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Cheshire East Council Leader Michael Jones stepped down last year following pressure over three deals given to his personal physiotherapist's firm.
The council blamed the ending of the deal on "budget constraints" despite an academic report saying Core Fit Ltd's classes "worked well".
A Cheshire Police probe into Mr Jones' links to the firm's owner is under way.
Core Fit founder Amanda Morris branded the council's decision to stop funding the classes "disgusting".
About 3,600 children in 28 schools, and 200 adults aged over 50 have participated in classes run by Core Fit Ltd under its council contracts since 2014.
A report by the Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University, commissioned by the council, found the programme had "an impact on both the physical [and] overall wellbeing of the children".
The report said adults who took part "reported greater mobility which enabled them to live more independently", and claimed potential savings to the NHS and social care teams would outweigh the cost of delivering the classes.
Cheshire East Council said: "Owing to budget constraints, the council is not in a position to continue to commission these services.
"However, the council understands that a number of schools in Cheshire East, and on a wider footprint, have purchased the service independently."
But Ms Morris said: "If the council's policies are that they're fundamentally looking at improving mental health, its disgusting that they're not putting money into this sort of thing."
"It doesn't make sense."
Mr Jones has previously denied wrongdoing after the council waived its own financial rules three times when granting contracts worth £156,000 to Core Fit.
He stepped down in December 2015 to avoid "infighting" after fellow Conservatives called for an external investigation.
The police investigation was launched 11 months ago. | Contracts to run school fitness programmes in east Cheshire will not be renewed by the council. | 38253351 |
Cora-Lynn Kelley-Mattock, of Aberporth, Ceredigion, was two when her mother, Josephine, 19, accidentally crashed her Volkswagen Polo in Llandygwydd in 2013.
Details of her claim have emerged in a High Court writ.
Miss Kelley's insurers say her claimed negligence is not admitted.
She died from brain injuries three days after the accident on Boxing Day in 2013, on the A484.
Her daughter, now four, suffered severe traumatic head injuries in the crash and has been left with serious disabilities, her barrister James Bell said in the writ.
Her lawyers claim Miss Kelley was negligent in crashing the car and may also have failed to strap her into her baby seat properly.
Mr Bell said the car was approaching the entrance to the Llwyndryrys residential home, near Cenarth, Carmarthenshire, when it left the road.
He said it travelled along the grass verge and "collided heavily sideways with a dry stone wall".
The toddler suffered a severe head injury, as well as internal injuries and damage to one eye.
The writ claimed her mother "failed to heed slow warnings" and "drove too fast" in damp conditions.
She also "failed to ensure that at all times her daughter was properly restrained and safely secured in her car seat," the document added.
"The deceased thereby exposed her daughter to an unnecessary and foreseeable risk of injury," it said.
Ceredigion Coroner Peter Brunton issued a verdict of death by misadventure in the case of Miss Kelley at Aberystwyth County Court, in June 2014.
The coroner said she might have been distracted by her daughter or been trying to avoid another vehicle when she crashed.
In their defence to the action, Glyn Edwards, for Miss Kelley's estate and motor insurers, said the basic facts of the crash was not disputed.
However, he said negligence on the part of Miss Kelley, either in causing the crash or in not strapping in her daughter properly, was not admitted.
He said Cora-Lynn's lawyers are "required to prove that her mother's negligence was the likely cause of the accident as alleged."
They must also prove there was not a defect in the car seat which caused it to malfunction.
The extent of Cora-Lynn's disabilities and the value of her compensation claim are also in dispute.
The contents of the writ and the defence have yet to be tested in evidence before a judge. | Lawyers for a toddler who suffered catastrophic injuries in a car crash that left her mother dead have launched a legal bid for compensation from her insurers. | 35685631 |
It happened at about 13:15 on Monday and involved a white Vauxhall Corsa, blue Nissan Qashqai and a blue Subaru.
Five people - four from Dumfries and one from Edinburgh - were taken to Dumfries Infirmary for treatment.
The Corsa driver - a 19-year-old man from Dumfries - was later transferred to Glasgow Royal Infirmary with a head injury and damaged right hand.
The driver and passenger in the Subaru - both from Galston - did not require hospital treatment.
Police have appealed for any witnesses to the incident to contact them. | Five people were taken to hospital following a three-car crash on the A701 just south of Beattock. | 33237227 |
Twenty eight percent of Welsh MPs are women compared to a total of 32% in Westminster as a whole.
Two of the four Welsh seats to change hands on Thursday went to women, making 11 of Wales' 40 MPs female.
Of those 10 are Labour MPs and one Plaid Cymru, while the Conservatives are yet to see a woman candidate elected as an MP.
It is in contrast with the Welsh Assembly where 42% of its 60 members are female, so why is the picture so different?
Diana Stirbu, senior lecturer in public policy at London Metropolitan University said: "I think there are a couple of factors - one is that the assembly has a different system that has an element of proportional representation.
"The other is that the Labour party and Plaid Cymru took positive action to put forward women for seats in the first three Assembly terms.
"To an extent they have moved away from taking that positive action now.
"But because the Welsh Assembly was a new place it meant they were allowed to be a bit more progressive in putting women forward."
In the general election, seven of the 40 Welsh seats were uncontested by women.
Labour had more women candidates than any other party - 16 out of 40 - with eight defending seats and eight challenging.
The Conservatives and Lib Dems had 13 apiece - all of who were unsuccessful in winning their constituencies.
But Labour candidates Anna McMorrin and Tonia Antoniazzi won Cardiff North and Gower respectively from the incumbent Conservative MPs.
"With Westminster elections the problem is that the only party that is really serious about it is the Labour party," said Ms Stirbu.
"Progress in women MPs being elected in Wales has only been down to them.
"All parties have increased the number of candidates they put forward, but it is important where you place the candidates too.
"You can see that by the fact it has been another election where the Conservatives failed to get a Welsh female MP elected."
Five of the 11 female MPs were elected by a margin of more than 10,000 votes.
Jac Larner from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre said: "I think it is the success of the Labour Party in Wales - when the Labour party are doing well there are always more women, whether it is in the assembly or Westminster.
"The assembly has a very impressive record on women's representation as a whole - it was discussed all over the world when it was the first to achieve 50/50 representation.
"That is because the Labour Party had so many AMs and took some positive action such as twinning constituencies, so if a male candidate was put up in one, a female had to be nominated in the other."
The 11 MPs representing the country is a big increase on 20 years ago, when just four from Wales were women - all of them Labour.
And all of the main parties in Wales (excluding UKIP) have seen significant increases in the proportion of women candidates they have fielded since 2001.
Wales' first female MP was Megan Lloyd George - whose father, David Lloyd George, was the only Welshman to have become prime minister.
She became the first woman MP in Wales in 1929 when she won the Anglesey seat for the Liberal Party aged 27. | A record number of women have been elected to be MPs in Wales, but the nations still lags behind the UK. | 40218112 |
The plant will be built on land on Airedale Road, Keighley and will be capable of producing 10 to 11 MW of electricity a year.
More than 3,000 people had signed an online petition against the proposals due to concerns about pollution, noise and the visual impact of the plant.
The developer, Endless Energy, has not yet commented on the decision.
Read more about this and other stories from across West Yorkshire
The National Trust, which runs nearby East Riddlesden Hall, also objected to the plans due to the prominence of the chimney stack.
"We consider this will have a substantially harmful effect on the setting of East Riddlesden Hall," it said.
Bradford council had been recommended to approve the plans as the development would divert waste from landfill.
Officers also said it was not likely to have a major visual impact and concerns over pollution fell under the Environment Agency's permitting process.
The proposals were originally given planning permission in 2014 but a revised application altering the scheme was refused by Bradford Council in 2015.
The new application includes a refuse derived fuel power plant which has a 196ft (60m) chimney stack and a waste plastics melting plant capable of producing 28.5 m litres of bio fuel a year.
It is expected to create about 79 full time jobs and 300 temporary construction jobs. | A £135m energy from waste incinerator has been approved by councillors in West Yorkshire. | 38919723 |
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Dylan Hartley will be captain after being left out of the Lions squad.
Flanker Sam Underhill, New Zealand-born cross-code convert Denny Solomona, and fly-half Piers Francis - who will join Northampton from Auckland Blues in the summer - are included.
There are also call-ups for Sale twins Ben and Tom Curry, 18, as well as Saracens forward Nick Isiekwe, 19.
London Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga and Harry Mallinder of Northampton are included too.
After missing out on selection for the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand, the likes of Joe Launchbury, James Haskell, Chris Robshaw, George Ford and Mike Brown all are included, but there is no place for Danny Cipriani, Christian Wade or Semesa Rokoduguni.
Harlequins player Jack Clifford and Sam Jones of Wasps are unavailable through injury.
"We are looking forward to going to Argentina and winning 2-0," said head coach Jones.
Australian Glen Ella, who coached England on tour last summer, will again join Jones' backroom team.
On the tour, England will face their hosts in San Juan on Saturday 10 June and in Santa Fe a week later.
At a news conference, Jones said he did not want to get involved in debate about the Lions squad.
"You miss out on a Lions tour and you get an England tour - it's not a bad second prize," said the Australian.
"If I can develop three or four of these guys to be better than the Lions guys, it will be a successful tour.
"It's going to be a tough tour, but my job is to improve the squad. It's a great opportunity where we can bring a bunch of young, enthusiastic and potentially good players into the squad at one time."
Forwards: Will Collier (Harlequins, uncapped), Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps), Ben Curry (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Tom Curry (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby, 3 caps), Ellis Genge (Leicester Tigers, 1 cap), Dylan Hartley - captain (Northampton Saints, 84 caps), James Haskell (Wasps, 75 caps), Paul Hill (Northampton Saints, 5 caps), Nathan Hughes (Wasps, 8 caps), Nick Isiekwe (Saracens, uncapped), Joe Launchbury (Wasps, 42 caps), Matt Mullan (Wasps, 15 caps), Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, 55 caps), Sam Underhill (Ospreys/Bath Rugby, uncapped), Harry Williams (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped), Tom Wood (Northampton Saints, 50 caps)
Backs: Mike Brown - vice-captain (Harlequins, 60 caps), Danny Care - vice captain (Harlequins, 71 caps), Joe Cokanasiga (London Irish, uncapped), Nathan Earle (Saracens, uncapped), George Ford - vice captain (Bath Rugby, 35 caps), Piers Francis (Auckland Blues/Northampton Saints, uncapped), Sam James (Sale Sharks, uncapped), Alex Lozowski (Saracens, uncapped), Harry Mallinder (Northampton Saints, uncapped), Joe Marchant (Harlequins, uncapped), Jack Maunder (Exeter Chiefs, uncapped), Jonny May (Gloucester Rugby, 25 caps), Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs, 4 caps), Denny Solomona (Sale Sharks, uncapped)
BBC Radio 5 live rugby reporter Chris Jones:
Even though 16 men are away with the Lions, this is a startling squad from Eddie Jones, with almost half of the touring party uncapped.
There are four men who helped clinch the Under 20s Grand Slam, one who recently qualified in Denny Solomona, while Sam Underhill and Piers Francis will both tour before they have played for their Premiership clubs.
Jones will lean on a wealth of experience - with all the main Lions casualties on this trip - but the abundance of youth points to a healthy future for English rugby. | England head coach Eddie Jones has named 15 uncapped players in his 31-man squad to tour Argentina in June. | 39652871 |
Witnesses said a satellite navigation error had caused the lorry to try and negotiate the narrow roads in Aberystwyth town centre, and reported gridlocked traffic as a result.
The lorry became stuck between North Parade and Alexandra Road in the town centre, before moving on to Stanley Road. | A lorry carrying a wind turbine got stuck on a Ceredigion road on Friday, causing traffic disruption. | 35383074 |
Vicky McClure played Lol in the Channel 4 drama This is England '86.
Ms McClure, who has only recently left her office job, beat Anna Maxwell Martin, Natalie Press and Juliet Stevenson to the award.
She said: "There was always a chance [of winning] but never in a million years did I expect that to happen."
"This is all so new to me," added Ms McClure. "I just hope it brings some really interesting and fun work. I think it opens a few more doors."
Vicky McClure was born in Nottingham in 1983.
She was a student at Nottingham's Television Workshop where Hollywood actress Samantha Morton started her career.
Ian Smith, the workshop's director, met Ms McClure when she was 12 years old.
"Vicky was a vibrant and focussed youngster from the early days," said Mr Smith.
"Vicky has an instinct for performance, she always had. She absorbs the role and connects with it 100%."
Director Shane Meadows first cast Ms McClure as Lol in his film This Is England, in 2006.
Her part was small as the film focussed on the character of Shaun, played by Thomas Turgoose.
However, when the TV spin-off, This is England '86, was commissioned, Meadows gave Ms McClure the drama's major storyline.
As Lol, she dealt with issues such as incest, rape and murder.
"It's been such a journey for me," said the actress. "It's not come easy. I've worked hard for it.
"Everybody has been so supportive and they've believed in me."
Despite winning such a prestigious award, Ms McClure said she was determined not to forget the city she was born in.
"I'm not moving from Nottingham, it's where I'm born and bred," she said. "It's a city I'm very proud of." | An actress from Nottingham said she felt "numb" with shock after winning a Bafta for best actress. | 13500927 |
Finlay Wilson, whose video on BBC Scotland's The Social was viewed more than 50 million times, received a letter threatening his safety.
The handwritten note was left in an envelope on the 30-year-old's doorstep on Tuesday.
Police are treating the incident as a hate crime.
Mr Wilson said: "I came out my flat at 06.30 in the morning to walk the dog and there was a handwritten letter in a sealed envelope on the front step addressed to 'the gay boy at number 45'.
"It said threatening stuff like 'you need to watch yourself' and they said they'd been watching my videos online and that they want me to get out.
"I don't really know anyone in the building. My friends have been saying they didn't realise this sort of thing still happened in this day and age."
Mr Wilson said he had "never had any grief" in Dundee before.
He said: "I was upset at first, but now I am furious, because someone's aim is to intimidate me and terrorise me into leaving my home because of their own bigoted beliefs.
"The people who do this sort of thing need to know that their views are unacceptable and the majority of people won't tolerate it."
Mr Wilson, whose popular videos for the BBC Social website showed him doing yoga with Mr Scotland Tristan Cameron-Harperin in the Hermitage forest in Dunkeld, Perthshire, said the abuser also threatened his dog Amaloh.
He said: "I've had to put a cage on the letterbox to make sure they don't post anything harmful through that he might eat."
Police Scotland said it was investigating a "threatening and abusive incident" in connection with a letter being left outside an address in Dundee between 22:00 on Thursday and 06:30 on Tuesday.
A Tayside Division spokeswoman said: "Police Scotland does not tolerate hate crime in any form and everyone has the right to live safely and without fear." | A Dundee man whose video of kilted yoga sessions in a Scottish forest became a viral hit has been targeted with homophobic hate mail. | 39442881 |
Director General Tony Hall announced that Mr MacQuarrie, 64, would be taking up the newly-restored post of BBC director nations and regions.
The broadcaster said he would be responsible for "bringing together and enhancing the BBC's offer to the nations and regions of the UK".
Mr MacQuarrie will also become a member of the BBC's new executive committee.
A new director of BBC Scotland, based at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, will be appointed in due course.
The post of director of nations and regions was abolished in 2009 but in July this year Lord Hall announced his plan to reinstate it as part of an ongoing shake-up at the corporation.
The BBC's proposed new senior management structure includes a unitary board and executive committee replacing the current Trust board, executive board and executive team.
The corporation said that Mr MacQuarrie would take up the role with "immediate effect".
It added that he would also be;
Reacting to the news, Lord Hall said: "I am delighted to appoint Kenny to this important post.
"Reflecting the nations and serving them well is vital for the BBC and a key part of the new charter.
"There is no one better than Kenny to get this right.
"He is a supremely able leader and manager and is hugely respected, not just within the BBC, but outside as well.
"I know he's the right person to give the nations and regions a strong voice across the BBC."
Mr MacQuarrie said he was "really looking forward" to the challenges of his new job. | The current head of BBC Scotland, Ken MacQuarrie, has been appointed to a UK-wide role at the corporation. | 37440265 |
They have genetically modified yeast to perform the complicated chemistry needed to convert sugar to morphine.
The findings, published in Nature Chemical Biology, raise promise for medicine but also concerns about "home-brewed" illegal drugs.
Experts have called for tight control of organisms genetically modified to produce narcotics.
If you brew beer at home, then you are relying on microscopic yeast that turns sugars into alcohol.
But by borrowing DNA from plants, scientists have been genetically engineering yeasts that can perform each of the steps needed to convert sugar into morphine.
One stage of the process - the production of an intermediary chemical called reticuline - had been a stumbling block.
That has been solved by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, and the scientists say it should now be possible to put all the steps together and "brew" morphine.
Dr John Dueber, a bioengineer at the university, said: "What you really want to do from a fermentation perspective is to be able to feed the yeast glucose, which is a cheap sugar source, and have the yeast do all the chemical steps required downstream to make your target therapeutic drug.
"With our study, all the steps have been described, and it's now a matter of linking them together and scaling up the process.
"It's not a trivial challenge, but it's doable."
Morphine plays a vital role in pain relief in many hospitals, but it requires a poppy harvest to manufacture.
Brewed morphine could, eventually, be easier to produce. It could also allow scientists to tweak each of the steps to develop new types of painkiller.
The broad concept of using microscopic organisms to make drugs is not new in medicine.
Insulin for people with diabetes has been made in genetically modified bacteria for decades.
But there are concerns these latest advances could allow a DIY drug lord to brew illegal narcotics in their home.
"In principle, anyone with access to the yeast strain and basic skills in fermentation would be able to grow morphine producing yeast using a a home-brew kit for beer-making," reads a comment piece in Nature journal.
It calls for tight controls on such genetically modified yeasts.
Prof Paul Freemont, one of the directors of the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation at Imperial College London, said: "Making opioids that can be used in an illegal sense makes this an important story.
"It's technically demanding to make these strains, but in the future who is to know?
"That is why this is such an important time - how do we regulate these strains?" | Scientists have figured out how to brew morphine using the same kit used to make beer at home. | 32780624 |
The robber called at the victim's home in Lytham Road, Preston, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, and claimed he was owed money for work on the house.
He forced his way inside, where he assaulted the pensioner and made off with a "four-figure" cash sum, Lancashire police said.
The victim suffered serious arm injuries, the force said.
Once inside the house, the man had tried to get rid of the attacker by giving him some cash, but was followed to his bedroom as he went to retrieve money.
He was then set upon, and left with an injured right arm and swelling to his hand, police said.
His attacker was described as a stocky white man in his 40s, wearing a blue coat.
Det Con Will Hogan, of Preston Police, said: "This was an absolutely shocking robbery where a 92-year-old man was targeted and we need to find the person responsible immediately.
"This crime has left officers disgusted and it is crucial we locate the attacker."
The force has appealed for information. | A 92-year-old man was dragged across the floor as a con artist tried to tear money from his hands, police have said. | 38947340 |
Ross Forbes has the visitors in front early before Jamie McDonagh and Gary Oliver added to the scoreline.
Jai Quitongo scored from a well worked corner kick to increase Queen's misery.
And then Morton captain Thomas O'Ware scored a penalty to wrap up an emphatic win ahead of next week's League Cup semi-final with Aberdeen.
Queen of the South had started strongly and forced a couple of early corners, with talisman Steven Dobbie lashing the ball high over the bar from the edge of the box when he should have done better.
But Morton soon took control and stunned the home fans with the opener.
Forbes cut inside Jordan Marshall effortlessly down the Morton right wing, before curling a delightful shot past the unsighted Lee Robinson in the home goal.
Midway through the first half, against the run of play, Dobbie dashed past the visiting defence and found the space to get a shot at goal, but he dragged the effort just wide of the post.
The visitors were by far the better side though and it was no surprise to see the lead doubled by McDonagh shortly after the half hour. Again, the goal came from an attack down the right-wing where Queens had looked vulnerable all afternoon.
Shock amongst the home fans turned to despair when Morton's third again came from the same area of the pitch.
This time Oliver was the man to supply a fine finish to the delight of the 150 or so travelling supporters.
Queen of the South came back into the game after the break for a spell, but couldn't convert pressure into clear cut chances.
At the other end, Quitongo showed some brilliant footwork before beating Robinson with a fine shot, only to be denied by the inside of the post.
It proved only a stay of execution, as the little striker drilled in a fine finish after a tremendous training ground corner.
O'Ware added to the hurt for Queens fans as he fired in a spot kick.
Match ends, Queen of the South 0, Morton 5.
Second Half ends, Queen of the South 0, Morton 5.
Substitution, Morton. Scott Tiffoney replaces Ross Forbes.
Attempt saved. Jon Scullion (Morton) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Morton. Jon Scullion replaces Jai Quitongo.
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South).
Attempt saved. Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Jai Quitongo (Morton).
Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Jai Quitongo (Morton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South).
Substitution, Morton. Kudus Oyenuga replaces Aidan Nesbitt.
Attempt saved. Lyndon Dykes (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Ross Fergusson replaces Steven Rigg.
Goal! Queen of the South 0, Morton 5. Thomas O'Ware (Morton) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Lee Robinson (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card.
Penalty Morton. Ross Forbes draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Jake Pickard (Queen of the South) header from very close range is close, but misses the top left corner.
Jai Quitongo (Morton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Darren Brownlie (Queen of the South).
Attempt missed. Jamie Hamill (Queen of the South) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Goal! Queen of the South 0, Morton 4. Jai Quitongo (Morton) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner following a set piece situation.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Andy Dowie.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Dean Brotherston replaces Grant Anderson.
Substitution, Queen of the South. Scott Hooper replaces Mark Millar.
Andy Dowie (Queen of the South) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Oliver (Morton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andy Dowie (Queen of the South).
Jai Quitongo (Morton) hits the left post with a right footed shot from the right side of the box.
Corner, Queen of the South. Conceded by Michael Doyle.
Jamie McDonagh (Morton) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Stephen Dobbie (Queen of the South) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jamie McDonagh (Morton).
Attempt saved. Ross Forbes (Morton) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Foul by Andy Murdoch (Morton).
Jordan Marshall (Queen of the South) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Morton. Conceded by Grant Anderson. | Greenock Morton stunned the league leaders Queen of the South with three confident strikes in the first half paving the way for a convincing win. | 37594295 |
The former Hull and Tranmere forward opened the scoring in the 16th minute with a header from Terry Hawkridge's free-kick before Adam Marriott put him through again on the half-hour mark and he made no mistake.
Southport's frustrations boiled over when former Lincoln midfielder Ashley Grimes saw a straight red for kicking out at Alex Woodyard after 35 minutes.
Margetts then added to Southport's woes by completing his hat-trick in first-half stoppage-time with a neat turn and finish, and then adding his fourth with a penalty in the 79th minute after Harry Anderson was felled.
In between, Southport keeper Ty Belford redeemed himself after tripping Margetts by saving Hawkridge's spot-kick.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Lincoln City 4, Southport 0.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 4, Southport 0.
Neil Ashton (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Woodyard (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Lincoln City 4, Southport 0. Jonathon Margetts (Lincoln City) converts the penalty with a.
Substitution, Southport. Joe Kearns replaces Jonathan Royle.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jamie McCombe replaces Sean Raggett.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Alan Power replaces Adam Marriott.
Substitution, Southport. James Gray replaces James Caton.
Tyrell Belford (Southport) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Southport. Louis Almond replaces Jamie Allen.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jack Muldoon replaces Nathan Arnold.
Second Half begins Lincoln City 3, Southport 0.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 3, Southport 0.
Goal! Lincoln City 3, Southport 0. Jonathon Margetts (Lincoln City).
Ashley Grimes (Southport) is shown the red card.
Goal! Lincoln City 2, Southport 0. Jonathon Margetts (Lincoln City).
Goal! Lincoln City 1, Southport 0. Jonathon Margetts (Lincoln City).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Four goals from Jonny Margetts helped Lincoln get back to winning ways with a thumping 4-0 triumph over 10-man Southport at Sincil Bank. | 37068060 |
Donor and former candidate Michael Foster is contesting Labour's decision to allow Mr Corbyn on to the ballot paper without having to secure nominations from 50 other MPs and MEPs.
Labour's National Executive Committee backed the move by 18 to 14 votes.
Mr Corbyn is taking on Owen Smith.
As a challenger, Mr Smith, a former work and pensions spokesman, had to win the backing of 20% of Labour's MPs and MEPs to be eligible to stand - a hurdle he overcame easily.
But the NEC's decision that, as the incumbent, Mr Corbyn did not have to adhere to the same requirements has proved controversial.
The NEC backed Mr Corbyn's automatic inclusion following a highly charged meeting earlier this month. Labour's ruling body, of which Mr Corbyn is a member, is reported to have taken a range of legal opinions before making its decision.
Mr Foster, who unsuccessfully stood in the seat of Camborne and Redruth at the last general election, has expressed concerns about "apparent manipulation" of the party's rules and questioned whether the legal advice was given proper consideration.
Lawyers for Mr Foster told the High Court on Tuesday that Labour and Mr Corbyn made a "very problematic interpretation" of the party's rules.
Gavin Millar QC said there was no concept of "incumbent" or "incumbency" in the party rules. "There is no distinction in the rules between the leader candidate to be automatically on the ballot paper or the challenger candidate," he said.
Mr Millar said: "There's nothing whatsoever unfair to a leader to expect him or her to gather or have a minimum level of support in the combined group [of Labour MPs and MEPs] if the leader wants to stand again in the teeth of the challenge.
