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The assault in the Kingsmill Road area of Inverness happened at about 17:30 on Thursday and involved a man in his 20s.
The injured man was taken to Raigmore Hospital for treatment to his face. He has been receiving support from police.
Sgt Craig Stuart, of Police Scotland and who is leading the investigation, said incidents "of this nature" were "unheard of" in Inverness.
The man suspected of the attack has been described as being about 6ft tall, of a slim build with "very scruffy" dark - possibly shoulder length - hair.
He was dressed in black trousers, a blue anorak and was carrying a grey rucksack.
He was seen in the Culcabock Road area before crossing over onto Kingsmills Road. The attack happened on a street near Fraser Park.
Sgt Stuart said: "The elderly man involved sustained facial injuries as a result of this incident and was taken to hospital for treatment.
"He was understandably shaken by what happened and we are liaising closely with him to provide support.
"Incidents of this nature are unheard of in the area - and in the city generally - which makes this particularly disappointing.
"I can reassure the local community that all efforts are being made to identify and trace the person responsible."
Police have appealed for witnesses. | An elderly man has been injured in an unprovoked attack on a street in Inverness, Police Scotland has said. | 0.87439 | 1 |
Bobby Storey was one of three senior republicans arrested following the murder of Kevin McGuigan last month.
PSNI assessments that IRA members were involved led to a political crisis.
The men were released unconditionally. Mr Storey's solicitor said the detention was "unjustified" while Mr Adams said he had "grave concerns".
In response to the criticism, a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) spokesperson said anyone who has a complaint about the actions of the police should contact the Office of the Police Ombudsman, the watchdog that holds the PSNI to account.
A member of the Policing Board has also defended the chief constable over the arrest.
Trevor Lunn of the Alliance Party rejected claims of "political policing" and said George Hamilton and his officers were simply doing their jobs.
Mr Storey is a former IRA prisoner who is now chairman of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland.
His solicitor, John Finucane, told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that they would be making a complaint to the Police Ombudsman.
Mr Finucane also repeated his remarks that his client intends to sue the PSNI's Chief Constable George Hamilton for wrongful arrest.
"We are talking about an arrest that is based on non-existent evidence," the lawyer said.
"I sat with my client for 35 hours in Antrim [police station]. We had 11 interviews and at no stage was any evidence produced to connect my client to the offences for which he was arrested for, and I think that raises some very, very serious questions."
Mr Finucane said the murder of Mr McGuigan was a very serious offence and the police were entitled to carry out an investigation.
However, he added: "Arrests must be based on evidence, you can't simply hold somebody for 35 hours without justifying that detention.
"I think the police really need to explain who made the decision to arrest Mr Storey, I think they need to be clear on what basis was that decision made and why was the arrest and detention allowed to proceed for 35 hours," Mr Finucane said. | Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said he wants to meet Northern Ireland's Chief Constable over the arrest of his party's chairman in a murder inquiry. | 1.248555 | 1 |
The woman, who is in her 20s, was in the house in the Craighill area of Antrim when a bin was placed against a door and set alight at about 04:50 BST.
The door and the hallway of the house were damaged in the attack.
Firefighters and police were called to the scene. The woman was treated in hospital for the effects of breathing in smoke.
Det Insp Christopher Millar appealed for anyone with any information to contact detectives. | A woman has been treated in hospital after the house she was in was set on fire in an overnight arson attack. | 0.846671 | 1 |
The letter was sent with council tax bills last year, urging people in the city to back a "No" vote.
Five Labour and two Conservative councillors faced the start of the hearing in February. It was adjourned.
The commission is examining whether the councillors broke the code of conduct.
They include council leader Jenny Laing and her predecessor Barney Crockett.
The letter was sent out to council tax payers in Mr Crockett's name.
It said the city would be stronger now and in the future as part of the UK. | A Standards Commission hearing into a council letter sent to Aberdeen residents ahead of the Scottish independence referendum is set to resume. | 1.102757 | 1 |
The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry is hearing statements and evidence of life at the Haut de la Garenne home.
A witness who was in care at the home said abortions were carried out.
He said it happened several times and claimed they were performed by a nurse when girls became pregnant after being raped by members of staff.
The statement also said the sexual assaults on children by staff were so common, youngsters did not see anything wrong in what was happening at the time.
When he spoke to a member of staff about it, he was told nothing could be done. The member of staff feared getting sacked or even assaulted if he spoke up.
No witnesses appeared on Tuesday but statements given to the police or the historic abuse redress scheme were read out by counsel to the inquiry.
One witness, who cannot be named, said her time at the home "ruined her life".
It was alleged boys and girls were sexually assaulted on a regular basis at the home in the 1960s.
The inquiry also heard about deaths. Several witnesses talked about children taking their own lives.
In one case, it was alleged a boy took his own life soon after spending weeks locked away in solitary confinement in what were called detention rooms.
Others described cellars where physical assaults took place with children forced into cold baths.
The inquiry continues. | Young girls were forced to have abortions after being made pregnant by members of staff at a children's home, an abuse inquiry has heard. | 1.352722 | 1 |
Watson, seeded 16th and ranked 67 places above Vekic at 41st, lost 6-3 4-6 7-5 in two hours and 36 minutes.
The Briton twice led by a break in the final set and had looked on course for victory serving at 4-3, 40-0.
It was only a third win of 2015 for 18-year-old Vekic, who has slipped outside the top 100 from a high of 62 in 2013.
Watson, 22, went into the match with 10 wins and a WTA title to her name this year but dropped serve immediately and could not recover in the opening set.
The Briton's situation was becoming dire by the time Vekic moved 4-2 clear in the second, but the Croat crumbled with three double faults in a single game as she was broken, and then failed to capitalise from 0-40 on the Watson serve.
Watson took advantage to complete a four-game sweep and level at one set all, and then dragged Vekic out of position to break for 2-1 in the decider.
There were more twists to come, however, with Vekic calling for the trainer three times as she suffered with cramp in her foot, only to recover two breaks - the second from 40-0 down - with some fearless hitting.
Watson was faced with serving to force a decisive tie-break but Vekic kept up the attack and broke to love, clinching victory with a backhand winner. | British number one Heather Watson suffered a first-round defeat by Croatia's Donna Vekic at the clay-court Family Circle Cup in Charleston, USA. | 0.827943 | 1 |
The 21-year-old Belgian, the younger brother of Palace record signing Christian, has made one appearance for the Eagles since signing in August.
Palace manager Alan Pardew said the injury news was "disappointing" for both club and player.
Pardew, whose team visit Everton in the Premier League on Friday, said: "His meniscus on his knee is the problem." | Crystal Palace striker Jonathan Benteke has been ruled out for between three and four months with a knee injury. | 0.524472 | 1 |
The Chelsea skipper is alleged to have made racist comments towards Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a league match on 23 October 2011.
A not guilty plea was entered on Mr Terry's behalf at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Wednesday.
He will now stand trial on 9 July, nine days after Euro 2012.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Mr Terry, 31, is accused of a racially-aggravated public order offence.
Following Wednesday's hearing, the footballer's legal team said in a statement: "Mr Terry looks forward to the opportunity to clear his name.
By Dan RoanBBC Sports News Correspondent
The fact that Terry will not stand trial until July means he is now free to lead England into the European Championship, the Football Association, along with Chelsea, having made clear it will not suspend him.
However, it also means these serious charges will hang over him for a further five months.
Terry says he does not wish to talk about the case, but you can be sure he will be asked.
Some will worry about the effect this uncertainty will have over on his performances in the summer and the England team's morale.
"Mr Terry denies making any racist statement and will establish in court that he is not guilty of any such offence.
"Mr Terry has never racially abused another player in his entire career.''
Police questioned Mr Terry under caution in November and a file on the matter was sent to the CPS at the beginning of December.
The decision to charge Mr Terry was taken after police received a complaint from a member of the public after the Premier League match at Loftus Road.
The maximum sentence for the offence is a fine of £2,500.
As a summary offence under the Crime and Disorder Act, it will be fully heard in a magistrates' court. | England football captain John Terry will stand trial for alleged racist abuse in July, after the final of the European Championship in July. | 0.87156 | 1 |
A spokesperson for the bank said: "All customers can now see their accounts online as normal."
Customers trying to use current accounts, savings and loans - but not credit card services - were affected.
Tesco said it had not received "a huge number of calls", although thousands of accounts could have been hit.
Tesco apologised for the inconvenience caused and thanked customers for their patience.
Earlier in the week one customer who contacted the BBC said she had been unable to access her account for two days.
Tesco Bank said it had alerted customers on its website that there was a problem.
However, a spokesman told the BBC that customers could contact its call centres to process any account services while the problems continued.
The bank said: "We are aware that some of our customers are currently unable to view their accounts in online banking. We are working hard to resolve this matter as soon as possible.
"Customers can still continue to use their accounts as normal and can contact us by phone if they need any help with their account. We apologise for the inconvenience and thank customers for their patience" | Tesco's online banking operation has been restored after being hit by a computer fault, with customers unable to view their accounts. | 1.075513 | 1 |
The hosts led at half-time through Ross Batty's try.
Jack Wilson extended their advantage before Cardiff were reduced to 14 men when George Earle was sent off after making contact with an opponent's face.
Aled Brew scored his first try for Bath before Batty intercepted a pass for his second score and Elliott Stooke ran in a late fifth try.
Bath: Tom Homer, Jack Wilson, Jonathan Joseph, Ben Tapuai, Aled Brew, George Ford, Kahn Fotuali'; Nick Auterac, Ross Batty, Max Lahiff, Charlie Ewels, Dave Attwood, Tom Ellis, Francois Louw, Taulupe Faletau
Replacements: Michael van Vuuren, Beno Obano, Shaun Knight, Elliott Stooke, Zach Mercer, Darren Allinson, Adam Hastings, Max Clark
Cardiff Blues: Matthew Morgan; Cory Allen, Rey Lee-Lo, Willis Halaholo, Blaine Scully; Steven Shingler, Lloyd Williams; Rhys Gill, Kirby Myhill, Taufa'ao Filise, George Earle, James Down, Maceuley Cook, Sam Warburton (captain), Josh Navidi.
Replacements: Matthew Rees, Brad Thyer, Scott Andrews, Jarrad Hoeata, Seb Davies, Ellis Jenkins, Tomos Williams, Nicky Robinson. | Bath ended Cardiff Blues' 100% start in the European Rugby Challenge Cup with a comfortable win at The Rec. | 0.575372 | 1 |
Russian Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has been sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in jail. His accomplice, Algerian Hamza Bendelladj, will serve 15 years.
They created the SpyEye virus package that is believed to have infected more than 50 million computers.
The sophisticated malware could steal sensitive data or let hackers use infected machines to send spam.
The pair used SpyEye themselves but also offered it as a malware "kit" to anyone willing to pay for it, said the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The most sophisticated version of SpyEye cost about $10,000.
Once large numbers of PCs were infected with SpyEye, the pair ran tools that siphoned off cash and also helped the malware spread further.
Cleaning up the damage caused by SpyEye from 2010 to 2012 is believed to have cost banks around the world more than $1bn, said the DoJ.
"It is difficult to overstate the significance of this case, not only in terms of bringing two prolific computer hackers to justice, but also in disrupting and preventing immeasurable financial losses to individuals and the financial industry around the world," said US attorney John Horn in a statement.
"The sentences that were imposed reflect the magnitude of the harm," said Mr Horn.
Panin, known as "Gribodemon" and "Harderman" online, pleaded guilty to bank and wire fraud charges in January 2014 after reaching a deal with prosecutors.
"I want everyone in this courtroom to understand my actions were inexcusable and inexplicable," said Panin at the sentencing hearing. Panin was arrested in 2013 as he passed through Atlanta, Georgia on an international flight.
Bendelladj, known as Bx1 online, also pleaded guilty but has not reached a deal with prosecutors. His lawyer said he planned to appeal.
Bendelladj was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand in early 2013 while changing planes and was extradited to the US shortly afterwards.
Tackling SpyEye helped law enforcement officers shut down a notorious malware marketplace called Darkode.com, said prosecutor Steven Grimberg.
Panin and Bendelladj were "legends" in the criminal underworld, said Mr Grimberg, adding that the sentences would send a message to other cybercriminals. | Computer hackers who created malware that stole about $100m (£70m) have been given long jail sentences in the US. | 1.64836 | 2 |
Police said the 43-year-old man was subjected to a "brutal" attack at Century Mill in Farnworth, Bolton, at about 12:00 BST on 9 June.
He died four days later in hospital.
Kathryn Colgan, 24, William Coughlan, 25, and Alex Colgan, 28, of Ramsay Avenue, Farnworth, and Ellis Hampson, 19, of Oakfield Drive, Little Hulton, have all been charged with murder.
The four appeared before Manchester Crown Court and were bailed to return on 11 August.
A 16-year-old boy who was also arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed pending further investigation. | Four people have been charged with murder over the death of a man who was attacked at a former mill. | 0.694911 | 1 |
The stadium was one of the targets in the November 2015 attacks on Paris that left 130 people dead.
France, who were playing Germany when the attacks took place, return to the stadium to face Russia on 29 March.
"No one can forget what happened, but there's no need to talk about it," said former Chelsea midfielder Deschamps.
"We lived very emotional moments, all together. Now we must move forward. All safety measures will be taken."
The France and Germany squads both slept at the stadium after the 13 November attacks, with the sound of explosions outside clearly audible inside the ground during the game.
The 81,338-capacity Stade de France has staged Six Nations rugby union matches - including Saturday's game when England claimed the Grand Slam - since the attacks.
France will host Euro 2016 between 10 June and 10 July, with the Stade de France the venue for the opening match of the tournament between France and Romania.
France are away to the Netherlands on Friday before hosting Russia on Tuesday. Paris. | France manager Didier Deschamps says the team must "move forward" as they prepare to make an emotional return to the Stade de France. | 1.359544 | 1 |
Male escort Michael Brennan, 24, was told he would serve at least 22 years for stabbing Paul Simons, 54, to death in Chelmsford in December 2013.
In November his conviction was reduced to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility.
