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Newcastle City Council refused planning permission to the development near Kenton School in September 2014.
McDonald's had launched an appeal but has now withdrawn it after the council changed its planning policy.
Hundreds opposed the restaurant saying it would encourage children from the school to eat unhealthily.
A McDonald's spokeswoman said the firm was made aware the authority had amended its policy to take into consideration the proximity of certain businesses to schools, meaning the plans no longer adhered to planning guidelines.
"We have withdrawn our appeal as a direct consequence. We are genuinely disappointed and frustrated by this development at such a late stage," she said.
The company claimed the new restaurant would have created about 70 jobs and made a "positive contribution" to the area.
Campaigners said they were delighted the plans were at an end.
Jocasta Williams told BBC Newcastle: "We always thought it was a really long shot, they are a multi-national company, we just had a group of committed people that were prepared to give up their own time and a small amount of money.
"We always doubted we could do it but we have, we kept on fighting."
Newcastle City Council welcomed McDonald's decision and said a Planning Inspection scheduled for Tuesday would not now go ahead.
A city council spokesman said: "Newcastle is a city which welcomes business and investment. We will always work constructively with big business to find solutions that work for them to bring jobs and growth.
"But we must also always strike the right balance to ensure that investments are in the best interests of our local residents." | Fast-food chain McDonald's has dropped its appeal against a decision to reject plans for a new restaurant in Newcastle. | 1.36413 | 1 |
Eman Abd El Aty, said to have weighed around 500kg (1,102lb), left an Indian hospital last Thursday after doctors said she lost more than 250kg.
But doctors in UAE say she is suffering from a "cardiac issue" and infected bed sores, apart from her obesity.
Recent weeks saw a row erupt between her doctors in India and her family.
It began when her sister, Shaimaa Selim, released a short video on social media alleging that her sister was still unable to speak or move, and had not lost as much weight as the hospital was claiming. The hospital strongly denied the allegations.
A statement issued by Abu Dhabi's Burjeel Hospital said a multi-disciplinary team of 20 doctors is treating Ms Abd El Aty.
"She is currently facing several health conditions, including a cardiac issue, which is still under intensive investigation; severe urosepsis [a bacterial infection complicating a urinary tract infection]; and third degree infected bed sores."
The statement said the doctors are "currently focused on improving her health condition and ensuring that as part of the hospital's short term goal, Eman is able to sit with minimal to no assistance".
She had arrived in India on a specially-modified Airbus plane in February and was put on a special liquid diet to reduce her weight so that doctors could perform bariatric surgery.
Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese and carrying an excessive amount of body fat.
The two most common types of weight loss surgery are:
Gastric band, where a band is used to reduce the size of the stomach so a smaller amount of food is required to make someone feel full
Gastric bypass, where the digestive system is re-routed past most of the stomach so less food is digested to make someone feel full | An Egyptian woman who was believed to have been the world's heaviest is now being treated for several health conditions at a hospital in Abu Dhabi. | 1.65083 | 2 |
China's Peina Chen claimed silver, while Stefaniya Elfutina of Russia picked up bronze.
The top six windsurfers had gone into the race separated by just six points and overnight leader, Italy's Flavia Tartaglini, finished sixth overall.
Bryony Shaw, Britain's first ever women's windsurfing medallist with bronze at Beijing 2008, finished ninth.
"I feel like I have had bad fortune but it has been a great four years," said Shaw.
"It is tough, the Olympics is what we all aim for, the fact that this has not been my week is tough.
"I have had some amazing comments from the other competitors and coaches and amazement in that I haven't performed to my best.
"I will learn from it and hopefully come back stronger for the next one."
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Find out how to get into sailing with our special guide. | France's Charline Picon won gold in the women's RS:X after finishing second in the medal race at the Rio Olympics. | 1.018716 | 1 |
Victoria Bridge in Kendal was fully closed on 13 January after erosion was found under the bridge pillar due to continuous fast flowing water.
It was expected to re-open this week after divers worked in the River Kent to temporarily stabilise the bridge.
A Cumbria County Council spokesman said it was "really frustrating", but river levels and technical problems have delayed reopening until next weekend.
The council said when water levels allow, further work will be required in the summer to carry out work to protect the new foundation against future flooding. | The reopening of a damaged flood-hit bridge in Cumbria has been delayed. | 1.561315 | 2 |
5 May 2016 Last updated at 08:32 BST
The cops even threw in some Scottish country dancing to add their own twist.
The Scottish force has now challenged police in London and Toronto, Canada, to get their groove on too.
The viral craze sees people recording themselves dancing to My Boo by Ghost Town DJs, posting the video on social media and then challenging others to join in. | Police officers in Scotland's capital city, Edinburgh, have taken on the Running Man Challenge. | 0.534869 | 1 |
The 20-year-old, who joined City for £49m from Liverpool on 14 July, ran through on goal before finishing.
Sterling started on the left side of a front three that included David Silva and teenage forward Kelechi Iheanacho before being substituted at half-time.
Iheanacho also scored in a game City won 5-4 on penalties after a 2-2 draw.
The game was City's first in the International Champions Cup tournament in which they face Real Madrid on Friday.
Sterling, who became the most expensive English player ever when he made the move from Liverpool to City, slipped on the ball after 49 seconds of the game and later had a strong call for a penalty turned down.
He appeared to be fouled inside the area by Alessandro Florenzi, but the referee waved play on.
Miralem Pjanic equalised for Roma with a stunning long-range strike before Iheanacho pounced on a poor Ashley Cole back pass to regain the lead for City early in the second half.
Roma's Adem Ljajic curled home a free-kick with three minutes remaining to take the game to penalties, where Joe Hart made two saves and also scored to give City the win. | New Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling scored three minutes into his debut in a friendly against Roma at the MCG in Melbourne on Tuesday. | 0.959755 | 1 |
It now stands at £4.423bn, a fall of £1.4m.
The biggest drops were in sales of beef and sheep and pig meat, down £29m and £12m respectively.
But they were offset by combined increases in the drinks, bakery and fruit and vegetables sectors of about £40m.
It is the second year in a row that there has been a drop in turnover, but it followed 15 years of continued growth.
The figures are in provisional estimates published by the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA).
The number of people employed full time in food processing has increased by 2.3% to 22,000 people.
Food and drink processing accounted for a quarter of the total manufacturing sales.
The biggest market for Northern Ireland food continues to be Great Britain, which is worth about £2bn.
The domestic market is next with sales of more that £1bn, followed by the Republic of Ireland with sales worth £624m. | The turnover of Northern Ireland's food and drink processing sector marginally decreased in 2016. | 1.773625 | 2 |
Vue Cinemas will contest City of York Council's decision to approve plans for a larger cinema at the York Community Stadium site than originally agreed, according to the York Press.
The council initially approved a 12-screen design but later gave permission for a 13th screen and 400 extra seats.
The BBC has asked Vue for a statement.
Live updates and more from across North Yorkshire
Confirming the application for judicial review had been granted, a council spokeswoman said it expected the hearing to take place in early 2017 but was unable to provide further details.
She said despite the legal challenge the authority was "fully committed to delivering the Community Stadium and Leisure Facility project".
The 12-screen Vue cinema at the Clifton Moor Centre is one of three cinemas in York.
The additional screen and extra seating at the Monks Cross stadium site were approved in June.
According to a council report "given the directly comparable format of the new proposal at Monks Cross, the greatest impact is likely to be felt at Vue".
The stadium development has suffered a number of delays since it was first proposed in 2009.
It was originally forecast to cost £37m and open in Spring 2017 but is now expected to cost an additional £7m and will not be operational until 2018.
The stadium is due to become home to York City Football Club and York City Knights Rugby League Club. | Plans for an 8,000-seater sports stadium have suffered a setback after a judge gave permission for a cinema chain to mount a legal challenge. | 1.109807 | 1 |
Bode Prasad spent 100,000 rupees (£1,200; $1,546) to relocate the peepal trees which were due to be cut down to make way for a section of the Vijaywada-Machilipatnam highway.
Mr Prasad said he had seen these trees since his childhood and did not want them to be destroyed.
The trees have been relocated to another spot in the area.
The lawmaker said the local village council fully supported him in this initiative.
"The local panchayat (village council) did not have adequate funds to spend on relocating the trees. So I spent my own money," he told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.
Mr Prasad says he was not against development projects. "But we should not cut trees when roads are expanded and highways are created," he added.
His effort has been praised on social media, with many saying that he had set an example for others to follow. | A lawmaker in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has been praised for using his own money to save four trees. | 1.402226 | 1 |
St Luke's Hospice shop at Sugar Mill on Billacombe Road was raided early on Sunday morning said police.
Those responsible got into the shop by breaking a rear window.
The charity's area Manager John Saunders said: "We are well supported by the people of Plymouth so to break a window and target us is heartbreaking."
The charity shop is still open for business, seven days a week. | Burglars have broken into a charity shop in Plymouth causing £2,000 damage and stealing £500 from a safe. | 0.706272 | 1 |
The man has been quarantined at the private Nyaho Clinic in the capital, Accra, health officials say.
The virus has so far killed more than 460 people since it broke out in Guinea in February and spread to neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone.
It is the world's deadliest outbreak to date and there is no cure for Ebola.
The US embassy in Accra said it had been informed that a US citizen was being tested but would not give any more details, Reuters news agency reports.
The man was believed to have visited Guinea and Sierra Leone in recent weeks.
Ghana's health ministry said it had put in place "precautionary measures" and people should stay calm.
Staff at the clinic had also been quarantined and provided with protective clothing, it added in a statement.
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The clinic was awaiting the results of blood tests to see whether the patient, whom the ministry did not identify, really had Ebola, the statement said.
"We will like to assure the general public that we have everything under control," Tony Goodman, the health ministry's public relations officer, said.
In April, Ghana's health authorities said a girl suspected to have Ebola had tested negative.
Ebola spreads through contact with an infected person's bodily fluids and kills up to 90% of those infected.
The health ministers of 11 West African states met in Accra last week promising to work more closely together to combat the outbreak.
So far, 759 people have been infected with the virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Most of the 467 deaths have been centred in the southern Guekedou region of Guinea, where the outbreak was first reported.
But health officials say the region's porous borders have allowed infected people to carry the disease into other countries. | A US citizen is being tested for the Ebola virus in Ghana, which has had no confirmed cases of the virus in the current West African outbreak. | 1.84786 | 2 |
Due to licensing agreements, Netflix content varies between countries - many users have a virtual private network (VPN) or other proxy to get round this.
The firm said it would increase efforts in the next few weeks to block the use of such proxies.
Netflix expanded streaming services to more than 130 countries last week.
But some countries have more content than others - for example, the Australian Netflix catalogue has only about 10% of the content available to its US subscribers.
David Fullagar, vice president of content delivery architecture, said in a blog post on Thursday that the US firm was in the process of licensing content around the world.
But he said it had a long way to go before it could offer viewers the same films and shows everywhere.
"If all of our content were globally available, there wouldn't be a reason for members to use proxies or 'unblockers' to fool our systems into thinking they're in a different country than they're actually in," he said.
"In the meantime, we will continue to respect and enforce content licensing by geographic location."
Subscribers that currently use proxies to view content outside their countries will only be able to access the service their countries in the coming week, the company said.
Those members that do not use VPNs will not be impacted by the crackdown, it added.
The move is a reversal of Netflix's denial last week after reports had surfaced that they would be restricting VPN access to their content. | Video-streaming giant Netflix has said it is going to stop subscribers from using internet proxies to view content not available in their home countries. | 1.651791 | 2 |
The coastguard was first alerted to the issue on the Bruce installation, east of Shetland, just after 20:00 on Thursday.
A total of 76 people from the 121 on board were taken off the platform and flown to neighbouring installations in coastguard helicopters.
Forty-five workers stayed on the platform in a bid to restore power.
BP said work to restore power was ongoing.
A Coastguard spokesman said: "Following a loss of power on the Bruce platform off Aberdeen late on Thursday 22nd June, HM Coastguard rescue helicopters from Shetland and Inverness were tasked to partially down-man the platform.
"Seventy six non-essential personnel were transferred overnight by helicopter to other platforms in the area." | More than 70 workers have been taken off a North Sea oil platform after it suffered a loss of power. | 1.435226 | 1 |
Warnock, 68, has a meeting with chairman Mehmet Dalman next week to discuss his future.
But having steered Cardiff away from the Championship relegation zone during his five-month reign, Warnock says he feels "refreshed".
"I might even do a couple [of years] whatever the situation," he said.
After back-to-back wins on the road against Leeds and Derby, on Saturday Warnock will cross swords with Rotherham, who he saved from relegation last season during a 16-game spell from February until June.
The Millers were keen to keep Warnock last summer and he admits he was close to staying with them.
"Rotherham actually gave me that zest back," he said.
"If I am honest I might have let my heart rule my head at times. If we had agreed terms straight away I think I might have stayed."
Now Warnock feels similarly revitalised having taken over at Cardiff in October.
"It's given me the belief in what I do really. I have been a manager 37 years, that is a long time - more than a lot of my lads have ever been born," he said.
"To still have that enthusiasm and that desire to want to put one over people or managers or clubs. That is what I thrive on.
"The biggest thing is for Cardiff fans to go home having seen a performance or effort of their team and to be talking about the club again in the good sense rather than a negative sense."
Warnock said Cardiff chairman Dalman would provide him with financial details on what funds could be available this summer at a meeting in the next few days.
"We need to know what we can do to be able to bring the three or four players in because we don't have that many players out of contract really, so it is not as straightforward to thin my squad or to do things," Warnock added.
"So its going to be difficult in the next few months to put things in place.
"It is nice to be wanted. The biggest thing coming here was the reaction of the Cardiff fans to me taking over, it was fantastic.
"It would have to be something extreme I have not thought about to take me away from that." | Manager Neil Warnock has delivered the strongest indication yet he is keen to stay at Cardiff City and mount a promotion challenge next season. | 0.881583 | 1 |
The first decapitated swan was found at The Quay on Saturday. The second was found in the same area on Wednesday.
The RSPB charity said it "beggars belief" that anyone could harm the "beautiful and much loved" birds.
Killing swans, which are a protected species, is a crime under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. People who do so could face a £5,000 fine per offence or up to six months in prison.