"It goes with the job description to maintain that minimum level of support in the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party)."
Appearing for Labour's NEC, Mark Henderson said precedent suggested courts were wary of intervening in voluntary unincorporated associations such as the Labour Party except where their rules have "incoherence".
He said the rules were "not ambiguous nor open to serious doubt", and that there was no "custom, precedent nor practice" which suggested Mr Corbyn should be stopped from automatically going forward to a ballot of members.
Analysis by BBC political correspondent Iain Watson
The court case has huge implications for Labour.
Its ruling body - the National Executive Committee - put Jeremy Corbyn automatically on the leadership ballot but Michael Foster believes the party leader should have to seek the same number of nominations from MPs as his challenger.
That might be difficult for Mr Corbyn to achieve so if he loses the court case he could potentially lose his job too.
Mr Foster's QC argued there was no concept of incumbency in Labour's rules or anything which in terms was designed to give an incumbent leader an advantage and that all candidates should be treated in an even-handed way. In other words, that Mr Corbyn should not be exempt from seeking nominations from his fellow MPs.
But counsel for Labour's general secretary argued that the courts should be wary of intervening in the affairs of a major political party and that the intention of the rules was not to exclude the democratically elected leader from the ballot if challenged
Martin Westgate, the QC representing Mr Corbyn, said the rules as they stood existed to prevent Labour MPs choosing the leader without a ballot of party members and supporters.
Any change, he said, would be a "major, substantial shift", arguing the judge had no reason to "disturb" the current rules unless they were unreasonable.
At the end of the hearing, the judge, Mr Justice Foskett, said that he hoped to hand down his judgment on Thursday, when he will also consider any application for permission to appeal.
The outcome of the leadership election is due to be announced on 24 September.
It emerged on Monday that Labour is facing legal action from people who have joined the party since the EU referendum after the NEC decided that only those who signed up on or before 12 January could automatically vote.
Solicitors Harrison Grant said they had issued proceedings against the Labour Party "on behalf of a number of new members who have been denied the opportunity to vote in the forthcoming leadership election".
More-recent joiners were given the opportunity to vote by becoming registered supporters at a cost of £25 each. | A legal challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's right to automatically stand in the Labour leadership has been heard at the High Court in London, with a decision expected to be handed down on Thursday. | 36886159 |
The measures include providing victims of abuse with six months' unconditional unemployment benefit to give them a new start, and outlawing imprisoned abusers from being visited by their children.
The agreement was reached after six months and 66 expert hearings.
Reports say 870 women died from gender-based violence between 2003 and 2016.
So far in 2017, at least 31 women have died along with six minors. Sixteen minors have been orphaned.
Spanish politicians have pursued successive programmes to address the issue since 1997, when 60-year-old Ana Orantes was beaten, thrown over a balcony and then burned to death by her ex-husband after repeatedly complaining to authorities about his violent behaviour.
She had been forced to divide her home with her husband on the order of a divorce court.
Among the 200 measures that received parliamentary endorsement late on Monday are:
The final form of the measures will have to be approved by parliamentary commissions on Friday - which will also monitor their implementation.
It was hailed as an "unprecedented event" by Javier Maroto, a leading figure in the ruling Popular Party.
Although there was cross-party satisfaction at the agreement, there was some criticism that some of the measures did not go far enough from the Socialist PSOE and left-wing Podemos parties. | Spain's political parties are celebrating a "historic" €1bn (£895m; $1.2bn) five-year programme to tackle gender-based violence. | 40715325 |
Aiken Promotions said it was with "great regret" that it had to make the announcement and said it had "exhausted all avenues" in relation to staging the gigs at Croke Park.
Last week, Dublin City Council granted permission for only three of the five planned concerts.
The move prompted the US singer to say he would play "all or none".
Aiken Promotions said it would outline details on Wednesday on how people who had bought tickets could secure refunds.
About 400,000 fans had booked tickets for the five sold-out concerts, which were due to be staged from 25-29 July, but permission was only granted for shows on 25, 26 and 27 July.
Brooks said to chose which shows to play and which not to, would be "like asking to choose one child over another".
Residents who live near Croke Park, the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) stadium in north Dublin, where the concerts were due to be held had threatened legal action after the initial two concerts were increased to five because of unprecedented demand.
They claimed they were not consulted before the organisers announced the shows or put the tickets on sale.
The council said that granting all five concerts, following on from three by One Direction in May, would have doubled the previous maximum number of concerts held at Croke Park per year.
The GAA had an agreement with residents that a maximum of three concerts would be held each year in the sports venue.
The council said 373 submissions had been received from residents, residents' groups and local businesses.
The promoters lodged an application for a licence to stage all five shows on 17 April despite not having secured formal permission from the council.
This is not an unusual practice in the Republic of Ireland, but the controversy over the Garth Brooks concerts has brought the issue into the spotlight.
Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Enda Kenny said the cancellation of the concerts was damaging to the country.
Speaking in the Dáil (Irish parliament), Mr Kenny said the entire episode had been very badly handled.
On Monday, Dublin City councillors backed a motion calling for the five concerts to go ahead.
Last week the council said it could not reverse the decision permitting only three.
Lord Mayor Christy Burke said three days of talks with promoter Peter Aiken, the GAA and mediator Kieran Mulvey had failed to find a solution.
The chief executive of Dublin Chamber of Commerce, Gina Quin, estimated that the lost revenue to businesses in Dublin if none of the concerts went ahead would be 50m euros (£39.7m).
She said the problem lay in the planning process when it came to applying for concerts.
"These tickets were sold in February, the planning wasn't applied for until April, the decision wasn't made on that planning process, because it needs to go through due regard to allow people to appeal and put in objections, until last Thursday to only allow three of the five concerts to go ahead and that's simply too late," she said.
Garth Brooks is one of America's most famous country stars with a career that has seen him become one of the best-selling artists of all time.
The 52-year-old has recently said that Ireland was the best place in the world for him and his favourite place to sing.
He has sold more than 125m albums with hits such as The Thunder Rolls, Friends in Low Places and Unanswered Prayers.
It has been 17 years since his last concert in Dublin. | All five Garth Brooks' concerts planned for Dublin later this month have been cancelled. | 28217237 |
Members of the club, located in a leafy suburb in Glasgow's west end, say its dilapidated four-storey home requires urgent renovations or they fear it could close.
"Ten people will be made homeless, a popular restaurant will shut, support groups will stop and our cultural footprint will disappear," said the club's vice-chair Antony Kozlowski, a second-generation Polish immigrant.
Mr Kozlowski's father was a Polish solider who had fled his Nazi-occupied homeland for Scotland to fight for allied forces in WW2.
After the war, some Polish military personnel chose to stay in Scotland, facilitated by the Polish Resettlement Act of 1947.
"Many of the Poles had met Scottish women; most had served in Scotland," Mr Kozlowski said.
"Realising that these men, and some women, needed to be trained, not only in English, but in work that would be useful in their new home, the Polish Vocational Association started."
The City of Glasgow gifted a building in the west end to the association, premises still occupied by the Polish community.
Mr Kozlowski said that along with teaching agricultural, welding, electrical and language skills, the association provided a social venue for Polish soldiers and their families that "meant everything" to them.
"Hundreds of Polish soldiers and their wives used the centre in the early days. They were ordinary men and women who had lost their homeland," Mr Kozlowksi added.
Speaking of his experience of being a Pole living in Britain shortly after the war, Mr Kozlowski said he found Scotland a "friendlier" place to live than England, but it was still challenging.
He said: "Father realised when he wanted to stay in the west of Scotland he'd need to change his name because to be Polish and Roman Catholic in those days was two strikes against you. I changed it back 57 years later."
Eight years after the vocational association was founded, it had run its course, and the needs of the Polish community in Scotland changed.
Mr Kozlowksi said: "We'd spent enough time talking about the war.
"And so, in 1954, many Poles got together and formed a Polish social and education society, aimed at integrating Poles into Glasgow and vice-versa."
Today the society provides services such as a crisis and abuse reporting centre, language classes, support groups, a restaurant and affordable accommodation for vulnerable or low-income Poles who are members of the society.
Mr Kozlowski says one male tenant struggled with severe clinical depression. The society helped him access therapy and apply for Jobseekers' Allowance.
"At a point he owed us £3,000 in rent, but today he works and doesn't owe a penny," Mr Kozlowski said.
"We are proud of that. That's what we do, and that's what we are here for."
But, the society has said unless volunteers running the club can raise £250,000 to carry out critical repairs to the building and install a lift to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act, it will shut.
Mr Kozlowski said: "We can't imagine closing the club. Our 10 residents would be homeless; friends and neighbours would lose a decent Polish restaurant; we'd have nowhere to put hundreds of books and artefacts stored in our library.
"Our cultural footprint would disappear."
Mr Kozlowski believes Britain leaving the European Union could have a negative impact on fundraising.
"Brexit threw a spanner in the works," he said.
"Who is going to invest money in the Polish community when Westminster has very clearly said it doesn't want us?"
Along with money raised from within the community, the club is approaching foundations, grant organisations, the Lottery, the public and the Scottish and Polish governments to appeal for funding.
Mr Kozlowski said the 140-year-old building's crumbling condition results from decades of neglect and botched renovations from previous trustees tasked with keeping the building open.
"Any building will deteriorate. Our well-meaning predecessors on the executive committee thought it would go away. When repairs needed done, they were done patchwork," he said.
Mr Kozlowksi added that because of the legal implications involved, the original executive committee avoided seeking a registered charitable status for the club.
"They were products of a communist government; they did not want to draw attention to themselves from authorities," he said.
Mr Kozlowski acknowledges it was "difficult" for his predecessors and does not blame them for today's challenges.
The club became a registered charitable organisation in November 2015.
The society has already invested considerable funds into the building.
Last year, it was required to spend £50,000 to carry-out emergency repairs to stabilise the facade of the building, which was falling off because of damaged caused by an unsuitable coating previously applied.
Mr Kozlowksi said: "It's a never-ending process of looking for money. But now we need to ramp it up."
Last week, in a ceremony attended by Communities Secretary Angela Constance, two new memorial plaques were unveiled on the outside wall of the society.
The plaques are dedicated to Poles who had lost their lives during significant events in Poland's history, such as the Smolensk air disaster in 2010, which resulted in the loss of 96 lives including that of Polish President Lech Kaczynski.
If they can secure the funds, the society hopes to have the renovation work completed by November 2018 "in time to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Polish Independence". | The Sikorski Polish Club has been at the centre of Glasgow's Polish community since World War Two, but it is now under threat. | 37623184 |
The move would see TfL take over West Anglia and Southeastern London services.
A recent report concluded there were "no barriers" to further rail devolution in the capital.
Mr Johnson said "great progress" had been made in developing the plans.
Currently, with the exception of the London Overground network, rail services into the capital are provided by several train operating companies, each with their own franchise agreement with central government.
Mr Johnson said that bringing the services under TfL's control would simplify ticketing and bring savings of £100m to help fund improvements. | The final plans for Transport for London (TfL) to take over suburban rail services in the capital could be announced in April, mayor Boris Johnson has said. | 21262723 |
Coastguards in Cowes, Newport, Bembridge and the Needles formed the rescue team at the site of a recent major landslide, east of Castle Point.
Paramedics and firefighters were also on hand to help the woman who was in "considerable pain" from a leg injury.
The RNLI said it lifted her out of the hole using a flexible stretcher.
The lifeboats were launched at about 02:30 BST.
A spokesman said: "After then being transferred to another stretcher she was lifted over a high wall and put aboard the Cowes Atlantic 85 lifeboat, which fortunately could get close inshore because of the high tide.
"Accompanied by a male friend and a paramedic, the woman was then taken by lifeboat to the Gridiron landing at East Cowes."
The woman was taken to St Mary's Hospital in Newport. | A woman who attended a summer Solstice party on the Isle of Wight was rescued after falling down an unstable cliff into a deep hole. | 33217181 |
Matthew Chapman, from Lincolnshire, was the only person on board when the helicopter crashed during the TT Festival on 6 June last year.
The 48-year-old had dropped off two passengers in the Baldwin Valley shortly before the accident.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch said he battled "turbulent conditions".
The helicopter crashed after lifting off for the return journey, facing gusts of 46 knots (53 mph), the AAIB said.
It began swinging from side to side before plunging to the ground.
The impact "was not survivable for the pilot", the report said.
Businessman Mr Chapman, of Louth, had 786 hours of flying experience, including 126 on helicopters.
An inquest heard he had set off from Milton Keynes at about 06:00 BST with two passengers on board the Bell Jetranger aircraft.
After travelling to the island, he dropped both of them off at the Creg Ny Baa - a popular viewing area for the annual TT races.
The helicopter crashed at about 09:00 BST after lifting off for the return journey. Mr Chapman was pronounced dead at the scene.
The AAIB concluded that appropriate training in mountain flying techniques and the associated hazards "could have assisted the pilot in executing the flight successfully". | A helicopter pilot killed in a crash on the Isle of Man struggled to regain control in gusty conditions, an accident report has found. | 36483600 |
Cheung Jiping and Lui Bo had been released from police custody in southern China last week.
But a close friend told the BBC they were in Hong Kong for only a few hours before going back to China as part of their bail conditions.
Both men have confessed to trading in illegal books in China.
Their supporters believe the confessions, made on Chinese TV, were forced.
1. Lui Bo, general manager, goes missing in Shenzhen, 15 October
2. Cheung Jiping, business manager, 32, goes missing in Dongguan, 15 October
3. Gui Minhai, co-owner, 51, goes missing in Thailand, 17 October
4. Lam Wingkei, manager, 60, last seen in Hong Kong, 23 October
5. Lee Bo, shareholder, 65, goes missing in Hong Kong, 30 December
Mr Cheung and Mr Lui returned to Hong Kong separately last week. Hong Kong police say the men asked for the missing person cases filed on their behalf to be dropped.
But Hong Kong police did not say how long they stayed in the territory or where they are now.
Bei Ling, president of the activist group Independent Chinese PEN Center and a close friend of detained publisher Gui Minhai, told the BBC's Juliana Liu they had gone back to China after a few hours.
He said Mr Cheung had gone to his wife's family in Dongguan and Mr Lui to his family in Shenzhen, following their bail conditions. They could yet face trial.
Mr Cheung and Mr Lui are two of five men linked to a Hong Kong publishing house and book shop who went missing last year and resurfaced in police custody in China.
They had all dealt with books which were critical of Chinese leaders.
The case has sparked international concern that China could be attempting to rein in freedom of expression in Hong Kong, though China says its officials would not act illegally.
The fate and the locations of the three other booksellers remain unknown. | Two Hong Kong booksellers caught up in a criminal investigation in China have returned to the mainland after a brief stay in the territory, a friend says. | 35781842 |
It is a result of one of the more arcane rules of a sport that is necessarily complex because of the high levels of technology involved.
Some would argue it is a ridiculous situation; others that it is an inevitable result of a difficult set of circumstances. So what exactly has happened?
Formula 1's rules permit drivers to use only five of the six constituent parts of the engine through this season.
The limitations on usage of parts are in the rules as an attempt to keep down costs - a decade or more ago, it was not unusual for teams to use three or four engines in a single weekend as they sought the best performance.
The penalties are there as a deterrent from using too many parts of the highly complex and advanced turbo hybrid 'power units' — which are the internal combustion engine - turbo, MGU-H, MGU-K, energy store and control electronics.
The MGU-H is the device that recovers energy from the turbo; the MGU-K from the rear axle.
The first time a sixth of the elements is used, it is a 10-place penalty. Each subsequent time a sixth element is used, it is a further five places. The same applies the seventh time an element is used and so on.
Hamilton is in this position because he suffered failures of the MGU-H at two consecutive early-season races in China and Russia. Each required a new MGU-H and turbo - the two units are combined - and made it inevitable he would have a penalty for using too many parts at some point later in the season.
Mercedes are taking the penalty at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend for two reasons:
1) Although Hamilton could possibly have scraped through this race with the engine parts he had, there would be a reliability risk in doing so as they were high mileage
2) It is one of the easiest tracks on which to overtake, so it gives him the best chance to recover the best possible result.
The size of the penalty in terms of places is academic because a driver can only be demoted as far as the back of the grid.
Mercedes have exploited a loophole that exists in the regulations, in order to put as many new engine parts in the 'pool' for Hamilton. The idea is to put him in the best possible position for the remaining nine races of the season.
Mercedes knew they needed two more turbo/MGU-Hs at a minimum to complete those grands prix. And the way the penalty system works, that would have itself added up to a 30-place penalty (10 + 5 places for the first two; and again for the second two).
That already put him at the back. So there was no extra penalty in adding a sixth ICE and MGU-K and an eighth MGU-H/turbo, effectively giving him three completely new power units for the remaining races of the season.
The system is a modification of the one first introduced with the current engine regulations in 2014.
Governing body the FIA realised that the turbo-hybrid engines were highly complex pieces of kit, as well as introducing revolutionary new technology.
How revolutionary? A road-car petrol engine has a thermal efficiency - its ability to convert fuel-energy into usable power - of about 29%, a figure they have been stuck at for decades. A road-going turbo-diesel can be as efficient as about 35-40%.
Modern F1 engines, the best of which produce more than 950bhp, are approaching 50% thermal efficiency - and exceed it when the hybrid system is on full energy deployment.
It is a truly amazing step forward in technology in such a short amount of time, and these advances will soon filter down to road cars, which was the whole point of introducing them into F1.
That's the benefit. The penalty is that the engines were expensive to develop and were liable to break quite often in their infancy.
To encourage manufacturers to keep costs down and reliability up, a complex penalty system was devised.
Initially, in 2014, if a driver's penalty could not be fulfilled by the number of grid places he lost, he would be given additional time penalties in the race, in the form of having to drive through the pits, and sometimes stop there for a period of time, too.
But there was a backlash against this as a number of drivers suffered in 2014 and eventually it was agreed that the system was overly punitive, so the extra in-race penalties were dropped.
The idea of carrying over penalties to future races was rejected before the rules were finalised in the first place, for similar reasons.
Although fans continue to complain about the system, it is unlikely to be changed.
F1 bosses recognise it has its flaws, but also that it is probably the least-worst option available.
But the situation may come up for discussion again.
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff says the world champions had last year proposed a rule to prevent the stockpiling of engines but it was rejected by the other teams.
He said the current situation remained "ridiculous" and added: "We should probably close that loophole."
There needs to be some form of penalty system to keep costs under control, but no-one wants it to be as overly punitive or as obviously ridiculous as it was in 2014.
This is the way of things in F1 sometimes. It is so complex and the teams and manufacturers involved so clever that even the best possible solution to a problem thrown up by circumstances can come across to some as ridiculous.
All recognise that as unfortunate, but just one of those things.
The result of Mercedes' actions is that Hamilton is probably in the best possible situation he could be for the rest of the season.
He actually now has more available engines than team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg - Hamilton has three completely new engines; Rosberg only two.
There is the possibility that Hamilton could lose out in one way, however. There are rumours that Mercedes are to introduce a new engine specification for the Japanese Grand Prix - in October in four races' time.
Hamilton cannot now take that upgrade without incurring another penalty, whereas Rosberg can; it can be the German's fifth and final engine.
But Hamilton has the benefit of being able to run the three engines he does have harder than Rosberg, because they do not have to complete as many races. Hamilton's engines must do only three races each, as opposed to four and five respectively for the two engines Rosberg has remaining.
Running an engine harder basically means using it at a higher power for longer, whereas Rosberg will have to be more conservative with his usage of his remaining two.
So the situation may effectively even out between the two. | World championship leader Lewis Hamilton will start the Belgian Grand Prix from the back of the grid after being hit with a grid penalty totalling 55 places. | 37204040 |
Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) will pay the family of Hamako Watanabe 49 million yen (£284,000, $472,000).
Ms Watanabe killed herself after she was forced to leave her home due to radioactive contamination.
The plant was badly damaged by the March 2011 tsunami, which knocked out cooling systems to reactors.
The case could open the way for many others to sue Tepco for compensation, says the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.
In June 2011, three months after the plant's failure, Mrs Watanabe and her husband Mikio were forced to evacuate their home because of radioactive contamination. Their home in Kawamata town was about 40km from the plant.
The family moved to an apartment in Fukushima city. Weeks later Mrs Watanabe, 58, doused herself in kerosene and set herself on fire.
Her husband and three children sued Tepco for 91 million yen.
They claimed the evacuation was responsible for a deterioration of Mrs Watanabe's mental state because she did not know when she could return home, according to Kyodo news agency. The chicken farm where she and her husband were working also closed.
Following the verdict, Tepco released a statement reiterating that it was sorry for the accident and said it would study the verdict and "respond in a sincere way".
"We pray that Hamako Watanabe has found peace," the company added.
Mr Watanabe said he was "satisfied" with the court decision.
It is not the first time Tepco has paid out compensation. It has settled a number of suicide-related claims through a government dispute resolution system, reports say, but this case is the first time a court has mandated Tepco should pay damages.
Dozens of Fukushima residents are reported to have killed themselves since the disaster, says our correspondent.
Tens of thousand fled their homes and businesses because of radioactive contamination, with the majority still unable to return home. | A Japanese court has ordered the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant to pay damages to the family of an evacuee who killed herself. | 28933726 |
"Loughgall: The inside story" is the front page of the Irish News, while the News Letter has an eight-page supplement on the killings.
The Irish News has an interview with "Scout One", an IRA man it says escaped the ambush.
He tells the paper that after a sustained period of gunfire, he knew something was "badly wrong" when he saw an Army helicopter.
Scout One says that he and a fellow IRA man drove into the County Armagh village and were quickly surrounded by SAS soldiers who trained their guns on their car.
He says he could see the bodies of some of the IRA men who were killed and believes he was allowed to leave the scene because there was an elderly couple in a car behind them.
The News Letter describes Loughgall as the "SAS mission that told the IRA they could never win".
Inside, author and former RUC Special Branch detective Dr William Matchett says that the IRA unit at Loughgall "contained the IRA's top killers" whose cross border murder spree "threatened to plunge Northern Ireland into a sectarian civil war".
He says they "were intoxicated by republican myths and had lost touch with reality".
Former IRA prisoner Anthony McIntyre tells the paper that there was initially cheering in the IRA wings of the Maze when news came in of heavy casualties in an attack at a police station in County Armagh.
The next morning the wing was "a sombre, sombre place" and he says there was "a real sense of despondency, despair, grief and anger".
The paper also has a piece written by Mairead Kelly, the sister of one of the IRA men who was killed.
Next month's general election is the lead story in the Belfast Telegraph.
It says Emma Little-Pengelly is to stand for the DUP in South Belfast, while the Ulster Unionist Party has not revealed whether it will put forward a candidate in the constituency.
Elsewhere, the paper says Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams is preparing to hand over leadership of the party to his deputy, Mary Lou McDonald.
We've all been enjoying the recent spell of rare sunshine here and the Telegraph says that Northern Ireland was hotter that the Mediterranean at the weekend.
Temperatures reached "a scorching" 20 degrees in Armagh, compared to 19C in Nice and Rome and a chilly 17C in Barcelona.
Finally, the paper carries the story of Northern Ireland's most unlikely social media star.
Echo, a heifer from County Down, has racked up more than 300,000 views on Facebook, showing her preparations for this week's Balmoral Show.
She's a real moo-vie star - the top of her field. | The 30th anniversary of the killings of eight IRA men and a civilian by the SAS is given widespread coverage in both the News Letter and Irish News on Monday. | 39841724 |
Nancie Atwell, a US teacher who won the Global Teacher Prize earlier this year, was visiting a school in London.
She also said that teachers could get more attention from pupils from talking quietly than shouting.
Ms Atwell won a million-dollar prize - but immediately gave the money to her school in Maine.
On her visit to Capital City Academy in Willesden, north-west London, she said part of the prize had been spent on fixing the school boilers.
Ms Atwell was demonstrating her award-winning teaching skills in an English lesson to a class of 12 and 13-year-olds, with Schools Minister Nick Gibb watching.
Softly spoken and fastidiously polite to the pupils, sitting in a circle around her, she taught a lesson about two poems. She also told them that her own pupils called her by her first name.
"I've been teaching a long time and something I've learnt is, almost the softer you are, the more attentive they are."
If there were behaviour problems, she said: "I would go to that student and say, 'What's the problem. You need to engage with this, stop talking.' I'm strict. I've also got what they call 'the look'... they fear it.
"The answer to almost every issue in the classroom is to talk to the kids about what's going on."
In terms of what made a great teacher, she said: "It's not my personality, it's not my intuition, it's what I know about professional methods."
She emphasised the importance of applying the lessons of research about what worked in the classroom.
Ms Atwell was awarded her prize at the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai, with former US President Bill Clinton on stage.
But she said that as a teacher "committed to public service", she would donate the prize to her school.
Speaking in London about her donation, she said: "I have everything I need. My car runs, my mortgage is paid, but my school and my students didn't have what they needed."
Ms Atwell said the prize, funded by the Varkey Foundation, was an important recognition of the "life-changing" potential of teaching.
But she warned against education systems moving to what she thought was an over-prescriptive curriculum.
Such an approach would limit children's range of reading, she warned, so that they would spend too long focusing on a small number of texts in order to pass tests.
"Parents are recognising that their children are being tested rather than taught," she said of US schools.
She criticised the move in the United States towards a "common core" curriculum, which she said "inhibits teachers' creativity".
For teachers, she said an excessive focus on testing and a curriculum based on passing a test was "de-professionalising" teaching.
"It's done nothing but decimate morale," she said.
