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The van was taken from outside Lickety Split on North Terrace in Seaham, on Friday night.
Witnesses said they saw the red and white VW being towed away and it was later seen being driven north on the A19 at Dalton Park.
Managing director Carl Thompson said it was a distinctive Japanese import and he is devastated at its theft.
He said: "My mum got it for us and it's been at the shop for six years.
"It was very popular with customers and we also go out to schools and the like in it.
"We are devastated it's gone and we just want it back, I don't see why anyone else would want it because it is very distinctive and very obviously ours."
Mr Thompson said he has reported the theft to Durham Police who are yet to comment. | A distinctive ice cream van has been stolen from outside a dessert parlour. | 0.609001 | 1 |
The teenager was struck at about 14:00 GMT on Thursday on Lakefield Road, at the junction with March End Road and Wednesfield Road, in Wednesfield.
West Midlands Police said the boy, from Bushbury, Wolverhampton, was taken to hospital but died of his injuries.
The driver of the car involved was taken to hospital and treated for shock. He is continuing to help police with their inquiries.
See more stories from across Birmingham and the Black Country here
Witnesses should contact West Midlands Police. | A 13-year-old boy has been run over and killed in Wolverhampton. | 0.674023 | 1 |
St Mary Magdalene church is part of the Croome Court estate, near Pershore.
Jo Cross, from the Churches Conservation Trust said: "The six bells, originally cast in 1651 and 1652, form one of the oldest rings in the country."
Restoration work has been paid for by the Worcestershire and Districts Change Ringers Association.
In 2010 six second hand bells were donated to the church to replace the original ones.
The wheels that hold the bells were also due to be replaced, but the new wheels were too big to fit up the spiral staircase to the belfry.
Instead the old decaying wheels were mended in situ using parts of the newer, sounder wheels.
The bells will be rung to celebrate a raffle that has raised £85,000 towards the restoration of the stately home, which is now run by the National Trust.
The house, grounds and church were designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown.
The church has an interior designed by Robert Adam, and is now owned by the Churches Conservation Trust. | The bells of a church in the grounds of a stately home in Worcestershire are to be rung for the first time in 11 years. | 1.86928 | 2 |
Yorkshire and the Humber, the Northwest and East Midlands will each get its own dedicated unit.
They will work alongside the Metropolitan Police Centre e-crime Unit which deals with national online security.
The funding is part of £30m targeted at bolstering e-crime prevention nationally over the next four years.
The new centres will consist of three members of staff - a detective sergeant and two detective constables.
The initiative was announced at the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) e-crime conference in Sheffield on Wednesday.
A training period is required before the hubs will be fully operational, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams, who heads ACPO's e-crime efforts, said.
"These three additional policing units are going to play a critical role in our ability to combat the threat," she added.
"It is anticipated the hubs will make a significant contribution to the 'national harm reduction' target of £504m."
Harm reduction is calculated using a "harm matrix" - a system which factors in costs such as how much the criminal stood to gain, how much money was invested in the crime, and the potential cost to the victim.
"In the first six months of the new funding period alone we have already been able to show a reduction of £140m with our existing capability," Ms Williams said.
Britain's e-crime efforts were exposed last week after a conference call in which Met officers discussed operations against hackers with the FBI was itself intercepted by hackers.
Details about active investigations into hackers who identified themselves with the activist collective Anonymous were posted online.
At one point in the tape, a British detective can be heard saying: "We're here to help. We've cocked things up in the past, we know that."
The move to increase funding and reach of e-crime prevention efforts has been praised by security professionals.
"It seems to me to be a positive move towards enhancing the national response to cybercrime," said David Emm, a security researcher for Kaspersky.
"Until now, most of the police's expertise in computer-based crime has been concentrated in the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the Met.
"Clearly, the government is keen to widen the field of expertise, and this is part of that initiative." | Three police cybercrime teams have been launched as part of a £6m regional effort to combat growing threats. | 1.699969 | 2 |
Emergency services found a Mini had crashed head-on with a Volvo in Buxton Road, Hazel Grove, at about 16:00 BST on Sunday, police said.
Philip Clayton, 43, died at the scene. A 23-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital.
Buxton Road was closed while investigations took place. Police are appealing for witnesses to contact them.
A man and a woman were also taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. | A man has died in a head-on crash in Greater Manchester. | 0.636238 | 1 |
Jenas, who is on a season-long loan from Tottenham, was stretchered off during Saturday's loss to Manchester United after he pulled up sharply.
The 28-year-old underwent surgery on his left Achilles tendon on Wednesday.
Villa manager Alex McLeish said: "This is tragic for Jermaine and we are all deeply disappointed for him."
McLeish added: "To lose a player of his talent and experience is bad enough, but never to have seen him play enough in the Villa shirt for our fans to appreciate the player he is, that's terrible bad luck."
"Obviously, we wish Jermaine as speedy a recovery as possible and a full recovery, too.
"He has been a great professional to have at the club since he arrived on loan in August."
Jenas said on Twitter: "Back home after the surgery today.
"All went as well as it can, thank you all so much for the kind messages. They mean a lot to me!"
The midfielder has been dogged by injuries since he joined the Midlands club.
Earlier Achilles and calf problems meant that Jenas did not make his debut for Villa until 5 November, when he came on as a second-half substitute against Norwich.
Since then, he has made one more substitute appearance - against Swansea - and Saturday's game was his first start for the club.
The Nottingham-born player has made 21 appearances for England.
McLeish indicated after Saturday's game that he would be looking to strengthen his squad in January due to his growing injury list.
First-choice goalkeeper Shay Given was also taken off during Saturday's game and will miss the next month with a hamstring injury. | Aston Villa's on-loan midfielder Jermaine Jenas has been ruled out for six months after undergoing surgery on an Achilles injury. | 0.697429 | 1 |
31 March 2016 Last updated at 13:15 BST
It could be seen soaring about 70m (230ft) above houses in Cartbridge Lane, Halewood, from about 12:00 BST.
The leak erupted close to the former Bridgefield Forum site, which is being developed for housing.
A spokesman for United Utilities said engineers had been sent to the scene to carry out a "controlled shut-off".
Video courtesy of Olly Harrison. | A huge fountain of water was sent gushing into the air after a water pipe burst in Merseyside. | 1.001884 | 1 |
Owen Smith told BBC Wales the money would come from plans to raise taxes on the wealthiest in society, including a "mansion tax" on homes worth over £2m.
He said Labour would also guarantee a minimum level of funding for Wales, in relation to spending levels in England using the Treasury's Barnett formula.
Mr Smith said it would amount to at least an extra £1bn in total.
He told the Jason Mohammad programme: "Under Labour, in addition to setting this funding floor, because of the changes that we're introducing to the taxes system - we're going to be giving an extra £375m a year to Wales.
"Now work that out over the period - it is at least £1bn over the spending period."
The Welsh Liberal Democrats' manifesto, launched on Wednesday, said the party's proposals for health and education in England would give Wales an extra £600m a year, which the Lib Dems said Welsh ministers should devote to the services concerned.
The party has said it would commission an independent review of Wales' funding arrangements, with a view to raising the Welsh government's budget.
Launching UKIP's manifesto, its party leader Nigel Farage promised to reform the funding system for the devolved governments, to give Wales and England a "better and fairer deal".
Plaid Cymru wants an extra £1.2bn a year for the Welsh government, claiming it would bring spending into line with Scottish levels.
On Tuesday, the Conservatives insisted their plan to give the Welsh government minimum funding had not changed, after the party's election manifesto said a funding floor would only be introduced after a referendum on devolving some income tax powers was called by the Welsh government.
The St David's Day Agreement previously announced by David Cameron and Nick Clegg had said the vote would be an "expectation". | Wales would gain an extra £375m a year if Labour wins the general election, the shadow Welsh Secretary has said. | 1.438248 | 1 |
Lydney Town Hall managers announced the venue may be forced to shut due to cash flow problems because of unexpected repairs and a bar refurbishment.
About ??2,000 has now been donated, which staff say will allow it to stay open for another month.
A potential investor has also come forward, which could keep the hall open in the long term, a spokesman said.
Management committee chairman, Colin Knight, said they had been forced to pay out from cash reserves for repairs to a leaky roof and the ceiling in the main hall, and for improvements to the bar.
He said: "Twenty-four hours ago we were days away from having to close it.
"We were running extremely low on cash reserves because we have to put money away for redundancy, which we have to ring fence.
"But we've had a couple of cheques in this morning which helps us."
He said the situation was "not solved" but means the hall can remain open "while we try to get some more cash ready".
A meeting with a potential investor had been arranged for next week, and the committee was considering a plan to get volunteers to do the cleaning, which is the hall's biggest cost.
Lydney Town Hall was opened in 1889 and The Beatles famously played there in 1962. | A town hall has been saved from immediate closure after receiving donations from local businessmen. | 1.265788 | 1 |
Asher Jenkin Jones started at Caldey Island, off the south west Wales coast, and finished at Tenby harbour.
The youngster from Nottingham said: "I don't want people to underestimate what I can do.
"I want to show everyone that people who have disabilities can do great things too."
Asher was diagnosed with the tumours when he was 10 months old.
He received treatment at the Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre in Nottingham with major surgery to remove one tumour, followed by three years of chemotherapy.
Despite being visually impaired, Asher, who goes to The Elms School in Long Eaton, took up paddle boarding a year ago and also enjoys skiing, judo and goalball.
He is raising money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Royal National Institute of Blind People and the Children's Brain Tumour Research Centre at The University of Nottingham.
The family spend a lot of time in Tenby and Asher's grandfather was a supporter of Tenby RNLI.
The schoolboy's father Tony said: "Asher amazes everyone he meets and people see his amazing abilities rather than his disabilities - what he can do not what he can't do.
"In fact, because of his positive attitude and bubbly personality, they soon forget he has a disability at all.
"Early diagnosis of children's brain tumours is critical and could be the crucial difference between either losing your children or getting effective treatment which could lead to a good quality of life.
"We were fortunate enough to have had an early diagnosis and I'm sure that has had an enormous impact on Asher's life.
"Treatment ensured that the brain tumour stopped growing and is not currently life-threatening but we couldn't save much of his sight." | An 11-year-old boy who was left severely visually impaired by three brain tumours has paddle boarded solo for three miles. | 1.973988 | 2 |
Both have been released on police bail pending further inquiries into the fire in the Gaer area on 20 April.
Assistant Chief Fire Officer Andrew Thomas, from the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said there had been more arrests in the last 10 days than in the last four years.
Officers attended 1,400 grass fires in March and April.
There have been been 24 arrests in the past fortnight.
Speaking on BBC's Good Morning Wales, Mr Thomas confirmed the fire service is also considering using drones to help catch arsonists.
He said the aerial cameras have been tested and could be used in the future.
A grass fires summit in Cardiff on Wednesday heard community patrols and CCTV would be used to detect arsonists.
Crimestoppers has also offered £5,000 for information on the fire-starters. | Two 15-year-old boys from Newport have become the latest arrests on suspicion of arson following grass fires. | 1.355947 | 1 |
The Coliseum in Porthmadog closed in 2011 because of falling attendances after 80 years of entertaining the crowds.
Gwynedd council voted to demolish it in September - despite 300 people objecting to the plan.
Work to flatten the building began on Monday, with the walls demolished on Tuesday.
There had been calls for the 1930s cinema to be given listed-building status, however, developers said it needed to be flattened.
A council report said experts had ruled out giving the building protected, status despite it being of some "historic interest". | The demolition of an art deco cinema in Gwynedd - which faced opposition from hundreds of people - has begun. | 1.293087 | 1 |
Dave Walsh, president of Liverpool Trades Council, said the council should not be afraid of setting an illegal budget.
He said: "There's an old saying in the Labour movement, 'better to break the law than the poor'. Vulnerable people in this city are going to be left without care."
But Mayor Joe Anderson said the council would set a legal budget.
He said: "This city was set back 30 years ago by people setting an illegal budget. There's two options, either set a legal budget or an illegal budget.
"I'm on the side of setting a legal budget - as tough as that is."
The council has rejected calls for the authority to ignore government spending targets and set an illegal budget.
In the 1980s, Liverpool's Labour-controlled council set an illegal budget which led to the banning of and surcharge of 47 councillors.
The council has to save £156m over the next three years, on top of £173m worth of cuts over the last three years.
The latest financial position shows that Liverpool City Council will have to save £45m in 2014-15, £63m in 2015-16 and £48m in 2016-17.
Traffic near to the Town Hall in Dale Street was blocked by the protest on Wednesday evening and police stepped in to clear the road as a woman was trying to get to hospital. | More than 100 people held a protest outside Liverpool Town Hall over cuts. | 1.701127 | 2 |
Paul Bailey's car spun off an airport taxiway as a rear wheel hit the grass.
A six-year-old girl and four other spectators were critically hurt in the crash at Paqpaqli.
Exhibitors and witnesses have questioned the track's safety, saying barriers offered little protection.
The girl's condition had improved slightly on Monday, according to reports.
The four others in a critical condition were in intensive care and their lives were still in danger, a hospital official said.
Maltese government health spokesman Chris Fearne said 13 others were still in hospital, most of them with head and chest fractures, the Times of Malta reported.
Mr Bailey, a self-made millionaire from Rutland in the East Midlands, was among those still being treated for a head injury.
Minutes before the crash he was interviewed alongside some of the cars he had brought for the event in aid of a Maltese charity.
Maltese TV broadcast video footage of the accident showing how his white Porsche 918 Spyder hit the grass on one side of the taxiway and careered across the road at high speed, through a makeshift barrier and into the crowd.
"I saw people thrown in the air, children on the ground, and women crying and screaming," Romanian photographer Christian Nicodimescu told Malta's TVM.
Organisers immediately cancelled the rest of the event, which had been opened by President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca.
She had earlier gone for a ride in the Porsche and spoke of her shock and sadness at what had happened.
A judicial inquiry is underway into the cause of the crash.
Michel Zarb, an exhibitor who had cars at the show, told the Malta Independent newspaper the safety measures were inadequate.
"The barriers put up are the same as those used to keep people behind them as they wave to the Queen."
The organisers, which include the president's office, said the cause of the crash would have to be investigated, and have not responded to the criticism about safety measures.
