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Can you summarize the following paragraph? | It was "only by chance" officers were not dealing with a murder inquiry, West Midlands Police said.
The 26-year-old woman and child were hit by a silver Vauxhall Vectra as they were crossing Tennyson Road in Wolverhampton at about 6.45pm on Wednesday 2 December.
A 27-year-old man has been arrested, the force said.
Det Sgt Lisa Tibbitts said the car's front end would have been damaged when the boy "hit the bonnet", causing front end damage.
She said officers were looking for a "sporty looking" silver Vectra with tinted windows.
"If you work at a garage and have recently had to repair a car matching this description then we want to hear from you," she added.
The woman and boy were treated in hospital for minor injuries.
British Airways has apologised to passengers on its flight from Gatwick to Barbados, which was supposed to leave on Sunday evening but eventually took off in the early hours of Monday.
The delay meant the return flight to Gatwick was also held up.
The airline now faces a £290,000 compensation bill.
Earlier in March, a BA Heathrow flight bound for the US was unable to take off for several hours after a mouse was spotted on board.
The Independent reported that the time spent restocking the plane at Gatwick meant the outbound crew were "out of hours and could no longer operate the service within stipulated time limits".
Another crew had to be assembled for the take-off, which caused the initial delay to increase to five hours.
One of the delayed homebound travellers, Jane Gwizdala, told the newspaper that the captain was open about the reason for the delay: "He told us the outbound Gatwick to Bridgetown plane wasn't prepared satisfactorily.
"He said in 26 years of flying he had never had such an experience that impacted on crew and passengers."
A spokeswoman for BA said: "We are sorry customers were delayed after some of the many items needed for the flight weren't loaded on to the aircraft.
"We gave customers refreshment vouchers so they could get something to eat and drink in the terminal and we got them away on their holidays as soon as we could."
EU passengers' rights rules specify people on a long-haul flight delayed by more than three hours are entitled to receive up to 600 euros (£519) in compensation.
With up to 280 people on board each way, it means BA could face a bill of £290,000. | A woman and an 11-year-old boy who were hit by a car were "deliberately driven at", police have said.
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An inadequately stocked toilet roll cupboard and a lack of headphones meant hundreds of holidaymakers were delayed for more than five hours. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | 19 July 2017 Last updated at 07:01 BST
Now conservationist Sir David Attenborough has launched a big butterfly count to try to help them.
This will allow researchers to see how numbers are doing and what species have been found where!
Check out the video to find out more about the colourful insects and what you can do to help. | Butterfly numbers have been falling in the UK for a number of years. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Ofsted's inspectors said there were 400 looked-after children and 209 with "care-leaver" status when the inspection was carried out in July.
The report highlighted delays in the completion of health assessments and a shortage of nurses.
Medway Council said it was making "significant progress" and improvements would continue.
Ofsted inspectors said following a previous inspection in January, work in Medway had focused on ensuring all children were safe.
The report said: "However, many changes have been recent and have not yet had the opportunity to impact, so deficits within services for looked-after children remain.
"Inspectors saw no looked-after child at immediate risk of harm.
"Overall, outcomes for children and young people looked after are poor in relation to their emotional health and wellbeing, their educational achievement and continued opportunities for education, employment and training."
The inspectors rated the service's "capacity to improve" as adequate, saying the local authority was "actively addressing inadequacies".
The report praised Medway's record in avoiding changes in children's placements, saying a "high number" remained for more than two years.
Councillor Mike O'Brien, lead portfolio holder for children's services at the Conservative-run council, said: "We are making significant progress.
"The council brought in a completely new top team when it realised that much work needed to be done to improve this area and we are pleased that Ofsted have recognised this."
The council said it was recruiting more social workers, a new director of social services and a new service manager for children in care.
Directory of children's services Barbara Peacock, who joined last September, said "There is a lot of work to do, and we are clear on that fact, but Ofsted acknowledges we are heading in the right direction.
Councillor Adam Price, the Labour group's spokesman for children's services, said: "I'm deeply worried.
"We're hearing that no child is under immediate risk, but it is worrying that there seems to be poor quality in terms of information on children when they come into care and also go out of care."
He said the authority was having to go as far as Ireland to recruit social workers.
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The 17-year-old was trailing Great Britain's Kyle Edmund 6-3 6-4 2-1 when he struck the ball in anger and hit Arnaud Gabas - and defaulted the match.
He must pay $2,000 for the default and $5,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct, escaping the maximum $12,000 penalty as it was not deemed intentional.
The International Tennis Federation has said no further action is anticipated.
The Davis Cup World Group first-round tie in Ottawa was poised at 2-2 after Vasek Pospisil beat Dan Evans to set up a decider, but Canada's hopes ended when Shapovalov was disqualified after letting frustration get the better of him.
He later apologised to Frenchman Gabas in the match referee's office before the umpire went to Ottwawa General Hospital as a precaution.
No damage to the cornea or retina was found and Gabas will see an eye doctor in France on Tuesday for a further examination.
Shapovalov, who had just dropped serve when the incident happened, said he feels "incredibly ashamed and embarrassed".
"I just feel awful for letting my team down, for letting my country down, for acting in a way that I would never want to act," he added.
"I can promise that's the last time I will do anything like that. I'm going to learn from this and try to move past it."
Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent
Shapovalov was full of remorse and handled himself very impressively in the hour after his disqualification. He is only 17, and should be allowed to put this behind him.
But - given the ferocity with which he hit the ball away - this appears a lenient response from the ITF.
By way of comparison: Heather Watson was fined $12,000 and Serena Williams $10,000 for smashing racquets into Wimbledon's turf last year. Yes, they are both much more experienced than Shapovalov - but the consequences in Ottawa were potentially far greater.
I wonder if chair umpires around the world feel their employers are doing all they can to protect them? | Medway's service for children in care has been rated as inadequate in a report by the education watchdog.
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Canada's Denis Shapovalov has been fined $7,000 (£5,600) after hitting an umpire in the eye with a ball. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The bicycle ridden by teenager Femke van den Driessche in Saturday's cyclo-cross World Championships was allegedly found to contain a hidden motor.
The Belgian said she "would not cheat".
Froome said: "It's a concern I've had, something I brought up with the UCI. It would be my advice that the UCI starts checking bikes more regularly."
UCI president Brian Cookson said it was "absolutely clear" there had been a "technological fraud" during Saturday's under-23 race.
And Froome believes the governing body is "taking the threat seriously".
The Briton, who is preparing for the Herald Sun Tour in Victoria, made his physiological data public in December in an attempt to quash speculation about his performances.
"Knowing that I have nothing to hide, obviously I went and did the tests and offered that data up publicly to everyone and I'm really happy how that went down," he added.
The boy, whose twin sister was taken to Australia by the unidentified couple, needs urgent medical care.
The surrogate mother in Thailand says she will raise the boy as her own and an online campaign has raised $185,000 (£110,000) for his treatment.
The case has raised fears Australia could ban international surrogacy.
The baby boy, named Gammy, has a congenital heart condition and a lung infection as well as Down's syndrome. He is currently receiving urgent treatment in a Thai hospital.
His mother, Pattaramon Chanbua, was paid $15,000 (£9,000) to be a surrogate for the Australian couple.
The couple asked Mrs Pattaramon to have an abortion after doctors informed her of the child's condition four months after becoming pregnant. She refused, saying it was against her Buddhist beliefs.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said it was "an incredibly sad story" and illustrated "some of the pitfalls involved in this particular business".
It is illegal to pay for surrogacy in Australia so couples have to find a surrogate who is happy to carry the child for no payment beyond medical and other reasonable expenses.
Advocacy group Surrogacy Australia said this "red tape" means many couples choose to go abroad to find a surrogate, with 400 or 500 each year venturing to India, Thailand, the US and other places.
Rachel Kunde, the group's executive director, said she hoped the case would lead to better regulation by the Australian authorities of international surrogacy, rather than an outright ban.
"Our greatest fear is that Australia is going to ban international surrogacy altogether," she said. "We are hoping that the government will make accessing surrogates in Australia easier."
Nicola Scott, a British lawyer specialising in fertility issues, says a lack of regulation leaves the child vulnerable because issues such as termination are not discussed in advance.
She says the answer to the problem is an international treaty similar to the Hague Adoption Convention so that parents know what the situation is from the outset.
"Then each country would have its own rules and regulations and the parents, surrogates and children would be protected," she added. | Britain's two-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome said he warned authorities about 'mechanical doping' and wants more stringent bike checks.
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Surrogacy campaigners have called for clearer regulation after a Thai woman was left with a Down's syndrome baby when his parents refused to take him. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Known as Plato, the concept was chosen by an expert panel as the standout candidate in a competition run by the European Space Agency (Esa).
The Paris-based organisation's Science Policy Committee will now have the final say at its meeting in February.
If given the go-ahead, Plato would probably not launch until 2024.
The name of the mission is an acronym that stands for PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars.
It is not really one telescope but rather a suite of 34 telescopes mounted on a single satellite.
The intention is for Plato to sweep about half the sky, to investigate some of its brightest and nearest stars.
It would monitor these stars for the tell-tale tiny dips in light that occur when planets move across their faces.
Critically, Plato would be tuned to seek out rocky worlds orbiting in the "habitable zone" - the region around a star where water can keep a liquid state.
A fundamental part of its quest would be to perform an intricate study of the host stars themselves, using their pulsations to probe their structure and properties.
Such observations, referred to as asteroseismology, would provide key, complementary information for the proper characterisation of the rocky worlds.
Although other missions have pursued this kind of science before, Plato is described as a major leap forward in capability.
The hope is that it could find really promising targets for follow-up by the big ground-based telescopes due to come online in the next decade.
These facilities, which will have primary mirrors measuring tens of metres in diameter, should be able to examine the atmospheres of distant worlds for possible life signatures.
The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble, due for launch at the end of this decade, would likely still be working in 2024/2025 and could also pursue Plato's discoveries.
Plato has spent the past two years in an assessment process that has pitted it against four other concepts.
These alternatives included another planet observatory (Echo), an asteroid mission (Marco Polo-R), an X-ray telescope (Loft), and a satellite that would perform a precise test of Einstein's equivalence principle (STE-Quest).
All were vying for the third medium-class launch opportunity to be offered under Esa's so-called Cosmic Vision programme, which defines the organisation's space science priorities.
"Medium class" means a cost to the agency of no more than about 600m euros (£490m; $820m), although following the practice of previous missions this does not include the budget for instruments.
These are usually provided directly by Esa's national member agencies and mean the final price tag can approach one billion euros.
All the competitors were invited to make a final presentation to representatives of the scientific community, industry, and national member agencies on 21 January. This was followed by closed-session discussions by two working groups, which rated the quality of the missions.
Their recommendations were then passed to Esa's top space science advisory committee (SSAC) to make an evaluation.
It proposed that Plato be carried forward as the mission of choice, and this preference has now been sent on by Esa's executive to the SPC. The committee has the prerogative of "selection" at its 19 February gathering, and could still reject Plato - but this would be a major surprise.
The final green light is known as "adoption" in Esa-speak. This is unlikely to happen until 2015, after member states have made firm commitments on their participation and an industrial team to build the satellite has been identified.
One big industrial contribution from the UK seems assured. This would be the camera detector at the base of the telescope suite.
Supplied by e2v in Chelmsford, the array of more than 130 charge-coupled devices would be 0.9 square metres in area.
This would make it the largest camera system ever flown in space, and twice the size of the array e2v produced for Esa's recently launched Gaia telescope.
The first two medium-class missions to be selected under Esa's Cosmic Vision programme in 2011 were Solar Orbiter, a space telescope to study the Sun, to launch in 2017; and Euclid, a telescope to investigate "dark energy", to fly in 2020.
The American space agency (Nasa) plans a similar mission to Plato called Tess (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) in 2017, but the specifications mean that its rocky worlds will probably be in closer orbits around lower-mass stars than the discoveries made by the European project. In other words, the Plato planets are more likely to be in the habitable zones of more Sun-like stars.
[email protected] and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos | A telescope to find thousands of planets beyond our Solar System is the hot favourite for selection as Europe's next medium-class science mission. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Aluminium composite material (ACM), which has come under question following the Grenfell Tower fire in London, will be removed from nine blocks.
Salford Mayor Paul Dennett said additional safety measures were also being taken by Pendleton Together, which manages the flats.
Similar work has also started at a block in Wythenshawe, Manchester.
Tests are being carried out on 600 high rises across England following the fire in London, in which at least 79 people died.
Cladding is typically fitted to the outside of high-rise buildings to improve their insulation and appearance.
Mr Dennett said it was the "right and moral thing to do" to remove it from the blocks in Pendleton and increase security patrols.
"Government tests are under way, but it is already clear the ACM on our blocks must be removed," he said.
Graham Worrall, who lives in Beech Court, one of the tower blocks, said a lot of residents were "very uneasy" after the announcement.
He claimed the work would "take about two years", adding: "I think vulnerable tenants should be moved out for that period."
The other blocks affected are Whitebeam Court, Malus Court, Salix Court, Spruce Court, Holm Court, Hornbeam Court, Thorn Court and Plane Court.
In Wythenshawe, cladding is being removed from a tower block despite an inspection by the fire service which concluded it is safe.
Tests showed decorative cladding on Village 135 could be made of materials similar to those used on Grenfell Tower, Manchester City Council said.
Wythenshawe Community Housing Group (WCHG) said there were concerns about 78 panels in one area, which were being removed in order to reassure residents.
A Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said the complex, which consists of 135 apartments in four blocks for the over-55s, "did not give them great concern".
The number of high rises with safety concerns has risen to 14 buildings in nine local authority areas including Manchester, Camden, Plymouth, and Hounslow.
All local authority and housing associations have been advised on steps to take if tower blocks are found to be covered in cladding they are concerned about.
Private landlords have been asked to do the same.
Advice service Greater Manchester Hazards Centre has welcomed the decision to remove cladding.
However, joint co-ordinator Janet Newsham said the action "does not alleviate the immediate distress of residents who know their building could potentially suffer a fire similar to Grenfell".
Wins over Italy and the Netherlands, and a loss to hosts Russia, saw Wales qualify for the quarter-finals.
England proved too strong, winning 21-7, but Wales then beat Belgium and Poland in the repechage to claim fifth and book their place on the Gold Coast.
Head coach Nick Wakley can now start preparations for the Commonwealths.
Sian Williams (capt); Shona Powell-Hughes; Dyddgu Hywel; Gemma Rowland; Bethan Dainton; Rhiannon Parker; Ffion Lewis; Elinor Snowsill; Hannah Jones; Philippa Tuttiett; Sinead Breeze; Jasmine Joyce (travelling reserve: Jodie Evans). | Residents in more than 850 flats have been told cladding will be removed from their tower blocks in Salford.
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Wales Women sevens qualified for the 2018 Commonwealth Games after finishing fifth at the Kazan Sevens, the finale of the Grand Prix Sevens Series. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Five men have been arrested after the store in Brent Cross shopping centre was targeted at 02:30 BST.
Scotland Yard said at least 12 suspects had smashed windows and stolen items from Goldsmiths Jewellers.
The area was searched by officers with the help of police dogs and a helicopter.
The group also attempted to steal items from Ernest Jones jewellers before escaping on foot and bicycles, police said.
Five men in their 20s and 30s have been arrested on suspicion of robbery.
Some jewellery and watches were recovered, as well as the weapons, but the Metropolitan Police said they were still looking for the remaining suspects and property.
Ciaran James Williamson died after the incident at Craigton Cemetery, in Cardonald, at about 19:25 on Tuesday.
He was pronounced dead at Yorkhill Hospital, where one of the 10-year-olds is in a stable condition. The third boy was later released from hospital.
Police said they were not not treating the incident as suspicious.
In a short statement issued by police, Ciaran's family said: "We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that our son Ciaran James Williamson sadly passed away in a tragic accident at Craigton Crematorium.
"We would respectfully ask that you respect our privacy at this distressing time."
Det Insp Tom McKean, of Police Scotland, said: "This is such a tragic set of circumstances and our thoughts are with Ciaran's family.
"Inquiries are ongoing, however the incident is not being treated as suspicious and a full report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal."
Brett Dingwall survived life-threatening acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) after he was treated with Paul Rogers's donated cells 10 years ago.
The pair met up after the two-year prescribed anonymity window and struck up a close friendship.
Mr Dingwall said: "When Paul asked if I'd be his best man, he knew I owed him more than that. I owed him my life."
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The 67-year-old joined Mr Rogers and his wife Laura as the pair were married at St Paul's Walden, near Hitchin.
Retired boat-builder Mr Dingwall, from Bricket Wood, was diagnosed with AML while on holiday in Monaco in October 2006.
He began treatment at the Royal Marsden Hospital and was told his last chance of survival would be a stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor.
Mr Rogers, 51, was found to be a perfect match.
After a transplant, donors and recipients must remain anonymous for two years, but are allowed to exchange correspondence anonymously through Anthony Nolan.
Mr Dingwall sent Mr Rogers a thank you letter and a Christmas card, and received replies.
After the two years were up, the men realised they lived close to one another and met up.
Mr Rogers, 51, whose dad died from leukaemia, said meeting Mr Dingwall was "pretty emotional".
They enjoyed days out on Mr Dingwall's boat and kept in touch on-and-off over the years.
"Six months ago I thought, oh my word, who's going to be my best man?
"Then I thought, wouldn't it be amazing to have Brett as my best man? I'm so proud to be his friend," said Mr Rogers.
Mr and Mrs Rogers married on 13 May. | A jewellery shop has been raided at a north London shopping centre, with sledge hammers and pick-axes recovered afterwards.
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An eight-year-old boy has died and two 10-year-olds have been injured in a "tragic accident" involving a falling headstone at a cemetery in Glasgow.
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A stem cell donor asked the stranger whose life he saved to be the best man at his wedding. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | "Brexit means Brexit". "We are all Brexiters now."
Our new prime minister's statements, and those of her supporters, are perhaps the opposite of a Zen koan.
Those philosophical puzzles - like "the sound of one hand clapping" - are apparently meaningless, but long meditation on their internal contradiction is supposed to allow enlightenment to blossom.
Mrs May's slogans, on the other hand, seem firm and unambiguous, but after a little reflection unravel into a world of trouble ahead.
She rises from the ashes of the defeat of her side in the referendum, but how she copes with its implications will determine her success or failure in No 10.
"Brexit means Brexit," does mean of course, that she will take the UK out of the EU.
About the only thing she said about the whole central matter in her Birmingham speech launching her campaign was: "There will be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it by the back door, and no second referendum.
"The country voted to leave the European Union, and as prime minister I will make sure that we leave the European Union."
While there are many outside Westminster who will be furious (disMayed, even) at that, few inside the Palace can conceive of anything else. MPs will at least now debate the matter, as a sort of consolation prize.
But the manner of withdrawal, and the subsequent relationship, is up for grabs.
Again, all Mrs May has said is that she will "negotiate the best terms for Britain's departure from the European Union - and forge a new role for ourselves in the world".
This is pretty much empty rhetoric. She would hardly negotiate the worse deal possible.
It tells us nothing of her stance - as I wrote last week the new battle lines are between hard and soft Brexit.
At its core, this is an argument over the balance between the value of the single market and the perceived need to reduce EU immigration.
The first decision for the new prime minister will be about timing. Should the formal mechanism for leaving the EU, Article 50, be triggered in the next few days, as her prime ministerial rival Andrea Leadsom wanted, or a little bit farther down the road?
More important is what is behind this. Formally declaring could mean a desire for an orderly exit, by detailed negotiation, or simply a desire to get it all over with.
Real hardliners argue that the most important step is repealing the European Communities Act 1972. The former cabinet minister and veteran Eurosceptic John Redwood set this out very clearly.
"Article 50 is not a great basis for the negotiation, as it implies all is in the pot for debate and all could take a long time. I would rather trigger it to complete the process after all has been sorted out.
"If the government refuses to get on with legislating, then a poor second would be immediate Article 50 followed by very tough negotiations, and a willingness to simply pull out of talks and legislate if they are unrealistic."
Mrs May's every move will be watched by a number of very hawkish hawks who have decades of experience of hand-to-hand fighting in the Tories' European civil war.
One clue to her intentions will be how quickly Mrs May sets out her plan. A firm bottom line will satisfy the hawks. More waffle will suggest she genuinely wants to explore how much wiggle room the other 27 nations will give her.
It is critical to hear Mrs May's thoughts on what she want to do about European immigration. This is the stumbling block for those who want pretty much the same access as we have now to the European single market. It is highly unlikely we will get it, if the government wants to curb free movement of people.
We know what those Brexiters who backed the Vote Leave campaign desire.
In what amounted to a mini-manifesto from Boris Johnson and Michael Gove during the campaign, they proposed an "asylum and immigration control bill" by the end of the Parliament, and that "a process should be established to consider the details of this new system" right away.
They promised that: "This would end the automatic right of all EU citizens to enter the UK by the next election. We will be able to carry out proper security checks on those entering and refuse entry to known criminals.
"EU citizens will be subject to UK law rather than EU immigration legislation. The Bill would end the discrimination against non-EU citizens and create a genuine points-based immigration system in which the possession of suitable skills is a key element."
There is a bit of a problem here for PM May, aka the former home secretary. It can be argued that the UK already has a "points-based immigration system" for people who come from outside the European Union. And it has been a spectacular failure.
The UK hasn't been able to control immigration, even when it had the legal right to do so, and Mrs May would have to explain how any new system would work any better, simply because it was extended to EU citizens as well.
The Vote Leave mini-manifesto misses out a couple of words its supporters usually added in interviews: "Australian-style".
As I understand, it the Australian system relies on visas - otherwise you don't really know who is coming in to work, or just on holiday, whether they should be gone after a month or have the right to stay for a couple of years and so forth. Visas for the French would be a pretty big step.
Then the UK's problem is not just attracting skilled labour, to do all the jobs Brits haven't the know-how to do, from nursing to engineering.
We seem to be short of unskilled labour too. It may be that European immigration has deprived British people of those jobs. We will see.
The free-market right of the Conservative Party might point our that food-processing plants and fruit fields are being robbed of a plentiful supply of cheap labour.
Now it is possible all the unskilled and unemployed Leave voters of Sunderland and Boston will borrow Norman Tebbit's bike, and cycle merrily down to the blackberry fields, grateful for the opportunity for a bit of back-breaking labour.
Or maybe the points-style system could allow a certain number of unskilled Poles into the country to do the jobs they've been doing, but this would rather run counter to the apparent instruction of the electorate, who are not required to be economically literate.
As I write, the whole cabinet has not been announced, but so far it seems a balanced team, with Boris Johnson's first ministerial job one of the biggest available. It is no accident that of the first six people to be announced, three campaigned to remain, three to leave. The new foreign secretary, the minister for Brexit and the new job of international trade are all prominent leave campaigners.
There will be a lot about the rise of women. We like the big picture here, and we shouldn't ignore the biggest and oldest divide in human society. But agenda matters more than gender in this debate.
But I predict there will be an unwanted legacy. There are simply too many teeth for the mouth. Too many people who think they are entitled to a big job. There is a whole swathe of "leavers" currently outside the cabinet who think they should be in it.
There are current members who have done nothing wrong except be loyal to the prime minister, just like Mrs May. There are friends she wishes to promote. There are those who backed her at once, who deserve a reward. There are those on the other teams, who need to be soothed.
There may be those who are shunted to one side by those of less ability because of the need to balance Leavers and Remainers.
Such positive discrimination can lead to bitterness. It all adds up to quite a few people sitting on the green benches behind Mrs May with an axe to grind.
Some of them have been rather good, for years, at polishing, and honing that axe, and when they last swung it they decapitated a prime minister. They will bide their time, nursing grudges.
A Zen master once said a koan is like "swallowing a red-hot iron ball. You try to vomit it out, but you can't."
Brexit could be a bit like that for the new prime minister. | Is the new prime minister's slogan as firm and unambiguous as it first seems? |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Bailey Sumner, from Blackpool, died from head injuries at Easter 2011.
The SwampFlyer ride at Greenwood Forest Park near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, had been open only a week.
The Dolgellau inquest heard that a mountaineering clip had been passed through a "false loop" in the rope supporting him.
Park owner Stephen Bristow said the mistake should have been spotted during safety checks.
"The training required them to be absolutely rigorous about what they were doing," he told the inquest.
Pathologist Dr Anthony Caslin said Bailey died after suffering a brain injury due to a fractured skull following a fall from height.
The inquest jury heard Mr Bristow had taken a decision to open a zip wire at the park in November 2010 and after researching and taking advice had opened SwampFlyer on 17 April 2011.
The ride was removed immediately after Bailey's death.
Mr Bristow said: "I didn't want it to remain there. It was a symbol of tragedy."
He said he had received professional guidance before opening the ride and had not been warned about the risk of a false loop.
The park had used a voluntary Health and Safety Executive (HSE)approved scheme of safety inspections, and an expert had passed the ride as safe.
"We get the best advice we can find," Mr Bristow said, adding there was no legal requirement to have an inspection.
The court heard there was "top-quality equipment" and staff were trained to check equipment.
Det Sgt Gary Williams told the inquest that Bailey became detached from some lanyards which remained on the cable.
The karabiner, a metal loop, was still attached to the loops of the harness.
"It was our opinion the karabiner had been attached to the false loop and as soon as weight had been applied it became detached," he said.
Philip Mitchell, a chartered mechanical engineer from Leicestershire, who inspects roller coasters and other equipment, said such a tragedy had never occurred before.
Kevin Elliott, the lawyer for Greenwood Forest Park, added there was a plethora of HSE guidance but none highlighted the potential peril in Bailey's case.
Coroner Nicola Jones said the delay between Bailey's death and the inquest being held was down to a police investigation and the Crown Prosecution Service.
She told the jury: "What we want to know is how he came to die. This isn't a court that deals with any issues of blame. Nobody is on trial here."
The inquest continues.
Northants rocketed through the morning session, scoring 160 runs in just 29 overs, before Adam Rossington (78) fell after lunch.
Olly Stone (60) registered his highest first-class score as his record 10th-wicket stand with Monty Panesar pushed Northants to 498.
Panesar dismissed Tom Latham (24) but Kent closed on 88-1, trailing by 14.
Nicola Rees, 51, hit Gregory Flowers, from Crynant, near Neath, when she pulled into oncoming traffic on the A4019 in Aberdulais in October, 2013.
Rees, of Abercrave, Powys, admitted causing death by careless driving.
A judge at Swansea Crown Court handed her a 14-month suspended jail term and banned her from driving for 18 months on Thursday.
The court heard that Rees overtook a taxi without checking for oncoming traffic before she hit the 40-year-old's Suzuki motorbike on the Dulais Valley road.
Judge Paul Thomas said that a brief moment of "uncharacteristically poor driving" by Rees caused Mr Flowers's death.
The body of Peter Shickle, 58, was found at a property in Silam Road on 6 November.
Graham King, of Harrow Court, and John George Jamieson, of Wigram Way, both aged 35, were arrested by Hertfordshire Police the following day and have since been charged.
Both are due to appear before magistrates at Hatfield Remand Court later. | An 11-year-old boy who died after falling from a Snowdonia zip wire ride had been wrongly attached to the equipment, an inquest has heard.
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The bat continued to dominate as Northamptonshire and Kent's bowlers struggled to make an impact.
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A driver who killed a motorcyclist has been handed a suspended sentence and banned from the road.
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Give a brief summary of the following article. | Ministers had been urged to make it clear abroad that there was no cap on the number of foreign students who can study in the UK.
But they are standing by a definition of migrant which includes students.
Vice-chancellors and academics said there was a risk international students would not feel welcome in the UK.
The refusal to budge follows pressure from five select committees, academics, vice-chancellors and experts to change the way students are accounted for in migration figures, which the government is trying to cut by "tens of thousands".
It comes in a response to the Commons Business, Innovation and Skills committee report on overseas students and net migration.
The committee had called on the government to urgently re-think its position, saying: "The inclusion of overseas students at accredited institutions in the overall total is misleading. Furthermore, it runs the risk of undermining a world class export market."
Universities UK president Eric Thomas said he was concerned the government's response to the select committee "was not justified by the evidence".
He said the number of international students coming to the UK was already falling and that feedback from universities suggested a decline.
He added: "The government's decision to ignore the recommendations of five parliamentary committees that students should not be included in the government's net migration target is disappointing.
"The more positive tone of the government's statement is important, but we also need action. We need the Home Office and the UK Border Agency to work constructively with universities to ensure that genuine international students are not discouraged from coming to the UK because of an unnecessarily obstructive visa system."
Last week the Prime Minister visited India, partly to drum up business for universities, and stressed there was no cap on the number of genuine foreign students.
General secretary of the academics' union, UCU, Sally Hunt said: "The government has made it very clear it wishes to reduce net migration, but its chaotic approach risks doing real damage to our standing on the global stage.
"Just last week the prime minister had to try and convince Indian students that Britain still welcomed foreign students.
"International students bring social and economic benefits to the country and the government could have sent a bold message today that British universities are open for business. Sadly, it is once again pandering to a domestic audience in a desperate effort to sound tough on immigration."
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Home Office stressed in their joint response to the committee that they would "place no cap on the number of genuine students coming from across the world to study here".
But they stressed that they were sticking by what they describe as the international definition of net migration. This includes anyone "changing their normal place of residence for 12 months or more", even though students are required to leave when their student visa runs out.
The response said "the government recognised the important contribution that international students make to the economy", but that it was "also committed to reducing net migration".
"Eliminating the abuse of student migration route which has occurred in recent years, primarily in the private college sector, is a key part of that programme."
But it also cited a Home Office study from 2010 which showed about one in five international students who came to the UK in 2004 were still in the immigration system five years later.
And it said that the Office for National Statistics had made its migration statistics clearer, so that it was more easy for students to be identified in emigration flows "to give a more accurate measure of the contribution of students to overall net migration".
The Committee's chairman Adrian Bailey MP, said: "Our report called for urgent action. The government replies with a response that is almost four months late. This is not acceptable.
