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Boyle struck the only goal in the 18th minute after lobbing over Graham Doyle following a moment of hesitancy in the Wexford defence.
Derry needed fine saves from Gerard Doherty to stay ahead as the keeper denied Conor O'Keeffe and Paul Murphy.
Josh Daniels also headed a Gary Delaney effort off the line in the second half as Derry endured some nervous moments.
Derry did go close to adding to their lead in the final five minutes of the game as Aaron McEneff clipped the Wexford crossbar with a long-range shot and substitute Jordan Allan fired just wide.
Kenny Shiels' side suffered a blow in the second half as goalscorer Boyle was forced off by an apparent hamstring injury.
With leaders Dundalk beating St Patrick's Athletics 2-0, the Candystripes remain nine points off the pace but they have edged to within six points of second-placed Cork City who were held to a 0-0 draw by Shamrock Rovers in Dublin. | Nathan Boyle's first-half goal proved enough to give Derry City victory over Wexford Youths at the Brandywell. | 36609576 | [
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A black Land Rover Discovery was set on fire in Cairds Row in Musselburgh between 23:30 and 23:55 on Monday.
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
Sgt Stuart Higginbottom, of Police Scotland, said: "Fortunately, no one was injured as a result of this fire but we are treating this extremely seriously." | Police are appealing for witnesses following a suspicious car fire in East Lothian. | 35754536 | [
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The pound started to rise just before the first results came in as traders predicted a win for the Remain side - eventually hitting a high of over $1.50.
But as reality sank in and the Leave side pulled away the currency went into freefall touching lows of $1.30, levels not seen since 1985.
Since then the pound has had some better days but has still lost over 13% of its value against the dollar.
The value of a nation's currency is often described as its effective share price - a gauge of how investors see the strength of the economy.
"The fall in the pound can be seen as a barometer of sentiment in the markets," says Jeremy Stretch, a currency analyst at CIBC.
"If a currency falls traders are effectively saying that it needs to go lower to make it attractive enough for them to make investments."
Despite having fallen to lows we have not seen for 30 years, some in the market think the pound could still fall further against the dollar.
"When you look at how quickly the pound has fallen in the past, I don't think it is beyond the bounds of possibility that we could see the pound in the low $1.20 range against the dollar," says Simon Derrick, head of currency research at Bank of New York Mellon.
So what does history tell us about one of the key drivers of the UK economy?
November 2007: sterling reached $2.11
The pound soared from $1.40 in 2002 right up to $2.10 in October 2007.
British tourists flocked to the US as the pound strengthened, often coming backed weighed down with suitcases full of clothes and gadgets.
"It was in some respects the golden days for the UK with a booming financial sector and the sense of 'Cool Britannia' in the country," says Prof Albrecht Ritschl an economic historian at the London School of Economics.
The pound strengthened as the UK economy boomed, inflation stayed relatively low and interest rates offered a decent return for investors.
"It was a very settled economic environment with few political upheavals, completely different from the post-Brexit world we see today," says Howard Archer, an economist at IHS Global Insight.
Those heady days of economic boom were replaced with the financial crisis of 2008 which saw the pound collapse as the UK economy fell into recession.
The pound fell 35% to lows of about $1.40 in early 2009, before picking up as the UK slowly emerged from the downturn.
February 1985: Sterling reached $1.05
Back in February 1985, the pound slid to $1.05. But unlike today it was less a story of pound weakness and more to do with a very strong dollar.
The combination of Ronald Reagan as US president and the tenure of Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve saw the dollar appreciate 26% between 1980 and 1984.
President Reagan instituted a series of tax cuts and spending rises in an attempt to revive the economy. This in turn pushed up long-term interest rates, attracting inflows of capital and pushing up the value of the dollar.
Despite the pressure of the strong dollar, the UK economy was performing well at the time with economic growth of 2.3% in 1984 and 4.2% in 1985.
The strength of the dollar created international tension which was addressed in an unprecedented meeting of world leaders and central bankers at the Plaza Hotel in New York in September 1985.
The central bankers agreed that other currencies should appreciate against the dollar and followed their words with interventions in foreign exchange markets, selling dollars in exchange for other currencies.
The actions of those involved in the so-called "Plaza Accord" contributed to the dollar falling 40% between 1985 and 1987.
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The 27-year-old judo athlete from Inverness was placed in an induced coma after suffering head injuries in the motorbike taxi accident on 10 May.
Since being flown to a hospital in Thailand, doctors have begun the process of waking her from the coma.
On Sunday, she opened her left eye and followed a light shown into it.
Her family joked in a Facebook post that Ms Inglis opened her eye in shock at hearing her father, Robert, singing by her bedside.
In the same message, her family added that her temperature was falling and had almost returned to normal, an indication that she was fighting infections, including pneumonia.
Ms Inglis had been in Vietnam for four months teaching English to underprivileged children when the accident happened.
It is understood that a long skirt she was wearing, and which she had tied up for the bike journey, became unravelled and caught in the wheel of the motorbike, pulling her off the machine and on to the road. | Commonwealth Games silver medallist Stephanie Inglis has opened an eye for the first time during her recovery from a serious accident in Vietnam. | 36460215 | [
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Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead announced the move earlier this month.
Almost 30 organisations have signed an open letter seeking an urgent meeting with him to discuss their concerns.
Mr Lochhead said the changes would not affect research.
Under EU rules, GM crops must be formally authorised before they can be cultivated.
An amendment came into force earlier this year, allowing member states and devolved administrations to restrict or ban the cultivation of genetically modified organisms within their territory.
Mr Lochhead announced he would use the amendment to request Scotland be excluded from European consents for the cultivation of GM crops.
The letter - whose signatories include the National Farmers' Union, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Roslin Institute and the European Academies Science Advisory Council - said they were "extremely concerned" about the "negative impact" a ban could have.
It claimed the decision was "political and not based on any informed scientific assessment of risk".
The scientists and academics said outlawing the cultivation of GM crops "risks constraining Scotland's contribution to research and leaving Scotland without access to agricultural innovations which are making farming more sustainable elsewhere in the world."
The letter cited examples where "a GM method has a contribution to make".
It highlighted ongoing research on things which "might benefit Scotland's farmers, consumers and environment" including potatoes that can reduce fungicide use and omega-3 enriched oilseeds that may offer a more sustainable source of feed for salmon farming.
Responding to the letter, Mr Lochhead said he respected the views of those in the scientific community and would be happy to meet them.
He said he would "reassure them that these changes will not affect research as it is currently carried out in Scotland, where the contained use of GM plants is permitted for scientific purposes, such as in laboratories or sealed glasshouse facilities".
He added: "However, just because GM crops can be cultivated in Scotland it doesn't mean they should be.
"Scotland's £14bn food sector has a reputation for a clean and green image across the world and allowing the cultivation of GM crops could damage that unique selling point."
Last week, a former chief science adviser to the Scottish government warned on ban on GM crops could have "apocalyptic" consequences and threaten the country's food and drinks industry.
Prof Muffy Calder, who stepped down from the role in December and has yet to be replaced, said she was "disappointed and angry" and called on ministers to publish the scientific basis for their decision.
Professor Neva Haites, vice president for life sciences at The Royal Society of Edinburgh, told BBC Scotland: "Most governments try to get the best advice possible before they make these decisions.
"In the past we have had chief scientific advisers such as Dame Anne Glover and Prof Calder, who were there to give advice on such subjects.
"We no longer have such an adviser in government at the moment and the scientific body that usually gives advice has not met for some time.
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In Palmer on Thursday, at about 03:00 an officer told Karen and Jay Priest their son Justin, 29, had been killed.
The devastated couple drove to Justin Priest's girlfriend's home to inform her, when he greeted them at the door.
In fact, another man with the same name but different birthday was killed. The Juneau police apologised for the error.
After hearing the horrible news, the Priests telephoned far-away relatives, then drove to Anchorage to tell their other son in person, they told Alaska Dispatch News.
Then, the grieving family set out to inform Justin's girlfriend of five years.
At her home at about 05:30, Justin Priest said he heard a knock on the door as he was getting ready to walk his dog. Still bleary-eyed from sleep, he was surprised to see his family. All erupted with joy, praising Jesus and embracing one another in tears.
"It opens and right here is Justin. I don't even see it but Jay is sobbing. It doesn't compute to me. Then I see him," Mrs Priest told the Associated Press news agency. "You want it to be true, but you go, 'Am I hallucinating?' Justin didn't know what was going on."
The Juneau police have apologised for the anguish, however momentary.
Justin Priest told the Alaska Dispatch that the family's relief and joy is tempered by the awareness another family lost a son. | Police in a small Alaska town mistakenly told a couple their son had been killed in a car crash, leading to an extraordinary reunion hours later. | 29578331 | [
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McGuigan and father Barry, the former world champion, signed Taylor to their Cyclone Promotions company when he won 2014 Commonwealth gold and turned pro.
"I thought you saw the complete article," said Shane McGuigan of the man from Prestonpans in East Lothian.
"He looked like he could punch - now he can really punch since changing the technique a bit."
In addition, the trainer said he was keen to work with Taylor because "he has a great personality, he's a good-looking lad, he's fast and he can really fight - he ticked a lot of boxes".
He added: "Also, I felt dad, with his background, a hall of famer, being a Celt himself, can appeal to a lot of the public in Scotland."
Taylor left Edinburgh's Lochend club, where he worked under Terry McCormack, and now trains for his pro fights at the McGuigans' gym in Wandsworth, south London.
He is aiming for a 10th consecutive win when he defends his Commonwealth super-lightweight title against Hackney's WBC Silver champion Ohara Davies at Glasgow's Braehead Arena on 8 July.
"Josh is a phenomenal talent, a phenomenal force," added McGuigan junior.
"He's been pro for a short time and he's already the Commonwealth champion and within six to 10 months he will be knocking on the door of a world title.
"We've been working together for nearly two years now and he has excelled so quickly.
"He has come out of the elite level amateur system and he is still progressing.
"He has shown me so much in the gym and now it is our chance to really showcase that talent on the main stage in front of big audiences on television and at Braehead."
Cyclone Promotions hopes Taylor will generate the same level of appeal as his stablemate, Belfast's Carl Frampton, a two-weight world champion.
"With Carl, we built him up at home and then we took him to America and then to Manchester for a unification fight," said Shane McGuigan.
"That's the same sort of platform we would like to set up for Josh Taylor.
"We'd like to make him a star back home in Scotland and then filter him out to London, Manchester and the bigger arenas and then eventually go to the States. That is where he is inevitably going to end up, that's where the money is.
"It is very rare that you have the Errol Spencers coming to fight for world titles over here. If you build loyalty with your fans they will go anywhere."
The McGuigans have already had Taylor on the road, with three of his nine fights being in El Paso, New York and Las Vegas.
"The American public loved his crowd-pleasing style, just like they loved Ricky Hatton," said the trainer.
"People want to see a good fighter go to work and they will get that with Josh Taylor."
Shane McGuigan is anticipating a "tricky" fight against undefeated Davies next month, expecting it to go to the later rounds.
However, he believes the home fighter will prevail and take over the mantle of Ricky Burns, for so long Scotland's main boxing attraction but who, in April, lost his WBA belt in Taylor's weight class to Namibia's IBF champion Julius Indongo.
"Ricky Burns has been a fantastic ambassador for Scottish boxing and a great champion but I don't see him reclaiming any world title; he's a step below that now.
"Josh Taylor is the man. He is going to be holding the flag and going on to bigger and better things. If he can inherit some of Ricky's fans then that would be fantastic." | Scotland's Josh Taylor has all the elements it takes to make it to the top in boxing, says trainer Shane McGuigan. | 40208078 | [
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He is accused along with his son, Bello Abba Mohammed, of diverting $1.5m (£1m) that was meant to buy arms for soldiers fighting Islamist Boko Haram militants.
The two men have pleaded not guilty.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office in May, set up an investigation into the procurement of weapons for the military which found that phantom contracts worth $2bn had been awarded.
Last month, former national security adviser Sambu Dasuki was arrested and charged with 19 counts of fraud, money laundering and criminal breach of trust in connection to the case.
Mr Dasuki, who oversaw the fight against Boko Haram while Goodluck Jonathan was president, denied the charges.
Bello Haliru Mohammed served as Mr Jonathan's defence minister from 2011 to 2012 and still holds a senior position in the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP).
He appeared at the Abuja High Court on Tuesday in a wheelchair and was transferred to a hospital when the case was adjourned, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said.
His son was remanded in prison until a bail hearing on Thursday.
Boko Haram has killed thousands in north-eastern Nigeria in its six-year campaign to create an Islamic state.
Soldiers had complained that despite the military's huge budget, they were ill-equipped to fight.
The soldiers have reported that they are better equipped since President Buhari came into office, but the previous president's supporters say this is because those weapons were ordered while Mr Jonathan was in power, says the BBC's Abuja editor BBC's Bashir Sa'ad Abdullahi. | Former Nigerian defence minister Bello Haliru Mohammed has been charged with money laundering. | 35241447 | [
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He spoke after a crisis meeting in Brussels about the global steel glut that was attended by 30 countries.
China has "absolutely recognised that it is a problem of overcapacity in their country", Mr Javid said.
However, China rejected suggestions that it subsidised its loss-making steel companies, and the meeting ended without any formal agreement.
Nevertheless, Mr Javid said China is "committing to do something about it and I think that's a very positive step forward".
He said it was the first time all the major steel-producing nations had come together with the industry to discuss the issue of excess capacity.
Mr Javid admitted that there was no "overnight solution" to the issue of excess production: "The discussion today with all these countries coming together is something that we pushed for, and ... China's participation will help make the difference."
Chinese steel output rose in March, according to official figures released last week, despite repeated pledges to cut capacity.
Ministers and trade officials, including from the US and India, as well as the World Trade Organisation, World Steel Association and the private sector attended Monday's meeting, which was organised by the OECD.
Mari Kiviniemi, OECD deputy secretary-general, said there was "very strong willingness" to hold further talks, with some countries wanting to take more "concrete steps".
Gareth Stace, director of UK Steel, said: "We appear to be no closer to finding international action to put in place solutions. This is a global problem which requires a global solution to remove current over-capacity and time is a luxury we don't have."
He called on China to take the same radical action that European steel producers had embraced.
Earlier, China's official news agency said that blaming the country for the global steel industry's problems was a "lame and lazy excuse for protectionism".
Xinhua said in an English-language commentary piece: "Blaming other countries is always an easy, sure-fire way for politicians to whip up a storm over domestic economic woes, but finger-pointing and protectionism are counter-productive. The last thing the world needs is a trade war over this issue. Far more jobs will be lost than gained if protectionism prevails."
EU trade commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem told the meeting the steel crisis was "now life or death for many companies", but that tariffs were "only a short-term bandage", adding: "Healing the sector's wounds requires sustained international cooperation leading to effective reform."
The internal market and industry commissioner, Elzbieta Bienkowska, said the European Union should consider allowing member nations to subsidise their steel industries.
"We have to discuss whether we can't be more flexible in our judgment of state aid," she told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "We cannot push this industry any further."
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The steel crisis has put thousands of UK jobs under threat at plants including Port Talbot in south Wales.
Tata Steel said last month that it was selling its unprofitable UK plants. The company has blamed factors including high energy costs and China "dumping" steel on the global market.
Britain's steel industry: What's going wrong?
Roy Rickhuss, leader of the Community union, said the meeting was more concerned with the long term, rather than immediate action to save the UK industry.
"Today's meeting seemed to be all about long-term challenges. While these issues do need addressing, what we need is urgent short-term action from governments across Europe and beyond to get us through the current crisis and create a sustainable future for steel."
The Government has come under pressure to rescue Port Talbot and has been urged to consider part-nationalising the industry.
Mr Javid said parties interested in Tata's UK assets had started to come forward: "It's too early to say much about them at this stage but the important thing is, as we said all along, we will do everything we can to help with that sales process. The steel workers of Britain deserve nothing less."
The business secretary said that EY had been appointed to act as financial advisers on behalf of the Government, which was "committed to doing all it can to ensure a sustainable future for the UK steel industry".
Tata has also appointed Standard Chartered bank as an additional adviser.
The Indian group said on Monday that Bimlendra Jha has been appointed to the new role of chief executive of Tata Steel UK.
He is executive chairman of the company's Long Products business in Europe and oversaw the sale of plants in Scunthorpe and Teesside to Greybull Capital earlier this month. | China has vowed to reduce the amount of steel it makes, Business Secretary Sajid Javid said. | 36073140 | [
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Guinea finish bottom of Group A having needed a win against Argentina to have any chance of progressing.
In the other Group A match England advanced to the last 16 with a 1-0 win over South Korea, who also go through.
Guinea earned their only point of the tournament with a 1-1 draw with England on Tuesday.
They began their campaign with a 3-0 loss to hosts South Korea.
Marcelo Torres opened the scoring for Argentina after 33 minutes and Lautaro Martinez added a second just before half-time.
Matias Zaracho and Marco Senesi scored one each in the second half before Martinez completed the scoring. | Argentina thrashed Guinea 5-0 on Friday at the Under-20 World Cup in South Korea to knock the African side out of the tournament. | 40057623 | [
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The mosaics, part of a 1,700-year-old town house, were found on the site of a development in Leicester.
Open days attracted thousands of people but a question mark hung over the fate over the most spectacular finds.
Now city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has confirmed they will form part of a £7m revamp of the nearby Jewry Wall museum.
The excavation recovered hundreds of artefacts - including a gruesome carved handle depicting people being fed to lions - but the mosaics were the largest found in the city for 150 years.
Speaking at the final open day on Sunday, archaeologist Jon Coward said: "The big mosaic will be lifted and conserved but quite where it will end up I couldn't tell you but it should be made available.
"One of the things that could happen is it could go in the Jewry Wall Museum or it could go in the foyer of the building on this site, that is up to the developers."
Sir Peter Soulsby said has now said that after discussions with developers and archaeologists, a decision had been made.
"The Jewry Wall Museum is the obvious place for this to go and after 1,700 years beneath our feet they could not have been found at a better time.
"Other mosaics are currently undergoing restoration so this mosaic will join the wonderful artefacts we already have to make a world class visitor attraction."
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Four constituents raised the action under the Representation of the People Act 1983.
They argued he misled the electorate over a memo claiming SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon would rather have seen David Cameron become prime minister.
Judges have ruled that there will now be a "By Order hearing" to discuss the next part of the case.
Lady Paton and Lord Matthews had heard a preliminary legal debate at a special Election Court, which examined three questions.
The first was whether section 106 of the act - which makes it illegal to make or publish false statements about any candidate during an election campaign - could apply to candidates talking about themselves, as well as attacks on their rivals.
The judges have ruled that the language used in section 106 was "wide enough to encompass a statement made by a candidate about himself".
However, they said they wanted to hear evidence about the two remaining issues before issuing a determination on the case.
These are whether the words were false statements of fact which related to Mr Carmichael's personal character or conduct, and whether they were said "for the purpose of affecting the return of any candidate at the election".
The judges said they wanted to hear evidence on these issues because each case had to be considered on its own facts.
Lady Paton said: "Circumstances can be envisaged where a false statement of fact is of such a nature that the effect in relation to a candidate's personal character or conduct transcends the political context.
"The question of the type of relationship between the statement and the personal character and conduct of the first respondent is one which requires evidence, including evidence as to the motive or reason for giving the false statement."
Mr Carmichael's QC had asked the judges to dismiss the case, on the grounds it was "irrelevant" and "bound to fail".
Legal argument was heard at a special election court in Edinburgh earlier this month, which was broadcast and streamed online live.
The case is believed to be the first of its kind in Scotland for 50 years.
It arose from a story in the Daily Telegraph at the start of the general election campaign in April.
Mr Carmichael - Scottish Secretary in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition before the election - had authorised the leaking of a civil service memo suggesting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had told the French ambassador she wanted David Cameron to remain in Downing Street.
He claimed in a TV interview the first he had heard of it was when he received a phone call from a journalist.
However, the MP later admitted full responsibility for sanctioning its release, and accepted the "details of the account are not correct".
The constituents who brought the petition were aided by crowd funding. | A legal challenge to Alistair Carmichael's election as MP for Orkney and Shetland is to proceed. | 34390705 | [
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Tomasz Galwaz, 29, died after falling from the roof of Al Amin Wholesale in Aston, Birmingham on 5 January 2015.
Mafizur Rahman, 32, of Trinity Road, Aston, pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Birmingham Crown Court in December.
Police said his main priority had been to get roof repairs done as cheaply as possible with disregard to the safety of workers.
Al Amin Wholesale Limited, the company who own the buildings, also pleaded guilty to two breaches under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
The firm was also fined £144,000 and ordered to pay costs of £44,600.
See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here
Mr Galwaz and a friend were employed by Rahman in December 2014 to carry out repairs to the roof of the warehouse in Grosvenor Road, owned by his brothers and father, police said.
The deal was carried out through an interpreter as the two Polish men spoke little English. Police were later told by the interpreter that there were no discussions around safety procedures, personal protective equipment or risk assessments. There was also no mention of insurance.
The men were working on the roof on 5 January when it cracked and they both fell through on to a concrete floor.
Mr Galwaz was taken to hospital with a serious head wound and died from his injuries the following day.
The second man suffered minor injuries.
Det Insp Jim Munro, from West Midlands Police, said: "Rahman's main priority was to get the job done as cheaply as possible with complete disregard for the safety of these workers − with tragic consequences."
A second man also arrested in January 2015 on suspicion of manslaughter was released without charge. | A businessman has been jailed for 30 months after a man plunged to his death from a warehouse roof. | 38664886 | [
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Topps' products include Star Wars, Disney's Frozen, Top Gear and the UEFA champion league.
The New York firm told the BBC that the vulnerability had since been fixed.
But a security researcher said he had previously warned the firm about security weaknesses.
Topps declined to say how many people were affected or why the payment card numbers were at risk. In most hack attacks, companies assure users that they do not store such financial data in a form that can be exposed.
In an email to customers Topps wrote that on 12 October "one or more intruders gained unauthorised access" to its systems.
"[They] may have gained access to names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, credit or debit card numbers, card expiration dates and card verification numbers for customers [who made purchases] between approximately 30 July 2016 and 12 October 2016," it added.
It is offering one year's worth of free identify theft protection to those affected.
Various customers have posted the email on social media and it is also available on the Sports Collectors Daily website.
Topps is part-owned by a fund belonging to Michael Eisner, the former chief executive of Disney.
"The really unforgivable aspect here is the loss of credit card details," said cyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward from Surrey University.
"If this was an external attack, these details just should not be accessible or readable. An obvious question is, was the customers financial data encrypted?
"If not that should attract some heavy attention from the appropriate regulators."
Chris Vickery, a security researcher from Chromatech blogged in June about exposed databases of customer accounts with three of Topps' mobile apps: Bunt, Huddle, and Kick.
He wrote that it was fixed. However, he later found another database containing information about the users of all three apps, and on this occasion was unable to get a response from the firm.
"I can't in good conscience watch this data continue to leak without at least trying to get a warning out," he said at the time. | The maker of iconic collectable trading cards has said hackers could have stolen customers' credit and debit card numbers along with their associated security codes in a recent breach. | 38468961 | [
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Earlier this month Nick Gargan, 48, was found guilty of eight charges of misconduct but cleared of gross misconduct by an independent panel.
Details can not yet be made public about what the panel ruled Mr Gargan had done, according to the police and crime commissioner's (PCC) office.
He is returning to work but not yet in Avon and Somerset, the PCC said.
Sue Mounstevens added he would be "carrying out some work with the National Police Chief's Council [NPCC]", although no further details were given.
Mr Gargan, who joined the force in March 2013 will, officially remain employed as chief constable.
According to its website, the NPCC develops best practice for different areas of police work in areas such as criminal justice, cyber-crime and drugs.
Mr Gargan was initially investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission which found there was no case to answer for any criminal charges being brought against him.
The commission then recommended his case be referred to an independent misconduct proceedings panel.
Dorian Lovell-Pank QC chaired the panel, which included Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary, Wendy Williams, and independent member John Rickard.
A private hearing, separate from Avon and Somerset Police, was held to discuss the matter and the findings of the panel are yet to be published.
In the meantime, Mr Gargan and Avon and Somerset PCC Sue Mountstevens said they were not allowed to speak publicly about the case.
Mr Gargan has told the BBC he wanted the details of his offences made public immediately, and could not see any reason why they should not be.
