingly trendy".
Mounting public criticism forced the corporation to tweak its format halfway through the tournament, eventually removing the studio audience altogether.
"Last year we made some format changes to the programme which evolved throughout the championships based on feedback from our audience," the BBC spokesman said.
This year will see the return of Today at Wimbledon, with Balding remaining as the host alongside two expert pundits.
It will be shot from a new studio next to Henman Hill overlooking the All England Club grounds. | The BBC has confirmed it is scrapping Wimbledon highlights show 2Day. | 36477839 | [
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The government is currently negotiating with the Lib Dems and Greens to strike a deal to get its budget plans passed.
Green co-convener Patrick Harvie has asked for concessions over tax, while Lib Dem Willie Rennie has targeted up to £400m of additional spending.
Finance Secretary Derek Mackay has said he is "positive" about winning support.
With the SNP a minority government, they will need at least one opposition party to help the budget pass, either by voting for it or by abstaining.
Mr Mackay has indicated a budget deal with the Conservatives or Labour is unlikely, but said there was "room for manoeuvre" in talks with the Lib Dems and Greens.
And while he has said no matters are "absolutely closed", he wants to "adhere as close to the [SNP] manifesto as possible" on tax, making a deal with the Lib Dems the more likely.
The Lib Dems said they wanted "substantial changes" made, which would "set Scotland on a stronger, more liberal path".
These focus on the party's manifesto pledges around education and mental health. Specific measures include:
Mr Rennie said: "Liberal Democrats will not agree to the draft budget as it stands and will need these substantial changes. If we don't get what the country needs then we will walk away.
"Our plan invests for a step change in mental health and a transformation in education that will help in the road to a liberal Scotland. A properly funded pupil premium and more money for colleges will create that opportunity and boost jobs and the economy.
"New investment in mental health services will boost this Cinderella service and make the whole NHS more sustainable in the future. We have also included support for alcohol and drug services, a higher budget for the police and lower cost transport for the Northern Isles.
"I have had a number of meetings and discussions with the finance secretary so far and I am looking forward to receiving his response to our plan."
Mr Mackay has defended his tax and spending plans in two meetings of the finance committee, where he also took questions from the public over social media.
The committee will submit its report on the budget on Friday 27 January, with the first chamber debate on the budget the following week.
The final vote on the budget will follow a separate vote on Mr Mackay's tax proposals, in the week beginning 20 February.
This is a decent snapshot of what the final budget deal is likely to look like.
Willie Rennie probably won't get absolutely everything he is asking for - one would suspect Derek Mackay is too good a negotiator for that - but this is a far more palatable list of demands for the finance secretary than that put forward by the Greens, who want to see some movement over tax.
While he says nothing is off the table, Mr Mackay isn't going to budge on tax. He sees his current proposals as well-balanced, and endorsed by the electorate last May.
And with a deal with Labour or the Tories more or less dismissed in advance on political grounds, that leaves Mr Rennie as the clear favourite.
He may well have beefed up his demands accordingly - minus any red lines, of course, over tax.
There are plenty of talks still to come, but there is also plenty common ground here. Expect a SNP/Lib Dem coalition to usher an amended budget through come the end of February. | The Liberal Democrats have set out funding for education, mental health and transport links as their demands for backing the Scottish budget. | 38663835 | [
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Leah Washington, 18, and Joe Pugh, 19, both from Barnsley, were among four people badly injured on the Smiler ride on 2 June when two carriages crashed.
Ms Washington had a leg amputated and Mr Pugh suffered shattered knees.
The event takes place at the Metrodome Arena in Barnsley on 14 November and includes a pea and pies supper.
Midlands Air Ambulance, the Royal Stoke University Hospital and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue will benefit from the charity event.
Vicky Balch, 20, from Lancashire, also had to have a leg amputated and Daniel Thorpe, 27, from Buxton, Derbyshire, suffered serious leg injuries.
Twelve other people were trapped 25ft (7.6m) off the ground for several hours as emergency services attempted to rescue them. | Two victims of the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash will hold a charity night to raise money for the organisations that helped them. | 33964964 | [
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A woman, a man in his 30s and two girls aged three and five were involved in the accident near Junction 11, Reading, at around 14:10 BST on 7 May.
The woman, 37, from London, died at the scene while the younger girl later died of her injuries.
The man and the five-year-old girl were discharged from hospital. | A three-year-old girl has died in hospital after the car she was travelling in crashed into a tree next to the M4 in Berkshire. | 36323297 | [
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The girl was attacked in the Jenkins Dale area of Chatham on 4 April and is still in hospital with serious injuries, Kent Police said.
The dog was shot by firearms officers.
A man and a teenager have been re-arrested on suspicion of offences under the Dangerous Dogs Act. Both had been detained on the day of the attack but released later.
Live: More news from Kent
The teenager was previously arrested over the same offences and the man has been now also been detained on suspicion of supplying cannabis.
A woman arrested on 5 April on suspicion of dangerous dogs offences answered bail on Wednesday and was released pending further inquiries, a police spokeswoman said.
Kent Police confirmed they had received a call from a member of the public shortly before the attack at 17:10 BST about a dog pulling its handler nearby.
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HM Revenue & Customs said the plant, on the outskirts of the city centre, could have cost taxpayers nearly £138m a year in lost duty and taxes.
Four lorry loads of tobacco, cigarettes and packing materials have been seized.
Ten men, aged between 26 and 40 from Brazil and Paraguay, were detained on suspicion of immigration offences.
Read more news for Birmingham and the Black Country
Customs officials said the building was kitted out with machinery able to produce and package cigarettes on an industrial scale.
The raid took place over several days last week but details have only just been released.
A number of men were detained by immigration enforcement officers.
A nearby residence was also searched.
Stuart Taylor, HMRC's Fraud Investigation Service assistant director, said: "Tobacco fraud costs the UK £2.4 billion a year in lost tax, money that should be funding vital public services in the UK."
Sajeela Naseer, Birmingham City Council's head of trading standards, said the investigation into the cigarettes recovered was continuing. | A suspected illicit cigarette-processing factory in Birmingham, thought to be capable of producing 35 million a month, has been shut down. | 37977230 | [
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The election was called after mayor Lutfur Rahman was convicted of electoral fraud and removed from office in April.
He has been banned from standing again.
The Met Police said it was investigating 16 allegations of electoral malpractice in relation to this election, including harvesting votes and the improper distribution of election literature.
The full list of Tower Hamlets mayoral candidates is: | Voters in Tower Hamlets are going to the polls to vote for a new mayor. | 33088861 | [
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Johnston, who has also appeared in Waking the Dead and Coronation Street, joins new stars Richard E Grant and Anna Chancellor, both of whom will play guests of the Granthams at Downton.
The hit period drama will return to screens this autumn.
Series four of the show, which followed the wealthy Grantham family and their servants, achieved an average of 11.9 million viewers in the UK.
The very British drama has also been a huge hit in the US, winning both Emmy Awards and Golden Globes.
More than 26 million viewers watched series four on Masterpiece on PBS, making it one of the highest rating shows on American television.
Previous high profile guest stars include Shirley Maclaine who played Martha Levinson, Lady Grantham's mother, and Oscar-nominated actor Paul Giamatti who appeared in last year's Christmas special as her "maverick, playboy" son.
Series five will also feature 24 star Rade Sherbedgia as a Russian refugee who has fled the revolution after World War 1.
Earlier this year, executive producer Gareth Neame promised it would have "all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and comedy". | The Royle Family actress Sue Johnston is the latest star to join series five of ITV's Downton Abbey in a guest role. | 27628447 | [
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In 2014, Sarah Rochira published the results of a major review of the experience of care home residents.
The use of antipsychotic drugs was a recurrent theme which she has branded a "national scandal".
Health boards and care homes have said changes are being made.
The commissioner is asking them to show significant improvements in practice.
"I know professionals don't like this phrase, but across Wales older people in care homes, through the inappropriate use of these drugs, are being 'chemically coshed'. That's the reality of it.
"It is a national scandal. I made that clear when I published my review. I was very clear I would come back and look for evidence of changes and I've now begun that process.
"I will publish the findings from the health boards later this year and I cannot be any clearer in my expectation that they understand how inappropriate the current situation is and that they can evidence real progress."
Antipsychotic drugs are primarily used to treat conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
A survey last November by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found nearly one in five - 18% - of dementia patients were being prescribed antipsychotics.
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society in Wales published its own report into the use of medicines in care homes following the Ms Rochira's report.
The society's director in Wales, Mair Davies, told BBC Radio Wales' Eye on Wales programme that there were examples of expert practice.
"What we need is to make sure that happens in every care home in Wales," she said.
Steve Ford, the dementia care lead for Care Forum Wales, which represents more than 450 independent care homes in Wales, believes progress is being made.
"We need to look at the underlying reasons for unwanted behaviour that challenges, rather than picking up the phone to the GP and requesting those prescriptions," he said. | Evidence of progress on reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medication in care homes has been demanded by the Older People's Commissioner for Wales. | 39006759 | [
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The Gills had agreed to sign defender N'Gala, 27, after he left Eastleigh.
However, he played for Barnet and Eastleigh earlier this campaign, and rules state a player cannot appear for more than two teams in one season.
But National League club Dover say they have been allowed to sign him following talks with the Football Association and English Football League.
N'Gala started his career at West Ham, and had spells at Stevenage and Portsmouth before joining Barnet in 2014.
He became Eastleigh's record signing when they bought him from the Bees in November.
The Fifa Players' Transfer rules came into force this season, and recently led to Leyton Orient winger Ulrich Nnomo's proposed move to Paris FC being cancelled.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bondz N'Gala has joined Dover, a week after a move to Gillingham fell through because of Fifa regulations. | 38919942 | [
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Flight MU736 was heading from Sydney, Australia to Shanghai, but the pilot reported problems with the engine about one hour after taking off.
Passengers, who had to spend the night in Sydney, told media they smelt something burning inside the aircraft.
The Airbus A330 landed safely and there were no reports of injuries.
Images circulating on social media showed a large hole in the engine casing.
Several passengers said they had heard a loud sound coming from the left engine shortly after take-off.
One passenger told Australia's Seven News network: "All of a sudden we heard this noise... it kind of smelt like burning".
"I was really scared. Our group was terrified."
One woman on the flight told news agency Reuters: "The cabin crew went out and told us to fasten our seatbelts and tried to calm us down, but we were actually very panicked because we had no idea what was happening."
Passengers said the crew cleared the seats near the affected engine.
China Eastern Airlines said in a statement to the media that the crew had "observed the abnormal situation of the left engine and decided to return to Sydney airport immediately".
It added that all passengers would be placed on flights leaving on Monday.
Aviation safety authorities are now investigating.
Aviation expert Greg Waldron of consulting firm FlightGlobal told the BBC that it would be "difficult to say at this early juncture what caused such extensive damage" to the China Eastern plane.
He said investigators would likely look at all possible factors and examine maintenance records of the aircraft and engine. "They will also carefully assess whether a foreign object may have played a role in this," he said.
Last month, industry websites The Aviation Herald and Aero.de published pictures from social media appearing to show a similar hole in another aeroplane's engine casing.
Mr Waldron added it would be "too early" to say whether the Sydney incident was linked to other cases, but it would be something investigators would consider. | A China Eastern Airlines plane has had to turn back to Sydney airport after a technical failure which left a hole in an engine casing. | 40243766 | [
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Mr Kasyanov, a former prime minister, is a high-profile critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in the opposition RPR-Parnas party.
Recently Mr Kadyrov called Mr Putin's critics "enemies" and "traitors".
Russian opposition politicians have described the posting as a murder threat.
The Chechen leader said Mr Kasyanov was seeking cash in Strasbourg for the opposition. "Whoever doesn't get it will get it!" he warned.
Last March Mr Kadyrov spoke out on Instagram about the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. That message defended one of the Chechens charged over the shooting.
A day later President Putin gave Mr Kadyrov a top award.
Mr Nemtsov was among several well-known opponents of Mr Putin murdered in the past decade.
Putin loyalist Kadyrov unleashed on Russian 'traitors'
Ramzan Kadyrov: Putin's key Chechen ally
Mr Kadyrov runs Chechnya with an iron fist - his private militia has been accused of widespread human rights abuses, including torture and assassination.
He has close ties to Mr Putin, who encouraged him to stamp out a separatist insurgency in Chechnya. Thousands of civilians died in the North Caucasus republic when Russian troops fought the rebels there in the 1990s.
The new video is the latest in a series of threatening messages from Mr Kadyrov against Kremlin critics, whom he accuses of working for the West.
It shows Mr Kasyanov talking to Vladimir Kara-Murza, a journalist who runs the pro-democracy opposition movement Open Russia. The movement was launched by exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The video was posted late on Sunday and has more than 16,000 "likes".
Mr Kasyanov says he sees it as a direct death threat and will demand a criminal investigation.
Ilya Yashin, who co-chairs RPR-Parnas with Mr Kasyanov, called the video "an open threat to murder Kasyanov".
Another opposition leader, anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, echoed that view. On Facebook, Mr Navalny said (in Russian) "there is no longer any doubt that all such statements in recent weeks and specifically this one were approved by Putin and the Kremlin, and quite probably were inspired by them too".
The BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow says they key question now is whether Mr Kadyrov is acting on his own initiative.
One theory discussed on Russian social media is that he is being used by the Kremlin to intimidate its critics - particularly as growing economic problems raise the potential for protest.
Others suggest that Mr Kadyrov is becoming a dangerous loose cannon - a regional leader who believes he is untouchable, our correspondent reports.
The phrase "Whoever doesn't get it will get it!" is the title of a thriller that Mr Kadyrov says he has filmed, starring himself as a machine gun-toting all-action hero.
Kadyrov the Instagram fan - by Stephen Ennis, BBC Monitoring:
Ramzan Kadyrov is one of Russia's most popular and controversial Instagram users. Since launching his account in 2013, he has made over 6,000 posts and amassed 1.6m followers.
He promotes himself on the site as a devout Muslim and a strong leader. One recent post featured him grappling with a crocodile.
This is not the first time he has used Instagram to lash out at the Russian opposition. In May 2015, hours after the premiere of an Open Russia film about him, he posted a clip of himself firing a machine gun, with the slogan "Whoever doesn't get it will get it soon!"
The following day Open Russia co-ordinator Vladimir Kara-Murza was taken seriously ill with poisoning.
Instagram has rapidly grown in popularity in Russia in recent years and at the end of 2015 had more than 10m active users. | Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov has posted an Instagram video showing Russian opposition politician Mikhail Kasyanov in a sniper's crosshairs. | 35459613 | [
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Australia had a first-innings lead of 155 runs after bowling their hosts out for 105 in Pune.
The tourists scored 285 in the second innings, setting India a record target of 441 to win.
However, India were all out for 107 as they lost inside three days, with left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe taking 6-35.
On a turning pitch, O'Keefe also took 6-35 in the first innings, while fellow spinner Nathan Lyon snared five wickets in total - with figures of 4-53 in the second innings - as Australia's spin duo outperformed their Indian counterparts.
Visiting captain Steve Smith also played a key part in the victory as he scored 109 in the second innings, his maiden Test century in India.
The win was Australia's first in India since 2004.
"I'm really proud of how boys have performed," said Smith. "O'Keefe was absolutely outstanding in the match."
India captain Virat Kohli was critical of his team, describing it as their "worst batting display in two years".
"We got outplayed in this match. We have to take it on the chin," he added.
"We never took them for granted but we were never good enough during the three days."
India, the top-ranked Test team, have not lost a home Test series since 2012 and the second match starts in Bangalore on Saturday, 4 March. | India's 19-Test unbeaten run was emphatically ended as Australia beat them by 333 runs in the first of a four-match series. | 39088811 | [
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Organisers said hundreds of revellers took part in the celebration of the coming of summer.
Event co-ordinator Sara Thomas said Beltane was an ancient tradition with a modern twist.
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Jocelyn McKay is now 81 and said she feels "released" from the feelings that gripped her for so long.
"I may be old, but at least I am happy," she told BBC News NI.
"I hadn't really lived until I got the operation.
"For years I felt I was in the wrong body and it wasn't until I was 69 that I plucked up the courage to ask for help."
It was only after a trip to Manchester with some friends, during which Ms McKay lived as a woman, that she realised the surgery was something she needed.
"I was a cross-dresser, I went away dressed as a man and I came home dressed as a man, but in between times I was a woman," she said.
But cross-dressing was not good enough for her.
When Ms McKay returned from her trip, she visited her GP, who referred her to a specialist.
She said: "I had been going to the doctor for a range of ailments and he said to me: 'Thank God you've finally told me what's wrong.'"
Every week three or four people present themselves as transgender to the Regional Gender Identity and Psychosexual Service at Knockbracken in Belfast.
They typically make contact with the clinic through a GP referral or a drop-in facility every week.
200 people are currently being treated by the clinic with 50 more on the waiting list.
More than half of them are aged between 18 and 25.
The number of adults going to the clinic is doubling year on year.
The clinic provides adults with assessment, psychological support and onward referral for hormone replacement therapy and surgery where appropriate.
A gender identity panel to strategically look at the issues facing transgender people met for the first time at Stormont on Monday.
It was formed by the peer support group Focus - The Identity Trust.
It comprises politicians from Sinn Féin and the Alliance party, as well as a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Lesley Carroll, and others with a long-standing interest in human rights.
The Sinn Féin minister Megan Fearon said the gathering was about "bringing marginalised people together, giving them space to discuss transgender issues and engaging with politicians in a way that had not been done before".
"Transgender people still experience discrimination in nearly every walk of life," she said.
The panel will address trans-phobic hate crime and access to health and education. | A pensioner who underwent gender re-assignment surgery at the age of 69 says she lived "in the wrong body" for most of her life because she feared the reaction of her friends and family. | 38134212 | [
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Fr D'Arcy was responding to a BBC This World programme which found that the cardinal failed to pass details of sex abuse to police or parents.
It said that in 1975, Cardinal Brady had the names and address of children being abused by Fr Brendan Smyth.
Smyth, a paedophile, continued to attack children for a further 13 years.
Cardinal Brady claimed the BBC exaggerated his authority at that time. He said he had "absolutely no authority over Smyth" and had felt betrayed that those in the Church who had the power to stop Smyth did not do so.
In an interview with Irish radio station Newstalk on Thursday, Father D'Arcy said he would find it hard to continue if he was in the position of the current Irish Church leader.
But he added that changing the cardinal would not necessarily mean a fresh start.
"The bottom line is that if Cardinal Brady goes, the ordinary people of Ireland won't have a single vote on who replaces him. That is the problem," he said.
"Actually he would have to offer his resignation and if the Vatican didn't take it he would be back to square one.
