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The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, said growth next year would now by 1.4%, well down on previous forecasts for 2.2% growth.
The FTSE 100 was down 2 at 6817.71.
In the FTSE 250, news of the ban on letting agents' fees hit property stocks hard. Foxtons was among the worst fallers, losing 14%.
Countrywide was down 5% and Berkeley Group down 4%.
News of the ban was described as a "hammer blow" to estate agents.
Neil Wilson, markets analyst at ETX Capital, said: "Estate agents have suffered since the Brexit vote - shares in Foxtons are still trading down around 30% from their pre-referendum level amid falling client activity. Countrywide stock is now worth a third of what it was in May 2015."
Investors' minds were on the prospect of rising inflation with £23bn promised in the Autumn Statement for infrastructure spending.
Bonds fell and yields rose. The rate of return to investors on 10-year British government bonds rose by 0.1% to 1.466%.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said: "It would appear that bond investors are starting to price in the prospect of higher inflation expectations as he [Philip Hammond] announced extra spending on rail, telecoms and housing as he pushed back plans to balance the books by the end of the parliament."
Away from the Statement, United Utilities was initially among the top risers, up 3%, after it posted a small increase in half-year profits, but those gains eroded throughout the day and it closed with a 1% rise.
Shares in travel company Thomas Cook rose more than 5% despite it reporting a dip in full-year profits.
Underlying earnings fell by £2m to £308m in a year where the travel industry has been affected by terror attacks in Europe and political instability in Turkey.
But the results were slightly better than expected, and Thomas Cook also announced a dividend payment, of 0.5p a share, for the first time in five years.
On the currency markets, the pound rose 0.2% against the dollar to $1.2444, and gained 1% against the euro to €1.1794. | (Close): The UK market opened higher but those gains withered as the lunchtime Autumn Statement sharply revised down UK growth prospects. | 38074917 |
During 2015, 1.03 million customers moved their bank account to another provider, compared with 1.15 million in 2014.
The drop in numbers comes in spite of a high profile publicity campaign last September.
However, the Current Account Switching Service (CASS) said more people switched in the last quarter of 2015.
CASS was launched in September 2013, to promote more competition between banks, and better deals for customers.
"These figures show customer apathy towards current account switching remains entrenched," said Richard Neudegg, head of regulation at price comparison site Uswitch.
"A quicker, more efficient switch alone is not enough to encourage customers to change banks or to improve competition."
However, CASS said switching rates improved by 11% in the last quarter of 2015, as a result of the media campaign.
And it said more people were aware of the service than previously.
In October, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said that people could save at least £70 a year if they changed their current account provider. | The number of people switching current accounts has fallen by more than 10% in the past year, the industry has said. | 35364703 |
Alex Cuthbert's return for North was confirmed an hour before kick-off. North had a dead leg suffered in Wales' win against Italy six days earlier.
"A six-day turnaround with a pretty decent dead leg was always going to be tough," said North.
"Two weeks time, Scotland in mind. I'll be fit to go again."
North had been named on the team sheet handed out to the media before kick-off, but told the Welsh Rugby Union's television service he had been ruled out on the morning of the game.
However, Dan Biggar was passed fit to start the match after picking up a rib injury in Rome.
North's replacement Cuthbert trained on Friday.
Props Rob Evans and Tomas Francis were the other two changes from the 33-7 win over Italy in Rome.
Bath number eight Taulupe Faletau, who had not played since Christmas Eve, was on Wales' bench for Wales, taking the place of Ospreys forward James King.
It meant a vote of confidence for the starting back-row of Sam Warburton, Justin Tipuric and Ross Moriarty.
The roof at the Principality Stadium was open for the match at the request of England coach Eddie Jones, who said he was ready for Welsh 'shenanigans' after he named his team to face Wales.
Howley wanted the roof closed on the other hand and said he thought that would be the case on Thursday lunchtime, before England confirmed it would remain open.
Both teams have to agree for the roof to be closed.
Match-day 23 for game against England:
Wales: Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon); Alex Cuthbert (Blues), Jonathan Davies (Scarlets), Scott Williams (Scarlets), Liam Williams (Scarlets); Dan Biggar (Ospreys), Rhys Webb (Ospreys); Rob Evans (Scarlets), Ken Owens (Scarlets), Tomas Francis (Exeter), Jake Ball (Scarlets), Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys, capt), Sam Warburton (Cardiff Blues), Justin Tipuric (Ospreys), Ross Moriarty (Gloucester).
Replacements: Scott Baldwin (Ospreys), Nicky Smith (Ospreys), Samson Lee (Scarlets), Cory Hill (Newport Gwent Dragons), Taulupe Faletau (Bath), Gareth Davies (Scarlets), Sam Davies (Ospreys), Jamie Roberts (Harlequins). | Wales wing George North says he will be fit to face Scotland in round three of the Six Nations after being "gutted" to miss out their defeat by England. | 38919198 |
"It was a night of horror," he told me, struggling to find words to describe what happened.
Gunmen in military uniform in a convoy of two vehicles and motorcycles stormed the college at about 01:00 - a time when students are asleep in their hostels, surrounded by complete darkness.
Yobe State College of Agriculture is down the road from Gujba village. The entrance is fenced but the rest of the campus merges with the bush that stretches from Yobe state into the deep forests of neighbouring Borno state - the stronghold of the Islamist group Boko Haram.
Its fighters regard schools as a symbol of Western culture. The group's name translates as "Western education is forbidden".
Despite the attack, and others like it, Mr Adam wants to go back to the college and continue with his studies as he believes an education will help him find a job.
But he is now back in his home town of Nguru - a four-and-a-half-hour bus journey from Gujba - and his parents will never let him go back to any school as long as the danger of Boko Haram exists.
His father has told him that his priority is to stay alive.
Yobe state is one of the poorest and educationally disadvantaged states of Nigeria - it is certainly the least developed state in the north-east.
Sharing a border with Niger to the north, it is arid and its inhabitants are largely farmers. But farming is becoming more difficult or impossible as a result of growing desert encroachment.
Many tertiary students I have spoken to in Yobe's major towns - Damaturu, Geidam, Nguru, Gashua and Potiskum - say their parents have asked them to return home for security reasons.
Three states in north-eastern Nigeria have been under a state of emergency since May when a security operation was launched against Boko Haram.
Many of the militants left their bases and violence initially fell, but revenge attacks quickly followed - several on schools in Yobe.
Who are Boko Haram?
Profile: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
Why Nigeria has not defeated Boko Haram
"I always live imagining I can be killed. No-one is sure of what will happen," Potiskum resident Kadai Musa, who has three wives and 15 children, told the BBC about life under the state of emergency.
He says none of his children have gone to school in the last six months because of fears of further attacks.
"We no longer care about anything else except to live and see the next day," he says.
Agricultural lecturer Bukar Mustapha can testify to shrinking class sizes. He says the weekend attack may mean teaching unions will refuse to allow staff to go back into classrooms until security can be guaranteed.
But there is no security in the remote area around Gujba, a village along a major road linking Yobe with Adamawa state.
Apart from some mud houses sparsely strewn over an area the size of two football pitches, Yobe State College of Agriculture is the only prominent feature of Gujba.
At the gate of the college there is a security guard, who is usually untrained and armed with a torch light and a bow and arrows.
In the early hours of Sunday when the gunmen arrived, they demanded that the night guard show them the hostels for male and female students.
He prevaricated, saying that most of the students had gone home for the weekend - only pointing out one dormitory.
Other students awoke when they heard the shooting - the sleeping students were killed with guns and a hand-held saw.
Some students died running, while others were killed after being mistaken for bandits by villagers as they fled.
The gunfire lasted for four hours. Hostels were burnt, the college's shops ransacked.
No security agents intervened during this time and the militants eventually left with the college ambulance.
When dawn broke, dead bodies could be seen dotted around the hostel area.
All day, wailing and tearful relatives hung around the morgue in the state capital Damaturu, 30km (18 miles) north of Gujba, where the dead bodies had been conveyed.
The two sons of Ishaku Lawan, a 60-year-old driver, survived the dorm attack.
"I am grateful to Allah my sons survived," he told the BBC.
"After previous school attacks in Yobe state, we have been asking government to provide security in other schools but nothing has been done. Now the worst has happened."
Most Yobe residents bemoan this precarious security situation.
They have been living with on-and-off curfews for more than a year.
Motorcycles were banned because of the many drive-by shootings - a trademark of Boko Haram killings.
Thousands of young men who earned their living running motorbike taxis are out of work.
But now life is more risky than ever.
Muhammed Abba, a civil servant in Damaturu, has visited his mother in Maiduguri, in Borno state, every weekend for more than a decade.
But in the last two months he has been unable to make the journey, which takes about an hour.
"In recent days, gunmen of Boko Haram have been blocking the road and slaughtering commuters. They killed over 100 recently," he said.
"They normally operate in the evenings and early mornings. My mum begged me not to come and see her because of the risk involved.
"Going to Maiduguri now by road is like a suicide mission."
For now schools will officially remain open in Yobe, but they are likely to be abandoned as Boko Haram increasingly targets them.
But Mr Lawan is desperate for his sons - Muhammed, 23, and Fusami, 25 - to get an education.
"I want my sons to be educated. I am 60 and a driver - I don't want my sons to be like me. I will look for a school in a state where there is security," he said.
His meagre driver's salary means he will struggle financially, but he says it will be worth it to send his sons to any school outside Yobe state. | Sagir Adam, 21, survived the weekend attack on his agricultural college in north-eastern Nigeria when suspected Islamist militants killed about 50 students sleeping in their dormitory. | 24353555 |
Government spokesperson Seydou Gueye said Mr Sall was not involved.
Lamine Diack, a Senegalese citizen, is under investigation in France, accused of turning a blind eye to doping in Russian athletics while IAAF chief.
French newspapers have alleged that he received $1.6m (£1.1m) from Russia to back Mr Sall's 2012 election campaign. | The government of Senegal has denied allegations that President Macky Sall's campaign was funded by the former head of world athletics, Lamine Diack. | 35137269 |
China has claimed sovereignty over Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when the defeated Nationalist government fled to the island as the Communists, under Mao Zedong, swept to power.
China insists that nations cannot have official relations with both China and Taiwan, with the result that Taiwan has formal diplomatic ties with only a few countries. The US is Taiwan's most important friend and protector.
Despite its diplomatic isolation, Taiwan has become one of Asia's big traders. It is considered to have achieved an economic miracle, becoming one of the world's top producers of computer technology.
Population 23,3 million
Area 36,188 sq km (13,972 sq miles)
Major languages Mandarin Chinese (official), Min Nan Chinese (Taiwanese), Hakka
Major religions Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity
Life expectancy 76,2 years (men), 82,7 years (women)
Currency New Taiwan dollar
President: Tsai Ing-wen
Tsai Ing-wen became Taiwan's first female president when she won the election in January 2016.
With 56% of the vote, she led her traditionally independence-leaning Democratic People's Party (DPP) to their biggest ever victory in parliamentary elections.
Ms Tsai's political message has always revolved around the importance of Taiwanese identity and she has pledged that democracy will be at the heart of the island's future relations with China.
By pursuing Taiwanese sovereignty, Ms Tsai runs the risk of antagonising China, reversing eight years of warmer ties under former President Ma Ying-jeou of the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang party.
In the 1990s, Ms Tsai negotiated Taiwan's accession to the World Trade Organization. She joined the DPP in 2004 after working as a non-partisan chairwoman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council. Four years later she became the youngest person and first woman to lead the party. She lost the presidential election to Ma Ying-jeou in 2012.
A former law professor, she hails from the coastal village of Pingtung in southern Taiwan. Her mixed ethnicity - a Hakka father and Taiwanese mother - has been cited as one of the traits that helped her connect with voters.
The media environment in Taiwan is among the freest in Asia, and extremely competitive.
There are hundreds of newspapers, all privately-owned and reflecting a wide range of views. Laws which prohibit the promotion of independence from China or communism are not generally enforced.
Internet penetration is estimated at 80% of the population.
Some key dates in Taiwan's history:
1683 - Island comes under administration of China's Qing dynasty.
1895 - China - defeated in the first Sino-Japanese war - cedes Taiwan to Japan.
1945 - Taiwan reverts to Chinese control after Japanese defeat in Second World War.
1947 - Nationalist troops crush island-wide rioting by Taiwanese disgruntled with official corruption, killing unknown thousands. The event is now known as the 228 Incident.
1949 - Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek loses civil war to Mao Zedong's Communist forces and flees to Taiwan. He rules the island with an iron fist until his death in 1975.
1950s-1960s - Rapid industrial development.
1971 - UN recognises Communist China as sole government of whole country. People's Republic takes over China's UN Security Council seat.
1979 - Washington switches diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei. US Congress passes the Taiwan Relations Act promising to help the island defend itself.
1987 - Taiwan lifts almost four decades of martial law and eases ban on travel to China.
2000 - Voters put Democratic Progressive Party in power for first time, ending more than five decades of Nationalist rule. | Taiwan is an island which has for all practical purposes been independent since 1950, but which China regards as a rebel region that must be reunited with the mainland - by force if necessary. | 16164639 |
The sculpture in memory of Flt Lt Jon Egging has been cordoned off since the slip at East Cliff in April 2016.
It is to be moved to the top of the East Cliff Zig-Zag path nearby.
His widow Dr Emma Egging said the new site would "allow visitors to continue to remember Jon and honour the teamwork and dedication of the Red Arrows."
The 33-year-old pilot died when his Hawk T1 jet crashed after completing a display at the annual festival in 2011.
Read more on this and other stories from across the south of England
The 5m-high (16ft 4in) artwork, featuring three glass Red Arrows planes and stainless steel contrails, was designed by local schoolchildren and unveiled in August 2012.
Rubble fell down the 30m-high (100ft) rock face in East Cliff on 24 April. The carriages of an Edwardian funicular railway - known as East Cliff Lift - were partially engulfed by the landslip and a block of toilets crushed.
Although undamaged in the landslide, the Jon Egging memorial was close to the edge and was sealed off from public view.
Dr Egging said: "The memorial sculpture to Jon has become such a poignant symbol on the East Cliff, I have seen so many wonderful photographs taken with the glorious blue sky, clifftop and Red Arrows during the Air Festival."
It is hoped the memorial will be moved in time for this year's Bournemouth Air Festival at the end of August. | A memorial to a Red Arrows pilot who died following a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival is to be moved following a cliff landslip last year. | 40370442 |
In April, the body of Colin Dunford, 81, was found at his Middlesbrough home. Julie Davison, 50, was discovered dead in her Whitby flat two days later.
James Allen, 36, attacked Mr Dunford while lying low at a friend's house after being accused of a serious crime.
He was found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court and told to serve at least 37 years in prison.
Mr Justice Openshaw said the murders were of "quite exceptional brutality".
Allen, who had denied both murders, ransacked Mr Dunford's home, eventually trying but failing to use the pensioner's bank card at a cash machine.
The next night friends from the social club over the road grew worried after Mr Dunford failed to turn up for his usual two pints.
They found him dead in his home in Leven Street on 23 April. He had died of head injuries.
By then, Allen had disposed of his bloodied clothes and cycled 30 miles to Whitby and then on to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where he sold a stolen gold ring.
A day later, he was back in Whitby and was spotted outside Ms Davison's flat.
Police believe he talked his way into her home, attacked her and ransacked the property looking for things to steal.
Ms Davison, who had epilepsy and was the mother of a 28-year-old son, had suffered from serious head and neck injuries.
Investigators linked the two killings and a major manhunt was launched.
Allen - who was caught on CCTV wearing some of Ms Davison's clothes - caught a bus to Leeds after the murder.
He later sold her laptop to a market trader, the court heard.
The manhunt ended on 29 April, when Blackpool-born Allen was spotted by an off-duty officer and arrested.
The court heard that he had numerous previous convictions, including an eight-year jail sentence for grievous bodily harm.
Judge Openshaw added: "Allen has shown not the slightest bit of remorse or regret.
"Both victims were innocent and murdered in their own homes during the course of a robbery."
A statement from Julie Davison's family said: "Julie meant the world to us and we are still struggling to come to terms with what happened to her on that awful day.
"On hearing the evidence of how Julie died we consider this was an act carried out in a way that was cruel, wicked and so totally unnecessary.
"It causes the family great pain and anguish thinking of what Julie went through in the moment leading to her death."
Temporary Supt Steve Smith, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "The evidence gathered during the course of the investigation left us in no doubt of Allen's guilt.
"We are satisfied that a very dangerous man has been taken off the streets." | A man is jailed for life for murdering a Teesside man and a North Yorkshire woman while on the run. | 20410758 |
The body was found in the rubble of a shop, gutted in the 3 June blaze, after locals complained of a foul smell.
A BBC correspondent in Accra says it raises questions about whether there could be more bodies at the site.
Ghana observed three days of official mourning for victims of the fire.
BBC Africa Live: News Updates
"Shock and mourning" after deadly fire
An official investigation, which released its report last week, found that the fire had started after a discarded cigarette came into contact with a large amount of fuel, which had leaked out of the station and mixed with pools of flood water. | Authorities in Ghana's capital Accra have recovered a body from one of the buildings destroyed in a petrol station inferno more than two months ago, in which at least 154 people died. | 33856608 |
The Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team was called to search for the lost walker on moors near Langsett, South Yorkshire.
After raising the alarm by mobile phone, the walker was found suffering from hypothermia amid the snow.
Insp Simon Owens, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "They helped us save a life."
More on this story and others from South Yorkshire
The man had strayed from a path around Langsett Reservoir at about 18:40 GMT on Tuesday. It was dark and snow was falling.
Due to the poor weather a Coastguard helicopter had had to withdraw.
After he was found, the rescued man's stretcher was carried more than two miles (3.2km) for about 90 minutes by a team of 18 volunteers.
The rescue lasted six hours from the alarm being raised to the lost walker reaching an ambulance. | A volunteer mountain rescue team has been praised by police for saving the life of a 77-year-old man lost in snow on Tuesday. | 37930042 |
They say it could threaten the lives of mountaineers because they each have a set supply for weather and traffic-related delays, as well as for the descent.
The concerns have been raised as the last groups of mountaineers wait for the weather to clear for their final push to the summit.
Experts say crowds of mountaineers, with many inexperienced climbers and unqualified guides, have also contributed to the situation.
"It is becoming a serious issue up there," Nima Tenji Sherpa, a mountain guide just back from Everest, told the BBC.
"I kept on hearing from expedition groups that their oxygen bottles had disappeared and that could be life-threatening - particularly when they have used up what they are carrying on their way up and they are still not on the summit yet, or they plan to use the stocked bottles on their way back."
Foreign climbers have posted about the theft on social media.
"Another seven bottles of oxygen have gone missing from our supply," wrote expedition leader Tim Mosedale on Facebook last Monday.
"This time from the South Col (camp four, the last camp before Everest at 7,900m)."
"Thankfully Pemba, having summited Lhotse yesterday, had enough energy to go to the South Col and check our supply and report his findings.
"But will it still be there when we arrive in a few days or will a few more bottles of magic air have gone missing?"
Earlier, Mr Mosedale had posted about a similar incident on Lhotse mountain near Everest.
"As long as we know that our oxygen is being used, we can get it resupplied. But to turn up and take it causes not only an issue for the summit team but also jeopardises the lives of other climbers."
Although it was earlier reported that the death toll this season had reached 10, Nepalese authorities have said they can only confirm five deaths so far.
None of the deaths have been linked to the theft of oxygen bottles.
"What can you do when thieves break the locks of the tent and take away oxygen bottles, food and even cooking gas?" said Phurba Namgyal Sherpa, general secretary of the Nepal National Mountain Guides Association (NNMGA).
"It is becoming a trend.
"Because of such incidents, climbers have had to return without reaching the summit because when you learn that you no more have the life-saving bottles, the first thing you want to do is get back to the base camp."
Nima Tenji Sherpa said he had to give his oxygen bottle to his client in 2012 when they were on their way back because their stocks were stolen.
"We were descending and we saw that our bottles were gone and my client had already used up his oxygen, I took a risk and gave him my bottle.
"Fortunately we made it to the lower camps."
According to the NNMGA, climbers use seven bottles of oxygen on average on their way up and down.
Each bottle has four litres of the life-saving gas and climbers can inhale it at different rates.
If they consume it at the highest rate of inhaling, a bottle can last up to five hours.
Mountaineers normally use the bottled oxygen above Camp Three, but they need to keep on climbing up and down to acclimatise before the final summit bid during the right weather window.
That means they might also use the bottles while camping in the higher camps.
Veteran Sherpa climbers said no-one has been caught stealing the bottles yet.
They suspect it could be groups that are ill-prepared and face life-threatening situations because they do not have adequate supplies.
They say there is also an increasing practice of stealing oxygen bottles from high camps and bringing them down to base camp to sell them.
"That market appears to be thriving at the base camp," said Nima Tenji Sherpa.
Government officials are aware of all this.
They say they are trying to introduce a new rule that will require each climber to have a Sherpa climber so that everyone has enough basic requirements such as oxygen bottles, medicine and food.
"We have proposed for this to be included in the mountaineering regulation but there has to be a cabinet-level decision on this," said an official at the tourism ministry, who did not wish to be named.
"Frequent changes in the government have meant that our ministry has been getting a new minister every few months, and issues like this don't get addressed."
The government has given permission to nearly 400 mountaineers to climb Mount Everest this season.
Approximately 300 have already climbed the highest peak and the remainder are waiting for the weather to clear, say officials. | Foreign climbers and Sherpas on Mount Everest are concerned about the increasing theft of oxygen bottles from high camps. | 40050483 |
Use of space-borne positioning and timing data is now widespread, in everything from freight movement to synchronisation of computer networks.
The academy fears that too many applications have little or no back-up were these signals to go down.
Receivers need to be capable of using a variety of data sources, it says.
Dr Martyn Thomas, who chaired the group that wrote the report, told BBC News: "We're not saying that the sky is about to fall in; we're not saying there's a calamity around the corner.
"What we're saying is that there is a growing interdependence between systems that people think are backing each other up. And it might well be that if a number these systems fail simultaneously, it will cause commercial damage or just conceivably loss of life. This is wholly avoidable."
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as the US-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) are hugely popular and are finding more and more uses daily.
As well as the car dashboard device that provides directions, sat-nav systems are used by cellular and data networks, financial systems, shipping and air transport, agriculture, railways and the emergency services.
It is not just the excellent positioning that GNSS affords but the very precise timing information these systems deliver that has made them so popular.
The European Commission, in a recent update on its forthcoming Galileo sat-nav network, estimated that about 6-7% of Europe's GDP, approximately 800bn euros (£690bn) annually, was now dependent in some way on GNSS data.
The RAEng report claims to be the first assessment of just how many applications in the UK now use GPS signals and their like, and their probable vulnerability to an outage of some kind.
It says sat-nav signals are relatively weak - equivalent to receiving the light from a bright bulb at a distance of 20,000km - and this leaves them open to interference or corruption.
Possible sources include man-made ones, such as deliberate jamming, and natural hazards, such as solar activity. Both can introduce errors into the data or simply take it out altogether.
"The key thing for us is the concept of cascade failures," said report co-author Prof Jim Norton, the president-elect of BCS - the Chartered Institute for IT.
"This is what we characterise as accidental systems - systems that exist, but people don't recognise they exist because they don't understand the interdependencies. There will be a single common point of vulnerability and failure, but it's not obvious."
Dr Thomas added: "We concluded that the UK was already dangerously dependent on GPS as a single source of position, navigation and timing (PNT) data.
"[We concluded] that the back-up systems are often inadequate or un-tested; that the jammers are far too easily available and that the risks from them are increasing; that no-one has a full picture of the dependencies on GPS and similar systems; and that these risks could be managed and reduced if government and industry worked together."
The report makes 10 recommendations. Three relate to raising awareness of the problems and getting users to assess their own particular vulnerabilities and possible back-up solutions.
Two cover hardware solutions, including the suggestion of a government-sponsored R&D programme to seek better antenna and receiver technologies to enhance the resilience of systems. The report also lauds the land-based eLoran radio navigation system as a very worthy back-up technology.
And five recommendations fall into the policy domain. Chief among these is the urgent suggestion that mere possession of jamming equipment be made illegal.
Criminal gangs use this equipment to hide their activity, for example blocking the GPS tracking systems in the lorries or high-performance cars they seek to steal.
These jammers can be bought off the internet for as little £20. Some are capable of swamping all receivers over a wide area.
"It's already illegal to put GNSS jamming equipment on the market in the UK," said Prof Jim Norton. "The problem is it's not necessarily illegal to hold it, to import or even to advertise it. It doesn't require legislation; it just requires [the telecoms regulator] Ofcom to place a banning order, and we would strongly recommend they do that."
[email protected] | The UK may have become dangerously over-reliant on satellite-navigation signals, according to a report from the Royal Academy of Engineering. | 12668230 |
The prime minister said she wanted the UK to "operate within" the single market as part of a new relationship.
