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The local party in Brighton Pavilion had the "democratic right" not to oppose Green co-leader Caroline Lucas for her former seat, he says.
But the Lib Dem leader says he will not engage in any pacts, deals or coalition with other parties after the election.
He says Lib Dems would unlock £100bn by keeping Britain in the single market.
Mr Farron was quizzed about his thoughts on local party arrangements following ex-business secretary Sir Vince Cable's assertion that he would find it "difficult to vote against" a Labour candidate whose views were "very close" to his own.
Fellow Lib Dem, the Richmond Park candidate Sarah Olney also suggested the use of "paper candidates" or "not campaigning".
In Brighton Pavilion, the Lib Dems have agreed not to field a candidate in a bid to get Ms Lucas re-elected.
Mr Farron said he was "an admirer" of Ms Lucas and believed it was "up to local parties to make those decisions".
But he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "What I've been very clear about is the Liberal Democrats will engage in no pacts, no deals - there will be no coalition involving the Lib Dems with Labour or Conservatives or any other party following the election.
"The local party in Brighton made a choice as is their democratic right to choose to withdraw in order to support Caroline Lucas. I've always been a fan of Caroline Lucas and I'm relaxed about that decision."
Mr Farron side-stepped questions about his view on Sir Vince's claim that if he were voting in Ealing Central and Acton he would find it hard not to back Labour candidate Rupa Huq.
Instead he insisted that like Sir Vince he was "a pluralist, not a tribalist" and recalled sharing a battle bus during the EU referendum campaign with Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, London's Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, Ms Lucas and other parties.
But Mr Farron said unlike Labour and Conservative plans "to take Britain out of the single market" which is "costing the taxpayer £100bn", the Lib Dems would fight for Britain to remain, which would mean "we have the money we need to spend on our schools and hospitals".
This cash would contribute to the party's plan to plough £7bn into schools and colleges, he said.
He refused to be drawn on whether he would step down if he did not achieve his ambition of doubling the number of Lib Dem MPs from nine to 18.
"As if I'm thinking about the ninth of June now," he said.
"My view is entirely fixed on the next four weeks - leading the Liberal Democrats, being the real opposition, the real alterative to a Conservative government that is taking the British people for granted."
Mr Farron said he predicted the 8 June general election would result in "a Conservative landslide", adding "there's no point in pretending otherwise".
But he claimed the Lib Dems had "fire in our belly and a clarity of purpose" to fill "the real vacancy in British politics and that's for there to be a decent opposition". | Tim Farron says he is "relaxed" about local Lib Dem parties choosing not to stand against other candidates to avoid splitting the anti-Tory vote. | 39869319 |
Hutchison is to sell his 76% shareholding to the fans group the 'Well Society for £1.
"With the fans nearly in full control, the onus will very much be on them and the wider community to stand by their club in the weeks, months and years ahead," Hutchison said.
"I'll be supporting from afar."
Hutchison has stepped down from his roles as director and vice-chairman, with Jim McMahon assuming the role of chairman and Douglas Dickie the role of vice-chairman.
John Boyle's controlling interest in the Fir Park club was transferred to retired businessman Hutchison in January 2015.
"I am extremely pleased at the great progress we have made both on and off the park," Hutchison continued.
"The new systems and processes now in place together with an excellent management team has ensured a successful turn around at the club.
"I would like to personally thank Mark McGhee and Alan Burrows for their huge contribution to the improvements at Fir Park.
"I would also like to thank everyone at Fir Park who adopted the many changes I introduced to create a solid foundation to build on and who worked tirelessly to advance the business plan during what was and is a transitional period.
"As well as thanking everyone who has joined and is contributing to the ' Well Society, I would also like to wish the extremely dedicated individuals who will now drive the club forward all the very best in their endeavours. I'll be supporting from afar." | Motherwell owner Les Hutchison is to sell his majority shareholding in the club as the Steelmen move towards a fan-ownership model. | 35815638 |
Price growth in food, alcohol and tobacco slowed slightly compared with November, while the drop in energy prices was also smaller, according to Eurostat estimates.
The rate was lower than the 0.3% rise expected by economists.
The data will put pressure on the European Central Bank to act further to boost the struggling European economy.
The central bank disappointed market hopes last month with its attempts to revive the economy, which were less dramatic than analysts had expected.
The inflation figures are an early, flash estimate from Eurostat and so are not broken down by member states.
It does give broad indications of which groups of products have gone up or down.
Food, alcohol and tobacco prices were estimated to be rising 1.2% year-on-year in December, compared with 1.5% in November.
Energy prices were falling an annual 5.9%, compared with 7.3% a month earlier.
And the price of services was up 1.1%, compared with 1.2% the month before. | Inflation in the eurozone remained at 0.2% in December, unchanged from November, official statistics show. | 35232248 |
The gaps were found in computer records studied by a financial consultancy, Alvarez and Marsal, Cypriot media say.
Bank of Cyprus - the island's biggest bank - bought Greek bonds which turned into some 1.9bn euros (£1.6bn; $2.4bn) of losses in the Greek debt crisis.
Depositors with more than 100,000 euros in the bank are now facing a big loss.
The "haircut" for such deposits in Bank of Cyprus is expected to be about 60%.
The money taken from those accounts, and from deposits above 100,000 euros at Laiki (Popular) Bank, will be used by the government to contribute billions towards the bailout.
Strict capital controls - unprecedented for the eurozone - are in force in Cyprus, limiting cash withdrawals to prevent a run on the banks.
The "haircut" - hugely unpopular in Cyprus - is a condition for the EU and IMF to grant a 10bn-euro bailout to rescue the Cypriot economy.
The Cyprus Mail website says information provided by Bank of Cyprus was incomplete and data-deleting software was found on some computers there.
There were significant gaps in computer records for the period 2007-2010. It is not yet clear whether the wiping of records was accidental or deliberate. There were signs of mass deletion of data.
The Central Bank of Cyprus says that Alvarez and Marsal are now investigating Laiki too - Cyprus's second largest bank, which is being wound up and folded into Bank of Cyprus.
"The investigation will continue and cover: the purchase of Greek government bonds by Laiki Bank; the expansion of Laiki Bank outside Cyprus; the role and responsibilities of all parties involved," the central bank said on Friday.
The consultancy's report on Bank of Cyprus has been leaked to Cypriot media, but not yet published.
Besides the Greek bond purchases the consultancy also scrutinised Bank of Cyprus operations in Romania and Russia.
The consultancy's findings have been handed over to the Cypriot parliament and the attorney-general, Petros Clerides.
The Cypriot government has appointed a special judicial panel to clarify what happened in the country's financial crash and pinpoint any wrongdoing. | Some key data about bond purchases by Bank of Cyprus - now the focus of a controversial EU-IMF bailout - is missing, investigators have found. | 22041122 |
"It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armoured cars for police who fight riots in our streets," he told an audience at the University of Kansas.
"It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programmes which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.
"Yet... it measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country.
"It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."
The target of the senator's ire was Gross National Product (GNP), the dominant indicator of US economic well-being.
Forty-four years later, little has changed. Politicians now generally use Gross Domestic Product (GDP) instead of GNP, but it's a technical difference.
If it goes up even by a fraction of a percent, we're supposed to rejoice - the economy is growing and all is right with our world. If it goes down, faces fall - the economy's shrinking - and the bells of doom start to clang.
Some economists have long questioned whether GDP is measuring anything meaningful. And in recent years, enough governments have listened that the issue is now on the agenda of the Rio+20 meeting.
The text in the draft agreement here - which may or may not be agreed, of course - reads:
"We recognise the limitations of GDP as a measure of well-being and sustainable development.
"As a complement to GDP, we resolve to further develop science-based and rigorous methods of measuring sustainable development, natural wealth and social well-being, including the identification of appropriate indicators for measuring progress... [and] use them effectively in our national decision making systems to better inform policy decisions."
So what's wrong with this simple concept whose rise and fall has come to dominate our news headlines?
"GDP is quite simply a measure of all the money we spend on all the stuff we buy - every financial transaction that takes places in the economy, all that adds to growth," says Andrew Simms, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (Nef) and author of several books on the subject.
And it is the indiscriminate nature of GDP that gives him, as well as Robert F Kennedy, a problem.
"Say you had a crime wave, and everybody felt insecure and rushed out to buy more locks for their windows and doors; that would look good on the balance sheet, but it wouldn't tell you the story that something bad was happening in society."
IN GDP-world, a society that drives is richer than one that cycles, as more money is spent.
The faster that mobile phones are traded in for new models, the richer we are; chopping down a forest adds to the national economy. The more alcohol, cigarettes and petrol that are sold, the better off we are.
Criticisms of GDP include:
Defenders of the status quo point out that it was never meant to measure environmental or social well-being.
But by dint of being measured constantly and referred to constantly by politicians, business leaders and newspaper editors, others would argue it has become society's weather vane - just about the only simple number in daily use that can be cited as evidence that things are getting better or worse.
Organisations such as Nef have developed composite indicators that they believe are more comprehensive and more valid.
The European Commission has put together a handy compendium, listing and explaining concepts such as the Genuine Progress Indicator, Environmentally Sustainable National Income and the Happy Planet Index.
The tiny South Asian nation of Bhutan famously uses the Gross National Happiness indicator, which combines issues such as children's health and educational status with measures of environmental protection, cultural values and good governance.
But many other countries are starting down the same road.
Oxford University economist Dieter Helm has just been appointed to lead the UK's Natural Capital Committee.
Its role is to assess the financial worth locked up in trees, clean water, insect pollinators and every other part of the ecological kingdom, and present this set of accounts to the Treasury - which should then be able to make better informed decisions.
It's worth recalling that the UN-backed Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Teeb) project calculated the value of forest lost globally around the world at $2-5 trillion (£1.3-3.2 trillion) each year.
But Prof Helm also hopes to shine a light on other questions.
"If you peel back and ask 'how well have we been looking after our assets in the British economy?' rather than just saying 'has GDP gone up or down a bit?', we'd have to ask some difficult questions.
"Why did we use up all the North Sea oil and gas [revenue] for the benefit of just one generation? Why did we set nothing aside for future generations? Why haven't we been maintaining our roads and railways properly?"
The implication is that an indicator more sophisticated than GDP should catch such things.
Not everyone is convinced by the arguments for going "beyond GDP".
"Everybody knows that the GDP figures are not perfect," says Lord Lawson, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher.
"But nevertheless they are extremely useful, and anybody who tried to pretend they were not useful I think would be laughed at."
And he has little time for natural capital accounting.
"It is all a lot of nonsense, because there is no way that you can introduce objectivity into this and it is just used for political campaigning of one kind or another - you just make it add up to whatever you would like it to add up to."
So far, most governments are with Lord Lawson; GDP remains the economic indicator that makes newsreaders sound happy when it rises by half a percent and funereal when it falls. Bhutan is in the minority.
But ministers in Rio will be reminded of the words of Simon Kuznets, the economist who invented GNP 80 years ago: "The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income". | In 1968, with the war in Vietnam at its height and the US psyche in consequent turmoil, senator and presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy mounted a coruscating attack on one of the sacred cows of economics. | 18380580 |
Joseph Phelps of Newbridge RFC cannot play for four years, making him the 13th Welsh rugby union player to currently be serving a ban.
United Kingdom Anti-Doping says Phelps' use of nandrolone was detected in June 2015 and he is banned until July 2019.
A summary of the tribunal published by Ukad said Phelps claimed he had taken Viagra and a "test booster" product to treat erectile dysfunction.
He also claimed not to have taken anything "for performance enhancement in sport" but to treat symptoms he had suffered after sustaining a testicular injury.
A report by Professor David Cowan, Director of the Drug Control Centre at King's College London, confirmed to the tribunal that "the human body does not naturally produce nandrolone in measurable quantities and that nandrolone is a drug administered via deep intra-muscular injection".
Ukad legal chief Graham Arthur said athletes are "solely responsible" for banned substance found in their system.
Arthur added: "This case highlights that all athletes, regardless of level, must be aware, and understand, the risks to their sporting careers if they test positive.
"They must ensure they manage that risk at all times."
Phelps' ban comes less than a month after Ukad chief executive Nicole Sapstead said a "societal problem" could be the cause of steroid drug use in Welsh rugby.
Newbridge play in Swalec Championship. | A Welsh rugby player has been banned after testing positive for a steroid. | 35968278 |
Chris Coleman's side were knocked out of the tournament after losing 2-0 to Portugal in the semi-final on Wednesday.
It dashed their hopes of becoming the first British team to reach the final of a major tournament for 50 years.
A special homecoming event to welcome back Wales' Euro 2016 team is being organised in Cardiff on Friday.
Lewis Wells, 18, of Pontypridd, said it had "definitely" put Welsh football on the map.
Two quick goals early in the second half from Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani clinched Portugal's victory - but Welsh fans remained upbeat after the game.
After watching the match in the Lyon fan zone, Mr Wells said: "It's put us out there. It's proved how good [a smaller] team can be."
He added: "It's ridiculous how proud I feel of my country.
"We lost 2-0 to Portugal in the semi-finals of the European Championships - it's unbelievable."
Lee Smith, 36, of Brecon, in Powys, said "hopefully" the team's performances could change football in Wales forever.
"One of the reasons is Cardiff City and Swansea City have both been better recently," he said.
"It's no coincidence... that we [Wales] are playing better."
Morgan Haggett, 17, of Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, also watched the game in the Place de Bellecour fan zone.
"What an amazing experience it has been," he said.
"We can finally prove to the rugby fans - this is Wales football, you know?"
The team finished top of Group B after a 2-1 win over Slovakia, a 2-1 loss to England and a 3-0 win over Russia.
They then beat Northern Ireland 1-0 in the last 16 before beating Belgium - ranked second in the world by Fifa - 3-1 in a historic victory in Lille.
More than 100,000 Wales fans are believed to have visited France since Euro 2016 kicked off on 10 June.
The Football Supporters' Federation Cymru believe more than 20,000 Wales fans poured into Lyon for the semi-final.
Nick True, 40, a fan who travelled from Cardiff to watch Wales in the Lyon fan zone, said the team must stay "humble" despite their success.
"If you over-egg it, then you're going to create superstars who believe the hype," he said.
"I think what we have to do is stay humble and just be like a people team."
Despite the loss at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais, the side - captained by Ashley Williams - has gone further than any other in Welsh football history in a major tournament.
First Minister Carwyn Jones was among those to say how proud he was of them.
He tweeted: "Very proud again tonight. Sad it's over but @FAWales and fans fantastic throughout this historic #EURO2016. Diolch. #TogetherStronger." | Wales fans have praised the team's heroics at Euro 2016, saying it has changed Welsh football forever. | 36729182 |
The launch of the Soyuz was watched by Mr Putin, who had flown 5,500km (3,500 miles) to the country's Far East for the event.
The Vostochny cosmodrome was built to reduce dependency on the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan.
The unmanned rocket is carrying three satellites.
It left Earth at 05:01 Moscow time (02:01 GMT).
The initial attempt at launch was called off less than two minutes before lift-off on Wednesday, following a technical fault.
Mr Putin stressed that the delay was related to the rocket itself - not the cosmodrome, located in the Amur region near the Russian-Chinese border.
It was Mr Putin's personal idea to build a new space port in Russia to avoid any potential political risks of using the old Soviet launch centre at Baikonur.
But construction of the vast complex in Russia's Far East has been hit by delays and dogged by corruption scandals.
Four people have already been arrested.
"If their guilt is proven, they will have to change their warm beds at home for plank-beds in prison," the president has warned. | Russia has launched the first rocket from its new Vostochny cosmodrome, following a 24-hour delay that drew the ire of President Vladimir Putin. | 36156873 |
The 34-year-old had missed the French Open last month with a back problem.
His comeback match against American Taylor Fritz went into a second day because of heavy rain, but the Swiss eventually came through 6-4 5-7 6-4.
The result takes Federer joint second with Ivan Lendl for the most wins in the open era with 1,071.
"I can take a lot of confidence out of this match," said the 17-time Grand Slam champion.
"I need to improve a few things, but I served big and I was able to handle three sets over two days, and find some energy at the end of the match." | World number three Roger Federer made his return from injury with a second-round victory in the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart. | 36494871 |
One case was found in the capital Conakry and the other in Forecariah, a town in western Guinea.
The week before last was the first week that the three worst-affected countries - Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia - had seen no new infections.
The virus has killed more than 11,000 people in nearly two years.
The case in Forecariah appeared to be linked to a previously known chain of infection, while the one in Conakry seemed to be new, authorities in Guinea said.
"On the bumpy road we keep talking about - the high risk of recurrence - once again we are navigating a few bumps," said WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris on Friday.
"Of course we didn't want it, but we did expect it. Guinea hadn't got to the stage where we were looking at 42 days".
A country is considered to be Ebola-free after 42 days without a new case.
Liberia recently achieved this status and neighbouring Sierra Leone is nearly halfway through the 42 days.
The enduring risks from the virus were highlighted this week when a British nurse fell "critically ill", 10 months after recovering from Ebola.
A new study has also shown that Ebola persists in the semen of male survivors for up to nine months - much longer than previously thought. | The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed two new cases of Ebola in Guinea, ending a two-week spell in which no new infections were reported. | 34550615 |
Frank Simpson veered off the road at 50mph in an 18-tonne lorry and failed to slow down before smashing into John Trimble's parked Vauxhall Corsa.
Simpson, who admitted causing death by careless driving, only braked after hitting Mr Simpson's car.
He was also given a six-month curfew.
In addition, the 35-year-old, from Edinburgh, was disqualified from driving for 30 months and ordered to re-sit the extended driving test.
Sheriff William Wood told Perth Sheriff Court that the offence was in the mid-range of careless driving.
The court heard previously that Simpson was driving a refrigerated HGV for DHL and heading to the Vue Cinema in Inverness when the crash happened on 4 November 2014.
Fiscal depute Sue Ruta said Mr Trimble was parked in layby 33 on the northbound carriageway of the A9 at 07:50. He was wearing his seatbelt.
Ms Ruta told the court: "A witness observed the accused's lorry start to drift slowly to the left towards the entrance of the layby.
"That witness had a clear view of the lorry and could see the car parked in the layby. He thought the lorry was going to hit the car because it did not slow down and the brake lights did not come on.
"He saw the accused's lorry plough into the back of the car, propelling it into the air. He saw it turn over before coming to rest on its roof."
Mr Trimble was declared dead at the scene.
Ms Ruta said the lorry's tacograph showed it had gradually slowed down before the impact, but the brakes were only applied two seconds after the vehicles collided.
"There were no mechanical defects. The driver would have had a clear view of the layby for 32 seconds before impact.
Simpson's solicitor Gary Foulis said: "He is truly and deeply remorseful for what's happened here.
"He fully understands and comprehends the catastrophic consequences of his actions.
"There is understanding on his part of the devastating impact it will have on the victim's family."
Sheriff Wood said: "It's certainly nowhere near dangerous driving, yet it's not simply momentary inattention, because there was 32 seconds where he should have seen the vehicle.
"These are serious matters. You caused the death of a man who was in the prime of his family life.
"This was a man with very close relationships to his three daughters and son, and a wife and grandchildren.
"You have denied all of those generations a future with John Trimble.
"You will need to live with that. It will not be an easy thing for you to deal with." | A lorry driver who killed another motorist by drifting off the A9 and smashing into his parked car in a lay-by been sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid work. | 35916754 |
The 28-year-old joined the club from Wakefield in 2012 after two previous loan spells.
Dean, who began his career at St Helens, scored eight tries in his 27 appearances last term as Widnes reached the play-offs for the first time.
"Retaining a player like Chris is fantastic for the club," head coach Denis Betts told the club website.
"Chris is the type of player that all great clubs are built on. To secure a player of his quality will only add to the strength of the team." | Widnes Vikings centre Chris Dean has signed a new two-year contract with the Super League side. | 35958717 |
He said watching his first wife Penny Calvert spend her last years in a care home with dementia had convinced him people should not be "left to suffer".
Sir Bruce visited regularly to help with her care until she died last year.
He told the Mail on Sunday it could often be "more cruel to do nothing" than to let someone die.
"It's a terrible illness, awful to see and awful for everyone close to the person suffering," he said of his first wife's dementia.
"It's a very difficult situation. She didn't remember me. It's just so awful to have your mind and your memories taken away from you."
Sir Bruce, 87, continued: "It bothers me an awful lot that people are just left to suffer. If I had Alzheimer's or dementia I would do something about it.
"The law should be changed and if people want to die with a bit of dignity left they should be able to do so.
"If it is what the person wants and it can be proved they are living a life of suffering it can be more cruel to do nothing. I'd like that right for myself."
The Alzheimer's Society said: "Everyone experiences dementia differently and it can be extremely difficult and painful to find yourself losing your memories and abilities. It is important that people with dementia know there is information and support out there so they don't have to struggle.
"The Alzheimer's Society is not calling for a change in the law on assisted dying or euthanasia. We believe that people with dementia are entitled to good end of the life care. Improving staff training and awareness is vital to make people's final days as comfortable as possible.
"This must include the maintenence of dignity of each person and their loved ones."
Sir Bruce married Ms Calvert in 1953 and they had three children before they split up 20 years later. However the pair remained on good terms and he helped nurse her through her illness after she went in to a home in 2008.
The veteran presenter, who quit as the host of Strictly Come Dancing last year, has been married to third wife Wilnelia Merced since 1983.
Other names who have spoken out in support of assisted dying include late author Terry Pratchett, Sir Richard Branson and Professor Stephen Hawking.
Labour peer Lord Falconer has tabled a bill asking that patients with less than six months to live be allowed to take their own life with the help of a doctor.
However Judge Baroness Butler-Sloss is against the bill, which she says would "cross a line" towards euthanasia.
Alistair Thompson from Care Not Killing told the BBC: "Clearly comments like these are disappointing, but what we need to do is look at the level of care.
"There are cases where people have not received the right level of care and that is what we should be looking at or assessing - rather than making such a huge step in the law and saying, 'you are not entitled to the same levels of protection as the young and able bodied'. Rather than putting people at risk."
He added: "When you look at the detailed polling on this issue, there is a huge amount of concern among the general population about how people might feel pressured into ending their lives - because they may feel like a care burden or a financial burden.
"It sends a very bad message." | Sir Bruce Forsyth has called for a change in the law on assisted dying so that people can choose to die with "a bit of dignity left". | 32386502 |
The Airports Commission published a report backing a third runway in July.
But the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee report said firm plans to deal with climate-changing emissions, air quality and noise need to be put in place.
A final government decision is expected by the end of the year.
Labour MP Huw Irranca-Davies, chairman of the committee, said it would be "irresponsible" to postpone dealing with the environmental impact of expansion at Heathrow.
He warned that to do so "could lead to legal challenges as a result of the potential damage to public health from increased air pollution and noise".
"If the government decides to accept the commission's recommendation for a third runway in principle, we will seek assurances from the secretary of state for transport that environmental conditions will be met before it is given final approval," he added.
BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed said senior sources at the company that runs Heathrow have told him the "mood music" around the decision to expand is in favour of the third runway being approved.
The cross-party committee said legal air pollution limits would have to be reached if the west London airport expands and also called for a ban on night flights to ease noise.
The MPs said the airport had to show that an expanded Heathrow would be less noisy than it is with two runways. Their report also called for Heathrow to say it would cover the costs of surface transport improvements.
The Airports Commission has already called for flights between 23:30 and 06:00 to be banned.
Heathrow currently has said it wants a "review" of the issue and has not made any pledges over night flights. The airport has also said it plans to ensure more people arrive by public transport to keep emissions down.
Mr Irranca-Davies said: "The communities living near to the roads around Heathrow already put up with noise and extra traffic.
"It would be quite unacceptable to subject them to a potentially significant deterioration in air quality as well."
A strategy to deliver aviation emissions at no higher than 2005 levels by 2050 should be put in place by the government, the committee's report recommended.
It also called for a Community Engagement Board to be set up to increase trust between local residents and the government.
Mr Irranca-Davies said: "Planes are becoming more fuel efficient, but this alone will not keep aviation emissions in line with the government's climate change targets given the growth in passenger numbers.
"Even without expansion, aviation is on track to exceed its climate change target. We heard evidence that those targets might be met in theory, but at present there is a policy vacuum and evidence-based scepticism as to whether they can be met in practice."
Heathrow's chief executive John Holland-Kaye told the committee earlier this month that the airport could comfortably expand to include a third runway and still stay within environmental targets.
At the time, he said the issue of night flights was one that Heathrow was looking at and would comment on "in due course".
The issue of Heathrow's expansion has been a long-running and contentious issue.
