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Summarize the information in the following document. | Billy Monger, from Surrey, hit the back of a stationary car at Donington Park in April and lost both of his lower legs, days before he turned 18.
Eleven weeks on, he has now returned to the cockpit of a racing car at Brands Hatch in Kent.
The adapted Fun Cup endurance racer is fitted with steering wheel mounted hand controls.
The Formula 4 racer returned to the track with the assistance of Team BRIT, which helps disabled drivers and injured servicemen to compete in motorsport.
He said: "It's been really good just to get back behind the wheel.
And he added: "Team BRIT have got two steering wheels for me to try out today.
"I've decided which one I prefer, now it's just about perfecting the technique."
Dave Player, Team BRIT founder said the aim was to give the teenager his first time out on the track and to get his race licence back.
Monger said his ambition now was to compete in the Le Mans 24 Hours with Frenchman Frederic Sausset, who lost both arms and legs through an illness.
"I'm not 100% committed to anything yet, we're just looking at different options to see what's best for me in the future," he said.
"There's a lot of work involved in what's going on with my own rehabilitation, but that's all going well, so hopefully we'll be back out on track soon."
The teenager thanked fans who had overwhelmed him with help: "People keep saying I'm the inspiration but I think all these people coming together to support someone who has gone through an accident like this, they're the true inspiration." | A teenage racing driver who had to have both legs amputated after a high speed crash has got back behind the wheel. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The messages appear as invitations to events but are sent by spammers not the brands they feature.
The "report junk" button has been added to Apple's iCloud.com site and is expected to be included in an iOS update soon.
The calendar bug was heavily exploited this year around Black Friday.
Clearing out the bogus messages was frustrating because deleting the invitation sent an acknowledgement to the spammer it came from, revealing that an account was live.
Some people reported that declining an invitation led to them receiving more spam from the same source.
The spam invitations appear to come mainly from Chinese email addresses.
The reporting button removes the junk invitations from a person's calendar and lets Apple know about the message.
The button automatically appears on invitations sent by people not in someone's contacts list.
Until iOS is updated, anyone wishing to tackle the spam on their calendar must visit iCloud.com and click to report the faked messages.
The invitation will then disappear from all synched calendars.
Late last month, Apple apologised for the sudden influx of calendar spam and said it was working on ways to fix it.
Before the introduction of the reporting system, many people fixed the problem by creating a second calendar only for spam.
They moved all the junk invitations into that calendar and then deleted it. | Apple is tackling an outbreak of spam on iPhone calendars by introducing a button that lets users report the junk appointments. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The move is only temporary, however, with the Grandview Aquarium in Guangzhou saying that he would be returned following renovation works.
The mall posted on Chinese social media that it would "await Pizza's return".
Almost a million people have signed a petition to close the aquarium in Guangzhou where Pizza is kept.
Peter Li, China policy specialist at Humane Society International, said in a statement that Pizza, who lives indoors at the mall in a small enclosure, would at last "feel the sun on his fur, sniff fresh air and see the sky above him".
"But we implore the mall to make this a permanent move. No amount of renovation could ever make a shopping mall a suitable place for this animal, and to send him back would be cruel and heartless."
Mr Li said the mall's decision to move Pizza might be due to him becoming visibly sick and distressed.
"We warned the mall that soon his decline would be so apparent that it would be difficult to have him on public display," he said.
The Grandview Aquarium "ocean theme park" has been at the centre of controversy after it opened in January inside a shopping mall.
Video footage which later emerged, showing Pizza slumped on the floor of his enclosure, earned him the widely used title of "world's saddest polar bear".
The mall did not say exactly where Pizza was being taken, but that it was only saying "goodbye for a short period of time," while it upgraded its exhibitions.
It was not clear if Pizza's widely criticised enclosure was being modified to make it more suitable for this size and species.
The rest of the mall - also home to beluga whales, walrus calves, a wolf and arctic foxes - will stay open.
The mall threw a farewell party for Pizza on Sunday, with pictures showing children gathered around the exhibit and farewell messages wishing for his return.
"Parting is always sad, but you will have a comforting home to come back to," it said on Weibo. | The "world's saddest polar bear" has been moved from a Chinese shopping mall and sent back to the ocean park where he was born. |
Write a summary for this information. | The man, who is in his 20s, was hit by the sofa, thought to have fallen from a building which houses the W Hotel in Wardour Street on Friday.
He was taken to hospital by air ambulance, where he remains in a critical condition.
The hotel said it is working with the Met and the Health and Safety Executive to find out what happened.
A police spokesman said it was thought the sofa fell from overhead scaffolding, which had been erected as part of ongoing work at the Swiss Centre, which houses the W Hotel and a number of private residences.
A hotel spokeswoman said it was aware of the incident and would assist authorities in their investigations.
She added: "Our thoughts and prayers are go to the gentleman concerned."
A spokeswoman for Frank Knight, which manages the building's private residences, said the company would cooperate fully with the ongoing investigation.
The firm - not affiliated with Richard Branson's Virgin Group - has 25 stores in France, including a flagship outlet on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
It has already taken steps to terminate the lease on the Paris store and will hold a meeting with unions on Monday, a spokesman said.
Virgin France employs 1,000 people.
The firm is currently owned by French investment firm Butler Capital. Butler bought 80% of Virgin in 2007 from French media company Lagardere, which had purchased the chain from Mr Branson's Virgin in 2001.
It is not the only music chain suffering.
Most have been struggling for a number of years, having been hit hard by the big growth in music and film downloads - legal and illegal - and by the rise in the sale of chart CDs and DVDs by the big supermarkets.
Virgin's main French rival, the Fnac chain, has also been facing difficulties. At the end of last year, it discontinued its Fnacmusic digital music download service, having failed to gain sufficient market share.
In the UK, music, films and games retailer HMV has warned that it faces an uncertain future in the face of continuing falling sales.
Our Price, Tower Records, Virgin Megastores, Zavvi, MVC, Music Zone, Andy's, Border's and Woolworths are all well-known names that have disappeared from streets in recent years. | A man was seriously injured when he was reportedly struck by a sofa which fell from a high-rise building in London.
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Virgin France is to declare itself insolvent, the latest music chain to fail against a backdrop of consumers shifting to buying music online. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | Former Everton and Manchester City central defender Distin, 38, joined the club on a one-year deal last summer.
The Frenchman started just nine Premier League games for the Cherries in an injury-disrupted season.
Goalkeeper Ryan Allsop, 23, who spent time on loan this season at Wycombe and Portsmouth, has signed a new two-year deal at the club until 2018.
Bournemouth have also confirmed Stephane Zubar, Josh Carmichael, Josh Wakefield, Mason Walsh and Jon Muleba will be leaving.
The Independent, the Guardian and
Daily Star
lead with the possible hacking of Sara Payne's phone.
The
Guardian
says the revelation will revive speculation about the role of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks in the affair.
And the
Independent calls the latest development in the continuing scandal a "sinister new twist".
A man described as a former English Defence League activist has admitted to
the Times
that he could have inspired Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik.
Paul Ray, who the paper says has fled to Malta fearing arrest, says he had direct contacts with Mr Breivik.
However, he said he rejected Mr Breivik as a Facebook friend because he "didn't like the look of him".
He says what Mr Breivik has done is "pure evil" and "does not equate" to anything he's involved in.
The
Daily Mail attacks David Cameron and Nick Clegg for failing to tackle the growth in plastic carrier bags,
despite promises made in opposition.
It says tackling the scourge of carrier bag pollution is more useful and popular with voters than "putting exorbitant taxes on fuel bills".
The
Sun wants shops to cut back on them but is against the 5p tax on bags which has been mooted.
"We don't need any more taxes," says the paper.
The
Daily Telegraph
tells how police seized a stolen motorbike in a raid on a house in Edinburgh and spent a further four hours searching the property for other stolen goods.
The Yamaha machine has been returned to its rightful owner.
It transpired that he bought the bike a few weeks earlier at a police auction of unclaimed stolen goods.
The householder, who said the raid was embarrassing and stressful, has demanded an apology and compensation.
The footage shows the detainees, all from English speaking regions, in squalid conditions.