Malta does not currently have a permanent motor race track of international standards, despite calls from motorsport enthusiasts. | A British businessman was among more than 20 people injured when he lost control of a Porsche sports car and ploughed into spectators at a motor show in Malta. | 1.238656 | 1 |
The oil company reported a loss of $6.1bn (??4bn) in the quarter, compared with a $5.3bn profit last year.
It has taken an $8.6bn charge to cover the cost of halting projects such as Alaskan drilling and the Carmon Creek oil sands project in Canada.
The charges also reflect its lower predictions for the oil and gas prices.
Shell announced last month that its was stopping Arctic oil and gas exploration off the coast of Alaska "for the foreseeable future" after "disappointing" results.
On Tuesday, Shell said it would not continue building its Carmon Creek thermal oil sands project in northern Alberta.
It blamed the decision on a lack of infrastructure to transport the oil and the need to manage costs given the low oil price.
Chief executive Ben van Beurden said these were "difficult, but impactful decisions".
"I am determined that Shell will become a more focused and competitive company as a result."
In April, Shell announced it had agreed to buy oil and gas exploration firm BG Group in a deal that values the business at ??47bn.
Mr van Beurden said: "The BG deal, which remains on track for completion in early 2016, is a springboard to focus Shell into fewer and more profitable themes, especially deep water and integrated gas."
Shell has decided to maintain its dividend to shareholders despite reporting heavy losses.
It is the latest oil company to report that it's cutting back on investment.
Earlier in the week, BP cut its capital spending for the third quarter to $4.3bn from $5.3bn in the same period last year while Statoil also cut $1bn from its investment plans.
Shares in Shell dropped 1.5% in early trading on Thursday, while BP was down 1.3%. | Royal Dutch Shell has reported a loss for the third quarter of the year, after taking a big charge to reflect the cost of halting major projects. | 1.418905 | 1 |
Wing Joyce is one of four changes to the team following their heavy defeat by England in Cardiff.
The other changes see Rhiannon Parker come in at scrum-half, Rebecco de Filippo return at centre and Cerys Hale at loosehead prop.
Joyce scored two tries in a non-cap match against Spain in January.
"Jasmine and Rhiannon are two talented individuals who have been in and around the squad for a while now, and we feel the way they've performed in the warm-up games and in training has earned them this opportunity," Wales Women boss Rowland Phillips said.
After their defeat by England, Phillips says his players have responded well in training and they can rise to the occasion against Scotland, who were defeated 55-0 against France in their last game.
Phillips continued: "The response of the players following the England match has been outstanding. From the Sunday following that game, our focus immediately moved on to Scotland.
"Scotland's last two performances in the competition - losing to a last-minute play from Ireland and being very competitive in the first 20 minutes against France - shows how much they have improved this season. We will need to be ready for this challenge."
Wales: Dyddgu Hywel (Scarlets), Jasmine Joyce (Scarlets)*, Kerin Lake (Ospreys), Rebecca de Filippo (Newport Gwent Dragons), Elen Evans (Scarlets), Elinor Snowsill (Newport Gwent Dragons), Rhiannon Parker (Cardiff Blues)*, Cerys Hale (Newport Gwent Dragons), Carys Phillips (c) (Ospreys), Amy Evans (Ospreys), Rebecca Rowe (Newport Gwent Dragons), Mel Clay (Ospreys), Alisha Butchers (Scarlets),Rachel Taylor (Scarlets), Sioned Harries (Scarlets)
Replacements: Lowri Harries (Scarlets), Gwenllian Pyrs (Scarlets), Caryl Thomas (Scarlets), Siwan Lillicrap (Ospreys), Nia Elen Davies (Cardiff Blues), Sian Moore (Newport Gwent Dragons), Robyn Wilkins (Ospreys), Gemma Rowland (Newport Gwent Dragons) | Team GB Olympics sevens player Jasmine Joyce will make her Wales XV-a-side competitive debut against Scotland in Cumbernauld on Friday. | 1.007843 | 1 |
The couple from West Somerset saw their 10-week-old daughter taken into care after doctors discovered her leg was broken.
They are angry that experts took four months to conclude the injury was accidental.
Calls have now been made to reduce the time to undertake medical reviews.
The parents, who have not been named to protect the identity of their child, took their daughter to a GP in January and an X-ray was taken of her left leg.
"It came back saying she had a fracture and a nurse told us 'you're going to have a horrible two days, you're going to be interrogated by social services, by the hospital, maybe by the police'," the mother said.
After four days in hospital, the parents were told their child would be taken into care.
Reports from a paediatrician and a radiologist were ordered in February, but the family were forced to wait until May for the results which accepted the injury could have been accidental.
Their child was then returned to them.
Anthony Douglas, chief executive of Cafcass which represents the interests of children in family court proceedings, said expert reviews should be "done in a matter of weeks not months".
"It is important that in disputed medical cases this is done speedily to avoid miscarriages of justice for parents and delay to children who are stranded," he said.
The mother said: "From the beginning I feel like we were treated like monsters, bad parents who were guilty all along.
"They [social services and doctors] missed things in the case of Baby P, but it's gone to another extreme."
Somerset County Council said the system "does not always operate as quickly as anyone would want".
"This can be very frustrating for families but the system's primary concern will always be for the safety of the child." | A mother and father wrongly suspected of injuring their baby have accused social services of "treating us like monsters". | 1.258583 | 1 |
Guernsey's Watson, 23, came within two points of beating Serena Williams in the third round of Wimbledon last year.
Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka and Madison Keys have also committed to playing the event, which ends a fortnight before Wimbledon.
"I had some incredible moments on grass last year and want to do even better in 2016," Watson said.
"I was sorry to have to miss the event last year and I'm looking forward to starting my grass-court season there," added the world number 56, who was unable to play last year's tournament through injury.
Never want to miss the latest tennis news? You can now add this sport and all the other sports and teams you follow to your personalised My Sport home. | British number two Heather Watson will start the grass court season at the Aegon Open in Nottingham in June. | 0.878443 | 1 |
The Bluebirds are believed to have paid around £2m to Japanese side Cerezo Osaka for the 22-year-old midfielder.
Kim is currently with the South Korea squad at the Olympics and will finalise his move to Cardiff after the tournament.
He started in South Korea's 0-0 draw against Mexico at St James' Park.
Kim is Cardiff's fourth summer signing with the club having already recruited goalkeeper Joe Lewis, midfielder Jordon Mutch and striker Etien Velikonja during the pre-season.
Cardiff have also been linked with Liverpool striker Craig Bellamy, who spent the 2010-11 season on loan with club.
But manager Malkay Mackay has refused to be drawn on the possibility of the former Wales captain returning to the club.
Striker Kenny Miller has left the club for MLS side Vancouver Whitecaps but Cardiff have rejected two bids from Premier League side Fulham for Peter Whittingham. | Cardiff City have completed the signing of South Korea international Kim Bo-Kyung on a three-year contract subject to a work permit. | 0.777283 | 1 |
The centre-back, 34, picked up the injury in Brighton's 3-2 defeat at Bournemouth on Saturday.
Fears of a broken ankle have been allayed but Brighton manager Sami Hyypia believes the defender could be ruled out for a number of weeks.
"If it's ligament damage we are talking about weeks," Hyypia told the Argus.
"There is nothing on the bone, so that's a good thing.
"If the bone was broken or something happened to the bone it would be a long process.
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"Now we are waiting for the swelling to go down. Then we will be able to assess it a little bit better."
Hughes has been ever-present in his country's best ever start to a major qualifying campaign - playing 90 minutes in successive wins over Hungary, the Faroe Islands and Greece.
The former Northern Ireland captain is currently on 93 caps, on track to become his country's first ever outfield centurion. | Aaron Hughes is a major fitness doubt for Northern Ireland's Euro 2016 qualifier against Romania on 14 November because of an ankle injury. | 0.969343 | 1 |
Called Still, it was designed by Glasgow-based architects Angus Ritchie and Daniel Tyler.
The box-like structure has mirrored interior walls that reflect the landscape that can be seen from two open ends of the installation.
Enhanced viewpoints have also been installed at Corgarff in Aberdeenshire and Glenshee in Perthshire.
They form part of the Snow Roads Scenic Route which runs from Blairgowrie to Grantown on Spey via Braemar and Tomintoul.
The route forms the highest public road in Britain, according to the Cairngorms National Park Authority.
It is regularly used by classic car and motorbike enthusiasts and increasingly cyclists. | A sculpture has been erected at a quarry at Tomintoul in Moray to promote a viewpoint across the Cairngorms. | 1.734475 | 2 |
The 53-year-old's body was discovered by a dog walker near West Calder on 17 December.
Police said a post mortem examination revealed he had suffered serious injuries which are believed to have led to his death.
Hamilton, from Glasgow, was previously one of Scotland's most wanted men.
He was released from prison in September 2014 but was sought by police in April for breaching the terms of his licence.
At the time, police described him as "potentially dangerous".
Hamilton was nicknamed the Blackhill Butcher, after the Glasgow housing estate from which he operated.
He had been on the police's most-wanted list before he was jailed in 2000 over a string of charges including drug dealing, torture, abduction and sodomy.
Police officers and scientific experts were continuing to work at the scene where his remains were discovered.
A spokesman said specially trained officers were providing support to Martin Hamilton's family.
Hamilton was sentenced to a minimum of nine years in prison after being found guilty at the High Court in Inverness.
The case was moved 200 miles from Glasgow amid fears that witnesses could be intimidated. Hamilton had evaded justice on 12 previous occasions when witnesses were too terrified to testify.
When Police Scotland issued an appeal to find Hamilton in April they said he may be dangerous and urged members of the public not to approach him. A further appeal was made in June.
In October, an appeal was made on the BBC's Crimewatch programme and the Crimestoppers charity also offered a reward of £2,000 for information leading to his arrest. | The death of Martin Hamilton whose remains were found in West Lothian earlier this month is being treated as murder. | 1.287352 | 1 |
The half-mile extension has meant an increase of the total length of useable track to two-and-a-quarter miles.
Spokesman Adrian Brodie said: "It has taken many months of blood, sweat, tears and commitment. It's a hugely important deal for the railway."
To celebrate, the Swindon-built Prairie 5521 will be in use for three days.
The track extension means passengers can take a four-mile round trip from Blunsdon station to the Taw Valley.
But passengers will not be able to get on or off at this point, as the platform and facilities at Taw Valley Halt will not be completed until the new year.
Organisers said a planned flypast by the Red Arrows on Bank Holiday Monday had been cancelled. | The Swindon and Cricklade Railway in Wiltshire has opened a newly-built section of track after several months of construction. | 1.273491 | 1 |
Wallace was stopped by police near his flat in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire at 03:15 on 1 June.
The 24-year-old was also fined £600 at Stirling Sheriff Court.
He was previously suspended from the British and Scottish swimming programmes for three months after admitting the offence.
The court was told that Wallace, who was part of the GB men's 4x200m silver medal-winning relay team at last year's Olympics in Rio, thought he was fit to drive.
Prosecutor Laura Knox said: "Police officers stopped the vehicle in question in connection with a document check, and spoke to the accused, who was driving.
"They could smell alcohol and he was required to provide a specimen of breath."
Ewen Roy, defending, said the swimmer had been drinking with friends in Stirling on his day off from training.
Mr Roy said: "He advises me he wasn't drinking constantly throughout the day and also that he'd had plenty of food.
"He then took what he thought was a reasonable length break from drinking before driving the two miles home.
"He thought he was fit to drive. Clearly that was a significant error."
Mr Roy said that Wallace was "very conscious" he had let himself down, as well as his friends, family and colleagues.
Mr Roy said: "He fully appreciates that as an athlete he is a role model, and accordingly far better conduct is expected from somebody in his position."
The court was told Wallace, who trains at Stirling University, will miss the British Summer Championships in July as a result of his suspension.
Last week, British and Scottish Swimming found the drink-driving was a violation of the athletes' code of conduct.
Outside court, Wallace said: "I am extremely disappointed that I have let people down.
"Now I am moving forward and looking towards the future." | Olympic swimmer Dan Wallace has been banned from the road for a year after being found to be over twice the legal drink-drive limit. | 1.035112 | 1 |
The island's Chief Minister Allan Bell has sent a letter of condolence to the French Embassy in London to convey the nation's "shock and sadness".
He said the thoughts of the Manx people were with everyone affected by such a "tragic loss of life".
Douglas Council has opened a book of condolence at the capital's town hall.
A minute's silence, followed by a walk of "quiet reflection" from the war memorial in Douglas to the Sea Terminal, will take place at 14:30 GMT on 22 November.
Members of the public have been invited to wear red, white and blue clothing.
Douglas Council Leader David Christian said: "Our hearts go out to the island's French community and to the people of France whose pain we feel. We are shocked and united with them in sadness." | Manx flags are to be flown at half-mast on government buildings in the Isle of Man as a mark of respect for the victims of the Paris attacks. | 1.288656 | 1 |
The Hollywood A-lister turned up unexpectedly at Sunrise of Sonning, a care home in Berkshire, on Sunday to treat resident Pat Adams.
Staff had written to Clooney, who lives nearby, telling him a visit would make Pat's dreams comes true.
"This was a classy gesture from a wonderful man," a Sunrise UK spokesman said.
"She was absolutely thrilled to meet her great icon, and it was such a lovely surprise to see George greet her with flowers and a card."
The spokesman said Clooney was holding the letter staff had sent to him when he rang the doorbell asking for Pat.
He said staff regularly try to fulfil their residents' wishes as part of an ongoing programme, but added: "They didn't think they would be able to pull this one off."
The care home's concierge, Linda Jones, posted on Facebook that she was in "utter shock" when she saw the Oscar-winning star arrive.
She said that Pat "loves George Clooney and mentions everyday how she would love him to meet him".
Clooney moved to Sonning, where he lives with his human rights lawyer wife Amal, in 2014. | George Clooney has surprised an 87-year-old fan with a bouquet of flowers for her birthday. | 0.635489 | 1 |
The 30-year-old, who won the -70kg bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games, secured her best World Championships result in 2009 when she finished fifth.
Held in Budapest, this year's World Championships run from 28 August to 3 September.
