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The 47-year-old Las Vegan began working with Djokovic via phone calls to Madrid and Rome last month, and took up coaching duties in person last week in Paris.
There is no clear idea yet of how long the relationship will last.
"That's a question for him, to be honest," was all Djokovic would say on the subject before the tournament.
What we do know is that Agassi is scheduled to leave Paris at the end of the first week to carry out prior engagements, and there is no clue yet as to when, or if, he will be back in Team Djokovic.
"I will be very surprised if this relationship is going over the US Open," said Fabrice Santoro, a former rival of Agassi now commentating at Roland Garros.
"I think it's going to be a very short relation between Andre and Novak," the Frenchman told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Andre Agassi knows the game very well, he loves the game, he likes Novak, but it's not his life at the moment.
"He has his own life at home with his foundation, with his family, and I'm not sure he's happy to spend much time in the locker room."
It was in Paris 12 months ago that Djokovic finally cemented his place among the very best by completing the career Grand Slam, and holding all four major titles at once - something that has eluded Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
But with 12 Grand Slam titles to his name and seemingly set to dominate for the foreseeable future, the Serb's form deserted him.
"I think Novak needs to be back as a warrior, like he was a few months ago," said Santoro.
"It's not like 10 years ago - when he won the French Open last year he was not giving one free point to the opponent, he was sliding all over Paris to win a point. You could see in his eyes how big his ambition was. He's lost that."
"Private issues" contributed to Djokovic's early exit at Wimbledon, he later revealed, while a wrist injury curbed hopes of a quick return to form.
But by his own remarkable standards, the fact that he has since lost his grip on three of those Slams and seen the number one ranking go to Andy Murray is little short of a disaster.
"Shock therapy" was what he felt necessary, and it came with the surprise announcement late last year that he was parting ways not only with 'super coach' Boris Becker after three years, but his entire team, including long-time coach and confidante Marian Vajda.
"All these beautiful memories we shared with each other on and off the court cannot be forgotten just like that," said Djokovic. "We are still very close."
Djokovic won six Grand Slam titles over three years with Becker, and all 12 since starting work with Vajda in 2006.
The Serb's employment of Becker in 2013 was seen by many as a response to the success Andy Murray had after taking on another legend of the past in Ivan Lendl.
But even in his current, second coaching spell, Lendl is likely to spend up to 18 weeks of the year working with Murray, with Jamie Delgado alongside the Scot throughout the season.
"I think Andre Agassi's help could be enough if Marian Vajda was still there, but he's not," Santoro said of the fledgling Djokovic arrangement.
"So Novak needs someone to replace Vajda first, and then find a super coach like Andre.
"I know that if Andy Murray was travelling only a few weeks a year with Ivan Lendl, but without Jamie Delgado, he would be in trouble. This is the situation now with Novak."
Murray himself was a huge Agassi fan growing up and once discussed working with the American, but it never came to a formal offer.
"He was always really, really nice to me, which is great," said Murray.
"I'm sure he'll help Novak as well. I'm not sure exactly what their deal is or the situation is, but having someone with that much experience around can only help."
Djokovic is currently just working with his brother, Marko, a former professional but with no coaching credentials, and Pepe Imaz, a former world number 146 who now runs a tennis academy that preaches a philosophy of love, peace and meditation.
"I'm not convinced that this person helps Novak Djokovic a lot," said Santoro. "Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right. On court, for sure not."
For all the scrutiny that his relationship with Imaz has come under, the lack of a settled fitness trainer and physio is incongruous for a player who wrote a book on the value of physical and mental well-being.
"I have certain people and methods that I have been trying out lately," said Djokovic on Monday. "I am working on something, for sure, but still not ready to be shared."
So what can Agassi bring that will rejuvenate and enhance the Djokovic game?
Djokovic turned 30 a few weeks ago, and Agassi won two of his eight Grand Slam titles in his 30s.
He also returned from the depths of 141 in the world in 1997 to regain the number one spot and complete the career Grand Slam in 1999 - a mountainous challenge compared to Djokovic's relatively minor slide.
Technical changes are rarely the major issue when elite players call upon greats of the past, and Djokovic is sure to look more for emotional support from Agassi, with neither man averse to a bout of introspection.
"On the first day we had two practice sessions, and then we had a very, very long conversation in the evening," the Serb said of their first day together in Paris.
Becker, the man who used to provide that support, gave Agassi a very public welcome to the role in the stands of Philippe Chatrier Court during Djokovic's opening match at the French Open.
"I think it's an excellent choice," Becker told the BBC. "Andre's personality fits with Novak's.
"Ideally you don't want to start a new relationship at a Grand Slam because you have to get to know each other but that was their decision, so I wish them luck.
"Ideally you have to spend a lot of time together - even in smaller tournaments to really get to know each other and trust each other - but it is what it is and hopefully successful." | Andre Agassi has attracted as many camera lenses as Novak Djokovic in the opening days of this year's French Open, but the question remains whether this is a fleeting glimpse or the long-term return of one of the game's greats. | 40118530 |
An interior ministry spokesman said that a security patrol was fired at by rioters on motorbikes in Qatif.
A protester was also killed in a firefight following the incident, according to news agency AFP.
The oil-rich Eastern Province is home to a Shia majority that has long complained of marginalisation.
Speaking to state media, Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour al-Turki said the shooting took place at 11pm on Friday evening.
"A security patrol was exposed to heavy fire from four armed rioters on a motorbike when pausing at a street intersection in Qatif", he is reported to have said.
He named the dead soldier as Hussein Bawah Ali Zabani and the wounded soldier, who was taken to hospital, as Saad Miteb Mohammed al-Shammari.
AFP quotes Mansour al-Turki as saying a "rioter" had been killed in a firefight following the incident.
Last week, state media said security forces detained a number of protesters in Qatif after tyres were set on fire during an overnight demonstration.
Protests erupted in the region in March 2011 when a popular uprising in neighbouring Bahrain, which has a Shia majority and a Sunni royal family, was crushed with the assistance of Saudi and other Gulf troops. | A soldier has been shot dead and another injured during a clash with protesters in eastern Saudi Arabia, according to state media. | 19124805 |
Goalkeeper Michel Vorm could return to the squad but Danny Rose is still absent with a knee injury.
Arsene Wenger has given centre-back Laurent Koscielny a "60% chance" of playing after suffering a knee injury against Leicester.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is fit but Shkodran Mustafi is missing with a thigh problem.
Guy Mowbray: "Tottenham's best approach would be to forget the title race for one day.
"Park all thoughts of Chelsea and concentrate on winning a derby - to end 21 seasons of St. Totteringham's Day.
"They'll have their own name for Arsenal not being able to catch them already. T-shirts might be on sale outside at full-time if it happens - but there's that 'if', which seems stronger now than a couple of weeks ago.
"The Gunners have rediscovered their scrapping gene in their last three games, and will (surely?!) fight tooth and nail to ruin their North London rivals' title bid.
"Arsenal's last visit to White Hart Lane as it stands and the 50th Premier League meeting of the teams could and should be memorable."
Twitter: @Guymowbray
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino: "My feeling is now, when you are so close - only four points the gap - I will be very disappointed if we don't win the title.
"My challenge or my aim is not to be above Arsenal. My aim is to be above 19 teams and to be first, to be on the top.
"You cannot ignore Chelsea's game before us, but we played the day after they lost to Crystal Palace and it didn't affect our preparation."
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger: "This is one of the only times where Spurs look in people's minds as the favourites.
"I expect an open, committed match with high pace and there could be goals as both teams play positive football.
"I don't think that the top three is decided. We have an opportunity to be in there only if we win our games, we don't have to speculate at all.
"There is a lot that can happen until the end of the season."
Spurs have now won eight league games on the spin but I just have a feeling that Arsenal will put a spanner in the works of their bid to catch Chelsea.
Prediction: 1-1
Lawro's full predictions v Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar.
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SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches. | Tottenham's Mousa Dembele is a doubt after picking up an ankle injury in the win at Crystal Palace. | 39682885 |
The median income per secondary pupil in academies for 2015-16 was £5,714, down from £6,340 in 2011-12, not taking into account inflation.
Head teachers have been campaigning about funding shortages.
But last week Education Secretary Justine Greening promised to reallocate £1.3bn more for school budgets.
The figures from the Department for Education show a £280m shortfall between total income and expenditure in academies in 2015-16.
This represents a gap of 1.5%, compared with 1% in the previous year.
About six in 10 multi-academy trusts spent more than their income - and just under half of standalone academies had an income shortfall.
But the Department for Education says this "deficit does not mean that these academies or trusts are in debt, as they may have reserve funds through which these costs were met".
The figures also show that the proportion of income spent by academies on teaching is lower than in 2011-12, while the proportion of spending on "back office" costs has risen.
But the Department for Education cautions against direct comparisons, because the number of academies has changed across these years.
And the department claims that academies could have collective reserves worth more than £2bn.
Median per-pupil funding is presented as a more reliable measure over time.
Most secondary schools are now academies - and the official figures show that at secondary school level income has fallen in cash terms - down by £626 per pupil.
But in primary schools, income has risen by £78 per pupil over the four years, without any adjustment for inflation.
The figures follow an announcement last week by the education secretary that school budgets would be protected in real terms, with £1.3bn more being put into school budgets over the next two years.
This will not be new money, but will be taken from other budgets, including spending on free schools, school improvement support and "healthy pupils" capital funding.
Ms Greening has promised that no school will lose out in cash terms from a new funding formula to be announced in the autumn.
The reallocation of funding to frontline school budgets will prevent cuts in average budgets for two years.
But the Institute for Fiscal Studies says that between 2015 and 2020 school budgets will have declined in real terms by 4.6%
Rosamund McNeil, from the National Union of Teachers, said the latest funding figures showed "the growing financial crisis affecting all schools - academies as well as maintained".
She said she was concerned that "academies' expenditure on teaching staff has fallen" and that it showed "academy status is no security against financial austerity".
But a Department for Education spokesman said the new figures showed the efficiency of the academy system and how it was open to financial scrutiny.
"The transparency we have introduced to school budgets allows parents, teachers and the wider public to ensure that money is being used to deliver the best outcomes for their pupils," he said.
"Figures like these, coupled with the introduction of our National Funding Formula, will give us even greater oversight of how much money is going into schools and how it is being spent." | Academies in England received less last year per pupil in secondary schools than four years earlier, according to official figures. | 40741918 |
Coming from a shinty-daft family, I was brought up playing with my brothers and sister, having a hit about whenever we could. Back then, girls just didn't really play.
When I reached 16, I was keen to play. I thought there must be a way and, with the help of my mum and dad being heavily involved in Glengarry Shinty Club, it was agreed we could play a local six-a-side game at the club's annual fundraising day.
The late Sharon Fraser helped and it ended in 12 local women, wives, sisters and even mums playing. There was no turning back; 1996 was the start of women's shinty in Glengarry.
With a bit of research, we found that Dunadd Camanachd and Oban Camacheros had teams too. We made several trips to Lochgilphead to play Dunnadd and vice versa.
But we were not happy with that, so a group, consisting mainly of women from our club decided to pursue this further. We held a meeting with Sheila Wallace and Phillis Breslin of the Camogie Association and they advised us about setting up a working group for women's shinty.
With the formation of a working group, a North and a South League were formed. At long last, competitive women's shinty was being played.
Much to my delight, over the coming years the Women's Camanachd Association was formed and women's shinty grew with competitive leagues, cups, tournaments and representative matches.
Over the years, different league strategies were tried and tested. Having been involved in women's shinty from the beginning, I've been in the fortunate position to see the game develop and the attitudes of others change, which has by no means been an easy task but most definitely pleasurable.
The first on field links with the Camogie Association - the women's version of hurling - were made when Glengarry were invited to play at the Camogie 7's tournament in 1999.
We opened the invite to other clubs and players from Dunadd, Kingussie and Oban joined us as we travelled to Dublin for a memorable weekend, We played in the tournament and then were invited to play the first-ever Scotland v Ireland select as the finale of the day.
Of course, shinty was the winner as now we compete on an annual basis with our Irish counterparts.
My time as a player has had its highs and lows and, since the formation of The Garry Girls in 1996, I have won 11 North/National League titles and six Valerie Fraser Camanachd Cup Gold Medals along with three runners-up.
I achieved the "double" in 2002, 2004, 2009 and 2011, represented Scotland five times and have played in the North Select squad every year bar three.
Unfortunately, during that time, along with all the usual aches and pains, I have also ruptured my cruciate ligament and dislocated both my shoulders.
Following my knee injury in 2005, I was told to consider hanging up my boots, but three operations on and, with intense physio, I am still playing. However, my baby bump has put a halt on play for now!
Now that the Garry Girls have been on the go for a while, we are in the position of bringing in the "young ones", so hopefully, with a bit more experience behind them, we will get our name back on some trophies soon.
Back in 2005 as my playing days were looking a bit numbered, I had the pleasure of being voted in as the Women's Camanachd Association president and was in that position from 2005 until end of 2011. I'm currently the vice-president.
I feel very fortunate and privileged to have travelled this journey on and off the pitch and have many, many memories, but the most important thing is that women's shinty has grown from strength to strength on and off the pitch.
If you would like to give the game a try, browse the Get Inspired guide to getting into shinty to find out where to start. | The days when people would remark "that girl can actually hit the ball" are gone and I feel proud that I was involved in helping make women's shinty possible and acceptable. | 33007006 |
Police said the incident happened at about 23:20 on Saturday in Maxton Crescent in Wishaw.
The man was approached by four men as he stood outside his house. They assaulted him then stole some electrical items from his home and fled.
Detectives have appealed for witnesses.
The man was taken to Wishaw General Hospital.
Police issued descriptions of three of the four suspects.
The first was white, 25 years of age and of medium build with dyed blonde hair. He was wearing a black hooded top and black tracksuit trousers.
The second man was white, in his early 20s and wearing black-framed glasses. He had on a green hooded top.
The third was also white, in his 20s, tall and of slim build with shaved brown hair. He was wearing a black hooded top and black tracksuit trousers.
Officers were also keen to trace a woman seen standing with the men. She was described as white, in her 20s with long brown hair tied back in a ponytail. She was wearing a dark-coloured parka jacket and white trousers.
Det Sgt Alex Clark: "At this time inquiries are continuing to establish more details on this attack and the motive for it.
"I would urge anyone who witnessed this incident in Maxton Crescent last night, or who has any information that may assist police enquiries to contact Police Scotland on 101." | A 40-year-old man is being treated for a serious head injury after being attacked by a group of men outside his home in North Lanarkshire. | 34168745 |
Ms Jolie was speaking alongside British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who is co-hosting the London summit with her.
The event - the largest ever of its kind - is the result of an intense two-year campaign to raise awareness.
Mr Hague said rape was one of the "great mass crimes" of modern times.
He called on the more than 140 nations at the summit to write action against sexual violence into their army training.
The summit aims to:
The organisers want the event to be the moment the world wakes up and declares that sexual violence is not an inevitable part of war, says BBC World Affairs Correspondent Paul Adams.
Opening the summit, Mr Hague said: "From the abolition of slavery to the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty, we have shown that the international community can tackle vast global problems in a way that was once considered to be impossible.
"There is power in numbers, and if we unite behind this cause, we can create an unstoppable momentum and consign this vile abuse to history."
Ms Jolie said: "We need to shatter that culture of impunity and make justice the norm, not the exception, for these crimes."
She said she wanted to dedicate the conference to a rape victim she recently interviewed in Bosnia, who felt so humiliated by what had happened to her that she could not even tell her own son.
"She felt that having had no justice for her particular crime, in her particular situation, and having seen the actual man who raped her on the streets free, she really felt abandoned by the world,'' Ms Jolie said. "This day is for her.''
Angela Atim, one of the speakers at the conference, was kidnapped as a 14-year-old schoolgirl by Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Uganda.
She told the BBC: "These people who are accountable for the sexual violence in armed conflict, they have to be brought to justice."
"It's part of our healing because it's really painful to see that they are still walking around, they are still doing the same thing."
Nations taking part in the summit include Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia - countries where sexual violence has happened "on a vast scale", Mr Hague told the BBC.
Sexual violence was systematically being used as a weapon of war in the 20th and 21st Centuries, he noted.
Mr Hague cited the estimated 50,000 women who were raped in Bosnia two decades ago, virtually none of whom have received justice.
In the two years since Mr Hague and Ms Jolie launched their campaign, a Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict has been endorsed by 141 countries.
But the aim now is to take concrete steps, including providing more help to survivors, Mr Hague said.
He added that the issue had been a "taboo" for too long, and that it was time to get rid of the "stigma and shame attached to it".
On Thursday, Mr Hague will also host a security meeting focused on Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group in Nigeria. Ministers from Nigeria and neighbouring countries will attend.
Suspected Boko Haram militants abducted at least 20 women in northern Nigeria last week. More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by the same group on 14 April. | The actress and UN special envoy Angelina Jolie has said a four-day summit on ending sexual violence during war must send a message that there is no disgrace in being a victim. | 27769132 |
Goodship recently returned to action for Bournemouth's Under-21 side after an 18-month lay-off with a knee injury.
"Brandon has been training with us recently and has looked sharp. He has a real hunger about him and is itching to get playing and scoring goals," Yeovil boss Darren Way told the club website.
The 21-year-old was on the bench for Saturday's match against Portsmouth.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Yeovil Town have signed striker Brandon Goodship on a month's loan from Premier League club AFC Bournemouth. | 35621275 |
It means Eddie Jones' side, who are unbeaten in 13 games in 2016, are set to play 10 times next year.
England will defend their Six Nations title in February and March, before a two-Test series in Argentina in June, which coincides with the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand.
An England XV side will take on the Barbarians on 28 May.
Argentina and Australia, both beaten by England in November, will face Jones' side on 11 November and 18 November respectively.
Samoa's fixture against England at Twickenham on 25 November will be followed by England Women's final game of a three-match series against Canada.
"These block of matches are an important step in our preparations for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan and we look forward to playing in the 2017 series against three tough opponents in Argentina, Australia and Samoa," said Jones. | England will host Australia, Argentina and Samoa at Twickenham in their 2017 November international fixtures. | 38314272 |
The US book chain is marketing the device as the "first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading", based on its inclusion of pre-installed Nook apps and homescreen shortcuts.
However, its screen is lower resolution than Kobo's Android-powered Arc 7HD.
One analyst said it would be an "uphill struggle" to sell the new device.
"There is growing consumer apathy to this growing class of low-cost tablets," said Ben Wood, from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.
"Although there is the Nook angle on this, it goes into the melting pot with numerous other tablets that will appear in this price point as we run up to Christmas.
"Amazon has pretty much locked out the market in reading-focused tablets anyway, the only thing I'd applaud here is the fact that Barnes & Noble has gone to Samsung, which can give it scale and quality."
The advantage that the 7in (17.8cm)-screened Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook has over Amazon's Fire tablets is that it can easily access the Google Play marketplace. Amazon's tablet uses a proprietary store with fewer apps available.
Costing $179 (£107), the new Nook is also cheaper than the Kindle Fire HDX and Kobo Arc 7HD.
However with only 216 pixels per inch, text will appear less sharp on its screen. Likewise, magazines and movies sold from the included Nook Newsstand and Nook Video apps will present less detail than similar purchases on either the two other Android machines or Apple's bestselling iPad Mini, which also has its own dedicated ebook store.
Even so, one market watcher said the tie-up still made business sense. Samsung should benefit from the exposure of having its machine promoted in Barnes & Noble's stores and website, while the retailer gets to cut its costs after posting a $47m (£28.2m) net loss for its last financial year.
"It's very hard to make money out of mobile devices," said Ian Fogg, from the IHS consultancy.
"But by having this partnership, Barnes & Noble can have its own content and services pre-installed so that they are not just front-of-mind but also front-of-eyes for consumers.
"If it wants to get its apps used on other people's devices it has to persuade people to install them instead of a Kindle app or another competitor - that visibility is very important."
At the moment the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook is only available in the US.
Barnes and Noble will continue to sell e-ink readers, including the Nook GlowLight, which was launched in the UK earlier this month. | Barnes & Noble has unveiled a customised version of an existing Samsung tablet as a replacement for the Nook HD+, which it manufactured itself. | 28872196 |
Bayern trailed 1-0 at half-time, when Lewandowski came on for Thiago.
Six minutes later, the Poland international netted his first goal of the night from close range.
Lewandowski added four more in quick succession to record the fastest five goals scored by one player in Bundesliga history.
Follow reaction to Bayern's win at home to Wolfsburg.
Wolfsburg, who finished second behind Bayern and won the German Cup last season, took the lead when Daniel Caligiuri beat Manuel Neuer at his near post.
The away side almost added a spectacular second from 60 yards when Josuha Guilavogui's lob dropped just wide.
But Lewandowski's introduction changed the game, as the 27-year-old produced a clinical striking display.
Three of his goals were from close range, with his second driven powerfully from outside the box and his fifth a brilliant acrobatic effort.
The win sees Pep Guardiola's Bayern go top of the table, three points clear of Borussia Dortmund, who play Hoffenheim on Wednesday. Wolfsburg are third.
Here's how our live text commentary reported Lewandowski's goals...
Match ends, FC Bayern München 5, VfL Wolfsburg 1.
Second Half ends, FC Bayern München 5, VfL Wolfsburg 1.
Attempt missed. Josuha Guilavogui (VfL Wolfsburg) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the right. Assisted by Maximilian Arnold with a headed pass.
Foul by David Alaba (FC Bayern München).
Daniel Caligiuri (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Robert Lewandowski.
Offside, VfL Wolfsburg. Ricardo Rodríguez tries a through ball, but Nicklas Bendtner is caught offside.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Daniel Caligiuri (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Daniel Caligiuri (VfL Wolfsburg).
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Dante.
Attempt blocked. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. André Schürrle replaces Max Kruse.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Nicklas Bendtner replaces Bas Dost.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Joshua Kimmich replaces Xabi Alonso.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Christian Träsch.
Attempt missed. Julian Draxler (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Daniel Caligiuri.
Ricardo Rodríguez (VfL Wolfsburg) is shown the yellow card.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Dante (VfL Wolfsburg).
Offside, FC Bayern München. Jerome Boateng tries a through ball, but Robert Lewandowski is caught offside.
Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Bas Dost (VfL Wolfsburg).
Attempt blocked. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by David Alaba.
Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg).
Attempt saved. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Mario Götze (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Javi Martínez with a headed pass.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Naldo (VfL Wolfsburg).
Attempt missed. Maximilian Arnold (VfL Wolfsburg) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ricardo Rodríguez.
Goal! FC Bayern München 5, VfL Wolfsburg 1. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Mario Götze with a cross.