Opposition politician Asaah Patrick Ndangoh is blaming the government and says the conditions are "comparable to concentration death camps".
When asked to comment on the video allegations the communications minister told the BBC that he had not seen it.
The detainees are believed to have gone on hunger strike to protest against their degrading treatment.
In recent months there have been increased tensions in the English-speaking regions of the country following protests and strikes against marginalisation by the majority Francophone government.
Mr Ndangoh, a former deputy mayor for the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) party, says in the video that the captives were abducted six months ago and have been held at various hidden cells in appalling conditions.
It is not known what the individuals are being charged with.
But Mr Ndangoh was accused by police in July of helping a radical Anglophone member of parliament to escape.
Mr Ndangoh goes on to say that they are currently being held in a bunker at the "gendarmerie [military police] headquarters ," in the capital Yaounde.
"If dying is the price we must pay to guarantee our freedom and re-establish the independence of our country, then it is a price worth paying." he says.
Dozens of other Anglophones arrested in a similar manner now face the death penalty for terrorism and endangering the security of the state.
Parents of some of those detained told the BBC's Randy Joe Sa'ah that they did not know where their sons had disappeared to until they saw the video.
John Fru Ndi the leader of the SDF has strongly condemned the way in which Anglophones are being arrested and, "locked up under inhumane conditions". | Sylvain Distin is among six out-of-contract players to be released by Premier League Bournemouth.
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Claims that the mother of murder victim Sarah Payne may have been the victim of phone hacking is widely reported in Friday's newspapers.
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A shocking video has emerged in Cameroon of a dozen detainees being held in a dark cell. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | Chicago-based Baker and McKenzie employs more than 10,000 people, and had annual revenues of more than $2.5bn (£1.5bn) in 2013.
The Belfast back-office operation will employ 70 staff in legal services, and 185 in support roles like IT and billing.
The positions will attract salaries of more than £8m, an average of £31,000.
Invest NI is offering a government support grant of just under £1.3m.
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster welcomed the investment as a vote of confidence in Northern Ireland and its workforce.
"Baker & McKenzie considered a number of locations around the world but, through the excellent work of Invest NI, and the advocacy of other international investors, including what they heard when they attended the Investment Conference last year, the company chose Northern Ireland," she said.
"I met senior representatives from the firm in Chicago in June during my visit to the US and was able to outline just what Northern Ireland could offer.
"Once again, it was our talented workforce, cost-effective environment and attractive financial support packages that secured the investment for Northern Ireland."
Baker and McKenzie joins two other major firms, Herbert Smith Freehills and Allen and Overy, which have similar operations in Belfast.
The firm has another back-office operation in the Philippines.
The team from Bangor used geophysical surveys to outline the site at Cemlyn, which it says is the first early Roman military site to be found on the island.
The Gwynedd Archaeological Trust was first alerted to it by an aerial photographer.
It described the discovery as "exciting".
Mary Aris, an aerial photographer and historian, spotted a circular mark in crops on a low hill overlooking the Anglesey coast.
The trust secured funding from Cadw, the Welsh government's historic environment service, for further inquiry.
It used surveys which detect minute changes in the magnetic properties of soil to build-up a map of the buried remains, without even breaking ground.
David Hopewell, of Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, said the results were "unusually clear", showing the "unmistakable outline" of a Roman fortlet - a smaller version of a Roman fort.
It is thought the structure dates back to the 1st Century.
"The discovery is particularly exciting because it is the first early Roman military site to be found on the island," the trust said.
"The conquest of Anglesey was famously described two thousand years ago in lurid detail by the Roman senator and historian, Tacitus, but historians have, up until now, searched in vain for any sign of forts and roads on the island."
Mr Hopewell said fortlets are usually linked by roads, 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 km) apart, and it is hoped, therefore, the latest find will lead to other discoveries. | One of the world's biggest international law firms is to create over 250 jobs in Belfast.
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Archaeologists have discovered a Roman fortlet on Anglesey - without even putting a spade into the ground. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | The blaze broke out at the Bethel Place property at about 19:20 BST on Friday.
Officers from the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service used breathing apparatus to enter the building and rescue the female casualty, who was treated at the scene.
An investigation is now underway into the cause of the fire. | Firefighters have rescued a woman from a third-floor flat fire at Connah's Quay in Flintshire. |
What is the summary of the following document? | Beaten 6-2 by Coventry in Saturday's semi-finals, Devils were dominant in their final game of the season.
Cardiff were second to Sheffield in the regular season, and player-coach Andrew Lord was happy with his team's efforts.
"I've told the guys I'm really, really proud of them for the way they played. They did everything I asked of them and more," he said.
"They really brought Cardiff Devils hockey back, because it was gone for a while there.
"I know people are a little bit down right now but that's because we were able to raise expectations."
Cardiff Devils' Joey Martin was named Elite League Player of the Year and best forward.
Team-mate Ben Bowns won best British player and Netminder of the Year; while Andrew Hotham was named defenceman of the year. | Cardiff Devils finished third in Ice Hockey's Elite League play-offs after thrashing Fife 6-0. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | Christopher Scott, from Billesden Drive, in Heathfield, Nottingham, is charged with two counts of rape, one of kidnap and one of robbery.
He was bailed and must obey a curfew from 22:00 BST until 07:00 every day and attend a police station daily.
He will appear in court again on 4 November.
He is accused of dragging an 18-year-old woman standing at a bus stop in Mansfield Road, Nottingham, down an alleyway and forcing her into a car where she was sexually assaulted.
There was a high-profile appeal for information about the attack when it happened in 1992 and it featured on Crimewatch in 2008. | A 63-year-old man facing rape and kidnap charges dating back to 1992 has pleaded not guilty at Nottingham Crown Court. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Chang Song-thaek was dramatically removed from a special party session by armed guards earlier this week.
It was the biggest upheaval since Mr Kim succeeded his father two years ago.
State news agency KCNA said Mr Chang had admitted at a military trial on Thursday to attempting to overthrow the state, and was executed immediately.
Mr Chang, who is thought to have mentored his nephew during the leadership transition from Kim Jong-il to his son Kim Jong-un in 2011, was "despicable human scum... worse than a dog", said the agency.
He had admitted abusing his positions of responsibility to form a faction against the state and to harbouring his own political ambitions, it said in a lengthy and detailed report.
In the US, the White House said it could not independently verify reports of the execution but had "no reason to doubt" them.
Profile: Chang Song-thaek
Secretive 'first family'
What is known about N Korea's purge?
"If confirmed, this is another example of the extreme brutality of the North Korean regime. We are following developments in North Korea closely and consulting with our allies and partners in the region," it said in a statement.
China, North Korea's main economic backer, said the execution was an "internal matter" for North Korea.
However, the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing says the bland statement is likely to mask deep concern and will raise questions as to how much influence China actually has over the nuclear-armed state.
Mr Chang - married to the elder Kim's sister - had held senior posts in the ruling party and was vice-chairman of the powerful National Defence Commission, the North's top military body.
He was frequently pictured alongside his nephew and seen by some observers as the power behind the throne.
But in early December, it emerged that he had been removed from his senior military position and that two of his aides had been executed.
Then on Monday, KCNA broadcast footage of him being removed from a party session by uniformed guards.
In a long report on Friday, KCNA said: "Chang dreamed such a foolish dream that once he seizes power by a base method, his despicable true colours as 'reformist' known to the outside world would help his 'new government' get 'recognised' by foreign countries in a short span of time."
It also said Mr Chang:
Under questioning Mr Chang is alleged to have confessed: "I was going to stage the coup by using high-ranking army officers who had close ties with me or by mobilising armed forces under the control of my confidantes.
By Lucy WilliamsonBBC News, Seoul
This purge is striking for its speed and publicity. The crimes Chang Song-thaek was accused of - disloyalty and insurrection - are the most serious North Korea can muster.
His proximity to power and his positions of responsibility had, state media said, led him to see himself as equal to the country's young leader, and seek to topple him.
Chang Song-thaek had a lot of power over economic decisions, and regularly handled relations with China. Some believe that Chang's admiration for China's growth model led to policy differences within the regime.
