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Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino said the 20-year-old would be out for "a few weeks" after leaving him out of his squad to play Arsenal on Sunday.
Pochettino said Alli "twisted his knee in a clash with a team-mate".
England play Scotland on Friday and Spain the following Tuesday at Wembley.
"I hope it is not a big issue, it's bad luck, he's an important player for us," Pochettino added.
"He will be out for a few weeks. We need to assess him today, tomorrow. That is football and sometimes it happens." | Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli has been ruled out of England's World Cup qualifier with Scotland and friendly against Spain after suffering a knee injury in training. | 0.707662 | 1 |
A city council spokeswoman said drivers cannot refuse a fare that starts and ends in the city and the authority wanted to "flush out" those who breach the law.
Following complaints, the council has been carrying out an investigation since September 2015.
Mystery shopper exercises are continuing to catch drivers at fault.
Information cards are being given out and people are urged to take note of the badge number or vehicle registration of drivers who refuse fares. | Five Cardiff taxi drivers have had their hackney licences suspended for refusing short fares. | 0.838471 | 1 |
Neil James Edwards, a train driver from Northampton in England, allegedly asked for photos while pretending to be a woman representing a modelling agency.
The father-of-two is also accused of blackmailing the alleged victim, a young woman from County Fermanagh.
Mr Edwards, 46, was refused bail at the court in Dungannon, County Tyrone.
The court heard the woman was persuaded to send naked photos of herself to the accused, in the belief they were to be used to construct a 3D image for her portfolio.
The train driver is accused of later notifying the woman's Facebook friends that the images had been posted elsewhere online.
Some of them were posted on so-called revenge porn websites.
It was claimed in court that she was blackmailed with demands for further photographs.
A prosecution lawyer said there was no evidence that the accused was interested in financial gain, but that this was about sexual gratification and control over women chosen at random. | A man has appeared in court accused of tricking a woman into sending explicit photos to him on Facebook and publishing some as "revenge porn". | 0.771549 | 1 |
The "exhausted" bird was found on Talisman Sinopec's Clyde platform, about 160 miles offshore.
The pigeon, nicknamed Pedro by the workers on board, was flown by helicopter to Aberdeen.
It was then taken to the Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Centre in Fishcross, where it was said to be making a good recovery.
Animal rescue officer Kirsty McQuade said: "It was actually my boyfriend Kevin Mitchell who found Pedro.
"He crash landed on deck and Kevin managed to catch him and take him inside.
"Pedro appeared to be exhausted and extremely thin so Kevin contacted me for advice. I advised him on what to feed Pedro and he was kept safe in a box on board.
"It was fantastic that Pedro was able to ride in the helicopter with the crew who were coming back to the mainland and we would like to thank everyone for their assistance." | A lost pigeon which landed on a North Sea oil platform has been flown back to land by helicopter. | 1.467691 | 1 |
Craneware, based in Edinburgh, sells software to American hospitals and clinics.
In a trading update, it reported the second half of 2015 saw a 15% rise in new sales contracts, compared with the same part of 2014.
Renewals of contracts rose in value.
Craneware informed investors that it expects pre-tax earnings for the second half of the year to be more than 10% above higher than the previous year, with revenue up by 7%.
The company has secured a loan facility of $50m (£35m) from Bank of Scotland.
The update says that will be available as the company assesses strategic options. That could be for growth or acquisition.
Keith Neilson, chief executive of Craneware and its second largest shareholder, commented: "We are seeing the initial success of the 'Value Cycle', our vision for the process and culture by which US healthcare providers pursue quality patient outcomes and optimal financial performance, in our continued strong sales performance."
The improved figures come after a period of uncertainty in the US healthcare market, as providers adapted to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Earlier this decade, Craneware disappointed investors with its financial results. But more recently, it has claimed that its market has settled, and large hospital groups have been signing up to its management software.
It employs 200 people, and has offices in Georgia, Massachusetts and Arizona. In the past year, its share price has risen 57%. | One of Scotland's leading technology companies has reported a significant boost to its sales, as it targets expansion. | 1.064728 | 1 |
Paul Hemming denies murdering Natalie Hemming, 31, at their Milton Keynes home in May, but admits manslaughter.
She was reported missing by her mother on 3 May and a police officer visited the pair's home on the same day.
Mr Hemming, 43, told the officer he had been trying to contact Miss Hemming.
Luton Crown Court heard that when PC Nazia Hussain went to the house in Alderney Avenue she told Mr Hemming that the force wanted to speak to Miss Hemming to establish where she was.
He said he last had contact with her on 1 May and believed she was with a friend. He told the officer she had not responded to his calls and her phone was switched off.
More on this and other news from Buckinghamshire
Mr Hemming told PC Hussain he believed Miss Hemming had been out with colleagues on 30 April and when she came home told him she had been raped by one of them.
He said he had been "upset" and went to bed, leaving her downstairs, but she left the house during the night.
He said she had not reported the rape because she believed she "was partly responsible" and the rape conviction rate was not high.
"He said she had told him she wanted to get away and stay with a friend and clear her head," PC Hussain said.
Earlier the court heard Mr Hemming had killed her because he was jealous of her new relationship, before dumping her body in woodland 30 miles away in Chandlers Cross, Hertfordshire.
Her badly decomposed body was found on 22 May.
Mr Hemming has admitted obstructing a coroner in the execution of his duty and preventing the lawful and decent burial of a dead body.
The trial continues. | A man accused of killing his partner told police she had been raped and had gone away to "clear her head" in order to explain her disappearance, a court has heard. | 0.348707 | 0 |
The 27-year-old lock has won 18 caps since making his international debut against Tonga in 2012.
Lemalu will provide cover for England second row George Kruis, who is out for 12 weeks with a knee injury.
"Fa'atiga is a forward entering the prime of his career," said Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall.
"With the unfortunate injury to George, we are very happy to have the opportunity to bring a player of his ability into the set-up." | Saracens have signed Samoa international Fa'atiga Lemalu on a short-term deal from Japanese Super Rugby side Sunwolves. | 0.719372 | 1 |
Current chief executive Don Mattrick, who joined the company in 2013, will leave, effective immediately.
"I am returning to the company that I love in order to accelerate innovation," Mr Pincus said in a statement.
He will receive a salary of $1.
Mr Mattrick said he will return to his native Canada, adding: "I believe the timing is now right for me to leave as CEO [chief executive officer] and let Mark lead the company into its next chapter given his passion for the founding vision and his ability to couple our mobile progress with Zynga's unique strengths."
Although Zynga - known primarily for its once-popular Facebook games like Farmville and Words with Friends - has stabilised under Mr Mattrick, the company has continued to struggle.
In its most recent earnings release, Zynga said it lost $225.9m (£152m) in 2014, compared to $37m a year earlier.
However, it said its mobile audience continued to grow - showing that it no longer relied on Facebook to generate a majority of its traffic.
Shares in the company were up more than 3% in trading after US markets had closed. | Troubled game maker Zynga has announced that founder Mark Pincus will return to lead the company, as it struggles to repeat the success of hits like Farmville. | 0.883372 | 1 |
The rest of the home nations have two nominees each, with last year's winner Stuart Hogg selected alongside Scotland team-mate Finn Russell.
Scrum-half Conor Murray and back row CJ Stander are shortlisted for Ireland.
Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb and hooker Ken Owens are also included.
France fly-half Camille Lopez - the 2017 top points scorer - and team-mate Louis Picamoles make the list, as does Italy captain Sergio Parisse.
Voting is open to the public on the Six Nations website and closes at 12:00 GMT on Tuesday 21 March.
Centre Farrell, second row Launchbury and fellow forward Itoje are recognised after England claimed their second straight title, despite missing out on back-to-back Grand Slams with defeat to Ireland on Saturday.
Scotland full-back Hogg could become the first player since Ireland centre Brian O'Driscoll in 2006 and 2007 to win two successive player of the tournament titles. | Title-winning England trio Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje and Joe Launchbury are among 12 players shortlisted for the 2017 Six Nations player of the championship award. | 0.915415 | 1 |
The Nigeria international, 33, suffered the injury in Stoke's 1-0 win at Manchester City at the end of August.
"I'm happy the operation was successful, it's like a new beginning," Odemwingie told BBC Sport.
"I want to come back stronger than ever and hopefully pick up from where I stopped in August."
The former West Brom forward scored five goals in 15 Premier League appearances for Stoke last season after joining from Cardiff in January and settling well at the Britannia Stadium.
While the injury meant he was left out of Stoke's 25-man Premier League squad - named after the win at Etihad Stadium - and will not be able to play until January at the earliest, Odemwingie is in positive spirits and concentrating on his long-term future.
"I know it's going to be a long road back to kicking a football again but I am mentally prepared for that. You can't keep a good man down," he said.
"It took couple of weeks to get the surgery done because I had to wait for the knee to settle down.
"Now that it's done I believe it will give me a new lease of life for the rest of my professional career." | Stoke striker Peter Odemwingie says he hopes to return "stronger than ever" after undergoing successful knee surgery on Tuesday. | 0.962517 | 1 |
The woman's body was found in August 1974 on a heath at Cockley Cley near Swaffham in Norfolk.
Rope and a plastic found at the scene suggested connections with Dundee.
Twelve students in Dundee trawled through local newspaper archives, which police said resulted in "a couple" of new lines of inquiry.
The woman was found wearing a 1969 Marks & Spencer pink nightdress, while post-mortem examinations concluded she was aged 23-35, had given birth and was from central Europe.
The body was wrapped in a plastic cover bearing the National Cash Registers (NCR) logo which links it to Dundee, where the computer firm employed hundreds of people in the 1970s.
Jute rope, used to tie up the plastic, was also believed to have been manufactured in Dundee.
Psychology and forensic biology students at the city's Abertay University spent April looking for stories about the case and reports of other missing people or murders and attacks in the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph from January 1973 to January 1975.
Dr Penny Woolnough, course tutor, said: "It's a really valuable way for students to put into practice what they learn on their course.
"They've submitted their findings to the police and now it's in their hands."
A Norfolk Police spokesman said: "The students' work has generated a couple of leads, which detectives from the major investigations team are now following up.
"At this stage of this part of the inquiry, it's too early to say how important these leads will be." | Forensics students have uncovered "new leads" in an investigation to identify a headless corpse found 42 years ago, police have said. | 2.060076 | 2 |
Daw Cadi, 17, yn wreiddiol o Lanrwst ac mae'n gwneud Lefel AS yn Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy.
Dywedodd ei bod wedi ysgrifennu'r gân ar ei ffôn ar ôl iddi ymweld ag Ynys Llanddwyn, a hi oedd yn ei pherfformio ar y noson yn ogystal.
Fe wnaeth hi ddisgrifio'r gân fel "unigrwydd person sydd eisiau torri'n rhydd oherwydd caethiwed".
Roedd y gystadleuaeth yn cael ei chynnal yn Stiwdio BBC Cymru yn Llandaf eleni, gydag Elin Fflur a Trystan Ellis-Morris yn cyflwyno.
Roedd 10 cân yn lle'r wyth arferol wedi cael eu dewis ar gyfer y rhestr fer, a dywedodd y beirniad fod hynny'n adlewyrchiad o'r "safon uchel".
Dywedodd y trefnwyr eu bod wedi derbyn dros 100 o ganeuon ar gyfer y gystadleuaeth.
Roedd tair gwobr eleni - gyda'r enillydd yn derbyn £5,000, £2,000 i'r ail, a £1,000 i'r drydedd.
Bydd Cadi hefyd yn cynrychioli Cymru yn yr Ŵyl Ban Celtaidd yn ddiweddarach eleni.
Aeth y gystadleuaeth "yn ôl i'w gwreiddiau" eleni, gyda dim mentoriaid, dim beirniaid, dim wal Twitter.
Dywedodd un o'r rhai wnaeth ddewis y rhestr fer, Sion Llwyd cyn y gystadleuaeth: "Mae'r pwyslais ar y caneuon ac fe fyddan nhw'n cael eu perfformio gan gantorion dawnus i gyfeiliant band byw."
Roedd y canlyniad felly ar sail pleidlais y cyhoedd yn unig.
Pryder gan Sophie Jayne Marsh ddaeth yn ail yn y gystadleuaeth, gyda Fy Nghariad Olaf i gan Richard Vaughan ac Andy Park yn y trydydd safle.
Gweddill y rhestr fer: | Cadi Gwyn Edwards o Lanrwst wnaeth ennill Cân i Gymru 2017 nos Sadwrn gyda'i chân, Rhydd, ar noson fywiog yng Nghaerdydd. | 1.017466 | 1 |
The workers were not directly employed by the Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors, but had been hired via a sub-contractor.
The raid took place on Monday. The workers are due to appear before Dunfermline Sheriff Court.
Bridge officials said the project contractor had co-operated fully.
Scotland's Economy Secretary Keith Brown has written to the Home Office to seek reassurance over the measures used to address the issue of illegal foreign workers.
Mr Brown said: "It's important that the construction industry can responsibly provide the correct resource to support the delivery of our pipeline of infrastructure projects.
"Across our projects contractors have assured us that they carry out all business and operations in such a manner as to fully comply with and meet all legislative requirements, including all relevant employment laws.
"As such, it is standard policy to carry out checks to ensure that all direct employees and staff have the necessary and valid credentials as is required for them to be legitimately employed prior to their appointment. We have also received assurance that it is also a requirement that second tier subcontractors also meet these obligations."
More than 10,000 people have worked on the bridge construction site since work was started in 2011.
Responding to news of the arrests, the union UCATT said the incident was just one example of wider workplace abuses on the site.