Court of Appeal judges agreed he was not a danger to the public and reduced his sentence to 15 years on Wednesday.
During his trial, Chelmsford Crown Court heard the body of Mr Simons, from Bushey in Hertfordshire, was found at a flat in Moulsham Street in the early hours of 4 May 2013.
Brennan, who was described as having a complex multiple personality disorder, had written a plan to kill Mr Simons, which police found on a laptop.
It described how he would stab his victim before fleeing to hide in the countryside.
Overturning his conviction for murder last year, Court of Appeal judges heard Brennan had previously been admitted to the Linden Centre mental health unit in Chelmsford.
At a re-sentencing hearing, psychiatrist Dr Gillian Mezey told the court his mental state had greatly improved since he underwent treatment in prison, and that he had shown "genuine remorse" for Mr Simons and his family.
She estimated that, with continued treatment, he would be free of his personality disorder in about five years.
"Provided he has a network of support, ongoing treatment, and monitoring, I would consider his risk to be low," she said.
Her views were supported by another psychiatrist.
Prosecution lawyers remained convinced Brennan did pose a risk to the public, however, judges disagreed.
"We have come to the conclusion that we cannot properly, on the evidence available, style the offender as dangerous, whatever the position may have been in 2013," Lord Justice Davis said.
The 15-year sentence "reflected the gravity someone has died", he added. | A man initially jailed for life for murdering an antiques dealer has had his sentence reduced. | 0.874532 | 1 |
The move, which is part of a plan to curb illegal hunts for rhino horn, was announced by the environment minister.
Park authorities said they could relocate up to 500 rhinos, which can each weigh more than a tonne.
South Africa is home to more than 80% of Africa's rhinos. Illegal poaching has risen sharply from 13 in 2007 to 1,004 in 2013.
Environment Minister Edna Molewa said the relocations from the Kruger National Park, coupled with the creation of "rhino strongholds", could "allow the total rhino population size of South Africa to continue to grow."
"South Africa, with its large rhino populations, has borne the brunt of rhino poaching. We remain confident that our efforts in implementing the integrated strategic approach will build on our successful track record of conserving rhino," she said.
The rhinos may be moved to other areas of lower poaching rates such as state-owned or private nature parks, areas within the Kruger Park closer to the Mozambique border, or even to neighbouring countries, according to the minister.
The new initiative will be supported by the South African government's Security Cluster to work on tougher penalties for those caught hunting rhinos illegally.
The famed Kruger National Park, which is of a similar size to Wales or Israel, is thought to be home to as few as 8,400 white rhinos.
Park authorities said Kruger was the biggest target for poaching in the region, with more rhinos killed there each year than anywhere else in South Africa.
Although international trade in rhino horn has been illegal since 1977, demand remains high in some Asian countries, where it is used both in traditional medicine and as a symbol of wealth. | Hundreds of rhinos are to be evacuated from South Africa's Kruger National Park to save them from poachers. | 3.00142 | 3 |
The woman, who admits child abduction, took the girl, then aged eight, from her home in Devon and out of the UK in October 2013.
Exeter Crown Court heard the girl, now aged 11, is in foster care in a location unknown to her parents.
The woman was due to be sentenced but Judge Graham Cottle said he needed more details on the "unusual case".
The 40-year-old mother, who cannot be named, took her daughter after a family court ordered her to grant the father access, the court heard.
She said she had "lobbied the family court nine times" from abroad to say she wanted to be involved in the child proceedings and said the court made "no attempt" to contact her by email or telephone.
Judge Cottle said he needed more information on what efforts she had made to contact the UK authorities before he sentenced her for child abduction.
"If she disappeared with the child, that's one thing, if she initiated contact that is another. It is quite important information," he said.
The court heard the father had wanted more contact with his daughter, who was born when her parents relationship broke down in 2005.
But the mother was "obstructive" and had defied 23 court orders over the years.
Prosecutor Bathsheba Cassell said the mother took out £30,000 in loans six weeks before she boarded a plane to Dubai and then flew on to Vietnam and Cambodia.
She was extradited in July after two UK police officers flew to Cambodia to bring her back.
The woman has been remanded in custody until 25 August. | A mother borrowed £30,000 before taking her daughter to Cambodia for more than two years, a court has heard. | 0.873121 | 1 |
She had returned from school to eat lunch on Monday when a powerful earthquake shook the house.
Scared, she ran for safety, but was hit by a falling wall and buried under debris.
She was rushed to a hospital in the provincial capital Peshawar with severe injuries. She was finding it difficult to breathe.
Her uncle Abdul Qadeer managed to get her to the Lady Reading Hospital, the city's biggest, within two hours. But she did not have that much time.
Despite last-ditch efforts by doctors, her breathing never recovered and when I met the family, she was being moved to a coffin for her final journey home.
The hospital, which also treats the victims of terrorist attacks, was flooded with over a hundred injured people from Peshawar and elsewhere.
The deputy superintendent of the hospital, Dr Arif, told me that six of the wounded were in critical condition and that they had heard that more patients were on their way to the hospital from far-flung areas.
Two children arrived from the city of Mardan and the tribal region of Bajaur. They were both around three or four years old.
One of them was bleeding from his nose and mouth, his eyes dark and swollen. When his heavy breathing suddenly fell silent, doctors rushed him to a different ward.
The assembled crowd tried to calm two crying women who had come to collect the body of a young man, telling them it was God's will. Both covered their faces and kept moaning.
A representative from Swat district - badly hit by the quake - told media that the main hospital in the town of Saidu Sharif did not have electricity to run X-ray machines and other much needed equipment.
"Some people arranged a generator but then the officials did not have the money to get fuel for it. This is the state of our preparedness," she said in anger. | Marwa was an eighth-grade student in Dargai, a town in the Malakand region of north-west Pakistan. | 1.45378 | 1 |
Police in Goa originally concluded Denyse Sweeney, 34, from Derby, overdosed on drugs when she collapsed outside a bar in 2010.
A UK inquest ruled out drugs and India's Central Bureau of Investigation has now said she died from fluid on the brain, with no evidence of violence.
Her sister said she is furious and there is clear evidence of murder.
Denyse was on her second visit to the area when a friend found her near the toilets of the bar in a distressed state.
She was talking incoherently and then collapsed.
Another man, apparently local, was also seen at the time but has never come forward.
Once the UK inquest in 2012 disproved the drug theory and showed she had died from an injury to her head, her family pushed for another investigation.
In January 2016, the CBI began its own inquiry but has now filed a report to close the case.
Nandkumar Nair, the head of CBI's special branch in Mumbai, told reporters the cause of death was cerebral pulmonary oedema, an accumulation of fluid in brain and lungs.
He said there was no evidence of assault or homicide, no eyewitness or circumstantial evidence of any attack and medical opinion pointed to an accident.
But Ms Sweeney's sister Maureen said: "I know she was murdered she was hit over the head with a rock or a boulder. We knew this from day one. We were told by tourists, by her friends... we've had various reports from the police. Yes it did happen, no it didn't happen. We are just getting conflicting stories all over the place."
She added: "I'm furious because they've clearly ignored information, evidence...for them to say that there's no evidence and actually they're still saying she's died because she was drunk.
"We've proven time and time again she had no drugs in her system and alcohol was included [in that]."
The news four comes days after Goa Children's Court in Panaji cleared two men of charges around the death of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa in February 2008. | The family of a British woman who died in India said investigators "ignored evidence" when ruling out murder. | 1.290212 | 1 |
The firm launched its campaign last November, but has so far been unable to reunite a single toy with its owner.
There are currently more than 40 soft toys in its lost property.
A spokesman said some would be donated to charity if not claimed within the next three months.
The toys were all found travelling on the First Great Western network, which covers the Thames Valley, Hampshire, London, Dorset, Sussex, Wiltshire, Somerset, Avon, Gloucestershire, Hereford, Worcestershire, Devon, Cornwall and South Wales.
A spokesman for the firm said it receives about 15 lost toys every three months.
As well as bears, he said there was a "huge range" of different cuddly animals including monkeys, rabbits, a hedgehog, penguin and lion.
He said toys found towards the start of the campaign would be washed and sent to children's charities if they remained unclaimed in November.
The train company, which originally hoped to return the toys to their owners in time for Christmas, had used mug shots of the toys on its website and posters but has now also photographed some against a beach backdrop for summer.
The train company's website enables people to submit a search for a teddy, even if they are unable to remember exactly where it was lost. | Unclaimed teddy bears found on First Great Western trains are be donated to children's charities following an unsuccessful campaign to reunite them with their owners. | 1.040857 | 1 |
Beavers, an invasive exotic species, were introduced to the area in 1946 to offer locals work in the fur trade.
With no natural predators, the beavers have reproduced rapidly and are a threat to the native forest, environmentalists say.
The plan is to eradicate the North American beaver completely from the archipelago, local officials say.
According to the officials, the beaver situation is "totally out of control" in Tierra del Fuego, where the rodents have destroyed an area double the size of the city of Buenos Aires.
Adrian Schiavini, who heads the National Strategy for Invasive Exotic Species, told Argentine radio that "humane traps" would be used to cull the animals "quickly and effectively".
Mr Schiavini said the species had caused huge damage to Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of Argentina, by building dams in its unique river system.
Biologists say that whereas some North American trees can grow back after being damaged by beavers, South American trees tend to die off after being gnawed by the rodents.
The dams they build moreover create bogs in which many native trees are unable to grow. Dams built by beavers can reach a length of 100m (328ft).
Mr Schiavini said the plan was to bring in experts in beaver hunting from North America.
"The idea is to train a group of hunters and then choose the best from this group and put them to work in seven pilot areas on Isla Grande in Tierra del Fuego."
He said he hoped that after four years, the authorities would be able to significantly step up the speed of the cull. | The authorities in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego are planning to cull 100,000 beavers. | 3.258591 | 3 |
Derek Phillips, from Malvern, was woken by a "throbbing pain" in his left index finger and spent five days in Worcester Hospital - including a spell in the isolation ward.
Doctors said the 82-year-old was bitten by a venomous spider, but non-poisonous bites can get infected, experts said.
"I would love them to take it off, it's so damn painful," said Mr Phillips.
He is due to have surgery at Kidderminster Hospital on Monday.
"I think they were hoping the top of the finger was going to drop off on its own but it's gone on long enough," his wife Pam said.
Mr Phillips said he first had surgery soon after the bite seven weeks ago.
Hear Mr Phillips' story on BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester
"There was a great big gash that was oozing horrible stuff.
"They said it was some kind of widow spider which have become more prevalent - because we've had such mild winters they are not getting killed off."
Nigel Cane-Honeysett, head of the Shropshire spider group said: "There aren't any spiders that are native to this country that cause that kind of injury.
"It could be a foreign spider, which would be unusual, or a bite from a non-venomous spider could have become infected.
"There's been a lot of stories about the false widow spider but this does not cause a corrosive injury." | A man who was bitten by a spider as he slept is to have part of his finger amputated. | 1.858971 | 2 |
Sadiq Khan said Lord Toby Harris of Haringey would review the "capability, capacity and collaboration arrangements of every London agency".
Lord Harris, a former Met Police Authority chair and member of the joint committee on the National Security Strategy, said the review was "timely".
He will report his findings in summer.
Lord Harris said there was a "developing threat picture" and he would look at whether current arrangements could be "even more robust".
Mr Khan said Lord Harris would report on "what more could be done to ensure Londoners are kept safe".
The strategic review was one of his main manifesto promises. | The Mayor of London has appointed a security expert to assess how well the capital would cope with a major terror attack. | 0.785762 | 1 |
Sherri Lynn Wilkins, 55, pleaded no contest to the 2012 hit-and-run murder and was sentenced to 25 years by a California judge.
Wilkins only stopped when bystanders confronted her at a traffic light about the half-naked body on her bonnet.
The victim, 31-year-old Phillip Moreno, was pronounced dead in hospital.
"After the collision, [Wilkins] drove several miles with Moreno stuck on or in her windshield," a judge ruled earlier this month.
"She did not stop. She did not call 911. Meanwhile, Moreno was in the process of bleeding to death on the hood of her car."
Prosecutors argued that Wilkins had failed to help Mr Moreno, and swerved her car to try to dislodge his body from her vehicle.
Wilkins admitted to drinking three shots of vodka and one beer inside her car before driving home that night through Torrance, in the greater Los Angeles area.
During her trial Wilkins claimed that Mr Moreno had seemed to jump in front of her car.
The victim's family have sued the rehabilitation centre that employed Wilkins, claiming that she had been obviously intoxicated while leading therapy sessions.
In a written statement the Twin Town Treatment Center said that the company "had no cause to intrude or challenge her recovery".
Chief executive David Lisonbee wrote that Wilkins had not been working on the day of the crash, and had not told company management she had been relapsing.
Police said that her blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit at the time of her arrest. | A former substance abuse counsellor who drove while drunk for two miles (3.3km) with a pedestrian's body embedded in her windscreen has been jailed. | 0.921734 | 1 |
Schafer led Cameroon to the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations title, while former Nigeria coach Siasia guided his country to Olympic football bronze last year.
Belgian Paul Put, who took Burkina Faso to the 2013 Nations Cup final, and Georges Leekens, who quit as Algeria coach last month, are also on the list.
The Rwandan Football Federation cut its choices down from 52 applicants.
Also making the interview stage are four European coaches who have managed in Africa: Portuguese Jose Rui Lopes Aguas, Swiss Raoul Savoy, Englishman Peter James Butler and German Antoine Hey.
Rwanda have been without a permanent coach since Northern Irishman Jonny McKinstry was sacked in August last year. | Samson Siasia and Winfried Schafer are top of an eight-man shortlist for the vacant Rwanda coach post. | 0.934105 | 1 |
Mr Hamilton defeated UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill in a vote of the party's seven newly-elected AMs on Tuesday.
Newport branch chairman James Peterson told BBC Wales Mr Hamilton's victory could take the party "backwards".
Mr Hamilton said the party had been going backwards, but he will "create the momentum to push it forward".
UKIP's Islwyn candidate Joe Smyth said the former Tory MP "ticks all the boxes for being a leader".