However Ms Mountstevens said: "The misconduct process is not yet complete. I'm waiting for the misconduct panel's report. When I receive that I will hold a further hearing with the chief constable to determine his sanction." | Avon and Somerset's police chief has been temporarily moved away from his job following a misconduct hearing. | 33683933 | [
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Bates, who has been Tigers promoter for three years, has taken full control of the Lions and will work alongside co-promoter David Darcy.
Bates said: "We're only weeks away from the new season and so our main priority is to quickly form a team.
"We have opened talks with several riders and should be in a position to announce the first signings any day."
Lions endured a miserable season last time out and finished bottom of the Elite League table.
But Bates said he hoped the club's financial difficulties were a thing of the past.
"I am aware that Leicester went through a difficult trading period last season," he said.
"And I will be doing everything possible to ensure that the club is placed on a sound financial footing that secures the future of Leicester Speedway for years to come." | Leicester Lions Speedway have been bought by Sheffield Tigers promoter Damien Bates. | 38809332 | [
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He argued that only another "stable and strong" coalition involving his party could save the country from a re-run.
He said "everybody knows that no-one will win this election", even if the two major parties fail to admit it.
"Politicians will have to work together to put the country first," he said.
Mr Clegg spoke out during a "two-day dash" from Land's End to John O'Groats in the final hours of the election campaign.
He said the hardening position of Labour and the Conservatives on coalition deals meant a minority government after 7 May would be more unstable - and "controversial" policies would cause it to fail.
"Everybody knows that no-one will win this election - even if David Cameron and Ed Miliband won't admit it publicly," Mr Clegg said during a campaign visit to Cardiff Central where the Lib Dems are fighting off a Labour challenge for the seat.
"The Liberal Democrats have shown that coalitions can be strong and stable. But instead of creating stability, Labour and the Conservatives will create a shambles.
"If they try to stagger through with a messy and unstable minority government instead of putting the country first, then they will risk all the hard work and sacrifices people have made over the last five years.
"The last thing Britain needs is a second election before Christmas. But that is exactly what will happen if Ed Miliband and David Cameron put their own political interest ahead of the national interest."
Earlier Mr Clegg told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was not in principle opposed to a referendum on EU membership - claiming other issues like the NHS and "balancing the books" were bigger priorities than the EU poll.
He also predicted his party would do "better than people think" on 7 May.
'I don't run a sect'
Insisting his MPs could be "the guarantors of stability at a time of great uncertainty", he insisted: "We'll do no deals, no pacts, no arrangements with either UKIP on the right or the SNP on the left.
"The great risk of not having the Liberal Democrats in Parliament, in government, is we lurch off into this blue-KIP alliance between David Cameron, UKIP, the DUP and the rest of them cutting, cutting, cutting way beyond what's necessary, or reckless borrowing as Ed Miliband and Alex Salmond are in some kind of deathly embrace on the left."
Main pledges
But Mr Clegg refused to be drawn on claims by Lib Dem peer Lord Scriven that David Cameron had privately told him before the election campaign that he did not believe the Conservatives would win a majority.
"In the same way I don't control the tweets of Liberal Democrats - I run a political party, I don't run a sect - I'm not going to provide a running commentary on private conversations," he said.
Describing the Conservatives as "panicky" about the outcome of the election, he added: "The claim they can win a majority by 23 seats is false - it's wrong - it's a big fat fib. They need to win 323 seats and I haven't met a senior Conservative who privately has ever admitted to me that they can do that."
The best of BBC News' Election 2015 specials | The UK could be poised for a second general election by Christmas if either Labour or the Conservatives try to form a minority government after 7 May, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has warned. | 32588746 | [
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Dale Hart, 54, and Michael Smart, 37, both of Pencoed, and Christopher Bennett, 61, of Port Talbot, pleaded guilty to the production of cannabis.
Newport Crown Court heard police found 692 plants worth around £800,000 at Queens Court, Bridgend Industrial Estate, during a raid last November.
A proceeds of crime hearing will be held in October.
The court heard police raided the unit after members of the public reported a strong smell of cannabis.
Hart was sentenced to five years in prison, Smart was sentenced to three-and-a-half-years and Bennett was given four-and-a-half years. | Three men who ran a cannabis factory yards from police headquarters in south Wales have been jailed. | 33327177 | [
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The so-called Islamic State group (IS) has said it carried out the attacks.
The group has established a presence in Yemen since a civil war broke out there and has carried out numerous attacks.
It is opposed to the government and Shia Houthi rebels who have seized much of the country, including the capital Sanaa.
The attacks come on the eve of the first anniversary of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition against the rebels.
Both civilians and military personnel were killed by the blasts, officials said. Dozens of others were wounded.
Two of the bombings hit checkpoints next to a base used by the coalition, they said. Gunmen then tried to attack the place.
The third explosion happened when an ambulance laden with explosives was detonated next to a military checkpoint.
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Aden was recaptured by government troops backed by the Saudi-led coalition last year.
The campaign was launched in March 2015 in an attempt to oust the rebels from Sanaa and restore Yemen's government.
Riyadh says the Houthis, who are allied with forces linked to the former president, are supported militarily by its regional rival Iran, something it denies.
Since the offensive started, more than 6,200 people have been killed, half of them civilians, according to the UN. The war has left Yemen fragmented and facing a humanitarian crisis.
Meanwhile, IS and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) have exploited the conflict to expand the territory under their control. | At least 22 people have been killed by three suicide bombings in checkpoints in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, officials say. | 35901733 | [
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Tynan, a former Manchester City player, died after being hit by a train at West Allerton station in Merseyside on Tuesday, British Transport Police said.
Tynan's death is not being treated as suspicious.
Her family paid tribute to a "vibrant, generous and fun-loving girl", who was "a dedicated athlete, never happier than when she had a ball at her feet".
Tynan began her career at Liverpool Feds, spent six years at Everton's Centre of Excellence and was playing for Women's Premier League side Fylde Ladies.
A family statement also said she was a "the most loving and caring daughter and sister anyone could wish for" and that she was the "ultimate team player".
It added: "Zoe always knew how to cheer anyone up, and was a loyal, straight-talking friend to many. She touched so many people's lives and will never be forgotten."
Tynan joined Manchester City in 2015, making one Women's FA Cup appearance before moving to Fylde.
Floral tributes have been left at the scene, according to the Liverpool Echo.
England internationals including Lucy Bronze and Casey Stoney have also paid tribute.
Fylde manager Luke Swindlehurst said: "We want to remember Zoe in the best possible way: a hugely talented player and an immensely likable character."
Tynan had appeared for England at various youth levels and was recently included in the Under-19 squad for a training camp at St George's Park.
The Football Association said it was "deeply saddened" by the death and Tynan's Under-19 coach Mo Marley described her as a "hugely-liked and popular member of the team". | England Under-19 Women's and Fylde Ladies midfielder Zoe Tynan has died, aged 18. | 37235099 | [
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The Banking Standards Commission wants the government to "electrify" the fence so banks won't try to "game" the rules.
That means regulators having the power to fully break up a bank if it does not follow the ring-fence proposals.
The bank reforms will go before Parliament early next year.
The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, known as the Banking Commission for short, was asked by Chancellor George Osborne to study the draft version of the government's Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill.
This follows last year's recommendation by the Independent Commission on Banking, which was led by Sir John Vickers.
Sir John concluded that ring-fencing was the best way to protect "core" retail banking activities from any future investment banking losses, such as were seen during the global financial crisis.
Banking reform: What has changed since the crisis?
The government's proposed bill hinged on three main aspects:
But the government's draft legislation was a watered-down version of the Vickers report which proposed quite a high degree of separation, said Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Banking Standards Commission.
"The proposals as they stand [in the Bill], fall well short of what is required," he said.
"What we've done with the Commission proposals is to put back some of that stiff separation into the ring-fence and then make clear that the key problem - that banks are going to be at the ring-fence all the time, which will be a nightmare for regulators - needs to be dealt with," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"And the way to do that is to say to banks 'If you don't try to game this ring-fence we won't see the need to separate you.'
"Then they will have a massive incentive to get to a point where banks have certainty [not to be broken up]."
"That is why we recommend electrification. The legislation needs to set out a reserve power for separation - the regulator needs to know he can use it."
Under the draft bill, ring-fencing would ensure that retail services of a struggling lender can be carried on independently and smoothly even if authorities let the rest of the group fail.
For example, in the case of a failing banking group, regulators could sell off its core activities - thereby maintaining continuity for depositors - while allowing the rest of the organisation to go through a bankruptcy process.
Secondly, retail deposits (but not pension liabilities) would be ranked ahead of the claims of other bank creditors in the event of a bank insolvency.
Thirdly, banks are to hold a sufficient capital buffer - as outlined by global regulators - which means that if banks do fail, losses can be absorbed by shareholders and other creditors rather than the taxpayer.
Ring-fenced banks would also be prohibited from carrying out a range of investment and wholesale banking activities, including the sale of complex derivatives, which are highly complicated contracts designed to hedge borrowers against certain risks but can lead to heavy losses if they go sour.
But in a concession, the Banking Commission proposal agreed to the use of simple derivatives, such as currency hedges, for banks within the ring-fenced body.
Under the draft legislation, the Treasury would have the authority to decide which banks ring-fencing should apply to, as well as specific activities to be undertaken within ring-fenced banks.
The Prudential Regulation Authority, which will become the UK's regulator for deposit-taking institutions in April under the Bank of England, would have the power to ensure the ring-fenced bank to carry on with its business.
Mr Tyrie has also called on independent reviews of the effectiveness of the ring-fence proposals across all banks to take place at least once every four years.
"Remember at the moment banks will probably behave, but in the long run they will find a way to gaming the ring-fence if they don't have a strong disincentive to do so," he told the BBC.
"In 10-20 years time... people will get complacent. At that point it's crucial to have a set of rules to keep banks well away from testing this ring-fence."
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls said: "As Ed Miliband and I said at the Labour conference this year, if the letter and spirit of the Vickers proposals are not delivered and we do not see cultural change in our banks, full separation will be necessary.
"The Commission is clearly right to say the jury is still out and to demand a reserve power for full separation of the banks."
The Commission's report comes a month after Mr Osborne urged its members not to send the government's proposed reform "back to square one" by "unpicking" the consensus on how it should be carried out.
Business Secretary Vince Cable, who has often been at loggerheads with Mr Osborne over how tough banking reforms should be, said: "I think we originally came out at it from opposite directions, but we've come to a common view that the ring-fencing solution is the best way forward."
"I think he [George Osborne] is quite right to say the last thing we want is to create more uncertainty," he told the BBC.
However, the banking industry was less enthusiastic about the proposals, saying lingering uncertainty about the future shape of the banking industry threatened banks' ability to lend and to compete.
"The risk here is creating uncertainty," Anthony Browne, the chief executive of the British Bankers' Association (BBA), told the BBC.
"If it's perpetually hanging over the banking sector that individual banks or the whole sector could be broken up at some point, then it's going to be difficult to return to having an investable banking sector that can be customer-focused and globally competitive and do what it should be doing, which is lending to homeowners and businesses."
Mark Field, a Conservative MP whose constituency includes the City of London, also warned of the dangers of uncertainty hanging over the banking sector. He said the 2019 deadline for banks to fully implement the reforms - as the Vickers report proposed - needed to be brought forward.
Mr Cable said the government wanted to "crack on with it".
"We want to make sure that by the end of this parliament we have something proper in place," he said.
"But if there are good proposals coming from parliamentarians to deal with the strengthening of the ring-fence - as Sir John said it has to be effective, that's the whole point of it - then we obviously will have to look at that." | Government plans to ring-fence the banks - protecting retail banking from the riskier investment side - "fall well short of what is required", a report has warned. | 20803548 | [
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She and her volunteers drive in an orange and yellow van with the words: "Hunger knows no barriers" printed on the side.
They squeeze between the luxury condos in downtown Kuala Lumpur to arrive at a squatters area that has become so permanent, it has its own name - Bellamy Village.
Ms Khong says initially it was hard to find the needy because they were largely hidden in Kuala Lumpur.
"They are afraid of the authorities so they always hide in the alleys," she says.
Her drive to find and feed the poor has led to the founding of one of Malaysia's biggest soup kitchens called Kechara, which is a Sanskrit word Ms Khong says she borrowed from Buddhist teachings to mean a "heavenly place".
The Malaysian media have ranked Ms Khong as one of the most influential Malaysians and her work earned her a place among Forbes magazine's heroes of philanthropy list in 2010.
However, her journey to become a full-time volunteer has not always been a willing one.
Before starting the soup kitchen, Ms Khong's idea of charity involved dressing up in ball gowns and donating money.
Perhaps this was why Malaysia ranked below its poorer neighbours such as Indonesia and the Philippines in the 2013 World Giving Index, which judged a country based on its donation of both money and time.
The mother of three preferred to dine at luxury hotels, and at one point owned a tropical island in Myanmar with her husband.
"She was a socialite. She would go out clubbing, attend parties and events. She would have fancy dinners with her friends and play tennis. She really indulged in herself personally," says Ms Khong's son, Clifford.
It's rare for children in Asia to criticize their parents but Ms Khong doesn't seem to mind.
"I admit it. I think being the youngest in the family meant that life was pretty pampered," she says laughing.
"It was always about myself, what I wanted and that continued on for a while until 1994," she says.
That year, she was on a quest for spiritual guidance in India and met a Buddhist monk named Tsem Rinpoche.
"I was decked out from head to toe in Chanel."
Ms Khong says if he had discouraged her from wearing luxury brands, she probably wouldn't have followed him.
Instead, he urged her to use her wealth and influence to do more charity and eventually suggested that she feed the hungry.
"I was very reluctant to give up my weekends with family and friends," says Ms Khong.
She says she only committed herself to volunteer for two weekends out of the year. That was in 2006.
Now, feeding the poor is her full-time occupation.
"Once I started there is no way that I could pull out because these people are there and they need us," she says.
The Kechara soup kitchen has branches across the country in the capital Kuala Lumpur, north of the country in Penang, Johor Bahru in the south and Kuantan in the east.
They provide counselling and basic medical services for the homeless and feed 10,000 hungry people a month.
It is a small percentage in a country with 30 million people, but Ms Khong's operation is catching the ones who fall through the system.
Wong Yuk Kei is one of them. She doesn't qualify for any of the 200 state-run old folks homes because her children are alive.
The country's welfare system is still rooted in Asian tradition and expects each generation to be responsible for their parents.
However, Ms Wong's children are struggling with the high cost of living in Kuala Lumpur and cannot help. She gets less than $100 (£63) a month in welfare payment. It's just enough to cover her and her husband's medical bills but not much more.
Ms Wong relies on the Kechara soup kitchen for a hot lunch.
On the menu that day in October was hard boiled eggs in curry, green vegetables, and potato with tofu meat on a bed of rice wrapped in pandan leaf. They also had bottled water and biscuits for dessert.
This is food that can be served to Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus or anyone with religious dietary restrictions in the multi-faith country.
Ms Wong says she enjoys the meals and collects two rice packets from the volunteers at Bellamy Village.
"My husband and I have only eaten lunch from the Kechara soup kitchen for the past four years," she tells Ms Khong in the Cantonese dialect.
The socialite smiles politely and nods even though she doesn't understand the language.
Ms Khong walks further down the unpaved path sporting a stylish pair of flip flops, which reveals perfectly manicured toes.
After eight years, she still sometimes struggles in her role.
She told a local magazine recently that she has a "major hang up" about shaking a strangers hand and hugging, which can happen when people are grateful for the free food.
Her son, Clifford, sees a positive change in his mother. He says feeding the hungry has made her more kind, patient and giving.
Ms Khong's transformation comes at a crucial time when many Malaysians feel that the country's elite is detached from people's suffering.
"It is not about the packet of food but by giving it, it shows them that we care to step outside of our comfort zone," she says.
It's this idea that has moved the socialite from the back covers of glossy magazines, to grace the front cover. | In the Malaysian capital, Ruby Khong devotes her lunch hours delivering food to the needy, even when the tropical heat and humidity make it hard to breathe. | 29986205 | [
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Marcy Smith was woken up by her son David to find their house in Glovertown, Newfoundland and Labrador, completely engulfed in flames.
The whole family was able to escape, but their house is destroyed and their dog and cats did not make it.
Mrs Smith said if it wasn't for her son, she and her daughter probably wouldn't have survived.
David was on FaceTime to his father at the time, so was the only one awake and saw the flames out of the corner of his eye.
"Within seconds of him getting us up, the flames were everywhere," Mrs Smith told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
"It happened so fast. We were standing in the kitchen by the wood stove and the flames just ate around me and David. The entire kitchen just disappeared while we were standing in it."
She said the fire was started by some rubbish she burned in the wood stove, something she had done "a thousand times" before. The fire alarm did not go off.
The family had nothing but pyjamas on when they fled, but Mrs Smith said the community has rallied behind them, donating clothes and shoes and even a bike for her son.
"All he understands is that me and his sister and him got out. He does not understand that he is the only reason we did," she said.
"He did a huge thing for such a young boy. I am so proud of him and I am going to tell him for the rest of his life until he understands what a big thing he did." | An 11-year-old Canadian boy saved his whole family from a devastating fire, his mother says. | 40634994 | [
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The claim: Boris Johnson says the European Union will only allow bananas to be sold in bunches of two or three.
Reality Check verdict: There is no such rule - we popped out and bought a bunch of five without difficulty.
A member of the tireless Reality Check team nipped off to a local shop to check this claim.
It was touch-and-go for a bit, as the self checkout said there was a problem with buying five bananas, but it turned out not to be a problem with EU regulations, and eventually the transaction was allowed.
We've been in touch with Vote Leave, who pointed us towards this directive from 2011. It goes into considerable detail about how unripe bananas should be presented by wholesalers, but nowhere does it say that you are not allowed to sell bunches with more than two or three bananas in them.
If you are a wholesaler, you are not allowed to pack bananas in bunches of two or three - they have to either be single bananas or bunches of four or more. But that doesn't affect retailers, who can sell bunches of any size they like.
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate | Addressing a crowd in Stafford, Boris Johnson said: "It is absurd we are told that you cannot sell bananas in bunches of more than two or three bananas." | 36316094 | [
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The company says it has called a board meeting for 28 July and the investment decision is on the agenda.
BBC correspondent John Moylan said the firm's board is expected to give the plant the go-ahead.
It was initially due to cost £12bn, but recent estimates put the cost at £18bn.
Last week the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said the government remained committed to building a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset, despite the rising potential cost to the consumer of the electricity it will produce.
He said Hinkley was vital to a strong economy and still worth the cost.
As part of the 35-year deal signed with France's EDF in 2013 to build the plant, the government agreed to pay £92.50 for each megawatt hour of electricity.
Wholesale energy prices have fallen since the price was agreed, leaving the government to make up the difference.
The UK's National Audit Office estimated future top-up payments would rise from £6.1bn to £29.7bn over the length of the contract.
Is Hinkley Point C finally about to get the green light?
It's hard to interpret EDF's announcement late on Thursday night in any other way.
For the company to announce that it had called a board meeting and that the Hinkley decision is on the agenda sends a strong signal that it expects approval to be given.
It's also clear that the French government is on board. With its 85% stake in EDF, its approval would have been needed for the company to move to this crucial stage.
But the board still has to take the decision. With so much at stake, the possibility of a further delay can't be ruled out.
Hinkley Point C, which would provide 7% of the UK's total electricity requirements, had originally been meant to open in 2017.
But it has been hit in recent months by concerns about EDF's financial capacity to handle the project.
While one third of the £18bn capital costs of the project are being met by Chinese investors, Hinkley Point would remain an enormous undertaking for the stressed French company.
In its statement confirming next week's board meeting, EDF said Hinkley Point C was a "major element" of its low-carbon growth strategy.
The two "reactors at Hinkley Point would strengthen EDF's presence in Britain, a country where its subsidiary EDF Energy already operates 15 nuclear reactors and is the largest electricity supplier by volume," it added.
Welcoming the news of the meeting, the Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said: "It's clear that we are open for business as we come closer to sealing the deal on this major investment in British infrastructure and British jobs.
"New nuclear is an essential part of our plan for a secure, clean and affordable energy system that will power the economy throughout this century.
"This is a welcome decision from EDF, and we look forward to the outcome." | The French energy giant EDF is expected to make its long-awaited final investment decision on a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset next week. | 36861737 | [
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The Blues lead the top flight with 59 points with 14 games remaining.
Second-placed Tottenham lead the chasing pack with 50 points, and just five points separate them in second and Manchester United in sixth.
"I think there are six teams who are very strong and can fight to win the title," said Conte.
Third-placed Manchester City, Arsenal, in fourth, and fifth-placed Liverpool make up the top six.
"Manchester United? Yes. They have a great squad," added Conte.
"There are 14 games to play and five teams as well as us who can fight to win it. It's important we don't make mistakes in the race."
Chelsea face a trip to Burnley on Sunday for a 13:30 GMT kick-off. The Clarets have won their last seven games at home in all competitions with 28 of their 29 league points so far this season coming at Turf Moor.
"There are teams at the bottom who win and draw so you must have the right concentration," said Conte.
"If your ambition is to stay in the top four or top six, you can have highs and lows.
"If you want to win [the title] you must have concentration and focus and know that in every game you can lose points." | Chelsea manager Antonio Conte says it would be a "very big mistake" for his side to think they are close to winning the Premier League title. | 38930957 | [
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Spaniard Garcia, playing his first event in Europe since winning the Masters, shot a two-under 70 on Friday, leaving him eight under par overall.
Sweden's Stenson, the 2016 winner, carded a three-under 69 in his second round as he continued preparations for a defence of his Open title in July.
The pair are a shot behind Swede Joakim Lagergren and France's Joel Stalter.
England's Tommy Fleetwood, who finished fourth at the US Open on Sunday, is tied for 11th, three strokes adrift of the leaders in Munich.
But compatriot Richard Bland moved level with Garcia and Stenson with a second-round 69.
Fellow Englishman Matthew Southgate was one shot further back on seven under par overall.
"I'm not on top of my game by any means but I think it was a good kind of professional fighting display," Stenson said.
"We kept it pretty tidy, anyway, and made a couple of birdies when we had the chances and didn't drop too many. You don't have to be ashamed of three under I guess around here." | Sergio Garcia and Henrik Stenson are one shot off the pace after the second round of the BMW International. | 40389257 | [
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New Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent envoy Fukushiro Nukaga to deliver a letter to South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye.
The two states have been involved in a prolonged row over disputed islands.
Mr Abe was sworn in in December, while Ms Park is set to assume office next month.
Diplomatic relations became tense after South Korean President Lee Myung-bak made a surprise visit last year to the disputed islands known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan.
Profile: Dokdo/Takeshima islands
North Korea also claims the islands, which consist of two main islands and about 30 smaller rocks, the waters of which are seen as valuable fishing grounds.
A South Korean coastguard detachment has been stationed at the disputed islands since 1954.
"At a time when a new government starts [in both countries] I hope we can make a mutual effort to build trust based on people's sentiment and strengthen our bilateral ties in various fields," Ms Park said during the meeting.
She had turned down an earlier request for a meeting with Japan last month, citing a tight schedule.
Mr Nukaga went to Japan saying he wanted to "play the role of mediator so that this year can be a good one for the two countries".
The talks have been met with some protests in South Korea. One of the demonstrators, a 63-year-old man, stabbed himself in the stomach with a knife. The man had also previously rammed his truck into the Japanese embassy's gate last year, reports Yonhap news agency. That incident prompted a diplomatic protest from Japan.
Relations between Seoul and Tokyo have frequently been troubled by issues from their shared history - including Japan's use of military sex slaves or "comfort women" during World War II, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul.
Many had judged that Japan's new nationalist leadership would mean further tensions on such issues, but others have pointed to the economic and security incentives for both countries to work together, our correspondent adds.
Mr Abe had said earlier this week that he wanted to make a good start with South Korea.
On Friday, however, he criticised the country's refusal to extradite to Japan a Chinese man wanted over a 2011 arson attack on the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo, where Japan's war dead are buried.
The court in Seoul sent Liu Qiang home to China, saying he might not get a fair trial in Japan. He had spent 10 months in jail in South Korea for a separate arson attack on the Japanese embassy in Seoul.
Mr Abe said the decision was "extremely regrettable". China's foreign ministry welcomed the ruling.
Japan and China are involved in a separate territorial dispute in the East China Sea. | A Japanese special envoy has met the South Korean president-elect in Seoul in a move aimed at helping soothe relations between the two countries. | 20907483 | [
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Police briefly detained the protesters.
The envoy was questioned on Friday after his Indian wife alleged he sexually abused their three-year-old.