But others say this is a battle for control of the North Korean state; that its young leader, Kim Jong-un, had outgrown his uncle's protection, and saw him instead as a rival and potential threat.
Chang Song-thaek has already been edited out of official documentaries: his story rewritten by the country's powerful propaganda machine. His dramatic fall from grace, designed to hammer the message home: that no one - not family members, not North Korea's most senior figures - is beyond retribution.
But the worry remains: how much does this story reveal about instability at the heart of the North Korean regime?
"I didn't fix the definite time for the coup. But it was my intention to concentrate my department and all economic organs on the cabinet and become premier when the economy goes totally bankrupt and the state is on the verge of collapse."
There was no immediate word about the whereabouts of Mr Chang's wife, Kim Kyung Hee.
Analysts say Mr Chang's fall from grace could be seen as the latest in a series of carefully calibrated moves to demonstrate Kim Jong-un's authority and an assertion of his independence.
In August 2012, Mr Chang made a high profile trip to China, where he met then-President Hu Jintao. The two sides later signed a raft of economic deals, including the development of two special economic zones: Rason, on North Korea's east coast, and Hwanggumphyong, on the border with China.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson in Seoul says one theory about Mr Chang's demise is that his work with China had led him to admire some of Beijing's economic reforms.
But it is more likely that he presented a perceived threat to his nephew's authority, she says.
Professor Lee Jung-hoon, from South Korea's Yonsei University, told the BBC that the move showed that North Korea was "very unstable".
"[For Kim Jong-un] to go to the extent to actually purge him and execute him says a lot about the state of things in that country," he said.
As news of the purge emerged earlier this week, South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned the North was "carrying out a reign of terror" to reinforce Mr Kim's position.
On Friday, South Korea's military said it had tightened surveillance on Pyongyang, news agency Yonhap reported.
Meanwhile, Japan's top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said: "We will calmly monitor the situation while communicating with other countries and collect relevant information."
Kim Jong-il (d)
Kim Kyung-hee
Chang Song-thaek (d)
Kim Jong-nam
Kim Sul-song
Kim Jong-chul
Kim Jong-un
Ri Sol-ju
Kim Han-sol
Kim Jong-il was one of the most secretive leaders in the world.Tales from dissidents and past aides created an image of an irrational, power-hungry man who allowed his people to starve while he enjoyed dancing girls and cognac.
But a different picture was painted by Sung Hae-rim, the sister of one of his former partners in her memoir, The Wisteria House.
She describes a devoted father and a sensitive, charismatic individual, although she admits even those closest to him were fearful of him.
North Korean media depicted him as a national hero, whose birth to the country's founder, Kim Il-sung, was marked by a double rainbow and a bright star.
The youngest sister of the late Kim Jong-il and the wife of the man formerly regarded as the second most powerful figure in North Korea, Chang Song-thaek.
She has held a wide range of important Workers' Party positions including being a member of the all-powerful Central Committee.
Her promotion to four-star general made Kim Kyung-hee the first North Korean woman ever to achieve such status.
Analysts say Kim Kyung-hee and her husband were seen as mentors for the new leader Kim Jong-un when he came to power in 2011. But news of her husband's execution in December 2013 suggests the most significant upheaval in North Korea's leadership since Mr Kim succeeded his father.
Chang Song-thaek was married to Kim Kyung-hee, the younger sister of the late Kim Jong-il. When the inexperienced Kim Jong-un became the new leader in 2011, the couple were widely thought to be acting as his mentors.
In December 2013, the powerful uncle - who sat on the country's top military body - was denounced by the state-run news agency for corruption. Images were shown of him being removed from a Politburo meeting by uniformed guards. He was then executed.
Mr Chang's execution is the biggest upheaval in North Korea's leadership since Mr Kim succeeded his father.
Kim Jong-nam, 39, is Kim Jong-il's eldest son.
Sung Hae-rang, the sister of Kim Jong-nam's deceased mother Sung Hae-rim, has written in her memoir that Kim Jong-il was extremely fond of Kim Jong-nam and was pained to be away from him. Like his half-brothers, Kim Jong-nam studied at an international school in Switzerland.
His chances of succession appeared to be ruined when, in 2001, Japanese officials caught him trying to sneak into Japan using a false passport. He told officials that he was planning to visit Tokyo Disneyland.
Some analysts argued that he may have been forgiven by his father, as there is precedent for the regime reinstating disgraced figures after a period of atonement. Confucian tradition also favours the oldest son.
But in a rare interview while on a trip to China last year, Kim Jong-nam said he had "no interest" in succeeding his father.
Kim Sul-song, 36, is Kim Jong-il's daughter born to his first wife, Kim Young-sook.
Reports say she has worked in the country's propaganda department, with responsibility for literary affairs.
One South Korean report said she had also served as her father's secretary.
Kim Jong-chul, 29, studied at an international school in Switzerland. He works in the WKP propaganda department.
His mother, Ko Yong-hui, is said to have been the North Korean leader's favourite consort.
However, Kenji Fujimoto, the pseudonym of a Japanese sushi chef who spent 13 years cooking for Kim Jong-il, has written that the leader considered his second son "no good because he is like a little girl".
Kim Jong-un, the second son of Kim Jong-il and his late wife Ko Yong-hui, was anointed "the great successor" by Pyongyang.
Like his older brothers, he is thought to have been educated abroad.
A Japanese sushi chef who worked for Kim Jong-il for 13 years up to 2001 said that he "resembled his father in every way, including his physical frame".
Speculation that he was being groomed to succeed his father had been rife for years.
Since taking power, he has presided over a long-range missile test, North Korea's third nuclear test and most recently the execution of his uncle, Chang Song-thaek.
Ri Sol-ju was introduced as Kim Jong-un's wife in state media reports about the opening of an amusement park in July 2012.
Reports simply said he attended the event with his wife, "Comrade Ri Sol-ju".
Little more is known about Ri Sol-Ju, although there has been much speculation about her background since pictures first emerged of Kim Jong-un with an unidentified woman. There is a North Korean singer of the same name, but she is not now thought to be the same person.
State media did not mention when the couple got married.
The grandson of Kim Jong-il and nephew of leader Kim Jong-un has said he wants to "make things better" for the people of his country.
Kim Han-sol, 17, spoke of his dreams of reunification of the two Koreas in an television interview in Bosnia, where he is studying. Kim Han-sol said he had never met his grandfather or uncle.
He described an isolated childhood spent mostly in Macau and China, after his birth in Pyongyang in 1995. In the future, he said he pictured himself going to university and then ''volunteering somewhere''. | The once-powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been executed after being purged for "acts of treachery", state media say. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | Taunton Deane Borough Council said the outline Jurston Farm plans include a community centre and woodland as well as a new primary school.
A new roundabout is also suggested for the A38 at West Buckland Road.
Campaigners against the plans have said the town already has enough development and its current infrastructure could not cope with any more.
Russell Loarridge from the Save Wellington group said: "The Wellington community has effectively sleep-walked through 1,200 houses that have already got planning permission and are in the process of being physically delivered.
"So we're already going to have 4,000 new people in the town and there's nothing we can do about that.
"What we're saying is enough is enough. An additional 650... is unacceptable."
People have until 8 January to comment on the application, submitted on behalf of Dorset-based builders CG Fry and Son Limited.
The council said the statutory 21-day consultation had been extended as the application has been submitted so close to Christmas.
It added that 2,500 homes are needed in Wellington and a government planning inspector had agreed that Jurston Farm is an "appropriate site" to be part of that.
The planning committee has not yet set a date to consider the application.
In a statement, developer CG Fry said: "Throughout the various consultation events we have held in the town to discuss our proposals, we have been grateful that objectors have engaged with us and made their views and feelings known in a firm but respectful manner and we hope that we have reciprocated.
"The reality is that our outline planning application is simply delivering on strategic decisions already made by Taunton Deane Borough Council." | A planning application has been made to build 650 homes on land in Wellington, Somerset. |
Can you summarize the given article? | Ednane Mahmood, from Blackburn, fled his home after stating his desire to "fight abroad for Allah".
The 19-year-old was found guilty at Manchester Crown Court in November of planning acts of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications.