Mr Gill remains leader of the party in Wales, having been appointed by Nigel Farage in 2014.
Deep divisions have been exposed within UKIP Wales since its AMs met to elect their group leader.
One senior party member said he "can't see Mr Hamilton uniting the party". Another said he was "making enemies".
Mr Peterson told Sunday Politics Wales the result of Tuesday's vote meant those voters who backed the party at the election had been "misled".
"I think it's reasonable for people to have presumed Nathan Gill would be in charge and I think that's what people went out and voted for," he said.
Other members welcomed Mr Hamilton's election, accusing Mr Gill of being "weak".
Mr Smyth said: "I think it's a very good thing for UKIP having Neil elected as the group leader.
"As a person he's a true gentlemen, he brings a wealth of experience and knowledge and in my books he ticks all the boxes for being a leader." | UKIP's electoral success in Wales could be "undone" by Neil Hamilton becoming leader of the party's assembly group, a UKIP branch chairman has said. | 0.816991 | 1 |
They say he asked for a nugget in a McDonald's fast food outlet in Harlem on Tuesday.
When she refused, he is then alleged to have followed her to a nearby subway station and held the gun to her head.
She pushed the gun away and boarded the train, and he was later taken into custody, police say.
The New York Police Department says the gun has not been found, and it remains unclear whether it was real or a replica.
They say the boy was released on Thursday, and the case has been referred to the family courts. | A 12-year-old boy is accused of pulling a gun on a girl and demanding one of her chicken nuggets, New York police say. | 0.553216 | 1 |
"What is happening in front of our eyes in Italy is an unfolding tragedy," Filippo Grandi said.
"This cannot be an Italian problem alone," he added.
Italy has threatened to stop vessels of other countries from bringing migrants to its ports, as it warned the EU the situation was unsustainable.
On Thursday, the European Union's migration commissioner, Dimitris Avramopoulos, promised more financial support for Italy, and urged member states to demonstrate greater solidarity.
The interior ministers of France, Germany and Italy are due to discuss the issue at a meeting in Paris on Sunday.
Mr Grandi, who is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said 12,600 migrants and refugees had arrived in Italy last weekend alone.
In total, he said, 83,650 people have reached Italy by sea since the beginning of the year - a 20% increase on the same period in 2016.
An estimated 2,030 have lost their lives in the Mediterranean this year.
The vast majority of migrants making their way to Italy across the Mediterranean set off from Libya.
Libya is a gateway to Europe for migrants from across sub-Saharan Africa and also from the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, Syria and Bangladesh. Many are fleeing war, poverty or persecution.
The UNHCR said that among the arrivals in Italy there was an alarmingly high rate of unaccompanied children or victims of sexual or gender-based violence.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants. | Italy needs more support as it deals with large numbers of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Africa, the UN's refugee agency has said. | 2.188751 | 2 |
27 November 2015 Last updated at 13:22 GMT
The elite soldiers of the Galactic Empire swapped enforcing the New Order to try out the waves in a drizzly Gloucestershire.
It is thought key scenes from the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens were filmed in nearby Puzzlewood, in the Forest of Dean.
The Wye Valley and Forest of Dean Tourism Association seized the link to invite the "stormtroopers" to advertise its new television and movie trail.
The area has also starred in dozens of productions from Dr Who and The Huntsman to Harry Potter.
"We thought it would be fun to swap the Death Star for surfboards and see if the soldiers of the Galactic Empire could ride the waves," said Mark Terry-Lush, association director.
"It was the last big bore of the season and it was a decent bore - so we were really lucky."
A bore is a surge wave caused by the incoming tide being funnelled up the narrowing estuary.
The association's TV and Movie Trail website is due go live on 16 December. | Star Wars stormtroopers have been spotted surfing the last big bore of the year on the River Severn. | 1.072655 | 1 |
It has been presented by club sponsors and management consultants, Steuer Gregsson Limited, and will be heard in Manchester on 29 October.
The Reds have appealed throughout the season for fresh investment, following their move to the Salford City Stadium at the start of the year.
Salford have said the matter is "over a small amount of money".
On their Facebook page, they commented: "It is being dealt with. The club have brought people in to sort it out and it will be."
Salford have been forced to reject several claims throughout the past year that they have been
An outstanding five-figure tax bill, owed to Revenue & Customs, was paid in April.
Salford City Reds hoped to attract attendances of around 8,000 to home fixtures in 2012 - their final average gate was just under 5,500
Earlier in the month, they had with the Sharks playing their first competitive fixture there in August.
Before moving from their former home at the Willows to their new £26m stadium in Barton at the start of the season, the Reds had stated that they needed to average around 8,000 fans for every home match at the Salford City Stadium.
However they fell 2,500 short of that figure on average for their 12 home games in Super League, as well as the final match of the season, which was played at Leigh Sports Village because of a
In his final programme notes of the season, following the fixture mix-up, Reds chairman John Wilkinson said everyone at the club would begin a "relentless" pursuit of success.
"It is vitally important to the club and the city that it's only standard bearer has a solid base in Salford," he said in September.
"We cannot become nomads, as this has fatally wounded other once great rugby league clubs.
"It will not happen to Salford City Reds, not on my watch.
"It is fair to say that this whole season has been something of a trial for staff, players and board alike.
"My promise is that we will be better, we will work smarter and we will bring reward and satisfaction to you all [the fans]. That process begins now. Not tomorrow, not next week - right now - and it will be relentless.
"Actions will speak louder than words here, and is our intent that our actions will grow to become deafening over the next few months and years." | Super League club Salford City Reds are the subject of a winding-up petition, BBC Radio Manchester has learned. | 0.772943 | 1 |
Panthers have lost their last five domestic matches and the 35-year-old has replaced Petr Kalus on the roster.
Kudroc, who will make his debut on Friday against Coventry, told BBC Radio Nottingham: "We can turn it around.
"There have been some injuries at the club, and there are good players to come back into the line-up."
The defenceman, who was a first-round draft pick for New York Rangers in 1999 and played in the NHL for Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers, believes he has made the right choice to come to Nottingham.
"It's a nice arena and a good set-up, so I am really happy," added Kudroc, who began this season in Austria with Innsbruck.
"I hear it is a good league and Corey (Neilson) was keen to sign me - I'm keen to win something here." | Nottingham Panthers new Slovakian defenceman Kristian Kudroc says he has seen enough in training to believe the club can turn around their poor form. | 0.841465 | 1 |
23 December 2014 Last updated at 11:15 GMT
All age groups applied for the competition, which has been taking place for 20 years.
Building gingerbread houses is a popular Christmas tradition in the Scandinavian country.
The winning design of a gasometer took more than 30 hours to make.
Take a look at some of the entries! | A Swedish Christmas competition to build a gingerbread house attracted over 130 entries at the weekend. | 1.131698 | 1 |
Police say the attack happened at Hillmount Park in the early hours of Thursday.
Damage was caused to the front door and window of the property.
A man living at the house was not injured in the incident. | Two shots have been fired at the front door of a house in Tobermore, County Londonderry. | 0.310204 | 0 |
The hospital said there was flooding in the resuscitation and assessment area and ambulances were being diverted.
A spokesman said capacity was "severely affected" and patients were being asked to use alternatives such their GP or NHS Direct.
He said the flooding was caused by a leak from a hot water pipe. No one has been injured, he added. | Part of the accident and emergency department at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has been flooded. | 1.056469 | 1 |
Sherratt worked with Blues head coach Danny Wilson at Bristol.
"I'm thrilled to be able to take the opportunity to work at Cardiff Blues and alongside Danny once again," said Sherratt.
Paul John will take on the role of skills coach while he studies for a master's degree, and Graham Steadman will continue as defence coach.
Steadman will be assisted by Richard Hodges.
Sherratt joined Bristol's coaching staff in 2011 having previously worked with Worcester.
"I'm delighted that Matt Sherratt will join us," said Wilson.
"I worked closely with him at Bristol and he always impressed me with his attention to detail and we share a similar coaching philosophy and view of the game." | Bristol's Matt Sherratt will join Cardiff Blues as attack and backs coach at the end of the season. | 0.673076 | 1 |
Threats to "kill as many people as possible" at Montgomery High School in Bispham were posted on Facebook last weekend.
Police dismissed the threat as "not credible" and while the school opened as normal, most pupils did not attend.
A 54-year-old man from Blackpool has been arrested on suspicion of public nuisance and malicious communication.
The school said more than 1,000 of its 1,375 pupils did not attend on Monday, but every staff member attended, School Principal Tony Nicholson said.
Police officers patrolled outside the school for "reassurance".
Detectives asked anyone with information to contact them or Crimestoppers. | A man has been arrested in connection with threats made against school pupils in Blackpool, Lancashire Police said. | 1.176057 | 1 |
Hygiene concerns about Cats, Cakes and Coffee were raised shortly after it opened in Leicester in August.
A hygiene rating of one means "major improvement necessary".
But owner Lisa Rivers insisted she was only given the low rating because of a paperwork problem, and closed the cafe due to her own ill health.
"The cats are all back at their home, and happy and healthy," said Ms Rivers.
"The rating of one was given purely because I didn't have the paperwork on the premises on the day the environmental health visited."
Leicester City Council, which inspected the cafe, received several reports from concerned members of the public.
Dominic Shellard, vice chancellor of De Montfort University in Leicester, tweeted that he was "very disturbed" when he visited the cafe describing an "overpowering smell of cat faeces".
But Ms Rivers insisted the cafe was hygienic and the cats were happy.
The charity Cats Protection has concerns about cat cafes, and said there are "welfare implications of having a number of cats in a limited space with groups of people unknown to them coming and going throughout the day".
The world's first cat cafe is thought to have opened in Taiwan in 1998, and the concept then became popular in Japan.
The idea has spread around the world in recent years, with cat cafes in Paris and London attracting long waiting lists. | A cat cafe offering animal lovers the chance to "snuggle" pets while having a snack has closed down after receiving a food hygiene rating of just one. | 1.41547 | 1 |
More than 90% of the islanders are ethnic Melanesians, but there has been intense and bitter rivalry between the Isatabus on Guadalcanal, the largest island, and migrant Malaitans from the neighbouring island.
Fighting broke out in 1998 when the Isatabu Freedom Movement began to force Malaitans out, accusing them of taking land and jobs. Around 20,000 people abandoned their homes, with many subsequently leaving Guadalcanal.
Country profiles compiled by BBC Monitoring
A rival militia group, the Malaitan Eagle Force, staged a coup in June 2000 and forced the then prime minister to resign, saying he had failed to deal with the crisis, which had left up to 100 dead.
An Australian-brokered peace deal was signed in October 2000. But lawlessness continued and an Australian-led peacekeeping force arrived in July 2003.
The force arrested many rebel commanders, collected thousands of illegally-held weapons and oversaw a slow return to order. The military contingent withdrew in 2013 leaving solely a policing mission.
The Australian intervention also provided for the appointment of foreign nationals to government posts and included financial assistance; Australia says it aims to make the country self-sustaining.
Prosperity remains elusive. Civil war left the country almost bankrupt, and post-election riots in April 2006 sent some of the advances made since 2003 up in smoke.
The World Bank says the Solomon Islands, one of the Pacific's poorest countries, has been hit by successive global food, fuel and financial crises. In 2009, with a fall in log exports and a major drop in international commodity prices, growth fell to just one percent.
Economic hopes have been pinned on the resumption of palm oil production and gold mining.
The Solomon Islands chain consists of several large volcanic islands to the south-east of Papua New Guinea, as well as outlying islands and atolls. The terrain is mountainous and heavily forested.
During World War II the island of Guadalcanal saw some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific theatre as the US battled to wrest control of the territory from Japanese occupiers. | The Solomon Islands, a former British protectorate in the Pacific, is striving to recover from a civil conflict that brought it to the brink of collapse. | 2.841256 | 3 |
Dainius Dobrovolskis was found by ambulance staff at the property on Stephenson Street on Monday.
Police said a post-mortem examination confirmed the 41 year old had died as a result of the head injury.
Baiba Andersone, 35, of Stephenson Street, is due to appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court later.
More on this and other local stories from across West Yorkshire | A woman has been charged with the murder of a man who died after suffering a head injury at a house in Bradford. | 0.412526 | 0 |
The BMC rider was one of four who raced away on a bitterly cold stage shortened to 136.5km owing to snow at the start.
Ben Swift, formerly of Team Sky and now riding with UAE Team Emirates, was the highest-placed Briton in fifth.
Fabio Felline kept the overall lead, while Chris Froome finished 77th to remain 29 seconds off the pace.
Alex Dowsett of Movistar, who also finished among the main bunch in 48th, described conditions as "very unpleasant", while 24-year-old Quick-Step rider Bob Jungels tweeted it was "the coldest day on a bike so far for me".
The six-day, five-stage race in Switzerland is an early indicator of form before July's Tour de France, which Team Sky rider Froome will be bidding to win for a fourth time - and the third in succession.
Friday's third stage is a 187km ride starting and finishing in Payerne that includes four category-three climbs.
Tour de Romandie stage two result:
1. Stefan Kung (Swi/BMC) 3hrs 33mins 15secs
2. Andriy Grivko (Ukr/Astana) Same time
3. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita/Bahrain) +20secs
4. Alexander Edmondson (Aus/Orica) Same time
5. Ben Swift (GB/UAE Team Emirates)
6. Fabio Felline (Ita/Trek)
7. Tosh Van der Sande (Bel/Lotto)
8. Jarlinson Pantano (Col/Trek)
9. Diego Ulissi (Ita/UAE Team Emirates)
10. Maximiliano Richeze (Arg/Quick-Step)
Overall classification after stage two:
1. Fabio Felline (Ita/Trek) 8hrs 12mins 42secs
2. Maximilian Schachmann (Ger/Quick-Step) +8secs
3. Jesus Herrada (Spa/Movistar) Same time
4. Primoz Roglic (Svn/LottoNL) +9secs
5. Ion Izagirre (Spa/Bahrain) +12secs
6. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step) Same time
7. Jose Goncalves (Por/Katusha) +13secs
8. Ruben Fernandez (Spa/Movistar) Same time
9. Michael Albasini (Swi/Orica) +14secs
10. Jonathan Castroviejo (Spa/Movistar) Same time
Selected others:
16. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +18secs
39. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +29secs
56. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) +53secs
80 Alex Dowsett (GB/Team Sky) +4mins 59secs
102 Ben Swift (Gb)/UAE Team Emirates +9mins 34secs | Switzerland's Stefan Kung won the second stage of the Tour de Romandie after beating breakaway companion Andriy Grivko in a sprint finish. | 0.891198 | 1 |
The Dadaab camp in Kenya is home to more than 300,000 Somalis.