Speaking in London, she vowed to build a "shared society" in which wealth and opportunity were not the preserve of an elite, and injustices were tackled.
She said that Brexit provided an "opportunity to fundamentally change Britain for the better".
Outlining her social reform agenda in her most significant policy speech for three months, Mrs May announced steps to improve mental health provision in the UK and transform attitudes to people suffering from mental health conditions.
She announced extra training for teachers, more online self-checking for those with concerns and a review of services for children and teenagers.
This approach, she said, was part of her wider belief in a "shared society" where the state intervenes to correct social and economic injustices.
Speaking to reporters afterwards, she was pressed on market reaction to comments she made on Sunday when she suggested the UK could not be expected to "keep bits" of its existing EU membership. The pound fell to a two-month low against major currencies on Monday, losing about 1% of its value.
Analysis by Laura Kuenssberg, BBC political editor
After a while, every political leader finds themselves in need of a slogan, and it's certainly not the worst that's ever been dreamed up.
Theresa May wants you to see her and her party as the sensible middle, on the side of ordinary families, not veering away from the centre ground.
It's about as clear an appeal to Middle England, where elections are traditionally won, as you can find. But while she gave today the skeleton of a philosophy, there was not a fully fleshed-out body of policy to accompany it.
Read Laura's full analysis
She dismissed claims her comments signalled a preference for a "hard Brexit" - where the UK would face potential restrictions on trade access and tariffs on exports and imports - to the alternative "soft Brexit" scenario where the UK remained in the single market but would not have full control over migration.
"I'm tempted to say that the people who are getting it wrong are those who print things saying 'I'm talking about a hard Brexit, (that) it is absolutely inevitable there's a hard Brexit'," she said.
"I don't accept the terms hard and soft Brexit. What we're doing is going to get an ambitious, good and best possible deal for the United Kingdom in terms of... trading with and operating within the single European market."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel later reiterated that access to the single market would be "limited" unless the UK accepted the continued free movement of people from the EU. In response, Downing Street insisted that discussions over immigration and trade were not a "zero-sum game".
Expanding on her domestic priorities, Mrs May pledged to help those on low and modest incomes who felt bypassed and threatened by globalisation, a group of people who were "just about managing" and whose interests had often been neglected by governments over the past 20 years.
In what will be seen as break from her predecessor David Cameron, she said she backed a "strong and strategic" state which could intervene effectively to tackle deep-seated social problems such as educational underachievement and health disparities among certain groups.
"The central tenet of my belief - the thing that shapes my approach - is that there is more to life than individualism and self-interest," she said.
"This means a government rooted not in the laissez-faire liberalism that leaves people to get by on their own, but rather in a new philosophy that means government stepping up.
"Not just in the traditional way of providing a welfare state to support the most vulnerable, as vital as that will always be. But actually in going further to help those who have been ignored by government for too long because they don't fall into the income bracket that makes them qualify for welfare support."
She said the 2008 banking crash, the 2009 MPs' expenses scandal and the 2011 newspaper phone hacking revelations had led people to question the "legitimacy" of institutions and conclude there "is one rule for the rich and powerful and another for everyone else".
If parties such as the Conservatives did not address such concerns, as well as fears over growing levels of inequality and uncontrolled immigration, she warned that groups on the "fringes" of the political spectrum would benefit.
"We know what happens when mainstream, centre-ground politics fails," she said. "People embrace the fringe - the politics of division and despair. They turn to those who offer easy answers - who claim to understand people's problems and always know what - and who - to blame.
"We see those fringe voices gaining prominence in some countries across Europe today - voices from the hard-left and the far-right stepping forward and sensing that this is their time."
"But they stand on the shoulders of mainstream politicians who have allowed unfairness and division to grow by ignoring the legitimate concerns of ordinary people for too long."
Labour's shadow minister Andrew Gywnne said it would "take more than a speech and a slogan for Theresa May to convince people that she wants to tackle division in society". Under the Conservatives, he said, "those at the top have been given tax breaks while everyone else suffers".
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said Mrs May's "pitch to the centre ground" would not work because "her words are not matched by her actions". | Theresa May has criticised those who believe a so-called "hard Brexit" is inevitable after the UK leaves the EU. | 38555927 |
The 21-year-old French striker had been training with city rivals Hibernian after leaving Albion this month.
He had joined Stirling on amateur terms in November after exiting French fourth-tier outfit Dieppe.
"I enjoyed my time at Stirling Albion," he told Hearts' website. "I had good moments with them."
Bikey added: "I'd like to thank them and their fans for helping me when I first came to Scotland."
Hearts say the striker, who played four times for Dieppe after starting his career with Nantes, is available for Sunday's Scottish Premiership match with Celtic.
The delighted Frenchman has set his sights on breaking into the first team at Tynecastle.
"This is a new challenge for me," he said. "It's a big club with a big stadium and it's a Premiership team, so I'm very happy to play for Hearts.
"It's a very big opportunity for me. This is my first time at a full-time professional club, so it's a good opportunity for me.
"Playing in the lower leagues has been hard, but I will try every day, I will learn and it's good for me.
"I'm very excited to play in front of thousands of Hearts fans and I hope to score goals for them and make them happy."
Stirling manager Dave Mackay had earlier told his club's website that he knew Bikey would leave at the end of his short-term deal at Forthbank Stadium.
"We are sorry to see Dylan go," he said. "He has obviously made a big impact and we would love to have kept him for longer."
Hearts head coach Ian Cathro are also being linked with a £170,000 deal for Anorthosis Famagusta forward Esmael Goncalves, who previously worked with Cathro at Portuguese club Rio Ave.
However, the former St Mirren player is unlikely to arrive until Monday, with the Cypriot club trying to sign a replacement before allowing the 25-year-old to leave.
Cathro said of his search for an experienced striker: "It's not something which has moved any further than where it was the other night.
"The whole process that we have trying to find that player, not specifically the one mentioned, but I talk about that player which gives us options in attack.
"We are continuing to do our work in a number of areas and, until we can bring the correct one to a close, there is no more news from us." | Dylan Bikey has signed for Hearts and thanked Stirling Albion for helping him win a contract after nine goals in nine games for the Scottish League Two club. | 38775449 |
The actor is tipped to play Judah Ben-Hur, the Jewish prince played by Charlton Heston in the original movie.
The new version, which will also star Morgan Freeman, is scheduled for release in February 2016.
Huston's recent work includes roles in American Hustle and playing novelist Jack Kerouac in Kill Your Darlings.
The screen star, whose aunt is actress Anjelica Huston, had a recurring role as Richard Harrow in US TV series Boardwalk Empire from 2010 to 2013.
He also starred on the West End stage last year in an adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel Strangers on a Train.
The Hollywood Reporter said that Huston's role in the new film, which will be directed by Timur Bekmambetov, had yet to be confirmed.
It has been scripted by John Ridley, who won an Academy Award earlier this year for the screenplay of 12 Years a Slave.
The story of Ben-Hur takes place in the Roman-occupied province of Judea in the Middle East.
The 1959 epic set records at the time for the money it spent on vast sets and lavish costumes and went on to become a huge box-office success.
One of its most memorable sequences is a chariot race that pits Ben-Hur against his friend turned adversary Messala.
The film went on to win 11 of the 12 Oscars for which it was nominated, including best picture, best director and best actor.
The story of Ben-Hur had previously been told on the big screen in a silent film released in 1925.
The film was singled out for preservation by the American Film Institute in 2004 for its cultural significance. | British actor Jack Huston is expected to take the lead role in a remake of 1959 classic Ben-Hur, according to reports from Hollywood. | 29235479 |
Ignazio Marino made the announcement after meeting investigators.
Earlier this week, the authorities announced the arrest of 37 suspects and said they were investigating 100 more.
Those arrested are suspected of fraud and money-laundering in connection with public works.
Among those under investigation is Rome's former mayor Gianni Alemanno.
He denies wrongdoing, but has resigned from his position in the right-wing Brothers of Italy-National Alliance party while investigations continue.
One of those arrested was Massimo Carminati, the former leader of a far-right armed group.
Police seized assets worth 200m euros (£159m; $258m) in the operation.
Prosecutors allege that criminal gangs conspired with politicians to steal funds intended for migrant and refugee centres.
"Drug trafficking is not as profitable," one member of the network was recorded as saying in a wire-tap.
The state authorities have said that they may take over the running of the city.
The Chief Prosecutor, Giuseppe Pignatone, said: "We have answered the question as to whether or not the Mafia exists in Rome - it certainly does." | The mayor of Rome has ordered a review of all city contracts after an investigation uncovered a suspected criminal network involving some of the city's politicians. | 30336707 |
The nine-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom stone mansion in the upmarket Kalorama neighbourhood was sold for $8.1m (£6.2m), property records indicate.
The Obamas are remaining in Washington until their youngest daughter, 15-year-old Sasha, finishes high school.
The former first couple have been travelling the world since departing the White House in January.
Washington neighbourhood welcomes Obamas
Mr Obama's spokesman, Kevin Lewis, confirmed the sale saying: "Given that President and Mrs Obama will be in Washington for at least another two and a half years, it made sense for them to buy a home rather than continuing to rent the property."
Concrete barriers restrict public access to the 8,300 sq ft (770 sq metre) home, which is protected round the clock by Secret Service officers.
The Obamas - who still own a home in Chicago - acquired their latest property from former Bill Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, who purchased it in 2014 for $5.3m.
The home is not far from the $23m home owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post newspaper.
Also in the neighbourhood are US First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is another Kalorama resident - he bought a $5.6m house in February. | The family of former US President Barack Obama has purchased the home they had been renting in Washington DC. | 40114817 |
Amarjeet Singh-Bhakar, 37, died after a disturbance on Prince Edward Avenue, Rhyl, on 30 April.
The pair, aged 15 and 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also denied wounding with intent and violent disorder, when they appeared at Mold Crown Court.
A trial date has been set for 3 October.
They were both remanded in custody until that date. | Two teenage boys accused of murdering a Denbighshire shopkeeper have pleaded not guilty. | 40560873 |
It came after the ailing lender published a make-or-break turnaround plan which initially caused the stock to rally by up to 26.5%.
Italy's third-largest bank said it would write down bad loans, lay off one in 10 of its workers and raise €5bn (£4.4bn).
The European Central Bank had ordered it to reduce its bad debt in April.
"There is a lot of speculation ahead of the bank's plan... amid rumours and leaks of possible interest of new investors in the bank," Vincenzo Longo, a strategist for IG Markets in Milan, told Bloomberg.
"We will soon discover if the plan is achievable and sustainable."
Concerns are mounting over Italian banks, many of which are weighed down by massive bad debts and thought to be a risk to the wider economy.
Four lenders were bailed out by investors last December and the government is seeking similar solutions for others.
Monte dei Paschi is one of the banks at the centre of the crisis, having been deemed Europe's worst-capitalised bank in recent EU stress tests.
On Tuesday, it reported a net loss of €1.15bn for its third quarter, compared with a net profit of €255.8m for the same quarter of last year.
That was largely due to €1.3bn in provisions for bad loans it booked in the period.
Before Tuesday, the bank's shares had lost almost 75% of their value since the beginning of the year. | Shares in Italian bank Monte dei Paschi have been temporarily suspended from trading after plummeting 23%. | 37763542 |
The air pollution could cause asthma attacks for those with the illness, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Parts of England will see the thick grey cloud in the sky, especially in the north.
Forecasters predict the smog will clear later on Thursday and Friday.
Smog is formed when there are high levels of air pollution from traffic and other sources.
Steve Cleaton from the BBC Weather centre said: "Pollutants, dust, pollen and other particles that would normally be dispersed by winds are prevented from escaping from the layer of cool air that is trapped at the Earth's surface."
High level 9: Doncaster and surrounding areas.
Moderate level 6: Nottingham, Loughborough, South Wales, Bristol, most of Devon & Cornwall, Wiltshire, Birmingham, Coventry, Leicester.
Moderate level 4: Northern Ireland and mid-Wales, London and most of the South East of England, East Anglia, East Midlands, the North and North East, Northumberland & mid-Lothian in Scotland.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural affairs has a live map of regions affected by the smog.
Pollution was high on Wednesday and it is expected to reach peak levels by mid-morning on Thursday, with the fog arriving from Europe.
It follows a similar rise in pollution last April. Emergency services reported more call-outs than usual for people with breathing problems.
A Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs spokesman said: "Adults and children with heart or lung problems are at greater risk of symptoms."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A warning has been issued about a potentially harmful cloud of smog covering parts of the UK. | 31961475 |
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Instead, now 41, he provides free classes to hundreds of young people at his Nottingham School of Boxing, with some of his charges even harbouring dreams of reaching the Olympics.
His work has won him the BBC East Midlands Get Inspired Unsung Hero award for 2016, and he will now be among the finalists for the national competition, with the winner to be announced at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony on BBC One on Sunday, 18 December.
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"I was brought up in an area of deprivation and my role models were people who were involved in crime. I got myself into gangs and I was going down the wrong pathway," he told BBC East Midlands Today.
"I've seen people like me who were lost and thought that they were stuck in this bubble where you've got a criminal record, so you can't get a job.
"You try to get a job, you can't get a job so you go back into crime again, this vicious circle. So I thought, you know what, I want to break this."
Baz, who was praised by the judging panel for his "immeasurable" impact on breaking the cycle of crime, commits 30 hours a week to provide boxing classes, transport to competitions, and to teach valuable life skills.
Having seen his career ended in a violent incident, he holds training sessions in areas with rival gangs to try to prevent more conflict.
"While I am working with them, I am integrating the young people with each other," he continued.
"By the time they get to an age where there could be conflict, they actually know each other.
"We are giving kids an opportunity to aspire to do phenomenal things."
Bryer Wheatley, who became English national champion in the Class B under-54kg category as a 16-year-old in 2014, is one of those the coach has helped.
"Baz has got me into college, got me a part-time job and really put me on the right track," he explained.
"I have even become a national boxing champion, and have aspirations of going to the Olympics one day.
"If it wasn't for Baz, my mum and dad would have thrown me out and I would have ended up in prison."
Marcellus Baz and Bryer Wheatley were speaking to BBC East Midlands Today sports editor Natalie Jackson | Having seen his hopes of a professional boxing career ended at the age of 23 when he was stabbed through the hand by a rival gang member, Marcellus Baz could have carried on down the wrong path. | 38144800 |
The claim: Prime Minister Theresa May said that the Conservatives had, over the past seven years, cut the nation's deficit as a share of GDP by almost three-quarters.
Reality Check verdict: The amount being borrowed each year has been reduced from 9.9% of GDP when the coalition government took power in 2010 to 2.6% of GDP in 2016 under the Conservative government, a reduction of almost three-quarters. But while the amount being borrowed each year has been falling, the overall debt is still rising.
At a news conference on Wednesday she said: "Over the last seven years... we have taken the British economy out of the danger zone. The deficit has come down by almost three-quarters as a share of GDP."
To examine that claim let's first clear up what we are actually talking about.
This is the difference between the amount the government spends and how much it receives in taxes and other income.
If the government spends more than it takes in, then it's in deficit. If it receives more than it spends, it's in surplus.
Every month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) measures the deficit using a specific figure: public sector net borrowing.
That might sound technical, but it's just how much the government has borrowed to cover its shortfall, minus items like cash and other liquid assets.
Importantly the figure excludes borrowing by Royal Bank of Scotland, which is 73% owned by the government.
That is such a huge number that it would dominate the figures if it was included.
So what happens when the government spends more than it takes in?
Well, it borrows and that borrowing is added to the overall debt pile.
The accepted and widely used figure for debt is actually the net debt of the UK; in other words, the total debt minus the government's liquid assets.
An easy way to compare debt levels across different countries is to express debt as a percentage of total economic output, or GDP, which is why you'll hear commentators talk about the debt-to-GDP ratio.
The government can't start cutting the debt pile until it starts running a surplus, which means eliminating that pesky deficit.
In 2010 when the coalition government took over, the new chief secretary to the Treasury was famously left a note by his predecessor.
"I'm afraid there is no money," it read.
And he wasn't joking.
The UK was hit by recession in 2008 following the financial crisis, and to cover its outgoings the government had to borrow a record £154bn in 2009.
By the time the coalition took over in 2010 that had fallen slightly to £144bn, equivalent to 9.9% of GDP.
The new Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced an austerity package of tax rises and swingeing spending cuts in his June 2010 budget.
He vowed to balance Britain's books within five years - a promise that was to cause him a lot of trouble.
While the deficit did fall by almost half by 2015, it was still nearly £80bn for the year.
Philip Hammond took over as chancellor in 2016 and has seen the deficit fall further.
For the financial year to the end of March 2017, the deficit was £52bn or 2.6% of GDP.
Mr Hammond has not set a hard deadline for when that will be reduced to zero.
Instead, in autumn 2016 he promised to "return the public finances to balance at the earliest possible date in the next Parliament". That next Parliament would have started in 2020.
As the chart above shows, austerity measures since 2010 have not fallen evenly on government departments.
The hefty cuts have fallen on transport, work and pensions and local government and they can expect further cuts over the next few years.
As the chart above shows, before the financial crisis, debt as a percentage of the economy was less than 40%.
But when the 2008 recession hit, the government borrowed heavily and debt increased dramatically.
The Office for Budget Responsibility expects debt as a percentage of national income to peak in the current financial year at 88%, the highest level since 1966.
The UK has the sixth-largest government debt of advanced economies.
To start cutting that debt pile the government needs to start running a surplus.
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Dhoni has stood down before the one-day series but signed off with a brutal 68 off 40 balls, as India A posted 304-5 from their 50 overs in Mumbai.
Jason Roy (62) and Alex Hales (40) got England off to a fast start, before Billings took them close to the target.
England face India A again on Thursday, before the ODI series begins on Sunday.
India are fielding two completely different XIs for the two warm-up matches, but both are full of international caps and quality.
After the early loss of Mandeep Singh (8), the hosts progressed steadily with experienced opener Shikhar Dhawan (63) putting on 111 with Ambati Rayudu.
Rayudu reached his century off 97 balls, before retiring to give veteran team-mates Dhoni and Yuvraj a chance at the crease.
Both men took advantage, as first Yuvraj (56) and then captain Dhoni accelerated to power India A above 300, with the latter taking 23 off the final over, delivered by Chris Woakes.
Seamers David Willey (2-55) and Jake Ball (2-61) were the only England wicket-takers.
Despite Dhoni's fireworks, the score never looked enough to contain a formidable England batting line-up, although soft dismissals threatened to derail an otherwise straightforward chase.
Five men reached at least 40 - with Jos Buttler hitting 46 off 38 and Liam Dawson 41 off 47 - but it was Billings who played the crucial knock, hitting eight boundaries before being bowled seven shy of a deserved century by Hardik Pandya.
The tourists left Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow on the sidelines, rested after a taxing 2016, with Liam Plunkett nursing a calf injury and Joe Root yet to arrive after the birth of his son.
The three-match ODI series will be followed by three Twenty20 matches, starting on 26 January.
BBC Sport's Tim Peach in Mumbai
Sam Billings played in India in last year's IPL, and his experience of conditions showed.
Coming in at three, he held on as wickets fell around him - he was quick to point out afterwards what he had learnt from Rahul Dravid on playing spin in the subcontinent.
There were still familiar problems as England lost wickets in clusters, going from 95-0 to 112-3, and then twice lost two wickets for no runs. Their playing of spin will also be questioned, with six of the seven wickets falling to slower bowlers, including a five-for for 22-year-old Kuldeep Yadav. | Sam Billings' 93 from 85 balls helped England to a three-wicket victory over India A, in MS Dhoni's final game as captain of an Indian team. | 38567117 |
Plans to introduce the non-native species for the first time were unveiled earlier this year.
A public consultation revealed some wildlife experts claimed it could have a "devastating impact", while many others favoured the idea.
The government said there were "no conservation grounds" to proceed.
Environment minister Richard Ronan said after all opinions were listened to he concluded it would be "detrimental" adding: "We have decided not to proceed at present."
More than 100 people responded to the consultation.
A spokesman for the Manx Wildlife Trust said their introduction could have a "devastating impact on habitats already battling with environmental pressures".
Wildlife experts stated the red squirrel is not in danger of extinction in the UK and see no scientific basis for creating a refuge for it.
Grey squirrels were introduced to the United Kingdom from North America in the 19th Century and have since threatened their red cousins.
This is primarily due to competition for habitat and the transmission of the deadly parapoxvirus.
While red squirrels are not classed as endangered, the Red Squirrel Survival Trust in the UK claims they could disappear within a decade without conservation. | Red squirrels will not be introduced to the Isle on Man after the government ruled it would be "detrimental" to the countryside. | 36487762 |
Roberto Firmino scuffed the Reds ahead but Dieumerci's Mbokani's backheel levelled and Steven Naismith's debut strike put the home side in front.
Wes Hoolahan added a penalty before Jordan Henderson and Firmino struck.
James Milner put the away side ahead and though Sebastien Bassong netted in added time, Lallana delivered a twist.
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The England midfielder's volley - which was fired into the ground and bounced agonisingly in for the home side - sparked chaotic scenes as Reds boss Jurgen Klopp raced along the touchline to celebrate with his players.
Just moments earlier, Klopp had been visibly incensed by his side's lapse in allowing Bassong to level - but the change in his mood was fitting in a game which ebbed and flowed like this one.
The German had his glasses knocked off by striker Christian Benteke during the celebrations and later said: "I have a second pair of glasses but I can't find them. It's really difficult looking for glasses without glasses."
The contrast in emotion on the touchline was as pronounced as anything the season has delivered so far and Norwich will have to recover before Tuesday's trip to Tottenham.
Their record now stands at 32 Premier League games without a win in matches where they have fallen behind - but having been 3-1 up, few will sting like this.
The first five shots on target in this game found the net and neither side could claim to have deserved a win, with each guilty of lapses which at times led to chaos and resulted in just the fourth 5-4 result in Premier League history.
Russell Martin will feel worse than most after gifting Milner the chance to put Liverpool 4-3 up with a weak, blind backpass.
And though Bassong's crisp strike from 20 yards appeared to have reprieved his fellow defender, substitute Lallana's first league goal of the season capped a frenzied finish.
The Reds are four points worse off than at this stage last season but could this win be a catalyst for a spell of consistency and a move higher than seventh place?
One wonders what reception Liverpool's players would have got from Klopp had it stayed 4-4, such was his demeanour, and his side masked some common inefficiencies in taking three points.
Mbokani's brilliant back-heeled finish arrived after failing to clear a corner, meaning the Reds have conceded eight goals from corners this season - a league high.
Their passing - at 75% accuracy - was not at its best, their defending was sometimes rash but they found key goals, despite having scored fewer times than relegation-threatened Sunderland before kick-off.
Much has been made of the need to sign a striker but after such a result, neglecting their defensive issues seems a big risk for Klopp who will surely be keen to have less stressful afternoons in the dugout.
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"When you concede five goals you deserve to lose the game," concluded Norwich boss Alex Neil after the match.
The Scot admitted defensive errors have been his side's "downfall" this season and the 43 goals they have leaked in 23 games paints a damning picture - and only Sunderland (45) have let in more.
However, the performance of Naismith at the other end does offer something positive to take forward.
Making his debut alongside full-back Ivo Pinto - who had a tough afternoon - Naismith showed quality throughout.
He managed 18 goals in 52 league starts at Everton but may need to adopt the role of talisman rather than impact substitute at Norwich if they are to survive.
That said, they have now conceded 11 goals in three games - a stat which must improve if any Naismith contribution is to prove telling.
Norwich travel to Tottenham in the Premier League on Tuesday and Liverpool will be in action at the same time as they try to protect their 1-0 League Cup semi-final first-leg lead against Stoke City.
Match ends, Norwich City 4, Liverpool 5.
Second Half ends, Norwich City 4, Liverpool 5.
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Norwich City 4, Liverpool 5. Adam Lallana (Liverpool) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Steven Caulker (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Goal! Norwich City 4, Liverpool 4. Sebastien Bassong (Norwich City) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Cameron Jerome following a set piece situation.
Offside, Liverpool. James Milner tries a through ball, but Christian Benteke is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Christian Benteke with a headed pass.
Substitution, Liverpool. Steven Caulker replaces Alberto Moreno.
Adam Lallana (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Martin Olsson (Norwich City).
Foul by Lucas Leiva (Liverpool).
Dieumerci Mbokani (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Benteke.
Substitution, Norwich City. Cameron Jerome replaces Steven Naismith.
Foul by Alberto Moreno (Liverpool).
Matthew Jarvis (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Liverpool. Christian Benteke replaces Jordan Henderson.
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 4. James Milner (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Dieumerci Mbokani.
Corner, Liverpool. Conceded by Ivo Pinto.