"Some people think that is what happened two years ago. But the Vatican was saying no."
Father Eamon Murray, who is originally from Northern Ireland but now based in England, said many priests feel demoralised by clerical child abuse.
He said Cardinal Brady would have do do a "lot of soul searching".
"If I was in that position, I would have gone a long time ago because it's your own moral credibility that has suffered," he told the BBC's Nolan Show.
"I've listened to a lot of people and naturally people are angry at the church and rightly so and I feel that anger and I feel that hurt and pain.
"It pains me to see people who have practised their faith for a long, long time, many years leaving the church as a result of losing credibility in hierarchy."
Meanwhile, one of Smyth's victims has called for the cardinal's resignation.
Brendan Boland said he thought Cardinal Brady's refusal to resign was wrong.
"I can't understand why he can't see his failings," he said.
"For him to stand without resigning I think that is further abuse of me.
"Resign. Own up to your failings."
In 1975, Cardinal Brady was a priest and teacher in County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland, when he was sent by his bishop to investigate a claim of child sexual abuse by a fellow priest.
That priest was later exposed as Smyth, who died in prison in 1997, one month into a 12-year prison sentence.
The first child to tell his parents about the abuse was the then 14-year-old Brendan Boland.
Speaking on Wednesday, Cardinal Brady said in a
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"However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society, and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past."
The cardinal said he was "shocked, appalled and outraged" by Smyth and said he had trusted that those with the authority to act in relation to Smyth would treat the evidence seriously and respond appropriately.
"The commentary in the programme and much of the coverage of my role in this inquiry gives the impression that I was the only person who knew of the allegations against Brendan Smyth at that time and that because of the office I hold in the Church today I somehow had the power to stop Brendan Smyth in 1975.
"I had absolutely no authority over Brendan Smyth. Even my Bishop had limited authority over him. The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order."
Police are also studying the documentary. A spokesman for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: "The PSNI will study the content of this programme. We can make no further comment at this time." | Irish priest Father Brian D'Arcy has said he believes Cardinal Sean Brady was willing to offer his resignation two years ago but the Vatican refused. | 17931878 | [
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She took power over the weekend following the death of 78-year-old President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died in office after heading up the southern Africa country since 2004.
Mr Mutharika's decision to appoint her as his running mate for the 2009 elections surprised many in Malawi's mainly conservative, male-dominated society - which had never before had a female vice-president.
Equally surprising was her decision to publicly stand up to her boss - by refusing to endorse his plans for his brother, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Mutharika, to succeed him as president in 2014 when he was due to retire.
She was promptly thrown out of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party - and subjected to daily doses of derision at public rallies and on Malawi's state airwaves.
A senior ruling party official openly said Malawi was "not ready for a female president", while First Lady Callista Mutharika said Mrs Banda was fooling herself that she was a serious politician - saying she was a mere market woman selling fritters.
"She will never be president, how can a mandasi [fritter] seller be president?" Mrs Mutharika said.
Mrs Banda took all this in her stride, saying she was glad to be identified with market women since more than 80% of Malawian women belong to that category: "Yes, she's right, I'm indeed a mandasi seller and I'm proud of it because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers."
She also resisted calls for her to resign as the country's vice-president - she was elected not appointed so she could not be fired by Mr Mutharika - and instead set up her own People's Party.
Born in 1950 in the village of Malemia near the southern town of Zomba, Joyce Hilda Ntila was the eldest in a family of five children.
Her father was the leader of Malawi's police brass band and her youngest sister, Anjimile, ran pop star Madonna's charity Raising Malawi until it closed in December.
She left her first husband in 1981, taking her three children with her, because he was abusive.
"Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically, they depend on their husbands," she told the BBC about her decision.
Eight years later, Mrs Banda founded the National Association of Business Women, a group that lends start-up cash to small-scale traders - making her popular among Malawi's many rural poor.
That work also earned her international recognition - in 1997, she was awarded, along with former Mozambican President Joachim Chissano, the US-based Hunger Project's Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger.
She also set up the Joyce Banda Foundation, a charity that assists Malawian children and orphans through education - she has a degree in early childhood education.
Joyce Banda cut her teeth in politics in 1999 when she won a parliamentary seat on the ticket of the former ruling United Democratic Front.
She held a number of cabinet positions under former President Bakili Muluzi and Mr Mutharika during his first term.
She puts her achievements down to her happy marriage to retired Chief Justice Richard Banda with whom she has two children.
"My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention," she said.
Mrs Banda's presidential challenges are huge: Aside from handling political divisions and possible opposition from Mr Mutharika's allies, she has to address Malawi's serious economic difficulties.
It is one of the poorest countries in the world, with an estimated 75% of the population living on less than $1 (60p) a day.
And former President Mutharika fell out with most of Western donors - on which the country depends for financial support.
The cutting off of direct aid resulted in the country's worst shortages of foreign currency, fuel and essential drugs.
But she has immediately made her mark - sacking Malawi's police chief Peter Mukhito, accused of mishandling anti-government riots last year in which at least 19 people were shot dead, and Patricia Kaliati as information minister.
In the wake of Mr Mutharika's death, Ms Kaliati had held a press conference saying Mrs Banda had no right to take over as president - despite what the constitution said.
The head of Malawi's state broadcaster has also been replaced. | Joyce Banda, who has made history becoming Malawi's first female president and only the second woman to lead a country in Africa, has a track record of fighting for women's rights. | 17662916 | [
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Margaret Henderson-McCarroll pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Eddie Girvan, 67, on the grounds of diminished responsibility in May.
The 31 year old, who has 100 previous convictions, was told she must serve three years in prison.
Sentencing her, Mr Justice Treacy said it was "an horrific crime".
Speaking in court on Monday, he said the victim "must have suffered terribly".
Mr Girvan was found dead at his Greenisland home in County Antrim. He was virtually naked, bound and gagged on 18 January 2016.
He had been stabbed in the chest and suffocated after being gagged with kitchen roll and a tie to stop him calling out for help.
The court had heard previously that either injury could have killed him.
The court was told that the pair, who had known each other for some years, had argued over money for sex.
Henderson-McCarroll said she had been acting in self defence and "poked" her victim with a cake knife after Mr Girvan came at her with a stick sword.
She said she had not meant to kill him and admitted that she had been high on crystal meth and heroin at the time.
After the stabbing, Henderson-McCarroll admitted taking more heroin "to calm her nerves" before stealing Mr Girvan's car and driving it to Belfast.
She was involved in an accident at Custom House Square, Belfast which led police to find Mr Girvan's car at the city hostel where she had been living.
She was later arrested on an unrelated bench warrant and found to have a sat nav, a watch, and two sets of car keys in her possession.
The sat nav contained Mr Girvan's home address and, after several attempts to contact him at home, police broke in and found his body.
Henderson-McCarroll has 100 previous convictions for robbery, theft and assault.
The court heard she had bitten, punched and head butted elderly men, young women and children in the course of past crimes.
A doctor's report stated that she had lived a "chaotic life" of drug addiction, alcohol abuse, crime and prostitution.
The court was told that she relapsed into heroin and crystal meth addiction after the death of her baby daughter.
She also previously admitted eight other charges connected to Mr Girvan's killing:
* Theft;
* Attempted theft;
* Aggravated vehicle-taking causing damage;
* Dangerous driving;
* Driving when unfit through drink or drugs;
* Driving without insurance;
* Failing to stop at an accident
* Failing to report an accident
For those crimes, she was sentenced to between one month and a year in prison - all to be served concurrently with her manslaughter sentence which was six years - three to be served in prison and three on licence. | A woman who killed a pensioner while "high on crystal meth and heroin" has been given a six-year sentence. | 40925574 | [
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Using similar technology to face and fingerprint recognition software, the computers have been taught to recognise cells and pinpoint them.
It means cancer cells can be identified quicker, speeding up diagnosis times.
The project is in collaboration with specialists in the US, Germany, London and Newcastle.
Prof Paul Rees, from the university's college of engineering, said in the past, finding cancer cells had been like "looking for a needle in a haystack" and the new method was a "world-leading development".
"The researchers train the algorithm to recognise the specific cell of interest by giving examples of the cell to be identified," he said.
"After learning what the cells look like, the computer algorithms can then identify the target cells in a population of previously unseen cells."
As well as making the cells easier to find, the new method can also determine a cell's age, which Prof Rees said was important because most treatments act on cells at a certain point within their lifecycle.
Researchers at Harvard University in the US, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen in Munich, Germany, The Francis Crick Institute in London and Newcastle Upon Tyne University have also been involved in the project.
"These institutes are working at the cutting edge of the fight against cancer and they are very eager to have these types of tools," Prof Rees said.
"This development is very important for Wales - it shows that we are a player on the international stage."
Prof Dr Fabian Theis, of the Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, added the team's work could "open up a whole new perspective that could also be used for entirely different research questions, not only for cell analysis". | University researchers in Swansea have trained computers to detect cancer cells using artificial intelligence algorithms. | 35306035 | [
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Although there is some common ground between the two governments on, for example, the need for free trade within the single market, Carwyn Jones has complained that he didn't see the letter before it was published on Wednesday. (He has that in common with most of Mrs May's cabinet).
The first minister told AMs: "I discussed the Article 50 letter in general terms with the prime minister when we met in Swansea last week.
"I should be clear, though, that I didn't see the letter before today and we were not invited to contribute to its drafting. This is unacceptable and is the culmination of a deeply frustrating process in which the devolved administrations have persistently been treated with a lack of respect.
"It is all the more regrettable given the UK government's stated aim was to develop a negotiating framework for the whole of the UK."
Mr Jones may have been playing to an audience, but Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns hit back: "I'm a bit disappointed in that. The prime minister has been in Wales three times in the last six weeks.
"We've been talking about the contents of this letter for many months.
"We've clearly all made our representations but, ultimately, the UK government needs to act in the interests of the whole of the UK and that's what we're doing, specifically with Wales being mentioned."
Mrs May did indeed mention Wales in the letter. She told Donald Tusk: "When it comes to the return of powers back to the United Kingdom, we will consult fully on which powers should reside in Westminster and which should be devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"But it is the expectation of the government that the outcome of this process will be a significant increase in the decision-making power of each devolved administration."
That sentence may have been written more with Scotland in mind, but it does prompt the question: which powers? Farming? Economic aid? And will the money follow the powers?
Alun Cairns wouldn't answer those questions, although Carwyn Jones has said he fears there won't be any money to accompany the powers after 2020. (Perhaps Mr Jones doesn't think Jeremy Corbyn will win power that year - Labour has pledged to maintain EU funding levels on regional aid beyond 2020).
Some in Whitehall think the way EU money has been spent in Wales - check out Nick Clegg's film from Ebbw Vale - is an argument for transferring those powers to Westminster, but that looks politically less likely now.
We may get some more details about the process in a white paper on the Great Repeal Bill on Thursday but, at the moment, the identity of the powers the UK government wants to see devolved is something of a mystery. | Theresa May's letter triggering Article 50 may have attempted a more conciliatory tone but it does not seem to have worked with the Welsh Government. | 39438081 | [
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Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission Ltd, a division of energy giant SSE, submitted the "needs case" as part of the planning process for the cable.
After assessing the case, energy regulator Ofgem has asked for further details to be submitted.
The project has been hit by delays and a rise in costs to an estimated £780m.
Islands local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, has said major renewable energy projects planned for the isles cannot go ahead without the cable.
The interconnector would export electricity to the mainland for distribution.
It would stretch to about 50 miles (80km) from Gravir on Lewis to Ullapool on the north-west coast of mainland Scotland.
The Scottish government has been involved in talks on the project.
A spokesperson said: "This is a matter for SSE and Ofgem, but we would encourage the company and regulator to move swiftly to resolve this issue.
"Improved grid connections will enable the huge renewable energy resources of Scotland's islands to create jobs - up to 3,500 jobs in the Western Isles, almost 2,900 in the Shetlands and over 4,500 in the Orkney Islands by 2030.
The spokesperson added: "SSE put a business case for the Western Isles link to the electricity regulator Ofgem on 14 June, and today Ofgem have responded by setting out the detailed further information they require." | Ofgem has asked for more information on why a subsea cable is needed to carry electricity generated on the Western Isles to the mainland. | 23128813 | [
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Both Broughty Ferry lifeboats were called out shortly before midday, with a Coastguard helicopter later joining the search.
Coastguard officers conducted a search on foot of the waterfront area close to the bridge.
The lifeboats were stood down at about 15:00.
A Broughty Ferry RNLI spokesman said: "The inshore lifeboat was launched within six minutes and was quickly in the area of the reported sighting.
"The all-weather lifeboat Elizabeth of Glamis was launched a short time later to join the search.
"Following an extensive search of the area no one was found." | A lifeboat and Coastguard search has been carried out after a report of a body seen in the water near the Tay Road Bridge at Dundee. | 39278989 | [
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Microsoft has just launched its first wearable health gadget, the Band, in the US ahead of its global launch.
Similar products from Samsung and Google are already on the market and early next year the much-hyped Watch from Apple will go on sale.
Millions of us are going to be having our most intimate bodily functions monitored by these gadgets, creating more health data than has ever existed before.
Why do these machines help us stay fit and more importantly what happens to all that information we are generating and sharing?
Before the giants of the tech world realised that wearable, health-focused gadgets were the new big thing the market was already thriving.
In March the European Commission published its green paper on mobile health, which contained some mind-boggling statistics.
It suggests that 97,000 apps are on sale in the mobile health sector, which includes tracking apps but also apps that help patients make appointments and keep track of medication.
It predicts that by 2017 more than 1.5 billion people around the world will be using these apps, generating total revenues of £14.5bn ($23bn).
In the EU alone it is estimated that these apps and gadgets could reduce health costs by £77.5bn (99bn euros).
Most of the growth has come from start-ups that saw the potential early and now face a competitive onslaught from the big technology companies.
Five years ago French firm Withings launched its wireless scales - the device feeds data back to you, by plotting a graph of your weight over time.
"It started with the scales because we thought that was the one dimension that would make sense for people to track," Julien De Preaumont, chief marketing officer at Withings, says.
"The first rule of data is to make people aware of their health to make them realise how their weight is evolving.
"The curve reveals the impact of life changes, it will show how a divorce, a diet or a new job will affect your weight."
After the scales took off, Withings launched wearable gadgets that track your movement, heart rate, blood pressure and sleep.
The company maintains that the data it collects belongs to the user only.
But it has published reports revealing the most obese cities in France and the US, as well as another study showing sleep patterns across Europe.
Withings says this does not compromise the privacy of the individual user's data because it is aggregated and anonymised.
While Withings has grown to be a global business, US firm Fitbit has also seen its business thrive beyond its borders.
Founded in 2007 Fitbit offers wireless scales, wearable devices that monitor movement, heart rate, sleep and blood pressure, and is evangelical about the motivating power of targets and data on our health.
Fitbit also offers companies its gadgets and software for corporate use.
Its "corporate wellness" scheme started in the US and companies can use the scheme to get a rebate on their taxes.
Clients so far include blue-chip multinationals such as BP and Time Warner.
Employees can sign up and different divisions can compete against each other over the number of steps taken or stairs climbed.
"The key is to make the product sticky," says Gareth Jones from Fitbit, and the key to that is gamification.
"Our software incorporates challenges like daily showdowns and weekend warriors which motivate people and keep them coming back."
But should employees be worried about sharing their every movement, 24 hours a day with a corporate scheme?
"We don't have data about this, it's very much a choice of the individual as to whether they sign in for the programme. We see the result of that as purely the people who agree to participate and the people who don't," says Mr Jones.
"We might share with the corporate administrator information that 50 people have been invited and 45 have said yes. How the company uses that information is up to the company."
The potential of all the data that is now being collected is huge, both for business and for public health bodies.
Imagine going to the doctor and being able to show them how much exercise you do, how much sleep you get and your blood pressure for the last year.
While the insurance industry is using mobile applications for arranging appointments and giving health information, they are yet to fully embrace the use of wearable devices and the data they collect, though it is a development that could completely change their business as many research papers suggest.
Can big data really revolutionise our world? We explore how the explosion of information and analysis will impact our lives and our privacy.
Power of big data
Meanwhile the use of the data for medical research is also a long way off.
Professor John Newton from Public Health England would like to see a more joined-up approach.
"We've got the world of apps, a huge investment from the technology companies, but the healthcare sector hasn't made the link," he says.
"If you were able to make the link between a hospital service like a diabetic clinic with a patient's mobile phone data, they could tell immediately whether that person's diabetes was going out of control."
His message is clear: "Put the data into the hands of the people who can use it to make a difference."
Like all the new data that is being recorded and analysed the possibilities are massive but the ethical and privacy issues surrounding our personal information will not go away quickly. | Gadgets that track your steps, sleeping and heart rate could help us live longer and cut national healthcare costs by billions - or so we are told. | 29952998 | [
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Cricket and Nigeria may seem an incongruous pairing, but in Lagos many a weekend players in their colourful kit take to the crease on a dusty pitch in a fiercely competitive cricket league.
"This league actually boasts about 99% of the Nigerian national team," says Femi Solebo, who chairs the Club Cricket Committee Lagos and also plays for the Ibeju Lekki Cricket Club.
Watching a game from the welcome shade of the pavilion, he occasionally shouts out instructions to his batsmen taking on Government College Ibadan in a 50-over game.
"Over the last three or four years Nigerian cricket has stepped up quite a lot and has allowed these guys here to show their stuff at an international level," he says.
"Recently the national team got promoted to division five in the World Cricket League, which is a huge achievement for us - we've never been there before in the history of Nigerian cricket."
Mr Solebo, who first started playing cricket whilst at school in the UK, reckons that in a population of more than 170 million "there must be a million or so followers of cricket in Nigeria quite easily".
However, not many of them are at Tafawa Balewa Square Cricket Oval next to Lagos' dilapidated old racecourse.
Besides a few team members on the stand and a man barbecuing meat, only a small group watches from deckchairs under a nearby tree, keeping refreshed with drinks from a cool box.
Some of them turn out to be former Nigerian internationals - stalwarts of the game, some of whom are updating a chat group of enthusiasts with the latest scores by mobile phone.
Femi Solebo, Club Cricket Committee Lagos chair:
I joke with them that if I don't fund them, they're going to come mug me
"In our time we didn't have as much exposure as the current national team does, we were restricted in playing in just the West African region," says Barnaby Ephraim, who now helps administer the game in Lagos.
He says it is the Lagos league, which was started more than 15 years ago, that has helped raise the profile of cricket and the opportunity to play it outside school and university.
It is also tempering attitudes that see the game as elitist and old fashioned, with some schools - even the established private ones - not seeing the sport as a priority.