"Given the delay, we expected a substantial piece of work. However, the response appears to offer nothing new and manifestly fails to give a clear answer to our key recommendation."
The National Union of Students said in response it was urging students to write to Home Secretary Theresa May and call on her to stop treating international students like a political football.
NUS International Students Officer Daniel Stevens said: "Since taking office the coalition government have continually treated international students as a political football so now we're asking people to contact the Home Office and give them the yellow card.
"The cross-party case for changing international student visas policy is overwhelming and has been backed by five committees. The government must urgently follow the lead of Australia and the United States and recognise that international students should not be included in net migration figures."
He added: "The government must now listen to experts and reverse their position before further damage is done to both the UK's global standing, the vibrancy of our campuses and the prospect of economic recovery." | The government has refused to remove international students from its targets for cutting net migration, despite pressure from MPs and vice-chancellors. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | A crowd of about 200 gathered at the Ardoyne shops after a return Orange Order feeder parade passed off without serious incident.
Three north Belfast lodges were due to complete the return leg, but only one turned up at the police barrier on the Woodvale Road.
The Orange Order said the other two lodges dispersed before the barrier.
The order said this was because they were outside the 20:30 BST deadline which had been set by the Parades Commission.
Fr Gary Donegan, a prominent Catholic priest from the Holy Cross church in Ardoyne, said he was generally happy with the outcome.
"If you had said to me a few years ago we would have had a situation like this tonight with no recreational rioting, with no serious rioting, I would have grabbed this with both hands," he added.
He said the police would need to consider their tactics over the Ardoyne stand-off.
Two nationalist residents' groups held separate protests against a feeder parade past the Ardoyne shops on Tuesday morning.
The stretch of Crumlin Road has been the scene of violence in recent years.
The feeder parade and the protests passed off without trouble on Tuesday morning.
However, protesters at the Ardoyne shops heckled PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton, shouting that he was not welcome in the area
This year, as has been the case since 2013, the feeder parade was not allowed to return by the same route on Tuesday evening.
It was hoped a solution had been brokered to the long-running dispute last month, but the deal fell apart at the last minute.
Thousands of Orange Order members took part in Twelfth of July parades across Northern Ireland.
The 12th of July parades mark the 326th anniversary of King William III's victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
A total of 18 demonstrations were held in towns and cities across Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland's first and deputy minister and justice minister had appealed for calm ahead of the parades. | A stand-off between loyalists and republicans in north Belfast has ended. |
Can you summarize this content? | They said it followed an increase in reports of incidents at Stranraer Academy and in the wider community.
Witnesses have seen young people lighting aerosols with naked flames such as cigarette lighters.
Campus police officer PC Ronnie Boyce said it was an "extremely dangerous activity" which could have "devastating consequences".
Parents and guardians have been asked to watch out for signs that their child could be involved including:
They have also been asked to be aware of their children's whereabouts at all times.
PC Boyce added that a recent spell of dry weather meant even small fires could quickly get out of control. | Police have issued a "makeshift flame thrower" warning to parents at a school in Stranraer. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | Tries for Ben Currie and Kevin Penny gave the hosts an early lead.
Craig Hall and Anthony Tupou touched down for Wakefield either side of a Kurt Gidley try for Wire.
But two tries from Chris Sandow and one from Currie secured a home win, despite Jonny Molloy's late try for Wildcats.
A difficult night for Wakefield began before kick-off, with full-back Ben Jones-Bishop suffering an injury in the warm-up.
Both sides struggled to create chances with ball in hand, but a string of Wakefield errors allowed the hosts to control field position throughout the first half.
Warrington dominated the game in all areas after the interval as they earned their third successive win, but their celebrations were dampened when highly impressive half-back Gidley was taken off after taking a blow to the head.
Warrington head coach Tony Smith:
"The results are okay but we know there is a lot more to come.
"A few players were off their game and we haven't quite hit the straps yet.
"We lacked some tempo but Wakefield played very well. They are a huge improvement on last year and I'm not saying that because my elder brother is their coach."
Wakefield head coach Brian Smith:
"We self inflicted at times and there was some very loose passing at the start and end of the game.
"But we competed very hard and if anyone looks at the scoreline they will think it lopsided but it wasn't.
"I have to give a big rap to my younger brother with Warrington having the makings of a very good team.
"If they are not up there or thereabouts at the end of the season I will be very surprised."
Warrington: Russell; Penny, Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Gidley, Sandow; Hill, Clark, Sims, Currie, Hughes, Westerman.
Replacements: Dwyer, King, Julien, Cox.
Wakefield: Hall; Lyne, Arundel, Walton, Johnstone; Miller, Finn; Scruton, Howarth, England, Molloy, Ashurst, Simon.
Replacements: Sio, Tupou, Arona, Annakin.
Referee: Richard Silverwood | Tony Smith's Warrington maintained their perfect start to the season and went top of Super League by beating Wakefield, who are coached by his older brother Brian. |
Summarize this article briefly. | The S&P 500 index recorded its worst fall in three months, dropping 1.5% to 2,430 points.
All of the stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average - which tracks the 30 biggest listed US companies - fell as the index dropped 1.2% to 21,751.
The Nasdaq index also stumbled, shedding nearly 2% to 6,222 points.
Markets had been rising steadily for weeks, leading analysts to describe stocks as over-valued.
Tensions over North Korea unsettled markets earlier this week.
On Thursday, the terror attack in Barcelona and speculation that one of President Trump's key economic advisers might resign further unnerved investors.
"It is uncertainty on the geopolitical front, on the domestic policy front, and as well it seems as if you have valuations that are stretched," said Chad Morganlander of Washington Crossing Advisors.
"So investors are looking for a reason to actually take risk off at this point in time."
Walmart was the biggest faller on the Dow Jones, dropping 1.6% after it reported lower profit margins and said it could miss forecasts for the current quarter.
Other retail also suffered at the start of trading.
L Brands, which owns Victoria's Secret and Henri Bendel, was one of the biggest losers, plunging more than 10% after it said sales for the year would be lower than expected. It later recovered some of those losses to finish down 5%.
Macy's and Kohl's also fell more than 2%.
But Gap shares climbed nearly 6% in after-hours trade, after the firm told analysts its expecting higher sales for the year than previously forecast.
Shares of Cisco, which trades on the Nasdaq, slipped 4%, after the firm said quarterly revenues fell more than 4% year-on-year.
Payrolls processor Automatic Data Processing fell 5.8%, as activist investor William Ackman pushed for changes at the firm.
She will take the role of Carmel Kazemi, Kush's mother.
She will start filming her scenes this month and will make her first screen appearance in June.
Known for her role as Mel Bush, Doctor Who's assistant as well as her stage roles in Chicago and Cats, Langford said: "I'm so thrilled and delighted to be part of EastEnders."
She added: "I'm a great fan of the show and think the recent 30th anniversary was sensational and shows just how good British television can be. To be part of this family is an absolute privilege."
Dominic Treadwell-Collins, executive producer for EastEnders, described Langford as a "British institution" as well as an "old-school hard-graft actress gifted at both comedy and serious drama".
He added: "Bonnie brings wit, pathos and a touch of class to Carmel Kazemi - a thoroughly modern Essex divorcee who isn't quite ready to cut the apron strings firmly attached to her son Kush.
"Even if it means clashing spectacularly with an already prickly Shabnam." | Wall Street suffered turbulent trading on Thursday, with analysts pointing to disappointing corporate results and rising political uncertainty.
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Please provide a summary for the content below. | The man threatened staff with a handgun at the Co-op store in Pelsall, West Midlands, at 06.20 BST.
He stole a large quantity of coins before struggling with the weight of the haul as he fled, West Midlands Police said.
Police declined to say how much cash was taken in the raid.
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Det Con Neil Cunnington said: "We would like to hear from anyone who was in the area of Co-op this morning and saw a man dressed in dark clothing, carrying a holdall.
"He appears to have been struggling to carry the bag as he took a large quantity of coins and we have reports of him staggering due to the weight.
"No-one was hurt during the robbery and the shop has been examined for forensic evidence." | An armed robber who stashed a huge haul of coins in a holdall was spotted "struggling and staggering" as he tried to escape with the weighty load. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | They are receiving medical attention and none is believed to be seriously hurt, Oslo police said.
According to one report, some 1,800 students were attending a show by American house DJ Steve Aoki at Sentrum Scene at the time.
The premises were evacuated and cordoned off, and firemen secured the site.
One student told Norway's NTB news agency "it was total chaos".
Aoki said he was "saddened and shocked" by the incident. | Fifteen people have been injured in a ceiling collapse at a concert venue in the Norwegian capital. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Nigel Camplin, 55, accused driver Colin Evans of "cutting him up" on a roundabout before setting off on a four-mile chase through Caerphilly.
Footage played to Cardiff Crown Court saw Camplin tell Mr Evans "I'm going to kill you" in a foul-mouthed rant.
Camplin admitted to dangerous driving and was given an eight month suspended sentence.
He was also banned from driving for 18 months.
The court heard Camplin, of Maesycwmmer, was a 20-year veteran of the Royal Corps of Signals with an "excellent service record" who suffered from post traumatic stress disorder.
Judge Jeremy Jenkins told him it was "dangerous driving to the extreme" and that people who behaved in such a way "deservedly go to prison".
He added: "You completely lost your self control and should not have been behind the wheel of your car."
The nuclear plant at Wylfa on Anglesey was shut down in December.
Over the two years leading up to the closure, the artist group X-10 has been creating responses to it in the form of video, photography, sound, sculpture and installation.
The exhibition, Power in the Land, has opened in Powys and will tour Wales.
Each artist has made an individual response to the physical and energetic presence of the power station, the future legacy for the Anglesey site and to the complex associations of nuclear power.
The artists were interested in looking at the site's physical, political and cultural contexts as well as surveying the actual landscape and its geographical situation.
The exhibition will be at the Oriel Davies gallery in Newtown until 6 April, before moving to Aberystwyth Arts Centre between 14 May and 2 July, and ending at Bay Arts Cardiff in January 2017. | A former soldier has avoided jail after his road rage was recorded on his own "dashcam".
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Can you summarize this passage? | Robert Bates, 73, has been charged with manslaughter for killing Eric Harris, 44, during a sting operation over gun sales in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
His lawyer said the charges were "unwarranted" as he and Mr Bates left the police station.
His client was released on a $25,000 (£16,900) bond.
Mr Bates served as a reserve deputy in Tulsa County Sheriff's office, a volunteer position, since 2008.
He is also chief executive of an insurance firm and a major donor to the Sheriff's office.
The manslaughter charge carries a prison sentence of up to four years if Mr Bates is convicted.
A video of the 2 April incident, released at the request of the victim's family, shows Mr Harris being chased and brought to ground before he is shot.
A gunshot is heard and a man says, "Oh, I shot him. I'm sorry."
Mr Harris is heard calling out "He shot me, oh my God!"
He later died in hospital.
It was the second time in a week a videotaped fatal shooting of a black man has provoked an outcry.
Last week Walter Scott, an unarmed 50-year-old, was shot in the back and killed in South Carolina.
The protests that followed that incident continued months of demonstrations about police use of force, ever since a black unarmed teenager was shot dead in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.
Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund
"Our hearts are broken. The shock waves of grief and denial are still sweeping through our family as we come to grips with what has happened," it read.
"You touched so many lives, maybe even more than you realised," it continued.
Bennington's body was found at a private home in Los Angeles on Thursday. The LA County Coroner said he apparently hanged himself.
He had previously struggled with addiction and had spoken to BBC Newsbeat about depression and suicide.
The statement continued: "In the past few days, we've seen an outpouring of love and support, both public and private, from around the world.
"Talinda and the family appreciate it, and want the world to know that you were the best husband, son, and father; the family will never be whole without you."
Bennington, 41, had six children, three with his wife Talinda.
The band are storming into this week's UK album and singles charts following Bennington's death, according to the Official Charts Company's midweek update.
Seven of the band's albums are on course to enter the top 40, with their debut, 2001's Hybrid Theory, currently at number three and One More Light, released earlier this year, at five. Meteora, the group's first UK number one, at seven.
Three of their hits are also on course to reach the singles charts. In The End - Linkin Park's first UK top 10 back in 2001 - is on course to re-enter at nine.
2003's Numb is at number 13, while Numb/Encore, the band's 2004 collaboration with Jay-Z, is at 29.
Artists can only have a maximum of three songs in the top 40 at any one time. The rules recently changed in an attempt to stop A-list artists elbowing newer acts out of the way.
Formed in 1996, Linkin Park have sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and won two Grammy Awards.
Meteora topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2003 and is regarded as one of the biggest indie rock records of all time.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | A white officer who killed a black man after apparently mistakenly grabbing his gun instead of his Taser has turned himself in to police.
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Summarize this article briefly. | The Investing in the Teaching Workforce scheme would have allowed teachers over 55 to retire early and access their pension to make room for new staff.
But on Wednesday it was revealed it would not go ahead during the assembly's current mandate.
It was initially expected to be up and running by spring 2016.
However, there was no agreement on how newly-qualified a teacher should be to apply for a job under the scheme.
The Northern Ireland Teachers' Council (NITC), which represents the main teaching unions, said it was concerned it would not proceed.
However, the Department of Education (DE) said the scheme had merely been delayed and not abandoned.
The minister initially decided that only teachers who had graduated within the past three years would be eligible for a new job under the Investing in the Teaching Workforce plans.
Mr O'Dowd later said the executive would decide if the three year limit should be increased.
The executive will not be able to take that decision before the end of the current assembly term.
Avril Hall Callaghan, general secretary of the Ulster Teachers' Union and chairperson of the NITC, said the delay was "extremely disappointing".
"We've been told that a decision on whether the scheme will proceed will be made by the new education minister following the elections May and once ministers have been appointed.
"The mandate for the current executive has reached a point at which it is no longer possible to seek agreement to the scheme being finalised and launched.
"The unions will be lobbying the political parties in the run up to the election and will prevail upon the new minister to implement the scheme as soon as possible.
"The teaching unions remain committed to this initiative which they believe is an innovative way to rebalance the age profile in schools.
"It is imperative that this £33m should not be lost to the education budget", she said.
Ruslan Stoyanov, a member of Kasperksy's investigations team, was arrested in December but news of his apprehension has only just surfaced.
He was arrested as part of an investigation into payments he allegedly received from foreign firms.
At Kaspersky, Mr Stoyanov helped look into hack attacks and breaches at Russian companies.
In a statement, Kaspkersy Lab said the arrest had nothing to do with his work for the security firm.
"Ruslan Stoyanov is under investigation for a period predating his employment at Kaspersky Lab," said the company in a statement. Mr Stoyanov joined Kaspersky in 2012.
It added: "We do not possess details of the investigation."
Prior to working for Kaspersky, Mr Stoyanov was employed at other security firms. From 2000 to 2006 he was a major in the Russian Ministry of Interior's Moscow cybercrime unit.
Information about the reasons for the arrest are scant, but one Russian newspaper linked it to a probe into Sergei Mikhailov - a senior official at Russia's FSB intelligence service.
Forbes reported that Mr Stoyanov has been arrested under Article 275 of Russia's criminal code which lets prosecutors charge people for treason for "providing financial, technical, advisory, or other assistance" to other countries or non-Russian organisations seen as hostile.
The 21-year-old joined the Tigers from London Broncos last September and made 20 appearances in the 2015 season.
Tigers coach Daryl Powell told the club website: "Mike has proved last year he is a player with huge potential.
"His professionalism is outstanding as are the qualities in his game that we feel will take him to the top of his profession."
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He learned to walk on his hands while he was in the army and could go from the corner of a football pitch to the goal posts - and now enjoys doing it underwater during his daily swim.
You don't have to be 100 to get involved in International Handstand Day though! Whether you are on a beach, in a park, on a dance floor or doing your house chores you can take part.
On Saturday, 25 June people around the UK and around the globe will be showing off their handstands for the world to see.
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What is the brief summary of the provided content? | A series of documents from the 1980s reveal the Northern Ireland Office's attempts to promote political dialogue against a backdrop of continuing IRA and loyalist violence.
They cover events in the 1980s running up to 1989.
The files come from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
They have been released under what is known as the 30/20 rule, which refers to the phased release of files that used to be kept secret for 30 years but will in future be released after 20 years.
With IRA bombs exploding and frequent loyalist murders, the men of violence appeared to be setting the agenda in the 1980s.
But the files reveal tentative efforts to get talks underway.
The British government was concerned that John Hume did not seem convinced by its attempts to convene cross-party negotiations.
Officials identified the late Bishop Edward Daly as someone who could influence the SDLP leader and might act as a message bearer.
Representatives from the parties - including the DUP's Peter Robinson - met in secret in Duisburg, Germany in 1988.
The files show that Northern Ireland Office Minister Brian Mawhinney thanked the organiser, a German clergyman called Eberhard Spiecker, at a meeting four months later.
Historian Eamon Phoenix said that the official report of the meeting showed that the government regarded Dr Spiecker as well meaning but harboured doubts "as to how much he really knew about the Northern Ireland political scene".
However, Dr Spiecker summarised the "Duisburg proposal" as a break in governmental meetings connected to the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which unionists had demanded, while acknowledging that so far as the SDLP was concerned "there must be a chance of an all-Ireland dimension".
Dr Spiecker confimed to the minister there had been a fifth person involved, who he said had a difficult role to play - representing the views of the republican movement, but remaining acceptable to the unionists.
The file does not name this fifth man, but subsequently he was revealed to have been the late Redemptorist priest Alec Reid.
The newly-released files contain a report on the Dutch extradition hearing for two IRA Maze escapees, Gerry Kelly and Brendan "Bik" McFarlane, which took place in 1986.
A Northern Ireland Office assessment describes Gerry Kelly, now a North Belfast MLA, as "an extremely dangerous, resourceful and dedicated terrorist... (who) presents a continuing escape risk".
The secretary of state had to invoke a Royal Prerogative of Mercy because some of the men's offences were not extraditable.
But, when the men were due to be returned, an official concluded that the case had "clearly been a success for HMG (Her Majesty's Government)".
"It will be the first time that terrorists have been extradited from a foreign country to NI," he added.
Throughout this period the government struggled with how to address deprivation in areas like west Belfast, where Catholic male unemployment was running at 47%.
Dr Phoenix came across one strongly worded document from April 1987 written by Sir Ken Bloomfield, the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service.
Sir Ken spoke of west Belfast's "ghetto mentality" and alienation "from normal civilised behaviour".
He feared that if the government engaged in efforts to regenerate West Belfast, unionists might respond "on the lines of "do you have to kill British soldiers... to benefit from a cornucopia of assistance?"
Despite these concerns, the government signed off on a major development programme for deprived areas in Belfast in 1988.
Several documents refer to the government's difficulties combating the influential MacBride principles, an anti-discrimination campaign in the USA that acted as guidelines for US companies doing business in Northern Ireland.
Secretary of State Peter Brooke wrote to cabinet colleagues that the implementation of what he called tough and radical new fair employment laws would be crucial to the success of the government's Northern Ireland policies and to perceptions abroad, especially in the United States. | Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly is described as an extremely dangerous and dedicated terrorist in a newly-released government file. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The two talked on their arrival in Monaco on Wednesday ahead of Sunday's race and Hamilton said the incident was in the past.
"It's fine," said Hamilton. "In the past, there would have been tension but there was just pure respect.
"I said, 'I still have all the respect for you,' and he said the same."
Hamilton added: "It doesn't change anything about how we approach racing."
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That is a change from the aftermath of previous incidents between the two, after which there has been lingering bad feeling.
Asked why it was different now, Hamilton said: "It is always good to discuss things. As a team we did, in Barcelona and then at the factory I guess individually, and then Nico and I spoke just now.
"But I didn't feel we had to, because there is no issue. we just move on, there is nothing you can do about the past."
He added: "We didn't talk through the incident. We don't need to. We know what happened. We experienced it. We know how we felt about it before.
"We are not like the more emotional beings on the planet who talk about things, we don't do that.
"We arrived very cool and chilled and spoke. All we need to know is the respect is still there and we are going to keep racing. And that's all we had to say.
"We have a long career left with racing with another. You have to assume there is going to be more but we are competitors and we're racing.
"There are going to be lots of close encounters and we are just going to try our best that affects our results. Every scenario is different. This is the one we are faced with now. We are getting past it in a positive manner."
In contrast, Rosberg refused to say whether he and Hamilton had discussed the incident and its aftermath.
"If we have spoken or not, that needs to be kept internal," he said. "But it is a thing of the past now.
"I am going to take the same approach as always and do what's necessary to try to win this grand prix, which is what I have come here to do."
Hamilton is 43 points behind Rosberg heading into the Monaco weekend after a difficult start to the season, and has not won a race since he clinched the title at the US Grand Prix last October.
He said: "If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, there will be many more opportunities. There are opportunities still there.
"There are still 16 races and you have to look at that. The glass, rather than it being half full is 10% full. And there is still the rest of that to fill up."
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | Lewis Hamilton says he feels no tension with Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg despite their crash together at the previous race in Spain. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | Ian McCall's men had six different scorers - Ross Docherty, Craig McGuffie, Michael Moffat, Craig Moore, Andy Geggan and Declan McDaid.
Ryan Sinnamon scored a late consolation for Annan as Ayr made it four wins out of four in Group E.
Lee Erwin scored on his Kilmarnock debut as they beat Dumbarton 3-0 to qualify as one of the best runners-up.
Ayr will now be seeded for Sunday's draw, having scored 15 goals and conceded just three in an impressive start to the season, with 11 of those goals coming in their past two games.
Kilmarnock will join their Ayrshire rivals in the second round after Chris Burke and debutant Erwin both scored their first goals for the club in the win at home to Dumbarton.
Burke headed in Dom Thomas' cross eight minutes into the second half, and ex-Motherwell winger Thomas was again the provider as Kris Boyd doubled the lead with another header.
Erwin clipped in a third with a nick off the post 12 minutes from time.
The Tories won 38 out of 62 seats - a reduction of three from their previous figure of 41, captured in the last poll in 2009.
The Liberal Democrats also saw a decrease in seats, dropping by four to nine.
Labour has seen an increase of three seats and now holds seven wards; UKIP have won four seats on the authority after fielding candidates in 61 wards.
The Greens took one seat and independents took three.
Council staff said that the countywide average turnout was 32.9%, down from 43.9% in 2009.
Conservative leader John Hart, who held his Bickleigh and Wembury seat, said he was "delighted" with a "good working majority".
He said: "It shows that our local policies and our manifesto - where we said we would look after the people of Devon - has been listened to by a lot of people."
However, UKIP said national interest in the party showed that people were taking it seriously.
Devon UKIP chairman Steve Crowther said: "I think the people have spoken.
"What I'm finding is the more people call us clowns and fruitcakes, the more people are inclined to give us their vote."
Nearly 600,000 residents were eligible to vote for a total of 313 candidates. | Ayr United marched into the second round of the Scottish League Cup with a thumping 6-1 win over Annan Athletic.
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Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | It represents a shift from the peacetime policy of the Nato member, which shares a border with Russia, of prohibiting the posting of foreign troops in Norway.
Norway's defence minister emphasised its close ties with the US.
Tensions have been increasing. Last week a flotilla of Russian warships sailed past Norway en route to Syria.
Meanwhile, Finland has strengthened its military ties with the US and Moscow has warned of "consequences" if Sweden decides to join Nato.
The 330 US marines will be stationed for a trial period from January at the Vaernes military base just east of Trondheim, Defence Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide announced on Monday.
"This US-initiative is welcome and also fits well within ongoing processes in Nato to increase exercises, training and interoperability within the Alliance," she said.
"The defence of Norway is dependent on allied reinforcements, and it is crucial for Norwegian security that our allies come here to gain knowledge of how to operate in Norway and with Norwegian forces," she added.
The US already stores large amounts of military equipment in caves in Norway.
The Russian embassy in Norway reacted with surprise to the move when reports emerged on Friday.
"Taking into account multiple statements made by Norwegian officials about the absence of threat from Russia to Norway, we would like to understand why Norway is so much willing to increase its military potential, in particular through the stationing of American forces in Vaernes," spokesman Maxime Gourov said in an email sent to AFP news agency.
The small opposition Socialist Left party reportedly criticised the move, saying it would have been better for Norway to reinforce its own defences.
Conflicts in Ukraine and Syria have ratcheted up tensions between Russia and the West. | Norway has announced it is to allow more than 300 US troops to be stationed on its soil for a trial period in 2017. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Frazer Golden, 30, from Seaham, was killed in the crash at St John's Chapel in Weardale on Sunday.
Parents Linda and Dan and girlfriend of six years Helen Gaughan said his death would leave a "massive void".
Mr Golden had worked at Nissan since he was 18 and his family said he was known for a love of cars and bikes.
In a tribute released through Durham Police, Mr Golden's family said he was a "Mr Fixit" and packed as much into his life as possible.
The family said: "Frazer was a real gentleman, a thoughtful and trustworthy family guy.
"It was his and Helen's ambition to restore and travel in their VW Campervan as they loved to travel and enjoy new adventures.
"His many hobbies included sailing, shooting and canoeing and he excelled at everything he did.
"None of us can imagine how our lives will continue without him and his tragic death will leave a massive void."
Police are continuing to appeal for witnesses to the collision, which happened at about 14:10 BST on the A689.
Richard Baum has been selected by the Lib Dems as their candidate in highly marginal Bury North seat, on 8 June.
Labour welcomed his words but the Tories said it was part of a plan to "prop-up" Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The other candidates are David Nuttall, who won the seat for the Tories in 2010 and Labour's James Frith.
Asked to comment on Mr Baum's move, a national Lib-Dems spokesman said: "We are fighting for every vote to hold back the Tories and their hard Brexit agenda."
Mr Baum told BBC Radio Manchester he would take no part in campaigning in Bury.
"The Liberal Democrats have target seats and that's where the Liberal Democrats will be campaigning," he said.
However, he said: "I think it's important that people can vote for the party they want to vote for."
He added he would "gladly receive" the votes of "dyed-in-the-wool Liberal Democrats".
But he also said: "People have to be careful, because voting Liberal Democrat in a seat in which they have no chance of winning could be seen by many people as a wasted vote."
Conservative Party Chairman Patrick McLoughlin said: "It is increasingly clear the Lib Dems and Greens are determined to prop [Jeremy] Corbyn up in a coalition of chaos to frustrate Brexit and put up taxes for every family and business in Britain. We would all pay the price.
"It might say Lib Dem or Green on the ballot but it's the nonsensical Corbyn who gets the vote. Only a vote for Theresa May and her Conservative team will deliver the strong and stable leadership that the country needs for Brexit and beyond."
A Labour Party spokesman said: "We believe Labour is only option for delivering real change for the people of Britain and we're glad Bury Liberal Democrats agree."
UKIP and the Green Party have chosen not to field candidates in the Greater Manchester seat, which was narrowly held by the Tories in 2015, with Mr Nuttall winning 18,970 votes to Mr Frith's 18,592.
A UKIP spokesman said: "Bury North MP David Nuttall is a true 'Brexiteer' who has campaigned for many years for Brexit and, given that, the party decided not to stand a candidate against him."
The Green Party said it was not fielding candidates in either of the marginal Bury North and Bury South seats, in support of "the poorest and most vulnerable" members of those constituencies. | The family of a motorcyclist who died in a collision with another motorbike said he was golden by "name and nature".
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A Liberal Democrat candidate has urged supporters to vote for his Labour rival in a bid to defeat the Conservatives in the general election. |
Please summarize the given passage. | A photo of Mr Steinbrueck on the front cover of a news magazine shows him giving the middle-finger gesture.
On Twitter he said he was annoyed with journalists who confronted him with "yesterday's news".
His actions drew many comments on Twitter - and political rivals' scorn.
"This gesture is unacceptable for a chancellor candidate," said Economy Minister Philipp Roesler of the Free Democrats (FDP), Mrs Merkel's junior coalition partner. "Something like that is just not on."
An MP in Mrs Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Wolfgang Bosbach, said "someone who presents himself like that before the elections doesn't want to become chancellor".
Mr Steinbrueck, a former finance minister, made the gesture during a photo shoot for Sueddeutsche Zeitung; he was reacting to a question about his perceived gaffes during the election campaign.
"You don't always need words to speak clearly - for instance if you're constantly confronted by yesterday's news, instead of being asked about the really important issues," Mr Steinbrueck commented on Twitter.
Opinion polls suggest that the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) are trailing behind the CDU ahead of the 22 September election.
Mr Steinbrueck has a reputation for plain-speaking. In February he caused offence among Italians by saying "two clowns" had won the Italian election.
In a commentary on his gesture, Sueddeutsche Zeitung said "he wants to lead one of the world's economic powers - so the question arises: Excuse me, but what does this mean?
"One week before the election! Who does he want to impress with this? Perhaps it's all the same to him now. He feels long misunderstood, unfairly treated," the commentary said.
Rebecca Wooller and Blake Green are celebrating their marriage at Morrisons in Cambourne, Cambridgeshire.
Their first date was a plate of chicken curry and chips in the store cafe as Ms Wooller was ill at the time and unable to travel far from her home.
They will have the same meal in the same place at their wedding reception.
Ms Wooller, 44, was introduced to Mr Green, 53, by their landlady in September.
Their first date in the store turned into a plan to wed at the unusual venue.
The couple admitted to being "mad as a box of frogs" for choosing to marry in a supermarket but said it held "real sentimental memories for us".
"I'm going to be walking down the middle of the store which is the Easter egg aisle at the moment, to 'Love is an Open Door' from the film Frozen," Ms Wooller said.
"We want other people to have a good day themselves if they're in there shopping and have a laugh with us."
"Morrisons have basically done all the planning for us and we've just invited anyone who wants to, to turn up," Mr Green added.
The reception will take place in the restaurant and will consist of "30 portions of chicken curry".
Store manager Gemma Avery said: "Everyone is absolutely thrilled for Becca and Blake. We've all been honoured to be part of their big day."
The couple will be officially married at a registry office before a celebrant presides over their supermarket wedding.