Substitution, VfL Wolfsburg. Maximilian Arnold replaces Luiz Gustavo.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! FC Bayern München 4, VfL Wolfsburg 1. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Goal! FC Bayern München 3, VfL Wolfsburg 1. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. | Robert Lewandowski scored five goals in nine minutes after coming on as a substitute for Bayern Munich in their Bundesliga victory against Wolfsburg. | 34317976 |
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Prof Hamish Laing, medical director, said: "Both Morriston and the Heath are excellent hospitals, this isn't really so much about the hospitals. We have nearly all the services you need for a major trauma centre.
"We have some services that are not in Cardiff and Cardiff has some that are not here. The NHS can sort that out; you can move services or individuals around."
"The key thing that Morriston offers is the greatest opportunity for the most people - the greatest coverage of south Wales - to be [here] within an hour," said Prof Laing.
"Because it's sitting by the motorway, it means it's much easier to access from the other side of Haverfordwest, the other side of Brecon or Newport." | Swansea's Morriston Hospital has 700 general beds, 22 operating theatres and 70 critical care beds and the focus of the bid is on its location. | 39366969 |
The change, affecting services run by Northern Rail, means some weekday tickets will go up in price by 117%.
The company said off-peak tickets would no longer be valid on several routes in Greater Manchester and Yorkshire between 16:01 and 18:29.
RMT union said the hike was a "kick in the teeth for the travelling public".
The move will also affect the Newcastle to Hexham line and some routes to Derbyshire and Cheshire, the company added.
Northern Rail said changes were being made because the Department for Transport (DfT) asked them to "generate additional revenue" as part of its franchise agreement.
Additional affected routes
The Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) said the move meant the cost of a Wigan to Manchester Piccadilly return ticket had risen from £4.20 to £9.10 (up 117%).
A return ticket from Bradford to Leeds return goes up from £4.60 to £6.50 (up 28.3%).
Protests were held at stations including Manchester Victoria, Manchester Piccadilly, Sheffield and Liverpool Lime Street.
A Department for Transport spokesman said the changes would help build a "rail network that is better for the passenger and better value for the taxpayer".
He said: "Such restrictions are relatively common on other parts of the network, including in the Merseytravel area, and we expect only a minority of passengers to be affected."
Martin Abrams, from CBT, said: "This fare increase threatens to make rail travel unaffordable to tens of thousands of part-time workers.
"Despite government promises, there are no flexible tickets for the increasing numbers who work part-time or anything other than traditional nine-to-five hours.
"Their only option is to pay for individual tickets, which will now be double the price on Northern Rail's most popular routes."
On Sunday, the Chancellor George Osborne said commuter rail fares in England would be frozen in real terms for another year.
Regulated fares, which include season tickets and "anytime" singles, will rise by a maximum of 2.5% from January. | Protests have taken place at railway stations after peak evening fares started to take effect on several rail routes in the north of England. | 29106700 |
The average figures since 2010 were confirmed by the PSNI.
They came after a senior police officer said officers were coming under threat predominately from dissident republicans, but also from loyalist paramilitaries.
"There is a steady drumbeat of that," Det Ch Const Drew Harris said.
"We could expect every month one or two officers to be in the position where they're having to move home." he told the BBC's Nolan Show.
The figures released by the PSNI indicated that an average of seven officers had been moved after being threatened since 2010.
On average, nine officers were also admitted into the PSNI Home Security Aid scheme per year. The scheme involves security features, such as reinforced doors, cameras and security lights, being installed at the homes of officers.
Meanwhile, an investigation by the BBC's Nolan Show found that mental health-related absence within the PSNI had increased by almost 40% in four years.
Mr Harris said this created huge upheaval.
Last month, the PSNI said it was working hard to bring those carrying out paramilitary shootings to court after the number of such attacks doubled in the last year.
Twenty-eight paramilitary-style shootings were recorded in 2016-17, with republicans believed to be responsible for 25 and loyalists for the other three.
A further 66 people were the victims of paramilitary-style assaults, police said.
In February, it was revealed that police in Northern Ireland deal with one paramilitary death threat against a member of the community each day.
Last month, the leader of Northern Ireland's largest party said all paramilitary groups should disband.
Asked if the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) should disband immediately, Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster said: "There should be no paramilitary organisations." | About 16 police officers either move home or have special security measures installed at their house every year because they are under threat. | 40299626 |
The 30-year-old will have scans to confirm if he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
Burgess, who won a Super League with Leeds, was part of South Sydney's 2014 NRL title-winning side with brothers Sam, Tom and George.
Dragons have also lost Jason Baitieri for up to 12 weeks with a broken wrist.
Loose forward Baitieri is to undergo surgery in the coming week. | Catalans Dragons prop Luke Burgess may miss the remaining six months of the Super League season after suffering a knee injury in Friday's win at Leigh. | 39541875 |
Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stafford colleges merged last year, forming the Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group (NSCG).
The group said funding cuts and lower student numbers in Stafford meant savings were needed.
A review will also examine look at subjects which "are no longer financially sustainable".
NSCG is due to consult with unions over the plans, which have yet to comment.
More on this and other stories from Stoke and Staffordshire
NSCG principal and chief executive Karen Dobson said "significant investment" in student facilities and resources had already been provided to improve Stafford College, but "difficult decisions" have to be made.
"Job cuts to ensure an efficient support staffing structure are an unfortunate but necessary action that we have to take to bring the financial stability needed to allow for ongoing investment in our students, curriculum and facilities," she said.
"We are looking to ensure the effect on front-line teaching staff is minimal." | About 100 jobs are "at risk" at two colleges, operators have announced, as part of £2m savings measures. | 38839797 |
In fact, some believe it may already be there.
This morning, the UK Purchasing Managers' Index revealed weakening optimism in a sector vital to the strength of the economy - services.
The PMIs - which cover the whole of the UK economy - are important for three reasons.
First, they are a survey of business activity.
Second, they are a record that goes back to 1996 and are therefore comparable.
Thirdly, there is a close correlation between the PMI figures and the country's gross domestic product (or, approximately, national income).
So, if the PMIs are suggesting poorer economic news, the GDP figures are likely to as well.
The services business activity PMI released this morning stood at 52.3, the lowest since February 2013 when Europe was still licking its wounds following the eurozone economic crisis.
Although the figure would need to fall below 50 to reveal an actual contraction in activity, 52.3 is still well below the 55.2 average over the past 20 years.
Today's figures follow the construction sector PMI released yesterday, which was also at a three-year low, and the manufacturing PMI which, at 49.2, has now fallen below that critical 50 figure.
According to Markit and CIPS, the two organisations that compile the data, uncertainty over the European Union referendum, higher input costs (some connected to the introduction of the national living wage) and the general global economic slowdown are weighing on sentiment.
Worries have already raised about weakening UK economic growth in the first three months of the year.
The concern now is that it is only the start of tougher economic times ahead.
As Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, says: "The slowdown in the service sector follows similar weakness in manufacturing and construction to make a triple-whammy of disappointing news on the health of the economy at the start of the second quarter [of the year].
"The PMI surveys are collectively indicating a near-stalling of economic growth, down from 0.4% in the first quarter to just 0.1% in April."
We may only see the full effects of the slowdown - in data terms at least - when the next economic growth figures are published in July.
Many are preparing for them to be grim. | Over the past 48 hours, three sets of economic data have been published which suggest the UK economy is heading for choppy waters. | 36212130 |
Murray won 6-3 7-5 6-3 to give the visitors an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the best-of-five match final.
Britain have now won the Davis Cup, the tennis version of the World Cup, 10 times in total.
Murray can also add the team title to his other major wins at Wimbledon, the US Open and the Olympic Games. | Great Britain have won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 after Andy Murray beat Belgium's David Goffin to get the decisive point in Ghent. | 34958738 |
The Scotland forward, 29, has signed a two-year contract at Loftus Road with the option of a further year.
He established himself as a fans' favourite at Rangers during a three-year spell in which he played a key role in their promotion to the Premier League in 2010-11.
Mackie, who left to join Forest in a £1m deal in 2013, spent last season on loan at Reading.
He made 39 appearances for the Royals, scoring six goals, and netted five times in 49 outings as a Forest player.
Mackie returns to QPR with the club looking to rebuild under head coach Chris Ramsey and director of football Les Ferdinand following last season's relegation from the top flight.
"People say never go back, but I feel as though I've got some unfinished business here and under the guidance of Les and Chris, I can only see a bright future for this club," Mackie told the QPR website.
"They know I'll come in and give my absolute maximum and, having played in front of the QPR fans before, I know that's exactly what they love to see. It's great to be back."
Find all the latest football transferson our dedicated page. | Jamie Mackie has returned to QPR after being released by Nottingham Forest. | 33149680 |
The musician-turned farmer will host the Harvest event, featuring acts such as KT Tunstall, at his farm at Kingham, Chipping Norton from 9 to 12 September.
It will be a sister event to the one being held by TV presenter Jimmy Doherty at his farm near Ipswich in Suffolk over the same weekend.
Mr James said it will be a "celebration of food, the farm and music".
The bassist, who has developed a cheese-making business since stepping away from the limelight, as well as working as a broadcaster, said: "We'll throw open the farm gates for Harvest this September.
"My family are looking forward to a celebration of all our favourite things - food, the farm and music."
Notable food experts at the event will include Richard Corrigan, Mark Hix and Yotam Ottolenghi as well as Gardeners' World host Monty Don.
The festival will include cookery master classes, pop-up restaurants, gardening workshops, a farmers market and a children's field at the farm at Kingham, Chipping Norton.
Blur reformed for shows in 2009 with the bassist expected to record with them again this year. | Blur bassist Alex James is to hold a music and food festival at his Oxfordshire estate. | 12356297 |
The orchestra will perform concerts in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
During the three-week trip, it will become the first international professional symphony orchestra to visit Argentina's Welsh-speaking community of Patagonia.
This visit coincides with the 150th anniversary of the arrival of a community of Welsh settlers.
Members of the orchestra will present workshops in schools, nursing homes and in some residents' living rooms.
The Patagonia leg of the tour will culminate with two gala concerts on 30 October in a specially converted wool warehouse.
Harpist Catrin Finch will accompany the orchestra to Patagonia, while conductor Grant Llewellyn and 12 members of the orchestra will work with more than 1,000 children from schools and community groups.
The workshops will take place in towns including Puerto Madryn, Rawson, Trelew, Trevelin, Esquel and Gaiman, with many locations in remote areas where there is limited access to cultural activity and the arts.
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260 instruments
6 concerts in three countries
1,000 children will be involved in 29 school and community workshops
5 workshops with youth and community orchestras
BBC NOW director Michael Garvey said: "The ambition is to try to take what we do here in Wales to another Welsh community.
"Yes, it's part of the wonderful celebrations for Y Wladfa (the Welsh-speaking community in Patagonia) and the 150th anniversary, but it will also give people a sense of the contemporary aspect of the orchestra.
"We do far more than just put on nice concerts. The whole range of the orchestra's work includes its education and community outreach work, trying to encourage people to like classical music and to know more about it.
"It's a wonderful skill that the orchestra members have, not just to be able to play beautifully, but to be able to communicate and educate as well. That's what we're trying to do in taking the orchestra overseas."
In addition to six concert dates, the orchestra will perform six times in Patagonia, including three informal performances, a Noson Lawen event and two gala concerts. | The BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) is embarking on its first tour of South America. | 34591803 |
Andrew Nimmo, 24, of County Durham, died in the collision on the A19 outside Middlesbrough, in August 2013.
John Kirk, 26, had slept for only a few hours in the previous 31 and ploughed into Mr Nimmo's Volvo and a Ford Focus, Teesside Crown Court was told.
Kirk, of Boston, Lincolnshire, was jailed for five years for causing death by dangerous driving.
Mr Nimmo, from Murton, had been involved in a minor collision with the Ford Focus and was parked on the hard shoulder exchanging details with its driver, Lada Khazanovych, 38.
Kirk's Skania articulated lorry smashed into them at around 05:25 BST - killing Mr Nimmo instantly while Ms Khazanovych suffered serious leg injuries and a cut to her scalp.
Prosecutor Shaun Dodds said Kirk had been driving back to Spalding from Washington in good conditions and daylight.
In the aftermath, Kirk admitted to police: "I was nodding".
Analysis of his phone showed he had accessed porn sites on the outgoing drive to Washington and he had made a 40-minute phone call despite not having a hands-free kit, the court was told.
The defendant had altered his tachograph and was flouting rules about breaks and minimum daily and weekly rest periods, the court heard.
Matthew Gent, defending, said Kirk had been overworking and had a second job as a printer, as he wanted to make a better life for him and his wife, who has since left him.
He pleaded guilty on a previous occasion to causing death by dangerous driving, causing serious injury by dangerous driving and falsely recording rest days.
Kirk was also disqualified from driving for five years. | A trucker who killed a fellow lorry driver in a crash fell asleep at the wheel seconds before, a court heard. | 30348263 |
United's 20-year run in the Scottish Premiership looks set to end with the club eight points adrift at the bottom.
"We've had a horrendous season but our supporters have been brilliant, they really back the team," said the Finn.
"But now Saturday is a chance to send the fans home happy after a painful season. Hopefully it's payback time."
The former United striker took over in October with the club having won just one of their first nine league games under Jackie McNamara.
But despite a modest recovery of late, with four wins and two draws from their last 11 Premiership matches, the writing is on the wall after Saturday's dismal home defeat by Inverness CT.
But Paatelainen believes his side can still reach the end-of-season Hampden showpiece if they show the spirit that saw them beat Ross County in the quarter-finals from 2-1 down with 10 men.
"We feel we have a chance," he said. "We also realise Hibs are a strong team. They have a squad fit for the Premier League and good options off the bench.
"They have been here before this season [in the League Cup final] which I think plays a role, and is an advantage to them. But on our day I know our boys can do it.
"There have been some great days for us when we have played really well so I know we can produce that, and that gives us confidence.
"As coaches it us up to us to make sure the boys are ready energy-wise and mentality-wise and then it is down to them to be determined, brave, strong and positive.
"Their attitude has been tremendous every week, always. The effort and application is there.
"We're in a semi-final with a chance to go on and lift the trophy. This is a huge game and the league is totally out of our mind." | Mixu Paatelainen has urged his Dundee United players to give their suffering fans a Scottish Cup final as reward for enduring a "horrendous" season. | 36050532 |
In the first, a young child was approached by a man near the city's Drakies Primary School on 8 December.
At 18:20 on Tuesday, a man sitting in a car parked on Union Road spoke to a child on a nearby footpath.
Police said the man was with another man in a white, four-door car with red and white checkerboard livery.
The men were described as having tanned complexions.
A police spokesman said: "Police Scotland would seek to reassure the public that extensive inquiries have been carried out into the matter and these remain ongoing at this time."
In the incident earlier this month, a man approached a child and tried to speak to them.
The man was described as being between 30 and 40 years old, about 5ft 6in tall, white with facial stubble.
He was wearing a black beanie hat, brown zipped jacket and blue jeans. | Police have appealed for information following a second incident in Inverness involving a child being approached by a stranger. | 30518076 |
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The former five-weight world champion faced flurries of early punches from UFC's most iconic figure, who was making his debut in professional boxing at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena.
McGregor delivered a crisp uppercut in round one and, though he edged close to breaking the rules with several punches to the back of the head, he imposed himself admirably without ever looking as though he would knock out Mayweather.
The American, who came out of retirement for a potential $300m (£230m) pay day, executed a gameplan which pounced on McGregor's lack of conditioning for the late rounds which prove so key on big fight nights.
As the Irishman tired, Mayweather upped his ferocity and by round nine the 40-year-old began to stalk his opponent, whose legs were weakening under more successful shots.
And in the 10th, with McGregor again near the ropes and offering little, the fight - which followed weeks of manic build-up, spiteful words and chaos - was over. He was not bowled over by a conclusive blow, but with Mayweather throwing rapidly, his target was left too vulnerable.
Referee Robert Byrd's stoppage may have arrived too early for some, as McGregor's early effort led to a belief inside the arena he could pull off the biggest upset in the history of the sport.
But the 29-year-old was wilting and was down 89-81 89-82 87-83 on the ringside cards when the stoppage came.
His effort and display should be commended, but Mayweather's poise and invincibility remain constant into retirement.
Mayweather said: "He was a lot better than I thought. But I was the better man. I guaranteed everybody this would not go the distance. Boxing's reputation was on the line."
McGregor, who said he would return to the UFC but would not rule out boxing again, said: "I thought it was close and I thought it was a bit of an early stoppage. I was just a little fatigued."
Those who watched this bout can say they witnessed history, with Mayweather's victory taking him past the late Rocky Marciano's perfect 49-fight record.
And this may yet be the richest fight ever, surpassing the reported $620m (£480m) earned by Mayweather's win over Manny Pacquiao in 2015.
The presence of A-list celebrities such as Bruce Willis and Jennifer Lopez underlined the high-rolling nature of a bout engulfed in chaos.
But with only 14,623 people in the 20,000-seat arena, there will be criticism of high ticket prices - and the atmosphere suffered as a result.
As US news networks set up studios on Vegas' strip in the build-up, debate over the legitimacy of the fight dominated.
MMA guests said boxing was dated, and were accused of speaking with an ignorance of the sweet science. One pundit said Mayweather would look like Michelangelo against a man whose boxing style would be "paint by numbers".
Elsewhere, local airports adopted emergency measures to deal with an influx of high rollers, while sportsbooks on the city's famous strip were braced for record stakes.
But could the hype be justified? Was Mayweather too old? Would McGregor's relentless undermining of his rival work?
No, no and no. Critics of the contest will likely point to the ease with which Mayweather upped the ante as evidence this was always a mismatch.
He remains at his best when in the spotlight, delivering when booed, winning with breathing space.
The fact he had already fought 39 times by the time McGregor quit a plumbing apprenticeship to focus on MMA underlined the gulf in experience.
It showed, though 'The Notorious' has captured the imagination of new fans and will be considerably richer - both financially, and in ring craft - for taking on such a challenge.
He boxed, well at times. But, like Hall of Fame boxers who tried before him, he did not have enough to shock Mayweather.
After the frenetic build-up, the talking stopped before both men stepped into the ring - and McGregor glared at his rival with intensity before the bell.
In round one, he landed a crisp left uppercut and later posed with his hands behind his back. He seemed to consciously exaggerate his movement at times, lending substance to suggestions from pundits his MMA footwork would be a key part of his weaponry.
But a stiff right from Mayweather in the second drew screams from the masses, and 'Money' smiled cheekily at the TV cameras when on his stool between rounds.
Was he toying with his man? There were moments it appeared so. He began to walk forward more in the fourth but felt a solid left counter.
Chants of "ole" provided backing for the underdog, who angered Mayweather with persistent punching to the back of his head.
The American's response was a shove in the chest after the bell in round five as he became notably more spiteful.
His punches began to look loaded, but it remained close. McGregor's early punch volume won rounds, Mayweather's progress through the gears, albeit slow, closed the deficit by the seventh, when he jolted his foe with a counter right.
The ninth round would take the boxing novice past the 25 minutes he faces in a UFC bout, and fatigue became undeniable. He swayed, at times a sitting duck to be picked off as Mayweather landed, notably with a slappy left hand.
And then came the 10th. McGregor screamed when the stoppage came, as if to intimate he had more left. He probably did, but barring him finding power we had not yet seen, he was done. Byrd brought the inevitable forward.
And with that, Mayweather returned to retirement with his perfect record in tact.
What next for McGregor? His spirit and magnetism is such that he will continue to break down barriers.
He deserves immense credit, but Mayweather's standing in boxing history remains unblemished.
BBC Radio 5 live boxing commentator Mike Costello
Many people said in the build-up that this fight couldn't count as Mayweather's 50th win. Believe me, it can after the performance tonight.
Clearly, McGregor has proved the doubters wrong and he will be in the dressing room knowing he gave everything he could.
Boxing's reputation wouldn't have been damaged at all by tonight because what we have seen is McGregor show that it is possible to switch between codes.
This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser | Floyd Mayweather extended his perfect career record to 50 fights unbeaten by stopping Conor McGregor in the 10th round of one of the richest bouts in boxing history. | 41064767 |
More than 6,600 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean in 2015 and the first half of this year.
But a report by UK academics warns that most bodies remain unidentified and their families are left not knowing if missing relatives are dead or alive.
This is an "invisible catastrophe", said report author Dr Simon Robins.
"This is devastating for their families back home," said Dr Robins, senior research fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York.
"They likened it to a form of torture where they are caught between hope and despair, not knowing whether they would ever see their loved one again, not knowing if they should give up hope and focus on the rest of their lives.
"More than anything these people want to know if their loved one is alive or dead. If they are dead, they want to bring their relative home and have them buried visibly in their community."
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Researchers from the Mediterranean Missing Project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, spent a year in Italy and Greece examining how information about dead migrants was gathered.
Dr Robins says that only a minority of the bodies are identified - and many more migrants will have been lost and never found at sea.
When bodies are identified it is usually by relatives coming to where bodies are kept before burial, he says.
This means families without any way of travelling to Europe might never get the chance to see if their loved ones are among the bodies which have washed up.
The report, from the University of York, City University London and the International Organisation for Migration, calls for a more systematic approach to gathering data about those who have drowned.
Interviews with families from Syria, Iraq and Tunisia with missing relatives:
Dr Robins said researchers saw personal objects - such as credit cards, watches and even a passport - that had washed ashore on beaches but had not been gathered to help identify those who might have been lost in the Mediterranean.
Local authorities have been "overwhelmed" by the tide of migration, says the report, and this has put pressure on attempts to identify the dead and inform their relatives.
"There is a policy vacuum around the problem, marked by minimal co-operation among different state agencies, a lack of effective investigation, and little effort to contact the families of the missing," says the report.
In Italy, there has been a special commissioner for missing persons created, which, Dr Robins says, has been very effective in investigating shipwrecks.
But Dr Robins says this work does not extend far enough and that in Greece there is even greater need for a more co-ordinated approach.
There have been efforts to gather DNA material from those who have drowned, but Dr Robins says this needs to be more systematic, so that families would be able to seek a match for a lost relative.
The wave of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean is still continuing, with 6,500 rescued on Monday between Libya and Italy.
The report also calls for a more thorough approach to interviewing survivors rescued from the Mediterranean, who might know the identities of those who have drowned.
The lack of centralised information means there is no straightforward point of contact for families looking for lost relatives.
Dr Robins says there needs to be a much greater effort to find these families, who have been "marginalised" by the lack of information.
These families are the hidden victims of the migration crisis, says the report.
Researchers interviewed 84 families from Syria, Iraq and Tunisia whose relatives disappeared trying to cross the Mediterranean and who are "living every day with uncertainty".
Without any confirmation of death, families face a traumatic wait, with some believing relatives are still alive and being kept in detention, unable to make contact.