More on the swan attacks, plus more Devon and Cornwall news
Thomas Prideaux found one of the birds while on his way to work.
He said: "It had a what looked like a pellet hole in its side and its head was clean cut off. There were feathers everywhere, but the head wasn't to be seen anywhere."
Exeter City Council confirmed the "first decapitated swan was brought to the canal office last Saturday". It was reported to Defra on Monday.
Devon and Cornwall Police said they believed the death of the second bird "appeared to have been a deliberate act".
An RSPCA spokesperson said: "It is very distressing to think that someone has carried out such horrific acts towards these defenceless swans.
"We would appeal to people's consciences to report any information they have about the deaths to the police."
The force has closed its investigation due to lack of witnesses or CCTV evidence. | Two swans have been found beheaded in Exeter. | 1.883281 | 2 |
Tracey Woodford, 47, was found dead in Pontypridd on Friday, three days after being reported missing.
Christopher May, 50, spoke only to confirm his name and address during the two minute hearing in Merthyr Tydfil.
Magistrates remanded him in custody to appear at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday.
Areas of the town were first cordoned off on Friday evening following the discovery of Ms Woodford's body in a flat in Andrews Court, Rickards Street.
There has been a major police search of the ground surrounding Pontypridd rugby club. The club is open again this morning.
Police are still working at the flat where the body was discovered. | A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a woman whose body was found dismembered in a flat in Rhondda Cynon Taff. | 0.57494 | 1 |
Wetherspoon fell out with the Dutch brewing giant over supplying beer to one pub, and will now not be serving Heineken lager or Murphy's stout in the UK at all.
The pub chain takes £60m of Heineken products a year in the UK.
A dispute with Diageo means Wetherspoon does not serve Guinness in Ireland.
JD Wetherspoon said that Heineken had refused to supply its lager - Ireland's biggest-selling draught beer - and Murphy's stout to Wetherspoon's second pub in Ireland, which is due to open in Dun Laoghaire.
The spat means Strongbow cider, John Smith's bitter and Foster's lager are also off Wetherspoon's UK menu.
Wetherspoon has been selling pints of Heineken lager and Murphy's at prices around 40% below the competition at its first Irish pub in Blackrock, Dublin.
The row in Ireland came to a head when Heineken requested Wetherspoon chief executive John Hutson give personal guarantees to pay all Heineken bills if Wetherspoon did not pay them, according to the pub chain.
Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said: "We have been trading with Heineken for 35 years and they have never requested personal guarantees before.
"It's obstructive to do so now, especially when we made record profits of around £80m last year.
"The refusal to supply Heineken lager and Murphy's just before the opening of our new pub in Dun Laoghaire, which represents an investment by us of nearly four million euros, is unacceptable and hard to understand."
Heineken UK declined to comment in detail, but said: "We are aware of the comments made by JD Wetherspoon (JDW) and its chairman this morning.
"Heineken UK has had a long standing and successful relationship with JDW in the UK market over a 35-year period, and it is unfortunate that commercial issues in Ireland between Heineken Ireland and JD Wetherspoon have led to the current situation.
"We are seeking a resolution as soon as possible."
The pub chain last year outlined plans for around 30 pubs in the Republic of Ireland. | Pub chain JD Wetherspoon will no longer sell Heineken products in its 926 pubs in the UK after an argument over pricing in Ireland. | 1.203085 | 1 |
The friction between workers and management in many disputes is due to changes caused by the introduction of new technology.
It is the technology which means transport bosses think they can then change roles.
In this dispute, Southern wants the driver (and not the conductor) to have control of the doors. It claims the driver can now do this safely as he has CCTV.
That is a similar argument to the changes implemented on the Tube and the closure of ticket offices.
Then the bosses said role changes were possible due to the rise of the Oyster card and automated payments. There were many strikes, as well as the eventual role changes, and hundreds of posts were also closed. The changes were driven through.
Incidentally, Southern is also trying to close ticket offices using the same arguments.
On the issue of conductors, Southern trains says: "On our more modern trains, we want to evolve the conductor role into one of an on-board supervisor, who is more visible to more passengers, travelling on more parts of the network, delivering high-quality customer service and checking tickets.
"There would be as many trains running with staff on board as they do now - but you will see more of them than you do now because they will have more time and opportunity to offer good quality customer service."
The RMT union claims this is a safety issue and two safety qualified personnel on board are better than one.
The union does not want what's called "Driver Only Operation" spreading and the removal of the safety element from the conductor role.
You can compare all of this with what has happened in Paris where the unions are strong.
There, transport bosses implemented automation and no drivers on the Metro's Ligne 1.
The operators RATP upgraded the line with full negotiation with the unions from as far back as 2003.
The pay-off for the unions was drivers were redeployed onto another line and were promoted. There were no redundancies.
That proves at least that changes driven by technology do not necessarily have to lead to strikes.
But I haven't yet come across that kind of consensual approach in the UK. | As the rail strike winds down on Southern trains, one thing struck me about the arguments around this latest dispute over conductors. | 1.944253 | 2 |
24 December 2015 Last updated at 08:30 GMT
It was seen by hundreds of people - some filmed it on their phones.
US defence officials have confirmed a rocket had been launched the day before.
The SL-4 rocket body booster burned up as it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
U.S. Strategic Command spokeswoman Julie Ziegenhorn refused to say what the rocket had been used for, but experts say it was launched as part of a project to bring materials to a space station.
"It's not something people need to worry about," said David Wright, a space-debris expert. | A fireball filmed over the skies of Nevada and California in America was Russian space junk. | 2.050428 | 2 |
The comments came after it emerged the company had successfully appealed some large penalties.
Friends of the Earth said the government-owned company had reduced some pollution fines by more than 50%.
NI Water said it appeals in less than one in 10 cases and had a duty to "safeguard public money".
It only appealed when it felt it was appropriate, it said.
A Freedom of Information request revealed that NI Water had successfully appealed five cases out of 65 since 2008.
In 2014, a £10,000 fine for polluting the Cusher River from a sewage treatment plant at Tandragee, County Armagh was reduced to £5,000.
And in 2012, fines for two separate pollution incidents at Moneyreagh in County Down were cut from a combined figure of £12,000 to £3,000.
In the most recent case, a fine of £7,500 handed down earlier this year after an discharge from a facility in Saintfield, County Down, was cut to £2,000 on appeal.
The maximum fine for a pollution offence in Northern Ireland is £20,000.
Director of Friends of the Earth James Orr said the company seemed to have made a "strategic decision to manage the risk to itself by appealing certain fines".
"We would prefer to see the strategic effort of a publicly-owned company to act in the public interest by managing the risk to rivers and lakes."
NI Water was recently involved in a serious pollution incident from a treatment works at Annsborough near Castlewellan.
Last week, it was fined £13,000 for polluting the Blackwater River near Balloo in County Down.
Mr Orr said the level of fines in Northern Ireland was not a deterrent.
In Great Britain, the fines for pollution by what are privately-owned utility companies are much higher.
A spokesman for NI Water said a decision on appeals was taken "on the merits of each individual case".
He said it had invested £500m in the last three years upgrading the sewerage network and treatment facilities.
"Over the years, our work across the waste water network has done more to improve the quality of our water courses than it has ever done to harm them," he said.
Every year, the company returns 1.3bn litres of waste water from more than 1,000 treatment plants into 2,500 rivers.
Last year, it was responsible for 21 high or medium severity pollution incidents. | NI Water is "more interested in avoiding heavy fines than avoiding serious pollution", according to an environmental group. | 2.392592 | 2 |
The 30-year-old, who is third in the Test bowling rankings, has joined as a replacement for injured Australia all-rounder John Hastings.
He has taken 292 wickets and scored 2,035 runs in 52 Tests for India.
"Ravi is a fantastic international cricketer who is currently in terrific form with his game," said the county's director of cricket Steve Rhodes.
Ashwin took 17 wickets in three Tests as India completed a whitewash in Sri Lanka on Monday.
He also took 28 wickets in India's 4-0 series win against England at the end of last year.
His first spell in English county cricket will be as part of a Worcestershire team chasing promotion from Division Two of the Championship.
Worcestershire are in the second promotion spot with four games left, but Northamptonshire, Sussex and Kent are all within 17 points and also have a game in hand.
"It is a really important last few games in the Championship and to have someone of his class is a huge boost for the club," Rhodes added.
"The good thing about Ravi is he has been successful on all types of pitches in all sorts of different countries. He is a class bowler who will bowl well here."
It is understood India's chairman of selectors, MSK Prasad, wants to give players experience in English conditions ahead of the five-Test series against England in 2018.
India captain Virat Kohli has previously said he "would love" to play county cricket before next summer's Test series. | Worcestershire have signed India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin for the remainder of the 2017 county season. | 1.022332 | 1 |
Those who died in Ondo state suffered from blurred vision and headaches, and then lost consciousness before dying within 24 hours.
A spokesman for the WHO said tests done so far had been negative for viral and bacterial infections.
He said the current theory was that the deaths were caused by weedkiller.
The outbreak started in the town of Ode-Irele.
All of those affected started showing symptoms between 13 and 15 April.
The WHO spokesman, Gregory Haertl, tweeted: "Current hypothesis is cause of the event is herbicides" and "Tests done so far are negative for viral and bacterial infection."
The tests were carried out at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, the WHO said. | The World Health Organisation (WHO) says pesticide poisoning is the probable cause of 18 mysterious deaths in south-western Nigeria. | 1.550468 | 2 |
15 June 2013 Last updated at 17:21 BST
Tafwyl is a free family festival in the grounds of Cardiff Castle, featuring music, sport and craft activities, as well as cookery and literature. Around 10,000 people were attending.
Rhys, who is also due to start filming a BBC Wales drama from Monday, said holding the festival in the city helped to break down potential barriers to the Welsh language.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews also said it had an important role to play in showing off the language and its growth in the city. | Actor Matthew Rhys, the star of Cold War drama series The Americans, returned to his home city Cardiff to open a Welsh language festival. | 1.282502 | 1 |
Frank-Juergen Weise told the Bild am Sonntag paper that his office would struggle if more people came.
But he said he was confident the number of new arrivals would remain within the estimate.
More than one million migrants from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa arrived in Germany last year.
The German interior ministry says more than 390,000 people applied for asylum in the first six months of this year, but it is not clear how many of these may have arrived in the country in 2015.
Mr Weise said Germany would try to get as many of them on the job market as possible.
But he said the migrants' integration in German society "would take a long time and cost a lot".
A poll this month showed just over half of Germans thought Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy was bad.
Support for anti-immigrant groups has risen.
On Saturday, members of a far-right movement scaled Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and unfurled a banner to protest against what they called the "Islamisation" of Germany.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | Germany expects up to 300,000 migrants to arrive in the country this year, the head of its Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said. | 2.092506 | 2 |
After 18 years of planning the Awel Aman Tawe wind farm is to be connected to the National Grid on Friday.
A pair of 330ft (100m) turbines will produce enough electricity to power 2,500 homes.
Over their lifetime, they are expected to generate about £3m and it is hoped the profits will be spent in the local community.
The project has been funded by a community share offer, which has so far raised £1.6m, a £3.55m Welsh Government loan and other grants.
Investors have been offered a 5% return.
One of the oldest local investors is 84-year-old Eric Bowen from Cilmaengwyn.
Mr Bowen said: "I've never invested in anything in my life but I thought it's a local thing to start with. It's something for the future and it seems to me that we have enough wind in Wales.
"There's a lot more to be done with regards to renewable energy but you have to go step by step I suppose."
Programme director at Renew Wales, Robert Proctor said it "has always been and remains a very difficult process" to develop community energy projects, as most communities do not have access to land or buildings to install the systems.
But he said there are signs that the planning system in Wales is improving. | Wales' largest community energy project is due to go live for the first time in Swansea. | 1.845446 | 2 |
As part of the BBC's coverage, leader Nicola Sturgeon will take part in a half-hour webcast in which she will answer the public's questions.
This is your opportunity to quiz her on the issues that matter to you.
If you have something to ask, email [email protected] put "webchat questions" in the message field.
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The three-day SNP conference gets under way on Thursday and will be opened by Ms Sturgeon.
She will make her keynote speech to 3,000 delegates on Saturday afternoon.
You will be able to watch Ms Sturgeon's webcast, hosted by BBC Scotland political editor Brian Taylor, via BBC Scotland's politics web page. | The Scottish National Party will be holding its annual conference in Glasgow this week. | 0.981859 | 1 |
McSheffrey, 33, out of contract in the summer, scored once in seven games for Rovers after arriving on loan in March.
He made 91 appearances for Scunthorpe and scored 15 goals since signing for the League One side in January 2014.
"Nothing's signed yet, but it's probably 100% more or less going to be Doncaster," said McSheffrey.
"Doncaster are the ones that are going out there to get straight back up and have a promotion season."
Doncaster were relegated to League Two on the final day of the season, finishing 21st in the table with just 11 wins from 46 league games.
"It's a proper club with big potential so really, it was the one that was standing out to me," McSheffrey added. | Released Scunthorpe United winger Gary McSheffrey has told BBC Radio Humberside that he will be joining Doncaster Rovers permanently. | 0.754671 | 1 |
In December, five ex-FA bosses asked the government to intervene and change an organisation they described as being held back by "elderly white men".
In February, MPs with "no confidence" the FA would reform itself warned they could legislate to force it to.
Only one woman sits on the current 12-member FA board - Heather Rabbatts.
The FA's proposed reforms seek to:
The reforms still have to be approved by the FA Council, which will debate and vote on the recommendations on Monday, 3 April.
If they receive majority approval they will be taken forward to a vote of the shareholders at the FA's Annual General Meeting on 18 May.
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch has said the FA could lose £30m-£40m of public funding if it does not modernise.
FA chairman Greg Clarke reiterated that he will quit if the plans for reform do not win government support.
"This is a transformational leap forward and if the government don't accept this, I'm not sure what else we can do," he told BBC Sport on Monday.
"If government don't want to accept it, who am I to argue but, of course, I will resign."
BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway asked Clarke why there were no plans for dedicated black, Asian and minority ethnic background representation on the proposed new 10-member board.
Clarke replied: "What I would like to see is a path to make sure that not only are we gender diverse but ethnically diverse. What I don't want this to be is empty words.
