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Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Darren Moore suffered multiple fractures and cuts to his face when he was attacked by men with baseball bats and hammers in Doagh on Wednesday.
David John Gibson,44, and David Rush,34, spoke only to confirm they understood the charges against them.
Gibson, from Milewater Drive and Rush, from Ballyvesey Green, are jointly accused of trying to murder Mr Moore.
Rush is further accused of possessing a weapon, namely a wooden baton, with intent to commit an indictable offence on the same date.
The judge remanded them into custody until Thursday 23 March.
On Friday, Aaron Cahoon, 27 appeared in court charged with attempted murder
He was also charged with possessing an offensive weapon with intent to commit a crime.
Mr Cahoon, of Fairhill Gardens, Newtownabbey, denies the charges. Refusing bail, the judge remanded Mr Cahoon in custody to appear again by video link on 13 April.
Mr Moore, in his forties and formerly from the Mount Vernon area of Belfast, was drinking in McConnell's Bar when he was attacked, Belfast Magistrates' Court heard. | Two men have been in court charged with attempted murder after a man was attacked at a County Antrim bar. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | Mr Cameron said he will meet them, but only after a fresh investigation into her disappearance has concluded.
Two-year-old Katrice vanished in 1981 from a supermarket at a British military base in Paderborn, Germany, where her father was stationed.
Royal Military Police are conducting a new inquiry into the 33-year-old case.
Katrice's father, Sgt Maj Richard Lee from Hartlepool, dismissed the prime minister's offer and claimed Mr Cameron should be using meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to try and force a development.
The prime minister told BBC Tees: "If they want to meet me I'm always happy to meet with families; it may be better to meet after the investigation is completed.
"After the investigation is completed and if it's the right thing to do, then I will be very happy to meet the family."
Sgt Maj Lee said: "Actions speak louder than words and I hold very little faith with a very wishy-washy statement from the prime minister.
"If I met him now I would say to him 'Are all things being done that could be?'
"He has had every opportunity as a leader of state, for example using Angela Merkel's meetings, he could have asked her to look into this.
"Surely that would get more action."
Mr Cameron acknowledged the family had been let down by the initial investigation, which failed to determine what happened to Katrice.
He said: "It is every parent's nightmare when you take an eye off a child for a second and suddenly they've disappeared.
"Every family has an experience of this and, tragically, some do end in them not being united, but I think the best thing is for this Royal Military Police investigation to conclude.
"Obviously, [the family] weren't properly served by the original investigation."
The prime minister also said an independent civilian police force would be reviewing the Royal Military Police's investigation.
Sgt Maj Lee said he still believes his daughter is alive and will not give up trying to find out what happened to her.
He said: "I'm 65, my daughter has been away from my life for 33 years. It's an awful thing to be in but I'm forced to live with it and I'm constantly fighting.
"I shouldn't have to be constantly fighting bureaucrats. I won't stop until I get an answer.
"I believe she will be on a database somewhere, blood or DNA, I would ask Angela Merkel to look at those.
"I've always believed she is alive, that she was snatched, stolen, ordered and sold to a childless couple.
"We hear of situations where children are turning up 30 years later. I believe she is alive."
Katrice disappeared on her second birthday while her family were out shopping.
Her mother left her at the checkout with her aunt for just a moment but when she returned the toddler had gone.
Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill has welcomed the news.
She said it would help improve farming businesses, protect the environment and support rural development projects.
Ms O'Neill said it was especially important when all sectors of the industry were experiencing difficulty.
"This is very positive news, not just for our rural communities, but for everyone in the north of Ireland," she added.
"The new Rural Development Programme will provide opportunities for our rural communities and farmers alike.
"I'm confident that every single penny allocated as part of this programme will go towards creating rural jobs, developing our rural infrastructure and investing in the future sustainability of the farming industry.
"The programme will also provide fantastic cross-border initiatives focusing on tourism and further integrating border communities."
In July 2014, Executive approval was granted for the Rural Development Programme containing support worth up to £623m.
This consisted of:
Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson welcomed the funding approval, saying: "It is now important that the various schemes within the programme are rolled out as quickly and effectively as possible so that the benefits can be felt on the ground - especially by our farm businesses and families given the difficulties currently facing the agricultural industry."
24 January 2014 Last updated at 09:20 GMT
Three teams play on a hexagon-shaped pitch, instead of two teams on a rectangular pitch.
The rules are similar to normal football but with one main difference - it's the team that lets in the fewest goals that wins.
That means lots of tactical play - a team that's your friend one minute could be your enemy the next.
Sometimes two teams will join up to make a scramble towards one goal!
Watch the clip to find out more. | The father of missing girl Katrice Lee said he had no faith in David Cameron's "wishy-washy" promise to meet her family.
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The European Commission has approved the Rural Development Programme (RDP) 2014-2020 for Northern Ireland, enabling up to £623m of funding to become available in the sector.
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If you love testing your footy skills, then you might want to try THREE-SIDED football! |
Please summarize the given passage. | Rodrigo Londono, better known under his alias of Timoleon Jimenez or Timochenko, had not been as publicly visible as other members of the organisation but his actions were amongst the bloodiest and deadliest carried out by the Farc.
The kidnapping of a government minister, the bombing of a social club and the murder of a governor were among the acts attributed to the Farc group led by Timochenko.
Timochenko has played a pivotal role in the process that has led to the government and the rebels reaching a historic peace agreement to end more than 50 years of conflict.
Timochenko was born in Calarca, a small town in the Quindio region, to a low-income family that sympathised with communist ideals.
While he was still at school, he joined the communist youth and later travelled to the former USSR for education.
Some reports say he became a doctor in former Yugoslavia, but contrasting reports say he received military and intelligence training instead.
He joined the Farc in 1982 and became known as Timochenko in honour of Semyon Timoshenko, a prominent Soviet official who fought the Nazis in the Second World War.
In 1986, Timochenko's tough stance and his talent to maintain order among his fighters earned him a seat on the Farc secretariat, its ruling body.
He was the secretariat's youngest member.
The Farc divides its forces into regional groups, called blocs.
Timochenko became the head of the Magdalena Bloc in 1993, the first such group which started expanding its attacks to cities as well as rural areas.
His role in the Farc's drug business earned him an Interpol red notice as well as a place in the US Department of Justice's list of "narcotics trafficking kingpins".
In 2008, Timochenko's image became ubiquitous when he appeared in a video announcing the death of the Farc's leader, Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda.
In November 2011, the Colombian armed forces killed Marulanda's successor, Alfonso Cano.
The Farc secretariat named Timochenko as the new leader of the organisation.
In 2012, in letters published by media friendly to the rebels, Timochenko expressed a renewed will to discuss "vital issues" with the government and hinted at his willingness to enter into peace negotiations.
In November of that year, the government and the Farc announced they would start new peace talks in Havana.
After four years of negotiations, the two sides reached a peace agreement, only for it to be rejected by the Colombian people in a popular vote.
Timochenko and his fellow negotiators went back to the drawing boards and revised the agreement to make it more acceptable to those who had voted "no".
The revised agreement, signed on 24 November, will not be put to a referendum but sent to Congress for approval.
Its implementation and making sure Farc rebels stick to the deal they signed up for will be next challenge waiting for Timochenko.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | When the self-proclaimed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia announced that Rodrigo Londono would be their new leader, there was uncertainty over his stance on a possible peace process with the government. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | The blaze was reported shortly after 01:00 and police were called to Rochdale Way, Colchester, by the fire service.
Police said a neighbour had twice tried to to get into the flat to rescue the man but was unsuccessful.
A 42-year-old woman has been arrested in Colchester and was being questioned by detectives.
Det Ch Insp Stephen Jennings, leading the police investigation, said: "This tragic incident is now being treated as a murder inquiry.
"We are looking to establish the exact cause of the blaze and how it started.
"The victim and the suspect are known to each other."
The cause of the fire has yet to be established.
The neighbour was treated for the effects of breathing in smoke.
The 78-year-old, who has not yet been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene. | A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 78-year-old man found trapped in his flat died in a fire. |
Summarize the information given below. | Christopher Logue, from Lady Wallace Crescent in Lisburn, County Antrim, carried out the assault at an annual solicitors' function in November 2012.
He denied the offence but was convicted after a two-day trial last month.
As he was sentenced at Downpatrick Magistrates' Court, a defence barrister said Logue's career was "shattered".
The judge warned the 34-year-old defendant that although he was not being placed on the police sex offenders register, "by virtue of the conviction your name may appear on the barred list of working with children and vulnerable adults".
The married father of two is a junior partner in County Down law firm, Joe Mulholland and Company.
During the trial, the victim gave evidence that a drunken Logue pestered her for about 15 minutes, and touched her inappropriately while the pair sat at a table during the function.
The woman said that, initially, she politely told Logue to stop and asked him to "respect my space".
However, she said that she swore at him when he would not take no for an answer and eventually elbowed him in the stomach.
Giving evidence on his own behalf, Logue told the trial that he was in "boisterous form" after a few pints of beer and had recited poetry to those at the table.
He said sexual assault was "absolutely not" his intention.
Passing sentence, the judge warned Logue that his victim still had "civil remedies available to her".
Logue sat five seats away from his victim, with his head bowed and with his hands clasped as his defence barrister described him as a "skeleton of the man that he once was".
Imposing the fine and compensation order, the judge said while he accepted Logue's offence was in the "lowest category" of sexual assault, nevertheless it was still a serious matter that had a negative impact on his victim's family and professional life.
The singer tops the nominations for this years' Billboard Music Awards too.
She has 14 entries in 14 categories, with Sam Smith closely behind on 13 nominations.
Ludacris is returning to host the awards in Las Vegas next month, and will be joined by the American model Chrissy Teigan.
The finalists are based on album and digital song sales, radio airplay, streaming, touring and social media interactions.
There's 40 chart-specific categories and fans will be able to vote online for a chart achievement award.
Iggy Azalea has the third most entries with 12. She also won best song last year with Ariana Grande for Problem.
The awards take place on 17 May. Here's a full list of the finalists:
Ariana Grande, One Direction, Katy Perry, Sam Smith and Taylor Swift
5 Seconds of Summer, Iggy Azalea, Hozier, Sam Smith and Meghan Trainor
Drake, Pharrell Williams, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Justin Timberlake
Iggy Azalea, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor
5 Seconds of Summer, Florida Georgia Line, MAGIC!, Maroon 5 and One Direction
One Direction, Pentatonix, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Taylor Swift
Iggy Azalea, Ariana Grande, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor
Iggy Azalea, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor
The full list of Billboard Music Award nominations is available on the Billboard website
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | A solicitor who was convicted of sexually assaulting a colleague has been fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £2,500 in compensation to his victim.
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She's already been named the most popular artist of 2014, and it seems Taylor Swift getting awards isn't going to end anytime soon. |
Write a summary of this document. | The prince will travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, where more than 160 people died in an earthquake last month.
He will also go to Greymouth, near the site of the Pike River mine disaster in New Zealand in which 29 people died.
William will then travel to Australia, where he will visit areas hit by flooding in Queensland and Victoria.
The prince will visit the two countries on behalf of the Queen following invitations from the prime ministers of New Zealand and Australia
He will not be accompanied by his fiancee Kate Middleton on the trip which takes place from 17-21 March.
The prince will meet those affected by the recent disasters, and members of the emergency and other support services.
William will attend a national memorial service in Christchurch as well as carrying out other engagements in the area.
In Australia, he will go to several locations in Queensland over two days followed by a visit to north-west Victoria.
A St James's Palace spokesman said: "The prince's visit comes after an invitation from the prime ministers of New Zealand and Australia.
"William will be travelling on behalf of the Queen and the wider Royal Family."
The spokesman added: "The Royal Family have been watching the natural disasters with the same shock and sadness as everyone else.
"They wanted to show their solidarity with the people of New Zealand and Australia, and the decision was taken with the prime ministers' offices and the royal household that Prince William should attend and visit the countries."
The magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the city of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island on 22 February this year.
Also on the South Island, 29 miners became trapped by a gas explosion at the Pike River coal mine in Atarau on 19 November last year.
Parts of Australia were affected torrential rains starting in November last year, forcing rivers to burst their banks.
Prince William was last in New Zealand in January 2010, when he represented the Queen in Auckland and Wellington.
He made a private visit to Sydney and Melbourne in Australia the same month. He first visited Australia as a baby on his parents' tour in 1983. | Prince William will visit New Zealand and Australia next week to tour areas devastated by recent natural disasters, St James's Palace has said. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Emergency services were called to Devil's Bridge, near Aberystwyth, at 10:54 BST on Tuesday.
Special rope rescue teams combined with HM Coastguard to rescue the woman.
She was taken to Aberystwyth's Bronglais Hospital with what are thought to be non life-threatening injuries.
Adam Higson ran in two first-half tries to help put Leigh - the only side to be promoted to the top-flight via the Qualifiers when they went up last year - 10-0 up at the break.
Corey Paterson and Josh Drinkwater grabbed further scores before Brayden Wiliame went in for Dragons' only try.
Paterson's second completed the win, leaving Catalans fifth in the table.
The French side have earned just one win from three games as they battle to avoid relegation, and can be overtaken in the Qualifiers table by Championship clubs London Broncos and Featherstone on Sunday if either one seals victory.
Catalans Dragons: Tierney; Duport, Inu, Wiliame, Yaha; Walsh, Myler; Moa, Aiton, Casty, Anderson, Horo, Bird.
Replacements: Bousquet; Garcia, Baitieri, Margalet.
Leigh Centurions: McNally; Dawson, Brown, Langi, Higson, Reynolds, Drinkwater; Hansen, Mortimer, Maria, Paterson, Vea, Burr.
Replacements: Higham, Stewart, Hopkins, Richards.
Referee: Phil Bentham.
To be clear, there will be no English-style academies, no grammar schools or selection on the basis of academic ability.
What may change significantly is the role of councils in the system.
In many respects, the school system is a national service which Scotland's 32 local authorities are entrusted to deliver.
The government has no intention of removing schools from council control - the question is more what powers councils may retain.
The presumption in this review will be to give as much power as possible to schools and head teachers.
If any power lies at a higher level, the case will need to be made for it.
As well as devolving powers to schools, new regional boards will help schools in different council areas work together.
The question is what actual powers and practical responsibilities councils will still have once these changes take effect.
For instance, schools may have more control over their budgets, how many teachers to have or what means to use to try to raise attainment.
Because teachers' terms and conditions of employment are nationally agreed, it might be argued that the new regional bodies - not councils - should actually employ teachers.
All those issues are likely to be raised in the coming months.
The direct impact on parents and learners may be less obvious - much would depend on the practical decisions made by newly-empowered schools.
However, an important question will be how to ensure that schools remain accountable to parents and the wider local community.
The Scottish Conservatives asked whether schools could be given the power to "opt out" of local government control - a power which they do not currently have.
It would not be unreasonable to speculate over just what "local government control" will actually mean once the impact of this review is being felt in practice.
Councils will still be major stakeholders in schools. But their role could be very different to the one they've had in Scotland for the past century. | A woman who was left stranded after falling down an embankment in Ceredigion has been rescued and taken to hospital.
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Leigh beat Catalans Dragons for the first time to boost their hopes of extending their Super League stay.
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The moderate language and conciliatory tone of John Swinney masks the fact that truly radical change could be coming to the way Scottish schools are governed. |
Can you summarize this content? | Ralston Dodd, 25, was arrested in Birmingham on 11 July.
He had been jailed in November after admitting stabbing a man three times in the back following an argument on a north London street.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said such releases in error were "extremely rare" and it was investigating.
Dodd attacked a 21-year-old man with a knife in Islington on 18 September 2016 before going on the run.
He was arrested on 11 October 2016 and, a month later, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment at Blackfriars Crown Court for grievous bodily harm with intent.
Dodd, from Islington, was in custody at HMP Thameside in south-east London before his release in error.
An MoJ spokeswoman said such mistakes were "extremely rare but we take any case very seriously".
"We are urgently investigating so we learn the lessons to prevent it happening again," she said.
"Public protection is our priority." | An "extremely dangerous" prisoner who was released early after his nine-year sentence was recorded in error as nine months has been recaptured. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | Earlier this month the Football League ordered Coventry to pay the stadium's operator, ACL, by 14 August.
In a statement on its website, the club confirmed it had forwarded payment to the Football League.
The League One club previously said the outstanding debt was seen as the biggest obstacle to a return to its former home ground.
The Sky Blues have played all their home games at Northampton's ground, about 35 miles away, since August 2013.
Fans staged a protest in the 35th minute of Wednesday's Capital One Cup clash with Cardiff City against the long-running stalemate between ACL and the club.
The case was brought by four of the world's biggest tobacco firms, Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco International.
But Mr Justice Green dismissed all their grounds of challenge.
The government said it meant a generation would "grow up smoke-free".
Two of the companies have said they will appeal against the ruling.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had contested the case, saying the regulations for standardised packaging were lawful.
Mr Justice Green, who heard the case in December, gave a 386-page, 1,000-paragraph written ruling.
In it he said: "The essence of the case is about whether it is lawful for states to prevent the tobacco industry from continuing to make profits by using their trade marks and other rights to further what the World Health Organisation describes as a health crisis of epidemic proportions and which imposes an immense clean-up cost on the public purse."
"In my judgment the regulations are valid and lawful in all respects."
What's going on with cigarette packets?
The companies claimed the Standardised Packaging of Tobacco Products Regulations 2015 would destroy their valuable intellectual property rights and render products indistinguishable from each other.
Under the new regulations, all tobacco packaging must be uniformly olive green and with large images intended to act as health warnings.
The firms challenged the rules on a number of grounds, including a claim that the regulations violated a number of UK and EU laws, and that they were "disproportionate" and "must be quashed".
Following the High Court ruling, the UK is now introducing its regulations on Friday, regarding the design and colour of cigarette and tobacco packaging.
Separately, the EU's Tobacco Products Directive will also be introduced on Friday, setting out other rules such as banning packs of 10 cigarettes.
Earlier this month, the European Court of Justice ruled that the directive, which had been held up by legal challenges ever since it was adopted in 2014, was lawful.
Speaking after Thursday's High Court ruling on the new UK laws, Jane Ellison MP, public health minister said: "First and foremost, this is a victory for a generation that will grow up smoke-free.
"Standardised packaging will reduce smoking rates and save lives, which will always be a top priority for this government. We will never allow the tobacco industry to dictate our policies."
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, said the "landmark judgment" was a "crushing defeat" for the tobacco industry.
"Millions of pounds have been spent on some of the country's most expensive lawyers in the hope of blocking the policy. This disgraceful effort to privilege tobacco business interests over public health has rightly failed utterly."
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and British American Tobacco say they intend to appeal against the High Court's ruling.
Daniel Sciamma, UK managing director of JTI, said: "We will continue to challenge the legality of plain packaging. The fact remains that our branding has been eradicated and we maintain that this is unlawful."
Marc Firestone, senior vice president of Philip Morris International, said his company did not intend to appeal.
"We will instead maintain our focus on efforts to develop and commercialise scientifically substantiated reduced-risk products that we firmly believe will ultimately benefit UK smokers and public health much more than plain packaging."
Simon Clark, director of smokers' group Forest, said the judgment was "very disappointing".
He added: "Plain packaging treats adults like children and teenagers like idiots.
"If you don't smoke but enjoy alcohol, sugary drinks and convenience food you should be concerned by this judgment because the health police are coming for you too." | Coventry City Football Club has paid the owners of the Ricoh Arena £471,192 in unpaid rent.
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Uniform packaging rules for tobacco will be introduced on Friday after a legal challenge against the new law was dismissed by the High Court. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Simon Reynolds, of Farnham, Surrey, denies stealing £24,000 from the diocese and parochial church council.
The money was paid to him by bereaved families and engaged couples while he was at All Saints Church in Darton, near Barnsley.
Sheffield Crown Court was told the Church of England priest had committed a "significant breach of trust".
Mr Reynolds, of Upper Church Lane, is on trial charged with four counts of theft between 2007 and 2013.
The first three relate to fees he should have sent to the Wakefield Diocesan Board of Finance for marriages, funerals and memorials, the court heard.
The fourth relates to payments for monuments that should have gone to the parochial church council.
Prosecutors said an investigation showed the defendant had only passed on a fraction of what he should.
The trial continues.
Sara McAleese found the bottle on Wallog beach, near Aberystwyth, and posted a photograph online.
Within minutes she was contacted by a man who said a member of his family, nine-year-old Olivia from Arklow, had sent the message.
She has returned the letter and some Aberystwyth memorabilia to Olivia.
Ms McAleese, who collects litter as she goes to keep beaches clean, initially thought it was just another plastic bottle but noticed it had some paper inside.
"I just thought, 'oh my gosh it's a message in a bottle', you hear stories and think 'does anyone ever do that these days?'
"I fished it out and it was a little bit damp and had obviously been lightened by the sun, but I could just about pick out it was from an Olivia and she was nine, and half the address.
"There was also a little packet of sweeties in there."
Ms McAleese, a midwife in Powys, posted the photograph on a social media page dedicated to items lost at sea - and said usually finders are not reunited with senders.
But she said within four minutes she received contact from Olivia's family.
"I was just blown away. I put it up because I expected somebody would be able to complete the address and then I would send them a postcard, but to make immediate contact with the family, I was amazed.
"Olivia's dad sent me a picture of her saying she's really excited. I sent her back the note and the sweeties, and a glittery pen and stick of rock from Aberystwyth."
Ms McAleese said she was particularly surprised as her partner participated in the Celtic Challenge two weeks prior - making the same journey from Arklow the bottle had made.
Some of Olivia's friends also sent bottles and Ms McAleese encouraged people to pick up litter as "fab and fun" things can be found.
She said: "I think anyone who uses our beaches at all is aware that there's a massive amount of rubbish which is predominantly plastic.
"Anywhere you go, you can just stop and pick up rubbish and recycling. Sometimes it really is rubbish, but it does give back and sometimes you can find great things."
Ms McAleese, who recycled the bottle, will be taking part in a UK-wide two-minute beach clean on Sunday - where participants clean their local beach for two minutes and then post a photograph of the results on social media under the hashtag #2minutebeachclean.
"If everyone who went to the beach picked up one thing, we'd have much less of a problem," she added. | A vicar pocketed thousands of pounds of cash in fees for weddings, funerals and graveyard memorials, a court has heard.
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A woman who found a message in a bottle on a Ceredigion beach was "amazed" when she located its Irish sender within just four minutes. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | Ex-pensions minister Steve Webb urged caution over "rushed changes" he said could have implications for workers "well beyond the steel industry".
A £485m pension deficit has been deterring potential buyers of Tata Steel's UK business.
A consultation on the pension scheme's future has been launched by ministers.
It includes a "full range of options that consider whether and how the scheme could be separated from the existing sponsoring employer and whether it will be necessary to reduce the benefits within the scheme," the Department for Work and Pensions said in a statement.
One option is to base the scheme's annual increase on the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation measure, which is usually below the Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure currently used.
The plan has been supported by some union leaders and the British Steel Pension scheme.
In 2011 private sector pension schemes were given more freedom to move to the CPI measure, if their rules allowed it.
Tata Steel is looking to sell its loss-making UK business. It has had seven expressions of interest and a shortlist is expected soon.
Former Lib Dem pensions minister Steve Webb said: "The government is going down a very dangerous path.
"Everyone has huge sympathy for steel workers and for efforts to protect jobs, but rushed changes to pension rules risk driving a coach and horses through the pension security of hundreds of thousands of workers well beyond the steel industry."
There has been a suggestion that the new rules would stipulate that a company could only change their pension liabilities in an emergency. But, speaking to the BBC, Mr Webb said the term emergency was "ill-defined" and that companies could create them artificially in order to reduce their pension payouts.
"Once there's a loophole that says you can walk away from promises you've made. Other [companies] could walk away," he said, adding that he thought there could also be legal challenges.
However, the trustees of the British Steel Pension Scheme welcomed the move, saying it was better than the alternative, which would see the scheme fall into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).
"Although this [government move] would entail future pension increases being cut back from their current levels, benefits would be more generous than those provided by the PPF for the vast majority of Scheme members," said Allan Johnston, chairman of the British Steel Pension Scheme.
But Mark Turner of the Unite union cautioned that he wanted to see the detail.
"We don't want to make changes if they're going to be detrimental to the rest of industry," he told the BBC.
In total the British Steel pension scheme has 130,000 members, one of the largest defined benefit schemes in the country.
Further details are expected when Business Secretary Sajid Javid makes a statement later in the House of Commons.
The pension fund and its deficit have been a source of unease for the current owners Tata and a deal-breaker for any would-be buyers.
Reducing its burden will make a sale easier and may even convince Tata to hang on to its UK steel business.
Any such change would be very controversial as it would set what some would see as a dangerous precedent.
The move is evidence of the business secretary's sense of urgency to resolve an industrial crisis which has put 10,000 steel workers' jobs in imminent danger.
The BBC understands that union leaders have accepted that this proposal is a better deal than seeing the pension scheme shunted into the lifeboat of the Pensions Protection Fund, which can see some members lose 10% of their payout immediately and see lower increments in future years.
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Owen Smith, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said steel workers' pensions "must be protected".
"If these reports are accurate, the secretary of state for work and pensions should come to the House to explain precisely what is being proposed, including how current and future steel pensioners will be affected and what precedents might be set by any changes to hard-won pension protection legislation," he added. | The government has been warned that a plan to cut pension benefits to help save Tata Steel's UK operations could take ministers down a "dangerous path". |
What is the summary of the following article? | Nick Bain, from Clacton in Essex, found the unexpected item while unpacking the groceries in his kitchen.
The mouse disappeared into a gap, where it hid for two days, Mr Bain said.
Tesco refunded and replaced his shopping, sent in pest controllers to catch the mouse and carried out a "thorough check of the store".
Mr Bain said he had noticed something stirring in a bag after he took delivery of the online order on Thursday evening.
"I was going through the bag and I didn't realise, and when I put my hand in I saw something move," said the 41-year-old.
"I told my wife there was a mouse in the bag and she jumped off the floor.
"It was just so fast. It's the last thing you expect with a delivery."
Mr Bain said the mouse ran into a gap in his kitchen, which is currently being refitted.
He said you could hear it "scratching for two nights solid" until it was discovered in a trap.
"It disgusted my wife. It makes you think: if it was in the van, whose other bags had it been in?
"To be fair to Tesco, they gave us some flowers and some treats for the dogs and sent Rentokil around, they've been pretty good."
A Tesco spokesman said: "We've apologised to Mr Bain and the local online food shopping manager has visited him to deliver flowers and a replacement order as a gesture of goodwill.
"A thorough check of the store by pest control found no evidence of further problems, so we're still investigating to find out exactly what happened." | Supermarket chain Tesco sent pest controllers to a customer's house after a mouse "leapt out" of his shopping delivery. |
Write a summary of this document. | Jayson Carmichael, who is full-time carer for his wife, said the changes - which critics have dubbed the "bedroom tax" - had left them "depressed".
Judges at the UK's highest court are examining if the removal of the government's spare room subsidy is discriminatory in some cases.
The changes started in April 2013.
Since then families claiming housing benefits who are deemed by their local authorities to have too much living space have received reduced benefits, with payments being cut by 14% if they have one spare bedroom.
The government argues the policy changes encourage people to move to smaller properties and save around £480m a year from the housing benefit bill.
Mr Carmichael, 53, from Southport, Merseyside, who shares a two-bedroom housing association flat with his wife Jacqueline, who has spina bifida, brought the challenge along with four others after suffering defeat at both the High Court and Court of Appeal.
Her condition means she has to sleep in a hospital bed in a fixed position. There is not enough space for a second bed so her husband sleeps in a separate bedroom.
"It has caused us a lot of stress and heartache," he said. "We are having to think about it all the time and being depressed about it. It is fight after fight, case after case."