He was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mahmood, who was studying Arabic at university, downloaded graphic videos, the court heard during his trial.
They included the beheading of aid worker David Haines, and charity volunteer Alan Henning kneeling on the ground after his kidnap.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said he posted an image on Facebook that contained the words: "I wish I could fight in the cause of Allah and then be killed, and then fight, and then be killed, and then fight, and then be killed."
On 18 September 2014, he left his home to board a flight from Manchester Airport to Bulgaria, leaving a letter addressed "to family".
The court heard his family was unaware of his intentions and, on the day he fled, reported him missing to police.
Mahmood travelled by bus to Turkey to a town near the Syrian border, GMP added.
He tried to contact a number of people asking for urgent help, including one man who he believed was fighting in Syria at the time.
Mahmood's requests went unanswered and, following an exchange of messages with his family, he returned to the UK.
During his defence, he claimed he wanted to "help the Syrian people" and had an interest in the country "from the beginning of the war, because of all the suffering".
Ian McMeekin, defending, said that Mahmood had now disavowed the ideals of IS and accepted he had been "brainwashed" by its propaganda.
Sentencing him, Judge Michael Henshell said the defendant's research into the group became a "dangerous obsession".
He told Mahmood: "My assessment of you is you were and, to some extent, are a naive, unsophisticated individual who has so far lived a fairly sheltered life."
Praising his family, the judge added: "By their actions, they prevented you from taking an irrevocable step, which would have resulted in a victory for the barbaric forces that, as you say, had brainwashed you."
The challenge, brought by Vue Cinemas, centred on the City of York Council's decision to allow a larger cinema on the site than originally proposed.
The council initially approved a 12-screen design but later gave permission for a 13th screen and 400 extra seats.
The judge found the decision-making process to be correct. Vue Cinemas has not commented on the decision.
Read more about this story and others from across York and North Yorkshire
The 12-screen Vue cinema at the Clifton Moor Centre is one of three in York.
The additional screen and extra seating at the stadium site at Monks Cross on the outskirts of the city were approved in June 2016.
The council said it welcomed the court decision and said in a statement it was a "great step forward".
The stadium development has suffered a number of delays since it was first proposed in 2009.
It was originally forecast to cost £37m and open in spring 2017 but is now expected to cost an additional £7m and will not be operational until next year.
In December, the main contractor announced it was withdrawing from the plans.
The stadium is due to become home to York City FC and York City Knights Rugby League Club alongside leisure, retail, office and community facilities. | A student said he was "brainwashed" as he was jailed after trying to travel to Syria to fight for so-called Islamic State.
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A legal challenge over plans for an 8,000-seat community stadium complex has failed. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | Adam Harvey, who works for ABC, posted an X-ray image on Twitter of a bullet lodged in his neck. His injury is not life-threatening, an ABC director said.
The fighting began after militants declaring allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS) took parts of Marawi on the island of Mindanao in May.
There are reports that hundreds of residents are still trapped.
A Filipino politician said on Thursday that those who have managed to leave have reported seeing many bodies of people who died in fighting between militants and the security forces.
Mr Harvey said he was bending down to get food and water out of a car - dressed in protective gear including a helmet and flack jacket - when he was hit by something that "felt like a cricket ball".
He had first aid from colleagues at the scene, thinking he had been hit by some shrapnel, but when he sought medical attention the X-ray image made it clear he had been hit by a bullet.
"Luckily it missed everything important and it was just got lodged behind my jaw," he said.
He did not lose consciousness and was advised to wear a neck brace "as a precaution".
News of the journalist's condition came amid reports that residents fleeing Marawi had seen at least 100 bodies.
Politician Zia Alonto Adiong had earlier said they had seen 500-1,000 dead bodies, but corrected himself, saying this figure referred to the number of trapped residents.
"Dead bodies, at least 100, scattered around the encounter area," he told reporters.
Fighting began when the army tried and failed to capture a person believed to be the main IS leader in the Philippines. In response, local supporters of the militants attacked parts of the city, taking hostages, and President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law on Mindanao.
According to the government, at least 26 civilians, 58 police or soldiers and 206 militants have been killed since the fighting began.
The militants claim they are holding two-thirds of the city but the military deny this, saying it is likely to be around 20%, Reuters news agency reports.
Mr Duterte missed a scheduled appearance at Independence Day celebrations on Monday, but a spokesman said he was "just taking some time off to rejuvenate" and there was "nothing to worry about in terms of sickness".
There was no indication of when he might return to public duties. | An Australian journalist was hit in the neck by a stray bullet while covering fighting in the Philippines. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The body of a man, who was in his 60s, was discovered in Cedar Close, Southend, on 8 August.
His death had been treated as non-suspicious, but a post-mortem examination on Friday showed he had suffered "serious internal injuries".
The suspect, who is in his 40s, was arrested at his home in Southend.
The victim had been assaulted just eight days previously by three men during a burglary at his home, and detectives are now investigating whether it was linked to his death.
Det Con Insp Martin Pasmore, of Essex Police, has appealed to the public for more information.
"This is a complex investigation and I believe that more than one person was involved," he said. | A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after it was revealed a victim found dead in a flat fire in Essex had been attacked. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Natalie Hemming, 31, of Alderney Avenue, Newton Leys, near Milton Keynes, has not been seen since 1 May.
Her partner Paul Hemming, 42, appeared at Luton Crown Court on Monday charged with her murder.
Thames Valley Police said it believed the rug was "very significant in relation to the disappearance".
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Ms Hemming was last seen in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, at about 15:00 BST on 1 May and was reported missing by a relative on 3 May.
On Wednesday, officers scoured an area around Salden Wood near Newton Longville in Buckinghamshire and a disused railway line, both near the family home.
The force said the rug, described as 12ft by 10ft with a 3in soft pile, was discovered to be missing during a search of the house.
Det Supt Chris Ward said: "Anybody who has seen a similar rug discarded anywhere, particularly within Aylesbury, Oxford, Milton Keynes or over the border in Bedfordshire, [or who has] has seen it, picked it up or moved it [should] to speak to us as soon as they can."
He said the force's main objective was to find Ms Hemming and return her to her family.
"There are a number of searches going on both within the Thames Valley Police area to the east of Milton Keynes and in the Bedfordshire area as we follow up the information that we've had," he said.
"This has, very sadly, become a murder investigation and detectives will be making ongoing enquiries in relation to it."
Officers are also trying to trace the movements of a black Ford S Max - registration EJ12 UWG - that could be connected with Mrs Hemming's disappearance.
It is believed to have travelled on the A413, the A418 and the A41 around Aylesbury, between 21:45 on 1 May and 00:45 on 2 May.
Prof Ian Pallister, of Swansea University, created a model of a bomb blast victim to give military surgeons immersive training.
The full-scale model depicts the lower human body with severe blast injuries.
Prof Pallister, who is also a consultant trauma surgeon at Morriston Hospital, was given the Sun Military Award for Innovation.
He enlisted specialist 3D printing and special effects companies, as well as some hospital colleagues, to bring his prototype model to life.
He is now developing a series of simple models aimed at the NHS for point-of-injury care.
It represents the first step towards creating a whole-body trauma simulator which would allow staff to train in resuscitation and surgical intervention for a range of life-threatening situations.
"It's called immersive simulation so the whole environment represents reality as closely as possible," said Prof Pallister.
"Nobody has enough personal experience to learn everything from experience.
"It's a bit like landing an aircraft on water. Hopefully you never have to do it, but if you do, you have to know what to do." | Police looking for a missing mother of three whose partner is accused of her murder are looking for a red rug missing from the family home.
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Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Marine Le Pen told BBC Newsnight ideas UKIP leader Nigel Farage defends are "very similar" to those of her party.
In a statement, UKIP said it was "not interested in any deal" with Ms Le Pen or her party because of "prejudice and anti-Semitism in particular" in the FN.
UKIP this week appeared to align itself with a French Eurosceptic party.
Speaking on Newsnight, Ms Le Pen insisted that Front National's campaign against the European Union was in line with UKIP's Eurosceptic policies.
She said her "arms will be open" to Mr Farage if he were willing to "join up in a common plan to fight the European Union."