Steve Dillon, regional secretary of UCATT Scotland, said: "This flagship project is now operating like the wild West. Without a union convenor the site has no sheriff and this is inevitably going to increase the exploitation and mistreatment of workers." | Seven people working on the Queensferry Crossing have been arrested on suspicion of working illegally after an investigation by the Home Office. | 0.819469 | 1 |
Georgina Callander was among 22 people killed when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb following an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.
Her mum Lesley said the 18-year-old had been awarded an unconditional place at Edge Hill University in Lancashire.
Georgina was interested in paediatrics from the age of 11, she said.
The student, from Chorley, was in her second year of studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland and had recently passed her driving test when she was killed.
Speaking as students across the country received their exam results, her mother Lesley said: "It made her very happy - the thought that she was off to uni to do what she loved.
"She was so excited about it because she'd wanted to do that since she was about 11.
"It is obviously sad for us because we were so excited for her when she got the news that she was off to uni, but we are just so proud of what she achieved." | A student who died in the Manchester Arena attack had won a place at university to study paediatrics, her mother has said. | 0.878663 | 1 |
The app is the latest development by Mikeysline, a charity set up following the deaths of two friends.
Michael "Mikey" Williamson and Martin Shaw, who were both 23 and living in Inverness, were found dead within days of each other in October last year.
Family and friends fear the young men took their own lives.
Mr Williamson was found dead only hours after returning from a night out to remember his friend Mr Shaw.
Launched in December last year, Mikeysline already offers support via text messages and is staffed by volunteers. | A smartphone app designed to help young people who are dealing with depression and suicidal thoughts has been launched in Inverness. | 0.665937 | 1 |
An inquiry worker claimed he groped her in a lift in September.
But a former director of public prosecutions has now exonerated Ben Emmerson QC "without hesitation".
Mr Emmerson, who quit the inquiry in September, said he was "very pleased" with the investigation's outcome.
He said: "This has been a difficult period and I am naturally very pleased that an independent senior judge has now confirmed that the allegations against me were always unfounded."
The inquiry worker said the senior lawyer assaulted her at the inquiry's offices in Millbank in central London in early September.
Mr Emmerson was suspended over what the inquiry said were concerns about his leadership, and then resigned.
His chambers, Matrix, set up an inquiry into his conduct, led by Sir David Calvert-Smith.
As well as being a former senior counsel to the inquiry, Mr Emmerson is a deputy High Court judge, a visiting professor of human rights law at Oxford University and a leading international lawyer.
The national child abuse inquiry was set up in 2014 to examine whether public bodies including the police have failed in their duty to protect children from sexual abuse. It will also examine claims of abuse involving "well-known people".
It is currently led by Professor Alexis Jay but has been beset by problems, most notably the resignations of her three predecessors. | The former senior counsel to the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in England and Wales has been cleared of allegations of sexual assault and harassment. | 0.676985 | 1 |
Bridgewater Community Healthcare (BCH) said it had "made a lot of progress" since an inspection last summer.
But Labour MP Rosie Cooper said it was "staggering" that BCH was due to take over most of Liverpool's community health services from July.
The Department of Health is yet to respond.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) conducted its first full inspection at BCH - which is used by about 1.5m people in north-west England annually - in May and June 2016.
It said it measured 40 domains across the services with one rated as outstanding, 27 as good and 12 as requiring improvement.
Overall, the trust received a rating of "requires improvement".
Ms Cooper, MP for West Lancashire, said she called on the CQC in July to publish its inspection report ahead of any decision on "awarding the multimillion-pound contract for Liverpool community health services".
She said: "What this report tells us is Bridgewater Community Healthcare needs to improve the services they have currently got."
Last November, BCH was chosen to run most of the city's community health services by NHS England and Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
Ms Cooper said that the inspection rating "raises some very serious questions about the entire transaction process in Liverpool".
"I have called on the Secretary of State to review this sorry state of affairs and intervene to uphold NHS rules," she added.
Colin Scales, chief executive at BCH, said: "All the essential actions the CQC has asked us look at have already been addressed since the inspectors were on site, so we've made a lot of progress and are in a stronger position now as we move forward."
Katherine Sheerin, chief officer for NHS Liverpool CCG, said: "Bridgewater NHS Foundation Trust was identified as the preferred provider of community services in Liverpool because we believe it is the best organisation to help accelerate our Healthy Liverpool plans for making more care available in the community so that people do not end up in hospital."
She added the CCG was "confident the Trust is already taking action to address the issues which have been identified". | An MP has called on the government to review a decision allowing an NHS trust that "requires improvement" to run community health services in Liverpool. | 1.191761 | 1 |
The armed robbery happened at a shop in Rose Street about 18:30 on Monday.
The man ran off towards Charlotte Square with a three-figure sum of cash in a white carrier bag.
The thief was a white man in his mid-20s, about 5ft 10in, of medium build and was wearing an olive green hooded jacket with the hood up. The shop owner does not want the shop identified.
The robber possibly had an English accent and had a tattoo on his right forearm by the wrist.
His jacket had two pockets on the chest area. He also had a black scarf covering his face and a top underneath with two black tassels hanging down.
He was also wearing dark trousers and black shoes with light-coloured soles.
Det Sgt Grady, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a very distressing incident for the female shopkeeper and we are keen to trace this individual as quickly as possible.
"Anyone who was in the area of Rose Street on Monday at about 18:30 and who may have seen something suspicious, however small, is asked to please get in touch with us." | A thief who held up an Edinburgh city centre shop with a knife is being sought by police. | 0.602114 | 1 |
A Twitter mix-up resulted in Kellie Hughes, 42, from Whalley, failing to reach Lancashire County Council (LCC).
Ms Hughes instead tweeted photos of her drains to LCCC, along with an angry message saying: "This is a disgrace!"
The defending Twenty20 champions then jokingly promised to send some of their players to help clean up the mess.
Ms Hughes posted her amusement at her Twitter faux-pas, together with the club's tongue-in-cheek response.
"I'm new to Twitter and I was trying to tell the council about what's been happening - but I got the cricket club instead," she explained.
"I said we must've done something wrong as we had cricketers messaging us."
The handle of the council's Twitter account, @LancashireCC, appears to be very similar to the cricket club's, which is @LancsCCC.
A spokesman for the cricket club said: "While the lady has our every sympathy, I'm afraid we were just being light-hearted with our tweet.
"We hope she gets the problem sorted out soon."
A spokesman for Lancashire County Council said an engineer "has been out today" to make sure the drains on King Street are clear. | A woman who tried to contact her local authority about blocked drains accidentally sent the complaint to Lancashire County Cricket Club (LCCC). | 1.056018 | 1 |
The crew, from Camborne fire station in Cornwall, were called to a house in Fore Street, Barripper, at about 09:00 GMT.
The boy's parents contacted the fire brigade after they tried, but failed, to free him.
Cornwall Fire and Rescue said the crew used small tools to free the child, who was unharmed. | Six firefighters have rescued a young boy whose head was stuck in a toilet trainer seat. | 0.760798 | 1 |
Bissouma penned a professional deal with the northern club only in July 2016, four months after joining the reserves from AS Real Bamako.
The 20-year-old, whose previous deal ran until June 2019, says he is very happy at Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
"In football, when you put in the work you always get rewarded," Bissouma told the club's website.
"I still have a lot of progress to make. I want to give myself every chance of doing that and fulfilling my objectives.
"The first is to keep the club in Ligue 1, and then I would also like to win a trophy with Lille."
Bissouma has scored once in 17 appearances for the club since making his debut against Toulouse in September 2016. | Mali international midfielder Yves Bissouma has signed a new contract to stay with French club Lille until 2021. | 0.897496 | 1 |
After rain had washed out day four, the Windies began on 20-1, chasing 244 to win and square the two-Test series.
Darren Bravo hit two sixes but fell for 61 as spinner Rangana Herath took two wickets in an over to leave them 125-6.
Spin trio Herath (4-56), Milinda Siriwardana (3-25) and Dilruwan Perera (1-37) prevailed as the Windies collapsed to 171 all out.
It was Sri Lanka's first series win in 2015 in any of the three formats.
The match had moved on apace after 11 wickets fell on each of the first two days before West Indies opener Kraigg Brathwaite proved an unlikely demon bowler, capturing a six-wicket haul on day three with his part-time off-spin.
Torrential rain at the P Sara Oval prevented any play on Sunday, but just as England were enduring a trial by spin against Pakistan in Dubai, Sri Lanka's three-pronged spin attack took all nine remaining Windies wickets on the final day as they were bowled out with 41 overs to spare.
Sri Lanka won the first Test in Galle by an innings. The sides now meet in three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals. | Sri Lanka's spinners conjured a 72-run victory over West Indies in the second Test in Colombo to take the series 2-0. | 1.047483 | 1 |
The 29-year-old tested positive for meldonium at January's Australian Open.
But the country's tennis federation said Sharapova's participation at Rio "should be resolved" this week.
Russia's track and field athletes are banned from international competition over recent doping scandals, though other sports remain unaffected.
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The International Tennis Federation (ITF) provisionally suspended the five-time Grand Slam champion on 12 March.
The World Anti-Doping Association then admitted in April that scientists were unsure how long meldonium stayed in the system, suggesting athletes who tested positive for the substance before 1 March could avoid bans.
However, Sharapova has already admitted she continued taking meldonium past 1 January, when the substance was banned.
She is thought to have faced an anti-doping panel in London last week, with the Russian Tennis Federation saying at the time that she may never play again.
But the organisation's president, Shamil Tarpischev, told R-Sport news agency on Thursday: "She has been put on our Olympic application. It has to be submitted by 6 June."
If London 2012 silver medallist Sharapova is not able to compete, she will be replaced by Ekaterina Makarova, the world number 29.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Maria Sharapova has been named in Russia's tennis team for August's Rio Olympics, despite currently serving a doping suspension. | 1.481114 | 1 |
Jamie Burns, 23, collapsed at Queen's University Student's Union in south Belfast in the early hours of Sunday.
Mr Burns was taken by ambulance to hospital, but died a short time later.
His family said they believed he had taken ecstasy and died after making one "stupid mistake".
His sister, Gemma, warned others not to do the same thing.
"It's not worth it, don't do it. This family will never be the same again. My brother was loved so much by so many different people," she said.
"You only have to look at his Facebook to know how many people loved him.
"Anybody thinking about it, don't do it."
Gemma said her brother got "tempted into trying something different."
She said the "hole" left within the lives of the family "can never be filled".
"We are broken", she added.
A post-mortem examination is now due to establish the cause of his death.
The police said they were investigating a sudden death. | The family of a young man who died after a night out in Belfast have given an emotional warning about the dangers of drugs. | 1.124778 | 1 |
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the wealth of the older generation has grown by 45% over just ten years.
As a result, more of that money than ever before will get passed on.
But those likely to benefit the most are those who are already well off, or who already benefit from high incomes, the independent think-tank said.
According to the research, the richest half of elderly households hold 90% of the wealth, largely as a result of increasing home ownership and rising house prices.
Hence a "lucky" half of the following generation will inherit the vast majority of that wealth, to the detriment of the other half.
"About half of people will inherit little or nothing, whereas the other half are going to inherit quite a lot," said Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS.
"And that will matter increasingly as younger people are not able to get on the housing market themselves, and not accumulating occupational pensions."
The IFS study looked at older families that can afford to pass on at least £250,000 to their heirs.
Of those families likely to inherit that money, more than half were in the richest 20% of the population, based on their income.
But Mr Johnson said raising the amount that people pay in inheritance tax was not necessarily the best answer.
"You may well find that a more effective set of policies are policies that support younger people, and particularly in the housing market; policies, for example, that increase council tax and reduce Stamp Duty, or increase the amount of houses that are built."
While more people are paying Inheritance Tax (IHT) - and in larger amounts - the regime is about to get more generous to families.
At the moment, an individual can pass on up to £325,000 (£650,000 for a couple), without their beneficiaries paying IHT. Above that amount, they pay 40% in tax.
However from this April, the government will start to introduce the Transferable Main Residence Allowance (TMRA), which will allow families to pass on more of their property wealth tax-free.
By 2021, families will be able to pass on £1m of their wealth - including the value of their home - without having to pay any tax.
Further details of TMRA can be found here. | Younger generations will inherit much more money than their predecessors - but the amounts they get will be very unequal, according to new research. | 2.022472 | 2 |
Swansea are the last under-21 side left in the Trophy after four academy teams were knocked out on Tuesday.
Oxford United will play the winner of the final third-round game between Bradford and Cheltenham, which takes place on 17 January.
Meanwhile, Mansfield host League Two rivals Wycombe and Luton have been drawn at home against Yeovil.
The quarter-finals take place in the week beginning 23 January.
Mansfield v Wycombe
Swansea City U21s v Coventry
Oxford v Cheltenham or Bradford
Luton v Yeovil | Swansea City Under-21s will play League One Coventry City at home in the quarter-finals of the EFL Trophy. | 0.51702 | 1 |
Eddie Haughey resigned from County Antrim's Oisín Glenariffe club following a vote to move a set of gates commemorating two IRA men.
Causeway Coast and Glens Council withdrew £180,000 from the project in June.
DUP councillors said the gates would "re-traumatise" people affected by terrorism.
They carry the names of Charlie McAllister and Pat McVeigh, who were killed in 1922.
The money was to be allocated to the Friends of Glenariffe group to help build a shared community space.
At a meeting last Thursday, club members voted to relocate the gates from the club entrance to a position next to a hurling pitch.
"A cultural war is being waged within Causeway Coast and Glens Council," independent councillor Padraig McShane told Radio Ulster's Talkback programme.
"Oisíns should never have been put in this position," he said.
Mr McShane's SDLP counterpart, Margaret-Anne McKillop, said it was "unfortunate this has been turned into a political football".
