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Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said out of nearly 1.5 million women eligible for a smear test last year, only 76.6% had been screened.
The charity found attendance had dropped among all age groups.
It said incidences of cervical cancer could be cut by 21% in just one year, if uptake could reach 85%.
According to the charity, the five-year cervical screening uptake has been falling since 2001-2002 when it was at 86.5%.
The exception was 2009 when celebrity Jade Goody's death from the disease resulted in increased attendance.
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said its cervical screening awareness campaign #SmearForSmear, which targeted women aged between 25 and 29 last year, improved attendance from that age group.
It is relaunching the campaign at the start of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week to encourage more women to attend screenings.
It also aims to highlight a trend of declining attendance as age increases.
Last year in Scotland, screening coverage for 50-54 year olds was 82.1%, down from 89.3% nine years ago. Meanwhile, coverage for 55 to 59-year-olds fell from 86.8% to to 78.7%.
Cervical cancer facts and figures:
Source: Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust
Jo's chief executive Robert Music said: "Cervical cancer is a preventable disease and we cannot afford for screening uptake to keep falling.
"So it is a matter of urgency that we see positive actions to turn around the downward trend in cervical screening uptake and we are urging policy makers and health professionals to increase investment in targeted approaches to tackle barriers to screening for women of every age, ethnicity, location and circumstance."
Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said: "The earlier a cancer is detected the easier it is to treat.
"We know that screening is the best way to detect cervical cancer at its earliest stage.
"Through our £39m Detect Cancer Early programme we aim to increase the proportion of cancers detected at the early stage of disease and raise awareness of all cancers and screening programmes amongst the public and health professionals, and crucially, save more lives each year."
He added: "While 70% of eligible women took up their invitation to be screened for cervical cancer in the last three years, it is essential that every woman in Scotland eligible for screening takes up their invitation to attend." | The number of Scottish women who attend screenings for cervical cancer is falling, according to a national charity. | 35391728 |
The 25-year-old Samoa international joined Salford on a two-year deal this week after leaving Brisbane Broncos.
Vidot has previously spoken about considering a career in wrestling.
"We'd actually spoke about him and then three weeks later we were told that he was going to be signing for the WWE," Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester.
Salford's director of rugby, Tim Sheens, then looked into it further to see if Vidot was definitely going to be joining the world's biggest wrestling company.
"Tim said he was going to do a little bit more digging and find out how true everything was with that," Watson added.
"Tim's gone back there and said he's hoping to be looking at a contract so that's when we moved forward with our plans."
With Watson and Sheens planning for next season there could be more arrivals at the AJ Bell Stadium ahead of the new season.
"There's a couple at the moment that we're speaking to and in negotiations with but we'll have to see whether they come off," added Watson.
"At the moment we're building a good, solid squad here with people who are going to be competitive and work hard for each other." | New Salford Red Devils signing Daniel Vidot nearly moved to WWE wrestling before joining the Super League side. | 34780771 |
Both clubs have also been punished for the throwing of objects by fans and crowd disturbances, with United fined £44,342 and Liverpool £43,577.
Liverpool have also been sanctioned for setting off fireworks and a late kick-off, while United were charged for stairways blocked at their stadium.
The Anfield side must also pay for damage caused by fans at Old Trafford.
Both clubs' fines include £15,290 suspended for two years.
Rival fans were seen fighting in the stands, seats were thrown and flares were lit during the 1-1 second-leg draw at Old Trafford, during which five men were arrested.
Some fans of both clubs sang songs related to tragedies involving the other side as Liverpool won the tie 3-1 on aggregate.
Europe's governing body was made aware of the allegations of chanting about the Munich disaster and the Hillsborough tragedy.
In 1958, eight United players were among 23 people who died after their plane caught fire and crashed in Munich.
The Hillsborough tragedy saw 96 Liverpool fans die at an FA Cup semi-final tie with Nottingham Forest in 1989.
Before the second leg, police had to remove a banner on the M602 motorway in Salford designed to taunt Liverpool fans heading to Old Trafford. | Liverpool and Manchester United have been fined by Uefa for illicit chants during their Europa League last-16 tie. | 36372274 |
The 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, real name James Russan, was charged following an incident on Lambeth Road, Kennington, on 16 July.
Mr Cox, 28, is charged with common assault, violence to secure entry, harassment and criminal damage.
The case at Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court was adjourned.
He is due before Croydon Magistrates' Court on 12 January, 2016. | The WBO European super-middleweight boxer Jamie Cox has appeared in court following an alleged assault in south-west London. | 33921034 |
The man approached the 18-year-old women and made a lewd comment towards them during the incident on the B9112 road at Aberdargie.
The incident took place at about 16:30 on Wednesday.
The suspect was described as of dark-skinned Asian appearance, about 30 years old, with short dark hair, and stubble.
He was formally dressed, wearing a baggy white shirt, bow tie and dark dress trousers. | Police are hunting a man wearing a bow tie who indecently exposed himself to two teenagers near Perth. | 40530868 |
The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) published the figures, drawn from HM Revenue and Customs data.
They show that the number of bottles released to the market rose from 83.3m in 2014 to 84.9m last year.
However, that is still about a quarter less than a decade ago. In 2005, 107m bottles were released for retail in Britain.
There have never been more than 100m bottles since 2008.
British tastes have changed and the industry's marketing effort has gone into fast-growing export markets.
The SWA said the boost in demand was helped by the 2% cut in excise duty on spirits in last year's Westminster Budget - only the fourth cut in whisky duty in the past century.
It is reckoned that the duty cut helped boost spirits sales and helped the Treasury raise £107m more in revenue.
The reduction followed the freeze and scrapping of the alcohol duty escalator, which was pushing up prices faster than inflation.
The SWA has been lobbying the Treasury to cut duty again, saying that a 76% tax take on the average-priced bottle of Scotch whisky is still too high.
David Frost, chief executive of the SWA, commented: "A strong UK market is vital, particularly for new entrants to the industry.
"In the last two years, nine new distilleries have started production in Scotland and they need a strong domestic base to grow from.
"The UK is still the third biggest market for Scotch, but it is fragile and competitive."
The industry also claims that relatively high tax on spirits in the UK encourages other countries to levy high tax on Scotch-strength spirits, which can mean an advantage to their own, domestic, lower-strength liquor.
The measure of demand in the industry is based on HMRC figures of bottles released from whisky bonds - the point at which they are taxed. That is not a measure of how much wholesalers and retailers sell. | Demand for Scotch whisky went up last year, reversing a longer-term decline, according to new figures. | 35707259 |
This "stellar occultation" occurs when a planetary body hides a star as it moves across the sky.
A US-led team of 18 astronomy groups used the occasion to study KBO 55636 from the Kuiper Belt on the outskirts of the Solar System.
They tell the journal Nature that the occultation lasted only 10 seconds.
But this was enough time to determine the object's size and albedo, or reflectivity, the team said.
The Kuiper Belt is a collection of space objects, remnants from the Solar System's formation.
These objects lie beyond the orbit of the Solar System's most remote planet, Neptune.
The Kuiper Belt is similar to the asteroid belt, but instead of being composed of mainly rock and metal, most of its bodies are frozen volatiles - methane, ammonia and water.
So far, scientists have detected over a thousand Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), but they believe that there may be as many as 70,000 of them.
The lead author of the study, MIT professor of planetary astronomy, James Elliot, told BBC News that the recently observed KBO 55636 probably formed as a result of a space collision about one billion years ago.
He said that a dwarf planet known as Haumea might have been hit by another object, and this impact caused Haumea's icy mantle to break into a dozen smaller pieces, including KBO 55636.
The Kuiper Belt is home to several dwarf planets, one of which is Pluto.
Prof Elliot explained that in order to spot KBO 55636 as it passed in front of a star, he had to get together a team of 42 astronomers from 18 observation stations located in Australia, South Africa, Mexico and the US.
"For several years, we've been accurately measuring the position of the KBO.
"With an accurate orbit, we just projected where it was going to be in the sky and looked for stars that it might occult."
The scientist explained that it was hard to predict exactly where the KBO would pass.
In order "to be on the safe side", his team used a number of observation stations along a 5,900km stretch of the Earth's surface that corresponded to the predicted shadow path of the space body.
"It was our way of hedging our bets," he said.
Out of the 18 telescopes aimed at the sky, only two stations, both in Hawaii, managed to detect the 10-second-long stellar occultation.
The researchers then measured the exact amount of time that the star was blocked from view and the velocity of the KBO's shadow moving across Hawaii.
Using this data, the team determined the object's size - about 300km in diameter - and its albedo, or ability to reflect light.
The scientists thought that the surface of KBO 55636 would be rather dull, unable to reflect much light due to space weathering, dust accumulation and bombardment by cosmic rays.
But the results were unexpected, said Prof Elliot.
"We found out that this object is much smaller than we thought before and that it is very reflective - it reflects most of the light that hits the surface."
He explained that the surface is probably made of ice - very much like the surface of Pluto.
But bigger objects, such as Pluto or Saturn's moon Enceladus, are able to brighten their surfaces with a fresh supply of ice from processes such as cryovolcanism which sees ice - not lava - spew from the interior of the objects.
This explanation did not really apply to the KBO due to its tiny size and the time it had spent floating in space, said the professor.
"I am not sure [why the albedo is so high]. Maybe because water-ice surfaces are more robust and don't get darkened by cosmic ray impacts and other things that darken other surfaces." | Astronomers say they have observed, for the first time, a distant icy world orbiting beyond Neptune as it passed briefly in front of a bright star. | 10333601 |
The Welsh rower's time of 14 minutes 28.4 seconds over two 1900m singles races ensured a repeat of her trials win in November.
Five-time Olympic champion Sir Steve Redgrave said in November he was sure Thornley, 28, would go to Rio.
"I want to win an Olympic medal, preferably gold," she said.
Thornley won the women's single scull 5km trials race in Boston, Lincolnshire in November, but there are doubts over her double sculls place.
She has been competing alongside Scotland's Katherine Grainger, having been in the women's eight at London 2012.
They are regarded as the fastest individuals, but questions have been raised over their double sculls combination, with the pair only finishing sixth at the World Championships in Aiguebelette this year.
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, who won GB's first gold at London 2012, will continue in the pair for Rio.
However, Thornley believes continuing to impress in the build-up to the Games can secure her a place in Brazil.
"I will want to be in the boat with the best chance of winning a medal," she said.
"I was really pleased with the weekend. I won the trial in November so wanted to keep myself at the top of the team in the singles results.
"I did that and had a good margin over the second place."
She added: "Fundamentally it comes down to what the coaches feel they want to prioritise.
"But the better results you have, the more sway you might have over the decisions that are made." | Victoria Thornley says she will not let up in her bid for a 2016 Olympics spot in Rio after topping the rankings at Team GB's latest trial event. | 35146150 |
Alex Schalk's last-minute goal gave County a 2-1 victory over Hibernian in the League Cup final at Hampden.
"He really deserves it. He's put Dingwall on the map and he's been absolutely fantastic for this club. He is Mr Ross County," McIntyre said.
"For us to be able to give him a bit of silverware is so pleasing."
McIntyre concedes his players rode their luck at times, but believes they are fully deserving of their winners medals.
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"We've taken our chances when it counts," he noted. "These games are all about winning.
"Nobody ever remembers the losers. That was my message to the players."
It was a momentous day in the history of the Highlands outfit, who have finished fifth, seventh and ninth since promotion to the Premiership in 2012, and currently lie fourth in the table with nine games left.
MacGregor says he hopes County's achievement will spur other smaller clubs in Scotland on to greater things.
"I'm really proud for everyone and delighted for these fans," said the chairman. "Absolutely incredible. We've been on a journey together and this is not the end of the journey. We look forward to the next chapter.
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"We've just got to battle on and see if we can come in the top six of the league. It will be a milestone for the club if we can do that.
"We're a community club and hopefully that gives encouragement to all the community clubs in Scotland."
Match-winner Schalk, 23, says the cup win is just reward for a squad who "go through hell" together.
"We fought so hard today," said the Dutchman, who joined the club last October. "They're a great side Hibs, and played fantastic. Second half, we fought for each other.
"The whole season with his squad, we go through hell for each other. The 90th-minute goal couldn't be better for me though.
"It was a fantastic counter-attack. I am where I'm supposed to be as a striker. Tap-in, 2-1, cup-winners."
County assistant manager Billy Dodds was pleased at how well the team recovered after a nervy opening to the match.
"Hibs were the better team first half. I thought we froze a little bit. It was an eachy-peachy second half, could have gone either way.
"I thought we stuck in, worked hard and we got the break.
"I'm just delighted. I would have hated this bunch of lads to go on and lose this. I don't know what would've happened." | Ross County manager Jim McIntyre paid tribute to the club's chairman Roy MacGregor after leading the Staggies to their first major trophy. | 35798230 |
Visitors sitting across the desk from the billionaire on the 66th floor of his office in the Saudi capital Riyadh have to fight for him to focus on them as opposed to the 20 televisions screening 24-hour Arabic and English news stations.
The Arab world's richest man and occasional hunter grips his remote control like a revolver and channel-hops in between sentences. He doesn't like to miss a beat.
In his drawer sits a constantly updated spreadsheet listing how the world's media values his assets, publication by publication, from Forbes magazine to The Sunday Times newspaper. He's fastidious about its accuracy, recently suing Forbes as he claimed billions of dollars were missing from their calculations.
Framed pictures of the relevant pages line the office, next to photographs of Nelson Mandela, George W Bush and Queen Elizabeth with the 60-year-old prince.
The head of Kingdom Holdings, worth an estimated $32bn (£20bn), recently rubbed shoulders with around 100 other CEOs at Bill Gates's annual gathering in Seattle of the world's most influential bosses, one of the leading business hubs on the US West Coast.
It was his fifth meeting with Bill Gates and possibly the one that triggered him to promise this week that his entire personal fortune would be used after his death for humanitarian projects and initiatives.
The prince said he had been inspired by the Gates Foundation, set up by the Microsoft co-founder and his wife Melinda in 1997.
It was two gifts he received as a young prince that first started the nephew of King Salman's journey to the top.
They came from his father Prince Talal, the liberal former Saudi communications minister.
He got $330,000 after completing a business degree in California in 1979, but the investments he made with the money flopped.
After getting a further $600,000, which he invested in Saudi Arabia's construction industry in the 1980s, his luck changed. Suddenly Prince Alwaleed began to make money and diversify his investments.
The following decade he landed his biggest break yet with a $590m stake in what is now Citigroup. By 2005 the millions had become billions.
As the owner of 95% of Kingdom Holdings, a publicly traded company on the Saudi stock exchange, investments in a range of companies soon paid off for the prince.
The list is a mouth-watering array of high-end and household names ranging from hotels, restaurants, real-estate portfolios, petrochemical, agriculture and healthcare companies and major stakes in the worlds of publishing, entertainment and social media.
To manage his vast portfolio, the workaholic works and plays by his own rules.
He sleeps until 11:00 but that's because he works until 06:00. He builds into his day a calorie-controlled diet and a reflective early morning walk around his estate.
A small band of his closest employees are only required to work six hours a day in his office but won't ever be seen on a coffee break. The prince thinks it's more efficient that way.
He makes his staff's personal issues his business. The father-of-two can be admirably hands-on if an employee needs help but former workers have spoken to journalists about his aggressively short fuse if they suddenly fall out of favour.
Then there are the dwarves.
Whichever press reports you choose to believe, one thing is for sure: he has lots of them on one of many luxurious estates and they are there for entertainment purposes.
The bon viveur's team insists the dwarves are grateful recipients of his work ethic and jobs, in a country with high unemployment.
Yet despite playing the jester in his waterfall, spa and sauna-filled, hundred-million-dollar desert resorts, Prince Alwaleed doesn't himself suffer fools gladly. If someone hasn't done their research on an issue, he can stop a conversation dead in its tracks.
He also doesn't do small talk. He is a man on a mission.
His pioneering spirit is evident in his company's employment of women, who make up two-thirds of his staff. They include one of his pilots, in a country where women aren't allowed to drive. Some reports do question whether she actually gets the chance to fly one of his many private jets or not - but that's almost missing the point.
And that is, despite owning hundreds of cars, Donald Trump's old yacht and a fleet of jets, Prince Alwaleed's main obsession is often to use his financial empire to send out audacious social, political and philanthropic messages.
His latest pledge may indeed be the one he is most remembered for. | Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's attention span may be just seconds but his attention to detail is huge. | 33370118 |
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So for now, the thousands of fans who turned up to chant his name from the grandstands on a baking hot summer afternoon - and the thousands more around the world willing him on - will have to wait to see how this remarkable story will end.
In truth, even to have got this far is incredible.
Driving around the Hungaroring, setting apparently competitive times, completing long and short runs, giving "excellent" feedback to the Renault engineers, the 32-year-old Pole looked for all the world like any other grand prix driver.
He is anything but.
Six and a half years ago, Kubica was in hospital in northern Italy fighting for his life. A horrific rally accident, in which a steel roadside barrier penetrated his car, and then its driver, left him with multiple fractures down the right-hand side of his body and a partially severed right arm.
That arm and hand bear the effects of that accident to this day - visibly atrophied, held awkwardly, it has clearly limited strength and partial movement.
More than two years after the accident, Kubica referred to a potential F1 return as a "nearly impossible" dream. Yet here he was completing two grand prix distances on one of the toughest tracks on the calendar.
One can only imagine the difficulties Kubica has faced, the determination and mental fortitude it has taken to get to this point.
When he crashed his rally car in February 2011, he was weeks away from starting his fifth full F1 season. He was regarded as one of the shining talents of his generation, a man whose ability could be regarded in the same bracket as superstar world champions Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso.
He was driving in the rally because he enjoyed it, but also because he believed it would make him a better driver. But then he lost control, and the pictures of the aftermath of the accident tell their own story.
It took an hour to get him out of the car. Once in hospital, the first operation - he has since had 17 more - was seven hours long.
"The reality was the first big moment I was fighting to be alive," Kubica said in a BBC Sport interview on the eve of Wednesday's test.
"People are concentrating only on my arm because it is the biggest limitation. But the reality is I had fractures from my feet up to my shoulders on the right-hand side.
"I had many fractures and that's why it was so complicated and takes so long to recover. But of course my arm was the most damaged.
"The first two months were tough. I was lucky I was a sportsman and driving F1. That's probably why my arm is still there.
"But on the other hand there are moments when you have to forget who you are but you are a human being. This is maybe something where the situation was not easy to cope."
Eighteen months after the accident, Kubica was back in a rally car - and he won the first event he took part in.
"People were seeing me and concentrating on getting me as fast as possible back to the car," he said. "In the end, I decided first I have to wake up in the morning happy, then I can start to be a racing driver.
"It probably took me over two years to get back to a reasonable level. I had for months, even a full year, pain everywhere depending on the conditions I was in.
"You have to first of all feel good with yourself before doing something which requires being fast or driving a racing car. It is not that I lost my biggest passion - it is still racing. But also my general life has changed a lot and this was crucial."
By 2013, Kubica's arm was sufficiently recovered for him to do some work in the Mercedes F1 simulator, but it did not have the necessary movement for him to drive an F1 car. He was not able to rotate his wrist enough - he could turn left only by lifting his elbow, which is not possible in an F1 cockpit.
Instead, he turned to rallying, and spent three seasons competing in the world championship, proving blisteringly fast and brave, but prone to big crashes.
By the end of 2015, the money had run out.
"I didn't know if I would get the chance to return to F1," Kubica said, "but after rally time I had a difficult period. I was weighing 10kg, perhaps 15kg, over normal weight. So I started preparing."
He systematically tried a range of racing cars to see if he could be competitive in them, explored the idea of returns in DTM German touring cars and the World Endurance Championship.
The turning point was around last December, when he spent some time in the simulator at the Italian racing car constructor Dallara, and realised an F1 return might now be a realistic possibility.
"I needed to get back in a proper rhythm of my life and if the chance will come I need to get the maximum out of it," he said. "In most of the cars I was able to achieve what was my target and four months ago nobody could expect this and that's why I really appreciate the chance Renault are giving me. But I want to do my best."
The guys at Renault had kept in touch, and they suggested a one-off test in a 2012 F1 car.
This came in Valencia in June. It was about completing the circle more than anything else, just to give him a chance to try it again after so long. But he impressed so much - completing more than 100 laps, quicker than the team's reserve driver - that a second test, this time much more serious, was arranged.
At Paul Ricard in the south of France, on the Wednesday before the British Grand Prix, Renault held a test so focused on a potential return that it included hairpins, both left and right, to see if he could negotiate them. He did.
He passed the extrication test - when a driver has to get himself out of the cockpit within five seconds - at the first attempt and was again quick and consistent, and provided technical feedback of remarkable sharpness and insight.
"Part of this testing is also to know better myself," Kubica said. "My life has changed. I know what a big influence the injury has on daily life.
"Everyone sees me as a driver, but in the end I am a human being, I do usual stuff at home. I train, I cycle, most of the stuff most of the people do. My limitations have a bigger influence on daily life than in driving cars."
And in the car?
"From the sensitivity point of view, I am at a good level. The biggest problem is not only the strength, it is the movement limitations. On the front arm I don't have proper supination, so I cannot twist my front arm and wrist, so this is actually the biggest limitation."
Kubica won just one race in his F1 career - the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix. So why, some may wonder, is there such a fuss about his potential comeback?
One one level, the answer to that is obvious. If a man with this sort of disability can return to F1 after more than six years and be competitive, it would rank as one of the greatest comebacks in the history of sport.
But beyond that, there is the possibility of a mega-talent being back in F1.