"It takes away teachers' autonomy, their ability to respond to who their students are and what they see is going on in their classroom."
But she emphasised how much could be achieved by teachers when they were able to engage with students and develop their creativity and writing skills.
Mr Gibb, observing from the back of the class, said he supported Ms Atwell "in her drive to highlight the importance of literacy and to help spread the love of reading around the world".
"Every child, no matter what their background, should read widely and read well, giving them the best opportunity to get on in life."
And pupils in the class gave their own views on what made a great teacher - with a number of them saying they liked it when teachers were strict enough to let people learn.
One, Keara, said she liked it when lessons were quiet and everyone could concentrate.
"There's a time for laughing and a time for getting on with the work," she said. | The "world's best teacher" says that a culture of excessive testing can damage standards and "decimate morale" among teachers. | 34769430 |
Here's the story of one of those ships, its captain and its crew.
The Hanjin Rome is nestled between countless other ships off the coast of Singapore, a towering container vessel. As with any of these ships, if you approach in a small boat, it seems there's no sign of life up there.
That's what the BBC did, hoping to get on board to see what the situation was. Well, our team didn't get permission - but they did manage to speak to the crew via radio and get some contact details.
Since then, I've been spending two days chatting to Captain Moon Kwon-do on Facebook. Without any pressing seafaring duties to attend to, he's got plenty of time to write back and forth and tell me about himself, his men and his "old lady", the Hanjin Rome.
If like me, you don't really know what a modern-day cargo captain looks like, here's a selfie on the bridge:
When the Hanjin Rome arrived in Singapore on 29 August, no-one on board expected anything other than a regular port call. Little did they know that their trip was about to come to a grinding halt.
The previous months had been business as usual - the ship got back from its regular route to South America and was now headed for the Middle East, merely stopping over in Singapore. The usual thing, refuelling, replenishing supplies and maybe picking up some new cargo.
What they didn't know though was that Hanjin Shipping had filed for bankruptcy protection - crumbling under the weight of a staggering $5.4bn (£4.1bn) worth of debt.
"At about 9:20 in the evening, an attorney came on board with a sheriff," Captain Moon says as he recalls the night. The ship got arrested, seized by creditors who were hoping to get at least some money back.
"No-one told me about this beforehand," he goes on, struggling to hide his emotions. The captain was completely left in the dark about the state of affairs.
The 36-year-old was then ordered to go out to an anchorage position and wait. This was two weeks ago - and since then there's been little more information given to them about the ship's - and their own personal - future.
Captain Moon has a local Sim card brought on board by a friend. A smartphone is his way of connecting with the outside world, whether it's curious BBC reporters, friends, colleagues - or his family back home.
His wife and daughter live in the South Korean port city of Busan, eagerly awaiting any news or development.
And this Wednesday is not just any day in Korea - it's the beginning of Chuseok, the three-day Korean thanksgiving festival.
It is a day you normally spend with family and relatives, he tells me. It's also important for performing religious memorial services for your ancestors.
In addition, Captain Moon tells me that his elderly grandmother is in a critical condition and that he really wishes he could be back there with her.
He has already asked to be repatriated and replaced as captain - but things are not looking up. "No-one wants to join our arrested Hanjin Rome," he says, sending a sad face emoji on Facebook.
From my office window, I can clearly see the cluster of ships off the east coast. On one of them, Captain Moon sits typing on his phone. As we chat, one of Singapore's torrential downpours begins. "I like heavy rain," he grins through the internet across the water.
Of course he's not the only one missing home and family. There's a total of 24 seamen on board, 11 South Koreans and 13 Indonesians.
I asked for a picture of the crew to get an idea of what a team of 21st Century sailors look like. They sure know how to get their message across.
They are not allowed to go onshore except for things like a medical emergency. But land is temptingly close.
From where they are anchored, Singapore is on one side and a few Indonesian islands are on the other. The Indonesian seamen could almost swim back to their home country.
But what to do when you're stuck like they are? I ask him what they're up to all day, assuming they must have heaps of time on their hands.
But I stand corrected, a lot of the work on board has to be done regardless of whether they are sailing or at anchor. Today, in fact is...
Lol indeed - even a captain needs to get his laundry done. So I wait a for a bit and it's not long before he is back online.
He says that some might regard their situation as "marooned or even abandoned", but that "most crew still have hope this will be settled in the near future".
Shipping lawyers here in Singapore though tell me that it's normal for ships to be arrested for a few months - there are even extreme cases of up to a year.
I ask about water, food, general supplies. They still have enough but stocks are beginning to run low. On Friday, they will get fresh provisions brought on board as well as some entertainment material - movies to watch, games to play.
Maybe also a few more Sim cards so that more of them can get online. For instance, to look for new jobs for when their current ordeal is over.
There is after all little expectation that Hanjin Shipping will survive its current situation.
The Hanjin Rome was built in 1998, "an old lady" as the captain says. He's been sailing on her since 2003, and jokes that he therefore has special feelings for her and that "she looks younger than her age".
But good looks won't help her too much in her uncertain future. The ship is one of three built in the late 1990s and in the current shipping drought that means its market value is very low, too low in fact.
"Given Hanjin's extraordinary circumstance, it is probable the three 90s ships will be sold for scrap and sent to the beaches on the Indian subcontinent - the most popular location for scrapping," William Bennett, senior analyst at VesselsValue told the BBC.
The scrap value for the Hanjin Rome is around $7.15m. And as much as Captain Moon likes his old ship, he too agrees that it is probably doomed to be scrapped.
As of now though, the crew remains on duty, officers are manning the bridge 24/7, staring out across the countless vessels anchored around them.
The difference is that the other ships can simply weigh anchor and are free to sail off at any time. | Sprinkled across the oceans around the globe, some 60 of Hanjin Shipping's cargo vessels are stranded at sea after the company filed for bankruptcy two weeks ago. | 37335614 |
A once-a-decade poll of 15,000 Britons found those aged 16-44 were having sex fewer than five times a month.
The figure compared with more than six times a month on the last two occasions when the official National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles was carried out, in 1990-91 and 1999-2001.
The study's authors say modern life may be having an impact on libidos.
Dr Cath Mercer, from University College London, said: "People are worried about their jobs, worried about money. They are not in the mood for sex.
"But we also think modern technologies are behind the trend too. People have tablets and smartphones and they are taking them into the bedroom, using Twitter and Facebook, answering emails."
She also said the survey suggested that couples aged 16 to 44 may be using online porn as a substitute for sex.
Men polled in 2010 to 2012 reported having sex 4.9 times a month and women 4.8. In both previous surveys the averages were more than six for both sexes both times.
The survey carried out by NatCen Social Research and analysed by researchers from University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine also asked older people about their sex lives.
It found 42% of women and 60% of men aged 65 to 74 had had sex in the past year.
Nonetheless, they were the age groups having the least sex - 2.3 times a month for men and 1.4 for women.
Among men, the 25-to-34 age group were having the most sex - 5.4 times a month - and for women it was the 16-to-24 age group, 5.8 times.
The latest survey, which is carried out every 10 years, also shows the age at which people start having sex is lower in the younger age groups.
The average age for the under-25s is 16 compared with 19 for men and 18 for women in the 65-to-74 age group.
Among other findings:
Genevieve Edwards, from Marie Stopes International, said: "A key insight from the survey is that people are having sex earlier and having children later, which means that, on average, women in Britain spend about 30 years of their life needing to avert an unplanned pregnancy, yet many are not being informed about or offered the full range of services.
"Long-acting contraceptives, for example, can be extremely effective and convenient but too many are never offered the choice."
But the poll - the full details of which have been reported in the Lancet - also revealed the extent to which people are forced to have sex against their will.
One in 10 women and one in 70 men said they had experienced it.
However, fewer than half had told anyone about it and even fewer (13% of women and 8% of men) had reported the crime to the police.
A selection of your comments: | Money worries and the distractions of social media mean people are having sex less frequently, researchers say. | 25094142 |
Impeccably dressed and coiffed, she is one of Singapore's success stories, having started her career in banking more than two decades ago.
She now runs the wealth management and consumer banking team at DBS, one of Singapore's most valuable firms.
But she admits she couldn't do this without help.
"When I got pregnant I moved very close to my parents," she told me. "They were literally a stone's throw away so they were always there for me or my children.
"I also had a [domestic] helper, which is possible in Singapore because it's relatively affordable, and I had very supportive bosses at work who allowed me to juggle my time and my flexibility."
Ms Tan is one of a small but powerful group of women helping to run some of the biggest companies in Singapore.
At telecom giant Singtel, female employees make up one third of the senior management positions - including the group chief executive, and investment, technology and operating heads.
Over the last decade Singapore has outperformed its Asian peers in closing the gender workplace and pay gap - but still very few women end up joining what is essentially a men's club in the business world here.
When it comes to gender equality in the workplace, the city-state still has a long way to go.
Experts say women are still being held back because the corporate culture in Singapore penalises them if they decide to spend a few years out of the workforce.
"Some women do take time off for their own family issues and then the companies would say - oh you took two years off so you're not getting as much exposure as the man who didn't take the time off," says Prof Annie Koh of Singapore Management University (SMU), who has been working on the issue of gender equality for years.
As a mother of two herself, she says women often feel they deserve less than men, because of their family commitments.
"Women aren't good at asking. We keep telling ourselves that our bosses will tell us when we deserve more, that perhaps because we came back after giving birth we shouldn't be paid as much as men," she says.
"Women shouldn't be penalised for stepping out of the workforce."
Singapore regularly ranks as one of Asia's worst countries in terms of work life balance, and experts say that's why it's suffering from a declining birth rate.
"Some women end up having the 'either/or' mentality", Prof Koh said, "choosing either the life of a professional or the life of a mother".
"But it doesn't have to be like that. The government is encouraging companies to bring women into the workforce, because it's good for business, and for the economy."
But by some accounts, the workplace is only getting more competitive in an already highly stressful Singapore.
Vithiya Gajandran is a 24 year-old postgraduate student. Ambitious and keen to succeed, she is the epitome of the Singaporean millennial.
But while she does plan to have a family some day, she says it's much harder to have kids and a career in Singapore now than it used to be.
"I remember how my mum would go to work and look after us and she was always able to do both" she said as we sat in her lecture theatre waiting for class to begin.
"I don't think it's so easy to do these days. It's getting more competitive, bosses are requiring more of you and want you to produce more, you are required to put in extra hours, its no longer the 9 to 5 workplace. It's definitely getting tougher."
As a nation, Singapore has always depended on its highly educated workforce to get ahead and stay competitive.
And increasingly women here are setting their sights on success - but many are still struggling to find the right balance between work and family. | Tan Su Shan typically starts her day early: a breakfast meeting with a client, or - if they ask for it - dropping off her children at school. | 34864993 |
Ms Daoud, a former BBC journalist, was detained by plainclothes policemen at her home in Cairo on Monday and put on a plane to Beirut.
The move came hours after her contract was terminated by privately-owned OnTV.
Her show, Al-Soura Al-Kamila (The Full Picture), controversially aired views critical of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and his government.
Mr Sisi has cracked down on dissent since leading the military's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
Ms Daoud's 10-year-old daughter, an Egyptian national, was at their home when her mother was led away by police. Officers reportedly confiscated Ms Daoud's mobile phone and British passport.
There was no formal explanation for Ms Daoud's deportation, but a security official told the Associated Press (AP) that her residency permit had expired.
Shortly before her arrest, Ms Daoud had written on Twitter: "I am announcing the official termination of my contract with OnTV after five years that began in 2011."
Ms Daoud's lawyer, Zyad el-Elaimy, said her first comment after landing in Beirut was that she would challenge the decision.
"It's the first time someone is deported in this fashion in Egypt," Mr Elaimy told AP by telephone from Cairo.
The Egyptian authorities, he added, were "not prepared to hear any diverse voices or to hear anyone who is supportive" of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime President Hosni Mubarak.
"This is a campaign against respectable media and free journalism," said Al-Soura Al-Kamila's editor-in-chief, Amer Tamam.
"All we were doing was presenting a respectable show... so we don't know what we are being punished for."
OnTV was sold last month by the billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris to Ahmed Abou Hashima, a steel magnate and Sisi supporter.
Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served briefly as interim vice-president after Morsi was ousted, praised Ms Daoud for her "professionalism, credibility and courage".
"One day we may have enough self-confidence to understand the value of having different opinions," he wrote on Twitter.
Satirist Bassem Youssef, whose TV show was taken off air for its criticism of the government, said her arrest was "just the beginning".
"Egypt... can't tolerate the rest of the world,'' he wrote on Facebook.
In May, the head of the Egyptian journalists' union and two other top members were recently charged with harbouring fugitives following a police raid of the union's headquarters that saw two journalists for an opposition website arrested.
Also on Monday, the prominent feminist activist Mozn Hassan was banned from travelling to Beirut for a meeting of women human rights defenders.
Nazra for Feminist Studies, which Ms Hassan founded, said she was barred due to her alleged involvement in a case in which non-governmental organisations have been accused of receiving foreign funds with the aim of sowing chaos. | Egyptian authorities have deported a popular British-Lebanese television talkshow host, Liliane Daoud. | 36649781 |
More than 20 firefighters helped tackle the blaze of polystyrene blocks at an industrial yard at 17:45 on Thursday.
The damage ran to a "low four-figure sum".
Police Scotland appealed for anyone with information about the wilful fireraising, or who saw anything suspicious, to contact them. | A fire at Peterhead harbour which sent a huge plume of smoke over the Aberdeenshire town was started deliberately, police have said. | 34550822 |
It charts the British star's move to Hollywood, where he played Igor in Mel Brooks' 1974 film Young Frankenstein.
Feldman rose to fame writing on 1960s shows like radio's Round the Horne, The Frost Report and his own sketch show It's Marty.
The play has been written by Feldman's biographer Robert Ross.
Jones, who was a founding member of the Monty Python team and directed their film The Life of Brian, will direct a four-week season of the theatre production at London's Leicester Square Theatre from 18 January to 20 February.
During the 1960s the Python star worked with Feldman several times, including writing sketches for and appearing in It's Marty.
"When I joined the writing team for The Frost Report, the first person to say 'hello' and make me feel welcome was Marty Feldman," said Jones.
"He was one of those very kind and very funny people who helped all the Pythons along the way.
"It's lovely to be able to say a belated 'thank you' by bringing him back to eye-popping life - sort of! - on the London stage."
Actor David Boyle will play Feldman as he struggles with life in Los Angeles and "comes to terms with the burden of fame he has always craved", as his wife Lauretta "takes to the glamorous lifestyle with alacrity". She will be played by actress Rebecca Vaughan.
Producers say Jeepers Creepers will chart "one of the most powerful and complex partnerships in comedy, through the unique gaze of one of the greatest: Marty Feldman".
The play's writer Ross has penned several comedy biographies, including Feldman, Benny Hill and Carry On star Sid James, as well as The Monty Python Encyclopaedia.
Last year Jones took to the stage himself for 10 Monty Python live shows at London's O2 Arena.
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Jones and Michael Palin appeared together on stage for the first time since 2009. Palin told fans it would be "the last time we'll be working together". | Monty Python's Terry Jones will direct the world premiere of Jeepers Creepers, a play about comedy star Marty Feldman and his ambitious wife, Lauretta. | 34660709 |
Is this a sign of things to come? Absolutely.
Campaigners from Britain Stronger in Europe are in Wales on Thursday. I'm told there'll be a Welsh launch of the Vote Leave campaign early in the new year.
And now the head to head between Carwyn Jones and Nigel Farage in January will ensure the EU debate remains firmly centre stage in January.
In February we could get a date for the referendum. There's some speculation it could be June as the Prime Minister wants to avoid another summer of migration crisis headlines.
When you consider the possible timeline, you can see why some involved in the assembly election are nervous that devolved issues will struggle to get heard amid the noise of the first EU vote in a generation.
There are plenty who say June is too tight a deadline, with September, or even 2017 looking more likely, in which case there'll at least be the chance to catch a breath between the two votes.
Welsh Labour want to try to separate the assembly election and the EU referendum campaign as much as possible. That may be easier said than done, particularly with UKIP due to play such a prominent role in the assembly campaign.
Labour's campaign launch to remain in the EU this week threw up a headline writer's dream when two of the big beasts, Peter Hain and Carwyn Jones, clambered into the cockpit of an aircraft.
The photo call at the International Centre for Aerospace Training, near Cardiff airport, attracted the inevitable and admittedly cliched "in for a turbulent ride" line from some journalists. I'll have to put my hands up to that one.
There was a nod to concerns over immigration and welfare but this was Welsh Labour giving its unconditional support for membership of the EU, regardless of what David Cameron can achieve in his renegotiation talks.
Even by the standards of pro-European rhetoric, the warnings were eye-catching: a loss of more than £1bn, 200,000 jobs at stake and the end to farming as we know it.
The UKIP "ludicrous" response was expected. Stephen Crabb's decision to go on the attack was more surprising, as he called Labour's claims "outlandish" and criticised Peter Hain's record on Europe, referring to his efforts to get Britain to join the Euro 15 years ago.
Stephen Crabb doesn't have the Eurosceptic credentials of his predecessor David Jones but nevertheless we now know he's not afraid to sound critical on the subject.
Labour's central argument is that Wales is uniquely exposed to a UK withdrawal because of the scale of EU aid it receives.
This is referred to as a "great lie" by David Jones. His view is that a Westminster government would have enough extra money in the event of a withdrawal to replace the lost aid.
There's no definitive answer but expect many to have a go at dealing with the question at length in the new year. | There's been a flurry of activity related to the EU referendum as the political year in Wales comes to a close. | 35103444 |
But many are glowering over Nolan turning a blind eye to the role of Indian soldiers in the battle. The Times of India wrote that their "significant contribution" was missing from Nolan's "otherwise brilliant" work. Writing for Bloomberg View, columnist Mihir Sharma said the film "adds to the falsehood that plucky Britons stood alone against Nazi Germany once France fell, when, in fact, hundreds of millions of imperial subjects stood, perforce, with them".
Few can deny the role of the subjects. Some five million Commonwealth servicemen joined the military services of the British empire during WW2. Almost half of them were from South Asia. Indian soldiers played a key role in major battles like Tobruk, Monte Cassino, Kohima and Imphal. A multinational force of British, Indian and African units recaptured Burma (Myanmar) for the Allies.
What happened with the Indian soldiers in Dunkirk is less clear. Yasmin Khan, historian and author of The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World War, says she has often wondered why there is very little factual data on their role in the battle, which many say cost Germany the war.
What is well known, she told me, is that four companies of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, including a unit of the Bikaner State forces, served in France during the campaign on the Western Front, and some were evacuated from Dunkirk. Among them were three contingents of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. One contingent was taken prisoner by German forces.
According to one account, India also provided more than 2,500 mules - shipped from Bombay (now Mumbai) to Marseilles - to the war effort as the British animal transport companies had been phased out. An Indian soldier, Jemadar Maula Dad Khan, was feted for showing "magnificent courage, coolness and decision" in protecting his men and animals whey they were shelled from the ground and strafed from the air by the enemy.
The Indian soldiers and the mules were eventually ordered towards the coast. Many of the men could not take their animals on the retreat and gave them away to local people in France, according to the same account.
Historian John Broich says the Indian soldiers in Dunkirk were "particularly cool under fire and well organised during the retreat".
"They weren't large in number, maybe a few hundred among hundreds of thousands, but their appearance in the film would have provided a good reminder of how utterly central the role of the Indian Army was in the war," he told Slate.
"Their service meant the difference between victory and defeat. In fact, while Britain and other allies were licking their wounds after Dunkirk, the Indian Army picked up the slack in North Africa and the Middle East.
To be fair, Nolan has said that he approached the story "from the point of view of the pure mechanics of survival rather than from the politics of the event".
"We don't have generals in rooms pushing things around on maps. We don't see Churchill. We barely glimpse the enemy," he told the Telegraph. "It's a survival story."
Historian Joshua Levine, who is also the film's historical consultant, told me that Dunkirk was a work of fiction and "it isn't a film's job to tell the full story of Dunkirk... and nor, in the time available, could it even try to do so".
"This film focuses on a few protagonists whose paths cross occasionally, each one of whom experiences just a tiny corner of the whole story. As Hilary Mantel says about historical fiction, 'The man who is fighting can't see over the hill, out of the trench.' What I'd love to see, though, is an Indian film about Dunkirk, or WW2 generally, and I sincerely hope Indian filmmakers are working on it."
But what about the criticism that the role of Indian and their South Asian counterparts in WW2 has been forgotten?
Yasmin Khan says that their "sheer scale of the contribution" has become apparent in Britain in recent years. "No longer is it simply an island story of heroic, plucky British fighting against Nazi-occupied continental Europe; it has now become increasingly customary for historians to refer to the contribution made by Asian, African and Caribbean servicemen in the 1940s", she writes in her book.
A memorial to honour the role of these soldiers came up on London's Constitution Hill in 2002. There have been museum exhibitions, oral history projects and TV documentaries to "reveal how crucial they [the soldiers] often were to the action, the sacrifices that they made in the face of terrible odds, and also to divulge individual stories of great bravery and intrepid action".
"It is no longer true to suggest that this is an entirely forgotten story," she says.
Meanwhile, Indians are flocking to watch Dunkirk, which opened at 416 screens, including 10 Imax screens, across the country, on Friday.
Unlike most Hollywood films, Dunkirk hasn't been dubbed in any Indian language for wider viewership. Still, says Denzil Dias of Warner Brothers (India), the film raked in $2.4m (£1.84m) over the weekend. "This is the biggest opening of an English language-only film in India," Mr Dias told me. Clearly, viewers are not fretting about the lack of Indian soldiers in Nolan's tour-de-force. | Christopher Nolan's epic World War Two film, Dunkirk, which tells the story of the mass evacuation of Allied troops from the northern coast of France in 1940, has been getting glowing reviews in India. | 40724861 |
13 February 2017 Last updated at 16:28 GMT
The dam is around 230 metres high and holds back a large lake.
The unusual amount of rain and snow has caused a lot of damage to two parts of the dam that let water escape.
Ayshah's been finding out what is going on. | Nearly 200,000 thousand people have been told to leave the area around the Oroville Dam in California, in the US, after heavy rain and snow. | 38958676 |
The incident happened between Lydney and Gloucester on Wednesday morning.
Trains travelling from south Wales to London are currently diverted through Lydney after the Severn Tunnel was closed for work ahead of rail electrification.
A replacement bus service was put in place to take passengers between Severn Tunnel Junction and Cheltenham Spa. | The rail line between Newport and Gloucester has reopened after it closed when a person was hit by a train. | 37701309 |
An assembly inquiry into Communities First said a single programme never had the ability to make "significant in-roads" into reducing poverty in Wales.
Communities secretary Carl Sargeant ended the programme in February, saying performance had been mixed. AMs found a total of £432m was spent since 2001.
The Welsh Government admitted it had "not had a significant impact".
Communities First supports anti-poverty programmes in 52 areas across Wales, but its funding will end next March.
The report from the equality, local government and communities committee found that despite "a significant amount of public money" having been spent, it was "difficult to make an overall assessment of the success of the programme".
It said the scheme was "set the near impossible task of reducing poverty, which could never be achieved through one single programme".
AMs said it was regrettable that when the scheme was launched it did not have "baseline data" that its success or failures could be assessed by.
"The basic flaw at the very start of the programme has persisted throughout its life," they argued.
A wide-range of indicators used to measure performance were introduced for the scheme in 2012, but one witness from Caerphilly council told the inquiry that having 102 indicators meant in practice there were none.
The report also said the decision and announcement of its closure should have been better managed after AMs learned many staff first heard about the phasing out of the scheme through the media.
There was also a concern that community centres could be lost without ongoing funding from the scheme.
"While Welsh Government capital funding is welcomed, more needs to be done to audit community assets in the interim to ensure they do not close until funding can be secured," AMs said.
Despite funding ending next March, a legacy fund of £6m a year is set to be made available for two years for projects which currently receive money, with a further two years' funding also possible.
The report added:
John Griffiths, equality committee chairman, said Communities First had "done great work in communities across Wales".
But he added: "We are concerned that the Welsh Government must learn lessons for future tackling poverty activities, ensuring progress is measurable, based on evidence of what works, and that the successful elements of Communities First, which could be delivered by other public bodies and are valued locally, are transferred to other public services to deliver."
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "The Communities First programme, whilst having a positive impact on many individuals, has not had a significant impact on poverty levels in Wales which remain stubbornly high."
She said the government was working to set the principles for the legacy fund "which will enable some of the most effective aspects of the programme to continue".
An extra £4m a year will be given to the Community Facilities Programme from 2017/18, with priority given to Communities First areas, to help protect community assets, while a £12m a year grant will be launched to support those "furthest from the labour market", she added. | A scrapped Welsh Government anti-poverty scheme had a "near impossible task", a report has said. | 40709994 |
Parisians Racing had Dan Carter at 10, but he was unable to take kicks at goal and went off injured after 42 minutes.
Saracens' Owen Farrell landed four first-half efforts, to two from Johan Goosen, to make it 12-6 at half-time.
Sarries dominated the second half and three more Farrell penalties ensured the title was heading back to London.
Saracens also became the first team in the competition's history to win all nine games in the tournament on their way to becoming champions.
The match was played in torrential rain in the first half and, although conditions eased after the break, the sodden pitch and greasy ball made handling a hazardous occupation.
It meant the side who made fewer mistakes, whose pack got on top and who played the game in the right areas of the park were always going to be the likely winners, and Saracens, beaten finalists two years ago, duly delivered this time round.