"As long as it serves the interests of the European people" she added.
Ms Le Pen said that although there are "strategic or tactical differences" between the two parties, there were "obvious similarities" in polices such as "refusal of massive immigration" and "peoples' freedom to decide for themselves".
"People have progressively realised the EU has brought them nothing but unhappiness, devastation, identity loss, and unprotected frontiers," she said.
"If he understood how serious the EU's situation is, he would support the reunion of all patriotic movements, and he would not use tactics and strategy," she told Newsnight.
UKIP said that despite "efforts that Ms Le Pen has made at modernisation" of the Front National, they were "not interested in any deal" because "in the parties DNA there is prejudice and anti-Semitism in particular".
On Tuesday, Mr Farage appeared to form an allegiance with a fellow Eurosceptic party, Debout la Republique (DLR: Stand up, the Republic!) at a rally in Paris.
The party is the political vehicle of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, a 52-year-old dissident Gaullist who feels the mainstream centre-right UMP party has sold out to Brussels. He received less than 2% at the last presidential vote.
"Nigel Farage appears to have chosen to campaign along with a candidate who reaches scores of 1% in France," Ms Le Pen said.
"I am still wondering why he made that choice, as Nicolas Dupont Aignan's political choices are very close to ours."
However, Ms Le Pen said that this would not stop her welcoming collaboration with Mr Farege and UKIP.
She said she would rise above "personal considerations" and added Mr Farage is "undoubtedly is a charismatic leader."
See the interview on Newsnight on 17 April at 22:30 BST on BBC Two or afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. | The leader of the French far right-wing Front National (FN) party has said that she would welcome collaboration with UKIP with "open arms". |
Summarize the information in the following document. | Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) said the average cost of putting a child aged between two and five in nursery for 25 hours a week was £5,307 a year.
This represented a rise of 8.2% in the past year, it said.
CAS called on the Scottish government to help working families by ensuring affordable childcare was available across the country.
The Scottish Parliament passed legislation earlier this year to increase the amount of free childcare from 475 hours a year to 600 hours a year for three and four-year-olds, as well as for disadvantaged two-year-olds.
Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to further increase free entitlement if she is re-elected as first minister in the next Holyrood election as part of efforts to ensure every child - regardless of their background - is given the best opportunity in life.
The CAS report said the average cost of placing a child under the age of two in nursery for 25 hours a week was £5,514 a year.
It said: "The increase to 600 hours of free early education will be of benefit to some working parents, but would only cover six months of the year at 25 hours per week, estimated to be the typical amount that a parent working part time might require, so will not cover full costs."
It added that evidence from Citizens Advice Bureau clients had shown that "for working parents the costs of childcare can be a route to in-work poverty".
"Despite the increase in the statutory guarantee of hours, a number of issues remain which must be tackled to ensure that Scotland's children get the best start in life and their families can avoid poverty through work," the report.
The CAS report said parents in Scotland currently spend an average of 27% of their household income on childcare, compared with an average of 12% across OECD countries.
And it said childcare provision was reported to be "particularly inadequate" in many rural areas.
The advice charity called on the Scottish government and local councils to "work together to ensure that suitable, affordable childcare is provided for working parents in all areas of Scotland".
The Scottish government should also consider the possibility of introducing a statutory right to childcare, it suggested.
And it said the UK government should look at giving parents on zero-hours contracts a statutory right to request guaranteed hours to ease the difficulty of organising childcare.
Citizens Advice Scotland policy manager Keith Dryburgh said: "Childcare isn't working for far too many families in Scotland. And many parents who want to work are unable to do so because they can't get childcare.
"The most frequently cited problems we see are the huge costs. But lack of availability is also a problem in many areas. This is particularly acute in rural and remote areas, but is felt across the whole country.
"These issues of cost and availability are the two big, preventative barriers that stop parents from getting back to work."
Mr Dryburgh said the UK government should also do more through the tax and benefits system to "help ease the burdens that working parents feel".
"Just as important, however, we are also calling on employers to make sure they are offering the right employment policies to suit working families," he said.
These policies should include flexible working conditions and more consideration when fixing rotas and shifts, which he said could make a "huge difference" to parents when arranging childcare.
Mr Dryburgh added: "Many employers already do this but we urge more to follow their lead and help their staff manage this difficult situation."
Aileen Campbell, the Minister for Children and Young People, said: "We agree that childcare costs are considerable outlay for most families and that is why we have already expanded annual funded early learning and childcare for three and four-year-olds to almost 16 hours per week and also extended this to the most disadvantaged two-year-olds.
"The first minister has also outlined our ambition to increase early learning and childcare provision by the end of the next parliament from 16 hours a week to 30 hours a week.
"Within the resources available to the Scottish Parliament we are investing £329m in this expansion over the next two years - with more than 120,000 children set to benefit over this school year - helping improve educational and other social outcomes while supporting parents to return to work and training." | The cost of childcare in Scotland is a "route to in-work poverty" for many parents, according to a report. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | A number of elders from the remote Hisarak district told the BBC that the Taliban were using the presence of IS in Afghanistan as a pretext to extort locals.
Located less than 80 kilometres east of Kabul, Hisarak is the western-most part of Nangarhar province, where the Taliban has a strong presence.
The province has also seen fighting between Taliban and rival insurgents who have declared loyalty to the Islamic State group.
In Nangarhar's capital Jalalabad I met a number of officials and tribal elders from Hisarak who had taken shelter there.
Abdul Khaliq Maroof is Hisarak's district governor. He needs to take a helicopter to reach his office, but for the past month he's been stranded in Jalalabad.
The Afghan government only controls the district centre and some villages in Hisarak.
"The Taliban can impose on people whatever rules they want," Mr Maroof told me. "The lion's share of their income in Hisarak comes from Islamic taxation (Ushur). They use it to purchase weapons and ammunition."
Mr Maroof is a high profile target for the Taliban. Even in Jalalabad the tight security around his house gives the impression of a person who is constantly on the enemy's radar.
His guestroom is littered with certificates and appreciation letters from the Afghan government and international forces, praising his performance.
But he admits that he cannot move freely or without the protection of a Humvee vehicle - even a few kilometres outside Hisarak district centre.
It's a similar story for pro-government elders in the district, the traditional power brokers in rural Afghanistan.
In the narrow streets, on the outskirts of Jalalabad city, I met one of them, Malik Zafar.
He told me that he is stuck because he cannot take a helicopter back to Hisarak like local officials do. Going by road he says is gambling with one's life.
Mr Zaraf told me that the Taliban's fundraising efforts have recently taken on a new focus - the fight against rival militants from the Islamic State group in Afghanistan.
"This information is true and all in Hisarak know about it - the Taliban demand money from local people," Mr Zaraf said. "They collect money and some locals had to give them men to fight against IS."
Even though the footprint of the Islamic State group hasn't reached Hisarak District itself, local elders say that the presence of IS in Nangarhar is being used as an excuse by the Taliban to recruit young men and raise funds.
Locals have reported that several bodies were brought back to Hisarak from another district where Taliban and IS had been fighting.
Hisarak is a mountainous district which also shares a border with Pakistan, allowing Taliban fighters to move across the frontier, according to the district chief.
Communities here are strictly traditional with agriculture the main source of income, including poppies, wheat and rice.
Ahmad Ghani was another Hisarak resident who agreed to meet me in a busy market. He too is worried about his safety and was clearly not keen to let me know where he lives.
Mr Ghani is a member of the Hisarak district council, but even at the grassroots of Afghan politics the threat from the Taliban is very real. Any association with the Afghan government - viewed by the insurgents as a foreign-controlled puppet administration - is dangerous.
Mr Ghani told me he had to flee the area. "Life does become difficult for people under the Taliban rule," he said. "I reached a stage where when my father passed away I couldn't even attend his funeral."
The threat to local government officials and loyal elders was underlined by an attack last month when a suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at the Jalalabad home of a prominent local politician who backs peace talks between the government and the Taliban.
As the government presence shrinks in districts like Hisarak, the Taliban become stronger in Nangarhar province and it's the civilian population paying the price.
In the past year numerous families have fled the district and have settled in Jalalabad.