"Robert's one of the quickest drivers I've ever raced against," said Hamilton. "He's one of the best drivers I've driven against.
"Just raw, natural talent, which I think as a sport it's a shame we don't have here with us - because there's not a lot that comes through. Not a lot of great, great drivers come through. You have some that are much better than the rest, but still not the greatest, and then you have real special drivers like him."
Kubica's last season was his finest. In the Renault, not a fully competitive car, he put in some stunning performances, the best ones at the three greatest drivers' circuits on the calendar - Monaco, Spa and Suzuka. He qualified second, third and fourth at those races, places the car had no right to be. And was equally impressive in the grands prix.
Kubica had to stop his TV interviews immediately after qualifying in Japan because he found he could not speak. He went away to sit by himself for 10 minutes while he contemplated what he had just done.
Renault sporting director Alan Permane, who has been instrumental in organising Kubica's tests, says: "Suzuka qualifying in 2010 was a lap like I've never seen from anyone else, ever. He came in absolutely white, having scared the life out of himself."
From a man who has been in F1 for more than 25 years and worked alongside Michael Schumacher and Alonso, that is quite a compliment.
Kubica's comeback has developed a momentum of its own since that first test in Valencia for no other reason than the strength of his performances.
The seriousness with which Renault are taking this is evident from how little they are saying about it - details are hard to come by; team members simply will not speak about the tests other than in the broadest terms.
The last question in the minds of both Kubica and the team was whether he could handle a 2017 car.
On Wednesday, he completed 142 laps in temperatures in the mid-to-high 30Cs. His fastest lap times were a little slower than those set by Jolyon Palmer, the slower of the two Renault race drivers, in qualifying at last weekend's race.
But it is notoriously hard to make a judgement from lap times in testing, because the teams do not give details of the specifications they run in. Track conditions also vary.
It was hotter, and therefore slower, on Wednesday than on the race weekend. But there was more rubber on the track, which would make it faster.
Fuel loads also have a big effect. Had, for example, Kubica been running with 30kg of fuel on those laps, a normal sort of testing fuel load, that is worth an extra second of lap time.
At the same time, Kubica was nearly two seconds quicker than what Canadian Nicholas Latifi, a Formula Two driver, managed on the first day of the test.
And when he did a long run shortly after lunch, his laps were quicker than the best times Palmer and team-mate Nico Hulkenberg set in the race on the same type of tyres.
In a team statement, Kubica said it was "too early" to say what the next step might be. But was there a hint when he told the media, "I would like more opportunities but the reality is that we have to wait and see"?
He also said he was happy "but not 100% happy" with how the day went, and that he would be quicker if he drove again. But then he has always had a reputation for demanding a lot - of both himself and the people he works with.
Renault will know what they have seen, and if that is anything like the Kubica of old, it would be no surprise to see him in the car in place of Palmer at some point this year, perhaps even from the next race in Belgium at the end of this month.
"I don't know if it will happen and I don't know how big a chance I have," Kubica told the BBC on Tuesday. "Most of the people would love it. It is a nice story. As a fan, someone coming back six years after a big injury, I would have big admiration.
"But in the end the one who is risking all that I have is myself, because first of all if I come back I don't want to do it just to come back. I need to be sure I am able at least to come as close as possible to the level I was before my accident. This will be the target. Before doing it, I need to be sure I am able to do this.
"People who know me, they know if I am here, they know I think I can do it. To be honest, even if I am not racing, I am just testing. The last three months are probably the best three months of my life in motorsport." | Robert Kubica was giving nothing away after his highly anticipated return to the wheel of a contemporary Formula 1 car on Wednesday. | 40780771 |
Last year, the UK government insisted that someone must earn at least £18,600 a year before they are eligible to bring their partner to the UK.
David Hook says he earns the minimum wage as a security officer in Swansea - and cannot meet the new earning target.
A BBC Wales investigation found the rules would apply to half the Welsh workforce.
Mr Hook said: "In south Wales I was working as a construction labourer on the minimum wage. You're not going to make that [minimum income] a year. Now I'm working in security and again most of that is minimum wage.
"The most I've ever earned is about £14,000 a year - and that was working 70, 75 hours a week."
The 45-year-old had not seen his wife Dee for a year, until a recent reunion at Gatwick airport.
But it was not a happy meeting - she was refused entry to the UK by immigration officials and was detained for two days in a removal centre.
"I never want to have to do that again - tell my wife that she's not allowed to come and see me," he told the BBC Wales Eye on Wales programme.
"It hurts. It hurts me, it hurts her. She's crying, I'm crying.
"Anger's the only thing that's getting me through this. If I stop being angry, I cry."
The new rules brought in by the UK government apply to non-EU citizens like Mrs Hook.
But the legality of the new system has been challenged in the courts.
As a result, all spouse visa applications have been frozen - including the Hooks'.
The decision has left them in a legal limbo, and led to some tough decisions for 42-year-old Mrs Hook.
"Due to the length of time for them to process our original application I've had to pull my application to attend my son's wedding in the Philippines in December," she explained.
"So we have to start all over.
"It was almost like having to choose between my husband and my son."
The UK Border Agency says its decision not to allow Mrs Hook into the country as a visitor was on the basis of that previous application for a visa as a spouse.
A spokesman told BBC Wales: "In light of this application, and following further enquiries, our officers were not satisfied she would leave the UK after a short visit as claimed."
The Migration Observatory, based at Oxford University, says the new minimum income requirement for sponsoring a family visa for a partner from outside the EU is substantially higher than the previous one.
It estimates that 51% of working people in Wales do not earn enough to meet the new requirements.
Official government statistics estimate that the average (median) income of households in Wales in 2010 was £18,000 - again under the threshold.
The issue is now being considered by the courts, after a ruling in July this year that while the minimum earning threshold was not unlawful, it was "onerous" and "unjustified".
The High Court has urged the Home Office to to reduce the threshold to about £13,000 a year - a move that the government is appealing against.
In the meantime, David and Dee Hook are hoping to find a way around the regulations, using EU legislation.
If Mr Hook can find work in another EU country, such as the Republic of Ireland, for three months, his wife will legally be able to join him there.
Under freedom of movement laws, the couple could then move back to the UK.
But Mr Hook said it was doubtful they would ever return.
"I think we are probably going to move to another country and we are probably going to stay there," he said.
"It's going to affect my relationship with my children - my youngest is 16 years old - but it's either that or my wife.
"Based on the way this country has treated my family, I hold no loyalty to it."
Eye on Wales is on BBC Radio Wales on Sunday 27 October at 13:30 GMT. | A Swansea man says "unjust" changes to visa rules are stopping him from bringing his Canadian wife to Wales. | 24676361 |
In My Mother and Other Strangers, the peace of a small Tyrone parish is disturbed when an American airbase opens nearby.
The five-part series is set in the forties and was written by well-known musician and screenwriter Barry Devlin.
"It's like a big spaceship floating into this rural place," he said.
"It's set in a parish called Moybeg, which might or might not be something to do with a real parish called Ardboe.
"In 1942 this enormous airbase was dropped right into the middle of it, which let all of these exotic creatures with ray-bans and proper uniforms out into the parish."
The series stars Hattie Morahan as Rose Coyne and Owen McDonnell as her husband Michael.
However, Hattie falls in love with the American Captain Ronald Dreyfuss, played by Aaron Staton, best known for his role as Ken Cosgrove in Mad Men.
According to Staton, playing Dreyfuss meant learning more about his own grandfather, who fought in the battle of the Bulge in 1944.
"I've always been very proud of his service and it made me think about my grandfather although his experience was probably very different," he said.
"But it certainly made me wonder about what he saw.
"This actually happened, these bases in Northern Ireland.
"You've got these kids who've left home to possibly go off and die, and they're coming and disturbing what was a peaceful community.
"They feel at times entitled to a bit of fun as part of their service, but it's disrupting what would have been a quiet parish.
"It's my character's position to try to help these two worlds understand one another."
The character Rose is English, although she has lived in Moybeg for nearly two decades since marrying Michael.
According to Barry Devlin, that means she also has to confront different attitudes to the war and the Americans from some of the other villagers.
"There's a certain amount of resistance to the Americans coming in," he said.
"Some of that is just the kind of envy young men who don't have much money feel for young men who do.
"That's a kind of a volatile and potent mix."
Devlin has previous written episodes of hit series like The Darling Buds of May and Ballykissangel.
Did he have to change elements of Northern Irish life for a UK audience?
"It is a universal story but it's also very unique and is about a particular place," he said.
"I'm hoping that people will become part of Moybeg rather than Moybeg trying to simplify itself.
"I've slightly modified the language, but the quirks and uniqueness of a parish is something I've celebrated."
The BBC Northern Ireland production was filmed in early 2016, in locations around Strangford Lough.
For Aaron Staton it meant some time to enjoy Northern Ireland with his family when he was not working.
"I think it's maybe the most beautiful place that we've ever seen," he said.
"We went up to the Giant's Causeway and we drove down the coast.
"The people were refreshingly sweet and direct too."
'My Mother and Other Strangers' begins on Sunday 13 November at 21:00 GMT on BBC One | It is a drama about what happens when two very different worlds collide in wartime. | 37955826 |
Andrew RT Davies told party activists: "It's me, or him. The maths is simple - only the Conservatives can do it."
He said the 2016 election offered the chance to end 17 years of Labour Welsh government, and create a "new Wales".
Earlier, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb said Wales was "letting go of Labour" as people said "enough is enough".
Mr Davies told the Conservative party conference, in Manchester, the assembly election offered a chance to "smash" the "cosy consensus" in Wales.
The Welsh Conservative party, he argued, was Wales' "anti-establishment party".
"We are the real party of Wales. And we are the alternative.
"We're the only party that won't prop up another five more years of Labour rule.
"And only the Welsh Conservatives can stop Carwyn Jones becoming first minister again."
"It's me, or him."
Mr Davies said the May 2016 poll would also be a referendum on the Welsh NHS, promising the Tories would "invest in more paramedics, in better access to cancer treatments, in more accountability and in better patient choice".
He promised new measures to cut waiting times, improve care, and provide "more patient-friendly services".
On education, Mr Davies said that sending school budgets directly to schools, rather than via local authorities, "could mean hundreds of thousands more pounds reaching the frontline in every single school".
He also promised to start a "small business revolution", including plans to reduce business rates for smaller firms, provide "localised access to finance" and revive high streets.
Speaking earlier, Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb insisted Wales had "had enough" of the "stuffy Welsh Labour establishment taking their communities and their voters for granted".
He said new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn may think he is "coming home to 'Real Labour' when he visits Wales .... where he can see a Welsh Labour government that has banned academies and banned free schools and abolished Right to Buy".
"But he will also see that Wales is letting go of Labour…. as people across Wales say 'enough is enough.'" | The Tories are the only party that will not "prop up" another five years of Labour rule in Wales under Carwyn Jones, the Welsh Tory leader has said | 34454031 |
Linda Norgrove, 36, from Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland, was employed by US aid group DAI. She was seized with three local staff on 26 September.
Their two-car convoy was ambushed in the eastern province of Kunar.
Ms Norgrove was killed by her captors on Friday during a rescue mission by US forces.
Her colleagues were released unharmed last week.
The Briton is believed to have been taken by her captors from village to village as British, Afghan and other intelligence agencies worked in the remote and mountainous area of Kunar province to locate her.
Both the prime minister and Foreign Secretary William Hague were kept fully informed and British approval was given for a rescue mission to be mounted on Friday night, involving US forces with British officials offering advice.
In a statement, Mr Hague said the aid worker was "killed at the hands of her captors in the course of a rescue attempt".
He said: "Working with our allies we received information about where Linda was being held and we decided that, given the danger she was facing, her best chance of safe release was to act on that information.
"Responsibility for this tragic outcome rests squarely with the hostage takers.
"From the moment they took her, her life was under grave threat. Given who held her, and the danger she was in, we judged that Linda's best chance lay in attempting to rescue her."
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "My thoughts are with Linda's family, who will be devastated by this tragic news. She was doing valuable work for the Afghan people.
"Decisions on operations to free hostages are always difficult. But where a British life is in such danger, and where we and our allies can act, I believe it is right to try. I pay tribute to the courage and skill of all those involved in this effort, and join the foreign secretary in condemning hostage taking."
International Security Assistance Force Commander General David Petraeus said Afghan and coalition security forces did everything in their power to rescue Ms Norgrove.
He said: "Linda was a courageous person with a passion to improve the lives of Afghan people, and sadly she lost her life in their service. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family during this difficult time."
And Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, expressed his "deepest condolences" following her "extremely sad and upsetting" death.
"Ms Norgrove was a dedicated aid worker who was doing everything she could to help people in Afghanistan - hopefully that legacy of service in a humanitarian cause can be of some comfort to her loved ones in their time of grief," he said.
Ms Norgrove had been based in Jalalabad where she supervised US-funded reconstruction programmes in the eastern region of Afghanistan.
'Wonderful woman'
DAI president James Boomgard said the loss of a "beloved friend and respected colleague" was "devastating news" and sent his condolences to her family.
In a statement, he said: "We are saddened beyond words by the death of a wonderful woman whose sole purpose in Afghanistan was to do good, to help the Afghan people achieve a measure of prosperity and stability in their everyday lives as they set about rebuilding their country.
"Linda loved Afghanistan and cared deeply for its people, and she was deeply committed to her development mission. She was an inspiration to many of us here at DAI and she will be deeply missed."
A colleague who was working with her in Jalalabad told the BBC Ms Norgrove was a "very kind and hard-working lady".
They said: "You know she didn't need to go for the completion ceremony of that project, but the only reason she wanted to go there was to show her love and commitment to the people of Kunar province.
"Everyone in our office is crying including our Afghan and foreign colleagues. Starting from the boss of the office even to drivers and guards are shocked and crying. No one thinks that she was a colleague, but it looks like she was part of everyone's family and we have lost one of our dearest."
Ms Norgrove, who had travelled extensively, was an experienced aid worker who had been based in a number of countries.
She worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan and Laos and, prior to that, led a conservation and poverty reduction project in Peru.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul said the Dewagal valley, in eastern Kunar province, where she was held, is known for its difficult terrain. It is mountainous and densely forested. The valley is extremely remote.Â
There has never been any government control; it is virtually ruled by militants, tribal elders and powerful clans.
Various armed groups operate in the area, Afghans and foreigners can be targeted by gangs seeking ransom money, but they are sometimes sold on to militant groups.
DAI carries out aid work, often subcontracted by the United States Agency for International Development.
In July, a British private security guard was among four people killed in an attack on DAI offices in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. Shaun Sexton, 29, from Northumberland, a former member of the Parachute Regiment, was working for the firm's security sub-contractor, Edinburgh International.
A month later, British doctor Karen Woo and nine other aid workers and translators were killed by gunmen, in the north-eastern province of Badakhshan, in what police said was a robbery.
Dr Woo worked for Christian charity the International Assistance Mission, providing eye care in remote villages. | A UK aid worker held hostage after being kidnapped in Afghanistan has been killed during a rescue attempt, the Foreign Office has said. | 11507313 |
Volunteers pushed a bed, representing a hospital trolley bed, about 20 miles (32km) from Dunbar Hospital in Thurso to Wick's Caithness General.
About 600 people gathered in Wick to greet the bed's arrival.
NHS Highland said it was aware of local concerns but added that millions of pounds were being spent on services.
The bed was pushed by teams in a relay, with each group taking turns to push it for a mile. The protest was organised by Caithness Health Action Team.
Public concerns about the level of health care available in the far north - Caithness and Sutherland - are long standing.
Last year, a review of NHS Highland's performance heard public fears that care in the area was "on the brink of meltdown".
Bill Fernie, a Highland councillor for Wick, said the support for Sunday's bed push was "very impressive".
He told BBC Radio Scotland: "Five hundred to 600 people turned out to greet the final team and then march to the hospital.
"It was all about the Caithness people's concerns about what is happening with health services in the far north."
NHS Highland said it was aware of the bed push which it said reflected "ongoing concerns, some of which we understand, but in general we don't recognise the cuts in services they are referring to".
In a statement the health board said: "The budget is significantly overspent for Caithness and this is because we have been maintaining services where it is safe to do so.
"Caithness General Hospital is getting a multi-million pound upgrade. We now have consultant surgeons and physicians regularly rotating and working in Caithness General.
"We have also been able to make a number of key local appointments including three rural practitioners and two advanced nurse practitioners. These are all significant investments."
The health board said interim measures on the grounds of safety were in place for maternity services.
The statement added: "These will remain in place until we know the outcome of our local reviews. We hope to be in position to report on the findings later this year, and our priority will be around safety.
"Perhaps the bed march can be a positive catalyst for us all to redouble our efforts to work together to deliver as much safe care as locally as possible." | Hundreds of people turned out for a protest on Sunday to raise concerns about the state of health services for Caithness and Sutherland. | 37750812 |
It will be the first game in the series to be played outside of the competing nations, of Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa.
The game will count as a 'home' fixture for Argentina and will conclude this year's competition.
The two countries met at Twickenham last year when Australia won a World Cup semi-final by 29-15. | Argentina and Australia will play each other in a Rugby Championship Test at Twickenham on Saturday, 8 October. | 35969989 |
L/Cpl James Brynin, 22, who served with the 14th Signal Regiment (Electronic Warfare), was shot in Helmand Province on 15 October 2013.
Another British soldier told the court he fired the fatal shot in the belief he was shooting a Taliban insurgent.
The case has been referred to the Service Prosecuting Authority.
West Sussex senior coroner Penelope Schofield adjourned the inquest at Chichester Coroner's Court under Rule 25(4) Coroners and Justice Act 2015.
It states: "A coroner must adjourn an inquest and notify the Director of Public Prosecutions, if during the course of the inquest, it appears to the coroner that the death of the deceased is likely to have been due to a homicide offence and that a person may be charged in relation to the offence."
The inquest was adjourned on Thursday after hearing six days of evidence.
"The case will stand adjourned pending any decision by the Service Prosecuting Authority," a statement released on behalf of the coroner said.
A Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesman said: "We note the coroner's decision to adjourn the inquest into the death of L/Cpl James Brynin, pending a further review of the case. It would not be appropriate to comment further at this time."
The Service Prosecuting Authority said it had not received a referral in relation to the incident.
In a statement, it said: "Should further evidence come to light and the Royal Military Police reopen the investigation, then the Service Prosecuting Authority will provide advice to that investigation if requested and, if the case is referred for a decision on charging, make any such decision in accordance with the Code for Crown Prosecutors."
L/Cpl Brynin, known as Jay, was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, and based at Cawdor Barracks in Pembrokeshire.
He worked as an intelligence analyst and had been selected for promotion to corporal when his patrol was attacked by enemy fire in Kakaran, north east of Lashkar Gah.
He died at the scene despite receiving "immediate medical attention", the MoD said. | The inquest into the death of a soldier killed by friendly-fire in Afghanistan has been adjourned amid concerns it may have been a homicide. | 35845192 |
Firearms officers were called to a house in Vicarage Hill, Westerham, at about 07:10 GMT on Sunday.
The road outside the property was closed temporarily by officers to "ensure public safety", police said.
The BBC understands officers in riot gear contained five dogs, types of bullmastiffs, in one room at the property before they were removed.
Specially-trained animal handlers, assisted by an RSPCA inspector and an independent vet, sedated the animals.
They were taken out of the property one-by-one in individual kennels, and are now in police care.
The air ambulance attended the house in Westerham but the injured man was taken by land ambulance to hospital. | A man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was attacked by up to five dogs at a house in Kent. | 35739419 |
Campaigners claim the 1.8-mile (2.9 km) dual-carriageway tunnel will cause "irreparable damage" to the landscape.
However, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said the plan will "transform" the A303, "cutting congestion and improving journey times".
A public consultation to get the views of drivers and residents will run until 5 March.
The busy A303 currently passes within a few hundred metres of the ancient monument.
The tunnel forms part of a £2bn government scheme to upgrade all remaining sections of the road between the M3 and M5.
However, campaign group Stonehenge Alliance believes any tunnel shorter than 2.7-miles (4.3 km) would do "irreparable damage to the landscape".
Chairman of Amesbury Museum and Heritage Trust, Andy Rhind-Tutt, described the tunnel plan as a "self-destructing time bomb" which would "do nothing" for traffic problems in the area.
In 2015, a Stonehenge Alliance petition calling for a longer tunnel gained 17,500 signatures.
In a statement, the group said: "The Alliance does not advocate new road building at Stonehenge, but accepts the need to improve the tranquillity and appearance of the World Heritage Site and its setting.
"If the government insists on widening the A303 by means of a tunnel, it must be sufficiently long to avoid any further damage to [Stonehenge] and its setting."
English Heritage and the National Trust have also given their support to the option of "the longest tunnel possible".
Highways England's Jim O'Sullivan said: "Our plans for the A303 recognise the national importance of the route and these improvements will bring real benefit to the region and local communities.
"The public exhibitions will provide an excellent opportunity to explain further our plans and to hear feedback from stakeholders."
However, a report by UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites has recognised the benefits of the project.
Tunnel history
Plans for a tunnel past the Stonehenge site have had a long and chequered history.
Proposals for a bored tunnel were first mooted in 1995 but the government insisted on a "cut and covered" tunnel, which was unveiled in 1999.
The plans for the 2.5-mile (4 km) tunnel was criticised by the National Trust and other groups who were concerned about possible damage to the site.
In 2002, revised plans for a bored tunnel of 1.3 miles (2.1 km) were proposed as part of a wider scheme to upgrade the A303 to dual carriageway status
Following a public inquiry, the tunnel scheme was withdrawn in 2005 by the Labour government, partly due to rising costs of construction, which had doubled to £470m. It was shelved for good in 2007.