The north Londoners are the reigning English champions and they host Leicester next weekend in the Premiership semi-finals with a view to once again reaching the final this season and giving themselves the chance to add more silverware to the groaning shelves in their trophy cabinet.
The script could not have been better for Saracens, who have built their game around a territory and power-based style that was ideal for the conditions in the east of France.
The reigning English champions have broadened their approach this season but, with the rain hammering down and Racing looking to play a game based on power around the fringes, Saracens were happy to hammer them backwards in defence, pin them deep through the boots of Farrell and scrum-half Richard Wigglesworth, and profit from the French side's numerous mistakes.
Up front, England second rows Maro Itoje - still only 21 - and George Kruis continued their fine form this season and, with the whole pack refusing to give an inch, the front row won three penalties at scrum-time to help Farrell take them into a six-point lead at the break.
After guiding New Zealand to the World Cup last year Carter, 34, was looking to add European champion to his long list of accomplishments, but he was carrying a knee injury going into the game and struggled to make his mark.
With the leading points scorer in Test history unable to kick, it was left to Maxime Machenaud and Goosen to build Racing's score.
France scrum-half Machenaud missed an early penalty attempt and when he was forced off in the first half, to be joined immediately after the break by Carter, Racing's brains trust was on the bench, something that was no doubt a factor as they struggled to get a foothold in the game for long periods of the second half.
A lively 15-minute spell after the hour mark did give Goosen the chance to land his third kick and get them back within six points, but they never looked like winning.
Before the game former England and Lions centre Jeremy Guscott likened the two fly-halves to Jedi master Yoda and Luke Skywalker.
With Farrell's pack gaining the upper hand for long periods and his opposite number hobbled by injury, it was the young apprentice who was the stand-out fly-half in Lyon.
Four nerveless penalties in the first half gave Saracens control on the scoreboard and the England 10's laser-guided boot landed three more after the interval to punish Racing's mistakes.
It may not have been pretty, but with Saracens having set out several years ago to become the most ruthless, focused and dogged team around, Saturday's victory was apt testimony to the character that has taken them from a team playing in a north London park to champions of Europe over the past two decades.
"Saracens were too big, too strong, too well organised with a brilliant game plan. You can't allow for star players being injured and Racing losing their nine, 10 and 12, the heart of their side, was always going to be tough to come back from."
Racing 92: Dulin; Rokocoko, Goosen, Dumoulin, Imhoff; Carter, Machenaud; Ben Arous, Szarzewski, Tameifuna, Charteris, Van Der Merwe, Lauret, Le Roux, Masoe.
Replacements: Chavancy for Dumoulin (56), Tales for Carter (42), Phillips for Machenaud (21), Lacombe for Szarzewski (65), Ducalcon for Tameifuna (67), Carizza for Van Der Merwe (65), Claassen for Le Roux (76).
Not Used: Vartanov.
Saracens: Goode; Ashton, D Taylor, Barritt, Wyles; Farrell, Wigglesworth; M Vunipola, Brits, du Plessis, Itoje, Kruis, Rhodes, Fraser, B Vunipola.
Replacements: Spencer for Wigglesworth (79), Barrington for M Vunipola (76), George for Brits (51), Figallo for du Plessis (67), Hodgson for Itoje (79), Wray for B Vunipola (42).
Not Used: J Hamilton, Bosch.
Ref: Nigel Owens (Wales). | Saracens became champions of Europe for the first time as they ground out victory in the rain against Racing 92 in the Champions Cup final in Lyon. | 36267607 |
The visitors led after two minutes as Cardiff goalkeeper Ben Amos failed to stop Matt Doherty's long-range shot.
Matt Connolly headed the hosts level before Anthony Pilkington struck with an assured low finish after 86 minutes.
Cardiff climb up to 19th place, three points above the relegation zone, while Wolves drop to 20th.
Starting the game in 22nd place and two points behind Wolves, Cardiff knew a win would take them out of the relegation zone and possibly consign their opponents to the bottom three.
However, it was Paul Lambert's side who seized the initiative, taking an early lead thanks to a helping hand from their opponents.
Wolves left-back Doherty cut inside on to his right foot and tried his luck with a firm shot from 20 yards and, although it hurtled straight towards Amos, the Cardiff goalkeeper could only palm the ball into his own net.
The visitors were barely troubled in a slumberous first half, but Cardiff were much improved in the second and forced Wolves' 19-year-old goalkeeper Harry Burgoyne - making only his second league start - into several saves.
He eventually buckled under the pressure, failing to catch or clear a Peter Whittingham corner and allowing Connolly to nod in from close range.
Cardiff continued to pepper Burgoyne's goal with shots and crosses.
The home side's endeavours were rewarded when Pilkington carried the ball into the Wolves penalty area and drilled a powerful effort into the bottom corner.
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock:
"We felt a bit sorry for ourselves with the goal. We were behind because of a goalkeeping error.
"It took us 10, 15 minutes after that where we could've lost the game. I just said to them 'stop feeling sorry for yourselves, they are there to be beaten and if we play in the second half, we can win the game'. That was the message."
Wolves head coach Paul Lambert:
"I don't think we did enough in the second half, whether or not we deserved to lose it, I'm not so sure.
"I've looked at the tape and it wasn't a corner. We had been coping really well with the corners and long throw-ins.
"It's been an occurrence since August, being near the bottom. We've absolutely got enough to stay up. We're a really good attacking side that needs a bit of experience.
"We're a young team who will make mistakes, but we've certainly got a threat."
Match ends, Cardiff City 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Second Half ends, Cardiff City 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1.
Substitution, Cardiff City. Joe Ralls replaces Peter Whittingham.
Goal! Cardiff City 2, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kenneth Zohore.
Attempt saved. George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dominic Iorfa.
Foul by Bruno Ecuele Manga (Cardiff City).
Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Romain Saiss (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Foul by Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City).
Richard Stearman (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Hand ball by Jón Dadi Bödvarsson (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Romain Saiss.
Attempt blocked. Anthony Pilkington (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City).
Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Dominic Iorfa.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by João Teixeira.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Jón Dadi Bödvarsson replaces Nouha Dicko.
Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt saved. George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Romain Saiss.
Corner, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Conceded by Bruno Ecuele Manga.
Goal! Cardiff City 1, Wolverhampton Wanderers 1. Matthew Connolly (Cardiff City) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Peter Whittingham with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Cardiff City. Conceded by Richard Stearman.
Attempt missed. Kenneth Zohore (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Wolverhampton Wanderers. Bright Enobakhare replaces Ivan Cavaleiro.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Danny Batth (Wolverhampton Wanderers) because of an injury.
Attempt missed. Sean Morrison (Cardiff City) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Noone with a cross following a set piece situation.
Craig Noone (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by George Saville (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt blocked. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Junior Hoilett (Cardiff City) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Dominic Iorfa (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Attempt missed. Craig Noone (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Matthew Connolly.
Attempt saved. Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. | Cardiff City are out of the Championship's bottom three after fighting back to earn a late win over relegation rivals Wolves. | 38217655 |
The club tweeted to apologise for "any unintentional offence".
A fire ripped through Bradford City's home ground during the 1985 match against Lincoln City, killing 54 Bradford City fans, two Lincoln fans and injuring many more.
The fire is thought to have been started accidentally by a cigarette.
Responding on Twitter, Blackpool fans said it was "totally insensitive" and showed a "lack of thought and care" but Bradford City fan Andy Walker said "no offence was meant or taken".
Kyel Reid scored the only goal of the game on Saturday as Bradford City moved to within a point of the play-off spots with victory over relegation-threatened Blackpool at Bloomfield Road. | Blackpool FC has apologised after playing Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" in the lead up to their League One match against Bradford City. | 35678144 |
Inmarsat of London has confirmed that the roll-out of its new Global Xpress satellite network is on hold while Russia probes the latest failure of a Proton rocket.
Six Protons and their payloads have now been lost in the past five years.
Inmarsat's third GX satellite was due to be the next customer in line, but this flight has now been postponed.
The company says it will wait until it hears the results of a Failure Review Oversight Board before making any decisions on what to do.
Rupert Pearce, Inmarsat's CEO, commented: "This incident involving a failed Proton launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome is extremely unfortunate and will inevitably delay our launch plans for our third Global Xpress satellite.
"This is the third time our Global Xpress programme has suffered launch delays because of Proton launch failures.
"Although in the past, Proton has returned to flight within a few months of a launch failure, it will not be possible to determine the length of the delay in the launch of I-5 F3 until the cause of the [latest] launch failure is established."
Inmarsat is the world's largest mobile satellite services operator.
Its GX network, which requires a minimum of three satellites in orbit to provide global coverage, is costing more than $1.6bn (£1bn) to build and launch, and should enhance communications for ships, planes, the armed forces and broadcasting companies.
Two I-5 spacecraft were launched successfully on Protons - in December 2013 and February 2015. The third spacecraft was waiting in Baiknour, poised to ride its Proton to orbit next month.
Fortunately for Inmarsat, it is able to make use of the pair already in space, and, indeed, in recent weeks, broadcasters in particular have been doing just that. They have been beaming news reports from the Nepal earthquakes through the I-5 F1 that is positioned over Europe and Asia.
Inmarsat has exercised an option for a fourth I-5 satellite from manufacturer Boeing. This is intended as a spare but will likely be used where the market for GX services is strongest - assuming the first three satellites are also all in orbit and working.
"We are reassured that I-5 F4 is currently under construction by Boeing in California, and remains on schedule for completion in mid-2016, with a potential SpaceX launch in the second half of 2016, providing us with significant mission assurance in the case of any protracted delays in Proton's return to flight, or a failed launch of I-5 F3," said Mr Pearce.
Given the size of the I-5s, at over six tonnes, one of SpaceX's forthcoming Falcon-Heavy vehicles would most probably be needed to loft the Inmarsat platform. The American rocket company is due to test this vehicle later this year.
The Proton Breeze M rocket that failed on Saturday was carrying the Mexsat 1, or Centenario, satellite, intended to provide communications services over Central America.
Preliminary flight data indicated that an anomaly occurred in the rocket's third stage approximately 490 seconds after lift-off, at an altitude of about 160km.
The rocket and its satellite passenger are thought to have burnt up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | The completion of the UK's biggest commercial space project is facing several months of delay. | 32784416 |
HM Inspectorate of Prisons also warned the high number of violent incidents at HMP Exeter could get worse.
The watchdog said there were insufficient numbers of staff to run a "predictable and resilient regime".
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) said it was "confident" the issues could be addressed.
More on the HMP Exeter story, and other news
Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said the Category B jail faced a challenge to reduce the supply of drugs, such as new psychoactive substances and cannabis.
Hooch, the name given to illicitly brewed alcohol, was also found to be a serious problem.
"Physical security measures were generally proportionate, but the prison faced the almost daily challenge of items such as drugs being thrown over the wall," the report said.
Inspectors were told during the inspection in August there was 490 inmates and a shortfall of 13 prison officers.
In the six months prior to the visit, there had been 96 assaults, 45 fights and 173 self-harm incidents.
Mr Clarke said: "If the shortage of staff provided the backdrop to the difficulties at HMP Exeter, the foreground was filled by the challenges of drugs, violence and prisoners suffering from mental health issues.
"These were, of course, intertwined, and each in their own way was exacerbated by the impact of staff shortages."
Too many inmates were unable to attend education or activities, the inspection found, while there were also "real weaknesses" in offender management.
"Unless the regime at the establishment could be improved, violence reduced and the prevalence of drugs and other contraband addressed, further declines would be almost inevitable," he added.
However, inspectors praised the efforts of staff and management, adding that it was difficult to see how outcomes could have been "significantly better" given the staffing shortfalls.
Michael Spurr, chief executive of NOMS, said: "We recognise that the prison needs more staff to deal with the problem of drugs, to improve safety and to provide more purposeful activity for prisoners.
"The government has provided additional funding to increase staffing levels and good progress is already being made to recruit new officers.
"I'm confident that, together with these extra resources, the governor will be able to fully address the recommendations in this report and significantly improve the performance of the prison." | Contraband including drugs is thrown over the walls almost daily at a prison struggling with staff shortages, a report has found. | 38824348 |
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Briton Murray, 29, holds a healthy lead over Novak Djokovic in the rankings as he begins his Barcelona Open campaign on Wednesday.
However, his year has been hampered by illness, injury and poor form.
"I'm happy to be fit and healthy again and hopefully I can start to play some good tennis again soon," said Murray.
"It's always hard to maintain your ranking at the top of the game.
"You have some of the best players of all time playing just now and playing great tennis.
"A lot of the young ones are starting to play better and better - so it's going to be tough."
Murray opens in Barcelona against the winner of the match between Dustin Brown of Germany and Australian Bernard Tomic.
He lost to Albert Ramos-Vinloas in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters last week and accepted a late wild card for Barcelona in a bid for more time on court ahead of next month's French Open.
"I want to try to get matches in," said Murray. "I haven't played in the last five or six weeks. That's the reason for coming here.
"The best way to adapt to new surfaces [is] playing naturally against the best players in the world.
"It doesn't matter how many times you practice, it's getting the matches in that counts. My job is to try to win matches this week and hopefully I can do that."
Murray, the beaten finalist at in last year's French Open, initially appeared to struggle with his serve after his return from an elbow injury, but the Scot believes that is improving.
"I was happy with how it felt last week," he said. "I didn't have loads of time to practise the serve beforehand, but it felt good and I served better as the matches went on. I'm sure here it will be better again."
Murray is seeded to meet world number five Rafael Nadal, who will also play his first match on Wednesday, in Sunday's final.
The Spaniard, who beat compatriot Ramos-Vinloas to win his 10th Monte Carlo final, is looking for a 10th Barcelona title and has won the French Open nine times.
"His results on clay everywhere are very special," Murray said. "He's dominated all over the major clay court events throughout his career.
"To win 10 times in one place, I don't know if it's ever been done, but I'd be surprised if it had because it is a very difficult thing to do."
Jamie Murray's frustrating year continued after he and partner Bruno Soares were knocked out after a match tie-break, 7-6, 2-6 (10-3), in the first round in Barcelona by Fabrice Martin and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. | Andy Murray says keeping his world number one ranking will be "difficult" because of the depth of competition at the top level of tennis. | 39695271 |
New Zealand-born McIntosh left his role as Pontypridd head coach to join the Blues on a full-time basis in 2013.
The 45-year-old spent two spells alongside Paul John in caretaker charge of the region.
"I leave with a lot of fond memories and life changing experiences," McIntosh said.
"The only regret I have is not being able to help the region to be more successful in achieving European Champions Cup status."
McIntosh's departure comes a week after former Wales Under-20 coach Danny Wilson was appointed Blues head coach.
Blues say Wilson will appoint his own backroom staff in contrast to predecessor Mark Hammett, who did not have his own coaching team.
McIntosh and backs coach John had been in temporary charge of the Blues after Hammett left his role as director of rugby only six months into a three-year contract.
The pair had also been in caretaker prior to Hammett's appointment after Phil Davies stepped down in March 2014.
McIntosh, nicknamed 'The Chief', won two caps for Wales during a notable playing career with Pontypridd, whom he later coach.
"He has been an extremely popular member of the coaching team and has worked passionately to develop our forwards and to try and secure positive results," Blues chief executive Richard Holland said.
"Our head coach, Danny Wilson, is looking at the make-up and dynamic of the coaching team he wants to take us forward over the coming years.
"Further announcements will be made in due course." | Former Wales international Dale McIntosh is to leave his position as Cardiff Blues forwards coach. | 33250297 |
The PM will field questions in the Commons about the draft deal paving the way for the UK's EU in-out referendum.
He said it would deliver the "substantial change" he has been demanding to how the EU is run.
But some Tories are sceptical, with one senior minister telling the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg the deal was "a mess".
MEPs will also debate the UK's position when the European Parliament meets in Strasbourg.
The draft deal was published by European Council president Donald Tusk on Tuesday after months of negotiations between UK and EU officials, paving the way for the referendum to be held as early as June.
It includes an "emergency brake" to restrict in work benefits for EU migrants. But it would have to be agreed by other EU nations and it would be "graduated", with more money from tax credits paid to migrants the longer they remain in the UK.
The draft says Mr Cameron's demand to exempt Britain from the EU principle of "ever closer union" between member states would be written into a future treaty, and there are also measures relating to protection for non-euro countries in the EU, a new way for member states to club together to block some new EU laws and on business regulations.
The prime minister will now embark on a whirlwind charm offensive to persuade the other 27 EU leaders to sign up to the package at a summit in Brussels on February 18-19.
Until a final deal is agreed with all the other member states, any Cabinet ministers who want to leave the EU have been told to back the government - but the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg said there was debate behind closed doors over whether they should "stick to the previous deal and keep quiet until the middle of the month or gingerly begin to make the case for exit".
Hailing the draft deal in a speech on Tuesday, the prime minister said "more work" needed to be done to "nail down" details but added: "We said we needed to deliver in four key areas, this document shows real progress on that front."
He said the proposals were some "something worth fighting for", and were good enough that he would back Britain joining the EU under these terms, if it was not already a member.
He said Britain could have the "best of both worlds" by giving it access to the single market and a voice around the top EU table, while retaining its status as a "proud independent country not part of a superstate".
But the two main Out campaigns, Leave.Eu and Vote Leave, dismissed the package as meaningless, while UKIP leader Nigel Farage said it was "pathetic" and "hardly worth the wait".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who will clash with Mr Cameron at PMQs before the EU statement, criticised the PM for failing to address MPs on the day the draft deal was published. | David Cameron is to attempt to persuade Conservative MPs to back a package of reforms he hopes will keep Britain in the European Union. | 35479506 |
The company's chief executive, Herbert Hainer, said: "We will bring production back to where the main markets are."
Adidas hopes the changes will help it to make new products available more quickly, as well as increasing net income by 15% a year by 2020.
The firm is keen to stop rival Nike eating into its market share.
It said it was testing automated production units that would speed up manufacturing and allow customers to personalise their purchases.
However, the plan failed to make a huge impression on investors. Adidas shares traded slightly higher in Frankfurt.
As part of the strategic business plan, called Creating the New, the company will invest in talent and marketing in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.
The company's executive board member in charge of global sales, Roland Auschel, said: "Global brands are created in global cities. If we win running in New York and Los Angeles, we will win running in the US."
One marketing expert called the shift to strategic cities a sensible move. "Those areas are important because they are opinion leaders," said Vince Mitchell, professor of marketing at Cass Business School.
Mr Mitchell added that swift production speed was the secret to the success of such High Street retailers as Zara.
Adidas is trying to gain market share and rebound from a previous business plan that did not achieve its goals.
In a blog on the company's website, Mr Hainer wrote: "We had to accept in late 2014 that we'd not met all our financial ambitions which we'd set ourselves in the light of the strategic business plan Route 2015 five years ago." | German sportswear firm Adidas has outlined a turnaround plan that includes making some of its goods in Europe rather than Asia. | 32065901 |
Rosie Ross, 16, was stabbed by a man with schizophrenia in an unprovoked attack in May 2001.
Her friend Sarah Elstob, who had been shopping with her that day, described how they had both seen Rosie's killer minutes before the attack.
Inderjit Kainth was detained indefinitely for the killing.
Although he denied murder, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility in court in December 2001.
Miss Elstob said she and Rosie had both been in the same house at Aldridge School, where they had met in Year 8.
Rosie had been due to sit her GCSEs and had applied to study fashion and design at college.
Miss Elstob said that on the day of the attack, they had been shopping together in the city centre when they were approached by Kainth.
Miss Elstob said: "It was a very hot day when it happened. We got some lunch and walked towards Centenary Square."
"BRMB radio station was there and that's why originally we stopped there and Rosie bathed her feet in the fountain."
She said they both carried on walking up to Centenary Square and Rosie climbed a wall and lay down on it.
Miss Elstob said she stayed below to text another friend and Rosie told her she could "sunbathe here all day".
She said they both stayed there for about five to 10 minutes when she first noticed Kainth.
Miss Elstob said: "He was looking at his watch and I remember him getting very impatient and I remember thinking he was meeting somebody.
"I can remember hearing footsteps and seeing black."
When she turned around, Miss Elstob said all she could see was a black bin bag, which Kainth had used to conceal his weapon.
"It was just as if we had walked into a danger zone, the wrong time, the wrong place," she added.
Miss Elstob said she saw him run off and thought at first he had just stolen Rosie's bag.
However, seconds later when she saw her friend staggering around she said she knew something more serious had happened.
Rosie lost consciousness in the attack and died later in hospital.
Miss Elstob said: "If Rosie had known at the actual time what was happening, and realised that this man was mentally ill, she would have tried her utmost to talk him round and try and reassure him that everything isn't bad in the world, because Rosie saw good in everybody.
"That's the way she lived her life - carefree.
"I wish everybody could be like that." | A friend of a schoolgirl stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre has described the "nightmare" ordeal, nearly 10 years after the attack. | 11879155 |
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The 28-year-old forward, who is a reported target for Manchester City and Paris St-Germain, is entering the final year of his deal at Emirates Stadium.
He was granted an extended summer break after playing for Chile in the Confederations Cup but only returned to training on Tuesday after illness.
"The only thing I can tell you is he is focused," said Wenger.
"My decision is clear - he will stay and he will respect that."
The Frenchman, 67, said he would no longer speak publicly about speculation over Sanchez's future, adding: "It is not information anymore, it is suicide.
"He will be here for this season and if we manage to do it for more seasons, we will do it as well."
Wenger also confirmed that Spanish striker Lucas Perez will be allowed to leave the Gunners, with former club Deportivo La Coruna reportedly having made a bid to re-sign the 28-year-old.
"We have a congestion of strikers - I don't want to lose him but too much competition is not competition any more," said Wenger.
"If he finds a satisfying solution, at least for a short time, we will do it."
Perez joined Arsenal for £17.1m last summer after two seasons at Spanish side Deportivo, but has not played since March.
Arsenal signed Alexandre Lacazette for a club record £46.5m fee this summer, with the 26-year-old France striker given Perez's number nine shirt.
Wenger added there was "nothing to announce" about other players entering the final year of contracts, including midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, 23, and 27-year-old left-back Kieran Gibbs.
FA Cup holders Arsenal face Premier League champions Chelsea in the Community Shield final at Wembley Stadium on Sunday, with kick-off at 14:00 BST. | Alexis Sanchez will stay at Arsenal for this season and will "respect" that decision, says manager Arsene Wenger. | 40815417 |
I've popped up all over the BBC discussing numbers and statistics and how politicians use them and I've learned a lot too.
Did you know, for example, that for all the talk about zero hours contracts, there's not really a proper definition of what a zero hours contract really is?
Or, how about the fact that apparently good economic news can be bad news at the same time?
Good news - more low qualified workers are finding jobs and getting off unemployment benefit. But since these jobs do not pay much the country's average wage starts to drop and that looks like bad news.
In that example you can see how politicians from either side would seize on one fact, and ignore the other, to support their views.
And that happens a lot, completely opposing views, backed up by statistics, which are both technically correct.
Take a key issue like government cash for councils in the north of England. Is it being slashed, or is it amongst the highest in the country?
I've talked to a couple of BBC radio stations in the north of England this week who have had Conservative politicians tell them their councils get plenty of funding from the government.
And yet at the same time Labour candidates are telling them the exact opposite, that funding has been slashed.
Here's the thing, both are technically right.
If you look at the amount the government has given councils in the North East (per person), then the region has consistently been top of the heap, if we put London to one side.
But, you get a different picture when you zoom in and look at what is happening on a council-by-council basis.
In fact, despite what the regional numbers show, we know councils in deprived areas have seen bigger drops in funding than those in affluent areas.
It's all a question of the services councils have to provide, their core spending.
So, northern councils know they can appear to do well in terms of the cash they get, but their argument is they have higher demand and more people rely on them.
In children's social care, for example, Newcastle City Council in Tyne and Wear has twice the level of funding as Wokingham Council in Berkshire. But, Newcastle has four times the number of children in care.
Newcastle receives four times what Wokingham gets for concessionary travel fares, cash to pay for pensioners bus passes.
But because pensioners in the North East are less likely to own a car, and use public transport more its costs are nine times greater.
So that explains how both sides can back up their arguments with numbers, and both technically be right.
But a more detailed Reality Check does go further to reveal why the experience of voters on the ground may support the reality of one set of numbers over the other. | It's the end of my first week working for BBC Reality Check. | 32254994 |
The 23-year-old returns to the Glovers less than six months after signing for City, having made just two appearances at the Academy Stadium.
Wilshire was Yeovil's top scorer in 2014 with 11 goals in 16 appearances.
"I am looking forward to being back at Yeovil, they are a club with a lot of ambition," she told the club's website.
"Jamie (Sherwood) knows how to get the best out of players and has put a strong squad together who are competing at the top of the table. He is a good coach so it will be a good to be working with him", she added. | Wales international striker Sarah Wiltshire has left Manchester City Women and rejoined Women's Super League Two side Yeovil Town. | 33123829 |
The Belarusian former world number one returned to tennis in June after giving birth to her son, Leo, in December.
Azarenka, 28, separated from his father in July and the pair are working "to resolve some of the legal processes".
In a statement, Azarenka said: "The way things stand now is that the only way I can play in the US Open this year is if I leave Leo behind."
The US Open will take place at Flushing Meadows from 28 August to 10 September.
Azarenka, Australian Open champion in 2012 and 2013, reached the final in New York in the same two years.
She was knocked out in the fourth round at Wimbledon this year. Last week, she pulled out of the Cincinnati Open because of "a family matter".