In 2009, while in opposition, David Cameron ruled out Heathrow expansion, saying "no ifs, no buts".
The Airport Commission's recommendation in July was criticised by competing airport Gatwick, and by London Mayor Boris Johnson, who has argued for a whole new airport.
Environmentalists and residents who live near the flight path of the proposed third runway have also campaigned against it. | The government should not support the building of a third runway at Heathrow until a number of environmental conditions can be met, MPs have said. | 34971277 |
John McAfee has been on the run in Belize following a police investigation into the murder of his neighbour.
Belize officials said the software pioneer was a "person of interest" in the death of Florida businessman Gregory Faull on 11 November.
The American has protested his innocence in an online blog and says he has been "harassed" by police.
Appearing in public for the first time in weeks on Tuesday, Mr McAfee and his lawyer said he would petition the Guatemalan government to stay there.
The multi-millionaire fugitive reportedly checked into the five star Villa Real hotel in Guatemala City after sneaking out of Belize. The hotel told the BBC that he checked out at 11:00 local time (17:00 GMT).
He has hired a high-profile Guatemalan lawyer and told reporters: "Now that I'm here I can speak freely, I can speak openly".
"Belize does not have a good track record of providing safety when they ask to question you. I felt much more secure crossing the border," Mr McAfee added.
The 67-year old had earlier revealed that in order to go unnoticed, he changed his appearance by dying his hair and beard, sticking chewed bubble gum to his upper gums to fatten his face and staining his teeth.
Mr McAfee has blogged and spoken to journalists regularly during his three weeks on the run, saying he was writing to publicise the treatment he had received at the hands of the police in Belize.
Gregory Faull was found dead with a single gunshot to the head on 11 November. His Belize home sits next to Mr McAfee's compound on a tropical island.
The US software creator is known to have had a long-running row with Mr Faull about the guard dogs he used to protect his compound.
He denies any involvement in the businessman's death and says he went into hiding so he could stay close to his Belize home and conduct his own investigation into Mr Faull's death, adding that he had little faith that the island's police would find the murderer.
In an interview with US TV station NBC, Mr McAfee offered a reward of $25,000 (£15,700) for the capture of the "person or persons" behind the killing.
Speaking through a representative, the Faull family has said that they feel the death of their loved one has been overshadowed by the media frenzy the software pioneer has whipped up.
McAfee has led an eccentric life since he sold his stake in the anti-virus software company that bears his name in the early 1990s.
He moved to Belize about three years ago seeking lower taxes and has lived in semi-seclusion on a heavily guarded compound until recently. | The founder of anti-virus software maker McAfee has crossed into Guatemala to seek political asylum. | 20602234 |
The claim: The Migration Watch think tank says that between a quarter and half a million refugees and their dependants could come to the UK from 2020 onwards after acquiring EU citizenship.
Reality Check verdict: We could not find clear evidence to support this figure. It is very difficult to predict what future migration flows will look like, as they depend on a number of factors. It can also take a number of years for refugees granted asylum in EU countries to acquire citizenship and apply for EU passports. We don't know how many people granted asylum in the stated period will go on to become citizens of another EU country.
Of these, 333,350 were granted refugee status, subsidiary protection status, temporary protection or the right to remain on humanitarian grounds.
A report from Migration Watch, which wants to reduce levels of immigration to the UK, claims that between 240,000 and 480,000 refugees could move to the UK from 2020.
This figure includes family members who they say may travel with them but excludes "any future arrivals who might be granted asylum in other EU member states".
Migration Watch bases its estimates on the Eurostat data available for 2015 and the first three months of 2016. This shows that, in that period, roughly 460,000 migrants were granted asylum or humanitarian protection in EU countries.
However, they also claim that of those applicants already in the EU still waiting for a decision, "an additional 508,000 people will be granted asylum, bringing the total number granted refugee status in EU countries to 968,000 for 2015 and the first quarter of 2016 alone".
They calculate this on the current Eurostat data available on the recognition rate - or percentage of successful asylum claims - which is about 52%. However, it is not clear that this would remain the same.
Dr Nando Sigona, senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham and expert in migration, said that it was wrong to assume the same rate of success for pending cases. This is because more straightforward cases, like asylum applications from Syrians, tend to be decided on more quickly.
"Eurostat data shows that the acceptance rate of asylum claims particularly in some countries (e.g. Italy) is decreasing," he added.
This aside, to arrive at the figure of between 240,000 and 480,000 of the 968,000 coming to the UK from 2020, Migration Watch have made a number of other assumptions.
Firstly, they say that "each person granted asylum is likely to be followed by between four and eight family members".
They base this on a "leaked estimate from the German authorities". By assuming that four family members would follow 968,000 people, they calculate that the total inflow to Europe could be as high as 4.8m people.
We contacted the German government, who could not confirm the figures for the number of family members likely to join refugees in Europe. We do know that some other EU countries, like Denmark, are tightening the rules on family reunification and have extended the length of time that migrants can apply for family members to join them from one year to three.
Secondly, Migration Watch assume that the English language, availability of low-skilled jobs and existing migrant communities were a pull factor for refugees and migrants living in other parts of the EU.
The Migration Observatory research team at Oxford University previously concluded that these were indeed pull factors for some EU migrants.
However, as Dr Sigona points out: "Making assumptions about what recognised refugees will do after five years in a wealthy country is baseless. Secondary migration often happens immediately or if there is a major disruption. One could assume after five years that refugee families are more or less integrated where they are."
Thirdly, they claim that between 5% and 10% of these 4.8 million refugees could choose to come to the UK after acquiring EU citizenship. This brought them to the figure of between 240,000 and 480,000 people.
In their report, they say this percentage was mainly chosen for "illustrative purposes", though they also cited research showing that between "a third and half of the Somalis granted asylum in the Netherlands have relocated to the UK".
We found a study suggesting that the Dutch-Somali community in the UK varied between 10,000 and 20,000 between 1998 and 2002 - roughly around one-third of the Dutch-Somali population living in the Netherlands at the time.
However, according to official figures released by Eurostat, Somalis only represented 2% of the approximately 330,000 asylum seekers granted protection in EU member states in 2015. In 2014, 4% of the 185,000 people granted protection were Somali.
We could not find any other clear evidence to support this 5-10% figure, though Migration Watch say the EU's resettlement programme for refugees and current levels of migration from southern Europe were also factors which they considered.
Lastly, Migration Watch say that refugees could begin to arrive in the years following 2020. They base this on refugees granted asylum needing at least five to six years to becomes EU citizens and get an EU passport, which would allow them to live and work in another EU country. We also don't know yet how many refugees granted asylum in the stated period will eventually go on to acquire citizenship of another EU country.
As previously mentioned here, this can take up to six to eight years in Germany and asylum seekers have to fulfil a number of conditions before being accepted.
Robert McNeil, from the Migration Observatory research team at Oxford University, said: "We simply do not know how many people may come to the UK in future because it is dependent on an enormous number of different factors. The numbers put forward in this report are speculating about what may happen in the future."
Read more: The facts behind claims in the EU debate | About 1.3 million people applied for asylum in Europe in 2015, according to the EU statistics agency, Eurostat. | 36419400 |
Tomasz Kocik, 38, of Buckingham Road, Harlesden, was found guilty of murdering Marta Ligman, 23.
The trial heard Ms Ligman may have been alive when Kocik dragged her from their flat to the canal in north west London.
At the Old Bailey he was told he would serve a minimum of 18 years and six months.
Kocik was caught on CCTV cameras early in the morning of 1 May this year dragging an "extremely heavy" and large suitcase for half a mile from his home to the canal towpath and then filmed again when he returned home an hour later with wet trousers.
Judge Nicholas Hilliard told Kocik Ms Ligman had suffered a "severe beating" at his hands.
More on this story and updates from London.
He said: "Dead or dying you then treated her body in a grotesque and demeaning way, hauling her in a suitcase down to the canal and carrying a stick to try to submerge the case when you got there."
Kocik then followed a "determined" course of action to mislead her family, friends and police by using Ms Ligman's Facebook account to "leave a false trail", the judge said.
The court heard Ms Ligman's body was discovered 10 days later by the occupants of a houseboat who spotted her dyed red hair streaming from the case after it collided with the hull.
Her body was in a tight foetal position wrapped in bin bags and curtains.
Despite her family asking him to report Ms Ligman's disappearance Kocik failed to report her missing until after the body was found in the canal.
Ms Ligman was in Poland when she met Kocik in an online dating chatroom, before moving to London in 2012 to live with the forklift truck driver.
The jury heard that colleagues at the delicatessen where Ms Ligman worked described Kocik as an "obsessively jealous, controlling boyfriend".
In his defence Kocik, a Polish national, claimed he had found Ms Ligman dead at their flat after days of amphetamine fuelled bondage sex sessions. | A man who beat his girlfriend and put her unconscious body inside a suitcase before dumping it in London's Grand Union Canal has been jailed for life. | 34944837 |
Infestations are on the rise around the world, but the pests are growing resistant to some chemicals.
Now scientists have found 14 genes associated with a number of biological changes.
These include the development of a thicker skin that stops poisons from penetrating, and mutations that prevent toxins from hitting the nervous system.
The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, also suggests that some of the bugs are producing higher levels of enzymes that help to metabolise insecticides more quickly.
Others genes are associated with proteins that interfere with the way the deadly chemicals are carried around the bed bugs' bodies.
Subba Palli, professor entomology from the University of Kentucky in the US and an author of the study, said that the hardy insects were using a combination of these molecular tricks.
"Some used four different mechanisms, some three and so on," he explained.
"Bed bugs are employing more than one mechanism of resistance to avoid insecticide toxicity."
Nature's survivors
Bed bugs are present all over the globe, but in recent years Europe, the US, Canada and Australia have seen a huge influx of them.
The insects feast on the blood of their sleeping victims, leaving itchy, red welts as a calling card.
They are one of the toughest pests to get rid of. Vacating your bed - or even home - will not help, as the insects can survive for months without food, hiding away until their meal returns.
Direct exposure to insecticides - the most widely used are synthetic organic compounds called pyrethroids - was once an effective way to kill off the pests. But not any more.
Prof Palli said that the bed bugs had developed a number of biological systems to avoid death by poison.
Studying 21 populations of insects, which had been collected from infested apartments close to the university, the team discovered that the genes associated with resistance to pyrethroids were located in the bed bugs' tough outer shell.
"We are hypothesising that having these genes expressed in the epidermis will provide a first line of defence as insecticides penetrate the skin," he explained.
The team said that the findings could help scientists to develop new, more effective chemicals.
These could bypass the bed bugs' molecular armoury or work by interfering with the genes associated with insecticide resistance.
But until these are created, exterminators are having to resort to other means to beat the bugs.
Prof Palli explained: "In places like India, they are not treated as huge problem pests... People drag their furniture out into the Sun... and the bugs will crawl out and die from the heat."
Now in the US, he explained, exterminators are employing similar tactics when confronted with the worst infestations.
"The best option now is to heat the place up to 90-100F (30-35C) so that the bugs will come out and die," he explained.
"They take all of the furniture out, and they heat up the house. That seems to be the way to exterminate them if the infestation is bad." | Bed bugs use a range of tactics to render insecticides useless, a study suggests. | 21778171 |
The first gay marriages are now likely to take place in the early autumn.
Diarmuid Martin, the archbishop of Dublin, said the Church in Ireland needed to reconnect with young people.
The referendum found 62% were in favour of changing the constitution to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry.
The archbishop told the Irish broadcaster RTÉ: "We [the Church] have to stop and have a reality check, not move into denial of the realities.
"We won't begin again with a sense of renewal, with a sense of denial.
"I appreciate how gay and lesbian men and women feel on this day. That they feel this is something that is enriching the way they live. I think it is a social revolution."
The archbishop personally voted "No" arguing that gay rights should be respected "without changing the definition of marriage".
"I ask myself, most of these young people who voted yes are products of our Catholic school system for 12 years. I'm saying there's a big challenge there to see how we get across the message of the Church," he added.
Ireland is the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage through a popular vote, and its referendum was held 22 years after homosexual acts were decriminalised in the Republic of Ireland.
Among those voicing their approval of the outcome was UK Prime Minister David Cameron who tweeted: "Congratulations to the people of Ireland, after voting for same-sex marriage, making clear you are equal if you are straight or gay."
Feargha NÃ Bhroin and Linda Cullen were among those who were pleased at the result of the referendum.
Ms Cullen proposed to her partner live on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sunday.
The couple, who have been together 10 years, said marriage was especially important for them as they have children.
"It means a lot in this country to be married and to have that status for your family," Ms Cullen said.
In Ireland debates about morality tend to be rooted in religion. The discussion about same sex marriage was no exception.
The Catholic Church after all still has much influence in Ireland and the no vote was strongest in rural areas where church attendance figures tend to be higher. That sharply compared to the cities where the yes campaign never doubted their support.
There was also a generational divide - with the yes campaign capturing the interest and enthusiasm of young people in a way that few elections do. Some living abroad even returned home to Ireland simply to visit the ballot box.
The Catholic Church is not immune from the influence of an increasingly liberal Ireland.
In his appeal for a no vote the church's most senior figure In Ireland specifically recognised the love shared between same sex couples.
That is a softening of language and in its own way a sign of wider change.
In total, 1,201,607 people voted in favour of same-sex marriage, while 734,300 voted against.
Out of 43 constituencies, only the largely rural Roscommon-South Leitrim had a majority of "no" votes.
The yes vote means an amendment will be made to Article 41 of the constitution, stating that being of the same sex is no longer an impediment to marriage.
The government must bring in a new law, the Marriage Bill 2015, to give effect to the amendment and it says it hopes to do that by the time the Irish parliament breaks up in the summer.
This means the first actual marriages are unlikely to take place until September.
Same-sex marriage is now legal in 20 countries worldwide.
The Republic of Ireland has a written constitution which can only be changed by referendum.
Now that the proposal has been passed, a marriage between two people of the same sex will have the same status under the Irish constitution as a marriage between a man and a woman.
They will be recognised as a family and be entitled to the constitutional protection for families.
Civil partnerships for same-sex couples have been legal in Ireland since 2010, giving couples legal protection which could be changed by the government.
However, married gay people will now have a constitutional standing that can only be removed by another popular vote.
According to the Irish Times, there will be no new civil partnerships from the day the law comes into effect, and although civil partners will retain their existing rights, there will be no automatic upgrade from partnership to marriage.
Reaction to 'yes' vote | One of Ireland's most senior Catholic clerics has called for the Church to take a "reality check" following the country's overwhelming vote in favour of same-sex marriage. | 32862824 |
Coleg Gwent said there would also be reductions to courses due to £29.9m further education funding cuts by the Welsh government.
Most part-time college and community courses will go from September but full-time courses are not affected.
The Welsh government said it was working closely with the college on any potential impact.
The college, which has campuses in Ebbw Vale, Newport, Crosskeys, Pontypool and Usk, said it was now in a 45-day consultation with staff and trade unions and was making a request for voluntary redundancies.
Principal Jim Bennett said: "I appreciate the pressures that the Welsh government is facing with their own funding being reduced from Westminster, but the real impact of these cuts on learners, jobs, communities and the people of Wales will be very serious."
Neath Port Talbot College Group has also held meetings with staff about the "major impact" a £4m budget cut will have on its courses.
A Welsh government spokesman added: "The UK government has cut the Welsh government's budget by £1.4bn in real terms since 2010. We have been clear about the financial challenges this has presented and the difficult decisions we've had to make.
"It is now more important than ever that we focus not just on the resources that are available but how we use them and what we achieve." | Up to 130 jobs are under threat at a south Wales college that faces making £5.7m in budget cuts. | 32054581 |
The up-and-coming funnyman was given the prize by digital TV channel Dave, whose panel put a selection of their favourites to a public vote.
He won for the joke: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."
Last year's winner, quick-fire joker Tim Vine, was beaten into second place by Helm.
Helm said: "I knew my joke was the funniest joke of all the other jokes in 2011.
"Thank you to Dave and all the people that voted for proving me right."
Veteran entertainer Paul Daniels won the wooden spoon for the worst joke of the festival.
He won the dubious honour for his gag: "I said to a fella 'Is there a B&Q in Henley?' He said 'No, there's an H, an E, an N an L and a Y'."
The top 10 festival funnies were judged to be:
1) Nick Helm: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."
2) Tim Vine: "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels."
3) Hannibal Buress: "People say 'I'm taking it one day at a time'. You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works."
4) Tim Key: "Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought... once you've hired the car..."
5) Matt Kirshen: "I was playing chess with my friend and he said, 'Let's make this interesting'. So we stopped playing chess."
6) Sarah Millican: "My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards."
7) Alan Sharp: "I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure."
8) Mark Watson: "Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife."
9) Andrew Lawrence: "I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails."
10) DeAnne Smith: "My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin." | Comedian Nick Helm has won an award for the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. | 14646532 |
Lifeguards discovered broken bottles, the remains of barbecue and damage to Whiterocks unit's radio aerial on Wednesday morning.
A large rock which had been thrown at the hut left a two inch hole in the unit which had also been covered with indecent graffiti.
The RNLI estimated that repairs will cost £800.
The vandalism follows two of the busiest days on Northern Ireland's beaches this summer.
RNLI Lifeguard Supervisor Karl O'Neill said the damage to the aerial mount had threatened vital VHF communications while the rock damage meant the unit was no longer watertight.
He said: "Our lifeguards rely on the aerial to communicate with each other when on patrol and to communicate with their colleagues in the Coastguard in the event of an emergency.
"Thankfully the damage has not rendered our communications off-service but should it have and should it have happened during the last two days which brought thousands of people to our beaches to enjoy the good weather, lives could have been put at risk.
"It is very disappointing for our lifeguards, who have been working hard to keep people safe, to turn up this morning after two busy days and see the unit they need to carry out their job has been so badly damaged, it really does dampen spirits.
"Our lifeguards' primary role at Whiterocks and on all lifeguarded beaches on the Causeway Coast is to make sure the beach can be enjoyed safely by the public. We want them to be able to continue to do that safely and with peace of mind," he added. | Vandals have caused hundreds of pounds worth of damage to an RNLI beach lifeguard hut in County Antrim. | 40658966 |
The wall seems hopelessly inadequate even when it's not full of holes. When he returned to Kiribati from New Zealand, he had to fix it in three places. And he expects to trudge out after almost every high tide to patch it up again.
The threat of sea-level rise was the basis of his four year battle to become the world's first recognised climate refugee.
But courts in New Zealand rejected his claim, and he was deported in September for overstaying his visa. He says that decision has put him in danger.
"I'm the same as people who are fleeing war. Those who are afraid of dying, it's the same as me," he says.
Like many in Kiribati, he's worried the ocean will swallow the entire country like some latter day Atlantis.
Kiribati consists almost entirely of tiny strips of land which barely peek out above a vast and relentless Pacific Ocean.
Tarawa, the main island where Mr Teitiota now lives, is 3m (9.8ft) above sea level at its highest point. It's obvious why people here are worried about sea level rise.
Experts who study atolls point out that as erosion happens on one side of an atoll, sand often accumulates on the other. The sea might not win a complete victory, because atolls shift and change and even rise with the tide.
But the shore line is likely to move, so Mr Teitiota and others who live by the water worry that their sea walls or houses might wash away.
Mr Teitiota, his wife and three children are staying at his brother-in-law's house. It's a basic cinder block box with no chairs and virtually no modern conveniences.
He has two penned pigs in his yard and a pack of stray dogs scratch themselves under the palm trees. He warns me about the brown dog. That's the dangerous one. And he doesn't like it being so close to his kids.
The family relies on rainwater for drinking. The tank is too small, so they struggle to get enough. It's a bitter irony in a place that's constantly threatened with inundation.
They pump water from the ground too, but it's filthy. The groundwater here is just below the surface, which makes it vulnerable to contamination from humans and animals above.
They only use groundwater for washing, but it's making his children sick. All of them have skin problems. Hopefully, it's just an annoyance.
But childhood illness is a real concern here. Infant mortality is higher in Kiribati than in Bangladesh, and the water is a contributing factor.
While there are solutions to some of these problems, they cost money, and Mr Teitiota hasn't worked since he returned. The prospects aren't bright in a country where unemployment tops 30%.
Mr Teitiota's lawyer, Michael Kidd, is still outraged that he was deported.
"I'm amazed that the New Zealand government seems to think it's okay to send people back to those conditions," he says.
Mr Teitiota's current situation shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who heard his case. In fact, it's exactly what he told them would happen. And the various tribunals and courts that considered his case accepted he was telling the truth.
What they didn't accept was that the dangers were imminent, or that they were due to "reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion," as the refugee convention requires.
Mr Kidd sees politics in the mix. There are potentially hundreds of millions of people in low-lying areas that could be affected by sea level rises. He wonders if wealthy countries fear that cases like Mr Teitiota's could turn climate migration from a trickle to a raging torrent.
But there hasn't been a dramatic exodus just yet. The New Zealand immigration department sets aside 75 places a year in a lottery for migrants from Kiribati, and at the moment it can't fill them.
President Anote Tong suggests that is because things aren't desperate enough yet.
"It's not a critical issue yet. I think if there are people who migrate now, I hope they would do it out of choice. But as to the question, is it so critical that people would be regarded as refugees? My answer would be no, not at this point in time."
And yet, the annihilation of his country is something he discusses more than any other head of government.
He just hosted a conference which considered questions such as, what happens to a country's fishing rights if it ceases to be a country? Do people retain citizenship if a country no longer exists?
Perhaps it shouldn't be a surprise that Mr Teitiota worries about it.
"I think being a refugee is the best way of protecting myself. Especially if something happens to Kiribati," he says.
The refugee convention was a product of post-war Europe, conceived and written long before climate change became a global issue.
Cases like Mr Teitiota's don't really fit, according to Jane McAdam, a law professor at the University of New South Wales who has written extensively about refugees and climate change migration.
But if the refugee convention isn't the right mechanism for people fleeing natural calamities, (and there were 19.3 million of them in 2014) then what is?
A new international framework called the Nansen Initiative is emerging. It's a protection agenda based on "international consensus", "standards for treatment" and "operational responses to disasters."
"It's not a one size fits all approach, but a disaster toolkit", says Jane McAdam.
But it's still very much a work in progress, and there's no guarantee it would leave Ioane Teitiota better off.
"I wanted to stay in New Zealand because it's a better life there," he says.
For the moment, it appears he's stuck here in Kiribati. | With waves breaking at his feet, Ioane Teitiota holds his hand more than a metre above his sea wall to demonstrate how high the water gets during a king tide. | 34674374 |
Dominic Samuel fired home from close range to open the scoring before Crewe's best chance came when Zoumana Bakayogo's 25-yard volley hit the post.
Gillingham's second came when Samuel's 61st-minute volley hit the bar and rebounded in off defender Jon Guthrie.
Josh Wright added an injury-time third, slotting his shot in off the post.
Gillingham stay third, three points off from an automatic promotion spot.
Crewe remain second from bottom, seven points shy of safety, with 10 games left, starting with next Saturday's key home game against 21st-placed Blackpool.
Crewe boss Steve Davis told BBC Radio Stoke:
"We didn't offer much as an attacking threat in the first half. Only Zoumana Bakayogo offered something in the final third. He was our outstanding player,
"He was a threat with his pace and willingness to get forward and put crosses in for us and his volley was an excellent effort.
"We went for it and had a go in the second half. We gambled and that is always going to leave spaces for the opposition. We had a great chance to level it up when Marcus Haber has put Tom Hitchcock in but he snatched at it. It was a type of finish from someone who is a bit out of form and it was a key moment because, not long after, they get their second goal.
"It was a mistake between our left back and centre-back, Samuel has got free in the box and hit the underside of the bar and it has hit Jon and gone in. That about sums it up for us." | Gillingham won for the first time in five games to restart their automatic promotion push, as they beat League One strugglers Crewe Alexandra. | 35733036 |
The coronet, designed by Prince Albert for their wedding in 1840, is at risk of being exported unless a UK buyer matches the £5m asking price.
The temporary ban was imposed after the owner applied for an export licence.
Culture minister Matt Hancock, who imposed the ban, said it symbolised one of the UK's "most famous love stories".
The 11.5cm (4.5in) wide coronet is mounted with 11 sapphires, which are all set in gold, with diamonds set in silver.
Experts consider it to be one of the most important jewels of Queen Victoria's reign, matching a sapphire and diamond brooch given to her by Albert the day before their wedding.
Following Albert's death in 1861, Queen Victoria refused to attend the State Opening of Parliament until 1866, when she wore the coronet.