Mr Nkaisserry said Kenya would work closely with the UN and the Somali government to repatriate the refugees.
Dadaab was set up in 1991 to house families fleeing conflict in Somalia, and some people have been living there for more than 20 years.
Kenya says it wants to close the camp over security concerns, saying attacks on its soil have been planned there.
Mr Nkaisserry said the decision was final.
Kenya did not follow through on a previous threat to close down the camp, made last April following the deadly attack by Somali militant group al-Shabab on a university 100km (62 miles) away.
The al-Qaeda linked group has staged several attacks on Kenya in recent years.
Kenya has set aside $10m (£6.8m) for repatriation, which Mr Nkaisserry insisted would carried out in a humane manner. | The world's largest refugee camp will close in November, Kenya's Interior Minister Joseph Nkaisserry has announced. | 2.023627 | 2 |
The Halley VI is a British Antarctic Survey research station which is based at the Brunt Ice Shelf, in Antarctica.
It's home to a team of scientists, engineers and a colony of penguins!
However, two large cracks have appeared in the ice, which could potentially cut off the research centre if it breaks away from the main island.
So in 2015, the scientists at the station decided to move it 23 kilometres further inland to stop this from happening.
The research station is made up of eight large pods (like giant train carriages) which sit on skis. These pods can be separated and moved using special heavy vehicles.
The last pod is currently being moved to the new location, and the BAS think it will be completed before March. | A huge crack in the ice near an important scientific research station is forcing it to move to a new location. | 2.305999 | 2 |
Sandwell Council has started removing aluminium panelling from blocks in Oldbury and West Bromwich.
Experts say the panels failed buildings regulations' combustion tests, but the council insisted residents were safe.
Fire safety in tower blocks is being tested across the country in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, in which 79 people died.
The cladding on the flats is not made from the same material as the panelling and will not need to be removed.
Why do England's high-rises keep failing safety tests?
The blocks affected are Astbury Court and Lawrence Court in Oldbury and Neale House and Macauley House in West Bromwich.
Works to remove the panelling will be completed by the end of next week will have "no impact on residents", Sandwell Council leader Steve Ealing has said.
The authority are required to test all aluminium or ACM panels or cladding in the borough but said it was not testing all tower blocks.
Jan Britton, chief executive of Sandwell Council, said: "While the panels comply with current building regulations, in light of the test results and recent events we are taking this action because the safety of our residents always comes first."
Councillor Kerrie Carmichael, Sandwell's cabinet member for housing, reassured residents they are "safe to remain in their buildings while we carry out work to remove the panels in question".
She added: "The main cladding on these four blocks is not the same as that used at Grenfell Tower nor is it made of aluminium composite like the panelling we're having to remove." | Panels from balconies and windows are being removed from four tower blocks after they failed fire safety tests. | 2.211747 | 2 |
Sir David Clementi, who led the independent review, said there was a need for "fundamental reform".
The BBC is currently regulated by the trust, its executive board and Ofcom.
In response, the BBC Trust said it was important to "get the details right" on any changes.
Sir David, former chairman of Prudential, and previously a deputy governor of the Bank of England, said there should be a "fundamental reform of the system of governance and regulation" for the BBC.
"The BBC Trust model is flawed. It conflates governance and regulatory functions within the Trust. The BBC should have a unitary Board charged with responsibility for meeting the obligations placed on it under the Royal Charter and Agreement, and responsibility for the interests of Licence Fee payers.
"Regulatory oversight should pass wholly to Ofcom, which is already the public service regulator for the UK's broadcasting industry and has the ability to look at the BBC in the context of the market as a whole. Ofcom would be a strong regulator to match a strong BBC."
He added that the BBC should have a "unitary board made up with a majority of non-executive directors" with "responsibility for meeting the obligations placed on it under the Royal Charter and Agreement, and for the interests of licence fee payers".
The report, commissioned by the Government as part of the BBC Charter Review process, also recommends the imposition of "operating licences", which set out the BBC's obligations to its audiences, and a system where the BBC "handles complaints in the first instance with Ofcom handling appeals on editorial issues".
A further recommendation would see the BBC's Charter place on the corporation a "duty to consult with the public both as consumers and as licence fee payers".
In response to the report, BBC Trust chair Rona Fairhead said: "Sir David Clementi proposes a strong BBC board and a strong external regulator - a change we have argued for.
"It will be important to get the details right, and we now want to work with the Government to ensure roles are clear, the structure is effective and the BBC's independence protected." | The BBC Trust is "flawed" and should be scrapped, with governance of the corporation moving to the media watchdog Ofcom, a report has concluded. | 1.620759 | 2 |
Christina Sethi, 26, of Woodville Road, Torquay, Devon, was jailed at Plymouth Crown Court for 10 years in August.
But after a reference to the Court of Appeal, three senior judges have increased the term to 15 years.
Sethi admitted three counts of sexual assault and two of assault by penetration in July.
Lady Justice Hallett said 15 years was the absolute minimum Sethi should have been given for such serious offences.
Barrister Diana Heer, representing solicitor general Robert Buckland, argued that the sentence was too short because of the serious aggravating features of Sethi's crimes.
She had deliberately targeted her victims because of their vulnerability, all of them dementia patients unable to complain about the abuse.
The offences took place overnight when Sethi was working alone as the sole carer looking after the residents.
The victims included a woman in her 80s, a blind man in his late 70s and another woman who was more than 100 years old.
Despite their vulnerabilities, all three were aware something untoward was happening to them.
Sethi was caught when her boyfriend sold his laptop and the new owner found the files in the computer's recycling bin.
But increasing the sentence, Lady Justice Hallett said the families of the victims had suffered too, "burdened with guilt" in having left their relatives in Sethi's hands.
She said: "The families found it hard to comprehend that anyone could treat elderly people in this fashion.
Sethi, appearing via a video link from Eastwood Park Prison in Gloucestershire, spoke only to confirm her name and said 'thank you' after her term was increased.
The case was referred to the Court of Appeal by Mr Buckland, who said: "I asked the Court of Appeal to look at this 10 year sentence under the unduly lenient sentence scheme because multiple sexual offences were committed against three victims.
"The attacks themselves involved a degree of planning and premeditation and Sethi had no regard to the vulnerability of her victims who she should have being caring for.
"I hope the increase in the custodial sentence to 15 years offers a degree of reassurance to the families of the victims." | A care worker who sexually assaulted elderly patients and sent footage of the attacks to her boyfriend has had her jail term increased to 15 years. | 1.023667 | 1 |
Gwynedd Council has opened a consultation on the proposed closure of Y Frondeg residential care home.
Under plans, it would be replaced with a new home on adjoining land in Caernarfon, which could house up to 16 residents and include specialist support for adults with complex needs.
Staff and residents from Y Frondeg would also move to the new home once it has been completed.
Cabinet member for care, Gareth Roberts, said: "We obviously accept that change can be difficult, but we are keen to ensure that living standards and facilities available for adults with a learning disability are of the highest standard."
The consultation runs until 23 October. | A care home in Gwynedd could be closed and replaced with a new £3.8m building. | 0.838949 | 1 |
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) report was released in July 2014 "with many words left out", a council spokesman said.
Following a unanimous vote, the council will write to Defra, asking for the report to be published in full "in the interests of transparency".
Defra said that was not possible.
A spokeswoman for the department said while the redacted draft paper was online, the full report was "an internal document" which would not be published.
Councillor Marcus Johnstone, who proposed the motion to ask for the Shale Gas Rural Economy Impacts report to be published in full, said it could be "a valuable source of information, but it was heavily redacted".
"Many people have concerns about the potential development of a shale gas industry, including the availability of relevant information about how the industry might affect the community they live in.
"The council will now formally ask the government to release the report in full, in the interests of transparency."
Fellow councillor Gina Dowding, who seconded the motion, said "a large amount of information has been left out of the published version and it appears that the omissions include some significant details".
The council is due to decide whether to grant energy firm Cuadrilla planning permission to frack at two sites in Lancashire in April.
Council planners recommended refusal in January, prompting Cuadrilla's successful request for a deferral until 30 April.
Fracking - or hydraulic fracturing - is a technique in which water and chemicals are pumped into shale rock at high pressure to extract gas. | A redacted government report on the shale gas industry's impact on rural economies should be published in full, Lancashire County Council has said. | 2.142033 | 2 |
The vote is seen as a major blow to UN efforts to unify the country's two rival parliaments.
Islamic State militants have stepped up attacks in recent weeks, targeting the country's oil infrastructure.
Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Of 104 members attending the session in the eastern city of Tobruk, 89 voted against backing the government, Reuters news agency reports.
The Tunis-based Presidential Council now has 10 days to put forward a new, shorter list of ministers, Reuters adds.
Libya's state oil company said earlier that the country had lost $68bn (£48bn) in potential oil revenues since 2013, in comments reported by the UK's Financial Times newspaper.
Western nations hope the formation of the new government will help bring stability and tackle the growing threat of the so-called Islamic State group (IS).
IS militants have taken advantage of the political vacuum to expand their presence in the country. | Libya's internationally recognised parliament has rejected a unity government named last week under a UN-brokered deal aimed at uniting the country's warring factions. | 2.180125 | 2 |
Wa-ays Dhaye, 18, from the town, died in hospital following an attack at the junction of Thurston Road and Waterbeach Road, Manor Park, on Monday.
On Friday, two men were arrested on suspicion of murder and a third on suspicion of assisting an offender.
A warrant for further detention was granted at Oxford Magistrates' Court.
Det Ch Insp Simon Steel previously described the attack as "senseless and violent".
A post-mortem examination on Tuesday confirmed the victim died from multiple stab wounds.
Mr Dhaye, who was Somalian, had travelled from London to Slough railway station at about 22:30 BST.
Thames Valley Police said he had been returning from Notting Hill Carnival.
He is thought to have walked home via the crossroads between Stoke Poges Lane, Oatlands Drive and Elliman Avenue, then into Mildenhall Road before reaching Thurston Road.
The force said the death was not linked to an assault in Salt Hill Park on 28 August. | Detectives have been allowed more time to question three men arrested in connection with the death of a teenager who was stabbed in Slough. | 0.902108 | 1 |
The Right Reverend Michael Perham died aged 69 last month after a battle with cancer.
He was appointed in 2004 and retired in November 2014.
People travelled from as far away as America and Sweden to attend the service at Gloucester Cathedral, which was presided over by current bishop the Right Reverend Rachel Treweek.
In 2015 Bishop Perham was cleared by both the Church of England and police of two allegations of historical sexual abuse.
Analysis - Richard Atkins, Faith and Ethics Producer, BBC Radio Gloucestershire
Bishop Perham served as a priest in the Church of England for more than 40 years before becoming Bishop of Gloucester in 2004.
During his time in the role, he was a member of the House of Lords, and served on the working party reviewing the Church of England's teaching on human sexuality.
Above all he was a strong advocate of the role of women in the church as priests and bishops.
In February 2014, Michael announced he would be retiring that November as bishop. But in the August, he stepped back from his ministry while allegations of sexual abuse in the 1980s were investigated.
He admitted to me in a interview that these totally unfounded allegations hit him hard and undermined his confidence.
Bishop Perham was a kind, thoughtful and intelligent man who also enjoyed the cut and thrust of interviews on the radio.
He was always very happy to pop along to BBC Radio Gloucestershire no matter what the time of day.
It was a privilege to have known and worked with him. | More than 1,000 people have attended a funeral service for the former Bishop of Gloucester. | 1.154267 | 1 |
Now Chris Buck, the director of Frozen and Tarzan, has got Disney fans talking by saying he thinks Anna and Elsa's parents were shipwrecked on an island, where they had a baby boy, Tarzan.
In an interview with MTV News, Buck said that although the movies are not officially linked, in his mind he sees Tarzan as being Anna and Elsa from Frozen's little brother!
The director also said: "I say, whatever people want to believe, go for it. If you want to tie them all together, then do it!"
Here are a few of our favourite (unofficial) fan theories...
Continuing the family theme, Rapunzel and Eugene are very clearly seen arriving at Elsa's coronation in Frozen. Considering they don't live in Arendelle, as Tangled is set in Germany, some people think they must be on the VIP invite list. There are also a few family similarities - both Rapunzel and Elsa are blonde and both have powers that look pretty but are kind of weird. (Glowing magic hair? Snowmaker hands?)
If Elsa and Anna's parents' ship capsized, some think that could have been right around Atlantica, where Ariel lives. And their ship does look suspiciously like the one Ariel explored in The Little Mermaid...
Not only do they look alike and both love the colour yellow, but consider this: In a scene in Tarzan, Terk is drumming on a tea set. The pot looks suspiciously like Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast (one of the teacups even appears to have a small chip). Some think that could mean that it was an heirloom passed down from great-great-great-grandma Belle.
This one is super complicated. It involves time travel and a whole bunch of magic, but basically, Boo learned how to travel through doors from Sully and Mike in Monsters, Inc. and some think when she grows up, she wants to find Sully again, so she time travels through doors to the time period of Brave. Why? Because she wants to understand the magical whisps, thinking they'll bring her back to Sully. While she's there, she takes up wood carving, which explains why she has a carving of Sully. It also explains why every time the door closes, the witch (AKA Boo) disappears. | Animation movie fans have many theories about how characters and plotlines from different films might just magically overlap. | 1.109211 | 1 |
The finding by the Research Excellence Framework (REF) has been called "a cross between the Olympics, the X Factor and a visit from Father Christmas" for academics.
Wales does slightly better than the UK as a whole in the two top categories.