The idea resurfaced in 2014 when the Conservative MP for Salisbury, John Glen, said any attempt to make the A303 in to a dual carriageway must include protection for the World Heritage site.
In December of that year the coalition government gave its support to the plan for a 1.8-mile tunnel near the monument.
£1.4bn
Proposed cost of Stonehenge tunnel
1.8 miles is the length of the proposed tunnel (2.9km)
9.6 sq m around Stonehenge is a World Heritage site (25 sq km)
33% of the route is single carriageway
84 years since the A-road opened
Stonehenge is one of the Europe's most recognisable prehistoric monuments.
The history of the Wiltshire site dates back 4,500 years and it is the only surviving lintelled stone circle in the world. | A controversial plan for a road tunnel past Stonehenge has been finalised by the government. | 38589118 |
The 23-year-old finished second behind Hannah Miley in the 400m individual medley at the British Championships, but her consideration time of four mins 35.52 secs earned her selection.
"Swimming's my job and you don't expect to go along for the ride," she said.
"I need to earn my position and show everyone why I've been picked."
Willmott, from Middlesbrough, came fifth in the heats and missed out on a place in the 400m individual medley final at London 2012, but won silver in the event and the 200m butterfly at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
She told BBC Tees, "It's a huge honour to be picked for my second Olympics and now I know I'm definitely going, I'm going to put the hard work in and Rio will be here before I know it.
"Everyone is hungry to get in and do Team GB proud. The difference this time is everyone wants to swim well for GB rather than just be on the team."
Despite her main event being the 400m medley, the Teessider also won the 200m butterfly at the British Championships in Glasgow and wants to compete in that event in Rio.
Team GB have yet to formally nominate members of the 26-strong squad for specific events.
"I proved by winning the 200m butterfly that I am the fastest person in Britain at the moment on that event and it would be great for me to be picked for it and I would love to do it," Willmott continued.
"If I can do a personal best time or get as close to that as possible in the Olympics or make a final or if I can give myself the best chance of getting on the medal podium, then I'll be happy with that." | Swimmer Aimee Willmott says she will not be satisfied with simply making up the numbers after being included in the Team GB squad for the Rio Olympics. | 36112813 |
Suzanne Gardner, 60, of Blisworth, developed necrotising fasciitis after cutting herself when she slipped on her driveway in snow on 17 December 2010.
She died four days later at Northampton General Hospital.
High Court judge Sir David Eady said Mrs Gardner's care was "negligent".
Her husband Colin Gardner was awarded full compensation for the loss of his wife but the amount has not been disclosed.
The court heard when Mrs Gardner cut her elbow in the fall, she put resulting pain and chills down to a flare-up of arthritis or a cold.
Blisters developed on her hands and arms causing excruciating pain and she went to the hospital on 21 December but despite her pain she was not a priority.
Sir David said Mrs Gardner's treatment was delayed and the killer bug spread through her body.
She urgently needed amputations to stop the bug spreading but was left waiting for hours.
Lawyers argued Mrs Gardner's death would have been prevented if staff had examined her sooner and amputated her arms in time.
Mr Gardner told the court his wife would have had no trouble agreeing to the potentially life-saving operation.
The hospital claimed Mrs Gardner had presented only moderate pain and was dealt with in good time.
Sir David said: "A greater sense of urgency was clearly required than that displayed."
He added she should have been seen by a doctor sooner and blood tests taken.
A competent microbiologist would have diagnosed the infection, he said.
"Had Mrs Gardner been treated non-negligently she would probably have survived," he said.
"She would have lived but for the breaches of duty identified." | A Northamptonshire grandmother who died after contracting a flesh-eating bug could have been saved if hospital staff diagnosed and treated her earlier, a judge has ruled. | 30452578 |
Allegations about poor security controls in Nanometrics' sensors were made in a presentation at the Def Con hacker convention last week.
Nanometrics said an independent report into the researchers' work cast serious doubt on its findings.
The sensors are used to monitor active volcanoes, fault lines and support nuclear test ban treaties.
Bertin Bonilla, a security researcher based in Costa Rica who, with colleague James Jara, carried out the work said the network of sensors came to light during a separate project that mapped smart devices connected to the net to create a search engine for the Internet of Things.
However their report was shelved by the Computer Emergency Response Team Co-ordination Centre (Cert CC) at Carnegie Mellon university in the US.
The devices stood out because of the distinctive fingerprint of data they surrendered to scanning software and because of their location in remote spots and in the sea, claimed Mr Bonilla.
"We have not seen any research previously in this field," he said during a presentation at the convention that was held in Las Vegas.
By analysing firmware in the sensors, the pair managed to get hold of default passwords that gave them access to data being gathered by sensors. This could prompt an attack on monitoring networks, they claimed.
At Def Con, Mr Bonilla said the pair had detailed their findings in a report sent to Cert CC.
The report was sent in late June and Cert CC contacted Nanometrics for clarification about the points it raised.
Cert CC shared the report with engineers at Nanometrics who said it contained "factual inaccuracies" about the way the sensors worked. In particular, they said, it wrongly characterised the way data is gathered from networks of sensors.
Cert CC then shelved the report and attempted to contact Mr Bonilla and Mr Jara for clarification.
No response was received and in correspondence with Nanometrics, Cert CC said it was satisfied that the report was "incorrect".
The two researchers have also not responded to a request for comment from the BBC.
A spokesman for Nanometrics told the BBC that the researchers had found some networks of sensors operated by organisations that had not changed default passwords.
"We have always recommended to our customers that they change the factory default passwords and when using the systems on real-time communications networks, they limit access to known IP addresses and/or use VPN software," he said.
Organisations operating sensors that gather sensitive data, such as for nuclear test ban monitoring, typically put the monitors on private networks that are not connected to the net, he said.
The large scale of the sensor networks and the way data was shared and verified meant an attack that sought to spoof readings would be "impossible" to pull off, added the spokesman. | A seismic sensor firm has rejected claims that its geological monitoring systems are vulnerable to cyber attack. | 37057154 |
Mayweather, 40, has won all 49 of his professional bouts, but has not boxed since September 2015 and came out of retirement to fight the Irishman.
The 29-year-old mixed martial arts fighter has not boxed professionally.
"He's looking forward to ending the fight early, I'm looking forward to ending the fight early - it won't go the distance," said Mayweather.
The American, whose last fight was a points victory over Andre Berto, said he will be doing his "homework" on McGregor, a two-weight world champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
"It's not really watching fight tapes, it's about knowing the person you're facing across the ring from you," added Mayweather.
"You want to know what they like to eat, what they're doing when they're not in camp."
Britain's Nathan Cleverly will feature on the undercard of the Mayweather-McGregor bout, as the 30-year-old Welshman will aim to make the first defence of his WBA light-heavyweight title against Sweden's Badou Jack. | Floyd Mayweather says his fight with Conor McGregor in Las Vegas on 26 August "won't go the distance". | 40897299 |
The interior decorator told police that the bodyguard punched him and tied him up at the princess's chic apartment in Avenue Foch on 26 September.
Quoted by French media, the alleged victim said he was assaulted after taking photos inside the apartment.
The whereabouts of the princess, who has diplomatic immunity, are unknown. Police have now visited the apartment.
The princess's name has not been confirmed.
According to the 53-year-old interior decorator, the princess got angry with him for taking photos which she suspected he wanted to sell to the media. He said he needed the photos for the planned refurbishment of the apartment.
The bodyguard's lawyer, quoted by Le Point, said his client had only used a standard restraint technique on the workman. He denied the claim that he had "beaten him up". | French police are questioning the bodyguard of a Saudi princess over an alleged assault on a workman in Paris. | 37539613 |
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On 24 May, 1995, Ajax managed to achieve the unthinkable; winning the Champions League with a team that was only 25 years old on average, beating Italian giants AC Milan 1-0 in the final.
Exactly 22 years later, Ajax have the opportunity once again to do something the club and its fans could not have possibly imagined. It is fitting, then, that the teams of then and now share so many connections beyond the iconic red and white jersey, as the Netherlands' most successful club will try to end its longest title drought in continental competition.
Edwin van der Sar, who was the goalkeeper in that famous Ajax side and won a Champions League with Manchester United to boot, is now the general director of the club from the capital. Former Arsenal player Marc Overmars, currently the director of football at Ajax, was another starter that night in Vienna, taking up duties on the left wing.
And with 18-year old Justin Kluivert in the side 22 years after his father Patrick became the youngest player to score a winner in a Champions League final, there might even be some historic on-pitch involvement, although the Dutch will be fearful of Manchester United's Daley Blind denying the club that his father Danny captained to the Amsterdammers' last European triumph.
The shadow of a team managed by another mutual acquaintance of both Manchester United and Ajax lingers over the final in Sweden - in 1995, Louis van Gaal was in charge of the Dutch club. Yet the current manager who has revitalized Ajax after a few stale years considers himself a disciple of the late Johan Cruyff.
Peter Bosz made a career for himself as a combative midfielder at Vitesse and Feyenoord, but at an early age, he was captured by the magic of Johan Cruyff.
When playing with Vitesse in the early 1980s, Bosz would regularly go to watch Ajax "because Cruyff was a football legend, returning to the Netherlands, and you wanted to see that with your own eyes. See as much of him as you could."
Talking to FC Afkicken, he added: "I realised I wouldn't become the best player in the world, but I wanted to try and become one of the best managers in the future. So I tracked everything Cruyff-related, going through magazines, papers, collecting all the articles I could find."
Bosz, 53, won the title as a player and eight caps for the Netherlands but faced a lot of criticism for his period as technical director of Feyenoord, during a dark period for the Rotterdam club.
Bosz has gone from an on-field pragmatist to an off-field protagonist when it comes to the football he admires. Returning to Heracles Almelo in 2010, Bosz dared to play a 3-4-3 formation at a team destined for a bottom-half finish. He even managed to reach the Europa League play-offs and a KNVB Cup final with the Heraclieden.
He then transformed Vitesse into one of the most entertaining sides of the league and even - albeit briefly - threatened the establishment after picking up the joint-most points in the first half of the 2013-14 season, giving Ajax a run for their money.
Bosz then headed to Maccabi Tel Aviv, working together with Jordi Cruyff and spending a week with Johan, learning and polishing his skills and philosophy.
"Peter and Johan spent many hours, talking about football, about organization, everything and I think there was a clear mutual respect," Jordi told Dutch broadcaster NOS.
Even before Bosz was appointed at Maccabi, Johan had told Jordi that Bosz would be a great choice, but thought he would be out of reach for a club like Maccabi. "He could hardly believe it when we managed to appoint him," added Jordi.
When Frank de Boer announced his departure from Ajax last summer, Bosz in many ways seemed a perfect replacement despite his Feyenoord past and lack of involvement at Ajax in the past.
Bosz inherited a team more in the image of Van Gaal's Manchester United than a Cruyffian Ajax - and replaced a club legend in De Boer who had won four titles in five-and-a-half years.
After a wobbly first two months, during which many outlets of the media called for Bosz's head, he has been able to design a team more capable of executing a style of football that Ajax's godfather Cruyff would appreciate.
Ajax finished the Dutch season in second place, but playing attacking football en route to 81 points - a tally that would have been good enough for an Eredivisie title win in seven of the last 10 seasons. The Europa League run has for a large part washed away previous criticism as well.
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Over the last decade the Eredivisie's average age has decreased by two years, but instead of seeing that as a disadvantage, the Ajax manager has turned it into a strength. He has shaped the squad comprising largely of early twenty-somethings and teenagers in his image, resulting to an affectionate labelling of the team as 'the Bosz Babes'.
Bosz recently named the youngest team in Eredivisie history, with an average age of 20 years and 139 days. Only one player was older than 21 - and yet the club easily defeated Willem II 3-1.
Legendary Ajax defender Ruud Krol, who won three European Cups alongside Cruyff in the 1970s, was full of praise talking to De Telegraaf last week.
"'I recognize the Ajax style of old in this team," he said. "The pressing, the tenacity, the enthusiasm. These are the characteristics that once made the club great and is what I really enjoy."
There have been many changes - of the team that started the last game of the 2015/16 season only four are still regularly called upon.
As well as Cruyff, Bosz has often cited Pep Guardiola's 2011 Barcelona team as his main inspiration. Kasper Dolberg, Hakim Ziyech, Davinson Sanchez and Andra Onana have all been pivotal in their debut season for the club to implement that style of play.
Dolberg has been the main talking point. The 19-year-old striker is amongst hottest young strikers in European football, the first Ajax teenager with 16 league goals in a season since Patrick Kluivert in 1995 and already the joint-top goalscoring teenager in Europa League history with six goals.
Former Barcelona goalkeeper André Onana has traded in shaky performances with the second team for a very assured presence in the first team, allowing his defenders to play a high line, being alert and comfortable with both feet.
Hakim Ziyech has slowly transformed from a fancy number 10 into an industrious yet creative pressing machine. Colombian Sanchez - described as "a beast, an absolute pleasure to play alongside" by team-mate Kenny Tete - has developed into an all-round modern centre-back.
A 15m euro investment in the pair will almost certainly be doubled, at the very least, should either leave.
It's not all youth products though. Marc Overmars spent over 35m euros in the transfer market last summer. A fraction compared to opponents Manchester United, but more than Ajax had in the previous three seasons combined and something that clearly marks a change of approach.
As well as Sanchez and Ziyech, money has been splashed on South American talents David Neres and Mateo Cassierra, while Chelsea received a loan fee of 2m euros for Bertrand Traore.
On average, United are four years older and wiser, and that's before we even consider United's greater European experience.
But Ajax have revelled in their underdog status already this season. Schalke were swept away with ease (2-0), as were Lyon (4-1) in the home legs for the Dutch club.
For Manchester United, the game will be a chance to redeem an otherwise unremarkable season.
For Ajax, it would be a new jewel in their crown, 22 years and a generation on from their last. | No matter the outcome of the Europa League final on Wednesday against Manchester United, 24 May will always have a special sentiment for Ajax and its fans. | 40003173 |
His line "It's a trap," in 1983's Return of the Jedi is beloved among Star Wars fans and later became a popular internet meme.
Bauersfeld died on Sunday at his home in California, his manager told the Associated Press.
Bauersfeld mainly worked in radio before his Star Wars roles.
He also provided the voice for Jabba the Hutt's ghostly steward Bib Fortuna in Return of the Jedi.
Admiral Ackbar and Bauersfeld returned for a cameo role in last year's Star Wars sequel The Force Awakens. | Voice actor Erik Bauersfeld - whose brief turn as Admiral Ackbar in the Star Wars films launched a pop culture catchphrase - has died, aged 93. | 35965835 |
City begin a 10th straight title defence against Stirling University.
However, Celtic have strengthened in pre-season, and, after winning both domestic cups last year, Williamson says Hibs want to complete the set.
"It's definitely going to be the tightest season yet looking at the teams," Williamson told BBC Scotland.
"Last year was just an amazing year, but I think you have to take all those experiences and use them to push on. We really want to improve our consistency. We want to challenge for the league.
"We always have belief in ourselves. We know on our day we're one of the best teams. Everyone's a challenge. Celtic definitely have strengthened, the whole league is getting better, but that's only a good thing."
Last season, Glasgow lost just one league game and finished eight points ahead of Hibs.
City did not get things all their own way, though, with Hibs defeating City in the League Cup final in May and also November's Scottish Cup final.
Williamson was coy about suggestions Hibs are favourites this time to finally knock City off their perch, with a difficult opening game against Rangers on Sunday.
"We're hoping so, but we'll just take every game as it comes, build on what we achieved last year, and see what happens," she said.
"Rangers are always a good side. They've got a lot of young, good players, who are always keen to prove themselves."
Celtic, who visit Hamilton on Sunday, have been the dominant force in men's football and are eager to add the women's title to the trophy cabinet.
They watched on last season as Glasgow and Hibs starred in the Champions League knock-out stages and will be spectators again this year having finished 13 points off the qualifying spots.
Head coach David Haley is determined to bridge the gap and has signed Sarah Crilly from Glasgow rivals City and Sarah Ewens from Hibs, as well as defender Kelsey Hodges from the USA.
Striker Kirsty Howat believes Hibs are favourites for the title, but is hopeful her side can make it a three-way fight for the league to repay the backing of the club.
"We've had a few new signings, positive signings though," said Howat. "I'd like to see us get second or push on for first.
"Celtic don't want us to be just the women's team or the youth team, they want us to be one club. That's refreshing to hear and they've been promoting us really well and some Celtic fans are coming along to our games.
"They've put a lot of money into us and hopefully we can give something back."
Glasgow City will not give up their title without a fight and have looked across the Atlantic for new talent with USA youth striker Savannah Jordan and US-born Jamaica international Lauren Silver joining the club.
Silver, who can operate in defence and midfield, arrives from French side Metz and says she is impressed with Glasgow City's style of football.
"At Glasgow City we pass, we move, we have a lot of possession, we change the point of attack often so it's great to see these technical players," said the 23-year-old Florida native.
"The play in France is a little more technical. I think with Glasgow City they mirror the US more in the way we keep the ball and try and break down teams."
Aberdeen face Spartans in the weekend's other top-flight fixture. | Hibernian defender Claire Williamson says Glasgow City face their toughest fight yet for the Scottish Women's Premier League, which starts on Sunday. | 39197495 |
19 August 2015 Last updated at 09:28 BST
It's after Newsround raised a complaint, in November 2014, with the Advertising Standards Authority which makes the rules for adverts in the UK.
Newsround highlighted a group of UK vloggers who were paid to say good things about Oreo biscuits, but none of the videos were labelled as adverts.
Now if a vlogger is being paid to say something good about a particular product or service then they must clearly say that it's an advert.
We spoke to vlogger, Chyaz Samuel, who wasn't involved in the investigation, about what she thinks. | New guidelines have come out telling vloggers that they need to be clear and honest with their followers if they're being paid to say something is good. | 33985037 |
Lord Ahmad said he did not want to "kill merriment", but that he would "look at" the times alcohol was on sale, and passenger screening.
Figures show 442 people were held on suspicion of being drunk at an airport or on a plane in the last two years.
The government said there were no plans to specifically address the issue.
In one recent case a female passenger punched an Easyjet pilot in the face after being ordered to leave an aircraft before take-off from Manchester.
In February, six men on a stag party were arrested by German police after a mid-air brawl caused a Ryanair flight from Luton to Bratislava, Slovakia, to divert to Berlin.
Lord Ahmad said: "If you're a young family travelling on a plane you want to go from point A to B, you don't want to be disrupted.
"I don't think we want to kill merriment altogether, but I think it's important that passengers who board planes are also responsible and have a responsibility to other passengers, and that certainly should be the factor which we bear in mind."
He went on: "In terms of specific regulations of timings of outlets [which sell alcohol] and how they operate, clearly I want to have a look at that."
He also highlighted the value of screening travellers before they boarded planes.
Glasgow and Manchester airports have trialled a scheme with shops selling alcohol in sealed bags in a bid to reduce problems on flights.
Police statistics obtained by the Press Association through Freedom of Information requests showed at least 442 people were held on suspicion of being drunk on a plane or at an airport in the UK between March 2014 and March 2016.
Trade bodies representing UK airlines and airports said such incidents were "a very rare occurrence", but warned they could lead to "serious consequences".
They pointed out that disruption on board an aircraft was an illegal offence which could carry a heavy penalty - including a travel ban, fine, or prison sentence.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority's most recent passenger survey, some 238 million passengers passed through UK airports in 2014.
Earlier this week budget carrier Jet2.com published a code of practice on disruptive passengers following collaboration between airlines, airports, the police and retailers.
The "zero tolerance" approach includes airport shops advising passengers not to drink alcohol they have purchased before or during their flight, and training staff in bars and restaurants to limit or stop the sale of alcohol to prevent or manage disruptive behaviour.
A Department for Transport spokeswoman said: "Airport security is always under review, however there are no plans to specifically address the issue of alcohol at airports." | The way alcohol is sold in airports is to be examined after a number of recent incidents involving drunk passengers, the new aviation minister has said. | 36920665 |
29 September 2015 Last updated at 12:02 BST
The cute characters are very popular with children and they are used to promote national parks, trains, TV stations and well known landmarks, like the Tokyo Tower.
There is a special school in Tokyo where people can learn how to move and dance for huge audiences.
And Newsround reporter Leah went behind the scenes to find out what it takes. | Mascots are big business in Japan but becoming one takes a lot of training at one of the country's specialist schools. | 34359858 |
Around 30,000 suspected diazepam tablets were recovered during the planned searches and two replica firearms were also found.
A 29-year-old woman was arrested in Belfast and a 27-year-old man was arrested in Tempo. They are currently assisting police with their enquiries.
Seven other people will be interviewed at a later date.
Following the searches, PSNI Det Ch Insp Shaun McKee urged members of the public not to use pharmaceutical type drugs unless they had been supplied by a healthcare professional. | Police have arrested two people in a number of searches in connection with the possession of drugs. | 17529736 |
Mr Gao - who was released from prison last week - was emotionless, "basically unintelligible" and had lost teeth through malnutrition, Mr Gensher said.
As a prominent human rights lawyer, Mr Gao had defended China's Christians and followers of the Falun Gong movement.
He is alleged to have suffered physical and psychological abuse in jail.
As well as losing many teeth, Mr Gao's daily ration of cabbage and a single slice of bread had caused him to lose 20 kg in weight, according to a statement by US-based advocacy group, Freedom Now.
The group said he had been confined to a cramped cell, with very little light, and had been largely deprived of human contact until his release.