Substitution, Norwich City. Matthew Jarvis replaces Nathan Redmond.
Substitution, Norwich City. Martin Olsson replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Attempt saved. Sebastien Bassong (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Foul by Alberto Moreno (Liverpool).
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kolo Touré (Liverpool).
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Offside, Liverpool. Lucas Leiva tries a through ball, but Adam Lallana is caught offside.
Kolo Touré (Liverpool) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dieumerci Mbokani (Norwich City).
Offside, Liverpool. Jordan Henderson tries a through ball, but Adam Lallana is caught offside.
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 3. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Adam Lallana.
Substitution, Liverpool. Adam Lallana replaces Jordon Ibe.
Hand ball by Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool).
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 2. Jordan Henderson (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Roberto Firmino.
Goal! Norwich City 3, Liverpool 1. Wes Hoolahan (Norwich City) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the centre of the goal.
Penalty Norwich City. Steven Naismith draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Alberto Moreno (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area. | Adam Lallana's injury-time strike saw Liverpool edge a nine-goal thriller at Norwich in one of the most dramatic Premier League games of the season. | 35331055 |
Rio 2016 Olympian Tattersall, riding Quicklook V, posted a personal best score of 33.1 penalties to sit in fourth place after the dressage.
Wilson produced another sub-40 score on her horse Bulanaafter to lie seventh.
GB's third pairing, Tina Cook and horse Billy the Red, are in 12th place going into tomorrow's cross country.
"I feel that Quicklook and I are on form enough that we can ride for ourselves and get an individual medal for GB," said Tattersall.
"That's the aim, and I'll be doing my absolute best to try and achieve that."
At the end of the dressage phase Germany dominate the individual rankings holding the top three medal places.
Meanwhile in the team competition, Germany also sit in gold medal position with a score of 87.7 penalties, whilst France and Great Britain are battling it out for silver and bronze on 111.8 and 111.9 penalties. | Britons Gemma Tattersall and Nicola Wilson are inside the top 10 at the halfway stage of the European Eventing Championships in Strzegom. | 40982393 |
He was outlining ideas to prevent a repeat of the mass rioting which marred the G20 summit in Hamburg.
Some 20,000 police officers were deployed and nearly 500 were injured as rioters torched cars, looted shops and threw stones and petrol bombs.
Mr de Maizière drew a comparison with the restrictions on football hooligans.
The mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, apologised to residents this week for the unrest, which he blamed squarely on violent elements among the protesters.
"The responsibility for this violence does not lie with the summit or the police, it lies with those who committed this violence, the criminal mob who did not care at all about the people in our city and whose only goal was to commit violence and to destroy," he said.
More than 100,000 demonstrators are believed to have attended protests during the 7-8 July summit, many of them peaceful.
Speaking to German media, the interior minister said rioters should not be allowed to attend rallies.
Instead, they should be made to report to police and wear tags if necessary, as should "highly aggressive so-called football fans".
Mr de Maizière also called for tougher action to be taken against squatters, clearing occupied houses immediately.
Hamburg, long known for its squats, has a tradition of rioting by the far left.
Clashes also broke out at this year's May Day protest in the city, while in 2008 cars burned as extremists battled police on the streets for several hours.
It meant Hamburg police were already aware of the potential issues ahead of the G20, drafting in police from around the country.
Is thought that other leftist militants arrived in the city from across Germany and beyond. | Potential rioters should have their movements restricted or be made wear electronic ankle tags, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière has said. | 40620592 |
The leak was detected on Friday on the Brent Charlie platform, 115 miles north-east of Shetland.
Production has been stopped and 31 non-essential personnel are being flown home as a precaution. Shell said the leak had been stopped and an investigation was under way.
The Brent Charlie had 176 people on board at the time.
A Shell spokeswoman said: "Following a gas detection alarm, production was shut down and the platform called to muster. The source of the leak has been safely detected and isolated, and a full investigation into the cause will be completed.
"All 176 personnel on board have been accounted for and a precautionary partial downman of 31 non-essential personnel is under way.
"Relevant authorities have been informed."
The company said the leak was discovered on the platform above sea level.
No details have been given of the amount of gas which escaped but Shell said the leak was isolated on the same day that it was detected.
A spokeswoman insisted there has been no impact to the marine environment.
The Brent Charlie platform acts as a hub from other platforms to the pipeline which carries oil to the shore.
But Shell said no other platforms have been affected by the shutdown. | The oil company Shell has said it shut down a platform in the North Sea after a gas leak. | 39985436 |
Organisers Together Against Grooming (TAG) said imams at hundreds of mosques had pledged to read the sermon to congregations during Friday prayers.
The sermon highlighted how the Koran emphasised that Muslims must protect children and the vulnerable.
The policing minister Damian Green said it was a "very important" move.
"It reminds people that the vast majority, the overwhelming majority, of British Muslims, condemn child sexual abuse as strongly as any other group in modern Britain," he said.
Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra, an imam at Abu Bakr Mosque in Leicester, said: "People were troubled by us reading the sermon and one man asked me how he could stop it being read.
"He said 'it was not our fault this had happened, our religion does not teach us to do these things and we are condemning it'.
"But as I said to him our only option is to speak out about it."
Mr Mogra added the sermon's message was very clear "this is an evil against humanity" and he was "absolutely delighted with the response".
On Thursday, seven men who abused girls as part of a sadistic sex grooming ring based in Oxford were jailed for life at the Old Bailey. Two of the men were of east African origin and five of Pakistani origin.
By Ed ThomasNorth of England Correspondent, BBC News
In the Lister Hill area of Bradford the Friday call to prayer was the same as usual.
What was different at the Islam Bradford Centre was the sermon, or Khutbah, delivered by the imam.
Aylas Karmani had a message to deliver about the street grooming of young vulnerable girls.
It followed the jailing of men in Oxford and similar cases in Telford, Rochdale and Rotherham.
Many of those involved were British Pakistanis.
Today's sermon talked about Islam being a religion that protects women and children. Those who abused young girls were called evil.
Nobody here said grooming is just a British-Pakistani or Muslim problem.
The majority of child sex offenders are white but what organisers hoped was today would show a united front from Muslim communities around the country.
Hundreds of mosques were asked to read out the sermon.
Many will have done so, but what we don't know is if those who groom will listen.
The Muslim Council of Britain, the Mosque and Imams National Advisory Board and the Islamic Society of Britain all pledged to devote sermons to the issue of sexual grooming, said TAG, a not-for-profit organisation set up to tackle sexual grooming in the UK.
However, Monawar Hussain, founder of The Oxford Foundation, which runs educational programmes to promote religious and social harmony, said the sermon was a "fundamental error of judgement" that would play into the hands of far-right groups.
Mr Hussain, imam at Eton College, said: "Our view is that there is no Muslim on the face of this earth that does not already know that child sexual abuse is evil and wicked: this is normal standard teaching in most mosques.
"There is a terrible danger that far-right groups will point to this and say 'I told you so'."
The sermon, written by Alyas Karmani, an imam and youth worker in Keighley, West Yorkshire, opened with a quotation from the Koran forbidding "sexual indecency, wickedness and oppression of others".
These "disgraceful actions" must be wholeheartedly condemned, it added.
It finished with a call for action and reminds Muslims to speak out if they see any "evil action".
Mr Karmani said: "There's a profound disrespect culture when it comes to treating women. One of the reasons we feel this is the case is poor role models.
"Access to pornography, which also objectifies women, is creating a culture where men are now ambiguous when it comes to the issue of violence against women."
Speaking before the sermon was read out at Friday prayers, Mr Karmani said it had been circulated in an effort to counter what he claimed was a taboo in mosques about talking about sex.
The sermon is the first phase of a "hard-hitting" campaign following a number of high-profile child grooming cases involving Asian men in Bradford, Oxford, Rochdale and Telford, said TAG spokesman Ansar Ali.
"We have been horrified by the details that have emerged from recent court cases and, as Muslims, we feel a natural responsibility to condemn and tackle this crime," said Mr Ali.
We wholeheartedly condemn the disgraceful actions of those involved in these cases and welcome the convictions in the cases that have been through the courts.
We wish to show our support for the victims of this terrible crime, many of whom are innocent children and we wish to affirm that Islam as a religion of mercy and compassion places a strong obligation on safeguarding and protecting the weak and vulnerable from oppression and abuse particularly of women and children.
Full text of sermon
"Potentially on a Friday you've got hundreds of thousands of people walking into a mosque and you have their undivided attention, so what better medium to try and send a powerful message and raise awareness?"
While sexual grooming and child abuse affected all sections of society and was perpetrated by people of all ethnic groups, the Koran exhorted Muslims to "act against evil and injustice and create just societies", he added.
"We are united in our stand against sexual grooming and, as Muslims, we are leading the effort to rid society of this crime."
The Muslim Council of Britain said that, in conjunction with TAG, it had circulated a Khutbah (Friday sermon) to all affiliated mosques and Islamic centres addressing the issue of grooming.
In a statement it said: "The sermon... raises awareness about what has recently been revealed of the horrific cases of abuse, condemns the behaviour and highlights teachings from the Koran, which obligates the safeguarding and protection of women and children."
Former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer said she was "delighted" by the move, which she said showed the issue was being taken more seriously than in the past.
Ms Cryer said she was approached by mothers worried about grooming in 2002, and was frustrated when police, social services and mosque elders took no action.
"I just hope this message gets beyond the mosque to the non-attenders, because by and large the people who behave like this don't go to the mosque," she said. | The sexual grooming of children has been condemned by Muslim leaders across the UK in a sermon read to thousands of worshippers. | 23087686 |
How did Jackson Hole - more than 2,000 miles west of Washington DC - become a favoured retreat for central bankers and economists from around the world?
Officially, the answer is work.
A regional branch of the US Federal Reserve hosts an annual conference each August at the Jackson Lake Lodge in the heart of Grand Teton National Park.
But as with the millions of other tourists who pass through the area every summer, nature was the original draw.
The Kansas City Federal Reserve, one of the US central bank's regional entities, started holding an annual conference in 1978. In the early years, the discussions focused on agriculture, but organisers had aspirations for a more high-profile event.
The hope was that the location - in the middle of a national park - might help woo then Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, who was known to be "fond of fly-fishing", the bank's history of the event recounts.
"I said we need a place for our next symposium (where) people can fish for trout," recalled Tom Davis, a former senior vice-president and head of economic research at the Kansas City Federal Reserve.
Mr Volcker accepted, but did reportedly raise questions about the distance.
"He said, 'Roger, how in the hell did you ever get to Jackson, Wyoming?'" former Federal Reserve president Roger Guffey said.
Indeed. Jackson Hole has been a haunt for plutocrats for decades.
John D. Rockefeller, heir to the Standard Oil fortune, vacationed there, famously buying up thousands of acres that eventually formed much of what is now Grand Teton National Park.
The valley counts actors Sandra Bullock and Harrison Ford among its homeowners. Celebrity sightings include Pippa Middleton, while singer James Blunt recorded the music video for his song Bonfire Heart in the area.
"It's one of the most beautiful spots in the United States and it is sometimes hard to tear oneself away from the views to go back inside and listen to more discussions about monetary policy," said economist Alan Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley, who will be speaking at the conference this year.
The Federal Reserve knows the prime location is part of the conference's popularity, but officials are alert to any implication that the conference is just an excuse for a luxury escape.
"The symposium is not considered a vacation getaway," the bank insists in its materials. "Jackson Hole is well known for its many resorts catering to outdoors enthusiasts from around the world, but the symposium is held each year at the Lodge, which, in line with its National Park setting, does not have some accommodations commonly found at other sites, such as a spa, exercise room or salon. In fact, televisions are not available in the Lodge's rooms."
(The website of the hotel is a bit more enthusiastic, citing "all the amenities and guest services you would expect from a full-service resort".)
A spokesman for the Federal Reserve declined to reveal how much the event costs, what participants are charged or how it is kept within the venue's capacity limits.
The company that runs the Jackson Lake Lodge for the National Park Service also declined to comment on the event or how quickly the 300-plus rooms at the lodge get booked. (Cabins and camp sites are also a possibility.)
Nothing appeared to be available this weekend, but some rooms were going for about £270 a night at the start of September if you can stand a 14-hour flight from London, according to hotel booking websites.
Technically, the lodge, as a National Park Service facility, remains open to the public throughout the event.
In 2014, a group of green-shirted protesters crashed the party. They were convinced to return to meet with officials in a more formal capacity two years later.
The tiny town of Jackson, a 45-minute drive south from the hotel, sees about four million people pass through every summer. Visitors are such a reliable crowd that the Jackson Hole Travel and Tourism Board focuses its promotion efforts on other seasons, says its boss, Kate Sollitt.
So while investors around the world may be alert to any hints given by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and European Central Bank president Mario Draghi on Friday, locals say it's practically a non-event.
"The majority of our community doesn't even know they're here," Ms Sollitt said.
This week especially bankers were eclipsed, as Jackson was one of the places in the US where the sun and the moon would fully overlap, said Gavin Fine, owner of Fine Dining Restaurant Group and Rendezvous Bistro, which he said has been patronised by former Federal Reserve chairs Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke among others.
"We were in the path of totality so we had an influx of hundreds of thousands of people," he said.
Still, when it comes to name recognition, Mr Fine says playing host to the Federal Reserve every year "doesn't hurt". | For a few days every August, a remote Wyoming valley known for mountain views and wildlife sightings sets the stage for serious talk about interest rates, inflation and the world's labour markets. | 41041137 |
The owner of the car had parked while visiting his brother on the street.
He said "In life you have good days and bad days. This morning wasn't a good day. But I'm thankful me or my family wasn't in the car."
The car was discovered partially in the hole by police in the early hours of the morning. It has since been lifted out by a crane.
No-one was hurt in the incident.
To find out more about sinkholes take a look at our special guide. | A car has fallen into the ground after a sinkhole appeared in a street in London. | 36276284 |
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire made the comment in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
However, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said the only option he was entitled to take was "to call an election".
"Direct rule is not an option," she said, adding that such a move would amount to "an act of bad faith".
Speaking at Westminster, Mr Brokenshire said in the absence of a devolved assembly, it was up to the government to provide "political stability".
However, he added that the government "did not want to see a return to direct rule".
On Monday, the secretary of state said there was a short window of opportunity for the talks.
He removed the prospect of a second snap election within weeks and told reporters that there was no appetite for another contest.
Mr Brokenshire told Westminster that he would bring legislation to the House of Commons after the Easter recess - on 18 April - depending on the outcome of the talks.
If they are successful, he said he would push forward laws to allow an assembly to be formed.
However, if they fail, he said he would "at a minimum" bring forward legislation to "set a regional rate to enable local councils to carry out their functions and to provide further assurance around the budget of Northern Ireland".
In response, Sinn Féin's northern leader Michelle O'Neill said: "There is only one option which the British secretary of state is entitled to take and that is to call an election."
She added: "There is no legal basis for any other course of action. And while parties may, or may not, want an election the fact is if the British secretary of state brings in new legislation to restore direct rule that will be an act of bad faith and a clear breach of an agreement between the Irish and British governments in 2006."
The talks collapsed on Sunday ahead of Monday's 16:00 BST deadline.
Issues like the Irish language and the legacy of the Troubles are the main sticking points.
In a memo to all his staff, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Sir Malcolm McKibbin has promised to try to maintain a "business as usual" approach during what he describes as "this time of uncertainty".
Sir Malcolm confirmed the civil servants would use the limited powers open to them to keep funds flowing in order to carry out the essential work of delivering public services.
But he added that these powers were no substitute for a regular budget agreed by executive ministers.
The two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, blamed each other for the breakdown in talks.
The political deadlock came after a snap election on 2 March brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority and the DUP's lead over Sinn Féin was cut from 10 seats to one.
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, the executive must be jointly run by unionists and nationalists, with the largest party putting forward a candidate for first minister.
Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness quit as deputy first minister in January in protest against the DUP's handling of a botched green energy scheme.
The party said it would not share power with DUP leader Arlene Foster as first minister until the conclusion of a public inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
Mr McGuinness, who had been suffering from a rare heart condition, died last week at the age of 66. | The UK government will "consider all options" after Easter, including direct rule, if talks to form a Northern Ireland Executive fail. | 39410982 |
The male and female police officers, who have not been named, were seriously injured in the incident which happened as they responded to a call in Knightswood in Glasgow on Sunday night.
Police also want to trace another man - 30-year-old David McLean.
They have released his picture and warned the public not to approach him as he may be dangerous.
Anyone who sees him should instead contact police immediately.
A police spokesman said: "Police Scotland are urgently seeking the assistance of the public to trace the following man in relation to an ongoing inquiry.
"Police are extremely anxious to trace David McLean, aged 30, from Glasgow, pictured in this image.
"Members of the public are warned not to approach this man, as police believe he may be dangerous."
The 28-year-old man who has been arrested is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday. | A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run attempted murder of two police officers. | 37796469 |
French in origin, it is now played right across the world and is one of the most inclusive activities available where people of all ages, gender, ability and fitness can play equally together.
The most highly regarded of throws in pétanque is the "carreau". This is when a player shoots their opponent's boule in such a manner that their boule stops in exactly the same position as the original boule. It's not as easy as it sounds so why not give it a try?
Played with hand-sized hollow metal boules on various types of dirt or gravel surfaces (terrains) the object of the sport is to get as many of your team' boules closer to a small wooden ball (jack) than that of your opponents.
All boules of one team nearer to the jack than any boule of the opponent's counts for one point each. Usually all games are up to 13 points.
Classically the sport is a team game of Triples (3 players with 2 boules each) or Doubles (2 players with 3 boules each) though pétanque can also be played as Singles (1 player with 3 boules).
There are two main roles in pétanque :-
1)Pointer - tries to get their boule as close as possible to the jack
2)Shooter - tries to remove an opponent's boule
The basic rules are simple and new players can start playing straight away but the various techniques of pointing and shooting as well as the tactics can take years of practice to master.
Unlike in English bowls where teams always alternate play, in pétanque a team only throws their boule when the opponent's boule is closer to the jack. Therefore if your team's boule is closest to the jack it is deemed as holding the point and your opponents keep playing their boules until they are closer or out of boules.
Why is it good for you?
Pétanque is perfect as a low impact exercise involving throwing, bending and walking. However it also requires team play, concentration, tactics and strategy. Being a relatively inexpensive activity the social side of the sport is another of its great benefits.
As long as you can hold and throw a boule you can play pétanque. The rules have also been adapted to include players who use wheelchairs or walking sticks for mobility.
Get Involved
In England the sport is run by the English Pétanque Association and structured around 15 regions each having a network of clubs. All clubs welcome new members and often run Come & Try days so that you can experience the sport.
Go to English Petanque, Scottish Petanque, Welsh Petanque or Irish Petanque to find out about games near you.
The only equipment you will need is a set of boules but many clubs will be able to loan you sets as well as advise where and what boules to buy. Competition class boules are sold in sets of 3 by different weights, sizes, patterns and hardness and the cost starts from around £50 a set.
History
The origin of boules can probably be traced back to ancient Greeks first tossing coins as far as possible then progressing to round stones. It is believed the Romans then introduced the concept of throwing as near as possible to a target.
There are many variations of boules or bowls games around the world. Pétanque was derived in La Ciotat in1907 from its ancestor Jeu Provencal after one of the top players could no longer run and throw the boules due to rheumatism. The name pétanque is a derivation of the provençal word "ped tanca" and means "feet together on the ground".
Pétanque is now by far the most popular of boule sports around the world, possibly due to its simplicity, with over 600,000 licensed players.
Are you inspired to try Petanque? Or maybe you are an enthusiast already? Get in touch and tell us your experience of the game by tweeting us on @bbcgetinspired or email us on [email protected].
See our full list of activity guides for more inspiration. | Pétanque - pronounced "pay-tank", sometimes called boules, is a game that can be enjoyed by all the family and socially with friends for fun or more competitively up to European and World Championship levels. | 27911295 |
In pictures: WW1 anniversary
A service was held at Westminster Abbey, in London, where a light installation called Spectra beamed a column of white light into the sky while a candle-lit prayer vigil was held inside.
The service of solemn commemoration was attended by the Duchess of Cornwall, where members of the congregation held candles.
Across the country lights were switched off and candles were lit, in churches and places of worship, public buildings and homes among other premises, including outside Number 10 Downing Street.
The lights were switched off at the Houses of Parliament, as part of the UK-wide "Lights Out" event recalling then-foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey's remark on the eve of the outbreak of war: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
Candles were lit across the UK to mark the centenary, while the London Eye, in London's South Bank, was plunged into darkness.
Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prime Minister David Cameron and Prince Harry were among the dignitaries to attend a twilight ceremony at the St Symphorien Military cemetery, near Mons, Belgium.
Dignitaries, including Prince William and Mr Cameron, laid loose flowers as a mark of respect at the ceremony - rather than wreaths or poppies, which became a tradition after the end of World War One.
The Queen was also among those to pay their respects in Scotland when she attended a memorial service at Crathie Kirk in Aberdeenshire.
Crowds gathered at the town hall in Mons to greet the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry as they appeared on the balcony.
A message on a wreath laid by PM Mr Cameron in Glasgow earlier read: "Your most enduring legacy is our liberty. We must never forget."
The royal couple also made a private visit to see the graves of UK, Commonwealth and German soldiers at St Symphorien Military Cemetery in Mons.
Members of re-enactment group the Great War Society were showered by poppies in a ceremony at the Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, on Monday.
The King and Queen of Belgium met the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at a ceremony in Liege where commemorations have been taking place.
A military veteran was one of many attending events in Folkestone, Kent, where Prince Harry unveiled a memorial arch to honour the fallen.
Speaking in Liege, Prince William described the Belgian people's resistance "as gallant as their suffering was great".
King Philippe of Belgium was met by a girl dressed in white in Liege.
King Philippe of Belgium (far left) prior to laying a wreath in Liege, which was once seen as the most fortified spot in Europe.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spoke to French President Francois Hollande at the ceremony.
Bands from Germany, dressed in grey, and Belgium (right) performed for dignitaries attending the Liege event.
Thousands of balloons were released over the Belgian city as the ceremony drew to a close.
Prince Harry laid a wreath and met members of the armed forces during a visit to Folkestone, Kent.
A woman sheltered under her umbrella ahead of those Kent commemorations.
Also in Folkestone, balloons decorated with the emblem of a poppy and carrying the name of a fallen soldier were released into the sky.
The town also saw veterans and soldiers parade past a sign written in English, French and German.
Chelsea Pensioners have also been commemorating the anniversary with a central London parade.
The Tower of London moat has been turned red by 888,246 ceramic poppies, one for every British and Commonwealth soldier killed during the conflict.
Prince Charles attended Glasgow Cathedral for a service - alongside many Commonwealth figures - where he signed a commemoration book.
Elsewhere, 100 white crosses have been placed outside New Zealand's parliament building in Wellington, in memory of the more than 18,000 New Zealand troops killed in WW1.
A memorial archway in Folkestone, unveiled by Prince Harry, marks the role the Kent port town played in World War One. It became known as the gateway to the trenches as the location millions of soldiers began their voyage to France.
On its Twitter feed, the British Army published a photo of The Queen's Dragoon Guards in Afghanistan (right) recreating an image of soldiers moving up the trenches in 1914. | Ceremonies have been held across the UK and in Belgium to mark 100 years since Britain joined World War One. | 28636232 |
The government order comes after President Pierre Nkurunziza launched a campaign "to moralise society".
A government spokesman said a crackdown on informal relationships was needed to combat a population explosion.
He said too many schoolgirls were getting pregnant and men were taking advantage of women by cohabiting with several simultaneously.
Burundi has been in crisis since 2015 when Mr Nkurunziza, a born-again Christian, announced he would run for a controversial third term.
Interior ministry spokesman Terence Ntahiraja told AFP news agency that church and state-sanctioned weddings were the solution to the country's population explosion - and a patriotic duty.
"We want Burundians to understand that everyone is responsible for his life, we want order in this country," he said.
"All this is done within the framework of the patriotic training programme," he said, referring to an initiative launched by President Nkurunziza.
It is not clear exactly what sanctions those not tying the knot will face.
However, one farmer quoted by AFP said local officials had already threatened him and his partner with a fine and said any child born out of wedlock would not qualify for free education or medical treatment.
The farmer, named only as Pierre, said he had not married because he could not afford the bride price demanded by his partner's family.
Hundreds of people have since died since Mr Nkurunziza launched a bid for a third term. But the country had been relatively calm in recent months. | Cohabiting couples in Burundi have until the end of the year to get married or face legal consequences. | 40063401 |
Sites in Halifax and Girvan will also be hit, but the company hopes to cut jobs through voluntary redundancies.
Nestle said it was acting to help its sites "operate more efficiently in a rapidly changing external environment".
The GMB and Unite unions have expressed their anger at the decision.