The latest results improve on 2008, but are measured slightly differently.
Eight institutions in Wales plus the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, made a total of 102 submissions to the exercise, which covered 1,896 members of staff.
It measured the quality of the research, its impact and the quality of the environment in which the research was undertaken.
Cardiff University has calculated that it is now ranked 5th in the UK for the quality of its research, claiming it has now broken into the "golden triangle" of Oxford, Cambridge and London, and confirmed its place as a world-leading university.
The outcomes will be used to allocate research funding to universities from the 2015/16 academic year.
The four UK higher education funding bodies allocate some £2bn per year of research funding to UK universities, based on the quality and volume of each university's research.
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) will hand out £71m to universities in Wales, with tens of millions of pounds of other research funding up for grabs in individual grants for which institutions must bid.
In 2012/13 this was £46.65m for universities based in Wales.
However, there have been concerns about how much money will be made available for research in future.
HEFCW chief executive Dr David Blaney told BBC Wales: "It's clearly the case that we have a challenge to sustain the investment in research in Wales.
"One of the potential benefits of the outcomes today is it helps to make the case to government in Wales about the importance of investing in the research base.
"We're the single largest investors in research in Wales and as these results show, half of that research in Wales is world-leading in its impact.
"So that's making a huge difference to the lives of people in Wales and beyond."
A Welsh government spokesperson commented said the findings showed Welsh universities were now rightly recognised as leaders in their fields, not only in the UK, but across the globe. | Nearly a third of the research by Welsh universities is of "world-leading" quality, says the body which compares work by every university in the UK. | 1.702766 | 2 |
12 November 2016 Last updated at 09:46 GMT
Footage courtesy of BBC/ QI/ Talkback. | The lead singer of US heavy metal group Slipknot, Corey Taylor, was blown away by the vocal range of record-breaking Belfast teacher Annalisa Flanagan when she featured on BBC television show QI. | -0.190768 | 0 |
The boys from Exeter's ISCA Academy had been told shorts were banned because they were not part of the uniform.
But the school has now said "as summers are becoming hotter" shorts will be brought in as uniform next year.
It said it could not allow an immediate change to uniforms because it "would put undue pressure on some of our families".
More on the school skirt protest, and other stories from across Devon and Cornwall.
It also said that, "recognising the recent temperatures", students were allowed not to wear their jumper or blazer.
Ties were allowed to be undone and pupils were allowed to have the top button on their shirts undone and to wear their shirts untucked "if they are feeling very hot".
It added that none of the estimated 30 boys had been penalised for wearing skirts in the protest.
The school uniform guidelines currently allow male pupils to wear trousers. Female pupils may wear trousers or tartan skirts. | Boys who wore skirts to school in a protest have won the right to wear shorts to lessons from next year. | 1.352504 | 1 |
When the Airlander 10 takes off from Cardington in Bedfordshire next month it will be the latest in a series to be launched from Britain's biggest aircraft hangar.
It will also mark the return of Cardington Sheds, a relic of World War One, to their "original purpose", said an enthusiast who runs a website for fans of two vast Grade-II listed hangars.
Trevor Monk said he hopes its launch "heralds another 100 years of airships at Cardington".
Airships were built in the sheds at Cardington in the 1920s. Hybrid Air Vehicles plans to launch the first of a new generation of airships from Hangar 1 in early April. It received a £3.4m government grant, a £1.94m European Union grant and a further £2.4m from a crowdfunding campaign.
Mr Monk, whose grandparents owned a farm close to the sheds, said: "My earliest memory is aged three in 1981 when my father sat me down on his lap on his Class Combine and we watched a Skyship 500 fly past."
But Hybrid Air Vehicles hopes to be building 10 Airlanders a year by 2021, meaning Hangar 1 would once again be used for its original purpose as a base for making airships.
Mr Monk said the new airships are of a totally different construction from their hydrogen-filled predecessors.
"It's like comparing modern aeroplanes with 1920s biplanes," he said.
"But to have lighter-than-air aircraft back in production at Cardington is epic." | With the world's longest aircraft set to be launched in the next few weeks, BBC News takes a look at the history of a place synonymous with airships in Britain. | 1.907998 | 2 |
They recorded the impulses generated by these hairs, on the inside of the plant's maw, and measured various changes within the plant.
For example, two touches trigger a hormone increase; five bring on the production of digestive enzymes.
The work appears in Current Biology.
Previous research had already shown that it takes two touches of the trigger hairs, within a 15-20 second time window, to cause the trap to shut. This saves the plant from wasting energy snapping at raindrops or other false alarms.
The new study reveals how the flytrap responds to subsequent touches, ramping up its digestive processes once a catch is confirmed and boosting them further if the kill seems to be a big one.
"The number of action potentials informs [the plant] about the size and nutrient content of the struggling prey," said senior author Rainer Hedrich, from the University of Würzburg.
"This allows the Venus flytrap to balance the cost and benefit of hunting."
Prof Hedrich and his colleagues stimulated the trigger hairs up to 60 times, using a special instrument or, in some cases, an unfortunate cricket.
As those numbers climbed, as well as seeing rises in hormones and "hydrolases" for breaking down the meal, the team saw a gradual spike in the production of a sodium channel.
This piece of cellular machinery, they believe, helps the flytrap to drink up sodium ions from the dissolving animal, via special glands.
Rebecca Hilgenhof, a botanical horticulturalist who looks after carnivorous plants for Kew Gardens in London, said the findings were fascinating.
"For me, the interesting thing is that there needs to be something that tells the plant... to do certain things [after] a certain amount of touching, and a certain amount of time."
It will be interesting to explore that control mechanism further, she said, and to find out how a series of electrical impulses from the trigger hairs produce the different stages of the plant's response.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | Venus flytraps "count" the number of times a struggling insect touches their trigger hairs and use that information to ramp up their digestion, according to a study by German scientists. | 3.748057 | 4 |
Arnfield, 26, only took the fight at eight days' notice but recovered from a fifth-round knockdown and a cut eye to take his opponent the full 12 rounds.
Blackwell, 25, took some punishing uppercuts but had the greater power in the second defence of his crown.
The judges scored it 117-110, 117-111 and 115-112 to Blackwell.
"Not my best performance but hats off to Jack Arnfield, who did himself proud and made it one tough night," said the champion.
Arnfield took the bout after Elliott Matthews was forced to pull out after getting cut in training.
"Great fight," he said. "In a few years, we can do this again for something bigger and better. Not at eight days' notice." | Nick Blackwell retained his British middleweight title with a unanimous points decision at the end of a gruelling bout with Jack Arnfield. | 0.713901 | 1 |
Tempers flared at the end of Chelsea's 3-1 win, after City's Sergio Aguero was sent off for a tackle on David Luiz.
Aguero's team-mate Fernandinho was also dismissed, after grabbing Cesc Fabregas as the two teams confronted each other.
Chelsea had previously been warned they could face a points deduction.
The Premier League leaders have been fined six times since February 2015 for failing to control their players.
After the Blues were fined a record £375,000 - reduced to £290,000 on appeal - in the wake of an ill-tempered meeting with Tottenham in May, the Football Association appeal board warned "the time cannot be too far distant when... the only proper sanction is a points deduction".
However, manager Antonio Conte laughed off the possibility of a points deduction on Sunday, asking reporters if they were joking when asked if he thought the incident could harm the club's league standing.
The last top-flight teams to be docked points for disciplinary issues were Manchester United and Arsenal, in the wake of a brawl at Old Trafford in October 1990.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola apologised for his team's part in the confrontation on 3 December. Aguero, whose dismissal was his second for violent conduct this season, is banned for four games, while Fernandinho is serving a three-game suspension. | Chelsea have been fined £100,000 and Manchester City must pay £35,000 after players from both teams clashed during their Premier League meeting at Etihad Stadium earlier this month. | 1.055629 | 1 |
Twenty-three people in Lincoln have received more than one card, the city council confirmed.
It blamed the errors on people already on the electoral roll registering again online but with different details.
City of Lincoln Council said its electoral register has been amended. It has notified the Electoral Commission.
The council said, after a full search of its records, 23 duplicate names out of 66,000 voters on the register, were identified.
"Processes are in place to prevent dual voting and polling station staff would never issue any person with more than one vote per election," a spokesman said.
People could have used a shortened version of their name or added a middle name while registering via the internet despite already being on the electoral roll, the council suggested.
It has resulted in some people being sent more than one card containing different electoral numbers.
Other candidates are:
Voting more than once is illegal and could result in a fine of more than £5,000, according to the Electoral Commission.
Professor of public policy at the University of Lincoln, Hugh Bochel, said the potential for people being able to vote twice in a marginal seat like Lincoln could affect the outcome at the general election.
"If we know it's only 23, they can put safeguards in. If it were to get up to 50 or 60 it may become more of an issue," he said.
"This might suggest people might find some ways of using this for slightly nefarious ends."
He said the new system of individual registration, where each person is now required to register individually rather than by household, could be to blame. | Voters in a marginal seat have been sent duplicate polling cards, raising the potential for electoral fraud at the general election. | 1.728613 | 2 |
The conservative deputies allege that the Socialist president disclosed classified information to journalists, published in a book recently. The MPs have sent the motion to the government.
Pierre Lellouche, who began the process, said Mr Hollande had "seriously violated defence secrecy".
However, the impeachment attempt faces a number of difficult hurdles.
The motion was signed by 79 deputies from the Republicans party. But 152 support the measure, the party told the AFP news agency.
Article 68 of the French constitution - which Mr Lellouche and his supporters are attempting to trigger - says that the president may not be removed from office except for "a breach of his duties patently incompatible with his continuing in office".
Impeachment can only be achieved by a two-thirds majority of both the Assembly and Senate by secret ballot, in a special sitting where parliament acts as the high court.
Mr Hollande's Socialist Party controls 51% of the National Assembly seats, and 37% of the Senate.
The proposal must also be approved by France's committee on laws before it reaches parliament.
The controversial book at the centre of the accusations, A President Should Not Say That, is a record of dozens of private conversations with two journalists, collected over several years.
It included Mr Hollande's comments on Syrian air strikes, and the admission that he personally ordered the assassination of four enemies of the state, among several other controversial statements.
The publication of the book was widely seen as "political suicide" ahead of France's 2017 presidential election, and saw Mr Hollande's approval rating sink to a new low.
In a poll, 78% of those surveyed said it was a mistake for Mr Hollande to give the interviews, and 86% said they did not want him to run for a second term.
The controversy comes at a crucial time for Mr Hollande, ahead of April's presidential campaign.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, defeated by Mr Hollande in 2012, has announced his intention to run for the presidency again.
In order to do so, he must win a Republicans primary election this month. Many expect former Prime Minister Alain Juppe to get the nomination instead.
Mr Hollande has not yet announced whether he will run for re-election. | Dozens of French opposition MPs have launched an attempt to impeach President Francois Hollande. | 1.513573 | 2 |
Northern Ireland-born Rankin, 31, played for Ireland from 2007 to 2012 before switching allegiance to England in the hope of playing Test cricket.
But he suffered cramp in his sole Test appearance against Australia in January 2014 and then dropped out of favour with his adopted country.
Rankin is reported to be set to hold talks with Ireland in the coming weeks.
Ireland officials did approach the fast bowler last summer in the hope of convincing him to return to international duty with his native county.
At that stage, Rankin remained hopeful of being named in one of England's winter squads but that did not come to pass.
Rankin will be eligible to return to Ireland duty on 17 January, which will mark two years since his final one-day appearance for England.
The seamer also played seven one-day internationals and two Twenty20 internationals for England.
If Rankin does return to the Ireland fold, he will available for the World Twenty20 in India in March.
A lack of bowling strength has been Ireland's main weakness in recent years and Rankin's return would be a major boost for coach John Bracewell. | Warwickshire pace bowler Boyd Rankin is being linked with a return to international duty with Ireland. | 0.888376 | 1 |
Lt Col Benedict Tomkins, of Defence, Equipment and Support, based at Abbey Wood, near Bristol, is due to stand trial in March next year.
The 48-year-old spoke only to confirm his name, rank and unit, during the hearing at Portsmouth Naval Base.
Judge Advocate Gen Jeff Blackett told the hearing that part of the trial would be held in the USA, to enable witnesses to give evidence.
The trial is then expected to continue in Bulford, Wiltshire.
The judge adjourned proceedings for a further preliminary hearing to be held on a date to be set in the new year. | An Army officer has appeared at a court martial charged with rape. | 0.643991 | 1 |
PC Chris Young, 46, from Nottingham, appeared at Derby Crown Court charged with committing sexual misconduct in a public office in 2012 and seven other "like" charges.
He was bailed until 24 November for a trial expected to last two weeks.
Mr Young, who was based in Hucknall and has also worked in Worksop, is currently suspended from duty .
At the hearing on Wednesday morning, the court was told he faced one count of sexual misconduct in a public office and seven similar counts, the details of which have not been finalised. | A Nottinghamshire Police officer has denied a number of sexual misconduct charges at a short hearing. | 0.074064 | 0 |
The 30-year-old finished safely to take the win by 11 seconds from Samuel Sanchez and Thomas Voeckler.
The final stage was won by BMC's Ben Hermans who claimed a great solo win after a demanding 167km, which included six climbs from Wakefield to Leeds.
Nordhaug, who became Team Sky's leader after Ben Swift crashed out, was sixth over the line on Sunday.
Sanchez attacked 37.5km from the end but Nordhaug responded to pip the Spaniard to the single remaining bonus second in the final intermediate sprint and crossed the line on Sanchez's wheel to seal his Tour win.
Thousands of fans lined the route, as they had done the previous two days, and glimpsed British Tour de France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins, who finished in the peloton, five minutes behind the winner.
The top British rider overall was Erick Rowsell, younger brother of Olympic champion Joanne, who came eighth, 1min 21secs behind winner Nordhaug.
1. Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor/Team Sky)12hrs 47mins 56secs
2. Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Sp/BMC Racing) +11secs
3. Thomas Voeckler (Fra/Europcar) same time
4. Stephane Rossetto (Fra/Cofidis) +13secs
5. Philip Deignan (Ire/Team Sky) +24secs
6. Ben Hermans (Ger/BMC) + 1min 5secs
7. Greg Van Avermaet (Bel/BMC Racing) + 1min 15secs
8. Erick Rowsell (GB/ Madison Genesis) + 1min 21secs
9. Huub Duijn (Ned/ROJ) + 1min 27secs
10. Richard Handley (GB/JLT Condor) same time | Norwegian Lars Petter Nordhaug clinched the overall victory for Team Sky in the inaugural Tour de Yorkshire. | 1.04867 | 1 |
An official was quoted as saying the economy minister had replaced the heads of Mehr Iran, Mellat, Refah and Saderat at President Hassan Rouhani's request.
The scandal erupted two months ago when the payslips of top officials at state-owned companies surfaced online.
It emerged many were earning dozens of times more than the average Iranian.
They were also being given large bonuses, interest-free loans and, in some cases, tax breaks.
Iran's struggling economy is yet to show any clear benefit from the nuclear deal agreed with world power last year that saw crippling sanctions lifted.
President Rouhani's decision to sack the four bank executives came a week after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the cabinet: "The issue of astronomical salaries is in fact an attack on [our national] values, but everyone should know that they are among exceptions."
"This issue must not be delayed. It should be seriously followed up and the people must be informed of the results."
Last month, the head of the government-owned Central Insurance Co (CIC) resigned after leaked payslips showed some senior managers there were paid up to $28,300 (£21,300) in March.
The company said the payslips were for the final month of the Iranian calendar year and were therefore unusually large.
A manager at a fifth state-owned bank, Tejarat, meanwhile received the equivalent of about $230,000 in November.
And the managing director of the National Development Fund (NDF), who was appointed by the president, was shown to be earning $18,700 a month.
Safdar Hosseini subsequently said he had voluntarily reformed the NDF's salary system and paid back a portion of his salary that he considered excessive.
The source of the leaks has not been revealed, but they were first published by media close to the conservative establishment, according to the Reuters news agency.
Conservative opponents of Mr Rouhani, a moderate, have used the revelations to highlight the fact that living standards have improved little since he took office.
Mr Rouhani admitted last week that the salaries were "legal", but blamed his predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for first permitting high executive salaries. | The chief executives of four public banks in Iran have been sacked amid widespread criticism of their salaries, the state-run Irna news agency reports. | 1.156258 | 1 |
The 31-year-old Australian was hurt during the Chiefs' narrow Champions Cup loss at Ulster and needs surgery.
Salvi joined the Chiefs in the summer of 2015 from Leicester and became a key part of the side that made last season's Premiership final.
"We're still waiting to learn the full extent of it but it looks relatively serious," head coach Rob Baxter said.
Salvi was twice short-listed for the Premiership's Player of the Year award while at Leicester and is a former Australia Under-21 captain.
"He does put in a huge contribution over 80 minutes, and that's probably what we'll miss the most," Baxter told BBC Sport.
"His biggest quality is his consistency. He turns up every week, and even when we've had some poor performances and even when some individuals within the side have played poorly, Julian's contribution has always been absolutely first rate," added Baxter.
"He's virtually always our top tackler, virtually always our top clearout guy, and probably the thing that people don't appreciate about him is how important he is to our attack.
"A lot of people talk about open-sides as being tacklers and defenders and disruptive people, but Julian is very important to our attack because he clears so many breakdowns." | Exeter flanker Julian Salvi has been ruled out for the rest of 2016 after injuring his biceps. | 0.903198 | 1 |
The group of about 70 recently released prisoners said they were aware of the suffering and "damage" they had caused.
The statement was read out at a meeting in the Basque Spanish town of Durango. It was the first time the ex-prisoners had appeared in public together.
The government has condemned the event, describing it as a "witches' sabbath".
The statement issued by the former prisoners on Saturday said they "accepted full responsibility for the consequences of the conflict".
They said they recognised the "multilateral damage" from their past actions, as well as the "mixed feeling" caused by their words.
"That is why we will act responsibly with positive and constructive will and vision," the statement said.
The statement also demanded an amnesty for remaining Eta detainees.
The BBC's Tom Burridge in Madrid said it will be interpreted by some as a guarded apology.
The militants were convicted for shootings and bombings from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that they should be freed. The government, while condemning the ruling, began releasing the prisoners in October.
The government opposes negotiations with Eta, which in 2011 declared an end to its armed campaign to create a Basque state in northern Spain and south-western France.
On Friday the Spanish interior minister said he was only interested in the "unconditional dissolution" of Eta.
More than 800 people have been killed by Eta in its four-decade campaign. | Former militants from the Basque separatist group Eta have expressed regret for carrying out acts of violence in the past. | 1.713143 | 2 |
Arthur, 21, was released by Birmingham at the end of the 2016-17 season and signs following a successful trial.
The Ghanaian made seven appearances on loan at Cheltenham last term and also has experience of playing in the National League with Lincoln City.
He could play in the Silkmen's opening game of the National League season against Wrexham on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Macclesfield Town have signed former Birmingham City midfielder Koby Arthur on a one-year contract. | 0.579173 | 1 |
The deal was agreed last month, with international clearance now in place for the 23-year-old.
Mandiangu has been training with Accies for the past three weeks and goes into the squad for Saturday's Scottish Cup visit to Annan Athletic.
His contract will initially be until the end of the season
Mandiangu, most recently with Eindhoven in the Dutch second tier, began his career with Borussia Monchengladbach and had spells with Neustrelitz and Berliner Dynamo in Germany's regional leagues before moving to the Netherlands in August.
"Christopher definitely wants to get on the ball and commit people, so hopefully he can add something," manager Martin Canning told BBC Scotland in mid-December. | Hamilton Academical have completed the signing of Congo-born former Germany Under-18 international midfielder Christopher Mandiangu. | 0.609472 | 1 |
The state oil firm's net loss widened to 36.9bn reais ($10.2bn; £7.1bn) in the three months to December.
The company had to write down billions of dollars from assets like oil fields and drilling rigs after crude prices fell by more than 40%.
Petrobras shares fell by nearly 6% in after hours US trading on the results.
Its chief executive said in a press conference that 2015 was "an extremely difficult year for the oil industry".
Petrobras has also been trying to deal with the fallout from an expanding corruption scandal that has gone to the top ranks of government and seen some of its former executives jailed.
On Monday police arrested a man in Portugal they say was laundering payments for two of the jailed Petrobras executives.
Police say the man, Raul Schmidt Felipe Junior, may also have acted as an intermediary between some foreign companies and Petrobras.
Brazil is also mired in its worst recession in a century, which has led to weak demand at home for its fuel products.
To maintain its finances, the firm has drastically reduced its spending and investment plans. Petrobras is also looking to sell some of its assets in order to raise more than $14bn. | Brazil's Petrobras, which is at the centre of a massive corruption scandal, has posted its biggest ever quarterly loss due to the plunge in oil prices. | 1.240759 | 1 |
The 28-year-old, who previously had two spells on loan with the Bantams, will officially sign on 1 July after his contract with Rangers expires.
He spent three years with the Glasgow club, making 114 appearances, and helped them win promotion back to the top flight last season.
Law is Bradford's first signing since Stuart McCall returned to take charge of the League One club.
Meanwhile, defender Nathan Clarke has signed a new one-year deal to stay with the Bantams next season.
The 32-year-old made 32 appearances in all competitions last term.
Law's loan spells in 2007 and most of the 2008-09 season, came during McCall's first stint as Bantams boss, while he also played under him at Rangers and Motherwell.
"I am delighted to be coming back to Bradford, and it is a bonus that it will be with Stuart again," Law told City's website.
"The club has improved a lot since I last came here and looks to be on the up."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bradford City have re-signed midfielder Nicky Law on a two-year deal. | 0.905322 | 1 |
Tony Phoenix-Morrison, better known as "Tony The Fridge", appeared at Sunderland Magistrates' Court to face four charges of assault and one of using violence to get into a home.
The 50-year-old from Hebburn, South Tyneside, denied the charges and was bailed to appear in court in September.
He was named fundraiser of the year at the Pride of Britain Awards 2014.
His challenges include running the length of Britain with the 42.5kg fridge on his back. | A charity fundraiser well-known for running with a fridge strapped to his back has been charged with assault. | 0.757261 | 1 |
On Tuesday, a 25-year-old woman from the city, Danielle McDermott, admitted taking £11,000 from two pensioners between August 2013 and May 2014.
She started to care for Dinah Porter, 89, following a bad fall which left her bed ridden.
Mrs Porter's daughter set up a secret recording after becoming suspicious.
She put marked bank notes in her mother's purse and recorded the serial numbers of the notes.
She then placed her mobile phone camera in her mother's bedroom prior to a visit by McDermott.
"The camera was just sitting here so we saw her bending down over something that was there and she put everything out of her way to get at the purse," Dinah said.
"She wasn't that long with me when this all happened. I thought she was a great wee girl, young and lovely.
"When my money went missing we tried everything under the sun to try and catch her doing it," she said.
The matter was reported by the police to McDermott's then employer.
A trust officer then carried out a review of Danielle McDermott's other clients.
The review showed that one client, who had early stage dementia, had her bank account reduced from £11,195 in August 2013 to £474 in April 2014.
A prosecutor told Londonderry Crown Court on Tuesday that the money had been spent on a lavish lifestyle of holidays, hotels, restaurants and spa treatments for McDermott and her partner.
Dinah's son, Raymond Porter, said he was still in a state of disbelief over the treachery.
"Unbelievable. I still can't get over it, (we felt) betrayed and felt very aware of anyone who came into the house, sceptical and unsafe.
"For her to be stealing and then to be spending it on herself, make-up, going away on holidays, clothes, her lifestyle?
"It came from other people and vulnerable people. Old people were all her targets," Raymond said.
Dinah Porter said she was able to forgive McDermott, who is to be sentenced later this week, but her daughter could not.
"I feel they're not well, there's something wrong about stealing from anybody. I couldn't do it. I'm sorry for her in a way.
"She didn't just betray me, she betrayed a lot of others," she said. | An elderly woman who caught a care worker stealing hundreds of pounds of her pension money has said she feels 'betrayed'. | 0.749008 | 1 |
Their 10-game unbeaten Championship run came to an end at Carrow Road and McClaren wants new players to help them climb into the play-off places.
"The squad has been tested over the last couple of weeks," McClaren told BBC Radio Derby.
"We were a little bit short [against Norwich]. It was one game too many."
A bid has already been submitted for Nottingham Forest captain Henri Lansbury, and Derby are still interested in the midfielder.
McClaren is also still hopeful of bringing back Chris Martin from his loan spell at Fulham - despite the London side's reluctance to release the striker.
Injuries to left-backs Craig Forsyth, Marcus Olsson and Max Lowe - plus makeshift left-back Ikechi Anya - mean the Rams are also in need of more defensive cover.
Former England manager McClaren, whose side are in seventh place and just two points outside the top six, told BBC Radio Derby that a bid for Lansbury had been made.
"They have turned it down and we will discuss that even further," he added. "He is a player we have always admired but I will leave it to the club and see if anything can be sorted.
"That [Martin deal] is at board level at both clubs. They made an agreement to do the loan and if it needs to be terminated they need to make a decision to do that."
BBC Radio Derby's Owen Bradley
Derby's 10-match unbeaten put the Rams firmly back in the Championship promotion race, but the view within the club and amongst supporters is that new signings in January will be needed to keep them there.
Steve McClaren had already made a move for Nottingham Forest captain Henri Lansbury before the defeat at Norwich, though that result and performance underlined why they need some new blood. Derby also hope that Chris Martin will return early from his loan spell at Fulham, with McClaren desperate to be reunited with his former top-scorer at Pride Park.
That won't be the end of it for Derby, even if they are able to land their top two targets. McClaren might decide to bring in a defender following yet another injury, and will almost certainly look to exploit the loan market as he did so effectively in his first spell in charge.
Expect the Rams to be busy between now and the end of the month. | Derby County boss Steve McClaren says the 3-0 defeat against Norwich City showed how important it is for the Rams to strengthen their squad in January. | 0.761625 | 1 |
Laura Thomson and Sam Sciortino, from Woking, planned a Sunday ceremony in Santorini but will now marry on Monday.
The bride-to-be's brother and family - including three bridesmaids - waited at Heathrow for 13 hours on Saturday before leaving without their luggage.
They have now booked flights with a different airline.
Ms Thomson said: "We have had to contact suppliers, and change all the arrangements we had planned."
"We've been planning our big day for two years only to be forced to rush around and change everything to take place a day later."
The couple flew to Santorini earlier in the week, ahead of their guests. They said an aunt and uncle were also caught up in the BA disruption.
Ms Thomson said: "My brother is one of the groomsmen, and my nieces and sister-in-law are my bridesmaids, so naturally I wanted them to share the day with us.
"They booked with British Airways because they thought it was a reliable company.
"We feel so let down."
Ms Thomson's sister-in-law Marcia Thomson said: "We are devastated that this has happened.
"Our luggage had already been checked in and after waiting for 13 hours at the airport we were forced to leave without it.
"Luckily we have managed to get flights to Crete this evening with a different airline.
"We will have to get a ferry from there to Santorini on Monday morning just in time for the wedding, but without our bridesmaids dresses."
Posting on Facebook Ms Thomson shared her disappointment with family and friends.
"I am just a shell of myself right now. We are absolutely shattered," she said.
"I have been in tears with our dream of how it should of been slowly fading away, knowing I can't share the day with my family the way I imagined."
She added: "The hotel have been very accommodating but we've incurred extra costs as all the food has had to be paid for again."
"We had a family cruise booked which also had to be cancelled and we have lost money on that as well."
Mr Sciortino said: "It's one of those things you don't think will happen to you but we've been so lucky that we have managed to rearrange it even though there are certain things that we will be missing."
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News Team | A Surrey couple have postponed their Greek island wedding after guests were stranded at Heathrow Airport amid the British Airways IT crash. | 0.890007 | 1 |
Stefano Brizzi, 50, is accused of strangling PC Gordon Semple, 59, before dismembering him.