Without any official information, they rely on scraps of news brought back from people who had travelled with their missing relative, or from people smugglers.
"There is a huge emptiness," said one of the families interviewed. | Human rights researchers are warning of a "devastating" lack of information for families of migrants thought to have drowned in the Mediterranean. | 37220479 |
League One's bottom club are 13 points adrift of safety with six games to play, starting with Wednesday's trip to leaders Sheffield United.
"We know the reality of it," Robins told BBC Sport after Sunday's 2-1 win.
"Results didn't go our way on Saturday, but we'll keep fighting."
Robins, who returned for a second spell as Coventry manager in March, added: "We're trying to stave it off for as long as we can. After we've celebrated this, we've got to go to Bramall Lane on Wednesday and then face Peterborough at home next Saturday.
"But this was really important for us as a club. We've shown the football world we're alive and kicking."
About 43,000 Coventry fans watched their Wembley success and Robins continued: "The supporters are a massive part of this football club and this was a great day for all of them.
"To see the amount that turned up, with that much passion, surpasses anything I've done in football. The experience was phenomenal. The noise was tremendous. Both sets of fans were really good.
"It gives everybody a reminder that we have a really good fan base with so much potential. We just have to harness it."
Robins revealed after the game that the Sky Blues' opening goalscorer Gael Bigirimana was close to missing his moment of glory - only the Burundi-born midfielder's second goal for the club on his 74th appearance.
"His wife gave birth to their first child on Saturday, a little girl called Eden," said Robins. "He was missing on Saturday and he was touch and go.
"Our preparations were further hampered when we lost Callum Reilly with a hamstring injury. He was better on Saturday and I might have risked him, in the hope that he'd get through on adrenaline, but he'd not have lasted the 90 minutes.
"Chris Stokes hadn't played much of late so there was a question of whether he could get though the game and Jordan Willis has had a thigh strain and there was a doubt whether he could last 90 minutes.
"Extra time would have been horrendous for us, which is why I was so grateful to Lee Burge for making his late save." | Manager Mark Robins says Coventry's Checkatrade Trophy final victory over Oxford at Wembley was a "phenomenal" way to show the football world that the Sky Blues are "alive and kicking". | 39474248 |
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Gerard Pique headed in a late Andres Iniesta cross, finally breaking the resistance of their stubborn opponents.
Alvaro Morata, Jordi Alba and David Silva had earlier efforts saved as the holders lacked a cutting edge.
Spain had also survived a scare when Cesc Fabregas hooked a Theodor Gebre Selassie header off the goalline.
Vladimir Darida had a chance to equalise but Spain keeper David de Gea, who started the game after a build-up dominated by allegations against him in the Spanish press, blocked his volley from 10 yards.
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There might have been a few Spanish nerves after the team's exit at the group stage of the 2014 World Cup and loss to 137th-ranked Georgia in their final warm-up game before Euro 2016.
Spain's goalscoring threat in attack was a worry and any anxiety would not have been helped during a first half in which La Roja had 74% possession and made 378 passes but still failed to engineer a breakthrough.
Morata led the Spanish attack with support from Silva and Nolito, and they were comfortably contained by a disciplined and organised defence.
Spain increased their urgency after the break but it was a similar story as they failed to translate their dominance into goals. Silva's chipped ball put Alba through on goal but the left-back's control let him down, while Silva cut inside and sent a left-foot shot wide.
When substitute Aritz Aduriz put an acrobatic overhead kick wide, it looked like being a frustrating start for Vicente del Bosque's side - but centre-back Pique broke the deadlock in the 87th minute.
"We created a lot of chances - we hope finishing will not be a problem," said Del Bosque. "We had the game completely under control and that's the most important thing."
Pavel Vrba's side had won just one of their past six matches and came into the tournament having conceded 14 goals in qualifying - the most of any team at Euro 2016.
They were happy to sit back and try to catch out the holders on the counter-attack or from a set-piece.
Goalkeeper Petr Cech's impressive saves from Morata, Alba and Silva, as well as resilient defending, kept them on level terms and gave them hope of holding out.
Gebre Selassie's near miss against the run of play almost gave them a lead to defend but ultimately the Czechs failed to keep Spain at bay and have now kept just one clean sheet in 23 games.
Spain midfielder Andres Iniesta: "There's not a single solution to breaking down these teams. You have to keep pressing forward until you get what you want. The goal came the way it came - it just takes patience."
Czech Republic coach Pavel Vrba: "It's disappointing to concede a goal so late. We could have scored ourselves, which doesn't often happen against Spain. We played at our maximum level and it is a shame not to get at least a point."
BBC pundit Robbie Savage on BBC Radio 5 live: "This Spain team are lovely to watch but at times a bit dull and boring - even the fans were just sitting there expecting them to get a goal."
Czech Republic play Croatia on Friday, 17 June at 17:00 BST in Saint-Etienne, while Spain's next game is against Turkey at 20:00 BST on the same day in Nice.
Match ends, Spain 1, Czech Republic 0.
Second Half ends, Spain 1, Czech Republic 0.
Attempt missed. Jaroslav Plasil (Czech Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Vladimir Darida (Czech Republic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ladislav Krejci.
Aduriz (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tomas Sivok (Czech Republic).
Foul by Aduriz (Spain).
Roman Hubnik (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Czech Republic. David Pavelka replaces Tomas Rosicky.
Goal! Spain 1, Czech Republic 0. Gerard Piqué (Spain) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta with a cross.
Substitution, Czech Republic. Josef Sural replaces Theodor Gebre Selassie.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Tomas Rosicky.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Pavel Kaderábek.
Jordi Alba (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Theodor Gebre Selassie (Czech Republic).
Substitution, Spain. Pedro replaces Nolito.
Attempt missed. Aduriz (Spain) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sergio Ramos with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Vladimir Darida.
Juanfran (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ladislav Krejci (Czech Republic).
Offside, Spain. Juanfran tries a through ball, but Aduriz is caught offside.
Substitution, Czech Republic. David Lafata replaces Tomas Necid.
Foul by Sergio Ramos (Spain).
Tomas Necid (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. David Silva (Spain) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Andrés Iniesta.
Attempt blocked. David Silva (Spain) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Tomas Sivok.
Corner, Spain. Conceded by Roman Hubnik.
Substitution, Spain. Thiago Alcántara replaces Cesc Fàbregas.
Foul by Nolito (Spain).
Pavel Kaderábek (Czech Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Czech Republic. Conceded by Sergio Ramos.
Substitution, Spain. Aduriz replaces Álvaro Morata.
David Limbersky (Czech Republic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Silva (Spain) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by David Limbersky (Czech Republic).
Attempt saved. Andrés Iniesta (Spain) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Sergio Ramos.
Offside, Czech Republic. Vladimir Darida tries a through ball, but Ladislav Krejci is caught offside.
Sergio Ramos (Spain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Theodor Gebre Selassie (Czech Republic). | Spain's attempt to win a record third European Championship in a row began with a last-gasp victory over the Czech Republic. | 36457219 |
The pop star wrote on Instagram her gig on Friday at the city's Allianz Stadium "would not be going ahead as planned... due to the tragic events".
The Nice Jazz Festival, due to start on Saturday, has also been cancelled.
Many figures from the entertainment world have expressed shock at the news, with Simon Cowell among those sending "thoughts and prayers to all affected".
Rihanna, currently in Europe with her Anti tour, was in Nice at the time of the attack but was said to be "safe" by her representative.
The makers of the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey - which had been filming on location in the south of France - also said everyone working on the film had been accounted for and was "safe and sound".
Producer Dana Brunetti circulated the statement on Facebook, saying it was "another sad day for France and the world".
Boy George tweeted his "heart breaks for France", while Cyndi Lauper said she was "so sad for the people of Nice".
Comedian Amy Schumer, actress Mia Farrow and TV personality Kim Kardashian West are among others to express their sympathies.
At least 84 people were killed when a lorry ploughed through a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice on Thursday evening.
The driver drove 2km down the city's Promenade des Anglais at about 23:00 local time, before being shot dead by police.
Youssou N'Dour, Melody Gardot and Britain's Laura Mvula were among those who had been scheduled to appear at Nice's Jazz Festival.
The event was to have run from Saturday to Wednesday but has now been cancelled, as have some of the city's other Bastille celebrations this weekend.
Festival organisers told the BBC all tickets would be refunded and thanked ticket holders "for their understanding".
US singer George Clinton, who had been due to perform at the festival on Sunday, sent his "sincere condolences and prayers to the families of the victims".
London-based rapper Tiggs Da Author, who was also scheduled to appear on Sunday, is another performer to have sent "thoughts and prayers" via Twitter.
Thursday's events have cast doubt on whether Bastille Day, an action thriller starring Britain's Idris Elba, will continue to be shown in French cinemas.
A spokesperson for distributor StudioCanal told the BBC it would let cinemas decide whether to show the film and would support them if they chose to withdraw it.
The UK release of the film - which features a bomb blast in central Paris - was put back two months to 22 April following the terror attacks that took place in the city in November last year.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or email [email protected]. | Singer Rihanna has cancelled a concert in Nice in the wake of the Bastille Day attack that left at least 84 dead. | 36802565 |
Mr Yarrington, who was governor of the border state from 1999 to 2004, has been charged with money laundering.
Prosecutors say he accepted millions of dollars in bribes from the Gulf Cartel in return for allowing it to smuggle large amounts of cocaine into the US.
Mr Yarrington, who is being sought by the US, has denied the charges.
His lawyer said the charges were politically motivated and denied his client was hiding from the authorities.
According to the prosecution, Mr Yarrington started receiving payments from the Gulf drugs cartel when he was running for governor of Tamaulipas, a north-eastern Mexican state bordering Texas criss-crossed by drug smuggling routes.
He allegedly continued accepting the bribes during his tenure, investing the money in properties across Texas,The indictment also accuses Mr Yarrington of accepting cocaine in exchange for facilitating access to Mexican ports.
Mr Yarrington was suspended from the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) last year after allegations of his ties with the Gulf cartel surfaced.
The Gulf cartel is one of Mexico's largest criminal organisations with extensive international connections.
It engages in drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping and murder from its power base in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. | US prosecutors have accused the former governor of the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, Tomas Yarrington, of links with drug cartels. | 25198417 |
Be Lucky includes lyrical references to Australian rockers AC/DC and French electro band Daft Punk and will be included in a double album featuring the group's greatest hits.
The band will donate royalties from the new track to teenage cancer sufferers.
One of the most influential rock bands of the 20th Century, their hits include My Generation and I Can See for Miles.
Earlier this year, surviving members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend announced they would play a tour, which starts in the UK in November, to mark their 50 years in the industry.
Daltrey described the tour as "the beginning of the long goodbye".
The new track Be Lucky features the lyrics "You wanna climb without a safety line/ AC/DC's gonna be fine," and a similar refrain, "You want to climb without a safety line/ Daft Punk will tell you that it's gonna be fine."
Daft Punk's single Get Lucky was one of the biggest hits of 2013.
Recorded at British Grove and Yellow Fish Studios, the Who track features long-time collaborators Zak Starkey on drums and Pino Palladino on bass.
In a statement on their website, The Who said: "In keeping with their ongoing support for Teenage Cancer charities, the band have donated their royalties from the song to Teen Cancer America."
Daltrey was instrumental in founding the Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2000.
In 2011, Teen Cancer America was founded by Daltrey and Townshend in the US.
In April, Daltrey was presented with the outstanding contribution prize at the Music Week awards for his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Singer Paul Weller praised Daltrey's "tireless, fantastic work" for a "very worthwhile charity".
The Who were formed by singer Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle in London in 1964 and were joined by drummer Keith Moon before recording their first single.
Moon died of a drug overdose in 1978 and Entwistle died of a drug-induced heart attack in 2002. | Rock legends The Who have unveiled their first song in eight years as they mark their 50th anniversary. | 29374342 |
Sadiq Khan will set out a business case for services running into the capital to be devolved to TfL.
He claims it would improve passenger service and tackle delays and overcrowding.
TfL's board will consider the proposals on Thursday before seeking approval from the government to move forward.
The first franchises up for renewal - services in southeast London and Kent - will be this autumn with further franchises involving South West Trains, Southeastern and Govia Thameslink Railway due for renewal by 2021.
Every mayor so far has wanted more control over suburban rail services and Sadiq Khan is no different.
Certainly beleaguered commuters and politicians of all ilks, including Kent County Council, want TfL to control their lines using the concession model where TfL pays an operator to run the service (like the Overground).
There are sticking points though - the politics. This is a Conservative government and a Labour Mayor. How can TfL run services outside the area of jurisdiction? (Clue: look at the Met line). And capacity - lines into places like Waterloo are already full; whoever runs it and Network Rail will still control the infrastructure.
And TfL can only take over when contracts come up. So while the intentions are clear, this won't happen overnight.
Mr Khan said: "Passengers on London's suburban rail routes simply aren't getting a good enough service. They face increasing rail fares year after year, yet face daily delays, cancellations and overcrowding.
"Ahead of the Autumn Statement, I'm looking forward to presenting the full business case for how a transformed and modernised suburban rail network could also unlock new homes and provide other substantial economic benefits for London."
Earlier this year think tank Centre for London called on the Department for Transport to devolve the network due to "strained" rail services in south London.
When it was first raised the Rail Delivery Group, which represents train operators and Network Rail, said the current system produced some of "the best passenger satisfaction levels". | A new map revealing how London could look if the mayor took over the running of suburban rail services has been released by Transport for London (TfL). | 37429631 |
The militants launched the attack with suicide bombings at the town's checkpoints, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group.
It said the capture of the town links IS-held Palmyra with the Qalamun area.
Separately, the US launched its first drone strike against IS from Turkey.
A Pentagon spokesman did not give any further details about the strike, which reportedly took place on Monday.
Turkey last month said it would allow US aircraft to use its southern Incirlik airbase to attack IS in Syria, potentially speeding up air strikes against the militants.
Al-Qaryatain was captured in the militants' first major offensive since May, when they seized the historic town of Palmyra, famed for its Roman-style ruins.
The town is thought to have a mixed population of around 40,000 people, including Sunni Muslims and Christians, as well as thousands of people who have fled fighting elsewhere in the country.
According to the SOHR, the capture of the town could help IS move fighters and material between Palmyra and territory that it controls in Qalamun, to the west.
Scores of pro-government and IS fighters are said to have been killed in the battle for the town.
More than 230,000 Syrians have died in the civil war, which began after anti-government protests in March 2011.
Rebel groups that were originally fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad have also been battling each other in an increasingly complex and bloody conflict. | Islamic State (IS) militants have captured al-Qaryatain town, in the province of Homs, from pro-government forces, reports say. | 33806122 |
Speaking in London, the Labour leader said he would "reshape" relationships with the US and other allies, promising "no hand holding" with Donald Trump.
Labour backed "no first use" nuclear weapons, but he would do "everything necessary" to protect the country.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Labour would "chuck away" the UK's ability to defend itself.
And Prime Minister Theresa May, campaigning in North Shields, has also been asked about defence policy, if her party wins power on 8 June.
Mrs May was asked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg if she thought it patriotic to join the US in more strikes against Syria, or if she would rule out having a parliamentary vote.
Mrs May said the UK was part of a coalition working to "defeat Daesh" in Syria and Iraq but was also working "diplomatically with others to ensure that we can see a stable Syria for the future and a political transition for Syria away from Assad".
In a speech to the Chatham House international affairs think tank on Friday, Mr Corbyn - a former chairman of the Stop the War Coalition and a lifelong member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - said he had campaigned for a more peaceful world all his life and still believed the UK's interests were best served by pursuing political and diplomatic ends to conflicts.
But he said should his party win power on 8 June, he would do "everything necessary to protect the safety and security of our people and our country", stressing "that is our first duty".
In focusing on the deficiencies of recent western military interventions in the Middle East - what Mr Corbyn called "regime change wars" - the Labour leader put forward a view that might well resonate more widely among the electorate.
His was an approach that would put human rights at the centre of foreign policy.
The problem is that on specifics Mr Corbyn provided little clarity. He was more critical of the Trump administration than he was of Russia or China.
While stressing Labour's commitment to current levels of defence spending, he opposed the Nato deployment of troops closer to Russia to reassure worried allies.
He insisted that he was no pacifist and that in the last resort force might sometimes be necessary.
But by stressing the role of the UN Security Council he appeared to give Russia and China a veto over any UK decision to use force.
While condemning the "almost routine" military interventions of the past 15 years, from Afghanistan to Libya, he said he accepted that military action was needed "as a last resort", citing the fight against Nazism during World War Two.
"I am not a pacifist.
"I accept that military action, under international law and as a genuine last resort, is in some circumstances necessary. But that is very far from the kind of unilateral wars and interventions that have almost become routine in recent times."
He said a "bomb first, talk later" approach to security "has failed" and that the use of force should be sanctioned beforehand by the United Nations.
He criticised the Trump administration for "unilateral" air strikes in Syria and "recklessly escalating" tensions on the Korean peninsula, saying he wanted "strong and friendly relations" with Washington but would always speak his mind.
"Britain deserves better than simply outsourcing our country's security and prosperity to the whims of the Trump White House.
"So no more hand holding with Donald Trump - a Labour government will conduct a robust and independent foreign policy made in London."
Earlier this year, Mr Corbyn criticised US air strikes against Syria - putting him at odds with Labour deputy leader Tom Watson.
The Labour leader said his life-long opposition to nuclear weapons and what he described as the "military-industrial complex" had been shaped by his parents' fears of a "nuclear holocaust" during the 1960s and his memories of the use of chemical weapons during the Vietnam War.
He said he accepted Labour was supporting Trident in its manifesto, draft details of which were leaked on Wednesday, after voting for the policy at its party conference and the Parliament had already backed the renewal of the nuclear weapons system.
But he said an incoming Labour government would have a wide-ranging defence review "looking at all aspects of our defence priorities for the future".
"We cannot obviously decide what the review would decide, otherwise we wouldn't have a review," he said.
He insisted he remained committed to "meaningful, multilateral disarmament" in line with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
His deputy leader Tom Watson, campaigning in Pontypridd, said the manifesto, the final version of which has not yet been published, "will have a commitment to the independent nuclear deterrent, to Trident".
But SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Corbyn "should have the courage of his convictions on nuclear weapons". She added: ""I want to see Trident scrapped not renewed, so we can have investment in our conventional forces."
The Conservatives said Mr Corbyn had campaigned all his life "to weaken the UK's defences".
Campaigning in Newport, Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said the Labour leader's criticism of Mr Trump reflected a strain of "immature anti-Americanism" within the opposition.
"There is a sharp distinction between a government that is willing to stand up for this country, that is will to make sure this country is properly defended - and a Labour party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, that would simply chuck away our ability to defend ourselves," he said.
But UKIP leader Paul Nuttall said he agreed with Mr Corbyn, arguing the interventions in Iraq and Syria had been mistaken and British troops should only be deployed if it was truly in the national interest.
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | Jeremy Corbyn has said he will appoint a minister for peace if he wins power, but insisted he was "not a pacifist". | 39892281 |
The condition, misophonia, is far more than simply disliking noises such as nails being scraped down a blackboard.
"I feel there's a threat and get the urge to lash out - it's the fight or flight response," says patient Olana Tansley-Hancock, 29, from Kent.
UK scientists have shown some people's brains become hardwired to produce an "excessive" emotional response.
Olana developed the condition when she was eight years old. Her trigger sounds include breathing, eating and rustling noises.
She told BBC News: "Anyone eating crisps is always going to set me off, the rustle of the packet is enough to start a reaction.
"It's not a general annoyance, it's an immediate 'Oh my God, what is that sound?' I need to get away from it or stop it'.
"I spent a long time avoiding places like the cinema. I'd have to move carriages seven or eight times on 30-minute train journeys, and I left a job after three months as I spent more time crying and having panic attacks than working."
Scientists at multiple centres in the UK scanned the brains of 20 misophonic people, including Olana, and 22 people without the condition.
They were played a range of noises while they were in the MRI machine, including:
The results, published in the journal Current Biology, revealed the part of the brain that joins our senses with our emotions - the anterior insular cortex - was overly active in misophonia.
And it was wired up and connected to other parts of the brain differently in those with misophonia.
Dr Sukhbinder Kumar, from Newcastle University, told BBC News: "They are going into overdrive when they hear these sounds, but the activity was specific to the trigger sounds not the other two sounds.
"The reaction is anger mostly, it's not disgust, the dominating emotion is the anger - it looks like a normal response, but then it is going into overdrive."
There are no treatments, but Olana has developed coping mechanisms such as using ear plugs.
She also knows caffeine and alcohol make the condition worse, "which is rubbish".
"But I have a relatively mild case and am still able to have a job, I know a lot of people who aren't able to have that, I feel quite fortunately really," she said.
It is still not clear how common the disorder is, as there is no clear way of diagnosing it and it was only recently discovered.
Ultimately, the researchers hope, understanding the difference in the misophonic brain will lead to new treatments.
One idea is that low levels of targeted electricity passed through the skull, which is known to adjust brain function, could help.
Tim Griffiths, a professor of cognitive neurology at Newcastle University and University College London, said: "I hope this will reassure sufferers.
"I was part of the sceptical community myself until we saw patients in the clinic and understood how strikingly similar the features are.
"We now have evidence to establish the basis for the disorder through the differences in brain control mechanism in misophonia."
Follow James on Twitter. | Why some people become enraged by sounds such as eating or breathing has been explained by brain scan studies. | 38842561 |
A number of families have moved out in the area around Chobham Street.
Housing Executive workers spent Friday morning putting up boards to protect windows and doors at 54 properties.
The bonfire is on land owned by the Department for Regional Development.
It is 30 feet from terraced houses.
Ulster Unionist councillor Sonia Copeland has appealed to the bonfire-makers to reduce it in size.
They say they are willing to listen to suggestions to make it safer, but their current intention is to make it bigger.
Some families living beside the bonfire moved out of their homes after the Fire and Rescue Service warned their lives and property could be in danger.
Despite a number of meetings with various statutory agencies the people who are building the bonfire have refused to move it elsewhere.
Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers said it was the biggest that he "could ever recall".
"This is a very worrying time for many of the residents," he said.
"There are four streets which are worrying the Fire and Rescue Service as well as the Walkway community centre which is voluntarily owned."
Mr Rodgers said a series of meetings had been held over the last two months with a wide range of public bodies to try to address the issue.
He said attempts had also been made to try to persuade the builders to reduce its size.
"We have tried to work with the bonfire builders, we're not against the bonfire, but where there is a risk to life, where there is a risk to property, action needs to be taken, but unfortunately they're adamant that the bonfire is not going to be reduced in size," he said.
"What I'm asking them now to do is to behave in a responsible fashion.
