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What is a brief summary of the information below? | The Bedford bus station complex also includes a new travel and tourism centre, and the refurbishment of Allhallows multi-storey car park.
The development, which replaced the 1960s bus station, also includes new public toilets and a new car park at Greyfriars.
The plans were approved by Bedford Borough Council in 2013.
In particular, the prime minister has promised to give English MPs a greater say over legislation that affects England. He made clear this would cover the same issues over which Scotland will have greater control - tax, spending and welfare. And the changes will be agreed at the same pace with draft legislation by January.
But David Cameron did not spell out the detail, leaving a policy vacuum that will now be filled by Conservative MPs and an army of constitutional experts and think tanks. Everything from a full English parliament to complicated plans for English grand committees will be discussed.
The risk for the PM is that he loses control of this debate.
The politics of this, though, are clear. Mr Cameron has presented a huge challenge to Labour. Ed Miliband now faces the prospect of being forced to accept a diminution of power for Labour MPs in Scotland.
If he wins the next election, he could find it hard to get much of his programme through. The Labour leader may hope to move the debate on to other issues at his party conference next week. But it will be hard to shake off talk of what must now be called once again "the English question".
The other issue is the speed of this process. The prime minister has announced constitutional reform at a breakneck pace. And yet there is disagreement between the parties over the substantial detail. And who knows what all those constitutional experts in the House of Lords will do to oppose what many there see as rushed reform.
The danger for all the Westminster parties is that they have made a solemn vow to the people of Scotland to give greater powers to Holyrood. If they live up to that vow, then potentially this process could be a catalyst for massive constitutional change that helps to fix what many see as Britain's broken politics.
But if they fail to honour that vow because of disagreement over the English question, they risk the greatest breach of public trust that would tarnish Westminster's name forever.
The Home Office revealed 61 self-harm incidents requiring medical treatment at Yarl's Wood near Bedford in 2014 - but that was down from 74 in 2013.
The centre houses nearly 400 detainees and most are women.
Medical Justice, which sends volunteer doctors and campaigns for the release of vulnerable people from detention, described the figures as "worrying".
Emma Ginn, co-ordinator at Medical Justice, said: "Our volunteer doctors visit immigration detainees and have seen hundreds of cases of seriously inadequate healthcare.
"In many cases immigration detention exacerbates existing medical conditions and in some cases has been the cause of mental illness."
Conservative MP for Bedford Richard Fuller said he wanted the Home Office to look at whether vulnerable asylum seekers who claimed to have been tortured or abused should be housed in detention centres, even if they could not prove their allegations.
"Just because you cannot prove that you were a victim of torture or rape doesn't mean it did not happen," he said.
"This is an issue I would strongly urge the Home Office to look at."
The figures were revealed by Home Office Minister Lord Bates in response to a written parliamentary question but he said they were a "collation of incidents".
"They do not necessarily equate to the number of detainees requiring medical attention as one individual may have received medical attention on more than one occasion," Lord Bates said.
Home Secretary Theresa May has ordered a review of detainees' welfare and former prisons ombudsman Stephen Shaw is due to report back in August.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said women who have been sexually abused, tortured or are pregnant should not be detained. | A new £8.8m bus station in Bedfordshire has been officially opened to the public.
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The Downing Street constitutional declaration - as it will become known - marks the start of what potentially could be massive constitutional change.
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Vulnerable detainees held at a centre while awaiting deportation are self-harming, official figures have shown. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Northampton Borough Council sold the Sekhemka statue to an overseas buyer.
But Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export ban on the statue, and Arts Council England says "it's possible" a new buyer within the UK may be found.
The current owner's identity and location have not been released.
The council said the temporary bar had "no impact" on the sale of the statue, which had been in its possession since 1880 and was put to auction in July to fund an extension of the town's museum and art gallery.
A spokeswoman said it was up to the "current owner, Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to resolve".
Protesters gathered outside Christie's before the sale, the council has since been banned from the Museums Association and has had a Heritage Lottery Fund bid rejected as a consequence.
Mr Vaizey decided to bar the export following a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA), which is administered by Arts Council England.
The RCEWA said the statue was of "outstanding aesthetic importance" and was significant in the study of "the development of private statuary and funerary religion in Egypt and the history of human self-representation".
A decision on the export licence application has been deferred until 29 July.
Arts Council England said there was a chance the statue could be sold to a buyer within the UK, if "a serious intention to raise funds to purchase the statue is made at the recommended price of £15,732,600 plus VAT".
Egyptian Ambassador Ahsraf Elkholy had condemned the sale as an "an abuse to the Egyptian archaeology and the cultural property".
He said the statue of Sekhemka, who was a royal chief, judge and administrator, should have been handed back to Egypt if the council no longer wanted it. | A 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue that was controversially sold by a council for £15.76m will not be allowed to leave the country, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has said. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop was at the talks by the new Brexit secretary Michael Russell.
The pair also held a briefing session in the Belgian capital.
Mr Russell - who was in Brussels for the first time since his appointment - was also to host a discussion with more than 130 audience members.
The Scottish government said the audience included "Scots working and living in Brussels, stakeholders from member states and further afield, representatives from the EU institutions, and Brussels-based media."
There were due to be representatives from EU members Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia as well as the US, New Zealand, the Faroe Islands, Channel Islands and Japan.
Separately, the SNP - which forms the Scottish government - led a debate at Westminster on the status of EU nationals in the UK following the vote to leave the European Union.
The opposition day debate was led by SNP MP Joanna Cherry, who accused the UK government of using EU nationals as a "bargaining chip" in Brexit negotiations.
But Home Office Minister Robert Goodwill claimed that Nicola Sturgeon suggested in 2014 that the 160,000 EU citizens living in Scotland would "lose their right to stay here" if the country was outside Europe.
Mr Goodwill's comment sparked an angry reaction from the SNP benches, with Ms Cherry insisting her party's long-standing policy has been to ensure equal rights for all living in Scotland.
Speaking ahead of the Brussels visit, Mr Russell said: "A key objective from these talks will be to work with others across the political divide to avert a hard Brexit for Scotland - there is simply no UK mandate for that.
"I will also raise the first minister's commitment to publish proposals that would allow Scotland to stay in the single market and to preserve aspects of our relationship with the EU even if the rest of the UK is intending to leave."
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she will publish proposals in the coming weeks aimed at allowing Scotland to retain access to the European single market after Brexit.
But she has said the prospect of a so-called "hard Brexit" would make it highly likely that a second independence referendum would be held if it was deemed "necessary to protect our country's interests".
Ms Sturgeon has also said an Independence Referendum Bill will be published for consultation this week.
Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted that she wants to engage with the Scottish government on the Brexit issues "that particularly matter to Scotland".
And she has predicted Brexit will "enhance" Scotland's standing in the world rather than diminish it as it offered an "exciting chance to forge a new role in the world".
But she has also said Scotland will not be able to remain in the EU when the rest of the UK leaves, and that she was firmly against the prospect of a second Scottish independence referendum. | Two Scottish government ministers have travelled to Brussels for discussions with MEPs on Scotland's place in Europe following the Brexit vote. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Eleven-time champions Real are aiming to become the first team since AC Milan in 1989 and 1990 to retain the trophy.
Italian side Juventus are looking to win the crown for the third time, while Real can extend their own record.
"We never dreamed of this opportunity but the stats are there," said Spain international defender Ramos.
"It is a wonderful chance to take the cup home, then history speaks for itself. We are extremely excited about the chance to have two successive Champions League trophies.
"We have been very solid. Every time we have had the chance to fight for a trophy, we have done that. We are going to be extremely focused, very concentrated so we make as few mistakes as possible."
Real Madrid won La Liga ahead of Barcelona this season and have scored 169 goals in all competitions this season.
In a repeat of the 1998 final, which the Spaniards won 1-0 in Amsterdam, Real come up against a side who are unbeaten in this season's competition
Boss Zinedine Zidane, who played for opponents Juventus between 1996 and 2001, said: "We know all about pressure at Real Madrid.
"We are not favourites, nor are Juventus. It is 50-50. But we are in the final again, and everything is possible. I expect an open game on both sides.
"I have lived and been at Juventus, in Italy there is the famous Catenaccio, but Juve do not just have that.
"We are going to try to play our game, we know we are going to play against a great team. What everyone who likes football wants to see is to see a great final - and I think we will see that."
Zidane must decide whether to choose between Gareth Bale and Isco in what seems like his only selection issue before Saturday's Champions League final.
Bale has not played since 23 April but is fit, while in-form Isco has scored five goals in his last eight games.
"I am not going to tell you who is going to play on Saturday," said Zidane.
Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri also has a fully-fit squad to choose from. His side defeated Monaco 4-1 on aggregate to reach their second final in three seasons.
Real knocked out city rivals Atletico with a 4-2 aggregate win and are looking to defend the title they won last year.
Treble-chasing Juventus clinched a record sixth consecutive Serie A title this season and beat Lazio in the Italian Cup.
Juve have been European Cup winners twice, in 1985 and the last in 1996, but have been defeated finalists on six occasions, most recently against Barcelona two years ago.
They have conceded just three goals in 12 games so far, while Real have scored in every single one of their 12 games - a total of 32 goals.
Manager Allegri said: "We have worked hard all year and the wins this season have been all about reaching this game. But on Saturday we need to win and we need to understand when will be the moments to attack and when to defend.
"We have to have the belief that we can bring the cup home and we have to be fiendish to strike when Real offer us an opening."
Former Juventus full-back Gianluca Zambrotta told BBC World Service:
Massimiliano Allegri has done a great job at Juventus and has continued the work of Antonio Conte since arriving in Turin in 2014. He has been able to create a strong team spirit and is currently one of the best managers in Europe.
I had the privilege of playing alongside Zinedine Zidane in Italy for two years. He was a fantastic player with amazing technical skills and a strong personality. I was his room mate in hotels before games so I had an opportunity to know him very well.
I expected him to be a great manager because he has all the skills to do the job. I did not expect him to achieve great results so soon though. He has been doing an excellent job for Real Madrid.
Juventus full-back Dani Alves, 34, could win the competition for the fourth time, while 39-year-old goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is looking to triumph for the first time and in turn become the oldest winner of the tournament.
Alves, who played in that match for the La Liga side, said: "A player as important and big as Gigi, to not have this trophy, it would not really change much in his career but it would add one more page to his wonderful football history if he won. To win the title with him would be quite something for me before he retires.
"I am not a person who thinks about himself. If everything around me is fine, then I am fine too. The objective is for the whole team to win and for me to be up to the level of my colleagues."
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World Cup winner Buffon announced in January 2016 that he will retire from football after the 2018 World Cup and this may be his last shot at winning Europe's elite club competition.
He said: "Dani is a bit like me, he is an optimist. He told me 'I will make you win the Champions League' and he has been a revelation for me. Real Madrid are used to winning finals, we have lost quite a number of them. It is a good match and we will try to overturn our record.
"The emotions I might feel may be different to a younger player. Dani has won this competition and has four or five years left in his career but I have to exclude this possibility. Yes, it will be much more special for me, but I want to play without regrets and without thinking of these issues."
Italian football might have looked very different over the last two decades if an impressionable 12-year-old had not been captivated by the Cameroon goalkeeper at the 1990 World Cup.
Buffon played as an attacker back then but the performances of Thomas N'Kono - playing in his third World Cup - inspired him to try life as a goalkeeper.
Read the full piece | Real Madrid have an "appointment with history" when they face Juventus in the Champions League final in Cardiff on Saturday, says captain Sergio Ramos. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Scottish Secretary David Mundell said the timescale would be sufficient for people to weigh up the issues.
He argued that it would be possible to have an EU vote just a month after May's Scottish Parliament election.
But he stressed that the timing would depend on successful renegotiation of the UK's EU membership.
Last week, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was concerned that a June vote on the EU would leave too little time for the issues to be properly aired.
She also warned Prime Minister David Cameron that a "narrow" focus on the renegotiation of UK membership risked allowing the campaign for Brexit to "steal a march".
Insisting that this was not the case, Mr Mundell said: "The position with the EU referendum is obviously there are a number of people who have very fixed positions.
"In that way it's similar to the referendum in Scotland - some people who are 'out' whatever, some people who are 'in' whatever, some people who want to hear the arguments.
"I think the experience that we can bring for Scotland is spending two years on a referendum, it is an inordinate length of time.
"I think most people in this room and in their own experiences would realise that actually most people engaged with the referendum really in those final four or six weeks of it when it was imminent."
Fancy a dual democratic exercise? That may well be coming your way as it looks increasingly likely that the referendum on EU membership will be held in June, not long after the Holyrood elections in May.
Chatting to folk who need to know these things produced the verdict that such an outcome was now "probable", rather than possible.
Plus of course we now have the Secretary of State, David Mundell, saying that there are good reasons for a June electoral test - and, in his view, no germane counter opinions.
A bit more on that emerged from a political debate I chaired at Dundee University last night, hosted by the Students Association.
We had four leaders - Nicola Sturgeon, Kezia Dugdale, Willie Rennie and Patrick Harvie. The role of Ruth Davidson was ably portrayed by Alex Johnstone MSP.
Mr Johnstone suggested that it was vital to hold the EU ballot in June. His argument was that any deal which emerges from EU negotiations in February needs to be banked immediately via a plebiscite. Otherwise it would risk breaking apart.
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Mr Mundell said "all the indications" pointed to Prime Minister David Cameron being able to successfully renegotiate the UK's membership of the EU.
And he said he would be campaigning for the UK to stay in the EU on that basis.
He added: "So, I think that there isn't an argument against having the referendum in June, I think in fact there is a strong argument to have it then, subject to obviously there being the necessary agreement."
Responding to Mr Mundell's comments, the Scottish government's Europe minister Humza Yousaf said: "David Cameron's ill-thought-through referendum plans risk dragging Scotland out of Europe against our will - and it's vitally important that there is as much scrutiny of the campaigns as possible in advance of the vote.
"Both the Scottish Parliament elections and the EU referendum are vitally important events for Scotland - and neither campaign should be drowned out by the other.
"As the first minister made clear last week, a June referendum restricts the opportunity to make the case for remaining in the EU and shows disrespect to the elections taking place in Scotland, Wales and London in May."
Mr Mundell also predicted that the Scottish Conservatives could overtake Scottish Labour to become the second party at Holyrood.
And he called for a "reboot" of the relationship between Holyrood and Westminster, and said there should be an end to the "petty politicking and sniping" between the Scottish and UK governments after the Scottish elections in May.
He cited the "extensive and collegiate" inter-governmental work carried out on issues such as the Forth Road Bridge closure and the response to the falling oil price.
He added: "All this goes to show that we can and do work well together, but why can't this be the norm for all our interactions?
"The problem is this positive work behind the scenes is not what gets the coverage. What does are the spats and fall-outs."
The SNP said Mr Mundell should match his "warm words" with real action, and that it was looking for real evidence of the UK government's willingness to cooperate. | A UK cabinet minister has said there is a "no argument" against holding a referendum on the country's EU membership in June. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Although only residents of Scotland can decide the outcome of the referendum, a "Yes" vote will mean changes for the whole of the UK - and one of the greatest will be to do with the physical size of the country itself.
So an already busy country would suddenly become much more crowded, statistically at least.
Economy
Scotland contributes some £106.3bn of goods and services in "Gross Value Added" (GVA) - the key measure by which the Office for National Statistics records regional economic output in the UK.
The UK's total GVA, which was some £1,383bn in 2012, according to ONS figures.
The effect of Scotland - and its population - leaving the UK would be a small increase in GDP per head of some £117.
The value of Scotland's exports to the rest of the world, excluding that to other UK nations, accounted for some 7% of the UK total in 2012.
Scotland's 59 seats in Westminster would disappear if the country votes "Yes" in September, and this could have a drastic impact on future governments.
Modelling the result of the 2010 general election minus Scotland's 59 Westminster seats would have seen David Cameron secure a modest but workable majority of 21. Labour would lose their 41 seats north of the border, while the Lib Dems would drop by 11.
In this alternate 2010 universe, the House of Commons would have looked like something like this.
Life expectancy
Scotland has long suffered lower life-expectancy rates than other parts of the UK, with social problems and pockets of severe poverty cited as factors.
Current UK figures show that men can expect to reach 78.7 years and women 82.6 years.
But if Scotland left the effect would only be a small statistical shift, with men gaining a potential extra 0.4 years (4.8 months) and women 0.3 years (3.6 months).
By comparison with the EU; life expectancy for men is highest in Sweden, where men can expect to reach 79.9 years, while women live longest in Spain (85.1 years).
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An earlier version of this article misrepresented some data on life expectancy, GDP and exports. This has been amended.
Formerly known as Caithness Heat and Power (Chap), the district heating scheme was run by a community-run enterprise to help tackle fuel poverty.
Highland Council later took over the running of it and spent £11.5m trying to make it work before scrapping it in 2009.
Now run by a private firm, the scheme provides heat to about 200 homes.
NHS Highland said the hospital would be supplied with "low-cost renewable energy" by the heating plant's operator Ignis.
Eric Green, the health board's head of estates, added: "Connection of Caithness General Hospital to the district heating produces the best combination of security of supply, cost and environmental benefit.
"Not only does the proposal from Ignis have the added advantage of being more efficient, and will therefore save us money, but it is also much more environmentally friendly and will reduce our carbon emissions."
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing welcomed the move.
He said: "When I visited the biomass energy centre in Wick, I was delighted to hear that almost 200 houses were seeing a significant reduction in their fuel bills after switching to the heat network."
Craig Ibbetson, of Ignis added: "We are delighted that NHS Highland has approved our proposal to connect Caithness General Hospital to the district heating scheme.
"We are looking forward to working with them, and believe that this is a good development for the NHS and Ignis, and the wider community in Wick."
Last year, Highland Council was criticised for its handling of Chap.
In a report for the Accounts Commission, Audit Scotland said a "lack of good governance" when Chap was affected by technological and financial problems led to an "expensive lesson" for the local authority. | If Scotland votes for independence on 18 September, what would it actually mean for the rest of the UK?
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Caithness General Hospital in Wick is to be warmed by the town's wood-fuelled heating scheme. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Hooker Wood, 27, made 74 appearances in his second spell with the Super League side, scoring 11 tries.
Prop Johnson, 22, made 17 appearances in 2016.
Giants managing director Richard Thewlis told the club website: "We were talking to Josh since the beginning of the season but in reality I don't think we ever got close to the valuation which he was seeking."
Rollout of the new nursing associate roles starts in England in December.
Research in the BMJ Quality and Safety journal linked the use of junior care roles to higher death rates.
But ministers rejected the criticism, saying the new posts were on top of investment in fully qualified nurses.
The new associate roles are seen as bridging the gap between nurses and healthcare assistants.
They will undergo two years of training and be involved in the clinical aspects of care, including medication administration.
But the team of academics, drawn from the US and Europe, questioned the wisdom of the move.
Their research used surveys of nurses and patients, staffing data and death rates.
It did not look specifically at nursing associate roles - as these were not being used in the countries studied.
But they were able to monitor the impact of using staff that assist nurses, such as the healthcare assistant role routinely used in the NHS.
The average death rate was 12.8 per 1,000 patients discharged.
A 10% increase in the ratio of fully qualified nurses was linked to an 11% fall in the chances of a patient dying.
Patient satisfaction was also higher.
Prof Peter Griffiths, of Southampton University, said: "England has one of the lowest percentages among European countries of professional nurses at the bedside already.
"Our study suggests that the NHS needs to focus on achieving safe registered nurse staffing levels as a means to achieve better outcomes including improving patients' satisfaction with their care."
The Department of Health questioned whether the way the research was carried out could give an accurate prediction of the impact of the new nursing associate roles.
A spokesman added: "Our plans complement not replace existing fully qualified registered nurses.
"This will ensure that nurses can make the best use of their time in providing outstanding patient care." | Huddersfield Giants duo Kyle Wood and Josh Johnson have left the club.
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The creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in "real nurses", experts say after research suggested the use of lower skilled posts was a risk. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Tom Watson MP wants Daniel Morgan's murder in 1987 to be examined by the Leveson inquiry into media standards.
The case against four men charged with murder collapsed in March 2010.
The Leveson inquiry was told a senior officer on the case was placed under surveillance by the News of the World.
Mr Morgan, 37, originally from Llanfrechfa, near Cwmbran, was found with an axe in his head in a south London pub car park in 1987.
The murder has been investigated on five separate occasions but no-one has ever been convicted.
Until his death Mr Morgan worked with Jonathan Rees, whose company Southern Investigations has been linked to alleged email hacking.
Mr Rees was one of five men accused of murdering Mr Morgan in 2008, but after almost two years of legal wrangling, the trial collapsed in March 2010 when "supergrass" evidence was deemed to be unreliable.
Mr Morgan's brother Alastair told BBC Radio Wales a judicial inquiry would help answer some of the family's questions about police failings over the case.
He said: "The police and the Crown Prosecution Service have told us there is no realistic possibility of anyone being convicted of Daniel's murder.
"We've been expressing concern over a number of the investigations over many many years, so the only way forward we can now see is a judicial inquiry.
"Six years ago they [police] reopened the investigation when we were calling for a judicial inquiry at that point.
"We were extremely sceptical about the possibilities of a conviction but our hopes were raised and ultimately dashed."
The murder of Mr Morgan was raised at the Leveson inquiry into media standards and ethics on Tuesday in evidence from former Metropolitan Police detective and BBC Crimewatch presenter Jacqui Hames.
She told the inquiry that she and her husband, Det Chief Supt Dave Cook, were placed under surveillance by the News of the World after he appeared on Crimewatch seeking information about Mr Morgan's murder.
Ms Hames told the inquiry that Southern Investigations had "close links" to Alex Marunchak, the newspaper's crime editor in the late 1980s.
In a statement, she said: "I believe that the real reason for the News of the World placing us under surveillance was that suspects in the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry were using their association with a powerful and well-resourced newspaper to try to intimidate us and so attempt to subvert the investigation."
Alastair Morgan said his family believed they too had been placed under surveillance following a critical development in the case in 1998.
"I was living in Scotland at the time, my partner was doing a journalism course in Scotland, my mother was in Wales, my sister was in Germany, and over the same weekend we all noticed very strange activities around our homes," he said.
"My mother was photographed, my sister was photographed.
"Last year I wrote to [News International chairman] James Murdoch asking him to investigate this. I haven't even received a reply to my letter."
News International said it had "no comment" to make on Ms Hames's statement to the Leveson inquiry.
MP Tom Watson will raise the issue of Mr Morgan's murder in an adjournment debate in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Last August he called for an investigation into alleged links between Jonathan Rees and Mr Marunchak, believing they could shed some light on the unsolved crime.
At that time, Mr Marunchak denied having any contact with Daniel Morgan and all allegations of wrongdoing.
The 24-year-old will join the Irish province later this year after completing his 2015 contractual commitments with Auckland Blues.
Twice capped for the All Blacks, Saili has made 33 Super Rugby appearances for the Blues, scoring five tries in the process.
"I believe I can continue to improve and grow within the Munster set-up," said Saili.
Describing the move to Ireland as "a fantastic opportunity", he added that Munster had the "values and traditions I can relate to from my time at the Blues".
Munster head coach Anthony Foley said he thought Saili would be a great addition to the Munster back line.
"We are really pleased that Francis has committed his future to the province," Foley said.
"He is a talented centre with an impressive skill-set and he possesses the physical attributes to excel in the northern hemisphere." | The family of a murdered private investigator from Monmouthshire have again called for a judicial inquiry into police handling of the case, as an MP raises the issue in Parliament.
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Munster have signed All Blacks centre Francis Saili on a two-year contract. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Tim Atkins, 48, from Southsea, was pronounced dead at the scene, outside the Harvester pub at the junction of Eastern Road and Burfields Road on Friday evening.
The second male cyclist involved in the crash suffered minor injuries and the man driving the van was uninjured.
Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward.
A statement, released by police on behalf of Mr Atkins' family, said: "You could never hope to meet a man with as big a heart as him.
"A devoted father, son, brother, and uncle, taken far too soon, we as a family are heartbroken and ask to be left to come to terms with our loss."
Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the crash "remain on-going at this time", Hampshire Constabulary said.
Government officials and residents said fighters from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were among those who seized Zinjibar, in Abyan province.
But opponents said President Ali Abdullah Saleh had given up the town to stoke fears of a militant takeover.
He is resisting calls to step down, despite months of popular protests and growing opposition from a key tribe.
At least 124 people died in recent days in the capital, Sanaa, in clashes between government forces and fighters loyal to Hashid tribal leader Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar.
A ceasefire was eventually agreed on Saturday and a deal reached to withdraw troops from Sanaa, though the timing remains unclear.
Official reports emerging from Zinjibar suggested the town was seized by force.
The AFP news agency reported that 16 people had been killed during Friday and Saturday during fighting in and around Zinjibar.
But other reports made no mention of violence. One resident of Abyan province told the BBC that the town was chaotic and there was widespread looting.
"About 300 Islamic millitants and Al Qaeda men came into Zinjibar and took over everything on Friday," a Zinjibar resident told Reuters.
However, one military unit was reported to have refused to surrender and was now surrounded, reports said.
There are conflicting accounts of the loyalties of the armed men, reflecting the complex nature of military loyalties in Yemen.
While government officials said the men were AQAP, one analyst told the BBC they were in fact an older, more established group of fighters loyal to President Saleh and his now-rival, the defected army officer Ali Mohsen (who is also Mr Saleh's brother-in-law).
The government has blamed previous attacks in southern Yemen on al-Qaeda, but the country's opposition has accused President Saleh of stoking fears of an Islamist takeover.
That pattern was quickly repeated as news emerged from Zinjibar. Opponents accused the president of allowing the town to fall to the armed men in order to claim that AQAP were becoming a major threat to Yemen's stability, the AFP news agency reported.
AQAP is known to be active in southern Yemen, but the region is also home to a long-running separatist insurgency.
The group is described by the US as one of the world's most active al-Qaeda cells.
However, it usually operates from mountainous areas away from towns and cities.
Yemen is beset by problems, including dwindling oil supplies and a growing water crisis as well as grinding poverty, political unrest and the presence of al-Qaeda and separatist rebels in the south. | A cyclist who died in a crash involving two bikes and a van in Portsmouth had a "big heart", his family has said.