Although a case has been registered against him, he has not been arrested or formally charged. The envoy has made no public comment as yet.
Police say they are trying to confirm if the man has diplomatic immunity.
The wife of the envoy has written to the French ambassador in India and the Indian government, to prevent her husband from leaving the country until all legal proceedings are complete.
She has also asked the French Embassy for financial support for herself and her three children, who are French citizens.
The French Consulate-General in Bangalore confirmed that "a complaint had been lodged regarding the rape of a minor girl who is a French national".
"The complaint names the father of the child, who is a consular agent of this Consulate-General. An investigation is under way for which this Consulate-General is extending its full cooperation with the police and the authorities in charge," the Consulate said in a press release on Monday.
"It remains also in touch with the family of the child," it added.
The complaint was lodged on Thursday night, after the envoy's wife approached the Bangalore-based non-governmental organisation, Enfold India, for help. | Demonstrations have been held outside the French consulate in the Indian city of Bangalore demanding the arrest of a French official accused of abusing his daughter. | 18460028 | [
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Nico Rosberg headed team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.505secs after the Briton made a mistake on his best lap.
And the German was a massive 1.834secs quicker than Kimi Raikkonen, third for Ferrari, on the same 'soft' tyres.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat were fourth and fifth as Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was 11th on the medium tyre.
In windy and comparatively cool conditions - it was only 21C and overcast when temperatures are more usually in the mid-30Cs at this race - Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne made his debut in Formula 1 as stand-in for the injured Fernando Alonso.
Vandoorne, who had not driven the 2016 McLaren before Friday, flew in overnight from Japan, where he had been testing the car he races in the Super Formula category, and was 18th fastest, 0.952secs slower than team-mate Jenson Button.
However, Vandoorne's best time was set on the medium tyre, which is about a second slower than the soft on which Button was running when he set his fastest lap.
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier said: "He did very well - it is not easy to step in to this high-tech car with a lot of processes to learn. He knows most of them but doing it for real is very different."
The comparison between the two will be watched with intense interest through the weekend as it is effectively a partial audition for the job of Alonso's team-mate at McLaren in 2017.
Button is out of contract at the end of this season ad Vandoorne, McLaren's reserve driver, is the most highly regarded not to have a regular F1 drive.
At the front, Rosberg and Hamilton were only 0.081secs apart after their first runs on the soft tyre - with the German again marginally ahead.
On their second flying laps, Hamilton was quicker in the first sector, but then dropped half a second in the middle sector of the lap.
The gap between the Mercedes and the rest are not likely to be representative - Ferrari were almost certainly on a different programme.
The Italian team have brought two more sets of the medium tyre for each of their drivers than Mercedes for this weekend and appeared to be focusing more on establishing whether that is the correct tyre for the race.
Behind the Red Bulls, Force India's Nico Hulkenberg was sixth fastest ahead of the Toro Rosso pair Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen, the Haas of Romain Grosjean and Williams' Felipe Massa.
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Bahrain GP coverage details | Mercedes put in an imposing performance in first practice at the Bahrain GP, setting the pace by nearly two seconds. | 35944105 | [
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Ciaran Williamson, eight, was playing with friends in Craigton Cemetery when a headstone fell on him on 26 May 2015.
Council employee David MacCall told the inquiry in the days after Ciaran's death, between 500 and 900 headstones were laid flat over safety concerns.
It also emerged that another boy was injured by a headstone there in 2010.
Mr MacCall, who the assistant bereavement services manager at Glasgow City Council, was giving evidence at the inquiry which is taking place at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The inquiry will try to establish if there were any reasonable precautions that could have prevented the tragedy at the cemetery in Cardonald.
Mr MacCall told the inquiry he joined the council in 2013 and had raised concerns that there were no regular checks of memorials in the city.
The witness said he was told "what we carry out at the present time was proportionate to the resources available".
He said there was no permanent staff at Craigton Cemetery at the time and the council had teamed up with the Scottish Prison Service to have inmates who are preparing to leave prison work at some of their cemeteries.
Mr MacCall said this was done at cemeteries in the east end of the Glasgow because it was in the lead up to the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
The witness was asked by procurator fiscal depute Gail Adair about the response by the council after Ciaran's death.
He said that once the area had been made safe they "secured the site" and "attempted to make all memorials they felt were unsafe, safe".
Mr MacCall said staff laid flat the memorials that were deemed unsafe.
When asked how many were judged to be unsafe, he replied: "Between 500 and 900."
Asked if that was a realistic number, he said that Craigton Cemetery had been subject of a "significant amount of vandalism".
Ms Adair told Mr MacCall the inquiry has heard evidence that Ciaran and his friends went into the cemetery through a hole in the wall.
She asked: "Do you know when, or if, that hole was reported to Glasgow City Council?"
The witness said that he had since learned there was a complaint in 2014 and there were two follow ups.
The fiscal depute confirmed with Mr MacCall that it was passed between different departments and followed up but was not repaired.
She put to him: "I think we heard in evidence the hole in the wall was repaired shortly after Ciaran's death."
Mr MacCall answered: "Yes, that's correct."
The inquiry also heard that another child had been injured by a gravestone in the same cemetery.
Mark Gibson, the solicitor representing Ciaran's mum, Stephanie Griffin, cross-examined Mr MacColl.
He put the details of a council incident report form, of an incident said to have taken place in July 2010, at Craigton Cemetery.
Mr Gibson read: "Received call on July 20 informed headstone had fallen on to a 14-year-old boy.
"Govan Police mentioned lock had to be cut open by the fire service."
Mr MacColl said he could not comment on anything as he was not there at the time.
Mr Gibson asked if the report "would suggest the council were aware of falling memorial stones in Craigton" but the witness said he could not comment.
The inquiry heard that council workers who inspect gravestones adhere to Ministry of Justice guidance.
Mr MacColl said if one is inspected and found to be unsafe it is made safe according to protocol or is recorded as safe and inspected again at a later date.
The court heard the gravestone that killed Ciaran was not inspected prior to his death.
The inquiry heard that the practice at the time was only to inspect five headstones on each side of where a burial is due to take place.
Mr MacCall told the court that the tree beside the gravestone that killed Ciaran had now been removed.
Asked why, the witness said "because it was at that locus".
The inquiry before Sheriff Linda Ruxton continues. | A fatal accident inquiry into the death of a boy at a Glasgow cemetery has heard that up to 900 headstones were deemed unsafe days after the tragedy. | 37951986 | [
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I have been out and about, travelling, and watching other travellers recently. This made me think about the history of comforters.
Perhaps tobacco was the first mass comforter.
A north London pub I cycle past on the way to work almost every day has an Elizabethan-era panelled upper room from the 16th Century, where (it is said) the great explorer Sir Walter Raleigh used to smoke pipes of the tobacco he brought back from his travels in the New World.
The first time that happened in Europe, people say.
Jump forward a bit in time and modern mudlarks still scour the exposed banks of the River Thames in London for fragile clay pipes thrown away by the hundreds of thousands in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
You can date them by the size of their bowls, which seem to have waxed and waned according to the price of tobacco; the price of filling a pipe, in other words.
Conversations could be eked out, doubled in length, by a drag and a puff; a sort of extended breathing pattern that helped Elizabethans and others get through the day.
When photography was invented in the 1840s we could finally see how people really lived, as opposed to how a few of them, privileged, posed for the painted version of their lives.
Everyone may have worn hats before. But in the street photographs of the 19th Century it begins to look as though hats had become mass comforters - the workers imitating the nobs for whom hats had always been a form of self expression.
Hats were a comfortable uniform, I suggest.
Enter the age of mass production in the beginning of the 20th Century. Machine-made cigarettes made the comfort of tobacco cheaper and more accessible than ever. Smoking, always a bonding activity, became even more so as people took breaks to exchange smokes.
And two world wars brought military travel to men who had never before dreamed of going further than their nearest town. The mass transit of troops enhanced the enforced boredom of conscription; waiting around for a train or a ferry could be punctuated by a quiet cigarette.
In the UK after World War Two, National Service in the armed forces regularised the fag break for almost everyone. Sharing a fag or a packet gave a little lift to the waiting around that was the experience for many men's two-year involuntary stay in the Army.
But when National Service ended, something happened to the sharing cigarette routine. Horizons had widened as lots of Brits went abroad for the first time, first involuntarily in the war and then on holiday.
People took more responsibility for themselves. They started thinking about health. Smoking in public places declined in the most remarkable way in the 1970s and 80s.
Perhaps the rise of the PCB plastic bottle had something to do with it. Fag not in mouth, we still needed a comforter. The psychological answer was a new addiction to replace nicotine: bottled water, something to keep people busy just like a cigarette, but demonstrably healthy.
A bottle of water to accompany every mobile activity, clutched to the breast. In my childhood, who would possibly have imagined that the British would ever have embraced the continental cult of bottled water? But they did, and it is now challenging the consumption of fizzy sweetened drinks. Extraordinary.
Parallel with water but slightly later came the inexorable rise of coffee-to-go, in a container with a mouth hole in it. Another badge of self importance coupled with self indulgence which is very much part of the comforter phenomenon.
Meanwhile there's a powerful new entrant to what we might call the comfort zone: filling that top pocket, empty hand, or handbag. It is of course the smartphone, doing much the same (psychological) thing as the cigarette or the pipe - breaking the tedium of the moment with a bit of gratification.
Like the social cigarette, the phone links its obsessed user with others - not close at hand now, but the online community everywhere. The new nervous tic, the need to be connected at all the hours of the day.
And since carrying bottled water and looking at a phone at the same time takes a good deal of juggling, I wonder whether the comfort of water will eventually be replaced by the phone in a similar way to how a sip of water has replaced the ciggie.
After all, beer sales in South Africa are said to have dropped when cheap mobile phones swept the country 15 years or so ago. Instead of going out to drown their sorrows, migrant workers phoned home to the village they had left behind in moving to the townships.
And I will bet that the great evolution of the adult comforter has not ended at the smartphone. The screen is cumbersome; sooner or later, it and the keypad will be replaced by data flows wired directly into our brains.
But wired from where? Maybe it's time for a revival of the headgear we all routinely wore 100 years ago. The "smart hat" may be on the way.
It's an entrancing story, this long line of human psychological and social development. Trace it back, if you like, to the Sumerian farmer sucking on a blade of wheat at the very beginnings of agriculture and civilisation 5,000 years ago. Then the pipe, the hat, the cigarette, bottled water morphing into the smartphone - and then what?
A book about this great human progression of comforters would obviously be a best seller, but don't ask me to write it. I'm too busy trying to master my (very uncomfortable) phone. | The cartoon character Linus van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip has a comfort blanket, and so do lots of children. | 34074318 | [
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Citizens Advice said that hidden charges such as line rental and delivery costs could add £20 a month to the advertised price.
It highlighted one case in which a customer would pay £465 more than the amount advertised during a contract.
The trade body for internet service providers, ISPA, said broadband prices were "clearly presented".
Nicholas Lansman, ISPA secretary-general, said: "It is important that customers look at the full terms of an offer when choosing a provider.
"Ofcom recently concluded that the UK has one of the most competitive broadband markets among major European economies, as the average price of a fixed broadband package has fallen by 40% and speeds have greatly increased."
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said confusing teaser rates and hidden costs made it difficult for consumers to work out whether they were getting a good deal.
"Internet providers need to be upfront about broadband costs, ensuring adverts are transparent and people know what they are signing up to," she said.
"Some broadband firms are starting to accept that prices need to be clearer. Now the whole industry needs to up its game."
The charity said that line rental was the most expensive additional cost.
The ISPA said that service providers using the BT network were required to levy a line rental charge, which went toward maintaining the network used by most of the UK for both phone calls and broadband.
The report comes as Virgin Media was criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for one of its broadband adverts.
Two customers complained that they had signed up to the operator's 12-month broadband contracts only to be told that their monthly charges would be increasing during the minimum term. They said this was misleading.
The company argued that it could not predict price rises at the start of a contract and so was unable to advertise potential increases. | Teaser deals in adverts are masking the long-term cost of broadband packages, a charity has claimed. | 33612314 | [
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In the three months to June 2014, there were 960 initial decisions to place a child for adoption, compared with 1,830 in the three months to September 2013.
The figures were released by the Adoption Leadership Board (ALB).
The ALB says the drop in adoptions may have been influenced by recent court judgements in care and adoption cases.
The board, which was established by the government as part of a shake-up of the adoption system, said applications for court orders allowing a child to be placed for adoption had fallen by 34%.
There had also been a fall of 54% in the number of placement orders granted by courts, from 1,650 to 750, it said.
In recent years, adoption figures had risen to record levels, with an increase of 63%, the ALB said.
But last September, the most senior family court judge criticised the "sloppy practice" of social workers when bringing cases for adoption before the courts and said they were not looking closely enough at all the other options.
President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, also implied that, at a time of tight budgets, adoption may be seen as a cheaper option than helping troubled families or foster carers and warned about "resource issues" affecting local authorities' thinking.
He said there had been four cases during 10 days in July alone in which judges had expressed concerns about inadequate analysis by social services in support of the case for adoption.
ALB chairman, Sir Martin Narey, said these court judgements had been "entirely sensible".
But he warned that they were being misinterpreted by local authorities who thought the law on adoption had changed.
He told the BBC that the recent drop in children being put forward for adoption was primarily due to fewer local authorities deciding adoption was the best option for a child.
"It's then been compounded by the refusal of some applications at the court," he said.
Sir Martin said some councils seemed to have taken some court rulings to mean that if a child could remain in foster care, then "that will do", when in fact the best interests of the child must be pursued.
Sir Martin said the drop followed two years of significant progress in finding more adoptive homes for the thousands of children waiting.
The number of children adopted across the UK has risen from 3,100 in 2011 to 5,050 in the last year.
The recent fall in children being put forward for adoption in England has prompted Sir Martin to issue guidance to clarify the meaning of recent court judgements.
"It is clear from my discussions with social workers and managers in local authorities and in voluntary adoption agencies that there is a belief that the law has been fundamentally changed by a number of court judgements.
"So I am pleased to produce this simple myth-busting guide - drafted by a senior queen's counsel - to what those judgements do and do not say.
"I am extremely grateful to Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division, for his advice. He has seen the document and is supportive of its aim of dispelling the myths that have arisen."
Messages included in Sir Martin's guidance reiterated that the legal test for adoption had not changed, and courts must be provided with expert, high quality, evidence-based analysis of all realistic options for a child and the arguments for and against each of these.
Sir Martin said: "The board and I have published this guide to help everyone working for children understand the law around these complex cases, and be confident in making the right decisions for the child." | The number of children put forward for adoption by local councils in England has fallen by almost half in under a year, the latest figures show. | 30002988 | [
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Well, it is because the government's forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility, has increased its prognosis of how much the Treasury will raise from existing taxes (not new ones) and reduced what it thinks the chancellor will shell out in interest on its massive debts.
In total the OBR thinks the national debt, the aggregate of the annual deficits, will be £23bn lower over the four years to 2020, and just because it is more optimistic about tax revenues and assorted costs.
Or to put it another way, George Osborne is today £23bn better off than he thought in July, and without doing anything at all.
Windfall
So what is the chancellor doing with this very useful £23bn that the OBR has found at the back of the sofa?
Well he is using £19bn of it to cover the £4.4bn annual cost of not slashing tax credits, and making about £8bn a year less than expected in departmental savings.
So on paper it looks as though the chancellor is actually being a bit more prudent than he was in July, even though some would say he is expensively moving his party nearer to the centre-ground of British politics - which he thinks has been vacated by Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.
To labour the point, George Osborne is not deploying quite all of his windfall to buy off his critics by taking the teeth out of austerity.
But that does not mean there is no risk for him.
The OBR's fiscal optimism could well be misplaced - especially since only last week we saw government borrowing figures hideously worse than expected.
But presumably, if tax revenues turn out lower and interest payments higher than the chancellor is now banking on, he can attempt to blame and kick the forecasting agency, the OBR, which he created.
And he'll hope, presumably, that voters won't see double standards in his years of bashing his Labour predecessors for spending tax revenues that never looked sustainable.
George Osborne has not quite morphed into his former opposite number, Ed Balls. But he is, in a more Ballsian way, counting on economic recovery to mend his overstretched finances.
UPDATE 20:21
I have had a quick word with Robert Chote of the OBR, and he says that even if he had seen October's lamentable borrowing figures he would not have changed his deficit projections.
His expectation is that revenues will rise for the government because of measures already taken, but which have not yet led to a higher tax yield. | So how has George Osborne pulled off the magical trick of maintaining spending on the police, imposing smaller than anticipated departmental spending cuts in general, and performing an expensive u-turn on tax-credit reductions, while remaining seemingly on course to turn this year's £74bn deficit into a £10bn surplus in 2020. | 34920769 | [
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They trailed by seven at the break as Rob Kearney, Josh van der Flier and Zane Kirchner crossed to cancel out scores from Seymour and Tim Swinson.
Scotland winger Seymour then lacerated Leinster with three predatory strikes after the break.
The bonus-point win sees Warriors level on points with Pro12 leaders Ospreys.
This was a compelling shoot-out between two Pro12 heavyweights who have fought some thunderous bouts in the recent past.
The defending was often porous - Glasgow's missed tackle count hitting double figures, while Leinster were manipulated by the speed and variety of the Warriors attack.
When the opening try came, it was textbook Glasgow. After punishing carries from Jonny Gray and then Leonardo Sarto took the Warriors into the Leinster 22, the ball was swept to the opposite wing, with Sam Johnson zipping a sumptuous pass for Seymour to scamper in at the corner.
Co-captain Henry Pyrgos missed the conversion, and the rest of the half belonged chiefly to the Irish province.
Their pack were heaved into touch as they rumbled towards the freshly painted whitewash but it was a temporary reprieve for Glasgow, reliant on last-ditch breakdown scrapping with the visitors repeatedly puncturing their midfield.
Eventually they crumbled, the Ireland full-back, Rob Kearney, scything through two missed tackles and finishing well at the corner, young pivot Joey Carbery converting magnificently from the touchline.
The response from Glasgow was immediate and resounding. Swinson capped a spell of rapid, aggressive phase play, neatly orchestrated by Pete Horne at fly-half, by driving over between the posts, Pyrgos converting, barely two minutes after Kearney's try.
Back surged Leinster and Sarto was dispatched to the sin-bin for infringing metres from his own line.
It culminated in a comically simple try for Van der Flier as the flanker scooped up the ball from the ruck and exploited the lack of any discernible fringe defence, shrugging off Simone Favaro's lunge and sprinting under the posts, Carbery again adding the conversion.
Then, with the clock red, Leinster pounced again, Kirchner gathering Carbery's delicate crosskick on the bounce and racing in for an unconverted score and a seven-point half-time lead.
That advantage was bolstered by Carbery's penalty four minutes into the second period as Glasgow struggled to exit cleanly from their own half.
However, if the first 40 minutes belonged to Leinster, the second was sole property of Seymour as the Pro12's hottest finisher produced an irrepressible combination of speed, power and opportunism to turn the game on its head.
First, he plucked Carbery's pass from the air to dot down under the posts for Pyrgos to convert.
Then, a minute later, he seized on another loose Leinster pass to spin out of a tackle and out-pace the chasing defence to the line.
With Pyrgos' conversion, suddenly the Warriors led.
Carbery cut the deficit to a point with a penalty just after the hour, but it was Seymour who had the emphatic final word.
From a scrummage deep in the Leinster 22, he fizzed brilliantly on to Pyrgos' inside flick, the winger's momentum carrying him towards a remarkable fourth try - his sixth in two matches - and an easy conversion for his co-captain.
A dynamic and fitting climax as Glasgow followed last week's rout of defending champions Connacht with this high-octane defeat of the early title favourites.
Glasgow Warriors: Hogg, Sarto, Dunbar, Johnson, Seymour, Horne, Pyrgos, Reid, Brown, Puafisi, Swinson, Gray, Harley, Favaro, Wilson.
Replacements: Flynn (for Brown, 68), Allan (for Reid, 68), Fagerson (for Puafisi, 49), Uanivi (for Swinson, 77), Wynne (for Favaro, 68), Jones (for Sarto, 68).
Not Used: Price, Clegg.
Yellow card: Sarto (36).
Leinster: R. Kearney, McFadden, G. Ringrose, Reid, D. Kearney, Carbery, L. McGrath, Healy, Tracy, Bent, McCarthy, Molony, Leavy, van der Flier, Murphy.
Replacements: B. Byrne (for Tracy, 59), Dooley (for Healy, 59), Furlong (for Bent, 47), M. Kearney (for Molony, 59), D. Ryan (for Leavy, 71), Gibson-Park (for L. McGrath, 63), Marsh (for Carbery, 77).
Not Used: Kirchner.
Referee: John Lacey (Ireland) | Tommy Seymour scored four tries as Glasgow Warriors christened the newly-laid synthetic Scotstoun pitch with a Pro12 win over Leinster. | 37320616 | [
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The Toffees will pay about £5m compensation for the 53-year-old Dutchman, who leaves Saints after two years in charge.
Everton have been without a manager since they sacked Roberto Martinez just before the end of the 2015-16 season.
It is expected Koeman's appointment will be confirmed by Friday.
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Koeman, who has been headhunted by new Everton owner Farhad Moshiri, will sign a deal reported to be worth about £6m a year.
The former Netherlands international, who is on holiday, will take brother Erwin and fitness coach Jan Kluitenberg with him to Goodison Park.
Saints have finished seventh and sixth under Koeman - their best Premier League campaigns.
Martinez promised Champions League qualification when appointed but Everton finished 11th in 2015-16, his third year at the club.
In April, Saints chairman Ralph Krueger said discussions with Koeman over a new deal were progressing "in a very good direction", but added the club was "not in any real hurry".
And last month the former Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Barcelona defender said he expected to stay with the Saints for the final year of his contract.
Koeman made more than 763 appearances as a player, scoring 253 goals, and won the 1988 European Championship with the Netherlands.
He won the European Cup - now the Champions League - with PSV Eindhoven in 1988 and Barcelona in 1992, scoring the winner for the latter against Sampdoria at Wembley.
He also won four domestic league titles apiece in the Netherlands and Spain.
Koeman has since managed Vitesse Arnhem, Ajax, Benfica, PSV, Valencia, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord and Southampton.
He has won the Dutch league with both Ajax and PSV.
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Former Southampton and England forward Matt le Tissier said he was "disappointed" and "quite surprised" at Koeman's decision to leave, particularly with Saints playing in the Europa League next season.
"He may feel he has got a better chance of winning trophies at Everton. I'd be of a slightly different opinion," Le Tissier told BBC Sport. "I understand they've got a new owner and want to splash a bit of cash, but it might not be as easy a job as he thinks.
"Most clubs in the Premier League are pretty wealthy now and can compete in the transfer market. We just have to move on and look to the next man to take us forward again.
"The players' loyalty lies with the football club and hopefully they will kick us on again next season." | Everton have agreed a deal with Premier League rivals Southampton that paves the way for Ronald Koeman to become their new manager. | 36455355 | [
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Sunderland's Rachael Laws, 25, has been called up to replace the 32-year-old Liverpool keeper, who has a knee injury.
England face Belgium in Rotherham on Friday, before travelling to Zenica to play Bosnia on Tuesday.
The Lionesses have won both their qualifying games so far.
Goalkeepers: Karen Bardsley (Manchester City), Rachael Laws (Sunderland), Carly Telford (Notts County)
Defenders: Laura Bassett (Notts County), Lucy Bronze (Manchester City), Gilly Flaherty (Chelsea), Alex Greenwood (Liverpool), Steph Houghton (Manchester City), Alex Scott (Arsenal), Casey Stoney (Arsenal), Demi Stokes (Manchester City), Amy Turner (Notts County)
Midfielders: Katie Chapman (Chelsea), Jordan Nobbs (Arsenal), Jo Potter (Birmingham City), Jill Scott (Manchester City), Fara Williams (Arsenal)
Forwards: Eniola Aluko (Chelsea), Karen Carney (Chelsea), Gemma Davison (Chelsea), Toni Duggan (Manchester City), Fran Kirby (Chelsea), Ellen White (Notts County). | Injured goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain has withdrawn from the England women's squad for their Euro 2017 qualifiers against Belgium and Bosnia-Herzegovina. | 35970387 | [
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The 29-year-old Tongan, who joined the Giants from New Zealand Warriors in September 2012, was ever-present in the 2016 season.
"I am so excited that the club has given me the opportunity to stay," Ta'ai told the club website.