Conway will first take to the mat on Friday, 1 September.
"This is one of our milestone events and we believe that the team selected can challenge for medals, but as long as everyone fights to their potential then the results will come," Nigel Donohue, British Judo Performance Director said.
"There's a good mix of experience and new blood in this team and they're up for the challenge. The likes of Sally Conway and Natalie Powell have been to multiple World Championships so they know what to expect." | Scotland's Sally Conway has been selected for the 2017 World Judo Championships in Hungary. | 1.037313 | 1 |
One former oil worker has told BBC Scotland companies will not hire him because they believe he will quit if the oil price rises again.
Colin McIntyre lost his job as a procurement manager a year ago.
An MSP has now passed evidence of the practice to the UK employment minister.
Thousands of people have lost their jobs since the oil downturn began.
Concerns have now been raised that some companies and recruiting agencies are actively excluding candidates from the sector.
Mr McIntyre said: "Explicitly I was told 'we are not interested in people from oil and gas at the moment. You'll just go back up to Aberdeen when the recovery starts'.
"I would just like people to see beyond the title and look at the skill set.
"I think a lot of people will be surprised how much skills and experience people in oil and gas have."
Aberdeenshire East MSP Gillian Martin has written to UK Employment Minister Damian Hinds.
She says she has seen "documentary evidence" of some level of discrimination against former oil and gas workers and she now wants an investigation into how widespread this is.
She wrote: "Many people who have lost their jobs in the oil and gas sector have been trying to find employment in other sectors of the economy.
"Examples suggest that companies are discriminating against these workers, regardless of their skills, based only on their past involvement in the oil and gas industry."
Scotland's Employment Minister Jamie Hepburn, who was also contacted, said: "These claims are deeply concerning and its absolutely right that Gillian Martin has raised this with the UK government, which has responsibility in this area.
"The north east has a highly-talented oil and gas workforce with skills that can be utilised in a wide range of different sectors, including renewables, construction, decommissioning and many others.
"The Energy Jobs Taskforce has brought together key partners to maximise employment opportunities and we have set up a £12m Transition Training Fund that has so far enabled more than 1,500 former oil and gas workers to receive support for training from the fund." | Calls have been made for a probe into claims of widespread discrimination against former oil and gas workers by employers out with the industry. | 1.377949 | 1 |
The vote is seen as especially important for President Park Geun-hye, whose time in office has been hampered by legislative gridlock.
Saenuri hopes to win the three-fifths of seats needed before bills can be introduced and passed by parliament.
The party currently holds only a slim majority in the chamber.
Voters are casting ballots at nearly 14,000 polling stations to elect 253 of 300 lawmakers. The remaining 47 proportional representation seats are allocated to parties according to the numbers of votes they receive overall.
President Park's administration will gain significant momentum if the governing party gains a majority of seats, The Korea Times reported, enabling it to push through labour and economic reforms before her term in office expires in about 20 months' time.
With a divided opposition in South Korea, the ruling centre-right grouping is expected to continue in power. But the election will indicate the general feeling about the government as a whole.
The economy has dominated pre-election arguments, particularly plans to make it easier for employers to sack employees.
Surprisingly perhaps, to outsiders, North Korea has not been a particularly prominent issue.
The opposition has also accused the government of being heavy-handed by clamping down on dissent and protest.
Youth unemployment rose to 12.5% in February, much higher than the South Korean average rate of nearly 5%. At the same time all the main parties have promised measures to reduce poverty among the elderly.
There is speculation in the South Korean media that the polls could end the country's two-party system, as new parties challenge Saenuri and the main opposition Minju party, which in February set what appeared to be a new world record for a combined filibuster after speaking for 192 hours.
Voter turnout is estimated to be higher than in previous general elections, local pollsters told The Korea Times. | Voters in South Korea are electing a new National Assembly with the governing Saenuri party eager to strengthen its position in parliament. | 1.972335 | 2 |
Retired South Yorkshire Ch Supt David Duckenfield was tracked down to San Francisco airport in the United States.
He told the BBC: "At the present time due to the ongoing criminal inquiry, I'm afraid I'm unable to comment and I hope you will excuse me."
Operation Resolve, the criminal inquiry into the 1989 disaster, is continuing.
Mr Duckenfield has not made any public comment since the inquests ended last month.
Asked by the BBC's Duncan Kennedy whether he had any apology to make to the families of the 96 people who died as a result of the crush, he replied: "When I was at the coroner's court in Warrington I gave a message and I have nothing more to say."
Pressed on the apology he added: "I am saying nothing at all."
The jury was satisfied Mr Duckenfield was "responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence" due to a breach of his duty of care during the FA Cup semi-final he presided over at the stadium in Sheffield.
After a 27-year campaign by the families of the victims, Liverpool fans were cleared of any blame.
The jury found they did not contribute to the danger unfolding at the turnstiles at the Leppings Lane end, where the fatal crush happened.
Giving evidence at the inquests, Mr Duckenfield said he had "buried his head in the sand" in the years that followed the disaster.
He said he had been incompetent and that his "mistakes" and "oversight" had contributed to the tragedy.
He apologised to the victims' families, adding: "It's now dawned on me what it means to you." | The former match commander in charge on the day of the Hillsborough disaster has declined to comment on the inquests' unlawful killing conclusion. | 1.132788 | 1 |
The Giro, one of three three-week Grand Tours that include the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana, begins on 5 May in Sardinia and ends in Milan on 28 May.
Welshman Thomas goes into the race in fine form after becoming the first Briton to win the Tour of the Alps.
"My preparation has gone well and to win the Tour of the Alps was obviously a boost to my morale," said Thomas, 30.
Landa claimed third place at the 2015 Giro but was forced to retire early last year due to illness.
"As always, it is a race for the climbers and I think that will suit me," he added.
"We have a strong team and I'm really looking forward to returning to the Giro with Team Sky."
Sky Team principal Sir Dave Brailsford has picked a team of climbers as Team Sky "focus on competing in the general classification".
"The last week of this Giro will be particularly demanding and the severity of those stages will be determining factors, so making sure we have climbing support in the high mountains has been a key consideration," he said.
Team Sky's Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome will not contest the Giro as he focuses on defending title in France and winning a fourth Tour in five years.
Team Sky line-up for Giro d'Italia:
Philip Deignan, Kenny Elissonde, Michal Golas, Sebastian Henao, Vasil Kiryienka, Mikel Landa, Salvatore Puccio, Diego Rosa, Geraint Thomas.
The BBC Sport website will carry daily reports on the Giro d'Italia. | Britain's Geraint Thomas and Spain's Mikel Landa will lead Team Sky in the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia. | 1.138568 | 1 |
It follows controversy about the number of people searched by officers without any legal basis.
So-called "consensual searches" will be phased out, and the government wants opinions on new guidelines to replace them.
Ministers are also consulting on new powers to allow police to search people under the age of eighteen for alcohol.
This was identified as a gap in the legislation by an advisory group set up by the Scottish government to examine the use of stop-and-search powers.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "The fact that stop-and-search has led to the seizures of dangerous weapons, drugs and stolen goods shows how it can be a valuable tool in combating crime.
"However, it is important that police get the balance right between protecting the public and the rights of the individuals.
"These consultations are about giving people the chance to share their views on how and when stop and search should be used.
"We are particularly keen to hear from young people who have experience of being stopped by the police. Their views will help us to consider the best possible way to tackle the issue of children and young people drinking in public and the harm that it can cause. "
He added: "By listening to the public, Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority can ensure that stop-and-search achieves what we all want to see - safer communities."
The independent advisory group, chaired by solicitor advocate John Scott QC, was set up in March 2015.
It reported that ending the consensual - or random - searches would not prevent officers carrying out their duties effectively.
The group will remain in place to give advice on the final version of the code of practice once the consultations are complete.
The code will set out guidance on how and when stop-and-search is used, how the search should be carried out and what information should be recorded.
In 2015, a BBC Scotland investigation found that children under 12 were being searched, despite a police promise that they would not be.
When consensual stop-and-search ends, police will only be able to search a person where they have a specific legal power to do so.
The consultations will run until 15 July. | The Scottish government is seeking views on a new code of practice for police powers of stop-and-search. | 2.228399 | 2 |
It happened in Agnes Street, off the Shankill Road, just after 11:00 GMT on Friday.
Three men aged 40, 32, and 26 have been charged with a number of offences.
These include aggravated vehicle taking and going equipped for theft.
The men, aged 40 and 26 are due to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday. The 32-year-old man is due to appear at the same court on 30 December.
All charges are to be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.
A person who was in the vehicle hit by the car was taken to hospital after the collision. Police said his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. | Three men have been charged after a police car chase in Belfast, in which a suspected stolen vehicle crashed into another vehicle before hitting a wall. | 0.679936 | 1 |
The force has employed more officers in the area, but policing the internet remains a "massive challenge", Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said.
Sir Bernard said there is a "real logistical problem" juggling online crime with other police roles.
Funding cuts have hit their ability to tackle the range of crimes, he added.
Earlier this week, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said police forces in England and Wales need to address failings in child protection.
HMIC said it found poor practice in more than a third of cases it looked at and anticipated this would apply to all police forces.
Sir Bernard said the Met had a squad of 300 officers dedicated to internet security which is likely to grow by 200 in the next year.
But he added: "Even then I think we're skimming the surface a bit."
"We're trying to do all these other things as well: the pubs all turn out tonight and there will be fights, there will be big armed robberies, there will be anti-social behaviour, there will be 70,000 marchers in London - everybody expects all of this doing... there's a risk assessment process that says in these cases what's the risk of that person hurting a young person today," he said.
Sir Bernard was questioned by a panel for Sky News' Hotseat programme.
"One of the problems we do have is that you get less and less money spent on policing at the moment. Probably a third less over the next two years, so there's going to have to be some hard decisions made by society and by the police," he said.
"It's incredibly important but there are also other things too which we have to see to so we do our best to put as many resources as possible to work our way through it but there's no doubt it's a massive challenge."
Sir Bernard also said police arrest an average of one person per day for terror-related offences, up a third from last year, adding that "we've disrupted some significant plots". | Police are only "skimming the surface" despite efforts to protect children online, the Metropolitan Police's commissioner has said. | 1.393849 | 1 |
Raiders took the machine from inside a branch of Nat West, in Main Street, Heslington, near York at about 02:30 BST .
North Yorkshire Police said the machine was loaded on to a truck and driven away before the thieves escaped in a black Jaguar.
The digger, which was reported stolen on Wednesday, was left at the scene.
A force spokesman said "extensive enquiries" are ongoing and appealed for witnesses to the raid to come forward. | Thieves used a stolen digger to smash through a bank wall and steal a cash machine. | 0.692357 | 1 |
The route, which links Barking, Canary Wharf and Tower Hill to Westminster, will open less than a week before his term is set to end.
Mr Johnson told drivers the "end was in sight" for construction work. He said the first route, at Vauxhall, led to a 73% increase in cycling in the area.
The Green Party warned funding for cycling would halve in the next term.
London taxi drivers lost a court appeal in January to disrupt the plan.
The increase in the number of cyclists using the superhighway at Vauxhall was compared to before the route opened in November, the mayor said.
In total, the new route will span about 12 miles on traffic-free segregated tracks or streets with low levels of traffic, said City Hall.
Links to Southwark, Elephant and Castle and Blackfriars and Whitechapel, Bow, Stepney and Stratford should open at around the same time, it said.
Mr Johnson said a "noisy minority fought hard to stop it [the route] happening" but opinion polls and consultations had shown "ordinary Londoners" wanted the route.
On the impact for motorists, Mr Johnson added: "I am immensely encouraged by the evidence from Vauxhall showing that now the scheme there is finished, the flow of traffic in the area is returning to normal."
Darren Johnson, Green Party member of the London Assembly, said it was "fantastic" so many people felt safe cycling in Vauxhall since the route's introduction.
He added: "It is therefore incredibly concerning [that] London's cycling budget is set to fall by over half over the next Mayoral term, meaning there just won't be enough money to pay for more cycle superhighways."
The Green Party member said he had questioned the mayor about what would happen to the capital's cycling budget after 2017.
He said Mr Johnson told him between 2016 and 2017, Transport for London would spend £166m on cycling - which would drop to £68m between 2020 and 2021.
In November, The London Cycling Campaign welcomed the new route but acknowledged some cyclists had been "frustrated" with the pace of progress. | London's new superhighway linking east and west London will open on 30 April, says the capital's mayor Boris Johnson. | 1.323914 | 1 |
"On a personal level there's a been a few moments where I've thought 'I can't do it, I'm not very good'," Norris told BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz.
"But certainly the lowest moment was the Brexit vote because... it exposed how much work there is to do to make this country joined up."
Norris replaced Sir Nicholas Hytner as NT artistic director in April 2015.
In an interview for Radio 4's Today programme, Norris said that Brexit could have "serious financial repercussions" for the National.
"Our first job is to educate ourselves to listen a lot more and find out why it is that organisations like the National Theatre are entirely disregarded by half the population, or seen as irrelevant."
'Leather skin'
He added that the National Theatre would continue to be an "international brand".
"I'm going to a big European theatre festival and one of the things I'll be saying to our European partners is that it is absolutely business as usual," he said.
"Art has no boundaries - if Scotland leave we will continue to work with Scotland.
"We were in Paris doing Wonder.land three or four weeks ago - it was a fantastic collaboration - it went really well and there is no way that those relationships are going to die."
Norris admitted that he'd needed to grow a "leather skin" over his 14 months in the job.
He said that criticism was "constant" and "something you have to start getting used to and seeing as part of the whole picture".
Norris's first production after taking charge at the National was Everyman, Carol Ann Duffy's reworking of the 15th-century morality play starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.
He co-created Wonder.land, a musical inspired by Lewis Carroll's famous story, with Damon Albarn and Moira Buffini.
More recently, Norris and artist Jeremy Deller were behind the recent Somme commemoration project - We're Here Because We're Here - which saw hundreds of volunteers dressed as World War One soldiers appearing in public spaces across the UK.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | National Theatre boss Rufus Norris says the referendum vote to leave the EU has been the "lowest moment" of his tenure. | 1.32704 | 1 |
Lu Jun - who officiated at the World Cup - was one of nine people convicted of charges related to corruption inside Chinese football.