"I want to find a way to achieve it and be accountable. I just need a bit more time to get there.
"It's really important that the FA is representative to society. Throughout the business world, diverse boards make better decisions. I think that's true in football too."
The FA is effectively run by its own parliament, the FA Council, which has 122 members. Just eight are women and only four are from ethnic minorities. More than 90 of the 122 members are aged over 60. | More women will be appointed to the Football Association's board as part of proposed reforms revealed on Monday after criticism over the way it is run. | 1.304785 | 1 |
The winners are to lead the carnival parade on its way around the city from Potternewton Park on Monday.
Charis Betts, from Leicester, was crowned queen with Dreamcatcher, a costume she co-designed.
Elroy Condor was chosen as the king with a stunning half-bird, half-man costume, Flight of Fantasy. It was designed by his uncle, Hughbon Condor.
Mr Condor, from Leeds, saw his winning design provide his fourth carnival king title in six years. He has designed more than 20 winning Carnival Queen costumes since 1979.
Ms Betts said her Dreamcatcher design was inspired by native American costume and included LED lights and a smoke machine.
Five Kings and 11 Queen costumes took part in the competition on Friday night.
Arthur France launched the annual Caribbean-themed extravaganza in 1967 after becoming homesick for his native St Kitts and Nevis.
The carnival, believed to be the oldest event of its kind in Europe, is now in its 48th year.
It takes place over three days of the bank holiday weekend and culminates with the parade on the streets of Chapeltown and Harehills, with an attendance often estimated at about 150,000. | Leeds West Indian Carnival has elected its king and queen after a competition at West Yorkshire Playhouse. | 1.163219 | 1 |
Until 2012, Scotland had two ETVs available for towing ships that had grounded or broken down on Scotland's north and west coasts.
One ship continues to operate out of the Northern Isles.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), which manages ETVs, has ruled out reintroducing a second tugboat.
Councillors on the Western Isles were among the organisers of the 1,500-signature petition.
The islands' local authority, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, has support from Orkney and Shetland island councils and local MPs and MSPs in its call for the reinstatement of a second ETV.
They have said the grounding of the drilling rig Transocean Winner at Dalmore on Lewis in early August has highlighted the need for two tugs.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) manages ETVs with funding support from the UK government.
The MCA said it had examined the case for two tugs in a consultation and an independent report earlier this year.
A spokesperson said: "The operational experience of the past five years has demonstrated that a single ETV has been sufficient to meet the needs for emergency towage.
"Given this evidence, it has been decided that a second ETV, delivered at tax-payer expense, is not warranted.
"The MCA will monitor the prevailing conditions and when appropriate will consider moving the ETV to a position within its overall operating area where the potential for increased risk has been identified."
The spokesperson added that a new contract for the Northern Isles-based ETV would likely include "a patrolling function". | A petition calling for the reinstatement of an emergency towing vessel (ETV) for the Western Isles has been handed to the UK government. | 1.679037 | 2 |
The Lancashire seamer hopes to be fit for the tri-series against Australia and India in January and the ICC Cricket World Cup in February.
The 32-year-old will travel to South Africa in December for rehabilitation with the England Performance Programme.
At present he will not be replaced in the squad for the Sri Lanka tour.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said in a statement: "James Anderson has been ruled out of the upcoming one day tour to Sri Lanka to continue his rehabilitation on a pre-existing left knee injury.
"Anderson experienced some knee discomfort during the summer and in preparation for the ICC Cricket World Cup will undergo a graded return to bowling programme over the next two months."
Fellow paceman Stuart Broad, 28, also misses the one-day series in Sri Lanka but hopes to be fit for January's one-day tri-series in Australia.
Broad had surgery in September on a patella tendon of his right knee.
England will take part in seven ODIs in Sri Lanka, beginning in Colombo on 26 November.
England ODI squad to tour Sri Lanka: Alastair Cook (Essex, captain), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Ravi Bopara (Essex), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Harry Gurney (Nottinghamshire), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Eoin Morgan (Middlesex), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), James Tredwell (Kent), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire). | James Anderson has been ruled out of England's one-day series against Sri Lanka later this month as he continues to recover from a knee injury. | 0.920685 | 1 |
The trucks, allegedly owned by Turkish intelligence, were searched in January 2014 near the border.
The pro-opposition Cumhuriyet daily said they held weapons stashed below boxes of medicine.
Turkey has said the vehicles were on a humanitarian mission.
The government has claimed that the raid on the trucks was carried out on the orders of supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric who Ankara accuses of running a parallel state.
The prosecutors who ordered the search and the military officers who carried it out are also under investigation.
Cumhuriyet said their footage had been taken by local security officials.
The vehicles carried mortar shells, grenade launchers and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, it alleged.
The leader of Turkey's main opposition party, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, called the information "extraordinary".
"Those who illegally sent arms to a Muslim country have blood on their hands," he told the AFP news agency.
Turkey has denied arming Islamist fighters in Syria.
The news comes as Syrian rebels continue to make advances in Idlib province, which borders Turkey.
Their advance is thought to have been aided by an alliance between Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, all of whom want Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ousted. | Turkey is investigating whether a newspaper breached terrorism laws after it published footage claiming to prove a convoy stopped last year was carrying arms to Syrian rebels. | 1.139998 | 1 |
Sport England, which funds grassroots sport, said it wanted cycling's governing body to "meet the highest standards of governance" first.
Earlier this month, British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning apologised for "failings" at the organisation.
That followed accusations of bullying and sexism against elite cyclists.
An investigation into those alleged failings in the culture of British Cycling has been carried out and a report into the findings is due imminently - though a draft version of the report was leaked last week.
"The current draft report raises concerns about decision-making within that governing body," said Nick Bitel, Sport England's chair.
British Cycling says it has started work on an action plan to address problems in the organisation.
But, following a meeting of the Sport England board on Tuesday, Bitel added: "We decided that more work on their action plan was required."
Sport governing bodies must comply with a Code for Sports Governance before they can access funding. The £17m that British Cycling is scheduled to receive is intended for grassroots sport.
"We need to ensure that all sports organisations that receive public funding meet the highest standards of governance," said Bitel.
"We will need to consider the final report of the Cycling Independent Review, and a more developed version of British Cycling's action plan on governance, before our board makes a decision about any additional requirements we might put in place," he added.
"We anticipate this position being reached within the next month."
Dan Roan, BBC sports editor
British Cycling has been warned. A recent leaked draft of a major report into the sport's high-performance culture questioned whether its board was "fit to govern a national sporting body".
That seems to have made an impression on Sport England, and unless it soon sees more extensive reforms, it may demand that British Cycling's new chairman Jonathan Browning is replaced. That £17m of funding is on the line. | British Cycling has been warned it needs to do more to ease "concerns" over the way it is run before it can receive £17m of funding. | 1.383998 | 1 |
International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced the funds on the second day of a visit to Iraq.
She said the situation there was "deeply worrying", with thousands of people forced from their homes by the fighting and living in makeshift camps.
The UK has already given £13m, including 62 tonnes of food, 1,574 tents and 840 water filtration sets.
RAF planes have undertaken seven missions to deliver aid to thousands of Yazidi civilians trapped on Mount Sinjar while there have been eight flights by the Department for International Development to the northern city of Irbil.
The Iraqi authorities and Kurdish militia are battling militants from Islamic State and allied Sunni groups, which control large parts of the north and west of the country.
The United Nations Refugee Agency has estimated there are up to a million internally displaced people in Iraq, as well as up to 500,000 refugees from the civil war in Syria and 100,000 stateless people.
The UK had already given £13m in aid.
Of the new funds, £6.5m is being given to non-government organisations (NGOs) working on the ground while £2m is to ensure the rapid delivery of emergency supplies.
About £500,000 is going to the International Red Cross to help communities cut off from forms of outside help while £20,000 will go to setting up a camp for displaced people near Dahuk.
Other resources will go to supporting logistics and to facilitate a safety hub for humanitarian workers.
Speaking after meeting Kurdish President Masoud Barzani in Irbil and meeting displaced people at a camp in Bakhara, Ms Greening said the UK was "scaling up" its efforts to help the most vulnerable.
"Hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes and thousands are surviving in makeshift camps as the fighting continues," she said.
"I am particularly concerned about increasing reports of human trafficking and violence against women, as well as children suffering terrible trauma.
"Britain has been quick to respond and I have seen for myself how lifesaving supplies of food, water and shelter are making a real difference to people who have been left with nothing.
"But we can do more, and will do more." | The UK is to give an extra £10m in humanitarian aid to Iraqis displaced by the conflict in the country. | 2.079948 | 2 |
Mrs Payne hit the headlines when police raided her home during a sex party involving elderly men in 1978.
She served time in prison after a 1980 trial. At a further trial in 1987, she was cleared of controlling prostitutes at her home in south west London.
Her life was depicted in film in Personal Services with Julie Walters.
The book An English Madam by Paul Bailey told the story of her life. The 1987 comedy drama Wish You Were Here was also loosely based on her story.
Mrs Payne stood for Parliament twice, but failed to win 1% of the vote.
Family friend Kevin Horkin described her as "a national treasure" and an "extremely colourful archetypal English eccentric".
Mr Horkin added: "She was a person with a very big heart. She is someone who epitomised the phrase 'what you saw is what you got'."
A biography on her website reads: "I hit the headlines in 1978 when the police raided my home along a pleasant tree-lined avenue in suburban Streatham, interrupting a sex party that was in full swing.
"For months afterwards, the media would write of queues of middle aged and elderly men waiting to exchange their 'luncheon vouchers' for food, drink, friendly chat, striptease shows, and a trip upstairs with the girl of their choce [sic].
"Vicars, MPs and lawyers were amongst those who considered me to be the best hostess in London."
Her second trial, in 1987, came after a party to mark the end of film production on Personal Services.
After the 13-day trial she reportedly sent the judge a copy of An English Madam with the inscription: "I hope this book will broaden your rather sheltered life."
She went on to write a book called 'Entertaining at Home', with tips for hosting parties and dealing with the police.
In 1988, she stood in the Kensington by-election for the Rainbow Alliance and attracted 193 votes.
At the 1992 general election, she stood in Streatham where she won 145 votes.
Her three-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival sold out in 1992. | Cynthia Payne, the brothel madam whose life was immortalised in film in the 1980s, has died at the age of 82, her family has said. | 1.006872 | 1 |
The Championship club agreed an initial fee of around £500,000 with the Dark Blues for Stewart, 26, only for him to turn down a move to the West Midlands.
Although Rowett now has other targets, he still has Stewart on his radar.
"We've been chasing him for a while but we haven't managed, as yet, to complete the deal with personal terms," he told BBC WM.
Despite the disappointment, Rowett says Stewart remains a player he likes.
"He's a player that's up and coming and has scored a lot of goals already this season, but all you can do is put a case forward and try to sign someone and the rest is up to them," Rowett said.
"We'll maintain the interest and it's not 100% dead, but because we haven't managed to get the deal over the line straight away, we've chosen to look at other options."
With three players already added to the Blues squad, Rowett says it is unlikely any more will follow in the immediate future.
But, with the transfer window closing on 31 August, Rowett knows he still has plenty of time to snap up further signings to add to striker Che Adams, defender Ryan Shotton and midfielder Robert Tesche.
"To get any more in now would probably not be the right timing," Rowett said.
"We'll take out time and there's still going to be some fantastic bargains to be had in the last few weeks of the transfer window and it's just going to be down to me to hold my nerve to nail a few good ones."
Birmingham opened their Championship season with a goalless draw against Cardiff and were beaten by Oxford United in the first round of the EFL Cup. | Birmingham City's bid to sign Dundee striker Greg Stewart is "not 100% dead", says boss Gary Rowett. | 0.842218 | 1 |
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He then posted the pictures on Twitter at the end of November and has now had more than 30,000 views worldwide.
Mr Morrison said he continued to be "amazed" by the response. | Wildlife photographer Robin Morrison cycled across the RSPB's Ham Wall nature reserve on the Somerset Levels to capture images of starlings gathering. | 0.199358 | 0 |
The filling stations are part of the Cookstown-based Lissan Coal Company, which has a diverse range of energy businesses.
It is one of Ireland's largest coal importers, co-owns an oil terminal in Londonderry and supplies electricity to businesses.
Turnover rose from £545m to £579m, more than double what it was four years ago.
A note in the accounts states that the firm has acquired a 25% stake in Centurion Bulk, a Singapore-based cargo chartering company.
It is also continuing to expand the filling station chain with a number of planning applications lodged recently.
The company employed 156 people in 2013 up from 128 in 2012.
The firm is owned by Cookstown man Michael Loughran and his family. | The company that owns the Go chain of filling stations made pre-tax profits of £14m in 2013, unchanged from 2012. | 1.074593 | 1 |
Officers have been searching for the 36-year-old, from Petworth in West Sussex, since 22:00 BST on Thursday.
Ms Weeks, who is known for her role in the ITV drama, was last seen an hour earlier 14 miles away in Chichester.
Sussex Police said they were concerned for her welfare and it was unlike her not to get in touch. She had recently told family and friends she was feeling anxious.
Det Kate Wilt said: "If you read this Honeysuckle, please get in touch to let us know you are ok.
"Although she travels around a lot and has links in London and has family in Wiltshire, it is unlike her not to be in touch with family."
Earlier this year the actress was reportedly ordered to wear an electronic tag after she was caught speeding on the A3 in south-west London in August 2015.
A child in the back seat was not wearing a proper seat belt and it emerged she was already banned from driving.
Her agency The Artists Partnership said it was currently "unable to get hold of Honeysuckle".
She recently finished work on shooting Lewis for ITV and a Sky mystery The Five.
As well as starring as Samantha Stewart in drama Foyle's War, she has also appeared in The Bill, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Death In Paradise.
The Cardiff-born actress is described as around 5ft 4in (1.62m) with cropped gingery blonde hair.
She was last seen wearing a blue anorak and faded blue jeans. | Foyle's War actress Honeysuckle Weeks has gone missing, police have said. | 0.658804 | 1 |
Watkin, who played a leading role as Wales earned their first ever Six Nations Grand Slam, will take a break ahead of the 2016-17 season.