Both the coronet and brooch also featured in one of the most famous official portraits of the young Queen Victoria, in 1842, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
The coronet was given by King George V and Queen Mary to Princess Mary on her marriage to Viscount Lascelles in 1922. It was later sold to a dealer in London, who then sold it to the export licence applicant.
The temporary ban followed a recommendation by the reviewing committee on the export of works of art and objects of cultural interest, which is administered by the Arts Council.
It recommended the restriction on the grounds of the coronet's "close connection with our history and national life, and its outstanding significance for the study of the young Queen Victoria".
Committee member Philippa Glanville described the piece as "exquisite", adding: "It evokes vividly the shared romantic taste of the time, and its form has become familiar through many reproductions.
"Its departure would be a great loss, given its beauty, its associations and its history."
Mr Hancock said it was "one of the most iconic jewels from a pivotal period in our history".
"I hope that we are able to keep the coronet in the UK and on display for the public to enjoy for years to come."
The Department for Culture Media and Sport said a final decision over the export licence will be deferred until 27 December. | A temporary export ban has been placed on a sapphire and diamond coronet that belonged to Queen Victoria, preventing it from being sold abroad. | 37199222 |
But scientists researching them have found that they have one big thing going for them.
The team thinks that these wave dwelling worms could have life spans of up to 300 years or even longer in the deepest parts of our oceans.
Jeanne Calment of France, the oldest human on record, only managed to get to 122 years old!
One problem the team had was, working out how old the creatures could grow to...
So lead researcher, Alanna Durkin from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her team used information from another study of worms to make a computer program to work it out.
The team think that, Escarpia laminata could be one of the longest living creatures in our oceans!
Alanna also said "It's possible that new record-breaking lifespans will be discovered in the deep sea, since we are finding new species and new habitats almost every time we send down a submersible," | Deep-sea worms are not the most exciting or active creatures from looking at them. | 40682512 |
Farmers are set to produce over 15 million tonnes which means the country will have a 50% surplus for the year, according to government figures.
The bumper harvest is a result of good rains in January and February.
The extra produce is expected to help to push food prices down, according to agricultural economists.
Food security is a concern for many and in South Africa rising food prices have made life more difficult particularly for the millions of poor and unemployed, says the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.
A drop in the cost of food would be a welcome relief for many households, our correspondent says.
South Africa, along with the rest of the region, is still recovering from the effects of last year's drought that was caused by the El Nino climate phenomenon and led to widespread food shortages.
But, according to the local weather services, the rainfall recorded in January and February this year was more than double the average. | South Africa is expecting to harvest its biggest maize crop in four decades, a year after drought devastated output of the country's staple food. | 40092570 |
The man, 47, was assessed by medical staff and again by a mental health team after the incident on Tuesday.
An RAF Typhoon was seen escorting the Qatar Airways flight QR23 from Doha after the pilot was handed a note about a possible device on board.
The man was sectioned "for a fuller assessment", police said.
The Airbus A330 was carrying 269 passengers and 13 Qatar Airways crew.
It landed ahead of its scheduled arrival time of 13:15 BST, the airline said.
Manchester Airport was temporarily closed and some other flights were diverted to Liverpool and Leeds.
Operations at the airport resumed at about 14:00 after flights in and out were suspended for about 25 minutes.
Passengers disembarked the plane "as normal", a Manchester Airport spokesman said.
The RAF confirmed Typhoon aircraft were launched from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire as part of its "quick reaction alert role" when a pilot requested assistance.
Aurang Zeb, 60, who was returning from a holiday to his home in Bradford, said: "I thought there was something wrong because there was a jet flying so near."
He said the plane landed and was taken to an area well away from the terminal, where they waited for 45 minutes, then moved again closer to the terminal.
Mr Zeb added: "Then I saw all the police with guns. Lots of police everywhere. Kids were crying, some people looked very worried because of rumours there was a bomb on the plane."
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Matt Cox said he was asleep in his seat until the aircraft landed.
He said: "We didn't get told anything about the nature of what was happening at any point.
"It's not nice finding things out from Twitter rather than the people who are supposed to be in charge of you. Obviously we know why they did it." | A man has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act after a bomb hoax resulted in an RAF jet escorting a passenger plane to Manchester Airport. | 28671822 |
He was speaking in Belfast as his party launched an election billboard entitled: "A People's Pact".
The election advertisement which states that the party wants "equality not austerity" was unveiled at Belfast Castle.
Senior party figures and election candidates were present.
"Any parties which contemplate endorsing or supporting a cabinet of millionaires who are behind budget cuts, cuts to public services and cuts to social protections are ignoring the needs of the people in favour of narrow self interest," Mr Adams said.
The Louth TD said if local parties did a post-election deal to support larger parties at Westminster, they were effectively "signing up to austerity".
Even in the event of a hung parliament, he said that his party would not reverse its long-held policy of abstentionism.
Questioned over whether his party might be tempted to take their seats if it came to down to three or four seats, he said Sinn Féin would not reverse their position.
"All of this is a distraction," he said.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Adams said: "We are active abstentionists."
He stressed that there were no moves to discuss the party policy of boycotting the House of Commons chamber.
"The party is very settled on this issue," he said.
The party's billboard calls for voters to back candidates who embrace reconciliation, equality and progressive politics.
"We want to see a society based on equality, inclusion and safeguards for children with disabilities, adults with severe disabilities and the long-term sick," Mr Adams said.
"We are committed to defending the core public services of health, education and the welfare system."
He said that previous Conservative and Labour British governments had imposed cuts and he told the BBC that whoever won the general election would be "committed to more austerity".
Asked if he would choose between a Conservative government or a Labour administration, he rejected both options saying that in "the last 100 years very little good has come out of Westminster". | Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams says talk of a hung parliament and whether his party would eventually take seats at Westminster is "a distraction". | 32117985 |
Second-quarter earnings were affected by charges of $923m related to job cuts and clearing stocks of smartphones.
However, the loss was not as large as forecast and the firm's revenue rose 16% to $12.2bn.
Lenovo, which is the world's biggest PC maker, saw its Hong Kong-listed shares rise more than 5% on the news.
Lenovo said it had continued to experience a declining PC market during the period, together with slowing smartphone and tablet sales globally.
"The macro-economy and global markets remained challenging, along with currency fluctuations in emerging markets," the firm said.
"In addition, the China smartphone market continued to see a market shift from traditional carrier channels to online, while competition in China further intensified," it added.
The company said that its restructuring programme, which included 3,200 job cuts announced earlier this year, was set to generate annual cost savings of $1.35bn.
Last year, Lenovo bought the Motorola brand from Google for $2.9bn in an attempt to boost its position in the smartphone market.
It said its share of the global smartphone market had increased to 5.3% in the three months to September, pushing it to the number four position worldwide. | China's computer and smartphone giant, Lenovo, has reported a net loss of $714m (£469m) after being hit by restructuring costs. | 34795229 |
Many supporters - both at the Stade de France and back in Portugal - could not quite believe what they were seeing.
But it was a night of drama and bitter disappointment for the French.
A number of people were arrested, many during violence at the Fanzone near the Eiffel Tower.
Teargas was used as fans denied entry into the packed zone before the match pelted police with bottles.
More arrests were made for public order offences outside the Stade de France stadium.
Portuguese fans immediately took to social media sites after the final whistle to express their delight.
The triumph was especially sweet because Portuguese captain Cristiano Ronaldo - who was seen as the main threat by the French - was forced to leave the game after picking an injury in the first half.
A tweet below shows the raw emotions Ronaldo went through during the match - from tears on the stretcher to the joy of lifting the cup.
As the Eiffel Tower was lit in the Portuguese colours, Sirlei Elache tweeted:
"This is elegance! Congratulations France! Congratulations Portugal Champion"
In Lisbon, thousands of fans went wild after watching the game on giant screens at the city's Prace do Comercio.
"It's crazy. I'm going to party tonight."
Many fans, like Tiago Wakabayashi, said the victory ended 12 painful years for Portugal who, themselves the host nation in Euro 2004, unexpectedly lost in the final to Greece
But it was a heartbreaking night for millions of French fans - like thara#FRA - who saw their heroes beaten. | Portugal football fans have erupted into jubilation as their team beat hosts France in the Euro 2016 final 1-0, securing their first major title and spoiling the party in Paris. | 36761024 |
The Tory officials said councils were "best placed" to decide opening hours in the interests of communities.
Labour say the plans, which could see large stores open for more than the maximum six hours, are "pernicious".
The SNP has also said it will oppose the shake-up even though there are no trading restrictions in Scotland.
With more than 20 Conservative MPs threatening to rebel over the issue, there is a growing prospect of the government being defeated over the biggest proposed shake-up of Sunday trading laws for 20 years.
Since 1994, small shops - those up to 280 sq m, or 3,000 sq ft in size - in England and Wales can open when they want to on Sundays but larger stores are restricted to six hours between 10:00 and 18:00. Retailers can be fined up to £50,000 if they break the rules.
Ministers want to give English and Welsh councils the freedom to determine opening hours in their area, arguing this will benefit High Streets struggling to compete against online retailers. The move, they argue, is also in line with changing leisure and working patterns.
Ahead of Wednesday's vote on the Enterprise Bill, 102 Conservative councillors voiced their support for the move urging the government to "continue with proposals to localise these decisions and help us deliver what is best for our local communities".
"We want the government to put its trust in councils," they wrote in a letter to planning minister Brandon Lewis, stressing that councils wanted the flexibility to take into account a wide range of economic circumstances.
"We are best placed to make decisions about Sunday trading."
But the proposals face considerable opposition from across the political spectrum, with critics challenging the economic rationale for relaxing the laws and arguing that Sunday should be "kept special" for family time and other pursuits, including religious observance.
Conservative MP David Burrowes, one of 21 Tories backing an amendment to the legislation calling for any changes to be restricted to tourist locations, told the BBC that the government needed to quickly find a way out of "the mess" it was in.
"With the government looking down the barrel of a defeat, they have to listen hard to the concerns, particularly of Conservatives," he said. "Now I am confident that the government are very much listening to ways to negotiate this very difficult situation they have brought upon themselves."
Quirks of Sunday shopping
To make the most of their six hours, retailers invented the idea of "browsing time". The doors of the shop open 30 minutes or so before the tills open. Shoppers could find themselves queuing inside a store with a full trolley at 09:58, waiting for the cash register to start whirring.
Read more about browsing, extra pay, loading and no-shows
The arguments over Sunday trading
Labour said a "sweeping deregulation" of Sunday trading laws - not mentioned in the Conservative election manifesto - was not acceptable.
"Defeating the government will be a victory for all of those who support the current arrangements which work well and mean retailers can trade, customers can shop, and shop workers can spend time with their families," said shadow business secretary Angela Eagle.
"I now urge the government to admit defeat and even at this late hour drop these pernicious plans."
The proposed changes will not apply in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which have their own arrangement in place.
Although there have never been any general trading restrictions in place in Scotland, and stores can theoretically open for as long as they like on a Sunday, the SNP said it could not support the relaxation of existing rules elsewhere in the UK.
Its deputy leader Stewart Hosie said Scottish workers were paid extra for working on Sundays and there were no guarantees these "premium pay" rates, worth thousands of pounds a year, would be protected if hours were extended elsewhere.
"Our primary concern throughout this entire debacle has been the protection of premium pay for workers in Scotland who work on a Sunday," he said.
"There are no protections and we believe if this turns into a seven-day-a week working operation on a UK-wide basis, those premium payments would be eroded. We are relying on guarantees or not from private businesses and that simply doesn't wash when we are talking about the incomes of perhaps a third of retail employees in Scotland."
But the government has rounded on the SNP over the issue.
"It's disappointing and hypocritical of the SNP to be trying to deny people the freedoms to shop that are already available to those they represent in Scotland," a source said.
"It's a particularly extraordinary position for a party that supposedly believes in devolution of powers from Whitehall to be seeking to stand in the way of local leaders in the rest of the UK being able to choose what's right for their communities and their economies." | More than 100 English council leaders have backed government plans to devolve powers over Sunday trading hours ahead of a key Commons vote over the issue. | 35759590 |
But the Scottish Social Attitudes survey also suggested the popularity of the European Union had fallen.
The researchers said this suggested focusing on EU membership may not be the best way to swing more voters towards independence.
The survey has asked the same question about how Scotland should be governed every year since 1999.
It was carried out by ScotCen Social Research and has been published two days after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed she wants to ask the UK government for permission to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.
Ms Sturgeon says the Brexit vote has left Scotland at a crossroads, with an independence referendum needed to allow the country to choose which path to take.
But pro-UK opposition parties argue that another referendum will cause further division and uncertainty, and is not wanted by the majority of people.
The survey comes as two polls look at the Scottish independence question.
ScotCen Social Research author Prof John Curtice said you should not look at his survey and the latest polling commissioned by newspapers.
He explained: "The Scottish Social Attitudes Survey is not a short term opinion poll. This was a survey that was done for the whole of the last six months of last year and it is not about trying to measure the short term variation in the weather, which the two polls out this morning try to do, but rather to look at the long term change in the climate."
A key suggestion in the ScotCen survey was that the September 2014 referendum had left a "legacy of dramatically increased support" for independence.
And it said the pro-independence movement looked certain to enter a second referendum campaign in a much stronger position than it had enjoyed ahead of the first referendum.
Asked to choose between independence, devolution and not having any kind of Scottish Parliament at all, 46% of the 1,237 people surveyed between July and December of last year now backed independence.
This is a higher level of support for independence than at any time since 1999 and double the level registered by ScotCen in 2012, when the last independence referendum campaign initially got under way.
The Social Attitudes Survey suggested the increase in support for independence in recent years has been most marked among younger people.
As a result, there is now a very large age gap in support for independence, with 72% of 16-24 year olds wanting to leave the UK compared with just 26% of people aged 65 and over.
Independence is now the single most popular constitutional option, with 42% supporting devolution, while only 8% of those surveyed do not want any kind of Scottish Parliament at all.
However, even although Scotland voted to remain in the EU by 62% to 38% in last year's referendum, the survey suggested scepticism about the institution is now at the highest level ever recorded by ScotCen.
This scepticism is even common among those who voted last year to remain in the EU, the report concluded, with a majority (56%) of all Remain voters believing the EU should have fewer powers.
Those who currently back independence are also divided in their views about Brexit, with a third voting to leave the EU in last year's referendum.
Their support could be at risk if independence is linked firmly to EU membership, the report's author Prof John Curtice said.
Prof Curtice said the pro-independence campaign had never been stronger electorally in Scotland.
He added: "From its perspective, the outcome of the EU referendum appeared to be a perfect illustration of their argument that for so long as it stays in the UK, Scotland is always at risk of having its 'democratic will' overturned by England.
"However, the commitment to the EU of many of those who voted to Remain does not appear to be strong enough that they are likely to be persuaded by the outcome of the EU referendum to change their preference for staying in the UK.
"Meanwhile, there is a risk that linking independence closely to the idea of staying in the EU could alienate some of those who currently back leaving the UK.
"Nicola Sturgeon might have been wiser to have stayed her hand, for on current trends there is a real possibility that demographic change will help produce a majority for independence in the not too distant future anyway."
The pro-independence SNP and Scottish Greens welcomed the survey's findings, with SNP MSP Bruce Crawford arguing it was "no surprise" that more people now apparently backed independence given the "systematic unpicking" of promises made after the 2014 referendum by the UK government.
Scottish Greens MSP Ross Greer said voters in Scotland deserves a choice between being "trapped in the angry, isolated Britain planned by the Tories" and "putting our future in our own hands".
But Adam Tomkins of the Scottish Conservatives said the report showed there was already "significant division" in Scotland over the constitutional question, and that another referendum would only make that worse.
And Scottish Labour MP Ian Murray said Scotland "must not be divided again by the SNP's obsession for a second independence referendum". | Support for Scottish independence has reached its highest-ever level in an annual academic study. | 39265997 |
The clip was shown on 28 January in an obituary for actor Sir John Hurt, who had died that week and starred in the film's most shocking scene.
However the broadcast came at 09:25 GMT, immediately after a block of children's television programmes.
Ofcom said the content broke its rules on the protection of minors.
The Ridley Scott film famously sees Sir John's character, Kane, writhe on a table as a blood-soaked alien punches out of his stomach and kills him.
The regulator received five complaints about the clip, which is often voted as one cinema's most memorable moments.
"The report contained graphic images from a film that was not appropriately scheduled," Ofcom said, adding that audience figures for ITV News showed 19,000 children, aged four to 15, watched the bulletin.
ITV apologised, saying the clip was shown "in error".
It said the editorial decision to refer to Alien - rated 15 by the BBFC - was "made in good faith", but it accepted "that ITN had failed to consider sufficiently the suitability of the material for children, given the violent imagery and time of broadcast".
It added that the error was recognised shortly after broadcast and the clip was not repeated in subsequent pre-watershed bulletins.
ITV also said that, although news bulletins were not of particular interest to children, the chosen clip was "unsuitable for children who may have been available to view at this time, and was therefore wrongly scheduled".
Ofcom said it "welcomes the admission" and acknowledged ITN was introducing further compliance measures to ensure appropriate clips from films and dramas were shown in future news bulletins.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | ITV News has been found in breach of Ofcom rules after it broadcast the famous "chestburster" scene from horror film Alien on a Saturday morning. | 39825268 |
The pets are being cared for at the Scottish SPCA's Inshes centre in Inverness.
Most of the guinea pigs are only a few weeks old.
Centre Manager Elaine Floyd said, "We have lots of lovely little guinea pigs in our care at the moment and we're keen to find them fantastic new homes."
She added: "Ideally we'd like our guinea pigs to be re-homed in small same-sex groups or pairs as they are sociable creatures who enjoy the company of their own kind.
"Some of our guinea pigs are confident and easy to handle, while we have others who are in need of more human interaction to help them feel more comfortable." | An animal welfare charity is seeking to re-home 35 guinea pigs abandoned, or given up by their owners, in the Highlands. | 37911233 |
The sale smashes the previous record for a sale of The Hobbit, set in 2008 when a first edition sold for £60,000.
Tolkien gave the book to Katherine "Kitty" Kilbride, one of his students at Leeds University in the 1920s.
The Elvish verse is an extract from Tolkien's The Lost Road, part of his 12-volume History of Middle-earth.
The Hobbit introduced the character of Bilbo Baggins and the "one ring" that would feature again in his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Sotheby's had expected the first edition to fetch up to £70,000 at Thursday's auction of children's books and illustrated works. | A first edition of JRR Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, with an inscription in Elvish written by the author, had sold at auction in London for £137,000. | 33013144 |
UK taxpayers subsidise energy firms to burn wood to meet EU renewables targets.
But the report from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) shows sometimes much bigger carbon savings would be achieved by leaving the wood in the forests.
This suggests power firms may be winning subsidies for inadvertently making climate change even worse.
The report has caused controversy within DECC as it indicates the initial subsidy rules were much too simplistic.
The government has now promised to strengthen the regulations on burning wood, and to make standards mandatory.
Environmentalists applauded the move but said they wanted to see details and a timetable for the new rules. They insisted that the proposed new regulations must be based on the new document.
Burning biomass - such as wood - is not a zero-pollution option. It creates greenhouse gases to cut and transport the wood, and when the wood is burned.
But supporters say that so long as the burned vegetation is replaced by new plants to absorb CO2 that should confer a significant advantage over using fossil fuels.
And it counts as renewable energy because new trees soak up the CO2 emitted by the burned trees.
The DECC report says a key error in the government's previous calculations was a failure to acknowledge the different types of impact that can be created in different types of forests when wood is removed to burn.
Burning whole logs from natural forests would be counter-productive, the report says, whilst generating power from wood waste that would otherwise be burned at the roadside could provide benefits for the environment overall.
DECC stepped up research on the issue after a paper by a US academic showed that burning whole trees would produce more emissions than burning coal, by the time transport emissions are taken into account.
"When we first saw this research we didn't believe it," a government source told BBC News. "But we did the calculations and found that we had been wrong."
Kenneth Richter from Friends of the Earth said a "new set of rules" was needed.
He added: "This is really embarrassing for the government - they have finally admitted what we have been saying for a very long time.
"Under the current rules there is no way of government knowing whether wood is being burned in a way that is beneficial to the climate or not."
The UK's biggest power station, Drax, is switching half of its boilers from coal to wood pellets in a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The firm insists that it is using off-cuts of wood that would otherwise be waste. But the issue is complex and disputed.
The firm has a wood pellet operations in the USA, which collect thinnings and off-cuts from trees. This is wood deemed appropriate to use in power stations.
But there is another wood pellet plant sending biomass to the UK using whole trees from endangered swamp forests.
So the DECC calculator may help government and industry determine exactly what sort of biomass it is useful to burn, but the evidence will be scattered between multiple producers in supply chains thousands of miles away.
The report says there may be enough spare waste wood in America's forests to supply current UK demand sustainably.
But knock-on effects are hard to calculate across an entire industry.
What is the effect on soil structure and nutrients of clearing all the waste wood from a felled forest?
What if the price for burnable wood outstrips the price for wood pulp, and forces the USA to import wood from elsewhere to make its paper products?
American researchers wrote to the UK Energy Secretary Ed Davey saying that UK biomass policies were harming wildlife in the USA, and I understand Mr Davey sees biomass burning as a temporary solution to meet short-term carbon reduction targets.
The subsidies last until 2027. Policy uncertainty after that date means investors may soon stop building new wood pelleting plants in the USA.
This could put a natural brake on the expansion of the trade, which is otherwise expected to expand to as much as 23.5 million tonnes of oven-dried wood a year - a figure environmentalists say is barely credible.
Dorothy Thompson, chief executive of Drax, said: "Sustainability has always been absolutely central to our biomass strategy.
"The academic study by DECC confirms what Drax has always argued - that there is a right way to source biomass and a wrong way.
"We welcome that it confirms the fact that where biomass is sourced sustainably major carbon savings can be delivered."
She said the main generators in the UK were clubbing together to produce their own tighter rules for biomass. And she urged the UK and the EU to impose tighter standards across the entire industry as soon as possible.
Dr Bernie Bulkin, former chair of the Office of Renewable Energy at DECC, said: "This is a careful piece of work that presents many different scenarios for how and where the biomass is grown, how it is transported to the UK, whether it is grown specially for this purpose or is waste, and so on.
"Some of these turn out to be very advantageous from the carbon savings perspective, and some are terrible.
"Some people will undoubtedly pick up on the 'bad' scenarios and highlight them. This is a mistake.
"What we need to do now is put in place the systems and processes to make sure we achieve this in the best possible way." | Burning wood to fuel power stations can create as many harmful carbon emissions as burning coal, according to a government report. | 28457104 |
Henry VII - or Henry Tudor - was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457, the son of Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor.
He went on to become the only Welshman to sit on the English throne.
The 2.4m (8ft) high bronze statue will be delivered on Thursday and unveiled on the Mill Bridge in Pembroke during a ceremony on Saturday at 14:00 BST.
Local people have contributed £20,000 towards the cost of the statue, with Pembrokeshire council and Valero also contributing a total of £30,000.
It was modelled in clay by sculptor Harriet Addyman before being cast in bronze.
People in the town hope a Henry VII centre can eventually be established in Pembroke and money has been secured for a feasibility study.
Town councillor Linda Asman said she had been "inspired" to pursue the idea after visiting the Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester.
She said people were "really interested" in the idea.
Backed by a small force of French soldiers, Henry Tudor landed at Mill Bay in Milford Haven in August 1485 and called on the Welsh to rally to his banner.
He went on to defeat Richard III at the battle of Bosworth Field and to bring a measure of peace and stability as king.
Some Welsh poets referred to him as Y Mab Darogan - the Son of Destiny - who would lead the Welsh from oppression.
His chief supporter in Wales was Rhys ap Thomas, whose homes included Carew Castle, near Pembroke. | A Pembrokeshire town steeped in history is preparing to unveil a new bronze statue which commemorates its most famous son. | 40190701 |
Launching their housing plans, AM Peter Black said the Conservatives and Labour were fighting over "ideological dogma" on the Right to Buy council homes.
He pledged to build 20,000 affordable homes over five years, if the Lib Dems win power in May's assembly election.
Mr Black said the party would make at least 2,500 "rent to own" homes available to first-time buyers.
The Liberal Democrats are also proposing to strengthen the powers of the Residential Property Tribunal into a "housing court", dealing with challenges to rent increases and adjudicating on issues including housing quality and safety. | The Liberal Democrats have claimed to be the only party with the ambition to tackle Wales' "housing crisis". | 35409802 |
All services were halted during the evening rush hour after reports that three people were in the tunnel.