The defendants were arrested following an investigation launched to try to clean up the game in China.
A number of other cases are still pending.
Lu Jun, once dubbed the "golden whistle", was the first Chinese referee to take charge of a World Cup match, at the 2002 event hosted by Japan and South Korea.
He was also twice named referee of the year by the Asian Football Confederation.
But now he has been sent to prison after admitting taking bribes worth more than $128,000 (£82,000) to fix the results of seven league football games, some in 2003.
These bribes involved four clubs, including Shanghai Shenhua, which has just signed French soccer star Nicolas Anelka.
The court, in the north-eastern city of Dandong, heard how the Shanghai club had spent nearly $1m bribing officials and referees, including Lu Jun.
The referee was one of a group of nine people - including other referees and officials - convicted following a trial. They were given sentences ranging from no time in jail to seven years behind bars.
There were tales of a wrongly-awarded penalty, the fixing of international friendly matches and gambling.
In China, corrupt referees have become known as "black whistles".
Dozens of people - referees, players, officials and coaches - have been arrested following a campaign to clean up Chinese football, launched in 2009.
Corruption has blighted the beautiful game here for some years, leading many Chinese fans to support European teams instead.
Last season, though, there was new investment - and enthusiasm - for football in China. That has been heightened with the arrival of Anelka.
But the trials of two former senior officials in the Chinese Football Association - the two bigger fishes, as the state-run news agency Xinhua calls them - have yet to start. | The man who was once China's top football referee has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in jail for taking bribes to fix matches. | 1.522082 | 2 |
Mid and West Fire and Rescue Service used cutting gear, hydraulic spreaders and winches to free the man following the crash between Newcastle Emlyn and Cenarth at 16:50 BST.
The driver was airlifted to Morriston Hospital in Swansea.
The road remains closed in both directions. | A driver has been seriously injured after his car came off the A484 and got stuck in a tree near Ceredigion. | 0.609059 | 1 |
Megan Huntsman, 40, was arrested a year ago after the bodies were found in cardboard boxes in the garage of her former house.
In February she pleaded guilty to six counts of murder.
A judge in the city of Provo gave her the maximum sentence of at least 30 years and up to life in prison.
Police said that the babies were born between 1996 and 2006 and were suffocated or strangled by Huntsman immediately after birth.
They said she put the bodies in plastic bags and packed them in boxes in the garage of her home in Pleasant Grove, about 45 miles (75km) south of Salt Lake City.
She left the boxes behind when she moved out of the house and they were found by her estranged husband, Darren West, last April. A seventh baby also found there was believed to be stillborn.
Police said Huntsman had been a heavy methamphetamine user and "didn't want the babies".
In court papers she said she wanted to take responsibility for the deaths.
Officials said Mr West was the father of the babies but he was not a suspect in the case. He and Huntsman have three other children together.
In April 2014 he had just been released after serving eight years in prison for drug crimes and was retrieving some of his belongings from the house when he made the gruesome discovery.
A final decision on how long Huntsman will spend behind bars will be made by a parole board. Prosecutors said that she was likely to spend the rest of her life in prison. | A woman in the US state of Utah who admitted killing six of her own newborn babies has been sentenced to up to life in prison. | 0.993921 | 1 |
Longton Cottage Hospital closed in September amid staff shortages at hospitals run by Staffordshire and Stoke Partnership NHS Trust.
Thirty seven beds have since been reopened on a temporary basis, along with 28 beds in Stafford.
Latest figures showed local A&E performance to be the worst in England.
Last week, just 63.7% of people attending emergency units at the Royal Stoke University Hospital and Stafford's County Hospital were seen within four hours, compared with a national target of 95%.
The next worst performing trust was the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which treated 70.3% of patients within four hours.
Staffordshire and Stoke Partnership NHS Trust, which runs community hospitals in the area, said reopening Longton Hospital was expected to cost up to £90,000 a week. | A cottage hospital that had to close because of staff shortages has been reopened to help tackle pressure on Accident and Emergency departments. | 1.335328 | 1 |
Kengo Kuma was given a tour of the site where construction of the museum's curved inner walls is underway.
The architect said he was confident the museum would be completed on schedule at the end of 2017 and open in the summer of the following year.
It will take the remainder of 2016 to take the building up to roof height.
Mr Kuma said: I am very happy to see the progress of the construction.
"The level of construction is very high and beautiful - it is not an easy construction because the detail is unique.
"I can feel the scale of the spaces and the scale is as I expected."
Key milestones in the first year of work included the completion of a coffer dam which enabled construction of part of the building that will sit out over the River Tay.
This year's programme involves construction of the core inner walls, stairwell and lift cores and the outer double curvature walls of the building.
Representatives from Dundee City Council and BAM Construction Ltd accompanied Kengo Kuma on the tour of the site.
Dundee Lord Provost Bob Duncan said: "People can see from the outside that something really special is beginning to take shape on this site.
"I am delighted that Kengo Kuma can see how much has been achieved here in the space of a year.
"We are delighted with the attention that this project is focusing on our city."
Pre-cast panels will be installed in 2017 to the exterior to give the building its unique slatted, multi-layered appearance.
BAM's construction manager Malcolm Boyd said: "We are relishing meeting the unique technical and construction challenges and working with all our partners to deliver a building that will inspire Dundonians and attract worldwide recognition ." | The architect of Dundee's V&A museum said he was "very happy" with its progress one year after the £80.1m construction project began. | 1.491486 | 1 |
The number will rise to 1.9 million by 2020, according to the Social Market Foundation's (SMF) research.
Currently, the government's national minimum wage is £6.70 per hour, but the National Living Wage for over-25s of £7.20 comes into effect in April.
The government said the increase would help over one million low paid workers.
"This government is committed to backing enterprising self-employed people through initiatives like start up loans, tax allowances and by cutting red tape by a further £10 billion.
"Our new National Living Wage will give a boost to over one million low paid workers when it takes effect next week," said a spokesperson for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The SMF said its research - funded by the charity Trust for London - also raised concerns that the introduction of the higher National Living Wage provided an "added incentive" for firms to contract out services to self-employed people rather than take them on directly.
"Policies such as the National Living Wage make it artificially more attractive for firms to engage contractors rather than employees, and ignore a large section of low paid workers," said SMF chief economist Nida Broughton.
One in seven UK workers is now self employed, official statistics show.
Typically they earn far less than their employed counterparts on both an hourly and monthly basis, according to the SMF which used data from the government's annual Family Resources Survey (FRS), which asks respondents about income from self-employment, as the basis of its research.
It found that 49% of UK self employed people were low paid on an hourly basis - defined as earning two-thirds or less than employees - compared with 22% of employed people.
It found the problem was particularly acute in London, where 18% of workers are self-employed.
In December, the Regulatory Policy Committee, which advises government, estimated the introduction of the National Living Wage would cost UK businesses more than £1bn. | More than 1.7m self-employed workers will earn below the new National Living Wage when it comes into force in April, a think tank has warned. | 2.089296 | 2 |
Dunlop, 27, lapped the course at 132.36mph on his BMW superbike and was only four seconds outside John McGuinness' absolute lap record.
The Ballymoney man's speed of 131.34 in the Superstocks improved his own previous best lap of 131.22.
Ian Hutchinson was second fastest in the Superbike class with 131.66.
Eleven-time TT winner Hutchinson, 36, produced his time on his Tyco BMW Superbike from a standing start.
Honda-mounted John McGuinness made up the top three in the blue riband class with 131.12, followed by his Honda team-mate Conor Cummins (129.99) and Yorkshire's Dean Harrison on a Kawasaki (129.97).
Fermanagh rider Lee Johnston, riding a Triumph, clocked the fastest Supersport speed of the week at 124.84mph to lie sixth overall in the leaderboard.
Bruce Anstey, the quickest Supersport rider to date with 124.508, came off his Superbike machine at Keppel Gate on Thursday evening, but walked away with a suspected minor ankle injury.
Michael Rutter moved to the top of the Lightweight Supertwins leaderboard with a lap of 118.054mph, just bettering Ivan Lintin's speed of 118.000mph set on Tuesday night.
Meanwhile, Tim Reeves and Patrick Farrance posted a lap of 114.83mph to send them to the top of the sidecar leaderboard ahead of Dave Molyneux and Dan Sayle.
The final qualifying session is scheduled to take place on Friday night, with the first race, the Superbikes, due off at 11:00 BST on Saturday. | Michael Dunlop continued his Isle of Man TT practice week dominance as he set the fastest Superbike lap and set an unofficial Superstock lap record. | 0.964079 | 1 |
The red Mazda wedged itself in the wall of the house in Thornfield Way, in the Crossgates area of the city, at about 15:00 BST.
The driver, who suffered minor injuries, was test-driving the car and told police the brakes had failed.
Leanne Best, 32, who was in the house when the crash happened, said she heard an "almighty smash".
Ms Best and her parents, who were also in the house, suffered minor injuries from flying fragments of concrete.
"There was just an almighty smash, smoke, flying debris and a load of hissing," she said. | Three people in a house in Leeds were hit by pieces of flying debris after a car smashed through their front door. | 0.679747 | 1 |
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Should Roberts feature in the showpiece against Aberdeen, it will likely be his last appearance for Celtic, with his 18-month deal up in the summer.
"I want to go out the best way possible," Roberts told BBC Scotland.
"To win the Scottish Cup would be a huge honour, especially if it won us the treble."
As things stand, the winger will report to the Premier League side for pre-season training, but he remains unclear where his long-term future lies.
The England Under-20 international has thrived under Brendan Rodgers this season, scoring seven goals, including a fine individual effort against his parent club in the Champions League.
"I haven't decided what's going to happen," Roberts said. "My loan spell ends and I'll be at City for pre-season, but I'm going to play my future by ear and see where it takes me next year."
The 20-year-old has enjoyed his stay in Glasgow.
"It has been wonderful," he said. "I couldn't ask for anything more and it's been a huge achievement for me this year.
"Coming to a club like this, you've got a huge expectation to win trophies, play well and I feel I've done that this year and come on leaps and bounds.
"All I wanted to do was show these fans and show the world what I can do."
Celtic are unbeaten in domestic football this season, lifting the League Cup in November then wrapping up the Premiership title earlier this month.
The Parkhead side eased past rivals Rangers 2-0 in Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final to leave them one game away from clinching a first treble since 2001.
"That was the aim at the start of the season - the League Cup, the league was done a few weeks ago and the last one was to get into the cup final," Roberts added.
"We did that quite comfortably, I felt.
"It was a well-played game from us and we deserve to be in the final." | Manchester City loanee Patrick Roberts wants to finish his stint at Celtic by clinching the Scottish Cup, and a domestic treble, next month. | 0.87368 | 1 |
The Carmarthen workhouse was built in the 1830s, and was stormed by protesters during the Rebecca Riots in 1843.
It has been on the market for some time with a current price tag of £199,999.
Carmarthen Civic Society wants the building returned to its former glory and turned into accommodation, office space or residential care.
The workhouse infirmary and boiler house were built on Penlan Road in response to the Poor Law Act 1834, which required each parish to look after its own poor residents.
Paupers were housed in workhouses and worked several hours a day in return for clothes and food.
On 19 June 1843, the workhouse was stormed by Rebecca Rioters.
Mary Thorley, vice chairwoman of the civic society, explained there had been unrest in the area for years.
"It was known throughout the area that on the 19th of June there was going to be a march on Carmarthen," she said.
"The idea had been to request lesser fines for some of their numbers who had been in court, but somehow, whether it was the Carmarthen mob or the rioters, they turned their attention to the workhouse."
"They stormed the building and told the paupers they were going to free them," said Ms Thorley.
Anticipating the protest, The 4th Light Dragoons had made their way from Cardiff and were seen coming up the road with their swords drawn.
The rioters dispersed and some were arrested.
The building continued to be used as a workhouse until the 1930s, and was more recently used as offices for the BBC and Carmarthenshire council.
Linda Jones, chairwoman of the civic society, said it was "such a shame to see a lovely building going to rack and ruin".
She said it could be turned into accommodation or residential care, for which she said there was a demand.
There is a plaque to mark the workhouse attack, but Ms Thorley believes there should be more of a tribute, describing the Rebecca Riots as "one of the most important social events in Welsh history", similar to one in St Clears.
"It was the 1840s and people were just beginning to realise that, actually, their lives were important. They had things to say and they had rights too," added Ms Thorley.
"It wasn't just about land owners and people in power." | There are calls to save one of Carmarthenshire's most historic buildings from "rack and ruin". | 2.356269 | 2 |
The 33-year-old has made 41 appearances since joining in October 2015, scoring 10 tries in 23 games this season.
Warriors director of rugby Gary Gold said: "Wynand is an experienced international who has been fantastic during his first couple of seasons. He adds vital know-how to the backline."
Olivier has won 38 international caps and was a part of the Springboks' World Cup-winning squad in 2007.
"I've felt at home since moving to Worcester where I've made some great friends inside and outside of the club," Olivier added.
"Hopefully I can help us push up the table towards our goal of becoming a top-end side."
The length of the deal has not been revealed. | South Africa centre Wynand Olivier has signed a new contract with Worcester. | 0.868196 | 1 |
Daniel Lawson, 18, from West Kirkby achieved A* grades in Maths, Further Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and an Extended Project Qualification.
He added those to A*'s he achieved last year in Computing and Business Studies.
The Calday Grange Grammar School pupil will study medicine at the University of Cambridge, but said qualifications were "not the be all and end all".
On opening the results he said he felt initially "bemused" followed by "happiness" and then "disbelief" - "I was laughing to myself".
"I was incredibly nervous... I thought I was borderline to get my offer of two A*s and an A... I would have been happy just to meet my offer," he said.
After being accepted by Magdalene College he said "everything else was just icing on the cake".
"My family are very proud... my dad said it was ridiculous but was happier than I was", he said.
Daniel, who hopes to one day appear on University Challenge, said he thinks A-levels are "important to get you to certain places" but the point is "to do what you enjoy" and university may not the best option for everyone.
"I have lots of friends doing apprenticeships, going to college or straight into jobs", he said.
For Daniel, his achievement was primarily down to how much the subjects interested him.