"I'm quite disappointed because we've got a good team and we've got a good chance of winning it, but in the long run it's best if I don't go," he said.
"I took it on the chin."
The 19-year old Osprey continued: "It's important that I develop myself here (Ospreys) because hopefully this is where I'm going to be for most of my career.
"Steve Tandy (Ospreys coach) was pretty clear from the start that he didn't want me to go.
"They've been pretty open and honest about why they didn't want me to go... and I agreed with them pretty much most of the time."
Watkin was in the Ospreys side that beat Cardiff Blues 40-27 at the weekend, and played a key role in one of their six tries.
It was his 12th appearances for the Welsh region this season, but he will take time off after Ospreys' final game of the season against Ulster on Saturday. | Centre Owen Watkin says he is "disappointed," but understands why he was left out of Wales Under-20's squad for the Junior World Championship. | 0.94615 | 1 |
The US central bank will wrap up its two-day policy meeting later in the day and is expected to indicate whether it is on track to raise interest rates.
Trading volume was also thinner with one of the region's biggest markets - Japan- closed for a public holiday.
Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ended 1.85% lower at 5,838.60 points.
Chinese shares headed lower, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ending 0.15% lower at 28,400.34 points, while the Shanghai Composite closed flat at 4,476.62.
In South Korea, the benchmark Kospi index closed 0.2% lower at 2,142.63.
Shares in Samsung Electronics rose 1.4% higher after its earnings came in line with the guidance it released earlier this month.
The tech giant reported a first-quarter operating profit of 6 trillion won ($5.64bn; £3.63bn). | Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday as investors remained cautious ahead of US growth data and the outcome of the Federal Reserve meeting. | 0.760032 | 1 |
Tracey Connelly, 33, was jailed in 2009 and let out on licence in 2013, but returned to prison for breaching her parole conditions this year.
Earlier this month, a Parole Board panel decided against directing her release.
A spokesman said she would be eligible for review within two years.
The spokesman added: "The Parole Board is unable to comment on the specifics of any case due to the Data Protection Act."
Connelly admitted causing or allowing her one-year-old son Peter's death soon after being charged, and spent more than a year on remand before being sentenced in May 2009.
She received a sentence of "imprisonment for public protection", which carries a minimum term after which prisoners can be considered for release.
When deciding whether to release a prisoner, the Parole Board considers the nature of their crime, their history, their progress in prison, any statements made on their behalf and reports from relevant professionals.
Peter Connelly died in Tottenham, north London on August 3 2007 at the hands of his mother, her boyfriend, Steven Barker, and their lodger, Jason Owen.
Barker was given a 12-year sentence for his "major role" in Peter's death.
Owen was jailed indefinitely with a minimum three-year term, but later on appeal that was changed to a fixed six-year term. He was freed in August 2011 but has since been recalled to prison.
Peter suffered more than 50 injuries despite being on the at-risk register and receiving 60 visits from social workers, police and health professionals over the final eight months of his life.
A series of reviews identified missed opportunities when officials could have saved the toddler's life if they had acted properly on the warning signs. | The mother of Baby P is still a danger to the public and should not be freed from prison in the new year, the Parole Board has ruled. | 1.046373 | 1 |
Stephan Baard and Craig Williams were the principal scorers for the visitors as they posted a total of 324 runs.
The Scots' response in the 50-over game was spearheaded by Kyle Coetzer, with 112 runs, and Richie Berrington's 61.
But Namibia ground Scotland down for their first win in the competition since they beat Hong Kong in May 2015.
Openers Baard (78) and Zane Green (61) both made half-centuries, while Williams finished unbeaten following a rapid 69.
After seeing Matthew Cross (21) out off Christi Viljoen's first ball and Calum MacLeod following just two deliveries later for a duck, Scotland were left 42 for two in the eighth over.
Berrington, who had made his highest one-day international score of 110 in the last match, helped steady the ship alongside Coetzer before the players briefly went off for a rain break just after 17:00, with Scotland having moved on to 158 without further loss.
However, Berrington went for 61 swiftly after the restart when trapped lbw by Bernard Scholtz in the 30th over, with Namibia picking up regular wickets as Coetzer brought up his century and was then caught on the boundary for 112.
With 10 matches played, Scotland sit third in the World Cricket League, behind the Netherlands and Papua New Guinea.
Namibia's win lifts them off the foot of the table above United Arab Emirates as they try to avoid relegation to WCL Division Two. | Namibia exacted revenge for Monday's defeat as they triumphed by 50 runs over Scotland in their World Cricket League match at Edinburgh's Grange. | 1.026061 | 1 |
The Premier League champions are level on points with Swansea heading into Sunday's relegation battle at the Liberty Stadium.
Clement thinks Ranieri deserves better, even if he has received a vote of confidence this week.
"What he did last year was remarkable and for that he deserves time to try and put it right," Clement said.
Clement thinks speculation on Ranieri's future is unfair.
''How he is public enemy number one? I just don't understand that,'' said Clement.
"The talk of unrest and players speaking to the chairman and pundits talking about who might be next Leicester boss is not right," he said.
"He is a very good coach, tactically very good, did amazingly well with that group, got them so tough during that run-in when everyone thought they would fall away and they kept winning 1-0, 1-0, 1-0. He deserves a chance to turn it around."
Clement had mixed news for Swansea fans regarding team selection for the weekend.
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Ghana striker Jordan Ayew arrived has at Swansea this week after international duty at the African Cup of Nations.
And Clement has made it clear Ayew, signed from Aston Villa in January in a player plus cash deal which saw Wales full back Neil Taylor go the other way, is in contention for a debut.
He said: ''I can see him being very much involved on Sunday but I am not quite sure yet to what degree.''
However, Swansea are without midfielders Leon Britton and Ki Seung-yueng,
Clement says Ki (knee) is out for a few more weeks and admits Swansea are now light in midfield.
"It is possible he could be a couple more weeks away, he has had specialist opinion on his knee, he will have more advice and go from there," added Clement.
"It is not a long term injury, I am hoping it will be three to four weeks and we see him back again.
"But with Leon out, it does not leave us with a lot of depth in midfield and we need to keep the guys who have been doing well fit."
Clement also revealed that long-term injury victim Jefferson Montero will be out for three months with a torn hamstring. | Swansea boss Paul Clement thinks speculation on the future of Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri is 'unfair.' | 0.791322 | 1 |
Zohore, Cardiff's top scorer in 2016-17 with 12 goals, made his first appearance since Championship rivals Hull failed in a bid to sign him.
New signing Nathaniel Mendez-Laing and Idriss Saadi also scored twice apiece as Cardiff led 6-1 at half time.
Joe Ralls got the seventh goal late on while new signings Danny Ward and midfielder Loic Damour also featured.
Adam Carter scored both Tavistock goals, including one from the penalty spot. | Kenneth Zohore scored twice as Cardiff City thrashed non-League Tavistock 7-2 in their first summer tour match. | 0.600618 | 1 |
South Yorkshire Police believe the 22-year-old fell critically ill in the Glossop Road area after taking MDMA.
She was taken to hospital in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Another woman, 20, is also in a serious condition after taking the drug on a separate night out.
A 23-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman, who were arrested, have been released while enquiries are ongoing.
Formal identification and a post mortem examination were yet to take place, police said.
It is not yet known whether the victims were known to each other. But police believe the two incidents are not connected.
Det Sgt Andy Shields said: "This is an upsetting development in the investigation and our thoughts are with the woman's family at this very sad time."
The force has appealed for any witnesses. | A woman has died after taking drugs during a night out in Sheffield. | 0.543028 | 1 |
The victim was attacked because her son had eloped with an upper-caste girl about a month ago.
She has alleged that police initially refused to file a case saying such incidents were not uncommon.
The incident took place in Mulgaon village on Monday afternoon but reports of the atrocity have just come out.
The village in Satara district falls in the constituency of the state's Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan.
"The women pushed me to the ground, took off my sari and started beating me up with chappals [slipper] and a stick. They pulled my hair," the victim told a television channel.
She said the beatings continued for two hours.
On Wednesday, police arrested five people, including the eloped girl's parents.
Dalits, formerly known as "untouchables", are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system in India.
Although caste discrimination is illegal, biases remain in many areas. | Police in India's Maharashtra state have arrested five members of an upper caste for beating, stripping and parading naked a low-caste Dalit woman. | 1.506611 | 2 |
It happened on the A20 Eglantine Lane in Farningham, near Dartford in Kent, at about 01:20 BST.
The two victims, aged in their 20s, died at the scene, South East Coast Ambulance Service said.
Police have appealed for anyone who saw a black Vauxhall Insignia with a 61 registration being driven on the A20 towards Swanley, to contact them.
A blue Citroen Berlingo van and a white VW Polo were also involved in the collision.
Sgt Glyn Walker, of Kent Police, said the two men who died were in the same vehicle.
He said there had been no arrests, but "one of those injured will be the subject of our enquiries".
The road was closed in both directions for more than 11 hours while an investigation was carried out. | Two men died and eight people were injured, one seriously, in a head-on collision involving two cars and a van. | 0.740244 | 1 |
The benchmark FTSE 100 index finished up 76.91 points, or 1.2%, at 6,338.10.
Tesco shares rose 1.8% to 169.50p after the supermarket said it was "encouraged" by its progress, with UK like-for-like sales up 0.3%.
The UK's biggest supermarket chain said it had agreed to sell its Harris & Hoole coffee shop chain to Caffe Nero.
In the FTSE 250, shares in DS Smith rose 6.1% after the packaging company's full-year results beat expectations.
For the year to 30 April, adjusted pre-tax profits climbed 12% to £332m.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.6% against the dollar to $1.48010, and edged higher against the euro to €1.30260. | (Close): The London market closed higher on Thursday, with Tesco among the winners after it reported a second consecutive quarter of rising sales. | 0.875501 | 1 |
The club say they are "deeply saddened" by the death of the England Under-20 international, who had been at the club since the age of 13.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Seb's family and friends at this difficult time," Quins director of rugby Conor O'Shea said.
"He will be sorely missed by the whole squad as well as by the wider club."
Adeniran-Olule, who played three first-team games for Harlequins, represented England at Under-16, Under-18 and Under-20 level.
He made four appearances at the Under-20 World Cup in Italy last year, where England finished runners-up to New Zealand.
O'Shea described the former Whitgift and Wellington College pupil as an "incredible talent", while John Fletcher of the Rugby Football Union said the front-row forward was an "absolute pleasure to be around".
"He was one of the most skilful players in his position I have ever seen," Fletcher, the national academy development manager, told the RFU website.
"He always played the game with a big smile on his face and could do some phenomenal things with the ball.
"As a character he was quiet, had incredible work rate, was popular and first to learn. On the pitch he would get you off your seat and as a front-row player that is fairly rare.
"He should be remembered as a great kid, I loved coaching him. It's a tragic loss." | Harlequins prop Seb Adeniran-Olule has died at the age of 20 in a road traffic collision. | 0.94211 | 1 |
Brazil is at the centre of an outbreak of the virus, which has been linked to a surge in babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
The country has 462 confirmed cases of microcephaly, and is investigating another 3,852 suspected cases.
President Dilma Rousseff said the crisis would not "compromise" the Olympics Brazil is hosting in August.
Brazilian troops are going door to door, handing out four million leaflets advising people about the risks of the virus, carried by mosquitoes.
The BBC's Wyre Davies, in Rio de Janeiro, says the exercise is aimed at boosting morale.
But critics have said the move would not helping reduce mosquito numbers or stop the spread of Zika, our correspondent adds.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global public health emergency over the possible connection between Zika and microcephaly, a condition marked by abnormally small heads in newborn babies that can result in developmental problems.
The link with Zika has not been confirmed, but the WHO and other public health bodies have said it is strongly suspected.
On Friday, the WHO said it expected that a link would be established within weeks between Zika, microcephaly and another neurological disorder, Guillain-Barre syndrome.
The microcephaly cases have been centred in north-east Brazil, but the Zika outbreak has affected people in more than 20 countries in the Americas.
Colombia said on Saturday that 5,013 pregnant women were infected - out of a total of 31,555 cases.
Some governments have advised women to delay getting pregnant. Already-pregnant women have been advised not to travel to the countries affected.
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Abortion dilemma Laws and practices in Catholic Latin America | More than 200,000 soldiers have been deployed across Brazil to warn people about the risks of the Zika virus. | 2.551834 | 3 |
The fourth instalment in Michael Bay's franchise took $100m (£58.8m) despite generally poor reviews from critics.
It also added another $201.3m (£118.2m) from 37 international territories, including $90m (£52.9m) in China alone.
The film stars Mark Wahlberg as a mechanic who helps the shape-shifting Autobots fight a new enemy.
Made for a reported $200m (£117.5m), Age of Extinction met industry predictions for its opening weekend.
It topped Dark of the Moon, the third film in the series, which took in $97.9m (£57.5m) in its opening weekend in 2011, but failed to eclipse the $108.9m (£64m) debut of the second film, Revenge of the Fallen.
It is expected to secure a strong second week of release, coinciding with the 4 July US holiday weekend.
"I think putting Mark Wahlberg front and centre accomplished what we wanted to do, and that's re-energise the franchise," Paramount vice chairman Rob Moore said.
"He appeals to audiences, both critically and as an action star."
The three previous Transformer outings starring Shia LeBeouf as a teenager who befriends robot Optimus Prime, generated nearly $2.7bn (£1.6bn) worldwide.
Elsewhere on the chart, 22 Jump Street held firm at number two with $15.4m (£9m), with animation How To Train Your Dragon 2 at three with $13.1m (£7.7m) in box office takings.
Last week's chart topper, Kevin Hart comedy Think Like a Man Too, fell to four with $10.4m (£6.1m).
Maleficent - Disney's take on Sleeping Beauty starring Angelina Jolie - was at five with $8.2m (£4.8m), bringing its total domestic US gross to more than $201m (£118m) and its international haul to $586m (£344m). | Transformers: Age of Extinction has topped the North American box office and scored the biggest opening weekend of the year so far. | 1.024408 | 1 |
The Jorvik Viking Centre in York has launched a campaign to raise £2m to help it re-open.
Its underground re-creation of a Viking street was ruined in December but original 9th Century items, including a sock, bowls and tools were rescued
The York Archaeological Trust plans to open a revamped museum, which attracts 400,000 visitors a year, next February.