The alert started at about 17:00 and services resumed one hour later.
A ScotRail spokesman said: "We have carried out our check of the tunnel at Queen Street for trespassers and are now able to operate our trains."
A spokeswoman for British Transport Police added: "Officers were called following reports of three people in a tunnel close to the line of Glasgow Queen Street station.
"The call came into police shortly after 5pm.
"Officers carried out a track search and found one man, who has been taken to a place of safety. Inquiries continue." | British Transport Police said one man was taken to "a place of safety" after officers searched a tunnel close to Glasgow Queen Street station. | 38887424 |
Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a giant species of camel in Canada's High Arctic.
An analysis of protein found in the bones has revealed that this creature, which lived about 3.5 million years ago, is an ancestor of today's species.
The research is published in the journal Nature Communications.
Dr Mike Buckley, an author of the paper from the University of Manchester, said: "What's interesting about this story is the location: this is the northernmost evidence of camels."
Cold conditions
The mid-Pliocene Epoch was a warm period of the Earth's history - but surviving in the Arctic would have still been tough.
The ancient camels would have had to cope with long and harsh winters, with temperatures plunging well below freezing. There would have been snow storms and months of perpetual darkness.
Nonetheless, at this time, the polar region would have been covered in forest.
While scientists have known for some time that camels evolved in North America, with the earliest creatures dating to about 45 million years ago, they were astonished to find a species at such a high latitude.
Over the course of three expeditions, which began in 2006, researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature collected 30 fragments of fossilised leg bone from Ellesmere Island in Canada.
Their size suggested that the animal was about 30% larger that today's camels, measuring about 2.7m from foot to shoulder.
Despite its bulk, the researchers believe it would have been similar in appearance - although it probably had a shaggier coat to stay warm.
To investigate further, the team took collagen - the dominant protein found in bone - from the fossils, and compared this with collagen found in other fossils and modern animals.
Dr Buckley said: "These biomolecules tell us that it is a direct ancestor of modern camels."
He said the findings provided a new insight into the evolution of this animal.
"It suggests that many of the adaptations that we currently think of, in terms of camels being adapted to warm desert-like environments, could have actually originated through adaptation to quite the opposite extreme... cold, harsh environments," he explained.
The scientists believe that the camel's hump (which stores fat, not water as is sometimes thought) could provide the reserves needed for an Arctic six-month winter.
Their large eyes would have helped them to see in the low light, and their flat feet would have been just as useful for walking on snow as they are on sand. | Camels are well known for their ability to survive the hot and dry conditions of the desert, but a study suggests they once thrived in colder climes. | 21673940 |
Mars Food said it would distinguish between "everyday" and "occasional" items on packs and on its website.
The company said some foods were higher in salt, sugar or fat to maintain the "authentic" taste of products.
The advice is part of its Health and Wellbeing Ambition to "create and promote healthier food choices".
Mars told the BBC that just 5% of its products would be labelled "occasional".
These include Dolmio lasagne sauces, pesto, and carbonara and macaroni oven kits.
Mars said its website would be updated over the next few months with a list of "occasional" products to be eaten not more than once a week, and "everyday" ones.
Those products, including Uncle Ben's oriental sauces, are to be reformulated over the next five years to cut salt, sugar or fat.
Shoppers will see the new guidance appearing on websites in the coming months.
Mars said its "nutrition criteria" has been developed based on recommendations from leading public health authorities such as the World Health Organization.
It supports the salt-reduction strategies of bodies such as the UK Food Standards Agency, Department of Health and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it added.
Fiona Dawson, a global president of Mars, said: "Our nutrition criteria sets a very high standard for our products, and we also want to help our consumers understand the difference between 'everyday' and 'occasional' products within a balanced diet.
"The food industry has already made great strides in reducing sodium, but we have more work to do to help consumers reduce sodium intake.
"We support release of the US FDA's draft sodium reduction guidance, because we believe it's important to begin a stakeholder dialogue about the role industry can play in this critical part of consumers' diets."
The move comes after Chancellor George Osborne announced a sugar tax, with the aim of tackling childhood obesity, in his recent Budget. | The firm behind Dolmio pasta sauces and Uncle Ben's rice says some products should only be consumed once a week due to high salt, sugar or fat content. | 36051333 |
The investigators have produced 13 reports, the evidence in each is harrowing. Villages destroyed, crops burnt, wells poisoned, torture, rape, starvation sieges, mass bombing of civilians, and what only a decade ago might have been unthinkable - chemical weapons.
There is no doubt that war crimes have been committed by all sides, the commission says. In each report there is a demand for "accountability" - that no-one should be allowed to commit such horrific acts and get away with it.
"This would be incredible, a scandal," says commission member Carla Del Ponte, who describes the violations in Syria as by far the worst she has ever come across. "But nothing happens, only words, words, and more words."
Ms Del Ponte, as a former prosecutor at the tribunal for Yugoslavia, and the woman who put Slobodan Milosevic in the dock, knows how to bring war criminals to book.
While the Syria commission has no power to prosecute, what it does have is a vast amount of evidence, and a confidential list of names, thought to include figures at the very top of the Syrian government and military.
To bring those individuals (including, Ms Del Ponte thinks, President Assad) to court, the UN Security Council would have to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court. And throughout the Syria conflict, the Security Council has been divided, with Russia and China in particular resisting what they regard as unnecessary interference in Syria's problems.
Now, though, the United Nations, under new Secretary General Antonio Guterres, appears to be flexing its muscles.
A new body has been set up, called, rather dryly, the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism or IIIM, to sift the evidence, build cases, and pass them to any court that could have jurisdiction. Some European countries are already opening cases.
At its head is an experienced French judge, Catherine Marchi-Uhel, who has worked on the tribunal for former Yugoslavia, and the Extraordinary Courts of Cambodia, which prosecuted the Khmer Rouge.
"This gives me hope that something is moving," says Alain Werner, director of Civitas Maxima, a Swiss organisation that works to ensure justice for victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"I didn't even think this body would be set up… this is proof [the UN] is serious."
Mr Werner's own organisation has already built cases against suspected war criminals from Sierra Leone and Liberia, and his work with victims has shown him, he says, that "the eagerness for justice is immense".
One of his colleagues, Antonya Tioulong, knows personally just how important this can be. Her sister and brother-in-law were tortured and murdered in Phnom Penh's notorious S-21 detention centre during the reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
In the 1990s, almost two decades after her sister's death, Antonya was able to learn what had happened to her, and she tried to bring a case in the French courts against the Khmer Rouge officers who had run S-21. It was rejected.
"I felt powerless. There was no sign, either, of an international tribunal. I wondered, 'Were the two million victims of the Khmer Rouge genocide so unimportant in the eyes of the world that the criminals did not need to be judged?'"
Antonya had to wait until 2008, when an international tribunal was finally set up. The men who murdered her sister were at last convicted.
She was comforted not just by the verdict, but by the fact that the tribunal was public.
"Thousands of people came from all over the world to attend the hearings in person, showing their desire to understand what happened."
But many thousands of victims still wait. In the Swiss capital, Berne, the Red Cross Centre for Victims of Torture and War had more than 4,000 consultations in 2016 alone.
"Almost the most important thing is that they have the space and time to talk," says psychologist Carola Smolenski. "We have patients from former Yugoslavia who still suffer chronically from their experiences."
For many of these patients, however, there may never be a public tribunal where perpetrators are convicted, and the suffering of their victims formally recognised in a court of law.
Instead, the Red Cross Centre has included a form of "validation" process as part of the therapy.
"We will prepare [together with the patient] a detailed chronological report," says Carola Smolenski. "We recognise the experience together, and we sign it as witnesses."
"It is important that they can say, 'That is my story, and it is being taken seriously.'"
For the millions of Syrians waiting in refugee camps, or trapped in besieged cities, peace cannot come soon enough. But millions of Syrians, too, are waiting to know the fate of loved ones who disappeared into Syria's prisons, or vanished in the heat of battle.
In Geneva, the UN peace process is inching along. In the talks about Syria in the Kazakh capital, Astana, the Russians, Turks, and Iranians are working to negotiate "de-escalation zones" to reduce the violence.
But in neither the Geneva process nor Astana is there much talk of accountability for the undoubtedly massive number of war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is unclear whether the newly formed IIIM has a role in the peace process at all.
Could this be because leaders, on all sides of Syria's conflict, might not be motivated to reach a peace deal if they thought a war crimes trial would be their reward?
"You might have put your finger on it," says one Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The idea that achieving peace, or at least an absence of war, should take priority over justice is often advanced during tricky diplomatic negotiations.
Some also suggest that war crimes tribunals can sow the seeds of future discord, particularly if victims are from one ethnic group and perpetrators from another.
Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu famously did not want a tribunal for South Africa, pushing instead for a truth and reconciliation process, in which the accused would acknowledge their crimes but also be forgiven by their victims.
The UN's human rights commissioner, Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, agrees that creating sustainable peace is a complex process, but insists that the authors of Syria's suffering must be formally prosecuted.
"In Syria, there will never be peace if you don't put the victims at the centre of your effort," he says.
"You can have the most finely crafted agreement, but if victims don't feel justice, then it is worthless, a pointless exercise. There has to be an accounting, the central authors must be brought to book."
Nevertheless, he sees prosecutions as only part of the process.
"At a fundamental level, we will never have permanent peace if we don't deal with unresolved issues."
This means, he says, all sides in a conflict recognising their conduct, and showing "contrition".
And there, Mr Hussein says, society must play its role.
During the German trials after World War Two, he points out, there were 7,000 convictions, but few of those convicted showed any remorse.
The push for contrition and remorse came later, through work by German historians, school teachers, and post-War politicians.
Alain Werner agrees that, in view of the scale of the atrocities in Syria, "it is very difficult to think there will be no justice".
But, he adds, because the number of cases is "staggering", justice is unlikely to be swift. "Syria could take 40 years… even 100 years to investigate." | For six years, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria has been painstakingly gathering information about possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict. | 40685359 |
Sonny Bradley's header was cleared off the line for the hosts, before full-back Elliot Johnson fired Barnet ahead from 25 yards.
Akinde collected Justin Nwogu's pass to slot in the second after the break.
And the 26-year-old then lobbed Crawley goalkeeper Jack Rose to secure all three points for the visitors late on.
Barnet stayed 15th in the League Two table despite picking up their first win in three games, while Crawley finished the season 20th.
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Crawley head coach Dermot Drummy told BBC Surrey: "We can go on about like an old record talking about the levels in the first half and we weren't at the races in the second half, physically or mentally.
"There's definitely going to be changes. I will get players that can play that certain way and also play the way I want to."
Match ends, Crawley Town 0, Barnet 3.
Second Half ends, Crawley Town 0, Barnet 3.
Bobson Bawling (Crawley Town) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Thomas Day (Barnet).
Goal! Crawley Town 0, Barnet 3. John Akinde (Barnet) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Jamie Stephens.
Attempt saved. Bobson Bawling (Crawley Town) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner.
Lyle Della Verde (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nana Kyei (Barnet).
Foul by Frankie Sutherland (Crawley Town).
Michael Gash (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Lyle Della Verde replaces Lee Barnard.
Attempt missed. Bobson Bawling (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Goal! Crawley Town 0, Barnet 2. John Akinde (Barnet) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Lee Barnard (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Liam McAlinden replaces Gavin Tomlin.
Substitution, Barnet. Justin Nwogu replaces Luke Gambin.
Attempt saved. Gwion Edwards (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top right corner.
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nana Kyei (Barnet).
Frankie Sutherland (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Frankie Sutherland (Crawley Town).
Elliot Johnson (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Jimmy Smith (Crawley Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wesley Fonguck (Barnet).
Substitution, Barnet. Thomas Day replaces Bira Dembélé because of an injury.
Gwion Edwards (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gwion Edwards (Crawley Town).
Bira Dembélé (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Crawley Town. Gwion Edwards replaces Shamir Fenelon.
Corner, Barnet. Conceded by Josh Yorwerth.
Foul by Lewis Young (Crawley Town).
Luke Gambin (Barnet) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Shamir Fenelon (Crawley Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Wesley Fonguck (Barnet) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Charles Dunne (Crawley Town).
Luke Gambin (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Gavin Tomlin (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gavin Tomlin (Crawley Town).
Sam Togwell (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half. | Two goals from John Akinde helped Barnet hand Crawley an eighth straight defeat in Dermot Drummy's first home game in charge of the Reds. | 36176365 |
Cardiff council said it faced a budget shortfall of up to £56.4m next year.
Councillors have been advised to plan for council tax rises of at least 4.5% for the next three years.
One idea being discussed is setting up a company to run council services such as highways and waste, which could also bid for work from other authorities.
Tax rises will be decided when the council sets its budget next February.
Cardiff council leader Phil Bale came under pressure over a package of cuts and a 5% council tax rise to balance the 2015-16 budget, surviving a vote of no-confidence from the council and a leadership challenge from his own Labour group.
A strategy report says the council faces a shortfall of £47.4m in 2016-17, expected to add up to £117m three years later.
It is based on an expected 3% cut in funding from the Welsh government.
But the report says a worst-case scenario could see the budget gap rise to £56.4m next year and £145.7m by 2018-19.
Finance director Christine Salter said there was "real potential" for the council to fail to balance its budget "unless radical policies and strategies are adopted".
Graham Hinchey, the council's cabinet member for services, said work was already under way on "alternative delivery models" to cope with budget pressures.
"Cardiff is the fastest growing city in the UK and consequently demand for the services we provide is growing while funding is reducing," he said.
"We can't be under any illusions that we face some very tough choices."
The report recommended the council urgently considers how to reduce its assets as a way to bring in money and cut repair and maintenance costs.
One idea is to set up an "arm's length" company owned by the council to run services such as highways, parks, and waste collection, which it is claimed could save or raise £4m a year.
Welsh Local Government Association chief executive Steve Thomas said the "harsh reality" is that too many councils in Wales are being "forced to financial breaking point".
He added: "Cardiff council should be commended for proactively exploring all the options that are available, to ensure their communities will benefit from more sustainable and affordable services in the future." | Further tax rises and "radical" changes to public services will be needed to balance the books of Wales' biggest council, officials have warned. | 33482817 |
It said there was a "postcode lottery" when it came to recording such crimes.
The report, from the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO), also highlighted a lack of proper risk assessment of victims.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said "significant progress" had been made by forces.
The report follows the 2006 killing of Banaz Mahmod, who was murdered by her family because they disapproved of her boyfriend.
Since Miss Mahmod's murder, police forces are supposed to have had a sharper focus on all honour-based crime, including beatings and death threats.
But failings identified in the report included in some areas with communities in which honour-based violence is most likely to occur.
Derbyshire Constabulary, Gloucestershire Constabulary and Staffordshire Police were among those with the most significant failings, according to the report, as well as half of all Scottish police forces before they amalgamated into Police Scotland last April.
Diana Nammi, executive director of IKWRO, said there may be only one chance to protect someone at risk from a so-called "honour killing".
"It is imperative that every police officer, from the telephone operator to those handling the case face-to-face can identify an 'honour'-based violence case, secure the trust of the victim and act appropriately to ensure that they are not further endangered - for example by never communicating with their family or community, from whom they are at risk," she said.
"I recognise that there is some excellent policing of 'honour'-based violence, however I am extremely concerned to find that a number of police forces have failed to implement basic, yet essential measures to protect those at risk from 'honour'-based violence - a serious, organised crime that often involves multiple perpetrators and can result in murder.
"This is not acceptable and must be addressed immediately by the Association of Chief Police Officers."
Source: IKWRO
The IKWRO report, entitled Postcode Lottery: Police Recording of Reported 'Honour' Based Violence, was compiled following Freedom of Information requests to every police force in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The submissions asked how many incidents of honour-based violence were recorded by each police force in 2012, how many led to criminal charges being processed, and how many charges resulted in convictions.
Ms Nammi has supported calls for a national inquiry into police handling of honour-based violence.
She also urged police to work transparently with the IKWRO to ensure all steps are taken to protect potential victims.
Miss Mahmod, a 20-year-old Iraqi Kurd from Mitcham, south London, contacted police in fear for her life. But her allegations against her family were dismissed.
She was strangled in January 2006 and her body was buried in a suitcase in Birmingham.
The IKWRO report said the proper identification and recording of reports of honour-based violence was crucial to safeguarding victims.
It branded the violence an "organised crime" and insisted that all incidents be treated as key intelligence for risk profiling, risk assessment and risk management.
The report also recommended a review of police training and the procedures in place for risk assessment and recording cases of honour-based violence.
The Acpo lead for honour-based violence, Commander Mak Chishty, said health bodies, schools and colleges and social services were now working more closely to tackle the issue.
He said: "This research rightly recognises that the police service has made significant progress in tackling this honour-based violence in the past 10 years.
"There are now honour-based violence leads in forces and we have been conducting successful investigations into crimes associated with honour-based violence leading to successful prosecution of offenders."
However, he said police were "not complacent about the work yet to be done". | One in five UK police forces is failing to properly record cases of so-called honour violence against women, according to a support group. | 26056209 |
Air force helicopters have been dropping food in affected areas after more than 70 people were reported to have died in flood-related incidents.
More than 10,000 people have been moved to higher ground, including 1,000 who were airlifted to safety.
India regularly witnesses severe floods during the monsoon season.
Heavy rains have triggered house collapses in the worst-affected Saurashtra region with some reports saying these are the worst floods in 90 years.
The coastal district of Amreli is the worst affected, where more than 600 villages have been affected.
Farmers are among the worst hit with crops over a large area damaged, Gujarat Health Minister Nitin Patel told BBC Hindi's Ankur Jain in Ahmedabad.
Rescue and relief work is on, he added.
The defence ministry said on Thursday that air force helicopters carried out 23 sorties to drop food packets to those stranded.
There have been reports of lions coming out of their habitat in the Gir forest in Junagadh - the only home to Asiatic lions - which has also been hit by rains.
Meanwhile, flood warnings have been issued in Indian-administered Kashmir state where floods killed about 300 people last year.
The Jhelum river in the state's main city of Srinagar was flowing above the danger mark, reports said.
In the northern state of Uttarakhand, authorities have halted pilgrimage to Kedarnath and other Hindu holy sites due to heavy rains.
India receives 80% of its annual rainfall during the monsoon season, which runs between June and September. | Authorities in India's Gujarat state say incessant monsoon rains have caused widespread damage to public and private properties. | 33281474 |
The review panel set out 48 recommendations which it said would strengthen the planning system to "enable sustainable development".
Its report said planners and councils in particular need to be "bolder" in tackling future challenges.
Planning Minister Kevin Stewart said the review would inform a "new, focused and revitalised planning system".
The panel, set up in September 2015 to conduct a "game changing" review, included Crawford Beveridge, chairman of the Scottish government's council of economic advisors, John Hamilton, a former chairman of the Scottish Property Federation, and Petra Biberbach, chief executive of Planning Aid for Scotland.
The report said a "fundamental rethink of the system as a whole is needed to ensure the planning system is much better equipped to deal with future challenges and opportunities".
The panel also noted a need for a "culture change" to move planning away from "micro-management of the built environment" to "focus instead on delivering great places now, and for future generations".
The report calls for strong and flexible local development plans, which should be updated regularly with a "20-year vision", and an enhanced national planning framework.
Recommendations also focus on delivering more, better housing, and improving infrastructure - local authorities generally were criticised as "appearing to lack the confidence to invest in infrastructure".
The group recommend setting up a national infrastructure agency, with statutory powers, and asking the government to examine options for a national or regional infrastructure levy to raise funds.
And it said the Scottish government should "lead by example" in public service reform, and increase planning fees on major applications "substantially".
While panel members made a number of recommendations to open up the planning process, they said they were "not persuaded" over third-party rights of appeal, which would give additional groups the ability to appeal against planning decisions. They said this would "add time, complexity and conflict to the process".
However, they did back making it obligatory to consult community councils and young people on development plans and setting up a working group to break down barriers to greater involvement in planning.
Mr Stewart said the government was "committed to ensuring we have a planning system that works for everyone".
He said: "This independent report will help form the basis to kick-start a new, focussed and revitalised planning system. We will consider its recommendations in further detail and will respond in due course.
"I'd like to thank the panel for their work in this review and publication, and the efforts made to ensure everyone who has an interest in planning could contribute their ideas." | An independent review has urged a "fundamental rethink" of the planning system in Scotland. | 36421509 |
Just under 300 people fell ill after eating at the Toby Carvery restaurant in Middlemoor, Exeter in April 2015.
Owners Mitchells and Butlers closed the site twice for cleaning at the time of the outbreak but have now admitted a "breach of duty" according to legal firm Irwin Mitchell.
Mitchells and Butlers did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
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Amandeep Dhillon, a partner and public health expert at Irwin Mitchell, said outbreaks of this size were rare in the UK.
He said: "We estimate at this early stage that damages for group action will be over £500,000, although we are currently gathering medical evidence in this regard."
Irwin Mitchell is working with 280 customers who say they fell ill after visiting the restaurant, the firm said.
Symptoms of the illness include a sudden onset of vomiting and/or diarrhoea and some people may have a temperature, headache and stomach cramps.
The sickness, spread by human or surface contact, usually lasts one or two days. | Restaurant customers hit by an outbreak of norovirus may get more than £500,000 in compensation, it has been claimed. | 36677150 |
The company has said the average annual saving will be about £50.
The move has been made possible by a steady fall in the price of wholesale gas, the main fuel used in electricity generation.
According to Power NI, its business and farm customers will also see reductions of between 7% - 11%.
Power NI is Northern Ireland's largest electricity supplier, used by more than 500,000 homes.
Its managing director, Stephen McCully, said: "This is the third year in a row we have been able to cut or freeze prices.
"This means more money in the pockets of householders and with farms and businesses also seeing a similar reduction it is good news all round."
Power NI is facing ever greater competition from rival suppliers.
Richard Williams, head of energy at the Consumer Council said: "We would now like to see the other domestic electricity suppliers follow suit."
Earlier this month, Open Electric announced a 9% cut, while in January, SSE Airtricity announced a 1% reduction. | Household electric bills for customers of Power NI are set to fall by 10.3% from April. | 35554092 |
In the video, Mr Trump says "you can do anything" to women "when you're a star" and brags about trying to grope and kiss women. He has since apologised.
Mr Trump has clearly been an unpredictable candidate but no previous revelation or off-the-cuff comment has generated this much reaction.
So who in the Republican camp is still backing him and who has decided enough is enough?
The Utah governor, who previously supported Mr Trump, tweeted that the comments he had made were "beyond offensive and despicable". He continued: "While I cannot vote for Hillary Clinton, I will not vote for Trump."
A congressman for Utah, he withdrew support live on television.
He said: "It's sad really, but I can't endorse Donald Trump for president after those comments and the way he said them.
"I can't look my 15-year-old daughter in the eye and tell her I endorse this man to become president."
Like his Utah colleague Mr Herbert, he said the video left him at a loss regarding who to vote for, as there was "no way" he would vote for Hillary Clinton.
Mr Chaffetz is the chairman of the committee which is investigating Mrs Clinton's use of emails while she was secretary of state.
She was the only woman who ran for the Republican candidacy for 2016 and was briefly the vice-presidential candidate on Ted Cruz's ticket.
Although she once said she was "horrified" by Mr Trump, in September she finally gave him her support - but only as an alternative to Mrs Clinton.
In response to the tape, she said: "We must have a conservative in the White House to restore accountability, opportunity and security. For the sake of our Constitution and the rule of law, we must defeat Hillary Clinton. Today I ask Donald Trump to step aside and for the RNC to replace him with Gov Mike Pence."
The prominent senator for Arizona and one-time presidential nominee said Mr Trump should "suffer the consequences" of his remarks.
"Donald Trump's behaviour make(s) it impossible to continue to offer even conditional support for his candidacy," he said.
"There are no excuses for Donald Trump's offensive and demeaning comments.
"No woman should ever be victimised by this kind of inappropriate behaviour. He alone bears the burden of his conduct and alone should suffer the consequences."
The former secretary of state wrote on her Facebook page: "Enough! Donald Trump should not be President. He should withdraw.
"As a Republican, I hope to support someone who has the dignity and stature to run for the highest office in the greatest democracy on Earth."
The former California governor, who is more famous for his acting career and who took over from Mr Trump as a host of The Apprentice on NBC, said he would not vote for his predecessor in the presidential election.
He said: "I want to take a moment to remind my fellow Republicans that it is not only acceptable to choose your country over your party - it is your duty."