At the Old Bailey, prosecutors accused him of "living out an episode" of the US drama, in which a body is "got rid of" by dissolving it in acid.
Mr Brizzi denies murder but admits obstructing a coroner.
The Italian national said he "panicked" and felt "paranoid" after PC Semple, from Greenhithe, Kent, died during a "sex game gone wrong" at his south London flat.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC asked Mr Brizzi - who has admitted using crystal meth - about his "obsession" with Breaking Bad.
He suggested Mr Brizzi had been inspired by an episode of the show - about a chemistry teacher who makes a fortune manufacturing the drug - where character Jesse Pinkman attempts to dissolve a body in a bath.
"I accept I considered without any rationality at all. I think I was inspired by that idea," Mr Brizzi said.
"I took whatever was there, thinking maybe I can dissolve him. The bath was absolutely tiny, I had no knives, no saws, anything in particular out of the ordinary.
"I had no idea what kind of chemical I was using. I'm not saying I was not inspired by that idea. What other ways did I have to dispose of it? I couldn't bury it. I didn't know where to start."
The court previously heard officers found a "blue-green liquid" in the bath with "flesh-coloured globules floating in the water", when they searched Mr Brizzi's flat.
Mr Brizzi told the court after PC Semple died, he felt he was living in a "bad dream" and decided that, rather than call the police, he would cut up and dispose of the body.
Prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC said Mr Brizzi dismembered the body so no-one could find out exactly how the police officer had died.
"The condition you left the body in means the pathologist cannot tell one way or another. You could have hit him with a hammer, rendering him unconscious," he said.
He said Mr Brizzi "did everything [he] possibly could to make sure nobody would be able to find out what happened to Gordon Semple".
Mr Brizzi replied: "I tried to get away with it. I did not act out a strategy of some kind of well- thought ideas."
The trial continues. | A man accused of murdering a policeman has said his attempt to dissolve the officer's body in an acid bath was inspired by TV show Breaking Bad. | 0.880346 | 1 |
Hovertravel is operating a revised timetable between Southsea and Ryde following issues with its new Solent Flyer and Island Flyer craft.
It apologised, saying it had received "many" complaints about delays and disruptions in recent weeks.
The new craft, costing £10m, were launched in the summer.
In a message on the operator's website, managing director Neil Chapman said: "Thank you to those who have contacted me and [for] your custom, your comments are all duly noted and my teams are working through the various areas of improvement.
"We are sincerely sorry for the inconvenience over the last few weeks, and rest assured we are focused on the areas requiring improvement."
When the vessels were named by sailing champion Sir Ben Ainslie, the company said the £10m investment would "improve passenger comfort through speedier and easier boarding, a quieter ride and better visibility" and a phased introduction of the craft would avoid disruption. | The operator of the hovercraft which serves the Isle of Wight has blamed "bedding in" problems with two new vessels for cancelled crossings. | 1.193103 | 1 |
A team from Strathclyde University in Glasgow tested 22 different brands of compost and found that 14 contained a variety of Legionella species.
It says a larger survey is needed to determine the extent of the issue.
The study, "Legionella spp. in UK composts - a potential public health issue", is published by Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Dr Beattie, one of those who conducted the study, said: "Disease causing micro-organisms are widespread in the environment, and therefore it is not too surprising that species of Legionella that can cause human disease are present in compost.
"Any environment where you have pathogenic bacteria could be a source of infection, and we already know that compost has been linked to human Legionella infection in countries such as Australia and New Zealand."
Dr Beattie said European produced composts have traditionally been composed of peat, whereas those from Australia and New Zealand had more often used sawdust and bark.
"It may be that the change in composition of composts in the UK, moving away from peat-based products, could be resulting in species such as Legionella longbeachae being present in compost and therefore more cases of infection could occur," she said.
Dr Beattie wants a larger scale survey, covering a wider range of compost products, to be carried out to see if Legionella bacteria are as widespread in composts as her study suggests.
She added: "It should be emphasised though, that although Legionella seem to be common in compost, human infection is very rare, especially if you consider the volume of compost sold and used.
"But with any potential source of infection precautions should always be taken.
"The occurrence of these bacteria in composts in Australia and New Zealand, and the cases of infection that have been traced to compost has resulted in hygiene warnings on compost packaging in these countries, and this is something manufacturers in the UK may wish to consider."
The study was conducted by Dr Tara Beattie, fellow academic Dr Charles Knapp, Strathclyde PhD student Sandra Currie and Dr Diane Lindsay of the Scottish Haemophilus, Legionella, Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory. | Legionella bacteria appears to be "common" in many compost brands sold in the UK, a study has found. | 2.93225 | 3 |
More than 380,000 people took part, among them 22 pundits, presenters and commentators from across the BBC.
The likes of Alan Shearer, Martin Keown, Danny Murphy, John Hartson and Kevin Kilbane were among those who took part, but it was BBC Radio 5 live commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball who topped the standings in their mini-league, pipping radio colleague Ian Dennis and Football Focus presenter Dan Walker, who finished joint second.
Despite finishing top of the BBC Sport league, Bruce-Ball was only 1,203rd in the overall league - out of 381,078 players.
The winner was a user called AndyN4, who correctly predicted the score in the final between Portugal and France would be 0-0 after 90 minutes.
That result enabled him to leapfrog fellow player CSKA Sofia, who had been leading going into the final, to win by 10 points.
For each of the 51 games in the tournament, 10 points were awarded for a correct result (ie correctly predicting the winner or a draw) with 40 for the exact score. | Portugal ended Euro 2016 with bragging rights on the field, but who came out on top in BBC Sport's Predictor game? | 1.123374 | 1 |
The ex-West Ham striker revealed his tattoo of the word "dux" during their Premier League coverage on Sunday, prompting a protest on social media.
The Latin word is the origin of the Italian "duce" meaning leader - Il Duce was the title adopted by Mussolini.
"We made a mistake, we are sorry to all who were hurt," said a Sky executive.
Jacques Raynaud, Sky Sports executive vice-president, continued: "After speaking at length to Di Canio, and despite his professionalism and his expertise regarding football, we have decided together to suspend the partnership."
Former West Ham striker Di Canio has previously been criticised for his political views and refused to address his reported beliefs when he was appointed Sunderland manager in 2013.
He was fined by Italian club Lazio for making the fascist salute for the third time in a year during the 2005 derby with AS Roma.
Mussolini was the fascist dictator of Italy for 20 years until 1943, and was summarily executed in 1945 when he was captured by Italian communists while attempting to flee the country. | Paolo di Canio has been suspended from his role as a Sky Italia pundit after showing on air a tattoo referring to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. | 1.401466 | 1 |
Even before the final whistle had blown, the inquest had begun - should England's head coach Stuart Lancaster lose his job? Should George Ford have started? Why didn't England have a specialist open-side flanker in their squad?
There will also be questions about how the host country's early exit will affect the rest of the tournament and the sport's legacy in England. From World Cup-winners to the general public, just about everyone will have their say.
Former England hooker Brian Moore:
England World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward:
England World Cup-winner Jonny Wilkinson:
Former England captain Will Carling:
Former New Zealand scrum-half and BBC Radio 5 live pundit Justin Marshall: "When you look at the way the Australian pack play, they're all distributors. Prop Sekope Kepu can pass as well as scrum-half Will Genia. And so can the locks and the second-rowers. But did we see any of that from England? Not at all."
Australia World Cup-winner George Gregan:
England World Cup-winner and BBC Radio 5 live pundit Matt Dawson: "I don't think you can keep the same management after that. You can't go out in the group stages of your own World Cup. Something needs to change. England were not disciplined. He could not coach a disciplined team to get out of that pool and that is why Stuart Lancaster should go."
Australia World Cup-winner David Campese:
Former England fly-half Andy Goode: | England are out of their own World Cup before the knockout stages following a devastating defeat by Australia at Twickenham. | 1.077321 | 1 |
Two fossils found in China show what the animal looked like.
Scientists say its hammer-shaped skull helped it to feed on underwater plants.
Only a handful of marine reptiles, living or extinct, are known to be vegetarian.
Scientists used modelling clay, like Play-Doh, to re-make the jaw to work out how the animal fed. They used toothpicks to represent the teeth.
Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum in Chicago said:
"We looked at how the upper and lower jaw locked together, and that's how we proceeded and described it."
"It's definitely a reptile that no one would have thought to exist - look at it, it's crazy!"
The first fossils of the creature were discovered a few years ago.
It was named Atopodentatus unicus, which is Latin for "unique strangely toothed". | A crocodile-sized creature that lived 242 million years ago was the first known vegetarian reptile to live in the sea, according to new evidence. | 3.274887 | 3 |
The Queen's Swan Marker, David Barber, said there had been an increase in air gun shootings, particularly in Windsor, Berkshire, during the winter.
"We've lost at least two of the breeding pairs this year because of the shootings," he said.
The Swan Upping ceremony commenced at 09:00 BST in Sunbury, Surrey.
The five-day survey also passes through Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Last year, when Mr Barber also raised concerns over shootings, the census recorded 2,014 swans, including 120 cygnets and 34 breeding pairs.
He said numbers did fluctuate but added: "Our expectations are that numbers should be better than last year."
Mr Barber said the protected birds were "very easy targets".
"When they're shot, some don't get killed straight away - they go off and sometimes take a week to die and that's the awful part," he added.
The census dates back to the 12th Century and sees the mute swans on the river rounded up, marked, weighed, health-checked and then released.
Mr Barber said it also served as a "very important conservation and educational exercise", with many local schools taking part in the event.
Some of the lowest numbers recorded in recent years were in the 1980s due to lead poisoning, Mr Barber said.
Flooding on the Thames cancelled a section of the ceremony in 2012.
The Crown retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water.
Killing or injuring them is punishable by a six-month prison term and, in some cases, a fine up to £5,000. | The number of swans on the River Thames recorded in the annual census is expected to have risen, despite the deaths of two breeding pairs. | 2.576535 | 3 |
Hamilton Accies Greek centre-back, Georgios Sarris, asked maternity staff to dress baby Nancy in an outfit that said: "mummy will you marry my daddy?".
Mr Sarris had to delay asking Maria to marry him after Nancy was taken to the neonatal unit for checks.
She was reunited with her parents wearing her special first outfit.
Mr Sarris said: "We had a nervous wait while Nancy was in the neonatal unit and I was already anxious because of the birth and my planned proposal.
"I thought that the moment had gone.
"Once Nancy was given the all clear, I spoke with the staff and they were only too happy to help me out.
"I was so happy that the nurses and midwives were prepared to go the extra length to make sure my proposal could work out as planned."
Neonatal staff dressed baby Nancy, who weighed 6 pounds 15 ounces, placed her in an incubator and wheeled her round to the maternity unit.
The SPFL footballer then got down on one knee and popped the question to Maria in front of maternity staff.
Ann Brockett, maternity care assistant, said: "It was so romantic. In all my years in the maternity unit I have never seen anything like it.
"It was a very emotional time for both Georgios and Maria and a few of us shed a tear too. They are a lovely family."
The couple have been together for six years and moved to Scotland in 2016 following Georgios' move to the Lanarkshire club.
Maria said: "I was really emotional. To know my daughter was ok and in my arms was a wonderful feeling, I was on top of the world.
"Then I noticed the writing on the babygrow. I looked over and Georgios was on one knee with a ring in his hand. I started to cry all over again but I managed to say yes.
"I will never forget that day as long as I live and I will never forget the staff who helped bring Nancy into the world and make the proposal possible."
Senior charge midwife, Susan Clements, said: "We were very happy to help Georgios make his extraordinary proposal to Maria.
"In my 34 years as a midwife, I haven't seen any dad propose to the mother on the ward.
"It was lovely that our midwives and neonatal staff got a chance to be involved in such a special moment for the new family." | A football star made a marriage proposal with a specially-made babygrow for his newborn baby at Wishaw General Hospital's maternity unit. | 0.786716 | 1 |
He was due to open in the Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton on 10 April, but died three days beforehand.
The theatre said the role of Willy Loman would now be taken by TV and film actor Nicholas Woodeson.
Shows in Northampton have been postponed and the play will now open in Cambridge in May, ahead of a UK tour.
Pigott-Smith died at the age of 70, a month after collecting an OBE for services to drama.
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He had been rehearsing the role of Willy Loman in Miller's play which was expected to open at the Northampton theatre ahead of a tour including Cambridge, Bath, Exeter, Edinburgh and Oxford.
A spokesman for the Royal & Derngate said the decision to proceed with the production and tour of Death Of A Salesman was made after consulting the "acting company, creative team and touring partners".
Pigott-Smith's replacement, Woodeson, is well-known for roles in a number of dramas including Taboo, The Living and the Dead, Rome, Mapp and Lucia, and also for film roles including in the Bond movie Skyfall.
The play will now open at Cambridge Arts Theatre on 4 May.
Ticket-holders for the postponed run in Northampton would be offered a refund, or tickets for the rescheduled run at the Royal & Derngate at the end of the tour, organisers said. | Theatre directors have confirmed a show will go on despite the death of its star, the actor Tim Pigott-Smith. | 1.011162 | 1 |
A judicial review into the project's funding has been dismissed, allowing the Championship side to press ahead.
"It's like an early Christmas present," Groves told BBC Radio Cornwall.
"The good news means that we can now crack on at the beginning of next year with getting the refinancing [of the club] organised."
Pirates have been attempting to make progress with their proposed 6,000-capacity ground for several years, but it has been complicated by Cornish football side Truro City also wanting to build a new stadium.
Asked when work on the prospective stadium will start, Groves added: "That's the question - my guess is sometime in the middle of next year.
"The first stage is refinancing and recapitalising the Pirates, the second is around the stadium design and building a sustainable business, and the third phase is around a rugby partnership."
The rugby partnership is with Super Rugby franchise Waikato Chiefs, whose chairman Dallas Fisher is visiting England in January.
Groves says there could be potential for player swaps with the New Zealand side in future.
"That is an idea going forwards, probably a couple of years down the track," he said. "I would describe it more like IP [intellectual property] swap - coaches, and maybe one or two players.