The other cases set to be examined involve people who have all had their housing benefit reduced as a result of the government's changes, including:
In addition, the government will challenge an earlier ruling which found in favour of a domestic abuse victim and a disabled boy's family.
Last month the Court of Appeal ruled the policy had discriminated against Pembrokeshire couple Paul and Susan Rutherford and their 15-year-old grandson Warren and a woman identified as "A" who had a council house fitted with a panic room to protect her from a violent partner.
Judges ruled "A" and the Rutherford family suffered discrimination, contrary to Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Court of Appeal's ruling focused on the impact of the policy on disabled children needing overnight care and on women living in properties adapted because of risks to their lives.
The BBC's legal correspondent Clive Coleman said the ruling would affect people within these two specific groups.
There are believed to be about 300 such victims of domestic violence and thousands of severely disabled children in this situation.
Solicitor Ugo Hayter, who acts for Mrs Carmichael and Mr Rourke, said: "My clients are looking to the Supreme Court to recognise and bring to an end the awful hardship they, and many other disabled people nationally, have been subjected to since the introduction of the bedroom tax."
Karen Ashton from the charity Central England Law Centre, who represents Mr Daly, Mr Drage and "JD", said the case "is about fairness". | The husband of a disabled woman has told the Supreme Court of the "heartache" they have suffered following changes to housing benefits. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the two-seater plane was involved in the crash at 11:05 GMT on Saturday.
Two people were in the aircraft, but neither was injured and they were not taken to hospital.
The fire service sent crews from Swansea West, Swansea Central and Gorseinon to the airport, at Fairwood Common, Gower.
The incident comes a week after two people escaped unharmed when a light aircraft made an emergency landing in a field near the airport.
Just after 13:30 GMT last Saturday a twin-seater single-engine Piper aircraft ended up in a hedge at Manor Farm.
The people in that plane were members of a flying club based at Swansea.
A report into the earlier incident will be prepared by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch of the Department of Transport.
Glasgow University has taken over the 14-acre site of the old Western Infirmary.
It said it planned to create a research and innovation hub and new buildings for social sciences, health and engineering.
An estimated 2,500 jobs will be created during the construction period.
The extension to the university's Gilmorehill campus will see a central square linking to Byres Road, and commercial opportunities in the form of restaurants, bars and a hotel.
Glasgow University principal Professor Anton Muscatelli said: "We hope to use the new site as a catalyst to attract and grow the very best academics, to attract the very best students and to ensure that Glasgow continues to be one of the top universities in the world."
The university moved from High Street to the Gilmorehill site in 1870.
A clause was signed stating that if the hospital, which opened in 1874, ever ceased to be a hospital then the university could buy back the site.
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce chief executive Stuart Patrick said: "What is especially impressive is the ambition the university has to create what is effectively a new district in the west end". | A light aircraft has crashed on the runway at Swansea Airport.
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Plans to transform a former hospital site into a learning hub will see an estimated £1bn investment over the next decade. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Kenneth O'Brien's torso was found on 16 January in the canal near Ardclough in Kildare.
The cause of Mr O'Brien's death has still be determined, but RTE are reporting that gardaí believe he may have been shot.
The 33-year-old Dublin man had recently returned to Ireland from Australia.
On Sunday, gardaí found bags containing suspected human limbs in the Grand Canal at Sallins, Co Kildare.
They are still awaiting the results of DNA tests to confirm the identity of remains.
On Tuesday, the Garda Underwater Unit resumed searches on the Grand Canal.
The unit has already recovered a motorised component for a power tool which may have been used in the dismemberment of Mr O'Brien's body.
The area has been sealed-off as crime scene since Sunday.
Boating has been restricted along the Royal and Grand canals until Sunday while the searches continue.
Gardaí have searched five crime scenes, identified by information supplied from the public.
They believe the brutality of the murder and the dispersal of the remains over such a large area points to the involvement of an organised crime gang.
The Czech, winner in 2011 and 2014, broke Cirstea four times during a 6-0 6-4 victory on Court 18.
World number 10 Kvitova, 26, will face the winner of the match between Ekaterina Makarova and Johanna Larsson.
The match was delayed to the afternoon session after wet weather meant play was only possible on Centre Court.
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Agnieszka Radwanska played one of the few matches of the morning, and came through in straight sets on Centre Court against Kateryna Kozlova.
The 27-year-old third seed beat Ukrainian Kozlova 6-2 6-1 under the roof despite being broken once in the first set.
The 2012 runner-up now faces Croatia's Ana Konjuh, who beat Italy's Karin Knapp 6-3 6-3.
"Of course, a one-hour match is always good. I'm very happy with that win," world number three Radwanska told BBC Sport.
It was the first meeting between Radwanska and 22-year-old Kozlova, who was making her main-draw debut at SW19.
"It's just like an indoor tournament," Radwanska said. "We have to get used to it. It's good we could play today."
German 32nd seed Andrea Petkovic set up a second-round match with Russia's Elena Vesnina by beating Nao Hibino 3-6 7-5 6-2.
Petkovic has reached the semi-finals of the French Open, as well as the last eight of the Australian and US Open, but has never progressed beyond round three at Wimbledon.
"I've had a strange love affair with grass because it wasn't love at first sight," she said.
"It's been a growing love, maybe like when you have an old school friend that you meet again after 10 years and suddenly you realise - 'Ah that's the one, I actually kind of like him'.
"I really want to do well here and I'm trying my all."
Meanwhile, Swiss seventh seed Belinda Bencic progressed to round two by beating Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova 6-2 6-3.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, ranked 23 in the world, beat Taiwanese Su-Wei Hsieh 7-5 1-6 6-1 for a second-round meeting with Kazakh Yulia Putintseva. | Irish police investigating the murder of a man, whose remains found in a canal, believe he was been shot before his body was dismembered.
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Two-time champion Petra Kvitova needed less than an hour to beat Romania's Sorana Cirstea and seal a Wimbledon second-round spot. |
Can you summarize the following information? | It also found two-thirds of operators have been forced to cancel projects in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) because of the fall in oil prices
Just one in five contractors (21%) said they were working at or above optimum levels.
This was well down on the 47% recorded in the previous survey by Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce.
Its 22nd oil and gas survey found only 7% of North Sea contractors were more confident about their activities than they were a year ago, compared with 76% who were less confident.
That is the lowest figure since the survey began in 2004.
An increase in decommissioning was described in the report as "a bittersweet positive", with more than 80% of contractors involved in that work seeing increases in their activity in the past 12 months.
Just 8% of firms involved in exploration said they expected the value of exploration to increase in the coming year.
Tax issues were cited by 81% of contractors as a constraint on their activity in the UKCS, up from 28% in the last survey.
There were also increases in the number of respondents reporting "complex regulations", "cost of capital" and "access to capital" as constraints on their UKCS operations.
Analysis by Douglas Fraser, BBC Scotland business and economy editor
It's no surprise that the offshore oil and gas industry is downbeat, following the cut in the price of oil and the sharp cuts in its costs. But the latest survey figures are striking for showing such a big change.
The biggest change in perception since the last survey is in attitudes to tax and regulation. It seems that offshore operators were happy to pay tax and handle regulation while everyone was busy, investing heavily and making a lot of money.
But with the squeeze on, and with the tax regime highlighted by the debate over cutting it, that now feels much more of a burden.
It also suggests that the new Oil and Gas Authority, which has taken over regulation from Whitehall, has a job on its hands to persuade industry bosses that they will have to face more intervention.
That's if the authority is to meet its targets for maximising recovery of reserves, which will require companies to change behaviour, cut costs further and collaborate more closely.
James Bream, research and policy director at Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce, said the survey results provided "clear signals that new opportunities exist", despite low confidence within the sector.
He said: "Confidence levels are at an all-time low and we are now experiencing our first 'recession of confidence', and it looks gloomy in the year ahead too.
"However, we have seen positive tax changes, the OGA (Oil and Gas Authority) team is bedding in and in the Queen's Speech the new UK government has committed to legislating for the Infrastructure Bill.
"There is lots to build on and just perhaps it is possible that we are seeing the start of the next phase in our role at the frontier of the oil and gas sector."
An OGA spokesman said: "We have moved quickly to establish the OGA and have welcomed the strong support of industry and government as we aim to maximise economic recovery of oil and gas from the UKCS (MER UK).
"The £1.3bn package of measures announced in the March 2015 Budget provided a welcome boost to the sector. It is now essential that industry redoubles its efforts to create a more competitive cost base, improve efficiency and increase productivity."
A Scottish government spokeswoman said that changes brought by the Chancellor in his recent budget had not gone far enough to support the oil and gas industry.
She added: "In particular we note that survey respondents have highlighted the need to increase exploration drilling.
"We were disappointed that the changes announced by the Chancellor in his recent budget did not include the exploration credit which we proposed and which is clearly needed, however the forthcoming budget provides another opportunity for the UK government to take the necessary action to support exploration."
Scottish Labour's finance spokeswoman Jackie Baillie said: "While the recent oil price has been good for the economy overall, it has been a disaster for firms and families in the north east of Scotland.
"We need to do everything we can to make sure that the opportunities that are available through decommissioning are maximised to their full potential."
A total of 133 companies responded to the latest chamber of commerce survey. It was undertaken in partnership with UK law firm Bond Dickinson and conducted by the Fraser of Allander Institute. | Contractors' confidence in the North Sea oil and gas industry is at a "record low", according to a survey. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | The English-language clip, which accuses India of committing "sins", features a Chinese actor in a turban, mockingly speaking in an Indian accent.
Xinhua published the clip on Wednesday which is from a chat show discussing the ongoing Doklam stand-off.
It has been met with both bewilderment and anger in India.
Titled "7 Sins of India", the video stars female presenter, Dier Wang, who lists out China's grievances against India in the ongoing border dispute in the Doklam area, which borders China, India and Bhutan.
It is the latest episode of an online series called The Spark, an English-language online chat show recently launched by Xinhua.
Speaking in an amused yet indignant tone, she accuses India of "trampling international law" and "inventing various excuses to whitewash its illegal moves".
Her monologue is interspersed with dialogue from an "Indian", depicted by a Chinese actor wearing a turban, sunglasses, and an obviously ill-fitting beard.
In what appear to be attempts at humour, he waggles his head and speaks English in an exaggerated Indian accent, amid canned laughter.
In another scene he points a pair of scissors at another actor who is supposed to represent Bhutan - a clear reference to the Chinese stand that India is "bullying" the tiny Himalayan nation.
The video appears to be solely targeted at a foreign audience. It is delivered entirely in English and appears on Xinhua's YouTube, Twitter and Facebook feeds - services which are banned in China.
Chinese reports say the online chat show aims to "comment on hot domestic and international topics from China's perspective and with an international vision".
Previous episodes have also focused on the stand-off and Sino-Indian relations, as well as relations with the US and President Donald Trump, but were more sober than this one.
Indian news outlets have rounded on the video, slamming it as racist.
The Hindustan Times said Xinhua released "a racist video parodying Indians" which "particularly targets the Sikh minority".
News portal The Quint said it was "yet another attempt by Chinese media to push its aggressive rhetoric on the standoff", while India Today accused Chinese media of going a "step further" in mocking India.
The video also prompted criticism from social media users.
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But it has also generated some debate on the Doklam stand-off, with many on Facebook arguing about which country has sovereignty over the disputed territory.
The conflict began in mid-June when India opposed China's attempt to extend a border road through a plateau known as Doklam in India and Donglang in China.
The plateau, which lies at a junction between China, the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, is currently disputed between Beijing and Bhutan. India supports Bhutan's claim over it.
India and China fought a war over the border in 1962, and disputes remain unresolved in several areas, causing tensions to rise from time to time.
Each side has reinforced its troops and called on the other to back down.
On Wednesday, Indian officials said another border confrontation had flared up, this time in the Western Himalayas. | Chinese state media has released a propaganda video that lambasts India over a border dispute, sparking accusations of racism. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Northern Ireland is expected to offer shelter to more than 100 refugees a year over the next five years.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has said that the first arrivals could be here in December.
Jason Kouame of the Northern Ireland Community of Refugees and Asylum Seekers said: "The main problem is how much free housing is available".
Mr Kouame said: "Governments are bureaucracies and there needs to be changes for practical things like getting information from the HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) and securing housing. If these changes are not in place, charities will have to provide resources."
Speaking in the Assembly yesterday, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness acknowledged the need for a new integration strategy to improve the bureaucratic difficulties for refugees settling in Northern Ireland.
Mr McGuinness said: "We will continue to work with NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and stakeholders to understand the experience of refugees and asylum seekers and provide our support throughout."
An initial group of between 50 and 100 displaced people will be accommodated, with others arriving in phases.
Mr McGuinness also confirmed that a contribution will be made towards education expenses.
Education Minister John O'Dowd has asked his officials to prepare for the arrival of "significant numbers" of refugee children.
The Deputy First Minister said his department was seeking clarification on the payment of health and social care bills.
Mr Kouame said that securing employment and having access to free English classes will be vital for refugees settling in Northern Ireland.
"These things can stop people being fully integrated."
Mr Kouame also said that a small number of refugees who have previously been settled in Northern Ireland have had to deal with racism.
He said: "There have been racial attacks in the past. If someone here has been waiting for a house for 18 months and someone else comes in and gets the house, work has to be done with community groups to ensure there are no problems."
The incident took place at about 00:10 on Dalmellington Road in the Crookston area of the city.
The taxi driver's victim, a 24-year-old man, is in a critical condition in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
The driver did not stop after the incident and drove off along Dalmellington Road towards Crookston Road.
The driver of the taxi has been described by police as of Asian appearance, aged 30-40, medium build, with short dark hair and wearing a pink top.
Det Insp Greig Wilkie said: "From our investigations so far, it would appear that the two men had left a party nearby and had asked the taxi driver to get a lift home, however, the driver, for whatever reason, refused to take them. It then appears that the injured man went on to the road which is when the taxi deliberately drove at him.
"The taxi didn't stop and drove off along Dalmellington Road, towards Crookston Road at Raeswood Road.
"On hearing a commotion outside, people from nearby houses came to assist the man until the ambulance arrived arrival of the ambulance. We are in the process of tracing them and others who were in the area, including the occupants of another black Hackney taxi who had been dropped off nearby just at the time of the incident, however, we have yet to trace the driver of that taxi and indeed another Hackney taxi driver who we know, were also in the area at the time."
He added: "This was a shocking incident, which has left a young man very seriously injured.
"I would appeal to the taxi driver who involved to come forward to police himself as soon as possible." | A refugee community organisation says a new strategy is needed to help refugees integrate in Northern Ireland.
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Police are looking for a Glasgow taxi driver who attempted to murder a man by driving his cab at him. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | The North South Ministerial Council Special EU Programmes meeting was held at Iveagh House.
Ministers repeated the commitment of the two governments to work together to ensure Northern Ireland's interests are protected in any new arrangements following the UK vote to leave the EU.
Mr Ó Muilleoir and Mr Donohoe also re-iterated the recent North South Ministerial Council commitment to the successful implementation of the Peace and Interreg programmes.
They agreed to consider the issue of securing finance from the European Regional Development Fund for the two programmes including through engagement with the European Commission.
"It is very clear there is 500m euros (£427m) in the balance and myself and junior minister Alastair Ross and Minister Donohoe want to secure that money," Mr Ó Muilleoir said.
Unlike group leaders Germany, Poland and the Republic of Ireland, Scotland in fourth place cannot now claim one of the two automatic qualification spots.
And their fate is not in their own hands.
Their 3-2 defeat by Germany at Hampden last month leaves them four points adrift of third place and a play-off against another third-placed team for a spot at the Euro 2016 finals in France.
Germany need only one more win to guarantee a top-two finish.
If third-placed Republic of Ireland lose to Germany on Thursday and to Poland in the final round of games, then Scotland can clinch third place by taking four points from their remaining games against the Poles and Gibraltar in Faro on Sunday.
This would leave Scotland and the Republic of Ireland on 15 points apiece, but Scotland would go third thanks to their head-to-head record.
If Scotland win their final two Group D matches, even two draws for the Irish against Germany and Poland would not be enough for them - Poland would finish second on 18 points, Scotland would be third with 17 points ahead of Martin O'Neill's Ireland for that win and a draw against them.
One win for the Republic against either of their opponents would end Scottish hope of catching them.
Poland may be six points ahead of Scotland but if they were to lose at Hampden, Scotland could leapfrog them, by dint of their better head-to-head record, with a win over Gibraltar.
Of course, that scenario relies on the Irish winning in Poland on the same day.
So, Scotland need points and the right combination of results elsewhere, but reaching the finals of a major tournament for the first time since the 1998 World Cup remains possible. | Northern Ireland Finance Minister Máirtín Ó Muilleoir and the Republic of Ireland Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe have discussed the implications of Brexit at a meeting in Dublin.
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Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | As part of its Better Jobs Closer to Home campaign, it wants ministers to use new flexibility over the contracts they award to help poorer areas.
The Wales TUC, which represents 50 unions, argues there has been "market failure" in solving economic problems in the region for decades.
The finance minister is to set up a taskforce look at the idea's viability.
Since August, the Welsh government has had more freedom about how it awards contracts and spends money with companies.
A new EU directive says it can reserve contracts for disadvantaged groups, including long term and young unemployed people, lone parents and the over 50s.
The Wales TUC argues that this could be targeted to help areas such as the Valleys.
It comes as the Wales Infrastructure Plan has earmarked £628m spending in the Valleys areas until 2020.
Martin Mansfield, general secretary of the Wales TUC, believes by focusing government spending it could have a big impact on struggling communities.
"If the Welsh government was contracting for uniforms for the emergency services for example, it could decide to produce them all in Ebbw Vale or Merthyr Tydfil.
"People can't travel to twilight shifts in Cardiff, the transport isn't there, the money available to fund that isn't there.
"Some in the valleys don't have the skills or experience to access their first jobs. Government intervention is what's required to boost the economy; these people have been let down by the free market for decades."
But there was a note of caution from Dr Kath Ringwald, director of the procurement best practice academy at the University of South Wales.
She said the new EU regulations would still not allow ministers to reserve contracts for disadvantaged groups in Wales above other areas.
"Organisations in Wales will be given help and support to help to be competitive but it won't necessarily guarantee a contract," she said.
"But the public sector in Wales will continue to encourage its first tier suppliers to use local suppliers and local labour themselves and particular those in disadvantaged groups ."
Dr Mark Lang, of Cardiff University's sustainable places research institute, said the "significant" scale of the economic challenges faced by the Valleys over the last 30 years had not really been grasped.
Although inward investment was important there needed to be a realism about the scale of jobs being brought in.
"We've never started from the basis of looking at the jobs and the economy we have in the valleys and how we can support the development of it."
Dr Lang said some people in the valleys were "far removed" from the labour market and needed jobs to be brought closer to them.
Finance minister Jane Hutt is setting up a task force to look into the Wales TUC proposals.
Ms Hutt said if the worked in the valleys then it could be used to help disadvantaged groups across Wales.
"We've got new powers and opportunities to look at ways to influence who actually gets contracts for the public sector and get people into those jobs for those contracts," she said.
A Welsh government spokesman added: "We continue to support the valleys through a number of innovative European funded projects which aim to get people back into work or help them remain in their current jobs.
"One example of which is our £30m Communities4Work project which will support over 35,000 people over the next three years and help more than 6,000 people into employment." | The south Wales valleys should be the focus of new Welsh government powers to boost employment, the Wales TUC says. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | Martin Matthews, 48, and Bobby Smith, 33, used a ladder to gain access to the Queen's Gallery on Sunday afternoon.
They were arrested on suspicion of trespassing on a protected site after police officers were called to a report of a protest.
The Queen and Prince Philip are not thought to have been at the palace at the time.
A spokesman for the two men said they had scaled the roof at 15:15 GMT on Sunday.
Scotland Yard said its officers were called to the scene at 16:28 and that the men came down from the building of their own accord at about 23:00.
The men sat on a roof about 18ft (5m) high at the entrance of the public art gallery, which is located on a road to the side of the main gate to Buckingham Palace.
One of the men held a banner reading: "I'm Harry's dad. Stop the war on dads."
The protesters' spokesman said the demonstration was part of a campaign by the groups New Fathers 4 Justice and Stop The War On Dads.
They were campaigning over rights for fathers in divorce and separation proceedings and the reform of the family courts. | Two men who spent hours on a roof at Buckingham Palace in a fathers' rights protest have been released on bail. |
Write a summary of this document. | The red sandstone altar was taken from the Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport during opening hours on Thursday.
Discovered in Maryport in 1880, the altar forms part of the Netherhall Collection.
Museum manager Jane Laskey said the museum was "devastated" by the theft, which she said would have left the altar damaged.
The 10in (25cm) tall, 5in (13cm) wide altar was mounted for secure open display.
Ms Laskey said: "It has always been a priority to us that the collection is made accessible to everyone and we have trusted members of the public to value the collection too.
"It is very unpleasant to find that someone abused that trust to steal something that is such a significant part of the heritage of the people of Maryport.
"As a result of this incident the museum's security has been reviewed," Ms Laskey said.
In the 16th Century, John Senhouse began to form the Netherhall Collection of inscriptions and sculptures which, according to Historic England, later became the largest private collection of Roman antiquities from one British site.
In 1870, 17 altars were found buried in Maryport, all dedicated by the fort's garrison commanders to the Roman god Jupiter.
The museum said the stolen altar's value is its importance as part of the Netherhall Collection rather than its monetary worth.
CCTV footage from the week of the theft has been given to police, who say they are investigating.
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Folkard, 32, represented Great Britain at London 2012 and will make her fourth Olympic appearance in Rio.
Belfast-born Huston, who is ranked 39 in the world, will make his Olympic debut after finishing third in the European Championships in May.
Huston, 20, was also part of the Team GB squad that narrowly missed out on a bronze medal at the Archery World Cup.
Both will compete in the individual recurve event as Team GB look to add to their nine Olympic medals.
It means Albert Woodfox's release has been moved from Tuesday evening to, at the earliest, Friday afternoon.
A judge had ordered the 68-year-old to walk free, after his murder conviction was twice overturned.
But the attorney general said prosecutors would appeal "to make sure this murderer stays in prison".
The state now has until Friday afternoon to explain why he should continue to be held in jail.
Woodfox has been in solitary confinement since April 1972, after he was blamed for the death of a guard during a prison riot.
He was tried twice for the guard's death, but both convictions were later overturned. He denies all the charges.
Confined for 23 hours a day, he had only one hour outside his cell to "walk alone along the tier on which his cell is located", according to court documents from a case challenging his prison conditions.
Exercise was permitted three times a week and there were restrictions on "personal property, reading materials, access to legal resources, work, and visitation rights".
Sources: ACLU, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Solitarywatch.com, Louisiana Prison Watch
How do you survive solitary confinement? | A Roman altar has been "forcibly wrenched" by a thief from an open display at a museum in Cumbria.
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Naomi Folkard and Patrick Huston have been named as the two archers to represent Team GB at the Rio Olympics.
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The release of a man who has spent more than four decades in solitary confinement will now be delayed after a request by Louisiana's top lawyer. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Libya had needed to win the match to stand a chance of going through having been beaten 1-0 by Tunisia on Monday.
Morocco are top of the three-team mini-league with seven points and Tunisia in second with four points.
The pair go head-to-head in the group's final match on Sunday, with Tunisia enjoying home advantage in Rades.
Morocco's goals against Libya were scored by Abdessalam Ben Jelloun, Abdessalad Lmobarakay, Rachid Housni and Mohammed Onajem. | Morocco beat Libya 4-0 in Thursday's Northern Zone 2016 CHAN qualifier to send themselves and Tunisia through to next year's finals in Rwanda. |
Summarize the content provided below. | The increase will add £31 to bills for a Band D property.
Local authorities have been increasing the basic rate of council tax by up to 3% for the first time since 2007, however higher-band properties are paying more automatically after MSPs approved changes.
The 3% rise will see Band H properties in Orkney pay £542.60 more.
Adidas will receive $425m (£330m) for the business, which comprises the golf brands TaylorMade, Adams Golf and Ashworth.
The deal comes after years of falling sales for its golf unit.
It also comes just a day after one of golf's superstars, Rory McIlroy, signed an equipment deal with TaylorMade reported to be worth $100m.
Adidas has owned TaylorMade since 1997, and added Ashworth in 2008 and Adams four years later to make it the world's biggest golf supplier.
But it has struggled to generate growth at those brands and last year combined sales fell 1%.
Why are Nike and Adidas abandoning golf?
Adidas does not report the profitability of the golf unit, which sits in a bigger division called Other Businesses. The unit reported a loss of 14m euros last year, with golf making up more than half of its sales.
"We are concentrating clearly on our primary competencies in footwear and sports clothing and on our two main brands Adidas and Reebok," said Adidas chief executive, Kasper Rorsted, in a statement.
The popularity of golf has fallen sharply in the US since the early 2000s, when Tiger Woods was at his peak.
In August last year, Nike announced it would stop selling golf clubs, balls and bags after years of falling sales at its golf division.
KPS Capital Partners will be hoping that it has bought into golf at the bottom of the market.
It is a private equity firm, which has previously specialised in buying manufacturing firms.
Private equity firms buy up firms with the aim of raising their profitability and then selling them at a profit.
This move concludes nearly a year of intense behind-the-scenes efforts by German sportswear giant Adidas to offload its golf businesses.
The world's second largest sports apparel and equipment group has seen golf fall out of favour with the middle classes, who have, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed, turned to more fashionable pastimes such as cycling.
Adidas put the golf brands, which have struggled as the sport has declined in popularity in its traditional markets in the US and Western Europe, up for sale last year.
From a sales point of view, other sports such as athletics and basketball offer more attractive opportunities for sales growth.
So no doubt Adidas are relieved to have finally concluded the sale, which had involved them bringing in investment bank Guggenheim Partners in order to find a buyer.
Shortly after taking the photo, Rebecca Fry cowered at the back of the basket as the balloon drifted into overhead power lines in Northamptonshire.
She suffered serious burns in the 33,000-volt shock last May.
Miss Fry, 22, said: "I remember hitting the power line and the electricity, the fire. I remember everything."
She had been a single passenger in the early morning flight on 22 May. The 64-year-old male pilot next to her was not injured, police said.
Miss Fry, who took to the sky alongside eight other balloons at the time, spent four weeks recovering in a specialist burns unit in Birmingham.
Speaking almost a year after the Earls Barton crash, she said she had curled into the brace position at the back of the basket to prepare for the impact.
"I was conscious through most of it," she said. "I felt as if my neck was going to snap and I remember screaming through clenched teeth."
"I remember being terrified that I was going to die and I remember the pain and just being so scared."
She described how her body went numb as she felt a wave of heat ripple through her, before eventually losing consciousness.
Miss Fry was treated on the ground by a Magpas Air Ambulance team before she was airlifted to a specialist critical care burns unit.
She suffered severe burns to her limbs and face and continues to receive treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
Dr Rupert Hurry, a volunteer with Magpas, has met with Miss Fry. He said the worry for medics had been caused by a combination of her fall from a height, the burns she suffered and possible electrocution.
"I don't often get to see patients once I've treated them," he said.
"She looks really well and she looks happy. I'm glad to see her here - and walking and talking - and alive." | Councillors in Orkney have approved a 3% council tax rise.
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Adidas has sold its struggling golf operations to investment firm KPS Capital Partners.
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A woman has released a selfie she took moments before the hot air balloon she was in crashed, leaving her with life-threatening injuries. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Global sales totalled €8.62bn (£6.9bn; $9.8bn) for the three months to March.
LVMH owns more than 60 luxury brands, including the Kenzo fashion line and the high-end watch labels Bulgari and TAG Heuer.
The company said the US market is strong, and "Europe remains well oriented except for France which is affected by a fall in tourism."
The Paris terror attacks in November last year led to a 50% drop at some store sales. The retailer makes 10% of all its sales in France. The company's headquarters is in Paris.
The perfumes and cosmetics part of the business saw the biggest jump in revenue in the first quarter, at 9%. Much of the boost came from strong sales from the Christian Dior brand.