And Mr Solebo admits it is difficult to rival football as there are not the fans to warrant tickets that would pay for the upkeep of a turf pitch.
The ground the teams use is often rented out by the cash-strapped Nigerian Cricket Federation - and with upcoming elections, political rallies have recently been held here, playing havoc with the pitch, already like concrete after the dry Harmattan season.
The game is also expensive for players given the kit needed.
"With soccer, all you need is just one ball and then you're away," says the 45-year-old.
But he says whilst the league is sponsored by private individuals like him with a passion for the game, most of the 400 players in its two divisions are "from the streets".
The Ibeju Lekki club helps pay for either a player's education or vocational training - and subsidises kit and lunches.
Kunle Adegbola, Nigerian cricket captain:
Cricket is just evolving in Nigeria... in the next four to five years cricket will be out there like football
"Whatever it is they want to do, we'll fund that and insist that you can only be a member of this club if you have some kind of educational background - and that's what the other clubs try to do as well," says Mr Solebo, who runs a company that generates electricity.
"I joke with them that if I don't fund them, they're going to come mug me.
"Some of them are doing very well in university, some of them have left and are working now."
A few of Lagos' cricketers have even gone professional, like Nigerian cricket captain Kunle Adegbola.
The towering 33-year-old has come to practise for his Foundation Cricket Club in the nets ahead of a game the next day.
When the season ends in April in Lagos he will head off to London, where he has played for Burgess Park and Blackheath cricket clubs in the past.
He says with more awareness, spectators and sponsorship, he sees great things for Nigerian cricket.
"Cricket is just evolving in Nigeria... in the next four to five years cricket will be out there like football," he says.
But the Lagosian cricketers know gaining such momentum will only be achieved with serious corporate sponsorship - which would be more likely if ongoing negotiations with a cable TV company bear fruit.
So far TV executives have been reluctant to go ahead as they would prefer a national league.
"But we say that we can take it in phases, adopt Lagos first and then you can open up," says Mr Ephraim, vice-chair of the Lagos State Cricket Association which is also trying to rejuvenate youth interest in cricket.
He says that unlike other states there are 35 schools in Lagos now playing cricket - with both boys and girls participating.
Ibeju Lekki player Endurance Ofem agrees junior involvement is key to putting cricket on a football footing.
But the former captain of the Nigerian side says offering national team players good welfare packages like those available to professional footballers is important too.
"If you do that, every youngster sees the reason to come and play cricket."
For Mr Solebo, competing with football is not the issue - it is the cricket that matters.
"It makes me very proud that our efforts give people joy every weekend - they come here, play with passion and it's fantastic." | Nigeria has produced its fair share of great sportsmen and women - but unlike footballers and polo players, cricketers rarely get the West African nation's heart beating. | 31944995 | [
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The Procession to Calvary, completed in 1602, will remain on show at Nostell Priory in West Yorkshire.
The painting had been put up for sale for £2.7m. A campaign by The Art Fund and National Trust raised £1.7m.
The National Heritage Memorial Fund, which aims to save key historic items, has now stepped in with the final £1m.
The painting depicts Christ carrying the cross on his way to crucifixion and has hung at Nostell Priory, a stately home near Wakefield, for 200 years.
The priory is the family home of Lord St Oswald, who put it up for sale to pay for the restoration of the estate.
He had said he would put it up for auction if the target was not reached by Christmas.
Members of the public donated £680,000 to the campaign, with almost £510,000 coming from trusts and foundations, while The Art Fund gave a further £500,000.
Art Fund director Dr Stephen Deuchar said: "Considering the economic climate, this has been a hugely challenging campaign and we are enormously grateful to all our members and supporters who have given so generously.
"Working with the National Trust has been a very fruitful experience, pooling our resources to pull out all the stops and save this remarkable painting for Nostell Priory and its visitors."
Dame Jenny Abramsky, chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, said: "The overwhelming public support to help secure this stunning painting has been an inspiration.
"Individual giving combined with ongoing support from government funds such as the National Heritage Memorial Fund will play an increasingly important role in securing our most precious heritage."
The fund's money comes from the Treasury and is intended to be the last resort for saving items of importance to the UK's national heritage.
It has received £10m a year since 2007, but its grant will be halved from this year as a result of government cuts. | An Old Master by painter Pieter Brueghel the Younger will remain on public display after a government fund paid £1m to save it for the nation. | 12126503 | [
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A police source told the BBC that an infiltrator from the Taliban had allowed militants into the police station in the regional capital of Lashkar Gah last night.
The infiltrator fled the scene with the Taliban, he said.
A spokesperson for provincial governor Omar Zuak confirmed the incident, but did not provide details.
No group has officially claimed responsibility.
Lashkar Gah has come under increased pressure from the Taliban in recent months.
The city of 200,000 people is seen as strategically important, and the key to holding Helmand province.
The province is both a fertile farming region and a centre for opium production, bordering Pakistan on one end and covering major routes between cities.
Thousands of people fled the rural areas to shelter in Lashkar Gah last August, before the city itself came under attack in October.
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Mr Turnbull said the titles were "not appropriate" in modern Australia, and that Queen Elizabeth had accepted the cabinet's recommendation to drop them.
Former PM Tony Abbott reintroduced knighthoods and damehoods in 2014.
His controversial decision to grant Prince Philip a knighthood in January was widely seen as one of the factors which ended his term as leader.
Mr Abbott at the time said Australia was honouring the Duke of Edinburgh's lifetime of "service and dedication", but later said the decision was "injudicious".
He was ousted as leader of the centre-right Liberal Party by Mr Turnbull in September.
Analysis: Jon Donnison, BBC News, Sydney
The decision to give Prince Philip a knighthood was hugely unpopular in Australia and seen as one of the biggest blunders of Tony Abbott's brief time in office.
Now the new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who in 1999 led Australia's unsuccessful campaign to abandon the monarchy and become a republic, has dropped knights and dames.
The prime minister will have the chance to discuss the matter with the Duke of Edinburgh's son later this month, when Prince Charles comes to Australia on a royal visit.
Mr Turnbull has recently said he remains a republican but says he does not regard the issue as a priority for his government.
End of 'Knightmare' poses republican question
In a statement, Mr Turnbull said the Order of Australia awards were "an important way of honouring the achievements and service of many Australians, including those unsung heroes who might not otherwise be recognised outside their local communities".
But he said his cabinet had recently reviewed the system and decided that the knighthoods and damehoods were "not appropriate in our modern honours system".
Existing knights and dames would not be affected by the change, he said.
The opposition Labor party welcomed the move, with shadow treasurer Chris Bowen describing the titles "a national disgrace".
But he said it was "not appropriate" for Australia to be "clinging onto imperial Britain through our honours system".
"We shouldn't be celebrating the fact that knights and dames are gone, we should be lamenting the fact that they came back under this government," ABC News quoted him as saying.
However, monarchist groups in Australia criticised the decision.
Prominent Australian monarchist David Flint accused Mr Turnbull of trying to get "revenge" for the failed 1999 republic referendum, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Mr Flint, the head of the Australians for Constitutional Monarchy organisation, said scrapping the titles means Australia can't give international recognition to its best soldiers, sportsmen and singers.
Australia's honours system
Commonwealth honours systems
Alongside Prince Phillip, three people have received the honour since 2014 - former New South Wales governor Marie Bashir, former Governor-General Peter Cosgrove and the former Chief of the Defence Force Angus Houston.
Australians rallied together online under the hashtag #KnightsAndDames to welcome Mr Turnbull's announcement.
Many agreed that this was a step forward for Australia.
Others felt there were more pressing issues to be dealt with. | Australia will no longer appoint knights and dames under its honours system, PM Malcolm Turnbull has said. | 34695549 | [
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Sayes Court will double in size and provide an additional 210 places by September 2015.
Surrey County Council said it needs to "bridge a £215m funding gap" for 13,000 places, blaming an "unprecedented demand" on its services.
It said nearby Esher School is also being completely rebuilt to boost capacity by 210 places. | An artist's impression of how an expanded primary school in Addlestone will look has been unveiled. | 30157987 | [
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The plans for the development on the Hatchfield Farm estate in Newmarket, Suffolk, had been approved by Forest Heath District Council.
But last year Local Government Secretary Sajiv Javid refused to accept the decision.
Planning judge Mr Justice Gilbart ruled that Mr Javid's decision was fatally inconsistent and "plainly deficient".
The case will now have to be reconsidered.
Mr Justice Gilbart, sitting in London, quashed the refusal, saying: "The secretary of state has performed a complete and unexplained volte-face in his assessment of the highways impacts of two proposals for development on the same site in Newmarket and has also failed to apply his own National Planning Policy Framework."
The judge said: "There is on any view a requirement for more land for housing and other economic development in the Forest Heath District."
Edward Stanley, the 19th Earl of Derby, brought the legal challenge with Moulton Parish Council and the Rural Parishes Alliance.
The judge said local parish councils had for some time argued that growth in the area should not be dispersed among the rural parishes but concentrated in Newmarket.
Newmarket Horsemen's Group and some others were concerned that development in the town "may have an adverse effect on the horseracing industry that is based there" and lead to increased traffic.
A spokesman for Lord Derby said: "The secretary of state now has a second chance to determine the application. He should take full account of the significant benefits the planning application will bring to Newmarket when making a decision."
The Department for Communities and Local Government said: "We have received this judgment and will now consider our response." | Lord Derby has won a key High Court stage of his fight to build 400 homes on his land. | 39862196 | [
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Spokesman Josh Earnest confirmed a private party was held on Saturday but said little else.
The guest list of 500 was said to include lobbyists, CEOs and celebrities.
The Rev Al Sharpton tweeted about a performance by Prince and Steve Wonder.
The civil rights activist and TV host wrote it was "awesome" to see them both on the keyboards.
Mr Earnest did say the Obamas' paid for the party on "their own dime", but would not say how much the party cost.
The New York Post reported that film director Tyler Perry, actresses Angela Bassett and fashion designer Naeem Khan were among the celebrity guests. | White House officials will not say whether pop star Prince performed at a weekend party at the executive residence despite guests posting about it on social media. | 33144298 | [
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Some people are worried hospitals are now getting too busy and overcrowded, meaning patients are having to wait a long time to be seen by a doctor.
How is this affecting children who get injured and need to go to hospital?
Jenny went to a children's hospital in Sheffield to speak to a doctor and find out.
She also meets Lilly and Jake, who have come to hospital needing treatment, to see how their experience went. | Winter is a very busy time of year for hospitals, with more people needing to see a doctor. | 38928746 | [
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However, the report concluded there had been "no overarching state conspiracy".
Sir Desmond de Silva's review confirmed that agents of the state were involved in the 1989 killing and that it should have been prevented.
Mr Finucane's widow, Geraldine, has dismissed the report as a "sham" and a "whitewash".
Mr Finucane was shot dead by loyalists in front of his wife and children at his north Belfast home.
The review, published on Wednesday, found RUC officers proposed Mr Finucane, 39, be killed, said they passed information to his killers and failed to stop the attack and then obstructed the murder investigation.
It also found that an Army intelligence unit, the FRU, "bears a degree" of responsibility because one of their agents, Brian Nelson, was involved in selecting targets.
The chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Matt Baggott, said the police fully accepted the findings of the report.
He offered a "complete, absolute and unconditional" apology to the Finucane family, saying they had been "abjectly failed".
He said that in the coming days the PSNI would discuss the report with the Police Ombudsman and the Public Prosecution Service.
Pat Finucane review reaction
"Pat Finucane's murder should never have happened and it is a catalogue of failing which now needs to be assessed to see whether there are people who can be held accountable," he said.
Mrs Finucane said the government had "engineered a suppression of the truth" behind her husband's murder.
His family have led a high-profile campaign for a full public inquiry into the murder but Mr Cameron has ruled that out.
Mrs Finucane said: "At every turn, it is clear that this report has done exactly what was required - to give the benefit of the doubt to the state, its cabinet and ministers, to the Army, the intelligence services, to itself.
"At every turn, dead witnesses have been blamed, and defunct agencies found wanting. Serving personnel and active state departments appear to have been excused.
"The dirt has been swept under the carpet without any serious attempt to lift the lid on what really happened to Pat and so many others."
The Finucanes did not co-operate with the review and the solicitor's widow said the de Silva report did not tell her much more than she previously knew about the case.
Her son, Michael, claimed the government had refused their demand for a full inquiry because it did not want people to be questioned in public.
• There were extensive "leaks" of security force information to the UDA and other loyalist paramilitary groups.
• There was a failure by the authorities to act on threat intelligence.
• Employees of the State and State agents played "key roles" in the murder.
• There was a failure to investigate and arrest key members of the West Belfast UDA over a long period of time.
• There was a wider "relentless attempt to defeat the ends of justice" after the murder had taken place.
Sir Desmond found that "senior Army officers deliberately lied to criminal investigators" and that RUC Special Branch "were responsible for seriously obstructing the investigation".
The report concluded that Nelson did not provide his handlers with details of the plot against Mr Finucane.
It found that MI5 received intelligence two months before the killing that Mr Finucane was under threat but that no steps were taken to protect him.
It also found that MI5 helped spread propaganda against Mr Finucane in the years before he was killed.
Sir Desmond found that "in 1985 the security service assessed that 85% of the UDA's 'intelligence' originated from sources within the security forces".
And he was "satisfied that this proportion would have remained largely unchanged" by the time of Mr Finucane's murder."
Sir Desmond de Silva QC carried out the review at the government's request. The Finucanes want a public inquiry as they feared the full truth would not emerge.
In his report Sir Desmond said: "A series of positive actions by employees of the state actively furthered and facilitated his murder and that, in the aftermath of the murder, there was a relentless attempt to defeat the ends of justice.
"My review of the evidence relating to Patrick Finucane's case has left me in no doubt that agents of the state were involved in carrying out serious violations of human rights up to and including murder.
"However, despite the different strands of involvement by elements of the state, I am satisfied that they were not linked to an over-arching state conspiracy to murder Patrick Finucane."
Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Mr Cameron was strongly critical of the RUC and Army for their conduct in relation to the killing.
He said Sir Desmond concluded that there was "no political conspiracy" over the murder but that "ministers were misled".
Mr Cameron added that the report found "no evidence whatsoever that any government minister had fore-knowledge of Mr Finucane's murder".
He said that on behalf of the government and the whole country he wanted to say to the Finucane family that he was "deeply sorry".
Last year, Mr Cameron acknowledged there was state collusion in Mr Finucane's murder and apologised to his family.
In the report, Sir Desmond found that an account one of the murderers, Ken Barrett, gave to the BBC Panorama programme about receiving intelligence from the RUC was "essentially accurate".
However, he added that some specific allegations made by Barrett against individual officers were not reliable.
Former Ulster Unionist MP Lord Maginnis of Drumglass said the apology was "ridiculous".
"The reality is that the Finucane family were an IRA family and I can illustrate that by saying that, when I gave that allegation publicly and was being sued for libel, the family retracted and paid my legal expenses," he told the House of Lords.
"So let's not fool ourselves about the godfather Finucane, who was killed." | The level of state collusion uncovered by a report into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is "shocking", Prime Minister David Cameron has said. | 20662412 | [
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The band's set at Seaclose Park will be their only festival show of the year.
The set on Sunday 14 June, which will close the festival, will include original member Christine McVie, who recently confirmed that she would be rejoining the band.
Festival organiser John Giddings told Newsbeat: "It's the best news I've had in a long while."
He said that he had been asking the band to perform at the Isle of Wight for the last seven years.
"Every year I have asked without fail," he revealed. "I'd like to tell you otherwise but it's true, I have begged them."
Previous acts to headline Isle of Wight Festival include The Who, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney.
Despite his years of asking the band to perform, John Giddings explained that he thought Fleetwood Mac, whose debut album Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac went to number four in the UK in 1968, didn't need much persuading.
He said: "If you're a band of substance, it [Isle of Wight] becomes part of your bucket list really."
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kings of Leon and Biffy Clyro headlined the event this year.
Talking about choosing the rest of the 2015 line-up, John Giddings said: "The problem is when you're looking for some of the top acts in the world, there aren't that many of that calibre... without repeating yourself it becomes harder by the year."
However, the organiser did say there would be some newer acts named on the line-up.
"When we announce Friday and Saturday, you will see younger bands. It's an eclectic mix of past, present and future bands."
The organiser added that the other two headline acts of the festival would be announced soon.
Giddings agreed younger bands have the ability to sell festival tickets as well as older bands like Fleetwood Mac and Lionel Ritchie, who has been named as the first act on the Glastonbury 2015 line-up.
He said: "I think younger bands of course can do it as well, but the golden age of rock and roll is past.
"The music is different now whereby you can download individual songs on iTunes and it becomes hard to name the lead singer of Bastille or Imagine Dragons."
He said "there are lots of groups out there" but added "who is the biggest act out of England that have toured stadiums in the last five years? One Direction.
"I think they'd rather be somewhere else than at the Isle of Wight festival."
However, John Giddings did say "there are great new bands out there" and referred to The Black Keys and Royal Blood as "incredible".
The Isle of Wight organiser was recently quoted as calling Ed Sheeran "boring" having suggested "we're (the UK) not building headliners any more".
He told Newsbeat that "he's jolly good fun" and after saying he'd recently met the 23-year-old added: "He's selling tickets and he's selling records and we should all be grateful for his existence."
Tickets go on sale on Friday at 09:00 GMT
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Fleetwood Mac have been announced as the first headline act of Isle of Wight 2015. | 30284149 | [
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The 22,000-strong African Union force (Amisom) fighting the Islamist militant group al-Shabab is funded by the EU.
An European Union source told the BBC that last six-month payment was being withheld over "accounting issues".
The head of Amisom told the BBC the correct papers to account for the last tranche had now been submitted.
"These papers are on their way; the money is also on its way," Francisco Madeira said.
The EU provides $1,028 (£700) for each Amisom soldier each month; their respective governments then deduct around $200 for administrative costs meaning the soldiers are supposed to take home about $800.
This deployment allowance is much more than the meagre salaries the soldiers receive from their governments.
The funds are only released to Amisom by the EU once the accounts from the previous payment are signed off.
The BBC understands there have been delays over the last two tranches - and last year's June-November payment has only just arrived.
So soldiers are now receiving money owed to them last year but have not received any of it owed to them this year.
Ugandan military chief General Katumba Wamala said he unable to describe the extent of his frustration over the late payments.
Gen Wamala also said that Uganda would pull its soldiers out of Somalia by December 2017, because of frustrations with the Somali army and military advisers from the US, UK and Turkey.
Uganda joined Amisom in 2007 and is the force's biggest contributor, with more than 6,000 troops.
Burundian military officials also said their troops had not been paid.
Amisom officials fear that the late payments are having a negative impact have on troop morale.