"We don't want to see this district ruined. It's a very good area, I was born and brought up in it.
"This is a very worrying time for many elderly residents and people just don't know what to do."
Bonfires are lit every year on the eve of the annual Orange celebrations to mark the anniversary of the victory of the Protestant King William III over the Catholic King James II at the battle of the Boyne in 1690. | More than 50 homes in east Belfast have been boarded up to protect them from a 11 July bonfire. | 33472808 |
Former Aston Villa man Delfouneso, 24, has joined until 19 April after scoring twice in 16 games for Rovers this term.
Ex-Leicester City trainee Bolger, 24, and keeper Neal, 30, have both agreed to stay until the end of the season.
All three players are available for the Shakers' League One game against Shrewsbury on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Bury have signed Blackburn striker Nathan Delfouneso, Southend defender Cian Bolger and Port Vale goalkeeper Chris Neal on loan. | 35847220 |
The defending champions make up their game in hand at Dundee on Tuesday but Derek McInnes's side proved they are not going to give up the chase.
Simon Church's header put the Dons in front, and Niall McGinn exploited a terrible defensive error for a second.
Kenny McLean then turned in his eighth goal of the season as Accies toiled.
The result looked beyond their redemption as soon as they fell two behind as Aberdeen started with a pace, skill, determination and aggression that simply overwhelmed the visitors.
McLean showed why he earned a first Scotland cap against Czech Republic last month by curling a shot-cum-cross against the outside of Michael McGovern's right-hand post.
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The Dons midfielder also forced the Northern Ireland international into an impressive save after bursting clear of two defenders to get in an angled shot.
Aberdeen were already ahead by then, though, as some dazzling play from Jonny Hayes, who was brimming with confidence after earning his first Republic of Ireland caps during the international break.
The winger pinched possession off a dithering Antons Kurakins then sent over a delicious cross that invited the finish Church gave it with a powerful six-yard header.
Hamilton gifted the home side their second as Ziggy Gordon and McGovern left the clearing duties to each other and McGinn nipped in to score.
At that stage, it looked as if Accies would be in for a repeat of the 8-1 hammering they took at Celtic Park earlier this year as Aberdeen's movement and crisp link-up play pulled them apart.
Luckily they had McGovern to save them on a number of occasions while Scott Brown at the other end was largely unemployed despite one real let-off in 20 minutes when Dougie Imrie broke free.
His lung-bursting run down the left ended with a wicked back-post cross that Oumar Diaby was only inches away from converting as he slid in trying desperately to make contact.
It was rare respite, though, as a superb move down Aberdeen's left saw Hayes send Graeme Shinnie away on the overlap and the full-back's cross was swept in by McLean.
Hamilton did work harder to get closer to their opponents in the second half and Diaby's looping header forced Brown into a save.
However, it took more impressive McGovern saves and some narrow escapes to keep the scoreline down and Accies have a lot of work to do to maintain their Premiership status, with Martin Canning's side remaining just four points clear of the relegation zone.
Shay Logan, McGinn and Mark Reynolds all could have added to Aberdeen's lead but McInnes's men had to be content with their three goals. | Aberdeen swept aside hapless Hamilton Academical to cut Celtic's advantage at the top of the Premiership back to four points. | 35906356 |
The victory for Nigeria ensured they finished second in Group E, and sets up a clash with Germany in the next round.
The Hungarians also qualify as one of the best third-placed teams and will face Serbia in the knockout stages.
Awoniyi scored in each half of their last Group E fixture.
His first goal came in the 33rd minute, volleying in from a pinpoint cross by Saviour Godwin.
He added the second in the 54th minute when Attila Osvath and Akos Cecskes, who had both gone up for the same header, collided near half-way.
That left the ball to Awoniyi who beat a defender and rounded goalkeeper Gyorgy Szekely before tucking the ball into the net.
Brazil finished above Nigeria as Group E leaders and will face Uruguay in their last-16 match on Thursday. | Taiwo Awoniyi secured a brace as Nigeria beat Hungary 2-0 to progress to the last 16 of the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand. | 33040459 |
It became tangled in anti-pigeon netting on the Lloyds Bank building in Cornhill earlier.
Three fire engines were sent and a firefighter on an aerial platform managed to help set the bird free.
The bird, which had been feasting on a pigeon also trapped in the nets, then flew across the square to watch the drama from the safety of another perch.
Dozens of shoppers had gathered to watch the spectacle, and Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service had to set up a cordon as they worked to free the feathered fellow.
As the bird flapped to freedom, people clapped and cheered from the sidelines.
More on this and other news from Suffolk | Crowds gathered to cheer firefighters attempting to rescue a bird of prey trapped in the centre of Ipswich. | 39897004 |
The garden with a circular walled garden in the grounds of Mortonhall crematorium is expected to be completed by November this year.
Parents were asked to choose between four different designs.
The pond originally proposed will be replaced with a stone water feature due to safety fears.
It will include beech hedges, birch trees, a stone ball water feature, rocks, a pathway and seating and will be located off the existing memorial walkway not far from the main chapel.
A second memorial is to be built in Princes Street Gardens as some families had strong views that they did not wish to return to Mortonhall. | Plans for a memorial to infants at the centre of the Mortonhall baby ashes scandal have been given the green light by councillors. | 32975947 |
Lois Slocombe was out running with friends on Wednesday when they spotted the dentures sealed in a plastic bag on a tree in Skegness.
Posted alongside them was a note saying: "Have you lost your teeth?"
Ms Slocombe said the teeth had since been removed and she hoped they had been reunited with their owner.
The unusual find on Hoylake Drive prompted dozens of comments from people after Ms Slocombe posted a picture of the teeth on the Skegness Skegness Skegness Facebook page. | Lost false teeth were found taped to a tree by an amused runner who said it was the "most unusual thing" she had ever come across. | 40974609 |
His motorcycle was involved in a collision with a car on the Lough Fea Road at about 19:45 on Wednesday.
Police said the man died from his injuries at the scene.
The Lough Fea Road was closed following the collision but has now reopened. Police have appealed for anyone who was travelling on the road at the time of the crash to contact them. | A motorcyclist in his 40s has died in a traffic accident in Cookstown, County Tyrone. | 38752687 |
Vote Leave claims £50m a day is being sent to Brussels - money it says could be spent instead on building hospitals and reducing pressures on the NHS.
But Britain Stronger in Europe says that figure is wrong - and leaving the EU would harm the health service.
Opinion polls suggest the referendum is too close to call with 10 weeks to go.
In the main campaign developments so far:
The NHS has emerged as the chief battleground on day one of the official campaign, with Leave campaigners calling for a large slice of the UK's net contribution to the EU's coffers - which it says amounts to £350m a week - to be pumped into the NHS instead.
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"I think we ought to decide ourselves how we spend that money and I would suggest we spend it on the NHS," said Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP and co-chair of the cross-party Vote Leave group.
"The NHS is under tremendous pressure, people have to wait longer whether it is for treatment or for A&E and I think £350m would be better spent on the NHS."
Reality Check: Would Brexit mean extra £350m a week for NHS?
We've said it before and we'll say it again - the UK does not send £350m a week to Brussels - the rebate is deducted before the money is sent, which takes the contribution down to £276m a week.
That figure includes £88m a week spent in the UK on things like regional aid and support for farmers. The government could decide after a Brexit that it should take that money away from farmers and give it instead to the NHS, but it might be an unpopular decision in rural areas.
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Her message is being echoed by Conservative heavyweights, such as Mr Johnson and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, key figures in the Leave movement.
"At the moment the money we give to the European Union is spent by others, people we have never elected and never chosen and can't remove," Mr Gove said.
"If that money is taken back, that £50m a day will be spent on British people's priorities and the NHS is top of people's list."
Britain Stronger in Europe - the main Remain campaign - has said the £350m figure is inaccurate because the UK gets a large chunk of its membership fee back through the UK's annual rebate, money which is already spent in a number of areas, including on farming subsidies.
Its executive director Will Straw described Vote Leave's arguments as "unedifying speculation" and claimed several of its supporters wanted to privatise the NHS.
And the TUC said the NHS, which costs £2.25bn a week to run and is reliant on migrant labour, would face a staffing crisis if the UK was to vote to leave the EU.
The BBC's political correspondent Iain Watson said there was likely to be a lot of trading of statistics during the campaign, with some opinions stated as facts.
Addressing the broader economic case for remaining in the UK, Lord Darling, who was Labour chancellor from 2007 to 2010, warned against choosing "isolation rather than influence".
In a speech in London, the Labour peer - who led the successful Better Together campaign in the Scottish independence referendum - argued the referendum was "not about sovereignty" because the UK "is a sovereign nation and will remain so".
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The Labour peer rejected claims that the Remain campaign was using the same tactics as Better Together did in 2014 - dubbed "Project Fear" by its opponents - saying he made "no apology" for exposing his opponents' "fear of the spotlight of legitimate scrutiny".
"It is not Project Fear. In truth, it is a reality check. The kind anyone would rightly take before making an enormous decision affecting their lives."
Speaking in Washington, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama to the UK next week, George Osborne said it was the "overwhelming view" of foreign governments and international institutions such as IMF and Nato that the UK should remain.
Asked whether he agreed with the Remain campaign's claim that mortgage rates would go up in the event of EU exit, Mr Osborne said this was a matter for the Bank of England but it was a widely held view that "prices would rise, jobs would be lost and living standards would fall".
But Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott said: "Less than 24 hours in and the pro-EU camp are already panicking - resorting to doing down the economy and people's mortgages to intimidate the British public into voting their way."
At a Brexit rally in Manchester, Boris Johnson said one of the most "depressing things about the campaign to Bremain" is that "there is not a shred of idealism" - but Labour accused him of "talking down Britain's influence".
"The EU, they say - it's crap but we have no alternative," Mr Johnson said.
"Well we do have an alternative, and it is a glorious alternative, a relationship with Europe based not on the whims of unelected bureaucrats but on cooperation between elected governments."
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has, meanwhile, challenged David Cameron to a face-to-face debate as he delivered a letter to Downing Street protesting at the government's pro-EU £9m leaflet campaign.
Mr Farage, who took on former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg during the 2014 European elections, said the government's arguments were "jammed full of lies and inaccuracies" and the prime minister must front up to "see if your claims will stand up to public scrutiny".
"Name your place and time and let's have a live, televised, head-to-head debate where we can debate one of the greatest political questions of our time," he said.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Vincent Nichols - the head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales - urged parishioners to "pray for guidance" and look beyond narrow economic concerns.
However he said he believed if the UK left the EU it would face "more complex problems than we would if we were playing an active part with Europe".
"In the EU, trade is harnessed to peace. An essential feature of the EU is the peace that has been sustained in Europe since the end of the second world war." | The EU referendum campaign has kicked off with a row over claims millions could be freed up for the NHS if Britain voted to leave on 23 June. | 36048055 |
Russia's defence ministry said at least 200 jihadists had died after its air force targeted a convoy of about 20 4x4s, armoured vehicles and tanks.
It did not say when the strike took place, but a monitoring group reported that a convoy had been hit last Friday.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the death toll at 70.
The activist-run Deir Ezzor 24 news network also said there had been a strike on a convoy outside Deir al-Zour on Friday that killed a number of militants.
IS has been besieging Syrian government-controlled areas of the city since 2015, leaving some 90,000 civilians dependent on air drops of aid organised by the UN.
Russia, which launched a military campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad two years ago, has been bombing IS positions along the frontline in Deir al-Zour in an attempt to stop the government enclave falling to the jihadist group.
Syrian troops and allied militiamen are meanwhile advancing towards the city from the west, moving along the main road through the desert from Palmyra.
Earlier this month they took the last IS-held town in Homs province, Sukhna, which is only 120km (75 miles) from Deir al-Zour.
Although IS still controls most of Deir al-Zour province, it has been losing ground fast elsewhere in Syria to the government and to Kurdish-led forces backed by a US-led multinational coalition that is focused on retaking the northern city of Raqqa.
The Syrian Observatory also reported that 27 civilians had died in a coalition air strike in the Badu district of central Raqqa on Sunday, bringing to at least 125 the number killed in the city in the past week.
The coalition said it is was assessing the report, but earlier said that on Sunday its aircraft had engaged 14 IS tactical units and destroyed 22 fighting positions, two drone staging areas, two heavy machine-guns, a vehicle and an explosives cache. | Dozens of so-called Islamic State (IS) militants are reported to have been killed in a Russian air strike near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zour. | 40999226 |
The Rio 400m freestyle silver medallist, 25, finished in eight minutes, 19.7 seconds.
Compatriots James Guy, 20, and Ben Proud, 21, qualified for semi-finals in the men's 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle respectively.
Proud and Guy will compete in the semi-finals in the early hours of Friday - the action starts from 02:03 BST.
American Katie Ledecky set an Olympic record of eight minutes, 12.86 seconds in her women's 800m freestyle heat to beat the record set by Briton Rebecca Adlington at Beijing 2008.
Ledecky, 19, is the defending Olympic champion and is looking to add to her four medals already won in Brazil.
A silver medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay was followed up by gold medals in the women's 200m and 400m freestyle, as well as the 4x200m relay.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Great Britain's Jazz Carlin qualified for the Friday's 800m freestyle final as she finished third in her heat. | 37054247 |
Another 117 factory workers were acquitted over the protests, in which a senior manager was beaten to death.
Two Japanese nationals were among more than 80 people who were injured.
The violence, believed to be linked to a dispute over wages and contracts, prompted the carmaker to temporarily halt production at the factory.
Extra police were deployed outside the factory in Manesar ahead of the verdict as tensions were high.
Seven workers were found guilty of culpable homicide. Sentencing is due later on Friday.
More than 30,000 workers boycotted their meals on Thursday and warned of "further action" if their colleagues "did not get justice".
Managers and workers blamed each other for starting the clashes, which followed months of troubled labour relations.
The violence at the vast factory in Haryana state was believed to have erupted after an altercation between a factory worker and a supervisor.
Maruti Suzuki, which is majority owned by the Japanese parent company, is India's largest car manufacturer with a 50% share of the country's booming car market. | A court in India has convicted 31 workers over violent protests at car manufacturer Maruti Suzuki's main plant outside the capital Delhi in 2012. | 39228616 |
Henry Bello had also been convicted of sexual assault a decade earlier, the New York Times reported.
He opened fire with an assault rifle in the Bronx-Lebanon hospital, killing a female doctor and injuring six other people, five of them seriously.
He then shot himself after attempting to set himself on fire, police said.
Some New York newspapers quoted a doctor at the hospital as saying Bello had vowed revenge on his colleagues after he left.
"We fired him because he was kind of crazy," Dr Maureen Kwankam told the New York Daily News newspaper. "He promised to come back and kill us then."
In 2004 Bello was charged with sexual abuse and unlawful imprisonment after a 23-year-old woman said he had grabbed her crotch outside a Manhattan building, the New York Times reported.
Bello walked into the 1,000-bed hospital at about 14:55 local time (18:55 GMT) with an assault rifle hidden inside his white medical coat, reports said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the attack had been a "horrific situation in the middle of a place that people associate with care and comfort".
Several of the injured are "fighting for their lives," he said.
The attack began on the 16th floor and all the victims were shot on the 16th and 17th floors.
An assault rifle was also discovered nearby, which a local politician separately said appeared to be a military-grade M16 rifle.
Messages on social media spoke of doctors and nurses barricading themselves inside the building in the Mount Hope district.
One patient in the radiology department, Felix Puno, tweeted: "Building is in complete shut down, I was in the middle of getting an X-ray when security alerted us to the active shooter situation."
Garry Trimble, whose fiancée works at the hospital, said security was not good enough.
He said: "I can walk through the back door with an employee. If the employee opens the door, I can walk in. I think every hospital should have one police officer at each entrance. They only ever do something when something happens."
Bronx-Lebanon is a private, not-for-profit hospital that has been operating for 120 years.
Shootings at hospitals are not common, but there have been several such instances in recent years.
In 2015, a man entered a Boston hospital and asked for a cardiologist by name, shooting him dead when he arrived. During the investigation, it emerged that the man's mother had previously been a patient at the hospital.
In July 2016, another man opened fire in a patient's room at a Florida medical centre, killing an elderly woman and a hospital worker. The suspect was later deemed to suffer from mental health issues, casting doubt over his competency to stand trial.
In July last year, a patient at a Berlin hospital shot a doctor before turning the gun on himself. The city had also seen a shooting outside another hospital earlier in the year, in which no-one was killed. | The doctor who attacked his former New York hospital workplace had resigned in 2015 after being accused of sexual harassment, reports said. | 40466866 |
Once described by the Prince of Wales as looking like "a place where books are incinerated, not kept", the concrete building is being cleared as part of a major redevelopment project.
Built more than 40 years ago, it has been stripped inside, although work is not expected to be finished until next autumn.
Campaigners had wanted it to be given listed status and preserved.
Updates on this story and more from Birmingham
They handed a 2,000-signature petition to the city council earlier this month.
Crowds gathered to watch the city's "important example of brutalist architecture" be slowly taken down.
Designed by local architect John Madin, who was also behind the BBC's Pebble Mill studios and the chamber of commerce building in the city, it was opened in 1973.
A "concrete cruncher" is being used initially to "nibble" at the exterior, but because of the impact of the work the building has been strengthened with about a dozen steel joists, developers said.
Timeline: Birmingham Central Library
The nearby one-way Paradise Circus loop has been closed to enable demolition equipment, including a special excavator used on buildings in tightly constrained places, to be put in place.
While work to clear the site takes place, a walkway through the old Paradise Forum has been closed, along with a large part of Chamberlain Square.
Pedestrians and cyclists are being re-routed through Fletchers Walk.
Developers described the start of the demolition work as a "significant milestone".
Once fully demolished, it will be replaced with office space as part of the £500m Paradise regeneration scheme.
The 10-year project will see new offices, shops and walkways created, which will link Chamberlain and Centenary Squares.
A new £190m library opened in Centenary Square in 2013. | Demolition work has begun on Birmingham's old Central Library. | 35092981 |
After hearing of the attack, beautician Katie Cutler set up an online donation page with the aim of raising just £500 - but the cause went viral.
Mr Barnes is not the only person whose story has spurred on the UK general public to spontaneously donate. Here are some other examples:
The cause? Marathon-runner Claire Squires set out to raise £500 for the charity Samaritans by taking part in the London Marathon in 2012. Sadly, she collapsed and died on the final stretch of the race. The 30-year-old hairdresser from North Kilworth, Leicestershire, had decided to donate to Samaritans because her mother Cilla Squires had volunteered there for 24 years.
How it caught on? Miss Squires' story appeared in the national press and news of her online donation page went viral on social media networks Facebook and Twitter. Within days of her death, donations to Samaritans on her JustGiving page had exceeded £600,000.
What happened next? Her death led to a grand total of more than £1m being given to the charity. More than 600 people attended her funeral.
The cause? Before his death in May 2014, 19-year-old Stephen Sutton, who had cancer, launched an appeal to raise £10,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust.
How it caught on? Stephen's campaign attracted global attention after a photo of the teenager went viral online. At one stage it accrued £60,000 in just over two hours as people retweeted and posted his story on Facebook and Twitter.
What happened next? Stephen's campaign received about 340,000 donations and the eventual total raised for the trust reached almost £5m. Stephen was awarded a posthumous MBE.
The cause? Malaysian accountancy student Ashraf Rossli had been in the UK for just a month when he was attacked during the riots in London in 2012 - and then robbed by people pretending to help him.
How it caught on? Footage of the incident, which left him with a broken jaw, was recorded on a mobile phone and posted on YouTube. It caused widespread anger, and an online donation page was set to up and raised £22,000 for Mr Rossli.
What happened next? Mr Rossli said he would give half the money to causes that helped victims of violence. Two men were initially jailed for robbing him, but their convictions were subsequently overturned by a Court of Appeal judge.
The cause? Robert Berry, 42, died while taking part in the London Marathon in 2014. He had initially set out to raise £1,700 for the National Osteoporosis Society, because his mother was diagnosed with the disease at the age of 52.
How it caught on? Within hours of his name being confirmed by race sponsors, Mr Berry's own online donation page started to accrue thousands of donations, as links to it were shared on Twitter and Facebook. In total more than £77,000 was raised for the cause - almost 45 times the original target.
The cause? More than £2m was raised for Manchester Dogs' Home after it was destroyed by a fire on 11 September 2014. More than 150 dogs were rescued from the blaze, but some 60 animals died.
How it caught on? People took to Twitter to post photos of themselves with their dogs - using the hashtag #dogselfie among others - to raise awareness of the fire. Hundreds of animal lovers also arrived at the scene to bring blankets, dog food and other supplies. An official online JustGiving page raised £500,000 for the home in under 17 hours.
What happened next? The money was used to rebuild the kennels at the home, which was established in 1893 and cares for more than 7,000 dogs each year. Two boys aged 15 and 17 were arrested on suspicion of arson, but were later released without charge.
The cause? Susan Taylor died aged 34 after trying to swim across the English Channel in July 2013. She initially set out to raise money for both Diabetes UK and Rainbows Hospice in Loughborough.
How it caught on? Ms Taylor's campaign was picked up on social media and interest in it spread as her death was widely reported in the national press. Her story compelled thousands of people to leave a donation and, to date, more than £100,000 has been given to the charities.
What happened next? Ms Taylor's family and the charities thanked the public for their generosity. However the family also said they had been left "disappointed and upset" after a £300,000 donation left in her memory proved to be a hoax.
The cause? Alan, 67, broke his collarbone when he was pushed to the ground and mugged outside his Tyneside home on 25 January. Following the incident, Katie Cutler set up a donation page on the website gofundme.com, with the aim of raising £500 for the pensioner.
How it caught on? As news of Alan's attack spread and was reported in the press, Ms Cutler's target was quickly surpassed. By 19:00 GMT on 31 January, it had reached £165,644. By midday on Monday 2 February, it stood at almost £300,000 - with more than 22,500 people donating.
What's next? Alan has vowed to put the money "to good use" and is receiving financial advice. | The plight of disabled pensioner Alan Barnes, who was mugged outside his Tyneside home, has led to almost £300,000 being raised in his name. | 31092090 |
The Sunderland midfielder, 25, played in a 4-0 win at Crystal Palace, three years, eight months and 29 days after starting in a Manchester City victory.
Rodwell's winless run of 39 matches stretches back to a City win over West Brom on 7 May 2013 and includes 37 games since he joined the Black Cats.
But it was not all good news as he came off injured after half-time.
Rodwell joined Sunderland for £10m in August 2014 and while he has tasted victory a handful of times in cup competitions and when coming on off the bench, his unwanted record of failing to win in the league when starting has become well publicised.