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Armed men are reported to have taken control of a provincial capital in the unsettled south of Yemen. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | Avon and Somerset Police chief Nick Gargan, 48, was suspended on full pay last May.
The five-day inquiry, to be held in private, will be heard by an independent panel chaired by Dorian Lovell-Pank QC.
Mr Gargan, who took up the post in March 2013, denies any wrongdoing.
In his absence, the force has been led by Acting Chief Constable John Long.
Writing on her blog, Police and Crime Commissioner Sue Mountstevens said she had hoped the hearing would have taken place in January or February.
But, she said, a "very prescriptive" conduct procedure had to be followed beforehand.
"I'm sure you'll agree that it's important we follow the process and get it right," she said.
Mr Gargan had requested an extension to the deadline for his response to the allegations, Ms Mountstevens said. | A hearing to decide the future of a chief constable, suspended following allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women, will be held in April. |
What is the summary of the following article? | "You have to have a shower and get rid of it because he's quite a nasty piece of work," he said of the title role in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.
Originally based on Hitler, the Bertolt Brecht play has been reworked by Bruce Norris to include references to Trump.
"I don't think you could have avoided the connections," Norris told the BBC.
"In a play about totalitarianism you have to nod in that direction."
Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Arturo Ui tells of a gangster who uses bribery and intimidation to take control of the city's grocery market.
Norris's version sees Sir Lenny make a Hitler-style salute while using certain quotes that became associated with Trump during last year's US presidential election.
At one point Ui calls a female critic a "nasty woman", mirroring a remark Trump made during his final debate with rival Hillary Clinton.
At others he declares his intention to "make this country great again" and "build a wall", slogans that helped the tycoon turned politician take the White House last November.
"We started taking Trump quotes wholesale and shoehorning them into the play," said Norris, whose previous plays include the Tony- and Pultizer-winning Clybourne Park.
"They didn't require much adjustment. They were already chillingly close to what was already in the play."
"Bruce has definitely appropriated bits of Trump," said Sir Lenny after Tuesday's press night performance at London's Donmar Warehouse.
"But it's really a cautionary tale about any demagogue who uses their influence to ease their way into the upper echelons of society."
The role of Arturo Ui represents the comedian turned actor's latest foray into "serious" theatre, a career shift that began with him playing Othello in 2009.
"I still love comedy, but this is my career now," he explained. "This is me growing up and the journey that began with Othello continuing."
Early reviews of Simon Evans' production have praised Sir Lenny's performance, with the Evening Standard saying he brings "heavyweight authority" to his "smug bully" role.
"It's another casual tour de force from him that showcases his irresistible combination of talents," writes the Telegraph's Dominic Cavendish,
According to The Guardian, Sir Lenny "exudes massive authority" as he transforms "from a shambling klutz into a figure of authoritarian power".
Yet critic Michael Billington feels "there is something a touch glib about the [play's] frequent invocations of Donald Trump".
His reservations were echoed by The Arts Desk's Marianka Swain, who felt "the barrage of explicit references to 'The Donald' becomes a tad wearying".
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui runs at the Donmar Warehouse until 17 June.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Sir Lenny Henry says he needs to wash off his latest stage role - a Chicago mobster modelled both on Hitler and Donald Trump - after each performance. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | Work on the 6,000-capacity ground, on the outskirts of Truro, is expected to start this summer.
Truro wanted to build their own stadium at Silver Bow, but developers branded it "no longer financially viable".
"The joint agreement will enable the strong prospect of a stadium to finally be built," a statement issued by the two clubs read.
"The community stadium will rival other similar venues currently found throughout the country."
Truro will joint-fund the £10m ground with Championship club Pirates and Truro & Penwith College. The stadium's capacity is expected to eventually be increased to 10,000.
It is hoped that both teams will be able to use the stadium, which will be suitable for League Two football, by the 2019-20 campaign.
Pirates will remain at the Mennaye Field until then, while City will start next season at Treyew Road, potentially groundsharing with Bodmin Town before moving to the new home.
Truro chairman Peter Masters said: "Whilst (vice-chairman) Philip Perryman and I are disappointed that Silver Bow will now not go ahead, we are delighted to have taken a further step towards securing the club's future in National League South, after so many months of uncertainty."
Completion of the deal is subject to a number of legal agreements. | National League South club Truro City will share the Stadium for Cornwall with rugby club Cornish Pirates. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Andrew Hutchinson, who worked at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, pleaded guilty to 27 counts including rape, voyeurism and sexual assault.
The 29-year-old also admitted spying on women at a leisure centre and sexually assaulting women at a music festival.
His victims were aged between 10 and 35, Oxford Crown Court heard.
Hutchinson, from Abingdon, sexually assaulted four unconscious women, in curtained areas in the hospital's A&E department and at Wilderness music festival.
He also used a camera to spy on women and children at the White Horse Leisure Centre in Abingdon.
The offences took place between 2011 and 2013.
Hutchinson was sacked by the hospital after he was arrested.
He was arrested by Thames Valley Police on suspicion of voyeurism offences at the leisure centre in November 2013 and charged in December last year.
Police also found images on devices, including a mobile phone, a memory stick and a camera, seized from Hutchinson which revealed other incidents.
He has been remanded for sentencing on 27 April.
Police said all identifiable victims had been contacted and given support.
Det Ch Insp Mark Johns described the case as "complicated and unusual" as the victims of sexual assault were not conscious.
"I have no doubt that Hutchinson would have continued to offend had he not been arrested," he said.
Mark Power, from Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, said it took "immediate action" to suspend Hutchinson in November 2013 following allegations of theft against him.
The trust also informed the Nursing and Midwifery Council and launched an internal investigation which led to his dismissal.
Mr Power said Hutchinson was CRB checked by the trust but he had no previous convictions so no "issues" were identified.
The trust has "robust policies and procedures to manage patients safely" within all its departments, as well as a "range of mechanisms" to safeguard vulnerable patients.
Mr Power said the "ultimate responsibility for these appalling offences must rest with Andrew Hutchinson".
He said staff had been "devastated" by his actions but added it was "not possible to eliminate the risk of a rogue practitioner entirely".
The trust has since made changes, including in the emergency department where unconscious patients are now treated in the same area and with "open visibility".
At the time of the offences, unconscious patients were "more spread out" within the department, Mr Power said. | A former senior hospital nurse has admitted raping, sexually assaulting and spying on female patients including some who were unconscious. |
Please summarize the passage below. | Welsh Cycling is to set up Team SWI WC on 3 October at Wales International Velodrome, Newport.
The move comes on the back of unprecedented success of Great Britain's cyclists in the velodrome at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It will be the first time that any of the home nations have had their own track team.
Welsh cycling boasts some big names including Geraint Thomas, Becky James and Elinor Barker.
Barker has just won the junior world road race title in Holland.
As well as that Dave Brailsford, performance director of British cycling, was brought up in north Wales.
Welsh Cycling, with support from Sport Wales, are taking steps to ensure that Wales continues to be represented on podiums at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014 and the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Team SWI WC will compete at UCI Track World Cups 2012-13 in Cali in Colombia, Glasgow and Aguascalientes in Mexico.
The UCI Track World Cup series attracts the world's best track cyclists with national representations from across the globe.
In 2011-12, Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Laura Trott all competed for Great Britain in the World Cup series.
The UCI Track Cycling World Cup series are the first step towards Olympic qualification for national teams, determining each country's international ranking. | Wales is to launch its own national track cycling team. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Bamford, 22, signed a new three-year deal at Chelsea in 2015 but spent the early part of this season on loan at Crystal Palace.
But he did not score in nine outings, describing the spell as "disappointing" before returning to Chelsea.
Bamford joins a Norwich side 17th in the Premier League and has not played for Chelsea since a £1.5m move in 2012.
"I'm really happy to be here, and the sooner I'm able to get involved the better," Bamford told Norwich's official website.
An impressive 2014-15 season on loan at Middlesbrough saw the England Under-21 international score 17 league goals in the Championship.
"He's a young forward determined to make his way in the game, and adds competition for us at the top end of the pitch," Norwich boss Alex Neil told the club's official website.
Bamford - who has also had loan spells at Derby and MK Dons - has yet to score a Premier League goal.
He joins forward Steven Naismith, winger Matt Jarvis, defenders Ivo Pinto and Timm Klose, and midfielder Ben Godfrey to join the Canaries this month.
Bamford leaves Chelsea 24 hours after the Blues signed Brazilian striker Alexandre Pato on loan from Corinthians. | Norwich City have signed Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford on loan until the end of the season. |
What is the summary of the given information? | The hosts edged to an 8-7 win against France in Auckland to become world champions for the second time.
"The guys dug as deep as they've ever dug before, I'm just so proud of everyone," he said.
"We couldn't have been under more pressure but we stuck to our guns and got there in the end."
The All Blacks went into the match as strong favourites against a France side who had reached the final despite being well below their best during the tournament.
When New Zealand took an early lead through Tony Woodcock's try, it looked as though they would pull away to win convincingly.
They're tough men and I think the whole country should be very proud of every single one of them
But France produced a hugely committed performance and, after a penalty from All Blacks replacement Stephen Donald made it 8-0, Thierry Dusautoir's converted try saw them put New Zealand under huge pressure in a tension-racked final half-hour.
Donald was the fourth-choice fly-half after Dan Carter, Colin Slade and Aaron Cruden - during the first half of the final - all succumbed to injury.
"The key [to winning the tournament] was expecting things like that to happen," said McCaw. "If you hope for the best and don't prepare for it, when adversity comes you're not ready for it.
"When you lose a guy like DC [Carter] it would be easy to drop your lip. But the next guy stepped up. I take my hat off to Beaver [Donald] but it is hard to pick out one guy."
Speaking of their long wait for the title, McCaw added: "I think at some stage some team was going to do it and this group of 30 had the opportunity.
I've got so much respect for what the boys have done over eight years. It's been outstanding
"You just have to keep getting up and believing in the mate beside you and trust in him and make sure you do your job. Everyone around New Zealand has given this team so much over the past six weeks and now we've repaid them.
"There's going to be a lot of stories told as we get older but no-one here can take it away from this group. They're tough men and I think the whole country should be very proud of every single one of them."
For New Zealand coach Graham Henry it was the final game of an eight-year reign, which included defeat by France at the quarter-final stage in 2007.
"Marvellous. The people have been have been outstanding in support of the team and the Rugby World Cup. I'm so proud to be a New Zealander standing here," he said.
"There was a bit of turmoil up there in the coaching box. Richie and the boys just hanging in there right through 80 minutes to win this thing is superb.
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"This is something we've dreamed of for a while, we can rest in peace.
"I've got so much respect for what the boys have done over eight years. It's been outstanding."
Hooker Keven Mealamu described the final as "probably the toughest 80 minutes of our lives".
"We knew it wasn't going to be easy," he added. "The French really came to play tonight and it took an 80-minute effort from us."
Scrum-half Piri Weepu, who was replaced in the 49th minute after a display that saw him miss three kicks at goal, said he hoped the All Blacks' victory would relieve the burden the nation has carried since their win in the inaugural 1987 event.
"I think everyone can sleep easy now and not worry so much," he said. "I think everyone will feel a lot better now." | New Zealand captain Richie McCaw said the feeling was "hard to describe" after the All Blacks ended a 24-year wait to win the World Cup. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | She and another girl are accused of murdering Angela Wrightson, who was found with more than 100 injuries at the Hartlepool house in December 2014.
The girls, then aged 13 and 14, deny the charge. At Leeds Crown Court, the older has admitted manslaughter.
John Elvidge QC, for the younger girl, said the fact she was on her phone at the time showed she did not take part.
The court has heard the two girls, who are now both 15, used a variety of weapons to beat Ms Wrightson to death over a period of several hours.
The prosecution argues the girls were both "volatile" and an argument with Ms Wrightson, who had been drinking alcohol all day, spiralled into murder when both girls attacked her.
The phone had been used throughout the night, including to take selfies and download music during and after the attack, the jury was told.
Jamie Hill QC, representing the older girl, has argued she did not understand the consequences of her actions, citing her low IQ, psychological problems and a troubled upbringing.
"I am not suggesting either girl went to the house to cause violence," Mr Hill said, during his summing up.
"To be honest, I doubt if they even looked past the end of their noses. I suggest [the older girl] got dragged into a dispute [the younger girl] had with Angela Wrightson.
"It is just a terrible moment in history when these three people collided in the most appalling and tragic way.
"[The older girl] inflicted terrible violence against Angela Wrightson but is not a cold-blooded killer".
He told the court the older girl was "led" by the younger, who had "the stronger personality" of the two.
But, Mr Elvidge said that was not the case, and the fact the younger girl was using her phone to message friends, indicated she "was not a raging monster out of control", but was so distracted by messaging friends she could have been unaware of what was going on.
"Her alibi in this case was a telephone," he said.
The trial continues. | A girl accused of beating a woman to death in her home was "given an alibi by her mobile phone", a court heard. |
Please summarize the passage below. | The singer was travelling through an airport in Calabria, southern Italy, where he had been performing.
Sums of more than €10,000 (£7,000; $11,000) must be declared by anyone travelling through airports in the European Union.
Last week, the American was stopped on suspicion of possessing drugs by police in Uppsala, Sweden.
He criticised what he said was "racial profiling" but Swedish police say they have yet to receive the results of tests to see whether Snoop Dogg had drugs in his system.
After stopping him on Saturday as he prepared to board a private plane, Italian police seized half of the $422,000 under money laundering laws, the state news agency Ansa said.
It is now likely to be returned, with a fine deducted, the Italian financial police say.
Andrea Parisi, a lawyer representing the artist, told Reuters: "We clarified everything from a legal point of view. The money came from concerts he had performed around Europe. There was no crime; it was just an administrative infraction."
Snoop Dogg - whose real name is Calvin Broadus - is scheduled to play the Kendal Calling festival in northern England on Sunday.
He has not responded to his latest detention and his current whereabouts are unconfirmed. | Rap star Snoop Dogg has been stopped by police in Italy while carrying $422,000 (£270,000) in cash, authorities say. |
Can you summarize this content? | The eastbound exit at junction 4 of the M54 at Shifnal, Shropshire, remains closed while forensic teams continue to search for clues to the man's identity.
Police said the bones were human and were believed to be from the same skeleton as the skull found by maintenance workers on 20 August.
Tests determined the remains had been at the scene for at least two years.
A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive as to how the man died.
The latest discoveries were unearthed close to the surface and near where the previous remains were found, a spokeswoman for West Mercia Police said.
It will not be known if all findings represent a complete skeleton until the pathologists have completed their inquiries, she added.
Searches are expected to come to an end on Thursday evening and the M54 slip road will remain closed for unrelated road works, she said. | More bones have been found near a motorway slip road where a man's skull was discovered last month, police said. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Forward Porter, 24, and defender Johnson, 21, both joined the club at the start of the season and have agreed extensions after helping secure a 10th-place finish in the National League.
"I'm delighted to have Daniel on board for next season, he's had a fantastic season," manager Neil Smith said.
"George has been brilliant in every position we've asked him to play, he gives 100% and deserves his new deal."
Alan Dunne, Jack Holland and Jordan Higgs are the other players to remain contracted to Bromley for the 2017-18 season, but Connor Dymond and Lee Minshull have left the club.
Officers at HMP Holme House in Stockton, Teesside, have also complained of feeling dizzy after entering cells where inmates have been smoking the drug Spice.
The Prison Officer Association said the drug is also increasing violence.
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said it is investigating.
Andy Baxter, chairman of the Prison Officer Association at Holme House, said officers have inhaled the synthetic cannabis when visiting cells.
He told BBC Tees: "They report smelling a sweet smell, something like a floral disinfectant, after a couple of breaths they start to feel dizzy and get headaches.
"A couple have reported being hysterical, their emotions just run away with them.
"We had an officer who we believe was exposed to it, during the night he said he got a fierce burning sensation in his head which felt like his head was covered with nits and spent the night tearing at the top of his head."
Mr Baxter also said officers had been injured by inmates high on the drug.
He said: "They can become very aggressive, we have had a couple of cases where prisoners get super human strength.
"We have incidents where it has taken seven or eight staff to restrain one slightly built prisoner."
Mr Baxter said some former prisoners are deliberately getting themselves returned to prison so they can smuggle drugs inside in body orifices to pay off debts.
One former inmate said: "I've seen lads going berserk on it, turning on their best mates and fighting over it.
"I've also seen it where lads have dropped down dead, had heart attacks, gone into comas, gone loopy and ended up being sectioned because of it."
An MOJ spokesman said drug searches are regularly carried out, with offenders punished.
He said: "However, it's clear we need to do more.
"The Justice Secretary has asked the Ministry of Justice to look at how we can ensure prisons have the right tools in place to tackle this problem." | George Porter and Daniel Johnson have signed new contracts with Bromley.
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Staff at a prison have suffered hallucinations and become hysterical after inadvertently inhaling so-called legal highs, officers have claimed. |
Summarize the provided section. | Bank of England staff have been showing the new currency to members of the public at Gateshead MetroCentre.
Retailers have also been given advice on how to identify genuine examples.
The redesigned note, which features an image of Winston Churchill, is harder to counterfeit than current ones, which will remain legal tender until May.
Made of polymer produced in Wigton, Cumbria, it is 15% smaller, but also stronger.
The bank's chief cashier, Victoria Cleland, said: "Bank notes are really important, everyone in the country uses them.
"The key driver is to make sure we keep up with modern technology.
"So although the Bank of England has been producing paper bank notes for 322 years, we're about to move to a new polymer one.
"We believe this gives the best level of security features to make it very difficult to counterfeit.
"Also it stays a lot cleaner and more durable, so no more tatty fivers in your pocket." | Shoppers have been given a sneak preview of the plastic £5 note prior to it coming into circulation in September. |
Summarize the passage below. | Officers were contacted at about 09:30 GMT on Thursday by the ambulance service who were treating a 19-month-old baby at an address in Lostock Hall.
She died at the Royal Preston Hospital a short time later. A post-mortem examination is due to take place.
A woman aged 18 and two men aged 18 and 19, from Lostock Hall have been arrested and are being questioned.
Police said they were called following reports of the car being driven erratically on Groathill Road North at about 08:10.
The car, believed to be a Mercedes, then crashed into a caravan in a garden on the same road.
The driver fled the scene. Nobody was in the caravan when the car crashed into it.
The car has now been removed from the scene.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in Edinburgh responded to a report of a car driving erratically on Groathill Road North around 8.10am on Wednesday 14 September.
"The vehicle was subsequently involved in a collision with a stationary caravan on Groathill Road North.
"Inquiries are ongoing to trace the individuals believed to have been inside the vehicle.
"The search activity is being supported by colleagues in the air support unit." | The "suspicious" death of a baby girl is being investigated by police in Lancashire.
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A helicopter is being used to search for the driver of a car which ploughed into a caravan in an Edinburgh garden. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | The original mechanical and electrical components of the Newhaven swing bridge will be replaced.
The bridge, which is 40 years old, carries traffic on the A259 over the River Ouse.
East Sussex County Council said the work was expected to last until May and would have "little effect" on motorists or marine traffic.
Carl Maynard, council lead member for transport and environment, said: "The reliability of the swing bridge is of paramount importance, both to allow traffic to flow along the main coastal route and for the smooth operation of Newhaven Port.
"The bridge is 40 years old and while it is rigorously maintained, the electrical and mechanical systems are outdated and need replacing."
The swing bridge opens about 20 times a month at high tide, when its deck swings open 90 degrees, for about 20 minutes, to allow marine traffic to pass up and down the river. | A £1m project to refurbish a bridge which forms part of a key coastal route through East Sussex has begun. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | The 50-year-old was taken ill at half-time and taken to hospital in Kirkcaldy, before being transferred to a specialist stroke unit at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital.
The Scottish League One club intend to give Wolecki Black and his family "all the help and support they need to get him back on the road to recovery".
Diamonds chairman Tom Wotherspoon added on the club's website: "In the fullness of time we look forward to seeing him back in the job he loves but for now all that matters is his return to good health.
"Over the weekend we have been inundated by kind messages of support from throughout the coaching community and Scottish football as a whole that have shown how highly Eddie is regarded.
"We would like to thank everyone who contacted us, coaches and players, fans of our own club and supporters of others, and we will pass on all of the good wishes to Eddie in due course."
Former Montrose player and manager Wolecki Black had initially joined Airdrie in September as director of coaching and took over as manager when Gary Bollan left to join Forfar Athletic.
He was previously head coach of Glasgow City, who won four successive Scottish Women's Premier League titles during Wolecki Black's time in charge and also reached the Uefa Women's Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 2014.
Airdrie's 3-1 win at Cowdenbeath's Central Park moved them up to fourth in Scottish League One, just inside the promotion play-off zone. | Airdrieonians say manager Eddie Wolecki Black "is now recuperating" after tests confirmed he suffered a stroke during Saturday's win at Cowdenbeath. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The three Tests the world champions will play in the International Series will be in New Zealand.
"To be the best we have to play the best," coach Simon Middleton said.
The match against New Zealand in Rotorua on 17 June will be followed the British and Irish Lions taking on the Maori All Blacks.
England Women fixtures:
9 June: v Australia (Porirua Park, Wellington)
13 June: v Canada (Rugby Park, Christchurch)
17 June: v New Zealand (Rotorua International Stadium, Rotorua)
Meshack Yebei's decomposed body was discovered in western Kenya after he was reportedly abducted on 28 December.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said he was offered protection in a safe location but returned home.
Mr Ruto denies charges of crimes against humanity over violence which erupted after the 2007 election.
He is the most senior government official to be tried by The Hague-based court since its formation more than a decade ago.
The ICC dropped similar charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta last month, alleging that prosecution witnesses had been intimidated and had changed their testimony.
Mr Kenyatta maintained he was innocent, saying the prosecution had no case against him.
Kenya's Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko has ordered police to carry out a "speedy and thorough investigation" into Mr Yebei's murder.
His family said over the weekend that he was killed to prevent him from appearing at The Hague, but there was no official confirmation at the time of his involvement in the deputy president's trial.
Mr Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan has now written a letter to the head of Kenya's Criminal Investigation Department, saying Mr Yebei had been a "critical witness" who had been referred to the ICC's Victims and Witness Unit for protection.
"It's our strongly held view that an attack on any witness constitutes an interference with the proper administration of justice and indeed an attack against William Ruto," Mr Khan said.
"The news of his abduction and murder is both shocking to us and a matter of grave concern."
The ICC's registrar, Herman von Hebel, said Mr Yebei had been offered safe residency in a new place, but he returned to Eldoret - a town in western Kenya which had been badly hit by the violence which following the disputed 2007 election.
"We express our profound condolences to the family," he said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that he was not a prosecution witness.
Mr Yebei's body was found on Saturday near a bridge on the road between Eldoret and Kisumu town.
The post-mortem showed that he had been hit on the head with a blunt object, Kenya's privately owned Standard newspaper reports.
Mr Ruto and Mr Kenyatta were on opposite sides of the 2007 election, but formed an alliance for the 2013 election which propelled them into power.
Some 1,200 people died and 600,000 fled homes in the conflict - the worst in Kenya since independence. | England Women will play Australia, Canada and New Zealand in June as they prepare for the World Cup in Ireland in August.
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A man found dead in Kenya over the weekend was a key witness for Deputy President William Ruto at his trial in The Hague, his lawyer has said. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | 5 February 2017 Last updated at 09:27 GMT
The number of European nursing staff registering in the UK has fallen by 90% since the Brexit referendum, figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council show.
Inside Out met European nurses across London to find out what they think.
Watch the full report on BBC Inside Out London on Monday 6 February at 19:30 GMT on BBC One.
Rob Hawkins, vocalist with south Wales-based The Automatic, said he learned it a year out of curiosity.
Esperanto speakers are meeting in Cardiff on Tuesday to discuss the future of the language.
"There are a lot of Esperanto speakers using Twitter," said Hawkins, whose band's biggest hit was Monster.
Esperanto is now regarded as one of the top 100 languages, with about two million speakers worldwide.
"It's not a difficult language," said Hawkins, a former Cowbridge comprehensive school pupil.
"A couple of years ago I was just trying a few self-improvement things and out of academic curiosity I decided to have a go at Esperanto.
"I've never learnt another language successfully so I thought I'd try that one because it was meant to be very easy and I kind of got sucked in."
The bass player said he supported the idea that everyone should speak a second language.
"The rewards were very great very quickly because it doesn't have a lot of the difficulties that natural languages do."
Hawkins told BBC Radio Wales he first heard of the language when it was used in a long-running BBC sitcom.
"Red Dwarf was how I first heard of it, actually, years and years ago. I was aware of it for a long time before I ever did anything about learning it."
He said Esperanto had gone through peaks and troughs in terms of its popularity but the advent of internet social media sites had given it a great boost.
"The internet has done masses for it and has popularised it in a way that could never have happened before," he said.
"Even people who spoke it fluently 20 years ago would have had to have gone to a meeting to speak to someone, or phoned them up and made time for it.
"Whereas now there are a lot of Esperanto speakers using Twitter, and so daily you can use it for casual conversations in a way that was never possible anymore."
Having carried his country's flag while topless and covered in oil, Taufatofua, 33, lost in the first round in Brazil.
"I'm going to be taking my Olympic dream one step further," he said.
"First I have to qualify but my goal is to let people see that if I can do it, they can do it."
Tonga is a South Pacific country made up of more than 170 islands. Average year-round temperatures range from 24-29C.
Bruno Banani became the nation's first Winter Olympian when he finished 32nd out of 39 competitors in the luge at the 2014 Games in Sochi.
The next Winter Olympics will be held in the South Korean city of Pyeongchang from 9-25 February 2018.
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Sinkholes are hidden cavities in the earth that open up without warning.
BBC Midlands Today's David Gregory-Kumar has been investigating. | The NHS could not cope without EU nurses and the government must offer clarity over their working rights, the Royal College of Nursing says.
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A Welsh rock singer has spoken of his love of Esperanto, the language created with the aim of bringing equality to international communications.
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Pita Taufatofua, the taekwondo fighter who carried Tonga's flag at the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, says he wants to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in cross-country skiing.