But the results fell slightly short of analysts' expectations. According to a Reuters poll, industry-watchers were expecting sales to come in slightly higher at €8.72bn.
"Overall this is not very surprising, as LVMH and LVMH fashion and leather goods are so big that they can be seen as a proxy of the luxury goods sector - and the luxury goods sector is on the back foot," said Luca Solca, analyst at Exane BNP Paribas.
The retail group used to enjoy double-digit sales growth in China, with strong demand coming from the middle class. The company now faces much stiffer competition there, causing demand to slow.
Also, the Chinese government last year imposed a strict clampdown on luxury and ostentatious spending by government officials. That has led to a decline in luxury goods sales across the industry in China. | Luxury retailer LVMH saw a 4% gain in revenue for the first quarter this year, compared with last year. |
Summarize the following piece. | Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 1.3% to close at 16,960.16, extending the previous day's jump of more than 4%.
Electronics giant Toshiba finished 7.1% up on reports it had secured a further 250bn yen ($2.2bn; £1.6bn) in bank loans for its restructuring efforts.
The Japanese company is in the process of a major overhaul following a massive accounting scandal.
In China, the mainland Shanghai Composite index closed up 0.35% at 2,859.76, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng was one of the only indexes in the region that finished the day lower, down 0.3% at 19,941.76.
In Australia, the benchmark ASX/200 index finished the session up 1.2% at 5,081.10.
Commodity firms saw strong gains for a second day, with Rio Tinto and Fortescue rising 2.8% and 6.7% respectively.
Investors reacted positively to the settlement between Brazil and Samarco over the 2015 mudslide, which was caused when a mine breached a dam. The mudslide killed 19 people and caused widespread environmental damage.
Samarco is partly owned by Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton, which saw its shares rise 3.6%.
In South Korea, the Kospi index closed up 0.5% at 1,958.17.
After reporting strong car sales figures earlier in the week for the country's car makers in the US, Wednesday saw equally strong February data coming in for the domestic market.
The country's top car makers, Hyundai, Kia and Ssangyong, all saw gains throughout the day.
Kingussie opened their campaign with a 1-1 draw at home to Lochaber.
And in an upset of the previous season's form book, Oban Camanachd travelled to Drumnadrochit to record a 3-1 victory over Glenurquhart.
Defending champions Newtonmore, Lovat and Skye were sidelined by postponements.
MacDonald got Kyles off to a flying start at Fort William with two goals in the opening quarter of the game. The match was suddenly turned on its head just before half-time, though, when a Daniel Stewart strike was followed by Bryan Simpson squeezing in a double just ahead of the whistle.
Ross MacRae drew Kyles level soon after the restart and they went ahead again when MacDonald completed his treble. Dunky Kerr added a late fifth to secure an opening win for the 2015 Premiership runners-up.
At the Dell, Pat Toal drew first blood for Lochaber just before half-time and so it stayed for half-an-hour. Then Ryan Borthwick grabbed a point for Kingussie, whose last game was a 2-0 relegation play-off victory over Kilmallie.
It was only in the latter stages of last season that Oban Camanachd escaped that play-off themselves but they were in fine form for their visit to MacTavish Cup holders Glenurquhart.
Willie Neilson bagged a penalty and Daniel Cameron also scored to put Camanachd 2-0 up within 24 minutes. Neale Reid provided a vital lifeline for Glenurquhart just before half-time but the home side could not build on it.
Malcolm Clark got Camanachd's third.
The most significant result in the National Division, at the Winterton, was only a goalless draw but it involved sides which were previously two leagues apart.
Inveraray arrived in that division after finishing bottom in the Premiership while visitors Bute got there as they recovered from a traumatic period by winning the South Division title.
Elsewhere in the second tier, Beauly won 5-2 at Inverness and Glasgow Mid Argyll eclipsed Ballachulish 4-0 at Yoker. | Asian shares traded mostly higher for a second day after Wednesday's strong rally across the region.
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Roddy MacDonald scored a hat-trick as Kyles came from behind to down Fort William 5-3 on the opening day of the Marine Harvest Premiership season. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | The 22-year-old Fifer is playing in his first major after coming through the final qualifying series at Gailes Links to earn his spot at Royal Birkdale.
"I have been to many Opens in the past but to be part of one is amazing," he told BBC Scotland.
"I'm buzzing, it is another level from where I have been before."
Syme is making his first visit to the Lancashire course and says his excitement is building with every practice round.
"I guess you get familiar with seeing everything," he added. "You expect the big grandstands but it is different when you are playing.
"I practised yesterday with Tommy Fleetwood and had the butterflies going on the first tee even then.
"I had a lovely round with Paul Lawrie today and it was just brilliant. Really good fun. I have met Paul a few times over the years but that was the first time I have had a long decent chat. He is such a nice guy. Obviously he became Open champion in 1999 and I was asking him about that and how he won. That was cool."
Last week Syme was in Austria representing Scotland in the European Amateur team championships and says this was a welcome distraction with such a big week ahead of him.
"It gave me something else to focus on, which was quite nice. It was really good to be away with the Scottish team in Austria. I came here and started the preparations at Birkdale on Monday."
Australian Adam Bland and former Open champion John Daly make up the three ball with Syme for the opening two rounds.
The Scot was only 12 days old when Daly lifted the Claret Jug at St Andrews in 1995, but he has been catching up on the USA star's heroics.
"I have obviously seen the footage," Syme added. "He did well to win it and he went on to win another major as well. It will be brilliant to play with John Daly. Obviously [he is] a big hitter and I don't think I will be trying to keep up with him, but it will be good fun."
Syme won the Australian amateur Championship last year and revealed he is likely to wait until the end of next year before turning professional.
Much of the interior of the castle, which dates from the 11th Century, was destroyed after the Middle Ages.
Archaeologists hope methods such as aerial photography and radar will reveal its secrets, including a chamber block where Henry may have been born.
A Castle Studies Trust grant will help pay for the research.
Aerial photographs taken in 2013 have given glimpses of what lies beneath the surface, with parch marks showing the outline of a number of possible buildings.
Dyfed Archaeology Trust will carry out the work.
Haye suffered an Achilles injury in the sixth round of the fight and was knocked down in the 11th.
"Shane and I have come to the mutual decision that, when I am ready for full training camp, we will no longer be working with each other," Haye said.
The 36-year-old added they "remain good friends" but "agreed moving forward we weren't right for each other".
Former WBA heavyweight champion Haye had surgery on his Achilles tendon following the defeat by fellow Briton Bellew.
In a post on Facebook, he also said: "I am pleased to confirm rehabilitation is going well and I will make a complete recovery.
"Whilst I am not quite in a position to be announcing my next opponent, my passion for the sport remains unwavered and desire to regain my heavyweight title is stronger than ever." | Scottish amateur Connor Syme cannot wait to make the transition from spectator to player when he tees up at the Open Championship on Thursday.
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Details of the exact location of Henry VII's birthplace at Pembroke Castle could be uncovered by researchers using geophysical techniques.
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David Haye has spilt from trainer Shane McGuigan just under three months after his heavyweight defeat by Tony Bellew. |
Write a summary of this document. | 23-year-old Tim Reynard had been working at the local Liberal Democrat office for three weeks.
He then told them he was actually working for the rival Tory Party.
Staff immediately went into panic mode... until he was eventually found hiding in a cupboard.
Not before they'd deleted his access to their database, Facebook and all other sensitive information.
With just over a month until the General Election, there's a lot of sensitive information floating around any political office.
So when Tim texted the Liberal Democrat organiser for the constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon, 27-year-old Will Griffiths, to say he had defected to the Conservative Party, Will panicked.
Tim, who used to work for Odeon, said he'd jumped ship to "compare parties" and was due back at Tory candidate Nicola Blackwood's office.
In a cold sweat, Will rang his boss, who told him he better get into work as soon as he could.
By the time Will turned up 20 minutes later, everyone else in the office was in on the joke, so they all got busy checking nothing had been stolen and looking online to see if Tim had been forwarding Liberal Democrat emails to the Conservatives.
Will was looking quite shaken when his boss pulled him aside for "a word" - that's when Tim jumped out and asked: "What day is it today Will?"
Tim told Newsbeat he had the idea for the prank whilst having his breakfast in the morning, but he didn't think Will would believe it. When he did fall for it though, they all decided to string it out for as long as they could.
Tim said Will's face was a picture when the truth hit him: "At first it was relief then it was a mix of anger and shock."
He took it well though, and they both had a laugh.
Encouraged by how well it went this year, Tim told us he's "got lots of tricks up his sleeve" for next year... so Will, you might want to put the date in your diary now.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Not every April Fools' catches you out hook-line-and-sinker, but a prospective MP's office in Oxfordshire went into meltdown after a text from an intern. |
Write a summary for this information. | Far-right candidate Norbert Hofer lost by just over 30,000 votes to Green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen.
Mr Hofer's Freedom Party says thousands of postal votes were opened too early or by unauthorised people.
The court is expected to rule before the president is sworn in on 8 July.
The Freedom Party (FPOe) has submitted a 152-page dossier and some 90 witnesses are due to give evidence to the public hearing by the end of Thursday.
Far right challenges poll result
Austria digests poll drama
Is Europe lurching to the far right?
Basing its judgement on records from Austria's 117 voting districts, the federal electoral commission said a rerun was unnecessary.
However, according to public broadcaster ORF, some election observers said under oath that there had been irregularities, even though they had signed off the results.
The FPOe said that ballot papers were counted prematurely in 84 constituencies and opened too early in 17 districts. As many as 573,000 were counted too early, the party's dossier alleges.
Last week University of Vienna constitutional expert Prof Theo Oehlinger highlighted two of the FPOe's complaints as "very serious".
He told Der Standard newspaper that initial results had begun circulating on the internet before the end of the voting, and that the FPOe had complained of postal votes being counted by the returning officer or even council workers, rather than by the electoral commission.
Mr Van der Bellen's margin of victory was just 30,863 votes, depriving the FPOe of a victory that would have been a decisive boost for far-right parties elsewhere in Europe.
"We are not sore losers," said far-right leader Heinz Christian Strache earlier this month. "This is about protecting the foundations of democracy."
Europe's migrant crisis was a major issue in the run-up to the poll.
About 90,000 people claimed asylum in Austria last year, equivalent to about 1% of the Austrian population, and the FPOe ran an anti-immigration campaign. | Austria's constitutional court has begun four days of hearings to decide whether last month's presidential run-off vote should be rerun because of far-right claims of electoral fraud. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Northern Powergrid said about 38,000 properties in the North East were affected, with 1,500 yet to be reconnected.
A lightning strike damaged railway signalling between Durham and Morpeth, causing widespread disruption.
Many homes in parts of Teesside, County Durham and Northumberland were also affected.
A spokesman for Northern Powergrid said: "Engineers have successfully restored customers since the storms started in the early hours by diverting electricity through alternative routes on its network, wherever possible.
"The electricity distributor is continuing to monitor the weather and has taken action with additional staff being drafted into repair the damage the lightning storms have caused to parts of North East's power network.
"We have also had the helicopter ready to fly today, weather conditions permitting, to carry out network inspections and help spot any damage so repairs can be carried out as soon as possible."
The general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) died in March aged 52. He led the union from 2002 until his death.
The £1.5m Doncaster National Education Centre, in Thorne Road, is used to train workplace representatives as well as regional and national officers.
The RMT said renaming the centre would be "a fitting and lasting tribute".
Mick Cash, who succeeded Mr Crow as RMT boss, said: "With Bob Crow as general secretary our education centre in Doncaster grew into a full residential college educating and training up hundreds of our activists and building a strong, member-led union that has proved its resilience despite the shock of Bob's tragic death earlier this year.
"The union believes that it will be a fitting and lasting tribute to rename the Doncaster National Education Centre after Bob Crow and that plan will come to fruition in 2015 with the support of Bob's family."
Conservationists say the bees face extinction through habitat loss, wildfires and the introduction of non-native insects and plants.
The bees are crucial to pollinating some of Hawaii's endangered plants.
The listing follows years of study by researchers including the Xerces Society conservation group.
Sarina Jepson, director of endangered species and aquatic programmes for Xerces, said although yellow-faced bees are found elsewhere in the world, the species now under protection are native only to Hawaii and pollinate indigenous plants.
While those species could potentially be pollinated by other bees, she said many could become extinct if the native bees were allowed to die off.
She told the Associated Press news agency that threats to the bees include feral pigs and invasive ants.
The bees had also suffered loss of habitat due to wildfires, invasive plants and land development, especially in some coastal areas, she added.
Hawaii-based entomologist Karl Magnacca, who worked with Xerces, said it had taken almost 10 years to achieve the listing.
"It's good to see it to finally come to fruition," he said.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) found the average price of land fell by £750 to £3,625 per acre in the second half of 2015.
A survey suggested there was a fall in demand during the period.
Rics said the global fall in crop prices meant land values were expected to continue to decline over 2016.
Its survey was conducted along with the Royal Agricultural University.
A net balance of 67% of chartered surveyors reported a fall in demand for rural land across the country in the second half of last year. At the same time land availability increased, with 83% of respondents reporting a pick-up.
As a result, a net two-thirds of rural surveyors said they expected to see prices drop this year.
Rics in Scotland director Sarah Speirs said: "Rural land prices have increased in Scotland over recent years. However, the latter half of 2015 saw prices and demand fall and the global fall in crop prices is likely to cause values to continue to decline over the next 12 months.
"Additionally, with commercial and residential property prices in towns and cities continuing to rise, this is likely to make rural land increasingly attractive to those outside traditional farming communities.
"We are already seeing growth in countryside land in Scotland being purchased by non-farmers - lifestyle buyers or hobby farmers." | Torrential rain and thunderstorms caused power to be lost in thousands of homes and businesses overnight.
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A trade union education centre in South Yorkshire is to be renamed in memory of former rail union leader Bob Crow.
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Seven species of yellow-faced bee native to Hawaii have become the first bees to be added to the US federal list of endangered and threatened species.
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Scottish rural land prices are likely to continue falling over the next 12 months after tailing off towards the end of 2015, according to a report. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | The family were among seven people injured in the crash outside The Friary Centre in Guildford on Friday morning.
A boy, aged two, and his one-year-old sister were both released from hospital over the weekend, Surrey Police said.
The condition is not known of three other women who were hurt. Their injuries had been described as minor.
A spokeswoman for the force said the police investigation was ongoing.
At the time, police said the Volkswagen Polo was being driven by a woman in her 80s, and she had a male passenger with her.
The siblings were in a children's push-along shopping trolley, in the shape of a car, which was being pushed by their grandparents.
A specialist crash investigation unit has been investing the circumstances of the crash in North Street.
The claim: Douglas Carswell, the UKIP MP and Leave campaigner said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme "If we were to leave the EU we would start from the position of tariff-free unrestricted trade and we could certainly build on that and improve on that".
Reality Check verdict: How a new deal would look remains one of the biggest questions over a vote to leave the EU. The UK's current tariff-free, unrestricted trade deal with the EU would remain in place for at least the first two years of negotiations. No non-EU countries have negotiated tariff-free unrestricted trade with the EU without contributing to the EU budget and allowing unlimited EU migration.
He said every country in Europe, with the exception of Belarus, currently enjoys just that.
In practical terms the UK's current tariff-free, unrestricted trade deal would remain in place for two years while a new deal was negotiated.
How a new deal would look remains one of the biggest questions over a vote to leave the EU.
After that, without a deal the default position would be to revert to World Trade Organisation rules. These would impose automatic WTO tariffs and the European Union would apply its own external customs tariff on goods from the UK.
Mr Carswell argues the size of the UK market and the amount the EU sells to the UK means it would have to do a trade deal with the UK.
Others argue letting the UK leave on good terms could be politically difficult for other European countries.
So what could the UK negotiate? And at what cost?
Mr Carswell cited two examples of countries outside the EU that have "unrestricted, tariff-free trade". Iceland was one, Turkey was the other.
Iceland, like Norway, and Lichtenstein - has negotiated a deal for tariff-free, quota-free trade with the single market and is part of the European Economic Area (EEA). But Iceland also signed up to the free movement of goods, services, people and capital. It has to make a financial contribution to the EU and implement EU single market rules and regulations, with little say on what they are, along with the rest of the (EEA).
Turkey wants to join the EU. It has been in negotiations to do so since 2005.
At the moment it is within the European Union's customs union. That means it faces no tariffs or quotas on industrial goods it sends within the European Union but it has to apply the European Union's common external tariff, a set rate of tariffs on goods from outside the EU, on those goods too.
The customs union does not apply to services or agricultural goods.
Membership of the EU's customs union is usually seen as a way for a country's economy to catch up with the rest of the EU in preparation for more comprehensive membership.
Being in the customs union gives Turkey no access to trade in services, which make up almost 80% of the UK economy.
It also gives it no say on the tariffs it has to impose on goods from outside its borders.
So Turkey has tariff-free trade in goods with the EU but that's all. It does not have free movement of people, so border checks remain in place.
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Fernando Alonso, fresh from another early exit in qualifying following his McLaren's engine failure, decided to make the most of his spare time to grab a marshal's chair and soak up the sun.
It has been a miserable season for the two-time world champion, who has retired from seven races and finished in the top 10 just twice, but at least he was able to see the funny side.
As did the fans, pouncing on the chance to have a bit of fun with Alonso's antics. And so, #PlacesAlonsoWouldRatherBe was born: | The grandparents of two children hurt when a car mounted a pavement and hit a group of pedestrians are still in hospital with serious injuries.
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Douglas Carswell, the UKIP MP and Leave campaigner, has said the UK could have tariff-free, unrestricted trade if it left the EU.
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The Brazilian Grand Prix will probably not go down as one of the most exciting races in history, but it did provide one memorable moment. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Barton claimed that an agent working on behalf of Lawwell approached him for signing talks.
The Celtic chief executive not only disputes that version of events, but says he was approached about the possibility of signing Barton.
"I think Joey's been had by a bit of a matchmaker here," Lawwell said.
"I remember it well, we had just announced Brendan (Rodgers) as our new manager and I was with our company secretary in London at the time.
"An agent called me saying that Joey was going to sign for Rangers but he would really prefer to come to Celtic and were we interested in signing him, but it wasn't something we wanted to pursue.
"These things happen to players sometimes in football, but needless to say we wish Joey well at his new club."
Lawwell's version of events differs from the extract from Barton's autobiography published in the Daily Mail.
It said that days before the player signed a two-year deal at Ibrox he "took a call from an agent, who had been contacted by Peter Lawwell, Celtic's chief executive", adding: "The message he conveyed was straight and to the point.
"'Is there anything we can do together? Can we have a conversation?'" | Peter Lawwell has dismissed claims from Joey Barton that Celtic made moves to sign the midfielder before he joined Rangers. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | The claim: The Liberal Democrats say that tribunal fees "prevent many from pursuing good cases".
Reality Check says: There is evidence for this and charging fees for employment tribunals has led to a bigger fall in the number of claims than the government expected.
The fees were introduced when they were in government with the Conservatives in July 2013 - taking a case to an employment tribunal had previously been free.
At the time one of the reasons it gave was that fees could: "disincentivise unreasonable behaviour, like pursuing weak or vexatious claims".
Weak claims are presumably ones that are less likely to be successful, while strong ones would be more likely to be successful.
The Labour manifesto said the party would "reverse the unfair employment tribunal fees which literally price people out of justice".
There was no mention of employment tribunals in the Conservative or UKIP manifestos.
Employment tribunals are devolved - we'll start with the situation in England and Wales.
Individual claimants now have to pay a claim fee of £160 or £250 depending on the type of case and a further £230 or £950 if the case goes to a hearing.
There is means-tested help available with paying tribunal fees. If you win the case then your employer might be forced to pay your tribunal fees but that is not automatic.
After the fees were introduced the average number of total cases fell from about 5,000 a month to about 1,500 a month.
The government had a review earlier this year to look at the impact of charging fees.
It concluded that the introduction of fees had been successful in the sense that it had raised £8.5m to £9m a year and encouraged people to use free mediation services, but it also said that: "The fall in claims has been significantly greater than was estimated when fees were first introduced."
As a result, the government is consulting on whether changes are needed to the Help with Fees scheme to make it easier for people on lower incomes to get their fees paid.
Brian Doyle, president of employment tribunals in England & Wales said in his submission to the review: "We do not consider that there has been a reduction in weak or unmeritorious claims. Had that been the case we would have expected the percentage of successful claims to have risen, whereas in fact it has declined slightly."
Statistics presented as part of the review show that the proportion of successful claims fell from an average of 15.3% in the nine months before the introduction of charging (62.6% were withdrawn before a hearing) to an average of 12.6% since then (with 59.0% being withdrawn).
"Cases are being upheld in the same proportions as ever - there are just fewer winners and fewer losers," Gareth Brahams from Brahams Dutt Badrick French, who is chair of the Employment Lawyers Association told BBC News.
In Scotland, fees are also charged for employment tribunals. The Scottish National Party has promised to abolish them but has not yet done so. It gained the power to do so as part of last year's Scotland Act.
The SNP has also pledged to abolish the fees as part of its Westminster campaign, which means it wants to see them abolished in England and Wales as well.
It is also consulting on proposals to move some of its functions to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland, which brings together a number of other legal functions, although there has been some opposition to this.
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Follow us on Twitter | The Liberal Democrats have said they would scrap employment tribunal fees in order to "strengthen enforcement of employment rights". |
Please summarize the given passage. | Doughty, 23, began his career at Loftus Road and has had loan spells at Crawley, Aldershot, St Johnstone, Stevenage and Gillingham.
He has played 12 times in total for QPR, including eight this season.
Swindon, who are 16th in League One, face Crewe on Saturday. Earlier in January they saw several key loanees return to their parent clubs.
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Manninger, who won the last of his 33 caps for Austria in 2009, was released by German side FC Augsburg last month.
He has been training with Liverpool and now becomes their third-choice keeper, behind Loris Karius and Simon Mignolet.
"I've still got something left, for sure," said Manninger, who spent five years at Arsenal but has not played in the Premier League since May 2001.
Asked about his return to English football after such a long absence, he told the Liverpool website: "After these years, in Italy and the last four years in Germany, I hadn't given up, I still waited for the phone call.
"Obviously it's probably not the time for me to push for the next three or four years to get a place in the goal.
"Time says it's not possible to play 50 games a year. But if I'm called up, I'm definitely there for games, I will play."
Liverpool have signed five other players this summer so far - Mainz goalkeeper Karius, Schalke centre-back Joel Matip, Red Star Belgrade midfielder Marko Grujic, Southampton forward Sadio Mane and FC Augsburg defender Ragnar Klavan.
They have also agreed a deal to sign Newcastle midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League One Swindon Town have signed Queens Park Rangers midfielder Michael Doughty on a one-month loan deal.
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Liverpool have signed 39-year-old former Arsenal goalkeeper Alex Manninger on a short-term contract. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Sir Bernard Lovell began using radio astronomy in 1945 at the opening of the fledgling Jodrell Bank Observatory.
The Cheshire site would later become home to the iconic radio telescope which bears the astrophysicist's name.
Its director Prof Tim O'Brien said his work had given astronomers the chance to look at "the invisible universe".
The anniversary has been marked with the launch of a year-long programme of events celebrating "the past, present and future of Jodrell Bank's science, engineering and heritage", a spokeswoman said.
In April, the site was chosen as the worldwide headquarters for the Square Kilometre Array project, which will probe the early universe, test the theory of gravity and even search for alien life.
Prof O'Brien said that achievement was a direct result of Sir Bernard's work, as he pioneered a "whole new science [through which] we discovered a whole new universe out there, full of super massive black holes, exploding stars and the fading glow of the Big Bang".
Sir Bernard, who died in 2012, set up old Army radar equipment on the site to detect cosmic-rays and investigate meteors and began work on 14 December 1945.
The huge Lovell Telescope was completed in 1957 and, during its first year, it was the only facility in the West able to track the rocket carrying the Russians' first satellite, the Sputnik, into space.
It went on to confirm the existence of pulsars - dying stars that send out pulses of electromagnetic radiation - in 1968 and, in 1979, was instrumental in proving Einstein's theory of relativity for the first time.
In 2006, it was named as Britain's greatest unsung landmark in a BBC poll.
Source: BBC Science
It came after the ailing lender published a make-or-break turnaround plan which initially caused the stock to rally by up to 26.5%.
Italy's third-largest bank said it would write down bad loans, lay off one in 10 of its workers and raise €5bn (£4.4bn).
The European Central Bank had ordered it to reduce its bad debt in April.
"There is a lot of speculation ahead of the bank's plan... amid rumours and leaks of possible interest of new investors in the bank," Vincenzo Longo, a strategist for IG Markets in Milan, told Bloomberg.
"We will soon discover if the plan is achievable and sustainable."
Concerns are mounting over Italian banks, many of which are weighed down by massive bad debts and thought to be a risk to the wider economy.
Four lenders were bailed out by investors last December and the government is seeking similar solutions for others.
Monte dei Paschi is one of the banks at the centre of the crisis, having been deemed Europe's worst-capitalised bank in recent EU stress tests.
On Tuesday, it reported a net loss of €1.15bn for its third quarter, compared with a net profit of €255.8m for the same quarter of last year.
That was largely due to €1.3bn in provisions for bad loans it booked in the period.
Before Tuesday, the bank's shares had lost almost 75% of their value since the beginning of the year.
The Sunderland midfielder, 25, played in a 4-0 win at Crystal Palace, three years, eight months and 29 days after starting in a Manchester City victory.
Rodwell's winless run of 39 matches stretches back to a City win over West Brom on 7 May 2013 and includes 37 games since he joined the Black Cats.
But it was not all good news as he came off injured after half-time.
Rodwell joined Sunderland for £10m in August 2014 and while he has tasted victory a handful of times in cup competitions and when coming on off the bench, his unwanted record of failing to win in the league when starting has become well publicised.
The previous longest winless Premier League run belongs to three men - ex-Derby players Darren Moore and Kenny Miller, along with former Aston Villa defender Alan Hutton. | The 70th anniversary of an astronomer's first steps into a "whole new science" at one of Britain's most important stargazing sites has been marked.
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Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | Spurs, who trailed 1-0 after the first leg of the last-32 tie, made a great start as Christian Eriksen slipped an angled shot under Gent keeper Lovre Kalinic.
The visitors equalised through Harry Kane's own goal, leaving Spurs needing to score twice more in front of a Europa League record attendance of 80,465.
Their task became harder when midfielder Dele Alli was sent off shortly before half-time for a dangerous high tackle.
Victor Wanyama's curler into the top-left corner revived Spurs' hopes, only for substitute Jeremy Perbet to prod Gent into the last 16 with less than 10 minutes left.
Spurs' elimination means they have only reached the Europa League quarter-finals once in the past six seasons.
Manchester United, who beat French side Saint-Etienne 4-0 on aggregate, will be the only British side in the last-16 draw on Friday (12:00 GMT).
Despite them needing to score at least twice as the match approached half-time, few would have written off Spurs.
But they were then reduced to 10 men after Alli's poor tackle.
The 20-year-old England midfielder has previously shown glimpses of a fiery streak, alongside his technical brilliance, but this was the first red card of his career.
Alli felt referee Manuel de Sousa should have given him a free-kick close to the halfway line and briefly remonstrated with the Portuguese official before turning and launching into Genk midfielder Brecht Dejaegere with a studs-up challenge.
Alli caught Dejaegere just under his right knee - and luckily the Belgian appeared to escape serious injury.
Tottenham did not escape without damage, though.
Tottenham, particularly since Mauricio Pochettino became manager, have often drawn praise for their fearless and confident approach, and they have become regular title challengers.
But it is a different story in Europe.
In truth, they should still have progressed despite Alli's dismissal, only poor finishing costing them in a dominant performance against a team containing a man extra.
The blame largely lies in a lifeless performance in Belgium.