The previous longest winless Premier League run belongs to three men - ex-Derby players Darren Moore and Kenny Miller, along with former Aston Villa defender Alan Hutton. | Jack Rodwell has won a Premier League match in which he has started for the first time in 1,370 days. | 38867929 |
One of the crucial questions following Britain's vote to leave the European Union is what will happen to the land border separating Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland.
There is widespread agreement among UK politicians that there should be no return to what they call a hard border and that the Common Travel Area (CTA) should be maintained after Brexit.
These objectives have been echoed by leading European politicians, such as the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, and chief Brexit negotiator for the EU Michel Barnier.
But as things stand, no party has yet put forward a workable plan for ensuring that both people and goods can continue to cross the border without checkpoints. And we still do not know what Brexit will actually look like.
The exact number of individuals that cross between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland every day is difficult to quantify, but the figure is likely to be in the tens of thousands.
The Centre for Cross Border Studies, which has offices in Armagh and Dublin, has estimated that between 23,000 and 30,000 people cross the border daily for work.
This includes non-Irish and non-UK EU citizens living and working on different sides of the Irish land border.
The figure is believed to be a conservative estimate, with many more making the journey to and from the Republic of Ireland to attend schools and hospital appointments.
Speaking at a House of Lords select committee in 2016, Bernie McCrory, the head of Co-operation and Working Together (CAWT), said that the health and social care group's nurses routinely crossed the border several times a day.
The days of the Troubles are gone, and the border posts between Northern Ireland and the Republic lie rusting and unused.
But now the UK is getting ready to leave the EU.
Hospital patients and schoolchildren and cross-border workers are among those who have to make the daily journey. How do they see the road ahead?
Special report: The hardest border
If the rest of the UK is not included, then Northern Ireland's biggest export market is its nearest neighbour, the Republic of Ireland.
While just under one-third of its total manufactured goods - £2.4bn - were sold across its land border in 2016, of Northern Ireland's £7.7bn export total for the same period, the majority of sales - £4.2bn - were to the EU.
The agri-food sector - trade in food and farm produce - dominates trade in goods between the north and south.
A 2016 UK parliamentary report, citing the Irish Farmers' Association, says that 350,000 lambs went from north to south, 500,000 pigs from south to north, and millions of litres of milk travelled in both directions over the course of a year.
Almost 30% of Northern Ireland's milk is processed in the Republic of Ireland, where it is made into butter and cheese or used in infant formula.
For members of the EU, goods and produce such as these can cross borders freely.
But if negotiations between the UK and the EU fail to reach a trade agreement, or if the agreement is less favourable than that enjoyed by member states, it could mean that tariffs - taxes imposed on imported items - could become costly.
In the EU referendum, Northern Ireland voted to remain by a majority of 56% to 44%.
Some - but not all - of the parties supported that view.
Here are some details from each of the main parties' manifestos, stating their aims in terms of Brexit and the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)
The DUP is in favour of Northern Ireland leaving the EU but says that Brexit does not mean "leaving Europe".
It adds that it will prioritise maintaining the CTA between the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Aims:
DUP manifesto in full
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
The SDLP is a pro-European party that campaigned for Northern Ireland to remain part of the EU.
In its manifesto, it states that Brexit will create an unprecedented situation in which one member of the CTA, the Republic of Ireland, is part of the EU while the other is not.
The SDLP says it will oppose the hardening of borders, in order to protect cross-border workers, farms that straddle both sides and businesses that rely heavily on trade with the south.
Aims:
SDLP manifesto in full
Sinn Fein
The party says that the "only credible approach" to Brexit is for Northern Ireland to receive special status within the EU that will uphold the democratic vote of citizens, but will also ensure that "the frontier between the EU and Britain will not be on the island of Ireland".
Aims:
Sinn Fein manifesto in full
Alliance Party
The pro-European Alliance Party supported a Remain vote.
It opposes a hard Brexit and supports a second referendum following negotiations, to allow citizens to decide whether any agreement reached is better than EU membership.
The party also argues that Northern Ireland is a special case because its citizens have an automatic right to be Irish citizens and, therefore, to be citizens of the EU.
Legally, Northern Ireland would, post-Brexit, have the capacity to opt back into the EU through joining a united Ireland, it says.
Aims:
Alliance Party manifesto in full
Ulster Unionist Party
The UUP's view on Brexit was that, on balance, it was beneficial for Northern Ireland to remain within the EU.
The party says it has a vision to make Northern Ireland the "UK's Gateway to Europe".
Aims:
UUP manifesto in full
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This year will be the turn of the Down football team of 1991.
By that year, no Ulster side had won the Sam Maguire Cup since Down themselves had in 1968.
It was a drought that coincided roughly with Northern Ireland's Troubles.
In the intervening 23 years, an Ulster side had managed to make the final just twice - being well beaten on both occasions.
Down's '91 team ended the wait, unlocking the gates of glory for subsequent victories by Ulster counties.
For me, and for most other nine-year-olds I knew at the time, the Down players were my heroes.
And they gave me, sitting beside my dad in the Cusack Stand, one of my fondest childhood memories.
I have my late father Dominic to blame for my Down GAA fanaticism.
I had been brought up on stories of the Down team from the '60s - contemporaries of my father - who made history by bringing the Sam Maguire Cup across the border for the first time.
What made them winners was their belief, their ability, their character, their courage.
All of those things were required in very large measure to beat Meath that day.
We were against a very hardened, experienced and durable team with some marvellous footballers.
All the qualities they had as players and as people were tested to the full that day in what was a brilliant game.
Heart-stopping stuff!
But for me they were distant men from another time.
The men of 1991 were in front of me, vividly blazing their own trail.
That heady summer began with a horrible match played in horrible conditions against Armagh in the so-called Marshes in Newry.
A penalty from Mickey Linden saw Down through to the next round.
I remember hearing someone remark as we filed, sodden, out of the ground: "The pick of those two teams couldn't win an All-Ireland."
I thought: "I'd pick the fifteen in red and black."
The hallmark of a great team is that when the gun is put to their head on the biggest day in September they are able to produce a game of quality and skill.
Down played better football on the day and they had a very exciting, skillful team.
They had great forwards - Mickey Linden, Greg Blaney, James McCartan - and they bored holes in us.
Pete McGrath had them in the shape of their lives, and the thing that distinguishes any great teams is that they peak on the right day.
They were worthy winners, a marvellous football team and they will be remembered as such.
Down beat Derry, after a replay, and won the Ulster title roundly beating reigning champions Donegal.
I had the serious business of an All-Ireland semi-final to look forward to.
In August 1991 my brother got married.
He and his new wife honeymooned in Kerry, the county that would be Down's opponents in the All-Ireland semi-final.
The newlyweds took a trip to a hotel in Waterville and got talking to the owner, Mick O'Dwyer.
In GAA terms, the word legend probably doesn't do Micko justice - a multiple All-Ireland winner as a player and manager with Kerry, he had tussled with the Down teams of the '60s.
I was sent a letter from Kerry that August in the run up to the semi-final. It included an autograph from Micko, with the advice: "Watch Down."
It was advice the Kerry team might have found useful.
I was in the Hogan Stand as Down tore the giants of gaelic football apart.
I remember bright sunshine, two goals from Peter Withnell, the Kingdom humbled and Down fans celebrating on the pitch.
That was capped off with a knickerbocker glory ice cream, a luxury my father had discovered following the Down teams of the '60s.
Then there was the realisation that I was going to see a Down team in an All-Ireland final.
My big stress in life - I was nine, remember - was whether I was going to watch it on TV or get a ticket.
Talk of tickets dominated late August and early September that year.
In the week before the game, I remember a meeting of my local GAA club - there was to be a raffle.
The formula was simple - if your name was called you would be allocated tickets.
I was hoisted up on to a windowsill, condensation running down the glass, and told to be quiet.
The tension was brutal. But the news was good and I knew I would be at the All-Ireland final.
Meath were the opponents, a superb side filled with players who had featured in the previous year's final and won titles in '87 and '88.
They had come through a bruising four-game encounter with Dublin earlier in the year and became known as "the team who couldn't be beaten".
Not too many gave Down much of a chance.
After all, Ulster counties didn't "do" All-Ireland finals.
And the last Ulster win had been a generation before.
The Down players did not seem to have received that memo, as they opened up a huge lead and survived an impressive comeback to win my county's fourth All-Ireland title.
I remember a sea of red and black on Hill 16, thinking my brothers were in there somewhere.
I remember the sheer pandemonium among Down fans when Barry Breen scored his goal, the nerves as Meath mounted their comeback.
I remember the final whistle and my dad grabbing my arms, leaping and celebrating, as giddy and elated as his nine-year-old son.
And I remember another knickerbocker glory ice cream. | Before each All-Ireland final - football or hurling - the champions from 25 years before the fixture are given an on-field reception at Croke Park in Dublin. | 37375318 |
The Commonwealth Games Foundation (CGF) has said it would consider a joint bid for the 2022 Games after Durban was stripped as host city in March.
The UK Government has asked interested British cities to submit 2022 plans.
The Welsh Government said it was in "discussions" with interested UK bidding cities to host events in 2022.
Liverpool, Birmingham, London and Manchester have expressed an interest in stepping in to host the 2022 Games.
The Welsh Government blamed potential cost of up £1.5bn for not bidding for the 2026 Games - but now wants to help a partner city and host some of the periphery events at the 2022 Games.
"No single city has all of the facilities ready to go apart from London, Glasgow or perhaps Manchester," Economy Secretary Ken Skates said.
"But those cities have only recently held either the Commonwealths or Olympics.
"For 2022, as we will be exiting the European Union, it is a good opportunity to do something different.
"We could examine the potential of a British or multi-city bid that would give Wales a potential role in that Commonwealth Games.
"A wider bid would be good for us as we wouldn't have to invest in facilities that might not be sustainable and it could happen without having to divert huge resources to building new facilities.
"Discussions with Commonwealth Games Wales and other cities are taking place, there's huge potential to do something innovative in 2022 and I look forward to taking those discussions further."
Wales, which held the Empire Games in Cardiff in 1958, does not have the infrastructure to host the blue ribbon Commonwealth Games events of athletics, swimming and track cycling in 2022 as current facilities would need significant investment and upgrading.
The Welsh Government wants to stage sports like cycling's road race, triathlon, rowing, sailing or open water swimming in 2022 to "fit in with Wales' great outdoors unique selling point".
It is now working towards a multi-city Welsh bid post 2030 after being criticised by Plaid Cymru and Conservatives for not wanting to host the Commonwealths in 2026, a move that Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies called "pathetic."
The Welsh Government blamed estimated infrastructure cost of between £1.3bn and £1.5bn - a figure disputed by the CGF who said the Glasgow 2014 Games were "operationally delivered for £543m".
Mr Skates has now said there are proposals drawn-up of a "longer-term investment strategy" to "build suitable sustainable facilities for the community rather than just the games" for a multi-city Welsh bid from 2030, a move away from the traditional "one host city" model.
Chris Jenkins, chief executive of Commonwealth Games Wales, said: "We received fantastic support and encouragement from the games family and the CGF as this would encourage many other countries to consider bidding as we moved away from a single city."
Wales' plan is would be to hold events across south Wales with Cardiff's Principality Stadium as the centrepiece and home to the showpiece athletics events.
Wales' National Pool in Swansea and Wales' National Velodrome in Newport would need to be upgraded and expanded to cope with the increased number of competitors and the expected crowds.
A CGF spokesman said: "Our main aim is to maximise efficiency and effectiveness in our delivery of a world-class event with real community relevance that is both affordable and universally appealing." | Wales wants to help another British city stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games - then build "sustainable community" venues for a games bid after 2030. | 39881638 |
Danielle McLaughlin's body was discovered in an isolated spot close to tourist resorts in Canacona on Tuesday.
Ms McLaughlin, who was 28, and grew up in Buncrana, County Donegal, suffered injuries on her face and head.
Police are treating her death as murder. A post-mortem examination has taken place to establish if she was sexually assaulted.
Police said a 24-year-old man has been arrested and remains in custody.
Ms McLaughlin, who had dual Irish and British citizenship and had lived in Liverpool, travelled to India using a British passport.
'Happy-go-lucky person'
Suresh Velip, head constable at Goa Police, said Ms McLaughlin's body was found in a remote area near Deobagh Beach in Canacona on Tuesday morning.
He said a post-mortem examination had been carried out. Details of the findings have not been made public.
Fr Francis Bradley from St Mary's Church in Buncrana, who visited the McLaughlin family on Wednesday morning, described the death as an "immense loss".
"Her family are understandably distraught at what has happened," Fr Bradley told BBC Radio Foyle.
"They are a family who have suffered a lot of loss over the last number of years, her mother in particular.
"The loss is immense and the circumstances of that death, the distance between where it happened and where the family are, adds to the difficulty that the family feel at this time."
Fr Bradley described Ms McLaughlin as a "happy-go-lucky" girl who loved to travel.
"I met the young lady in question a few months ago at the time that her grandfather was gravely ill and she was very close to her grandfather, who subsequently died.
"She seemed a happy go-lucky, friendly, quiet girl.
"To find that there could be malice or something very sinister involved in the way in which someone died is particularly disturbing and has its own challenge that we, as a community, will have to face," he added.
Ms McLaughlin went to Buncrana's Irish language school, Scoil Mhuire.
The school principal, Rosaleen Grant, said teachers and pupils alike were "just utterly shattered and devastated".
"She was a very confident, sociable, outgoing girl of a very caring nature," said Ms Grant.
"A number of the staff would have known her really well, so it's just the sense of loss and the fact she's so far from home makes it so tragic.
"She loved taking part in school musicals, she did Irish dancing, she was involved in sports and athletics. She was just an all-rounder really."
Liverpool John Moores University said it was "shocked and saddened" to hear of the death of one of its former students.
Michael Safi, the Guardian's South Asia correspondent, said a candlelit vigil has been held in Goa, close to the spot where Ms McLaughlin was found.
"The murder has left people "absolutely shocked," he told the BBC.
"This is not the first crime to occur of this nature in Goa. The place is a big tourist engine for India. For the locals, there was concern this could impact very badly on their little slice of paradise.
"Many locals gathered with tourists at the nearby police station in order to put pressure on police to ensure people are watched and to get this case investigated thoroughly."
The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed it was in close contact with the British consulate.
"The Irish Embassy is liaising closely with the British authorities and an Irish consular official is travelling from New Delhi to Goa today," said a spokesperson.
The Foreign Office said they are liaising closely with Indian police.
"We are supporting the family of a British-Irish woman following her death in Goa, India. Our thoughts are with them at this very difficult time," a spokesman said.
Last year, an Indian court cleared two men of raping and killing British teenager Scarlett Keeling.
The 15-year-old was found dead on Goa's popular Anjuna beach in 2008, having drowned after allegedly being plied with drugs.
Miss Keeling's mother said her heart sank after hearing of Ms McLaughlin's death.
"It is horrific," Fiona MacKeown said. "My heart breaks for her family and friends.
"I know what they are going through." | Police are treating the death of an Irish woman found near a beach in the southern Indian state of Goa as murder. | 39274768 |
Construction of a new cafe and bridge is already under way at the Wilton Lodge Park in Hawick.
Agreement has now been reached to allow work to start on a new play park three months earlier than anticipated.
It should ensure that all the facilities are ready to open ahead of their target date in April next year.
The overall project completion date remains in April 2018. | A significant slice of works being carried out in a £3.65m overhaul of a Borders park is set to be completed ahead of schedule. | 37500393 |
The Pensions Regulator said the club did not put eligible workers into the government's workplace pension scheme, despite being warned in August 2014.
Charles Counsell, from the watchdog, said: "We're very keen employers get this done so that employees get the pension that they're due."
Swindon Town said it is now compliant with the pension rules.
Mr Counsell, the executive director of automatic enrolment, added: "They had plenty of time to do it and we were in communication with them a lot in the period until that point (in August 2014)."
The notice to comply with pensions was made in August 2014, with a deadline to enrol staff by 17 October 2014.
A spokesman from the club said the fine was "unfortunate".
He added: "The fine related to the period when the ownership of the club was being contested by the former chairman and is yet another painful example of the severe adverse consequences that the uncertainty and instability caused in regularising the business affairs of the club.
"The club is now completely up to date and compliant with its pension obligations and contributions."
Although the club is now compliant, it will still need to pay off the fine and make back-dated pension contributions. | Swindon Town Football Club has been fined £22,900 for failing to meet government pension rules. | 36110359 |
Italian Pelle, who had not scored in his previous 12 league games, netted twice in the first half through a flicked header and a low finish.
Stoke got back into the game early in the second half when Marko Arnautovic flicked in from close range.
James Ward-Prowse hit the crossbar for the visitors as substitute Sadio Mane was dismissed for an elbow late on.
The Saints climb above their opponents into seventh place in the table, just five points adrift of West Ham in fifth.
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Southampton went into the match on the back of three winless games which had threatened to hurt their ambitions of claiming a Europa League spot.
They grabbed the three points at the Britannia Stadium on the back of a counter-attacking display having managed just 38.6% possession.
Pelle was the match-winner with his two strikes in the opening period, but they will be thankful two refereeing decisions did not cost them.
Dusan Tadic, who failed to shoot from seven yards out at an open goal in the first half, was clearly tripped in the box by Stoke keeper Jack Butland, but the Serbian's appeal for a penalty was waved away by referee Lee Mason.
And in stoppage time, Mane mistimed a jump for a header having kept his eyes on the ball, catching full-back Erik Pieters, which Mason deemed to be a straight red. They have now had six players sent off this campaign, more than any other side.
Stoke searched for the equaliser but could not find a way past the solid Virgil van Dijk, who made 17 clearances in the match.
Stoke had won three and drawn one of their previous four games but came unstuck after failing to keep their composure in the attacking third of the pitch.
They didn't manage to work goalkeeper Fraser Forster in the first half and although Austrian Arnautovic gave them hope by netting with a neat finish and forcing the big Englishman into a smart save, those efforts were their only two on target.
The Potters failed to do the homework on their opponents, who scored their 12th headed goal this season - more than any other top-flight side.
Although record signing Giannelli Imbula influenced the game, having more touches (114) and more passes (91) than any player on the pitch, it was their profligacy up front which cost them the points.
Stoke have now lost six league games in front of their own crowd this season and their hopes of clinching a Europa League spot now look slim.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "We have been on a decent run recently. We go into these games full of ambition but you have to be spot on with the details.
"At this level, if you make mistakes, you get punished. It is a harsh lesson. That has almost certainly been the case at home this season."
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Southampton manager Ronald Koeman: "We needed to be calm and the team had a fantastic reaction after 2-1 to get the control back.
"We had the better chances and we were unlucky with two decisions with the referee. One was a penalty and the red card was not a red card. Still, at 2-1, we got the three points in a huge game today and that is very important for our aspirations for the rest of season. "
Stoke will be looking to get back to winning ways when they travel to Watford next Saturday (kick-off 15:00 GMT), while Southampton host Liverpool on Sunday, 20 March (13:30). | Graziano Pelle scored twice as Southampton held on for victory in the Premier League against Stoke. | 35733430 |
The company said the exam would put drivers out of work.
From 1 October, Transport for London (TfL) will require the qualification of licence applicants from countries where English is not the majority language.
The new rules will apply to anyone seeking a new licence or a licence renewal.
Initial proposals had called for only proficiency in spoken English, but the final draft requires, among other criteria, at least an intermediate language qualification.
Besides the spoken portion, the exam also tests reading, writing and listening skills.
It is referred to as the "B1" level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Someone who passes will have the "ability to express oneself in a limited way in familiar situations and to deal in a general way with non-routine information", the framework says.
Uber said it supported the need for drivers to pass a spoken exam but the requirement to pass a written English exam would "threaten the livelihood of thousands of drivers".
In an email to users calling on them to write to the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Uber's general manager in London, Tom Elvidge, said: "Fewer drivers will mean longer waiting times or no cars when you need them most."
He also said the B1 qualification would demand more of applicants than the British citizenship test.
In addition, Mr Elvidge said TfL's new rules were more stringent than those the government applied to employees who interacted with the public as part of their duties.
Helen Chapman, TfL's general manager of taxi and private hire, said they were "working to modernise and improve standards in London's private hire industry" and it was appropriate for an English language requirement to apply to private hire drivers.
A TfL spokesman said it was presumed that to pass the black cab drivers' "Knowledge" exam, applicants would need a much higher proficiency in English than the intermediate level to be required of private hire drivers. | Transport bosses have defended new regulations requiring private hire drivers to pass a test in English, following criticism from Uber. | 37038864 |
The 64-year-old was from the north of the city.
The collision happened at the junction of Brougham Street at about 15:10 BST.
Police have appealed for anyone with a dashboard camera who drove along Dock Street or Brougham Street at the time to contact their crash investigators. | The man who died after he was hit by a lorry while walking on Dock Street in Belfast on Friday was William James Walker, police have confirmed. | 37395695 |
The lines on Sandygate Road were painted last year after the road was resurfaced.
Sheffield City Council said the lines were introduced for safety reasons, including improving the safety of cyclists riding up the hill.
The authority said the lines would be changed "as soon as possible".
In a statement, Labour councillor Tony Downing said: "Following the introduction of the new road markings last autumn, we listened to comments made by the public and agreed to carry out a Road Safety Audit on this part of the scheme instead of waiting until June when the whole scheme for the zone has been completed.
"The audit recommended that the central road markings should be restored. There were issues mainly around vehicles parked on the downhill section of the road, visibility and the increased likelihood of opposing vehicles coming into conflict."
Marie Biggs, who ran the campaign to have the lines re-painted, said she was "very pleased".
She said: "If it's not broken then why fix it? It worked perfectly well with the lines in the middle all the years that I've lived here, so why change it?" | Off-centre road markings on a Sheffield street are to be repainted following a petition from residents claiming they were dangerous. | 35318399 |
The video shows the man swinging the dog by its hind legs and then throwing it at a parked car. In the 23-second clip, which has since been removed, the dog is heard howling in pain.
The man posted the video two days ago on his Facebook page, showing "how he spends his free time".
After his page was flooded with angry comments, he deleted his profile.
But outraged activists want the police to arrest the man and charge him with cruelty.
"We want the police to find this youth and take action against him for cruelty against the animal," activist Shehzad Poonawalla told The Times of India.
Other activists have urged people to discourage such behaviour.
"It's shameful that his sole intent was to torture the dog and entertain himself at the expense of its trauma. We encourage people to discourage such behaviour against animals and report them to the local police or any official nearby, if not stop it themselves," NG Jayasimha, managing director of Humane Society International India, told the paper. | Animal rights activists in India are outraged after a video emerged showing a man abusing a stray dog. | 33506499 |
Though the existence and even whereabouts of the alleged "cyber army" are no secret, recent media reports appear to have revealed some details of how one of the tools of Russian propaganda operates on an everyday basis.