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Experts have said a dry September followed by above average rainfall this month have created the perfect conditions to trigger more sinkholes in the Midlands. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | Campaigners lay across roads blocking access to AWE Burghfield on Wednesday in a protest against replacing Trident.
Two women, aged 18 and 62, and a 25-year-old man, all from Reading, along with a 32-year-old woman from Cromer in Norfolk have been charged with wilful obstruction of a highway.
They were released on bail to attend Reading Magistrates' Court on 27 June. | Four people have been charged following protests at a plant in Berkshire where Trident nuclear warheads are built. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | 4 October 2016 Last updated at 15:42 BST
A 7-mile exclusion zone has been set up to protect residents from the spewing lava and ash that is created when Colima erupts.
It has caused huge disruption to those who have had to evacuate, as officials continue to monitor the volcanic activity.
In a statement the Mexican government said: "At the risk of falling ash, we maintain the recommendation to cover eyes and mouths, cover water tanks (and we advise) that people with respiratory problems avoid outdoor activities, and sweep the ash to be deposited in plastic bags.
Check out the the latest volcanic activity here.
A report by the group highlights secret defence budgets and poor oversight of militaries as particularly problematic.
The region has some of the fastest growing defence budgets in the world.
The report says defence corruption has also fuelled the rise of extremist groups such as Islamic State (IS).
The release of the report comes amid several conflicts in the region, including the fight against IS in Syria and Iraq, the Syrian civil war, fighting between militias in Libya and an air campaign by a Saudi-led coalition against Shia rebels in Yemen.
"Corruption has fuelled political unrest, extremism, and formed a narrative for violent extremist groups," Transparency International's Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index says.
The report examined 17 countries from Morocco to Iran, that have spent a total of more than $135bn (£88bn) on their militaries. Israel and the Palestinian territories were not included.
The report says most of the countries it studied - excluding Jordan and Tunisia - provided no detailed information about military spending.
The details of Egypt's defence budget of $4.4bn are a state secret, with the military maintaining its own bank accounts and acting without oversight.
The Saudi government meanwhile uses arms purchases to seal alliances, buying similar weapons systems from different nations.
The report concludes:
The report also says that states that export weapons to the region should beware of the growing risk of arms proliferation and conflicts there.
"Governments in the region and their international allies should prioritise the creation of accountable defence institutions... in order to achieve sustainable security," the report says.
Police said the "beloved pet" called Herby was taken from a garden shed in Crosslea Avenue, Sunderland.
The family, who have asked not to be named, are said to be devastated and fear the animal may not survive if it is abandoned.
Herby is about 1ft (30cm) long and weighs around 15 lbs (7kg) with a white line down the middle of his shell.
Ch Insp Sarah Pitt, of Northumbria Police ,said: "This has had a massive impact on the owner.
"An offender has forced entry into an outhouse and stolen the animal from the back garden of the property leaving the family completely devastated.
"We would ask neighbours and people living in the area to check their gardens to see if the tortoise has been dumped by the offender."
A spokesman for the family, who have offered a reward for the safe return of the tortoise, added: "We are desperate to have Herby returned home to us as he has been in the family for as long as we can remember.
"All we want is for him to be returned to us safe and unharmed. This incident has left us really distressed.
"Herby has spent his entire life in our home and must be really frightened to be in such a strange place."
The theft happened on the evening of 17 August. | Colima Volcano, known to locals as the Volcano of Fire, is certainly living up to its name.
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Corruption in the defence sector poses a huge risk to the security and stability of countries in the Middle East and North Africa, watchdog Transparency International says.
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A tortoise which has been in the same family for almost 40 years has been stolen in a burglary. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Injections that slowly and continuously release HIV medication into the blood are being tested.
Early trial data from 309 patients showed jabs every one or even two months worked as well as daily pills - which is how antiretroviral medication is currently taken.
The results are being presented at the IAS Conference on HIV Science.
Daily antiretroviral medication holds the virus back, prevents HIV destroying the immune system and stops the development of Aids.
The success of therapy has led to deaths related to Aids halving since 2005 to around one million a year.
Aids deaths halve as more get drugs
But the medication is a burden - someone diagnosed aged 20 could end up taking more than 20,000 HIV tablets in a lifetime - and some people struggle, leading to HIV coming back and the virus resisting the effects of treatment.
The trial was conducted at 50 centres in the US, Canada, Germany, France and Spain.
When people were diagnosed with HIV they were initially given oral therapy to bring the virus under control.
Then they spent 96 weeks getting either traditional daily pills, monthly injections or injections every two months.
The results, published in the Lancet medical journal, showed that by the end of the study:
Side effects - including diarrhoea and headache - were similar in all groups.
However, this is still a relatively small trial and a larger and longer-term one is already underway to try to confirm the results.
The work was funded by the companies making the drugs: ViiV Healthcare, which is mostly owned by GSK, and Janssen, which is part of Johnson & Johnson.
Dr David Margolis, one of the researchers from ViiV Healthcare, said: "Adherence to medication remains an important challenge in HIV treatment.
"The introduction of single tablet medication represented a leap forward in antiretroviral therapy.
"Long-acting antiretroviral injections may represent the next revolution in HIV therapy by providing an option that circumvents the burden of daily dosing."
The drugs companies are packaging two of their medicines (cabotegravir and rilpivirine) into tiny nanoparticles, which can be injected into muscle.
This gives long-lasting protection as the nanoparticles break down and release their medicinal contents into the body.
There are 36.7 million people living with HIV around the world and only 53% have access to the current medication.
In a review of the research, professors Mark Boyd and David Cooper from the universities of Adelaide and New South Wales, commented: "[The] study marks yet another remarkable milestone in the evolution of HIV therapeutics."
However, they warned some people may find it easier to have daily pills than having to see a doctor for an injection every one or two months.
"There will inevitably be a trade-off between the convenience of not having to adhere to oral therapy and the inconvenience and discomfort associated with injectable long-acting antiretroviral therapy.
"It is possible that injectable antiretroviral therapy will be more attractive the less one must be injected."
Follow James on twitter. | The "next revolution" in HIV could see daily drugs replaced with just six doses a year, say scientists. |
Can you summarize this passage? | Industry figures showed that in 2009 solar farms covered 24 acres and last year they covered 2,420 acres.
Opponents say solar farms will drive tourists away from the area, which relies on its natural beauty for tourism.
Industry body Regen SW said there was no evidence they affected tourism.
One of the latest applications to South Hams District Council in Devon is for a solar farm of about 26 acres, surrounded by a 2m (7ft) high fence and monitored by security cameras, at Place Barton Farm at Moreleigh, near Totnes.
Garden designer Alice Blount, an opponent of the plans, said: "We already have one at Diptford which is just under three miles away from here. There is another at Blackawton and another two have just been given planning permission nearby.
"It seems as if the whole of this area is going to be smothered in glass panels and we really don't want that."
But Merlyn Hyman of Regen SW said the overall landmass covered by solar farms was "still very small" and less than 0.057% of the counties' total landmass.
"I do think it is important that solar farms are developed in the right place," he said.
"Tourism is an important source of revenue for the South West.
"But there isn't any evidence that renewables have had any impact on tourism.
"In Cornwall, the growth of tourism has gone very much hand in hand with the growth in renewables and particularly wind turbines."
British Solar Renewables, which is behind the Place Barton scheme, said it was "committed to striking the right balance between generating clean energy, supporting both agriculture and the natural environment".
It said the solar farm was "well screened" and, if granted planning permission, it would generate enough renewable energy to power about 1,250 homes.
The man, believed to be a 27-year-old from Kent, fractured his ankle after falling from Striding Edge on Helvellyn, stopping close to Red Tarn.
Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team said he was "extremely lucky" after he fell in "full-on winter conditions" at about 16:30 GMT on Thursday.
The walker was airlifted to hospital in Carlisle by the coastguard.
The rescue took about four hours, with support from the Penrith Mountain Rescue Team.
Mike Blakey, team leader, said: "I cannot stress enough that Helvellyn is in full winter conditions.
"If anyone is considering venturing onto Helvellyn, they must be properly equipped with an ice axe and crampons and the knowledge of to how to use them.
"We want everyone to enjoy the stunning mountains safely." | The total area covered by solar farms in Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset has increased by about 10,000% in the last five years, it has emerged.
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Mountain rescuers said a walker was lucky to survive after falling almost 500ft (150m) in the Lake District. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | The Kurds already operate "autonomous administrations" in three enclaves bordering Turkey - Afrin and Kobane in Aleppo province and Jazira in Hassakeh.
The federal system would also include predominantly Arab and Turkmen areas captured from so-called Islamic State.
The idea was dismissed by Syrian government negotiators at peace talks in Geneva and by Turkey's government.
Both stressed the need to preserve Syria's national unity and territorial integrity.
Kurds made up between 7% and 10% of Syria's population of 24.5 million before the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began five years ago.
Although they were denied basic rights and suffered decades of political suppression by the Arab-led state, most Kurds avoided taking sides when a wave of protests swept the country.
When government forces withdrew from Kurdish areas to concentrate on fighting predominantly Arab rebels elsewhere in mid-2012, Kurdish militias swiftly took control, led by the Popular Protection Units (YPG) of the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
In January 2014, the PYD and other Kurdish parties created autonomous administrations based in the enclaves, or "cantons", of Afrin, Kobane and Jazira.
They stressed at the time that they were not seeking independence from Syria, but "local democratic administration" within a federal framework.
In September 2014, the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) launched an assault on Kobane, prompting tens of thousands of people to flee to Turkey. With the help of US air power, the YPG regained control of the town after a four-month battle.
Since then, the YPG has inflicted a series of defeats on IS and established control over 26,000 sq km (10,000 sq miles) of Syria, according to one estimate, including a 400km (250-mile) stretch of territory along the Turkish border.
The plan to create a federal system to administer the three cantons and the territory captured from IS was circulated ahead of a meeting of about 200 Kurdish representatives in the town of Rmeilan on Wednesday.
Kurdish official Idris Nassan told the Reuters news agency that a federal arrangement would widen "the framework of self-administration that the Kurds and others have formed" and would represent all ethnic groups.
An official declaration was expected on Wednesday but was postponed for "logistical reasons" and because of concerns expressed by local Arab and Assyrian communities, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
When asked about the Kurdish plan, the Syrian government's chief negotiator at the peace talks in Geneva said he would not comment on "unilateral statements coming from here and there".
But he warned: "Betting on creating any kind of divisions among the Syrians will be a total failure."
Turkey, which backs Syria's opposition and sees the PYD as an extension of the rebel Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), also rejected the idea.
"Syria's national unity and territorial integrity is fundamental for us. Outside of this, unilateral decisions cannot have validity," a foreign ministry official told Reuters. | Kurdish parties say they are planning to declare a new federal system in areas they control in northern Syria. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | Have a go at the third of our 2015 quizzes and see how much you remember about the past 12 months.
You can also try our music and arts brain-teasers. A television-themed quiz will also be published on 30 December. | Do you think you know what happened this year in the world of film? |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | The Welsh Government has asked social landlords to test tower block cladding.
But South West Wales AM Bethan Jenkins said there had been inconsistent statements and ministers needed to be clear quick action was required.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said it was a "fast moving" situation and Ms Jenkins' comments were "misleading".
Meanwhile, Newport City Homes - a housing association that owns Newport's former council housing stock - has become the sixth council or housing association to confirm it is testing cladding.
All seven Welsh health boards are inspecting their properties.
Ministers said social landlords should test if they have a tower block cladding called aluminium composite material (ACM), which is similar to that used at Grenfell Tower - Reynobond PE.
Communities secretary Carl Sargeant previously said two areas had this type but refused to name them, saying tenants should be "given information before the media".
The Welsh Government said last week it was urging social landlords to conduct tests before the stance was toughened in a statement saying they were being told to do it.
But Mr Sargeant said on Wednesday he did not have the power to compel social landlords to conduct testing.
Ms Jenkins said: "So far, the main thing that we've seen from the government is just how unclear the response has been.
"The Welsh Government needs to be crystal clear and give declarative guidance on what to do for every local authority."
She said it needed to show leadership and "quick and decisive action" to keep people safe.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "Bethan Jenkins' comments are misleading and unhelpful.
"This is a fast moving and complex situation and the position is changing frequently as landlords are continuing to investigate their stock and decide what next steps to take."
Mr Sargeant added: "Social landlords across Wales have checked cladding used on their high rise blocks and have assured us that none use the type of cladding found in Grenfell Tower, i.e Reynobond PE."
However, he instructed those with ACM panels to test them immediately and "engage with and reassure" tenants.
Newport City Homes said it was liaising with Building Research Establishment - which is conducting cladding tests - to test samples to provide "further assurances".
A spokeswoman said the landlord was "compliant with the relevant additional safety measures proposed".
She added: "Neither our contractor or manufacturer have used the terminology of ACM", and samples were being sent for testing as a precaution.
There are 35 tower blocks seven storeys high or higher in Wales - of which Newport City Homes has three.
Swansea, Anglesey council and three other housing associations have also said they are testing, with Anglesey and the housing associations confirming they have not used ACM. | More "decisive leadership" must be shown over fire safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, a Plaid Cymru AM has said. |
What is the summary of the given information? | Michael Lane, 27, of Portslade, east Sussex, who denies murder, was right to fear he would be blamed, his defence counsel Simon Russell Flint QC said.
Shana Grice, 19, was found dead in her bedroom in Portslade last August.
Mr Russell Flint told Lewes Crown Court the defendant did have a history with Miss Grice, but it was "not of violence or causing her harm".
The court has already heard evidence from Mr Lane who admitted finding his ex-girlfriend's body but claimed he went into shock and did not know what to do.
In closing arguments, Mr Russell Flint said: "Michael Lane was and still is an easy target. He was right, we suggest, to be scared the finger of blame would be pointed at him.
"He did not subject her to the brutal and callous attack which someone subjected her to on that morning."
He added: "From that first hour after Shana's death, the police believed they had got their man so they didn't even bother to consider anyone else."
Prosecuting, Philip Bennetts QC asked jurors to decide if Mr Lane was "an innocent man who was panicked or a lying, manipulative killer".
During the trial, jurors heard claims Mr Lane had refused to accept his relationship with Miss Grice had ended and decided no-one else could have her.
Mr Bennetts told jurors Mr Lane had said Miss Grice "would pay" for what she had done, and he added: "She did, with her life, at his hands."
Judge Mr Justice Green told the jury: "You are not here to like or dislike Michael Lane.
"You are also not here to form a personal view about Shana's behaviour. You are here to form an objective view about the evidence."
The trial continues. | A man accused of killing his former girlfriend by slitting her throat "is an easy target", jurors have heard. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Whatever the answer, the report could not have rocked Pakistan like it did if it was not for the fact that Axact, a software company, was planning to launch a multi-platform print and electronic media group called Bol (Speak Up).
This now seems to have been compromised.
In a damning report on 17 May, the New York Times revealed what it called "a vast education empire" of hundreds of American universities and schools offering online degrees in various disciplines.
The strange thing about it was that all the "glossy and assured" websites of these institutions - at least 370 in number - existed only "as stock photos on computer servers", the report claimed.
The one real thing about this internet empire "is the tens of millions of dollars in estimated revenue it gleans each year from many thousands of people around the world, all paid to a secretive Pakistani software company", the report said.
Axact has denied the allegations. The company's CEO, Shoaib Sheikh, in a message posted on video sharing website Dailymotion called it a conspiracy "to break our resolve, to derail Bol, to shut down Axact".
The message, titled "Shoaib Sheikh's last message before getting arrested", was posted on Tuesday, hours before he was taken in by the Federal Investigation Agency.
Speaking in Urdu, Mr Sheikh said: "They say we sell fake degrees and diplomas, but we only offer an educational platform, which integrates with our partners… If those partners own universities which are legitimate entities within their respective jurisdictions, then it is perfectly legitimate for us to manage their call centre services, their chat services and their document management services."
But despite the denials, the ground appears to be slipping from under Axact's impressive multi-storey office building in Karachi's upscale Defence area.
One apparent factor is the scale of the alleged fraud.
"There have long been rumours in IT and business circles about Axact's business model and quite how it was able to generate massive amounts of cash that the company appeared to be making," says a Dawn newspaper editorial on 22 May.
It further says: "No plausible explanations were offered by the company, and it routinely dismissed the allegations as nothing more than rivals' jealousies. Clearly, that status-quo is no longer tenable."
With the arrest of the five top executives of Axact, the apparent insinuation at the time appears to be that the multi-million rupee Bol empire is being funded by the fake degree scam.
But while investigations into this scam may be a top priority with the FIA, all eyes are on what happens to Bol.
The minute the NYT report hit the stands on 17 May, Pakistani TV channels went into overdrive in an apparent bid to drag down Bol, a menacing looking potential rival that Axact bosses said would change Pakistan's media landscape.
It was an uneasy reminder of the convulsive media wars of last year when most news channels ganged up to drag down Geo TV.
These wars are in turn a throwback to the lawyers' movement of 2007, when the media and protesters ganged together in common cause to weaken, and subsequently oust military ruler Gen Pervez Musharraf.
Flushed with that power, the electronic media spawned larger-than-life talk show hosts with immense clout in political and military circles, often assuming the role of power brokers and arbiters of disputes.
More than two years ago some of these star journalists started to leave their channels and seemingly pass into oblivion.
They were actually gathering at Bol - a high profile print and electronic media arm of Axact which had not yet gone on air.
But despite being off camera, they were being looked after very well.
Those in the leading roles were offered hefty salaries, houses, cars and fringe benefits that included fees for gyms, swimming clubs, medical cover and retirement support.
Nearly all of the more than 2,000 members of staff that Bol had hired until last week drew salaries that were three to four times greater than those holding equivalent positions elsewhere.
These staffers manned Bol's various TV channels (news, documentaries, entertainment etc), Urdu and English language newspapers, and Urdu and English language websites.
The momentum set by investigations into the fake degree scam finally caught up with Bol on Saturday when President and Editor-in-Chief of Axact's media group, Kamran Khan, tweeted he was quitting.
This triggered turmoil and confusion, and many more announced they were leaving.
Some of them said they were doing it for "principles", others said they had been blinded by the glitter and now realised the dark side of it, but few said they were quitting because they feared a financial crunch.
But this is what most of them are being criticised for on social media now.
All of those who have quit so far are "star" journalists, who were placed in leadership roles. Most of them were instrumental in poaching 2,000 subordinate staff from rival media houses to fill positions such as desk editors, camera crew and support staff.
So while they have jumped the ship, they are seen by many as having abandoned their crew to an uncertain fate. | Was the Pakistan-based internet technology firm Axact doing what a New York Times International report last week accused it of doing - selling fake university degrees online? |
Can you summarize the given article? | Dr Fuentes, accused of running one of the world's largest sport doping rings, received a one-year suspended sentence.
On 29 April a Madrid court ruled the blood bags would not be released to the UCI and anti-doping organisations.
They want the bags tested to see whether they implicate other athletes.
Anti-doping authorities and international sports bodies have condemned Judge Julia Patricia Santamaria's decision to deny them access to the bags.
The World Anti-Doping Agency said the decision was "disappointing".
Fuentes was revealed by the Operation Puerto investigation to have been providing blood-doping services to cyclists.
When police raided his offices in 2006, they found 211 bags of frozen blood and plasma.
Fuentes has previously worked with tennis players, runners, footballers and boxers, although he has not said whether he helped them dope.
The company has launched a website where people can submit their ideas and vote on those of others.
Initial proposals have included a solar-panel case, a second screen that can rotate 360 degrees, and a modular design to connect with keyboards and games controllers.
ZTE has promised to release the "crowd-sourced" phone in 2017.
Known as Project CSX, the initiative was first announced in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Submissions officially opened on 3 August, and ZTE's community website now features a growing list of ideas proposed by the public.
One user believes the phone should include a "desktop mode" that turns it into a rudimentary PC, while another says ZTE should build a phone dedicated entirely to Pokemon Go.
But the smartphone manufacturer has laid some ground rules to curb impractical ideas.
"Of course, there are always rules and restrictions to any competition. The most important thing is that the product that we end up building follows ZTE's mission," said Jeff Yee, vice-president of technology planning at ZTE.
"It must be a mobile product, technically possible by 2017 and be affordable to the general public."
The initiative was a "bold approach for the industry that demonstrates how ZTE keeps consumers at the heart of everything", said Lixin Cheng, chief executive of ZTE USA.
But one smartphone expert believes the crowd-sourcing project comes with caveats.
"I'm sceptical that Project CSX will create something the world has never seen before," said Nick Wood, assistant editor of Total Telecom.
"One reason being, the final device has to be affordable, which probably rules out expensive upcoming features that require new manufacturing techniques like flexible screens."
Mr Wood said there was a pronounced homogeneity to smartphone designs, with many of the most popular phones adopting the same slate shape with similar camera and storage specs.
"Genuine, eye-catching innovation in smartphone hardware is the exception rather than the rule," he said.
ZTE is China's second-largest telecommunications company, after Huawei.
Based in Shenzhen, the corporation is known for its smartphones, but it also makes semiconductors and other products.
Both the League One club's senior stoppers, Lawrence Vigouroux and Tyrell Belford, are sidelined with injuries.
Kean, 25, made five appearances on loan at Colchester earlier this season.
Meanwhile, head coach Luke Williams has confirmed forwards Jonathan Obika and Nicky Ajose and midfielder Yaser Kasim are all close to returns from injury.
"I think it would be a big boost to see some of those boys involved or even just in the changing rooms," Williams told BBC Wiltshire.
"We were in very good form and we've had the stuffing knocked out of us, losing some key players."
Swindon are without a win in seven games since boss Williams signed a five-year deal as the club's boss in March.
He also confirmed that six of the club's players have been given time off from training since last weekend, to recover from their recent schedule.
"If you look at the schedule recently, some of the players that have been off, they needed that," Williams said.
"A few players had been carrying the burden heavily. I'm hoping they come back and feel a little fitter, stronger and more prepared."
Swindon, who are six points above the relegation zone, host Bury on Saturday before travelling to Walsall on 19 April.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | The International Cycling Union (UCI) is to appeal against a Spanish court's decision to destroy 200 blood bags presented as evidence in the trial of Eufemiano Fuentes.
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Electronics giant ZTE wants the public to help design one of its next mobile phones.
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Swindon Town have signed Norwich City keeper Jake Kean on an initial seven-day emergency loan after receiving special Football League dispensation. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | Market researcher Kantar Worldpanel found Britain's grocery market grew by 3.7% in the 12 weeks to 23 April.
The results were boosted by a late start to the Easter holiday this year.
Shoppers spent £325m on Easter eggs alone, increasing the average price they paid for an egg by 8.6% to £1.65, Kantar said.
They also bought 20 million packets of hot cross buns in one week.
Tesco returned to growth, with sales up 1.9% to £7.26bn over the quarter, although its market share fell to 27.5% from 28%.
Sainsbury's sales rose 1.7% to £4.25bn, the biggest increase since June 2014, although its market share fell to 16.1% from 16.5%. On Wednesday, the retailer posted an 8.2% fall in profits and warned about rising costs.
Despite these positive quarterly sales figures, the supermarket has warned of "challenging" trading and ongoing price pressures, posting an 8.2% fall in annual profits.
Asda saw its market share fall to 15.6% from 16%, even though sales rose 0.8% to £4.1bn, its first year-on-year sales increase since October 2014.
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Out of the big four, Morrisons was the fastest growing supermarket, helped by its The Best line attracting more affluent shoppers.
Sales went up 2.2% to £2.76bn although its market share fell 0.2% to 10.4%.
Waitrose's market share was unchanged at 5.2% while sales climbed 3.1% to £1.36bn.
Iceland, Aldi and Lidl all saw sales rise by 9.3%, 18.3% and 17.8%, with Aldi and Lidl achieving new record high market shares of 6.9% and 5% respectively.
Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar Worldpanel, said: "All 10 major retailers are in growth for the first time in three-and-a-half years, when we last saw like-for-like grocery inflation as high as it is now.
"While prices do look set to rise further, the current inflation rate of 2.6% is still below the average level experienced by shoppers between 2010 and 2014."
Separate figures from Nielsen also show supermarkets enjoyed their best sales this year, even without the effect of a late Easter.
Mike Watkins, Nielsen's UK head of retailer and business insight, said: "As long as real incomes don't come under too much pressure and employment remains high, shoppers will begin to adapt to moderately rising grocery prices, albeit this could be by modifying how much they spend in other retail channels." | Supermarket sales rose at their fastest rate since September 2013, driven by food shopping at Easter and higher inflation, according to industry data. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | The rock band join Foo Fighters and Kanye West at the top of the bill for the sold out festival next month.
Roger Daltrey said The Who would "close this year's event with a bang".
The band will also headline the British Summertime Hyde Park festival with a show on Friday 26 June, supported by Paul Weller, Kaiser Chiefs, Johnny Marr and Gaz Coombes.
Paul Weller will also play before The Who at Glastonbury, in the penultimate Sunday night slot on the Pyramid Stage.
The band said they would take the audience on an "amazing journey" through The Who's back catalogue, including classic albums such as Who's Next, Tommy, Quadrophenia and My Generation.
"It's great to be ending this part of a 50-year career at the most prestigious and respected music festival in the world," said Daltrey.
"We'll do our best to close this year's event with a bang, unless of course the fireworks get wet!"
The Who made their first and only Glastonbury headline appearance in 2007, when they also closed the festival. They ended their set with a five song medley from the concept album Tommy, starting with Pinball Wizard.
At the time Daltrey likened the band's performance, "after three days of horrendous weather", to the Battle of Passchendaele during World War One
"The conditions were horrendous and you think no one is going to stay to the end. It was like the 70s when the crowds got bigger," Daltry told The Sun.
Glastonbury confirmed 2015's final headliner on Twitter on Wednesday, writing: "We're delighted to announce that The Who will headline Sunday night, with Paul Weller playing the penultimate slot."
The Who are currently performing a career-spanning set on their world tour, The Who Hits 50.
Just one child in five told a survey for the National Literacy Trust they wrote daily outside of school in 2015, compared with 27.2% in 2014.
And that writing was dominated by social network posts and text messages, the survey of 32,500 pupils suggests.
The trust warned the development could have a negative impact on pupils' results.
