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The flight from Manchester Airport to Agadir in Morocco, was diverted to London Gatwick less than an hour after take-off on Thursday.
The Thomson Airways Boeing 737-800 took off at 18:42 BST before being struck.
A spokeswoman for the airline said it was an "extremely rare" event and the diversion was "precautionary". The flight later landed safely in Agadir.
Liam Bolton, 27, from Chester in Cheshire, was travelling to Morocco for a holiday with his girlfriend when he heard a "sudden crack" on the aircraft.
He said the plane "lit up like someone had taken a photo".
"It was about 10-15 minutes after take-off and there was a large flash... everyone turned round to each other and knew it was lightning.
"About half an hour later, the pilot announced we'd been hit by lightning and we'd be landing at Gatwick," he said.
After around three hours on the runway, the same plane took off, he added.
Thomson Airways has apologised for any inconvenience caused by the adverse weather conditions. | A plane has been forced to carry out an unexpected landing after being struck by lightning. | 36560599 | [
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The rare Tyrannosaurus bataar, 7m long (23ft), was bought by an anonymous bidder for more than $1m (£630,000) in New York.
The sale went ahead despite protests from the Mongolian president.
Elbegdorj Tsakhia says the skeleton, unearthed in the Gobi Desert, came from Mongolia and that exporting fossils found in the country is illegal.
The auctioneers, Heritage Auctions, say the specimen was imported legally. A restraining court order in the name of the Mongolian leader was put on the sale.
Tyrannosaurus bataar is an Asian cousin of the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex.
The skeleton in New York is thought to be one of the most complete and well preserved ever discovered, says the BBC's Jonathan Blake in Washington.
"When it comes to dinosaurs, number one, dinosaurs in general are extremely rare. But the rarest of the dinosaurs are the carnivores, the meat eaters - the top of the food chain if you will," David Herskowitz, director of natural history at Heritage Auctions, told APTV.
"And, of all the meat eaters that are out there, the most famous are the Tyrannosaurids. They are the most desirable, but they are the most elusive. They are the most difficult to find. Even though they are so big, there are not that many of them around."
Found about seven years ago in the Gobi Desert, the T. bataar remained in storage in England.
The T. bataar was slightly smaller and had longer arms than its cousin, Mr Herskowitz said.
This is the second Tyrannosaurid to be sold at auction, says Mr Herskowitz. The first was a T. rex named Sue sold in 1997 for more than $8m.
Lawyers for the auction house say the sale did not break any US laws - but it will not be confirmed until it has been approved by a US court. | A row has broken out over the sale of a dinosaur skeleton at auction in the US. | 18141645 | [
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In a report, the agency says the past decade in Europe has been the warmest on record.
It adds that the cost of damage caused by extreme weather events is rising, and the continent is set to become more vulnerable in the future.
The findings have been published ahead of next week's UN climate conference.
They join a UN Environment Programme report also released on Wednesday showing dangerous growth in the "emissions gap" - the difference between current carbon emission levels and those needed to avert climate change.
"Every indicator we have in terms of giving us an early warning of climate change and increasing vulnerability is giving us a very strong signal," observed EEA executive director Jacqueline McGlade.
"It is across the board, it is not just global temperatures," she told BBC News.
"It is in human health aspects, in forests, sea levels, agriculture, biodiversity - the signals are coming in from right across the environment."
2C or not 2C
The report - Climate Change, Impacts and Vulnerabilities in Europe 2012 - involving more than 50 authors from a range of organisations, listed a number of "key messages", including:
As it currently stands, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has set a target of limiting the rise in global mean temperature to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.
But the report's authors warn that even if this target to mitigate warming is met, "substantial impacts on society, human health and ecosystems are projected to occur".
To limit the impacts, experts say effective adaptation strategies need to be developed in order to minimise the risk to nations' infrastructure, homes and businesses.
The European Commission is expected to publish its European Adaptation Strategy in 2013, outlining measures it think will help the 27-nation bloc deal with future climate shifts.
Examples of adaptation measures include using water resources more efficiently, adapting building codes to be able to withstand extreme weather events and building flood defences.
Prof McGlade said such measures would be essential in order to climate-proof the EU.
"I think what the European Commission and other parts of the world are finding is that whilst it is important to understand what is happening at the global level, it is what is happening at the regional and local levels that will really determine how economies will weather the storm," she said.
The report said the cost of damage caused by extreme weather events had increased from 9bn euros (£7bn) in the 1980s to 13bn euros in the 2000s.
One of the report's authors, Andre Jol, head of the EEA's vulnerability and adaptation group, added: "We know that the main increase in damage costs from natural disasters has not been from climate change, as such, but more as a result of an increase in wealth, people and infrastructure in risk areas.
"But one of the key messages from the report is that in the future, with projected increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme events, we know that climate change will contribute to the increase in the cost of damage from extreme events."
'Lack of action'
On Monday, the World Bank published a report that warned that the world was "on track to a 4C [increase by the end of the century] marked by extreme heatwaves and life-threatening sea-level rise".
It added that the world's poorest regions would be hardest hit by the warming, which was "likely to undermine efforts and goals".
"A 4C warmer world can, and must be, avoided - we need to hold warming below 2C," said World Bank group president Jim Yong Kim.
"Lack of action on climate change threatens to make the world our children inherit a completely different world than we are living in today."
However, the UN Environment Programme (Unep) warned that it was still possible to achieve the 2C target but time was running out.
Data in the Emissions Gap Report showed that annual greenhouse gas emissions were now "14% above where they need to be in 2020".
Unep executive director Achim Steiner said: "While governments work to negotiate a new international climate agreement to come into effect in 2020, they urgently need to put their foot firmly on the action pedal by fulfilling financial, technology transfer and other commitments under the UN climate convention treaties."
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Guy Hedger, 61, died in the early hours of 30 April after intruders reportedly broke into his home in Ashley, near Ringwood, and opened fire with a shotgun.
Marine officers are searching a section of the River Stour in West Parley.
Three men appeared in court in May accused of Mr Hedger's murder.
Det Ch Insp Sarah Derbyshire of Dorset Police said: "We received intelligence to suggest that the weapon would be in this area and by searching the river today we hope to recover it."
Earlier this week the charity Crimestoppers put up a £10,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the firearm used and jewellery stolen during the raid.
Kevin Downton, 40, of Winterborne Stickland near Blandford, Jason Baccus, 41, and Scott Keeping, 44, both of Verney Close, Bournemouth, have been charged with murder and are due at Winchester Crown Court at a later date to enter pleas.
Helen Cooper, 40, from Poole, has been charged with assisting an offender.
A 45-year-old-man from Poole and a 39-year-old Bournemouth man were arrested in May on suspicion of conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary and released while inquiries continue. | A stretch of river is being searched in an attempt to find the weapon used to kill a businessman who was shot at his home in Dorset. | 40738705 | [
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Defender Ofuso Appiah clattered into the 22-year-old in the closing stages of the Europa League qualifier.
It left a sour note on an afternoon when Hearts won 6-3 on aggregate.
"I was really disappointed with it and I think the referee got done," Neilson told BBC Scotland.
"Jack's got the ball in his hands and the boy comes in and smashes him then goes down and plays dead so he doesn't get booked.
"These challenges shouldn't be allowed in football. That wasn't acceptable today."
Callum Paterson and Igor Rossi had Hearts 2-0 ahead within the opening eight minutes before Alim Ozturk made it three.
Ozturk then sliced into his own net, but Rossi soon restored Hearts' three-goal lead before a strike from Vladimir Voskoboinikov.
Hearts will now face Birkirkara of Malta next week in the second qualifying round.
"We showed a real sharpness in the first half, something we missed last week fitness wise," said Neilson.
"We tired around the 60th minute, but hopefully this game has helped us and we can get geared up for Malta next week.
"We knew we could get at them. The work rate from the players was fantastic.
"To have such a hard game last week with the expectation of it and then to come here tonight and go and perform like that was great.
"We're still in pre-season. Generally it's six week and we're only three weeks in."
Neilson warned that Birkirkara will not be a walkover and pointed to them taking West Ham United to penalties in last season's Europa League qualifiers.
"They're a good team, they're a very good team," he explained. "You think when you're going to Malta with a Scottish team you should be winning, but they're invested a lot of money, they had a great result last year against West Ham, they've got some real quality players." | Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson labelled a challenge on Jack Hamilton unacceptable after the young goalkeeper was left needing stitches after the 4-2 win over Infonet Tallinn. | 36730951 | [
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Machrihanish is among five sites across Britain - three of which are in Scotland - hoping to be a spaceport.
The UK government has previously said it wanted to establish a spaceport by the end of 2018.
It launched a consultation in 2014 and two years ago it drew up a shortlist of potential sites.
These also included Prestwick in South Ayrshire, Stornoway in the Western Isles, Newquay airport in Cornwall and Llanbedr airport in the Snowdonia National Park.
In May last year, the government included plans for spaceport licensing in its Queen's Speech.
It also opened up the competition in favour of an airport-style licensing system, meaning any suitable location could become a spaceport.
The Department for Transport said this would help create "viable business models at a range of locations".
This meant that Prestwick and Campbeltown are both vying to attract investment to prove they are "best-placed" to become the UK's first operational spaceport.
Ministers said any future spaceport would be used as a base for space travel and tourism, as well as satellite launches.
The Machrihanish base, near Campbeltown, has twice been approved for space flight and was a certified emergency landing site in Europe ahead of a launch of the NASA Space Shuttle in 1981.
Tom Millar, chairman of DiscoverSpace UK and the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company, said the local community was behind the bid and the potential economic benefits it could bring.
He added: "Our site offers enormous scope with a runway of more than 3,000 metres and large areas of land available for development, allied to a positive and supportive planning framework put in place by Argyll and Bute Council.
"Our safety case is very strong as the site is in a depopulated area and offers the ability to launch directly over the sea."
Brendan O'Hara, the SNP MP for Argyll and Bute, said basing the spaceport in Kintyre was a "no-brainer".
He added: "A spaceport would bring important economic benefits to Argyll and Bute and it is a hugely exciting prospect for Scotland to be at the forefront of space travel in the UK. The sky is not the limit." | Plans for the UK's first spaceport on the Kintyre peninsula are being unveiled at Westminster. | 38728839 | [
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Kazi Islam was said to have used "flattery and threats" in exchanges on social media to try to persuade Harry Thomas to kill two soldiers and buy ingredients for a pipe bomb.
Islam, 18, of Newham, east London, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
He claimed he was conducting research.
Islam was convicted by a majority of 10 to two and will be sentenced on 29 May.
He was remanded in custody and told by Judge Richard Marks that a custodial sentence was inevitable.
The trial was told Islam befriended the then 19-year-old Mr Thomas in October 2013 - five months after Fusilier Rigby was attacked in the street near Woolwich Barracks - after meeting him the previous year on an IT course at college.
He had pretended to sympathise with Mr Thomas over a break-up with a girlfriend.
But a series of exchanges on BlackBerry Messenger and social media sites were uncovered when police raided the house in east London where Islam lived with his family, jurors were told.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Thomas, who has learning difficulties, described Islam as a "very, very manipulative person" but said he had no intention of carrying out his requests.
He said: "He makes out he's this really kind person because that's how he comes across at first but deep inside he's evil."
Mr Thomas added: "He's not scared to go to prison, he told me that. And he says he'll end up in a better place for the crimes he's committed. He said his God will look after him and think he's done a really good thing."
Commander Richard Walton, head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said: "We continue to appeal to anyone who may have knowledge of people with similar intentions. The earliest we can intervene to prevent terrorism the better.
"We also remind the public that there is currently a need to protect vulnerable or impressionable adults or children from this brand of Islamic extremism."
Prosecutor Annabel Darlow QC had told the court that Islam had tried to encourage Mr Thomas to kill a soldier by telling him innocent children were being murdered by military forces.
Ms Darlow told the jury: "Thomas was a vulnerable, not particularly bright young man who was desperate to impress Islam and to try and forge some sort of friendship with him.
"Islam ruthlessly exploited to the utmost Thomas's vulnerability and obvious wish to try and ingratiate himself with Islam."
The plot was said to have been unwittingly sabotaged by Mr Thomas, who failed to buy any of the right ingredients for a bomb and revealed what was going on to "a few friends" .
Giving evidence, Islam told the jury he had talked to Mr Thomas about getting the ingredients for a bomb as an "experiment" in radicalisation and "would have told him what I was doing" if he had actually gone ahead with the purchases.
While the court heard he had also downloaded a document on explosives himself, Islam said his interest in extremism was "purely for research purposes and to understand the political side of my religion". | A teenager has been convicted of grooming a vulnerable young man after being inspired by the 2013 killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich. | 32521780 | [
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But now that she's wielded a dagger and showed off her martial arts moves to dispatch the undead as a very modern Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Lily James wants to play action heroes.
When a film starts with the line "it is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains", it is clear this is going to be no ordinary period drama adaptation.
The corsets and courtship are still there, but so is a horde of the undead, rampaging through the 19th Century countryside and the world that Jane Austen fans hold so dear.
"When I heard the title, I was a bit confused," admitted James. "I was slightly cynical about the idea of putting zombies into Jane Austen, but literally within a few pages of the script I was sold and I loved it.
"I thought, what a fresh, exciting, fun way to revisit this story. And it was this idea of being an action hero - I just loved it.
"I want to be an action hero forever more."
One of her main sparring partners was Sam Riley, who plays Colonel Darcy, with their verbal battles as imagined by Austen made rather more physical.
"When I was hitting Sam, I would get a bit carried away," James confessed. "He was really gentlemanly, and wouldn't tell me until after.
"But I was really going for him a bit hard, so he was pretty bruised. You get caught up in the heat of the moment and the adrenalin. You forget you're actually not meant to punch them for real."
She says she was more inspired by films like The Terminator when preparing for the role, rather than re-watching famous adaptations of Pride and Prejudice.
"I needed Liz Bennet to feel quite tough," explained James. "So I watched Linda Hamilton in The Terminator and Angelina Jolie and tried to channel their strength."
She also watched YouTube clips, forwarded to her by her trainer, to see the "grace, skill and accuracy" needed in martial arts.
Putting this spin on the story brings Liz Bennet, as she prefers to call her, up to date and makes the story "more modern", said James.
"She's breaking the mould, she's not giving in to that structure in life. She's already such an independent, fierce character, and in this version even more so, because she's a fighter - so it's total girl power, total strength."
Australian actress Bella Heathcote, who plays "sensible" older sister Jane, agreed it was "great" that the Bennet sisters are the ones who save the day in the new film.
"It's pretty rare for one woman to be the heroine, let alone five of us," she said, adding that while "everyone said it could have been horrible having five girls all together", there was no cattiness within the group.
She insisted Jane is "still the nice girl" in this version, "but she gets to kick ass and kill a few zombies".
Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies novel was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 41 weeks.
This film adaptation had been planned since 2009 but there were delays due to changes in the cast and crew, including the role of Elizabeth, which was originally lined up for Natalie Portman - now producer of the film.
Some Austen fans may not appreciate their beloved romance being infiltrated by brain-guzzling zombies, but James said the point of the film was to reach out to people who may not otherwise "engage with the classic".
"I think we've taken Pride and Prejudice and handled it with absolute love and care," she said. "We're all huge fans of Jane Austen and we've been incredibly sensitive and the story is the heart of the movie still. The characters and the action is propelled by the brilliant plot."
Heathcote agreed that classics are there for the taking when it comes to bringing them up to date for a modern audience.
"I feel like people shouldn't be precious with them," she said. "They're not precious with Shakespeare - they do all kinds of interpretations and settings.
"So why not do it with all the classics? Because otherwise, they're going to be dated and going to be forgotten."
And what would Austen herself have thought? "I think she'd have loved it," said James, adding that the author "had a great sense of humour".
Much of the humour in the film comes from Parson Collins, played by Doctor Who star Matt Smith - who is James's partner.
"He just improvised and made everything up," she said. "I was laughing so much, he was so funny."
The end of the film hints at a sequel - and James and Heathcote both said they would love that to happen - but critics have not been entirely convinced.
Mark Kermode wrote in the Observer that the mash-up "lacks bite", the Financial Times said "the title is the funniest thing", Variety thought it "awkward and unsatisfying", and Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian said it "seems like it's just laughing at Austen".
But the Radio Times described it as "perversely clever", saying it "works like a charm", and Geoffrey Macnab in the Independent gave it four stars, saying it was "energetic and occasionally inspired".
James is currently in the US, filming Baby Driver, in which she plays an American diner waitress.
But perhaps she shouldn't stop the Shaolin martial arts moves training just yet - after all, there's still Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters ready to be adapted.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is in UK cinemas now. | She is best known for period dramas - having been seen most recently in War and Peace and Downton Abbey. | 35558456 | [
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Together with her business partner Joan Murphy, each jogged with their toddlers in front of them in pushchairs.
It's this serious passion for health and fitness that brought the two then-20 somethings together when they met on a trip to Cornwall with mutual friends back in 2007.
Forming a bond over surfing, they lamented what they both saw as a lack of fun fitness options available in the UK capital.
Returning to London, they batted around business ideas during runs in Hyde Park, or over a few gins and tonics after work in the advertising industry, where both were employed. Meanwhile, weekend mornings were spent researching possible locations to open a gym.
Within a month the duo had hatched their plan to create a new type of female-friendly gym called Frame.
The aim was to run energetic and feel-good classes covering everything from dance to "rocket yoga", and "dynamic Pilates".
Their ambition was to radicalise the fitness market, which they felt was staid due to a lack of innovation.
Crux to the strategy was introducing a pay-as-you-go model, giving their customers the flexibility to drop in on classes, such dance sessions as "Frame Rave", "Music Video" and "80s Aerobics", without having any commitment to go to more.
Armed with a bank loan, the pair quit their jobs and launched Frame's first gym, or as they call it, "fitness studio", in Shoreditch, east London, in 2009.
"It was all a bit of a whirlwind," recalls Ms Black, 33, a former England hockey player.
"We just clicked. Joan had just returned back from New Zealand [her home country], and had looked at what was happening in the fitness industry there
"And in true Joan style she sucked me in and decided to tell me what we were going to do, which is quite useful in a business partner. I quite like that."
Ms Murphy, 35, says Frame was unique when it started out.
"We were the first multi-disciplined pay-as you-go studio," she says.
"If you wanted to go to Pilates [at a studio] you had to pay up front for 10 classes. There was no fitness pay-as-you-go.
"If you didn't want to buy gym membership because you only wanted to go once or twice a week there was nothing. We wanted to put all the disciplines under one roof and make it accessible."
However, before their venture even got off the ground, Frame faced a major setback.
Days before their Shoreditch venue was set to open, a road closure meant there was no access to the gym.
"There was no through road," says Ms Black. "So we had to wait six months before opening. We had handed out flyers, recruited teachers."
With the postponement of the fitness studio and bills mounting, they both took temporary jobs - Ms Murphy as a carer for the elderly, and Ms Black looking after children.
When Frame was eventually up and running, both got stuck into the day-to-day operations, each clocking up 30 hours a week either on reception, or as an instructor, on top of running the business.
"We were a proper start-up," says Ms Murphy. "But it wasn't just about starting a fitness business, it was what we wanted to do."
Thanks to positive word of mouth, and some advertising, Frame's customer numbers quickly grew.
Further helped by the continuing growth of the UK health and fitness market, which according to industry figures is now worth £4.3bn per year, Frame has since taken out additional bank loans to open two further London outposts in Queen's Park and King's Cross.
The expanding empire has swelled Frame's turnover to £2.8m in 2015, up from £2.1m on the previous year.
Opening more gyms is now firmly on the agenda for the two ambitious women, who in December received funding from angel investors.
"We're keen to cut our teeth outside of London, and our growth plans in the long term are quite big," says Ms Black.
The goal is to open two new gyms per year, and mooted first locations include Brighton, Bristol and Manchester. They also currently have a month-long pop-up gym near Old Street tube station, in east London.
Frame has also tapped into other revenue streams, such as having cafes at its venues. There has also been a move into clothing, with a second sportswear collaboration with High Street fashion chain Whistles set to launch in May.
And while women remain the main focus, men can join Frame, and in fact now make up 20% of customers.
Paul Davis, a senior leisure and technology analyst at market research group Mintel, says Frame's success is down to two main reasons - its upmarket offering, and its range of classes.
"Whilst the vast majority of growth in the health and fitness club market can be attributed to the growth of the "no-frills" budget gym sector - city-based fitness boutiques such as Frame look to deliver an elite experience at the other end of the scale," he says.
"By focusing on areas outside of traditional gym activities such as dance classes and post-natal Pilates the studio appeals to a predominantly female demographic, who may not otherwise show an interest in joining a typical fitness club."
But why the name Frame? Ms Murphy says: "It's about a healthy, happy frame of mind, a frame out of your day."
She adds that the company also wants people "to move their frame with us". | While most of us spend the day before our wedding doing last minute preparations, Pip Black was happily running around London's Victoria Park. | 35428083 | [
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The introduction of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, however, means that even if she wants to, Mrs May might not find it so easy.
The Act was introduced after the 2010 election to bind together the two parts of the new coalition government.
The discretion of prime ministers to pick the timing of elections was removed and the dates fixed five years apart - we are next due one on Thursday 7 May 2020.
The Act provides two mechanisms by which an early election could be triggered, which are:
Taking each in turn, the government does not have the numbers on its own to achieve a two-thirds majority so any vote would depend on what the other parties do.
Jeremy Corbyn has warned the Labour Party to prepare for an election next year and Newsnight reported in September that he planned to instruct his MPs to vote in favour of an early election if the government wanted to call one (although that has not been confirmed). Latest polls suggest that supporting an early election would be a mistake for Labour.
It is unlikely the Scottish National Party would come to the government's assistance in bringing about an early election.
