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Summarize the provided section. | Yn ôl Anni Llŷn, sydd yn ysgrifennu ar gyfer plant ei hun, mae yna ddigon o lyfrau yn cael eu cyhoeddi yn yr iaith ond does dim digon o sylw yn cael ei roi iddyn nhw o'i gymharu â'r llyfrau gan awduron enwog sydd yn ysgrifennu yn Saesneg.
"Dw i'n ymwybodol bod hi yn anodd dwyn perswâd pan mae gen ti rywbeth hawdd i'w hyrwyddo.
"Mae addasiadau Cymraeg o bethau sydd mor boblogaidd â Roald Dahl a David Walliams, mae gennon nhw'r peiriant marchnata yma ar ben eu hunain. Mae'r gwaith wedi cael ei wneud wrth hyrwyddo'r rheina.
"Fyswn i yn licio mwy o fuddsoddiad mewn i hyrwyddo a marchnata llyfrau plant, ym myd plant, yn yr ysgolion.
"Dw i'n gwybod mae 'na bethau da yn cael eu gwneud. Mae 'na awduron a gweisg yn gweithio yn galed yn y maes. Ond mae o yn rhywbeth mae'n rhaid i ni weithio arno fo yn y blynyddoedd nesaf cyn i bethau fynd yn waeth," meddai.
Mae Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru yn dweud ei bod yn cytuno fod angen gwneud mwy i hyrwyddo llyfrau plant a bod angen i'r Cyngor, "mewn partneriaeth gydag awduron, cyhoeddwyr ac asiantaethau eraill i rannu'r cyfrifoldeb o hyrwyddo a marchnata".
Ond maent yn dweud bod ganddynt gynlluniau i hyrwyddo darllen ar hyn o bryd fel Gwobrau Tir na n-Og, cystadlaethau Darllen dros Gymru a Bookslam, Diwrnod y Llyfr ac ymgyrch LlyfrDaFabBooks.
Fel rhan o'r gwaith mae Anni Llŷn wedi bod yn teithio Cymru yn cynnal gweithdai mewn ysgolion ac wedi cael croeso ymhob ysgol meddai.
Er bod y disgyblion yn darllen llyfrau Cymraeg mae nifer yn llyfrau sydd wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Saesneg. Dydyn nhw ddim felly yn cael y profiad o ddysgu am gymeriadau newydd a dod i wybod sut mae'r stori yn datblygu meddai.
"Maen nhw'n gwybod be 'di'r stori. Maen nhw wedi gweld y ffilm ac yn gwybod be di'r fersiwn Saesneg. Dw i yn gweld hynny yn bechod mawr o ran ysbrydoli plant."
Cyfnod Bardd Plant Cymru 2015-2017
Ffynhonnell: Llenyddiaeth Cymru
Ar faes eisteddfod yr Urdd fe fydd Anni Llŷn yn trosglwyddo'r awenau i'r bardd plant newydd ac mae'n grediniol bod yna bwrpas i'r rôl.
Mae'n teimlo nad dim ond ysbrydoli ac annog plant i fod yn greadigol yw'r nod ond codi eu hyder nhw a'r athrawon a rhoi cefnogaeth iddynt.
"Mae hynny wedi bod yn bleser i fi, clywed athrawon yn dweud, 'O gwych, nawn ni ddefnyddio'r technegau yna eto', neu, 'Dw i wedi dysgu llawer' neu, 'O does gennai ddim hyder ond dw i'n siŵr allai wneud rhywbeth efo hyn'.
Mae hynny wedi codi fy nghalon i."
Wedi dwy flynedd o ymweld ag ysgolion mae'r ferch o Ben Llŷn yn hyderus am ddyfodol y Gymraeg.
Ond mae'n dweud bod yna amrywiaeth yn yr iaith sydd yn cael ei siarad heddiw.
"Mae Cymraeg rhywun o aelwyd Gymraeg ac sydd mewn ardal Gymraeg yn wahanol i Gymraeg rhywun sydd yn dod o aelwyd di-gymraeg mewn cymdeithas ddi-gymraeg sydd jest yn cael addysg Gymraeg.
"Wrth gwrs mae'r ddwy iaith hynny yn wahanol ond mae'n rhaid i ni gydnabod bod y ddwy yn bodoli ac mae'n rhaid i ni gydnabod yr amrywiaeth hynny dw i'n meddwl."
Er hynny mae'n dweud bod "dim yn bod anelu i gael iaith gywir hefyd" ac y byddai hi yn cywirio iaith y plant pan oedd hi yn yr ysgolion.
Y newid y byddai hi yn hoffi ei weld i'r rôl yn y dyfodol yw bod yna waddol yn cael ei adael ar ôl yn yr ysgol ac mae'n awgrymu creu ap Bardd Plant Cymru.
"Mae'r plant yn gallu troi at y brand yna mewn ffordd, cael eu hatgoffa o beth wnaethon nhw yn y gweithdy, a chario ymlaen efo'r gwaith trwy ddefnyddio ap, neu 'dw i ddim yn gwybod be yn union fysa fo, ond mae 'na le i ddatblygu presenoldeb brand bardd plant yn yr ysgol." | Mae Bardd Plant Cymru yn dweud bod angen mwy o farchnata ar lyfrau plant gan awduron Cymraeg. |
Summarize the following piece. | Siobhan McLaughlin, from County Antrim, lived with her partner for 23 years and they had four children together, but the couple were never husband and wife.
After he died in 2014, she challenged the rule that parents must have married to get the widowed parent's allowance.
She won her original case but it has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.
Senior judges did not accept the argument that Ms McLaughlin had been discriminated against on the grounds of her marital status.
Lord Justice Weatherup said: "The relationship of an unmarried co-habitee is not analogous with that of a spouse or civil partner in the context of a widowed parent's allowance."
Ms McLaughlin is now the sole provider for the couple's four children, but she was refused the benefit because she was neither married nor in a civil partnership at the time of her partner's death in January 2014.
She brought a test case against Stormont's former Department for Social Development (DSD) which oversaw the distribution of social welfare payments.
Earlier this year, the original High Court ruling was hailed as a landmark verdict which could have set a precedent for bereaved co-habiting parents across the UK.
If the verdict had stood, it could have paved the way for other unmarried parents to receive extra payments after their partners' deaths, a change which would have cost the government an extra £21m per year.
Ms McLaughlin's barristers argued that she was being unlawfully discriminated against due to her marital situation.
They also contended that it breached her private and family life entitlements under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In February a High Court judge ruled that the benefit should be applied equally to people in Ms McLaughlin's position as to married widows with children, as its purpose was to diminish the financial hardship on families following the death of a parent.
In his judgment, the restriction amounted to a human rights violation by unjustifiably discriminating against Ms McLaughlin on the grounds of her marital status
At the Court of Appeal hearing, lawyers for the DSD argued that the judge had wrongly decided the relationship of an unwed co-habitee was comparable to those married or in a civil partnership in considering the allowance.
The court heard how extending the benefit to surviving, unmarried parents - with an estimated cost of £21.6m per year - was rejected by the British government back in June.
The three senior judges ruled that the government had adopted a position on marital status and bereavement benefits that had been endorsed and reaffirmed by the courts and Parliament.
"In the present context it is for this court to determine if the government's assessment is manifestly without reasonable foundation," Lord Justice Weatherup said.
"We are unable to reach that conclusion."
He added: "The different treatment of co-habitees in that context is justified." | A "groundbreaking" ruling which gave an unmarried mother entitlement to a widowed parent's allowance after her partner's death has been overturned. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Tequiilah Burke sustained fatal injuries during a row between her mother Victoria and her partner Paul Nicholson in December 2013.
Newcastle Children's Safeguarding Board said social services staff were "stretched" at the time of her death.
The council's children's services boss said it accepted the findings.
A serious case review said agencies should have made more of reports of past violence within the family.
Reports of violence and neglect within the family in the months leading up to Tequiilah's birth should have alerted agencies to potential dangers, it said.
The report made 11 recommendations, including the need for increased vigilance on the part of social workers involved in child neglect cases.
But, it concluded, even if practices had been different, the outcome "may well have been the same".
Director of Children's Services Ewen Weir said: "The death of Tequiilah Burke at the hands of those responsible for her care was a tragedy. The two individuals responsible for her death are now rightly serving long sentences behind bars.
"All the agencies involved did all they could to keep her safe within the resources available to them.
"But there were a number of procedural issues which, taken together, could be seen as 'missed opportunities' to identify the risks facing Tequiilah, and to act on them. This is a matter of huge regret to everyone involved in this case.
"We accept all the findings in the report. The important thing to do now is to make sure that we act on them to make sure that we reduce the risks of such tragedies happening again in the future."
Burke and Nicholson were jailed for causing or allowing the death of a child.
A trial at Newcastle Crown Court heard the couple had argued in the early hours of 14 December, after Burke, 24 came home late from work in a nightclub, and Nicholson, 20, believed she was associating with other men.
At some point Tequiilah was injured by one or both of them. She was taken to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary where she died. | Opportunities were missed to identify possible risks to a 16-month-old baby who died at the hands of her parents, a report has concluded. |
Summarize the provided section. | HDP chairman Selahattin Demirtas said Turkey's operation against Islamic State militants across the border was a cover to target PKK Kurdish rebels.
He urged both Turkey and the PKK to return to the peace process.
Ankara earlier said PKK attacks on Turkey made peace attempts impossible.
There has been a recent series of clashes between Turkish forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party).
Turkey has also been hit by attacks by IS-linked militants - including one that left 32 dead in the border town of Suruc last week.
Turkey considers both the PKK and IS terrorist organisations.
Turkish planes struck PKK sites in northern Iraq overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, in what Reuters said was the heaviest such assault since last Friday.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
Separately, the US has confirmed it was holding talks with Ankara about their joint military campaign against the IS in Syria.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said "more coalition effort and energy" would now be focused on the border area.
But he rejected suggestions that the US had sanctioned Turkey's air strike on Kurdish forces in northern Iraq.
Over the past week, analysts say, Turkey has turned its approach to the US-led coalition against IS on its head.
Previously a reluctant partner, it is now flying combat missions and making its airbases available to US jets.
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Turkey and the US have been working together to create the "safe zone" in northern Syria that would be cleared of IS militants.
The area - about 90km (55 miles) long - would ostensibly be used to train moderate opposition forces, the BBC's Mark Lowen in Turkey reports.
Ankara hopes, our correspondent adds, that this will also allow some Syrian refugees in Turkey to return to the secure zone.
But Mr Demirtas, who leads the HDP (People's Democratic Party), told the BBC that Turkey's real intention was to make an incursion into Kurdish areas in Syria so as to stop Syrian Kurds from controlling contiguous territory.
"Turkey doesn't intend to target IS with this safe zone. The Turkish government was seriously disturbed by Kurds trying to create an autonomous state in Syria," Mr Demirtas said.
He added that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan"would never let this happen and that we would intervene whatever the cost".
"So, the safe zone is intended to stop the Kurds, not IS. In fact, Turkey should work with Kurdish forces to create this area. They should collaborate," Mr Demirtas said.
Earlier, President Erdogan told reporters it was "not possible to continue the peace process with those who threaten our national unity and brotherhood".
He has now travelled to China with about 100 business leaders and investors for a state visit expected to focus on their growing economic ties.
The BBC's Beijing correspondent says Turkey's current border crisis may also give renewed impetus to its plans to buy a Chinese long-range missile system.
Tuesday also saw Nato discuss the Turkish campaigns against IS and Kurdish militants. All 28 Nato member countries met in Brussels to discuss what it called "the threats against Turkey", a key member of the alliance.
In a final communique, Nato expressed "strong solidarity" with Turkey, and sent condolences to Ankara and "the families of the victims in Suruc and other attacks against police and military officers".
However, Nato officials quoted by news agencies said alliance members used the closed-door meeting to urge Turkey not to use excessive force, and to continue peace talks with representatives of its Kurdish minority.
Andrew Iacovou, 55, was found dead at a branch of Ladbrokes in Aberconway Road, Morden, where he worked, at 10:30 BST on Saturday 25 May.
A post-mortem examination showed he died from blunt trauma to the head.
Shafique Ahmad Aarij has been charged with murder and will appear before Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court on Saturday. | A "safe zone" Turkey and the US are creating in Syria is an attempt by Ankara to stop Kurds from forming their own territory, the leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish party has told the BBC.
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A 21-year-old man has been charged with murdering a father of two at a betting shop in south London. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | The European Central Bank is expected to announce this week that it's going to go into the financial markets to buy substantial amounts of government debt using newly created money - a policy known as quantitative easing, or QE.
There has been mounting speculation that the ECB is preparing to act along these lines, and there will be serious disappointment in financial markets if that does not happen.
The problem the ECB wants to tackle is inflation that is too low. Indeed last month it turned into deflation, or falling prices.
Deflation is partly a symptom of the eurozone's persistent economic weakness. But it could also aggravate it.
Deflation tends to be bad for debtors. The problem is that their incomes may fall, but their debt payments - if they debt involves fixed interest rates - may not.
With governments, falling prices and incomes will hit revenue from income tax and VAT. Most of their debt payments are at fixed rates.
There have been warnings that deflation could reignite the eurozone's debt crisis.
The London economic consultancy Capital Economics has said: "There is a clear danger of a more sustained period of deflation, which would destroy peripheral countries' debt consolidation efforts, and could cause market concerns to once again spread from Greece."
Now it is true that the eurozone had a period of deflation back in 2009. It lasted five months. But Capital Economics reckons the recent fall in energy prices could keep the eurozone in deflation territory for a lot longer this time.
But if it's the result of cheaper energy, you might argue, then it's surely not a problem.
There is a lot in that view. The International Monetary Fund's chief economist Olivier Blanchard said in a BBC interview that the oil price fall is "what I hate to call a gift of God" for the eurozone.
He said it means there has been "a very large increase in real [that is inflation adjusted] incomes of people, and is therefore likely to lead to more spending."
The ECB President Mario Draghi has described the direct impact of cheaper oil as "unambiguously positive".
Even so, Mr Blanchard says that deflation is worrisome.
What bothers Mr Draghi is what he called "second round" effects, that falling prices might become "embedded in inflation expectations", and could affect wages as well as the prices of other types of goods.
In any event, it's worth noting that inflation excluding energy prices was 0.6% in December, a good deal lower than the ECB's target of below but close to 2%.
So that's what Mario Draghi and his colleagues in the ECB's policy-making committee are worried about.
Quantitative easing is on their agenda because the traditional ammunition for a central bank is spent.
The ECB's interest rate policy is just about zero. The main rate that it charges for lending money to the commercial banks is just 0.05%. And the rate it pays them for holding their surplus finds overnight is below zero - minus 0.2%.
In similar circumstances, central banks in the US, UK, and Japan, wanting to provide more stimulus have gone down the path of quantitative easing, QE.
Three major developed country central banks have carried out QE in recent years: the US, the UK and Japan.
In the US and UK it started in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The American move, worth a total of about $3.5tn (£2.3tn), has coincided with a recovery from a nasty recession.
In the UK the return of convincing growth came only a few years after the active asset purchases of £375bn came to an end, though to this day the Bank of England still holds them.
Japan started QE much earlier, back in 2001, and its cumulative scale is in the region of $1.7tn or so. It's an attempt to deal with prolonged economic weakness. Despite the effort, Japanese growth has never really decisively resumed.
The evidence from these experiments is inconclusive. Some say the US and UK would have recovered without QE. Others say Japan would have been in worse shape without it.
And that's what is widely expected from the ECB - that it will announce a plan to buy substantial volumes of government debt using newly created money.
The ECB has, over the course of the financial crisis, done things that have elements in common with this. It has bought the bonds, the debts of some governments, and it has also bought assets backed by loans to the private sector.
With much of this, though not all, the ECB took steps to offset the additional money creation involved in buying these assets. The technical term is sterilisation.
In addition, the asset buying undertaken by the ECB so far was aimed at improving conditions in specific parts of the eurozone financial system: the availability of credit to the private sector, and the periods of very high borrowing costs in some countries.
What we are expected to get this week is different in that it won't be quite so focussed - the aim will be to generate higher inflation across the eurozone. And the scale is likely to be bigger than we have seen before.
The figure often suggested that the ECB will spead on QE is 500bn euros ($591bn; £382bn). That's smaller than the programmes undertaken by central banks in the US or Japan, and the UK, in comparison with the size of the economy. But then all those QE programmes did take time to build up to their full scale.
So how would it work? Buying bonds in large quantities can raise their price, which lowers the return on them.
The return on bonds is in effect an interest rate, so the idea is that QE should exert downward pressure on interest rates throughout the economy, even when the central bank's own interest rate policy can no longer do that.
So the idea is that QE leads businesses to want to invest more and consumers to spend. The additional demand for goods and services would then push inflation up too, and reduce the risk of aggravating the eurozone's persistent debt problems.
In addition QE can weaken a currency on the foreign exchanges. The fact that the policy tends to drive down interest rates also makes investors less enthusiastic about investing in the currency. The weaker currency makes business more competitive against rivals outside the eurozone.
The IMF's Olivier Blanchard told the BBC that the recent depreciation of the euro is "largely due to anticipation of QE coming down the line".
Now there are plenty of critics of QE. In the US a group of them wrote an open letter to the then Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, published in the Wall Street journal, warning of a risk of excessively high inflation.
Some in Europe, especially Germany, share that concern. There is history behind that, the hyperinflation of 1923 in Weimar Germany, which was followed in the next decade by the rise of the Nazis.
The Economist has called it "Germany's hyperinflation phobia" and as the paper points out there is a debate to be had about exactly what were the economic factors behind the disaster that followed in the 1930s.
Still, it is an issue in German politics and it has made it harder for the ECB to embark on a policy that can be characterised as "printing money".
There is also a concern that by buying government debt, the ECB would be relieving the pressure on countries that arguably need to do more to reduce their debts and reform their economies. And if any of those governments were to default, the argument goes, it would be taxpayers across the eurozone that would have to foot the bill.
There have been reports that the ECB will address the latter concern by having national central banks in the 19 member countries of the eurozone buy the bonds and take responsibility for any losses there might be - which would almost certainly let the German taxpayer off the hook.
It has been a long wait. The eurozone is, probably, about to embark on something that the US, Japan and Britain started years ago.
And nobody seems to think it will fix all the eurozone's problems. The best that eurozone QE might achieve is to alleviate one factor that could make them worse.
As the BBC's Economics Editor Robert Peston put it - "painkillers to an economy that needs rather more radical structural treatment". | The eurozone, it is widely thought, is about to get a dose of a new economic medicine. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | The girl, "Abigail", was abused multiple times a week in the 1990s - in the classroom and at the man's home.
A social worker had previously written to warn the council about the teacher - who cannot be named - but he was allowed to continue teaching.
The council offered its sympathy to the victim.
It has agreed an out-of-court settlement of up to £550,000 with Abigail.
Abigail - not her real name - was raped and sexually abused at Sir Harry Smith Community College in Whittlesey, Peterborough, in the 1990s.
"The abuse happened four, five times a week - and it would be in the classroom store cupboard," she said, after other teachers had gone home.
"On several occasions he tied me to a radiator with a dog collar and told me not to move, and made me sit there naked."
The abuse in the classroom took place for "the first three years", from the age of 15. During this time, her abuser also started taking her to his home.
"To do that he would get me to jump in the back of the car, sit behind the seats and be covered up by a blanket - so that when he got to his house, nobody would see me go in."
She said she will "never" be able to forgive him.
"He was an adult, he knew what he was doing was wrong.
"I wanted to have children, which I've not been able to do because I've not been able to have a sexual relationship with my husband - I find it too difficult."
When Abigail reported the abuse to Cambridgeshire police in 1998, the teacher told detectives their relationship was only sexual after she was 18, and that it ended because he was in love with another pupil at the school.
After being questioned, the teacher was released without charge.
The teacher cannot be named for legal reasons, but documents seen by the BBC show the man stood trial in the early 1980s after being accused of sexually abusing two vulnerable girls at another school in Cambridgeshire, but was found not guilty.
A social worker involved with the case was so concerned about the teacher that she wrote a report to Cambridgeshire County Council.
In it she said: "I am aware of what I believe to be substantial evidence of professional misconduct - which was inadmissible in the criminal trials - that the local authority should be aware of before making the decision as to whether or not he should continue to be employed as a teacher."
The BBC believes the council - the teacher's employer - failed to pass on information to the headteacher at Sir Harry Smith Community College, despite this written warning.
The teacher later abused Abigail, and went on to become a deputy headteacher at a school in London.
He has now been banned from teaching for life.
The Department for Education told the BBC: "all public bodies and organisations working with children should have a clear child protection policy which spells out how to raise concerns with local authority children's social care services, the NSPCC, and the police".
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire County Council said: "It is deeply regrettable that these incidents happened in the 1990s, and we offer our sympathy to the victim.
"However, the school itself and the whole vetting and checking process is very different from the systems in place 25 years ago."
Tom Perry from campaign group Mandate Now - which is calling for tighter rules around child protection - told the BBC that police and schools also have a responsibility to report teachers who have committed - or are alleged to have committed - a sexual offence, to the Disclosure and Barring Service [formerly the Criminal Records Bureau].
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | Cambridgeshire County Council failed to protect a 15-year-old girl from being sexually abused by her teacher, the Victoria Derbyshire show has learned. |
What is the summary of the following article? | 25 January 2017 Last updated at 07:03 GMT
It's an important date in the calendar.
Find out more about what it is and why it is celebrated. | On 25 January, Scottish people will be celebrating something called Burns Night. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | He wants to add 1p to income tax bands of Scottish workers to raise £475m to invest in the country's schools.
Mr Rennie told delegates £170m of the money raised would be used to create a "pupil premium" for children who needed extra support.
He said Lib Dems wanted "every individual to achieve their potential".
Holyrood's 2016/17 budget was passed without any tax rises on Wednesday.
Both Labour and the Lib Dems used the budget debate to call for an increase in income tax to protect and invest in services.
In his speech, Mr Rennie said that his party had four priorities for children and young people. They included:
Mr Rennie said that the plans would be paid for by putting one penny on income tax which would "secure a £475m return".
He added that the "pupil premium" would be worth £1,400 for each pupil who needed "extra support at primary" and £900 for "every secondary pupil from a disadvantaged background".
Mr Rennie explained: "Our pupil premium will put money into every classroom. Every school gets money for children from poorer backgrounds.
"That's enough for more teachers for one-to-one help, for homework clubs or for extra equipment.
"That is how you close the attainment gap; by making the investment, by giving the life chances, and by backing your words up with action."
Ahead of addressing delegates at the Assembly Rooms on Friday afternoon, Mr Rennie took part in a BBC news online webchat in which he answered questions from the public.
He confirmed that his penny proposal would apply to all tax payers, including those on the standard rate.
He detailed plans for a Pupil Premium, already in place in England, whereby resources are allocated to schools to assist pupils from deprived backgrounds.
Lib Dem candidates here at conference insist this is beginning to get a good reception on the doorsteps. They admit nobody likes paying tax - but believe the policy can gain traction if it can be guaranteed that the cash goes directly to local schools, not to local authorities.
Mr Rennie confirmed to me in a webcast interview that the policy could not be introduced before 2017 - because the 2016/17 tax rate has just been set by Holyrood. But he said, further, that the 1p levy across all rates would survive even after Holyrood gains the added power to vary changes in taxation between upper and lower rates.
Scottish Ministers have said no to an increase across the bands, arguing that it would be an unfair burden on those on lower incomes. A key battleground, of course, for the election.
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Mr Rennie told BBC Scotland's political editor Brian Taylor: "Because of the personal allowance, and the fact that we raised that personal allowance, you would have to earn over £19,000 to pay more.
"I think that is progressive and fair, because income tax is a progressive tax - those on the lowest income, even those above £19,000, are paying a fraction of what those in positions like myself who are earning a decent salary."
He said it was right that the money raised was spent on education.
Mr Rennie added: "It is a benefit to everyone in society. So, I think we will benefit all round.
"It is a modest contribution we are asking them [standard tax payers] to make for a big return."
Delegates at the two-day gathering will also hear from UK Lib Dem leader Tim Farron who is due to address them on Saturday afternoon. | Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie has used his Edinburgh conference speech to lay out his plans to boost education spending. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | 17 April 2017 Last updated at 17:17 BST
The public have been asked to help track down those responsible for the massive piles of refuse at a warehouse near Newton Mearns.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said calls about the former Netherplace Dye Works would be treated in confidence.
The waste has been blamed for an infestation of flies in Glasgow's southern suburbs. | Efforts are under way to clear a major illegal waste dump which has seen swarms of flies bothering homes to the south of Glasgow. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | The couple, who have been married for two years, claim they were defamed in the European edition.
"We have issued defamation proceedings on behalf of our clients," said international media lawyer Paul Tweed from Johnson's law firm.
The company will represent the couple in Europe.
"We are suing in Ireland in relation to publication in all jurisdictions, as our clients are entitled to do," added Tweed.
He also said the case was unlikely to be heard before the middle of next year.
In September, the magazine published an article and photographs of Timberlake and appeared to quote Biel in the article.
Separate defamation proceedings in each of the stars' names were lodged earlier this week at the High Court against the publishers of Heat, Bauer Consumer Media.
Bauer is the German-based publisher of Heat and a range of other titles.
The couple got married at the Borgo Egnazia resort in Puglia, Italy, in October 2012.
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EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said there was a moral, if not legal, duty to provide protection.
Turkey says the refugees are receiving food and shelter inside Syria and there is no need to allow them to cross.
About 35,000 Syrians have fled a Syrian government offensive on rebel-held positions near Aleppo.
Ms Mogherini said the EU was providing funding to Turkey to make sure it had the "means, the instruments, the resources to protect and to host people that are seeking asylum".
In November, the EU clinched a deal with Turkey, offering it €3bn (£2.3bn; $3.3bn) to care for Syrian refugees on Turkish soil.
Ms Mogherini's call was echoed by EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn and Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders, whose country currently holds the EU presidency.
"I look at these images of people standing at the Turkish border and I just wanted to underline the message people who are in humanitarian need should be allowed in," said Mr Koenders.
However Kilis governor Suleyman Tapsiz said the move was not necessary.
"Our doors are not closed but at the moment there is no need to host such people inside our borders," he said.
Turkey already hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees - 2.5 million.
In the past few days, the Syrian army - backed by Russian air strikes - has made a series of gains around Aleppo, Syria's largest city.
On Thursday, 60 donor countries meeting in London pledged billions of dollars to ease the plight of Syrian refugees.
About 4.6 million people have fled Syria since the civil war began in 2011. Another 13.5 million are said to be in need of humanitarian assistance inside the country.
March 2011: Anti-government protests erupt across Syria, but Aleppo is initially untouched as a result of a state crackdown
February 2012: As the rebellion turns into a conflict, clashes between rebels and the government are reported with increasing frequency in Aleppo province
July 2012: The battle for Aleppo begins. Rebels make swift advances, but are unable to consolidate their gains and the city becomes divided
2013: The government begins bombarding rebel districts with barrel bombs, causing thousands of casualties
September 2015: Syria launches a fresh offensive in the wake of Russia's intervention in the conflict
February 2016: The government captures towns north of Aleppo, threatening to encircle the city
Aleppo profile
The 25-year-old centre-back was injured late on during the League Two draw against Blackpool on 4 February.
He has made 30 appearances for the U's this season, helping them climb to two points off the play-off places.
"He'll be more or less done for the season unless he has a quick recovery, but it doesn't look too hopeful," boss John McGreal told BBC Essex. | Hollywood couple Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are suing Heat magazine in the High Court in Dublin over an article published last month.
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Write a summary for this information. | The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a police investigation over more than two years.
Police said they seized 500kg (1,100lb) of cocaine from a boat in Brooklyn, north of Sydney, on Christmas Day.
It followed the confiscation of 600kg in drugs in Tahiti. Police believe they were destined for Australia.
"The size of that seizure collectively makes it the largest cocaine seizure in Australian law enforcement history," Australian Federal Police acting assistant commissioner Chris Sheehan told reporters.
"The criminal syndicate we have dismantled over the last few days was a robust, resilient and determined syndicate."
The drugs are believed to have originated in South America.
Local media reported one of the accused men was a former National Rugby League player.
In early December, police and border officials began monitoring a vessel that was travelling between Sydney's popular fish markets and the central coast of New South Wales.
On Christmas night, police said a small boat was launched from the vessel and later docked in Brooklyn. Authorities swooped on the boat and arrested three men. Another 12 men have been arrested over the past several days.
The men, aged between 29 and 63, have been charged with conspiracy to import a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs.
If convicted, they face a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Mr Sheehan claimed the men were "well-connected" and part of a sophisticated crime group.
"We've gone from the top to the bottom, the entire group has been taken out," he said.
New South Wales Police assistant commissioner Mark Jenkins said officers spent thousands of hours on the operation.
"This job started with a thread of information that was given to the New South Wales drugs squad over two-and-a-half years ago," he said.
"I want to thank the community for that information." | Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia's history. |
Can you summarize the following information? | The UK astronaut has given his first full news conference since touching down on the Kazakh steppe on Saturday.
He is the first person to fly to space under the UK banner since Helen Sharman in 1991 and made the first spacewalk by a UK astronaut.
During the 186-day mission mission, Maj Peake also remotely steered a robot on Earth and ran the London Marathon.
He told a news conference: "I would do it again in a heartbeat. And I can say that because I've spoken to my wife and she is incredibly supportive of it."
He also said he hoped the UK would send further Britons into space.
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"We have to be continuing our contributions to human spaceflight," he told journalists at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.