The former governor of New York tweeted that he was "horrified" at the tape and that Mr Trump's campaign was "a poisonous mix of bigotry and ignorance".
"Enough!" Mr Pataki tweeted. "He needs to step down."
A former governor of Minnesota, he said the comments were "unacceptable, and disqualifying for someone who hopes to serve as Commander in Chief".
A former Utah governor, Mr Huntsman called for the Republican vice-presidential candidate to take over running for president instead.
"In a campaign cycle that has been nothing but a race to the bottom, at such a critical moment for our nation, the time has come for Governor Pence to lead the ticket," he told the Salt Lake City Tribune in his home state.
Another Utah Republican, the senator addressed Mr Trump with the words: "With all due respect sir, you, sir, are the distraction. Your conduct, sir, is the distraction. It's a distraction from the very principles that will help us win in November."
He continued: "I respectfully ask you, with all due respect, to step aside, step down, allow someone else to carry the banner of these principles, these principles that have made our country great, these principles that will stand as a beacon of hope to the American family."
The Colorado congressman was one of the first Republicans to call on Mr Trump to stop running for president after the tapes of his comments were broadcast.
On Friday, he said: "For the good of the country, and to give the Republicans a chance of defeating Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump should step aside.
"His defeat at this point seems almost certain."
An Alabama senator, she said: "As disappointed as I've been with his antics throughout this campaign, I thought supporting the nominee was the best thing for our country and our party.
"Now, it is abundantly clear that the best thing for our country and our party is for Trump to step aside and allow a responsible, respectable Republican to lead the ticket."
A New Jersey congressman, he said: "I cannot support and will not vote for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton to be president of the United States. I will write in Governor Mike Pence for President."
The Virginia congresswoman, who had not yet declared support for Mr Trump, said she could not "in good conscience" vote for him.
She echoed calls for somebody else to replace him, saying: "This is disgusting, vile, and disqualifying.
"No woman should ever be subjected to this type of obscene behaviour and it is unbecoming of anybody seeking high office.
"In light of these comments, Donald Trump should step aside and allow our party to replace him with Mike Pence or another appropriate nominee from the Republican Party."
A senator for Alaska who had not yet declared her support for Mr Trump either, she said she watched the video immediately after a meeting about sexual exploitation and she felt "disgusted".
She said Mr Trump had "forfeited the right" to be the Republican party's nominee.
A Nebraska senator, she said: "The comments made by Mr Trump were disgusting and totally unacceptable under any circumstance. It would be wise for him to step aside and allow Mike Pence to serve as our party's nominee."
The Idaho senator also called for another candidate to be put forward instead, and said: "I have reached the decision that I can no longer endorse Donald Trump. This is not a decision that I have reached lightly, but his pattern of behaviour has left me no choice."
A Utah congressman, he said: "I'm incredibly disappointed in our party's candidate. And unlike the Democrats who have proven completely unwilling to hold secretary Clinton accountable for her illegal activities that endangered our national security, I am willing to hold Mr Trump accountable.
"I am therefore calling for him to step aside and to allow Mike Pence to lead our party."
An Arizona senator, he tweeted that "America deserves far better" than Mr Trump and that he should withdraw from the race.
A Nebraska congressman, he called for Mr Trump to step aside "and allow Mike Pence to become the Republican nominee".
A New Jersey congressman, he said: "Donald Trump's comments are inexcusable. I am appalled that he would brag about violating a woman's physical boundaries.
"As a husband and father of two daughters, I denounce his comments and the behaviour that it incites. I believe that Mike Pence would be the best nominee for the Republican Party to defeat Hillary Clinton."
A Nevada congressman, he had previously said he was "100%" behind Mr Trump.
But on Saturday, he pulled his support, saying: "I think that when we degrade that mother, wife, housewife, whatever you want to deal with, daughter - that you degrade America."
Another Nevada congressman, he said he was "disappointed in our choices for president" and did not support Mr Trump any more.
He said: "I can no longer look past the pattern of behaviour and comments that have been made by Donald Trump."
The governor of Alabama, who had previously endorsed John Kasich, said: "I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump."
The governor of Nevada said: "This video exposed not just words, but now an established pattern which I find to be repulsive and unacceptable for a candidate for President of the United States."
The governor of South Dakota said: "Enough is enough. Donald Trump should withdraw in favour of Governor Mike Pence. This election is too important."
The Minnesota congressman said the comments were "disgusting and offensive" and he would not vote for Mr Trump.
A senator in Alaska, he said: "Keeping Republicans in the Senate majority is critical to the economic and national security of Alaska and America.
"As for the White House, Donald Trump should step aside. I will support Mike Pence for president."
An Alabama congressman, he said: "There are absolutely no circumstances under which it would ever be appropriate to speak of women in such a way.
"It is now clear Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States and cannot defeat Hillary Clinton."
The Michigan congressman said Mr Trump should "carefully consider stepping aside from the ticket".
He said: "I urge him to think about our country over his own candidacy."
An Illinois congressman, he took the rare step of referencing his sons when explaining why he would not support Mr Trump any more. Many others had referenced their female relatives.
In a statement, he said: "As parents of a teenage daughter and teen twin boys, my wife and I teach them to respect women and that they will be judged by their words and actions.
"The abhorrent comments made by Donald Trump are inexcusable and go directly against what I've been doing in Washington to combat assaults on college campuses. Because of this, I am rescinding my support for Donald Trump and asking to have my name removed from his agriculture advisory committee."
The Florida congressman originally supported Marco Rubio for the presidential nomination, but then called for party unity behind Mr Trump.
Following the publication of the tape, he said: "My greatest responsibility in life is to try and be a good husband and father. If I support him for president, I will be telling my boys that I think it's okay to treat women like objects - and I'll have failed as a dad. Therefore, I can no longer support Donald Trump for president and will not be voting for him or Hillary Clinton."
The Missouri congresswoman said: "As a strong and vocal advocate for victims of sex trafficking and assault, I must be true to those survivors and myself and condemn the predatory and reprehensible comments of Donald Trump."
The New Hampshire senator, who is running for re-election in November, withdrew her support from Mr Trump and said she would write Mike Pence's name on her ballot paper instead.
She said: "I'm a mom and an American first, and I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women.
Also facing a re-election battle, this Ohio senator said: "While I continue to respect those who still support Donald Trump, I can no longer support him."
Mr Glenn is running for the Senate. From Colorado, he asked Mr Trump to "do the honourable, selfless thing" and step aside to allow Mr Pence to run for President.
In a statement, he wrote: "If Trump is truly committed to making America great again, then this is the only way forward.
"As a father, as a Christian, and as a Republican, I believe that we simply cannot tolerate a nominee who speaks this way about women."
The chairman of the Republican Conference and senator for South Dakota said: "Donald Trump should withdraw and Mike Pence should be our nominee effective immediately."
The former secretary of education served under Ronald Reagan. He is now a conservative commentator and it was only in August that he said Republicans who opposed Mr Trump "suffer from a terrible case of moral superiority and put their own vanity and taste above the interest of the country".
But after seeing the video, he too called on Mr Trump to stand down, saying: "It's over. I hate to say it, but it's over."
"It's a shame, a crying shame, but he can't win," he said.
The House speaker, who endorsed Mr Trump just a few weeks ago, has withdrawn an invitation for the presidential candidate to attend the Republican Fall Fest in his home state of Wisconsin this weekend.
Mr Ryan has not pulled his endorsement, but it does pack a powerful punch for a candidate to be uninvited from an event just one month before the election.
Mr Ryan said: "I am sickened by what I heard today. Women are to be championed and revered, not objectified. I hope Mr Trump treats this situation with the seriousness it deserves and works to demonstrate to the country that he has greater respect for women than this clip suggests. In the meantime, he is no longer attending tomorrow's event in Wisconsin."
The Senate majority leader said the comments were "repugnant", adding that Mr Trump "needs to apologise directly to women and girls everywhere".
He also said that Mr Trump should "take full responsibility for the utter lack of respect for women shown in his comments on that tape".
The Utah state house speaker said he hoped for an apology from Mr Trump but did not rescind his support.
He said: "To say I'm disappointed would be a gross understatement."
The former Florida governor, who ran unsuccessfully for president this year, tweeted: "As the grandfather of two precious girls, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women."
He did not mention his cousin Billy Bush, who was Mr Trump's interlocutor in the incriminating video.
The former presidential candidate has been critical of Mr Trump in the past and said he would not vote for him.
After the video emerged, he tweeted that the comments the current candidate made were "vile degradations" with an impact on women and on the image of the US around the world.
He wrote: "Hitting on married women? Condoning assault? Such vile degradations demean our wives and daughters and corrupt America's face to the world."
The California congressman said: "In my career as a law enforcement professional I was confronted with and worked tirelessly to end the horrific reality of violence toward women.
"After hearing Donald Trump's inexcusable comments I was deeply disturbed & reminded of that reprehensible behaviour.
"While I've never before endorsed a Presidential candidate, I've felt compelled to strongly condemn many of Mr. Trump's previous outrageous remarks. And after serious consideration, I have decided that I cannot support either candidate for President."
The governor of New Mexico had never endorsed Mr Trump. She said: "What Trump brags about is appalling and completely unacceptable.
"No woman should ever be treated the way he claims he treated women. Unfortunately, there is a pattern of disturbing conduct and offensive rhetoric that raises serious questions about his fitness to be President.
"That's why I have withheld my support from the very beginning, and will not support him now."
The Ohio governor, who also ran for the presidency and was beaten by Mr Trump, had already said he would not vote for him. He tweeted his condemnation of Mr Trump's comments, with the words: "Make no mistake the comments were wrong and offensive. They are indefensible."
A congresswoman from Utah, where much of this wave of condemnation of Mr Trump began, she said: "For the past several months I have been one of the few who refused to endorse Donald Trump.
"I have said all along that I was still waiting for Mr Trump to demonstrate his commitment to the kinds of principles and policies the people in Utah's 4th Congressional District want in their elected leaders. Mr Trump has yet to clear that bar and his behaviour and bravado have reached a new low.
"I cannot vote for him. For the good of the party, and the country, he should step aside."
The senator for Colorado called on Mr Trump to stand down, calling him "a candidate whose flaws are beyond mere moral shortcomings and who shows a disgust for American values and a disdain for dignity unbecoming of the Presidency".
The lieutenant-governor of New Jersey had not endorsed Mr Trump, despite working closely in her home state with his prominent supporter Chris Christie.
In response to a question on Twitter, she wrote: "No apology can excuse away Mr. Trump's reprehensible comments degrading women. We're raising my three boys to be better than that."
She later said she would vote, but not for Mrs Clinton and not for Mr Trump.
The Pennsylvania congressman was another Republican politician who had declined to endorse Mr Trump, deflecting a question when asked his stance back in May. After the 2005 video surfaced, he called for Mr Trump to "end his candidacy" and said: "This sort of vile talk is appalling, it's offensive, and there's no place in public or private for it. It's simply wrong.
The Governor of Tennessee called on Mr Trump to stand aside and make way for Mr Pence. He said he would write another Republican's name on the ballot paper otherwise, and added: "Character in our leaders does matter. None of us in elected office are perfect, but the decisions that are made in the Oval Office have too many consequences to ignore the behaviour we have seen."
In a text message to his local newspaper, the Texas congressman wrote: "I never endorsed Trump and I cannot in good conscience support or vote for a man who degrades women, insults minorities and has no clear path to keep our country safe. He should step aside for a true conservative to beat Hillary Clinton."
A congressman from New York, he has previously disavowed Mr Trump's "tone and rhetoric" but after the video, told his local newspaper that "what he was talking about is tantamount to sexual assault".
Mr Katko called on Mr Trump to stand aside and let somebody else run, saying: "I've talked repeatedly with my family and people I consider close to me. We are all roundly disgusted.
"We just all came to the same conclusion that he does not deserve support. You just can't explain this away."
A congressman for Idaho, he said: "While I've never endorsed Donald Trump, I find his recent comments about women deplorable. In my opinion, he has demonstrated that he is unfit to be president and I cannot support him."
The only woman who represents Texas in the US Congress had previously declined to endorse Mr Trump. After the video surfaced, she said: "We have heard rumours about the insensitive and vulgar things Mr. Trump says about women. But watching that video is disgusting. Mr. Trump should remove himself from consideration as Commander in Chief."
A Washington congresswoman, she said she will write in Paul Ryan's name on her ballot paper, instead of voting for Mr Trump. In an email, she wrote: ""For months I've left the door open for Donald Trump to earn my vote. That door has now slammed shut." | Donald Trump's campaign for the US presidency has been thrown into turmoil by a video carrying obscene remarks about women. | 37596694 |
The official gross domestic product (GDP) figure though was smaller than the 7.1% drop economists expected.
The shrinkage was largely in response to a government sales tax, which held back consumer spending.
Japan's sales tax rose from 5% to 8% in April.
On a quarterly basis, the economy contracted 1.7% in the second quarter after a 1.5% rise in the first three months.
Private consumption, which makes up 60% of economic activity, was 5% down on the previous quarter.
The economy grew at an annualised rate of 6.1% in the first quarter of this year.
Recent retail sales and factory output figures both indicated a negative impact from the sales tax rise.
Marcel Thieliant, Japan economist at Capital Economics, said a rebound was expected in the coming months: "The collapse in economic activity last quarter was largely a result of the higher sales tax, and we still believe that the recovery will resume in the second half of the year.
"Consumers had brought forward spending ahead of April's increase in the consumption tax."
The Japanese government appears confident that its economy, the world's third largest, will pick up the pace later in the year.
In a statement issued after the GDP release, Economics Minister Akira Amari said: "Looking at monthly data during April-June, sales of electronics goods and those at department stores are picking up after falling sharply in April.
"The job market is also improving steadily. Taking these into account, Japan's economy continues to recover moderately as a trend and the effect of the sales tax hike is subsiding." | Japan's economy contracted by an annualised 6.8% in the second quarter of the year, the biggest fall since 2011 when it was devastated by an earthquake and tsunami. | 28767708 |
It's a shame then that his time on the course caddying for Rory McIlroy wasn't entirely successful.
His shot, on the ninth and last hole at the par 3 competition, ended up in the water.
"My right arm got stuck on my chest and I pulled it across and it wound up in the drink on the very left," he said.
"Any other day I would have found the green but there's a lot of pressure out there."
And this wasn't the only disaster.
He also managed to fall down and photographers were on hand to capture his stumble.
He did describe being able to caddy for McIlroy as an "honour" and seemed pleased to be there.
There weren't that many of his younger fans on the course but plenty of older spectators wanted selfies and autographs.
"It's very different," the 21-year-old said. "I do perform to a lot of people but I'm performing to their parents today. It's a very different crowd."
Rory McIlroy, who has been tipped as a favourite at this year's Masters, said the crowds at One Direction gigs were "younger" than the golf fans he attracts.
He's been friends with Niall for a while and says the singer is a 12-handicap player.
He asked the singer to join him as caddy when McIlroy found out he was coming to watch the Masters in Augusta, Georgia, for the first time.
"I caught up with him in Australia at the end of last year and he was really excited and I said, 'If you're available Wednesday afternoon and you want to carry the bag for nine holes, you're more than welcome,'" said McIlroy.
"He's really excited to be here."
Newsbeat has made a playlist especially for the golfer, who has said in the past that he likes rap and hip-hop.
Unfortunately though, we seem to have missed one band off the list - One Direction.
"I'm a big fan," the golfer said of the group. "They have been hitting it for years."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | For a golf fan like Niall Horan, getting the chance to go to the Masters - and hit a shot at Augusta National - is a dream come true. | 32229429 |
All the big gaming companies including Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are showing off what they've been working on.
Virtual reality usually involves putting on some glasses that contain video screens.
The specs give you the impression you're in a totally different world, that changes as you look around the room.
For years, virtual reality has been tipped as the next big thing in technology - but now it looks like it might finally be ready for action. | Gaming experts are predicting a big future for virtual reality at E3 - the world's biggest convention for games. | 33189102 |
In its survey of more than 50,000 junior doctors, 43% said their daytime workload was "heavy" or "very heavy".
The GMC says time allocated for training must be protected so junior doctors can gain the experience and skills they need for their development.
Health ministers say improving support for training is a priority.
In the survey, many of the doctors training to be consultants and senior GPs said they frequently had to cope with problems beyond their expertise.
And those who complained of a heavy workload said they were three times more likely to leave a teaching session to deal with a clinical call.
Doctors working in specialties, including emergency medicine, acute internal and general internal medicine, respiratory medicine and gastroenterology, reported even higher workloads and said these had grown worse in the past five years.
About 13,000 - or one in four - reported feeling short of sleep on a regular basis.
Charlie Massey, chief executive of the GMC - which regulates the medical profession - said: "Medical training is so often a bellwether for the quality and safety of patient care, and patients are directly at risk if support and supervision of doctors in training is inadequate.
"We have clear standards about protecting doctors' training, and valuing trainers that we expect education bodies and providers to meet.
"Where our standards are not met, we can and we will take action."
Mr Massey later told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he agreed that there were a lot of pressures on the NHS but said "standards at the GMC have to be our standards whatever those pressures are".
He added: "It's really important employers design rotas to address fatigue, workload pressures and to ensure that trainee doctors are working within their competencies."
In England, NHS Employers said the new contract for junior doctors would help address many of the problems - a point some medics disagreed with in the report.
Meanwhile, the Department of Health in England said there were plans to improve training, including increasing senior support.
An official said: "The health secretary has announced plans to improve junior doctors' training, including more support from consultants, more notice of future placements, including where couples are placed, reviewing the appraisals process and investing £10m to bring doctors back up to speed when they take time out to have a family or other caring responsibilities."
In Scotland, officials said they would make use of the data from the survey to ensure training was excellent.
Prof Stewart Irvine, medical director of NHS Education for Scotland, said: "It helps us ensure that we provide doctors in training with the best possible experience, that we learn from areas where things are working well, and can take action to improve matters where training is not up to standard."
In Wales, a new education contract for junior doctors announced last month guarantees ring-fenced time for their learning every week. | Junior doctors in the UK fear they are missing out on crucial training because of increasing workloads, a report by the General Medical Council suggests. | 38162855 |
Great Britain did not field a team in Rio last summer because the four home nation football associations could not come to an agreement.
But FA chief executive Martin Glenn says talks have taken place about entering a team in three years' time.
"They're not going to actively support us, but they're not going to stand in the way," he told BBC Sport.
"We've worked really hard with the other home nations to get them behind the idea that a British team would be good for football both in England but also in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
"We were very disappointed that for the Brazil Olympics we couldn't put in a British team because, for women's football, Olympic tournaments are disproportionately important compared to men's football."
England's FA had put forward the idea of sending Great Britain teams to the 2016 Olympics, but Fifa said it would need the agreement of all the ruling bodies.
Stewart Regan, the Scottish FA's chief executive, was among those to voice concerns that a Great Britain team could impact the home nations at future international tournaments such as World Cups.
A spokesman for the Scottish FA told BBC Sport: "Our position remains that the Scottish FA does not support the playing of Olympic football under the Team GB banner, preferring all organised international football involving Scottish players to be played in the name of Scotland."
In April, chief executive of the Football Association of Wales, Jonathan Ford, said he could now see the "merits" of a GB women's football team.
In a statement to BBC Sport, the Irish Football Association said it "would not be in favour of sending players to a GB Olympic team. This is to protect our independent status within Fifa."
England's women, led by Mark Sampson, won a bronze medal at the 2015 World Cup and earlier this month reached the semi-finals of Euro 2017.
Glenn says the strength in depth through the nations could be key to further success.
"We would want to pick from the best of British talent and there's a number from nations outside of England and we know that would be good for the game."
Team GB entered men's and women's sides at London 2012, organised by the English FA.
Stuart Pearce took charge of the men and Hope Powell coached the women, with both teams being knocked out in the quarter-finals.
Scotland midfielder Kim Little, who represented Great Britain at London 2012
I am Scottish and British and am proud to represent either.
It is a great opportunity for individual players and women's football in general. It is a great platform to raise the game and London 2012 certainly did that. It was a great shame not to have a team at Rio. To show backing for a team at 2020 is great for the women's game in general.
I was grateful and proud to be one of two Scots in the team at London. I can honestly say it was one of the best experiences I have had as a professional footballer. For the other three nations it provides an incentive for players, another platform to perform on at a major tournament.
Since 2012 Olympics, the England team went to the World Cup and were the best European team and they did well at the recent European Championship. I think getting together a GB team with other players from the home nations added to the England team, then whatever team comes together will have a real chance of doing something great.
I love playing football, so to be able to do that as a Team GB athlete and a Scottish athlete, I would be more than happy to do that. | The English Football Association plans to put together a British women's team for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. | 40884525 |
Wednesday's Championship campaign has been disrupted by the loss of key players in recent months.
"When we lose players who link the game at the same time, we miss something in the team," said the 51-year-old.
"You can't cook well if you don't have fish, and you eat potatoes, it's completely different."
A run of one win in seven matches, including a 1-1 draw with Barnsley on Saturday, has seen the Owls side drop out of the Championship play-off places.
"People ask me why we have changed a little the style of last season," added Carvalhal, who has been in charge at Hillsborough since the summer of 2015.
He told BBC Radio Sheffield: "When we look to the team [who lost the play-off final to Hull City in May 2016], we have been a long time without Tom Lees, Ross Wallace, Kieran Lee, Sam Hutchinson, Fernando Forestieri and Gary Hooper.
"These are players that connect things, and we need these specific points to play the football we like and the fans like.
"If we will cook something, you buy good tomatoes, good potatoes, and good rice, but if don't have the fish, you eat more potato.
"A potato cannot play the role of fish."
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"When seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea." Eric Cantona, after winning his appeal against a two-week prison sentence for kicking an abusive spectator.
"Shall I grab you by your hair? What is your reaction when I grab your hair? Only with sex masochism it is allowed, but not in other situations." Louis van Gaal, complaining about Robert Huth's treatment of Manchester United's Marouane Fellaini.
"Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine-tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings." Ian Holloway, on his veteran striker during his first spell as QPR manager. | Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvalhal found a unique cooking analogy to explain the difficulty of replacing injured players. | 39483450 |
The development on land at Home Farm, Gresford Road, Llay, was blocked by county councillors in October 2015, following objections from residents.
An inquiry was held after developers lodged an appeal with the planning inspectorate.
Mr Jones said the need to address the lack of housing supply was a "material consideration" in his decision.
He was acting on the advice of planning inspector Richard Duggan, who conducted the inquiry in November 2016.
Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths would normally have had the final say, but as the proposed development falls within her Wrexham constituency, the matter was passed to the first minister.
Residents had complained the scheme was too big for the area and that local schools and health services would not be able to cope.
But Mr Jones said the council's education department had raised no objection and Mr Duggan had not been presented with evidence that health facilities were at capacity.
He added: "I am satisfied the inspector has considered the impact on local economic, social and environmental infrastructure and no unacceptable impacts have been identified which would justify withholding planning permission."
Plaid Cymru councillor Marc Jones said: "The decision undermines the democratic decision of the planning committee locally." | A plan to build 365 new homes on the outskirts of Wrexham has been approved by First Minister Carwyn Jones. | 40423465 |
Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh were given the death penalty by a court in 2013.
Rejecting their appeal, Justice R Banumathi said the men committed "a barbaric crime" that had "shaken society's conscience".
The brutal gang rape led to nationwide outrage and new anti-rape laws.
The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was attacked on a bus that she had boarded with her male friend as they returned home from watching a film in December 2012. Her friend was also beaten up.
Jyoti Singh - whose name was publicly revealed by her mother only in 2015 - died from injuries in a hospital 13 days later.
Media reports said relatives of Ms Singh applauded as the judgement was read out in court.
"This is a historic message to all the people, the criminal mindset who wrong women, who inflict violence on women, to know that if you do something like this you will be also paying for it by the severest punishment that exists in our laws of the land," Ranjana Kumari, a women's rights activist, told news channel NDTV.
Legal experts say it could still be months or even years before the sentences are carried out.
The four men still have the right to file a review petition in the Supreme Court. Their last hope lies with a plea for clemency to the president.
Six men were arrested over the attack on Ms Singh. One suspect, Ram Singh, was found dead in jail in March 2013, having apparently taken his own life.
Another, who was aged 17 at the time, was released in 2015 after serving three years in a reform facility - the maximum term possible for a juvenile in India.
Convicting the four men in 2013, Judge Yogesh Khanna said the case fell into the "rarest of rare category" which justifies capital punishment in India.