The councillor said Oisíns "has always been a cross-community club and will always be a cross-community club".
The council is expected to discuss the matter at a meeting on Tuesday night. | The chairman of a GAA club at the centre of a row over funding for a community project has resigned. | 1.407757 | 1 |
Lee Wildman, 35, and Adrian Stanton, 32, both from Walsall, admitted conspiracy to burgle at Durham Crown Court.
Wildman received a prison sentence of nine years and Stanton was jailed for eight years.
Four others from Walsall were sentenced for assisting the pair.
The raid took place the night before Good Friday last year when the campus was quiet, the court heard.
After chiselling a hole through a wall, Wildman and Stanton picked out two items - a 1769 jade bowl and a porcelain figurine - which were worth up to £2m, Judge Christopher Prince said.
But after hiding the items on wasteland, Wildman, of Remington Road, could not find them when he returned two days later.
He was seen by a witness searching for the items and speaking in an agitated manner on his mobile phone.
Judge Prince told the defendants they had shown "crass ineptitude" in being unable to find their haul.
"Thank heavens you could not, because they may have been lost," he said.
Both men had shown no remorse and had told "transparent" lies during a two-day hearing in which they tried to play down their roles in the burglary, the judge said.
"The financial value of artefacts such as these is perhaps the very least important factor," he said.
"These items have got a historical, cultural and artistic value that is quite simply immeasurable."
The artefacts were found following a finger-tip search of the wasteland after Wildman was spotted in the area by a member of the public.
Justin Clarke, 31, of Tamar Close, was jailed for 20 months after driving an Audi S3, which had been used in the raid, back to the Midlands.
Fallon Arrowsmith, 20, of Walker Road, who was in a relationship with Stanton, of West Bromwich Street, received a six-month prison sentence, suspended for one year, and must carry out 200 hours of unpaid work.
Wildman's girlfriend Charmaine Wilkes, 27, of Cornwall Close, received the same sentence. Both women were arrested at a Walsall hotel with the thieves.
Natasha Partridge, of Remmington Place, received a four-month prison sentence, suspended for one year, and must carry out 100 hours of community service.
The 21-year-old's bank card was used to book hotels. | Two men who forgot where they had stashed £2m worth of Chinese artefacts stolen from a Durham University museum have been jailed. | 1.048353 | 1 |
Visitors to the site are greeted with a message that says "Page Not Found! It's not you. It's the internet's fault".
A group called "Lizard Squad" has taken credit for the outage, posting "PSN Login #offline #LizardSquad" as their Twitter status.
The outage is the most recent in a series of attacks on tech giant Sony.
The Japanese firm's Hollywood film studios' corporate network was hacked into last month, followed by an online leak of unreleased movies, along with confidential information such as actors' salaries.
Sony Entertainment Network has responded by tweeting that they are aware of the issues that users are having in connecting to the PlayStation network.
"Thanks for your patience as we investigate," the company tweeted at about midnight GMT.
The disruption comes just days after the gaming console celebrated its 20th anniversary last week.
Meanwhile, the outage on the PlayStation network follows one on Microsoft Xbox network, which was down for at least a day last week.
Lizard Squad also claimed it was behind the attack.
The Xbox network was hit with a DDOS, or a distributed denial of service attack, which overloaded the system, stopping users from getting online.
The hacker group had then said that its Xbox attack was just "a small dose" of what was to come over the Christmas season.
Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility for attacks that have taken high-profile targets like EA games and Destiny offline in the past.
Known as Lizard Patrol on Twitter, the anonymous collective has a Russian-based website. | A hacker group has claimed responsibility for attacking Sony's online PlayStation store, which is down on Monday. | 1.20077 | 1 |
Edmund, 21, who this week climbed to a career-best ranking of 48th, beat the Argentine 6-3 5-7 6-4.
The British number two last week reached the quarter-finals of the China Open, which was won by Andy Murray.
Wawrinka, 31, is the third seed in Shanghai and attempting to win his fifth title of 2016. | Britain's Kyle Edmund will face world number three Stan Wawrinka in the second round of the Shanghai Masters, after beating Federico Delbonis. | 0.34671 | 0 |
Mr Kenyatta became the first serving head of state to appear at an ICC hearing earlier this month.
He denies charges of crimes against humanity, including inciting violence after Kenya's disputed 2007 polls.
But the court says it is concerned over the Kenyan government's ability to ensure confidentiality of the case.
In a report released on Tuesday, the ICC's Trial Chamber V specifically referred to the leaking of details of a confidential request from the ICC judges to help freeze or seize President Kenyatta's assets.
The request was issued under seal, however, the Kenyan authorities filed public documents in 2013 referring to the request, which Mr Kenyatta's lawyers later apologised for.
Details of the request later resurfaced in Kenyan media in April and September this year, in what the court described as "a pattern of information contained in confidential filings being leaked to the media, in some cases even before the filings have been notified to the chamber".
It subsequently issued a "formal caution" to the Kenyan government, noting "cumulative inattention to the taking of appropriate measures to ensure the confidentiality of proceedings".
Mr Kenyatta is facing five charges relating to ethnic violence after the 2007 elections that left some 1,200 people dead and 600,000 displaced - the worst violence in Kenya since independence in 1963.
On 8 October, he was summoned to appear at an ICC "status conference" - a pre-trial hearing.
But correspondents say the case has reached deadlock, with the prosecution accusing the Kenyan government of withholding vital evidence and the defence saying that without evidence, there should be no trial. | The International Criminal Court (ICC) has warned Kenya's government against leaking information from President Uhuru Kenyatta's case to the media. | 1.872094 | 2 |
Malachy Goodman, 58, of Rockmore Road in Belfast, faces charges of murder, possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life
Mr Gibson, 28, was shot in his stomach and thigh in an alley near Divis Tower on 24 October. He died in hospital.
The killing is allegedly connected to a fight earlier the same day.
Opposing Mr Goodman's bid to be released, prosecution counsel claimed there could be a risk of interference with the main witness in the case, identified only as Witness E.
Defence lawyers have challenged the reliability of the description to police of the alleged killer.
Three different versions were given, including significant differences between the gunman and Goodman, they said.
The judge said he would not grant bail for the accused to live at his current home. The application was not dismissed.
Adjourning the hearing until an alternative location is provided, he said: "I'm satisfied this is a man who could be admitted to bail.
"I do not propose to make a final decision until an arrangement can be made at an address outside west Belfast."
Goodman is to remain in custody until an acceptable proposal is offered. | A judge has indicated that a man accused of murdering Edward Gibson could be granted bail if a suitable address outside Belfast could be found. | 0.902812 | 1 |
The DUP proposal was passed at a meeting of the County Armagh council on Monday.
Currently the flag flies at the civic centre on 17 designated days.
DUP Assembly member Stephen Moutray said that it was an issue for people in the community.
"We're giving positive leadership within a a democratic forum," he said.
"That leadership is that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom and a considerable number of people want the Union flag to be flown in a respectful and orderly way," he said.
Sinn Fein have criticised the decision, with councillor Johnny McGibbon describing it as a backwards step.
He said that if the policy was to be reviewed it should also examine the possibility of removing all flags.
"For the past 10 years, since 2002, Craigavon Council has operated a 'designated days' policy agreed by all parties and a genuine review could conceivably propose the removal of all flags from public buildings," he said.
"The DUP are raising this issue in response to death threats against and attacks on elected representatives, attacks, including a murder attempt, on the police, and illegal protests and the blocking of roads. In reality they are providing weak leadership." | Craigavon Borough Council is to review the number of days the Union flag is flown from the council's headquarters and in the centres of Portadown and Lurgan. | 1.597657 | 2 |
Cromford Mills in Derbyshire was the world's first successful water-powered cotton spinning mill.
The site - developed in 1771 by the "father of the factory system" Sir Richard Arkwright - underwent two decades of renovation.
The £5m centre was due to be opened by actor Brian Blessed, but he did not attend after getting stuck in traffic.
The centre - a former paintworks in the 1920s - will help visitors find out what there is to see and do at 17 designated sites within the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
Work to clean the 15-mile, Grade-I listed site took 20 years after remnants of paint residue and chemicals such as arsenic, cyanide and lead chromate were found in the roof beams and stonework.
Adrian Farmer, heritage coordinator for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, argued the area was the "birthplace of the industrial revolution".
"It is here at Cromford where Arkwright for the first time developed mass production of anything anywhere in the world," he said.
"Without the factory system, there wouldn't have been the kind of industrialisation that took the globe by storm."
Sarah McLeod, chief executive at Cromford Mills, said the mill would be a "complete day out" for visitors.
"It's so exciting to see a building which is a major part of the world heritage site brought back to life," she added.
The area now includes audio-visual displays, exhibitions, information about the history of cotton mills and CGI technology which brings Sir Richard to life.
Sir Richard's mill allowed yarn to be mass produced and provided the template for water-powered textile factories across the world.
UNESCO declared the Cromford Mill and other mills in the Derwent Valley a World Heritage Site in 2001.
Source: BBC History | A visitor centre has opened at an 18th Century mill regarded as one of the key sites in the industrial revolution. | 2.716946 | 3 |
Azhar Ahmed, 19, of Fir Avenue, Ravensthorpe, appeared at Dewsbury Magistrates' Court charged under the Communications Act 2003.
A racially-aggravated public order charge was withdrawn at the hearing and Mr Ahmed denied the new charge.
He was bailed to appear before Huddersfield magistrates on 3 July.
Mr Ahmed is charged with sending a message that was grossly offensive on 8 March.
There was a large police presence outside court as about 50 protesters staged a noisy demonstration when the defendant arrived and left.
Some of the protesters held placards featuring the name of the group Combined Ex-Forces - which describes itself on its website as a paramilitary organisation dedicated to expose and defeat internal and external enemies of the British people.
The placards called for those who insulted the British armed forces to be jailed.
The six soldiers were killed by an improvised explosive device in Lashkar Gah on 6 March in the deadliest single attack on British forces in Afghanistan since 2001.
Sgt Nigel Coupe, 33, of 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment was killed alongside Cpl Jake Hartley, 20, Pte Anthony Frampton, 20, Pte Christopher Kershaw, 19, Pte Daniel Wade, 20, and Pte Daniel Wilford, 21, all of 3 Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment.
Mr Ahmed's court appearance coincided with therepatriation of the soldiers' bodies, which were being flown to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. | Protesters gathered outside a court as a teenager was accused of posting an offensive Facebook message about the deaths of six British soldiers. | 1.349496 | 1 |
Police said they were alerted to Laura Hewlett-Conway driving erratically along Widney Manor Road in Solihull last month by residents who heard a "loud screeching noise".
She was found on a driveway nearby in her pyjamas and "unsteady on her feet", claiming the wheel had just come off.
The 33-year-old from Solihull was banned from driving for 17 months.
She admitted drink-driving and dangerous driving and received an 18-month supervision order and 180 hours' community service at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.
She must also pass an extended driving test in order to get back her licence.
The hairdresser, of Ravenswood Drive, registered 78 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath, more than twice the legal limit, when she was stopped on 23 January, police said.
Officers said they found a trail of damaged asphalt, caused by her Ford Ka, stretching for about 2.7 miles (4.8km).
Pc Tony Winter from West Midlands Police, said: "The car was making a deafening noise as it scraped its way along the road.
"One person who called police said they thought the car was dragging a wheel clamp with it.
"It's incredible she managed to drive so far without colliding with other vehicles or causing a serious accident.
"It was extremely dangerous driving and beggars belief she couldn't have known there was something seriously wrong with the car." | A woman drove for almost three miles with a wheel missing from her car while more than twice the drink-drive limit. | 1.114199 | 1 |
Depending who you ask, the gnarly green fruit is the vitamin-laden hero of brunch - or the reason millennials can't buy houses.
Back in May, a surge in global demand sent avocado prices to a record high.
And police say this may have driven three California men to steal up to $300,000 (£234,770) worth of them from an Oxnard produce firm where they worked.
Ventura County Sheriff's Office said Carlos Chavez, Rahim Leblanc, and Joseph Valenzuela were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of grand theft of fruit.
$1.27
each in April 2017
$0.98 in April 2016
The trio had been employed at Mission Produce, one of the world's biggest avocado distributors, for several years.
Police believe they had been stealing and selling the fruit to unwitting customers for months.
The company's president, Steve Barnard, said a box of avocados typically sells for $50, but the men were allegedly selling them for half that.
"They are in demand. Everybody loves avocados," Sgt John Franchi of the sheriff's office told the LA Times.
"We take these kinds of thefts seriously," he added. "It's a big product here and in California." | Few foodstuffs arouse passions like the humble avocado. | 1.512829 | 2 |
John Truscott, 85, was hit in Meadwogate, Eston, on the afternoon of 2 April.
He died at James Cook University Hospital on Wednesday. His family asked for people to "reflect on their happy memories" of him.
Cleveland Police are appealing for information on four people seen on motorbikes in Eston at the time. | An elderly man has died 10 days after being struck by a motorbike, police have said. | 0.288427 | 0 |
But, after the 16½-11½ defeat in Iowa, the 47-year-old Scot has reiterated her desire to captain the team at Gleneagles in 2019.
"I would love to be the captain, I've put my name in the hat," Matthew said.
"I can't see myself playing, so it was nice to come out with a win in my last game."
Matthew, who has now 18 and lost nine of her Solheim Cup matches, trailed Stacy Lewis until the 15th hole of their singles match in Des Moines, before winning at the final hole.
The 2009 British Women's Open champion, who has slipped to 97th in the world rankings, had initially missed out on selection by captain Annika Sorenstam.
However, having been named as a non-playing vice-captain, she was a late replacement for the injured Suzann Pettersen.