"Rather than turning its back on its UK workforce, Nestle should be investing in its UK operations and keeping production here at plants in the UK," said Unite national officer Julia Long.
"We will be campaigning to save as many jobs as possible and pressing Nestle to think again about these plans."
Nestle to cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
Tim Roache, GMB general secretary, said: "To shift the production of an iconic British brand like Blue Riband to Poland is completely unacceptable.
"These factories should be exporting chocolate - not people's jobs.
"The government needs to step in before it's too late - and reassure millions of workers across the country this is not just the tip of the Brexit iceberg."
However, a Nestle spokesman denied the proposals were anything to do with Brexit.
He told the BBC: "This move would be necessary irrespective of the decision to leave the EU."
The spokesman added that Blue Riband was one of 16 products made at the Newcastle Fawdon site and was the only one being moved "to simplify production on a very complicated site".
The announcements are proposals and are subject to a 45-day consultation with trade unions and employee representatives.
If the cuts go ahead, they would take place over the next two years.
Nestle currently employs 8,000 people in the UK.
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | Confectionery giant Nestle plans to cut almost 300 jobs, mainly in York and Newcastle, and move production of the Blue Riband chocolate biscuit to one of its factories in Poland. | 39708689 |
Crabtree has spent his entire 16-year professional career at the Giants, playing 423 games and scoring 79 tries.
The nephew of legendary wrestler Big Daddy, he also represented England 18 times.
"My head and body are telling me it's time to hang up the boots while still a regular first teamer," he said.
"It has been an honour and a pleasure to serve my hometown club throughout my entire professional playing career and while retirement from playing is a major landmark, the bonus is that I can have my nose put back to its original position!" he added.
Crabtree was part of the losing Huddersfield sides in the 2006 and 2009 Challenge Cup finals and was named in the Super League Dream Team in 2013 when the Giants won the League Leaders Shield.
He will take up a role with the club's commercial and marketing team.
"Eorl has been an outstanding player for this club and no-one should be in any doubt that he ranks among the finest professional sportsmen to ever to come from Huddersfield." said Giants managing director Richard Thewlis
"His playing record in the toughest sporting league, in physically the toughest position to me, marks him out as someone very special. He was the mainstay and cornerstone of our pack for years and without doubt a talisman for the supporters to get behind." | Huddersfield Giants and former England forward Eorl Crabtree has announced his retirement from rugby league at the age of 34. | 37893816 |
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After a goalless first period, Mike Forney gave the Giants hope of overturning the first-leg deficit as he put the home side 1-0 up.
However, Leigh Salters levelled before Carl Hudson and Joey Haddad added further goals for the Devils.
The win keeps Cardiff on course for a league and cup double.
Belfast, meanwhile, will look to the end-of-season play-offs as their only remaining hope of winning silverware this season.
The Elite League leaders will almost certainly face Nottingham in the final on 6 March after the Panthers crushed Sheffield 8-0 in the first leg of the second semi-final on Tuesday night.
Looking to close the two-goal deficit from the first leg, the Giants created early chances but Cardiff keeper Ben Bowns made smart saves to deny Forney and Craig Peacock.
After the Giants survived penalties to Mike Wilson and Darryl Lloyd late in the opening period, they took the lead three minutes into the second period as Forney beat Bowns.
However, Cardiff restored their two-goal aggregate advantage within five minutes as Salters netted a powerplay effort.
After Lloyd was thrown out of the game for checking from behind in the final period, Hudson put Cardiff ahead on the night before Haddad's late empty-net goal as Giants keeper Stephen Murphy watched on. | Holders Cardiff Devils secured a place in the Challenge Cup final as a 3-1 semi-final second-leg win over Belfast completed a 8-4 aggregate success. | 35640811 |
Deaths of up to 10 cats found decapitated in Croydon and nearby are being investigated by the Met Police.
The vet, who wished to remain anonymous, told BBC News he had ruled out slaughter by another animal.
However, the RSPCA said it was keeping an open mind as to the cause pending further test results due in mid-March.
The vet said he believed a "sharp-bladed instrument" had been used.
It has been suggested the deaths may be the work of the same person - dubbed the Croydon Cat Killer or Cat Ripper by some.
Of the 16 carcasses he examined, the vet said, he had been able to link 10 of the deaths, with the most recent examination undertaken on Thursday.
Incisions had been made with a weapon "like a knife, but not a scalpel because the incisions are too long for that", he said.
In the past two cases, he revealed, raw chicken was found in the cats' stomachs, suggesting the animals had probably been lured by the killer with the offer of the meat.
"I think they are being strangled and then taken off-site to be butchered, and then the bodies are being returned and dumped, that is why there is no blood found at the scene," he said.
As the killings progressed, he said, the decapitations had vastly improved in surgical competency.
"My fear initially was the cats were being hacked to death because the cuts were really random but the incisions have become much more precise, which suggests they are being killed first."
The killer is thought to have worn gloves and protective clothing when catching the cats because DNA analysis has found no evidence of foreign material beneath their claws.
More than 40 cases of beheadings have been reported to South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty centre to date, with the majority dating back to the past three years.
Boudicca Rising, from the centre, said she believed the killings were the work of one "sick individual" and remains "are being displayed where people will find them".
There was an attempt to return the remains to where the killer suspected the cats lived, she said.
Dr Naomi Murphy, who works within the dangerous and severe personality disorders unit at HM Prison Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire, said this extreme form of cruelty to animals strongly suggested the work of a sadist, someone who enjoyed harming other creatures.
"Because these killings involve weapons it seems like the type of person who plans and gets pleasure from thinking about the pain they are going to inflict.
"What happens when people are sadistic, like any kind of addiction, they often have to go further and further to satisfy their addiction," she said.
On Friday the Met Police said the number of incidents linked to the investigation at this stage was in single figures. A force spokesman said officers were also aware of a similar allegation in Surrey.
The RSPCA said it was conducting tests on the cat bodies and the results could take a few weeks to come back.
It called on people to contact them if a cat was found dead in "suspicious circumstances". SNARL is coordinating efforts to retrieve cat bodies for post-mortem examinations.
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 or call the Crimestoppers charity anonymously. | A "serial cat killer" thought to be responsible for gruesome pet slayings lured targets with raw chicken, according to the examining vet. | 35598232 |
East Lancashire Hospice in Blackburn was rated "outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after an inspection in September.
It reaches out to marginalised communities using "innovative methods" such as social media, the report said.
The CQC praised staff for treating people with "sensitivity and dignity".
"There are no words to describe how proud I feel," Lyn Stevenson, chief executive of the hospice, said of the health watchdog's report.
Inspectors highlighted that the hospice was "creative" at improving its services and shared best practice with the wider industry, acting as a "role model for excellence".
It praised the "ethos" of the inpatient service, which aimed to make people "feel that they were in a 5 star hotel and spa rather than a hospice".
People felt "exceptionally safe" in the hospice's care and their "emotional, cultural and spiritual needs" were met by "knowledgeable and confident" staff, the report said.
The hospice runs an inpatient unit for up to 10 people and during the inspection was providing community services for 142 people and giving 67 others creative and support therapies.
Last week, St John's Hospice in Lancaster also received the watchdog's top rating. | A hospice has been praised for going "the extra mile" for patients and showing them "outstanding kindness and compassion". | 38077366 |
The council had invested £4m in two separate banks - £2m each in Glitnir and Landsbanki.
It was one of eight councils, three universities and three former police authorities to have invested almost £75m of public money.
Powys council said the process has been a "long and complicated issue."
Of the £4m it invested, it recovered £4,077,799, which includes interest payments and legal costs. | Powys council has been successful in recovering the money it invested in Icelandic banks prior to them going under in 2008. | 37566219 |
Lewis Ball, 26, has not been seen since he left the Thekla on Bristol's Floating Harbour at 03:20 GMT last Sunday.
Police have now traced three people who left the nightclub at the same time as Lewis.
Avon and Somerset Police said they may have "information which could be vital to our search".
Det Insp Adam Stacey said: "Our efforts to find Lewis continue unabated and while we now have new lines of enquiry to progress we're still keen to talk to anyone who has information who has not yet contacted us.
"If you have any information, no matter how insignificant you think it might be, please call us as it could prove to be vital."
Drivers have also been asked to check their dashcam footage if they were in the area at the time.
Lewis is described as white, 5ft 9ins tall and of slim build. When he went missing he was wearing a black jumper, black skinny jeans and brown ankle boots. | Police are appealing for information to help trace a man who has been missing for a week since leaving a nightclub. | 38948836 |
Derek Lyle opened the scoring on 71 minutes with a close range header.
Kyle Jacobs then thundered in a fantastic strike from 30 yards, which went in via the underside of the crossbar.
Joe Thomson completed the scoring, shooting home after a run from the edge of his own penalty box.
Morton drop a place to fourth, with Falkirk overtaking the Greenock side after a win against Dunfermline.
Queens are six points behind the final play-off place and have played two more games than Jimmy Duffy's men.
Match ends, Queen of the South 3, Morton 0.
Second Half ends, Queen of the South 3, Morton 0.
Goal! Queen of the South 3, Morton 0. Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Lawrence Shankland (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Attempt missed. Connor Murray (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Jamie Hamill replaces Dom Thomas.
Substitution, Morton. Jon Scullion replaces Ross Forbes.
Goal! Queen of the South 2, Morton 0. Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Connor Murray replaces Derek Lyle.
Attempt missed. Ross Forbes (Morton) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Lyndon Dykes replaces Stephen Dobbie.
Substitution, Morton. Jamie McDonagh replaces Mark Russell.
Attempt missed. Thomas O'Ware (Morton) header from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Joseph Thomson.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Scott Mercer.
Attempt missed. Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Goal! Queen of the South 1, Morton 0. Derek Lyle (Queen of the South) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Dom Thomas.
Scott Mercer (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricki Lamie (Morton).
Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lawrence Shankland (Morton).
Foul by Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South).
Andy Murdoch (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jamie Lindsay (Morton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kyle Jacobs (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Lindsay (Morton).
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Lawrence Shankland (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Joseph Thomson (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Michael Doyle (Morton).
Foul by Dom Thomas (Queen of the South).
Andy Murdoch (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. John Rankin (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Thomas O'Ware.
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Lawrence Shankland (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Scott Mercer (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. | Queen of the South picked up their first home win in the Championship since September to end Morton's seven-game unbeaten run. | 38779651 |
Three men detained in early morning raids on Friday are facing terror charges. Three other people were held but later released.
The plot involved the use of explosives and other weapons, police say.
The alleged targets included high-profile locations around Melbourne, such as St Paul's Cathedral, Federation Square and the main train station.
Six men and a woman were detained in Friday's raid on suspicion of "preparing or planning a terrorist attack", police say.
The woman and two men were later released.
Three other men, named as Hamza Abbas, 21, Ahmed Mohamed, 24, and Abdullah Chaarani, 26, did not enter pleas and are due to appear in court in April. Another man remains in custody.
Victoria State police chief Graham Ashton said that following Friday's arrests, there was no longer a threat to the public.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the plot was one of the most substantial that has been disrupted in recent years.
"They want to frighten Australians, they want to divide Australians, they want us to turn on each other, but we will not let them," he said.
Four of the initial suspects were Australian-born and of a Lebanese origin, while the fifth was an Australian of Egyptian origin, Mr Ashton told reporters.
Those being held had been "self-radicalised" but inspired by propaganda of the so-called Islamic State (IS), he said.
Mr Ashton said the raids on five locations in Melbourne's north and west came after weeks of police surveillance.
"We believe that there was an intention to conduct what we call a multi-mode attack, possibly on Christmas Day," he said.
Melbourne's Flinders St Station, Federation Square and St Paul's Cathedral occupy three corners of what is arguably the city's most iconic intersection.
The area is only a short distance from the Melbourne Cricket Ground where up to 100,000 people are expected to attend the Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan.
The operation included 400 officers from Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was also involved. | Australian police have foiled a major terror attack in Melbourne on Christmas Day, officials say. | 38411935 |
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Former light-welterweight world champion Khan, 29, has not fought since outpointing Chris Algieri in May 2015.
But he has made a jump of two weight divisions to set up a WBC world middleweight title on 7 May, ruling out a meeting with fellow Brit Kell Brook.
"I'm going to the lion's den," said Khan. "If I beat him, it will be one of the biggest upsets in boxing."
"It's Cinco de Mayo as well, the Mexican holiday, so it's going to be crazy," he added. "I think it's brave and I think it's the right thing to do."
Khan said he wanted to fight multiple world champion Floyd Mayweather and seven-weight world champion Manny Pacquiao, but neither fights happened.
He added: "I want to be in the big fights with the big names. Alvarez I think is probably the biggest name in boxing right now.
"At first, I thought he was too big for me, but when I studied a few tapes, I thought: 'You know what, I've got a good chance of beating him'."
Bolton's Khan has won 31 and lost three of his 34 professional fights but has not won a world title after losing to Lamont Peterson in 2011.
He last fought at the MGM Grand in December 2014, beating American Devon Alexander on a unanimous decision.
"I've fought in Las Vegas three times, but normally I'm top bill," Khan told BBC Sport. "This time I'm the underdog. That will push me on even more.
"People are going to be doubting me, people are thinking it'll be an easy fight for Canelo, but he'll have his hands full."
Alvarez, nicknamed 'Canelo', has lost once and won 46 of his 48 fights. That defeat came against Mayweather in 2013.
The fight has been set at a catch-weight of 155lb, eight pounds more than Khan weighed in victory against American Algieri.
The usual limit for middleweight is 160lb, but Alvarez's last few fights have had the same weight stipulation.
"When I announced that it was going to be Alvarez, everyone was shocked," said Khan. "That's what makes this fight bigger because it was a shock to everyone.
"What's going to win the fight for me is my skills and my speed.
"I don't think I can out-power Canelo. The only way I can beat him is my speed, skill and my techniques. I think it's a 50-50 fight." | Britain's Amir Khan is expecting a "crazy" atmosphere when he meets Mexico's Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas. | 35499695 |
Addressing creative industry members at City Hall, he said he recognised the importance of the sector to "London's well-being."
He said the new role would involve ensuring "grassroots" and independent venues were not forced to close.
Noise complaints and licensing rules have hit nightlife in certain boroughs.
"We can't rest on our laurels. We are facing stiff global competition," Mr Khan said.
Alan Miller, the chairman of the Night Time Industries Association, welcomed plans to adopt the "Agent of Change" principle - that a new nightclub is responsible for soundproofing its premises, but builders who locate housing near an existing venue should pay for their own.
"People who move to places like Peckham and Hackney should recognise that [the nightlife]'s there and not be surprised when they move in," he said.
"In the boroughs there are still some problematic views about nightlife. Licensing authorities can view venues as a nuisance rather than cultural assets."
He added that the Night Tube would help to reduce noise by dispersing people from venues over a longer period.
Ben Rogers, the director of the Centre for London, said he would like to see less "over-zealous policing" of venues.
"The police don't have much sense of the value of a night-time economy so a couple of small infringements - like someone caught with drugs, or under age - and the venue is in real trouble."
The mayor also announced he would launch "a number of Creative Enterprise Zones" where arts and culture would get "extra support to flourish".
Each year a different London borough will be the focus of an arts celebration.
Mr Rogers said taking the arts beyond traditional institutions was increasingly popular with the public, and a focus on places outside the West End would encourage culture to go "out on the streets". | Sadiq Khan has vowed to make cultural life a "top four" priority and appoint a "night czar" to protect London's under-threat pub and club scene. | 36332868 |
The hotly contested campaign has been marred by internal squabbles within the governing party, which have turned violent.
The township of Atteridgeville, west of the capital, Pretoria, is one of several areas to have experienced some of this violence.
The working class community was outraged when the ANC foisted Thoko Dididza as the party's candidate for mayor of Tshwane, the metropolitan area which includes Pretoria.
More on the riots:
In pictures: Pretoria protests
People took to the streets to express their displeasure; buses were burnt and road barricaded as they demanded that the current ANC mayor, Kgosientsho "Sputla" Ramokgopa be on the ballot again.
The violence spread across many other areas in Tshwane - and five people lost their lives.
Ms Dididza was chosen by ANC head office after the local party could not agree between "Sputla" and his challenger during the nomination process.
Such local feuding has been most prevalent in KwaZulu-Natal province, where 12 ANC councillors have been killed in the last two months. Last week, another was shot dead in the Eastern Cape province.
Atteridgeville itself was established in the late 1930s as a settlement for black people and now has a population of 200,000.
What do Atteridgeville voters want?
It is Mr Ramokgopa's hometown, and is a great example of a politician understanding local issues and addressing them head on.
The paved streets are clean. It is like a mini Kigali, the Rwandan capital, known as the cleanest city in Africa.
To test the temperature a month on from the protests, I walk the streets of "Peli" as locals here sometimes call Atteridgeville.
In central Atteridgeville, I meet 62-year-old street vendor Moses Masemola.
"I am going to vote for the ANC because 'Sputla' delivered for us here. Look at this place. It is clean," he says.
However, 69-year-old Elizabeth Langa, who works as a domestic helper, says she admires the new opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which promises to do more to tackle poverty and create jobs.
"I'm going to vote for the EFF because I want change," she says.
Down the road outside a local school I see a group of mostly teenage boys huddled together looking at their smartphones.
They tell me they are using the free wi-fi provided to all residents by the city council - the signal is strongest near the school.
They are quick to point out that it is a Sputla initiative, one of his most popular.
However, one among them, 23-year-old McDonald Hopane, a third-year mechanical engineering student, explains that he is going to vote for the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).
"The ANC has failed to provide jobs. I'm about to finish my studies and it is clear that I will not have a job come 2017."
Twenty-year-old construction site labourer Happy Makhwiting stops to talk under a huge billboard of President Jacob Zuma.
Pointing at the president and ANC leader, he says: "I will vote for the ANC but not because of this one. I'm voting because of what [Nelson] Mandela did for us through the ANC."
Mr Makhwiting says he would like to be in the army but has taken a low-paid job just to make ends meet.
But it seems the ANC cannot rely on such loyalty any more.
If opinion polls are anything to go by, the governing party is going to have a tough time holding on to some of the major metropolitan regions such as Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape province.
Local issues such as water, roads, refuse collection, community parks now mean more than anti-apartheid struggle credentials.
People are tired of being fed the same diet of "we liberated you from white-minority rule so keep voting for us".
They want material change on the ground. They want better schools for their children.
They are also angry at the cancer of corruption creeping in - not just at a local level but also among those who hold high office.
Political commentator Justice Malala tells me this is a test for President Zuma's leadership.
"It's about national and local issues all at once. That's why you see President Zuma's face on the campaign trail. And the Democratic Alliance is using [its] leader Mmusi Maimane. There is a lot at stake," he says.
"On local issues, in Nelson Mandela Bay people will tell you about the undignified bucket toilets they still use.
"These issues are big for them. And in Alexandra township some say their lives are no different from the dark days of apartheid."
So this election, as much as it is about local issues on the ground, it also about the ANC's national score card. | South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), which took power at the end of white-minority rule in 1994, is facing its toughest challenge - and not just from opposition parties in Wednesday's local elections. | 36922631 |
The Northern Warfare Training Center in Alaska is where soldiers in the US Army learn how to survive and fight in extreme cold weather. Photographer Ed Gold spent two weeks with the team, shadowing the students as they went on exercises.
The course takes a "train the trainer" approach, with soldiers who complete the training passing on their new skills to comrades when they return to their units.
The Alaskan terrain provides a wide range of natural challenges and, at sub-zero temperatures, most tasks are more difficult and take longer.
"We are not a tactics school; we get you ready to operate in cold weather," says Lt Col Mick Braun.
"A lot of it is mental toughness. It builds a soldier's toughness so they know they can operate in cold conditions. I'm a firm believer that if a soldier can serve here they can serve anywhere.
The centre also works with other countries whose militaries operate in cold conditions, such as Japan, the Scandinavian countries, Nepal and Mongolia, to build relationships and share knowledge.
Part of the course involves learning how to survive avalanches. Soldiers are taught how to use poles to find those buried in the snow, having first picked up a signal using locator equipment.
"This pit shows that it is important to see what the snow is doing. Look at the layers in the snow," says instructor Steven Decker.
"You can get some value out of this, it's a low consequence slope. If this slope was going to slide it wouldn't go very far as it has an inch and a half of 'depth hoar' slab."
"Whenever you are in this environment stop every three or four hours or so and pay attention to your surroundings. Look up at the clouds to check what the weather is doing. What is the wind doing?"
Decker notes that a lack of snow in this training area shows that the winter has been warmer than normal. Despite the absence of snow the slippery surface still makes the going tricky and tries the patience of soldiers as they practise casualty evacuation using a rescue stretcher.
The belayer further up the slope cannot be relied upon to pull up or lower the casualty on their own. They only brake the rope when the four man team below pause their effort.
To keep warm overnight, trainees build a thermal shelter using wood and parachute cord.
The shelter is then covered with a parachute and snow is piled on top. It provides a warm sleeping area, protected from the wind.
The soldiers are shown how to make the improvised thermal shelter and then given three hours to build their own to share with one or two others. They then spend a night in it, dismantling it early the following morning.
"It's my first winter in Alaska so getting this class really opens my mind," says Staff Sgt Ali Baharanyi (right) who was born in Congo and joined the US Army in 2010.
"Most of the time you really don't know how to use the gear to its maximum so we don't always benefit entirely but now with this training I'm going to maximise my understanding and involvement with Alaska."
Students are also told how to use packed snow to stop bullets. About two metres (6,5ft) of packed snow will stop a 7.62mm bullet, but if the snow is freshly fallen and looser, the width must be doubled.
"We train for sustained operations in an arctic environment," says Staff Sgt Ben Kueter (speaking, right).
"I'm confident that we give soldiers a very good knowledge base and that they would be able to operate in any cold region in the world. This Arctic area is brutal and it takes specialised training to be able to survive out here."
"I want soldiers to thrive in the wild," says 2nd Lt Jessica Hayashida (second from right), a student on the course.
"What builds a team more than enduring some awful pain together. We have a really great mentality about it. I think the instructors are incredible. Not only are they proficient and confident but they have a genuine passion."
Lt Ryan Morrill, Sgt Thomas Trask, Lt Zachary Schroeder, Staff Sgt Noe Saldana and Capt Dave Luce are part of a team training to climb Denali, formerly known as Mt McKinley, the highest peak in North America. Four of the five will be selected to make the ascent in May.
Sgt Bell demonstrates how to use camouflage, wearing an "overwhite" top when the elevated mountainside has snow and the ground is bare.
Sgt Joshua Vermote carries the Stars and Stripes on his pack.
"I just got this flag last year - it's flown in Germany, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, and it's been through pretty much half the United States," says Vermote.
"I put it on my rucksack to boost morale for everybody as I knew it was going to be a physical endeavour for everybody and I believe that when any American sees that flag it boosts morale."
"Everything on this course is designed for a reason - we had to adapt and overcome and deal with it. I'm deploying to Kuwait and after that I'm hoping to come back here to work as an instructor. I love the cold, born and raised in it. I strongly dislike the heat."
The squads were timed around a 5km (3 mile) course using snow shoes and carrying their equipment. They were then marked on their collective scores on a 25m (80ft) firing range using 20 rounds each in their M4 Carbine Assault Rifles.
Two fighting positions were adopted, with 10 rounds fired in a crouching position and 10 kneeling, all the time wearing snow shoes.
Kristine Isherwood (far right) is part of a team helping material developers and uniform designers understand the impact of the natural environment on combat clothing.
"You've got to get out from behind your desk and walk with the soldiers to understand what works and what doesn't," says Isherwood. "You will encounter things outdoors that you didn't consider in a lab environment."
Staff Sgt Rinson Neth (right) is from Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.
"I was deployed to the mountains of Afghanistan and I wish I had been to this school beforehand.
"Having the knowledge means that we can get dropped anywhere in the world and we'll do well. If you don't have that knowledge it's going to be a bad day for you. I prefer the cold. With cold you can always upgrade but with heat you can't downgrade."
"We never know where we're going to go next, where we're going to fight. It's extremely valuable to train soldiers in being able to fight in mountainous regions," says Sgt First Class Adam McQuiston.
"The course definitely prepares for the mountains and the cold and sets up our soldiers for success in any Arctic environment.
"I have 20 instructors here right now, five medics and the lieutenant and myself," he says. "We're continually busy." | All photographs and interviews by Ed Gold. | 35727383 |
Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency, said the jobless rate in the 19 country eurozone had fallen to 10.4% from 10.5% in November.
This means 16.75 million people are jobless, down 49,000 from November.
In the full 28 member European Union the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9% in December.
Among the member states Greece and Spain continue to have the highest jobless total at over 20%.
The Czech Republic and Germany had the lowest rate, both at 4.5%.
Although the German authorities, using a different calculation method, released a domestic unemployment rate of 6.3% for December earlier on Tuesday.
Youth unemployment in the eurozone was 22%, compared with 23% in December 2014.