They have asked for donations to the Alzheimer's Society in lieu of gifts and collection buckets will be placed in the shop. | The man seen as Chancellor Angela Merkel's main rival in the German election - Social Democrat Peer Steinbrueck - has sparked heated debate by giving a rude gesture.
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A couple will tie the knot in a very public way later when they hold their wedding in their favourite supermarket's Easter egg aisle. |
Write a summary for this information. | The court will decide whether the British government failed to suspend weapons sales to the Saudi kingdom, which is fighting a war in Yemen.
The UN claims Saudi air strikes against Houthi rebels in that country have caused thousands of civilian deaths.
The Campaign Against the Arms Trade, which is bringing the case, claims the UK has contravened humanitarian law.
Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom?
Equipment sold to Saudi Arabia includes Typhoon and Tornado fighter jets, as well as precision-guided bombs.
The sales contribute to thousands of engineering jobs in the UK, and have provided billions of pounds of revenue for the British arms trade.
Saudi Arabia has been supporting Yemen's internationally-recognised government after a civil war broke out in 2015.
Houthi rebels, loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh, began an attack in 2014, forcing leader Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to flee the country for a time.
Since then the Saudi kingdom, and eight other mostly Sunni Arab states, have supported an air campaign aimed at restoring Mr Hadi's government.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said: "For more than two years now the Saudis have been conducting air strikes there against Houthi rebels but the UN blames these attacks for the majority of civilian deaths.
"Monday's verdict could have far-reaching consequences for Britain's relations with its Gulf Arab allies."
Restrictions on food and fuel imports have pushed Yemen to the brink of famine, and two million people in the country have been internally displaced. | The High Court is to rule later on the legality of UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia. |
Write a summary for this information. | Several acts at the Y Not event in Derbyshire had already been forced to cancel due to the conditions.
Organisers said it had been an "incredibly difficult decision" but the state of the ground and stages had forced them to abandon Sunday's event.
Fans on social media demanded refunds, which organisers have promised to provide "further information" about.
The news was announced via a statement on the festival website.
Event director John Drape said he was "gutted" at what had happened.
"We have meetings every six hours to discuss things like weather conditions and ground conditions.
"On Saturday night it became increasingly clear conditions were deteriorating and at midnight there was not one agency which felt it was safe to continue."
Mr Drape denied festival organisers had been caught out, saying they had spent 30% more on infrastructure and had brought in 80 tonnes of woodchip to stabilise tracks.
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Heavy rain and wind on Friday night turned much of the site near Matlock to mud and stopped headliners The Vaccines performing.
In a tweet, the band said they were "sorry sorry sorry" they could not take to the stage.
The sold-out event had seen performances by Stereophonics and Jake Bugg rearranged, with some acts playing under gazebos on stage to stay dry.
More rain overnight on Saturday made the site increasingly hazardous.
Fan Ellie tweeted: "Paying £140+ to watch ONE act, kill your legs & be dripping in mud; probably returning with pneumonia, is not my ideal weekend."
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Festival-goers have been advised to leave and special arrangements have been made to get vehicles out of the car park.
However, provision has been made for those who cannot leave until Monday.
Traffic congestion was reported around the site, with police having closed off some roads to through traffic. Drivers were being asked to avoid the area.
A top division of eight teams will be introduced next year, down from nine, with 10 counties in the second.
Each county will now play 14 games rather than 16, while the Royal London One-Day Cup moves to early season.
"The changes for 2017 will be good for fans, players and our international teams," ECB chairman Colin Graves said.
One-Day Cup group games in April and May ahead of a July final does away with the end-of-season Lord's showpiece, and allows the T20 Blast to take centre stage in the second half of the season.
A two-tier T20 Blast has been rejected, at least until the next broadcast deal in 2019, when plans to change the competition to a city-based franchise tournament could also be revived.
Four-day cricket will again largely take a break during July and August.
"The season is easier to follow," Graves added. "The blocks help players focus on specific skills, and there's a better balance across all three formats."
In Short: County cricket needs a new tournament - Vaughan
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add alerts for the Six Nations, cricket scores, your football team and more. | A music festival has been called off part way through due to safety concerns after heavy rain.
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Only one team will be promoted from Division Two of the County Championship this summer in order to reduce the number of top-tier teams in 2017. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | Anna Francolini, who appeared in Damon Albarn's musical wonder.land, will play Captain Hook and Mrs Darling.
"The NT is delighted that Anna was available to step into the role, and wishes Sophie a speedy recovery," a theatre spokesperson said.
The show begins previews on 16 November.
The production, directed by Sally Cookson, was first seen at Bristol Old Vic.
Peter Pan was first staged at the National Theatre in 1997, with Sir Ian McKellen as Captain Hook, Daniel Evans as Peter Pan and Jenny Agutter as Mrs Darling.
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Environmental body Cadw wants to stop further collapse of walls and tunnels at the "fragile" Denbighshire castle, which was started in 1277 by Edward I.
Cadw hopes to restore the 750-year-old ruins "before large parts of this significant historic site are lost".
"The medieval masonry is amazing but has been in a very poor condition for decades," said county archaeologist Fiona Gale.
"Two years ago there was a small collapse. Cadw are putting funding in to kick start this fantastic project and to address the worst areas of damage."
Cadw said Ruthin is "arguably the most-significant medieval castle in Wales not to have been conserved".
The work, which will be a "holding measure", will be undertaken by specialist rope access contractors who have cleared a huge amount of heavy vegetation from the walls to shore up the "crumbling walls to stabilise as much masonry as possible".
The Ruthin Castle Conservation Trust, which was created last year, wants to take over the lease of the ancient monument.
It hopes to encourage the local community to support "the restoration and sustainable conservation".
"Although emergency works at our ancient monuments are rare and are used as a last resort, Cadw's work at the site will prevent further loss of the site and will hopefully attract further funding for the Trust," said Economy Secretary Ken Skates.
Ruthin Castle was famously attacked in 1400 as the opening flashpoint of the Glyndwr wars, which were provoked by a regional dispute between Glyndwr and the 3rd Earl de Grey.
In the 19th Century, a gothic mansion was built on the site before becoming a private hospital. It was converted into a hotel in the mid 20th Century. | Sophie Thompson has withdrawn from the cast of Peter Pan, the National Theatre's Christmas show, after breaking her wrist.
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Emergency work has begun to stabilise the historical Ruthin Castle. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | It means the building, housing one million books, will be available for just six hours at weekends, from 11:00 to 17:00 on Saturdays.
The city council cut the hours - from 19 April - as part of needs to save nearly £113m from its 2015/16 budget.
In February, it announced opening hours would be reduced. Up to 90 staff are expected to lose their jobs.
The council stressed that staff redundancies were still being discussed, but cuts could affect a total of 100 people.
The library has more than 200 public access computers, theatres, an exhibition gallery and music rooms.
Loans were mostly used to fund its construction, with a small amount raised through donations and council land sales.
It replaced the 1970s Central Library, which Prince Charles famously described as looking like a place where books would be "incinerated rather than read".
But a mixture of budget cuts and a £1.1bn equal pay claim from female workers has left the council with significant financial problems.
Council leader Sir Albert Bore said the legal bill in particular had left the Labour-run council in a "horrendous position financially".
Library user Steve Godwin, 52, of Handsworth Wood, said he thought the move was "absolutely appalling".
"It's one of the highlights of the city. As a library it's wonderful, modern architecture at its better end. It's a crying shame."
Elaine Lawrence, 47, from Penkridge, Staffordshire, said she thought it was "a bit of a shame" but added: "I don't know how many read books these days.
"I assume if the council have done research, they'll know it doesn't need to open on Sundays."
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From 19 April:
The Wolfson Centre for Archival Research will be open Tuesday to Saturday 11:00 - 16:00. This will be reviewed at the end of May.
Ciara Gallagher, 23, from Solihull, said it seemed "ridiculous to spend a huge amount of money" to then only have it open for 40 hours a week.
However, she thought there would only be a limited impact on tourism "because people would take photos outside anyway and may not go inside".
David Rostron, 34, of Dudley, said: "When they make such a bold statement with the library to rejuvenate the idea of the library and then cut staffing levels and hours, it's almost taking it away.
"The idea of having a library for people to drop into, that's flexible for people working or students - and then to take that away - it's huge, especially for families with children who may only be able to go on Sundays."
The Library of Birmingham was recently named the only attraction outside London on a list of the UK's 10 most-visited tourist sites last year.
It drew more than 2.4 million visitors, beating London's British Library, which saw about 1.6 million. | The £189m Library of Birmingham, which has been open for less than two years, is to be shut on Sundays. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Joseph Stiglitz is part of First Minster Nicola Sturgeon's council of economic advisors, and advised Alex Salmond when he was in office.
He said Scotland should have looked at proposals for a "Scottish pound" as a transitional measure.
Ms Sturgeon has insisted that "the pound is Scotland's currency".
Mr Salmond, who was first minister at the time of the 2014 referendum, has also called for a fresh look at the currency options for an independent Scotland.
He said the Yes side had been "gazumped" on the issue, although he too said "sterling is the right currency".
The Scottish government is to draw up legislation for a second referendum, with Ms Sturgeon saying such an option is "highly likely" in the wake of the UK's vote to leave the European Union.
Mr Stiglitz, who has also advised US President Bill Clinton and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, won the Nobel prize for economics in 2001 and has recently published a book describing the euro as a threat to the future of Europe.
During the 2014 referendum campaign, the Columbia University professor said a currency union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK could work. The plan to share the pound, which then-Chancellor George Osborne said would not be possible, was based on work by the Fiscal Commission Working Group, a sub-set of the council of economic advisors on which Mr Stiglitz served.
However, in an interview with the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Mr Stiglitz said that in hindsight this may have been a "mistake".
He said: "The reason they wanted to link the economy to the pound was that they wanted the smoothest transition possible, they wanted to say we can move from the current economic arrangement while keeping our currency and keeping other institutions.
"I think in hindsight that may have been a mistake. It would be a mistake to join the euro by the way, so what they would have needed to do is perhaps to resurrect the Scottish pound, and let it float.
"Small countries can have their currency. Iceland had one of the deepest downturns in 2008 but had one of the strongest recoveries, because it had its own currency."
Ms Sturgeon and her government are studying Scotland's options for future relations with the EU in the aftermath of the Brexit vote, with possibilities including a second push for independence on the table.
Mr Stiglitz said an independent Scotland adopting its own currency could smooth the path to joining the EU, which normally requires new members to adopt the euro.
He said: "A Scottish pound could be viewed as a transition.
"An important point to realise is that if there were a Scottish pound floating, it could help stimulate the Scottish economy, so the deficit would come down. That would make it acceptable to join the EU.
"I think there's going to be a greater willingness going forward within Europe for countries to be a member of the EU but not have the Euro. Sweden doesn't have the Euro, the UK did not have the Euro, so they have shown a willingness to accept countries into the EU without joining the Euro."
Joseph Stiglitz is one of two Nobel laureates on the Council of Economic Advisers to the Scottish government. Their status was often cited by the Scottish government in 2014 to back the economic case for independence and for a continued currency union with the rest of the UK.
That currency plan was the most intense pressure point from the Better Together campaign.
It is now acknowledged by independence campaigners that it should be re-thought. Even if it was the right policy, it left the campaign exposed.
It was asserted that the UK would have to agree to a currency union, on three hotly contested grounds - with the assertion that sterling was "an asset" belonging to all of the UK, it was seen as being in the UK's economic interests, and because Scotland could refuse to take on a share of UK debt if it did not.
The main Westminster parties stated they would not do such a deal. And they pushed the SNP's independence campaigners to state what their "Plan B" would be.
Now Prof Stiglitz has told BBC Scotland the currency proposal "may have been a mistake" - not on presentational grounds, but on economic ones.
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Ms Sturgeon was questioned on the matter during an EU referendum campaign event in London in June.
She said: "The pound is Scotland's currency as much as it is England's currency. That's the currency I think all parts of the UK should use and it's the one I'd want Scotland to use.
"Scotland uses the pound, it's our currency just as it is your currency, and that's the currency I think we should continue to use."
However, SNP MP Joanna Cherry suggested during another EU referendum debate that Scotland might not want to be part of the pound if it sank in value after a Brexit vote.
A spokesman for the SNP said: "Any change in policy on currency would be required ‎to go through the normal party processes - but we agree with Professor Stiglitz that we should not join the euro.
"However our immediate priority is exploring all possible means to protect Scotland's place in Europe, in line with the way people here voted, which is vital for jobs, investment and long-term prosperity."
Opposition parties have spoken out against a second independence poll, with the Scottish Conservatives saying that the best way to boost the economy would be to remove uncertainty for businesses by ruling out another referendum.
Finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said Mr Stiglitz was "the latest in a series of SNP advisors who now see the writing on the wall".
He said: "In the run up to the referendum, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon promised us the earth, claiming we could have lower taxes, higher spending and keep the pound. It was always utterly unrealistic and now, bit by bit, this dodgy prospectus is falling to pieces.
"There is a simple solution for the SNP on the currency. It's called the UK pound and most people in Scotland would like to keep it. The SNP needs to accept the result of the referendum two years ago and got on with the job of governing."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale also said Mr Stiglitz's comments showed the currency union plan was "ill thought out".
She added: "Instead of agitating for a second independence referendum the SNP should focus on the bread and butter issues of government, like getting people back into work and giving everybody a fair chance in life."
Patrick Harvie, whose Scottish Greens backed an independent currency in 2014, said Mr Stiglitz was "right to highlight the dangers of sharing the pound", adding: "If we want the maximum economic control to run a fairer economy, then having our own currency must be a fundamental aim."
Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said the SNP would "say anything to win independence, even if it costs jobs and business". | A Nobel prize-winning economist says Scotland's plans for a currency union with the UK during the independence campaign may have been a "mistake". |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Reid won her sixth Ladies European Tour title after the pair were tied on 16 under after 72 holes.
Reid and Gal made pars on their first three attempts at the 18th, but Reid finally broke the deadlock when she parred after Gal had bogeyed.
Reid had earlier missed two putts for victory on the final green.
The 29-year-old went into the final round at the 13th Beach Golf Links in Barwon Heads with a two-shot lead, but dropped three shots in the first three roles.
Reid played herself back into contention on the back nine with three birdies to card a one-under 72.
She told Golf Victoria's website: "I was getting frustrated, Sandra is a fantastic player, to win in a play-off is very special and I am just happy to get the win.
"The atmosphere all week has been very special." | England's Melissa Reid has won the Oates Vic Open in Australia after beating German Sandra Gal on the fourth play-off hole. |
Please summarize the following text. | Her death was confirmed to the BBC "with deep sorrow" by her representatives.
Headly was an early member of Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company, as was her first husband John Malkovich.
She was recently seen in HBO's The Night Of and had been filming comedy series Future Man.
Headly was nominated for an Emmy for 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove and again for 1996's Bastard Out of Carolina.
She is survived by her second husband Byron McCulloch and their son Stirling.
Born in 1955 in New London, Connecticut, Headly bought a bubbly comic energy to such films as Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo and 2001's What's the Worst that Could Happen?.
Yet she was also seen in dramatic roles in such films as Mr Holland's Opus and this year's The Circle, in which she played Emma Watson's mother.
Michael McKean, who starred with her in a 2002 TV pilot, was among the first to pay tribute to her on Twitter, remembering her as "a fine actress and a good person".
It is not yet known how Headly died.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Glenne Headly, the Emmy-nominated US actress who appeared in such films as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Dick Tracy, has died at the age of 62. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | As part of his mayoral election manifesto Sadiq Khan pledged to ban adverts promoting "unhealthy or unrealistic" body images.
The advertising watchdog received 378 complaints in 2015 about a weight-loss advert that asked customers if they were "beach body ready?"
Mr Khan has now asked TfL to set up its own advertising steering group.
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The Protein World "beach body ready" promotional posters were defaced in Tube stations and a petition was started calling for the adverts to be banned, however the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) watchdog later ruled the advert depicting a bikini-clad female model was neither offensive nor irresponsible.
The steering group will advise TfL's advertising partners and stakeholders of the mayor's new policy and will ensure adverts continue to adhere to the regulations set out by the ASA.
Mr Khan said: "As the father of two teenage girls, I am extremely concerned about this kind of advertising which can demean people, particularly women, and make them ashamed of their bodies. It is high time it came to an end."
Graeme Craig, TfL commercial development director, said: "Advertising on our network is unlike TV, online and print media.
"Our customers cannot simply switch off or turn a page if an advertisement offends or upsets them and we have a duty to ensure the copy we carry reflects that unique environment."
Previously, the eating disorders charity Beat said while it recognised advertising and media could not cause eating disorders it was aware of how toxic images could be to an individual.
On the BBC London Facebook page many people were quick to praise the mayor's initiative. Magdalena Michalik who lives in Greenwich said: "Please ban it. I don't want my children to look at it!" but others warned it was the start of the "Islamification" of London and said the mayor was adopting this policy because of his religious values.
Sharene Kirchler said: "What happened to free speech? What happened to not being offended by everything. Why is it a matter of state to decide when something so subjective is to be allowed or not?"
The deputy mayor for transport Val Shawcross said the policy was not meant as a "moral judgement", rather the mayor's office was working with the advertising industry to ensure images were not used that were potentially harmful to young people's mental health and how they viewed themselves.
The 30-year-old midfielder has made 59 appearances for the Magpies since joining from Rotherham in 2015.
"My performances improved throughout the campaign, so I want to carry that form into next year," Milsom told the club's official website.
The length of his new contract has not been disclosed but Notts chairman Alan Hardy said: "We're delighted to have him on board for the new season."
Milsom began his career as a trainee at Fulham and had had a two-year spell in Scotland with Aberdeen before joining Rotherham.
He has not scored a senior goal since September 2013 but aims to put that right next season.
"Goalscoring is something I want to work on," he added. "I like to get up and down the pitch so if I can add goals to my game it will only help the team." | Adverts promoting negative body images will be banned across the Transport for London (TfL) network from next month.
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Give a short summary of the provided document. | Ismael Watson, from Liverpool, was stopped as he tried to cross the Turkish border into Syria in February, the Old Bailey heard.
The 27-year-old, who denies preparation of terrorist acts, opted to represent himself but refused to attend court.
The jury was discharged and the case was adjourned until Friday, when a new trial date is due to be set.
The court had heard how the defendant, formally known as Jack Watson, came from a non-Muslim family and was described by his mother as "meek, mild and easily influenced".
He claimed his estranged wife had "snitched" on him while she was pregnant, jurors heard.
It was said in court that the couple had lived in Walsall, near Birmingham, but the relationship broke down before 2016 as Mr Watson's views became increasingly extreme from watching IS videos,.
Prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC had told jurors how Mr Watson had made preparations to join IS from January 2016 and flew to Morocco before travelling to Turkey.
He allegedly sought help to cross the border into Syria via contacts on the internet, not realising they were two undercover security service agents, the court heard.
In a conversation on 30 March last year, an officer asked him if he had been "hot" before he left Britain, and Mr Watson allegedly replied: "Yes I was hot. My wife snitched on me and left."
The 27-year-old suggested he could help IS with film-making, proof-reading and cooking, jurors heard.
Mr Oliver QC said that, in encrypted messages with another officer, Mr Watson described how he slicked back his hair to look more Syrian but admitted he could "only change face so much".
Mr Watson was later detained in Turkey and sent back to the UK in February, jurors heard. | The trial of a Muslim convert who was allegedly caught trying to join so-called Islamic State has been dropped. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | Communities Minister Paul Givan said he will introduce legislation next week to set up the mitigation scheme.
It should have been approved by the executive but as it is not functioning, he will take the extraordinary step of bringing it directly to the assembly.
Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir said Sinn Féin will support Mr Givan's legislation to mitigate the tax.
However, he maintained his argument there was never any need for fresh legislation to introduce the measure.
Speaking on the BBC's The View on Thursday night, Mr Ó Muilleoir said: "It's the prerogative of the [communities] minister to get it sorted out, but he can be assured of this - Sinn Féin will support him in opposing the bedroom tax.
"He shouldn't have introduced the issue. It is not an issue - there will be no bedroom tax."
The "bedroom tax" is a Westminster government policy which cuts housing benefits for some social housing tenants.
Under the Fresh Start deal, Northern Ireland Executive ministers had agreed to fund a mitigation policy but that plan has not yet been passed by the assembly.
Mr Givan said legislation was required but Mr Ó Muilleoir argued the scheme could be introduced under existing budget powers.
Both ministers published conflicting advice which they have been given by their senior civil servants.
David Sterling, from Mr Ó Muilleoir's Department of Finance, wrote: "I am content, having taken legal advice, that from a legal perspective the 2016 Budget Act provides sufficient legislative authority to make bedroom tax mitigation payments.
Mr Sterling cautioned that the Budget Act does not provide for the terms and conditions of any mitigation scheme.
However, he added that "there is no legal reason why these matters cannot be determined administratively".
That advice was questioned by Leo Reilly from the Department of Communities who wrote that "it would be unprecedented to introduce a new welfare scheme estimated to cost around £25m per year solely on the basis of administrative action."
Mr Reilly added that his legal advice is that legislation "is the safest legal route in the present circumstances".
The bedroom tax, which the government calls the "spare room subsidy" was expected to cost those affected an average of £20 a week.
On Thursday, Mr Givan told the BBC's Evening Extra programme that he intends to bring legislation to the assembly early next week.
"I'm asking the Speaker to reconvene the business committee, so that, urgently, this can be brought before the assembly on Monday.
"I'll be appealing to MLAs to vote for these regulations in order to protect individuals, because they should not pay the price for what has been happening here in this executive, with Sinn Féin's tactics," the DUP minister added.
It will be a unusual step for a minister to bring cross-cutting legislation to the assembly without first having executive approval.
The executive stopped functioning on Monday after Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, resigned over the DUP's handling of the botched Renewable Heat Incentive scheme. | Political wrangling over Stormont's plan to mitigate the impact of the so-called bedroom tax seems to be ending. |
Write a summary of this document. | Officers were called to Lavender Grove, Pentrebane, at about 11:20 BST, close to Ysgol Coed-y-Gof, Pentrebane and Holy Family Primary schools.
South Wales Police said it was aware of reports of a "possible abduction", but that no-one had been reported missing.
On Thursday evening, the force said it was satisfied "no offences took place".
Earlier on Thursday, young children who reported an incident to teachers were interviewed by officers, who carried out door-to-door inquiries and made CCTV and vehicle checks.
The force helicopter was also involved in a search of the area.
Ch Insp Joe Jones said he was aware of the concern the reports had caused so close to the three schools and a nursery.
"I am satisfied it is unlikely that any criminal offences have been committed," he said.
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Tony Scott and Justine Merton, from Leeds, were in the balcony when gunmen stormed the Eagles of Death Metal gig.
After using a grate as a ladder to climb to the roof, they hid with several others in a nearby apartment.
Three heavily armed gunmen killed 89 people and critically injured 99 others at the Paris venue on Friday.
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Ms Merton had bought her fiancé birthday tickets for the concert and they had arrived in Paris especially for that on Friday.
The pair, who first met at a rock concert, said they usually watched gigs at floor level but they arrived late and so headed up to the balcony for a good view.
Talking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Scott said the "insignificant" decision to go upstairs ended up being "the difference between life and death".
Ms Merton had recently returned to her seat from the downstairs bar when they heard gunfire. The couple fell to the floor and hid behind the seats.
She said: "They were going round, systematically shooting people. If we had stayed there, all they had to do was come up the stairs and we would be next.
"I can't imagine what they went through down on the floor, lying amongst the bodies."
Mr Scott said: "We were crawling along behind the chairs on our bellies, but there were gaps between the rows of seats so we were exposed."
They reached a door leading to a stairwell, where they were allowed through before it was barricaded shut again.
"The only way out was through a skylight and there were quite a few of us jam-packed into this stairwell," Ms Merton said.
"There was a grate that they had pulled down, with three blokes hoisting people up because it was quite a height up."
After reaching the roof, they were ushered toward a rooftop apartment, where up to 30 people were hiding.
Mr Scott said: "The lights went off and we were in darkness, but we could hear bursts of gunfire.
"We heard three explosions and we were thinking 'is the building going to collapse?'"
His fiancee said: "I was just saying 'you're not getting out of marrying me that easily, we are going home'."
Armed police eventually found them and they were escorted down a ladder and away from the venue.
Mr Scott said: "There's a lot of hate being thrown around, but we just don't feel any of it, we feel nothing but love really.
"We've been through quite a traumatic experience and we're incredibly lucky to be alive."
His fiancee added: "Although we saw the very worst of humanity on Friday, we saw the very best as well - people doing very selfless, courageous things."
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | Police investigating children's reports of an attempted abduction near primary schools in Cardiff have said no criminal offence has taken place.
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Give a concise summary of the following information. | The three-Test series begins with a day-night match - the first in England - at Edgbaston on Thursday.
The tourists have lost six consecutive Test series, their most recent win coming against Bangladesh in 2014.
"I am concerned with the way we are playing," said 53-year-old Ambrose, who played 98 Tests for West Indies.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 live's Tuffers and Vaughan Cricket Show, he added: "I am hoping they can at least win one Test or compete, but, as a realist, I am not too sure they will."
West Indies will be without several key players - including Chris Gayle, Darren Bravo, Darren Sammy and Marlon Samuels - after a number of disputes in the Caribbean between the board and its players.
Ambrose said the inexperience in the squad is a "serious problem".
"I still believe if we had all those names, our cricket would be better," he said of the side who are eighth in the Test rankings, above only Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
Many of West Indies' star names opt to play in lucrative global Twenty20 competitions rather than in the domestic league.
"Look at the Twenty20 squad. We have them players available and they have always been a force," said Ambrose, who took 405 Test wickets.
"According to the Cricket West Indies board, you have to be available to play all the first-class games in the region to be eligible for the Test team.
"I don't have a problem with that, but Cricket West Indies need to be more lenient with their players if they want their best team.
"So many players are starting their careers so have no-one to turn to who is a senior pro."
Ambrose will be a part of the Test Match Special commentary team for the England and West Indies series this summer.
The company bought an 11.5% stake in Iconix, which owns the Umbro and Lee Cooper brands, and 2.3% of Dick's Sporting Goods which has more than 500 stores in the US.
It said the deals were designed to "build relationships with key suppliers and brands".
Retail analyst Bryan Roberts said the move was a typical "speculative" move by the company to expand its reach.
However, he said it was too early to say whether it was part of a more general move into the US.
Sports Direct said: "The main rationale for these stakes is to allow Sports Direct to hopefully build a relationship and develop commercial partnerships with the relevant parties."
Sports Direct has a strategy of buying shares to "build influence or forge partnerships", said Mr Roberts, an analyst at TCC Global. He gave the examples of stakes taken by Sports Direct in Debenhams and House of Fraser.
The latest acquisition could be "a foot in the door" of the US market, but it was unclear if it was a precursor to more meaningful expansion in the US, Mr Roberts said.
Sports Direct has been through a turbulent period, having been criticised for its employment practices and last week issuing a profit warning.
Women on Boards carried out a study in 2014 which looked at how many governing bodies had women among their leaders.
Its first report since that study has found the number of women in some sport organisations has actually fallen.
However it admitted there had been "variable progress within individual sports and at country level".
Women are under-represented on sport boards - and those playing sport are often underpaid when compared to men.
A BBC Sport study in 2014 found men received more prize money in 30% of sports.
Women on Boards says having more women in positions of power and helping to run sport will have a trickle down effect and help to close the gender gap.
UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl said there were other benefits to getting more women into leading roles in sport governance. She said: "When you inject female perspective into the sector, as with business, everything and everyone benefits."
Writing in the Women in Board report, she added: "Women's sport has come a long way in many countries. In the UK, governance of publicly funded sport organisations is relatively strong.
"We must continue to strive for more gender-balanced boards and diversity of thought in the governance of sport." | West Indies will have to "play exceptionally well to even compete against England", says legendary fast bowler Curtly Ambrose.
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Can you summarize this content? | Profits at the technology giant were up 17% from the same period last year.
"Our devices and services transformation is progressing," said boss Steve Ballmer in a statement. He added that Microsoft is launching a "wide range" of new products in the coming quarter.
The report shed no light on who is to replace Mr Ballmer, who announced plans to retire within the next year.
The company has released several new products this quarter, including an update to Windows 8, and recently bought the mobile phone unit of struggling Finnish giant Nokia.
Shares rose 6% in after hours trading on the strong results.
For the first time, Microsoft also announced sales of its tablet computer, Surface.
It said revenues from Surface "grew to $400 million with sequential growth in revenue and units sold over the prior quarter".
Last quarter, the company was forced to take an embarrassing write down of $900m after sluggish sales.
The computer, well-liked by reviewers, marked Microsoft's first foray into hardware manufacturing.
However consumers, many of whom expressed displeasure at Microsoft's update to its popular operating system Windows, did not bite.
The company still did not provide sales figures of the device.
Investors hoping for any information about who will replace Mr Ballmer in the new year were disappointed.
Earlier today, on a conference call to discuss earnings, Ford boss Alan Mullaly declined to comment on rumours that he was being considered for the top job.
Other contenders include Stephen Elop, the former head of Nokia, who resigned as boss after Microsoft announced it would purchase the Nokia's mobile phone unit for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; £4.6bn) in September.
Mr Elop is now head of Devices and Services at Nokia, although he is expected to transfer to Microsoft - where he was once a top manager - once the deal is completed.
Mr Ballmer has been at the helm of Microsoft since 2000, and has been at the company since 1980.
The consumer price index (CPI) unexpectedly rose to 2% in August from a year ago, mainly on higher food prices and not due to a pick up in economic activity.
On the back of that, the producer price index (PPI) fell 5.9% - marking its 42nd consecutive month of declines.
Deflation fears in China are growing as manufacturers continue to cut prices.
The decline in the PPI was the biggest drop since the global financial crisis in 2009 due to falling commodity prices and slumping demand.
Economists said the continuing fall in producer prices poses the risk of trickling through to consumer prices.
"The change in PPI is very worrying. It could affect corporate profitability, which in turn could affect consumption and the economy," said Li Huiyong, economist at Shenyin & Wanguo Securities.