"The fans are fantastic and I am excited to be given the chance to stay here for another two years." | Huddersfield Giants forward Ukuma Ta'ai has signed a two-year contract extension. | 37789652 | [
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Old hands at the book club game are husband and wife team Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan and Oprah. Their clubs began on TV but the new breed has, from the off, been virtual - online and on apps.
And the main players are almost exclusively female, including Emma Watson, Reese Witherspoon, Florence Welch, Zoella and Sarah Jessica Parker, as are the clubs' members.
It would be easy to be cynical about this new trend but it has its merits, says Claire Armitstead, associate editor for culture at the Guardian.
"These celebrities want to show they are intelligent people and not just celebrities, that's perhaps their motive for it.
"But what they bring is their brand. There are so many books in the world that any kind of 'sorting hat', to use a Harry Potter term, is a good thing for reading."
Debut writer Caz Frear knows the benefit of star endorsement. This week she sees her first novel, crime thriller Sweet Little Lies, hit the shelves after winning Richard and Judy's second Search for a Bestseller competition. She says it was the couple's name that encouraged her to enter.
"It was the possibility of their validation, they are huge names in the literary world. You think, if they like it then I must have something. There were other competitions that weren't small fry but I wanted to put myself in the strongest position."
The Richard and Judy club has grown into a polished brand in collaboration with high-street chain WH Smith since starting on the couple's Channel 4 chat show in the early 2000s.
Now only online (and in stores), it is more successful, says Madeley. "I knew it would be fine, we are a brand and, in fact, we're selling more books than before... the internet is king.
Books are submitted for consideration by publishers, which inevitably leads to recurring well-known names. But the final selections - issued three times a year - are made on quality alone, says Madelely.
"We choose a lot of established names, yes, but it's entirely on merit. We love finding new talent like Caz... you need fresh blood all the time... books are the stuff of life."
If he and Finnigan keep an eye on the new celebrity clubs, it's from an interested, not competitive, stance. "We're all out there to get people reading," says Madeley.
A recent survey by The Reading Agency showed two thirds of people would like to read more but are too busy.
Yet, the agency's chief executive supports Armitstead's "sorting hat" theory: "Most people also said they struggled to find a book they liked. Recommendations are the most likely thing to convince people to read more literature... however they are signposted to books, it can only be a good thing," says Sue Wilkinson.
Harry Potter star Emma Watson points her followers towards powerful feminist literature through her club Our Shared Shelf (OSS) on the Good Reads website. She is also active on Instagram.
Watson launched OSS in 2016 following her appointment as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and her HeForShe speech.
Every two months she selects a book for her 193,000-plus members to absorb and discuss.
Selections have included Gloria Steinem's My Life on the Road and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale - now enjoying renewed interest possibly due to a heady combination of a Channel 4 dramatisation, Watson's endorsement and the topicality of its issues.
Watson's enterprise is clearly serious and she's left books for others to find on the London and New York undergrounds.
"Emma Watson with her feminist classics is placing herself as a young thinking woman but doing it through her position as a UN ambassador is quite structured," says Armitstead. "Similarly, if someone wants to project themselves as a fun person they are going to choose fun books.
"Emma Watson will have people advising her, probably in order to push the kind of books the organisation thinks people should be reading.
"It is a good thing for a woman to read Gloria Steinem but has Emma Watson?"
Relaxed and seemingly without agenda is Florence Welch's Between Two Books on Twitter. Her fan website also promotes the club.
It was established by Welch enthusiasts in dedication of her love of reading, demonstrated in her regular online posts about books. She got involved at their invitation.
Welch suggests a wide range of literature, from Eimear McBride's The Lesser Bohemian to the poetry of Ted Hughes. She also involves her music mates, so that Nick Cave and Bat for Lashes have flagged up choices.
Welch dips in and out of the 11,000-plus members' discussions and even offers the chance to meet her, authors and each other at book events such as the Borris Festival.
Unlike some other clubs which are more inclined towards just showcasing the star's reading, Watson and Welch's are clubs in the traditional sense. They allow like-minded people "to get together" (literally in Welch's case) and talk.
And the fans love it.
"The club (Between Two Books) is for fans and managed by fans, ordinary, lovely and like-minded people," says one ardent fan, Kawanna Pena Cepeda, from the Dominican Republic.
"It makes it more approachable and grounded. It doesn't have any 'agenda'... other than share amazing literature that our queen, Florence, loves.
"It's an amazing way to connect with other Flo fans other than by her music. It's exciting to think the book you are currently reading, Florence is reading as well... it feels like we are connected."
Similarly, Maritza Jimenez in Chicago, Illinois says she joined OSS "because I really admire Emma Watson".
"To have that instant connection (however small) feels really good. Then, I put some serious thought into what she's trying to do... open up a discussion on women's issues... it's a complex topic to tackle because it is a very human issue."
Authors and the book industry are also reaping benefits from this endorsement.
"Steinem's My Life on the Road, Emma Watson's first title, had a 200% boost week on week in the UK for the second week of January 2016, from 138 copies to 415," says Lisa Campbell of the Bookseller.
And a true powerhouse in driving author interest, and sales is Reese Witherspoon. The actress has become "a champion of female fiction writers", says Isabelle Broom, book reviews editor at Heat magazine.
Her book club is on Instagram, with 71,000-plus followers. She also talks books on Twitter. And, she has an eye for a story which is prime for movie adaptation and is quick to buy the rights through her production company, such as Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.
Broom describes the actress as a "positive force of good" and authors are effusive too, among them Jessica Knoll, writer of Luckiest Girl Alive.
"[Witherspoon's] support has immensely boosted Luckiest Girl Alive's visibility and sales," says Knoll. "It was featured in a lot of traditional media and that definitely had a cumulative impact, but when Reese featured my book... I noticed an immediate and enormous uptick in my Amazon ranking.
The Zoella Book Club, also supported by WH Smith and just relaunched for 2017, has also had industry impact - and on teenage girls.
With a recent National Literacy Trust study suggesting reading for pleasure falls after primary school years, the club helmed by 27-year-old Zoe Sugg - the fashion and beauty YouTube vlogger known as Zoella - is arguably a good thing.
Author Alex Bell's Frozen Charlotte was chosen for Zoella's 2016 crop of reads and she says "it meant the book was able to reach a much wider audience than it would otherwise".
"Zoella's book club is particularly worthwhile because it helps get teenagers excited about books and reading for pleasure, which is a wonderful thing," she adds.
Zoella and the other female star book-clubbers demonstrate the trend for reading groups in the real world to be mostly (90%) made up of women, according to Sue Wilkinson at the Reading Agency.
Heat's Isabelle Broom suggests this is because "women like to feel part of something, and lots of us like to feel validated, too... Plus, us girls LOVE to chat".
But, while the reason needs further investigation, says Wilkinson, what is clear is that "real" book clubs - in libraries, homes and pubs - are still a big deal, and the agency has more than 4,000 in its reading groups network.
And what of the future of the virtual celebrity club?
"They have a shelf-life and people like Emma Watson will get bored and start looking for the next new thing," says Claire Armitstead.
"But someone else will come along. There's no end of people who want to hitch their wagon to the star of reading."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Celebrity book clubs are becoming increasingly popular, but is this a great thing for reading or just another vanity exercise? | 40157799 | [
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Councils in England, including Bradford and Birmingham, will trial the pilot scheme at local elections in 2018.
The government said it would "ensure the integrity" of the electoral system.
But campaigners said levels of fraud did not justify the move and one Labour MP said it would hit poorer voters.
A full list of the participating councils has not yet been drawn up, but 18 council areas in England identified by the Electoral Commission as being most susceptible to voter fraud will be invited to take part in the pilot.
The 18 also include Luton, Slough, Woking, Coventry and Bristol.
Different local authorities will trial different types of ID, including driving licences, passports and utility bills. The creation of a new form of ID specifically for voting has been ruled out by ministers.
Northern Ireland already requires voters to show ID before casting their vote.
Constitution minister Chris Skidmore said fraud of any kind was unacceptable and dismissed suggestions that the plans, which could be rolled out across the whole country if successful, could disenfranchise poor people who do not have ID.
He told BBC Radio Four's Today programme: "Voting is one of the most important transactions you can make as an individual. In many transactions you need a proof of ID."
"I'm determined to ensure, when it comes to groups who are under-registered, that they get the opportunity to exercise their vote," he added.
"Ensuring those communities are protected, that the risks of electoral fraud are diminished, will ensure those individuals are represented fairly across this country."
The reform was first touted by former cabinet minister Sir Eric Pickles in August, when he released recommendations amid growing concerns about electoral fraud.
He tweeted that the government was "right to give greater powers to electoral officials and the police to deal with intimidation and other unwanted behaviour".
In his report, Sir Eric cited research suggesting certain Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities could be more vulnerable to fraud due to a lack of understanding of the voting process.
He highlighted "kinship" traditions, saying they emphasised collective over individual rights and made it more likely that people would "hand over" their vote over to others.
Mr Skidmore dismissed suggestions the new measures were targeted at any "particular community" but said it was essential people across the UK were able to fulfil their democratic rights "regardless of their race or their religion".
The Electoral Reform Society, which campaigns for changes to the electoral system to make it "fairer", said the move was a "blunt instrument" that could deter people from voting.
"While we should take all instances of voter fraud very seriously where they occur, mandatory voter ID is a sledgehammer to crack a nut," chief executive Katie Ghose said.
"The government should think very carefully before introducing barriers to voting.
"There is simply no evidence to suggest that electoral fraud is widespread across the UK. Where it has occurred it has been isolated and should be tackled locally."
Labour said it supported the idea in principle but views varied among its MPs with Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, suggesting it was a "retrograde step" that was "more about combating low income voting" than tackling fraud.
Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar and Limehouse, said he didn't have an issue with the idea as "most people carry ID".
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone, who was suspended from the Labour Party and is currently an independent, said it was a "political" move and would make life more difficult for most people because of a handful of crimes.
"The real problem is the people most likely not to have a passport or a driving licence are going to be the poorest and that I suspect will basically hit the Labour Party," he told Today.
As well as the trials, election officials and police will be given new powers to tackle intimidation of voters by activists, who will also be banned from collecting postal votes for submission - a practice known as "harvesting".
The government said it was considering plans to check the nationality of voters to stop fraudulent registrations.
There will also be reforms to improve the security of the postal ballot system, including requiring postal voters to re-apply every three years. | Plans to demand proof of identity before voting in a bid to combat electoral fraud have been defended by ministers, amid criticism the move is a "sledgehammer to crack a nut". | 38440934 | [
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Riders have already won this season's BBL Trophy and the league title.
They meet Sheffield Sharks in Sunday's BBL play-off final at the O2 Arena at 15:30 BST, with live coverage on the BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website.
Riders coach Rob Paternostro told BBC Radio Leicester: "We feel good. There are some bumps and bruises from a long season, but everybody is fired up."
Monday saw Leicester City win the Premier League title just minutes after snooker player Mark Selby won his second World Championship title at the Crucible in Sheffield.
League winners Riders have played Sheffield six times in the three competitions this season, losing just once.
Paternostro added: "We have a group that has been here and done that. Four of the last five finals we have been to, so it is not just about the day, but the guys understand what it takes in preparation and we are familiar with that.
"It's strange to not be playing Newcastle in the final. But it is not a surprise because when we went through the league this year all of us totally understood how good this Sheffield team is.
"They finished third and have a lot of talent - it is not a surprise to us, or to anyone in this league that they are in the final.
"Whatever competition we have been in, Sheffield have been there. We know they are a really good team."
Sheffield coach Atiba Lyons is comfortable with his side going into the final as underdogs.
The Riders finished 18 points ahead of third-placed Sheffield in the regular season.
"They're favourites for many reasons, and rightly so, but anything can happen," Lyons told BBC Radio Sheffield. "As long as we are focused then I believe in our team.
"We've played them and we know what they can do and they know what we can do so we just have to go out there and try to get the outcome in our favour."
The game will be followed by the WBBL final between Nottingham Wildcats and Team Northumbria, tip off 18:00 BST.
Like the Riders, Nottingham Wildcats are looking to add the play-off trophy to their league title win.
The Wildcats lost just once in the regular season as they finished four points clear of Team Northumbria.
Amber Stokes, who was voted the league's MVP this week, told the WBBL website: "Making it to the finals was one of our goals and, if we win, it would be the icing on the cake.
"It's truly an honour for me to be named MVP and I will remain focused on doing the necessary things to help my team win the Championship.
"It's going to be very exciting to be able to play in an arena like The O2 and I'm definitely looking forward to playing in front of a great atmosphere."
Team Northumbria, who beat defending champions Sheffield Hatters in overtime last week, are in their first WBBL final.
Guard Chloe Bully said: "We have worked very hard this season and I believe the fact that we have made it this far, is proof of our hard work, talent and togetherness.
"We were confident we could beat Sheffield again and after last weekend, we will continue with the same confidence against Nottingham." | Leicester Riders are looking to cap off a sensational sporting week for the city by completing a domestic treble. | 36226893 | [
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A major emergency had been declared at the airport after the Italian C-27J aircraft lost communication.
It was escorted to Prestwick by RAF Typhoons as a precaution and landed without incident shortly before 20:00.
Police Scotland said the C-27J had been flying from Iceland to Italy.
Flights are believed to have been delayed for a short time at Glasgow and Edinburgh, but Scottish airspace was not closed.
Prestwick Airport also remained open throughout, and a Ryanair passenger flight to Malta took off a short time after the Italian plane landed.
A video posted on Facebook by the Ayrshire News newspaper appeared to show the civilian aircraft landing at the airport. The Typhoons did not land.
Photographs from the scene posted on social media showed several emergency service vehicles which had been summoned to the scene as a precaution.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: "Typhoon aircraft were launched this evening from RAF Lossiemouth to intercept a civilian aircraft which was causing concern to air traffic control authorities.
"The aircraft was safely escorted to Prestwick airport and the local police now have the lead." | A civilian cargo aircraft has landed safely after being escorted into Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire after suffering technical problems with its communications equipment. | 32171407 | [
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Sky Mobile will offer flexible monthly payment plans and the ability to roll over unused data each month for up to three years.
Sky will become a "quad play" provider, offering broadband, television fixed-line telephone and a mobile service.
And existing Sky TV customers will not have to pay for calls or texts and can compile playlists of their favourite shows to watch on their mobiles.
According to Sky, some 46,000 have pre-registered for the service.
The service comes with three data plans:
Non-Sky TV customers can add on unlimited calls and texts for £10 per month, or pay for calls and texts on a pay-as-you-use (PAYU) basis.
According to Sky, UK consumers use less than half of the mobile data they buy from mobile network operators, adding up to an annual £2bn of wasted data.
Stephen van Rooyen, UK and Ireland Sky chief executive, said: "We felt it was time to shake up the mobile market and give customers a completely new way to manage their mobile plan.
"We've designed it based on what people told us they want - it's easy, flexible and transparent and it puts the customer in control."
Ewan Taylor-Gibson, a telecoms expert at uSwitch said: "Sky's first mobile offering is very competitive, as long as you're already a Sky TV customer."
He compared Sky's Sim-only deal with that already offered by giffgaff, another service that piggybacks on O2's network and allows customers to alter their package depending on their usage.
"The key differences between the two are that Sky ties you in for 12 months, while giffgaff users can cancel anytime, and giffgaff also offers unlimited everything for £20 a month, beating Sky's top package, which delivers 5GB," said Mr Taylor-Gibson.
Sky's decision to let people roll over data and store it for three years was "both unique and compelling", he said, but it may have to offer bigger data bundles. | Broadcaster Sky is launching its own mobile phone service. | 38143778 | [
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Charles Howden, 64 and Fiona Stanley, 59 both from Newtongrange were killed when their Triumph Bonneville motorcycle collided with a white BMW car.
The accident happened on the A6094 at Rosewell at about 22:40 on Thursday.
In a statement, their families said they were "much loved by all those whose lives they touched".
They added: "Their kindness to others was legendary. They will long be remembered for the laughter they brought into our lives and the love they had for their friends, for their family and most of all the love they had for each other."
Officers are carrying out inquiries into the full circumstances surrounding the collision and have urged anyone with information to contact them. | Two bikers who died following a crash in Midlothian have been named by police. | 37271798 | [
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Lee Spencer, Nigel Rogoff, Paddy Gallagher and Cayle Royce finished fifth out of the 26 competing crews.
The Talisker Challenge - described as "the world's toughest row" - got off to a difficult start, with severe sea sickness hitting the team.
Cayle Royce - 29, from Dartmouth. Suffered serious injuries serving in Afghanistan
Paddy Gallagher - 30, from Cambridgeshire. He was injured in Afghanistan while serving with the Irish Guards
Nigel Rogoff - 56, from Hereford, who lost his leg while taking part in an RAF parachuting display
Lee Spencer - 46, from Yelverton in Devon. He lost a leg when he was struck by debris when he stopped to rescue a seriously injured motorist on the M3
The team, who named their boat Legless, also had to contend with huge waves and sleep deprivation, rowing for two hours on and two hours off, twenty four hours a day.
They crossed the finish line in 46 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes.
A tweet from Kensington Palace is among the hundreds of messages of congratulations for the crew on social media.
The exhausted, but jubilant, skipper Cayle Royce, who lost both his legs in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan, said: "We are so proud to be the first all-amputee team to row an ocean and extremely humbled by the support we have received."
He said the message the team wanted to send out was that there was life beyond injury. | Four ex-serviceman have become the first amputees to row across the Atlantic. | 35497952 | [
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Schmidt was sent off by the referee for insulting Hoffenheim's Julian Nagelsmann in Saturday's 3-0 home loss.
"That was nothing, what sort of a nutcase are you? Just shut your mouth," Schmidt shouted after going 2-0 down.
The 49-year-old has been banned for two games and handed a 15,000 euros (£13,373) fine.
The German was sanctioned after triggering a suspended sentence from February this year.
He had been banned for three games, with a further two in the event of a repeat offence before June 2017, for refusing a referee's order to leave the sidelines during a 1-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund.
Schmidt will be unable to have any contact with the team for half an hour before, during and after Tuesday's German Cup second-round match against Lotte and Saturday's league match against Wolfsburg.
Leverkusen's director of sport Rudi Voller has sought a meeting with the head of the disciplinary committee. | Bayer Leverkusen head coach Roger Schmidt has been banned and fined for calling an opposing manager "a nutcase" during a Bundesliga game. | 37753836 | [
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The latest stage of the government's auto-enrolment programme has seen a 95% compliance rate among small businesses.
All employers will eventually need to offer pensions to anyone who is over the age of 22 and who earns more than £10,000 a year.
The introduction is a gradual process with 66% of employees now signed up.
The latter stages are widely seen as the most challenging as employees such as nannies, care workers, plumbers and bar staff are enrolled into a pension.
This means employers who only have one or two staff may need to add a pensions policy to their pay and conditions. This group represents more than a third of those who will be required to comply with the rules from now.
Employees have the option to opt out of saving.
The auto-enrolment system was started in 2012, and aimed to ensure that workers save to enable them to top-up their state pension on retirement. This has reversed falls in workplace pension saving.
The full roll-out is taking years to complete, but MPs and regulators have welcomed a successful take-up by workers and compliance by employers - both of whom pay into the pension pot.
"The compliance rates achieved have been consistently at the top of our expectations and the savings landscape has been transformed. But we know the job is not yet done and there are still significant challenges ahead," said Charles Counsell, executive director for automatic enrolment at the Pensions Regulator.
Those challenges include a question over whether enough is being put into these pension pots. There is concern that some workers may feel that the pensions box has been ticked, only later to find that their pension does not offer them the standard of living they are expecting.
New figures from the Pensions Regulator show that the average contribution from employers is 3% a year of an employee's salary.
Steve Webb, now director of policy at Royal London insurance company, was pensions minister when the system was created. He said such contribution rates were "woefully inadequate to provide a decent retirement".
"The fact that the average employer contribution rate among firms so far is just 3% shows the mountain that we have to climb," he said.
"Getting the combined rate of contributions from employers and employees to realistic levels as quickly as possible should be the central focus of the 2017 review of automatic enrolment. Without this, millions of workers in generations to come will simply be unable to afford to retire."
Minimum contribution rates will increase from 2% to 5% in April 2018, and from 5% to 8% in April 2019.
A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions, said: "We want to make it as easy as possible for businesses to manage automatic enrolment which is why we made the decision to gradually increase the amount employers contribute to workplace pensions. We also know that people will need to save more and we will be considering how to get people to do this as part of our 2017 review."
Concerns also remain about certain trusts that administer these pensions for small firms, as revealed by a BBC investigation. | More than six million workers have now been signed up automatically to a pension savings scheme but fears remain over how much is being set aside. | 36902542 | [
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Hodgson made six changes, including resting captain Wayne Rooney, from the win against Wales - but a limp performance means Chris Coleman's side finish top of Group B and England's life is now more difficult if they go deeper into Euro 2016.
England had the better chances, with Slovakia keeper Matus Kozacik saving well when Jamie Vardy broke clear in the first half, as well as blocking crucially from Nathaniel Clyne after the break.
Rooney came on for the struggling Jack Wilshere after 55 minutes, but the pattern was set and Slovakia defended manfully for what should prove to be a precious point.
Dele Alli had also a shot kicked off the line by Martin Skrtel just seconds after coming on as a substitute on the hour.
England now travel to Nice where they face the team that finishes second in Group F - either Hungary, Portugal, Iceland or Austria - next Monday.
It was a major surprise that Hodgson chose to make such mass alterations to an England team that had finally picked up some momentum with Thursday's last-gasp victory over Wales. That win put them in position to top the group by beating Slovakia.
Instead, with nothing decided and with the group still open, Hodgson chose to leave out Rooney, Kyle Walker, Danny Rose, Dele Alli, Raheem Sterling and Harry Kane.
Hodgson introduced Vardy and Daniel Sturridge, who both scored against Wales, as well as Clyne, Ryan Bertrand, Wilshere and Jordan Henderson. It gave England a disjointed look and they ran out of steam and threat long before the end.
Time will tell if this was the selection that proved decisive in England's Euro 2016 campaign - but the bottom line is when you make a controversial choice such as that, you need to win and Hodgson's side failed.
Wilshere was given a starting role as Hodgson shuffled his squad to inject freshness and to give those on the margins some game time - but it was a move that failed.
The 24-year-old Arsenal midfielder looked exactly what he is at the moment: less than fully fit and off the pace after a Premier League season where injuries meant he barely featured.
Wilshere played just 141 minutes of Premier League football over three games at the end of Arsenal's season. This was no sort of preparation for a major tournament and it showed, but such is Hodgson's belief in his talents that he could not resist the temptation to select him, against all logic.
He strived to somehow revive his best moments but it was not to be - not through any lack of effort, simply a lack of spark, his natural game dulled by the long absences.
Wilshere looked a dejected figure as he went off to be replaced by Rooney after only 55 minutes, the possibility growing that his chances of making a serious impact on Euro 2016 badly damaged.
The result leaves them off to the south of France and Nice, playing next Monday instead of Saturday - but they will surely regret not finishing top of Group B.
This luxury now goes deservedly to Wales and while England will regard themselves as favourites to beat whoever finishes second in Group F, the price they pay could come further down the line.
They now go into the half of the draw containing France, Germany and Italy - and will also have to regain the impetus they had finally built up by beating Wales but was lost in this disappointing draw.
Not a good night for England. Not a good night for Roy Hodgson.
England manager Roy Hodgson: "If we had won the game people would say we didn't miss them [the players who were left out] and when we don't they say the team selection is wrong, I am used to that one.
"Finishing second is a disappointment but we are still in the last 16 and who is to say the team we will play will be that much stronger?
"You just don't know, the way we are playing I am not frightened of anybody."
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Slovakia coach Jan Kozak: "Our players tired as the game went on and England showed their quality and strength, but when you see an opportunity you give everything you can.
"Perhaps I didn't expect to be pressed so deeply but we made some substitutions to neutralise the impact of their attack."
England play their last-16 tie on Monday, 27 June at 20:00 BST, while Slovakia will have to wait to find out if they finish as one of the four best third-placed sides who progress.
Match ends, Slovakia 0, England 0.
Second Half ends, Slovakia 0, England 0.
Attempt missed. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Eric Dier.
Attempt blocked. Eric Dier (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Dele Alli (England) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Peter Pekarík (Slovakia).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Martin Skrtel (Slovakia) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Clyne (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Foul by Chris Smalling (England).
Juraj Kucka (Slovakia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (England) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Jordan Henderson with a cross.