Those who write outside school daily were five times more likely to have writing skills above their age group, it added.
And those who enjoyed writing were seven times more likely to have advanced writing skills.
The report said: "Since we started measuring writing frequency as part of the annual literacy survey, in 2010, the percentage of children and young people who write daily outside of class has remained relatively stable, with just over a quarter of people saying that they write something outside of class daily.
"However, in 2015, there was a significant change in the frequency with which children and young people write outside class, with fewer children and young people in 2015 writing as frequently as their peers did in 2014."
The survey did not just focus on children putting pen to paper, but instead included writing on technology-based formats.
Text messages were the most common form of writing children indulged in, followed by emails, social network site messages and instant messages.
Children most commonly put pen to paper in the form of notes, with a third of children writing them at least once a month.
Letters were the next most common form of writing, with a quarter of children writing letters at least once a month.
Jonathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, said: "Without solid writing skills, young people will have fewer opportunities open to them, ultimately impacting on their social mobility and indeed on the UK economy.
"If we don't act now, the futures of children who cannot write well when they leave school could be cut short before they've even started."
The charity is calling for a renewed focus on writing for enjoyment. | The Who have been confirmed as Glastonbury Festival's final headliner, closing the event on Sunday 28 June.
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A quarter of eight- to 18-year-olds rarely or never write something that is not for school, a report says. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | South West Trains (SWT) says the increased capacity between Waterloo and Reading, Ascot, Windsor & Eton Riverside, Hounslow and Richmond equates to nearly 10,000 seats a week.
The company has also added carriages to a peak-time service from Weybridge.
The first new services, to Hounslow, are being served by replacement buses.
Extra Sunday afternoon and evening trains will double the current service on the Hounslow Loop from Waterloo, but engineering works mean trains will only run as far as Brentford.
From Monday, there will be three new weekday services - from Reading to Waterloo at 06:23, Hounslow to Waterloo at 08:27 and Waterloo to Reading at 19:35 - and longer trains on the Hounslow Loop on Saturdays.
The 08:03 Weybridge to Waterloo service will also be increased from four carriages to 10 - the maximum possible on that line.
Managing director Tim Shoveller said: "The improvements to the timetable, combined with the major investments we are delivering across the network, will deliver a real boost for passengers.
"However, we are far from complacent and we know we can do much more."
A spokesman for independent user watchdog Transport Focus said: "Passengers will be pleased to see South West Trains introducing extra seats, new services and longer trains.
"Getting a seat, or even sometimes getting on a train, can be a struggle for some. Just 61% of South West Trains passengers tell us that they are satisfied with the availability of seats or space to stand."
South West Trains said, since 1996, the number of passengers using its trains had increased from 108 million a year to 230 million.
It has pledged 258 extra carriages by 2018, a 30% increase.
The company says it has now added 57,000 seats a week on its network, which stretches to Bristol, Portsmouth and Weymouth.
A separate £65m scheme to rollout 108 refurbished carriages across the network is expected to be completed in early 2016. | A new timetable for trains linking London to Reading, Windsor and Hounslow has been launched, with extra services and more carriages. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Searches began in the early hours of Saturday morning in the Townsend Street/Cemetery Road area in Strabane.
The clear-up operation ended on Sunday at 20:30 BST.
A number of elderly people had to leave their homes and a graveyard was closed.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland's district commander Supt Mark McEwan said: "We received information about a bomb of some sort just after midnight on Friday.
"This bomb was placed in a graveyard and positioned where it could be used to attack passing police patrols.
"The bomb was left with the intent to kill police officers. It could have killed anyone passing by.
"There was a complete disregard for the community. Anyone with information should come forward.
"No one has claimed responsibility. One line of inquiry is violent dissident republican activity."
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers condemned those behind the incident and said "terrorists will never succeed".
"The fact that those responsible were prepared to use a graveyard shows once again the contempt in which they hold the community," she said.
One man told BBC Radio Foyle he was angry that he could not get in to the graveyard.
"My wife died three years ago and I visit her grave every day," he said.
"I tried to get up five or six times but I was turned away every time. It's uncalled for. I can't even pay my respects."
Thousands viewed and shared Nick Jablonka's A-Level coursework, posted on YouTube in June, thinking it was the store's hotly anticipated festive ad.
The Bournemouth student said he was "overwhelmed" by the reaction.
A John Lewis spokesman said: "Nick is clearly very talented, we'd love to invite him to spend some time with us."
The 18-year-old said the project, titled John Lewis Christmas Advert 2016 - The Snowglobe, initially got about 200 views "but in the past week it went crazy".
The piece, which features a love-struck snowman stuck in a snow globe, has had more than 460,000 views.
Mr Jablonka, who is studying at Bournemouth University, said: "I really didn't mean for the confusion. Although I really appreciate the overwhelming comments."
One viewer posted: "Easily comparable to 'the real thing'. Well done. I hope you go on to great things."
Another said: "Nick you've done a great job of taking our feelings on a 75 second journey."
Callum Wilson appeared to be fouled by Potters defender Ryan Shawcross in the first half of Bournemouth's 1-0 Premier League win on Saturday.
East waved play on as Wilson and Howe protested.
"To be fair to Roger, he got in contact straight away once he'd acknowledged he was wrong," Howe told BBC Radio Solent.
The game was goalless when Shawcross seemed to bring Wilson down in the 10th minute without making contact with the ball.
Bournemouth went on to record a first league away win of the season courtesy of Nathan Ake's first-half header.
"You can't ask for anything more than an apology," Howe added. "We all make mistakes, I certainly make enough as a coach.
"But, when you make a mistake, you have to acknowledge it and move on."
East has been left off the referees' appointments for the weekend's Premier League fixtures, and will be fourth official between Southampton and Everton on Sunday.
But Howe said that, like players and managers, you cannot judge referees on one game.
"If we had that attitude with referees, there wouldn't be any left," the 38-year-old added.
"It's such a difficult environment to work in and the pressure is so high. But as long as they analyse themselves like we would as players and coaches, they will get better." | A mortar bomb found by police in County Tyrone on Saturday was "an attempt to kill police officers," according to police.
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Summarize the following excerpt. | Some of the 38 local libraries are buying no books or newspapers at all.
The £189m Library of Birmingham - which opened in 2013 - is continuing to buy special collection books such as large print, and some non-fiction titles.
The city council, which needs to save nearly £113m this financial year, said it was "examining future operating models" for the service.
A freeze on buying books is not a blanket policy, the authority said, and "it would examine requests for new purchases on a case-by-case basis".
But because of the savings the council has to make across all departments, there was now a "pause on the book fund".
In February, the Library of Birmingham's opening hours were cut by nearly half - to 40 hours a week - in an attempt to save money.
Since then, 26 hours have been added, but there is a limited service in those extra hours.
Library user Cathy Houghton said: "They've spent so much money on the new Library of Birmingham - this is the outcome.
"Not being able to order any books at all is ridiculous. We should be trying to encourage young children to read, this is just off-putting".
"BOOKS REQUIRED" - that is in big bold letters at the top of a poster put up in one of Birmingham's community libraries - it says: "Due to public savings cuts we are no longer purchasing any new books or newspapers. Therefore we're looking for any books published in the last 12 months to be donated to the library. All gratefully received".
I haven't been able to find out if any other libraries are doing this - but this one at least really is in a pretty desperate situation.
The situation illustrates perfectly the effect of budget cuts on libraries we have heard about before - the main Library of Birmingham had its hours cut - and is only now able to open again into the evening because of the Brasshouse language school taking up residence there.
Birmingham City Council argues it'll still be spending £1m on new purchases across its service this year - but it looks like fiction will be the real victim.
Penny Holbrook, council cabinet member for skills, learning and culture, said the authority had listened to feedback from residents and library campaigners, but must "prioritise expenditure".
"As is well documented, we need to make huge savings across the council. We have been examining several future operating models for community libraries.
"However, as we are also reviewing the future operating model for the council as a whole it makes no sense to reorganise the libraries ahead of this.
"The reorganisation of the council - Future Council - will go out to consultation during the autumn."
She said although they had not "corporately" asked for public donations, some individual libraries had, and she welcomed any support the public wished to give.
"However we do not expect the public to make up for cuts to the budget from the government," she said. | Libraries in Birmingham have stopped buying books in an attempt to help with "huge savings" by the city council. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | 5 August 2016 Last updated at 12:20 BST
The man can be seen jumping onto a car bonnet in Leicester city centre and shouting at the driver, before the driver continues to drive.
Onlookers said the man then jumped off and began punching other cars.
Leicestershire Police said a man had been arrested for criminal damage and assault, and was treated at hospital for his injuries.
The drama unfolded along Burleys Way, close to the junction with St Margaret's Way, at about 17:50 on Thursday. | Dramatic footage has been filmed of a man jumping on a moving car and punching the windscreen in a rage. |
What is the summary of the given information? | Joseph Lau Luen-hung said he broke up with Yvonne Lui in 2014 but had given her HK$2bn ($0.26bn; £0.21bn) worth of gifts during their relationship.
Ranked as the world's 65th richest man by Forbes with a net worth of $13.1bn, and a convicted money-launderer, Mr Lau made his fortune in real estate.
His ad sparked a debate in Hong Kong on the meaning of wealth.
Mr Lau, 65, has two children with Ms Lui, who is believed to be 26 years his junior.
He said his announcement was made in response to "untrue reports" about their relationship.
Ms Lui was now "a very wealthy woman" after receiving "lots of money, jewellery and other gifts" from him and no longer needed his "financial support", he said, though he added he would continue to support their children.
A former beauty pageant contestant, Ms Lui has a PhD degree in chemical engineering from King's College London.
In an email to the BBC, Ms Lui described Mr Lau as "a dedicated father" and will "eventually overcome any obstacles". She also said there were bigger global issues, like child malnutrition and child abuse.
She had earlier released a cryptic statement on her website (in Chinese): "The children and I hope that you will recover soon and distance yourself from people who have been troubling you."
Mr Lau's very public announcement has become the talk of Hong Kong, with many questioning the motives behind it.
Mr Lau divorced his first wife in 1992 and has two adult children. He also has two children with his current girlfriend, a former entertainment reporter almost 30 years younger than him.
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He has been seen in a wheelchair and is suffering from renal failure, heart disease and diabetes.
"Lau is getting seriously sick. The fight for inheritance will begin soon!" said one Facebook user.
"The rich are troubled by something that the poor will never trouble themselves with. How much is $2bn? What are private jets? What do children mean? What does love mean? What does a family mean?" wrote by Stephen Ko on Facebook.
"Wealth doesn't equal happiness. If you are happy now, you are already more blessed than he is."
Mr Lau, who was convicted of bribery and money-laundering in Macau in 2014, is well-known for his love affairs with movie stars and his extravagant romantic gestures.
It is not the first time he has used newspaper ads to get his message across.
In 2006, he bought a full-page ad anonymously wishing happy birthday to an ex-girlfriend. | A Hong Kong billionaire has placed full-page ads in local newspapers announcing his split with a girlfriend. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Sherida Spitse scored the only goal from the penalty spot after Danielle van de Donk was tripped in the box.
Arsenal's Sari van Veenendaal made a superb save to deny Denmark's Pernille Harder, while Nadia Nadim headed straight at the goalkeeper late on.
Two-time champions Norway are on the brink of elimination after a surprise 2-0 defeat by Belgium.
Elke van Gorp came from an offside position to poke in from Ingrid Hjelmseth's parry and give debutants Belgium the lead on 59 minutes. They doubled their lead through Janice Cayman's free header after the Norwegian defenders failed to clear.
Norway's best chance fell to Caroline Graham Hansen, but the forward volleyed over the crossbar from close range.
They were on top in the first half as Andrine Hegerberg had a flicked effort pushed away, but her sister Ada - the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year - struggled to make an impact.
Martin Sjogren's Norway side - runners-up in 2013 - lost to hosts Netherlands in their first game and must now beat Denmark on Monday to have any chance of progressing.
Meanwhile, a point for Netherlands in their final group game against Belgium will seal progression to the knockout stages.
Match ends, Netherlands Women 1, Denmark Women 0.
Second Half ends, Netherlands Women 1, Denmark Women 0.
Stine Larsen (Denmark Women) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Desiree van Lunteren (Netherlands Women).
Attempt blocked. Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands Women) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Renate Jansen.
Attempt saved. Nadia Nadim (Denmark Women) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pernille Harder with a cross.
Stine Larsen (Denmark Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Stefanie van der Gragt (Netherlands Women).
Substitution, Netherlands Women. Lineth Beerensteyn replaces Shanice van de Sanden.
Foul by Mie Jans (Denmark Women).
Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Simone Sørensen (Denmark Women).
Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Renate Jansen (Netherlands Women) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Daniëlle van de Donk with a headed pass.
Sherida Spitse (Netherlands Women) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.
Foul by Stine Larsen (Denmark Women).
Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Netherlands Women. Conceded by Line Jensen.
Attempt blocked. Sherida Spitse (Netherlands Women) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Simone Sørensen (Denmark Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Simone Sørensen (Denmark Women).
Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands Women) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Netherlands Women. Renate Jansen replaces Lieke Martens.
Maja Kildemoes (Denmark Women) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Maja Kildemoes (Denmark Women).
Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Sanne Troelsgaard (Denmark Women) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pernille Harder with a through ball.
Corner, Denmark Women. Conceded by Lieke Martens.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Sari van Veenendaal (Netherlands Women) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Pernille Harder (Denmark Women) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Nadia Nadim with a cross.
Substitution, Denmark Women. Stine Larsen replaces Katrine Veje.
Offside, Denmark Women. Theresa Nielsen tries a through ball, but Sanne Troelsgaard is caught offside.
Foul by Daniëlle van de Donk (Netherlands Women).
Cecilie Sandvej (Denmark Women) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Denmark Women. Maja Kildemoes replaces Nanna Christiansen.
Attempt missed. Sanne Troelsgaard (Denmark Women) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Attempt blocked. Sanne Troelsgaard (Denmark Women) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Nanna Christiansen.
Attempt blocked. Pernille Harder (Denmark Women) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Stefanie van der Gragt (Netherlands Women) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sherida Spitse with a cross following a corner. | Women's Euro 2017 hosts Netherlands claimed their second victory in Group A by beating Denmark 1-0 in Rotterdam. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | The toxic material has been fly-tipped "from Berwick to Alnwick and Bedlington to Hexham" in the past nine months, Northumberland County Council said.
In that time it has dealt with double the number of cases it handled the previous year.
Cabinet member Ian Swithenbank said it cost the authority more than £10,000.
If homeowners are unable to prove their hazardous waste has been removed by a registered operative they run "the real risk of being prosecuted if any dumped waste is traced back to them", he said.
"Fly-tipping on private land remains a significant problem for farmers and landowners who are left frustrated when they, the victims of this crime, are left to clear up dumped waste and pay for its disposal," Mr Swithenbank said.
The asbestos found was mostly corrugated sheeting, once commonly used in old colliery houses, farms and commercial properties which have now been modernised, the council said.
There are strict rules concerning its removal and disposal by a licensed operator but "unscrupulous waste contractors" have been dumping it to save costs, the authority added. | Potentially lethal asbestos has been found illegally dumped in "every corner" of a rural county, a council has said. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | Microsoft researchers have found a way to stabilise films and speed them up to make them more watchable.
To fix the images, the software analyses footage and creates new frames to smooth out camera jumps.
The team is currently working on ways to turn the research into a Windows application.
First-person videos shot on wearable cameras such as the GoPro were becoming more popular, said the researchers, but could be "dead boring" to watch at normal speed and almost unwatchable when sped up, because of the exaggerated camera-shake that caused.
While image-stabilisation software was already available, such programs typically did a poor job of coping with sped-up footage of any significant length, said the computer scientists in a webpage documenting their work.
To solve the problem, the "hyperlapse" software, developed by Johannes Kopf, Michael Cohen and Richard Szeliski, subjects footage to a three-stage process.
The first analyses a video to spot significant features in each scene and create a very approximate reconstruction of the part of the world the camera travelled through.
The second stage involves working out the smoothest path the camera could take through this virtual reconstruction.
The third part of the process renders a film in which the camera travels this smoother path.
At this stage, extra frames are generated and added to remove jumps in the original footage and to fill in around the smooth path of the camera.
The visitors added 143 runs before lunch as Ross Whiteley hit 45 off 36 balls, before declaring on 324-8.
Set 454 to win, Worcestershire's New Zealand paceman Matt Henry claimed 5-36 as Northants were bowled out for 142.
Joe Leach also chipped in with 2-49 to become the leading wicket-taker in either division with 38 victims.
Henry's first five-wicket haul of the season came in his final game for Worcestershire, with South African fast bowler Kyle Abbott set to replace him.
Worcestershire debutant George Rhodes, who hit an unbeaten 31 earlier in the day, also took his maiden first-class wicket when he had Ben Sanderson caught behind.
Despite Essex having a game in hand, back-to-back four-day victories for Worcestershire have seen them emerge as one of the main challengers for the single promotion spot.
Steve Rhodes' side, who now hold a 17-point advantage over third-placed Kent, travel to Chelmsford at the end of August.
Northamptonshire, who have struggled with the bat throughout the season, are still looking for their first Championship win of 2016.
Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes told BBC Hereford & Worcester:
"We are in the promotion race. I'm very proud of the guys here this week. They've got points to prove and want to play for each other. Our approach and attitude was outstanding.
"Our running between the wickets and ground fielding was testament to where some of the lads are in their careers.
"We showed great character to come back from 54-5 on the first morning. We showed we can bat all the way down and dominated the game from that first afternoon onwards.
"Matt Henry has been an outstanding member of the dressing room. He's bowled well this year and not quite got the rewards - but here he has."
Mr Berlusconi arrived at the gathering in a square in the town of Segrate, outside Milan, with his bodyguards.
He asked someone for the name of the candidate, and then encouraged people to vote for him.
"Vote Paolo," he said - only to be told the man was standing against Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia candidate.
Paolo Micheli, a leftist who is running for mayor, later joked on his Facebook page that Mr Berlusconi's endorsement meant he was sure to win.
Mr Berlusconi quickly left after being made aware of the mistake by his aides. Forza Italia's mayoral candidate, Tecla Fraschini, was holding a campaign event at a nearby hall.
People across Italy are going to the polls on Sunday to elect regional governors town mayors.
Mr Berlusconi, 78, was prime minister three times between 1994 and 2011.
He announced plans for a political comeback earlier this year, after the country's highest court upheld his acquittal on charges of underage sex and abuse of office in March.
However, several cases against him are still slowly advancing in Italian courts.
Mr Berlusconi remains banned from running for office and Forza Italia faces growing challenges for conservatives votes. | Help is at hand for anyone who has shot a shaky video while cycling, climbing, kayaking or engaging in any other high-speed sport.
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Worcestershire closed to one point behind Division Two leaders Essex with a thumping 311-run win over Northants inside three days at Wantage Road.
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Can you summarize the following information? | He told Talk Radio he "couldn't be happier" about Donald Trump's US election victory and that he would work to further trade relations.
Mr Farage said he would advise him: "Come and schmooze Theresa [May], but don't touch her, for goodness' sake."
Mr Trump and Mr Farage campaigned alongside one another in August.
Asked about the Republican's unexpected election victory against Democrat Hillary Clinton, UKIP's interim leader - in place following the resignation of his successor, Diane James - said he "couldn't be happier".
He described the result as "Brexit times two", adding of his own role in events: "I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites and all these dreadful people who, working hand-in-glove with Goldman Sachs and everybody else, have made themselves rich and ruined our countries."
He claimed Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated in January, "hates the EU even more than I do" and predicted an improvement in US-UK relations, saying: "That Obama creature, loathsome individual, couldn't stand our country. He said we'd be at the back of the queue [for trade deals], didn't he?
"What was interesting was that Trump said we'd be at the front of the queue."
Mr Farage said it was unlikely the US president-elect would take him on as an adviser, as he was not an American citizen, but told Talk Radio: "I will be encouraging him to make the United Kingdom his number one global priority."
During the election campaign, a 2005 recording of Mr Trump apparently bragging about groping women was released. This prompted many senior Republicans to abandon support for him.
Promising to give Mr Trump "a drill on British etiquette", Mr Farage joked: "I'm now going to become a diplomat. I've got to say, 'Come and schmooze Theresa - don't touch her, for goodness' sake'."
He added: "If it comes to it, I could be there as the responsible adult, make sure everything's OK."
Meanwhile, UKIP MEP William Dartmouth called Mr Farage the "best choice" for the next UK ambassador to Washington.
He said: "On Brexit, the special relationship will be even more important. Nigel Farage already has good ties and a relationship with the US President-elect, Donald Trump - much better than anyone else in British public life.
"His appointment would materially assist the UK in getting a UK-USA trade agreement for the first time. We in the UK would then be 'at the front of the queue'." | UKIP leader Nigel Farage has described US President Barack Obama as a "loathsome individual" and a "creature" who "couldn't stand our country". |
Write a summary for this information. | David McLean, 31, and Ryan Gilmour, 25, deny trying to kill PCs Deborah Lawson and Robert Fitzsimmons in Banner Drive, Drumchapel, on 23 October 2016.
A court heard that the pair allegedly reversed a Nissan Qashqai towards the officers and "repeatedly struck" them.
They then allegedly drove towards PC Lawson who was injured on the ground.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that PC Fitzsimmons grabbed his colleague out of the way of the vehicle, which is alleged to have had false registration plates fitted.
Jurors heard the contents of a legal document detailing a total of six charges against the two men who are both from Glasgow.
On the same day of the alleged attempted murder attempt, both Mr McLean and Mr Gilmour were said to have acted in a disorderly manner in Banner Drive.
They are said to have brandished knives, bottles and shouted and swore before pursuing Dean McGhee, William Dunsmore and John Paul Shearon.
Prosecutors claim they also banged on the door of a house in Banner Drive and attempted to gain entry.
The Crown claims the two men poured liquid through the letter box and that their alleged behaviour was a breach of the peace.
They are also charged with attempting to pervert the court of justice by wilfully setting fire to the Nissan Qashqai at Lennox Gardens in Glasgow, destroying the vehicle.
They are also accused of resetting the vehicle, which was allegedly stolen.
The two men have entered not guilty pleas to all the charges.
The trial is expected to last eight days.
Marc McKenzie put the hosts ahead in the 18th minute when he capitalised on a defensive mix-up which allowed him the simplest of tap-ins.
Liam Brown equalised for the Spiders, superbly finishing off a fine passing move. Elgin then spurned a great chance as Darryl McHardy headed wide.
Both sides remain in the play-off hunt despite the draw. | Two men have gone on trial accused of attempting to murder two police officers in Glasgow by repeatedly striking them with a car.
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Scottish League Two play-off chasers Elgin and Queen's Park settled for a share of the spoils. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Harry Gleeson was executed for the murder of Moll McCarthy, who was shot dead in County Tipperary in November 1940.
A government review of the case was carried out following pressure from justice campaigners.
It found police and prosecutors withheld crucial evidence from the farm labourer's trial.
The review found that Mr Gleeson was convicted and executed "as a result of a case based on unconvincing circumstantial evidence".
Mr Gleeson will become the first recipient of a posthumous pardon from the Irish state.
In a statement, the Irish government said it "deeply regrets that a man was convicted and executed in circumstances now found to be unsafe".
"All that can be done now by way of remedy is to clear his name of the conviction, which this pardon will do, in the hope that this will be a proper tribute to his memory," it said.
"Equally the government regrets that this decision leaves unresolved the brutal murder of Ms Mary McCarthy, whose children were deprived of their mother in terrible circumstances." | The Irish government is to give a pardon to a man who was hanged almost 75 years ago after being wrongly convicted of murder. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | The original featured Yul Brynner as a malfunctioning robot cowboy who begins attacking guests at a hi-tech theme park.
In the HBO pilot, Sir Anthony will play Robert Ford, described as Westworld's "brilliant... complicated" chairman.
The project is being developed by Star Wars Episode VII's director, JJ Abrams' production company Bad Robot.
Sir Anthony, famous for his role as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs and its sequel and more recently Thor: The Dark Side, will appear alongside actress Evan Rachel Wood for the project.
A description of Wood's role as Dolores Abernathy suggests her character is not human.
Entertainment Weekly reported: "Dolores is the quintessential farm girl of the frontier West - who is about to discover that her entire idyllic existence is an elaborately constructed lie."
Sir Anthony is best known for his cinematic roles but has made a number of television appearances.
He narrated a TV documentary series, American Masters, in 2007 and appeared as Abel Magwitch in a 1989 version of Great Expectations. | Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins has been cast in a television remake of the 1970s sci-fi film, Westworld. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | The home secretary told MPs that "some work" had been done to ensure material was not included in the report which could damage national security.
But she said claims she discussed it with US officials were "inaccurate".
She said was not aware of "any evidence" the UK had been involved in torture, which she said was abhorrent.
The US Senate report, which alleged the "brutal" interrogation and treatment of al-Qaeda suspects in the wake of 9/11, contained no reference to UK agencies.
After it was published last week, Downing Street initially said no requests for redactions had been made but later stated that requests were made by British intelligence agencies to the CIA for reasons of national security.
The government has insisted none of the details blacked out were related to British involvement in the mistreatment of prisoners.
Appearing before the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mrs May said suggestions that she or her officials had met Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chaired the inquiry, on multiple occasions in recent years to discuss the report were "wrong and inaccurate".
She added: "I have not asked for any redactions. Any such request will only have been in relation to the need to ensure that nothing damages our national security."
Asked about the case for a public inquiry into any UK complicity in illegal activities, Mrs May said the US inquiry had been conducted by the US Senate and it was appropriate for Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee to continue its work.
The security services, she stressed, would co-operate fully with the investigation, adding that the committee was "not tainted by party political issues in the way it does its job" and acted "with integrity and thoroughness".
Keith Vaz, the Labour MP who chairs the cross-party Home Affairs committee, said he would be asking Mrs Feinstein to appear before MPs herself next year. | Theresa May has said she did not ask for any details about the UK security services to be redacted from a report about alleged torture by the CIA. |
What is the summary of the following article? | Unison says the Welsh government offer of a payment of £160 to all staff is not enough.
The Welsh government said it is disappointed with the ballot result as pay discussions were ongoing.