Looking at the second mechanism, if other parties do not support an early election it would be unprecedented in British politics for a government to bring about its own downfall (though such engineering is not unknown elsewhere) and the government voting no confidence in itself could be a risky strategy.
More likely is that the Fixed Term Parliaments Act could be repealed or amended, to require, for example, a simple majority of MPs in favour of an early election, though the House of Lords may have something to say about this.
An amendment to existing legislation seems more straightforward than trying to reintroduce the prerogative power to call elections.
In short, the calling of an early election would require either a change in the law, or some unusual parliamentary gymnastics. | With the permission of the Queen, prime ministers used to be able to call a general election at a time of their choosing. | 37876851 | [
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So, if you've been inspired by the action in Texas, why not grab your mates and give it a go yourself?
Here former New York Giants team-mates Osi Umenyiora and Jason Bell, both of whom won the Super Bowl, give you their tips for starting your own game day.
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Check out our rookie's guide to learn the key rules, the player positions and the ultimate aim of the game.
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American football can be played at adult,university and junior levels.
It's a very welcoming, inclusive environment and athletes with a disability are welcome to play too, although there is no formal competition structure in the UK for adapted American football.
Clubs are always on the lookout for new members, with many able to provide taster sessions and full kit for practice and games. Why not check out our activity finder to find a session in your area?
Charlie Novak plays for the Manchester Titans - one of the growing number of women in a male-dominated sport. Here's the inspiring story of how she went from not playing sports to being defensive captain of her team.
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Meet eight-year-old Isaiah Bird, who was born with no legs and plays American football for his local team in New York.
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And if you are still looking for ways to get involved head to our guide where you can find all the help you need to start playing. | On Sunday, the New England Patriots staged a stunning comeback to beat the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in the 51st Super Bowl. | 38773658 | [
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The embalmed body is currently on display in his home city of Batac.
The decision to move Marcos is controversial because of his record of huge corruption and rights abuses.
President Duterte said the transfer of Marcos' body could take place next month.
He said that protests against the move would be allowed as long as motorists were not inconvenienced.
Army spokesman Col Benjamin Hao said that representatives of the Marcos family have visited the cemetery in the Taguig area of metropolitan Manila to pick a burial site and make initial preparations.
Left wing critics of the transfer argue that it is inappropriate to provide an honourable burial to a president blamed for thousands of killings, tortures and military abductions - many of which remain unresolved.
While the military comprise the majority of the 40,000 people laid to rest in the cemetery, correspondents say that military rules prohibit those who have been dishonourably discharged.
President Marcos and his wife Imelda ruled the Philippines for 20 years before more than a million people took to the streets to overthrow them in what became known as the People Power Revolution of 1986.
How People Power toppled dictator Marcos
Earlier on Sunday President Duterte said that dozens of current or former politicians, officials and judges with links to illegal drugs must surrender and be investigated.
In a nationally televised address, he named those he was accusing and ordered their security to be withdrawn.
Duterte: 'Punisher' to president
Local media reports say some of those named have been misidentified. But Mr Duterte said he would take full responsibility for any who turned out to be innocent.
Mr Duterte was sworn in as president in June, after winning a landslide election victory a month earlier.
He had previously been mayor of the country's third biggest city, Davao, for 22 years where his tough approach and controversial comments earned him the nickname "The Punisher". | Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has given the go-ahead for the body of his disgraced predecessor Ferdinand Marcos to be buried in the Heroes' Cemetery in Manila. | 37004690 | [
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Mother Josephine's parents fled to Taiwan from China with the retreating Nationalist party after it lost the civil war to the Communists in the late 1940s. They believed the Republic of China and mainland China were part of the same country and that is what she was taught.
Father Clyde worked for years at Taiwan's agency promoting trade, including with China. He and Mrs Wang believe Taiwan must have good relations with its biggest trade partner and former enemy, which wants Taiwan to be reunified one day. They don't support unification or independence, but maintaining the status quo.
But son Kevin, 30, strongly feels Taiwan is a separate country and must assert its independence or risk being swallowed up by China.
"My parents still think we are Chinese. In university I began doubting what I had been taught was correct," Kevin said. "Now I believe Taiwan should be independent in all ways possible.
"The current government of the Republic of China in Taiwan is still inextricably tied to the concept that we are a part of China, so we need to cut the umbilical cord."
People like Kevin have joined the so-called Sunflower Movement, which last year occupied parliament for 24 days sparking the largest anti-China demonstration in years.
They blocked the legislative approval of a controversial trade deal with China and forced the government to agree to a new law allowing more public oversight of negotiations with Beijing.
Though activities on the one-year anniversary in March were relatively small, and parliament is once again occupied by legislators, it's far from business as usual.
The movement has made many people feel that they, not just the government or ruling Kuomintang (KMT) party, should have a say in what kind of relationship Taiwan develops with China.
It has also contributed to a major defeat for the pro-China ruling party in November local elections. If it further fuels fears about China and dissatisfaction with the KMT, it could help the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) win next year's presidential race.
At the same time, it is pushing for reforms to Taiwan's referendum law to make it easier for referenda to pass.
Sunflower leaders say this will advance Taiwan's democratisation and safeguard its sovereignty by allowing the people to directly decide issues, including Taiwan's separate identity and relationship with China.
"If recognition of Taiwan's identity can be protected, then that will further Taiwan's self-rule. This is very important to us," said Sunflower leader Lin Fei-fan.
But not everyone supports the movement.
Though many deals have been signed with China in recent years, including some widely considered beneficial to Taiwan, would-be agreements are now on hold indefinitely.
This is causing concern from not only businesses such as banks that need greater access to China's market, but others who also believe it's crucial for the small island of Taiwan to have stronger ties with China, especially economic ones.
That includes Jen-Hsuan Hsieh, a recent university graduate. "The whole world is trying to understand China. We should do the same," she said.
"Even if you consider it your enemy, you should still understand your enemy well."
A freelance interpreter, she is looking for work in China, where the opportunities are greater and wages higher.
She's not alone. A recent survey showed about one third of Taiwanese in their 20s and 30s want to work in China; more than in previous years.
That raises the question of whether time is on China's side or Taiwan's.
With time, Taiwan's economy and people's livelihoods may become more interlinked with China, making it easier for Beijing to push for unification.
But with time, Taiwanese people could grow even more adamant about the island's separate entity. A survey conducted late last year by the local China Youth Corps found nearly 90% of junior and senior-high school students regarded themselves as Taiwanese, rather than Chinese.
Some suggest that if China becomes democratic, and its average living standard reaches Taiwan's level, differences between the two sides will be blurred, and if its people understand more about Taiwan with time, their views about unification may weaken, making such a debate unnecessary.
For now, Beijing is watching the Sunflower Movement closely. However, it may be unsure how to react, partly because it's no longer about dealing with one political party versus another, but many civic groups and individuals driving the movement.
So far, it has mainly suggested reaching out to Taiwan's young people.
Back at the Wang home, the family avoid discussing the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty or Kevin's part in the movement until they are asked. But it's clear he wants to become more involved.
"Maintaining the status quo will inevitably mean reunification with China. What a lot of people in our generation are pushing for right now is de jure independence, formal independence," he said.
His parents accept that his generation will ultimately decide their society's future; they just hope it makes the right decisions.
"We don't know what's going to happen in a couple more generations," said his father, Clyde. "I don't think it's a good idea to antagonise China and to provoke war across the strait."
"What I like to see happen in the future is eventually this historical problem will be solved in a very peaceful way." | Breakfast at the Wangs' on a Sunday: it's a lesson in how attitudes in Taiwan towards China have changed significantly in just three generations. | 32157210 | [
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Only 50.5 overs were possible at the MCG, but Australia still got wickets at regular intervals with Jackson Bird taking two for 53.
Azhar's 110-ball half-century saw him pass 1,000 Test runs in 2016.
Australia lead the three-Test series 1-0, having beaten Pakistan by 39 runs in the opener at the Gabba.
Sami Aslam was undone by Nathan Lyon after making just nine and, after Azhar and Babar Azam batted through the remainder of the morning, Azam edged the last ball before lunch from Josh Hazlewood to give Steve Smith his second catch.
Misbah-ul-Haq scored 11 off 13 balls with a four and a six before being brilliantly caught at short leg by Nic Maddinson off Bird.
Bird bowled Younus Khan off an inside edge to end a third-wicket stand of 51.
The wicket came shortly before the scheduled tea break and the weather meant that interval came early and play never resumed. | Azhar Ali's unbeaten 66 helped Pakistan to reach 142-4 against Australia on a rain-affected first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. | 38435201 | [
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They say the decision was taken after more bad weather was forecast.
Performances were suspended on Saturday during continued thunderstorms, forcing many of the 92,000 fans at the open-air event to shelter in cars and tents.
Organisers were forced to cancel it after local authorities revoked its licence early on Sunday morning.
They said on Facebook (in German) that they regretted the decision but accepted it was necessary because the safety of fans was of paramount importance.
Critics on Facebook have accused organisers of not cancelling the event quickly enough.
Fans at Rock am Ring - held at the airport in the town of Mendig, about 100km (62 miles) west of Frankfurt - were told to clear the festival grounds by noon on Sunday.
At least eight people were seriously injured by the lightning strike early on Saturday morning.
Central Europe has been hit by severe storms and rain over the past few weeks, leading to 11 deaths in Germany.
The Rock am Ring festival - one of the most popular of its kind in Germany - also suffered lightning strikes last year, when 33 people were taken to hospital.
The festival website has repeatedly warned fans of the possibility of strong rainfall and thunderstorms.
The organisers of Rock am Ring, now in its 31st year, initially said on Saturday that this year's event would continue. It was due to have finished on Sunday evening.
Red Hot Chili Peppers were among several bands, including Black Sabbath, Foals, Deftones and We Are Scientists, who were on the line-up.
Last weekend, 35 people were injured, three seriously, when lightning struck a football match in south-west Germany. A further 11 people were hurt by a lightning strike in a Paris park where a children's birthday party was taking place. | The third and final day of the sell-out Rock am Ring music festival in Germany has been cancelled after lightning hurt at least 80 fans, organisers say. | 36451614 | [
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Researchers have found a 90% fall in levels of the human papilloma virus (HPV) in Scottish women since the vaccine was made available in 2008.
HPV virus types are thought to account for about 90% of cervical cancers.
Scientists hope the drop in HPV cases will lead to a significant drop in future cervical cancer cases.
The researchers, led by senior epidemiologist Dr Kevin Pollock at Health Protection Scotland, said they hoped to see a decrease in new diagnoses within a year.
He told BBC Radio Scotland: "The two HPV types we were vaccinating against - HPV 16 and HPV 18 - cause about 70% to 80% of cervical cancers within Scotland but the vaccine has exceeded our expectations because it appears to have knocked out another three high-risk HPV types which cause about 10% of cervical cancers.
"So we do forecast within the next few years a 90% reduction in cervical cancer within Scotland."
Researchers compared the cervical screening and vaccination records of women born in 1995, who had been vaccinated as teenagers, with those from unvaccinated women born between 1989 and 1990.
They found just 0.5% of women from the 1995 group tested positive for the virus, compared with 21.4% of women born before 1990.
The study also showed evidence that the vaccine protected against three other high-risk HPV genotypes involved in the development of cervical cancer.
The research will be presented to the Microbiology Society's annual conference in Edinburgh on Wednesday by Dr Kate Cuschieri, director of the Scottish HPV Reference Lab.
She said: "These new findings indicate that the positive impact of the HPV vaccine may be even greater than we initially thought.
"Collectively, these data demonstrate the significant and continued benefits of the HPV vaccination programme in Scotland, which has achieved a consistent and high uptake of around 90% in 12 to 13-year-old girls."
Dr Pollock added: "The very high uptake of the HPV vaccine is strongly associated with these massive reductions in high-risk HPV types that are known to cause approximately 90% of cervical cancer in Scottish women."
He said the virus was also known to cause a number of other cancers, including vulvovaginal, anal and a subset of head and neck cancers.
"These results suggest that this vaccine will also have a significant impact on these cancers in the years ahead", he said.
The research, which was funded by the Scottish government, looked at samples from more than 20,000 women, making it one of the largest population-based studies on the impact of the vaccine.
There were 388 new cases of cervical cancer in Scotland in 2014. | A campaign to vaccinate girls against a cancer-causing sexually transmitted infection has led to a dramatic drop in reported cases. | 39493859 | [
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Their remains were found in a single grave in Coghalstown, County Meath, in the Republic of Ireland in June.
Mr McKee's sisters said they were glad that 43 years after his death they can bury him with their mother.
The Disappeared are victims murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Northern Ireland conflict.
Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright were both IRA members who were abducted and murdered by the organisation in 1972.
Their bodies were found unexpectedly during a search for another of the Disappeared, Joe Lynskey.
After the official identification, Mr McKee's sisters, Maria and Philomena, told the BBC: "It is bittersweet news that our brother's remains have been identified.
"The news has hit us with the shock of reality, even though we were expecting it.
"We are so so glad that, after 43 years, he will now be buried with our mother who never recovered from his disappearance."
Over the past 16 years, the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) has searched for 16 people who were officially listed as the Disappeared.
The remains of 12 of the victims have been recovered and formally identified to date.
In a joint statement, ICLVR commissioners, Sir Ken Bloomfield and Frank Murphy, said they had received the results from DNA samples.
"The results positively indicate that the remains are those of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee," the statement said.
"Dr Brian Farrell, coroner for the City of Dublin, has accepted this as evidence of identification and will shortly authorise the release of the remains to the families."
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said the news would "bring an end to the uncertainty for the McKee and Wright families".
"I want to appeal again for anyone with any information on those remains still not found to bring that information forward to the families, to the commission or myself," he said. | Confirmation that bodies found in a bog were Disappeared victims Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright is "bittersweet news", the McKee family has said. | 34183733 | [
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But those words - contained in a detailed statement issued by Scotland Yard on Monday afternoon - raise more questions than answers.
Will police continue to dedicate resources to non-recent allegations of abuse? Has their approach to such cases changed? And what's the impact on the Metropolitan Police and its Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe?
In terms of Sir Bernard, his immediate future is secure - despite calls from Harvey Proctor and others for him to resign.
In February, the commissioner was granted a one-year extension to his five-year contract, which will make him the longest-serving Met chief since Sir Paul Condon, who was at the helm from 1993 to 2000.
The contract decision was taken by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, who took advice from London's Mayor, Boris Johnson.
It was a reflection of the 58-year-old Yorkshireman's wider record at the Met, tackling crime and terrorism, making budget savings and rebuilding trust in the force after allegations that police officers passed confidential information to journalists and failed properly to investigate phone hacking.
However, Operation Midland has undoubtedly tested the commissioner's leadership and judgement. A detective's ill-judged comment that the complainant's allegations were "credible and true" stoked criticism of the inquiry.
Established in November 2014, Operation Midland was set up to examine historical claims of a Westminster VIP paedophile ring, with allegations that boys were abused by a group of powerful men from politics, the military and law enforcement agencies.
The inquiry was also intended to examine claims that three boys were murdered during the alleged ring's activities. Operation Midland related to locations across southern England and in London in the 1970s and 1980s, and focused on the private Dolphin Square estate in Pimlico, south-west London.
Historical child abuse: Key investigations
In February, Sir Bernard responded by announcing a judge-led review of abuse investigations and calling for a new approach so officers don't "unconditionally" believe what victims say.
That sparked a war of words with Sir Tom Winsor, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, who said that unless police initially believed allegations they wouldn't record them properly and therefore wouldn't investigate them.
Amid concern that if police rowed back from "believing" victims it would deter them from coming forward, the College of Policing has now clarified the issue, writing to chief constables and police and crime commissioners about the need to "further improve" the confidence of victims to report allegations.
In the confusing aftermath of Operation Midland, the College of Policing letter shows police the way ahead: believe the account given by a victim unless there's credible evidence that no crime has been committed, then carry out a thorough investigation to prove or disprove the allegations.
There's nothing new about the guidance - it's there already in police, Crown Prosecution Service and Home Office manuals - but it clearly needed restating.
The more urgent question now is how police cope with the tide of sexual abuse allegations that shows no sign of receding.
Between 2006 and 2012 the number of sexual offences recorded by police in England and Wales was steady, at around 50,000 to 55,000.
But that autumn, the revelations about Jimmy Savile, together with appeals to victims to come forward, emboldened other survivors of abuse to report what had happened and the numbers have increased every year since.
According to the latest data, for the 12 months ending in September 2015, there were a record 99,609 sexual offences reported to and logged by police, although some of the rise is due to improvements forces have made in the way they process allegations.
However, there's no sign that the increase is slowing. Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the national policing lead on child protection and abuse investigation, believes this is partly due to a genuine rise in cases, facilitated by the internet, rather than simply a greater willingness of victims to come forward.
He told The Times police could be investigating 200,000 cases of child sexual abuse by 2020 if the numbers continue to go up at the present rate.
With police budgets remaining stretched, forces will have to make difficult decisions about where to spend resources.
Victims who are at risk now and suspects who are at large now will be the priority. Historical cases, however awful the alleged abuse, however powerful the alleged abusers, may have to wait their turn. | Five words signalled the end of one of the most controversial investigations into child abuse ever conducted by police: "Operation Midland has now closed." | 35873735 | [
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Matthew Daley, 35, killed Donald Lock, on the A24 in Findon, near Worthing, last July after the 79-year-old ran into the back of his vehicle.
Daley had admitted stabbing Mr Lock to death, claiming diminished responsibility.
Lewes Crown Court heard Daley suffered from chronic mental health problems.
The judge, Mr Justice Singh, adjourned the case for sentencing on 8 July.
Mr Lock's family said the manslaughter verdict brought to a close the "most horrific 10 months of our lives and brings some sort of justice for Dad".
However, they blamed the NHS for his death.
"This verdict effectively provides the Daley family with what they have wanted for the last few years, their son in a safe place away from harm and being treated correctly," the family said in a statement.
"For them they can still visit their son, hug him and talk to him and enjoy aspects of his life with him albeit constrained at the same time.
"For us all we can do is cling on to the wonderful memories of Dad.
"As a consequence of the failings of the NHS and this verdict, it is clear that Dad would still be here today if they had done their job properly."
During the trial, jurors were told Daley's mother pleaded with mental health experts to have her son sectioned.
She told the court, that the day she heard Mr Lock was killed was "the day that all your nightmares came true".
Daley was charged with murder, but never denied killing Mr Lock.
During police interview, he told detectives how he had used a knife to fatally stab Mr Lock, and while in prison awaiting trial he wrote and addressed a letter to the BBC in London, about what had happened on 16 July.
The letter was seized before it was posted and was used as evidence.
The great-grandfather, who had recently been given the all-clear from prostate cancer, was returning from a cycle meeting when his car crashed into the back of Daley's Ford Fusion.
He and his wife Maureen had recently celebrated 55 years of marriage, and had two children.
Chief executive of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Colm Donaghy said they "got things wrong".
"On behalf of the trust, I apologise unreservedly because the care we provided to Matthew Daley should have been better. I also want to offer my sincere condolences to the family of Don Lock and everyone else affected by this tragic, devastating incident."
He said it was clear they should have reviewed the diagnosis, looked at other ways of providing treatment and "listened to his family" more closely.
"We got things wrong. But I do not believe that any of our staff acted in a way which was deliberately negligent or designed to cause harm."
Det Ch Insp Paul Rymarz, of Sussex Police, said Mr Lock's killing was a "tragic case" and had changed the lives of both families forever. | A man who stabbed a retired solicitor 39 times after a crash between their cars has been cleared of murder but convicted of his manslaughter. | 36305405 | [
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Police said he was armed with a stolen gun and they had been tracking him. They blamed the violence on a small group of people.
Four officers have been placed on administrative leave.
The wounded man's name and age have not been released by police.
But the St Louis Post-Dispatch identified him as 18-year-old Tyrone Harris, having spoken to his father, the paper said.
The shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson by white police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014 sparked demonstrations across the United States.
Although Mr Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury and by the US Department of Justice, the teenager's death fuelled a national protest movement against the use of excessive force by police officers.
A justice department investigation also found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson police force.
What happened in Ferguson in 2014?
US Dept of Justice report on Ferguson racism
Earlier on Sunday, hundreds of people stood silent for four-and-a-half minutes at the spot where Michael Brown was killed, representing the number of hours that his body lay in the street unattended.
The BBC's Aleem Maqbool, who is in Ferguson, says most people at Sunday's gathering felt little had changed since Michael Brown was shot dead a year ago.
At the end of a sombre, peaceful day of commemorations, shots were heard at about 23:15 local time on Sunday (04:15 Monday GMT) as a large crowd gathered on West Florissant Avenue,
St Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters that after "an exchange of gunfire between two groups" the suspect, believed by police to be armed, left and encountered officers in an unmarked SUV.
He said the suspect fired on the vehicle and the plainclothes detectives returned fire from inside the van. There was then a further exchange of fire after the officers left the vehicle.
The gunmen "were criminals; they weren't protesters," he said, adding that the officers were not wearing body cameras.
Photos from the scene showed a young black man lying bloodied on the ground. He was face down and handcuffed.
President Barack Obama announced a federal programme to help pay for lapel-mounted cameras for US police to record their interactions in the wake of the nationwide protests on perceived policing injustices.
There have been a number of high profile shootings of unarmed black men in US cities in recent months.
The most recent case involved 19-year-old Christian Taylor who was shot dead by a white police officer after he was spotted on surveillance footage vandalising cars in Arlington, Texas, on Friday. | A man has been critically injured in Ferguson, Missouri, in an exchange of gunfire with police at a rally marking the anniversary of the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. | 33844201 | [
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The ex-Norwich and Peterborough man became a professional boxer in 2013 having quit football two years previously.
He has a record of eight wins and one draw from his nine fights.
McKenzie is the son of former British and European champion Clinton and is trained by his uncle, former three-time world champion Duke McKenzie. | Former Premier League striker Leon McKenzie is to fight for a national boxing title. | 36790360 | [
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The Briton finished more than two minutes ahead of Poland's Anna Harkowska in Nottwil, Switzerland.
