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Archie Darby died on 13 October after being attacked by a Staffordshire bull terrier-type dog in Harwich Road, Colchester.
Essex Coroner's Court heard the infant died from severe head injuries consistent with a dog attack.
His 22-month-old brother Daniel-Jay was left with "life-changing injuries".
The boys' mother was also hurt.
Live: Read more about the hearing and other Essex news
The dog was put down with the consent of its owner - the children's aunt - who has been named in reports as 31-year-old Clare Ferdinand, a serving Essex Police officer.
Police are not treating the attack as a criminal investigation.
During a brief hearing, coroner's officer David Dinnell said: "Archie Darby was a four-month-old baby being held in his mother's arms when he was taken out of her arms by the family dog and attacked."
The inquest heard an ambulance was called and CPR was attempted but Archie was pronounced dead at the scene at 16:02 BST.
Senior Essex Coroner Caroline Beasley-Murray said: "Please let condolences be expressed to Archie's family at this very dreadful time for them."
A full hearing will take place in December. | A dog that mauled a four-month-old baby to death snatched the boy from his mother's arms, an inquest has heard. | 37727708 | [
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As part of the BBC's So I Can Breathe series, a week of stories exploring some of the different ways the world is seeking to reduce air pollution, people have been sharing their tips on how to improve the air around them.
For Phoebe, Joylen and Verity, from London, the answer is to stop cutting down trees.
Students at 50 London schools breathe air that exceeds legal pollution limits.
"Toxic air audits" have been announced by the mayor of London to combat the problem.
According to the US Forest Service, trees typically reduce urban air pollution by only up to 1%, but even this can have significant health benefits.
Areej and her mother also want to plant trees in urban areas of Damascus to improve air quality.
Wood-burning stoves are a cause of high indoor air pollution levels which have been linked to four million premature deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization.
Adboulie Sey thinks they should be banned from Gambia and solar energy promoted instead.
Africa's new breed of solar energy entrepreneurs
A tax on wood stoves is another solution, suggested by Karen Baines on Twitter.
Improving how we travel is a common desire.
Swapping driving for cycling can reduce the number of vehicles on the road emitting pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide.
Clare Rogers tweeted this picture of her and her daughter in Enfield.
Robert Singleton suggests a ban on diesel powered vehicles would go some way to reducing pollution.
Girl guides helping to clean Ghana's air pollution problem
Improved public transport is also proposed by Maria Innes in Buenos Aires, and echoed by Oscar Soria, in New York.
Mike Hall thinks government schemes to support people buying hybrid or electric cars is one way to encourage more environmentally friendly transport.
And Pablo Nieto Gonzalez in San Sebastian, Spain, wants emissions from ships to be cut.
A week of coverage by BBC News examining possible solutions to the problems caused by air pollution. | From Ghana to Argentina and London, air pollution is a problem that people want to do something about. | 39210822 | [
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Last weekend, the country was declared free of the virus that killed almost 4,000 people in the country over the past 18 months.
He told the BBC's Richard Hamilton about his experiences in the civil war, which ended in 2002, and his Ebola work:
I had a normal family life before the war started in 1991.
But at 15 I was kidnapped by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels and taken to the jungle where I was trained on how to use a gun and initiated into the group.
I thought it was the end of my life. It was like living in a different world, not like living on earth.
They used a blade to cut the letters RUF into my chest, so if I was thinking about escaping I knew that I could be killed if I got caught by militia who supported the government.
The rebels also threatened to cut off my legs or arms if I tried to flee, and I saw this happen to other people.
Sometimes they would even take out the heart from someone's chest and cook it up with onions and ask people to eat it.
It seems like a nightmare now.
I remember when we used to look for food and demanded that people hand it over.
If they said: "We don't have food", we told them they were lying, and then we beat them even if they could have been telling the truth.
Sometimes we were forced to kill, which we did under the influence of drugs: Marijuana was very easy to take - we used it like people drink coffee - and cocaine was also available.
I was given the impression that if you took these drugs then you would be brave and if you were brave you would have the opportunity in the jungle to climb up the ranks.
Luckily I did manage to escape from the jungle without being killed and I went to the capital, Freetown, but was unable to find my relatives.
I lived alone, but teamed up with some guys doing things like pick-pocketing and I was caught.
Fortunately [while in jail] I met a preacher called Richard Cole, who was the founder of a project called Lifeline Nehemiah which aimed to give hope, and a home, to people like me who felt they had lost hope.
He encouraged me saying: "You used to cause atrocities, but you can be used to contribute to rebuild the nation."
At the home he encouraged me to continue with my schooling, he also told me that guys like me would be leaders of the nation and help to rebuild it.
Richard taught me that it was God who was taking me through all these troubling times, and I also learnt that it was important to give back what was invested in me.
He passed away in 2006 but we had that vision and continue with it.
When the Ebola crisis came to Sierra Leone in 2014 we considered it to be a common enemy.
We were not medical practitioners but we had the passion to change things and we decided to develop our clinic to bring in suspected Ebola cases.
Through this so many lives were saved.
There were three key activities.
We started with education as people found it difficult to accept that Ebola was real. So we started visiting communities and explaining that it was real and it was a death sentence.
We educated more than 10,000 people, and explained the message in their languages - Temne, Krio and Limba.
Secondly we started supporting people by giving them food and other items. This became a massive operation - visiting 11,000 people - and started giving fresh food in urban and rural areas.
Thirdly we were able to team up with other agencies and put up an Ebola treatment unit that saved so many lives.
People were frightened.
Sometimes when we visited people refused to accept us but as we kept coming back we became familiar to them.
It was scary and some people said it was witchcraft, but we persuaded them that there were principles to observe to protect themselves.
One of the worst incidents I witnessed was when I saw a pregnant woman with suspected Ebola lying in front of us.
There were three others in the house who were also suspected cases and no-one could come to their house because it was too dangerous.
When I saw that woman lying there I felt very bad, I came out and talked with other volunteers and after that we started to set up an Ebola treatment clinic.
We didn't have any funds but we had a lot of help from local chiefs and the community, and that was how it started.
Now I see my life as a changed person.
I regret all that I did, but I am confident now that the future is great.
We are investing in young people; I believe young people have a role in changing the world, not only Sierra Leone but the world.
If we invest in them then we are building the future.
11,314
Deaths - probable, confirmed and suspected
(Includes one in the US and six in Mali)
4,808 Liberia
3,955 Sierra Leone
2,536 Guinea
8 Nigeria | Prince Tommy Williams, who used to be a child soldier in Sierra Leone, was one of hundreds of volunteers who helped fight the spread of Ebola. | 34769201 | [
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But just north of the small market town of Korem, bright green fields and neatly terraced hillsides surround a vast lake, and in the brand new local hospital, the ward reserved for severely malnourished babies is all but empty.
Foreign aid is a notoriously difficult business - and much criticised.
But if you're looking for results, then this vast climate-change challenged country, led by a hugely ambitious and severely authoritarian government, is worth a visit.
In the first decade of this century, the number of Ethiopians living in poverty dropped by a third.
In the last five years, child mortality has come down by two-thirds.
There's good reason to expect the trend will continue.
"Two years ago - before the hospital was built - this baby would have died," said a young doctor, Betgel Mekonnen, as nurses fed an emaciated one year old with fortified milk.
"We are grateful to Britain and the international community for their help, but I think we'll [become self-sufficient] in five or 10 years," he said.
It's a sense of confidence one hears often in a country whose economy has been growing at close to 10% a year for a decade.
227 child deaths per 1,000 in 1984; 64 in 2013
GDP growth in 1984: -2.85% (a fall); 10.5% in 2013
GDP per head in 1984: $205;$568 in 2014
Population in 1984; 39.5 million;96.5 million in 2014
Source: The World Bank
Ethiopia profile
Is Ethiopia's building boom masking poverty?
Have UK businesses missed the train in Ethiopia?
This week a big conference in Ethiopia's fast-growing capital, Addis Ababa, will discuss ways to finance ambitious new international development goals - with a growing focus on improving local tax collection, and fighting illicit capital flight, across Africa.
For now, British taxpayers are giving over £300m ($466m) a year to help fight poverty in Ethiopia.
"This is a place where you can see your money achieving something," said Tim Conway, who works in Ethiopia for the UK's Department for International Development (DfID).
"Development processes always create winners and losers, but the vast majority are sharing in the growth. We've learnt not to question [the government's] ambition too much because they've quite often exceeded what we thought was possible," he said.
But Ethiopia, like tiny nearby Rwanda, poses some difficult questions for democratic countries with good intentions.
Both nations have achieved remarkable economic growth in the context of an often highly repressive form of governance.
Critics accuse donors of quietly ignoring human rights abuses, or even of indirectly sustaining them.
Mr Conway acknowledged there were a lot of "hard arguments" with Ethiopia's government, and "there are policies we don't support, and won't".
But he praised a bilateral partnership that "is really quite effective".
The clear hope, on both sides, is that with the right, sustainable, projects Ethiopia can wean itself off foreign aid within the foreseeable future.
Near the small hillside village of Bahari Hatsra just outside Korem, we found 40-year-old Admassie Mekonen walking home with a simple wooden plough on his shoulder, after a day's work on the small field he rents.
For the past four years he, his wife and 10-year-old daughter have benefited from a partly British-funded programme that pays Mr Admassie a monthly wage of about £20 ($31) during the six-month "food gap" season before harvest, when the family has exhausted its supplies.
In return, he works on a variety of public projects, chosen by the community - terracing the hillsides, for example, to prevent soil erosion.
The programme is a part of a recent shift away from giving foreign aid money to support individual governments, and instead to put it directly in the hands of the poor.
"It's hundreds of thousands of man-hours every year... it's restored the landscape," said Mr Conway.
But the challenges ahead remain significant.
Ethiopia's population is heading towards 100 million, with a quarter still living in extreme poverty.
Sitting down in front of his simple wood and mud home, Mr Admassie said the cash payments had, at times, saved his family from starvation. But he questioned whether he would ever be able to manage without them.
"I don't own any land. I rent my fields. I have to give half the crop to the owner as payment.
"I can work hard now, but I worry about what will happen when I get older. I will have to go to the city to find work," he said. | The rains have been poor again in this mountainous corner of north-eastern Ethiopia - the site of the 1984 famine in which hundreds of thousands of people starved to death. | 33505312 | [
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Each evening Cardiff Bay will become the venue for a world music Showcase Festival featuring a tapas of world music from around the world.
Folk music played a large part in this year's opening ceremony featuring Cerys Matthews and other leading Welsh musicians taking the audience on a journey of Welsh music and culture spanning 30,000 years.
We asked ten of the leading exponents of Wales' folk music to share songs that best represent what makes each tradition so unique.
The earliest surviving manuscript of harp music in Europe - the manuscript of Robert ap Huw, comes from Wales.
"The tablature of the Ap Huw manuscripts provide a vital insight into early, traditional music and his music is still celebrated and performed widely" said internationally renowned harpist, Catrin Finch.
"Caniad Y Gwyn Bibydd" (The Song of the White Piper) demonstrates his music's amazing ability to sound contemporary, even though it was written nearly five centuries ago."
This unique tradition of singing or chanting poetry to harp accompaniment is a direct descendent of the form used by early bards to intone poetry in praise of their kings and princes.
Gwenan Gibard, a musician and leading exponent of the tradition chose the track Bum Yn Caru Cainc Y Datgeiniad by one of the old style singers, Einion Edwards, from Meirionydd - a stronghold of the tradition for centuries.
Considered by many to be Wales's national instrument, the triple harp was brought to Britain from continental Europe in around 1630. It became popular with harpists in London, many of whom were Welsh and brought it to Wales where it became popular amongst the Gipsy community.
"The 'shimmering' voice of the Triple Harp's three rows of strings is truly as timeless and unique as the Welsh language itself" said Robin Huw Bowen, a full-time professional Welsh harpist specializing solely in the Welsh Triple Harp.
The track Pwt Ar Y Bys (Fingering Vamp) shows off the harp's capability and the Welsh tradition to great effect.
In many parts of Wales Christmas Day meant attending an early plygain service between 3-6am at the parish church.
Singer Arfon Gwilym was brought up in the tradition and explains more: "The plygain tradition survives mainly in Montgomeryshire and takes place in churches and chapels over a six week period during Christmas and the new year."
"After a short service, the plygain is declared open and anyone in the audience can take part, as individuals or as small parties, the most common party being three people, singing in close harmony. The singing is always unaccompanied and in the past was dominated by men who sang in a simple folk style that was unique."
Listen to Ar Gyfer Heddiw'r Bore by Triawd Fronheulog.
Welsh ballads are still widely performed in their traditional forms but new generations of musicians are revisiting them and performing the songs in more contemporary styles, ensuring they remain relevant. In recent years, folk singer Siân James has been at the forefront of this movement:
"A ballad which caught my imagination from a very young age was the very beautiful Yr Eneth gadd ei gwrthod (The rejected maiden) - a 19th Century ballad from the Cynwyd area near Bala, which tells the story of a young girl who, finding herself pregnant out of wedlock, is thrown out of her family home by her father, ostracised by her community and left destitute."
"It ends with the girl drowning herself. She is found with a water-sodden note in her hand, asking to be buried without a headstone, so her existence would be forgotten."
Due to the work of enlightened individuals such as Lady Llanover in the 18th Century, a good many of Wales' traditional dance reels (folk dance and accompanying dance tune type) have survived. Stephen Rees is one of Wales's leading folk musicians and musicologists:
"This recording of Pibddawns y Sipsi performed by Nansi Richards, the original 'Queen of the Welsh Harp' conveys the 'hwyl' or spirit of our traditional dance music."
During the Industrial Revolution, migrant workers from across the world flocked to Wales' coalfields, slate quarries and docks. The impact on small, Welsh speaking communities was immense and this period ignited a tradition of mixed language songs known as Macaronic.
Cerys Matthews is a huge fan and chose Cân Merthyr as one of her favourites. Initially, Macaronic songs were thought to be an oral tradition but handwritten records do exist in the National Library of Wales archives dated 1909.
Its words are said to have been sold on the pamphlet of a ballad-singer at Merthyr Tydfil around the mid-19th Century.
The 1960s and 1970s saw a surge in Welsh language activism. While the rest of the western world was engaged in the hippy movement and the 'summer of love', Wales was rediscovering its folk music and traditions, fuelled by a surge in the popularity of Celtic music.
"We formed Ar Log in 1976, with the dream of being able to earn a living solely by playing traditional Welsh music" said Dafydd Roberts, one of the founding members of Ar Log.
"By the early eighties Ar Log was travelling Europe and North & South America for around nine months of the year with a wealth of traditional Welsh folk music at our disposal, from haunting love songs and harp airs, to melodic dance tunes, and rousing sea shanties."
This medley of traditional folk songs comes from Ar Log's own repertoire: Twll yn y to / Cymro o Ble / Pedwar Post y Gwely
Dafydd Iwan is a singer-composer and political activist and campaigned during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for official status for the Welsh language with Cymdeithas Yr Iaith, the Welsh Language Movement.
"Songs have been a natural medium for expressing strong emotions and political protest for centuries, and here in Wales there is a long tradition of ballads with a strong social and political theme," he said.
Peintio'r Byd Yn Wyrdd (Painting the world green) grew out of the road-signs campaign for the Welsh language.
More and more young musicians are turning to the folk tradition for inspiration and helping to drive creative experimentation and collaborations.
Welsh poet and singer-songwriter Gwyneth Glyn has recently been working on such a project with musicians from India and singer Tauseef Akhrar from Mumbai and incorporates Indian violin, tabla and Welsh harp.
Another recent project entitled Mamiaith (Mother Tongue), saw Welsh folk group 9Bach collaborate with Australian group Black Arm Band to explore the poignant theme of lost language. Gwyneth chose the track Cariad Mam (Mother's Love) from that album.
Today, musical tradition in Wales is thriving as younger musicians turn to folk music for inspiration but continue to develop it further with rich musical collaborations around the world.
WOMEX - The World's Music Comes To Wales is broadcast on BBC Two Wales, Sunday 27 October at 22:00 BST. | This week musicians and music industry leaders from across the globe are in Cardiff as WOMEX, the world's leading World Music Expo arrives in Britain. | 24557218 | [
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Older People's Commissioner for Wales Sarah Rochira will call on pensioners and their friends and families to hear their experiences of residential care.
The evidence will be used to develop recommendations for care providers and public bodies.
It is part of Ms Rochira's review into the quality of life and care of older people in residential care in Wales.
She said she would highlight good care but also show the impact of poor care upon older people.
"The voices of older people, as well as those who care for and care about them, are at the heart of my work as commissioner, which is why I want to hear about their experiences of residential care," she said.
"I have travelled extensively across Wales, meeting with many older people living in residential care, and have seen for myself the positive impact that high quality care can have on people's lives.
"However, I have also received an increasing amount of correspondence in the past year about the quality of life and care of older people living in residential care and I have spoken publicly about what I consider to be unacceptable variations across Wales."
The commissioner will be reviewing whether older people living in residential care have a good quality of life by looking at factors such as physical and psychological health, social relationships and the care home environment.
Her team will also speak to care providers, social care staff and public bodies.
"By giving a voice to older people and their families, my review and recommendations will ensure that those who are accountable for and run our services understand the day-to-day realities of living in residential care in Wales and the action required to deliver the change needed to ensure that that older people living in residential care have the best quality of life," she said.
The chair of Care Forum Wales, Mario Kreft, said his group was dedicated to developing and promoting best practice in social care and it supported the overall aims of the review.
"Our disappointment however - which will be shared by many providers - is that the commissioner has not included a provider expert on the main advisory panel," he said.
"As far as we can see no-one who has lived in, worked in, managed or owned a care home is represented on the panel.
"In our view, this misses the opportunity for partnership working and to engage the sector fully into the advisory panel." | A review team looking at the quality of life of older people is to swoop unannounced on 100 care homes. | 24522070 | [
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Voters here have yet to make their choice in the regional election. But already there's something of the victory march in the chancellor's step.
It has been years since her party won here in Germany's most populous state.
Sunday's vote in North Rhine-Westphalia is the last ahead of the general election in September. And it is viewed as a bellwether.
This is Social Democrat country. The centre-left SPD currently rules in coalition with the Greens but polls suggest that could be about to change.
In recent weeks Mrs Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) have been closing in and support for the SPD has dwindled. The rivals are now neck-and-neck in the polls.
It is not often that a German regional election is considered so important.
Martin Schulz, the charismatic SPD leader, has thrown down the gauntlet. If his party wins here, he declared recently, he will be the next German chancellor.
It is a statement he may live to regret.
When Mr Schulz, ex-president of the European Parliament, returned to domestic politics there was an immediate surge of support in the polls for his party.
The CDU looked on nervously as commentators noted for the first time in years that Mrs Merkel was no longer unchallenged in her bid for a fourth term in the chancellery.
But since then the Social Democrats have suffered two humiliating electoral defeats at the hands of Mrs Merkel's conservatives, in regional votes in Saarland and, last Sunday, in Schleswig-Holstein.
The party has slipped in the national polls and, even here in the SPD heartland, the so called Schulz effect appears to have dwindled.
"His approval ratings will only stabilise once he says very clearly what he wants to do," says Brilon's SPD mayor, Christoph Bartsch.
"In the eyes of the voters that hasn't happened yet. We need a clear programme and clear policies on topics which matter to the electorate."
Here the issues that matter include internal security and the economy.
On security, the CDU's candidate for North Rhine-Westphalia has promised to make the state the envy of other German regions.
There is a powerful industrial lobby here.
On the edge of town, under a chimney smoking into the clouds, huge lorries deliver logs to the sawmill.
Martin Ansorge, finance officer at Egger wood processing, tells me that Germany's next chancellor will need the support of what Germans call the Mittelstand - medium-sized family firms.
"We need to cut bureaucracy, we need a modern education system, we need support for businesses in the digital future, and we need a better infrastructure in this region," he says.
Mr Ansorge will not discuss his preferred choice of party or candidate, and Germany as a whole has four months left to make up its mind.
In Brilon's market square, among the flower stalls and vans selling fish rolls, one enterprising pub was advertising "Schnitzel Angela Merkel" in honour of the chancellor's visit to the town.
Few of the diners seemed tempted, and the cost of €19.54 (£16.50, $21) - presumably chosen to reflect Mrs Merkel's birth year - was perhaps a little steep.
"I think she really will be chancellor again," said one stallholder. "She's very self-assured, reliable and calm. And she's a woman - I like that."
An elderly man nearby wasn't convinced. "She promised too much and invited too many people without asking us. She wasn't thinking properly and too many bad people came to the country."
Later, the rally finished, Angela Merkel posed for pictures with the band.
She laughed as she refused to take the baton from the conductor.
But make no mistake, this woman wants German voters to continue dancing to her tune.
Unless Martin Schulz finds a way of reversing his fortunes, they may well do so. | Under the wooden beams of Brilon's medieval hunting lodge, Angela Merkel sweeps past a gleaming brass band to address her party faithful. | 39884065 | [
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The government said it has now turned back 633 asylum seekers who were trying to reach Australia by boat.
In July a small wooden boat, the first "illegal" vessel entry into Australia since June 2014, was spotted off the north-west coast.
It was not seen again and the government refused to say where it was.
The government usually refuses to comment on boat turn-backs but Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday told local media: "There were 46 people on a recent venture that did come from Vietnam; we have negotiated their return to Vietnam."
"The boat that they came on has been scuttled and we have been able to stare down that venture," he said, adding that the government's policy was not to allow people arriving "illegally" by boat to settle in Australia.
Australia has been sending migrant boats back to where they came from since December 2013.
Refugee support group VOICE said three of the Vietnamese refugees were now in police detention in Vietnam.
Spokesman Trug Doan told the Australian Broadcasting Corp they were being held "for an indefinite period for interrogation".
The Greens party has said the turn-backs are a breach of the UN's Refugee Convention.
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said last month that handing the Vietnamese group back to Vietnam would be refoulement - the expulsion of people entitled to claim refugee status. | Australia has confirmed it sent 46 asylum seekers back to Vietnam after intercepting their boat off the coast of Western Australia last month. | 33798779 | [
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Jamie Leek of Clifton, Nottingham died in Zante in June 2012 when he was hit by motorcyclist Spiridon Koklas.
A Greek appeal court has upheld his sentence of four years and 10 months but suspended it for three years.
Jamie's mother Lydia said the family "feel cheated of justice".
"We are mortified by this and at a loss for words. We have to accept it is probably the end of the line in legal terms," she said.
Jamie and his family were on holiday in the resort of Kalamaki to celebrate his parent's 10th anniversary when he was hit crossing the road with his father.
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The day he died was his ninth birthday.
Mr Leek suffered a broken arm in the accident but Jamie died later in hospital.
Koklas was convicted of involuntary homicide and involuntary bodily harm in 2015, but had appealed his sentence. He was not in court for the appeal hearing.
After a previous hearing, Mrs Leek said the rider "didn't show any remorse to us at all. He didn't show he was sorry one bit".