But he explained: "Life doesn't stop with the International Space Station," adding that there were likely to be other upcoming opportunities over the coming years, including potential missions to the Moon and Mars.
"If we are not involved now we will simply miss the boat," he said.
Describing the descent to Earth on Saturday, Maj Peake said: "The descent is a really exciting ride... you can't help the boy inside you that's enjoying this fantastic ride back from space.
He said the pyrotechnic bolts that went off to separate the descent module (containing the crew members) from the other two parts of the Soyuz capsule sounded "like a very heavy machine gun", adding that "the spacecraft really does blow itself apart".
As the Soyuz capsule dropped further in altitude, Mr Peake said: "You really get a strong sensation that you are falling back to the planet... the capsule gets very hot, you're working against the Gs (gravitational forces), you're working hard against the heat, you've got your visor down with not much ventilation, you're having to read the systems and check the spacecraft."
But he explained: "Probably the most dynamic part is where the parachute - the drogue chute - opens. For 20 seconds you're getting really flung around, so you have to hold on and wait for it all to stop."
Maj Peake emphasised the importance of inspiring the next generation. The UK Space Agency had devised a programme of educational activities around the astronaut's "Principia" mission.
These included contests to design the spaceman's mission patch, to devise a meal for Maj Peake to eat in space and an experiment comparing the growth of seeds that had been in space with those that remained on Earth.
He said: "We have reached over a million schoolchildren... I'm delighted we've got them to think about space and science in a different way," adding that he wanted them to know that: "You can go to the Moon."
Asked what he would tell pupils at his old school, Tim Peake said: "I think the message to take away is that you're looking at a boy who went to Westbourne Primary School who left school at the age of 19 with three below average A-levels and I've just got back from a six-month mission to space.
"My message to them is: 'Don't let anyone tell you you can't do anything'."
Maj Peake said he had already been receiving rehabilitation following his return. But he would now be involved in a physical programme to help him return to full fitness.
Extended periods in microgravity takes a large toll on the body, including a decrease in bone density and muscle wastage.
Follow Paul on Twitter. | Tim Peake says he would go back into space "in a heartbeat" after his six-month mission to the space station. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | 30 April 2017 Last updated at 14:50 BST
It's a country in east Asia, and there have been lots of arguments about it recently.
So what do we know? And should we be worried about North Korea?
Watch Leah's report to find out more.
The Ethiopian Airlines flight was travelling from Addis Ababa via Dublin to Washington Dulles International Airport .
Flight ET500 stopped at Dublin airport this morning to re-fuel.
It returned at around 08:35 BST after it reported technical difficulties and shutting down one engine.
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Wasps, in a tough pool with holders Toulon, Bath and ex-champions Leinster, beat the Dublin side 33-6 on Saturday.
"This competition's all about mixing it with the best and we've certainly beaten one of the best," Young said.
"It puts us in a strong position now but it doesn't mean anything going into next week."
Wasps' victory was Leinster's heaviest-ever European home defeat and Young said he could not have wished for a better display from his players.
"Everything I asked of the boys before the game, they delivered," Young added to BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
"We deserved to win but the scoreline far exceeded our expectations coming in."
Wasps secured their place in the competition after finishing sixth in the Premiership last season and Young is keen for his squad to make the most of their opportunity to play against the best sides in Europe.
"Let's look forward to these games and enjoy playing them - we've earned the right to be there.
"It's taken 22 games in 10 months to get there and we need to make sure we enjoy the experience."
The footage appears to show a police officer punching a man while he is restrained by two other officers.
It happened in the Pear Tree area of Derby where the man was arrested on 28 July following reports of a disturbance.
The man has since been charged with criminal damage.
A statement from the IPCC said it was "investigating a complaint of alleged assault by a Derbyshire Constabulary police officer".
"The officers concerned have been informed the IPCC is conducting an investigation."
The IPCC revealed that the footage, which was filmed by an onlooker, was emailed to the police force the day after the arrest happened.
However, the matter was only referred to the IPCC in September after the footage was published by the Derby Telegraph.
Derbyshire Constabulary's own Professional Standards Department has investigated the complaint.
The IPCC said it would look at whether the force's own investigation was "proportionate, thorough and effective".
A police spokeswoman said: "We haven't made public the results of our investigation because of the IPCC involvement." | For decades, North Korea has been one of the world's most secretive countries.
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Summarize the information given below. | Dubai's government says a sound legal environment has attracted about 20,000 international companies to the emirate.
But on Monday one British businessman could be sentenced to years in a Dubai prison for allegedly sending an offensive tweet about a business partner.
It is part of an almost two-year business dispute between a 38-year-old English solicitor and his former employer in Dubai, investment house GFH Capital, in which the Dubai legal system appears to favour one side.
David Haigh, the Englishman in question who once came to the rescue of Leeds United, flew out to discuss a business venture with his former employer but his trip was overshadowed by a financial dispute.
Hours after touching down in Dubai, after entering the GFH Capital offices, he was arrested on suspicion of fraud and locked up.
He has been detained in squalid conditions in a detention cell at the back of a big police station in Dubai for most of the time since May 2014.
I've seen those conditions.
Dozens of foreign detainees share two squat loos and two showers. There's little privacy, cramped conditions and a general atmosphere of helplessness.
After 15 months he was convicted by a Dubai court of misappropriating items of monetary value from a position of trust from his former Dubai-based employer and sentenced to two years in prison - the majority of which he had already served.
Haigh's lawyer says he is considering seeking a retrial of his criminal conviction.
However, in mid-November, two days before Haigh was due to return home at the end of his sentence, he found out that he would not be leaving after all, as the authorities were looking into allegations that he had broken a law on cybercrime in relation to tweets sent from his Twitter account in March 2015.
The UAE's Cybercrime Law was established in 2012 to criminalise the misuse of social media, with penalties ranging from a big fine to a lengthy jail term for a wide range of offences including hacking, online fraud as well as for people who seek revenge on someone in the cyber world.
The new allegations against Haigh prompted Human Rights Watch to issue a statement about the situation.
The key bit to note, for anyone thinking of working in Dubai, is this quote from their Deputy Middle East Director, Joe Stork: "If UAE businessmen can have their partners locked up when they don't like the tone of their tweets, one has to question whether the UAE is a safe place to make any form of criticism."
I've repeatedly tried to contact the Dubai authorities about this but they have yet to comment on it.
They have so far spent four months considering cybercrime charges levelled against Haigh, all the while leaving the former Leeds United managing director, who has aspirations to become a Conservative MP, languishing in his cell.
Haigh claims he has not had access to a computer in prison and his British-based supporters were handling his Twitter account on his behalf.
Human Rights Watch described the cyber charges as "repressive" and said the UK government must now call for the Briton's release.
Conservative MP Andrea Jenkyns, a friend of Haigh's, told me she fears for his welfare behind bars and that Haigh had handed a dossier about his mental and physical treatment to the British Embassy.
His lawyer, Alun Jones QC, told me Haigh alleges that since he was imprisoned in May 2014 he was threatened that, if he did not co-operate, to quote Mr Jones, "things would go badly for him in prison".
Mr Jones relayed a story to me about something that he claimed happened in his presence when he visited Haigh in custody last year, something he said he found very disturbing.
"On 17 March a number of lawyers were present and on that occasion a prison guard came in and said that the lawyer for GFH Capital Ltd had reported to him that David Haigh had said in court proceedings in England that prison conditions were bad and was that true?
"The prison guard also said that he had been requested to withdraw privileges from David Haigh in prison and those privileges were very limited. That was plainly a threat. A number of lawyers witnessed that."
I have since spoken to GFH Capital about this claim. They declined to comment on the allegations made by Mr Jones, saying they were "nothing new and David Haigh is simply regurgitating issues that are being dealt with by the authorities".
Previously, GFH Capital has said it had no control over the criminal investigation being carried out by the Dubai authorities.
As I said, I have repeatedly tried to speak to the authorities in Dubai but have not heard back from them yet.
Haigh will now hear from them on Monday when he finds out his fate.
His supporters now hope he will be allowed to return to the UK after flying off for what he thought would be a short business trip to Dubai more than 670 days ago. | Right now, from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to the United Arab Emirates, billions are being spent in the Gulf to lure international businessmen there. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | The Dean of St Albans, the Very Reverend Jeffrey John, was not chosen as the Bishop of Llandaff earlier this month.
A current bishop said it would be "too much of a headache" to appoint him, he claimed.
The Church in Wales "strongly denied" the accusations of homophobia.
Dr John said he had been told appointing him would be difficult because he was in a civil partnership, although celibate in line with Church teaching.
He wrote to the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon - the Right Reverend John Davies, who is currently the Church's senior bishop - after an electoral college of bishops, clergy and lay people failed to reach a decision about who should replace Dr Barry Morgan as bishop.
It is understood Dr John received a majority of the votes, but not the two-thirds required by Church rules.
He said homophobic remarks had been made at the electoral college meeting.
"Much more importantly, the only arguments adduced against my appointment - in particular by two of the bishops - were directly related to my homosexuality and/or civil partnership - namely that my appointment would bring unwelcome and unsettling publicity to the diocese," he wrote.
Dr John said he had been told by a bishop by telephone they were "'just too exhausted' to deal with the problems they believed [his] appointment would cause."
"I put it to you that this is not a moral or legal basis on which to exclude me," Dr John wrote.
Under the Church's rules, the decision has passed to its bench of bishops, who failed to reach a decision when they met last week.
A Church in Wales spokeswoman told BBC News: "At the recent meeting of Electoral College no one candidate secured the necessary two-thirds majority to be elected Bishop of Llandaff. The appointment will now be made by the Church's bishops.
"After a process of consultation, they have drawn up a shortlist of names which is confidential. However, the Bishops strongly deny allegations of homophobia."
Dr John, who was born in Tonyrefail in Rhondda Cynon Taff, was nominated as Bishop of Reading in 2003, but was asked to withdraw from the role by the then-Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
He entered a civil partnership with Grant Holmes in 2006, but said at the time he had remained celibate, in line with Church teaching.
He is a public supporter of same-sex marriage, writing in the Church Times in 2012 that "theologically, ethically, and sacramentally, there is no difference between a gay couple and a heterosexual couple who cannot have children".
"So, yes, same-sex marriage can be as holy and sacramental as heterosexual marriage. Yes, God is in favour of gay marriage and so should the Church be," he added.
Gay rights campaigners have previously called for him to be made a bishop in Wales.
Dr John's nomination as Bishop of Reading caused controversy in 2003 when Dr Williams summoned him to Lambeth Palace and asked him to withdraw from the post.
Some conservative Anglican leaders had warned they would split from the communion if Dr John's consecration went ahead.
Friends of Dr John told the BBC last year that he had "painted the house, finished the episcopal training sessions, and been given the keys of the official car when the job was taken away". | A gay clergyman has accused the Anglican Church in Wales of homophobia after he was rejected for a job as a bishop. |
What is the summary of the following article? | 27 November 2015 Last updated at 14:50 GMT
A large section of a spacecraft, measuring about 10m (32ft) by 4m (13ft), was covered in goose barnacles and was towed to shore after it was spotted on the surface between Bryher and Tresco on Thursday. | A clean-up operation on a piece of an American space rocket has begun after it was found in the sea off the Isles of Scilly. |
Summarize the following piece. | Van Gerwen hit a 170 checkout to lead 6-4, but 16-time world champion Taylor won the final two legs to earn a point.
Defending champion Gary Anderson is third, a point behind the pair, after beating Adrian Lewis and Peter Wright.
Scotland's Anderson played twice on Thursday, having missed the opening week's matches because of illness.
Raymond van Barneveld and James Wade were also victorious, denting the qualification hopes of Dave Chisnall and Robert Thornton.
Only two more rounds of fixtures remain before the 10-man field is cut to eight players for the second phase of the group stage.
Thornton and Michael Smith, who was not in action in Glasgow after playing twice in Leeds last month to cover for Anderson's absence, occupy the bottom two places in the table.
Gary Anderson 7-4 Adrian Lewis
James Wade 7-4 Robert Thornton
Michael van Gerwen 6-6 Phil Taylor
Raymond van Barneveld 7-4 Dave Chisnall
Gary Anderson 7-5 Peter Wright
Melanie Lakin, from Glascote, Tamworth, died in a collision on the A458 Llanfair Caereinion to Welshpool road on Sunday.
Her family said she was returning from a picnic at Bala lake with her boyfriend on separate motorbikes.
Ms Lakin's death has been voluntarily referred to the police watchdog.
Dyfed-Powys Police voluntarily referred the case to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) because a police vehicle was nearby at the time of the crash.
A marked police motorcyclist was conducting vehicle checks in the area and police say a number of cars were stopped in a line of traffic behind the stationary vehicles.
Initial investigations show the motorcyclist collided with a car in the line of traffic.
The crash happened at about 16:30 BST.
In a statement, Ms Lakin's family said she was "a keen motorcyclist who loved life, people, nature and animals especially her cats Hector and Cleo".
She has completed her first year in diagnostic radiography at Birmingham City University and was looking forward to a successful career in the NHS "combining her love of helping people and a technical, visual subject".
"She had a keen eye and appreciation for photography, music and art and managed to combine all three on many occasions by photographing some of her favourite bands and musicians at music festivals," the family's statement added.
They said she would be sorely missed by her mother Pam, father Nigel, brother Jody, his partner Elena, boyfriend Oliver and the many friends and colleagues who had known her.
The cash - a £500,000 loan and a grant of £90,000 - means that the planned refurbishment is only about £300,000 short of its £2.4m funding target.
Originally built in 1902, the B-listed theatre closed in 2009 but reopened in 2012 after a campaign to save it.
The Ayr Gaiety Partnership is leading efforts to make the theatre a cultural and educational hub for Ayrshire.
Announcing the latest funding for the project, Social Justice Secretary Alex Neil said the cash would help in the regeneration of a "fantastic historic building".
"By renovating the theatre and improving the experience for audiences I'm confident that this will have a knock-on effect on the local economy, encouraging more people to visit and spend money in Ayr," he said.
The £500,000 loan comes from the £16m social growth fund, which was set up to provide financial assistance to charities and social enterprises.
The £90,000 grant is from the Scottish government's people and communities fund
Ian Welsh chair of Ayr Gaiety Partnership said: "This investment couldn't have come at a better time for us. We now need only around £300,000 before we can go ahead with our plans, so we are now on the home straight.
"With a fully restored theatre we will be able to put on an even better programme of shows and put our business on a sustainable footing.
"More than this, a modernised and fully equipped theatre will play a key role in our plans to provide training and employment opportunities to young people." | Phil Taylor came from 5-1 down to draw 6-6 with Michael van Gerwen in Glasgow, leaving the pair level on points at the top of the Premier League table.
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Can you provide a summary of this content? | Media playback is not supported on this device
But against the backdrop of protests and social discontent, concerns over infrastructure and fears about crime in Brazil's major cities, the incident in Sao Paulo turns what has been a drip of bad news into a downpour.
Brazil is quickly learning what the likes of South Africa, China, Greece and even the United Kingdom have found in recent times.
Namely that when you win the right to host one of the world's major sporting events, you had better be prepared for international eyes to focus on you in a way they have never done before.
The South American country is under the spotlight and the collapse of a crane onto the stadium that is due to host the opening match of the World Cup in less than 200 days has raised even more questions.
Six of Brazil's 12 stadiums were ready for last summer's Confederations Cup, while the remaining six are racing to be finished in time.
Several stadiums are well behind schedule, while one host city, Cuiaba, has told the BBC that not only will it miss its completion deadline, there are also not enough hotel rooms for visiting fans. In the city of Manaus, construction is now 24 hours a day.
But what of Sao Paulo? Could this accident have resulted from the need to speed up building work? And what does it mean for the World Cup?
Fifa has launched an investigation but even its most senior figures were wary of jumping to conclusions on Wednesday, with details still uncertain. Some commentators immediately suggested the opening match might be switched to Rio's Maracana Stadium.
But the facts paint a slightly different picture. The new Itaquerao stadium was, before this accident, 94% complete and had been due to be handed over to Fifa in January, just a few weeks after the December deadline they had originally been set.
The second key piece of information was the statement from the construction company that insisted early investigations were showing that the structure of the stadium had not been damaged, only the roof and the exterior facade.
Senior sources from Corinthians told BBC Sport that there was, despite the obvious sadness, no suggestion that this setback was one that would prevent them hosting matches next summer.
And what of safety? Odebrecht, the firm building the stadium, is one of the world's foremost construction companies.
Brazilian-owned and Brazilian-run, a fortnight ago its US arm was voted one of America's safest companies. It built the impressive arena in which NBA side Miami Heat play their home matches, while its revenues topped $40bn (£25bn) in 2012. It is vast.
Unsurprisingly, the Odebrecht Group has secured a number of major contracts related to the World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics. These include the renovation of the spectacular Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, which made headlines when 36 roof panels came loose after rain fell in June, the Pernambuco Arena in Recife and the problematic Maracana, which was only just ready for England's friendly with Brazil last June.
It has launched an investigation of its own into the Sao Paulo tragedy.
The path to major sporting events rarely runs smoothly.
London had spiralling costs, security concerns, fears over terrorism and complaints about tickets and yet the Olympics will be remembered as a joyous celebration of sport and success. In South Africa, the headlines were about legacy, or the lack of it, crime, poverty and human rights issues. The issues were endless when Delhi hosted the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Brazil is next in line.
So often the glory and golden moments created by the sport wipe away the memory of a troubled build-up. To some, the Confederations Cup was one month-long protest, where it was impossible to cross the street without being involved in a skirmish.
The truth was, to those of us who were there, it was the brilliance of Brazil and the way the nation united behind its footballers that lingers in the mind, rather than protests that were harder to find than to avoid.
When it comes to football, Brazil has always been ready. This football-mad nation was never going to host a World Cup of staggering efficiency, as Germany did in 2006. On time in Brazil has a very different meaning. But it is that very quality that beguiles us and will do again next summer.
Crews from Rhyl and Prestatyn were called to the incident at a bungalow in Gronant, near Prestatyn, at 04:35 BST on Saturday.
The cause of the blaze is now under investigation. | When the accident at the new Itaquerao Stadium is viewed in the wider context of preparations for the 2014 World Cup, it should not be forgotten that two workers have been killed and one injured.
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A woman has been taken to hospital after being rescued from a house fire in Flintshire. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | A total of more than £32m was spent on the campaign - with the Leave side funded by donations totalling £16.4m, outgunning the Remain side's £15.1m.
The spending returns show that the Brexit battle was the most expensive referendum ever fought in British political history, said the watchdog.
Lib Dem spending is also under review.
The watchdog said invoices and receipts submitted by the two umbrella Leave and Remain campaigns appeared to be incomplete and they were seeking further details in relation to certain payments.
While this was disappointing, it stressed that it was too early to say whether any offences had been committed.
"Missing spending details undermine transparency and makes the returns harder for the public to understand," said Bob Posner, its director of political finance.
"Where it appears campaigners have not fulfilled their legal obligations, we have begun and will continue to take action to deal with this."
The watchdog has published details of all campaign spending in excess of £250,000 during last year's referendum battle.
The figures show the rival Leave and Remain campaigns secured the majority of their funding through large donations of more than £7,500 each.
The Electoral Commission has also launched a formal investigation into apparently missing documentation from the Lib Dems and late returns submitted by businessman Peter Harris, who campaigned against EU membership.
It has also said it is examining possible discrepancies in paperwork submitted by the European Movement, Labour Leave, UKIP and Conservatives In.
The man left to go surfing from Machrihanish beach near Campbeltown in Scotland on Sunday and did not return.
After the alarm was raised, rescue teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland searched the sea and shore line.
Hopes were fading when he was spotted by the Coastguard rescue helicopter.
Dawn Petrie at Belfast Coastguard Operations centre said: "With nightfall approaching we were gravely concerned.
"But at 7.30pm tonight, the crew on the Coastguard rescue helicopter were delighted when they located the man, still with his surf board and 13 miles off the coast.
"He was kitted out with all the right clothing including a thick neoprene suit and this must have helped him to survive for so long at sea. He is hypothermic but conscious."
Waseem Baloch and three others were charged in a court in Multan, police investigator Atiya Jafri told the BBC.
When arrested in July soon after the murder, he publicly confessed to strangling his 26-year-old sister for bringing "dishonour" to the family.
Qandeel Baloch was well known for bold and risque social media posts.
She divided opinion in socially conservative Pakistan, and had expressed fears for her life as a result.
The threats and abuse outspoken Pakistani women receive
Killing reflects divided country
Waseem Baloch and Ms Baloch's cousin, Haq Nawaz, have been charged with murder. Two other men, including a taxi driver, have been charged with conspiracy to murder and facilitation, Ms Jafri said.
One of them, Mr Nawaz's brother-in-law Zafar Zain Khosa, left for the Middle East after being granted bail, she added. He is being sought by police.
All three men present in court denied the charges, Multan city district public prosecutor Jam Salahuddin told BBC Urdu.
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Watch Part Three: 'The naming and shaming of a sex symbol' | The spending returns of the Stronger In and Vote Leave campaigns in last year's EU referendum are under investigation, the Electoral Commission has announced.
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Can you summarize the following content in brief? | The state-wide charging scheme means millions of residents have to pay for domestic supply for the first time.
The bills will have the most impact in urban areas, as rural dwellers who are not on mains supply have already been paying for water for decades.
The introduction of the controversial charges were a key part of Ireland's international financial bailout deal.
The domestic charging scheme is due to begin on 1 October, and the first bills will arrive at the beginning of January 2015.
Many Irish householders have objected to paying for their water supply, and have staged protests against the government scheme.
A number of protesters have been arrested for trying to stop the installation of water meters outside homes.
This week, seven protesters face going to prison for contempt of court, for refusing to accept a court order restraining them from "assaulting, intimidating or interfering" with contactors working to install the meters.
The Irish economy was brought to the brink of collapses as a result of the international financial crisis and was forced to accept a multi-billion euro bailout in November 2010.
The rescue plan was funded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union (EU) and the European Central Bank (ECB) - jointly known as the Troika.
As part of the bailout deal, the Irish government made commitments to restructure its economy, and the introduction of universal domestic water charges was just one of the unpopular changes it agreed to introduce.
The government set up a new semi-state company, Irish Water, last year, which is gradually taking over all water provision services from the Republic of Ireland's 34 local authorities.
However, paying for water is nothing new to hundreds of thousands of Irish people living in rural areas, many of whom had to install their own water system themselves.
Piped water supplies were virtually unheard of outside towns and cities until the 1950s, and rural residents had to draw water from rivers and wells.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Irish government provided grants for groups of rural dwellers to work together to install water supplies in their own areas - known as group water schemes (GWS).
By 2002, about 45,000 households received their drinking water supply from a privately-sourced GWS, according the census carried out that year. | Water charges are to be introduced for households across the Republic of Ireland within the next 24 hours. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | Chris Grayling was giving evidence to House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee where he dismissed the accuracy of TfL's estimate.
Last month the government backed building a third runway at Heathrow.
The Airports Commission estimated transport improvements would be £5bn.
But TfL responded to the commission's recommendations in October 2015 by insisting that figure "underestimates the actual cost by £10 to £15bn".
Mr Grayling said: "It's ludicrous, to be honest. I do not see where £15bn can come from if you look at what we're actually seeking to deliver around Heathrow Airport.
"It feels to me like somebody has taken every possible transport improvement in the whole of metropolitan London and thrown it into the mix, and probably funding a large chunk of Crossrail 2 out of it as well.
"I'm baffled as to where TfL manages to get a £15bn figure from because I don't know what you'd spend the money on."
The transport secretary said the cost of the runway crossing the M25 will be met "directly by the airport" while plans for rail links such as HS2, Crossrail and an improved London Underground Piccadilly line were already happening.
Heathrow would make a "financial contribution" towards further proposals to create rail links between the airport and the lines to Reading and Waterloo, Mr Grayling said.
The transport secretary added: "It will be a quantum step forward in public transport access to Heathrow.
"It will become by far the best connected airport in the country if you look at the different rail and Underground access it will have.
"I'm very satisfied that there is a very bold, comprehensive plan to deliver all that and I understand how it's going to be funded."
A TfL spokesman responded to the transport secretary's comments saying Heathrow expansion would "significantly increase demand for access to the airport".
He added: "Our expert analysis indicates approximately £15bn more investment will be needed beyond what is already committed and the key component of this is a new southern rail link from Waterloo to Heathrow.
"Thus far, the government have given no commitments to deliver this new rail link, despite the Airport's Commissions recommendation to do so and, without such a commitment, the aspirations for no increase in road traffic are not credible."
Network Rail has announced 31 projects in the city over the next five years including the electrification of the line between Bristol and London.
Doubling the track has been described as "fundamental" to the expansion of services in and around Bristol.
It will also allow for extra high speed trains between Bristol and London.
New platforms
"Reinstating the four lines between Temple Meads and Parkway is the arterial route around which the rest of the Bristol growing railway is going to be hung," said Mike Gallop, Network Rail's Route Asset Director.
The new tracks will be built on Filton Bank, making it possible for local passenger services to use the line.
"It's a very significant first step but it is a first step," said Rob Dixon from the campaign group Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways.
"Without this investment there can be no improvements in local services - things like the reopening of the line to Portishead, the Henbury Loop, improvements on the Severn Beach line and from Weston to Yate - which all need extra capacity and without that they just couldn't run. So these changes are a first step to what we want and need to see."
Charlotte Leslie, Conservative MP for Bristol North West, has campaigned for the reopening of the Henbury Loop.
"The four-tracking of Filton Bank is the basic infrastructure which makes other things possible," said Ms Leslie.
"But what I'd like to see is more ambition in getting Henbury station and Henbury Loop and our network of rail around the city open faster because Bristol is growing and our transport infrastructure isn't keeping up."
The package also includes building new platforms at Bristol Parkway and upgrading Bristol Temple Meads station. | The transport secretary has said he is "baffled" by warnings from Transport for London (TfL) that improving road and rail links to an expanded Heathrow Airport could cost up to £20bn.
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Reinstating four tracks between Bristol Parkway and Bristol Temple Meads is part of a £700m investment in the city's railway infrastructure. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | The charity says that although all ages are at risk, many older people would not have been aware of how to protect themselves four decades ago.
Figures show that 5,700 over-65s are diagnosed with the condition each year, compared to just 600 in the mid-1970s.
The condition can often be prevented by covering up and avoiding sunburn.
Around 13,300 people are diagnosed with malignant melanoma - the most serious form of skin cancer - each year in the UK. And 2,100 lives are lost to the disease annually.
Numbers are increasing across all age groups but the steepest rise is seen in over-65s.
The charity said all ages are benefitting from public health messages explaining the dangers of holiday sun.
Sue Deans, a 69-year old mother of three, was first diagnosed with skin cancer in 2000 and again in 2007.
She said: "I was part of the generation when package holidays became affordable and you could go abroad nearly every year.
"I don't think there was much understanding at the time about the impact that too much sun can have on your risk of getting skin cancer.
"And I loved the sun but suffered quite a bit of sunburn over the years."
She spotted signs of her cancer early on and has had successful surgery, but remains vigilant for anything that might need further checks.
Professor Richard Marais of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), said: "It is worrying to see melanoma rates increasing at such a fast pace, and across all age groups.
"It is important people keep an eye on their skin and seek medical opinion if they see any changes to their moles or even to normal areas of skin.
"Melanoma is often detected on men's backs and women's legs but can appear on any part of the body."
Research suggests that getting sunburnt just once every two years can increase the odds of developing malignant melanoma.
Dr Julie Sharp, head of health information at CRUK, said: "You can burn at home just as easily as you can on holiday, so remember to spend time in the shade, wear a T-shirt and a hat to protect your skin and regularly apply sunscreen that is at least factor 15 and has four stars."
Johnathon Major, from the British Association of Dermatologists, said: "The increasing incidence of skin cancer within the UK is alarming.
"As people are living longer, more people are reaching an age where they are at a higher risk.
"Interest in package holidays and in fashion tanning are among the reasons that more people are developing skin cancer.
"But it's crucial to remember that you don't have to go on holiday or use a sun bed to heighten your risk. Skin cancers can develop as a result of both short-term and long-term overexposure to the sun's rays within the UK." | A boom in cheap package holidays in the 1960s is partly behind the "worrying rise" in skin cancers in pensioners, Cancer Research UK suggests. |
Can you summarize the following information? | "On my plan they're going down. But by the time it's negotiated, they'll go up," Mr Trump told ABC's This Week.
He also apparently reversed his position on the minimum wage, telling the programme: "I'm allowed to change."
Mr Trump is all but certain to become the official Republican candidate for the November presidential election.
Several top Republicans have said they will not vote for him.
On the Democratic Party side, Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead over Bernie Sanders.
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Mr Trump's tax plan says the wealthiest individuals would get a tax break. But he told ABC his "optimum plan" would be negotiated with Democrats, but not be approved as such.
His top priorities would be lowering taxes on businesses and the middle class, not helping the rich.
On the minimum wage, Mr Trump said: "I haven't decided in terms of numbers. But I think people have to get more." He has previously said he is against increasing the minimum wage.
When asked about the change of position, the New York billionaire said: "I'm allowed to change. You need flexibility."
They had been due to walk out on Wednesday in a row over pay with Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board.
The union said the suspended strike would allow "further discussion of the health board's latest offer."
A spokeswoman said the health board was "fully committed to resolving the concerns of our staff".
About 80 staff, who are members of the Unison union, already staged a 24-hour strike on 25 January.