Unison said its members in Wales voted by almost 4-1 in favour of strikes and by 9-1 for other forms of industrial action.
More than 5,700 took part in the ballot.
Last week, thousands of health workers, including nurses, midwives and ambulance staff, took part in a strike in England and Northern Ireland in a dispute over pay.
Unison regional secretary in Wales Margaret Thomas said: "Our members working in the Welsh NHS have sent a clear message that they are worth more than a miserly £160.
"NHS workers in Wales have spoken loud and clear and it is time for the Welsh government to come to the table and negotiate a fair pay deal for our members."
She said the union's health committee will now consider its response to the result of the ballot and "how any potential action in Wales could be coordinated with future action taken on pay in England".
A Welsh government spokesperson said: "The reality is that by 2015-16 the Welsh government's budget will be 10% lower in real terms than it was in 2010-11 - a reduction which equates to £1.5bn less.
"With pay accounting for more than 60% of the NHS budget we have no choice but to consider some form of pay restraint to maintain jobs and frontline services." | Thousands of NHS staff in Wales have voted to take strike action in a row over pay. |
Can you summarize the given article? | 21 January 2016 Last updated at 16:38 GMT
The object, which has been nicknamed 'Planet Nine' by researchers at the California Institute of Technology, is orbiting billions of miles beyond Neptune.
Watch Martin's report to find out more. | Astronomers in the United States say they may have discovered a new planet in the solar system that's about ten times bigger than Earth. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Lutfur Rahman was barred after being found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices by a specialist court.
He had hoped to overturn the ban after being told he would not face criminal charges due to "insufficient evidence".
His lawyers argued it would be wrong to allow the 2015 ban to stand in light of the decision not to bring charges.
Mr Rahman had already failed in one attempt to challenge the ruling of the Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey made two years ago, following an Election Court trial in London.
Four voters took legal action against Mr Rahman, under the provisions of the Representation of The People Act, in 2015.
Lawyers for those voters made a series of allegations, including "personation" in postal voting and at polling stations, and ballot paper tampering.
Mr Rahman had said there was "little, if any" evidence of wrongdoing against him.
But Mr Mawrey said evidence aired at the Election Court trial had revealed an "alarming state of affairs" in Tower Hamlets.
He said his ruling meant the 2014 Tower Hamlets mayoral election was void.
The election was re-run and was won by Labour's John Biggs. | The former Labour mayor of Tower Hamlets in east London has lost a High Court appeal against a five year ban from standing for office. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | Lesley Griffiths met Westminster counterpart Michael Gove for the first time since his appointment on the first day of the Royal Welsh Show on Monday.
She fears Wales will have less power and flexibility after Brexit if the UK government's repeal bill becomes law.
Mr Gove said Welsh farming would have a new chance to "grow and flourish".
First Minister Carwyn Jones and Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns are joining tens of thousands of visitors on the opening day of the Royal Welsh in Llanelwedd, Powys.
Mr Gove is spending the day at the show, meeting figures from the farming industry.
Brexit is set to dominate the political agenda at the four-day event, Europe's largest agricultural festival.
"I'm worried the Withdrawal Bill, coupled with the UK government's lack of engagement with us to understand the needs of Welsh farmers, will mean this understanding is lost and the industry in Wales will move back decades," said Ms Griffiths.
"Devolution has allowed us to tailor our policies for Welsh farmers with an understanding of their distinct needs."
Concerns about the way the UK government plans to convert EU law into British law were raised with Mr Gove by Ms Griffiths, whom she accused of showing "a complete disregard for devolution" after he postponed two planned meetings of UK agriculture and environment ministers.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, First Minister Mr Jones said: "London shouldn't become the new Brussels. We cannot have a Defra minister negotiating on behalf of Welsh farming without their consent."
A Defra spokesman said it was working closely with all the devolved administrations to "make sure we get the best deal for farmers across the UK when we leave the EU".
This included the right powers being returned to Westminster and the right powers being passed to Wales.
The spokesman said as well as meeting Ms Griffiths, Mr Gove was "listening to local farmers and their representatives so they can help shape the future of farming in their area".
The UK government's proposed Withdrawal Bill suggests control over regulation being handed back from Brussels in these areas will temporarily be held by Westminster.
Ministers say they need time to develop a legal framework for matters such as trade, animal health and farm subsidies that would apply UK-wide.
They said it would include the flexibility for devolved governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to make changes based on their own specific needs.
Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas will set out his party's vision for agriculture post Brexit during a question and answer session at the Royal Welsh.
He said: "Plaid Cymru agrees with the need for UK frameworks as we leave the EU and wanted to work in building up those frameworks for agriculture, fisheries and for the environment.
"But the attitude of Tory ministers in Whitehall makes that impossible. What we are seeing now is not frameworks but impositions."
Mr Gove, who on Friday announced farming subsidies would have to be earned rather than just handed out after Brexit, plans to "celebrate the success of the Welsh lamb industry" during his visit.
Global appetite is at an all-time high, he will say, with 40% of what is produced now exported around the world.
Lamb accounts for a third of Wales' total food and drink exports - worth £110m last year.
However, 90% of what is sent overseas goes to EU countries.
Welsh farming unions and Meat Promotion Wales have insisted that ongoing tariff-free access to European markets is vital.
NFU Cymru president Stephen James said they had made it "crystal clear" to Mr Gove and Mr Cairns that a transitional period from current arrangements to a new agricultural policy over a number of years was "an absolute must".
Ahead of his visit, Mr Gove said: "Leaving the EU will provide this hugely successful industry with new opportunities to grow and flourish and I am looking forward to meeting farmers and producers to hear their views on how we can drive the sector forward."
Glyn Roberts, president of the Farmers' Union of Wales said he had been "very disappointed" with the way Brexit discussions had been conducted so far and called on both the Welsh and UK governments to work together in a spirit of partnership. | The Welsh food and farming industry is in danger of "being put back decades" when the UK leaves the European Union, the environment secretary has warned. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | L'Oreal said that Natura had made a "firm" offer valuing the company at 1bn euros (£880m).
Earlier this year, L'Oreal said it was reviewing its strategy for the chain, which it bought for £652m in 2006.
The Body Shop was set up by Anita Roddick who promoted ethical beauty products.
But in recent years it has suffered from increased competition from newcomers also offering products based on natural ingredients and no animal testing.
L'Oreal chairman and chief executive, Jean-Paul Agon said: "I am very pleased to announce Natura as the potential new "home" for the Body Shop.
"It is the best new owner we could imagine to nurture the brand DNA around naturality and ethics."
The chairman and chief executive of the Body Shop, Jeremy Schwartz said the ethical values and expertise of Natura made it 'the perfect new owner' of The Body Shop and would help it to rejuvenate the brand.
Private equity group CVC and China's Fosun also made bids for the struggling business.
Last year, the Body Shop's sales fell 4.8% and its profit margin dropped to 3.7%, far below the double-digit margins achieved by L'Oreal's other brands.
Natura Cosmeticos is at the forefront of the Brazilian beauty market and operates in seven South American countries and France.
The Fine Cut Seville Orange marmalade was made by chefs at Sharrow Bay Hotel in Ullswater.
Laced with Louis Marcellin 1967 Armagnac and garnished with gold leaf flakes, the chefs wanted to produce the "world's most expensive" marmalade.
The £385 raised in the eBay auction will go to the Cumbria Flood Appeal which was set up in December.
The Cumbria Community Foundation established the appeal, which has raised nearly £6m, to help people in the county in the wake of Storm Desmond.
The hotel's marketing manager Heather James said: "We were in the office thinking about what we could do for a special edition marmalade, and it was a bit of a joke when it first set off, but we started thinking how about we make it the most expensive one?
"So we looked into what we could find to make it the most expensive one, and it grew from there."
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Mr Freeman said benefits should go to "really disabled people" not those "taking pills at home, who suffer from anxiety".
The Labour leader recalled a speech Theresa May once made to the Tory conference and said Mr Freeman's remarks were "proof that the nasty party is still around".
The prime minister said Mr Freeman had "rightly" apologised for the remarks and accused the last Labour government of doing "nothing" to give mental health parity with physical health care. | French cosmetics group L'Oreal has begun "exclusive" talks with Brazilian make-up company Natura Cosmeticos over the sale of its Body Shop business.
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Jeremy Corbyn has condemned comments by No 10 policy unit head George Freeman, during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | It happened at about 22.45 BST at a post office in the Ballynafeigh area of the Ormeau Road.
A man fled with cash after brandishing a bottle.
The PSNI found a man matching the suspect's description in University Street. He ran from police but was subsequently arrested in Lavinia Square.
He remains in custody.
The charity Drink Wise, Age Well will attempt to engage with the "hidden population" of drinkers in Cwm Taf via their GPs and roadshows.
Doctors can refer patients, who they think consume too much alcohol, to the group.
Women should not drink more than three small glasses of wine a day and men no more than four, the NHS says.
The charity provides group therapy, group activities and a counselling service.
Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taff were chosen by the project, financed by the Big Lottery Fund, because of its high rate of alcohol-related deaths and hospital admissions.
The project's Richard Broadway said: "People over 50 find themselves drinking more than the recommended guidelines for a number of reasons.
"They might be drinking at home alone or with one other person."
The scheme's roadshow will be in Maerdy community centre on Monday, Nazareth House day centre, Williamstown, Tonypandy on Tuesday, Soar in Merthyr Tydfil on Wednesday and Abercwmboi rugby club in Aberdare on Thursday.
Katrina Williams, 53, from Merthyr Tydfil, began drinking heavily at 18 when her baby died from cot death and worsened when her husband died of a heart attack 14 years ago.
At her lowest point she was drinking 10 pints of cider a day.
She said: "I never considered myself to be an alcoholic because I still went to work every day."
Since getting help from Treatment and Education Drug Services (TEDS) she tries to have four nights off drinking a week.
She said: "I don't want to stop drinking altogether. I'd just like to be able to go and out get merry and enjoy myself."
Retired deputy head Alun Parry, 65, from Merthyr Tydfil, referred himself to Drugaid Wales five years ago when he ended up drinking on a park bench and getting arrested.
"I would pick up a glass of wine instead of a cup of tea," he said.
Mr Parry is now involved in the running of the project.
Mother-of-three Beth Evans, 55, from Aberdare, started drinking daily when she divorced in 2006.
The former nurse said it spiralled from a few drinks at home after work to four bottles of wine a day.
"Eventually my children reported me to social services because they were worried I'd end up dead," she said.
Ms Evans has not had a drink since May and is receiving counselling. | A 30-year-old man has been arrested following a robbery in south Belfast on Friday night.
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Drinkers over-50 who do not think they have a problem are being targeted in a £5m project. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Terry hurt himself on landing after an aerial challenge in the first half.
Chelsea say the 35-year-old may have a small muscular injury to his hamstring and will undergo a scan on Sunday.
Blues boss Guss Hiddink said: "We have just two days to recover and it is something to think about in the future as two days of recovery is not enough."
Fellow central defender Kurt Zouma was ruled out for six months after injuring his anterior cruciate ligament against Manchester United last Sunday. | Chelsea skipper John Terry is a doubt for Tuesday's Champions League last-16 trip to Paris St-Germain after limping off in the 5-1 win over Newcastle. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | Hundreds of events are scheduled in the Dumfries and Galloway town until 2 October.
Organisers said it was the largest ever festival they had staged with a wide range of talks, performances and exhibitions.
This year's proceedings will include both a writer and an artist in residence.
The main theme of the festival this year is "islands" although there will also be a political feel with a look at the implications of the Brexit vote.
Among the speakers on the opening day are former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind and ex-Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis.
The busy programme also includes comedian Susan Calman, long-distance cyclist Mark Beaumont, journalist Sian Williams and chef and broadcaster Prue Leith.
Adrian Turpin, artistic director of the festival, told BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme that the event was generating about £3m a year for the local economy.
He explained its appeal: "A good festival, and I think we are a good festival, is about creating a specific atmosphere for a specific period of time.
"It's slightly different from ordinary life, where you can lose yourself in that.
"I think that's one of the things that people come down here for. It gets them away from the centre in a way, cares slip away and there are people standing in queues, and instead of talking about their shopping or whatever, they'll be talking about books. It's a really lovely atmosphere."
The community-led Stove Network wants to see more buildings brought under local control and create new housing and services on the High Street.
Nearly 500 people have backed their vision of a Midsteeple Quarter in the heart of the town.
It follows an online survey which asked the public for its views on how to improve the area.
Melissa Gunn, of the University of the West of Scotland, who are members of the community partnership leading the project, said they had been "overwhelmed" by the response.
"Online surveys often bring out more negative responses, but here the opposite was true," she said.
"We were particularly surprised by 40% of people saying they themselves would be keen to live in the town centre."
The survey found backing for a "populated town centre" in order to make the area more vibrant.
There was also "strong support" for a mix of accommodation from affordable tenancies to student accommodation and private flats available in the upper floors above shops.
Matt Baker of The Stove Network said: "Everyone in the team is just delighted by the progress to date - this feels like a very different approach for the town with a diverse mix of local people and groups leading the project.
"Everyone is bringing their own expertise and experience and being respectful of what others have to contribute.
"We have had excellent support from right across the council - this really could be the beginning of the long-hoped-for turnaround in the fortunes of Dumfries town centre." | A 10-day celebration of literature is under way in Wigtown, Scotland's national book town.
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Hundreds of people have signed a "Dumfries pledge" to support plans to regenerate its historic town centre. |
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Serena beat the world number 65 Christina McHale, 6-7 (7) 6-2 6-4 on Centre Court while Venus won 7-5 4-6 10-8 against teenager Daria Kasatkina.
Serena trailed 2-0 at the start of the deciding set but won in two hours 29 minutes on Centre Court against her fellow American.
The top seed took out her anger on her racket after losing the first set.
She hammered her racket repeatedly into the ground before tossing it backward. It slid on the grass and landed in the lap of a cameraman.
"I was just really, really, really angry. I had a lot of chances," said Serena, who hit 40 unforced errors in the rain-affected second round match.
"She got really lucky on some shots. She just was playing great. I was a little disappointed in myself at that point."
Shortly after an interruption while the Centre Court roof was closed because of rain, the world number one had a set point but failed to convert.
She thought she had won the opener but was denied by a narrow Hawk-Eye overrule before the impressive McHale went on to claim it on a tie-break.
"It was a really good match. She played great and always does against me," added Serena.
"I know that mentally no one can break me and I knew being a break down in third set I had to put my mind to it and that's what I did."
Williams will now face Germany's Annika Beck in the third round.
Rain three times interrupted 36-year-old Venus Williams, a five-time champion at Wimbledon, as she faced an opponent 17 years her junior in the third round.
The final interruption came as Williams had match point on the Kasatkina serve at 7-6 in the deciding set.
After a break of 72 minutes the Russian 29th seed impressively won three straight points to take the match further.
Both players struggled for rhythm at times during the match but it was Williams, seeded eighth at this year's Championships, who progressed to round four for the 14th time after two hours 41 minutes on court.
"I can't say that I've ever had a rain delay at match point," she said. "Probably not ideal. She handled it well. She played smart.
"It was just, I guess, non‑stop action. It was like a Hollywood script."
In the fourth round, Williams will face Spanish 12th seed Carla Suarez Navarro who beat Marina Erakovic 6-2 6-2.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Defending champion Serena Williams and sister Venus both survived scares to progress at Wimbledon. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Sir Al Aynsley-Green said exposure to alcohol before birth was one of the "most significant" causes of childhood brain damage.
His call for tougher labelling was backed by delegates at the British Medical Association annual conference.
Sir Al has called for all UK governments to raise public awareness.
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome is a condition affecting children whose mothers drank while pregnant.
Sir Al is the emeritus professor of child health at University College London, honorary fellow of Oxford University and the first children's commissioner for England.
He said: "Exposure to alcohol before birth is one of the most significant causes of childhood brain damage, learning disability, poor behaviour and even criminality, affecting up to one in every 100 infants."
"It is entirely preventable by not drinking alcohol during pregnancy, but despite this, advice to expectant mothers in the UK and especially England is inconsistent, contradictory and confusing, and services to support diagnosis and management of affected children are inadequate.
"There has, however, been political denial of the scale and importance of the problem."
Scottish Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said the Scottish government was developing a "consistent diagnostic tool" to allow it to accurately record the number of foetal alcohol syndrome cases.
She said the government were monitoring the number of cases and would be able to publish the results in Autumn 2015.
Ms Watt said: "We do not currently have foetal alcohol syndrome teams in any hospital in Scotland."
However, she said they were studying the methods of identifying and treating FAS used in other countries.
Susannah Mackay, from Dundee, has an adopted son and foster daughter who have both been diagnosed with disorders related to exposure to alcohol while in the womb. Her son was placed with her when he was seven and her daughter when she was six.
"My daughter has classic Foetal Alcohol Syndrome - not that it was diagnosed when I took her on," she said.
"My son is more impulsive. He has Foetal Alcohol Effects. It took two and a half years from their placement to get a definite diagnosis. They were eventually diagnosed by geneticists who ruled everything else out."
It is not known exactly how many children suffer from Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) but the condition is widely under-diagnosed.
Some children will display tell-tale facial features, with a 'pixie' like appearance, but many more will have brain damage which is hidden until they grow older and go to school.
Prof Bill Phillips is an academic and research scientist who has specialised in foetal alcohol spectrum disorders for many years.
"When a baby is born and it looks fine, it doesn't follow that the brain isn't affected," said the emeritus professor at the University of Stirling.
"The face is only affected if there's excessive drinking early in development - during the first three months. The brain goes on developing and drinking can affect the brain at any time."
"It makes the brain less able to regulate its activity, more impulsive, less able to ignore distractions and less able to plan behaviour according to long term goals."
"It affects all aspects of their life," said Mrs Mackay.
"They have very poor impulse control. They never think about consequences. They can't manage time or money. They lack emotional maturity. I might tell them something one day and have to tell them again the next day, and the next day."
Prof Phillips' wife, Rena, is a social worker, a support group organiser and sits on Children's Panels - legal tribunals which make decisions on the care of vulnerable children in Scotland.
"It's a ticking time-bomb which has kind of exploded," she said.
"Talking to my colleagues, we reckon that the majority of children who come before children's panels have substance misuse in the background. It's in 80% to 90% of cases."
"Unfortunately we've had examples where children have been placed for adoption and the adoptive parents didn't know about the abuse of alcohol during pregnancy.
"Health professionals in health and education don't have enough knowledge about this and they should be told because then they can deal with the consequences."
Drinks manufacturers are encouraged to include "sensible drinking" information for pregnant women on its labels, including warnings to women to "avoid" alcohol if pregnant or trying to conceive.
However such labels are not mandatory.
The Portman Group, which represents the drinks industry, said: "While it is a matter for government to determine safe drinking guidelines, alcohol companies strongly advocate that women should avoid alcohol if pregnant or trying to conceive, which is why the industry has voluntarily labelled over 90% of products on shelves with this advice.
"Calling for legislation in this area is completely unnecessary."
The question of how much alcohol damages the foetus is hotly debated.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has said "current scientific opinion points to there being no hard evidence that very small amounts of alcohol consumption during pregnancy are harmful".
However, others argue that there is growing scientific evidence that there is no safe limit.
"In contrast to places like Canada, where there is widespread awareness of the risks, and provinces provide comprehensive assessment and prevention support, in England there is little debate or political interest in the effects of drinking during pregnancy, despite a worrying culture of excessive alcohol consumption," said Sir Al.
Prof Phillips agreed.
He said: "If you want a large effect you drink a lot, if you want a little effect you drink a little. If you want no effect you don't drink at all."
Mrs Mackay said that as her children have grown into young adults they have realised that their difficulties could have been avoided.
She said: "It makes it hard to have a relationship with their birth mums, but they both do.
"It's hard to think 'I am the way I am because of what you did'.
"That causes them emotional problems. I don't think they blame their mums because it's a circumstance of their birth, but if they had a choice would they be the way they are? Probably not." | One of the UK's leading experts in child health is calling for stronger warnings on alcohol to alert women to the dangers of drinking while pregnant. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Rodgers, who has won the League Cup and Premiership title in his first season in Glasgow, signed a new four-year deal on Friday.
And Forrest says the news has further boosted the feel-good factor at Celtic.
"It's been a pleasure to work with him and hopefully we can continue it for years to come," the winger said.
"We just heard on Friday about the manager's new contract and all the boys are delighted.
"He didn't tell us, we only heard as we left training. But all the boys are happy and so are the staff.
"A few of us have signed a new deal this season so for him to sign up for the same length of time, it just continues the buzz about the place right now.
"We don't want to stop now, we want to keep going. It's exciting what we can achieve under him, now that he's committed long-term.
"Since he came in, it's been perfect up until now. But he's always working on us, he doesn't want to stop. That's great for the players and the fans."
Rodgers watched his Hoops side extend their unbeaten domestic run since the start of the season to 39 games with a comfortable 3-1 home win over Kilmarnock on Saturday.
Kilmarnock's Jordan Jones had levelled after Stuart Armstrong gave Celtic the lead, but Scott Sinclair popped up with Celtic's second before Forrest nodded in the third - the first headed goal of his career.
The win took Celtic on to 90 points in the Premiership, with a final game before the split away to Ross County next Sunday before their Scottish Cup semi-final against Rangers on 23 April.
The 90-hectare refuge has been created by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust in response to a crashing hedgehog population.
The aim is for it to be the model for hedgehog conservation across the whole of Britain.
In the 1950s, 36 million of the animals used to snuffle in UK gardens. There may be less than a million now.
Funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, the conservation area stretches across a nature reserve, a public park and the surrounding streets.
More than 100 "footprint tunnels" have been created to show where the hedgehogs have been. Not only will they be placed in the wide green spaces, but also in the gardens of willing local people. Hidden cameras are being installed and volunteer "wildlife guardians" will help to protect the spaces.
According to the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, the most important part is involving the community.
Simon Thompson is the organisation's hedgehog officer: "We're asking the local people to really get involved with the scientific survey.
"We're going to be looking at distribution using the footprint tunnels and abundance via a capture, mark and recapture scheme.
"Hedgehogs will be trapped overnight and in the morning we will give them a unique colour code. We'll aim to recapture them again, and from the results we will be able to estimate the population numbers in the area."
Hedgehogs need to roam to forage for worms and insects and to find shelter. An adult male can cover more than three kilometres a night. More often than not, their path is blocked by solid garden boundaries.
At the request of the conservationists, some Solihull residents within the reserve are also now starting to adopt the most simple and effective way of helping a hedgehog. They are creating wildlife corridors by making a small hole - no bigger than the size of a CD - in their garden walls or fences.
Brian Llewellyn has just cut the reserve's first new wildlife corridor - in his garden fence. "I have been living on housing estates for many years now and I had never seen a hedgehog until recently. I would just love to be able to allow them to travel around the back gardens here, which they need to be able to do. It's so simple. Anyone can do it, you just need a saw."
Sally Marjoram runs the Solihull Happy Hogs Hedgehog Rescue.
She commented: "This is a double-edged sword. I think it's really sad that we have to go to these lengths, and that people go around their daily business without realizing how they are affecting wildlife.
"Because once it's gone, it's gone. At the moment the future is very very bleak, but it's not too late to turn it around. People only need to do little things to make a big difference. This reserve is an amazing start." | James Forrest says the Celtic players have taken a huge lift from the news that boss Brendan Rodgers has committed his future to the club.
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Give a concise summary of the passage below. | The Uruguay striker, 26, intends to submit a transfer request by the end of the week if a move is blocked.
Suarez told the Guardian and Daily Telegraph that the Reds "promised" he could leave this summer if they did not qualify for the Champions League.
"I gave absolutely everything last season. Now all I want is for Liverpool to honour our agreement," he said.
The interviews were given to Spanish-based journalists from the newspapers. Suarez said: "Last year I had the opportunity to move to a big European club and I stayed on the understanding that if we failed to qualify for the Champions League the following season I'd be allowed to go."
Arsenal have made two bids, with the latest in an attempt to trigger a release clause.
Liverpool, who finished seventh in the Premier League last season, have rejected the offers and insisted the clause does not force them to sell.
Suarez has not travelled with the squad for a pre-season match in Norway because of a foot injury.
"I am 26, I need to be playing in the Champions League. I feel I have done enough to be playing in the Champions League at this stage of my career. Now there is an option for me to do that and I want very much to take it," he said.
"I don't feel betrayed but the club promised me something a year ago, just as I promised them that I would stay and try everything possible to get us into the Champions League."
Liverpool meet Valerenga on Wednesday in their penultimate friendly before the start of the season but Suarez will not feature.
He is due to have a scan on his foot injury in the next 24 hours, joining Daniel Agger, Glen Johnson and Martin Skrtel in staying in England to receive treatment.
Reds boss Brendan Rodgers has insisted Arsenal's offer remains well short of Liverpool's valuation.
"If Arsenal want the player they have to produce the value for the player,"
Suarez, who joined the club in January 2011 from Ajax for £22.7m and signed a long-term contract extension in August 2012, scored 30 goals in 44 appearances for the Reds last season.
Liverpool conclude their pre-season preparations with a friendly against Celtic in Dublin on Saturday before starting their Premier League campaign a week later against Stoke City at Anfield. | Luis Suarez says he wants to leave Liverpool and join a side which is competing in the Champions League. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | The midfielder, who also plays for Real Madrid, is suspected of making false statements at the tax fraud trial of Zdravko Mamic, his former manager.
He could not immediately be reached for comment, Reuters news agency reports.
Mr Mamic, a powerful figure in Croatian football, was Mr Modric's boss at leading club Dinamo Zagreb.
Mr Mamic, his brother Zoran Mamic, and two others are accused of corruption that reportedly cost Dinamo Zagreb more than 15m euros (£13.1m; $16.7m), and the state 1.5m euros.
Cash is said to have been embezzled via phoney deals where they took a cut from the sales of players.
If found guilty of perjury, Mr Modric could face between six months and five years in prison.
Mr Modric was asked to testify about his multi-million pound transfer from Dinamo to the English club Tottenham Hotspur in 2008.
The perjury allegation hinges on exactly when he signed an annex to his contract with Dinamo, setting out the terms for future transfer fees.