"The first thing we've been focusing on at the moment is steadying the ship. I don't think people realised how bad the financial situation was at the end of September - the Pirates were pretty close to going into bankruptcy or administration." | Cornish Pirates director Colin Groves has estimated that work on the Stadium for Cornwall will start "in the middle of 2017". | 1.11942 | 1 |
Dorrie Kempsell and Ivy Peck celebrated the occasion at the care home in Exmouth, Devon where they both live.
The sisters, originally from Liverpool and supporters of rival football clubs, both married men named Ronnie.
The twins said getting lots of fresh air and being "interested in everything" were key to a long life.
Mrs Peck said: "We've always been active - cycling when we were much younger and we played games that kept us going."
The only time in their lives the twins have lived apart was when Mrs Kempsell lived with her husband.
When he died after seven years of marriage Mrs Kempsell moved in with her twin and her husband in Suffolk before moving to Devon.
Mrs Kempsell is a supporter of Everton Football Club while her twin has always supported Liverpool.
The sisters welcomed their matching cards from the Queen which Mrs Kempsell described as "lovely". | Twin sisters who have rarely lived apart have marked their 100th birthday with a party. | 0.682169 | 1 |
Gerry Flynn, 57, has been named locally as the victim of the crash at Duncrew in Castleblayney, County Monaghan, on Sunday.
Mr Flynn, who ran a pharmacy in Falcarragh, County Donegal, died when the car he was driving left the road at about 16:00 local time.
A woman, who was a passenger in the car, was uninjured.
Gardaà (Irish police) have appealed for witnesses. | A well-known businessman from County Donegal has died in a road crash in the Republic of Ireland. | 0.412964 | 0 |
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was established in 2008 while the former Newcastle, Ipswich and England manager was receiving treatment for the disease. He died the following year.
The charity initially had a £500,000 fundraising target.
His wife, Lady Robson, said she was "very grateful", labelling the milestone "absolutely unbelievable".
She said: "Starting the charity was literally something we talked about over the kitchen table. We'd been asked for help and this was Bob's way of giving it.
"I'm extremely proud of the work we fund and it meant the world to Bob. Every time we are able to fund something which will help make a difference to cancer patients, I think of him."
The foundation works with hospitals on Tyneside to develop new cancer treatments and has spent millions of pounds on equipment.
It is also set to contribute about £1m to fund four clinical research and nursing posts at the Newcastle University Centre for Childhood Cancer.
Sir Bobby's former oncologist Prof Ruth Plummer said: "Funding these new posts is a natural extension of the work the foundation already supports.
"We have an established clinical trials team for adults and we're building on that expertise and expanding to create a 'matching' team for children." | The cancer research charity set up by Sir Bobby Robson has raised £10m, organisers have revealed. | 1.245046 | 1 |
The Condor Liberation is now the only ferry operating between Guernsey, Jersey and the UK.
Captain Fran Collins, executive director of operations, said: "It's a milestone in Condor's history.
"It's the first time a vessel of this type has been used in northern Europe so it's pretty exciting to see her going to sea with a full complement."
The 102m (335ft) long vessel was built by Austal shipbuilders in Australia and can carry up to 880 passengers and 245 vehicles.
Following its purchase the firm sold the smaller Vitesse and Express ferries to Greek company Seajets, with Vitesse already delivered and Express due to follow once Condor Ferries is happy with the new ferry in service.
The Liberation is supposed to be able to operate in bigger waves than the smaller ferries, but is not yet licensed to do so.
Captain Collins said: "At the moment she has a limit of three and a half metres [of wave height], which is the same as the previous vessels.
"The Maritime and Coastguard Agency impose that limit on any high speed craft operating in these waters until she's been proven otherwise.
"Through the summer we'll take a series of assessments in heavy weather... and we hope to get that increased come the autumn."
The bigger ferry cannot operate to Weymouth so sailings to the UK port ended on Monday. | A £50m ferry serving the Channel Islands and UK has completed its maiden voyage from Poole to Guernsey. | 1.531249 | 2 |
Firefighters were called to Alastrean House in Tarland, near Aboyne, at about 15:50 on Saturday.
A total of 38 residents were evacuated by staff and rehoused in a separate wing of the building.
Nine fire crews attended the blaze which was described as "quite extensive". The flames were extinguished by 20:00.
No-one was injured.
A statement from the care home said all residents and seven members of staff were safely evacuated.
A spokeswoman for the Balhousie Care Group said the fire had spread internally through the flue to the roof space, causing damage to the walls and roof.
She said all relatives had been contacted and added: "We would like to thank the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and other emergency services for their fast response."
The home is owned by The MacRobert Trust and operated by Balhousie Care Group.
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If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions. | Dozens of residents have been evacuated from a care home in Aberdeenshire after a large fire broke out. | 1.228568 | 1 |
Stuart Ashton, who died last week, was described by the team as one of its "most valuable and respected" members.
"He lost his life in the pursuit of something he was most passionate about," it added.
Mr Ashton, 53, was also involved with the Search and Rescue Dog Association Scotland (Sarda).
In a statement, Skye Mountain Rescue Team said: "Stuart touched the hearts of everyone he came into contact with. He was always smiling and always enthusiastic.
"His passing has left a void that will be very difficult to fill."
The team added: "Stand down buddy, we will miss you."
Sarda Scotland expressed "great sadness" over Mr Ashton's death.
On its website, it said: "Stuart left us doing something he committed his life to, and those who had the pleasure of working, meeting or knowing him, including all the dogs, will know he will be sorely missed." | Tributes have been paid to a member of Skye Mountain Rescue Team who died suddenly while on a hillwalking trip with friends. | 0.961475 | 1 |
Darren Pidgeon, 29, required skin grafts to repair third degree burns to his face and body.
Basildon Crown Court heard there was "no obvious reason" for the attack in Thundersley, Essex, in June 2014.
Ashley Russell, 30, of Basildon, and Christina Storey, 32, of Rayleigh, each deny throwing a corrosive liquid.
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Opening the trial, prosecutor Greg Unwin said Mr Pidgeon had stopped at traffic lights when he noticed a red Rover, driven by Ms Storey, pulling alongside him.
As he pulled away, the Rover drove in front of him although it was not a "near miss", he said.
Mr Pidgeon then drove into Kingsmere, a residential cul-de-sac, to turn around and as he went to reverse a car pulled in behind him.
"He was essentially trapped, blocked in by this other vehicle," said Mr Unwin.
"The prosecution say this is the same car. A passenger of the red car then got out and ran round to Mr Pidgeon's door, where he had the window wound down, and he said words to the effect of 'have you got a problem?'"
It is alleged Mr Russell then sprayed the victim in the face and also punched him in the head.
"Darren Pidgeon was in excruciating agony, his eye was watering, some of the substance had gone into one ear," said Mr Unwin.
"He was confused and disorientated. Mr Pidgeon has no idea why he was attacked.
"As the liquid started to burn into his skin in his face, his arm and the side of his body, he screamed in agony."
Residents gave him water to wash his eyes before ambulance crews and police arrived moments later.
Tests showed the acid had a pH level of one, indicating "extreme acid".
Ms Storey also denies aiding and abetting an offender.
The trial continues. | A man was left in "excruciating agony" with serious chemical burns when a stranger sprayed acid at him though his car window, a court has heard. | 1.190013 | 1 |
"Valencia have opened a disciplinary procedure involving player Sofiane Feghouli," the club said on Monday.
"The player will be suspended as a cautionary measure."
The 26-year-old, who was used as a second-half substitute on Sunday, also reportedly missed training last week. | Algeria international Sofiane Feghouli has been suspended by his Spanish club Valencia amid reports he refused to take part in a warm-down after Sunday's 2-1 win over Sevilla. | 0.155998 | 0 |
The character is seen dying as a result of an arrow to the head from Hawkeye, his Avengers teammate, in the third issue of Civil War II.
Banner has been the Hulk's alter ego since the character's creation in 1962.
However, for the last year, readers have seen Banner medicating himself to keep his anger management issues under control.
During that time, a Korean-American teenage genius named Amadeus Cho has taken over as the new human alter-ego of The Hulk.
"This is uncharted territory for us," Marvel's editor in chief Axel Alonso told the New York Daily News.
"Only two things are for certain: It will take a long, long time for our heroes to come to terms with his loss, and the circumstance surrounding his death will leave a huge scar on the superhero community."
In the latest edition of Civil War II, Hawkeye is seen killing his friend on the belief Banner is about to turn into the Hulk and unleash massive death and destruction.
Banner had recently asked him for a mercy killing in the event of any disaster.
His death comes a week after Marvel announced Riri Williams, a 15-year-old African-American girl, will become the new Iron Man.
Marvel has previously brought back characters after their apparent death - including Captain America and Spider-Man, who returned within a year of their demise.
It is not yet clear whether Banner could return in a similar way, but Marvel indicated there were no plans for a return. | Marvel has killed off The Hulk's human alter ego Bruce Banner in its latest comic. | 1.508663 | 2 |
The £3m earth dam on the River Gaunless in County Durham was part of an £8.8m flood prevention scheme.
The Environment Agency said it would still work but it is spending £1.25m securing the mine workings below it.
Project manager Jonny Lyttle said of the sites available when it was building the dam, the agency had chosen the one with the fewest mine workings.
The work to secure the dam after recent subsidence was "vital" he said.
"It's something we don't take any chances with," he said.
The Spring Gardens dam was built after West Auckland and South Church were badly affected by floods in 2000.
It won the Green Apple Award for design and good environmental practice during construction. | Land around an award-winning dam has started sinking after being built above disused mineshafts. | 2.324959 | 2 |
Gatting, 27, nephew of former England captain Mike, leaves after two seasons having joined from Sussex in 2013.
Left-arm seamer Barber, 20, made two List A appearances for Hampshire having come through the county's academy.
Akram made just one List A first-team appearance against Yorkshire in 2014 after signing for the club last season.
"All three have been popular members of the squad," said Hampshire director of cricket Giles White.
"It's always a sad time, but we would like to thank them for their hard work and commitment over the last two years and we wish them well for the future." | Hampshire have released batsman Joe Gatting as well as bowlers Basil Akram and Tom Barber after the trio reached the end of their contracts. | 0.496766 | 0 |
The 34-year-old former Leicester and Charlton player signed an 18-month contract with the Championship side.
Kermorgant spent two years with the Cherries and scored 15 goals last season to help them win promotion to the Premier League.
"We have an experienced striker who will be able to work with our young players," said manager Brian McDermott.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | French striker Yann Kermorgant has joined Reading from Bournemouth for an undisclosed fee. | 0.637293 | 1 |
Miyuki Harwood, 62, failed to return from a solo hike on 21 August and fellow hikers alerted authorities.
Foot, helicopter and drone searches had failed to find her but she was finally located near Courtright reservoir in Fresno County on Saturday.
Rescuers said she had suffered broken bones but was conscious and "very grateful" to be found.
California Highway Patrol flight officer Rusty Hotchkiss told reporters: "She was really at the end of the time period when we thought she could survive."
He said Ms Harwood had heard nearby rescuers on Saturday morning.
"She heard them talking, she heard voices and she grabbed a whistle she had with her. That alerted the rescuers to find her," Mr Hotchkiss said.
He said she had crawled for two days down to the creek.
Ms Harwood, from Orangevale in California's Sacramento County, has been taken to hospital for treatment.
She had reportedly had no food and had been drinking water from the creek using a water filter.
The rescue effort had been hampered by smoke from a wildfire in the Kings Canyon National Park. | An American hiker missing for nine days in California's rugged Sierra Nevada has been found alive. | 1.778072 | 2 |
Norman was on loan to Allen Smith, 65, when he took flight from his workplace in Flitwick on 9 January.
The bird, who boasts a 6ft (1.8m) wingspan, was found at midday on Monday on an industrial estate in Barton-le-Clay.
Mr Smith, who caught him using a dead wild rabbit as bait, said he was "over the moon".
The handler said when Norman grabbed hold of the meat he managed to get hold of the straps that were still on his feet and put him in his car.
"He is now sat in the back of the car as if nothing has happened," he said.
"The help [finding him] has been fabulous and the response fantastic."
Norman had evaded capture despite numerous sightings in the past two weeks.
After making his escape, the bird, who stands roughly 3ft (0.9m) tall, was spotted in Stewartby, about five miles from Flitwick and Lidlington, before being seen roosting in a tree at Center Parcs, near Flitwick, on 16 January.
Mr Smith walked around the site but did not see him.
Two days later, the bird was spotted in a Flitton garden, where the handler got within 50 yards of the bird before "he flew off". | A golden eagle that escaped from a Bedfordshire falconer more than two weeks ago has been captured. | 1.311264 | 1 |
Brian McIlhagga, 42, was killed by a masked gang at Riverview Park in Ballymoney just before 22:30 GMT on 5 January.
The father-of-five was dragged from the house, beaten and shot.
Three men, aged 22, 31 and 46, have been questioned by detectives but were later released unconditionally.
The detective leading the investigation said officers had carried out searches and interviewed dozens of people.
"It is my firm belief that there are still people in the community, in Riverview Park, in Ballymoney and in Ballymena who have yet to come forward," said Det Ch Insp Michael Harvey.
"These people may have information about the events of last Monday night, something they saw or heard, or they may have information about Brian McIlhagga or the men who were involved in his murder.
"I would ask them to think about the devastation his death has caused to his immediate family, not least his five children, and his wider circle of friends.
"For as long as those responsible for this attack remain at large, they represent a threat to anyone in the north Antrim area even though it is a largely peaceful community."
A 32-year-old woman and four children under the age of 13 were in the house when Mr McIlhagga was killed. The woman was assaulted by the gang.
The detective said it was a "vicious, brutal and sustained attack on a man who was visiting his friend".
He appealed for anyone who saw or heard anything in the Riverview Park area at the time to contact police.
"I am also still interested in activity around the railway station in Ballymoney which is in the same general area as the house at Riverview Park where Brian was attacked," he said. | Police investigating the murder of a man in County Antrim have revisited the scene a week after he was killed, in an attempt to find more witnesses. | 0.931906 | 1 |
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