The latest strike had been due to affect Morriston, Neath Port Talbot and Princess of Wales hospitals.
The workers want "pay parity with colleagues doing the same job in other hospitals in Wales".
Mark Turner, Unison regional organiser said: "If there is no satisfactory outcome‎ to those talks, they are ready to resume and escalate the strikes on 22 and 23 of February."
Willett fired eight birdies and a bogey in a seven-par-under 65 at the K Club.
McIlroy posted a 67 as he bids to improve his recent poor form at his home tournament, which has seen him miss three straight cuts at the event.
England's Callum Shinkwin and Jaco Van Zyl lie a shot behind McIlroy, with Soren Kjeldsen, Ross Fisher, Martin Kaymer and Brett Rumford three under.
World number three McIlroy, whose Rory Foundation is hosting the tournament, is seeking a first win of the season after six top-10 finishes.
The Northern Irishman recorded three birdies on his front nine, and picked up a further three shots on his inward nine, including a birdie at the 18th.
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Willett showed much improved form after missing the cut at last week's Players Championship at Sawgrass, his first appearance since winning the first major of the season at Augusta.
The 28-year-old's round of 65 was only one shot off the course record set by South African Charl Schwartzel in 2003.
Heavy rain greeted the early starters but 2010 champion Fisher defied the difficult conditions to birdie three of the first five holes.
The Englishman's 69 saw him secure the clubhouse lead, along with two-time major winner Kaymer.
Shinkwin and Van Zyl bettered their scores by one, while defending champion Kjeldsen remains well in contention four shots off the lead, the same score as Australian Rumford.
Shane Lowry, who won the title as an amateur in 2009, ended one over, with 2007 champion Padraig Harrington five shots worse off after carding two double-bogeys on his front nine.
Graeme McDowell joined Lowry on one under, with Lee Westwood level par and European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke one over. | Presumptive US Republican nominee Donald Trump has said taxes for rich people may have to go up in an apparent reversal of his stated policy.
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Staff in the sterilisation and disinfection units at some south Wales hospitals have suspended strike action.
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Masters champion Danny Willett leads Rory McIlroy by two shots after the first round of the Irish Open. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | Tuesday's win against Hartlepool left the home side just outside the play-offs, but they are now down to 10th.
Colin Daniel grabbed a first-half opener for the Stags, tucking in from 12-yards before Lambe doubled the lead.
Tom Miller replied in stoppage time, but Mansfield hung on to remain six points short of the top seven.
The loss of the territory on the city's western edges was confirmed by the rebels themselves, as well as state media and UK-based monitors.
An estimated 275,000 people live under siege in the rebel-held east, where the UN says food rations are running out.
Meanwhile a Russian naval force led by an aircraft carrier is said to have moved into position off Syria.
Capt Sergei Artamonov, commander of the Admiral Kuznetsov, told Russian state media the battle group had arrived at its designated point in the eastern Mediterranean and was carrying out "joint tasks".
The naval deployment has raised fears that Russia, one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's closest allies in his fight against the rebels, will step up air strikes reported to have caused heavy civilian casualties.
On 28 October, rebels and Islamist militants in Aleppo began what they called an "epic battle" to break the siege, pounding government-held areas with hundreds of missiles.
After early advances, their progress slowed but they took over several strategic points in the west of the city.
On Saturday, it was confirmed that government forces had regained control of the al-Minian district and advanced into the al-Assad district.
"The epic battle for Aleppo has failed," Rami Abdurrahman, of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
The fighting left 508 people dead, including civilians and fighters from both sides, according to his organisation.
Ninety foreign fighters were among those killed on the rebel side while 83 Syrian soldiers, 28 Hezbollah militants and 41 other fighters from Iran and Iraq were killed on the government side, the Observatory estimates.
"We fought them in every street, house, neighbourhood and schools, and they used mosques to launch attacks,'' a Syrian government commander who identified himself as Nabil told al-Manar TV, the channel run by President Assad's Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.
Zakaria Malahifji, head of the political office of the Fastaqim rebel group fighting in Aleppo, confirmed the army's advance.
"Of course, when the regime takes control, it has a negative effect, but there is persistence," he was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
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The last remaining food rations are being distributed in rebel-held eastern districts of the city, UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland warned on Friday.
Without a resupply, there would be no food left to hand out next week, he said.
Mr Egeland ruled out airdrops of food, explaining that they were not possible in densely populated urban areas.
In other besieged towns like rebel-held Madaya north-west of Damascus, shortages of food, medical supplies and electricity have led to cases of severe malnutrition.
Aleppo, Syria's economic hub before the civil war began in 2011, has been divided between the two sides since 2012.
Heavy bombardment of rebel-held areas by Syrian and Russian aircraft this autumn provoked an international outcry.
Russia's air campaign in Syria, which began in September 2015 using planes mainly stationed at Hmeimim air base near Latakia, has shored up President Assad's position.
An air campaign by Western powers has focused on the Islamic State group, which controls large parts of north-eastern Syria.
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A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 11 and 18 August. Send your photos to [email protected] or via Instagram at #bbcscotlandpics | Mansfield Town kept faint hopes of a League Two play-off place alive as Reggie Lambe's goal secured victory away to fellow hopefuls Carlisle.
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Syrian government forces have retaken areas of the city of Aleppo that were lost to rebels in recent fighting.
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Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | The state worst hit is Puebla, where officials say 28 people died. Another 10 people were killed in the state of Veracruz.
Previously, the confirmed number of deaths was six.
Earl made landfall in Belize this week as a Category One hurricane, after causing destruction in the Caribbean.
The storm was later downgraded to a tropical depression but it still left a path of destruction in Mexico.
Most of the victims were in the remote town of Huauchinango, Puebla.
They died after their houses were engulfed by tonnes of mud and rocks.
A whole hill collapsed near Huauchinango, sweeping down on a nearby village, officials say.
"It is a tragedy what has happened to our people in Huauchinango," Mayor Gabriel Alvarado was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
Heavy rain continued in the region, forcing officials to close a section of the main federal motorway to the capital Mexico City.
Earlier this week, at least nine people died due to extreme weather in Haiti and the Dominican Republic as the storm passed over the Caribbean.
Five researchers have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize for their groundbreaking work.
The Breakthrough Prizes are awarded for recent achievements in fundamental physics, life sciences and mathematics.
The organisers describe them as the "biggest science awards in the world" as they offer the most prize money - $3m (£1.76m) for each.
Among the winners are Professor Richard Taylor, a British mathematician currently working at the Institute of Advance Studies in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a leader in the field of number theory and has helped to develop powerful new techniques to solve longstanding mathematical problems. He told BBC News that he felt "very surprised, excited and lucky" to win the award.
He said he had not decided what he would do with his prize money, but said he wanted spend it on something that would benefit his field.
"Mathematics is a team effort, involving collaboration and building on the work of one's colleagues so I want to find a way of giving something back to the community".
He said that such awards were important because they help to attract the "the best brains into science".
"Science has an undeserved reputation of being dry and unglamorous so anything that can be done to change that image is to be welcomed," he told BBC News.
The organisers' aim is to introduce some "razzmatazz" into science prizes, describing their winners as "the real rock stars".
The Breakthrough Prizes were launched by a group of philanthropic technology billionaires including Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, and Yuri Milner, founder of investment firm Digital Sky Technologies.
Mr Milner said the aim of the prize was to "cultivate a positive image of science and rationalism, and an optimistic view of humanity's future".
"Outside the field of entertainment, intellectual brilliance is under-capitalized in our society. 58 years ago, one of the most famous men on earth was not an actor, athlete or musician, but a theoretical physicist. Albert Einstein's face was on magazine covers, in newspapers and on television, worldwide," he said.
"His name was synonymous with genius. Yet most of today's top scientists - despite opening new windows onto the Universe, curing intractable diseases and extending human life - are unknown to the general public. The greatest thinkers of our age should be superstars, like the geniuses of screen and stadium."
Mark Zuckerberg said: "Mathematics is essential for driving human progress and innovation in this century. This year's Breakthrough Prize winners have made huge contributions to the field and we're excited to celebrate their efforts."
The other winners are: Simon Donaldson from Imperial College London; Maxim Kontsevich, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques in France; Jacob Lurie, Harvard University in Boston, and Terence Tao, University of California, in Los Angeles.
The prize for mathematics was launched last year to help redress the paucity of awards recognising achievement in the field. Others include the the Abel, Clay and Wolf prizes and the Fields Medal. | The death toll in Mexico's landslides and flooding has jumped to 38 after Tropical Storm Earl swept through the country's eastern regions.
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Please provide a summary for the content below. | The BBC's Tessa Wong takes a look at the incident and other notable and costly art mishaps.
The unnamed boy was walking around the Taipei gallery when he put his fist through a $1.5m (£960,000) painting by Italian artist Paolo Porpora.
Closed-circuit television footage showed him tripping over a low barrier and veering into the painting as he attempted to steady himself.
Taiwanese restorer Leo Tsai managed to patch it up within two days.
He told reporters that as the painting is very fragile "the priority is to strengthen its structure, not to retouch the paint on the damaged area".
The exhibition organisers have said they do not plan to seek compensation from the boy and his family.
In 2006, US casino magnate Steve Wynn famously punctured one of Pablo Picasso's most famous paintings, Le Reve.
Mr Wynn, who owned the painting at that time, was about to sell it to a friend.
He was showing the painting to a group of friends on the eve of the sale when he backed up and put his elbow through it, prompting some in the US media to dub it 'the $40m elbow'. The deal was called off.
But Mr Wynn managed to recoup his losses. In 2013 he sold the restored painting to the same friend at a higher price of $155m.
Also in 2006, a man smashed three Qing dynasty porcelain vases on a windowsill at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum when he tumbled down the stairs.
The vases were produced in the late 17th or early 18th Century in China, and were part of a set valued up to £300,000 at the time.
The museum spent six months restoring the vases, which are now housed in a specially designed case.
The widely publicised incident later inspired a German artist to replicate the scene of the smash in an artwork called Landing., and Fitzwilliam now sells a mini-jigsaw postcard of the vases. The man who tumbled down the stairs was not charged.
Another smashing incident that had a less fortuitous ending took place last year when Florida artist Maximo Caminero deliberately broke a vase by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Mr Caminero had walked into Miami's Perez Art Museum, picked up one of several urns by Ai, and threw it to the ground.
He was promptly arrested and later found guilty of criminal mischief. Caminero had to pay $10,000 for the damage, which was the appraised value of the urn.
He said he did it to protest against the museum's alleged preference to showcase international artists, and also because he saw the artwork as a "provocation" to join Ai in "an act of performance protest".
The pots were arranged in front of another artwork by Ai called Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, which are three giant photographs showing the Chinese artist smashing a vase.
He also said later he did not realise that the pot was so old and claimed he thought it was a "common clay pot from [US retailer] Home Depot".
The incident however provoked a discussion on what constituted contemporary art, not least because Ai himself has been criticised for destroying artworks by buying ancient urns, splashing them with paint, and smashing them.
Ai however told the South China Morning Post: "I smashed my own belongings whereas he broke others'. Behavioural art can go to extremes, like you can hurt yourself for instance, but you cannot hurt others for the sake of art, can you?" | A 17th Century painting inspired by Leonardo da Vinci is back on display after a 12-year-old Taiwanese boy accidentally punched a hole in it at an exhibition on Sunday. |
Summarize the provided section. | England batsman Jennings put on 45 with Mark Wood and reached three figures from 202 balls with 16 fours.
But they were all out for 250, setting Notts just 108 to win, and openers Greg Smith (60 not out) and Jake Libby (39) scored at over five runs per over.
Libby fell to Paul Coughlin, but they reached 110-1 in just 29.2 overs to go top of the Division Two table.
Durham's first home defeat in the Championship since 2015 - a run of 11 games - strengthens Nottinghamshire's status as favourites for the Division Two title.
Without rested England bowler Stuart Broad, seamers Jake Ball, James Pattinson, Luke Fletcher and Harry Gurney shared all 20 wickets to make it consecutive 22-point wins, following the opening round victory over Leicestershire.
They were unable to prevent a ninth century in the last year for Jennings though, with the 24-year-old batting through the entire second innings to reach three figures shortly after Wood was caught at mid-wicket for 21.
In response, Smith and Libby moved the score along briskly and although Libby was bowled by Coughlin, Samit Patel (10) arrived to help complete the chase.
Nottinghamshire head coach Peter Moores told BBC Radio Nottingham:
"I thought we played really well here, set up from how we bowled in our first innings.
"Samit Patel and Michael Lumb then played positively and from that moment we managed to dominate the game.
"There were two good attacks here and the pitch has been good throughout. This was a good advert for the county championship."
The defendants attacked seven victims, aged 13 to 15, in cars, woods or at the defendants' homes in Banbury.
Oxford Crown Court heard they lured victims to parties organised on social media and were found guilty in March.
At the same court, each of the men were handed sentences of between three and nine years.
Ahmed Hassan-Sule, 21, of Glyndebourne Gardens, was sentenced to nine years imprisonment, with a further five years on licence; Mohamed Saleh, 22, of Orchard Way, was jailed for four years and nine months; Said Saleh, 20, of Orchard Way, was jailed for four years; Takudzwa Hova, 21, of Broughton Road, was sentenced to six years with a further four years on licence; and Kagiso Manase, 21, of Warwick Road, received five years.
Zsolt Szaltoni, 18, of Portway, was sentenced to three years in a young offenders institution.
Speaking after the sentencing, one of the gang's victims, who was 14 at the time, said she was attacked in a car after attending a party organised on Facebook.
"I got in the car because the others left and I was on my own and I didn't know what to do, so I just went with them," she told the BBC.
"I was in the back of the car but I was in the middle... I was just scared. I didn't know what to do, but they'd planned it beforehand.
"They would talk their language... and I didn't understand it."
The girl said, after the party, the abuse continued.
"It gradually started to become more people. He asked me if I would work for him and I said 'No' and I just laughed it off but, as I realise now, I did it without even knowing - [I did] sex work.
"I thought it was okay, because I was brainwashed. They made me think it was my decision but it wasn't."
The abuse was uncovered after a member of the Kingfisher team - a multi-agency operation tackling child exploitation in Oxfordshire - came to see the victim at school.
She said: "I know there's more girls so it's quite disappointing that they don't have the courage to come forward.
"I just think I'm so lucky because there are lots of other girls who aren't lucky."
The girl said it was her ambition to work in the Kingfisher team and help others who have been in her situation.
She said: "It's important for me to do that. It's closure isn't it?"
The verdicts were - | Nottinghamshire wrapped up a second Championship win of 2017, despite 102 not out by Durham's Keaton Jennings.
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A gang of five men and a teenager who subjected underage girls to sexual abuse in Oxfordshire after grooming them have been jailed. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | The centre will employ 15 people, including software engineers and business analysts.
It will be led by Gary Kennedy, the company co-founder, who began his career at Newry-based First Derivatives.
The project is supported with an Invest NI grant of £75,000.
Mr Kennedy said the company had considered other locations but "the strength of the talent pool, the proximity to Queen's University and the support from Invest NI" made Belfast the best option.
Clarus operates in international capital markets and provides data, analytics and research services to its customers, who include investment bankers, hedge fund managers and regulators from the the UK, the US and Europe. | Clarus, a London-based financial technology firm, is to establish a research and development centre in Belfast. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Linfield said the individual was not a Club Member or season ticket holder.
"We have begun an investigation to establish how they were able to obtain a match ticket," they added.
Celtic, who won the game 4-0 to complete a 6-0 aggregate victory, have been charged by Uefa over an "illicit banner" displayed during the match.
A Uefa spokesperson said that the charge related to the banner "portraying a person in a paramilitary uniform".
That case will be dealt with by the Uefa control, ethics and disciplinary body on Friday.
Trouble in the first leg in Belfast led to Linfield being handed a partial stadium closure for their next European tie and fined £8,850 following incidents at Windsor Park.
Uefa imposed the penalties after objects were thrown at Celtic players in the second-round qualifier.
Linfield's South Stand lower section 1 will be closed for one European game.
"We continue to co-operate with the PSNI over the events of the first leg and are hopeful that individuals who have now been identified will shortly appear before the courts," Linfield said on Tuesday.
"Linfield note that the local courts have the power to issue banning orders against individuals convicted of criminal offences in football stadia and would be fully supportive of such punishments being invoked in the event of convictions arising from this match."
Celtic's Leigh Griffiths received a one-match ban for provoking spectators while his club were fined £4,000.
Griffiths tied a Celtic scarf to a goalpost after the final whistle in Belfast.
The picture, showing Ieshia Evans calmly standing in front of two heavily body-armoured police officers during a #Blacklivesmatter protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, went viral at the weekend.
Black Lives Matter protest photo hailed as 'legendary'
Among the most prominent people to share the image on Facebook was Shaun King, a senior justice reporter with the New York Daily News newspaper with more than 560,000 followers.
Ms Evans has responded to the furore via Facebook, where she said: "I appreciate the well wishes and love, but this is the work of God. I am a vessel!"
The photo garnered messages of respect and admiration from friends and supporters on her Facebook wall.
And strangers on Twitter offered words of praise using the terms #BlackLivesMatter and #LeshiaEvans.
Many on social media felt that this was a remarkable moment captured on film and compared it to another iconic image from almost 30 years ago.
Others, however, were less convinced of the image's importance.
Produced by the BBC's UGC and Social News team | Linfield have given a lifetime ban to an "individual" convicted of a criminal offence committed during the Champions League tie at Celtic on 19 July.
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The woman at the centre of a frenzy over a recent photograph taken during protests in the US has taken to social media to thank people for support and attribute her actions to God. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | And ministers say the other governments are "pretty clear" about what the UK actually wants. But speak to EU leaders at this summit, and you get a rather different picture. Two of them suggested to me that the UK is yet to put proper details on the table.
The Finnish Prime Minister Joha Sipila says he has not seen any concrete proposals from the UK. And the Estonian Prime Minister too, Taavi Royvas, has said they'd talked about "directions" but are yet to focus on detail.
Both countries want the UK to stay in the European Union and want to help but if the talks are going as well as Number 10 claims, doesn't it seem a bit surprising that other leaders aren't sure yet precisely what's being asked?
Norway though have been supporting David Cameron's claim though that a looser relationship, like the one they have, would not be right for Britain.
They are not in the EU, but instead in a trading agreement and still have to abide by Brussels' rules. Their PM, Erna Solberg, told me that wouldn't be right for a "big country" like Britain. Norway, she said can "live with it" but, Britain, certainly not.
Instead, unlike her Icelandic counterpart, who told us yesterday that Britain should look at an alternative to being part of the EU, the Norwegian leader believes strongly Britain should stay in.
This debate is proving very tricky for David Cameron, but that's one message he'll be pleased to hear. | David Cameron would dearly love to be able to get the EU referendum out of the way as soon as possible, rather than drag it out until the end of 2017. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | The "stealthy" Linux/moose botnet has one goal: infecting connected devices with malware in order to create and sell social media credibility.
Researchers have been tracking the botnet since 2015.
Now they have new research into what they call the "ego market" for fake online fame the botnet is feeding.
Canadian researchers Masarah-Cynthia Paquet-Clouston, a criminologist with the University of Montreal, and Olivier Bilodeau, with cybersecurity consultancy firm GoSecure, are behind the award-winning research into the lucrative world of buying and selling "followers" and "likes" on social media networks.
Ms Paquet-Clouston said it is a global marketplace, with buyers from "Brazil, Kuwait, China, everywhere. It seems to be worldwide."
So who is seeking out all this fake online credibility and profile?
Accounts of aspiring celebrities and models, small businesses, and online retailers are those typically buying batches of "likes" openly advertised for sale online.
Average people are also paying to inflate their social media presence.
"There are a lot, a lot, a lot of just common people looking for fame," she said.
Because so many of the accounts that bought the fake likes were "highly self-centered," they dubbed it the "ego market".
Ms Paquet-Clouston also said the fraud scheme being run by the Linux/moose botnet creators is an almost perfect crime, with no direct victims and a lot of potential profitability.
The average price for 1,000 Instragram follows is $15.98 (£12.80), although the researchers note there is a huge pricing range.
Creating fake social media accounts that then like and follow other accounts is not illegal but it goes against the terms of service of social media networks like Instagram. The purchase of Facebook and Instagram likes and Twitter followers is openly advertised online.
"What's illegal and criminal is doing it through a botnet, through infected devices," Ms Paquet-Clouston said.
The botnet can take advantage of all kinds of connected devices like routers, even "smart" appliances like fridges, toasters, and coffeemakers because, unlike most home computers, they lack antivirus and security software.
The malicious program got its name because the file containing its attack code is called elan - French for moose.
Ms Paquet-Clouston and Mr Bilodeau hope that their research will spur law enforcement and hosting providers to do more to target this criminal scheme.
"If we don't raise people's awareness on social media fraud, there's a demand and there's a supply and it's likely to continue," said Ms Paquet-Clouston.
They next part of their research is looking for online actors behind the botnet. | Malicious software lurking in unprotected wi-fi routers is feeding the illicit online market for fake social media "likes". |
Summarize the content provided below. | David Lancaster, 60, struck wife Helen, 54, six times with the weapon and smothered her with a pillow at their home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The father of one took the sledgehammer from the garden shed before creeping upstairs, Bristol Crown Court was told.
Lancaster must serve at least 11 years and nine months in prison before he can be considered for parole.
Judge Neil Ford said a house owned by the couple in Lincoln - which was in Mrs Lancaster's name but had been bought by Lancaster with money he had inherited - was a source of "further annoyance and upset" for the defendant, who killed his teacher wife on 30 September.
The judge told him: "Your relationship had been in difficulty for some time.
"You suspected she had been having an affair with another man. On 20 August your suspicions were confirmed and you confronted Helen".
He added: "I have no doubt that you began to contemplate the benefit of killing your wife.
"Helen had revealed to friends that you had accused her of stealing your inheritance."
The judge told Lancaster: "You said you had been driven to commit murder by the way your wife had treated you and your daughter.
"You also said what you had done was less serious than what your wife had done to you and Amy.
"You have effectively deprived your daughter Amy of both her parents."
After the attack Lancaster fled the house, driving to a beach at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, where he was later arrested.
He rang the police and confessed to murdering his wife and told them where to find her body.
Lancaster pleaded guilty to murder at a previous hearing.
Firth, who will transfer from ITM Cup side Counties Manukau, made two appearances for the Chiefs in Super Rugby last season.
"We've been tracking Jarrod for some time in the ITM Cup," Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend said.
"He's built a very good reputation as a strong scrummager."
Townsend added: "Initially, he'll be working with our conditioning staff as we start to get him integrated into the rugby we aspire to play.
"Jarrod has made a big commitment in coming to Scotland and we believe he'll fit in really well at Scotstoun and add further competition in our front row."
Firth, who has made 25 appearances for Counties Manukau over the last three seasons, said: "Everyone I spoke to had great things to say about the club and the city, so I jumped at the chance to get over here.
"Glasgow have had a few Kiwis before and they've always done well, so there is no reason why I can't be successful too."
Firth knows Warriors scrum-half Grayson Hart, having faced him in New Zealand.
"I played against Grayson in my younger days and it's good to see him doing well here," he said.
"I hope I can earn the chance to pull on the jersey."
The money raised from the sale of Beautiful Beautiful George Michael Love Painting will go to HIV/Aids charity The Goss-Michael Foundation.
The charity was founded by Michael and his former partner Kenny Goss.
Goss posted an image of the artwork on Instagram, writing: "Amazing result of $580,000 (around £461,011)."
He described Damien Hirst as a "superstar", adding: "Thank you Damien!"
The canvas went under the hammer in Dallas, Texas, at the MTV Re:define charity gala.
Michael, who enjoyed a lucrative pop career as one half of duo Wham before embarking on a successful solo career, died on Christmas Day last year at the age of 53.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | A man who murdered his wife with a sledgehammer because she was having an affair has been jailed for life.
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Summarize the information in the following section. | Porter scored 16 goals for the U's in 2016-17, his best season for a decade, but turned down the offer of a new contract from the Essex club.
The 33-year-old, who began his career at Bury, played for Oldham Athletic, Motherwell and Derby County before joining Sheffield United in 2011.
Porter is the third summer signing by boss David Artell for Crewe, who finished 17th in League Two.
They have also brought in fellow striker Jordan Bowery, who arrived initially on loan from Orient in January, as well as Carlisle United defender Michael Raynes.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
For more local news and sport, BBC Local Live: Staffordshire & Cheshire | Crewe have signed Colchester forward Chris Porter on a two-year deal. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | The Gulls went down 1-0, having scored nine goals in their two previous games against high-flying Forest Green.
"They went away from the game plan and started going off script and they beat themselves," Nicholson said.
"I'm very disappointed with the application of the lads throughout the week and they owe the supporters and me a hell of a lot more."
The loss kept the Gulls in 17th place in the National League, just five points above the relegation places.
"They turned up to training on Wednesday looking like they've made it after two good performances and after a good run of form," Nicholson told BBC Radio Devon.
"But we are not good enough to turn up on a Saturday at 80%, we have to be at it. If we're at it we can beat anybody.
"But if we turn up thinking we've cracked it, that's what you get."
Richard Collins, 49, from Bedfordshire, broke his forearm after crashing near Tilbrook, Cambridgeshire, on Sunday.
Two 999 and two 101 calls were made between 16:00 BST and 18:15, but no-one arrived until 18:40.
He was eventually taken to Bedford Hospital in a Bedfordshire Police car.
"It was miscommunication, the left hand didn't seem to know what the right hand was doing," he said.
Mr Collins, a service engineer from Everton, near Sandy, was riding on the B645, near where the borders of Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire meet, when he crashed into a ditch to avoid oncoming traffic.
Mr Collins said a member of the public made the first 999 call at 16:00 and left shortly afterwards.
But when no-one had arrived by 17:15 he called emergency services himself and was told an ambulance and police car were on their way.
He then made further calls at 18:10 and 18:15, before a police car arrived nearly half an hour later.
"It was very painful and uncomfortable as my forearm was bent at right-angles," he said.
"I was being passed from pillar-to-post. Apparently there's been an apology, but I haven't received it personally.
"All the police forces need to look at their emergency call procedures, especially when dealing with cases on their borders."
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said investigations have since confirmed the incident did take place in Bedfordshire by a few metres, but stated "it remains clear that a better response should have been given by all three forces".
Bedfordshire Police has referred the matter to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
East Midlands Ambulance Service said it was asked to attend the call, which was outside its patch, but due to the high level of emergencies and because Mr Collins' condition was deemed non-life threatening, it could not respond "as quickly as we would have liked".
The Health, Social Security and Housing Scrutiny Panel held- a six month-long review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
It said the service was failing to fully support patients and families and referral waiting times had increased.
The Health Department said it was considering the report.
The panel said it was calling for a service that was appropriate for the needs of the island and individuals after its investigations received more than 50 submissions from service users.
Source: Health Scrutiny Panel report
The report said parents "did not believe their child was on a pathway to get well".
The panel said the complexities of mental health meant it could not be viewed as a nine-to-five illness, which is currently when CAMHS operates on weekdays.
It said that, outside working hours - including 10:00 to 12:00 at weekends - parents had had to call police or the island's hospital emergency department for help.
Some children had been in cells or children's hospital wards because there was nowhere else for them to go.
The panel heard that, at times, patients prone to violent outbursts at home left parents with no choice but to call police.
Investigators were "alarmed" to discover that, on occasion, police cells had been used to hold them "due to a lack of adequate facilities".
The Health and Social Services Department said it would respond fully to the report after it had had a chance to discuss it.
The health minister was due to publish an official response within six weeks, the panel said. | Torquay United manager Kevin Nicholson says his side's poor build-up was the reason they lost to Boreham Wood.
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Can you write a short summary of this section? | The Information Commissioner's Office found Virgin Trains East Coast should have taken better care to obscure other passengers' faces, however.
The footage showed him bypassing seats.
So-called Traingate rolled into action when the Labour leader claimed he could not find a seat on the train in August last year.
He was filmed sitting instead on the floor and talking about the train being packed, in a video on the Guardian's website.
He said more trains were needed, they were incredibly expensive and asked if that was a case for public ownership?
Sir Richard Branson, who co-owns the rail operator with Stagecoach, responded and posted a link to the images of Mr Corbyn walking past empty seats on Twitter.
Mr Corbyn was seated later in the journey and subsequently said he had wanted two seats together.
The commission investigated the video release after media reports about the incident.
It ruled Virgin had a legitimate interest in using the footage outside published conditions - to correct misleading news reports potentially damaging its reputation and interests.
It said Mr Corbyn would have had different privacy expectations to other passengers.
Of three other people recognisable in the footage, the ICO said the train operator had infringed on their privacy when they were "simply minding their own business".
But there will be no further action as it was a "one-off" that had been unlikely to cause distress, the ICO said.
A Virgin Trains spokesperson said they welcomed the report, which acknowledged the incident's unique nature.
The spokesperson said the company had already implemented the improvements to procedures that were suggested.
Sandra Brotherton was found dead by relatives at the house in Redwood Drive in Bredbury, Stockport, on New Year's Eve in 2014.
A post-mortem examination found the 60-year-old died from blood loss as a result of multiple stab wounds.
Her son David, 30, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order at Manchester Crown Court.
He admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Senior investigating officer Duncan Thorpe said Brotherton had "a history of mental health problems" and was "clearly not well" when he attacked his mother.
He said the death had "devastated a family [who] have had to come to terms with the shock and distress of losing Sandra".
The man, 55, and the 52-year-old woman were found dead at the house in Inglis Avenue, Port Seton, on Friday afternoon.