Gent's first-leg victory was only their third win in 13 matches, with their recent form dropping them to eighth place in a Belgian top flight ranked as only the ninth-best European league.
Indeed Belgian leaders Club Brugge, the reigning champions, lost all six matches in their Champions League group, including a 3-0 home defeat and 2-1 loss against Leicester City.
While Tottenham's deficiencies were clear, Gent deserve credit. They were organised, disciplined and clinical when their rare chances arrived.
Perbet, who scored the winner last week, put the tie beyond Spurs with the away team's first shot on target at Wembley, sparking exuberant scenes among the 10,000 visiting fans.
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino:
"I am very disappointed. Once again we were excited to play today in front of our fans. We started well and scored. The tie was open but we conceded a goal in one action in the first half. After that it was complicated.
"I was very proud. We were brave and created chances and scored the second but could not get another. In the second half we played with energy."
Tottenham, who remain without a trophy since 2008, will focus their attention on trying to catch runaway Premier League leaders Chelsea.
Third-placed Spurs host Stoke City at White Hart Lane on Sunday (13:30 GMT).
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, KAA Gent 2.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur 2, KAA Gent 2.
Offside, KAA Gent. Kalifa Coulibaly tries a through ball, but Samuel Gigot is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jan Vertonghen.
Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Kenny Saief (KAA Gent).
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Thomas Foket.
Attempt blocked. Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Samuel Gigot.
Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card.
Kalifa Coulibaly (KAA Gent) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Vincent Janssen replaces Eric Dier.
Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur).
Anderson Esiti (KAA Gent) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Harry Kane.
Foul by Victor Wanyama (Tottenham Hotspur).
Jérémy Perbet (KAA Gent) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur).
Jérémy Perbet (KAA Gent) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Thomas Matton (KAA Gent).
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Anderson Esiti.
Louis Verstraete (KAA Gent) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Louis Verstraete (KAA Gent).
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, KAA Gent 2. Jérémy Perbet (KAA Gent) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner.
Hand ball by Anderson Esiti (KAA Gent).
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Stefan Mitrovic.
Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jérémy Perbet (KAA Gent).
Attempt missed. Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Tottenham Hotspur. Conceded by Rami Gershon.
Substitution, KAA Gent. Jérémy Perbet replaces Moses Simon.
Substitution, Tottenham Hotspur. Harry Winks replaces Mousa Dembélé.
Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Rami Gershon (KAA Gent) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Hand ball by Anderson Esiti (KAA Gent). | Ten-man Tottenham Hotspur were knocked out of the Europa League as Gent held them to a draw at a sell-out Wembley. |
Write a summary of this document. | The Lions had picked up just two points from four games since their 6-0 cup defeat by Spurs, but they got back on track with a victory that leaves them three points behind sixth-placed Southend.
Scunthorpe, meanwhile, remain in fifth, but are just now just four points clear of the Lions after seeing their winless away run extend to seven matches.
Shaun Williams put the hosts ahead when converted an early penalty after Shaun Hutchinson was brought down by Paddy Madden in the second minute.
Millwall should have doubled their lead in 31st minute, Steve Morison finding Jed Wallace at the back post, but the winger's effort went high and wide.
Ivan Toney's half-volley from 25 yards was smartly tipped over the bar by Tom King as Scunthorpe looked for way back into the game after the restart, before Wallace missed another good chance when he blazed over from 12 yards with the goal at his mercy.
However, Millwall got a deserved two-goal lead in 57th minute when Shane Ferguson tapped in Wallace's cross from close range.
Aiden O'Brien then got himself on the scoresheet after 68 minutes with a lovely finish, flicking Tony Craig's teasing ball beyond Joe Anyon to put the game to bed.
Matt Crooks pulled a goal back when he nodded in a free-kick in the third minute of added time, but it was no more than a consolation.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 1.
Second Half ends, Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 1.
Goal! Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United) header from very close range to the bottom left corner.
Foul by Fred Onyedinma (Millwall).
Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
David Worrall (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by David Worrall (Millwall).
Hakeeb Adelakun (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Ben Thompson (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Levi Sutton (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Levi Sutton (Scunthorpe United).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Josh Morris.
Attempt missed. Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Millwall. Callum Butcher replaces Aiden O'Brien.
Mahlon Romeo (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United).
Fred Onyedinma (Millwall) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Craig Davies (Scunthorpe United).
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Shane Ferguson.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Hakeeb Adelakun replaces Ivan Toney.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Craig Davies replaces Paddy Madden.
Substitution, Millwall. David Worrall replaces Jed Wallace.
Attempt saved. Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall).
Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Millwall 3, Scunthorpe United 0. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Tony Craig.
Attempt saved. Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Steve Morison (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Steve Morison (Millwall).
Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Matt Crooks (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Aiden O'Brien (Millwall).
Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Goal! Millwall 2, Scunthorpe United 0. Shane Ferguson (Millwall) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jed Wallace.
Attempt missed. Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United) header from very close range misses to the left.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Shaun Hutchinson.
Ivan Toney (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jed Wallace (Millwall). | Millwall kept themselves in play-off contention with a convincing win over fellow promotion hopefuls Scunthorpe, their first win since crashing out of the FA Cup. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | The original font, introduced in 1916 by calligrapher Edward Johnston, has been adapted to create "Johnston100".
Transport for London (Tfl) said it "contains subtle changes to make it fit for purpose in the 21st century".
But only the slightest adjustments are to be made, and will appear on maps and in stations later this year.
So subtle are the changes that, at first glance, a casual observer might miss them.
But a closer inspection reveals minor differences to the shape of the lettering, which have been revealed in images comparing the two fonts.
Tfl said the new style retains the "soul" of the original lettering.
As well as new symbols such as the hashtag and "at" sign, extra-thin weights of the typeface have been created so that the same lettering can be used for mobiles as in stations.
Jon Hunter, head of TfL design, said updating the typeface was "an important step forward" in an an age of social media and apps.
"As social media has become more important, hashtags and at signs are more important. Johnston never designed those because they were never needed," he said.
When Edward Johnston's original lettering was unveiled a century ago it was considered revolutionary.
"Johnston Sans combined readability, beauty, simplicity," Donna Steel, the curator of an exhibition about Edward Johnston at the Ditchling Museum of Arts and Crafts said.
Monotype, the firm who have adapted the lettering, said designers had studied old posters to "maintain the soul of the typeface" and bring back some of its "idiosyncrasies".
In a blog, type director Malou Verlomme said letters like the lowercase "g" had become "a little bit uniform" over the years.
"We hope this version of the 'lettering of London' for the digital age will last for another 100 years and beyond," Mr Hunter said.
The history of London Underground's typeface
Source: TfL | The familiar typeface used for all London transport is changing, although travellers may have to look hard to spot the difference. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Community support officer Daniel Dawson also offered to sell his stab vest, CS canisters and helmet in August 2014, Teesside Crown Court heard.
The 26-year-old, from Middlesbrough, admitted attempted fraud and theft.
Dawson, who was dismissed from the force in 2015, was given a six-month jail term, suspended for two years.
A search of his house found 40 pieces of kit stashed in his wardrobe, the court was told.
He posted the items on the website, including the handcuffs with a holder and keys for £40, a cap for £30 and badges for £10.
Further posts offered a heavy duty utility belt, an extendable baton and a gas canister holder.
Michele Stuart-Lofthouse, prosecuting, said that despite the items being listed on the website, they had not actually been sold to anyone.
In mitigation, the court was told Dawson had suffered from mental health issues, including anxiety.
Rukhshanda Hussain, defending, said Dawson had no previous convictions, accepted his actions were "foolish and stupid" and that he was remorseful.
Dawson was also ordered to do 180 hours community service and pay £500 costs.
Judge Colin Burn said Dawson actions were "a serious breach of trust".
He added: "There was one item which was offered for sale, the baton, which if sold could have been putting a significant weapon in the hands of a stranger."
Judge Burn said Cleveland Police had to act to ensure equipment was properly accounted for when officers left the force.
It has asked for a review of a recommendation that it should return the work to the heirs of the original owner.
A committee of government-appointed experts said last year that the gallery had "a moral obligation" to return it.
The oil painting became part of the Tate's collection in 1986.
The 1824 work - entitled Beaching A Boat, Brighton - was understood to have been looted and smuggled out of war-time Hungary.
It was first recorded in London in 1962, and was donated to the Tate by Mrs PM Rainsford.
However, "new information has come to light on the history of the painting," said a Tate statement.
"This was reviewed by Tate. The Tate Trustees have now approached the Secretary of State to invite the Spoliation Advisory Panel to review the new information. We cannot comment further at this stage."
The panel resolves claims from people, or their heirs, who lost property during the Nazi era, which is now held in UK national collections.
The DCMS said it was "considering the information received from the Tate trustees and a decision will be made in due course".
After the Spoliation Advisory Panel's initial conclusion a year ago, Tate said it would recommend to its trustees that the work be returned to returned to the family of the original owner, who died in 1958.
The report said the unnamed man was "a well-known Hungarian artist and connoisseur from a Jewish background" and described how he fled the 1944 Nazi invasion and "went into hiding".
The claimants discovered two years ago that the painting by Constable had ended up in Tate's collection. The claim was formally submitted to the spoliation panel in April 2013. | A former Cleveland Police officer has admitted trying to sell equipment including handcuffs and a baton on website Gumtree.
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Summarize the following content briefly. | The Citizens trailed from the 13th minute when Bror Blume shot across Connor Roberts into the top-right corner of the net.
The Bangor goalkeeper was kept busy all evening as Lyngby.
The Danes finished with 10 men after defender Hallgrimur Jonasson was shown a second yellow card late on, and he will miss the second leg on 6 July.
Slovan Bratislava of Slovakia or Armenian side Pyunik await the winners in the second qualifying round. | Bangor City's Europa League hopes remain alive after a narrow first-leg defeat away to Lyngby BK in Denmark. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said regular re-licensing of teachers would allow the worst ones to be sacked whilst helping others to receive more training and development.
The last government made a similar proposal for what became known as "classroom MOTs" but then dropped it.
Unions criticised it as "pointless".
The Conservatives said they had already taken steps to improve teaching standards.
When former schools secretary Ed Balls proposed a so-called "licence to practise" in 2009, the National Union of Teachers said it would be "another unnecessary hurdle" for teachers while the Association of Teachers and Lecturers said it would be a "bureaucratic nightmare" to introduce.
But the NASUWT and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) came out in favour of the plans at the time.
At the moment teachers are not licensed.
Indeed, Labour and the Liberal Democrats have criticised the fact that some of those working in the government's new "free schools" can teach without having "qualified teacher status".
Tristram Hunt told the BBC the idea was about recognising the "enormously important" role that teachers played and helping the profession "grow".
"Just like lawyers and doctors they should have the same professional standing which means relicensing themselves, which means continued professional development, which means being the best possible they can be," he said.
"If you're not a motivated teacher - passionate about your subject, passionate about being in the classroom - then you shouldn't really be in this profession.
"So if you're not willing to engage in relicensing to update your skills then you really shouldn't be in the classroom," he added.
Although the "devil would be in the detail", the NUT said it could potentially be a positive development.
"If this turned out to be a continuation of the Michael Gove denigration of teachers a top-down judgemental prescription of how teachers teach it would be very negative," said union official Kevin Courtney.
"But if relicensing were truly based on a new entitlement to high-quality professional development that was controlled by the teacher profession then we could talk about the details of how to improve it.
"It could be very positive for education."
However, NUT general secretary Christine Blower added: "There will be a good many teachers who will just see this as another hurdle."
Ian Fenn, the head teacher of Burnage Media Arts College in Manchester, told BBC Breakfast that in principle he would welcome the licensing plan.
But he warned: "If it's going to be a test, that would be absolutely the wrong way to go about it - we're not cars, we don't need an MoT."
The largest teaching union NASUWT said "important preconditions" needed to be met before the move could be introduced.
And Chris Keates, the union's general secretary, hit out at commentators for hijacking any debate about how to improve the profession and turning it into an attempt to "root out incompetent teachers".
"No group of workers, least of all teachers, deserves to be treated in this way," she said.
Labour plans to consult with the unions on how a new system of licensing might be made more acceptable to them.
The assessments would be continuous, based in the classroom and would involve external assessors and not just school staff. Re-licensing of teachers could take place every seven or nine years and not five as under the Balls plan.
A newly strengthened Royal College of Teaching could be used to issue and supervise the licences.
There have been calls from across the political spectrum for the creation of a new professional body like the General Medical Council which would be separate from both the unions and the government.
Labour is hoping to use this announcement to claim it is interested in classroom standards while the Conservatives are, instead, focusing on school structures.
They also want to show that they are willing to stand up to the unions.
The coalition has recently introduced annual appraisals for doctors supervised by the General Medical Council. They face a decision every five years on whether they can continue to practice.
A Conservative Party spokesman said the party would look at any proposals which would genuinely improve the quality of teaching.
"We have already taken action by allowing heads to remove teachers from the classroom in a term, as opposed to a year previously, and scrapping the three-hour limit on classroom observations.
"We are improving teacher training, expanding Teach First and allowing heads to pay good teachers more. Thanks to our reforms, a record proportion of top graduates are entering the profession.
"Fixing the schools system so young people have the skills they need is a key part of our long-term economic plan. That will mean better schools for our communities and a better education for young people who want to get on," he said. | Teachers would have to be licensed every few years in order to work in England's state schools under a future Labour government, the BBC has learned. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The developers of the Northern United Colliery site in Cinderford must sign a legal agreement to look after protected species in the area before work starts.
Wildlife experts have said they will ask the Secretary of State to "call in" the decision.
But the government agency behind the plans said it was spending £50,000 to protect the wildlife habitats.
The area is currently home to three protected species; dormice, bats and great crested newts.
The plans are to turn the old mine into 11,000 sq m of office and employment space.
A similar project to create 2,800 sq m of office space at Forest Vale Industrial Park has also been approved.
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) said the plans would bring some 300 jobs and £11m investment into the Forest.
David Warburton, from the agency, said they were "crucial projects" for the Forest of Dean.
He said: "The Forest has not captured quite as much investment over recent years. Investment which is needed to really regenerate the area to provide new homes, new jobs and new educational facilities."
He added he was "absolutely confident we are putting all measures in place to mitigate any harm or danger to wildlife".
Last year Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust objected to the regeneration plans after the former colliery was designated a Key Wildlife Site.
A panel of wildlife experts believe the area is one of the best sites in Gloucestershire for wildlife.
Colin Studholme, from the trust, said: "In all the years the Wildlife Trust has been commenting on planning applications, this is probably the most significant one as far as wildlife is concerned."
The colliery, which closed in 1965, is owned by the HCA and was one of four 'priority investment areas' identified by the Cinderford Regeneration Board.
The outline planning applications are set to deliver:
A separate planning application for a £10.5m spine road is expected to be made to the district council in June.
Officers responded to reports of a man lying in Bridge Street, Girvan, at about 02:30.
The 23-year-old was taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock then later transferred the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Det Insp Alan Sommerville said: "We understand that there was a disturbance on Bridge Street in the early hours of Monday morning which has left a man seriously injured.
"Anyone who witnessed any suspicious behaviour on Bridge Street at the time of the incident is asked to contact Ayr Police office." | Plans to regenerate a former deep mine in the Forest of Dean have been given the go-ahead, but with conditions.
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Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The oil company Infrastrata announced the news on its website on Thursday.
It said it was disappointed not to have found a "hydrocarbon accumulation" at the site at Woodburn forest near Carrickfergus.
Two areas the firm drilled to a depth of 2,000 metres underground had been "water wet," it said.
It said the well "will now be plugged and abandoned".
Protesters have opposed the drill operation, claiming it could impact the water supply to nearby reservoirs.
But Northern Ireland Water had said the project did not present any risk to the water supply.
James Orr, the Northern Ireland director of the environmental campaign group Friends Of The Earth, said the "earth has spoken".
"Today is a time for celebration - this is fantastic news for the community, our water, our climate and our wellbeing," he said.
"We feel vindicated that this harmful, worthless and ill-conceived project is now over.
"The democratic meltdown that allowed exploratory drilling in Woodburn can never repeated."
The overtime bill for the policing operation at the site came to almost £200,000.
Infrastrata said it would now evaluate the data before deciding where to focus its future exploration activity. | A controversial drilling operation in County Antrim has finished, apparently without hitting oil. |
Can you summarize this passage? | This view was expressed by Michael Carrick earlier this year when he called for Wayne Rooney to be given more respect for his achievements at Manchester United.
He might as well been talking about Asamoah Gyan - a perfect example of a player whose contributions are chronically undervalued.
On Sunday the 31-year-old forward became the first player to score 50 goals for the Black Stars.
Gyan was on target as Ghana began their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with a 5-0 victory over Ethiopia in Kumasi.
Half-a-century of international goals is a terrific stat in anyone's book and only five Africans have hit that milestone for their countries.
Gyan is now a full member of an exclusive club that includes Zambian legend Godfrey Chitalu, Egyptian great Hossam Hassan, Ivory Coast icon Didier Drogba and Cameroon goal machine Samuel Eto'o.
He is also Africa's all-time top scorer at the Fifa World Cup with six goals.
To put his accomplishments into context, Ghana's most revered footballer Abedi Pele Ayew, who played in five Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, retired from international football with 33 goals in 67 appearances.
At the age of 31 and in the twilight of his career, Gyan remains as indispensable as ever but also bafflingly under-appreciated.
He has long been overlooked in conversations about the continent's best forwards but his ability to hit the back of the net from almost anywhere on the pitch has made life miserable for defenders and goalkeepers over the years.
He has scored a few look-at-me goals but his Black Stars goal portfolio also includes simple tap-ins, headers and free-kicks.
Yet, there are many in Ghana who salivate at any opportunity to pounce on a man who made his international debut in 2003, aged 17, and scored against Somalia.
Throughout his career, Gyan has never been far from criticism and abuse from his own fans and, incredibly, some of his critics claim that missed penalties at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations damaged his legacy beyond repair.
When Gyan left English Premier League side Sunderland for a lucrative deal with Abu Dhabi's Al Ain in 2012, he was pilloried for "taking the easy option" and some predicted the end of his career.
Now playing for Al-Ahli Dubai FC, Gyan has proved the doubters wrong by showing the kind of consistency in front of goal that most could only dream of.
He has been nothing short of prolific for the four-time African champions and deserves much more respect than people give him.
It is often the case with most underrated players that one does not realise just how important they are until they are gone.
Enjoy watching Asamoah Gyan while you can. | "Sometimes it can take until someone has finished their career to be fully appreciated." |
Can you summarize the given article? | Police were called after reports of a disturbance at a property in Hickling Road, Ilford, on Saturday night.
Florin Onea, 49, was taken to hospital with a stab wound and died on Monday.
Officers arrested a 34-year-old man at the scene, who was charged with GBH with intent to kill.
Detectives have begun a murder investigation.
Mr Onea's next of kin has been informed.
Fred Olsen agreed to the group settlement after holidaymakers suffered gastric illnesses on the the Boudicca between October 2009 and May 2010.
Passengers' symptoms included diarrhoea, vomiting and severe stomach cramps.
Fred Olsen said all its ships met the highest standards of health, safety and hygiene at all times.
Luke and Emma Ryan, from Petersfield, Hampshire, spent Christmas 2009 and New Year with their five-year-old daughter on the ship.
Mr Ryan, 41, said: "It was a disaster... Instead of opening presents on Christmas morning, I had to be seen by a nurse.
"The cruise was cut short by a day due to the illness and, to be frank, the end could not have come soon enough. We hope this settlement will mean we can now move on with our lives."
Clare Pearson, of law firm Irwin Mitchell, said: "We have heard a range of stories of how so many people's breaks - which were often booked as luxury, once-in-a-lifetime trips to celebrate Christmas, wedding anniversaries and birthdays - were ruined by illness."
A Fred Olsen spokeswoman said: "Unfortunately, from October 2009 to May 2010, there was a higher incidence than usual of gastric illness, also known as norovirus or winter vomiting virus, within communities in the United Kingdom, which is commonly identifiable in areas where people reside in close proximity.
"Most people do not report incidences but on a cruise ship, where movement is restricted, cases are particularly highlighted.
"The health, safety and well-being of all our guests and crew remains our utmost priority at all times, and we believe that our systems for preventing the spread of illness on board our ships are amongst the best within the industry."
Trouble erupted at the friendly against Eintracht Frankfurt on Tuesday evening in the Eugendorf area of Salzburg.
It spilled into the town centre when supporters of the West Yorkshire club invaded the pitch and were chased by Frankfurt fans, Salzburg Police said.
The force added it made 25 arrests which included a number of Leeds fans.
Leeds United said it was aware of the situation and would release a statement later.
Four Frankfurt fans were arrested for attacking security staff at the stadium and a Leeds fan was arrested for throwing a bench at police, according to a statement on the police website.
The force said Leeds fans were attacked inside the stadium and then again when leaving with the trouble being carried into the town centre.
Pepper spray was used to bring the situation under control, police said, and an investigation is ongoing.
Leeds were beaten 2-1 by the Bundesliga side, watched by about 1,100 spectators. | A man has been stabbed to death at a home in east London.
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What is the summary of the given information? | The station passes the UK twice on Tuesday, first late in the afternoon and then again in the evening.
BBC Weather said north west Scotland could potentially have skies clear enough to catch glimpses of it.
US space agency Nasa provides timings on when ISS comes into view from Earth.
The station appears as a bright star-like object.
On Tuesday, Mr Peake will head off on his six-month mission on-board the station.
He is set to launch aboard a Russian rocket with fellow crew members Tim Kopra and Yuri Malenchenko.
Jermaine McGillvary's try gave the hosts a first-half lead, but after the break Wigan's Liam Farrell went over.
The Warriors went ahead for the first time when Dom Manfredi crossed, but were pegged back by Jamie Foster's try.
Jamie Ellis kicked a goal and a drop goal but Charnley's converted try turned the game on its head at the end.
Wigan had begun their Super League campaign with a 12-6 win over Catalans Dragons last week.
Despite missing several key personnel from last week's defeat by St Helens, including captain Danny Brough and prop Eorl Crabtree, the Giants turned in a positive display in their second defeat of the campaign.
McGillvary scored on his 150th Giants appearance, assisted by the impressive Ellis who led his side in the absence of Brough, while Foster's debut was also marked by a score.
However Wigan's ability to grind out a result, with their own injury concerns, was shown by a second-half response even when the game looked lost following Ellis' late drop-goal.
Charnley's defensive work was backed up by the crucial try to send the Warriors into next week's World Club Series against Brisbane Broncos in good spirits.
Huddersfield head coach Paul Anderson:
"It's a feeling of disappointment. Our commitment and effort was outstanding.
"What you saw is the future of the club. They stood up real well and we know now that we have blokes out there no matter how old they are that can do a job for us.
"We should have won that game. When we went 12-6 down, we could easily have thrown the towel in but that's not us."
Wigan head coach Shaun Wane:
"I'm just glad to get the two points, that's what we came to get. I'm happy to be sat here with four points and we've not played well.
"It's a decent start for us but we understand we need to improve for next week. We played ugly and won.
"Some of our skill was poor. They controlled the ball and they were allowed to do that, which is disappointing. We had a spell when our completions were about 50% which is not us."
Huddersfield: Murphy; McGillvary, Cudjoe, Wood, Foster; Connor, Ellis; Rapira, Hinchcliffe, Johnson, Ta'ai, Lawrence, Patrick
Interchanges: D. Smith, Leeming, Mason, Roberts
Wigan: Tierney; Charnley, Gelling, Sarginson, Manfredi; Powell, M. Smith; Flower, McIlorum, O'Loughlin, Farrell, Isa, Bateman
Interchanges: Clubb, Tautai, Sutton, Burke | Parts of Scotland could offer the best views of the International Space Station (ISS) following UK astronaut Tim Peake's arrival on it, weather forecasters have said.
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Wigan Warriors kept up their winning start to the season as Josh Charnley's late try gave them victory over a dogged Huddersfield Giants side. |
Summarize this article briefly. | The Sky Blues left Highfield Road, the club's home since 1899, for the Ricoh Arena in 2005.
Paul Sheehy, of Coventry, has items including signs at his home and created a cinema in his garage to watch footage he filmed of the ground's demolition.
He said Highfield Road was "perfect".
Mr Sheehy said: "It suddenly dawned on me it was over and I thought 'they don't need a bigger ground, this place just needs a little bit of tarting up. It's perfect.'.
"And I still think I'm right - (they) should never have left."
The Sky Blues beat Derby County 6-2 in their final game at Highfield Road on 30 April 2005 to avoid relegation from the Championship.
A Mowbray Street is in the area of the old ground - a coincidence, given the club's current manager is Tony Mowbray.
The Sky Blues played home games at Northampton Town from the start of the 2013-14 season over a long-running row over rent, but returned to the Ricoh Arena in September 2014.
People get honours for achievements like making a difference to their community, being a volunteer for many years or being amazing at what they do for a job.
Anyone can recommend someone for an award but not everyone is chosen.
The decision about who gets an honour - and the honour they get - is made by a group of people who make up the honours committee.
The committee's decisions go to the Prime Minister and then, finally, to the Queen to check it.
Not everyone wants an honour and people are allowed to turn down the award.
The full list of people who have awarded an honour is revealed twice a year - at New Year, and in mid-June on the date of the Queen's official birthday.
The winners then receive their awards, which are special medals, from the Queen or other members of the Royal Family at a ceremony.
Knights and Dames
The honour of knighthood comes from medieval times, as does the way used to award the knighthood: the touch of a sword by the King or Queen.
Men who receive this honour are given the title "Sir" and their wives "Lady".
Women receiving the honour are called "Dame".
The award is given for an exceptional achievement in any activity.
Orders of the British Empire
King George V created these honours during World War I to reward services to the war effort by people helping in the UK or not fighting on the front line.
People can be given either the award of Commander (CBE), Officer (OBE) or Member (MBE).
They are now awarded to people making a positive impact in their work.
For example, the honour of an MBE can be given for achievement or service in the local community.
British Empire Medal
The medal was founded in 1917 and was awarded for "meritorious" actions by civilians or military personnel.
It was scrapped in 1993.
Nearly twenty years later, Prime Minister David Cameron brought the medal back and about 300 will be awarded every year to community volunteers. | A Coventry City fan whose garden is full of memorabilia from the club's old ground has said the team should never have left - on the 10th anniversary of the final game at the stadium.
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The British honours system gives special awards to people who have made an outstanding contribution to society. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Anglesey council has granted outline planning permission for the 500-berth development at Newry beach.
One opponent said it would destroy the beach, but a town councillor said the area needed progress.
The developers say it will create 700 jobs, but one economics analyst described that forecast as optimistic.
Prof Peter Midmore of Aberystwyth University said other development across the UK had delivered only half the proposed jobs, in the best case scenario.
Prof Midmore said: "It's very, very difficult to argue against something that will definitely create jobs, but the problem is, I think with many developments - not just marinas - the predications of developers are very rarely tested."
He said the level of jobs proposed and then actually created had "never been tested in the case of any marina in the UK".
But he said at other similar developments, the best "have been around about half the predicted level".
He also added that because of the affects on other parts of a town, in some cases, it could actually lead to fewer jobs in an area.
Despite receiving eight petitions with more than 4,000 names and over 300 letters against the plans, the outline proposals were accepted by councillors on Anglesey at a meeting in Wednesday.
The plans include:
Eilian Williams, the solicitor representing the opponents said after the meeting: "It's not what I wanted, but it is what I expected. The economic argument is always a very forceful argument."
But David Lloyd Williams, of the Newry Beach Residents Association, where the marina will be built, said: "It is absolutely ridiculous to attempt to build an aquatic housing estate on the Newry beach, which is frankly the only amenity in Holyhead.
"It's the only convenience area which everybody enjoys.
"What this scheme will lead to is the destruction of the Newry beach as we know it.
"We already have a very good marina which has been trading now for about 12 years, and still after 12 years trading, half of the berths are not taken up.