Meanwhile, pork prices which weigh heavily on consumer prices in China, rose from 16.7% last year to 19.6% in August, while vegetable prices surged from 9.7% to nearly 16%.
"A sharp fall in pig numbers in recent months will continue put upward pressure on pork price inflation," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, China economist at research firm Capital Economics.
Economists are expecting the government to step up with more policy measures to stimulate the economy.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Dalian on Thursday, Premier Li Keqiang was the latest policymaker to reiterate that the government will continue to support the economy to ensure stable growth. | Microsoft reported better than expected earnings of $5.2bn (£3.2bn).
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Sharply rising food prices in China pushed up inflation to a one-year high in the world's second largest economy. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Gerald Stockwell suffered a collapsed lung and fractures in the collision in Lechlade, Gloucestershire on 19 June.
The 66-year-old, from Swindon, was riding his Triumph Bonneville on the A361 when he was injured.
Police said a 31-year-old man, from Lechlade, had been arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving and failing to stop/report an accident.
He has been bailed until August while police carry out further inquiries.
A photo of Mr Stockwell in his hospital bed was released by Gloucestershire Constabulary on Tuesday in an attempt to prompt witnesses and the driver responsible to come forward.
The parliament's corporate body is seeking permission to have the IndyCamp group removed.
A procedural hearing was held at the Court of Session to decide the next steps in the case.
Before setting the March court date, Lord Malcolm said the case "should be resolved sooner rather than later".
The campers aim to stay in place until Scotland is declared independent.
At a previous hearing in January, the group signalled its intention to fight the case under the name of "the sovereign and indigenous peoples of Scotland".
The campers have previously voiced hopes that their submissions could see the Act of Union dissolved, bringing about the end of the United Kingdom.
Arguments in the case will now be heard on 24 March - the date the Scottish government had penned as "independence day" if the "Yes" side had won the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
The corporate body of the parliament has insisted that the group did not have permission to camp on parliament land and is preventing other members of the public from using the space.
Updating MSPs, Scottish Parliament chief executive Sir Paul Grice said he welcomed the progress made in court.
He said: "As we have said consistently throughout this process, the corporate body's main aim is to protect and defend the rights of all those who wish to access and use parliament land responsibly.
"The corporate body regrets that it has been forced to take this action but given the protesters refusal to vacate the land or consider alternative options such as on-going daily protests, we were left with no choice."
BBC political reporter Philip Sim has been covering the case, to look back on the latest news, follow him on Twitter, @BBCPhilipSim | A man has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run collision in which a motorcyclist was seriously injured.
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A court hearing as to whether a group of independence campaigners are able to camp outside the Scottish Parliament will take place on 24 March. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission said better-off families managed to provide educational and social advantages to stop their slide.
It found less able, richer children were 35% more likely to become high earners than brighter, poorer peers.
The government said its reforms were helping disadvantaged pupils catch up.
The report for the commission, which advises the government on social mobility issues, was based on a long-term study of 17,000 British-born children born in a single week in 1970 that measured their ability at the age of five.
It said wealthier families helped their children accumulate skills valued by the labour market and they also used social networks to secure internships and employment.
That meant poorer, but more able children were often blocked from the finite number of top jobs, it added.
The report, by Abigail McKnight of the London School of Economics, said parental help may start with providing a good home-learning environment in the early years, and continue with seeking out better schools, offering help with homework and exam preparation.
Parental education level and attendance at a private or grammar school all had a significant impact over and above the influence of academic attainment, it said.
The research suggests there is a clear correlation between the social background of a child's grandfather and eventual labour market success.
The report also highlighted a "private school wage premium", where recruitment to high-earning occupations is biased towards those educated in private schools.
It said: "Not only do privately educated children achieve well in examinations and on this basis go on to have highly successful careers, but private school education also bestows a 'little extra something'.
"Some of the 'extra' is made up of soft skills - for example - presentation, conduct in social settings, accent - which have little to do with productivity and a lot to do with what economists refer to as 'signalling'."
Commission chairman Alan Milburn said nobody should criticise parents for doing their best for their children, but it was not right that the less able do better in life than the more able.
"It has long been recognised that there is a glass ceiling in British society that prevents children with potential progressing to the top. This research reveals there is a glass floor that inhibits social mobility as much as the glass ceiling," he said.
"It's a social scandal that all too often demography is still destiny in Britain. The government should make its core mission the levelling of the playing field so that every child in the country has an equal opportunity to go as far as their abilities can take them."
The report called on the government to seek policies that would compensate children who are deprived of the benefits that children with educated parents receive.
"Careful consideration should be given to the setting of homework, fostering and nurturing aspiration, high quality and age-appropriate education and careers advice, and inspirational high-calibre teachers," it added.
A Department for Education spokesman said: "This government is committed to making sure that every child, regardless of background, has the same opportunities to fulfil their potential.
"Our reforms - including the £2.5bn pupil premium - are seeing results, with disadvantaged pupils catching up with their better off peers at both primary and secondary.
"We have placed high expectations at the heart of our schools, with a rigorous new curriculum, world class exams and a new system rewarding schools that push every child to achieve their best." | Middle-class children benefit from a "glass floor" protecting them from slipping down the social scale in Britain, a report has said. |
Summarize the provided information. | Crews were called out to Hulk Moor Drove, near Street, just after 22:00 BST on Saturday, where they found the pigeon loft, a caravan and several outbuildings alight.
The fire follows the theft of pigeons from the same address 12 months ago.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue said the cause of fire was deliberate and an investigation is under way.
The owner of the birds, Stuart Russell, has bred pigeons for at least 50 years.
Posting on Facebook, his daughter Pat Russell wrote both her parents were "devastated by this cruel act".
"It was a year ago yesterday he had most of his pigeons stolen," she added.
Five engines were at the scene until 04:00 BST on Sunday.
Anne Lakey, 55, from Stanley, County Durham, had denied 13 counts of indecent assault on two teenagers in the 1980s.
But a jury at Teesside Crown Court found her guilty of all charges after a two-week trial.
Judge Howard Crowson warned Lakey to expect a jail term when she is sentenced on Wednesday.
He said the type of sentence handed down would be "inevitable" but granted her bail as "an act of mercy".
Lakey committed the offences over a three-year period, with some carried out when she was a history teacher in her late 20s.
The teacher, described by prosecutors as a "sexual predator", targeted a 15-year-old boy and another victim aged 13 or 14.
During her trial, one of the victims told jurors the mother-of-one took his virginity after letting him watch her bathe.
Lakey went on to have a successful career and was praised for turning a failing school into one of the country's most improved.
But in 2012, one of her victims emailed her school, which led to her being suspended and subsequently reported to police.
Det Insp Aelf Sampson, of Durham Police, said the boys had been "vulnerable victims of sexual abuse at the hands of a woman who had some power and responsibility for them."
"These boys should have been safe in her company, instead of being damaged by their experience.
"Regardless of whether these boys appear to have been willing participants in the offences, they could not consent by law to what happened."
Lakey had earlier admitted having a sexual relationship with the older victim when he was 18 and she was in her early 30s.
Midfielder Weir, 27, and defender Cansdell-Sherriff, 33, have been told they will not be offered new deals when their contracts expire in the summer.
Striker Lucas Akins and left-back Damien McCrory, who are also out of contract, will be made offers along with young goalkeeper Sam Hornby.
Injured duo George Taft and Kelvin Maynard have been invited to join pre-season training to regain fitness.
Burton will play in the Championship for the first time in their history next season after finishing second in League One.
Boss Nigel Clough hopes to offer goalkeeper Stephen Bywater a contract and is taking up options to extend the deals of Marcus Harness, Matty Palmer and Tom Flanagan.
But he will not be taking up options on striker Timmy Thiele and youngsters Sam Austin and Mark Shelton.
Dean Lyness is being released and will leave the club along with Mark Duffy, who was on loan from Birmingham.
Meanwhile, Burton have announced that coach Neill Hornby has left the club.
He was part of ex-boss Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's backroom team and agreed to stay until the end of the season when Clough took over after the Dutchman left for QPR in December.
"It was important we had that continuity when we took over," Clough told Albion's website. "I would like to thank Neill for helping us keep on track and ultimately gain promotion." | A pigeon loft containing dozens of prize-winning birds was destroyed in a Somerset arson attack.
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Write a summary for this information. | The researchers said they had used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to "undo" nicotine addiction in the brain.
The findings, presented at the Neuroscience 2013 conference, suggested the technique could help people cut down or quit completely.
Further trials are needed before it could be recommended as a therapy.
TMS stimulates neurons to alter brain function and is already used in some patients with depression.
The team at Ben Gurion University in Israel targeted magnetic fields at two regions of the brain associated with addiction to nicotine - the prefrontal cortex and the insula cortex.
The 115 regular smokers in the study were split into three groups and for 13 days they were given high-frequency TMS, low-frequency TMS or no treatment at all.
Those getting high-frequency TMS had lower levels of smoking and were more likely to have quit at the end of the six-month study.
The highest success came when participants were also shown pictures of a lit cigarette while having the magnetic therapy - a third had quit after six months.
The researchers argue the therapy may be changing the brain's hardwired response to smoking "cues".
Dr Abraham Zangen, from Ben Gurion University, said: "Our research shows us that we may actually be able to undo some of the changes to the brain caused by chronic smoking.
"We know that many smokers want to quit or smoke less and this could help put a dent in the number one cause of preventable deaths."
Dr Chris Chambers, who specialises in TMS at Cardiff University, told the BBC: "This is a neat, well-controlled study.
"Its main contribution is to add to growing evidence that brain stimulation, when applied to specific parts of the frontal lobe, can boost our ability to overcome addictions.
"This is exciting and has a myriad of applications in psychiatry."
However, he cautioned that the study had not yet been peer-reviewed and that "we need to develop a much clearer understanding of why and how such methods work".
A separate study, reported at the same conference, suggested that stimulating the brain with implanted electrodes may help combat heroin addiction.
Normally, rats given free access to the drug at the press of a lever will keep taking more and more of the drug as they become addicted.
However, those having deep brain stimulation took less of the drug and did not show the escalating drug-use pattern.
Commenting on both studies, Prof Barry Everitt, from the University of Cambridge, said: "Non-drug interventions would be an enormous step forward in drug abuse treatment, which currently relies on replacing one drug with another and has an extremely high rate of relapse." | Using magnetic fields to alter brain activity may help some people quit smoking, according to an early study. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | In a lawsuit, the family has alleged Integrated Whale Media Investments (IWM) breached its purchase agreement and failed to make payments on time.
IWM borrowed money from Forbes to finance the deal, the family added.
However, IWM has rejected the allegations and told the BBC they are "completely without merit".
The Hong Kong-based investment holding company is registered in the British Virgin Islands, while the Forbes family's lawsuit has been filed the US state of Delaware.
Forbes Media publishes Forbes magazine and reaches about 80 million people a month through its various outlets in print, digital and television.
Forbes Media was owned by the Forbes family for 97 years until the family sold a controlling stake to IWM for an undisclosed amount in July 2014. It had been looking for a buyer since November 2013.
But the Forbes family claims the investment firm has "wasted" corporate assets and abused its position as the controlling shareholder of Forbes Media.
"From the outset of the supposed partnership, Integrated Whale and its principals have steadfastly refused to pay what they clearly owe, and instead have made a series of baseless - and often patently false - excuses and pretexts for their refusal to honour their basic contractual commitments," the family said in the lawsuit filed last week.
IWM has said the lawsuit is a dispute between shareholders and does not have any impact on the media firm's daily operations and future growth.
"Forbes Media is managed by a team of media professionals, and IWM has built a good and trusted working relationship with this management team."
Elliot Meredith from Cheshire said he thought he was going to die at Saint-Gilles police station in Brussels.
The Belgian prosecutor has opened two investigations - one into the torture allegation - and another into a claim that Mr Meredith assaulted a policeman.
St Gilles, Anderlecht and Forest police would not comment during the inquiry.
Mr Meredith, 21, said he was subjected to two hours of physical and mental attacks, before being forced to give a verbal false confession saying he had pushed an officer.
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His lawyer, Zouhaier Chihaoui, said: "I will be making a complaint to the juge d'instruction [magistrate responsible for conducting the investigative hearing that precedes a criminal trial].
"The facts are very serious and I believe they amount to torture."
Mr Meredith, from Nantwich, was halfway through a 10-month internship in Brussels as part of his graphic communications degree at Bath Spa University.
He said he was ordering a takeaway after a night out with friends in the early hours of Sunday when police stormed in and "manhandled" him to the floor.
He said he was taken to Poste de Police Saint Gilles.
"I was stood up against the wall with my handcuffs still tightly bound, all five officers then each took it in turn to punch me in my face," he said.
He claimed one officer made him repeat: "I am a little girl, I am a little girl."
He said he was made to kneel in front of five officers while their superior told him if he wrote a statement to say he had assaulted an officer they would stop hitting him.
Mr Meredith's father Chris told the BBC his son was "extremely traumatised".
He said: "We want to prosecute the five officers.
"It was a gross violation of human rights. He was an innocent guy, he's done nothing wrong.
"We're going to take this as far as we can to stop this happening to anyone else."
Jennifer Vanderputten, spokeswoman for the Belgian prosecutor, told La Dernière Heure Mr Meredith was detained during a police intervention for disturbing the peace.
An inquiry has begun into a claim Mr Elliot hit a policeman who was then unable to work for four days, she said.
The prosecutor has been informed by the media of Mr Meredith's claims he was hit and humiliated and an inquiry has been opened into this, she said. | The family behind Forbes Media is suing its Hong Kong investors for an alleged breach of payment on the stake they bought in the media firm last year.
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A lawyer for a British student who claims he was beaten and humiliated by police in Belgium has accused officers of torture. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Conservative Bavarian allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel say extra measures are needed to prevent "benefit tourism" in the EU.
But the foreign ministry, now run by the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), warned that questioning freedom of movement was "harmful to Europe".
Bulgarian and Romanian workers are now free to get jobs anywhere in the EU.
Bulgaria and Romania, the EU's poorest countries, were subject to temporary labour market restrictions when they joined the EU in 2007. Nine countries kept the barriers in place until 1 January.
There is much concern in the UK about the possible impact of new EU migrants on the welfare system. The influx of East European migrants after EU enlargement in 2004 was much bigger than UK officials had anticipated.
Mrs Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), allied with the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), set up a coalition government with the SPD in mid-December.
The CSU issued a statement on 29 December calling for extra measures to curb "poverty-driven migration" in the EU.
"For Germany we must develop a range of measures to protect our welfare system against abuses," the CSU statement said. "The acceptance of European freedom of movement is threatened by abusive migration targeting the welfare system - but not by justified defensive measures against abuses."
It also said: "Europe should not obstruct us if we want to have national regulation of poverty-driven migration. It is disastrous behaviour for Brussels to shut its eyes to this problem and to limit the possibilities for national measures against poverty-driven migration."
The CSU wants a re-entry ban for migrants who defraud the welfare system and wants migrants to be barred from making benefit claims during the first three months of their stay.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier hit back at the CSU statement in an interview with the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
He said: "European freedoms are the core of our idea of Europe, free movement of workers is an essential part of European integration.
"Germany has derived immense benefit from that, and certainly much more than others."
He said the arrival of many young jobseekers from southern Europe "helps us and helps the states they come from".
Germany's new Europe Minister, Michael Roth of the SPD, said the CSU had "not understood Europe - and clearly doesn't want to either".
He accused CSU politicians of trying to bend public opinion with "stupid slogans" which had no validity - whether in a Bavarian beer hall or in Berlin. "That is not the level at which the grand coalition should be working," he added.
The avalanche occurred early on Monday near Nasu in Tochigi prefecture, 120km (75 miles) north of Tokyo.
Another 40 people, mostly students, were hurt including two who were in a critical condition, reports said.
The victims were part of a 70-strong group from several schools who were on a three-day mountain climbing training trip.
Dozens of troops were involved in rescue efforts, amid bad weather and heavy snowfall.
"All the people have been carried down from the mountain and they are now being transported to hospital," a prefecture official told AFP news agency.
Officials said the eight victims had no vital signs. In Japan, rescue officials wait for a doctor at a hospital to pronounce victims dead instead of doing it at the scene.
The region had received heavy snow over the past two days and avalanche warnings had been in effect.
"We have avalanche incidents once or twice a year around here, but haven't had anything this big," a fire department official told Reuters news agency.
Another official told Reuters that there would be an investigation into why the group were out during an avalanche alert.
The area around the town of Nasu has several ski resorts, but these had closed for the season. The area had seen more than 30cm of fresh snow since Sunday and recent warm weather had further raised the avalanche risk. | Tensions have surfaced in Germany's new ruling coalition over how to handle migrants from Bulgaria and Romania.
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Seven Japanese high school students and their teacher have been killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | He is the closest person yet to President Dilma Rousseff to be sentenced over the case, which has led to calls for her impeachment.
But prosecutors say there is nothing to implicate her directly.
A former director of the state oil giant Petrobras was also sentenced.
Renato Duque, the former director of services at Petrobras, got 20 years and eight months.
Vaccari and Duque deny the charges. They are expected to appeal.
These are the longest and the most significant sentences yet in a corruption scandal that is undermining the stability and authority of President Rousseff's government, says the BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro.
Government supporters accuse conservative politicians and businessmen of attempting to associate the corruption at Petrobras with the Workers Party in order to topple her left-wing government.
Federal Judge Sergio Moro said that at the request of Vaccari, Duque made 24 payments to the Workers' Party between 2008 and 2010.
The "donations" totalled 4.2m reais (£700m;$1m).
"It looked like an old debt was being paid by instalments," said Judge Moro.
"The money laundering has had an impact on the democratic process, contaminating it with criminal resources," he added.
Investigators say that for many years Brazil's biggest construction companies paid multi-million dollar bribes to politicians, and senior officials at Petrobras, to secure lucrative contracts.
Dozens of politicians, civil servants and businessmen have been detained or charged over the past year.
The investigation has been dubbed Operation Car Wash, after a petrol station in Brasilia where illegal dollar transactions were alleged to have taken place.
Data retrieved from the Petrobras case has led to evidence of corruption in other areas.
Last month, Brazilian prosecutors launched a probe on allegations corruption and overpricing in the construction of a stadium used during last year's football World Cup.
They believe building construction giant Odebrecht inflated the price of the Arena Pernambuco by $12m (£7.8m).
The company's president, Marcelo Odebrecht, has been charged with corruption in the Petrobras case. He denies any wrongdoing.
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Wales were tied 30-30 with Japan until Sam Davies' 80th-minute drop-goal sealed victory for the hosts.
Italy recorded their first-ever victory against South Africa on Saturday in a tense meeting in Florence.
"We want to finish on a high and there will certainly be a backlash coming," Lydiate told BBC Radio Wales.
"We need to step up. We won the last two games which is always good but at the end of the day we need to build on performances.
"Maybe we took a step back from the win against Argentina."
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Lydiate, who won his 59th cap in the win against Japan, scored his first Wales try on Saturday but has urged his side to build on their performance when they face the Springboks.
"In recent years we've come up short [against southern hemisphere teams]. In 2014 we got a win over South Africa and if we can get the result next week, three out of four [autumn international wins] is not all that bad," Lydiate said.
"If we get the result next week, all you will remember is the result and not the spluttering in performance [against Japan]. We want to build each week and today wasn't good enough but we'll put that to bed and train hard for next week."
The Ospreys flanker says they can not let themselves be punished when they face out of form South Africa in Cardiff next week.
"It feels like a bit of a loss but all credit to the Japan team. It shows how elusive they can be and they certainly punished us when they had the ball in hand," he continued.
"We were too loose at times and we got punished for it. If we do that next week it's not going to be a pretty scoreline. We'll look at the video and hopefully tighten up for next week." | The former treasurer of Brazil's governing Workers' Party, Joao Vaccari Neto, has been sentenced to 15 years and four months in jail for corruption and money laundering.
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Wales flanker Dan Lydiate says they need to "step up" if they are to beat South Africa after they struggled to a last-minute win against Japan. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | The storm has not yet moved onto land in America, and has now been downgraded to a category two hurricane, as it continues on its journey northward.
Officials think around four people have been killed by the storm in America.
President Obama has warned people that even though the hurricane is starting to move on, it does not mean it is safe to go outside yet.
He is worried there might be a "storm surge" - a huge wall of water which rushes onto land from sea.
This is caused by a combination of low pressure inside the hurricane, and strong winds pushing the water onto land.
President Obama said: "I just wanted to emphasise to everybody that this is still a really dangerous storm."
Hurricane Matthew hit the country Haiti the hardest earlier this week, leaving hundreds of people dead, and without shelter or food. | Hurricane Matthew has battered the Florida coast, in the US, leaving more than a million people without power. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The 37-year-old is top of the current Test batting rankings and fifth in the all-time list of Test run-scorers.
He will retire from one-day internationals after the forthcoming World Cup and is likely to be available for much of the 2015 county season.
"He is a five-star player and person and that is important because he will be working with our homegrown players," Surrey director Alec Stewart said.
Sangakkara, who is the fourth highest ODI run-scorer with 13,414, has previously played county cricket in England for Warwickshire and had a two-game spell with Durham last season, making 159 in his final innings.
"He is the number one Test batsman in the world but it's the special character that he has which is as important to us," Stewart added.
Sangakkara has agreed a two-year contract. | Surrey have confirmed the signing of Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara. |
Summarize this article briefly. | The contracts, over the next three years, mean employment for 200 people across southern and central Scotland, north Wales and Merseyside.
The energy company has used aerial 3D laser mapping technology to assess the areas of most risk.
Scottish Power said that could help assess tree growth rates in order to plan maintenance.
It has awarded nine contracts across the areas involved to carry out the "vegetation management".
Guy Jefferson, SP Energy Networks distribution director, said: "Managing trees next to power lines is one of the most important maintenance programmes we deliver to keep the lights on.
"It means that during severe winter storms we can reduce the number of properties affected by power cuts, and reduce the time to reconnect those who do.
"We will always need people on the ground to carry out the work, and we are pleased that our contracts will support hundreds of jobs in Scotland, the north west of England and north Wales."
He said information being gathered from the air would help the company target its efforts.
"Chainsaws on the ground are now also supplemented by lasers in the sky, and our detailed 3D maps allow us to plot every tree next to our power lines and schedule required maintenance," he said.
"Our system also accounts for regional variations, such as the fact that trees in the north of Wales grow on average 2cm more every year than those in the south of Scotland, to make sure we are cutting the right trees at the right time."
He said the action being taken to tackle the issue was already having an impact.
"In exceptional storm events we will still see trees coming down and affecting power lines, as we have witnessed in the last few winters," he said.
"However, because of significant investments in tree management we are seeing up to 25% less fault activity during poor winter weather than we did a decade ago.
"We aim to improve these figures even further in the coming years."
"What was probably going through my mind was 'well, this is it,'" the Grand Tour presenter said, recalling the crash on a Swiss hillside.
"In fact that is what was going through my mind. I thought I'd had it."
The host was on a practice run for a race in an electric car when the vehicle left the road, tumbled down the hill and burst into flames.
He described the experience as "like being in a tumble dryer full of bricks going down a hill".
In a video posted on Drivetribe, he said: "I was aware that I was up, that I was high, that inevitably the car was going to come down.
"And yes of course there was a moment of dread. 'Oh God I'm going to die.' And also I was aware that the car was taking just such a beating."
The crash came 11 years after the presenter was left in a coma by a high-speed crash as he filmed for the BBC's Top Gear.
This time, he said he was conscious throughout. "I was thinking, 'Yeah, I can't make this.'
"You're aware of tumbling - sky, ground, sky, ground, sky, ground, sky, ground."
When the car finally came to a rest more than 100m from the road - and having narrowly missed a house - he dragged himself out of the vehicle before the first people came to his aid.
"I do remember saying to them, 'Drag me by my arms not my legs because I think I've broken that leg.'"
It transpired that he had fractured his knee. He described how the accident had "collapsed the knee joint on the top of the bottom bone".
But he recounted how, when he showed his youngest daughter the dressing on his knee, she was not entirely sympathetic. She told him: "Daddy you look like you've fallen over in the playground."
He also said it hadn't had a major impact on the filming schedule of the Amazon Prime programme.
The incident on 10 June took place as Hammond completed a hill climb in the Hemberg area. He had been driving a Rimac Concept One, an electric supercar built in Croatia, during filming for the show's second season.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Scottish Power is spending £36m on managing trees next to power lines, in a bid to reduce damage during storms.
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Richard Hammond has spoken about how he thought he was going to die when he crashed a car earlier this month. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | The group, from Monmouth, matched all seven numbers to scoop £61,102,443 in Friday's draw.
Sonia Davies, 53, her partner Keith Reynolds, 55, daughters Courtney, 19, and Stephanie, 23, are celebrating with Stephanie's partner Steve Powell, 30.
She said it was a "rollercoaster week".
The family was unveiled at Newport's Celtic Manor Resort on Wednesday and said they were "living the dream".
The winning numbers were 01, 21, 26, 40 and 50 and Lucky Star numbers were 02 and 04.
Ms Davies and her partner already had a holiday to Florida booked when they discovered a leading treatment centre in the US state.
Doctors told Ms Davies the tumour on her parathyroid gland in her neck could have killed her within three years.
After getting the all-clear after the surgery, Ms Davies phoned her daughter Stephanie and had to "bully" her into buying a ticket.
"What a rollercoaster of a week we've had," Ms Davies said.
"They managed to give me the all-clear straight after the operation, so as you would imagine we were on cloud nine.
"[Keith] was convinced that we were the luckiest people on the planet and definitely on a winning streak after the success of my op.
"Something told us we needed to get a ticket - and the rest is history."
She said daughter Stephanie phoned her "sobbing down the phone" with the "odd muffled word".
"I thought she'd told me she'd lost her dog. Then I heard Steve shouting 'we've won £61m'."
After checking the numbers in the early hours of Sunday morning, Stephanie Davies said she could not sleep so she and Mr Powell took selfies with the winning ticket in case anything happened to it.
"We checked the ticket 10 times and ran around the house and locked all the doors and windows," she said.
"In a crazy moment we took a few selfies with the ticket."
The group have agreed they will share their newfound wealth with family and friends.
Ms Davies, an admin assistant, and Mr Reynolds, a regional director, said they would buy a new car port.
Courtney Davies, who is studying for a psychology degree at the University of Southampton, said she would replace her VW Fox with a car which has automatic windows.
Stephanie Davies, a sales executive, and Mr Powell plan to replace their bathroom en-suite in the home they recently bought together.
The winning ticket was one of six lucky dips bought at Overmonnow Garage in Monmouth - 30 minutes before last Friday's cut off time.
It is the fourth EuroMillions jackpot won in the UK this year but falls about £100m short of the largest win by Colin and Chris Weir from North Ayrshire.
The couple won the £161,653,000 EuroMillions jackpot in July 2011. | A mother whose family won the EuroMillions £61m jackpot rang her daughter from the US and asked her to buy a ticket as she felt lucky after having life-saving cancer surgery. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | "People have always said and thought that the All Blacks were the greatest team of all time," he said.
"But tonight I think it's France that was great, and even immense. It's tough to take, we needed a little bit more."
"We did our utmost, and fell short by a point," said captain Thierry Dusautoir.
"Of course we're very sad at the outcome, but we had some luck in the previous match, and that's the way it goes. That's part of sport as well."
We have been criticised, but today we were strong and we showed that rugby is not just skills... it is also mental although perhaps today we needed more skills
The departing Lievremont, who turns 43 on Friday, will be replaced by former Sale boss Philippe Saint-Andre.
He fell out with his players during the tournament and admitted he had experienced a roller coaster ride as boss of Les Bleus.
"I have often spoken about emotional contrasts over the four years I've been in charge, and at this World Cup," he said. "This is the case once again tonight."
France had come in for major criticism after some poor performances on their way to the final.
They lost twice in the pool stages and then struggled past 14-man Wales by a single point in their semi-final and Dusautoir, named man of the match at Eden Park, admitted they had been through "some difficult moments".
"We have been criticised, but today we were strong and we showed that rugby is not just skills... it is also mental," he said, adding with a smile, "although perhaps today we needed more skills".
He continued: "Tonight, everybody was nervous... them and us. There were 30 guys on the pitch and I think they were all scared.
"We rode our luck as best we could but we failed by one point." | Marc Lievremont said he felt "immensely sad and immensely proud at the same time" after his reign as France coach came to an end with an 8-7 defeat by New Zealand in the World Cup final. |
What is the summary of the following document? | Robert McNeill, 60, died at Great Oaks Hospital in Scunthorpe on 16 January.
Jamie Reed, 26, has admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility but denies murder.
Hull Crown Court heard after the killing, Mr Reed told police: "It didn't feel like me. It felt like I was dreaming, like a nightmare."
The court heard Mr Reed said Mr McNeill had supernatural powers and was a dream catcher, who would harvest his organs.
He also described attacking and choking the patient, the jury were told.
The court heard Mr McNeill was left with multiple injuries to his face, head, back and neck after a "frenzied assault" by Mr Reed, who believed himself to be psychotic and had delusional moments.
Mr McNeill was found dead in his room in between 15-minute checks by staff. He had been choked, struck on the head and poked in the back with a pen.
Consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Ramneesh Puri told the jury Mr Reed was not diagnosed with psychosis before he was admitted to the hospital.
Nursing assistant Kelly Dallas told the court it was "hard to police" patients entering each other's rooms, which was not allowed on the Mulberry House ward.
Another nursing assistant said he had seen the defendant in the unit's communal area minutes before the killing and noted he had changed back into day clothes from his pyjamas, the jury heard.
When the prosecution asked consultant psychiatrist Dr Adedoyin Olovou if there were any signs of psychosis or delusions when he was at the police station the day after the killing, she replied: "Not in my professional opinion, no."
The trial continues. | A mental health unit patient was assessed as not being psychotic four days before he killed a fellow patient, a court has heard. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | Philipp Lahm put Bayern ahead in the second minute and Julian Green headed his first goal for the club.
Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer saved a Koo Ja-cheol penalty, with Thomas Muller, who set up Green's goal, then blazing a spot-kick over for the hosts.
Ji Dong-won gave Augsburg hope with a great finish before David Alaba struck from a tight angle in stoppage time.
Bayern defender Holger Badstuber made his first appearance since February following injury. | German Cup holders Bayern Munich beat Augsburg in a Bavarian derby to reach the last 16. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | The markings on the axes, unearthed near Shanghai, could date back at least 5,000 years, the scientists say.
But Chinese scholars are divided on whether the markings are proper writing or a less sophisticated stream of symbols.
The world's oldest writing is thought to be from Mesopotamia from 3,300 BC.
The stone fragments are part of a large trove of artefacts discovered between 2003 and 2006 at a site just south of Shanghai, says the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing.
But it has taken years for archaeologists to examine their discoveries and release their findings, our correspondent adds.
The findings have not been reviewed by experts outside China, reports say.
"The main thing is that there are six symbols arranged together and three of them are the same," lead archaeologist Xu Xinmin told local reporters, referring to markings on one of the pieces.
"This clearly is a sentence expressing some kind of meaning".
Cao Jinyan, a well-known scholar on ancient writing, also told local media that the markings could be an early form of writing.
"Although we cannot yet accurately read the meaning of the 'words' carved on the stone axes, we can be certain that they belong to the category of words, even if they are somewhat primitive," he said.
Some scholars, however, remain unconvinced. Archaeologist Liu Zhao from Fudan University in Shanghai told the Associated Press news agency they "do not have enough material" to make conclusions.
If proven, the stone axes will be older than the earliest proven Chinese writing found on animal bones, which dates back 3,300 years. | Fragments of two ancient stone axes found in China could display some of the world's earliest primitive writing, Chinese archaeologists say. |
Can you summarize the following information? | The Australian moved to the Super League club this season after a 15-year career at Newcastle Knights.
Gidley has spent much of his time at full-back so far and has scored 94 points in his 10 appearances.
"I'm excited to be staying for another year. My plan was always to play for two years," the 33-year-old told the Warrington website.
"It's been really enjoyable for the short time we've been here so far and we are looking forward to staying longer."
Wire head coach Tony Smith added: "He's already shown his experience, knowledge and temperament. His professionalism off the field has been fantastic as well as on the field."
Declan Hughes scored either side of a Ross McNeil goal for the Lowland League leaders in a 3-1 win over BSC Glasgow.
Ajax's 1971-72 run was at the highest level of competition in the Netherlands so remains the official world record.
Hereford's run came to an end in January of this year.
The Bulls - formerly Hereford United, who were wound up in December 2014 - were playing in the ninth tier of English football, while the Lowland League is the fifth level of senior football in Scotland.
Ajax, the Amsterdam club who have won the European Cup four times, sent two members of their club TV department to cover East Kilbride's match.
The visitors from the Dutch capital delivered cases of beer to the winning side and a video message of congratulations from Edwin van der Sar, the former Netherlands and Manchester United goalkeeper, who is now a marketing director at Ajax.
East Kilbride manager Martin Lauchlan: "It was relief because I don't think we played particularly well - I'll need to have a word with the boys about that.
"But we're absolutely ecstatic to get 27 wins; I would say it's the biggest day of my career. It's the biggest achievement I've had but I don't want to take credit away from the players."
On the presentation from Ajax and message from Edwin van der Sar:
"It was a special moment and a touch of class. Ajax have been very respectful of us. They have tweeted a few times, but to send over 27 crates of beer and two bottles of champagne just makes it special and I would like to say a great thanks to them.
"I'll be expecting a couple of flights over to Amsterdam to thank Edwin! But absolute quality for a world superstar to recognise East Kilbride.
"It's a special day. I don't really know what to say because I'm overwhelmed with that."
An Alan Forsyth penalty stroke in the second quarter was enough to separate the two sides.
GB had been dominant for long spells but had to hold out against late pressure from Malaysia.
They are now below Australia at the top of the six-team table but only on goal difference - at least until the two sides meet at 11.05 BST on Wednesday.
Results, fixtures & tables on the tournament's official website | Warrington Wolves utility back Kurt Gidley has signed a new one-year deal until the end of the 2017 season.
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East Kilbride surpassed Ajax's run of 26 successive wins and matched the record of 27 set by Hereford - watched by representatives of the Amsterdam giants.
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Great Britain enjoyed a second victory in three games in the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup with a 1-0 win over hosts Malaysia. |
Can you summarize this passage? | A review will say peers should lose their absolute veto over detailed laws known as secondary legislation.
Peers will instead be offered a new power to send these laws back to the Commons, forcing MPs to vote again - but will only be able to do this once.
The review was ordered after peers voted to delay tax credit cuts.
Labour said the reform was a "massive over-reaction" to the government defeat.
Crucially, the new rules will be written into the statute book via primary legislation.
This means that if peers try to oppose the rule change, the government will be able to use the Parliament Act to force them to back down and accept this loss of power.
The review, carried out by former cabinet minister Lord Strathclyde, will be published on Thursday.
MPs and peers will be able to debate the changes in the new year but the prime minister is expected to accept the broad thrust of the recommendations.
Peers on all sides are expected to oppose any reduction in their abilities to force the government to reconsider its plans.
The Conservatives have no majority in the House of Lords and Labour and Lib Dem peers are determined to use their combined voting power to challenge government policy.
In October peers used their clout to veto the government's proposals to cut tax credits, which ministers tried to drive through via secondary legislation.
It was only the sixth time such a veto had been used in the last half century because peers have, by convention, been reluctant to challenge the will of elected MPs this way.
Peers normally express their opposition to secondary legislation by backing something called a "motion to regret" which is symbolic and has no direct effect.
Downing Street hopes the new power to ask the House of Commons to think again over secondary legislation will help them get the changes through the House of Lords.
The change to the law is likely to come in a government amendment to the Statutory Instruments Act 1946.
In last month's Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne abandoned his plan for saving £4.4bn through tax credit cuts from April.
Baroness Smith of Basildon, Labour's leader in the Lords, said her party would examine Lord Strathclyde's report but said she was "still not convinced there was a problem there in the first place".
She added: "As most people at Parliament know, the government lost a vote on tax credits and in a massive over-reaction have decided to try and change the rules of the game.
"That looked churlish at the time and it feels no different now." | David Cameron is preparing to use the full force of the law to clip the wings of the House of Lords after it blocked his welfare cuts, the BBC has learned. |
Summarize the provided information. | St Andrews' 17th, the Road Hole, was also named the best par four in the poll undertaken by Visit Scotland.
Royal Troon's eighth, The Postage Stamp, was named the best par three, while Machrihanish on the Argyll coast had the best opening hole.
The ninth hole at Cruden Bay's Championship Course took the award for Scotland's best view.
The course boasts stirring views across the Bay of Cruden and Slains Castle in a category that attracted votes for 300 individual holes around the country.
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The 12th at Kingsbarns Golf Club on the Fife coast was voted the best par five.
The tee box at The Battery at Machrihanish Golf Club already features a plaque proclaiming it as the best opening hole in the world.
What are your favourites? Let us know using the comments option below.
Best Hole - Tom Morris, 18th at the Old Course, St Andrews (799 votes, 27% share)
Best Opening Hole - The Battery, 1st at Machrihanish Golf Club (1025 votes, 30% share)
Best Closing Hole - Tom Morris, 18th at the Old Course, St Andrews (825 votes, 24% share)
Best Par 3 - The Postage Stamp, 8th at Royal Troon (891 votes, 26% share)
Best Par 4 - Road, 17th at the Old Course, St Andrews (1176 votes, 36% share)
Best Par 5 - Orrdeal, 12th at Kingsbarns Golf Club (654 votes, 19% share)
Best View - 9th at Championship Course, Cruden Bay Golf Club (662 votes, 20% share)
Brooke Bagley was cycling on the A71 at Burngrange Cottages, West Calder, at about 18:10 on Saturday when she was struck by a black Nissan Micra.
She was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, where she died on Monday at 19:00.
A report is being sent to the procurator fiscal.
Police are appealing for witnesses.
The family of Brooke Bagley said: "Brooke was a bright and intelligent young girl who was full of life, with a large circle of friends.
"She will be sadly missed by us her family, her friends and all who knew her.
"We have been left heartbroken and devastated by the loss of Brooke."
Maria Brown, head teacher at Brooke's school, St Mary's Primary in Polbeth, said: "The school is heartbroken at the tragic news that Brooke has died. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends at this desperately sad time.
"Brooke was a popular Primary 7 pupil who set a good example for all children in the school and loved her role as a Primary 1 Buddy. She was talented at writing, photography and art work and was a very good friend to many.
"Brooke will be sadly missed by everyone at St Mary's Primary School and Polbeth Nursery."
Counsellors have been available at the school to speak to pupils and staff. The school will now take time to consider how it will remember Brooke.
West Lothian councillor for education, Lawrence Fitzpatrick said: "On behalf of West Lothian Council I would like to extend our deepest sympathies to Brooke's family and friends at this very sad and difficult time." | The 18th at St Andrews' Old Course has been voted the best hole in Scotland in a poll of 3,000 golfers.
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The family of a 10-year-old girl who died following a crash in West Lothian have said they are "heartbroken and devastated" by her death. |
Summarize the provided section. | The action is being led by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader jailed by Israel for life for five murders.
Barghouti has been touted as a possible future successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Israeli authorities have placed him under solitary confinement for calling the strike - now in its second day.
Barghouti was "instigating mutiny and leading the hunger strike and that is a severe violation of the rules of the prison," said Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan.
"We have no reason to negotiate," Mr Erdan told Israeli public radio.
"They are terrorists and incarcerated murderers who are getting what they deserve," he added.
Protests in support of the prisoners were held in the occupied West Bank on the first day of the strike on Monday, with youths clashing with Israeli security forces in Bethlehem.
There are fears that the hunger strike - observed by 1,187 detainees, according to Israel's prison service - could fuel tensions across the Palestinian areas.
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The issue of Palestinians held in Israeli jails is an ongoing source of tension between the two sides.
Palestinians regard the detainees as political prisoners. Many have been convicted of attacks against Israelis and other offences.
Others are detained under so-called Administrative Detention, which allows suspects to be held without charge for six-month intervals.
There were about 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails at the end of last year, according to Palestinian prisoners' groups. | Israel says it will not negotiate with more than 1,000 Palestinian detainees who have begun a mass hunger strike against conditions in Israeli jails. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | A proposal for the 5,000-capacity venue on the site of the former Granada TV studios was approved in July last year.
The new home of the biennial Manchester International Festival was due for completion by summer 2019 but is now scheduled to open in early 2020.
The provisional timescale has evolved as plans developed, the council said.
The project was backed by former Chancellor George Osborne, who pledged £78m in last year's Autumn Statement as part of his Northern Powerhouse plans.
Council leader Sir Richard Leese said Factory will be "a complete game-changer" for the city and will "make Manchester and the wider region a genuine cultural counterbalance to London".
A planning application will be considered on 12 January and if approved, construction will start later in the year with the venue scheduled to open in 2020.
In order to meet the £110m costs, the council is proposing a one-off contribution of up to £20m, mainly funded from income received from land and property sales.
This will be combined with £78m Arts Council England funding, £5m in fundraising while an application for a lottery grant for the remaining £7m has been submitted.
It is hoped the development will boost the local economy, create jobs and provide training.
The building has been designed by world-renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and in November last year, the government pledged £9m a year for its running costs.
It will be located in a new area, St John's in Manchester city centre, which will also be home to independent businesses and 2,500 residential units.
Police said an officer protecting Parliament was stabbed by an attacker, who was shot by police.
The Conservative MP - and former Army officer - gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to the police officer in New Palace Yard, Westminster.
Four people, including the police officer, died in the incident.
At least 20 people were injured, including three other officers.
Eyewitnesses described scenes of panic as the attacker was shot several times as he approached a second police officer close to the Houses of Parliament.
Paramedics fought to save his life, and that of his victim, on the floor of the cobbled courtyard in front of Parliament.
Mr Ellwood - a former Army officer whose brother died in the Bali terrorist bombing in 2002 - was among those who rushed to help and attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation of the injured police officer.
His friend of 20 years, Conservative MP Adam Afriyie, told the BBC he saw him heading towards the scene despite police instructions to rush to safety.
Photographs showed the MP's bloodied hands and face as he applied pressure to the officer's wounds.
His actions attracted admiration from his Westminster colleagues.
Conservative MP Ben Howlett tweeted: "Tobias Ellwood is an absolute hero for what he did to help the policeman this afternoon!"
Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: "Today, Tobias gave MPs a good name. He was utterly heroic, pure and simple. He went above and beyond and did all he could to save a police officer."
The Bournemouth East MP is a Foreign Office minister, with the Middle East, Africa and counter terrorism listed among the areas within his brief. | Manchester's new £110m Factory arts centre will not be ready in time for the city's International Festival in 2019, the council has confirmed.
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Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood has been called a "hero" after he was pictured giving first aid to one of the casualties of the London terror attack. |
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Bingham, 38, became the oldest world champion since 1978 by beating Shaun Murphy 18-15 in Sheffield.
He said: "My manager won't like this, but I could easily donate that money because it doesn't mean anything to me.
"Just to put my hands on that trophy, seeing all the names on it, that's just everything. It means so much."
Welshman Ray Reardon is the oldest person to win the World Championship, securing his sixth title in 1978, aged 45.
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Pre-tournament outsider Bingham, who rises to number two in the world rankings, shocked five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan, as well as Judd Trump, on the way to taking the title.
His 145 break in the quarter-final against O'Sullivan was also enough for him to share with Australian Neil Robertson the £10,000 cheque for highest break.
At 15-15 in the final, having let a 14-11 lead slip, Bingham said he thought he had ruined his opportunity to win the title.
"Coming into the final session, I was talking to my wife and saying 'I don't want to go out there'. I felt that nervous," he said.
"Losing three of the first four frames I thought I blew it but, somehow, I held myself together.
"The crowd erupted as I potted the match ball and I'll remember that for the rest of my life."
Bingham, the oldest first-time winner in Crucible history, said the recognition he now received after his successful fortnight in Sheffield was "unreal".
He also paid tribute to his father-in-law, who died last year, and said he was going to "embrace" life as a world champion.
Bingham, a keen collector of snooker memorabilia, said he had "got my hands" on the table used for the final.
He added: "I'll hopefully move to a nice new house and have that in my games room somewhere.
"I'm a bit of a snooker geek. I want to get my hands on the set of balls and hopefully get the white gloves off the referee as well so my boy can look back at all the stuff I've collected over the years."
Stephen Feeney, Bingham's coach, said his charge would now go on to win more titles despite being relatively old for a snooker player.
"I told Stuart five years ago I'd turn him into a winner and a world champion and it's just awesome. He's such a talent," said Feeney.
"It's a dream for him, it's a dream for me. He is a winner but he's a special guy too.
"He'll be up for defending this, he'll want to win more. His age is no issue.
"He's won the hearts of many people, many fans. Ronnie O'Sullivan texted him to say well done. They've all looked at him in recent weeks and realised he's come of age." | New world champion Stuart Bingham said holding aloft the winner's trophy at the Crucible means more to him than the £300,000 prize money. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | He'd been due to star in and direct another standalone film - The Batman - but pulled out of directing duties in January.
After Affleck's script was also ditched by incoming director Matt Reeves, it looked like he was going to jump ship.
But he denied he was leaving the franchise, saying: "Batman is the coolest part in any universe."
"Let me very clear - I am the luckiest guy in the world. I'm so thrilled to do it," the star told fans at Comic-Con on Saturday.
"There's a misconception that because I wasn't directing it, I wasn't enthusiastic about it, but it's amazing."
Affleck also addressed reports that Warner Bros was working on plans to "usher out" his Batman gracefully as he is getting too old.
"I still can't believe that after two films [Warner Bros bosses] Kevin Tsujihara, Sue Kroll and Toby Emmerich have said, 'We want you to be our Batman' - and I believe them."
Regarding War for the Planet of the Apes director Reeves taking over his directing role and starting afresh with scripting, Affleck said: "I would be an ape on the ground for Matt Reeves, never mind Batman.
"It's a great time in the DC universe, so you can see why I am so excited to be Batman."
The Warner Bros panel also featured a new Justice League trailer and confirmed that Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman would be getting a sequel.
It's unsurprising as Patty Jenkins' film is the biggest of the summer, taking $386m (£297m) so far in the US and $771m (£593m) around the world.
It's also the third highest-grossing Warner Bros movie ever, behind The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises - and the highest-grossing live action film by a female director.
Warner Bros also confirmed it intends to make a standalone Batgirl film and a new Green Lantern movie.
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Smith, 22, joins on a four-year deal and becomes the club's sixth summer signing.
The left-back made four Premier League appearances for Liverpool last season, including in a 2-1 win at Bournemouth.
He also scored in an FA Cup third-round tie at Exeter and has been capped nine times by his country, featuring against England in a friendly in May.
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The 25-year-old signed a short-term deal in August when he returned for a second spell at Fratton Park after leaving Dagenham & Redbridge.
His only three appearances for Pompey this season have all come in the group stage of the EFL Trophy.
The former England Under-19 international also previously played for Barnet and Brentford.
The 27-year-old striker has made just 11 appearances for Rochdale this season, scoring just once in League One - against Sheffield United in October.
Following their defeat by Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday, the Minstermen are five points from safety in League Two with 11 matches remaining.
Alessandra, who has previously played for Morecambe and Plymouth, will be in Saturday's squad against Barnet.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Ben Affleck has scotched rumours he is quitting as the caped crusader after his upcoming role in Justice League.
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Bournemouth have signed Australia international defender Brad Smith from Liverpool for a reported £3m fee.
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Portsmouth goalkeeper Liam O'Brien has extended his contract with the club until the end of the season.
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Summarize this article briefly. | The contractors had no background in counterterrorism, yet were paid more than $80m (£51m) for their services.
The CIA also allowed the men to assess the effectiveness of their own interrogation programme.
The revelations are outlined in a new Senate report on the "brutal" interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects in the years after the 9/11 attacks.
Suspects were interrogated using methods such as waterboarding, slapping, humiliation, exposure to cold and sleep deprivation.
Such procedures were developed, managed and reviewed by two contract psychologists with experience at the US Air Force Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape school.
But the report says "neither psychologist had any experience as an interrogator, nor did either have specialised knowledge of al-Qaeda, a background in counterterrorism, or any relevant cultural or linguistic expertise".
And yet, the two men were said to have personally participated in the interrogation of some of the CIA's "most significant" detainees.
They also determined whether a detainees' psychological state allowed for the ongoing use of enhanced interrogation, the report finds.
Meanwhile, the men served as liaisons between the CIA and foreign intelligence services, and were allowed by the intelligence agency to assess the effectiveness of their own work - work that was ultimately found by the Democrats on the Senate intelligence committee to be brutal and ineffective.
Identified under the pseudonyms Dr Grayson Swigert and Dr Hammond Dunbar in the report, the two men have been revealed by US media as military retirees Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen.
Dr Mitchell joined the Air Force in 1974, specialising in bomb disarmament before earning a doctorate in psychology focusing on diet, exercise and hypertension, according to the New York Times.
Dr Jessen, meanwhile, earned a doctorate focusing on "family sculpting" and later became a psychologist with the Air Force Survival School responsible for screening instructors posing as enemy interrogators.
Both men, said to be lieutenant colonels, became defence department experts on resisting enemy interrogations - but fellow psychologists reported scepticism and even concern regarding their methods, the New York Times adds.
After the 9/11 attacks, the Senate report says Dr Mitchell proposed using a concept called "learned helplessness" in interrogating al-Qaeda suspects to ensure complicity with captor's demands.
At the time, experienced interrogators argued such a strategy would demoralise a prisoner to such an extent that he would say whatever the interrogator expected.
In 2002, both men were tasked with reviewing a seized al-Qaeda manual which coached terrorists in how to resist interrogation.
In response, the men proposed introducing brutal techniques, including sleep deprivation and waterboarding, into US procedures.
When US operatives captured high-value target Abu Zubaydah, two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents used conventional methods to interrogate him at a Thailand CIA facility.
Then the CIA, as advised by Dr Mitchell, stripped the suspect and blasted music at him to prevent sleep. In the following weeks, Dr Mitchell reportedly took control of the interrogation and directly questioned the suspect himself.
Mr Jessen later joined the effort, and the suspect was waterboarded 83 times before it was determined he had no further information to offer.
According to the Senate report, a cable said to be authored by the two men indicated the interrogation of Zubaydah was a success.
It "should be used as a template for future interrogation of high value captives," they wrote, not because it produced useful information but instead because it confirmed the suspect did not possess the intelligence information the CIA had believed he was withholding.
Meanwhile, FBI agents involved in questioning the suspect objected to the strategy, with one special agent reporting to headquarters the two CIA psychologists had acquired "tremendous influence".
The FBI also argued that all usable information gathered from questioning the suspect came directly from earlier FBI-led inquiries.
The psychologists' methods were subsequently used at least two dozen more times, including in the 2003 interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
According to the Senate report findings, the two men assessed the suspect - said to be waterboarded more than 100 times - and recommended only they should further interrogate him on a monthly basis, charging four times that of other interrogators.
This prompted government concerns about conflict of interest, according to the Senate report.
This was "nowhere more graphic than in the setting in which the same individuals applied an [enhanced interrogation technique] which only they were approved to employ, judged both its effectiveness and detainee resilience, and implicitly proposed continued use of the technique - at a daily compensation reported to be $1800/day".
In 2005, the psychologists formed Mitchell Jessen and Associates with offices in Washington state and Virginia. By 2007 the company had grown to nearly 60 employees, earning millions from CIA contracts after the agency outsourced nearly all its interrogation operations.
But, in 2009, US President Barack Obama's then-CIA director Leon Panetta decommissioned the agency's secret jails and vowed contractors would no longer conduct interrogations, terminating the partnership.
By then, Dr Jessen and Dr Mitchell had received nearly half of their $180m CIA contract. This was not before the CIA had already agreed to a $5m indemnification contract covering, among other things, criminal prosecution.
In 2007, Mitchell Jessen and Associates hired a law firm and billed the CIA more than $1m in legal expenses through 2012.
Under the CIA's current contract with the company, they are obligated to pay legal expenses until 2021. | Two psychologists hired by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop enhanced interrogation procedures lacked the relevant experience, a new report finds. |
Summarize the information given below. | The girl was taken hostage on Monday and attacked in a locked room for over 48 hours, police said.
Reports say she was rescued by a passer-by who heard her cries on Wednesday. No arrests have been made.
The gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December sparked protests across India.
In a separate development, police in Delhi say they are also looking for a group of men who allegedly gang-raped a 19-year-old woman on Wednesday night.
Reports say the woman, who works as a domestic helper, was offered a lift in a vehicle by the men and then allegedly sedated and raped.
The five-year-old girl has been admitted to a city hospital in a critical condition.
"The girl was traumatised when she was brought to us. There were injuries to her lips, cheeks and chest wall. There were bruises on her neck," RN Bansal, chief of Swami Dayanand hospital, told the NDTV news channel.
Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told the AFP news agency that police had launched a probe into the rape and "attempted murder" of the girl.
There have been protests outside the hospital where the girl is being treated.
Mr Bhagat said a case of rape had been registered in connection with the attack on the 19-year-old girl, who was found semi-naked by pedestrians on a road early on Thursday.
Doctors at the city's Safdarjung Hospital said she that although she was suffering from trauma, there were no signs of external injuries.
Reports said the woman, who is married and comes from from Nepal, was on the way to her brother's house from her employer's residence in the up-market Defence Colony neighbourhood when a car carrying the men stopped to ask her for directions and offered to drop her near her home.
The issue of sexual violence against women and girls has been under intense scrutiny in India after the rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus in December led to widespread protests.
Six people were charged over the case, which shocked the nation. Four are on trial in a specially-convened fast-track court and face the death penalty. A fifth suspect was found dead in prison.
The sixth man, a minor, is being tried in a juvenile court. All the accused have pleaded not guilty.
Last month India passed a new bill containing harsher punishments, including the death penalty, for rapists.
The Lowther Hills Ski Club has applied for planning permission to build a clubhouse and a 600m rope tow on the slope near Wanlockhead.
It is hoping to attract snowsports enthusiasts from across Scotland and the north of England to the village in Dumfries and Galloway.
It is part of a wider plan to market the area as a year-round sports resort.
Those behind the proposals hope to eventually offer visitors to the Southern Uplands the chance to do a range of different activities including mountain biking, hill-walking, golf and curling.
Lowther Hills Ski Club chairman Anjo Abelaira said: "The ski facilities will put the village on the map and it will bring people to the area.
"We will be staffed by volunteers and mainly open at weekends. We will be open for about 25 days between December and March."
Lowther Hill was a busy ski resort in the 1960s and 1970s when there was a permanent ski tow on the slope.
It fell out of fashion in the 1980s however, and since then local people have occasionally used a portable tow to get up the hillside. | A five-year-old girl is battling for her life after being allegedly kidnapped and repeatedly raped by a neighbour in the Indian capital, Delhi.
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Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Mr Isa, chairman of the World Uighur Congress, was due to attend a conference next week in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala.
He said he was "disappointed" by the Indian government's action.
Earlier reports said Delhi had granted Mr Isa a visa after China blocked India's bid to get the UN to ban Jaish-e-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar.
The Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, had criticised India's move and described Mr Isa as a "terrorist" with an Interpol red-corner notice against him, leading to Delhi rescinding his visa.
Uighurs are an ethnic minority community from China's western Xinjiang region and have a long history of discord with Beijing. They are Muslims and regard themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations.
"I express my disappointment on Indian authorities' cancellation of my visa to attend the annual Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference taking place in Dharamsala from 30 April to 1 May," Mr Isa, who lives in Germany, said in a statement.
He confirmed that India had granted him a tourist e-visa which was cancelled on 23 April.
"I recognise and understand the difficult position that the Indian government found itself, and regret that my trip has generated such unwarranted controversy."
The democracy conference in Dharamsala is being organised by the US-based Initiatives for China and Uighurs, and the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader in-exile, is also due to attend the meeting.
The revelation came during questioning of a senior detective who led the investigation into the murders.
Ten Protestant men were shot dead by the IRA in the attack in County Armagh in 1976.
They were shot after gunmen stopped their bus on their way home from work.
The inquest heard on Wednesday about a list of names of those involved in the attack, supplied by a self-confessed IRA man in December 1976.
Among those named on the list was a man given the cypher "s104".
He had "usually travelled" on the minibus with the other workmen said a barrister for the families of the victims.
This could mean that he was involved in setting up his workmates for slaughter, he added.
The list of names was put to the detective who led the investigation following the murders.
Det Ch Insp James Mitchell said he could not confirm whether or not he had seen it before, but he identified all of those named as members of the Provisional IRA.
He added that most, if not all of them, would have been living in the Republic of Ireland and so would have been beyond the reach of the RUC as on the whole the government in the Republic of Ireland were not co-operating when it came to extradition.
The former senior officer was asked about his resourcing, given that it has been reported that 1,000 officers are involved in the recent Manchester suicide attack investigation.
He said the manpower available to him was totally inadequate with nine additional detectives sent from Belfast for only a period of weeks.
Last Friday Det Ch Insp Mitchell apologised to the victims' families for not getting the satisfaction they had hoped for.
He said the "workload at the time" and "depleted resources" led to weaknesses in the investigation.
In 2011, a review of the case was carried out by the Historical Enquiries Team (HET).
The HET investigation established that no evidence remained.
It also said that some of the original evidence had been destroyed in a fire at the laboratory eight months after the killings. | India has cancelled the visa of Chinese dissident leader and Uighur activist Dolkun Isa after a protest by Beijing.
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An inquest has been told that a man who regularly travelled on the minibus at the centre of the Kingsmills Massacre was subsequently named as one of those involved in the attack. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The government has repeatedly raised the personal allowance - the amount people can earn before paying income tax - since the 2010 election.
The threshold is due to reach £10,000 in 2014/15 but Mr Clegg wants to make it £10,500 from 2015 - a move that would cost the Treasury £1bn.
Conservatives said they would consider it but any changes must be "paid for".
Deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg said raising the personal allowance to £10,000 - a tax cut "worth £700 to millions of people" - was a "huge step" which he had been campaigning on for years.
And he said he wanted to raise the threshold by another £500 as a "workers' bonus".
The cut would be worth £100 a year to 24 million ordinary rate taxpayers, while taking around half a million people out of income tax altogether.
Mr Clegg said his preferred method of paying for the tax cut would be to raise taxes on the "super wealthy" through a "mansion tax" but he said the Conservatives would not agree to this.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme "we will find other ways" to fund the policy.
"It's not agreed yet. It's something I would like to see us deliver as a coalition government in the next budget," he added.
The basic rate of income tax is 20% so an extra £500 on the personal allowance would cut tax by £100 for anyone earning £10,500 or more, though people earning over £100,000 get reduced personal allowance or none at all.
Mr Clegg said the Liberal Democrats' "long-term ambition" was to "make sure no one pays any income tax on the equivalent of the minimum wage, which is around £12,500".
The personal allowance for under 65s was £6,475 when the coalition came to power and it has risen in each of the last three tax years to its current level of £9,440.
The government has already agreed to raise it to £10,000 from April, and Mr Clegg's latest proposal would take effect in April 2015 - just before the next general election.
Some Lib Dems are angry at what they say are "blatant" attempts by the Tories to claim credit for raising the personal allowance - an idea they say was rejected by David Cameron before the 2010 election.
For Labour, shadow treasury chief secretary Chris Leslie said the coalition's changes had left working families worse off overall and called for Mr Clegg to explain how he would pay for the proposal.
"Working people facing a cost-of-living crisis need help right now, but Nick Clegg's government has instead prioritised a huge tax cut for those earning over £150,000," he said.
"When it comes to people on middle and low incomes, the government is giving with one hand but taking away much more with the other."
While the basic personal allowance rate has been rising under the coalition government, the level at which "higher rate" 40% tax is payable has been reduced in steps from £37,400 when the coalition came to power to £32,011 now (payable on income above the personal allowance).