16 December 2012: A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is gang-raped by six men on a bus in Delhi, her male friend is beaten up and the pair are thrown out after the brutal assault
17 December: Key accused Ram Singh, the bus driver, is arrested. Over the next few days, his brother Mukesh Singh, gym instructor Vinay Sharma, fruit seller Pawan Gupta, a helper on the bus Akshay Thakur, and the 17-year-old juvenile, who cannot be named, are arrested.
29 December: The victim dies in hospital in Singapore from injuries sustained during the assault; body flown back to Delhi
11 March 2013: Ram Singh dies in Tihar jail; police say he hanged himself, but defence lawyers and his family allege he was murdered
31 August: The juvenile is found guilty and sentenced to three years in a reform facility
13 September: The four adult defendants are convicted and given the death penalty by the trial court
13 March 2014: The Delhi high court confirms the death sentence
March - June: The convicts appeal in the Supreme Court and the death sentences are put on hold until the court takes a decision | India's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi. | 39814910 |
Over 30,000 people attending the event, where Mr Trump promoted his agenda and criticised his political rivals.
Michael Surbaugh says the president's invitation was customary.
"I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree."
He went on to say how the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have tried to avoid taking political positions since its creation.
"We sincerely regret that politics were inserted into the Scouting programme," he said.
He added: "We teach youth to become active citizens, to participate in their government, respect the variety of perspectives and to stand up for individual rights."
During Mr Trump's remarks in West Virginia, he assailed his former opponent Hillary Clinton, touted his election victory, and railed against the "fake news" media.
"Who the hell wants to speak about politics?" Mr Trump asked the audience, before beginning his remarks.
Many parents and members of the Scout community criticised the highly-politicised nature of the speech that followed.
On Wednesday, BSA president Randall Stephenson, told AP News that the group had been concerned that Mr Trump may say something controversial during his speech.
But they felt obliged to issue an invitation to him, as they have done previously for every sitting US president, he said.
"If I suggested I was surprised by the president's comments, I would be disingenuous," said Mr Stephenson. | The chief scout of the Boy Scouts of America has apologised for the remarks made by President Donald Trump at the group's national event this week. | 40745875 |
Jean-Yves M'Voto heads Rovers in front at Easter Road headed the visitors in front early in the second half.
The equaliser came on 88 minutes, with substitute Martin Boyle running on to a flick from Grant Holt to slot home.
Hibs dominated the first half, with Kevin Cuthbert making magnificent saves to deny Andrew Shinnie, Kris Commons and Jason Cummings.
With in-form Dundee United coming from behind to beat St Mirren at Tannadice, Neil Lennon's side are now two points adrift.
Rovers only glimpse of goal in the first half came from Bobby Barr but the winger rushed his effort from the edge of the box and the ball drifted just wide.
Rudi Skacel was on the receiving end of some stick from the Hibernian fans every time he touched the ball and the former Hearts midfielder was fortunate to stay on the pitch when his reckless high tackle on Dylan McGeouch received on a yellow card from referee Greg Aitken when a red could easily have been dished out.
Into the second half and the visitors took a shock lead in a rare venture forward. Chris Johnston collected a ball on the edge of the Hibernian 18 yard box and his curling cross was met by the head of M'Voto, who nodded the ball beyond Ross Laidlaw.
Gary Locke's side grew in confidence and Jason Thomson crashed an effort from 25 yards off the crossbar with Laidlaw rooted to his line.
Home manager Neil Lennon replaced Commons and Cummings with Boyle and Keatings and the latter set up David Gray with a chance at the back post but the Hibernian captain headed wide with the goal gaping.
With the clock ticking towards 90 minutes the home side eventually drew level.
Boyle got the better of Ian Davidson down the left wing before cutting inside and firing a right foot shot beyond Cuthbert for his sixth goal of the season.
Rovers almost snatched what would have been a dramatic winner in stoppage time when Barr raced clear on goal but his effort was blocked by Laidlaw leaving both teams with one point apiece.
Hibernian head coach Neil Lennon: "I'm just frustrated with the amount of chances we've missed. That can always happen when you're on top - we conceded a goal, got a little bit ragged, and then towards the end we had more good chances, not only to equalise, but to go on and win the game. It's definitely two points dropped.
"It's as well as we've played for a while, there was a good flow about us, but we lacked that little bit of composure in front of goal. If you get the goal, you go on to win the game comfortably.
"It does hurt (not being top of the table) a little bit, but there's nothing in it really. We've only ourselves to blame - you've got to win your home games."
Raith Rovers manager Gary Locke: "I thought we grew into the game after the first 25 minutes when Hibs were on top, and on the counterattack I thought we looked dangerous. The game plan works a treat when you get a goal up, the fans here get frustrated with their team, and it looked like we were going to get three points.
"But we're delighted to come here and get a point.
"That's Dundee United and Hibs we've played the last two weeks, the favourites to win the league, and we've drawn with both of them. We've got to take enormous belief from that."
Match ends, Hibernian 1, Raith Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Hibernian 1, Raith Rovers 1.
David Gray (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Craig Barr (Raith Rovers).
Attempt saved. Bobby Barr (Raith Rovers) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Craig Barr (Raith Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Attempt missed. James Keatings (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Grant Holt (Hibernian).
Iain Davidson (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Andrew Shinnie (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Craig Barr (Raith Rovers).
Goal! Hibernian 1, Raith Rovers 1. Martin Boyle (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Paul Hanlon.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Jason Thomson.
Substitution, Hibernian. Brian Graham replaces Dylan McGeouch.
Substitution, Raith Rovers. Craig Barr replaces Jordan Thompson.
Foul by Dylan McGeouch (Hibernian).
Bobby Barr (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Martin Boyle (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Thompson (Raith Rovers).
Attempt saved. Martin Boyle (Hibernian) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Kyle Benedictus.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Iain Davidson.
Corner, Hibernian. Conceded by Kyle Benedictus.
Substitution, Hibernian. Martin Boyle replaces Jason Cummings.
Substitution, Raith Rovers. Mark Stewart replaces Rudi Skacel.
Foul by Andrew Shinnie (Hibernian).
Rudi Skacel (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jason Cummings (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rudi Skacel (Raith Rovers).
Attempt missed. David Gray (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Darren McGregor (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Declan McManus (Raith Rovers).
Hand ball by Bobby Barr (Raith Rovers).
Substitution, Hibernian. James Keatings replaces Kris Commons.
Attempt saved. Kris Commons (Hibernian) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Darren McGregor (Hibernian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Declan McManus (Raith Rovers).
Jason Thomson (Raith Rovers) hits the right post with a right footed shot from more than 40 yards on the right wing.
Scott Martin (Hibernian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Scott Martin (Hibernian). | Hibernian were knocked off the top of the Championship after being held to a draw by Raith Rovers at Easter Road. | 38349865 |
Freda Smith, from Ipswich, is one of 2,100 recipients of the awards from the University of Roehampton.
Mrs Smith worked as a teacher for 44 years after leaving college two years into her degree as her parents could not afford to keep her there.
She said receiving the degree was "lovely" and "an honour".
"I always wanted to be a school teacher," said the nonagenarian, who started at college in 1936.
"In those days, teacher's certificates took two years. But because I went to London, I wasn't given any grants from Sheffield [where I lived], but my parents mortgaged their house to pay for me to go."
She went on to work as a teacher for four decades, only taking 19 sick days in that time.
Recipients are set to be given the degrees during a ceremony at London Southbank's Royal Festival Hall.
When she heard the news, Mrs Smith said she "laughed a lot about it".
"But I must admit, I do consider it to be an honour," she explained.
"When I apply for my next job, I shall be able to say Freda Smith, BEd."
Prof Paul O'Prey CBE, university vice chancellor, said the event was about "about recognising the hard work and dedication of the women and men who have made significant contributions to education and teaching across the world". | A 98-year-old is to be given an honorary degree more than 70 years after she was unable to complete her teaching course when her money ran out. | 39916345 |
The research by university specialists found that communities want stronger neighbourhood bonds with the police.
The work, known as Rural Connect, was paid for by the force's police and crime commissioner Christopher Salmon.
Mr Salmon also said a decision to withdraw the Bobby Van scheme - a free home security service - was a mistake.
"Local policing is vital. I want officers to know and be known in their communities. That way we build trust and confidence," he said.
"This research is an important reminder of some old lessons. Local people say the small stuff matters.
"We must tackle the crime and antisocial behaviour that doesn't make headlines but does make their lives miserable.
"Senior officers must encourage the effort needed to build grassroots relationships. They must empower local officers to make judgements."
Mr Salmon will also look at better mobility for local officers, including cycles and mopeds, along with launching a campaign encouraging officers and the public to speak more often. | Local police officers with local knowledge are crucial to helping residents of rural Wales feel safe, a survey for Dyfed-Powys Police shows. | 31946663 |
The bid is widely seen as a challenge to last month's offer from Telefonica for KPN's German arm E-Plus.
E-Plus has a 15% stake in the German mobile market. The bid for it was backed by KPN's management.
Movil's 2.40 euros-a-share offer is 20% above Thursday's closing share price.
It is much lower than the 8 euros per share that Mr Slim paid in May last year for his original stake.
But it is considerably higher than the 1.60 euros at which the shares were trading in July before Telefonica announced its bid.
A KPN spokesman said the company was studying America Movil's offer.
KPN's shares have been falling sharply in recent years as the introduction of smartphones has eaten into its margins in the Netherlands, where it has a 40% share of the market.
The company has taken on a lot of debt as a result of paying more than expected to the Dutch government in an auction of fourth generation mobile phone licences.
Mr Slim has topped the Forbes list of the world's richest people for the past four years, with an estimated wealth of $73bn (£49bn).
America Movil, the Latin America mobile phone operator, is his most valuable asset, but he also has industrial, mining, financial, retail and real estate assets.
Buying the KPN stake was America Movil's first venture into Europe. It has since bought a 24% stake in Telekom Austria. | America Movil, which is owned by the world's richest man Carlos Slim, has offered 7.2bn euros ($9.6bn; £6.2bn) for the 70% of Dutch telecoms company KPN it does not already own. | 23628664 |
Christopher Penman, 58, was found dead in his bed in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, on 22 February. He had been stabbed 23 times.
Police believe Awat Akram, 25, of Beaumanor Road, Leicester, killed Mr Penman in an act of jealousy over his ex-partner.
At Leicester Crown Court, Akram was told he would serve at least 28 years.
The court heard how on the evening Mr Penman's body was discovered, Akram, who is deaf, went up to police at the cordon around the house and gestured to officers he ought to be arrested.
Leicestershire Police believe Akram broke into the house, looking for his ex-partner, a deaf woman who was then in a relationship with Mr Penman.
Speaking after the trial, Det Insp Shaun Orton said: "This was a particularly challenging investigation, as not just Akram is deaf, but the majority of witnesses were also deaf or hard of hearing.
"Akram killed Christopher in a brutal manner. He then went on to deny his involvement in the murder and told police several lies designed to mislead and obstruct the investigation.
"I know it was particularly traumatic for Christopher's family listening to the details of how he was killed whilst Akram showed no remorse in court."
In a statement after sentencing, Mr Penman's family said: "Dad [Christopher] was a good person; he would not have hurt a soul.
"Everyone in the deaf community will also deeply miss him. He was taken away too young and in such a horrible way." | A man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a man in a "brutal" stabbing attack. | 29180421 |
They passed a resolution "not to give a single vote to (PM) Vladimir Putin" at next year's presidential elections.
Protest leader Alexei Navalny told the crowd to loud applause that Russians would no longer tolerate corruption.
"I see enough people here to take the Kremlin and [Government House] right now but we are peaceful people and won't do that just yet," he said.
Demonstrators say parliamentary elections on 4 December, which were won by Mr Putin's party, were rigged. The government denies the accusation.
A spokesman for Mr Putin, currently Russian prime minister, later said that "the majority of the population" supported him, describing the protesters as a minority.
In a BBC interview, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he was confident that Mr Putin would win the presidential elections in March, saying he was "beyond the competition".
On Saturday, a sea of demonstrators stretched along Sakharov Avenue, a few miles from the Kremlin, in sub-zero temperatures.
Rallies were taking place across Russia, with the first big protest in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.
At least 28,000 people turned out in the capital, according to the Russian interior ministry, but rally organisers said the true number was around 120,000.
President Dmitry Medvedev announced political reforms this week, but many demonstrators say it is not enough.
They are demanding a re-run of the poll, which was won by Vladimir Putin's party - but with a much smaller share of the overall vote.
Mr Putin poured scorn on protesters during a recent live chat on Russian TV, calling them "Banderlog" after the lawless monkeys in The Jungle Book, and likening their protest symbol, a white ribbon, to a condom.
However he also said protesters had the right to demonstrate if they kept within the law.
In Moscow, many protesters clutched white balloons and banners with the slogan "For Free Elections" while some mocked Mr Putin with images of condoms, to the extent that the first speaker, music journalist Artyom Troitsky, dressed himself up as one.
By Daniel SandfordBBC News, Moscow
So the 24 December protesters have headed home again, after a day on the streets in which the temperature never got above zero. But they have promised to be back. There are already plans for another demonstration in the New Year.
The big question before today was whether they could maintain their momentum, and the answer this afternoon was a resounding "yes".
By the time everyone returns from the long Russian New Year and Christmas holidays it will be less than two months to the presidential elections.
Vladimir Putin is still the favourite, but his supporters around Russia will find it much harder to operate in the current political climate; and harder to cheat, if that is what they have done in the past.
We saw grandmothers and grandfathers, Moscow hipsters, and schoolchildren on the rally today. They do not speak for all of Russia, they may not even speak for the majority.
But they now know that they have some power, and many of them intend to go on using it to get fairer elections.
The resolution passed at Saturday's rally built on demands expressed at an earlier rally in Moscow on 10 December.
Another new point was a call for the creation of a new election monitoring body - the Moscow Voters' Association - to investigate ballot-rigging.
Mr Navalny, a prominent anti-corruption blogger who was jailed for 15 days over a street protest just after the elections, greeted the crowd with the words "Greetings to the Banderlog from the net hamsters [internet activists]".
Condemning Russia's leaders as "swindlers and thieves", he listed victims of injustice including imprisoned former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in custody.
"Who's the power here?" he shouted to cries of "We are" from the crowd.
He promised that the next protest rally would be a "million strong".
Alexei Kudrin, who recently resigned after serving a decade as Mr Putin's finance minister, was booed when he took the microphone to call for early parliamentary elections and urge a dialogue between the Kremlin and the opposition.
"There needs to be a platform for dialogue, otherwise there will be a revolution and we lose the chance that we have today for a peaceful transformation," he said.
A total of 22 speakers were lined up for the Moscow rally, with rival opposition figures addressing a crowd which mixed liberals with nationalists.
Saturday's rally in Moscow ended peacefully, with the last speaker a Grandfather Frost (Russian Santa Claus) figure who wished citizens of a "free Russia" a Happy New Year.
"People were scared before the first big demonstration on 10 December," protester Andrei Luzhin told AFP news agency.
"Now they no longer have fear."
Some 50,000 people rallied on 10 December, in what was then the biggest anti-government protest since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
On Thursday, Mr Medvedev proposed to hold direct elections of regional governors and simplify the procedure for registering political parties, but protesters say the concessions do not go far enough, the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says.
However, one of the main problems for the opposition is that there is no single leader able to unite it, our correspondent adds.
Rallies against ballot-rigging were reported across Russia's time zones, though none were on the same scale as that in Moscow. | Tens of thousands of people have rallied in central Moscow in a show of anger at alleged electoral fraud. | 16324644 |
Stuart Hindes, 53, from Leeds, had started his charity swim about 03:00 BST on Sunday from Dover harbour.
Mr Hindes said there was "quite a swell" but he had started to catch the tide and had taken his seasickness medication.
"There's only so much you can put up with when you are retching," he added. His swim ended after about four hours.
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Mr Hindes described conditions as like being in a washing machine and said he had been battling seasickness after about 20 minutes of the attempt.
"It was tough I gave it everything I could before I got in the boat," he said.
The shortest route between Dover and Calais is about 21 miles (33km) but a swimmer covers a longer distance due to water currents. Mr Hindes had planned to be in the water for about 16 hours.
The fastest swim has been completed in about seven hours and the slowest in nearly 27 hours, according to the Channel Swimming Association.
When asked whether he would attempt the swim again, Mr Hindes said: "It's too early to say, I'm still hurting."
Mr Hindes had been part of a relay team of six swimmers that completed the cross-channel swim in 2011.
On his solo effort Mr Hindes was raising funds for mental health charity Mind and Clic Sargent, a cancer support charity for children, young people and their families.
He has raised £3,290 for CLIC Sargent so far, the charity said. | A swimmer had to abandon an attempt to cross the English Channel after a severe swell made him seasick. | 40631429 |
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Langford meets the Georgian at Leicester Arena, with the winner claiming the WBO interim title to become Saunders' mandatory challenger.
"This means I can't be avoided so I have to win this fight," said Langford, 27. "I've never been shy about saying I'd fancy the Billy Joe fight, and I fancy myself to beat Billy Joe."
Saunders - undefeated in 24 fights - hopes to meet WBA, WBC and IBF champion Gennady Golovkin in a unification match this summer.
He has defended his title once since winning it in December 2015 and although he spoke earlier in the year of being confident of announcing a big fight, it has yet to materialise.
Langford added: "Originally you're thinking that the Golovkin fight would happen in the meantime, and you're going to be there as a certainty to fight the winner. But if [Saunders] doesn't get that - and it's looking more suspect now - then [a mandatory defence] has to happen."
Langford is undefeated in 18 contests and captured the British title in his last bout. He is the WBO's number-three ranked fighter, with Khurtsidze number one.
In the build-up to the bout, the West Bromwich Albion fanatic - nicknamed 'the Baggies Bomber' - has been supported by some of the club's players in the gym, and he says one day he wants to fight at the club's stadium.
Nicknamed 'mini Mike Tyson', Khurtsidze has a record of 32 wins, two draws and two losses. At 5ft 4in, he is eight inches shorter than Langford.
"It will be an honour to add the first loss to Tommy Langford's record," said Khurtsidze. "After I defeat Langford, Saunders is next." | British middleweight Tommy Langford is confident victory over Avtandil Khurtsidze on Saturday will pave the way for a shot at compatriot and WBO world champion Billy Joe Saunders. | 39655254 |
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he wants to slash joining fees from £30 to £10 and let members vote online to decide policy.
Mr Farage said: "I'm frustrated that this idea which has been around for a long time hasn't been put into action.
"And frankly I don't have the power and ability to do this myself."
Leading figures in UKIP suspect he is set to rebrand the party after the EU referendum in June.
Some also believe he could try to launch a new political movement.
The UKIP leader is an admirer of the anti-establishment activist Beppe Grillo whose Five Star Movement has become a major force in Italian politics, driven in part by engaging with voters online.
Some of Mr Farage's colleagues suspect he could use voter data collected by the Leave.EU referendum campaign and funds from its backer Arron Banks to embark on a fresh political project.
Mr Banks himself has been quoted suggesting UKIP could be rebranded or disbanded.
One UKIP politician said: "That is clearly the strand of thinking at the top.
"They're not particularly interested in winning the referendum and they'd rather replicate the SNP scenario which is lose the primary objective of the party but create such a sense of grievance you win in the polls and do rather well."
Another said rumours of a move of this sort had circulated for months, and added: "It would be very interesting how UKIP supporters would take a view of Nigel planning to disband the party with a clickocracy."
A recent report suggesting there could be a secret post-referendum plan has prompted intense discussions between senior UKIP figures about the possibility of radical change.
Sources close to Mr Farage insist there are no such plans, but acknowledge the party's structure and direction is a constant source of debate.
His critics believe he is planning an upheaval to protect his position after the referendum, which will be held on 23 June on whether the UK will remain a member of the European Union or not.
They accuse him of seeking a flood of new members, like those who flocked to vote for Jeremy Corbyn during Labour's leadership election, to strengthen his support.
Many in UKIP, including some vigorous supporters of Mr Farage, think a leadership contest after the referendum is inevitable.
Internal tensions were heightened after the former deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans was suspended.
Responding to the story, Ms Evans tweeted: "Policy can't be made at the click of a mouse. It's far, far more complex than counting a set of instant opinions." | UKIP leader Nigel Farage says he is frustrated he cannot make sweeping changes to the way the party makes policy and recruits members. | 35949705 |
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They are the ones who flock to his warehouse sales, snapping up the cut-price designer label fashion he has sourced from across Europe and beyond,
But now Mr Jaber is hoping those same customers might put more of their money into the firm, this time as investors.
His business, The Outlet, is one of the first to appear on Eureeca. It's a crowdinvesting online platform that has just launched in the Middle East, focusing on businesses in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Lebanon.
It is similar to popular crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter, typically used to raise funds for artistic projects from music and films to festivals and fashion.
But instead of making what is essentially a donation, and getting rewards or gifts in return, crowd investors put money into a business and get a small stake in the firm.
And, all being well, they might just get their money back and more besides.
Mr Jaber is offering 15% of The Outlet in exchange for $600,000, money he wants to spend on advertsing, hiring staff and trying to get into online retail - an industry still fairly undeveloped in the Middle East.
He has 90 days to raise the cash, but after two weeks, barely $10,000 has been committed. Slightly worrying given this is his best chance of sourcing the money.
If he fails to raise the full amount, the funds go back to the investors and The Outlet gets nothing.
"Banks won't lend to us because we're too young a firm to take on debt locally," Mr Jaber says, touching on an issue familiar to start-ups and new firms across the Middle East and beyond.
But even with options limited, he admits that agreeing to sell a stake in his business to perhaps hundreds or thousands of small investors was a "difficult decision" - not least because it involved making his business plan public and opening the books.
"When you work hard to build a business, it's like your baby," he says. "And you want to reap the rewards yourself.
"In the Middle East there is also a culture of keeping everything a secret in terms of running a private company - you don't want other people knowing how it's going.
"But we want to grow our business and this means we have to be transparent about it".
Globally, the bulk of small businesses and start-ups fail. One estimate suggests about 95% of firms do not last five years and even if that figure is exaggerated, investments can clearly go wrong.
Investment contracts are with the individual business rather than the platform, and crowdinvesting is not regulated as an industry. But Eureeca's bosses argue that the transparency they demand, combined with thorough background checks, mean would-be investors should not be put off.
According to co-founder Chris Thomas, relying on "the crowd" adds greater investor protection than if the money had come from a more formal source such as a bank.
"The core ethos of crowdfunding is that you access your existing community," he says.
"That's your friends, your followers, people who subscribe to your mailing list, people that are the part of your trust circle. These are the guys that you want to keep on the right side."
But while that might be good for the companies, is there not a danger that investors are blindly investing because they like a product or an individual?
After all, putting your money into a firm can be done in minutes with a Facebook login, a couple of clicks of your computer mouse and a credit card.
"Many investments made online or offline are a combination of heart and your head - and we make decisions in part because we like the business, have an affinity with it," argues Mr Thomas.
"But what we do is let you make a cold-hearted business decision. I genuinely believe this is going to become the de facto way of raising money for SMEs - we're going to look back in 10 years and wonder how we did without it."
Not everyone is quite so convinced. Dubai-based investment consultant Feroz Sanaulla thinks crowdinvesting has a role in supporting businesses but that it will only ever be a bit-part player alongside other forms of funding.
And he anticipates the model won't be without issues.
"Raising equity through crowdfunding is problematic because there could be different kinds of investors in any company," says Mr Sanaulla.
"When you have a small investor with $1,000, someone with $10,000 and someone with $100,000 invested, each has different expectations because they're taking different risks in the process. So how do you make sure there is a template that fits all three investors? That's the real difficulty."
But before you face that dilemma you have to raise the money - something Kris Barber is all too aware of.
His company, DGrade, recycles plastic bottles to make clothes, from school uniforms to branded hoodies for firms keen to show their environmental credentials.
It is quite a different world from designer labels, but Mr Barber is another entrepreneur trying to tap crowd investors. He wants to help centralise the business in the UAE where plastic bottle use is high and recycling levels low.
The initial move will cost about $300,000, for which Mr Barber is prepared to surrender 10% of the business
But he sees some of his backers as more than a source of investment.
"There's the serious investor who invests in other businesses too, someone looking for a return on investment. They'll put in larger sums and they're obviously important," says Mr Barber.
"Then there's the other type of investor who... has no experience of investing in other businesses but actually has an interest in the product and in the process - someone who will talk about the business and tell their friends."
And that, argues Eureeca's Mr Thomas, is perhaps the biggest benefit of crowdinvesting.