Freedom Now said Mr Gao's wife, Geng He, had spoken to her husband and was "completely devastated" by what the Chinese government had done to him.
"The only thing I feared more than him being killed was his suffering relentless and horrific torture and being kept alive," she is quoted as saying.
Ms He has urged the Chinese government to allow Mr Gao to seek treatment in the United States, where she and their two children have been living since 2009.
2005: Authorities close down Gao Zhisheng's law practice
Dec 2006: Convicted of subversion and sentenced to house arrest
Sept 2007: Says he was tortured during a period of detention
Jan 2009: Disappears; last seen accompanied by security officials
Mar 2010: Reappears for a month before disappearing again
Dec 2011: State media says he has been jailed for three years
Jan 2012: Gao revealed to be in Xinjiang prison
Aug 2014: Gao freed from jail
Mr Gensher said Mr Gao had been "in an incredibly bad way".
"He is able to say a few words here and there and answering questions in a few words, describing what he went through," he said.
"But he's not capable of holding any conversation and there are many occasions where he's just literally just muttering to himself."
Mr Gao, 50, has been an outspoken critic of the Chinese government, and has defended activists and religious minorities in the past. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work.
He is known for campaigning for religious freedom, particularly for members of the banned group Falun Gong.
He was arrested in early 2009 and accused of inciting subversion.
Mr Gao was released briefly in 2010, and claimed he had been tortured in detention. Shortly after that he disappeared again.
State media subsequently said in 2011 that he would be jailed for three years for violating probation rules. He was released from a prison in the western province of Xinjiang last week.
The US, European Union and United Nations had repeatedly called on the Chinese authorities to release him. | Leading Chinese dissident, Gao Zhisheng, has been "utterly destroyed" after three years in jail, says his international lawyer, Jared Gensher. | 28793055 |
The company said about 23,000 homes were left without electricity on Thursday due to the storms.
It said trees and branches falling onto overhead electricity lines was the main cause of the damage.
A number of roads were also blocked by fallen trees. | Power supplies have been restored to all NIE Networks customers after Storm Doris caused power cuts in homes across Northern Ireland. | 39074613 |
The 30-year-old Nigerian, who has been without a club since the summer, will be with the Daggers until 2 January.
It will be his second spell with the club, having made 52 appearances during the 2008-09 season, scoring twice.
Okuonghae will go straight into manager John Still's squad for their National League home game against Barrow on Saturday. | Dagenham & Redbridge have re-signed former Colchester and Luton defender Magnus Okuonghae on a short-term deal. | 38109041 |
The 34-year-old midfielder was due to return to Ibrox on Monday from a month-long absence following a dressing-room disagreement.
But Rangers said: "Joey Barton has been informed that his suspension by the club has been extended by one week.
"This is part of a formal disciplinary procedure and Joey has been instructed not return to Ibrox or Auchenhowie until further notice."
Barton, who joined Rangers on a two-year contract this summer after helping Burnley win the Championship in England, was initially told to stay away from the club's stadium and training ground last month.
It followed a training-ground altercation with fellow midfielder Andy Halliday after Rangers' 5-1 defeat by Celtic and a disagreement with manager Mark Warburton.
A three-week club suspension followed and he was due to report back to the Scottish Premiership club this week.
However, in the meantime, Barton has been charged by the Scottish FA with breaking rules relating to gambling on football matches.
The Englishman has until Wednesday to respond to the charge, with a hearing date set for 27 October.
Meanwhile, Rangers said on their website that, following Sunday's statement: "Neither party (the club and player) will make any further statement or comment." | Joey Barton has had his club suspension extended for another week by Rangers. | 37600185 |
Celtic's match with Hamilton Academical and Partick Thistle's meeting with Motherwell have been called off because of waterlogged pitches.
High winds in Edinburgh caused the postponement of Hearts' game against Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
The Met Office issued a weather warning for Scotland following Storm Desmond.
Rainfall of between 60mm and 100mm is likely in the amber "be prepared" zones of central and southern Scotland until Sunday morning, and 80 flood warnings and alerts are in place across the region.
Glasgow Warriors confirmed the postponement of their Pro12 rugby fixture against Leinster following a morning pitch inspection at Scotstoun Stadium.
In the Championship, St Mirren's home game with Queen of the South and Raith Rovers' match against Rangers at Stark's Park, and the League One game between Albion Rovers and Stranraer at Cliftonhill, have all been postponed because of waterlogged pitches.
In England, Barrow's National League match with Boreham Wood has also been called off because of a waterlogged pitch at Holker Street.
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Barrow P-P Boreham Wood | Three Scottish Premiership matches and Glasgow Warriors' Pro12 match with Leinster have been postponed because of extreme weather conditions in Scotland. | 35014978 |
Championship leader Rossi clashed with defending champion Marquez, who came off off his bike at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Rossi, 36, later accused Marquez of "making me lose the championship".
Vito Ippolito, president of the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), said the feud was "damaging".
"The recent events arising in connection with the competition for the 2015 world title have had a damaging effect on the staging of our competitions and poisoned the atmosphere around the sport," Ippolito wrote in an open letter.
"We are moving away from the tradition of pride in sportsmanship that is part of the heritage of motorcycling."
Rossi finished third in Sunday's race - won by Dani Pedrosa - but was given three penalty points following a post-race investigation.
He will start the final race of the season in Spain on 8 November from the back of the grid, with Jorge Lorenzo just seven points behind in the championship.
Before the race in Malaysia, Rossi accused Marquez of deliberately trying to impede him during the Australian Grand Prix on 18 October in order to help Lorenzo. | The MotoGP world championship row between Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez has "poisoned" motorcycling, the president of the sport has said. | 34673267 |
The incident happened during the morning rush hour at the Francia station, in the city centre.
Reports said the train did not brake properly when entering the station, hitting the buffers at the platform.
Dozens of emergency personnel were sent to the station, with most of the injured being treated on the platform.
Emergency services said as well as the seriously wounded person, who does not have life-threatening injuries, 19 people were moderately hurt.
They are being treated in hospital. Among them is the driver, who is said to be in a state of shock.
The remainder were lightly injured.
"At the moment of impact I had the feeling of experiencing an earthquake," one passenger, Lidia, told La Vanguardia newspaper (in Spanish). She said she had been in the front carriage.
"People were swaying back and forth and colliding into each other. Many people fell to the ground because people were standing up and I saw several people with cuts to the head and face from the blows they suffered when they fell."
Among those hurt were three citizens from France and Romania, local authorities said. Their respective consulates have been informed.
The accident happened at 07:15 (05:15 GMT) after the train had travelled from the village of Sant Vicenç de Calders, some 60km (37 miles) to Barcelona's south-west.
Íñigo de la Serna, the minister for public works, has travelled to Barcelona, in the country's north-eastern Catalonia region, to oversee the rescue operation.
The state-run railway firm Adif said an investigation had been opened. | At least 54 people have been injured, one seriously, after a train crashed at a station in the Spanish city of Barcelona, officials say. | 40750343 |
This year's BonFest in the rock star's home town of Kirriemuir is expected to attract more than 4,000 fans.
The bronze statue is the result of a two-year crowdfunding campaign which drew support from the band itself.
Former AC/DC bass player Mark Evans will officially unveil the £45,000 statue at the event.
Mr Evans said it was a "surreal feeling" to be in Kirriemuir for the occasion.
He said: "It's very emotional, too. I always speak of Bon in the present tense. I feel he's still around.
"To have something like this that's been funded by the fans, the people that he held in his heart is just great.
"It's just fantastic, it's a really warming experience."
Born Ronald Belford Scott, the singer lived in Kirriemuir until the age of six, when his family left Scotland for Australia in 1952, eventually settling in Freemantle.
He was asked to join the band by Glasgow-born brothers and founding members Malcolm and Angus Young in 1974 and achieved international stardom before his death at the age of 33 in 1980.
The festival, now in its tenth year, which begins on Friday, will feature tribute bands from across Europe.
Tony Currenti, who drummed on AC/DC's debut album and Mary Renshaw, Bon Scott's seamstress, will also help unveil the statue on Saturday.
BonFest chairman John Crawford said: "It's going to be a lasting memorial for Bon.
"There's a statue in Freemantle that draws a lot of visitors and attention so it would be good to have that in Kirriemuir as a permanent memorial." | A life-sized statue of AC/DC singer Bon Scott will be unveiled this weekend at an annual Angus festival held in his honour. | 36162037 |
James Thorpe, 28, and Michaela Watson, from Boston, were due to marry this Friday but cancelled the ceremony after Mr Thorpe broke his neck.
He was left paralysed from the chest down after falling in the sea in Magaluf earlier this month
Miss Watson said: "It needs to be perfect and it wouldn't have been".
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She told BBC Radio Lincolnshire: "I knew deep down that the day would not go ahead, but I didn't want to take that drive away from James.
"I thought it would not be fair on him or me because we saved so hard."
Mr Thorpe is being treated at Sheffield Spinal Injuries Unit after being flown home from the Spanish holiday resort.
A crowd-funding page to help with his recovery has so far raised more than ??12,000.
Miss Watson said the support had been "humbling" and Mr Thorpe was determined to walk again.
"It would be amazing if James could walk down the aisle," she said.
"That's what we're praying for and that's what we're aiming for." | A firefighter paralysed after a freak stag-do accident in Majorca has been forced to postpone his wedding as a result of his injuries. | 36587263 |
Scott Whitlock, 45, a former employee of Kimbolton School, Cambridgeshire, had a "clear entrenched sexual interest in children", police said.
He admitted three offences involving hundreds of indecent images of children and publishing an obscene article.
The school said no past or present pupils were involved in the case.
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Whitlock was arrested last June after police received an anonymous letter saying he had "disturbing images of children" in his possession.
Detectives found a "number of electronic devices" at his home in Bedford and at Kimbolton School, which contained indecent images of children along with chat logs in his name "detailing obscene material and explicit sexual fantasies involving children," Cambridgeshire Police said.
He was suspended from teaching before being sacked in November.
Senior Crown Prosecutor Samantha Woolley described the chat logs as being of a "horrific nature".
"The written content of the messages is of an obscene and distressing nature based on the sexual abuse of children and young children," she said.
During a hearing at Cambridge Crown Court, Whitlock pleaded guilty to one count of making indecent images of a child, one count of possessing indecent images of a child, one count of distributing an indecent image of a child and one count of publishing an obscene article.
The last offence relates to the exchange of chat messages about Whitlock's fantasies involving young children.
Police said the investigation was "complex" and had not involved any of Kimbolton School's past or present students.
Head teacher Jonathan Belbin said: "We treat any falling short of our high standards with the utmost seriousness and we have given the authorities every assistance during their investigation into this case."
Whitlock will be sentenced later this month. | A teacher who talked about his fantasies involving children in "horrific" internet chat logs has admitted a number of sexual offences. | 36249848 |
Newcastle United winger Andros Townsend and Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere are also called up for the tournament.
But Theo Walcott, Phil Jagielka, Jermain Defoe and Mark Noble miss out.
All 24 teams have until 31 May to submit their 23-man squads for Euro 2016, which is being held in France from 10 June to 10 July.
Rashford only broke into the United first team in the second half of the season but quickly became a firm fixture.
He scored four times in his first two appearances and has seven goals from 16 games since making his senior debut on 25 February.
Asked about Rashford's chances of featuring in his final 23-man squad, Hodgson, 68, said: "The competition is quite strong, he'll understand that.
"There's no reason why he can't knock someone off their perch, but it will be harder than some people might expect."
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Townsend, 24, ended the campaign strongly despite his club's relegation from the Premier League.
"Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad," tweeted Townsend, who joined Newcastle in a £12m from Tottenham in January.
"Will give my all over next few weeks to try and make final squad!"
Wilshere, 24, broke his leg in August and only made his first start of the season for Arsenal on Sunday.
He tweeted: "Absolutely buzzing! I can't wait to meet up with the squad and start preparing for the Euros. Thanks for all the messages."
Responding to his omission, Walcott tweeted: "I am of course disappointed not to make the squad, but I have spoken with Roy and respect his decision."
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Hodgson's 26-man squad features two players from Premier League champions Leicester City - striker Jamie Vardy and Danny Drinkwater - while Tottenham, who finished third, and Liverpool both provide five players.
England will play Wales, Russia and Slovakia in the group stages of Euro 2016.
They kick off their Group B campaign against Russia on 11 June, before facing Wales (16 June) and Slovakia (20 June).
England warm up for the tournament with matches against Turkey (22 May), Australia (27 May) and Portugal (2 June).
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Hodgson said he would like to tell the 23 players who have made the final squad after the game against Australia.
Former England striker Gary Lineker said the 26-man squad contained "bags of talented youngsters".
He tweeted: "Great experience for them. Give them their wings, take pressure off, have fun and see where it takes us."
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Tom Heaton (Burnley).
Defenders: Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur), Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool).
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Ross Barkley (Everton), Fabian Delph (Manchester City), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), James Milner (Liverpool), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Andros Townsend (Newcastle United), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal).
Strikers: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United).
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There is still a good chance Rashford will miss out when the squad is whittled down to 23 for France, but it is a sign of his progress that he is included while Walcott misses out.
Hodgson, predictably, has included Wilshere despite being injured for virtually the entire season.
The Arsenal player is a key figure if fit, Hodgson having used him at the base of a diamond formation and also as a creative force, as shown by his two goals in the 3-2 qualifier win in Slovenia.
Jordan Henderson appears to have regained fitness in time, but both the Liverpool player and Wilshere will be under scrutiny in the three friendlies.
England's defensive heart is arguably the most suspect part of Hodgson's team and perhaps reflected in just three recognised central defenders - Smalling, Cahill and Stones - being selected.
Tottenham's Eric Dier is picked as a holding midfield player but will act as central defensive cover.
England look well blessed with attacking options but there must still be very big question marks for the defence when facing opposition of the highest quality.
Media playback is not supported on this device | England manager Roy Hodgson has named Manchester United's 18-year-old striker Marcus Rashford in an initial 26-man squad for Euro 2016. | 36300164 |
David West, 45, is accused of murdering his father, also called David West.
In court, Mr West senior's personal assistant compared working for the older man to being part of a "dysfunctional family".
Mr West junior admits the killing, but denies murder by reason of loss of control.
The Old Bailey heard the pair had a turbulent relationship and Mr West Sr sacked his son the day he was killed.
Following an argument, Mr West Jr was said to have drunk several glasses of whisky before taking a large knife from his flat and going to his father's house on 12 December last year.
Mr West Sr's personal assistant, Oksana Stanzione, told the Old Bailey shouting and swearing was a "way of life" and while the son would usually walk away from arguments, on the day of the killing the "floodgates opened".
Recalling the argument in the bar of Abracadabra, one of a string of West End nightspots owned by the family, Ms Stanzione said: "He [Mr West Jr] said 'I wish you were dead, I hate you. You are a horrible, horrible man and I think if you died it would do a lot of people a favour. I don't want to work for you any more'.
"There was a lot of swearing."
She said Mr West Jr believed his father was wasting money which should have been his inheritance.
The court was shown CCTV footage from inside the restaurant which showed the defendant throwing a bar stool as the argument became more heated.
The court heard that after the row, Ms Stanzione helped Mr West Sr back back to his house where he collapsed drunk at the bottom of the stairs.
His son is alleged to have then let himself in and stabbed him twice with a kitchen knife - once in the neck and chest - before returning to the restaurant bar to dial 999.
The case continues. | An heir to a nightclub chain stabbed his father to death after a barrage of abuse, fearing his inheritance was being wasted, a court heard. | 34132858 |
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Remi Garde looks certain to preside over Villa's relegation to the Championship - and both the manager and his players felt the fury of many travelling supporters at the final whistle, with captain Micah Richards involved in heated exchanges with fans at the end.
Richards gave Villa the lead after 22 minutes with a low right-foot shot but Wycombe, sixth in League Two and FA Cup semi-finalists in 2001, were level five minutes after half-time through Joe Jacobson's penalty.
Villa were furious referee Michael Oliver punished Ashley Westwood for his clash with Matt Bloomfield - and their frustration increased when Rudy Gestede's deflected late shot bounced off the bar.
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Garde avoided the humiliation of defeat by League Two opposition - but he is still without a win 10 games after succeeding Tim Sherwood.
There will be an element of relief but also frustration that a decent first-half display did not bring more reward than Richards' goal.
It gave Wycombe hope and they cashed in with a contentious penalty from Jacobson - although the flailing arm of Westwood was asking for trouble.
Villa's failure to win simply confirms the deeper malaise at Villa Park, and the fact Garde has inherited a desperately poor squad that does not look like it has what it takes to mount the sort of miracle recovery they will need to stay in the Premier League.
Garde must now try to work the markets in January to put together an unlikely escape plan, but the fact not too many would have regarded a Wycombe win as a huge shock tells you just how dismal this Villa squad is.
This was a day that had all the ingredients that make up a classic FA Cup cocktail - a Premier League side in crisis, a club 54 places below them on the ladder and a biblical storm hitting the ground before kick-off just to make conditions even more hazardous.
The League Two side were perfect hosts as the media descended on Buckinghamshire - in search of a shock, it must be admitted - as Adams Park was packed to its 9,000 capacity - one man interrupting walking his dog for a full 20 minutes during the first half to take in the action on a hill high behind one end of the ground.
As Wycombe's fans made their way around the steep hills and into the stadium, there was an anticipation that made this day the epitome of what still makes the FA Cup special.
The home side did not get the win they would have craved but they still earned a lucrative replay with a spirited second-half display and did themselves proud on and off the field.
The 2,500 Villa fans who made the short journey down the M40 seem resigned to relegation this season as they are cut off at the bottom of the Premier League - but they retain some dark humour.
There was anger among their number as they sang "We want our Villa back" moments into the game, understandable with owner Randy Lerner having failed to sell the club and presided over a decline that looks certain to end in the Championship.
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Chants of "You don't know what you're doing" came when Garde put Jordan Veretout on for Carles Gil after 71 minutes.
And there was hostility at the final whistle when fans sang "You're not fit to wear the shirt" in the direction of Villa's players as they trooped off.
There was also the sight of captain and goalscorer Richards in heated debate with disappointed fans at the final whistle. Villa is a club in freefall.
But there was humour, too, to sustain Villa's followers.
When a group of flag-bearing children walked behind the goal where Villa's supporters were gathered, they were greeted by chants of "Sign them up, sign them up" before breaking into an chorus of "We're down and we know we are".
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Richards lifted the spirits with a first-half strike and, amid the celebrations, they sang "We've scored a goal" before taunting Wycombe fans for supporting a team actually losing to Villa.
In their defence, Villa's fans gave tremendous support to a team that is so clearly short of any serious quality, although a few expressed their hostility at the failure to beat lowly Wycombe when the final whistle sounded.
It appears they have decided it is better to laugh than cry at their plight.
Wycombe manager Gareth Ainsworth: "There's a couple of things that this draw will do.
"I look at the finances of this club, I'm well clued-up on that as everyone knows. I'm involved in everything, right to the selling of the kiosks at the club shop.
"I know the finances to the penny, so I know what this means for us and how much this will go to paying our debt off.
"But I know what it's going to mean to some of my players too, boys who weren't told they were good enough at times, free transfers and this group of never-say-die Wycombe Wanderers players."
Aston Villa boss Remi Garde: "I understand that the fans could be angry. We have to accept that, as a player, a manager, everybody at the club has to accept that criticism, because we are not winning - that's football.
"The situation with Aston Villa is very difficult and makes some silly things happen sometimes.
"Everybody has to keep calm, face their responsibilities, look in the mirror and ask themselves what they can do to get out of this difficult situation." | Aston Villa's winless run extended to 16 games as the Premier League's bottom club were held to a draw by League Two Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup third round. | 35211388 |
They attacked government buildings, killing at least six police officers, and a power station under construction, where 13 employees died, officials say.
Twelve IS fighters also reportedly died and fighting seems to be continuing.
Government and Kurdish forces began a long-awaited operation against the IS capital in Iraq, Mosul, on Monday.
Mosul lies 170km (105 miles) to the north-east of Kirkuk, a multi-ethnic city claimed both by Iraq's central government and the Kurds.
Government forces said on Friday they had regained control of a further two villages - al-Awaizat and Nanaha - south of Mosul, evacuating 65 displaced families and killing 15 IS militants.
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Hours after the initial assault, witnesses in Kirkuk said gunfire could still be heard and militants were walking openly through the streets. Initial reports suggested as many as 16 civilians had been killed.
Local media say a state of emergency has been declared and Friday sermons have been cancelled as mosques remain closed.
A news agency affiliated to IS said fighters had broken into Kirkuk's city hall and seized a central hotel but officials denied this.
District police chief Brig Gen Sarhad Qadir told the BBC suicide bombers and other IS fighters had attacked three police buildings and the headquarters of a political party in Kirkuk.
"All of the militants who attacked the police emergency building and the old building of the Kirkuk police directorate have been killed but a number of other militants are still in Dumez district," he said.
The governor of Kirkuk, Najm al-Din Karim, insisted that Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and counter-terrorism forces were completely in control of the situation.
He blamed the attack on IS sleeper cells.
"Because of the ongoing Mosul offensive, they may want to create a situation where forces would be withdrawn from there and the focus shifted to Kirkuk," Mr Karim told Kurdish news agency Rudaw.
"Also because they are being defeated in Mosul, they want to boost their morale with these kinds of actions."
Five Iranian employees are believed to be among the dead in the attack on the power plant to the north of Kirkuk, Iraq's electricity ministry said.
Seven other employees and five police guards were wounded.