Hisarak elders now living here told me that that the young generation are hardest hit by the volatile situation which in turn has created an opportunity for people smugglers.
One elder told the BBC that locals who have the money have already sent their sons to Europe by illegal means. He said he knew families who had sold or leased their patch of land to try and save their young men from the conflict.
One of the local people smugglers claimed he had sent more than 200 men to Europe in the past two years - from Hisarak district alone. | Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan are forcing locals to contribute money or fighters to confront Islamic State group rivals, local officials say. |
Can you summarize the following information? | The Jamaican sprinter, 31, took the banned stimulant oxilofrine at last year's national championships but the suspension has been backdated and will end on 20 December, 2014.
Powell called the ruling "unfair and unjust", and said a legal supplement he took, Epiphany D1, was contaminated.
Age: 31
Nationality: Jamaica
Personal bests: 100m - 9.72 secs, 200m - 19.90 secs (world record, 9.74secs, 2007)
Medals: Olympics: 4x100m relay - gold (2008); World Championships: 100m - bronze (2004, 2008), 4x100m relay - gold (2009), silver (2007)
He plans to appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
On Tuesday, fellow sprinter Sherone Simpson was also banned by the Jamaican anti-doping disciplinary panel
Simpson, an Olympic 4x100m relay gold and silver medallist, is a training partner of Powell and took the same substance at the same event.
Another Jamaican, Olympic discus thrower Allison Randall, was also handed a two-year ban on Tuesday for using a prohibited diuretic.
Powell and Simpson, who provided their samples on 21 June, 2013, will miss the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in July.
The three-member disciplinary panel that ruled on Powell said he had been "negligent".
Powell, the biggest name in Jamaican sprinting before the rise of double world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt, missed last year's World Championships as a result of his failed test.
In January, he testified that Canadian physical trainer Chris Xuereb provided him with nine supplements, including Epiphany D1.
Xuereb has denied providing performance-enhancing drugs.
Prior to the verdict and in the wake of the Veronica Campbell-Brown case, Powell's coach, Stephen Francis, called on the Jamaican Prime Minister to disband the country's anti-doping organisation and sub-contract the testing procedures to a credible overseas testing agency.
Earlier this year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared Campbell-Brown, a two-time Olympic 200m champion, of a doping violation.
Francis said: "After the Veronica Campbell incident, after the whole issue of not testing people, I think we need to get rid of these people.
"They need to sub-contract it to England or Germany or whoever it is who can carry it out properly because obviously we in Jamaica can't do this thing properly. It is embarrassment after embarrassment after embarrassment."
IAAF spokesman Chris Turner said there would be no comment from athletics' world governing body while the case was still open.
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Sport Wales went to meet one of Wales' leading ladies hoping for success in Rio - the Commonwealth judo champion Natalie Powell.
To find out how to get involved in Judo, take a look at the Martial Arts Activity Guide on BBC Get Inspired.
Beijing's chief negotiator in the years before handover, Lu was known for his hard-line stance.
He notoriously called Hong Kong's last British Governor Chris Patten a "sinner for a thousand years" for making the territory's elections more democratic.
Lu also helped draft Hong Kong's mini constitution, the Basic Law.
Lu was appointed director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO) in 1990 and retired in 1997, just days after the handover.
He continued to comment on Hong Kong's future saying in a 2009 interview that the city should stop relying on favours from Beijing and improve its competitiveness, according to the South China Morning Post.
The interpretation of the Basic Law has been widely debated in recent months with some arguing it allows for Hong Kong to eventually have its leaders nominated by the general public.
However, China decided last year that candidates in the 2017 election must first be approved by a pro-Beijing committee, sparking more than two months of street protests by pro-democracy activists. | Former world 100m record holder Asafa Powell has received an 18-month ban for failing a drugs test.
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Only three Welsh women have won gold in the history of the Olympic Games.
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Lu Ping, the Chinese official who oversaw Hong Kong's transition from British to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, has died at the age of 87. |
Summarize the passage below. | The 18 and 21-year-old men, from Cwmbran, were taken in on suspicion of arson, and have since been bailed by Gwent Police.
The blaze broke out at Coed Eva Primary School, in Cwmbran, at about 02:25 GMT on New Year's Day.
In the days following the fire, four teenage boys were arrested and bailed pending further inquiries.
Torfaen council said it would build temporary classrooms within two weeks but rain could delay their installation.
A spokesman said the insurance company would only cover the cost of the existing building, which would be minimal compared to the cost of a new building.
Following a meeting with staff, insurers, governors and the council, head teacher Gill Ellis said everyone had been "overwhelmed" by the response from the community.
Teachers are now considering plans to accommodate all pupils on site using temporary classrooms and extra space in the junior school building.
Meanwhile, demolition workers have assessed the site and fencing will be erected around the fire-damaged building.
Dermot McChrystal, Torfaen council's chief education officer, said a replacement school could take two years, but the priority was to ensure the school's pupils could return to education soon. | Two further suspects have been arrested in connection with a fire at an infants and nursery school in Torfaen. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | James Fairweather, 17, was given two life sentences for killing James Attfield, 33, and Nahid Almanea, 31, in Colchester in 2014.
Mr Attfield was stabbed more than 100 times while Saudi Arabian student Ms Almanea was stabbed with a bayonet.
Fairweather appealed to the Court of Appeal claiming the minimum 27-year sentence was "excessive".
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Lord Justice Treacy said : "We are not persuaded it was manifestly excessive in an extremely serious case in which an experienced trial judge took much care over the process of sentencing."
Fairweather was 15 years old when he murdered James Attfield and Nahid Almanea in Colchester in 2014.
Despite claiming he was possessed by the devil, he was found guilty of the murders and in April was sentenced at the Old Bailey by Mr Justice Spencer, who said the killings were "brutal and sadistic".
The judge said his "obsessive interest" in serial killers "undeniably fuelled these killings", and it was clear he was "seeking to emulate them". | A teenager who murdered two strangers has had his appeal against his sentence thrown out. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Bradley Fewster's seventh goal of the season gave the Minstermen the lead when he swept in Luke Summerfield's cross from three yards.
Boyle received his second yellow card for simulation in the Orient penalty box as York were reduced to 10 men.
Lloyd James fired in from 15 yards to equalise as Orient took advantage of the depleted home side to earn a point.
Orient remained eighth in the table, just one point outside the play-off places, with York still next to bottom and now nine points from safety.
York City manager Jackie McNamara told BBC Radio York:
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"Throughout the match there were so many errors from him (the referee), pure and simply because of his fitness.
"Keeping up with play, you could see he wasn't fit enough to get around in certain areas and the decisions that went against us today weren't acceptable..
"We were one man down, up against it, but the players should take great pride, specially the way we went about it in the first half."
Leyton Orient player-boss Kevin Nolan told BBC Radio London:
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"On another day we could have come away with a comfortable victory, but when you start like that and give teams a 1-0, it's so much more difficult.
"I thought we showed a lot of character, so I'm delighted with that, but we've got to start showing it for 90 minutes because I don't think we have over the last three to four games.
"In the second half, certainly, we dominated them from start to finish."
The Briton referenced one of the former heavyweight boxing champion's famous quotes - "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" - on his slowing down lap.
He added: "Ali was someone who inspired me so much. I'd love to be able to dedicate this to him and his family."
Hamilton is now just nine points behind championship leader and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, who was fifth.
Hamilton said he was constantly thinking of Ali - who he met a few years ago - in the last 15 laps of the race in Montreal, adding: "It was really, really weird.
"I was driving and I was just thinking of him and thinking maybe he would be watching the race, I don't know."
Hamilton, the defending champion, described Ali as a "unique, iconic individual who had a character unlike anyone else's".
He added that he had admired Ali's confidence and charisma, as well as his ability to "outwit and outsmart his opponents".
The 31-year-old also said he wanted to be like Ali when he was growing up.
"Coming from a family of similar background in a sense of ethnicity, it was someone to look up to," said Hamilton.
"In Formula 1, there was no-one of the same colour as us as a family, so it was another athlete for me to look up."
Sunday's win, the 45th of Hamilton's career, followed his victory in Monaco, prior to which Robserg held a 43-point lead over the triple world champion.