Corner, England. Conceded by Tomas Hubocan.
Attempt missed. Marek Hamsik (Slovakia) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is too high from a direct free kick.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Robert Mak (Slovakia) because of an injury.
Foul by Chris Smalling (England).
Juraj Kucka (Slovakia) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Wayne Rooney (England) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Bertrand.
Corner, England. Conceded by Milan Skriniar.
Attempt blocked. Eric Dier (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Gary Cahill (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dele Alli.
Attempt blocked. Dele Alli (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Rooney.
Corner, England. Conceded by Norbert Gyömbér.
Substitution, Slovakia. Milan Skriniar replaces Vladimir Weiss.
Chris Smalling (England) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Juraj Kucka (Slovakia).
Attempt blocked. Gary Cahill (England) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Bertrand with a cross.
Substitution, England. Harry Kane replaces Daniel Sturridge.
Corner, England. Conceded by Martin Skrtel.
Attempt blocked. Gary Cahill (England) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Wayne Rooney with a cross.
Corner, England. Conceded by Martin Skrtel.
Attempt blocked. Wayne Rooney (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Offside, Slovakia. Marek Hamsik tries a through ball, but Dusan Svento is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Daniel Sturridge (England) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Eric Dier with a through ball.
Attempt blocked. Eric Dier (England) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Attempt missed. Eric Dier (England) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nathaniel Clyne.
Substitution, Slovakia. Norbert Gyömbér replaces Viktor Pecovsky. | England manager Roy Hodgson's gamble of making wholesale changes backfired badly as they stumbled to a goalless draw against Slovakia in Saint-Etienne. | 36514116 | [
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Harvey, 21, scored five goals in 50 league appearances for the Pilgrims but rejected the offer a new contract.
Manager Gary Mills is also considering signing ex-Burton Albion striker Shaun Harrad, who has been training with the Dragons.
Harrad is a free agent after finishing the 2015-16 season at Torquay, who are keen to re-sign the 31-year-old.
"He's experienced, knows the leagues and has scored an abundance of goals in his career," Mills told BBC Wales Sport.
"I managed him at Notts County when he was a younger player so he could well be part of us as well."
Full-back Jordan Evans has also been on trial with the National League side following his release from Championship club Fulham.
Evans is a product of Wrexham's academy and Mills said the 20-year-old could sign for the club ahead of their opening league game against Dover Athletic on 6 August. | Wrexham have signed Plymouth Argyle forward Tyler Harvey on a one-year deal. | 36912365 | [
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi scrapped 1,000 (£11.8) and 500 notes in a surprise move last week as part of a tax evasion and corruption crackdown.
People have a limited time to exchange the notes for smaller denominations, but will have their fingers marked.
The government wants to stop holders of "black cash" offloading their old rupee notes in small tranches.
Authorities often use indelible ink to stop people from voting more than once in Indian elections.
People were told they should deposit their high denomination notes in the banks, or could only exchange up to 4,500 rupees, ($65; £52) for smaller notes.
But to clamp down on holders of unlawfully held or untaxed cash, depositors can only make such transactions once and so the banks are using the ink to prevent them from making multiple deposits.
India scraps 1,000 rupee notes overnight
Chaos at banks over India money ban
Supporters say it is a handy way for the Indian government to tackle corruption.
The finance ministry suspects "unscrupulous" people have been trying to get around the crackdown by sending proxies to exchange their banned rupee notes.
The withdrawal of the big notes is aimed at 'black money' and targets people who have been dodging taxes by holding stockpiles of cash.
While the authorities say people will not be allowed another cash swap, critics are wondering what happens if the ink wears off?
During elections, people have used chemicals to remove the ink from their fingers so that they can vote more than once.
The government's ban on big bank notes first received widespread approval because less than 3% of Indians file tax returns.
But the switch has caused chaos with tens of millions of Indians queuing for hours to exchange and withdraw cash.
The government was ill-prepared for the ban which suddenly put 86% of the country's money supply out of circulation.
Many businesses only accept cash and hundreds of millions of Indians do not have bank accounts and only use cash. | India is using indelible ink on fingers to ensure people get only one chance to change their big bank notes. | 37999116 | [
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Among those detained is his brother-in-law and one of the two pilots who flew Guzman to his home state.
Mexico's attorney general said a member of Guzman's legal team, described as the mastermind, was also arrested.
Guzman, head of the Sinaloa cartel, escaped from a high-security prison through a specially dug tunnel.
Attorney General Arely Gomez told reporters on Wednesday that the suspected mastermind of the escape had repeatedly entered Altiplano prison to visit Guzman and update him on the operation's progress.
She also said Guzman's brother-in-law had supervised the construction of the mile-long escape tunnel and organised transport.
"Today we are able to affirm that the group responsible for planning, organising and carrying out the escape from outside the prison has been broken up," Ms Gomez said, without naming the suspects.
The development comes days after officials revealed the drugs lord had suffered face and leg injuries when he narrowly evaded a police operation to recapture him in north-west Mexico earlier this month.
Ms Gomez confirmed on Wednesday that after his escape, Guzman travelled by land to the city of Queretaro, from where he caught a small plane to his home state of Sinaloa.
His escape was an embarrassment for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who Guzman taunted on Twitter after the event.
Several prison officials have already been arrested under suspicion of giving inside help to Guzman, who fled through a tunnel that ran 1.5km from under a shower in his cell to outside the prison.
Guzman was first arrested in Guatemala in 1993 and spent nearly a decade in another maximum-security Mexican jail before escaping, reportedly in a laundry basket.
He was on the run for 13 years before being held again in 2014 after a series of high-profile arrests of associates and covert surveillance by the US authorities. | Mexico officials say they have arrested six key people who allegedly helped fugitive drug cartel leader Joaquin Guzman escape from jail in July. | 34600467 | [
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The former Barcelona and Ajax forward died of cancer, aged 68, on Thursday.
His family say they will hold a private funeral for the three-time European Footballer of the Year, while a public memorial will also be organised.
"It has touched us deeply that Johan was such an inspiration to many of you," said ex-Manchester United midfielder Jordi in a statement.
"On behalf of my mother, sisters and the rest of the family I would like to say thank you for all the love, kind words and memories that have been shared with us, since yesterday but also over the past months," added the 42-year-old, who played under his father at Barcelona.
Cruyff, who led Barca to their first European Cup in 1992 and also managed Ajax, is widely considered to be one of the world's greatest ever players.
Figures from the world of football, Dutch politicians and royalty were among those to pay tribute on Thursday. | Jordi Cruyff has expressed thanks for the tributes to his father, Dutch footballing great Johan Cruyff. | 35899259 | [
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It was scrapped this week at the eleventh hour when the government removed it from parliament moments before it was due to be voted into law.
Under the proposal, which had already passed a first round of voting, it would have been illegal to share information electronically that could "destroy, alter or subvert state institutions" or "damage national integrity or independence".
This would have meant anyone criticising the government on social networking sites such as Facebook, or receiving an email containing anti-government sentiment, could have faced up to 12 years in prison.
The law also wanted to ban the online sharing of videos, pictures or recordings without the subject's consent, criminalise "whistle-blowing" under the crime of "espionage" and make it illegal for anyone to search for information about the state, even if it was not classified.
Minister of State Carlos Feijo told reporters in the capital, Luanda, that a decision had been made instead to insert special clauses about internet crimes into the new penal code currently under revision.
But many believe pressure from civil society and local journalists, who had strongly opposed the legislation claiming that it was "totalitarian" and violated basic freedom of expression, played a role in the decision to abandon the law.
US-based lobby group Human Rights Watch said the legislation would have "undercut both freedom of expression and information, and posed a severe threat to independent media, whistle-blowers, and investigative journalism".
With most of Angola's traditional media controlled by the state, or owned by government ministers and their business associates, there is little free debate in the newspapers or on television and radio.
Opposition parties are rarely afforded column inches or air time, while government and presidential activities are covered in minute detail and nearly always with a positive spin.
Civil society and opposition groups have therefore turned to the internet, even though only 1% of Angolans have access to the web, to hold their debates and share information through blogs and social networking sites.
In recent months, several anti-government marches have been organised and promoted through Facebook, where there are pages dedicated to opposing the president of nearly 32 years, Jose Eduardo dos Santos. There, people make comments they would not dare speak out loud in public.
Angolans living in the diaspora have also been busy online, creating websites to rally support for regime change, and there have been several solidarity protest events held in South Africa, the UK and Belgium.
Many are growing weary of the current regime and want more to be done to share the country's oil wealth among the majority, two thirds of whom still live in poverty and many without access to water or electricity.
The introduction of a special internet law was seen as a deliberate attempt to quash the online discussion that was fuelling this unrest.
In an uncharacteristically emotional speech last month, President dos Santos lashed out at social media sites, saying they were being used to "insult, denigrate and provoke uproar and confusion".
Officially the government stuck to its position that the technology legislation was needed to curb crimes such as child pornography, hacking and online financial fraud.
The editor of the private weekly newspaper Angolense, Suzana Mendes, who was among the journalists who publicly voiced concerns about the law, welcomed its withdrawal.
"The fact that the bill has been cancelled is important, because if it had been approved, it would have endangered our fundamental rights to inform and be informed," she told the BBC.
Sizaltina Cutaia, from the Angolan office of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (Osisa), which also opposed the bill, said they were pleased the government had backed down.
"This is definitely a victory for us and it is encouraging that we were able to get our message across." she said.
However, civil society celebrations around the scrapping of the legislation were short-lived after a number of activists were arrested on Wednesday for taking part in an anti-poverty demonstration in Luanda.
Organised via Facebook by a group calling itself the Revolutionary Movement of Social Intervention (MRIS), the protest was due to take place at lunchtime.
But following the arrest of MRIS leader Luis Bernardo, allegedly detained while putting up posters near his home in the district of Cazenga, only a few dozen people gathered in the city square.
According to reports, between 15 and 20 people were detained, among them a journalist and a representative from Osisa who had been trying to film the arrests.
They were later released and rejoined the protest, which at its height numbered around 100 people.
A spokesman for Luanda's provincial government told state media that the youth involved, who claimed they had authorisation to stage the protest, had acted "criminally" and the police force was within its rights to respond.
"What the government needs to realise is that the more they repress people, the more they will want to demonstrate," Ms Cutaia said.
Although small in size and number, protests like these are a relatively new phenomenon in Angola where few have dared to question the authority of President Dos Santos and his ruling MPLA.
"The people leading these protests are young and they don't have as much to lose. They were born after independence so they don't have that connection to the ruling party like older generations," Ms Cutaia says.
"All they see is that despite Angola's wealth under the MPLA most people have remained poor and they want that to change.
"Most of all they want the right to be able to make their voices heard." | In a rare climbdown, the Angolan government has withdrawn controversial legislation severely restricting how people use the internet. | 13569129 | [
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Only 90 will be returned to Stormont - compared to 108 from previous assembly polls.
Out of the 228 candidates, 70 are women. The election will take place on 2 March.
Once again the DUP is fielding the most candidates with 38, followed by Sinn Féin on 34.
The Ulster Unionist Party has 24 candidates, while the SDLP and Alliance have 21 each.
The Green Party is fielding 18 candidates, the TUV, 14, the Conservatives 13 and People Before Profit seven.
The Workers Party has five candidates in the race, the cross-community Labour Alternative four, the PUP and the Citizens Independent Social Thought Alliance three each and the UKIP one.
There are also 22 independent candidates in the field.
West Tyrone, East Londonderry and East Antrim have the largest number of candidates standing, with 15 going on the ballot paper in each.
The constituency with the fewest - nine - is Newry and Armagh. | A total of 228 candidates will contest the Northern Ireland Assembly election next month - 48 fewer than last time. | 38914203 | [
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It is not the done thing to interfere in the internal affairs of a member state after all and Britain is still a member state - just about.
EU Council President Donald Tusk has already offered a lesson in what to say when you know you can't say much.
He wrote: "It was Hitchcock who directed Brexit - first an earthquake and the tension rises."
That suggests that Mr Tusk has only a hazy knowledge of the works of Hitchcock - but it also hints at an expectation in Brussels that the Brexit debate is about to heat up.
In domestic terms, Mrs May is hoping for a strong, clear and personal mandate to lead the Brexit negotiations on her own terms. And if the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins he would also claim endorsement for placing his own political priorities at the centre of the talks to come.
But in European terms, that's something of a secondary issue.
The EU Commission's lead negotiator, Michel Barnier, is going to have to deal with whoever is in residence in 10 Downing Street and the strength of the occupant's mandate won't be his concern.
His team have already said that while the announcement doesn't change anything, there's a hope that it will produce a strong leader with strong backing from the people of the UK.
And we can be sure this British election will be watched with even closer attention than usual - not just in Brussels but in the other European capitals where Brexit is going to be a huge issue in the years to come.
First, both Theresa May and all her rivals will have to set out their visions for Brexit in much more detail than we've heard so far.
British voters will demand nothing less.
But in the process, the Barnier team and the governments of France, Germany and the rest will get a feeling for where the British red lines in negotiations really lie.
Any British candidate worth his or her salt will try to leave room for manoeuvre in the talks to come after the election, but it will surely be impossible to campaign without giving away at least some detail.
And of course there are romantics across Europe who hope that the voice of the Remainers will be heard loud and clear in the British debate to come.
The hope that Brexit might be quickly reversed has pretty much faded from the European debate now, but plenty of politicians across the continent will be hoping to hear candidates putting forward the argument for a soft Brexit with the closest possible links to the EU and its single market.
That may be wishful thinking, but there'll be strong support for such voices from many quarters in Europe.
Europe was taken by surprise by Theresa May's announcement, but not taken aback. The EU negotiators have been working hard behind the scenes to prepare their position and their message is that they're ready to negotiate with Britain, no matter who occupies 10 Downing Street.
This was already a busy year for European democracy - the Netherlands has already voted, while France votes for a president at the weekend and will hold National Assembly elections in June.
Germany goes to the polls in September.
But there's an awareness that the UK election will be different precisely because it will play a huge part in shaping the British negotiating position on Brexit.
And, of course, there's also the fascination of the pure political theatre of it all. | The EU has to be measured in its response to Theresa May's election announcement. | 39632041 | [
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He began broadcasting in the days of skiffle and was still at the microphone in the second decade of the 21st Century.
Many of the most enduring acts in pop history kick-started their careers on one of his many radio shows.
And, as presenter of Thank Your Lucky Stars, he introduced the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to a television audience.
Brian Matthew was born in Coventry on 17 September 1928 into a musical family. His mother sang professionally while his father was the conductor of the local silver band.
His radio career began when he was serving with the Army in post-war Germany where he worked as a programme presenter and newsreader on the British Forces Network, which broadcast to troops serving abroad.
He also developed something of a talent for acting and on leaving the Army, he went to Rada, securing a number of roles with the Old Vic Company. It was there that he met his wife, Pamela, whom he married in 1951.
There was a short time with Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Dutch English language service, before he returned to the UK and took up a job as a milkman in his home city.
Matthew was back behind a microphone in 1954 when the BBC recruited him as an announcer and producer. One of the programmes he hosted was Saturday Skiffle Club, later renamed Saturday Club, which went out on the BBC Light Programme on Saturday mornings.
The BBC virtually ignored the boom in popular music in the 1950s and Matthew's show quickly found an appreciative teenage audience.
Skiffle, which was based on acoustic guitars and a variety of home-made instruments including tea chests and washboards, had a fleeting moment of fame with artists such as Lonnie Donegan, before it was swept away by rock and roll.
With bands such as Bill Hailey and the Comets from the US, and up-and-coming British performers like Adam Faith and the Shadows, the demand for pop music grew and Matthew's show was extended to two hours from the original 30 minutes.
The programme brought a British audience the music of a host of US stars, including Gene Vincent, the Everly Brothers and Jerry Lee Lewis alongside emerging British talent. In later years the show would highlight performances by The Beatles, The Searchers and Manfred Mann.
In 1960, the BBC launched a Sunday morning show called Easy Beat and Matthew was drafted in to present that as well. By now he was the authentic voice of the pop music explosion that came to dominate the 1960s.
A year later his audience finally put a face to the voice when he was recruited to present ITV's new pop show, Thank Your Lucky Stars. It featured bands such as The Beatles and the Rolling Stones miming to their latest single. A guest DJ and three teenagers would also review new releases. This latter section of the show introduced Janice Nicholls whose "Oi'll give it foive" delivered in her strong Black Country accent, passed into folklore.
By the mid-1960s, the BBC's pop offering was looking rather dated alongside the competition from a fleet of pirate radio ships scattered around the coast of the UK. When the BBC finally caught up in 1967, with the launch of Radio 1, Easy Beat was dropped. Meanwhile, Matthew, who was approaching his 40s, found himself dropped from Saturday Club in favour of former pirate DJ, Keith Skues.
In 1972 Matthew narrated a 12-part documentary for Radio 2 entitled The Beatles Story which was later repeated on 6 Music.
Matthew later appeared on Radio 1 presenting My Top 12, a programme on which a guest star would be interviewed about his or her career and select 12 favourite tracks to make up an imaginary album.
Guests reflected the whole range of popular music and included Brian Ferry, Keith Emerson, Joni Mitchell and Neil Diamond. Matthew also presented a regular easy listening show on weekday evenings for radio and, in 1978, began hosting the Radio 2 arts show Round Midnight.
In 1990, he took over Sounds of the 60s, the Radio 2 show with which he would always be indelibly linked. It gained a huge and appreciative audience of people who had been teenagers in the 1960s, as well as their children, tuning in to hear the opening bars of Foot Tapper, the Shadows recording that was the programme's theme tune.
In 2008, Matthew won a Sony Gold Award "in recognition of a truly outstanding contribution to UK radio".
Apart from a couple of breaks because of illness, Matthew continued to present the show until, in January 2017, the BBC announced that he was standing down because of ill-health and that his place would be taken by Tony Blackburn.
The Corporation found itself on the end of a backlash from loyal listeners and from Matthew himself, who attacked the BBC's handling of the matter.
"I was ready and willing and able to go back," he said, "and they just said they are going to put the programme in the hands of other people.
"I enjoyed doing the show very much. I did it for 25 years. I feel very disconcerted, I must say."
He presented his final proper show on 25 February 2017 although a repeat of an earlier programme, with new links, was broadcast on 6 March.
He signed off his last broadcast in typical style. "This is your old mate, Brian Matthew, saying that's your lot for this week. See you soon." | Brian Matthew's career spanned 60 years of popular music. | 39513249 | [
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Gregg McNally put Leigh in front early on before Atelea Vea crossed over soon after to extend their advantage.
The hosts went in at the break with an 18-0 lead after Samisoni Langi touched down just before half-time.
Josh Drinkwater scored a drop-goal in the second half before McNally raced the length of the field to score again.
Leigh's victory means Widnes Vikings finish bottom of the Super League at the end of the regular season.
A win for Salford would have ensured third place, which would have been their highest league placing for 40 years.
Instead they slipped to a fifth defeat in their final six games before the Super 8s/Qualifiers split and dropped a place to fourth by virtue of Hull FC beating Huddersfield on Friday.
Leigh coach Neil Jukes said:
"We ticked nearly every box tonight. It was a derby and we didn't want to finish bottom on our first season back in Super League.
"It was important for us to get some confidence and build momentum as we go into the next competition (Super 8 qualifiers). I was really pleased.
"Our game management was good as was our defensive effort plus we kicked the ball at the right time.
"We only gave away six penalties in the entire game so when you do that you have a lot of energy. The players kept turning up for each other and defended repeat sets on our line. It has given us something to build on."
Salford coach Ian Watson:
"People will lose their shirt on that performance today. It was disappointing. The first half we were way below the standards we have set ourselves physically.
"Leigh were dominant - their pack was on the front foot and their half-backs were able to control the game on the back of that."
"Our performances have dipped and there's been a drop in intensity since we secured a top-eight finish.
"What we need to do now is realise what we were doing before and rediscover the hunger and attitude we showed earlier in the season which was winning us games.
"For Leigh to score 18 points in that first half in those conditions put them on the front foot."
Leigh: McNally, Dawson, Crooks, Langi, Brown, Mortimer, Drinkwater, Hock, Higham, Maria, Paterson, Vea, Burr.
Replacements: Pelissier, Tickle, Richards, Hansen.
Salford: Evalds, Johnson, Welham, Sa'u, Bibby, Carney, Dobson, Griffin, Tomkins, Murray, Murdoch-Masila, Lannon, Hauraki.
Replacements: Jones, Lui, Krasniqi, Tasi.
Referee: J Smith. | Leigh cruised to a comfortable victory against Salford to lift themselves off the bottom of Super League in their last game before the Qualifiers. | 40644367 | [
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Natural Resources Wales said the creatures had suffered a huge decline in recent decades as a result of habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and predation by American mink.
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After three wickets fell in the morning, Lloyd made 102 not out, with a six and 14 fours, supported by Aneurin Donald (44) and Jacques Rudolph (38).
Stu Whittingham (1-58) and Danny Briggs (2-62) were the pick of the Sussex attack on a placid pitch.
The teams shook hands on a draw at 17:20 BST when Lloyd reached three figures.
Sussex looked in with a strong chance when Will Bragg was run out just before lunch for 33, after nightwatchman Owen Morgan (36) had earlier been bowled by Briggs.
But they took just one wicket in the afternoon, and Lloyd was dropped at slip on 66 off Whittingham when the home side took the second new ball.
Sussex remain in the lower half of the table despite remaining unbeaten, with one win and seven draws.
Glamorgan have been unable to win a Championship game in the first half of their season, but do have a successful limited-overs campaigns to focus on - and they will meet Sussex again, in the T20 Blast, in Cardiff on Thursday.
Sussex captain Luke Wright told BBC Sussex:
"It was a tough four days but I am really chuffed for the guys, particularly with the way we batted. We've not scored enough big runs, and to see the guys get big hundreds is exactly what we are looking for.
"It was always going to be difficult. The wicket didn't really turn, we kept flying in and tried everything, but credit to Glamorgan for holding on tight."
Glamorgan top scorer David Lloyd told BBC Wales Sport:
"It was a big challenge, we lost an early wicket but the way the boys turned up today and occupied the crease was really good, so to come away with a draw is excellent.
"I tried to bat time but also to bat positively as well so as not to die in a hole - the way Aneurin [Donald] played his shots, it rubbed off on myself as well so we just had to make sure it was the right ball to put away.
"I didn't have a choice [about staying on for his hundred], I thought by the field that Sussex set, I had one over to get it so that's what I tried to do.
"We've had a good start in both white-ball formats and the T20 is the one we're really trying to target after the start we've had, so hopefully we can keep it going at home." | Sussex's victory bid was frustrated as David Lloyd's unbeaten hundred enabled Glamorgan to bat out the final day. | 36714190 | [
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The game was officially sold out, as were England's two ICC Champions Trophy matches at the SSE Swalec Stadium.
The near-15,000 crowd comes as counties bid for the next round of five years' worth of international games.
"To have three full houses over 19 days for England matches is something we've very proud of," said Morris.
Cardiff hosted England's win over New Zealand and semi-final defeat to Pakistan in the Champions Trophy, along with Sri Lanka versus Pakistan and the less well-attended Bangladesh v New Zealand match.
Around 3,000 seats were not occupied for the England v New Zealand match because of poor weather forecasts, while cancelled trains are believed to have contributed to some empty seats for the T20 on Sunday.
But a rapid re-allocation of tickets worked well for the England-Pakistan game after fears that India supporters, who bought tickets for both semi-finals, would not turn up.
"It's particularly important (to have big crowds) this year, because at the back end of the year we are likely along with other counties to be bidding for our international programme between the years 2020 and 2024," explained Morris.
"There's also the new city-based franchise T20 as well, so it's important we can demonstrate we can fill houses and people have a great time when they are here."
England's score of 181 in 20 overs against South Africa could also come as a relief, after captain Eoin Morgan criticised the use of a previously-used wicket for the Champions Trophy semi-final, a choice attributed to the International Cricket Council.
"I wasn't surprised (with the score), it's a wicket that has played extremely well this year in domestic and international cricket, in recent years we've had some very good marks," said former county captain and England opener Morris.
Glamorgan have forecast an operating profit for 2017 on the back of five days of international cricket.
But it appears unlikely they will add another overseas player to their squad for the T20 Blast, after signing South African paceman Marchant de Lange on a three-year deal for all forms of cricket. | Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris says Cardiff's third sell-out for an England match in June will boost their hopes of attracting further international matches. | 40400752 | [
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Odion Ighalo put the hosts in front from close range, only for Antonio to level with a solo effort moments later.