The Internet Research Agency ("Agentstvo Internet Issledovaniya") employs at least 400 people and occupies an unremarkable office in one of the residential areas in St Petersburg.
Behind the plain facade, however, there is a Kremlin "troll den", an investigative report by independent local newspaper Moy Rayon ("My District") suggests.
The organisation, which the paper ties to Yevgeny Prigozhin, a restaurateur with close links to President Vladimir Putin who allegedly pays bloggers to produce hundreds of comments on top news websites and manage multiple accounts on Twitter, LiveJournal and other social media platforms.
"[During one 12-hour shift] I had to write 126 comments under the posts written by people inside the building. And about 25 comments on pages of real people - in order to attract somebody's attention. And I had to write 10 blog posts," a former employee, Anton, told Radio Liberty.
Typical troll accounts, Moy Rayon noted, were operated by people posing as "housewives" and "disappointed US citizens".
To avert suspicions, the fake users sandwich political remarks between neutral articles on travelling, cooking and pets.
"My name is Tatyana and I'm a little friendly creature)). I'm interested in what is happening in the world, I also like travelling, arts and cinema," user "tuyqer898" wrote on her blog.
However, a leaked list of alleged Kremlin trolls published by liberal Novaya Gazeta newspaper suggests that "Tatyana" is in fact a fake account.
A collection of leaked documents, published by Moy Rayon, suggests that work at the "troll den" is strictly regulated by a set of guidelines.
Any blog post written by an agency employee, according to the leaked files, must contain "no fewer than 700 characters" during day shifts and "no fewer than 1,000 characters" on night shifts.
Use of graphics and keywords in the post's body and headline is also mandatory.
In addition to general guidelines, bloggers are also provided with "technical tasks" - keywords and talking points on specific issues, such as Ukraine, Russia's opposition and relations with the West.
One recent technical task, former employee Lena told Radio Liberty, was devoted to the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.
"It was mandatory to convey the message to the people that Nemtsov's murder was a provocation ahead of the [opposition] march and that he was killed by his own associates," she said.
"As a result, hundreds and thousands of comments, where this idea is served up under different dressings, emerge under every news article of leading media," she added.
Despite the efforts of the founders of the "troll den", some Russian experts are not convinced there is much point in the Kremlin having an online army.
"The efforts the paid crowd make to create a pseudo-patriotic and pro-government noise on the net go to waste," popular blogger Rustem Adagamov told St Petersburg-based news website Fontanka.ru.
"It is TV that changes the public conscience, rather than the internet," he added.
Internet expert Anton Nosik agrees. "Internet trolling is not, in the first place, aimed at effectiveness, that is at changing the political views of the audience," he told Moy Rayon newspaper.
But prominent journalist and Russia expert Peter Pomerantsev, however, believes Russia's efforts are aimed at confusing the audience, rather than convincing it.
"What Russians are trying to go for is kind of a reverse censorship," he told Ukrainian internet-based Hromadske TV ("Public TV"). They cannot censor the information space, but can "trash it with conspiracy theories and rumours", he argues.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Over the past year, Russia has seen an unprecedented rise in the activity of "Kremlin trolls" - bloggers allegedly paid by the state to criticise Ukraine and the West on social media and post favourable comments about the leadership in Moscow. | 31962644 |
The incident happened in Insch in August last year.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the 59-year-old pilot lost power and decided a field was the best landing option. The microlight struck the ground and flipped over.
The cause of the power loss has not been identified. | An Aberdeenshire microlight crash which left the pilot injured happened after it suffered a total loss of engine power, an investigation has found. | 39587892 |
The self-assured Dutchman, who will take over as Manchester United manager when his side leave Brazil, has proved more than once over the past month that he is a shrewd strategist.
Initially not considered among the frontrunners to lift the trophy, the Dutch are closing in on an appearance in the final for the second successive tournament.
In the build-up to Wednesday's game against Argentina, BBC Sport lists five reasons why Van Gaal can claim to be a tactical genius.
In March, Netherlands midfielder Kevin Strootman was injured during a friendly with France in Paris. The French won 2-0, with forward Karim Benzema excelling against a suddenly exposed Dutch defence. Van Gaal decided then that he would switch to a 5-3-2 with the flexibility to transform to a 4-3-3 if the situation demanded it.
A bold move, it was interpreted in the Netherlands as a defensive break from their proud, Johan Cruyff-inspired traditions of attacking 'total football'.
The backlash was substantial. Expectations were lowered and a pre-World Cup poll showed just 5% of the Dutch public believed their side could reach the final.
"It's all about winning," said Van Gaal, still haunted by his previous spell in charge when the Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup.
"I want to win. I'm going to pick a system that will help me win."
It was the result nobody, apart from Van Gaal, saw coming. The Netherlands' 5-1 destruction of Spain in their opening World Cup group match was a seismic moment.
For Spain, it looked like the end of their era of dominance. For Van Gaal, it was an immediate vindication of his methods. Over 90 pulsating minutes the world champions were caught time and again on the break and, ultimately, humbled.
Just four years after the Netherlands had attempted to tackle Spain's tiki-taka passing style with persistent, crude fouling in the 2010 World Cup final, Van Gaal used more subtle methods than predecessor Bert van Marwijk to stunning effect.
Striker Robin van Persie, who scored twice in the rout, was quick to praise the man who will join him at Old Trafford at the end of the tournament.
"This is definitely down to him," said the 30-year-old.
"If you see how he prepared us, and how he predicted the game would go, and you see how it went - unbelievable."
BBC pundit Clarence Seedorf, capped 87 times by the Netherlands, agrees and predicts his fellow Dutchman will take the Premier League by storm.
"Dreaming is important but no-one expected what happened against Spain," he said.
"It was a brilliant start and important for the confidence of the players because there are lots of young players in that Netherlands squad.
"Van Gaal is a top coach - he will add a lot of positive value to the Premier League. United's fans can expect a good team with a vision to always go for the win. He has a strong, explosive personality that brings some extra stuff sometimes but his track record speaks for itself."
The Netherlands' final Group B opponents Chile, with their high-energy pressing, had been too hot for Spain (and Australia) to handle.
So how would Van Gaal approach this dangerous opponent? Once again, he went for a defensive style he thought would give his side their best chance of victory. The Dutch sat deep and waited for opportunities to pick off the vibrant Chileans.
Van Gaal had noticed a potential weakness at set-pieces on the part of the South American side. It took 77 minutes, but that was finally exploited when an unmarked Leroy Fer headed home Daryl Janmaat's cross.
The Dutch coach had also noted a drop in Chile's energy levels in the last 15 minutes. Sure enough, Memphis Depay prodded home an Arjen Robben cross on the break to seal the 2-0 victory in the 90th minute.
Still, there were complaints about a perceived negative style. Van Gaal was quick to respond.
"You have to allow your squad to play according to the qualities they have," he said. "If I had tried to play 4-3-3 we would have been overrun by them."
Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen was impressed by Van Gaal's self-confidence, but warned against complacency.
"Louis van Gaal is single-minded, not afraid to make decisions and the big decisions have come off for him," he said.
"The only problem would be complacency, That's the enemy of success but the manager will be saying the right things in the dressing room because that's ultra-important."
A goal down to Mexico in stifling heat with the last-16 match approaching the final 15 minutes, most coaches would not dream of substituting their star striker and captain.
That is exactly what Van Gaal did, replacing Van Persie with Klaas Jan Huntelaar. But it was during a drinks break a minute later that he made his most important change, telling his rejuvenated side to launch long balls at Huntelaar and Dirk Kuyt. Simple but effective, the tactic worked and Wesley Sneijder equalised with two minutes to play before Huntelaar knocked Mexico out with a penalty in the last minute.
Far from being angry with his own premature departure, Van Persie once again praised his manager.
"This trainer wants to win so he makes substitutions," he said. "It's simple."
Former England international Alan Shearer agreed. "They've changed systems to counter whoever they are playing," he said.
"Van Gaal has made some big decisions and bringing off Van Persie for Huntelaar worked."
Van Gaal claimed he sent substitute goalkeeper Tim Krul on for Jasper Cillessen before their penalty shootout win over Costa Rica because of his greater height and reach.
That may well have been the case, but the mental impact his bold decision had on the watching Costa Ricans cannot be underestimated.
Krul had kept out only two spot-kicks in his past 20 for Newcastle - which hardly makes him a penalty expert. But he equalled that tally from just five Costa Rica penalties to send the Dutch into the semis.
"It worked out - that was beautiful. I'm a bit proud of that," said Van Gaal.
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Sports psychologist Dr Tom Fawcett believes he has every right to be. The University of Salford lecturer said: "He is always one step ahead and that decision will have been pre-planned.
"Van Gaal is the ultimate strategist. Krul may be better at saving penalties than Cillessen but he will have wanted to get in Costa Rica's heads and he clearly did that. It was a very shrewd move."
Former Republic of Ireland international Kevin Kilbane was one of many stunned by the "genius" substitution.
"It was an incredible decision from Van Gaal; it was such a brave decision," he said.
"I think that shows there is unity in the squad. You rarely see it in a penalty shootout and it's a masterstroke really, a touch of genius. It would be incredible if he went to Manchester United as a World Cup-winning manager now."
For the best of BBC Sport's in-depth content and analysis, go to our features and video page. | From sending on a substitute goalkeeper for a penalty shootout to switching tactics during a drinks break - Louis van Gaal has played a starring role in the Netherlands' march to the World Cup semi-finals. | 28182663 |
Hart, who is on a season-long loan from Manchester City, allowed Geoffrey Kondogbia's shot to slip under his body as Inter took the lead on 27 minutes.
Daniele Baselli and Afriyie Acquah put Torino ahead before Hart contributed to Inter's 62nd-minute equaliser.
The 29-year-old misjudged Cristian Ansaldi's cross, allowing Antonio Candreva to score from close range.
The draw leaves Inter in fifth place, five points behind third-placed Napoli, who fill the final Champions League spot.
Napoli face Empoli on Sunday, while leaders Juventus are at Sampdoria, and Roma, in second, host Sassuolo.
In Saturday's other match, AC Milan beat Genoa 1-0 to move up to sixth, with Matias Fernandez scoring the only goal.
Match ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Second Half ends, Torino 2, Inter Milan 2.
Maxi López (Torino) is shown the yellow card.
Maxi López (Torino) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Hand ball by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Jeison Murillo (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Éder following a fast break.
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Sasa Lukic (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan).
Cristian Molinaro (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Antonio Candreva.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Luca Rossettini.
Attempt blocked. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt saved. Andrea Belotti (Torino) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Sasa Lukic.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Emiliano Moretti.
Miranda (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Maxi López (Torino).
Foul by Miranda (Inter Milan).
Andrea Belotti (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Substitution, Torino. Maxi López replaces Daniele Baselli.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Afriyie Acquah (Torino) because of an injury.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Joe Hart.
Attempt saved. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Marcelo Brozovic.
Attempt missed. Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Perisic with a cross.
Attempt missed. Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Afriyie Acquah (Torino).
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
Daniele Baselli (Torino) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Antonio Candreva (Inter Milan) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lucas Boyé (Torino).
Hand ball by Andrea Belotti (Torino).
Substitution, Inter Milan. Marcelo Brozovic replaces Geoffrey Kondogbia.
Attempt missed. Éder (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Roberto Gagliardini (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | England goalkeeper Joe Hart made two costly errors as Torino drew with Inter Milan in Serie A. | 39318074 |
In a major report it states: "There is evidence that some risks have begun to crystallise. The current outlook for UK financial stability is challenging."
The Bank has eased special capital requirements for banks, potentially freeing up £150bn for lending.
Eight major banks have also agreed with George Osborne to provide more lending to households and businesses.
The chancellor signed a letter with Barclays, HSBC, Santander UK, Virgin Money, Metro Bank, RBS, Nationwide and Lloyds for the banks to make extra capital available in this "challenging time".
The Bank's change to capital buffers could help if uncertainty from the leave vote causes the economy to slow down and banks to be more cautious.
"This is a major change," said Bank of England governor Mark Carney.
"It means that three-quarters of UK banks, accounting for 90% of the stock of UK lending, will immediately - immediately - have greater flexibility to supply credit to UK households and firms," he said.
Mr Carney was speaking at a news conference following the release of the bank's six monthly Financial Stability Report.
Although Mr Carney made it clear that the economic risks were still very visible - and indeed some, such as sterling's slump, were beginning to "materialise" - preparation ahead of the referendum was now paying off.
And, yes, he actually used the word "positive" for some of the effects seen post the Big Vote.
Financial markets had remained stable, government and business borrowing costs - even for the battered banks - had fallen and the decline in the pound had provided a boost for exporters and businesses that earned revenues overseas.
Investors may be concerned with profitability and economic growth, Mr Carney said.
What they didn't seem so worried about was the resilience of the whole system, which can be a much more toxic issue - as anyone who went through the 2008 crisis will attest.
The FPC said there were risks apparent in the commercial property market, with vital foreign inflows falling by 50% in the first three months of 2016.
It also flagged concern over "the high level of UK household indebtedness [and] the vulnerability to higher unemployment and borrowing costs" for some households.
House prices could also come under pressure, particularly if buy-to-let investors abandon the market, it said.
The FPC said that banks were now well capitalised and that the Bank of England would postpone demands for £5.7bn of extra financing to be held on the banks' balance sheets - known as the "countercyclical capital buffer".
The Bank would reduce the level of the buffer - set to be introduced next year - from the planned 0.5% of a banks' lending "exposure" to 0%.
The 0% rate would be maintained until at least June next year, the FPC said.
Given that banks leverage their lending, the FPC said the buffer reduction would allow banks to increase credit supply to households and businesses by £150bn.
The FPC also said it was acting to reduce any "fragility" in the financial markets and was ready to move further if necessary.
"Financial markets are doing their job. They are adjusting to this change. They have functioned pretty well," Mr Carney said.
The Financial Stability Report said that maintaining foreign investment, necessary to support the UK's historically high current account deficit, could become harder following the decision to leave the European Union because of a "prolonged period of uncertainty".
"These measures are really about Carney aligning the Bank of England's guns in case the UK economy enters a downturn. Markets are going to be reassured by his pro-activity," said James Athey from Aberdeen Asset Management Investment.
"He's not waiting for anything bad to happen but rather acting in case it does. It also means that both halves of the BoE: the monetary policy and financial policy are pulling in the same direction." | The Bank of England has warned there is evidence that risks it identified related to Brexit are emerging. | 36712040 |
The games developer made the announcement of the deal to buy a 60% stake in the US-based app in a filing to the Shenzhen stock exchange.
Its chairman Zhou Yahui became a billionaire last year after the Chinese firm listed its shares.
Grindr has grown rapidly since 2009 and now operates in 196 countries.
The company's remaining shares will continue to be owned by its founder and chief executive Joel Simkhai and employees.
"For nearly seven years, Grindr has self-funded its growth, and in doing so, we have built the largest network for gay men in the world," Mr Simkhai said in a blog post on Tuesday.
"We have taken this investment in our company to accelerate our growth, to allow us to expand our services for you."
The Los Angeles based app hosts two million visitors a day and matches users based on their photos and location.
The acquisition in the latest in a series of deals for Beijing Kunlun Tech. Last year, it bought a stake in British mortgage lender LendInvest.
The firm has not specified whether it plans to introduce the app in China, where gay people say they still face widespread social discrimination. | Chinese firm Beijing Kunlun Tech has bought a controlling stake in Grindr, the world's biggest gay social networking app, for $93m (£64m). | 35289505 |
Taron Hare was shown a straight red for a challenge on Alan Dunne in the 18th minute and Bromley took full advantage.
The hosts took the lead 11 minutes before half-time when Bradley Goldberg headed in after being left unmarked from a corner.
They had to wait until the 78th minute for a second which came when North Ferriby failed to deal with another corner and George Porter forced the ball home.
Jordan Wynter fired in from 25 yards three minutes into stoppage time to round off a comfortable victory.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bromley 3, North Ferriby United 0.
Second Half ends, Bromley 3, North Ferriby United 0.
Goal! Bromley 3, North Ferriby United 0. Jordan Wynter (Bromley).
Substitution, Bromley. Jordan Wynter replaces Bradley Goldberg.
Substitution, Bromley. Ryan Hall replaces Jordan Higgs.
Goal! Bromley 2, North Ferriby United 0. George Porter (Bromley).
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Connor Oliver replaces Robbie Tinkler.
Substitution, Bromley. George Porter replaces Tobi Sho-Silva.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Matthew Templeton replaces Danny Emerton.
Substitution, North Ferriby United. Sam Cosgrove replaces Ryan Kendall.
Second Half begins Bromley 1, North Ferriby United 0.
First Half ends, Bromley 1, North Ferriby United 0.
Jordan Higgs (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
Reece Thompson (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bromley 1, North Ferriby United 0. Bradley Goldberg (Bromley).
Ben Middleton (North Ferriby United) is shown the yellow card.
Taron Hare (North Ferriby United) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Alan Dunne (Bromley) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Bromley ended their six-match winless run with victory against 10-man North Ferriby. | 39164108 |
Although he was never elected to office he became the de facto leader of Panama serving a six year tenure as military governor.
A strong supporter of the United States he became a key ally in Washington's attempts to battle the influence of communism in central America.
But it was eventually the US that brought about his downfall and his subsequent imprisonment for drugs trafficking and money laundering.
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was born in Panama City on 11 Feb 1934. His family lived in extreme poverty but he was adopted as a young boy and went on to study at a military academy in Peru.
It was here that, according to various accounts, his pro-US leanings were noticed by the CIA with whom he worked for the next three decades. He was soon recognised as a prize asset in a region that was becoming politically hostile to US interests in the wake of the Cuban Revolution.
He rose within the ranks of the Panamanian armed forces and became a key supporter of Gen Omar Torrijos, who led the coup which toppled President Arnulfo Arias in 1968.
Noriega's support was recognised with promotion and appointment as chief of military intelligence.
After Gen Torrijos's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1981, Noriega became the power behind the scenes as head of the security services.
The US relied on Panama as a regional listening post and Noriega obliged with unfaltering support for the Contras in Nicaragua, and in the fight against the FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador.
In 1983 Noriega became commander of the armed forces in succession to Rubén DarÃo Paredes on the understanding that Paredes would stand as president. However, Noriega reneged on the deal, arrested Paredes and promoted himself to general becoming the de facto ruler of Panama.
He began to play an increasingly repressive role internally in Panama. He called a halt to the counting of votes in the 1984 presidential elections when it became clear his own nominee was going to lose by a landslide.
A year later one of his most vocal political opponents Hugo Spadafora, was seized on his way back to Panama and later found beheaded.
Noriega allegedly played a role in the mid-1980s Iran-Contra affair, which involved the smuggling of weapons and drugs to aid US undercover efforts to support the anti-government forces opposing the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
However, the US became increasingly suspicious of Noriega amid indications that he was selling his services to other intelligence bodies, not to mention drug-trafficking organisations.
These tensions became public in 1988 when Noriega was indicted in a US federal court on drug-trafficking charges.
The 1989 presidential election descended into farce. With the opposition certain of a comfortable victory Noriega blocked publication of the results. Former US president Jimmy Carter, in the country as an observer, declared that the election had been stolen.
By mid-December that year, ties with the US had deteriorated so far that President George H W Bush launched an invasion, ostensibly because a US marine had been killed in Panama City, although the operation had been months in the planning.
Noriega sought refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City. The US tactic to flush him out was to play deafening pop and heavy metal music non-stop outside the building.
By 3 January 1990, it had worked and Noriega surrendered. He was flown to the US with prisoner of war status to face charges of drug-trafficking, money-laundering and racketeering.
His trial there was an international spectacle that revealed titillating details of his personal life including a suggestion that he wore red underwear to ward off the "evil eye".
More seriously he was refused permission by the court to cite details of his work for the CIA in his own defence. The government opposed such disclosures on the grounds it was classified information.
He was released from a Miami jail in 2007 having had his original 30 year sentence reduced to 17 on the grounds of his good behaviour but his legal problems were far from over.
In 1999 a French court had convicted him in absentia of using $3m in proceeds from Colombia's Medellin drug cartel to buy property in France.
In March 2010, the US Supreme Court agreed to a French request extradite him to Paris, where he faced a new trial for money-laundering. Noriega, who denied the charges, was found guilty and sentenced to seven years.
The sentence was criticised by Alberto Almanza who headed the Truth Commission on rights abuses under Noriega's rule.
"He'll die in in prison," Mr Almanza said. "And with him the truth."
His legal odyssey took another turn on 23 November 2011 when a French court approved a request from Panama to send him back home, where he was convicted in absentia of murder, corruption and embezzlement.
He refused the chance to appeal the decision and flew out of Paris on 11 December 2011, escorted by a team of Panamanian officials and a doctor.
On his arrival in Panama he was placed in the El Renacer prison. It was from his cell in July 2014 that he instigated a lawsuit claiming that the company behind the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II had used his image without permission.
His main complaint was that the game depicted him as a "kidnapper, murderer, and enemy of the state".
Manuel Noriega was an opportunist who used his close relationship with the United States to boost his own power in Panama and to cover the illegal activities for which he was eventually convicted.
A US Senate sub-committee once described Washington's relationship with Noriega as one of the United States' most serious foreign policy failures. | General Manuel Noriega was one of long line of Latin American military leaders who rose to take political power. | 16966007 |
Unemployment fell to 1.69 million between January and March, down 2,000 from the previous quarter.
The jobless rate remained at 5.1%, the ONS said.
There were 31.58 million people in work, up 44,000 from the previous quarter. That took the employment rate to a record high of 74.2%.
But the number of job vacancies dropped by 18,000 to 745,000, the ONS added, marking the first fall for almost a year.
David Freeman, a senior statistician at the ONS, said: "The employment rate has hit another record high, but this time the increase is quite modest.
"With unemployment very little changed, that is further evidence the jobs market could be cooling off."
Average earnings including bonuses rose 2% from a year earlier, up from 1.9% in the three months to February.
The ONS said the timing of bonuses this year had affected the rise in total earnings.
Excluding bonuses, earnings rose by 2.1% year-on-year in the three months to March, down from 2.2% in the three months to February.
The number of people claiming jobless benefits fell by 2,400 in April to 737,800, although revised data showed the figure rose by 14,700 between February and March, the largest increase since autumn 2011.
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Stephen Crabb, said: "These are another record-breaking set of figures, with more people in work than ever before and the unemployment rate is the lowest in a decade at 5.1%."
But economists were less upbeat. David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said that despite the UK employment rate reaching a record high, "the cumulative picture - including manufacturing, trade and GDP figures - points to a softening in economic activity".