Storey can win a 17th title when she rides in Saturday's road race.
"It's a massive relief to win," said the 37-year-old, who is targeting further Paralympic success at next year's Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Storey is Britain's most decorated female Paralympian with 22 medals.
She has won 11 gold, eight silver and three bronze medals in both cycling and swimming across six Paralympics.
She won four golds at the 2012 Games in London and has now won 21 world titles across both sports.
Storey began her sporting career in the pool, winning six medals at the 1992 Paralympics before switching to cycling in 2005. | Dame Sarah Storey claimed the 16th world title of her cycling career with gold in the time trial at the Para-cycling Road World Championships. | 33721182 | [
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A social media campaign had proposed giving Halti mountain summit to Finland for its 100th birthday next year.
The border between the two countries runs up the mountain near its peak.
But Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said that sadly she had had to turn down the idea because the country's constitution prohibited any sacrifice of Norwegian territory.
Part of Halti mountain is already in Finland - and forms its current highest point - but the peak is 20m (66ft) across the border inside Norwegian territory.
Campaigners had proposed moving the border to give the summit, at 1,330m (4,363 ft), to Finland, saying the change would be barely visible on the map.
They had argued that the peak "would be a wonderful gift to our sister nation" to mark its independence from Russia, and not a big loss to mountainous Norway, which has much higher peaks.
The campaign's Facebook page got 17,000 likes, with support from both sides of the border.
But it hit upon an insurmountable legal issue.
"Border adjustments between countries raise challenging legal problems, among them linked to the Norwegian constitution," Ms Solberg wrote to Svein Leiros, the mayor of the town of Kaafjord in northern Norway, who supported the campaign.
Norway's 1814 constitution stipulates that the country is "indivisible" - and apparently not even an area the size of a football pitch can be split off.
"We will instead consider another suitable gift to Finland on its anniversary," the prime minister added. | Norway has rejected a plan to give its neighbour Finland a mountain to mark the centenary of its independence. | 37662811 | [
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BBC News analysis of voting patterns in 2,500 council wards since 2012 shows wide disparities.
Most of the areas where the fewest people voted in recent elections are in the North.
The Electoral Reform Society said it was vital people turned out to vote.
Campaigners are concerned there will be a low turnout again on Thursday 5 May if voters continue to see local authority elections as "less important" than a General Election.
According to data from the commission covering the 2012, 2014 and 2015 council elections:
41
wards saw fewer than 20% of the electorate vote in 2012
368,594 were eligible to vote
65,221 returned a ballot that year
4 wards had under 1/5 turnout in 2014, alongside European elections
43% was lowest turnout in 2015, when General Election took place too
Katie Ghose, chief executive of the Electoral Reform Society, said: "These figures show that there is a serious democratic deficit in local elections in England.
"Local authorities are central to running so many services - from adult social care, to waste, schools and transport - and with many getting more powers, it's vital people turn out, hold them to account and have their say."
A spokeswoman for the Electoral Commission said: "Our research shows that recent home movers, young people, people from some black and minority ethnic communities, and people in rented accommodation are less likely to be registered to vote."
The commission ran a public awareness campaign encouraging people from these groups to go online and register, with more than 1.6 million applications made since 1 February.
Despite the North having some of the least engaged voters, it also contained those at the top end.
The ward with the best turnout overall was Old Laund Booth in Pendle, Lancashire, where 85% of registered voters used their ballot in 2015.
However, the ward has only one councillor and therefore elections only take place every four years.
Of those wards that held elections three years out of four, it was Bastwell in Blackburn that had the highest average turnout, 66%.
Simon Woolley, director of Operation Black Vote, said the Bastwell turnout was encouraging and showed trends such as those seen in Liverpool Central could be reversed.
He said: "When we were in Liverpool there was real, entrenched cynicism among too many individuals. They believe that these civic institutions barely look like the people they are representing and they say it has nothing to do with them, which then makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy as they do not use their vote to change it.
"Bastwell shows things can be turned around and offers us hope. But it has to be bottom up, diverse-led change. Change cannot be from community leaders herding people blindly into the polling booths."
A Liverpool City Council spokesman said the Central ward had a "very large student population", which suggested "a lot of voter apathy among them for local elections".
It worked with the National Union of Students, visiting halls of residence and hired campaign group Operation Black Vote's bus to encourage people to register before the deadline on 18 April.
In the 2012 council elections the national average turnout was 31%. Two years later, when the vote coincided with the European Parliament elections, it was 36%.
And when the vote coincided with the General Election in 2015, average turnout rose to 65%. The lowest turnout in the country last year was Chalvey ward in Slough, where just under 43% voted.
66%
Average turnout over 3 elections
75% Asian/Asian British residents
Bottom 14% for deprivation
Bottom 12% for employment
Bottom 7% for education
Ingrid Koehler, senior policy researcher at think tank the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU), said: "It's disappointing, but not surprising, that some wards across the country appear disengaged based on voter turnout. It's important to remember that many people, including those who don't vote, have regular interactions with local government - far more so than with central government.
"Still, there are many systemic reasons why turnout in local elections is low. For too long, local government has been treated as the delivery arm of national government. As local devolution progresses, hopefully people will see more reason to make the effort to decide who represents them locally." | Fewer than one in five eligible voters in some parts of England previously chose anyone to represent them in local elections, raising fears of a democratic deficit. | 35999707 | [
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14 February 2017 Last updated at 08:20 GMT
It's part of a celebration of the re-opening of the Settle to Carlisle line in Cumbria which had to be closed after landslides damaged the railway line.
Tornado, the steam train pictured above, will run two return journeys a day between parts of Cumbria and Yorkshire from the 14 to the 16 of February.
The company which owns the trains think they will be pretty popular! | For the first time in more than 50 years a steam train will be running a regular service in England, but only for three days. | 38966465 | [
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Greg Dyke has invited Astle's widow Laraine and his daughters, Claire and Dawn, to Wembley Stadium on 10 August.
The ex-West Bromwich Albion and England forward died in 2002.
A neurosurgeon said last month that he died from a brain condition linked to boxers rather than Alzheimer's disease as previously thought.
Dawn Astle said: "We want to stress the immediate message in dealing with head injuries and concussions, to discuss the FA's medical policies on this and work on player education.
"[The issue] has to be taken seriously because it's about lives.
"It's not like a back or knee injury, because once the brain is damaged it doesn't repair itself and Dad is proof of that."
Ms Astle said Dr Willie Stewart, who carried out a new examination of Mr Astle's brain, would also be at the meeting.
Astle's family have campaigned for the FA to carry out research into the risks of heading footballs and players suffering concussion.
The Justice for Jeff group has also held protests at West Brom games.
The FA previously apologised to the family for not keeping them informed about its work and said its rules on concussion were due to be changed ahead of the 2014/15 season.
A spokesman for the FA said Mr Dyke "had been keen to meet the Astle family for a long time" to hear their concerns.
It was initially believed Astle died from Alzheimer's disease, but the coroner at his inquest ruled his brain had been damaged by heading heavy leather balls.
He played for West Bromwich Albion from 1964-1974 scoring 137 goals in 292 league appearances. | The family of the former footballer Jeff Astle is to meet the FA chairman next month to discuss head injuries in the game, as part of their campaign. | 28374193 | [
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The child was airlifted to Swansea's Morriston Hospital following the incident on Telelkebir Road in Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, on Tuesday.
He was in a stable condition after suffering serious leg injuries.
The man charged in connection with the incident will appear at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court on Thursday. | A 20-year-old man has been charged following a collision between a quad bike and a seven-year-old boy in Rhondda Cynon Taff. | 32911879 | [
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The Uefa general secretary has included the plan in his manifesto for the Fifa election on 26 February.
His idea follows European football's governing body Uefa's decision to play Euro 2020 in 13 different countries.
"Each confederation shall have to wait at least two editions before being able to host the World Cup again," he said.
"This will ensure a more equitable rotation, while giving every confederation the opportunity to organise this unique event.
"Furthermore, Fifa should investigate the possibility of organising the World Cup not only in one or two countries but in a whole region, so enabling several countries to enjoy the honour and benefits of hosting the World Cup."
Infantino is one of five candidates standing for the presidency of world football's governing body, which is in crisis following a series of corruption claims.
He is up against Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, the Bahraini head of the Asian football confederation (AFC), Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale and Jerome Champagne, a former Fifa deputy secretary general from France.
Current Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been banned for eight years from all football-related activities for breaching ethics rules. | Fifa presidential candidate Gianni Infantino says he would press for the World Cup to be held in a whole region rather than one or two countries. | 35351190 | [
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An emotional Canadian Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland left the talks in Brussels, saying the EU was "not capable" of signing a trade agreement.
Belgium, the only country blocking accord, needed consent from the regional parliament of Wallonia.
The wide-ranging deal, seven years in the making, was to be signed next week.
Speaking outside the seat of the Walloon government, Ms Freeland told reporters: "It seems evident for me and for Canada that the European Union is not now capable of having an international accord even with a country that has values as European as Canada."
She added: "Canada is disappointed, but I think it is impossible."
It was unclear whether the EU would keep negotiating with Wallonia in coming days to solve the impasse.
European Parliament briefing on Ceta
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or Ceta, was expected to boost bilateral trade, but Wallonia sees the accord as a threat to farmers and welfare standards.
The region has a strong socialist tradition. Its fears echo those of anti-globalisation activists, who say Ceta and deals like it give too much power to multinationals - power even to intimidate governments.
There have also been big demonstrations in several EU countries against Ceta and the TTIP trade talks with the US.
The Canada-EU trade deal was seven years in the making but it took far less time to unravel.
Canada has been scrambling to keep Ceta together after the Walloon regional assembly in Belgium voted last week to reject it.
The deal was completed under Canada's former Conservative government but is a major priority for the Liberals, who are under pressure to boost the country's economy.
They dispatched special envoy Pierre Pettigrew, a former cabinet minister with a wealth of experience on the international trade file, to help save the flagging agreement.
Federal trade minister Chrystia Freeland has met repeatedly over the past months with European leaders to shepherd it through, but with no luck.
The failure to clinch the EU-Canada Ceta deal is an embarrassment for the EU. Wallonia, a region of just 3.6 million people, has all but scuppered a trade deal affecting 508 million Europeans and 36.3 million Canadians.
The European Commission says this blow does not mean that Ceta is over, but it also refuses to unpick the massive text that was agreed with Canada in 2014.
Any EU free trade deals with the US, China or India now look remote. Anti-globalisation groups, anxious to protect Europe's welfare and environmental standards, may feel they are winning the argument.
For now, any Ceta boost for small businesses and jobs has been postponed. The failure gives us a sense of how tough the Brexit talks will be, despite the UK's current alignment with its EU partners.
One very obvious lesson from this impasse is that it is going to be difficult for the European Union to implement trade and investment deals, perhaps with anyone.
For the UK post-Brexit it suggests two contrasting implications. Negotiating a trade agreement that gives British exporters barrier free access to the EU's single market could be a huge challenge.
For sure, there will be some important differences. For the EU, Britain is a more important export market than Canada, so some EU states will have a good deal to lose from failing to agree. But securing the agreement of all of them is unlikely to be straightforward.
On the other hand, negotiating an agreement with other countries outside the EU should become easier. To put it bluntly, the British government won't need to care what the Walloon parliament, for example, thinks. | A trade deal between the EU and Canada is on the brink of collapse because a Belgian region with a population of just 3.6 million objects. | 37731955 | [
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The Bluebirds are seven points adrift of the Championship play-off places and have been placed under a transfer embargo.
Slade has insisted he is still the man to lead the club but Dalman says his position is under scrutiny.
"He knows the pressures; he's done this job before," Dalman said.
"Russell knows the score. I talk to him on a regular basis and he knows what's ahead.
"He has been here for a while with us and of course his position comes under scrutiny, it always has been. To say it never has been would not be true.
"The jury's out on every single one of us every time we have to deliver something."
Cardiff have been placed under a transfer embargo by the Football League following a breach of Financial Fair Play rules.
The Bluebirds have become the fourth Championship club currently under a transfer embargo, joining Bolton, Fulham and Nottingham Forest.
The embargo will be in place for the rest of the January transfer window.
Slade confirmed he had spoken with club owner Vincent Tan but said there would be no talks over a new contract for him this month.
The former Leyton Orient manager says Tan is still as committed as ever to the club and denied suggestions the Malaysian's scaling-back of club finances showed a lack of backing.
"You see bigger clubs building castles and thinking the investment they put in will give them a great chance, but it doesn't guarantee it," Slade said.
"You've got to cut your cloth accordingly. There are rules in place."
Slade continued: "You can't just go spending £5m here or there. Whatever we do it will have to be under financial constraints." | Cardiff City chairman Mehmet Dalman says the "jury is still out" on manager Russell Slade. | 35321168 | [
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The world champions, who won Britain's first gold of the London Games in 2012, led from the start as they finished 1.2 seconds clear of New Zealand in a time of seven minutes 18.29 seconds.
Denmark finished third to take bronze.
It was Great Britain's 17th medal of the Games and moved them up to fourth in the table, ahead of Australia.
Watch: TV wildlife presenter Steve Backshall breaks down in tears as fiance Helen Glover takes gold
Britain's 18th medal came just 20 minutes later as Alex Gregory, George Nash, Moe Sbihi and Constantine Louloudis took victory in the men's four.
Glover and Stanning are now unbeaten in 39 races, a run that stretches back five years.
They became the first British female rowers to win an Olympic title when they won four years ago, but Stanning said Friday's victory in Rio eclipsed their London success.
"This means so much more," she said. "We have been so emotional this week and it means so much to us."
Glover added: "The pressure was immense. London was a home games and there was nothing more special but this is defending a title - it means so much."
Find out how to get into rowing with our special guide.
Glover and Stanning dominated from the start, building up a 3.58s lead at the halfway mark.
New Zealand surged late on but the Britons had enough in hand to take victory.
"I think they had another gear," said retired rower Sir Steve Redgrave, who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games.
"It is difficult to repeat what they did four years ago when they had a big lead because you have to keep going through the motions of it."
Singer Pixie Lott: Yessssss golden girls!!!! You're amazing
BBC presenter Dan Walker: Glover and Stanning have ripped this race to bits. What a performance. Solid gold... again
Former world and European champion rower Polly Swann Amazing job by @Helenglovergb and Heather! So commanding. Double Olympic champions has a nice ring to it! Well done girls. Xx | Great Britain's Helen Glover and Heather Stanning successfully defended their Olympic title by winning gold in the women's pair at Rio 2016. | 36687471 | [
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Police said it happened at Boucher Crescent in south Belfast at about 17:25 GMT.
Members of the public managed to stop the car but the man fled on foot.
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The world number two won 6-2 6-0 in 66 minutes and will next play Rafael Nadal, who beat Stan Wawrinka 6-1 6-4.
It was a much improved performance from Murray, who broke 10th seed Raonic's serve five times.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Roger Federer 6-3 2-6 7-5, and fellow Frenchman Gael Monfils beat Marcel Granollers 6-2 6-4.
"It's the most challenging surface for me every year," said Murray.
"It normally takes me a few weeks to remember what I need to do, how to move, the way to build up the points and making sure you don't rush."
Murray needed almost three hours to beat Benoit Paire on Thursday and had struggled for form since the Australian Open in January - but he was close to his best against Raonic.
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"The two most important shots in tennis I did really well," added Murray.
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"The serve and the return for me were the best they've been for a while and I'm glad, because they weren't so strong the last couple of matches."
Jamie Murray boosted his hopes of hanging on to the doubles world number one spot for a while longer as he and Brazil's Bruno Soares reached the semi-finals.
The pair beat sixth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea 6-2 6-3, despite Murray requiring treatment on his thigh at one stage.
Murray leads Marcelo Melo by just five points in the rankings and will face the Brazilian, and partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia, in the last four on Saturday.
Andy Murray and Dom Inglot had a match point but could not convert as they lost 6-4 3-6 12-10 to France's in-form Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues.
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The PM was chomping on the £1.80 snack on an Easyjet flight to Portugal - sparking incredulity on social media.
Fellow passenger Ashleigh was amazed too, telling her Twitter followers: "Guys I'm crying he was eating Pringles."
"I found the experience humbling," she told BBC News.
The eagle-eyed teenager also managed to grab a selfie with the apparently oblivious Mr Cameron to liven up the holiday flight she was taking with her boyfriend.
The prime minister, who was sitting with his bodyguards, can be seen playing with - or possibly working on - his iPad in an economy seat.
He is believed to have been flying out to Portugal to join wife Samantha and their three children on holiday.
Twitter users were quick to flag up other examples of snack-related Cameron trivia - such as a curious picture of him eating a hot dog with a knife and fork during the election campaign.
Others wondered why the prime minister was using a budget airline, suggesting he was trying to burnish his "man of the people" credentials.
Britain's political leaders have been wary of being pictured eating since then Labour leader Ed Miliband was snapped by a press photographer having difficulties with a bacon sandwich.
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The 51-year-old was found in the grounds of her home in Royston, Hertfordshire, in July. She had been missing for three months.
Her partner, Ian Stewart, 56, has denied murdering her.
Pathologist Dr Nathaniel Cary told St Albans Crown Court it was "possible that she was put down the well in an unconscious state and then drowned".
Ms Bailey's body was discovered in a cesspit beneath the garage submerged in liquid, including human excrement, the court heard.
More on this and other news from Hertfordshire
The body of her dachshund Boris was found next to her, together with a dog's toy.
The Northumberland-born author of the Electra Brown series for teenagers, had last been seen alive on 11 April.
The cause of Ms Bailey's death was officially listed as "undetermined", Dr Cary said.
Post-mortem tests showed no signs of injury. There were no broken bones, no evidence of bruising or brain bleed, he told the jury.
Analysis of her hair found traces of the sedative Zopiclone, which had been prescribed to Mr Stewart, had been in her system for several months and was present at the time of her death.
Toxicologist Dr Mark Piper said side effects of the drug could include short term memory loss perhaps leading someone to think "their mind was playing tricks".
The jury was told earlier that in the weeks before her death the writer had emailed friends describing how she felt confused and mentally impaired.
Pathologist Dr Cary said if she had been sedated, Ms Bailey could have been killed without visual injuries by more "subtle" means.
"Subtle modes of death include smothering and compression of the neck by means including an arm lock, using the crook of the elbow... also called a sleeper hold, it is used in certain martial arts to reduce consciousness."
Cross-examined by defence counsel Simon Russell Flint QC, Dr Cary said he was speculating, but added: "On the basis of the case as a whole, it is my opinion that not only was she concealed by a third party but it seems likely she died at the hands of the third party by some means."
He added: "It is possible that she was put down the well in an unconscious state and then drowned... but impossible to confirm that given the amount of time the body was in water.
"I cannot discount it, it is one of a range of possibilities."
The vet who carried out post-mortem tests on Ms Bailey's dog had been unable to ascertain the cause of death.
No Zopiclone was found in its system and in a statement from Dr Jonathan Williams the jury was told it was not possible to "confirm or refute whether the animal drowned".
The prosecution alleges Mr Stewart, who was due to marry Ms Bailey "imminently", murdered her for her money.
The author was worth "approaching £4m", the court heard earlier.
Mr Stewart denies charges of murder, preventing a lawful burial, fraud and three counts of perverting the cause of justice.
The jury has been sent home for the day.
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The Fraser of Allander Institute reckons that growth this year will be 1.9%, the same as its forecast for last year, for which official data has not been finalised.
That is a reduction on the 2.2% forecast for 2016 that it published in November.
For 2017, the forecast has fallen from 2.5% to 2.2% in those past four months.
The economists at the Strathclyde University institute warned that growth was too dependent on household spending based on credit, which they said was unsustainable.
They explained that the benefits of cheaper oil had not fed through to the economy as strongly as the harm it had done to the energy sector itself. The sustained low price was further pulling back on investment plans.
The economists argued that this month's Westminster budget should avoid a further squeeze on spending, as tax revenues appeared to fall short of previous expectations.
Prof Brian Ashcroft, author of the regular Fraser of Allander reports, said that would slow growth further and worsen the flow of tax revenues to the exchequer.
The report said that job creation should continue but forecasted a slower rate of growth. The central forecast for net employment increase was 36,800, whereas in November, it was 45,000.
The report also warned of the effect of the UK being taken out of the European Union, following the referendum in June.
It claimed the uncertainty about the outcome of the vote would have a negative effect on investment.
Its analysis of the European choice was that "it is difficult to imagine that it would help improve Scotland's competitive position to our trade with the EU".
It noted that the fall in electronics and other manufacturing exports had meant Scotland already found it hard to penetrate open EU markets.
The Strathclyde report said Scottish exporters would find it more difficult if the trade arrangements were changed. Also, productivity could be slowed, when it was already relatively weak.
The latest report from Fraser of Allander noted that the Scottish economy still benefited from low inflation and low interest rates and earning power had been increasing slowly.
However, it reflected on the strength of Sterling, making imports cheaper and exports more difficult. That factor had weakened in recent weeks, though trade had been slowing globally.
It said growth had been depending too much on rising and unsustainable household debt.
Paul Brewer, a senior partner at PwC which sponsors the Fraser of Allander reports, said: "The potential for the forthcoming budget to exert further fiscal tightening, oil price uncertainty and the uncertainty surrounding the potential outcome of the EU referendum, together create a difficult environment for business and investor confidence."
He suggested the UK Chancellor could help the economy with a further cut in tax on oil producers.
At sector level, the analysis said the service sector was the driver of growth, although financial services showed little sign of recovery to pre-recession levels.
The production sector had contracted in the most recent official data, and construction had ceased to be the driver that it was of Scottish growth. | Growth in the Scottish economy is failing to pick up pace, according to one of Scotland's main forecasters. | 35706223 | [
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The 20-year-old centre-back made 12 appearances this season as Pompey won the League Two title, and has played 50 games in total for the club.