Matej Vydra restored the Hornets' lead from the spot after he was brought down by Kelvin Wilson.
But Antonio levelled again, heading in Chris Burke's cross to leave new Watford boss Slavisa Jokanovic with four points from his first two games.
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Watford are now on an unbeaten run of seven games, which has been overseen by three different head coaches, with Oscar Garcia leaving at the end of September and his replacement Billy McKinlay making way for Jokanovic two weeks ago.
Meanwhile, Stuart Pearce's Forest have fallen away from the top two to sixth, with their last league victory coming at home to Fulham on 17 September, and they started slowly as Fernando Forestieri and Vydra both forced saves from Karl Darlow.
A David Vaughan free-kick that was deflected narrowly wide was Forest's only response before Ighalo had the Hornets in front - and his third goal in his last three games - by poking in Gianni Munari's superb back-flick from Almen Abdi's cross.
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The lead lasted just two minutes though, as Abdi gave the ball away to Antonio who strode forward and finished from a tight angle, before Michael Mancienne seemed to be fortunate to get just a booking for bringing down Vydra when he was through on goal.
Shortly after the break Vydra was brought down by Wilson and the Czech calmly rolled in from 12 yards to restore the lead.
And the Hornets looked relatively comfortable afterwards, moving the ball around with confidence, until Burke did well to find space down the right and swung in a hanging cross that Antonio powered in at the back post for his eighth of the season.
Vydra's shot straight at Darlow was as close as Watford came to a late winner, and they drop down to second after Derby's win at Blackpool.
Watford head coach Slavisa Jokanovic:
"I think we played very well in the first 60 minutes. The last 30 minutes we lost a bit of tactical order and tried to win the game with hearts and not minds.
"For me [the Mancienne foul] was 100% a sending off. It's the same with the penalty. For me both situations are sendings off."
Forest assistant manager Steve Wigley:
"It was a good point. We knew we were coming to a team that was in the best form they've been in this season.
"We knew we would have to play well and resolute is a good word to describe us. We showed a lot of character. We more than deserved a point.
"Karl Darlow put in a good performance and away from home your keeper is going to have to play well."
On Mancienne's foul on Vydra: "Your heart is in your mouth when something like that happens. We're at ground level so can't see if somebody is coming around. One ref will give you a yellow, another a red. But I was delighted it was yellow."
Match ends, Watford 2, Nottingham Forest 2.
Second Half ends, Watford 2, Nottingham Forest 2.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Matty Fryatt replaces Britt Assombalonga.
Foul by Daniel Tözsér (Watford).
Chris Burke (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Matej Vydra (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Tözsér.
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Karl Darlow.
Attempt saved. Troy Deeney (Watford) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Eric Lichaj.
Substitution, Watford. Tommy Hoban replaces Sebastien Bassong.
Sean Murray (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest).
Corner, Watford. Conceded by Kelvin Wilson.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Sebastien Bassong.
Attempt blocked. Michael Mancienne (Nottingham Forest) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Vaughan with a cross.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Daniel Pudil.
Foul by Gianni Munari (Watford).
Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Fernando Forestieri (Watford) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest).
Offside, Nottingham Forest. Michail Antonio tries a through ball, but Britt Assombalonga is caught offside.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Juan Carlos Paredes.
Foul by Daniel Tözsér (Watford).
Britt Assombalonga (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Watford 2, Nottingham Forest 2. Michail Antonio (Nottingham Forest) header from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Chris Burke with a cross.
Attempt missed. Robert Tesche (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Watford. Troy Deeney replaces Odion Ighalo.
Foul by Fernando Forestieri (Watford).
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Attempt missed. Michail Antonio (Nottingham Forest) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ben Osborn with a cross.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Joel Ekstrand.
Attempt blocked. Daniel Harding (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Robert Tesche.
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Foul by Michail Antonio (Nottingham Forest).
Fernando Forestieri (Watford) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest).
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Joel Ekstrand.
Foul by Odion Ighalo (Watford).
Daniel Harding (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Watford 2, Nottingham Forest 1. Matej Vydra (Watford) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. | Michail Antonio's double saw Nottingham Forest secure a draw at Watford, who fell from the top of the Championship. | 29608408 | [
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West Indies, who were 11-3 in pursuit of England's 155-9, needed 19 off the final over to win and did it in style.
Marlon Samuels' 85 not out kept them in contention before Brathwaite's match-winning blitz off Ben Stokes.
Joe Root scored 54 for England but nothing could stop the Windies joining their women as World T20 champions.
In the process, the West Indies also became the first two-time winners of the men's World Twenty20.
Despite the devastating loss, England can take a lot of encouragement from their performance in this tournament, which has showcased an attacking philosophy and resilience that was completely lacking during their group-stage exit of last year's 50-over World Cup.
But for Brathwaite and Samuels, it would have been Eoin Morgan's side capping their rapid improvement with their own World T20 title.
Brathwaite came in at number eight, joining Samuels at the crease in the 16th over with the West Indies on 107-6 and needing 49 from 27 balls.
The tall bowler had only batted twice in the competition prior to the final, scoring 10 not out against South Africa and 13 against Afghanistan in the group stages.
But, with 19 needed off Stokes' last over, he seized his moment with the bat in spectacular fashion.
Brathwaite will take the headlines, but man of the match Samuels was the real architect behind the West Indies' victory courtesy of his 66-ball unbeaten 85 - the highest individual score in a World T20 final, beating his own record of 78, scored in 2012.
He was brought to the crease in just the second over following the dismissal of Johnson Charles, who, along with fellow opener Chris Gayle, was one of two wickets claimed by surprise opening bowler Root.
Lendl Simmons, who scored a match-winning 82 in the semi-final against India in his first appearance in the competition, was trapped lbw by David Willey in the next over to leave the West Indies reeling.
Samuels was given a reprieve in the first over after the powerplay as replays of his edge from Plunkett showed it fell just short of Jos Buttler's gloves, leading to the umpire calling him back to the crease after initially raising his finger.
But Samuels kept a cool head after this, scoring at around a run a ball to reach 50 and help his side to 86-3 before accelerating with two sixes and a four in a key 15th over from Plunkett.
Two wickets in the 16th over by Willey in the following over swung the game back England's way, but Samuels remained to watch on from the non-striker's end as Brathwaite turned the game decisively in the West Indies' favour.
It was a cruel end to the game for Stokes, who had excelled in the field, taking four catches. He left the field in tears.
England also got off to a horror start in their innings, with Jason Roy bowled through the gate from just the second ball of Samuel Badree's opening over.
Alex Hales (1) and captain Eoin Morgan (5) followed soon after as they faltered to 23-3.
This united England's best two batsmen at the crease with plenty of overs to attack and Joe Root and Jos Buttler steadied the ship before taking the game to their opponent to forge the best partnership of the innings - 61 from just under seven overs.
However, Buttler fell just as he was looking to accelerate and Root was dismissed with just over five overs remaining as the pressure on his shoulders produced the first false shot of his innings - a mistimed, premeditated attempted scoop that gave a catch to short fine-leg Benn and Brathwaite the second of his three wickets.
Only Willey would make another notable contribution, hitting two sixes and a four in a quick-fire 21 to help England to their modest and ultimately insufficient total.
England captain Eoin Morgan: "It was filled with ups and downs. We let ourselves down with the bat and probably fell about 40 short.
"The decision to open the bowling with Joe Root came about in the last couple of days and golden arm took two wickets in his first over.
"Throughout this tournament we have shared a lot of good times but we are all in pain tonight. Ben [Stokes] plays all three formats, it will take him a while to come back but I have no doubts he will have a long career and do well in an England shirt."
West Indies captain Darren Sammy: "This win is something we are going to cherish for a long time. We have 15 match-winners but nobody gave us a chance.
"We felt disrespected by our board, [commentator] Mark Nicholas described us as having no brains and all this brought us together. The ability to put adversity aside and to play this type of cricket is just tremendous."
England head coach Trevor Bayliss: "If you add up the white-ball cricket games these guys have played, it's a long way behind other teams. It's a promising side and the signs are good.
"Whatever words I come up with the in the dressing room won't be enough. They're hurting, but it will steel them for the future.
"We have still got work to do, but we have a lot of good players to work with. England cricket is in good hands."
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: "Four successive sixes to win, I have never seen that before. England looked absolutely crushed. It's really good to see a smile on the face of West Indies cricket. It's a unique brand of the game and it needs to be nurtured and encouraged."
Former England spinner Vic Marks: "It was a staggeringly good final and a very good tournament. I feel desperately sorry for England who played so tenaciously to get back into the match, and especially for Ben Stokes. On the other hand you have to admire Brathwaite and the way he finished the game."
BBC Test Match Special commentator Charles Dagnall: "An incredible tournament with an impossible end... Love T20. But feel for Stokes, like the penalty taker who misses in sudden death." | Carlos Brathwaite hit the first four balls of the final over for six as West Indies stunned England to win the World Twenty20. | 35955518 | [
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The team of scientists hope the information will help shift the focus away from the way trees look towards on the focus on biodiversity.
Over the next decade, the urban environment is expected to increase by nearly 30%.
Details have been published in the Landscape and Urban Planning journal.
"We wanted to place the focus on city and urban locations when choosing trees, but not on the aesthetic aspects," said co-author Juliane Vogt from the Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Science at Techische Universitat Dresden, Germany.
She told BBC News that the goal of the database was to "find the right tree for the right place".
"City planner tend to like 10 to 15 species of tree, and they like to plant them again and again - that's not really biodiversity," Dr Vogt observed.
"This is why we put in 390 trees and shrubs into the database so there was a huge range of different species and varieties.
Dr Vogt added that she hoped that professionals, such as city planners and landscape architects, would use the database, adding "but we also think it will be of interest for homeowners if they have a garden and want to find out what sort of tree would be suitable".
She said that there were numerous benefits associated with city trees, such as shading and reducing the urban heat island effect, which make towns and cities several degrees warmer than surrounding rural areas. This is a particular problem during heatwaves.
"Trees also provide habitat for other animals that have made their home within cities," She added.
The long term survival and evolutionary development of species populations are shaped by the surrounding habitat. For some species, urban life has presented an opportunity for a new beginning.
The BBC Natural History Unit's Planet Earth II looks at the lure of the urban jungle for wildlife in its final episode of the series.
The programme, set to be broadcast on Sunday, 11 December, looks at peregrine falcons in New York, which are booming, thanks to another urban success story - the pigeon, or rock dove.
Langurs, a species of monkey in India, are also thriving. Revered as a mortal connection with a god, the animals are fed. Numbers are booming.
However, the growing biodiversity of urban life is not universally welcomed. Some species - racoons, rats, pigeons - are widely regarded as pests. Plants, such as the Japanese knotweed - once prized - are unwelcomed opportunists.
"Trees also interact with humans and the surrounding city, so one point of the database is to take account of some of the risks, such as having poisonous trees, or trees that have brittle wood that can break," said Dr Vogt.
"Some residents really dislike trees because, for example, they are too big.
"In the street near where I live, there are pear trees and now, in the autumn, the pears are falling and leaving a mess on the pavement below. People are now calling for them to be cut down, even though they are healthy."
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But a six-under 65 from Henrik Stenson left the Swede only one shot behind.
Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen (68) and American Keegan Bradley (68) are three shots off the lead, two clear of defending champion Zach Johnson (70).
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy shot 71 in the worst of the weather to finish eight shots off the pace.
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Andrew Johnston is the highest-placed Briton on four under, the Englishman recovering from a triple bogey at the fearsome 11th to record an impressive 69.
Meanwhile, Germany's two-time major winner Martin Kaymer got to seven under but triple bogeyed the 10th and finished with a 73 for three under.
The wind blew harder and the rain fell heavier after Mickelson reached the safety of the clubhouse, destroying the chances of a host of big names.
World number three Jordan Spieth shot a 75 to finish right on four-over-par and just make the cut, as did England's Masters champion Danny Willett, Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, and Scottish duo Colin Montgomerie and Paul Lawrie.
England's former US Open champion Justin Rose shot a 77 to finish three over, while world number one Jason Day battled to a 70 to finish one over.
US Open champion and world number two Dustin Johnson had two double bogeys but still managed a 69 for two under overall.
World number five Bubba Watson holed a birdie at the last to extend his stay. The two-time Masters champion double-bogeyed 11 and struggled to a 76 and four-over total.
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Mickelson, winner of the Claret Jug in 2013, carded a 63 on Thursday, the joint-lowest round in major history and the 46-year-old's 36-hole total of 132 is a record for an Open at Royal Troon.
The five-time major winner told BBC Sport: "If I look back to my mid-30s, I am 35lbs lighter, in better shape than I was and can manage the symptoms of my psoriatic arthritis. I feel stronger and in a better condition than I have ever been.
"I can't see why I can't play my best golf in the coming years. I am optimistic about this week and the coming years and the opportunities to add to my resume."
Mickelson teed off in overcast but benign conditions and covered the front nine in 33 shots, very nearly acing the eighth hole.
It started to rain when he hit the turn and he dropped his first shot of the tournament at the par-four 12th, but ground things out as others wilted.
Mickelson's feats were brought into sharper focus by the efforts of playing partners Lee Westwood and Ernie Els, who started their rounds on level par.
England's Westwood carded a 73, while two-time Open champion Els shot a five-over 76 and missed the cut by one shot.
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World number six Stenson, runner-up to Mickelson in 2013, made six birdies and one bogey as his attempt to become the first Scandinavian to win a major title gathered momentum.
"I haven't been in contention for the last six majors so it was a big goal of mine to give myself a good chance here. So far, so good," said Stenson.
"I'm 40, so might only have another dozen goes. So I better start putting myself in position and giving myself chances."
The affable Johnston, winner of the Spanish Open in May, is a developing something of a cult following. Johnston is nicknamed 'Beef', which prompted fans to wave burgers at him as he made his way from the 15th green.
"My mum, sister and niece are here," said the 27-year-old Londoner.
"My niece is five. I can hear her shouting out 'Uncle Beef' on every hole. Today she came out with 'Beef to the rescue!' She cracks me up."
Johnston is tied for sixth with Americans Tony Finau (71) and Bill Haas (70), former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel (66) and Spain's Sergio Garcia (70).
South Africa's 2010 champion Louis Oosthuizen had five bogeys, a double bogey and a quintuple-bogey nine in a humbling round of 83.
Ben Curtis, Open champion in 2003, recorded a sextuple-bogey 10 at the par-four fourth, hitting his ball into three different bunkers. He also shot an 83.
The last two champions at Troon, Todd Hamilton and Justin Leonard, also missed the cut after finishing six over.
There is a slight silver lining for those blown off course on Friday afternoon, with the news the early starters will get the better of the weather on Saturday.
It is forecast to be cloudy but mostly dry in the morning, with the odd bright spell, but the wind is set to get up in the afternoon, with showers also expected.
We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here. | American Phil Mickelson leads the Open Championship at the halfway stage, a two-under-par 69 lifting him to 10 under at Royal Troon. | 36806460 | [
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Anne Robinson's departure from Watchdog after 12 years on the programme was announced earlier this month.
Raworth's addition to the line-up comes more than 30 years after her completing work experience on the show.
"Watchdog is the reason I got into television," she said. "After doing two weeks work experience on the programme when I was 16, I was determined to become a journalist.
"I've presented Watchdog Daily and Test House for the past three years. I'm delighted to have been asked to join Matt, Chris and Michelle for the new series. It feels like I've come full circle."
Ackerley joined the BBC in 2005 and has previously reported for Watchdog and the Crimewatch Roadshow.
"I'm passionate about uncovering and investigating new stories and excited to work with Matt, Chris and Sophie," she said.
"I'm genuinely excited to be part of such a fantastic team."
The new series of Watchdog starts on 8 October. | BBC newsreader Sophie Raworth is to be part of Watchdog's new presenting team. | 34356851 | [
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The package includes a £250 Carer's Bonus for those looking after others for 35 hours a week or more.
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood called for a northern powerhouse for Wales in a speech at Bangor University.
Meanwhile, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon visited Wales to meet business leaders.
Also on Thursday, Wales Green leader Pippa Bartolotti called for the legalisation of cannabis for medical use in a speech in Cardiff.
Speaking of the Lib Dems' plans, Mr Clegg said: "Our new Carer's Package will ensure society pays back the service that carers give to their loved ones and the community, easing the pressure they are under, and providing the support needed to live happier, more fulfilling lives."
As for Plaid Cymru's call for a northern powerhouse, Ms Wood told students: "Devolution from London cannot stop at Cardiff Bay - there must be a devolution dividend for all Wales, for all communities.
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The 50 planes around the world were grounded due to battery malfunctions that saw one 787 catch fire in the US.
Over the past week teams of Boeing engineers have been fitting new batteries to the aircraft.
This was after aviation authorities approved the revamped battery design.
The Ethiopian Airlines plane took off at 09:45 local time (07:45 GMT) and landed in Nairobi, Kenya, some two hours later.
Each 787 has two of the lithium-ion batteries which caused problems.
In addition to new versions of the batteries which run at a much cooler temperature, the batteries are now enclosed in stainless steel boxes.
These boxes have a ventilation pipe that goes directly to the outside of the plane. Boeing says this means than in the unlikely event of any future fire or smoke, it would not affect the rest of the aircraft.
By Richard WestcottBBC transport correspondent, Nairobi
Flight ETH 801 between Addis Ababa and Nairobi wasn't exactly a run-of-the-mill flight.
For starters, it was full of Boeing executives and the boss of Ethiopian Airlines. Several passengers on board asked me what was going on, why was the BBC on a routine flight in Africa?
Many didn't realise that they were the first passengers to fly in a Dreamliner since it was dramatically grounded in January. There were plenty who knew about the safety scare surrounding the plane, although only a couple that we spoke to said it had made them a little more tentative about flying.
Boeing still has a huge job on its hands, convincing passengers that its most high-profile, most hi-tech airliner is safe.
Two senior Boeing executives went out of their way this week to tell me that they'd happily put their family on the plane. It's the kind of quote that sounds good.
Still, Boeing will be desperately hoping that its Dreamliner nightmare doesn't come back to haunt it.
Boeing said it put 200,000 engineer hours into fixing the problem, with staff working round the clock.
On Thursday, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a formal "air worthiness" directive allowing revamped 787s to fly.
Japanese airlines, which have been the biggest customers for the new-generation aircraft, are expected to begin test flights on Sunday.
A total of 300 Boeing engineers, pooled into 10 teams, have in the past week been fitting the new batteries and their containment systems around the world.
Boeing is expected to complete repairs on all 50 of the grounded Dreamliners by the middle of May.
In addition to the Dreamliners in service with airlines, Boeing has upgraded the 787s it has continued to make at its factory in Seattle since January.
The Dreamliner entered service in 2011. Half of the plane is made from lightweight composite materials, making it more fuel efficient than other planes of the same size.
The two lithium-ion batteries are not used when the 787 is in flight.
They are operational when the plane is on the ground and its engines are not turned on, and are used to power the aircraft's brakes and lights. | An Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner has flown from Addis Ababa to Nairobi, the first commercial flight by the Boeing aircraft since all 787s were grounded in January. | 22315317 | [
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Prof Jacquie McGlade said the UK was shifting away from clean energy as the rest of the world rushed towards it.
She said the cuts in renewables subsidies, coupled with tax breaks for oil and gas, sent a worrying signal to the coming UN climate summit in Paris.
The UK government says it will meet its targets on carbon emissions in the most cost-effective way.
A spokesman said it was "absolutely committed to getting a global deal in Paris".
Prof McGlade said the UK appeared to have abandoned its leadership on climate change, while 150 other nations were making unprecedented pledges to shift towards clean energy.
She told BBC News: "What I'm seeing worldwide is a move very much towards investment in renewable energy. To counterbalance that you see the withdrawal of subsidies and tax breaks for fossil fuels.
"What's disappointing is when we see countries such as the United Kingdom that have really been in the lead in terms of getting their renewable energy up and going - we see subsidies being withdrawn and the fossil fuel industry being enhanced."
Prof McGlade said this was the wrong message to other nations in the run-up to the Paris climate summit next month - and to its preparatory meeting in Bonn this week.
"It's a very serious signal - a very perverse signal that we do not want to create."
It is unusual for a senior UN official to criticise the policies of a leading member state in such forthright terms.
The UK government has promised to reset its energy policies shortly, to explain how it will meet carbon targets while offering fewer subsidies to renewables, following a £1.5bn overspend on the notional budget for clean energy.
Ministers say they have to force energy bills down. They want new solar and wind projects to be built without subsidy, although the industry says that is impossible at the moment.
Since the announcements of subsidy cuts in the summer, three solar firms have collapsed, more than 1,000 jobs have been lost in the clean energy industry and energy investors have started to drain away from the UK.
One potential international investor, Paddy Padmanathan, CEO of Saudi-based ACWA Power, told the BBC: "It's been very badly managed because yesterday we had subsidies - today, I'm sorry, nothing.
"That's basically what has happened in the United Kingdom. You [should] phase out the subsidies - work with the industry in a much more measured way."
He said investors would turn away from investing in UK infrastructure as a result.
"They will withdraw, they are withdrawing," he said.
"Everyone is running around the world looking for other places. Thank you very much, I've picked up experience now, the UK is not the best bet, let me go somewhere else. Even the UK companies are looking aggressively elsewhere."
A Department of Energy and Climate Change spokesperson said: "We are absolutely committed to getting a global deal in Paris, which will create a level playing field for businesses, driving innovation and growing the low carbon economy."
The spokesman said subsidies had driven down the cost of renewable energy, leading more people than expected to install technology like solar panels.
"Ensuring subsidies are used where they are needed most, so they can compete with other technologies provides the best value for money for hardworking bill payers," the spokesman added. | Cuts in support for renewable energy in the UK have been criticised by the UN's chief environment scientist. | 34555821 | [
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The 32-year-old, who won 56 caps, was available on a free transfer after being released by fellow Premier League side West Ham in May.
He said: "This is a massive club and there's a massive opportunity for the club to push on.
"I've been lucky enough to have a really good career, but there's still a lot more I want to achieve."
Cole, who also played for Chelsea, Liverpool and on loan at Lille, is Villa's second signing of the summer.
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Josh Johnson, 19, had been charged with murder, but admitted to the lesser charge of manslaughter, which was accepted at Teesside Crown Court.
Johnson, from Ushaw Moor, is due to return to the court on 20 December for sentencing. | A teenager has admitted killing a man found with stab wounds in a County Durham village. | 38068400 | [
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The couple have been vocal supporters of the "Say I Do Down Under" marriage equality campaign.
The government has proposed holding a public vote on same-sex marriage in February 2017.
Mr Sasse, who helped launch the "yes" campaign at the weekend, said the pair would like a wedding in Melbourne, "but we will not get married until this law has passed in Australia".
"When I found out that gay marriage was illegal in Australia, I was astounded," he told Australia's Seven Network.
"I simply can't fathom on any level, whether it's moral or religious or anything, that I have the right to get married and to marry the person that I love and that somebody else doesn't because of their sexual orientation." | Kylie Minogue's British fiance has said the couple won't get married until same-sex marriage becomes legal in Australia. | 37548760 | [
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The military said the driver was taken into custody after the incident near the Jewish settlement of Ofra.
It brings to 41 the number of Israelis killed in knife, gun and car-ramming attacks since October 2015.
Local media have named the driver as 22-year-old Malek Hamad, from the West Bank town of Silwad.
Witnesses told Israeli media that the car approached a bus stop at the Ofra junction, on the Route 60 highway north-east of Ramallah, and then accelerated towards the two Israelis waiting there.
Sgt Elchai Teharlev, 20, died at the scene, while the second victim, aged 19, was reportedly lightly injured and taken to hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.
The Palestinian militant group, Hamas, praised what it called the "heroic" attack.
In late 2015 and 2016, such attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs happened with near-daily frequency but the rate has dropped in recent months.
At least 242 Palestinians - 162 of them attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period, Reuters news agency reports. Others have been killed in clashes with Israeli troops.
Israel has accused Palestinian leaders of inciting the attacks, but they have blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation. | An Israeli soldier has been killed and another Israeli hurt in a Palestinian car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military says. | 39513189 | [
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Met Police barrister Richard Horwell QC said suspects Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoi had no personal motive to kill.
The Russian state "is likely to have been the sponsor of this plot" and had "reasons aplenty" for wishing him "not only harm, but death", he said.
UK officials believe the two suspects poisoned Mr Litvinenko, 43, in London in 2006 but they deny any wrongdoing.