The family have been supported by Nottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood, who has asked two prime ministers - David Cameron and Theresa May to help raise the issue.
Both promised the MP they would help the family by contacting the Greek authorities.
Ms Greenwood said: "I am really shocked, angry and upset that despite the long quest for justice for their son Jamie it has resulted in what feels like a totally inadequate sentence.
"It has taken several years to get to this stage and then for the sentence to be suspended feels like a complete kick in the teeth." | The family of a nine-year-old British boy who died after being hit by a motorcyclist in Greece five years ago are "mortified" that the driver will not be jailed. | 40342234 | [
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13 July 2015 Last updated at 09:00 BST
The country is struggling with huge debts and it's affecting the lives of lots of people who live there, including many children.
Newsround reporter Ricky has been to Greece's capital city, Athens, to meet children and find out how things have changed for them.
He met up with Ioanis Pavlos and Stergios and their family to hear what life is like at the moment.
Guide: Why is Greece in so much trouble? | Greece has agreed to a new deal with the European Union to try and stop their money problems from getting any worse. | 33505252 | [
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The visitors led when Simon Makienok finished calmly for his second league goal this season from Greg Cunningham's pass just before the interval.
Forest improved after the break and they levelled when Thomas Lam's volley went in via the post and Preston goalkeeper Chris Maxwell.
Makienok and Alan Browne forced fine saves from Forest's Vladimir Stojkovic as the match finished level.
Forest, who had been hammered 3-0 at rivals Derby on Sunday, started slowly and could have fallen behind in the opening minutes when Stojkovic saved brilliantly from Callum Robinson before later diverting Browne's strike from range onto the post.
Nicklas Bendtner should have put the hosts in front when he fired over from Eric Lichaj's cross before Makienok scored just his second league goal of the season.
Philippe Montanier changed formation at the break and Forest got the goal their improvement deserved when Lam's shot hit the post before bouncing off Maxwell's heel and into the net.
Both teams had chances to win it, with Preston defender Alex Baptiste producing a brilliant goal-line clearance to deny Apostolos Vellios in the dying minutes.
Nottingham Forest manager Philippe Montanier told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"We deserved to lose the first half. The first half was awful, but we had a good reaction and a good game in the second half.
"The players showed good determination at the beginning of the second half and after that we were confident."
Preston manager Simon Grayson told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"If you'd offered us a point before the start of the game, we'd have taken it because you expect Forest to have a reaction from the weekend's result.
"But we knew that if we got after them early on we could put them on the back foot and we did that.
"Overall I thought we had a very, very good first half. You just want to have that extra goal to go in 2-0 possibly at half-time based on how well we'd played.
"Second half, you knew there was going to be a reaction and they changed their system and had a go at us so it's a bit frustrating that we've not won the game, but the way the second half went at times I'm delighted we got another point."
Match ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Preston North End 1.
Second Half ends, Nottingham Forest 1, Preston North End 1.
Alex Baptiste (Preston North End) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Preston North End. Paul Huntington replaces Marnick Vermijl.
Attempt blocked. Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Ben Osborn.
Offside, Preston North End. Ben Pringle tries a through ball, but Simon Makienok is caught offside.
Joe Worrall (Nottingham Forest) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Hugill (Preston North End).
Attempt blocked. Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Alan Browne (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Simon Makienok (Preston North End) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Alan Browne (Preston North End) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Daniel Johnson.
Attempt missed. Jordan Hugill (Preston North End) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Baptiste.
Attempt blocked. Matt Mills (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Daniel Johnson.
Ben Osborn (Nottingham Forest) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box.
Substitution, Preston North End. Jordan Hugill replaces Callum Robinson.
Attempt missed. Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Armand Traore with a cross.
David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest).
Tom Clarke (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Hildeberto Pereira (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Chris Maxwell.
Attempt saved. Pajtim Kasami (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Apostolos Vellios.
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Pajtim Kasami replaces Thomas Lam.
Attempt saved. Marnick Vermijl (Preston North End) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Callum Robinson.
Own Goal by Chris Maxwell, Preston North End. Nottingham Forest 1, Preston North End 1.
Thomas Lam (Nottingham Forest) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Eric Lichaj with a cross.
Greg Cunningham (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Apostolos Vellios (Nottingham Forest).
Substitution, Nottingham Forest. Apostolos Vellios replaces Nicklas Bendtner.
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Attempt missed. David Vaughan (Nottingham Forest) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Chris Maxwell.
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Corner, Nottingham Forest. Conceded by Alan Browne.
Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Nottingham Forest) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Armand Traore with a cross.
Simon Makienok (Preston North End) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Eric Lichaj (Nottingham Forest).
Daniel Johnson (Preston North End) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Nottingham Forest came from behind to draw with Preston at the City Ground. | 38232115 | [
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The takeover of the Gulls by Swindon-based Gaming International (GI) was confirmed on Tuesday.
Prior to the deal being finalised, Nicholson had said he was unsure what it meant for his own future.
"They have got to show that they are in it for all the right reasons, and they assure me that they are," the 36-year-old told BBC Radio Devon.
"I spoke to them very openly and honestly, making them aware their takeover has not been overly positively taken (among fans). They're aware of that.
"These guys have got a lot to prove but they have technically saved Torquay United right now."
Nicholson, who has been in charge since September 2015, continued: "They've got to gain the trust of thousands of Torquay fans."
"We're going to sit down and put together a five-year plan and then we're going to hold a forum as soon as possible so that these fans that are worried can come in."
Torquay are currently 17th in the table, and play Forest Green Rovers at home on Boxing Day, before a trip to Gloucestershire for the return game to start the new year. | Manager Kevin Nicholson says Torquay United's new owners must earn the trust of the National League club's fans. | 38411931 | [
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Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is visiting Mali, said a force of 1,000 would be left in place.
France intervened militarily in January to oust Islamist militants who had taken over the north of the country.
A UN force in Mali, Minusma, was due to number 12,000 by now - but is still less than half of that.
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On Monday, UN peacekeepers found a large cache of explosives while on patrol near the northern town of Kidal.
UN spokesman Olivier Salgado said the quantity of ammonium nitrate found could be used to make between 20 to 25 car bombs, the Associated Press news agency reports. | France is to reduce the number of its troops in Mali over the next three months by 60%, the French defence minister has said. | 25561019 | [
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The Joyce twins starred as the Irish made it three wins out of three in Bangkok on Tuesday.
Isobel bagged four wickets as Zimbabwe were dismissed for a paltry 78 before Ciecilia top-scored with 36 to help Ireland to 79-3 in 15.2 overs.
Victory over Scotland will secure a place in next year's World Twenty20.
The top two teams from the qualifying tournament will take on the game's elite in India.
Ireland have avoided a meeting with tournament favourites Bangladesh but face a tough encounter against the Scots on Thursday.
Zimbabwe also came into Tuesday's game at Terdthai Cricket Ground with a 100% record in Group B but they were outclassed by the Irish.
Isobel Joyce took 4-20 and Robyn Lewis 2-9 as Zimbabwe were skittled out in 19 overs.
The target was easily achieved after Clare Shillington (22) and Cecilia Joyce put on an opening partnership of 48. | Ireland eased to seven-wicket win over Zimbabwe to top their Women's World Twenty20 qualifying group and set up a semi-final against Scotland. | 34973380 | [
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Private Derby XXX was promoted to the rank of lance corporal at an event in Chester marking eight years of the Mercian Regiment.
He was awarded his honour by the colonel of the regiment, Brigadier Andrew Williams.
The Swaledale ram, who is officially classed as a soldier, received his promotion for "good behaviour".
He is the 30th in a line of mascot rams running back to the Indian Mutiny War in the mid-19th Century.
The first Private Derby was acquired in 1858 by the 95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot and became the mascot of the Mercian Regiment when it formed in 2007.
Lance Corporal Derby XXX joined the regiment in February 2014.
He has his own army number, gets paid to buy his rations and takes his holidays during the mating season on the Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire.
During his career, Lance Corporal Derby XXX has also helped switch on the Christmas lights in Ashbourne and met Prince William at the unveiling of a memorial commemorating the 1914 Christmas Truce. | A sheep which is the mascot of a British Army regiment has been promoted at a ceremony marking its formation. | 34125832 | [
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Edward Hardy, who has dementia and lives in a care home in Wookey, Somerset, played for decades but had not touched the keyboard for nearly 25 years.
But, staff at the home said when he started playing again he could play "amazing tracks to a ridiculous standard".
His old bandmates David Payne, 67, Arthur Rice, 66, and Ron Foster, 88, got in touch for a reunion. Clinton Rogers reports. | A 93-year-old man who recently rediscovered his love of playing the piano has been reunited with his old jazz band - more than 25 years on. | 35307830 | [
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Interior Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled told the BBC that 15 people had been injured after a car exploded outside the Hotel Maka.
The hotel lies on one of the capital's main roads, which the authorities say is usually safe.
Islamist militant group al-Shabab was driven out of Mogadishu two years ago but often stages attacks in the city.
The BBC's Ibrahim Mohamed Adan in Mogadishu says a loud explosion was heard in the city's administrative centre just before 20:00 local time (17:00 GMT).
The Hotel Maka is on the Maka Mukaramah road which links the presidential palace to the airport, one of the most heavily guarded areas of Mogadishu.
It is popular with members of parliament and other officials. One report stated that a senior Somali diplomat was among the dead.
Our reporter says witnesses nearby told him they could see the wreckage of a car burning outside the hotel.
Senior police officer Farah Aden told Reuters news agency that four policemen were among the six dead.
The agency reported that four cars and two motorbikes were burnt out at the scene.
A police officer told AFP news agency that he could see "several burning cars, dead and injured people on the ground" following the attack.
Witnesses told the BBC there were actually two explosions; the car bomb detonated after a smaller device planted in a laptop computer went off inside the hotel's reception area.
The bombings came as Somalia's football season kicked off on Friday evening with a first division match at the newly refurbished Banadir Stadium in northern Mogadishu.
It was the first time in more than 22 years that thousands of fans had been to the stadium.
Correspondents say there was much excitement in the city in anticipation of the match at Banadir Stadium, which has Somalia's first artificial grass pitch.
The Somali government is fighting al-Shabab, which is part of the al-Qaeda network, for control of the country.
The militants have been driven out of Somalia's major towns by a UN-mandated African Union force of some 18,000 soldiers, which is backing the government.
But the Islamist group still controls many towns and rural areas of southern Somalia.
In September, the group said it was behind the attack on the Westgate shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in which at least 67 people died during a four-day siege. | At least six people have been killed after a suspected suicide attack at a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. | 24873912 | [
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Reports on Tuesday suggested the 28-year-old's representatives are set for talks with the English side.
"There are no direct offers," the source told BBC Sport.
"Only by meeting the release clause of 94,376,000 euros will the player leave Napoli. Otherwise Higuain will stay for the remaining two years of his deal."
Gareth Bale's £85m move from Tottenham to Real Madrid in 2013 is the most expensive transfer in football history, surpassing the £80m Real paid Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.
In 2013, then Real Madrid forward Higuain agreed personal terms with Arsenal, but joined Napoli after the Gunners failed to make an offer.
Last season, Higuain won the Capocannoniere - Serie A's golden boot - after scoring a league record 36 goals as Napoli finished runners-up to Juventus.
Meanwhile, Napoli have not received any offers for 25-year-old Senegal centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly, who has been linked with Everton and Chelsea. | Arsenal must pay Napoli 94m euros (£80m) to sign Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain, according to a source close to the Italian club. | 36776192 | [
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Haile Gebrselassie - Olympic gold medallist, winner of more than 20 sporting records, businessman and activist - pulled out of his first appearance at the New York marathon with a knee injury and told journalists afterwards that he was quitting competitive sports.
Ethiopian state television carried the announcement on Monday morning.
"We love Haile very much, every Ethiopian loves him," Eyoseyas Daniel, 23, told the BBC on the streets of the capital Addis Ababa.
He said he was sorry to hear of Haile's retirement and that he hoped he would reconsider.
"He is our hero and I don't think there is any runner who runs like him and I don't think any runner who will come like him. He is just a hero."
Abebe Abebaw said he was a model for the country, while another Addis Ababa resident Walelgn Tamir recalled how he had been at the forefront of Ethiopia's long-distance running rivalry with neighbouring Kenya.
But he recognised that Gebrselassie's career could not go on for ever.
"He is getting old, older and older, so it is getting difficult after this time for him because of age," he said.
Haile Gebrselassie, 37, leaves the sport he dominated for the last two decades with a string of records.
But he has also made a name for himself outside the sporting world, as a businessman, educator, philanthropist and art collector.
He and his wife, Alem, have three daughters and one son. He told a local magazine last year that he would like his children to become runners, to achieve more than he has and to make their own names.
The couple also own a construction business and built the country's first private cinema, which shows only Ethiopian films. Alem Cinema is in the same building that houses the gym where he trains, Alem Fitness Centre.
He has built and owns two schools, and his resort in the southern tourist town of Hawassa opened earlier this year.
Gebrselassie's influence even stretches into politics. He is one of the Elders, a group of Ethiopians who have mediated in political crises in the country since 2005.
The Elders helped negotiate the release of the people imprisoned in the aftermath of the bitterly-disputed 2005 parliamentary election.
They also helped broker the pardon and release last month of the opposition leader, Birtukan Mideksa. Gebrselassie apparently allowed Ms Birtukan to recuperate at his resort, free of charge, with her mother and young daughter.
He is aware that his achievements in sports have made him an international legend, and told me last year that he would use that platform to make a difference in the world.
And so, beyond national politics, Gebrselassie is involved in international campaigns against climate change and malaria.
He feels strongly that athletes must be taught to manage their finances, and spent one week last November training with and mentoring young runners.
Ten years ago, he founded the Great Ethiopian Run, which has since become known as Africa's biggest road race.
The contest is open to amateur and professional runners and is recognised as a show of talent from the continent's next generation of runners.
So beloved is Gebrselassie in Ethiopia that in 2001, the country's best known musician Tedi Afro composed a song in his honour and with his name.
Given his status both nationally and beyond, there are some who believe that Gebrselassie may not have finished running - but that his next race may well be a political one. | News of the retirement of one of Ethiopia's national icons caught most in the country unawares. | 11712802 | [
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Club president Josep Maria Bartomeu told reporters there had been "a mistake... in tax planning" in connection with the transfer.
Barcelona had been accused of tax fraud over the signing, which it denied.
Neymar and his father are also being investigated over alleged tax fraud, which they also deny.
"We have had to accept paying a €5.5m fine due to a mistake in the 2011 and 2013 tax planning in the signing of Neymar," Mr Bartomeu said.
"It was better to accept this agreement than continue on with the uncertainty that has dragged on for a long time over the Neymar case."
Barcelona made a voluntary tax payment of €13.5m in 2014 after being charged with tax fraud over the signing, but denied any wrongdoing.
Neymar, whose full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior, joined Barcelona in June 2013 after a successful career with the Brazilian club, Santos.
Barcelona said it paid €57m (£43m) for the forward, with the player's parents receiving €40m and Santos €17m.
But investigators said the fee was closer to €83m and that Barcelona had concealed part of the deal. The club denied the claim.
Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors called for Neymar to be tried for fraud.
They allege that the player and his father hid the true value of the transfer from Santos to Barcelona.
A Brazilian investment fund, which held 40% of Neymar's sporting rights when he played at Santos, argues it was deprived of its full share of the transfer deal.
Neymar is also being investigated for tax evasion in Brazil. | Barcelona football club has agreed to pay a €5.5m (£4.3m) fine over the transfer of Brazil international Neymar in 2013. | 36524089 | [
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The body of Malcolm Ballantyne, known as Malky, was found at his home in Glebe Place by a family member shortly after 13:00 on Friday.
A post-mortem examination is taking place but police are treating the death as suspicious.
Officers are trying to trace Mr Ballantyne's movements on Thursday and Friday and are also checking CCTV.
Det Ch Insp Gary Cunningham said: "Malky was found yesterday by a family member who is obviously distraught at what has happened.
"He is a well-known character in the area and has a routine where he visits and socialises in various pubs in Stevenson most days - generally in the morning.
"We are keen to find out if anyone saw Malky between 1000 hours on Thursday 20 August and 1300 hours on Friday 21 August."
Door-to-door inquiries are taking place in Saltcoats and Stevenson and there are extra uniformed patrols in the area. | Investigations are under way after the death of 72-year-old man at a flat in Saltcoats, in North Ayrshire. | 34028042 | [
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The 24-year-old, who has played for Greece at junior level, joins on a free transfer from Olympiacos - also owned by Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis.
Bouchalakis had been expected to sign a loan deal with Forest.
But he impressed in training and in friendlies with Notts County and Mansfield and has signed until 2020.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Nottingham Forest have signed Andreas Bouchalakis on a three-year contract after the midfielder impressed during pre-season with the Championship side. | 40745077 | [
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Released by Norwich City as a schoolboy, he entered semi-professional football, turning out for King's Lynn and Staines Town, who play in the Ryman Premier Division.
It was there, in the foothills of the English game, that he looked west and decided to move to the United States.
Dwyer signed up to a firm who - for a fee - help organise soccer scholarships at US colleges for young, talented British footballers.
Getting a scholarship means the college pays some, or all, of the student's tuition fees and costs.
The firm, Soccer Icon USA, held a trial at QPR's training ground, to see whether those who had signed up were good enough for college soccer.
"I think I scored a hat-trick in the first 10 minutes," remembers Dwyer, now 25.
"The coaches took me off early and said: 'So - whereabouts in America do you want to go?'"
Dwyer spent two years at Tyler Junior College in Texas, before moving to the University of South Florida.
While there, he was signed by Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City. He has since scored more than 30 MLS goals, was named in the 2014 All Star team alongside Thierry Henry and, in 2015, is on a guaranteed salary of more than £300,000 a year.
He is also married to Sydney Leroux, who was a member of the USA's World Cup-winning women's team earlier this year.
"It's pretty amazing," says Dwyer. "I'm a little kid from England, and last year I was at the White House [after winning the 2013 MLS Cup].
"I just thought: 'What are they doing, letting me in here?'"
Dwyer is not the only British player who has gone from US college to the MLS.
Matt Watson - who studied at the University of Maryland, after being released by Wolves as a youngster - plays for Chicago Fire.
Otis Earle, son of former Wimbledon midfielder Robbie Earle, is at FC Dallas, via the University of California, Riverside.
Preston-born Luke Mulholland, who studied in North Carolina, is at Real Salt Lake, while Andy Rose, once a Bristol City youth, went from the University of California in Los Angeles to Seattle Sounders.
Few Britons will emulate their careers. But more and more are trying.
According to the Fulbright Commission, almost 11,000 British students were at American colleges in the past academic year - an increase of 21% in the past 10 years.
Although the number of soccer scholarships is not recorded (there's no American equivalent of Ucas, the organisation through which applications are processed in England and Wales) it is clear they are becoming more popular.
Chris Cousins, who runs Sports Recruiting USA, went to Illinois on a soccer scholarship in 2003.
"I was probably one of a dozen going to America, if that," he says.
Now, he estimates that more than 600 British students - male and female - will cross the Atlantic to start soccer scholarships this year.
Cousins thinks rising tuition fees in England is one factor, having increased from £1,100 in 2003 to a maximum of £9,000 a year now. He also thinks social media has played a part.
"When you see your mate on Twitter or Facebook playing in California or Florida, it makes it more tempting," said Cousins.
College soccer is certainly attractive: in 2013, more than 30 teams had average attendances of more than 1,000, 10 with more than a 2,000 average, with some derbies attracting over 10,000 fans. To put that in perspective, last season English League Two sides Morecambe and Accrington both averaged less than 2,000.
The biggest games are shown on national television, and there is a clear route to turning pro: every year, MLS clubs take their pick of the best college players via the superdraft.
But there is another reason why more Britons are heading to American colleges - the rise in companies, or middlemen, who arrange soccer scholarships.
Pass4Soccer, which began in 2003, was one of the first. According to their latest annual report, they now have 40 competitors.
"It seems in the past 12 years they've sprung up left, right, and centre," said Daniel Gray, a director at the company.
"Five years ago, there were 10 or 15. Now there are 40. People are jumping on the bandwagon."
Each firm is different but, broadly, the model is the same. Students pay a fee, and the company gets them a place at a US college - if they are good enough on the pitch and are capable of getting a degree.
The companies' fees vary. Sports Recruiting USA, one of the cheapest, charges £999; Pass4Soccer is £1,295; others charge more than £2,000.
The firms claim it is money well spent - they say, with contacts and experience, they are able to get better scholarships for their students.
Pass4Soccer, for example, estimate that 15% of their students get full scholarships - meaning the college pays all of the student's fees and living costs.
Sports Recruiting USA say their students, on average, get 90% scholarships - leaving students to pay just 10%.
When a year at a US college costs the average international student more than £20,000, paying £1,000 or £2,000 to a firm could be a wise investment.
But, as one QPR player knows, not everyone needs a middleman.
When Tyler Blackwood was 18, he had - in his own words - "given up".
As a schoolboy, Tottenham Hotspur said he was too short. Watford said the same, as did Northampton Town.
After a growth spurt, Blackwood, who is now over 6ft, was invited to a trial game at lower-league Barnet.
But, on the day of the game, the manager Paul Fairclough resigned and his trial never happened. Instead, he began working in his dad's bar in Oakwood, north London.
"It was a horrible year," remembers Blackwood. "I had friends in the pro game, and I was watching them make their debuts.
"Football had always been my plan, then suddenly I realised - it's not going to happen."
When his dad encouraged him to kickstart his career at an American college, they paid for a firm to arrange a scholarship.
"But the offers were from bad schools in terrible states," says Blackwood. "In the end, I got my money back and did it myself."
In 2011, the family went on holiday to Florida, so Blackwood emailed the soccer coach at the University of Tampa, asking for a trial.
The college accepted him, but offered only a 25% scholarship.
"My dad borrowed money, took out loans, to make sure he could pay the rest," says Blackwood, now 24.
"I told him he'd only have to pay for the first year, and then I'd get a full scholarship. And I did."
This summer, Blackwood returned to England for a trial at QPR. It was successful, and he made his debut in August, away to Yeovil in the League Cup.
He is completing his four-year degree in London, taking his laptop on the team bus to catch up with work.
"I recently had an exam that started at 8pm, Florida time," says Blackwood.
"That was 1am in the UK. I'm looking forward to graduating, put it that way."
As Blackwood shows, the quality of British players heading to America, as well as the quantity, is increasing.
Cousins says that, 10 years ago, it was "county players getting the best scholarships - now it's people getting released from Chelsea and Manchester City".
But what do British players offer that Americans - or other nationalities - do not?
"Work ethic sets them apart," says Steve Clements, who coached Dom Dwyer at Tyler Junior College in Texas.
"I must have had 100 British players, and they've always been hard-working. For example, nobody outworked Dom.
"Fantastic player, fantastic person, and a good friend. At Christmas, I came into my office and there he was, on a surprise visit.
"He didn't even tell me he was coming. He's that sort of guy."