Police were called to the scene at about 15:45.
A Police Scotland spokesman confirmed that both deaths were being treated as "unexplained" and inquiries were ongoing.
He added that a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.
Temporary Sgt David Andrew Gibson, 43, is accused of misconduct in a public office. He has been suspended by Merseyside Police.
He is being investigated by the force's Anti-Corruption Unit, managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
The officer is due before Liverpool City Magistrates on 18 June.
A minute's silence was held before the home game in the Championship against Ipswich Town.
A special programme filled with people's memories has been sold.
The tragedy at the FA Cup sixth round was the worst loss of life at an English football ground before the 1980s.
On Wednesday, the anniversary date, a pitch-side service will take place at 15:00 GMT with a special book of remembrance dedicated listing the dead and placed on display in the Macron Stadium's reception.
Flags will be flying at half-mast all week.
On Saturday, when the team play Preston North End at home, players will wear a special third shirt emblazoned with 33 names of the dead.
Money raised from the sale of 1,000 of these replica shirts will be presented to a young person's charity.
Some estimates claim 85,000 people were at the match between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City in a ground which should have held at least 20,000 fewer fans.
Bolton played their last game in 1997 at Burnden Park, which was demolished in 1999.
A memorial was unveiled by the late Nat Lofthouse in 2000 at the Asda store built on the site. | A train company which released CCTV footage of Jeremy Corbyn looking for a seat did not break data protection law, a watchdog has ruled.
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Summarize the content provided below. | Jean Galligan, 82, from Dumfries, died when her car caught fire after it was involved in a collision with a Vauxhall Zafira on 14 May.
Police Scotland said Mrs Galligan was driving a red Daihatsu which was burnt out as a result of the accident on the A76 at Holywood.
Neither the driver nor the front seat passenger in the Zafira were injured.
Christopher Keeling, 58, attacked Ann Robinson in December 2000.
Miss Robinson died in 2014 and a post-mortem examination found her death was directly linked to the assault.
Keeling, of Selby Road, Thorne, Doncaster, who was originally convicted of attempted murder in 2001, admitted murder at Sheffield Crown Court.
He was sentenced to life, and ordered to serve a minimum of 18 years in jail, less the time he had previously served.
Read more about this and other stories from across South Yorkshire
Ms Robinson was living with Keeling in their home in Truro Avenue, Wheatley, Doncaster, when he attacked her on 28 December.
She was taken to hospital with significant and life-threatening injuries, which resulted in her requiring 24-hour medical care.
In March 2014, Miss Robinson, 58, was admitted to hospital where she died.
Det Con Ian Honeybone said the force had worked closely with medical professionals and the Crown Prosecution Service to build a case to prosecute Keeling for murder.
He said: "This may seem like an unusual step, but extensive medical assessment concluded that the brutal and sustained attack on Ann in December 2000 significantly contributed to her death in March 2014.
"Her health was forever changed as a result of Keeling's actions that night. Ann survived extensive injuries but needed round-the-clock care and medical support."
He added he was pleased Keeling had accepted responsibility for his actions but his guilty plea was "small consolation" for her family after 17 years.
St Ninian's Parish Church in Newtownabbey is expected to close in a few months' time.
The church, which has stood on the Whitewell Road for 51 years, has a columbarium underneath the building for urns containing the cremated remains of parishioners.
Rev Elaine O'Brien said changing demographics in the area meant the church had an ageing congregation "and it's no longer financially sustainable".
"That means the remains have to be disinterred and reinterred elsewhere," she said.
"I have managed to track down some family members but there are still a few that are outstanding.
"We are legally bound to put the advert in local newspapers for three months to see if anyone comes forward."
If the ashes are not claimed, the Church of Ireland rector said they would be moved to the garden of rest at St John's Church on the Shore Road.
"It means that if someone comes along in a few years' time looking to trace their family tree or whatever, they'll be able to find their relatives," she said.
Columbarium, from the Latin columba, or dove, originally referred to a shelter for doves or pigeons.
The term now refers to a site for the "respectful and usually public" storage of urns containing a deceased's cremated remains.
The baby's grandmother was walking alongside the river, near Victoria Street, on Friday when the pram she was pushing fell in the water.
James Williams and Andy Hill jumped in the river while Mickey Bramall fetched a life buoy before giving the youngster first aid.
West Mercia Police said the men's quick thinking averted a tragedy.
"We heard an almighty scream and shriek, turned around and saw the pram had gone over the edge," said Mr Williams.
"We instantly turned around and myself and Andy jumped straight into the river and Mickey went to get the life buoy."
Mr Hill said he was "really panicking" but said he did "what any parent would do" in his situation.
Mr Williams said it was a struggle to remove the baby from the pushchair because she was strapped in but they managed to get her to safety.
The youngster was taken by ambulance to Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and has since made a full recovery.
Mr Williams said the hundreds of messages of praise they had received following the rescue were reward in themselves.
The baby's mother told BBC Midlands Today it was difficult to put into words how grateful she was.
Det Insp Paul Mathison said the men were "incredibly heroic". | A woman killed in a road accident near Dumfries has been named by police.
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Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | Kevin Nunes, 20, a suspected drug dealer from Wolverhampton, was found dead in Pattingham, Staffordshire.
Five men jailed for his murder were cleared on appeal in March 2012.
The report was published following Freedom of Information requests made by the Express and Star newspaper.
The Staffordshire Police report from November 2006 concluded the "sensitive policing unit" needed "radical restructuring".
For more on this story and other Staffordshire news
The redacted copy of the 2006-07 Management Review said a complaint by an officer "exposed failings in the structure, procedures, working practices, culture and management" of the unit, which was later disbanded.
The report detailed failings including a breakdown in trust between officers, concerns over officers drinking, poor morale and friction between staff members.
It found a decision to change staff assigned to protected witnesses in the Nunes murder case created "open resentment" and "unrest" within the unit.
It also led to complaints by the witnesses against one officer.
The review was commissioned following an informal meeting between the head of the unit and the head of professional standards at Staffordshire Police at the team - Supt Jane Sawyers, who is now Staffordshire's Chief Constable.
It said the review team concentrated in particular on the unit's involvement with the Nunes investigation, "which was the main reason why DI [name redacted] decided to approach Supt Sawyers".
In March 2012 five men convicted of Mr Nunes' murder were cleared by the Appeal Court.
The court heard concerns about the credibility of the key prosecution witness were not disclosed to the defence.
Two of the men cleared have begun legal action against the force.
Staffordshire Police said the "sensitive policing unit" was disbanded in 2007 and the management of protected witnesses had been carried out on a national basis since 2012.
Last March, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said four senior officers, including Chief Constable Sawyers, would not face misconduct hearings over claims they failed to declare evidence in relation to the shooting of Mr Nunes.
The watchdog said it found "no evidence of a cover-up or of wilful omission".
Nick Baker, Deputy Chief Constable in Staffordshire, said: "The content of the report shows that the actions of some of those in the unit 10 years ago is not one that now, or at the time, met the high standards we expect of officers and staff working for Staffordshire Police.
"Any mistakes or misconduct were of a professional, not criminal nature, and tackled according to the force's disciplinary process, as set out in the review."
David Becker, a school sports star, was sentenced to probation after admitting indecently assaulting two 18-year-old girls at a party in Massachusetts.
Prosecutors wanted a two-year sentence.
But the chief justice of the Massachusetts district court said "procedures followed in this case were lawful", the Boston Globe reports.
Judge Paul Dawley said the sentencing judge, Thomas Estes, "exercised his sentencing discretion in accordance with the governing law".
After being sentenced last week, Becker was compared to Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner, who was jailed for six months for sexual assault, sparking outrage.
The judge in that case, Aaron Persky, requested to be removed from hearing criminal cases after receiving death threats.
Becker was a football, basketball and volleyball player at East Longmeadow High School.
If he meets all conditions of his probation, the charges will be dismissed and Becker will not have to register as a sex offender.
But there are still avenues to challenge the Becker sentence.
The man who requested the review, Michael Albano, a former Springfield mayor who is running for sheriff in the county where the school is located, wants it reviewed again, by an independent body.
Mr Estes is not permitted to speak about the case. | A confidential report highlighted concerns about officers drinking alcohol on duty and poor morale among staff looking after protected witnesses following a gangland murder in 2002.
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Provide a summary of the section below. | Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has written to Mr Osborne demanding details of the settlement.
He has also asked whether the chancellor or his advisers were involved in the arrangement.
Senior Tory MP David Davis said the amount of back tax Google has agreed to pay was a "very small number".
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has defended the deal, with a senior official insisting that it was collecting the "full tax due in law".
Jim Harra, HMRC's head of business tax, told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "We only accept the full amount of tax, interest and penalties that is due, otherwise if we can't reach an agreement on that amount we will go to tribunal. We certainly don't apply any rate of tax other than the statutory rate that Parliament has published."
Mr McDonnell has asked when Mr Osborne was first aware of the deal and whether he or a ministerial colleague personally signed it off.
The shadow chancellor also queried whether Number 10 was involved in discussions about the deal before it was announced.
Claims that the settlement covering 10 years from 2005 amounted to a 3% tax rate have been rejected by officials and ministers.
However, Mr McDonnell asked: "What is HMRC's understanding of the effective tax rate faced by Google over the past 10 years as a result of this settlement?"
"I know that many are concerned about the tax treatment of large companies and it is important for public trust that HMRC is fair and transparent in its dealings with such companies."
Mr McDonnell said there appeared to be disagreement between No 10 and No 11 about the significance of the deal, but Downing Street rejected the suggestion.
"The prime minister and the chancellor are of the same mind on this," a Downing Street spokesman said. "This was a good deal." | George Osborne faces further questions over the Google tax deal, with calls for greater transparency about how the £130m settlement was reached. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | Known for having popularised horror manga globally, Mr Mizuki was best known for his series Gegege no Kitaro, about a young boy fighting monsters based on Japanese folklore. It was also made into an animated series that ran for several years.
Death, destruction and rebirth were common themes in his work, many of which were also based on his personal experiences during World War Two, where he lost his left arm.
Tributes poured in from grieving fans on Twitter, with many using Mr Mizuki's characters and stories to pay tribute to him.
"The death of a master. Sayonara, Mizuki san," tweeted a fan in Tokyo.
"Sensei Mizuki has passed on. Farewell and I hope you'll enjoy yourself along with your yokai in the afterlife," said Sean Long on Facebook referring to yokai - the ghost characters from his manga novels.
Japanese Twitter users also discussed Mr Mizuki's influence and remembered his famous wartime injury.
"He lost his dominant hand but made a career on the one he had left," said Twitter user Niyai.
"Imagine Roald Dahl and Doctor Seuss put together," said one fan. "He's been in our national psyche ever since we can remember."
One user, nyororo shared illustrations on her account, honouring Mr Mizuki's work.
A huge fan, she told the BBC she used to practice drawing Kitaro, one of Mr Mizuki's most famous characters, when she was little.
Death has been one of the most reoccurring themes in Mr Mizuki's work.
"He taught us to embrace death and more importantly, showed us how to accept and celebrate strangeness in the world," said another user.
One of the most popular tributes to Mr Mizuki on social media came from a fan ryokuhatudoumei who tweeted an imaginary conversation between the grim reaper and the late manga artist.
Death arrives and Mizuki asks where he's being taken to
"To hell, of course."
"Oh my, is this because I caused so much trouble?"
"No. All the yokai (creatures) in hell want your autograph."
In a decree, President Vladimir Putin accused the US of creating "a threat to strategic stability, as a result of unfriendly actions" towards Russia.
Moscow also set pre-conditions for the US for the deal to be resumed.
Under the 2000 deal, each side is supposed to get rid of 34 tonnes of plutonium by burning it in reactors.
It is part of cuts to nuclear forces.
The US state department said the combined 68 tonnes of plutonium was "enough material for approximately 17,000 nuclear weapons". Both sides had reconfirmed the deal in 2010.
In a separate development, the US said it was suspending talks with Russia over the Syrian crisis.
Washington said Moscow had not lived up to the terms of last month's ceasefire agreement, which has since collapsed.
Russia said it regretted the decision, accusing the US of trying to shift the blame on to Russia over the failed deal.
In Monday's decree (in Russian), President Putin said Russia had to take "urgent measures to defend the security of the Russian Federation".
In April, Mr Putin said the US was failing to fulfil its obligations to destroy plutonium. Instead, he argued, the US reprocessing method allowed plutonium to be extracted and used again in nuclear weapons.
Both sides had agreed to build special facilities for disposing of the surplus plutonium.
"We fulfilled our duties, we built that enterprise. But our American partners did not," Mr Putin said.
The US rejected that claim, insisting that its disposal method did not violate the agreement.
Also on Monday, President Putin submitted a bill (in Russian) to parliament setting a series of pre-conditions for the US for the agreement to be resumed, including:
The US - as well as the European Union - imposed a series of sanctions against Russia following the annexation by Moscow of Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula in 2014, and Russia's support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Tensions between Washington and Moscow rose further last month over Russia's bombing campaign in Syria, which some have described as a "war crime".
Russian planes are helping Syrian government forces to hit rebel groups, some of which are supported by the US and its Gulf Arab allies.
Russia is currently modernising its nuclear arsenal. | Manga fans around the world are mourning the death of famed Japanese artist Shigeru Mizuki, who died on Monday.
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Summarize this article briefly. | Un o'r rhain ydy Sarah Tyler Davies o Gaernarfon. Bu'n siarad gyda Cymru Fyw i esbonio'n fanwl y diwrnod wnaeth arwain at ei phenderfyniad i gael tatŵ:
Dwi wedi dioddef efo problemau i 'nghalon ers i fi gael fy ngeni.
Ges i fy ngeni efo congenital heart defect, sef transposition of the greater arteries. Roedd fy nghalon y ffordd arall rownd, ac felly roeddwn i'n un o'r rhain oedd yn cael eu galw'n blue babies.
Doedd y galon ddim yn gallu pwmpio digon o waed o gwmpas y corff ac felly roedd babanod yn tueddu i edrych yn las oherwydd y diffyg ocsigen.
Pan o'n i tua wyth mis oed ges i open heart surgery wnaeth drwsio'r galon am ychydig, a llawdriniaeth arall pan o'n i tua naw oed a 14 oed. Wnaeth y triniaethau hyn olygu bod fi wedi medru byw bywyd gwbl normal a llawn am fwyafrif fy ieuenctid.
Es i i'r coleg, ro'n i'n gweithio'n llawn amser, mynd allan ar benwythnosau, yfed, smocio, a ges i ddau o blant. Er bod fi'n gwybod bod fy nghalon ddim yn gwbl 100%, doedd dim rheswm gen i feddwl fod yn rhaid cymryd gofal arbennig.
Ond un dydd, chwe blynedd yn ôl, ddigwyddodd rhywbeth wnaeth 'neud i fi ail-asesu fy mywyd yn gyfan gwbl.
O'n i 'di dechra' pendwmpian ar y settee efo'r gŵr, ac roedd y ddau ohono' ni wedi syrthio'i gysgu. Ond yn sydyn wnaeth y ci ddechra' aflonyddu a mynd ati i ddeffro'r gŵr.
Drwy lwc, wnaeth hwnnw sylweddoli bod rhywbeth o'i le a dechreuodd roi CPR a mouth to mouth tan i'r ambiwlans gyrraedd. Ro'n i wedi dioddef cardiac arrest sydyn ac annisgwyl, ac oni bai am y ci, fyddwn ni siŵr o fod ddim yma heddiw.
Yn blwmp ac yn blaen, ro'n i wedi mynd. Dim pỳls, dim curiad.
Dwi'n cofio dim o'r diwrnod hynny... dim o gwbl. Ac mi gymrodd hi ryw chwech i naw mis i mi gofio beth oedd wedi digwydd y diwrnod cyn y cardiac arrest.
Ro'n i mewn coma am ryw dri diwrnod tra bod y corff yn cael amser i drwsio'i hun. Wnaeth y doctoriaid esbonio bod fy nghalon ar y noson wedi dechrau curo ar gyflymder o 400 curiad y funud... i'w gymharu gyda thua 140-160 i berson cyffredin. Doedd hi ddim yn bosib i 'nghalon i barhau fel yna am hir ac felly... mi stopiodd.
Gymrodd hi amser hir i fi ddygymod â hyn ac roedd dod wyneb yn wyneb â'r ffeithiau am fy mhrofiad wedi newid fy agwedd at fywyd, y ffordd o'n i'n ymddwyn, y ffordd fyddai'n codi'r plant, bob dim.
Nes i stopio smocio ac yfed (yn wreiddiol, do'n i ddim hyd yn oed yn cofio bod fi'n arfer smocio tan i fy chwaer atgoffa fi!)
Wnes i ddechrau cymryd gofal o'r hyn o'n i'n bwyta ac erbyn hyn dwi 'di colli tua thair stôn... dim achos mod i wedi stopio bwyta'n gyfan gwbl, jest bwyta'n gall.
O ganlyniad, rŵan mae gen i pacemaker, ac ICD, sef defibrillator, sydd yn rhoi sioc i fi os ydy 'nghalon i'n curo'n gyflymach na 210 curiad y funud. Y ddau beiriant yma sy'n cadw 'nghalon i dan reolaeth.
Ond rhyw chwe wythnos wedi'r cardiac arrest, wnaeth fy nghorff ddechrau ymosod ar y gwifrau, a thra roeddwn ni yn y gawod, dechreuodd yr ICD rhoi shocksi fi. Roedd o fel bod rhywun wedi mynd â crowbar a tharo fi ar fy mhen... fel rhyw fath o thud.
Do'n i methu dallt be' oedd o'i le.... nes i gau fy llygaid, a wnaeth o ddigwydd eto. Dyna pryd nes i sylweddoli taw'r peiriant oedd wedi mynd off.
Ar ôl cyrraedd Ysbyty Gwynedd, wnaeth y doctoriaid ddarganfod bod y peiriant wedi administratio rhyw 40-50 o shocks... mewn rhyw 15 munud, a nes i ond teimlo rhyw 15 ohonyn nhw.
Gymrodd hi fisoedd i mi ddygymod â'r newid, ac am gyfnod hir, ro'n i'n ofni fyddai'r un peth yn digwydd eto. Ro'n i mewn ofn cyson. Ar ôl misoedd o deimlo fel hyn, nes i benderfynu cael y tatŵ.
Ro'n i wedi cael un o'r blaen gydag enwau'r plant ar fy nghefn, ond hwn oedd fy ffordd i o gael rhywbeth i fi. Rhywbeth i helpu fi ddygymod â'r hyn oedd wedi digwydd, ac i helpu fi symud ymlaen.
Felly ges i datŵ efo enw fy ngŵr ar un fraich, a llun ECG o'm curiad calon efo'r geiriau 'Life goes on..' i atgoffa fi bod bywyd yn bwysig ac yna i'w fwynhau a'i brofi.
Taith Tatŵ Dewi Pws - nos Fercher, 1 Mawrth am 21:30 ar S4C | Bydd rhaglen Taith Tatŵ Dewi Pws ar S4C ar 1 Mawrth yn dilyn y digrifwr a'r canwr ar daith arbennig i sgwrsio gyda nifer o bobl sydd â rhesymau gwahanol dros gael eu tatŵs. |
Please summarize the document below. | It says the fighter performed a barrel roll plane over the American plane.
It is the second incident in the Baltic this month in which the US has accused Russian planes of flying aggressively.
Two Russian planes flew close to a US guided missile destroyer almost a dozen times in the Baltic on 13 April.
"There have been repeated incidents over the last year where Russian military aircraft have come close enough to other air and sea traffic to raise serious safety concerns, and we are very concerned with any such behaviour," Pentagon spokesman Daniel Hernandez said on Friday.
"The US aircraft was operating in international airspace and at no time crossed into Russian territory. This unsafe and unprofessional air intercept has the potential to cause serious harm and injury to all air crews involved.
"More importantly, the unsafe and unprofessional actions of a single pilot have the potential to unnecessarily escalate tensions between countries."
Mr Hernandez said the Su-27's "erratic and aggressive manoeuvres" also threatened the safety of the US aircrew, coming within 7.6m (25ft) of the fuselage of the American plane before conducting its barrel roll.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday defended the flybys of warplanes over the US Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea, insisting they were only looking at the ship "from a safe distance".
Military encounters between Russia and the US and its allies have escalated significantly over the past two years, ever since Russia's annexation of Crimea and the breakdown of relations between East and West.
The BBC's Gary O'Donoghue in Washington reported after the destroyer incident that Russia's actions were regarded by defence analysts as a flexing of muscle - a reminder that Russia has military might and cannot be pushed around.
But our correspondent says the frequency of such situations means many fear that a full-on confrontation - be it deliberate or accidental - is just a matter of time between the world's two great military powers. | A Russian jet fighter that intercepted a US Air Force reconnaissance plane on Friday did so in an "unsafe and unprofessional manner" over the Baltic Sea, the Pentagon has said. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says the scope for offering this treatment should be widened to save more lives.
Death rates have been decreasing in recent years, but cardiovascular disease remains the leading UK killer.
It claims about 180,000 lives a year.
Currently, doctors are meant to offer statin tablets to the estimated seven million people who have a 20% chance of developing cardiovascular disease over 10 years, based on risk factors such as their age, sex, whether they smoke and what they weigh.
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NICE is now suggesting that people with as low as a one in 10 or 10% risk should be offered statins.
Doctors will need to "make a judgement" about the risks to people who have a less than 10% risk of developing cardiovascular disease and advise them appropriately, say the draft guidelines.
The NHS currently spends about £450m a year on statins. If the draft recommendations go ahead, this bill will increase substantially, although the drugs have become significantly cheaper over the years.
It is not clear precisely how many more people would be eligible for statin therapy than now, but NICE says it could be many hundreds of thousands or millions.
Prof Peter Weissberg, of the British Heart Foundation, said the guidelines did need updating and agreed that more people stood to benefit from taking statins.
Cardiovascular disease develops when fatty substances build up in the arteries and narrow them, which can lead to heart attacks and stroke.
Too much cholesterol in the blood can lead to these fatty deposits. Statin drugs work by lowering cholesterol.
Eating a healthy diet, doing regular exercise and keeping slim will also help lower cholesterol.
Like all medicines, statins have potential side-effects.
They have been linked to muscle, liver and kidney problems, but only in a very small number of cases.
Prof Simon Maxwell, of the British Pharmacological Society, said: "Patients should be helped to make a truly informed decision about the benefits and risks of taking long-term preventative therapy that will not make them feel any better in the short term.
"We should avoid misapplication of such a recommendation without proper individual patient counselling." | Millions more people should be put on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to protect them against heart attacks and strokes, according to draft guidelines for the NHS in England. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | The 21-year-old has made 38 appearances for the Lions, but none this season.
Nelson is Yeovil's 12th summer signing and joins a side with one win from their first three League Two games of the new campaign.
"I'm really pleased the deal has finally been agreed as we've been in discussions with Millwall for a number of weeks," said Yeovil boss Darren Way.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The women, aged 66 and 33, were pronounced dead at a house in Golders Green, north-west London, on Friday night.
Joshua Cohen, 27, from Golders Green, was arrested on Saturday afternoon in the nearby Golders Hill Park.
He was remanded in custody to appear at Hendon Magistrates' Court on Monday.
The 24-year-old was riding a yellow Suzuki motorbike on the A706 near Linlithgow when it went off the road at about 10:25.
He is being treated at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
The road was closed for about 90 minutes for a crash investigation. PC Mick Turner, of Police Scotland, urged witnesses to come forward.
PC Turner said: "This collision has resulted in the rider being taken to hospital with serious injuries and I would urge anyone who saw the motorcycle prior to the incident, or was on the A706 near to Linlithgow around this time and may have witnessed the collision, to contact us immediately."
Over 50cm (19in) of water flooded Portsmouth's Pyramids in February, causing extensive damage to the swimming pool's plant room.
The water also severely damaged the building's fabric and mains power was lost.
BH Live, which runs the centre, said repair costs were covered by insurance.
The company said planned improvement works at the centre had also been brought forward during the closure to "limit further disruption in the future".
The leisure centre, owned by Portsmouth City Council, was taken over by the company last year after it came under threat of demolition by the authority amid spending cuts. | Yeovil Town have signed defender Sid Nelson from Championship club Millwall on loan until January.
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A man has been charged with two counts of murder after a mother and daughter were found stabbed to death in their home.
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A seafront leisure centre that was badly damaged by sea water in the winter storms will reopen in August, its operators say. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The dead man, who was in his 20s, was treated for serious injuries in the car park in Margate Road, Broadstairs, at about 22:15 BST on Tuesday, but died at the scene.
Two men, aged 20 and 27, were arrested by Kent Police and remain in custody.
A section of the car park remains closed while inquiries continue, a police spokesman said.
Correction 5 October 2016: An earlier version of this story, based on information supplied by Kent Police, reported the incident took place in a Westwood Cross shopping centre car park. We have since been informed this was inaccurate.
Work and Pensions Committee chairman Frank Field wrote to George Osborne urging new rules in the Queen's Speech.
The committee is conducting inquiries into pensions automatic enrolment and pensions regulation, using the collapse of BHS as a case study.
The High Street retailer's pension scheme has a deficit of £571m.
Employers must by law automatically enrol most employees on a workplace pension scheme, know as "pensions automatic enrolment".
In his letter to the chancellor, Mr Field said the committee had heard "concerning evidence", including from the pensions regulator itself, about "gaps in the regulatory framework" that had allowed "potentially unstable master trusts onto the market."
"Our evidence suggests that this could put the retirement savings of many thousands of people at risk."
A master trust has a board of trustees that oversee more than one defined-contribution workplace scheme.
Mr Field added: "The committee's inquiry into the Pension Protection Fund and pensions regulation is similarly encountering concerns over the range and effectiveness of powers available to both the regulator and fund trustees with regards to occupational pension funds."
The Pensions Regulator is the UK's work-based pension schemes watchdog, while the Pension Protection Fund pays compensation when an employer goes out of business.
Former BHS owner Sir Philip Green has called on Mr Field to resign from the committee.
Mr Field said Sir Philip's knighthood should be removed if he did not repay £571m to BHS's pension fund.
Sir Philip said Mr Field should stand down "as he is clearly prejudiced".
A committee source stressed Mr Field's remarks were his own personal views.
Sir Philip has agreed to appear before the work and pensions committee and the business, innovation and skills committee to answer questions about the collapse.
Sir Philip has faced criticism about his role but there is no suggestion he did anything illegal.
He bought BHS in 2000 for £200m but sold it to Retail Acquisitions last year for £1.
BHS went into administration last month with debts of £1.3bn, putting 11,000 jobs at risk across 164 stores nationwide.
The central bank - People's Bank of China (PBOC) - fixed the yuan rate at 6.4589 to the US dollar on Friday.
That is the biggest increase in nearly 11 years.
China only allows the yuan to rise or fall 2% on either side of the PBOC's daily fix, to avoid volatility and maintain control over the Chinese currency.
Analysts have pointed out the move is not a reflection of future yuan policies.
Some have argued the PBOC's move is a knee-jerk reaction to US dollar weakness overnight. The US dollar had fallen sharply against the yen after the Bank of Japan surprised markets and decided against any extra monetary easing.
"The expectation for a stronger yuan fix was laid by the gains for the yen after the Bank of Japan announcement," said Patrick Bennett, a strategist at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Hong Kong.
According to data compiled by financial news network Bloomberg, Friday's increase is the strongest daily move by the PBOC since July 2005.
China spooked global investors with a surprise devaluation in August last year, when it guided the currency down by nearly 5% in a week.
Market reaction to the move, however, has been muted. The Shanghai Composite index closed down 7.26 points at 2,938.32, while in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index ended the day down 320.98 points at 21,067.05.
South Korea's Kospi index closed down 0.3% at 1,994.15.
In Australia the benchmark S&P ASX 200 headed higher towards the end of the trading session and closed up 0.5% at 5,252.22.
The region's biggest market, Japan, was shut on Friday for a national holiday. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index ended the shortened trading week down 5%. | Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died at a car park.
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The chancellor has been warned that gaps in existing pension laws "could put the retirement savings of many thousands of people at risk".
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China has raised the exchange rate for its currency, the yuan by 0.56% against the US dollar, from the previous day. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | The special recognition award will honour his 50-year career and will be presented by his friend, actor Dustin Hoffman.
Connolly, 73, has just performed the first of 16 nights at the Apollo Hammersmith in London.
In 2013, he was treated for prostate cancer and Parkinson's Disease.
The comic, whose career began in a folk band with Gerry Rafferty called The Humblebums, first performed comedy in the early 1970s.
In the decades since, he has toured the globe and was voted number one in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand Ups poll.
His acting career began on the BBC's Play for Today in 1975, and he has gone on to host a number of TV specials and travelogues, including Billy Connolly's Route 66, in which he travelled from the east to the west coast of the US.
He was nominated for a best actor Bafta in 1998 for his role opposite Dame Judi Dench in the 1997 film Mrs Brown, and was presented with an outstanding career award by Bafta Scotland in 2012.
Broadcaster and fellow Scot Armando Iannucci said: "It's unbelievable and yet no surprise that we're celebrating fifty years of Billy Connolly.
"Because he doesn't compromise, because he doesn't fit a label, he has no shelf life, he's not part of a phase. He's unique. You can't really sum him up."
The National Television Awards will be held on 20 January and will be broadcast on ITV from 19:30 GMT. | Comedian Billy Connolly is to be presented with a special prize at the National Television Awards later this month. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Mr Dolan, 18, from County Tyrone, was struck by a van in Belfast in 2014.