EU ambassador to Somalia Michele Cervone d'Urso said he was "concerned about the delay" in the stipend which he said was "essential for the motivation of soldiers".
In the past 12 months four Amisom bases manned by Burundian, Ugandan, Kenyan and Ethiopian troops have been attacked by the militants.
According to the Somali president, 180 Kenyan troops being killed in a single incident in January.
Kenya has never confirmed how many soldiers it lost in the attack and African Union does not release full casualty figures. | The allowances for African troops fighting al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia have not been paid for at least six months, the BBC has learned. | 36624520 | [
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The week-long pre-trial hearing at Guantanamo Bay will largely focus on issues of secrecy.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of masterminding the attacks while the others are implicated for providing support for the co-ordinated hijacking.
In May, a chaotic hearing in the case lasted 13 hours.
During that hearing, which formally charged the five men, the defendants made defiant outbursts and refused to answer the judge's questions or use the translation system.
In addition to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, defendants Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Waleed bin Attash are being prosecuted in a special military tribunal for wartime offences known as a military commission.
They are charged with conspiring with al-Qaeda, terrorism, and one count of murder for each known victim of the 11 September attacks at the time the charges were filed - 2,976 in total.
The five face a possible death penalty sentence if convicted.
CIA waterboarding tapes revealed
On Monday, the defendants listened calmly and answered the judge's questions, although Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said: "I don't think there's any justice in this court."
Defence lawyers argued during the hearing that their clients should not be forced to attend the rest of the week's hearings, because the forcible transport from their high-security cells may remind them of their time at secret CIA prisons.
Before their transfer to the US base at Guantanamo Bay in 2006, the defendants were held for years in secret CIA prisons.
All five have said they were tortured during interrogations. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was repeatedly water-boarded before being brought to Guantanamo.
"We have to talk about torture," Air Force Captain Michael Schwartz, a defence lawyer, said on Monday.
But Judge James Pohl said the issue was not relevant at this stage.
Prosecution lawyers have said the use of waterboarding and similar methods could be relevant when determining whether prisoners' statements were voluntarily given.
The court is also expected to hear a defence request to abolish what they term a "presumptive classification" that treats any discussion of the CIA prisons as top secret, as well as a media request to limit closing of the courtroom for secret sessions.
Judge Pohl ultimately ruled that the defendants would not be forced to attend hearings scheduled to run through the end of this week, but did not rule out further pre-trial hearings.
He said all would have to be present for their trial, which is not likely to start for more than a year. | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused over the 9/11 attacks have appeared at a US military tribunal for the first time in five months. | 19956639 | [
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The fight, Adams' second as a professional and first in her home city for 20 years, will be over four three-minute rounds, rather than the usual two-minute rounds for women.
The flyweight voiced her frustration with two-minute rounds after beating Virginia Carcamo last month.
Salazar, 18, has lost once in six professional contests.
Adams, 34, says the extra minute in each round will give her a chance to try out things she has learnt in the gym.
She said: "I had two minutes to find my rhythm, distance and take out my opponent. It's not enough time.
"I found, by the end of the rounds, I needed a couple more seconds and it would be over.
"Now we have three minutes, I'm able to relax more, establish the jab, find the rhythm properly and really get in the swing of things."
On the same card, WBC international featherweight champion Josh Warrington defends his title against Spain's Kiko Martinez. | Britain's double Olympic champion Nicola Adams will face Mexico's Maryan Salazar in Leeds on Saturday. | 39856848 | [
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However, the Metropolitan Police, which is leading the Savile investigation, is also asking people with information or concerns to contact the NSPCC on its 24-hour helpline on 0808 800 5000.
The NSPCC is a charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children and offering information, advice and counselling to adults concerned about a child's safety. You can also contact the charity by email, at [email protected].
If you have an allegation about inappropriate behaviour on BBC premises, or by BBC presenters or other staff, you can inform the BBC Investigations Unit in confidence by calling 020 8752 4168 during office hours.
If you need help and support, the following organisations may be able to help:
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood is a charity that offers support and advice to adult survivors of any form of childhood abuse. It can be contacted on 0800 085 3330 or visit the website.
Rape Crisis (England and Wales) offers help, support and information about rape and sexual violence, and can give details of your nearest Rape Crisis Centre, which specialise in rape trauma support and counselling.
The helpline offers support to male and female survivors of rape or sexual abuse over 14 years of age, however long ago it happened. It can also offer help and support to partners, friends and family. Call the national helpline on 0808 802 9999.
If you have been sexually abused recently, Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) are specialist, round-the-clock services which provide medical care and forensic examination following assault or rape, counselling and - in some locations - sexual health services.
Services are free of charge and provided to women, men, young people and children (although not all centres may currently be able to assist children).
SARCs are mostly able to assist in the immediate aftermath of an assault and can store the forensic results until you make up your mind whether to report to the police or not.
You can find a list of Sexual Assault Referral Centres (in England and Wales) on the Rape Crisis website - select the link for reporting a rape, which you'll find down the left-hand side.
If you do not wish to take legal action, it may still be important that you receive medical attention.
You do not have to have a forensic examination if you go to a SARC, hospital accident and emergency department or your GP, but you may need to receive treatment for any injuries, emergency contraception or to check for sexually-transmitted diseases.
If you are in Scotland, Rape Crisis Scotland provides a national rape crisis helpline for anyone affected by sexual violence, no matter when or how it happened. The helpline offers free and confidential support and information. The charity can also put you in touch with local rape crisis centres or other services for ongoing support. Contact Rape Crisis by phone on 0808 801 03 02 or visit the website.
The NEXUS Institute works across Northern Ireland to respond to the needs of adults (over 16) who have experienced sexual abuse, rape or other forms of sexual violence. It provides a counselling service for those in need. Contact by phone on 028 90326803 or visit the website.
Survivors UK provides information, support and counselling for men who have been raped or sexually abused. Contact the charity by phone on 0845 122 1201 or visit the website. | A range of charities and organisations can be contacted for help and support if you have suffered criminal activity or sexual abuse. | 20124129 | [
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Jamie Stevenson's entry, which incorporates a saltire, their black and white colours and their nickname - The Honest Men, won 48% of the votes.
The Scottish Championship club were forced to find a new crest as their old one broke ancient heraldic law.
Designs were whittled down to a shortlist of five that were voted on by the public.
Commercial manager Graeme Miller told his club website: "Nobody wanted to change our badge.
"However, when left with no option, I think the route we chose to take has been a hugely positively one.
"We visited numerous local schools with our players and mascot Pandamonium and the response from the kids was incredible.
"Hundreds of entries were sent in from local youngsters and hopefully the excitement generated when we visited them will have given them an interest in the club for the future."
Winning designer Stevenson, who has lived in Peru for five years, attended his first Ayr match in 1979 and went on to design the club's match-day programme.
A badge containing an anchor, representing Ayr's proximity to the sea, came second with 25%.
The new badge will be adopted from 1 July. | An Ayr United fan living in Peru has designed the winner of an online poll to choose a new club badge. | 39639912 | [
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The list, topped by Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon identifies women who have had an "exceptionally large impact".
Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, is at number seven.
She revealed her transition to Caitlyn on the cover of Vanity Fair last month.
The former Olympian, whose famous children include step-daughter Kim Kardashian and daughter Kendall Jenner, is honoured for bringing the experience of being a trans woman to a global audience.
Both the Vanity Fair photoshoot and the ensuing #CallMeCaitlyn hashtag adopted by many fans on Twitter generated huge publicity.
Actress, director and humanitarian campaigner Jolie made number three on the list, which was revealed on BBC Radio 4, for "using her celebrity to impressive ends" and the "Angelina-effect".
The term was coined after the actress revealed her genetic predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer, sparking other women to seek out testing.
Jolie has spoken openly about her double mastectomy and having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent cancer.
The Guardian's first female editor Katherine Viner was at number four on the list, just weeks after taking up the job, while Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue, was at number two.
Whistles chief executive Jane Shepherdson, who was on the judging panel, said the editor "influences the world in what to wear, how to look, and who to celebrate.
"Like the captain of almost any other industry, Wintour's word is almost law."
The list was counted down during a special Woman's Hour show from the BBC Radio Theatre, hosted by presenters Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray.
The panel of judges, headed up by journalist and broadcaster Emma Barnett and including human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy QC and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney, looked at well-known women's personal ability to influence others.
Sturgeon is at number one following the Scottish National Party's performance in this year's general election, winning 56 our of 59 possible seats in Scotland.
Though she didn't stand as a candidate, the judges called Sturgeon "the woman of the moment in terms of influence and hard power".
Singer, songwriter and music video director Sia made number six, having written for Beyonce, Rihanna, Jessie J and Katy Perry and achieving solo success with hits like Chandelier.
"It is a secret to most how much of a part of the pop music eco-system Sia actually is," said Cairney, adding, "all the while remaining faceless in an industry so much based on, well, face."
Woman's Hour Power List 2015 - Top 10 influencers
1. Nicola Sturgeon - leader of the SNP
2. Anna Wintour - editor-in-chief of American Vogue
3. Angelina Jolie - actor, director and humanitarian ambassador
4. Katharine Viner - editor of The Guardian
5. Camilla Cavendish - director of Downing Street Policy Unit
6. Sia - singer, songwriter and music video director
7. Caitlyn Jenner - high profile trans woman
8. Karen Blackett, CEO, MediaCom UK
9. Zanny Minton Beddoes - editor-in-chief of The Economist
10. Sara Khan - co-founder of Inspire
Speaking about Jenner's inclusion in this year's top 10, Daily Mail columnist and judge Sarah Vine acknowledged it was controversial, for several reasons.
"Initially... many of us felt that Kim Kardashian would have to appear somewhere - not because any of us felt any particular admiration for the woman, but simply because her influence on millions of women worldwide is undeniable.
"But then the Caitlyn Jenner story broke and I in particular felt that she trumped all others in the celebrity stakes."
She added: "I understand why someone like Jenner might make people feel uncomfortable; but she is a human being like the rest of us and should not be denied the same rights - or indeed respect - as those who live more conventional lives.
"As to her influence, it can only be to the good if a wider audience can learn to understand her experience."
Last year's Woman's Hour Power List, entitled Game Changers, was topped by Doreen Lawrence, while the Queen topped the first list in 2013.
Woman's Hour editor Alice Feinstein added: "The way power operates in today's global, interconnected society is not straightforward - brokers of hard power like prime ministers, presidents and CEOs are no longer calling all the shots.
"What I wanted to examine in this year's list of influencers is how women are operating outside traditional power structures to get things done." | Trans woman Caitlyn Jenner has made this year's Woman's Hour Power List of top 10 influencers, alongside Angelina Jolie, singer Sia and Anna Wintour. | 33344317 | [
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Protesters also threw stones and bottles at police lines. | There has been trouble in north Belfast after an anti-internment parade was prevented by police from entering the city centre. | 33841754 | [
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They were able to hold a metal plate a few centimetres above the rabbit's chest and use it to regulate the animal's heartbeat.
If such medical implants could be made to work in humans, it could lead to smaller devices that are safer to fit.
The findings are published in the journal PNAS.
The researchers from Stanford University hope their development could also eventually dispense with the bulky batteries and clumsy recharging systems that are currently a feature of such devices.
The central discovery was a new type of wireless power transfer that could safely penetrate deep inside the body, using roughly the same power as a cell phone.
"We need to make these devices as small as possible to more easily implant them deep in the body," said co-author Dr Ada Poon, from Stanford's department of electrical engineering.
There are broadly two categories of electromagnetic wave that have been considered until now: far-field and near-field.
Far-field waves, like those broadcast from radio towers, can travel long distances, but either bounce off the body harmlessly, or are absorbed as heat.
Near-field waves can be safely used, but they can only transfer power over short distances.
The researchers were able to design a device that blends the safety of near-field waves with the reach of far-field waves.
"With this method, we can safely transmit power to tiny implants in organs like the heart or brain, well beyond the range of current near-field systems," said John Ho, a graduate student in Dr Poon's lab. | US researchers have built a wirelessly powered pacemaker the size of a grain of rice and implanted it in a rabbit. | 27488486 | [
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About 1,000 athletes, aged between 14 and 18, will participate in the event, scheduled for 27 July to 1 August.
Boxers Carl Frampton and Michael Conlan, and swimmer Sycerika McMahon are among Northern Irish athletes to have previously competed at the Games.
NI Commonwealth Games chairman Robert McVeigh described it as a hugely significant day for local sport.
"This is the result of many years of lobbying and hard work," said McVeigh.
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"It offers a great opportunity for children to strive towards being part of the largest ever Team NI at a Commonwealth Youth Games."
More than 60 nations were represented at the last Youth Games, staged in Samoa in September, with Northern Ireland finishing eighth in the medal table.
The next Youth Games will take place in the Bahamas in 2017, after which it will revert to a four-year cycle.
The formal announcement of Northern Ireland's hosting of the 2021 Games will take place at Belfast City Hall on Monday, with Commonwealth Games NI patron Dame Mary Peters in attendance.
It is expected the swimming competition will take place at the Aurora complex in Bangor, with the Mary Peters Track in Belfast hosting the athletics, and the gymnastics being held in Lisburn.
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The Met Office warning came as it said the weather had led to widespread ice on roads across Scotland.
Two police officers were taken to hospital after they were hit by a car while dealing with a road crash in icy conditions on the A77 near Kilmarnock.
Alex Salmond thanked emergency staff and other workers for keeping the country running over Christmas.
The government's resilience committee is reviewing the latest information on weather-related problems.
The Met Office said rain and sleet showers had caused ice to form on roads across the Highlands and central Scotland.
Northern Constabulary said all Highland trunk roads were open, but the force warned the freezing temperatures overnight meant a "significant risk" of black ice.
In the first minister's Christmas message, Mr Salmond paid tribute to all those who have helped keep Scotland going during the "extraordinary" winter weather.
"In these extraordinary circumstances, I want to break with tradition to pay a personal tribute to those who keep Scotland moving, working and smiling," he said.
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"The white-out began in late November and has more or less continued since then, making this month the coldest since records began in 1910.
"Coping with the weather has been one of Scotland's toughest challenges of recent times."
The male and female police officers were taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock.
The woman is believed to have had a broken arm and ankle, and her colleague received minor injuries.
It is not known if ice contributed to the collision, and a Strathclyde Police spokesman said: "Inquiries are ongoing in respect of this."
On the railways, ScotRail urged train passengers to check services before travelling in the days ahead. It said it was constantly reviewing timetables and, where possible, it would run normal services.
There will be no rail services on Christmas Day and a limited Strathclyde service on Boxing Day. Latest updates will appear on the journey check website.
Steve Montgomery, managing director of ScotRail, told BBC Scotland work was carrying on to keep trains free of ice and snow.
He said: "Although it's not been snowing in the central belt, we've still seen quite significant snow in the Aberdeen and Inverness areas and trains are picking up a lot of snow, so we've still got to bring the trains back into the central belt and de-ice them.
"That's making a lot of work for over the weekend and we'll hopefully get most units sorted out for next Monday." | Drivers are being urged to take extra care, as sub-zero temperatures stretched into the Christmas weekend. | 12073540 | [
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The sign - on the Beeston-bound platform of the Queen's Medical Centre stop - points commuters towards the "Univeristy Of Nottingham".
The error could have been there for "seven to eight months", it is estimated.
A Nottingham Express Transport (NET) spokesman said they will now be looking to replace the sign next week.
People were quick to condemn the "unfortunate error", captured by a BBC journalist.
It follows another spelling mishap spotted on a sign last July on the network, which stated "Chillwell Road" rather than Chilwell Road.
"Absolute joke - what is happening with the world," Melanie Winskill wrote on BBC Radio Nottingham's Facebook page.
Gill Bennett pondered: "Maybe the people responsible didn't go to university."
A NET spokesman said it is unsure how long the error has existed at the stop, but added it "could have been there for seven to eight months".
"Clearly this is an unfortunate error made during the production of the sign," the spokesman said.
"We will be looking to replace it as soon as possible next week now it has been pointed out." | A misspelt sign at a stop on Nottingham's tram network has been branded an "absolute joke". | 35735336 | [
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The veteran broadcaster died of cancer on Sunday at the age of 77.
The books, in Sir Terry's birthplace of Limerick, will allow people to mark the passing of "a true son of Limerick", the city's mayor Liam Galvin said.
Evans told listeners of the BBC Radio 2 show that made Sir Terry's name: "He was the absolute governor."
A condolence book for Sir Terry has also been opened in the entrance of the BBC's New Broadcasting House in London.
In a career spanning 50 years, Sir Terry hosted TV chat shows, fronted the Eurovision Song Contest and was the face of Children in Need, while his long-running Radio 2 breakfast show regularly drew millions of listeners.
At the start of his breakfast show on Monday, Evans said: "He was radio's Eric Morecambe, Ronnie Barker, he was our Captain Mainwaring, our Basil Fawlty but he made us laugh every day for two hours and for over 30 years.
"All unscripted, all ad lib, always supremely assured, unwaveringly confident.
"And do you know why? Because he never took any of this seriously, least of all himself. He was the butt of most of his jokes.
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, sure, but Terry knew that if you go one better, and laugh at yourself then you're really onto something."
Evans described Sir Terry as his "radio dad" and said that Radio 2 was "in disbelief and shock".
"He taught me so much about being on the radio and not being on the radio," added Evans. "He was the absolute governor, everybody knows that."
BBC Radio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys also paid tribute on Monday's programme, calling Sir Terry "one of the greatest broadcasters of our age".
"Terry would be surprised by that description, at least, he'd affect to be. He liked to say that he never did anything, that required more than the minimal effort, and his success was down to 'natural laziness'. Which of course was complete rubbish," he said.
"You didn't get to be the consummate professional he was by being lazy. It's true that he had a few God-given advantages - he was charming and articulate and witty and quick-thinking and whimsical and subversive and sardonic and, well, the list is a very long one.
"But Terry had something else as well. He liked his audience, and they liked him. They felt he wasn't broadcasting to the nation, he was just talking to them."
Prime Minister David Cameron told Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show Sir Terry was a "wonderful human being".
"I remember growing up watching Blankety Blank and then the Eurovision Song Contest and he always made you smile, made you laugh. He had this fantastic sense of humour," he said.
Veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young, who worked with Sir Terry on Radio 2, said he was "stunned" at the news and that his condolences were "very much with Helen and the family".
Sir Terry died surrounded by his family "after a short but brave battle with cancer", a statement released by his family said.
He leaves his wife, Helen, and their three children. The couple also had a daughter who died in infancy.
An online book of condolences will be hosted on Limerick's official website www.limerick.ie with separate books of condolence at council buildings in Dooradoyle and Merchants Quay opening on Monday morning.