Sorenstam afterwards stressed she had always said the captaincy was a "one-time thing for me", which will increase Matthew's chances of leading the team in her homeland.
"Being disappointed with this one, it is a little early to look forward to the next one yet," the Scot told BBC Sport.
"But, once this one is over and done with, obviously thoughts in six months will turn to Gleneagles."
Despite being a late replacement, Matthew won both of her foursomes matches.
She lost her Saturday fourball but believes it was the previous day's fourball whitewash, which she sat out, that proved crucial.
"It put us a long way behind," she said. "We needed a good session on either Saturday morning or Saturday afternoon, which we just couldn't quite do.
"To lose all four is tough to come back from.
"With being so far down, we could have rolled over, but we've gone out fighting and you see how many games came down the 18th very close.
"We're obviously very disappointed, but we put on a good show in the singles.
"We played well. They just played that little bit better than us.
"There were lots of birdies and, at the end of the day, it just comes down to they holed a few more putts than us probably."
Find out how to get into golf with our special guide. | Catriona Matthew still doubts she will be able to play in a 10th Solheim Cup, despite winning three of her four ties as Europe lost to the United States. | 0.843305 | 1 |
Lyth, named in the touring party to West Indies in April and May, moved his overnight 53 on to 113, before being dismissed by Adam Riley (3-90).
Will Rhodes (61) and Andy Hodd (57) helped push Yorkshire to 372 all out.
MCC closed on 13-0 in their second innings, trailing by 138 runs, with England captain Alistair Cook unbeaten on two and Nick Compton on seven.
Cook, who scored only three in the first innings, faced 16 balls as the opening pair saw out the final five overs of the day.
Yorkshire began day two on 82-2 and Lyth and Steven Patterson (36) took their third-wicket partnership to 91, before Patterson became Riley's first victim.
Jonny Bairstow fell for a sixth-ball duck and Lyth was fifth man out with the score on 195, but a century partnership between Rhodes and Hodd gave Yorkshire a first-innings lead.
Adil Rashid hit five fours in making 42 from 57 balls to push Yorkshire's total past 350. | Yorkshire opener Adam Lyth celebrated his England Test call-up with a century against MCC in Abu Dhabi. | 0.89946 | 1 |
The Australian author, who was born in South Africa, previously won in 1983 and 1999 and could become the first author to win the prize three times.
He faces competition from 12 authors, including 2012 nominee Deborah Levy and A L Kennedy, who was a judge in 2012.
Chair of judges Amanda Foreman said the listed books challenged "expectations of what a novel is and can be".
The Man Booker shortlist will be announced on 13 September, with the winner being declared at a ceremony at London's Guildhall on 25 October.
Alongside Coetzee, who previously won with Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace, the longlist includes six UK-based authors, five from the US and one from Canada.
Notable omissions from the list include the latest novels by previous winners Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes and Pulitzer Prize winner Don DeLillo.
Ms Foreman said the range of books was "broad and the quality extremely high".
"Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at times, passionate debate, challenging our expectations of what a novel is and can be," she said.
"The writing is uniformly fresh, energetic and important - it is a longlist to be relished."
The prize, which was won in 2015 by Marlon James for his third novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, was first awarded in 1969.
Its sister prize, the Man Booker International Prize, was won in May by South Korean author Han Kang's The Vegetarian.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | Double Man Booker winner J M Coetzee and four debut authors have been named on the longlist for the 2016 prize. | 1.204123 | 1 |
The former Doctor Who star said the role had been "impossible to turn down" - despite previously saying she wanted time off from TV series.
"When I left Doctor Who the first thing I said was, 'I just don't want to do a series for a while,'" the 30-year-old said at a press event in London.
Rufus Sewell also appears in the show, which starts on ITV on 28 August.
The actor plays Lord Melbourne, the queen's first prime minister, in the commercial channel's latest flagship drama.
Comparisons are already being made to Downton Abbey, which came to a close last Christmas after six years on air.
Writer Daisy Goodwin said she "couldn't possibly hope to replicate" Downton's success but hoped Victoria would "give people pleasure".
One aspect of the role that Coleman had to grapple with was the blue contact lenses she was required to sport to emulate Victoria's natural eye colour.
"Any of the portraits you see, the first thing you see are her eyes," said the actress, adding she went through "in the region of about 70 pairs" during shooting.
The first series of Victoria charts the early years of the queen's reign and her courtship with Prince Albert, played by Tom Hughes.
Coleman made her first appearance in the BBC's Doctor Who in 2012, going on to play the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald in three series.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | Playing Queen Victoria in a new eight-part ITV drama has been "such a gift", actress Jenna Coleman has revealed. | 1.002218 | 1 |
The pedestrian, who is in his 30s, was walking at Mill Hill when the collision happened on Saturday morning.
He was was taken to hospital for treatment.
The road was closed for more than four hours between Ballylough Road and Clarkhill Road but has now reopened. | A man has been critically injured after he was hit by a car in Castlewellan, County Down. | 0.293448 | 0 |
Sunderland said they agreed a three-and-a-half-year deal with M'Vila but "decided not to enforce the contract".
M'Vila, 26, made 37 appearances for the Black Cats on a season-long loan last term before returning to Rubin Kazan.
"Any player we bring to Sunderland must be wholly committed," said chief executive Martin Bain.
M'Vila missed just one Premier League game as he helped Sam Allardyce's side avoid relegation last term, with Black Cats fans hopeful the club would sign him on a permanent deal last summer.
However, the move failed to materialise on transfer deadline day in September, leading to M'Vila posting an Instagram message - which was later deleted - saying he had tried contacting the club to push the deal through.
M'Vila returned to the Russian club when his loan deal expired, making nine appearances in the Russian Premier League this season.
Sunderland had not announced they had agreed a deal to re-sign the player until they revealed on Wednesday it had fallen through.
"I was contacted this week by Yann M'Vila's representatives, who advised that the player no longer wishes to join Sunderland," added Bain.
"There was a three-and-a-half-year agreement in place, however after discussions with the manager we have decided not to enforce the contract." | Sunderland say they will not be signing Yann M'Vila in January after being told the French midfielder no longer wants to re-join the Premier League club. | 1.005027 | 1 |
Three women will challenge 21 men for the title. A woman last won the Claymore Trophy nine years ago.
Alice Buttress, an artist from the event's home of Carrbridge, Nanci Hemming from Wales and American Griffon Ramsey have entered Saturday's event.
Moffat-based Pete Bowsher will be defending the title.
Last year he won the event for the second year in a row with his cowboy carving I Told You To Draw.
Carve Carr-Bridge is now in its 13th year and draws a crowd of more than 3,000 people. | This year's Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Championships - also known as Carve Carr-Bridge - has attracted a record number of female competitors. | 0.713928 | 1 |
The 19-year-old, who cannot be named, was held in care by Somerset County Council.
The Court of Protection said the lack of a "proper investigation" showed a "systematic failure" by the council.
The council said it had apologised to the family for the distress caused.
At a hearing at the court in Bristol, Judge Nicholas Marston said staff had failed to respect the human rights of the woman and her family, who come from Yeovil.
The court was told that just before a period of respite care in May 2013, the woman's mother noticed bruising on her daughter's chest and contacted a doctor and respite care staff.
But after her admission staff concluded her injuries were unlikely to have been self-inflicted as no self-harm had been witnessed.
Based on medical report findings that it was "highly likely" the woman had received a "significant injury from someone or something other than herself", social workers decided she could not return home.
But a day before her mother spotted bruising, the judge said staff at her specialist school saw her "hitting herself on the sternum area".
Judge Marston said this information would have been "easily discoverable" if social workers had carried out a "proper investigation".
A spokesman for Somerset County Council said it accepted the court's ruling but it had been "completely motivated by serious concern for the young lady's welfare".
"We are working closely with them [the family] to provide the right care and support for their daughter now and in the future," he said. | A disabled woman who was prevented from going home for a year after care staff mistook self-inflicted bruising for abuse, was "removed unlawfully" from her family, a judge has ruled. | 1.280866 | 1 |
The Ibrox club opened their Premiership account with a win at Motherwell and followed that up with a 6-0 thumping of Dunfermline in the League Cup.
"It is always important to build on winning. They are believing in themselves as a team," Caixinha said ahead of Hibs' visit on Saturday.
"I am a guy who chases perfection, but when I get it I want more."
Alfredo Morelos netted twice in the demolition of Dunfermline, with Bruno Alves and Daniel Candeias also scoring maiden Rangers goals in a one-sided contest.
"One of the major parts of football is enjoyment," added Caixinha. "I felt freedom from the team. The early second goal helped, but the players worked hard to get it.
"It's just a good start. We want more. We want to keep progressing.
"I believe you need to be focused at all times, with a strong mentality and team spirit.
"The boys are doing well but we still have a long journey in front of us."
Rangers and Hibs last met in the top flight in 2012, while the most recent contest came in the 2016 Scottish Cup final.
A stoppage-time header from David Gray gave Hibs a dramatic 3-2 win at Hampden but Caixinha insists he is not interested in using previous pain as a motivation.
"Football is a moment, there are no two games played the same way," he explained.
"The contest is different, what was to be fought for is totally different, so we just want to focus on the three points that we want to take, that's all.
"My concern is to prepare the team, recover the players and make them ready for a strong start at 3pm on Saturday."
Meanwhile, the Rangers manager revealed that club captain Lee Wallace will have a scan on a leg injury.
Lee Hodson was drafted in as a late replacement for Wednesday's victory over Dunfermline at Ibrox. | Pedro Caixinha has urged his Rangers players to continue their winning start to the season against Hibernian. | 0.931322 | 1 |
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) confirmed that Liam Kerr, 19, died on Thursday. He had been in hospital since an incident on 13 January.
A second inmate, Robert Wagstaff, 18, died on Sunday.
A spokesman for the SPS said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding either of the deaths and reports would be sent to the procurator fiscal.
He added that their next of kin have been informed and fatal accident inquiries may be held in due course.
Both men were serving sentences at the young offenders institution near Falkirk after being convicted at Paisley Sheriff Court last year. | Two teenage inmates at Polmont Young Offenders Institution have died within days of each other. | 0.57682 | 1 |
The suspect has not been fully identified but is believed to be 30-year-old Yassine Atar.
He was arrested in March 2016, five days after the attacks in Brussels.
His brother Oussama, who remains at large, is suspected of co-ordinating both attacks. In Paris, 130 people were killed while 32 more died in Brussels.
There is an international warrant out for the arrest Oussama Atar, who is also known as Abu Ahmad.
The man charged, a Belgian national named as Yassine A, was accused of "terrorist assassinations and of participation as a leader in the activities of a terrorist groups", a statement said.
The Atars are cousins of Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, the two brothers who detonated themselves in Brussels.
Oussama Atar is suspected of recruiting two Iraqi suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Paris. Both attacks have been claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS) | A man has been formally charged in Belgium in connection with the deadly attacks in Paris of November 2015, the federal prosecutor says. | 1.350776 | 1 |
The Canaries, relegated from the Premier League last term, were top on 15 October but have slipped to fourth after two defeats in three games.
"It was my worst defeat as a manager, a humiliating defeat," said the 35-year-old former Hamilton boss.
"The players need to try and play better it's as simple as that."
Against one of the teams expected to be their rivals for promotion, Norwich produced just two shots on target in a lacklustre display.
Neil took over at Carrow Road in January 2015 and helped the club to a top flight return in his first season.
Asked how he will respond to the loss, the Scot added: "I will be changing it now. Certain players have let themselves down and have not performed at anywhere near what they're capable of. I apologise to the fans.
"Now it is about getting into work and working as hard as you can. After the game, the players said more to each other than normal which is not a bad thing." | Norwich City boss Alex Neil apologised to fans after their 5-0 thrashing at Brighton - the heaviest loss during his time at the Championship club. | 0.6333 | 1 |
The car was being driven in stop-start traffic on the A27 in West Sussex said Nichola Carr, who took the picture while sitting on a coach.
Ms Carr said she was certain the driver was playing the guitar: "I was very shocked and surprised. I've never seen anything like it in my life."
No formal complaint has been made, a spokesman for Sussex Police said.
"Unfortunately, there is no vehicle registration number, nor is it clear if the person with the guitar is actually the driver," Insp Stewart Goodwin said.
Ms Carr was on a coach, returning from a trip to Portsmouth with her daughter's school, when she took the photograph.
"The traffic was stop-start, and I was looking out of the window, and I noticed this car below and the man playing a guitar," she said.
"I told my daughter and all her friends had a look too.
"As the traffic kept moving backwards and forwards, every time the car came near us the kids would shout out 'Here comes the guitar man'."
Ms Carr said she did not report the incident to the police as she had not taken the car's registration number.
Insp Stewart Goodwin said: "Motorists should never do anything that distracts them from driving while on the move or in traffic." | A motorist has been photographed apparently playing the guitar while at the wheel of a car. | 1.057602 | 1 |
Hernandez, 24, has signed a three-year deal, which the Tigers have the option of extending for a further 12 months.
Hull's previous record transfer outlay was the £8m they paid Tottenham for midfielder Jake Livermore in June.
They also completed the signings of midfielders Mohamed Diame from West Ham and Gaston Ramirez from Southampton.
Hernandez has scored seven goals in 14 matches for Uruguay and made two appearances at the 2014 Fifa World Cup.
Tigers boss Steve Bruce said: "Abel is a fantastic signing and highlights just how far the club has come in such a short space of time.
"He is an exciting talent and, like myself, I'm sure the supporters can't wait to see him in action."
Hernandez, who scored 14 goals in 28 appearances to help Palermo win promotion to Italy's Serie A last season, arrives following the £12m sale of Shane Long to Southampton.