The eurozone's total jobless figure is better than analysts expected because of fears surrounding the slowdown in China and volatility in financial markets.
Jennifer McKeown, Capital Economics analyst, welcomed the improvement, but said a slowing global economy could reverse any progress.
"We still think that the European Central Bank has a lot more work to do," she added.
Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight, said he expected continued modest growth, with unemployment falling to below 10% by the end of the year if current trends continued.
ECB President Mario Draghi has already indicated another stimulus package could be unveiled as soon as next month. | Unemployment in the eurozone dropped in December to its lowest rate in over four years despite worries about the global economy. | 35470692 |
Benn Wragge was fatally wounded in Thurston, Suffolk, on Sunday.
The principal of Thurston Community College, where Ben was a pupil, said he was an "extremely likeable character" with a "calm and respectful demeanour".
Two teenagers arrested on suspicion of manslaughter have been released on police bail until 16 June.
Read more about this story and other news from Suffolk
"This is a heart-breaking time for Thurston Community College, Thurston Village and our wider community," principal Helen Wilson said.
"The aftermath of this tragedy will be felt throughout our entire community.
"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with Ben's family and friends at this time."
Ben was taken to West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds after being found injured at a property in the village at 13:35 BST on Sunday.
He was taken to West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, but died shortly afterwards.
A post-mortem examination found he died from a single wound caused by an air pellet. | A 13-year-old boy who died after being injured by an airgun pellet was a "mature and intelligent young man", his school said. | 36190669 |
Graham Clark top-scored with 63 not out after being dropped twice, adding 83 with Paul Collingwood before rain came.
Andrew Salter's career-best of 75 meant that Glamorgan led by 11 on first innings, adding 192 for their last four wickets as they ended 353 all out.
He was supported by Marchant de Lange (30) and Michael Hogan, who hit 29 not out in a last-wicket stand of 74.
Salter's innings just passed his previous best of 73 against Gloucestershire, also at St Helen's in 2015, as he smashed eight fours and three sixes.
Seamer Paul Coughlin finished with 4-87 while opening bowlers Chris Rushworth and James Weighell shared the other six wickets.
Durham then slipped to 75-3 when England Test opener Keaton Jennings was adjudged lbw to David Lloyd's first ball.
But Clark and first-innings centurion Collingwood repaired the damage, Clark riding his luck in particular when De Lange spilled a skied catch, before reaching his 50 off 97 balls with nine fours.
Durham's impetus was halted when bad light and rain intervened at 17:20 BST, and more poor weather is expected overnight.
Glamorgan's Andrew Salter told BBC Wales Sport: "It's funny how I've had both my best innings here in Swansea and also make my debut here as well, so it's one of my favourite grounds.
"I'm very delighted with my performance, but more so because it put us in a position where we could get slightly ahead with that last partnership.
"The wicket's quite flat, but as sometimes happens in Swansea a couple of wickets fall quickly and the game moves forward, it's a tricky one to suss out.
"It'll be interesting to see how they play it, especially with losing some time (to the weather)."
Durham batsman Graham Clark: "First hour this morning we were really good, we put Glamorgan under pressure and credit to their tail-end, they put us under pressure and it swung back in their favour to take the lead which looked unlikely overnight.
"But we've had a good period then to push it back in our favour.
"When (the chance to de Lange) went in the air, I thought that was over for me but luckily he put it down and I could take my chance and carry on.
"I think we'll just be batting (normally) in the morning, there won't be huge pressure to score quickly for the first hour and we'll see where we are." | Durham lead Glamorgan by 147 runs going into the final day after reaching 158-3 in their second innings at Swansea | 40073794 |
It said the increase provided further support for "the view that the housing market is gradually gaining momentum".
The annual rate of price growth rose to 1.1%, the fastest pace since November 2011.
The increases mean that the average house now costs ??167,912, the Nationwide said.
Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist, said a number of factors were likely to have contributed to the recent pick-up in activity.
"There has been an improvement in the availability and a reduction in the cost of credit, partly as a result of policy measures, such as the Funding for Lending Scheme," he said.
"With the UK returning to growth in the first quarter of 2013, the improvement in wider economic conditions may also be playing a role in boosting sentiment."
The Funding for Lending Scheme allows banks to borrow money at a discount from the Bank of England, providing they can show they have passed it on to customers in the form of loans.
Mr Gardner said that this had increased the availability of mortgages and pushed down rates.
As a result, prices in the last three months compared with the previous three months were up by 0.4%, and have been growing according to this measure since October 2012.
Mr Gardner said that property sales were also up, running at about 5% higher each month this year than the average monthly level in 2012.
The number of mortgages approved, which can be expected to feed through to sales, also picked up at the start of the year, he said.
He expected the market to continue to gain momentum, partly owing to government support for more credit.
However, the government's Help to Buy scheme has come in for criticism, with claims that this would simply create another housing market bubble.
Under the Help to Buy Scheme, borrowers are able to take out an equity loan from the government, which will enable them to put down a deposit of just 5% on a property. That scheme began on 1 April.
Under the second scheme, starting in January 2014 and due to run until 2017, the government will guarantee up to 15% of a mortgage on homes worth up to ??600,000. The scheme will be used to support ??130bn of mortgages.
Critics have included the outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, who warned that the scheme must not become permanent.
Source: Land Registry. Annual change to end of April
"I'm sure that there is no place in the long run for a scheme of this kind," he told Sky News in a recent interview.
On Wednesday, the OECD said that while new housing measures were likely to encourage residential investment and supply, there could be "upward pressure on house prices" if builders did not build more homes.
The Nationwide figures are based on its own lending data. Its rival, the Halifax - which is part of the Lloyds Banking Group - recorded a 2% average annual rise in prices a month ago. The two lenders calculate their year-on-year figures slightly differently.
Karelia Scott-Daniels, managing director of buying agents, Manse & Garret Property Search, said: "Much of the momentum is coming from London and South East England, and there is a danger that this is masking the stagnation in some other regions.
"But for properties that are priced correctly, there is no shortage of buyers."
Other commentators were more sceptical about Nationwide's conclusions.
"The rise in house prices recorded by the Nationwide in May could further boost the growing sense of optimism regarding the housing market. But the fundamentals are still weak, and we think much of that optimism is misplaced," said a spokesman for Capital Economics.
Data from the Land Registry has shown that price changes have varied widely across the UK.
Figures published on Thursday, covering England and Wales, showed that house prices rose by 6.2% in the 12 months to the end of April in London, and by 1.4% in the South East of England.
However, the North East of England saw average price falls of 5.7% and there was a drop of 3.7% in the North West of England over the same period.
The annual increase across England and Wales was 0.7%, the Land Registry said.
These rises were dwarfed by the increases seen recently in the US.
US house prices in March were up 10.9% from a year earlier, the biggest rise in nearly seven years, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index which was published on Tuesday. | UK house prices recorded a "modest" rise in May, increasing by 0.4%, according to the latest survey from the Nationwide building society. | 22713290 |
Andy Goode kicked two penalties for the hosts early on but flanker Dewald Potgieter crossed to give the Warriors a 7-6 lead at the break.
Kiwi winger Bryce Heem added a second try as Worcester played with the wind.
Falcons prop Rob Vickers crossed on his 200th appearance, but Craig Willis missed the vital conversion.
Worcester's last Premiership away victory was also at Kingston Park when they won 17-12 in March 2014 - and this is their first-ever league double over the Falcons.
After a 13-game winless run was ended by beating Sale Sharks, Dean Ryan's team have now won two of their last three games to move above Newcastle into 10th and are nine points above bottom-of-the-table London Irish.
Newcastle fly-half Goode, who amassed 823 points in three years with the Warriors, was taken off late on and his replacement Willis could not convert Vickers' 72nd-minute try - the first Falcons conversion missed at Kingston Park in 2016.
Although Dean Richards' side's six-game winning streak at home came to an end with defeat by Worcester, their losing bonus point leaves them just one point behind the Warriors in 11th.
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards:
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"We just didn't perform and were about 60% efficient in what was a pretty boring game, which is very disappointing. They took their chances and we didn't.
"We tried hard in the last 10 minutes but it was a pretty poor game between two sides who looked as if they were both trying to lose the game.
"We won by a point against Northampton and we lost by a point this time. It's disappointing that we didn't play to our potential."
Worcester director of rugby Dean Ryan:
"I'm just pleased for the lads. They had the courage to go out play for the win.
"To come back from that late try and get a result says a lot about this team.
"The win is a relief. Let's not talk about momentum. If you win two or three that's momentum. We've broken Newcastle's momentum which is important and it puts the pressure back on them."
Newcastle: Hammersley; Tait, Harris, Powell, Watson; Goode, Young; Vickers, Lawson, Vea, Wilson, Robinson, Welch (capt), Latu, Hogg.
Replacements: McGuigan, Rogers, Hatakeyama, Botha, Chick, Takulua, Willis, Socino.
Worcester: Pennell; Heem, Wynand Olivier, Mills, Vuna; Heathcote, Hougaard; Rapava Ruskin, Bregvadze, Schonert, O'Callaghan, Barry, Dowson, Potgieter, van Velze (capt).
Replacements: Annett, Leleimalefaga, Johnston, Sanderson, Betty, Baldwin, Lamb, Symons.
Referee: Wayne Barnes.
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | Worcester secured their first Premiership away win in two years and temporarily eased their relegation fears with victory at Newcastle. | 35700253 |
So although millions of South Sudanese are rejoicing, there are legitimate doubts about whether the agreement will bring lasting peace.
Until Wednesday's dramatic signing ceremony, a year-and-a-half of peace processes had not stopped South Sudan's collapse.
Soldiers slaughtered young boys, women were raped and millions fled as ceasefires were ignored.
An expanded mediation team from the regional body Igad and several other interested nations, known as Igad Plus, pushed through this supposedly permanent peace deal.
Here are five of the main obstacles to a lasting peace in South Sudan:
The key question. President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have in the past committed to stopping the fighting, only for both sides to break their word and launch offensives.
Do the leaders realise or care how much the people are suffering? Are both sides prepared to make the necessary compromises to end the war?
Will a tougher stance from the US and regional leaders make a difference? What about the growing economic crisis?
Mr Machar arguably has more to gain from the agreement: He will become first vice-president, his movement will get political posts and his troops will become integrated into the army. But what happens if he does not get everything he wants from the deal - or if he does not get the nomination of the governing SPLM party for the 2018 elections?
Mr Kiir has made it very clear he dislikes the deal - and his animosity with Mr Machar is well known too. Will Mr Kiir respect an agreement he feels was imposed upon him and South Sudan? Will he allow Mr Machar and his movement the powers the peace deal grants to them?
And can the two men, who have fought each both in the past and over the last 20 months, work together again?
Finally, what will happen if Mr Kiir, Mr Machar or other senior officials are found guilty of atrocities in the hybrid court that is to be set up?
President Kiir expressed his dissatisfaction with the deal, including some of the power-sharing and security components.
Many of his key supporters, including ethnic Dinka elders and powerful generals, had advised him not to sign it.
They say it is a foreign-backed attempt to weaken President Kiir and the country.
The rebels had objections too, but the fact they signed earlier suggests these were less serious.
South Sudanese civil society groups have also criticised the agreement for putting too much emphasis on power-sharing among the elite, rather than insisting on accountability and justice, or resolving the underlying issues that caused the conflict.
The government and the rebels have signed a power-sharing agreement, essentially fine-tuning a return to the status quo ante.
But if the root causes of the conflict aren't resolved, it is difficult to see it bringing lasting peace.
Over the past 18 months, South Sudan's neighbours have taken a leading role in mediating between the warring parties.
Yet this has been compromised by their own involvement in the conflict.
Uganda intervened militarily in support of President Kiir, to the frustration of the rebels. Sudan is allegedly providing logistics, weapons and bases to Mr Machar's army.
Other countries are not implicated militarily in South Sudan, but have important economic interests there (Kenya) or wish to drive the mediation process (Ethiopia).
This peace deal will only last if all of South Sudan's divided neighbours value keeping the peace as much as the South Sudanese citizens do.
Mr Machar's rebel group was always an uneasy coalition of civilian militias and military units that defected from the national army, the SPLA.
The recent split announced by well-known generals including Peter Gadet and Gathoth Gatkuoth was no surprise: The men had been sidelined, in part because of their opposition to Mr Machar's apparent willingness to consider a power-sharing deal.
There had always been concern about whether Mr Machar could bring all his movement with him. Now we are about to find out.
Two key questions here: do the generals have enough support on the ground to constitute a powerful military force of their own?
And will they receive the external military support they will need to flourish?
This would be most likely to come from Sudan, as Gen Gadet has fought for Khartoum several times in the past.
Equally relevant here: Will all the hardliners in Mr Kiir's camp respect the agreement he has just signed?
His critics often accuse the army chief of staff, Paul Malong Awan, of wanting to scupper the peace process - but he is not the only potentially frustrated figure.
Many officials, in particular in Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei states, stand to lose their jobs to rebels. How will they react?
Millions of South Sudanese have known hardly anything but war.
At the time of the united Sudan, the first north-south civil war lasted from 1955-1971, and the second was even longer (1983-2005).
After South Sudan's independence in 2011, it wasn't long before this new civil conflict erupted - in December 2013.
Tragically, war is part of life for many. South Sudan is a militarised society, where the military men run politics.
Those in command often have ethnic power bases, bringing an ethnic dimension to most conflicts.
The current war has deepened animosity between the Nuer and the Dinka, the country's two biggest ethnic groups.
The picture is even more complicated than this: for example, many Bul Nuer (a Nuer sub-group) have fought for the government against the largely Nuer rebels, creating tensions within the Nuer.
In South Sudanese society, the culture of revenge is also prominent - a worrying ingredient in a conflict in which tens of thousands have been killed.
All these factors will be difficult to resolve, even though a peace deal has been signed.
Nevertheless, the country has strong traditions of peace-making and reconciliation, often through the chiefs or the church.
Their best efforts will be needed if a lasting peace is to be achieved. | This was a peace deal signed under duress - as President Salva Kiir made very clear in his speech. | 33912156 |
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said aircraft taking off from Gatwick would be more concentrated following advances in aviation navigation.
It said the aim was to reduce the environmental impact of flights, with fewer people affected by the noise.
Sally Pavey, of the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign, said it would be like having "a superhighway of planes".
There are an average of 350 daily flights from Gatwick's single runway.
The CAA's approval follows its review of the impact of a 2013 airspace change for departures.
Advanced satellite navigation technology means aircraft no longer have to fly over ground-based beacons, allowing planes to fly closer together and use less airspace.
New European legislation requires the UK to maximise this technology and the concentrated flight paths are Gatwick's response to this.
Phil Roberts, the CAA's head of airspace, air traffic management and aerodromes, said: "We absolutely understand that aircraft noise disturbs many people and we have taken the required amount of time to fully assess the considerable amount of feedback we have received from across the local communities.
"As we have done throughout this review, we will continue to consider the environmental impact of all our airspace decisions."
Opponents have claimed Gatwick is blighting some parts of the south east.
Tonbridge and Malling Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat said he would have to look into the changes in more detail but urged Gatwick to "become a better neighbour".
"There are communities as far over as Hildenborough and Tonbridge, running through Leigh and Penshurst, Chiddingstone, Edenbridge and even over my own home, just south of Edenbridge, who are very badly affected by the noise and it is absolutely unbearable."
Gatwick Airport said in time the narrowing of the flight paths would allow it to switch some of them on and off, providing some respite for people facing a "concentrated over-flight". | Gatwick Airport has been given approval to run six narrower flight paths to allow planes to fly in less airspace. | 34805324 |
Paul Wilson, 38, died after ordering a chicken tikka masala from the Indian Garden restaurant, in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, on 30 January 2014.
The father-of-one suffered a severe anaphylactic shock after eating a small amount of curry despite his order clearly stating "no nuts".
The next day a trading standards investigator went to the premises and asked for a nut free meal.
Tests revealed that meal contained a "sizeable amount" of ground peanuts comparable to the levels found in Mr Wilson's lethal curry.
Police said this was one of a string of examples of Zaman's "blatant disregard for public safety" and his interest in putting profit before customers.
Teesside Crown Court heard the 52-year-old, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, was almost £300,000 in debt and employed illegal workers in his takeaway. He had been substituting the thickening agent almond powder with ground nut mix, which contained peanuts, as a way of cutting costs.
Despite warnings from his supplier of the risk to allergic customers, Zaman, who owns six restaurants, continued to flout advice and use the less costly ingredient without warning people.
Less than a month before Mr Wilson's death, student Ruby Scott suffered a similar allergic reaction after eating what was supposed to be a nut free chicken korma from another of Zaman's restaurants in the town.
After eating a spoonful of the meal, the 17-year-old's face and throat became swollen and she was covered in hives. She was saved after being taken to hospital and treated with steroids.
Her mother said when she challenged restaurant staff at the Jaipur Spice restaurant, they denied using peanuts and said their curries only contained almonds.
An investigation was started by trading standards and - one week before Mr Wilson died - an officer found potentially deadly amounts of peanuts in a supposedly peanut free meal at the restaurant. Officers then warned Zaman about the dangers.
Trading standards officer Rob Blacklock said: "They were just totally slack about what they were doing in the business because I guess they thought nothing like that would ever happen.
"If you go to a restaurant, you don't expect to die from eating a meal. It's important owners have the right procedures, buy the right ingredients and employ the right staff to make up the meals."
Police said that Zaman's actions of "cutting corners" meant that Mr Wilson, a pub manager and chef, died despite being meticulous in protecting himself from his nut allergy.
He was diagnosed with the condition aged seven, having had a severe reaction after eating a chocolate bar containing nuts. Throughout his life he had avoided all nuts as a matter of course.
His father Keith Wilson said: "He would not have peanuts anywhere near him. If he went out for a drink and there were peanuts on the bar he'd ask them to be moved or he'd move away because his lips would start swelling."
The family recalled the last conversation with their son, just hours before he was found dead in the bathroom of his home in Helperby, North Yorkshire.
Mrs Wilson said: "His last words were I love you both and I'll talk tomorrow."
Det Insp Shaun Page, from North Yorkshire Police, said Zaman's lack of remorse throughout the case had been striking.
"He had no regard for customer safety. What came first was his back pocket and profit. He did everything he could to save money and Paul paid the ultimate price for that." | Indian takeaway owner Mohammed Zaman, who has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a customer with a nut allergy, was still selling "nut-free" curries containing peanuts on the day after the tragedy, trading standards officers have said. | 36321886 |
It follows a referendum in 2014 in which voters narrowly backed introducing quotas on workers from EU countries.
The measure makes no mention of quotas but sets out guidelines for employers.
The new law was a compromise which sought not to antagonise the EU, says the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.
Although Switzerland is not a member of the EU, it enjoys access to the free trade area.
Brussels had said the imposition of quotas would violate the bilateral agreements over free movement of people which are a condition of access to the single market.
But it offered a cautious welcome to the bill on Friday, with European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas telling reporters: "At first glance, the law really seems to go in the right direction."
Brexit fuels Swiss anxiety over new deal with EU
The compromise bill angered the conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP), which wants specific caps on immigration. Its deputies held up posters with slogans complaining that "mass immigration continues!" following the vote.
Not necessarily, writes Imogen Foulkes. The referendum in 2014 called for quotas. This bill is a very long way from that - all it does is ask employers to consider jobseekers already in Switzerland, and even then only if unemployment in certain sectors or regions is much higher than the national average.
The SVP argues this is a betrayal of voters' wishes, but at the same time the party is not threatening a referendum to block the new law. That's because the original majority in favour of quotas was tiny, and in the years since it took place immigration to Switzerland has stabilised, even fallen somewhat.
What's more the Swiss are determined not to lose access to the single market, and Brussels has made it clear that imposing quotas could cause that. Even the suggestion of quotas had consequences - Switzerland was thrown out of various Europe wide research and exchange programmes as soon as the 2014 vote result came in.
So a new referendum starting the whole worrying debate all over again is unlikely to find favour.
BUT, if Switzerland's booming economy falters, if unemployment and immigration rise, it is likely the Swiss People's Party will seize the opportunity, and go back to the voters again, this time with a demand not for quotas, but to get out of free movement of people altogether.
Right across Europe the issue of free movement of people is under scrutiny, our correspondent says.
Immigration was a key factor in Britain's vote to leave the EU. Everyone wants to know just how much wiggle room there is in Brussels' oft-repeated dictum that free trade and free movement go together, and that countries (EU member or not) cannot have one without the other.
The Swiss proposal is very modest and would be unlikely to satisfy those voters in the UK who want complete control of the borders. On the other hand millions of EU and Swiss citizens now live and work outside their own home countries. Hundreds of thousands of Germans, French, Swiss, Austrians and Italians commute daily across borders to go to work.
They are used to the freedom to look for jobs across the continent, and any move that might curtail that freedom, even the Swiss compromise, may meet opposition. | Swiss MPs have backed a bill giving jobseekers already in the country priority over applicants from EU member states in times of high unemployment. | 38340407 |
And speed is not quite how many would describe the six weeks it takes to conduct a general election campaign.
But however we describe it, we are really talking about elections that are called unexpectedly.
Every other election in Wales is fixed-term; whether you are a councillor, MEP, police commissioner or assembly member, you know the date and year when you next face election.
Before the 2011 Fixed-term Parliaments Act (and hasn't that worked well) there was no fixed future date for a general election.
The law simply stated that no parliament could last longer than five years, the choice of the precise election date was in the hands of the prime minister.
In recent decades, a pattern emerged of about four-year terms in Westminster, with governments trying to massage the economy so that the election coincided with a "feel-good" factor that enhanced their prospects of re-election.
Governments that went the full five year term were almost always in trouble and hanging on in the hope that something would change the political weather in their favour.
An election might also be called if the government had so small a majority that they were unable to guarantee the passage of their legislation through parliament.
In 1964, Labour won the election with a majority of four seats.
In January 1966, a good by-election result in Hull encouraged them to call a general election for 31 March, at which they increased their majority to 98 seats.
In late 1973, the impact of the miners' strike and associated industrial unrest provoked Conservative prime minister, Edward Heath, to call an election to resolve the question "who governs Britain?" in February 1974.
The Conservatives won more votes but fewer seats than Labour and the latter formed a minority government.
Labour called a second election that year, in October, in order to seek a clear majority of their own.
In the event, they emerged with a majority of just three seats that was whittled away until Jim Callaghan, the Labour PM and a Cardiff MP, concluded the Lib-Lab Pact in order to guarantee the passage of their legislation through the Commons.
Finally, we come to the general election that the law said should be held in 2020 but is being held in 2017.
It is certainly a snap election in the sense that it caught everyone by surprise.
It was called at a time when the government party was 20% ahead in the opinion polls, which is a bit of a clue as to why it is happening.
The era of "snap" elections was supposed to be over, however, if the Conservatives win on 8 June they are pledged to abolish the Fixed Term Parliament Act.
If so, we return to political choice rather than legal certainty when it comes to the timing of future general elections.
The future for snap elections looks rosy. | The term "snap election" is a bit misleading, writes former editor of BBC political research David Cowling. | 40031851 |
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This is Nordic walking. By using poles, participants benefit from an arm and upper back work-out as well as involving their lower body muscles.
The technique is said to be similar to the upper body action of classic cross country skiing, or using a cross-trainer.
Philippa Porritt, of Nordic Walking UK, says participants burn 20-40% more calories than normal walking.
"It's just an enhancement of walking," she says. "You work more muscles, you get fitter and you can power up hills without even thinking about it."
For information on how to get involved, visit our Walking page. | At first sight it may seem an odd scene - a group of people walking with ski poles through a snow-free Glasgow park. | 35651818 |
South Korean news agency Yonhap has quoted experts as saying that Yo-jong may take up a minister-level post within the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
The move will likely be seen as part of a larger plan by Kim Jong-un to cement power within his party and over the country.
Kim Yo-jong is the youngest daughter of late leader Kim Jong-il, and shares the same mother as Jong-un and brother Jong-chol, according to North Korea Leadership Watch, a website run by scholar Michael Madden.
Born in 1987, she is said to be very close to Jong-un, who is four years older than her. The two of them lived and studied in Berne, Switzerland at the same time.
She is reportedly married to the son of Choe Ryong-hae, the powerful party secretary.
Yo-jong's main job has been to protect her brother's image, taking up a key role in the party's propaganda department in 2014.
She is said to manage all his public appearances, including his itineraries and logistics, as well as act as a political adviser.
She has sporadically been in the spotlight in recent years, appearing at the state funeral of her father in 2011 and the election of her brother in 2014, and occasionally seen trailing her brother in state media pictures.
In October last year she was rumoured to have been sacked from the propaganda department by Jong-un for doing a poor job.
But observers believe that she is still destined for a top job in the leadership, with a place said to be carved out for her as early as 2008, when major succession planning was conducted following Kim Jong-il's deterioration in health.