The city's mayor said: "Despite his fame and the fact that he was based in the UK throughout much of his career, Sir Terry often returned home to Limerick and never missed an opportunity on radio or TV to speak about his Limerick roots.
"The council honoured him with the title of Freeman of Limerick in 2007, which I know was a title that meant very much to him and his family."
President of the Irish Republic Michael D Higgins has said Sir Terry was "always proud of his origins in Limerick", and returned frequently to his native country.
Family friend and broadcaster Henry Kelly added that he was "shocked" to hear of his death because Sir Terry had "put it out that he had a bad back".
The Game For A Laugh and Going For Gold presenter knew the Wogan family as he had been friends with Sir Terry's younger brother Brian when they were at Belvedere College in Dublin.
"I didn't know he was that seriously ill. I knew he'd been told not to do Children In Need because, as he quipped himself, they don't want an 'oul fella of 77 standing up for ten hours asking for money.
"For so many people in this country, it is going to be like a death in the family - they adored Wogan," he added.
Sir Terry had not been seen in public since November when he pulled out of hosting the annual Children in Need telethon.
Blessed with a warm wit and a surreal sense of humour, Sir Terry was one of the BBC's most beloved broadcasters. His career even included a brief stint in the charts with his 1978 cover of The Floral Dance.
He also provided the UK commentary for the annual Eurovision Song Contest for some 28 years, with many viewing his acerbic comments on the show as the highlight of the event.
From 1972 to 1984 he presented the breakfast show on Radio 2 as The Terry Wogan Show, returning after a decade away in 1993 to front the re-branded Wake Up To Wogan.
The second incarnation of the show regularly drew more than eight million listeners - dubbed TOGs, or "Terry's Old Geezers and Gals".
Tributes poured in as news of his death was revealed on Sunday.
BBC director general Lord Hall said: "He was a lovely, lovely man and our thoughts are with his wife and family. For 50 years Sir Terry graced our screens and airwaves. His warmth, wit and geniality meant that for millions he was a part of the family."
Radio 2 controller Bob Shennan said he was "one of the greatest and most popular radio hosts this country has ever heard".
Sir Terry began his career on Ireland's national broadcaster RTE as a newsreader and announcer, moving into light entertainment before joining the BBC, where he would stay for the rest of his career.
Radio 2 presenter Simon Mayo described him as a "radio genius", saying: "The staple of all great radio is the friend behind the microphone - and he was the ultimate friend behind the microphone."
Sir Elton John paid tribute to Sir Terry on his Instagram account.
The singer posted a picture of the two of them together, writing: "Such a special and funny man.
"A brilliant broadcaster and presenter. He came to our civil partnership celebration and was a loyal supporter."
Members of Sir Terry's BBC Radio 2 fan club Terry's Old Geezers and Gals (TOGs) have paid tribute to his work and commitment to charity.
Norman Macintosh, who organises the TOGs conventions, told BBC Breakfast: "He was the gentleman and the ultimate broadcaster.
"He talked to one person at a time and he felt like he was talking to you and he brought the whole audience into the show, and everyone felt like they were part of it."
Sir Terry announced his retirement from Wake Up to Wogan in September 2009, making his final regular appearance three months later.
When he broadcast at breakfast for the final time in 2009 he told listeners: "The years together with you have not only been a pleasure but a privilege. You have allowed me to share your lives with you.
"When you tell me how important I have been in your lives it's very moving. You have been every bit as important in mine."
Sir Terry, who continued to front a live Sunday morning show, last appeared on air on Radio 2 on 8 November 2015.
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He said in a tweet: "I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings."
Days after he fired Mr Comey in May, the president had tweeted: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations..."
He has been under pressure to produce the tapes amid inquiries into alleged Russian meddling in the election.
The House Intelligence Committee had earlier this month asked the White House to hand over any such recordings.
James Comey was heading the FBI inquiry into alleged Russian interference in last year's presidential election, and whether the Trump team had any links to Moscow, when he was fired on 9 May.
In the days that followed, a succession of stories appeared in US newspapers with allegations surrounding a private meeting Mr Trump had with Mr Comey in the Oval Office in February.
They included the claim that the president had asked Mr Comey to drop an investigation into fired National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
It was in that context that Mr Trump sent his tweet, hinting that there were tapes of the conversation.
Appearing before Congress earlier this month, Mr Comey confirmed he had been asked by the president to "let go" any possible prosecution of Mr Flynn for lying to federal agents about a conversation with the Russian ambassador.
He said he was also asked by the president in no uncertain terms to give assurances that he would be loyal.
When asked whether he thought the conversation had been recorded, Mr Comey replied: "Lordy, I hope there are tapes." | US President Donald Trump says he did not make secret recordings of ex-FBI chief James Comey despite an earlier hint to the contrary. | 40375143 | [
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It uses assumptions about births, deaths and migration to project population changes.
It predicts that the working-age population will rise by less than 1% but the population aged 65 and over is projected to increase by almost 26%.
The report also assumes that the level of migration to Northern Ireland will continue to be very low.
It breaks down population changes by local government district and predicts the largest rise of 10.4%, or 21,400 people, in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon.
The smallest increase is predicted for Derry City and Strabane, up by 1.5% or 2,200 people.
Derry City and Strabane is one of seven out of 11 areas projected to see a decline in their work-age populations.
Over the longer term, the population of Northern Ireland is projected to reach two million by mid-2034.
By mid-2038, annual population growth is projected to fall below 0.2% for the first time since mid-1999, due to a falling number of births and rising number of deaths as a result of an ageing population.
The population aged 65 and over is projected to increase by 74.4%, or 498,500 people, from mid-2014 to mid-2039, with the result that one in four people (24.7%) will be in this age category.
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This includes stadium safety expert Paul Scott.
The Cabinet Office report found relations behind the scenes were "broken", and it would be at least another year before another planning application could be submitted.
However, the authors said that a new stadium was still "achievable".
They said the overall business case "remains sound".
The report was commissioned after Mr Scott told a Stormont committee in April that the emergency-exiting arrangements in the proposed 38,000-capacity stadium were flawed.
However, the report has recommended that he be replaced as chair of the Safety Technical Group overseeing the Casement project.
The report has called for other personnel changes:
Sports Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has indicated she will implement all of the recommended changes.
She said a key finding that the stadium is still achievable was welcome and provided clarity.
The report stated: "Relationships between the key stakeholders are broken.
"We believe the use of an independent mediator will be needed to reset working relationships."
Work on the stadium was supposed to start this year but planning permission was overturned in December 2014.
The report stated: "The Casement Park project is behind schedule and has to address two key issues before it can make progress.
"It needs to find a way to resolve issues raised with the proposed emergency-exiting arrangements for the stadium.
"It also needs to reapply for and achieve planning permission."
The report also included a "delivery confidence assessment" that is based on traffic lights, with green being the highest rating.
Casement is rated "amber/red".
Although the report recommends that Mr Scott be replaced as chair of the safety technical group, that does not mean he cannot continue to sit on the group.
The report says his replacement will need mediation and facilitation skills "rather than technical knowledge".
The chairman of the Stormont committee which is investigating Mr Scott's allegations said the Cabinet Office report "is part of the resolution but only part".
Democratic Unionist Party MLA Nelson McCausland said the minister and her officials had more questions to answer.
"This coming week we'll be convening a special meeting of the committee at Stormont and we will be requesting that the minister and the permanent secretary appear before the committee to answer the questions that we will be putting to them," he said. | A report into the planned new stadium at Casement Park in Belfast has recommended the replacement of senior figures from key posts in the project. | 33826653 | [
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Police say they broke up the crowd of about 150 in the suburb of Ferguson after being called to the scene of a disturbance after the curfew started.
A police car reportedly came under fire and a person was hurt in an apparently unrelated shooting in the same area.
Black teenager Michael Brown was shot by a white policeman on 9 August.
The shooting of the 18-year-old as he walked down a street drew allegations of police brutality among people in the mainly black suburb of Ferguson.
A riot erupted on Friday night, with local stores targeted by looters, after police named the officer who shot Mr Brown and also released CCTV from a shop where he apparently stole a pack of cigars and intimidated the owner just before his death.
A five-hour curfew, running from midnight (05:00 GMT), was imposed in response.
US civil rights leader Al Sharpton has said a peaceful rally, led by Michael Brown's family, is planned for later on Sunday.
The teenager's killing caused dismay across the US, with peaceful nationwide vigils held on Thursday night, while images of riot police deployed in an American city suburb have made headlines worldwide.
Seven arrests were made when police moved to break up the protest at a barbecue restaurant.
Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, who was put in charge of bringing calm back to Ferguson, said police had moved in after receiving a report of people breaking into the restaurant and climbing on to the roof.
As police were nearing the restaurant, a man with a handgun went into the street but ran away, AP news agency reports.
Someone also shot at a police car but it was not clear if it had been hit.
In the same area, a person was shot and critically wounded and police were searching for the attacker.
Demonstrators complained that the curfew would make matters worse.
As police prepared to move on the protesters during the night, a chant of "No justice! No curfew!" could be heard from the crowd, followed by "We have the right to assemble peacefully".
Jayson Ross, who was leading the protesters toward the police before tear gas was fired, was quoted as saying by AP: "They got guns. We got guns. We are ready."
Local politician Antonio French, who was with the protesters, tweeted to say: "Too many young men talking about they're ready to die tonight."
Governor Jay Nixon said he would not allow a handful of looters to endanger the community.
"This is a test," he said. "The eyes of the world are watching. We cannot allow the ill will of the few to undermine the good will of the many."
The US justice department is investigating the shooting of Mr Brown, with 40 FBI agents dispatched to Ferguson to gather information.
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson revealed on Friday that the officer who shot Mr Brown was Darren Wilson, a six-year police veteran with no previous complaints against him.
Mr Wilson has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting.
Commenting on the CCTV footage that was released, Chief Jackson said that Mr Wilson had not known Mr Brown was a robbery suspect.
The policeman had reportedly stopped the teenager for walking in the street, disrupting traffic.
Mr Brown's family condemned the release of the footage as a police attempt to "justify the execution-style murder". | US police have fired smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse a crowd defying a curfew in St Louis, Missouri, where a shooting has inflamed racial tensions. | 28824157 | [
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The Cherries went down 2-1 at Sunderland on Saturday, becoming the first team to lose to the Black Cats in the Premier League this season.
Dan Gosling's goal, which gave them the lead, was their first for three games.
"It shouldn't be down to a lack of confidence," Howe told BBC Radio Solent. "We scored six goals against Hull prior to these two games."
He continued: "A couple of weeks later, if you were to put the chances we've created together into a clip sequence, the fact that we haven't even scored one goal is difficult to take."
Bournemouth were stunned by goals for Sunderland from Victor Anichebe and a Jermain Defoe penalty and they were unable to find an equaliser, even against 10 men following Steven Pienaar's dismissal.
"We've had enough chances to win three games today," Howe added.
"Sometimes football pans out that way and you have to accept it. It's how you move on from that which is key." | Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe admits his side's sudden lack of confidence in front of goal is "baffling". | 37895159 | [
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The 28-year-old man from Brighton was taken to hospital in a critical condition after being found in North Street at 07:10 GMT on Saturday.
A 28-year-old man of no fixed address and a 43-year-old woman from Brighton were arrested on suspicion of robbery.
A 30-year-old Brighton man was arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm.
Sussex Police said the victim was still in hospital.
Officers are still keen to hear from anyone who was in the area at the time and may have witnessed the assault. | Three people arrested after a man was found unconscious following a suspected assault in Brighton have been released without charge. | 35401697 | [
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One was killed while resting in a hammock at a carwash. A second was dragged from his car and shot dead near the newspaper he had co-founded. When another was killed in front of her son, the criminals left a note: "For your long tongue".
Journalists are being murdered in Mexico and this is nothing new. This is one of the most dangerous countries for reporters, rights groups say, and more die here than in any other nation at peace.
But even for a place so used to drugs-related violence and organised crime, the recent bloodshed has been shocking.
Seven journalists have been killed in the country so far this year, most shot by gunmen in broad daylight. Yet virtually all cases of attacks on the press end up unsolved and, in many, corrupt officials are suspected of partnering with criminals.
As the killings mount, is there anything that Mexico can do to save its journalists?
Miroslava Breach used to say that corrupt politicians were more dangerous than drug traffickers. For almost 30 years, she investigated cases in which authorities and criminals appeared to work hand in hand in her native state of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico.
Last year, Miros, as friends called her, reported for the national newspaper La Jornada on the alleged links between organised crime and candidates standing in the local elections in several towns in western Chihuahua - some located on lucrative drug-trafficking routes.
For her enemies, she had crossed a line.
"Sister, now I'm really scared," her sister Rosy recalled a tearful Breach saying, as threats had increased and regularly mentioned her children. Breach alerted the authorities but carried on, not knowing what else to do.
"She said that against a network of evil there was nothing that could be done," Rosy said.
Then last March, as Breach left home in the morning to take her 14-year-old son to school, gunmen shot her eight times. They left a note, reportedly carrying the initials of one of the bandits she had denounced and a message: "Por lengua larga," meaning for your long tongue.
Since 2000, at least 106 journalists have been killed across Mexico, according to rights group Article 19. Exact numbers are hard to come by as investigations often get nowhere and different studies apply different criteria in counting the dead.
Last year alone, there were 11 deaths, the group said, a record.
Up until now, most of those killed worked for small, poorly resourced local publications. So when Breach, a reporter for a national newspaper, was killed, it resonated throughout the country, her smiling photo becoming one of the many symbols of this tragedy.
It's an attack on our society, not only on journalists
For Oscar Murguía, editor of Norte newspaper in the northern city of Ciudad Juárez, which published Breach's column, it was too much. His reaction was to shut the paper, after 27 years. Its last headline was a single sentence: "¡Adiós!".
"It's a tragedy," Mr Murguía told the BBC. "It's an attack on our society, not only on journalists... There's no respect for the work of journalists. I prefer to have a journalist without a job than without life."
In 2010, pressure from campaigners led to the creation of a special office of the federal prosecutor for crimes against freedom of expression, known as the Feadle, which investigates attacks on journalists.
But the authorities have often ruled that the victims themselves are not journalists or that the incidents have no connection to their work, according to critics.
Like last month. When the charred remains of Salvador Adame, the head of a TV station in the western state of Michoacán, were found, state prosecutors said that the case had to do with personal disputes, possibly a love affair, angering relatives and campaigners.
The office rejected numerous requests for comment.
The deaths continued. Then, in 2012 the federal government set up a specific protection mechanism for journalists and human rights defenders under threat.
More than 600 people have been helped by the programme, which can relocate professionals and their families, give them police protection and a panic button, which sends a distress signal to officials via cell phone networks.
Welcomed at first, many now say that very little has really worked.
The flaws were many, a report in 2015 said. They went from the unreliability of the emergency devices in areas where mobile coverage was poor, to complaints of calls to hotlines going unanswered.
The government disputed this, saying in a statement to the BBC that "achievements" have translated into "tangible benefits" for those assisted.
But last year, for the first time, a reporter under protection was killed - in front of his own house.
Award-winning journalist Javier Valdez was Breach's colleague at La Jornada, as a correspondent in the western Sinaloa state, home to the powerful cartel once led by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
"Let them kill us all, if that is the death sentence for reporting this hell," was Valdez's reaction to her murder.
His was another life devoted to exposing the workings of bandits. Three decades of reporting on crime and access to drug lords had made him a star reporter, beloved by colleagues, in Mexico and further afield, who admired his clarity and good humour.
It was a work not without risks.
The offices of Río Doce, the independent weekly newspaper he co-founded in the capital Culiacán, were attacked in 2009 after it published a series on drug trafficking.
"They wanted to scare us, make us afraid so we would stop publishing," Valdez told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in 2011, when he was given an International Press Freedom Award.
Still, he vowed to carry on. "To die," he said, "would be to stop writing."
Violence in Sinaloa spiked after El Chapo was extradited to the United States, in January. Valdez attributed this to a vacuum of power at the top of the group.
In February, Río Doce published an interview with an envoy of "El Licenciado", who was seen as El Chapo's possible successor. Armed men bought every issue, activists said, and Valdez saw it as an attempt to intimidate him. (El Licenciado was arrested in May.)
What came next were months of threats. Then in May, Valdez, wearing his trademark Panama hat, was dragged from his car by criminals at midday, on a busy street near the Río Doce offices. They shot 12 times, killing him on the spot.
No other murdered journalist had as high profile as him. Many saw it as a message: if he can be killed, anyone can.
This is decimating journalism in Mexico
"Of course we knew the risks," said Ismael Bojorquez, a long-time friend who co-founded Río Doce with Valdez. "[But] every time we felt under threat, we never thought of asking for the protection of the mechanism."
"The [Feadle] doesn't have resources or teams to investigate. Our system of protection of journalists doesn't work... The government's policies to protect us are a failure."
The result is that journalism itself has become a victim. "Investigative journalism in many places in Mexico is just impossible to be exercised," said Carlos Luria, CPJ's senior programme co-ordinator for the Americas.
"There are no guarantees, no condition, no protection, there is an absence of the state. This is decimating journalism in Mexico."
In almost all cases, campaigners say, the criminals are never identified, found or tried. "The level of impunity is 99.75%," said Ana Cristina Ruelas, Article 19's director for Mexico and Central America.
Corruption is rife in Mexico, and rogue police and politicians were the suspects in more than half of the incidents against the media in the last six years, she said. And most cases were never looked into.
"The state doesn't investigate itself. There is a direct link between the level of impunity and corruption," Ms Ruelas said. "This impunity allows the aggressors to continue attacking the press in broad daylight."
At the National Palace in May, reporters interrupted President Enrique Peña Nieto's minute of silence in memory of the journalists killed, shouting: "Justice, no more speeches".
Valdez's death added to the pressure on Mr Nieto to address the issue. He said he shared the "indignation" and vowed to "combat the impunity", making promises to boost the protection of journalists and the special prosecutor's office.
But many hold little hope for real change.
Blanche Petrich helped found La Jornada in 1984, and knew both Breach ("the number one") and Valdez ("one of a kind"). With two of its main stars gone, the paper is now a newsroom in mourning.
"I don't have any hope," she said. "It's a myth that the cartels are killing the journalists, it's the state. I don't have any trust in Mr Nieto. He's been very indifferent to the problem."
"Nothing works if the assassins are free and those behind the killings are never brought to justice. With this reality, it's very difficult for any journalist to have any trust that those measures are not a simple formality."
Distrust grew even further last month, after the New York Times accused the Mexican government of spying on several top journalists, lawyers and human rights defenders by hacking their phones with spyware meant to be used against criminals and terrorists - a claim the Mexican presidency denied.