His signing takes Hull's summer spending beyond £30m.
Ben Arfa, a 27-year-old France international winger, has spent the past three seasons on Tyneside, having joined the Magpies from Marseille in January 2011 following a successful loan spell.
"Hatem is a superb addition to the squad, and brings a lot of attacking flair," said manager Steve Bruce.
Ben Arfa made 86 appearances for Newcastle, scoring 14 goals. | Hull City have signed Uruguay striker Abel Hernandez from Palermo for a club-record £10m fee, while Hatem Ben Arfa has joined on loan from Newcastle. | 0.948093 | 1 |
After warned of falling sales and "challenging" trading in a gloomy trading update, the world's largest educational publisher ended down 8.4% at 762.5p.
The company said underlying sales had fallen by 7% in the first nine months of the year.
Sales in North America - Pearson's largest market - have fallen by 9%.
Despite the decline, Pearson said cost cutting meant it was still on track to meet its profit targets for 2016.
Gary Paulin, head of global equities at Northern Trust Capital Markets, said: "We see that there is a risk that the tight cost controls could end up exacerbating the lack of growth risk. We remain sellers of Pearson."
Shares in two insurers, Admiral and Standard Life, both fell nearly 4%, with Standard Life admitting it would have to compensate some customers who had been mis-sold annuities in the past.
On the currency markets, sterling ended unchanged against the dollar at $1.219, but was down very slightly against the euro at €1.109.
The yield on UK government bonds, or gilts, rose with the yield on benchmark 10-year gilts hitting 1.21% at one point on Monday morning - the highest rate since 24 June, the day after the EU referendum.
Gilt yields - which move inversely to the price of bonds - have been rising over the past few days.
Analysts have said the increase is due to the uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and expectations of accelerating inflation as the pound weakens. | London: The FTSE 100 index fell almost 1%, dragged lower by Pearson, to close 66 points lower at 6,947.5. | 1.084479 | 1 |
The £365m Pen-y-Cymoedd farm is being built between Neath and Aberdare by Swedish developers Vattenfall.
The company said the breakthrough was "one of the biggest boosts this decade to delivering Wales' green energy targets".
The 250 megawatt, 76-turbine scheme is set for completion early in 2017.
Lesley Griffiths, the Welsh Government's Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs, said the development was "great news".
"Supporting the development of more renewable energy projects is a key priority for the Welsh Government and this marks progress towards our goal of reducing our greenhouse emissions by at least 80% by 2050," she said. | Wales' largest onshore wind farm has generated electricity for the first time. | 1.85717 | 2 |
Most of those are now living in tents in refugee camps in neighbouring countries such as Iraq, Turkey and Lebanon.
For the children it means cramped conditions, no school and nowhere to play.
Newsround's Nel looks at what life is like for the youngsters that escaped to Lebanon. | Millions of people have had to flee their homes and their country to be safe from the war in Syria. | 1.362049 | 1 |
Sharapova, the 2004 champion, broke her Romanian opponent in the 10th game of the opening set on Court One.
The Russian led 5-0 in the second set and held off a fightback to set up a match with unseeded Zarina Diyas.
Venus Williams reached the fourth round for the first time since 2011, while there were also wins for Lucie Safarova and Eastbourne champion Belinda Bencic.
The 18-year-old Swiss player is into the last 16 for the first time as she beat American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 7-5 7-5.
Czech sixth seed Safarova, the beaten French Open finalist, came from one set down to beat American Sloane Stephens 3-6 6-3 6-1.
Australia's 22nd seed Samantha Stosur lost 6-2 6-0 to unseeded American Coco Vandeweghe, despite winning the first two games of the match.
Belarus's Victoria Azarenka, the 23rd seed, also advanced into the next round, beating France's Kristina Mladenovic 6-4 6-4.
Sharapova has only made it past the last 16 once in the last eight years but told BBC Sport that she expected a successful tournament this time.
"I made it more difficult for myself in the first set but I felt good in the second set," said Sharapova. "She was not going to go away so I was happy I was able to finish it off.
"You expect to go further and on to better things. As the matches get tougher, you have to raise your game and that's why there's only one champion.
"You have to have the belief and I absolutely do. You don't work all these hours in practice to not believe in yourself. I want to be the winner and I will do my best to do so."
Teenager Bencic, seeded 30th, trailed 5-1 in the first set against Mattek-Sands before winning the next six games.
World number 158 Mattek-Sands, who beat seventh seed Ana Ivanovic in the previous round, could not cause another upset as Bencic set up a match against Azarenka next.
Venus Williams, a Wimbledon champion in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, claimed a routine 6-3 6-2 win over Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic.
The American will now play sister Serena after she beat Great Britain's Heather Watson 6-2 4-6 7-5 in a thrilling match on Centre Court.
That sets up the 26th career meeting between the sisters and the first at a Grand Slam since Serena won in the 2009 Wimbledon final. Overall, Serena leads 14-11. | Fourth seed Maria Sharapova battled into the last 16 at Wimbledon as she defeated Irina-Camelia Begu 6-4 6-3. | 1.099879 | 1 |
Adebayor, 31, was available after being released by Tottenham in September and has scored 94 Premier League goals for Spurs, Arsenal and Manchester City.
Two weeks ago, Palace boss Alan Pardew confirmed his interest in signing the Togo international.
Adebayor's last appearance came on 3 May 2015, playing six minutes in Spurs's 1-0 home defeat by Man City.
Palace are the third-joint lowest scorers in the league with 24 goals in 23 games this season, and lie 11th in the table.
Strikers Fraizer Campbell, Dwight Gayle, Connor Wickham and Marouane Chamakh have managed just one league goal between them so far.
The Eagles have failed to win their past six games, losing their last four.
Pardew made a failed attempt to sign Adebayor in 2006 when he was in charge at West Ham.
The player joined Arsenal instead from French club Monaco and went on to play for Manchester City, followed by a loan spell at Real Madrid, before joining Spurs in 2012.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Crystal Palace have signed striker Emmanuel Adebayor on a free transfer until the end of the season. | 1.058088 | 1 |
The men were watching a World Cup game in June 1994 when gunmen burst into the Heights Bar in Loughinisland, County Down, and opened fire.
Five others were wounded in the attack carried out by the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force.
No-one has ever been convicted of the attack.
Families of the victims have persistently accused the police of failing to properly investigate the killings, claiming they wanted to protect informers.
They have alleged there was collusion between some police officers and those who carried out the attack.
The men who died were Adrian Rogan 34, Malcolm Jenkinson, 53, Barney Greene, 87, Daniel McCreanor 59, Patrick O'Hare, 35, and Eamon Byrne, 39.
Mr Greene was one of the oldest people to be killed in the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Five years ago the previous police ombudsman, Al Hutchinson, published a report which said the police had not properly investigated the killings.
But his report said there was insufficient evidence of collusion between the police and the Ulster Volunteer Force.
The families took legal action and in December 2012 the report's findings were quashed.
Mr Hutchinson resigned shortly afterwards and his successor, Dr Michael Maguire, re-opened the investigation.
The families and their lawyers were briefed about the findings in Loughinisland on Wednesday.
Dr Maguire's report will contain thousands of words, but for the families of those killed and seriously injured in the Heights Bar, the focus will be on whether he uses just one word - collusion.
South Down MP, the SDLP's Margaret Ritchie, told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme: "We want to see Dr Maguire call it for what it is. It is collusion.
""But we also want him to say quite clearly, who did it, how many were involved in it, was there local involvement in this heinous crime?" | The police ombudsman is to rule on allegations of collusion between police and a loyalist gang that killed six Catholics 22 years ago. | 1.367068 | 1 |
The commercial, by Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), was released on Saturday and has since gone viral.
It shows a SWAT team "saving stranded Aussies" abroad from missing a barbeque on the country's national day.
The Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) said it has received about 250 complaints, mostly from vegans.
ASB said it was also reviewing complaints of violence, and discrimination against Indigenous Australians.
The campaign has been accused of cultural insensitivity for using the slogan "Operation Boomerang" - an Indigenous term - to mark Australia Day.
The national day commemorates the arrival of the first Europeans in the country but is seen by many Indigenous Australians as a day of mourning.
In one scene in the advert, a SWAT team smashes into the home of a man in New York saying "C'mon mate, in a few hours you'll be eating lamb on the beach", to which the the bearded man responds: "But I'm a vegan now...".
The ad later cuts to a shot of a flamethrower-wielding SWAT officer burning a bowl of kale on the vegan's table.
Meat & Livestock Australia said the ad was "tongue in cheek".
"Consumers are free to make up their own minds in relation to lifestyle choices, including what they eat. We appreciate that not all Australians eat lamb," group marketing manager for MLA Andrew Howie said in a statement.
"MLA is also aware of some complaints about the use of the word "boomerang" in the advertisement. It is not our intention to cause any offense through the use of this term which is used to symbolise Australians returning home for Australia Day."
Extracts of the complaints will be published on the Advertising Standards Bureau website after its next board meeting in about two weeks time, an ASB spokesperson said. | An action movie-style advertisement campaign to promote Australian lamb has angered vegans who call it "discriminatory". | 1.449246 | 1 |
Officers found a body in a river in west London on Tuesday night.
The 14-year-old schoolgirl was last seen on CCTV walking along the towpath next to a canal near her home.
Newsbeat reporter Tamsyn Kent lives in Hanwell, in Ealing, west London, and she explains what it's like to live there now.
"I live just around the corner from Alice's family. I don't know them. Until a few weeks ago, I'd never heard of her.
"But a few days after she went missing, I tied a yellow ribbon to a lamp post outside my house.
"Like everyone else in Hanwell I was showing support for the Find Alice campaign.
"Now the whole town's covered with yellow ribbons.
"On the high street at the end of the road, you can see them in the trees, on the railings, the bins, on people's cars.
"Her photo is up in every shop window and on the bus stops.
"Now through the Facebook page her friends and family have set up they're asking people to take them down.
"Last Sunday, 6,000 people and I ran through this bit of Hanwell in the Ealing half-marathon.
"It was amazing to see most of the runners wearing the Find Alice yellow ribbon.
"It's had a huge impact on the town. It's everywhere you go and all people do is talk about the investigation and when she'll be found.
"But this morning, everyone I've spoken to is devastated that there's a body.
"It's what no-one wanted to hear, but as the weeks went by it seemed sadly inevitable.
"On the local Facebook group, Hanwell Friends, someone posted, 'I think Hanwell's collective heart just broke.'"
"About a 10-minutes walk away is the local park.
"The River Brent, where the body's been found, runs right through it. It's not deep.
"The kids paddle here in the summer. And two miles from here is where the police's main suspect, a Latvian, Arnis Zalkalns, lived before he disappeared.
"Walking back past the golf course, which has become the makeshift police headquarters, I think everyone feels so deeply for Alice and her family.
"And also devastated that this should happen to our town."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Police investigating the disappearance of teenager Alice Gross have started a murder investigation. | 1.449933 | 1 |
The 41-year-old will stay with Kent until Allan Donald earns the qualifications to gain a visa and become assistant on a full-time basis.
He led Yorkshire to promotion from Division Two and two County Championship titles before stepping down at the end of last season.
"To get Jason on board is a brilliant coup," Walker said.
"To have an experienced ex-head coach come into our ranks is great for me and the lads. His bowling expertise is like-for-like with Allan."
Former Australia bowler Gillespie, who has also coached Big Bash side Adelaide Strikers and Indian Premier League franchise Kings XI Punjab, left Yorkshire in September to return to Australia.
"Obviously I moved back to Adelaide for family reasons last year but the opportunity to assist Kent on a short-term basis was one that I couldn't resist and works well with my current situation," he said.
"I look forward to helping Matt Walker and (Kent captain) Sam Northeast over the next couple of months until I hand over to Allan Donald."
Walker and former South Africa fast bowler Donald were confirmed as Kent's new coaching team in January following the departure of former West Indies captain Jimmy Adams from Canterbury. | Kent have appointed former Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie as assistant to Matt Walker on an interim basis. | 0.905399 | 1 |
17 November 2015 Last updated at 14:41 GMT
In March, a woman pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive, insulting words or behaviour intended to cause harassment, alarm and distress.
She was given an 18-month conditional discharge.
Ms Heston spoke to BBC Radio Kent after figures showed almost 1,000 hate crimes were reported to Kent Police in the past year. | Evie Heston, from Kent, who is transgender, was abused and threatened by her neighbour in November 2014. | 1.023024 | 1 |
Richard Alston, 70, of Vinery Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, worked at Cavendish School in Ealing, west London, between 1975 and 1980.
He was the partner of the founder of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Alston was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court for gross indecency with a child under 14 and indecent assault.
The court heard Alston and his partner Peter Righton forced an 11-year-old boy at the school to watch pornography and then perform sex acts on him at their home in Greenford, west London.
Righton, who died in 2007, was a founding member of the group set up in the 1970s that campaigned to lower the age of consent.
Righton was 19 years older than Alston, who was 16 when they met. They spent 40 years together, the court heard.
It was the investigation into Righton - convicted of importing images of child abuse in 1992 - that led to MP Tom Watson using Parliamentary privilege in 2012 to allege there was "clear intelligence" of a VIP child sex abuse ring.
The victim, whose anonymity is protected, came forward to police in 2013.
The abuse happened between February 1978 and February 1980 when the boy was at the school described at the time as being for "maladjusted boys".
Judge Alistair McCreath told Alston: "I acknowledge that at the time you committed these offences you were in a very close relationship with an older man who had very particular and aggressive views about the propriety of sexual behaviour with minors."
He said while he had the "intelligence, maturity and ability to say no" to "some extent at least" his behaviour was influenced by Righton.