"Like most working mothers I am faced with a difficult situation which may not allow me to return to work right away," her statement added.
"Balancing childcare and a career is not easy for any parent, but it is a challenge I am willing to face and embrace. I want to support men and women everywhere who know it is OK to be a working mother - or father.
"No-one should ever have to decide between a child and their career, we are strong enough to do both.
"I remain optimistic that in the coming days Leo's father and I can put aside any differences and take steps in the right direction to more effectively work as a team and agree on an arrangement for all three of us to travel and for me to compete but, more importantly, to ensure that Leo has a consistent presence from both of his parents." | Victoria Azarenka is set to miss the US Open because she is "not willing" to leave her child at home in California. | 40965247 |
Sanjeev Chada, from Bagenalstown, County Carlow, was due to go on trial for the murders of his 10-year-old son Eoghan and five-year-old son Ruairi.
The boys' bodies were discovered in the boot of their father's car after it crashed into a wall near Westport, County Mayo, on 29 July 2013.
Chada, 44, was due to go on trial next month, but pleaded guilty to both murders at a Dublin court on Tuesday.
He has been sentenced to life in prison.
The Central Criminal Court was told Chada had been gambling on the stock market for years and had mounted huge debts from online trading.
Before he carried out the killings, he was facing an investigation for using thousands of euros from community funds to pay for his stock market deals.
The court heard he feared his marriage was going to end and, because he did not want his children to grow up in a "broken home", he planned to kill them both before taking his own life.
The court was told Chada had written a number of notes before he killed his sons and attempted suicide.
In one of the notes, he wrote: "I could not let you bear the pain of being from a broken home. Mammy is getting rid of me and I could not leave you behind."
In a victim impact statement, the boys' mother said her children had died in a "cruel and violent way by their own father".
She added that she had no doubt that 10-year-old son Eoghan had fought to save himself and his younger brother on the day they were murdered.
She said she had trusted her husband and he had been a "hero" to both their sons.
The court was told Chada has been detained in Dublin's Central Mental Hospital. | A man has admitted murdering his two children in the Republic of Ireland. | 29531015 |
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump held a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago club on Saturday.
Abe spoke in Japanese, condemning North Koreans for firing a ballistic missile. He stood in a ballroom at the president's club, a room set up quickly for the event. It was decorated with two sets of US and Japanese flags, and a dance track from a nearby wedding party was playing softly in the background.
In the diplomatic realm, the Japanese are known for their attention to detail and understated manner - and for their discretion.
This press conference - and summit - were different. Instead of Camp David, which is located in rural Maryland, or Sunnylands in California, where Obama hosted world leaders, Trump invited Abe to his private club in Florida.
They walked around the premises in full view of the other guests - many of whom were attending the wedding party. White napkins littered the grounds, and guests strolled across a patio. A string of Molly's Trolleys (with air conditioning and wooden benches) waited in the parking lot to take the wedding guests away after the party.
Abe must have wondered what he'd gotten himself into.
Trump also seemed uncomfortable - at least when he was talking about diplomatic affairs. "The United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%," he said during the press conference. He spoke in a clipped manner.
Abe was clearly more at ease in the world of international security issues and geopolitics than Trump. Abe had a calm manner, and the president played a supporting role. In this way Abe gave Trump a lesson in diplomacy.
Trump's background as a businessman differentiates him from any US president before him, and his approach to global affairs has been unusual.
He's been combative on the global stage, accusing Japan and other nations of trying to hoodwink the US. Understanding his worldview and developing a relationship with him has been a challenge for foreign leaders.
Abe seems to have met this challenge - for now.
Things started out rocky: Abe didn't want Trump to cancel plans for a trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), or at least not right away. The president crushed it.
Trump withdraws from TPP trade deal
Abe moved on, working to ensure good relations between Japan and the US. Japan is one of the most important US allies, and their relationship has been a key part of US policy in Asia. Abe wanted to make sure the US would continue to help him and the other officials in Tokyo maintain security in the region.
Then Trump said the Japanese were trying to influence financial markets so they could compete unfairly against the US. "They play the money market," he said, "and we sit there like a bunch of dummies."
Economists were baffled by his claims. "He's just shooting from the hip," the Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told me, saying Trump's accusations against the Japanese were unfounded - and that his understanding of Japan and the markets was fuzzy.
"I guess what remains to be seen is how educable he is," said Rogoff.
This was Abe's mission for the weekend: to educate the president without making him mad. "I think the goal was completely achieved," Columbia University's Takatoshi Ito, who specialises in finance, said. "Abe and Trump became good friends and had good chemistry."
Even former Obama officials - or some of them - were impressed. "It was good for both sides to have an early summit," said Mark Lippert, who served as the ambassador to South Korea.
He said that the weekend Abe and Trump spent together in Florida helped to underscore the importance of the US-Japan alliance.
In this way Abe may have created a model for other world leaders and foreign diplomats who are attempting to chart a course with the new administration. "In some ways maybe he's setting the template for how US allies can deal with Trump," said Eric Altbach, who served on the National Security Council under President George W Bush.
Abe's secret has been to carefully build a relationship with the president, acting authoritative at times but also showing respect. Still, Ito acknowledged that the strategy could backfire. "It's like a personal relationship," Ito said. "You have to take risk, but it's a calculated risk."
Others are more pessimistic.
"I would be wary," said Jeremy Shapiro, who worked for the State Department during the Obama administration. Shapiro said other world leaders had tried to cultivate good relations with Trump - and got burned.
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain had a press conference with the president last month. Shortly afterwards Trump signed an order for a travel ban that infuriated Britons and embarrassed May. She struggled to maintain her good relations with the president while dealing with the fallout at home.
Trump and Abe had dinner on Friday at Mar-a-Lago. (White House officials said they'd invited the prime minister to stay for free at the club.)
Outside palm trees swayed on a lawn, a place with grass so green that it looked as if it had been painted. Maids in black dresses with white trim walked past a swimming pool, and rooms were filled with red roses. (The parking lot even has a space reserved for "floral".)
The contrasting styles of the two leaders - and the challenges in building a relationship - were apparent at dinner.
At one point Trump stood up from the table, calling out to a friend, the owner of a football team, who was sitting across from him.
Abe sat quietly. His hands were folded in front of him.
Luckily they shared a passion for golf - and played the following day at Trump National Golf Club, travelling there in a motorcade that took up three lanes of a highway.
That evening the president spoke with me and other reporters about their outing. "We got to know each other very, very well," the president said, answering my question about the golf game.
Not long afterwards we were called for the press conference - and watched Abe smoothly move into a position of power.
Trump was uncharacteristically quiet during the press event. He didn't seem "fully briefed up" on North Korea, said Altbach.
Afterwards Stephen Bannon, the chief White House strategist, and an aide stepped into the room. The aide was holding a copy of a speech entitled "POTUS remarks", which was shown in a Reuters photograph.
It seemed to be a copy of Trump's speech, describing North Korea's actions as "provocative". The president chose different words, though, and let Abe do most of the talking.
For a US president, that's unconventional. In another departure, the White House did not issue an official statement, the way Democratic and Republican presidents have traditionally done after a missile test.
A White House aide told me they believed things had been taken care of during the press event - and saw no need for a statement. "It's unusual," Altbach told me. "Normally the president would issue a full statement on a missile test."
Normally, though, the president has a background in international relations and is surrounded by aides who are steeped in statecraft lore. With Trump, said Altbach: "There's a learning curve."
With his cordial relations towards Abe - and a close, new relationship with Japan, an important US ally - Trump gives the impression he's becoming like "a normal president", said Shapiro.
Yet Trump is likely to continue on an unpredictable course in his dealings with Abe and other world leaders, said Shapiro, adding that a good motto for the administration is: "Stay tuned."
Follow @Tara_Mckelvey on Twitter | Shinzo Abe's golf diplomacy in Florida charts a path for foreign leaders with the Trump administration: use strategic patience and reap rewards (though remember, you could always end up in the sand traps). | 38934469 |
Vettel has won three of this year's six races and leads by 25 points heading into Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix.
Hamilton said: "It is going to take a lot for us to catch those points up but so much can happen in the season.
"There are 14 races left. It's too early to say we're on the back foot - it is so early in the season."
Hamilton added: "We are just not in our most comfortable position, but it doesn't mean we can't fight and win the championship. It just means it will be harder for us to do so than perhaps the others."
Montreal is one of Hamilton's favourite circuit and he has won five times in nine races in Canada but he said he did not regard this weekend as a must-win.
"If we don't win here, we have 13 races more to win," he said. "If we don't win here, we will focus hard to win the next one.
"This is just one circuit that has its own unique characteristics. Other circuits, with higher downforce, we have done well in Barcelona and China so there will be races where we are strong and perhaps not. We are going to try to make sure the car is quick everywhere."
Mercedes have been struggling to make their car work consistently, and are suffering particular problems getting the Pirelli tyres into their operating window.
This contributed to a difficult weekend at the last race in Monaco, where Hamilton qualified 14th and finished seventh.
Canada has similar characteristics, in that it has a low-grip, low-abrasion surface and lots of slow corners.
Hamilton said: "We are working hard to rectify the issues we had in the last race and we will attack this race. We have some unique bits on the car this weekend and it doesn't mean we can't take the fight to them."
Vettel said: "If it turns out to be a good weekend for us here, great, but it is a long year, the cars will change, there will be big updates coming, so important to stay there.
"At this point of the year I am not really bothered by the championship. We need to collect points, and if you win a lot of races you score a lot of points. Then later in the year we can be a bit more sophisticated." | Lewis Hamilton admits it will be difficult to overhaul the advantage his rival Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari has in the World Championship this season. | 40207571 |
Figures from regulator Ofcom showed complaints about the operator hit three times the industry average by the end of last year.
Vodafone also faces the prospect of a heavy fine from Ofcom for the way it handled complaints.
It has now fixed 350 elements of its IT system to reduce problems.
The company said that some were "tiny tweaks" but others were correcting issues which had a "significant" impact on customers.
Vodafone had moved all its billing and other services onto one system, alongside a change to its customer contact centre.
"The combination of new systems, new processes and new customer service agents impacted service levels significantly," a spokesman for Vodafone told BBC Radio 4's Money Box.
That impact led to complaints to the regulator reaching 32 per 100,000 pay-monthly customers, compared with an industry average of 10, in the final three months of 2015.
These figures underestimated the true levels of complaints, as not all customers with problems would have alerted the regulator after speaking to the company.
Vodafone is also preparing a response to investigation findings by Ofcom which concluded that there was reasonable grounds to believe that the company did not have the correct procedures in place to deal with complaints over a two-year period. The company could be fined up to 10% of its turnover.
Among those unhappy with Vodafone was Hayley Angell, who lives in Scotland.
The 31-year-old wanted confirmation that her phone had been blocked after it was stolen.
She said she made repeated calls to the company's contact centre, but only had success after writing letters to the entire Vodafone executive. She was released from her contract and switched to another provider.
Other cases include that of Fiona Campbell, a photographer from London, whose details were mixed up with a customer of the same name who lived hundreds of miles away.
She said the turning point for her complaint, after four months of deadlock was when she posted a message on Twitter threatening to leave.
Solicitor Peter Felton, from Kent, said he complained twice after paper bills, which he was happy to pay for, failed to be delivered.
"I feel that talking to Vodafone customer service means I may as well just talk to my coffee cup," he said.
A Vodafone spokesman said: "It is clear that each of the customers you have brought to our attention have been let down by errors caused by customer service agents not sticking to the processes we have in place to correctly identify and resolve issues as quickly as possible.
"We take every case extremely seriously and aim to fix them as soon as possible without any financial impact to customers.
"We are always disappointed when customers needed to raise complaints with us and, more so, when we then do not resolve them effectively first time.
"Our teams, at all levels, want to provide our customers with a great service every time but we are clearly not there yet, so are investing significant resources to do so as quickly as we can."
So if you have a problem with your mobile company, what is the best way to complain?
Regulator Ofcom says there is a specific timeline to follow when making a complaint about any telecoms provider.
"Consumers who are experiencing problems with their communications service should firstly raise the issue with their provider and follow its formal complaints process," a spokeswoman said.
"If their complaint remains unresolved after eight weeks, or sooner if 'deadlock' is reached, consumers have the right to escalate it, free of charge, to an Ofcom-approved dispute resolution scheme. The scheme will assess the case and reach a fair and impartial judgement."
You can hear the full story on Money Box on BBC Radio 4 at 12:00 BST on Saturday, 18 June, and repeated at 21:00 on Sunday, 19 June. | Mobile phone giant Vodafone has made hundreds of changes to its computer systems following a flood of complaints about bills. | 36561699 |
The #FillTheSeats initiative is working with Paralympics organisers to buy 10,000 tickets for local children.
Before Prince Harry's contribution, the campaign had raised $53,773 (£40,300) towards a target of $300,000 (£225,000).
In August, Rio organisers said just 12% of available tickets had been sold for the Games, which begin on Wednesday.
But on Monday, they said that had risen to 1.5 million from a total of 2.5 million.
A former soldier, Prince Harry, 31, founded the Invictus Games - a Paralympic-style competition for injured servicemen and women - in 2014.
He has sent a good luck message to the 11 Invictus Games competitors taking part in Rio, saying "the fight to the finish line won't be easy".
Find out how to get into disability sport with our special guide. | Prince Harry has made a donation to a campaign that aims to help Brazilian children watch the Rio Paralympics. | 37284959 |
McKenzie, 21, made seven appearances for Notts County last season but has yet to feature this term.
O'Brien, 19, is a former England Under-17 international and started his career at Aston Villa.
Wrexham, who are sixth in the National League, have also offered trialist John Cofie non-contract terms. | Wrexham have signed Notts County defender Taylor McKenzie and Wigan winger Danny O'Brien on loan until January. | 34934217 |
Diego Dzodan, an Argentine national, has repeatedly refused to comply with court orders to hand over data for use in a criminal investigation into drugs trafficking, police said.
His arrest relates to the messaging service WhatsApp, owned by Facebook.
In a statement, Facebook called Mr Dzodan's arrest an "extreme and disproportionate measure".
Mr Dzodan's arrest was ordered by a judge in the north-eastern state of Sergipe.
He was held as he left his house in an exclusive area of Sao Paulo on Tuesday morning.
Judge Marcel Maia Montalvao had in two previous instances issued fines against Facebook for refusing to release WhatsApp data.
The information was needed as part "secrete judicial investigations involving organised crime and drug trafficking," he said.
In a statement, Facebook said it was "disappointed with the extreme and disproportionate measure".
"Facebook has always been and will be available to address any questions Brazilian authorities may have," the company said.
In December a judge in Brazil suspended WhatsApp for 48 hours.
The Sao Paulo state judge said at the time that the company failed to comply with court orders to share information in a criminal case. | Police in Brazil have arrested the vice president of the social media company Facebook in Latin America. | 35700733 |
The index, the UK's leading measure of share prices, has been rising steadily since the middle December.
It marks the eighth successive record high. The latest boost came from a 1% drop for the pound against the dollar.
A weaker pound boosts the profits of the many multinational companies listed on the FTSE 100 when their foreign earnings are converted into pounds.
The pound's sharp fall was provoked by comments on Brexit made on Sunday by the Prime Minister, Theresa May.
She rejected the idea that the UK could "keep bits of membership" of the EU, raising the prospect of a so-called "hard Brexit".
That sent the pound down against a broad range of currencies.
The pound fell more than a cent, or 1%, against the dollar to $1.2170, and also dropped nearly 2% against the euro to €1.15.
"The pound has dipped to its lowest level since October on Monday after Prime Minister May said on Sunday that we couldn't keep bits of the EU, fuelling fears of hard Brexit," said Kathleen Brooks, research director at City Index.
"On Monday she said that she doesn't accept the terms 'hard' and 'soft' Brexit, and declined that her comments yesterday were a change of stance. This back-pedalling has done nothing to reverse the decline in the pound," she said.
The biggest risers were Glencore, Randgold, BAT, Imperial Brands and Sage group.
Bovis Homes shares were up 1.4% after the firm announced that its chief executive, David Ritchie, was to step down.
Last month, the company warned that building delays in the run-up to Christmas would hit profits.
Among individual shares, William Hill shares fell 1.6% after it warned profits would be at the low end of expectations.
It said a run of "customer-friendly" results at the back end of last year in football and horse racing had cut profits by about £20m.
As a result, operating profits for 2016 were about £260m, compared with previous guidance of £260m-£280m. | Share prices in London rose to a new record high point, with the FTSE 100 index closing 28 points up at 7,238. | 38553048 |
The threat of losing your home, a year of financial restrictions, three years of paying creditors, and a six-year blight on your credit rating does not generally prompt a musical routine.
Yet the relief of facing up to, and striking out, unmanageable debts can lead to such a response, according to debt charities.
In this case, it was a man called Stephen, who submitted his bankruptcy form, hugged a debt counsellor, and danced around their office.
Now the perceived stigma of bankruptcy has also been diluted, according to the Insolvency Service. A new system in England and Wales means applications are made online, without the need to go to court.
"Going to County Court with 30 pages of paperwork in triplicate was a huge, daunting challenge under the old system," says Mark Cowley, insolvency manager at debt charity Christians Against Poverty.
"There was a psychological effect in going to court. Many people assumed it was criminal although it is a civil procedure."
Figures suggest that the new clickable application, and its lower fee, has increased the numbers choosing bankruptcy. So, is this a simple matter of convenience or is it actually the result of more people facing unmanageable debt as wages are squeezed and prices rise?
Shirley, from Basildon in Essex, had debts of more than £40,000. After attempting suicide, she was referred to Christians Against Poverty debt counsellors by her local housing association.
The charity says it would have taken her more than 20 years to repay the debts, so she applied for bankruptcy with a counsellor's help.
"I suffer with anxiety, and when I get stressed I get blackouts," she says.
"The thought of going to court for bankruptcy was a bit scary, I didn't like that idea. My debt coach told me I wouldn't need to go. Filling in the form online made it a lot easier. It took away the stress. I did have some help from my support worker because I'm dyslexic, but it was very easy. It was all really quick."
Now, after setting up a savings plan with the charity, she is £63 in credit. "I've never been in credit that much before," she says.
There are a variety of ways that someone with out-of-control debts can deal with the situation by going insolvent. Bankruptcy is only one of those options, yet it is the most recognised.
The threat of losing your home, the public admission of money troubles, and that trip to court have all created the stigma that has been attached to bankruptcy - even though, for some, it is clearly their best option.
The shift from court to internet, introduced in April and the biggest change to bankruptcy rules for 30 years, was in part an attempt to eliminate that perceived shame.
"It was a real barrier for some people," says Liz Thomas, The Adjudicator at the Insolvency Service for England and Wales. "We now have a simpler form, we have ensured the questions were understood, and people are able to complete it in their own time.
"It is still lengthy. It takes several hours to fill in, and there is information to ensure people understand the seriousness of what they are doing."
But now, after pressing the submit button, some 95% of "successful" applicants are declared bankrupt within two working days.
Bankruptcy: The traditional way of escaping overwhelming debt. Ends after one year, but there is a possibility you may lose your assets, including your house, to pay something to the creditors. Since April, applications can be made online and considered by an adjudicator. Costs £680
Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA): A deal between you and your creditors, overseen by an insolvency practitioner. Less chance of losing your home, but involves paying some of your debts in one go
Debt Relief Orders: Introduced in April 2009, these allow people with debts of less than £15,000 (£20,000 since October 2015) and minimal assets to write off debts without a full-blown bankruptcy
The new online system - unlike some more high-profile government IT projects - was on time and it worked. It remains exposed to the same frailties as any other online service. On Thursday, it was unavailable for several hours owing to a fault.
Still, the effect of the new system is starting to show, according to the Insolvency Service. The number of individuals declaring themselves bankrupt rose by 7% in the third quarter of 2016 compared with a year earlier. The full set of 2016 figures will be published on Friday.
Having assisted many people to complete bankruptcy applications, debt charities have broadly welcomed the online form.
"The roll-out date was optimistic, but the project has worked. The name 'bankruptcy' still spooks people, but it has taken the stigma out of it to some degree," says Mr Cowley, of Christians Against Poverty.
Ironically, 90% of users say they would recommend the system to family or friends. A recommendation, no doubt, that they would rather not have to take up.
The upfront application fee is also cheaper. Under the old system, it cost more than £700; now, as there is no need for court fees, it costs £680.
That is clearer, charities say, but not necessarily better - or ultimately cheaper - for the poorest applicants. Under the old system, a court could waive its fee of about £150 for the most vulnerable.
That discount, or an equivalent, is no longer available. In its place is a system allowing people to pay the £680 fee in instalments. That fee, says Liz Thomas, will cover the cost of developing the new system within five years, at no cost to the public purse.
In Scotland, insolvency works very differently to England and Wales. The equivalent to the Insolvency Service is the AIB (Accountant in Bankruptcy).
The AIB functions like a court. Those seeking bankruptcy can apply online but not on their own. They have to have received advice from an approved money adviser or insolvency practitioner before applying.
In Northern Ireland, all bankruptcies are made through the courts.
Where to find free debt advice
Insolvency service - bankruptcy explained (England and Wales)
Options for clearing debts - Scotland
Options for clearing debts - Northern Ireland
The online systems may have been applauded, but the true test has yet to come. Insolvencies are at historically low levels putting relatively little pressure on the system, but there are signs that the red alert is starting to return.
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has frequently taken the opportunity to express concern about the level of household debt.
Borrowing on credit cards and unsecured debts such as overdrafts is rising at its fastest rate for a decade - a trend that he says requires the bank's "vigilance".
Rising unsecured debt should not be a problem when interest rates are low - as they are - and wages are rising. Yet it does leave households exposed to a financial shock if jobs are lost or interest charges rise.
So, there is some concern that default rates on this unsecured debt increased in the final three months of 2016, according to the Bank of England's Credit Conditions Survey.
The following graph also reveals that UK households are funding their spending by dipping into their savings. This was happening at its fastest rate for two years in the third quarter of 2016, according to the latest official statistics.
A saving ratio of below zero basically means households are not saving, but are spending more than their disposable income. It was negative from the start of 2004 until the latter end of 2008.
The Office for National Statistics says a fall in the saving ratio may be an indication that households are more confident and spending more, rather than desperately ducking into their savings.
Analysts Capital Economics also notes that there is no need to panic over household debts.
The cost of servicing debts compared to household income is still low and manageable, it says. Interest rates would have to rise significantly to raise this cost to the levels seen in 2008.
No crisis in household debt means no glut of bankruptcies.
Still, there will always be people whose debts spiral out of control - and, for them, applying for bankruptcy has got a little bit easier. | A hug, a dance and a song is hardly the reaction you would expect from someone just about to be declared bankrupt. | 38668084 |
With further applicants due for assessment next month, it could be the largest intake for 10 years.
The Kirk expects hundreds of ministers to retire in the next 10 years.
"We're no different to other professions facing up to retirement challenges, like GPs and teachers" said Rev Neil Glover.
Rev Glover, the convener of the Church's Ministries Council, said that although the Church had been "slow to get to grips with the scale of the problem", it was now a "top priority".
"We currently have just over 800 ministers, and more than 400 of them are aged 55 or over," he said.
"Ministers tend to work a bit beyond the normal pension age, but we now need to recruit 30 new trainees every year.
"With around 10 ministers usually returning to parish ministry or joining us each year we will be able to continue serving our parishes."
Louise Purden and her father Rev John McPake are at the opposite ends of ministry.
Louise, 39, has just been accepted as a trainee while her 67-year-old father has come out of retirement to work part-time as an associate minister at Edinburgh's Gorgie Dalry Parish Church.
Ms Purden said she had never come under any pressure from her father to follow in his footsteps but she recently started feeling "butterflies in her tummy" the more she thought about becoming a minister.
"I have worked for the Church for many years doing various things - youth and children's work - and people have often said to me in the past "have you ever thought about being a minister?", to which I very quickly replied "no, it is not for me".
Her father entered the ministry at Edinburgh's Liberton Northfield in his mid-40s , and said he is "very encouraged and pleased" with his daughter's decision.
"In a way I am not surprised but I never asked her if she was interested in becoming a minister - I just felt that if it was right, God would lead her forward in that direction." | The Church of Scotland is welcoming its largest number of trainee ministers in five years, with 27 new candidates accepted for training so far this year. | 34959508 |
The 37-year-old Finn is at the front of the grid for the first time in nine years - his last pole was the 2008 French Grand Prix.
Raikkonen edged out team-mate Sebastian Vettel by 0.043 seconds, with Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas 0.002secs further back.
Jenson Button will start from the back after qualifying ninth on his return to F1 because of a grid penalty.
Sunday's race is live on the BBC Sport website and radio 5 live at 13:00 BST.
The Briton was struggling with a lack of grip, had to abort two laps after almost crashing, and then came across another crashed car on his final lap.
The Mercedes driver had been struggling since second practice on Thursday afternoon and, despite set-up changes for Saturday morning, he was still struggling going into qualifying.
He was 10th in the first session, 0.3secs off Bottas, but the second session began unravelling from the start.
On his first lap, a flick of oversteer at the fast Massenet corner at the top of the hills looked set to trigger a heavy crash, but Hamilton just kept the car out of the barriers, taking his hand off the wheel and shaking it afterwards as a reaction to how close he had come to an accident.
He complained to engineer Peter Bonnington: "I've got no grip, Bono. I've got to come in. Something is just not right with the car."
When he went out again, things were no better. This time it was Casino that nearly caught him out, the car flicking into oversteer over the crest at the famous corner, Hamilton again just rescuing it from the barriers.