She was even speculated to be a possible, though unlikely, candidate to take over from her brother when Jong-un disappeared from public view for a prolonged period in 2014.
Yo-jong has been described as having a sweet, good-natured disposition, with a bit of a tomboy streak in her, Mr Madden told the BBC.
But reports say she also has had a sheltered upbringing, and other members of the Kim family have not interacted with her much.
School officials in Switzerland have said she was over-protected by the coterie of guards and caretakers - she once reportedly had a mild cold and was immediately pulled from school and taken to the hospital.
That upbringing will be tested as she now gears up for a bigger role in the running of the country. | As North Korea gears up for a rare party congress this weekend, observers say that leader Kim Jong-un's sister, Yo-jong, is expected to take up an important role in the country's core leadership. | 36210695 |
Supporters Gabe Turner, Ben Turner and Leo Pearlman from Fulwell 73 had shown an interest in buying the club from American Ellis Short.
However, in a statement to Sunderland fanzine ALS they said they have now decided against the move.
"Due to our other TV and film commitments, now isn't the right time for us to get involved," they wrote.
"It's where our hearts are and would demand a huge personal commitment, and we wouldn't want to give anything less than our all to the club."
Another takeover bid, from a German consortium, is still in the running, with Sunderland stating on Friday that they are keen to finalise a sale of the club quickly, with finding a new manager also a priority.
The Black Cats, who face a first season in the Championship since 2007, are without a manager following David Moyes' departure in May. | A television production company fronted by Sunderland fans has withdrawn its bid to take over the Championship club. | 40358358 |
18 March 2015 Last updated at 16:54 GMT
In 1965 there was a race to carry out the first space walk, between the United States and what was then the Soviet Union.
Nobody knew how the human body would react to being in space, and the equipment was nothing like the high-tech gear worn now.
In the end, the Soviet Union won the race.
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history when he floated outside his spacecraft for 12 minutes.
But he nearly didn't make it back.
Watch Jenny's report for the full story of what happened.
Picture from Science Photo Library. | Fifty years ago the very first person to walk in space was floating around, more than 300 miles above the Earth. | 31951984 |
The York Central scheme would include 120,000 sq m of new office space and 2,500 homes - with a development value of £623m, the city council said.
The site includes the teardrop site at the rear of the station which has been granted enterprise zone status.
The council has earmarked £10m towards the costs of delivering what it called the "King's Cross of the north".
Chris Steward, the council's conservative leader, said the development plan represented a "once in a lifetime opportunity" to attract new jobs and homes.
The council is working with a number of partners to develop the site, including fellow landowners Network Rail and the National Railway Museum (NRM).
The Homes and Communities Agency has also committed £9.45m towards the scheme.
Enterprise Zone status, granted in November, enables the council to retain additional business rates from any development - which means it could borrow against future income to fund site infrastructure.
The site is made up of about 72 hectares of land next to the station, but it is largely land-locked which makes vehicle access difficult and has hindered previous attempts to market the site.
Additional sections of land, required to complete the project, would need compulsory purchase orders.
The plans include closing or diverting Leeman Road near the NRM, to give it space to expand, a new road bridge built into the site from Holgate Road and a foot and cycle bridge built over the main east coast railway line.
The station would benefit from improved access and a possible new entrance facing the NRM.
In a statement the City of York Council said: "The estimated infrastructure cost of £78 million - which could be funded as a result of Enterprise Zone status - will unlock the office and homes scheme with a net development value of around £623m".
It is expected the scheme would take 15 to 20 years to complete and a development draft will give residents and businesses the chance to comment in early 2016. | York Station and the National Railway Museum could be transformed as part of a multi-million pound development plan. | 35036909 |
Three other Afghans are still being sought, two of whom may have gone back to Afghanistan, Italian media report.
Video clips and photos on the two detainees' mobile phones suggest that they were targeting landmarks in Bari, Rome, Paris and London for attacks.
They included hotels in London's West India Quay and Royal Victoria Dock.
The detained suspects were named as Hakim Nasiri, 23, and Gulistan Ahmadzai, 29.
Several photos released by police show Mr Nasiri posing with a rifle in a shop or warehouse.
The apparent targets they picked in Rome were the Circus Maximus and Colosseum. Police believe the Afghans had formed a jihadist cell linked to so-called Islamic State (IS).
The Bari investigators said one of the suspicious images showed a famous mosque in Mecca tinted blue - a colour associated with Islamic paradise and devotion - and the Eiffel Tower tinted violet - a colour associated with death and struggle.
Another photo showed Hakim Nasiri next to the Mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, during a march organised on 10 September 2015 in solidarity with immigrants.
Both suspects held by police have been living in Italy with humanitarian protection status. Mr Nasiri is accused of international terrorism and Mr Ahmadzai of assisting illegal immigration.
In Bari they had filmed the Ipercoop shopping mall, the inside of Bari Palese airport and the port area.
The police swooped after one of them was spotted using his smartphone to photograph the Ipercoop mall.
Police say the suspects' recordings included video tributes to friends and relatives of suspected Islamists held by the US authorities in Guantanamo, Cuba. | Police in the port city of Bari in southern Italy have arrested two Afghan men suspected of plotting jihadist attacks in Italy, France and the UK. | 36256675 |
Avis features a guide on its website for driving around "virtually untouched" Sark, where cars are banned.
The company has since apologised for its "inadvertent gaffe" and made a £500 donation to a local Christian charity.
Sark Tourism said any publicity was gratefully received but visitors should leave their cars off the island.
The donation was made to the recently opened community centre, the Sark Sanctuary Centre.
The Reverend Karen Le Mouton from the centre said the money was gratefully received.
More on the car-free island advert blunder, and other stories
She said not having cars in Sark was a good thing because it encouraged people to "stop and talk" to each other when they were out and that contributed to a strong sense of a "community welcome."
Sark has about 600 inhabitants and measures about 2.1 sq miles (5.44 sq km).
It is one of the few remaining places in the world where cars are banned.
A spokeswoman for Sark Tourism said visitors were welcome to board a ferry from Guernsey or Jersey provided they leave their cars behind.
The car hire firm said: "We hope we haven't disappointed too many of our customers with the fact that the island's spectacular roads are indeed off-limits to cars." | An international car hire firm has apologised for its online advert recommending a car-free Channel Island as a good place for a leisurely drive. | 39732686 |
There was only one show in town, sorry, in the nation on Saturday night.
Canada's national broadcaster CBC broke from Rio to air the whole of The Tragically Hip's final gig live. They advertised it as "A National Celebration", and they weren't wrong.
Only about 7,000 fans had actually managed to cram into the K-Rock Centre in Kingston, Ontario.
Kingston - the home town of Gordon Edgar "Gord" Downie, whose announcement in May that he had terminal brain cancer had caused shock across the nation.
It's perhaps hard for those outside Canada to understand just how big the band are there. They are known as the most Canadian band in the world. They are simply a part of the national identity.
Look at the picture of Kingston's Springer Market square on Saturday night and it starts to make sense.
Nine number one albums in Canada, 14 Juno awards (Canada's tribute to its musicians) and this final 15-concert Man Machine Poem tour to say farewell.
Kingston had declared Saturday The Tragically Hip Day.
#Canadaisclosed was the mantra, as was "Hip Night in Canada" and, of course, #InGordWeTrust.
At how many concerts will the audience rise from their seats to sing a spontaneous version of the national anthem before the band start?
And the concert itself? A three-hour set spanning some three decades of music-making and cramming in crowd favourites such as Nautical Disaster, New Orleans is Sinking, Bobcaygeon and the final hurrah of Ahead by a Century.
A denim jacket-clad Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was there. Gord was not about to miss the opportunity to get his message across, urging the PM to address the historical mistreatment of indigenous people.
But he also said Mr Trudeau was "going to take us where we need to go".
The fans also hung on every word of Gord, who provided his traditional cultural and social commentary.
In the end he kept it simple. After an "unchartered" third encore, it was an emotional and brief "thank you for that".
Arm in arm, Downie, Rob Baker, Paul Langlois, Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay walked off for the last time.
One concert-goer, probably speaking for many, said the band had provided a "soundtrack of our lives".
And CBC eventually went back to the Olympics... but even then it managed to post a montage video of athletes battling away to the sound of The Hip's track Three Pistols. | The Olympics really were no match. | 37148999 |
The Universities' Police Science Institute (Upsi) in Cardiff ran a trial in London to warn about thieves on bikes stealing mobile phones.
The #Copcat trial with Metropolitan Police took place in two areas.
Prof Martin Innes from Upsi said early results show the trial was successful and other forces are interested.
"Most crime prevention messages are designed to frighten people into changing their behaviour," said Prof Innes.
"We designed an experiment where we ran two campaigns - a very traditional campaign designed to change people's crime prevention behaviour versus our more experimental campaign and saw what results were and how they were different.
"We tried to use humour and cartoons to change how memorable the messages were for members of the public.
"The campaign was about mobile phone thefts by people on mopeds and bicycles which has become quite a problem at the current time.
"When we were looking at it, it was just an emerging problem that was starting to come through, so we thought this was a good thing to test this campaign on."
Both the traditional and cartoon campaigns were on display in underground stations around Camden and Islington boroughs in 2016.
Prof Innes said people were exposed to them when they stepped on and off the trains, and officers handed out leaflets at stations while there was also a social media campaign.
He added: "What we saw was people were far more likely to remember the cartoon cat - who we called Copcat - and the advice he gave than they were for a far more traditional police campaign.
The "complicated" findings of the campaign are being written up and a way forward is being explored.
"If we can get a campaign that's just as effective in getting people to change their crime prevention behaviours, that doesn't make people afraid, that to us is a good result," Prof Innes said.
"The work was done in conjunction with the College of Policing so once we've understood the nuances in our data and our findings, we're hoping that this has got the potential to roll out and go nationwide.
"There's certainly a lot of early interest in it. We've already entered into conversations with some forces about it.
"I would hope over the next six months we'd be in a position to see these sort of techniques and approaches roll out." | Cartoon cats have been used to make police warning messages more memorable and less about trying to scare people into changing their behaviour. | 40654129 |
Liberty Global, which also has a 10% stake in UK TV company ITV, has not formally announced its offer and has until 19 November to decide if it will.
The deal would allow Liberty Global to expand its reach in the Caribbean where it lacks a mobile phone presence.
Cable & Wireless said the deal could be a combination of cash and shares.
Liberty Global, which is owned by billionaire John Malone, has a strong foothold in Latin America and growing presence in the Caribbean.
Last month Liberty abandoned talks with Vodafone about a swap of business assets in Europe's mobile phone, broadband and TV markets.
In November 2014, Cable & Wireless paid $1.85bn (£1.2bn) for Columbus International, a fibre-based telecommunications firm that Mr Malone owned a stake in.
The deal gave the Liberty Global owner a 13% voting stake in Cable & Wireless.
Liberty Global operates in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2013 it bought Virgin Media expanding its presence in the UK. | Cable & Wireless Communication shares soared 21% after it confirmed it was in takeover talks with Virgin Media owner Liberty Global. | 34611352 |
Dr Rebecca Rumbul from the Wales Governance Centre thinks the party could win a seat as some are won by a form of proportional representation.
But she does not believe it will gain any MPs in Wales at next year's general election because of the "first past the post" system.
She spoke after UKIP won a by-election to see its first MP elected in England.
Thursday's victory for Nigel Farage's party led Prime Minister David Cameron to say the general election would be "the most important in a generation".
Meanwhile, Labour leader Ed Miliband said his party needed to "reach out" to disaffected voters.
A recent BBC Wales poll suggests support for UKIP ahead of the general election has doubled from 7% to 14%.
UKIP has already said it plans to open an office in the south Wales valleys.
UKIP Welsh MEP Nathan Gill predicts the party's current momentum can carry them to victory in at least one Welsh seat next May.
But Dr Rumbul told BBC Radio Wales it was more likely the party would be successful in the assembly elections in 2016.
She said people tend to vote differently in the different types of elections with UKIP performing strongly in the European elections in May in comparison to the general election in 2010.
"Because of the way the general election system works - the first past the post system - I do think it's unlikely that UKIP will get an MP from Wales," she said.
"However, our system in the Welsh assembly is much different and under that system it's actually quite likely that we may see some UKIP AMs returned in 2016."
The Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University examines issues affecting Wales covering law, politics and government. | UKIP could have its first AM when the Welsh assembly elections are held in 2016, an academic has said. | 29582324 |
Defending champions Manchester City will travel to Swansea, with beaten finalists Liverpool heading to Derby.
Premier League winners Leicester City host Chelsea, while Southampton welcome Crystal Palace and Hull City visit Stoke in the all-Premier League ties.
Round three ties are due to be played the week commencing 19 September 2016.
Draw in full:
Nottingham Forest v Arsenal
Leeds United v Blackburn Rovers
QPR v Sunderland
West Ham v Accrington Stanley
Southampton v Crystal Palace
Swansea City v Manchester City
Fulham v Bristol City
Bournemouth v Preston North End
Tottenham v Gillingham
Everton v Norwich City
Derby County v Liverpool
Northampton v Manchester United
Brighton v Reading
Newcastle United v Wolves
Stoke City v Hull City
Leicester City v Chelsea | League One Northampton Town will host Manchester United in the EFL Cup third round, while League Two Accrington Stanley will visit West Ham. | 37178378 |
Mr Adams, who joined the company from Singapore-based Tiger Airways in 2013, said that for personal reasons it was the right time to go.
He will remain in the post until April. Loganair has started the process of finding his successor.
Chairman David Harrison said: "Stewart has been an extremely hardworking chief executive and he has provided strong leadership."
The Scottish airline flies under Flybe livery and operates 31 routes across the Highlands and Islands as well as other parts of the UK. | Loganair's chief executive Stewart Adams is stepping down. | 35360732 |
HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) said there was "widespread confusion" about separation of men, women and juveniles.
HMIP said pregnant women had to sit on hard benches for several hours in some courts, meanwhile disability and faith provision was also criticised.
Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick said "much can be done" in the short term to improve the situation.
The HMIP study covered four crown courts and 12 magistrates' courts in Cleveland, Durham and Northumbria.
The report came in a new round of inspections of court custody operations, which are contracted out.
HMIP said some detainees were not always kept "appropriately separate".
Court managers were "insufficiently engaged" with custody suites but there were good working relationships between court staff and the contractor, HMIP added.
The report found staff were generally not clear about when to close the partition in custody transfer vehicles, designed to separate men and women or adults and children.
Staff had tried to provide reading materials by bringing in newspapers, and all courts had sandwiches and microwave meals available.
However, at North Tyneside court some of the meals were out of date.
Most courts did not have enough extra clothing or blankets during cold weather, the report found.
Cell conditions were "deplorable" at Newcastle magistrates' court, and "poor" at Newton Aycliffe, Teesside magistrates', Newcastle crown court and Sunderland.
But HMIP found there was little use of force and mental health services were good.
Mr Hardwick said: "Improvements to buildings will require capital spends, but there is much that can be done to improve matters in the short term, especially if court managers focus on the custody suites as an integral part of their role in running the courts." | Women and children awaiting trial are being kept too close to men in court custody suites, a watchdog has found. | 20942007 |
On 8 January 2009, the editor of the Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was assassinated by a group of masked men on motorbikes. The case sent shockwaves around the world, highlighting the dismal state of press freedom in the country. The murder has never been solved.
The investigative, anti-establishment newspaper had riled the authorities and continued to do so after his death. But in July the near-bankrupt Leader was bought by a well-connected businessman.
In September the then-editor, Frederica Jansz, said he had sacked her for not toeing his political line. She then fled abroad citing fresh death threats.
Under a new editor the paper has issued retractions of past articles and has lost some of its most outspoken columnists. So, has the Sunday Leader lost its edge?
Today, as since its founding in 1994 by the man always known simply as Lasantha, the Leader offices sit in the same somewhat bleak suburban location, adjoining an industrial area.
You cannot miss the building, a large cream edifice with bright pink and blue stripes. Inside you realise that this is no ordinary newspaper.
There is a small garlanded picture of Lasantha above the lift and a huge portrait in the office. Framed cuttings are a reminder that the paper has been attacked many times: In November 2007 (with T56 guns, cricket bats and petrol), in 2005 (before the presidential election), in 1995 and 1998 (physical attacks on Lasantha and his home).
In 1998 he was interrogated by CID police and in 2003 and 2006 he received death threats, reportedly from people high in the political hierarchy. No one was brought to justice for any of the assaults.
The paper has just had a "relaunch", which simply means a more sophisticated look, says the new editor, Shakuntala Perera.
"It didn't mean a huge change in policy or editorial stand," she says, fresh from the main weekly meeting.
The new owner, with a 72% stake, is a businessman, Asanga Seneviratne, who is president of the national rugby union and appointed the president's son as captain of the national team. The other share remains in the hands of Lasantha's brother, Lal.
Ms Perera says Mr Seneviratne has no editorial input and the paper has lost none of its radicalism despite the buyout.
"On the judiciary, we've been critical of the government stand," she says, referring to a government campaign to impeach the chief justice.
"On the prisons [the death of 27 prisoners amid a riot last month], no paper has taken the strong stance we took... Any issue affecting the people will get a voice."
Indeed, recent issues have contained some rigorous articles on the jail violence, quoting prisoners' relatives as saying some of the deaths were summary executions; a detailed report on the mood in the northern town of Jaffna, a subject most papers ignore; and investigative articles about official bodies.
Set against these have been apologies for past articles which have raised the suspicions of critics.
Most striking was an apology to Sri Lanka's defence secretary, the president's controversial and powerful brother.
Angered at a phone call from Frederica Jansz in July, when she implied the national airline made a decision as a personal favour to him, he allegedly used obscenities and told her: "People will kill you!"
Last month the paper retracted the article and apologised to Mr Rajapaksa. It also rescinded and apologised for a series of articles from 2006 that linked the governor of the central bank to illegal financial schemes.
There has been a scathing reaction.
Frederica Jansz, in an emailed interview, said the retractions were "shameful" and the editorial team had "prostituted journalistic principle... merely to satisfy political masters" and "grovel".
"The legacy that Lasantha Wickrematunge left has been destroyed - buried forever," she said.
Sonali Samarasinghe, the widow of Lasantha and also now in exile, and the author of the pieces on the bank governor, said she stood by the articles which were backed by facts.
The retractions gave "little cause for optimism" and would "raise questions about the independence of the new editorial team", she said. In the past, she said, the paper thrived on getting into deep water and did not fear legal action.
In response, the new editor said the apology to Mr Rajapaksa was not decided on under her auspices, while declining to comment on the other retraction.
The Leader's associate editor, Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema, who has been at the paper for 15 years, said there had been problems with the tone of some of the journalism.
"There were a lot of personal feelings getting in the way of the writing after Lasantha died... Things had slipped," she says.
"Lasantha would always tell us: Always have your facts right and keep your personal emotions away from what you write. This was not being fully followed."
There is, nonetheless, unhappiness among some of the newspaper's radical columnists.
One, Tisaranee Gunasekara, regularly accuses the country's rulers of nepotism and megalomania. Last month she abruptly quit the paper after her column was clumsily edited with each reference to the Rajapaksas excised.
She told the BBC it was "not sensible to expect that I will be allowed to say nasty things about our royal family... in the new Leader".
"I also regret it. I feel bad," said Ms Perera bluntly on this episode, saying she was under time pressure when editing and this would not happen again. She wants Ms Gunasekara to return and insists that the column did not spook her.
Yet recent remarks by the new owner, Asanga Seneviratne, in the magazine "Echelon" suggest the Leader may find it difficult to continue targeting the higher authorities so fiercely.
"To me, the president is our president, and whether you like it or not, he gave our country back to us," Mr Seneviratne said. "Whatever anyone says, I will respect him for the rest of my life because of that."
He denied asking Frederica Jansz to leave but admitted taking an exception to a caption she wrote and saying he was having difficulty trusting her actions and that therefore "I have to see what is going in the paper".
Assessing the new order, it is impossible to avoid economics. The Sunday Leader had been doing badly and the government had pressurised advertisers to withdraw from it.
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa recently won a case against it and has two more pending. Fifteen lawsuits against the paper remain. So what future for the Sunday Leader?
"It's not just any other paper, it's really something people believe in and that needs to carry on," says Shakuntala Perera.
Mrs Samarasinghe, however, believes the new management team will chart a new course.
She says she and her husband saw it as their duty to "speak truth to power in Sri Lanka's largely self-censored media environment". Will the paper continue to do this? The jury is still out.
Meanwhile, no progress has been made in bringing Lasantha Wickrematunge's killers to justice.
One man held for the killing, an impoverished Tamil motor mechanic, died mysteriously in prison 14 months ago. His family called him an innocent man who would not even kill an ant. | Almost four years after its editor was killed in mysterious circumstances, there are fears that Sri Lanka's most outspokenly anti-government newspaper is losing its critical edge. | 20676344 |
In a report, NHS England warns that by 2020-21 the gap between the budget and rising costs could reach £30bn.
The organisation's chief executive, Sir David Nicholson, said services needed to be concentrated in fewer hospitals.
Otherwise he said pressures could lead to another tragedy on the scale of the failings at Stafford Hospital.
Sir David told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We need to make sure that the way in which services are organised is in the best way for patients."
He said concentrating specialist services was key - citing stroke services in London where 31 hospitals used to provide stroke care, with the city having some of the worst outcomes for patients. Services are now concentrated in eight hospitals - and outcomes are some of the best in Europe.
Sir David also said preventative care and improved services for people in the community were crucial - and said there needed to be a drive to make the NHS more efficient and productive.
He said it was "really very urgent" that decisions were made.
And Sir David said trying to maintain services in the same number of hospitals could lead to staffing numbers being cut on every ward.
"That is completely unacceptable to us in the NHS.
"It's a really stark choice for us, do we go for service change, change in the way we deliver services to patients or do we sleepwalk into a position where we reduce the quality for patients."
He warned that: "If we don't tackle these issues now and over the next couple of years - the future for many of our organisations is facing those very dangers that Mid Staffordshire faced during the years it was involved in this terrible tragedy."
NHS England plans to publish a document giving some indication of the scale of reform needed by the end of the year.
It expects most of the new local Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) to come forward with more detailed plans for meeting the financial challenge early in 2014.
The warning of a further £30bn gap between NHS funding and likely costs and demands comes on top of an estimated £20bn the health service is being asked to find by 2014/15.
Hospital changes have been very controversial in communities across England.
In Stafford, despite the criticisms of the local hospital in the public inquiry, tens of thousands of people took to the streets to object to plans to downgrade some services.
The controversial plans for services in the town have been drawn up rapidly after the involvement of a special administrator appointed by the healthcare regulator Monitor. A final decision about the proposals is expected within weeks.
But the call for a more honest debate about how savings should be made within the health service was welcomed by medical organisations.
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges said it agreed that changing where and how services are delivered was better than other less palatable options.
"Doctors would certainly agree that it is unacceptable that the only solution to the financial pressures is to reduce care to patients or charge for services," a spokesman said.
Prof Chris Ham, chief executive of the Kings Fund think tank said the need for fundamental change was pressing, following the disruption of the recent reorganisation of the NHS in England.
"The government's recent NHS reforms failed to address these challenges.
"This time politicians and policymakers must deliver. This means having the courage to transform services, rather than making further bureaucratic and structural changes."
The very public call by NHS England for backing to make changes which will lead to some hospitals losing services or units will increase the pressure for all political parties to define their future positions on health service funding.
Before the 2010 election, all the main parties agreed with the call from Sir David for £20bn worth of savings in the NHS in England by 2014/15.
Now NHS England is pressing for them to acknowledge the funding gap after the next election may only be bridged with difficult and controversial change.
Economist Anita Charlesworth, from healthcare policy research group the Nuffield Trust, said hospitals did need to improve efficiency, but that merging two hospitals was not the answer.
Instead, she said, seeking ways to prevent people from reaching a crisis point where they needed a hospital in the first place could be one solution, as well as improving community healthcare.
Christina McAnea, from the Unison union, said there needed to be a debate about the future of the NHS.
She added: "With funding flat lining and the demand for £20bn in so-called efficiency savings, is it any wonder that the there is potentially a funding gap?
"Realistic levels of funding and a more integrated approach between health and social care is the way forward."
Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: "We have been saying for a long time now that the government needs radically to recast the way it funds the NHS because general practice, the cornerstone of the health service, is at breaking point." | The NHS in England needs to take urgent decisions about reorganising hospital and GP care to avoid a growing funding gap, according to its leaders. | 23258962 |
Welsh laverbread and Carmarthen Ham are among the foods which could receive special designation under European law.
The UK government wants to increase the number of protected British foods from 63 to 200.
Wales' deputy minister for farming and food, Rebecca Evans, said the Welsh government is "proactively supporting" Welsh producers to achieve the status.
They will become part of the EU scheme, which already includes Welsh beef and lamb, Parma ham and champagne.