The court heard Righton and Alston's friend Charles Napier - now a convicted paedophile - would also be present on some occasions.
Napier, a former teacher from Sherborne in Dorset, was at one time treasurer of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Alston was found not guilty of four counts of indecent assault and two counts of indecency with a child.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on one count each of the same offences and they will lie on file. | A former remedial school teacher has been sentenced to a year and nine months in prison for the sexual abuse of a pupil in the 1970s. | 1.356823 | 1 |
The Blackburn Rovers striker is alleged to have illegally driven a Mitsubishi Shogun 4x4 on Cumbernauld Road on 28 January last year.
The Irish international, who lives in Glasgow's west end, was not at the city's Justice of the Peace Court when the case called.
His lawyer pled not guilty on his behalf and the case was continued. | Former Celtic player Anthony Stokes has denied driving without a licence or insurance in the east end of Glasgow. | 0.054157 | 0 |
They have been named locally as Jacob Hocking, Jackson Edwards and Adam Richards, all local men, who died in the collision at Druid traffic lights, Corwen, on Saturday at 11:40 GMT.
A Merseyside man, who was in the other car, later died in hospital.
Corwen Town Council chairman Simon Watkins said the community was in shock.
"Our hearts go out to the families and friends involved," he said.
A book of condolences has been opened in the town.
Friend Jess Moreton, who knew the men, said: "It's heartbreaking."
North Wales Police have appealed for witnesses to the incident.
Officers want to speak to a woman in a small, red vehicle and two people in a black 4x4 who helped at the scene.
Floral tributes have been left in the town which was already in shock following the death of a woman in her 80s who was hit by a lorry on Friday. | Tributes have been paid to three men who died in a two-car crash in a Denbighshire town. | 0.981258 | 1 |
The artwork, which depicts a biplane leaving a trail of smoke, is on the wall of a car park in Rumford Street.
Banksy works are difficult to authenticate but a photograph of the black and white biplane artwork has been posted on the artist's website.
Liverpool has only one other known work by Banksy, a giant rat, on the wall of a derelict pub in Berry Street.
That work was part of the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.
In February 2010 the building the rat work is painted on, the former Whitehouse pub, was sold at auction for £114,000. | A painting believed to be by the street artist Banksy has appeared in Liverpool city centre. | 1.27027 | 1 |
The left-back, 28, was making his first start for Blues since his loan move from Bournemouth and was carried off on a stretcher after colliding with Villa substitute Rudy Gestede late on.
Rowett told BBC Sport: "It does not look good. He felt something snap.
"I just hope it was his lace and not his cruciate ligament."
The Blues boss added: "It doesn't look like we'll be seeing him in a blue shirt any time in the near future."
David Davis scored a second-half equaliser that earned Blues a point which put them seventh in Championship, six points clear of 15th-placed Villa. | Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett fears Rhoys Wiggins may face a lengthy spell out after suffering a knee injury in Sunday's 1-1 draw with Aston Villa. | 0.661774 | 1 |
Pop star Young and his professional dance partner Karen Clifton will perform a tango to Bowie's 1983 hit Let's Dance.
It comes after Bowie's death earlier this year from cancer at the age of 69.
The new series of Strictly Come Dancing starts in earnest on Friday with its first live show, followed by a second on Saturday.
Young and Clifton are one of 15 couples competing for this year's Strictly title.
Six pairs will dance on Friday night's show, with the remaining nine performing the next night.
Watching and assessing the performances in the studio will be the show's judging panel of Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood, Darcey Bussell and chairman Len Goodman, carrying out his duties for the last time with this series.
Among the other contestants, former Labour MP Ed Balls and Katya Jones will take on a waltz to Elvis Presley's Are You Lonesome Tonight.
BBC sports presenter Ore Oduba will also be dancing the tango to Geronimo by Sheppard with his partner Joanne Clifton, while singer Anastacia and Brendan Cole will be attempting the cha cha to Lady Marmalade as sung by Christina Aguilera, Mya, Lil' Kim and Pink.
Olympic gymnast Claudia Fragapane and AJ Pritchard have choreographed a routine to One Direction's What Makes You Beautiful.
Gold medal-winning long jumper Greg Rutherford and Natalie Lowe will be taking on a jive to The Temptations' Get Ready, while model Daisy Lowe and Aljaz Skorjanec will attempt a waltz to Unforgettable by Nat King Cole.
They - and the other contestants - will be given scores from the judges after their first performances.
Those marks will be carried forward to week two, when the public can vote. The first elimination will take place on the 2 October show.
The series launch earlier this month got an average of 9.3 million viewers on Saturday night - a record audience for an opening episode of the show.
Last year's winner was singer Jay McGuiness, formerly of the boy band The Wanted.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Will Young will pay tribute to David Bowie when he makes his Strictly dance floor debut this weekend. | 1.096214 | 1 |
North Kesteven District Council built 13 homes in Ruskington, Lincolnshire, with moveable internal walls.
It means the number of bedrooms can be easily altered from one to two to avoid losing housing benefit.
The project is shortlisted in the outstanding development category of the UK Housing Awards.
In each of the homes, built last year, the main bedroom has several electrical fittings and two windows allowing for a partition wall to be easily installed or removed.
Michael Gadd, property services manager, said: "It does mean that no-one can be penalised for having a spare bedroom that's not being used."
"We can alter the properties to either one bedroom or two bedrooms depending on who is living there."
Kate Webb, from Shelter, said: "Unfortunately in most areas there just aren't the smaller homes available for people to downsize in to.
"That's why initiatives like this one are welcome because it gives people some sort of respite from the bedroom tax."
Since April 2013, families considered to have too much living space by their local authorities have received reduced housing benefit.
Under the government's so-called "size criteria", families are assessed for the number of bedrooms they actually need.
The government said it was removing the spare room subsidy but Labour dubbed it the "bedroom tax". | An innovative housing development that could help people avoid the so-called "bedroom tax" has been shortlisted for an award. | 1.64569 | 2 |
Wa-ays Dhaye, 18, died from multiple knife wounds after being attacked in Thurston Street, Slough, in August.
He was walking home after spending the day at Notting Hill Carnival.
Khianni Gordon was jailed for life with a minimum of 19 years for murder while Kaneel Huggins and Antwon Clarke were given 10 and nine-year sentences respectively for manslaughter.
Gordon, 18, was also convicted of perverting the course of justice.
Clarke and Huggins' sentences were referred to the Court of Appeal by the Attorney General under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
Huggins, 19, had his sentence increased to 16 years, and Clarke, 18, had his sentence increased to 15 years.
Gordon's sentence was not considered by the court.
Speaking after the hearing, Attorney General Jeremy Wright said: "These offenders knowingly participated in the plan to assault and injure Wa'ays Dhaye knowing full well that really serious harm or death could be caused.
"Knife crime is a real scourge of our society and it's important that prison terms for this type of crime reflect the seriousness of the offending."
Mr Dhaye, who was born in Holland but lived in Slough for 10 years, was stabbed while walking home after spending August bank holiday at the Notting Hill Carnival. He died later in hospital.
Det Ch Insp Kevin Brown of Thames Valley Police, said the three had "hunted down" Mr Dhaye following a minor altercation between two groups at the carnival.
He said: "The three of them left Wa-ays dying in the street and it was members of the public who found him and came to his aid."
Update 21 November 2016: This story has been amended following updated information supplied by the Attorney General about the sentencing | Two men from High Wycombe jailed for a fatal stabbing have had their sentences increased by the Court of Appeal. | 1.104156 | 1 |
Police say more than 30 others were wounded in the city of Damaturu, capital of Yobe State.
No group has said it carried out the bombing but the jihadist group Boko Haram has previously launched attacks in the city.
On Saturday, Boko Haram fighters tried to take over the regional capital of neighbouring Gombe state.
They were repelled by Nigerian troops backed by a fighter jet.
Marcos Danladi, police commissioner of Yobe State, said Sunday's attack took place at the Damaturu Central Motor Park.
According to reports, the female suicide bomber arrived in a vehicle and walked into a crowd outside a grocery store at the end of the terminal where she detonated her explosives.
Witness Adamu Muhammad said the bus station "descended into panic".
A shop owner told AFP news agency that an angry mob stopped emergency workers from retrieving the remains of the bomber and instead set them on fire.
Thousands of people have been killed and more than three million displaced by Boko Haram's insurgency.
The Islamist militants, who are fighting to create an Islamic state in north-eastern Nigeria, have become a regional threat.
In response, Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon have agreed to form a regional military force to combat the group.
Growing insecurity in the north-east led Nigeria to postpone elections due to be held on 14 February.
Correspondents say the insurgency has also cast doubt on the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, who is accused of not having done enough to contain it. | A female suicide bomber has killed at least seven people at a crowded bus station in north-eastern Nigeria. | 1.28094 | 1 |
It became tangled in anti-pigeon netting on the Lloyds Bank building in Cornhill earlier.
Three fire engines were sent and a firefighter on an aerial platform managed to help set the bird free.
The bird, which had been feasting on a pigeon also trapped in the nets, then flew across the square to watch the drama from the safety of another perch.
Dozens of shoppers had gathered to watch the spectacle, and Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service had to set up a cordon as they worked to free the feathered fellow.
As the bird flapped to freedom, people clapped and cheered from the sidelines.
More on this and other news from Suffolk | Crowds gathered to cheer firefighters attempting to rescue a bird of prey trapped in the centre of Ipswich. | 1.315877 | 1 |
Sandwell Council served an enforcement notice on Bubbles Club, in Smethwick, for operating outside the building's consent for a health and beauty salon.
A brothel called Cuddles once used the same building on the Hagley Road before police raided it in 2005.
On its website, Bubbles said its rooms were for "companionship and to spend time with hostesses only".
Sandwell Council said the address had had permission for a health and beauty salon since 1982, but the current owners had no consent for a private massage parlour.
Planning officers said the "unauthorised use" caused harm to residents, who complained of "comings and goings in the early hours of the morning".
West Midlands Police had raised concerns with the council based on "the history of the address and the criminality involved previously", said a force spokeswoman.
After issuing the enforcement notice, the council received a retrospective planning application to change the building's use. In a supporting letter, design consultant Terry Poultney wrote claims the use caused serious harm to nearby residents were "totally unfounded and without any supporting factual evidence".
Labour ward councillor Steve Eling said the notice was not to do with the club's 11:00 to 6:00 opening hours but the business acting outside its planning consent.
Bubbles has not responded to questions from the BBC but the business's Facebook page said it had "slight issues with planning permission, but would be open again soon".
The owners can appeal against the council notice before 2 February.
Police raided Cuddles in September 2005 and owner Carl Pritchett, from Dudley, was sentenced the following July to two years in jail for running a brothel. He was jailed for a further seven years in 2010 after failing to repay £2m in illegal gains. | A private massage parlour on the site of a former brothel has been ordered to close for breaching planning rules. | 1.005983 | 1 |
The dress was worn when Jackie was expecting her son, John Kennedy Jr.
It was a gift that Jacqueline gave to the Kennedys' White House English nanny Maud Shaw.
She was with the family from 1957 and helped look after Caroline and John when their father was assassinated in 1963.
Maud Shaw retired to England and Jackie and the children visited her there in 1965.
"The dress is empire line, sleeveless and has an oriental pattern in silk," said Stuart Purcell, head of collectables at Whyte's auction house in Dublin.
"There was a suggestion that the dress was a gift from the Japanese embassy in Washington."
Mr Purcell said Maud Shaw became quite famous at the time of John F Kennedy's funeral.
When she retired, she wrote a book about her time with the Kennedys: White House Nanny: My Years with Caroline and John Kennedy Jr.
In the last chapter, she said she was given the dress and other mementos when Jackie and the children visited
After her death in 1988, the mementos were left to family and eventually sold on.
The dress and a collection of photographs of Maud Shaw's time with the Kennedys will be sold at Whyte's history and literature auction on 9 May.
The estimate price is 3,500 (£2,500) to 4,000 euro (£2,880). | A cream silk maternity dress worn by former US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1960 is to be auctioned in the Republic of Ireland in May. | 1.411766 | 1 |
On Friday, Poundland claimed it had been advised to remove food from its Corporation Street store because of nearby "road works".
But the council's environmental health team said it had received complaints of mice and, after a visit, concluded there was an "imminent risk".
Poundland said it had followed advice.
In a statement, it said: "All food is now back on sale and the prohibition notice has been lifted. The company's primary concern is for the health and well-being of its customers and it reacted swiftly to resolve the situation."
In a previous statement, released on Friday, the firm said: "Poundland has removed food from display at its Corporation Street store in Birmingham following advice from the local environmental office.
"This advice relates to issues caused primarily by the extensive building and road works in the area."
Birmingham City Council said food went back on sale in the store on Monday. | A mice infestation was behind food being removed from shelves of a branch of Poundland in Birmingham city centre, the council has revealed. | 1.066528 | 1 |
Zimbabwe-born Denton, who qualifies to play for Scotland through his mother, has spent two seasons at The Rec, after signing from Edinburgh in 2015.
He becomes Warriors' sixth signing in preparation for the 2017-18 campaign.
As well as Northampton pair prop Ethan Waller and Sam Olver, Wasps winger Tom Howe signed in January, while Jersey forwards Pierce Phillips and Simon Kerrod agreed terms in February.
South Africa-educated Denton, who can play in the back row or at lock. has won 35 caps for Scotland.
He played four times in their 2015 Rugby World Cup run, including their luckless quarter-final defeat by Australia.
Prior to his move to Bath, he also made 79 appearances for Edinburgh, helping them to reach the European Challenge Cup final in 2015.