Whatmough said: "In the past few years I've seen a lot of hard times as the club struggled and slid downwards through the leagues.
"But now we are on the way back up again and it's great to be involved and play a part in that."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Portsmouth defender Jack Whatmough has signed a new two-year contract. | 40097634 | [
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It was introduced for the final race of 2014 to keep the championship alive for as long as possible but was criticised by drivers, teams and fans.
The agreement needs ratifying at a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council, but F1's legislative body is expected to rubber stamp it.
The idea of F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, the double points rule was criticised for being unfair and artificial.
As it turned out, the outcome of the 2014 championship would have rested on the final race even if double points had not been in force.
Lewis Hamilton was 17 points ahead of Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg going into the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but made sure of the title by winning at Yas Marina.
That gave the Briton a further 50 points, leaving him 67 in front of Rosberg, who came home 14th after suffering car trouble.
Ecclestone and FIA president Jean Todt met with representatives of the teams, circuits and sponsors to discuss a number of proposals at this week's meeting, not just the double points rule.
The BBC has learned that they abandoned plans to introduce standing re-starts following the deployment of the safety car but failed to come up with any formal proposals aimed at keeping costs under control.
The issue of costs remains a hot topic following the financial collapse of the Marussia and Caterham teams.
Force India, Lotus and Sauber have also complained that they are struggling financially because the split of prize money is not equitable.
There was also no agreement on allowing limited in-season engine development.
Currently, the rules allow a specified amount of development between seasons but none during the championship.
Red Bull and Ferrari have been pushing to allow an extra stage of development in the summer.
Mercedes are against the idea but have offered to accept a limited amount of development.
However, their compromise proposal has been rejected by their rivals on the basis that it does not go far enough.
Unanimous agreement is required to change the rules for next season.
The World Motor Sport Council, which meets in Qatar on 3 December, will also hear from the investigation into the accident at the Japanese Grand Prix that left Marussia driver Jules Bianchi with severe head injuries.
The investigation was charged with establishing what happened and coming up with new measures to reinforce safety at circuits. | Formula 1 bosses have agreed to ditch the controversial double points rule. | 30238076 | [
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Exeter Chiefs boss Rob Baxter also says a "sacking culture" comparable to football is creeping into rugby union.
Leicester director of rugby Richard Cockerill became the third boss sacked in eight months on Monday, while five left in five years before 2016.
"It appears that coaches are a lot more vulnerable than they had been," said RCA founder and director Richard Moon.
Moon, a former Harlequins scrum-half and Rugby Football Union committee member who established the forerunner to the Rugby Players' Association, said one of the main reasons for setting up the RCA in 2012 was to prevent a "football-like" situation from developing.
But, when asked whether rugby union was heading towards a hire-and-fire approach, Baxter told BBC Spotlight: "The facts state that it is."
The 45-year-old, who has been in charge of the club since 2009 when they were in the second tier, said job security for directors of rugby and coaches will "unfortunately be driven by the professional game, the need to stay in the Premiership or be successful in the Premiership".
Cockerill was the second director of rugby sacked this season after Andy Robinson at Bristol, with Mike Ford leaving Bath as head coach last term - just 12 months after being named Premiership coach of the year and having only recently been linked with the England job.
Moon said the timing of recent departures was more damning than the increase in sackings themselves.
"There have been more - but ever more interestingly it's when they are happening," said Moon. "They are tending, more recently, to happen during a season rather than at the end of a season.
"As an association we are keeping an eye on these developments. More and more, if coaches are not given a reasonable and realistic chance to get to where they want to be in a season, short-termism is of real concern."
Cockerill was sacked 12 games into the campaign with Leicester fifth in the table, just five points adrift of Bath in fourth spot, and having led Tigers to semi-finals in both the Premiership and European Champions Cup only last season.
In his eight years in charge, Leicester never failed to reach the Premiership play-offs - winning three titles and finishing runners-up twice.
Robinson, the former England and Scotland head coach, was sacked by Bristol 10 games into the Premiership season, after guiding them back to the top flight following a seven-year absence last May.
"There is more short-termism because rugby is big business now," added Moon.
"There is more expectation on rugby coaches, certainly in the Premiership, to deliver - and if they are not delivering in a short time frame it would seem that owners are being more proactive than they have been in the past.
"Coaches seem to be judged on short-term goals and results. Are they judged a bit like football managers in their first two or three games? Or do you get to Christmas, Easter or the Premiership play-offs? That time period is getting smaller and smaller."
Sale director of rugby Steve Diamond admits his job is under scrutiny at the AJ Bell Stadium - with Sharks on an eight-match losing run - but he denies the turnover of coaches can be compared to football.
"Are we under pressure? Definitely, we need to get some results," Diamond told BBC Radio Manchester.
"But we know what we are doing and there is no-one better to get us out of the hole we are in than me."
When asked if he thought recent sackings were reactionary, Diamond said: "No, not really. Each club is run differently and every club has different pressures."
Tigers, English rugby's most successful club with 10 domestic titles, last won silverware in 2013, beating Northampton Saints in the last of nine straight Premiership final appearances.
Leicester lock Ed Slater said the recent spate of sackings were "what you guys want to write about" when questioned by BBC Radio Leicester on the subject.
"Cockers had been here for a long time," he said. "We haven't been to a Premiership final for three years now and at a club like Leicester we are aware of expectations and he ultimately paid the price - we know we want to win silverware and are expected to win silverware.
"Four years without something is a long spell."
Exeter boss Baxter said the growing popularity of Premiership rugby and increased riches in the game is where the pressure comes from.
"The demands of crowds and rugby clubs and the money that is starting to come into the game through TV, a lot of these things are very positive - we work very hard to build our supporter base and a product that people want to buy.
"Unfortunately, one of the repercussions of that is that people become more demanding. Sometimes, rightly or wrongly, in pursuit of success - or what is deemed to be success - someone pays the price.
"The fact the Premiership is so competitive is something people should cherish and not be too afraid of. That is the balance you would like to think most clubs would come to.
"You understand that a season will tilt with one or two injuries or one or two results. Having the strength to see that through is hopefully what we will get back to in rugby and we won't see a cascade of sackings.
"Some sackings and some changes of management happen for reasons outside of rugby results and those always happen - but when purely based on results people need a little more understanding."
Moon says he spoke to Richard Bevan, chief executive of football's League Managers' Association (LMA), when forming the RCA and believes rugby coaches face some harsher realities than their football counterparts.
"Unlike football, there is not enough professional or semi-professional clubs out there to realistically believe that if you lose your job you will walk into another one at the same level immediately. It is very rare," said Moon.
"It is important that coaches get the right level of support and backing that their day job deserves.
"Richard was incredibly helpful when we identified this idea. They are a juggernaut of an organisation that have been going for a long time and they do invaluable work.
"We are some way behind that in the rugby world."
Chris Jones, BBC Radio 5 live rugby union reporter
"It is not necessarily a case that suddenly rugby union has adopted a different culture compared to before, but perhaps there are changes as a result of the competitiveness of the Premiership - influenced by the greater central revenues from Rugby Football Union and TV money - coupled with the new private investment at some clubs.
"There are probably seven or eight clubs who truly feel they should occupy the top four - or be even better off - in the Premiership.
"These clubs include Saracens, Wasps, Exeter, Bath, Leicester, Northampton, Harlequins, Gloucester, while Sale are a club that firmly considers themselves to be a top-six side. In saying that, Bristol, Worcester and Newcastle are all highly ambitious as well.
"Wasps and Sale have been boosted by fairly recent private investment, while Gloucester are on the verge of a takeover. Bristol have a billionaire owner too. These are people who all want success, while the traditional powerhouses such as Leicester, Northampton and Harlequins also demand results.
"No club is content with its status quo - maybe apart from European and Premiership champions Saracens - and with high expectations from fans and in the boardrooms, comes pressure on coaches - and sackings." | The recent spike in Premiership sackings shows a "worrying trend", says the Rugby Coaches Association (RCA). | 38502617 | [
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As the economist Paul Krugman put it, it was as if Europeans were holding up a sign which read "time to stage a run on your bank". In Europe's corridors of power there is the sound and sight of officials pointing fingers and rowing back from previous positions held.
Here's the reality: Cyprus's banks will remain closed at least until Thursday while they try and unravel this. The Cypriot parliament may delay again today voting on a bailout deal that has brought protesters onto the streets. Bank shares in Europe have been under pressure. The markets are unnerved. Fear has returned to the eurozone. The EU's reputation has been damaged.
Not a good day's work.
So what's happening? After a conference call on Monday, Europe's finance ministers said that small savers, who were going to be taxed at 6.5%, should be protected.
A new proposal from the finance ministry has surfaced today. The aim is to better protect the small savers. Under the plan those with savings less than 20,000 euros would pay nothing. Those with deposits between 20,000 and 100,000 would pay a one-off levy of 6.75%. Savings above 100,000 would face a 9.9% tax.
The proposal leaves in doubt whether it could raise the nearly 6bn euros that was a central part of the bailout deal.
And in a further indication of just how complicated this could become, the Cypriot Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades said he expected that 10% of deposits would be withdrawn when banks finally open.
The Cypriot government appears to have decided against raising the levy on those with deposits of more than 100,000 euros to over 15%.
Here's the rub: The government fears this would effectively destroy its financial sector. Those wealthy Russians, who are the largest foreign investors, are likely to pull their funds out of the island if the one-off tax is too high. The Russians are angry and the Cypriot finance minister is heading to Moscow to explain.
The Cypriots argue that the bailout would end up undermining a key sector of the economy. The suspicion in Nicosia is that it is precisely what countries like Germany want. They don't like tax havens for the wealthy.
So how did Europe get itself into this tangle? As always Germany is the starting point. For Chancellor Angela Merkel there was a moral element to this. "Anyone having their money in Cypriot banks," she said, "must contribute to the Cypriot bailout". In other words it can't just be left to the taxpayers of other countries.
The Cypriots say that the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was a strong proponent of taxing savers. At the talks the IMF also played tough. It insisted that Cypriot debt had to be sustainable and that meant reducing the size of the debt. So depositors were lined up to take a "haircut" - a slice from their savings.
The Cypriots tried to hold out but they were faced with a veiled threat. The European Central Bank (ECB) might stop providing funds to Cyprus's two major banks. Without support, the banks would collapse and bankruptcy would follow.
When the protests started, Mr Schaeuble tried to distance himself from what had been decided in Brussels. He told German TV that it was the European Commission and the ECB that had "decided on this solution and must explain that to the Cypriot people". The Cypriots say it was the Germans who had pushed hard for the levy on depositors. Berlin says "yes" but not on small depositors.
The arguments, no doubt, will continue. The legacy of this will be harder to forget.
A suspicion will linger in places like Italy and Spain that, although European officials insist this was a one-off deal, depositors elsewhere might face a tax on their accounts.
There will also be the suspicion that the finance ministers were willing to undermine the Europe-wide deposit insurance scheme with a sleight of hand.
The episode also underlines again how much resentment is building in southern Europe towards the north and Germany in particular. Many of the protesters in Nicosia are openly antagonistic towards Angela Merkel and Berlin.
There will be a question whether - as with previous bailouts - the measures adopted will damage the very economy they are intended to save.
Cyprus reminds Europe how dangerous the eurozone crisis remains. | Almost nobody now believes the Cypriot bailout deal negotiated in the early hours of Saturday morning was smart. | 21842036 | [
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Sinead Higgins, 37, and son Oisin O'Driscoll were found after police forced their way into the house in The Fairway, Ruislip, west London on Wednesday.
Police responded to concerns for the pair's welfare at about 10:50 GMT.
A Met Police spokeswoman said detectives do not believe a third party was involved in the deaths.
Det Insp Dave Bolton said: "Inquiries so far lead us to believe there is a likelihood that the tragic events that led to the deaths do not involve a third party."
A post-mortem examination is scheduled to take place on Friday.
Next of kin have been informed. | The bodies of a mother and her seven-year-old son have been discovered at their home. | 38329030 | [
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Onlookers said the men were prisoners but this has yet to be confirmed.
Fire engines are at the scene but Mid and West Wales Fire Service would not give any details of an incident. South Wales Police said it is not involved.
Bob Griffiths, from Bridgend, who saw the men on the roof, said: "They are shouting at each other and the other prisoners are shouting from the cells."
He said there were initially three men on the roof but one had come down. | Two men have been spotted on the roof of Swansea Prison. | 36067296 | [
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But he did not know the size of block grant coming from the Treasury in London until George Osborne's autumn statement on 25 November.
So with few sleeps and bargain-seeking days to Christmas, the budget process is being delivered this week, and the legislative timetable squeezed.
What can be expected of John Swinney's taxation and spending plans? Let's play budget bingo.
"Osborne's austerity is wrong for Scotland": There will be a squeeze of more than 5% (the Scottish government prefers a slightly different calculation rounding it up to 6%) in current or revenue (non-capital) spending.
"Difficult decisions have to be made": If the health service is protected from cuts, and schools too, departments with less than half the budget have to absorb all the cuts.
That is likely to feature local government, which has been told to brace itself for some deep cuts in grant funding over the next five years.
John Swinney could sweeten the pill by allowing them to raise council tax - as George Osborne did south of the border, allowing a 2% council tax rise if it is to pay for social care.
But it will be tempting to stick to a ninth year of freezing council tax, even though that will cost him a cumulated £630m out of next year's budget, and even though it is more generous to those with the biggest bills.
"Taxes for a fairer Scotland": That'll be the reason for not using the new Scottish Rate of Income Tax. Both Mr Swinney and the first minister have said they want to use income tax powers only when they are sufficiently flexible to tilt the burden towards those most able to pay it.
That will probably, eventually, mean a rise in higher rate tax, or changes to thresholds. That flexibility won't be added to this year's new powers until 2017.
"A healthy private rented housing market": Mr Swinney could choose to follow Mr Osborne's example last month, by raising property transaction tax on buy-to-let homes. It would be a progressive move.
But the Scottish finance secretary doesn't need to burst a house price bubble in and around his capital city. He may also want to give landlords something they like, to make up for the boost to tenants' rights they are soon to face.
"ESA10": Technical jargon for public finance nerds, but it matters a lot. Mr Swinney has to give more detail than he did last month on the constraints placed on capital projects by a European accounting rule that makes significant capital projects a public liability rather than the private one that had been planned.
"Scottish Fiscal Commission": This independent, new-ish body will publish its reckoning of Mr Swinney's fiscal projections at the same time his draft budget is delivered. Watch for a shortfall in revenue from Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (the successor to Stamp Duty).
"The A9": The road is busy, it's being dualled, slowly, and it runs right through Mr Swinney's constituency.
"PFI on steroids": Labour's Jackie Baillie will complain about the "debt mountain" being built up under the SNP. Quoting a report from The Guardian about £15bn of council debt and the liabilities resulting from the Public Finance Initiative and its successors, she probably won't explain that a lot of it was built up while she was a minister.
"Capitulation to the powerful roads lobby": Greens will complain that insufficient money has been directed towards household energy efficiency, and too much is going on building a new Forth crossing and Aberdeen ring road.
"Eye off the ball": Conservatives will blame any and all shortcomings in public sector performance and economic performance on the SNP government's campaign for independence. It's a way of rallying 'No' voters. Watch Ruth Davidson for pointers towards manifesto tax cut pledges.
"Budget for fairness, for growth and for Scotland": Whatever is announced, and whatever the reality, Mr Swinney will present his draft budget as all these and more.
"House!" (Yes, more housing too. It will be a theme of the SNP election campaign.) | John Swinney should have published his draft budget in mid-September, for MSPs to deliberate on it over winter, with a big rubber stamp in plenty time for the start of the financial year. | 35110142 | [
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Sarah Parish, Charlie Higson, Roy Hudd and former Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh will also appear in the eight-part series.
David Tennant and Olivia Colman will return as DI Alex Hardy and DS Ellie Miller.
The show will see the detectives reuniting to investigate a serious sexual assault, ITV said.
"Broadchurch's final chapter looks at the emotional cost to all of those involved and the irreparable damage to friendships and relationships," the network said in a press release.
Writer Chris Chibnall said: "We have one last story to tell, featuring both familiar faces and new characters. I hope it's a compelling and emotional farewell to a world and show that means so much to me."
Dorset-based organisations who specialise in dealing with victims of sexual assault and police advisers have been assisting Chibnall with scriptwriting.
After Broadchurch ends, Chibnall will be moving to replace Steven Moffat as the head writer and executive producer for BBC One's Doctor Who.
Broadchurch launched in April 2013 and reached a peak audience of 8.9 million viewers.
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The Reds led at the interval only to suffer a second-half collapse as Sevilla became the first team to win the competition three seasons in a row.
The defeat means Liverpool will not play any European football next season.
"It was 50-60% of our usual quality and we have to accept that," said Klopp, who took charge at Anfield in October.
"I am responsible for this performance. I promise everybody we will use it and come back stronger."
Liverpool were on course to secure Champions League football - on offer to the winners of the competition this year - when Daniel Sturridge's magnificent strike with the outside of his left foot gave them the interval lead.
But the Reds conceded three goals in the space of 24 second-half minutes - Kevin Gameiro netting 17 seconds after the interval, before Coke struck twice.
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"There is no criticism and I have spoken to my players," added Klopp.
"What I think about not being in the Champions League is that we have to use the time.
"It is not about the size of the squad, it is about using the time in training to get better."
Former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson was frustrated by the Reds' second-half collapse.
"Experience was key after conceding," said the 1984 European Cup winner, who was part of BBC Radio 5 live's team in Basel.
"Where was the central defender or captain saying 'circle the wagons for 20 minutes - we do not concede and we get ourselves back into game'? That is something Liverpool just didn't do.
"They had one stonewall penalty in the first half but when you go in 1-0 up at half-time in a cup final, what is the first thing anyone says in the dressing room?
"You make sure you don't concede in the first 10 or 20 minutes. What did Liverpool do? They conceded in the first 17 seconds."
Left-back Alberto Moreno was at fault for Sevilla's first goal, and Lawrenson was also critical of the 23-year-old's performance.
"Yet again Moreno, who used to play for Sevilla, has made a massive mistake," he said.
"I've lost count of how many mistakes this guy has made.
"It's all very good pouring forward but the clue is in the title - left-back. Try defending occasionally. Moreno has made mistakes all season - basic errors.
"Where was he for Villarreal's goal the other week? He was trying to score a goal at the other end."
Lawrenson said former Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers, who was sacked in October, had to share the blame for not strengthening the left-back area during his tenure.
He added: "Liverpool didn't have, by the end of August, another player who could play left-back unless they moved Nathaniel Clyne from the right.
"Jose Enrique was never going to play. I'm sorry, Brendan Rodgers gets the blame for me."
Lawrenson expects a summer of change at Anfield, but expects Sturridge and Brazilian duo Roberto Firmino and Philippe Coutinho to stay.
"I'd imagine Liverpool have spoken to agents and will have an indication of whether players are coming," he said.
"If you are in a room with Klopp then I'd think it was hard to say no to him. This summer's transfer window is going to be the biggest ever in the Premier League in terms of money spent.
"Firmino, Coutinho and Sturridge are not going anywhere this summer - other than on holiday.
"Klopp knew within two weeks of taking over he needed to bring in players.
"Why didn't he address it in January? He probably did but could not get the right personnel in." | Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp took responsibility for his side's 3-1 Europa League final defeat by Sevilla - and said they would come back stronger. | 36327891 | [
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Paul Starks said he felt "sick to his stomach" when he discovered a wall and railings had toppled onto his two sports cars in Dunfermline.
A drain had become blocked by debris, leading water to spill over, causing the wall in Coal Road to collapse.
Fife Council said it was disappointed and frustrated at the flooding.
More than £30m has been spent on the town's flood prevention project - 10 times the original estimate.
Mr Starks said: "My friend came through to me at about 04:15 and said there had been a large bang outside.
"I looked out and noticed the railings had come down around the cars.
"I came out and looked and realised the cars were badly damaged. Water was spewing out of the wall and I thought, not again.
"This is the second time it has flooded.
"I love my cars, it's devastating. It makes you feel sick inside and angry."
Pat Callaghan, Fife Council's executive spokeswoman for environment and transport said: "We're disappointed and very frustrated by the flash flooding event at Pittencrieff Park as, of course, nearby residents will be too.
"In addition to the planned weekly Friday check and clearance of the culvert grill, once we received the severe weather warning, we again checked and cleared the culvert trash screen at the bottom of the park on Saturday as well.
"Unfortunately the exceptionally heavy rain carried such an immense volume of debris down the burn from the park that it choked the trash screen to both culverts during Saturday night.
"The burn overtopped, the water was trapped within the park and eventually caused a section of wall to collapse at Coal Road.
"The flooding was reported to us at 4am on Sunday and an emergency response team immediately went out and cleared the blockage in very difficult circumstances.
"Fortunately the flooding didn't affect any properties, but two cars parked on the footway were damaged and the road was closed to allow the clear up operation."
The road has now re-opened. | Two cars were damaged when a troubled flood prevention scheme in Fife was hit by more problems during the weekend's heavy rain. | 34846058 | [
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It was only the Scots' first match, but the history of this competition is not littered with teams who got off to losing starts and then recovered to qualify for the knockouts.
Some have done it, of course. Bath and Wasps didn't just lose their opening match in this competition last season - they lost their opening two. And yet they both made the quarter-finals.
In the story of how they did it, we see a glimpse of what Glasgow must do now in order to give themselves a chance of qualifying for that final eight.
Wasps beat Castres and Harlequins away from home to qualify as one of the best runners-up. Bath beat Montpellier and Toulouse away - with a four-try bonus point - to make it as group winners.
Those were major victories on the road and that is now the world that Glasgow have been plunged into in the wake of Saturday's loss to the Saints.
The reality of European rugby hit them right between the eyes.