And, says Clements, the British bring something else to the team, as well as hard work.
"The Brits have fantastic humour. They're sarcastic, you know? And they can play."
For those who do not make it professionally, the college degree is a decent consolation.
Graduates from soccer scholarships move into a range of careers: one of Clements's former British students works for Bank of America, another supplies souvenirs to major league sports ("If you need a number one finger, I know who to call," he says).
Joe Prince-Wright went on a soccer scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh and came back with two degrees: one in communication, and one in English writing.
Those qualifications helped him become a website editor for the American network, NBC, in London.
"Academically, college was an eye-opener," he says.
"You only focus on your main subject in the last two years, so I was doing algebra classes, astronomy classes, everything.
"We'd have classes, train for three hours a day, then have more classes. On a Friday you might fly three hours to Tampa, and have a game there.
"On a Saturday, you'd fly four hours to Chicago, train, play on the Sunday, fly back, then start another week of classes.
"It was like being a full-time student and a professional soccer player."
One man who values a college education is Dwyer, who turned professional before finishing his degree in communications and psychology.
However, despite his fame and fortune, he plans to complete his course, graduate, and finish the adventure he started six years ago. | Six years ago, Dom Dwyer's career was going nowhere. | 34097904 | [
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Executive producer Al Jean said in a statement to the New York Times that Shearer had turned down a new pay deal.
The show "will go on" and the actor's characters will be recast, Jean added.
Shearer took to Twitter to say the decision "wasn't about money" and that signing up to a new series would have stopped him from doing other work.
The 71-year-old provided the voice for addled school principal Seymour Skinner as well as rapacious millionaire Montgomery Burns and Ned Flanders, Homer Simpson's chipper neighbour.
Shearer signalled his exit on Twitter by claiming that a lawyer for executive producer James L Brooks said: "Show will go on, Harry will not be part of it, wish him the best."
In a follow-up tweet, Shearer added: "This because I wanted what we've always had: The freedom to do other work. Of course, I wish him the very best."
In response, Al Jean wrote: "Harry Shearer was offered the same deal the rest of the cast accepted, and passed.
"The show will go on and we wish him well. Maggie took it hard.
"We do not plan to kill off characters like Burns and Flanders but will recast with the finest voiceover talent available."
Last week, the Fox network confirmed it had commissioned two more series of the long-running animated sitcom.
According to reports at the time, Shearer had yet to sign a new contract.
On Thursday, the actor stressed that he had no plans to retire, adding: "On to new stuff..."
His other roles have included bass player Derek Smalls in rock "mockumentary" This is Spinal Tap.
The Simpsons has been on air since 1989, and the new series will take the total number of episodes to 625. | Harry Shearer, who voices Ned Flanders and Mr Burns in The Simpsons, is to leave the show after more than 25 years following a dispute with producers. | 32733873 | [
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The vehicles, which were travelling in the same direction, collided on Red Hill Way, Leicester, at 21:17 BST on Tuesday.
Police said the 19-year-old on one of the bikes was killed. A 29-year-old man was arrested and remains in police custody.
Officers have asked anyone with information about the collision to get in touch. | A man has been arrested after a fatal road crash involving two motorbikes. | 32218500 | [
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The security forces are reported to have used tear gas against stone-throwing protesters.
They also surrounded the hometown of Burhan Wani, 22, who was killed fighting Indian troops last year.
Separately seven people are reported to have been killed in shelling across the Line of Control that divides Indian and Pakistani-administered Kashmir.
Officials on the Pakistani side told Reuters that five people died in Indian shelling, while Indian officials say two people were killed by Pakistani fire.
There has been an armed revolt in the Muslim-majority region against rule by India since 1989, although violence has waned in recent years.
The disputed region is claimed by both India and Pakistan in its entirety. India blames Pakistan for fuelling the unrest, a claim denied by Islamabad.
Burhan Wani is credited with reviving the image of militancy in Muslim-majority Indian-administered Kashmir, becoming a figurehead for young people.
Saturday's violence started as people tried to walk to his home in Tral - where he died in a shootout with the army last July.
His death led to a wave of protests during which dozens of people were killed.
The Indian authorities imposed heavy restrictions in the Kashmir valley for the anniversary, stopping internet access and sealing off Tral.
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The 22-year-old joins an impressive list at the Aegon Open on 4-12 June, including Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka, and British top three Johanna Konta, Heather Watson and Naomi Broady.
Robson reached world number 27 in July 2013, but has struggled since returning from a serious wrist injury last year.
"I am excited to be returning to Nottingham," Robson said.
"I remember how great the grass courts are there. Preparing well on the grass is key ahead of Wimbledon and Nottingham is the perfect place to start.
"I really enjoy this time of year, to be able to play in front of a home crowd. It is fantastic to see a strong British turnout for the event as the fans always create such a great atmosphere." | Former British number one Laura Robson will play at next month's grass-court Wimbledon warm-up event in Nottingham. | 36245913 | [
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The 21-year-old has been playing in the Glasgow first team since 2012 and made his senior international debut the following year.
Gray regularly partners brother and former Warriors lock Richie in Scotland's second row.
"I'm very happy to be staying at Glasgow," the younger Gray told Glasgow's website.
"It's my home club and I'm just glad I've had the opportunity to sign.
"It's been a a fantastic few years development for me. When I was younger I always had the ambition to play for Glasgow and Scotland and playing in a Rugby World Cup has been a fantastic experience.
"It's great to see [team-mate and fly-half] Finn [Russell] signing as well [for three years] and there is a lot of talent at the club and it's great to be a part of it.
"Everyone works very hard and that just makes you want to improve as a player and improve the team as well. To have the opportunity to work with the coaches and players at the Warriors is fantastic.
"Scotstoun is a fun place to be and everyone works hard for each other and the culture is great.
"I used to go and watch my brother playing at Firhill and it's incredible to see the crowds growing since we moved to Scotstoun. The fans are really passionate and they make it a very special place to play."
Gray has made around 60 appearances for club and country in his professional career and played in four of Scotland's five matches during their World Cup campaign, which ended at the quarter-final stage.
And head coach Gregor Townsend said: "Jonny has made a huge contribution over the last couple of seasons and it's great news that he's staying with us for another three years.
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Planes have taken food, water and medical supplies to one of the worst-hit islands, Tanna island.
But charities say much more aid will be needed in the weeks to come.
People there are still in desperate need of shelter and water.
Advice if you're upset by the news
United Nations worker Joe Lowry, who is on Tanna, told the BBC: "We know what the needs are now on six of the islands and... everywhere else and those needs are definitively shelter and more shelter.
"Where I was today they are pretty much out of fresh drinking water.
"Food is in very short supply and lots of the food stocks that were there have been damaged. The food that was growing above ground was all swept away."
Aid workers reached Tanna for the first time on Tuesday and reported 80% of homes or buildings had been partially or completely destroyed.
"There's a landscape of skeleton trees and patchworks of square outlines where houses used to be," said Angus Hohenboken from aid group Oxfam.
He added that the fierce winds had uprooted water tanks and blown them miles away. Crops were demolished and electricity was out.
Baldwin Lonsdale, Vanuatu's president, returned to his country on Tuesday night. He'd been in Japan attending a UN conference when the cyclone hit.
"I trust the people of Vanuatu. I trust my government. I trust the people that they will stand united together as a nation and to rebuild the nation," he said. | Emergency aid is beginning to reach some of the worst-hit islands of Vanuatu, helping people there after a cyclone destroyed whole villages. | 31944180 | [
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Leaving the union would see prices rise and threaten jobs, the prime minister said, in a move seen as an attempt to reach out to Labour voters.
Writing in the Daily Mirror, he said leaving would be "a national error".
Meanwhile, more than 300 business figures and entrepreneurs have signed a letter in support of Brexit.
The referendum takes place on 23 June, when voters in the UK will be asked whether they want the country to remain in, or leave, the European Union.
With less than six weeks to go before polling day, Mr Cameron continued to make his case for staying in the EU.
He said being in the union helped working people and British manufacturing.
"I've been in this job for six years now. Whatever you think of me, I know how Britain gets things done in the world," he wrote in the Labour-supporting Daily Mirror.
"I've seen how free trade within Europe benefits working people. I've seen how manufacturing is boosted by trade deals the EU has done with the rest of the world.
"I've seen how shared intelligence keeps families safe. It's my deep, considered, steadfast belief that leaving Europe would be a national error, a big mistake."
He said three million people's livelihoods were directly linked to trade with Europe, with "countless more" linked indirectly.
Mr Cameron's comments comes as 320 business figures have signed a letter backing Vote Leave.
The letter, published in the Daily Telegraph, said being a member of the EU undermines British competitiveness and Brexit would "create more jobs".
Signatories include Peter Goldstein, a founder of Superdrug, Steve Dowdle, a former vice-president of Sony, and David Sismey, a managing director of Goldman Sachs.
Tim Martin, chairman of pub chain JD Wetherspoon, Adrian McAlpine, from construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine, and Jon Moulton, chairman of Better Capital LLP, also signed the letter.
They say British business would be free to "grow faster, expand into new markets and create more jobs" from outside the EU.
"Year-on-year the EU buys less from Britain because its economies are stagnant and millions of workers are unemployed," the letter said.
It adds: "Brussels' red tape stifles every one of Britain's 5.4 million businesses, even though only a small minority actually trade with the EU."
Both the Leave and Remain campaigns have previously published letters revealing the backing of other business figures.
It follows a dispute over the weekend, after Boris Johnson compared the EU's aims to Hitler's, saying both involved the intention to unify Europe under a single "authority".
The pro-Brexit Tory MP and ex-London mayor said both the Nazi leader and Napoleon had failed at unification and the EU was "an attempt to do this by different methods".
Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who backs Remain, said the comparison was "offensive and desperate".
"Leave campaigners have lost the economic argument and now they are losing their moral compass," the Labour MP said.
Former Labour minister Yvette Cooper, who also supports the Remain campaign, accused Mr Johnson of a "shameful lack of judgement" and a willingness to play "the most divisive, cynical politics".
Lord Bramall, a former head of the Army, said making a comparison between the EU and Nazi Germany was "absurd".
However, Tory Leave campaigner Jacob Rees-Mogg said Mr Johnson's comments were "absolutely true".
He said Hitler and Napoleon "wanted to create a single European power... by force. And the EU is trying to do it by stealth." | The poorest and most vulnerable people in the UK would be hit hardest by the economic consequences of leaving the EU, David Cameron has warned. | 36299324 | [
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The union Unite organised the rally at the firm's headquarters in Derbyshire.
The union has called for an end to "Victorian working practices" and demanded staff get a living wage of £7.85 an hour.
Sports Direct said casual workers receive holiday and sick pay, and are included in incentive schemes.
The protest at the company headquarters was one of about 40 being held on Wednesday, with Sports Direct shops across the country also being targeted.
A Sports Direct spokeswoman said: "Much of the comment around the group's use of zero hours has been unfounded and inaccurate.
"The group complies fully with all legal requirements which relate to casual workers, including holiday and sick pay and freedom to gain other employment.
"Casual workers also benefit from general incentive schemes."
Unite said an estimated 3,000 workers are on zero-hour contracts at Sports Direct's Shirebrook headquarters.
A further 75% of staff across its UK stores are also on zero-hour contracts, with Sports Direct accounting for a fifth of all such contracts in the retail sector, according to Unite.
One institutional investor, Royal London Asset Management, earlier called for the resignation of Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley citing anger on his failure to attend four board meetings.
Ashley Hamilton Claxton from Royal London Asset Management, said: "We have lost confidence in the board and are very concerned about the long list of corporate governance failings that have not been addressed."
But both Mr Ashley and Sports Direct chairman Keith Hellawell were re-elected to the board at the meeting.
Unite representative Cheryl Pidgeon said: "We want an end to zero-hour contracts - because young people cannot stand 'forever and a day' to be on zero-hour contracts.
"We think Sports Direct makes enough money to ensure that their workers have to dignity, respect and fair wages." | A Dickensian-style protest has been held to oppose Sports Direct's use of zero-hour contracts at the company's annual general meeting. | 34202858 | [
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Its campaign Meet the MacPhersons draws on evidence gathered from 200 young people and 20 parents.
They were asked for their experiences of the dilemmas faced by children, teenagers and parents in relation to alcohol.
Almost three quarters of young people in the Highlands have drunk alcohol by the time they turn 15, according to the partnership, whose members include NHS Highland.
The partnership said there has been a 10% reduction in underage drinking in the region since 2010, but it remained above the national average.
Deborah Stewart, co-ordinator for Highland Alcohol and Drugs Partnership, said families have an important part to play in tackling underage drinking.
She said: "Underage drinking remains a concern as it contributes to a range of negative health and social outcomes.
"There is also evidence that shows early alcohol use is associated with increased risk of dependency in adulthood and chronic diseases associated with excessive drinking in adults.
"By reducing underage drinking we can reduce the risk of alcohol problems developing in adulthood and families can play a part in that by modelling sensible drinking, communicating risks associated with drinking and participating in positive activities. That's why we would like families to Meet the MacPhersons."
Last month, NHS Highland's director of public health said children as young as three can recognise the smell associated with alcohol.
Dr Hugo van Woerden said he recognised that responsible drinking was "a normal part of a healthy society".
But he has raised concerns about levels of alcohol abuse and children's exposure to it.
He said in the health board's area 9.4% of men and 7.2% of women were classed as problem drinkers.
His report mentions "children as young as three can recognise the smell associated with alcoholic drinks".
Dr van Woerden also said there had been a rise in alcohol intake by women aged 16-24. | A new campaign seeks to tackle underage drinking in the Highlands. | 34976596 | [
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The female dog was discovered "dumped like rubbish" in the Overton area of Lancaster.
Racing greyhounds are tattooed on their right ears, and it is believed the ear was cut off to destroy identification information.
Campaigners are offering a £2,000 reward for information.
Greyhound protection group Caged North West was first alerted after spotting a photograph of the dog's body that was shared on the internet.
It then discovered the animal behind a water tank a few yards from Main Street.
The group later placed CCTV in the area, which recorded footage of a person with a dog searching the small area of ground behind the water tank.
Trudy Baker, of the Greytexploitations group, which has joined Caged North West to offer the reward, said it believed whoever dumped the dog had returned to the scene to remove the ear.
"It's incredibly sad but greyhounds are over-bred for the gambling industry, and the ones that no longer make the grade become disposable commodities," she said.
"We are hoping that this case ends in a prosecution."
The campaigners said they would hand the CCTV footage to Lancashire Police.
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Ms Clarke previously triumphed at the contest with a life-sized Johnny Depp cake, which made headlines around the world.
She said she found her second consecutive success "hugely exciting".
Ms Clarke also won silver in the large decorative exhibit section at the competition, with a cake based on her favourite Game of Thrones character Tyrion Lannister.
She spent two-and-a-half months working on the cakes ahead of the competition at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre,
The Jennifer Lawrence sponge cake required 150 eggs, 10kg (22lb) flour and 10kg butter.
When asked what she planned to enter next year, she said she would need a "long lie down" before she decided.
Clare Fisher, senior sales executive at Cake International, said the standard of entries was "breathtaking". | A woman has won a gold award at national baking competition by entering a life-sized Jennifer Lawrence cake. | 29966570 | [
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Canadian Henderson, who led after round one, hit a two-over 73, while South Korean Lee had a 69 to reach two under.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew is three behind on one over par after a 67.
Matthew's three-under score was the lowest of the round on a tough scoring day, on which early sunshine gave way to cool temperatures and rain.
Only five players are under par at the halfway stage of the second women's major of the year with Americans Gerina Piller (69) and Brittany Lincicome (70) joining Ko on one under.
Ko, who won the ANA Inspiration in March to add to her victory in the Evian Championship last September, said: "If it wasn't for my putter I know I wouldn't be in this position."
Henderson, 18, said she was "happy" despite dropping a shot at the 18th to lose the outright lead.
"It was a tough day and the conditions made it difficult, I hung in there," she added. | World number one Lydia Ko hit a one-under-par 70 to remain in contention to win her third consecutive women's major at the Women's PGA Championship. | 36506145 | [
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With her adorable charm and blonde curls, she was one of the most popular stars of the 1930s, in hit movies like Bright Eyes and Stand Up and Cheer.
After retiring from films in 1950 at the age of 21, Temple returned to the spotlight as a politician and diplomat.
She died on Monday at home in Woodside, California, from natural causes. "She was surrounded by her family and caregivers," a statement said.
Born in 1928, Temple soon became a major star after getting her first film role at the age of three.
Her singing, dancing and acting won over fans worldwide. She was given a special juvenile Oscar in 1935, when she was just six years old. To this day, she is still the youngest person to receive an Academy Award.
With the nickname "America's little darling", she was ranked as Hollywood's biggest draw for four years running from 1935 to '38 in an annual poll of US cinema owners.
Her rendition of the song On the Good Ship Lollipop in the film Bright Eyes was among her most famous performances.
Sources: Shirleytemple.com/IMDB
Her other films included Curly Top, The Littlest Rebel, Baby Take a Bow and Little Miss Marker.
She was such a hit that US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt dubbed her "Little Miss Miracle" for raising morale during the Great Depression and she was credited with helping save 20th Century Fox from bankruptcy.
Temple starred in a total of 43 feature films - but found it difficult to sustain her career in adulthood and left acting behind in 1950.
She continued to appear on television, but that work dried up and she eventually stepped away from the spotlight.
When she came back into the public eye, it was in a new guise. Under her married name Shirley Temple Black, she ran as a Republican candidate for Congress in 1967 but lost.
Richard Nixon later appointed her as a member of the US delegation to the United Nations General Assembly before President Ford named her the US ambassador to Ghana in 1974.
In 1989, she was made the US ambassador to Czechoslovakia shortly before the fall of the country's Communist regime.
She considered her background in entertainment an asset to her political career. "Politicians are actors too, don't you think?" she once said.
In a statement announcing her death, her family said: "We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for 55 years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black."
Actor George Clooney was among those to pay tribute. He said: "Watching clips of her, it's so amazing that she was such a part of our film history from the very beginning.
"I'm sure it wasn't easy being a child star, although she went on to become an ambassador, so she re-invented herself along the way. But it's a great loss. I wish all the best for her family and thank her for her contribution."
Actress Whoopi Goldberg wrote on Twitter: "The Good Ship Lollypop has sailed today with Shirley Temple aboard," and described the star as a true one of a kind.
Joan Rivers tweeted: "Rest in peace, Shirley Temple Black. I know that you're sailing up and away on the Good Ship."
Film critic Leonard Maltin wrote: "One of the most talented and brightest stars in the world has gone to the sky. A genuine phenomenon." | Former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple has died at the age of 85. | 26135627 | [
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The 20-year-old follows Danny Ward from Anfield to the Scottish Premiership, the goalkeeper having been with the Dons since the start of the season.
Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes told the club website: "He's a player who has always impressed us and will give us good options in the months ahead."
The Northern Ireland international joined Liverpool from Glenavon aged 16.
He has yet to make his competitive debut for the Premier League side but made nine appearances while on loan to Barnsley in the Championship in the second half of the 2013-14 season.
That led to the first of three international caps and his only senior appearance last season was in a 1-0 friendly defeat by Scotland.
"Ryan has the quality needed to play with us at Aberdeen and we are looking forward to working closely with him," added McInnes.
"Ryan's eagerness to join us over others also give us great encouragement."
McLaughlin's older brother, Conor, is also a right-back, with League One club Fleetwood Town, and has six Northern Ireland caps. | Liverpool right-back Ryan McLaughlin has joined Aberdeen on loan until January. | 34096108 | [
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The finale will be a fireworks display at 10:06pm in recognition of the bridge's 1,006m span.
Tickets for the procession and party, on 13 September, go on sale on Friday.
The event will end with a giant outdoor ceilidh, the "Forth Fling". There will be a free shuttle bus as there will be no local parking.
The procession is only open to over-16s. The party is open to under-16s if they are accompanied by an adult.
The bridge will close to all traffic in both directions at 22:00 for 30 minutes during the fireworks display.
Lesley Hinds, convener of the Forth Estuary Transport Authority, said: "The Forth Road Bridge was a huge engineering achievement for Scotland when it opened in 1964, and in the 50 years since it has provided fantastic service, carrying over double the weight and volume of traffic envisaged by the engineers who designed it. The bridge has transformed the economy of the east of Scotland and the lives of millions who now take crossing the Forth for granted.
"With the new Queensferry Crossing set to open in 2016, this is a pivotal moment in the history of the bridge."
Funding for the event has come from Homecoming Scotland, Edinburgh City Council and Fife Council. | Thousands of torch-bearers will form a kilometre-long river of fire during celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge. | 28772094 | [
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But Reaction Time is a bit of an unusual commission that left me, as producer, staring at a half-hour gap in the schedule and wondering what would fill it.
It is the network's first programme made entirely on smartphones.
The premise was simple on paper.
BBC Radio 4 put a prompt on social media ahead of Valentine's Day: "Tell us a story about love," inviting anyone in the world to make a two-minute voice recording of their relationship story, on their phone, and email it in as an attachment.
Then, I would knit the contributions into a half-hour of online dates, first loves, and bitter break-ups.
I will confess to some nerves.
Until recently, the quality from mobile recordings would not be good enough - but, in my day job as a journalist, I have used the technique when we have not been able to get an interviewee to a studio.
The technology has improved massively in recent years and is often comparable to a traditional recording.
As the process started, there were anxious days when nothing arrived, and, then, suddenly - a brilliant anecdote. (Caroline's wedding gets derailed spectacularly…)
I would refresh the inbox open-mouthed at relationship stories that could not be broadcast; weeding out information about people's exes that could get me sued, and in one instance, deciding against broadcasting an entertaining but detailed account of what happens when you get dysentery on honeymoon.
The other factor that gave me a few worries was that people seemed particularly keen to share their disasters - marital break-up, hated exes, a ruined wedding, loneliness, a complete inability to pull - was there anyone with a nice, romantic story?
It turned out there was, and it was from a woman called Samantha.
Her tale finishes the programme, and it is a bit of a jaw-dropper.
I knew I had something when I played it to a reasonably hard-bitten reporter at the next desk and she cried.
One of the key decisions about the programme was that if we were handing over half an hour to Radio 4's listeners, we should go the whole hog and get one of them to present it.
So a few weeks ago, I emailed Narelle Lancaster.
The 39-year-old advertising lecturer had sent in one of my favourite stories about a catastrophic night out.
Her date's opening gambit was: "Your breasts look fantastic in that dress." And then it got worse.
When I contacted her about presenting the programme, Lancaster, who lives in the UK, had gone back to Australia for two months.
After realising every one of my phone recording sessions with her would have to take place not far off 00:00 GMT, I banged my head on the desk a few times and got on with it.
Soon enough, Lancaster was sitting on the other side of the world with two phones in her hands, one landline against her ear so I could coach her, and a smartphone to record the script with in the other hand.
She told me: "It was not easy - we did spend hours working it out, so recording a script was much more complicated than I thought it would be - lots of techniques to make you sound natural.