"Nobody denies the need for jobs in Holyhead, especially for young people, but this is not the way forward."
However, Anne Kennedy, a town councillor for the ward, said she still supported the development.
"I've always said that these decisions are taken by professional people, long discussions, forensic questioning - which is what we did in the chamber in Holyhead council," she said.
"I was born and bred in that area and I don't give away my heritage lightly.
"We mustn't forget that Stena owns all of the land and they are investing, effectively, in their own property.
"With the lack of investment, nothing progresses, and that I'm afraid is the position with Newry beach at the moment.
"We need additional investment." | Campaigners opposed to a new £100m marina development at Holyhead on Anglesey say they are disappointed by the go-ahead for the project. |
Summarize the passage below. | Susan Taylor, of Hawkcombe, died in her late 90s in December and left her money to the recreation ground in Porlock.
Residents of the Somerset village are now being asked to come up with ideas on how to spend the bequest.
Mike Lynch, from the recreation ground, said: "It is an amazing amount of money and we wanted to see what the main view was from the community."
The Porlock Recreation Ground currently offers a "well equipped" children's playground, two football pitches, a cricket pitch, a floodlit tennis court and multisport court as well as a large pavilion.
In her will Mrs Taylor said she wanted the funds "to be spent for the benefit of Porlock's residents and visitors who use the recreation grounds".
She had lived in the village for many years and her family is said to "fully support" her wishes.
Mr Lynch, chairman of the Porlock Recreation Ground management committee, said he found out about the legacy in January but had to "keep it under wraps" until probate was granted.
"The first thing we did was send out a letter to the people in the village and the surrounding villages asking for their ideas," he said.
"We've had around 80 responses - a swimming pool is probably the most mentioned."
He added it would be "several months" before a final decision is made.
"As you can appreciate it's not something we've done before so it's not easy to know how long it will take," he said. | People living in a village on Exmoor have been left an "amazingly generous" £700,000 by a former resident. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | George Georgiou, whose previous destinations include Turkey, Serbia and Ukraine, has not visited the town before and says he has no preconceptions of what it will be like.
"The only thing I know about Ipswich is the football club," he said.
"Every journey will be a complete exploration and mystery to me, which is the perfect way to approach something."
Georgiou's residency on the buses around Ipswich is a continuation of a project he did in his hometown of London, and before that a study of people on public transport in Ukraine following the 'Orange Revolution' protests.
"I travelled through Ukraine on buses, trains, trams, and trolley buses - photographing people going to work, going home," he said. "If you take the bus you end up going into areas you have no reason to normal go into."
His photos from the buses in London show people carrying about their daily routines, and are intended to leave the viewer with room for their own interpretation.
"The things I'm really interested in are those fairly every day mundane things, but they're so loaded with meaning," Georgiou said.
"They're open-ended scenarios, what I call little micro dramas, or mini soaps. There's an image where you're looking into a pub - it's like a film scene but you imagine the scenario yourself."
Georgiou will arrive in Ipswich on Monday and the resulting photographs will feature in the PhotoEast festival, which launches in May.
"Ipswich will be really interesting - the whole place will be new to me," he said.
"I used to research projects before I went but I found that over the years you're going in there with a preconceived idea of the place, and I think you're further away from the truth." | An award-winning photographer is to spend nine days on buses in Ipswich, taking photos of local people. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | RNLI data shows 55% of people in Wales would try to swim, would panic or remove clothing if they fell unexpectedly into water.
The charity is calling on people to fight these instincts and remember one potential life-saving skill - floating.
Doing this for 60-90 seconds helps calm breathing, increasing survival chances.
RNLI said sudden immersion in cold water often triggers uncontrollable gasping and an instinct to swim hard, which can quickly lead to drowning.
Instead, it said people should float on their back until the effects of cold water shock pass, allowing time to catch your breath, before then trying to swim to safety or calling for help.
The campaign is particularly targeted at adult men, who account for 75% of the coastal deaths in Wales over the past five years and 65% of last year's fatalities.
Prof Mike Tipton, a Human and Applied Physiology lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, said: "As little exercise as necessary can be undertaken to help stay afloat. The recommended floating position is to lean back in the water and keep your airway clear. Keeping calm will help maintain buoyancy.
"The main principle is to do as little as possible until you have control of your breathing.
"At this point you have a much better chance of avoiding drowning and surviving until you can swim to safety, call for help, or continuing to float until help arrives."
Matt Childs, RNLI volunteer Community Safety Officer, advised anyone who wished to swim outdoors to choose a lifeguarded beach.
He added anyone who sees someone in danger should fight the instinct to rescue them and instead call 999 for the Coastguard.
Mott Macdonald will produce detailed designs for a revamp of the station's frontage, forecourt and concourse.
About £6m is to be spent on the redevelopment which is scheduled to be completed in 2018.
The station was constructed and added to during the 1800s. The pitched iron and glass roof over the concourse was built in 1876.
ScotRail Alliance, which is working closely with Highland Council and public transport body Hitrans on the project, said tenders for the construction work would be sought in autumn this year.
"Enhanced shopping options" in the concourse, along with a more "dominant frontage" and improved links to Falcon Square and the bus station, sites which are close to the railway station, would also be part of the redevelopment.
ScotRail Alliance's project lead Peter O'Connell said: "We look forward to working with Mott Macdonald and to seeing the designs for the redevelopment. Inverness is ready for a railway station that matches the dynamic and forward-looking development of the cityscape.
"Close collaboration with Highland Council and Hitrans and working with our immediate neighbours at the station, will deliver the best possible improvements to facilities and services in and around Inverness station."
Inverness Provost Helen Carmichael said: "We warmly welcome the start of the design phase of the Inverness Rail Station Improvement project.
"This is the opportunity to transform the station and its surroundings so they are far safer and more accessible, as well as more attractive to commuters and tourists wishing to continue their journey, on foot or by bike, when they arrive in Inverness."
Fans of Adams have commemorated his life and work by carrying towels with them every year.
Why a towel? Towels featured in chapter three of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
In the book, there's an electronic travel guide which offers a piece of advice for would-be hitchhikers. It says that a towel is the "most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have", providing warmth and warding off the galaxy's "noxious fumes".
The commemorative day was first held in 2001, two weeks after Adams' death.
The hashtag #TowelDay is trending on Twitter with fans from around the world tweeting references from Adams' book and showing off their towels.
The actor Stephen Mangan has led the online tributes by tweeting a Hitchhiker's quote.
Even astronaut Tim Peake has joined in the fun.
Dr Adam Rutherford, the host of BBC Radio 4's Inside Science, is another fan of Adams' books.
Someone at Manchester City Football Club is a fan of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. | Advice has been issued on how to avoid cold water shock, as the latest figures show 17 people died around the coast of Wales last year.
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ScotRail Alliance has appointed a design team to work on a new look for Inverness Station.
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Towel Day is celebrated every year on 25 May as a tribute to Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. |
Summarize the provided section. | The test, which can be ordered online, uses a small droplet of blood that is sent to a laboratory.
Public Health England (PHE) is urging more people to check their HIV status.
It says four in 10 people in the UK are diagnosed late - meaning treatment may be less effective and the disease can be spread unwittingly.
Official figures for 2014 show 103,700 people have HIV in the UK.
And though rates are falling overall, PHE warns it is still a growing problem in certain communities.
Experts say improved treatment means that if people are diagnosed early on, they can have a life-expectancy that almost matches those who are HIV free.
Prof Kevin Fenton, at PHE, added: "With national HIV-testing week approaching, I would encourage all those at higher risk of HIV, such as men who have sex with men or people from black African communities, to seriously consider testing, especially as they are now able to order a home sampling kit free online."
The kit involves a finger-prick blood test that is sent off to be analysed. Three to five days later, people are contacted with results.
If the test suggests HIV is likely, patients are asked to attend a sexual health clinic for a confirmatory check.
The free test will be available to anyone in England until 1 January 2016.
After this, local authorities will have to make individual decisions regarding funds. Some have already been attempting trials of other free home-tests.
A separate, commercial do-it-yourself kit was launched earlier this year, which works in a similar way to a pregnancy test - providing rapid results.
But charities warn efforts to tackle HIV have been hit by funding cuts.
Deborah Gold, chief executive of the National Aids Trust, said: "We need to scale up our HIV testing and prevention efforts, but instead the government cut millions off the budget this year used to pay for both."
According to the latest HIV figures:
Eric Baptista, 29, received a 12-month suspended jail term after admitting seven counts of criminal damage.
The judge at Liverpool Crown Court ordered Baptista, from Liverpool, not to go within 32ft (10m) of any William Hill betting shop for five years.
He was also ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid community work.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Baptista, of Seacole Close, had smashed up TV screens and gaming machines with a hammer at William Hill shops in south Liverpool during three weeks in May.
He also smeared the screens in the shops with anti-vandal paint and filmed some of the attacks on a mobile phone.
Baptista told police he had committed the offences because he was a gambling addict and had lost so much money to the William Hill betting shop chain and was angry that staff were not trained to deal with problem gamblers.
The CPS said he told staff in the betting shops: "This is a protest. I am sorry; there is no safety net for customers."
Crown advocate Mike Stephenson, who prosecuted the case, said: "He [Baptista] stated that he had since been to counselling for his addiction, and as a result he has not been to a betting shop.
"He also said that he'd started a forum against the gambling industry, and campaigns to try to highlight the problems that gamblers face." | A free HIV home-testing kit has been launched across England as the latest figures show 18,100 people in the UK are unaware they have the infection.
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A gambling addict smashed up screens and gaming machines in William Hill betting shops in Liverpool because he had lost a lot of money, a court heard. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Police said a 23-year-old man from the Glasgow area was charged in connection with sectarian singing and offensive behaviour.
A further four men aged 20, 26, 27 and 28 from the Aberdeen area were charged with "minor public disorder offences".
Police Scotland said damage to seats in the away support area and toilet area was also being investigated.
Rangers won the game 0-3.
Supt George MacDonald, the match commander, said: "The vast majority of fans followed the advice given and conducted themselves appropriately."
The 20-year-old played for the Republic at Under-21s level but turned down a call-up to the senior squad for a friendly against England in June.
Birmingham-born Grealish qualifies for the Republic through his grandparents.
"It was not an easy decision as Ireland has a special place with me through my family," he said. "But I have decided to represent the country of my birth."
Grealish made his professional debut while on loan at Notts County against MK Dons in September 2013.
His first Villa appearance was in May 2014 as a substitute in a defeat by Manchester City.
England manager Roy Hodgson had made it clear to Grealish that he wanted him to represent his side.
However, Hodgson did not pick him to play against the Republic in June, with the England boss saying "it would have been inflammatory at the last minute if he chose us and played".
Grealish's decision to represent England at senior level is a big blow to Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill - but a real lift to Hodgson as he plans for Euro 2016.
Aston Villa's 20-year-old has not only selected to play for the country of his birth but also an England side that has already secured qualification for the competition in France next summer.
And that, in itself, guarantees he will be given the opportunity to work his way into Hodgson's squad.
Hodgson will be delighted as Grealish is gifted and with the rare talent of having time on the ball even in congested areas, a quality ideally suited to the international stage.
And with Arsenal's Jack Wilshere again struggling with injury, the addition of another talented young midfielder to England's ranks alongside the likes of Everton's Ross Barkley - plus other emerging stars such as Spurs' Harry Kane and Everton's John Stones - is a welcome lift for Hodgson and England. | Five people have been charged following the Aberdeen v Rangers match at Pittodrie on Sunday.
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Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish has opted to play for England rather than the Republic of Ireland. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Scotland Under-21 cap McGhee, 19, is poised to spend a season with Boro's development squad after playing 28 times for Hearts last season.
The 25-year-old Noring, who has one cap for Sweden, was with Lyngby in the Danish top flight last season.
Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson said: "He has everything we're looking for."
The Edinburgh club released Neil Alexander this summer despite the former Scotland squad goalkeeper being first choice for most of last season.
As the 38-year-old moved on to Scottish Premiership rivals Aberdeen as a player-coach, Hearts signed Paul Gallacher from Partick Thistle to fill that role at Tyncecastle.
Neilson said that 22-year-old Jack Hamilton, who was recently called up to the senior Scotland squad for the first time, was ready to become his first choice.
But Noring, who started his career with Trelleborgs and had loan spells with Malmo and Celtic before joining Bodo/Glimt then Heerenveen, is poised to challenge the young Scot.
"We offered Viktor a contract, so he's away back to Sweden to speak to his agent and his family and we're hoping to hear back from him in the next couple of days," said Neilson of Noring, who played nine times for Lyngby.
"We think he can challenge Jack Hamilton for the number one spot and that's what we want. I want someone to push him on and compete."
Meanwhile, McGhee is poised to be given the chance to win a permanent transfer to Middlesbrough, with the club promoted to England's Premier League continuing their interest in the product of Hearts' youth academy.
"Middlesbrough have come back in wanting to take Jordan on a loan deal," Neilson told Sky Sports.
"It was something that came up in the January window and it broke down at the last minute and Jordan's had his heart set on it since then.
"The last year or two, he's been desperate to get down to England and, with Middlesbrough coming back in and, with Jordan's desire to play down there, it was the right thing to do.
"Middlesbrough are looking to recruit younger players into their development squad and Jordan will go down there and try to push himself into the first team."
McGhee made his Hearts debut aged 16 in 2013, but only 15 of his 28 appearances last season were in the starting line-up.
He was travelling to Middlesbrough on Monday and will not feature in the second leg of Hearts' Europa League qualifier against Infonet in Estonia on Wednesday.
However, midfielder Morgaro Gomis and striker Robbie Muirhead will both travel after being passed fit following minor injury complaints.
Midfielder Don Cowie will remain in Edinburgh to work on his recovery from a calf injury. | Hearts have offered a contract to trialist goalkeeper Viktor Noring but are allowing defender Jordan McGhee to join Middlesbrough on loan. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Play in Sunday's 0-0 draw was stopped for about two minutes when chants were aimed at Milan's black players.
The Italian Football Federation fined the club 50,000 euros (£42,000).
But Blatter told Fifa's website: "They have not made any investigation of what happened. Just to give a pecuniary sanction is not valid, not acceptable."
The game was temporarily brought to a halt at the start of the second half after an announcement was made to supporters, ordering them to cease their behaviour.
Roma released a statement on Monday condemning the actions of their supporters, saying the club was "committed to facing this issue head-on".
However, Blatter was not happy with the response from the Italian Football Federation.
"What is most surprising and is not understandable is that the disciplinary committee of the Italian Football Federation has taken a decision, not even 24 hours after the event, by just imposing a fine," he said.
"You will always find money. What is 50,000 euros for such an incident? I'm not happy and I will call the Italian Federation. That's not a way to deal with such matters."
Former Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli, ex-Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng and defender Kevin Constant were part of the Milan team, with the governing body of the Italian league's judgement stating three unnamed players had been abused.
In January, a friendly between Milan and Pro Patria was suspended because of racist chants aimed at Boateng. In April, Juventus were fined 30,000 euros (£25,700) for their fans' racist abuse of AC Milan players.
Roma's match in Milan was the first time in Italian football that play had been temporarily stopped and re-started.
Blatter added: "Lessons have not been learned. It is incredible that we had such incidents, especially in the Italian Serie A, in the San Siro between AC Milan and Roma - a very important match."
In the aftermath of the tie between Milan and Pro Patria, Fifa created a special taskforce to tackle the issue.
The group, whose members include Boateng and Premier League referee Howard Webb, met on Monday and the world governing body has since published an outline of proposed sanctions for clubs and individuals found guilty of "racist or discriminative acts".
These will include having an official at the stadium tasked to spot "acts of discrimination", creating a sliding scale of punishments from fines to playing games behind closed doors and the creation of "a concrete action plan" by all bodies describing how they will try to fight racism. | Fifa president Sepp Blatter has criticised the decision to merely fine Roma for their fans' racist chanting during a Serie A match with AC Milan. |
Summarize the provided section. | Special Report: The Technology of Business
Ivory Coast targets cyber criminals
Tapping into the IT cloud crowd
2014: The year of encryption
Stress test: Are you fit for work?
2013: The year we all went 'mobile'
With just enough room for one person to stand, the circular glass enclosure - designed to ensure that no-one can "tailgate" another person - is one of the many levels of security that you have to go through to get beyond the reception area of the building.
But then again, it was no ordinary building that I was about to enter.
Welcome to the world of what can aptly be called digital fortresses - custom-built buildings that house data centres.
The BBC was given access to one such centre in Singapore, built by Digital Realty, a firm that specialises in constructing such facilities.
From bomb-blast resistant areas to biometric security scanners, these specially designed buildings are fast becoming a preferred choice among companies looking to set up data centres.
The reason is simple.
Firms are storing an ever-increasing amount of data about their customers as the use of technology becomes an indispensible part of people's lives.
From sending text messages, using online shopping portals, making travel bookings, to carrying out banking transactions online - more and more people are using technology to carry out everyday tasks.
And all the data generated by using these services needs to be stored in a safe and secure environment. Equally important is uninterrupted access to this data for both the companies and the users.
"Data centres are mission critical facilities for firms. A failure on this front can have disastrous consequences, especially if you are a large enterprise," Andrew Milroy, an analyst with consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, tells the BBC.
Among the companies that rely on data centres, arguably the most important ones are financial institutions such as banks.
Uninterrupted access to data is key to them being able to offer even the most basic of services such as withdrawing money from an ATM machine.
Singapore's central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has put stringent rules in place for financial firms when it comes to their data centre buildings.
These include making parts of the building that are exposed to pedestrian and truck traffic bomb-blast proof and having metal detectors at the facility.
Kris Kumar, the Asia-Pacific head of Digital Realty, says policymakers across the globe are looking to ensure that critical sectors are safeguarded properly.
"Technology, especially that which caters to financial services, is being looked upon as national infrastructure," he says.
"It is critical not just to the company and its users but also to the country's economy."
Equinix, another firm specialising in such buildings, is constructing a new facility in Singapore.
Apart from the enhanced security requirements for the financial institutions, even the most basic infrastructure needs to be tailored to suit the needs of such buildings.
The two most important and critical components are electricity and water supply. The servers not only need uninterrupted power supply - but also consume far more electricity that normal computers.
The amount of power delivered to a data centre is nearly 10 times what a normal office building would use.
Digital Reality's facility in Singapore has two alternative sources of power to ensure constant supply. As a back-up, it has put in place 28 generators spread across seven floors - good enough to power 15,000 homes for two days.
Data centres also generate a large amount of heat - which means the buildings need to be designed to keep the temperature in check.
If the servers overheat, it can result in "thermal failure". And just putting high-powered air-conditioning in is not enough to avoid that.
Digital Realty's facility in Singapore uses "precision cooling units" that blow cold air from openings in the floor to "extract" the heat generated by the servers.
The warm air is then channelled through a cooling unit - to bring its temperature down - and sent back to the server room through the floor again.
"This cycle has to be continued. If it is interrupted the temperature of the servers will reach a critical point," says Mr Kumar.
Ajit Melarkode, managing director of Rackspace Asia Pacific, a cloud computing provider, says that uninterrupted power supply and proper cooling systems are key factors his firm looks at when deciding where to house its servers.
"We need to be sure that our systems will keep running smoothly," he tells the BBC.
"In today's world, uninterrupted connectivity has become a basic requirement." | As I stepped inside the first layer of the fortress-like building, the first thought that came into my mind was: "Thank God I am not claustrophobic." |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | He replaces Joan Burton, who stepped down after the party suffered major losses in February's general election.
The party's deputy leader Alan Kelly failed to secure the necessary support to contest a leadership battle.
The new leader served as public expenditure minister in the last government, in which the Labour Party was a junior partner with Fine Gael.
Visitors parking at three West Midlands hospitals run by Heart of England Foundation Trust say the hike came without warning.
The new £10 tariff is for stays of more than six hours and up to 24 hours.
The trust said users would benefit from a reduction in charges for stays of up to two hours.
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"The highest percentage of visitors" parked at the hospitals for up to two hours, the trust said.
That figure, it added, amounted to 57.7%.
In 2016, the trust topped the national league for charges, collecting £4,841,108 across the year.
Car park users have criticised the move, with one saying her first reaction was "God, have I got to get a mortgage"?
Others called the increase "disgraceful" and "extortionate".
The changes came into effect on Tuesday.
Under the new fees, a 30-minute stay is free, with stays of up to two hours costing £3, up to four hours costing £5, up to six hours costing £7, and up to 24 hours costing £10.
The day before, there was again no charge for the first 30 minutes and a £2.75 charge for a stay of up to an hour. Other fees worked out as £3.75 for up to two hours, £4.75 for a stay of up to four hours, and £5.75 for a stay of up to 24 hours.
A spokesperson said the changes were the trust's first since 2013 and it did not profit from car parking charges, with income redeployed to "fund capital projects, utility costs, security and a car parking management service".
He added discounts were available to those visiting the hospitals for more than one day, with free car park use to those in receipt of income-related benefits.
The hospitals affected are Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull. | Brendan Howlin has been elected unopposed as the new leader of the Irish Labour Party.
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Summarize the provided section. | Mr Smith told the Guardian there should be a general election or referendum "when the terms are clear".
He said it was clear people wanted both access to the single market and controls on immigration.
He is challenging Jeremy Corbyn to become Labour leader, with fellow MP Angela Eagle also standing.
Mr Smith accused Mr Corbyn of acting selfishly, and said Labour was "teetering on the brink of being destroyed".
Ms Eagle said she and Mr Smith were not "very different" in terms of political views, but she had more experience and "further reach".
Mr Corbyn has rejected calls to stand down, saying he was elected as leader with a "very large mandate" 10 months ago and would campaign on "all the things that matter".
One Labour donor is launching a legal challenge to party's ruling that Mr Corbyn can be automatically included in the leadership ballot.
His rivals need the backing of 51 MPs or MEPs to stand.
In the Guardian interview, Mr Smith said the public should be given "another chance" once they knew what Brexit deal had been agreed.
"That does mean a second referendum or a general election when the terms are clear. The Labour government should be committing to that," he said.
He said many people voted for Brexit in "good faith", but many had been "misled by the Brexit campaign" and were now thinking it was the wrong decision.
Labour's role "is to be sensible and mature about this and put our foot on the ball for the British public and say what do the terms actually look like", he added.
After the 23 June referendum, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt also suggested the public should give their verdict on the UK's deal with the EU via another referendum or general election.
There have also been calls for a second public vote on EU membership itself, though the government rejected a petition demanding this.
BBC Reality Check examined these issues and concluded that another membership referendum was "unlikely", while a vote to ratify the UK-EU deal was "possible but not required by current legislation".
Speaking about her bid to lead Labour, Ms Eagle said Mr Corbyn "cannot provide" leadership in Parliament and was "not going down well on the doorstep" with Labour voters.
She said Mr Smith was a "perfectly fine man" whose views were similar to her own.
But she added: "I think I have further reach as a northern woman from working-class roots, as a person who understands identity politics... as a gay woman. I think I've got the toughness and the experience."
Announcing his leadership campaign on Wednesday, Mr Smith said Labour needed someone "radical and credible" in charge.
The Pontypridd MP, who quit as shadow work and pensions secretary last month, said he could "heal" the party and "turn the page" on its internal strife.
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John Petter, chief executive of BT's consumer division, has called on the communications regulator to tackle Sky's dominance.
It comes after Sky called in March for BT to be broken up.
Ofcom said as part of its review that it welcomed "evidence and analysis from all parties".
It said that its first digital sector review since 2005 was "broader than our telecoms review 10 years ago" and that an update on this work to date would be published later this month.
In a speech to the Broadcasting Press Guild, Mr Petter cited what he said were "high prices and poor outcomes for consumers" arising from a lack of competition in pay-TV.
"Whereas in the energy market regulators have criticised the Big Six operators, in pay-TV Sky has a 64% share, so there is really only the Big One," he said.
He added: "Switching in pay-TV is 50% lower than the levels seen in broadband, so it is clear we just aren't seeing the right levels of competition for Sky."
However, a Sky spokesman said: "The reality is that, in a competitive market, customers are choosing Sky in greater numbers and staying with us for longer because of the quality and value that we offer."
They added: "This looks like an attempt to deflect attention from the real problems that exist in broadband, where consumers are suffering because of BT's underinvestment and there is concern about competition in the future."
In March, Sky called for called for Openreach - the national broadband network - to be taken away from BT ownership as part of the Ofcom review. | Labour leadership contender Owen Smith wants a second public vote to approve any Brexit deal the UK strikes with the EU, according to a newspaper.
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Write a brief summary of the document. | Kevin Haggard, from Sunblest Foods in Santa Maria, California, travelled to Dunfermline to throw his pies into the ring.
They joined 500 entries of all types of pie supplied by 100 bakers and butchers for the competition's judging day.
The winner will be announced at a gala lunch on 11 January next year.
Mr Haggard said: "I saw an opportunity some years ago now to develop the market for superior meat pies and so I contacted the Pacific Northwest Scottish Society, and I provided pies for a Burns night dinner.
"This is how I was introduced to the Scottish community in Seattle and this allowed me to begin selling pies at the Highland Games."
He now supplies pies as far afield as Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, Detroit and Dallas
Some of the World Championship categories up for grabs | The World Championship Scotch Pie Awards have had their first ever international entry with a contender from the US. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | How and when water got trapped in volcanic lunar rocks is a huge and open question for planetary scientists.
This international team has compared the chemistry of Apollo mission samples with various types of space rock.
They say that icy, early asteroids were the likely source of most of the water.
After such impacts the Moon's developing crust could have trapped the water in the cooling magma.
Much later, volcanic activity spewed some of that magma back onto the surface and, much later again, a precious few of those volcanic rocks were bagged by Apollo astronauts.
Tightly bound up in the rocks is a trace of water: somewhere between 10 and 300 parts per million (0.001-0.03%).
"It's not pools of water, it's not lakes of water, it's not frozen ice. When we're talking about interior - or magmatic - water, we're talking about water that is locked up in minerals," said Dr Jessica Barnes from the Open University in the UK, first author of the new paper in Nature Communications.
The source of that water is a topic of ongoing debate.
Previous research revealed that some of these watery deposits have a similar molecular signature to water-rich "carbonaceous chondrite" meteorites that occasionally reach the Earth from the asteroid belt.
So was water brought to the Moon by chunks of asteroid? Perhaps via the very early Earth, which was similarly bombarded before the brutal collision that created our satellite?
Or, as other researchers have suggested, did lunar water arrive in comets - the Solar System's more distant, icy travellers?
Working with colleagues in the US and France, Dr Barnes modelled various scenarios to explore what could have produced the chemistry of the Moon's water as we know it. To run these tests, they surveyed all the published results about the make-up of lunar rock samples and various possible contributors - from Earth rock to comets.
"We've taken an approach that's the most quantitative so far, in terms of deciphering which types of objects would have been impacting the Moon," she told BBC News.
For starters, her models suggest that comets probably contributed only a tiny fraction of the sub-surface water.
This is largely because comets appear to have "heavier" water - containing more deuterium, a heavy hydrogen isotope - than either Earth, the Moon or asteroids, Dr Barnes explained.
"Our conclusion is it was mostly water-rich asteroids and very, very little contribution from comets," she said.
In particular, her findings point to asteroids with a recipe much like carbonaceous chondrites. These rocks, which today make up up less than 5% of known Earth impacts, have characteristics that seem to reflect "primitive" asteroids.
"These are asteroids that didn't go through differentiation to have a core, a mantle and a crust like the Earth and the Moon," said Dr Barnes. "They contain a lot of water and a lot of organic molecules."
Such rocks, she suggests, pummelled the molten Moon some 4.3-4.5 billion years ago, within its first 200 million years.
"We think that the movement of Jupiter and the outer planets, settling into their orbits that they're in today, disrupted the asteroid belt. It would've been very chaotic and you would have had lots of objects flying through the Solar System, impacting the inner planets.