That left him with one last lap to try to get into the top 10 shoot-out, but as he was on it, Stoffel Vandoorne crashed his McLaren at the Swimming Pool, bringing out the yellow flags and meaning Hamilton could not improve.
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As Ferrari's main title contender, Vettel will start a strong favourite for victory on Sunday, but Bottas is in the same place on the grid as he was when he won in Russia a month ago.
Ferrari have never said that Vettel has number one status but it is widely believed within the paddock that he does.
Ferrari therefore face a conundrum - do they let the two drivers race and potentially have Raikkonen win, or engineer a situation that enables Vettel to take the flag and maximise his points gain against Hamilton, who is six points behind heading into the race?
Strategy is expected to be flexible, with the ultra-soft tyre durable enough to last the race but the teams forced by the regulations to make at least one pit stop to switch to the super-soft.
Raikkonen said: "We know what we are doing. We are racing for the team. We have certain rules. We are allowed to fight but we cannot take each other off.
"People expect it to be something different from the last two years. Nothing has changed. People just try to make a stupid story out of nothing."
Jenson Button qualified ninth on his return to Formula 1 as a substitute for Fernando Alonso while the Spaniard races at the Indianapolis 500 this weekend.
Button ended up a place ahead of McLaren team-mate Vandoorne, who was quicker than Button by 0.2secs and seventh in second qualifying only to crash at the end of the session.
But Button will start at the back of the grid because of a 15-place grid penalty for using too many engine parts.
The Red Bulls had looked as if they might challenge at the front but dropped away as qualifying progressed and Max Verstappen had to be content with fourth, 0.3secs off pole and half a second ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo.
Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz was an excellent fifth, ahead of Force India's Sergio Perez, Haas' Romain Grosjean and Button and Vandoorne.
Jolyon Palmer had a difficult time struggling with understeer in the Renault and qualified 17th, nearly a second off team-mate Nico Hulkenberg in the first session as whispers grow that the Englishman's seat is under threat.
Raikkonen: "It's the best place to start. It doesn't guarantee anything but I will take it. I was very happy with the car. I was able to push and it's good for the team to have two cars on the front row."
Vettel made it clear he felt pole should have been within his grasp, saying he had pushed too hard on his first lap and later "got a bit too greedy" in the second sector.
"It's about putting the lap together, and I struggled a bit more than him, but in the end he is faster."
Bottas, who finished third in qualifying: "It was a really good lap and a really good feeling when you get one here.
"It is one of the most mentally demanding circuits and I've really appreciated all the support from the fans." | Kimi Raikkonen is on pole position for the Monaco Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton took 14th at Formula 1's biggest race. | 40070199 |
Wilshere, 24, has only recently returned to training having not played this season because of a broken leg.
"I've spoken to him. It looks to be taken out of proportion a little bit. These are matters we like to keep internal," said Wenger.
"There was no training session the next day. I had a day off. You can accept players go out."
England midfielder Wilshere will play in an under-21s game on Friday as he steps up his recovery after breaking his left leg in August 2015.
"What is positive is that he works very, very hard," added Wenger. "The news looks quite good. I think he will have a good test on Friday."
Wilshere's career has been plagued by leg and ankle problems since he first sustained a stress fracture during pre-season in 2011, which left him sidelined for 15 months.
He had two operations last season after injuring his left ankle against Manchester United in November 2014.
England manager Roy Hodgson has not ruled Wilshere out of his squad for Euro 2016 but Wenger says he is "a bit cautious" about the player's return to fitness "because of his history".
"At the moment I believe he's a real football brain, Jack Wilshere. He loves football," said the Frenchman.
"He's very serious, very dedicated. The only thing that could stop him from having the career he can make is injuries.
"He had the history of his injuries. It's been bad recently. But I hope he can get rid of that and make the career he deserves."
Wenger praised the impact Alex Iwobi, 19, has had since breaking into the first team and revealed talks over a new deal with the forward are under way.
Iwobi has scored two goals in his last two Premier League games.
"We are discussing it at the moment, to extend it," said the Gunners boss. "He is a real Arsenal person because he's been here since the age of eight.
"He has three years left at the end of the season but we want to keep him here longer."
Iwobi plays for Nigeria and Wenger added: "There's a possibility he will go to the Olympic Games and the African Nations Cup and travel a bit more. We have to respect his choice."
Arsenal, who are 11 points behind top-flight leaders Leicester with a game in hand, could have midfielders Aaron Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini back after injury to face West Ham on Saturday.
Ramsey has been out with a thigh problem, while Flamini was out with a hamstring problem.
"As long as mathematically it's possible, there's a strong possibility [of catching Leicester]," said Wenger.
"You look at the difficulty of the Premier League, they have been remarkably consistent, but every game is very, very tight, so that can go the other way as well." | Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has played down midfielder Jack Wilshere being pictured on a night out last Sunday. | 35984721 |
Details of Draper's salary were published for the first time last week.
On Monday, Sport England cut the LTA's funding, criticising its plans for increasing participation.
"It's unthinkable that someone earning four times more than the Prime Minister has not got ideas for the shake-up of the sport," Baroness Billingham said.
This report from Sport England means what the LTA is doing, or failing to do, is absolutely unacceptable
"You don't give bonuses for failure, surely, and a priority has to be placed on grassroots sport.
"The LTA is one of the wealthiest sporting organisations in the country and it's my honest and genuine opinion that they are useless."
The LTA published details of Draper's salary for the first time last week. He received a basic wage of £394,000, a bonus of £201,000 and a pension contribution of £45,000.
This was a £42,000 increase on his package of £598,000 in 2011. Prime Minister David Cameron earns £142,500 a year.
The figures were released days before Sport England announced its decision to withhold three years' funding from the LTA for grassroots tennis.
The number of people playing tennis once a week has fallen from 487,500 in 2008 to 445,100 in 2012, and Sport England decided to give the LTA just one year's funding of £7.1m.
"This report from Sport England means what the LTA is doing, or failing to do, is absolutely unacceptable," added Baroness Billingham, who is urging sports minister Hugh Robertson to demand a meeting with Draper so he can explain himself.
"The people who can hire and fire are the board of the LTA, but I see no sign whatsoever that they are moving to even chastise Roger Draper."
Sport England chief executive Jennie Price said a further £10.3m could be available to the LTA if it proves it has credible plans for how to improve participation in the sport.
"We need to give them a year to step up their game and prove they can deliver it," she said.
On Monday, LTA chief commercial officer Simon Long said: "£17.4m is a substantial potential award for British tennis and we are working closely with Sport England to ensure that we develop the best tennis offers to increase participation, whilst continuing to deliver a leading talent programme."
A spokesman for the LTA added that Draper's salary had been decided by the LTA's remuneration committee after careful consideration. He would not give reasons for the £201,000 bonus awarded to Draper.
The LTA received 92% of the "net surplus" of the Wimbledon Championships in 2012, which came to £37.8m. | The chair of the All-Party Tennis Group has described the £640,000 salary of Lawn Tennis Association chief executive Roger Draper as "unthinkable". | 20773530 |
The original 6ft (1.8m) high sculpture, called Voyage, was taken from its plinth on Hull's Victoria Pier by a gang of thieves in July last year.
The replica sculpture was cast in bronze by the original artist, Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, in Iceland.
Hull City Council spent £40,000 from its insurance reserves on the statue.
The council said it had spent an additional £5,000 on extra security measures to protect the replica sculpture, including CCTV cameras.
The original statue, a memorial to those who worked and died at sea, was a gift from the Icelandic fishing town of Vik and was erected in 2006.
It was believed to have been stolen for its scrap metal value, estimated to be between £1,200 and £1,800.
Two people were arrested in connection with the theft but were later released without charge.
The replacement statue will be unveiled by the Icelandic ambassador Benedikt Jonsson, alongside sculptor Steinunn Thorarinsdottir, British ambassador Ian Whitting and the Lord Mayor of Hull, Colin Inglis.
Mr Inglis said: "Civic and trade links with Iceland are very important to us, and we look forward to welcoming the Icelandic ambassador and businesses for the unveiling.
"We also look forward to strengthening our trade ties to help achieve the maximum business benefits for both regions." | A statue that replaces a stolen bronze sculpture marking the links between Hull and Iceland is due to be unveiled later. | 18022948 |
The clockwork figures known as automata were made between 1768 and 1774 and still work today.
They can write, draw pictures and even play music.
They were made from parts used in watches at the time by Swiss watchmaker Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz and his family.
Originally they were created to show off the skill of the watchmakers.
They are made to be very lifelike so they appear to breathe, their eyes look at what they're doing and the woman robot moves in time to music she is playing.
Now they are on display at the Museum of Art History in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. | These may not look like your typical robots but these figures, which are more than two hundred years old, were programmed to carry out complex tasks. | 35762391 |
The massive fleet of luxury cars for the hundreds of officials who accompanied the monarch. The full buy-out of the 222-room Four Seasons Hotel, reportedly outfitted with red carpets and gold-painted furniture for the occasion.
But the message the US and Saudi leaders wanted to send was one of a resilient relationship.
"Strong", "deep" and "abiding" were some of the words they used.
Rhetoric aside, it was clear the Saudis had decided to move beyond deep reservations about the Iran nuclear deal which have strained relations with the Obama administration in recent months.
At the height of tensions in May, the king refused President Obama's invitation to visit, although the Saudis insisted it wasn't a snub.
Since then, negotiations on the deal have concluded successfully and, perhaps recognising a fait accompli, Riyadh expressed cautious support.
But Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir now gave ringing endorsement. After consulting US officials and European allies for two months, the Saudis were satisfied, he said, that the agreement would effectively contain Iraq's nuclear programme.
They now had "one less problem to deal with in regards to Iran".
So President Obama got what he wanted: strong public support from a crucial ally, and at a critical time - just as a hostile Congress is preparing to vote on the deal.
This may help to silence those who blamed his foreign policy for losing the trust of key Middle East powers.
The focus can now turn to what the Kingdom considers the main problem - rolling back expanding Iranian intervention in the region.
Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab states feel threatened by Iran's support for Shia groups in Mid-East conflicts: Iraqi militias; the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria; the militant Hezbollah movement in Lebanon; and Houthi rebels in Yemen.
And the fear is that lifting sanctions on Iran according to the terms of the nuclear deal will embolden it further.
This was an abiding theme at a recent conference on US-Islamic relations in Doha. So much so that the senior White House official attending, Colin Kahl, felt compelled to clarify that although the US stood by its Gulf Arab partners, "this can't be a competition to the death with Iran".
The Obama administration insists it will help the Arabs counter Iran's "destabilising activities". It's offering to strengthen measures for facing unconventional threats from Iran's proxies, including cyber and maritime security, and increased counter terrorism co-operation.
Despite this emphasis on "more nimble 21st Century capabilities", conventional sales of military hardware haven't slowed. New Saudi purchases are in the process of being approved and President Obama has promised to fast track what's in the pipeline.
The Gulf Arab states are also looking for US guarantees of a "qualitative military edge over Iran", says James Smith, a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia. It's not clear if King Salman got that.
Mr Obama and the Saudi monarch talked about two other areas of co-operation and disagreement as well.
In Yemen, the Americans are supporting the Saudi-backed campaign against Houthi rebels. But they are appalled at the resulting humanitarian disaster and high number of civilian casualties. The meeting ended with Saudi Arabia pledging to work towards opening Red Sea ports for aid deliveries under UN supervision.
In Syria, the two co-ordinate against Islamic State militants but disagree about how to approach the broader civil war - the US is uneasy about Saudi willingness to back certain hardline Islamist fighters, and the Saudis want Americans to directly target Mr Assad's government.
They're both participating in a new flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at reviving a political solution, but Mr al-Jubair said a breakthrough wasn't imminent.
These complex problems in the new chaos of the Middle East need a level of strategic dialogue not previously necessary, says Anthony Cordesman, a Middle East analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank.
"Alliances with Arab states are going to have to adapt to events that none of us can control," he says, and that includes Iran's behaviour.
"If this agreement is the prelude to a more moderate Iran, the strains on the (Saudi) alliance will ease because the need to take tangible action will be reduced. But there's never going to be complete agreement on how to deal with Iran short of a major war."
Two very different countries will have to find ways to co-operate with each contingency and "that is not going to be easy". | Washington will remember the first visit of Saudi Arabia's King Salman for its royal extravagance. | 34159461 |
The Spaniard, seeded fifth, had called for the doctor twice before he pulled out trailing 3-0 in the deciding set against world number 94 Damir Dzumhur.
"Hopefully it's nothing, it's just the extreme conditions," said Nadal.
"I called the doctor a couple of times but I felt I was not safe there, so I decided to go."
Dzumhur, the world number 94 from Bosnia-Herzegovina, was leading 2-6 6-4 3-0 after one hour and 50 minutes when Nadal called it a day.
"Everything was fine until the end of the first set," added the 29-year-old.
"I started to feel not very good, it was getting worse and worse and worse. In the second set I realised that I was not able to keep playing. I tried to resist but I got a little bit scared to be too dizzy.
"I wanted to finish the match but I seriously couldn't."
The last match Nadal retired from was the 2010 Australian Open quarter-final against Britain's Andy Murray.
Fourth seed Stan Wawrinka was another leading name to make an early exit, the Swiss player going down 6-4 6-3 to Russia's Andrey Kuznetsov. | Rafael Nadal retired from a match for the first time in six years after feeling "dizzy" in stifling conditions at the Miami Open. | 35906044 |
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Kvitova will miss at least six months of tennis after Tuesday's attack by an intruder at her home in Prostejov.
The Czech, 26, faces 14 days of bed rest and a slow rehabilitation process after she had an operation to repair tendons and nerves in her playing hand.
The "best-case scenario" sees her on the practice court after six months.
Kvitova said on Tuesday she was "shaken" and "fortunate to be alive".
She will speak publicly for the first time on Friday following her release from hospital. | Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will be released from hospital on Friday after a knife attack left her needing surgery on her left hand. | 38410826 |
But this year it chewed through new iPads, iPhones, Apple TVs and a Watch upgrade in a single sitting.
The biggest news was arguably the introduction of a bigger, more expensive iPad Pro - sales of smaller models have been on the slide and this could give the category a boost.
But one of the demos of the new tablet by Adobe, involving a photo edit of a woman's face, has embroiled both companies in controversy.
Some pundits and members of the public suggested that showing off a new app by altering a woman's smile was not the wisest way to behave at a time when many of Silicon Valley's tech firms are trying to make their workforces less male-dominated.
More on that, and other reactions to the feast of new gadgetry:
The Verge
What I was surprised by, when I got some hands-on time with the tab today, is just how large it is... This is not a cross between a tablet and a phablet. It doesn't even feel comparable to your standard 10-inch variety. It feels big.
WThe Wall Street Journal
Prices for the iPad Pro are almost as high as a top-line portable laptop. And more than a lower-end one. Apple's never been about the low end of the market … but will businesses pay?
Geoff Blabber (Twitter)
Most iPad Pro models with accessories will be more than $1,000. Impact on Mac will be fascinating to watch.
Techradar
The iPad Pro has a stylus! It's called Apple Pencil. Really? REALLY? People actually just laughed. Ha, there's a video with Jony Ive now... this feels like a spoof.
Wired
The $99 Pencil stylus feels like a particular triumph. It is, bar none, the most fluid and lag-free stylus I've ever used.
Najla Bulous (Twitter)
Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to demo an Apple product by having a man Photoshop a woman's smile? I still can't believe that happened.
Business Insider
The problem is that Apple could have Photoshopped anything. Coloured in the stripes on a zebra. Hand-drawn the Apple logo. Changed Tim Cook's frown into a smile as a joke about him being happy. Apple just wasn't aware enough of the connotations - especially in the context and scrutiny surrounding tech and diversity - to sidestep the landmine.
Maya Kosoff (Twitter)
This was a thoughtless and bad move on Apple's part today and I'm glad people are talking about it.
Buzzfeed
This Apple TV [is] the first true Apple TV - or Apple's first attempt at one, anyway. Certainly, it's the best demonstration yet of what Apple believes the home entertainment experience should be, and one that attempts to solve the problems that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs detailed years ago when he said the device was a hobby and nothing more.
Financial Times
"App"-ifying the TV always seemed like the most logical way for Apple to go when it approached the living room, and today we have finally seen the full, app-centric approach. Throw in some voice control courtesy of Siri and this is meant to be a whole new way of interacting with TVs. But beneath that, Apple hasn't done anything to change the TV business model: it is still the familiar multi-channel TV, no cord-cutting or original content here.
Bloomberg
While the new Apple TV is clearly more advanced than previous versions of the device, it is actually far less provocative than Silicon Valley's real vision for television: the transformation of live television. Apple had hoped to launch a live TV service this year but delayed the project because it couldn't get the content deals lined up.
Ars Technica
The most intriguing thing about the Apple TV, from a gaming business standpoint, is the extension of the iOS development model to the living room.... [Its] openness means Apple TV's gaming selection will likely be quickly filled with lowest common denominator cruft, [but] it also increases the potential for the next surprising breakout hit to find traction on the platform. Titles like Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds, Crossy Road, and countless others that became viral hits in iOS's open pressure cooker likely wouldn't have even had the chance to be released in the more restrictive environments of current console platforms.
NiemanLab
The new Apple TV - and the platform it will enable - is legit exciting. It will get me to watch a lot more news videos. Given the trouble many publishers have had getting eyeballs to their videos, that's good news.... If I ran a major media company, this is an area I'd be directing developer resources.
Techcrunch
Jony Ive called 3D touch "the next generation of multi-touch". It's hard to describe without seeing it in motion, but it really makes app navigation much smoother.
Engadget
The biggest compliment I can pay 3D Touch right now is that it feels completely natural. [But] it isn't without a learning curve - you'll probably spend a little time trying to remember now much pressure goes into a "peek" - the quick-glance pressure gesture that's about to pop up in all your apps.
Ian Fogg (Twitter)
3D Touch will make mobile games even more compelling on iPhone 6S and make it harder to port games to Android smartphones #iPhone #lockin
Gizmodo
There's a new thing called 'Live Photos' - basically, still photos that have a couple seconds of video and audio integrated around them. Apple isn't the first company to do this kind of live-photo trickery - along with a whole plethora of apps, HTC's Zoe app and Nokia's Lumia phones were doing the same kind of thing three years ago. As ever, it will be all about third-party developers (and Apple's crazy-huge user base) to make this work.
Shubham Munot (Twitter)
What's the use of including 4K video if you give only 16gig [storage]?
Felicia (Twitter)
Having a hard time dealing with this "can shoot 4K, but can't display 4K, and can barely store 4K" thing.
ThePantsParty (Reddit)
You may have thought 64GB [storage] was too much before, but now that the video files are 400% their previous size and photos are 150%, 64GB is probably the minimum you'd actually want if anything.
Wired
Apple making an Android app to help people switch and promoting Android recycling at Apple Stores is both fun taunting and an acknowledgement that there are lots and lots and lots and lots of Android users out there who haven't fallen in line yet. | Apple usually likes two bites of the cherry when it comes to its Autumn launch events. | 34205337 |
The song, with its Latin American vibe, will be used as the opening sequence for all of the BBC's World Cup programmes for Brazil 2014.
It is the first time the musician, 64, has given his approval for one of his songs to be used in this way.
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Wonder originally released the track on his multi Grammy Award-winning Songs In The Key Of Life album back in 1976.
The song will feature for the first time on BBC One on 11 June (22:35 BST) to introduce the BBC's World Cup preview show.
BBC Sport senior producer Ian Finch said the BBC were fortunate Wonder granted permission for it to be used.
"It is very rare for an artist of this stature to approve the use of their music in this way, so we are thrilled and honoured," Finch said.
"This song perfectly captures the feel-good, carnival atmosphere we will bring to our viewers during the World Cup this summer."
The BBC will have comprehensive coverage of the World Cup, showing live matches on BBC One, BBC One HD and the BBC Sport website, with simultaneous games on BBC Three, BBC Three HD and the Red Button.
BBC Two and BBC Two HD will host a morning catch-up highlights programme as well as full match replays of the game of the day. | Stevie Wonder's song Another Star will provide the theme tune for the BBC's Fifa World Cup coverage. | 27707280 |
Public Health England said there will no longer be specialist staff based at Birmingham and Manchester airports or at the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras.
It said the threat was now "significantly lower" as the situation improved in West Africa.
The measures at Heathrow and Gatwick, the two main routes of entry from the affected countries, remain in place.
There were just 26 new cases of Ebola reported in West Africa last week. At the peak of the outbreak there were more than 1,000 cases each week.
Health officials introduced extra checks at major routes into the UK for people arriving from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.
Temperatures were taken and people were asked to complete a questionnaire to establish whether they had been in contact with anyone infected with the disease.
People were also told what to do if they developed symptoms.
However, people arriving in Birmingham, Manchester airports and at St Pancras station will now be screened over the phone.
All health workers returning to the UK will continue to be screened and monitored until the Ebola outbreak is over.
Prof Paul Cosford, from Public Health England, said: "The risk of Ebola transmission to the UK from West Africa is now significantly lower than when the screening arrangements were originally implemented.
"The risk of further Ebola cases being imported to the UK is now very low and continues to decrease due to the considerable decline in the scale of the epidemic in West Africa, the efforts of the global response to control the virus' spread, the control measures in place in West Africa and the low number of people entering the UK from affected areas." | The screening measures put into place to prevent Ebola arriving in the UK are being relaxed. | 33635574 |
Hamilton is 39 points behind Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who has won all three races after problems for the world champion in all of them.
With 18 races to go, that is by no means an insurmountable challenge - but it is the effect it will have on the protagonists that makes the season so interesting now.
It is crucial that the Briton does not become frustrated and let the problems he has had get to him.
The key thing for him is to do what he does best - which is to qualify well and race from the front.
Hamilton's problem is that, even if he starts winning, if Rosberg just keeps picking up second places and the odd win when Hamilton has problems, it is going to take a long time to catch him up.
That gives the German something to play on - and he may well want to emphasise that comfort zone whenever he can.
But some statistics help keep things in perspective:
However, Rosberg is stronger and more comfortable than he has ever been before. He has six wins in a row now, dating back to last year's Mexican Grand Prix.
If he wins in Russia this weekend, he will be joint-second in the all-time list of consecutive victories with Alberto Ascari and Michael Schumacher, and he has a confidence and a feel about him that suggests he is in a good place right now.
Rosberg has a momentum that can take him on for another few races and I never liked allowing my team-mates that advantage.
Hamilton will come back I'm sure - but I reckon it will be harder for him than it was in 2014.
Another concern for Hamilton is that the competition faced by Mercedes is far stiffer than it has been for the past two years.
That can play in Hamilton's favour - if he wins and a Ferrari or a Red Bull can get in between him and Rosberg, he will close the gap faster. But of course it can work the other way round as well.
Mercedes say that they face a genuine threat from Ferrari - that the Italian team are every bit as quick as them but have just had three messy races. I'm sceptical about that claim; I think there is a bit of game going on.
Ferrari are closer this year than they were last, there is no doubt about that. But equally there is no question that the Mercedes is the best car - not only the fastest but also the most consistent. Mercedes have got that little bit in hand that makes all the difference - and that makes it hard to tell exactly how much faster than anyone else they are.
Yes, it has looked close from time to time over the weekends this year. But when it matters, bang, Mercedes have turned up the wick and put the car on the front row.
It looks to me as if they still have a 0.4-0.5 seconds advantage over everyone else and I suspect that if Ferrari do get to where Mercedes are, then Mercedes have the potential to take another step forward.
I believe Mercedes are talking up their rivals for two reasons: to take attention away from the fact that they are dominating again, even if not by as much as before; and to keep everyone in their team focused, so no-one sits back and relaxes and takes things for granted.
I've said it before, but to have a chance, Ferrari have got to qualify on the front row with the Mercedes and give themselves the potential to get among them.
When they do that, Mercedes are vulnerable. But it is easier said than done.
Everything was rosy at Ferrari last year following Sebastian Vettel's arrival and a big step forward in performance from a traumatic 2014.
As ever, you get a one-season honeymoon period, which is over now. The time since Ferrari last won a world title just keeps on getting longer and nothing puts the pressure on more than the big boss turning up, as president Sergio Marchionne did in China.
He made it clear it is imperative the team start winning. Marchionne is a businessman with a very hard edge to him and he needs to see a return on his investment.
There is no fear of Ferrari having the carpet pulled from underneath them. Nevertheless, Marchionne's presence in China, a huge market for their car sales, was a very clear statement - so it was a tad embarrassing, after showing good pace in qualifying, for the two drivers to crash into each other.
Vettel was very critical of Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat following that incident at the first corner in Shanghai but for me it was clearly Vettel's fault.
He did not see Kvyat coming until it was too late. The door was open - there was easily a car's width between the kerb and the Ferrari.
Kvyat was under a bit of pressure himself after two poor races in Australia and Bahrain, and being comprehensively out-qualified by team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in China too. He needed to start delivering. He stuck his nose in, was completely alongside, and Vettel sort of got caught between a rock and a hard place, with team-mate Kimi Raikkonen coming back towards the line after running wide earlier in the corner.
Kvyat was quite right to defend himself from Vettel's criticisms, which I suspect were founded in frustration at having the chance to challenge Mercedes taken away, and embarrassment at crashing into his team-mate in front of the Ferrari president.
Ferrari used more engine development 'tokens' than anyone over the winter - 23, leaving only nine for the rest of the season. They are also reputedly considering bringing an engine upgrade to Russia, which with their engine failures in Australia for Raikkonen and Bahrain for Vettel was not expected.