Paul Hollingsworth, UK economist at Capital Economics, said: "Although there were some bright spots in today's UK labour market figures, on the whole they offered a further indication that the economic slowdown has sapped the jobs recovery of its recent vigour."
However, Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said: "With the unemployment rate back to the pre-crisis average... it would be unrealistic to expect the rapid drops in unemployment seen in 2015 to continue indefinitely." | The UK unemployment total has fallen slightly, but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said the jobs market could be "cooling off". | 36320028 |
Janet McQueen, 58, has not been seen since 18 October when she left her home in the city's Govanhill area.
The latest appeal came as members of her family visited Cathcart Police Station to see the inquiry team.
Insp Alex Hutton said he wanted to "reassure" Ms McQueen's family during a "distressing time". He asked anyone with information to come forward.
Ms McQueen was last seen in Langside Road in Govanhill at about 22:00 on 18 October.
She is described as white, 5ft tall, of slim build with short black hair. She was wearing glasses, a navy blue anorak and dark-coloured trousers.
Insp Hutton said: "Janet has now been missing for four weeks and her family and friends are extremely worried abut her. It is totally out of character for her to be out of touch for this length of time and there are real concerns for her wellbeing.
"This must be a very distressing time for them and we wanted to take this opportunity to invite her family into the incident room today to reassure them that we are doing everything we can to find her.
"Our dedicated officers are based in this incident room, taking calls with information about potential sightings of Janet and acting on that information to ensure all lines of inquiry are exhausted."
Insp Hutton added: "I would continue to appeal to members of the public to come forward with any information they may have regarding Janet 's whereabouts.
"No matter how insignificant you think it may be, please let us know so that officers can make that judgement." | Police have made a fresh appeal for help in tracing a Glasgow woman who has been missing for four weeks. | 37990619 |
Exeter's Campagnaro has started all Italy's 2016 Six Nations games and scored two tries on their 2014 visit to Cardiff.
Twice-capped Zebre centre Giulio Bisegni, 23, has been called up.
Italy earlier lost Edoardo Padovani, Lorenzo Cittadini and George Biagi through injuries suffered in defeat by Ireland.
It means the Azzurri must make at least four changes with fly-half Padovani, prop Cittadini and lock Biagi joining Campagnaro on the sidelines.
Racing92 prop Martin Castrogiovanni, 34, has been recalled to the 28-man squad following suspension.
Perpignan fly-half Tommy Allen is also called up alongside uncapped pair Jacopo Sarto and Tommaso Castello.
Italy will be playing their final Six Nations game under coach Jacques Brunel, with Harlequins boss and former Ireland full-back Conor O'Shea expected to take over.
The Azzurri are winless in 2016 while Wales are hoping to finish second behind champions England, having lost in this year's tournament for the first time on Saturday. | Italy have suffered another blow before facing Wales with centre Michele Campagnaro out injured. | 35805359 |
Americans James Hahn and Ryan Moore share the lead on six under.
England's Justin Rose is three under, while Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy is level despite posting a triple-bogey seven on the 12th - his third hole.
World number one Jason Day said he will continue playing after learning his wife was involved in a car accident.
The Australian wrote on Twitter: "After the completion of my round, I was informed my wife Ellie our children Dash and Lucy and friend Katie were involved in a traffic incident near our RV.
"Their car was hit by a bus and Ellie was taken to the hospital for precautionary measures."
Casey, 39, had eight birdies and three bogeys en route to his 66 and is tied for third with America's Brian Stuard, Venezuela's Jhonattan Vegas and Fabian Gomez of Argentina.
Casey told pgatour.com he was "feeling good about the game".
He added: "I must admit the way I struck the ball today was reminiscent of how I used to strike it a few years ago."
The Championship is the second of the four that make up the season-ending FedEx Cup.
The tournament features the top 100 players in the world. The top 70 after this weekend will progress to next week's BMW Championship, where the field will be whittled down to 30 for the Tour Championship on 22-25 September.
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Find out how to get into golf with our special guide. | England's Paul Casey is one shot off the first-round lead at the Deutsche Bank Championship after carding a five-under-par 66 in Boston. | 37262926 |
The 1.4-mile (2.3km) tunnel, between Bradford and Halifax in West Yorkshire, could be opened for £2.8m, said Queensbury Tunnel Society.
Highways England has said it could cost £35m to make it safe for future use.
The tunnel, last used by trains about 60 years ago, is partly flooded and has collapsed in some places.
More on this story and others from West Yorkshire
Campaigners in the village of Queensbury came up with the cycleway idea to encourage bike use.
It would avoid steep, busy roads and provide a direct link between Bradford and Halifax.
The Queensbury Tunnel Society's report said most of the tunnel was in a fair condition and could be repaired.
It would involve patching small areas, with concrete repairs to bigger patches of missing brickwork, said the report.
Defective brickwork would be replaced open joints re-pointed.
"Queensbury Tunnel has to be made safe, it does not have to be made perfect," it said.
Highways England is responsible for the tunnel as part of the Historical Railways Estate.
It said it was "open to the idea" of transferring the tunnel to another public body to maintain it.
It said a new owner could be offered the £3m estimated cost of closing the tunnel.
"An independent study commissioned by Highways England carried out earlier this year revealed the condition of the tunnel continues to deteriorate and that it would cost an estimated £35m to make it safe for future use," it said.
Work on closing the tunnel would begin next summer if a transfer cannot be agreed, it said. | Converting an abandoned railway tunnel into an underground cycleway could cost a tenth of official estimates, said campaigners. | 37605963 |
His ashes arrived from Ciudad Juarez, the border city where he grew up, and were taken to the capital's Palace of Fine Arts.
Ten of thousands are expected to visit the palace in the next few days.
A prolific singer and composer, Juan Gabriel combined Mexican genres such as mariachi, ranchero and norteno music.
Security was tight for the huge crowds that turned out on Monday, despite the rain, to see the singer's ashes carried through the streets in a hearse.
A musical tribute also took place at the palace for fans who made the journey to Mexico City.
Juan Gabriel, whose real name was Alberto Aguilera Valadez but was known as Juanga, died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, days after performing to 17,000 fans at the Los Angeles Forum.
He sold tens of millions of records, received six Grammy nominations and had his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Fan Paty Berumen, 39, travelled from El Paso in Texas to say goodbye to her hero.
"I don't just like Juanga, I love him," she said outside the Palace of Fine Arts.
"That's why I came here. I didn't warn my family because they wouldn't have let me come. I've slept here, in the street, facing rain, heat and cold. But it's worth it." | Fans have lined the streets of Mexico City to pay their last respects to legendary singer Juan Gabriel who died last week at the age of 66. | 37282145 |
England beat Australia in the first Test in Cardiff to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series, with the next game starting on Thursday.
Starc struggled with an ankle injury during his side's 169-run defeat.
"He was in discomfort while bowling but has since improved significantly," said Australia physio Alex Kountouris.
"We will monitor him over the next few days but the plan is for him to take part in some light training and we are hopeful he will be available for selection for the second Test beginning on Thursday."
If Starc is not available for the sloping pitch at Lord's then Australia would be likely to select either Peter Siddle or Pat Cummins as his replacement.
England captain Alastair Cook's side won the Ashes opener with a day to spare and did not appear to have any injury concerns.
If the hosts stick to the same XI that would mean pace bowler Steven Finn and spinner Adil Rashid being left out.
England (from): Alastair Cook (Essex), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Adam Lyth (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Mark Wood (Durham) | England have named an unchanged 13-man squad for the second Test of the Ashes at Lord's, while Australia hope pace bowler Mitchell Starc will be fit. | 33497093 |
The 63-year-old appeared via videolink from prison at Chester Crown Court.
Mr Bennell had already denied eight of the offences but entered not guilty pleas again as 12 further charges were added.
He was a youth scout and junior football coach associated with a number of clubs, most notably Crewe Alexandra.
The charges include 14 counts of indecent assault, five counts of serious sexual assault and one count of attempted serious sexual assault.
The alleged offences took place between 1980 and 1987 and involved four complainants who were boys under 16 at the time.
The case was adjourned to 3 July when a hearing will take place at Liverpool Crown Court.
Judge Roger Dutton said a trial was likely to be listed for January in Liverpool.
Mr Bennell was remanded in custody. | Former football coach Barry Bennell has pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of historic child sexual abuse against four boys in the 1980s. | 39352080 |
The Exiles are bottom of the league but have not lost since their 3-1 defeat at Stevenage on Saturday, 7 January.
After a run of seven straight defeats, Westley's side have drawn four times and won once in their last five games.
"We've taken ownership of the problem and we're fighting to put it straight," Westley told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
Westley continued: "Five unbeaten is a great initial statement from the squad and we'll look to make it six unbeaten [against Grimsby Town].
"We are very focussed with digging ourselves out of the hole we find ourselves in and push the club on to highs rather than lows.
"There's 51 points to be won and provided we keep building on what we're doing at the moment, we're confident we can win a lot of those 51 points."
The Exiles face a Grimsby side on Tuesday who lost their last game 5-0 against Crewe Alexandra, but Westley does not underestimate their midweek opponents.
"I went up and watched the game on Saturday and in fairness, it was very much a game of two halves. They just got it wrong and in the second half they tidied themselves up and they looked a decent outfit so I'm sure one heavy defeat isn't going to kill them," Westley said.
"We expect them to come full of intention and full of renewed motivation and we know that we're going to have to be as good and better than we were on Friday if we are to secure the three points." | Newport County boss Graham Westley says their recent unbeaten run is a "statement" from his side in their bid to escape relegation from League Two. | 38963294 |
Jeanine Christelle Djomnang, 26, became ill before a Femina Stars Ebolowa match in southern Cameroon on Sunday, and died on her way to hospital.
The federation says initial reports suggest she died of a heart attack but it is now awaiting a medical report.
It comes days after Cameroon player Patrick Ekeng died in Romania.
Djomnang complained of chest pains as she prepared to take on Louves MINPROFF Yaounde in the Cameroon elite league and was taken to hospital.
Cameroon's African Women Footballer of the Year Gaelle Enganamouit, who now plays in Sweden, was one of the first to react to the news.
"It's with sadness that I have learnt of the death of my team-mate Djomnang Jeanine Christelle of Femina Stars Ebolowa, may her soul rest in peace," she wrote on social media.
On Friday, it was confirmed that Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng had died aged 26 of a suspected heart attack after collapsing on the pitch.
The 26-year-old fell to the floor in the 70th minute of a televised Romanian league match between Dinamo and Viitorul. He died later in hospital.
A book of condolence has been opened at the Cameroon Football Federation headquarters for both Ekeng and Djomanang. | The goalkeeper of a Cameroonian women's side has died after collapsing during a warm-up session, the Cameroon Football Federation has said. | 36246170 |
The rise contrasted with a fall of 79,000 in UK unemployment, to 1.7 million, over the same period.
The Scottish jobless rate stands at 6.1%, compared with 5.4% for the whole of the UK.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data also showed employment in Scotland falling by 6,000 to 2,610,000.
The number of people claiming Job Seeker's Allowance increased by 500 between August and September, to stand at 71,000.
Analysis by Douglas Fraser, Scotland business and economy editor
The divergent paths of the Scottish and UK jobs market are mirrored by other indicators we've had in recent days, such as the latest manufacturing export figures and the findings of a respected survey of Scottish purchasing managers.
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The UK government's Scottish Secretary David Mundell said: "The figures released today show the challenges which remain to ensure households in every part of our country benefit from a growing economy.
"There can be no doubt there is still hard work to undertake to build on the UK government's long-term economic plan which has tackled a record deficit and laid the foundations for a stronger and more stable economy."
The Scottish government said Scotland outperformed the UK as a whole on employment, youth employment and female employment.
Scottish Deputy First Minister John Swinney said that with the increase in the unemployment rate, it was important to sustain public sector investment to strengthen business confidence and deliver economic recovery.
He added: "While Scotland has now seen three years of continuous economic growth, and continues to exceed the UK in the total employment rate and in youth and female employment rates, today's figures show that there remain serious challenges to economic recovery."
Labour public services spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "These figures make grim reading for Scotland, and speak to an SNP government with the wrong priorities.
"The increase in unemployment in the north east confirms that the SNP government sat on their hands whilst we saw an oil jobs crisis that saw thousands of jobs lost."
She added: "We are seeing fewer jobs under this SNP government than in 2008, and the gap is growing."
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "The SNP cannot run away from the fact that unemployment in the rest of the UK is at a seven-year low while more people in Scotland are out of work.
"While the SNP were busy plotting a second referendum, declaring war on the BBC and doing everything they can to distract from their record in government, 18,000 more Scots found themselves out of work."
Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) general secretary Grahame Smith described the latest figures as "particularly worrying".
He added: "Unemployment is now back on a clear upward trend and working age employment is lower than it was a year ago.
"Whilst it is difficult to be precise about why Scotland's labour market performance is increasingly weak relative to the rest of the UK, it is highly likely that job losses in the oil and gas sector are now having a tangible impact on the aggregate statistics." | Scotland's jobless total increased by 18,000 between June and August to stand at 170,000, according to official figures. | 34526958 |
The 17-year-old, who was last seen at Didcot Railway station on 3 December last year, was remembered at a gathering in the town at 19:00 GMT.
Jayden's former boyfriend Ben Blakeley, 22, from Reading, was sentenced to life for her murder, in July this year.
Blakeley was told to serve a minimum of 20 years for murdering Jayden and burying her in his uncle's grave.
Jayden's body was discovered in the grave of Alan Kennedy in the cemetery of All Saints' Church, Didcot, Oxfordshire, on 18 December.
She was believed to be pregnant with Blakeley's child, but tests have never fully confirmed this.
Blakeley's brother Jake, of Venners Water, Didcot, was accused of preventing the lawful burial of Jayden, which he denied, and his retrial is set for 19 January after jurors failed to reach a verdict. | Family and friends of murdered Jayden Parkinson have held a memorial event to her, a year after she disappeared. | 30308533 |
Michael Luciano, 58, and Philip Luciano, 29, allegedly sold synthetic opioids fentanyl and oxycodone on AlphaBay before its closure.
The notorious site was targeted by investigators during an international operation earlier this year.
Authorities allege the Lucianos' drug sales date back to February last year.
AlphaBay was quietly taken over by agents earlier this year and later shut down.
The pair are said to have traded on AlphaBay using the pseudonym Zane61 and received positive reviews from some customers.
One allegedly wrote: "Fast shipping, great vendor. Good stealth, price, and A+ product."
It was the son, Philip, who allegedly "handled the technological aspects" of the transactions, including the purchase of bitcoins, according to investigators.
"Fentanyl is a societal scourge powerful enough to rob the lives of those who use in an instant," said Philip Bartlett of the US Postal Inspection Service.
"Today's arrest of this father and son should serve as a strong reminder the anonymity of the Dark Web can't always protect you from the long arm of the law."
At the time of AlphaBay's closure, Europol said the seized data would lead to new investigations into users of the marketplace.
The investigation into the Lucianos dates back to before AlphaBay's seizure by authorities, however. | A father and son from New York have been accused of selling drugs on a dark web marketplace shut down by law enforcement agencies in July. | 41038214 |
The United Nations agency, marking International Women's Day, says negative stereotyping undermines the education of girls.
It says too often female figures are represented in textbooks as "nurturing drudges" in domestic roles.
This is a "hidden obstacle" to gender equality, says Unesco's Manos Antoninis.
Unesco has campaigned to provide education for tens of millions of children without access to school - and in many poorer countries girls are the most likely to miss out.
This report highlights how female characters frequently appear in a secondary role in the books they use at school - and warns that it limits girls' career expectations.
"Ensuring all boys and girls go to school is only part of the battle," says Manos Antoninis, from Unesco's global education monitoring report.
"What they are being taught is equally, if not more, important. Persistent gender bias in textbooks is sapping girls' motivation, self-esteem and participation in school."
With examples from countries in Asia and Africa, the report says that men in textbooks are more likely to be depicted as business leaders, shopkeepers, engineers, scientists and politicians, while women remain likely to be seen in roles such as cooking or childcare.
Apart from gender stereotyping, the study says that text books are much more likely to depict men than women - and that is even more pronounced in science or maths text books.
It says that in some cases only about one in 20 characters in science textbooks is female.
But the report says that there has been only slow progress in trying to get more equal representation.
It says there has been a lack of political will to pursue this and in some cases resistance from those responsible for school curricula or for producing textbooks.
Also marking International Women's Day is a report, Poverty is Sexist, from the development campaign group, One.
It says that gender inequality and poverty are interlinked, with women in poor countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, likely to be worse off than their male counterparts.
The report says there are half a billion women around the world who cannot read - two thirds of the global total. As an example, in Mali, 93% of girls will never attend school.
The campaign has drawn up a list of countries where it is "toughest to be born a girl", based on criteria such as access to health and education, economic opportunities, access to a bank account and political representation.
The top 10 in this ranking are: Niger, Somalia, Mali, Central African Republic, Yemen, DR Congo, Afghanistan, Cote d'Ivoire, Chad and Comoros. | Sexist attitudes are "rife" in school textbooks used in developing countries, according to Unesco. | 35745327 |
The warning came from David Dobbin, the chief executive of Dale Farm, Northern Ireland's largest milk processor.
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business programme, he said Stormont needed to put the economy at the centre of its next Programme for Government.
He also said he wanted to see a "more collective executive".
Dale Farm is part of the United Dairy Farmers Group, a UK dairy farmer co-operative.
In 2014, Mr Dobbin expressed frustration over delays in getting energy infrastructure to the west of Northern Ireland.
His firm had wanted to expand its plant at Cookstown, County Tyrone, but despite planning approval, correct electricity and gas facilities were not in place.
He told the programme that the next Northern Ireland Executive needed to get to grips with energy infrastructure.
"What we want to see this time round is an executive that is focused on bread and butter issues, not constitutional politics," he added.
"The political process here is pretty ugly to watch. It's almost a case of, we stumble forward, so the government needs to focus and set a target to bring energy costs down.
"We did lose Michelin and there are other big energy users that I think are going to struggle to survive in Northern Ireland if we don't address that."
Inside Business with Wendy Austin airs on BBC Radio Ulster on Sundays at 13:30 BST | Some of Northern Ireland's major manufacturing companies may not survive unless energy costs are lowered, a leading businessman has said. | 36116706 |
One passenger was also hurt in the crash, according to state-owned broadcaster, Channel One.
The aircraft reportedly came down in Kawm Awshim in Fayoum province, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Cairo.
The broadcaster said the crash had been caused by "technical failure". The defence minister has ordered an inquiry into the accident.
Earlier reports had stated that seven crew were killed in the crash. | A military aircraft has crashed on a training mission in Egypt, killing six troops, Egyptian officials say. | 29301919 |
Sarries are bidding to become the first team to win three successive domestic crowns since 2005, but were well short of their fluent best against Warriors.
The hosts led 6-3 after an unconvincing first half in the London Double Header.
Saracens pulled clear after the break, with Jamie George, Alex Lozowski, debutant Schalk Burger and Ben Spencer all crossing for the bonus point.
Director of rugby Mark McCall will be encouraged by his side's second-half showing, but will also be keen to welcome back England fly-half Owen Farrell, who missed the game with a back injury.
His replacement Lozowski, though impressive with ball in hand, missed three routine kicks from the tee as Saracens failed to convert their possession and territory into more points.
Opponents Worcester, led by head coach Carl Hogg for the first time following Dean Ryan's summer departure, produced a spirited defensive display and may even have pushed Sarries closer but for a 12-minute collapse shortly after half-time.
George, Lozowski and South Africa's World Cup-winning flanker Burger all crossed in quick succession to put the home side in complete control with more than half an hour still left to play.
Saracens had to wait until the 77th minute for the bonus-point-securing try - a superb, jinking solo score from replacement scrum-half Spencer.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall: "Overall, I am probably not happy with that. I am happy we got five points and happy to get the win.
"It was a hugely rusty performance but we defended very well. Give Worcester credit for the way they played in that first half. They were really physical and they made life difficult for us at the breakdown.
"But I was pretty calm at half-time and I thought we were ruthless in that 15 minutes of the second half and that set us up to get the win."
Worcester head coach Carl Hogg: "There was a huge amount of character and effort in that first half given the amount of possession and territory that Saracens had.
"It was an even contest in that first half but the amount of effort took its toll in the second.
"It is a disappointment. We talked [at half-time] about trying to get a foothold in the game, but they are at the top end of Europe and they squeeze teams in."
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, Bosch, Barritt (capt), Maitland; Lozowski, Wigglesworth; M Vunipola, George, Du Plessis, Itoje, Kruis, Wray, Burger, B Vunipola.
Replacements: Brits, Barrington, Figallo, Hamilton, Rhodes, Spencer, Taylor, Ellery.
Worcester: Willison; Hammond, Olivier, Te'o, Vuna; Lamb, Arr; Rapava Ruskin, Annett, Schonert, Cavubati, Barry, Dowson, Mama, van Velze (capt).
Replacements: Bregvadze, Leleimalefaga, Johnston, Scotland-Williamson, Faosiliva, Baldwin, Heathcote, Humphreys. | Saracens began the defence of their Premiership title with victory over Worcester Warriors at Twickenham. | 37221628 |
Scottish Premiership rivals Partick Thistle, Championship outfit Hibernian and clubs from England were among those interested in his signature.
Hateley, who previously had a spell in Scotland with Motherwell, has signed a two-year contract at Dens Park.
He made 29 appearances last season as Slask finished 10th in the table.
Born in Monaco while his father, Mark, was playing there in the French top flight, Hateley started his own football career with Reading.
After a loan spell with Basingstoke Town, he moved to Motherwell in 2009 and went on to make 150 appearances for the Scottish top-flight outfit.
Having rejected a new contract at Fir Park, Hateley had a four-month spell with Tranmere Rovers before moving to Poland.
Dundee said on their website: "He has been much sought after over the past few weeks, with a number of clubs vying for his signature."
Although Hateley can play in midfield, he can also play right-back and Dundee manager Paul Hartley has been seeking a replacement in that position after Paul McGinn moved to Chesterfield.
Ziggy Gordon, who rejected a new contract with Hamilton Academical, had chosen to join Partick Thistle instead of Dundee earlier this summer. | Dundee have won the race to sign Tom Hateley after the 26-year-old right-back/midfielder's release by Polish top-flight club Slask Wroclaw. | 37278213 |
The accident happened when the man was in the area of Coire an t-Sneachda, close to the Cairn Gorm ski centre.
The Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team said the climber had been airlifted to hospital but his injuries were thought to have been fatal. | A climber is believed to have died after a fall in the Cairngorms. | 35901219 |
The Championship club removed Rush from his role as chief executive on Wednesday, citing "gross misconduct" and a "breach of fiduciary duty" as the reason for his departure.
Rush, who joined in 2013 and signed a new five-year deal in October 2015, has said the matter is with his lawyers.