The tea-leaves told us that Glasgow would win this. They had a stellar cast of international players. They had home advantage in the fortress of Scotstoun. And they had some form.
Northampton had few of those things. They had lost three of their four games in the Aviva Premiership, albeit by narrow margins. From last season's quarter-final team, they were missing the front-row of Alex Corbisiero, Dylan Hartley and Salesi Ma'afu, who is now on Toulon's books.
One of their go-to second-rows from last season, Samu Manoa, has also gone to Toulon and the other, Courtney Lawes, is injured.
This was a new Saints pack at Scotstoun and yet they were convincing winners in every department.
Glasgow had a beaten scrum and had a ropey line-out, they were second best in the collisions and error-prone at critical times.
Warriors can get away with some of these things - and occasionally many of these things - in the more merciful environment of the Pro12. Not so in Europe.
Certainly not against a team as rugged as Northampton, a side who spend their weekly lives engaged in dogfights in the Premiership. They were battle-hardened and clinical on Saturday in a way that Glasgow were not.
The scrum wasn't even a contest. Northampton won six penalties in that area.
They garnered six points and a sin-binning, which brought a converted try, from their overwhelming dominance in the scrum. Kieran Brookes, at tight-head, had a field day.
They looked like men with twin targets - not just Champions Cup but, for some, the Six Nations.
When Eddie Jones, the new England coach, gets a look at Brookes' performance, he's going to like what he sees. When he watches Luther Burrell, jettisoned by Stuart Lancaster, he's going to like it all the more. Burrell was top class.
Northampton drive on. They were tougher, physically and mentally, than Glasgow.
The group now looks like a scrap between them and Racing 92, who took five points from the Scarlets in Wales, unless Glasgow can find the kind of venom that typified the Saints.
It was sobering stuff for coach Gregor Townsend. It's been an age since a team came to his own backyard and beat them up like Northampton did.
In truth, there was a large element of self-harm about it as well.
The game was in its relative infancy when Glasgow's composure went out the window. In failing to get close to a garryowen, Stuart Hogg set a hare running, the hare going by the name of George Pisi, who ploughed over under the posts.
Then Glasgow's scrum came under fire. It went down, it went down, it went down.
Three scrum penalties inside 19 minutes and Ryan Grant in the bin for the third. This was a new kind of examination for Townsend's Pro12 champions.
The vulnerabilities carried on. Hogg missed a routine tackle on Ahsee Tuala and Saints were in again.
Peter Horne, that stand-up guy in the Glasgow midfield, scored a try of his own to cut the deficit to eight points, but Stephen Myler stretched it to 11 before the break.
Glasgow had enough ball to make a game of it. Even after Tuala scored his second try, the home team had a mountain of possession and any number of promising field positions.
Eventually they scored, through Josh Strauss, but there were so many butchered moments in there too. A maul shunted backwards out of the Northampton 22, a knock-on when momentum was building, a dreadful under-throw from their new Georgian hooker, Shalva Mamukashvili, at a line-out five metres from the Northampton line.
It was a recurring theme. Glasgow would inch forward, Scotstoun would rise to its feet and then Northampton would turn on the turbo defence and Glasgow would buckle.
The thunderous defence of the visitors didn't just repel Glasgow physically, it damaged them mentally. Their intensity got into the Glasgow psyche. Saints messed with their heads all day.
It was a deeply uncomfortable experience for the Pro12, in general, and, particularly, for those who believed in Glasgow's capacity to make the step up in Europe at last.
They have a mountain of work ahead of them if they are to be relevant in this tournament this season. The hope has not been extinguished, but it's flickering. | The Champions Cup is such unforgiving terrain that already Glasgow Warriors are looking ahead and trying to figure out what they might have to do to make amends for their wounding defeat to Northampton Saints at Scotstoun on Saturday. | 34894470 | [
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The incident happened in Lora village, 80km (50 miles) south of Abbottabad.
Reports said the landowner Mohammad Miskin, who denies the charges, became angry after animals the boy was looking after strayed on to his land.
He tied the boy to the donkey and beat it to make it run faster, witnesses said. The boy, an eight-year-old named Mudassir, died of his injuries.
Local villagers contacted by the BBC said the landowner assaulted the boy after his small flock of sheep and a donkey strayed on to his agricultural field.
"He tied up the boy, and then tied him to the donkey, and then he made the donkey run," one villager said.
Local people say the donkey dragged the child for nearly an hour.
"My child was murdered ruthlessly," his father, Sher Afzal, told the BBC's Mohammad Zubair Khan. "Instead of intervening in the matter and saving the child's life, people were searching for me.
"When I arrived at the scene, the boy was already dead. There wasn't a single part of his body which wasn't bruised."
Mohammad Miskin denies the allegations against him. "I didn't tie the boy to the donkey," he told journalists. "They came into the field and I just shooed them away."
A court in Abbottabad has remanded him in custody for two days for further questioning after his arrest on Wednesday. | Police in Pakistan have arrested a man accused of tying a young boy to a donkey which then dragged him to death. | 40594437 | [
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The 36-year-old Czech national was arrested on Saturday after the body of Rebecca Johnson, 26, was found in the Finnish village of Kuttanen.
Ms Johnson was a member of the Santa Safari team which works with tour operator Transun Travel to organise Christmas-themed excursions to Lapland.
The couple lived in Scotland before moving to the Arctic for seasonal work.
Ms Johnson was from Burntisland in Fife.
A Finnish police statement said: "Lapland District Court has today imprisoned the suspect of the homicide, according to the claim of the Lapland Police Department.
"A 36-year-old Czech citizen is suspected of killing his 26-year-old long-term partner. The victim is a female citizen of Scotland. The crime is investigated as a murder."
It is understood members of Ms Johnson's family have since travelled to Lapland.
The police statement said: "The suspect has been co-operative but hasn't been able to clarify a specific motive for his suspected act.
"Police will continue the investigations by hearing the witnesses and the suspect, and by conducting technical investigations."
The suspect was arrested on Saturday after fleeing into the Lapland wilderness on a dog sled.
The police operation involved a helicopter and officers on snow scooters in temperatures of -30C.
The man was said to have been suffering from hypothermia when he was found. | A man has been remanded after appearing in court in Lapland accused of murdering his Scottish girlfriend. | 38239011 | [
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Fifteen-year-old Sarvesh Verma, son of illiterate parents, scored 96.83% in the test and has been widely praised in India for his hard work.
In the villages of Uttar Pradesh, the power supply is intermittent and Sarvesh said he mostly had to study under the light of a solar lantern.
Although secondary school exams are optional and do not have much significance on their own, they are taken by tens of millions of students every year across India to prepare for the really crucial higher secondary exams.
Success stories involving students from poor backgrounds like Sarvesh are not uncommon, but for the moment, Sarvesh and his family are revelling in his success.
"My son has brought me immense joy," said his father Swaminath Verma, who owns a tiny plot of land and sells vegetables to supplement his income.
"I could not study because of financial problems, so I thought I must send my children to school and wipe out the darkness from their lives," he added.
"We knew he will do well, but we didn't know he will be a topper. We never had to ask him to study. He always say he has to study so he can improve our lot," said his mother, Sona Devi.
Sarvesh, who lives in Sahsaraav village, has to cycle 10km (6 miles) to reach his school in Haraiyya town.
He credits his success to his parents' hard work and co-operation from his teachers.
"I got tremendous support from my school teachers," he said.
When he grows up, he wants to join the civil service and fight corruption, since the "culture of giving and receiving bribes is a huge problem in our society".
"We must think how to eradicate corruption. In my village the public distribution system is in a bad shape. People who deserve subsidised food grains sold through ration shops do not get them. All this must change," he added.
In a school competition last year, Sarvesh won a tablet and said he often goes on the internet to see what is going on in the world.
But, he added, he is not a fan of social media and is not on Facebook. | The son of a poor Indian farmer who has beaten nearly 3.5 million students to top secondary school exams in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh talks to BBC Hindi about his struggles and ambition. | 32791175 | [
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At the start of a trip to China to strengthen post-Brexit business ties, Philip Hammond said he would review economic data over the coming months.
He added that the Treasury will act "if we deem it necessary to do so".
Labour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, dismissed Mr Hammond's plan as "just warm words from another Tory chancellor".
And he added: "As at present the failed austerity policies of George Osborne are still going ahead and the government is still sticking to the failed fiscal framework.
"This means that Britain is on hold until Philip Hammond makes up his mind. The Tories clearly had no plan for Brexit and are making it up as they go along."
Before becoming Prime Minister, Theresa May had said that the government would no longer seek to reach a surplus by 2020.
Mr Hammond said on Friday: "Over the medium term we will have the opportunity with our Autumn Statement, our regular late year fiscal event, to reset fiscal policy if we deem it necessary to do so in the light of the data that will emerge over the coming months."
Following Mr Hammond's statement, figures from IHS Markit's Purchasing Managers' Index revealed a "dramatic deterioration" in economic activity in the services and manufacturing sectors in July, which fell to the lowest level since April 2009.
Well, that was a surprise.
Among the warm words on Sino- British relations (the UK still wants to be a major investment partner with China) the new Chancellor of the Exchequer dropped a small grenade.
He said the government would be willing to "reset fiscal policy" if it was deemed necessary given the decision on Brexit.
Following on from Theresa May's announcement that the government's 2020 target to eliminate the deficit was no more, Mr Hammond looks like he is considering a radical approach should the economy need a kick start.
That opens up a host of possibilities.
More borrowing?
More infrastructure spending supported by the state as well as private money?
Yes, the government has said it wants to "live within its means".
And nothing has been decided.
"Reset" is only one word, after all, though a significant one.
But, as with Mrs May, Mr Hammond might be rather more headline grabbing on changes in economic direction than some expected.
Particularly if the economy looks sickly ahead of the Autumn Statement.
This week new data showed that public borrowing was lower than expected in June, but it is still expected to overshoot the government's £55.5bn full-year borrowing forecast by £14bn.
Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the independent think tank, said: "I think what Mr Hammond was saying was rather similar to what George Osborne was saying about the fact that the government needs to re-think its fiscal rules, it's not going to get to a budget surplus as it planned in 2020 because the economy will slow down.
"We don't know how much, it might be a recession, it might just be a slowdown. That will mean there will be less tax revenue coming in and Mr Hammond is going to have some really tough choices to make in the Autumn Statement. Increase spending? Cut taxes? Or just carry on as we were?"
Mr Hammond is attending his first meeting as chancellor with the G20 finance ministers which is taking place in Chengdu. He will also visit Beijing and Hong Kong.
He declared that Britain was "open for business" and was "one of the most attractive destinations in the world for international investment".
Before Britain voted to leave the EU, China's Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said the consequences were unclear, but that they would be felt for years to come.
Mr Lou said Brexit would "cast a shadow over the global economy" and that the "repercussions and fallout" would emerge over the next five to 10 years. | The new Chancellor of the Exchequer has said he may use the Autumn Statement to "reset" Britain's economic policy. | 36864099 | [
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It claims the mountains' archaeology, ecology, peatland and Bronze Age cairns are among the things "under threat".
Funding has also been set aside to improve the heritage of Holy Island, off Anglesey.
The initial funding approval for the Carneddau Landscape Partnership means the seven-year project can now seek the full £1.9m grant.
The project, led by Snowdonia National Park Authority, will cover 81 sq miles (210 sq km) which features Carnedd Llywelyn as its highest peak.
Jonathan Cawley, the national park authority's director of planning and land management, said: "We are truly excited about working on such an important project which will be of enormous benefit to the local communities and to the natural and cultural heritage of the mountains."
Of the funding set aside to improve Holy Island, Anglesey council has been awarded £117,200 to develop plans on behalf of the Tir a Mor Landscape Partnership.
The plans will be presented to the Heritage Lottery Fund at a later date to seek final approval for the full £1.2m grant.
They include projects which celebrate Holy Island's culture and landscape, involving people who live and work there.
Richard Bellamy, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Wales, said: "Heritage Lottery Fund money works hard to ensure all of our important heritage is looked after.
"But it's not all about grand old buildings, castles and museums. There is natural heritage all around us, especially here in Wales, which is vital to our economy, our livelihoods and our wellbeing." | Plans aimed at preserving the heritage of mountains in Snowdonia deemed "at risk" have taken a step forward. | 37874842 | [
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Three operators have been shortlisted for the Northern Rail franchise and three for First TransPennine Express (TPE), with the winners due to be announced in October 2015.
The Campaign for Better Transport and the RMT transport union are concerned rail services could be cut.
But, rail minister Claire Perry promised a "world-class rail network".
The franchises connect passengers travelling between the key strategic cities of Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Manchester, Newcastle and Carlisle and onwards to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The companies competing for the Northern franchise are Arriva, Govia and Abellio, which has held the contract in a joint venture with Serco since 2004.
The three shortlisted for TPE are FirstGroup, Keolis and Stagecoach. FirstGroup and Keolis currently operate TPE in a joint venture.
The government said franchise bidders would need to improve customer service and passenger satisfaction on the two networks which carry more than 110 million passengers last year.
Ms Perry said: "Building a railway that is fit for the 21st century is a vital part of our long-term economic plan, connecting businesses and communities, generating jobs and boosting growth."
Over the next five years, more than £1bn will be spent on the rail network in the north, the government has said. This includes £600m for the Northern Hub project and electrification projects in the north-west and across the Trans-Pennine routes.
The RMT held a protest outside Westminster on Monday opposing plans for the Northern and TPE franchises.
Mick Cash, RMT acting general secretary, said: "This was just round one of the fight to stop the carve up of jobs and services on Northern and TransPennine Express." | The shortlist of companies bidding to run rail networks in the north of England has been announced. | 28852016 | [
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The Belarusian only returned to tennis in June after giving birth to her son, Leo, in December.
Azarenka, 28, separated from his father in July and last week she issued a statement saying she could only play in the tournament "if I leave Leo behind".
Misa Eguchi, of Japan, moves into the main draw for the tournament, which starts on 28 August.
"I am sadly unable to compete in this year's US Open due to my ongoing family situation that I am working through," Azarenka said on Monday.
"While I will dearly miss being in New York and playing in one of my favourite tournaments where I have enjoyed some of the best moments in my career, I am already looking forward to being back next year."
Earlier this month Azarenka pulled out of the Cincinnati Open because of "a family matter".
The Australian Open champion in 2012 and 2013, she reached the final in New York in the same two years.
She was knocked out in the fourth round at Wimbledon this year. | Former world number one Victoria Azarenka will miss the US Open because of an "ongoing family situation". | 41005425 | [
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the figure was up from 7.6% in the year to February.
Separate figures showed the amount of money borrowed for home loans in March was the highest for nearly nine years.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said £13.8bn was lent during the month, 59% more than in February.
The figure was the highest for any month since August 2007.
Landlords and buyers of second homes have had to pay an extra 3% in stamp duty since the start of April.
"While the increases are substantial, these supercharged levels of activity are likely to be temporary, and will fall back over the summer months," said Paul Smee, the director general of the CML.
Landlords borrowed £7.1bn in March, an 87% increase on February.
The ONS figures show that UK house prices have increased five times faster than wages since 2011, according to the Resolution Foundation, which campaigns to improve living standards.
Its analysis of the ONS data shows that house prices have increased by 36% over the past five years.
Average weekly earnings have gone up by just 7% over the same period, it said.
The think-tank said the growth gap between wages and house prices was even more pronounced in London and the South East.
But even in Scotland and the North, house prices have risen at twice the rate of wages.
However the ONS data shows that prices in Scotland fell by 6.1% in the year to March 2016.
Recent surveys by both the Halifax and Nationwide have suggested that house price growth has already cooled since the stamp duty changes came into effect.
The ONS said house price growth in March was particularly driven by London, where the cost of a house or flat rose by 13% over the year.
In its last survey using the current methodology, the ONS said the average cost of a home in the UK reached £292,000 in March. | House price inflation across the UK jumped to 9% in March, as landlords rushed to beat stamp duty changes, official figures show. | 36310827 | [
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Sheikh Ali Salman told the BBC that for national dialogue to be meaningful, the government had to show its willingness to offer "concrete solutions".
"We want someone who can speak for the royal family," he said.
Crown Prince Salman al-Khalifa is seen as a reformist in a court divided on how to respond to opposition demands.
Hardliners - centred around the unelected Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, who has been in his post since 1971 - are said to be opposed to a dialogue process which has only just been agreed between the government and six opposition societies.
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However, speaking to the BBC during a visit to London, Sheikh Salman insisted that now was the time for dialogue.
"We welcome it, we are ready for it," he said. "We believe that dialogue and negotiations are necessary."
The al-Wefaq leader acknowledged that many young protesters had lost faith in the main opposition parties.
"A lot of young people do not believe that we should ask for permission to go on a demonstration, or that we should call for a constitutional monarchy with this family, which until now is still killing people".
But he believed that the only way forward was to work with reformists within the Sunni Muslim royal family, including the US- and UK-educated Crown Prince Salman, who has has long been considered a proponent of accommodation with the country's Shia majority.
Sheikh Salman noted that hours before King Hamad brought in Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) troops to restore order and crush dissent on 14 March 2011, the crown prince and opposition had agreed a seven-point plan that would have moved Bahrain towards a constitutional monarchy.
"We had an agreement with the crown prince," he said. "The seven principles were announced and then 12 hours later, GCC troops came in and severed the dialogue."
Asked about the appointment of Senator John Kerry as US secretary of state, Sheikh Salman said he was "hopeful" that he would "do more than his predecessor", Hillary Clinton.
"US policy needs to be more clear and direct. The United States government needs to pressure harder for human rights and democratic practices. We are told that Mr Kerry has more interest in Bahrain and so we hope he will achieve more."
On the UK's approach to the crisis in Bahrain, the al-Wefaq leader was more blunt.
"If the UK government and [Prime Minister David] Cameron are serious about putting an end to violence and human rights abuses, then they have to speak out publically.
"It is not enough to say: 'We are privately urging reform.' That has been done for years. Unfortunately, the Bahrain government is not listening to these private conversations.
"So, the question I would ask the British government is: 'Shall you continue to say it privately and not put public pressure?' This is not, I think, a good policy."
Sheikh Salman also reiterated al-Wefaq's position that it would continue to call for "peaceful demonstrations", even though all public gatherings and rallies are currently banned in Bahrain.
"It is the only way open to us to put pressure on the government."
He also called for the release of 13 opposition leaders and human rights activists who have been sentenced to between five years and life in prison on evidence widely accepted as having been obtained under torture. They were convicted of plotting to overthrow the government.
"These people have a lot of followers in the street. If they are not part of the dialogue than the dialogue will fail." | The leader of Bahrain's main opposition group, al-Wefaq, has called for the crown prince to attend talks aimed at ending nearly two years of unrest. | 21267591 | [
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Prince Jacques is next in line to the Monaco throne, a rich principality on the southern French coast.
A statement said both babies were doing well. Gabriella was born first, with Jacques arriving two minutes later.
Their father is Prince Albert II, 56, son of the late Hollywood actress, Grace Kelly. Charlene, 36, is a Zimbabwean-born former Olympic swimmer.
The couple married in 2011.
The prince has two other children but they are excluded from the throne because they were born outside of marriage.
Ahead of the birth, Prince Albert said that the first child to be delivered would become next-in-line, if the twins were the same sex.
But since the twins are mixed sex, Jacques takes the role, due to Monaco's laws of succession favouring males.
The gender of the twins had been kept a secret even from their father during Charlene's pregnancy.
Forty-two canon shots were fired to mark the babies' arrival, 21 for each infant.
It is the first time twins have been born to Monaco's royal family since it was founded in the 13th Century. | Monaco's Princess Charlene has given birth to twin babies, Gabriella and Jacques, the palace has announced. | 30422160 | [
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The Weston-super-Mare Bemusement park was originally due to go to the so-called "Jungle" camp in Calais, France.
It has now been donated to Aid Box Convoy, which is taking it to a smaller camp where conditions are said to be "horrendous".
The fixtures and fittings will be used to build shelters and cooking stations.
More than 150,000 people visited the Dismaland exhibition at the disused Tropicana site in Weston.
Now, eight vehicles and 20 volunteers will take leftovers from Bristol to the camp in northern France. They are also taking with them five tonnes of donated firewood and some 300 aid boxes containing food, toiletries and cooking equipment.
Co-founder of Aid Box Convoy, Imogen McIntosh, said the camp only has basic sanitation and has "grown from 400 people three weeks ago to more than 1,000, with families turning up every day".
Ms McIntosh said Dismaland organisers changed their mind about sending the camp to Calais when they heard there were other camps in France which hadn't received any aid.
She added: "It has all been taken down now and we are left with huge sheets of wood which we can use to build the shelters.
Dismaland is also sending a team of chippies and builders out to the camp, who will be creating any structures that we need with the materials."
The group has also been supported by Bristol-based Arcadia Spectacular - known for its festival fire-breathing spider - which has donated a vehicle and trailer.
"People have been so fantastic, it's been such a brilliant response and so much better than we could ever have imagined," added Ms McIntosh. | The dismantled Dismaland theme park is on its way to a refugee camp in France after Banksy donated it to a group of Bristol volunteers. | 34474416 | [
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Last season's Premier League champions are fighting relegation and were beaten in the FA Cup by League One side Millwall, who had a player sent off.
Leicester, with one win in eight games, face a Champions League last-16 first-leg trip to Sevilla on Wednesday.
"I want to speak again with the players and say we have to fight every match," Ranieri said.
"I need the soldiers, I need the gladiators, because Millwall, with 10 players, showed they are fantastic gladiators."
Millwall won with a last-minute goal from Shaun Cummings, despite playing for most of the second half with 10 men after Jake Cooper was dismissed.
With the visit to Sevilla and a Premier League home match against Liverpool to come, Leicester made 10 changes, but Ranieri still expected better from the players he selected at The Den.
"It is strange because last season we won like this, by being more determined than the opponent and playing with more heart than the opponent," he said.