"I feel incredibly grateful and very blessed to have had these two great weekends," said Hamilton.
"I'm just going to keep working hard. As you can see, I'm super-focused. Onwards and upwards hopefully."
A collision with Hamilton as they disputed the first corner behind the fast-starting Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel left Rosberg ninth on the first lap.
The German said he had been angered by the situation at the time but later accepted that it had been tough but fair racing.
"It was very costly for me because I lost a lot of places and from then it was an uphill battle," he said.
"It was a hard manoeuvre from him but racing and I need to do a better job next time."
The alleged attack took place at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester on 23 May.
The judge at Gloucester Crown Court told jurors the trial could not proceed at this stage.
The four accused - three aged 22 and one aged 20 - deny charges of rape and sexual assault.
A 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped and assaulted at the university end of term party.
The trial has been adjourned until Thursday. | Struggling York made it 10 games without a win as Will Boyle's dismissal proved costly against Leyton Orient.
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Lewis Hamilton dedicated his Canadian Grand Prix win to the late Muhammad Ali, who died recently aged 74.
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The jury in the trial of four men accused of raping and assaulting a woman at a university summer ball has been discharged. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | The crash, involving a white Citroen C3, happened on the A32 at Wickham shortly before 11:15 GMT on 28 January.
The cyclist, 20-year-old William Houghton, from Buckinghamshire, was taken to hospital but died from his injuries two days later.
Jeanette Smith, 69, from Denmead has been charged with causing death by careless driving.
She will appear before Portsmouth Magistrates' Court on 16 August. | A woman has been charged in connection with a collision which killed a cyclist. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | The official count gives Parnas just over 2% of the vote in Kostroma, the only region where the party was registered to field candidates.
President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party notched up strong wins across the country.
In some regions its candidates for governor took over 90% of the vote.
"Let the Americans try to hold such clean elections!" proclaimed a satisfied election chief, Vladimir Churov, adding that a mere 11 instances were recorded of candidates resorting to fisticuffs.
Independent monitoring group Golos, however, noted more than 1,700 suspected violations of the electoral law. But it says that, this time, most of the damage was done before election day.
For the liberal opposition in Kostroma, the result is well below the required threshold to enter the local parliament and the party itself admits that even its own count falls far short.
"A real war was waged against our team," its chief candidate, Ilya Yashin, complained on Facebook on Monday, claiming that the orders came from the Kremlin.
"We were not to be permitted to clear the threshold, under any circumstance," he argued.
Mr Yashin pointed to a smear campaign in state media and propaganda against him, including an especially-created newspaper that "outed" him as gay with graphic imagery.
Pro-Kremlin activists even attached fake, US diplomatic licence-plates to a car and filmed it at a campaign rally, to "prove" that the opposition are treacherous puppets of the West.
And by allowing them to run only in largely rural Kostroma - when most opposition support is in big cities - activists argue they were set up to fail.
Co-founded by politician Boris Nemtsov - who was shot dead in February - Parnas represented a coalition of opposition groups including the Progress party of Alexei Navalny.
They led the mass protests that followed allegations of vote-rigging at the last, national elections - the most significant challenge yet to President Putin's rule.
Pro-Kremlin commentators and media have hailed the Kostroma result as a disaster for the liberal opposition and a triumph for United Russia.
Whilst President Putin undoubtedly remains highly popular, opposition activists argue this was not a fair fight and have vowed to go on.
They point to the immense resources deployed against them, as proof that the Kremlin views them as a real threat. | Russia's liberal opposition has conceded defeat in regional elections, seen as a test of public opinion ahead of the 2016 national ballot. |
Can you summarize the following information? | Tini Owens, 66, has asked the Court of Appeal to overturn a family court ruling, which said she couldn't divorce her husband Hugh Owens, 78.
The court heard her case was that the marriage had broken down, but Mr Owens disagreed and said the couple still had a "few years" to enjoy.
A ruling is yet to be published.
Judge Robin Tolson ruled against Mrs Owens in the family court last year, concluding that her allegations were "of the kind to be expected in marriage" and refused to grant a divorce petition.
Three appeal judges, led by Sir James Munby, the most senior family court judge in England and Wales, analysed the case at a hearing in London on Tuesday.
Philip Marshall QC, representing Mrs Owens, told the court that the "vast majority" of divorces were undefended in 21st Century England.
He said: "It is extraordinarily unusual in modern times for a court to dismiss a petition for divorce."
The court was told the couple had married in 1978 and lived in Broadway, Worcester.
Mr Marshall said Judge Tolson had failed to make "proper findings of fact" and argued that his ruling should be overturned.
Mrs Owens had made 27 allegations about the way Mr Owens treated her, including that he was "insensitive" in his "manner and tone" and said she was "constantly mistrusted" and felt unloved.
"The simple fact is that I have been desperately unhappy in our marriage for many years," she said in a witness statement.
"There is no prospect of reconciliation."
Mr Owens, a retired businessman, disagreed and denied allegations made against him.
Mr Marshall said judges had to consider the "cumulative effect" of what might be classed as a long list of trivial matters.
"It was my client's complaint that her husband treated her in a childlike way," Mr Marshall told judges.
"And in a way which was effectively that she should agree with his will."
Barrister Nigel Dyer QC, who represented Mr Owens, said appeal judges should not overturn Judge Tolson's ruling.
He said: "At the moment, as the law stands, unhappiness, discontent, disillusionment are not facts which a petitioner can rely upon as facts which prove irretrievable breakdown."
Judges were told that Mrs Owens had an affair which lasted less than a year and the court heard the couple, who have grown-up children, slept in different rooms.
Sir James said the judges would examine legislation laid down by Parliament and told lawyers: "It is not a ground for divorce if you find yourself in a wretchedly unhappy marriage - people may say it should be."
Specialist divorce lawyer Ayesha Vardag said judges should not compel people to stay married.
"This case highlights the absurdity of fault-based divorce," she said.
"If a party is willing to go to the Court of Appeal to fight for a divorce, spending significant sums on the way, there is clearly no future for the marriage."
She said it was "beyond archaic" that it should have to be proved to a judge. | A woman who says she is "desperately unhappy" in her 39-year marriage is fighting a legal battle against a court's refusal to grant her divorce. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The 23-year-old, known for his winning goal for Celtic against Barcelona five years ago, joined Charlton from Standard Liege in 2015.
He made 56 appearances for the Addicks, scoring 10 goals, and had loan spells at Cardiff, Blackburn and Hearts.
"Tony felt it was best for his career that he had a fresh challenge," manager Karl Robinson told Charlton's website.
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The Met Office warned of ice forming overnight which may lead to difficult driving conditions on untreated roads and slippery conditions on pavements.
The warning is in place from 01:00 until 10:00 GMT.
While there will be some hill snow, ice is expected to form on pavements that are wet from rain.
The warning covers Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Gwynedd, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Neath Port Talbot, Newport, Pembrokeshire, Powys and Rhondda Cynon Taff.
The former Wycombe and Tranmere keeper was out of contract at the Minstermen.
The 6ft 9ins Northern Irishman will compete with Ross Etheridge for a starting place at Stanley for the upcoming season in League Two.
"There is no number one and number two keeper," manager John Coleman told the club website.
"It will be whoever is best on any given day and whichever one is chosen, the other will support them. It's down to them to battle it out."
Until 22, Mooney was working as a barman and playing non-league football before he joined Wycombe in 2011.
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The officer was shot dead by two assailants on motorcycles while he was on duty in the city's northern outskirts, police said.
The attackers planted explosives on the body and set them off when other officers came to investigate, they say.
Defence Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said the ELN rebel group is likely to have carried out the attack.
"The leading theory is that this incident is the heinous and irresponsible work of the National Liberation Army (ELN) to terrorise the civilian population," Mr Villegas told Caracol radio.
Power stations have in the past been attacked by the ELN, Colombia's second-largest rebel group.
But the police said the attack could also be part of a plan by criminal gangs to target police officers.
Attacks on the security forces used to be relatively common in Colombia, with the ELN and the larger Farc rebel group both fighting the state, but they have become rare.
The Farc signed a peace deal with the government in November, putting an end to more than five decades of armed conflict.