According to prosecutors, at a tribunal on 13 June, Mr Modric falsely said he had signed it in July 2004.
Prosecutors say the annex - which allowed Mr Modric to receive half the transfer fee - was actually signed in 2008 when he had already left the club.
Prosecutors also say Mr Modric told investigators in 2015 that the annex had been signed when he had already been sold to Tottenham.
The state attorney's office believes the player changed his testimony in his former manager's favour.
The 31-year-old looked visibly uncomfortable while giving evidence to the trial, which has attracted huge media interest in Croatia.
Liverpool started the 2016-17 season strongly and were only six points behind leaders Chelsea in January.
But they fell away with only one league win in January and February, and finished fourth, 17 points behind the champions.
"We'll be playing for the championship. We don't start a season by not having any ambitions," said Klopp.
"We have to have our goals and I think we have a very good team now. We did have a bit of bad luck last season.
"I think we can play a little bit better. Let's hope everything will work very well and that there isn't much more to improve."
Klopp said on Monday that playmaker Philippe Coutinho was not for sale, despite interest from Barcelona.
His side face Bayern Munich in the Audi Cup on Tuesday as part of their pre-season preparations.
They will be without forward Divock Origi, who has a muscle problem, and defender Joe Gomez, who has a knee injury.
They begin their Premier League campaign on Saturday 12 August at Watford. | Croatian authorities have launched an investigation into the captain of the national football team, Luka Modric.
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Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The former American diplomat, who last year chaired six months of talks on flags, parades and NI's past, made the remarks to a US government committee.
He described the outcome of the talks on New Year's Eve as a disappointment.
Dr Haass said he continues to believe the final blueprint he negotiated with the Stormont parties is viable.
The negotiations broke up without a deal on 31 December last year.
The former diplomat was giving evidence to the US Congressional subcommittee of foreign relations, having been called to provide an update on the state of the Northern Ireland peace process.
Dr Haass told the hearing that without further progress, division and alienation would increase and Northern Ireland could not be held up as an example of peace-building.
"If you walk down parts of Belfast, you are still confronted by concrete barriers separating communities. Upwards of what, 90% of the young people still go to divided, single tradition schools, neighbourhoods are still divided," he said.
"I don't see the society sowing the seeds of its own normalisation, of its own unity, if neighbourhoods and schools are still divided.
"What worries me in that kind of environment - particularly where politics are not shown to be making progress - alienation will continue to fester and violence, I fear, could very well re-emerge as a characteristic of daily life."
Dr Haass also said the recent controversy over secret letters to so-called On the Runs did not justify any party walking away from the ongoing negotiations at Stormont.
The controversy arose when it emerged the UK government sent letters to about 200 republican paramilitary suspects informing them they were not at risk of arrest.
The Ulster Unionist Party pulled out of the talks process over the revelations.
UUP leader, Mike Nesbitt, said his party would no longer take part in leaders' meetings to discuss flags, parades and the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Dr Haass told the subcommittee that all he knew about the On the Runs letters had come from the public revelations regarding their existence.
But he said that, as far as he was concerned, the letters did not offer republican fugitives an amnesty.
The diplomat rejected assertions that the final Haass document offering recommendations to the Northern Ireland parties was tilted towards Irish nationalist, rather than unionist, concerns.
Dr Haass warned that without resolving the outstanding issues associated with the legacy of the Troubles, the passage of time would not heal society in Northern Ireland.
He said it was premature to consider Northern Ireland as a "problem solved".
Other witnesses at the subcommittee include Geraldine Finucane, the widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, who was shot dead by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989.
Following allegations that the security forces had colluded in the murder, his family led a long campaign for a full public inquiry.
Just over a year ago, a government-backed review confirmed that UK state agents were involved in Mr Finucane's murder, but concluded there had been "no overarching state conspiracy" to kill him.
The solicitor's family rejected the 2012 report as a "whitewash".
At Tuesday's hearing, Mrs Finucane pledged to continue her campaign for a full judicial inquiry into her husband's murder.
When she was challenged by one US congressman about whether it was right to continue "picking at the scab" of the Troubles, Mrs Finucane said that, for her, the search for justice was more like a deep wound that needed to be healed.
The committee also heard from Belfast man Eugene Devlin, who was shot by the Army in west Belfast in 1972.
Mr Devlin featured in last year's BBC Panorama about undercover soldiers in the Military Reaction Force.
The programme broadcast interviews with former members of the Army unit, who claimed they had been tasked with "hunting down" IRA members in Belfast and had killed unarmed civilians.
Mr Devlin, who was badly injured by gunfire from a passing car, is now a US citizen running a restaurant in New York.
He told the Washington committee that despite the promise of a police investigation after the BBC Panorama revelations, he has still not been approached to give evidence.
Mr Devlin described the failure of the authorities to contact him as "an absolute disgrace". | Richard Haass has warned that violence could re-emerge in Northern Ireland if progress is not made in dealing with the legacy of the Troubles. |
What is the summary of the given information? | The undercover operatives were recruited by the Army, MI5 and Special Branch and many were involved in criminality and murder.
Ex-Met Police commissioner Lord Stevens said the agents caused huge problems in Northern Ireland.
The government says collusion with paramilitaries should never happen.
Lord Stevens led three government investigations into the security forces in Northern Ireland and has revealed the scale of the counter-intelligence operation for the first time.
Lord Stevens also told BBC Panorama that thousands of agents and informants were recruited during the Troubles, and that just one of the agents - Brian Nelson - may be linked to "dozens and dozens" of murders.
Nelson, who was a paid army agent, provided assassination targets for the three main Loyalist paramilitary groups - the Ulster Freedom Fighters, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Red Hand Commando.
During his investigations in Northern Ireland, Lord Stevens and his team arrested 210 paramilitary suspects. He says that 207 of them were agents or informants for the state.
Baroness Nuala O'Loan, who was Northern Ireland's first police ombudsman, also found evidence that state agents were involved in murder.
She tells Panorama that the security forces failed to control their undercover operatives.
"They were running informants and their argument was that they were saving lives, but hundreds and hundreds of people died because these people were not brought to justice," she said.
"There was impunity really for these people to go on committing their crimes. Many of them were killers, some were serial killers."
One Special Branch agent in north Belfast has been linked to 20 murders.
Mark Haddock, who ran one of the Ulster Volunteer Force's most notorious terror gangs, was paid at least £79,000 for his work as a police agent.
The police ombudsman of Northern Ireland is currently investigating 60 murder cases where the state has been accused of involvement.
These investigations were delayed because the police refused to hand over crucial evidence to the ombudsman.
But following a court challenge last year, the new Chief Constable George Hamilton agreed to hand over the intelligence files.
He told the programme that he was willing to work with the ombudsman, but the information needs to be handled carefully.
"There is a need to understand the sheer magnitude of what we are dealing with. We are talking about rooms full of material.
"Some of it is very sensitive, some of which if it is released in the wrong circumstances would be outside of legislation, some of it if released in the wrong circumstances could put lives at risk."
The government says that the vast majority of those who served in the security forces did so with distinction. It says collusion with paramilitaries should never happen and the government has apologised where it did.
Panorama: Britain's Secret Terror Deals is on BBC One at 21:00 BST on Thursday 28 May 2015 and available later via BBC iPlayer.
Scientists said the burst of radiation and magnetic energy could also disrupt communications equipment.
The phenomenon is caused by charged gas particles that flow away from the Sun as a "solar wind" interacting with the Earth's magnetic field.
The particles "excite" gases in the atmosphere and then make them glow.
The colours depend on the type of gas - a red or green glow is oxygen and the blue and purple colours are produced by nitrogen.
Dr Martin Hendry, senior lecturer in astronomy at Glasgow University, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: "Sometimes the aurora can be a little bit indistinct but on other occasions it can be a very vivid colour.
"In fact the different colours reflect the different chemical elements in our atmosphere being affected and they then interact with the discharge from the sun.
He added: "So if it is a bright one, and the evidence suggests that this might be, it is a large solar flare. It really should be unmistakeable." | British security forces had thousands of agents and informants working inside Northern Ireland paramilitary groups, the BBC's Panorama has learned.
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The possibility of seeing the Northern Lights in Scotland on Thursday and Friday night has increased after the sun unleashed a giant solar flare. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | The hole was caused by a burst water main and damaged three cars in Newcastle, north of Sydney, on Thursday.
Newcastle resident Simon West was woken by a loud "crunch" as the road gave way just before dawn.
"The front end of the car broke through the hard surface of the road," he told the BBC.
He said he was left to rue his bad luck after recently cancelling his car insurance to pay for other bills.
Around 40 properties in the street were without water for several hours while authorities began repairs.
A gigantic sinkhole swallowed a five-lane street in one of Japan's biggest cities earlier this month, creating headlines around the world.
Construction workers managed to repair the damage and reopen the road a week later. | An Australian motorist has watched his car disappear into the ground after a sinkhole opened up on a suburban road. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | Kompany, 30, suffered the injury against Real Madrid on 4 May.
City manager Pep Guardiola says the defender is close to full fitness but not in time for Saturday's Premier League game against Bournemouth.
"The players must compete with each other," said Guardiola. "We'll see on the pitch what is best for each game."
Kompany has been an automatic choice since his arrival from Hamburg for around £10m in 2008.
He replaced Carlos Tevez as City captain following the 2011 FA Cup final victory over Stoke and in his 298 appearances for the club has led them to two Premier League titles and two League Cup final victories.
In recent seasons though, he has suffered a number of muscular injuries.
Last year he was missing for over a month on four occasions prior to the injury that ended his season and meant he was not able to play for Belgium at Euro 2016.
His highest number of Premier League appearances in the past four full seasons was 28 in 2013-14 and he only played half that number of games last term.
So, with City chasing an eighth successive win - which would be a club record from the start of the season - against Bournemouth this weekend, and £47.5m new signing John Stones excelling alongside Aleksander Kolarov and Nicolas Otamendi in defence, Kompany cannot take his return for granted.
"I know Vincent's quality," said Guardiola. "I need him to put pressure on John Stones, Nico Otamendi and Kolarov.
"They have to know if they don't play good that there's another one beside me and the next time he is going to play."
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Some have been enjoying the snow, especially in areas where it has been thick enough for skiing and sledging, but for others it's caused disruption.
But scientists from the Met Office, who monitor the weather, say that snow isn't actually that unusual at this time of year.
It's often a chilly month - between 1981 and 2010, the UK had an average of 2.3 days of snow in April. That means it's more common to be able to build a snowman in April than it is in November!
And in 1981 it was particularly dramatic - on the 25th of April that year more than 29 centimetres fell in Sheffield.
The current cold temperatures can be blamed on air coming to the UK from the freezing Arctic.
The teal was found on 28 December in an area out of bounds to the public and its body was sent away for tests which showed it had the H5N8 strain of the infection.
It follows cases in south Wales but Public Health Wales has previously said the public health risk was "very low".
The Welsh Government said the latest finding was "not unexpected".
A spokesman added: "It follows increased surveillance and calls for the public to notify any finding of dead geese, ducks and swans to the Defra helpline". | Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has not been given any guarantee over his first-team place when he finally recovers from his groin injury.
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It's almost May, but this week lots of parts of the UK have been surprised by flurries of snow and hail, and wintry weather.
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A wild duck has died from avian flu at an RSPB reserve in Conwy, it has been confirmed. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | His family said he had been admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego last week, but had failed to recover fully from surgery.
Shankar gained widespread international recognition through his association with The Beatles.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described him as a "national treasure and global ambassador of India's cultural heritage".
In a statement quoted by Reuters, Shankar's wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka said he had recently undergone surgery which would have "potentially given him a new lease of life".
"Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of the surgeons and doctors taking care of him, his body was not able to withstand the strain of the surgery," they said.
"We were at his side when he passed away.
"Although it is a time for sorrow and sadness, it is also a time for all of us to give thanks and to be grateful that we were able to have him as a part of our lives. He will live forever in our hearts and in his music."
Anoushka Shankar is herself a sitar player. Shankar's other daughter is Grammy award-winning singer Norah Jones.
George Harrison of the Beatles once called Shankar "the godfather of world music".
He played at Woodstock and the 1967 Monterey Pop festival, and also collaborated with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
Shankar also composed a number of film scores - notably Satyajit Ray's celebrated Apu trilogy (1951-55) and Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) - and collaborated with US composer Philip Glass in Passages in 1990.
Talking in later life about his experiences at the influential Monterey Pop festival, Ravi Shankar said he was "shocked to see people dressing so flamboyantly".
He told Rolling Stone magazine that he was horrified when Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire on stage.
"That was too much for me. In our culture, we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God," he said.
In 1999, Shankar was awarded the highest civilian citation in India - the Bharat Ratna, or Jewel of India.
Life in pictures: Ravi Shankar
Tributes pour in
Western musicians praise Shankar
On Wednesday morning, shortly after his death, the Recording Academy of America announced the musician would receive a lifetime achievement award at next year's Grammys.
The Academy's President Neil Portnow said he had been able to inform Shankar of the honour last week.
"He was deeply touched and so pleased," he said, adding, "we have lost an innovative and exceptional talent and a true ambassador of international music".
Born into a Bengali family in the ancient Indian city of Varanasi, Ravi Shankar was originally a dancer with his brother's troupe.
He gave up dancing to study the sitar at the age of 18.
For seven years Shankar studied under Baba Allauddin Khan, founder of the Maihar Gharana style of Hindustani classical music, and became well-known in India for his virtuoso sitar playing.
For the last years of his life, Ravi Shankar lived in Encinitas, California, with his wife.
The right-arm seamer, 20, was joint leading wicket-taker in Division Two of the County Championship, along with Mark Footitt of Derbyshire.
Curran, born in Cape Town, qualifies for England at the end of October.
"It's great news that Tom has been recognised by the ECB for his efforts this season," said Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart.
"The huge potential and skill levels he possesses, I'm sure will see him wearing an England shirt in the near future"
Curran took 76 County Championship wickets at an average of 23.07, and also took 29 in the NatWest T20 Blast and Royal London One-Day Cup competitions.
He will join the EPP squad in Loughborough before flying to Potchefstroom, South Africa, for a 10-day training camp under the guidance of fast-bowling coach Kevin Shine.
The fast bowlers will then join the EPP batting and spin-bowling group in Dubai for more training in sub-continent conditions. | Indian sitar maestro Ravi Shankar has died in a hospital in the US, aged 92.
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Surrey's South Africa-born bowler Tom Curran has been called into the England Performance Programme squad. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | Biggar, 26, has established himself as Wales' first choice fly-half and starts in the Six Nations opener in Ireland at the Aviva Stadium on Sunday.
The Ospreys player is well aware of Wales' fly-half heritage.
"A lot more is expected of you. The pressure is difficult because the focus on 10 in Wales is 10 times more than any other position," he told 5 live.
"It's nice when things are going well and it's a pretty difficult position when you lose or don't quite fire on all cylinders.
"When I was younger I would go in on days off and look at kicking and extra patterns but as I've got a little bit older those days are so important to relax and get away from rugby."
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Biggar follows in a distinguished line of Welsh fly-halves including the likes of Cliff Morgan, Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies and Neil Jenkins.
Biggar made his senior debut as a 19-year-old against Canada in November 2008 but did not cement his place as Wales' first choice fly-half until six years later.
His performances at the 2015 World Cup, in which Wales reached the quarter-finals, enhanced his growing reputation.
During the tournament Biggar's kicking routine became an internet sensation that gathered a cult following during the tournament.
While Biggar's pre-kick routine differs from Jonny Wilkinson's trademark cupped hands, bottom out stance and stare, the Welshman revealed he learned a lot from the former England fly-half, who's late drop-goal helped England beat Australia in the final of the 2003 World Cup.
"He started that obsessive routine of kicking and hours spent on the training field," Biggar added.
"Every boy wanted to be him and every boy wanted to stay out last and come in last.
"There's definitely a side of that in me but I'm also a little more laid back than what Jonny was in terms of being able to switch off a little bit.
"As much as I'm a believer of you have to put the all the work in, you have to take a step back as well."
The threat was made by the Dutch data protection agency (DPA), which said Google had broken local laws governing what it could do with user data.
The search giant has been given until the end of February 2015 to change the way it handles personal data.
Google said it was "disappointed" by the Dutch data watchdog's statement.
"This has been ongoing since 2012, and we hope our patience will no longer be tested," Dutch DPA chairman Jacob Kohnstamm told Reuters.
The row has blown up over the way that Google combines data about what people do online in order to tailor adverts to their preferences.
Information about keywords in search queries, email messages, cookies, location data and video viewing habits are all used by Google to build up a profile on each of its millions of users.
Dutch laws said Google should tell people about this data-gathering activity and get permission from them before it was combined or analysed, said Mr Kohnstamm.
A Google representative said "We're disappointed with the Dutch data protection authority's order, especially as we have already made a number of changes to our privacy policy in response to their concerns.
"However, we've recently shared some proposals for further changes with the European privacy regulators group, and we look forward to discussing with them soon."
The Dutch DPA was one of a group of six European data regulators that looked at Google following changes made in early 2012 to unify its privacy policies around the world. | Wales fly-half Dan Biggar says he is learning to cope with the pressure of wearing the famous number 10 jersey.
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Google has been threatened with a fine of up to 15m euros (£12m) if it does not do a better job of protecting the privacy of Dutch citizens. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The man, believed to be in his 20s, was barely conscious when paramedics arrived at Scotia Road in Burslem and had to be cut out of his car.
He was taken to the Royal Stoke University Hospital after the crash at 19:00 GMT on Saturday.
Both houses are said to be unsafe and Scotia Road is shut between Chatterley Street and Williamson Street.
Sadiq Kahn said budget constraints had left him "no choice". Scotland Yard estimates it will need to make £400m of savings by 2020 under current funding.
Under proposals each of the Met's 32 boroughs will be left with one 24-hour counter. There are currently 73 working counters, down from 136 since 2013.
Conservatives said the mayor was using government funding as a "scapegoat".
London Assembly member Gareth Bacon said: ""The fact is the Met has found three quarters of the savings it requires and no announcement has yet been made about future funding."
Mr Khan set out the new plans in a consultation document on public access and engagement published on Friday.
City Hall says that closing "poorly used" front counters will save £10m each year - equivalent to the cost of 170 police constables.
Since 2010, the Met has had to find £600m of savings.
Some 8% of crimes were reported at police front counters in 2016, down from 22% in 2006, according to official figures. About 70% of crimes are reported by phone.
Under the plans, remaining police buildings will get upgraded IT services while frontline officers will be provided with tablet computers - in an an effort to boost the reporting of crime online.
Mr Khan said: "The huge government cuts to the Metropolitan Police Service have left us with no choice but to take drastic action to protect the frontline of policing.
"My top priority is keeping Londoners safe, and every pound saved by closing a front counter is a pound of savings that we do not have to find by reducing the frontline."
When former mayor Boris Johnson cut police station front counters in 2013, Mr Khan criticised the move, suggesting Londoners could be forced to report crime at police "contact points" in McDonald's restaurants.
The Home Office said Scotland Yard has had a "broadly flat" budget since 2015.
A spokesman said: "There is more money and more officers for each Londoner than anywhere else in the country.
"This government will continue to ensure that the Metropolitan Police have the resources they need to cut crime and keep our communities safe."
The public consultation is open until 6 October.
Councillors in Stirling voted to freeze the basic rate of council tax for another year.
Clackmannanshire councillors approved a 3% council tax rise during a budget meeting that saw the Labour administration resign.
The council tax will rise by 2.5% in Dundee, an increase of £30 a year for a Band D property.
Stirling residents whose homes are in property bands E, F, G or H will still see their bills rise as a result of national changes.
Perth and Kinross councillors voted for a 2% rise on Thursday.
The council tax will rise by 3% in Falkirk, an increase of £32 a year for a Band D property, following another vote on Thursday.
Scotland's 32 local authorities are deciding their council tax rates following a nine-year-long national council tax freeze. | A driver is in hospital with serious chest injuries after crashing into two houses in Stoke-on-Trent.
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Half of London's police station front counters will close under new plans announced by the Mayor of London.
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Councillors in Dundee and Clackmannanshire have approved council tax rises. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | National Grid wants to bury overhead power lines along a five-mile (8km) stretch of the county near the villages of Martinstown and Winterbourne Abbas.
The proposals include removing about 20 pylons, the firm said.
The preferred route of the underground cables was designed to avoid properties and known archaeology, it added.
Removing the overhead lines, constructed between 1965 and 1969, would reduce their visual impact on the AONB, National Grid said.
Previous options to screen or camouflage pylons were dropped following a public consultation as it was deemed they "would not have sufficient impact", the firm added.
People have been invited to have their say on the proposals at Winterbourne Valley CE VA First School in Dorchester on Saturday.
Subject to planning approval, work would start next year and take up to three years to complete - including the removal of the existing line.
Dorset's AONB was designated in 1959 covers just over 40% of the county, from Lyme Regis to Poole Harbour and inland as far as Blandford Forum. | Plans to remove a section of overhead pylons in Dorset's Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) have opened to public consultation. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Last year's budget - which aimed to slash education funding, increase health care costs and strip benefits from young, unemployed Australians - was rejected by the public. A year later, voters remain sceptical of the need to cut government expenditure.
Growth in traditional sources of revenue, such as personal and corporate income tax, has slowed because of a weakening economy.
But far bigger is the hole ripped out of budget finances by a slump in mining royalties.
Last month, Mr Hockey warned he was preparing to write off up to A$25bn ($20bn, £13bn) in budget revenue over the next four years thanks to the slump in the price of iron ore.
The other problem is that the government has promised it would not increase taxes. That leaves it few options if it wants to rein in its ballooning deficit.
That has left the budget looking like a horror story "written by Stephen King and painted by Edvard Munch", says respected Deloitte Access economist Chris Richardson.
There have been a variety of suggestions from experts, including:
The budget's centrepiece will likely be a package that leaves subsidies for wealthy families intact and offers more to poorer families.
The "losers" could be lower income families who don't work, who will be entitled to fewer hours of subsidised childcare, and single-income families who will lose family tax benefits.
Meanwhile, small business will likely benefit from a 1.5% tax cut.
"At the moment, the Treasurer is ruling a lot of things out," says Access Economics' Mr Richardson. "But that creates spending problems down the track. At budget time there are many sacred cows. But over the next decade, many cows may end up slaughtered to raise revenue."
At least Mr Hockey didn't receive the kind of advice his opposite number in the UK did in 2010, when the former Treasury Secretary Liam Byrne left a note for his Conservative successor saying: "I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left."
But it is not clear whether that would satisfy the pro-Russian rebels in the east, who do not recognise Kiev's rule.
The Minsk ceasefire accord reached in February called for adoption of a new constitution by the end of 2015, including decentralisation of power.
Mr Poroshenko raised the issue of a referendum at his first meeting with a new constitutional reform committee.
"I'm ready to launch a referendum on the issue of state governance if you decide it is necessary," he said.
He said opinion polls indicated that nearly 90% of Ukrainians would vote to keep the "unitary state" model, rather than opt for a federal state.
Russia has long argued that Ukraine should become a federation, and the Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have declared their own "people's republics" in Donetsk and Luhansk.
"Decentralisation has nothing to do with federalisation," Mr Poroshenko told the new committee on Monday. "Ukraine was, is and I'm convinced will remain a unitary state."
Work to bring down the former Oceana building on Kingsway started in October 2015 and was due to take six months.
But the shell of the building is still standing as there was more asbestos than first thought.
The council bought the site as part of plans to transform Kingsway into a business district.
The authority is moving from its seafront location as part of a wider regeneration of the city centre which is due to start in 2017.
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The 19-year-old swimmer has already won the 400m freestyle and is favourite in the 800m later this week.
Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom secured silver with Australian Emma McKeon taking bronze.
Ledecky has taken her tally of medals at Rio to three, having won 4x100m freestyle relay silver this week.
Should she defend the 800m title she won as a 15-year-old at London 2012, she will become only the second woman to achieve the freestyle treble since compatriot Debbie Meyer completed the full set in Mexico 1968.
Ledecky, world champion in the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1,500m freestyle, will attempt to complete the sweep when she goes in the 800m heats on Thursday, with the final taking place on Friday.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | As Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey prepares his second budget, the Australian government faces some hard choices.
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says he is willing to hold a referendum leading to a more decentralised state.
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The demolition of a former nightclub which could be replaced by Swansea council's new headquarters, is due to finish by the end of the year.
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American teenager Katie Ledecky remains on course to win an Olympic freestyle treble after claiming gold in the 200m in Rio. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | Planned surgery was put on hold and a "major incident" was declared at Addenbrooke's Hospital on Friday.
Part of the hospital's basement, where sterilisation equipment is kept, was flooded following torrential rain.
A spokesman said the hospital was still in a "critical" condition. Cambridgeshire Fire Service received 54 emergency calls related to flooding between 00:00 and 05:00 BST on Friday.
A spokesman for Cambridge University Hospitals, which runs Addenbrooke's, said: "We have stood down from major incident mode... but the situation remains critical.
"The position of our sterile services department is improving and has allowed us to undertake some prioritised surgery.
"As a result we can now receive major trauma, vascular and surgery patients, which has enabled us to deescalate from 'major incident' status."
The spokesman apologised to people who had operations cancelled and said the hospital expected to be back to normal later in the week. | Operations have started again at a Cambridge hospital hit by flooding. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | The 31-year-old inmate from HMP Shotts was being escorted by G4S security staff when he tried to get away.
A doctor who tried to assist the security staff suffered minor injuries during the incident on Friday.
The Scottish Prison Service said an investigation had begun into what happened.
A spokesman said: "I can confirm there was an incident involving a prisoner from HMP Shotts at Wishaw General Hospital today.
"We will be working with Police Scotland in investigating the full circumstances of the incident."
A G4S spokesman said: "During a routine hospital appointment a prisoner attempted to evade custody but was immediately apprehended by G4S staff.
"The prompt actions of our officers averted a more serious incident and demonstrates the challenging situations our staff can face while carrying out their duties." | A doctor was injured when a prisoner tried to escape during a routine medical appointment at a hospital in North Lanarkshire. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | Aberdeenshire West MSP Alexander Burnett was elected in May.