The power plant, which is still under construction, is being built by an Iranian company. | Islamic State (IS) militants have mounted a ferocious counter-attack in north Iraq, killing at least 19 people in and around the city of Kirkuk. | 37725108 |
Refugees spoke at the gathering on Queen Street, as calls were made for concrete action.
The Welsh Refugee Council's Hannah Wharf welcomed moves to resettle 20,000 Syrians displaced by war in the UK.
Meanwhile, there was a demonstration on Swansea's Castle Square and a human chain is planned in Caernarfon, Gwynedd.
Ms Wharf said: "Wales has made it clear that we are prepared to welcome refugees.
"Winter is fast approaching for many of the most vulnerable in the refugee camps that neighbour Syria. The need for resettlement is now."
Methodist minister Paul Martin, who is based in Canton, Cardiff, called it "the most serious human-made disaster of our time".
David Cameron announced on Monday that the UK would accept up to 20,000 people from camps surrounding Syria with priority given to vulnerable children.
First Minister Carwyn Jones will hold a Wales summit on the refugee crisis next week.
Local authorities in Wales have said they are willing to "play their part" but asked for help to meet the costs. | Nearly 1,000 people attended a 'Wales says refugees welcome' event in Cardiff city centre. | 34233051 |
Wetherspoon fell out with the Dutch brewing giant over supplying beer to one pub, and will now not be serving Heineken lager or Murphy's stout in the UK at all.
The pub chain takes £60m of Heineken products a year in the UK.
A dispute with Diageo means Wetherspoon does not serve Guinness in Ireland.
JD Wetherspoon said that Heineken had refused to supply its lager - Ireland's biggest-selling draught beer - and Murphy's stout to Wetherspoon's second pub in Ireland, which is due to open in Dun Laoghaire.
The spat means Strongbow cider, John Smith's bitter and Foster's lager are also off Wetherspoon's UK menu.
Wetherspoon has been selling pints of Heineken lager and Murphy's at prices around 40% below the competition at its first Irish pub in Blackrock, Dublin.
The row in Ireland came to a head when Heineken requested Wetherspoon chief executive John Hutson give personal guarantees to pay all Heineken bills if Wetherspoon did not pay them, according to the pub chain.
Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said: "We have been trading with Heineken for 35 years and they have never requested personal guarantees before.
"It's obstructive to do so now, especially when we made record profits of around £80m last year.
"The refusal to supply Heineken lager and Murphy's just before the opening of our new pub in Dun Laoghaire, which represents an investment by us of nearly four million euros, is unacceptable and hard to understand."
Heineken UK declined to comment in detail, but said: "We are aware of the comments made by JD Wetherspoon (JDW) and its chairman this morning.
"Heineken UK has had a long standing and successful relationship with JDW in the UK market over a 35-year period, and it is unfortunate that commercial issues in Ireland between Heineken Ireland and JD Wetherspoon have led to the current situation.
"We are seeking a resolution as soon as possible."
The pub chain last year outlined plans for around 30 pubs in the Republic of Ireland. | Pub chain JD Wetherspoon will no longer sell Heineken products in its 926 pubs in the UK after an argument over pricing in Ireland. | 30396012 |
The controversial project will be assessed using "preliminary documentation" only, documents show.
Abbot Point, south of Cairns, is a major coal port and is being expanded to cope with increased exports.
Environmental groups say the government's step is highly unusual.
They say fast-tracking the dredging approval would put an already threatened reef in greater danger of degradation.
Greenpeace reef campaigner Shani Tager said: "Adani, the Indian coal company behind the new Abbot Point coal terminal, has been holding the Queensland and federal governments to ransom over this development, threatening to pull out unless their demands are met.
"[Environment Minister] Greg Hunt has rolled over, again failing to stand up to Adani and its reef wrecking agenda."
In September, the Queensland government asked the federal government to speed up the plan's approval, assessing it using documents filed with an original plan to dump dredge spoil in Great Barrier Reef waters.
A spokesman for Mr Hunt told Australian media that the assessment would be a "very rigorous process".
"Australia has some of the most stringent environmental protection laws in the world and these proposals will be assessed thoroughly," the spokesman said.
Under the proposal, millions of tonnes of seabed would be dredged from the World Heritage Area and dumped on the Caley Valley wetlands, which is home to more than 40,000 water birds.
The government recently changed a plan to dump thousands of tonnes of sediment at sea but scientists remain concerned about what that will mean for the wetlands and the nearby reef.
Conservation group WWF-Australia said a full environmental impact assessment process was standard practice with a development of this size.
"The fast tracking of development at Gladstone [on the Queensland coast] triggered the World Heritage Committee's concern; this looks like a case of history repeating itself," said WWF-Australia reef campaigner Louise Matthiesson.
"No previous studies have examined the specific impacts of dredge spoil disposal in this sensitive area or the proposed alteration of the Caley Valley Wetlands," she said.
Greens Senator Larissa Waters said not only had Mr Hunt failed to require an environmental impact statement to dump spoil on the wetlands, he hadn't revoked the permit to dump the spoil in the reef's waters.
"So it's up to the proponent, [Queensland Premier] Campbell Newman, who is no friend of the reef, to decide whether to dump on the reef or its wetlands," she said. | The Australian government will not conduct a full environmental impact assessment for the disposal of dredge spoil on sensitive wetlands at Abbot Point, near the Great Barrier Reef. | 29828276 |
After resuming on 51-6, the hosts at least avoided the indignity of an innings defeat, bowled out for 81.
Australia international James Pattinson (5-29) took three of the Leicestershire wickets to fall in 40 minutes.
Set four to win, Notts' openers took 10 balls to complete the job on 9-0.
Greg Smith rounded it off with a six off Paul Horton to seal his side's 22-point victory in their first game back in Division Two after relegation last season.
Luke Fletcher took the other wicket to finish with 4-35, while 26-year-old Pattinson finished with match figures of 8-84, on top of his 89 not out with the bat.
Leicestershire pick up just five points, to put them on minus 11, following their eve-of-season 16-point deduction for repeated disciplinary offences. But they are not bottom, as Durham were made to start the season on minus 48 points.
Notts now travel to Chester-le-Street to meet fellow relegated side Durham, in a game starting on Good Friday (14 April), when Leicestershire play Gloucestershire at Bristol.
Leicestershire head coach Pierre de Bruyn told BBC Radio Leicester:
"We know we weren't good enough. Facing the likes of James Pattinson and Stuart Broad, world-class bowlers, sets a benchmark. But it's the first game and I need to back these players.
"We prepared accordingly and, on the first day, managed to get ourselves out of trouble, then put them under pressure with the ball on day two. But we are better than this and I'll continue to back these guys to bounce back.
"It's been a very tough few days with the 16-point deduction on the eve of the match and then this result. But this dressing room has character. Our noses are out of joint, but we're not going to panic over selection."
Nottinghamshire fast bowler Luke Fletcher told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"It's always a great feeling getting a result in the Championship. The partnership between Stuart Broad and James Pattinson got us ahead of the game, and then to come out and bowl the way we did on Saturday night was brilliant.
"Then this morning Jimmy Pattinson came down that hill from the Bennett End and bowled rockets, and I was in quite a good rhythm from the Pavilion End.
"The dressing room is a good place to be. A a lot of work goes into these games, and sometimes you can get frustrated. But hopefully we'll take this momentum up to Durham and have a good crack there." | Nottinghamshire took less than an hour on day three to get their County Championship Division Two campaign off to a winning start against Leicestershire at Grace Road. | 39542110 |
The ex-England all-rounder marked his 41st birthday with 127 from 174 balls.
But after Collingwood was dismissed by off-spinner Andrew Salter, Durham lost their last four wickets without addition and were all out for 342.
Glamorgan captain Michael Hogan took the last three wickets in four balls to finish with 5-49.
Hogan was leading Glamorgan for the first time since he was appointed skipper following Jacques Rudolph's decision to resign the four-day captaincy.
After Durham's openers were dismissed with only 17 on the board, Cameron Steel and Graham Clark steadied the visitors by putting on 86 for the third wicket, with Clark scoring 48 and Steel 59.
Collingwood played a chanceless innings, and shared a valuable stand of 91 with Ryan Pringle, before Stuart Poynter joined his captain to take the score past 300, and gain Durham three batting points.
However, after striking Salter for 20 from five balls, Collingwood was out attempting to reverse sweep the off-spinner and Durham capitulated after that.
Glamorgan's other seamers, Marchant de Lange and Timm van der Gugten, stuck to their task on a sweltering day and were rewarded with two wickets apiece.
But the day belonged to Collingwood, who scored his 23rd century for Durham, although the visiting skipper will though have been disappointed with his team's late collapse.
"I am delighted to have contributed.
"Maybe I should have a birthday every day! My mam and dad were down and it still feels the same every time you make 100.
"If you keep yourself fit and still have the motivation to play the game, experience is an amazing thing. It's invaluable and what I draw on.
"It might not look pretty in the middle and it never really has done through my career, but as long as you score the runs and get the job done that's the main thing.
"It was a disappointing end to the day. It was one of those wickets that felt slow at times and you never got a rhythm.
"We will only be able to tell whether that was a good score until we bowl on it tomorrow [Saturday]."
"It is a great honour to captain Glamorgan.
"This is my fifth season here and the first year I got here I realised what it meant to all the Welsh guys to play for this great club.
"When I got asked the other day whether I wanted to do the job I said yes straightaway.
"It was a fantastic feeling leading the team out today and something I will remember forever. Hopefully there will be some more five-wicket hauls as well.
"It was hard work and I took the rewards at the end of the day after everyone had put in a good shift.
"I would have batted and it was probably the least amount of grass I have seen on a Swansea wicket." | Paul Collingwood was Durham's saviour on the opening day of their County Championship Division Two match against Glamorgan at St Helen's in Swansea. | 40027244 |
The club has been in talks with Liverpool City Council to collaborate on a new stadium since last June.
Robert Elstone said Everton were not ruling out any sites, but had given "more attention" to one, which the BBC understands to be in Walton Hall Park.
The park lies around a mile from the club's Goodison Park ground.
Speaking to the club's annual general meeting, Mr Elstone said a new 50,000 capacity stadium "remains a big priority".
"We're not ruling out any of the sites that we've identified and that the council has presented to us, but there is one site which is getting more attention and has been getting more attention for a number of months.
"It has been worked on very carefully, diligently and in some detail by not only Everton, but by the council and by advisors, planners, architects, designers, cost consultants, regeneration experts and solicitors.
"So there's a lot of work going into something that we're very excited about."
He said the project relied on "a council being supportive financially and supportive entrepreneurially as well" and that "at the moment, there are signs that they are being that".
"We hope it comes to fruition and, if it does, I think it's something that the city and our fans will be very proud of."
He said the club "wouldn't be investing what we're doing without thinking it had a chance of success", adding that there was "a degree of optimism - perhaps some cautious optimism - but a degree of optimism".
A Liverpool City Council spokesman said the authority was happy to "reaffirm our commitment to working with Everton in relation to their new stadium proposals".
However, he said "no firm options have been developed in terms of how or where this will take shape" and it was important to "stress that the city council is clearly not in a position to fund the costs of a new stadium".
"Any investment the council makes would be in a wider regeneration scheme, subject to a sound financial and economic rationale for doing so."
The 41,000-capacity Goodison Park is one of the oldest football stadiums and has been the home of Everton since it opened in 1892. | Everton are "focusing attention" on one location as the site for their new stadium, the football club's chief executive has said. | 27217078 |
"I know that film means a great deal to me but I had no idea that I meant so much to film," the 72-year-old said.
Bafta chairman Tim Corrie said the actor has an "extraordinary screen presence" and brings "utter conviction to every role he undertakes".
His film credits include The Elephant Man and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In 1976 he was presented with his first Bafta award for his role as Quentin Crisp in the TV drama The Naked Civil Servant.
Since then he has received a further two more trophies for Midnight Express and The Elephant Man, while earning further nominations for Alien, The Field and, most recently, TV's An Englishman in New York in 2009.
He has also been nominated for two Academy Awards, for The Elephant Man and Midnight Express.
Recent screen roles have included Ollivander in the Harry Potter series and a role in the Oscar-nominated film, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Mr Corrie added: "He is one of a kind, an iconic figure, and Bafta is delighted to take this opportunity to honour his outstanding contribution to cinema."
Silent movie The Artist leads this year's Baftas with 12 nominations, including best film and best director.
British Cold War-era spy movie Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is close behind with 11 nominations.
The Bafta awards take place on 12 February in London.
The ceremony will be hosted by comedian and broadcaster Stephen Fry and will be broadcast on BBC One. | Veteran actor John Hurt will receive the outstanding contribution to cinema award at the Baftas next month, it has been announced. | 16759403 |
Enda Kenny was speaking at a specially convened meeting of the British-Irish Council (BIC) to discuss the implications of Brexit on Friday.
He said: "We do not want to see a European border internally on the island of Ireland.
"There will not be a hard border from Dundalk to Derry."
The Common Travel Area allows people to move between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland without passport checks.
But Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister said on Friday that he could not see how that arrangement could continue after a Brexit.
"The economic implications for us in a withdrawal from the European Union are very profound, costing us over a period of ten years anything in the region of £7-8bn and possibly even more," Mr McGuinness told a press conference.
"There is alarm in the north of Ireland among the business community, among the community and voluntary sector, among our universities, among our agri-food industry and there is grave concern about the prospect that whatever is said about the common travel area being protected.
"It's very difficult to see how it can be protected in the aftermath of the debate that was held mostly in England around the whole issue of immigration and which effectively won that vote for the racists within UKIP and the loony, right-wing of the Tory party."
First Minister Arlene Foster said suggestions there could be a poll on Irish unity following the UK vote to leave the European Union were "not helpful".
"There have then been denials from Micheál Martin and people like that to say that actually they weren't calling for a border poll, they were just thinking about it in a different context," she said.
"That's all very well at summer schools and whatever - I have to deal with reality, I have to be prepared for the people of Northern Ireland moving forward in this new era."
Mr Kenny said the Irish government would play an important role in the Brexit negotiations and would "make the strongest presentation for continued support for Northern Ireland".
"I will argue that very strongly at the European Council," he added.
Earlier this week, he said Brexit talks would need to consider the possibility of a referendum on reuniting Ireland.
But on Friday, he said a poll "is not going to arise now or in the medium term, or may not arise for a very long time, if ever." | There "will not be a hard border" on the island of Ireland in the wake of the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the taoiseach (prime minister) has said. | 36867886 |
The Self-Directed Support (Scotland) Act requires local authorities to offer personal payments if requested.
It means people care can hire assistants and arrange for them to come at a time that suits them.
Unison said it supported the Act but was concerned that it would be used to cut funding for social care.
About 100,000 people are currently assessed by local authorities as needing social care support.
Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said: "The Self-directed Support Act is about empowering people to be able to take control of their own lives.
"Having a care package designed by someone else works for some people, but not others. We want to give everyone the ability to choose care that works for them."
Suselle Boffey has been organising her own 24-hour care for more than 20 years, under a pilot scheme in Edinburgh. She employs four personal assistants, working in shifts, to look after her.
"I was apprehensive at first," she said, "I didn't know how it was going to work, but it made a huge difference. I could meet friends for lunch or dinner. It meant I could wash my hair at midnight if I chose."
She added: "I had much more choice in life about who worked for me, and what I could do when."
Suselle, who has a muscle wasting condition and needs a wheelchair and ventilator, has since enjoyed holidays all over Europe with one of her assistants. However, it also means she has become an employer.
"It can become difficult and challenging, particularly when you are arguing with each other," she said.
"That does happen. I suppose the most difficult aspect of that is when you are getting up or going to bed and there is something that you need to sort out while you are having your personal care delivered, but for the most part it is near enough perfect."
Suselle uses the services of Lothian's Centre for Inclusive Living to help her manage her employees.
They calculate wages and accompany Suselle when she is conducting interviews.
Under the Act, local authorities will continue to provide care packages for people who don't want to organise their own care.
Trade union Unison supports the principle of self-direct care but is concerned that it will be used to cut funding for social care.
"The rhetoric of choice and control is often used as cover for a deteriorating service," said Scottish organiser Dave Watson.
He added: "Cuts in budget provision means that the individual has a smaller budget to buy equivalent services. This has contributed to the 'race to the bottom' in home care."
Unison also points out that many people do not understand or want the responsibility of being an employer. Meanwhile fewer users of council services, such as day centres, means these could face cuts.
"This leads to greater social isolation that we know has a damaging impact on health," said Mr Watson.
The public health minister said: "Of course, not everyone will want, or feel able to design their own care."
Mr Matheson added: "They can continue to have their package arranged if that's what's best for them.
"Others might feel a little overwhelmed by the new options open to them, so we've made sure there are a range of support options available for people to help them make the best decisions." | New legislation means people who need care from a local authority now have the option of being given cash to organise it themselves. | 26826984 |
Egypt's prime minister said a technical fault was the most likely cause, dismissing claims from Islamic State militants that they were responsible.
However, three airlines - Emirates, Air France and Lufthansa - have decided not to fly over the Sinai Peninsula until more information is available.
The plane's black boxes have been found and sent for analysis, officials said.
The Kogalymavia Airbus A-321 came down early on Saturday, shortly after leaving the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the Russian city of St Petersburg.
Egypt's civil aviation minister Hossam Kamal said there had been no sign of any problems on board the flight, contradicting earlier reports that the pilot had asked to make an emergency landing.
An Egyptian official had previously said that before the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers, the pilot had said the aircraft was experiencing technical problems and he intended to try to land at the nearest airport.
In Russia, the wife of the plane's co-pilot said her husband had complained about the plane's condition.
Natalya Trukhacheva told state-controlled NTV that their daughter had called the Sergei Trukachev before the flight left Sharm el-Sheikh.
"He complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired," she said.
Russian and French investigators have joined the Egyptian-led probe, along with experts from Airbus, which is headquartered in France.
A criminal case had been opened against Kogalymavia for "violation of rules of flight and preparation for them", Russia's Ria news agency reported.
Police have searched the company's offices.
Kogalymavia spokeswoman Oksana Golovin insisted the 18-year-old plane was "fully, 100% airworthy" and added that the pilot had 12,000 hours of flying experience.
In Sinai itself, where jihadist groups are active, militants allied to IS made a claim on social media that they brought down flight KGL9268.
But Egyptian Prime Minister Sharif Ismail dismissed the claim, saying experts had confirmed that a plane could not be downed at the altitude the Airbus 321 was flying at.
Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov told Interfax news agency that "such reports cannot be considered true". No evidence had been seen that indicated the plane was targeted, he said.
Egypt's civilian aviation ministry said the plane had been at an altitude of 9,450m (31,000ft) when it disappeared.
Security experts say a plane flying at that altitude would be beyond the range of a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile (Manpad), which Sinai militants are known to possess.
However, German carrier Lufthansa said it would avoid flying over the Sinai peninsula "as long as the cause for today's crash has not been clarified". On Saturday evening, Air France-KLM and Emirates said they were following suit.
British Airways and easyJet said their routes were regularly reviewed, but that they had no plans to alter their routes to and from Sharm el-Sheikh.
A hotel near St Petersburg airport has become a gathering point for relatives of those on flight 9268. There are medics here to help them, and we saw an Orthodox priest. Some have been giving DNA samples, to try to identify their loved ones.
In the lobby, men from the investigative committee are huddled over files and phones - beside cabinets full of souvenirs. For some reason, riot police are patrolling the corridors too.
Occasionally, someone emerges red-eyed from the room where officials are passing on what information and answers they can to relatives. But it's still impossible to say why this happened.
A spokeswoman for the airline says the pilot was experienced, the Airbus plane had been through all its safety checks. But there are a lot of people here with urgent questions about why their friends and relatives are not safely home tonight after a holiday in the Egyptian sun.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Sunday a day of mourning for what is the worst air disaster in Russian history.
The plane was carrying 217 passengers, including 25 children, Russian transport authorities said. There were seven crew members on board.
Egyptian officials had said 213 of the passengers were Russian and four were Ukrainian, but Russian officials said at least one of the victims was from Belarus.
The office of Egypt's prime minister said 129 bodies had so far been recovered and taken to Cairo.
The first bodies to be returned to Russia are expected to be flown to St Petersburg on Sunday.
One unnamed official described a "tragic scene" with bodies of victims still strapped to seats.
The plane appeared to have split in two, he told Reuters, with one part burning up and the other crashing into a rock.
05:58 Egyptian time (03:58 GMT): Flight leaves Sharm el-Sheikh, the Egyptian cabinet says in a statement
06:14 Egyptian time (04:14 GMT): Plane fails to make scheduled contact with air traffic control based in Larnaca, Cyprus, according to Sergei Izdolsky, an official with Russia's air transport agency
06:17 Egyptian time, approx (04:17 GMT): Plane comes down over the Sinai peninsula, according to Airbus
11:12 Egyptian time (09:12 GMT): Flight had been due to land in St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport
Mikael Robertsson, from the live flight tracking service Flight Radar 24, told the BBC that the plane had started to drop very quickly, losing 1,500 metres in one minute before coverage was lost.
Local weather observations near the rescue scene suggest relatively benign conditions. | An investigation is under way after a Russian airliner crashed in Sinai, killing all 224 people on board. | 34690936 |
In written evidence to a committee which questioned him on Tuesday, Roger Stone described his shock at the "vitriol" in the Casey Report.
As many as 1,400 children were raped, trafficked and groomed in Rotherham, most during Mr Stone's time as leader.
He resigned the same day the earlier Jay Report was published.
Last month's Casey Report found a Labour-led council "not fit for purpose" and led to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles ordering government-appointed commissioners to take over the running of Rotherham.