"I enjoyed all my subjects and that way the qualification is like a bonus.
"But that's not to say it's not a lot of hard work. Practice is the thing. It's more down to hard work than to natural intelligence".
As students in the UK received their A-level results on Thursday, figures showed a marginal fall in top grades. | A teenager from Wirral is celebrating breaking his school's record by achieving nine A* grades at A-level. | 1.348073 | 1 |
The Chicago Sun-Times will instead rely on reporters to shoot photos and video, with freelancers also filling in.
The job cuts come as newspapers across the world struggle with declining advertising and subscription revenues.
The photographers' union vowed to fight the job cuts, which affect as many as 30 people.
Steve Buyansky, a photo editor for three of the smaller suburban subsidiary publications, said the photographers were "in shock".
In a statement, the newspaper said: "The Chicago Sun-Times continues to evolve with our digitally savvy customers, and as a result, we have had to restructure the way we manage multimedia, including photography, across the network.
"The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news.
"We have made great progress in meeting this demand and are focused on bolstering our reporting capabilities with video and other multimedia elements."
The Chicago newspaper is the eighth-largest daily paper in the US, according to industry tracker Alliance for Audited Media.
The media group went into bankruptcy under the direction of press baron Conrad Black. The paper and its 40 subsidiaries were purchased in 2011 by Michael Ferro, a wealthy Chicagoan. | The entire photography staff at a historic Chicago tabloid newspaper and its suburban subsidiaries has been laid off, the photographers have said. | 1.240111 | 1 |
Only Tommy Seymour and Stuart Hogg have been called up to the squad for the tour of New Zealand in June.
"He's gone for the best. That's why he hasn't gone for many Scotland players," Shanklin told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"[That is because] Scotland perform better as a team."
New Zealander Gatland chose 16 England players, 12 from Wales, and 11 from Ireland for his Lions squad, and just two players from Scotland.
"I think they got the most out of their players in the Six Nations but, when you look at them individually and mark them against other players, I think it's the right choice," former Lions tourist Shanklin continued.
"You could argue that Finn Russell or Fraser Brown at hooker should be named, but the players he's picked are individually better than the Scots."
Dan Biggar will be making the trip to New Zealand, and the Ospreys fly-half says he was "a little bit lucky" to be selected, but Shanklin says Gatland, who has coached Wales to two Grand Slams, chose players he was familiar with.
Shanklin said: "Dan Biggar was 50-50 but for me it was a choice between him, George Ford and Finn Russell, and he's gone with what he knows.
"With Biggar, he's probably gone with the most competitive person on that tour and he knows what he will get out of him." | Scotland do not have the individual talent to match Warren Gatland's British and Irish Lions squad selections, says former Wales and Cardiff Blues centre Tom Shanklin. | 0.911588 | 1 |
The chairman and chief executive of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board went last week after health and audit watchdogs found a range of problems.
BCUHB runs NHS services in the six counties of north Wales with a budget of around £1.2bn.
Vice-chair Dr Lyndon Miles becomes the third board member to leave.
Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) and the Wales Audit Office (WAO) found a series of problems at the health board, which runs Ysbyty Gwynedd, Glan Clwyd and Wrexham Maelor hospitals.
They included finding that the relationship between chairman Prof Merfyn Jones and chief executive Mary Burrows had broken down and compromised the organisation.
The issues include:
A spokesperson for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: "We can confirm that the vice-chairman Dr Lyndon Miles has submitted his resignation to the minister."
Last week, Health Minister Mark Drakeford said the health board still faced "fundamental challenges".
He told BBC Wales that replacing two individuals would not be enough in itself to restore public confidence.
The minister said the board faced a "much bigger job" in changing the culture of the way it works. | A third senior figure at Wales' largest NHS organisation has stood down following a damning report on its "significant management failings". | 0.964035 | 1 |
The court sentenced the defendants - most of them in absentia - to jail terms of up to five years.
It also ordered the closure of offices and the seizure of assets in Egypt belonging to several US NGOs.
The case - which began in 2012 - has strained relations between Cairo and Washington.
US officials had threatened to cut off the roughly $1.5bn (£980m) in aid paid to Egypt every year.
On Tuesday, the Cairo court sentenced 27 defendants to five years in prison. Another five received two years and 11 were given one-year terms.
Only five defendants, including one American national, were present in court.
Most foreign defendants - nationals of the US, Germany, Serbia and Arab states - were able to leave the country last year after the authorities had lifted a travel ban against them.
They include Sam LaHood, son of the US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. He received a five-year prison term.
The defendants say they will appeal against the sentences, according to the AFP news agency.
The court in the Egyptian capital also ordered the closure of a number of NGOs operating in Egypt, including the US-based International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
Last year - when Egypt was under military rule following the removal of President Hosni Mubarak - police raided the IRI and NDI offices as well as a number of Egyptian NGOs.
The NGOs had been accused of operating without licences and receiving illicit foreign funds - a charge they denied.
Washington has so far made no public comment on the court's decision.
Last week, human rights groups expressed concerns that a draft law backed by Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi would restrict the funding and activities of NGOs in the country.
Egyptian officials rejected the claim as groundless. | A court in Cairo has convicted 43 Egyptian and foreign employees of non-governmental (NGO) organisations for working illegally in Egypt. | 1.357367 | 1 |
Worcestershire Parkway station has been proposed close to junction 7 of the M5.
The government has set aside a total of £20m to pay for 75% of the cost of either building or renovating stations in England and Wales.
The county council has until 25 February to submit its bid for the fund, which is managed by Network Rail.
The Conservative-led authority has said it wants Worcestershire Parkway completed by summer 2016 if it is given money from the New Stations Fund.
The plans form part of the Worcester Transport Strategy, which requires £200m of investment. | Worcestershire County Council is to bid for £7m of government money to go towards the construction of a third railway station in Worcester. | 1.178274 | 1 |
Tranmere had earlier reached the summit with a 1-0 victory at Wrexham, but Lincoln matched their promotion rivals' result to reclaim first place.
The home side had a golden opportunity to open the scoring in the first half when Lee Angol was fouled in the area, but Alan Power's penalty was brilliantly saved by Ross Flitney.
Bromley continued to frustrate Lincoln until Knott came off the bench to drill in a shot with his first touch of the ball on 65 minutes to earn his side three crucial points.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Lincoln City 1, Bromley 0.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 1, Bromley 0.
Sean Raggett (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Elliot Whitehouse replaces Matt Rhead.
Alan Dunne (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Bradley Goldberg replaces Blair Turgott.
Substitution, Bromley. Louis Dennis replaces Shane McLoughlin.
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Bromley 0. Billy Knott (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Josh Ginnelly replaces Harry Anderson.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Billy Knott replaces Alan Power.
Lee Angol (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Blair Turgott (Bromley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second Half begins Lincoln City 0, Bromley 0.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 0, Bromley 0.
Luke Waterfall (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Bromley. Daniel Johnson replaces Ben Chorley.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Substitute Billy Knott scored his first goal for Lincoln to fire the Imps back to the top of the National League. | 0.896927 | 1 |
The government estimates more than 50,000 people are still missing.
The two sides will work together in a specialised unit to recover remains of those killed from unmarked mass graves and locate those still alive.
The issue was a key sticking point in negotiations to agree a broader peace deal.
The International Committee of the Red Cross will also help in the search for the disappeared.
It is set to be a harrowing process for the victims' families, and for Colombia as a whole, the BBC's Will Grant reports.
Last month, the Farc and the government agreed a deadline of six months for a peace agreement to be signed, a moment which was marked by the first public handshake between the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, and the leader of the Farc, Rodrigo Londono, alias Timochenko.
On 1 October the Farc announced a halt to the rebels' military training.
•An estimated 220,000 killed
•More than five million internally displaced
•More than seven million registered victims
•About 8,000 Farc rebels continue fighting
Sources: Unit for Attention and Reparation of Victims, Colombian government
What is at stake in the Colombian peace process? | Colombia's government and Farc rebels have agreed measures to find people who disappeared during the country's decades-long civil war. | 2.624201 | 3 |
To celebrate its century, we test your knowledge of some of the most famous players and moments the ground has seen.
This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser | The Oval this week stages its 100th Test when England face South Africa. | 0.304783 | 0 |
It attributed the 13% drop from 2014 to fewer attacks in Iraq, Pakistan and Nigeria, three of the five countries worst affected by terrorism.
The other two are India and Afghanistan and together more than half the 11,000 attacks occurred within their borders.
Separately, the UN warned that so-called Islamic State (IS) was focusing on international civilian targets.
Over the past six months IS had carried out attacks in 11 countries, not including its activity in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Libya, the UN said.
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More than 28,300 people died - a 14% decline - and about 35,300 others were wounded in 11,774 terrorist attacks worldwide last year, data compiled by the University of Maryland showed.
However, attacks and deaths increased in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Syria and Turkey, State Department Acting Co-ordinator for Counterterrorism Justin Siberell said.
The State Department said figures showed the terror threat "continued to evolve rapidly in 2015, becoming increasingly decentralised and diffuse".
Extremists were exploiting frustration in countries "where avenues for free and peaceful expression of opinion were blocked", it said.
IS was the biggest single threat, the State Department said. The group has attracted affiliates and supporters in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Although IS was losing territory in Iraq and Syria, it had gained in strength in Libya and Egypt, the report said.
The report said Iran was the biggest state sponsor of terrorism, saying it supported conflicts in Syria and Iraq, and was also implicated in violent Shia opposition raids in Bahrain.
Bahrain has accused Iran of supplying weapons to Shia militants behind bomb attacks on security forces. Iran denies this. | There was a marked fall in the number of terror attacks around the world in 2015, the US State Department has said. | 2.195333 | 2 |
30 May 2013 Last updated at 07:45 BST
Prayers were held for soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed in the street in south-east London, during the meeting at Kashmiri Community Centre in St Anns on Wednesday evening.
Vicar Karen Rooms said the aim was also to open up a dialogue about how to create a more cohesive society.
Jeremy Ball reports. | An inter-faith meeting in Nottingham has urged the local community to show a united front against religious extremism. | 0.863606 | 1 |
The Potters have yet to add any new faces to manager Mark Hughes' squad for next season.
Coates says negotiations over potential targets has been "messy" because of the tournament in France, but is expecting some clarity soon.
"I'm sure things will start to move in the next few weeks," the 78-year-old told BBC Radio Stoke.
Stoke publically declared an interest in Portugal's European Championship-winning forward Nani, but has signed for Spanish club Valencia, and have also been linked with West Bromwich Albion striker Saido Berahino and Egypt winger Ramadan Sobhi.
"We're hoping to bring one or two new players in," Coates said.
"It's always messy with the Euros, as nothing gets done, but these things do take some time as clubs have their own agenda.
"You're not in control - you just have to be patient and hope things drop for you."
As Stoke wait to confirm their first new face, a familiar one - Glenn Whelan - has extended his stay for another year.
The 32-year-old Republic of Ireland midfielder, who is preparing for a his ninth full season with the Potters, has agreed a new deal until 2018.
"He's been a great player for Stoke City - if you have 11 Glenn Whelans, you'd be okay," Coates said.
"We have a great admiration for him, he's a real team player and he wants to win." | Stoke City chairman Peter Coates hopes the club can soon confirm some new signings now Euro 2016 is over. | 0.984466 | 1 |
South-African born artist Susanne du Toit won the £30,000 top prize for a portrait in oils of her 35-year-old son Pieter.
Coventry-based artist and teacher John Devane took the £10,000 second prize for a portrait of his three children.
The paintings will go on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Gallery director Sandy Nairne called du Toit's painting "simple but outstanding".
Du Toit, who is now based in Crowthorne, Berkshire, also wins a commission from the gallery's trustees worth £5,000.
She painted her son as part of a series of portraits of her family.
She allowed Pieter to find his own pose, with the condition that his hands would appear prominently as she finds them essential to convey personality.
Take a look at this portrait of two well-known family members at BBC Your Paintings, along with other works from the National Portrait Gallery
"Having said that, the averted gaze of this portrait, which was his choice, struck me as characteristic of his reflective character, and became intensely engaging", she said.
This will be the second time Devane's work has been exhibited at the BP Portrait Award - his picture In the House of The Cellist was seen in the 1995 exhibition.
He painted his children Lucy, 25, Laura, 20, and Louis, 15, over a period of three years.
The painting sets out to show how children emerge from childhood and reveal something of their adult selves.
Almost 2,000 artists from 77 different countries entered portraits in the competition.
55 portraits have been selected for the exhibition which opens to the public at the gallery on Thursday (20 June) before travelling to Aberdeen in November and Wolverhampton next year.
Scottish painter Owen Normand, who studied at Edinburgh College of Art but is now based in Berlin, won the £7,000 Young Artist Award. | The winner and runner-up of this year's BP Portrait Award are both artists who have painted portraits of their children. | 1.169332 | 1 |
31 October 2015 Last updated at 19:12 GMT
A group of dogs got into the spirit of the celebration at Stormont Estate on Saturday afternoon.
Claire Graham reported for BBC Newsline. | It is common practice for people to get dressed up for Halloween but what about our four-legged friends? | 0.108067 | 0 |
Mr Primakov died in Moscow after a prolonged illness, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin had been informed of the former prime minister's death and was "deeply saddened".
Mr Primakov was head of the Russian government for just eight months between September 1998 and May 1999.
Born in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in 1929, he was brought up in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.
He studied Arabic at the Moscow Institute for Oriental Studies and went on to be a correspondent for state radio and television.
After moving into politics and a stint as the chairman of the Soviet parliament between 1989 and 1990, Mr Primakov played a prominent role in negotiations with Saddam Hussein ahead of the first Gulf War.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he was appointed head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and later foreign minister in January 1996.
Then in 1998 he was appointed prime minister by then-president Boris Yeltsin, and was credited with introducing difficult reforms and a degree of stability to a country still reeling from financial crisis.
In March 1999, Mr Primakov attempted to prevent Nato strikes against Yugoslavia.
He famously ordered his pilot to turn around midway across the Atlantic while en route to the United States on an official visit, after learning that Washington had decided to launch the air raids. The incident became known as "Primakov's loop".