"It's very hard to connect the words of the presidency with actions because until now we haven't found a clear reflection of these words in actions that provide results," said Ms Ruelas, from Article 19.
Reporters, however, say the latest killings prove that their work is more urgent than ever: "No to silence". | All pictures copyrighted. | 39436568 | [
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Previously, agents with the FBI and other federal agencies were forbidden from recording interrogations without special dispensation.
Critics of the old policy said it risked generating false confessions and other abuses.
The change was first reported by the Arizona Republic newspaper.
The policy, due to take effect in July, will cover agents at the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the US Marshals service.
Under the new rules, agents may take audio or video recordings but the latter will be "strongly encouraged", the justice department memo authored by Deputy Attorney General James Cole states.
Valerie Newman, a lawyer and law professor who served on a Michigan task force on the issue, told the BBC the policy shift brings the US federal government in line with the states, whose police are already required to record interrogations.
"Now you have transparency, so it's not one person's word against another's," she said.
Under the current policy, federal agents conducting an interview take handwritten notes and then produce a report summarising the conversation.
Critics have charged that process unfairly works against a defendant in court, especially when the suspect's recollection of the interview differs from that of the agent.
"You'll often hear a criminal defendant say, 'I never said that.' But how can you prove that?" Ms Newman said.
Former US Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton said he was fired in a 2006 purge at the justice department in part because he pushed back against the policy of not recording interrogations.
"We were losing cases and pleaded cases to a lower offence when we ought have won those cases," because of the policy, he said.
Mr Charlton had jurisdiction over violent crimes normally considered in state criminal courts, because of 21 Indian reservations in his district.
He said the lack of recorded confessions did "great harm" to his prosecutions, especially in child sex abuse cases.
"It was a grossly outdated policy," he said.
While the justice department has refused to release its policy on recording of suspect interviews, the New York Times has published a 2006 FBI document stating that jurors might not understand the legally permissible tactics agents use to obtain information - and could find them distasteful.
The bureau has also said recording devices might intimidate suspects into silence.
Exceptions to the new policy include when the interviewee refuses to be recorded, national security or public safety situations, or when it is not feasible.
The policy shift will not apply to interviews conducted outside the US, though the memo notes recording "may be appropriate" in that circumstance. | US federal law enforcement agents have been ordered to record interviews with suspects, in a reversal of a decades-old justice department policy. | 27527125 | [
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A spokesman for the bank said they were "working flat out to get these payments updated for our customers no later than Saturday".
Its parent company RBS said about 600,000 payments were affected.
It said it had now identified and fixed the underlying problem.
Ulster Bank said concerned customers should "come into a branch or get in touch with our call centres".
"We will ensure no customers are left out of pocket as a result of this issue," a spokesman said.
In 2012, the RBS group was hit by a major IT meltdown that led to a large fine.
RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers were affected in June 2012 after problems with a software upgrade. On that occasion, the IT failure affected more than 6.5 million customers in the UK over several weeks.
The banking group said it had invested hundreds of millions of pounds to improve its computer systems since then. | Ulster Bank is working to restore payments and direct debits that were delayed by a computer glitch involving the RBS group of banks. | 33165253 | [
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Fly-half Billy Burns was the Premiership side's hero, scoring all 16 of their points before they resisted a battling comeback from the French team.
Burns intercepted and ran the length of the field for the opening try after an even first half had finished 6-6.
The hosts hit back through Damien Lagrange but his try was unconverted.
The Cherry and Whites will face either Stade Francais or local rivals Bath - who meet in Paris on Sunday - in the final in Edinburgh on Friday, 12 May.
Defeat for La Rochelle was the French Top 14 leaders' first at home this season.
Gloucester, the 2014-15 winners, were never behind in the match, taking a six-point lead early on through Burns' boot before the hosts hit back to level before the break, and then defended resolutely in the closing stages.
Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw made his return from injury from the replacements bench for the Cherry and Whites, having not featured since picking up an ankle injury during the Six Nations.
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys:
"The effort the players put in out there was unbelievable. We showed character and spirit against an unbelievably good team.
"I'm delighted for everyone at the club. So much of what we planned to do came off, particularly in the first 30 minutes, and we hung in there as the game went on.
"To defend the way we did against an unbelievably physical team was really pleasing and I'm thrilled to get back to another European final."
La Rochelle: Murimurivalu; Lacroix, Jordaan, Aguillon, Rattez; James, Januarie; Pelo, Maurouard, Atonio (capt), Nailiko, Tanguy, Sazy, Veivuke, Gourdon.
Replacements: Seneca, Corbel, Boughanmi, Cedaro, Lagrange, Retiere, Bales, Rawaca.
Gloucester: Marshall; May, Trinder, Atkinson, Halaifonua; Burns, Heinz (capt); Hohneck, Hibbard, Afoa, Savage, Thrush, Moriarty, Rowan, Morgan.
Replacements: Matu'u, McAllister, Thomas, Galarza, Ludlow, Laidlaw, Twelvetrees, Sharples.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Gloucester reached their second European Challenge Cup final in three seasons as they held on to win an absorbing semi-final at La Rochelle. | 39635203 | [
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The Northern Irish racer posted a lap of 123.650mph on his Classic Suzuki XR69 - in the best conditions of the week so far.
Michael Rutter, Ivan Lintin and Dean Harrison and James Hillier all posted laps in excess of 122mph.
Practice will continue on Thursday, with the start of racing on Saturday.
Bruce Anstey completed his first practice lap of the week (113.776mph) in the Lightweight class to sit just one second off Ian Lougher's fastest lap.
Following a red flag incident at Creg ny Baa and a short delay, Conor Cummins posted the quickest lap of the Classic TT session (107.199mph).
Dunlop also topped the Junior Classic timesheets with a lap of 102.082mph.
Isle of Man rider Andrew Dudgeon continued to set the pace in Manx Grand Prix qualification, the Ramsey man posting a time of 117.824mph on the GSX-R Suzuki he will ride in both the Junior and Senior MGP races.
Fellow Manx rider Michael Evans topped the MGP Newcomers A leaderboard with 112.591mph.
Due to a lack of practice time, Manx Grand Prix competitors will have practice on Thursday.
In the Newcomers A session three riders - Andrew Cuthbert (Sarah's), Shaun Wynne (Creg Ny Baa) and James Hinchcliffe (Graham's) - were to taken to hospital after separate crashes.
Michael Dunlop - 123.650mph
Ian Lougher - 113.893mph
John McGuinness - 107.199
Michael Dunlop - 102.082mph
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They ran in seven tries to finish second in Pool Three and book their British & Irish Cup quarter-final spot.
"There was some sloppiness in there that we'll have to rectify in the week," Cattle told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"I thought the score flattered us a little bit - it was only in that second 20 minutes in the first half where they missed a few one-on-ones."
Alex O'Meara scored a hat-trick at the Mennaye, with captain Chris Morgan, Bar Bartlett, Jake Parker, and Alex Day also going over.
Pirates had Marlen Walker sin-binned while fly-half Bartlett suffered a rib injury, with the club awaiting results from an x-ray.
"Us coaches are always going to be picky with the performance," added Cattle.
"When we had the sin-binning it looked a little bit disjointed from the scrum but they're things we can iron out." | Cornish Pirates coach Gavin Cattle says his side has room for improvement despite their 50-24 win over Connacht. | 38716941 | [
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Imax's China profits jumped nearly 30% last year, according to the filing.
It has been rapidly expanding in the Greater China region, nearly doubling the number of theatres since 2012.
March figures indicate Imax has 239 theatres in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but the company says it is planning to build another 219 theatres in China.
News of the listing comes as box office revenue in the world's second largest economy jumped 36% last year to $4.9bn (£3.2bn), which is nearly three times more than it was 2010.
The parent company is already listed in New York and its shares rose as much as 9% after the announcement. | Imax, the Canadian maker of widescreen cinema theatres, is planning an initial public offering (IPO) of its China unit in Hong Kong. | 32926574 | [
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It passed a resolution following an "overwhelming" vote in favour of staying in the EU, which it said was based on the "balance of existing evidence".
The union - which has 55,000 members in England and Wales - announced its position after a vote by its council.
However, the NFU said it would not be actively campaigning in the referendum.
It said its council members looked at a number of issues, including the impact leaving the EU would have on agricultural trade and the availability of labour.
It has also completed 28 roadshows to debate key farming issues in the referendum with members, and sent two reports to its members.
The organisation said it was not joining any campaign groups and would not be telling its members how to vote.
The union has not released how each of its 90 council members voted.
However, its president, Meurig Raymond, said there had been an "overwhelming" vote in favour of staying in the EU.
"We believe it's for the betterment of the future of British agriculture," he said.
"On all the surveys we have done in the NFU, the majority believe that we should stay in."
He added: "We have had 28 meetings across the country in the last three weeks.
"We have spoken to three or four thousand people. So the delegates here today brought the views from those meetings to our council meeting."
By Claire Marshall, BBC environment correspondent
While the NFU doesn't represent all farmers, this decision will be influential.
As an established well-funded organisation, the NFU has access to information and expert advice that the average farmer doesn't have time to seek out.
The debate in the council chamber was impassioned, with members talking about what the decision could mean for the future of their children.
The judgement will also play an important part in the wider European debate. Over the last few weeks key figures from both sides of the referendum campaign have been on the phone to the NFU asking for updates, keen to know what side they will come down on.
Now, everyone knows what the council thinks - it's now down to the farmers to decide.
The NFU says more than 70% of full-time farmers in England and Wales are members.
The resolution comes after the NFU in Scotland and the Tenant Farmers' Association both expressed support for remaining in the EU.
However, farming minister George Eustice, who wants to leave the EU, said "virtually every problem that the NFU complain to me about is a direct consequence of dysfunctional EU law".
He said farmers who "want to see change and a better future" should vote to leave.
Last month, Prime Minister David Cameron, who is campaigning to remain in the EU, warned British agriculture would suffer if the UK votes to leave the union.
He said farmers could lose as much as £330m on lamb and beef exports if Britain were to leave.
However, former environment secretary Owen Paterson has said Britain's farmers would be better off outside the EU.
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It's been named 51 Eridani b and is only 20 million years old - very young by astronomical standards.
The alien world could give us more information about the formation of our Solar System.
The find was made by the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), which looks for young planets orbiting bright nearby stars.
Our own Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system - it's so big you could fit over 1,300 Earths inside it!
It's also the fastest rotating planet too, with 1 day only lasting 10 hours - but a year on Jupiter lasts for 12 Earth years.
Jupiter doesn't have a solid surface and is made up of gas, giving it the name 'gas giant'.
The baby Jupiter has the strongest methane gas signature ever found on an alien planet.
The astronomers also detected water using the GPI's spectrometer instrument.
Scientists hope that by studying far away worlds, they can learn more about how common the structure of our Solar System is.
Astronomers believe the gas giants in our Solar System formed slowly - by building up a large core over a few million years and then pulling in a huge amount of hydrogen and other gases to form an atmosphere. This is known as a "cold-start".
But the Jupiter-like planets that have been discovered so far are much hotter than scientists have predicted. Which could mean they formed quickly - as gas collapses to make a scorching planet in what is known as a 'hot-start'. | Astronomers have discovered a baby planet which looks like a young version of Jupiter. | 33945501 | [
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It was part of a sale of over 600 items, many from the 1916 Rising.
The rebellion was an attempt to overthrow British rule 100 years ago.
The 1916 proclamation is considered one of the most important documents in Irish history.
Auctioneers said that the copy was from Dr James Ryan, a medical officer attached to the garrison based out of the General Post Office (GPO) during the Easter Rising.
The GPO was the headquarters of the Rising's leaders.
After the GPO was taken by rebel forces, Pádraig Pearse, the Rising's comander-in-chief, read the proclamation from the front of the building.
The seven signatories of the proclamation were executed, along with nine other leaders, after the Rising was quelled.
Last month, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin for a parade to mark the Easter Rising's centenary.
The 1916 Proclamation was then read out by an officer from the Irish defence forces during the parade, in a re-enactment of the declaration of independence the rebels made outside the GPO. | An original copy of the Irish proclamation, that was reputedly hung in the headquarters of the rebel leaders during the Easter Rising, has sold at an auction in Dublin for 150,000 euros (£117,000). | 36122355 | [
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A collection of artworks by the 83-year-old, from Pembrokeshire, is due to go on show at the Martin Tinney Gallery in Cardiff on Wednesday.
They capture intimate observations of family and friends at home and at one of her most beloved spots, Tenby beach.
It comes a year after her husband, painter Gwilym Prichard, died.
All have been crafted in her Tenby home studio during what has marked a difficult time for the artist since the renowned landscape painter died in June 2015.
Ms Williams said: "We had a long partnership and a wonderful life together and I'm very grateful for that, but it is quite a thing to lose a partner.
"I find if I busy myself with painting, it's the best thing for me as I am not sitting there thinking.
"These artworks have all been produced in the past year.
"I work quite quickly and I have always taken my inspiration from watching people."
Several of the paintings in the new collection feature women brushing their hair or having their hair styled in intimate observational scenes.
"I do find people fascinating and I never get tired of painting people in different attitudes and working with different colour schemes," said Ms Williams.
"I don't really see myself as prolific and I consider myself a retired person but I can't see a day in the future when I don't paint."
Her works usually reflect what she sees and captures her children and grandchildren on family gatherings and seaside trips.
Many of the new paintings also feature bold patterns and textured backdrops, a fascination Ms Williams has had since her schooldays.
Her love of drawing emerged as a young child and she attended the Chelsea School of Art at 16 where her skills won her a scholarship.
In 1954, she moved to north Wales and met Mr Prichard, who once claimed he had no interest in painting and only took it up as a means to impress her.
In the early 1980s they travelled through Europe together, settling in France in 1985, where they lived for 15 years and where her work is also highly regarded.
Ms Williams was elected to the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1979 and she is an Honorary Fellow of Bangor University.
In 1995, she was awarded the Silver Medal by the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters in Paris, in recognition of her contribution to the arts in France. She returned to live in Wales in 2000.
A hugely popular retrospective was held at the National Library of Wales in 2000, and an exhibition of her powerful Tryweryn paintings was shown there in 2010.
The current show features approximately 20 new paintings and drawings and runs until 2 July. | Leading artist Claudia Williams has said she will never tire of painting as she prepares to unveil her latest work to the public. | 36473295 | [
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When we arrived in darkness all was calm and quiet.
We were greeted courteously by men carrying copies of the US constitution, who told us they were unarmed.
They had draped the US flag over a sign at the entrance to the wildlife refuge and they offered us a cup of coffee.
The guards told us that the armed men inside were not taking visitors at present but would be happy to come out and meet the media face to face in the morning.
One of the men tried to give me a small US Fish and Wildlife Service sign from the building "as a souvenir".
"It's mine," he said, "I paid for it," making a reference to his taxes.
A short distance away, down a slope in the darkness, sat the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge itself, a collection of more than a dozen buildings which serves as the headquarters for a sanctuary established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908.
A spot popular with birdwatchers keen to catch a glimpse of a greater sandhill crane may seem an improbable symbol of oppression but the men here insist the federal government has overreached its authority and has no right to this land.
The refuge abuts property owned by the two men whose incarceration sparked this whole protest, Dwight Hammond and his son Steven.
Their lawyer told the BBC that the Hammonds, who have already served time in prison for setting fires which spread to public land, had travelled to California on Sunday to hand themselves in after federal prosecutors won an appeal that resulted in lengthier jail terms.
Publicly they have distanced themselves from the action, taken by people who are not neighbours or locals.
But some people in the community around the town of Burns say while they do not approve of the methods, they are in tune with the sentiment.
Back at the bird reserve, the mood changed slightly as the day dawned, the birds started singing and the winter sun struggled to pierce the hazy clouds.
The media were now at the gate in force and the men there were more reluctant to talk.
"We need to stick to the narrative," one told us as he explained why we needed to wait for their leader Ammon Bundy.
Down a slight hill, we could now see the headquarters clearly, the red roofs of the sheds standing out against the snow.
Several dark-clad figures moved around in the complex.
At the top of a metal observation tower two men surveyed the surroundings.
There was not much for them to see apart from satellite trucks, camera crews and a solitary, unexplained drone.
For miles around there was no sign at all of any law enforcement officers although the word in Burns, some 30 minutes away, is that the hotels are packed with FBI agents.
Critics of this occupation are putting pressure on the federal authorities to enforce the law and end it. They have accused the occupiers of this building of being domestic terrorists, using force to impose their will.
Those involved insist they are patriots and they claim they have the law on their side. The US constitution prohibits the federal government from owning this land, they say.
When Mr Bundy emerged to speak to the media he refused to tell me how many people were inside the bird sanctuary or how many were armed but, after the news conference, camera crews were given a limited tour of the site.
Several children also came along although the militia men said the youngsters were visitors who were not staying on the site.
We were told we would not be shown anything relating to "operational security" or anything that would "put lives at risk" and, indeed, we were kept away from any weapons on the site.
A number of US government vehicles sat in the car park, covered in snow.
We were not allowed into most of the buildings and saw no more than a dozen men and one woman inside.
We were taken into a building where one of the protestors said he had been sleeping. It appeared to be a gym for the federal employees who usually manage this land.
There were cans of chicken noodle soup, oranges, apples and other food.
Through a glass window we could see a man and a woman cooking food in a kitchen. The site appeared to be in good condition.
Not all of the men here were keen to talk but those who were have urged supporters to take up arms and join them to assert the rights of ranchers in the American west, rights which they say have been trampled by a federal government over-reaching its authority.
They say they are prepared to stay here for years to make that point and, so far, there is no sign at all of them leaving or being forced from this land.
But with the absence of law enforcement this is not a stand-off. Not yet anyway. | The latest clash between Washington and the west is playing out on a snowy desert plain in the wilds of Oregon. | 35229017 | [
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Set 284 for victory, England reached 46-2 at the close of day four in Sharjah - their record fourth-innings run chase in Asia is 209 in 2010.
Bowler Anderson said: "We'd happily lose 2-0 trying to chase the total.
"We know it is going to turn and they have got some world-class spinners, so we are going to have to bat very well."
He added: "We have got some world-class batsman in our line-up. They are going to have to pull their fingers out and bat really well."
Mohammad Hafeez hit 151 as Pakistan - 146-3 overnight - were bowled out for 355 in their second innings.
Jonny Bairstow missed a stumping off Adil Rashid in the first over of day four with Hafeez on 97, and the opener was dropped by Stuart Broad on 113.
England lost Moeen Ali for 22 and Ian Bell for a duck in the space of 13 balls before the close.
Alastair Cook, who hit an unbeaten century when England successfully chased 209 to beat Bangladesh by nine wickets at Dhaka in 2010, will resume on 17 and Joe Root six on Thursday.