Mr Stone said in his statement to the Communities and Local Government Committee: "It does feel like a witch hunt and not a fair and evidenced assessment of the governance capabilities of Rotherham or a rigorous exposition of the failures on CSE (child sexual exploitation) set in context.
"To impose commissioners on the basis of a short review which was dealing with historic issues is not serving the interests of local democracy."
The former council leader said: "There are accountability issues for central government as health, criminal justice including police and CPS have all been part of the 'collective failure' of Rotherham.
"This is in my view why Rotherham's local leadership is being blamed so vociferously to avoid any collective responsibility.
"It is how local and national systems have come together which is in part responsible.
"It is why there are issues from Southampton to Cumbria and crimes from Derby to Oxford to Reading."
Prof Alexis Jay's report provoked nationwide shock when it outlined how at least 1,400 children had been subjected to CSE in Rotherham.
Mr Stone said: "I was stunned by the numbers set out in the Jay report and the detail of the abuse outlined and the vitriol of the Casey review.
"I do feel I should have known and done more but I think it's important to have an honest appraisal of what happened and why it happened and not just make accusations which are mostly vague and unsubstantiated."
He said: "Given the scale of the issue I thought our action proportionate.
"In the entire firestorm I don't believe there was a cover-up. I was told there was not enough evidence for the CPS to proceed.
"I had no evidence to contradict this, nor has any been suggested." | The former leader of Rotherham Council has said a damning report into the failures of the authority felt "like a witch hunt". | 31841042 |
The innovation has been made possible due to a new refrigeration unit used by the British and American military.
It will allow blood transfusions to be administered on the scene of accidents, rather than later in hospitals.
London's Air Ambulance believes hundreds of lives could be saved, and regional services are looking to follow suit.
The service also had to assure the authorities that precious blood stocks could be kept safely and that they could be tracked adequately beyond the confines of the hospital.
"I really believe that us carrying blood routinely is going to make a big difference to many of our patients," Dr Anne Weaver, lead clinician with the service, told BBC News.
"We attend about 90 patients a year who are bleeding to death when we get to them.
"About 160 patients don't actually make it to hospital on top of that 90, so I think for about 250 patients we're going to give them a better chance of survival by carrying the blood with us to scene."
The blood is kept in a "golden hour" box, which can keep four units of O-negative blood (which can be transfused into any patient) at a steady 4C for up to 72 hours. Unused blood can be returned to hospital stores, so no stocks are wasted.
"We're going to recirculate the blood back into the hospital where it will be used. It's emergency blood which is a precious resource and we do rely on people giving blood to make sure we don't ever run out of it."
Blood will also now be carried by London's Air Ambulance's rapid response vehicles, which operate by day and at night when the helicopter cannot fly.
Zane Perkins, a trauma surgeon who works both in the air and on the ground with the service, says transfusing blood on the scene can transform pre-hospital care.
"About half of people with traumatic injuries who die, die from bleeding," he said. "Often stopping the bleeding can only be done in hospital, but one of the ways to buy yourself time is to replace the blood they're losing. I think carrying blood is a great step forward."
Last year, London's Air Ambulance treated 2,059 patients, of which some 716 involved road traffic accidents and 571 involved stabbings or shootings. Falls accounted for 456 cases attended. The service is a charity, like other air ambulance services in England and Wales.
The Association of Air Ambulances which represents air ambulances throughout England and Wales, welcomed the development.
Dr Ramzi Freij, association spokesman and medical director for air ambulance services based in Kent and Essex, said London had the advantage of a helipad on top of the Royal London Hospital, which made access to and monitoring of blood supplies easier.
Other air ambulance services, which carry paramedics more commonly than doctors, would also have to seek permission for the paramedics to conduct blood transfusions.
Nevertheless, Kent and Essex, who carry doctors, were now looking at carrying blood and other blood products such as plasma and platelets, with the plan to hold the blood supplies at their base.
"It will save lives. Our work is about saving critically injured people, people who are haemorrhaging either from gunshot injuries, road traffic accidents or stabbings, where replacing like with like is really crucial," he said.
He said carrying blood could save lives both in the cities where violent crime is more common, and in rural areas, where ferrying patients back to hospitals for emergency transfusions and treatment can take too much time.
Very few air ambulance services carry blood on-board around the world. The US and British military carry blood on their rescue helicopters, while civilian services in Australia have carried blood for some years.
"We have blood storage refrigerators at six of our bases," said Dr Allan MacKillop, chief medical officer with Australia's Careflight Group Queensland.
"The blood is taken on missions where it's use is likely, for example major trauma, and transported in temperature-controlled blood shipper containers. If the blood is not required it can generally be restored for future use.
"The shipper has a digital temperature logger which is downloaded after each mission to ensure safe storage conditions have been maintained."
Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service also has the capability of carrying blood at selected bases.
Commenting on the launch of the new service in London, Mayor Boris Johnson said: "London's Air Ambulance has an international reputation for pioneering medical procedures which have been adopted around the world.
"It provides a great service across the capital and being able to carry blood on board means the team will be able to save even more lives." | London's Air Ambulance is carrying blood supplies from Tuesday - the first such service in the UK to do so. | 16928621 |
Sam Ward also found the net but two goals from Matias Paredes and Gonzalo Peillat's penalty corner sealed victory for the visitors at Bisham Abbey.
"We fell right into their trap as we were sloppy at times in possession which allowed them to counter-attack," said GB head coach Bobby Crutchley.
"That's what they're looking for and that's why it's frustrating."
The series is helping Britain prepare for the World League Final, which starts on 27 November in India.
The second Test against Argentina is on Wednesday, also at Bisham Abbey. | Great Britain were beaten 3-2 in the first of three Tests against Argentina, despite a debut goal from Alan Forsyth. | 34577037 |
The post has been filled by a former inspector from Greater Manchester Police's specialist search unit.
The appointment, revealed at a recent club forum, comes amid significant additional security measures introduced at Old Trafford on matchdays.
Vehicles are now routinely checked as they enter car parks, and supporters are searched at turnstiles.
United's Premier League game against Bournemouth in May was postponed when the stadium was evacuated after what turned out to be a fake bomb was found in a toilet.
It had been left behind in error following an exercise earlier in the week.
In November, two supporters on a stadium tour hid in an Old Trafford toilet in the hope of seeing United's Premier League game against Arsenal. They were eventually found and handed over to police.
Last year, security expert Baroness Ruth Henig called for licensing laws to be changed to force entertainment venues around the UK to undergo counter-terror training. | Manchester United say they are the first sports club in England to appoint a full-time counter-terrorism manager. | 38661302 |
There will be eight new journeys a day from 16 May.
The company said the four new services in each direction offer journeys every half-hour for most of the day.
The additional services between the two capital cities from May means seat capacity has been boosted by 22,000 on the route - an increase of almost a third.
Two additional services will also be added on Sundays.
The company is releasing thousands of £25 fares for the new timetable as part of the launch. It will also extend the time possible to book tickets from 12 weeks to 24 weeks.
David Horne, managing director on the east coast route, said: "This is a major boost for our customers travelling between Edinburgh and London who will be able to catch a train every half-hour for most of the day.
"We have seen how increasing capacity and frequency adds to the popularity of train travel and we're confident that customers will respond positively to these changes." | Virgin Trains has announced an increase in weekday trains between Edinburgh and London on the east coast main line. | 35576875 |
Harry Maceachen from Shrewsbury was born with a rare liver disease and has just undergone his second transplant.
His father Simon was a living donor as no suitable match could be found from the organ donor register.
Mr Maceachen said: "It's a big operation for a four-year-old and he's getting very tired - he's not normally like this."
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Harry's usually boisterous character was illustrated in a show-stealing appearance on BBC Breakfast in December, when his infectious laughter and excited energy captured hearts and distracted presenters.
Harry was treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital while his father stayed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham - with mother Clare travelling between the two.
"We've had a lot of family support which has made a big difference," Mr Maceachen said.
It felt "amazing" to be going home after two weeks in hospital with Harry, said Mrs Maceachen.
"We are obviously going to be in and out a lot over the next few weeks because they will keep a very, very close eye on Harry and his progress," she said.
"But it will be really nice to go home and sleep in our own bed and sit on our own sofa and watch out own television."
Harry was born with biliary atresia which meant he had blocked bile ducts.
He had his first liver transplant aged one but experienced a rare mechanical failure, Mrs Maceachen said.
She said "hopefully" he would not need another transplant.
"Children don't need a full liver and Simon's will grow back," said Mrs Maceachen.
"We've explained to Harry what is going to happen and I think it's been easier for him to understand he is going to be having part of daddy's tummy rather than the alternative."
Mr Maceachan is a volunteer at Shrewsbury Parkrun and he and his family fundraise for the Children's Liver Disease Foundation. | A father who gave part of his liver to his four-year-old son has said they are both doing well after the transplant. | 35822199 |
Music producer Raymond Stevenson, physically abused during his time at the Shirley Oaks home in the 70s, met a childhood friend last year who revealed he'd been raped at the institution. Within a few months, the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (SOSA) was hundreds strong.
"At the very first meeting I can remember there was lots of hugging lots of crying - it was really we are together now, they can't harm us again," Stevenson recalls. "No lies can penetrate our lives because we feel we were going to reveal the truth."
The south London production office, from where Stevenson promoted music stars like Jessie J, now looks more like a police incident room. A map on the wall includes details of allegations from hundreds of former residents, suggesting physical, sexual and emotional abuse was routine at many of the houses on the 72-acre Shirley Oaks site.
"We have been in contact with over 300 people and the stories we are getting are just horrific," Stevenson says. "Every time we interview someone and hear about what happened to them, it brings tears to our eyes. Reliving some of the horrors they went through again hasn't been easy."
There have been two major police investigations into abuse at children's homes in South London and three people including a swimming instructor, William Hook, have been convicted of offences relating to Shirley Oaks.
Another operation is currently on-going, but SOSA have lost faith in the authorities who they claim have covered-up the true scale of abuse at Shirley Oaks. "We don't trust them and that's why we have decided to do this campaign ourselves," Stevenson explains.
The Shirley Oaks campaigners are part of a wider phenomenon - a "survivor" activism that is changing the balance of power in relation to child abuse. Where once victims were ignored or silenced, now they are coming together, often through social media, forming support groups and building a crescendo of noise that the authorities are forced to acknowledge.
A couple of weeks ago, dozens of former Shirley Oaks residents crowded into a Lambeth council meeting - the authority which ran the home until its closure in the mid-1980s. Councillor after councillor spoke of their shame at what had been allowed to happen to children in their care.
"I feel angry, genuinely appalled and truly sad to be the leader of a council, Lambeth Council, that in the past enabled such terrible acts of abuse, against some of our young people", council leader Lib Peck told the meeting as victims in the public gallery clapped.
Among them was the award-winning author Alex Wheatle who has written about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child at Shirley Oaks.
"We have not come here, to go to war with the council, we have come here to gain your support," Wheatle told the meeting.
Afterwards he reflected on how far the campaign had come. "It was so strengthening to see my brothers and sisters who I grew up with, one by one, presenting their case, presenting their stories," he said. "You know, I've got such a love for them right now I just want to hug everyone right now ... how brave are they?"
The Shirley Oaks association is doing more than compiling evidence. It is using music to press its case. A song entitled "Don't Touch It - It's Mine" includes personal testimony from victims.
"I was abused mentally, physically emotionally and violently," the track begins. "Of the original 16 of us, 12 have killed themselves," another haunting voice relates as a video shows child actors playing around what were the Shirley Oaks buildings.
"We not going to be told lies anymore," Stevenson explains. "We are not going to leave it in the hands of lawyers, politicians or council officials to tell us what happened to us. We want to discover it ourselves and we know music and dance and poetry are ways that can tell a greater story."
The Shirley Oaks Survivors Association is considering whether to give its dossier of evidence to the independent Goddard inquiry but they do believe, whatever happens, the tables have turned.
"There was a bond between us and that has come to haunt these people, those who done it," Raymond Stevenson says. "It is the unity of the Shirley Oaks 'massive' as we call ourselves, and the other children's homes coming together, that has built this power base and we are unstoppable." | A chance meeting between two men who realised they had both been abused in the same Surrey children's care home has led to a campaign that has seen hundreds of former residents alleging they were also victims of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. | 33818106 |
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The pitiful tourists were skittled out for 94 in only 29.2 overs as England won by an innings and 244 runs at The Oval.
After James Anderson and Stuart Broad broke through with the new ball, Chris Jordan took four of the last five wickets to kick-start the celebrations in the south London sunshine.
England had earlier plundered a broken India for 101 runs in 11.3 overs to post 486 in reply to India's first-innings 148, with Joe Root making an unbeaten 149.
Their third successive victory capped an extraordinary turnaround since the hosts were beaten by 95 runs in the second Test at Lord's to go 1-0 behind in the series.
That defeat took England's winless streak to 10 matches, following a 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia and a first home series defeat by Sri Lanka.
Since then, England have won by 266 runs in Southampton and an innings and 54 runs in Manchester before taking their dominance to even higher levels at The Oval.
India's total was their lowest at The Oval and the first time they have been bowled out for fewer than 100 since 2008.
"It was an amazing turnaround after Lord's," said England captain Alastair Cook. "India crumbled at the end but that was from the relentless pressure."
Cook praised coach Peter Moores and assistant coach Paul Farbrace, adding: "We have needed a kick up the backside and they have been brave enough to do that."
England's brutal assault with the bat on Saturday evening and Sunday morning left India facing the improbable task of scoring 338 just to make the hosts bat again.
And they made a miserable start by losing both openers cheaply before rain forced an early lunch.
Murali Vijay was trapped lbw by Anderson for two and Gautam Gambhir was run out for three when he set off for a single, turned back and was beaten by a direct hit from Chris Woakes.
After a delay of an hour-and-a-half, normal service was resumed.
Anderson had Chesteshwar Pujara caught behind, Ajinkya Rahane was brilliantly caught by Gary Ballance at slip off Stuart Broad and captain Mahendra Dhoni glanced Woakes to short leg.
Jordan then took over with three wickets in two overs. Virat Kohli's wretched series continued when he edged to Alastair Cook at first slip for 20 before Ravichandran Ashwin and Bhuvneshwar Kumar also fell to outside edges.
Varun Aaron was run out attempting a second run and the match was ended when Ishant Sharma fended a short ball from Jordan into the air, enabling Moeen Ali to walk in from silly point and take a simple catch.
England had set the tone for another utterly one-sided day in a riotous first hour. Root completed his fifth Test hundred - and third of the summer - off 134 balls and Jordan made a breezy 20.
Broad, batting for the first time since having his nose broken by an Aaron bouncer, played with no fear as he cut and pulled short balls in a blistering 37 off 21 balls, including five fours and a six.
Broad and Anderson then set about dismantling India's top order, with Anderson closing to within three wickets of Ian Botham's England Test record of 383.
The five-match ODI series against India starts in Bristol on Monday, 25 August, but England's Test side are not back in action until April 2015 when they take on the West Indies in a three-Test tour of the Caribbean.
Listen to Geoffrey Boycott and Jonathan Agnew review the day's play on the Test Match Special podcast. | Rampant England thrashed India inside three days in the fifth Test to complete a 3-1 series victory. | 28828321 |
The FAW were fined 20,000 Sfr (£15,694) following commemorations prior to Wales' World Cup qualifier against Serbia in November.
Football's governing body took action against because fans wore poppies in the stands and the armed forces held bunches of poppies at the side of the pitch.
"The Football Association of Wales can confirm that it has received written reasons from Fifa's disciplinary committee relating to sanctions imposed during our World Cup qualifier against Serbia on 12 November, 2016," the FAW said in a statement.
"Following this, the FAW have now informed FIFA of our intention to appeal the decision."
Fifa also fined the national associations of England, Northern Ireland and Scotland for displaying poppies.
World football's governing body prohibits political, religious or commercial messages on shirts.
The Scottish FA confirmed they will be appealing against Fifa sanctions that followed Scotland players wearing poppies at Wembley.
England's Football Association have also indicated they will appeal against the fine of 45,000 Swiss francs (£35,311). | The Football Association of Wales will be appealing against sanctions imposed by Fifa for displaying poppies during a World Cup qualifier. | 38931469 |
The replica of the 1936 car used in the 1968 children's film could fetch up to £350,000 at the sale, to be held on 12 September at Goodwood in West Sussex.
Other cars up for grabs include a rare 1966 Ferrari 275, estimated to fetch between £2.6m and £2.9m.
Evans will also put 140 lots of auto-memorabilia up for sale.
Proceeds from the memorabilia part of the auction will be donated to the BBC's Children in Need charity.
Bonhams' Sholto Gilbertson said Evans would be auctioning 13 "incredible" cars, including six "outstanding" Ferraris.
Evans' love of cars spawned the annual CarFest event in Cheshire. The Radio 2 DJ was confirmed as the new host of Top Gear in June following the corporation's decision not to renew Jeremy Clarkson's contract.
The original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car fetched a reported $805,000 (£516,171) when it was auctioned in California in 2011. | Broadcaster and new Top Gear host Chris Evans has put his Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car up for auction alongside 12 other models from his collection. | 33886674 |
McCarthy's side were beaten 1-0 thanks to Leon Best's goal, their fifth defeat of the season at Portman Road.
"The performance was worse than the result, if that can be possible.
"That was as poor as we've played in a long, long time. If we play like that we've no chance of getting into the play-offs," he told BBC Radio Suffolk.
"I'll take a huge portion of the blame, I left the team as it was from Tuesday, maybe we didn't just have the legs - not making excuses we played badly."
McCarthy's side have now lost six of their last 11 league matches, while victory lifted Rotherham out of the Championship relegation zone.
He continued: "The lads always give everything, but I can't accept that performance. I suppose I have to give Rotherham some credit, having scored the goal they defended really well.
"They came with a gameplan, we conceded an awful goal from a short free-kick - there's nothing much more that could have gone wrong in our performance, and that's me included.
Following the defeat, last season's play-off semi-finalists are now four points outside the top six ahead of their next game against 12th-placed Wolves, one of McCarthy's former clubs, on 2 April.
"Each and every one of us has to up our performance," he said. | Ipswich Town manager Mick McCarthy says he will take a "huge portion" of the blame for a "dreadful" display in the home defeat by strugglers Rotherham. | 35861322 |
US officials have published a trove of files found at his Pakistan hideout the night the al-Qaeda chief was killed.
They include Arabic correspondence with his lieutenants, a love letter to one of his wives and an application form to join the terror group.
He also had English language books on economic and military theory.
In one of the letters, Bin Laden instructs one of his deputies to tell "our brothers" that they must remain focused on fighting Americans.
Their "job is to uproot the obnoxious tree by concentrating on its American trunk, and to avoid being occupied with the local security forces," he writes.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said a "rigorous" review had taken place before the spy agency ordered the release of the documents.
There are 103 papers and videos in all, including a number of translated letters, notes, and other materials detailing al-Qaeda operations. Many of the documents also have a version available in Arabic.
One letter mocks President George W Bush's War on Terror, with Bin Laden writing that it had not created stability in Iraq or Afghanistan.
There is also section entitled Materials Regarding France, which includes a number of academic reports and articles about France's military, politics and economy.
Also listed is a document described as a "suicide prevention guide", several English language books including Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars, several maps, and a few video game guides.
He made a video letter to one of his wives, in which he says: "Know that you do fill my heart with love, beautiful memories, and your long-suffering of tense situations in order to appease me and be kind to me".
They say you can tell a lot about a person from their bookshelf. But what can we tell about the leader of al-Qaeda from his? Firstly, he wanted to know his enemy - he seems to have read plenty on America including bestsellers like Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward.
Unsurprisingly, he also seemed to favour books which were critical of American power such as by Noam Chomsky or Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins which recounted the author's claims of American companies exploiting the developing world.
There's also an element of trying to learn his opponents' weaknesses and vulnerabilities - retired British colonel John Hughes-Wilson's book on military intelligence blunders makes an appearance as do books on guerrilla warfare.
There also some books which perhaps suggest a bit of wish fulfilment - The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy for instance.
Also on the list is Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer - the CIA analyst who first ran the unit dedicated to tracking Osama Bin Laden back in the middle 1990s and also, rather oddly, a book entitled A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam.
What was on Bin Laden's bookshelf?
Also on the list was Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions by Patrick Clawson. When asked by the BBC about his feelings when he heard, Mr Clawson replied sarcastically: "Wonderful, I am glad it is read in such high circles."
Among the documents appears to be an application to join the ranks of al-Qaeda, including questions about hobbies and a willingness to be a martyr.
The documents are being released in the wake of President Obama's calls for greater transparency, said Jeffrey Anchukaitis, a spokesman for the ODNI.
"The intelligence community will be reviewing hundreds more documents in the near future for possible declassification and release," he said.
Some of the material that has been included in the trove was previously declassified for use in federal prosecutions.
Bin Laden was killed in a raid by US special forces on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in May 2011.
In 2012, some documents found in the operation were released by the West Point US military academy. | In his final years, Osama Bin Laden urged his followers to remain focused on attacking the US, newly released documents show. | 32817456 |
The combined event will include the finals of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup.
The hard court event would be held at the Palexpo convention centre for three years from November 2018.
"Change is needed to ensure that we maximise the full potential of these iconic and historic competitions," said ITF president David Haggerty.
Geneva was chosen by the ITF board at its meeting in Frankfurt from a shortlist of six that also included Copenhagen (Denmark), Miami (USA), Istanbul (Turkey), Turin (Italy), and Wuhan (China).
The ITF AGM will be asked to approve the full reform package at its meeting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in August 2017.