But Mr Primakov's stint as prime minister was short lived. He was sacked in 1999 by President Boris Yeltsin, who reportedly became fearful of his rising popularity.
Mr Primakov signalled his intention to run in the 2000 presidential election, but dropped out when Kremlin powerbrokers united around Vladimir Putin.
In 2003, he once again travelled to Iraq and met Saddam Hussein in an attempt to prevent war, this time at Mr Putin's request. But three days later a US-led offensive began.
In later life, Mr Primakov headed a business lobby group and was respected as one of Russia's leading elder statesmen. | Yevgeny Primakov, a former Russian prime minister, foreign minister and spy chief, has died at the age of 85. | 2.046556 | 2 |
Emyr Roberts said Natural Resources Wales will be different from other bodies under the Welsh government.
He said it would be able both to regulate and offer independent advice.
It is being created through a merger of the Countryside Council, Environment Agency and Forestry Commission.
Dr Roberts, a former senior Welsh government official, takes up his new post on Thursday, as a £1bn gas-fired power station in Pembrokeshire faces an EU inquiry over part of its licensing.
Friends of the Earth Cymru has complained that the UK government has breached environmental regulations by allowing the site to discharge water in to the Cleddau estuary 8C warmer than the water is extracted.
Environmentalists say the case raises a question of what a licensing body that was answerable to Welsh ministers would do in a similar situation.
Dr Roberts said the case "underlines the need for one voice in this area".
"We will make sure there are systems in place to separate any advice from any other statutory obligations on us," he said.
He said: "Anything to do with the environment is very complicated, and the Welsh government is bringing forward legislation to try and simplify this over the next few years and I would be very keen for the new organisation to work with Welsh government on that.
"We need to collectively look at that - and not all of this is devolved either - which brings in a further complexity.
"The model that the Welsh government wants here is slightly different from other arms length organisations in that the expectation is that this body will work very closely with the Welsh government in developing policies, and their operational impact.
"So I think it will be a close relationship, but it will be an arms length relationship."
Dr Roberts, who is originally from Anglesey, joined the civil service in 1991 after previously working for the National Farmers' Unions.
Ministers say replacing the three organisations with a single body will save the taxpayer £158m over 10 years. | The chief executive of Wales' new environmental management body says it will work closely with ministers but will maintain its distance. | 1.918994 | 2 |
Five fire appliances and the forestry unit were involved in trying to stop the spread of the grassland blaze on the Glenrinnes Estate.
The fire coincides with warnings that the north east is at an increased risk of wildfires due to the warmer weather and dry conditions. | Firefighters were called out to tackle a major wildfire near Keith in Moray on Thursday night. | 1.13703 | 1 |
Jesse Matthew, 34, pleaded guilty to the murders of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, 18, and Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, 20, and abduction with intent to defile.
British-born Ms Graham vanished in 2014 and Ms Harrington disappeared in 2009.
Matthew, from Virginia, said he was sorry through his attorney at Albemarle County Circuit Court.
He is already serving three life terms for a 2005 sexual assault in northern Virginia.
Ms Graham's mother, Susan Graham, called her daughter "a heroine" as she had enabled law enforcement to apprehend Matthew who had been "hiding in plain sight in Charlottesville for years".
Ms Graham was born in Reading, England, and moved to the US with her parents at the age of five.
She vanished after having dinner and attending parties away from her university campus in September 2014.
CCTV captured her walking unsteadily past a service station and a restaurant. Footage also showed Matthew walking with her, his arm wrapped around her.
Her body was found five weeks later on abandoned property in Albemarle County, about 12 miles from the Charlottesville campus and six miles from a hay field where Ms Harrington's remains had been found in January 2010.
Ms Harrington disappeared in 2009 after she stepped out of a Metallica concert at the University of Virginia and was unable to get back in.
Matthew, who was a taxi driver before going to work at the University of Virginia hospital, was accused of raping students in 2002 and 2003 at Liberty University and Christopher Newport University, but the cases were dropped when the women declined to press charges.
A spokesman for Matthew's family apologised to the victims' families. Reverent Louie Carr said that "words cannot express our sadness about what happened".
"It's hard to understand how a gentle soul" could commit such crimes, Mr Carr added. | A man has been given four consecutive life sentences after admitting the murder and abduction of two students. | 1.29297 | 1 |
Humza Yousaf was speaking after a meeting of the government's resilience committee looked at what will happen when strikes clash with major events such as T in the Park and The Open.
The next RMT strike takes place on Sunday and Monday - days when many people will be travelling home from the music festival.
Further strikes clash with The Open, which is taking place at Royal Troon between 14 and 17 July.
The railway union is backing industrial action over concerns about the operation of more trains without guards.
ScotRail said it would always schedule a second person on trains.
It also claimed that 59% of its customers currently travel on a train where the doors are safely opened and closed by the driver.
Mr Yousaf said: "It is disappointing to see these strikes continue to affect commuters who simply want to go about their everyday lives without any further rail disruption.
"I would once again urge both parties to come together, get back round the table and resolve this dispute.
"This latest round of RMT strikes coincide with some of Scotland's major summer events, most notably T in the Park, The Scottish Open and The Open. However, transport planning for these events is well developed with information available to let people plan their journeys in advance." | Scotland's transport minister has claimed there is a "well developed" plan in place to deal with disruption caused by rail strikes. | 1.393788 | 1 |
The former presidential candidate will release her untitled tome on 26 September, says Simon & Schuster. Financial terms were not revealed.
The publisher said Mrs Clinton will use some of her favourite quotes to "tell stories from her life".
The Democrat lost the election to Republican Donald Trump in a stunning upset, even though she won more votes.
"These are the words I live by," former secretary of state Mrs Clinton said in a statement of her forthcoming book.
"These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer.
"I hope by sharing these words and my thoughts about them, the essays will be meaningful for readers," she added.
The 69-year-old is also resuming her relationship with the Harry Walker Agency, the speakers' bureau she left in 2013 as secretary of state.
Her money-spinning career as a speaker, including talks sponsored by Goldman Sachs, were a festering subject of criticism from political opponents.
She is set to speak at an International Women's Day event next month organised by Vital Voices, an organisation founded by Mrs Clinton and then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in 1997.
The event was not organised by the Harry Walker Agency, according to Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill.
Her plans to return to that agency are seen as making it unlikely that she might launch a bid for the mayoralty of New York City, as Clinton-watchers have speculated.
She is also set to appear at an LGBT community centre gala in New York on 20 April and deliver the commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College.
Mrs Clinton has kept a low profile since the election, but attended Mr Trump's inauguration last month and has criticised his policies. | Hillary Clinton is writing a book of personal essays, including reflections on last year's US election. | 1.511947 | 2 |
14 October 2016 Last updated at 16:09 BST
He was answering a question about her interview with the BBC at a press conference in Germany, while standing alongside Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mrs Buhari had warned that she might not back him at the next election unless he made changes to his leadership style. | Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to criticism of his leadership by his wife Aisha Buhari by saying that she "belongs to my kitchen". | 0.564211 | 1 |
McClaren, who was only appointed this summer, has guided United to 19th place in the Premier League and they were knocked out of the League Cup by an under-strength Sheffield Wednesday.
"To have that knee-jerk reaction and look for a new manager is ridiculous at this point," Howey told BBC Sport.
"We have to wait until at least Christmas."
Howey helped Newcastle win the second-tier title as well as being part of a Magpies side which twice finished as runners-up in the Premier League during the 1990s.
He believes the Tyneside outfit's players need to "take a long hard look at themselves".
"Everyone can get beaten and we have already seen that this season but it is the way, attitude and sometimes how easily they go down," added Howey.
"When I was playing, and even afterwards, teams didn't like coming to St James' Park because it was hostile and it was difficult to win there.
"The way Newcastle are playing at the moment, they are basically there for the taking which is horrifically disappointing. The fans expect better."
Newcastle host champions Chelsea on Saturday, with the only team below them in the top flight being rivals Sunderland.
"It wouldn't be the same in the North East if there wasn't all this turmoil," said Howey.
"Every year they say it's going to be different but it ends up being the same. The football at the moment is not even good.
"If Newcastle and Sunderland don't buck their ideas up you can see them both going down and Middlesbrough coming up.
"This area is a hotbed of football. It's a pity the teams aren't as good as the fans are." | Newcastle should keep faith with boss Steve McClaren, according to former Magpies centre-back Steve Howey. | 0.976003 | 1 |
With injured centre Jonathan Joseph missing the game at Twickenham, rugby league convert Sam Burgess is set to start alongside Brad Barritt.
Burgess, 26, will be winning only his third England cap.
Number eight Ben Morgan is also set to miss the match because of a minor knee injury, with Billy Vunipola coming in.
Morgan, 26, broke his leg in January, ruling him out of the Six Nations, but returned to regain his starting place ahead of Vunipola for England's tournament opener.
Wasps flanker James Haskell will step up to the bench to face Wales.
Bath centre Joseph, 24, injured his chest as the hosts beat Fiji 35-11 on Friday.
England attack coach Andy Farrell said Joseph's injury was "nothing too serious" and would probably keep him out for "not more than a week", although it is understood he is a significant doubt for the match with Australia on 3 October.
Joseph scored four tries in England's Six Nations campaign earlier this year and is one of the most dangerous runners in England's backline.
After facing Wales, England play Australia, followed by Uruguay on 10 October, with the top two teams from the group progressing to the quarter-finals.
Head coach Stuart Lancaster will announce his team on Thursday morning.
For the latest rugby union news, follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | England fly-half George Ford will be dropped for the World Cup Pool A match against Wales on Saturday, with Owen Farrell replacing him. | 0.91804 | 1 |
BBC Radio Nottingham reports Cooper will take over at National League side Forest Green, after only 10 games in charge at Meadow Lane.
Alex Gilliead stroked Carlisle ahead from the edge of the box and Danny Grainger's shot doubled the lead.
Jabo Ibehre struck either side of half-time before Charlie Wyke walked the ball into the net to cap the rout.
Carlisle moved up to a final position of 10th, an improvement of 10 places on last season, while the Magpies finished 17th in their first season following relegation from League One.
Cooper's departure meant Notts must search for their seventh manager in 14 months.
The former Swindon Town manager won three and lost five of his 10 matches since taking over from Jamie Fullarton in March. | Manager Mark Cooper has left Notts County following their heavy League Two defeat by Carlisle on Saturday. | 0.761548 | 1 |
The lions escaped from Kruger National Park on Sunday night and were last seen in the village of Matsulu, South African National Parks said in a statement.
It warned residents to "exercise extra caution".
It is not yet clear how the lions escaped from the park, which is largely fenced off.
Kruger National Park (KNP) is one of the biggest game reserves in Africa, covering an area of 7,523 sq miles (19,485 sq km).
"KNP Rangers and their counterparts at the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency (MTPA) are in the area searching for the lions and we will give details as soon as they have appraised us," KNP spokesperson William Mabasa said in the statement.
"SANParks would like to reiterate that residents should be extra vigilant and report any sightings of these dangerous predators to the authorities."
The latest escape comes after five lions broke out of the same park in May. Four of them were caught but the fifth is still unaccounted for. | South African wildlife rangers are searching for four male lions that escaped from a national park. | 2.020519 | 2 |
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index closed down 4.05% at 16,930.84.
The index hit an eight-month low ahead of the closely-watched Bank of Japan's Tankan quarterly business confidence survey, due on Thursday.
Japan's economy has struggled to pick up momentum after shrinking in the second quarter.
A weak survey of Chinese industrial profits, released on Monday, also added to investors' concerns about the world's second-largest economy.
Investors are looking ahead to manufacturing surveys on Thursday for more information on the extent of the slowdown in China.
The Shanghai Composite closed down 2% at 3,038.14.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed down 3% at 20,556.60 after being closed on Monday. The benchmark was dragged lower by Glencore shares which finished the day down nearly 30% following a similar drop in London on Monday.
Glencore's share price plunge in the UK and in Hong Kong came after a note from broker Investec which said that the firm's equity value could be wiped out if commodity prices remain at current levels.
Worries over prospects for the mining sector also sent Australian-listed shares of BHP Billiton down 6.4%, while Rio Tinto closed down 4.6%.
"Its [Glencore's] rumoured reverse takeover of Rio Tinto at the start of the year is now seen as extreme debt risk considering the state of its balance sheet today - a blessing in disguise that the deal wasn't done," said Evan Lucas, market strategist at trading firm IG in a note.
Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed down 3.8% at 4,918.40.
Markets in South Korea are closed for public holidays. | Asian shares fell sharply as fears over growth prospects and commodity prices continued to drive a global sell-off in equities. | 1.135477 | 1 |
Banchory Primary School Parent Council said the "unusual and dramatic" move followed recent "close calls" near the Tullibody school.
The council hope the idea, involving P1 to P3 pupils, will encourage safe and legal driving and parking.
Its chairman Alastair Freck told the Alloa Advertiser that the campaign "had caused a bit of a stir."
He said: "It is a bit unusual and a bit dramatic, but seems to be having the desired effect because people are already talking about it.
"And though it's caused a bit of a stir, it has been mostly well-received."
Mr Freck said the safety campaign was "not about blaming parents".
He said: "We just want people driving near to the school to consider where and how they are parking and to make sure they are doing so safely and legally.
"There have been a quite a few close calls in the past and generally speaking some of the kids can find it hard to cross roads and get to school." | Pupils have "played dead" on the street outside their Clackmannanshire primary school to highlight road safety. | 1.227183 | 1 |
Cpl Kylo Gorman's medals for service in Afghanistan and at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee were taken from his car in Bolton-le-Sands on 4 or 5 January.
He said he "wasn't that bothered at first", but the reaction online "got me thinking 'it is a really big deal'".
Lancashire Police said they were investigating the theft.
The Port Talbot-born 28-year-old, who has served five tours of Afghanistan, said he had left the medals in the car after removing them from a uniform he was having altered.
"I didn't think twice about them. I'm based at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire during the week and when I came home and the car had been broken into, I realised my medals had gone," he said.
"I want my children to be able to look at their dad's medals and be proud of what I did," he added.