"It opens new avenues that weren't there before in terms of building your ambassadors," he says.
"Businesses spend many, many marketing dollars trying to get to that end client, to get to the customer buying our products, getting to the guy who is going to refer us to his friends.
"If you successfully crowdinvest you are going to have many dozens of investors, maybe hundreds of members of your community who believe in your product.
"The power of the crowd is so important, and when you can figure out how to unlock that, the world's your oyster." | Like most business owners, Ahmed Jaber relies on his customers. | 22759262 |
City are one of 16 clubs invited to enter an under-21 team in the competition - previously known as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy - due to their category one academy status.
They agree with the concept but early rounds of the competition clash with international Under-21 games.
Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool are all expected to decline the chance too.
But Southampton, Stoke, Sunderland and Swansea are among the clubs who will accept their invitation.
The Football League spoke to the Premier League before revealing their expansion idea last week.
Up to this season, the competition had been reserved for League One and League Two clubs.
Barnsley beat Oxford United in last season's final at Wembley.
An EFL spokesman said: "The EFL is currently awaiting responses from a number of clubs that have been invited to take part in this season's EFL Trophy. Already a number of clubs have accepted our invitation.
"In any instances where clubs do decline, we will issue invitations to other clubs with category one academies in the order in which they finished in the 2015/16 domestic league tables." | Manchester City will not field a team in the 2016-17 EFL Trophy. | 36763761 |
Adam Elliott, 26, had been convicted for driving with his head poking out of a Ford Ka car roof, in Gateshead.
Elliott, of Newcastle, got a suspended jail term after he admitted dangerous driving but denied he was standing up.
But 6ft 7in (2m) tall Elliott, has now been jailed for 18 months over the collision with two vehicles that happened as police pursued him.
Newcastle Crown Court heard that while he was being sentenced for the driving-while-standing-up offence, in December 2016, the judge was unaware that days earlier he had been involved in the crash.
He was not arrested for the crash offence until May this year.
The court was told that during the crash, he smashed his Ford Galaxy into a stationary bus and an oncoming car as he tried to get away from police.
The crash happened in Gateshead before he was due to be sentenced for driving the convertible Ford Ka near the Tyne Bridge while sitting on the headrest, steering with his knees and waving to other motorists.
He had initially claimed he was too tall for the small car.
In relation to the crash, he pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance.
The court was told Judge Robert Adams was unaware of the crash when he gave Elliott, of Aldwick Road, Newcastle, a suspended sentence in March.
In a statement via prison video link, Elliott, said: "My love and passion for cars has now dwindled - they have caused me nothing but trouble." | A man who drove a car while standing up has been jailed for other offences that involved him fleeing a crash scene. | 40305657 |
The youngster climbed on to the belt in the arrivals hall on Sunday afternoon, leading to his father also getting on to try to retrieve him.
He had been freed when paramedics arrived and was treated for arm and leg injuries before going to hospital. His father suffered knee injuries.
The airport said it was investigating what happened.
The boy's father did not require hospital treatment.
Latest updates, plus more Birmingham stories | A boy was injured when he became trapped on a baggage belt at Birmingham Airport. | 37279260 |
The travel writer said he resented being "forced" to choose digital books over print because e-books were more convenient to take on the road.
"It would be such a terrible thing to lose physical books," he told BBC News.
"That's the direction we're heading in because publishers are not responding as effectively as they ought to."
The "solution to the industry's malaise" is to give buyers a free download code when they buy a printed book, he said.
His comments come weeks after Amazon announced a plan to offer buyers of printed books in the US a free or discounted digital version. Similar schemes have been rolled out for magazines and music.
"If they [publishers] don't move to that really quickly people will be forced to take the digital version whether they really want to or not," Bryson said.
"Somebody gave me a digital reader as a gift last spring and I now find that when I'm travelling I take digital books with me.
"I'd like to possess both versions but I'm forced by the book world to choose one or the other, and sometimes I'm being forced to take digital books.
"I've nothing against digital books but I want both. I'm being forced to make the choice and I feel that by buying a digital book I'm not supporting a bookshop, I'm not supporting the physical book and that makes me feel guilty.
"I'm being forced into that and I kind of resent it."
Bryson was speaking at the Booksellers Association conference ahead of the publication of his latest book, One Summer: America 1927.
Richard Mollet, chief executive of the Publishers Association, said some companies had looked into bundling e-books with physical sales. "But it is important not to underestimate the enormous technical and commercial challenges behind what may appear to be a straightforward idea," he said.
Publishers are "leading the way in providing books in the format that consumers want to read them", he said, adding that "the physical book is going to remain a prominent feature in the market for a considerable time to come".
"The option between the wonderful mass portability of e-books, or the inimitable presence and feel of a physical book is an important choice, and one which readers are currently happy to make according to their needs."
Earlier this month, Amazon announced its MatchBook scheme, which will offer digital copies of 10,000 titles when they are bought in print. Some will be free, while others will cost up to $2.99 (£1.92).
At that time, independent book industry commentator Neill Denny told the BBC the scheme may help the print industry "because by bundling the content it locks the analogue to the successful digital model in a way that publishers have been struggling to find".
However, Philip Jones, editor of trade publication the Bookseller magazine, was sceptical about whether book-lovers would actually want both versions. | Author Bill Bryson has called on publishers to give away e-books when people buy the printed versions in order to boost sales of physical books. | 24222420 |
Retired dressmaker Carole Wheadon, of Leckwith, Cardiff, has created little Santas, snowmen, trees and puddings.
The 79-year-old has also filled the little gifts with chocolates and sold them to raise funds for Velindre Cancer Centre.
"I knit a bit every day," said Mrs Wheadon.
She started knitting the figures to raise money for the specialist cancer hospital in Cardiff about five-years-ago after a friend lost her father to cancer.
"I volunteered my services because I wanted to help in any way I could," said Mrs Wheadon, who buys the wool herself and gets the patterns from the charity.
"People use them as decorations or in stockings, or even on a plate for Christmas dinner."
And, her knitting is not just for Christmas, as she creates crochet blankets for the charity to sell at their summer fayre, and at Easter she knits little chicks with eggs hidden inside. | A great-grandmother has been knitting miniature Christmas toys every day since Easter to raise money for cancer patients. | 38261936 |
ITV are not revealing any more details about the sketch which will air at Christmas.
Hugh Bonneville, who plays the Earl of Grantham, became friends with Clooney when he appeared in his film The Monuments Men.
Clooney and co-star Matt Damon admitted they were fans of Downton Abbey at the UK premiere in February.
But Clooney said he didn't think he would be right to appear in the show, telling The Sun "I am too lowly for a part, I don't think they want me.
"I can't do the accent either. It's all very Dick Van Dyke."
In May it was reported that Clooney had taken his fiancee Amal Alamuddin to Highclere Castle in Hampshire, where Downton Abbey is filmed, leading to speculation they were viewing it as a possible wedding venue.
But now it appears that is when he filmed the sketch for the ITV charity.
Series five of Downton Abbey starts on ITV on 21 September at 2100 BST. | George Clooney is to appear in Downton Abbey in a specially filmed sketch for the ITV charity show Text Santa. | 29154864 |
Dan Draghici attacked Elena Draghici, 31, during an argument at the house they shared in Smethwick, in the West Midlands, police said.
Mrs Draghici fled and hailed a passing taxi after her sister intervened.
Her husband, who had denied attempted murder, was found in his car having stabbed himself in the leg. He was jailed at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
Draghici, who admitted a charge of assault by beating, was jailed at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday.
Police said 42-year-old Draghici, of Fenton Road, attacked his wife while their daughter was upstairs with his sister-in-law in March.
"After hearing the screams her sister came downstairs and jumped on Draghici's back, managing to pull him off Elena who then managed to escape," a West Midlands Police spokesman said.
Det Insp Jason McMahon, said: "This has been a truly horrific time for Elena and her family, who are trying to come to terms with what has happened to them.
"Elena sustained serious injuries during the assault which she is still recovering from, I hope that the sentence will be of some comfort to them and help them rebuild their lives." | A man has been jailed for 20 years for trying to kill his wife in a "horrific" knife attack at their family home. | 37299336 |
26-year-old Bale won a second Champions League title with Real prior to joining Wales's pre-Euro 2016 training camp.
"Gareth is at the age where he is at the peak of his game, with enough experience and magnificent physical capability," he told BBC Sport.
"Naturally, every day is a chance to improve and get better and Gareth still has many years of football ahead."
Bale scored seven goals as Wales qualified for the finals of a major championship for the first time since the 1958 World Cup.
They start their Euro 2016 campaign against Slovakia on 11 June before playing England and Russia.
Butragueno won six La Liga titles during his time with Real and finished runner up with Spain in the 1984 European Championships.
"He [Bale] is a spectacular player, he's a very powerful player, very fast who manages the ball really well, who scores goals and therefore he could literally win a game on his own," he continued.
"There aren't many players in the world who are capable of this, therefore he is a much-loved man and we know that."
Despite a mixed second season with Real following a debut campaign which saw him clinch a first Champions League, Bale had a more successful third season and Butragueno believes he will stay at the club for the foreseeable future.
"When Gareth is fit, we know there is a greater chance of achieving our goals. He has been with us for three years and we hope he will stay for many more," he added.
"We are confident he will be a fundamental player for us over the coming years and will leave a lasting legacy at the club.
"We are talking here about one of the best players in the world. We [Madrid] are thrilled with Gareth. Truly, he's an extraordinary player who is very committed and for us he's an essential player."
Gareth Bale: Euro Star - BBC One Wales, Friday 3 June at 20:30 BST and 23;25 BST on all other BBC One regions. | Wales' Gareth Bale is a player who can win a game on his own, according to Real Madrid legend Emilio Butragueno. | 36427979 |
Mr Mckeague, 23, has not been seen since a night out in Bury St Edmunds last September, when CCTV showed him entering a bin loading bay.
Police have so far spent nine weeks searching a Cambridge landfill site for any sign of the RAF Honington gunner.
Earlier, it was revealed the search had so far cost more than £1m.
The investigation into Mr Mckeague's disappearance is one of the most expensive undertaken by Suffolk Police, the Cambridge News reported.
On Friday afternoon Suffolk Police said officers searching the landfill had been through all the rubbish from the location and time he disappeared.
"However, towards the edges of the area it has also been noticed that the waste may have naturally shifted from the original deposition area," the force said.
"Police are expanding the search parameters to take this into account."
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The airman, from Dunfermline in Fife, vanished after going out with friends from RAF Honington, where he is based.
He was last seen entering a bin loading bay known as the "horseshoe" at about 03:25 BST.
A waste disposal lorry collected a bin from that area less than an hour after Mr Mckeague was spotted on CCTV.
Nine weeks ago specialist officers began sifting through waste at the landfill site in Milton, Cambridgeshire, where they believe his body may be.
So far, Suffolk Police said it had sifted through more than 3,000 tonnes of waste at the 120-acre (48.5 hectare) site.
While officers have yet to find any trace of him, late last month officers said they had started to find rubbish at the site "from the right time period" from when he went missing.
A force spokeswoman confirmed that search costs "above and beyond staffing" were currently running at about £544,250 and taking into account salaries and "specialist resources", the investigation costs exceeded the £1m mark to date.
Police initially estimated the search of the vast landfill site could take 10 weeks.
The spokeswoman was unable to say at this stage whether it could take longer. | The search for missing airman Corrie Mckeague is set to be expanded after weeks of looking through landfill failed to find any trace of his body. | 39816790 |
Mitchell Rodgers died almost instantly when he was hit by a train travelling at about 100mph through Belper station in Derbyshire on 28 March 2015.
After the inquest, Mitchell's family said "justice has not been served".
An Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation found the officers had no case to answer.
Mitchell's mother, Nicola Village, said the family would like to thank "everybody that has helped and supported us".
"We do feel let down and in our opinion justice has not been served to Mitchell," she said.
"We want to pass on our thoughts to the train driver as we appreciate this has been a difficult time for him also."
The three-day inquest in Derby heard that Mitchell, from Nether Heage, had been drinking on the night of his death.
Police were called out following a 999 call about an altercation involving a group of youths in Belper.
PC David Chambers, who is now retired, told the jury that he spoke to Mitchell initially, but then all of a sudden he "turned round and made off".
PC Chambers initially pursued the teenager then another officer, PC Andrew Cocking, followed Mitchell to the railway station.
The officer, now a detective constable, told jurors that he only became aware of where Mitchell was when he arrived on the platform.
He said he saw a big round light heading towards him and shouted to the teenager: "There's a train coming, get off the track!"
The train then passed between them, Det Con Cocking said, and then Mitchell was not there anymore.
"I could feel the blood draining away from me," he said, describing the moment he realised what had happened.
When asked by coroner Dr Robert Foster about the effect it had on him, the officer said: "I think about it every day and I get flashbacks about it."
The post-mortem examination on Mitchell's body found he sustained 22 significant injuries, and his cause of death was a head injury.
The coroner said: "I express my condolences to the family for the sudden and horrendous circumstances of Mitchell's death.
"I hope the inquest has provided some closure.
"The British Transport Police investigator said he would not have suffered any pain.
"Try and keep the memories you have of him as happy and smiling."
Derbyshire Police said in a statement: "Following the death of Mitchell Rodgers, the IPCC carried out an investigation which found the officers present that night had no case to answer.
"This was reflected in the evidence heard during this inquest." | An inquest jury has concluded that a 16-year-old boy died by misadventure, when he was struck by an express train, as he was running away from police. | 40942382 |
Many over-55s will be able to dip into their pensions pots when they wish to.
But the party says a charges cap may be required to prevent investors in certain schemes losing more than a quarter of their money in fees.
The Treasury says savers will be given impartial guidance and new rules for financial firms are being introduced.
Up until now most people in defined contribution schemes - where the final pension depends on the amount of investment returns - bought an annuity, a pre-set income for life, from a provider when they retired.
From next April, savers will be able to use their pension money as they see fit, from the age of 55.
More than 300,000 people will be able to access their pensions. A quarter of the money withdrawn will be tax-free, with income tax payable on additional withdrawals.
Labours says it is concerned that insurers, investment managers and advisers will see the change as an opportunity to cash in.
In particular, it is highlighting the potential high fees for pensioners who use so-called income drawdown schemes to access their cash, a practice up until till now used mostly by wealthier retirees.
The schemes allow savers to take part of their pension while keeping the rest invested in the stock market.
Labour says the fees for such schemes could reach 27% of the value of a £30,000 pension pot, if existing charging structures on drawdown products were applied.
Pensions minister Steve Webb said the Financial Conduct Authority would soon be publishing new guidelines for companies selling pension-related financial products.
But Labour says the government has not included income drawdown investments in its plans to combat high fees.
Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont said: "Labour welcomed the new pension flexibilities announced in the Budget, but we are concerned that the government has not thought through the risks of rip-off charges." | Labour is urging the government to ensure people taking advantage of new pension freedoms next April are not ripped off by financial firms. | 30157188 |
A camp for displaced people has been set up near Bannu but it lacks food, water and electricity, locals say.
Many displaced families are seeking shelter with friends and relatives.
A curfew has been lifted to allow people in North Waziristan to escape - and officials expect thousands more to flee to safety in the coming days.
"We have been locked inside our homes for the past four days ever since the curfew was imposed," Muhammad Niaz, from the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan, told the BBC.
"The markets were closed and we ran out of food. I couldn't even take my child to the hospital. It was as if we were cut off from the world."
Another man who had left his home, Khurshid Khan said: "I have come here with women and children. There was not a drop of water along the way. My son's face has gone yellow with thirst. And we still don't know where we are heading."
The army says at least 160 militants had been killed since it began air strikes on militant targets in Shawal and other areas of North Waziristan on Sunday.
There is no independent media access to the area and no way of confirming the casualty figures.
Tanks and troops are also being sent in for a full-scale operation to target Taliban and foreign militant networks based near the Afghan border, the military says.
Eyewitness: Riffatullah Orakzai, BBC Urdu, Bannu region
Displaced people are arriving carrying their few belongings and their children and trying to reach safety on foot, in the scorching heat.
They look tired and hungry. There are no places for them to stop and rest.
A few religious parties have now set up some relief camps along the way, with food and water, but not a single government camp could be seen.
Most of the families are choosing to stay with relatives and friends, because it is also considered culturally unacceptable to live as a displaced person in a camp.
On Monday, locals asked the government to allow them safe passage to leave the tribal agency.
The army had initially blocked all roads leading out of North Waziristan, ahead of the military operations.
Despite the lifting of the curfew, the government appears ill-prepared to accommodate the thousands who have been streaming out of the area since Wednesday.
Only one camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) has been set up in the semi-autonomous tribal area of Bakakhel near Bannu.
Only three or four families have settled there. They say they have not been provided adequate food or water supplies in scorching summer temperatures. The area also has a proliferation of snakes and scorpions, another discouraging factor for families trying to seek shelter there.
North Waziristan is thought to have a population of between 550,000 and 700,000. Officials say approximately 80% of the population is still living in the area as the military strikes escalate.
In its latest statement on the fighting, the government said 15 militants had been killed by helicopter gunships in mountain heights to the east of the main town in North Waziristan, Miranshah.
It also said eight Uzbeks had been killed by army snipers while planting improvised explosive devices on the road between Miranshah and the town of Mir Ali.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif gave the go-ahead for the offensive after a deadly attack earlier this month on Karachi airport, which was claimed by an Uzbek militant group and the Pakistani Taliban.
Analysis: Saba Eitizaz, BBC Urdu
This new mass migration will be a major burden on the country's resources. Pakistan is already struggling to cope with almost two million people displaced during the military operations against militants in Swat in 2009.
Many of them have still not been able to return to their homes and are living in makeshift camps or in slums in Karachi.
The government is also still in the process of resettling IDPs from the devastating floods of 2010 that swept across one-fifth of the country and affected 20 million people. | Tens of thousands of people are fleeing North Waziristan tribal region in north-west Pakistan after the army began an offensive against militants. | 27928255 |
The 33-year-old joined on a two-year deal from Australian NRL side Cronulla Sharks in November 2015, making 18 appearances and scoring four tries.
But chairman Michael Carter said Tupou and his family were "suffering a lot with homesickness".
Carter told the club website: "Unfortunately things did not work out as well as we all had hoped." | Homesick Wakefield forward Anthony Tupou has had contract cancelled by mutual consent. | 38340714 |
The 32-year-old announced on Facebook he has had surgery on the problem and will return to action in 2018.
Last month, the Swiss struggled and needed ice on his knee as he was knocked out in the first round of Wimbledon by Russia's Daniil Medvedev.
"I love this sport and I will work hard to get back to my top level and play many more years," said Wawrinka.
This season, the three-time Grand Slam champion reached the final of the French Open and the semi-finals of the Australia Open.
He added: "After talking with my team and doctor I had to make a difficult decision to undergo a medical intervention on my knee. This was the only solution to make sure I will be able to compete at the top level for many more years.
"This is obviously extremely disappointing, but I am already looking ahead and planning my recovery. I love this sport and I will work hard to get back to my top level and play many more years.
"I also want to take this opportunity to thank my fans for sending plenty of messages of support during the last couple of days. I will see you all in 2018."
Former world number one Novak Djokovic will also miss the US Open because of an elbow injury. | US Open champion Stan Wawrinka will not defend his title in New York later this month because of a knee injury. | 40824969 |
Lawand Hamadamin's family said they fled Iraq as so-called Islamic State threatened to kill disabled children.
They said they moved to Derby via Germany so Lawand could learn sign language but the Home Office argues EU rules state refugees should register in the first European country they enter.
The family, due to leave on Monday, have now had a decision deferred.
A High Court judge will now look at their case and the review could take several months.
After travelling via Greece and Germany the family spent a year in a refugee camp in France.
As the family made its way to Europe, Lawand's parents put a plastic bag on his head to protect his cochlear implant.
But once in the camp they were unable to charge its batteries and the boy lived "most of his life in a silent world".
After hiding in the back of a lorry to get to the UK, the family was first sent by the Home Office to Halifax but later relocated to Derby so Lawand could get specialist help.
Lawand did not know sign language as it was not taught in Iraqi schools.
Staff at the Royal School for the Deaf have said he has made "exceptional progress".
More than 11,000 people have signed a petition against the deportation.
Lawand's father Rebwar Golbahar said: "We are extremely relieved that we have been granted some more time to prove to the Home Office why Lawand needs to stay in Derby.
"He has made incredibly good progress since coming to this school and we are desperate for this good work to continue. He would go back to the beginning if we were removed and the deportation would be frightening and devastating for the whole family.
"We would like to thank the school and all the people who have campaigned to help us."
The Home Office has previously said it would not "shoulder the burden" of other countries' asylum claims. | A deaf six-year-old boy threatened with deportation has been given a last-minute reprieve. | 38622451 |
The plan is to connect the two grids using 138km of overhead lines between a new substation near Moy in County Tyrone and County Meath.
EirGird, the company behind the proposal, has said the interconnector is essential to secure a reliable supply into the future.
It is the second oral hearing by An Bord Pleanála into the matter.
An Bord Pleanála, the Irish planning authority, will hear submissions from EirGrid and opponents to the plans, at the hearing in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan.
It is due to last three months.
The first hearing collapsed in 2010 after hearing testimony for several weeks.
Under the proposals, 299 pylons would be constructed over the 103km route between the border at Clontibret in Monaghan and a large substation in Batterstown, County Meath.
The pylons would vary in height between 26m and 51m across Monaghan, Cavan and Meath.
A lawyer for EirGrid told the hearing that the project was essential to secure a safe, reliable, economic and efficient electricity supply between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
He said the development would save 20m euros (£15.47m) annually by 2020 rising to 60m euros (£46.42m) by 2030.
Campaigners want the cables to be put underground for environmental and health reasons.
The lawyer for EirGrid said the company had looked at the possibility of installing high voltage cables underground but said the best technical solution was to keep the cables over ground for the whole duration of the route.
In the Republic of Ireland, the state-owned commercial energy company, EirGrid, has submitted plans for the southern half of the project.
In Northern Ireland, the lead is being taken by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI).
A separate planning application is before the Planning Appeals Commission, with a hearing due to begin on 21 June. | More than 200 people are attending a hearing into plans to build a north-south electricity interconnector. | 35746526 |
Her critically-acclaimed debut album Y Dydd Olaf was picked from a shortlist of 15 from an original selection of 60 albums produced in Wales.
She said: "These albums don't happen without loads of people around you."
The awards were launched by BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens and music promoter John Rostron, who called it "the best of a brilliant bunch."
He added: "It's a bold, brave and wonderful record that also shows Wales at it's creative best. A deserved win."
Keyboard player and singer Gwenno Saunders, from Cardiff - who is also a DJ and radio presenter - won the Welsh Language Album of the Year Award in the summer.
Saunders, 34, a fluent Welsh and Cornish speaker, sings in both languages on the album, which is inspired by a 1970s Welsh sci-fi novel written by nuclear scientist Owain Owain.
Accepting the award in Cardiff, Saunders paid tribute to the other shortlisted albums and added: "I haven't slept - I've just had a baby!"
It was first released on Cardiff-based Peski Records before being taken up by indie label Heavenly, who included a CD of remixes in the re-release.
"I think, in some way, that reflects the story of this record, which has grown in following and stature and adoration through it's journey this year," said Rostron.
Saunders added about the novel she was inspired by: "It's written by a scientist predicting how we'd be controlled by technology and the media - it's a timely album and I was so excited to discover something like that."
Last year's winners Joanna Gruesome were nominated again for the follow-up to Weird Sister.
The first winner was Gruff Rhys for Hotel Shampoo in 2011 and this year a fellow Super Furry Animals member Cian Ciaran was shortlisted for his side-project with Zefur Wolves.
Others on the shortlist included Welsh language veteran Geraint Jarman and Catfish and The Bottlemen.
Judge Griff Lynch Jones said the competition bridged the gap between English and Welsh language music.
"There's a lot of separation usually," he said.
"It sends message out it doesn't matter what genre it's in or what language it's in."
"There was a bit of argument but in the end we were all agreed on the winner."
The shortlist: | The fifth Welsh Music Prize has been won by singer Gwenno. | 34932959 |
Nitcharee Peneakchanasak was announced on a TV talk show as winner of the competition named Best Job in Thailand.
She was chosen for the six-month "happiness observer" post from hundreds of applicants, the hospital says.
Supporters across Thailand had been rooting for the 21-year-old who lost her legs in a 2011 rail accident.
The World Medical Hospital in Bangkok which offered the job is only four years old and has attracted widespread attention with its unique job offer.