The museum closed on the 27 December when water from the flooded River Foss resulted in up to 3 ft (1 m) of water in some parts of the museum.
The city's Norse history was revealed in the 1970s when an archaeological dig at Coppergate found Viking streets buried below the modern pavement.
The trust, an independent charity, opened the centre in 1984.
David Jennings, chief executive, said: "Whilst we could simply replicate the pre-flood displays, our mission to educate in an accessible way drives us to plan how we can do it even better than before - and to do this, we will need to raise a significant sum of money."
The Jorvik centre said it was to stage a temporary exhibition at other York venues including the Theatre Royal.
A planned touring exhibition to other UK venues is to continue despite the flooding. | A Viking museum that was forced to close by severe flooding during storm Frank will be shut for another year. | 1.94065 | 2 |
BP's Forties Pipeline System (FPS) transports about 450,000 barrels of oil per day on average - about 40% of UK production.
The pipeline is one of the oldest in the sector, having started operating in the Forties field in 1975.
BP and Ineos did not give further details about the discussions, citing commercial confidentiality.
In a statement, the oil giant said: "BP can confirm it is in discussions with Ineos regarding a potential sale of the Forties Pipeline System.
"We remain committed to communicating openly with staff and our stakeholders as soon as we are able, and as commercial confidentialities allow, if any deal is confirmed or agreed."
Ineos also released a statement, confirming it was in talks with BP. It added: "At the moment the details of these conversations are confidential and we cannot say any more at this stage."
The FPS system carries oil from the unmanned offshore Forties Unity platform to an onshore terminal at Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire.
From there it transports oil about 130 miles south to facilities adjacent to the Ineos-owned Grangemouth refinery and chemical plant.
Oil is processed and stabilised there before it is sent either for export or on to Grangemouth.
The union Unite, which was involved in a bitter industrial dispute with Ineos at the Grangemouth refinery in 2013, said it would seek an urgent meeting with the chemicals firm to discuss the possible sale.
Unite Scottish secretary Pat Rafferty said: "Our members at BP will have major concerns about the possibility of becoming employees of Ineos, a company with a clear history of attacking our members' pensions, as well as their terms and conditions, in order to maximise profit.
"If a sale does go ahead, we will fight to protect our members in every way we can, and Ineos should work with us to allay their fears."
About 300 BP staff currently operate and support the FPS system. | Oil giant BP is in talks with chemicals group Ineos over the sale of the North Sea's largest pipeline. | 1.974209 | 2 |
Although Hibs lost on penalties after a 1-1 aggregate score, the experience was one Laidlaw had not dared dream of.
He last played in a 5-4 loss to Annan Athletic in April 2015 while on loan at Elgin City from Raith Rovers.
"It's a big difference playing at Borough Briggs compared to playing away to Brondby," said the 24-year-old.
Having returned to Raith, where he failed to dislodge first-choice keeper Kevin Cuthbert, he suffered a torn kidney in an innocuous training ground incident last December.
"There was a concern that, with the severity of the injury, I might never get back to play football," acknowledged Laidlaw.
"It took six months to get back and I'm just delighted that I'm fit again.
"My main aim was to get back to training but obviously I'm delighted I got the chance to play and I think I did myself justice."
Laidlaw's inclusion came at the expense of Otso Virtanen, whose first-minute mistake in the first leg led to the costly loss of an away goal to Brondby.
"I feel for Otso," added Laidlaw. "I've been there myself many a time when I've made a mistake and dropped out the team. But I know he's a really good goalkeeper.
"I see him in training every day and I really rate him. He's not in the Finnish under-21 team for nothing so he'll bounce back from it, definitely."
Laidlaw produced two outstanding saves against Brondby to help his team take the Danes to penalties.
And though that should be enough to ensure he keeps the number one jersey in the short term at least, it's not something he's had a chance to reflect upon.
"I'm not really looking into that," he stressed. "I'm just glad I played and did really well.
"I'm not looking at the next few games or the start of the [league] season. I'm just concentrating on doing well in training and taking it from there." | Ross Laidlaw admits he had to pinch himself as he made his Hibs debut in their Europa League second qualifying round second leg win over Brondby. | 0.92353 | 1 |
Almost completely cut off for centuries, it has tried to let in some aspects of the outside world while fiercely guarding its ancient traditions.
The Bhutanese name for Bhutan, Druk Yul, means "Land of the Thunder Dragon" and it only began to open up to outsiders in the 1970s.
The Wangchuck hereditary monarchy has wielded power since 1907. But Bhutan became a two-party parliamentary democracy after elections in March 2008.
Population 750,000
Area 38,364 sq km (14,812 sq miles)
Major language Dzongkha
Major religions Buddhism (official), Hinduism
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 70 years (women)
Currency ngultrum
Head of state: King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck succeeded his father, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in December 2006 after the former monarch announced his abdication.
His predecessor had already given up some of his absolute powers in 1998 and ruled in conjunction with the government, an assembly and a royal advisory council.
Prime Minister: Tshering Tobgay
Tshering Tobgay was elected Bhutan's second prime minister in July 2013, succeeding Jigme Yozer Thinley.
He is president of the People's Democratic Party. He was leader of the opposition in the National Assembly from March 2008 to April 2013. He has projected himself as a reformer, rejecting official limousine and prime ministerial accommodation.
Television did not come to Bhutan until 1999. For years, the country cut itself off, fearing that outside influences would undermine its monarchy and culture.
Radio broadcasting began in 1973 and the internet arrived in 1999.
Some key dates in the history of Bhutan:
1720 - Chinese imperial army invades and temporarily establishes control over Bhutan.
1772-73 - British intervention.
1864-65 - Further intervention by Britain.
1907 - Ugyen Wangchuck is chosen as hereditary ruler.
1910 - Treaty giving Britain control over foreign relations.
1949 - Treaty signed with newly-independent India guaranteeing non-interference in Bhutan's internal affairs, but allowing Delhi influence over foreign relations.
1958 - Slavery abolished.
1974 - First foreign tourists allowed in.
1990 - Thousands of Hindus flee to Nepal following clashes.
1998 - King cedes some powers to national assembly. | Bhutan is a tiny and remote kingdom nestling in the Himalayas between its powerful neighbours, India and China. | 3.247557 | 3 |
One of the reporters was identified as Anna Therese Day and the other three were said to be members of her crew.
Ms Day's family rejected the official allegations, and US officials said they could not comment.
The arrests happened on the fifth anniversary of an anti-government uprising which was violently put down.
Clashes broke out between protesters and police on Sunday as marches remembering the date were dispersed by security forces.
Bahrain: Between rebellion and reform
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Bahrain's interior ministry said in a statement that the four were arrested in Sitra, a Shia-majority village south of the capital, Manama, which has repeatedly seen anti-government protests.
The four had entered the country between 11 and 12 February, it said.
"At least some of the arrestees were in the country as members of the international media but had not registered with the concerned authority and were involved in illegal activities," the statement said.
One of the detained was "wearing a mask and participating in attacks on police alongside other rioters in Sitra", the statement added. The other three were arrested at a security checkpoint in the same area.
The group Reporters Without Borders confirmed Ms Day's identity and called for the immediate release of the four, describing their detention as "inexcusable".
Ms Day's website says she is an award-winning journalist, with reporting experience in Bahrain, Israel, Libya, Syria and many other countries.
The names of the other three have not been revealed.
Bahrain has been wracked by political unrest since an uprising in 2011, with the kingdom's Shia majority demanding greater political rights from the Sunni-led government. Some violent attacks have blamed on militants linked to Iran.
The violent suppression of the protests left dozens killed, hundreds injured and many more arrested. | Four US journalists have been arrested in Bahrain accused of illegally entering the country and being involved in illegal activities. | 1.398809 | 1 |
Although the symptoms of PCOS are treatable, it cannot be cured.
I can remember, growing up, that my body didn't seem to develop like everyone else's.
I was always bigger than my other friends at school and from the age of 13/14 I never had regular periods.
Sometimes I would go well over a year without having one.
When I did have them they were very painful - I felt like no one understood how bad they were for me.
At the time I didn't know why they were so irregular and would be told again and again by doctors that it was something that would settle down with age… it never did.
I was put on countless contraceptive pills, but each seemed to have a worse effect on me than the last.
Some would make me angry and emotional, others would give me terrible acne all over my face - but none of them seemed to be helping.
I used to get picked on because of my size, and it meant I spent most of my teens and early twenties as a very unconfident and shy person.
I was officially diagnosed with PCOS when I was about 18 years old.
I had been for some blood tests at a new surgery and a doctor announced it as a fly-away remark - she assumed I already knew. Apparently it was in my notes, but I had never been told.
I remember feeling quite scared about the future.
How much would this impact my life? Would I still be able to have children if I wanted them? How would my future boyfriends react when they found out?
At the time there wasn't a lot of support around for the condition and I found it a real struggle to be taken seriously.
It was so new that even if doctors knew about the condition they didn't understand it.
However, I found support with a group called Verity - a charity that promotes awareness of the condition.
From this I learned that eating a healthy low GI diet and fitness would improve my condition.
Over the past 10 years I've worked really hard to improve these areas of my life and have taken up running, pole fitness and burlesque dancing.
This hasn't just helped me manage the symptoms of my condition - it's made me feel feminine again.
Now at the age of 29 I feel in control of my body.
Although I still have my bad days and it is an on-going battle, being body positive has changed my life and given me hope for the future: I hope it can do the same for you too. | If I could say one thing to my younger self it would be this: You have PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome), but PCOS doesn't have you - so don't worry, because everything will be okay. | 1.502417 | 2 |
Kajsa Tylen, 40, from Nottingham, began the quest to beat Billie Fleming's 1938 achievement on New Year's Day.
Fleming cycled 47,642 km (29,604 miles) to motivate others in to adopting a healthy lifestyle.
Ms Tylen said it was "amazing" to have passed the mileage, but will continue her challenge until 31 December.
"It's been a long slog, but I'm really proud to have done it," she said.
"I'm going to have to do some rehabilitation when I'm done to walk without hobbling."
She added: "For me to get the Guinness record I have to hit 50,000 km for them to verify it."
Ms Tylen has been flanked during her journey by mother Tina Tylen, who travelled as back-up with a caravan.
She passed Fleming's distance on Thursday and expects to reach her 50,000km (31,068 miles) target on 9 December.
Ms Tylen, a business analyst who is originally from Sweden, has battled through illness, bad weather and muscular pain to surpass her hero's record.
Her challenge took in parts of Europe including Sweden, Finland and Germany.
She said in a video: "I've just passed Billie Fleming's mileage, how exciting is that?"
Tina Tylen said she was "super proud" of her daughter.
A site dedicated to Billie Fleming said: "Kasja has shown amazing strength of character to achieve this, we are in awe!"
Rather than raising money for charity the cyclist has been asking for "Sweat Pledges" - promises to start taking more exercise, similar to Billie Fleming's aims in 1938.
Ms Tylen has been sharing her ride data with Guinness World Records and her achievement is expected to be verified at a later date.
US cyclist Amanda Coker also claims to have broken the record, but according to Cycling Weekly she is riding to a different set of rules set by another organisation.
Who was Billie Fleming?
Source: Cycling Weekly | A cyclist who set out to pedal 50,000 km (31,068 miles) in one year has broken a 77-year-old long distance cycling record. | 1.531169 | 2 |
Steve Brookes linked the camera to his phone and watched seven young women in "real time". He also moved the camera around, "maximising" what he could see.
Warwick Crown Court heard the 55-year-old recorded more than 180 videos.
Brookes, who contributed to a BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire show, admitted voyeurism charges last month.
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The married grandfather, of Loxley Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, has also worked for Channel 4 and ITV.
Judge Sylvia de Bertodano told him the fact he was in the public eye "clearly makes your fall from grace that much more spectacular".
"You have made a significant contribution, both to the horticultural industry and to the charitable causes you have supported," she said.
But the court heard his victims were left feeling violated and devastated by his "vile and repulsive" behaviour.
His actions came to light when one of the victims discovered the motion-sensitive camera, and Brookes was arrested in September.
"There was really significant planning. You were intervening on a daily basis and moving the position of the camera and maximising what you could see," Ms de Bertodano said.
Privacy was a "a pretty basic human right", she said, adding: "And what you did was a gross invasion of the privacy of seven young women, of whom you were old enough to be their father."
Mitigating, Heidi Kubik said Brookes's career was in "tatters" and he had been identified as someone who could be vulnerable in jail due to his high profile.
He was also ordered to register as a sex offender for seven years. | A TV gardening expert who set up a hidden camera in an air freshener to film women using his bathroom has been jailed for a year. | 0.966926 | 1 |
The 2-1 loss in March, which followed a 3-2 defeat at Manchester United, left Arsenal six points adrift of eventual champions Leicester.
Wenger was heavily criticised by fans after his side lost to the Swans, who return to Emirates Stadium on Saturday.
"I must say that the negativity comes very quickly," said the Frenchman, 66.
"It is a virus that travels very quickly and goes away very slowly."
The Londoners finished last season in second, 10 points behind Leicester.
Thierry Henry, Arsenal's record goalscorer, said he had never seen the club's fans as angry as during the defeat by Swansea.
This time, the Gunners face the Welsh side on the back of five successive wins in all competitions. They are third in the Premier League, two points behind leaders Manchester City.
"I believe at the moment the vibes are positive," Wenger said.
"We have reduced distance with the top teams. We have to continue to get to the next level.
"Fans are part of our game and they have the right to be happy, not to be happy. My job is to focus on my job and trying to make them happy." | Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says last season's home defeat by Swansea "killed" his side's title hopes and led to a "virus" of negativity among fans. | 0.914173 | 1 |
Working parents would receive 10 hours of free childcare a week from the end of paid parental leave, as would all families with two to three-year-olds.
Childcare for three to four-year-olds would increase from 10 to 15 hours and also apply to all families.
Other parties have also focused on more free care for three to four-year-olds.
Families with children of this age are currently allowed 570 hours of free early education or childcare per year, usually taken as 15 hours a week for 38 weeks.
Free childcare for two to three-year-olds is only available in poorer areas that are part of the Welsh Government's Flying Start programme at the moment and is not provided for children under two.