Chris Rees said his family have handed down the "secret recipe" for Carmarthen Ham for five generations.
He joked that "when the Romans conquered most of Wales, they settled in Carmarthen, pinched our recipe and took it back to Italy where they called it Parma ham".
He first submitted an application for protected status about five years ago.
"If it comes our way we are going to be very proud and it will be great for a small town like ours," he added.
Ashley Jones, manager of Selwyn's Penclawdd Seafoods in Llanmorlais, Swansea, believes protected status for Welsh laverbread "will put Wales on the map".
"I think it's great we can protect the way laverbread has been traditionally cooked and processed in this area," he said.
"It's great for Wales and for the people, who I guess would put it in their top 10 of favourite Welsh things."
Welsh laverbread
Carmarthen Ham
Traditional Welsh Caerphilly cheese
Traditional reared pedigree Welsh Pork
Conwy Mussels
West Wales coracle caught salmon
West Wales coracle caught sewin
Welsh cider
Welsh perry | Nine Welsh products could be awarded protected food status under new government plans. | 33691215 |
Driven by a mantra of "one more year", it never occurred to founders Tom Rack, Ali Williams, Dave Id, Peter Gregory and Richie Turner that they could keep their company going for much longer.
Initially fuelled by the political climate of Thatcher's Britain, NoFit State Circus has now grown into one of the UK's longest-running contemporary circuses, celebrating its 30th birthday on 1 January.
"Everything escalated - it got a little bit out of control," said Tom Rack, now a creative director for the company.
Many of those early days were "so much of a haze," he said, so to help preserve those early memories, NoFit State has launched a new archive detailing their history.
The friends first began juggling together at university, in a juggling club run by film puppeteer Toby Philpott, famous for his work in films such as Return of the Jedi and The Dark Crystal.
"To have an official juggling club was a great excuse to get minibuses from the university so we could go to festivals, so we did a lot of that," said Mr Rack.
"We started street performing and doing little shows, so we might even get paid a little bit."
The group taught themselves other skills including using unicycles, stilts and tumbling, making the most of skill-sharing opportunities at circus festivals where they met like-minded people from across the UK.
When university finished, instead of going their separate ways, the five friends decided "let's do this for a year, let's just have a go".
"As young people in the 1980s, we were coming out of university with no jobs in Thatcher's Britain, with terribly high unemployment," said creative director Ali Williams.
"We were going out on the streets to make a living really, just to top up our giro and earn enough for a few pints in the evenings."
The group signed up to Margaret Thatcher's Enterprise Allowance Scheme, each taking home £40 a week to help fund their circus business, along with help from family and friends.
The friends decided to take their circus act in a relatively new direction, as a "political reaction" said Ms Williams.
"We wanted to do circus without animals, or red-nosed clowns, it was a political statement, so we had to use other things to make it interesting for the audience," she said.
NoFit State decided to mix circus with theatre, creating a new art form based on being "able to put on a great show, wrapped up in a narrative and a theatrical construct", said Mr Rack.
This new style of circus was a global movement known as "nouveau cirque", focusing on human physical skill and narrative, that manifested differently in individual countries.
In the UK, new circus "involved the start of social and community circuses making circus skills available for people to learn, without any formal environment in which to perform", said Prof Ron Beadle, head of the UK & Ireland Circus Research Network.
"Reg Bolton's concept of circus in a suitcase inspired a lot of people, essentially it said that anyone could do circus," he said.
So just how much was the development of this new art form in the UK a reaction to the politics of the time?
"To quite a large extent I think," said Toby Philpott, who has worked with NoFit State since its inception in his juggling club.
"High unemployment encouraged self-employment and creativity, if you were not content to live on the dole.
"There was solidarity in demonstrations, and many people had got tired of confronting the police and being accused of violence, so turning up in clown make-up to juggle at them was intended as a peaceful demo."
Since the early days in the 70s and 80s, new circus has become "established as an art form," said Mr Philpott.
This has changed its nature, with people "doing business plans and applying to the Lottery and the Arts Councils, before doing anything creative.
"In the 80s you just went out and did it. NoFit State had enormous talent and enthusiasm, no-one thought they had to be 'qualified' before they could do anything," he said.
Now, the performers in NoFit State live and work together, travelling in trucks, trailers and caravans across the country and the world.
The last five years have seen the circus's professional productions tour 15 different countries with audiences of more than 250,000 people.
Most recently, their Bianco show has been given a £24,000 grant from the Welsh government, allowing it to travel to New York in 2016.
The circus also hosts a variety of community, training and education projects, running weekly classes with refugees and asylum seekers in Adamsdown, as well as skills workshops with children from the gypsy, Roma and traveller communities in Cardiff.
With the announcement of Ms Williams' departure from the company in its anniversary year, Tom Rack will be the "last man standing" of the five founders.
He hopes the company "can sustain another 30 to 50 years", continuing to tour internationally and work with communities back home, becoming "better, but not necessarily bigger, every year".
"I would never want to be a machine or a production company that just keeps pushing out shows, our shows have a heart and a soul and a spirit," he said.
"I think that's really important, and it comes from the collective, from the people.
"We live together, we work together, we travel together, we make a show together and we take on the world together." | In 1986, five unemployed friends who loved to juggle introduced a new kind of circus to Cardiff. | 35095934 |
The Lothians MSP has previously criticised UK leader Jeremy Corbyn, and has faced criticism from left-wing members of her own party.
She insisted she was leaving the party in a much better state than she had found it.
But she said a new leader was needed with "fresh energy, drive and a new mandate".
Ms Dugdale said she wanted to give her successor the "space and time" to prepare for the next Scottish Parliament election in 2021.
And she strongly denied suggestions that she was leaving now in order to avoid being pushed out by supporters of Mr Corbyn.
In an exclusive interview with BBC Scotland's political editor, Brian Taylor, she said she had taken over the leadership when the party was "on its knees" in Scotland.
Ms Dugdale, who is leaving with immediate effect, said she had devoted "every waking moment of my life" to improving Labour's fortunes in Scotland, with a lot of progress being made and the party now ready for someone else to take it on the next stage of its journey.
She added: "I have thought long and hard about this. I care deeply about the Labour Party - I love it and I have devoted my adult life to serving it in a number of different capacities.
"And I have just come to the conclusion that the best thing for it, the Labour Party, this precious, precious thing that has done so much good in our country, and indeed for me, is to pass that baton on."
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn thanked Ms Dugdale for her work as Scottish Labour leader and "the important role she has played in rebuilding the party in Scotland".
"Kezia became Scottish leader at one of the most difficult times in the history of the Scottish Labour Party, and the party's revival is now fully under way, with six new MPs and many more to come," he said.
"I want to thank Kez for her tireless service to our party and movement."
Former Labour leader Ed Miliband tweeted that Ms Dugdale had given her "heart and soul to leading Scottish Labour".
He added: "Thank You. You deserve to get your life back. Enjoy."
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was among political opponents to pay tribute to Ms Dugdale
She wrote on Twitter: "We may be opponents, but @kezdugdale led her party with guts and determination and I admired her for that.
"I wish her well for the future."
And Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson tweeted: "Leadership can be tough and @kezdugdale deserves the thanks of her party for putting in the hard yards. I wish her well."
Ms Dugdale replaced Jim Murphy as Scottish Labour leader in August 2015, after the party lost all but one of its Westminster seats in Scotland to the SNP.
Under her leadership, Labour finished third behind the SNP and Scottish Conservatives in last year's Scottish Parliament election - but went on to win seven seats in the snap general election in June.
Ms Dugdale backed Owen Smith to replace Mr Corbyn in last year's leadership contest, arguing at the time that: "I don't think Jeremy can unite our party and lead us into government."
Labour's stronger-than-expected performance in this year's general election has seen pressure mount on her from supporters of Mr Corbyn, who believe the party's improvement in Scotland was down to him rather than Ms Dugdale.
Mr Corbyn recently completed a five-day tour of Scotland, when he appeared alongside Ms Dugdale at events in Glasgow.
Kezia Dugdale was elected to Holyrood in 2011, after working for the former Labour MSP Lord Foulkes.
She was Jim Murphy's deputy as Scottish party leader - and replaced him in the top job when he stood down after the party's calamitous defeat in the 2015 UK general election which left Labour with only one Westminster seat in Scotland.
Initially highly critical of Jeremy Corbyn, she has since argued for party unity. However, that has not prevented elements of the left in Scotland from arguing that she should stand down or face a challenge.
There is no recrimination or name-calling in her departure. Rather, she pledges to continue to work for Labour as a list MSP.
But there is an oblique reference in her resignation letter to the tensions at the top, when she says that "being leader has always been a difficult but fulfilling challenge".
She adds it was a challenge that "until now" she had enjoyed.
Speculation will now centre upon her likely replacement. Contenders on the left might be Neil Findlay, Richard Leonard and the current deputy Alex Rowley. Other names mentioned include Anas Sarwar, Jackie Baillie, Jenny Marra and James Kelly.
Ms Dugdale's resignation takes immediate effect. Her deputy, Alex Rowley, will serve as acting leader - unless he decides to resign from his post to contest the leadership himself.
Ms Dugdale insisted she was not leaving now in order to avoid a possible challenge to her leadership from a more left-wing rival.
And she said Mr Corbyn has her full support, and that she expects him to become prime minister.
She said: "On a personal level we continue get on extremely well, and I wish him every success for the future".
In her resignation letter, Ms Dugdale also referred to the death earlier this year of her close friend Gordon Aikman, a Labour Party activist who died at the age of 31 after a battle with Motor Neurone Disease.
Ms Dugdale - who celebrated her 36th birthday this week - said his example taught her "how precious and short life was and never to waste a moment."
Ms Dugdale recently announced that she was dating SNP MSP Jenny Gilruth after splitting with her long-term partner Louise Riddell.
She said she had thoroughly enjoyed her time as party leader, and believes she still has a lot to offer public life in Scotland - but stressed that would not always be in the Scottish Parliament, although she will remain as a backbench MSP for now.
And she admitted that the "immense" period in Scottish politics over the past three years, which has included the independence and EU referendums alongside two general elections and a Holyrood election, had taken its toll on her.
Ms Dugdale added: "Of course it is tough - it should be tough. It is important decisions you are taking all of the time, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
"I have taken on some of the big battles of our time, whether that be around the constitution or making the case for progressive taxes.
"I have delivered two sets of diverse candidates, 50% men and 50% women, and I have guaranteed the autonomy of the Scottish Labour Party.
"Nobody has ever told me what to do in this job - it is not something dictated from London any more, that is beyond all doubt."
Dear Linda,
As Chair of the party, I am writing to you today to resign as Leader of the Scottish Labour Party.
It has been an honour and a privilege to have served this party in a leadership position for the last two and a half years, covering four national elections and one referendum.
I have worked with many great people, not least the staff in our HQ led by Brian Roy and those in the Scottish Parliament, whose boundless energy, expertise and good humour has guided our party through some dark hours and difficult times.
I'd like to thank my shadow cabinet for their efforts, and in particular Iain Gray for his unflinching love and support and James Kelly for the thankless but crucial job he does so well as our Business Manager.
Earlier this year I lost a dear friend who taught me a lot about how to live. His terminal illness forced him to identify what he really wanted from life, how to make the most of it and how to make a difference. He taught me how precious and short life was and never to waste a moment.
Being leader has always been a difficult but fulfilling challenge. One that until now I have enjoyed, driven by a clear guiding purpose and goals, many of which I have achieved.
I am proud of the fact that I've demonstrated how the parliament's powers can be used to stop austerity with progressive taxes and the creation of new benefits. Proud to have advanced the call for federalism across the UK. Proud to have delivered real autonomy for the Scottish Labour Party and a guaranteed voice for Scotland and Wales on the NEC.
Educational inequality is the number one issue in Scottish politics after the constitution because Scottish Labour under my leadership put it there.
I am proud to have delivered 50/50 slates of amazing and diverse candidates in both the Scottish and U.K. Elections and equally proud to have invested in the next generation of labour activists and parliamentarians with leadership programmes. These have already furnished us with two of our magnificent seven MPs. With that re-established Scottish Labour group at Westminster, and a talented and effective group in Holyrood, Scottish Labour has a bright future.
A marker of success for me was to leave as leader with the party in better shape than I found it and I have done that.
Emerging from the challenging times following the 2014 referendum, and the 2015 UK election, we now have a solid platform on which to build towards success, and government.
I have given the task of achieving this all that I have. But with nearly four years now until the next Scottish Parliament elections, I am convinced that the party needs a new leader with fresh energy, drive and a new mandate to take the party into that contest.
I will continue as a Labour MSP for the Lothians and am already looking forward to spending more time with constituents and on constituency issues.
Too often our leaders leave in a crisis, with scores to settle. I love this party too much for that to be my way. There will be no press conference and no off the record briefing in my name. I choose to stand down because I believe it is best for me and best for Scottish Labour, at a time when we can be positive and optimistic about our future.
I remain in awe of all those party activists who devote their time to this movement without pay or reward. I thank them for their belief in me.
Yours in solidarity,
Kez Dugdale | Kezia Dugdale has resigned as leader of Scottish Labour, saying it is time to "pass on the baton" to someone else. | 41082916 |
It is thought the boy could be Julian Alessandro Cadman, whose grandfather has appealed for information.
Tony Cadman said the seven-year-old had become separated from his mother during the van attack in Las Ramblas on Thursday, in which 13 people died.
Mr Cadman, who lives in Sydney, has posted an appeal on Facebook.
In addition to the 13 people killed in Barcelona, a woman died in a second vehicle attack in Cambrils, a popular seaside resort 110km (68 miles) south-west of Barcelona. Five suspected terrorists were also shot dead in the town.
A "small number" of Britons were hurt in the attacks, the Foreign Office has said.
Tony Cadman posted a photograph of Julian on Facebook and appealed for him to be found.
He added: "We have found Jom (my daughter-in-law) and she is [in a] serious but stable condition in hospital.
"Julian is seven years old and was out with Jom when they were separated, due to the recent terrorist activity."
According to his Facebook profile, Mr Cadman is from Gillingham in Dorset but lives in Sydney.
Mrs May has condemned the attacks and said the UK "stands shoulder to shoulder with Spain in confronting and dealing with the evil of terrorism, and I have offered any assistance we can provide".
Although she did not identify the boy, she confirmed the UK was looking into reports of a missing child who was a British dual national.
In other developments
The Foreign Office has said it is "working to find out if any more [British nationals] need our help" and that the numbers of injured could rise. It also said it had deployed extra staff in Spain
It has also issued travel advice for those going to Spain.
"Our thoughts are with the victims of these terrible attacks and the people of Spain," it added.
Spain's civil protection agency said those killed and injured were from at least 34 different countries. There is a helpline - for people calling from Spain it is 112 and 012. From outside the country it is 0034 93 214 21 24 and 0034 900 400 012.
Stephanie Walton from Lincoln was in the area when the attack happened.
She describes a scene where people were running "for their lives" and recalls the sight of many flip-flops left discarded in the street.
"We ran into the café and they shut all the shutters. All I kept thinking about was the Paris and London attacks when they were coming into bars and hurting people.
"It was absolutely terrifying. When I turned around I saw bodies everywhere. It really is heartbreaking."
Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy has condemned what he called a "jihadist attack" and announced three days of national mourning.
A minute's silence was held at midday local time on Friday. | The UK is urgently looking into reports that a child thought to have British nationality is missing after the Barcelona attack, Theresa May has said. | 40975862 |
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The 41-year-old Northern Irishman, who retired in April after a record-breaking career, was honoured at a star-studded ceremony in Belfast.
He joins a list of winners that includes Pele and Seve Ballesteros.
"It's a huge honour and I'm thrilled to be accepting it so close to home in Belfast," McCoy told BBC Sport.
The former jockey, from Moneyglass in County Antrim, joked: "Like the main award, it's very prestigious, only with the lifetime award, you aren't going to win any more after that. That is the only disappointing thing about it."
McCoy, who rode more than 4,300 winners, revealed he had put on nearly two stone in weight after retiring but had come to terms with a decision he took reluctantly.
"I got pretty heavy but I've lost a bit of weight in the last six weeks or so. I'm about just over a stone above my riding weight now," said McCoy, who is 5ft 10in tall, but wasted down to as low as 10 stone during his career.
"I'm quite a stubborn, forward-thinking person so I don't really ever look back.
"It happens to everyone, it's time to move on. Sure, I'd like to be riding and some days I go to the races and I'd like to be having a go, but my time has been. I'm fine. I'm over it."
McCoy was the first jockey to be crowned Sports Personality of the Year, after winning the Grand National at the 15th attempt on Don't Push It in 2010.
He was champion jockey every year of a professional career that saw him overcome a succession of injuries, including puncturing his lungs twice.
"A previous Sports Personality of the Year winner and widely regarded as one of the greatest jockeys of all time, AP was the biggest superstar of racing until his retirement this year," said Barbara Slater, BBC director of sport.
"It's an honour to celebrate his illustrious career in Belfast, Northern Ireland, his home nation, with the lifetime achievement award."
As well as his Grand National success, McCoy won the Cheltenham Gold Cup twice, three Champion Hurdles and the Champion Chase.
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"It's great to receive the lifetime achievement award. There's some fantastic names on the trophy, like Sir Alex Ferguson and George Best," he said.
The Sports Personality awards, hosted by Gary Lineker, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan in front of a crowd of 7,500 at the SSE Arena, was held in Northern Ireland for the first time.
"It will be nice to receive the award there," said McCoy, who finished third in the main category in both 2002 and 2013. "Sport has done a lot for Northern Ireland.
"I'll be very proud. I'm going to have four Sports Personality of the Year trophies in my house so that's kind of a nice thing to have.
"The main award is voted for by the public and it's nice to have that respect for what you've achieved.
"I felt very lucky that the racing public got behind me, and it was pretty much down to them that I was able to win it. It's a great occasion and a great trophy and the best sportspeople have won it."
Time away from racing has given McCoy, a father of two and occasional TV pundit, more time with his family, to follow his beloved Arsenal and play golf.
"I run and still ride out, and I'm still involved with [racehorse owner] JP McManus and school his horses some mornings. My golf handicap is probably down to 12 now," he said.
However, suggestions McCoy might take up competitive amateur cycling appear to be wide of the mark.
"I've been cycling a few times, but I had a friend who was cycling and was knocked off his bike by a lorry. I like the idea of cycling, but it's the dangers of it that I'm not too sure about," he added. | Twenty-time champion jump jockey AP McCoy received a lifetime achievement award at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year show on Sunday. | 35111352 |
The 67 items all belong to one man, whose wife said he needs to get rid of them so they can downsize.
Auctioneer James Lewis said it was the best collection of film memorabilia he had ever seen for sale.
Other Doctor Who props up for grabs include a Cyberman from the 19th season and a Tardis from a stage show.
Mr Lewis said: "I think the Dalek would have been back in use exterminating its owner if he hadn't agreed to sell his collection."
His wife said: "There's no way that we can accommodate all of these things. The last thing I want is a Dalek in the bedroom.
"Everything has to go. We don't want any of it back.
"I'm locking my husband in a straitjacket in the garden shed so he can't bid on any of it again."
Updates on this story and more from Derbyshire
Mr Lewis said the collection took over the cellar of the couple's house.
"They are incredibly rare, to get a genuine Dalek from that period," he said.
"I've never seen one coming up for many, many, many years."
The collection also includes oversized props from The Borrowers and Mr Cadbury's Parrot.
The collector, from Hertfordshire, amassed the items over 25 years.
He is not expected to be at the auction, which is taking place at Bamfords in Derby later.
"I don't think he can bring himself to come," Mr Lewis said.
"He had lots of collections of lots of different things but it's this collection that's just so huge.
"In terms of film memorabilia this is probably the best sale that we've ever had, the best sale that I've ever seen as an auctioneer." | A 1966 Dalek is among a huge collection of film and TV props and memorabilia expected to attract bids from around the world when sold at auction. | 36468681 |
Seven officials and associates were arrested in Zurich earlier this week, as Fifa gathered for its congress.
Mr Blatter, 79, described the issue as "infractions" involving a marketing company operating in the Americas.
He is not named in the indictment, and denies having anything to do with an alleged $10m (£6.5m) bribe.
Asked by a reporter at a news conference whether he authorised the payment allegedly relating to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he said: "Definitely, that's not me."
And he again questioned the timing of the US prosecutors, saying his organisation "could have been contacted at another time" rather than just before its congress assembled.
"I don't see how Fifa should have been directly affected by this," he said.
Mr Blatter beat Prince Ali Bin al-Hussein of Jordan in Friday's election, and is starting his fifth four-year term as president.
Analysis: Alex Capstick, BBC Sport, Zurich
It was almost business as usual for Sepp Blatter after defying the worst crisis in Fifa's history to win a fifth term as its president.
Addressing the international press for the first time since the latest scandal flared up in such dramatic fashion, he was calm and assured as he refused to accept that he was responsible for the culture of corruption which has damaged Fifa's reputation.
Convincing the sponsors has become a top priority, but with further indictments from the US investigation a distinct possibility, and the ongoing probe in Switzerland into the allocation of the 2018 and the 2022 World Cups, his problems are far from over.
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Mr Blatter insisted that Fifa could move on from the crisis with him at the helm.
"It's no longer a storm, it's less strong at the moment," he said, adding that 132 nations had expressed confidence in him in the presidential vote. "I will continue to struggle and fight for good things."
In a sideswipe at European football's governing body Uefa, he criticised the body for not setting up an ethics committee along the lines of Fifa's own, to "set an example" to other, less wealthy and influential regional confederations.
Uefa's president Michel Platini had urged Mr Blatter to step down ahead of Friday's presidential vote, and Uefa strongly backed his rival for the post.
Prince Ali forced a second round of voting but then withdrew. Mr Blatter won 133 to Prince Ali's 73 in the first round, just short of the 140 votes needed for an outright win.
Mr Blatter was widely supported in Africa and Asia, and his re-election was welcomed by the hosts of the next World Cup, Russia - with President Vladimir Putin sending Mr Blatter a telegram of congratulation on Saturday.
Earlier, speaking to Swiss TV station RTS, Mr Blatter condemned what he described as a "hate" campaign against Fifa by European footballing nations.
And he said he was "shocked" by the comments of US prosecutors following the arrests of the Fifa officials - one described the case as "the World Cup of fraud" and said that Fifa was being issued with a red card.
Mr Blatter said he suspected the arrests were an attempt to "interfere with the congress" at which he was re-elected. "I am not certain, but it doesn't smell good," he said.
He noted that the US had lost out in the bidding for the 2022 World Cup to Qatar while England, another major critic, had lost out to Russia for the right to hold the 2018 World Cup - and that the US was the "number-one sponsor" of the state of Jordan, Prince Ali's homeland.
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Fifa corruption claims: Key questions answered
The seven arrested officials are part of 14 indicted on charges of bribery, racketeering and money-laundering, involving tens of millions of dollars since 1991.
Ahead of Mr Blatter's comments on Saturday, US tax official Richard Weber told The New York Times he was "fairly confident that we will have another round of indictments".
Meanwhile, Swiss authorities have launched a separate criminal investigation into the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments to Russia and Qatar.
European football associations will meet at next week's Champions League final in Berlin to discuss their next move.
Europe's seat at Saturday's meeting of Fifa's powerful executive committee was empty, as newly appointed representative David Gill confirmed he would not take up his post following Mr Blatter's re-election.
Blatter in his own words: From Greek tragedy to tighter shorts
"I am the president now, the president of everybody," said Sepp Blatter after winning a fifth term as head of Fifa. Yet that was far from the strangest thing he has said during his 17-year stint as president.
Sepp Blatter's most notable quotes | Re-elected Fifa president Sepp Blatter has sought to downplay the US criminal proceedings launched against officials of world football's governing body. | 32941740 |
Benchmark lending rates will be cut from 6.31% to 6%, while deposit rates will fall from 3.25% to 3%.
The rate cuts will come into force on Friday and closely follow on from the last cuts made on 7 June.
Before these moves, the People's Bank of China had not cut interest rates since 2008.
Commenting on the move, Rupert Armitage, director at Shore Capital, said: "China are cutting rates because they're experiencing a slowdown.
"Everybody's been concerned about the economy, but now they're actually doing something about it."
The central bank's rate cuts come on the back of a gradual liberalisation of China's banking system.
Banks can now compete on the interest rates they offer customers, within a stipulated range.
China's export growth has been hit by a fall in demand from two of its biggest markets, the US and Europe, still struggling with the global debt crisis.
China's economy grew at an annual rate of 8.1% in the first quarter, the slowest pace in almost three years.
It hopes lower interest rates will help boost domestic demand. | The Chinese central bank has cut its benchmark interest rates for the second time in two months, in a bid to arrest slowing economic growth. | 18723170 |
It follows a "network-wide failure" in the morning, which caused delays, a Metrolink spokeswoman said.