The SNP said the allegations were a "serious matter", but the Scottish Conservatives said the SNP was "engaged in a nothing more than a politically-motivated fishing expedition".
Police said an election expenses complaint was under consideration.
An SNP spokesperson said: "The fact that these allegations have now been reported to Police Scotland, in line with the advice of the Electoral Commission, underlines the seriousness of this matter for Alexander Burnett and Ruth Davidson.
"As such, it is only right that the police are now given the opportunity to fully investigate any potential breach of election rules."
A spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said: "The SNP tried the Electoral Commission first, was told it had gone to the wrong place, and is now trying the police." | A Scottish Conservative MSP has been reported to Police Scotland over allegations he breached election campaign spending rules. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Consultants estimate the project could cost between £60 and £70m if adopted.
Roads authority Transport NI asked experts to examine creating additional capacity on motorways due to "recurrent traffic congestion at peak times".
Their report suggested the M1 and M2 in and out of Belfast become so-called "smart motorways".
Similar schemes are already in operation in England.
The hard shoulder on each side of the M1 between Stockman's Lane and Blaris would be turned into traffic lanes.
On the M2, the hard shoulder would be converted to carriageway on both sides between York Street and Greencastle.
A summary of the report, seen by the BBC, said the idea was at the concept stage but was considered "value for money".
It highlighted that one drawback could be that it may encourage car use at the expense of public transport.
The Freight Transport Association, which represents haulage firms, said the idea should be "given serious consideration."
John Fry, 49, of Cairnryan, near Stranraer, had admitted five sex crimes - two counts of indecent assault and three of indecency with a child.
He was jailed for eight years at Cardiff Crown Court on 30 January.
But his lawyer argued at the Appeal Court in London the sentence was too tough. Judges cut the sentence to five-and-a-half years.
The court heard that Fry made two young boys - aged 10 and eight - perform sex acts on him when he was a teenager, but had settled down since then and led a "quiet life".
Appeal Court judge Ms Justice Russell said he had no other convictions and for the last 12 years had run a "well-regarded" guesthouse with his partner in Dumfries and Galloway.
But his crimes had had a "profound and long-lasting" impact on the victims, the judge added.
David Elias, for Fry, argued that his overall punishment was far too tough and should be cut.
Ms Justice Russell, sitting with Lord Justice Treacy and Judge Johanna Cutts QC, agreed.
Simon Hamilton said the question was how comprehensive the agreement would be and how many parties will back it.
He was speaking after further talks between the main political parties and the British and Irish governments.
Negotiations have been taking place over welfare reform, paramilitaries and the Troubles legacy.
Mr Hamilton said he did not think at this stage "we're in any doubt that there will be an agreement".
"I am hopeful - we have made progress and we continue to make progress," he said.
"Yes, there are some issues that are still outstanding and we will work away at resolving those, but I am optimistic that we will get an agreement."
Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said it had been "another intensive week of negotiations" and that talks would resume at Stormont on Monday morning.
"Progress has been made but some fundamental issues are still to be resolved," she said.
"We remain hopeful that an agreement can be achieved."
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said he was encouraged by the progress that had been made "across a range of issues".
But he added that agreement still had to be reached in some areas.
"I encourage all the parties to continue their positive engagement," he said.
"With collective commitment and leadership on the part of all involved, a positive outcome can be achieved."
It is understood that one of the sticking points in discussions about the legacy of the Troubles centres on the issue of national security and disclosure of information on the role played by the security forces and intelligence agencies.
Earlier, Sinn Féin chairman Declan Kearney accused the two governments of blocking progress.
He accused the Irish government of playing a "subservient role by aiding and abetting the primacy of these British state interests".
SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell said any deal would have to be one all of the five main parties could agree on.
"This can't be an ambush," he said.
"We're looking for a five-party deal with five parties and two governments signing up to a deal that's sustainable, that we're not back here next May or June."
Inter-party talks began in September to resolve the current political crisis.
The crisis at Stormont was triggered when police said they believed IRA members had been involved in the murder of a former IRA man.
The parties have also been deadlocked over the issue of welfare reform.
They had agreed on a welfare reform deal in December but Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March. | Hard shoulders on parts of motorways should be turned into carriageways to ease traffic congestion, a report on Northern Ireland's roads has said.
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A Stranraer guesthouse operator who abused two young boys when he was a teenager has had his jail term reduced.
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A Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) minister has said he is no doubt there will be a deal to resolve Northern Ireland's political crisis. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Thae Yong-ho, a former deputy envoy to London, defected to the South in August.
Speaking to a South Korean parliamentary committee, he said North Koreans were living in conditions amounting to slavery.
After his defection North Korea called him "human scum".
The North's state media said the envoy had been accused of leaking secrets, embezzlement and child rape.
South Korea announced in August that Mr Thae had arrived with his family. Since then he has been undergoing intensive interrogation from the intelligence services aimed at weeding out spies.
According to politician Lee Cheol-Woo, who met Mr Thae, he had become increasingly aware of the "gruesome realities" of life in North Korea.
"There are many ranking North Korean officials suffering from depression over concerns they will have to live like slaves for a long time if the North's young leader rules the country for decades," Mr Lee quoted him as saying.
Mr Thae is also reported to have said he learned about South Korean democracy through watching South Korean films and dramas.
The Sunday Express has reported that Mr Thae was allegedly ordered by his superiors to try to bribe a UK Ministry of Defence civil servant or naval officer into revealing nuclear secrets - a big factor, the newspaper says, in his decision to defect.
About 1,000 people defect from North Korea each year, fleeing a repressive state that has faced numerous accusations of human rights abuses.
The South says it has seen a surge in defections from people with privileged backgrounds, suggesting cracks in the North's government, Yonhap reports.
The petition relates to money outstanding following delays to a takeover, after an Indian consortium pulled out of purchasing the club.
This is separate to a £10.25m loan from the local council which the Cobblers have until Thursday to repay.
Northampton chairman David Cardoza has said he "fully expects the matter to be resolved by the end of next week".
The news comes after the London-based consortium, who have been known to be interested in the club since June, pulled out of the deal on Monday because of "a number of complications surrounding the proposed acquisition".
Cardoza said that the club have moved on to speak with other interested parties, who know of the HMRC discussions, and there would be "definite news very soon".
The BBC understands Northampton Town owes HMRC a "five-figure sum".
In a statement, a HMRC spokesperson said: "HMRC does not in general comment on the tax affairs of individual businesses, but our aim is to efficiently collect the debts due and to prevent things deteriorating further.
"We only initiate winding-up action where we believe this is the best way to protect both the interests of other taxpayers and creditors."
Meanwhile, the 21-day deadline to repay a loan from Northampton Borough Council is also on Thursday.
The original loan from the council was given to the club for the re-development of Sixfields Stadium, and was to be used to build the new East Stand, along with a hotel and conference centre - none of which have been completed.
One option the club is looking at to repay the council loan is to sell off land behind the East Stand, with at least two developers said to be interested.
"We are putting proposals to Northampton Borough Council regarding the repayment of the loan which we hope will prove satisfactory to them and that process is ongoing as we speak," said Cardoza.
"I fully appreciate that, off the pitch, there only seems to be bad news for supporters at the moment but we are working towards, and we believe we are close to, a conclusion on all matters that tidies up all of the issues surrounding the club and allows it to move forward to a much brighter future."
A Northampton Borough Council spokesman said: "Following this morning's announcement, we are contacting HMRC and are requesting an urgent meeting with them.
"Our priority now is to understand what is happening at the football club and the impact this action will have. When we have the facts on this, we will consult our legal advisors about the appropriate steps regarding our loan to the club." | One of the most high-profile defectors to flee North Korea says he left due to growing disillusionment with life under the country's leader, Kim Jong-un.
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League Two club Northampton Town have been issued with a winding-up petition by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | Jonny Benjamin, 26, was on Waterloo Bridge in January 2008 after being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder when Neil Laybourn intervened.
This month Mr Benjamin started a Twitter campaign using the hashtag #findmike, to trace his Good Samaritan.
Mr Laybourn said that when he saw the tweet he knew it referred to him.
The pair were reunited on Tuesday.
Mr Benjamin had climbed up on to a ledge on the bridge after spending a month in hospital following his diagnosis, but Mr Laybourn talked to him and offered to buy him a coffee.
The 31-year-old from Surrey, said: "It was a very cold day, a very windy day, and Jonny just had a T-shirt on and was sitting over the edge of the bridge and it was glaringly obvious why he was there.
"I walked up around him and just calmly approached him and I said: 'Hi mate, can you tell me why you're sitting on the bridge?' and he told me that he was going to take his life that day.
"We just went from there, I just kept asking him questions and wanted to engage him and that if he wanted to talk I was there," Mr Laybourn added.
Mr Benjamin said he had gone to the bridge after feeling his life had hit "rock bottom".
He told BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast: "All I remember was standing on the edge of the bridge and this guy just coming up to me out of nowhere.
"The pivotal moment for me was when he said 'you can get through this, you can get better' because up until that point no-one had said it would get better."
Mr Laybourn said that he offered to take Jonny for a coffee to talk things through but that never happened.
Mr Benjamin said: "They [police] took me away and I never got a chance to say thank you to Neil which is why I launched this campaign - we never got a chance to go for that coffee and I've just been so grateful to him ever since."
The #findmike Twitter campaign trended in countries including Canada, South Africa and Australia, but it was Mr Laybourn's fiancée who saw the campaign tweet.
He said: "She saw it on her phone a couple of days after it had gone viral, and straightaway she called me up and as soon as I looked at it I saw how big it was, so I just got in touch as soon as I could really.
"It was incredible [meeting Jonny], really nice, very emotional for both of us and really nice to have a conclusion to it and to hear Johnny's side of things that day."
Mr Benjamin said meeting Mr Laybourn had made him feel "elated".
He said: "When I went to the bridge I was so embarrassed about what I was going through, I couldn't tell anyone, but that simple act of telling Neil and having him listen made all the difference."
Mr Benjamin, a video blogger who has presented a BBC Three documentary on mental illness, is also making a documentary film about his search for his Good Samaritan which he hopes will be broadcast in the spring.
Schizoaffective disorder affects about 1 in 200 people and those suffering have very high or very low moods, and might lose touch with reality, the charity Rethink Mental Illness said. | A video blogger who was stopped by a stranger from jumping into the River Thames has been reunited with the man who saved him six years ago. |
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Mohammed Said, who works for the Al Qabas newspaper and as a television pundit, is in no doubt the Al-Hasawi family will bring success to Forest.
"They are a very famous family in Kuwait and very rich," Said said.
"Fawaz Al-Hasawi is very loyal to all the players and I think he will do a lot for Nottingham Forest."
The Al-Hasawi family have been granted a period of exclusivity to complete the takeover and they will now conduct due diligence in conjunction with the estate and senior management within the club.
And Said is convinced Fawaz Al-Hasawi's track record of investing in sport in his homeland should allay any concerns about his intentions for Forest.
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Al-Hasawi had been chairman of Al-Quadisya Sports Club in his native country, but his decision to step down was a precursor to interest in investment within English football.
"This is a very famous and leading club in Kuwait," Said added. "This club specialises in 16 sports and not only football. In football, it was champion of the Kuwaiti league 16 times - 4-5 of them under the control of Mr Fawaz.
"He put a lot of money in this club, helping the players and supporting them and sometimes he supported the national team with money.
"I don't know why it is Nottingham Forest. I think it's an investment deal because Nottingham Forest was a very good football team in the 80s and not now." | The family set to buy Nottingham Forest are very loyal and have a long history of investing in sport, according to a leading Kuwaiti sports journalist. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | She popped into the Radio 1 Breakfast show this morning after being given the title by the record industry.
And she left Newsbeat in no doubt just how popular she REALLY is.
Many fans camped outside the studio for nearly 24 hours, armed with gifts for the super-star singer.
So here's why the Swifties LOVE Taylor so much.
"She stalks us online and she's more of a friend. She understands us on a more personal level than anyone else
She's literally an older sister, she gives better advice. She's more of a friend to me than some of my actual friends.
I got her loads of presents, a personalised coaster saying Morgan loves Taylor, cat pyjamas and all the gift tags have cats on because she loves cats.
She's the best thing that's ever happened to me, I'm not even joking.
I'm going to wee myself when I see her."
"She just connects with her fans on another level. We're not really fans though, we're an extended family
Everyone can relate to every single thing she writes. She talks to us on Tumblr.
We arrived yesterday at midday. We've been camping all night, we haven't really eaten but we don't care because we're going to see Taylor.
She's just an icon."
"She's done so much for fans which other celebrities won't consider doing.
She goes way out of her way to do it and we just love her for it.
We've been waiting for hours to see her. We ordered pizza at midnight, there was a lot of singing and Taylor Swift fangirling, screaming and crying".
We're freezing but it's OK."
"You don't see her as a world wide pop star. You see her more as a close friend.
She is probably the greatest woman out there.
She's the best and worst due to stress she causes but it's definitely worth it in the end.
We went to one of her favourite shops to buy her a journal for her to hopefully write lyrics in and a really cute headband because she's kind of in that phase of headbands."
"Her lyrics are different to anyone else's.
She's the only one who can write lyrics how she does to connect with us.
She really does write how we feel."
"Her lyrics really do make you feel like she's in our brains and she just says it.
No one else really does that and sings their own songs with it."
"She's allowed us to meet so many friends.
We're all friends because of her."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Yes it's official... Taylor Swift has been named the world's most popular artist for 2014. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The Ibrox side slipped to third in the Premiership on Wednesday after losing to Hearts but reclaimed second spot by beating the Dons 2-1.
Kenny Miller and Lee Hodson scored for Warburton's side.
"They responded really well, there was a lot of nonsense written about them and they more than answered those questions," said the manager.
"We thought they would come on and press us having seen the Wednesday game, which they did. We said 'if we have to go long early stages, go long'.
"Second half we stepped on and won second balls and I felt we deserved to win the game.
"The players were more than irked by comments made about them, by comments questioning their battling qualities and their desire. More than irked would be a polite way of putting it."
After Miller and Hodson's second-half strikes, Andrew Considine netted a late consolation for Aberdeen and both sides lost a man with Rangers' Clint Hill and Dons captain Ryan Jack each picking up two bookings.
"There was a lot of things going on on the pitch and many of them were being missed," Warburton said. "The second one, he [Hill] didn't touch him [James Maddison], he said the guy turned and no contact was made. What we can do, we will see, but he is more than frustrated."
Jack's second caution followed a lengthy spell of pushing and Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes did not see what his skipper had been booked for.
The visitors may have gone ahead when Jonny Hayes crossed for Jayden Stockley but the forward headed wide moments before Miller's opener.
"It was a good stand-up from Jonny and Jayden would normally eat that type of service up, but he misses," said McInnes. "It happens but unfortunately for us it was very pivotal.
"From penalty box to penalty box I thought we were the better team.
"We really got after Rangers, we pressed them high, we were competitive, we were winning tackles, we were fully committed.
"We stopped a good team, a team who like to pass and play and move the ball and test your organisation. We really frustrated them.
"But we said to the players at half-time, it was important in the final third to carry more of a threat ourselves. We got in good areas and rushed that last wee bit.
"We had more opportunities to apply pressure with the ball rather than just without the ball, and Rangers scored when we were having our best spell.
"We started the second half really on the front foot, we passed and moved the ball well, got into good areas, still should be doing more with it, but Jayden's is clearly the one we all remember." | Mark Warburton said Rangers had been "more than irked" by criticism they had received before defeating Aberdeen. |
Summarize the provided section. | Coalition strikes were called in to support an advance by ground troops near Fallujah on Friday but failed to note the scale of their advance.
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter called Iraq's PM to express his condolences.
Iraqi forces have been battling militants in Anbar province.
Iraqi Defence Minister Khaled al-Obeidi said: "The coalition air forces were covering the advance of army ground troops near Fallujah because the Iraqi army helicopters were not able to fly due to the bad weather."
Coalition air forces had carried out two strikes, enabling Iraqi soldiers to advance rapidly and engage jihadists in close combat.
"A third coalition strike carried out without taking into account the distance that had been covered resulted in casualties among our forces too," Iraq's joint operations command said in a statement.
Mr Carter told reporters on Saturday that the air strike appeared to be a "mistake that involved both sides", the Associated Press news agency reported.
The US military said it happened "despite co-ordination with Iraqi security forces on the ground".
Mr Carter called Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi following the incident.
A US military statement earlier said: "The coalition offers condolences on the unfortunate loss of life of brave Iraq security forces on the front lines in the fight against Daesh [an alternative name to Islamic State]."
The US military said it was the first reported incident of so-called "friendly fire" during Operation Inherent Resolve, which aims to drive IS militants out of Anbar province. | An air strike by the US-led coalition during an offensive against the so-called Islamic State killed nine Iraqi soldiers, including an officer, Iraq's defence ministry has confirmed. |
Write a summary for this information. | Pujara, 26, part of India's well-beaten side in this summer's Test series against England, was not named in the squad for the forthcoming one-dayers.
He has since returned to India and is not currently due to join up with Derbyshire until early September.
That would leave him free to make his debut against Glamorgan on 9 September.
"Pujara joining us at this stage of the season is a real boost for the lads," said Derbyshire elite performance director Graeme Welch. "We're an ambitious team and have an exciting group of players who are developing fast.
"With Shivnarine Chanderpaul now back in the West Indies preparing for Test match action and Marcus North focusing on our one-day campaign, Pujara will bring an added dimension to the side as we look to finish our Championship season strongly."
Pujara has made 24 Test appearances for India, averaging 49.26, and scored centuries in successive Tests (206 not out at Ahmedabad and 135 at Mumbai) against England in November 2012.
But his form went downhill this summer as, after hitting a half century in the first Test at Trent Bridge, he averaged only 22.00 from 10 innings in the five-match Test series.
However, he impressed against Derbyshire in the tour game prior to the Test series, making 81,
Derbyshire, relegated a year ago, currently lie seventh in Division Two, with promotion hopes extremely slim as they stand 62 points adrift (with a game in hand) of second-placed Hampshire.
They are 35 points ahead of bottom club Leicestershire, who they play in their final game.
The Scottish Veterans Fund helps projects provide services in areas such as employment, housing, and wellbeing.
Veterans Secretary Keith Brown said the Scottish government had pledged £360,000 - its largest contribution yet.
The fund will open for applications this autumn.
The boost includes a three-year £240,000 contribution from Edinburgh-based investment company Standard Life for employment schemes.
Mr Brown said: "For the past eight years, the Scottish government's Scottish Veterans Fund has been a source of help for projects that make a vital difference to people's lives.
"I am delighted to announce our largest contribution yet, with the fund to be supported by £360,000 of Scottish government money over three years.
"This will ensure it continues to help small, one-year projects - while, for the first time, applicants can bid for two or three-year funding for more strategic projects.
"I'm particularly grateful to Standard Life for their commitment, bringing the total available to £600,000 over three years.
"This investment will enable charities and other organisations to provide even more support to veterans leaving the armed forces and settling in Scotland each year."
Since 2008, The Scottish Veterans Fund has invested more than £830,000 and supported 125 projects that provide support to veterans. | Derbyshire have signed India Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara on a short-term deal for their final three County Championship fixtures of the season.
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Organisations in Scotland supporting veterans will be able to apply for a share of £600,000 funding, delivered over the next three years. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | Swansea City fan Terry Coles died after the incident near Rotherham United's former Millmoor ground in May 2000.
An inquest in 2003 concluded the 42-year-old's death was accidental.
His family are now calling for a fresh investigation into his death, with previously undisclosed evidence to be included.
Mr Coles had travelled with other Swansea fans for the final game of the season on 6 May 2000.
But before the match started, trouble broke out between opposing fans in a narrow lane beside the ground.
The inquest at Doncaster Magistrates' Court in 2003 heard Mr Coles, who was four times over the drink-drive limit, had walked into the horse's path.
Mr Coles died after suffering abdominal injuries, leaving behind a wife and two children.
His friend John Gibbs told the BBC's Inside Out sending a police horse down the alleyway was "an accident waiting to happen."
Another eyewitness said he saw the horse being ridden "straight at Terry". Alan Roberts gave a statement to police but was not called to give evidence at the inquest, his statement was read out instead.
The inquest jury also never watched the CCTV.
Mr Coles' widow Christine said: "I actually viewed the tape. And until this day, I definitely say that the horse went directly into [Terry's] path."
An Independent Police Complaints Commission review found the actions of officers Supt Dave Turner, Chf Insp Paul Cropley and PC Dave Lindsay (who was riding the horse) was "a failure of duty".
Supt Dave Turner received a verbal warning, but no action was taken against the other two who had retired and were no longer subject to the police disciplinary code.
The family only discovered this year that Chf Insp Cropley and PC Lindsay were on duty at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.
South Yorkshire Police said: "We are now working with the family's legal team to gain a better understanding of their concerns."
Carolyn Harris MP for Swansea East and Shadow Home Office Minister said: "Whether it is an organisation like South Yorkshire Police for the way they organised the planning for that football match, or whether it is an individual, somebody made a decision that it would be policed in such a way. "
You can see the story on BBC Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at 19:30 on Friday 21 October on BBC One. | Footage showing the moment a man was fatally struck by a police horse should have been shown at his inquest, his family have said. |
Summarize the following piece. | Pte Cheryl James was found dead with a bullet wound to the head in 1995.
The inquest began in February and has heard from more than 100 witnesses. Closing submissions were presented earlier.
The 18-year-old from north Wales, was one of four recruits to die at the base in seven years.
Alison Foster QC, representing Pte James' family, said there was "no reliable foundation" for a finding that the wound was self-inflicted and said they were reconciled to "the possibility of an open conclusion".
Ms Foster told the court that "we cannot know the precise circumstances in which Ms James met her death."
She said there was enough evidence to conclude Pte James was killed by a rifle shot from distance.
It is open to the coroner, Ms Foster added, to find that Pte James was "killed by a non contact gunshot wound to the head by an unknown third party."
The evidence cited to support this was that of Prof Derrick Pounder, who said Pte James must have been shot from distance because there was no soot residue on her face and hand.
John Beggs QC, representing Surrey Police, told the court the "appropriate" conclusion would be suicide based on self-infliction and intention.
He said there were limitations of evidence, particularly of a forensic nature, but these should not prevent the coroner from seeing the "full evidential picture".
Later, he added there was "not one scintilla, not one shred of evidence, to indicate third party involvement at all."
Nicholas Moss, representing the Ministry of Defence, said there was "plainly" sufficient evidence to suggest that Ms James shot herself.
He told the court it was "wholly fanciful" to suggest someone would have had the time or ability to kill Pte James and then stage the scene to make it appear like suicide.
Mr Moss described Prof Pounder as an "unsatisfactory witness" who had displayed "a lack of care and a lack of rigour".
All evidence has now been taken by the coroner in Woking.
The inquest has taken evidence from 109 people including nine expert witnesses.
Coroner Brian Barker QC is expected to give his conclusions on 18 May.
A first inquest into Pte James's death in December 1995 recorded an open verdict. This second inquest in Woking was ordered after High Court judges quashed the original findings.
Who were the Deepcut four? Background to the deaths and timeline of events. | The coroner at the inquest into the death of a soldier found shot at Deepcut barracks in Surrey has retired to consider his verdict. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | 13 October 2015 Last updated at 09:11 BST
The event kicked off on Monday with a spectacular parachute display.
More than 130 athletes are taking part in the week long competition.
The daring divers will be battling it out in activities including men and women dots, style jump, and paragliding. | China's high flyers have taken to the skies for the country's annual Skydiving Championships. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | The 20-year-old was released by the Latics this summer having scored three goals in 25 appearances after joining them from Stockport in 2014.
He spent much of last term out on loan, first at fourth-tier York City and then at National League side Macclesfield.
The former Preston trainee has been training with the Shrimps during pre-season and impressed enough for a deal.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League Two side Morecambe have signed former Oldham striker Rhys Turner on a two-year contract. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Pools had already taken up the option on his previous deal, but have now agreed improved terms with Bates.
The 29-year-old made 35 appearances last season, and only missed three out of 20 games between January and the end of the campaign.
The former Middlesbrough player, who can also operate in midfield, was third in the club's player of the year award.
The former London mayor, 70, has been accused by Labour's Alan Quinn of giving "grotesque offence" in Prestwich, with his Hitler comments.
The area has the UK's second biggest Jewish population and Labour lost seats to the Conservatives and Lib Dems.
Mr Livingstone said it was others in Labour who made an issue of it.
He said party MPs who had accused him of anti-semitism has "cost us seats all over the country."
Labour only held onto the third seat in Prestwich by 19 votes.
Mr Quinn called for suspended Livingstone to be expelled from the party.
"He's caused grotesque offence and the suspension needs to turn into expulsion," he said.
"This party should not be a place for bigots and racists.
"I was at a Holocaust memorial event a few days ago and I saw the raw emotion, anger and hurt that his crass comments have caused.
"Prestwich has a big Jewish population and a growing Muslim population. It is an example of how a community can live together. Livingstone's comments have damaged that. We need him out of the party."
Mr Quinn was angered after Paddy Heneghan, Labour's cabinet member for children, family and culture, lost the Holyrood ward to Lib Dem Steve Wright.
Conservative David Silbiger took Sedgley from Labour's Andrea Simpson - after a recount - by just 60 votes.
The Liberal Democrats lost control of Stockport after their leader was defeated and another defected to Labour an hour before voting ended.
Labour is the largest single party with 23 councillors while the Lib Dems have 21, the Tories 14 and there are five independents.
Stockport's Lib Dem leader Sue Derbyshire lost her seat when she was beaten by Labour's Charles Stewart.
Labour retained Bolton council but lost two seats to UKIP. Elsewhere in Greater Manchester the party retained control of Salford, Oldham, Tameside, Rochdale, Wigan while the Tories held onto their flagship council in Trafford.
Paul Morrison, 51, from Burton Leonard, was punched to the ground outside the Winter Gardens pub, in Harrogate, on 1 November.
He suffered head injuries and remained in hospital until his death on Thursday, North Yorkshire Police said.
A 43-year-old man was also injured during the incident. A 44-year-old Harrogate man has been charged in connection with the attacks.
Mr Morrison was described by his wife, Lisa, and three children, Marie, Leah and Joe, as a "devoted family man".