"It's been incredibly exciting.
"I only submitted because saw it on Twitter, and I really didn't think anyone would be interested in my story - I was really surprised.
"Now, I just want to hear it."
And now, it is time for the listeners to decide if they like the sound of themselves.
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It could lead to new ways of diagnosing the condition and of testing the effectiveness of new drugs.
The technology, reported in the journal Neuron, can identify inside a living brain clumps of a protein called tau that is closely linked to the disease.
Alzheimer's Research UK said it was promising work.
Alzheimer's disease is a problem for researchers trying to come up with a cure. The brain starts to die years before any symptoms are detected, which means drugs are probably given too late.
A diagnosis of Alzheimer's cannot be made with absolute certainty until a patient has died and their brain is examined. It is also not 100% clear what is the cause of the dementia and what are just symptoms.
One protein, called tau, is very closely linked to the disease, with tangles of tau thought to be one way in which brain cells are killed.
The team, lead by the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, used positron emission tomography to build a 3D picture of tau in the brain.
They developed a chemical that could bind to tau and then be detected during a brain scan.
Tests on mice and people with suspected Alzheimer's showed the technology could detect tau.
Dr Makoto Higuchi, from the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Japan, said: "Positron emission tomography images of tau accumulation... provide robust information on brain regions developing or at risk for tau-induced neuronal death."
The research is at an early stage, but it could eventually lead to an actual test for Alzheimer's disease.
It might also allow researchers to closely follow the impact drugs that affect tau have on the brain.
Another protein - beta amyloid - is also linked to Alzheimer's and can be detected in similar tests.
Dr Eric Karran, director of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "This promising early study highlights a potential new method for detecting tau - a key player in both Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementia - in the living brain.
"With new drugs in development designed to target tau, scans capable of visualising the protein inside the brain could be important for assessing whether treatments in clinical trials are hitting their target.
"If this method is shown to be effective, such a scan could also be a useful aid for providing people with an accurate diagnosis, as well as for monitoring disease progression." | Pioneering brain imaging that can detect the build-up of destructive proteins linked to Alzheimer's has been developed by Japanese scientists. | 24142691 | [
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As Nadir Ciftci sloped off to Eskisehirspor on loan, fellow forward Colin Kazim-Richards, formerly of Fenerbahce and Galatasaray, arrived from Feyenoord just as his suspension for threatening a journalist came to an end.
Whether or not either Turk will delight enough to be hits with their new clubs, it is another loanee who has the potential to set Celtic Park alight if he lives up to his market value.
Patrick Roberts moved to Manchester City in the summer for about £12m and the 18-year-old winger has 18 months with the reigning Scottish champions in which to prove himself worthy of the fee paid to Fulham.
Kazim-Richards is perhaps even more of a gamble, not only because of his off-field antics but also for a lack of career goals, and steady Erik Sviatchenko is maybe a safer bet to prove worthy of the £1.5m Celtic paid Midtjylland for the Denmark defender.
Celtic might need to squeeze every last pound of value out of their new arrivals to thwart a sustained Aberdeen title challenge that appears to have surprised even those inside Pittodrie.
The Dandies' deadline-day signing of Simon Church on loan from MK Dons means they have a striker hungry for goals to ensure his place in Wales' Euro 2016 finals squad.
However, the Dons may live to regret their bungled attempt to sign Greg Tansey from Inverness Caledonian Thistle in events that left them minus the additional cover in central midfield manager Derek McInnes thought necessary.
While they brought in two replacements, the recall by Liverpool of promising goalkeeper Danny Ward could also prove costly in the long run.
Third-top Hearts made the biggest profit during January as they arranged a deal that should mean they pocket more than £1m for the sale of Osman Sow to Henan Jianye, who also bought Ryan McGowan from Dundee United, as the Chinese Super League begins to flex its financial muscle.
The Edinburgh club have replaced the Swede with Abiola Dauda, a Nigerian striker on loan from Vitesse who has an even more impressive scoring record.
Elsewhere, there was the usual influx and exchange of journeymen pros, with Dundee United failing to make the kind of exciting acquisitions that will transform their fans' hopes into expectation that they can bridge the gaping points gap at the bottom of the table.
In: Aaron Lennox, goalkeeper (Hayes & Yeading). Loan:Simon Church, forward (MK Dons); Adam Collin, goalkeeper (Rotherham United).
Out: Paul Quinn, defender (Ross County). Loan ended:Danny Ward, goalkeeper (Liverpool); Ryan McLaughlin, defender (Liverpool); Josh Parker, midfielder (Red Star Belgrade). Loan:David Goodwillie, forward (Ross County); Scott McKenna, defender (Alloa Athletic); Lukas Culjak, defender (Brechin City); Jamie Henry, midfielder (Arbroath).
In:Colin Kazim-Richards, forward (Feyenoord); Erik Sviatchenko, defender (Midtjylland, £1.5m). Loan: Patrick Roberts, midfielder (Manchester City).
Out: Loan: Nadir Ciftci, forward (Eskisehirspor); Anthony Stokes, forward (Hibernian); Aiden Nesbitt, forward (Partick Thistle); Jack Breslin, defender (Annan Athletic); Colin McCabe, goalkeeper (Stenhousemuir).
In:Darren O'Dea, defender (Mumbai City). Loan:Arturo Juan Rodriquez Perez-Reverte, forward (Cordoba).
Out:Kevin Thomson, midfielder (Hibernian); Gary Irvine, defender (St Mirren). Loan ended: Riccardo Calder, defender (Aston Villa). Loan: Josh Skelly, forward (Arbroath); Sam Dryden, defender (Elgin City).
In:Eiji Kawashima, goalkeeper (Standard Liege). Loan: Riku Riski, forward (Rosenborg); Kyle Knoyle, defender (West Ham United).
Out:John Souttar, defender (Hearts, undisclosed); Ryan McGowan, defender (Henan Jianye, undisclosed); Aidan Connolly, midfielder (Raith Rovers); Marc McCallum, goalkeeper (Livingston); Evan Home, midfielder (Dunfermline Athletic); Scott Smith, midfielder; Scott Lochhead, midfielder. Loan:Charlie Telfer, midfielder (Livingston); Euan Spark, defender (Forfar Athletic); Alistair Coote, midfielder (East Fife).
In: Oumar Diaby, forward (Levski Sofia); Christopher Mandiangu, forward (Eindhoven).
Out: Christian Nade, forward (Dumbarton); Andy Ryan, forward (Forfar Athletic); Jamie Sendles-White, defender (Swindon Town). Loan: Louis Longridge, forward (Raith Rovers); Scott McMann, defender (Clyde).
In:John Souttar, defender (Dundee United, undisclosed); Don Cowie, midfielder (Wigan Athletic); Jon Daly, coach (Raith Rovers). Loan:Abiola Dauda, forward (Vitesse Arnhem).
Out:Osman Sow, forward (Henan Jianye, £1m); Danny Swanson, midfielder (St Johnstone); Scott Gallagher, goalkeeper (Alloa Athletic); Kenny Anderson, midfielder (Waalwijk). Loan:Morgaro Gomis, midfielder (Motherwell); Billy King, midfielder (Rangers).
In:Ryan Williams, midfielder (Brentford); Liam Hughes, midfielder (Cambridge United); Alex Fisher, forward (Torquay United).
Out: Dani Lopez, forward (Arenas). Loan ended: Ryan Christie, midfielder (Celtic).
In:Gary Dicker, midfielder (Carlisle United). Loan:Lee Hodson, defender (MK Dons).
Out:Gary Locke, manager.
In: Loan: Morgaro Gomis, midfielder (Hearts)
Out: Theo Robinson, forward (Port Vale); Craig Reid, defender (Dunfermline Athletic); Dan Twardzik, goalkeeper. Loan ended: Liam Grimshaw, midfielder (Manchester United); Jake Taylor, midfielder (Reading). Loan: David Clarkson, forward (St Mirren); Dylan Mackin, forward (Airdrieonians); David Ferguson, defender (Airdrieonians).
In: Antonio German, forward (Karela Blasters). Loan: Aiden Nesbitt, forward (Celtic).
Out: Ryan Stevenson, midfielder (Ayr United). Loan ended: Robbie Muirhead, forward (Dundee United). Loan: Declan McDaid, midfielder (Cowdenbeath); Michael McMullen, defender (East Stirlingshire); Marc Waters, goalkeeper (Clyde).
In: Paul Quinn, defender (Aberdeen). Loan: David Goodwillie, forward (Aberdeen).
Out: Rocco Quinn, midfielder (St Mirren).
In: Danny Swanson, midfielder (Hearts); Michael Doyle, defender (Alloa Athletic).
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The politics is also apparent in the newspaper sales figures for the first half of the year. Out this week, they show the average decline at more than 10% since the first half of last year, continuing the industry's painful downward trajectory.
Scotland on Sunday saw print sales fall more than 20%. It now has an average weekly sale of less than 25,000. It doesn't have its own staff any more, relying on a journalism pool shared with its stablemate, The Scotsman.
"SoS" is now being beaten by the only weekly "regional" paper to register a rise in print sales, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Sunday Herald looked to be on its last legs, but found a niche by backing the independence cause.
Approving "Yes" campaigners backed it, with a big lift in the back half of last year, from which it's fallen back, but still retained an average 29,000 weekly sales.
Its publisher, Newsquest, also saw a gap in the daily market for pro-independence readers. Although the figures aren't audited, we're told they're selling nearly 17,000 a day.
These are small numbers when set alongside the total sale of newspapers. The constitutional debate may have polarised opinion and changed some buying behaviour, but it can be overstated. The decline of sales in Scotland has recently been steeper than those for the rest of the UK, but the trends are similar.
Meanwhile, publishers point out there's a rise in online readership. But that's not making them enough money to sustain their cost bases. In the case of the Scotsman's figures, daily online readers are down 33% since a busy referendum period.
Those news publishers are competing with broadcasters for online readers. We've just got half year figures for STV which show it aiming to achieve its turnaround by the end of next year.
A high priority is the desire to find a new earner from making drama series, as royalties from Taggart re-runs fade to black.
It's finding the transition and investing in new services can be expensive, with an £800,000 half-year loss on its two city stations, STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh.
They're being watched by 900,000 people in the average month which, we're told, is 30% of the potential audience. The Glasgow channel is being aimed at break-even by the end of this year.
STV also lost a wad of cash by having to bail out Mirriad, a digital advertising firm in which it invested. It may have failed to raise the finance needed without the bail-out, but it's clever stuff, "advertising to the skip generation", with personalised product placement embedded in video content.
For instance, a music video might have a street scene, in which a background billboard has ads which differ, depending on who is viewing.
Advertising is not part of the BBC debate. Not yet anyway. But as the future of the licence fee is discussed, they are a sort of subliminal presence on the background billboards.
A project, financed by the BBC and published this week, sought to find out how small groups of people responded to living without the corporation's TV, radio and online content for a few days.
It concluded the group who resented having to pay the annual £145.50 missed it more than they expected, and some were despairing at the impact of adverts on their viewing of commercial channels.
Commissioning that research is part of the BBC's fight for its very existence, at least if you believe some of the interpretation of the government's green paper on how the next 10-year charter is going to change things. The charter is due to start from the end of next year.
We're half way through the consultation on that, and so far the UK government appears to have retreated from the early briefings to delighted print rivals that Auntie might as well be put in a retirement home, her funding clipped, with a remit to leave popular entertainment to the commercial market-place.
Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has been in Edinburgh for its International TV Festival this week, making reassuringly supportive comments about the BBC. He'll be aware that it has a lot of fans mobilised to defend it, including some formidable cultural celebrities. Some, including Armando Ianucci and Sue Perkins, used the Festival platform to sound off.
The context of the debate on the BBC's future in Scotland is, of course, rather different. The broadcaster's fans have not rushed forward to argue the case for it. The independence referendum seems to have left a bruised legacy of reluctance to engage.
It also left a legacy of a starkly changed political landscape, to which the BBC has to respond, even if Mr Whittingdale's green paper didn't make much of it.
The document only noted the Smith Commission's agreement that the BBC should be answerable to Holyrood on a similar basis to its accountability at Westminster (note that it's accountable for its management and use of resources, rather than its output and journalism).
On the pro-independence side, there's some tacit awareness that the broadcasting section was hardly the most compelling part of the Scottish government white paper. It proposed a new Scottish broadcaster while somehow ensuring that all the popular BBC stuff was retained.
Less tacit are vociferous critics of the BBC's political coverage, including pro-independence websites and bloggers, some threatening mass non-payment of the licence fee.
Having mobilised protests outside the BBC last year, that element continues to be fired up by Alex Salmond, in his newspaper column and promoting his book, with ever stronger condemnations of the BBC's referendum coverage.
The body set up to represent viewers, listeners and readers, the Audience Council of Scotland, took 10 months to produce a report that reflected on the referendum. When it did, it was both supportive and quite challenging of the corporation's coverage.
It said online was of "exceptional quality" (including something called "expert economic analysis" - though if there was, I missed it). But it also said coverage failed to respond to the change in campaigning style, as grass roots and social media played such a significant role.
The Council pointed to "an opportunity to review issues in the light of experience in the referendum", though it stopped short of explicitly calling for one.
So that was the complex background to Alex Salmond's successor, previously with little to say on the subject, setting out her thoughts on broadcasting, and the BBC in particular, with a speech at the TV festival.
Nicola Sturgeon said she approached the subject with trepidation. Her speech was very carefully worded. It's hard to believe this was anything like the speech Alex Salmond would have delivered.
Criticism of the BBC's campaign coverage last year was measured. The first minister said she saw no "institutional bias", and praised at least some BBC Scotland journalism.
She went on to argue that there was a failure to strike the right balance between holding independence plans up to scrutiny on a parallel basis with the prospects for remaining within the UK.
"The status quo and the consequences of voting 'No' were not really analysed at all," she claimed, voicing the irritation of those who feel there wasn't a level playing field.
And she cited the Audience Council in support of her view that London-based journalists had failed to catch the mood of Scots audiences. Their broad brush reports jarred, it was argued, with the detailed scrutiny of issues that had long been debated at every level of Scottish society.
BBC management responded to her speech with a statement beginning: "We believe our coverage of the referendum was rigorously impartial and in line with our guidelines on fairness and impartiality".
The Sturgeon speech then turned its focus on the future. For her followers, it's worth noting a change of direction - no longer talk of a Scottish Broadcasting Service splitting from the BBC, but a federal structure.
The design appears to allow for either devolution or independence. That way, it helps to disarm Ms Sturgeon's constitutional opponents in their claims that an independent Scotland would be deprived of Eastenders, Strictly Come Dancing and Sir David Attenborough.
The governance requires a Scottish board of overseers, she said, while the output requires a Scottish TV channel (in addition to BBC Alba in Gaelic), and a sibling station for BBC Radio Scotland.
Her most forthright criticism was of the BBC's past attempts to avoid becoming a leader of constitutional change by refusing the pressure to split its flagship network news coverage, at 6 and 10 o'clock, for a different perspective from Scotland for Scots.
"The criticism that should be levied at the BBC is not that it has tried to lead constitutional change," said the first minister. "It is that it has totally failed to follow it.
"The UK has changed dramatically since devolution, but broadcasters are still catching up with its consequences. And although that poses questions for all public service broadcasters, the issue is maybe most acute with the BBC."
The message was aimed at Mr Whittingdale to some extent, but more so at the BBC. So how will it respond?
Last month, the official answer to concerns about a lack of trust was to point to large audiences for the flagship news programme, Reporting Scotland. And even last month, these were "early days" for a debate about changes to governance.
Not any longer. Not with a BBC Trust survey finding that only 48% of Scots think that the corporation reflects their lives. That's lower than other parts of the UK.
That BBC spokesman's reaction to the first minister's speech continued: "We recognise that there is audience demand for greater representation and portrayal of Scottish audiences on all BBC services and we want this to be part of our response in charter review.
"The BBC's funding has now been set for the next five years and this will mean cuts across the BBC.
"We will have to balance our investment on pan-UK services with dedicated services in the Nations (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). We will aim to protect spending in the Nations so that content investment is cut less than in other parts of the BBC."
Expect more on that from the Beeb next month. With the first minister's speech, an important debate on the future of the media in Scotland has only (at last) just begun. | Scotland's media landscape is being bulldozed - transformed by digital technology, burgeoning choice, and quite a bit of politics - particularly as the future of the BBC is now in play. | 34082425 | [
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Margaret Rhodes said the monarch, who holidays at Sandringham in Norfolk, can imitate the distinctive local brogue "beautifully".
The Queen, who turns 90 this week, is still "full of laughter", Mrs Rhodes told BBC Radio 4.
She also has a sense of humour when things go pear-shaped, and enjoys telling amusing tales, her cousin said.
"She can tell very funny stories of things that have happened to her where things might have gone just a fraction wrong," Mrs Rhodes told the PM programme.
One such tale might include the time she met a shopper in Sandringham who did not recognise her and declared that she looked just like the Queen, prompting the monarch to remark: "How very reassuring".
Ms Rhodes said the Queen's vocal talents were not confined to the East of England, and years spent at Balmoral in Aberdeenshire meant she is also able to do an impressive Scottish accent.
Follow updates on this story and other news from Norfolk
A guide to the Norfolk accent
Source: Friends of Norfolk Dialect
She will spend her birthday, on 21 April, at Windsor Castle, where she will unveil a plaque on the Queen's Walkway.
Gun salutes will be held at all saluting stations across the UK at 12:00 BST, and members of the Army cadet force will take beacons to the top of the highest peaks of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. | The Queen is a "very good mimic" with a knack for imitating regional accents, her cousin has said. | 36080433 | [
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Kuba Moczyk, 22, died in hospital after he was knocked out in an unlicensed fight at the Tower Complex, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 19 November.
A memorial mass has been held at St Mary's Church in the town.
Father Philip Shryane told the congregation Mr Moczyk' was a "good man" whose "life was boxing".
More on this story and others from Norfolk
He said Mr Moczyk was "a young man with a good heart, with so much to give and so much to look forward to... but always a gentle smile".
His uncle, Marcin Smigaj gave a tribute, in Polish, on behalf of the family. Mr Moczyk was due to be cremated.
Mr Moczyk, originally from Poland, worked at a chicken factory and lived in the town.
His trainer Scott Osinski said earlier that Mr Moczyk was winning the fight when he took the fatal blow.
His opponent is believed to be aged 17. | Friends and family of a boxer with a "gentle smile", who died after being knocked out in his first fight, have attended a memorial mass. | 38247303 | [
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The "deplorable" conditions violated a ban on cruel and unusual punishment in the US Constitution, its report said.
Jail officials, it said, had failed to address a "dramatic increase" in suicides over the past two years.
But the sheriff's office said it was "disappointed" the report "fails to fully recognise" improvements made.
"The report also mischaracterises and significantly understates the incredible efforts made to improve our suicide prevention practices," the sheriff's office said in statement.
The US justice department said the nation's largest jail system - with about 19,000 prisoners - had completed some of the reforms required by a 2002 court agreement.
It also applauded steps to expand community supervision programmes, saying a rapid increase in the number of prisoners who are seriously mentally ill was putting the system under strain.
But it said "serious systemic deficiencies" and "deplorable environmental conditions" remained for those being held at the jail, violating the US constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Among the criticisms in the report was a lack of response to an increase in suicides and suicide attempts at county jails.
"Fifteen suicides in 25 months produced almost no discernible change in the jails' custodial practices," the report said.
Other findings include:
The sheriff's office said it remains committed to working with the Justice Department on the issues.
Jails in the US are generally for people being locked up in the short-term, but the prison system throughout the state of California, where inmates serve longer sentences, has also come under scrutiny for overcrowding. | The condition of mental healthcare inside Los Angeles County jails is so poor that it is unconstitutional, the US justice department has said. | 27744701 | [
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Managers returning to a team for a second spell - some enhance their reputations greatly, but for others the phrase "never go back" could barely be more pertinent.
Ian Holloway will become the latest boss to get reacquainted with familiar surroundings when he takes charge of Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road against Norwich City on Saturday, 10 years after he left the west London club.
BBC Sport looks at 10 managers who have enjoyed - or endured - more than one spell with clubs in the English Football League...
November 2002 - September 2005, June 2006 - May 2013
As far as quick and lasting returns go, Tony Pulis at Stoke City is top of the list. His first spell with the Potters lasted just under three years and, almost 12 months after he was initially sacked, he was re-appointed as manager and remained at the club for a further seven years.
Within two years of his return, he guided Stoke to the top flight after a 23-year absence, took them to the 2011 FA Cup final and led them into Europe, before then suffering some criticism from supporters towards the end of his tenure.
March 2003 - March 2004, March 2011 - April 2011, April 2012 - June 2012, March 2014 - present
Barnet can not get enough of Martin Allen, or Martin Allen can not get enough of Barnet? Either way, the man nicknamed "Mad Dog" has had an on-again-off-again relationship with the Bees for more than 16 years.
He started his managerial career with the London side in the Conference in 2003, but did not see out an entire season before leaving for Brentford.
Like a boomerang, however, he went back. Three times since, to be exact.
The second stint was on an eight-match contract, of which he stayed around for three. Third time around, he helped save them from League Two relegation in another short-term stay, before making his latest comeback, helping them win promotion back to the EFL in 2015.
February 1992 - January 1997, January 2008 - September 2008
Kevin Keegan's management career both started and ended at Newcastle United, with stints as England, Fulham and Manchester City boss wedged in between.
He was first given the Newcastle job in 1992, going on to save them from relegation, guide them to promotion to the Premier League, very nearly win the title and then take the club into the Champions League.
Thousands of fans went to St James' Park to welcome him back as boss in January 2008, but he lasted only eight months and some 200 angry fans soon gathered outside the club's ground after hearing of his departure, with some even seen scaling the walls attempting to get in.
March 1982 - June 1985, March 2006 - November 2007
If this was a contest for the most regrettable return to a football club, then Jim Smith is the winner.
In his first spell he took Oxford United to the top flight as Division Two champions in 1985. He then left for QPR after winning promotion, but returned two decades later to oversee their relegation from the Football League.
Bristol Rovers: July 1987 - May 1991, June 2001 - December 2001; QPR: June 1991- November 1994, October 1998 - February 2001
Former England midfielder Gerry Francis endeared himself to the Bristol Rovers faithful by leading them to the second tier as Division Three champions in 1990, pipping local rivals Bristol City to the title in the process.
But, following a hugely popular return to manage the Pirates for a second time in 2001, he struggled to repeat anything like that success and quit before Christmas.
Sandwiched in between were two spells in charge at QPR, the club for whom he made his name as a player, first in the Premier League and then in Division One.
January 2009 - January 2011, October 2012 - present
Eddie Howe, who had two permanent spells as a player at Bournemouth, has overseen the club's remarkable transformation from administration-hit League Two strugglers into Premier League survivors.
After a spell as caretaker boss, Howe was appointed permanently in January 2009, going on to steer the Cherries to Football League safety and promotion from League Two.