It is possibly a consequence of their realisation that they need to get some traction against Mercedes.
Red Bull are also looking threatening. The chassis looks good, the drivers are sniffing around the podium, and there is a big Renault engine upgrade due in Canada in June.
We will then see whether Mercedes' claims that the competition are close are true, or whether they then make another step forward. Which I suspect they will.
Progress from Ferrari and Red Bull means Williams are slipping back. We saw in the first races of the season that their race pace is not where it needs to be, meaning their chances of finishing third in the championship for the third consecutive year already look slim.
In the circumstances, this is not that surprising. Williams have limited resources compared with the top teams and they have to marshal them carefully.
They have to balance their efforts on the new regulations for 2017, which is a big technical change and a huge investment of manpower and finances, with their energies for this season and car development.
In their situation, focusing more on 2017 is a good plan, because an advantage at the beginning of a new set of regulations can pay dividends for two or three years. Any progress this year will only last for one.
Off track, Mercedes have reiterated their view that F1 is making a mistake in speeding the cars up for 2017 with new rules.
But the reasons why F1 bosses decided upon a wholesale change - which Mercedes initially backed - still apply. The argument for the rule changes was that the drivers needed to be challenged more and the cars needed to be faster and sexier, and back closer to the historic lap-time high of 2004-05.
Back then, drivers were in awe of the cars - and would be tested to their physical limits every time they drove them. That is not the case now.
Mercedes have pointed out that qualifying times this year are now back at 2004-05 levels. Well, that is partly true. In Bahrain, pole was the fastest ever, and in Australia it was just 0.3 seconds off.
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But it was not in China - there, pole was still three seconds off the fastest ever.
That was because Shanghai is the circuit on which power has the smallest effect on lap timeout of the first four races. The 2016 cars are making up much of their lap time on those of 10 years ago on the straights - where they are much faster. That is an impressive fact in itself. But they remain a lot slower in the corners.
And in the races the situation is even starker because of the need to manage the Pirelli tyres to such a large extent.
Comparing this year's race fastest laps to the fastest ever looks like this:
In other words, the reasons to change the rules and make the cars faster - so the drivers and fans are in awe of F1 again - remain as relevant as ever.
Allan McNish was talking to BBC Sport's Andrew Benson | Lewis Hamilton's difficult start to the season has set the 2016 World Championship up beautifully. | 36130559 |
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The Briton was judged to have impeded China's Jianrou Li on the final lap of the semi-final as they both fell over.
"Never in 100 years did I expect a penalty. I'm confused and heartbroken," the 23-year-old told BBC Sport.
"I knew you needed a lot [of mental strength], but I didn't know it would need this much."
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Christie, the reigning European champion and a world bronze-medallist over 1,000m, was looking to end her Sochi campaign on a high after being disqualified in the 500m final, judged to have not finished her 1500m heat and receiving abuse on Twitter.
The 1,000m had been seen as Christie's best medal chance pre-Games, and the 23-year-old comfortably negotiated her quarter-final.
She began the next race cautiously, but then tangled with Jianrou as they jostled for positions before spinning off on the last corner. The Briton skated gingerly over the line in last place.
Great Britain's short track speed skating performance director Stuart Horsepool was shocked by the judgement.
"I find that absolutely bewildering. The Sochi Olympics has been very harsh to Elise Christie. She was clearly, in my opinion, taken out. Christie definitely deserved it and span out because of the clash with the Chinese athlete. I'm almost speechless. It's absolutely astonishing."
"I had a small look at it [the semi-final] - we have to respect the decision of the referees," he told BBC Sport. "But I think it's outrageous and I'm heartbroken.
"We have put together a great short track team and ultimately we came here with medal opportunities, wanting to fight on Friday.
"I am disappointed, frustrated and quite angry at the decision of the referee. You have to respect the decision of the referee but he was wrong."
BBC commentator Wilf O'Reilly, a former Olympic short track skater, initially thought Christie was not at fault and would be promoted to the final.
But, after seeing the incident again, said: "Elise Christie was protecting her position before the collision happened. That might be why she has been penalised.
"She was not at fault for the fall, but it may because of the earlier incident. Even so, it would be extremely harsh."
Had Christie won a medal on Friday, Britain would have completed their best-ever Winter Olympics.
Team GB currently have four medals - curling silver and bronze, skeleton gold and snowboard bronze - but have never in history won five medals in one Winter Games.
"I was finding it really tough and trying to hold myself together for Great Britain," added Christie, who won world bronze over 1,000m in 2013.
"I really wanted to bounce back [from earlier Sochi failures] and was so pumped to do it for everyone and for myself. To have the chance taken away - whether I had won a medal or not - is devastating.
"I have been so proud of watching the other team GB guys compete and wanted them to be proud of me.
"I will come back in four years and try again though - you can be sure of that."
Meanwhile, Jon Eley, the three-time Olympian who was Britain's flagbearer at the opening ceremony, was eliminated at the semi-final stage of the men's 500m.
He subsequently came third in the B final to finish seventh overall.
"I'm very disappointed not to get to the final but I am pretty pleased with the way I have turned my season around. At Christmas I was struggling and didn't think times like this would come again.
"The past couple of days I have been skating better than I have ever skated before. I was feeling up for it, I skated beautifully in the quarter-final and it was just a slip in the semi-final cost me." | Elise Christie's Sochi 2014 ended in dismay as she was penalised for a third time in one Games during her 1,000m short track speed skating event. | 26070442 |
It follows the singer's pattern of naming her albums after her age: Her debut was titled 19 and the follow-up was called 21.
The singer wrote in a statement: "25 is about getting to know who I've become without realising. And I'm sorry it took so long but, you know, life happened."
There is no release date for the star's new album at the moment, but several media reports have pointed towards 20 November as the likely day.
A preview of the album appeared without warning on Sunday night, during an advertising break on The X Factor.
The 30-second clip featured the star's voice along with the song's words on an otherwise black screen.
At the time, her spokespeople refused to confirm whether or not the material was actually by the singer.
Adele's last album 21, which contained the mega-hit Someone Like You, is the biggest-selling album of the 21st Century, selling more than 30 million copies worldwide.
It shifted 4.75 million copies in the UK alone, making it the fourth best-selling album of all time. | Adele has confirmed her new album will be called 25, and says the music will focus on her journey to adulthood. | 34596063 |
A warrant canary is a statement declaring that a website has not received any classified data requests from government or law enforcement.
It is named after the early-warning birds which were sent down mine shafts to alert workers of toxic gases.
Reddit's 2014 report stated it had not received any classified demands, but the 2015 update did not say this.
The FBI can issue national security letters to conduct online surveillance in the US without court approval, but requests often come with a gagging order, which prevents websites from publicly disclosing them.
To get around this, many websites state that they have not received any classified requests.
Once the disclaimer vanishes from the transparency report, visitors might assume a secret request has been made.
Reddit published its first transparency report in 2014.
When asked about the disappearance of the canary from the latest report, one Reddit administrator wrote: "I've been advised not to say anything one way or the other".
The site said it had received 98 requests for user information that it could disclose in 2015, almost double the amount it received in 2014.
It complied with 60% of the requests, two-thirds of which originated in the United States. | Online community Reddit has dropped its "warrant canary" from its latest transparency report. | 35943062 |
A Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust report says the number of SIs rose from 161 in 2012-2013 to 228 in 2014-2015.
The report says a significant number of these serious incidents involved unexpected deaths.
The trust said staff felt free to report any possible problems.
SIs can include a wide range of incidents and are reported to help health trusts learn lessons and prevent future incidents.
The report highlighted five deaths within Wellbeing Services, which provides support for people with mental health problems such as depression, between December 2014 and March 2015 and these were being reviewed by the trust.
Michael Scott, the chief executive of the trust, told the BBC: "The board looks closely at all the data, and we look at national benchmarks. We remain a high reporter of incidents, but the majority are 'low harm' incidents.
"Staff do speak up and record incidents when things go wrong."
A spokesman for the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk said: "Some of this rise may be due to changes in reporting, but an increase of more than 40% in only two years is deeply worrying." | A mental health trust has seen a 41% rise in the number of serious incidents (SIs) - which can include unexpected deaths, injuries or security issues - over three years, new figures show. | 33117993 |
Tsonga, 31, has pulled out with the same adductor problem which forced him to retire from the French Open.
It will be the first time Slovenia-born Bedene, 26, has represented Britain at Queen's Club, following his nationality switch in 2015.
He reached the third round at Roland Garros last month - the furthest he has progressed at a Grand Slam.
Queen's is part of the ATP World Tour 500 series and leads up to Wimbledon, which runs from 27 June to 10 July.
Defending champion and British number one Andy Murray will be aiming for a record fifth title when the event starts on Monday.
Former French Open winner Stan Wawrinka, and fellow top 10 players Milos Raonic and Richard Gasquet, are also part of the line-up.
Find out how to get into tennis in our special guide.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Britain's Aljaz Bedene has replaced Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the main draw at the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club. | 36492402 |
Weeks of speculation came and went. The very idea of an early election was emphatically dismissed. In the event, it came out of the blue just when the engine room of local politics was fully-engaged with the mayoral and county council elections.
It feels as though we've spent the past seven weeks playing catch-up, planning and delivering our coverage at one and the same time. And then came the final days of the campaign, against the appalling background of horrific terrorist atrocities and the threat that they imply: the inevitable 'stop-start' routines have a added another peculiarly unsettling air of unreality to the proceedings.
But with polling day almost upon us now is the time to focus, or re-focus, on what is at stake for our part of the country in this election.
A month ago I spent two days in this "weather-vane" North Birmingham constituency.
The Conservatives were fighting hard for the 7% swing they needed to capture one of the seats that would set them on course for their projected landslide. Since then of course we have seen the general narrowing in the polls, including a local seat-by-seat YouGov survey which suggests that the Conservatives will not gain any of their Birmingham targets and may miss-out on others too, including Dudley North and Walsall South.
So I decided to return to Erdington. It's where Theresa May's Downing Street Joint Chief of Staff Nick Timothy grew up. And it was he who oversaw that Conservative manifesto commitment on Social Care which is now widely considered the biggest single reason behind their apparent loss of support.
But it is also the constituency which registered the city's biggest Leave vote of 63% in the EU Referendum. Now it happens to be one of 28 Midlands seats where UKIP are not fielding candidates, which could well boost the Conservatives.
This just is one of many reasons why applying the national trends from headline poll ratings to individual seats can be so misleading; especially when so many local Labour candidates seem to be keeping references to Jeremy Corbyn and his manifesto to a minimum and fighting this campaign more like a series of by-elections.
In the North Eastern corner of the constituency stands Jaguar's sprawling Castle Bromwich plant. A gleaming silver sculpture, soaring above the roundabout outside the factory, celebrates the factory's wartime history making Spitfire fighters. Now, it's Jaguar's access to their main European markets post-Brexit that most worries the firm's German boss.
So it's here that I rendezvous with one of our most influential local business leaders, Paul Faulkner, Chief Executive of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce.
Even though the Midlands registered a larger proportion of Leave votes than any other region, our local exporting businesses are way ahead of the UK curve on EU exports. For most regions, he tells me, Europe accounts for around 40% . But here that figure is "well north of 60%".
"So what about that 'no deal' option?" I ask him.
"I think there's a very long way to go before we reach that point", he replied.
But this election really is also about public services: health, the police and of course those run by local councils on which Labour say the least well-off depend most heavily. Birmingham happens to be Britain's biggest local authority, so the further £76m being taken out of its budgets for this year alone reflects its sheer scale.
But when I meet a leading expert on public service reform, she tells me it's a debate which cuts both ways.
Professor Catherine Staite heads the Institute of Local Government at the University of Birmingham. She tells me local authorities' finances have been squeezed under successive governments. But councils run by a variety of parties have been open to accusations of responding too slowly to the challenges this presents.
With the Library of Birmingham looming behind me, she suggests more could be done, for example, to encourage volunteering so that highly-prized local assets might come closer to reaching their full potential.
Equally, though, she credits local government as the most efficient of all the public services and questions the role of central government in "micro-managing it".
By now you will have realised I am concentrating on the 'twin-track' election defined by the two biggest parties: and our region has generally proved to be more of a two-party affair than most other parts of the country. All the more so this time round.
So it's Labour's anti-austerity agenda vs the Conservatives' focus on Brexit. That, after all, is why Theresa May called it in the first place. But there is a problem with snap elections called on a single issue. Take Edward Heath for example. Locked in an apparently endless battle with the miners' unions in 1974, the then Conservative Prime Minister called an election on the question "Who Governs?"
"Not you Ted", came the voters' reply. The Labour Leader Harold Wilson returned to Downing Street initially, in February, with a minority administration and then, in October, with a working majority.
The election will be about what the voters want it to be about. And remember, that old truism "the electorate is never wrong".
And it is looking more and more like a throwback to the Seventies, with two dominant parties and the smaller ones fighting the dreaded squeeze. UKIP's decline could be terminal. And that "Progressive Alliance" between the Liberal Democrats and the Greens has got precisely nowhere here.
So the parties of the Left continue to fight one another, while the Conservatives hope to consolidate the Centre and the Right. The big difference this time though is that Labour are bidding to win this election not from the Centre, but from the Left. | The tenth general election I have covered for the BBC was always going to be one of a kind. | 40158600 |
He had been taken to the hospital in Paris with an intestinal infection on Friday morning, his wife said.
Etaix was best known for films such as Yoyo, and Happy Anniversary which won him an Oscar in 1962.
Influenced by his experiences as a circus acrobat and clown, he saw himself as part of a silent movie tradition that went back to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. | Oscar-wining French actor and director Pierre Etaix has died, aged 87. | 37660717 |
About 24,000 Welsh fans had tickets to watch Wales beat Slovakia 2-1 in their opening Euro 2016 match and first major tournament in 58 years.
Welsh police officers, who are part of the police operation in France, praised the "great behaviour from our thousands of fans around Bordeaux city centre".
Meanwhile, the Eiffel Tower was lit up in Welsh colours and fans, celebrities and politicians have praised the team.
The police chief heading a group of officers from Wales in France, said earlier the number of police inside the stadium for next Thursday's game between Wales and England game may have to be increased.
Supt Steve Furnham's comments came after England fans were taken to hospital following a series of clashes between football supporters in Marseille.
The violence happened before and after England's 1-1 draw with Russia in their opening fixture.
The UK government has now offered to send more UK police to France ahead of the England v Wales match in Lens, a spokesman said.
And Uefa has released a statement saying Russia and England could be thrown out of Euro 2016 if their fans are involved in more violence.
Mr Furnham, from South Wales Police, said: "We have to respect that this is a French planned tournament and we are here just to support our French colleagues.
"What we'll be keen to do is to give our views and advice and guidance to those organisers in regard to how we think the safety of our fans is best placed.
"That may include options around both the deployment of police officers outside the stadium and also possibly inside the stadium."
Meanwhile reaction to Wales' performance has been pouring in on social media.
The Manic Street Preachers, who recorded the official anthem for Wales' appearance at Euro 2016, Together Stronger (C'mon Wales), tweeted: "The dedication, the skill, the passion, the fans, the players, the glory."
Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker said: "All hail Bale" following Gareth Bale's goal.
Former Wales rugby international Mike Phillips said: "Huge win, delighted, well done boys," while rugby pundit Jonathan Davies said: "Great day for Wales, let's keep it going."
Former World Champion boxer Joe Calzaghe said it was an "awesome result," while golfer Lee Westwood said: "Well done Wales on winning yesterday. Very good for apparently a one-man team."
First Minister Carwyn Jones said: "Brilliant, what a start," while Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the team had "done the country proud".
Congratulations also came in from football clubs across the country. Cardiff City congratulated Wales for a "fantastic first day at Euro 2016".
Wales' opening scorer Bale described the atmosphere in Bordeaux as being like a "home game".
"Our fans are the best in the world and fully got behind us. We gave them something to celebrate."
Wales manager Chris Coleman was also full of praise for the fans.
Speaking to the BBC on Saturday, he said: "Our supporters keep on topping what they have done - that support today was unbelievable."
In Bordeaux, Nicolas Zimmerman, a barman at the Charles Dickens pub, said Wales fans were now "brothers".
He said there was no trouble, adding the "Wales fans know how to party".
"It was intense," he said. "A lot of Welsh people. There was no trouble.
"With Welsh people we have a really good atmosphere. They are really friendly, they sing a lot. They are really good fans actually."
Alex Alim, assistant manager at the Houses of Parliament pub in Bordeaux was also full of praise for the "amazing atmosphere".
Mr Alim, originally from London, said it was "a big red riot but a very nice one" outside the bar. | Police have praised the behaviour of Welsh football fans in Bordeaux. | 36510601 |
Sean O'Halloran, from Northland Road in Derry, denies raping the woman in May 2014.
The BBC Radio Foyle journalist also denies two additional charges of sexual assault on the same date.
On Wednesday, Londonderry Crown Court heard from two character witnesses for Mr O'Halloran.
Freya McClements, who used to work at BBC Radio Foyle and is a former colleague of the defendant, described Mr O'Halloran as an "ethical journalist" who was "respectful towards women".
The court also heard from Donna Deeney, a reporter with the Belfast Telegraph, who said that Mr O'Halloran was "a very polite and compassionate person, drunk or sober".
The trial continues. | A 30-year-old man accused of raping a woman after a party at her home has been described as a "polite and compassionate" person. | 37998597 |
Lawmakers failed to agree on an extension of the scheme before the US Congress began its winter recess.
Former President George W Bush introduced the assistance plan in 2008 at the start of the recession.
Under the programme, jobless people received an average monthly stipend of $1,166 for up to 73 weeks.
The White House says the benefits have kept millions of families out of poverty, but many Republicans argue that the scheme's annual $25bn price tag is too expensive.
The stalemate comes two months after a budget fight in the US Congress led to the partial shutdown of the government.
President Barack Obama has vowed to push for the renewal of the expired programme when Congress reconvenes in early January.
"The president said his administration would, as it has for several weeks now, push Congress to act promptly and in bipartisan fashion to address this urgent economic priority," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
An estimated 1.3 million people will initially be cut off with the end of the "emergency unemployment compensation", US officials say.
Millions more could be affected next year after they lose state benefits, which in many states expire after six months.
The financial aid was designed to help US citizens who lost their jobs during the recession and were unable to find new work while receiving the state benefits.
The US unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 7% in November, according to the US Labor Department.
But the long-term jobless rate remains a problem for the economy, with some 4.1 million Americans currently out of work for six months or longer.
There has been repeated political wrangling between the Republicans, who control the lower house - the House of Representatives - and the Democrats, who have a majority in the upper house, the Senate.
Because of disagreements between the two houses over federal government spending, the US Congress failed to pass a budget before the fiscal year ended on 30 September.
Both sides eventually struck a last-gasp deal in October to end the federal shutdown and raise the federal debt limit. | More than a million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits after an emergency federal programme expired on Saturday. | 25539448 |
The 23-year-old scored two goals in 38 league matches during his one season with the Scottish Premiership side.
Azeez previously found the net 14 times in 98 appearances for AFC Wimbledon, helping them win promotion out of League Two in 2016.
"I've driven down from Scotland with a big smile on my face because I'm really excited to move to Cambridge," he said.
"There has always been a really good feel about this football club whenever I have played here in the past.
"As soon as I had a conversation with (head coach) Shaun Derry and other staff from the club, I knew that this was the right place to come."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Cambridge United have signed Partick Thistle striker Ade Azeez on a two-year contract for an undisclosed fee. | 40511038 |
The central bank has revoked foreign exchange licenses from businesses ranging from hotels and restaurants to golf clubs and hospitals.
It said a growing preference for the US dollar has spurred demand for it, and led to "exchange rate instability".
The US dollar is used widely in the tourism industry.
Since the end of military rule in 2011, Myanmar has launched economic reforms, adopting a floating rate for the kyat.
The licences, however, have allowed many people to use the dollar for domestic transactions, bypassing the local financial system.
The kyat has fallen more than 20% so far this year, making it one of the worst-performing currencies in the region.
In a statement, the country's central bank said the special licenses were revoked to combat "dollarisation".
"Because of payments and sales in dollars, there has been dollarisation leading to an increased need for dollars, weakening the 'Kyat' and causing exchange rate instability," the national lender said.
With an exchange rate of more than 1,200 kyat to one dollar, larger cash transactions require stacks of bank notes if not conducted in US dollars.
After the changes, only banks and official money changers will still be allowed to exchange dollars. Other companies will have to return their permits by 30 November.
According to the statement, all hotels, travel agencies, restaurants, duty free shops, airlines, hospitals, freight forwarders, telecom enterprises, media, apartments, super markets, souvenir shops, gold clubs and the military-owned Myanmar Economic Holding will have to give back their licences.
The bank said the move was intended to promote the use of kyat in making payments for goods and services within the country and to cut down the use of cash by encouraging domestic debit cards and credit cards, internal payment cards and online payment system.
Myanmar is not the only country in Asia where the US dollar is used as an unofficial second currency, essentially replacing the national currency for all larger transactions.
In Cambodia, the US dollar is also used alongside the domestic currency, the riel, which is used mostly for fractional dollar amounts. | Myanmar has announced it will curb the widespread use of US dollars by firms, to stabilise the tumbling domestic currency, the kyat. | 34578090 |
The Met Police said she was reported missing at 01:40 GMT on Tuesday. Her body was found 20 minutes later in a lock-up store on the allotments on Sheaveshill Avenue in Colindale.
A post-mortem examination was carried out on Wednesday, but the force said cause of death was not being released.
Next of kin have been told but formal identification has not taken place.
Det Ch Insp Noel McHugh said: "At this stage we are keeping an open mind about any possible motive and would ask any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.
"I make a direct appeal to anyone with links to these allotments who would have visited or had been in or around the area throughout Monday, 27 February, into the early hours of the following morning." | An 80-year-old woman has been found murdered at an allotment in north-west London. | 39133852 |
Stanley, who also had goalkeeper Ross Etheridge sent off, thought they had gone ahead when Billy Kee fired in, but referee Trevor Kettle ruled it out.
Lyle Taylor had a shot easily saved by Etheridge for the Dons, and Connor Smith also hit the post.
Etheridge was dismissed for handball late on in the game.
The draw lifts the home side into the top seven on goal difference, while Stanley stay fourth.
Another famous example of referees blowing time while a goal was about to be scored was seen in the 1978 World Cup when Zico of Brazil saw his effort against Sweden disallowed after Welsh referee Clive Thomas blew the full-time whistle.
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AFC Wimbledon manager Neal Ardley speaks to BBC Radio London:
"Credit to our boys. It's a good point. We didn't create bundles, we weren't brilliant by any stretch of the imagination.
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"Accrington are a very open, free-flowing team and they've carved a lot of teams open this season.
"It's a boost for the lads to be in the play-off places but it's about where we are at the end of the season."
Accrington manager John Coleman told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"I'm delighted with the way we played but sometimes the luck doesn't go with you.
"I've never seen anything like it happen [the disallowed goal] in all my 46 years playing and managing.
"He blew as the ball was on its way into the net. You can't account for that. Everyone in the ground is flabbergasted. Referees make mistakes because they're only human and that's what makes the game of football so special because you have talking points and arguments." | Accrington Stanley were denied potential victory in the goalless draw with AFC Wimbledon when they had a goal chalked off on the half-time whistle. | 35675653 |
Jean-Claude Juncker said the lack of a "permanent structure" resulted in money being wasted on missions.
Part of his annual state of the union address was devoted to the UK's unexpected vote to leave the EU.
He insisted that the bloc was not at risk but called for Brexit negotiations to take place as quickly as possible.
Modelled on the state of the union address by the US president, the Commission president's annual speech was introduced in 2010 to detail the state of the EU and future legislative plans.
The Brexit vote has given added impetus to plans for greater defence co-operation, because the UK has always objected to the potential conflict of interest with Nato.
But Mr Juncker said a common military force "should be in complement to Nato". "More defence in Europe doesn't mean less transatlantic solidarity."
A European Defence Fund would stimulate military research and development, he said.
All EU members have military forces; most are also members of Nato; and several have extensive experience of operations abroad, from peace-keeping to war-fighting.
The real question is how to organise these component parts to get greater security. Mr Juncker insists that the EU must have a role here.
He wants to improve EU command and control facilities and appears to be suggesting that EU civil and military aspects of a given mission should be run out of the same headquarters.
He also insists that whatever the EU does it should not detract from Nato. But defence resources are finite. His critics will say nothing should be done that duplicates existing Nato activities, as that sends a signal of disarray in Western ranks to Moscow.
Read more here: Brexit vote revives dream of EU army
Europe's media unimpressed by Juncker
Since 2003 the EU has launched some 30 civilian and military operations in Europe, Africa and Asia - under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Sixteen are still going on, including six military operations::
On future Brexit negotiations, Mr Juncker warned that the UK could only have unlimited access to the single market if it accepted free movement of people and goods. "There can be no a la carte access to the single market," he said.
The single market has dominated the Brexit debate in the UK.
Prime Minister Theresa May distanced herself last week from remarks by Brexit minister David Davis, when he said remaining in the single market would be "very improbable" if it meant giving up control of British borders.
Jean-Claude Juncker and his team agonised over the wording of Wednesday's speech.
The UK's vote to leave the EU is undoubtedly one of the biggest crises the bloc has ever faced but Mr Juncker was determined not to dwell on it.
There were few words on Brexit. His main message: "The European project continues. Let's choose to look forward. Be positive."
Applause resounded around the chamber of the European Parliament but how will the voters outside react?