David Lee Stewart, 31, of Gray's Park Avenue, Belfast, was jailed on Wednesday.
Stewart was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and another three and a half years on licence.
His parents had said after the judgement that they were "disappointed and disgusted" at the length of the sentence.
On Thursday, Peter Dolan, Enda's father, told the Stephen Nolan Show, that he "wouldn't rule out" asking for the sentence to be appealed.
"You can imagine what happened yesterday, it was all a bit of a shock," he said.
"We just have to sit back, reflect and take a bit of advice on it and take a look at it."
Mr Dolan said he was "speechless" over the sentence given to Stewart.
"This guy drinks and drives, kills somebody and gets three and a half years in prison. That is not a deterrent for anybody in my opinion."
Meanwhile, Enda's mother Niamh Dolan told Good Morning Ulster on Thursday morning that she remained "devastated and heartbroken" from his death.
"It's very hard to explain our loss. The most difficult thing I find is to go about your normal day-to-day activities and we have to do that because of the other children," she said.
"No matter how devastated you feel, you have to put a brave face on, pull yourself together and go out with the others - that's a very hard thing to do sometimes.
"I was lucky, really lucky, that I had a brilliant relationship with Enda. We were very, very close.
"Sometimes I think I'm almost being punished for that. If I hadn't have known my son so well, and got on with him so well, it might have been easier to cope with him not being here." | The father of Enda Dolan has said the family are considering asking the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) to appeal the sentence given to the drunk driver who killed him. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | The 68-year-old, who is originally from Glasgow, was attacked in HMP Edinburgh on Wednesday. His injuries are not believed to be life threatening.
A 30-year-old man has been reported to the procurator fiscal.
Tobin is serving three life sentences for murdering Polish student Angelika Kluk, Scots schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton and Essex teenager Dinah McNicol.
A Police Scotland statement said: "Police Scotland can confirm that a 30-year-old man has been reported to the procurator fiscal in connection with a serious assault on a 68-year-old man at HMP Edinburgh."
The incident happened at about 12.30.
Tobin was convicted of murdering 23-year-old Ms Kluk at a church in Glasgow in 2006.
The following year, the bodies of 18-year-old Ms McNicol, from Essex, and Ms Hamilton, 15, from Redding in Falkirk, were found in the garden of Tobin's former home in Margate, Kent.
In 2006, Strathclyde Police set up Operation Anagram to establish whether Tobin could be linked to or ruled out of other crimes. | Convicted serial killer Peter Tobin has been taken to hospital after being slashed in prison. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Mountain rescue teams helped 608 people who got into difficulties in 2014, with 12 fatalities.
Safety experts have issued life-saving advice in a bid to avoid further tragedies.
The Scottish government said it will provide a total of £1.81m towards mountain safety this year.
The tips for winter safety include:
Mark Diggins, from Sportscotland Avalanche Information Service, said: "Many thousands of enthusiasts enjoy the Scottish mountains every winter.
"However, the fast changing weather, with its snowfall, avalanche hazard, strong winds and poor visibility, requires us to be much more prepared when going into the mountains in the winter.
"Good clothing, navigational ability, appropriate equipment, movement skills on steep terrain, and use of ice axe and crampons are a necessary requirement for our enjoyment and safety."
Sport Minister Jamie Hepburn added: "Scotland's wild places can be at their most beautiful during the winter months, and we want people to be able to enjoy them right through the year.
"There's no doubt that the weather conditions make this more challenging, and while this challenge is part of the appeal for many, it must be treated with the utmost respect.
"Simple precautions and basic common sense can greatly reduce the risk of getting into trouble."
The Scottish government funding includes a £312,000 annual grant for mountain rescue teams and £1,041,000 for the Sportscotland national outdoor training centre at Glenmore Lodge, near Aviemore. | Walkers and climbers heading to Scotland's mountains this winter have been urged to take simple precautions and use basic common sense. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | Hamaseh Tayari, who holds an Iranian passport, had been due to fly home from a holiday in Costa Rica via New York.
But she has been told she cannot fly to the USA because of the order.
The American president says the measures would "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US".
The 90-day travel ban affects nationals from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Speaking from San Jose airport in Coast Rica, Dr Tayari, who works at the University of Glasgow, said: "We arrived at the airport this morning at five o'clock for the check in to fly to New York, and then from New York to Glasgow.
"The people at the check-in told me that I was not allowed to take the plane because of the new rules.
"The company was really helpful. I'm still in their offices trying to find new flights.
"They've given us food and coffee, and they're really supporting us. It's not their fault, but it's a crazy thing that I really didn't expect to happen to me."
Dr Tayari grew up and studied in Italy, qualifying as a vet in 2012.
She was awarded a PhD by the University of Pisa after a short period of extra training in Switzerland and moved to Glasgow to continue her studies in November 2015.
She said: "I still have Iranian nationality, because I've never thought about changing it.
"I've never had any problems until now, maybe I've had to wait a bit longer for visas, but nothing like this has happened to me.
"In my passport I have a regular transit visa for the USA, but they told me the visa is not any more valid."
She was left trying to find alternative routes home but, as there are no direct flights from Costa Rica to the UK, needed to transit.
However, Dr Tayari said, owing to her passport, "flying through Cuba, Panama, Mexico, all of these other places, I need a visa".
"The only thing that I've found is a direct flight from San Jose [in Costa Rica] to Madrid."
Booking that flight and connection onwards to London and Glasgow has cost her and her boyfriend almost £2,600 which she described as "all our money for the next few months".
She said: "I don't know how we'll afford to pay the rent, the bills, and the food," adding that the situation had left her "completely shocked".
"I thought maybe I didn't understand what's going on. I tried to ask again, if I understood properly.
"Afterwards, I was really upset. I'm still upset. I'm more than angry. I'm really upset. And, I'm a little bit afraid."
The foot was discovered by a walker on Tal y Foel, near Dwyranh, on 6 April.
North Wales Police said DNA testing has confirmed it is that of Richard Thomas, who was reported missing from his Bangor home on 31 December 2013.
Mr Thomas, who was then 47, was last seen in the Bangor area on seven days earlier.
Police carried out inquiries, searches and media appeals at the time but he was not found.
Det Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: "Mr Thomas's death is not being treated as suspicious and HM Coroner for north west Wales Mr Dewi Pritchard-Jones has been notified.
"Mr Thomas's family have been informed and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time." | A vet from Glasgow says she is "upset" and "afraid" after being prevented from flying to the US under President Donald Trump's executive order barring people from several Muslim countries.
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Write a summary of this document. | The wrongful arrests were among 23 serious mistakes made in acquiring 761,702 items of communications data, the Interception of Communications Commissioner report found.
Other incidents included delayed welfare checks on vulnerable people.
Communications data includes when and where electronic communications are made, but not their content.
The report found mistakes were made either by law enforcement agencies or communications service providers, with the majority of errors believed to relate to child abuse inquiries.
In these instances often the evidence used was an internet address which was wrongly linked to an individual.
There were six instances in which people unconnected to the investigations were visited by police and seven cases that resulted in delayed welfare checks on vulnerable individuals.
Of the 23 serious mistakes, 14 were human errors and the other nine "technical system errors".
Commissioner Sir Stanley Burnton's annual report said: "Any police action taken erroneously in such cases, such as the search of an individual's house that is unconnected to the investigation or a delayed welfare check on an individual whose life is believed to be at risk, can have a devastating impact on the individuals concerned."
Overall, 1,199 communications data errors were reported to the watchdog in 2015 - an increase of 20% on the previous year.
Of these, 86.6% were attributable to public authorities, 12.6% to communications service providers and 0.8% to other parties.
Nearly 94% of the requests were by police and law enforcement and just under 6% by the intelligence agencies.
The watchdog also inspected prisons and identified some instances where not all of the calls made by inmates subject to monitoring were being listened to, or that the calls were not being listened to quickly enough.
The report said: "This is of concern because a significant piece of intelligence could be missed completely or not reacted to promptly, leading to a serious incident occurring which may have otherwise been prevented."
Meanwhile, a separate report, also released on Thursday, revealed that security services made nearly double the number of mistakes using intelligence powers in 2015 than in the previous year.
Almost all of the 83 errors in 2015 led to an intrusion into privacy "to some degree", the Intelligence Services Commissioner found.
MI5 was also criticised for its form-filling procedures and for inserting unauthorised devices into MI5 systems, such as charging mobile phones, on six occasions.
BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera
Effective oversight is vital for ensuring spies and the police are not abusing their most intrusive powers.
Reports from the Interception of Communications Commissioner provide some of the most detailed evidence, especially when it comes to the increasingly important role of data and technology.
Its annual report - along with that of the Intelligence Services Commissioner also released today - suggests little evidence of deliberate abuse of powers.
But there are still signs of mistakes or sloppy practice.
In the case of communications data, this can be highly consequential with a small number of people arrested in relation to crimes, like suspected child abuse, when the wrong computer had been identified.
In the case of MI5, there also appears to be some problems in the way paperwork is filled out (of which there is far more for police and spies to do than TV dramas suggest) and also in some poor security practice in plugging in phones into secure computers.
There are also still some anomalies in oversight - for instance the use of so-called IMSI catchers to capture phone calls does not come under the Interception Commissioner's remit.
In a written statement to the Commons, Prime Minister Theresa May said both reports "recognise the diligence and rigour of those who use investigatory powers".
She said: "These are important powers that are used, when necessary, to keep our country safe.
"Both reports contain details of the recommendations that the commissioners have made to continue to improve the way that these powers are used.
"The public authorities who have received these recommendations will be giving careful consideration to them and how to further improve their processes." | Errors in the use of communications data led to the arrests of 13 innocent people, a watchdog has said. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | The 26-year-old has one year left on his contract and is second top scorer in the Premiership with 20 goals.
"It's his job to score goals and when you score lots of goals teams may show an interest in you," McIntyre said.
"We're not looking to move Liam on. We are delighted with what he is doing here and we want him to stay as long as he possibly can."
Boyce, who scored 20 last season, is in a rich vein of form, having scored 15 goals in his last 23 games, including all four in last weekend's 4-0 win over Highland rivals Inverness Caledonian Thistle, although he is suspended for Saturday's game against Motherwell.
His Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill said this week that there was a "huge amount of interest in him in Scotland and England".
McIntyre pointed out the role of Boyce's team-mates in his form this season, and said the side's focus is moving up the table rather than trying to stay out of the bottom two. Victory at Fir Park would take County seven points clear of the relegation play-off place with three games remaining.
"Liam has been fantastic this season and he will be the first to salute his team-mates as well," McIntyre said.
"I thought Craig Curran the other night was fantastic also beside Liam and back to his best, and had a major part in what Liam was doing.
"We just want to make sure we keep our unbeaten run going. That's four unbeaten and we want to try to finish the season as strong as we can.
"We want to try to be the best of the rest and not get dragged into a play-off position,
"Of course, we have one eye on that as well, but our focus is firmly trying to win the next game and see where it takes us."
The body of Trevor Hadlow, 70, was discovered at an address in Capstone Road, Gillingham, on Tuesday morning.
His family said: "Trevor was quite a character, who enjoyed the outdoor life. He was always willing to help out friends and neighbours."
The teenager, from Sheerness, has been remanded in custody and will appear before magistrates in Medway on Monday.
He has also been charged with attempted grievous bodily harm with intent and dangerous driving.
The additional charges related to an incident in High Street, Eastchurch, on 8 July in which a traffic warden was injured, Kent Police said. | Manager Jim McIntyre insists Ross County are not looking to sell top scorer Liam Boyce this summer.
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A 17-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of an elderly man found with head injuries in Kent. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | The group were arrested in January in Kachin state, close to the Chinese border, during a military operation to crack down on illegal logging.
Two 17-year-old boys were also given 10-year jail terms, and a woman in the group was given an additional 15 years for drug possession.
China has expressed concern about the severity of the sentences.
Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China had repeatedly raised the issue with Myanmar since the arrests of the group, who it says had been tricked into carrying out the logging.
It was asking Myanmar to "consider the actual situation of those loggers and deal with the matter in a lawful, reasonable and sensible way", China's Xinhua state news agency quoted Mr Lu as saying.
Life sentences in Myanmar usually last 20 years.
Logging - often using working elephants - was rife under Myanmar's military junta, depleting much of Myanmar's forests.
The military-backed civilian government, which came to power in 2011, has been trying to rein in the industry, and last year banned the export of raw timber.
But critics say illegal loggers are often able to make deals with the warlords who operate in remote regions close to the border.
The Chinese group were arrested during an operation against illegal logging allegedly sanctioned by the Kachin Independent Army, an ethnic rebel group active in the area.
The rebels denied their involvement. | A court in northern Myanmar has sentenced 153 Chinese nationals to life in prison for illegal logging. |
What is the summary of the following article? | But Mr Castro said the role of the state would be reduced in some areas, with more workers allowed to be self-employed or to set up small businesses.
Urgent measures would aim to cut the "overloaded" state payroll, he said.
Speaking to Cuba's National Assembly, Mr Castro nonetheless insisted the socialist system was "irrevocable".
By Michael VossBBC News, Havana
You have to remember that in Cuba not only does the state centrally control the major industries - the banks, the farms etc - but virtually every economic activity on the island.
It looks as if what they are saying is that they are prepared to step back and allow self-employment and small co-operatives but they will not go further than that.
There's a liquidity crisis in Cuba so bad that they're not paying foreign companies that they do business with at the moment. The economy is in very deep trouble.
He was conscious that the Cuban people expected measures to pull the country out of a deep economic crisis, the president told the assembly.
He said some restrictions on issuing licences to small businesses would be lifted, and they would also be allowed to employ staff.
A scheme launched earlier this year under which some hairdressers are allowed to work for themselves is likely to be extended to many other areas, says the BBC's Michael Voss, in Havana.
Mr Castro, 79, also warned that unproductive or under-employed workers in the state sector would have to find other jobs.
"We have to end forever the notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working," he said.
Mr Castro stressed there would not be massive sackings of workers.
"No-one will be simply left out in the cold," he said.
Mr Castro rejected reports in the foreign press that had suggested he had been planning economic reforms based on "capitalist recipes".
He also dismissed speculation that there were conflicts in the Communist Party leadership over the pace and depth of change, insisting the unity of the revolution was "stronger than ever".
Speaking to reporters before Mr Castro's speech, Economy Minister Marino Murillo said that while the state would reduced its role in small businesses, it would continue to direct a centralised economy.
"We are studying an updating of the Cuban economic model in which socialist economic priorities will be at the forefront, and not the market," he said.
Cuba's state-run economy has been gripped by a severe crisis in the past two years that has forced it to cut imports.
It has suffered from a fall in the price for its main export, nickel, as well as a decline in tourism.
Growth has also been hampered by the 48-year US trade embargo.
In his speech, President Castro also made his first public mention of his decision to release 52 jailed dissidents.
Mr Castro said none of the prisoners had been jailed for their ideas, but had committed "counter-revolutionary" crimes in the service of the US.
"The revolution can be generous because it is strong," he said, adding that there would be "no impunity for enemies of the fatherland".
Mr Castro became Cuba's leader when his brother, Fidel Castro, stepped aside because of ill-health in 2006. | Cuban President Raul Castro has ruled out large-scale market reforms to revive the communist island's struggling economy. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Services will operate five times a week, from July, between Belfast International and airports in the New York and Boston areas.
Aldergrove said it was "the best possible boost for Northern Ireland".
It has been working to find a replacement for United Airlines, which ended its daily New York service in January.
United had claimed the Belfast-Newark route was not profitable enough.
Norwegian Air will fly to Stewart International Airport, about 70 miles from New York, and TF Green Airport, 60 miles from Boston.
It will use a new Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
Its chief executive, Bjorn Kjos, said: "We are delighted to announce our first ever flights from Belfast and to ensure the city maintains its crucial transatlantic links.
"The cost of transatlantic travel has been too high for too long, so by connecting Northern Ireland with smaller US airports we can offer some truly affordable fares."
Earlier this year, the then Economy Minister Simon Hamilton told the assembly he had agreed an undisclosed aid package to back the new routes.
Graham Keddie, managing director at Belfast International Airport, said: "We have been working with Norwegian and government agencies to get this project across the line."
Norwegian will do three flights a week to Stewart and twice a week to TF Green.
The Netwerk24 website said an elephant cow stormed a group headed by Theunis Botha in Zimbabwe on Friday.
The elephant was reportedly shot as she picked him up with her trunk, before she fell and died, crushing Mr Botha.
He had been leading a group of hunters near the Hwange national park in Zimbabwe when he died.
It is the same park where Cecil the Lion was shot dead by an American hunter in July 2015, sparking an international outcry.
Mr Botha, 51, was a father of five from the northern Limpopo province in South Africa.
His eldest daughter Marike confirmed her father's death to the BBC, but would not comment further on the circumstances of his death.
Mr Botha's website says he began leading hunting safaris on private ranches in 1989, having previously served as a sergeant in the South African infantry.
It said he specialised in hunting lions and leopards with dogs.
His website lists various packages available to hunters in Zimbabwe, noting that animals including leopards, giraffes, buffalo and elephants could be hunted.
A Facebook tribute by Zimbabwe-based Kuronda Safaris, which worked with Mr Botha, called him "a great man with a fantastic sense of humour".
South African media reported that Mr Botha was friends with fellow hunter Scott Van Zyl, whose remains were found in a crocodile last month.
Mr Van Zyl was killed on the banks of the Limpopo river in Zimbabwe in what was the latest in a series of fatal crocodile attacks in the country.
Boys as young as 10 died at Oaks Colliery following two explosions between 12 and 13 December 1866.
Many of the bodies were never recovered in what is thought to be England's worst mining disaster.
The £125,000 statue was made by local sculptor Graham Ibbeson, who lost a relative in the blast.
"I'm the son of a Barnsley miner. My mining heritage goes back 200 years," he said.
"I'm 65 and I feel as if this was a sculpture I was born to make."
The explosion, thought to have been caused by flammable gases, buried the miners in the workings. A second explosion killed 27 rescuers the following day.
Barnsley Main colliery took over the workings of the Oaks Colliery and the surviving engine house and pithead structures were given Grade II listed status in 2013. | Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air is to begin two new flights between Northern Ireland and the United States.
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A sculpture has been unveiled to remember the 383 coal miners killed in a devastating explosion at a Barnsley pit. |
Can you summarize this passage? | Warner, 25, raced to 104 not out as the hosts piled on 149-0 after bowling India out for only 161.
It was the fastest Test century by an opener - only 69 balls - and he brought it up with a huge six over long on.
India lost their last six wickets for 30 runs, with pacemen Ben Hilfenhaus taking 4-43 and Peter Siddle 3-42.
Warner, who played county cricket for Durham in 2009, said: "It's a pretty good feeling. The ball moved about but I just played my game.
"I've been lacking self-confidence but I showed the aggression I normally play with.
"In my mind I think India are bowled over already. I hope we can get this Test out of the way, capitalise on the start we've got and win this Test first.
"We're 2-0 up in the series, hopefully we can put 400-500 runs on the board and bowl them out again.
"If we can take the series that will be fantastic. Time will tell if we win 4-0 or 3-0."
Ed Cowan was unbeaten on 40 alongside Warner and Australia, who lead the four-match series 2-0, are on target for a victory which would hand them the series.
Australia's all-pace attack gave them the platform to work from by ripping into the Indian top order after winning the toss.
Hilfenhaus removed Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir in the morning session.
Siddle accounted for Rahul Dravid, bowled for the fourth time in five innings, while Ryan Harris, in his first Test appearance since November, disposed of Sachin Tendulkar.
Virat Kohli and VVS Laxman provided some resistance but once they subsided India fell apart.
Warner came in not long after tea and got straight to work, shrugging off a blow to the side of the head from paceman Umesh Yadav.
He changed his helmet and then rattled the next two balls to the boundary on the way to his magnificent century.
"I was a bit shaken up, but that's cricket," Warner said. "You have to watch the ball and I didn't." | David Warner scored the equal fourth fastest century in Test history as Australia took control on day one of the third Test against India in Perth. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Keanu Marsh-Brown's second goal in two games was enough as he broke the deadlock, just when it looked like Braintree might survive through to the interval.
With 19 minutes to go the hosts had a golden opportunity to earn a point but Russell got down well to his left to deny Chez Isaac from the penalty spot.
Mark Cooper's side remain second in the table, one point behind leaders Dagenham, while Braintree stay 22nd.
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Match ends, Braintree Town 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Aarran Racine replaces Liam Noble.
Liam Noble (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Kieffer Moore replaces Keanu Marsh-Brown.
Substitution, Braintree Town. Brandon Goodship replaces Sam Matthews.
Craig Braham-Barrett (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card.
Christian Doidge (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Forest Green Rovers. Fabien Robert replaces Marcus Kelly.
Chez Isaac (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Dale Bennett (Forest Green Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Second Half begins Braintree Town 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 0, Forest Green Rovers 1.
Goal! Braintree Town 0, Forest Green Rovers 1. Keanu Marsh-Brown (Forest Green Rovers).
Michael Cheek (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Sam Russell saved a late penalty to secure victory for Forest Green at Braintree in the National League. |
Summarize the passage below. | Canon Dr Andrew Bunch took action after three tents were set up among St Giles' Church's gravestones.
He said the church was "sympathetic" to the rough sleepers, but they were causing problems for other people wanting to use the churchyard.
In a letter he said the church would get a court order if they did not leave, which prompted them to move on.
He added that he only wrote the letter after asking the rough sleepers to leave, which they refused to do, and because the police could not intervene.
Canon Bunch said: "It had grown over the last three or fours weeks and was becoming a bit of a problem.
"They were causing us trouble because we found that people were feeling threatened as they were walking through, and it was reported to me that needles had been found around that area.
"So we didn't feel that was the right place for that sort of activity, given the fact that we've got other homeless people in the area and also we've got young children."
He added that the church works with other rough sleepers and hosts the homeless charity Gatehouse in its parish rooms.
Canon Bunch also said in his letter that the rough sleepers should contact Oxford City Council's street population outreach team.
Saint Giles was a 7th Century abbot who lived in France and is the patron saint of beggars, disabled people and convicts. | An Oxford vicar has threatened homeless people with legal action to stop them sleeping rough in his churchyard. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Gary Jones, 33, said to be of no fixed address, appeared in private before Sheriff George Jamieson.
He faces charges under the Misuse of Drugs Act.
No plea or declaration was made at Dumfries Sheriff Court and he was allowed bail. | A man has appeared in court following the seizure by police of cocaine and cannabis with a street value of about £28,000 on the A74(M) near Lockerbie. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Rozin Khalil Hanjool, 17, who escaped the country in 2008, is a Yazidi, one of the religious minorities being persecuted heavily by the militants.
She has started a petition, which has attracted 150,000 signatures, to get the government to provide more support.
The government said it was already working with the Yazidi community.
Miss Hanjool said more than 3,000 Yazidi women and girls had been kidnapped by IS in northern Iraq.
"They have been raped and tortured by their captors," she said.
"I know girls as young as 12 have been taken. If I was there now I would be so, so scared."
She said that, while some women had managed to escape, they were scattered in refugee camps and getting little help.
"They are scared and traumatised, some are pregnant," she said. "They need medical help, psychological support and rehabilitation."
Her online petition calls on Home Secretary Theresa May, Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening and Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond to meet with the Yazidi community in the UK and prepare an action plan.
"These girls may seem far away, but they need our help," she said.
"The support from everyone who has signed that petition means a lot. I just want these women to recover."
Yazidis worship a peacock god which, in the eyes of IS, make them a valid target for extermination.
The Department for International Development said: "Aid from the UK provided blankets and heating stoves for tens of thousands of families so they could survive the winter.
"We continue to provide protection and support to Yazidi women and girls who are at risk of violence." | A Coventry teenager is calling for a meeting with the government about the kidnap and rape of women by so-called Islamic State (IS) forces in Iraq. |
Summarize the provided section. | So what's gone wrong at the company - and what is it doing about it? | Japan's Toshiba has a huge hole in its finances, caused largely by a massive writedown on nuclear assets in the US. |
Write a summary for this information. | Although its leftover summer stock sold well, the firm said: "It is appropriate to lower the profit expectation for the second half of the year.
"The board's view is the company's full year profit before tax is likely to fall within a range between £5m & £7m."
Bonmarche also experienced difficult trading conditions in July and August.
Shares in the company slumped almost 22% on the news.
It added: "We approach the beginning of the second half of the year facing considerable uncertainty as to market conditions.
"The hot September has prevented us from gaining a representative measure of the strength of the autumn ranges and our perception is that the clothing market generally has become more challenging.
"The board's view is that in the light of September's result, and its generally less optimistic view of market conditions, it is appropriate to lower the profit expectation for the second half of the year."
However, the company reported that its financial position "remains strong" and it expects to end the half year with a net cash balance of around £9m.
Bonmarche, established in 1982, describes itself as "one of the UK's largest women's value retailers" and has 312 stores around the UK.
Bradley Lowery, from Blackhall Colliery near Hartlepool, was cheered as he was carried onto the pitch by Toffees striker Romelu Lukaku on Sunday.
Before kick-off, Bradley kicked a ball into the Goodison Park net.
Bradley was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2013 but his mother has confirmed he "will lose his fight".
In December, Gemma Lowery announced all three options presented by a consultant would not cure Bradley's illness. Around £700,000 was raised to fund treatment in the USA.
Everton pledged £200,000 to the cause in September, when Bradley was mascot for Sunderland's home fixture with the Toffees at the Stadium of Light.
Fans up and down the country took Bradley to their hearts, resulting in him receiving thousands of Christmas cards.
His appearance at Goodison Park was much anticipated, with travelling City fans holding aloft a banner stating: "Cancer has no colours, one Bradley Lowery".
Former Everton midfielder Peter Reid said the youngster would "love" the experience in a tweet which also featured a banner inscribed with 'there's only one Bradley Lowery'.
Prior to kick-off, Bradley jogged around on the pitch and after arriving with the teams from the tunnel, he engaged in some shouting with referee Mark Clattenburg, who seemed to enjoy the interaction.
After the fixture, Everton will present Bradley's family with the funds raised from an auction of match-worn and signed shirts from the match at the Stadium of Light earlier this season.
Upon announcing that Bradley's cancer had grown, Mrs Lowery said she was unsure whether to "take my baby home" or "put him through more gruelling treatment that could leave him fighting for his life".
The East Midlands Trains service was travelling at 65mph (105 km/h) when it derailed at Barrow on Soar in Leicestershire in February 2008.
The train derailed after an engineering works tipper lorry hit a footbridge.
Leicester Crown Court heard the firm did not have a proper construction site safety assessment in place.
A train driver had to be cut free from his cab after the bridge collapsed in the accident, but no-one else was hurt.
A warning message had been sent out, but the Nottingham-to-Norwich passenger train was unable to stop in time.
The tipper truck driver did not realise the height of his truck and had left the back of it raised in the air, the court heard.
The train driver was trapped for two-and-a-half hours and suffered serious leg injuries.
"Network Rail's poor planning and management of construction site safety at Barrow placed members of the travelling public a risk," Darren Anderson of the Office of Rail Regulation said.
The court heard that the train driver "thought he would die" and still suffered from flashbacks.
"It should never have happened and I would like to say sorry for the fact that it did happen," Network Rail spokesman Martin Frobisher said. | Bonmarche has issued a profit warning after reporting "extremely poor" sales of its autumn range in September because of the recent hot weather.
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Network Rail has been fined £80,000 and ordered to pay costs of £32,000 after admitting causing a train to derail in Leicestershire. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | People in the Crown dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey could not vote as none of them are in the EU.
But those in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, were given a vote and overwhelmingly voted to remain.
Mr Bell said the referendum marked the "start of a journey into the unknown for both the UK and the Isle of Man".
"This situation is without precedent," he added, noting that the UK's withdrawal "will have a significant impact" on the island.
The result means the Isle of Man will now have to seek a replacement for its Protocol 3 relationship with the EU, which allows free trade in manufactured goods and agricultural products.
Mr Bell said the Isle of Man was "well-prepared" but acknowledged the "need to work closely with UK politicians to ensure we understand the UK's direction of travel, and that they understand the implications for us.
"It will be vital that our interests are not overlooked."
Earlier this year Lord of the Rings star and Isle of Man resident John Rhys-Davies launched a petition demanding the right to vote in the EU referendum for those living in British Crown dependencies.
The 71-year-old said the referendum was "one of the most important [and] constitutionally significant events in recent times". | The Isle of Man is about to start a "journey into the unknown" after the UK voted to leave the European Union, Chief Minister Allan Bell said. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Brian McKandie, 67, was found dead at Fairview Cottages in Badenscoth, Rothienorman, on Saturday 12 March.
Two men were reportedly seen speaking to Mr McKandie on the Friday beforehand between about 17:00 and 18:00.
Police Scotland said it was thought Mr McKandie suffered a "violent attack".
Det Ch Insp Iain Smith said: "We are appealing for these two men who were seen speaking to Mr McKandie to come forward and speak to us to see if they have information that could assist with our investigation.
"We don't have a detailed description of the two men but one is thought to be in his 20s and the other in his 30s or 40s.
"Additionally, anyone else who was in the area at the time or has information, no matter how insignificant you think the information could be is encouraged to come forward."
The 27-year-old Venenuela international, full name Nicolas Ladislao Fedor Flores, has been capped 40 times for his country.
Celtic manager Neil Lennon said: "He is a powerful striker and he is a player we rate very highly.
"His goalscoring record in La Liga has been very good. It was a department we thought we were a little short."