Rowett told BBC Radio Derby the news would not impact on the football side.
"That is my only real concern and that is going to be unaffected, so we move forward," he added.
"In terms of the way I have worked, in the last five or six years, I've tended to have a big hand in transfers and a lot of the work behind the scenes.
"That adds extra workload but I've quite enjoyed that, because it means it's the squad I've wanted to build and I can feel responsible for the results.
"This summer, certainly, that's going to be very similar to how we have done it before. Whatever has happened has happened. That is nothing to do with me."
Rowett, who has only been in charge at the Championship club since March, said chairman Mel Morris' decision to sack Rush was not his focus.
"The club obviously took the course of action that they felt necessary for the benefit of the club," the former Birmingham boss added.
Meanwhile, Derby have appointed chief operating officer John Vicars and chief financial officer Stephen Pearce as directors.
Owen Bradley, BBC Radio Derby Sport
It's a huge surprise. Sam Rush was named Football League chief executive of the year in 2014 and has been a massive part of the club since he arrived.
He has made some big decisions, including sacking Nigel Clough, and Derby have twice got into the play-offs while he has been involved. He also retains a 5% ownership of the club.
We still don't know the exact reasons for his sacking but it takes the shine off what has been an encouraging start under Gary Rowett. | Sam Rush's surprise sacking will not hinder Derby County's summer transfer activity, says manager Gary Rowett. | 39806575 |
Jordan Matthews, 24, of Ely Road, Cardiff, is accused of murdering his girlfriend of 16 months, Xixi Bi.
Miss Bi, 24, was so badly bruised a paramedic thought she had been dead for some time when they arrived at their flat on 19 August 2016.
Mr Matthews admits manslaughter but denies murder at Cardiff Crown Court.
Miss Bi had a broken jaw, ribs and widespread bruising following the attack on 18 August, jurors heard.
Paramedics responding to a 999 call made by Mr Matthews the morning after tried to revive Miss Bi but she was not breathing and had no heart rhythm.
Her body was "very bruised" and discoloured, the court heard.
Cardiff Metropolitan University student Miss Bi was pronounced dead at 09:30 BST at the University Hospital of Wales, after having a cardiac arrest.
Mr Matthews was arrested at the flat while paramedics tried to revive his girlfriend.
He told police he was a black belt in karate but did not think what he had done was bad enough to cause the injuries she suffered.
Mr Matthews said he had hit Miss Bi believing she had cheated on him and cried when he was later told she had died.
The trial continues. | A barman with a black belt in karate beat his girlfriend to death after thinking she had cheated on him, a court heard. | 38898663 |
A study in the BMJ looked at GP data spanning over a decade and found that more than a quarter of 33,000 adults with learning difficulties had been prescribed antipsychotics, often with no obvious clinical justification.
The drugs are designed to treat severe mental illness, not tricky behaviour.
NHS England has already warned prescribers about the problem.
In July, it sent a letter to patients and professionals saying these powerful medicines should not be used as a "chemical restraint".
A report by Public Health England estimates that up to 35,000 adults with a learning disability are being prescribed an antipsychotic, an antidepressant or both without appropriate clinical justification.
NHS England advises: "If you are worried, either for yourself or someone you know, about the medicines being taken, speak to the person responsible for prescribing them. This will usually be a GP, psychiatrist, specialist doctors, pharmacist or nurse prescriber."
It says medicines used to treat mental illness can be very effective in treating some people with learning disabilities when used appropriately. | People with learning difficulties in the UK are being inappropriately over-medicated, patient records suggest. | 34120682 |
The 20-year-old academy product made his debut for the Hove-based side in the One-Day Cup in 2014.
He played a total of five Championship matches for the club - four of which came towards the end of last season - and also made a second One-Day Cup appearance in 2016.
Meanwhile, 19-year-old all-rounder Delray Rawlins has signed his first professional contract with Sussex.
The academy product, who has agreed a one-year deal, has recently been representing Bermuda, the country of his birth, in the ICC World Cricket League Division Four but will also travel with England's Young Lions programme this winter. | Sussex have released all-rounder Fynn Hudson-Prentice. | 37865137 |
The Gulls let in two second-half goals to exit the competition at the first-round stage for the first time since they dropped to non-league in 2014.
"We're a good side when we stick to a game plan," Nicholson told BBC Devon.
"In the first half we executed it and should have been 3-0 up at half-time, but didn't take our chances."
Nicholson continued: "What changes in the second half I don't know. You have to go out and keep doing what you've been successful doing and eventually you'll get your goal.
"I'm disappointed to be out, we were the architects of our own downfall."
The game was Torquay's first without on-loan Forest Green striker Kieffer Moore, who scored five goals in Torquay's previous four league games.
"All the questions are going to be 'is it all about Kieffer Moore?'," added Nicholson.
"It's not. The lads had the chances there, they did the game plan in the first half and they were looking good.
"They have to realise that you cannot go away from doing the basics right. If you do that and you start thinking you're better than what you are, then what's just happened will happen to you." | Torquay United were architects of their own downfall in their 2-0 FA Trophy exit at Braintree Town, according to manager Kevin Nicholson. | 38287580 |
In losing 4-0 at Anfield, Arsenal showed tactically they are nowhere near their rivals for a top-four place in the Premier League. More worryingly, they lacked hunger and they don't look like a team.
I genuinely don't know what Arsene Wenger is saying to them on the training ground. It is unbelievable what we watched against Liverpool. They are making such basic mistakes.
Were there any positives for Arsenal? No. Absolutely none. Before the start of the season I predicted Arsenal would finish outside of the top four. Obviously I haven't changed my mind.
It was a just a shambles from a team which wants to develop after missing out on Champions League football for the first time in 20 years. It is the same old Arsenal, the same old problems.
If they let Sanchez go they're in a world of trouble. They're in a world of trouble anyway.
Sanchez was playing for the first time this season after a summer of speculation about his future. He started off all right against Liverpool, playing on the left side of a front three with Danny Welbeck and Mesut Ozil, and he was the only real threat. But it was tough for him because Arsenal weren't getting the ball very much.
He worked hard enough but as the game went away from Arsenal you could see him getting frustrated. His body language wasn't good when he came off - in fact before he came off you could tell he was despondent.
But he still had a go and didn't look like someone who was not trying.
Some Gunners fans might be annoyed by a camera picking out Sanchez appearing to smile as he was sitting on the bench, but that's not a big issue for me. We don't know what he was looking at - there could have been a policeman in front of him fall over or anything.
It was a little quick smile; he soon went back to looking as miserable as sin. No-one can accuse Sanchez of not caring. Over the past couple of seasons he has put in more effort than anybody.
But does he want to be there now? I don't think so. With speculation linking him to Manchester City, I can see him going before Thursday.
Arsenal set up with a 3-4-3 in effect and that's fine if everyone knows the system and knows what they are doing - but they didn't.
Granit Xhaka and Aaron Ramsey were in a midfield two, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Hector Bellerin as wing-backs, and the central midfielders really lack the athleticism to help out their defensive players.
Liverpool kept picking the ball up in midfield and had huge spaces in front of them. There were at least half a dozen times in the first half where Liverpool were running at their backline and there was no midfielder in view - and we're talking 50- or 60-yard gaps between centre-halves and midfielders.
Arsenal's problems in this area are not about the personnel in their squad because they have got legs there - Francis Coquelin came on for Ramsey at half-time and made a difference. Arsenal changed the shape and looked more solid.
OK, they conceded two more goals but that's because they were trying to get back into the game.
Whether Arsenal have one or two holding midfielders, Arsene Wenger must tell them they have got to hold. Do not move.
Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson isn't a holding midfielder but he runs more than anyone in the Premier League, is a talker and a good passer. He's had to take away his runs forward but he has embraced it because that's what the manager wants him to do.
The team benefits because he's playing that role.
Mousa Dembele, my old team-mate at Fulham, was never a central midfielder until he came to us - now he is one of the best holding midfielders in the Premier League, if not the best.
Like Henderson, he's embraced it and the coach has helped him reach that level by telling him what to do. Dele Alli looks like a world beater because (a) he is a world beater and (b) he knows he has got two guys on his back, whereas Ozil, if he is playing in the number 10 role, has two creative players behind him. The tenacity is not there.
If Ozil was playing ahead of Victor Wanyama and Dembele, for example, he would look a whole lot better.
In this 3-4-3, Arsenal's players didn't know if the wing-backs were marking Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane or if the wide centre-halves were marking them.
Part of Arsenal's problem is that there are few leaders on the pitch who are taking responsibility and telling people who to pick up.
You need that because if the system is going wrong then you can demand that off your team-mates.
But the manager creates the system and the discipline within the system. If there is no discipline and no work on it day in, day out, then players are not going to be able to fix that during a game.
So what can they do? Change the manager? It sounds drastic because Wenger has done so much for this club and the English game. We know what he has done. But all good things must come to an end.
I don't think he knew what to do as Arsenal were being overrun or what was wrong. That's the crime in it. It's not making the mistake, it's not knowing what it is.
The performance in the FA Cup final victory against Chelsea was everything you want Arsenal to be - but it was one performance. They looked liked a bunch of players who wanted to prove people wrong.
It shows they can do it - why don't they do it more often? The responsibility always falls with the manager and the coaches.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp got one over on Wenger tactically - but it wasn't difficult to do. He knows his players work for him; every one of the Liverpool players runs back as soon as they lose possession.
Then they just kept hitting them on the break with their pace.
Liverpool were very well drilled in what they were doing and they actually dropped off early in the game. It was a surprise that they didn't press and let Arsenal have the ball.
When Arsenal had possession and Liverpool needed a breather they just dropped off and got everyone back in their half really deep. They just waited. And waited. They got their breath and then broke quickly.
But the reason they did that was because they knew when Arsenal threw numbers forward, the pace of Salah and Mane on the counter-attack would cause all sorts of problems. That's exactly what happened.
No matter what tactics they did or didn't use, they ran more, wanted it more and played with more passion and desire. First and foremost you need that.
Philippe Coutinho was missing for Liverpool again with a back injury as Barcelona continue to be linked with a move for him before the transfer window closes.
Again, Liverpool have shown they can cope without him in terms of scoring goals.
Salah, Mane and Roberto Firmino were electric against Arsenal, just like they were against Hoffenheim in the Champions League play-off on Wednesday, rotating positions, showing willingness to run in behind without the ball.
I think Adam Lallana will score more when he comes back from injury, and Daniel Sturridge seems to be staying fit which is a big bonus.
But of course they will be better with Coutinho than without him.
The choices they have with him keeps people on their toes and everyone competing for places. He can open up a team and he can score wonder goals.
If you are talking about a £120m fee the big question is who do you bring in? Can they bring in one or two in who make them stronger as a squad or as a team. It is difficult.
But if they keep forward players fit they will always cause problems because they have so much pace and creativity.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Jonathan Jurejko | Arsenal's summer has been largely dominated by Alexis Sanchez's future - and will continue to be until Thursday's transfer deadline has passed - but Sunday's demoralising defeat at Liverpool showed there are bigger issues to deal with. | 41069395 |
Hasbro left the character out of the game, released in September, saying it didn't want to spoil The Force Awakens storyline.
#WheresRey has been trending on Twitter since last year after fans noticed Daisy Ridley's character wasn't one of the tokens in the latest version of Star Wars Monopoly.
Hasbro revealed the change to the game in a tweet to fans, saying the new version of the game will be available later this year.
At the moment the board game features Finn, Kylo Ren and Luke Skywalker, but not Rey, the main character in Episode VII.
The game also features Darth Vader, who died in Return of the Jedi in 1983.
Hasbro gave out a statement on Tuesday saying Star Wars Monopoly didn't feature Rey to "avoid revealing a key plot line that she takes on Kylo Ren and joins the Rebel Alliance".
The company says that the Jakku scavenger already features in other Star Wars games including Hands Down, Guess Who and Chess.
A mum posted a letter on social media that her eight-year-old daughter had written about the missing character, it said:
"Dear Hasbro, How could you leave out Rey?! She belongs in Star Wars Monopoly and all the other Star Wars games!
"Without her, THERE IS NO FORCE AWAKENS! It awakens in her! And without her, the bad guys would have won!
"Besides, boys and girls need to see women can be as strong as men! Girls matter! Boy or girl, who cares? We are equal, all of us!"
Star Wars released its official poster in October, which featured Rey in the most prominent position possible. | A US toy company says it will add Rey to Star Wars Monopoly after pressure from fans. | 35245548 |
The former Manchester United and Wales winger is embroiled in a High Court dispute over money with wife Stacey.
He is no longer pursuing a bid to exclude the media from the hearings, it has emerged.
However, a ban on naming the pair's children and reporting financial details heard during litigation remains.
During a hearing on Friday, Mr Justice Cobb also said media outlets could report the couple's identities and the fact they were involved in a dispute.
Neither Giggs nor Mrs Giggs were present.
After the hearing, a lawyer representing Mrs Giggs said she "wishes to make no comment on the current proceedings other than to ask that her privacy and that of her family is respected".
"She understands that coverage of these matters has the potential to cause upset and distress, something which she is determined to avoid at all costs," said James Brown, a partner at Hall Brown Family Law.
Giggs, who was born in Cardiff, retired as a player in summer 2014.
He made a record 963 appearances for United and won 64 Welsh international caps.
The 43-year-old worked as United's interim manager for a short spell after ending his playing career. He has also become involved in property development.
Specialist lawyers are currently debating how much the public should be told about people involved in big-money divorce battles after High Court judges outlined opposing views. | Ex-footballer Ryan Giggs has dropped a bid to ban reporters from covering a court battle with his estranged wife. | 39005330 |
Nearly 400 people at all levels of racing took part in the study, which has been seen by BBC Sport.
It found more women are entering racing from college courses, outnumbering men by a ratio of nearly 70:30.
But the report identifies what is being described as "career stagnation" once women try to make progress.
It recommends an independent diversity steering group is set up for racing.
Nearly 80% of the participants in the research were female. All those who answered questions were given anonymity in the report, which was commissioned by Women in Racing (which seeks to develop the profile of women in the sport), researched by Oxford Brookes University, and funded by the Racing Foundation charity.
Among the key findings are:
Susannah Gill, a Women in Racing committee member who is also a director at Arena Racing Company which owns 15 British racecourses, said: "The report shows what you would hear anecdotally from people in racing. I think sometimes racing is seen as a conservative sport and people haven't openly shared their views.
"If you look who is on the senior boards of organisations in racing, the average is 16% women and we have several boards which don't have any women at the top level at all.
"So we're seeing a stagnation of career progression. That's something we certainly recognise in other industries as well, and I think we've probably known about it in horse racing. But this report is the first time we've seen it and talked about it.
"Most other sports, certainly those which receive public and lottery money, have already done this piece of work and are at the next stage."
Despite the high number of women employed at racing yards around the country, the report highlights the failure of many women to make progress in high-profile roles as trainers or jockeys. Women have struggled to break into the top 10 in the annual championships for those who ride winning horses or train them.
Amy Murphy is in her first year of training horses at Newmarket, the centre of Britain's racing industry. Still only 24, she became the youngest trainer in the town, and is one of the few women running a yard there - of 75 registered Newmarket trainers, only eight are female.
Murphy told BBC Sport: "You have to get the support and I think sometimes as a woman you probably have to prove yourself before people want to support you. Whereas if you're a man, they'd support you from day one.
"But we've had great support and loyalty from some big owners. Whether I would have had that support if we hadn't had the results we've had, I'm not sure."
Asked if she felt owners would be inclined to trust a man to train their horses rather than a woman, she said: "Not so much now, definitely that's probably what used to happen.
"But I think it's a much more open sport now. Women are doing great things. Five years down the line, there shouldn't be that question.''
Across Newmarket, trainer John Berry has been involved in racing for over 30 years. He believes some women jockeys hit a barrier in their 30s if they take a break from the sport to have a baby and have to re-establish themselves afterwards.
But he does not believe that gender should inhibit the way people in the sport are treated.
"I don't regard gender as an issue for any of the roles in racing, but then on reflection, not everyone thinks the same way," he said.
"So there is a lot of point in this report because everyone should feel that, and they don't, and if this report can help that to come about, then that would be good.
"In racing, the athlete is the horse and with all the jobs around that, whether jockey, trainer, people who work in the stables, who run the racecourse - no one gender is better than the other, and I mean that as jockeys as well.
"There are very good female jockeys, and moderate female jockeys. There are very good male jockeys, there are very moderate male jockeys. Neither gender guarantees you'll be good at something, neither gender guarantees you won't be good at it."
Already, 2017 has featured high-profile moments for women jockeys in racing.
Lizzie Kelly rode in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and then won the Betway Bowl at Aintree's Grand National festival. Katie Walsh rode again in the National, a race in which she finished third back in 2012.
The British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) figures show that women account for 12% of all licensed jockeys, but just 6% of all rides and only 1% of rides in the very top races.
Gill believes individual breakthroughs could mask more serious issues for the sport.
"In a way, those two examples [Katie Walsh and Lizzie Kelly] pinpoint the problems," she said.
"Both those examples are people who've had great family support, who've worked really hard but who have come from within racing. Whatever area of racing you come into, it can be hard to get on if you haven't already got the connections.
"So, while we want to celebrate success, we have to acknowledge it's not easy to get on in racing when you start from outside."
In an effort to promote opportunities for women jockeys, a series of nine races is being run through the season which will be reserved for female riders.
The Silk Series, organised by Arena Racing, began at Lingfield last week with the final race at Doncaster in September, featuring total prize money of £100,000.
The diversity report acknowledges the work of the BHA, racing's governing body, in increasing female representation on its own board. Seven of its 21 directors are now women.
The BHA says it "welcomes publication of the first ever research study of women's representation and diversity in racing. While this confirms that progress is being made on gender diversity, racing faces similar challenges to other sports in ensuring that people from all backgrounds are represented at all levels of our sport."
Chief executive Nick Rust said: "This survey serves as a stark reminder that while some progress has been made, there is much more that British racing needs to do to ensure that people receive the necessary encouragement, support and opportunities regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, disability or social background.
"Today, we're restating our commitment to improve diversity in our sport.
"As the survey report highlights, to be successful, this requires a cross-industry effort, so we will now consult with racecourses and horsemen on additional actions we need to take, including the recommendations contained in this report."
Women in Racing believes voluntary targets for diversity in roles across the sport could potentially be introduced, but wants "champions" at the top of the sport to be driving through change.
The BHA has promised an update on progress by July. | Women are under-represented in the most prominent areas of British horse racing, says the first report into gender diversity in the sport. | 39935270 |
The RICS UK Construction Market Survey said that 63% of respondents in Scotland identified labour shortages as the leading restraint on growth.
Skilled workers and construction professionals are in short supply, it indicated.
RICS Scotland Director Sarah Speirs said finding the right workers had become a "practical challenge".
Of those taking part in the survey, 53% said they had found difficulty in recruiting bricklayers and 59% had struggled to hire professionals such as quantity surveyors.
After labour recruitment, finance was reported as the greatest concern.
The figures, which covered the first quarter of 2015, suggested 33% of respondents had experienced a rise in private sector activity.
Ms Speirs said: "Despite the outward optimism, there are some very real unknowns which are impacting on industry, including the general election, the UK's relationship with Europe and skills shortages.
"Now that material shortages are becoming less of an issue, the practical challenges are now in providing the skilled labour the industry needs and in alleviating the financial constraints, which saw nine months of decreased lending in 2014."
The survey found that, in spite of what it called anecdotal evidence of uncertainty during the general election period, measured confidence remained high.
In total, 63% of respondents expected their workloads to rise over the next 12 months, with 3.75% growth in 2015.
Rod Shaw of Thomson Gray in Edinburgh commented: "Increasing workloads are resulting in labour shortages becoming more widespread and not just restricted to specialist contractors." | Scottish construction firms are being held back by difficulties in hiring suitable workers, a survey has found. | 32410165 |
The Star Wars actress died on 27 December, days after filming had wrapped on the show.
Sharon Horgan, star and co-creator of the comedy, says Fisher, who played her mother-in-law Mia, has a "bigger, chunkier part" in the third series.
She described Fisher as the "sexiest, funniest woman".
It is thought to be the last television appearance for Fisher, who also stars in the new Star Wars film due out later this year.
Horgan and Rob Delaney, her co-star and co-creator, are yet to decide how the show will deal with Fisher's death.
Catastrophe - which tells the story of an American man and Irish woman who deal with a number of disasters after a one-night stand turns into a full-blown relationship - has become a huge hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
It was nominated for an Emmy for outstanding comedy series writing last year.
"The first and second series, we didn't have her for very long," Horgan said. "She flew in and did her bit in about a day and a half.
"We wanted to get to know her better. We idolised her.
"In series three, we wrote a bigger, chunkier part for her in episode six and got to spend time with her. She was part of the gang.
"All of the cast got to spend time with her. We really feel privileged. She was funny all of the time. She was incredibly witty company."
Asked how Fisher's character would be written out of the show, Horgan said: "It's a bit hard to think about yet. I hope time will pass and we'll think of a fitting finish to that story."
Channel 4's head of comedy Phil Clarke said Fisher would be seen in "very emotionally powerful scenes", adding: "We think it's a fitting tribute to her."
Fisher has appeared as Mia since the first series, having first been approached over social media to take part in the show.
Delaney contacted Fisher on Twitter after he and Horgan saw her give a lifetime achievement award to Graham Norton and make an "amazing" speech.
"Sharon said, 'I wonder if she'd play your mum'. I said, 'Sharon, you're crazy'." he said. There was no response to the tweet, but after they approached her agent and Fisher read the script, she agreed to join the cast.
"She was a really lovely, kind, supportive person," added Horgan.
The third series sees the characters Rob and Sharon dealing with the fall-out of yet another catastrophe - her spending the evening with another man, a student in a band.
It goes on to deal with Rob, a recovering alcoholic, turning to drink.
Asked why it strikes such a chord with viewers, Delaney said: "We're very grateful it does. If it has a secret sauce, it's that every episode is written by two people - one of them is a man, and one of them is a woman. That's my theory."
Horgan added: "I think maybe they (the audience) sees terrible things happening to people, and people not always figuring it out - and it's not the end of the world. Terrible things happen, and it's fine."
One episode deals with another parent at the school gate making a complaint about their son, Frankie.
Asked about their inspiration for the show, Horgan explained: "It's a little bit from looking around us, at the school gates and in our own homes."
Catastrophe also doesn't shy away from topics some might consider crude - and is very, very rude in parts.
But, said Horgan with a smile: "We don't look for filth. Filth finds us."
The third series starts on Channel 4 at 22:00 GMT on 28 February.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Carrie Fisher's role in the third series of Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe will be a "fitting tribute", say its makers. | 38904700 |
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