Cpl Gorman, who has also served in the Falklands, Africa and Cyprus, has been in the RAF for 10 years and is due to leave the armed forces in April. | A RAF airman has made an appeal for the return of two stolen medals after hundreds shared his post about the theft on social media. | 1.302212 | 1 |
Paceman Eranga felt discomfort while batting during Sri Lanka's one-day international win over Ireland.
"He was OK and stable and we're awaiting the results," said a Sri Lanka Cricket spokesman.
The 29-year-old's bowling action was reported during the second Test against England in May.
Eranga was tested on 6 June at the National Cricket Performance Centre in Loughborough, which is accredited by the International Cricket Council.
"The assessment revealed that all deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees level of tolerance permitted under the regulations," said an ICC statement.
Eranga, who has played 41 times for Sri Lanka across all three formats, is still able to play domestic cricket in Sri Lanka, with the consent of the country's cricket board.
He can apply for a reassessment of his action once it has been modified.
Sri Lanka face England in the first ODI at Trent Bridge on Tuesday.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Sri Lanka's Shaminda Eranga has been banned from bowling in international cricket - hours after he was admitted to hospital for tests on his heart. | 1.070992 | 1 |
"If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would - absolutely. I would be honoured to do it," he told news organisation Bloomberg on Monday.
The previous day he described Mr Kim as a "pretty smart cookie".
The comments come amid escalating tensions over North Korea's nuclear programme.
The White House issued a statement following Mr Trump's remarks, saying North Korea would need to meet many conditions before any meeting between the two leaders could take place.
Spokesman Sean Spicer said Washington wanted to see the North end its provocative behaviour immediately.
"Clearly conditions are not there right now," he added.
In Sunday's interview with CBS, President Trump noted Mr Kim had assumed power at a young age, despite dealing with "some very tough people".
He said he had "no idea" whether Mr Kim was sane.
The North Korean leader had his uncle executed two years after he came to power, and is suspected of ordering the recent killing of his half-brother.
President Trump, asked what he made of the North Korean leader, told CBS: "People are saying: 'Is he sane?' I have no idea... but he was a young man of 26 or 27... when his father died. He's dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others.
"And at a very young age, he was able to assume power. A lot of people, I'm sure, tried to take that power away, whether it was his uncle or anybody else. And he was able to do it. So obviously, he's a pretty smart cookie."
On Saturday North Korea conducted its second failed ballistic missile test in two weeks.
Tensions in the region have increased lately, with both North and South Korea conducting military exercises.
The US sent warships to the region and began installing a controversial anti-missile system in South Korea last week.
On Sunday, an article from Pyongyang's state-run news agency KCNA urged the US to "ponder over the catastrophic consequences to be entailed by their foolish military provocation".
North Korea has carried out repeated missile tests in recent months and is threatening to conduct its sixth nuclear test.
President Trump told CBS the US was "not going to be very happy" if further tests were carried out. When asked whether this would mean military action he said: "I don't know. I mean, we'll see." | US President Donald Trump has said he would be "honoured" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in the right circumstances. | 1.599616 | 2 |
Robert Plant, 36, who is originally from Chatham, killed 34-year-old Joudia Zimmat while she was out jogging in a suburb of Nimes in January 2013.
Her partially-clothed body was found with multiple stab wounds in a thicket in the Courbessac area.
The court in Nimes also ruled that Plant should not be eligible for parole for 20 years.
Plant, who lived with his mother just yards from where Ms Zimmat's body was found, was formally charged in 2013. | A man from Kent has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of a mother-of-three in the south of France. | 1.07333 | 1 |
The all-rounder, 23, has played three Tests, nine one-day internationals and five Twenty20 matches for Pakistan.
He is the sixth player involved in allegations connected to the PSL.
In March, Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Irfan was suspended for a year after failing to disclose approaches made by two bookmakers.
The PCB has already initiated proceedings against Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif, Nasir Jamshed and Shahzaib Hasan.
In a statement on their website, the PCB said: "This notice requires Nawaz to appear before the PCB Security and Vigilance Department for an interview in relation to possible breaches of the PCB anti-corruption code." | The Pakistan Cricket Board wants to question Mohammad Nawaz as part of an investigation into cricket corruption in the Pakistan Super League. | 0.662334 | 1 |
Dale Toten spent a year tending his big brassica from seed to nearly 6st (38kg) at Ston Easton Park, near Bath.
He planned to exhibit the mammoth vegetable at this weekend's Malvern Autumn Show.
But although the cabbage was supposed to be off-limits, an unwitting chef turned it into a confit for guests.
Mr Toten, from Radstock, Somerset, who is senior gardener at the four-star country house hotel, said the cabbage had taken a year to reach that size.
When he found a large part of it had been hacked off, he went to investigate who had done it.
"I looked in the chef's pantry and it was right there in front of me - he had used it for a confit," he said.
"I might have lost my temper at that point. He did get an earful off me."
He estimates the cabbage, which was a Cornish Giant variety, measured 6-7ft (1.8-2.1m) across and has now warned all chefs not to tamper with any of his other prize specimens ahead of the show, even tasking his dog with watching them when he is not around.
He added: "It was an agency worker who did it as the others all know not to touch my vegetables but I have had a word."
Fortunately he has other large vegetables to enter in the show, including a 10st (63kg) marrow, leeks, onions and several other cabbages.
Nick Romano, operations director for Ston Easton Park, said: "Cabbage-gate has been a very serious incident here at Ston Easton Park and we are now in the process of implementing special measures to ensure that this never happens again and that Dale's prize vegetables are kept safe and sound." | A gardener is feeling hacked off after part of his giant cabbage was cut from a hotel garden by mistake and cooked by chefs at its restaurant. | 1.508674 | 2 |
Mr Turnbull has confirmed that Australian warplanes were involved in Sunday's mistaken attack.
Russia called an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the strike.
The US has also expressed "regret" for the "unintentional loss of life".
It has said the attack was "halted immediately when coalition officials were informed by Russian officials that it was possible the personnel and vehicles targeted were part of the Syrian military".
Russia says the attack killed at least 62 Syrian troops fighting Islamic State and wounded 100 more.
The attack caused a bitter row between the US and Russia at the United Nations Security Council.
Speaking in New York, Mr Turnbull expressed "regret" for the deaths, confirming that "Australian aircraft were involved in the sortie that's been the subject of the recent news reporting".
"I can say that as soon as the coalition commanders were advised by the Russian command in the region that Syrian forces had been affected, that sortie was discontinued."
But he said there was "obviously a lot of politics" behind Russia's complaint at the UN, citing "contradictions" with its own actions in Syria, including the reported bombing of hospitals.
US envoy Samantha Power has accused Russia of "pulling a stunt" by calling an emergency meeting of the Security Council.
Her Russian counterpart Vitaliy Churkin said he had never seen "such an extraordinary display of American heavy-handedness".
A ceasefire deal agreed by the US and Russia went into effect in Syria last Monday, but important terms of the deal, such as the safe passage of aid, have still not been fulfilled.
The cessation of hostilities does not include attacks by the US on IS or other jihadist groups.
Russian has said the ceasefire is now in danger of collapse, and that the US would be to blame. | Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has expressed regret for the loss of life in a US-led airstrike which killed dozens of Syrian soldiers fighting the so-called Islamic State. | 1.660408 | 2 |
The 20-year-old had a spell at Barnet last season and has made six substitute appearances for the Lions this term.
"Alfie is a striker with a good pedigree who comes highly-recommended to us," Shots manager Barry Smith said.
"He's received good coaching at Millwall and was wanted by a number of National League clubs during this transfer window."
Pavey is eligible to make his debut for the Shots when they host Chester on Saturday. | National League side Aldershot Town have signed Millwall striker Alfie Pavey on a 28-day youth loan deal. | 0.428302 | 0 |
Bennett came on for Stuart Hogg after 17 minutes of the 61-21 rout by England, but was taken off four minutes later with knee and arm injuries.
Full-back Hogg, wing Tommy Seymour and number eight Ryan Wilson are being treated for concussion.
Finn Russell, Huw Jones and Richie Gray also require precautionary scans.
Fly-half Russell and centre Jones, who scored two of Scotland's three tries at Twickenham, both have knee injuries, while lock Gray has a hamstring issue.
Scottish Rugby reported that Bennett, who will move from Glasgow to Edinburgh next season, is expected to play no further part in the championship.
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Hogg, Seymour and Wilson will now be subject to the head injury assessment (HIA) protocols to determine whether they will be involved against Italy.
Scotland have already lost captain Greig Laidlaw, number eight Josh Strauss and flanker John Hardie to injury, and have been without first-choice props WP Nel and Al Dickinson for the entire championship.
With Bennett ruled out, Jones an injury doubt and Duncan Taylor unable to join up with the squad last week because of a hamstring injury, Gloucester's Matt Scott may come into the selection mix this week.
Wing Sean Maitland, who missed the win over Wales with a rib injury but has since returned with his club Saracens, is also likely to be in contention for a place in the match-day 23.
Head coach Vern Cotter said when announcing the side to play England that Maitland "is ready and available if we need him."
Cotter admitted after Saturday's mauling that his main concern was seeing "if he can get a team together" for the Italy encounter at Murrayfield, which will be his final match in charge.
Cotter believes Scotland can still secure a top-half finish in this year's Six Nations if they record a third win in the championship for the first time since 2006. | Scotland centre Mark Bennett is set to miss their final Six Nations match against Italy with six other players being assessed for injuries. | 0.947227 | 1 |
Mr Morrison also announced education savings which will see students pay a greater share of the cost of degrees.
Infrastructure projects, health and housing affordability were also high on the government's agenda.
The main opposition Labor party accused him of using a healthcare levy increase to fund tax cuts for big business.
But Labor supported the tax on the banks.
Mr Morrison said $6.2bn ($4.6bn; £3.5) would be raised over the next four years by the new levy on the big five - ANZ Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank, Commonwealth Bank and Macquarie.
The head of the Australian Bankers' Association called the levy "a direct attack on jobs and growth".
It was a textbook manoeuvre by Mr Morrison - disarm your opponents by grabbing some of their ideas.
The surprise tax on Australia's big banks and a thaw on healthcare rebates could all have come from a Labor manifesto.
Throw in a promise to spend big on infrastructure, and, according to one Australian commentator, Mr Morrison didn't just steal the opposition's clothing - he took the whole wardrobe.
In reality, this was more about steering to centre ground rather than swerving to the left.
It moves the government away from austerity measures it introduced in 2014, but remains tough on key issues like welfare payments.
Mr Morrison and PM Malcolm Turnbull will hope that is enough to keep their party room content, and ensure the government's slim majority remains intact.
"It is a tax that will hit Australians by hurting investment and could have unintended consequences... it will affect the entire banking system," said Anna Bligh, the former Queensland premier.
"This new tax is not a well thought-out policy response to a public interest issue, it is a political tax grab to cover a budget black hole."
The budget was the first since PM Malcolm Turnbull's government was re-elected on a tiny majority last year.
In it Mr Morrison outlined higher education reforms aimed at savings of A$3.8bn by June 2021.
But the government had already announced key aspects of the budget, including building a second Sydney airport, increasing university fees by 7.5% by 2021, and lowering the salary threshold for university debt repayments from A$55,000 to A$42,000.
In other areas, the government will provide: | Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison has unveiled a new budget which includes a surprise rise in taxation for the country's five biggest banks from July. | 1.29697 | 1 |
Conservative leader David Cameron visited Bexhill to look at work on a new bypass.
Labour's Ed Miliband visited a sixth form college in Hove and on Sunday Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg spent time visiting Kent and Sussex.
And UKIP's Nigel Farage has been campaigning in the South Thanet constituency where he is standing.
Speaking at the site of the Bexhill-Hastings link road, Mr Cameron said: "Judge us by what we've done.
"Thirteen years Labour talked about this bypass and did nothing, five years of a Conservative government and you can see the diggers are there, the road's being built and the jobs are coming."
Mr Miliband was in Hove where he spoke about Mr Cameron's record on the NHS.
He said: "Here's the worst thing of all - David Cameron calls it a success.
"It isn't a success it's a disgrace. His record is a disgrace and on Thursday with your help, this Labour Party will rescue our National Health Service."
Mr Clegg spent time in Maidstone, Tonbridge and Newhaven on Sunday.
He said: "There's a real risk that all the hard work, all the sacrifices that so many people here in the South East have made... is undone and squandered as Conservatives lurch to the right and cut, cut, cut, public services to the bone and the Labour party lurches to the left." | The leaders of four of the main parties in England have been campaigning in the South East ahead of the election. | 0.925373 | 1 |
Flames engulfed Stuart Russell's pigeon lofts and grain store at Hulk Moor Drove near Glastonbury on Sunday, causing £9,000 worth of damage.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said the fire was started deliberately and an investigation is under way.
The fire happened a year to the day after most of Mr Russell's prize-winning birds were stolen.
Mr Russell, 71, said he believes "parasites" from within the racing pigeon community were to blame.
"This is not a coincidence - I've been dreading something like this since last year," he said.
"It's happening throughout the UK - it's happening all the time - these parasites just want to stop you from doing what you enjoy doing and from winning."
Mr Russell, who has won 57 first prizes since 2005, was given a number of young birds by the racing community to replace those which were stolen a year ago.
He said he was "dreading" telling his grandchildren, who call him "Grandpa Pigeon".
He added: "I really haven't got the heart for it anymore - I've been left with absolutely nothing."
Lee Fribbins, editor of The Racing Pigeon, said competition among the UK's 50,000 fanciers was fierce and the price of birds had "gone through the roof".
He said while there had been "stories of jealous fanciers who have spoiled the enjoyment of others", the community "loves to applaud others and their achievements". | A prize-winning pigeon fancier is giving up the sport after arsonists set fire to his lofts, killing 20 birds. | 1.163708 | 1 |
Labour's deputy leader has been accused of inappropriately intervening in the case.
Lord Brittan died in January without being told he had been cleared of the allegation.
Mr Watson will be questioned over his actions by MPs next week.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) found in July 2013 that there was not enough evidence for a prosecution over the claim Lord Brittan had raped a 19-year-old female student in 1967.
In a letter to Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders in April 2014, Mr Watson complained that the "investigation into the serious allegations in this case was dropped before the suspect was interviewed".