Lib Dem education spokesman Aled Roberts said: "There is a black hole in government support for families from the end of parental leave to when their child gets a subsidised place.
"Our offer is unique; we are the only party offering free childcare to help parents when their parental leave ends."
The Lib Dem childcare plans would apply for 38 weeks a year, although the party said it wanted to expand it to 48 weeks "in the longer term".
Labour and the Conservatives have said they would increase free childcare for three to four-year-olds from 10 to 30 hours a week for working parents.
Labour's proposals cover 48 weeks of the year, while the Conservatives have not yet specified how much of the year their pledge applies to.
Plaid Cymru would raise the number of hours for three to four-year-olds to 30 hours a week for all families, for 39 weeks a year.
UKIP has said the main problem is the limited supply of childcare, something it would tackle by allowing child minders to work without needing to get regulatory approval. | The Liberal Democrats have announced plans for free childcare for children from nine months old, if the party wins power in May's assembly election. | 1.701071 | 2 |
Sweden's highest musical honour is awarded annually to both a pop performer and classical artist.
The pair will each receive one million kronor (£98,600) from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
King Carl XVI Gustaf will present them with their awards at a Stockholm ceremony on 27 August.
The prize is awarded for "exceptional achievements in the creation and advancement of music".
The academy recognised Ndour as "not just a singer, but a storyteller, poet, singer of praise, entertainer and verbal historian".
"With his exceptionally exuberant band Super Etoile de Dakar and his musically ground breaking and political solo albums, Youssou Ndour has worked to reduce animosities between his own religion, Islam, and other religions," it said.
"His voice encompasses an entire continent's history and future, blood and love, dreams and power."
He was last year appointed Senegal's minister of tourism.
He also owns an influential media group, a night club and a music studio.
Saariaho, who has written chamber music, orchestral works and operas, was praised as "a modern maestro who opens up our ears and causes their anvils and stirrups to fall in love".
The prize was founded in 1989 by Stig Anderson, the manager of Swedish pop group ABBA.
Last year's winners were US singer Paul Simon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
Other previous winners include Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Bjork and Patti Smith. | Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho have been named as the recipients of this year's Polar Music Prize. | 1.462768 | 1 |
The zoo said it was shocked and saddened by the unexpected death of the eight-day-old male calf, which was found earlier by keepers.
Rothschild's giraffes are one of the most endangered subspecies, with only a few hundred left in the wild.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out to find out the cause of the 6ft (1.8m) calf's death, the zoo said.
"This was a shock to all of us," senior keeper Matthew Webb said.
"Keepers were watching the calf closely each day and he had been doing very well, he was strong and active, coming out with the rest of the herd and resting in the paddock in the sun.
"His mother was attentive, but it's possible that either she did not have enough milk, or was simply not allowing him to feed properly.
"Giraffe babies can go downhill very quickly. With most newborns, if they get ill or haven't fed properly, they will fade very rapidly.
"We did not step in, as he was obviously getting milk - hand rearing is very much a last resort."
It is fourth instance in recent years of a Rothschild's giraffe dying at the zoo.
Last year, vets had to put down a calf called Kitto after he was rejected by his mother and developed breathing problems. In 2006, a fire killed a mother and her week-old calf.
Neil Bemment, the zoo's curator of mammals, said although the death was "very sad", it was part of the normal struggle of working with endangered species.
"You have to carry on," he said.
"A post-mortem examination will be carried out. One possibility is that he had not had enough milk from mum, but he could have caught an infection, so we can't be sure at this stage."
As part of the European Endangered Species Programme, the zoo has a remaining herd of three adult Rothschild's and two juveniles.
Rothschild's giraffes are native to Kenya, Uganda and Sudan.
Poaching and habitat loss have contributed to the animals' decline.
According to the Rothschild's Giraffe Project, there are now fewer than 700 of the animals remaining in the wild. | A rare Rothschild's giraffe calf has died at Paignton Zoo in Devon. | 2.616565 | 3 |
Control of Stamp Duty Land Tax and Landfill tax is due to transfer to Wales in April 2018.
A new Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA), like HM Revenue and Customs, will collect the taxes.
Finance Minister Jane Hutt said it was an "historic day" for Wales and "another significant chapter in the story of Welsh devolution".
The UK government has said income tax powers will also be devolved, but there no timetable has been announced. | Legislation to collect and manage the first Welsh taxes in 800 years has been passed by AMs. | 1.522339 | 2 |
The 23-year-old, who made 18 league starts during two years at Vale, has agreed a two-year deal with the Mariners and is manager Russell Slade's third signing of the summer.
"Russell has been a manager at some great clubs and is a big name in football," he told Grimsby's website.
"When I got the original call from my agent, I couldn't turn down the opportunity to work with him (Slade)."
Grimsby recently also signed midfielder Mitch Rose from Newport County and youngster Siriki Dembele from the Nike Academy.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Grimsby Town have signed out-of-contract Port Vale winger Sam Kelly. | 0.798898 | 1 |
Charlotte Bevan, 30, disappeared from St Michael's Hospital with her daughter, named Zaani Tiana, between 20:30 and 21:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Officers have cordoned off an area in the grounds of Clifton Observatory above the gorge.
Avon and Somerset police said Ms Bevan's family had been informed.
A formal identification of the body is due to take place later on Thursday. The search for baby Zaani is "still continuing", police said.
"We are searching in the same area along with police dogs from South Wales Police. We are only searching in that area," he said.
Mountain rescue teams and the police helicopter were also involved in the search at the observatory.
On Wednesday, CCTV footage was issued showing the 30-year-old mother leaving hospital.
Ms Bevan did not have a coat or shoes and is thought to have been wearing hospital slippers, while her baby was wrapped only in blankets.
The night she went missing temperatures in Bristol were close to freezing.
Police, her mother and her boyfriend Pascal Malbrouck made a direct appeal for her to get in touch at a press conference on Wednesday.
A spokesman for University Hospitals Bristol, which runs St Michael's Hospital, said Ms Bevan had discharged herself for "reasons unknown" and there had been no signs she was planning to leave.
"Charlotte and her baby were seen by staff at 20:30. When staff went to check on her at 21:05 they found Charlotte and her baby missing and immediately sounded the alarm," he said.
The hospital said access to the maternity unit is controlled by a "door release" and CCTV. It is not clear how Ms Bevan was able to leave. | Police searching for a mother and her four-day-old baby who went missing from a Bristol hospital have found a woman's body in the Avon Gorge. | 1.11932 | 1 |
He polled 50 votes with just four going to his only challenger Cameroonian Zelkifli Ngoufonja at the Confederation of African Football (Caf) Extraordinary General Assembly Congress in Bahrain.
Two others Leodegar Tenga from Tanzania and Mohamed Samir Sobha from Mauritius withdrew before the vote.
It takes to seven the number of Africans on the Fifa Council.
The other Africans already elected to the former executive committee of football's world governing body are Lydia Nsekera of Burundi, Tunisia's Tarek Bouchamaoui, DR Congo's Omari Constant, Guinea's Almamy Kabele Camara and Ghana's Kwesi Nyantakyi.
Ahmad is a Fifa vice-president due to his position as head of Caf.
Nyantakyi has also been announced as Caf's first vice-president, meaning he would step should Ahmad be unable to carry out his presidential duties.
The assembly also approved the amendment of the Caf budget to allow president Ahmad to implementat his proposals.
It means the 54 members of Caf will get US$100,000 as promised by Ahmad when he was elected in March. | Egyptian Football Association (EFA) president, Hani Abo Rida, has been elected onto the Fifa Council. | 1.294847 | 1 |
The volunteers were angry at the RNLI's decision to shut down the station later this year.
They had said they would no longer use the lifeboat to respond to emergencies, and would instead use their own boats.
But the crew agreed to take back their pagers at a meeting on Friday night.
In a statement, the crew members said they felt they had to do so ahead of the busy summer diving season, but they pledged to continue campaigning to save the St Abbs station.
There has been a lifeboat station in St Abbs for more than 100 years. The local volunteers have been credited with saving hundred of lives in and around the seaside town on the east coast of the Borders.
But following a review the RNLI announced last week that the St Abbs boat was no longer needed and in future cover would be provided with an additional boat in nearby Eyemouth.
Supporters of the station have argued that closing it would put lives at risk. | The crew of the closure-threatened St Abbs lifeboat station in the Borders have agreed to take back their emergency pagers and respond to RNLI call outs. | 1.519543 | 2 |
Faryadi Sarwar Zardad was convicted in 2005 and given 20 years in prison in a landmark trial under a UN torture law.
He had fled to the UK in 1998 on false papers and claimed asylum but was eventually tracked down by the BBC.
About 100 supporters gathered at Kabul airport to greet Zardad, a former leading Hezb-e-Islami commander. Rights campaigners queried his early release.
Zardad was whisked away on arrival at Kabul airport in a fleet of vehicles, Pajhwok news reported.
Human rights groups said his many victims would find the hero's welcome painful to watch.
Zardad fled Afghanistan after the Taliban took power in 1996 and sought political asylum in the UK under a false identity.
He was tracked down by a BBC investigation in 2000 and arrested in 2003.
As there was no request from the Afghan authorities, Britain decided to proceed with a prosecution.
His trial heard how hundreds of thousands of people trying to flee to safety from Kabul were at his mercy.
He had controlled the checkpoint on the Kabul-Nangarhar highway between 1991 and 1996 - the only road between Kabul and Pakistan during some of the heaviest fighting in the civil war.
Sentencing, the judge said he had presided over a brutal regime of terror and his crimes had been so serious that they transcended national boundaries.
It was thought to be the first time torture offences committed in one country had been prosecuted in another.
The British embassy in Kabul refused to comment on his case but said foreign nationals serving custodial sentences in the UK were routinely considered for deportation.
Zardad is currently in the custody of Afghanistan's NDS intelligence agency. Correspondents say there are no plans to bring a case against him.
Earlier this year the Afghan government signed a peace deal with Hezb-e Islami. After the Taliban, who were ousted from power in 2001, it remains the country's second largest militant group. | A former Afghan warlord has been deported by the UK after being jailed for torture during the 1990s civil war. | 1.925419 | 2 |
The 33-year-old joins England Test captain Alastair Cook in the squad, which was announced last week.
The MCC will take part in the T20 tournament with Lancashire, Sussex and Yorkshire in Abu Dhabi on 20 March.
Yuvraj will not play in the four-day day-night game against county champions Yorkshire, starting on 22 March.
He has not played for India since making 11 in India's six-wicket defeat by Sri Lanka in last April's World T20 final, but struck 132 off 134 balls against the MCC for a Rest of the World XI in the Bicentenary match at Lord's last summer.
MCC squad: Alastair Cook (Essex), Nick Compton (Middlesex, capt), Michael Carberry (Hampshire), James Hildreth (Somerset), Zafar Ansari (Surrey), Daryl Mitchell (Worcestershire), Sam Billings (Kent), Matt Dunn (Surrey), Chris Rushworth (Durham), Graham Onions (Durham), Adam Riley (Kent), Paras Khadka (Nepal - for T20 matches only), Yuvraj Singh (India - for T20 matches only). | India batsman Yuvraj Singh has been named as the final member of the MCC's squad for the Emirates T20 tournament in Dubai in March. | 0.946494 | 1 |
Hilary McClintock was elected as mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council on Monday. The SDLP's Jim McKeever is the new deputy mayor.
In 2012, the DUP mayor of Londonderry Maurice Devenney refused to hand his chains to Sinn Féin's Kevin Campbell.
Mayor McClintock said it was "significant" but things had moved on.
"Its part of the process towards normality, the same thing happened in Belfast council a few days ago," she said.
"It was something that we discussed locally and it wasn't really a big deal so we're quite happy to accept it (mayoral chains) from the outgoing mayor."
The Drumahoe based councillor said that during her term she wants more investment because people in the north west feel like "second class citizens".
"I don't want us to be second class I want us to punch a bit higher and I will hopefully lead on that," she said.
"I don't think it's even a party thing. I think west of the Bann we sometimes do feel neglected.
"There's a lot more that can be done for the city, in terms of unemployment we have absolutely woeful figures.
"We do need to bring more jobs and more infrastructure," she added.
Family, friends and councillors from different parties clapped and cheered as former mayor Elisha McCallion placed the mayoral chain around Mrs McClintock's neck.
The former mayor told BBC Radio Foyle she was delighted to be able to do so.
"I'm delighted everything went well for the new mayor and I want to wish her all the best for the future, and the deputy mayor as well," Mrs McCallion said.
"Its a very symbolic day because that was actually the very first time a DUP mayor has accepted a chain from a Sinn Féin ex-mayor.
"It just goes to show you where we are as a society here in this city so I was delighted to do that honour," she said.
Mrs McClintock, who is married with two daughters, has previously worked as a civil servant and a classroom assistant. | For the first time in Londonderry an outgoing Sinn Féin mayor has placed the chains of office around the neck of a DUP successor. | 1.04556 | 1 |
Activists from Glasgow Palestine Action gained access to the Thales Group site, in Govan, on Tuesday morning.
They say the firm makes components for drones which have been used against Palestinian people in Gaza.
Police Scotland said seven women and three men had been arrested. They were due to appear from custody at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Wednesday. | Ten people have been arrested following a protest by a pro-Palestinian group at a defence engineering firm in Glasgow. | 1.10974 | 1 |
The 22-year-old will complete his move to Bloomfield Road on 1 July after his deal with Bolton expires.
Clayton joined Wanderers from Crewe in 2014 and played 13 games last season as they won promotion to the Championship.
"I knew a few people here and I thought it was important for my development to come and work with people that I know," he told the Blackpool website.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Blackpool have signed Bolton forward Max Clayton on a two-year contract, with an option for a further 12 months. | 0.552798 | 1 |
Ruslanas Solovjovas was arrested after he shot five people with an air rifle in the Freiston Road area of Boston.
Lincoln Crown Court heard Solovjovas, 39, of Vauxhall Road, Boston, was drunk and told police he was Jesus Christ.
He admitted three charges of common assault and two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm.
Phil Howes, prosecuting, said a 28-year-old woman was shot in the leg and required hospital treatment.
People heard shots "whizzing past their ears" on 13 November, Mr Howes said, with a man noticing blood on his back and a dent in his car.