Warriors director of rugby Gary Gold said: "David is a powerful athlete who will add more firepower to our back row. He is a strong ball-carrier with international experience." | Worcester have signed Bath and Scotland international forward David Denton. | 0.835852 | 1 |
Residents of Godolphin Cross near Helston emailed him in a desperate attempt to raise funds.
The village shares a name with the world famous Godolphin stables, founded by the sheikh, Cornwall Live reports.
Richard Mckie from the Godolphin Cross Community Association said: "We are extremely appreciative."
The group needed £90,000 to buy the chapel that they intend to convert into a community centre, and had raised £25,000 towards it.
More on this story, and other Cornwall news
It's not known how much was contributed by the sheikh, but Mr Mckie said "it has pushed us across the line".
One villager, Valerie Wallace, had the idea as a last ditch attempt, with the group having failed to raise sufficient funds elsewhere.
"We thought nothing of it and then we began to get phone calls from Dubai," Mr Mckie said.
"We thought we were being hoaxed but it was no hoax."
The sheikh, who has been invited to visit the village, was unavailable for comment.
The group now needs to raise a further £350,000 to restore the hall. | The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has helped a small Cornish village buy its Methodist chapel. | 1.315654 | 1 |
The blaze at the Fir Vale MOT Centre on Herries Road, near the Northern General Hospital, was fought by about 40 firefighters and was out by 02:00 GMT.
The alarm was raised before 20:00 on Monday. Five houses were evacuated and a cordon put in place, South Yorkshire Fire Rescue said.
Nobody was hurt and the cause of the fire is not known.
All nearby residents have been able to return to their homes.
Firefighters worked for several hours during the blaze to stop the fire spreading to other properties, the fire service said. | An investigation is being launched into the cause of a fire in Sheffield that destroyed a building and three cars. | 0.96117 | 1 |
She is the first leader from another country to visit Mr Trump.
The pair will spend about an hour together, focusing on the relationship between the UK and America.
The Prime Minister is keen to talk about how the UK will be buy and sell goods to the US after Brexit.
The UK and US has had a very close relationship for a very long time and Theresa May Intends to keep that strong.
Prime Minister Theresa May said she and Mr Trump could work together, despite their different styles, joking "sometimes, opposites attract". | Prime Minister Theresa May will meet with US President Donald Trump just a week after he started the top job. | 1.151983 | 1 |
The Spaniard has now won three straight titles, after his Barcelona Open and Monte Carlo Masters victories, while his record on clay this year is 15-0.
Nadal edged the Austrian in the tie-break of a tense first set that lasted one hour and 18 minutes.
He broke world number seven Thiem early in the second set to set up the win.
Nadal will be confirmed as the new world number four, replacing 18-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer, when the new rankings come out on Monday.
That will improve his seeding for the French Open, which starts on 22 May and where Nadal is a nine-time champion.
Nadal, who beat defending champion Novak Djokovic in the semi-final, has now won his 30th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title, tying the all-time record with Serbia's Djokovic.
The former world number one was last inside the world's top four in October 2016 and struggled with a wrist injury last year, which forced him to pull out of the French Open and Wimbledon and end his season early.
Nadal told Television Espanola: "The truth is I was up against an opponent who, in the next five to 10 years, will be fighting for the most important titles, so I'm very happy to have won.
"It was a very exciting game.
"It was a very important final for both of us, for him as it was the first in the Masters 1000, and for me it's always special to play here in Madrid, in this unique tournament.
"You never know when it might be the last, so I always try to enjoy it." | Rafael Nadal beat Dominic Thiem 7-6 (10-8) 6-4 to win his fifth Madrid Open title and move into the world's top four. | 1.058924 | 1 |
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Mark Stewart, Kian Emadi-Coffin, Andrew Tennant and Oliver Wood completed their 4,000m race 1.34 seconds ahead of France's team, who took silver.
Earlier, Emily Kay, Manon Lloyd, Emily Nelson and Eleanor Dickinson claimed gold ahead of Italy, finishing 1.89 seconds quicker over the same distance.
The two golds move Britain top of the medal table after four of 16 events.
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Britain won team pursuit gold in the men's and women's events at the Rio Olympics this summer, too, but none of those eight medallists were racing in Glasgow.
Nelson told BBC Sport: "To come out and beat Italy, who won gold at the Europeans, is something special. We're all fighting for Tokyo [the 2022 Olympic Games]."
Wood added: "That was my first really big win in the team pursuit - it was brilliant. [Many of the Olympic athletes] have gone away for a bit of family time. The young guys have just stepped in and we're making the most of it." | Great Britain claimed gold in the men's and women's team pursuit at the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow. | 1.110427 | 1 |
Its debut was the second biggest April opening in history, behind only Furious 7's $147.2m (£104m) launch in 2015.
According to the studio, Jon Favreau's film also made an estimated $136.1m (£96m) outside the US and Canada.
Comedy sequel Barbershop: The Next Cut came a distant second, with opening weekend takings of $20.2m (£14.2m).
Disney has achieved success of late with transforming its classic cartoons into live-action remakes, including Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty makeover Maleficent.
The Jungle Book is is a mixture of live action featuring Neel Sethi as Mowgli, with the rest of the footage created with animation.
It features computer-generated versions of such familiar characters as Baloo the bear, Kaa the snake and Shere Khan the tiger.
Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Idris Elba lend their voices to the roles, with Christopher Walken and Sir Ben Kingsley voicing other characters.
Slapstick comedy The Boss slipped to third place in its second weekend in cinemas, taking $10.2m (£7.2m) between Friday and Sunday.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Disney animation Zootopia - released as Zootropolis in the UK - round out this week's top five. | Disney's new version of The Jungle Book has taken a big bite out of the US box office, topping it with $103.6m (£73.1m) in its opening weekend. | 0.950917 | 1 |
The guardsmen performing for their colonel in chief on the parade ground were fighting soldiers.
Centuries ago, the colour or flag was a rallying point on the battlefield.
It's now a symbolic affair. Today, it was held in honour of the Queen who inspected her troops - as Queen Victoria did once, and as all monarchs have done since the time of Edward VII.
The annual pageant ended with the fly past and the Queen and other royals appearing on the balcony.
Dedicated royal watchers will have been delighted by the sight of Princess Charlotte and an animated Prince George.
With Prince Charles and Prince William also there, this was the British monarchy, its present and its future on display. | This was an unmissable monarch - wearing, as she was, a vibrant, lime green coat - at an annual occasion she's never missed - an occasion where the dominant colour is usually the scarlet of the ceremonial soldiers' tunics. | 1.8235 | 2 |
US stock indexes pared slight losses at the opening bell to finish largely flat in cautious trading.
The Dow Jones dropped 6 points at 19,884. the Nasdaq also lost 6 points at 5,636, while the S&P 500 rose 1 point to to 2,280.
Non-farm payroll data is expected to show that US employers added 170,000 jobs in January.
The unemployment rate is forecast to remain at 4.7%.
Among individual stocks, Facebook fell 1.8% with profit figures overshadowed by a court ruling against its Oculus division.
Among other large companies reporting earnings, shares in US oil producer ConocoPhillips finished slightly higher after it reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss.
Ralph Lauren dropped 12.3% after the company said chief executive Stefan Larson would leave following differences with the company's founder and chairman.
And digital imaging company Shutterfly fell 15.6% after reporting a 30.6% tumble in quarterly profits. | Wall Street finished little changed as investors looked ahead to key US jobs data on Friday. | 1.132032 | 1 |
Steven Dean Gordon, who confessed to the killings to authorities in an interview, was found guilty of four counts of murder.
Police said Gordon, 47, and 30-year-old sex offender Franc Cano abducted and killed the women in 2013 and 2014.
Prosecutors first charged Gordon with rape but later dropped the charges. He may now face the death penalty.
Gordon and Cano, both registered sex offenders, were first convicted in separate cases of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14.
Gordon, who was convicted in 1992, also had a kidnapping conviction in 2002. Cano was convicted in 2008.
Police believe Cano and Gordon had known each other since at least 2010, when Cano was arrested in Alabama with Gordon after cutting off his monitoring device.
The pair then cut off their monitoring devices two years later and travelled on a Greyhound bus to Las Vegas before they were arrested again by federal agents.
According to grand jury testimony, Gordon was living in a camper van, or recreational vehicle (RV), in Anaheim at the time of the killings.
He and Cano brought their victims to the RV site and wore a GPS tracking device during at least three of the murders.
Authorities connected Gordon and Cano to the disappearance of the women through their tracking devices after discovering the body of missing 21-year-old Jarrae Nykkole Estepp.
The men were charged with killing three other women who went missing in Santa Ana in 2013: Kianna Jackson, 20; Josephine Monique Vargas, 34; and Martha Anaya, 28.
All four women had connections to prostitution.
The jurors, who deliberated for about an hour before handing down the verdict, also found there were special circumstances of murder during a kidnapping and multiple murders, making Gordon eligible for a death sentence.
They will decide whether to recommend a death sentence or life in prison without parole at a penalty phase on Monday.
Cano, who is being tried separately, has pleaded not guilty. He is due back in court on 29 December. | A California sex offender was convicted of killing four women while wearing a tracking device for prior offences. | 0.775625 | 1 |
The incident involved an MV-22 Osprey belonging to the US Marines based in Okinawa, Japan.
The third Marine Expeditionary Force said the aircraft had launched for "regularly scheduled operations" before it entered the water.
Rescue teams recovered 23 people, but three service members are still missing.
Australian media reported the incident happened during an attempt to land on an aircraft carrier.
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The MV-22 Osprey is a tilt-rotor aircraft, capable of carrying 24 people at a time in addition to four crew members. It is similar to a conventional plane, but has helicopter-like rotor blades which allow it to take off vertically, without a runway.
Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper quoted military sources as saying that the accident happened as the aircraft was trying to land on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier.
Australia's Defence Minister, Marise Payne, said she had spoken to her US counterpart, James Mattis, and confirmed the incident happened near Shoalwater Bay, off the coast of Queensland.
"I can confirm no Australian Defence Force personnel were on board the aircraft," she said in a statement.
US military forces have been operating in the area as part of a joint training exercise called Talisman Sabre. It involved some 30,000 personnel from both countries.
An MV-22 Osprey was destroyed earlier this year during a controversial raid by US forces in Yemen, after three crew members were injured in a "hard landing".
It was so badly damaged that US forces deliberately destroyed the craft in an air strike.
In July, 16 people died after a US Marine Corps plane crashed in Mississippi. | A search and rescue operation is being conducted after a US military aircraft was lost off the Australian coast. | 2.057122 | 2 |
Heddlu'r Gogledd drosglwyddodd y mater yn wirfoddol i'r comisiwn wedi i wybodaeth bellach ddod i'r amlwg, a arweiniodd at ailedrych ar amgylchiadau'r ymchwiliad gwreiddiol.
Roedd y wybodaeth newydd yn cysylltu dyn arall gyda thrais a llofruddiaeth Janet Commins, 15 oed o'r Fflint, ym mis Ionawr 1976.
Cafodd Stephen Hough, 57, ei gyhuddo o'r troseddau ym mis Medi y llynedd.
Mae'r IPCC yn ymchwilio er mwyn gweld a weithredodd swyddogion o Heddlu'r Gogledd yn unol â'r rheolau ar y pryd.
Y materion dan sylw yw'r modd y gwnaethon nhw ddal a holi pobl oedd yn cael eu hamau o drosedd, yn ogystal â sut y deliodd y llu gyda gwybodaeth newydd ddaeth i'r fei yn 2006.
Mae'r comisiwn wedi casglu'r dogfennau perthnasol gan y llu, ac wedi cyfarfod â theulu Ms Commins i egluro'u rôl.
Dywedodd comisiynydd yr IPCC yng Nghymru, Jan Williams: "Bydd hwn yn ymchwiliad cymhleth, yn enwedig o ystyried yr amser sydd wedi mynd heibio, ond mae'n bwysig i bawb ein bod yn cynnal ymchwiliad annibynnol."
Ym mis Mehefin 1976, cafodd ddyn ei garcharu am 12 mlynedd ar ol cyfaddef i ddynladdiad Ms Commins. | Mae Comisiwn Cwynion Annibynnol yr Heddlu (IPCC) yn ymchwilio i'r modd y deliodd Heddlu Gogledd Cymru gydag ymchwiliad i lofruddiaeth a thrais yn 1976. | 0.766018 | 1 |
Ian Workman, 58, from Turton, Lancashire was given a life sentence in 2011 for stabbing to death 55-year-old Susan Workman.
In 2014, the High Court ruled that Workman's sister-in-law and sons should receive her divorce settlement instead.
The Court of Appeal has now rejected Workman's attempt to halt this payment.
Mrs Workman's sister, Carol Forrester, and his two sons, Nicholas and Benjamin Workman, claimed that he killed their mother to get out of paying her half his fortune.
In law, someone who is criminally responsible for the death of another cannot benefit from the death and they claimed this should also apply to financial proceedings in divorce cases.
In 2014, the High Court agreed that Workman should not be able to avoid paying the £1.5m award in his ex-wife's favour.
Workman then applied to the Court of Appeal to challenge two orders - one required him to disclose his assets and stopped him from defending the value of the claim while the other rejected his bid for a re-listing of an application to "freeze" his assets.
Dismissing both challenges, the Court of Appeal said there was a "persistent failure" by Workman to comply with the disclosure order.
His "flagrant contempt" in failing to comply had the potential to frustrate the damages assessment and could not be ignored.
Millionaire car dealer Workman was jailed for life in December 2011, with the judge recommending he served a minimum of 17 years.