Lennon revealed that he is hoping to bolster his striking options further and that appears likely to be a free agent.
"We are hoping to bring one more striker in, but that does not necessarily have to be done tonight," said the manager.
Miku, who was linked with a move to Michael Laudrup's Swansea City, scored 12 goals last season as Getafe finished 11th in La Liga.
He began his career with Valencia before joining Getafe in 2010.
Miku has also had loan spells with Alcoyano, Salamanca, Ciudad Murcia and Gimnastic.
The 19-year-old was released by the Toffees earlier this month and the deal includes the option of a third year.
Green, who spent the final two months of last season on loan at Tranmere, moved to Goodison Park from Bradford aged 15 for a reported fee of £2m.
"Joe Royle at Everton pushed me towards Oldham because of his relationship with the club," said Green.
He is new Oldham boss Darren Kelly's second signing of the summer after Lee Croft.
"The gaffer has got a good footballing philosophy and he conducts himself very well, so I can't wait to work under him," Green added.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The Bees were due to ride in the Premiership, the top flight of British speedway, but have been unable to agree a deal to stay at their Brandon home.
Although an agreement was in place to stage some meetings in Leicester, the BSPA say they are not satisfied that Coventry could fulfil a full season.
"Their licence has been put on ice," said a BSPA statement.
"Due to well-documented issues with their former Brandon Stadium home, the Bees only have an agreement in place to run a handful of meetings at Leicester.
"The club, therefore, are not in a position to satisfy the Association that they can fulfil a full season of league racing with no guarantee of returning to Brandon.
"In addition, there have been developments in the past 10 days where financial support for the Coventry promotion has changed, again meaning the Association are not satisfied they can fulfil a full season.
"We feel extremely sad for the Bees riders, fans and officials but we believe this decision has been made in the best interests of the sport.
"We sincerely hope circumstances can improve for Coventry during the course of this year which will enable them to return to the track in the 2018 season." | Police investigating the murder of a man in Aberdeenshire want to trace two people who may have visited the victim the day before he was found.
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Getafe forward Miku has joined Celtic on a year-long loan, with the Scottish champions having an option to buy.
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Summarize the passage below. | The burial chamber at All Cannings near Devizes in Wiltshire will contain niches housing urns of cremated ashes, and is set to be finished later this year.
Developer Tim Daw, who owns the farmland on which it is being built, said he was "absolutely thrilled" with its progress.
"It's turning out so much better than I could possibly imagine," he said.
"A lot of that is down to the stonemason, coming up with the idea of how to build it and insisting on doing it the proper way, using real traditional materials and methods. That's paying off in spades, with the quality of it and the feel of the place.
"For some of it, the stone has almost told us how to do it. At the entrance, when they fitted together it just felt right and it looks right."
Mr Daw said he had always had a passion for archaeology and the idea for it came out of a "classic pub conversation" - "Wouldn't it be nice to get buried in a long barrow?".
"Then I was walking round the farm one winter's morning and it was misty, very quiet and the sun was just rising, and I thought, 'I wouldn't mind spending eternity here'," he said.
"I thought, 'You could put a long barrow here with the winter sun coming in'. The idea all came together very quickly."
When the barrow is complete people will be able to pay to have ashes in urns stored within chambers inside the mound - some niches have already been sold - as an alternative to a crematorium.
"People have bought niches right from before we had even broken the ground," said Mr Daw.
"Someone from California has bought a niche, and she's very welcome.
"I'd love to have this as a meeting place, as so much of the Neolithic was about in Wiltshire, with people from all areas coming together."
Stonemason Geraint Davies described it as "not your usual job" and a "once in a lifetime opportunity".
"I saw an article about it in the The Times last year [when plans for it were submitted]," he said.
"It stated it was going to be in concrete, and we thought something like that needs to be in natural stone, so we approached Tim and he let us do it.
"I quite like archaeology. It's fascinating to go to Stonehenge and see how they managed to construct that."
"I'm trying to build it in a way [the Neolithic people] could have done it in their time."
Mr Davies, and his apprentice, are from Bedford and live in a caravan on site while work continues.
"We couldn't pass up on this. It's something special," he continued.
"It's strange really. We haven't built a long barrow for 5,000 years, but then about six weeks ago we had another enquiry for one.
"They want a burial chamber built in central London to hold some art.
"They're like London buses. You don't get one for 5,000 years and then all of a sudden two come at once." | The first "Neolithic" long barrow to be built in the UK for 5,000 years, is attracting interest from all over the world. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | The soldiers, who were to be killed by a firing squad, will each serve 10 years in prison.
They were convicted by court martial over their refusal to drive down a road at night after dozens of colleagues died in a Boko Haram ambush.
The sentences were commuted following a review of court martials.
The review was ordered by General Tukur Buratai, the country's army chief of staff.
Nearly 600 other cases are also being considered.
Hundreds of Nigerian soldiers have deserted their posts, complaining that they are not properly equipped to fight Boko Haram, a terror group which has allied itself with the Islamic State group.
The group has been waging an insurgency since 2009 and is seeking to create an Islamist state in north-eastern Nigeria. It is responsible for the deaths of about 20,000 people.
The reprieves come as a former presidential adviser on national security is on trial for allegedly diverting $2.1bn meant to buy weapons for the military.
The review of the soldiers' cases is part of a wider investigation ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari into the military and corruption.
President Buhari won the country's March general election after pledging to destroy Boko Haram and to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremists. | Nigeria's military has announced a reprieve for 66 soldiers who had been sentenced to death for refusing to fight Boko Haram. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | Scarlets wing Williams almost claimed the first-ever bonus point try in the Six Nations, but just failed to touch down in the dying moments of the game.
"I didn't think [Williams went over], but you can hope," Davies said.
"It is a game of inches, as they say, and hopefully that doesn't come back to bite us."
In Cardiff on Saturday Wales face an England side who have won their last 15 consecutive games and Davies knows they face a difficult challenge.
"It's a massive game. It's the game you play for in your career and the boys are excited already," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"We watched the England game in the hotel and it was a bit scrappy. To be fair to France, they fronted up well. We'll have a look at the game through the week and look forward to them.
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"I think it's going to be a very difficult tournament this year and we have to concentrate on the next match now.
"We know the task at hand. They've been unbeaten for a long time now and for us it's making sure that we defend our home patch and keep our decent record at home going."
Wales struggled to make their mark in the first half in Italy and trailed 7-3 at the break, but a better 40 minutes followed as they took control of the game courtesy of tries from Davies, Liam Williams and George North.
"We weren't looking at it initially, but once we had a sniff of it I thought we showed a good instinct and I thought we played well in the second half. Maybe we deserved it, but that's the way it is," Davies added.
"Against South Africa we had a lot of pressure in the first half and we didn't get many points. Maybe we'll look at that this week and we've got to turn pressure into points.
"It was slightly frustrating, but it didn't set us back. Italy came back and we put them to bed in the second half."
The petrol bomb was thrown through the window of a house at Ballysally Road, Coleraine, on Thursday at 23:00 GMT.
Police said a front window on the house was smashed and the bomb was thrown in but it did not ignite.
A woman in her 30s was inside the house at the time. Police have appealed for information.
Wendy Bell and Amanda Carroll were sentenced with four others at Bradford Crown Court for the fraud against 92-year-old widow Audrey Hammond.
The pair overcharged Mrs Hammond for her home care.
Bell, 57, from Cullingworth, was jailed for three years and six months. Carroll, 44, of Shipley, was sentenced to three years and five months.
Bell's daughter, Lisa Bell, 30, Linda Mynott, 60, and Alice Barker, 59, all received suspended jail sentences.
A sixth carer, Caron Gilbert, 33, was handed a 12-month community order.
Judge Colin Burn told said the overcharging was "so excessive that it must have been dishonest".
"There could be, in the crown's case, no other explanation," he said.
Wendy Bell and Carroll played a leading role in the fraud of Ms Hammond, of Cracoe in Skipton, North Yorkshire, the judge added.
He said: "You must take the central responsibility for a scheme which exposed Mrs Hammond, wealthy though she was, to massive financial loss resulting from blatant dishonesty."
The 23-year-old beat Daniela Hantuchova to make it into round three of Wimbledon for only the second time in her career, where she will face five-time winner Serena Williams.
But Watson said abuse on Twitter has "become such a usual occurrence" she has stopped reading the messages.
"I think those people, they've got no life," said the world number 59.
Watson had earlier this week told the New York Times that she and her family had received death threats online.
And on Wednesday she added: "They're just kind of cowards thinking they can say whatever they want on the internet.
"They don't understand that we're just people at the end of the day."
Watson is the last British woman left in the main draw after her 6-4 6-2 win over the Slovakian world number 72 and meets world number one Williams on Friday. | Wales centre Jonathan Davies says he hopes Liam Williams' late try attempt against Italy does not come back to haunt them.
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A woman has escaped injury in a petrol bomb attack in County Londonderry.
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Two carers have been jailed for defrauding an elderly woman with Parkinson's disease out of £500,000.
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British number one Heather Watson has called her critics on social media "cowards". |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | The state's 14 delegates will be awarded proportionally. Mr Sanders has won seven of the latest eight states.
However rival Hillary Clinton maintains a clear lead in the overall race. Both are concentrating their efforts on the key New York primary later this month.
In the Republican race, Ted Cruz hopes to pick up more delegates in Colorado.
In state assemblies which culminated on Friday, Mr Cruz won 21 delegates to just two for Donald Trump, who still has a comfortable lead in the overall nomination race for the Republicans.
On Saturday, a further 13 delegates are at stake at the Colorado Republican Convention.
Mr Cruz has 520 Republican delegates to 743 for Mr Trump. Mr Cruz is hoping to win at least enough votes to block an outright win for Mr Trump and force a decision at the party's convention in July.
The next big prize for both parties is the New York primaries on 19 April: 291 delegates are at stake for the Democrats and 95 for Republicans.
Despite Saturday's win in the Wyoming caucuses, Mr Sanders still has only 1,061 delegates to 1,749 for Mrs Clinton, when the latter's 469 superdelegates are added to the tally. To win, a candidate needs 2,383.
The presidential election itself, on 8 November, will see America vote for a successor to Barack Obama, a Democratic president standing down after two terms in office which have seen the Republicans take control of both houses of Congress.
19 April: New York primary
26 April: Primaries in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Rhode Island | Bernie Sanders has won the latest stage in the battle for the Democratic nomination in the US presidential poll by securing victory in Wyoming. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | It had previously been reported that the Spanish-born winger, who has represented his country of birth at under-16, under-17 and under-19 levels, was set to swap national allegiances to his parents' homeland of Mali.
But the 19-year-old says he is not contemplating his international future, despite a formal overture from Mali's Football Federation.
International football is for another time but what stands before me now is to be fit and give my best performance to my club always
"A decision about international football isn't something that I am thinking about right now," Traore told BBC Sport.
"My priority is to concentrate on what I do for Aston Villa because that is the most significant part of my professional career.
"I want to play well for Villa and give my best because as a young footballer I need to challenge myself to reach the top.
"After that I will sit down and honestly look at my international opportunities and where they fall."
Adama's brother Mohamed, who plays for Spanish club Cordoba in their B team, has already featured for Mali Under-23s this year.
Football's world governing body, Fifa, has told BBC Sport as yet it has not received an official request for a change of allegiance.
Aston Villa signed Traore from Barcelona in August on a five-year deal for a fee reported to be around £7m (US$11m).
He scored his first goal for the club in a Capital One Cup tie against Notts County but was forced off on the hour mark with an injury after a series of heavy challenges against the League Two side.
Traore however made a return with a substitute cameo in last weekend's defeat at Liverpool but he got injured on under-21 Premier League duty this week.
The former Barcelona attacker was not listed for the game against Stoke City this weekend as he is not completely fit.
"It's nothing serious and I hope to be 100 per cent as soon as possible," said Traore.
"My head and heart wants to play right now but I guess it is not possible to rush myself back.
"After spending two months in England I have experienced great support from the fans and staff of Aston Villa.
"International football is for another time but what stands before me now is to be fit and give my best performance to my club always."
Esslemont and Macintosh - affectionately known simply as E&Ms - in Union Street closed in 2007.
Proposals could have seen the property converted into a 98-bedroom hotel, with a four-storey glass extension.
The store, established in 1873, closed with the loss of 100 jobs after receivers were called in. | Adama Traore insisted he is not rushing into a decision about his international future, as he concentrates on his club career with Aston Villa.
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Plans to transform a famous Aberdeen city centre department store into a hotel and restaurant have been withdrawn. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Julien Klein cancelled out Shay Logan's second half opener before Niall McGinn and Adam Rooney scored during seven minutes of additional time.
McInnes insists that was deserved given the amount of chances his side created.
"We had two goals chopped off that shouldn't have been," he said.
"The ball's not over the line when (Jayden) Stockley keeps it in play and Ash Taylor scores in the first half.
"There's no push from Taylor (for his second disallowed attempt). We've had things cleared off the line, their keeper's had a brilliant night and we've dominated the game."
It had been a frustrating first half with Stefano Bensi hitting the post for the visitors early on.
Aberdeen started the second period on the front foot and eventually got the result their play merited, in what was an absorbing first outing of the season.
"When we generated that pace to the game and tempo in the second half we were far better," McInnes told BBC Scotland.
"We wore them down. I think they deserve some credit because they've got a decent structure about them and we never had the sharpness of play to keep that intensity up.
"That game will help us be in better form the next time round. That's a huge step in terms of being real game ready for the next one."
McInnes has recruited a number of players but it was the familiar faces of McGinn, Rooney and Jonny Hayes who showed their enduring value.
"We needed our ball carriers really being alive, really having that thrust and really getting at them," added the Dons boss.
"Niall and Jonny were both relentless, especially second half.
"Rooney, we're so lucky to have him. We missed him at the back end of last season. We've tried to nurse him through pre-season work.
"We thought if he only had half a game in him, we thought second half would be the best time to get him on.
"We could be standing talking about a 1-1 draw and the difficulties of the second leg.
"It's still going to be difficult but I'm going away thinking there's work to be done, far from perfect but the desire from the players was fantastic."
CS Fola Esch manager Jeff Strasser said he was "very proud" of his team for the effort they put in, but feels his team will struggle to turn around the two-goal defecit in the second leg.
"We all know the difference between 2-1 and 3-1," he said. "Aberdeen have shown they are a very good team, they will put a lot of pressure on us, but 2-1 would have been totally different." | Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes was thrilled with the desire of his side after two stoppage time goals earned a 3-1 win over Fola Esch in their Europa League qualifying first round tie. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | Media playback is not supported on this device
Barnes has the chance to make Irish Olympic history in Brazil by becoming the first athlete from his country to win medals at three successive Games.
The 29-year-old won light-flyweight bronze medals at both the Beijing and London Games.
His fellow boxer Katie Taylor carried the Irish flag at the opening ceremony in London.
Barnes' achievements include winning the European Amateur Championships in 2010 in addition to clinching gold at both the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games.
A hugely popular figure in Irish sport, Barnes received an MBE in Queen Elizabeth's New Year's Honours list in December 2014.
Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey suggested in 2012 that golfer Rory McIlroy should be a candidate to carry the Irish flag in Rio.
However, Hickey said on Wednesday that he was "delighted to announce" that Barnes had been selected for the role.
"His commitment to the cause of Irish boxing and Irish sport makes him a role model for aspiring young athletes in Ireland and the natural choice as Ireland's flag bearer," said the OCI president at an event in Dublin marking 100 days from the start of the Rio Games.
Barnes described the news as an "incredible honour".
"It's an amazing feeling to represent Ireland at an Olympic Games and I've been lucky enough to experience it twice before already," added the Belfast man.
"I will be going for gold in Rio in the ring but I will also have the responsibility of helping to build a really positive environment for all Irish athletes. I could not be more excited about the next 100 days."
On Friday the jurors unanimously found that 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty posed no risk when he was shot twice in Londonderry during Operation Motorman in July 1972.
His cousin Christopher was also wounded.
Des Doherty said prosecutions were now a "definite possibility".
"The full rigour of the law has to be applied and it is now of course a matter for the coroner," the solicitor said.
"This case was not about vengeance. It was about justice."
The jury rejected claims that warnings had been shouted to the two teenagers before they were shot.
The operation was aimed at reclaiming "no go areas" in the city from the IRA.
Daniel, who was a labourer, was shot twice in the head by a soldier close to his home in Creggan. His cousin Christopher, 16, was shot in the head by the same soldier but survived.
The jury found that none of the soldiers present attempted to "approach the injured youths to either search them or provide medical assistance".
Mr Doherty said the record had now been "set straight".
This is the second inquest into Daniel's death.
The initial inquest was held in 1973 and recorded an open verdict. A second inquest was ordered by the Attorney General in 2009 following an examination by the Historical Enquiries Team.
The report found that the RUC investigation at the time was "hopelessly inadequate and dreadful".
The inquest opened on Monday and heard from Daniel's sister Margaret Brady. She described how her mother continued to set a place for him at the table and call him for dinner for months after his death.
In 2007, the British government apologised to the Hegarty family after describing Daniel as a terrorist. | Belfast boxer Paddy Barnes will be Ireland's flag bearer at this year's Olympic Games in Rio.
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The solicitor for the family of a boy shot dead by a soldier almost 40 years ago has said they are "overwhelmed" by the findings of an inquest jury. |
Can you summarize this content? | Banton, 24, joined the English League Two side last summer and has made 19 appearances for the club.
"This is a good opportunity for Jason to get games under his belt at a very good level," said Crawley head coach Dermot Drummy.
"Opportunities for him have been limited so he has a chance now to make an impression in Scotland."
Banton has been on the books at Liverpool, Leicester City, Crystal Palace and more recently has been at Wycombe Wanderers, Hartlepool United and Notts County.
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) said in a letter that the money to pay her came from "government corruption and human rights violations".
Minaj, 33, entertained thousands in the Angolan capital, Luanda, on Saturday.
The Christmas event was hosted by mobile phone company Unitel, which is part-owned by the family of Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
Since the end of the conflict in 2002, Africa's second-largest oil producer has witnessed an economic boom, but critics of the elected government say the wealth has only benefited a small elite.
HRF's Thor Halvorssen wrote in the letter to Minaj last week that her participation in a performance sponsored by a government "involved in gross human rights violations would be improper".
Mr Halvorssen points out that Unitel is controlled by Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the president and said to be Africa's richest woman.
Transparency International recently named the billionaire as one of 15 symbols of grand corruption worldwide.
Two days after the accusation, Ms Dos Santos's company Fidequity issued a statement insisting it is an independent company and does not use public funds.
Before going on stage on Saturday, Minaj posted a photo of herself with Angola's flag on Instagram along with one of her posing with Isabel dos Santos with the words: "She's just the 8th richest woman in the world. (At least that's what I was told by someone b4 we took this photo) Lol. Yikes!!!!! GIRL POWER!!!!! This motivates me soooooooooo much!!!!"
Minaj also shared the stage with several local acts.
Her performance came a day after a judge ordered the release of 15 Angolan activists, including prominent rapper Luaty Beirao, who were arrested six months ago during a book reading where one of the books on the agenda was about non-violent resistance to repressive regimes.
The group will return to court next month for their trial's conclusion on charges of "rebellion" and attempting to carry out a "coup".
Minaj is not the only performer to be criticised by rights groups for their choice of gigs.
Singer Jennifer Lopez was criticised in 2013 for singing Happy Birthday to the leader of Turkmenistan, who was accused of human rights violations.
In 2011, Nelly Furtado said that she would give away $1m (£615,000) she was paid to perform for the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. | Partick Thistle have signed Crawley Town winger Jason Banton on loan until the end of the season.
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US rapper Nicki Minaj has gone ahead with a concert in Angola despite a rights group asking her to cancel it. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | Describing the experience as the "lowest of the low", the 49-year-old actress and businesswoman said she did not know who to trust.
In 2003, she had a breakdown and went into hospital, which was a "terrible" incident but ended up in the papers.
Ms Frost is among eight high-profile figures claiming damages for hacking.
She told the court: "Your father is dying, you are going through divorce, you have postnatal depression, you are in and out of hospital, my baby was ill, he was born premature.
"I was at breaking point, I could not sleep, or eat, and I did not know who to trust as information kept getting into the media.
"I needed my loved ones around me. I was very upset, I was a very, very unhappy person.
"Every time I turned to someone to confide in them, it ended up in the newspapers, which added to my distress and trauma."
"I couldn't go and sit with my mum and have a cup of tea because I thought she was selling stories. I didn't trust my own mother."
Ms Frost said her separation from fellow actor Jude Law was very difficult.
"I thought it might be Jude, trying to make me look bad for custody reasons, or my friends or family using me for their own gains. Either thought was heartbreaking.
"This was a deeply stressful time in my life and the fact my insecurities were being publicised obviously made it worse."
She described how friends, particularly model Kate Moss, questioned whether they could trust her.
"Even worse than that, Jude, the father of my children, thought for years that I was selling stories which created an animosity between us that has only really disappeared since the revelations about phone hacking."
Ms Frost said: "I couldn't take my youngest son to the park for two years because he was photographed. He would cry and I would get panic attacks.
"I lost two to three years of my life, they wanted me to fail.
She told the hearing that it felt like she and those closest to her were "being monitored and hunted down by a sort of secret police".
"Every area of my life was affected. There was nowhere I could go that was safe."
"If I went to the doctor or gynaecologist, details would be in the newspaper."
Ms Frost said she was left "incredibly embarrassed and humiliated" when a story emerged about her attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
She said she had been advised to go a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous "because it was a safe place".
"Someone quite high-profile took me there and I went there after everyone said it would be safe and anonymous," she told the court.
"I was portrayed as troubled, sad, as a party-girl. That's not why people go to AA, they go there to get help and be in a safe place."
She added: "I was portrayed for so long as a complete mess that I have had to overcome people's perception of me to rebuild my reputation as a successful businesswoman. I can only guess at the position I would be in if none of this had happened."
She said that the apology she had received from Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) was "rather too little too late".
The hearing at the High Court in London is considering what compensation should be paid by MGN to Ms Frost, alongside BBC creative director Alan Yentob, soap stars Shane Richie, Shobna Gulati and Lucy Taggart, former footballer Paul Gascoigne, TV producer Robert Ashworth and flight attendant Lauren Alcorn.
The literary event in Hay-on-Wye is the 27th to be staged in the border town, famous for its second-hand bookshops.
Fry launches the festival's celebration of 450 years since William Shakespeare's birth while Dench rounds off the event talking about her work.
The festival will run from 22 May to 1 June.
Other names announced include American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell, author Julia Donaldson and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington. | Actress Sadie Frost has told the High Court that having her phone hacked by Mirror Group journalists made her life a "living hell".
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Entertainment heavyweights Dame Judi Dench, Stephen Fry and Jennifer Saunders are among the headline acts for the 2014 Hay Festival in Powys. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Danielle Nicholson and Tania Liddle attacked the man at the Fusehill Street Spar in May last year.
Liddle, 35, hit him while Nicholson, 27, sank her teeth into his arm. A third unidentified person attacked him with a broken bottle.
Judge Peter Davies at Carlisle Crown Court called the attack "disgraceful".
Both Nicholson, of Chatsworth Square, Carlisle, and Liddle, of Heathfield Crescent, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, admitted affray and theft.
The judge said "vulnerable" shopkeepers need to be protected. | Thieves who hit and bit a Carlisle shopkeeper who tried to stop them stealing wine worth £14 have been jailed for 15 months. |
Write a summary for this information. | Leader Vautour, a 1-5 shot ridden by Ruby Walsh, appeared in control before misjudging the ninth.
God's Own jockey Paddy Brennan took advantage as he held off the challenge of Al Ferof.
Earlier in the day, Richard Johnson guided Native River to victory in the Mildmay Novices' Chase.
Eastlake - a 22-1 chance - triumphed in the Topham Chase over the Grand National course, but there was disappointment for Bishops Road.
The Kerry Lee-trained eight-year-old, who won the Grand National Trial at Haydock in February and narrowly missed out on a berth in Saturday's big race, fell at the first.
Vautour had been long been aimed at the Gold Cup at Cheltenham in March but was switched - successfully - to the Ryanair Chase at the Festival just three days before.
He looked close the form that pushed Cue Card all the way in the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day, jumping beautifully before his unexpected error brought Walsh's race to an early end.
His fall also damages Irish champion trainer Willie Mullins' chances of taking the British equivalent from Paul Nicholls.
Walsh also suffered a fall on Blood Cotil on Friday and was subsequently ruled out of Saturday's Grand National with a fractured wrist.
God's Own's only previous Grade One victory was the Novice Chase at Punchestown in May 2014.
"This horse is not the easiest of rides and I'm sure there's been plenty of times I didn't get it right, so it's nice to get it right today," Brennan told Channel 4 Racing.
"He's a spring horse and he's been beautifully trained. I can't believe I've won." | Overwhelming favourite Vautour fell as God's Own claimed a surprise win in the Melling Chase on the second day of the Grand National meeting at Aintree. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | "Fires come in red and blues. The blue ones are more lethal. And the roar tells you so much on what exactly the blaze is feeding on."
Mr Ganatra, a wiry 59-year-old man, is not a professional fireman.
The school dropout has worked odd jobs all his life - working for a jute trader, and as an electrician, fixing meters.
Other times, he has chased fires all over his city, an untidy, sprawling megapolis of 15 million people. Over four decades, he has attended to more than 100 fires - helping douse the flames, rescuing people and cleaning up debris.
"You can say, I have only one interest in life. Fires."
This is the sixth article in a BBC series Unsung Indians, profiling people who are working to improve the lives of others.
More from the series:
The doctor who delivers girls for free
Cancer survivor bringing joy to destitute children
A messiah for India's abandoned sick
The woman whose daughter's death led her to save others
The man saving Mumbai water one tap at a time
Look around his tiny flat, and you realise the austere bachelor is telling the truth.
In one corner, sits a creaky and bare Formica-topped table and an odd-shaped chair. A small TV is mounted on a sooty blue wall. A low wall with freshly cemented edges partitions the room.
Across the wall are his other possessions: certificates and awards he has received for his work displayed tidily in an alcove, a small steel cupboard with a round mirror, and a blue bucket stuffed with bananas and medicines - vitamins, tablets for his gastric problems, sleeping pills.
Mr Ganatra doesn't sleep much. He hunts fires by watching news on his TV - gifted by friends - all day and night. Whenever news breaks of a blaze, he calls up the fire brigade headquarters, gets into a taxi and goes to the site.
Kolkata is a city of fires. A total of 347 people died and 1,749 were injured in some 2,000 fires in 2014. Last year, there were more than 1,600 fires, leaving 143 people dead and 974 injured.
No wonder the city's 1,258 firemen are among the most overworked in India. Mr Ganatra is also seldom out of work - he has attended to as many as three fires in a single day.
"He's a very spirited and brave man. For someone who has no formal knowledge of fire-fighting, he does a very good job. He is like a guide to our firemen, and he uses our equipment. He works almost like a professional now," says Gour Prasad Ghosh, the city fire service chief.
As a child, Mr Ganatra would get all worked up whenever he heard the frantic, clanging bell of the speeding shiny red fire engines. He would run out of the door, chase the engines struggling to make their way through congested thoroughfares and lanes, and somehow manage to reach the scene.
"There my body language would change. I would watch the firemen do their work, offer help, hang around. It would give me a huge kick."
Mr Ganatra was working as a mechanic in a city school in 1976 when he heard that a big bank in the office district was on fire.
He slipped out during the recess and ran to the fire scene. There, he helped carry water pipes from the scene to a pond in the neighbourhood and checked them for leaks.
"I still remember a scene vividly from the fire. The bank manager ran out of the building that was on fire, stopped, remembered he had forgotten something, ran back in - and never returned."
The fire chaser hasn't looked back since.
When a gas tanker keeled over on the city's iconic Howrah bridge in the early 1990s, he helped the firemen navigate the traffic to ensure nobody smoked.
When a four-storey building caught fire on Canning Street, he managed to persuade a pregnant woman not to jump off the terrace, ran up and helped the firemen make an improvised stretcher to ship her 10ft across to an opposite roof.
Mr Ganatra almost lost his life five years ago when he went into a burning warehouse on Strand Road.
He had hauled out two 15kg gas cylinders from the place and re-entered with a hosepipe. Then he saw a 30ft wall crumble and couldn't let go off the live hosepipe as it would have ricocheted in his face.
On the way out, a tin shed collapsed on him, trapping him in the debris for close to two hours.
"The firemen outside thought I was dead. I had passed out and escaped with some bruises and recovered quickly in hospital. I was very lucky."
The battle with fire is always a tough one, and sometimes the flames win overwhelmingly, leaving Mr Ganatra and his fellow firemen to pick up the dead.
When the city's historic six-storey colonial Stephen Court building caught fire in 2010, he climbed to the first floor to persuade the people trapped on the upper floors not to jump off the building.
"I kept shouting to this man from the third floor not to jump, and wait a bit for help. Then I heard a blunt thud and saw blood squirting all over.
"I remember picking up the body of a charred woman. She had an Indian Airlines ID card around her neck. Sometimes the strangest things survive in a blaze.
"I became a collector of bodies, some charred, some crushed. Everywhere there was the smell of death." More than 40 people died in the inferno.
A hospital fire in 2011, in which 89 patients died, was similarly traumatic.
Mr Ganatra had run up four floors through a smoke-filled stairwell, choking and vomiting. Looking for survivors, he found one.
"All I found were patients, who had fallen off the beds and died in the ICU. In the smoke-filled wards I saw six to seven bodies, on the floor, on the bed."