They said: "Paul was a larger-than-life character, loved by so many people.
"He was a devoted family man, friend and businessman who will leave a hole which can't be filled."
The man charged in relation to the incidents appeared at York Crown Court on 17 November charged with causing grievous bodily harm without intent to Mr Morrison and causing actual bodily harm to the 43-year-old man.
He was bailed to reappear before the court on 24 February.
A force representative said it was now liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service following Mr Morrison's death.
Det Sgt Steve Menzies has appealed for witnesses to come forward.
The pub, run by JD Wetherspoon, is in the Royal Baths complex in Parliament Street. | Hartlepool defender Matthew Bates has signed a new undisclosed-length deal with the League Two club.
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A Labour councillor has blamed Ken Livingstone for the loss of two seats in Bury saying Jewish voters were offended by his comments.
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A man has died nearly three weeks after he was attacked in a pub garden. |
Summarize the passage below. | Deputy Eddie Noel said he would welcome a company such as the US firm Uber, which has disrupted taxi services elsewhere.
Deputy Noel said change was needed in the industry, including better use of technology.
Mick Tostevin, of the taxi drivers' association, said it was unlikely that Uber could compete with rank taxis.
Uber, based in San Francisco, uses a smartphone app to receive requests for taxi journeys and sends these to drivers. Customers can also use it to track the location of their reserved taxi.
Mr Tostevin said: "As far as we are concerned, the rank is the rank, and we are there for immediate hire. I don't think the best app in the world is going to remove that.
"You will still have a large amount of people leaving the clubs on a Saturday night, I can't see them using their phones and these cabs magically appear."
Digital minister, Senator Philip Ozouf, said Uber-style apps allowed an increase in supply of drivers as required.
He said: "The attraction of an Uber-type app is that it does not require government to impose limits on the numbers of drivers.
"Uber-type apps open up new opportunities for people to earn money and attract all sorts of additional drivers..."
He was speaking after he collected an honorary doctorate at the University of Glasgow.
Earlier Mr Cook visited an Apple store in Glasgow, where staff gave him a tartan scarf and a drawing.
His comments on the presidential decree targeting seven predominantly Muslim countries came in a Q&A session at the university.
Responding to questions from students and staff, Mr Cook said: "I wrote this letter, you probably read about it unless you're living underground, about the most recent executive order that was issued in the US.
"We have employees that secured a work visa, they brought family to the US, but happened to be outside the US when the executive order was issued and all of a sudden their families were affected.
"They couldn't get back in. That's a crisis. You can imagine the stress.
"If we stand and say nothing it's as if we're agreeing, that we become a part of it. It's important to speak out."
Mr Cook has taken a strong stance on user privacy and other issues which have at times brought him into conflict with the US authorities.
Since taking the helm of the company, Mr Cook has led the introduction of new products such as the iPhone 7, iPad Pro and Apple Watch.
He is also leading a company-wide effort to use 100% renewable energy at all Apple facilities.
In 2015, the 56-year-old became an honorary patron of Trinity College Dublin's Philosophical Society and gave a talk to students.
The embroidered picture presented by the Apple store staff shows Mr Cook waving and the words: "Welcome Tim."
It also features saltire flags and the Loch Ness monster.
He said: "That's great. I recall looking for the Loch Ness monster in 1984.
"Everything is right but the colour of the hair."
5 November 2014 Last updated at 08:04 GMT
A big reason for this is road safety.
One of Britain's most famous cyclists, Chris Boardman, says the UK should follow the example of other European countries and make cycle routes safer.
Copenhagen in Denmark is one city that has seen an increase in bikes on the road and it's all down to the 'cycle snake'.
Hayley went to find out more. | A global app-based taxi booking service could operate in Jersey under plans by the transport minister.
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook has repeated his opposition to US President Donald Trump's travel ban.
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Only 4 children out of every hundred in the UK ride to school. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | The Queens Walk venue will welcome the Shoot-Out event, organised by World Snooker, in February.
The competition, to be shown by ITV4, will feature 64 leading players in a knockout format.
The Hexagon, described by World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn as a "fabulous venue", previously held the Grand Prix tournament from 1984 to 1993.
The Shoot-Out event is due to run at the council-owned theatre for three years. | The Hexagon Theatre in Reading will host its first major snooker tournament in more than 20 years. |
What is the summary of the following document? | The first incident, in Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of Paris, involved the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who carried out the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday.
The second was at the Hypercasher supermarket, near Porte de Vincennes, in Paris, where gunman Amedy Coulibaly had taken hostages.
"When I arrived at the printers office, my client came out accompanied by an armed person who had introduced himself as a policeman.
"The person who pretended to be a policeman told me: 'Go away as we do not kill civilians', that struck me profoundly, then I decided to call the police.
"I guess it was one of the terrorists. It could have been a policeman if he hadn't told me 'we don't kill civilians'.
"They were heavily armed like elite police. I didn't know it was a hostage situation, or robbery. I just knew something wasn't right."
"I am hidden on the first floor. I think they have killed everyone. Tell the police to intervene."
Michel Catalano, manager of printworks company, held hostage for two hours:
"I remained calm throughout with one thing on my mind - saving Lilian.
"We are ordinary people who survived something extraordinary. Now we have to rebuild our lives."
"We are really scared... we have to wait in the high school."
"In the school there are about 900 persons, and they [told] us to stay in the school. We are really scared."
"My daughter told me: 'Don't be scared mummy, we're well protected'. She was calm but me, I was scared."
"My nephew Johan and the others were terrified that they would be discovered by the terrorists and were forced to huddle together like frightened animals to avoid hypothermia.
"He was shopping for the kosher cakes and meat delicacies which we Jewish people enjoy on the Holy Day when he heard shots being fired above on the ground floor and immediately took cover with other shoppers in the basement.
"Johan was to speak to my brother Haim by phone for only two or three minutes and told him to stay quiet and wait until help arrived. Then we just stood at the barriers for five hours and waited for news.
"It was absolutely terrible - the longest five hours of my life.
"We know these people are monsters and would not hesitate to kill Jewish people.
"They targeted the supermarket because it was run by Jews."
"My daughter, she's in the supermarket. She's with her Jewish boyfriend. They went shopping. She called me 10 minutes ago. She said mum - there's dead people."
"I saw a lot of police. I didn't panic, I thought they were there to protect the shop, and I heard something that sounded like an explosion.
"Actually it turned out to be gunshots - a burst of gunfire. I couldn't tell you if it was a Kalashnikov or another weapon...
"There are about 50 police that I can see but there are probably more. They are in small groups of five and 10. All the roads are blocked - there is no one in the streets any more.
"There is a big Jewish community in the area - this area is actually in the middle of three Jewish communities.
"Do I feel threatened? Yes. For the Jewish community, once again we are being attacked."
Police closed many shops, including his own, "because they are afraid that there may be another terrorist on the street". | Witnesses have been describing the dramatic events in France, where two sieges came to a violent end. |
Summarize the information given below. | Both goals came late on to condemn the visitors to a fourth league defeat of the season.
Saraiva struck from 25 yards out to open the scoring.
Kandi came off the bench to profit from a rebound of Gozie Ugwu's shot and seal the win.
Match ends, Woking 2, Wrexham 0.
Second Half ends, Woking 2, Wrexham 0.
Goal! Woking 2, Wrexham 0. Luke Chike Kandi (Woking).
Substitution, Wrexham. Bradley Reid replaces John Rooney.
Substitution, Wrexham. Rob Evans replaces Tyler Harvey.
Goal! Woking 1, Wrexham 0. Fabio Saraiva (Woking).
Substitution, Woking. Luke Chike Kandi replaces Delano Sam-Yorke.
Joey Jones (Woking) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Wrexham. Gerry McDonagh replaces Shaun Harrad.
Keiran Murtagh (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Tyler Harvey (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dennon Lewis (Woking) is shown the yellow card.
Second Half begins Woking 0, Wrexham 0.
First Half ends, Woking 0, Wrexham 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Durham County Council has designated six areas in Teesdale along traditional routes to Cumbria.
The sites, which will include toilets, refuse collections and, in some cases, water supplies for animals, will be open between 26 May and 23 June.
The council said it hoped they would reduce unauthorised encampments.
The fair will be staged from 8-14 June.
A royal aide asked the government if the Queen was eligible for part of a £60m energy-saving fund in 2004, the Independent newspaper said.
The aide was told grants were aimed at families on low incomes and a handout could result in "adverse publicity".
A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman has declined to comment.
According to documents which were obtained by the Independent under the Freedom of Information Act, the Queen's deputy treasurer wrote to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, saying the cost of the Queen's gas and electricity bills - which had doubled in 2004 - stood at £1m a year and had become "untenable".
The Royal Household also complained that the £15m government grant to maintain the Queen's palaces was inadequate.
It said the grant request was to replace four combined heat and power units at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.
In an apologetic e-mail to the Palace, the government said the handouts were aimed at schools, hospitals, councils and housing associations - for heating programmes to benefit families on low incomes.
The official also expressed concern that if Buckingham Palace were given money from the fund it would lead to "probable adverse press coverage".
The e-mail, which was written in August 2004, said: "I think this is where the Community Energy Funding is directed and ties in with most allocations going to community heating schemes run by local authorities, housing associations, universities etc.
"I also feel a bit uneasy about the probable adverse press coverage if the Palace were given a grant at the expense of say a hospital. Sorry this doesn't sound more positive." | Fabio Saraiva and Luke Kandi secured Woking's second successive National League win amid their battle to clime out of the National League relegation zone.
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Write a summary for the following excerpt. | The Baku City Circuit became the latest to play host to an F1 race when it made its debut last year and the sport is back in the city once again this weekend for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
It would be both foolish and time consuming to ask you to recognise all 71 tracks F1 has raced at so instead here's a selection of 10 from the past and present. Can you guess them all correctly?
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Premier League
Manchester City 5-0 Crystal Palace
Bournemouth 2-2 Stoke City
Burnley 2-2 West Bromwich Albion
Hull City 0-2 Sunderland
Leicester City 3-0 Watford
Swansea 1-0 Everton
Scottish Premiership
Inverness Caledonian Thistle 2-1 Hamilton
Celtic 4-1 St Johnstone
Kilmarnock 0-1 Dundee
Motherwell 0-1 Ross County
Premier League
Liverpool 0-0 Southampton
Arsenal v Manchester United (16:00)
Scottish Premiership
Partick Thistle 1-2 Rangers
Hearts v Aberdeen
Championship
Aston Villa 1-1 Brighton
Brentford 1-3 Blackburn Rovers
Bristol City 0-1 Birmingham City
Burton Albion 2-4 Reading
Huddersfield Town 0-3 Cardiff City
Newcastle United 3-0 Barnsley
Norwich City 4-0 Queens Park Rangers
Nottingham Forest 3-0 Ipswich Town
Rotherham United 1-1 Derby County
Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Fulham
Wigan Athletic 1-1 Leeds United
Wolves 1-0 Preston North End
Official figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government showed 97 people sleeping rough in the city in 2015 - up from 41 in 2014.
An extra 20 beds have also been made available for rough sleepers through the charity St Mungo's Broadway.
The council said it hoped to open one of the buildings from January.
Mayor of Bristol George Ferguson described the "significant increase in homelessness and rough sleepers" as a "growing challenge" and said: "We need to do everything we can to address the problem."
He set up a rough sleeping task group to work with police, charities and other partners to identify buildings which can be used as night shelters while secure longer term accommodation is found.
Adam Rees, regional director for St Mungo's Broadway and chair of the task group, said: "We are committed to bring people off the streets as quickly as possible and sort out safe, secure, sustainable accommodation and support."
A petition calling on Bristol City Council to follow the lead of Manchester City Council and open up empty council buildings as overnight shelters for the city's rough sleepers has been created by Bristol student Elisha Hindley-Cupper.
More than 12,600 people have signed it in a month.
The trade gap narrowed to $45.61bn (£29.1bn), from a revised $45.63bn in July, the Commerce Department said.
However, the politically-sensitive trade gap with China widened to a record high.
US imports and exports both slowed in the month as the weakening in the global economy took hold.
For August, exports slipped by $95m to $177.6bn, as sales of expensive industrial items like cars, aircraft engines and oil field equipment all declined.
Imports fell by $111m to $223.2bn.
China gap
With China, which the US has accused of keeping its currency artificially low, imports into the US reached a record $37.4bn.
Between January and July, the US trade deficit with China was running 10% higher than the same point last year - when the trade gap between the two ballooned.
On Tuesday, the US Senate passed a bill that would mandate the imposition of tariffs on some Chinese goods if the US Treasury determines that China is manipulating its currency.
Earlier this week, Congress also approved three free trade agreements - with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. | Formula 1 has been to A LOT of circuits - 71 to be precise.
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What is a brief summary of the information below? | Some opened early to allow those with the condition to shop in an environment with lower lighting and no in-store music.
Stores offered personal shopping sessions and some offered sensory rooms.
The organisers, autism charity Sparkle Sheffield, said it was understood to be the first such event in the UK.
Major chains such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer, Debenhams, Primark and Starbucks joined the initiative from 07:30 BST to 10:00 as part of World Autism Awareness Week.
Myra, who has a son with autism, said that shopping with her boy can be a "belittling" experience.
She said: "The judgmental stares... assuming that a child is naughty.
"It's about a child having sensory overload. The mum's already in panic mode trying to get that child to calm down."
The 27-year-old midfielder was one of
Palace announced that Ledley had signed "for an undisclosed fee, subject to final confirmation from the Premier League."
He penned a three-and-a-half year deal at Selhurst Park.
Ledley had been offered a new deal at Celtic Park, with his current contract running out this summer.
Tony Pulis tried to sign me at Stoke and it didn't happen and I am delighted to be working with him now as he's a fantastic manager
And Celtic preferred to sell now rather than allow him to leave for nothing and accepted a bid from the London club.
Ledley had trained with Celtic in the morning before heading to the south of England.
He said: "It's been a whirlwind day and I am just looking forward to a new challenge.
"It's been a fantastic few years at Celtic, but I spoke to manager Neil Lennon and made my decision to come down."
Palace also secured the signatures of Blackpool winger Tom Ince, Blackburn Rovers defender Scott Dann, Southampton midfielder Jason Puncheon and Wolves goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.
Scottish striker Stephen Dobbie was allowed to return to Blackpool on loan in exchange for Ince.
Ledley was looking forward to working under Palace manager Tony Pulis.
"He tried to sign me at Stoke and it didn't happen and I am delighted to be working with him now as he's a fantastic manager," said the Welshman.
Ledley moved to Glasgow under freedom of contract in 2010, following six years at hometown club Cardiff City.
He helped Celtic win three league titles and last year's Scottish Cup.
The Wales international was on target in Wednesday's 4-0 win over Kilmarnock, taking his tally for the season to five goals.
His former club said in a website statement: "Everyone at Celtic would like to thank Joe for his fantastic contribution to the club over the past three-and-a-half years and we wish him every success in the future." | Fifteen stores in Sheffield city centre have provided special shopping sessions for people with autism.
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Can you provide an overview of this section? | The lead was taken from a container outside the house sometime between 14:00 on Tuesday and 08:00 on Wednesday, along with some power tools.
Police said a sizeable vehicle would have been needed to remove the "huge" quantity of lead from the site.
A white Ford Transit van was seen near the scene at 17:00 on Tuesday, driven by a man aged between 30 and 40.
Officers have appealed for anyone with information to come forward. | Police are investigating after almost two tonnes of lead was stolen from a house under renovation in Balquhidder. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | The German was only 0.041 seconds quicker than Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was third with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes behind him.
We have hopefully closed that gap a little bit
Vettel's session was interrupted when his car shut down out on the track as he was began his race-simulation run.
But after managing to crawl back to the pits, Ferrari fixed the car and he was able to complete his work.
The four-time world champion said: "It was not the best day for us, we still need to improve the car. The car feels good. On one lap it was OK. Long run we might be quite a bit behind, but I am sure we can improve for tomorrow."
It was the second technical problem for Ferrari, after Raikkonen broke down with a turbo overheating problem in the first session. The Finn needed a new internal combustion engine to be fitted as well ahead of the second session.
Hamilton's true pace was not seen - he had a messy session and set his lap when his tyres were older than his rivals'.
Hamilton aborted his first lap, was blocked by Renault's Nico Hulkenberg on the next and finally nailed a time on his third attempt, when the edge would have gone from the rubber.
He and Vettel are tied on points at the top of the championship after a win and a second place apiece in the first two races of the season in Australia and China.
The pattern of the season so far in qualifying has been Hamilton on pole by a small margin, with Vettel and Bottas second and third separated by thousandths of a second.
Conditions are very different in Bahrain compared to Melbourne and Shanghai and Hamilton is concerned that Ferrari will be faster in the desert as a result of what he expects to be their lighter demands on the tyres.
On the race-simulation runs, Hamilton appeared to have a small advantage over the other drivers on the super-soft tyres and the soft tyres - other than two very quick laps by Raikkonen on the softs right at the end of the session.
But Hamilton said he had been told Ferrari were quicker than Mercedes in race pace.
"I didn't get to finish my lap. I would hope I would be in amongst [the top three if I had]," he said.
"Ferrari's race pace is a couple of tenths faster than ours. We have to work out how we are going to close that gap.
"The car did not feel spectacular on the long run. There are some things we have to work on just with the tyres. But it could all be different on Sunday."
The stage seems set for a very close race between Mercedes and Ferrari, with Red Bull much closer on raw pace in the dry than they have been so far this season.
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner told BBC Sport the team had made some changes to the car and it had been "a positive day", especially for Ricciardo.
"We have hopefully closed that gap a little bit. Hopefully we can build on that through the weekend," he added.
Behind the big three, Hulkenberg was an impressive sixth fastest for Renault, ahead of Felipe Massa's Williams.
Hulkenberg's team-mate, Englishman Jolyon Palmer, was a second off the German in 13th place, just ahead of the McLaren of Fernando Alonso.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen was only eighth fastest but on his qualifying simulation his floor was damaged by a small wing that had come off Bottas' Mercedes. The Dutchman looked relatively competitive on his race runs.
It is thought the three-storey building at Bishop's Gate, Thorntonhall, was so badly damaged it may have to be demolished.
Scottish Fire and Rescue said the fire on Friday evening was originally tackled by eight firefighters inside the building.
However, they were withdrawn over fears the building might collapse.
Efforts to fight the fire continued externally using a specialist appliance.
The blaze was extinguished, but the roof of the building has gone and the third storey is completely destroyed.
Residents of Bishop's Gate were given teas and coffees at the nearby Thorntonhall Tennis Club.
A spokesman for South Lanarkshire Council praised the "community spirit" and said all of the residents had been given alternative accommodation by relatives. | Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was fastest in second practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix with the Mercedes and Red Bull teams close behind.
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About 20 residents had to be evacuated from a block of flats after a major fire in a South Lanarkshire village. |
What is the summary of the following document? | Passengers will be able to take the so-called "Night Tube" on Fridays and Saturdays.
Transport for London (TfL) said the service would cut journey times by an average of 20 minutes.
The RMT union said the plans had "not been properly thought through and are a disaster waiting to happen".
There will be six trains per hour through central London on the Jubilee, Victoria and most of the Piccadilly, Central and Northern lines, TfL said.
On the Northern Line, there will be eight trains per hour to meet demand at busy stations between Leicester Square and Camden Town, it added.
The service will be launched in time for England staging the Rugby World Cup, which will be hosted in 13 venues around the country, including three in London - Twickenham Stadium, Olympic Stadium and Wembley Stadium.
Today we learnt the start date and not much more that wasn't already known about the 24-hour weekend tube.
There's no doubt it's a popular policy with Londoners.
But what is surprising is the unions have been left out of the loop - they found out the date via the media.
It's probably indicative of the poor state of industrial relations.
The 24-hour plan was initially linked to another project to cut 950 jobs and close all ticket offices.
That dispute is still rumbling on. RMT Union members are now taking industrial action - short of a strike - by not doing overtime.
What's also of note is that the current pay deal for staff comes to end in April.
This 24-hour Tube plan will no doubt affect those negotiations.
With this date now set, the pay deal could be another flashpoint in a period of relatively rapid change on the Tube.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "London is a bustling, 24-hour global city and by this time next year we'll have a 24-hour Tube service to match.
"As well as creating vital new jobs and giving a huge boost to our economy, the Night Tube will help millions of people to get around our city more easily and quickly."
Mike Brown, managing director of London Underground, said: "The new service will boost jobs and will benefit the economy by hundreds of millions of pounds."
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said: "This proposal is now being bulldozed through without any proper risk assessment or agreement on core issues.
"To make this plan work we need more tube staff not less if we are not going to be risking disaster at three o'clock in the morning when the West End is flooded with thousands of people fresh out of the pubs and clubs.
"As it stands at the moment the night tube plans are not properly thought through and are a disaster waiting to happen."
Gynaecologist Dr Anthony Madu, 46, secretly carried out locum work at hospitals while firstly suspended and later on paid sick leave from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.
He was found guilty of six counts of fraud in 2014 but was spared jail on condition he paid back the money.
But Swansea magistrates heard he had not done so.
Nigerian-born Madu, of Woolwich, London, continued to work for other health boards while on paid leave, including in Manchester, Yorkshire, and the Midlands.
The cost to the four hospitals he defrauded was said to be £240,000 and his 2014 trial at Newport Crown Court heard he had transferred £95,000 to a Nigerian bank account.
Speaking at the time, prosecutor Christian Jowett said Madu, a specialist registrar, had not told his employers about his additional work, or his two locum agencies about being on sick leave, which he was legally obliged to do.
"He continued to work and receive payment from both Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and his work in England," he added.
Madu was suspended and put on extended leave by the health board in 2009 over allegations about his conduct towards other staff and claims he had falsified his training record.
From January 2010, he submitted sick notes on three different occasions, saying he could not work because of stress.
But the doctor, who earned close to £100,000 a year, went on to do locum work worth about £69,000 with three NHS trusts in England while still earning more than £29,000 from his employers in Wales.
In June 2016 Madu was ordered to pay £73,000 back to the NHS within six months, an order which he appealed.
After he failed to repay it he was jailed for two years. | The Tube is to run a 24-hour service at weekends from 12 September 2015, it has been announced.
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Can you summarize the following content in brief? | Keeper-batsman Matthew Wade takes over as skipper, with uncapped Queensland batsman Sam Heazlett joining the squad.
Smith, 27, was injured while fielding in Australia's ODI win over Pakistan in the last match of their 4-1 series win.
Cricket Australia says Smith will have "scans to confirm the diagnosis" and is likely to "take 7-10 days to recover".
Australia play the Black Caps on 30 January as well as on 3 and 5 February.
"It's a bit of a shock," said Smith. "I just landed really awkwardly on my foot and I felt something straight away.
"I was a little bit concerned, I've never really injured my ankle like that." | Australia captain Steve Smith will miss his side's three-match one-day series in New Zealand because of a suspected medial ligament ankle injury. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Poppy Widdison collapsed at her home in Grimsby and later died in hospital from a cardiac arrest in June 2013.
Her mother Michala Pyke, 37, of Ladysmith Road, and her former partner John Rytting, 40, of Frederick Street denied giving her drugs in the months before her death.
The pair will be sentenced in January.
More on this and other North East Lincolnshire stories
The jury at Hull Crown Court heard Pyke and Rytting encouraged the young girl to eat sedatives because they felt she was an inconvenience to their relationship.
Text messages between the pair talked about Poppy having a "blue Smartie", believed to be a reference to the sedative diazepam, and going to sleep, the court heard.
David Gordon, prosecuting, told the jury: "We say Pyke and Rytting are just wanting to get on with their love life, wanting to enjoy each other's company and it may be this young girl was something of an encumbrance."
A post-mortem examination could not establish a cause of death but toxicology tests carried out on her blood and hair found various drugs and showed the young girl had been exposed to and had ingested significant amounts of heroin and methadone for a period of between two and six months before her death, the court heard.
The drugs did not contribute to Poppy's death but experts agreed there was a "long period of ill-treatment and neglect by the grossly inappropriate administration of various drugs to the child by the defendants", the jury heard.
Speaking after the verdicts, Det Supt Umberto Cuozzo, said: "Poppy was betrayed by the very people who were entrusted to keep her safe from harm.
"They put their relationship, lifestyle and drugs before her and I hope they now come forward and tell the truth about the events that led to Poppy's death in June 2013."
In a pilot project, South East Coast Ambulance delayed sending help for certain 111 calls and transferred them to the 999 system, thus gaining an additional 10 minutes to respond.
Health regulator Monitor said it had not fully considered patient safety.
The trust has defended the project but acknowledged the "serious findings".
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (Seacamb) covers Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Brighton and North East Hampshire.
As part of the pilot from December 2014 to February, the trust transferred some calls between systems to re-assess what type of advice or treatment patients needed and whether an ambulance was really required.
How call handling was changed
Secamb provides NHS 111 services across the region and responds to 999 calls.
Some NHS 111 calls were transferred to the 999 system to give Secamb more time for more urgent calls.
The calls affected were in the second most serious category - Category A Red 2 - which covers conditions like strokes or fits but which are less critical than where people are non responsive.
Under NHS rules, calls designated as life-threatening are supposed to receive an ambulance response within eight minutes.
The trust allowed itself an extra 10 minutes to deal with some calls by "re-triaging" patients in the 999 system.
Monitor said the project was "poorly handled" and there were "reasonable grounds to suspect that the trust is in breach of its licence."
It has added a condition to Secamb's licence, so that if insufficient progress is made the leadership team could be changed.
Paul Streat, regional director at Monitor, said: "It is understandable that trusts want to explore better ways of delivering the best possible care but this was poorly-managed and done without the proper authorisation and without enough thought given to how it might affect patients."
The trust said it had faced "unprecedented call volumes" and "serious hospital handover delays" last winter.
Chief Executive Paul Sutton said it had wanted to make sure the most ill patients were responded to promptly, but acknowledged that it had not acted in the right way.
"These are serious findings," he said. "We have already begun to take steps to address Monitor's concerns and as part of this process, independent reviews will assess how decisions are made within the trust, governance processes and our approach to patient safety." | A mother and her ex-partner have been found guilty of child cruelty after feeding drugs to her four-year-old daughter.
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