It is proposed initially that the season-ending event will run for three years and could also include the semi-finals of the Fed Cup, meaning the competition would expand from eight teams to 16.
"The creation of the World Cup of Tennis finals is at the heart of a series of reforms that represent the most significant changes in the history of Davis Cup and Fed Cup," added Haggerty.
"We've consulted widely and listened carefully, and believe we will deliver an exceptional new event for fans, players and nations."
Argentina are the Davis Cup holders and the Czech Republic won the Fed Cup in 2016.
The plans have been greeted with dismay by some tennis players, including Jamie Murray's Brazilian doubles partner Bruno Soares and Australian world number 187 Sam Groth.
Soares tweeted that the "ITF itself is slowly killing the competition", while Groth said the ITF "had lost the plot". | Geneva has been chosen by the International Tennis Federation as the preferred venue for the first World Cup of Tennis in 2018. | 40429847 |
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At 18 years old, Lachlan Smart is the youngest person ever to fly around the world in a single engine aircraft, by himself.
The journey was 24,000 air-miles long, and he stopped in 15 different countries along the way.
54 days after setting off, Lachlan got a big welcome as he touched down back home in eastern Australia.
Leah's been taking a look at how he did it. | An Australian teenager has flown around the world and into the record books. | 37213408 |
Stephen and Aly Kemp, from Kirkwall, are seeking planning permission for an artisan distillery, visitor centre and shop in the town's Ayre Road.
If approved, the distillery will produce the Kemps' own variety of gin - Kirkjuvagr - which has been in development over the past few months.
It is hoped work on the distillery will start in the autumn, with an official opening slated for next April.
The Kemps, who are trading under the name of Orkney Distilling Ltd, said the craft distillery would be the first of its kind on the islands.
They have used researchers at the Agronomy Institute at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Kirkwall to help identify "a uniquely Orcadian blend of ingredients".
Production of Kirkjuvagr Gin will initially be carried out on mainland Scotland, until the distillery starts operating.
Mr Kemp is general manager of family firm Orkney Builders (Contractors) Ltd, which owns the Ayre Road site being proposed for the new distillery.
He said: "This is an exciting new venture for Aly and myself.
"As gin lovers, we've long wondered what it would be like to create a distinctly Orcadian variety, one that could proudly represent the islands in what is a highly competitive, but rapidly expanding and exciting, marketplace.
"In developing Kirkjuvagr, we were very keen to make some kind of connection with Orkney's Norse heritage, in addition to the brand's Viking name, and we like to think we've come up with something a bit special in terms of the ingredients.
"We're keeping the specifics about Kirkjuvagr close to our chest at the moment, but all will be revealed in time." | An Orkney couple have unveiled plans to set up a gin distillery on the islands. | 35978858 |
Sarfraz Khan, 35, was stabbed to death and three men were seriously hurt when a row over a mop and bucket at the family ice cream business escalated.
Mohammed Nasar, 32, and Tariq Mahmood, 26, of Cecil Avenue, Great Horton, were found guilty at Bradford Crown Court.
Amjid Ali, 39, and Amir Ali, 19, also of Cecil Avenue, were cleared of murder but found guilty of manslaughter.
Nasar was also convicted on three charges of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, and Mahmood was found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Ali and Ali were convicted of unlawful wounding.
A fifth defendant, 33-year-old Sajid Hussain, also of Cecil Avenue, was found not guilty of charges of murder, manslaughter, inflicting GBH with intent and unlawful wounding.
During the trial, the court heard there had been bad blood between two sides of the extended family and the row relating to Rossi's Ices was "the straw that broke the camel's back". | Two men have been convicted of murdering a father-of-four in Bradford when a family feud turned violent. | 38807976 |
A selection of photos from Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week: | Images courtesy of AFP, AP, EPA, Getty Images and Reuters | 37246820 |
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. | 39082005 |
Yusuf Jatta died after being hit by a car outside the Reginald Centre in Chapeltown Road, Leeds, on Saturday.
His family released a statement saying Yusuf's father, who had been away for a month, had spent a day with him before the "tragic accident".
The car driver stopped and is helping the investigation, police said.
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The family statement said Yusuf was "loved by his teachers" at Hillcrest Academy nursery and was "happy there".
It added: "Yusuf enjoyed travelling and we visited London and Scotland with him."
Det Sgt Mathew Tunney said the force continued to appeal for witnesses.
"We are particularly keen to speak to the driver of a black or dark-coloured Vauxhall Meriva that was stopped at a red traffic light as we believe he would have had a good view of the incident", he said. | A four-year-old boy was killed after being hit by a car just a day after his father returned from a trip to the Gambia, police revealed. | 39795510 |
Set up 50 years ago, Strawberry Studios in Stockport was one of the few UK recording spaces outside London.
Big names including The Stone Roses, Paul McCartney and The Buzzcocks all recorded there before it shut in 1993.
On Friday, memorabilia from the studio which was co-owned by 10cc, will be on display at Stockport Museum.
Music historian Peter Wadsworth said the exhibition would help people "understand the role Strawberry played in the Manchester music narrative", something he said "has been missing for too long".
Set up in 1967 in a 20ft square room above a record store in the town centre, it was initially called Inter-City Studios.
But after Peter Tattersall bought it for about £500 and Eric Stewart, then a member of the Mindbenders, became a partner, it was renamed Strawberry Recording Studios.
They moved it to a building in nearby Waterloo Road and began to offer technical facilities that were previously unavailable in the north of England.
Backing from 10cc's Graham Gouldman and artist-management firm Kennedy Street Enterprises then turned it into a hub of northern recording until it shut in 1993.
Factory Records producer Martin Hannett later used Strawberry as his studio of choice, paving the way for a new generation of post-punk Manchester music.
"The vision of people like Peter Tattersall and 10cc, who challenged the London dominance of the recording studio industry from their studio in Stockport, deserves to be recognised and remembered," Dr Wadsworth, from the University of Manchester, said.
Strawberry Studios: I Am in Love opens on Friday and will run for a year. | The legacy of a recording studio where 10cc, The Smiths and Joy Division created their iconic Manchester sound is being celebrated in an exhibition. | 38758830 |
Brett and Naghemeh King were detained after taking five-year-old Ashya, who has a brain tumour, from a Southampton hospital against medical advice.
They were released after UK prosecutors withdrew a European arrest warrant, stating that they were happy any risk to Ashya's life "was not as great or immediate as... originally thought".
Ashya is being treated in a hospital in Malaga.
Speaking to reporters as the couple left Madrid's Soto Del Real prison, Mr King said: "We will go to see my son as soon as possible, we have been dying to see his face for so long."
It emerged on Wednesday that the Proton Therapy Center (PTC) in Prague has reviewed Ashya's medical documentation and says he can be treated there.
Police efforts to track down Ashya began after his parents took him from Southampton Hospital without doctors' consent in order to seek proton beam treatment abroad.
The PTC says Dr Gary Nicolin, consultant paediatric oncologist at Southampton Hospital, has said Ashya is first required to undergo two cycles of chemotherapy.
That is expected to take several weeks but afterwards he would be able to travel to Prague for proton therapy.
A Spanish judge ordered the parents' release on Tuesday after the Crown Prosecution Service said it had "urgently reviewed the case".
A CPS spokesman said: "We consider there is insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction for any criminal offence."
At the scene: Tom Burridge, BBC News correspondent, Madrid
As they walked to the door of Soto del Real prison, Brett and Naghemeh King were greeted and hugged by two friends.
They then emerged from the prison, walking slowly, with a small suitcase and bag, towards a throng of cameras and waiting press.
"We're tired," Mr King told me. Yearning to see our son. We're completely relieved."
"Are you angry?", a Spanish journalist asked him. "No, not at all."
And his message for the British public, I asked him? "Thank you for all your support."
They said they just wanted to see their five-year-old son.
"We've been dying to see his face for so long now," he added.
Mr King seemed bewildered but relatively calm, given what he and his wife had been through over the past few days.
The Kings had spent more than 24 hours inside the jail. Once the Crown Prosecution Service decided to drop legal proceedings against them, it took roughly seven hours for them to be set free in Spain.
They were driven away on a long journey down to southern Spain, so they could be reunited with their seven children, including five-year-old Ashya, who is in a hospital in Malaga.
Daniel King, Ashya's older brother, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the family would travel to the hospital in Malaga to visit him later on Wednesday.
He said his parents were "really happy to be out and they just want to go and see Ashya as soon as possible; it was just one of these things that got way out of hand".
"We're just trying to get everything back to normal now he can have his family back with him."
Mr King, who had been allowed to visit his five-year-old brother while their parents were in jail, added: "Physically he is fine but emotionally he's very confused - but I hope that's all going to finish now."
Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the move to drop the prosecution.
In a tweet, he said: "It's important this little boy gets treatment & the love of his family."
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said a top cancer specialist will be flown out to Spain to advise Ashya's parents.
Mr Hunt said: "What we want to do is make sure that Ashya's family get the best independent advice.
"It's been a very unfortunate sequence of events and there have clearly been some misunderstandings along the way. What we want to focus on is getting the right treatment for Ashya."
Ashya was diagnosed with a medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumour, which was successfully removed by surgeons last month.
However, in order to help prevent its return, his parents wanted him to be given proton beam therapy - a treatment the NHS does not provide in the UK, although it does refer patients to other countries for treatment.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has said Ashya's chances of recovery with regular treatment are "very good". It has said there would be "no benefit to him of proton radiotherapy over standard radiotherapy".
It was then "during unsupervised leave on the trust's grounds, Ashya's family chose to remove him without informing or seeking the consent of medical staff", the trust said.
"When Ashya went missing last week we had no option but to call the police because we did not know where he was or what his parents' intentions were," a spokesman said.
An internal inquiry into the case has begun at Southampton General Hospital, the BBC understands.
The prime minister's spokesman said the Home Office had been in discussions with Hampshire Constabulary about the force's handling of the investigation.
Hampshire Police commissioner Simon Hayes said the force had been correct to pursue the arrest warrant.
Mr Hayes said: "I'm confident with the evidence that I have that it was the right thing to do.
"Hampshire Constabulary were given information by Southampton General Hospital that said Ashya was in grave danger and he needed to be found for his life to be saved." | Ashya King's parents have been freed from a Spanish prison. | 29040124 |
World championship leader Marquez had started on pole but Ducati's Dovizioso, 30, got the better of an incredible battle where the lead changed hands several times, including twice on the final corner in Spielberg.
Marquez's Honda team-mate and compatriot Dani Pedrosa came third.
Dovizioso is still currently second in the World Championship standings.
Marquez had won the two previous races after his success in Germany and the Czech Republic.
It was Dovizioso's third victory in 2017.
1. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita/Ducati) 39 mins 43.323 secs
2. Marc Marquez (Spa/Honda) 39:43.499
3. Dani Pedrosa (Spa/Honda) 39:43.499
4. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa/Ducati) 39:49.986
5. Johann Zarco (Fra/Yamaha) 39:50.585
6. Maverick Vinales (Spa/Yamaha) 39:50.770
7. Valentino Rossi (Ita/Yamaha) 39'50.770
8. Alvaro Bautista (Spa/Ducati) 39'57.838
9. Loris Baz (Fra/Ducati) 40'02.943
10. Mika Kallio (Fin/KTM) 40'03.089
1. Marc Marquez (Spa/Honda) 174 points
2. Andrea Dovizioso (Ita/Ducati) 158
3. Maverick Vinales (Spain/Yamaha) 150
4. Valentino Rossi (Ita/Yamaha) 141
5. Dani Pedrosa (Spa/Honda) 139
6. Johann Zarco (Fra/Yamaha) 99
7. Jorge Lorenzo (Spa/Ducati) 79
8. Jonas Folger (Ger/Yamaha) 77
9. Cal Crutchlow (GB/Honda) 76
10. Danilo Petrucci (Ita/Ducati) 75 | Italy's Andrea Dovizioso held off world champion Marc Marquez to win a thrilling Austrian MotoGP Grand Prix. | 40917437 |
Sameh Shoukry called for a two-state solution, but said conditions for achieving it were deteriorating.
His trip is seen as a sign of strengthened ties between two countries sharing deep concerns over regional unrest.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said he welcomes Egypt's efforts.
The last round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians came to an end amid acrimony in April 2014.
The Palestinians accused Israel of reneging on a deal to free prisoners, while Israel said it would not continue negotiations after the Palestinians decided to bring the militant Islamist Hamas movement into a unity government.
Mr Shoukry, the first Egyptian foreign minister to visit Israel in nine years, said the current state of affairs was "neither stable nor sustainable".
He added that the vision of two states living side by side was "not far-fetched" and called for confidence-building measures that could lead to renewed peace talks.
"It is no longer acceptable to claim that the status quo is the most that we can achieve of the hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples," he said, alongside Mr Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Mr Shoukry met the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank on 29 June.
Co-operation between Israel and Egypt has intensified under Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.
Egypt faces Islamist militants in the Sinai region south of Israel, and both countries are wary of Gaza's Hamas Islamist rulers.
In May, Mr Sisi urged both sides to seize the opportunity to make a peace deal, offering the Arab peace initiative of 2002 as a potential way ahead.
Mr Netanyahu said he would be willing to discuss the plan, but that changes would have to be made.
He repeated his call for Palestinians to resume direct negotiations with Israel.
Violence has escalated recently, and 35 Israelis have been killed in a wave of knife, gun and car-ramming attacks since October.
More than 200 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period.
Earlier this month, the so-called Middle East Quartet said ongoing violence, Israeli settlement-building and Palestinian splits were undermining peace hopes.
And it warned of "perpetual occupation and conflict" between both sides. | Egypt's foreign minister has paid a rare visit to Israel, offering his country's help to revive peace talks with the Palestinians. | 36760591 |
North Wales Police has launched Operation Darwen, a campaign to cut the number of motorcycle-related deaths.
Figures have shown motorcyclists make up just 1% of road traffic but account for 18% of all fatalities.
Last year there were 108 motorcyclists killed or seriously injured on north Wales' roads compared with 71 in 2013.
Police said that there has been an emerging trend in motorcyclists who drive after drinking alcohol or taking drugs.
Until early autumn officers in north Wales will be checking tyres on motorcycles.
Ch Insp Darren Wareing said: "Whilst the vast majority of motorcyclists ride appropriately, some riders choose to use the roads as a racetrack.
"We want them to enjoy the roads but most of all we want them to ride safely and responsibly." | Bikers visiting beauty spots in north Wales over the Easter weekend have been asked to drive responsibly. | 32176039 |
Paul Hegarty was sacked last month, with the Gable Endies picking up one point from three games since his departure.
Petrie, 46, leaves his post as as assistant manager at Junior Super League side Broughty Athletic.
Born in Dundee, he played for Forfar, Dunfermline and Ross County and had spells in Australia and Singapore.
Petrie has previously served as assistant manager at Forfar and Arbroath.
"He is highly motivated and enthusiastic, comes with a wealth of playing and coaching experience and most importantly understands the lower leagues of Scottish football," said chairman John Crawford.
"I would like to thank John Holt for his support in stepping in and looking after the team since the departure of Paul Hegarty and wish him every success for the future." | Stewart Petrie is the new manager at struggling Montrose, taking over with the club at the foot of League Two. | 38202970 |
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Activists said at least 20 rebels and a civilian, and an unconfirmed number of troops, were killed in air strikes and in fresh fighting there.
Rebels captured the provincial governor when they routed regime forces in the city on Monday.
If the city falls it would mark a significant victory for the rebels.
"The centre of the city is being bombarded by warplanes. I counted 60 rockets," Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed resident as saying.
Government forces had been sent to retake the city, Sharif Shihada, a member of the Syrian parliament, told al-Jazeera television, Reuters said.
Rebels had taken control of most of Raqqa but there were still pockets of resistance, including inside the intelligence building in the city, activists said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist group, said 20 rebel fighters and "tens of regular soldiers" were killed in fighting on Tuesday, while a civilian was shot dead by a sniper.
The SOHR said there were reports of further casualties from air strikes.
The SOHR is one of the most prominent organisations documenting and reporting incidents and casualties in the Syrian conflict. The group says its reports are impartial, though its information cannot be independently verified.
Unverified video footage purported to show at least two explosions hitting the city centre square, shortly after crowds had toppled a statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
People were seen fleeing in panic, with casualties scattered on the ground.
The cameraman is heard to say: "War plane shelling... God is greater than you, Bashar [al-Assad]... The injured have fallen."
Raqqa, situated on the Euphrates River near the Turkish border, has been a refuge for hundreds of thousands of Syrians who fled the violence in other parts of the country.
According to Reuters, some residents had pleaded with rebels not to enter the city, fearing it would bring retribution from government forces.
Late on Monday, rebels fought their way into governor Hassan Jalili's palace, taking him and the ruling Baath party's secretary general for Raqqa province, Suleiman Suleiman, captive.
Amateur video appeared to show the two men seated, surrounded by jubilant rebels.
"All we want is to get rid of the regime," a voice is heard telling the two captives.
The SOHR described Mr Jalili's seizure as "the highest profile capture by rebels of a regime official".
According to the SOHR, a high-ranking state security officer was also taken captive by rebels, and a senior police official was killed. | Syrian warplanes have bombed the northern city of Raqqa, hours after reports said rebels had overrun it, activists and residents say. | 21666917 |
Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned, said Xinhua news agency.
The party has in the past warned its officials to refrain from extravagant dinners and purchasing moon cakes using public funds.
China has been conducting a strict anti-corruption drive since 2012.
The new rule on golf states that members are banned from "obtaining, holding or using membership cards for gyms, clubs, golf clubs, or various other types of consumer cards, or entering private clubs".
If caught, members could either receive a warning or be removed from the party, depending on the severity of the violation.
The new regulations (in Chinese) did not explain why the joining of golf clubs is banned, but such clubs are often seen by the Chinese public as places where officials have cut shady deals.
In September, local media reported that at least 60 employees in state-owned companies were punished for spending public funds on playing golf.
Earlier this month, Lin Chunsong, a vice-mayor in the south-eastern Fujian province, was sacked for belonging to a golf club and playing golf while he should have been at work.
China and golf
One owner of a golf equipment store in Shanghai, who was only identified by his surname, Huang, told Reuters that his store's sales had dropped at least 30% last year.
Golf in China was "about the social interaction", he said. "If a company boss can't play with a government official, there's little point in him spending his money."
Another new rule states that party members cannot "violate official provisions on hospitality management and engage in over-the-top entertaining, or take advantage of opportunities for extravagant eating and drinking".
The Communist Party has also rephrased a previous clause banning adultery and mistresses, which now says that members are banned from "having improper sexual relations with other people which have bad repercussions".
The party's strict rules for officials have in the past affected business for restaurants and luxury goods retailers in China and elsewhere.
President Xi Jinping has led a major anti-corruption campaign since taking office three years ago.
He has previously warned of unrest if corruption and perceived privilege within the Communist Party are not tackled. | The Chinese Communist Party has banned all 88 million of its members from joining golf clubs, in its latest update of party discipline rules. | 34600544 |
Kathryn Smith killed Ayeeshia Jane Smith during a "savage outburst" in the girl's bedroom in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, in 2014.
Smith, 24, from Derbyshire, was ordered to serve at least 24 years in April 2016.
Her murder sentence has been reduced by a judge to 19 years due to her youth and "immaturity".
Ayeeshia collapsed at the flat in the town's Britannia Drive after her heart was ripped due to the force of a fatal blow - a type of injury usually only found in crash victims.
The 21-month-old also suffered many other injuries, including a bleed on the brain, in the months before she was killed.
Smith, from Overseal, was originally sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court, while her former partner Matthew Rigby, from Nottingham, was jailed for three-and-a-half years for causing or allowing Ayeeshia's death.
After dismissing Smith's appeal against her conviction at the Court of Appeal, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas, did rule that her original term was too long.
He said: "The minimum term imposed by the judge did not properly reflect the circumstances of the murder, the previous conduct, the other offences of which she was convicted or the mitigating factors.
"In our judgment, the minimum term which properly reflected all the factors should have been one of 19 years."
Smith's bid to overturn her murder conviction was refused despite her lawyers arguing that her conviction was "unsafe".
John Butterfield QC had said that an interruption by the trial judge as he made his closing speech caused "prejudice" in the minds of jurors.
However, Lord Thomas said the summing up was both "thorough and fair".
He told the Court of Appeal: "There was ample evidence on which the jury could have reached the verdicts they did." | A mother who stamped her toddler daughter to death has had her minimum prison term reduced by five years. | 40776332 |
The gig will bring together nearly all the artists who found fame on the PWL record label to mark its 25th anniversary.
Rick Astley, Bananarama, Pepsi and Shirlie and Brother Beyond will also feature on the line-up.
The concert will take place in London's Hyde Park on 11 July.
Fans can also expect appearances from Dead or Alive, Princess, Hazell Dean, Sybil, Lonnie Gordon and 2 Unlimited, while the concert will be headlined by Steps.
Organisers said the gig would be a "celebration of the hit single" as the performing acts have between them sold 250 million singles.
They also said a "very special duet" which was last performed 23 years ago would form part of the show.
Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue's hit Especially For You was a hit for the pair at the end of the 1980s.
More acts set to join the bill will be announced shortly, while some proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Cancer Research UK.
Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman are considered one of the most successful songwriting and producing partnerships of all time, scoring more than 100 UK top 40 hits during the 1980s and 1990s.
Waterman said: "I've been saying no for years to a Hit Factory concert but now, 25 years on, the timing feels right." | Steps, Jason Donovan, Sinitta and Sonia are among a host of Stock Aitken Waterman acts that will perform at a special reunion concert this summer. | 17431482 |
Some vegans, Hindus and Sikhs had been unhappy with tallow's use in the new plastic £5 notes which entered circulation in September.