"We could also lose but we would fight every match. I want to see this, the fight until the end.
"This defeat could be good for us because when you lose against a team who fights, you have to say well done to them but why did we lose?"
Leicester have not won an away match in the Premier League all season, and are just one point above the relegation zone.
They are in danger of becoming only the second defending English champions to be relegated, after Manchester City went down in 1938.
Former Wales striker John Hartson: "Leicester have been embarrassing, how far they have fallen this season is shocking.
"The manager is changing the team every other week. They are doing well in the Champions League, but in terms of fight and desire they are showing nothing."
Ex-England winger Trevor Sinclair: "Leicester played quite well, were competitive and looked like they were going to score. Unfortunately for them, all the chances fell to Shinji Okazaki but he did not have his shooting boots on. Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer was outstanding all afternoon though.
"We all know the Leicester players can play, having won the Premier League last season. They now have to look at each other in the eyes and ask, 'can we play under pressure in a dogfight?'"
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Rosberg has won the first three races of the season to build a commanding 36-point lead in the championship.
Hamilton said: "Of course there is an urgency. I can't really afford to fall any further back than that.
"Who knows how the weekend will go? It could be as bad as in the past but I'm hoping it will be positive."
Hamilton has finished second, third and seventh in the races so far.
Bad starts took him out of the reckoning for victory in the first two races in Australia and Bahrain and then in China technical trouble left him at the back of the grid, from where he was involved in a crash at the first corner.
Formula 1 has introduced new rules this season that gives the drivers more control at starts, reducing the technical assistance they get from the car.
And Hamilton said he had been encouraged before Sunday's race in Sochi by the fact he had made a good start in Shanghai from his position at the back of the grid.
"I made the best start," he said. "At the end of the weekend the team analyse the starts and I had the best of everyone, they told me.
"This is a circuit where you need that because I think it is one of the longest runs to Turn One and it is easy to get drafted so a good start would help."
Rosberg, who has won won six grands prix in a row dating back to last October in Mexico, said he was expecting a fightback from Hamilton over the remaining 18 races.
"I'm pleased with the way I'm driving," he said. "For me it's not six straight, it's three, because I only count from the start of this season.
"I have been driving really well but my opposition had a really messy start and I definitely expect them to bounce back, especially Lewis. And it is going to be really tough, like always. There is a massively long way to go still."
Rosberg said Ferrari would also be a tough challenge for Mercedes, despite their difficult start to the season.
"I'm not sounding a note of caution, I'm just realistic," he added. "Ferrari among others haven't shown what they can do yet - as an example they took each other out at the first corner in the last race.
"They are a lot quicker than they have shown and for sure they are very close to us."
But Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel said he believed the Italian team were still not quite on Mercedes' pace.
"I hope we can be very close this weekend," the four-time champion said. "First of all have a smooth weekend and see where we are.
"We know we are probably not close enough but the race is on Sunday and there is always a chance.
"We expected Mercedes to be very strong. Of course it is important you score points at this stage of the season, but there is still a long way to go. Our feeling is good but we know we can ramp it up." | Lewis Hamilton says he must beat Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg at this weekend's Russian Grand Prix to kick-start his title defence. | 36161488 | [
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"Nobody risks £15,000 on a hunch," said a spokesman for William Hill, who make the band 6/4 favourites to get the gig.
Ladbrokes, Coral and Paddy Power have also suspended betting.
A spokesman for Radiohead said he had "no comment" on whether the band would be performing the Spectre title track.
Bond star Daniel Craig is known to be a Radiohead fan, having quizzed frontman Thom Yorke for Interview magazine in 2013.
Speculation about whom will sing the song has been feverish in recent days, with Ellie Goulding emerging as another favourite.
The star posted a photo on Monday that appeared to hint she had been chosen.
"That's a wrap!" the singer wrote on Instagram, next to a photograph of her leaving Abbey Road studios in London.
The historic recording facility was where Adele recorded the title track for Skyfall, the previous James Bond film, in 2012.
The Showbiz 411 website reported on Tuesday that Goulding had registered a song called Spy with music rights organisation BMI, a song it suggested was the theme song for Spectre.
According to NME, though, a spokesman for the singer later confirmed she had been working on her new studio album at Abbey Road.
"The first gamble of the day was Ellie Goulding and punters were backing her as if she already had the gig," said William Hill's Rupert Adams on Tuesday.
"But just as we were thinking of pulling the plug we had a load of bets for Radiohead, including one customer who asked to place a £15,000 bet on the band at 10/1."
If Yorke's band are chosen to record the title track for Spectre, it would be the first group to sing a James Bond title song this century.
The last band to have that honour was Garbage, who performed the title track for The World is Not Enough, in 1999.
The makers of Spectre have yet to announce who will sing the song, though director Sam Mendes has confirmed a song has been recorded.
"It's fantastic and I'm very excited about it," he told BBC Radio's Test Match Special. "You won't have to wait long."
Sam Smith, another mooted candidate, denied rumours he would be singing the theme tune earlier this month.
"People seem to think I'm doing it but I have no idea what's going on," he told Capital FM. "I think I would know by now."
A spokeswoman for Coral told the BBC the bookmaker had decided to suspend betting on Tuesday following Goulding's cryptic hint.
A spokesman for Paddy Power said it had not accepted any bets since Mendes' confirmation that an artist had been chosen, while Ladbrokes' spokeswoman said it suspended betting last week.
"We're no 007, but money talks, and with Ellie proving to be punters' Bond girl of choice we had no option but to suspend betting on her recording Spectre's theme song," said Ladbrokes' Jessica Bridge. | A leading bookmaker is refusing to take bets on which artist will record the next James Bond theme song after one customer tried to place a £15,000 wager on Radiohead being selected. | 33700786 | [
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A planning application has been made for the development on green belt land at Park of Keir, near Dunblane.
However a council planning and policy consultation stated the development "cannot be supported in policy terms".
A spokesman for Park of Keir Partners said they would discuss the report with Stirling Council planning officers.
Murray, mother of tennis star Andy, and golfer Montgomerie announced plans for the facility, Scotland's first purpose-built golf and tennis centre, last summer.
The proposed facility would include six indoor and six outdoor tennis courts, a nine-hole golf course with a practice range, coaching suites and a cafe, along with around 100 houses and a hotel.
However, some local residents raised concerns about the development being sited on green belt land between Dunblane and Bridge of Allan.
These concerns were echoed in an official planning and policy document authored by Claire Milne, a principal planning officer at Stirling Council.
Her report concluded that the planned housing - included in the project to subsidise the cost of the sports facilities - "is not intended to meet any of the local or particular housing needs, and will in fact exacerbate affordability in the local area".
While the tennis, golf and tourism element of the proposal would "provide a degree of social as well as economic benefit to the local area", the report noted that the business case submitted was "not sufficiently convincing".
The report also states that there is no "overriding national need" or a local need for the project to be sited on green belt land, a "sensitive landscape" which would suffer a "significant detrimental impact" from the development.
A spokesman for Park of Keir Partners said it was "normal practice" for planning officers to carry out a policy review.
He added: "We plan to meet with the council's planning officers to address a number of the comments in this report and we remain confident our proposed development represents sufficient benefit to the people of the area, and Scotland as a whole, to allow members of the planning committee to approve our application."
A date has not yet been set for councillors to consider the application. | Planning bosses have raised concerns over a Stirlingshire tennis and golf centre proposed by Judy Murray and Colin Montgomerie. | 29157759 | [
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Walter Innes and fellow Shorewatch volunteer Monika Carrie were about to head home after an eventful day "staring at an empty sea" on Tuesday.
They then spotted what looked like a dolphin feeding frenzy and Mr Innes took a picture, believing it to be of a dolphin taking a large salmon.
Expert Charlie Phillips said such attacks were not completely understood.
Mr Innes took his picture at 18:04 on Tuesday just outside the south breakwater at Aberdeen Harbour.
He said: "Monika Carrie and I had been staring at an empty sea for a while and were just about to leave.
"We saw what we thought at first was a feeding frenzy, and went down on the rocks to try and get pictures. I thought it was a very large salmon, until I got home and saw it on the computer screen.
"You hear and read about this behaviour, but to see it on the doorstep is stunning."
Mr Phillips, a Highlands-based Whale and Dolphin Conservation field officer who monitors the Moray Firth's resident population of bottlenose dolphins, said: "It's not completely understood why some bottlenose dolphins attack harbour porpoise like this.
"The example in Walter's great pictures show that it's normally small porpoise, often calves, that seem to be targeted.
"One day we might have a better understanding of this behaviour but until then we can only make guesses or speculation."
Mr Phillips added: "It does happen frequently, as the pathologists at the whale and dolphin strandings department of Scotland's Rural College have carcasses of porpoise showing clear signs of bottlenose attack to examine, and they are massive injuries that have been sustained." | A whale and dolphin-watcher has photographed an attack by a bottlenose dolphin on a porpoise off Aberdeen. | 36605379 | [
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Project director David Climie told MSPs that any bad weather could still make it "challenging" to hit the target, but said that "everything that can safely be done is being done".
It was originally hoped the Queensferry Crossing could open by December 2016.
Mr Climie said changing the date was a "painful process", but said the new target date was "realistic".
The project also remains within its budget of £1.35bn.
The contract for completion of the bridge runs until June 2017, but a target had been set of opening it by December 2016.
However, it was announced in June that this deadline now could not be met due to high winds forcing work to stop on 25 days during April and May, using up the time contractors had put aside for contingencies.
Mr Climie said there had been a "worse than average winter", which had caused delays, but that he was now confident it could be open by May 2017 after a "good three months".
Questioned by MSPs at Holyrood's rural economy and connectivity committee, Mr Climie said: "I'm always an optimist so I hope it will be before May, but I'm also a realist so I accept there are certain circumstances where it could be after May.
"The main issue that could affect it is one we can't control, the weather. May is a very reasonable assumption and that's certainly what were aiming for, that we believe we can achieve and that the contractor is telling us they believe they can achieve."
MSPs were told that 93 of 110 deck units were now in place, and that work had progressed well on supporting roads and infrastructure.
The committee heard there were still "incredibly frustrating" days when work could not be done due to wind, but that contractors Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors had shown flexibility to keep the project moving forward.
There was also a pause in the project after a 60-year-old worker was killed on the site.
Mr Climie said the fatal accident had been "a great shock to the project and a great setback to us all", and said that safety was top priority for the project team.
The Health and Safety Executive are still investigating the incident, which occurred during "routine maintenance".
Mr Climie was also questioned about why the completion date had changed by six months after previous hopes the project could open early.
He said: "It was reasonable at the beginning of March for the contactor to expect that the weather would improve, that we would get into a better period of weather, and that even though they were behind where they wanted to be, they could recover to get there by December.
"What happened in April and May was exactly the contrary of that, it was significantly worse than expected. And therefore rather than recovering time they were losing time.
"And realistically it comes to a point where if you're trying to recover one month in 10, that's realistically possible in terms of a major construction project.
"But if you're trying to recover two months in seven, that's really not realistic any more and we have to say right, we've given this our best shot, we've thrown everything at it we can and we have to say sorry, we just aren't going to get there.
"They key is that, if you don't get December, that pushes you significantly into 2017. There's a multiplying effect - a day lost in April or May is not equivalent to a day in January or February." | The new Forth Crossing remains on course to be opened by May 2017, Transport Scotland has said. | 37296316 | [
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I remember to this day the feeling of freezing rain blinding me and the extreme cold wind causing my ears to hurt.
However, that did not bother me at this time. What was the occasion? Well, this was Hogmanay and the boys of the township were carrying out the traditional ritual of going from house to house on this special evening.
What is the tradition behind it? It is widely thought that some of these island traditions came from the Vikings who were settlers in the Western Isles in particular, during past times. To be honest, that did not matter to me. I was out and about having fun.
This traditional event, which happened in the Uists throughout the centuries, was also practised in many other places, but with differences in format depending on where you lived.
On these nights it was the young males that went round the township with permission given to boys as young as five to go out with the big boys. The upper age limit was normally 17.
My township was North Boisdale and I would say there were about 25 houses to visit and a few not so friendly dogs to dodge.
The start time was 19:00 and all the boys would meet up at one end of the township and begin to visit each house. Each person had a pillow case or bag that would be filled with goodies received from householders.
As you walked between each house the boys would shout in Gaelic "Hogmanay and New Year Hooray". This alerted the folk, especially on a clear calm night, that the Hogmanay boys were on their way.
Outside each house one person would recite the Hogmanay poem and at the end of the poem ask the man of the house for permission to enter.
Once inside the house a candle would be lit by the eldest boy in the group and then the candle would be passed round all family members starting with the householder.
There was superstition involved with this as it was thought that when the candle was being circled above each individual's head, if the candle was to go out it meant that individual would have a year of bad luck.
Of course jokers within the family would try and blow the candle out when this was taking place.
Once every member of the family had been passed the candle, the mother of the house would bring out the gifts. Loafs of bread, sugar, fruit, biscuits and of course sweets. Sometimes folk would offer meat or fish.
The man of the house would give money, as would older males in the family. Older men in the township would offer a dram to the senior boys, which would of course be refused.
On leaving each house the oldest boy in the group would wish luck on the family for the coming year.
After being to each house the pillowcases would be full and heavy and it was at the last house that the fun began. The pillowcases would be emptied and the goods shared out evenly.
It did not matter how old you were - the boys all got their share. The hosting house would also provide a small party that would finish before midnight so all the boys were home before the bells.
On the way home the blinding rain or freezing conditions did not bother me as I now had a pillowcase full of goodies, a full belly, and money in my pocket. A great start to the New Year.
Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, a lecturer at Centre for Nordic Studies in Orkney, confirms the Hogmanay Boys tradition has connections to Norse culture.
She says: "As a child in Norway in the 1980s, I remember dressing up to gå julebukk (go Yule-goating).
"Julebukk involves putting on a mask and going to people's doors to chase Christmas out around New Year. You sing and carry a sack to collect cakes and sweeties - ah, the joy of ending up with a huge sack of goodies.
"If we go a couple of hundred years further back in time, Norwegian people used to walk in a group around the farms in the parish, dressed up so that nobody would recognise them.
"These costumes could be rather frightening and represent fantastical animals, such as an effigy of a billygoat's head on a stick. The guisers would be offered food and drink at each farm.
"These customs are extremely old, going back to pre-Christian beliefs.
"Folk belief had it that supernatural beings were extra active at this time of year.
"Interestingly, similar traditions are also found in Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland and Orkney. In Shetland today, for example, guisers travel around and are offered food and drink at Up Helly Aa in January." | With Hogmanay looming, DJ MacIntyre, Gaelic officer at the University of the Highlands and Islands, highlights a tradition once popular on South Uist in the Western Isles and with a connection to Norse culture - Hogmanay Boys. | 38377402 | [
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Evie Markham, 18, from Albrighton in Shropshire, made it to the embassy in Kathmandu on Friday evening only to be told it was closed, her mother said.
Sue Markham said her daughter was now safe in a hostel.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it was looking into her case.
In a statement, a spokesperson said FCO teams were "working around the clock" to to help British nationals in Nepal and had assisted more than 350 people, arranging flights for 140 of them.
Sue Markham, however, said her daughter had received "no help whatsoever" after arriving at Kathmandu airport.
"Most countries had representatives there taking people to the embassies and sorting them out," she said.
"Evie got there and there were no British people out there at all. She made her way to the embassy and was told it was closed.
"They said 'our doors are closed, we work nine to five'.
"She's 18 and on her own completely. When she got upset they got her inside and gave her a drink and a Snickers bar and that's all the help she's had."
Evie has been on a gap year since September, visiting a number of countries.
"She met up with some people she'd previously met in Cambodia and she decided to join them trekking to Everest base camp," Mrs Markham said.
She said her daughter had just left base camp when the earthquake struck a week ago.
"They had to run for their lives to a village, where they stayed for a couple of days.
"Food was running low and and they had no access to money, so they decided to trek to Lukla, nine hours away, which was quite hazardous."
With no access to money, a British man she met at Lukla airport stepped in and offered to pay the $130 for her flight to Kathmandu.
Mrs Markham said her daughter was now safe and hoped to fly back to the UK on Monday or Tuesday.
She said she had spoken to the FCO and would be lodging a formal complaint.
The FCO said it was still heavily involved supporting British nationals in Nepal.
"Helicopter airlifts continue to assist Brits in remote areas. We have emergency response teams working to locate British nationals and they have assisted several groups in the mountains over the past 48 hours," a spokesperson said.
"An RAF C-17 is on its way to Kathmandu and will take British nationals out of Nepal and to New Delhi." | A woman whose daughter was travelling around Nepal when the earthquake struck has said she was shocked at the lack of support from the British embassy. | 32562774 | [
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Jockey James Best edged ahead on the Neil Mulholland-trained seven-year-old (25-1) and held on to finish half a length clear.
Last year's winner Theatre Guide (11-1) had to settle for third, with Double Shuffle (11-2) finishing second.
"It's days like this that mean so much, this is the biggest day of my racing career," said Best.
"You've no idea how much it means and how grateful I am to be given an opportunity on a day like this."
There was a slight blip in the celebrations as Best was unshipped shortly after the line.
He added: "I'd done celebrating, I was trying to pull him up. I delivered him as late as I dare, with the fact he is so quirky, and sure enough he's dropped his shoulder - you have to expect the unexpected with him." | Pilgrims Bay produced a late surge to win the BetBright Chase at Kempton Park. | 39091390 | [
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It should "stand up to government and say we need legal change... to strengthen governance," he said.
He added that shareholders also had to take responsibility and act if a company's standards were failing.
The FRC said it had requested more powers to tackle bad behaviour.
From the end of MG Rover, to the near-collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS, through to Tesco's accounting scandal and BHS's extinction, failings in corporate leadership have continued to stalk UK businesses.
It is 25 years since the Cadbury code was published, which put in place most of the rules governing public company practices and is overseen by the FRC.
Sir Adrian Cadbury wrote his report in 1992 following scandals such as the collapse of the bank BCCI and textile company Polly Peck, along with Robert Maxwell's raid on Mirror Group pensioners. It has been the cornerstone of corporate governance ever since.
It recommended an independent board, reasonable pay to attract executives and formal processes to appoint directors.
"The Financial Reporting Council which controls the Cadbury code, and is a rather timid body, should get stronger," Lord Myners told the BBC's Today programme.
It should "stand up to government and say we need legal change in a number of areas to strengthen governance".
The code has no punitive means of enforcement and follows a so-called comply or explain model. If a company wishes to shun a particular rule, it can give its reasons for doing so.
This arrangement aims to stop companies ducking rules as a matter course and rewards openness. But critics say it treats all rules as optional.
"It hasn't been binding enough," Lord Myners said.
In a statement to the BBC, the FRC said: "The FRC has called on the government for more powers to tackle all directors when companies fail, not just those we regulate (accountants and actuaries), and we want more scrutiny on directors fulfilling their obligations under the Companies Act.
"The Corporate Governance Code's 'comply or explain' approach has allowed the FRC to respond confidently and effectively to evolving market circumstances, which prescriptive hard rules often cannot."
Its latest monitoring report on the code shows "high compliance" among companies, but when boards don't follow the rules "too many explanations are of poor quality".
"This suggests that some boards still need to do more than pay lip service to the needs of their shareholders and other stakeholders.
"The FRC believes more focused reporting by boards on how they discharge their responsibilities is necessary and has called for more oversight powers from government to help achieve this."
Another criticism from Lord Myners is the role of shareholders themselves in controlling corporations.
"Cadbury did not focus at all on the roles and the duties and obligation of the shareholders and that's where the failing is happening," he said.
"Nobody owns enough of a company to really be put out enough to really dig in and find out what's wrong." He termed this the problem of "ownerless corporations."
This view echoed that of Chris Philp, MP for Croydon South, who told the Today programme in September that UK companies should adopt a Swedish-style shareholder committee in an effort to curb excessive pay for bosses.
The five biggest shareholders in large publicly-traded companies would sit on the committee, Mr Philp suggested, and this would make decisions on pay and hiring directors.
His plan follows a call from Prime Minister Theresa May for tighter controls on corporate excess. | The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), which regulates how firms govern themselves, is too "timid" and needs more powers, says former City minister Lord Myners. | 39139300 | [
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TWE, which owns brands such as Wolf Blass, Rosemount and Lindeman's, is the world's biggest listed winemaker.
Last year, it sold 385 million bottles and recorded revenues of AU$1.76bn.
KKR's new bid is a joint venture with fellow US private equity firm Rhone Group.
Rhone Group's contribution is not known and the bid is being led by KKR.
The proposed offer is worth AU$5.20 a share and represents a 11% increase on the earlier April bid, which was rejected by TWE's board.
KKR had a large cash influx following the $5.1bn (£3bn) sale of Oriental Brewery of South Korea to Anheuser-Busch InBev and appears thirsty for another drinks company.
The winemaker's board has urged shareholders not to throw out the new proposal.
It said in a statement: "The board of TWE, together with its advisers, has concluded, based on the revised proposal, that it is in the interests of its shareholders to engage further with KKR and Rhone."
TWE has a turbulent history and is currently undergoing restructuring that will see 175 job cuts.
It formed in 1995 as the wine division of Australia's Foster's group, brewers of the eponymous beer. However, continuing losses led to it being demerged in 2011.
Recent results have been disappointing, with volume falls in Australia, the result of risky price strategy and underwhelming sales in the China the result of government austerity.
In June last year, the group was forced to destroy AU$34m worth of unsellable wine as a result of disappointing US sales. | US private equity giant KKR has launched a renewed $3.4bn Australian dollar (£1.88bn; $3.17bn) takeover bid for Australian winemaker Treasury Wines Estates. | 28641720 | [
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The round £1 will be legal tender alongside the new, more-secure coin until 15 October.
The public are being urged to use their current £1 coins or bank them before they lose their legal tender status.