The "additional rate" - 50% of earnings over £150,000 - introduced by Labour just before the 2010 election was reduced to 45% by the current government in April this year.
People aged 65 and over get a higher personal allowance. The current personal allowance is £10,500 for 65 to 74-year-olds and £10,660 for people aged 75 and over. From April 2013 the allowance for over-65s was frozen while that for under-65s went up. Those who turn 65 after 5 April 2013 do not get an extra allowance at all.
Income tax rates are the same across the UK, though the Scottish Parliament is expected to set rates there from 2016 under powers given by the 2012 Scotland Act. | Nick Clegg says he is pushing his Tory coalition partners to agree to cut income tax bills by another £100. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The Mariners won nine of their 27 matches under Bignot, who left National League club Solihull Moors to become Grimsby boss in November.
His last game at the helm was Saturday's 3-1 win at Blackpool, which left them 14th in the table.
Michael Moore and Gary Whild, who worked under Bignot, have also left the club.
Former QPR full-back Bignot took his first managerial job in the English Football League with Grimsby when Paul Hurst, who had guided the Mariners to promotion from the National League earlier in the year, became manager of League One strugglers Shrewsbury.
Bignot had taken Solihull into the fifth tier of English football for the first time in the club's history seven months before his departure to Blundell Park.
"Following Grimsby Town's return to the EFL, there remains a strong ambition to build on last season's promotion," read a club statement.
"Therefore, it is with regret that the club has decided to release the current management team from their first-team duties."
Grimsby were eighth in the table when Bignot took over but the club sold 19-goal top scorer Omar Bogle to Championship strugglers Wigan Athletic in January.
Bignot's departure leaves Brighton's Chris Hughton and Carlisle's Keith Curle as the only managers from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds in the top four divisions of the English game.
The 39-year-old Warwickshire all-rounder intends to finish his career in September - at the end of his 20th summer in first-class cricket.
Maddy was with Leicestershire, his native county, for 13 years, during which time he played three Tests and eight one-day internationals.
He signed for the Bears in 2007, taking over as skipper within a month of his debut.
After relinquishing the captaincy at the end of the 2008 campaign, during which time he was recalled by England to play in the World Twenty20, he has carried on playing under Ian Westwood and Jim Troughton.
But he has so far been limited only to YB40 games this season, having made just one County Championship appearance.
"I realise that it's the right time for me to bow out and give more opportunities for many of Warwickshire's promising youngsters to come through and help build on the success of recent seasons," said Maddy.
"I've enjoyed a fantastic career, which I never thought would be possible when I signed my first professional contract with Leicestershire in 1991."
After making his professional debut in a Sunday League match for Leicestershire against Derbyshire in 1994, Maddy has since gone on to play 282 first-class games, as well as 361 List A and 87 Twenty20 appearances, compiling a combined 39 centuries in all formats.
The abuse is alleged to have taken place at Rhydygors School between 1976-1986, and Cartref-Y-Gelli children's home between 1986 and 1990.
Two men and two women will appear at Llanelli Magistrates' Court.
It comes after Dyfed Powys Police's investigation into the allegations, Operation Almond, concluded.
A 61-year-old man, from Carmarthenshire, has been charged with nine offences of indecent assault and three offences of attempted indecent assault in Carmarthen and Hereford and will appear before the court on 15 June.
A man, 71, from Carmarthenshire, has been summonsed to appear before the court on 20 July for an offence of rape in the north Wales area.
A 68-year-old woman, from Carmarthenshire, has been served with a summons to appear before the court for two offences of indecent assault in Carmarthen.
And a woman, 54, from Essex, has been summonsed to appear on 31 August for an offence of indecent assault. | League Two club Grimsby Town have sacked manager Marcus Bignot after five months in charge.
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Former England player Darren Maddy is to retire at the end of this season.
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Four people are due to appear in court following an investigation into alleged historical child abuse in Carmarthenshire. |
Please summarize the document below. | They show a mobile phone with nude pictures covered in crime scene tape.
And they warn that anyone who shares, or threatens to share, intimate images without consent could face a tough prison sentence.
Under new laws that come into force later this year, offenders could by jailed for up to five years.
The posters are part of a Scottish government campaign to raise awareness of the new Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm Act.
Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "Disclosing private images can be extremely cruel and degrading, and can cause fear and alarm.
"Sharing, or threatening to share, such images can also be used in a highly abusive and manipulative way to seek to control a partner or ex-partner."
He added: "We have developed this campaign together with key agencies including Scottish Women's Aid, Rape Crisis Scotland, Assist, Police Scotland and the Crown Office to ensure it reflects what we know is happening across Scotland and beyond.
"These organisations are seeing first-hand the incredible pain being caused by intimate images being passed around.
"Too many people are suffering because pictures of them, that they believed were only for a trusted person to see, are being shared online.
"Through this campaign and, working with the police and others, I'm determined to drive home the message that there is no place for victimisation like this in a modern Scotland and that those who think otherwise will soon face the full force of the law."
The law, passed unanimously by MSPs last March, aims to tackle so-called "revenge porn" and other non-consensual sharing of intimate images.
The move comes in response to a growing problem as easy access to devices like smart phones means pictures and videos taken with the expectation of privacy can be now far more easily shared publicly online through outlets such as social media.
Sandy Brindley, Rape Crisis Scotland National coordinator, welcomed the campaign.
She said: "Sharing or threatening to share intimate images of someone without their consent is a serious violation and can be devastating to individuals targeted.
"This behaviour has emerged increasingly in recent years as a factor in sexually abusive behaviour and, in highlighting it as a serious criminal offence which will attract a substantial penalty, this legislation is an important and necessary development."
The new law also includes a requirement for judges, when dealing with sexual offence cases, to direct juries on how people may respond to becoming a victim of rape.
This is in order to help prevent the jurors being influenced by any pre-conceived views about how someone who has been raped should react. | Hard-hitting posters highlighting the dangers of so-called "revenge porn" have been launched by the Scottish government. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | Owen Oyston is accused by club president Valeri Belokon of improperly extracting millions of pounds from the football club after 2010.
The majority shareholder has told London's High Court he was the victim of a "set-up" by Mr Belokon.
Mr Oyston and his son Karl deny "unfair prejudice" against shareholders.
Karl Oyston is the club chairman.
During the hearing earlier his father Owen Oyston was cross-examined about an £11m payment made to his service company Zabaxe Ltd in 2012.
Andrew Green QC, appearing for Mr Belokon, told the court: "The reality is you wanted a multimillion payment out of Blackpool FC (BFC) now that the Premier League jackpot had been struck, and the BFC board was going to give it to you."
Denying the claim, Mr Oyston said for many years Zabaxe had provided services to the club free of charge, including accountants, solicitors, architects, secretaries and other staff through the Oyston group of companies.
Latvian Mr Belokon is acting through his company VB Football Assets, which is a minor shareholder in the club.
Mr Oyston told the court he was being set up by the club president after the Latvian millionaire's attempts to increase his shares in the club failed.
Mr Belokon purchased a 20% shareholding in 2006 but made the decision in 2011 to "exit the club and prepare for legal action" after he failed to acquire a 50% share in the club, following unfruitful attempts to approve other financial arrangements, Mr Oyston said.
Mr Belokon then proposed in 2013 the board should "buy him out for an exorbitant £24.15m", the court heard.
"The whole purpose was not to co-operate, but try to establish evidence to help him in a court case."
"It was a set-up. They were setting up for this legal case which is why I am now here today," Mr Oyston added.
The case continues. | Blackpool FC's majority owner denies seeking his own multimillion-pound payout after the club "struck the jackpot" to reach the Premier League. |
What is the summary of the given information? | The Labour politician resigned as chair of the Home Affairs select committee after the Sunday Mirror claimed he paid for the services of two male escorts.
Mr Vaz, an MP since 1987, has referred the allegations to his solicitors.
He has said that he intends to remain as an MP and as a member of Labour's National Executive Committee.
The Moelfre crew was called to Porth Wen, near Bull Bay, just after 17:30 GMT on Saturday by the owners of the bichon frise called Flossy.
Coastguard teams had located the dog in an isolated gulley at the bottom of the cliffs and a lifeboat was deemed the safest option for rescue.
The crew said Flossy appeared "visibly shaken but miraculously uninjured".
They used a blanket and hold-all to secure the dog and carried her back to the inshore lifeboat.
Flossy was then reunited with her owners, who had been out walking with the dog when she disappeared at the top of the cliffs.
The couple said they had been having a "peaceful mobile phone-free" walk, which meant they had a 20-minute run to the nearest farm house to raise the alarm when they realised Flossy was in trouble.
Vince Jones, station mechanic and helm at Moelfre, said: "Flossy was extremely lucky to have come away unscathed from the fall, although she wasn't too keen on our crews in their bright yellow dry-suits."
The Kiwi, who led the All Blacks to the World Cup in 2011, will assist head coach Leo Cullen for several weeks.
Cullen said it was important for Leinster's coaching staff and players "to look at different ways of challenging ourselves".
"Everyone in the organisation will benefit from his expertise," he added.
Having led the Auckland Blues to two Super Rugby titles, Henry was appointed head coach of Wales in 1998 before leading the British and Irish Lions on their tour of Australia in 2001.
He was appointed New Zealand head coach in 2004, leading them at two World Cups, winning the trophy in 2011.
Henry will join Leinster, who he described as "a club with such a rich and proud history", for a few weeks before the 2016-17 season begins.
"Undoubtedly the coaches and the players will benefit from having a coach of his stature in and amongst us as we build towards the new season," said Leinster coach Cullen.
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The 19-year-old has made 12 appearances and scored four tries for Saints in his breakthrough season for the club.
Forwards coach Dorian West and fly-half Stephen Myler says Mallinder Jr fully deserves his chance in the first team.
Matthew Nicklin QC told the High Court hacking was "unlawful and wrong" but none of the victims in the case claimed their lives had been "ruined".
The firm has admitted publishing more than 100 stories based on hacking the victims' voicemails from 1999 to 2009.
The court will decide on damages to be paid to victims including ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne and actor Shane Ritchie.
The other six claimants are BBC creative director Alan Yentob, actress Sadie Frost, soap stars Shobna Gulati and Lucy Taggart, TV producer Robert Ashworth and flight attendant Lauren Alcorn.
Mr Nicklin said hacking was an "unwarranted and unacceptable intrusion into people's private lives and it shouldn't have happened".
He did not suggest what damages should be paid, but said none of the claimants had their ability to work impaired or needed psychiatric care as a result.
"While they may be upset and even angry", he said, "not one of them has claimed - nor could they - that their lives have been ruined".
The case was adjourned until Wednesday.
The judge, Mr Justice Mann, is expected to take several weeks to assess the damages.
His decision on damages will influence the outcome of around 100 more hacking cases against the company which have been filed so far. | The Met Police is to "assess and identify what criminal offences - if any" have been committed by Keith Vaz following claims over his private life.
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A dog was rescued by a lifeboat crew after surviving a fall from a 130ft (40m) cliff on the Anglesey coast.
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New Zealand's former Rugby World Cup-winning head coach Sir Graham Henry is to join Leinster as a consultant on a short-term contract on 30 July.
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Northampton Saints fly-half Harry Mallinder speaks to BBC Look East about what it is like to play under his father Jim, the club's director of rugby.
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Phone hacking by the Mirror Group did not cause "permanent harm" to eight people suing the firm, its lawyer says. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Jordan Turner marked the 250th appearance of his career with Saints' first try of the game.
Matty Fleming cancelled out Corey Thompson's score to give the home side a 10-6 lead at the interval.
Patrick Ah Van's acrobatic effort brought Widnes level at Langtree Park, but Percival's second successful kick sealed the game in Saints' favour.
Victory means Keiron Cunningham's side are two points behind fourth-placed Catalans Dragons and will be no lower than fifth at the beginning of the Super 8s.
Widnes, fresh from a win at champions Leeds in their previous outing, are still not guaranteed a top-eight finish but require only one point from their next two fixtures to avoid a spot in The Qualifiers.
St Helens coach Keiron Cunningham: "Both sides probably deserved something out of the game. Widnes took the second half but we hung in there to win it with that goal in the end.
"It was a character-building performance and it's about time we had a bit of luck.
"For large portions of the second half, we had to defend on the back foot. We had a lot of kids out there, which is very good for the future.
"Jonny Lomax is into week nine of his comeback and we always said it would take 10 weeks to hit the full straps. He wasn't quite clinical enough with the ball but his defence was outstanding."
Widnes head coach Denis Betts: "It was a full-blooded contest and a real tussle. We were on the end of a couple of tough calls but it was a really good rugby league game.
"They were desperate but we defended really well and are massively disappointed because I thought we did enough to win.
"We started poorly but our effort and energy was really high and we are showing we are a tough team to beat."
St Helens: Lomax; McDonnell, Fleming, Percival, Owens; Turner, Wilkin; Walmsley, Roby, Richards, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Greenwood, Thompson.
Replacements: Amor, Vea, Ashworth, Knowles.
Widnes Vikings: Hanbury; Thompson, Runciman, Marsh, Ah Van; Mellor, Brown; Cahill, White, Buchanan, Houston, Dean, Leuluai.
Replacements: Manuokafoa, Dudson, Whitley, Burke.
Referee: Gareth Hewer | Mark Percival's penalty nine minutes before full-time earned victory for St Helens over neighbours Widnes Vikings. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | He made the allegation to BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme on Tuesday night.
Mr Donaldson was shot dead months after admitting in 2005 he had been an MI5 agent for more than 20 years.
Mr Adams has denied any involvement in the killing of Mr Donaldson.
He told radio station LMFM that he "totally and specifically refuted the allegation I was consulted".
Mr Donaldson had worked for Sinn Féin as an administrator at Stormont. He was killed at a remote Donegal cottage in 2006.
A man who says he worked as an informer for the intelligence branch of the police told Spotlight that Mr Adams sanctioned the murder.
The former spy was in the IRA and Sinn Féin. He cannot be identified because of fears about his safety.
What Spotlight was told
Agent: I know from my experience in the IRA that murders have to be approved by the leadership. They have to be given approval by the leadership of the IRA and the military leadership of the IRA.
Presenter: Who are you specifically referring to?
Agent: Gerry Adams, he gives the final say.
The informer told Spotlight that murders had to be approved by the political and military leadership of the IRA.
In a statement, Mr Adams' solicitor said the Sinn Féin leader "has no knowledge of and had no involvement whatsoever in the killing of Denis Donaldson".
He added that Mr Adams "categorically denies the unsubstantiated allegation that he was consulted about an alleged IRA army council decision or that he had the final say on what had been sanctioned".
Days after the murder, the IRA said it was not involved in Mr Donaldson's death.
But, security sources have told Spotlight that intelligence received following the killing contradicted the IRA's denial.
You can watch BBC Spotlight: Spy in the IRA now on BBC iPlayer. | A man who says he was a former IRA and Sinn Féin member turned British agent has claimed Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | Zhifei Li, 28, smuggled more than 20 raw rhino horns, while Shusen Wei, 44, is charged with trying to bribe a federal law enforcement officer to aid Mr Li, federal prosecutors said.
Qing Wang is accused of sending carved rhino cups to Mr Li in Hong Kong.
US federal law bars trafficking in endangered species.
Mr Li and Mr Wei are Chinese nationals. The investigation was carried out by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
According to prosecutors, Mr Li sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to a co-conspirator in the US to buy rhino horns, which were sent in porcelain vases to another person in Hong Kong, in an effort to evade US authorities.
'Good health'
Mr Li is also accused of trying to buy two rhino horns for $59,000 (£38,000) in a hotel room in Miami in January from an undercover fish and wildlife officer. He also asked the undercover officer to procure more horns and send them to Hong Kong.
Mr Wei, who was sharing a hotel room with Mr Li, later asked an undercover informant to take a fish and wildlife officer out for dinner and offer her money to help Mr Li, prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, prosecutors say Mr Wang bought libation cups carved from rhino horn in the US and sent them to Mr Li in Hong Kong.
Some believe drinking from intricately carved rhino horn cups brings good health, and the cups are highly prized by collectors, US authorities said.
Native to Africa, the black rhinoceros is classified as a critically endangered species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
But demand for rhino horns and the prices paid for them on the black market have soared in recent years, US prosecutors said.
Chris Whitehead, 12, was angered by rules at Impington Village College, near Cambridge, that do not allow boys to wear shorts in hot weather.
The year 8 pupil said he researched the policy, found a loophole in the rules and turned up to school in a skirt.
Following his demonstration, the school has pledged to review the policy later in the year.
Chris said: "There has been a bit of teasing but I don't mind if people laugh at me, if I feel I am doing something that is good.
"I think people agree with me and I hope something will change."
He added: "I looked up the uniform policy, it doesn't say girls have to be the ones wearing skirts, so I used this to my advantage. It was a peaceful protest."
Some of his friends at the school said it was an unusual thing to see but a brave thing to do.
A school spokeswoman praised his "independence" and "individuality".
Chris' father Brian Whitehead said: "We are proud of him. We did ask if he was sure it was what he wanted to do.
"But he's the sort of lad who will just shrug his shoulders and get on with it."
Chris told the BBC he wanted to go in to politics in the future, starting with the House of Commons.
Since hitting the national press Chris has generated a huge amount of interest on the social networking site Twitter.
TV presenter Phillip Schofield tweeted: "Well done 12-year-old Chris Whitehead. Protesting that at his school, in the summer, girls can wear skirts, but boys can't wear shorts.
"He's decided to protest by taking advantage of a loophole in the school rules... and wear a skirt!
"Very brave and a point well made. Apparently he wants to be a politician! We will benefit from his brains, I think." | Three people have been arrested in the US and accused of conspiring to smuggle endangered black rhino horns and carvings from the US into China.
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A Cambridgeshire boy wore a skirt to school in a protest against what he said was "discrimination". |
Summarize the information given below. | The BBC had reported how Wang Qi, an army surveyor who says he accidentally crossed into India in 1963, had not been given the necessary documents to leave the country.
Following the report, he was visited by Chinese diplomats, who told him efforts were being made to take him back.
Mr Wang was met by family members when his flight landed in Beijing.
Later, in his home city of Xianyang, crowds met him with banners reading "Welcome home, soldier, it's been a rough journey".
Mr Wang flew out from Delhi on Friday night accompanied by his adult children.
Chinese officials took him and his family shopping in a Delhi mall before they boarded the flight.
Mr Wang had been given a document by the Indian Foreign Ministry stating that he was cleared to leave. His family were given Indian passports so that they could leave with him if they wished.
His wife, an Indian citizen, was sick and did not accompany him.
It is not clear if Mr Wang plans to return to India. He was never granted citizenship and was given a Chinese passport in 2013.
Mr Wang says he was "tasked with building roads for the Chinese army" and was captured when he "strayed erroneously" into India's territory in January 1963.
"I had gone out of my camp for a stroll but lost my way. I was tired and hungry. I saw a Red Cross vehicle and asked them to help me. They handed me over to the Indian army," he said.
He spent the next seven years in a number of different jails before a court ordered his release in 1969.
Police took him to Tirodi, a far-flung village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He had not been allowed to leave the country since.
Instead he worked at a flour mill, eventually marrying a local woman and raising a family. Neighbours said they lived in "utter poverty". | A Chinese man who was trapped in India for more than 50 years has finally been reunited with his family. |
Please summarize the passage below. | Alexander Mackay's case was described by a sheriff as "one of the worst management failures I've ever seen".
Dundee Sheriff Court heard the G&D Pallets saw room in Dundee was in an "appalling state" when Michael Rice was injured.
Mackay, 65, will be sentenced on 2 May.
The court was told surgeons were only able to reattach one of Mr Rice's fingers, leaving him permanently disfigured and impaired.
Depute fiscal Shona McJannett told the court that the incident took place while Mr Rice was sawing wood at the company's warehouse.
Miss McJannett said Mr Rice was employed as a casual worker in 2010 and given "basic training".
He was then taken on again on a casual basis in 2011 and given no refresher training.
The prosecutor said: "At the time the premises were very busy and they were struggling for space in the saw room.
"There were pallets partially blocking one door, completely blocking the second door and stacked up throughout the room and around the saw.
Miss McJannett said Mr Rice was working alone in the saw room at the time of the incident.
Mr Rice had turned and tripped over a broken pallet that was lying near the saw bench where he was working.
The fiscal said: "As he fell, he held out his hands and his right hand came into contact with the running blade of the saw.
"The emergency stop button was damaged and didn't work, which Mr Watson said he was unaware of but other employees had known for some time."
Mackay, of Blairgowrie, admitted a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act committed in December 2011.
Sheriff Alastair Brown said: "This is one of the worst management failures I've ever seen.
"The workplace was in an appalling state and resulted in significant injury to someone who was vulnerable.
"That being so there is a very serious possibility of a prison sentence being imposed."
The presidential hopeful wrote in his 1996 autobiography, Gifted Hands, that he had been offered a full scholarship by the prestigious school.
But the academy said it had no record of an application from Mr Carson.
His team has denied that he lied about West Point, saying the academy effectively offered him a place.
In his book, Mr Carson recalls a meeting in 1969 when he was a high school student in Detroit enrolled in the ROTC programme, which provides preliminary officer training for students.
Then 17 years old, he dined with the decorated general, William Westmoreland, and says in his book that a "full scholarship" was subsequently offered.
Whether any of this will adversely affect Mr Carson's standing in the Republican presidential race is an open question.
The retired neurosurgeon has made condemnations of the media and "PC culture" a standard part of his campaign rhetoric, so he may already be immunised against perceived attacks from the mainstream press.
In last week's Republican debate on CNBC, a moderator who pressed Mr Carson to respond to allegations that he had close ties to a controversial nutrition supplement company was roundly booed by the partisan audience.
"They know," Mr Carson concluded. And they very well may continue to stand by their man.
The bizarro-world of Carson denials
But his campaign team on Friday, after inquiries by Politico, said he never applied to join the academy and the scholarship assertion was based on "conversations" he had.
"His senior commander was in touch with West Point and told Dr Carson he could get in, Dr Carson did not seek admission," campaign spokesman Doug Watts told Reuters in an email.
The confusion comes as other parts of Mr Carson's personal story related in his book have also been questioned.
He has stood by his assertion in the autobiography that in his youth he was prone to sudden violent rages that he has overcome as an adult.
In one episode, he lunged with a knife at a close friend but fortunately struck his friend's belt buckle.
The retired neurosurgeon has made much of his struggling childhood while on the campaign trail.
Mr Carson is the joint frontrunner in the Republican presidential race with businessman Donald Trump, who wasted no time in capitalising on the latest story.
Mr Trump tweeted: "Wow, one of many lies by Ben Carson! Big story." | A company manager has been warned he faces jail after a worker tripped over a broken pallet and fell into a moving sawblade, slicing off three of his fingers.
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Republican Ben Carson has admitted that he never applied to join the US military academy at West Point, despite implications in his book that he had. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Andris Logins was jailed in March for raping and assaulting boys and girls at a children's home in Nottinghamshire.
Helen Logins, 52, admitted six offences under the Computer Misuse Act before her husband went on trial.
Nottingham Crown Court heard she abused her position as a Nottingham City Council manager.
She searched confidential care records and case files of people who had accused her husband of carrying out the offences in the 1980s, the hearing was told.
Handing Logins a 12-month suspended sentence, Judge James Sampson said her actions were a "gross breach of trust".
He added: "Your motive was to assist your husband. You couldn't resist temptation.
"You have now lost your job, your career, your husband to a 20-year sentence and I accept that these last three years have been stressful for both you and your children."
Prosecutor Mary Prior said Logins "abused her position of trust by accessing the social care files" and "seeing the most intensely personal information".
Mitigating, Sarah Knight, said the defendant had wanted to check whether she had had any dealings with them.
"Knowing that her husband was being investigated was, for her, a living nightmare. She panicked," she added.
Logins, of Stiles Road, Arnold, was dismissed from her position at Nottingham City Council in June last year.
The authority said her actions were "a significant breach of professional and ethical standards" and it stayed "committed to protecting the privacy". | The wife of a convicted paedophile looked up social care records of his victims using council computers, a court heard. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Merlin operates 99 attractions in 22 countries, and has 54 million visitors to its parks a year.
It says it is the second-largest company of its kind in the world after Walt Disney.
Its other well-known attractions include Alton Towers, Thorpe Park and Warwick Castle.
The business has a turnover of £1bn a year and is thought to be worth some £3bn.
The share offer, which will see 20% of the company pass to public investors, is accessible to smaller shareholders with a minimum investment stake of £1,000. Shareholders will also get a one-off 30% discount on certain entry passes for Merlin's theme parks.
The company, which was formed in 1999, says the number of visitors to its parks has grown by 11% a year since 2008.
The company's non-executive chairman, Sir John Sunderland, said: "I have been impressed by the significant growth that Merlin has delivered as a private company.
"But there is more to come and I believe Merlin has a very promising future as a publicly listed company."
Mark Keary, head of Bethnal Green Academy, told MPs it was still not clear how they had been radicalised.
GCSE pupils Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum left in February to join the so-called Islamic State group.
Mr Keary said efforts to prevent radicalisation had to keep pace as militants' recruitment tactics changed.
Giving evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mr Keary said the school had come under "huge scrutiny from counter-terrorism, the police... in a long-running inquiry" into the girls' radicalisation.
He said the inquiry had concluded the investigations would be moving elsewhere but "further down the line we are still no clearer what the agents of that change [the radicalisation] were."
He said the school had been fully engaged with the Prevent strategy from the summer of 2014, adding that what had happened had taken "many agencies by surprise".
"We are hugely concerned. We have looked into every aspect of our work, we have looked closely at what we as a school could or should have done that would have been different."
Both Mr Keary and former deputy head Alison Brannick said Prevent training for teachers had focused on "the stereotype of the angry young man", which none of the girls had fitted.
He added: "We were quite focused through the Prevent strategy on looking for symptoms of radicalisation that on this occasion simply had not materialised."
Mr Keary said Prevent had already changed since February and must continue to evolve.
"Any legislative response or any strategy is in danger of becoming outmoded almost instantly because tactics for recruitment and radicalisation appear to shift and change in response...
"It needs to be very regularly reviewed across the board.
"We cannot be caught in the same situation when we imagine that the radicalisation process and those who represent a threat to our young people will simply stand still.
"What we've got to learn how to do is to adapt and be for once proactive in relation to this.
"The Prevent strategy, if it had one original flaw that perhaps lingers at this point is that it is predominantly reactive."
Mr Keary said the strategy would need commitment from school communities and staff, with work across the curriculum to educate young people to become more critical in their thinking.
The committee also heard evidence from Sara Khan, of the organisation Inspire, about the group's work within the Muslim community to challenge radical preachers, and from the advocacy group Cage. | Merlin Entertainments, the UK company that owns Legoland, Madame Tussauds and Chessington World of Adventures, says it plans to issue shares to the public.
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The government's Prevent anti-terrorism strategy needs constant review, said the head of a school attended by three girls who travelled to Syria. |
Can you summarize the given article? | HMS Trenchant was away for 335 days, taking part in operations to tackle terrorism and the drugs trade.
It was the longest Trafalgar class submarine deployment, the Royal Navy said.
During its time away, the nuclear submarine spent more than 4,700 hours underwater - the equivalent of six-and-a-half months.
Dozens of families were reunited when the vessel returned at about 16:30 BST with an onboard compliment of 130 sailors.
During its deployment, the nuclear-powered hunter-killer vessel - which travelled 38,800 nautical miles, or the equivalent of 1.75 times around the world - visited the Kingdom of Bahrain, Aqaba in Jordan, Crete and Gibraltar.
Commander Irvine Lindsay, HMS Trenchant's commanding officer, said: "This 11-month period away from the UK is the longest ever UK nuclear submarine deployment."
Only seven of the crew were on board for the complete deployment, the navy said,
However, Cdr Lindsay added the ship's company "met every challenge head-on".
He said: "They have achieved success on operations, maintaining the material state of the submarine in a harsh environment and demonstrating the unique and potent military utility of the submarine."
During its 11 months at sea, HMS Trenchant conducted training and exercises with seven UK warships, a French submarine, multiple US warships and auxiliaries, a US submarine and a range of multinational aircraft.
After coming alongside in Plymouth, Cdr Lindsay said events the boat missed while at sea included the Olympics and the announcement of the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy.
He added he was "looking forward to fresh air".
The hoard was buried near Watlington around the end of the 870s, in the time of the "Last Kingdom".
This was when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex were fighting for their survival from the threat of the Vikings, which was to lead to the unification of England.
Archaeologists have called the hoard a "nationally significant find".
The hoard was discovered by 60-year-old metal detectorist James Mather.
He said: "I hope these amazing artefacts can be displayed by a local museum to be enjoyed by generations to come."
The find in October was lifted in a block of soil and brought to the British Museum, where it was excavated and studied by experts from the British Museum in London and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
The hoard consists of 186 coins - some fragmentary - and includes rarities from the reign of King Alfred "the Great" of Wessex, who reigned from 871 to 899, and King Ceolwulf II, who reigned in Mercia from 874 to 79.
During this period, King Alfred achieved a decisive victory over the Vikings at the famous Battle of Edington in 878, prompting them to move north of the Thames and travel to East Anglia through the kingdom of Mercia.
Gareth Williams, curator of early medieval coinage at the British Museum, said it was a key moment in English history as Alfred forged a new kingdom of England by taking control of Mercia.
He said: "This hoard has the potential to provide important new information on relations between Mercia and Wessex at the beginning of that process."
Seven items of jewellery and 15 ingots were also found.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, said "Fascinating finds like this Viking hoard are a great example of the one million discoveries that have been unearthed by the public since 1997."
Under the Treasure Act 1996, there is a legal obligation for finders to report such treasures. | A Royal Navy submarine has returned home to Devonport after 11 months at sea.
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A rare Viking hoard of arm rings, coins and silver ingots has been unearthed in Oxfordshire. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | There may not be many tears shed for the 28-year-old athlete, by those who question that he was convicted of manslaughter, not murder but an appeal on that matter is due in November and it will be up to the judges to decide.