He also said he was "driven to the unpalatable conclusion that the identity of the alleged perpetrator - Leon Brittan - may in some way have influenced treatment of the case".
The letter was received by the CPS in late April and details of it were widely reported in the media in the middle of May.
The letter was passed to the police on 2 June, two days after they had interviewed Lord Brittan.
The CPS has released a statement saying it did not ask the police to reopen the investigation as a result of Mr Watson's letter.
It said it had forwarded Mr Watson's letter to the Metropolitan Police, saying this was normal practice, and that Lord Brittan had already been interviewed by the Met by the time it received the letter.
"It is for the police to decide whether or not, or how, they will investigate an allegation that is referred to them," the statement added.
"The CPS has no power to direct them and did not seek to do so."
The Home Affairs committee, chaired by Labour MP Keith Vaz, has asked Mr Watson to "provide clarification on a number of issues" on 21 October.
The committee, has also asked representatives of the Metropolitan Police to appear.
On Monday, Mr Watson was urged to apologise for his pursuit of the Lord Brittan allegations, by Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames, who said he had "vilely traduced" the former home secretary.
In response, the Labour MP told the Commons he had been right to raise the issue. | A letter by MP Tom Watson demanding Lord Brittan be interviewed about a rape allegation was only passed to police after the former home secretary was questioned, prosecutors say. | 0.745913 | 1 |
Joanne Latham, 38, was found hanging by a prison officer at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes in the early hours of Friday.
A Prison Service report seen by the BBC said the prisoner, who was serving life for three attempted murders, had barricaded the door of her cell.
It is the second recent death of a transgender woman in a men's prison.
Last month inmate Vikki Thompson, 21, was found dead at HMP Leeds. She had said she would kill herself if she was sent to a male prison.
Updates on this story and others from Buckinghamshire here
The Prison Service report said as well as the cell door at HMP Woodhill being barricaded, the "observation panel" had been obscured.
"After receiving no response from her, staff requested permission to enter the cell," it said.
The report said the cell occupied by the "transgender prisoner" was checked at 04:02 GMT on Friday.
Paramedics were called and arrived at about 05:40. Attempts to resuscitate her were halted at 06:00.
A doctor pronounced the inmate dead at at 06:20.
Latham was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 for an attempted murder.
She was later handed further life sentences for the attempted murders of a prisoner at HMP Frankland, in Durham, in 2007 and of a fellow patient at Rampton secure hospital, in Nottinghamshire, in 2011.
The BBC understands she was in the early stages of changing her gender.
A Prison Service spokesman said: "HMP Woodhill prisoner Joanne Latham was found unresponsive on the morning of Friday.
"As with all deaths in custody, there will be an investigation by the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman."
A Thames Valley Police spokesman confirmed the force was aware of the death of an inmate at Woodhill prison.
A spokesman for the coroner's service said a post-mortem examination had yet to be carried out.
Following the death of Ms Thompson, the government announced it was re-examining its policy on transgender prisoners.
Her death prompted the prisons minister Andrew Selous to respond to an urgent question in the House of Commons.
He told a debate the government was "reviewing prison service instruction".
HMP Woodhill, a Category A prison, opened in 1992 and can hold 819 inmates, according to the Ministry of Justice website. | A transgender prisoner has been discovered dead in her cell at an all-male prison, the BBC has learned. | 0.919606 | 1 |
The charity Missing People wants to raise awareness of the disappearances of Megan Roberts, from Wetherby, West Yorkshire, and Ed Machin, from York.
Miss Roberts, 20, went missing in York on 23 January. Police say it is likely she fell into the River Ouse.
Mr Machin, 39, was last seen on the same day in Bempton, East Yorkshire. Their disappearances are not connected.
Fans at the League Two match between York City and Cheltenham Town were also reminded of the search for York chef Claudia Lawrence.
Miss Lawrence was last seen on 18 March 2009, when she was aged 35. Detectives believe she was murdered.
Martin Crosby, from Missing People, said: "When someone you love goes missing you want the whole world to stop and join the search.
"Sharing these appeals is one of the key ways fans and the public can support the search for Megan, Claudia and Edward, whose family and friends are pleased to work on this with York City FC, as a club at the centre of the community."
Miss Roberts, who is studying at York St John University, was last seen near to Lendal Bridge which crosses the River Ouse.
North Yorkshire Police have said the "strongest and most probable line of inquiry being pursued by police is that Megan, affected by alcohol, has entered the river".
Mr Machin was last seen in Bempton, near Bridlington, after he was dropped off by a taxi outside the White Horse Inn.
Miss Lawrence's father Peter was expected to attend the event.
He said: "It is distressing to have both Edward and Megan missing in York along with Claudia and my thoughts are with their families and friends.
"I would encourage as many people as possible to help the charity by volunteering, sharing the appeals and by signing up to receive alerts at the game on Saturday." | An appeal for help to find a student and a man missing since January has been made at York City's ground. | 1.41175 | 1 |
Investigators say Andrew Jensen's sample in the toilet bowl at the home in Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks matched DNA on an FBI database.
The 42-year-old was arrested on 28 July nearly a year after the residential burglary in October 2016.
Police said they collect any type of evidence left behind at crime scenes.
Ventura County Sheriff's Office Detective Tim Lohman said the suspect "did his business and didn't flush it".
"Most people don't assume or don't know that DNA can be obtained by other things besides hair and saliva," the police detective told BBC News.
"We look for any type of evidence that might be left behind.
"Whether it's a smoked cigarette or a can that may be left behind, we will analyse it."
Mr Jensen, whose bail was set at $70,000 (£53,000), is being held in custody. | A California burglary suspect has been arrested after police say he left a key piece of evidence at the crime scene when he forgot to flush the toilet. | 1.178955 | 1 |
The world number four eased the frustration of a season of form and fitness issues by battling up the Royal Birkdale placings to joint fourth.
He ended seven behind winner Jordan Spieth, but feels his game is "in much better shape" than before The Open.
The US PGA takes place at Quail Hollow in North Carolina from 10-13 August.
"I am happy that it is coming quite quickly on the back of this," said the 28-year-old Northern Irishman.
"It's hard when you feel like you have had a chance to win a major and you are not quite there - that is disappointing.
"But, at the same time, I have to take the positives. I'm looking forward to the next few weeks."
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Four-time major winner McIlroy has won the US PGA Championship on two occasions - in 2012 at Kiawah Island and two years later at Valhalla.
And the schedule in the coming weeks also seems well suited to helping the former world number one get back to his best.
The Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone in Akron, Ohio, is played at a venue where he has previously won, while Quail Hollow holds even happier memories.
McIlroy won tournaments there in 2010 and 2015, holds the course record of 61 and has had four other top-10 finishes there.
The course will not be entirely familiar, with four holes having been renovated extensively for the championship and a faster-playing grass introduced on the greens.
"I am excited for the next two weeks," said McIlroy. "I haven't played at Firestone for a couple of years but the last time I played there I won and I have had some good finishes.
"I play well at Quail Hollow. I love the golf course. I know they have made a few changes but I will have some really good vibes going into that week."
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Angela Ward died in hospital after police found her injured when they were called to the flats in Critchley Street at 21:00 BST on Sunday.
Ian Meakin, of Critchley Street, appeared at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court, where his case was committed to crown court.
The 49-year-old is due to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday. | A man has been charged with the murder of a 27-year-old woman at a complex of flats in Ilkeston. | -0.008022 | 0 |
League One hosts Alloa were ahead inside 11 minutes through strikes from Jordan Kirkpatrick and Jon Robertson.
The holders responded and were level just 10 minutes later through cup final hero Alex Schalk, and Brian Graham.
But Calum Waters made it 3-2 to ensure Jim McIntyre's Premiership side cannot qualify from Group D.
They still have a final home game against Cove Rangers, but are four points adrift of second-placed Raith Rovers, who host group leaders Alloa on Saturday.
Heavy rain before kick-off made conditions on the newly laid artificial surface difficult, and it was the home side who adjusted better.
Greig Spence teed up Kirkpatrick who fired low past County goalkeeper Scott Fox.
Then Iain Flannigan set up Robertson to slot the ball home for the second.
Michael Gardyne left Graham with the easiest of tap-ins from an inch-perfect cross to start the recovery.
Schalk, who scored County's winning goal in the cup final against Hibernian last season, powered home past Neil Parry to make it all square.
Gardyne then hit the crossbar but the hosts always looked more likely to find the winner and Waters obliged with 18 minutes left.
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: "The referee has made the worst decision of the night [Jason Marr's challenge on Alex Schalk with the score at 3-2]. It's a stonewall penalty on Alex Schalk. I have looked at it several times.
"It was a poor, poor decision at a crucial time in the match where I thought we had the ascendency and looked as if we were pressing for the third goal. It was a big moment in the match.
"The performance was embarrassing. We played right into their hands by making gilt-edged mistakes.
"We were nowhere near good enough. I can only apologise to our fans who made the journey down tonight." | Ross County are out of the Betfred League Cup just four months on from lifting the trophy after defeat by Alloa at the Indodrill Stadium. | 0.999758 | 1 |
The man was thought to have been struck by the van as he crossed Main Street in Bellshill at about 16:30 on Thursday.
He was taken to Monklands Hospital where staff described his condition as critical.
The driver of the van, a 31-year-old man, was left in shock following the incident. Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
Sgt John Tait, of Police Scotland, said: "I would appeal to anyone who was on Main Street, close to Cross Orchard Way, on Thursday afternoon, to please get in contact if they witnessed this incident.
"We are yet to establish whether contact was made with the van and the pedestrian, or if the man had fallen within the proximity of the vehicle.
"We are still assessing opportunities to capture CCTV and information from the public could really help us in determining the circumstances surrounding the incident." | A 90-year-old pedestrian is in a critical condition after an incident involving a van in North Lanarkshire. | 0.911868 | 1 |
The Pilgrims have lost six league games at Home Park this season, including all four they have played on Tuesdays.
EFL rules allow clubs to change their kit for one home game each season.
Before the match, Adams said: "A number of fans don't get to see the away kit, and it's a fitting night to do it."
Argyle were beaten 3-0 by the Seasiders, making it six home Tuesday League Two games without victory - a winless run that stretches back to last season.
The Devon side, second in League Two, started the campaign wearing their official all green strip, but have worn white socks and shorts in recent home games.
Speaking before their defeat by Notts County on 28 February, 41-year-old Adams said there had been issues with Plymouth's home colours.
"We have changed the kit about a bit - had white shorts and white socks because of the reason that the kit is too dark," he told BBC Radio Devon.
"It blends in with the seating and it blends in with the grass, and that's the reason we have changed it for a number of home games this season."
However, after the Blackpool game Adams said the kit change was a spontaneous decision and did not affect the result.
"There was no reason, it's just that tonight was the night we were going to do it," he added. | Manager Derek Adams says Plymouth Argyle wore their away kit in Tuesday's home defeat by Blackpool to please fans, not because their home strip clashes with the green seats or grass. | 0.885113 | 1 |
East Coast Racing team boss Phil Reed indicated that he was "taking a break" from motorcycle sponsorship due to "personal and business commitments".
Johnston, 27, had a difficult season in 2016, suffering injuries in crashes at Scarborough and the Ulster Grand Prix.
The Fermanagh rider took a hat-trick of wins at the 2015 Ulster Grand Prix.
Johnston also secured a Superstock success in the team's colours at the North West 200 in the same year.
He went on to finish third on his BMW in the Superstock class at the Isle of Man TT and recorded his first 130mph lap of the Mountain Course.
Johnston's father Everitt passed away last month following a battle with cancer.
"After seven years of involvement in motorcycle sponsorship, with memorable results at all the major international road races, East Coast Racing will take a break from competition," read a statement from the team.
"Due to business and personal commitments, Phil reed will cease to run a privateer team with immediate effect.
"Phil will continue to support Lee on a personal level next season wherever he may decide his future lies." | Leading Northern Ireland road racer Lee Johnston must seek new machinery for next year after his team announced they will not compete in the 2017 season. | 1.110423 | 1 |
Officers said the incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning.
It was reported to police by the victim, and inquiries are continuing.
No details about the victim have been released by police. | Two people are in custody following what police described as a report of a serious assault in Fraserburgh. | 0.207102 | 0 |
Contributions made by black people to local, national and world history and culture will be celebrated throughout October.
The origins of Black History Month go back to 1926 America, and there are now more than 6,000 events across the UK.
The Wales events begin at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay, with an award ceremony for young people aged between 13 and 30.
"Young, Gifted and Black" categories include performance art, music, good citizen, entrepreneur, volunteering, care and sport.
Uzo Uwobi, Race Council of Wales CEO, said: "This is a chance for Wales to celebrate all that's good about the diverse community. | Black History Month will launch in Cardiff on Friday, with the event's first youth awards. | 2.587027 | 3 |
John Hinckley Jr shot the president, who survived, and three others outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington in 1981.
Mr Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity but was sent for treatment to a Washington hospital.
Currently, he spends 17 days per month at his mother's home in the nearby state of Virginia.
Mr Hinckley's lawyer, Barry Levine, told a federal court on Wednesday that the would-be assassin is "clinically ready" to leave St Elizabeth's Hospital permanently because he has been in "full and stable remission" for more than two decades.
The lawyer is asking a judge to grant his client "convalescent leave", which would allow him to live outside the hospital with regular visits to mental health professionals.
But Prosecutor Colleen Kennedy disagreed and said more restrictions and conditions are necessary to keep Mr Hinckley and others safe.
His mother is 89 years old and lives near Williamsburg, Virginia.
While living with her, he is allowed to live a normal life that includes unsupervised shopping and dining out, and occasional contact with the US Secret Service.
Mr Reagan was just 69 days into his presidency when the attempt was made on his life.
The former president suffered a punctured lung, but survived after being rushed to a nearby hospital.
Three others were wounded, including White House aide James Brady who was shot in the head and suffered brain damage and partial paralysis.
A Secret Service agent and a police officer suffered lesser wounds.
A gun control law passed in 1993 was nicknamed The Brady Bill and the White House press briefing room bears Brady's name. He died in August of last year at the age of 73. | A lawyer for the man who shot President Ronald Reagan has told a court his client should be permanently released from his mental health hospital. | 1.78568 | 2 |
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