But there's no time to think of all this when the breaking news scrawl on TV announces a new fire in the city.
Mr Ganatra will slip into a 21-year-old khaki uniform gifted by a fire official, put on his yellow plastic hat and safety torch bought by friends, pick up a heavy metallic volunteer identity card, presented by a former minister, and head out to the scene.
The solitary man of modest possessions and a grand obsession gets by with a little help from his friends - they give him 2,500 rupees ($36; £26) every month.
Across the city, it is business as usual, as Mr Ganatra reaches a fire scene.
"I listen to the fire, and then I take her on. I pick up the hose. When the fire blows in my direction, I fall on the floor and let it blow over.
"You can never outrun the beast, you never can. You can only try to tame it." | "A fire talks to you," says Bipin Ganatra, squatting in his one-room flat in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta). |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | The hospital was one of several across the country that declared major incidents throughout Tuesday.
Moves to ease the situation included taking clinical staff off non-urgent work to help, and arranging additional transport for those being discharged.
The hospital trust said there remained "a lot of pressure" on its services.
A spokeswoman said its major incident status was de-escalated at 20:00 GMT on Tuesday, but non-urgent surgery on Wednesday would be rescheduled.
On Tuesday, 53 people in the hospital's A&E department were seeking treatment at 13:00 GMT - 15 of whom were waiting for a bed.
Some patients faced almost a 12-hour wait for a bed after the decision to admit them.
"Any occurrence that presents serious threat to the health of the community, disruption to the service or causes (or is likely to cause) such numbers or types of casualties as to require special arrangements to be implemented by hospitals, ambulance trusts or other acute or community provider organisations."
Source: NHS England Commissioning Board | The Royal Bolton Hospital is no longer under "major incident" status, but all non-urgent operations have been cancelled on Wednesday. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Nightclub owner David West, 70, of Piccadilly in central London, was stabbed on 12 December.
His 45-year-old son, of the same name, admits killing his father but denies murder, saying he "lost control" because of his father's behaviour.
The Old Bailey heard the pair had a turbulent relationship and Mr West Sr sacked his son the day he was killed.
The court heard Mr West Jr allegedly drank several glasses of whisky on 12 December before taking a large knife from his flat and going to his father's house.
Before the killing, jurors were told, the defendant told his girlfriend "a lot of people need sorting out and it's going to be tonight" while afterwards he allegedly told police "I had the guts to stand up to him".
Prosecutor Aftab Jafferjee QC told the court: "He took the largest kitchen knife from his flat - provided by his father - and went next door to where his father had been taken by his assistant, and left at the bottom of the stairs as he was too drunken to climb them.
"He then stabbed his father... leaving the knife embedded there."
At the time of his death, Mr West Sr's business - including the restaurant Abracadabra and nightclub Hey Jo in Mayfair - was in serious financial trouble with "large debts", the court heard.
Mr Jafferjee told jurors: "David West Sr rightly or wrongly saw his son as someone who was no longer able to match up to the demands of the state of the business.
"The defendant, who was in awe of his father, felt that his efforts were rarely, if ever, appreciated by his father."
The case continues.
On Thursday 19 February the mystery will be solved - as part of EastEnders' 30th anniversary week.
A video was put up on Twitter after the dramatic New Year's Day episode, which kept everyone guessing about who the killer might be.
The revelation will be one of the birthday week highlights, which kicks off from Monday 16 February.
On New Year's Day former police officer, Emma Summerhayes, was about to reveal who Lucy's killer was when she was knocked down by Roxy Mitchell and rushed to hospital.
Emma was texting the killer when she was hit.
"But that doesn't change anything it's still murder," she said, earlier in the episode.
One half of the Beale twins, Lucy had a short but eventful life.
She's been held hostage, mugged, run away from home and made life as difficult as possible for her dad Ian Beale's various love interests.
Her body was found on Walford Common on Good Friday.
Suspects have included Lucy's lover Max and her new boyfriend Lee Carter, but it won't be long before we'll find out for sure.
Brithday celebrations will include a 30-minute live episode and there will also be a series of live elements in all the episodes that week.
Charlotte Moore, Controller of BBC One says: "It will bring the nation together to celebrate 30 years of EastEnders by going live across the anniversary week."
"It will mark a massive event by creating the ultimate 'doof doof' and finally reveal who killed Lucy Beale," she added.
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Nemati, 30, secured both Olympic and Paralympic qualification quota places for her nation last year.
The Iranian Olympic Committee agreed to the decision after a suggestion from the country's National Paralympic Committee.
Nemati will carry the Iranian flag at the ceremony which takes place at the Maracana on 5 August.
"I will do my best to win honours in Olympic and Paralympic Games simultaneously and I dedicate a gold medal to my family," she said.
Nemati won Paralympic gold in the women's individual recurve W1/W2 at London 2012, becoming the first Iranian woman to win an Olympic or Paralympic title.
She earned the Olympic qualification slot with a superb performance at the 2015 Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok, Thailand where she won silver in the women's recurve.
The Iranian Paralympic Committee said it hoped the suggestion to its Olympic counterparts would send a message from Paralympians to Olympians and also to the world, that a person's disability is not a limitation.
The last archer to compete in both Games in the same year was Italy's Paola Fantato at Atlanta 1996. | The son of a tycoon killed his "drunken bully" father because he wanted to "go out with a bang", a court has heard.
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Paralympic archer Zahra Nemati has been chosen to be Iran's flagbearer at the Rio 2016 Olympics. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | The Belfast flyweight defeated France's Elie Konki on Wednesday and victory in the semis ensures his place in Rio.
Katie Taylor and David Oliver Joyce are also through to the semi-finals.
2012 Olympic champion Taylor beat Denmark's Yvonne Baek Rasmussen while Joyce overcame Vazgen Safaryants of Belarus at lightweight.
However, Cavan's Ceire Smith and Cork's Christina Desmond both exited.
Smith's split-decision flyweight quarter-final defeat by Ukraine's Tetyana Kob could end the Cavan fighter's hopes of qualifying for Rio.
There is a further chance to book Rio places at next month's World Championships but Smith may miss out on the Kazakhstan tests as Belfast woman Michaela Walsh may return to the Irish team for that competition.
Walsh was forced out of the current Olympic qualifying event because of injury which led a call-up for Smith.
Cork middleweight Desmond won the first round on all three cards against Hungary's Petra Szatmari but ended up losing on a unanimous decision.
Kilkenny heavyweight Darren O'Neill missed out on a semi-final spot after losing to top seed Abdulkadir Abdullayev from Azerbaijan.
The top three male boxers in each division in Samsun will secure Rio qualification with the women's finalists also progressing to the Olympics in August.
Olympic medallists Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan have already qualified for the Rio games along with Steven Donnelly and Joe Ward. | Brendan Irvine is just one win away from clinching an Olympic Games spot after making the semi-finals at the qualifying tournament in Turkey. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Danielle Cassin, 27, and Mark Piper, 31, had both denied delivering a fatal blow to Levi-Blu Cassin.
Birmingham Crown Court was told the 22-month-old died from "catastrophic" internal injuries in February 2013.
A jury found them guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child. They will be sentenced on Monday.
Cassin, of Frensham Close, Chelmsley Wood, and Piper, of no fixed abode, were also cleared of manslaughter.
Levi-Blu was found at the flat his parents shared in Nightingale Avenue, Chelmsley Wood, on 20 February last year.
Both defendants gave differing accounts of Levi-Blu's last 24 hours, but maintained they did not know how he came to be injured.
Judge Mr Justice Goss said both "deny they used any violence on Levi or was aware of the other using any".
They were, he said "at a loss" in police interviews to explain how Levi-Blu sustained his fatal injuries.
They said he had shown signs of sickness in the hours leading up to his death, but had not appeared gravely ill.
But during the trial medical experts told the jury it was likely Levi-Blu sustained the fatal injury around 12 hours before his death.
"There will have been a distinct change in his behaviour after the event and it is very unlikely that he will have walked or played," one said.
A post-mortem examination found his duodenum - where the small intestine meets the stomach - was split in two.
There was also evidence Levi-Blu had sustained less serious injuries two or three weeks before his death, the trial heard.
Source: legislation.gov.uk
Jurors were also told social workers had designed a plan to try and protect Levi because of his mother's drug use and his father's history of violence.
The NSPCC said it was "extremely distressing" to hear "defenceless toddler" Levi-Blu "had endured such suffering in his short life".
Sandra Mcnair, head of the charity's Midlands Regional branch said she hoped Monday's sentencing hearing "reflects the severity of the crime committed".
"We may never know the full story of what happened to Levi-Blu," she said.
"However, we do know that he lived in a home where domestic violence and drug use was common place.
"We know that Levi-Blu was wilfully neglected by his parents, who chose to put their relationship and drugs before the basic needs and wellbeing of their son.
"The family was known to local agencies, so it is vital that questions are asked as to whether more could have been done to keep him safe from harm", she said.
Edwina Grant, chair of Solihull Local Safeguarding Children Board, confirmed a serious case review had been launched.
It is expected to be published in the spring, she said. | A mother and father accused of killing their toddler son have been cleared of his murder - but convicted of causing or allowing his death. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | Two microlights left the airport, in Eglinton, County Londonderry, at about 11:46 BST on Thursday bound for Scotland. One is now missing.
RNLI crew member Paddy McLaughlin said they are "very concerned" for the two people on board.
"Weather conditions have been calm but [it was] very cold through the night".
He added: "The difficulty we have, because of tides in the area, is that if there are people, wreckage or aircraft the tides will bring them north and south so we have to search a very, very large area."
Ian Guy is involved in the search at the National Maritime Operation Centre.
"We had information from another aircraft that was making the passage with them, so we had a reasonably good picture of where the last contact was. What we don't know is where they went after that," he said.
"The fog, which has hampered, could have been a contributory factor in that."
Fog on Thursday evening eventually hampered the search efforts, at one point the RNLI said visibility was down to about 10 metres.
Five lifeboats were launched from Larne and Red Bay in Northern Ireland and Portpatrick in Scotland.
They were later joined by coastguard helicopters from Prestwick and the Irish coastguard helicopter from Dublin.
Community Rescue Service are also assisting using thermal imaging technology.
Overnight they searched near Ballycastle and along the coastline toward Portballintrae.
"I have to say no stone has been left unturned all night," Mr McLaughlin added.
"There's been many coastguard teams out along the coast here, we've had mountain rescue out, we've had five lifeboats and two rescue helicopters so it's a very large and intensive search."
A spokesperson from City of Derry Airport confirmed that two Microlight aircraft departed at 11:46 BST on route to Scotland.
It is understood that the second plane arrived safely.
The search off the North Channel was suspended due to fog at about 04:00 BST on Friday, after lasting about eight hours.
The UK Coastguard said teams and rescue units had been waiting for "visibility to improve" before the search was resumed.
Ryan Gray of the UK Coastguard said: "UK Coastguard has also issued a Mayday relay broadcast in the area and several merchant shipping vessels have responded and are keeping a lookout for this aircraft.
"We may send further resources as the search widens."
The coastguard said the aircraft was "tracking east towards Castle Kennedy, near Stranraer".
Six coastguard rescue teams and two rescue helicopters were involved in the search.
Police in Northern Ireland and Scotland were also informed. | A major search operation for a light aircraft that went missing after leaving City of Derry Airport has resumed. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | All on board died when the Bond Super Puma came down in 2009.
Relatives have called for a criminal inquiry, but the Crown Office defended its decision not to prosecute.
Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle said the precautions which might have avoided the deaths included following agreed procedures and communications.
He said the operators had considered replacing part of the gearbox just a week before the crash but did not do so because of a failure of communication with the manufacturer.
Sheriff Pyle said: "During the course of the inquiry there was much discussion about the circumstances which led Bond not to follow the clear terms of the maintenance.
"Bond readily acknowledged that they ought to have done so.
By James CookScotland Correspondent, BBC News
As the families of Flight 85N sat down to face the cameras in Aberdeen, the air throbbed as a helicopter passed overhead.
It was an eerie reminder of why we were here.
Every day hundreds of North Sea oil workers place their faith in helicopters and those who manufacture and operate them.
The relatives of some of those who died say that faith was betrayed twice: once by Bond's failure to operate "by the book" and again by a failure to bring anyone to justice.
Crash relatives 'one big family'
"The essential fact is that everyone in the company well knew that maintenance must be done by the book.
"On one occasion, that fundamental rule was broken. It resulted in the failure to detect a significant fault in the helicopter's gearbox, which possibly - but only possibly - resulted in the crash."
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) pinpointed a catastrophic failure of the gearbox in its examination of the crash.
Sheriff Pyle acknowledged that the exact cause of the gearbox failure which led to the crash could not be fully determined.
He concluded that on the balance of probabilities the spalling - the fracturing of metal - in the gearbox was the probable cause of the accident.
Lawyer Tom Marshall, for the families, said he was pleased the sheriff principal had accepted that the crash could have been prevented if Bond had followed the maintenance manual.
He said there was a need for a wider public inquiry, and that the families wanted to meet the Lord Advocate to discuss the earlier decision not to pursue criminal prosecutions.
Audrey Wood, whose son Stuart died, said: "Safety is absolutely paramount, and everything must be done by the book.
"We, the families, feel let down by the system. We just wanted answers.
"We will never have closure, this will go on and on for us."
Helicopter operator Bond said: "We have always accepted that we made mistakes through honest confusion over telephone calls and emails.
"Lessons needed to be learned, lessons have been learned and lessons continue to be learned.
"We would like to express again our deep sorrow at the 16 lives lost.
"Bond Offshore hopes that Sheriff Principal Pyle's determination brings a degree of closure to the families, friends and dependents of those who died in the tragedy of 2009."
Tommy Campbell, from the Unite union, said it was a "travesty of justice" that there had not been a criminal prosecution.
He also called for the decision to be reconsidered, and added: "These failings have cost lives."
A Crown Office spokesman said Crown Counsel had "fully assessed" the evidence before deciding there was not enough evidence for a prosecution.
"For a criminal prosecution to have taken place, the Crown would have to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. The Sheriff Principal makes clear that a reasonable doubt remained over the technical cause of the crash.
"The evidence presented during the FAI has not altered the insufficiency of evidence, therefore the decision not to hold criminal proceedings remains the correct one.
"We will be offering to meet relatives again to discuss the Sheriff Principal's judgement."　
A six-week hearing into the crash was held in Aberdeen earlier this year.
It heard evidence from the helicopter operator Bond Offshore Helicopters and manufacturer Eurocopter, as well as crash investigators.
Senior AAIB operations investigator Timothy Atkinson told the fatal accident inquiry that the gearbox failure meant there was nothing the crew could do - and the crash was "not survivable".
Eight of the victims came from the north east of Scotland, seven from the rest of the UK, and one from Latvia.
The two crew who died were Capt Paul Burnham, 31, of Methlick, Aberdeenshire, and co-pilot Richard Menzies, 24, of Droitwich Spa, who worked for Bond Offshore Helicopters.
The KCA Deutag employees killed were Brian Barkley, 30, of Aberdeen; Vernon Elrick, 41, of Aberdeen; Leslie Taylor, 41, of Kintore, Aberdeenshire; Nairn Ferrier, 40, of Dundee; Gareth Hughes, 53, of Angus; David Rae, 63, of Dumfries; Raymond Doyle, 57, of Cumbernauld; James John Edwards, 33, of Liverpool; Nolan Goble, 34, of Norwich, and Mihails Zuravskis, 39, of Latvia.
The other victims were James Costello, 24, of Aberdeen, who was contracted to Production Services Network (PSN); Alex Dallas, 62, of Aberdeen, who worked for Sparrows Offshore Services; Warren Mitchell, 38, of Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, who worked for Weatherford UK; and Stuart Wood, 27, of Aberdeen, who worked for Expro North Sea Ltd. | An inquiry into the deaths of 16 men in a North Sea helicopter crash has concluded that the accident could have been prevented. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Mr McCullough, from Portstewart, County Londonderry, is one of the best known guitarists in the world, performing with a host of legendary artists.
He was invited by the Beatle Paul McCartney to join Wings in the 1970s and spent 18 months touring with them.
Despite early reports that he had died, his sister Rae Morrison said he was still battling.
She said he had suffered a heart attack on Monday and the family are worried and distressed but that they had been inundated with messages of support.
"He is a very special person," she said.
"We really are very worried for him, his sister is on her way home from Florida and his brother is coming home from Glasgow."
Mr McCullough, who is 69, was also a member of Joe Cocker's band.
He played with Cocker at the legendary Woodstock concert in 1969, the only Irishman to perform there.
McCullough spent 18 months touring and recording with Wings in the 1970s, after being invited to join the band following a number of jamming sessions with McCartney.
He has been hailed for his guitar work on the US number one hit My Love.
McCullough later signed to the Dark Horse record label of another Beatle, George Harrison, for his solo album Mind Your Own Business.
The 41-year-old Portuguese leaves after just over one season in charge.
Speaking in a news conference following his team's 1-0 defeat by Sevilla, Nuno said he had told club owner Peter Lim of his decision before Sunday's game.
Valencia finished fourth in La Liga last year but have struggled this term, winning five out of 13 games.
"I have spoken with the owner, the president and we are all agreed that Valencia is a project for the present and the future and I don't want that to stop," Nuno said.
"I want Valencia to return to being one of the biggest clubs in Europe."
Los Che are yet to announce who will be taking temporary charge.
The club qualified for the group stages of this year's Champions League by beating Monaco in a play-off but are close to elimination.
They will only progress to the knockout stage if they beat Lyon at home and Gent fail to beat leaders Zenit St Petersburg in the final round of Group H fixtures on on Wednesday, 9 December.
Singaporean owner Lim has a stake in Salford City, the non-league club co-owned by Neville with his former Manchester United team-mates Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes. | The former Wings guitarist Henry McCullough is critically ill following a heart attack.
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Nuno Espirito Santo has resigned as coach of Valencia, the Spanish club where former Manchester United defender Phil Neville is assistant manager. |
Summarize the passage below. | 2 December 2015 Last updated at 00:04 GMT
It marks a major shift in the way China stamps its mark on the continent and will almost certainly be discussed at a major China-Africa summit being attended by the Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of this week.
The BBC has been given exclusive access to the Chinese peacekeepers in South Sudan - the first foreign broadcaster granted permission by Beijing to film them. | For the first time, a Chinese infantry battalion has been sent on a UN peacekeeping mission and more than 1,000 Chinese soldiers are currently serving in South Sudan. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The advert for 'Snowz' features famous Thai actress Cris Horwang attributing her success to fairer skin.
The company behind the product, Seoul Secret, issued a "heartfelt apology", saying it had not meant to offend.
The incident has reignited the debate about attitudes to skin colour in Thailand.
Comments about the shade of a person's skin have been commonplace in a country with an abundance of skin-whitening products, although many younger Thais now refuse to accept the stereotypes associated with skin colour.
"In my world there is tough competition. If I don't take care of myself, everything I have built, the whiteness I have invested in, could be gone," Cris Horwang warns in the video advert.
At that point her skin turns almost black, and a young, and very white, rival appears by her side. She looks down in dismay at her dark complexion and muses "if I was white, I would win".
The advert stirred up a storm of debate online, with many Twitter users critical of the advert itself as well as the decision to withdraw it.
One person wrote on a Thai-language forum Pantip.com: "I'm perfectly fine being dark-skinned and now you're saying I've lost? Hello? What?"
"Suggesting people with dark skin are losers is definitely racist," wrote another.
Seoul Secret quickly withdrew the advert, although it could still be seen on YouTube on Friday, and offered a swift apology.
"What we intended to convey was that self-improvement in terms of personality, appearance, skills, and professionalism is crucial," the firm said.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says that as an advertising slogan it could not have been blunter - ending as it does with "Eternally white, I'm confident".
The abundance of skin-whitening products available in Thailand, and the efforts many Thai women go to shelter from the sun, highlights the obsession with pale skin, our correspondent says.
Two years ago, when Nonthawan "Maeya" Thongleng won the 2014 Miss Thailand World beauty contest, much comment centred on how dark her skin was compared to typical contestants.
At the time she said she wanted to encourage all other women who felt insecure because of their darker skin.
Darker skin is often associated in Thailand with manual, outdoor labour, and therefore with being "lower class".
Also much of the urban elite are of ethnic Chinese origin, who tend to have lighter skin than the indigenous people of the Thai countryside.
"This is not a problem that is unique to Thailand. It's a problem that exists all over the world," says social critic Lakkana Punwichai.
"The issue also underlines the issue of class in Thailand, where those with darker skin are viewed as the poor from the rural north-east. We look down on them, on Cambodians, and Indians with darker complexions.
"However, attitudes are changing as Thai elites start to look down on women who long to be white, the same way some westerners look down on "blonde bimbos"," she said. | A Thai cosmetics firm has withdrawn its video advertising a skin-whitening product after it was attacked on social media for being racist. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Judith Thompson said they are "utterly disillusioned" by the failure to reach agreement on how to deal with the past.
The victims commissioner said that she believes progress is still possible on the issue.
But she added that it will require political courage because all sides have something to fear.
Ms Thompson was responding to Secretary of State James Brokenshire who said a public consultation on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles is on hold until he achieves "broad political consensus".
In a BBC interview, she accepted that going public with proposals that have not been agreed could "kill the process", but said progress must be made.
"It's going to require a lot of courage on all parts because what will come out through the proper investigation of these 2,000 deaths is not going to be comfortable for anybody," she said.
"But the consequences of not doing it are very, very far reaching and will bring us back to this point again at some point."
The Stormont House Agreement set out a plan for dealing with the legacy of the Troubles two years ago.
The British government and DUP are at loggerheads with Sinn Féin on the issue and the two sides have been unable to reach agreement on how that will be done.
In recent weeks, each side has blamed the other for the lack of progress.
"This is something that is far, far too important to be playing political ping pong around whose fault it might be," said Ms Thompson.
"I have sat down with victims' groups over the last number of days, and I think people feel utterly disillusioned.
"What people have said to me is, look people bring us in, everybody says they care about us, everybody says we are at the centre of what is happening and then they don't do anything.
"So what does that tell us? It tells us that we actually aren't important at all."
Asked if she also felt disillusioned by the lack of agreement on the issue, the commissioner said she desperately felt the "injustice" of the situation.
"Yes, there are political objectives, there are strategies and long-term strategies for all the players in the political arena, for where they want to get to, but the people I talk for, they don't have that time," she said.
One of the main sticking points in the negotiations on legacy is the issue of national security, and how much sensitive information the government and security agencies have said should be released into the public domain.
The commissioner has previously said the government cannot use national security as a rock under which to hide from Troubles-related issues.
Ms Thompson said she believes efforts to reach agreement on the past are now "teetering on the edge", and that victims have been let down.
"Collectively everybody has (let them down). Collectively victims have not been served well in the out-workings of our peace, and our peace has served most of us very well," she said. | The commissioner who represents victims of the Troubles has said they have been let down by politicians. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | Janulis' photographs show the countryside covered in snow as winter takes hold.
"On the first day the snow fell, I went flying and taking pictures, not to miss the chance of capturing the moments while the trees are still holding the fresh snow," says Janulis.
"No matter how cold it was, I enjoyed the winter season.
"The very end of December and early January brought stronger cold to Lithuania, reaching -15C. No matter of this, I kept on flying."
Janulis's images capture the countryside and the capital, Vilnius.
"I have always loved looking at perspectives from above; it allows us to see so many things that would otherwise be unnoticed," says Janulis.
"Taking photographs from above grants us the possibility to see the same view of the daily world as others."
Janulis uses a DJI Phantom 2 Vision Plus quadcopter to capture the pictures.
Here, the snow covers the damaged roof of a large building in Vilnius.
Police Superintendents' Association president Irene Curtis told a meeting at the Lib Dem conference police did "much more" than record crime.
A more "sophisticated" measure of performance was needed, she added.
Sir Hugh Orde, chairman of the Association of Chief Police Officers, also urged a debate on statistics.
Home secretaries have long used quarterly crime figures to justify their crime-fighting policies.
These are also used to allocate police resources at a local level and give residents a picture of criminality in their area, through online crime maps.
But there is growing evidence that they are not providing a true picture.
The UK Statistics Authority, the watchdog that oversees the publication of official data, said in January it could no longer approve crime figures based on information recorded by the police in England and Wales.
It found evidence that forces had been undercounting crime - due to human error, poor training and dealing with incidents informally - or, in some cases, massaging the figures to meet performance targets.
There has also been criticism that some crimes - such as four million examples of credit card fraud every year - are not included in the official figures.
At a fringe meeting at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow. Mrs Curtis, a former deputy chief constable, said the answer was to stop publishing them altogether.
"I actually think recorded crime should not be a measure of police performance," she said. "Police do far more than record a crime. The difficulty is when you start looking at recorded crime versus police performance... you can't correlate the two."
She said crimes should still be recorded by officers but the statistics should not be made public.
"If you take away that measurement and find a much more sophisticated way of measuring police performance but leave the actual recorded crime to the police - to look at internally so they know what's happening - they can deploy resources, they can use it for intelligence. I think we'll be in a much stronger position around crime stats."
Sir Hugh Orde, former chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said: "We need to have a whole new debate about what's recorded and what isn't."
To highlight what he suggested was the absurdity of the current system he cited the example of a chief constable whose officers were accused of "hiding crime" because they had chosen to deal with an incident informally rather than record it as a crime.
"Three kids under the age of criminal responsibility had dared to bare their bottoms at passing motorists," Sir Hugh said. "The officer had two options. What he did is what I think you'd expect him to do. He got hold of the kids took them home, spoke to their mum and dad."
Crime has been falling in the UK since the mid-1990s - but incidents recorded by the police are going down at a faster rate than those uncovered by the British Crime Survey, the other official measure, which relies on face-to-face interviews with the public. | Karolis Janulis has been using a drone to take pictures of his homeland, Lithuania, from the air.
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Police forces should stop publishing crime statistics because they give the public the wrong impression, a police union leader has said. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Between 10,000 and 20,000 people lined an avenue near the Kremlin, compared to crowds of 100,000 in December.
Demonstrators heard calls not to recognise Mr Putin's re-election because of alleged widespread fraud.
Foreign states have accepted Mr Putin's election but observers said the poll had been skewed in his favour.
The BBC's Richard Galpin in Moscow says some opposition leaders had played down expectations of the turnout on Saturday, partly because their movement had failed to stop Mr Putin securing a third term in office.
Police in riot gear made a number of arrests in Moscow, detaining veteran left-wing activist Sergei Udaltsov among others.
The Moscow protest took place on Novy Arbat, a wide avenue in the city centre lined by 1960s skyscrapers.
By Steve RosenbergBBC News, Moscow
After three months of mass demonstrations, Russia's protest movement seems to be running out of steam. This rally was far smaller than previous protests. Police didn't even need to stop the traffic on Novy Arbat street and block off the road.
The lower turnout shows how hard it will be for the opposition to maintain its momentum following Vladimir Putin's election win. Especially with Mr Putin's victory receiving recognition from world leaders - President Obama called to congratulate him on Friday.
But the streets protests are set to continue. The day of Mr Putin's inauguration, 7 May, has been mentioned as one possible date. Meanwhile, the focus will shift to regional elections due in the coming months and making sure they pass off without irregularities.
Dozens of police and military vehicles were stationed on nearby streets.
The city authorities had given permission for a rally of up to 50,000 people but actual turnout was as low as 10,000, according to police, while the opposition gave much higher figures.
"My estimate - after seeing our high shot - is that between 10 and 20 thousand people were at today's Moscow protest - big numbers have gone," the BBC's Moscow correspondent, Daniel Sandford said in a message on Twitter.
On a cold but sunny Moscow day, demonstrators waved banners and wore white ribbons - the symbol of the protest movement.
One of the protest's organisers, Vladimir Ryzhkov, told the crowd: "These authorities are illegitimate. The same people are in power, the same people who took away our right to choose, the same people who destroyed freedom of speech and political competition.
"We will continue to demand deep political reforms and new elections."
Mr Udaltsov called for a million-strong march to take place in Moscow in May, a week before Mr Putin's inauguration.
The man seen by many as the driving force behind the protests, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny, attended the rally as a spectator, not a speaker as on previous occasions.
Other, smaller protest rallies took place in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg.
Mr Putin was re-elected for six years, having served two previous terms as president between 2000 and 2008.
On Friday, US President Barack Obama called Mr Putin from Air Force One "to congratulate him on his recent victory", a White House statement said.
Mr Obama said he looked forward to hosting Mr Putin at the G8 Summit in May at Camp David. | Protests have been held in Russia over Vladimir Putin's presidential election victory but turnout in Moscow was sharply down on earlier rallies. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | His main rival Edward Lowassa has rejected the official results that gave him 40% of the ballots cast.
The opposition Ukawa coalition candidate earlier claimed he had won with 62% of the vote.
The elections on Sunday were the most fierce the governing party faced after 54 years in power.
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Analysis: Ruth Nesoba, BBC Africa, Dar es Salaam
John Magufuli is celebrating his 56th birthday so the presidency is a perfect gift for him. He was never a CCM insider and confounded many when he was elected as the ruling party's presidential candidate.
As works minister in the outgoing government, Mr Magufuli was reputed to be a no-nonsense, results-driven politician. He became known as "The Bulldozer" for driving a programme to build roads across the country.
He campaigned for the presidency on a platform of hard work, and will now have to tackle far bigger problems facing the East African state. This includes constant power outages, and corruption - an issue which led to many people turning against CCM in the election.