"We're in quite a quiet time at the moment, compared to what happened very early on."
Other researchers see considerable room for doubt in this asteroid-delivery idea.
Dr Jeremy Boyce, a geochemist at the University of California Los Angeles, said while others might doubt the very idea that water was delivered by impacts, his reservation about the new study comes down to timing.
"While I like the idea of adding [water] to lunar basalts through meteorite materials, I'm less comfortable with the idea that it had to happen early in the Moon's history," he told the BBC.
Instead of this ancient bombardment of the molten Moon, Dr Boyce suggests that the water deposits have simply built up on the moon's surface thanks to more recent, continuous peppering by meteorites.
Then, when volcanic eruptions take place, the liquid material could collect those deposits on its way through the crust - resulting in the small amounts of water seen in volcanic rocks.
The concentrations involved are so small, he added, that "it only takes a tiny whiff" of this type of contamination to explain the results.
But Dr Boyce is soon to collaborate with Dr Barnes on fresh research, and he said the vigorous debate currently underway in lunar geology is exciting.
"We all know each other, we all publish papers, we all have polite disagreements about some of the things that we think about the moon. But it's actually a really healthy environment where we're all working towards the same goal from different perspectives.
"It's good to have differences of opinion."
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | A smattering of water is buried deep inside the Moon and it arrived during the satellite's very early history, a new study concludes, when asteroids plunged into churning oceans of magma. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | Her body was found after a blaze at the property at Tower Link, in the Parkhall housing estate, on Monday evening.
Fire crews were called to the scene shortly after 18:00 BST.
A police cordon was still in place outside the house on Tuesday morning and further forensic examinations are expected to take place later.
Antrim and Newtownabbey councillor Adrian Cochrane-Watson said there was "total shock" and "disbelief" in the local community over Ms Melvin's sudden death.
"I grew up several streets away from here. This is a very tight, very respectful community - everyone knows everyone," he said.
"Certainly Susie is well known to many people in the Parkhall estate and no-one wants to see a death in these circumstances."
Mr Cochrane-Watson told BBC Radio Ulster he had spoken to police both on Monday night and Tuesday morning about the investigation.
"There was certainly a very thorough forensic investigation under way last night. I'm led to believe that is to continue," the councillor said.
"I'm led to believe there are a number of lines of inquiry being investigated but as yet the cause of death had not been confirmed."
Three fire engines attended the incident on Monday, and on arrival firefighters discovered there had been a "small fire" in the house.
The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service said the cause of the fatal blaze is still under investigation. | The woman who was found dead in a house fire in Antrim on Monday has been named locally as Susie Melvin, who was in her 50s. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | New Heritage Solutions wants its Eighth In The East project to collect the stories of Americans who served and local people who lived near the bases 1942-45.
The project has been awarded the grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
It aims to work with local museums, record memories and collect photos.
The project will look at the 67 airfields in the East which provided bases for USAF bombing raids over Germany.
About 200,000 US personnel served in East Anglia in what became known as the 'friendly invasion'.
Nick Patrick, project leader, said: "The actual airfields themselves are decaying and the people who've kept alive this history are sadly passing away, as the air crew are too.
"There are some tremendous voluntary museums that keep this heritage alive, such as Horham and Parham in Suffolk, but they need young people to come in and take up this history.
"We hope by the end of the three year project there will be things like cycling and walking tours, museum offers and people coming to East Anglia will know about this history."
The airfields had up to 4,000 people living on them and the project covers Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk.
The Eastern Angles Theatre Company is also involved in the project.
Its artistic director Ivan Cutting is also the creative director for the Eighth In The East project.
He said: "The ambition is to deliver new skills through project activities and encourage the next generation of archaeologists, museum curators, photographers, film-makers and creative writers." | A project to record the history of East Anglian airfields used by the United States during World War II has been given £575,000. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The explosion forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 Ukrainians and Belarussians, laying waste an area measuring 3,000 sq miles (7,769 sq km) that remains uninhabitable to this day.
Within weeks of the fire that started at about 01:30 BST on 26 April, 30 years ago, hill farmers across north Wales were also dragged into the developing crisis.
Heavy rain in April and May drenched higher ground with alarming quantities of radioactive caesium and iodine. The authorities reacted by imposing a blanket ban on the sale of all farm animals. Panic spread.
Glyn Roberts, now the president of the Farmers Union of Wales, said: "At the time we were worried what effect the fallout would have on our health. My wife was expecting and we were worried what effect it would have on our children, that was the prime issue.
"The news was difficult to believe, and it made you think 'how safe is nuclear energy production?'.
"I remember I was in Ruthin market when we were told that we could not sell any of our lamb or beef. That was when it hit home, and there was quite a bit of accumulative cash flow problems."
Mr Roberts, and others at the time, felt the government's response was too slow, and matters came to a head at a public meeting in Llanrwst, Conwy county, when representatives of the Welsh Office were not allowed to leave until firm promises of compensation were given.
"When someone said that the issue was not going to be addressed that night, the crowd outside went a bit wild," he said.
"Following that, Nicholas Edwards the Secretary of State came to this farm and we explained our situation.
"From there things did move on a bit and we were told that there was going to be some compensation."
In total, 344 Welsh farms were put under restrictions, with animals' radiation levels monitored before they were allowed to be sold at market.
The number of failing animals peaked in 1992, but some still recorded higher levels of caesium as recently as 2011.
A year later, the authorities decided the numbers were then insignificant and there was no reason to continue the monitoring. This saved the taxpayer about £300,000 a year.
Some farmers were in favour of further monitoring, if only to maintain the public's trust in Welsh meat, but the majority approved and welcomed the end of a long saga that started 1,500 miles (2,414km)away deep, in the former Soviet Union.
The following years were still full of concern for many Welsh hill farmers.
"Every farm has some abnormal lambs born, but I believe that for the first years after Chernobyl there were more abnormalities in the lambs," Mr Roberts said. "I have no evidence, but that is what I feel."
But at least the Welsh farmers were able to stay in their homes and keep their livestock and livelihoods.
It was a different story in northern Ukraine, where anyone living within a 30-mile (48km) radius of the power plant had to leave their homes.
As well as the cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat, that meant the emptying of villages and hamlets.
One of the largest was Parashev, some 10 miles (16km) east of the power station.
Maria Adnamova was born there and, after a few years of enforced exile, she, her husband and a few other unhappy souls decided to return.
But the world had moved on, and Parashev with its hundreds of empty homes, shops, schoolroom and council offices rotted away before their eyes.
Today, the widowed Mrs Adnamova, 81 years old and with failing health, is one of just five people existing in Parashev.
A translator for Mrs Adnamova explained why the threat of Chernobyl's poisoned legacy was not enough to keep her from her home.
"They were evacuated late on 3 May. They were given a house some place in the Kiev region, quite far from here, but she did not like the climate. She decided to return, because her parents and grandparents live here. She will die on her own land."
The power station stands at the centre of a sprawling complex of buildings and can be seen from many miles away.
The fourth reactor, the cause of so much suffering, is encased in a crumbling concrete shell, built in the years immediately after the disaster.
Its usefulness has expired and will be replaced by the so-called sarcophagus, the international community's expensive answer to the vexing issue of how to deal with the problem of reactor number four.
At first glance, in the bright spring sunshine, it could be mistaken for the Wales Millennium Centre.
Built by the Americans it will, later this year, be slid along the ground, a few meters at a time, before finally engulfing the crumbling reactor and its still poisonous contents.
No trip to Chernobyl is complete without a visit to Pripyat. A few days before we filmed, a minibus of Welsh football fans also made the journey.
A city of almost 50,000 people at the time of the disaster, Pripyat was, according to our guide, the model of Soviet efficiency.
Today, the countless empty tower blocks, supermarkets, swimming pool, hotel and shops, and the fairground that never opened, is a permanent reminder of the dangers associated with the nuclear industry. Pripyat was emptied in just a few days, and will never again be called home.
On the outskirts of the Welsh capital lives one of the world's most renowned nuclear physicists, an expert on the dangers posed by radiation.
Prof Glyn O Phillips, a consultant to the International Atomic Agency for more than 20 years, specialising in the effects of radiation on the human body, is an ardent supporter of nuclear energy production, but worried the Chernobyl story may not yet be over in Wales.
"The word that they use officially is low risk. But risk is a very difficult question when you deal with low level radiation," he said.
"There is great uncertainty and extrapolation is only possible with time and we will only see in the next generation or generation after that whether there are any significant effects to be demonstrated then."
On Tuesday in Chernobyl, and also in Pripyat, people will stand to remember those who died, the lives that were ruined and the dreams that were lost with them.
Here in Wales, the disaster's legacy may be felt for generations to come. | The Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 is widely believed to have caused the death of at least 4,000 people, with a further untold number of children born with abnormalities. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The driver of the BMW was arrested after the vehicle hit the terrace of the cafe in Sept-Sorts, near La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, French media say.
An interior ministry spokesman told the BBC the driver was 32 and French.
While his actions are said to have been deliberate, the incident is not being treated as a terror attack.
He had, the spokesman said, tried to kill himself a few days ago. It appears he had no previous criminal record.
According to RTL radio, he told police had weapons in the car.
First reports gave the age of the dead girl as eight but later she was said to have been 13.
Her little brother is among those injured, police sources told AFP news agency.
The incident in Sept-Sorts, a small village 55km (34 miles) east of Paris, happened around 20:30 (18:30 GMT).
"Half of the car entered the restaurant and knocked down all the customers and staff in its way," a soldier was quoted as saying by Le Parisien newspaper.
France and a number of other countries have seen deadly vehicle attacks on civilians, notably in the French city of Nice on Bastille Day 2016 when 84 people were killed.
Last week, a man rammed a group of soldiers in Paris, injuring six of them, before being shot and injured by police as he tried to escape. | A car has crashed into a pizzeria in a village east of the French capital Paris, killing a girl and injuring 12 other people, four of them seriously. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | The teenager was pronounced dead by the side of a railway line in Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, on Saturday.
A 16-year-old boy and a woman aged 18 were also taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries at 18:40 BST.
British Transport Police (BTP) said the death was not thought to be suspicious.
A spokesman said all three were from the local area.
"At this stage it would appear that the two boys and the female were on the railway line and the 15-year-old boy had climbed on to a freight train at the location," he said.
The Office of Rail Regulation has been informed of the death and a file will be prepared for the coroner, he added.
Gary Campbell, 31, has been missing since 21 March.
Searches of the River Foyle have taken place over the last three weeks.
Gardaà say a body was discovered by a dog walker on Sunday afternoon, near a river just outside Carrigans in County Donegal. | A 15-year-old boy who climbed onto a freight train has died after he touched overhead power cables, police have said.
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The family of a missing Londonderry man say they believe his body has been found. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | 21 April 2016 Last updated at 08:09 BST
She's the longest reigning monarch in British history, and with coronations, marriages, royal births, and big events, the Queen has seen a lot in her 90 years!
Ayshah takes a look back at the things that have happened in the 90 years since the Queen was born.
With pictures from British Pathé. | It's the Queen's 90th birthday today, and we've been taking a look back at some of the big things that have happened during her life. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | Kim Gavin is a master at choreographing events on a grand scale.
The former ballet dancer is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading creative directors and choreographers.
He has produced some of the biggest live events of recent years, including Concert For Diana in 2007 and Take That's latest stadium tours.
When Gavin was announced as artistic director of the Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies in February 2011, he said it was "a once in a lifetime opportunity".
Now, Gavin has overseen the first of those two closing shows, titled A Symphony of British Music, which featured performances from, among others, the Pet Shop Boys, Madness, Ray Davies and Annie Lennox.
Gavin described it as the "after-show party" to celebrate the main sporting competition.
He said earlier this year: "Music has been Britain's strongest cultural export of the last 50 years and we intend to produce an Olympic closing ceremony that will be a unique promotion of great British popular music."
Gavin's creative team includes designer Es Devlin, music director David Arnold and lighting director Patrick Woodroffe, alongside executive producer Stephen Daldry.
Born in Bournemouth, Gavin trained at the Royal Ballet School, and enjoyed a successful career as a dancer on television and in the theatre.
He began to turn that theatrical experience to choreography and directing, and masterminded his first major shows in the 1990s, including early tours by the boy band Take That, with whom he has gone on to enjoy a long working relationship.
In 1997 Gavin directed and choreographed the 1970s musical Oh! What A Night, starring Kid Creole as hip New York DJ Brutus T Firefly. The show has toured the UK and internationally over several years.
In 2002 he choreographed the West End musical 125th Street at the Shaftesbury Theatre, and in 2005 he devised and directed the musical Love Shack, which toured the UK with a cast including Jon Lee from S Club, Faye Tozer from Steps and Noel Sullivan from Hear'Say.
Love Shack featured a song written specifically for the production by Take That frontman Gary Barlow, as well as 25 cover hits including It's Raining Men and I've Had the Time of my Life.
Since then, Gavin has staged a long list of large-scale live events including the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium in 2007 and the Help for Heroes concert at Twickenham Stadium in 2010.
He also produced the Ryder Cup opening concert in 2010, which saw Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins make her entrance by being lowered from the ceiling of the Millennium Stadium. The concert included performances from Dame Shirley Bassey and choir Only Men Aloud.
But it is Gavin's work with Take That's comeback stadium tours Circus (2009) and Progress (2011) that have made him the ideal candidate to take on the spectacle of an Olympic ceremony.
The Circus show featured the group along with 50 circus performers and dancers who flew from trapezes and made up a human Ferris Wheel.
The show's centrepiece was a mechanical elephant nearly 8m (26ft 3in) tall - and animated by 13 puppeteers - which carried the band to the main stage.
Gavin invited London 2012 chiefs to see Take That's Wembley show. "I thought it would be a very good advert," he said on his first day as Olympic artistic director.
While the main Olympic closing ceremony is over, British band Coldplay have been announced as headliners for the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
They will take to the stage at the Olympic Stadium on 9 September for the ceremony, titled Festival of Flame. | The Spice Girls, George Michael and Take That have taken part in the Olympic Games closing ceremony, a carnival of music and colour that was co-ordinated by artistic director Kim Gavin. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | Deborah Steel, 37, ran the Royal Standard in Ely, Cambridgeshire, and vanished on 28 December 1997. Her body has not been found.
The search had the full consent of the present landlord who is not connected with the investigation.
Police said further lines of enquiry were being followed in the search for the "truth about the disappearance".
A 73-year-old man is on bail until 29 April and two others, aged 70 and 50, have since had theirs cancelled.
Ms Steel's disappearance was recently reclassified from a long-term missing person to a murder inquiry by Cambridgeshire Police.
Her half-sister, Gini Secker, said reopening the case had given the family hope, but that it was "so very sad" that their father had died without knowing what had happened to Ms Steel.
It is the first musical to be produced by Wales Millennium Centre (WMC), which is normally used to hosting shows that tour from the West End.
It is the creation of Cowbridge songwriter Matthew Brind.
His previous work includes big musicals and TV shows like the X Factor and Britain's Got Talent.
This musical is the first to be produced by the WMC's creative team as they try to build a reputation for making original shows that may go on to tour the world.
It is a story of the heroism of D-Day on 6 June 1944.
This defining moment in World War Two has already been enshrined in TV series and Hollywood blockbusters.
Brind's interest came from his own family - his grandfather was on Sword Beach on D-Day.
"I really quizzed him and wanted to get all the gory details and it was quite difficult to get him to open up but he did," he said.
"Me and my cousins took him to Normandy to some of the places and it was an amazing experience, seeing how he reacted and how the French reacted to the veterans - there's a tremendous respect."
He said it had been an "incredible journey" and hoped it would be the start of more productions.
There is huge pressure to get it right and to show the Welsh team can compete alongside the West End musicals that normally stop here on their tours of the UK.
The cast list certainly has echoes of London's big shows - including some of the stars from Les Miserables and Mamma Mia.
Caroline Sheen - cousin of actor Michael Sheen - plays Joy Howard, wife of Maj John Howard, who led the operation.
"She's more a symbol of what women did during the war... it's about the emancipation of women, taking on jobs that men did and hoping it carried on after the war.
"The writers have been good about making sure the women's role is told too."
Neil McDermott - whose credits range from EastEnders to Shrek the Musical - plays Lt Denham Brotheridge - Maj Howard's right hand man and the first Allied soldier shot by enemy fire. He died of his wounds, aged 28.
Lt Brotheridge's daughter was born two weeks after his death and she is expected to come and watch the show.
McDermott said it was important to be as true to the real person as possible.
"He led the charge across Pegasus Bridge, he ran straight at a machine gunner and was involved in some pretty brave and selfless acts to ensure D-Day was successful," he said.
"I was aware what had happened and had seen films and come across novels but being cast to play a certain character you start researching it more.
"I've learnt how fortunate they were on the day, lots of things went their way - they were brave enough to dare to believe things could happen and exceptionally well prepared, highly-skilled, determined and well trained but overall very brave."
The auditorium is a familiar place for one of the musical's leading men, Neath-born David Thaxton, an Olivier award winner.
"My first professional job was the opening ceremony of this theatre - I was young, green and had two weeks off from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and had the best time," he said.
"So it's great to be part of their first creative output."
Only The Brave runs for a week but the reaction from audiences and critics will be crucial in deciding whether the WMC's ambition to produce world-class musicals can be realised. | The patio of a pub whose landlady is missing has been dug up by police who are now treating the case as murder.
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New musical Only The Brave, based on the D-Day landings, opens in Cardiff on Monday. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Lucinda Wilcox took pictures of patients on trolleys in corridors at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant on Tuesday night.
Miss Wilcox, from Trelewis, Methyr Tydfil, said the scene was "upsetting".
Cwm Taf University Health Board said there was a "high level of demand" at the hospital.
The images were taken on the same day the Health Secretary Vaughan Gething insisted the NHS in Wales was not in crisis.
Responding to a question asked in the Welsh Assembly, Mr Gething there was no evidence that patient outcomes were being compromised at this particular time of year.
Miss Wilcox's 86-year-old grandmother was taken to the hospital after showing symptoms of a heart attack.
She was seen straight away because of the nature of her condition but others had much longer waits, Miss Wilcox said.
"The people on the trolleys, some of them were on their own, they were hunched over in the beds," she added. "They were coming off the trolleys because obviously they'd been there for so long.
"The health minister had said there was no crisis. Well I think perhaps some time needs to be spent in the A&E departments for them to see exactly what's going on.
"It's why I took these photos to show that, 'I'm sorry, you are wrong in what you are saying'."
Cwm Taf University Health Board said: "We continue to manage a high level of demand at both Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil and Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant.
"The escalation levels are currently between three (severe pressure) and four (extreme pressure).
"Although we have plans in place to deal with winter pressures, the public can help us by choosing the appropriate health care service for their needs including one of our minor injury units, their GP, pharmacy or ringing NHS Direct Wales." | The granddaughter of a woman taken to hospital with suspected heart problems has said the situation in accident and emergency was "beyond words". |
Write a summary of this document. | The 31-year-old Glenullin club man captained the Oak Leaf county at Minor, Under-21 and senior level.
O'Kane led the Minors to the All-Ireland Championship in 2002.
"Ever since my father started taking me to Derry games as a child, all I wanted to do was to play for my county," he said.
"From the moment I first pulled on a Derry jersey as a minor in 2001, I could never have expected that 15 years later I would still be playing for my county.
"I have worked under six different management teams and can say that each one has worked hard for the good of Derry football and to develop both myself and all the players."
The guitarist made the announcement on the website for his restaurant in San Rafael, California.
He said he was diagnosed earlier this month and has been treated at a clinic in Arizona, where he will have surgery to remove his tumours.
The illness means Lesh has had to postpone his 24 and 25 October Phil & Friends shows with Chris Robinson.
The gigs with the former Black Crowes frontman were scheduled to take place at Lesh's restaurant, Terrapin Crossroads.
Lesh, 75, wrote: "I am very fortunate to have the pathology reports show that the tumours are all non-aggressive, and that there is no indication that they have spread."
He added that the postponed shows would be rescheduled "as soon as we can".
Lesh, one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006 but underwent surgery and made a full recovery.
The psychedelic band, which formed in 1965, split 30 years later following the death of frontman Jerry Garcia.
Lesh was with them throughout - and also joined the group's other surviving members for a reunion tour of the US in 2003.
The Grateful Dead performed their final shows in July this year, which also coincided with the 50th anniversary of the band's formation.
The gigs took place at Chicago's Soldier Field, which was also where Garcia's final show took place in 1995.
The building society said prices continued to rise in January, but the risks are skewed towards a "modest" acceleration in that trend.
Prices were up 0.3% compared with December - sharply slower than the December increase of 0.8%
However, annual growth remained stable at 4.4% compared with the figure of 4.5% the previous month.
The average price of a property is now £196,829, slightly down on December.
But Nationwide warned the demand for homes was likely to strengthen in the coming months, as a result of a strong labour market, combined with wages going up at a "healthy pace" and the prospect of interest rates remaining at 0.5% for longer than previously expected.
"The concern remains that construction activity will lag behind strengthening demand," said Nationwide's chief economist, Robert Gardner, "putting upward pressure on house prices and eventually reducing affordability."
He also highlighted the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors report that the number of properties on estate agents' books is close to its lowest level.
The figures come as the boss of one of the UK's largest insurers, and one of the biggest investors in infrastructure in the UK, said the country was "obsessed" with rising house prices.
Nigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal and General, told BBC Radio 5 live: "We are obsessed with owning homes, we are obsessed with house price inflation which is socially exclusive, which isn't good for society and is very poor for young people finding it increasingly difficult to get on the housing ladder."
Separate figures show that mortgage lending by the major High Street banks picked up pace at the end of last year.
The British Bankers' Association (BBA) said that gross mortgage borrowing of £12.4bn in December was 24% higher than the same month a year earlier.
Overall, new borrowing in 2015 was 6% higher than the previous year.
Mark Harris, chief executive of mortgage broker SPF Private Clients, said: "Cheap mortgage rates have certainly helped fuel the growth in lending in the market seen throughout 2015. However, we have probably seen the back of the very cheapest deals.
"The biggest issue for many is actually qualifying for one of these great mortgage deals." | Derry defender Gerard O'Kane has announced his retirement from inter-county football after playing at senior level for 13 years.
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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is being treated for bladder cancer in the US.
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Nationwide has warned that a lag in construction activity will raise house prices in the coming months. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) saw monthly falls in all major commodities, from milk and vegetables to oils, sugar and cereals.
Food producers are being hit by slowing demand in China and a Russian embargo on Western products.
Now the European Commission is to release €500m ($557m) to help Europe's farmers.
The commission said the most significant part of the package would support the dairy sector in all EU member states.
Dairy farmers have suffered a 20% fall in European wholesale milk prices in the past year.
The European Commission aid comes on top of extra help for European fruit and vegetable farmers, who have been hit by the Russian embargo on Western food imports in retaliation for EU and US sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.
Farmers across Europe have been protesting in recent weeks against the plunging prices that they say are destroying their businesses.
On Monday, Belgian police fired tear gas and water cannon at some 7,000 European farmers demonstrating Brussels.
Last week, French farmers blocked the streets of Paris with more than 1,500 tractors.
But the falling prices are unlikely to be reversed any time soon.
The FAO said in a statement: "Ample supplies, a slump in energy prices and concerns over China's economic slowdown all contributed to the sharpest fall of the FAO Food Price Index in almost seven years."
The FAO has raised its forecast for world cereal output in 2015 to 2.54 billion tonnes, thanks to what looks like good wheat and rice harvests in Argentina, Brazil and the US, | Last month saw a 5.2% fall in global food prices, the biggest drop in seven years, according to the UN. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | Alistair Darling said Ms Sturgeon had to regularly "throw red meat" to her supporters by hinting at a second vote.
But he said she "knows she will be finished" if she loses again.
Ms Sturgeon's predecessor as first minister, Alex Salmond, believes there will be a referendum in 2018.
Lord Darling led the Better Together campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum, which saw the No side win by 55%-45%, while Mr Salmond was the figurehead for the pro-independence Yes campaign.
The two politicians were speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on the second anniversary of the 2014 referendum result being announced.
Lord Darling, the former UK Chancellor, said opinion polls had suggested very little has changed in terms of support for independence over the past two years, with most recent polls showing a narrow majority in favour of remaining in the UK.
This is despite the UK as a whole voting to leave the EU while Scotland voted to Remain - a situation Ms Sturgeon has said makes another independence referendum "highly likely".
Lord Darling said Ms Sturgeon would not risk everything, including her reputation, on another referendum which she currently appears far from certain to win.
He added: "If she loses, she knows she will be finished. That is why she has no hurry to rush into it. What she has got to do of course is to continually throw red meat to her supporters.
"In many ways, calling for independence is a diversion because people aren't discussing how is it that people from disadvantaged backgrounds are not getting the same opportunities they are, say, in London?
"Why is it that we have got a shortage of GPs in Scotland when all of these things are controlled by the Scottish government?"
He said most people in Scotland do not want another referendum, and instead wanted governments in both Edinburgh and London to get on with the job of governing.
Lord Darling added: "Brexit has changed a lot for Scotland, for the whole of the UK. To break ourselves away from the European market is very bad in my view and will cause disruption.
"But to then go and break yourself away from what is undoubtedly your biggest single market - which is basically England - would make the situation ten times worse.
"I don't think it will happen any time soon at all. And if you are looking to get into Europe, the deficit that is allowable is about 3%. Ours is about 10%, which would make austerity look like a Sunday afternoon picnic."
Lord Darling's comments were made amid reports in the Herald newspaper that senior SNP figures want their party leader to wait until a potential Tory victory at the 2020 general election before pressing ahead with a second vote.
But Mr Salmond later told Good Morning Scotland that Ms Sturgeon's mandate for a second referendum was "unimpeachable" given that Scotland was being "dragged out of the EU".
He added: "The way that Westminster can stop a referendum of course is by allowing Nicola Sturgeon to secure Scotland's place within the European single market without having an independence referendum.
"Now my judgement is they don't have the flexibility, the sensitivity, the democratic acknowledgement of Scotland's right to do that.
"Which is why my guess is that we are likely to have another independence referendum in two years' time."
Mr Salmond also said the Scottish government's recent Gers figures - which showed the country has a 9.5% public spending deficit - "do not tell you about the finances of an independent Scotland" but instead "show the finances of Scotland within the United Kingdom".
He added: "I don't think any serious economic commentator would question the fact that Scotland has the ability to become a prosperous independent nation, and nobody would seriously doubt Scotland's viability."
Gers was described as the "authoritative publication on Scotland's public finances" in the Scottish government's White Paper on independence ahead of the 2014 referendum, when the figures were more positive than they are now and formed the basis of much of the Yes campaign's economic argument.
Writing in the Sunday Herald newspaper over the weekend, Ms Sturgeon said that "the case for full self-government ultimately transcends the issues of Brexit, of oil, of national wealth and balance sheets and of passing political fads and trends".
Opposition parties said her comments suggested the first minister was now pursuing "independence at any cost".
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said: "Instead of trying to explain what would happen to our economy and how we fund our public services under independence, the new mantra is that none of these things matter anymore and people should just shut up about them and wrap themselves in a flag instead." | Nicola Sturgeon will not call another independence referendum any time soon because she fears defeat, the man who led the pro-UK campaign ahead of the last vote has predicted. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | They say the shield will help South Korea offset the growing threat posed by North Korea following its launch of a long-range rocket on Sunday.
North Korea put a satellite or some other space device into orbit at the launch, US officials said on Monday.
But it used the test as cover for a long-range missile launch, they say.
Officials in Pyongyang for their part are adamant that the test was part of the country's peaceful space programme.
American and South Korean officials say they will soon begin formal negotiations over deploying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence System (Thaad) near the border with North Korea.
"Without getting into a timeline, we'd like to see this move as quickly as possible," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. A defence official told the news agency that that the system could be in position within two weeks of any deployment order.