The government estimates around a third of the £1.3 billion worth of coins stored in piggy banks or saving jars around the UK are the current £1 style.
Some of those returned by the public will be melted down and used to make the 12-sided version.
The new style was announced in the 2014 budget and has been billed by the Royal Mint as "the most secure coin in the world".
Its introduction will come as a new set of coin designs are also brought into circulation, celebrating the achievements of Jane Austen and Sir Isaac Newton.
The Royal Mint said the new designs have a "strong pioneering theme" and will start appearing this spring.
A Jane Austen £2 coin will celebrate the author 200 years after her death, while another £2 version will remember the Royal Flying Corps.
A 50p coin will mark the achievements of mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, a one-time Master of the Royal Mint.
Dr Kevin Clancy, director of the Royal Mint Museum, said: "This is a particularly significant year in Royal Mint history as we welcome in the new 12-sided £1 coin, with its innovative security features.
"This year we also mark the achievements of Jane Austen, Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Flying Corps - all pioneers in their own field." | The new 12-sided £1 coin will enter circulation on 28 March, the government has said. | 38480180 | [
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Those who saw a drop in enquiries last month outnumbered those who saw a rise by 22%.
That is the highest figure reported by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) since August 2008.
Rics said the main reason was the stamp duty rise on 1 April, and the uncertainty around the EU referendum.
The number of new enquiries fell most dramatically in London, but also fell in nine other regions of the UK.
Enquiries rose only in East Anglia, the North and Scotland.
Most surveyors also reported a fall in new instructions to sell, and most expect prices to rise over the next three months.
Rics chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said the market was characterised by uncertainty.
"More ominous is the expectation that both prices and rents will head materially higher over the medium term," he said.
Earlier this week the Halifax reported that annual house price inflation fell from 10.1% in March to 9.2% in April. | The number of people interested in buying a house in April fell to its lowest level for nearly eight years, according to surveyors across the UK. | 36266941 | [
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The 19-year-old will now be eligible to play against Barnsley in the Football League Trophy final on Sunday.
Kenny, who joined up with the England Under-20 squad over Easter, has so far made 13 appearances for the U's.
"He has done really well for us and is enjoying his football," said Oxford head coach Michael Appleton.
"He is highly thought of at Goodison Park and has a big future." | Oxford United have extended the loan of right-back Jonjoe Kenny from Premier League side Everton until the end of the season. | 35926534 | [
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The historic walled market town is popular with overseas visitors, but if they arrive in a left-hand drive coach at the drop-off point, they have to step out into moving traffic.
The drop-off point could be widened to provide a walkway on the right side for foreign-registered coaches.
Residents have expressed concerns coaches are avoiding the town.
The work would cost £85,910.
A report by Marianne Jackson, Conwy council's head of community development service, says: "The existing coach drop off and pick up point in Conwy is well located from a passenger point of view, but presents a growing road safety risk with the lack of separation from the flow of traffic through the town centre.
"This risk is amplified as we strive to increase the market share of continental visitors to Conwy, as any overseas visitors arriving by continental coach when entering or disembarking will be on the off-side of the coach.
"This means that, without a footway on the off-side of the coach, they do so into and from the adjacent live carriageway, thus presenting a considerable road safety hazard."
Deputy mayor of Conwy, Bill Chapman said: "If it's a bus from another country, from France, from Germany, people can get off and walk straight into the traffic so there is a danger to our visitors.
"We need our visitors here in this town and we don't want to have them killed on the streets of Conwy."
Toby Tunstall, chairman of Conwy chamber of trade said the work was much needed.
"It can be quite frightening," he told BBC Wales. "We see people getting off coaches and going straight across the road with traffic driving pass. Getting back on the coach, they will cross the road with cars coming across their path.
"We need the coach trade to keep the tourist industry in Conwy going. The foreign visitors at the moment in particular are really keeping us going at a quiet time of year. These improvements are a really good idea."
The council is proposing taking part of the car park away to give buses more room to park and providing a pavement on the other side of the lay-by to keep pedestrians safe.
Conwy council's cabinet is being recommended to approve the money needed for the work to take place. | A scheme to make the medieval town of Conwy safer for foreign tourists who arrive by coach is set for approval. | 38560566 | [
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Their nationalities are not known.
The incident occurred early on Wednesday in Helmand province. Soldiers returned fire killing the attackers, a coalition spokesperson said.
There have been dozens of "green-on-blue" attacks in which Afghan security personnel have targeted their Western allies since 2007.
No group has said it carried out the latest attack.
Insider attacks - on international and Afghan forces - have became one of the gravest security threats of the later phase of the conflict in Afghanistan, although the rate of such incidents has dropped in recent years. More than 100 foreign soldiers have been killed.
Nato has adopted special security measures to offset the threat.
The alliance ended its combat mission in Afghanistan in December, withdrawing most of its troops apart from a 13,000-strong residual force used for training and counter-terrorism operations.
One of the worst insider attacks took place last August when a US general was killed in an attack by an Afghan soldier at a British-run military academy near Kabul.
US Major General Harold Greene was the most senior American military officer to die in action overseas since the Vietnam War.
Many insider attacks are blamed on Taliban infiltration or arguments between foreign and local soldiers getting out of hand.
In some cases such attacks are carried out by an individual - or individuals - acting on their own initiative rather than organised insurgency violence.
The Taliban have stepped up their summer offensive despite an acrimonious leadership dispute following the death of their long-time leader Mullah Omar. | Two people in Afghan military uniforms opened fire on a vehicle killing two Nato soldiers at a military base in the south, alliance officials say. | 34059696 | [
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The premiere was held in New York on Sunday evening ahead of its opening this weekend.
Ben Affleck stars in the film as Batman, with Henry Cavill taking the role of Superman.
Affleck was described by some fans as their "favourite Batman" and "the definite Batman.
The film is directed by Zack Snyder and written by David S Goyer and Chris Terrio.
It was conceived after Warner Brothers announced in 2013 their intention to produce a sequel to the Superman movie Man of Steel.
The company later decided the character would instead meet Batman in a new feature film - the first time the superheroes will ever have met in a cinematic setting.
Tom Nolan tweeted from the world premiere in New York, saying: "So lucky to have been at the #BVSPremiere last night and I still can't believe how amazing it was. Not good. Not great. Amazing."
Mariam Chubinidzhe added: "Still not over the #BVSPremiere. Still so giddy. I'm totally going to be seeing this again."
Rodrigo Mariano, who attended Sunday night's screening, said: "I haven't felt this giddy after watching a movie since The Avengers. Goosebumps. Everywhere. Need to talk about it ASAP."
"Lots to process and think about, but overall BvS is an excellent movie," added Ben Kahn.
Others fans were quick to praise the appearance of Wonder Woman in the film, played by Gal Gadot.
"The loudest applause of the night at #BVSPremiere was Wonder Woman's entrance," said Ashley Warren.
Her appearance had been teased in the film's trailers and marks the first time the character has ever been seen in a live-action theatrical film.
"I was pretty impressed by Batman v Superman. Everyone went crazy for Wonder Woman, she was amazing," tweeted Swati Teerdhala.
But some critics noted the long duration and complex plot points.
Writing in The Sun, Emma Gritt described it as an "insanely long film".
"While die-hard DC Comic devotees might be punching the air as the Justice League are teasingly introduced, the average film fan may be left scratching their head," she wrote. | Fans have described the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice film as "awesome" and a "must-see". | 35869651 | [
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Blackwell retired from boxing after he suffered bleeding on his skull and was put in an induced coma in a loss to Eubank in March.
Eubank Jr will be defending his British middleweight title for the first time.
"I'm not going to let a situation like what happened in my last fight affect my future performances," he said.
The fight against unbeaten Doran, 28, is on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's IBF heavyweight title defence against Dominic Breazeale at London's O2 Arena.
Blackwell woke from his coma a week after the fight, which was stopped in the 10th round, without requiring an operation.
Eubank Sr, who was a two-time world champion in the 1990s, admitted he lost his killer instinct after the 1991 rematch with Michael Watson that left the latter with near-fatal brain injuries.
But Eubank Jr, 26, said that would not happen to him as he and his father are "two different men".
He added: "Something like that might affect someone's fighting style and mindset. For me, I've used it to fuel myself even more.
"I'm in there to win, defend myself and attack, and to further my career, so there is no mercy.
"It's the referee's job. It's not for me to have to say I should ease up." | Chris Eubank Jr says he will not be affected by his last fight with Nick Blackwell and has vowed to display "no mercy" against Tom Doran on Saturday. | 36592507 | [
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The shadow education secretary wants the GCSE system updated to include academic and vocational subjects.
In a motion in the House of Commons, he will call for a "new political consensus" on education policy.
"We have a long-standing mismatch between the education system and the labour market," says Mr Hunt.
Mr Hunt is understood to want a more "constructive" approach to opposition after Labour's general election defeat.
The motion in the House of Commons will emphasise the common goals of wanting to improve education to drive economic growth and calls on the government to create a cross-party review "to cover exams, educational institutions and curriculum".
Mr Hunt wants to build a political consensus on moving away from the current GCSE system, which he argues needs to be overhauled when the leaving age has risen to 18 and these are no longer the final school-leaving exams.
The shadow education secretary wants a broader baccalaureate system incorporating both vocational and academic exams.
But such a change would need to be introduced over a longer period than the next Parliament - and Mr Hunt's move is an attempt to "begin a conversation".
Mr Hunt says that the exams system is no longer delivering the skills needed for the labour market.
"We need a new political consensus to put it right. That is why I am calling on the government to initiate a cross-party review of 14-19 education in this country.
"We should leave nothing off the table. Our only goal should be establishing consensus on the changes needed in our 14-19 education system to secure for our country the long-term economic growth and productivity that we need to succeed."
Education Secretary Nicky Morgan promised during the election campaign there would be no more "constant upheaval or constant change" in the next five years.
The major changes to the exam system and curriculum, announced in the previous coalition government, will be implemented during the next Parliament.
These include phasing in a more "rigorous" set of GCSEs and A-levels, with less coursework and modules and a greater emphasis on exams at the end of two years.
On Tuesday, the education secretary announced that the revised grading system for GCSEs would have a tougher pass mark than at present. | Labour's Tristram Hunt is calling for a cross-party review to work on long-term changes to England's exams and curriculum for 14 to 19-year-olds. | 33155793 | [
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The star slid off the circuit at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey while recording his slot for the opening episode of the latest series.
On Twitter he said: "I'm driving for the first time ever today, on a race track, on tv. Wish me luck."
Kiefer Sutherland and Will Smith will also appear in the new series.
Sheeran managed to drive off the test track a few times and admitted he'd never driven a car ahead of the recording.
Johnny Vegas drove round the track in the now retired Suzuki Liana with big L plates on the top of the car in 2003, while Jack Whitehall didn't have a driving licence either and drove an automatic version of the Vauxhall Astra in series 21.
Top Gear's track was added to Google Street View last year.
The show's test driver, The Stig, was followed by a Google car round the 1.75 mile (2.82km) circuit so it could be mapped.
The latest series, the show's 22nd since its relaunch in 2002, is to start with a simultaneous broadcast in more than 50 countries.
The programme will be seen in Australia, Africa and the Middle East at the same time as it is shown on BBC Two.
A further 10 countries including Malaysia, Taiwan and Mongolia will screen it within 24 hours of its UK debut.
Ed Sheeran's Top Gear appearance is on Sunday on BBC Two at 20:00 GMT
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Ed Sheeran, who doesn't have a driving licence, has managed to drive Top Gear's "reasonably priced car" off the show's race track. | 30930150 | [
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The 35-year-old has been without a club since at the end of last season.
Morrison scored nine goals in 36 games for Ireland and was part of their squad at the 2002 World Cup.
The striker is available to play for Exeter in their League Two game at Accrington on Friday night.
Morrison began his career at Palace in 1997 and scored 71 goals in 181 games before moving to Birmingham City for club-record fee of £4.25m in 2002.
After three seasons at St Andrews he returned to Palace for £2m before moving to Coventry City in 2008.
He spent two seasons at the Ricoh Arena before moving on to Sheffield Wednesday, and after loans at MK Dons and Brentford, joined Colchester in 2012. | Exeter City have signed former Republic of Ireland, Crystal Palace and Birmingham City striker Clinton Morrison on non-contract terms. | 30215135 | [
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French Europe Minister Harlem Desir called the move "scandalous" and said it raised questions about the EU's conflict of interest rules.
Ex-commissioners are free to take up a new role 18 months after leaving.
Despite accepting the job after 20 months, Mr Barroso has come under fire for ignoring the spirit of the rules.
Mr Desir drew attention to the ill-timing of the job with Goldman Sachs.
"It's a mistake on the part of Mr Barroso and the worst disservice that a former Commission president could do to the European project at a moment in history when it needs to be supported and strengthened," he told the French parliament, referring to Europe's shock after Britain voted to leave the EU on 23 June.
The bank hired Mr Barroso as an adviser and non-executive chairman of its international business, with a brief of advising the bank on the consequences of Brexit.
Mr Barroso has said he hopes to bring his EU experience to bear as the bank's London operation deals with Britain's imminent negotiation of withdrawal from the EU.
In his new role, Mr Barroso will be able to draw on his intimate knowledge of the EU and have access to many officials and politicians he worked with at the European Commission.
Mr Desir's attack in the French parliament was the latest in a sustained tirade against Mr Barroso's appointment, with some calling it "shameful".
French Finance Minister Michel Sapin told reporters on Tuesday "If you have loved Europe, you shouldn't do this to it, especially not now," adding: "But this doesn't surprise me from Mr Barroso."
The European Ombudsman has called for the EU to tighten rules on commissioners taking appointments after leaving office.
Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly said adhering to technical rules did not absolve former staff of a wider duty to show integrity.
"Any suggestion that the spirit of the law is being ignored risks undermining public trust in the EU," he said. | France has called on the former head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, not to take up a job advising US bank Goldman Sachs on Brexit. | 36787931 | [
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Ten passengers on board the bus were reported to have been killed while all four crew members survived.
Local TV showed the heavily damaged Boeing 727 Allied Air plane lying across a road close to Kotoka International Airport.
Ghana's airport operator said the plane, which had flown from Lagos, Nigeria, overshot the runway.
It said in a statement that the four crew members were receiving treatment at an airport clinic.
"The aircraft collided with a minivan, resulting in 10 confirmed fatalities," the statement added.
Police and troops cordoned off the scene following the incident just after 19:00 GMT on Saturday.
Ghana's Vice President John Dramani Mahama told reporters at the airport that a thorough investigation would be carried out.
"No early conclusions should be drawn. We should allow investigations to arrive at the actual cause. But I can assure Ghanaians that the situation is under control," he said.
Ghana Airport Company said flights were continuing as normal at the airport.
Kofi Kportufe, head of Ghana's national disaster management agency, praised the emergency services for their quick response, which he said had "averted further disaster".
"This is a sad day for Ghana," he said.
The BBC's West Africa correspondent John James says Ghana's air safety record has been good in recent years. | A cargo plane has crash landed in Ghana's capital Accra, hitting a bus full of passengers, officials say. | 18312340 | [
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The policewoman, Sandra Bertin, was in charge of security cameras.
She said she had been told to report the presence of national police units, although she had not seen them.
More than 80 people died when a lorry struck crowds celebrating Bastille Day on 14 July.
So-called Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attack, which was carried out by a Tunisian man, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel.
Ms Bertin told the Journal du Dimanche (in French) she had been instructed by an interior ministry official to report the presence of national police units on the seaside Promenade des Anglais at the time of the attack.
"The national police were perhaps there, but I couldn't see them on the video," Ms Bertin said.
She told the Journal du Dimanche she had also been "harassed for an hour" by Mr Cazeneuve on the phone.
The interior ministry says there were 64 members of the national police on the seafront - as per arrangements with Nice city hall.
But the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says Nice city hall believes some of these national police had been replaced by municipal police - who were more lightly armed and less able to intervene to stop the killer.
The suspicion - denied vehemently in Paris - is that there has been a cover-up, our correspondent says.
Mr Cazeneuve said he would sue for defamation over the "grave accusations".
The government has faced criticism for not preventing the attack, at a time when France was in a state of emergency following the extremist attacks in Paris in November last year.
French ministers were booed when they attended a ceremony in Nice to remember the victims.
President Francois Hollande said on Friday he had "full confidence" in Mr Cazeneuve.
Last week, local authorities in Nice refused a request by French anti-terror police to destroy CCTV images of the attack.
The Paris prosecutor's office said the request had been made to avoid the "uncontrolled dissemination" of images.
But officials in Nice responded by filing a legal document, arguing the footage could constitute evidence. | French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said he will sue for libel after a senior police officer said she was harassed to change her report on the Nice terror attack. | 36879359 | [
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Draped Seated Woman was moved from a council estate in Stepney, east London, on loan to Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997.
In 2012 Tower Hamlets Council decided against selling the piece after strong criticism.
The council said it would be positioned in Canary Wharf from October.
The Henry Moore Foundation's director Godfrey Worsdale said the foundation was "very pleased" the piece was "returning to Tower Hamlets after a careful and rigorous process".
Yorkshire Sculpture Park said it was "working closely with Tower Hamlets, following [current] Mayor John Biggs' manifesto pledge to return the sculpture to London".
Mr Biggs' predecessor, Lutfur Rahman, was removed from office after he was found guilty of electoral fraud in his 2014 election.
In 2012 Mr Rahman said it was necessary to sell the Moore sculpture - known as Old Flo - which was believed to be worth about £20m, because of "unprecedented" budget cuts.
Moore, a well-known socialist, sold the cast at cost price, £7,400, to the former London County Council on the understanding it would be displayed in a public space and might enrich the lives of those living in a socially deprived area.
The Tate Gallery described it as "part of a post-war revival of civil aspirations and social reform".
An open letter, written in 2012 by the sculptor's daughter Mary Moore and others, including film director Danny Boyle and the Tate's Sir Nicholas Serota, said selling the piece was "against the spirit of Henry Moore's original sale to London County Council at a favourable price on the understanding that it would be placed in east London".
1961 Stifford Estate, accommodating about 1,700 people, is completed
1962 Draped Seated Woman is purchased by London County Council and later placed on the estate
1997 The sculpture is loaned to Yorkshire Sculpture Park
1999 Stifford Estate is demolished
2012 Lutfur Rahman announces he wants to sell the sculpture, worth about £20m
2015 The High Court confirms Tower Hamlets Council is the legal owner of the sculpture after a dispute with Bromley Council which began in 2012
2017 Sculpture's return to London announced. | A Henry Moore sculpture which was the focus of a dispute when Tower Hamlets' former mayor wanted to sell it is to return to the capital after 20 years. | 39404598 | [
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Thermal cameras detected higher temperatures in three adjacent stones at the bottom of the Great Pyramid.
Officials said possible causes included the existence of empty areas inside the pyramid, internal air currents, or the use of different building materials.
It comes as experts search for hidden chambers within the pyramids.
The tombs of the pharaohs Khufu (Kheops), Khafre (Khephren) and Menkaure (Mycerinus) were built in the Fourth Dynasty, about 2613-2494BC.
A team of architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan used infrared thermography to survey the pyramids during sunrise, as the sun heats the limestone structures from the outside, as well as at sunset when they cool down.
In a statement, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said the experts had "concluded the existence of several thermal anomalies that were observed on all monuments during the heating-up or the cooling-down phases".
"To explain such anomalies, a lot of hypotheses and possibilities could be drawn up: presence of voids behind the surface, internal air currents," it added.
An "particularly impressive" anomaly was found at ground level on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu, the statement said.
"The first row of the pyramid's stones are all uniform, then we come here and find that there's a difference in the formation," Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damati said as he showed reporters the three stones showing higher temperatures.
Other thermal anomalies were detected in the upper half of the Great Pyramid.
The structure will be the subject of further investigation during the Operation Scan Pyramids project, which began on 25 October and is expected to last until the end of 2016. | An international team of architects and scientists have observed "thermal anomalies" in the pyramids of Giza, Egyptian antiquities officials say. | 34773856 | [
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But the BBC can reveal the powers were enforced by just one parent, with no penalty imposed.
Thurrock Council defended the project, saying it highlighted the "deterrent value of the project".
The pilot was introduced after the council said it only had six full-time traffic wardens to police illegal parking outside its 50 schools.
However, a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by the BBC showed it was halted after three months
A lone parent volunteer enforced the rules and no tickets were issued, the FoI showed.
A spokeswoman for Thurrock Council said the trial would not be rolled out across the borough.
She said: "There has been considerable improvement in parking behaviour as a result of the scheme but, due to the significant training commitment for the volunteers, continuing the project will be difficult."
Jerry Glazier, national executive member of the National Union of Teachers in Essex, said the scheme had "the right motivation, but the wrong approach".
"In the cold light of day the practicalities were such that this was simply not an effective runner," he said.
"There needs to be proper engagement with parents." | Not a single fine was issued during a £5,000 trial to get teachers and parents to police roads outside a primary school, it has emerged. | 38017410 | [
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Four average 50mph enforcement cameras were installed in October on a two-mile stretch at Port Talbot and they went live on Monday.
But around 125-a-day have been caught in less than a week.
The cameras are the first to go into operation on a Welsh section of the M4, and during a pilot before Christmas around 700 drivers a day were caught.
However, Wales Road Casualty Reduction Partnership GoSafe welcomed the reduction in drivers caught compared with the trial period.
Partnership manager Chris Hume said: "There is a clear indication that there has been a decrease in the numbers of people exceeding the limit.
"Excessive and inappropriate speed remains a factor in collisions and associated fatalities and serious injuries on our roads in Wales.
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It said just 8% of councils had built enough to replace half of their stock sold through the scheme, which allows council tenants to buy their homes.
The charity said there was a danger of some areas having no affordable homes.
The government said it was committed to building 275,000 affordable new homes over the course of this parliament.
Right to Buy was first introduced in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher's government and was given a boost in 2012 when discounts for tenants were increased to £75,000.