'The Bulldozer' in profile
In Zanzibar, elections for the semi-autonomous archipelago's parliament and president were annulled on Wednesday.
Zanzibar's election chief Jecha Salum Jecha said the poll had been marred by gross irregularities, including rigging and physical fights between rival election commissioners.
CCM supporters have been celebrating Mr Magufuli's victory outside CCM's headquarters in Tanzania's main city, Dar es Salaam.
President Jakaya Kikwete, who is standing down after two terms in office, retweeted a CCM photo of Mr Magufuli and the accompanying words: "Our next Commander-in-Chief, Dr John Pombe Magufuli, the President-elect of The United Republic of Tanzania."
Abdallah Safari, vice-president of Chadema, one of the four opposition parties that make up Ukama, told the BBC that Tanzanians "have been robbed of their victory".
BBC Tanzania analyst Zuhura Yunus says the result is a big blow for Mr Lowassa after four opposition parties put their faith in him, uniting for the first time to field a single candidate.
She says Mr Lowassa is convinced he won and the question now is whether he will challenge the result further, or throw in the towel.
European Union observers said that the elections were "generally well organised" but "with insufficient efforts at transparency from the election administrations".
Teams from the African Union and southern African regional body Sadc said that the vote had largely been "free and fair", despite all groups raising concerns over the subsequent annulment of Zanzibar's local elections. | Tanzania's governing CCM party candidate John Magufuli has won the presidential election with 58% of the vote, the electoral commission says. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Kamil Dantes, from Nottinghamshire, said he wished to "destroy" the imposters, claiming they were wearing his parents' faces as skin masks.
The sentencing judge said cannabis had induced psychotic behaviour.
He gave him a life sentence with a minimum term of 18 years.
The case reached the Appeal Court because his legal team challenged the length of the minimum term, but the appeal was rejected.
Lady Justice Hallett said: "These were the most brutal attacks on two innocent and virtually defenceless human beings.
"It was an impeccable sentencing exercise. No complaint can be made about the length of this minimum term."
Dantes, from Worksop, was originally charged with murder but the prosecution accepted his guilty pleas of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The 29-year-old, now aged 31, was ordered to be detained in a psychiatric unit when he was sentenced on 20 July 2015.
His minimum term would have been 19 years and 73 days but was reduced to 17 years and 354 days because he had spent more than a year in custody by the time he was sentenced.
Lady Justice Hallett, sitting with Mr Justice Jeremy Baker and Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, rejected claims that Dantes received insufficient credit for his guilty pleas.
She dismissed arguments that the judge should have taken more account of his anguished history of mental health problems.
Lady Justice Hallett also noted that he had taken cannabis and amphetamines shortly before the killings, despite knowing that this could worsen his fragile condition. | A man who killed his parents after telling police they had been replaced with imposters like in the film Face/Off has failed in a bid to have his sentence reduced. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | The money from Wellcome will be used to establish a new research centre at the university.
Scientists at the centre will work to find drugs to treat "neglected" tropical diseases like malaria, tuberculosis and leishmaniasis.
The university said they were all diseases which caused hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
They also disproportionately affect the poor and cost developing economies billions of dollars.
Professor Paul Wyatt, the director of the new Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research, said the funding was a "major boost" to research into "neglected diseases".
"It will also mean we can expand our international collaborations, catalyse new projects and provide resources to carry out drug discovery training for scientists from countries where these diseases are endemic," he said.
"There is an urgent need to find new treatments for these diseases, where there is increasing resistance to old drugs. We are at the forefront of this global effort to find new therapeutics and this award from Wellcome will further strengthen our efforts."
Last year, researchers in the drug discovery unit at Dundee announced the discovery of a new anti-malarial compound with has the potential to treat malaria patients with a single dose.
Wellcome's director Dr Jeremy Farrar said: "Wellcome Centres play a special role in the global research ecosystem. By creating places where researchers can flourish we can catalyse world-leading research and translation, and amplify its influence and impact.
"At Wellcome we believe in long-term support for discovery-driven science, and Wellcome Centres are an outstanding environment for researchers to further our understanding of fundamental biology, accelerate translation to clinical practice, and explore the social and cultural context of medicine."
The Wellcome award is part of a £118m investment in major research centres over the next five years.
The other Wellcome Centres in Scotland are at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh.
It has been redeveloped to be more spacious and now boasts a new artists' garden and better visitor facilities.
A previously unseen painting by LS Lowry and a ceramic figure by Grayson Perry are among the new exhibits.
Tourists are being charged a £7.50 entrance fee after the body that runs the gallery had its council subsidy cut by 60%. Entrance fees were scrapped in 2002.
A decision on whether people living in York should also be required to pay has been delayed until later in the year.
The gallery, which reopened at 10:00 BST, includes a new Centre of Ceramic Art featuring an installation by Claire Twomey of 10,000 ceramic bowls piled in towering columns and Grayson Perry's figure Melanie.
Three oil paintings by Lowry - Clifford's Tower, Wilson's Terrace and the previously unseen A View of York (From Tang Hall Bridge) - that were commissioned by the gallery in 1952 are being shown together for the first time.
Other notable works by 20th Century artists, including David Hockney, are also on display, along with the gallery's collection of Italian old masters.
York Art Gallery is one of four attractions run by York Museums Trust, which has seen its subsidy from City of York Council fall from £1.5m in 2012 to £600,000 this year. | The University of Dundee has been awarded £13.6m to tackle some of the world's most devastating diseases.
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York Art Gallery has reopened to the public after an £8m revamp. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | The global craze involves half-filling a plastic bottle with water and throwing it in the air in the hope it will land upright.
North Walsham High School in Norfolk banned it for "safety reasons".
The school said it "did not want to spoil fun" but minor injuries involving plastic bottles made the ban necessary.
The challenge became an internet sensation after a video was posted in May of US high school student Mike Senatore performing tricks at a talent show.
Since then people have been trying to outdo each other, landing their bottles on surfaces including walls and windowsills.
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The ban was posted on the school's website and Facebook page on Monday.
The school wrote: "Following a misunderstanding today, we would like to confirm that the 'bottle flip challenge' is not permitted in school.
"Students caught doing this will have an immediate C3 detention."
The Facebook post elicited more than 120 comments.
"It never fails to amuse me how much schools care about ridiculous things," one person wrote.
"It's flipping lost its bottle," said another while others said the school was being "ridiculous" and "pathetic".
One parent, however, supported it saying "they are there to learn, not to mess about".
The Facebook post was later removed after the school said "inappropriate language" was being used in comments, but the detention notice remains on the website.
Head teacher Neil Powell said: "Following one or two minor injuries sustained by students when water bottles hit them, we decided that for safety reasons we would ban the practice in school, before a more serious injury occurred.
"We are aware of several schools in Norfolk taking similar action to ban the challenge." | A school has been branded "ridiculous" and "pathetic" after threatening pupils with detention if they take part in the "bottle-flip challenge". |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The Emirates team, skippered by Walker, triumphed in the nine-month triennial race after finishing fifth in the ninth leg from Lorient to Gothenburg.
Team Alvimedica won the final leg to ensure all but one of the seven-strong fleet won at least one stage.
Walker, in his third round-the-world race, becomes the first British skipper to win the overall trophy.
Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing secured top-three podium places in all but two of the legs and won two of them.
Team SCA, who became the first all-female crew in 25 years to win a leg of the round-the-world race, finished seventh.
The Swedish boat, skippered by Briton Sam Davies, were the only all-female crew in the race and the first to compete for 10 years.
The fleet of seven teams, sailing in a one-design Volvo Ocean 65 boat, encountered several dramas as they visited 11 ports across every continent.
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Team Vestas Wind were rescued from shark-inhabited waters after crashing on a remote coral reef in the second stage from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi. They missed five legs while the boat was being rebuilt.
At the end of the first leg an ice exclusion zone was introduced after a 300-metre-long iceberg was spotted by organisers, while crews also had to cope with masts snapping in storms.
"Every team and every sailor has won this Volvo Ocean Race - that is the beauty of the event," winning skipper Walker said.
"To sail around the world in such high performance boats remains an amazing achievement that few people will ever experience.
"To share the highs and lows with team-mates creates experiences that will never leave you. Despite the dramas that have unfolded, every sailor will be returning home to their loved ones and every boat will return to harbour." | Briton Ian Walker's Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing won the 38,739-nautical mile Volvo Ocean Race. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | Will this date become the "I was there moment" of the season?
Was this the day that people finally started to believe that Leicester can actually win the Premier League title?
It all started with Riyad Mahrez winning a free-kick on the edge of Manchester City's area and then...
German defender Robert Huth flicks in Mahrez's free-kick during the third minute to give Leicester the lead, and his Wikipedia page gets a cheeky edit...
One Twitter user decides a religious conversion might be in order if Leicester can achieve the unthinkable. Leicester's Thai owners regularly bring Buddhist monks over to bless the players.
While another points out that Australian Mark Schwarzer could create his own piece of history. The goalkeeper did not play a single match for Chelsea as they won the title last season and is yet to play for Leicester this season.
After half-time Mahrez turns Martin Demichelis inside out before doubling Leicester's lead on 48 minutes, and the plaudits pour in for the Algerian.
Some quickly pointed out that you could buy 122 Mahrez's for the cost of one Raheem Sterling.
It's 60 minutes inside the Etihad Stadium when Huth gets his second of the game with a header.
That goal sees Leicester become the top trending topic worldwide with over 500,000 tweets sent after kick-off about the Foxes.
The whistle blows at Etihad Stadium and Leicester open a six-point gap at the top of the Premier League, a lead Tottenham would later reduce to five points with a 1-0 win against Watford.
Suddenly everyone started to believe that this could be Leicester's year and bookmakers made them the favourites at 7/4.
But wait a minute this is Leicester, a team that just a year ago were bottom of the league. Is this actually going to happen? Only 13 games to go and then we will know for sure. | Etihad Stadium, 6 February 2016. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | Det Con Malcolm Turner said he saw no "signs of life "on Kevin Traynor as he lay on the pitch.
The inquests focused on the apprentice joiner's death and that of his elder brother Christopher, 26.
Ninety-six people died as a result of a terrace crush at the 1989 Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup Semi-Final.
Liverpool fan Jonathon Ellis, who stood in front of Kevin in pen three in the Leppings Lane end, said the pressure was "a bit like a vice getting tighter and tighter".
He said: "You got to a point when you literally couldn't move. My arms were down by my side - I couldn't move them up at all."
Mr Ellis said Kevin's chest was pressing against his shoulder, adding: "I remember him looking at me because our heads were very close together.
"He was asking me 'help me, help me, help me out'."
Mr Ellis said: "He did say to me 'I can't breathe' - I can't quote the exact words but it was 'help, get me out, I can't breathe.'"
He said he tried to reassure Kevin by saying "you will be out soon - there are people climbing over the front".
Mr Turner helped carry the teenager off the terraces at about 15:15 BST and laid him on the pitch.
His mouth was "full of vomit" and he was "discoloured".
The officer said he could not find a pulse in Kevin's neck or wrist and his pupils did not respond.
He told the inquests a doctor also checked pulse and pupils but said the teenager had "gone" and "we should leave him".
Brenda Campbell, representing Kevin's family, asked Mr Turner if he considered putting Kevin into the recovery position.
Mr Turner responded: "If we had found a pulse or seen any reaction in his pupils, then yes, I would have cleared the vomit and put him in the recovery position.
"Having checked him and found nothing - and also been confirmed by a man who said he was a doctor - there seemed little point."
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The jury also heard about efforts to save Christopher Traynor.
PC David McEwan gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation, while PC Kevin Landers did chest compressions but Christopher showed no signs of life.
An advertising hoarding used as a makeshift stretcher broke on the way up the pitch and Christopher was placed on to the ground, the hearing was told.
Their brother John Traynor and sister Theresa Arrowsmith identified their bodies, along with Christopher's widow Liz, at 02:55 BST the following morning.
The inquests into the tragedy of 15 April 1989, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on Monday. | A policeman who carried a 16-year-old Hillsborough victim off the terraces said there seemed little point in putting him in the recovery position. |
Summarize the information given below. | They said the Church had cut contact and emotional support from them on the advice of Ecclesiastical - which has a senior clergy member on its board.
An independent reviewer said in one victim's case "financial interests were allowed to impact practice".
Ecclesiastical said the review contained "factual inaccuracies".
Gilo - a middle-aged man who lives in the south-west of England - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme he had been raped in the early 1970s by a City of London clergyman, the Reverend Garth Moore.
Gilo - whose surname he has asked us not to use - said he had made more than 20 attempts to contact senior members of the church after his decision to report the assaults, but often received no reply.
When the Church finally examined his claim, it agreed it was at fault and reached a financial settlement with him of £35,000 on the advice of Ecclesiastical.
But the Church then cut contact, including emotional support - or pastoral care - with Gilo, for which he blames the insurer.
The company insists this was not a result of its advice.
Gilo told the BBC: "I think because of the relationship that the Church has with the insurers, the pastoral response is so fused with the legal response it's really effectively led by the insurers.
"When that insurer has got such significant presence of senior clerics on its board across the years, then you're into an area of moral responsibility."
Ecclesiastical has had a string of senior members of clergy on its board of directors.
The company said this was normal business practice because the Church of England was one of its major customers, and the clergy were non-executive directors.
Ian Elliott, a child safeguarding specialist who conducted an independent review of Gilo's case, echoed the victim's criticism of Ecclesiastical.
He said the insurer's advice had "directly conflicted" with the pastoral and compassionate responsibilities of the Church.
"That's not the direction or advice that is compliant with a compassionate pastoral response which is the stated policy of the Church," he added.
But Ecclesiastical's compliance director, John Titchener, said he had not been asked to contribute to Mr Elliott's review of Gilo's case.
He said: "The report is based on factual inaccuracies and we have been absolutely clear, before and after, that pastoral care and counselling can and should continue in parallel with an insurance claim which is a separate matter."
The Church of England, which accepted the criticisms in Mr Elliott's review in full, said it disagreed with the company.
"The Archbishop [of Canterbury] has very clearly... accepted all those recommendations," the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Rt Rev Peter Hancock, said.
Ecclesiastical has also been criticised over the settlement of claims by former residents of Kendall House, the Church of England children's home in Kent where girls were drugged and abused in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
A former resident, Teresa Cooper, told the programme she wanted an investigation into the involvement of Church figures in settlements.
"Even if they're not legally part of it, the Church are without a doubt fully involved in the Ecclesiastical insurance company," she added.
Mr Titchener said the settlement of claims relating to Kendall House would be looked at as part of the long-running Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
The Church of England's responses to complaints of historical abuse have provoked some calls for responsibility for safeguarding to be removed from its ruling bishops, and instead given to an independent organisation.
Watch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel. | Victims of abuse by clergy have criticised the Church of England's close relationship with the insurer advising it on compensation claims. |
Summarize the provided section. | The FTSE 100 index of leading shares rose by a meagre four points to end the day at 7,119.
There was little corporate news to move share prices, though Unilever ended the day 0.3% higher at £39.50 after reporting a strong rise in quarterly sales.
The pound rose 0.5% against the dollar to $1.284.
Against the euro the pound was unchanged at 1.193 euros.
Department stores were the main talking point of the day after Debenhams announced the outcome of a strategic review which includes the possible closure of 10 underperforming stores.
Its shares fell 5% to 52.5p.
And Marks & Spencer fell 1.3% to £3.54p after updating investors on its big turnaround plan, which includes both store closures and new store openings.
Unilever, one of the world's leading maker of groceries and household goods, said sales rose 3% in its first quarter, which was stronger growth than had been expected.
In February, Unilever rejected a takeover approach from its rival, the US firm Kraft Heinz.
Caterpillar saw a quarterly sales rise of 9.6%, while McDonald's posted its highest comparable sales growth in five years. Both companies rose more than 4.7%.
The Dow Jones rose 0.47% to 21,613.43, while the wider S&P 500 index added 0.29% to 2,477.08.
The tech-focused Nasdaq index was up 0.02% at 6,412.17.
The Nasdaq was weighed down by Alphabet, Google's parent company, which saw share prices fall after it reported its earnings.
But the Dow and S&P 500 reached another set of records.
The gains occurred across a variety of sectors, led by energy and financial stocks. The healthcare sector was among those posting losses, after the US Senate voted to begin the debate on another health care reform bill, extending uncertainty for the industry.
Caterpillar, which makes heavy farming and construction machinery, is viewed as a bellwether stock for the economy because of its links to other industries.
The firm's stock price climbed nearly 6% after the company told investors it expects sales to come in higher than previously forecast, largely due to demand in China and North America.
The country had initially been fending off boats but has since agreed to provide them with temporary shelter.
Over 3,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi or Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, have arrived in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand in the past two weeks.
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has called on South-East Asian nations to do more to protect migrants.
"It's important to save human lives. Whatever the reasons may be when they are out on the sea, their life is endangered," Mr Ban said in a speech in Vietnam.
The Indonesian operation covers their territorial waters and beyond, although they have not yet found any migrant boats.
"If they [the rescuers] see Rohingya boats experiencing various troubles beyond our territory, we have to help so that they can enter Indonesian territory, which initially I did not want to do," said General Moeldoko, the head of Indonesia's Armed Forces.
"But with the president's order, it is very clear we have to do it."
Myanmar and Malaysia launched similar operations on Friday. Thailand only said it would stop rejecting boats.
Myanmar (also known as Burma) has carried out its first rescue, finding more than 200 people they described as Bengalis crammed into the hull of a fishing boat.
Officials said the men would be deported to Bangladesh, with the country insisting only verified Myanmar citizens will be allowed to stay.
Why are so many Rohingya stranded at sea?
Myanmar's unwanted people
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You can message us on WhatsApp 07525 900971. | London share prices slumbered as the UK general election got underway in earnest.
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Write a summary for this information. | The 22-year-old former Hull and Cambridge United player has made 10 appearances for Rovers since joining them in the summer, scoring twice.
Margetts has also had loan spells at Stockport and Altrincham this campaign.
He is Andy Bishop's first signing as Port's caretaker boss, following the departure of Dino Maamria.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The freeze on major benefits, which continues until 2020, may bite harder as inflation is set to accelerate - driving up the cost of living.
Tax changes are planned but are yet to be put in place.
Chancellor Philip Hammond may decide to bring forward some of those moves and delay or reverse others.
The main working age benefits and tax credits were frozen in cash terms for four years from April 2016. That includes entitlements such as jobseeker's allowance and income support.
That income freeze could coincide with an acceleration in inflation, adding pressure to those on low incomes.
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the falling value of the pound since the Brexit vote will push prices about 2.6% higher than would have otherwise been the case.
Yet, there is some relief on the way for some squeezed working families.
The government has already promised to raise the amount people can earn before they are subject to income tax.
Known as the personal allowance, it is currently set at £11,000 and it has already been announced that it will go up to £11,500 in April 2017. The Conservatives have promised to raise this to £12,500 by 2020-21.
And there's speculation that on Wednesday the chancellor may bring forward that new threshold.
For the least-well-off families, changes to National Insurance might be more helpful.
There are calls for a raise in the threshold at which national insurance is paid - currently £8,060 for individuals.
Tom McPhail, of Hargreaves Lansdown, said that would be "a more useful intervention".
Better-off households are also in line for a tax boost. The Conservatives have pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying the higher rate of tax to £50,000 by 2020-21.
At present it is £43,000 and will go up to £45,000 in April next year. In Scotland, where the devolved administration led by the SNP has some control over income tax, the higher threshold will be £43,387 - an inflation linked rise.
Another major policy already in place for next April is the introduction of the Lifetime Individual Savings Account (LISA).
Investors must be aged between 18 and 40 to open one of these new products. They can save up to £4,000 a year, and the government will add a 25% bonus. Over a lifetime, savers have the potential to earn a bonus of up to £32,000, plus any investment return on top.
However, savers keep the bonus only if they use the money to buy their first home, or are over the age of 60. If neither criteria is met, there is a heavy withdrawal charge.
There has been some pressure on the chancellor to delay the introduction of LISAs, with critics including from former pensions minister Ros Altmann, but there is no sign of that as yet.
Other changes already announced are:
There has been considerable debate over the future of pensions tax relief. The chancellor may be tempted to change the annual or lifetime allowance of pension contributions that are free of income tax, currently £40,000 and £1m respectively.
Accountants are calling for stability from the chancellor, given the significant changes to taxes and benefits in recent years, alongside the administrative workload that comes with Brexit.
Among the appeals is a plea to delay the shift for small businesses from annual tax returns to quarterly returns made online.
"The new Making Tax Digital (MTD) reforms for SMEs should be deferred to relieve additional burdens on business while the economy fluctuates," said Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the ACCA accountancy body.
Tina Riches, national tax partner at accountancy group Smith and Williamson, said: "Individuals and businesses need a clear picture of where the tax system is going, not another period of jumping back and forth.
"Much complexity has arisen from governments making ad hoc changes, without adequate consultation, to try and deal with political whims. These changes have then, due to not being properly targeted or failing to receive adequate consultation, had unintended consequences and needed further alterations or have given rise to significant administrative burdens." | Southport have signed striker Jonny Margetts from National League rivals Tranmere Rovers on loan for the rest of the season.
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Some experts are predicting a "quiet" Autumn Statement - but significant upheaval for family finances is already coming down the line. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | The arrests are in relation to alleged misconduct within the office of the Police Ombudsman.
The suspects, aged 62 and 67, were detained in England on Tuesday. They were brought to Northern Ireland for questioning.
Police are to send a file to the Public Prosecution Service.
Detectives have been examining the Police Ombudsman's investigation of the RUC's treatment of the so-called 'Derry Four', who as teenagers were charged with the murder of a soldier in 1979.
They fled across the border and remained outside Northern Ireland for almost 20 years until they were acquitted in 1998.
Their treatment by the RUC was investigated by the Police Ombudsman and in 2012, the matter was referred to the Public Prosecution Service (PPS).
In 2014, the prosecution of two former police officers in connection with the interrogations of the 'Derry Four' collapsed after the PPS received new information from the ombudsman.
In the wake of that collapse, the PSNI was called in by the Police Ombudsman to look at how the complaint by the four men was investigated by its office.
He said she has the "full support" of her party and the election result was an "endorsement" of her leadership.
But Sinn Féin repeated it will not form a government with the DUP if they nominate Mrs Foster as first minister before a report into RHI is published.
Mrs Foster set up the botched Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme in 2012.
The fallout over a projected £490m overspend on the green energy scheme led to the collapse of the DUP and Sinn Féin-led coalition government in January.
A snap election, held on Thursday, brought an end to the unionist majority at Stormont but the DUP remains the largest party with 28 seats.
Mr Hamilton, a former DUP economy minister, told the BBC's Sunday Politics show: "It is not for Sinn Féin to dictate who our nominee for first minister is, it is not reasonable to do so."
Unionist commentator and author, Prof Jon Tonge, told the programme the election had been an "absolute disaster for unionism".
"For the first time they've lost their overall majority in Stormont and they may never, ever regain their overall majority in Stormont.
"So, from going from a very powerful position only last May 2016, suddenly unionism is in crisis."
On Saturday, DUP MP Gavin Robinson said his party was not ruling out Sinn Féin's ultimatum but added it would be Mrs Foster's decision.
However, Mr Hamilton said Thursday's election result was an "endorsement" of Mrs Foster's leadership of the DUP and Sinn Féin should "respect" her mandate.
He said he wanted to see her lead the party into power-sharing negotiations on Monday and her to be re-appointed as first minister of a coalition government.
"I've known Arlene for many years and she's one of the most capable politicians in Northern Ireland," Mr Hamilton told the programme.
"She has my full support, she has the support of the party, and most importantly she has the support of 225,000 people across Northern Ireland who voted for the DUP, who increased the DUP's mandate."
The DUP's vote increased in an election that saw a 10% increase in the overall turnout.
However, the DUP share of the vote fell and it lost seats and a number of high-profile MLAs.
Mr Hamilton said it was "disappointing" that some of his colleagues had not been re-elected but said the DUP was still the biggest party in Northern Ireland.
Speaking on the same programme, Sinn Féin's John O'Dowd said: "We are not dictating who leads the DUP."
He added: "If the DUP decides, after the implementation talks that are going to take place over the next number of weeks, that they are going to nominate Arlene Foster as joint first minister, Sinn Féin will not support that nomination."
Mike Nesbitt is stepping down as UUP leader after a disappointing election result which saw his party overtaken by the nationalist SDLP.
Ulster Unionist Party member Robin Swann told the programme he would not rule himself out of running for the UUP leadership.
Independent Unionist, Clare Sugden, who served as Justice minister in the previous Stormont mandate, said she would be prepared to return to the ministry. | Two former investigators for Northern Ireland's policing watchdog have been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
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DUP leader Arlene Foster should not step aside from being nominated as first minister at Sinn Féin's demand, the DUP's Simon Hamilton has said. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Particular concerns were raised about maths where performance has fallen from high to average over the past decade.
The review of the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) was undertaken by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The international experts said CfE was at a "watershed moment" and changes could deliver a world class system.
The curriculum has been operating in schools since 2010 and gives teachers more flexibility over what and how they teach.
The OECD review, commissioned by the Scottish government, focused on the "broad general education" element of the curriculum up the age of 15 and found "much to be positive about", including;
The review team also highlighted some "problems and challenges", including;
The CfE aims to give learners a "holistic understanding" of what it means to be a young Scot growing up in today's world.
It aims to equip learners with four key "capacities" - successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective contributors.
However, the report noted there was still some confusion about what constitutes the CfE and suggests setting out clearer definitions.
It also highlighted concerns from school inspectors that assessment results are often not used to improve pupils' learning progress - and a lack of clarity over what should be assessed.
The experts concluded: "Current national assessment arrangements in Scotland do not provide sufficiently robust information, whether for system-level policy-making, or for local authorities or an individual school."
The report notes that these problems may be remedied by the new system of national testing announced recently by the first minister.
The experts called for more academic research into how the curriculum is being implemented and suggest it be less centrally managed, with a greater role for schools themselves and local authorities.
They added: "To achieve the full potential of CfE, building on the valuable consensus and the clear enthusiasm, and for this watershed moment to be 'take off point' there is a more ambitious theory of change needed."
Scotland's largest teaching union, EIS, said the report painted a "largely positive picture" of Scottish education.
General secretary Larry Flanagan said: "It confirms previous data that indicates that Scottish schools and levels of pupil attainment compare well both internationally and with other countries within the UK.
"It also highlights the well-established challenges facing Scottish education, including the poverty-related attainment gap that continues to have a negative impact on too many young people across the country."
The Scottish government said it "broadly supported" the OECD recommendations - and said the review supported its plans to introduce national testing as part of its National Improvement Framework.
First minister Nicola Sturgeon said: "We share their view that we have a great opportunity to lead the world in developing an integrated assessment and evaluation framework.
"I firmly believe the Framework will play an important role in driving work to close the attainment gap and continually improve Scottish education."
Scottish Conservative young person spokeswoman Liz Smith said the review confirmed many encouraging signs including good levels of achievement in science and reading.
"However, it also confirms that there are major issues in numeracy and it sends out a very stark message about addressing failing schools,' she added.
"A range of recent statistics prove the extent of the attainment gap and the fact that literacy and numeracy are not as strong as they should be." | Achievement in Scottish schools is above international averages - but the gap is narrowing, a review has found. |
Please summarize the given passage. | On a visit to Germany, he said: "I don't know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room."
Mr Buhari was standing next to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who seemed to glare at him.
Aisha Buhari had said she might not back her husband at the next election unless he got a grip on his government.
Responding to questions by reporters, Mr Buhari said that having run for president three times and having succeeded at the fourth attempt, he could "claim superior knowledge over her".
In an interview with the BBC's Hausa language service, Mrs Buhari, a businesswoman and activist, suggested her husband's government had been hijacked by only a "few people", who were behind presidential appointments.
"The president does not know 45 out of 50 of the people he appointed and I don't know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years," she said.
Her decision to go public with her concerns will shock many people, but it shows the level of discontent with the president's leadership, says the BBC's Naziru Mikailu in the capital, Abuja.
The president's remarks on the kitchen and "the other room" have been met with outrage on social media.
There was immediate criticism for the president's thoughts on the role of women.
Some are wondering what Mr Buhari meant by "the other room", others have been posting pictures of a variety of bedrooms, and the hashtag #TheOtherRoom is trending in Nigeria.
Satirical writer Elnathan John complained that the president had ruined his column:
The comments by the president sparked a flurry of explanatory tweets by his spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu, who said the president respected the place of women in society and believed in their ability. He dismissed the incident as a bit of "banter":
Aisha Buhari campaigned vigorously for her husband in last year's election in Nigeria, organising town hall meetings with women's groups and youth organisations.
However, she kept a low profile at the start of the administration. She was restricted to her work on the empowerment of women and helping victims of the Boko Haram conflict in the north-east of the country where she is from.
This is one reason why this damning interview has caught the attention of many Nigerians.
It is a significant blow for Mr Buhari, who has a reputation for being a tough, no-nonsense president.
Mrs Buhari's comments also bolster accusations that his government has been hijacked by a small group of individuals.
The comments could also mark a turning point for a government that has clearly struggled to deal with economic recession and is facing growing disquiet within the ruling party.
Mr Buhari was elected last year with a promise to tackle corruption and nepotism in government.
The Nigerian economy, battered by low global oil prices and a currency devaluation, officially entered recession in August for the first time in a decade.
Oil sales account for 70% of government income.
The president famously remarked at his inauguration that he "belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody". | Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to criticism from his wife by saying she belongs in his kitchen. |
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