Mr Litvinenko drank tea containing a fatal dose of radioactive substance polonium-210 during a meeting with Mr Kovtun and Mr Lugovoi.
He died in hospital nearly three weeks later.
The fact that polonium caused his death indicates there was some form of Russian state participation, Mr Horwell said in his closing remarks.
He said: "The evidence suggests the only credible explanation is that in one form or another the Russian state was involved in Mr Litvinenko's murder."
However, he stressed this did not mean Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved or gave the order and that there were many possible motives for the murder.
Defecting to the UK in 2000, after accusing KGB successor the FSB of murdering political opponents and of corruption, could have been seen as "akin to treachery", he said.
He also spoke of Mr Litvinenko's "many personal attacks on Putin".
Mr Horwell has said the risk to the general public in London from polonium radiation will never be known, and also that Mr Litvinenko had been poisoned twice in the run-up to his death.
He said: "The two attacks on Mr Litvinenko were an outrage. They led to great suffering on his part and eventually to his demise.
"We will never know how dangerous the exposure of polonium to the public at large will be and what long-term effects will be visited upon Londoners."
Mr Horwell said the suspects left a "trail of polonium" behind and they had "no credible answer" to the scientific evidence against them.
While the force wanted them tried for murder, this was now unlikely to happen, the inquiry heard.
Attempts to extradite the two men have failed and they remain in Russia.
Former Soviet army officer Mr Kovtun has been criticised by inquiry chairman Sir Robert Owen for failing to give evidence to the hearing.
The inquiry was adjourned until Friday. | The Russian state wanted former spy Alexander Litvinenko dead, the inquiry into his poisoning has been told. | 33719438 | [
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The staff who would be relocated would be those who already process payments made in euros for HSBC in Canary Wharf.
Thursday's referendum result means the UK will need to renegotiate its trade relationship with the European Union - including whether it remains part of the single market.
HSBC declined to comment.
Chris Cummings, chief executive of financial lobby group TheCityUK, said it was focused on securing continued access to the single market and warned of the risk of "prolonged uncertainty" while a new relationship with the EU was negotiated.
Eurozone leaders have warned that without unrestricted access to the EU, London's big finance firms could move operations outside the UK.
The head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said limited access to the single market would be the "price" of the UK leaving the EU.
If the UK was not in the single market or the European Economic Area (EEA), it would mean the loss of "passporting", which allows banks to operate without restriction in all EEA countries.
The EEA comprises the 28 members of the EU, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. EEA rules allow those non-EU countries to be part of the EU's single market, as long as they allow full freedom of movement of people.
The head of France's central bank, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, also warned that London's banks would lose their "financial passport" outside the single market or EEA.
John Cryan, chief executive of Deutsche Bank, said he thought London would lose some of its status as a financial hub.
"The financial centre won't die, but it will get weaker," he told German business newspaper Handelsblatt.
Mr Cryan did not comment on the possible impact of the leave decision on Deutsche Bank, which employs at least 11,000 staff in the UK.
Meanwhile, sources at Standard Chartered told the BBC it was unlikely that the Asia-focused bank would move any staff from London.
Leave campaigners have dismissed concerns of widespread job losses, saying Britain should focus on developing trade relationships with non-EU countries.
Gerard Lyons, a UK economist who backed the Leave camp, said London would not be displaced as Europe's financial centre.
"We have the depth of skills, knowledge and experience that's hard to replicate," said Mr Lyons, an economic advisor to Boris Johnson.
Passporting for finance firms is a "negotiable issue" with the EU, he said, particularly as several European banks also use those rules to access the UK.
HSBC already has more than 10,000 staff working in Paris.
The London-based bank has about 48,000 UK workers across its retail and investment banking operations. A year ago, it said it was planning to cut 8,000 jobs in the UK to reduce costs.
Earlier this year, the bank said it would keep its global headquarters in London, following a review.
On Friday, sources told the BBC that up to 2,000 jobs at the US investment bank Morgan Stanley could be moved from London to Dublin or Frankfurt.
Morgan Stanley denied that jobs will be moved.
Banks and other financial companies can be authorised to do business in one member state of the EU, or the slightly wider European Economic Area (EEA), and then ply their trade across the region without having to be separately authorised in each country.
The EEA is a grouping made up of the EU, plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein who have access to the EU's single market.
A bank using this system can provide services by offering them from its home base to a customer in another country, or it can establish a branch abroad.
It is widely used by financial firms (not just banks) in the EU. It is also used by companies from outside the EEA, such as Switzerland and the US.
They establish themselves in one place in the EU, typically in London as the continent's dominant financial centre, and use that as their headquarters for selling services across the single market.
If the banking passport is no longer available to British-based firms, then some operations would clearly have to shift to a location inside the EEA.
What is impossible to judge is just how much business, and how many jobs, would be affected. Would any shift be narrowly focussed on those functions serving EEA customers? Or would firms find it more cost effective to move other parts of the business as well?
Read Andrew's full analysis on passporting. | HSBC would move up to 1,000 staff from London to Paris if the UK left the single market, following Britain's vote to leave the EU, the BBC understands. | 36629745 | [
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Anderson, level with Darren Gough on 234 before the game, took the wicket of Mitchell Marsh to move past the former Yorkshire seamer's old record.
The Lancashire seamer's record-breaking wicket came in the first ball of his seventh over at Edgbaston.
He went on to take his new record to 237 with two more wickets.
Six others have taken 100 ODIs wickets or more for England, but only Anderson and Gough have broken the 200 barrier.
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan holds the world record with 534 wickets from 350 matches, while Pakistan pace bowler Wasim Akram took 502 from 356.
Anderson is 25th in the all-time world list but has only played 170 internationals.
The 30-year-old became only the fourth England player to take 300 Test wickets when he dismissed New Zealand opener Peter Fulton during the first Test at Lord's in May.
If he is to become England's most successful Test bowler of all time, he will have to overhaul Sir Ian Botham's 383, with Fred Trueman's 307 and Bob Willis's 325 his next targets.
In February of this year, Anderson claimed his 529th scalp in all formats to pass Botham's 528 and become England's leading international wicket-taker.
"He's right up there with the best that England have had and he's right up there with the best in the world," said former England captain Michael Vaughan last month. | James Anderson became England's leading wicket-taker in one-day internationals with his 235th victim as they | 22829402 | [
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Fellow scrum-half Greig Laidlaw was Scotland's man of the match in their opening Pool B win over Japan.
But Pyrgos takes over as skipper as head coach Vern Cotter rotates his squad against the USA on Sunday.
"Greig had a great game on Wednesday, but I'll focus on my role and do it to the best of my ability," said the Glasgow Warriors 26-year-old.
"I just look at it like it's a great opportunity.
"Hopefully, we get the right result."
Pyrgos led Scotland in a World Cup warm-up defeat by Ireland last month and will be determined to retain his place.
However, Laidlaw is almost certain to return for the potentially decisive meeting with South Africa in Newcastle a week on Saturday.
"I knew coming in that was how it was going to go," added Pyrgos.
"It was amazing to lead the team out against Ireland and again it's a huge honour to captain Scotland at a World Cup.
"I know how much it means to the country and I'm really excited.
"I'm not sure how I'll feel when I get out there, but it'll be a big moment for myself and my family." | Henry Pyrgos is ready to make the most of what could be his only chance to captain Scotland at this World Cup. | 34359802 | [
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Striker Diego Costa went off injured for Atletico early on and Barcelona capitalised as Alexis Sanchez smashed in a superb opener.
Atletico came out strong in the second half as David Villa hit the post before Diego Godin headed an equaliser.
Barcelona would have won the title with a win and Dani Alves went close with a fierce drive, but Atletico held on.
The final whistle was greeted by wild celebrations from the Atletico players and coaching staff, while the entire Nou Camp stood to applaud Diego Simeone's side as they finally ended the Barcelona-Real Madrid duopoly in Spanish football.
The draw meant Atletico finished first with 90 points, three ahead of Barcelona and Real.
It completed what has been a superb season for Atletico, which has seen them take victory at city rivals Real, as well as win nine league games in succession to go top of the table in March.
Their run faltered slightly towards the end, as they lost to Levante and drew at home to Malaga, but they went into the game against Barcelona knowing a point would be enough to win the title.
If that gave Atletico players any psychological advantage, it was swiftly eradicated when Simeone's side lost two of their key players inside the opening 20 minutes.
Their first casualty was Costa. The striker, with 27 goals in the league this season, had only just returned to the side after missing last week's draw with Malaga, and he lasted just 14 minutes before his hamstring went after a brief sprint.
Costa limped off in tears and just seven minutes later it got worse for the visitors. Arda Turan, so often the creator of Atletico's better moves this season, landed on his back awkwardly when challenging for possession and he too was unable to continue.
To Atletico's credit, they did not let that double blow disrupt them as they managed to keep Barcelona at arm's length, whilst also threatening occasionally themselves.
Atletico's Tiago directed a header over the bar from Koke's inviting cross, before Pedro missed with a similar attempt for Barcelona soon after.
There had barely been a shot on target in the first half hour but it was a moment of brilliance from Sanchez that gave Barcelona the lead.
Cesc Fabregas curled a ball into the box for Lionel Messi who, with his back to goal, chested the ball into the path of an onrushing Sanchez, who smashed a first time effort from the tightest of angles just inside the top right of the Atletico goal.
The half-time whistle provided Simeone the chance to offer words of encouragement to his players, and whatever he said evidently worked as the visitors made a storming start to the second half.
Villa's shot on the turn struck the post, before the former Barcelona striker saw a low, left-footed effort saved by Pinto, but their pressure paid dividends just five minutes after the restart when Gabi whipped a corner into the middle of the area where Godin rose highest to send a bullet header low into the back of the net.
Barcelona needed to regain the initiative if they were to successfully defend the league title and the balance of play quickly swung back in their favour, with the visitors seemingly content to soak up pressure and try and hit the hosts on the counter.
Messi, quiet for large periods of the game, had the ball in the net midway through the second half, but the Argentine's effort was ruled offside, before Alves struck a shot from distance that seemed destined for the top corner, only for Atletico keeper Thibaut Courtois to react superbly to push the ball over his goal.
The Atletico players held their nerve to keep Barcelona at bay in the final 10 minutes before the final whistle confirmed their status as league champions.
With one trophy secured, Simeone will now switch his attention to the Champions League, with Atletico taking on Real Madrid in the final on Saturday, 24 May. | Atletico Madrid won La Liga for the first time since 1996 by securing a draw in a pulsating match at Barcelona. | 27422328 | [
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The two heavyweights will fight for the IBF title and vacant WBA belt in front of 90,000 fans at Wembley on Saturday.
Joshua, 27, is undefeated in 18 fights since turning professional, while 41-year-old Klitschko had his first defeat in 11 years against Tyson Fury in 2015.
"Klitschko doesn't have the legs, the power that he used to," said Lewis.
"He has a chink in his armour after getting beat by Tyson Fury. Anthony Joshua is now taking that challenge, going after the man."
Joshua himself asked the question in the build-up to Saturday's fight of whether "Father Time has caught up with the former champ?".
But Lewis, who like Joshua won a super-heavyweight Olympic gold medal, says the Ukrainian's age is not the only reason he fancies the British fighter's chances.
"Now is the perfect time for him," the 51-year-old told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I believe Joshua is more focused, more aimed. Does he want to be undisputed champion? Absolutely."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Anthony Joshua's world title bout with Wladimir Klitschko comes at the "perfect time", says former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. | 39712615 | [
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Government limits to teachers' pay and "real terms cuts" to school budgets risk undermining standards, they warn.
"Teachers need a pay rise," they urge, in a joint statement to the School Teachers' Review Body (STRB), which sets their pay.
The government said it was attracting "the best and brightest" to teaching.
Teachers' pay increases have been limited to 1% or less for the past five years, and the government aims to keep to this limit for the next four years.
With long, hard working hours and a relatively low starting salary for a graduate, it is hardly surprising that teacher recruitment is struggling.
Qualified teachers in England can expect to start on £22,000 outside London or £27,000 in inner London.
In most cases, this is after post-graduate training, a year's school placement and a degree course.
And although there is room for growth and progression - based on performance of course - many newly-qualified teachers find the pressures of the job too much and leave soon after taking their first post.
Teachers in England have some of the longest hours and largest classes in the developed world, says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Teaching unions have complained that although their staff were promised a 1% pay rise, this has had to be found from within existing school budgets.
Head teachers say school budgets are already at breaking point as they struggle to deal with other inflationary pressures.
But the DfE maintains new trainees can benefit from financial support, a good salary, enviable job security and a generous pension.
In October, England's education secretary, Nicky Morgan, wrote to the STRB to remind them of this policy.
But the joint statement warns that "as pay and prospects improve in comparable occupations", further pressure will be placed on teacher recruitment and retention.
This means more children will be taught by teachers who are not specialist in the subjects they teach, it adds.
With budgets "at breaking point", schools will struggle to maintain current spending - "let alone afford pay increases", it continues.
"The government must fully fund the necessary pay increases for teachers and school leaders in both England and Wales."
The six unions are:
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, described four more years of pay austerity as a "false economy".
Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said teachers "are already leaving in droves and new graduates looking elsewhere for a career".
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, claimed 160,000 more teachers would be needed over three years to cope with a rapid increase in pupil numbers.
But she warned unless the picture improved the government would have little chance of meeting this target.
"Schools will have to start increasing class sizes or shutting courses and cutting the subject options available to pupils".
And Elaine Edwards, UCAC's general secretary urged the government to reconsider its pay policies "for the sake of our children and young people and the education system as a whole".
The STRB is expected to make its recommendations on teachers' pay in April.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said it had worked with the profession to "raise the status of teaching", adding that that a record number of highly-qualified graduates and "experienced career changers" were now teaching.
She added: "But we are determined to go further, and recognise that some schools find it harder to recruit the teachers they need, which is why we are expanding the great Teach First and Schools Direct programmes and we are launching the National Teaching Service, which will mean more great teachers in schools in every corner of the country." | A "national crisis" in teacher numbers is looming, six unions representing teachers and school leaders in England and Wales have warned. | 35265048 | [
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The two nations meet in a 2018 World Cup qualifier on Armistice Day, also known as Remembrance Day, when the United Kingdom remembers those who have lost their lives in war.
But Fifa, who are in charge of world football, say they do not allow any nations to have any political, religious or commercial messages on shirts.
They had turned down a request to allow England and Scotland's players to wear armbands with poppies on.
The FAs have now said that they will let their players wear the armbands anyway and will accept any punishment.
Poppies are worn by millions as a symbol to remember those who have lost their lives in war or been injured.
British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has said Fifa's refusal of players being allowed to wear poppies is "outrageous".
Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, she said: "Our football players want to recognise and respect those who have given their lives for our safety and security - I think it is absolutely right they should be able to do so."
The Football Association of Wales has also written to Fifa requesting permission to wear poppies on armbands during their game against Serbia in Cardiff on 12 November but has not yet said if it will ignore the ban. | The Football Associations of England and Scotland say they will ignore a ban on players wearing poppies in their upcoming match on 11 November. | 37849491 | [
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Arthur Cory, 49, said the flag had been kept in a cupboard at Penllyn Castle near Cowbridge, since he was a boy.
The flag, one of only three surviving from the battle, is expected to fetch up to £50,000 at auction.
It is said to have flown above Nelson's warship HMS Leviathan.
The flag's "most probable" route to Penllyn Castle was through Mr Cory's ancestor Nicholas Cory, a rear admiral on William IV's Royal George yacht, the auction house said.
Roland Elworthy, senior valuer at Holt's Auctioneers, said he had "no doubt as to the flag's provenance". | A man from the Vale of Glamorgan is selling a rare union jack flag, said to have been flown at the Battle of Trafalgar. | 35038494 | [
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It was believed the Irish Army had removed all the wreckage at the time but a group of aviation historians and Queens University Belfast archaeologists thought otherwise.
After ground surveys pointed to parts being present just four meters below the surface, a number of items were excavated on Saturday.
These included the cockpit door.
The pilot - Gordon Hayter Proctor - had safely bailed out of the plane on the northern side of the border after his instruments froze. It glided on before crashing in a field in Figullar, Emyvale, on 20 November 1942.
The plane, which had seen action in the Battle of Britain, was considered "war-weary" and had been assigned to a weather-monitoring squadron operating out of RAF Aldergrove in Antrim in 1942.
Project organiser Jonny McNee told the BBC the dig had "exceeded expectations" and they had recovered "Monaghan's Battle of Britain forgotten heritage".
The aviation historian said they had unearthed internal parts of the Rolls Royce engine and plates inscribed with information, such as manufacturing details.
"The cockpit door was a bit of a surprise," he said. "The last person to use it was Flt Lt Gordon Hayter Proctor who was later declared missing while serving in Burma.
"He has no grave and now he will be remembered in a bit of Monaghan. The display will be homage to him".
He added that the team would love to make contact with any of his family members.
Mr McNee said they knew more than 90% of the plane had been taken away at the time and probably scrapped.
"We had done our research and by looking at the Irish Army military archives, we knew that a substantial amount of the plane was taken away," he said.
"Back in September we applied for and were granted a licence to use ground-penetrating radar which detected the impact crater and showed sizable metallic remains."
Pupils from three schools - two in Monaghan and one in County Londonderry, had been invited to help out at the dig, which also attracted the attention of many locals.
Josie McCusker, who remembers seeing the Spitfire fall from the sky all those years ago, stayed for the entire duration of the dig.
"It was the morning, a Sunday morning and I remember the loud noise of it," she told BBC Radio Ulster.
"My father was milking cows in the byre and he heard the noise and he ran into the house thinking it was on fire.
"We then discovered it was a plane - it took the tops off the trees and a piece of it fell down in a gooseberry bush behind the house.
"I remember much of the plane being removed by the Army, and remember seeing it on a lorry."
The job now is to clean, sort, identify and catalogue the items before handing them to the County Monaghan Museum, which will then be able to claim it has artefacts from the only Battle of Britain Spitfire to be legally excavated in Ireland. | Remnants from an RAF Spitfire plane which crashed into a field in County Monaghan in 1942 have been recovered. | 39906984 | [
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The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance in July fell more sharply, down by 29,000 to 1.4 million.
The unemployment rate remains at 7.8%, still well above the 7% rate target set by the Bank of England.
The Bank's governor, Mark Carney, says interest rates are unlikely to rise before that target is reached.
The ONS said the figures meant unemployment was "broadly unchanged" from the first three months of the year.
The number of people in work increased by 69,000 in the three months to June, up to 29.78 million. That is the highest level since records began in 1971.
That means 307,000 more people are in employment in the UK, compared with the same time last year.
Latest unemployment figures across the UK
The ONS's David Freeman said two-thirds of this increase had been seen in UK nationals. A third of the employment increase came from non-UK nationals working in the UK.
Suddenly everyone is watching out for the unemployment rate. That's because the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, has said future interest rate rises will not start until, barring unexpected events, the rate falls to 7% of the workforce.
The latest figures, the first since the Bank's forward guidance announcement, showed the rate was unchanged at 7.8%. Yet the figures also showed the number in work was at a record high. And therein lies a problem for the Bank.
The economy is creating jobs but the workforce is growing. So there may be solid economic growth over the next couple of years, but the unemployment rate still takes a while to come down. And during that time, inflation alarm bells may start to ring.
Analysts said the figures portrayed a mixed picture of the UK jobs market.
"Despite some good news in the latest jobs figures there are worrying signs about the underlying state of the UK jobs market," said John Philpott, from the think tank, The Jobs Economist.
"The rise in employment is almost matched by an increase in the size of the workforce, which means the unemployment rate is unchanged at 7.8%.
"The headline jobs figures may continue to be broadly positive but one only has to dig a little deeper into the statistics to see that millions of people are continuing to be hit by a combination of lack of jobs and a ceaseless sharp fall in the real value of their pay."
Youth unemployment, among those aged 16-24, increased by 15,000 to reach 973,000.
The number of people out of work for more than two years also rose by 10,000 to 474,000, the highest number in 16 years.
The ONS also released figures showing that wages grew by 1.1% over the past 12 months. When bonuses were included, wages grew by 2.1% - the highest annual growth rate since June 2011.
The small fall in unemployment comes a week after Mr Carney linked the Bank of England's interest rate policy decisions to the unemployment rate for the first time.
He said the MPC will not consider raising interest rates until the unemployment rate falls below 7%, which he predicted would take about three years and the creation of 750,000 jobs.
Work and Pensions minister Steve Webb told the BBC that "things were starting to look much more positive". He said the jobs figures added to a general picture of an economy that was starting to pick up.
But Labour's shadow employment minister, Stephen Timms, said the reality was that for ordinary families things were getting "harder not easier", highlighting the rise in part-time workers.
"Ministers just sound out of touch when they ignore the fact that the number of people who are working part-time because they cannot find a full-time job is at record levels," he said. | UK unemployment fell by 4,000 in the three months to June leaving 2.51 million out of work, says the Office for National Statistics (ONS). | 23692996 | [
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But on Monday the Church of England broke a tradition inherited from the first Christians 2,000 years ago when the three houses of the General Synod voted to allow women to be bishops.
Since the days of Jesus and his 12 male apostles the Church has had exclusively male leaders - bishops whose authority has been handed down the generations by the laying on of hands.
Hilary Cotton chairs Women and the Church, which campaigns for women bishops.
"Saying yes to women bishops is a cosmic shift," she says.
"It changes our whole understanding of what God intended people to be, and even changes the Church's theology by recognising that men and women are equally chosen to lead it."
A senior figure on the "high church" wing of the Anglicanism, Prebendary David Houlding, says creating women bishops represents "a massive shift" in the way the Church presented itself to the world.
"It's an unprecedented acceptance by the Church of the secular values of society", he says.
"There was a lot of damage to the Church's reputation when the measure was defeated before. It's terrified of sending the wrong signal again."
Samuel Margrave, who also opposes the legislation, told the Synod: "This is a show for the media. It's the end of the Church as we know it."
The Reverend Lindsay Southern, the Vicar of Catterick in North Yorkshire, who supports the proposals, said a single vote for woman bishops would have huge long-term effects.
"It might look like a small change in direction from the outside, but it's like a ship at sea - a change in course over time will lead us to a completely different place."
Women now constitute a third of the 11,000 Anglican priests, several of whom have reached senior positions.
The Church's 42 dioceses have given unanimous backing to the latest proposals.
But to take such a profound step, each of the Synod's three houses - representing bishops, clergy and lay people - needed to support legislation to create women bishops by a majority of two-thirds.
The legislation failed in November 2012 because lay synod members who supported women bishops nevertheless believed that traditionalists were not getting sufficient exemptions from serving under them.
The latest proposals would allow traditionalist parishes to ask a woman bishop for a male alternative, and take any dispute over the process to an independent ombudsman.
"There will be an 'expectation' that bishops will do their best to accommodate (traditionalist) parishes," says Prebendary Rod Thomas, the leader of the conservative evangelical group, Reform.
"But in the end it depends on trust, and that is the big question. Will there be trust?"
Evangelical traditionalists oppose women bishops because of their belief that the Bible calls for men to head churches.
Traditionalists on the Catholic, or High Church, wing of Anglicanism believe that because Jesus chose only men to make up his 12 apostles, only men should lead the Church.
In fact some do not believe that women can be priests, so that were a woman bishop to ordain a man as a priest, he would not truly be a priest.
High Church traditionalists will look for alternative male bishops who have been ordained by a man, and who have not themselves ordained women as priests.
With the tide of opinion in the Church, and in wider society, running against them, traditionalists are being offered much less than they wanted.
After the legislation is passed, and if Parliament approves it, the new law will be "promulgated" by the Synod in November.
Committees looking for bishops for the vacancies in Newcastle, Oxford and Peterborough could then interview women candidates.
Senior bishops elsewhere might more quickly appoint a woman in the more junior role of assistant or "suffragan" bishop.
Other Anglican churches already have women bishops - there are 20 in Canada, Australia, the United States, Cuba, India, New Zealand, Swaziland and South Africa.
The Church of Ireland, which covers Northern Ireland, appointed Rev Pat Storey, as the first woman bishop in the UK in September, 2013. | Not for more than 20 years has the future direction and character of the Church of England turned so profoundly on a single vote. | 28299395 | [
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Surman, 28, arrives back at Dean Court having previously spent two spells on loan at the Championship club.
He spent last season with Bournemouth, making 39 appearances, and was also at the Cherries during the 2005-06 season.
The former England Under-21 international started his career at Southampton before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2009.