According to a hospital spokesman, Nitcharee or "Thun" was selected from more than 800 applicants who submitted video applications for the job.
"I think I won the competition because I was true to myself. I showed them that this is what I love doing. Plus, I had overcome the [accident], which was quite a unique experience," Nitcharee told the BBC's Thanyarat Doksone.
"I was very surprised because I thought I was quite young and inexperienced, compared to other candidates. But I'm very glad because I love talking to people and I want to talk to the patients. I dreamed of being a psychologist."
Nitcharee is currently studying journalism at Thammasat University in Bangkok.
Part of her duties will be to observe patients and talk to them to help the hospital administration find out more about their needs. She will also be asked to write inspiring stories on Facebook.
"We believe that doctors can only treat physical conditions of patients but we rarely know what's on their mind," the spokesman told the BBC. "If we know what they want and help them, they will recover more quickly from their illnesses.
"Thun has experienced a tragic event that had a huge impact on her but her mind is so strong. She went on to speak to others and became their inspiration to fight. We're proud to have her," he explained.
In 2011, the then teenage girl lost both her legs when she fell off an MRT platform in Singapore in front of an oncoming train.
Her story gained huge attention both in Singapore and Thailand at the time. | A Thai woman who lost both her legs as a teenager has won a job in a hospital which will pay her one million baht (£23,000; $29,000) a month. | 40413926 |
Action against Gen Guo had been expected for several months, following the downfall of two other senior military figures with whom he served.
Gen Guo is accused of using his influence to seek promotions for others and of accepting bribes.
President Xi Jinping has led a major anti-corruption campaign since taking office three years ago.
The downfall of such a senior and well-connected military figure as Gen Guo is yet another significant victory for Mr Xi but also sends a warning that his anti-corruption campaign is by no means over, the BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie reports.
Several veteran generals have complained that graft in the armed forces is so pervasive that it threatens the country's ability to wage war, and that promotions are often bought and sold rather than earned, our correspondent reports.
Gen Guo served as vice-chairman of China's central military commission from 2002 to 2012 and was a member of the Politburo. His case has now been handed to military prosecutors.
His son, a navy admiral, was also detained earlier this year.
The other two generals that Gen Guo served with, Xu Caihou and Gu Junshan, were accused of corruption on a huge scale.
State media reported that it took a week to catalogue all the cash, jewels and antiques amassed in Gen Xu's Beijing residence and that 12 trucks were required to remove them all. He died of cancer in March.
Gen Gu meanwhile was responsible for logistics which allowed him to embezzle $5bn (£3.2bn) in the process of military real estate transactions. | Former high-ranking Chinese army figure Guo Boxiong has been expelled from the Communist Party in a corruption probe. | 33725125 |
An artist's impression of the site will go on public display after the planning application for the project was submitted.
The plans include a bus station next to the railway station, a multi-storey car park and a footbridge.
The City of Lincoln Council claimed it will regenerate the city centre and increase investment in other areas.
Ric Metcalfe, leader of the council, said: "It is a hugely significant project for everyone in the city as these vastly improved transport facilities... will help remove barriers to further investment and growth while providing a more welcoming and attractive gateway to Lincoln."
The proposals include demolishing and rebuilding the old bus station, building a 1,000-space car park, more cycle lanes and changes to St Mary's Street.
It will also footbridges replaced with one high enough to allow the future electrification of the rail line.
The application is expected to be considered by the planning committee in September and, if approved, work will start by the end 2015. | The first images of what Lincoln's £29m transport hub could look like have been released. | 33184171 |
25 November 2015 Last updated at 09:43 GMT
Her journey has been a long and remarkable one.
At two years old, she arrived in north London from her native Dominica with her parents and 11 siblings. She rose to become the UK's first ever female attorney general and chief legal advisor.
As one of the 100 women chosen by BBC 100 Women 2015, she spoke to the World Service's Social Affairs Correspondent Valeria Perasso about her work, and solutions for tackling domestic violence around the world.
100 Women 2015
This year's season features two weeks of inspirational stories about the BBC's 100 Women and others who are defying stereotypes around the world.
Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram using the hashtag #100Women. Listen to the programmes here. | Baroness Patricia Scotland has been a leading figure in reforming laws in the UK which have helped to reduce domestic violence by 64%. | 34912320 |
Michael Dreyfus died in a crash near the Great Rift Valley in neighbouring Kenya, on his birthday in 1978, an area where volcano research is taking place.
The £102,000 PhD place has been partly funded by Mr Dreyfus's friends and Bristol University.
Tesfaye Temtime Tessema, 35, will study volcanology in Bristol for three years.
Bristol University and Addis Ababa University want to develop a long-range volcanic eruption forecast for the Ethiopian Rift, as it is largely unknown but heavily populated with wildlife and people.
Mr Tessema, who recently completed his Masters in Addis Ababa, will focus his research on studying the landscape using specialised techniques as part of the on-going five-year £3.7m RiftVolc study, which both universities are involved with.
This work focus on the tectonic plate activity that leads to earthquakes as well as volcanoes, as both are possible in the Great Rift Valley.
"People are used to living with the risk of earthquakes in Ethiopia but it isn't a top priority for the government, so research like this is really important for improving people's understanding and assessing the threat they pose," Mr Tessema said.
The fund was partly donated by Mr Dreyfus's friends, George Elliston, and Skip and Cathy McMullan.
George Elliston, said: "Mike was a quick-witted and charismatic man, whom we all loved.
"He died close to the Rift Valley, and here we are in another part of the Rift, looking to the future.
"So, it's a nice way of keeping his memory alive in our hearts, and establishing some continuity between successive Bristol generations."
The overall aim of the Michael Dreyfus Scholarship Fund is to develop a network of trained Ethiopian scientists who can research volcanology and advise and shape government policy. | A Bristol university graduate who died in Africa has had a scholarship set up in his name that aims to aid understanding of volcanoes in Ethiopia. | 37871871 |
Jamie Reynolds tried to strangle a girl in 2008 and went on to hang 17-year-old Georgia Williams in Telford in 2013.
A number of agencies have jointly admitted a series of failures.
Her parents said: "If people had just done their jobs properly our daughter would still be alive."
Steve and Lynnette Williams added: "Having lost Georgia to pure evil, we cried when we read this report and the failings of all the agencies involved, because it was so obvious that Reynolds was, if not one already, a murderer in the making.
"Georgia's death could have been prevented."
Reynolds was jailed in December 2013, at the age of 23, after admitting murdering Georgia.
At the time of his sentencing, Stafford Crown Court was told Georgia knew Reynolds but had "made it clear she had no romantic interest in him" and only agreed to go to his house to be a model for his amateur photography.
Chief Constable David Shaw, of West Mercia Police, said: "We could have and should have done better. We let Georgia down."
There were "shortfalls" in the force's investigation of Reynolds' attempt to strangle a 16-year-old girl at his home in 2008, the serious case review found.
Police treated what happened as an assault, the 16-year-old's injuries were not photographed and neither she nor Reynolds were referred to a forensic medical examiner.
Officers did not carry out a search of Reynolds' home, the report also stated.
Reynolds' stepfather had told the Justice Liaison Service he had discovered the then teenager viewed images of naked women being strangled.
He also told the service Reynolds had photos of girls he knew with nooses drawn around their necks, the review team said.
The Justice Liaison Service told Reynolds' stepfather to tell the police about the pornography and doctored photographs, but the force did not act on them, the report said.
"Further investigation may have led to more information as to Reynolds' motivation and the risk he posed in addition to further evidence to support an alternative charge," the report stated.
Instead, Reynolds was given a final written warning by police.
He was put in contact with the Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Justice Liaison Service, the Youth Offending Service, and a scheme for adolescent sex offenders run by the NSPCC.
Telford & Wrekin Council's Children's Services was involved over concerns about Reynolds and other possible victims who were all under 18 at the time.
The review team stated a "flawed" decision was made by agencies not to tell the girls in the photographs about the images.
One of them, Jadine Dunning, was only shown a photograph of herself with a noose drawn around her neck after Georgia - who Ms Dunning knew - had been murdered.
She waived her right to anonymity and said: "They couldn't have got it any more wrong.
"They've put my life in danger there. Not only my life, other young girls' lives and I think that's completely wrong.
"If jobs were done properly and right action was taken, not only from the police but other authorities as well, I really do believe we could have saved her life."
Georgia's father Steve, a detective constable with West Mercia Police, said he felt an inner conflict as the review highlighted "shortfalls" in the force's previous dealings with his daughter's murderer.
Mr Williams has called for the publication of an Independent Police Complaints Commission report into how his colleagues investigated an attack by Jamie Reynolds in 2008.
But, he said he decided to stay with the force despite knowing the failings surrounding his daughter's killer.
The report stated: "Although at least eight agencies... had involvement in the case, at no time did all those agencies meet together and there was no clear and co-ordinated approach to multi-agency working."
The management of the case gave "too much weight" to potential impact on Reynolds' future and "a relative lack of consideration for victims and overall risk assessment and management", the review said
Laura Johnston, director for children and family services at Telford & Wrekin Council, said: "Neither the council's practice or the Youth Offending Service's practice was good enough in 2008."
She said questions were not asked, people were not professionally curious enough and they did not look at the bigger picture.
She added: "In Telford we talk of Georgia and we want to keep talking of Georgia to make sure the learning is very personal and powerful."
Mrs Williams said: "We want the public to realise how badly let down Georgia was.
"She wanted to do so much in life and we could have seen her doing all those things."
Remembering his daughter, Mr Williams said: "We had saved money for them for their weddings and stuff, and I cry when I think... I had to spend some of that money on her funeral.
"It's torn me apart. I loved Georgia as any parent should.
"She was a friend and I miss her every second of the day." | A teenager hanged by a man obsessed with asphyxiating girls was failed by police and social services assigned to her killer after an earlier attack, a serious case review has found. | 34465925 |
Two Hammers fans have accepted a police caution, and one of them has been given a lifetime ban from matches for gestures made at Tottenham on Sunday.
The West Ham chief's great grandfather committed suicide after abusive taunts.
Gold said: "We have a clear stance towards any kind of discriminatory behaviour - it will not be tolerated."
We are a club that promotes tolerance and inclusion of people from all backgrounds, race and religion
West Ham's Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun said he was "embarrassed" by some of the chanting at the game.
The Football Association has said it will hold an investigation after reports of anti-Semitic taunts during the 3-1 Premier League win for Tottenham, who have strong links with the Jewish community.
Police said the two fans were arrested inside White Hart Lane for racially aggravated public order offences. It is understood they made Nazi-style salutes.
A complaint about abusive chanting has been made to police, who will meet with the complainant before deciding whether to open a formal criminal investigation.
Gold, who took over the east London club with David Sullivan nearly three years ago, said: "David and I are leading an investigation from the top of the club to establish exactly what happened at White Hart Lane on Sunday.
"If we can identify any individuals that have acted inappropriately they will be sought out and banned by the club as part of our zero tolerance policy.
"At the same time we must remember that West Ham United has some of the best fans in the land and we must not let the tens of thousands of supporters that follow our club over land and sea in exactly the right way be overlooked."
It has been reported that a section of the away support sang songs which referenced Adolf Hitler, the German Nazi leader who ordered the mass murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust of the 1930s and 1940s.
Some West Ham fans are also alleged to have taunted the home crowd about the stabbing of Spurs fans in Rome last week.
I am very proud of my Jewish heritage and have always been made to feel welcome at West Ham
Gold said: "Like many of the people around me in the directors' box at White Hart Lane I didn't hear or see any of the reported inappropriate behaviour during Sunday's game with Tottenham. If I had, then I'm sure I would have been mortified.
"As a board we genuinely believe we have some of the best supporters in the country and we will not let a minority of fans, no matter how small, affect the reputation of our great club.
"We are a club that promotes tolerance and inclusion of people from all backgrounds, race and religion. Just a quick look around our boardroom table would tell you that."
The 76-year-old's great grandfather was found hanged around the turn of the 20th Century after surviving persecution in Poland but being "driven to despair" by anti-Semitism in England.
"I am very proud of my Jewish heritage and have always been made to feel welcome at West Ham since I started watching them as a young boy back in the 1950s," said Gold.
"That wasn't always the case growing up in the East End and I know first-hand how difficult dealing with prejudice can be, which is why I feel so passionately about promoting inclusion in society today."
Benayoun, 32, who is on loan from Chelsea, said a minority of fans were to blame at Tottenham and that the FA and West Ham would "do everything to find and punish them".
He added on his Twitter page: "I have a great relationship with the West Ham United supporters, from my first spell at the club and again now I am back on loan here.
"This is why I was very disappointed to hear some of the songs and it was embarrassing."
West Ham boss Sam Allardyce believes supporters involved should be banned for life. "It's a small minority but at the end of the day a small minority can make themselves heard at football matches if they really want to and we must deal with it," he said.
"The good thing is with security cameras and CCTV cameras, it's difficult for them to get away with it. Hopefully we can pick out those people and punish them in the right way." | West Ham's Jewish co-chairman David Gold says the club will have a "zero tolerance" approach to any supporters found to have made anti-Semitic taunts. | 20505152 |
The hosts left it late but secured a vital bonus point in their 34-10 victory over Enisei-STM.
Harri Keddie touched down late - with his second - for the bonus point after T Rhys Thomas and Rhys Buckley crossed.
Wings Denis Simplekevich and Igor Kurashov scored for enterprising Enisei at either end of the second half.
Dorian Jones kicked eight home points while replacement Angus O'Brien converted Buckley's and back-row replacement Keddie's scores.
Dragons did well to wear down Russian resistance in the final quarter after they had threatened to come back into the game at 13-5.
Keddie's dynamic performance as replacement number eight earned the 20-year-old the man-of-the-match award.
The Welsh side, who have reached the semi-finals in successive seasons, have again won all their home games in the competition in 2016-17.
Kingsley Jones' Dragons travel to Brive in their final group match on Saturday, 21 January.
Brive remain top of Pool 3, level on points with the second-placed Welsh team, as they go into Saturday's home tie against bottom-side Worcester.
Dragons head coach and former Russia boss Kingsley Jones told BBC Radio Wales: "I know they're a stubborn team and after 10 minutes particularly, we were leading 10-0 and we have to respect the opposition.
"It's never going to be 25-0 in five minutes.
"So I thought the way we went about our business in the second half particularly was excellent.
"They came back into the game with a try, but the challenge with this team - I've been saying it for a year or so - is the top two inches.
"The biggest positive is that we went on and achieved what we set out to do when they got back in the game."
Newport Gwent Dragons: Carl Meyer; Tom Prydie, Tyler Morgan, Jack Dixon, Adam Warren; Dorian Jones, Sarel Pretorius; Sam Hobbs, T Rhys Thomas, Brok Harris, Matthew Screech, Rynard Landman, Nick Crosswell, Nic Cudd, Ed Jackson.
Replacements: Rhys Buckley, Tom Davies, Lloyd Fairbrother, Cory Hill, Harrison Keddie, Tavis Knoyle, Angus O'Brien, Adam Hughes.
Enisei-STM: Ramil Gaisin; Igor Kurashov, Jurijs Baranovs (capt), Dmitrii Gerasimov, Denis Simplikevich; Iurii Kushnarev, Alexey Shcherban; Andrei Polivalov, Shamil Magomedov, Jake Grey, Viacheslav Krasylnyk, Maxim Gargalic, Mikheil Gachechiladze, Plavel Butenko, Anton Rudoi.
Replacements: Nazir Gasanov, Valery Morozov, Azat Musin, Evgeny Elgin, Aleksei Mikhaltsov, Konstantin Uzunov, Thomas Halse, Vitalii Orlov
Referee: Frank Murphy (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Nigel Correll (Ireland), Helen O'Reilly (Ireland) | Newport Dragons keep their European Challenge Cup knock-out stage hopes alive with a bonus-point win over Enisei-STM of Russia. | 38573663 |
Read the reports from all of Tuesday's Championship matches:
Birmingham City 2-2 Preston North End
Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Charlton Athletic
Brentford 2-1 Cardiff City
Brighton & Hove Albion 4-0 QPR
Bristol City 2-3 Derby County
Burnley 1-1 Middlesbrough
Ipswich Town 1-1 Fulham
Leeds United 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Blackburn Rovers
Reading 1-2 Hull City
Rotherham United 1-1 Huddersfield Town
Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 MK Dons | The top two drew, Brighton thrashed QPR to move closer to the automatic promotion places and Charlton were relegated. | 36078565 |
Bryan Hunsaker from America held the 733lbs (332kg) boulders at Potarch in Aberdeenshire for 33.9 seconds - beating the record of 31 seconds.
Mr Hunsaker, a 6ft 8in tall, 22-stone amateur weightlifter, travelled to the area while on holiday in the UK to take on the challenge.
The 36-year-old's family watched as he lifted the granite boulders challenge, dressed in a kilt.
The smaller of the stones weighs more than 144kg (318lbs) and the larger is more than 188kg (414lbs).
Iron rings were attached to them in the 1830s so they could act as counterweights for scaffolding during the maintenance of Potarch Bridge.
In 1860, Donald Dinnie carried them across the width of Potarch Bridge and back.
Mr Hunsaker had learned of the stones via the weightlifting community.
The vitamin exporter told the BBC Scotland news website: "I had known about them for about a year, and started training seriously for it about two months ago.
"We were coming to the UK anyway so decided to try.
"I realised I could hang on to them for a while - to beat Mark Felix's record is quite something."
Ballogie Estate marketing co-ordinator Helen Knowles said of the new record: "We timed it with a stopwatch. He was very determined - and absolutely delighted."
Attempts to lift the stones have to be made by arrangement, to protect the stones. | A tourist has broken the record for lifting the famous Dinnie Stones. | 39444427 |
Left-back Kieran Tierney and striker Leigh Griffiths are the only members of Celtic's squad to receive enough votes from their fellow professionals.
Right-back Shay Logan and midfielders Graeme Shinnie, Kenny McLean and Jonny Hayes are from the second-top Dons.
Goalkeeper Scott Bain and strikers Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart are from a Dundee side outside of the top six.
The remaining players, in a 4-3-3 formation, are central defenders Alim Ozturk, of Hearts, and Andrew Davies, of Ross County.
Griffiths, Hayes, Hemmings and Stewart make up the shortlist for PFA Scotland Player of the Year.
Having won the Championship title, Rangers dominate their division's team of the year with five representatives.
Second-top Falkirk and third-placed Hibernian have three each.
Dunfermline Athletic have four players in the League One team of the season, while East Fife have the same number in the League Two list, with both having won their respective titles.
The Fifers' player-manager, Gary Naysmith, the 37-year-old former Scotland left-back, makes the League Two XI.
Scott Bain (Dundee)
Shay Logan (Aberdeen)
Alim Ozturk (Heart of Midlothian)
Andrew Davies (Ross County)
Kieran Tierney (Celtic)
Jonny Hayes (Aberdeen)
Kenny McLean (Aberdeen)
Graeme Shinnie (Aberdeen)
Kane Hemmings (Dundee)
Leigh Griffiths (Celtic)
Greg Stewart (Dundee)
Danny Rogers (Falkirk)
James Tavernier (Rangers)
Darren McGregor (Hibernian)
Peter Grant (Falkirk)
Lee Wallace (Rangers)
Jason Holt (Rangers)
John McGinn (Hibernian)
Barrie McKay (Rangers)
John Baird (Falkirk)
Martyn Waghorn (Rangers)
Jason Cummings (Hibernian)
Graeme Smith (Peterhead)
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United)
Michael Dunlop (Albion Rovers)
Ben Richards-Everton (Dunfermline Athletic)
Paddy Boyle (Ayr United)
Liam Watt (Airdrieonians)
Andy Geggan (Dunfermline Athletic)
Joe Cardle (Dunfermline Athletic)
Greig Spence (Cowdenbeath)
Rory McAllister (Peterhead)
Faissal el Bakhtaoui (Dunfermline Athletic)
Chris Smith (Stirling Albion)
Ricky Little (Arbroath)
Jonathan Page (East Fife)
Gary Naysmith (East Fife)
Scott Linton (Clyde)
Matty Flynn (Annan Athletic)
Kyle Wilkie (East Fife)
Bobby Linn (Arbroath)
Peter Weatherson (Annan Athletic)
Nathan Austin (East Fife)
Craig Gunn (Elgin City) | Aberdeen and Dundee outnumber Scottish Premiership leaders Celtic in the PFA Scotland team of the season. | 36170166 |
The proposal for the the 4.7 acre (1.9 hectare) city centre site includes 1,200 homes in six interconnecting towers.
Developers Allied London said it hoped to submit a planning application for the "Trinity Islands" project south of Liverpool Road this summer.
The project is part of plans to develop the St John's area which includes ITV's former Granada Studios site.
The broadcaster relocated from the city centre location to MediaCityUK, Salford in 2013.
The former Coronation Street set, which has been hosting visitor tours since April 2014, will be removed in early 2016 before the site is returned to Allied London (AL).
An AL spokeswoman said the area near Liverpool Road has "historically been a difficult site surrounded by highways and infrastructure".
She added that plans for Trinity Islands included shops, offices and restaurants alongside a "green space".
Proposals for the wider 15-acre (six hectare) St John's neighbourhood involve up to 2,500 apartments, two or three new hotels, event spaces and small shops and businesses built on narrow streets.
AL said it intends to submit its planning applications to Manchester City Council soon and hoped to start building the St. John's neighbourhood in mid-2016. | Details have been revealed on plans for a "vertical village" in Manchester. | 33260552 |
The proposal, known as the "Enforcement Initiative", has been put forward by the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP).
It is not the first such vote: in 2010, the Swiss backed proposals to deport foreigners convicted of murder or sexual violence. That policy has come into force, but the Swiss People's Party, believing it does not go far enough, now wants to strengthen it.
The new plan would also deport those who commit two minor offences, such as speeding, or arguing with a police officer, within 10 years. There would be no right of appeal: conviction would lead to deportation in every case, regardless of individual circumstances.
Supporters of the proposals say it will make Switzerland a safer place, and point to statistics indicating that foreigners take up more than their fair share of prison cells.
Opponents argue that those statistics reflect only a partial reality, because many of those in prison are illegal migrants awaiting deportation anyway, while the proposed new law would target the 25% of the population who are foreign, but permanently and legally resident in Switzerland.
The campaign has been emotional and divisive. An infamous black sheep poster, widely criticised as racist when it was first used by the People's Party several years ago, has reappeared.
Opponents of the new law have responded with blunt posters of their own, showing jackboots stamping on the Swiss parliament, and the figure of justice being smashed by a wrecking ball.
What seems to worry some voters most is not the idea that the Swiss government should be tougher on crime, which is in fact low by European standards, but that the new proposal would create a two-tier justice system, one for the Swiss, and one for foreigners.
Getting Swiss nationality remains a long, complicated, and relatively expensive process. Being born in Switzerland does not confer citizenship, so hundreds of thousands of Swiss residents may not have a Swiss passport, but have never actually lived anywhere else.
Hypothetical cases are being offered to try to give voters a picture of how the new law would work.
Take, for example, two young men born in the same village, who attended the same school, and have lived all their lives in Switzerland. But only one is Swiss, the other is third-generation Portuguese.
Both are convicted of petty offences, possession of cannabis perhaps, or being drunk and disorderly outside a nightclub. After they get their driving licences, both are booked for speeding.
Under the new law, the Portuguese would be automatically deported, irrespective of whether he had ever lived in Portugal, could speak the language, or whether he had dependants in Switzerland.
This prospect has struck real fear into Switzerland's foreign community, with some families even approaching their Swiss neighbours and quietly pleading with them to reject the proposal.
Others have lashed out, bitterly condemning the Swiss People's Party as dangerously discriminatory.
"How long before foreigners are forced to wear a sign so that the law-abiding Swiss know to steer clear of them? Maybe a big red A for Auslander (foreigner)?", wrote one.
A leading Swiss columnist has even described (in German) Sunday's vote as Switzerland's "Nazi moment", suggesting that the imagery and the language of the Yes campaign bear comparison with Germany in the 1930s.
The Swiss People's Party angrily rejects such comparisons, arguing that getting tough with foreign criminals will protect other law-abiding foreign residents who, the party line goes, currently risk guilt by association simply because they are foreign.
But the People's Party is well known for campaigning on one single issue: immigration.
Many political analysts see this vote as the latest in a clever strategy to keep that topic at the forefront of voters' minds, so that when parliamentary elections come around again, the Swiss People's Party can, it hopes, gain yet more seats. | Swiss voters are going to the polls on Sunday to decide on a proposal to automatically deport foreigners who commit minor crimes. | 35644590 |
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