"We are beginning the consultations now and in the current days with the South Koreans, and we expect that this will move in an expeditious fashion."
The North Korean rocket launch has been denigrated by the US and its allies as another step in its quest to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the American mainland.
Thaad missiles are reported to be highly deployable and work by firing anti-ballistic missiles against enemy missiles either inside or outside the Earth's atmosphere.
Any deployment is likely to be strongly resisted by China which is known to be uneasy about anti-missile hardware so close to its borders.
Mr Cook has insisted that the system is in no way intended to threaten China and would be focused entirely on North Korea.
In an interview with CBS aired on Monday, President Barack Obama said that he was not surprised by the launch, and the US had been concerned about the country's behaviour for some time.
"This is an authoritarian regime," the president said.
"It's provocative. It has repeatedly violated UN resolutions, tested and produced nuclear weapons and now they are trying to perfect their missile launch system."
Sunday's launch came weeks after North Korea conducted a fourth nuclear test. Both acts violate existing United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Why did North Korea launch a rocket?
North Korea's missile programme
How potent are the threats?
Isolated country's nuclear tests
A world leader in dramatic rhetoric | The US will help South Korea deploy an advanced missile defence system as soon as possible, officials from the Pentagon have said. |
Can you summarize this content? | The European Court of Justice (ECJ) will remain responsible for enforcing those rights, he said.
He demanded full protection of the rights of some 3.2 million EU citizens living in the UK and the 1.2 million Britons in other EU countries.
"No one should be confronted by a mountain of red tape," he warned.
Freedom of movement is one of the four essential freedoms that make up the single market, Mr Barnier said in a speech in Florence, and the integrity of the single market will "never, never be compromised".
"This point fell on deaf ears during the [Brexit] referendum campaign," he said. "We should not allow populists to take the political debate hostage."
Reassurance about the rights of EU citizens living in the UK, he said, must come first in the negotiations.
"I will not discuss our future relationship with the UK until the 27 member states are reassured that all citizens will be treated properly and humanely," he said.
"Otherwise, there can be no trust when it comes to constructing a new relationship with the UK."
Protection should apply for the lifetime of the citizens concerned, he added.
The rights of family members, including non-EU citizen family members, should continue to be protected, Mr Barnier said.
Brexit should not alter people's daily lives, he went on, and there must be equal treatment between all EU and UK nationals in the UK, as well the inverse.
The rights spelled out in the withdrawal agreement with the UK will need to be enforceable by the ECJ, he said.
Brexit negotiations are set to start next month after the UK's 8 June parliamentary election. The UK has two years to settle the terms of its exit from the EU.
Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and even sound waves, but this is the first device to work with heat.
The prototype, to be outlined in Physical Review Letters, contained a 5cm-wide flat region impervious to heat flowing around it.
The technology could be put to use in thermal management in electronics.
The theoretical ideas behind the prototype were outlined in a paper by French researchers in 2012 - now made real in copper and a silicone material called PDMS.
It works by channelling heat flow around the central region, with carefully designed, alternating rings made of the two materials.
"If you follow a ring around, you can follow those areas of high [heat] conductivity, but if you go toward the centre you are repeatedly blocked by a layer of low conductivity," explained lead author of the study Robert Schittny of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany.
"You can see that it's easier for the heat to just travel around this object than travel toward the centre," he told BBC News.
But the effort is not just about insulating the central region from heat - it is to make it "look" like it is simply not there.
"You want the heat flow to look as if there were no disturbance at all in the middle, and basically if you want to guide the heat around the central part, it takes a detour, a longer time to go around there," Mr Schittny explained.
"Each ring is made so that it specifically compensates exactly this detour that the heat has to make."
Mr Schittny said that the work showed promise for applications where heat needed to be carefully shuttled around - electronics systems, cooling or energy systems, and so on. And the prototype works just as the 2012 work predicted it would.
"We were all surprised by how well the theoretical simulations and the experimental results in the end agreed," he said. | The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says the UK must agree to "crystal-clear guarantees" to protect the rights of EU citizens.
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Summarize this article briefly. | It encourages the larvae to plead more honestly according to how hungry they are and not try to outdo their siblings by pestering their mother for food.
It also helps the mother beetle to maintain a degree of control over how she feeds her squabbling offspring.
Cannibalism is also used by parents when food is in short supply.
Burying beetle larvae pester for food by touching the parent's mouths with their legs. Parent beetles then feed their young by regurgitating pre-digested flesh.
The Edinburgh University team gave mothers large foster families to find out if they were more likely to cannibalise offspring that begged most for food.
Researchers also examined whether mothers could control how food was shared between older and younger offspring.
They found when mother beetles were able to control which larvae to feed, even if younger and older larvae were pestering for food, they chose to feed older offspring.
Researchers said the findings further showed understanding about why animal parents respond to begging.
Like many other mammals and birds, burying beetles seem to favour elder offspring, the scientists said.
It could be because the older offspring are more likely to grow up larger and survive to give them grandchildren in the future.
Dr Clare Andrews, of the University of Edinburgh's school of biological sciences, said: "We already knew that larvae beg more if they have been deprived of food but we had not known whether this is because they are informing their parents how hungry they are or whether they are simply squabbling with each other to get their parents' attention.
"Our study shows that if you're a baby beetle it doesn't pay to pester your mother for food unless you're really hungry.
"Communication is crucial in helping to mediate conflicts of interests between parents and offspring."
The study, which is published in Behavioural Ecology, was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council. | Burying beetles occasionally punish young who nag for food by eating those who pester them most, according to Edinburgh University research. |
Please summarize the passage below. | Padraig McShane, 45, of Beechwood Avenue, Ballycastle, was arrested on 12 July last year.
Mr McShane, a member of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, was also found guilty of resisting police, disorderly behaviour and taking part in an un-notified parade.
He will sentenced on 14 June.
The main confrontation took place in Ballycastle's Diamond area, where McShane traded insults with members of Dervock Young Defenders band.
When police intervened, McShane assaulted an officer, pushing him to the ground.
He then kicked out as police arrested him.
Two other protesters were fined £200, while a band supporter was fined £150 for making an offensive gesture.
The 24-year-old joined from Port Vale in 2014 after starting his career in non-league football.
He has scored six goals in 24 appearances for the Lilywhites so far this season.
"I know that they have asked the question and that got refuted pretty quickly," Preston boss Simon Grayson told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"We don't want to do anything because Jordan is a good player with a bright future."
The man was taken to hospital for treatment following the incident, The Evening Echo reports.
He later complained to local councillor, Noel Collins.
Mr Collins said the council had a responsibility to investigate the incident.
Speaking at a meeting of the Southern Committee of Cork County council on Thursday evening, he asked whether it would be possible to flush rat poison through the sewer system.
"Flooding has resulted in another problem for residents, that of rat infestation, which really upsets many families, mentally and physically", he said.
"One elderly gentleman suffered a rat bite to his posterior while using his toilet, and had to receive immediate medical attention."
It is understood that a plumber found a broken sewer pipe nearby, which is believed to have allowed the rat to enter the system.
The council said flushing rat poison through the public system could lead to contamination of other water sources.
It also said that Irish Water were responsible for vermin control within the system.
Cllr Collins added: "I would advise homeowners to keep their toilet seats down when not in use, and to watch their posteriors."
James Allen denies killing Colin Dunford, 81, of Middlesbrough, and Julie Davison, 50, of Whitby, North Yorkshire.
They were found with head injuries in their homes in April.
Mr Allen, 36, admitted to Newcastle Crown Court that he has robbed hotels all his life.
The prosecution say he was motivated by robbery and Robert Smith QC asked him why he had tried to stay in a Whitby hostel for free.
Mr Allen replied: "I did not want to pay for it as I was going to rob the place. I have robbed hotels all my life."
Mr Allen, responding angrily to Mr Smith's questioning, said: "You are a proper crank you are mate. You are in the wrong profession."
He said: "If you can show any substantial bit of evidence I will admit it to you right now.
"Here's your chance, I'm giving you an opportunity, show me one bit of evidence and I will admit it to the press now."
Mr Allen told Mr Smith he had liked Mr Dunford and called him a "decent old bat that lived next door".
But he said Mr Dunford had nothing to steal.
"Why would I kill him when I could go to a shop that has 20 to 30 times more," he said.
Mr Allen also threatened to throw a ring binder of evidence at Mr Smith and said he would show his "dark side".
The trial was adjourned until Friday. | An independent councillor who was arrested during an Orange Order parade in Ballycastle, County Antrim has been found guilty of an assault on police.
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Preston North End have turned down an approach from Championship rivals Ipswich Town for striker Jordan Hugill.
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The people of Midleton, County Cork, in the Republic of Ireland, have been warned to check their toilets after an elderly man was bitten on the bottom by a rat.
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A man accused of murdering two people has told a court he would admit to the killings if he was shown "any substantial bit of evidence". |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | Rubble fell down the 30m-high (100ft) rock face in East Cliff last April.
The carriages of the funicular railway - known as East Cliff Lift - were partially engulfed by the landslip, crushing a block of toilets.
Clear-up work has been carried out and inspections are due to take place ahead of repairs.
Bournemouth Borough Council said 100 rock-filled wire cages, with a total weight of 140 tonnes (140,000 kg), have been removed from the area, and matting has been fitted to the exposed cliff face as protection from wind and rain.
"Over the next two weeks specialist rope access teams will be descending from the cliff top to undertake detailed inspections of its condition, together with some minor repairs to the protective matting," said Larry Austin, the council's director of environment.
"These inspections will help to establish the scale of works to repair the cliff, costs for which are likely to be significant and will be undertaken within an area designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)."
The lift and toilets "are not expected to be reinstated for at least a further two years", the authority added. The area remains fenced off.
The foreign ministers of four Arab countries, meeting in Cairo, said they regretted Qatar's "negative" response to their list of demands.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE severed ties with Qatar last month.
They accuse it of supporting jihadi groups, and called for major changes in its policies.
The diplomats said Qatar lacked "understanding of the seriousness and gravity of the situation".
The Saudi foreign minister said further steps would be taken against Qatar at the appropriate time, and would be in line with international law.
"We're not doing this because we want to hurt Qatar, we're doing this to help Qatar," Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir said.
The meeting came as the deadline for Qatar to accept the list of demands or face further sanctions expired.
The bloc's demands to Qatar include shutting down the Al Jazeera channel and scaling down ties with Iran, as well as handing over individuals wanted for terrorism and aligning itself politically and economically Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC).
Speaking in London before the four ministers' statement, the Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani described the cutting of ties with his country as "a siege that is a clear aggression and an insult".
"The answer to our disagreement is not blockades and ultimatums, it is dialogue and reason," he added.
The small oil- and gas-rich nation is dependent on imports to meet the basic needs of its population of 2.7 million.
As its only land border is now closed, food is having to be shipped or flown in.
Mr Thani said this could be sustained "indefinitely".
The window for dialogue to resolve this dispute is not yet completely shut but it is fast heading that way.
Qatar has refused to comply with the 13 demands made by the Saudi-led quartet, so now the ball is in their court. They have three possible courses of action:
Ambulance Service staff alerted police after the 37-year-old man was discovered on Leamington Terrace, near Bruntsfield Place, at about 05:35.
The death is being treated as unexplained and detectives were particularly keen to trace a couple who may have tried to help the man earlier.
They have appealed for anyone with information to come forward.
Det Insp Alan O'Brien said: "Our inquiry is at an early stage and we are currently working to establish the man's identity.
"However, I encourage anyone who may have noticed or spoken to this man and can provide potentially vital information on his movements to please contact police immediately.
"In particular, we understand that a couple had attempted to help the deceased male and I appeal to them to come forward as soon as possible." | An Edwardian cliff railway that was damaged during a landslip in Bournemouth will not reopen for at least two years, a council has said.
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Restrictions on Qatar will continue after it rejected the ultimatum made by its Middle East neighbours, Saudi Arabia has said.
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An investigation is under way after a man's body was found lying on a street in the Bruntsfield area of Edinburgh. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) gave Snowdonia Pumped Hydro (SPH) permission to empty standing rainwater from two disused quarries at Glyn Rhonwy into Nant y Betws and Llyn Padarn.
But the Snowdonia Society has criticised its assessment of the site.
NRW said it was "confident in its permit decision."
The plans for the £100m hydro plant are being considered by the UK Planning Inspectorate, with a decision expected this month.
The society has written to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Greg Clark to raise concerns over NRW's decision to grant the permits under its statutory powers.
The letter, seen by BBC Wales, said: "We believe there is doubt whether NRW has exercised its consultee responsibilities properly in this case."
In its decision document NRW said: "A full assessment of the application and its potential to affect the site, protected species and protected habitats has been carried out as part of the permitting process."
But the society called this "demonstrably incorrect."
It said the developer's assessment of the water to be discharged from the quarries was based on a small number of samples, with none from the silt residues at the bottom of the pits.
The Snowdonia Society director, John Harold, said: "We are appalled that the NRW has not required the developer to collect a full suite of samples.
"NRW has failed to take a precautionary approach, and also, appears to have ignored concerns expressed by its own internal consultees."
Sian Williams, NRW head of operations in north west Wales said they only issue an environmental permit "if they are satisfied that the company's plans prove they will operate safely, without harming the environment or local communities".
"We are confident in our permit decision as explained in the decision document found on our website," she said.
Ms Williams added: "Llyn Padarn is a vitally important natural asset for the area. It's important for wildlife, for people and the local economy.
"We have offered Snowdonia Society an opportunity to discuss this decision with us."
There are also concerns that the pits contain unexploded munitions, as the area was home to a former RAF ammunitions store that was cleared in the 1970s.
Mr Harold added: "The body which should protect the environment of Wales is in effect passing the buck to planners" and has left the Department for BEIS to "deal with the complex environmental risk assessment for munitions and their residues at Glyn Rhonwy".
A BEIS spokesperson said: "The government recognises the potential for storage technologies, including pumped hydro, which is why we have worked with other organisations to invest more than £80m in research and development since 2012, and are actively seeking to remove barriers to the industry. | Concerns have been raised over a decision to award environmental permits to a planned hydro power plant in Llanberis, Gwynedd. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Kyrgios, fined £16,200 for remarks about Stan Wawrinka's girlfriend in August, beat German Alexander Zverev in the mixed teams event in Perth.
The 20-year-old faces world number two Murray when Australia Green, one of two teams representing the host nation, play Great Britain on Wednesday.
"I have been looking forward to that for a long time," he said.
"I'm going to go and do everything I can to physically prepare for that battle."
Kyrgios recovered from losing the first set 6-4 to take the next two 6-1 6-4 as he beat Zverev in just over an hour.
Murray, who teams up with Heather Watson, currently being coached by his mother Judy, knocked Kyrgios out of the Australian, French and US Opens in 2015. | Australian Nick Kyrgios warmed up for a meeting with Andy Murray by recording an opening-day win in the Hopman Cup. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Here is a full list of candidates running, in seven District Electoral Areas (DEAs), for 40 seats on Lisburn and Castlereagh council.
He said the US and Russia were working on a mechanism to ensure air strikes only targeted so-called Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.
Mr Kerry said they had agreed not to debate alleged violations in public.
On Monday, aid convoys began reaching besieged areas of Syria as the cessation of violence, which began on Saturday, appeared to be holding.
But France expressed concern about reports of strikes by Syrian government and Russian aircraft on areas controlled by mainstream rebels.
Russia says it is only targeting UN-designated terrorist organisations - including IS and al-Nusra, which is part of a major rebel alliance - in line with the terms of the cessation of hostilities.
Mr Kerry, speaking in Washington alongside German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said teams in Geneva and the Jordanian capital Amman would look into all reports of violations.
"We are going to track down each alleged violation and work even more now to put in place a construct which will help us to guarantee that [military] missions are indeed missions against al-Nusra or missions against [IS]," he said.
Mr Kerry added that he and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had agreed not to "litigate... in a public fashion" reports of violations on both sides.
He said that the goal should be making sure that the cessation, brokered by the US and Russia, would stick, not finding ways to undermine it.
Mr Kerry added that although both sides may have violated the truce, no breaches had been significant enough to shatter it.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier told reporters in Geneva that "by and large the cessation of hostilities is holding, even though we have experienced some incidents".
Riad Hijab, general co-ordinator for the main opposition umbrella group the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), meanwhile warned that continued violations would jeopardise the resumption of UN-brokered talks aimed at finding a political solution to the five-year conflict.
The UN and its partners have been stepping up deliveries of food, water and medicine, and plan to reach more than 150,000 people over the next five days.
They hope to help 1.7 million in hard-to-reach areas by the end of March.
The relative calm around the capital Damascus allowed 20 aid lorries carrying blankets and hygiene supplies to enter the besieged rebel-held suburb of Muadhamiya on Monday afternoon, Syrian Arab Red Crescent officials said.
A spokesman said a further 21 truckloads were also due to arrive.
The UN and other groups plan to deliver aid to the rebel-held towns of Madaya and Zabadani, in the mountains north-west of Damascus, and the government-controlled towns of Foah and Kefraya, in the northern province of Idlib on Wednesday.
They are also expected to attempt another air-drop over the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, where 200,000 people in government-held areas are under siege by IS.
High winds and parachute failures meant that pallets carrying 21 tonnes of food dropped last week either missed their target, went missing or were damaged.
The UN says more than 450,000 Syrians are trapped in 15 besieged towns and villages, while 4.1 million others are living in hard-to-reach areas.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, Islamic State, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
What's the human cost?
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are supporting the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran have pro-Assad forces on the ground, while Russia and a Western-led coalition are carrying out air strikes.
Syria's civil war explained | Elections for Northern Ireland's 11 new councils will be held on 22 May 2014.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry says all alleged violations of the partial truce in Syria will be investigated. |
Can you summarize the given article? | Bouygues said the deal had "significant execution risks" related to French competition law.
Also, France's government had voiced concerns about employment threats and higher consumer prices should the competition be reduced.
A merged firm would have leapfrogged Orange to become France's largest mobile phone company.
Altice wanted to combine Bouygues' mobile, internet, and fixed phone businesses with those of Altice division Numericable-SFR.
In its statement, Bouygues also said its "strong and lasting competitive advantage" derived from its range of mobile frequencies and 4G network left it capable of expanding its business on its own.
On Monday, France's Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said further consolidation in the telecoms sector was "currently undesirable".
"Now is not the time for opportunistic tie-ups which may be of interest to some people but which are not in the public interest," he added.
"Jobs, investment and better customer service are the priorities."
The rejection of the bid is likely to be a setback for Altice's acquisition-hungry owner, Franco-Israeli tycoon Patrick Drahi.
He is behind a series of telecoms and media acquisitions, and in 2014 purchased SFR and later merged it with cable operator Numericable. | French telecoms group Bouygues has rejected unanimously a near €10bn takeover offer by rival group Altice. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Scottish Labour, the Scottish Conservatives and the Scottish Lib Dems said Scots did not want another ballot despite SNP claims it had a mandate.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale dismissed claims she had not been clear on the issue.
And Ruth Davidson ruled out any second ballot until after 2021.
The SNP has said it has a mandate to hold a second referendum, despite the 2014 vote being a "once in a generation" event.
It said it included the right to hold another independence ballot in the event of a "material" change to Scotland's circumstances.
It insisted that the Brexit vote, in which 62% in Scotland voted to remain in the EU, a majority, albeit reduced at Holyrood last year, and a vote in March by the Scottish Parliament to stage another referendum, constituted a mandate.
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland Ms Dugdale, who has previously said Labour MPs and MSPs could campaign for independence if a second referendum was staged, insisted she would block any second ballot.
She said: "Everywhere I go I meet people who are distressed, upset and worried about the instability a second referendum would cause and indeed the damage independence would cause.
"We have been very clear we are opposed to independence and a second independence referendum.
"The reality is now, our job is to block a referendum here in Scotland. Because the people of Scotland don't want it, nor do they want independence."
And Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson who has seen her party stage an electoral revival on the back of her vocal opposition to another independence vote, said she did not believe the SNP had a mandate for a second referendum.
She insisted on the programme that there was no "public consent" to hold another vote and if there had to be one it could only be after 2021 at the earliest.
She said: "the SNP are going to argue for another referendum till the cows come home. I don't accept they have a mandate. There has got to be both political and public consent for this."
And she said there could not be any second vote held until after a Brexit deal had been negotiated and its effects "played out on the ground" including the new powers devolved from the EU back to Scotland.
She added: "I am absolutely not going to advocate for this to be held in the next while or within the next generation."
And Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie joined in the chorus against staging a second referendum while campaigning in East Dunbartonshire.
He said: "The Scottish economy is teetering on the edge of a recession, the performance of Scottish education is dropping down the international rankings and mental health services are failing to deliver the care we expect.
"People should use their vote to change the direction of the country away from another divisive independence referendum."
But SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson, said there was only one way for Scotland's "voice to be heard" adding: "Scotland needs MPs who will speak up for what is right, not simply do whatever Theresa May tells them.
"Now more than ever, it is vital to have strong SNP voices standing up for Scotland at Westminster." | Leaders of Scotland's main pro-UK parties insist they would block any attempt to stage a second independence vote. |
Write a summary of this document. | High winds brought the tree down on the car in Shropshire, on Thursday morning.
The man, a front seat passenger aged in his 80s, was critically injured on the A49, just north of Church Stretton and died in hospital on Sunday.
Another victim, Tahnie Martin, 29, was killed in Wolverhampton when hit by a large piece of wooden roofing.
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There were two more people in the car struck by the tree in Shropshire.
The dead man's wife had been a back seat passenger but was uninjured. The driver, 75, was taken to hospital to be checked over.
Ms Martin, from Stafford, was passing Starbucks coffee shop in Dudley Street when she was struck. She had been with colleagues from the University of Wolverhampton at the time.
West Midlands Police said it was working with Wolverhampton City Council and the Health and Safety Executive to establish which building the roofing came from.
Police are asking for anyone who witnessed the accident to contact them.
A number of people were injured as winds of up to 94mph were recorded across the UK on Thursday. | An elderly man has become another victim to die as a result of Storm Doris after the car he was in was crushed by a tree. |
Summarize the provided section. | Messages such as "for use against drunkards" are written on the paddles, which measure about 40cm (15in) and are more traditionally used for laundry.
Gopal Bhargava a state minister in Madhya Pradesh, said he wanted to highlight the issue of domestic abuse.
He told the women to try to reason with their husbands before using them.
But if their spouses refuse to listen, they should let the paddles - known as mogri and usually used to beat dirt out of clothes - "do the talking", he said.
Mr Bhargava posted pictures of the brides with the bats on his Facebook page.
He told AFP news agency that he had become concerned about the numbers of rural women who faced abuse from alcoholic husbands.
"Women say whenever their husbands get drunk they become violent. Their savings are taken away and splurged on liquor," he said.
"There is no intent to provoke women or instigate them to violence but the bat is to prevent violence."
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Mr Bhargava, of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, says he has ordered 10,000 bats in total.
Nearly 700 brides received them at a mass marriage ceremony in his hometown of Garhakota at the weekend.
Mass weddings are offered in India to help low income couples tie the knot without having to pay for their own event.
Local media suggested it was a move to garner support ahead of state elections next year. | Hundreds of brides at an Indian mass wedding have been given wooden bats and urged to use them as weapons if their husbands turn abusive. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Steve Bannon, who lives in England, has been mistaken for Stephen Bannon, the former Breitbart news executive and chief strategist to the US president.
The Scot uses the Twitter handle @SteveBannon, while the other Mr Bannon uses @StephenBannon.
Steve, not Stephen, has changed his Twitter bio to: "Nothing to do with US politics or running the White House."
He has also changed the banner on his account to read: "This is not the Steve Bannon you're looking for."
In a very patient fashion, Mr Bannon has also been replying to people who are tweeting him about the current situation in the States as Mr Trump's presidency takes shape.
Despite Twitter "melting" his phone, Steve, originally from East Kilbride, has been directing people to "go after the other guy", "go find the right Steve Bannon" and to "get the right guy".
He told BBC Scotland News that he has coped with it all so far, and that his younger girls think the attention from "some cool social media sites" has been hilarious.
Mr Bannon is not the first Scot to end up in the spotlight because of the US election.
In November, Kellyanne Conway, from Glasgow, was being confused on Facebook her with US namesake at Trump HQ - a Republican Party campaign manager.
Ms Conway told BBC Scotland she could see the funny side after she received an array of "strange" emails including one that thanked her for "boarding the Trump train!".
She said messages had been sent to her intermittently throughout the US presidential race, but she was inundated when Mr Trump won the election.
The Glaswegian was forced to issue a disclaimer on her profile that warned she was the "wrong Kellyanne Conway!". | A Scottish man has ended up being confused with one of Donald Trump's closest advisers. |
Write a summary for this information. | The government announced compensation packages in December for season ticket holders hit by long-running disruption.
About 84,000 passengers are eligible for refunds compared to an estimated 590,000 who are not, according to the London Assembly's Labour group.
A Labour spokesperson said it was "damned insulting" to exclude passengers who pay as they go.
Transport spokesperson Florence Eshalomi said "Not only have Southern passengers endured the worst services in the country, they've seen their fares go up.
"If the government wants to avoid sticking the boot in anymore, it should be compensating all passengers."
The compensation scheme was announced after months of disruption to commuters on the Southern rail network in south London and southern England.
Annual season ticket holders will receive a payment equivalent to one month's travel, with quarterly, monthly and weekly season ticket holders able to claim an equivalent payment for the ticket type.
But those who pay as they travel with cash or cards will receive no payment under the scheme.
According to official performance data, 29.5% of Southern's mainline and coast services were more than five minutes late last year - almost three in every 10 services.
The Department for Transport said the disruption was caused by track failures, engineering works, "unacceptably poor performance" by the operator and a series of strikes.
Govia Thameslink Rail (GTR), which runs the rail line, apologised for "many months of disruption and misery". | Almost nine out of every 10 Southern rail passengers will not be compensated for poor service, it has been claimed. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Police said the 53-year-old was struck on Springburn Road at about 13:25 on Tuesday by a Ford Transit Connect near the Keppochhill Road junction.
The pedestrian was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the city, where his condition remains serious.
The 27-year-old driver of the van was unhurt. Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Sgt Mark McGowan said: "At this time our investigation into the crash is continuing.
"I would urge anyone who witnessed the crash or who has information that may assist our inquiries to contact us through 101. "
The 53-year-old's spell as interim Chelsea boss is coming to an end and he will replace Walter Mazzarri, who has joined Napoli's Serie A rivals Inter.
Napoli finished second in the Italian league last season and have qualified for next season's Champions League.
This season's Europa League win with Chelsea means Rafael Benitez has won 10 trophies as a manager:
"I am very happy and very satisfied for having committed to a great club with an illustrious heritage like Napoli," said Spaniard Benitez.
"I understand the history of the city and how the club forms a fundamental part of the culture and traditions of Naples.
"I must confess that I am extremely excited because I can share my passion for football with the fans of Napoli; it is proven that they are very, very special.
"I look forward to experiencing each and every one of the fans of Napoli and their strong support for this project that we will begin."
Benitez is bringing first-team fitness coach Paco de Miguel and first-team opposition analyst Xavi Valero with him from London to Naples.
Napoli club president Aurelio De Laurentiis first made the appointment public when he posted a picture on Twitter of himself shaking hands with Benitez.
"Rafa Benitez is the new coach of Napoli," he tweeted. "A man of great international experience. A leader."
Napoli later confirmed the appointment, calling Benitez a "prestigious" coach.
The Spaniard twice won La Liga with Valencia, while also leading the club to a Uefa Cup victory.
He then spent six seasons in charge of Liverpool from 2004 and guided the Reds to Champions League glory in 2005 as well as the FA Cup in 2006.
Benitez parted company with the Anfield club in June 2010 before taking over at Inter Milan a week later - a post in which he lasted just over six months, despite a Club World Cup success.
Following nearly two years out of club management, he took over as interim Chelsea boss in November 2012.