She said services had been suspended at 15:45 BST to allow engineers to fix the problem.
Metrolink said it "apologised for the inconvenience", adding that it was not believed to have been caused by hacking.
A spokeswoman said there had been a communications failure between the control room in the depot and trams on the network.
She added that the operator was unable to estimate when services would resume. Commuters are advised to use their tram tickets on local buses and Northern Rail services instead.
Extra staff would be available to advise at tram stations, Metrolink said.
In May, the tram network was shut down because control room staff lost visible sight of trams.
Metrolink tweeted that it planned for "services to run as usual" from Sunday morning "following disruption to the network on Saturday". | All tram services have been temporarily cancelled in Greater Manchester following a communications problem. | 40693535 |
Staff at the shop made the offer after hearing that the star was working nearby to shoot his latest film.
They told local media they were completely taken by surprise when he appeared in person to claim his prize.
The actor used lines from one of his best know films, Taken, to collect his free meal, they said.
Using his famously intimidating voice, he inquired: "Where is my free sandwich?", TMZ reported.
But he refrained from adapting another famous line in his film and did not say: "I will find you and I will eat you," staff at the Big Star Sandwich Company joked.
The actor's demanding schedule meant that he did not stay long enough to eat his prize, although he did pose alongside staff for photographs.
His 30-year career includes high-profile roles in films such as Schindler's List and Michael Collins. He also starred alongside Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro in The Mission. | Actor Liam Neeson has paid a surprise visit to a restaurant in the city of Vancouver after it put up a sign saying he could eat there for free. | 39807757 |
The 39-year-old was arrested on suspicion of possessing information likely to be useful for the purposes of committing or preparing an act of terrorism, Scotland Yard said.
He was arrested after attending an east London police station on Thursday morning.
He has been released on police bail until October as enquiries continue. | A man has been arrested in east London on suspicion of carrying out a terror offence, the Metropolitan Police said. | 33919430 |
Macaully Sutcliffe, 16, was hit by Mohammed Zaman's van near Whitchurch, Hampshire, in October.
Zaman, 32, from Reading, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving and was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.
His father, Anglican priest Richard Sutcliffe, said his son's life had been cut "cruelly short".
In a statement he said: "No court sentence can help to fill the gap left following the death of Mac."
Hampshire police said Zaman "failed to abide by the give-way signs" at the junction of Bloswood Lane and Harroway.
"He had seen the moped was indicating but told police in interview he had misinterpreted the direction of the indication," a force spokesman said.
The judge at Winchester Crown Court said all the fault for the collision lay with Zaman and praised the teenager's "exemplary riding", police added.
Fr Sutcliffe, assistant benefice priest at St Mary Bourne near Andover, paid tribute to his son.
In a statement, he said: "As well as missing his presence now, we have huge regrets for his future that was so cruelly cut short.
"We are enormously proud of the fine young man that he had become. He touched many people and we all miss him dreadfully."
As well as being jailed, Zaman, of Wimborne Gardens, was banned from driving for two years with a 10-month extension. | A van driver who killed a priest's son when he knocked the teenager off his moped has been jailed. | 40185941 |
The 25-year-old super-bantamweight from Belfast clinched victory in the third round of the scheduled six.
Conlan, who won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics, is expected to be on the undercard for the 2 July Brisbane bout between Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn.
He was well on top throughout Friday night's fight at the UIC Pavilion.
Mexican Chanez was knocked down in the first round and Conlan sealed victory with another flurry of punches in the third.
Chanez did get up to beat the count, but the referee called a halt.
Afterwards Conlan said he was not happy with is performance and that he wanted to face an opponent who could test him.
In his first pro fight in March, Conlan stopped Tim Ibarra inside three rounds at Madison Square Garden.
He has said it would be special to be part of the undercard when Pacquiao defends his WBO welterweight title in Australia.
Conlan hopes to fight in Belfast in December as he continues his progress through the professional ranks. | Former world amateur champion Michael Conlan easily made it two wins out of two in his professional career by stopping Alfredo Chanez in Chicago. | 40069643 |
The 12 candidates were whittled down from a longlist of more than 220 albums, with many popular and critical favourites discarded along the way.
Here are 10 albums that could, and perhaps should, have ranked alongside this year's finalists.
A comeback that no-one, least of all Blur, thought would happen, The Magic Whip was created from scraps of music recorded at an "accidental" 2013 studio session in Hong Kong, booked to fill time between flights after a festival date was cancelled.
Highest UK chart position: 1
The band say: "The story of this record can be compared to a middle-aged couple, out of the blue, receiving the news that there was going to be a new baby, after the original children had grown up." Damon Albarn, speaking to Billboard.
Did you know? The album was accompanied by a comic book, in which the members of Blur travel to the future.
With corrugated synths and glistening melodies, Glasgow's Chvrches refined their synth-pop sound while finding new emotional depths in singer Lauren Mayberry's vocals.
Highest UK chart position: 4
The band say: "We all love pop music. It's great fun to play music and see people actually dancing. I'm sick and tired of being at gigs where it's just a bunch of bearded guys." Iain Cook, speaking to Pitchfork.
Did you know? The album was recorded in a small basement flat in Glasgow. Listen carefully to the closing track, Afterglow, and you'll hear the radiator clinking.
Grungy, sinister and drenched in echo, Drenge's second album marked a significant progression from the adolescent snarl of their debut. It was produced by Ross Orton, who previously won a Mercury nomination for his work on the Arctic Monkeys' AM.
Highest UK chart position: 14
The band say: "Musically, this record is really, really funny," Eoin Loveless, speaking to DIY Magazine.
Did you know? Drenge is the Danish word for brothers.
Tackling everything from Ebola to terrorist beheadings, Get To Heaven is the result of a prolonged bout of anxiety and depression. But the doom-laden lyrics are offset by the Manchester band's intricately-constructed arrangements and restless, euphoric melodies.
Highest UK chart position: 7
The band say: "After we'd finished the record, I read the lyrics back and I realised I'd written a horror bible." Frontman Jonathan Higgs, speaking to the BBC.
Did you know? The track Fortune 500 describes a fictional assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth II.
Rabid riffs and urgent grooves populated Foals' fourth album, which the Oxford quintet described as their heaviest yet. But frontman Yannis Philippakis delivered some appropriate visceral imagery ("I buried my heart in a hole in the ground") but also turned in the band's most tender love song yet on the rain-swept single Give It All.
Highest UK chart position: 3
The band say: "I just want to go out and devastate some stages. I want to get to this point where we're this ruthless and elegant machine." Yannis Philippakis in the NME.
Did you know? The album was recorded in Saint-Remy-de Provence, the village where Van Gogh once spent time in a psychiatric ward after cutting off his ear.
Lianne La Havas' shoulder-rubbing exploits with Prince and Stevie Wonder certainly paid off, with her second album immersed in rhythmic, jazz-inflected soul. Blood tackles themes of family and identity, with much of the record written on a trip to Jamaica, her mother's homeland.
Highest UK chart position: 2
She says: "I've got two albums under my belt now. I'm a lot more experienced in the studio, so the way I make music is different." Speaking to Exclaim Canada.
Did you know? Before she became a solo artist, La Havas sang backing vocals for Paloma Faith.
Galeforce rock songs and breathy, twilit guitar pop, inspired by the ever-changing nature of Elephant and Castle, in The Maccabees' native London, where the album was made.
Highest UK chart position: 1
The band say: "One of the record's strengths is that, were you to only listen to the first and last song, I'm not sure you'd think they were the same band." Frontman Orlando Weeks, speaking to Gold Flake Paint.
Did you know? Marks To Prove It was recorded in the same studio as the theme song for Father Ted.
Introspective electro-pop from a singer who got fed up with the pop machine. Recorded with a live band, it dispensed with the Welsh singer's quirks for a more sophisticated, soul-searching sound.
Highest UK chart position: 10
She says: "When you have a theatrical, distinctive image people get distracted. They think it's more shine than artistry." Speaking to the BBC.
Did you know? The album was initially released, one song at a time, over six months.
The band's first album without founding member Peter Hook, Music Complete nonetheless won dozens of "return to form" reviews, thanks to its solid pop hooks and cameos from Iggy Pop, Brandon Flowers and La Roux.
Highest UK chart position: 2
The band say: "It was like a football team with two strikers and one of them won't pass the ball, but keeps missing the goal." Bernard Sumner, discussing Peter Hook's departure in The Guardian.
Did you know? Bernard Sumner was played by John Simm in the 2002 Tony Wilson biopic, 24 Hour Party People.
Public Service Broadcasting's high-concept second album mixed archive audio footage from the US-Soviet space race with sparse electronic beats, bubbling synthesizers and, on a track about Yuri Gagarin, energetic pop-funk.
Highest UK chart position: 11
The band say: "It involved a fair amount of reading, watching a number of documentaries and, of course, scouring the Nasa Audio Collection and the BFI Archives." J Wilgoose, talking to Brighton's Finest.
Did you know? The only available audio of Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman in space - was spoiled by an male, British translation, so the band called in pop group Smoke Fairies to re-interpret her words. | The Mercury Music Prize takes place on Friday, 20 November - with Florence + The Machine, Jamie xx and Wolf Alice all competing for the £20,000 prize. | 34537876 |
Jack Foster, known as Derek, from Long Bennington, disappeared after a hospital appointment on 23 December.
A body, which police believe to be the 83-year-old, was found on a verge of the A1 near the turn-off for Foston and Allingham on Tuesday.
Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious.
Mr Foster's next of kin have been informed and a post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out in the next few days, a force spokesman said.
He had last been seen at Grantham bus station but police said it was not known if he had got on a bus. | A body found at the side of a road in Lincolnshire is believed to be a pensioner who has been missing since before Christmas. | 30716435 |
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Barker, who was part of Team GB's successful women's team pursuit quartet, said Davies would volunteer "so much of his own time" at the Cardiff club.
Find out how you can nominate your BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero for your area here. | Olympic gold medallist Elinor Barker remembers her coach Alan Davies from Maindy Flyers as the key Unsung Hero in her cycling career. | 37238772 |
Mr Rajapaksa lost the presidency in a snap election in January to Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena.
Four people have died in violent incidents during the campaign although monitors say there has been less violence than in previous years.
Fifteen million people are eligible to vote, with results expected on Tuesday.
Polls opened at 07:00 local time (01:30 GMT) and will close at 16:00.
Mr Rajapaksa is seeking to return as prime minister of a government led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. President Sirisena, who now leads the party, has threatened to veto the move.
The former president, who is 69, is thought of as a hero by many of Sri Lanka's Sinhala-speaking Buddhist majority for crushing a 26-year Tamil uprising in 2009.
But opponents accuse him of running a corrupt, brutal and dynastic regime - charges he denies.
Ethnic tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the Tamil minority were the driving force behind a long and bitter civil war in the country.
The conflict ended in May 2009 after more than 25 years of violence but recriminations over abuses by both sides continue.
Mr Sirisena, 63, formed a cross-party coalition to defeat Mr Rajapaksa in January, led by the United National Party (UNP).
Having left his position as health minister in Mr Rajapaksa's government, he led the coalition to a shock victory over the incumbent president.
In a letter leaked during the campaign, Mr Sirisena accused Mr Rajapaksa of holding the party "hostage" and ruled out naming him prime minister.
The current president has also used his power as party leader to purge Rajapaksa loyalists from key posts in recent days.
"We all united and voted against Rajapaksa to send him into retirement," Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said at his last campaign stop on Friday night.
"If he hasn't got the message, we should unite to make sure he understands it now." | Sri Lankans are going to the polls in a general election, with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa aiming to return to office as prime minister. | 33955146 |
The winner, who would have shared in a quadruple-rollover prize pot from the 17 December draw, had 180 days to claim the money, but did not.
The £3,062,272 prize, plus the interest it has accumulated, will now go towards National Lottery funded projects.
A spokesman said it was a "real shame" that someone had missed out.
He said: "Unfortunately, I can confirm that the ticket-holder did not come forward within the deadline to claim their prize and has now sadly missed out on this substantial amount of money.
"We tried very hard to find the ticket-holder and it's a real shame that they have missed out, but there is still one winner - the nation.
"This money, and all the interest earned over the 180 days, will now go to benefit projects all over the UK funded by the National Lottery." | A £3m lottery prize has gone unclaimed after the winner, who bought their ticket in Stirling, failed to come forward in time. | 33147761 |
The new revised agreement will be submitted to Congress for approval, rather than put to a popular vote.
But opposition groups say it still does not go far enough in punishing rebels for human rights abuses.
The deal is aimed at ending five decades of armed conflict, which has killed more than 260,000 people.
After four years of formal talks between rebel and government negotiators, the two sides reached an agreement earlier this year.
The deal was signed in an emotional ceremony before world leaders in the Colombian city of Cartagena on 26 September.
But Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos had said from the start of the negotiations that he wanted the Colombian people to have a say in the peace process.
He asked them to endorse or reject the peace agreement in a popular vote held on 2 October.
Polls had suggested the deal would pass by a comfortable margin but in a shock result it was narrowly rejected.
A bilateral ceasefire was extended until the end of the year to give the two sides time to plan their next steps.
President Santos met former President Alvaro Uribe, a vociferous opponent of the peace deal, to listen to his objections.
The government and the Farc then went back to the negotiating table to try to strike a new deal acceptable to those who had voted "no".
Changes were made to all but one of the 57 points in the original agreement.
The five main points which have been changed are:
President Santos has announced that the revised deal will be signed in a low-key ceremony in a theatre in the capital, Bogota, on Thursday.
The deal will then be sent to Congress, where the government has a solid majority, with a vote expected to be scheduled for next week.
The Democratic Centre party, founded by ex-President Uribe, has already said it will vote "no".
Its leaders say that the changes are only "cosmetic" and object to the fact that the government has said the new deal is "final".
It wants more of its demands met, including harsher sentences for Farc rebels who have committed crimes.
It also demanded that the revised deal be put to another popular vote, which President Santos and the Farc have both ruled out.
Other parties in Congress have given the deal its backing, so it is expected to pass.
Public opinion remains divided into those who supported the original deal and those who remain suspicious of the Farc and their motives.
Some say President Santos is ignoring the will of the people by refusing to put the revised deal to a popular vote.
But others say Congress represents the Colombian people and its approval should suffice.
Shortly after President Santos announced that the revised deal would be signed on Thursday, #PresidenteJustDoIt began trending on Twitter in Colombia.
The posts urged Mr Santos to go ahead with the implementation of the peace deal.
But there were also those who condemned the new agreement, saying that the venue for its signing, the Colon Theatre in Bogota, was appropriate for "this political theatre". | Colombia's government says it will sign a new peace accord with Farc rebels on Thursday, after a previous deal was rejected in a referendum last month. | 38073899 |
Suvarna Raj told the BBC she was given an upper berth against the rules.
"It's impossible for a wheelchair-bound person to climb to an upper bunk. And my fellow passengers refused to exchange berths," she said.
The government has ordered an inquiry, but Ms Raj says she wants "permanent solutions" and "not a usual response".
Ms Raj was travelling from Nagpur city in western India to the national capital, Delhi, on Sunday when the incident happened. The journey takes 12 hours.
After news of her ordeal made it to national media, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu ordered an inquiry.
She welcomed his response but said it was "not enough".
"I have requested Mr Prabhu to take a journey with me and then only he will realise the true extent of the problems disabled passengers face," she said.
She added that most platforms and trains in India lacked disabled-friendly facilities.
"It's not about me having to sleep on the floor or not having access to a disabled-friendly toilet for 12 hours. I want to highlight that thousands of passengers like me face such problems daily," she said.
She said she was also disappointed with her fellow passengers who refused to exchange their lower berths with her.
"Usually people sympathise and exchange their seats, but this time they refused. I really don't know why, but I was very taken aback," she said.
Ms Raj added that disabled people don't want anybody's sympathy.
"We just want to be treated as equals. I have travelled to so many countries around the world and never felt any discrimination," she said.
Ms Raj has represented India at the Para Asian Games in South Korea among other international events.
India has more than 20 million people with physical or learning disabilities, but most public places and services lack infrastructure to support them. | A para-athlete has criticised poor infrastructure for disabled passengers on Indian trains after she was forced to sleep on the floor of a carriage. | 40244061 |
This very sad case is a shocking reminder that any dog, even family pets, can on occasion display problem behaviour.
Every year we hear of awful stories of dogs attacking other animals and children, sometimes with fatal consequences. This has to stop. It is up to owners to take responsibility by ensuring they provide appropriate early experiences for their young dog, so that their pet grows up to be friendly and outgoing.
Looking at the broader problem of dog behaviour on a national level, the recent PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) report has revealed that almost one in three dog owners have been bitten or attacked by a dog and 51% know someone who has.
A lack of understanding by owners about the importance of basic training and socialisation for young dogs are the underlying causes of most behavioural issues.
In a small number of cases, dogs may have been deliberately trained to be aggressive. But in the majority of situations the problem behaviour is not deliberately intended.
Socialisation is the process of gradually introducing puppies to everyday sights and sounds during their first few weeks of life.
Carefully socialising dogs while young will prevent fears from developing, which can often be a cause of problem behaviour and aggression in later life.
Any owner with a young dog should, without exception, make a commitment to socialising and training their pet using kind and effective methods.
The PAW report found that just 21% of owners with aggressive dogs had trained them in the first six months of life.
The Kennel Club is extremely saddened by the tragic death of Jade Anderson and our thoughts and deepest condolences go to her family.
While media coverage typically focuses on speculating about the breed of the dogs involved, we would stress that this is largely irrelevant and that far more important is the way any such dogs are reared, socialised and trained.
Defra recently made a commitment to extend the law to cover incidents which occur on private property - as with the current case. For this, they should be commended.
This change in law cannot come soon enough, whilst also allowing sensible provisions for responsible owners.
Our position will always be that breed-specific legislation as part of the Dangerous Dogs Act is fatally flawed and wastes limited police resources on seizing dogs of a particular breed, rather than focusing on dogs of any breed that are out of control.
Unfortunately, breed specific legislation has the unintended consequence of turning banned breeds into status symbols, so that they are taken on by the wrong people who train them for the purposes of fighting or aggression.
Where government proposals fall down, is in respect of genuinely preventative measures, to break the cycle of aggressive or problem behaviour and educate owners regarding responsible dog ownership.
We feel that Dog Control Notices, as introduced in Scotland and currently under consideration in Wales, would provide preventative action that can reduce the prevalence of more serious offences.
In this respect we are in correspondence with the Home Office to highlight the need for such measures and hope they will take heed of our suggestions in light of the current tragedy.
The government has been very slow to react on the issue of dangerous dogs.
It is trying now, and the advent of compulsory micro chipping for all dogs in England will help identify the whereabouts of dangerous dogs in the future.
However, the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991 has become infamous for its inability to deal with the problem.
There is no reason to proscribe certain breeds of dog.
The UK has a large population of dogs and there will always be a risk of dangerous incidents, but the onus should be on the owners.
There are owners that allow their dogs to be out of control, and even refuse to bring them under control.
The welfare of people must come first.
If a dog is showing aggression towards people, there must be a severe threat that the owner of that dog can be punished by the law.
At the moment dogs which attack people are killed while the owners escape with a slap on the wrist.
The law hits hard at the dogs. It needs to start hitting harder at the owners.
We want new UK-wide laws which tackle the scourge of dangerous dog attacks and the failings of the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act.
The government's reaction time is woefully inadequate as we're still waiting for an implementation timetable for Defra's announcement to extend the law to private property.
How many more lives must be lost before action is taken?
Up to 5,000 postal workers and 400 telecom engineers are attacked by dogs each year and 70% of those happen on private property where the law still does not apply in England.
Scotland and Northern Ireland have changed the law and Wales is currently legislating, so it can be done. David Cameron promised me in 2010 he would do it.
Our Bite Back campaign seeks greater responsible dog ownership to reduce dog attacks.
Preventative measures are the big omission from the government's announcement.
We'd like dog control notices which would be a way of intervening before an attack takes place, and harsher sentences for offending dangerous dog owners to act as a deterrent.
Compulsory insurance would be another big help. But government inaction is an insult to victims and their families.
The tragic death of Jade Anderson is yet another painful reminder that we underestimate the potential danger of any powerful dog at our peril.
The legislation we have in place in England to deal with the problem of dangerous and out of control dogs is woefully inadequate.
The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 was introduced in reaction to similar terrible incidents but, because it was such a kneejerk piece of legislation, it was seriously flawed and has failed to protect the public.
The government has recently announced that it will introduce new legislation to tweak the Dangerous Dogs Act but that is not enough.
Yes, the law should be extended to cover private property, and yes, we need to allow the police discretion over keeping all banned dogs in kennels pending court proceedings, but we need so much more.
Top of the list has to be a more preventive approach such as the Dogs Control Notices that are used in Scotland, or a national roll out of the Dog Behaviour Contracts pioneered by Eastleigh Council.
We need to tackle irresponsible ownership and worrying behaviour in dogs long before it results in attack and injury.
Every dog has the capacity to be aggressive and dangerous when it is not properly trained so we need to better educate dog owners and potential dog owners about their responsibilities.
Every country should help establish a human victim-centred organisation with resources and statistical studies.
This organisation should be independent of influence and funding by dog breeder, veterinarian and animal welfare groups.
We're a US charity dedicated to reducing serious dog attacks. Every week, a person from the UK writes to DogsBite.org asking if a similar organisation exists in their country.
Thus far, we frustratingly write back: "Not to our knowledge." | Following the death of Jade Anderson, the 14-year-old girl who was attacked and killed by four dogs, a range of experts explain what they think should be done about dangerous dogs. | 21954533 |
It joins Vancouver, Reykjavik and Amsterdam in the Rough Guides list of the best cities to visit in 2016.
A £25m revamp of the centre of Hull is under way, in preparation for hosting the UK City of Culture event in 2017.
Martin Green, chief executive of Hull's City of Culture organisers, said the guide was "ahead of the curve".
He said the city was "going through great positive change".
Source: Rough Guide
"I think this is a great recognition that Hull is a city changing and on the up," said Mr Green.
"Like a lot of cities of its type Hull has suffered economically, but I think there is a lot going on here to change that and it's not just about the fact we are the UK City of Culture in 17."
"They [Rough Guides] like to get ahead of the curve and signpost what's coming up."
Hull was the only UK city to make it on to the top 10 list.
The guide described Hull as having "atmospheric old-timey pubs, eight excellent museums and a picturesque Old Town with cobbled streets". | Hull has been named one of the top 10 tourist destinations for the year ahead. | 35220361 |
Gemmell gave the hosts a 19th-minute lead with a close-range finish.
With half-time approaching Linton doubled the lead, but Kyle MacLeod pulled one back the visitors.
Mark McLaughlin nodded in from close range to restore the two-goal lead and put Clyde in a strong position going into Saturday's second-leg. | John Gemmell, Scott Linton and Mark McLaughlin scored to put Clyde in firm control of the League One playoff semi-final against Elgin. | 36180107 |
Lisa Hauxwell, 48, was sentenced to 14 years in her absence in November 2016 for rape and indecent assault.
Hauxwell, from Darlington, was arrested in Newark, Nottinghamshire on Tuesday, police said.
Hauxwell, who police said was living as a man when found, was tracked down after dozens responded to the appeal.
Nottinghamshire Police said of the 48-year-old, who committed the crimes as Craig John Hauxwell: "The fugitive had carried out the offences while living as a man, but was sentenced under the name of Lisa."
Det Insp Yvonne Dutson of Durham Police said: "This a fantastic result and due entirely to the calls we had following the appeal on Crimewatch.
"We understand Hauxwell had been living at the address in Newark for several months, without anyone knowing his true identity."
The sex assaults took place in the Newton Aycliffe area of County Durham during 2001 and 2002.
The two rapes and seven indecent assaults were described by police as "horrendous".
Hauxwell will be handed over to police in Durham "in due course", police said. | An on-the-run sex offender who committed crimes as a man but was tried as a woman has been arrested following an appeal on BBC's Crimewatch. | 39209982 |
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said there was a small risk of severe allergic reactions and this outweighed any perceived benefits.
Some people take the tablets to reduce the severity of cold and flu.
The MHRA said it was a precautionary measure and older children and adults could continue to use echinacea.
It said young children were at heightened risk of allergic reactions such as rashes, hives, difficulty in breathing and even potentially fatal anaphylactic shock.
Richard Woodfield, the head of herbal policy at the MHRA, said: "This is not a serious safety issue, but parents and carers need to be aware that children under 12 could have a low risk of developing allergic reactions.
"The measures being taken are precautionary in nature. Parents should not worry if they have given echinacea to children under 12 in the past."
Licensed products containing echinacea, some of which are aimed at children, will have to be labelled with the warning. | The herbal remedy echinacea should not be given to children under 12, the UK's drugs watchdog has warned parents. | 19318309 |
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