And, after a brief stint with Burnley, he returned in October 2012 to complete the job he started, guiding Bournemouth up to the Championship in April 2013 and then to the top flight for the first time in their history two years later.
November 1969 - October 1975, October 1978 - July 1982, May 1985 - May 1987
Serve the club three times as boss, guide them up every step of the Football League to the top flight and even work as general manager for a while. Your reward? Legendary status, a stand named in your honour and a statue in front of the ground.
Former Notts County manager Jimmy Sirrel is immortalised in bronze alongside Jack Wheeler at Meadow Lane, with both men having had a profound influence on the club.
During his first spell, Sirrel took the Magpies from Division Four to Division Two, and in his second stint - coming after two years at Sheffield United - he went on to take them all the way to the top flight.
December 2006 - June 2011, January 2013 - present
England were World Cup holders the last time a manager other than Keith Hill led Rochdale to promotion - and he's not just done it once, but twice.
The 47-year-old started out as a youth coach at Dale, and then got his chance as boss on a caretaker basis in December 2006, guiding them to League Two safety.
Twice Rochdale missed out in the play-offs under Hill, before he finally got them up automatically in 2009-10 - the club's first promotion since 1969, just before he was born.
He left for Barnsley in 2011 and Rochdale were relegated two seasons after his departure, but he was re-appointed at Spotland in January 2013 and led them back up again in 2014.
June 2001 - September 2005, January 2012 - February 2015
Latvia to Yeovil Town is probably not your average career move, but that is how Gary Johnson's association with the Glovers began in 2001.
He won the 2002 FA Trophy and saw Yeovil secure promotion to the Football League for the first time in the club's history, before going on to guide them to League One as League Two champions in 2004-05.
Johnson left for Bristol City in 2005, but later returned to Yeovil after a seven-year absence to take them up to the Championship - another first for the club.
There was no happy ending for the 61-year-old, however, as they would then go on to suffer back-to-back relegations, with Johnson replaced by Paul Sturrock before their return to League Two was confirmed.
1989 - 1994, April 2004 - February 2013, December 2015 - present
Dagenham & Redbridge without John Still just does not seem quite right, does it?
The 66-year-old's association with the club goes back to when he managed Redbridge Forest, who merged with Dagenham in 1992 to create the club that exists today.
After leaving the Daggers for Peterborough in 1994, he returned 10 years later to spectacular effect, guiding them from non-league all the way up to League One.
Unfortunately for Still, he has since taken them all the way back down again - suffering relegation to League Two in 2011 and then, following a stint with Luton, relegation to the National League in May.
The list of returning managers is a long one, from Steve McClaren at Derby County and Danny Wilson at Barnsley to Ronnie Moore at Tranmere Rovers and Graham Taylor with Watford.
But we want to hear what you think - send us your suggestions on the best or worst manager returns by using #bbcefl on Twitter, with a selection to be used in BBC Sport's EFL live text commentary on Saturday. | Jose Mourinho famously did it with Chelsea, Nigel Pearson crucially did it with Leicester City and Luiz Felipe Scolari even did it with Brazil. | 37992032 | [
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Felix Barrow sustained many broken bones and spent three weeks in a coma when he was knocked over outside his home in Swanmore in October last year.
His parents were told he might never walk again, but they said he has now exceeded all his doctors' expectations.
The family has raised nearly £100,000 for the services that saved his life.
Felix was on his way to school when he tripped in the road and was hit by a car as he was getting to his feet.
His mum Vanessa said the accident was "horrific" and added: "You just think this can't be happening to you.
"It was just a normal Wednesday, normal things going on, and your life is turned upside down into an unrecognisable sate where you are thrust into a hospital environment.
"At first I don't think we really realised the extent of his injuries.
"It's been a slow process of learning to do things again, learning to walk, learning to eat, drink normal fluids."
She added that her son has surpassed all expectations and made "amazing" progress.
Felix's dad Stuart said his life was saved by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, which flew him to hospital, and the Southampton General Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
He said: "We wanted to repay them for saving his life. It's been fantastic, the whole community has come together."
The family set up a charity, Fit For Felix, inspired by his love of running and named by his friend Bradley.
It has now raised £93,850 by organising a range of activities including fun runs, bike rides, and sponsored swims. | A 12-year-old boy left with a severe brain injury after he was hit by a car has returned to school after making an "amazing" recovery. | 37461202 | [
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Public Services Minister Leighton Andrews said Labour needed a leader to win elections, not "return to the politics of the 1970s or 1950s".
Fellow ministers Vaughan Gething and Ken Skates support Andy Burnham, while three Labour AMs back Jeremy Corbyn.
No AMs have publicly come out in support of Liz Kendall.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has not named his preferred candidate, but has said veteran left-winger Mr Corbyn would be an "unusual choice" for the party.
On Wednesday, Mr Andrews said he understood the "romantic appeal of anti-austerity politics", but said Labour had to be able to win power to change things.
At the general election in May, Labour had "appeared both pro-austerity and economically incompetent, which was a hell of an achievement", he added.
"Labour must either be in the business of bringing change or else it is worthless," he said.
Declaring his support for Ms Cooper, Mr Andrews said Labour needed a leader "who looks and sounds different from the blokeish Westminster culture, who understands that the personal is political".
Mr Corbyn, who ended a two-day campaign visit to Wales with a rally in Cardiff on Tuesday, has more nominations from local parties in Wales and across the UK than any of the other three contenders.
But the only Welsh MP to nominate him - Huw Irranca-Davies - said he only did so to ensure a broad range of candidates, and that he intended to vote for Ms Cooper.
Mr Burnham has the backing of nine Welsh MPs and four AMs, while Ms Cooper has support from eight Welsh MPs and four AMs.
Ms Kendall is backed by five Welsh MPs but no AMs, while Mr Corbyn has support from three AMs.
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The service was held at the 22-year-old's school in Ohio, before his burial at a nearby cemetery.
His death has heightened tensions between the US and North Korea.
Pyongyang has called President Donald Trump a "psychopath", while he describes N Korea as a brutal regime.
Pyongyang's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper claimed Mr Trump might launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea to divert attention from his domestic difficulties, and warned South Korea "that following psychopath Trump... will only lead to disaster".
Earlier in the week, after announcing Mr Warmbier's death, President Trump said he was determined to "prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency".
The thousands of funeral goers formed two lines as Mr Warmbier's coffin was carried into Wyoming High School for the 45-minute service, and then along the three-mile route to the cemetery.
There was only space for 800 people inside the school's auditorium so most attendees watched the service on monitors in overflow rooms, CNN reports.
Mr Warmbier's brother and sister, along with some friends, spoke during the service. Bagpipes played as mourners, wearing blue and white ribbons - the school's colours - to honour the former student, left the school.
Thousands of people from his small hometown of Wyoming, Ohio, packed into Otto Warmbier's old high school for his funeral.
For most, his casket was the first they had seen of Otto since he went to North Korea - awful confirmation of the shocking, surreal set of circumstances that had played out since early last year.
Among several politicians in attendance, including officials from the state and defence departments was the Ohio Senator Rob Portman, who had been involved in the quest to bring him home.
Mr Portman reflected a sense that while today was a time to talk about Mr Warmbier's life, as a young man with huge potential, the issue of responsibility had to be addressed.
After the funeral, mourners stood to watch the cortege pass and disappear through the streets with blue and white ribbons tied to all the trees in his honour.
As they reflect, there are many not just here but across the country, asking how North Korea will now pay for what many see as the murder of an American citizen.
Otto Warmbier was returned by North Korea to the US last week, more than a year after he had been sentenced to 15 years' hard labour.
He was in a coma and died a few days later. His parents say that though he never spoke or opened his eyes, "the countenance of his face changed - he was at peace. He was home and we believe he could sense that".
US doctors say he suffered a "severe neurological injury", the most likely cause of which was a cardiopulmonary arrest that had cut the blood supply to the brain.
A post-mortem examination was not carried out at the request of the family.
Otto Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, was travelling with a tour group when he was arrested at Pyongyang airport in January 2016.
He was accused of stealing a propaganda sign from a hotel and, two months later, was sentenced during a short trial.
His family had no news of him until 13 June, when Pyongyang said he had been in a coma since his trial after contracting botulism and receiving a sleeping pill.
US doctors say there is no evidence he suffered from botulism, and the Warmbier family believe he died as a result of "awful torturous mistreatment". | More than 2,500 family, friends and well-wishers gathered for the funeral of Otto Warmbier, the US student who died after falling into a coma while in prison in North Korea. | 40372080 | [
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Today Belize, which considers itself part of both the Caribbean and Central America, is cultivating relations with Latin America and the United States, although there is a lingering conflict with neighbouring Guatemala, which has made claim to part of Belize's territory in the past.
Tourism is a major source of foreign currency. Belize's attractions include wildlife, Mayan ruins and one of the longest barrier reefs in the world.
Belize has a problem with violent crime, largely drug-related, and the trafficking of narcotics to the US, however. In 2011 Belize was added to a US blacklist of countries considered to be major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.
Population 324,000
Area 22,965 sq km (8,867 sq miles)
Major languages English (official), Spanish, Belizean Creole, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib)
Major religions Christianity
Life expectancy 75 years (men), 78 years (women)
Currency Belizean dollar
Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state, represented by a governor general
Prime minister: Dean Barrow
Dean Barrow was re-elected for an unprecedented third five-year term in office in Belize in November 2015.
Mr Barrow was elected to parliament in 1984 and served in senior positions in UDP governments. He led the party in opposition until its victory at the polls in 2008, unseating the People's United Party (PUP) government of Said Musa, which had been in power for 10 years.
Mr Barrow, a lawyer, has invested much of the $150m (£98m) Belize received from Venezuela in the past years in an ambitious infrastructure programme and road building. Belize is heavily dependent on aid from Venezuela, which also offers it oil at discounted prices.
Critics of Mr Barrow link bringing the 2015 polls forward to a possible Venezuelan move to cut its funding.
At the beginning of his new term Mr Barrow was expected to have to grapple with Belize's much larger neighbour, Guatemala, whose newly elected president, Jimmy Morales, said he would pursue with renewed vigour his country's claims over more than half of Belize.
The constitution guarantees media freedom, but provides exceptions in the interest of national security, public order and morality.
There are no official curbs, but internet use is low because of a lack of infrastructure and high costs, says US-based Freedom House.
Belize has no daily newspapers; some weeklies are subsidised by political parties.
Radio listeners rely on a range of commercial outlets, most of them networked nationwide. Privately-owned TV stations are on the air and cable TV is available in the towns.
Some key dates in the history of Belize:
16th-19th centuries - The Spanish arrive; Spanish rule ends in 1862 when Belize is formally declared a British crown colony and named British Honduras.
1954 - Constitutional reforms give Belize limited autonomy; general elections won by People's United Party (PUP), led by George Price.
1964 - New constitution gives Belize full autonomy and introduces universal adult suffrage and a two-chamber parliament. In 1973, the country changes its name from British Honduras to Belize.
1981 - Belize becomes independent with George Price as prime minister, but Guatemala refuses to recognise it. About 1,500 British troops remain to defend the country against Guatemalan territorial claims. Guatemala recognises Belize's independence in 1992 although the territorial conflict remains.
2002 - Belize, Guatemala agree on a draft settlement to their long-standing border dispute at talks brokered by the Organisation of American States (OAS). The deal, which proposed referendums in both countries, is rejected by Guatemala in 2003.
2005 - Rioting breaks out in the capital during a wave of anti-government protests.
2011 - Belize is added to US blacklist of countries considered to be major producers or transit routes for illegal drugs.
2015 - Prime Minister Barrow leads his ruling United Democratic Party to a record third consecutive five-year term in a snap election. Territorial conflict with Guatemala continues; Guatemala has made claims to all or part of Belize since 1940. | Tucked between the Caribbean Sea and the rainforest on the eastern coast of Central America, Belize is the home of a small and diverse nation. | 18724590 | [
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Planning permission was granted for the new £16m aerospace museum on the former Filton Airfield.
BBC reporter Charlotte Callen went on board Concorde 216 or Alpha Foxtrot as it is also known. | A Concorde which made its final flight back to Filton Airfield near Bristol is to be the star attraction at a new aerospace museum in South Gloucestershire. | 33615527 | [
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The Manchester Evening News reported it related to a councillor who admitted making indecent images of children.
Mike Owen and two senior officers have been suspended following an external review of the case, a spokeswoman said.
Council leader Rishi Shori said the suspensions would allow the three to "focus on responding" to the case.
He said they were "a neutral act".
The council had commissioned the review by childcare expert Malcolm Newsam after it "received allegations that there were failures to act appropriately in following safeguarding procedures in respect of an individual case," he added.
Deputy chief executive Pat Jones-Greenhalgh will replace Mr Owen until the council's own investigation is concluded, the authority's spokeswoman said. | Bury Council's chief executive has been suspended over claims he and others failed to follow procedures in their handling of a safeguarding case. | 39130573 | [
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We've learned a lot about the end of the journey, the slave camps and mass graves in the jungles of Thailand and Malaysia.
What we haven't heard so much about is how these journeys begin.
We travelled to southern Bangladesh, where many of the migrants set off on their perilous voyages.
What we have discovered brings a shocking new dimension to this story that speaks of the terrible desperation that is driving this vast movement of people.
We met one of the people smugglers on what Bangladeshis proudly boast is the world's longest beach - a vast stretch of sand that runs for more than 120km along the southern coast.
Let's call him Kamrul Rahman.
He appeared to be in his early 30s. He said he used to be a fisherman and started in the people smuggling racket greedy for money after his business went belly up.
As the surf crashed down on the beach beside us, he calmly explained in chilling detail how the business worked.
He said the prison camps were an essential part of the business model and all the migrants knew about them.
It seems they are part of what amounts to a sinister and hideously cynical marketing trick the people smugglers have evolved: they offer the voyage for virtually no upfront cost.
He said the deal was straightforward and understood by everyone involved. You only pay the main charge - about £1,500 ($2,300) when you arrive in southern Thailand.
I was amazed. "So the migrants know they will be held in camp before they get to Malaysia?" I asked.
"Before they leave from here we tell them if they don't pay they will be put in a prison. You won't get any rice and you will die of hunger", he told me, without any sign of emotion.
"If you pay, you will be able to start for Malaysia with honour."
We spoke to many migrants and relatives of migrants in southern Bangladesh.
They all confirmed his account. Without exception, they said they knew migrants would be held in Thailand until full payment was made.
What this suggests is that for the most part this phenomenon isn't strictly human trafficking - where people are bought and sold against their will - but rather a perverted business transaction to which most of the migrants and their families are actually party.
The so-called "ransoms" migrants who have been rescued from the camps in Thailand say their captors are actually part of the deal they sign up to when they make the journey.
Take a moment now to think about what that tells us about the people who make these journeys.
They are so desperate for a better life that they are willing to go with the people smugglers even though they know that they may end up starving to death in a jungle prison camp.
Stina Ljungdell, the UN refugee agency representative in Bangladesh, agrees that many migrants do know what they are getting into.
If you think about it objectively, it makes a kind of sick business sense for both the smugglers and their customers.
The migrants are assured that they only pay the full cost if they actually arrive in Thailand - cash on delivery, if you like.
Meanwhile, the smugglers have leverage to guarantee that they get paid.
The model has the added advantage, from the perspective of the smugglers at least, of making the decision to attempt the trip much easier.
It seems many young men, and it is predominantly young men who seem to make the journey, are lured in the risky and selfish hope that their family will find a way raise the money once they arrive in Thailand.
But other migrants make the decision to leave together with their families, judging that it is the only way to lift them out of poverty.
We were told that a successful migrant can send as much as 30,000 taka (£260/$400) back to his family each month.
But many, many migrants don't make it.
Within minutes of arriving in an unofficial camp for Rohingya refugees further up the coast, I was surrounded by parents showing me pictures of their missing sons (and occasionally daughters).
Some said their sons had left for Malaysia without telling them. Many others, however, said they had sent them off in the hope that they would send money back for the family.
According to the smuggler, one in five of the migrants he takes don't make it to Malaysia.
Many die before they even reach the camps, he told me.
"Some die because of the suffering, some die because of of tension, some die thinking about how to escape from the situation and some people die of hunger after they run out of food.
"All people have to die", he said, "that is fate." | Over the last couple of weeks, the world has woken up to the horrific trade in human beings being conducted in the seas of South East Asia. | 32918219 | [
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Donaldson, 41, moved to eight under par at Barseback Golf and Country Club to lead from Italy's Renato Paratore.
Englishmen Graeme Storm and Max Orrin, who was tied for the lead on Thursday, are a stroke further back in Malmo.
"I made some great escapes and the chipping and putting has been better," said Donaldson.
"I've just got to keep doing the same things, don't think too far ahead about winning tournaments as yet because it's only two rounds in."
Donaldson, who is looking for a fourth European Tour title, carded five birdies and just his first bogey of the week to take the lead.
"I've been playing some nice golf and just not been able to put it all together, the first couple of days here I've been able to do that," added the world number 256.
Orrin, who secured a rookie season on the European Tour via the qualifying school, had shared the overnight lead with Paratore, but the 23-year-old could only add a level-par 73 to his opening 68.
He and 39-year-old Storm, who is seeking his second win of the season, are joined in tied third by France's Benjamin Hebert. | Wales' Jamie Donaldson will take a two-shot lead into the third round of the Nordea Masters after carding a second successive 69 on Friday. | 40139508 | [
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The council backed a French-drafted resolution to send up to 228 police for an initial period of a year.
Burundi earlier said it would accept no more than 50 police officers.
More than 400 people have been killed in unrest since President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would run for a third term in office last April.
More than 200,000 people have fled their homes.
"Given an increase in violence and tension the Security Council must have eyes and ears on the ground to predict and ensure that the worst does not occur in Burundi," said French UN Ambassador Francois Delattre.
"This is a strong act of preventative diplomacy," he added.
The government of Burundi earlier warned it would agree to no more than 50 UN police officers.
Diplomats are now negotiating how to implement the UN Security Council's resolution.
Although both Burundi's opposition and government forces are ethnically mixed, some fear that the violence could descend into a repeat of the genocidal killings which the country has previously experienced.
President Nkurunziza is the former leader of a Hutu rebel group which battled a Tutsi-dominated army for many years until he came to power in 2005 as part of a peace deal. | The UN Security Council has authorised the deployment of a UN police force to Burundi to try to quell violence and human rights abuses in the country. | 36929601 | [
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Noel Conway, who is 67 and has motor neurone disease, wants a doctor to be allowed to prescribe a lethal dose when his health deteriorates further.
He said he wanted to say goodbye to loved ones "at the right time, not to be in a zombie-like condition suffering both physically and psychologically".
Any doctor who helped him to die would face up to 14 years in prison.
Mr Conway was too weak to attend the court in person.
His lawyer, Richard Gordon QC, told the High Court in London that Mr Conway faced a stark choice either to seek to bring about his own death now whilst still physically able to do so, or await death with no control over how and when it comes.
Mr Gordon said the change to the law that Mr Conway wanted would apply only to adults who are terminally ill with less than six months to live and who have a settled wish to die.
Mr Conway, of Shrewsbury, told the BBC: "I will be quadriplegic. I could be virtually catatonic and conceivably be in a locked-in syndrome - that to me would be a living hell. That prospect is one I cannot accept."
MPs reject 'right to die' law
British man dies at Dignitas centre
Assisted dying debate: The key questions
Mr Conway, a retired college lecturer, was once fit and active but motor neurone disease is gradually destroying all strength in his muscles.
He cannot walk and increasingly relies on a ventilator to help him breathe. As his disease progresses, he fears becoming entombed in his body.
Mr Conway is being supported by the campaign group Dignity in Dying, but the issue polarises opinion.
Baroness Jane Campbell - a disability rights campaigner - says changing the law would send all the wrong signals.
The last major challenge to the law was turned down by the Supreme Court three years ago.
It ruled that while judges could interpret the law it was up to Parliament to decide whether to change it.
In 2015 MPs rejected proposals to allow assisted dying in England and Wales, in their first vote on the issue in almost 20 years.
Supporters of the current legislation say it exists to protect the weak and vulnerable from being exploited or coerced.
The case is expected to take up to four days.
Assisted suicide - helping or encouraging another person to kill themselves - is illegal under English law.
Under the terms of the Suicide Act (1961) for England and Wales, it is punishable by up to 14 year's imprisonment. In Scotland, helping someone take their own life could lead to prosecution.
There have been several unsuccessful attempts to change the law, as well as some high-profile cases that have challenged it.
2001: Diane Pretty, who had motor neurone disease, fought a long, and unsuccessfully, legal battle to win the right for her to end her life. She took her case to the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that her husband should be given immunity from prosecution should he help her to die. She lost and died at a hospice near her home in 2002.
2009: Debbie Purdy, who had multiple sclerosis, won a landmark ruling in 2009 when the courts agreed that it was a breach of her human rights not to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he accompanied her to a Swiss clinic where she could end her life. That prompted Keir Starmer - the then Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales - to publish guidelines setting out what was taken into consideration when weighing up a prosecution. Debbie died in a hospice in England in 2014.
2012: Two men suffering from locked-in syndrome lost their legal fight to be helped to die. Tony Nicklinson and a man known only as Martin - both left paralysed after a stroke - had argued that doctors should be allowed to end their lives without punishment. Martin argued that the DPP policy on encouraging or assisted suicide was not clear enough for people such as carers to know how they could provide assistance without the risk of being prosecuted. Tony Nicklinson died in August 2012 after refusing food.
2016: The family of deceased locked-in syndrome sufferer Tony Nicklinson and paralysed road accident victim Paul Lamb lose their right-to-die challenges at the European Court of Human rights. They campaigned that disabled people should have the right to be helped to die with dignity. | The High Court has begun hearing the legal challenge of a terminally ill UK man who wants the right to die. | 40615778 | [
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The man had originally been charged with causing grievous bodily harm to Paul Colin Morrison, 51, from Burton Leonard, Harrogate, on 1 November.
Mr Morrison died at Harrogate District Hospital on 20 November.
A 44-year-old man, from Harrogate, is expected to appear before the town's magistrates in December.
Mr Morrison suffered head injuries in the incident which occurred in the beer garden at the Wetherspoons Royal Baths pub on Parliament Street at around 19:30 GMT.
A 43-year-old man from the York area also required treatment for facial injuries during the incident. | A man has been charged with manslaughter after a man died in hospital almost three weeks after an incident in a pub beer garden. | 30205858 | [
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Mr Anderson was diagnosed 18 months ago but has spoken about it publicly for the first time for an Alzheimer's Society walk launch on Thursday.
The 83-year-old, who lives in Henley-on-Thames, said of living with the condition: "I've lost my freedom."
Thunderbirds was filmed on Slough Trading Estate in Berkshire and was first broadcast in 1965.
Speaking on BBC Berkshire he said: "I don't think I realised at all. It was my wife Mary who began to notice that I would do something quite daft like putting the kettle in the sink and waiting for it to boil.
"Finally I was persuaded to go and see the doctor and eventually I was confronted with the traditional test - a piece of paper with drawings on it, taking a pencil and copying them.