"Hopefully, we can get a couple of big partnerships and a couple of big individual scores," added Anderson, who took 2-52.
"We are going to have to bat the whole day to win or draw."
"England are not totally out of it but their chances have gone from one in six to one in 15 or 20," former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott told BBC Test Match Special.
"Joe Root and Alastair Cook are quality players but they didn't look at ease. If they go it is all over."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan added: "It's been a tough day for England. Hafeez's innings could be the difference.
"Pakistan are favourites but you just never know if England can get one player to 100. There's a 15% chance of an England win."
Listen to Geoffrey Boycott's review of each day's play on the TMS podcast
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Seven organisations have issued joint advice on vitamin D, which the body gets from natural sunlight.
The nutrient keeps bones strong, and protects against conditions like osteoporosis.
The guidance was drawn up because it is thought fears about skin cancer have made people too cautious about being in the sun.
Cancer Research UK and the National Osteoporosis Society are among the bodies which agree that "little and frequent" spells in summer sunshine several times a week can benefit your health.
The experts now say it is fine to go outside in strong sun in the middle of the day, as long as you cover up or apply sunscreen before your skin goes red.
Professor Rona Mackie, from the British Association of Dermatologists, said: "Total sun protection with high factor suncream on all the time is not ideal, in terms of vitamin D levels.
"Even Australia has changed its policy on this. They're now producing charts showing parts of Australia where sun protection may not be required during some parts of the year.
"Some of the messages about sun exposure have been too negative. UK summer sunshine isn't desperately strong. We don't have many days in the year when it is very intense.
"What's changed is that we're now saying that exposure of 10 to 15 minutes to the UK summer sun, without suncream, several times a week is probably a safe balance between adequate vitamin D levels and any risk of skin cancer."
Official government advice already recommends vitamin D supplements for pregnant women and children aged under five.
But the experts who wrote the joint statement say mothers often are not made aware of this recommendation. They suggest women consult their GP.
Winter levels of vitamin D can be helped by a break in the tropical sun - or by eating oily fish, liver and fortified margarine.
Cancer Research UK's chief clinician, Professor Peter Johnson, said: "A good diet and sensible sun exposure will be adequate for the great majority of the UK population to minimise their cancer risk.
"The area of vitamin D and cancer is complex.
"There's some evidence, which is strongest in bowel cancer, that low levels of vitamin D in the blood correlate with the risk of developing cancer.
"But that doesn't mean those low levels cause bowel cancer.
"We think overall that low levels of vitamin D are unlikely to be major contributors to the chances of developing cancer in the UK population."
The joint statement also highlighted questions about vitamin D that warrant further research.
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Richards has not played since the 2-0 defeat by Derby County on 27 September, but will return to training before the Boxing Day trip to Brentford.
Warnock says Richards has taken longer than expected to return.
"I've had lads with broken legs recover quicker than him," he told BBC Wales Sport. "It has been difficult."
Warnock, who says he is looking to sign four players in the January transfer window, says Richards has endured a tough time.
"Jazz Richards is actually training tomorrow and hopefully he finishes training as well," he said.
"I know he will start it and then we will see what happens.
"It has been a difficult period for everyone concerned with Jazz.
"First of all, it would be nice to see him run.
"He hasn't done any training yet, so I can't be happy."
Warnock says he had hoped to use Richards as he looks to move Cardiff clear of the Championship relegation zone.
"He had a knee problem, then a calf problem and then another calf problem, so I don't know what is around the corner," he added.
"It is disappointing really, because I counted on him and it has left us very short in the defensive situation and I have to look elsewhere to make sure I have the numbers.
"I like Jazz, I have always liked Jazz, but unfortunately he has not been much use to me. I am sure he is disappointed himself."
Warnock also explained that he does not expect to make any attempt to sign 37-year-old Crystal Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni.
Warnock has previously worked with Speroni when he was Eagles boss and has hinted that he could look to bring a goalkeeper to the Cardiff City Stadium in the January transfer window.
Cardiff sold captain David Marshall in the summer and replacement Ben Amos made a costly mistake in the 4-3 defeat by Barnsley.
But Warnock does not expect Speroni to leave Selhurst Park before he retires.
"Julian is a smashing lad, a really good goalkeeper, but he will be at Crystal Palace the rest of his career," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"He won't leave there. But there will be other names in the next few weeks." | Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock says Wales defender Jazz Richards' rehabilitation from injury has been 'disappointing.' | 38410649 | [
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The 48-year-old took had been in charge of Posh since replacing Dave Robertson in September and lifted the club as high as the play-off places in January.
But they have since fallen to 14th in the table and have lost four of their last five matches.
Assistant Grant McCann will take charge for the final two games of the season.
Westley was asked by BBC Radio Cambridgeshire if he felt increased pressure following Saturday's defeat and said: "I come to work every day and feel pressure, I put pressure on myself.
"I don't like losing football matches, but I know the job here. The job is to build long-term winning.
"Right now the job is to get our young players on the pitch, to give them a chance to succeed and to grow, and that's what we've done (against Scunthorpe).
"There'll be lessons learned by all of the players, and if we're going to be a successful club next year, then we need the young players to step up to the plate and the experience now will be useful for them."
The former Stevenage and Preston boss began his career at the ABAX Stadium with 10 wins from his first 14 matches in all competitions.
However, after losing to West Brom in a FA Cup fourth-round replay on penalties and the January sale of forward Conor Washington, still the club's top scorer this season with 15, Posh lost six of their next seven league matches.
After a brief run of three straight victories, the club's form dipped again, leading chairman Darragh MacAnthony to say "I employ over 300 people at Peterborough United, not one of those employees right now has a job in the summer".
Earlier this week, Westley also bemoaned his side's poor discipline - the worst record in the Football League with 104 yellow cards and seven reds - saying it was costing them games.
A brief statement on the Peterborough website read: "The club would like to thank Graham for his efforts on behalf of the football club.
"Chairman Darragh MacAnthony will take time to speak to prospective candidates for the vacant manager position." | League One side Peterborough United have parted company with manager Graham Westley following Saturday's 2-0 defeat by Scunthorpe United. | 36122210 | [
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Comparisons will inevitably be made with the legendary centre and former Irish captain. After all, Ringrose wears the number 13, played for Blackrock, UCD, Leinster and didn't start his rugby career as a centre.
But the 22-year-old new kid on the block appears destined to make a name for himself and his entry into the Six Nations fray is keenly anticipated.
Ireland coach Joe Schmidt was careful not to throw Ringrose into the international arena too early. But the emerging player is regarded as a young man with a mature head in his shoulders, someone well equipped to handle hype and huge media attention.
But, what makes him so special? What are the qualities that had O'Driscoll himself calling for the Leinster lad to be included in Ireland's last Six Nations campaign?
"He has been anointed the next Brian O'Driscoll. Brian was similar at that age, efficient and solid," says Eddie O'Sullivan, Ireland's coach from 2001 to 2008.
"Garry's trademark is he is incredibly efficient. Young players make bloopers, but he doesn't make mistakes. It's important to remain calm under pressure and then when your opportunity comes, you take it.
"Brian didn't make mistakes and then he stepped up. No-one expected him to score a try in Paris in 2000, but he scored three.
"Then no-one expected him to score that try against Australia for the Lions a year later, but he did. These are the moments. They came to him and he took them. Then he kicked on, kept improving."
Ringrose made his senior Ireland debut in the autumn international against Canada last November, a week after being an unused replacement in that historic win over the All Blacks in Chicago.
He then scored his first international try in the exciting 27-24 win over Australia in Dublin.
Ringrose played his school rugby for Blackrock College in Dublin, although when he joined the senior side, he wasn't seen as one of their better players.
Hopping from number nine to 15 and not being offered a permanent position, he kept his head down and eventually an injury opened up a spot at 13.
After the switch, he remained their kicker and his points tally propelled Blackrock to the Leinster Senior Cup. Suddenly people were asking who this guy was and he was off to UCD with a glowing reputation.
Bobby Byrne, the Director of Rugby at UCD, recalls: "I first came across Gary in that run to the Senior Cup. He wasn't overly recognised at that stage but suddenly he was having a significant impact for the team.
He is the player I am most looking forward to seeing in this year's Six Nations.
"He had composure, was an elusive runner and was really courageous. He hadn't the biggest frame, but he had a good bit of pace to finish off.
"He had, and still has, a great temperament. He is a very balanced guy. The rate of improvement since he has left school has been phenomenal.
"He has improved every year and he's conscious that he always needs to improve, so his discipline on and off the pitch is great. He has all the things that you need to succeed."
Former Ireland international backs Tony Ward and Jonny Bell are excited about what impact Ringrose can have on this year's Six Nations.
Ward, who starred in a famous Munster win over New Zealand in 1978, says: "He showed us his mental strength in that Australia game last autumn.
"With Robbie Henshaw injured and when Jared Payne came off, he went from being the third or fourth choice to a guy at the top of the heap.
"He really stepped up and I just think he is an amazing talent. He is the player I am most looking forward to seeing in this year's Six Nations."
Ulster man Bell knows a thing or two about spotting talent. A decorated centre himself, he's now one of the coaches at Gloucester.
Again, comparisons with other Irish 13s were impossible to avoid.
"Everyone keeps likening him to Brian O'Driscoll. He can find space, he's elusive and can break tackles.
"He has good leg drive. At this level, you have to have ability. To work against these hard defensive systems, you must have that innate natural ability, and Garry has that in droves."
According to Bell, Ringrose definitely has the ability and mental strength to succeed, but those qualities need to be complemented by hard work.
"He has a very diligent approach, and that is very important in the modern game," adds Bell.
"If you look at the likes of Danny Cipriani, he had amazing ability but he hasn't really produced what he is capable of. He's done well, but not hit the heights he maybe could have because of outside distractions."
By all accounts, Ringrose has the right mix to succeed at the very top level.
If he keeps improving, that step up from first class to world class will seem to be a 'when' rather than an 'if'.
Let's leave the last word to Girvan Dempsey who won 82 Ireland caps between 1998 and 2008 and is now Leinster's backs coach.
"Dealing with him right from the off, even from 17, you could tell he was rugby-smart. He just got it," said former full-back Dempsey.
"He just bounces onto the training field. And we're just constantly looking forward to seeing what's going to come next.
"Garry loves expressing himself, and certainly we'd never, ever want to curb that in any way because it's so refreshing.
"Hopefully he'll just keep getting better and better as time goes on." | Garry Ringrose has never played in the Six Nations before - but he's already being hailed as Ireland's best prospect since Brian O'Driscoll. | 38830883 | [
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Stephen Hammond said job roles would change when the paper system for car tax discs is scrapped in October.
The minister allayed fears about job losses in a letter to Swansea East AM Mike Hedges.
Mr Hedges said the minister's response would "give comfort" to DVLA employees.
Concerns over the future of some of the 5,000 workers at the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency centre were raised in October after Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement.
The chancellor announced that the tax disc would be replaced with an electronic system in October 2014.
The new system will allow people to pay the charge by monthly direct debit.
Mr Hedges had written to Mr Hammond asking for clarification of the government's intentions.
In his response to Mr Hedges, Mr Hammond said: "It is likely that the introduction of a direct debit scheme may mean there will be a natural reduction in the amount of refunds received, in addition to the withdrawal of the tax disc.
"This may mean changes to job roles and the need to train on new processes.
"Any reductions in numbers of people needed for these activities will be managed through redeploying to other growth areas of the business."
Mr Hedges welcomed the minister's assurances.
He added: "Whilst disappointed that the changes will reduce the number of job opportunities at the DVLA, I can see the advantages of both paying by monthly direct debits and not having to show a tax disc.
"I am pleased the minister is committed to redeployment rather than redundancies and I am sure this response will give comfort to many concerned DVLA employees." | Staff at Swansea's DVLA offices will be redeployed rather than face redundancy after changes to the way motorists pay their car tax, a UK transport minister has confirmed. | 25567298 | [
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In July, the hall was damaged in another paint attack. Police have appealed for information.
They have asked witnesses to contact them or to provide details on the Crimestoppers line. | Paint has been thrown over an Orange hall in north Belfast. | 19421604 | [
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In a study on mice, Hsp90 inhibitors were found to strip cancer cells of defences against hormone treatments.
This makes the drugs particularly promising for treating drug-resistant cancers, the research team said.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK.
About one in eight men will get prostate cancer at some point in their lives. It mainly affects men over the age of 50.
The cancer can sometimes be treated successfully with hormone treatments, which target androgen receptors linked to the growth of male hormones called androgens.
But some prostate cancers don't work that way. Instead they create an abnormal form of androgen receptor which is not linked to the growth of hormones and therefore does not respond to standard hormone treatment.
This is the most common form of resistance in prostate cancer which leads to aggressive, difficult-to-treat cancers.
The latest research, published in the journal Cancer Research, found that a new class of drugs reduced production of both receptors.
Professor Paul Workman, study author and chief executive of the Institute of Cancer Research, said it was an exciting discovery.
"We call Hsp90 inhibitors 'network drugs' because they tackle several of the signals that are hijacked in cancer all at once, across a network rather than just a single signalling pathway.
"These drugs can hit cancer harder than those targeting only one protein, and look promising for preventing or overcoming drug resistance."
Prof Workman said the next step was to test the Hsp90 inhibitors in clinical trials on patients with aggressive, drug-resistant prostate cancer.
Prof Johann de Bono, a professor of experimental cancer medicine at the Institute of Cancer Research, said: "These drugs are already in clinical trials for several types of cancer, and I am excited that our work suggests they could also benefit men with prostate cancer who have otherwise run out of treatment options." | A new type of drug could benefit men with aggressive prostate cancer that is no longer responding to treatment, researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research have said. | 36170137 | [
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He said it would be "hugely challenging" given current "strong anti-establishment thinking".
No such poll is taking place, but his comments come after others warned of threats to devolution in Brexit's wake.
In response, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the EU result should not be read as a vote to "centralise" power.
During the referendum campaign Labour, which leads the Welsh Government, and official opposition Plaid Cymru campaigned to stay in the European Union, while Mr Davies campaigned for Leave.
Leave won in Wales, and since the June vote First Minister Carwyn Jones has called for any future Brexit deal to be put to Britain's devolved legislatures, saying he would set up an advisory group on the issue.
Mr Davies said there was "no great warmth or affection" towards the assembly.
Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, he added: "This thought came to me when I was having an innocent conversation with a fellow farmer, we were talking about Brexit.
"He posed the question to me that if the referendum for the assembly was re-run today, could it be won?
"If you reflect on it and the state of politics at the moment, I don't think it could be won, to be honest with you.
"The more and more you travel around Wales, and I say this with a heavy heart... sadly people feel very remote from the institution.
"While people indicate in polls they want decisions taken here in Wales, it's not necessarily through the vehicle of the National Assembly."
Two referendums were held on Welsh devolution. The first, in 1997, established the Assembly with a victory for Yes - 50.3%.% to 49.7% - but on a turnout of 50.1%.
The second in 2011, on whether the assembly should have powers to make law in areas it has jurisdiction, was also won with 63.5% of the vote but with a turnout of 35.6%.
Plaid's Ms Wood said: "Brexit provides an opportunity for the nations to take more power and responsibility from the UK.
"The referendum result shows how Westminster rule has left many communities behind. It should in no way be interpreted as a vote to centralise more power in London.
"No self-respecting country should be timid or ashamed of governing itself. It's disheartening to see such a negative attitude from some in Welsh politics."
A spokesman for the first minister said: "We have announced our key priorities for a future (Brexit) deal, established a new business confidence fund to help businesses through this uncertain period and we've announced the establishment of a new department in government, alongside a new external EU advisory group.
"We've met with the prime minister, chancellor, Brexit ministers and the agriculture minister - we've brought together all the devolved governments in Cardiff and summoned a special Council for Economic Renewal. We have demanded, and secured some certainty about future funding, though there is still a way to go on that.
"The narrative the Welsh Tories want to develop simply isn't borne out by the facts." | Welsh voters would turn down devolution now if a referendum were held on the assembly's existence, Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies has said. | 37196526 | [
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After centuries as a powerful medieval kingdom, Hungary was part of the Ottoman and then Habsburg empires from the 16th century onwards, emerging as an independent country again after World War I.
The Hungarian language belongs to the Finno-Ugric family and is one of the handful of languages spoken within the European Union that are not of Indo-European origin.
A landlocked country, Hungary is home to Lake Balaton, the largest in central Europe, and to a large number of spa towns and hot springs.
Country profiles compiled by BBC Monitoring
It has especially rich traditions in folk and classical music and was the birthplace of numerous outstanding performers and composers, including Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly.
Hungary became co-equal partner with Austria in a dual monarchy in the mid-19th century after an unsuccessful revolt against the Habsburgs in 1848. After a period of turmoil following World War I, an independent kingdom of Hungary was established under the authoritarian regency of Admiral Miklos Horthy.
The redrawing of European borders that took place after World War I left about five million ethnic Hungarians living in neighbouring countries. Their status remains a sensitive issue and has complicated Hungary's relations with its neighbours.
Following World War II, in which Admiral Horthy had allied himself with Germany, Hungary fell under communist rule. An uprising in 1956 was crushed by Red Army forces, but Hungary did later become the first Eastern European country to gain some economic freedom.
Hungary played an important part in accelerating the collapse of communism across Eastern Europe when it opened its border with Austria in 1989, allowing thousands of East Germans to escape to the West. Just a few months later the Berlin Wall was history.
Hungary's post-communist economic transition was achieved relatively smoothly. Within four years of the collapse of communism nearly half of the country's economic enterprises had been transferred to the private sector, and by 1998 Hungary was attracting nearly half of all foreign direct investment in Central Europe.
Ten years later, the picture looked rather less rosy. A high level of both private and state borrowing left the country particularly vulnerable to the credit crunch of 2008, and in October of that year the government was forced to appeal to the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank for massive loans in a bid to stave off economic collapse.
Dissatisfaction with the centre-left coalition government's handling of the economy from 2002 to 2010 coincided with the rise of the right-wing nationalist party Jobbik, known for its anti-Semitic and anti-Gypsy rhetoric, and a move to the authoritarian right by the Fidesz party, which won parliamentary elections in 2010 and 2014.
The two-thirds parliamentary majority gained by Fidesz in 2010 allowed it to throw out the comparatively liberal post-communist constitution and replace it with a constitution that critics say cements the governing party's hold on power and removes checks and balances essential for the healthy functioning of a democracy. Fidesz insists that the constitutional change was necessary in order to complete the work of eradicating the legacy of communism.