Benitez guided the Blues to the Europa League trophy this season, while a third-place finish in the Premier League ensured the Stamford Bridge outfit would play in the Champions League next season.
He also led Chelsea to the final of the Club World Cup - where they lost to South American champions Corinthians - and the semi-finals of the FA Cup and League Cup.
Despite a season widely regarded as a success, Benitez remained unpopular with a section of the Chelsea support after succeeding Roberto Di Matteo in November and had underlined his intention to leave the club at the end of the season.
The Spaniard was linked with the vacant roles at Everton and Stoke after announcing he would be leaving Chelsea, who are expected to re-appoint former manager Jose Mourinho this summer, after the Portuguese's departure from Real Madrid was confirmed.
A Blues statement read: "Everybody at Chelsea Football Club would like to place on record our thanks to Rafa and his staff for their work at the club, and wish them success for the future." | A man is in a serious condition in hospital after being hit by a van on a road in Glasgow.
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Napoli have appointed Rafael Benitez as their new manager on a two-year deal. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Using key tracer molecules, researchers have been able to hunt down elusive cells in the eye capable of regeneration and repair.
They transplanted these regenerative stem cells into mice - creating fully functioning corneas.
Writing in the journal Nature, they say this method may one day help restore the sight of victims of burns and chemical injuries.
Limbal stem cells (LSC) are crucial for healthy eyesight - these cells work to maintain, repair and completely renew our corneas every few weeks.
Without them the cornea - the transparent outermost layer of the eye - would become cloudy and our vision disrupted.
A deficiency of these cells due to disease or damage through injury to the eye are among the commonest reasons behind blindness worldwide.
But the cells have so far been extremely difficult to identify, buried in a matrix of other structures in the limbal part of the eye - the junction between the cornea and the white of the eye (the sclera).
Now scientists from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the VA Boston Healthcare System have identified a key tracer molecule - known as ABCB5 - naturally present on the surface of limbal stem cells.
Though ABCB5 has been known about for some time in other parts of the body, this is the first time it has been spotted on LSCs, helping to single out these elusive cells.
Researchers have been able to tag these cells with fluorescent molecular flags.
In their study, the scientists used this tagging technique to instantly identify a pool of LSCs on donated human corneas.
After being transplanted to mice, these cells were able to generate fully functioning human corneas.
Prof Markus Frank, of Boston Children's Hospital, a lead author in the research, told the BBC: " The main significance for human disease is we have established a molecularly defined population of cells that we can extract from donor tissue.
"And these cells have the remarkable ability to self-regenerate. We hope to drive this research forward so this can be used as a therapy."
Harminder Dua, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Nottingham, who was not involved in this study, said: "This paper represents a very comprehensive and well conducted piece of work that takes use closer to the precise identification of stem cells.
"Applying this knowledge to a clinical setting could help improve the outcomes for patients who need corneal reconstruction." | Scientists have developed a new technique to regrow human corneas. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | Jeffrey Sandusky, 41, allegedly sent explicit text messages to children, asking for nude photographs.
The arrest comes nearly five years after his father, who worked for Pennsylvania State University, was found guilty on similar charges.
The elder Sandusky is serving a lengthy prison sentence for molesting 10 boys.
The son - who attended many of his father's court proceedings - faces 14 counts, including statutory sexual assault, unlawful contact with a minor, sexual abuse of a minor and photographing or depicting sexual acts.
He was formally charged at a court in the Pennsylvanian town of Bellefonte on Monday afternoon.
His adopted mother, Dorothy Sandusky, was also present at the hearing, according to local media.
The investigation began in November 2016, police say, when a child claimed to have received a text message from the younger Sandusky.
The child shared the photo with her father, who alerted police.
Mr Sandusky's bail has been set at $200,000 (£160,000), which he was unable to post, court records show.
He is being held in jail pending trial and is prohibited from having any contact with minors.
His employer, the Rockview State Prison, has suspended him as a prison officer, pending trial.
Mr Sandusky's brother, Matt, told NBC News his thoughts are "with the victims".
He also had some harsh words for his sibling.
"He should not see the outside of a prison cell for the rest of his life if these allegations are true," said Matt Sandusky.
The revelation that coach Jerry Sandusky has abused children, some whom were beneficiaries of his own charity, shocked Pennsylvanians and fans of US college football.
The school president, as well as the team's head coach, were both fired after being accused of seeking to cover up allegations against Sandusky, the school's longtime defensive co-ordinator.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) eventually punished the team by stripping it of all victories from 1998-2011 and imposing a fine of $60m (£48m). | The adopted son of Jerry Sandusky, the US college football coach convicted of child abuse, has been accused of sexually abusing two teenage sisters. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital said exceptionally heavy demand had triggered black alert status, following a rise in people going to A&E.
Chief Nurse Sherree Fagge urged people to use A&E appropriately and said it was a tough environment for staff.
Gary Palmer from the GMB union said members were near breaking point and "really concerned".
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS said a black alert meant there was heavy A&E demand and insufficient beds available in the hospital.
The trust said black alert triggered a system-wide response that tried to increase the number of patients being discharged, and the flow of patients through the whole hospital.
All A&E patients were being seen by a clinician within 20 minutes and being made comfortable and monitored in a safe environment, the trust added.
Ms Fagge said: "We are confident that we are keeping patients safe, but it is a very tough environment for staff to work in at the moment.
"We ask the public to use A&E appropriately and to use the many alternative services available if they do not require emergency treatment."
But Mr Palmer said: "Our members are full out. There is no respite at the moment, and with continuing underfunding and cuts, it is only going to get worse."
He added: "Everybody keeps talking about peaks and troughs within A&E. Our members aren't finding that. Those are now being evened out and they're under stress and strain every day of the week, 52 weeks a year."
The NHS trust has not yet responded to Mr Palmer's comments. | A hospital has been placed on the highest level of alert to cope with A&E demand and a shortage of beds. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Rachel Atherton, who had already clinched the title, secured her sixth successive race win in Italy.
The English rider beat France's Myriam Nicole into second to claim the 26th World Cup win of her career.
Carpenter needed a strong end to the season after disqualification and crashes had ruined her title hopes.
The 2014 World Cup champion will now join Atherton, and third-placed Tahnee Seagrave, in the Great Britain team at the World Championships are held in Andorra in September. | Wales' Manon Carpenter finished as runner-up overall in the downhill mountain bike World Cup series after claiming third place in the final race. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | England striker Lambert has had a frustrating last two years, making just 12 Premier League starts for Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion.
Now Lambert, 34, is refreshed following his deadline-day move to Cardiff.
"I want to be relied on, like I have been all of my career," he said.
Cardiff will be led by Sean Morrison at Carrow Road, with the centre-back inheriting the captaincy following goalkeeper David Marshall's move to Hull City.
But Joe Bennett, signed from Aston Villa, will have to wait for his debut due to a slight calf problem.
Head coach Paul Trollope says Lambert was his "number one target" during the transfer window and was delighted to have landed the player he signed for Bristol Rovers 10 years ago.
Now Lambert, who said Trollope was a major factor in his decision to join the Bluebirds, is anxious to repay that faith and play regularly again.
"Throughout my career everyone in the club has looked upon me to score goals, relied on me to push the team forward and at Liverpool it was kind of I was a chess piece and the same at West Brom," he said.
"In the Premier League most teams have four strikers and you become a certain type of striker, where I am used to being the main man and teams revolving around me.
"Obviously if that happens the teams gets the rewards out of me, I feel. My record in the lower leagues and the Championship speaks for itself and I'm hoping with Trolls [Trollope] I can get back there.''
"I am desperate to enjoy my football again. I'm 34, obviously I want to be playing now until I retire, whenever that is going to be. `
"I don't want to be sitting on the bench and I don't want to be remembering the last few years of my career sitting on the bench somewhere. I want to be playing and if that means dropping down from the Premier League that doers not bother me whatsoever.
"I loved the Premier League, I loved getting there, I have had great memories. But being relied on, playing and being involved in a team week in week out means more."
Lambert said he had no regrets about joining his boyhood heroes Liverpool in a £4m move from Southampton in 2014, despite making only seven league starts for the Reds.
"I have been asked that question many a time and in hindsight may be you would have picked a different choice," he added.
"But no-one is telling me when Liverpool comes in for you, anyone in my shoes is going to say no being a Liverpool supporter.
"It did not work out but, at the end of the day, I still played for Liverpool, I played in the Champions League and still scored.
"It is something I am proud of, I wish it would have gone better but that's football sometimes. It went my way for years and obviously it did not work out that time."
Meanwhile, Trollope confirmed defender Morrison will be the new captain.
"Sean is going to be the new skipper on and off the pitch. He has grown in stature form coming on the scene quite early as a young centre-half, did well through his time at Swindon and Reading and through here," said Trollope.
"I think he is making good progress. He has shown really good leadership qualities on and off the pitch. He is respected in the group, he has shown a real hunger and desire firstly in preseason when he got injured and he pushed himself to get back available, which is a testament to him." | New signing Rickie Lambert is relishing being the "main man" again as he prepares for his Cardiff City debut in Saturday's Championship match at Norwich City. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The average weight of fish has also fallen, according to Marine Science Scotland's annual report.
Fish farmers are understood to be facing difficulties with sea lice affecting the growth of fish.
Production of lumpsucker and wrasse, a natural predator of sea lice, is being increased.
The report also shows that the industry is diversifying into other species, with production of farmed rainbow trout up by nearly half to more than 8,000 tonnes.
Last year saw record production of farmed salmon, with 179,022 tonnes produced.
Mewn hanner cyntaf di-fflach fe aeth Greg Halford yn agos i Gaerdydd gyda pheniad o gic rydd Craig Noone, tra bod Allan McGregor wedi arbed cic rydd Chris Wood ar y pen arall.
Ar ôl 52 munud fe aeth yr Adar Gleision ar y blaen wrth i'r capten Morrison benio cic rydd Noone i gefn y rhwyd.
Dyblwyd y fantais gydag ugain munud i fynd wrth i Aron Gunnarsson greu cyfle i Zohore rwydo.
Cafodd Liam Bridcutt gerdyn coch hwyr i Leeds, wrth i Gaerdydd sicrhau tri phwynt gwerthfawr yn eu hymgais nhw i ddringo i hanner uchaf y tabl.
Mr Schreyer, who previously worked for Audi and Volkswagen, will streamline the design operation and seek synergy between the two Korean brands.
Three weeks ago the German was named Kia's first foreign president.
Hyundai's Woong-Chul Yang said the move was "imperative to secure long-term competitiveness" and to help "enhance our brand value".
Kia was bought by Hyundai Motor in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis, and has been expanding sales at a faster pace than Hyundai in the US and Europe.
Mr Schreyer spent a decade with VW Group as head of Audi and head of Volkswagen design.
"Mr. Schreyer brings a wealth of experience in design from the global auto industry and has a deep understanding of the Hyundai Motor Group." said Mr Yang.
"These valuable qualities will help build the foundation needed to make Hyundai and Kia leading global top automakers," added Mr Yang.
Hyundai-Kia sold a total of 7.12 million vehicles around the globe last year,, up 8% on 2011. | The harvest of Atlantic salmon from Scotland's fish farming industry has declined by more than 4% to 172,000 tonnes, figures show.
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Kia's design boss Peter Schreyer has been named as the new chief designer for the wider Hyundai Motor Group. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Rocks weighing in excess of 40 tonnes are believed to have fallen on to the popular walking route on Tuesday night.
The landslide came down from the hill Meall Cumhann, according to Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team.
A ranger was expected to make an inspection of the slip on Wednesday and assess how badly it has affected the path. | A large landslide has covered part of the Steall Gorge footpath in Lochaber. |
What is the summary of the following document? | Ms Villiers said she would be speaking to all the Northern Ireland political party leaders over the "coming days".
She said that failure to find a solution to the dispute would mean there was no "workable budget".
Ms Villiers said this would have an impact on Troubles legacy issues.
"It is crucial that the executive is able to fulfil what it promises to do under the Stormont House Agreement, after all the party that has caused the latest impasse, Sinn Féin, were the ones that were most vocally in favour of the Stormont House Agreement (SHA)," she told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.
"It is time for them to sit round the table with the other parties to make sure the dispute around the implementation of the welfare provision is resolved.
"Otherwise the executive doesn't have a workable budget.
"The package provided under the SHA amounts to around £2bn in extra spending power and that's a considerable and generous extra financial support.
"There isn't additional funding on top of that but one of the benefits of pressing ahead with the obligations the executive undertook under the SHA is that they get access to that financial package.
"If this latest impasse isn't resolved then obviously that financial package is jeopardised and I think even more worryingly the progress on the past and dealing with the legacy of the past and improving outcomes for victims and survivors that is all in jeopardy as well which I think would be deeply regrettable."
Ms Villiers also rejected claims that the government's pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act would be a "flagrant breach" of the Good Friday Agreement.
Scrapping the act and replacing it with a British Bill of Rights was a Conservative election manifesto pledge.
The Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) said such a move would "significantly roll back" Northern Ireland's peace settlement.
"I just don't believe that for a moment and I don't believe that the CAJ have got grounds for that assertion," Ms Villiers said.
"We are committed to protecting the rights that are contained in the convention. It is about addressing the mission creed which has seen human rights come into all sorts of areas for which those who drafted the convention back in the 1940s never envisaged.
"It is about making sure ultimate decisions on human rights are made within this country and not in Strasbourg."
Following Ms Villier's comments on Wednesday, the CAJ said its position on the matter had not changed.
Ms Villiers also said the government did not plan to hold a separate referendum in Northern Ireland on membership of the European Union as proposed by Sinn Féin.
"We will have a referendum for the whole of the United Kingdom, we are not proposing separate referenda for the individual parts of the UK," she added. | Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers has said it is crucial that the issue of welfare reform is resolved or the executive is likely to become "increasingly dysfunctional". |
Please summarize the following text. | The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains (ICLVR) said a 'geophysical survey' will be carried out on land not previously searched at a bog in Oristown, County Meath.
It is believed Brendan Megraw's remains are buried somewhere on the land.
He was one of the 16 murder victims that became known as the Disappeared.
Mr Megraw was 23 years old when he was abducted from Twinbrook in Belfast in 1978, and murdered by the IRA.
There have been three unsuccessful searches for him, the most recent in 2010.
His brother, Kieran Megraw, said the family were wary of getting their hopes up.
"You're thankful that information has come in," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster.
"But you have to temper your expectation and hope. You're hoping then the results of the survey will say it's okay to go ahead."
The IRA claimed that he had confessed to being a British provocateur and Military Reaction Force undercover agent.
Senior forensic investigator Geoff Knupfer told Good Morning Ulster that the latest search was a "continuation" of the previous efforts to find Mr Megraw.
"We've undertaken two or three phases previously. They're all adjoining one another which would indicate to you and your listeners that we've been told where to go, where to look and, really, it's a continuation of that process."
He added the chances of finding Mr Megraw were "not enormous" but that he was "optimistic" if the grave area has not been disturbed.
He said: "No-one, least of all Brendan's family, is under any illusion that this is anything other than a huge task.
"We will carry out an initial survey of ground that is on the site where we think Brendan could be buried, but has not previously been analysed.
"This will involve a team of forensic archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar to try to identify anomalies beneath the surface that may warrant further investigation and a fresh search."
The ICLVR was established in 1999 to obtain information in strictest confidence which may lead to the location of the remains of the Disappeared - those killed and buried in secret by banned paramilitary groups prior to 10 April 1998 as a result of the Troubles.
Information passed to the ICLVR is kept confidential and cannot be used in criminal proceedings.
The ICLVR said that over four hectares of the Oristown bog have been searched to date, with a further 2.5 hectares to be covered by the new land survey.
Two other victims - Kevin McKee and Seamus Wright - both from west Belfast and abducted in 1972, are thought to be buried nearby in Wilkinstown. | Forensic work is to begin next week in the search for an IRA victim whose body has been missing for almost 40 years. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Haider al-Abadi, a deputy speaker of parliament, has been asked by Iraq's president to form a government.
Mr Maliki's earlier refusal to resign after eight years in power had been blamed for deepening the crisis. The UN and US have welcomed his resignation.
The government has been unable to stop Islamist fighters from seizing vast areas in northern Iraq.
The offensive by the self-styled Islamic State (IS), a Sunni Muslim jihadist group formerly known as Isis, has triggered a security and humanitarian crisis, driving an estimated 1.2 million Iraqis from their homes.
Appearing on state TV flanked by Mr Abadi and other politicians from the Shia Muslim majority, Mr Maliki spoke of the grave "terrorist" threat from IS before announcing his own exit.
"I announce before you today, to ease the movement of the political process and the formation of the new government, the withdrawal of my candidacy in favour of brother Doctor Haider al-Abadi," he said.
His eight years in office, Mr Maliki said, had been spent combating a mounting wave of terrorism and subversion. He insisted that he had stuck to the law and avoided violence even when he had come under personal attack but now, he said, he did not want to be the cause of the shedding of a single drop of blood.
There had been fears that Mr Maliki might use the power base he built up through his control of the armed forces to stay in power.
But, with his own party and the Shia clerical establishment, not to mention influential outside powers such as Iran and America and the entire international community backing Mr Abadi, the writing was clearly on the wall for Mr Maliki's hopes of clinging to power.
He had earlier insisted that he should have the right to form the government, as leader of the biggest bloc in parliament.
The resignation brought an end to eight years of often divisive rule, when Mr Maliki's government was accused of favouring the Shia majority.
Critics say Mr Maliki's sectarian policies had precipitated the current crisis.
Mr Abadi is one of Iraq's most senior politicians, having held several high-profile posts since returning from exile in 2003.
He is regarded by some as a moderate within Mr Maliki's Dawa party, and has shown more of a willingness to compromise than his predecessor.
US National Security Adviser Susan Rice praised Mr Maliki's decision to step down, describing it as a "major step" towards uniting Iraq.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Mr Maliki's withdrawal "will allow the crucial process to form a new government to proceed swiftly".
"An inclusive, broad-based government ready to immediately tackle... pressing issues" was needed, he added.
Earlier, US President Barack Obama offered his support to the prime minister-designate.
"He [Mr Abadi] still has a challenging task in putting a government together, but we are modestly hopeful that the... situation is moving in the right direction," Mr Obama said.
Mr Obama also paid tribute to US forces for an operation in the north of Iraq that he said has helped tens of thousands of people displaced by IS.
Many of them, mostly from the Christian and Yazidi religious minorities, were besieged on Mount Sinjar after being forced to flee their homes.
Mr Obama said US forces had helped break the siege and the situation had greatly improved.
Thousands of Yazidis have reached camps inside Iraq's Kurdish region, most with no possessions but the clothes on their backs, AFP news agency reports from Dohuk.
Conditions in the camps are spartan, with one man, Khodr Hussein, saying: "We went from hunger in Sinjar to hunger in this camp."
In other developments: | Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has resigned, in a move observers hope will end a political crisis in Baghdad. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Ricardo Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, 19, was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court of two counts of rape and will be initially detained in a young offenders' institute.
He attacked her at the top of stairs leading to a canal path in Manchester city centre at about 07:00 on 23 July as she shouted: "Stop, it's not right!"
Police were alerted by a witness.
Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes, of Old Hall Drive, Gorton was also ordered to sign the sex offenders' register for life and pay a £170 victim surcharge.
The witness heard the teenager begging Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes to stop.
The witness then heard her shout: "If I tell you I don't want to do this, then you stop."
Greater Manchester Police said the attack continued for some time before he fled the scene as officers arrived.
He was arrested later that same morning.
Det Con Dave Jones said: "Rodrigues-Fortes-Gomes is now behind bars and unable to force himself upon people for his own selfish sexual gratification.
"Not only did he subject his victim to a horrifically prolonged attack, he made her endure the distress of a trial by denying his involvement."
Mr Snyder, a Republican, has rejected claims of inefficiency as thousands of people were left without safe tap water and at risk of lead poisoning.
He has described the crisis as a "massive error of bureaucracy".
Meanwhile, seven families have filed a lawsuit against authorities.
The city's water became contaminated when lead leached from old pipes after a change in supplier in 2014. Some 100,000 people were affected.
Living one bottle of water at a time
The issue came up as the Democratic candidates took part in a televised debate in Flint on Sunday. Both Ms Clinton and Mr Sanders criticised Mr Snyder's response to the crisis and called for him to step down.
The governor took to Twitter to reject the allegations. In a series of messages posted during the debate, he defended his administration's actions, including aid delivery and cleanup efforts.
"I'm taking responsibility as our value system says we should. My track record is getting things done, and I want to get this done," he said.
The switch to a river water source was a money-saving move when the city was under state financial management.
Mr Snyder, however, dismissed allegations that the decision was based on savings, and blamed all levels of government for the crisis.
The water from Flint River stripped lead from the pipes and contaminated the supply. Lead exposure can cause learning disabilities and behavioural problems in children.
Meanwhile, seven families filed a class action lawsuit seeking to hold state and city officials responsible for the crisis.
Lawyers will ask the courts to certify a class action that would cover any Flint children who were poisoned by drinking the contaminated water, NBC News reported.
Authorities have not commented.
Officers found the bag, full of ??10 and ??20 notes, in Lower Sundon, Bedfordshire, in the early hours of Friday.
Officers tweeted: "Did you lose a bag of money and drugs? Please come to police HQ where we'd love to chat."
A number of people commented, with one replying: "Wait, if I come and collect it, you won't arrest me, right?"
The tweet, posted by officers from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire road policing unit, was described as the "best ever" by some of their social media followers.
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The officers' post included a photograph of the dark-coloured bag containing the cash and plastic bags of drugs.
Another tweet said: "Can you leave it where you found it please. I'll come and collect it later this evening." | A rapist who ignored his 18-year-old victim's screams as he attacked her has been detained for six years.
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has stood firm after Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders called for his resignation over the Flint water crisis.
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Police have encouraged the owner of a bag found stuffed with money and drugs to visit them for a "chat". |
Summarize the provided section. | Ayoub El-Khazzani, 25, was carrying 270 bullets for his assault rifle and a bottle of petrol, prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters on Tuesday.
The Moroccan's phone showed that he had watched a jihadist video shortly before launching the attack, Mr Molins added.
Prosecutors have now filed formal charges against him.
Mr Khazzani is accused of carrying out a "targeted and premeditated" jihadist attack.
He is also accused of firearms offences and "participation in a terrorist association with a view to organising one or several damaging crimes," according to prosecutors' documents quoted by the AFP news agency.
He was overpowered by passengers on the Thalys express train from Amsterdam to Paris on Friday. No-one died.
Three Americans and one Briton who overpowered the gunman were awarded medals for their bravery.
A US-born Frenchman, Mark Magoolian, and another unnamed Frenchman will also be given awards later for trying to tackle the gunman.
Profile: Ayoub El-Khazzani
France train shooting: What we know
"Ayoub El-Khazzani had watched YouTube audio files whilst already on the Thalys train in which an individual called on the faithful to fight and take up arms in the name of the Prophet [Muhammad]," Mr Molins told a news conference.
He said a formal terrorism investigation had been opened, adding that other European authorities had passed on information about the suspect's travels and links to radical Islam.
Mr Molins said Mr Khazzani was "known for his radicalism" and had recently travelled to Turkey - "a possible route to Syria".
The suspect is said to have denied plotting a terrorist attack, saying he found a bag of weapons the night before and planned to use them to rob passengers.
But the prosecutor said Mr Khazzani's explanation became less and less clear during questioning and eventually he stopped talking to investigators altogether.
The most important thing we learned from the Paris prosecutor's news conference was that Ayoub El-Khazzani fired himself up for his attack with a jihadist propaganda video.
This is a crucial piece of evidence that convinced the prosecutor's office to proceed with terrorist-related charges.
El-Khazzani has tried to argue that his motivations were purely criminal, but his interrogators do not believe a word of it.
The other evidence includes his known past extremist links in Spain; the size of his arsenal; and his unlikely explanations given under questioning about finding the weapons in a park.
Mr Khazzani's phone, which was found in a bag on the train, had been activated on the day of the attack, Mr Molins said.
He boarded the Amsterdam-Paris train in Brussels and ticket sellers at the station said he paid for a first-class ticket in cash and turned down an earlier train.
Mr Molins said this was an indication the target had been carefully chosen in advance.
As well as the Kalashnikov assault rifle, ammunition, and petrol, he was also carrying a Luger pistol and a box-cutter, according to the prosecutor.
Officials say Mr Khazzani is originally from Tetouan in northern Morocco.
He reportedly moved to Spain in 2007 and lived there for seven years, in Madrid and Algeciras, before relocating to France then Belgium.
In Spain, he is said to have come to the attention of authorities for making comments defending jihadists and attending a radical mosque in Algeciras. He was also reportedly involved in drug trafficking.
Mr Khazzani told police he had been living rough in Belgium before the attack, but investigators believe he was staying with his sister in Brussels.
Police in the city searched two buildings in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighbourhood on Monday where Mr Khazzani may have stayed.
A statement from the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office said no-one had been detained but "some objects" had been seized for further examination. No further detail was given. | An attempted attack by a heavily armed man on a train in France last week was premeditated and well prepared, according to a French prosecutor. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | But the government says this will not disadvantage students as they will be tested on only half the syllabus.
Calls were also made to delay exams after dozens of schools were burned by unknown attackers in recent weeks.
BBC Urdu's Riyaz Masroor in Srinagar says 98% of registered students are taking the exam amid tight security.
Mysterious fires keep Kashmir children out of school
Viewpoint: Living in the shadow of curfew in Kashmir
The teenager blinded by pellets in Kashmir
"The process has been smooth since the morning. Most students agreed to take the exams to avoid wasting an academic year," he said.
The government has also promised to hold another round of exams in March for the remaining 2% of students who have opted not to sit them this time.
Schools have been shut since July following clashes between security forces and protesters after the death of popular militant Burhan Wani, who was killed in a gun battle with security forces.
The continuing unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir has seen the deaths of 89 civilians with thousands injured since July.
India blames Pakistan for stirring up violence in the region, a charge that it denies. Both countries claim Kashmir in its entirety but only control parts of it.
The region has been a flashpoint for more than 60 years, sparking two wars between the countries.
Within the Muslim-majority territory, some militant groups have taken up arms to fight for independence from Indian rule or a merger with Pakistan.
Simon Hammersley, Alex Tait and Micky Young tries and Craig Willis' penalty put Falcons 22-3 up at the break, with Thomas Laranjeira responding for Brive.
Tries from Nicolas Bezy and Christopher Tuatara and two penalties from Laranjeira edged the French side ahead.
Hammersley then neatly kicked and gathered to seal victory late on.
The return of captain Will Welch was one of 11 changes the Falcons made from the ultimately costly defeat by Russian side Enisei-STM, as Newcastle looked to book a place in the last eight.
However, with Newport Gwent Dragons and Montpellier already securing safe passage as two of the three best runners-up in the group stage, progress was impossible even before Falcons kicked off at Kingston Park.
Newcastle Falcons: Hammersley; Tait, C. Harris, Socino, Kibirige; Willis, Young; Rogers, Lawson, Foster, Botha, Thompson, Wilson, Welch (capt), Chick.
Replacements: McGuigan, B. Harris, Ryan, Green, Mayhew, Dawson, Powell, Marshall.
CA Brive: Sola; Namy, Laranjeira, Tuatara-Morrison, Masilevu; Bezy, Pejoine (capt); Lavergne, Da Ros, Jourdain, Lebas, Steenkamp, Sanconnie, Luafutu, Hauman.
Replacements: Ribes, Pointud, Tuncer, Koyamaibole, Whetton, Iribaren, Petre, Mafi.
Referee: Leighton Hodges (Wales)
For the latest rugby union news follow @bbcrugbyunion on Twitter. | More than 100,000 students are taking exams in Indian-administered Kashmir despite not being able to attend school for nearly four months.
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Newcastle Falcons missed out on a European Challenge Cup quarter-final spot despite dramatically overcoming Brive to finish second in their group. |
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