"I thought 'Why are they doing this? A child could do this'.
"But when I started to copy the drawings, that wasn't the case.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?
"I started to get in a muddle. That's when I began to realise that there was something wrong."
Mr Anderson, who also created the marionette puppet series Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, said being told he was no longer able to drive "was the bitterest blow of all".
"That virtually took away my freedom. It meant that I couldn't go to Pinewood studios where I worked, and this depressed me enormously because my film work was my life.
"Suddenly my life was cut off. Since I've had Alzheimer's I've realised how debilitating it is. It can affect your life in so many ways that you don't think about."
Mr Anderson was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in early 2010 but his son Jamie said the family noticed recurring symptoms "five or six years ago".
"Little things like losing his way on car journeys he's done for 20 years or more, using very strange ingredients when making soups, struggling to dial numbers," he said.
"We look with hindsight now and we see symptoms that were recurring five or six years ago and if we'd bitten the bullet and dealt with it then perhaps it would have been different."
Mr Anderson will be taking part in the Windsor Memory Walk with Jamie on 13 October in support of the Alzheimer's Society, which is encouraging people to sign up for the walks that will take place around England.
Alzheimer's Society chief executive Jeremy Hughes said: "We're so grateful to Gerry for supporting Memory Walk.
"By speaking out about his dementia he's spreading the message much further that it can happen to anyone." | The creator of Thunderbirds, Gerry Anderson, has revealed he has Alzheimer's Disease. | 18614483 | [
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At one point in his final round of 67, Ramsay looked like he might take his challenge to the wire, closing to within a single shot of the eventual champion, Alex Noren, following a run of four straight birdies in his opening six holes.
He said he stood on the 10th tee believing for the first time in his life that he could win a title that he says would mean almost as much to him as a major championship. Not enough putts dropped on the back nine - he gave himself multiple opportunities - and he had to settle for the consolation prize of a slot in The Open.
Ramsay asked about Andy Murray in the aftermath and called the now two-time Wimbledon champion an inspiration. "Watching Andy play at Wimbledon this week, watching Jamie play, those guys are huge inspirations for Scottish people," he said. "To win Wimbledon is a massive achievement and I think sometimes we take that for granted, we forget how good he is.
"It's great watching him, because he's Scottish and because he's got that grit and fire. I love that attitude. For me, every week is about trying to be the best I can be.
"When I'm 60, I want to sit in my chair watching the golf and be able to say that I won X number of tour titles and that I couldn't squeeze any more out of the talent I had. Talent is great, but if you don't have that hard work ethic, you're not to get anywhere."
Ramsay has won three times on tour, the most recent of them being the Trophee Hassan in March last year. He's played in The Open five times, missing the cut on three occasions. His best finish was 58th at Muirfield in 2013. He was tied for 68th at St Andrews last year.
His performance here rather came out of the blue. Ramsay finished sixth in China in May, but his form since then has been poor, his best finish a 43rd. His season had been a grind up until Castle Stuart.
"I just loved it out there," he said. "I didn't come out with a tentative attitude, which has sometimes been my fault in the past. I hit some great shots.
"I knew, standing on that 10th tee, that I could win the tournament and that's a great feeling. I just have to take that into the next year and see if I can get this title in the bag one of these years.
"From a confidence point of view, I will think to myself that I had a chance to win a huge tournament. You're halfway there when you believe you can do it. I know I have a lot more in the tank."
Castle Stuart didn't get the champion it wanted, with due credit to the excellent Noren, but it was a terrific host venue. The troubling aspect - and it's reflective of golf's serious problem - was the size of the crowd on each of the four days.
The total attendance for Thursday-Sunday was 41,809. The final round brought the smallest number of fans - 8,733 - of the week.
There was a Murray effect there for sure. But it's a much wider issue than that.
Last year at Gullane, the Scottish brought in a total crowd of 63,000, which was, in turn, less than the 65,833 that attended the year before at Royal Aberdeen.
The small numbers this time are partly on account of geography but also to do with golf's diminishing attraction as a spectator sport.
None of that bothered Noren, of course. Nor Ramsay. If there was a competition to find the widest smile at Castle Stuart last night, the two of them would have been locked in a dead heat. | Richie Ramsay didn't win the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart, but he wore a contented smile none the less having played himself into the top-six and securing himself a place in The Open Championship at Royal Troon later this week. | 36760622 | [
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That's because she has a very strong type of anxiety called selective mutism.
But she's started taking a special music class which has helped her to speak at school.
Meet Ruweyda by watching our video.
You can find out more about what anxiety is and how it can affect you by reading our guide, here. | Ruweyda is seven years old and has only recently said her first words at school. | 39452299 | [
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Under the bill, the performers - often dressed as popular characters like Elmo - must work for tips in special areas.
Some performers have been criticised for being overly aggressive and one was arrested for punching a police officer.
They threatened to tarnish the area's newly acquired family-friendly image.
In recent months, topless women called desnudas joined the superheroes and cartoon characters jostling for tips.
City leaders feared the desnudas in particularly would hold back their efforts to establish Times Square as a top tourist and shopping destination.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the area - filled with strip clubs - had a seedy reputation.
"People should be able to walk through Times Square without being harassed and harangued," Councilman Corey Johnson told the New York Times.
Mayor Bill de Blasio - who had considered removing Times Square's pedestrian areas altogether to combat the problem - is expected to sign the bill into law. | New York has passed a bill that creates rules for Times Square's costumed performers, after tourists and business interests complained that the characters were becoming a nuisance. | 36000903 | [
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The school has stopped the game, also known as "tag" or "you're it", to allow the children "some time to settle down a bit", according to the headmaster.
The ban is the latest in a line of stories from around England of educational establishments outlawing everyday activities, many of which are remembered fondly from people's own school days. BBC News looks back at other forbidden school pursuits that have made headlines:
We start off with a perhaps unsurprising measure many schools enforce.
British Bulldog involves charging towards fellow pupils, a drop of the shoulder to fool the 'bulldogs' and a rapid dash to the safety of the other side of the yard.
These figures are a little old (like the above image), but over a quarter of 653 school staff surveyed by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in 2011 said it had been banned from their school.
One secondary school teacher said it was "because of the number of broken bones it generates!"
Schools in Wiltshire, Cumbria and Clackmannanshire introduced a ban on conkers over fears the horse chestnuts could trigger anaphylactic reactions.
The Anaphylaxis Campaign said a "common sense approach" would be better, where conkers are put in a safe place after battle and all involved give their hands a good wash.
Some schools took to allowing their children to take part in conker fights provided they were wearing protective goggles.
A Carlisle headteacher said it was a "sensible" step to shield children's eyes from pieces of flying horse chestnut.
In January, birthday cakes were banned at a Blackpool primary school as teachers "do not have time" to check ingredients for pupils with allergies.
Parents of children at Norbreck Primary Academy were told cakes taken into school would be "sent home uneaten".
The headteacher wrote: "I hate to be a killjoy... there are many reasons for this, some of them serious."
Pupils in Birmingham had to leave school after teachers said they were wearing the wrong kind of shoes.
Baverstock Academy, in Druids Heath, sent out letters informing families of new rules making plain black shoes compulsory.
One parent reported the "ridiculous" decision led to "chaotic" scenes, with about 300 children being sent home.
The school later relaxed the rule slightly, according to parents.
It wasn't the pupils but their parents who were making a scene at a primary school in Darlington.
Grown-ups on the school run were asked by the headteacher of Skerne Park Academy to wash in the morning and to not drop their kids off while wearing pyjamas.
The final straw came when parents were turning up to parents' evenings and even the Christmas show in their PJs, the head said.
A West Yorkshire head teacher banned books containing stories about pigs from key stage one classrooms in case they offended Muslim children.
The literature was removed from classes for under-sevens at Park Road Junior Infant and Nursery School in Batley.
Head Barbara Harris said the books would remain in the school library for children to read, but added: "We try to be sensitive to the fact that for Muslims talk of pigs is offensive."
Pupils in South Gloucestershire were banned from wearing tinsel to a non-uniform day because teachers say it could cause litter and be dangerous.
Staff at Chipping Sodbury school said the festive decoration could cause injury if pupils tried to strangle each other.
Children were sent home with a letter citing "health and safety reasons" for the ban.
The local council said the day was "far from being against the spirit of Christmas" and was in aid of the charity Crisis. | A primary school in Leeds has introduced a temporary ban on children playing "tig" during break times after "clothes were torn" and pupils were left "upset". | 35773599 | [
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Storms smashed a hole in the sea wall alongside the line above the seafront in Dawlish, south Devon in 2014.
The railway line took two months to repair at an estimated cost of £1bn to the local economy.
Network Rail is consulting with Devon and Cornwall residents about the plans.
They include strengthening defences and cliffs, as well and building breakwaters to protect the line.
More on the coastal rail protection work, and other Devon and Cornwall news
Cliffs next to the line would be stabilised and reshaped so they are not as steep under the plans.
A total of £270m is allocated for spending on priority areas including around Dawlish between 2019 and 2024.
The line connects Devon and Cornwall with the rest of the UK. | Protecting a key coastal railway track from rising sea levels and falling cliffs is going to cost about £650m, Network Rail has said. | 38025433 | [
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England won by six wickets after a Pakistan batting collapse featuring three run-outs in Sharjah on Tuesday.
The Daily Mail reported that the match was the subject of an investigation into suspicious betting patterns.
"There was nothing wrong with that game. I have no doubts about my boys," said former bowler Waqar.
The ICC declined to confirm or deny that it was investigating the game.
Pakistan collapsed from 132-2 to 208 all out before England triumphed with nine overs to spare.
Waqar said: "Yes, we lost the game. You lose and win games, and it's unfortunate the way the whole thing happened."
ICC chief executive David Richardson told BBC Test Match Special: "I wouldn't be suspicious of that game."
He said Pakistan had reported approaches from bookmakers in recent times. | Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has dismissed suspicions over his side's performance in the third one-day international against England. | 34886479 | [
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The Most Rev Justin Welby told worshippers at Canterbury Cathedral that the attacks risked "causing us to act fearfully, to see a world in which fear triumphs".
But he also said: "On Easter Day hope decisively overcame fear".
Tuesday's bombings in Brussels killed 28 people and injured dozens.
The archbishop said hope can seem far away and fear so close "in the shadow of this week's darkness".
"Fear is reasonable, a normal human reaction," he added.
Pope delivers Easter message of hope
PM praises UK's 'Christian values'
"Easter proclaims to us in flesh and blood that fear and death and terror are not the last words.
"God has spoken life, hope and purpose.
"Terror speaks of a world at war with itself, of faiths at each others' throats.
"Jesus Christ reaches out not in exclusion but in embrace; this is the feast of the victory of God, and we celebrate in the midst of darkness, by our worship and praise shining an unquenchable light." | The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned people not to give in to fear after the attacks in Brussels, in his Easter Sunday sermon. | 35904421 | [
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The 24-year-old had signed to play for Somerset in the second half of the T20 Blast, but will not now do so, and will miss New Zealand's remaining one-day internationals in England.
Anderson was hurt during the first Test defeat by England at Lord's last month.
The all-rounder had been receiving treatment from the New Zealand medical staff in the UK.
"Obviously this is a blow for both Somerset and Corey but injuries happen in sport," said Somerset director of cricket Matt Maynard.
"We wish Corey a speedy recovery and I can assure all members and supporters that we are actively seeking a suitable replacement." | New Zealand's Corey Anderson is to fly home from their current tour of England for treatment on a back injury. | 33112472 | [
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The 95% target had not been hit for 33 consecutive weeks, since late last September.
Figures for the week ending 24 May show 95.1% of A&E patients spent four hours or less from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge.
NHS England praised its front-line staff for dealing with high workload demands during a tough winter.
A spokesman said: "These latest figures are testament to the excellent services our front-line staff continue to deliver while coming under sustained pressure."
The improvement comes as the NHS enters the summer period when these pressures tend to ease.
Dr Clifford Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said there was no room for complacency.
"There is still pressure on the system, which in our view is operating at full capacity."
He said some A&E units were still not meeting the four-hour target and were stymied by a shortage of hospital beds.
"This exit block must be addressed otherwise the winter of 2015-16 will be hugely challenging," he warned.
Latest figures show targets for waits in A&E are being missed in other parts of the UK.
In Wales, 83% of patients are being seen within four hours. In Scotland, the figure is 92% and in Northern Ireland it is just under 74%. | The NHS in England has met its four-hour A&E waiting-time target for the first time since September. | 32960499 | [
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Violence erupted on the outskirts of Jerusalem's Old City and across the occupied West Bank after the end of Muslim Friday prayers.
Two Palestinians were reported killed by troops - one an alleged assailant in the West Bank, the other in Gaza.
Tension remains despite the end of a stand-off at the holy site.
Palestinians returned to the hilltop site known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and Jews as the Temple Mount on Thursday after Islamic authorities lifted a two-week boycott called in protest at new Israeli security measures there.
Israel removed all the security apparatus following intense pressure to defuse the crisis after days of deadly clashes.
The measures, including metal detectors, security cameras and other infrastructure, were put in place after two Israeli policemen were shot dead by three Israeli Arabs who Israel said had smuggled their weapons into the site.
Despite the moves, clashes broke out in and around the compound on Thursday night, leaving 136 Palestinians wounded, Palestinian medics said.
There had been fears of further violence as worshippers gathered in East Jerusalem on Friday morning. Israeli police barred Palestinian men under the age of 50 from entering the Old City, site of the holy compound, limiting thousands of Palestinians to pray in the streets outside.
The restriction is sometimes used during periods of tension to try to prevent violent protests inside the compound.
While most of the crowds dispersed peacefully, brief clashes erupted in the Wadi Joz district, close to the Old City.
By evening all restrictions were lifted and Palestinians of all ages were allowed into the mosque compound, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.
Violence also broke out in the West Bank cities of Qalqilya, Nablus, Hebron, Tulkarm, Ramallah and the outskirts of Bethlehem. Troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets as hundreds of protesters threw rocks, local media said. Scores of Palestinians were injured, according to Palestinian medical sources.
The Israeli military said troops shot dead a Palestinian armed with a knife as he ran towards soldiers at the Gush Etzion junction, a roundabout outside a Jewish settlement bloc, about six miles (10km) south of Bethlehem.
However, the Palestinian Maan news agency quoted an unnamed eyewitness as saying the man was unarmed when he was shot from 20 metres (65ft) away.
In Gaza, a 16-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops amid clashes near the border with Israel, the health ministry run by the enclave's Hamas rulers said.
Since the crisis escalated following the killing of the two policemen on 14 July, at least five Palestinians have been killed in clashes and three Israeli civilians stabbed to death by a Palestinian.
Differences over the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif go to the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the complex is a flashpoint for violence.
Jews revere it as the location of two Biblical Temples and the holiest place in Judaism. It is also the al-Aqsa mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven, according to Islamic tradition.
Palestinians said Israel's new security measures upset the delicate status quo, which Israel has repeatedly pledged to maintain since occupying the area in the 1967 Middle East war.
Israel said Palestinians were using the issue as a pretext to spread hostility against the Jewish state. | Israeli forces and Palestinians have clashed in East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and Gaza after weeks of friction over a Jerusalem holy site. | 40750258 | [
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The presidential poll will take place next month and Uhuru Kenyatta is seeking re-election.
On Friday, after a case brought by the opposition, the High Court ordered the electoral commission not to print ballot papers.
Mr Kenyatta insisted the election would go ahead as planned.
"This kind of intimidation will not be allowed and the election date will not change," he said.
He said the judiciary could not claim independence and then use it to interfere with the functioning of the executive and other arms of government.
The High Court argued that the tendering process for the ballot papers had not been transparent enough.
The opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) alleged that the president had links to Al Ghurair, the Dubai-based firm that won the $24m (£18m) tender.
Al Ghurair and Mr Kenyatta deny any wrongdoing.
The judges ruled that the company could still print ballots for the parliamentary and county elections, but the tender for presidential ballots should be re-advertised.
Local media have reported that whoever takes on the job of printing and distributing the ballot papers will have just 30 days to do what is usually a 45-day task.
In a separate development, Raila Odinga, Mr Kenyatta's main contender, was taken ill and admitted to hospital on Sunday with what his campaign team said was suspected food poisoning.
Mr Odinga, speaking shortly after he was discharged from the hospital in the coastal city of Mombasa, said that he was "fit as a fiddle".
"I had stomach pains, which have since disappeared after getting treatment," Mr Odinga said, adding: "I have been discharged to go to Nairobi to continue with my campaigns."
Meanwhile, several people have reportedly been killed in clashes between rival political groups, rekindling memories of post-election violence in 2007-2008 that left more than 1,000 people dead. | Kenya's president has warned the country's judiciary not to help the opposition throw the next election into disarray. | 40551612 | [
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Four councils have pledged £250,000 for a detailed traffic modelling plan to look at traffic on both sides of the proposed bridge in detail.
The idea for a new bridge to ease congestion in Reading town centre has been circulating for about 40 years.
There are three main routes over the Thames in the area, two in Caversham, Reading and one in Sonning, Wokingham.
Wokingham and Reading Borough Councils, along with Oxfordshire County Council and South Oxfordshire District Council have all pledged money for the study.
A spokesman for South Oxfordshire District Council said: "We are mindful of the potential negative impact that a scheme such as and additional bridge could have on the road network within South Oxfordshire.
"However we are committed to working with neighbouring authorities to identify solutions which may ease the traffic problems."
Wokingham council leader Keith Baker, said other ideas to ease the traffic congestion including an expanded park-and-ride route were "tinkering at the edges - we need to do something big".
Mr Baker said: "We've had an extensive traffic model for our area but what we didn't have was going across the river into Oxfordshire.
"That hopefully will give us the definitive evidence to start mitigating against some of the issues that Oxfordshire County Council have."
The bridge and any road alterations would cost between £60m and £100m, which would require government funding. | A feasibility study into a third River Thames bridge in the Reading area has been given council backing. | 30809806 | [
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David Annett, 38, of Church Road, Dromara pleaded guilty at Craigavon Crown Court to a total of four charges.
He admitted defrauding the First Trust Bank, two counts of theft and transferring over £110,000 of property out of his employer's business account.
In August 2012, Annett went into Lurgan police station to admit responsibility.
A prosecution lawyer told the court that in 2007, while working for Portadown-based JP Hagan Solicitors he was "approached by a senior partner who asked him if he wanted to become a partner in the firm."
"The offer came at a cost - the cost was £250,000. The defendant remortgaged his home at Church Road with First Trust Bank/Allied Irish Bank."
Personal account
He already had a mortgage with UCB Home Loans, which totalled £220,000.
The lawyer said that the First Trust Bank believed "they would be the first charge on the property".
The money was released to Hagan's Solicitors to settle the UCB mortgage and pay the £250,000 to take up the partnership.
However, the lawyer said, the UCB mortgage "was not discharged" and "the defendant accessed the business account and transferred the entire amount of monies into his personal account".
In another incident, Annett was approached by a County Down family who had been offered £25,000 to buy its land.
Investment property
He said he would have the money checked out under the proceeds of crime legislation.
Whilst having the money in his possession Annett removed £17,380 out of the £25,000.
The court also heard that, in March 2008, Annett moved £112,000 out of the law firm's business account to "buy himself an investment property in Corby, England".
A defence lawyer said that, after going to the police station. Annett went to see his minister and the elders of his church and confessed his crimes. | A County Down solicitor defrauded a bank of £400,000 to help buy a partnership in a legal practice and an apartment in England. | 36160018 | [
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Jack Duggan's late winner secured a 1-0 victory on Tuesday and set up a third-round tie at Wycombe in January.
Stourbridge had gone out in round two in three of the previous five seasons.
"This has got to be the biggest (achievement) beating a League One side at home," Hackett told BBC WM 95.6.
"This is what the FA Cup is about."
Hackett, who has been in charge of his home-town club since 2004, continued: "I thought we were outstanding. We certainly didn't get lucky, we were the better team.
"It's one of those special nights and it's a great occasion for everybody connected with the football club.
"Everybody connected with this football club are heroes. I spoke to a gentleman who comes on the coach every week and never misses a game home or away - I told him 'these nights are for you'.
"Hugh (Clark, Stourbridge president) has been here 50 years and experienced some tough times at this football club, so he gets rewarded. We all do."
Northampton, who are 13th in League One, started the match four divisions and 89 league places above Stourbridge - who began the day eighth in the Northern Premier League - in the English football pyramid.
Manager Rob Page told BBC Radio Northampton: "The better team won and that hurts me to say that, but credit's got to go to them.
"It's a hard one to take and I'm embarrassed at the minute. We'll take any criticism we get and we deserve every bit we get for this."
The former Wales international defender added: "I apologise for that performance, I didn't expect that at all. Stourbridge deserved their victory, we congratulate them and wish them all the best, but we're all hurting." | Manager Gary Hackett said Stourbridge were "outstanding" in their shock FA Cup second-round defeat of League One Northampton as the seventh-tier side reached round three for the first time. | 38311153 | [
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As part of our fight against this, we have a very much underutilised tool - food.
In BBC One's Doctor in the House, I try to help 34-year-old Emma Gleeson, who has been experiencing anxiety, depression and panic attacks for many years.
She was 19 when she really began struggling with mental health.
Following a severe episode of pneumonia, she ended up in intensive care in a coma.
When she woke up she was petrified. She developed an extreme fear of death, and this can precipitate her panic attacks.
During an attack, Emma feels terrified, and can often scream out loud.
It is extremely worrying for her family and can be scary to onlookers.
Emma has tried various medications and counselling therapies but was still struggling and getting three to four panic attacks per day.
One of the ways in which I helped her was by changing her food choices.
Despite being sceptical at first, I was able to show Emma the hidden power of food in helping her mental state.
"I had been living on a diet of takeaways, fizzy drinks and general processed and convenience foods for as long as I can remember, and didn't for one moment think that what I ate was contributing in any way to the anxiety and panic attacks I'd been experiencing for years," she said.
"Since meeting and spending time with Dr Rangan, he has changed my entire outlook on food, and why certain foods were potentially having a negative impact on my mental health.
"I now only buy and cook with fresh food, I make my own stocks, I eat plenty of fish and I try to reduce the amount of sugar I consume.
"I feel so much better and intend to keep this up."
The evidence of food's link to mental states has been growing.
A landmark 2015 article in the prestigious Lancet journal stated that nutrition may be as important to mental health as it is to cardiology, endocrinology and gastroenterology.
Plus, a small but important interventional Australian study from earlier this year showed that a modified Mediterranean diet significantly helped many patients with severe depression within 12 weeks.
Unfortunately, this has not translated into routine patient care and most doctors still do not discuss food with their mental health patients.
This has to change.
Many of us do not think about how food can impact the way we feel, but we all know the feeling of using food as a quick pick-me-up.
When we are feeling a little tired, a little stressed or a little low, we often reach for a sugary snack to help us feel good in the short term.
But, this can actually make things worse in the long term.
The food you are eating is literally "shocking" your body.