But what happens in the next few weeks, possibly months, regarding the release of the world famous athlete into house arrest, could have far reaching consequences for thousands of other inmates.
It could also create an administrative nightmare for the 52 parole boards, charged with deciding the fate of prisoners in South Africa's packed jails.
An overwhelming number of experts agree that the minister has a "valid legal point" in challenging the timing and mechanics of how the decision to release Pistorius was reached.
But how much did political expediency play a part?
Was the minister merely political point scoring by announcing his objection three days before Pistorius was due to be released, making himself available to the press on what would have been Reeva Steenkamp's 32nd birthday?
It begs the question: if Pistorius was not a high profile prisoner, would the minister have bothered?
At stake is whether the champion athlete nick named the "blade runner" was given preferential treatment over more than 3,000 other inmates considered for correctional supervision.
Was the decision, made in June - two months before he had served his mandatory one sixth of his sentence - premature?
It has emerged that the demands of a women's lobby group, (with close links to the ruling party's African National Congress (ANC) Women's League) who presented a petition to review the decision on the grounds of "sensitivity", were initially ignored by South Africa's justice department.
They then resurfaced just days before Pistorius was due for release on 21 August.
Did the minister spot a photo opportunity, some mutter, cynically?
Jacqui Mofokeng, one of he leaders of the Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa, told me it was not a political move on the part of the minister, and played down any suggestions of political leverage her group had applied.
"It was a petition, but it doesn't mean that it was lobbying," she told me.
She said she had spoken to the Steenkamp family the evening the justice minister had made his decision, and said she had their "blessing".
There is no doubt South Africa has a deplorable record when it comes to domestic violence and women's groups have worked tirelessly to raise the profile of what is often a silent issue.
Some 1,024 women were killed in domestic violence incidents last year.
Reeva Steenkamp's family, who are setting up a foundation to draw attention to this form of crime, have found an unlikely ally with the ANC - South Africa's ruling party.
But some fear there is a real danger that the Pistorius case is being used as a political tool with the unintended consequence of causing a log jam in South Africa's already stretched prison system?
Do we care?
Perhaps we should when South Africa's prison population is the eighth highest in the world, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, and like in many other countries, alternatives to incarceration are being considered by penal authorities in South Africa.
When sentencing Oscar Pistorius last year, Judge Thokozile Masipa explicitly said she wanted to dispel any impression that the champion athlete was being treated differently from other prisoners and that "there was one law for the poor and disadvantaged and another for the rich and famous".
However, the events of last week seem to indicate that the politicians have done exactly the opposite.
Mannie Witz, a barrister who has been watching the Pistorius case closely, says in practice, for inmates who are considered for correctional supervision, the process begins several months before their "time is up".
This is in accordance with regulations.
"If you are going to be released on a particular date, there are a whole load of checks and balances that need to be carried out.
"In practice the way it has always worked is that you have to have this done, before the actual day."
If the review team, called upon by the justice minister to review the decision, finds that in the athlete's case it was premature, "then they will have to review every other case", warns Mr Witz.
That could cause delays of months, in some cases years.
Excessive delays could also prompt human rights challenges in the constitutional court.
The creeping of party politics into legal cases is not a uniquely South African issue, but the Pistorius case has revived concerns among defenders of the country's democratic credentials.
"Politics is not sneaking into South African law it galloping in thunderously," is the view from retired Judge Johann Kriegler, who heads up the lobby group Freedom Under Law, which has repeatedly sounded warnings about "political interference" .
The stalling of Pistorius' release happened on the same week as charges against a senior figure in South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), appointed by President Jacob Zuma, were dropped.
The case of Nomgcobo Jiba occupied hundreds of column inches in the South African newspapers.
It is a complex case, filled with political intrigue which consequently received very little attention from the international media.
But it is an important example of what some see as a worrying trend and the elephant in the corner which the Oscar Pistorius obsession eclipsed.
David Lewis, of the monitoring group Corruption Watch, is among those increasingly concerned about the blurring of lines which separate party politics and state machinery.
He agues that whilst there may have been "gross interference in the organisation and composition and decisions made by prosecuting authorities (such as the NPA) miraculously the judiciary have managed to assert themselves and remain independent".
That should give some comfort to those monitoring the Pistorius "correction supervision" decision, on the look out for political meddling.
A judge leading up a panel of four other experts will review the circumstances of him getting the green light to leave prison on 21 August.
No-one is questioning the independence of that body.
The justice minister's actions in the Pistorius case may have been variously described to me by critics as " distasteful", "clumsy", "crass" and "crude", regardless of where they stand on the murder versus manslaughter verdict.
However, those who watch these matters closely say the spotlight really needs to be refocused on those who - unlike Pistorius - have not yet entered the judicial system, and who may never get their day in court, thanks to friends in high places.
The making and unmaking of Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius - in 60 seconds | Oscar Pistorius spent an unexpected weekend in jail - his release into "house arrest" or correctional supervision was stalled at the last minute by a demand from the Justice Minister Michael Masutha for the decision to be reviewed. |
Summarize the content provided below. | The poor old peregrine falcon must feel like a total loser at this point.
Driven to the edge of extinction in the 1960s and 70s thanks to the use of pesticides based on DDT, the world's fastest predator has made a remarkable recovery over the past 30 years. So much so that there is hardly a cathedral in the UK that doesn't have at least one of these high flying raptors.
All that progress though, hasn't made a difference here at the Cites meeting in Johannesburg, which has just drawn to a close. Cites (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) aims to ensure that the trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.
Despite plenty of data to say the falcon has recovered and that restrictions on trade should be loosened, the countries meeting here decided to keep it on the highest level of protection.
"The peregrine falcon met the criteria for down-listing to Appendix II," said Heather Sohl, with WWF-UK
"The parties discussed it but didn't agree to follow that, sometimes the science isn't always followed."
Many here would say the peregrine falcon was an unfortunate exception. It would appear that science rather than politics is becoming a stronger factor in these discussions on which species to protect and which to reject.
For instance, at the last meeting in 2013 in Thailand, a number of shark species were up-listed after a huge political battle that succeeded by just one vote.
This time round, new safeguards for other sharks and devil rays, sailed through with huge majorities. Experts say this is because the regulations have been seen to work.
But while there were science-based victories for Barbary macaques, African grey parrots and a host of other species, politics does still play a part in some of the biggest controversies.
The decision to allow the EU to vote as a bloc had a major impact on one of the key debates about elephants.
With about 130 countries actually voting on the floor, the EU group of 28 stopped the proponents of greater protection for elephants from securing the two-thirds majority needed to change the Convention.
The EU argued that the science wasn't strong enough. Many campaigners thought it was plain old dirty politics.
"It just doesn't make sense biologically, it's a political decision," Dr Roz Reeve, an adviser to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, who thinks the EU sided with South Africa, which was against the proposal.
"South Africa is the dominant voice on the continent, it's the largest economy on the continent, that's the only thing I can think of that might be driving this position."
South African ministers were delighted that the up-listing of all African elephants was defeated.
They see it as a justification of their policies that have seen their elephant populations less affected by poaching than almost anywhere else in Africa. They argue that imposing greater protection on their elephants would have been an insult to ordinary South Africans.
"Had we taken this elephant to Appendix I, our people would have been denied the opportunity to benefit from them," said Edna Molewa, South Africa's minister for water and environmental affairs.
"What's making the Southern African elephant population thrive is that the people are utilising them and benefiting and they feel that they are protecting them, they are part of them.
"We feel that the rest of the continent and the rest of the world should go that way."
This question of the uneasy relationship between humans and animals was a strong undercurrent at this meeting.
Country after country argued that more needed to be done to give people living next to threatened species a cash-in-hand reason for keeping them alive.
But perhaps there's another way, and what's really needed is a massive injection of celebrity power.
There is growing evidence that the impact of sports stars, artists and well-known business people are making a big difference in educating people about the impacts of consuming products based on threatened species, and the positive benefits from their protection.
In China, the popularity of former NBA basketball star Yao Ming has made a huge difference on awareness of species - not just with the public but with the government too.
"He proposed to the National People's Congress the ban on ivory sales, which was later adopted by the Chinese government," said Peter Knights from Wildaid, who worked with Yao Ming on a documentary designed to raise awareness of the impacts of consumption on elephants and rhinos.
"That is actually the only non top-down process in China, through the Congress- and the ivory trade ban is an example of that happening."
Connecting celebrities to the Cites process could be a key step forward in forcing countries to take action.
It already seems to be having an impact. Take, for example, pangolins.
"A few years ago most people didn't know what a pangolin was, probably most still don't but a lot more do know something about these scaly anteaters," said Heather Sohl from WWF-UK.
"But there have been campaigns where Prince William has been working with Angry Birds to get the youth understanding that these are the most heavily traded mammals in the world - and from that we've seen at this conference, proposals to give them greater protection successfully passed."
This Cites conference has done much good work to protect threatened species. Apart from the peregrine falcon and perhaps the elephants, governments listened to the science and acted on it. For all its limitations, Cites remains the only safeguard for species that has real teeth.
But there is only so much you can do with regulations. To really ensure the survival of species, you need hearts and minds. And that's where celebrities really can connect the Convention to the public. Some think this combination could make the peaceful co-existence of man and beast a reality.
"It is this whole attitude to wildlife consumption, it is a once and forever societal change," said Wildaid's Peter Knights.
"We used to do this in the UK and US, and then society kind of moves away from it, and this is where Asia is right now - this is a tipping point right now."
Follow Matt on Twitter @mattmcgrathBBC and on Facebook. | As the Cites meeting in Johannesburg ends, Matt McGrath asks whether celebrities are having a bigger impact on saving species than the international body tasked with regulating the trade in threatened animals and plants. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Barnardo's said it would hire 15 workers to help victims and those at risk of child sex exploitation (CSE).
It comes after the Jay report found 1,400 children in Rotherham were abused by gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani origin, between 1997 and 2013.
The three-year programme, funded by the government, Rotherham Council and the KPMG Foundation, will start in autumn.
Council leader Chris Read said the scheme was an "innovative project".
Barnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said it would help teach organisations working with children in the town how to spot the signs of CSE.
"A project like this will be a real avenue for people to get that support and we have got to work really hard to make sure we don't let the children of Rotherham down," he said.
"There are still children at risk in Rotherham, but there are in every part of the country. We think in terms of CSE we are only touching the tip of the iceberg at the moment."
Sarah Wilson, 23, was abused by a gang of men in Rotherham between the ages of 11 to 17. She has waived her right to anonymity to raise awareness of CSE and has written a book about her experiences.
"I don't think CSE will ever be clamped down on totally, but I think we can [get the numbers down]," she said.
"There are more than 1,400 [victims] because there are people that weren't involved with social services or the police, so it's a big thing to tackle.
"But hopefully this money will help."
Alexis Jay's report found children as young as 11 from the town were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted and trafficked to other cities in England.
She said there here had been "blatant" collective failures by the council's leadership in tackling the abuse and South Yorkshire Police had failed to prioritise the issue.
The council is currently being run by government appointed commissioners after a separate report found it was "not fit for purpose".
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating complaints against 42 named South Yorkshire Police officers over their handling of CSE.
The 20-year-old was taken to Birmingham's City Hospital at about 02:45 BST, West Midlands Police said.
Despite treatment he died a short time later. A post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out later.
Specially-trained officers are with the family of the man, who has not yet been named. Anyone with information is urged to contact police, a spokesman said.
The map was created by Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives using Civil Defence and Air Raid Precaution Records.
The creators said the Google Map showed the approximate areas of attack and damage.
It covers all the known attacks from 26 June 1940 until the last raid on 21 April 1943.
A second map shows enemy aircraft attacks recorded in the Aberdeen County Register of Air Raids and Alarms from 1940 - 1944.
The Scotland United Against Austerity event in George Square took place as a demonstration was staged in London.
Organisers of the London event said the protests would be the biggest for years.
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) joined forces with the Peoples' Assembly, which organised the protests.
Speaking at the rally, STUC general secretary Grahame Smith told BBC Scotland: "We know austerity does not work.
"It is not a sensible economic policy.
"It is entirely about ideology and it is about protecting the position of the already privileged in society."
The trade union leader added: "We have seen over the past few years the impact of austerity: growing queues at food banks; people being thrown out of their house because of the bedroom tax; and the unprecedented decline in real wages.
"But at the same time we have seen the rich getting richer. That's the impact of austerity and that's why we oppose it."
Mr Smith said the vast majority of the people in Scotland and across the UK did not vote for the Tory government and he questioned the legitimacy of its cuts.
Other speakers at the rally included Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and Pat Rafferty, Scottish secretary of Unite. | A children's charity has received £3m to fund a team of specialists to tackle child sex abuse in Rotherham.
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A murder inquiry has been started after a man was left at a hospital with multiple stab wounds.
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The sites of World War Two bombing raids in and around Aberdeen have been charted on an interactive map.
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Thousands of people have attended a rally in Glasgow to protest against austerity. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | County striker Alex Schalk threw himself to the ground in the Celtic box, under no contact from defender Erik Sviatchenko.
Referee Don Robertson pointed to the spot, allowing Liam Boyce to draw the game in the 90th minute.
"It's not a penalty," County boss manager McIntyre conceded.
"I've watched it back, you can clearly see Sviatchenko go to tackle him, he's pulled out at the last minute and Alex is expecting contact and is on his way down.
"From that side of things, I can fully understand Celtic's anger or disappointment. But we've had several of them go against us this season where teams have had penalties that have not been penalties, and it's been hard to take, so I understand that.
"It doesn't look good, of course it doesn't. There's clearly no contact, but I believe what he's saying in terms of expecting contact. Some you get, some you don't."
Celtic manager Rodgers labelled the decision one of the poorest he had seen since taking charge of the Scottish Premiership champions last summer.
"It's a very disappointing end to a game we dominated throughout," he told BBC Scotland. "We had good control and then the points are taken from us by a horrendous decision. I've seen some bad decisions up here but that's one of the worst.
"Referees have a tough job but I don't know what he was seeing. The linesman and the fourth official need to help him or else why are they there?
"There's no way Sviatchenko makes any attempt to get the ball. I'm sure the boy (Schalk) will get punished for it."
If the Scottish Football Association decides to take retrospective action against Schalk, he could face a ban. Hearts winger Jamie Walker was suspended for two matches in August after being found guilty of diving to win a penalty against Celtic.
Meanwhile, Celtic captain Scott Brown is set to be available for next Sunday's Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers despite being sent off in stoppage time.
The skipper was shown red for a late lunge on Boyce that could result in a suspension should referee Robertson deem it violent conduct.
But Celtic are appealing against the red card and the appeal will not be heard until 28 April, before the final Old Firm Premiership game of the season on 29 April.
"It was the culmination of poor decisions," Rodgers said. "He had a lot given against him and not for him. I think he was just a wee bit late in his tackle."
The challenge sparked a bout of pushing and shoving outside the County box, as both sets of players rushed to the scene.
Boyce said he was lucky to escape serious injury, but played down the challenge from Brown.
"I was waiting on the challenge coming, trying to buy us a free-kick to take the pressure off," Boyce said. "I didn't realise how strong he was coming in and thankfully my leg wasn't planted on the ground, otherwise it could have been a really bad one.
"It was a bad challenge - he caught me high up on the shin and it's swollen now. But listen, it happens in games. I had caught him just before." | Respective managers Jim McIntyre and Brendan Rodgers agreed Ross County were incorrectly awarded a late penalty in their fiery 2-2 draw with Celtic. |
Summarize the passage below. | Political parties opposed to the Islamic Republic are boycotting the process for not being free and fair.
However, the regime's internal factions, which have been locked in bitter power struggles for years, have all put forward candidates.
In Iran, factions are not fully functional political parties but loose networks of influential elements representing institutional and financial interests.
Within the next few weeks the country's constitutional watchdog, the Guardian Council, will impose its authoritarian whip by eliminating candidates who are seen to be outside the accepted political discourse.
The key figures are:
The right-wing and conservative elements who swear allegiance to the Supreme Leader control almost all state institutions.
They want to maintain the political status quo by allowing limited liberty to other factions, sufficient to legitimise the regime but too little to allow them to become a threat.
The conservatives have played a shrewd game of fielding more than 20 candidates to create an impression of rivalry, open democracy and choice for the electorate. Most of them are, however, politically identical.
It is not clear which of these candidates will be their final choice. But Mr Jalili and Mr Qalibaf are attracting the greatest attention.
Mr Jalili is seen as an obedient right-wing apparatchik for the Supreme Leader who seeks an aggressive policy abroad and limited political openness at home. Mr Qalibaf is more of a moderniser and a technocrat, possibly with greater independence.
They hope to mobilise a "populist downtrodden" vote against Mr Rafsanjani, but some observers accuse them of planning to rig the elections.
The government faction includes right-wing elements loyal to President Ahmadinejad.
They are represented by Mr Mashaei, whose eccentric religious and mystical views have angered the traditional clergy and turned him into an ideological outcast.
The pro-government faction is counting on the votes of the lower-income groups which have benefited from Mr Ahmadinejad's populist homebuilding and cheap loan projects.
They have also been criticising the ruling conservatives in the hope of winning the protest vote.
Mr Mashaei might be ruled out by the Guardian Council because of his controversial philosophical views.
Pro-reform and centrist politicians are in a de facto coalition against the authoritarian practices of the regime.
Representing them is Mr Rafsanjani, who has been under intense pressure from the establishment not to enter the race.
He has been a critic of the current government by calling for greater moderation at home and in foreign policy.
He recently outraged conservatives by saying that Iran did not want war with Israel.
This faction is counting on the middle classes and the Bazaaris, or commercial class, as well as the protest vote. The presidential elections in Iran have been sparked into life with the unexpected registration of several key figures. | The Iranian presidential elections, on 14 June, are now expected to pit three wings of the establishment against each other. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Andy Woodward - who played for Bury and Sheffield United - was abused while at Crewe Alexandra from the age of 11-15.
His abuser, Barry Bennell, was sentenced to nine years in prison in 1998 after admitting sexual offences against six boys.
Mr Woodward spoke out after waiving anonymity offered to sex abuse victims.
The 43-year-old told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the abuse had a "catastrophic" impact on his life.
He struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts in the years following Bennell's conviction and suffered severe panic attacks - including during a match for Bury in which he had to be substituted.
Mr Woodward - who explained it had taken "30 years" to speak openly about the abuse - said he suffered a lack of support from Crewe Alexandra when the abuse was first revealed.
"With regards to the sport - there was nothing, it was brushed under the carpet," he said.
"It's in the mentality of football that nothing comes out."
The former defender said he "tried to put it in a box and focus on football, because that was all I'd ever dreamed of".
A spokesperson for Crewe Alexandra said the club did not wish to comment.
Barry Bennell, who worked as a football scout and coach at Crewe Alexandra in the 1980s and 90s, was sentenced to nine years in prison in 1998 after admitting 23 specimen charges of sexual offences against six boys, aged nine to 15.
Bennell scouted Mr Woodward, then aged 11, while he was playing for Stockport Boys.
Mr Woodward said that within "three or four weeks" Bennell invited him to stay over at his home.
He was abused over a four-year period and said Bennell threatened him "in a way that [his dream of playing football professionally] was going to be taken from me".
"It was that control, that all I wanted to do was be a footballer."
Mr Woodward believes the nine-year sentence did not do "justice", although at the time of the conviction he said he felt "safer" knowing Bennell was in prison.
Mr Woodward retired from football in 2002.
After years of therapy he believes he is now "coming through the other side".
Mr Woodward said he wished to raise awareness of his ordeal as he believed there were "further victims" of Bennell who were yet to speak.
He said he was aware of one other former footballer who had come forward since he first spoke to the press.
The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel. | A former footballer who was sexually abused by a coach when he was a junior player has said it "wrecked" his life. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | A two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT was observed to commemorate the dead of two world wars, and every conflict since.
Later on Wednesday, Parliament Buildings will be floodlit in red for the first time to mark Armistice Day.
Lord Mayor of Belfast Arder Carson said the ceremony of remembrance at the Cenotaph at Belfast City Hall had been "poignant and emotional".
"I am here today in respect and remembrance of all those who died in the First World War, nationalist and unionist both," the Sinn Féin councillor added.
Democratic Unionist Party councillor Guy Spence, Belfast's deputy lord mayor, said the city had "united to respect the fallen".
He added: "My father was a veteran of the armed forces, so it's an emotional day for us all and certainly one we're proud to be a part of."
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers joined MLAs for a remembrance service at Stormont, led by Sinn Féin's Mitchel McLaughlin, the assembly speaker.
Lighting Stormont's Parliament Buildings red later on Wednesday would be "an important initiative", Mr McLaughlin said.
Armistice Day is one of four days the Assembly Commission has elected for Parliament Buildings to be illuminated during the year.
Earlier, Mr McLaughlin said remembrance "should be a unifying, not a divisive concept".
"My involvement in First World War commemorations over this last year has only underlined to me the importance that the assembly should remember and show respect to the fallen."
In the Republic of Ireland, a remembrance service and parade was held at Glasnevin cemetery in Dublin.
Plaques were unveiled at the cemetery to honour Irish recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest British military honour for gallantry.
A new exhibition on unionist and nationalist soldiers from Northern Ireland who fought together in WW1 was opened at the cemetery museum after the commemoration.
The east Belfast man was shot dead at a remote cottage in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland in April 2006, months after he was exposed as a spy.
Patrick Gillespie, 74, from Craigvar Street in Glasgow, was granted bail at Dublin's Special Criminal Court.
He must comply with several conditions and live at a County Donegal address.
The bail conditions imposed on Friday include a requirement to surrender his passport; observe a night-time curfew and sign on every Saturday at a Garda (Irish police) station in Letterkenny.
Mr Gillespie is not allowed to leave the jurisdiction and must provide a mobile phone contact number to police.
Two women have agreed to freeze a surety of 15,000 euros (£12,600), which will be forfeited if the defendant fails to comply with bail conditions.
Mr Donaldson. who once held a senior position in Sinn Féin, was expelled from the party a decade ago after he admitted being a paid British spy for 20 years.
Cassandra Jayne Dulson, 24, from Ruabon, Wrexham, was in a Vauxhall Corsa which fell about 75m (250 ft) down an embankment at the top of A542 Horseshoe Pass on Monday morning.
Her family said she was dearly loved and would be sorely missed.
Any witnesses have been asked to call North Wales Police on 101. | Ceremonies have been held in Northern Ireland to mark the anniversary of the end of World War One.
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An elderly man charged with withholding information about the murder of ex-Sinn Féin official and MI5 informer Denis Donaldson has been granted bail.
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A woman who died after her car plunged down a mountain embankment above Llangollen in Denbighshire has been named. |
Summarize the provided section. | The Bilderberg Meetings have 131 participants from 21 countries in Europe and North America, the group said in a press release.
A couple of top advisers to President Donald Trump are to attend the forum, 30 miles (48km) from the White House.
The shadowy group is a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists.
This year's group includes Mr Trump's Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, his National Security Adviser HR McMaster and Peter Thiel, the billionaire Paypal creator who has been a vocal supporter of the president.
At the top of the group's 13-point agenda is "The Trump administration: A progress report".
The forum - at a Westfields Marriott hotel in Chantilly - is also being attended by Trump critic Eric Schmidt, head of Google's parent company.
Mr Schmidt has previously said the Trump administration will do "evil things".
Other Bilderberg topics this year include, "The war on information", "Why is populism growing?", and "Can globalisation be slowed down?"
"There is no desired outcome, no minutes are taken and no report is written," the group's rules state.
"Furthermore, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued."
Other guests include Dutch King Willem-Alexander; David Rubenstein, head of private equity juggernaut the Carlyle Group; and former CIA director John Brennan.
Several journalists are joining this year's forum, including London Evening Standard editor George Osborne.
A full list of participants is here.
Some critics have accused the group - which has met every year since 1954 - of plotting to impose a one-world government. | A secretive group of elite power brokers is meeting in the US state of Virginia for closed-door discussions over four days. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The man, who wears a fisherman's black hat, has been linked to up to 450 burglaries in southwest London, including the home of Boris Becker.
He is said to enjoy "the notoriety of targeting the wealthy" and has stolen jewellery worth £10m over 12 years.
Premier League footballers have also been targeted.
Most of the stolen items have never been recovered, said police.
Three homes have been targeted in Wimbledon Village in the last two weeks by the suspect who often removes or destroys security equipment before breaking in.
Det Insp Dan O'Sullivan said: "This man has been linked to as many as 450 burglaries and related offences, making him the most prolific burglar in the UK over the past 12 years, and possibly in Europe.
"We are renewing appeals and asking for the public's help in identifying this man so that we can bring him to justice and bring his crime spree to an immediate halt.
"Someone must recognise this man and his distinctive clothing. He spends a lot of time away from home in the early hours, which cannot go unnoticed by his family and friends."
Officers said there have been two instances where CCTV systems at other residential properties in the area have been tampered with.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live the detective said the suspect, dubbed the Wimbledon Prowler by the press, always kept his hand over his mouth to protect his identity.
Mr O'Sullivan said money was not his main motive, rather, "the notoriety of targeting the wealthy," including premiership footballers and Boris Becker's family who have been targeted twice in the recent past.
Journalists said it was a "coup" - they were given notice after being stopped from entering the building on Saturday.
The owners said it followed declining sales. The governing party said it was "a rational economic decision".
Nepszabadsag has often criticised Prime Minister Viktor Orban. It opposed last weekend's referendum on refugees.
Mr Orban's government has often been accused of using public media as a government mouthpiece.
A number of private media outlets have also been bought by his allies, critics say.
The government-backed paper Magyar Idok echoes the government line that the closure was purely the result of economic factors, and that it would be "an infringement of the freedom of the press, if we were to have a say in the decisions of a media owner".
The pro-government news website Origo emphasises that the paper's closure was inevitable, given its plummeting circulation figures and serious financial losses.
However, the left-wing daily Nepszava says that, despite the government's claim that the decision to suspend Nepszabadsag was taken on purely economic grounds, many people will conclude that "today's move is a serious attack on press freedom and democracy".
A commentary by investigative journalist Pal Daniel Renyi on the independent news website 444.hu concludes: "No-one should be in any doubt that Nepszabadsag is the victim of a political manoeuvre."
Nepszabadsag is a leading centre-left daily. It is independent, but tends to support the left-leaning political opposition.
Nepszabadsag's shutdown includes its print and online versions.
A message posted on the paper's Facebook page described the move as a "coup".
"We are in shock. Of course they will try and paint this as a business decision but it's not the truth," a journalist who did not wish to be named told AFP news agency.
Many said the suspension came days after the paper had broken stories of alleged corruption involving senior officials.
Opposition parties said the move showed Mr Orban wanted to suppress press freedoms in Hungary and to gain full control of the media.
The Socialist Party said it was a "black day for the press" and called a demonstration outside the paper's offices at 16:00 GMT.
Mediaworks, which bought Nepszabadsag in 2014, said that its circulation had tumbled by 74% in the last 10 years. | A burglar who targets the homes of the rich is being described by the Met Police as the most prolific in the UK and "possibly in Europe".
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Hungary's largest broadsheet newspaper Nepszabadsag has stopped publication, with journalists and the opposition alleging government pressure. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The club have described the problem as a "grade two" injury, but have not given a time frame for his absence.
Spanish newspaper AS has reported the Wales forward, 27, will be out for three to four weeks.
Real face Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final next Tuesday, with the final in Cardiff on 3 June.
Bale, 27, came off after 39 minutes in Sunday's El Clasico defeat by Barcelona.
Real, level on points with La Liga leaders Barca and with a game in hand, have important league games this week, facing Deportivo on Wednesday and Valencia on Saturday.
Wales play a World Cup qualifier in Serbia on 11 June, eight days after the Champions League final.
However, Bale is suspended for the match in Belgrade.
Dozens of baby-carrying mothers entered a McDonald's near the Western Railway Station, sat down, bared their breasts and began feeding their babies.
The protest was against the treatment of the young mother on Wednesday.
A McDonald's statement blamed a security guard for the incident.
Women are welcome to breast-feed in McDonald's restaurants as part of the fast food chain's family-friendly policy, the statement said.
It added that an investigation into the incident had been launched.
"I was waiting for my sister who was due to arrive by train," the young mother caught up in the dispute wrote on Facebook.
"I fed my baby at home before I set out, in order to avoid this [breast-feeding in public], but it was 30C (86F) and my baby was very hot and thirsty.
"I went into the restaurant at nine in the morning and looked around for a quiet spot where I wouldn't disturb anyone.
"I asked a waitress and she said it would be fine."
But when she started the feed, a security guard told her she was not engaging in "accepted activity" in the restaurant.
The guard then went away to check with the manager, came back and asked her again to stop.
When she told a friend what had happened the story spread further on Facebook and other social media - and Friday's sudden protest was organised.
"Very few women nurse their babies in public in Hungary, because they are afraid they will be harassed or treated disrespectfully," Erika Schmidt, a mother of three and member of the Birthhouse Foundation, told the BBC after taking part in the protest.
"This was the first time women have gathered to show their solidarity to each other - it was marvellous!" she said.
Another baby-feeding protester, Palma Fazakas, said that staff and other diners at the restaurant were "very friendly".
"The atmosphere was very good," she said.
The McDonald's restaurant where the incident happened is part of the Western Railway Station in Budapest, designed by the French architect Gustave Eiffel, which opened in 1877.
It has a reputation as one of the most beautiful McDonald's in the world. | Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale could miss crucial games in the end-of-season run-in after suffering a calf injury.
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Mothers in the Hungarian capital Budapest have occupied a McDonald's restaurant in protest against its move earlier this week to stop a woman from breast-feeding her baby. |
Summarize this article briefly. | The teenager was detained in Paris and is believed to have links with a French member of so-called Islamic State (IS), Rashid Kassim.
Investigators say the boy was under surveillance since April and had contacted IS through social media.
Another boy, also 15 and also suspected of links to Kassim, was arrested in Paris on Saturday.
Kassim targets vulnerable youngsters through their mobile phones.