Are they even listening? The drumbeat of nationalist, Eurosceptic populism reverberates around the continent.
Public trust in the establishment is low - whether traditional politicians, bankers or EU bureaucrats - and Mr Juncker is an unelected president.
Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU
Mr Juncker admitted the EU was facing an "existential crisis", and he also warned that splits in the union had left space for "galloping populism".
In a blunt criticism of recent attacks on immigrants in the UK, he said he would "never accept Polish workers being beaten up, harassed or even murdered on the streets of Essex".
Mr Juncker said the EU had to deliver "concrete results" including:
He urged a renewed focus on the EU as a "driving force that can bring about unification, for instance in Cyprus".
Anti-EU MEPs lined up to criticise Mr Juncker's rallying cry: | The European Union needs a military headquarters to work towards a common military force, the Commission president has told MEPs in Strasbourg. | 37359196 |
VisitScotland chairman Mike Cantlay is to visit the historic Annandale Distillery building to see progress.
It was built in the early 1830s and was later run by Johnnie Walker, but closed down in 1919.
Restoration work got under way two years ago and is due for completion this month, with an opening in early 2014 planned.
In 2007, the site, which was on the buildings at risk register, was bought by Prof David Thomson and his wife Theresa.
Once it reopens the facility will offer distillery tours, whisky tastings, educational facilities, a visitor centre, shop and café.
It is hoped it can attract some 50,000 visitors a year.
Mr Cantlay said: "The redevelopment of Annandale Distillery is absolutely fantastic news for Dumfries and Galloway and indeed Scotland.
"The project being developed sounds magnificent and this substantial investment into tourism is an investment into Scotland's, and indeed the region's, future.
"It's so exciting that Annandale Distillery will be ready to welcome visitors during Scotland's year of homecoming, which looks set to impress visitors from near and far." | Plans to reopen a whisky distillery after more than 90 years will create about 20 jobs in southern Scotland. | 22262779 |
Marco Reus and then Felipe Santana struck for the German side, although the winning goal - poked home from a matter of inches - looked offside.
After a goalless first leg in Spain, Joaquin scored from 20 yards for Malaga before Robert Lewandowski equalised.
Substitute Eliseu looked to have scored Malaga's winner before the late goals.
Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp had talked before the match about his desire to see his team's "wonderful story" continue but it looked as though they would pay for wasting several good chances during the first leg.
Eliseu had finished from close range eight minutes from time - another goal allowed to stand despite a strong hint of offside - to leave Dortmund needing to score twice.
But the vociferous home crowd were sent into raptures as first Reus slotted home into an empty net from eight yards after the ball ran fortuitously into his path and then Santana pounced after a huge scramble inside the penalty box.
Several Dortmund players looked to be offside as the initial ball was played into the Malaga area and, seconds later, Santana was also in an offside position when he scored the winner, touching home a goal-bound effort from substitute Julian Schieber.
Dortmund's obvious joy was in stark contrast to the emotions of the defeated Malaga players, with a cruel end especially harsh on coach Manuel Pellegrini, who had only arrived in Dortmund on Tuesday after flying back from his native Chile, where he had attended the funeral of his father on Monday.
This was Malaga's first outing in the Champions League and there will be no possibility of a repeat next season as a series of off-the-field financial problems means they are banned from European competition for one campaign when they next qualify.
Dortmund remain the only undefeated team in the competition - but after a disjointed performance that required an ending reminiscent of Manchester United's victory over Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final to seal their progress.
There was no hint of the drama to come during an uninspired and largely chanceless opening period that ended when Joaquin left Marcel Schmelzer reeling with a deft turn before drilling his low left-foot strike through the legs of Neven Subotic from 20 yards.
My assistants and me were looking at each other in shock in the dressing room and saying 'this is crazy'. This is the best I've ever felt
Dortmund equalised shortly before the break, punishing Malaga for squandering possession close to the halfway line, with a sublime touch from Reus sending Lewandowski free at the end of a brisk counter attack.
The Polish striker still had work to do but skipped past visiting goalkeeper Willy with a decisive first touch before placing the ball into an empty net.
It did not dent Malaga's endeavour and they twice went close through headers from Joaquin either side of the break.
The first lacked power and was easily stopped but the second drew an athletic, stunning left-handed save from home keeper Roman Weidenfeller.
Dortmund occasionally threatened - Lewandowski had a shot saved and Mario Gotze blazed rashly wide - but coach Klopp became increasingly animated on the sidelines and by the hour mark his side had started to look ragged and short of inspiration against disciplined opponents.
Weidenfeller saved a ferocious long-range strike from Jeremy Toulalan that would surely have killed the tie before Willy made two stunning saves to maintain his team's advantage.
First Reus seemed certain to score after connecting with a low cross from Lukasz Piszczek and then a low strike from Gotze appeared to be heading into the bottom corner, but both times Willy saved with his legs.
However, Willy was powerless to prevent the late goals that saw Dortmund eliminate his team. | Borussia Dortmund scored twice in injury time to snatch a dramatic Champions League victory over Malaga and secure a place in the semi-finals. | 22070025 |
Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has been awarded more than £600,000 for three projects to find ways to stop bacteria becoming resistant to treatment.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has funded the work to address the "growing problem" of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
GSA researchers will work with various partners including medical experts.
Prof Tom Inns, GSA director, said: "The application of design is helping to devise innovative solutions to many issues facing contemporary society.
"One of the most important challenges is increasing antimicrobial resistance where our experts in environmental research and design in age, health and care have already undertaken ground-breaking projects working with a wide range of interdisciplinary partners."
The first project will investigate ventilation in modern homes and the effect of this on anti-microbial resistance.
It will be led by the GSA's Mackintosh Environmental Research Unit (MEARU) in partnership with microbiologists at the University of Leeds.
The second project, RIPEN, will use various approaches including design and visualisation to explore the role of nurses in causing and preventing the spread of bacteria.
Partners include King's College London, Glasgow Caledonian University, University of the Arts London and Imperial College London.
The final project will involve using an online simulator to help visualise the spread of bacteria in small animal veterinary practices.
The GSA will work with University of Surrey, together with Fitzpatrick Referrals Ltd. | Architecture, design and virtual reality could all play a role in tackling antibiotic resistance. | 40593962 |
Richard Ratcliffe said charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested in April, had called him from prison and said: "I can't bear to be in this place any longer."
She also said she missed her two-year-old daughter Gabriella "all the time".
Gabriella's passport was taken after her mother's arrest. The child is staying with her grandparents in Iran.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at Tehran airport after visiting her family on holiday.
The UK Foreign Office said it was "deeply concerned" about the reports of her sentence and ministers would continue to raise the case with Iranian officials.
Mr Ratcliffe, from north London, said his wife had phoned just before 09:00 BST on Friday to tell him she had been given a five-year sentence.
She told him: "It has been horrendous. I do not want to wake up each morning and remember where I am. I want to stay in my dreams."
She added: "I have been here so long. Do you understand what it is like to be a mother kept away from her child this long?
"I have missed over a fifth of her life. What does that do to her?"
The family say there has never been clear information about what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is accused of, but Iranian officials have previously accused her of leading a "foreign-linked hostile network".
Mr Ratcliffe said he had asked his wife during the phone call what the charges against her were.
He said she had asked a guard who was standing next to her by the phone and the guard had said: "National security charges."
By Richard Galpin, BBC world affairs correspondent
For weeks following Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's arrest, her husband said nothing in public, hoping pressure from the Foreign Office might persuade Iranian authorities to release her quickly.
When nothing came of that, he started campaigning publicly for his wife and two-year-old daughter to be allowed to return to Britain.
The story was reported in the media in many countries, with more than 800,000 people signing a petition calling for her release.
But now that too seems to have failed, and may even have backfired.
The judge who convicted her made it clear he was unhappy about the media campaign, and even claimed it was evidence she was guilty.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have reportedly claimed her work in helping to provide training for journalists and human rights activists, was part of a plot to undermine Iran's government.
But it may be more about splits between the hardliners and moderates within the regime.
Alternatively, some analysts believe hardliners may want Western prisoners available to use as bargaining chips or for prisoner swaps.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her lawyer were in court to hear the sentence passed down, but Mr Ratcliffe said it was not clear whether she had been told what she was charged with.
He told the BBC it was possible that she knew but had been forbidden from telling her family.
"It remains extraordinary that Nazanin's interrogators clarify the sentence but not the crime - because there is none," he said.
The case was "shrouded in shadows and internal politics", he added.
He also noted the timing, saying the court's decision - on 6 September - came a day after the UK had appointed an ambassador to Iran for the first time since 2011.
"Nazanin's detention and charges have always felt like she and Gabriella are being held as a political bargaining chip for internal and international politics," Mr Ratcliffe said.
"The fact that she was sentenced with unrecognisable charges the day after the UK embassy was upgraded makes this all the clearer."
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is expected to serve her sentence in Evin Prison, where she is currently being held in a high-security wing controlled by the Revolutionary Guard.
Maziar Bahari, a journalist and former detainee at Evin Prison told the BBC it was an infamous jail with a history of executions and torture.
"Thousands of innocent lives perished in that prison and for someone like her who has not had any prison experience, being there will be a real torture," he said.
Mr Ratcliffe said he had told his wife she was "much loved".
"I have thousands of messages for her to read one day. They keep me going now," he said.
"They will be so important for her journey back once this cruelty is over.
"I told her we so look forward to having her home."
Mr Ratcliffe visited Downing Street in May as part of the campaign to free his wife, and last month Theresa May "raised concerns" over the case with Iran's president.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said Mrs May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson would continue to raise the case "with their counterparts in Iran".
She said the government would also "continue to press the Iranians for consular access and for due process to be followed".
Labour's Emily Thornberry, shadow foreign secretary, said it was "no longer good enough for Downing Street and the Foreign Office to 'raise concerns' about this case".
She said it was time to "demand answers".
Monique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said: "I want to reiterate my total support to Nazanin and her family in these terrible circumstances and I ask the Iranian authorities to release her as soon as possible.
"I am convinced of her innocence and reiterate that she had no dealings with Iran whatsoever in her professional capacity at the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"The foundation does not operate in Iran directly or indirectly."
The Iranian embassy has not yet responded to a BBC request for a comment. | A British-Iranian mother has been jailed for five years in Iran on "secret charges", her husband says. | 37321030 |
5 January 2016 Last updated at 06:51 GMT
It is 21 metres long, weighs about 96 tonnes and had a top speed of 100 miles per hour.
Here's our own flying Scotsman, Martin, with more. | After a 4.2 million pound refurbishment, tests are finally about to begin on one of the world's most famous trains, The Flying Scotsman, before it is back in action on the railways once again. | 35226986 |
New admissions to the unit at University Hospital of Wales (UHW) stopped on Thursday because of a "cluster of infections".
Cardiff and Vale Health Board said the babies' conditions were improving.
But microbiologist Prof Hugh Pennington told BBC Radio Wales it is hard to tell where the bug came from.
"Usually they come into a unit one way or another," he said.
"They might have come in via a person or they are common in the environment as well.
"Very often we can't trace the place where they came in. All we know is that they are challenging places like neo-natal care units and intensive care units all the time.
"For most people these are quite harmless so we don't need to bother about them. It's when they get into these units is where they can cause these outbreaks."
Prevention control measures have been put in place to prevent the infections - Acinetobacter baumanii and Enterobacter - spreading.
Prof Pennington, an emeritus professor of bacteriology at Aberdeen, added: "They are difficult to treat in the sense they are resistant to antibiotics by their very nature, not because they've developed resistance."
There are 15 babies at the unit, which has 30 cots for intensive care, high dependency and special care.
Other babies who need neonatal care will be referred to other hospitals. | Bacterial infections which have closed a neonatal unit in Cardiff after 12 babies tested positive are difficult to treat, an expert has said. | 34092696 |
The black and white male cat, called Jordan, is owned by friars at the university's Catholic Dominican chaplaincy.
But he spends much of his time asleep on his favourite turquoise chairs in the library.
Jordan, who was last seen on 13 March, has a large online following and in 2014 was issued with his own matriculation card by staff.
The university press office issued an alert via Twitter on Tuesday, asking people to keep an eye out for Jordan, who is known to frequent George Square.
Students have since posted worried messages on a Facebook page set up for the cat.
Louise Krüger wrote: "Come back library cat! There's no way I can get through these final essays without you and your sassy face."
Natalia Sokolova added: " I hope you've just found a girlfriend, Library Cat, or hanging out with your mates. Do let us know you are OK, the last thing we need is to lose you." | Edinburgh University's famous library cat has been reported missing. | 35880539 |
Security boss and convicted criminal Paul Massey, 55, was shot by a masked gunman at his home in Clifton, Salford, last month.
Supt Mark Kenny, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), urged criminal gangs "not take action into their own hands".
He said uniformed officers were not at the funeral, but armed response teams were on standby.
They stopped the traffic on a busy road in Salford to allow a funeral cortege to pass by.
A pipe band played and crowds lining the street applauded as the white, horse-drawn carriage came into view.
But they weren't here to say farewell to a local dignitary or celebrity.
This was the funeral of Paul Massey, once dubbed the Mr Big of Salford's criminal underworld.
He'd served time for stabbing a man in 1999.
In recent years the 55-year-old had attempted to rebrand himself as a businessman and politician - standing for mayor of Salford in 2015.
He was shot dead outside his home last month - bringing to fruition his own prophecy, made years earlier, that one day he would fall to a bullet.
The search for his killer continues.
"Do not take action into your own hands," said Mr Kenny in a BBC interview, appealing directly to criminals.
"Speak to the police, speak to us.
"I very much hope it is a family day and it is very much about respect for the family.
"If anything did happen we will respond appropriately and deal with it."
He said, contrary to some reports, that Mr Massey was "absolutely not" a mediator for police.
Mr Kenny denied Salford was "a lawless city" and "at the heart of it there is a really good community".
But he acknowledged there were "areas of deprivation and individuals who sometimes come together and cause serious crime".
Mr Kenny said although there were 19 gangs in Salford, "clearly they are a minority in Salford engaged in criminality."
GMP officers have targeted gangs in the city and since January have made 100 arrests and have eight money-laundering investigations.
They have also seized 26 firearms, more than £9m of drugs money and large amounts of ammunition.
In 1999, Mr Massey was sentenced to 14 years for stabbing a man in the groin outside a nightclub.
He was given the title Mr Big by the late Salford councillor Joe Burrows at a meeting to discuss civil disturbances in 1992 - which he always denied having anything to do with.
In 2012, he was unsuccessful in his mayoral bid, polling 1,995 votes - 4.45% of the poll - and coming seventh out of 10 candidates. | Hundreds of people have gathered for the funeral of a man once dubbed Salford's Mr Big. | 34077903 |
Nicola Cross, 37, was found with stab wounds at her house in Hemel Hempstead on Monday, an hour after police were called to the same street over reports of a man behaving suspiciously.
Her body was discovered after officers responding to a separate call about a break-in at a neighbour's house heard a disturbance from next door.
Marcin Porczynski, 25, has been charged with Ms Cross's murder.
He also faces two counts of kidnap and a charge of burglary relating to a neighbouring property in Dunlin Road, police said.
Mr Porczynski, from Claymore Avenue, Hemel Hempstead, is due to appear at Hatfield Remand Court on Thursday.
Two children were in the house when officers found Ms Cross's body. Police said they were physically unharmed.
Det Ch Insp Jerome Kent said the children were safe and with family.
Ms Cross's death was a "tragic and isolated incident," he said, and sought to reassure people such events were "highly unusual within Hertfordshire."
Hertfordshire Police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission in relation to the case.
A 19-year-old man from Hemel Hempstead arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle has been released on police bail until 24 September. | A man has been charged with murdering a woman found dead at her home. | 34268963 |
The ceremony, a 255-year-old tradition, sees buns thrown from the roof of the county hall to crowds below to mark royal occasions.
Each of the 4,500 currant buns fired into the crowd on Saturday evening was marked with a 90.
Organised by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council, the last bun-throw was in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee.
The buns were thrown by council members into the crowds below who tried to catch them.
The Mayor, Councillor Alice Badcock, who started the event of by throwing the first bun, said: "Bun throwing is a major event for Abingdon.
"It does not take place every year and therefore people very much look forward to taking part when there is a royal event to celebrate."
Buns marked with the letters 'C' and 'W' were also thrown in 2011 to celebrate the Royal Wedding. | Thousands of people turned out to watch a bun throwing event in Abingdon to mark the Queen's 90th birthday. | 36510593 |
But the influence and appeal of this poet, novelist, songwriter and legendary ladies' man has endured throughout his career.
Often prone to depression, his witty, charming and self-deprecating manner - not to mention his black humour - was reflected in his lyrics.
And after a period of retreat in the 1990s he remerged with his creativity undimmed.
Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Westmount, a well-to-do area of Montreal, on 21 September 1934.
His mother had emigrated from Lithuania to Canada and his father Nathan, whose ancestors came from Poland, owned a prosperous clothing store.
His father died when Cohen was just nine years old but left his son a trust fund that would enable him to pursue his chosen literary career.
The young Cohen attended a privately run Jewish co-educational day school where he learned to play guitar and formed a folk group called the Buckskin Boys. "Guitars impress girls", was the reasoning he gave.
In 1951 he enrolled at Montreal's McGill University to study English Literature, and published his first collection of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies, in 1956.
His poetry was well-received and after a year at Columbia University in New York he turned to writing full-time producing his second collection of poems, entitled The Spice Box of Earth, in 1961 when he was 27.
The volume established Cohen's reputation as a serious poet and became his most popular work. The poem, You Have the Lovers, captured his fascination with human relationships.
He used the royalties from the book, along with literary grants from the Canadian government, to travel around the world, sampling what it had to offer - including some use of LSD when it was still legal.
After a spell in London, where his first purchases were an Olivetti typewriter and a blue raincoat, he moved to the small Greek island of Hydra, publishing his first novel The Favourite Game in 1963.
He lived there with Norwegian Marianne Jensen, for whom he later wrote So Long Marianne. Her death in early 2016 inspired Cohen's final album, You Want It Darker, released just three weeks ago.
Beautiful Losers, Cohen's second novel, was published in 1966, and was the last of his writing before he quit Hydra to move to the United States.
It prompted the Boston Globe to declare: "James Joyce is not dead. He is living in Montreal under the name of Cohen."
But the writer had already decided to move to New York and pursue a career as a songwriter and musician.
His debut album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, was released in December 1967. With its funereal tone, and Cohen's weary intonation, it was by no means a commercial success but it turned into something of a cult classic for folk buffs, and artists rushed to cover songs like Suzanne.
Among them was Judy Collins, who turned the song - based on Cohen's poem Suzanne Takes You Down - into a hit.
Over the next seven years he recorded three more albums: Songs From a Room, Songs of Love and Hate and New Skin for the Old Ceremony, which featured Chelsea Hotel - an account of Cohen's sexual encounter with singer Janis Joplin.
Despite a paralysing fear of playing live, he toured these albums extensively around the world. Those concerts included a remarkable appearance at a highly-charged Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
The crowd was volatile and Cohen was following an electrifying performance by Jimi Hendrix, but the quiet folk singer won them over by telling a hushed anecdote about childhood trips to the circus.
"There was one thing at the circus that happened that I always used to wait for," he told the audience of 600,000.
"I don't want to impose on you, this isn't like a sing-along… but there was one moment when a man would stand up and say, 'Would everybody light a match so we can locate one another?'
"Could I ask you, each person, to light a match, so that I could see where you all are? Could each of you light a match, so that you'll sparkle like fireflies, each at your different heights? I would love to see those matches flare."
The intimate anecdote, and Cohen's subsequent performance are remembered as one of the defining moments of the whole festival.
In 1973, Cohen went to Israel to volunteer for active service in the Yom Kippur war. Instead he was assigned to entertain troops in a tank division where he once found himself coming under fire in the Sinai desert.
The recording of his fifth album, Death of a Ladies' Man, descended into near farce. Cohen clashed with the unstable producer, Phil Spector, whose "wall of sound" technique was at odds with Cohen's quiet acoustic based music. The resulting album was not a success, and he later disowned it.
Cohen's music fell out of favour in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but interest revived in 1985 with the release of the album Various Positions. This featured the track Hallelujah, which had taken the musician five years to write.
A mournful ballad, it touches on themes of love, sex, religion, longing and regret. Cohen said it explained "that many kinds of hallelujahs do exist, and all the perfect and broken hallelujahs have equal value".
Hated by his record company, it later became the most-covered Cohen song of all time. Jeff Buckley's haunting, melodic version in 1994 became the standard interpretation - but it only received mainstream recognition when Rufus Wainwright sang it for the animated film Shrek in 2001.
Various Positions was modestly successful, but the singer seemed confined to a small, committed audience until his backing singer Jennifer Warnes released Famous Blue Raincoat, an album of material authored by Cohen, in 1987.
It sold extremely well and introduced Cohen to a new generation of listeners. When the pair collaborated on 1988's eminently accessible album I'm Your Man, the result was his biggest album in a decade.
The record paired cynical commentaries such as First We take Manhattan, with beautiful songs of love like the title track and Take This Waltz.
In 1991 a tribute album, I'm Your Fan, a collection of his songs covered by artistes such as REM, The Pixies and John Cale, again pushed Leonard Cohen back into the limelight.
However, by this time, Cohen had begun spending time at a Buddhist retreat in California and eventually moved there to become a Buddhist monk in 1996.
He finally emerged in 1999 with a wealth of new material, some of which featured on his 2001 album, aptly titled Ten New Songs.
Co-written with the producer and vocalist, Sharon Robinson, who also played all the instruments, it saw Cohen in introspective and relaxed mood, but perhaps contemplating mortality with lyrics such as, "the night is getting colder".
In 2006 Cohen, at the age of 73, was obliged to return to touring when he claimed that his manager (and former lover) Kelley Lynch had embezzled more than $5m from his account.
Despite winning a court case against her, and being awarded huge damages, she failed to pay back any of the money. Lynch would later be jailed after violating a court order to keep away from Cohen.
Two years later, he embarked on a marathon concert tour in 2008 which ran for 18 months and included a performance on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury - which was seen by many as the highlight of the festival.
2012 saw the release of Old Ideas, which became his highest charting album of all time. Many critics saw the songs on the album as an intimation of his own mortality. However, despite his advancing years, Cohen set off on a world tour to promote the album.
When the Grand Tour ended in December 2013, Cohen largely vanished from the public eye - but he continued to write.
Just last month, he released You Want It Darker, produced by his son Adam. Severe back issues made it difficult for Cohen to leave his home, so Adam placed a microphone on his dining room table and recorded him on a laptop.
Like David Bowie's Blackstar, the record felt like a swansong. "I'm leaving the table / I'm out of the game," he lamented on Leaving The Table.
The album received positive reviews, but a New Yorker interview tied to the release revealed Cohen making peace with mortality.
"I am ready to die," he said. "I hope it's not too uncomfortable. That's about it for me."
Cohen was, arguably, one of the most enigmatic poets and songwriters of his generation. While many of the themes in his work hinted at depression, he always felt that he was just a keen observer of the realities of life.
"Seriousness, rather than depression is, I think, the characteristic of my work," he once told an interviewer.
"I like a good laugh, but I think there's enjoyment that comes through seriousness. We all know when we close the door and come into your room and you're left with your heart and your emotions, it isn't all that funny."
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Leonard Cohen was called "the high priest of pathos" and the "godfather of gloom". | 12811248 |
The 24-year-old told the BBC he was "humbled" to receive the honour, which is open only to new artists who will release their first album next year.
The 2015 winner was James Bay, who scored the biggest-selling debut of the year with Chaos and the Calm.
Garratt beat competition from soul diva Izzy Bizu and piano-based songwriter Frances to take the prize.
"It's not something I was expecting to happen," he told Radio 1's Newsbeat. "It's a definite surprise. [I'm] humbled to have been nominated, let alone won it."
Hailing from Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, Garratt rose to fame through the BBC's Introducing scheme, which allows aspiring artists to upload their songs for consideration by local and national radio stations.
After submitting his first track in 2009, he was championed by Zane Lowe, who made his debut single, Worry, his "next hype" track. He has since played the BBC Introducing stage at Reading and Leeds and headlined Radio 1's Future Festival.
Garratt's music almost defies categorisation, cherry-picking sounds from rock, pop, dubstep and experimental electronica, with his soaring vocals the sole connective tissue.
Ellie Goulding recently covered his single Weathered, while Mumford and Sons hand-picked him as the support act on their UK tour.
The Critics' Choice Award comes 10 years after the musician entered the junior version of the Eurovision Song Contest - crashing out in the heats, when his song, The Girl, finished in last place.
"It was the first song I'd ever written, I had a massive afro. It was the most horrifying experience of my entire life," he told the Evening Standard earlier this year.
His debut album is due to be released in the spring and he will perform at the Brits nomination party in January, alongside Jess Glynne and pop band Years and Years.
Previous Critics' Choice winners include Emeli Sande, Sam Smith, Jessie J and Adele, who won the first award in 2008.
But Garratt said he didn't feel any pressure.
"If anything I feel totally safe and in fantastic company," he said. "I may not live up to those kinds of expectations but I will work and work as hard as I can to keep the prestige of the award alive, 100 per cent."
The recipient is chosen by a team of experts - including music journalists and music programmers at major TV and radio stations - and more than 100 artists were considered for this year's shortlist.
The 2016 Brit Awards take place on 24 February at London's O2 Arena, hosted by Ant and Dec. | Multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt has been awarded the Brits Critics' Choice prize for 2016. | 34936992 |
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