By changing her diet, as well as reducing her alcohol intake, Emma experienced a reduction in anxiety, an improvement in mood and fewer panic attacks.
She also described feeling mentally stronger, having a clearer head, more energy and a greater ability to cope with stress.
It has also encouraged her to be more active and do more things at weekends, which also helps her mental health.
Of course, there can be many other factors to consider with mental health problems and it is always worth getting advice from a qualified healthcare professional.
There can be many other important factors to consider with mental health problems, such as emotional trauma and stress, but we should not underestimate the power of changing our food to improve our mood.
As a doctor, I like to empower my patients. Here are four of the tips that helped Emma, that can also help you:
1. Reduce sugar and processed foods
Sugar, food that contains sugar, or even food that is converted quickly into sugar, such as many breakfast cereals, cause your blood sugar to rapidly rise.
Within two to three hours your sugar levels then start to fall.
At this point, you may not only feel hungry, you can feel "h-angry" as well - hungry and angry.
Low and falling blood sugar levels can cause a rise in your body's stress hormones, cortisol and adrenaline.
This can have a negative impact on your mood.
2. Increase your intake of Omega-3 fats
This is an essential nutrient for brain function and may protect against anxiety and other psychiatric disorders.
Foods high in Omega-3 fats include fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, anchovies), grass-fed meat, seeds and leafy vegetables.
3. Eat more tryptophan-containing foods like pork, chicken, seeds and walnuts
Tryptophan is an amino acid the body converts into serotonin, your feel-good neurotransmitter.
Eat them with a healthy carbohydrate source such as sweet potatoes, which helps to transport more tryptophan into your blood.
4. Feed your gut bugs
Some scientists refer to the trillions of gut bugs that live inside us, the gut microbiota, as the brain's peacekeepers.
It is thought that having a healthy population of gut bugs can have a significant influence on your mood via the gut-brain axis.
The prebiotic fibre contained in vegetables help your gut bugs to proliferate, so the best way to maintain a healthy population is to increase your intake of vegetables, as well as fermented foods such as sauerkraut.
Best options are leeks, onions, garlic, artichokes and cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower.
You have the ability to improve the way you feel by controlling what you put on your plate.
See how food can impact mental health on Doctor in the House, Monday, 21:00 BST on BBC One. | Approximately one in four of us will experience a mental health problem each year in England. | 39976706 | [
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Fo, whose plays include Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997.
He was also known for Mistero Buffo, a one-man play he travelled the world with for 30 years.
His plays often starred his actress wife Franca Rame.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, a target himself of Fo's sharp wit, remembered him on Thursday as "one of the great protagonists of theatre, culture and the civic life of our country".
He said: "His satire, his research, his work on set design, his multi-faceted artistic activity remain the legacy of a great Italian in the world."
Born in March 1926 in Sangiano, a small town on Lake Maggiore, Fo learned the art of storytelling from his grandfather, a travelling salesman with a gift for spinning yarns.
He was conscripted towards the end of World War II but managed to escape, spending the last months of the war hidden in an attic.
Moving to Milan, Fo studied architecture before turning to writing and performing.
After meeting Rame in the early 1950s, he achieved success with a series of monologues that led to his own show on Italian national radio.
After establishing the Fo-Rame theatre company in 1957, Fo and his wife earned national recognition with a series of hit stage farces.
But their work, often critical of the political establishment, led to battles with the censors and attempts at suppression.
Dario Fo thought the long Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte - broad, even slapstick humour - could be used to comment on modern society.
His work was filled with energy and political protest. He drew on the history of Italian theatre but became one of the most performed modern playwrights anywhere.
His early material was gentle enough, but Fo later became a sharp-eyed satirist of the Italian state and corruption. For years he was banned from Italian TV for his irreverence.
His radical politics meant he was twice prevented from entering the USA. Writers, among them Arthur Miller, protested at his exclusion.
When Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997, the citation said he "emulated the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".
On stage, Dario Fo made serious political points by being comic.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Fo's best-known play, was written in response to the real-life death of a political anarchist while in police custody.
First performed in 1970, it went on to be staged in more than 40 countries.
Fo, who was admitted to hospital earlier this month, had been due to give a talk in Edinburgh last weekend.
Playwright David Greig paid tribute, saying Scottish theatre "owed a tremendous debt" to "an extraordinary theatre maker".
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Dario Fo, the Italian playwright and actor famous for his cutting political satires, has died in Milan at the age of 90. | 37641544 | [
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29 March 2017 Last updated at 15:43 BST
Lee O'Donnell, whose nickname is the 'Mad Scientist', pulled it off at the Monster Jam World Finals in Las Vegas, USA.
Watch this flipping fantastic stunt! | This is the first time a monster truck driver has completed a front flip in the sport's history. | 39434923 | [
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The clause backing "common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange", was scrapped under Tony Blair in 1995.
Speaking to the Independent on Sunday, Mr Corbyn said Labour "shouldn't shy away" from public control of railways and public investment in industry.
Leadership rival Liz Kendall told the paper Clause IV belonged in the past.
Tony Blair's move two decades ago to ditch the long-standing commitment in Labour's constitution to public ownership was seen by some as a symbolic step which made the party more electable in the post-Margaret Thatcher era.
The original wording of Clause IV was replaced with a new commitment to "a thriving private sector and high-quality public services where those undertakings essential to the common good are either owned by the public or accountable to them".
Mr Corbyn told the IoS he could consider bringing back the old Clause IV as part of a commitment to take "necessary things" back into public ownership.
"I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause IV as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry and public control of the railways," he said.
"I'm interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail."
Mr Corbyn's campaign momentum seems unflagging - to the alarm of senior figures in the party. But he says the party needs a new statement of objectives - and that could be the original Clause IV.
Jeremy Corbyn has already promised to renationalise energy companies and the railways and increase public spending on industry. One of Mr Corbyn's leadership rivals, Liz Kendall, condemned the idea as a "throwback to the past".
Some party donors are alarmed by the prospect of a Jeremy Corbyn win too. Businessman Assem Allam, who donated £300,000 to Labour during the election, has told the Sunday Telegraph he would stop giving money to the party if Mr Corbyn becomes leader, saying he never backed a "dead horse".
Mr Corbyn is one of four candidates standing in next month's Labour leader election, alongside Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham.
Ms Kendall - the leadership challenger seen as being the closest to Mr Blair's policies - fiercely condemned the idea of bringing back Clause IV.
"This shows there is nothing new about Jeremy Corbyn's politics," she said.
"Life had moved on from the old Clause IV in 1994, let alone 2015. We are a party of the future, not a preservation society."
At-a-glance profiles of the four contenders | Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour could restore Clause IV committing it to public ownership if he became leader. | 33839819 | [
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It involves candidates hoping to become the world's most prominent diplomat.
At the stroke of midnight on 31 December, as the glitter ball in Times Square makes its annual descent, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due to end his term in office.
The manoeuvring to succeed him - at present it is too genteel to describe it as a fight - is now moving into higher gear.
Just as Campaign 2016 could end up with the election of the first female US president, there's a strong possibility that the next head of the UN will become the organisation's first female secretary-general.
This week, for the first time in the 70-year history of the UN, the declared candidates will take part in public hustings.
This is a radical departure for an organisation that rivals the Vatican in the shadowy secrecy of its executive recruitment process, with its monochrome backrooms hosting the UN equivalent of the papal conclave in the Sistine Chapel.
Those who have so far put their names forward, half of them women, will face two hours of questioning from member states.
To support their applications, they've also been asked to post their curricula vitae online and to compose a 2,000-word vision statement articulating how they would run an organisation with 30 separate agencies, funds and programmes and 40,000 staff, not to mention 193 member states.
What has long been a ridiculously closeted and opaque process is being made more inclusive and transparent. The aim is to turn it into something bearing at least some resemblance to a regular interview process, a far cry from the stealth selection procedure that produced Mr Ban.
When the South Korean was jockeying for the job, he shied away from campaigning inside the UN headquarters he would soon end up running.
Eight candidates have so far declared and most are from Eastern Europe. Under an unwritten rule of regional rotation, a diplomatic version of "Buggins' turn", this geographical bloc is next in line to fill the vacancy.
To a global audience, most of the candidates are "need-to-Google" figures.
Top row (from left):
Bottom row (from left):
More information on the candidates and the selection procedure is available on the UN's website
The field is expected to grow. Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian who is a vice-president of the European Commission, might yet be persuaded to run and may well be Mr Ban's preferred choice.
In a move that boosted her UN profile, he selected the former World Bank official to co-chair a panel looking into the funding of humanitarian aid.
However, the Bulgarian government is backing Ms Bokova, who heads the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), and Ms Georgieva herself has indicated that she intends to pay "full attention" for the time being to her EU responsibilities.
Kevin Rudd, the former Australian Prime Minister, has long made the UN secretary-general's job the target of his immense personal ambition.
Then there is the wild card. Many diplomats would like to see German Chancellor Angela Merkel throw her giant-sized hat in the ring.
More of a general than a secretary, Mrs Merkel is precisely the kind of big hitter that many UN watchers believe the organisation desperately needs after the more timid leadership style of Mr Ban.
For all the attempts to modernise the process it could never be described as democratic. Nowhere near.
Under the selection procedure, the 15-member Security Council recommends a single candidate for the 193-member General Assembly to essentially rubber stamp.
Thus, the power still resides with the permanent five members of the Security Council - China, France, Russia, the UK and US - which can all veto candidates. The US, for instance, vetoed Boutros Boutros-Ghali, when the Egyptian sought a second five-year term.
Though the hustings may be held in public, the next UN secretary-general will be the candidate who emerges from backroom bargaining, mainly involving the US and Russia.
What's more important than the candidates' CVs, then, is whether at any stage of their careers they have displeased the permanent "P5" members.
This is a headache for Ms Bokova, who as head of Unesco, admitted the Palestinians into the organisation, against the express wishes of the US, which retaliated by cutting off funding.
She is also seen as Moscow's preferred choice, which means the US is almost certain to block her. As for her fellow Bulgarian, Ms Georgieva could pay a price for the EU's sanctions against Russia. Others fail what's been called the "testicular test".
Despite the new-found openness of the process, UN reformers had been lobbying for more sweeping changes to the selection process.
The 1 for 7 Billion campaign, an umbrella group bringing together NGOs from all over the world, has urged the Security Council to recommend two candidates to the General Assembly, something the P5 veto-wielders would never sanction.
They would also prefer to see the new secretary-general appointed to a single seven-year term, rather than the present practice of serving two five-year terms. Again, that will not happen.
So despite calls for a strong figurehead for the UN - that general rather than secretary idea - the present system means that compromise candidates inevitably emerge, who are not necessarily the most able but the least objectionable to the P5 countries.
Rather than a big name, the UN could easily end up with a leader little known outside diplomatic circles, a new secretary-general whom most of the world will have to Google. | As the hoopla of the presidential campaign comes to New York, featuring the political all-stars seeking to become the world's most powerful leader, another race is also under way in the city - a contest of the largely obscure. | 35997985 | [
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Joel Warwick also twice tried to kiss her and asked her to "bend over" a photocopier machine, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) said.
He denied misconduct and said it was mutual flirting at an East Midlands Ambulance Service base in Lincolnshire.
The panel said his actions in 2015 were so serious it had to suspend him.
The tribunal hearing on 4 April was told that Mr Warwick had removed a pen from the 'V' of his colleague's blouse and squeezed her breast when he placed the pen back into her blouse.
On another occasion Mr Warwick told the complainant he "needed a hug".
He started working at the Spalding station in August 2014 and claimed both he and his colleague had "engaged in flirtatious behaviour".
In reaching its conclusion the HCPC said the panel acknowledged Mr Warwick was "of good character", with an "otherwise unblemished career".
It also accepted that he had apologised to the complainant shortly afterwards.
Panel chair Claire Bonnet said: "Mr Warwick had demonstrated limited insight into how his actions transgressed professional boundaries.
"His misconduct was so serious that the need to uphold professional standards and public confidence in the profession and the regulatory process would be undermined if a finding of impairment was not made in these circumstances," she added. | A paramedic has been suspended for eight months after he squeezed a colleague's breast and inappropriately touched her bottom. | 39578292 | [
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Spurs chairman Daniel Levy this week defended a lack of signings and railed against "unsustainable" spending.
They were runners up to Chelsea in the Premier League last term, faltered in the Champions League group stages, and again in the Europa League last 32.
"If [Spurs] don't win the title, it's not a tragedy," said Conte.
"If they don't arrive in the Champions League, it's not a tragedy. If they go out in the first round of the Champions League, it's not a tragedy. If they go out after the first game that they play in the Europa League, it's not a tragedy.
"Maybe for Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and - I don't know - Liverpool, it is a tragedy. You must understand the status of the team.
"Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise you continue to stay in your level. It's simple."
"My question is this: What are Tottenham's expectations?"
After finishing second in the Premier League last season, Spurs have not added to their squad over the summer.
Their only transfer activity has been selling England right-back Kyle Walker to rivals Manchester City for £45m.
"We have a duty to manage the club appropriately," Levy said.
Recent history suggests it may be a while before Levy makes his move, with the majority of Spurs' incoming deals finalised in August in the past few seasons.
Last August, they paid Newcastle £30m for midfielder Moussa Sissoko in the final few hours of the window, having signed £9m winger Georges-Kevin Nkoudou and loan goalkeeper Pau Lopez earlier in the day.
In previous seasons, forward Son Heung-min (£22m), midfielder Erik Lamela (£25.7m), goalkeeper Hugo Lloris (£11.8m) and forward Clint Dempsey (£6m) all joined the club in the closing days and hours of transfer windows.
More than £850m has been spent by Premier League sides so far in the summer transfer window, which closes on 31 August, with accountancy firm Deloitte predicting top-flight clubs will surpass the record £1.165bn they spent last summer.
Chelsea have parted with about £130m for three players - forward Alvaro Morata from Real Madrid, midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco and defender Antonio Rudiger from Roma.
Conte revealed Chelsea "tried to buy" Walker and acknowledged that the market is currently "very difficult", adding: "I think now every single player is expensive."
Conte also said Spurs and England striker Harry Kane would be his first pick if he could sign any forward. Kane has finished as the Premier League's top goalscorer for the past two seasons.
"Tottenham is a really good squad if they are able to keep all the players," Conte said. "For me, Kane, now, is one of the best strikers in the world.
"If I had to buy one striker I would go to Kane. He is a complete striker. He is strong physically, with the ball, without the ball, he fights and he's strong in the air and acrobatic on the right and the left.
"If you go to buy Kane now it would be at least £100m." | Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has questioned Tottenham's ambition, suggesting they have lower expectations than their Premier League title rivals. | 40736388 | [
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It has emerged that an original crash barrier was removed, even though the Roads Service could not find out why it had been put there in the first place.
It had been in place following a fatal crash in 1977.
It was removed three weeks before Enda Dolan died after he was hit by a van on the Malone Road last October.
According to documents received through a Freedom of Information request made by the BBC, officials from the DRD Roads Service - now called Transport NI - ordered the barrier to be removed, even though they were unable to find out why it had been originally put there.
The documents show communication between officials discussing the barrier.
One asked: "Have you been able to find out why this barrier is at this location? I would like some more background before we remove it."
Another official replied: "We have not been able to find anyone who knows the history of why it was installed."
The barrier was later removed and not replaced.
According to a newspaper report from 1977, the barrier was erected at the bend following the death of two girl students in a car accident.
The headline on the story from then reads: "Barrier plan where two girls died".
Jim Beggs, who lives in the area, said the DRD would have found out the history of the crash site if they had asked him.
He said: "There are people living in this street for 40 years. The people in this street know about the horrible accident that took place in 1977, a result of which the barrier was put in place. They did not ask me."
Since Enda Dolan's death, his family, students at Queen's University, where the 18-year-old was studying, and politicians have all called for the barrier to be reinstated, fearing another tragic accident.
The DRD has said arrangements are now being made to install new safety measures at the spot where the County Tyrone teenager was knocked down.
However, the barrier will not be replaced like-for-like. The kerb will be raised to deflect any traffic away from the pavement and a new waist-high fence will also be built.
A DRD spokesperson said: "Arrangements are now being made to put in safety measures at this location. This will take the form of a high containment kerb and vision panel guardrail. This work will be completed as quickly as possible.
"Detailed costs of the proposed works are currently being worked up in conjunction with the detailed design."
UKIP MLA David McNarry, who sits on the DRD committee at Stormont, said it will be looking for answers.
He said: "If the barrier was put there in the first place, it had to be there for a reason."
The Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy was unavailable for comment. | The Department for Regional Development (DRD) is to reinstate safety measures at a fatal accident black spot on a main road in Belfast. | 31429904 | [
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The new deal does not extend Conte's commitment to the club, as he signed a three-year contract on his arrival in west London in the summer of 2016.
"I am very happy to have signed a new contract," said the Italian, 47.
"We worked extremely hard in our first year to achieve something amazing, which I am very proud of. Now we must work even harder to stay at the top."
The decision to sign a new contract without extending the terms runs counter to previous comments by Conte, who had indicated his willingness to commit to a longer deal.
Speaking in May, he said he wanted to stay with Chelsea "for many years", adding: "If the club give me the possibility to stay and extend my contract, for sure I'm available to."
Conte lifted the Premier League title at the first attempt in the 2016-17 season, winning 30 games, which included a club record 13 consecutive victories. He also guided the Blues to the FA Cup final, though they were beaten by Arsenal.
The former Juventus and Italy manager was credited for transforming the Stamford Bridge club's fortunes after they could only finish 10th the previous season.
A brutal training regime was part of the transformation, as was his decision to switch to a three-man central-defensive set-up - his preferred tactic at both Juve and Italy.
"The Chelsea fans have given me so much support since I arrived here one year ago and it is important we continue to succeed together," added Conte, whose team has flown out to China and Singapore for pre-season games against the Gunners, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan.
Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia added: "Antonio achieved incredible success last season, adapting to English football very quickly and leading us to the Premier League title.
"This new contract reflects our belief that he can continue to deliver results both domestically and as we return to European competition in the Champions League."
Conte has presided over at busy summer so far at Stamford Bridge.
Blues have signed midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko from French champions Monaco in a reported £40m deal, and also brought in defender Antonio Rudiger from Roma for an initial £29m.
The Chelsea boss was thwarted in the chase to take striker Romelu Lukaku from Everton, with the Belgium international instead joining Manchester United in a £75m deal.
Conte has also been working hard to get players out the door at Stamford Bridge, with striker Diego Costa and midfielder Nemanja Matic both absent from the Far East tour before expected moves. | Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has signed an improved two-year deal with the Premier League champions. | 40650899 | [
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Science Central, built on the site of the former Scottish and Newcastle Brewery, has been hailed as one of the UK's biggest regeneration projects.
Up to 2,000 jobs are expected to be based at the 24-acre site by 2020.
The development - a partnership between Newcastle City Council and Newcastle University - was opened by Universities Minister Greg Clark.
The complex will include a £58m "urban sciences" facility, which will house Newcastle University's School of Computing Science, along with 1,500 staff and students.
Mr Clark said: "Science Central is a unique city centre development that will not only drive scientific advances and innovation in the region, it will create jobs and a thriving community to grow the North East economy."
Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle City Council said: "This is all part of our vision for putting Newcastle on the map for new and emerging science and technology-based industries."
Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, Prof Chris Brink added: "Over the next four years, we hope to see Science Central grow to become an exemplar of urban sustainability research, bringing together academia, organisations, industry, democracy and communities to develop solutions that will make a difference to people's lives across the globe."
Science Central has also received funding from the European Union Regional Development Fund and the Regional Growth Fund. | A pioneering £250m science and engineering hub has been officially opened in Newcastle. | 31624606 | [
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The original film saw Tom Hanks play a man saved from drowning as a boy by a mermaid, whom he meets 20 years later.
Tatum - who will presumably be a merman - is set to co-star with Jillian Bell, according to Hollywood Reporter.
They starred in 2014's undercover cop comedy film 22 Jump Street, which topped the box office on its release.
The original film's director Ron Howard is set to produce the film, along with Tatum.
The film, a rom-com about whether the man will choose to remain on land or join the mermaid in the sea, was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.
This version will be written by Maris Lewis-Ryan and follows on from Ghostbusters, which was remade this year with an all-female lead cast.
Tatum recently starred in Hail Caesar! with George Clooney and Josh Brolin, while Bell is to appear in Office Christmas Party later this year. | Magic Mike star Channing Tatum is to play the mermaid in a remake of 1984's film Splash, taking the role played by Darryl Hannah, according to reports. | 36951279 | [
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Dieumerci Mbokani is doubtful due to illness, but Abel Hernandez could return after a hamstring injury.
Burnley winger Johann Berg Gudmundsson is out after tweaking a medial knee ligament against Lincoln.
Fellow midfielder Steven Defour is back in training after a hamstring injury but won't feature on Saturday, while Jeff Hendrick is still suspended.
Steve Bower: "At the turn of the year Hull looked doomed; devoid of any confidence and hope. The impact Marco Silva and his new faces have had since has been remarkable.
"The atmosphere has changed and, so too, have their chances of survival. They have used the break to continue to bond at a week-long training camp in Portugal.
"Now the Tigers have an opportunity to record three consecutive home wins in the Premier League for the first time.
"They face a Burnley team who, incredibly, only have a solitary point on their travels.
"That has to change at some stage and Sean Dyche's team will hope for a response after last weekend's cup shock.
"A trip to Hull, though, is a different proposition to earlier in the season."
Twitter: @SteveBowercomm
Hull head coach Marco Silva: "The pressure always stays with the team and the coaches.
"It's one more game and of course we respect Burnley. We want to win and prove ourselves on the pitch."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche on his side's run of four away games in a row: "I think it's brilliant for us because the timing's magnificent.
"The teams on the opposite side, they are expected (to win) now, we're not because everyone looks at the form book and goes, 'Well it's going to be hard for them to win away because they haven't won any away'.
"Expectancy grows on the team you're playing now. Statistics work in your favour over a season and mindset works in your favour because the pressure is on the opposition."
I think most Burnley fans would rather see their side win this game than have beaten Lincoln in the FA Cup.
Having said that, I don't see Sean Dyche's side beating Hull. The Tigers are scrapping for anything they can get at the moment.
Prediction: 1-1
Lawro's full predictions v Let it Shine judge Martin Kemp
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Ingram was Most Valuable Player in the domestic T20 Blast in 2016 and has hit two centuries in 2017.
He has previously played in the Indian Premier League for Delhi Daredevils.
The 32-year-old left-hander will play limited-overs cricket for Glamorgan in 2018 and 2019 but will give up Championship cricket.
Glamorgan face Leicestershire in Cardiff on Wednesday in the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast.
Adelaide Strikers are coached by former Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie, who had a season with Glamorgan and has also coached Yorkshire.
"The decision was made that we'd look over the world for an overseas batsman and we found a quality one in Colin," Gillespie said.
"He gives it a whack... he has a lot of T20 experience and adds a great deal to our batting line-up."