French officials say he is a key instigator who uses encrypted forums to direct recruits on how and where to carry out attacks in Europe.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the arrests were part of efforts to pinpoint vulnerable citizens in France who have been targeted with "calls to carry out killings, led by a certain number of actors in Syria".
The arrests this week follow the detention of three women, including a 19-year-old, who had allegedly wanted to attack a Paris railway station using a car laden with gas cylinders.
Kassim, who has appeared in propaganda videos in Iraq or Syria, is thought to have planned at least four terror attacks in France since June.
An amateur rapper and youth leader from Roanne, north-east of France's second city Lyon, Rashid Kassim is thought to have been radicalised either over the internet or on a trip to Algeria in 2011.
He fell out with his local Muslim community and left France with his wife and three children for Egypt the following year. Little was known of him until he appeared in a brutal IS propaganda video after the Bastille Day lorry attack on Nice in July.
In the video, he murders two Syrian prisoners and threatens similar attacks on the streets of France by French citizens. Also known as Ibn Qassim, his focus is recruiting young French would-be jihadists, using social media and chat groups.
He has urged his 300 followers on Telegram to carry out what prosecutors term "terrorisme de proximite" (local terrorism).
Who is French jihadist Rashid Kassim?
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said the country's security services are foiling terror plots and dismantling militant networks "every day".
He said about 15,000 people were being monitored for radicalisation.
France has been under a state of emergency since IS attacks on Paris in November killed 130 people in what President Francois Hollande called an "act of war".
Whelan, 77, apologised for newspaper comments he made about Jewish and Chinese people while defending the appointment of Malky Mackay as manager.
Kick It Out chairman Lord Ouseley told the BBC: "You cannot castigate Dave Whelan because of his age.
"We must recognise as a diverse society that we have people of all backgrounds, ages and characteristics."
Ouseley told 5 live's Sportsweek programme: "Age is no excuse. But people say things that are of a different age.
"The problem is that we have to help people come to terms with modern expectations we have of the way people should conduct themselves.
"As he [Whelan] was making the appointment, we had Kick It Out staff training and working with their young footballers because we are looking to the future to make sure the next generation of players and supporters will be better than the present in dealing with attitudes.
The Football Association issued a statement on Friday in which it said it was "very concerned" by the situation and had written to Whelan.
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The Latics owner then said on Saturday that he would resign as Wigan chairman if the FA punished him for the controversy in which Cardiff owner Vincent Tan has labelled him "racist".
Whelan has denied being racist, although he insisted he was misquoted in the original interview with the Guardian newspaper about Mackay's appointment and did not intend any racial slight.
Mackay was recruited by Wigan despite being under investigation by the FA for allegedly sending homophobic, sexist and racist text messages while at Cardiff, who sacked him in acrimonious circumstances in December 2013.
The Scot, who took charge of the Wigan team for the first time against Middlesbrough on Saturday, has also denied being racist. | French police have arrested a 15-year-old boy suspected of plotting to carry out terror attacks in the country.
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Anti-discrimination body Kick It Out is willing to help Wigan owner Dave Whelan following alleged racist comments. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment, returned from a nine month tour in April.
They will march through nine towns on Saturday.
The government announced in 2012 the regiment would lose one of its battalions as part of a programme of cuts.
The men will join either the 1st or 2nd battalions.
The regiment used to be known as The Staffordshire Regiment and recruits soldiers from Staffordshire, the West Midlands and Birmingham, with its headquarters in Lichfield.
Until recently, the 3rd Battalion was based in Bad Fallingbostel, Germany.
The Mercian Regiment said there would not be a "disbandment parade", but instead the 250 soldiers would mark their return from operations in Afghanistan. A service will be held at Lichfield cathedral after the parade in the city.
They will march through Lichfield, Stafford, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stoke-on-Trent, Tamworth, Burton-upon-Trent, and Cannock.
Speaking at the first of the parades in Stafford, Major Neil Kelly thanked the people who turned out to watch. He said: "You can see the smiles on the soldiers faces, it means a lot to the whole battalion."
A short reception will take place after each parade, where local soldiers will be presented with their operational service medals for Afghanistan.
Captain Matt Odell, Adjutant 3rd Battalion, The Mercian Regiment, said: "We are looking forward to welcoming the soldiers home, who have all worked extremely hard during the past nine months."
Anneka Sherratt, 31, was discovered at her Plymouth home on Monday, where it is thought she may have died on Friday.
Her death is not being treated as suspicious and the cause is yet to be established, police said.
Friends have collected more than £3,400 towards Ms Sherratt's funeral costs and in aid of her son.
The creator of the fundraising page, Emma Louise Fowler, described Ms Sherratt as a "very kind and friendly" person who "will be sadly missed by so many".
In a message on the page, she said Ms Sherratt's "lovely 3 year old boy...had to defend for himself for 3 days (sic)".
Others paid tribute to her online.
David Elford wrote: "Anneka you were so special to me and I loved you more than words can describe. I will never forget you and I will always think about you and miss you."
Louise Stedham added: "My best friend for 4 years I'm going to miss her so very much we were practically inseparable. Love you so much sweetie."
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall Police said they were called to a property on Savage Road at 13.15 GMT on Monday.
He added: "A woman in her 30s was found deceased at the property. The death is not being treated as suspicious and a file has been prepared for the coroner."
A spokeswoman from Plymouth Coroners' Court confirmed an investigation was opened into Ms Sherratt's death on 25 February.
"She was found at her home address, the cause of death is unascertained and enquires are continuing, there are no suspicious circumstances," she added. | Members of an army battalion, which will disband at the end of the week, has started a series of parades to mark its return from Afghanistan.
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A three-year-old boy spent three days in a flat with the body of his dead mother before they were found, it is understood. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | The Irish government has announced new licensing rules after last year's cancelled Garth Brooks concerts.
The US country star's five gigs at Dublin's Croke Park were scrapped after opposition from residents.
Promoters must now meet with the relevant local authority before applying for an event licence.
Residents living near Croke Park had threatened legal action last year after an initial two planned concerts by Brooks were increased to five due to demand.
They claimed they were not consulted before the organisers announced the extra shows or put the tickets on sale.
The Gaelic Athletic Association, which owns Croke Park, had an agreement with residents that a maximum of three concerts would be held each year in the stadium.
Dublin City Council only granted a three-day licence, leading Brooks to criticise the handling of the controversy and ultimately cancel all of the gigs.
About 400,000 fans had booked tickets.
Now, licence applications from promoters will not be accepted by a local authority unless a consultation has already taken place.
Event promoters will also not be entitled to advertise or sell tickets for events prior to the holding the meeting.
Where tickets have been advertised and sold prior to the holding of a consultation, an application for a licence will not be accepted.
A review group was set up by the Irish government met the four main promoters of outdoor events in Ireland to discuss changes to licensing legislation.
Dublin Chamber of Commerce said the Brooks gigs controversy highlighted a flaw in the Republic of Ireland's licensing laws.
"The Garth Brooks debacle last summer was hugely embarrassing for Ireland and jeopardised our international reputation as a great place to host and attend an event," the chamber's chief executive Gina Quin said. | Concert promoters in the Republic of Ireland will not be allowed to sell tickets before consulting with local authorities in future. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Sir Ivan Rogers urged Brussels colleagues to challenge "muddled thinking and... speak truth to power" as he quit ahead of Brexit talks.
Mr Gill said the resignations allowed a "pro-Brexit ambassador" to be appointed for the crucial negotiations.
The first minister's spokesman called the resignation "deeply concerning".
Writing to staff, in a letter obtained by the BBC, Sir Ivan said UK ministers needed to hear "unvarnished" and "uncomfortable" views from Europe.
The government said Sir Ivan had quit earlier so a successor could be in place before Brexit negotiations started.
Sir Ivan's note confirmed this but also warned "the government will only achieve the best for the country if it harnesses the best experience we have".
Mr Gill told BBC Wales on Tuesday that he was "glad that Sir Ivan Rogers has gone" and "we can now have a pro-Brexit ambassador in place for the renegotiations which will be happening this year".
"The people of Wales and the UK spoke very clearly in the referendum on June the 23rd - they wanted out," he said.
"Personally I think Sir Ivan should have resigned once that Brexit result was declared."
The resignation came after Sir Ivan's deputy in Brussels, Shan Morgan, announced in November that she would be leaving the post to become the Welsh government's top civil servant, a job she is due to start within weeks.
In his letter, Sir Ivan said Ms Morgan would be "hugely missed" and would be a "tremendous asset to the Welsh Government".
A spokesman for First Minister Carwyn Jones said Sir Ivan's departure "at a time of such uncertainty" was "deeply concerning".
"As the negotiations on the UK leaving the European Union near, we need clarity and stability in our approach," the spokesman said.
"It is vital that a successor is appointed immediately to take up this crucial role."
Labour MEP Derek Vaughan described Sir Ivan as a "competent, well connected diplomat who puts the interests of the UK first".
"I believe he was frustrated with the muddled thinking of government ministers who would not accept the message from the EU passed on by Sir Ivan that full access to the single market means accepting freedom of movement [of labour]," he said.
"Hopefully, other politicians and trade union leaders will accept this and prioritise access to the single market." | The UK ambassador to the EU should have resigned when the result of June's referendum was announced, UKIP Wales MEP Nathan Gill has said. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Miles Storey broke the deadlock when he escaped the offside trap and rounded Scott Bain before netting.
Danny Devine tapped home at the back post from a corner before Ross Draper capitalised on Julen Etxabeguren's error to fire home.
Richie Foran added a late penalty after Liam Polworth was tripped.
Dundee knew before kick-off that they needed a win to leapfrog their hosts and finish top of the bottom half of the table.
Both sides named unchanged line-ups, with Danny Williams making his last appearance for the home side before joining Dundee this summer, alongside team-mate James Vincent.
Dundee's Paul McGinn is out of contract this summer and looks likely to depart with a number of sides apparently keen on recruiting him.
If possession won football matches the home side would have been out of sight in the opening quarter.
Iain Vigurs wasted a great chance with a tame free-kick from the edge of the box and two long-range Greg Tansey strikes landed safely in Bain's arms.
Dundee initially struggled to get on the ball but came closest to an opener on the counter when Greg Stewart combined with Kane Hemmings before curling a great effort from outside the box which unluckily clipped the bar.
Rory Loy fired wide, Hemmings fired over with a clear sight of goal and McGinn watched Owain Fon Williams parry his effort clear as the visitors threatened.
But Inverness again took control in the second period with Williams seeing a close-range shot blocked, while another long range effort from Tansey was held easily.
The match needed a moment of inspiration. It arrived when Storey timed his run well to go clear. Despite being forced wide by goalkeeper Bain, the striker found the angle to net his 13th of the season.
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It all fell apart for Dundee. Devine tapped home at the back-post after a corner was flicked on before Etxabeguren inexplicably lost possession on the edge of his own area and Draper fired past the exposed Bain.
It got worse after the home side introduced two popular substitutes. The departing David Raven had a rare outing and Foran came on and scored a convincing penalty after Polworth was tripped by Adam Black.
Dundee were denied a late consolation when Craig Wighton's poke toward goal was superbly saved by Fon Williams.
This was a fifth win in seven games for John Hughes' side, who might wish this was the start of the campaign rather than the end. It was a horrible end for Dundee, who are a better side than this defeat suggests.
The scale of her task and that of the chancellor is now becoming clear.
The Resolution Foundation analysis of the Office for Budget Responsibility's economic outlook says that average earnings will only return to levels seen in 2007 - before the financial crisis - by the end of 2022.
And that "balancing the books" - cutting the deficit to zero - may not be achieved until 2025.
Philip Hammond will find the analysis difficult to dismiss, he approvingly name-checked the think tank in his Budget speech yesterday.
On the big controversy of the day - the tax rise for the self-employed - the Resolution Foundation supports the government.
"The chancellor is right to begin tackling the unfair and expensive tax advantages enjoyed by self-employed workers by increasing the rate of National Insurance contributions they make," the organisation said yesterday.
On this far thornier issue - the incomes squeeze - it is far more waspish, saying that there has been "little policy action" in the Budget or last year's Autumn Statement to solve the crisis.
"The Budget offered the Office for Budget Responsibility and the chancellor the chance to respond to better than expected economic news in recent months, following grim forecasts about the outlook for Brexit Britain back in November's Autumn Statement," Torsten Bell, the director of the foundation, said.
"Both have largely ignored it.
"The big picture from yesterday's Budget is that the big squeezes on both the public and family finances have been prolonged well into the 2020s."
Mr Hammond has a political headache with the controversy over the rise in taxes for the self-employed.
He has an even bigger economic headache caused by stagnant incomes. | Three goals in nine second-half minutes helped Inverness CT to an emphatic win that ensures a seventh-place Premiership finish.
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Theresa May has made supporting the "just about managing" the core of her political project - those who work hard but do not feel better off. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Cameron Lawley suffered brain damage after the incident at his home in Rhyl in 2012.
He died in March this year after being transferred to a Leeds hospital from Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan.
A conclusion of accidental death was given at his inquest on Tuesday.
Consultant paediatrician Dr Duncan Cameron praised the "extraordinary devotion" of Cameron's parents in caring for him.
Coroner Nicola Jones told the hearing at Llandudno Town Hall that it had been a "horrible accident at home" and the cause of death was severe sepsis.
She said: "There was no lapse in care which made him die sooner." | An 11-year-old boy died nearly three years after accidentally hanging himself with a scarf at his Denbighshire home, an inquest has heard. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Perth Sheriff Court was told that Crown Office staff were unable to understand the words of accused Denis Boyd because of his "Geordie" accent.
Mr Boyd, 38, who now lives in Redgorton in Perthshire, denies sexually assaulting a woman in Perth in 2016.
Sheriff Gillian Wade agreed to schedule an extra day in the case.
Mr Boyd's defence agent, solicitor Nicky Brown, told the court that her client had taken part in a recorded interview with police and that a DVD had been produced for the court. However, staff had so far been unable to determine what was being said.
She added: "There is a difficulty with the transcript of his police interview. The difficulty is that the accused has a very, very strong Geordie accent and part of his response is missing.
"It is not just part of it, but substantial parts of it. I will need to go through it with him and put in the responses which are missing."
Prosecutor John Malpass added: "That is the current position with the transcript. There are large tracts of the interview missing."
In granting an extra day's hearing, Sheriff Wade said she was not going to "rant and rave" at the delay.
She told the court: "I appreciate there has been a disclosure issue, but I am not going to rant and rave about it because that is not going to help.
"In the first instance the Crown have to make sure disclosure is made in time.
"There is clearly a problem with the DVD and both parties need to know what is said at the interview. The problem has been identified.
"I am not going to get anyone into trouble. I will continue on a joint motion for a further first diet for the missing responses from the DVD to be inserted into the transcript and for the transcript to be agreed."
The clerk of the court told Mr Boyd that an extra court day was being scheduled "for the police interview to effectively be translated".
Mr Boyd denies carrying out a sex attack on a woman in Victoria Street, Perth, on 29 August 2016. The trial is due to take place later this year. | Proceedings at a Scottish court were delayed after staff said they needed to "translate" the evidence of a man from the north east of England. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Lawro's opponents for the fixtures on Friday, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are El-P and Killer Mike, aka American hip-hop duo Run The Jewels.
You can make your Premier League predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans, and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
From the Boxing Day and other festive fixtures, Lawro got eight correct results, with two perfect scores, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 140 points.
He beat You Me At Six singer Josh Franceschi, who got six correct results, with one perfect score, for a total of 90 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Hull 2-2 Everton
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
RTJ's prediction: 1-2
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Burnley 4-1 Sunderland
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
RTJ's prediction: 2-1
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Chelsea 4-2 Stoke
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
RTJ's prediction: 3-1
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Leicester 1-0 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
RTJ's prediction: 1-1
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Man Utd 2-1 Middlesbrough
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
RTJ's prediction: 1-1
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Southampton 1-2 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
RTJ's prediction: 1-1
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Swansea 0-3 Bournemouth
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
RTJ's prediction: 1-1
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Liverpool 1-0 Man City
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
RTJ's prediction: 1-2
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Watford v Tottenham (13:30 GMT)
Even before Tottenham put four goals past Southampton I looked at Spurs and thought they have just got something about them at the moment.
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Watford, in contrast, looked ordinary in their draw with Crystal Palace. I don't see them stopping Tottenham from making it four wins in a row.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
RTJ's prediction: 2-1
Arsenal v Crystal Palace (16:00 GMT)
Crystal Palace should have beaten Watford in Sam Allardyce's first game in charge, but paid the price for Christian Benteke's missed penalty.
Allardyce obviously does something when he comes into a club where he changes the mindset of his squad but it will take time for him to have an effect.
I think the Eagles' improvement will be a gradual process, and all their players will get feedback from their manager along the way.
It is hard to see them getting anything against Arsenal, who were not at their best against West Brom last time out, but still found a way to win.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
RTJ's prediction: 2-1
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro's best score: 160 points (week 13 v Tim Vine)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista) | BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of guests. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | Romania's Halep was a doubt for the tournament after tearing an ankle ligament less than two weeks ago, but thrashed Jana Cepelova 6-2 6-3.
Switzerland's former champion Wawrinka overcame world number 152 Jozef Kovalik 6-2 7-6 (8-6) 6-3.
Juan Martin del Potro, in his first match at Roland Garros since 2012, beat fellow Argentine Guido Pella.
The former US Open champion, a potential third-round opponent for Andy Murray, has had a number of injuries in recent years but impressed with a 6-2 6-1 6-4 victory.
Home favourite Gael Monfils, seeded 15th, beat Germany's Dustin Brown 6-4 7-5 6-0 in a match between two of the game's most entertaining players.
Japanese eighth seed Kei Nishikori, who had a wrist injury going into the tournament, beat injury-plagued Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis 4-6 6-1 6-4 6-4, while Australian 18th seed Nick Kyrgios also progressed by beating Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.
But German ninth seed Alexander Zverev is out after losing 6-4 3-6 6-4 6-2 to Spain's Fernando Verdasco.
The 20-year-old was fancied for a strong performance in the tournament as only one of two players - the other being Spaniard Rafael Nadal - to win multiple clay-court titles this season.
Slovakia's Martin Klizan will face world number one Andy Murray in the second round after a bad-tempered win over France's Laurent Lokoli.
Frenchman Lokoli was unhappy with an ecstatic reaction from Klizan to his double fault, accusing him of lacking respect and then refusing to shake hands with him at the end of his five-set defeat.
In the women's draw, Ukrainian fifth seed Elina Svitolina went through 6-4 6-3 against Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova and Polish ninth seed Agnieszka Radwanska won 6-1 6-1 against France's Fiona Ferro.
In the men's doubles, Britain's Jamie Murray and his Brazilian partner Bruno Soares - who won both the Australian Open and US Open titles last year - eased past Serbia pair Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-3 7-6 (7-0) in their first-round match.
The 18-year-old defender, who signed his first professional deal at the Riverside in April 2017, has been admitted to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle for treatment.
"We were all saddened and shocked to the hear news about Anthony," said manager Garry Monk.
"He's got our full support and we'll be with him every step of the way."
A statement on the club website said: "As a club we have been right behind Anthony and the family, offering logistical and moral support and as everyone, Anthony especially, comes to terms with the situation the need for continued support from everyone is obvious."
Wolves goalkeeper Carl Ikeme, 31, was also diagnosed with leukaemia at the start of July. Wolves will host Middlesbrough on the first day of the new Championship season on 5 August. | Third seeds Stan Wawrinka and Simona Halep both beat Slovakian players to reach the French Open second round.
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Middlesbrough academy player Anthony Renton has been diagnosed with leukaemia. |
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The former five-weight world champion, 40, retired unbeaten in 2015 after 49 bouts, but will face McGregor, 28, in Las Vegas on 26 August.
The light-middleweight bout could earn both men as much as $100m (£78.4m).
"They asked for this fight. I was in retirement, but they wanted me back and I'm back," said American Mayweather.
Talking to Black Sports Online, Mayweather added: "McGregor is a tough competitor. People all around the world demanded this fight so I had to give them what they wanted to see."
Mayweather has not fought since beating Andre Berto in September 2015 and, against McGregor, could improve his career record to 50-0.
The UFC lightweight champion has never had a professional boxing match and some have described the bout as a "farce".
"He's very happy, I'm very happy and I can't wait," added Mayweather, who would not disclose how much each fighter was set to earn.
"You're supposed to stand behind your man. Stand behind the fighter that you believe in."
Former world champion Ricky Hatton has first-hand experience of fighting Mayweather after he was stopped by the American in the 10th round during their world welterweight bout in Las Vegas in 2007.
The Englishman, who says he is a fan of both sportsmen, expects a "12-round onslaught" by Mayweather, adding that he "can't get excited about this fight for one minute".
However, he believes boxing and UFC "have to take the blame" for a fight that has divided opinion.
"I can't get my head around why the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and arguably the greatest of all time is fighting someone who has never had a boxing match in his life," Hatton told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek.
"Look at the people Floyd Mayweather has beaten - Saul Alvarez couldn't lay a glove on him, Oscar de la Hoya couldn't sort him out - even me, I couldn't sort him out.
"It's going to be great entertainment, that's the most complimentary thing I can say about it." | Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather says he is "giving the people what they want" by coming out of retirement to fight Irish UFC champion Conor McGregor. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Labour's James Kelly will begin work on a Member's Bill to repeal the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act.
The Glasgow MSP said it was time to axe the "hated" law now that the SNP no longer had a majority at Holyrood.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was a "strange priority" for opposition parties but she would discuss concerns.
She said: "I think it's a strange priority for opposition parties to almost have as their first objective to get rid of legislation which is about tackling sectarianism.
"That's not something which I think should be the priority of the opposition parties.
"But of course we are happy to discuss how legitimate concerns can be addressed, and that constructive approach is one that I will seek to take on any issue."
Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens all pledged to repeal the Act in their manifestos for the recent election.
With the SNP returned to government as a minority administration, there is now a majority in the chamber which would back repeal.
Glasgow MSP Mr Kelly will meet with officials at the Scottish Parliament later to begin the process of drafting his Members Bill.
He said: "Today I'll take the first steps to repeal the SNP's hated Football Act. The law has become a symbol of the SNP's arrogance in government and it is time for it to go.
"The Football Act was bulldozed through parliament by the SNP with not a single other party voting for it and everyone from football fans to academics and lawyers opposing it.
"The SNP still won't admit they got it wrong on the Football Act, but they have lost their majority in parliament and I will work constructively with the other parties to abolish the Football Act."
The Act was introduced in 2012 in an attempt to crack down on sectarianism and other football-related offences.
Critics have argued there was already sufficient legislation in place to deal with disorder at football matches. They have also claimed the new law has unfairly targeted law-abiding football supporters.
The Fans Against Criminalisation campaign group also claimed the legislation had eroded trust between supporters and police and had failed to tackle bigotry.
A report published earlier this year revealed there were only 79 convictions in 2014/15 under the legislation, with opposition parties stating the figures demonstrated the law was unnecessary.
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said the Act had "delivered real improvements".
"Since its introduction, religious crimes, race crimes and crimes in relation to individuals' sexuality are down and we've seen a decrease in crimes of offensive behaviour at or in relation to regulated football matches in Scotland," she said.
"Statistics show a steady decline in offences at stadiums and a YouGov poll shows 80% of Scots support the Act - a view shared by the overwhelming majority of those in the sample who follow Scottish football.
"Any move to repeal the Act would send entirely the wrong signal and would undermine progress in driving all forms of prejudice from the game."
So far this year, 23.5 million passengers have used the airport, surpassing its previous high in 2008.
The airport, which has been operating for 75 years, has direct flights to more than 170 destinations.
In recent years, it has been drawing more passengers from Northern Ireland.
Belfast International and George Belfast City Airport handle around four million and two million passengers annually.
"Dublin Airport is having a record year due to strong growth across all major sectors of the market," said its managing director Vincent Harrison.
He said passenger numbers had risen by 16% compared to last year.
In 2008, the airport handled 23 million passengers.
That number has been beaten with just over three weeks of the year remaining.
David Swales died after a disturbance on Durham Road at about 23:00 BST on Wednesday.
Brian Elliott, 44, of Durham Road, who was originally arrested on suspicion of murder, has been charged with manslaughter.
He is due to appear at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court on Monday.
A 29-year-old woman who was arrested has been released without further action. | An attempt to ditch controversial legislation aimed at tackling sectarianism is being launched.
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A man has been charged with manslaughter after the death of a 48-year-old in Gateshead. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | The crash happened on the A93 near the Aboyne Loch caravan park on Thursday evening.
Paul Grice, 24, was the driver of the red Volkswagen Golf, and Grahame Ellis, 32, was the front seat passenger. Both were from Aboyne.
Insp Jon Barron, appealing for witnesses, said: "Both families have been left devastated by the sudden and tragic loss of their loved ones." | Two men who died after a car struck a tree in Aberdeenshire have been named. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | The last nuclear reactor was switched off at Wylfa on the island in December 2015.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served an enforcement notice on Magnox Ltd to improve its management of asbestos at the site.
There is no risk of exposure to the public. Magnox Ltd said it had already started improvements.
The company, charged with removing nuclear fuel from the decommissioned site, said there was no suggestion that any staff had been exposed to asbestos fibres.
It has until 28 July to make changes.
An inspection of the site, carried out by the ONR, found that while the company had committed to making improvements, action was needed to make sure legal standards were met for managing asbestos-containing materials.
Chief nuclear insp Dr Richard Savage said it had "no impact on nuclear safety".
"We do require improvements to ensure that any arrangements to manage the risk arising from the presence of asbestos are adequate and appropriate," he said.
A statement from Magnox said the Wylfa site contained "significant quantities of asbestos in a wide range of forms" and had an asbestos management plan, as required by law.
It reads: "Since this issue was first identified we have mobilised significant additional resources to ensure that it is dealt with as a priority.
"We are also reviewing the asbestos management plans across our business to ensure that they are all of the appropriate standard."
The economy secretary said US president-elect Donald Trump was "late to the party" when it came to the importance of infrastructure.
He said he wanted to find solutions to congestion in north Wales as well as build the M4 relief road.
Meanwhile he revealed the government is negotiating with National Grid over a shared crossing over the Menai Strait.
National Grid is currently planning to build a tunnel under the Menai Strait to carry cables linking the proposed Wylfa Newydd nuclear power station with the mainland.
But the company said that, as things stand, the timelines of the projects do not "match".
Mr Skates told the BBC's Wales Report programme: "I wish to build as never before".
Mr Trump has promised to rebuild the US' infrastructure to become "second to none".
"Donald Trump is, I'm afraid, quite late to the party in talking about the importance of infrastructure," the Welsh economy secretary said.
"The Labour government said that at UK level back in 1997, 2001."
Mr Skates said he had been saying "for some time" that, if you want to really drive economic prosperity, you have to invest in infrastructure, have available skills and have the "right regional economic development vehicle".
He said he wanted to be a minister who "builds, not just the relief road, but also builds solutions for congestion in the North on the A55".
He also suggested a third crossing over the Menai Strait was a "priority project".
The Welsh Government is commissioning work to look at routes for a third Menai crossing.
"What we're doing at the moment is negotiating with National Grid over the potential to channel the cables for Wyfla Newydd through a shared crossing," Mr Skates told the programme.
He said said a shared crossing would "vastly reduce taxpayers' contribution".
Plans for a public inquiry for the M4 Relief Road have been delayed until early 2017.
A National Grid spokeswoman said: "We have been in discussions for some time with the Welsh Government to understand their plans for a third Menai Bridge.
"We agree, as things currently stand, that the timelines of the projects do not match. We will continue to work together to understand any changes to each other's plans.
"Until there is a final suitable design for the bridge and a firm programme to deliver it, we have to progress with our current proposals to provide a connection for Wylfa Newydd by 2024."
The Wales Report, BBC One Wales, 22:40 GMT, Wednesday November 16 | Safety concerns have been raised over the handling of asbestos during the removal of nuclear waste on Anglesey.
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Wales' minister responsible for transport and roads Ken Skates has said he wants to build like "never before". |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer has been named crime novel of the year at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Bauer's fourth novel, it tells the story of Patrick Fort, an anatomy student who suspects the body he is dissecting is a murder victim.
It beat books by Denise Mina, Malcolm Mackay, Elly Griffiths and Stav Sherez.
Mina was going for a hat-trick after winning the prize the previous two years in a row.
Bauer started her writing career as a journalist before winning a screenwriting competition run by Bafta in the 1990s.
She only had one script filmed - Happy Now, starring Ioan Gruffudd and Alison Steadman - but that was never released and she turned to writing novels instead.
"I'm a failed screenwriter," she said. "That became so soul-destroying, because you really pour your heart and soul into it.
"I wrote my first book Blacklands, and that was so successful that I immediately knew I could become a novelist rather than a screenwriter."
Her career change paid off when Blacklands won the British Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award in 2010.
Thirty per cent of all novels sold in the UK are crime stories, amounting to 17 million physical books per year, according to Nielsen Book Research.
With violent crime falling in the real world, Bauer believes readers turn to crime fiction to "test themselves".
"We actually live in a very safe, civilised society," she said. "They like to imagine what it would be like to be in that situation.
"We don't have many tests of our inner strength any more in this world. Possibly if you lived in a country that was riven by crime, you might not be quite so entertained by fictional crime."
The Harrogate ceremony also saw author and screenwriter Lynda La Plante, who is best known for creating the Prime Suspect TV series, pick up an outstanding achievement award.
"It means an incredible amount because it's from crime writers, and truthfully it was unexpected and a great honour," she said.
La Plante praised Bauer and this year's other nominees for their innovative stories and research.
"I think it's making crime writing into a more respected genre," she said. "What they're coming up with now are really fabulous detectives and characters."
La Plante is currently writing a new Prime Suspect novel, which is set in the years before the TV series.
The award ceremony kicked off the four-day Harrogate festival, which will also feature a talk by JK Rowling about writing crime fiction under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. | A novel about a student with Asperger's syndrome who investigates a murder has won a top crime writing award. |
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