In this year's Queen's speech the government announced the scheme was being extended to 1.3m housing association tenants in England.
Shelter, which looked at provisional figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government, said just two of the 166 councils in England listed as selling properties through Right to Buy had succeeded in replacing more than 100% of the properties sold.
Under existing policy, the government has promised that each home sold after 2012 would be replaced.
The charity's chief executive Campbell Robb warned the problem of not enough council homes being replaced was only likely to get worse, leaving some areas with no affordable homes.
"At this rate they'll soon be black-spots across the country where no-one on a normal income can afford to live," he said.
1. North Kesteven 187%
2. New Forest 128%
3. Waverley 89%
4. Barking and Dagenham 88%
5. Winchester 81%
6. Ipswich 80%
7. Tandridge 79%
8. Castle Point 71%
9. Hounslow 64%
10. South Cambridgeshire 59%
The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents councils in England and Wales, said many council housing programmes were hampered by complex rules and restrictions on the use of receipts from sales of homes.
LGA housing spokesman Peter Box said: "It is imperative that councils are given the powers to replace housing sold through Right to Buy quickly and effectively as part of the Spending Review.
"Councils need to be able to retain 100% of receipts from sales while Right to Buy discounts should be set locally so they reflect the cost of houses in the area."
Mr Box said the LGA estimated this would allow councils to replace 50,000 homes sold over the lifetime of the next Parliament.
The government said nearly 40,000 new homeowners had been created since it increased discounts for council tenants in 2012.
A spokesman added: "Councils are continuing to fulfil the requirement to deliver one for one replacements within three years, and over 3,000 replacement homes have already been delivered across England.
"We have been absolutely clear that if councils do not deliver one for one replacements for the additional homes sold under Right to Buy the government will." | One in three councils in England has not replaced a single home sold through the Right to Buy scheme since 2012, according to the charity Shelter. | 34305969 | [
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Tumours in the ovaries are hard to detect in the earliest stages meaning it can be too late to treat them effectively by the time they are found.
A trial of 4,051 women, reported in the journal Cancer, showed the method could identify those needing treatment.
But a huge study taking place in the UK will give a final verdict on the test when it is completed in 2015.
There is a survival rate of up to 90% when ovarian cancer is caught early, compared with less than 30% if it is discovered in the later stages.
Unlike other cancers, the symptoms, such as pelvic and abdominal pain or persistent bloating, are often put down to other common ailments and the tumour can be missed.
There is no mass screening programme to detect the cancer either.
Scientists already know that levels of a protein in the blood, called CA125, are often higher with ovarian cancer.
However, it is too unreliable on its own. It misses some patients and tells others they have the cancer when they are actually healthy.
Researchers are now testing the idea of using the blood test to sort patients in risk groups based on levels of CA125. Instead of going straight for surgery, low-risk patients are tested again in a year, medium-risk ones after three months and high-risk patients have an ultrasound scan to hunt for tumours.
The US study, at the University of Texas, followed post-menopausal women for 11 years on average.
Ten women had surgery based on their ultrasound scan and all the cancers detected were at an early stage.
Researcher Dr Karen Lu told the BBC: "Clinical practice definitely should not change from our study, but it gives us an insight - we didn't get a lot of false positives."
She said the UK study of 50,000 people would give definitive results: "There are two big questions - do we see cancers at an earlier stage and do we decrease the number of deaths."
Dr Sarah Blagden, from the Ovarian Cancer Action research centre, said: "Relative to the trial under way in the in the UK , this is a small study, but it does show that effective ovarian screening is possible.
"In 2015 the results of the UKCTOCs study will become available and the results are eagerly anticipated, more so now that this American study has produced such encouraging results."
Annwen Jones, the chief executive at Target Ovarian Cancer, said: "The results of this study are without doubt very positive, and we should take hope from that.
"Early detection of ovarian cancer will be the key to transforming survival rates. However, this study is very small, and there is no guarantee that the results will be replicated on a larger scale." | A new way of screening for ovarian cancer is showing "potential", according to researchers in the US. | 23811705 | [
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Accies travel to Ibrox for what will be Caixinha's first game in charge.
"It changes slightly because it is a little bit unknown how he best thinks to set up the players he's got," said player-manager Canning.
"If he comes in and does a good job and it is something you can learn from as a young manager then great."
Caixinha took over on Monday, the day after Rangers recorded a creditable 1-1 draw away to city rivals and Premiership leaders Celtic in Graeme Murty's last game as caretaker manager.
Canning thought it would be "good for the game" in Scotland if the 46-year-old Portuguese proved to be the standard of coach that could improve Rangers.
But he is hoping he can outfox the former Santos Laguna and Al-Gharafa boss when his side visit Ibrox.
"I don't know much about him, but I've checked back at his previous clubs to see how he's played, but that is dependent on the players he's got," said Canning.
"I think he will come in and want to put his own stamp on it straight away.
"I don't think he'll feel the need to stick with what they've been doing.
"He might if he thinks that's the best way to go about it and it mirrors his philosophy and how he wants to play."
Accies held Rangers to a 1-1 draw in the opening Scottish Premiership game of the season at Ibrox and then suffering a 6-0 beating there in this month's Scottish Cup quarter-final.
"The atmosphere in the stadium will be a little more intense than it would normally be," Canning predicted.
"The new guy has come in and the players will be desperate to impress, the fans will want to get behind the team and it will be a very similar atmosphere, I imagine, to the opening day of the season.
"We need to make sure we stand up to that again and we need to do our own job."
Canning was pleased how his players had handled the occasion at the start of the season - and for much of the cup game despite their heavy defeat.
"Watching back the 6-0 game, for the first 45 minutes we were very good then we concede straight after half-time and four goals in the last 10 minutes," he added.
"I think the scoreline in that game doesn't reflect the game.
"I think it was a strange game of football and I don't think we can look at it and say we've taken a beating." | Hamilton Accies' Martin Canning hopes to learn from Pedro Caixinha and admits it will be difficult to second guess the new Rangers manager on Saturday. | 39278003 | [
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Inflation dropped to 2.6% in June from 2.9% the month before, whereas economists had expected no change.
Sterling had been trading above $1.31 at one point before the inflation figures were released.
However, the inflation data sent the pound down to $1.3038 at the end of London business.
The pound also fell 1% against the euro to 1.1251 euros.
"Today's slowdown in price growth should squash any speculation of a rate hike for the time being," said Neil Wilson, senior market analyst at ETX Capital.
"An August rate hike now looks highly unlikely, but we should remember that the Bank has only limited tolerance for continued above-target inflation and may yet seek to push rates back up to 0.5% this year, if conditions in the wider economy improve whilst inflation remains above 2%."
The fall in the pound initially lifted the FTSE 100 share index. The FTSE 100 often moves inversely to sterling, as a weaker pound boosts the value of overseas earnings of the multinational companies in the index.
Having been more than 40 points lower at one point in the morning, the FTSE 100 closed down 13.91 at 7,390.22.
Royal Mail shares rose 3% after the company reported a 1% rise in revenues in the three months to 25 June, helped by its Europe-wide parcels business GLS.
In the UK, the volume of letter deliveries fell again, although general election political mailings helped to slow the decline. | The pound fell against key currencies after an unexpected slip in inflation - seen as easing pressure on the Bank of England to lift interest rates. | 40641024 | [
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Harry Greaves, from Bronygarth near Oswestry, was visiting friends in South America and planned to hike a mountain alone on 7 April.
The 29-year-old has not been in contact since - which his family says is "out of character".
They are planning to fly there after a search of the area failed to leave any indication of his whereabouts.
Mr Greaves flew to Peru to meet friends in Pisac, near Cusco, on 20 February. He emailed his family twice saying he was enjoying his trip.
On 7 April he told his friends he planned on going on a mountain expedition in Kinsa Cocha alone and expected to return by 10 April.
"He's done a number of outdoor trips before," his sister Ellen Greaves said.
"We understand he went with provisions - with a tent and food."
"We've contacted the Foreign Office here. Interpol now know all the details. And out there his friends have contacted the local police, local bus stations, local taxis," Miss Greaves added.
The family described Mr Greaves as self-reliant and practical, and added it was "out of character [for him] to be out of touch for so long". | The family of a man feared missing on holiday in Peru say they are growing increasingly concerned. | 36063833 | [
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But more than 400 years on, it has become a sticking point in the Stormont talks.
In response to demands for an Irish language act, the Democratic Unionist party is understood to want more formal protection for Ulster-Scots too.
But what form would that take and what do Ulster-Scots speakers want?
According to the 2011 census, 8% of Northern Ireland's population claim some knowledge of Ulster-Scots - just over 140,000 people.
That included 13% of Protestants and 3% of Catholics.
By contrast, more than 179,000 people claimed to have some knowledge of Irish.
The former Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure published proposals for an Irish language act in 2015.
However, in the same year the department published a strategy to enhance and develop the Ulster-Scots language, heritage and culture up until the year 2035.
Although a strategy is not legislation, that document gives some pointers about what form any enhanced status for Ulster-Scots may mean.
It included these proposals:
Those were all important for Ulster-Scots enthusiasts at the Ullans centre in Ballymoney, County Antrim - a hub for the Ulster-Scots language, music, dance and history.
But more money is also a big issue, according to Louise Morrow who teaches classes in Ulster-Scots.
"Equality of funding is a big thing for me," she said.
"The Irish language does get more funding and is more recognised than the Ulster-Scots language.
"We would also like to see more Ulster-Scots townland names being recognised.
"Ulster-Scots is forgotten about in some ways I feel."
For fellow volunteer Johnny Crawford, more education is vital.
"We'd like to see more provision in schools and more curriculum-based Ulster-Scots," he said.
"It's also mostly primary school driven, as there isn't a lot of resources for post-primary pupils."
The Ullans centre is also home to Northern Ireland's only dedicated Ulster-Scots radio station, Fuse FM.
One of its presenters, Liam Logan, says any legislation or strategy to protect and promote Ulster-Scots can be introduced gradually.
"At the bottom of it is that notion of education, so people have an idea of their Ulster-Scots linguistic heritage," he said.
"And a wee bit of respect that says just because you speak in an Ulster-Scots way, it doesn't mean you're stupid."
So while the talking goes on at Stormont - and like their counterparts who speak Irish - Ulster-Scots enthusiasts say they want action and not just words.
And according to fluent Ulster-Scots speaker Jack Kyle, from Ballymoney, the stakes are high.
"I was born here, my father was born here and my mum and my grandparents," he said.
"People around here still speak Ulster-Scots like they did.
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However, it never came to the US.
Reports suggest American pay-TV operators had threatened to drop the BBC America channel if the app had launched locally because they believed it would cost them viewers.
Both BBC America and the international edition of iPlayer screen some of the corporation's best known programmes, including Doctor Who, Top Gear, Sherlock and David Attenborough's natural history documentaries.
Press releases had always described the online facility as a "pilot" meant to provide "consumer insights".
BBC Worldwide - the broadcaster's commercial arm - first announced it intended to pull support for the Global iPlayer app in October 2013, saying it would instead focus on making material available via the BBC.com website.
The corporation repeated the point in its annual review last July, but until now had not provided an exact shut-off date.
"As announced in July 2014, the service will be closing this year as planned," said a spokeswoman.
"The service will close on 26 June."
She declined to provide usage statistics.
The global iPlayer app was first made available as an iOS app in July 2011 but was never extended beyond Apple's platform.
European users were charged a €5.99 (£4.30) monthly fee, while Canadians and Australians were offered a slightly cheaper rate of 6.99 Canadian dollars (£3.70) and 7.49 Australian dollars (£3.80).
The content provided was distinct from that offered via the UK version, including older shows from the corporation's library in addition to recently broadcast programmes.
In total, more than 2,000 hours of shows were on offer on the global edition of iPlayer, including Gavin and Stacey, Fawlty Towers, Planet Earth and "classic" episodes of Doctor Who.
Users have been notified of the switch-off, and auto-renewing subscriptions are being cancelled.
"We would like to thank all of our subscribers for using the service. We are now developing plans to launch new digital services across multiple devices," reads a statement on BBC Worldwide's site. | The BBC has confirmed the "global" version of its iPlayer on-demand service will close next month. | 32718259 | [
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The versatile 27-year-old has signed a three-year contract and will make his 150th appearance for the Rugby Park club when he makes his second debut.
Hamill played at right-back under Mixu Paatelainen at Rugby Park before being used more in midfield while at Hearts.
However, his three-year spell at Tynecastle ended after the administration-hit club were relegated from the Scottish Premiership.
In her first act as Hearts' new owner, Ann Budge dispensed with the services of Hamill and the club's other two most experienced players, Jamie MacDonald and Ryan Stevenson, along with Gary Locke and his management team.
Ayrshire-born Hamill had come through Kilmarnock's youth ranks and was capped for Scotland at Under-21 level.
"We are delighted to confirm that Jamie Hamill will be returning to Rugby Park after signing a deal which will keep him at the club until 2017," a Kilmarnock statement confirmed. | Jamie Hamill has returned to Kilmarnock after his summer release by Hearts. | 27670588 | [
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The "cradle of the Arab Spring" will this time see officials of the former government taking part in the election, prompting interim President Moncef Marzouki to call it a contest between "supporters of the revolution and supporters of the counter-revolution".
The system is based on proportional representation, with each of the country's regions having a fixed number of seats based on population.
Lists of candidates are drawn up by parties, coalitions and independents and endorsed by the overseeing body, the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE).
Some five million Tunisians have registered to vote. Candidates must be aged 23 or over and have held Tunisian nationality for at least 10 years.
According to ISIE, 49% of newly-registered voters are women. And the 26 January 2014 constitution introduced - for the first time in the Arab world - parity between men and women in elections.
The law stipulates that women should comprise 50% of all electoral lists and there must be an equal number of lists headed by women and men.
Tunisian women take a 'step backwards'
Tunisia's election process means that no party is likely to win a majority of seats in the renamed National Assembly. However, political observers agree - in the absence of opinion polls, which are banned during the campaign - that the favourites are the Islamist Ennahda Movement and their secular opponents, the liberal Nidaa Tounes (Tunisia's Call).
A number of other parties are in contention, including the centre-ground secular Congress for the Republic (CPR) and secular Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberty (FDTL or Ettakatol) and those led by former officials of Ben Ali's regime.
Most candidates claim to have the economy at the heart of their campaign, realising that poverty and unemployment were the main factors that triggered the 14 January revolution in 2011.
Ennahda won 89 of 217 seats in 2011 and led a coalition government with CPR and FDTL. It lost power in January following street protests but hopes to make a comeback. It has said it is willing to form a coalition with any other party.
Nidaa Tounes wants to rally nationalist and liberal supporters to weaken the position of Ennahda. It was founded by Beji Caid Essebsi, a former transitional prime minister, and enjoys the support of the Tunisian General Labour Union and some business groups. Nidaa says it will not contemplate any coalition with Ennahda until that groups "clarifies" its relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood across the Middle East and North Africa.
Congress for the Republic (CPR) is led by interim President Marzouki and won 29 seats in 2011.
Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties was founded in 1994 by National Constituent Assembly Speaker Mustapha Ben Djaafar. It won 20 seats in 2011.
Popular Front is a coalition of five left-wing and Baathist parties led by Hamma Hammami. It played an important role in mobilising street protests to bring down two Ennahda-led governments. The Front parties, however, do not seem to have significant electoral support.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated Okba Ibn Nafaa battalion, active on Tunisia's border with Algeria, has threatened to disrupt the election.
Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou has said his ministry has plans in hand to deal with the "terrorist" threat, which he described as "serious". Tunisia is to mobilize 50,000 security officers and nearly 20,000 soldiers to secure the election.
Tunisians have shown only "lukewarm interest", according to al-Jazeera TV on 20 October. Tunisian academic Abdellatif Hanachi told al-Jazeera that this is partly because of the difficult economic and social conditions in the country.
He added that voter apathy was due to a "sense of frustration" among a broad section of people at the failure to fulfil revolutionary promises. However, he concluded that this could all change on polling day, as it did in 2011.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Tunisians vote on 26 October in a parliamentary election, which they hope will see the end of a nearly-four year transition period which followed the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. | 29738214 | [
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A victim is taking legal action to force an independent inquiry with power to compel witnesses and the security services to hand over documents.
Gary Hoy was abused by two men who were subsequently convicted.
There have been allegations that a paedophile ring at Kincora was linked to the British intelligence services.
The government has so far refused calls for the abuse scandal at the Belfast home to be included within the scope of the inquiry established by Home Secretary Theresa May and headed by New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard.
The government has said that as child protection is a devolved matter, the right place for the Kincora allegations to be examined is Northern Ireland's Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, which has been sitting in Banbridge.
The victims of Kincora claim the Northern Ireland inquiry lacks the powers to compel evidence or witnesses from government agencies.
Amnesty International, which is supporting the victims' legal challenge, says two military intelligence officers have alleged that the security services blocked police investigations into the child abuse at Kincora in the 1970s.
The judicial review is expected to last several days.
Three senior care staff at Kincora were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys.
At least 29 boys were abused at the home between the late 1950s and the early 1980s.
One of the men who was later convicted, William McGrath, is believed to have been an MI5 agent. | A judicial review has begun over the decision to exclude the former Kincora boys' home in east Belfast from a child abuse inquiry being held at Westminster. | 32961423 | [
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Dorothy Leyden's body was found hours after she had been to a Jimmy Ruffin concert at the Golden Garter nightclub in Wythenshawe in April 1971.
The 17-year-old's body was found on waste ground in Collyhurst.
Her sister Pat Atkinson has made an emotional appeal for more information on her death.
The teenager spent the evening of 24 April 1971 at the concert before heading into central Manchester.
At about 02:30, she got out of a taxi she had shared with friends at Piccadilly Gardens bus station and it is thought she decided to walk home.
Her body was found the following day behind the now demolished Spread Eagle pub.
A reconstruction will show some of Dorothy's last known movements before she was attacked.
Previously, it had been thought she may have been murdered by serial killer Trevor Hardy but, this was dismissed in 2008.
Det Supt Martin Bottomley, from Greater Manchester Police, said forensic evidence proved he did not kill Dorothy.
"The suspicion that Hardy was responsible may have allowed the real killer to hide for all of this time."
Dorothy's sister recalled the moment officers broke the news of her sister's murder.
She told Crimewatch: "I remember the police coming to the front door and I just went out playing and when I came home my mum called me into the living room.
"I think she told us all one at a time and she just told me that Dorothy had been beaten and she'd died."
The appeal will be shown on Crimewatch later on BBC One at 21:00 BST. | A fresh appeal to find the killer of a teenage girl who was raped and murdered in Manchester 45 years ago is to feature on BBC One's Crimewatch. | 37405114 | [
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The tin mine, which is open to the public, is one of the oldest industrial structures in the UK, its owner said.
It is believed that the renovation project on the mine at Wendron near Helston could take several years to complete.
David Edwards, who bought it last year, said the machinery on site "has suffered after 14 years of little or no investment" but that the recent BBC television series has prompted the need for it to be rejuvenated.
"Poldark definitely had an impact for us, it brought more people in buying bookmarks and taking a tour of the mine," he said.
"The challenge now is to restore the machinery we have on display and get it back in order so that it is more interesting to the public.
"This has been a place of industry since the 1400s, one of the oldest industrial structures in the UK, so keeping it going is vital for Cornwall's heritage."
Luke Bazeley, an engineering lecturer at Cornwall College, said: "We always try to give the students work experience and this is the perfect live project to work on - they've loved visiting the site and finding out more about Cornwall's heritage."
He added the students will need to do some research to find replacement parts for the machinery. | A mine, which has been made popular again by the recent BBC series Poldark, is to get a "facelift". | 34696593 | [
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More than 1,000 schools in America's second-biggest city were searched on Tuesday after classes were cancelled.
Officials in New York, the biggest city, said they had received a similar threat but had ignored it as a hoax.
Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck said it was "very easy in hindsight to criticise the decision".
"We have suffered too many school shootings in America to ignore these kinds of threats," he added.
In New York, police commissioner William Bratton and federal officials who asked not to be identified described the decision in Los Angeles as an "overreaction", Reuters news agency reports.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio had concluded the threat contained "nothing credible". | Schools in Los Angeles are preparing to reopen after being shut down over an email threat, in a move queried by police officials in New York. | 35111418 | [
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Reverend Irene Wilson was leaving Holy Trinity Church in Hull at 13:30 BST on 7 August when her vehicle was targeted.
Jay Desborough, 17, and Leon Wrigglesworth, 13, both from the city, were each given a 24-month detention and training order in a young offenders institute at the city's youth court.
Rev Wilson said it had "affected myself and the work that I do".
The pair had only known each other for a week before carrying out the carjacking, the court heard.
As well as having her car stolen, Rev Wilson's handbag containing £250 in cash and a laptop computer were also taken.
In court, the vicar described how her daughter, who she was speaking to on the phone at the time of the attack, was "still traumatised from hearing my screams".
Robin Smith, the solicitor defending Desborough, told the court the teenager had asked a family member to send an apology letter and a bouquet of flowers to the vicar as an apology.
But Rev Wilson, who was in court, confirmed it had not happened.
The vicar said she had "at all times tried to understand the culprits" and asked people to "pray for the two young men, that they will make a positive decision".
Sally Robinson, the Crown Prosecution Service's reviewing lawyer, said: "This was a shocking attack carried out in broad daylight on a respected community figure.
"Our thoughts remain with Rev Wilson as she continues to recover from the effects of this crime."
Chairman of the bench Vincent Bergin lifted a ban on naming the teenagers.
Desborough, who was aged 16 at the time of the attack, admitted to one charge of robbery at a previous hearing.
Wrigglesworth denied robbery but was found guilty following a trial.
He was also convicted of 15 other offences. | Two boys who dragged a vicar out of her car in a "shocking attack" as she left a church service have been sentenced. | 37421385 | [
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