Stuart Lody, mitigating, said Solovjovas had bought the weapon a few days earlier when his girlfriend left him after becoming fed up with his drinking.
Judge Michael Heath, passing sentence, told the Lithuanian national: "You chose to exercise target practice on five innocent members of the public who were going about their lawful business.
"You caused some physical and psychological harm."
He added: "You could have caused the loss of eyes and heaven knows what would have happened if you had hit somebody in the temple." | A man who used pedestrians as "target practice", prompting armed police to shut off part of a Lincolnshire town, has been jailed for 14 months. | 0.730436 | 1 |
The 68-year deputy chairman of Telegraph Media Group will replace Ralph Topping when he ends his eight-year stint in the role on 1 August.
MacLennan was the board's unanimous choice for the non-executive role, SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said.
"We look forward to working with him as we continue to drive the game to even greater success in Scotland," he added.
MacLennan stood down as chief executive of Telegraph Media Group last month. The Glaswegian is also chairman of the Press Association and an honorary professor at the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Business School.
Doncaster continued: "Murdoch brings with him a wealth of top-level business and media experience and has been at the cutting edge of the digital revolution as CEO and now deputy chairman of the Telegraph Media Group.
"He demonstrated a real passion for the role and a clear insight into the opportunities and challenges we will face in the years ahead."
MacLennan said he was "so proud" to be a part of the SPFL's future.
"I greatly look forward to working with Neil Doncaster and to the opportunities and challenges that are ahead for the whole of Scottish football," he said.
Topping joined the board of the Scottish Premier League in October 2009, replacing Lex Gold, and was a key figure in the merger with the Scottish Football League in 2013. | The Scottish Professional Football League has appointed media executive Murdoch MacLennan as its new chairman. | 0.756335 | 1 |
Unidentified perpetrators in Mainhausen near Offenbach had bricked it up during the night, police told local media.
It could have been built within minutes, they said, and the motive is unclear - possibly a joke, an act of revenge, or a bet.
Police are searching for several people. The damage to the property is estimated at €500 (£425).
"It reminded me of the building of the Berlin Wall," a police spokesman told the local Hessenshau news portal (in German).
"That went up pretty quickly, too."
But he added: "It's a crime and no joke."
Janet Jackson, 50, gives birth to boy
Chinese paper's sweary New Year puzzle
Sweden's best-selling car not a Volvo | A man in central Germany tried to leave his house by the front door only to find a brick wall there. | 1.135395 | 1 |
He was detained in a joint operation on Thursday.
The man has been brought back to a police station in Belfast for questioning.
There is no more information at this stage. | Police have arrested a man in Cumbria in England in connection with loyalist paramilitary activity in Lisburn and Belfast. | 0.090682 | 0 |
The Birmingham International Marathon and half marathon will be held in October 2017, organisers said.
It is expected to follow in the footsteps the People's Marathon, which ran between 1980 and 1985.
The race has been created by the Great Run company behind the Great Birmingham 10K and the Great Birmingham Run in partnership with the city council.
A provisional route starting at the Alexander Stadium and finishing on Broad Street has been proposed.
There will be themed miles along the course to celebrate the city's cultural diversity, organisers said.
Birmingham was hailed as the birthplace of the open-to-all marathon when elite runner John Walker launched the People's Marathon on 11 May 1980.
Athletics Weekly wrote at the time: "In years to come, when marathon fields several thousand strong will be commonplace in Britain, it will be seen that the event which triggered off the mass long-distance running movement in this country was the inaugural People's Marathon."
Mark Hollinshead, chief executive of the Great Run Company, said he hoped the new marathon would become the trials for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
"Not only will this be a great event for British elite runners, we will also aim to attract runners of all abilities from the UK and beyond, to run for charity, for the challenge or just for fun," he said.
Steve Hollingworth, Birmingham City Council's assistant director for sport, events and parks said: "It will encourage more residents to become physically active and have access to a full complement of running events in the city." | A new Birmingham marathon has been announced more than 30 years after the city held its last 26.2 mile run. | 1.281438 | 1 |
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That could soon be reality - the government's got together with Amazon to start testing it out.
Naz has been finding out more... | Imagine this - instead of waiting days for the postman to come and deliver your parcel, a drone could just come and drop it off in your garden. | 0.27594 | 0 |
Online bookings for his "Dismaland" exhibition were suspended last week after the attraction's website crashed.
Many users reported issues when sales resumed earlier - prompting claims the problems were deliberate.
But a spokeswoman for Banksy insisted the rumours were untrue. Tickets have now become available on the website.
She said the attraction's website was "100% real" and had crashed under "huge demand".
Dismaland, housed in a derelict lido on Weston-super-Mare's seafront, is a dark take on theme parks with a nod to Disneyland, featuring work by more than 50 artists including Bristolian Banksy.
Among those tweeting their disappointment was Mark Östen, who wrote: "On Friday, I believed 'technical difficulties'. Now, I'm reluctantly believing #Banksy is trolling those after tickets for #dismaland."
Caroline Harley tweeted: "It's easier to buy tickets to see the Beatles than tickets to go to #Dismaland"
There were suggestions the site may be fake last week.
But the artist's spokeswoman told the BBC: "It's not true. It's 100% a real website. It crashed under the number of hits it received."
North Somerset Council, which worked with Bansky on the exhibition, has insisted the website is not a hoax.
Seafront manager Darren Fairchild said the website had crashed due to an "unprecented" number of hits, despite "huge amounts of work".
Dismaland has boosted visits to the seaside resort - one tour guide told the BBC he had not seen such crowds since the 1970s.
Among the exhibits are a distorted mermaid, a dilapidated fairy castle and a boat pond where all the boats are filled with models of migrants, as well as paintings and a beach ball hovering above upturned knives. | Banksy has denied accusations he is "trolling" members of the public - after thousands have struggled to buy tickets for his new show. | 1.582335 | 2 |
The 30-year-old, who joined Barca aged 13, will sign the deal when he returns to training from pre-season.
"The club is very happy with the renewal and commitment of Messi, the best player in history," said the La Liga club.
The Argentina forward has scored a club-record 507 goals in 583 matches since his competitive debut in 2004.
Messi, who is currently on honeymoon after marrying childhood sweetheart Antonela Roccuzzo, is also La Liga's record scorer on 349 goals.
Spanish media say the new deal contains a 300m euro (£263m) buy-out clause and comes after Messi reportedly rejected an initial offer in May.
In a statement, Barca said Messi has "led the team to an era of extraordinary success, the likes of which has never been seen in world football".
"Leo Messi will not stop there - the Argentinian is in one of the best moments of his career and still has a lot more left to give, which is music to the ears of all Barca fans who will get to continue marvelling at his greatness for at least another four years," the statement added.
Messi's previous deal was scheduled to end in the summer of 2018.
The striker has been previously linked with a move to Manchester City but his new contract ties him to the 24-time La Liga winners until he is 34.
Since breaking into the first team under former Barca boss Frank Rijkaard, Messi has won eight La Liga titles, the Champions League four times and the Copa del Rey on five occasions. | Barcelona striker Lionel Messi has agreed a contract extension which will keep him at the club until 2021. | 0.905997 | 1 |
The Irish province had feared losing one of their star players to English Premiership leaders Saracens.
But the Munster management have won the battle to retain the 28-year-old with a deal which will keep him in Ireland until the end of the 2019 World Cup.
Munster have also announced that scrum-half Conor Murray, 26, has signed a fresh three-year deal.
The news that Earls is staying at Thomond Park will delight not just Munster supporters, but Ireland coach Joe Schmidt too, as a move to Saracens had appeared likely.
In the wake of prop Marty Moore agreeing to join Wasps in the summer and Ian Madigan heading to Bordeaux, Schmidt has had to field questions about a suggested 'exodus' of big-name stars to play abroad.
Schmidt indicated fly-half Madigan would make his chances of future Test selection tougher by departing in the summer to play in France.
"There is always concern when we lose the opportunity to manage a player," Schmidt said.
"We get the training volume from the provinces, we know their strength and conditioning programmes, their total training minutes.
"The only experience I have had with it is Johnny Sexton and he came into his first training camp after joining Racing having played 12 games in 11 weeks.
"Is that the best preparation to be fully fit to play an international? That's the risk for us.
"Ian and I had a long discussion about it. When I arrived at Leinster Ian was learning French, so there was an uneasy feeling at that stage.
"But that is because he is one of the most professional preparers for whatever is coming next.
"I know he wants to play at 10, and I think he'll go into a head-to-head duel with Lionel Beauxis and fair play to him if he gets the better of that.
"He won't be out of our thoughts, but Paddy Jackson came off the bench in several of the Six Nations matches last year, and Ian Keatley started against Italy last year.
"So there is competition for Ian, and there's always a risk in him going away." | Ireland winger Keith Earls has given Munster a massive boost by agreeing a new three-year contract. | 0.973716 | 1 |
The deal means it will show all Australia's Test matches, one-day internationals and Twenty20 games.
Delia Bushell, BT TV and BT Sport boss, said they were "delighted" to be adding international cricket to its line-up, and to cover the next Ashes tour.
England won the Ashes series 3-2 this summer against Australia.
They will travel down under to defend the Ashes in 2017-18.
BT Sport will also show free-to-air daily highlights of international matches and from the Big Bash League, Australia's domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament.
As Sky holds the rights to the 2019 Ashes series in England, it means that UK-based cricket fans will need to have access to both Sky Sports and BT Sport if they want to watch the 2017-18 and 2019 contests with Australia.
The rights acquisition, the latest salvo in the battle between BT and Sky for sports viewers, also includes the Big Bash League and the women's Ashes.
However, as well as the next Australian tour series to England in 2019, Sky also has the rights to the cricket World Cup that year.
As part of its deal, BT Sport will also show free-to-air daily highlights of internationals and the Big Bash League.
Sports broadcasting rival Sky signed its latest deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2012, but may face a challenge from BT Sport when the next contract comes up for grabs.
The ECB's current agreement with Sky ends in 2019 and its next contract will be the most valuable deal in its history.
Cricket Australia's executive general manager, Ben Amarfio, said BT Sport's reach into more than five million UK homes was a factor in signing the deal.
"BT Sport put forward a highly compelling bid for the rights to broadcast cricket from Australia to audiences throughout the United Kingdom," he said.
The new agreement will start in October 2016 with Australia's home Test series against South Africa.
BT is paying a reported £80m for the deal.
The broadcaster's growing sports portfolio includes all Uefa Champions League fixtures, as well as 38 Premier League games this season. That figure will increase from 2016-17 to 42 PL matches, compared with Sky Sports' 126. | Broadcaster BT Sport says it has secured the live rights to the 2017-18 Ashes cricket series as part of a five-year deal with Cricket Australia. | 0.983994 | 1 |
Gosport's HMS Sultan and Fort Blockhouse are among 91 Ministry of Defence sites now set to close - 35 were previously earmarked.
The town's borough council said the loss of more than 1,000 sailors from the area would affect the economy.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon announced the closures on Monday.
He the closures would deliver better value for money and release enough land across the UK to build 55,000 homes.
It is also estimated that about £140m will be saved over the next decade by selling off the sites, which Sir Michael said would be reinvested in creating "areas of military expertise" in locations across the country, including a specialised infantry group in Aldershot.
Leader of Gosport Borough Council, Mark Hook, said: "We are relieved the majority of jobs will remain in the area, but we'll lose the economic benefits of having more than 1,000 sailors based in the town."
He admitted the authority could not stop the sale of the land, but said it would work to get the "best possible outcomes" for the town.
He said it would be "seeking assurances" from the MoD that the sites could be redeveloped for business use.
"We need to reduce the impact on the area by using these sites to create business spaces that will bring with them opportunities and jobs to benefit local people," he said.
Unions have described the plans - which are part of a review of Ministry of Defence land - as "brutal" and have also promised to fight the closures. | The government will be lobbied by a Hampshire council over its plans to sell off an additional 56 defence sites by 2040. | 1.192551 | 1 |
Archivists are digitising more than 250,000 hard-copy images, dating from 1955 to 2005.
They are being processed in batches, with the first focusing on around 120,000 taken between 1955 and 1985.
CERN said that some descriptions exist but are incomplete.
The archivists are looking, in particular, to identify the people in many of the images.
They said they were also looking for help with descriptions of equipment, "and we believe that much of this information could be crowd-sourced from the CERN community."
Dr Sue Black, who was a key figure in the campaign to save Bletchley Park, where the German Enigma code was broken during World War Two, praised the project.
"It's so important to archive and share our scientific history. It helps us all to understand the work that has been carried out in the past, which helps us to better understand and appreciate the research that is being carried out today - and to be able to correctly put current research into context," she told the BBC.
"Crowdsourcing the information related to these images is a fabulous approach to public engagement and one which other institutions - scientific or not - would be wise to follow.
"It engages public interest and imagination in a way that is interesting and exciting. It will also be a great exercise in demonstrating the power of crowdsourcing, possibly to an audience that has not experienced it before," she said.
John Graham-Cumming, author of The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive, said: "What I love about these photographs is that many look like they are stills from a 1960s science fiction film about the future, when in fact they are the real thing".
CERN said it would release more batches of mystery photographs and is asking for help from any member of the public who might be able to offer information. | Scientists at the European nuclear research centre CERN have uncovered an archive of images from its first 50 years - and are asking for help in deciphering what is going on in them. | 2.815449 | 3 |
The ornate artefacts had belonged to the 3rd Earl Cowper and were at the family's house in Panshanger, Hertfordshire, until the mid-20th Century.
The current owner has not been named.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said they had "immense academic value".
The table tops, which feature pietre dure panels - a mosaic technique which uses highly polished coloured stones to create images - depict images of the Colosseum in Rome and the Porto Mediceo of Livorno, Tuscany.
The had belonged to George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper, a renowned art collector who travelled to Italy in the 18th Century and lived in Florence until his death in 1789.
His art collection, including the table tops, was brought to England where his sons put them in their country house in Panshanger which was purpose-built to house the earl's artwork.
They remained in the collection until the estate was sold and the house demolished.
More on this story and other news from Hertfordshire as it happens
The decision to defer the export licence follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest.
It deemed they were "closely connected with our history and national life", were of "outstanding aesthetic importance" and were of "outstanding significance for the study of pietre dure".