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Mohammed Ali Abboud is on trial for murdering Agnieszka Szefler at the home they used to share in Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, in January.
The jury were shown video footage of Mr Abboud telling detectives Ms Szefler "fell" with the knife in her hand.
The 57-year-old denies all the charges against him.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard Mr Abboud told officers that Ms Szefler's temper changed just before she had her period and that she often threw household items at him during this time.
He said the 27-year-old teacher sustained serious injuries during the struggle on 23 January.
He said: "She fell. She had the knife in her hand."
The video footage of the police interview was shown on the fourth day of proceedings against Mr Abboud, who also denies a charge of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by covering up his role in his former partner's death.
In the footage, a detective told Mr Abboud that he did not believe his claims that he did not murder Ms Szefler.
The policeman then asked the accused to admit that he murdered her.
But Mr Abboud said the pair got into a struggle and he was trying to stop her from causing any of them serious injury.
He said: "I was trying to stop her. It got out of hand."
Mr Abboud's lawyers have lodged a special defence of self defence.
The trial, before judge Lord Uist, continues. | A man accused of stabbing his ex-partner to death told police she came at him with a knife and they started to struggle, a court has heard. | 35010345 | [
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Mazembe made sure of the win having held their opponents to a 1-1 draw in Algeria in the first leg of the final last weekend.
They won the final 5-2 on aggregate, to add the Confederation Cup to their list of honours after winning the African Champions League in 2015.
On Sunday, Mazembe went ahead in Lubumbashi after just seven minutes through Merveille Bope who reacted quickest to a Jean Kasusula free- kick which hit the woodwork.
Zambia international Kalaba (pictured) hammered home a volley on the stroke of halftime to make it 2-0 and scored again just after the hour mark to put the result beyond the Algerians, appearing in their first continental cup final.
Bejaia scored a consolation goal in the 75th minute from Sofiane Khadir but the three-goal advantage was restored within 60 seconds by Jonathan Bolingi.
Mazembe were eliminated early in the defence of their African Champions League trophy this year and dropped down to the continent's second tier club competition.
They will receive $660,000 following their Confederation Cup triumph with Bejaia receiving the runners-up prize of $462,000.
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The apparent breakthrough came amid fresh US air strikes on Islamic State (IS) positions. Fifteen IS fighters are said to have been captured.
The UK, France and Australia joined the US in dropping humanitarian aid.
Some 15,000 minority Shia Turkmen in Amerli have been surrounded by Islamic State militants for two months.
Military sources told the BBC's Jim Muir, who is a few miles from Amerli, that the Iraqi Army and volunteer militia entered the town on Sunday and had broken the siege.
However Amerli remains dangerous because of roadside bombs left behind by IS militants, our correspondent says.
No-one here seems to be in any doubt that the combination of forces backed up by Iraqi government air power has in fact broken the siege.
There is a lot of celebration here, including gunfire. We cannot go into the town yet as the Islamists have left lots of booby traps and bombs.
The situation inside is said to be dire because Amerli has been cut off for two months.
However, what we're told from recent figures is that the number of civilians there is much fewer than thought. We were told 15-16,000, but now perhaps 2,500 remain. Many of those are now fighters, having taken up arms.
So there might not be as many desperately needy people as first thought.
The US military confirmed it had carried out two further air strikes on Sunday. One was near the Mosul Dam and had destroyed an IS armed vehicle. The other was near Amerli, where an IS tank was damaged.
The strikes brought the overall total by US Central Command across Iraq to 120.
Earlier, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that his government would join other Western countries in arming the Kurds - sending rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and assault rifle ammunition.
"None of us want to get involved in another Middle Eastern war, but it is important to do what reasonably can be done to avert potential genocide," Mr Abbott said.
The operation to reach Amerli began on Saturday when an alliance of Iraq government forces, Shia militias and Kurdish Peshmerga began a two-front attack on IS positions.
US and Iraqi planes provided air cover overnight.
Reports described it as the biggest military operation since IS began making major gains in Iraq in June.
"Security forces and militia fighters are inside Amerli now after breaking the siege and that will definitely relieve the suffering of residents," Adel al-Bayati, mayor of Amerli, told Reuters.
One resident of Amerli, Amir Ismael, told Reuters by phone: "I can see the tanks of the Iraqi army patrolling Amerli's street now. I'm very happy we got rid of the Islamic State terrorists who were threatening to slaughter us."
The UN had expressed fears there could be a massacre if IS took the town, which lies in Kurdish-controlled Iraq.
IS has been accused of atrocities in areas of Iraq and Syria under its control.
The jihadists see the Shia Turkmen in Amerli as apostates.
Islamic State has seized large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in recent months, including Iraq's second city, Mosul.
Pledging allegiance to their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the jihadists have imposed a harsh form of Islamic rule in areas under their control.
The group has declared a new caliphate, or Islamic state ruled by a religious leader, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has announced himself as caliph.
The IS ideology has attracted would-be jihadists from a number of Western nations, including the UK, and has spread its message aggressively on social media, often posting gruesome pictures of beheadings and mass killings.
The group responded to the US beginning air strikes against it by killing the American journalist James Foley. | Iraqi forces have reached the besieged town of Amerli in northern Iraq, where thousands have been trapped by jihadists, military officials say. | 29003321 | [
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Two-year-old Lane Thomas Graves had been playing in the sand near the resort's Seven Seas Lagoon when he was dragged underwater by the creature.
His parents and older sister had been visiting the Grand Floridian resort in June 2016 from the state of Nebraska.
The lighthouse has been installed near to where the attack occurred.
Wildlife officials classified the killing as a predatory attack, saying the boy did nothing to provoke the alligator.
"He was in the water not more than ankle deep," the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a report, describing how the boy had been gathering water for a sandcastle.
His father, Matt Graves, jumped in the water to try to pry open the creature's mouth, but "the alligator thrashed and broke Matt's grasp and went under the water," according to the report.
A Disney spokesperson said they hoped the monument would spread awareness for the Lane Thomas Foundation, which also uses the lighthouse as its logo.
Who is liable for alligator boy's death?
"The lighthouse sculpture has been installed to help spread awareness of the Lane Thomas Foundation, which was established to provide assistance and support to families whose children need organ transplants," Walt Disney World said in a statement.
After the death, Disney was criticised for not having posted signs warning of the danger along the man-made lagoon, which borders Magic Kingdom.
Public notices have now been added to the area, Florida media report.
The Lane family announced a month after the boy's death that they would not sue Disney, and would instead "solely be focused on the future health of our family". | Walt Disney World has unveiled a lighthouse memorial for a young boy who was killed by an alligator while on holiday at the Florida theme park. | 40855910 | [
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The event, held at the World Museum in Liverpool, was streamed to thousands of schools where pupils simultaneously conducted simple experiments.
The live link-up with the International Space Station lasted about 20 minutes.
Major Peake made history last month when he became the first Briton to walk in space.
See more updates about the space talk on our live page
Among the questions was: "What can you see out of the windows?"
Major Peake replied: "I have got a window right behind me - let me go take a look." The children laughed as he turned and floated away from the camera to look out of the window.
He added: "At the moment we are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean coming up to the coast of Africa with the beautiful colours of the Sahara Desert."
There was a huge gasp of delight when his beaming face appeared on the screen in front of the young audience.
Standing in front of a union flag, the astronaut seemed to be in good spirits, demonstrating how you touch your toes in space - turning upside down in a backward roll as the children laughed.
Matthew Savage, 10, from St Anne's Fulshaw CE Primary School in Wilmslow, Cheshire, asked if he got hit by meteors on the International Space Station.
Major Peake replied: "We do get hit by small particles every day and they have even caused some damage. On space walks we have to be careful where we put our hands." He said the "clever people on earth" made sure they were safe.
He said he liked experiments involving vegetables and flowers grown in space the most. "We are going to need that information for longer missions on Mars," he said. He also liked experiments on the human body because they could have health benefits back on earth.
"Does your heart beat faster in space?" asked Riley, aged five, from Wilberfoss Primary School in York.
"It actually slows down and would shrink if you didn't regularly exercise." he replied. He explained this was why astronauts had to exercise regularly in space.
The call ended with rapturous applause from his young audience. | British astronaut Tim Peake has spoken to hundreds of children from across England and Wales in a live space chat. | 35472440 | [
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The distinct language and genetic make-up of the Basque people in northern Spain and southern France has puzzled anthropologists for decades.
One theory proposed that they were an unmixed pocket of indigenous hunters.
Now, a study in PNAS journal suggests they descend from early farmers who mixed with local hunters before becoming isolated for millennia.
The Basques have unique customs and a language - Euskera - that is unrelated to any other spoken in Europe, or indeed the world.
Nestled in a mountainous corner of Atlantic Europe, they also show distinct genetic patterns to their neighbours in France and Spain.
It seemed logical that they were representatives of an older layer of population settlement, but just how far back their roots went has been a topic of debate.
Mattias Jakobsson from Uppsala University in Sweden analysed the genomes of eight Stone Age human skeletons from El Portalón in Atapuerca, northern Spain.
These individuals lived between 3,500 and 5,500 years ago, after the transition to farming in southwest Europe.
The results show that these early Iberian farmers are the closest ancestors to present-day Basques.
Comparisons with other ancient European farmers show that agriculture was brought to Iberia by the same migrant groups that introduced it to central and northern Europe. These pioneers expanded from a homeland in the Near East, sweeping across Europe about 7,000 years ago to usher in the period known as the Neolithic.
Once the farmers settled down, they mixed with local hunter-gatherers - the descendants of people who lived in Europe during the last Ice Age.
Indeed, the El Portalón individuals had more hunter-gatherer ancestry than pioneer farmers from Germany, Hungary and Spain who lived several thousand years earlier.
The new study also goes some way to explaining some of the differences between the Basques and their neighbours in France and Spain.
After the initial farmer-hunter mixture was set, the ancestors of the Basques became isolated from surrounding groups - perhaps due to a combination of geography and culture.
"It's hard to speculate, but we've been working with Basque historians and it's clear from the historical record that this area was very difficult to conquer," Prof Jakobsson told BBC News.
This means the Basque area was largely unaffected by subsequent migrations that shaped genetic patterns elsewhere in Europe.
One of these movements occurred in the Bronze Age, when pastoralists from the Steppe - on the eastern periphery of the continent - travelled west en masse. This migration probably spread Indo-European languages across Europe, affecting the central and northern parts of the continent to a greater extent than the south.
While the genomes of French and Spanish individuals showed evidence of this eastern genetic input, those of Basques did not.
Another migration served to further differentiate Basques from their Spanish neighbours. In AD 711, a Muslim army crossed from North Africa into Iberia, beginning an occupation that lasted more than 700 years.
Again, while a small amount of North African and Sub-Saharan ancestry can be detected in the Spanish, it is largely absent from the Basques.
Previous studies have shown that people native to the Italian island of Sardinia are most genetically similar to the pioneer farmers of central Europe.
The Sardinians also became isolated after the agricultural transition, but they lack the additional hunter-gatherer ancestry that characterises the Basques.
Paradoxically, while archaeology shows that Europe's earliest farmers hailed from the Near East, populations living in that region today do not particularly resemble them genetically.
This is because genetic patterns in Turkey and the Middle East were re-shaped by migrations from surrounding areas after the Early Neolithic.
The proportion of hunter-gatherer ancestry varies across Europe, peaking at about 30% in Estonians and Lithuanians, but no "pure" indigenous Europeans remain. They appear to have been assimilated by the Neolithic migrants, who probably had greater numbers. | DNA from ancient remains seems to have solved the puzzle of one of Europe's most enigmatic people: the Basques. | 34175224 | [
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Alex Hartley took 4-24 and Katherine Brunt 3-35 as the hosts were bowled out for 155, despite captain Stafanie Taylor's 57.
England looked tense at 56-2 in the chase, but Nat Sciver's unbeaten 58 saw them home with 67 balls to spare.
The victory means England are one win away from World Cup qualification.
That could - and should - be achieved on the tour of Sri Lanka in November, when England will play three matches in the ICC Women's Championship.
Not only have Heather Knight's side moved a step closer to booking a place in the home tournament in 2017, they have secured an impressive series victory in her first overseas tour in charge.
Without wicketkeeper Sarah Taylor, who remains on a break from the game to deal with an anxiety problem, and injured pace bowler Anya Shrubsole, they have beaten the World Twenty20 champions in hot, humid conditions and on slow, spin-friendly surfaces.
It is those conditions that have made run-scoring so difficult and the toss so important - in all four previous matches the side batting first had gone on to win.
England again had to field first, albeit the later sunshine made batting easier in the afternoon, and their bowlers ensured the run-chase would be manageable.
After Brunt and Georgia Elwiss removed Shaquana Quintyne and Hayley Matthews respectively, Hartley and fellow spinner Laura Marsh got to work on the middle order.
With Marsh providing the squeeze from one end, Hartley's accuracy induced poor strokes from Deandra Dottin, Merissa Aguilleira and Shemaine Campbelle.
Taylor once again held the innings together with her third half-century in the five matches, but when she was stumped it gave Hartley a 13th wicket of the series, an England record in ODIs.
With Brunt and off-spinner Knight running through the lower order, West Indies lost their last five wickets for 24 runs.
England were in a strong position chasing 224 in the fourth ODI, only to give away five run-outs in a 42-run defeat.
Here, they were restricted by West Indies' spinners early on, Lauren Winfield chipping Matthews to mid-wicket for 12 and Tammy Beaumont caught and bowled by Afy Fletcher for 34.
With tension rising, the hosts threatened to find a way back into the match, especially with Knight dropped by Anisa Mohammed at short fine leg on only three.
But the skipper combined with Sciver to reverse the pressure, scoring freely down the ground and, at one point, adding 26 runs in three overs.
Though Knight was caught behind off impressive leg-spinner Fletcher, Sciver found an ally in the busy Danielle Wyatt on the way to her sixth ODI half-century.
Wyatt was brilliantly caught at long-on by Britney Cooper, and Elwiss was bowled by Dottin, but there was to be no England wobble, with Amy Jones hitting the runs that sealed the series.
England head coach Mark Robinson told BBC Sport: "It's absolutely outstanding. We've had it tough. It's been ever so humid, red hot, and the wickets have been massively challenging.
"We've come to their back yard, they were on a high after winning the World T20 and we've shown a lot of character. I'm really proud of them.
"Hartley is a tough cookie. She doesn't shy from hard work and she's bowled outstandingly. She's got a big future if she keeps working hard.
"We're a young team and we're learning as we go. We feel we're going in the right direction and we feel we have shown everybody what we're made of."
Ex-England batter Lydia Greenway on BBC Test Match Special:
"England have shown a huge amount of character. Everyone in this series has played their part.
"There have been little turning points in individuals' careers, like Lauren Winfield playing consistently.
"A sign of a good team is showing consistency in all different kinds of situations and I'm sure they will want to carry that on when they go to Sri Lanka." | England put in a dominant display to win the fifth and final one-day international against West Indies by five wickets and take the series 3-2. | 37710746 | [
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Its parliament approved the sending of a formal invitation, which he has to accept before ascending to the throne.
The deeply revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on 13 October, plunging Thailand into mourning.
The prince was widely expected to succeed his father, but officials had earlier said he wanted to postpone it by at least a year.
The official reason given was that he wanted to give the Thai people time to mourn his father before he became king.
Correspondents say Thailand was left in an odd constitutional limbo as the prince, the undisputed heir, should have succeeded his father immediately.
In the past doubts have been expressed by senior officials over how the crown prince can perform the role played by his father for 70 years.
The monarchy occupies a pivotal place in Thailand's political order. King Bhumibol Adulyadej had been seen as a unifying figure amid periods of political unrest, including during the most recent military coup in 2014.
The leader of Thailand's parliament, the National Legislative Assembly, is expected to meet the crown prince in the next few days to formally invite him. Once the crown prince accepts, his succession would then be announced to the public.
But it is still not clear when that will happen.
Former Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda is currently standing in as regent.
Thailand has rarely had what might be called routine royal successions. The last was 70 years ago, when the young King Ananda was found shot dead in his bedroom in still unexplained circumstances.
When he died, an emergency session of parliament that night named his grief-stricken brother Bhumibol king.
Despite private speculation over the prospects of his popular sister Princess Sirindhorn, Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn has been the undisputed heir to the throne since his formal investiture in 1972.
Thai succession law follows the principle of primogeniture, where the throne should pass to the eldest son of the reigning king, but it also gives the king the discretion to name his own choice. King Bhumibol never wavered in his endorsement of the crown prince.
But the crown prince's unexpected decision to delay taking the throne has made this yet another succession which has departed from the script.
His real reasons are not known; public mourning for his father would not have been affected had he been anointed immediately after his father's death. | Thailand has begun the process of naming Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn as the country's new king. | 38140539 | [
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The undisclosed fee for the 20-year-old, who has 10 caps for his country, is more than the £175,000 paid for Birmingham City's Alan Buckley in 1979.
"From the moment I walked into the stadium I felt comfortable I know this will further my career," Makris said.
"I will always give my best here and I can't wait to score goals and celebrate with the fans."
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The 35-year-old former West Ham and Derby man was approaching the end of his contract at the club.
Bywater, whose previous clubs include Millwall and Sheffield Wednesday, has not played for the Brewers since signing on a free transfer from Doncaster in January.
But he will continue to act as cover for first-choice keeper Jon McLaughlin.
"It's great news that Stephen is staying," Burton manager Nigel Clough told the club website.
"He works very well with Jon McLaughlin, providing us with experienced cover, and has been a very positive presence around the club since joining." | Veteran goalkeeper Stephen Bywater has signed a new one-year deal at Championship side Burton Albion. | 36677641 | [
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"CETA is done and we will not reopen it," said EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom.
Ms Malmstrom was speaking as EU trade ministers met in Slovakia to discuss CETA and a similar deal with the US, TTIP, which has also faced criticism.
A draft CETA deal has been agreed, but parliaments could still delay it.
Thousands of activists protested against CETA and TTIP in Germany on Saturday and thousands more in Brussels - outside the EU's headquarters - on Tuesday.
Activists fear that the deals could water down European standards in the key areas of workers' rights, public health and the environment.
There is also great anxiety about proposed special courts where investors will be able to sue governments if they feel that legislation hurts their business unfairly.
Critics say the mere existence of such courts - an alternative to national courts - will have a "chilling" effect on policymakers, leading to slacker regulation on the environment and welfare.
Would CETA be a good model for the UK?
European Parliament briefing on CETA
TTIP: The EU-US trade deal explained
Are US-Europe TTIP trade talks tanking?
Ms Malmstrom said CETA would dominate Friday's meeting in Bratislava. The Commission hopes the deal can be signed with Canada at the end of October, so that it can then go to the European Parliament for ratification. But it will also need to be ratified by national parliaments across the EU.
"What we are discussing with the Canadians is if we should make some clarifications, a declaration so that we can cover some of those concerns," Ms Malmstrom said.
She acknowledged fears in some countries that politicians might see their "the right to regulate" diluted. "Maybe that [right] needs to be even clearer in a declaration," she said, admitting that the CETA negotiations were still "difficult".
Karoline Graswander-Hainz, an Austrian Socialist MEP, said the EU's top court - the European Court of Justice - must first examine the proposed Investment Court System (ICS) to check its legality.
CETA holds "great risks" for Europe, she warned, adding that some of her fellow MEPs thought likewise.
German Vice-Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel called CETA "a model for future deals".
But he was pessimistic about TTIP. "The Americans were not prepared to make Europe offers that Canada made, and so there will definitely not be a [TTIP] deal this year," he said.
Supporters of CETA and TTIP say such deals could set global trade standards, warning that failure could mean China setting the standards.
CETA and TTIP promise to remove tariffs and non-tariff barriers, boosting growth on both sides of the Atlantic, free trade advocates say. | The European Commission has ruled that a controversial EU-Canada free trade deal - CETA - cannot be renegotiated, despite much opposition in Europe. | 37450742 | [
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The boy is from Northern Ireland, but his family do not want him to be named to protect his identity. His mother had to give up her job to look after him.
In June, his parents made the difficult decision to remove him from mainstream schooling because he was not coping.
They requested a place for him at a special school but are still waiting.
In September, the family was told that all the special schools in the South Eastern Education Board area were full to capacity and no time frame could be given as to when a place would become available.
The boy's mother told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that her son does not understand why his brother and sister are able to go to school but he is not.
"He really misses being around people, he doesn't like being isolated, but unfortunately the way the system has been working so far has actually worked to isolate him more," she said.
The family has now been told that an extra classroom assistant has been employed at a local special school and the hope is that their son will be able to start there in the next few weeks.
However, the boy's mother is worried that this same situation will happen to other families as the special needs school system is packed to capacity.
"The schools are being put in the position where they have a family like us who desperately require a place in the school, but they really have no capacity there because the school is already over-subscribed."
The BBC asked the Education Authority for a response to the concerns the family has raised but its spokesperson said they could not comment on individual cases.
"As we have a duty to protect the privacy rights of the child, it would be unacceptable to publicly discuss their specific and highly sensitive needs", they said.
In relation to special school provision in general, they said the Education Authority was "currently reviewing the profile of need for special school places in Northern Ireland and is endeavouring to ensure that places are available close to where the children reside".
"This work is ongoing and is designed to assist with the placement of children with effect from 2016," the spokesperson added. | A nine-year-old boy with autism has been unable to go to school for three months because all the special schools in the area near his home are full. | 34862856 | [
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Catherine - also known as the Countess of Strathearn in Scotland - joined dozens of school pupils and teachers at a tennis workshop hosted by Ms Murray in Edinburgh.
Earlier she took part in a sing-along on a visit to an Edinburgh school.
The events were part of a tour by Catherine of school-based charities in the city.
The workshop was part of the Tennis on the Road project created in 2014 by Ms Murray, who is the mother of tennis stars Andy and Jamie.
During the duchess' visit, teachers and pupils were taught how to coach and pass on the basics of tennis to children.
Ms Murray said Catherine's participation in the class was "fantastic for tennis and women's sport".
She added: "She said she'd love to come back and do some more."
Earlier in the day, Catherine visited St Catherine's Primary where she joined an assembly.
The school is one of 28 in Scotland where counsellors from children's mental health charity Place2Be support pupils having difficulties in some of the most disadvantaged areas of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Pupils presented her with a quaich, a Scottish toasting cup, after she sang along to the children's song Welcome Everybody.
The duchess, who is the charity's patron, told pupils: "I think everybody should start their morning like that. Have a wonderful day."
The duchess, who was carrying out her first solo set of official engagements north of the border, also travelled across the city to Wester Hailes Education Centre to see work being carried out by The Art Room.
The charity, of which she is patron, set up its first Scottish studio at the school in 2014 and works with children to increase their self-esteem, self-confidence and independence through art.
She was greeted by cheering pupils in the school playground before attending an art session.
Pupils involved in the project showed her the work they were producing.
Project director Juli Beattie said she was delighted to be able to show the duchess the charity's first Scottish base.
She added: "Our presence in Edinburgh represents a new phase in our growth.
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