Future production of the polymer £5 notes and £10 notes, plus the £20 to be launched in 2020 will be unchanged.
The Bank said its "has not taken this decision lightly".
"The Bank fully recognises the concerns raised by members of the public, both prior to and during the consultation," it said.
Tender for production of the £20 had been put on hold while the Bank assessed whether palm oil or coconut oil should be used instead.
However, that announcement proved controversial with conservation groups, who warned that palm oil production can wreck rainforests and displace people living in them if it was not sustainably sourced.
The Bank launched a public consultation, receiving responses from 3,554 people. Of those who expressed a preference, 88% were against the use of animal-derived products and 48% objected to the use of palm oil-derived additives
"The Bank has had to balance these responses against its other public duties and priorities as well as the other evidence gathered over the past months," a spokesman said.
"The use of palm oil raises questions about environmental sustainability and the Bank's suppliers have been unable to commit to sourcing the highest level of sustainable palm oil at this time.
"Value for money was also a consideration in the Bank's decision."
The additional cost of switching to a new type of production had risen to about £16.5m over the next 10 years, according to the Bank.
It said it had consulted with the UK Treasury, as the additional cost would have had to have been taken on by the taxpayer.
HM Treasury advised the Bank that it does not believe switching to palm oil derivatives would achieve value for money for taxpayers. | Banknotes will continue to contain traces of animal products despite objections over the use of tallow in the Bank of England's polymer notes. | 40887189 |
Underlying profit for the period fell 19% to $2.58bn compared with a year earlier.
A big rise in revenue from BP's refining business made up the bulk of its profits.
The results come at a time of uncertainty for oil companies. Oil prices are 50% lower than last year.
Chief executive Bob Dudley said BP's results reflected the "weaker environment and the actions we are taking in response".
The results were, however, better than expected. Most analysts had forecast replacement cost profit (RCP) of about $1.3bn.
RCP is a measure of profitability used by the oil industry to take into account the price of oil.
Oil and gas companies' business are largely made up of "upstream" activities - getting energy out of the ground - and "downstream" - refining it into useable products.
BP's downstream business made the company $2bn in RCP in the first quarter, compared with $794m for the same period last year.
That helped offset a big slump in profits from BP's oil exploration operations, which reported RCP of $372m compared with $4.7bn a year earlier.
"Upstream result was significantly affected by lower oil and gas prices as well as weaker gas marketing and trading and $375m costs associated with the cancellation of contracts for two deepwater rigs in the Gulf of Mexico," BP said.
Downstream benefitted from greater efficiencies in refining, which lowered costs, as well as better marketing, the company added.
Brent crude oil prices averaged $55 a barrel in the first quarter of 2015 - almost half the average price a year ago.
Anish Kapadia, analyst at Tudor, Pickering Holt and Co, said: "[Profits] look very strong thanks to the downstream but underlying [profits] in upstream and the overall cash flow were extremely weak."
BP maintained the quarterly dividend at 10 cents per share to be paid on 19 June.
Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the 5% yield remained appealing to investors given ongoing low interest rates.
Shares in BP rose 1.5% to 483.9p in morning trading in London, valuing the company at £87.5bn. The stock has risen more than 17% this year.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: "The next question now is whether this [profit] makes BP a more attractive target for an acquisition."
The company has shrunk after selling assets in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster in 2010 and is now worth considerably less than rivals Exxon Mobil or Shell.
On Monday the Financial Times reported that the UK government would oppose a bid from a foreign company.
BP said on Tuesday that it had taken another $332m charge linked to the Deepwater Horizon accident, bringing the total to $43.8bn (£28.7bn).
BP is the first oil major to report first quarter results, with Shell and Exxon Mobil following on Thursday.
Earlier this month Shell announced a £47bn deal to buy oil and gas explorer BG Group.
The slide in oil prices has also affected results at Total. Adjusted first quarter profits fell 22% to €2.4bn ($2.6bn, £1.7bn) compared with the same period last year, while revenue slid 30% to $42.3bn. Analysts had expected profits of $2.1bn.
Although the French company's activities were disrupted by unrest in Yemen and Libya, oil production rose 10% to 2.4m barrels per day. | Oil giant BP has reported a sharp fall in profit for the three months to the end of March as the dramatic fall in oil prices takes its toll. | 32492438 |
Sixteen people, including nine attackers, are believed to have died after gunmen stormed the city's main court buildings.
Later a car bomb was detonated on the road to the airport, killing three, including two Turkish aid workers and the attacker.
The Islamist militant group al-Shabab says it carried out the attacks.
Al-Shabab, which has links with al-Qaeda, has been blamed for a series of attacks in Mogadishu in the last two years.
But correspondents say Sunday's violence is the worst seen in the city since al-Shabab was pushed out of the city by AU and Somali forces in August 2011.
By Mohamed IbrahimBBC Somali Service, Mogadishu
The attacks have created an atmosphere of fear among Mogadishu residents.
They are not the biggest Mogadishu has seen. But they came as people in Mogadishu were starting to experience relative calm, when life in the capital was beginning to return to normal.
The attacks have challenged the government's authority in the capital. Police have been deployed on the streets and government buildings are being protected.
But the government has previously admitted there is only so much it can do to stop suicide bombers.
The deaths of two Turkish aid workers will also raise concern among the increasing number of aid organisations working in Somalia.
The Islamist group still controls most villages and rural areas of southern and central Somalia.
BBC reporter Mohamed Ibrahim at the scene says armed intruders entered the court in the capital and began firing, after which there was an explosion.
A gunfight followed as security forces exchanged fire with the attackers.
Witnesses said at least one car bomb was used in the attack.
"Armed men entered the court and then we heard a blast. Then they started opening fire," witness Hussein Ali, who works at the courts, told Reuters news agency.
Ugandan troops - part of the African Union force stationed in Mogadishu - arrived at the scene shortly after the shooting started.
The Somali government said that nine gunmen had been involved in the assault, and all had now been killed.
Six of them detonated suicide vests, it said.
Other witnesses said the attackers were dressed in Somali military uniform.
People were seen trying to escape the violence from the upper floors of the court buildings by breaking windows and climbing out of the buildings. Some were said to be senior officials.
Our reporter says the courts are located in one of the busiest parts of the city, and were full of people when the attacks happened - Sunday is a normal working day in Somalia.
Deadly attack on Somali courthouse
A second car bomb was detonated later, outside a building housing security forces on the road to the airport.
It was set off as a convoy carrying Turkish aid workers passed, killing two of them.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud condemned the latest attacks as "nothing but a sign of desperation by the terrorists".
"Somalia is moving and will keep moving forward and will not be prevented [from achieving] a peaceful and stable Somalia by a few desperate terrorists," he said in a statement. | At least 19 people have been killed in bomb and gun attacks in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. | 22143503 |
Jack Marsters, 18, was arrested after the flare was discharged in Bo'ness Academy, West Lothian just before the start of the school day on 28 April.
Marsters' actions led to the entire 1,200-pupil, 90-teacher school being evacuated.
No damage was caused and no one was injured.
The flare set off the school's smoke alarm system, alerting the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
Marsters, of Bo'ness, pleaded guilty at Falkirk Sheriff Court to culpable and reckless conduct.
Sheriff John Mundy deferred sentence until 13 February and granted Marsters bail. | A teenager has admitted setting off a smoke flare and placing other pupils at risk of injury during his leaving day at secondary school. | 38608949 |
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Children and adults took on the identities of soldiers for the immersive experience at Levant Mine in St Just to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme.
Hundreds of Cornish miners from West Cornwall signed up for World War One because their mining expertise helped them tunnel under the German trenches.
The event culminated in a charge over the parapet before participants were told whether they had died or survived the war. | Quiet Cornish cliff tops were punctured with the sound of gunshots as the landscape was transformed into World War One trenches. | 36693036 |
Police said the shooting happened in Dakota Avenue in the West Winds estate.
The man was shot in his elbows, knees and ankles.
His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. | A 23-year-old man has been shot in the arms and legs in a paramilitary-style attack in Newtownards, County Down. | 39510733 |
Complaints to SSE, EDF, British Gas and Npower increased between the final quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year.
Scottish Power had the highest proportion of complaints overall, but saw a slight drop over the turn of the year.
SSE received the fewest complaints, the consumer group said.
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: "The majority of complaints from customers are about their bills, from large back bills to incorrect bills, or even no bill at all.
"With billing a basic part of the service energy firms provide, it should be the simplest thing to get right."
Energy companies said they were working hard and investing in ways to bring complaint levels down.
Both Scottish Power and Npower have been told recently to provide free energy to thousands of customers after they failed to resolve justified complaints to the energy ombudsman on time. | Four of the big six energy firms saw complaint levels rise at the start of 2015, according to Citizens Advice. | 33651913 |
Peter Fury tweeted the news on Friday, and a further announcement is expected after 12:00 BST.
Manchester-born Fury, 27, defeated 40-year-old Ukrainian Klitschko on points in Dusseldorf last November to secure the WBA, IBF and WBO titles.
Victory meant he became Britain's fifth bona fide heavyweight world champion.
Fury was stripped of his IBF belt two weeks after winning it as his rematch with Klitschko meant he would not fight the body's mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov.
That title is at stake on Saturday, when British Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua fights defending champion Charles Martin at the O2 Arena in London.
Fury's fight with Klitschko will take place on the same weekend as the Wimbledon singles finals, the British Grand Prix and the Euro 2016 final. | Tyson Fury's rematch against Wladimir Klitschko will take place in Manchester on 9 July, according to the British fighter's trainer and uncle. | 35995004 |
South East Water said engineers worked overnight to carry out repairs after the burst main was discovered in the early hours of Saturday.
Properties affected were in Wadhurst, Flimwell, Stonegate and Ticehurst.
Head of engineering Desmond Brown said engineers isolated the burst and moved water around the network to limit the impact on customers.
The pipe has since been repaired.
The company later said that while there were 3,000 properties in the affected area, it had received 150 phone calls from people without water.
Exact numbers would be confirmed after an investigation had been carried out, a spokeswoman added. | A burst pipe left about 3,000 properties in East Sussex with little or no water for several hours. | 35082866 |
The decision was taken because of restrictions on the media, excessive force against demonstrators and a climate of intimidation, it said.
It comes as the Catholic Church said it would no longer help organise the elections amid the political unrest.
Earlier this month, the president survived a coup attempt.
Africa news updates
Rights groups say at least 20 people have died in protests since Mr Nkurunziza announced on 25 April that he would seek a third term.
The UN says about 70,000 people have fled to neighbouring countries fearing political violence.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said her team had been on the ground for more than a month.
They reported that "the election process continues to be seriously marred by restrictions on independent media, excessive use of force against demonstrators, a climate of intimidation for opposition parties and civil society and lack of confidence in the election authorities", she said in a statement.
The EU has already said it is withholding more than $2m (£1.3m) of funding for the elections.
Correspondents say the statement by the Catholic Church, which is hugely influential in Burundi, is another blow for Mr Nkurunziza.
Many of the country's 18 provincial electoral commissions are headed by priests, who the Catholic Church committee have asked to stand down.
Bishop Gervais Bashimiyubusa said in a statement read on Catholic radio that the church could not "endorse an election riddled with shortcomings", the AFP news agency reports.
He did not call for a boycott of the elections, but stressed that nobody should go to the polls "by threat or intimidation, or because they have been bought in one way or another".
Parliamentary elections are scheduled for 5 June and the presidential poll for 26 June.
The president's critics say his bid for a third term contravenes the constitution, which requires him to step down after two terms.
But Burundi's Constitutional Court ruled that Mr Nkurunziza's first term does not count because he was elected by parliament and not voters.
10.4m population
50 years - life expectancy for a man
2nd poorest country in the world
85% are Hutu, 14% Tutsi
300,000 died in civil war | The European Union has suspended its election monitoring mission in Burundi where President Pierre Nkurunziza is seeking a third term next month. | 32923214 |
16 January 2017 Last updated at 18:55 GMT
The blast was in an end terrace house in Cecil Road, Blackley and reduced much of the property to rubble.
A man with "major trauma" injuries was taken to Salford Royal Hospital and another person was taken to Wythenshawe hospital.
Three people were treated at the scene for minor injuries. | Drone footage has captured the aftermath of a suspected gas explosion at a house in Manchester that left five people injured. | 38642094 |
They were killed when a gunman, with links to Islamic State extremists, opened fire on a beach in Sousse, outside two hotels.
He had hidden a gun under a beach umbrella and also threw grenades, forcing people to run for their lives.
Some survivors have been speaking about their ordeal.
Full coverage of the Sousse attack
Angela Evans and her friend lay face down in the sand playing dead as the gunman passed.
"We both looked up, stood up, there was this man there in black, several rows of sun loungers away just stood there with his huge gun moving round all the people shooting them, just killing, murdering them.
"You can't run, you're an open target running, he was shooting anyone on their feet as well as people on sun loungers, he was just killing them.
"So we both at the same time, [said] play dead, we just fell to the ground, faces in the sand.
"The shooting continued. He just kept on shooting, it was coming nearer and nearer. Then his feet were at the side of me.
"You don't move, because you're next. You just pray to God.
"Then there was this noise, this heavy clicking noise, into the sand fell part of the gun, a magazine... You still have to pretend you're dead.
"And then click again. He put more bullets in.
"And then there was a noise. I don't know what noise, just a noise. I could feel him move and the shooting started again."
Ms Evans, from King's Lynn in Norfolk, described hearing the gunman leave the beach towards a hotel.
When the pair thought it was safe, they ran to another hotel. She said staff there hid her and her friend in an office until it was over.
Saera Wilson said her fiance Matthew James, 30, from Trehafod, near Pontypridd, was trying to protect her during the gunfire and used his body as a human shield.
Ms Wilson, 26, said Mr James was hit in the shoulder, chest and hip.
Speaking from the hospital where Mr James, known as Sas, is being treated, Ms Wilson said: "He took a bullet for me. I owe him my life because he threw himself in front of me when the shooting started.
"He was covered in blood from the shots, but he just told me to run away."
Shelley Hay, 25, and Ben Milton, 24, from Cardiff, were on the beach with sunbathers when the attack began.
Ms Hay told the BBC: "I heard what I thought were fireworks and looked to the left of me and the whole beach was running, it was like a stampede.
"I have never seen anything like it in my life. There were shots - from what I know now as I could see sand flying in the air - I believe it was bullets hitting the floor and the sand was just hitting back, so we just ran."
The couple got engaged hours later. Mr Milton proposed after deciding to "not let them stop me."
Fourteen-year-old Bronwyn Slater was in the sea with her mum when the gunman began firing.
"We just heard these sounds like bang, bang, bang bang. We just proper ran to my dad. It were terror and shock and sorrow. Then I had to proper sprint for my life really, to survive," she told the BBC.
The three of them ran to a shop where they hid in a cupboard for two-and-a-half hours, listening to gun shots and hand grenades being detonated on either side of them.
It must have been frightening, said BBC Today presenter John Humphrys. "Frightening? It's unbelievable. It's shocking as well and terrifying really," said Bronwyn.
Listen to the full interview on BBC Radio Four's Today programme
One survivor has spoken about how he was hidden in a hotel laundry room by hotel staff.
John Carter, who was on holiday with his wife Lynn, ran into his hotel's kitchen area after hearing gunfire and was hidden in the laundry room.
Mr Carter, from Hull said he lost sight of his wife after stopping briefly to urge an older man to run.
"Then there were big explosions and then gunshots," he said.
"You didn't know what was going on, and you just saw some legs under where we were hid and they were shouting at them to get in with us, and then someone fell on top of me and it was my wife."
Couple Becky Catterick, 19, and Mark Barlow, 24, from Scunthorpe were protected from the gunman by local shopkeepers.
Miss Catterick said: "We didn't want to say goodbye, but he just kept getting closer so we just all told each other we loved each other."
"We thought it was the end," Mr Barlow added.
Jac Randell, from Cardiff, was on holiday in the resort of Sousse with his partner Hollie Nicklin when the gunman opened fire on Friday.
Mr Randell said they ran from the attacker expecting to get shot in the back.
"Hotel staff formed a line of protection around the hotel. They were prepared to take the bullets for us. You can't thank them enough," he said.
One British tourist in Tunisia, whose name was only given as Danny, took refuge under a table with his wife, hearing ''guns and grenades and explosions'' around them.
''I hid under a table and kissed my wife goodbye, thinking that was going to be the end'' he said.
Listen to his story
A couple from Manchester told the BBC that the gunman was "killed about 400 yards" from where they were hiding.
Olivia Leathley, who was on holiday in Sousse, said she saw "hundreds of people running and screaming from the beach," before she managed to hide with her boyfriend, Mike Jones, in a small security lodge.
Melanie Callaway, 45, from Hedge End, Hampshire had just been in the sea with her friend Paula Gill, 48, when the shooting started.
"It was absolutely manic - people were just screaming 'run for your life', 'get off the beach - just run'. It was like a tsunami film where everyone was just running up the beach towards their hotels.
"We had a five-minute run up the footpath with no shoes on," said Mrs Callaway.
The pair barricaded themselves in their room in the Royal Kenz Hotel for five hours with a mattress pushed up against the door.
Debbie Horsfall was on holiday in Tunisia and flew back on Saturday morning. She described to the BBC how her friend noticed the gunman, and raised the alarm by shouting ''run, there's a gun''.
Graeme Scott, from Irchester, Northamptonshire, was in the Hotel Imperial Marharba with his parents Jen and Sid and cousin Karl when the Tunisian beach attack happened.
"We were laying by the pool and suddenly there were gunshots - what I thought were gunshots - but dad turned round and said 'it's fire crackers'.
"I said 'no dad it's gunshots, we have got to go'. So we all got up... and we just headed towards the foyer of the hotel.
"We just wanted to get safe somewhere.
"There was about 20 of us in the cellar room with the door shut just for safety and we had to just keep quiet.
"We just feared for our lives."
Listen to the full interview with BBC Radio Northampton
Belfast couple Robert McKenzie and his wife, Wilma, had just come out of the sea when the gunman opened fire.
The couple were staying at a hotel about 300 yards from where the shooting happened.
Mr McKenzie said "pandemonium" broke out.
"Everyone was running. I hadn't heard any gunfire," he said.
"If they had come to our section of the beach, we'd have been wiped out because we always lay right at the front of the beach... and wouldn't have had a chance, quite honestly.
"By the grace of God, it didn't happen to us." | A total of 38 people were killed in the attack on a beach in Tunisia, with the British death toll set to rise above 30. | 33313022 |
The result for the home side means it's now six games without a win as they remain in the relegation zone.
It took only three minutes for Oldham to have their first attempt at goal when Aaron Amadi-Holloway had his shot blocked by Nathan Thompson.
Swindon responded immediately with a shot of their own but Nicky Ajose's close-range effort was saved by Ripley.
The home side continued to dominate and Ajose found himself in on goal again in the sixth minute, only to find the Oldham goalkeeper in his way again.
Swindon started slowly in the second half but could have taken the lead in the 66th minute when Bradley Barry picked out Ajose in the area but the striker couldn't keep his shot down.
Ben Gladwin came within inches of firing the Robins to victory in the 90th minute when he calmly turned in Oldham's area but his shot went just off target.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Swindon Town 0, Oldham Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Swindon Town 0, Oldham Athletic 0.
Attempt blocked. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Bradley Barry (Swindon Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Bradley Barry (Swindon Town).
Aiden O'Neill (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Rob Hunt.
Attempt blocked. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by John Goddard (Swindon Town).
Rob Hunt (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Michael Ngoo replaces Aaron Holloway.
Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Lee Croft replaces Ryan McLaughlin.
Attempt missed. Luke Norris (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill (Swindon Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic).
Rob Hunt (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicky Ajose (Swindon Town).
Substitution, Swindon Town. Dion Conroy replaces Rohan Ince.
Substitution, Swindon Town. Luke Norris replaces Jonathan Obika.
Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town).
Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Aiden O'Neill (Oldham Athletic).
Attempt missed. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Attempt missed. Peter Clarke (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Rohan Ince (Swindon Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Rohan Ince (Swindon Town).
Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Swindon Town. John Goddard replaces James Brophy.
Delay in match Aaron Holloway (Oldham Athletic) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Ryan McLaughlin (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Nicky Ajose (Swindon Town) right footed shot from very close range is too high.
Corner, Swindon Town. Conceded by Aiden O'Neill.
Attempt blocked. Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by James Brophy.
Attempt missed. Ben Gladwin (Swindon Town) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Jonathan Obika (Swindon Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Oldham goalkeeper Connor Ripley was the difference after Swindon were held to a goalless League One draw with the Latics at the County Ground. | 38940303 |
Police Scotland said a 23-year-old man was driving a yellow Ford Transit on the A71 between Hermiston and Dalmahoy when he noticed a black car driving very closely behind.
When he pulled over, the car driver got out and attacked him, leaving him with a "puncture wound" in his chest.
Police are treating the attack at about 21:15 on Sunday as attempted murder.
The van driver was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary where his condition was described as "stable".
The suspect was described a white man with a light brown beard. He was wearing a black hooded top with the hood up and dark gloves.
Det Sgt Martin McKay of Corstorphine CID said: "This was a brutal attack on a member of the public and we are eager to trace the man responsible as soon as possible.
"I would urge anyone who recognises the description of the man, or saw either a black car or a yellow Ford Transit on the A71 around 9.15pm on Sunday, 11 December, to get in touch with us immediately." | A van driver was stabbed during an attack by another driver in Edinburgh at the weekend. | 38295589 |
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