Mr Vaizey said: "These beautiful table tops have been in the UK for hundreds of years. They have immense academic value and shed light on the history of art collecting and the English Grand Tour."
The decision on the export licence application has been deferred until 3 July and may be extended until 3 November 2016 if a "serious intention" to raise the funds to purchase them is made. | A temporary export ban has been placed on a pair of antique Florentine table tops worth £1.5m so a buyer can be found to keep them in the UK, the culture minister said. | 2.242357 | 2 |
The club has said he will serve a 12-month notice period under the terms of his contract, as his predecessor Ally McCoist intended to.
A statement from Ibrox said the 51-year-old will "remain 100% committed to his normal duties".
Rangers say McDowall made the decision to resign for "personal reasons".
He stepped up from his assistant's role when McCoist was placed on gardening leave last month.
His reign opened with a 4-0 defeat away to Hibernian, with wins against Dumbarton and Alloa Athletic following before Friday's abandoned game against runaway Championship leaders Hearts.
Rangers trail the Edinburgh side by 13 points.
"The club respects Kenny's decision and he will continue to have the full support of everybody at Rangers," added the statement.
McCoist, who had been in charge since the summer of 2011, was removed from his duties only nine days into his 12-month notice but remains on the pay roll.
Former St Mirren striker McDowall joined Rangers as first-team coach under Walter Smith in 2007, helping the club win three top flight titles in a row from 2008-09 to 2010-11, and was promoted to the assistant's position when McCoist became manager.
He had previously been working as a youth coach with Glasgow rivals Celtic. | Kenny McDowall took Rangers' first-team for training as normal on Tuesday despite having tendered his resignation as caretaker manager the day before. | 0.986668 | 1 |
George Nutman, 25, from Kirkcaldy, was at the wheel of a green Honda Civic which crashed into a wall on Largo Road in Leven at about 02:15 on Thursday.
No other vehicle was involved in the accident.
The A915 road has now reopened following an investigation at the scene. Police are appealing for witnesses. | A driver has been killed in an early morning road accident in Fife. | 0.165979 | 0 |
Jordan Lockett, 21, has been charged with a public order offence following the disturbance at Liverpool's Titanic Hotel on 29 May.
The protesters punched windows and kicked doors during the event.
He is due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
City mayor Joe Anderson had been hosting the event in aid of For James, the fund set up after the toddler was killed in 1993.
It was believed the protesters targeted the hotel as part of a demonstration objecting to Mr Anderson's policies. | A man has been charged in connection with a disturbance that saw a group of protesters break into a hotel during a charity dinner in memory of murdered toddler James Bulger. | 0.738618 | 1 |
Hassan Mohammed, from Camberwell, south London, was stabbed in York Road, Southend-on-Sea on 7 July last year.
Tajwar Alam, 19, of Seaford Road in Tottenham, north London, denied murder but was convicted by a majority verdict at Chelmsford Crown Court in May.
Judge Charles Gratwicke, sentencing him on Friday, said he was a callous young man with a tendency to violence.
He told Alam that he would serve 20 years before parole would be considered.
Mr Mohammed died at Southend Hospital the day after he was stabbed.
Det Ch Insp Simon Werrett said: "The sentence handed down today will ensure the people of Southend are safe from Alam and hopefully give Hassan's family some closure so they can move on with their lives, although nothing will bring their son back."
Five other men who were charged in connection with Mr Mohammed's murder were acquitted and formally dismissed during the trial. | A student has been jailed for life for murdering a 24-year-old man he stabbed twice in an attack at an Essex resort. | 0.85228 | 1 |
Now, 30 years on, the writer of that film says she's ready to bring Baby and Johnny back to the big screen.
"I am now thinking I might be ready to do a sequel," Eleanor Bergstein told the BBC.
She added her characters were "very particular people who find a very particular reality with each other, and I do want to explore that now".
Set in 1963, Dirty Dancing told of a teenager, Frances "Baby" Houseman, who has an affair with dance instructor Johnny Castle while staying at a Catskill Mountains resort.
The film starred Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze and won an Oscar for the song (I've Had) The Time of My Life.
Audiences fell in love with the movie's characters, music and its iconic dance routines, including the famous "lift".
In an interview to be aired on BBC Radio 4's Front Row, Bergstein pointed out that her film also included an illegal abortion that has become all too topical in the wake of US President Trump's election.
"All these things have come around again," she told Samira Ahmed. "All these battles we thought in some way had been won... it's come back now."
Bergstein also said that were Baby around today, she would be out marching for women's rights and Black Lives Matter.
"The thing that is so moving to me is that in cities all across America... everyone instinctively dropped their lives and went out on the streets.
"That's what Baby would be doing now."
Swayze, who died in 2009, made a cameo appearance as a dance teacher in 2004 prequel Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
A TV movie remake of the original film, starring Abigail Breslin and Nicole Scherzinger, is set to air later this year.
Listen to the full interview on Monday's Front Row at 19:15 GMT.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | We last saw them having the time of their lives in Dirty Dancing, 1987's sleeper hit about finding love, coming of age and learning to mambo. | 1.057371 | 1 |
The striker thought his tournament may be over after he went off injured in Wednesday's 1-0 loss to Egypt.
"Tests have shown the injury is not as bad as initially feared," the Ghana Football Association said on Friday.
Should he recover from a "left thigh muscle contusion", Gyan will earn his 100th cap.
"Gyan has now joined the Black Stars camp in Oyem to undergo treatment to make him fully fit," added the Ghana FA statement.
The 31-year-old, who is playing in his sixth successive Nations Cup tournament, is also looking to score his 50th goal for his country.
He scored his 49th international goal in Ghana's second Group D match against Mali, earning them a 1-0 win. | Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan is likely to recover from injury to play in Sunday's Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final against DR Congo. | 0.897705 | 1 |
The east Belfast musician was honoured by the city council for his achievements during his long career.
He was presented with the honour at the Waterfront Hall, before performing a free concert. Tickets were drawn in a lottery system for Belfast residents.
Since the freedom of the city was first awarded in 1898, 54 men, 16 women and nine organisations have been honoured.
Among those in the audience was Morrison's mother, Violet, while his daughter Shana was part of his backing group.
Before the concert, he was presented with a scroll and a gold ceremonial key by Lord Mayor MáirtÃn Ó Muilleoir and his predecessor Gavin Robinson.
Morrison was brought up in east Belfast, and the inspiration for a number of songs came from local streets such as Cyprus Avenue and Hyndford Street.
His career began in the 1950s and he has enjoyed critical acclaim, winning six Grammy Awards, a Brit Award for outstanding contribution to music, and places in both the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. | Van Morrison has become the 79th recipient of the freedom of Belfast on Friday. | 1.923143 | 2 |
The Public Health Bill, if passed, will ban children under the age of 16 from having piercings of the tongue and genitalia.
But the health committee thinks the age of consent should be higher, expressing "serious concerns" about the medical implications of piercing young people.
The Welsh Government said it would consider the AMs' recommendations.
In a report the committee also recommended that ministers:
Dai Lloyd, chairman of the committee and a Plaid Cymru AM, said: "The committee agrees with almost all of the provisions within the Public Health (Wales) Bill, but we are absolutely convinced that the age of consent for intimate piercings should be 18 years old."
He said that "given the weight of evidence from medical and environmental health professionals regarding the significant harm an intimate piercing can do to a still developing body" AMs were not convinced by public health minister Rebecca Evans's rationale for choosing the age of 16.
"We welcome her commitment to consider this matter further," Mr Lloyd said.
He added that the committee was "extremely concerned that the list of offences excluding people from gaining a licence for special procedures, including intimate piercings, does not currently include sexual offences."
The committee wanted such a restriction to be added to the bill.
The Public Health Bill has returned to the assembly after it failed to be passed by AMs in 2016.
Plaid Cymru AMs had blocked its passage over the controversial e-cigarette restrictions, following controversial comments by former government minister Leighton Andrews that suggested a deal with the party was a "cheap date".
The e-cigarette provision has now been removed, but ministers have kept proposals on public toilets, tattoo licensing and a ban on smoking in school playgrounds, among other measures. | A proposed ban on intimate piercings should be extended to all under-18s, a group of AMs has said. | 1.871533 | 2 |
Ben Smith started his marathon challenge on 1 September 2015.
However, after running 284 marathons in 284 days, he suffered an injury, which meant he had to stop for a few days to recover.
Now, Ben has completed his final marathon in Bristol with around 350 people joining him on his final run.
Ben was badly bullied at school when he was younger, and is running the marathons to help raise awareness.
He said: "I'm doing this to raise £250,000 for two anti-bullying charities, I was bullied for eight years of my life at school - it affected my confidence and self-esteem" he said.
As well as running marathons he has visited more than 100 schools all over the country to give anti-bullying talks.
A marathon is around 26 miles long, and each one takes around 7 hours to complete.
After his final marathon, the people helping out Ben have put together a special "cool down" for him.
This means he will carry on running for the next three months, but that the runs will get shorter and shorter each time, to let his body get used to not using as much energy. | A runner has completed an epic charity challenge by running 401 marathons in 401 days. | 1.6529 | 2 |
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Former Linfield defender Chris Casement scored the opening goal five minutes into the second half.
Ross Redman, who seconds earlier had cleared off the line from Andrew Waterworth, set up the score with a great run down the left wing.
Marcio Soares made it 2-0 as the match was entering stoppage time.
It was a breakaway goal, with Gary Twigg unselfishly squaring the ball for substitute Soares to score into an empty net.
Just before that Linfield had mounted pressure but home keeper David Miskelly made a number of good saves.
Linfield stay in fourth because the team immediately below them, Glenavon, were beaten 2-0 at Glentoran.
It is the first time Linfield have lost four league games in a row since March 1997.
And this latest defeat will place additional pressure on Northern Ireland's record scorer Healy who was only appointed Blues manager in mid-October when the they were joint top with Crusaders.
Now Linfield find themselves 12 points behind the defending champions after 18 matches of the league campaign.
Next week Linfield are at home to Coleraine who are up to second in the table after an unbeaten run of 11 Premiership matches.
Portadown assistant manager Kieran Harding: "The real turning point was the clearance off the line by Ross Redman who then got up the other end to set up the goal.
"He got to the bye-line to pull the ball back for what was an outstanding goal from our perspective.
"We had to defend for our lives and overall it was a great team performance."
Linfield manager David Healy: "I thought today we probably didn't get the rub of the green, but I am not one for excuses and we have lost another game of football.
"I have told the players to get their heads up because we have a big game on Tuesday against Carrick in the semi-final of the Shield.
"I have been working 100% every day to try to turn this club around and make it as successful as it has been before." | Linfield slumped to a fourth successive league defeat under former Northern Ireland striker David Healy as Portadown sealed a 2-0 home victory. | 0.9658 | 1 |
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland also told MSPs that a fatal accident inquiry would be held into the death.
Mr Bayoh, 31, died in police custody after being detained following an incident in Kirkcaldy on 3 May.
His family welcomed the comments and said they hoped the Lord Advocate would establish "the truth of what happened".
Mr Mullholland told MSPs that further work was needed by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc), particularly into the cause of death, before the investigation was completed.
"Having met the family on two occasions, I know the effect that this tragedy has had on them and they have borne their loss with great dignity," he said.
"They are right to demand answers and a thorough, impartial and objective investigation is what they deserve."
Mr Mulholland said he was confident this could be done "expeditiously without compromising thoroughness".
He added that regardless of the decision on criminal proceedings, a fatal accident inquiry would be held because Mr Bayoh had died in custody.
"A fatal accident inquiry will allow all the evidence to be presented in a court, open to the public and the media, to be rigorously tested by all parties represented at the FAI, including the family, and allow the sheriff to make findings in fact and recommendations in relation to Sheku's death in a judgement that will be available to all," he said.
Aamer Anwar, the solicitor for Mr Bayoh's family, said: "The family have always known that there would be an FAI but they do not believe at this stage that this is a solution to the death in custody of Sheku Bayoh.
"An FAI is, in essence, the bare minimum of what can happen, but at this stage it would be premature to predict the outcome of the investigations if they are truly robust and impartial.
"It has been 19 weeks since Sheku's death and the family hope the Lord Advocate can provide them with the truth of what happened, because without that they know there can be no justice." | Scotland's most senior law officer has promised a "thorough, impartial and objective" investigation into the death of Sheku Bayoh. | 0.701231 | 1 |
Witnesses compared the blast, which sent a plume of smoke hundreds of metres into the sky, to an earthquake.
The explosion occurred in the Faj Attan area of the capital, near the presidential compound.
A Saudi-led coalition bombing campaign has been targeting Yemen's Shia Houthi rebels since late March.
Local resident Adel Mansour told Reuters news agency it was largest explosion in more than three weeks of bombing by the coalition.
"My children are terrified and one of my relatives fainted because of the force of the blast."
Meanwhile, a BBC correspondent in the contested port city of Aden says its hospitals lack the supplies to treat patients.
Orla Guerin says medical teams in the city are complaining that patients are dying for lack of equipment. They have appealed for more antibiotics and bandages.
The Houthi rebels and their allies have been trying to capture Aden for weeks but have been held back by the air strikes and by forces of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who has fled Yemen for Saudi Arabia.
In a televised address on Monday, rebel leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said Yemenis would never give in to the Saudis' "savage aggression".
The blast in Sanaa followed an air strike that hit an Oxfam humanitarian store in Saada, a Houthi stronghold in the north of the country.
The charity condemned the strike, saying it had provided the co-ordinates of its warehouses to the Saudis.
The UN says 150,000 people have been displaced by the latest fighting, and some 12 million are short of food. | At least 25 people were killed and 300 injured in Yemen's capital Sanaa after an air strike on a missile base caused a huge blast that flattened buildings. | 1.596734 | 2 |
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You can watch how the women have been getting on here and follow live text coverage of the run on Sunday, 2 October, on this website.
The race will be shown live on BBC One in Wales on Sunday morning and repeated on the Red Button and online from 13:34-16:45 BST. | A year after training a group of 16 unfit ladies from Deri to run the Cardiff Half Marathon, former Wales rugby international Gareth 'Alfie' Thomas has been back to do it all again with three new teams. | 0.255304 | 0 |
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