Fidesz scored another comfortable victory in the 2014 election, albeit with a reduced majority. Jobbik increased its share of the vote, becoming the second-largest political party in the country. | Hungary traces its history back to the Magyars, an alliance of semi-nomadic tribes from southern Russia and the Black Sea coast that arrived in the region in the ninth century. | 17382822 | [
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She made the announcement on social media saying she had gone into the most recent series having decided it would be her last one.
She said this year's series had been her "best Strictly experience ever".
This series win was not her first.
She also won in 2011 with McFly's Harry Judd.
Aliona's been on the show for seven years.
Her previous partners include Rav Wilding, Matt Baker, Tony Jacklin and Gregg Wallace.
She had to pull out of the 2013 series after fracturing her ankle in training in rehearsals with dance partner Johnny Ball.
Vilani started ballroom dancing in Russia at the age of 11 and went on to study at the Broadway Dance Center in New York.
She moved to Los Angeles in 2006.
The professional dancers on the show are booked on a series by series contract, meaning no dancers are yet signed up for the 2016 series.
Ola Jordan, another Strictly dancer, has also ruled herself out of future series too.
Jay and Aliona are taking part in the Strictly Come Dancing live tour which starts on 22 January in Birmingham. | Strictly Come Dancing's Aliona Vilani has announced she is leaving Strictly Come Dancing three days after winning the glitterball trophy with Jay McGuiness. | 35161420 | [
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Wallace's name might not have the same cachet as Keegan, Dalglish or Rush but his place in Liverpool history is unassailable - he scored the club's first European goal.
His landmark moment came in Iceland when he opened the scoring in a 5-0 win over K.R. Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur in 1964.
"The great Roger Hunt went to the by-line, squared it back to me and from all of those six yards out I powered it in," said Wallace who was only playing because Ian St John was ill.
It's more than 55 years since he left Llanelli for Liverpool, but Wallace has not lost a trace of his Welsh accent.
So how did the son of a Scotland international claim his place in footballing history? And why does he have a south Wales lilt when he speaks?
It's a story that takes in one of Wales' most famous rugby academies and Huddersfield Town. Wallace, now 71, recalls it all with fondness.
Wallace was five years old when his father, former Scotland centre forward Dougie Wallace, was appointed player-manager at Llanelli AFC.
As a teenager he went to Gwendraeth School, where Barry John - nicknamed The King - and before him Carwyn James took their first steps to rugby stardom.
"The school was rugby orientated. Barry was two years younger than me and even then I used to love to watch him play," Wallace told BBC Wales.
"But my childhood dream was to become a footballer. I wanted to be just like my dad."
Wallace played in the Llanelli junior league between the ages of 11 to 14, before playing for Glan Morfa where his talent was discovered.
"It was late October 1959. I remember it well," he says of the day Bill Shankly's scout spotted him.
"There's somebody I want you to have a look at" was the message sent back to Shankly, then manager of Huddersfield Town.
Wallace had trials with the Terriers and when Shankly went to Liverpool, he took Wallace with him.
"At the end of my third trial at Huddersfield, Bill Shankly signed on the Monday to become manager of Liverpool Football Club," Wallace continued.
After Liverpool won the Division One title in 1963-64, they were offered automatic qualification for the European Cup for the first time.
"Liverpool in the 60s was vibrant - The Beatles, 50,000 in the stadium, 28,000 in the Kop swaying to their songs. I remember it like yesterday," Wallace said.
"I wasn't always on the pitch but I was always part of the party. We had a fabulous squad. Ronnie Yates, Ian Callaghan, Roger Hunt, Ian St John. An odd person might get injured so you might get a game now and then."
And it was sickness that gave Wallace his break when fellow Scot St John had suffered appendicitis a few weeks before Liverpool's first European tie in Iceland.
Wallace recalls the journey was as memorable as the game, "Back then you couldn't get a direct flight to Iceland. We flew to Glasgow with a six-hour wait,
"[Shankly] didn't want us lounging around so off we went on a bus to a holiday camp. I'll always remember the fella stopping us at the gate.
"The boss went over and said, 'I'm Bill Shankly, I'm going to Reykjavik in Iceland and this is Liverpool Football Club'. The guy replied, 'Well you're on the wrong road, Mr Shankly, You should have taken a right back that way'."
Wallace and the team got through the gate, onto the flight for Iceland, and a little piece of history followed.
"The goal came after three minutes," recalls Wallace, "It hadn't dawned on me it was the first-ever goal in Europe until about six months later when someone mentioned it would be a good quiz question."
He also played a leading part in another landmark game, scoring twice in a 3-2 win over Arsenal - a game televised by the BBC on the first Match of the Day.
He spent another two seasons at the club before moving on to Crewe Alexandra in 1967 for £9,000.
"I would have loved to have played a lot more games than what I did, but I was so proud to be part of that squad. Shankly started what Liverpool Football Club is today," he said.
Wallace draws comparisons between Shankly and current Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, who has steered the club to Europa League final in his first season at Anfield.
"They're very, very similar," Wallace said, "Klopp's so enthusiastic, he's got a great character about him. He's got the players motivated.
"The Dortmund game [where Liverpool fought back to win 5-4 on aggregate in the Europa League quarter-final] - that was second only to the Inter Milan [European Cup] semi-final [first leg] in 1965 [which Liverpool won 3-1].
"To see Klopp on the line, chanting and running, when the players see that, they play for him like we played for Shankly." | When Liverpool take on Sevilla in Wednesday's Europa League final Gordon Wallace will be watching on television in the Shankly Hotel in the city. | 36293901 | [
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One head teacher decided "all reading can be done on iPads," a delegate told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers' annual conference.
The union voted to lobby for libraries to be included in Ofsted inspections.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said that school libraries "played a vital role".
Cathy Tattersfield from Derbyshire quoted international evidence suggesting a positive correlation between good school libraries and student attainment.
Ms Tattersfield said she had been "shocked" that two secondary academies had "recently closed or attempted to close their libraries and several of them have had their librarian hours or posts cut, mostly in the ex-mining areas of Derbyshire".
A survey of 485 ATL members last month suggested a patchy picture on library provision said Ms Tattersfield.
"It seems to be feast or famine.
"Some secondary provision is fine, cherished and secured," - but others faced reduced opening hours, conversion to e-learning centres, cuts in staff hours, or librarians having been removed or replaced by support staff or teachers.
"We identified a third of secondary schools have had cuts of 40% or more since 2010, with 20% redundancies in library staff at their school."
Another delegate said his school library, closed last year, had provided a host of benefits to pupils, from paired reading for special needs pupils to introducing able readers to new authors and running a range of enrichment activities.
He said the library's books and magazines had been distributed among subject departments.
"Lesley Mumbray-Williams whose school dispensed with her services as librarian said a third of the stock had ended up in skips within three weeks of her leaving."
Another delegate said the librarian post in their school had not been filled and the library doors were often locked.
Of the education staff who responded to the survey:
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "We want all children to read widely and well and believe school libraries can play a vital role in fostering that love of reading.
"We trust schools to decide on whether to provide and maintain a library service for their pupils." | Too many school libraries in England face cuts or closure with schools increasingly viewing books as obsolete, a teachers' union has heard. | 35940002 | [
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The museum closed last October to allow work to upgrade the building and provide more display space.
About half of the project's £66m cost is being funded by the council.
In April 2015, the council provided £5.7m to kick-start the building's revamp, which houses treasures donated to the city by collector Sir William Burrell in 1944.
The Burrell collection consists of more than 8,000 artefacts but fewer than a fifth of them have been on show at any one time.
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The Heritage Lottery Fund has given £15m to the project and the UK government has also contributed £5m.
It is hoped a fundraising campaign will raise the rest.
Cllr Archie Graham said: "Sir William's great legacy has been described as the greatest gift a city has ever received and we have a moral duty to ensure it is housed in the finest of buildings." | A further £27m for the refurbishment of the Burrell Collection has been approved by Glasgow City Council. | 38995820 | [
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Other shopping centres have increased the number of their security officers - and frisking people before they enter buildings, public transport vehicles and even churches is now common.
While the attack contributed to a fall in revenues in the country's important tourism sector, it has also boosted business in the private security industry.
"In a way it has [boosted business] because our clients have been concerned," says James Omwando, chief executive of the security firm, KK, of the new emphasis on security.
"They've taken on additional security officers, they've invested in new equipment - CCTVs and access control."
The company's training centre on the outskirts of Nairobi is busier than ever. New recruits march for hours as they answer their instructor at the top of their voices.
Their clean-shaven heads, navy blue shorts, white socks and shoes are meant to help instil discipline.
"Even in terms of general recruitment we're now looking for a better educated, higher profile security officer who'll be able to understand what's being looked into because the challenges are many," says training manager Lucas Ndolo.
Ndolo, a former military intelligence officer, says even though understanding terrorism has always been part of the training, they have had to put more emphasis on it.
"We emphasise more on surveillance, detection, profiling and what security officers are looking for in the field," he says.
The soon-to-graduate guards are taking their lessons in a wooden classroom. A lot of the lessons taught are focused on preventing attacks.
"It is better to press the panic button when you realise that a person is gathering information, instead of you pressing the panic button when they've come to attack," a trainer lectures the class of about 20 trainees.
"You saw what happened at Westgate?" he goes on, as they answer in the affirmative.
One of the first victims of the Westgate gunmen was the mall's security officer.
For security companies such as KK, one positive thing that has come out of the widely publicised attack is that they now collaborate a lot more with Kenya's security services.
"We get police officers coming here to help train our people. We've been in touch with the bomb people, the criminal investigation [and] anti-terrorism [officers] who come here to train our people," says Lucas Ndolo.
They also work together in conducting security operations.
That co-ordination is also beneficial to the police, who number about 80,000.
While the UN recommends a ratio of one police officer for every 400 civilians, Kenya has only half as many officers that would be required to meet that.
The Kenyan government has increased its security budget this year by 24% to $1.7bn (£1bn) from last year's $1.3bn. Part of that money is meant to employ 10,000 more police officers.
In the meantime, the estimated 300,000 private security officers are supplementing efforts to make civilians feel safer.
But not everyone can afford to pay for private security officers, and technology is a cheaper security solution.
"[Many people] are looking for alarms so that our vehicles can respond in the event of a problem," says KK's James Omwando.
The company's control centre is getting ever busier, he says, with the team monitoring phone calls and alarms going off at their clients' premises.
A government bid to buy and install CCTV cameras in Nairobi and Mombasa has been riddled in controversy and is yet to be implemented.
Most attacks have targeted the two major cities.
Walking through the streets of the capital you see security officers standing at buildings' entrances frisking people using metal detectors.
Female officers inspect women's bags and belongings while their male counterparts check the men.
But security analyst George Musamali argues that the checks are not thorough enough.
"When the item beeps, this person [should] remove what he's carrying," he says.
"Then if it's a dangerous weapon, you're supposed to have been given the action on what you need to do once you've identified that this person is carrying a weapon or something that is dangerous.
"You deny access, have him arrested, hand him to the police."
He interprets the fact that there have been several attacks since security was improved to mean that the improved measures have not succeeded.
"But let's give credit to them because so far most of the cases we've seen are that these grenades are being lobbed from outside the vehicles - they're being lobbed from outside supermarkets."
So in a way, he says, they have helped deter more attacks.
But security is still a concern for both locals and visitors.
The daring siege of the remote agricultural town of Mpeketoni, an hour's drive from Lamu island, in June reinforced fears that the government had not done enough to maintain security.
Partly as a result of that state of affairs, the country's growth projections for 2014 have been revised down by as much as 0.5% from 5.2%.
For the security industry however, this is likely to mean more business. | A lot has changed in Kenya since the attack at the Westgate shopping mall a year ago. | 29253098 | [
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The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Scotland said the party could generate between £1.1bn and £1.2bn by 2020/21.
SNP income tax plans would raise £300m and the Scottish Conservatives zero.
Scottish Lib Dem tax pledges could result in added revenue of £750m and the Scottish Greens of up to £950m.
New finance powers - including setting the rates and bands of income tax on non-savings and non-dividend income - are heading to Scotland in April 2017.
Each of the five Holyrood parties have been outlining their tax and spend plans ahead of the Scottish Parliament election on 5 May.
The SNP has pledged to freeze tax rates, and will not implement UK government changes to the threshold at which people start paying the 40% tax rate.
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Scottish Labour and the Liberal Democrats want to increase income tax by 1p, while Labour would also raise the additional rate for top earners to 50p.
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The Greens have announced plans to create new tax bands and increase the additional rate to 60%.
In March, the think-tank calculated the next Scottish government would face a £2bn annual spending gap by 2020.
Its latest research compares tax proposals already announced by the parties to what would be raised if they followed UK tax plans, assuming the UK government raises the higher rate threshold to £50,000 by 2020/21 as planned.
Russell Gunson, director of IPPR Scotland, said: "Our analysis is the first time we've been able to show how much each of the parties are seeking to raise in additional tax revenue.
"With billions of pounds of spending cuts and benefits coming to Scotland over the next few years, the balance of tax rises and spending cuts proposed by the parties needs to be front and centre of the plans they will take to the country to vote on next month.
"Ahead of manifestos being published over the course of this month, the parties need to be clear with voters as to how much, if any, tax they hope to raise - and what scale of public spending cuts and reform of our public services they're proposing."
Scottish Labour public services spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "This expert intervention shows that only Labour has a credible plan to use the powers to stop the cuts to schools and public services.
"The SNP's refusal to tax the richest will see the poorest lose out."
SNP Finance Secretary John Swinney said: "This report shows that it is only the SNP that are putting forward balanced, reasonable and fair tax proposals that will support public services like our NHS whilst protecting households budgets."
He added that it showed "Labour's plans are a tax grab on some of the least well off in our society", while the Tories "are continuing to hand out tax breaks to the rich at the same time as they are cutting public services".
Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the report showed its tax plans are "progressive", while Scottish Greens co-convener Patrick Harvie said it demonstrated its proposals are "far bolder than the SNP's", and tackle inequality, "while Labour's do not". | A left-leaning think tank looked at the tax promises of Scotland's parties and concluded that Scottish Labour's plan would raise the most revenue. | 36028060 | [
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Desmond Ricks' lawyers say homicide detectives switched bullets in his mother's gun to pin a shooting on him.
He was convicted of gunning down a friend outside a restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, in March 1992, and sentenced to at least 32 years in prison.
Mr Ricks, 51, was released from prison last Friday.
On Thursday, Wayne County prosecutor's office said Mr Ricks would not face a second trial.
"I hope you enjoy your newfound freedom," Judge Richard Skutt told the exonerated man, who heaved a sigh of relief.
Mr Ricks' case was championed by lawyers and students from the Innocence Clinic at the University of Michigan's law school.
They managed to get the investigation reopened in 2016 after pointing out that two bullets taken from the victim, Gerry Bennett, looked different from the rounds presented at trial.
Police investigators had maintained the bullets held up as key evidence were fired from Mr Ricks' mother's pistol.
'How I survived 22 years on death row'
US man freed after 28 years in prison
But a state police report last month established the bullets from the victim did not match the 38-calibre gun that belonged to Mr Ricks' mother.
"I've got no time to be bitter at anybody," Mr Ricks said outside Wayne Circuit Court after Thursday's hearing, reports the Detroit News.
"There's no excuse for what they did, but I have to move on. I just didn't want to die in prison.
"Now, I'm just trying to get some semblance of my life back. I just want to pay my taxes and be a good citizen."
Mr Ricks is expected to be compensated thanks to a new Michigan law that awards wrongly convicted prisoners $50,000 (£38,800) for each year spent in prison, which would make him eligible for $1.25m.
David Moran, director of the Innocence Clinic, said the police conduct was criminal, but no retired officers can be brought to justice because too much time has passed.
"If it happened once it would be very surprising if there's not a lot of other cases like it," he said.
The Detroit police gun laboratory that handled the case was shut down in 2008 because of errors in ballistic testing. | US prosecutors have dropped all charges against a man who spent 25 years in prison for murder, amid allegations police had falsified evidence. | 40135109 | [
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The three-week trial on the 23.4m long 'up' escalator at Holborn station is taking place during peak hours.
Transport for London said the move will "increase the capacity" and prevent "queuing at the bottom" as people stand on both sides of the escalator.
More than 56 million passengers use the station every year.
Usually passengers stand to the right, leaving the left side free for people to walk up or down the escalators.
Holborn Tube station, one of the busiest on the network, is set to get a new entrance and an enlarged ticket hall in order to increase its capacity by 80% by 2022.
Peter McNaught, operations director for the Central line, said: "In the meantime, as part of a three-week trial to reduce queues and keep people moving through the station, we are encouraging customers to stand on both sides of the 'up' escalators during busy periods.
"We believe this will increase the capacity of the escalators as more people will be able to board, preventing queuing at the bottom of the escalator." | Commuters are being asked to stand rather than walk on the left side of escalators at a central London Tube station to see if it can cut queues. | 34926581 | [
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Huw Irranca-Davies, who has announced he is leaving the shadow frontbench, told Radio Wales his party needed to "consistently re-invigorate" itself.
He said the party was facing a "huge challenge" at next year's assembly elections, and the Welsh government needed to deliver on its ambitions.
Mr Irranca-Davies quit the Labour frontbench on Wednesday.
The former Wales Office and DEFRA minister has said he intends to play a constructive role in the rebuilding of the Labour party in Wales and the UK from the backbenches.
Speaking on Sunday Supplement, he said: "We only get to be the natural party of Wales if we consistently re-invigorate ourselves."
He said the party needed to consistently argue the case that it is "good for Wales to have a Labour Party that is pro-business, pro-every part of Wales".
Welsh Labour, he said, needed to fight "not only for people who are vulnerable, not only for people on low pay, but fight for entrepreneurs, fight for people who want to do better for themselves".
Mr Irranca-Davies said he agreed with Jon Cruddas, who helped write Labour's election manifesto, that the party's election performance was arguably the greatest disaster for Labour since 1918.
He said: "Even if you look in the South Wales valleys seats... in a swathe of those seats UKIP came a strong second, over 15 or 20% of the vote, so is it a massive crisis for Labour? Yes, I think it is.
"But Jon is also right when he says, not only in terms of the leadership but, what we need to do as a party, as a body, as a movement, is to actually own this and say it is massive, now how do we front this up?"
He admitted the party was facing a challenge in the 2016 assembly elections.
"I don't think you can ever have a party in government that can simply say 'we have done everything correctly'," he said.
"And where there are deficiencies then you have to front up and say 'we have not done the turnaround that we wanted to see'.
"We do need to be not simply more ambitious, but state the outcomes we want to see in terms of education and health, and in terms of the economy, and be hugely ambitious for that. And then deliver it." | Welsh Labour needs to "shrug off" the idea it is still the natural party of Wales, their MP for Ogmore has said. | 32772251 | [
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