Preston Crown Court heard Workman stabbed his ex-wife of 35 years once in the chest as she typed an account of their rows on her laptop, including descriptions of his abusive behaviour. | A man who murdered his ex-wife during a divorce dispute has lost a legal bid to stop his sister-in-law and two sons from receiving a £1.5m settlement. | 0.94897 | 1 |
Emergency services were called just before 07:30 to an empty detached bungalow that was being renovated in Forthview Road.
Firefighters were still at the scene four hours later, and a cordon was in place. The fire, which was in the roof, has been put out.
A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said there was "extensive damage to the property". | An investigation has been launched into a blaze at an Edinburgh house. | 0.341348 | 0 |
The teenager was detained at Riverside Retail Park in Coleraine earlier on Thursday.
The arrest was made by detectives from the PSNI's Reactive and Organised Crime Branch, who took him to Coleraine police station for questioning.
A PSNI spokesman said no further details about the case were being made available at present. | A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in County Londonderry "in connection with serious crime," police have said. | 0.210788 | 0 |
If the deal is approved by the Argentine Congress, the 50,000 Italian investors will receive 150% of the face value of the debt of $900m (£625m).
The deal comes as negotiations restart with hedge funds in a US court.
Argentina is trying to settle with all its creditors in order to be able to borrow again on international markets.
Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said the Italian investors' holdings accounted for around 15% of the country's defaulted debt that had not been restructured in 2005 and 2010.
The Italians were paid $1.35bn but had been asking for $2.5bn.
According to attorneys representing the Italian bondholders quoted by Bloomberg, of the 180,000 Italians who bought Argentine debt about 70% had entered into exchange agreements or had died.
Most of the survivors are between 60 and 80 years old and invested between $25,000 and $50,000 in Argentine debt.
President Mauricio Macri, who took office in December, has promised to resolve the litigation with bondholders and help the country return to the international capital markets.
Former president Christina Fernandez de Kirchner had refused the demands of investors who had held out for better terms than those offered in two debt restructurings in 2005 and 2010. | Argentina has agreed for the first time to pay investors who have been holding out for full repayment of bonds which were defaulted on in 2002. | 1.563948 | 2 |
Kathy Chen announced she was leaving following a restructure of the business in Asia.
While Twitter is blocked in China, it lets Chinese advertisers reach a global audience. It is also very popular with Chinese dissidents based in the West.
Ms Chen is the latest in a string of high-profile Twitter executives to depart from the firm.
Chief technology officer Adam Messinger and chief operating officer Adam Bain have both left recently.
Hong Kong-based Ms Chen, who had previously worked for Cisco and Microsoft, was hired as managing director for Twitter's China region in April 2016.
She also used to be in the Chinese military, and her apparent links with the Beijing government meant the appointment prompted concern from some China activists that it had hired somebody who was pro-China.
Since then Twitter has reorganised its Asia division, with country heads in India and Australia also leaving.
"Now that the Twitter APAC [Asia Pacific] team is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company," Ms Chen wrote on the site.
Her 12-tweet message also included claims that revenue from Chinese advertising partners had soared 400% in the past two years and that the Hong Kong office - rumoured to be closing - would remain open "for now".
"Working at Twitter has opened my mind, my passion is to connect people to the world through cross-cultural communications & businesses," she added. | The head of Twitter's China operations has left the firm after seven months in charge. | 1.204839 | 1 |
The Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) said 162,880 homes were started in 2016/17, with 147,960 completed.
Both numbers represent the highest number of new builds since the start of the financial crisis in 2007/08.
However, housing charity Shelter said the numbers were still about 100,000 short of what was needed.
"While it's certainly positive to see a rise in house-building, we should be under no illusion that these figures are still pitifully low," said Anne Baxendale of Shelter.
"Even with this slight lift, we're still falling well short of the 250,000 homes a year we need to ease the burden of the housing crisis."
The Mortgage Advice Bureau said the fact that the Help to Buy equity loan scheme was due to end in 2021 could already be discouraging developers from buying land.
The latest figures on Scottish house-building show that 16,870 new homes were built in the year to September 2016, a decline of 5% on the previous year.
Back in 1972/73 more than 300,000 homes were constructed in England in a single year.
How can the UK build more homes?
The vast majority of new homes started - about 137,000 - were built by the private sector.
Some 23,000 were constructed by housing associations, and 1,730 by local authorities directly.
Most of the political parties have promised to increase house-building if they win the election on 8 June: | The number of new homes being built in England is at its highest level for ten years, according to government figures. | 2.344357 | 2 |
Tony Little said clever children who never had difficulties needed to have the resilience for struggles of adult life.
He said schools should help young people learn from the "experience of failure".
Mr Little said children needed to find out how to "bounce back".
Speaking at the Global Education and Skills Forum about young people's well-being, he said he was concerned by pupils leaving school who had never seemed to have struggled.
"The only ones who worried me, as I shook hands and said my farewells, were the boys and girls who had gilded school experiences.
"The golden schoolchildren, for whom it had been very straightforward, always good at exams, always popular, always found the flow easy to deal with.
"They never really had anything significant to bump up against," said Mr Little, who is now chief academic officer of the GEMS international education group.
"I think it behoves all great schools to make sure all their children fail.
"Not just have the experience of failure, but of course within a supportive context, to learn from that experience of failure."
There have been concerns about a rise in young people with mental health problems and growing interest in schools teaching ideas such as well-being.
Mr Little said that schools needed to think about what they celebrated.
There could also be lessons from sport.
"It's not the fact of being dropped from the sports team, it's how that is dealt with, how young people are enabled to bounce back and find their way to regain that level or even higher," he said.
There were also warnings that education systems needed to focus on more than exams and academic success - and to think about emotional well-being.
"The education system did a great job in the past to focus on the top six inches of our head but we need to address the needs of students a little lower - the heart - to teach children about their emotional and social happiness," said Abdulla Al Karam, director general of Dubai's knowledge and human development authority. | High-achieving, "gilded" young people who had an easy time at school need to understand what it is like to fail, says the former head of Eton. | 2.175882 | 2 |
The figure includes the £31.1m raised on Children in Need night last November as well as donations that came in after the televised charity event.
Last year's total is up from the £43.3m raised in 2012 and £46.1m in 2011.
Children in Need host Sir Terry Wogan said he was "amazed by the generosity" of the British public, especially as 2013 was "far from an easy year".
Sir Terry, who is also the charity's life president, added: "When we hosted the first televised appeal in 1980, we were delighted with the £1m raised.
"I don't think any of us could have dreamed how far it would come."
Children in Need, which is the BBC's UK corporate charity, has now raised more than £740m since it began.
The money raised from the 2013 campaign has helped 450,000 disadvantaged children and young people in the UK, the charity said.
This year's telethon will take place on 14 November. | Last year's BBC Children in Need appeal raised a record £49.6m in total, the corporation has announced. | 1.231962 | 1 |
The fire in Basford caused plumes of smoke to blow across the area, leading to hazardous driving conditions.
It broke out at a clothing and textile factory in High Church Street at about 07:10 BST.
Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, have been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire
Police said 55 people were evacuated from nearby properties.
Jo Wooler-Ward, a group manager at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, said fire crews have been unable to get inside the building because it is structurally unsafe, so they have been fighting the fire from the outside.
"Firefighting operations will continue for some time," she said.
"We anticipate being here for the day and well into the evening as well until we are sure that the fire has been fully extinguished."
She said asbestos had been found inside the building.
"The direction of the wind has also presented some challenges to the fire-fighting operation," she added.
Several roads have been closed and the fire service advised people to avoid the area, which is close to the city centre.
Western Power Distribution said 25 properties in the area were left without power, but this has now been restored.
Jules Anderson, who lives three doors away from the factory, said she heard a sound like fireworks then went outside and saw flames.
"I immediately dashed back inside, called 999 and then I started banging on my neighbours' doors checking they were all right," she said.
She thinks her home is undamaged, but does not know how soon she and her husband will be able to return there.
Graham Wass, a nearby garage owner, said he panicked when he heard about the fire as he thought it might be at his business.
"Now the concern is for if there's anybody in there," he said.
"As far as we do know they do screen printing on T-shirts and clothing, so I guess there's quite a lot of chemicals in there that's probably making things much worse for the fire guys." | A huge blaze sent a ball of orange flames into the sky over Nottingham, eyewitnesses have said. | 1.244797 | 1 |
The islanders have gone to the Supreme Court to challenge a decision made by the House of Lords in 2008, which dashed hopes of a return home.
Their legal team argues information about a feasibility study was not disclosed before the decision was made.
The court reserved its judgement.
Families were forced to leave the Indian Ocean islands in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for a United States Air Force base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the group of islands.
An Immigration Order preventing anyone from going back was issued in 1971.
Monday's hearing was the latest in a long legal battle over the right of the islanders to return to their homeland.
In 2000, High Court judges ruled that Chagossians could return to 65 of the islands, but not to Diego Garcia.
In 2004, the government used the royal prerogative - exercised by ministers in the Queen's name - to effectively nullify the decision.
Then in 2007, the court overturned that order and rejected the government's argument that the royal prerogative was immune from scrutiny.
However, the following year the government won an appeal, with the House of Lords ruling the exiles could not return.
In the latest hearing the head of the legal team, Edward Fitzgerald QC, told a panel of five Supreme Court justices that the Law Lords' decision in 2008 relied heavily on a 2002 feasibility study into resettlement.
That study concluded the costs of long-term inhabitation of the outer islands would be prohibitive and life there precarious.
It is now clear, Mr Fitzgerald argued, that the non-disclosure of relevant materials meant a Chagossian leader could not properly challenge that study.
He said there were grounds to reopen the case.
"There has been a significant injustice in the earlier proceedings, whether or not there was bad faith," he said. "And there is clearly no alternative remedy."
Judgment was reserved to a later date. | Former Chagos Islands residents forcibly removed from their homeland more than 40 years ago suffered "a significant injustice" in a legal case, the UK's highest court has been told. | 2.026364 | 2 |
The alert on the Brians Well Road has now ended.
PSNI officers have been searching the area since a suspicious object was reported on Saturday evening.
On Sunday, army bomb disposal experts declared the object to be a viable explosive device.
It has now been made safe and has been taken away for forensic examination.
In a statement, Ch Supt Chris Noble said he believed the device was "designed to kill or seriously injure officers serving the local community in west Belfast".
He added: "It was also left in a position where there is every possibility that it could have killed or maimed members of the public.
"Those who left it have shown callous disregard for the safety of the local community and the police officers serving this community. We are extremely fortunate that no one was killed or seriously injured."
Praising the local community for their patience during the operation, Ch Supt Noble said: "The security operation caused significant disruption to the people of the area, but was required in order to keep people safe."
He also condemned the "reckless individuals" who planted the bomb, saying: "The overwhelming number of people in the community do not want this type of activity and we as a police service will continue to work to bring those responsible before the courts.
"We have had officers in the area since yesterday evening. These officers have worked hard to keep people safe during the security operation.
"However, these same officers could have been better used in meeting areas of community concern. Arresting drug dealers, drink drivers or working with victims of domestic abuse, for example." | The PSNI have said an explosive device discovered during a security operation in Poleglass, west Belfast, was "designed to kill or seriously injure police officers". | 1.260713 | 1 |
Rooney scored in United's 3-0 win over Stoke City that allowed under-pressure Van Gaal to enjoy an emphatic win.
It leaves his captain Rooney just five goals behind Old Trafford legend Charlton's record of 249.
"It will be good for him and good for me because when he scores we win," said Van Gaal.
Jesse Lingard and Antony Martial were also on target as United remained just five points behind fourth-placed Arsenal while ending an embarrassing run of 11 home games without a first-half goal.
Van Gaal, who praised the contributions of Juan Mata and Martial in a fine all-round team display, called on United to produce the consistency that will put recent troubles behind them.
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He said: "Mata participated in all three goals and that is what I like to see, but every player has to prove it every week - even my captain Wayne Rooney. He has to do that. Everybody forgets he was substituted against Stoke City on Boxing Day, but it is always the same with me.
"You have to prove it every game and in every training session, and if you do you play. But when Rooney plays like this you cannot say to him 'come to the bench.'"
Jesse Lingard's 14th-minute goal eased Old Trafford tensions - ending the run without a first-half goal stretching over eight hours 40 minutes.
And Van Gaal said: "It was a great performance, not only defensively but in attack. The difference in the first half was that we scored and that made things easier. Michael Carrick said to me that when you score early like that everything goes more easily."
Van Gaal took his first chance to welcome Pep Guardiola, who played under him at Barcelona, after it was revealed he will take over at rivals Manchester City next summer.
"He was my captain at Barcelona so I will be very pleased to see him," said Van Gaal. "I can also speak Spanish which is convenient for him." | Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal hopes Wayne Rooney can keep their season on track by beating Sir Bobby Charlton's all-time club goals record. | 0.939158 | 1 |
The former Sunderland and England player was jailed last month following a trial at Bradford Crown Court.
An official at the court confirmed that Johnson's legal team had lodged an appeal against his sentence.
The 28-year-old has already begun an appeal against his conviction of sexual activity with a 15-year-old.
Johnson admitted grooming the girl and a separate, less serious charge, of sexual activity.
On the Adam Johnson's Appeal Fight Facebook page, run by his sister Faye, a post said: "Adam's appeal against his sentence has now been lodged!"
It added: "Thanks everyone for your support it means a lot! X"
Sentencing the player, Judge Jonathan Rose told him he had abused a position of trust and caused his victim "severe psychological harm".
Johnson began his career at Middlesbrough before moving to Manchester City and then on to Sunderland in 2012. | Footballer Adam Johnson has formally lodged an appeal against his six-year sentence for grooming and sexual activity with a girl aged 15. | 0.812265 | 1 |
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