Surman joined Norwich in 2010 and made 58 appearances for the Canaries. | Bournemouth have signed Norwich midfielder Andrew Surman for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal. | 29021180 | [
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Theresa May used a speech in Washington to urge the UK's partners in the Five Eyes security alliance - the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - to work together against terrorism.
Mrs May called for better information-sharing and more thorough exchange of terrorist finance details.
She said tackling terrorism was the "challenge of our generation".
Mrs May called on the UK's partners in the Five Eyes alliance to extend "the successful co-operation between our countries on issues of national security which we have built over past decades".
"I am clear that defeating terrorism requires a global response, and that we will not succeed by acting in isolation," Mrs May said.
She challenged the alliance to:
"Extremism is spreading, threatening and taking lives, not just in our countries but in other lands. It thrives in the disorder created by fragile and failing states.
"It is contributing to, and in some cases exploiting, mass migration. It is turning the benefits of modern technology to its twisted ends," she added.
Fears have previously been raised that militants from the so-called Islamic State group may be attempting to get into Europe posing as refugees.
Last month a report by EU's police agency Europol said there was no "concrete evidence" that militants were using the flow of refugees to enter unnoticed but it said there were reports that refugee centres were being "specifically targeted" by Islamic extremist recruiters. | Extremism is contributing to and exploiting mass migration, the home secretary has warned. | 35592457 | [
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The victim suffered a serious head injury in the attack at an address on School Road in Heysham, on Thursday.
She was taken to hospital where she remains in a critical but stable condition, Lancashire Police said.
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Barbara Stensland, 43, from Cardiff, went to Carmarthen on 5 August.
When she tried to get a taxi from the railway station to the venue, less than one mile (1.6km) away, she was refused.
Carmarthenshire council's senior licensing officer, Justin Power, said: "We will investigate this matter and take any necessary steps."
Ms Stensland told BBC Radio Cymru's Post Cyntaf programme it took her more than an hour to reach the venue.
She said: "I went to the first taxi in the queue outside the station, I told him where I wanted to go.
"He laughed. I thought he was just joking along because I knew it was a fairly short distance.
"When I said 'seriously, can I get in the taxi?' He said 'no, I'm not taking you.' So he pointed me helpfully in the right direction and told me to walk."
Urtha Felda, from MS Society Cymru, said: "We have heard of people having trouble getting taxis.
"If somebody's still walking you can't see that they're disabled - if someone's in a wheelchair it's really obvious.
"It's not obvious, so I would say to people - don't make judgements." | A woman with multiple sclerosis has said she was refused a taxi to a meeting of the MS Society because the journey was too short. | 37098572 | [
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With four rounds of fixtures to go, the Crues are now on the verge of securing back-to-back league titles for the first time in the club's history.
Whyte rounded Ross Glendinning and flicked the ball home on 88 minutes.
Substitute Forsythe fired the second into the top corner in stoppage time.
Linfield went into the crucial top-of-the-table clash on the back of a formidable record of just one defeat in their previous 15 Premiership fixtures.
However, Crusaders had suffered only three reverses in the last 16 Premiership meetings between the sides.
Goalscoring chances were at a premium in a cagey first half but Ross Glendinning denied Paul Heatley and Jordan Owens fired wide of the post for the hosts.
Linfield were the superior team for much of the second period and Sean O'Neill pushed a fine Stephen Lowry drive onto the post.
Glendinning produced another fine save as Heatley attempted to find the top corner, before Whyte grabbed his first goal since October and his first in the league at his side's home ground this season.
Owens flicked on a long ball out of defence and Whyte ran in behind the Linfield defence, rounded the Blues stopper and flicked the ball into the net.
Forsythe caught Glendinning off his line in added time as the Blues pushed for an equaliser which may have kept any realistic hopes of maintaining a title challenge alive.
Crusaders are now unbeaten in 15 league encounters on their home patch, their only defeat of the campaign on their own ground coming against Portadown on the opening day of the season on 8 August.
Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter: "It was a pulsating game with a great cup-final type atmosphere and it was great to be a part of it.
"It is definitely not over as we have two very difficult away games against Cliftonville and Glenavon to come and we have to stay focused. We still have a big job to do.
"They are all big matches at this stage of the season but it's important that we won on our home ground and tried to drive our advantage home."
Linfield manager David Healy: "We just didn't get the rub of the green today and we missed a few chances, but it's a difficult place to come to and credit to Crusaders, they should go on and win it now.
"We needed to win this game but now we must make sure that we finish second and qualify for Europe, plus we have a cup final to look forward to." | Late goals from Gavin Whyte and Jordan Forsythe saw champions Crusaders beat Linfield 2-0 at Seaview and extend their lead over their nearest rivals at the top of the table to eight points. | 36005541 | [
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As defence correspondent of the Daily Express he beat his rivals to a string of scoops.
One of his great strengths was the ability to remember minute details without having to make a single note.
After his retirement he published a series of books alleging Britain's security services had been penetrated by spies at the top level.
Harry Chapman Pincher, son of an Army officer, was born in India on 29 March 1914.
He went to Darlington Grammar School and London University, and graduated in zoology and botany.
Ironically while at university, some fellow students tried to sign him up to the Soviet cause.
"I said to one: 'In the event of a successful revolution, how would the new England be governed?'
"He said: 'To start with it would be governed from Moscow.'
"So I said: 'Well, bugger that.'"
Pincher worked as a teacher before joining the Royal Armoured Corps in 1940. He moved to the Rocket Division of the Ministry of Supply in 1943.
After the war he secured a job with the Daily Express as defence, science and medical editor.
One of his best contacts, the chief scientist at the Ministry of Defence in the 1950s, was keen to tell him as much as possible about Britain's atomic weapons programme.
He wanted to explain to the public why the country was spending such massive sums of money on it.
"I'm up for use any time," he said. "If someone wants to come and tell me some news that nobody else knows and I make a lovely scoop of it, come on, use me!"
But it never worried him that he was being used by senior figures with ideas to promote or scores to settle.
His investigative methods were unorthodox. Mainly he bought people agreeable lunches and, over the claret, senior civil servants and politicians would tell him things.
His favourite lunch venue was a classy French restaurant called L'Ecu de France in Jermyn Street off Piccadilly, handy both for Fleet Street and for the civil servants and politicians in Westminster.
Only after it closed did he learn that the place had been bugged by MI5 since the 1940s. (It had also, MI5 discovered when removing its own hidden microphones, been bugged by the KGB.)
"MI5 heard every conversation that I had and they did nothing about it," he said.
"All they did was put it in the files. MI5 doesn't like to take any action; they like to know.
"'It's in the files: if we take action, they'll know we know.' That's the attitude. It's absolutely crazy."
Pincher cultivated contacts not only at the lunch table but in the countryside.
In the 1950s he took up game shooting, and met a good many useful sources while banging away in plus-fours at pheasant and grouse.
Lord Mountbatten, aloof and unapproachable as first sea lord and chief of the defence staff, turned out to be much friendlier when Pincher encountered him shooting.
"He invited me to shoot at Broadlands and even dictated a story to me once when I was travelling in his Land Rover, which went straight into the newspaper... but under my name, not his."
In 1964 he brought into the open the scandal over Ferranti's £5 million profit on Bloodhound missiles, which were the major weapon in Britain's air defences.
This was a colossal sum at the time and a subsequent inquiry saw the company refunding more than £4 million to the Treasury.
In 1971, Pincher revealed how the number of staff at the Soviet embassy had increased significantly and claimed that most of the diplomats, chauffeurs and gardeners were really spies.
This prompted Edward Heath's government to expel 105 of them, which seriously damaged the Soviet Union's espionage capability.
After his retirement, Pincher's most controversial book was Their Trade is Treachery. This revealed the head of MI5 until 1965, Sir Roger Hollis, had been investigated as a suspected Soviet spy.
There was an immense furore, which Pincher doubtless found most gratifying.
In the years since, Pincher hardened his line on Hollis, and continued researching the subject becoming convinced that Hollis actually was a Soviet mole.
Not everyone agrees. Christopher Andrew, MI5's official historian, thinks it's nonsense to suggest Hollis was a traitor.
Rupert Allason, who writes about espionage under the pen name Nigel West, is more nuanced. "Some people don't believe there was any hostile penetration of the security service.
"Personally I've seen the evidence: I know there was penetration up until at least September 1963.
"Where I part company with Harry is on the issue of candidates. He believes it was Sir Roger Hollis, I'm not convinced of that; but I am persuaded there was a mole."
One of the main sources for Pincher's book was the former MI5 agent Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher was the subject of a long court case to try to prevent publication.
Margaret Thatcher's government was infuriated by Their Trade is Treachery; but then angering prime ministers was nothing new to Pincher.
In May 1959, Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote a personal minute, marked "secret", to his minister of defence.
"I do not understand," he wrote, "how the Express alone of all the newspapers has got the exact decision that we reached at the cabinet last Thursday on space. Can nothing be done to suppress or get rid of Mr Chapman Pincher?
"I am getting very concerned about how well informed he always seems to be on defence matters."
And the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson contributed to what may have been Pincher's finest moment in 1967.
What became known as "the D notice affair" began with a "walk-in", a member of the public who turns up at a newspaper's front door with a possible scoop.
The information given to Pincher was that all private cables and Post Office telegrams were being intercepted and that some were being read by GCHQ.
Before publishing the story, Pincher checked with a contact called Lt Col Sammy Lohan, secretary of the D notice committee.
The D notice system is a voluntary one, designed to alert the news media to stories that might damage national security if published.
Lohan told Pincher his story was not covered by any D notices, and the Express went ahead and printed the scoop.
Wilson was furious and set up an inquiry to show that D notices had in fact been breached. The inquiry concluded the exact opposite, and vindicated the Express.
In his Who's Who entry, Pincher listed ferreting in Whitehall and bolting politicians as two of his recreations.
He said he didn't regret a single thing he had found out and printed.
"I always tried to meet all the top people because that's where the stories lay," he said.
"When you have access to people you have access to facts, usually secret facts." | Chapman Pincher was known as "the lone wolf of Fleet Street". | 27209454 | [
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Mr Corbyn told the BBC Labour would consider the question "as a party".
Ministers have been talking to Labour MPs to try to persuade them to back intervention ahead of a Commons vote expected by Christmas.
Mr Corbyn is against military action, but a number of his MPs support it and may rebel if ordered to vote against.
On his first visit to Wales as party leader, Mr Corbyn said the priority should be a political settlement in the war-torn country, in order to "isolate" so-called Islamic State.
Asked whether he would allow his MPs a free vote - which means they would not have to follow the chosen party line - he said: "No, we would have to consider it as a party, consider it as a group and decide how we would react at that point, I can't predict at this stage."
Events in Syria are "beyond appalling" he said, adding that "there has to be a political solution - all wars end with a political solution".
Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed suggestions a UN resolution - which Labour is calling for - would be needed before the UK takes action in Syria.
MPs rejected air strikes on Syria in 2013, when the target was President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, but later approved British participation in air strikes against Islamic State extremists in Iraq.
The BBC has been told ministers are increasingly confident they will have the numbers to secure Commons backing to extend the campaign into Syria.
Mr Cameron has said he will set out a detailed case for intervention and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is planning to brief Labour MPs collectively at an open meeting.
Some Labour MPs have already said they will refuse to vote with Mr Corbyn if ordered to oppose air strikes. | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not allow his MPs a free vote on whether to extend UK air strikes into Syria. | 34873730 | [
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Head coach Warren Gatland is leading the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand and has named interim coach Rob Howley as part of his backroom team.
Forwards coach McBryde assumes head coach responsibilities for the third time after leading Wales on tours in 2009 and 2013.
"It is an honour to represent your country and to do so overseas carries extra responsibility," said McBryde.
"For me it is another exciting opportunity to lead the team. It is something I have thoroughly enjoyed in the past and I'm really looking forward to doing it again at the end of the season."
The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) will appoint assistant coaches for the summer tour to assist McBryde.
"We are also at an advanced stage in discussions with a number of other individuals about the summer tour and hope to be in a position to confirm the full make-up of the management team next week," said WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips.
Union chairman Gareth Davies, who is also on the Lions' selection panel, believes the involvement of Welsh coaches will benefit the national team.
"2017 is a real summer of opportunity for Welsh coaches and should benefit the whole of Welsh rugby in the years ahead," he said.
"It is not often that you get the opportunity to develop coaches in different environments.
"Our coaches and players have been invigorated by their Lions experiences on previous campaigns and there is little doubt that a tour of New Zealand will provide the ultimate test and so once again both mentally stimulate and inspire each individual." | Robin McBryde will coach Wales on their summer tour of the Pacific Islands. | 38239329 | [
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The judge cited a possible conflict of interest in the case of Asia Bibi.
Hundreds of riot police had been deployed around the Supreme Court in the capital, Islamabad.
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive issue in Pakistan - critics argue laws are frequently misused to settle personal scores, often targeting minorities.
Last year the Supreme Court suspended Asia Bibi's death sentence and gave her leave to appeal.
A new date for the hearing has yet to be set.
Judge Iqbal Hameed ur Rehman, one of three set to hear the appeal, recused himself from the case on Thursday.
"I was a part of the bench that was hearing the case of Salmaan Taseer, and this case is related to that," he told the court, AFP reports.
Mr Taseer was the liberal governor of Punjab province. He was killed by his own bodyguard in Islamabad in 2011 after speaking out for Asia Bibi.
Family in hiding
Asia Bibi was the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan's blasphemy laws and her case is one of the most controversial.
She was sentenced to hang in 2010 for insulting the Prophet Muhammad during an argument with Muslim women which began over a cup of water. She denies the charge.
Thousands have protested against her and said they would kill her if she were ever released - including the imam in her own village. Her husband and four daughters live in hiding and say they have received many death threats.
Asia Bibi's death sentence had been confirmed by the High Court in Punjab province in October, although no date was set.
Correspondents said the granting of leave to appeal by the Supreme Court was the first glimmer of hope for her family.
Her lawyers say the trial and subsequent appeal in the Punjab high court were flawed.
Pakistan has never executed anyone for blasphemy but some people accused of the offence have been lynched by crowds. Lawyers, judges and those seeking to reform the blasphemy laws have also been threatened, attacked or even killed.
Since the 1990s, scores of Christians have been convicted for desecrating the Koran or for blasphemy.
While most of them have been sentenced to death by the lower courts, many sentences have been overturned due to lack of evidence.
Muslims constitute a majority of those prosecuted, followed by minority Ahmadis. | A Pakistani Christian woman on death row for blasphemy has had her appeal adjourned after one of the judges refused to hear the case. | 37641354 | [
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Esteban Santiago, 26, is accused of opening fire at Fort Lauderdale airport, killing five people and injuring six others.
He is charged with carrying out an act of violence at an international airport resulting in death, which carries a maximum punishment of execution.
Mr Santiago also faces lesser weapons charges.
The suspect, who is in custody, told agents he had planned the attack and bought a one-way ticket to Fort Lauderdale, according to court papers.
Authorities said they did not know why he chose this target and that terrorism had not been ruled out.
"Today's charges represent the gravity of the situation and reflect the commitment of federal, state and local law enforcement personnel to continually protect the community and prosecute those who target our residents and visitors," US Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said.
Mr Santiago is said to have used a semi-automatic handgun that he apparently legally checked on a flight from Alaska.
Officials were also looking whether mental health problems played a role after it emerged that the suspect had been referred for a health assessment by the FBI.
Last November, Mr Santiago walked into an FBI office in Alaska in an agitated and incoherent state, the FBI and Anchorage police said.
He was carrying a loaded magazine but had left his handgun in his car, with his newborn child.
During the later mental health evaluation, he told the FBI he was hearing voices and believed he was being controlled by a US intelligence agency.
His gun was confiscated but the authorities found no wrongdoing, and it was returned in December. It is not clear if this is the same gun that he is accused of using in the attack at the airport baggage claim area.
An official list of the victims has not been released but families and friends have confirmed some of the identities.
Olga Woltering: A Georgia resident originally from Ipswich in eastern England.
A devout Catholic in her 80s, she was named as a victim by her Atlanta church, the Catholic Church of the Transfiguration. It described her as a "joyful, loving, caring and committed" person.
"This is a horrible tragedy for everyone here at Transfiguration, especially because Olga was so loved," it said.
Ms Woltering, from Marietta near Atlanta, was in Florida on her way to join a cruise to celebrate her husband's 90th birthday. He was unharmed in the shooting.
Terry Andres: The 63-year-old from Virginia Beach, Virginia, was a volunteer fireman. He and his wife had flown to Fort Lauderdale for a Caribbean cruise. He was named as a victim by friend Jessica Winbauer.
She told AP news agency that the death had shocked the community.
Michael Oehme: The 57-year-old Iowa man was named by his sister, Elizabeth Oehme-Miller. He was supposed to go on a cruise with his wife, she said.
Mr Oehme was a land surveyor and owned his own business. His wife was in hospital with injuries from a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
Shirley Timmons: The 70-year old from Senecaville, Ohio, was travelling with her husband, Steve, to join the rest of the family for a cruise, according to her grandson Steve Reineccius.
Wile FM reported that her husband was shot in the head and underwent emergency surgery at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, where he was in critical condition.
Mr Santiago is a former member of the Puerto Rico and Alaska National Guard, according to the Pentagon.
He served in Iraq from April 2010 to February 2011, and ended his service in August 2016.
His aunt told a local newspaper he had "lost his mind" while serving in Iraq, and his brother said he had been receiving psychological treatment recently.
US media reported that he had received a general discharge from the Alaska National Guard for unsatisfactory performance.
Flying with firearms is legal in the US as long as the guns are kept in a locked, hard-sided container as checked baggage only, under rules of the Transport Security Administration (TSA). Ammunition is also allowed only in checked luggage.
The attack was the latest in a series of mass shootings in the US in recent years, carried out by people who had easy access to weapons under US gun laws.
Last year, in the worst shooting in recent US history, a man apparently inspired by so-called Islamic State killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. | The man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting at a Florida airport has been charged by prosecutors. | 38545653 | [
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President Juan Manuel Santos said the authorities do not know how many people are still missing.
Heavy rains caused the river Liboriana, in the town of Salgar, to burst its banks, triggering the landslide.
Much of the village of Santa Margarita, south-west of the provincial capital, Medellin, was swept away when the disaster hit early on Monday.
Rescue teams and residents have got together to dig through rouble in the hope of finding survivors.
After visiting the scene of the disaster, Mr Santos declared a state of emergency and promised to rebuild the houses.
"We cannot bring the dead back, which we regret deeply, and we will support the families (of the victims)," said Mr Santos earlier.
"But we have to move on from this tragedy, and look ahead with courage and fortitude."
"The priority now is the hospital," said the president.
Earlier on Monday, gas and electricity services in the town were suspended as a precautionary measure.
The Colombian Air Force and police have sent helicopters to the area. More than 160 soldiers are working in the emergency effort.
Some 100 people have been evacuated from high-risk areas.
Local official Zulma Osorio spoke of a "tragedy of enormous proportions".
Mud, rocks and tree trunks destroyed many houses in poor neighbourhoods close to the river.
Resident Jorge Quintero described his ordeal when the landslide hit the village: "When I felt my house shaking we got out, my family and me. When we got out, we were stuck in the middle of the landslide, it was coming from both sides and we were in the middle.
"I said to my wife, let's hold each other and hope that God saves us and I know he gave us his hand because here we are, alive, still frightened, but still alive."
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Ilex was set up in 2003 to regenerate two former Army bases but was shut down in March amid accusations it failed to deliver enough investment and jobs.
The ex-workers taking the legal action have accused the Northern Ireland Executive of breaching employment law.
A spokesperson for the executive said it could not comment as the case was before an industrial tribunal, which is due to be heard early next year.
Ilex was criticised in an independent review in July 2015 over failings in the redevelopment of Fort George Army base and Ebrington Barracks in Derry.
The report said the lack of progress in infrastructure investment, specifically in developing business accommodation, was particularly concerning.
Among its successes, however, the company pointed to its role in helping to build Derry's Peace Bridge and the opening of the Northern Ireland Science Park on the Fort George site.
In March, 18 Ilex workers were made redundant and the two bases were handed over to Derry City and Strabane District Council.
Nine of those workers are taking action against the Northern Ireland Executive claiming their jobs should also have been transferred to the council.
They have accused the Northern Ireland Executive of breaching a law which ensures workers move from one employer to another when a business changes hands. | Former staff at a government-run regeneration body in Londonderry are taking a case against Stormont over the way they lost their jobs. | 37961642 | [
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Women are as likely as men to ask for a pay rise - but are less likely to get one, the research found.
The study, by the Cass Business School and the universities of Warwick and Wisconsin, looked at 4,600 workers.
It found "no support" for the "reticent female" theory, whereby women avoided asking for more money.
For what it claimed was the first time, the study eliminated any impact from part-time workers earning less than their full-time counterparts, by comparing full-time males with full-time females, and part-time males with part-time females.
When like-for-like male and female workers were compared, men were 25% more likely to get a pay rise when they asked, the study found.
The research also concluded there was no evidence for the idea that women were reluctant to ask for a salary increase because they were more wary of upsetting their boss, or deviating from a perceived female stereotype.
When analysing the results, the researchers took into account the size of the employer and the industry, whether the workers were a parent, as well as their qualifications.
The study was based on data from the 2013-14 Australian workplace relations survey. Australia is thought to be the only country to systematically record whether employees had asked for a pay rise, and why they had or had not done so.
Andrew Oswald, professor of economics and behavioural science at the University of Warwick, said he was surprised by the findings.
"The fact that women don't ask for pay rises as often as men is a popular theory. It's a very common thing for women to say and believe, but all of the evidence is anecdotal, so it's very hard scientifically to do a proper test of this."
He said one possibility was that unsuccessful men who asked for a pay rise, but did not get it, kept it to themselves, while women "were more straightforward and tell their friends".
"Having seen these findings, I think we have to accept that there is some element of pure discrimination against women," Prof Oswald added.
"It could be that Australia is odd. But it's a modern industrial economy halfway in character between Britain and the US, so I think that's unlikely."
The study also found differences according to age, with women and men under 40 both asking for and receiving pay rises at the same rate, which the researchers said could mean that negotiating behaviour had started to change.
Dr Amanda Goodall from Cass Business School - part of City, University of London - and a co-author of the study, said: "The study potentially has an upside. Young women today are negotiating their pay and conditions more successfully than older females, and perhaps that will continue as they become more senior." | The theory that women get paid less than men because they are not sufficiently pushy in the workplace is not true, a new study suggests. | 37278170 | [
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The Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, held $47 trillion (£30tn) in private wealth last year as the number of new millionaires rose in China and India.
North America is the world's richest region with $51tn, but is expected to be surpassed by Asia in 2016.
Asia is also projected to hold 34% of global wealth in 2019.
Overall, global private financial wealth grew by nearly 12% last year to $164tn, lifted by strong gains in the stock and bond markets.
"A strong "'old world versus new world' dynamic was observed, with the so-called new world growing at a far faster pace," the report said.
"As in both 2012 and 2013, Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) remained the fastest-growing region in 2014.
"By contrast, growth rates in all 'old world' regions remained in the single digits, led by Western Europe and North America, and with Japan lagging somewhat behind." | Asia has overtaken Europe as the world's second-richest region, according to an annual report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). | 33147278 | [
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Many of Paris's tourist attractions, including the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay, closed on Saturday amid heightened security.
The institutions reopened at 13:00 local time following a minute's silence to honour those who were killed.
However the Eiffel Tower will remain closed until further notice.
A message on the tower's website added "the Eiffel Tower will not sparkle" on Monday night, during the period of national mourning, at the request of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
A total of 129 people died in the attacks by Islamist militants.
People were targeted in bars and restaurants, the Bataclan concert hall and the Stade de France.
In explaining the decision to reopen the venues, French Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin said although France had suffered a tragic event, "culture is more than ever this symbolic place of self-discovery".
Ms Pellerin added the government would help to boost security measures at public cultural institutions in Ile-de-France, the region immediately surrounding Paris.
Its landmarks include the Louvre, which houses Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, as well as the Eiffel Tower and the Notre Dame Cathedral.
Eighty-nine people died at the Bataclan venue, where US rock band Eagles of Death Metal had been performing.
Many concerts scheduled to take place in Paris over the weekend, including those by U2, Motorhead, Foo Fighters and Deftones, were also cancelled.
Cinemas were also ordered to close following Friday's attacks, but most reopened on Sunday. | Public museums and other cultural venues in Paris have reopened following the attacks in the French capital on Friday. | 34830954 | [
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