The ELN is due to start peace talks with the government in January but the group has so far refused to release a former Congressman it is holding hostage, which the government says is a prerequisite for the talks.
There are also a number of powerful criminal gangs operating in Colombia, some of which have in the past called for their members to kill police officers.
Officials said the assailants' original target may have been an electrical substation near the checkpoint in the sparsely populated area. | Striker Tony Watt has left Charlton Athletic and joined Belgian side Oud-Heverlee Leuven on a one-year deal.
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Can you summarize the following content in brief? | Karen Carney's first-half penalty and Fran Kirby's close-range finish gave Chelsea the victory that ensured them the title regardless of other results.
Manchester City finished second with a 3-1 win at fourth-placed Liverpool.
Unbeaten Arsenal were 5-0 winners at Bristol City to go third and Reading drew 1-1 at Sunderland to finish sixth.
Starting the final day top of the table, level on points with Man City but with a vastly superior goal difference, Chelsea controlled their own destiny with an assured performance at Birmingham.
After Kirby was clattered in the box by Birmingham keeper Ann-Katrin Berger, Carney fired in from the spot against her old club to make it 1-0 and, after the break, Berger then spilled Gemma Davison's cross towards Kirby, who easily tucked in the second.
Chelsea's win ended Manchester City's run of three consecutive domestic club trophies, as Emma Hayes' side added to their double-winning year of 2015.
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The Spring Series was a one-off, transitional competition aimed to bridge the gap between the old summer WSL campaigns and the first winter season in 2017-18.
Teams played each other just once. Chelsea were beaten at 2016 champions Manchester City but clinched the title with three straight wins at the end of the campaign.
Hayes' side conceded just three times in the series and scored 32 goals - 10 more than anyone else.
FA Cup winners and Champions League semi-finalists Man City finished their busy season with goals from Jill Scott, Mel Lawley and Megan Campbell at Liverpool, who netted a late consolation through Scotland's Caroline Weir.
Arsenal - who finished just one point behind the top two - were dominant at eighth-placed Bristol City, with Louise Quinn, Jordan Nobbs, Chloe Kelly, Danielle van de Donk and Beth Mead all scoring.
At Sunderland, Melissa Fletcher had put Reading deservedly ahead, before Beverly Leon equalised for the hosts, who finished fifth in the table despite reverting to part-time status before the start of the season.
Police said searches were carried out in the Botanic Avenue area on Friday evening.
During the operation the gun and ammunition were seized.
Police added that no arrests had been made and investigations were continuing. | Chelsea Ladies won the Women's Super League One Spring Series with a comfortable 2-0 final-day victory at Birmingham City.
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Please give a summary of the document below. | FGM protection orders (FGMPO) ban those at risk of the practice from being taken outside the UK.
While 77 of the orders were granted by courts in England between July 2015 and June 2016, not one was imposed in Wales.
The NSPCC, who obtained the data, said FGM had "no place in any society".
Charity Welsh Women's Aid added: "The lack of prosecutions and FGM protection orders in Wales highlights that, despite legislation, there is still a need for a stronger commitment to changing attitudes as well as a commitment to support provision of specialist services for girls and women affected by FGM."
It called for national and local support for community-based interventions to "challenge attitudes and identify girls at risk", and for professionals, such as school staff and health visitors, to be specially trained.
It has been illegal to carry out FGM in the UK since 1985, which is done for cultural and religious reasons in certain communities.
Introduced in July 2015, anyone can apply for an FGMPO, which can allow a court to confiscate passports and travel documents to stop a girl being taken abroad.
Breaching the order is a criminal offence, with a maximum prison term of five years.
Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the NSPCC show no orders have been issued by courts in Wales or Northern Ireland.
Of the 77 applications granted in England, 15 were made by police forces, 13 by a solicitor, friend or guardian, 11 by the person wanting to be protected and eight by family members.
The rest were made by other third parties.
Gwent Police said it had not applied for any as the safeguarding measures put into place by police and partners "have meant that the protection orders were not required".
North Wales Police said an application is usually made by the individual concerned or a "relevant third party" and not police.
The Dyfed-Powys and South Wales forces were also asked to comment.
John Cameron, Head of NSPCC Helplines, said FGM was "child abuse" and against the law.
He said: "Some families who subject their children to female genital mutilation may do so because of cultural norms or that they believe it will help their child improve their life.
"It's vital that everyone realises FGM serves no purpose, and leaves long-lasting physical and emotional scars on the victims.
"For far too long female genital cutting has been cloaked in secrecy so we need more people in communities to join forces to ensure this dangerous practice is ended. "
A Home Office spokeswoman said the UK government was taking world-leading action.
"FGM is a horrific act of violence that no woman or girl should ever have to suffer," she said.
"We have significantly strengthened the law on FGM, including introducing a new offence of failing to protect a girl from FGM, extending the reach of extra territorial offences, and creating civil FGM Protection Orders to ensure we are able to protect women and girls at the earliest opportunity.
"We are carrying out an ongoing programme of outreach work to raise awareness of FGM and the available legal measures to tackle the issue, such as FGM Protection Orders. This includes engaging with the police and community organisations in Wales."
FGM, sometimes called female circumcision, refers to procedures including the partial or total removal of external female genital organs for non-medical reasons. | No orders to protect young girls and women at risk of female genital mutilation have been made in Wales, new figures have shown. |
Summarize the provided section. | Price, who used to be known as Jordan, spoke to students about her career from glamour model to TV star.
She also told the 1,000-strong crowd that she believes there needs to be tighter regulations on the media.
Price followed in the footsteps of the Dalai Lama, Winston Churchill and, more recently, Pamela Anderson, when she spoke in the debating chamber.
The 33-year-old told students: "I come from a family that has had to work to earn a living.
"It doesn't matter if you're a single mum or you have financial stuff, I believe that if you really want to do something and put your mind to it, it's feasible, but you really have to be realistic.
"There's no excuse for people to just get pregnant and stay at home."
Price also spoke in detail about her treatment by the paparazzi and the media.
She said: "There are so many things that need to be tweaked and done properly, more regulation.
"You've got people coming across (badly) in this industry because they're not saying things right."
She added that she felt sorry for the new host of reality stars from shows such as The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea as they do not know the industry as well as her.
She said: "I'm just very lucky that I've got a lot of people around me.
"I think the media know now that they're not going to destroy me. I'm indestructible."
A spokesman for Oxford Union said the event proved "very popular". | Katie Price has told the Oxford Union there is "no excuse for people to just get pregnant and stay at home". |
Summarize the content provided below. | Writing for Country Life magazine, Prince Charles said farmers made a "huge contribution" to the UK's "food security, environment and prosperity".
He said farmers and rural communities were facing a "grave situation" but added people "really can help by buying British food whenever we can."
The heir to the throne wrote the piece to mark turning 67 on 14 November.
He and the Duchess of Cornwall are currently on an official 12-day tour of New Zealand and Australia where they have visited a number of rural communities and met local producers.
In his article Prince Charles wrote: "On a sufficient scale the purchasing decisions of individuals can and do change markets."
He said buying British food meant customers were "more likely to be getting fresh, high quality produce from a known and trusted source, offering good value for money".
He added: "It seems to me that the key is to make it as easy as possible for people to know when they are buying British - and why that is a good choice."
The prince suggested many people were perhaps overlooking the importance of farmers to the UK.
"The rural economy is largely invisible to many people," he said. "So, it is perhaps worth spelling out, especially to those who - whether by choice or necessity - live largely urban lifestyles, that we rely on farmers to make a huge contribution to our nation's food security, environment and prosperity.
"And in all three respects, we live in an increasingly uncertain world. That is why we need to do everything we can to keep our farmers farming."
The prince concluded: "This may be considered merely romantic but, to me, our living, breathing, working countryside is one of the great glories of this country. I think we should treasure it, including its people, while we still can."
Mark Hedges, Country Life's editor, welcomed the prince's "romantic" view.
"There's nothing wrong with having a romantic view. It's not going to be particularly romantic when it's all gone," said Mr Hedges.
He added: "The prince has a powerful message where we can all make a difference. By buying British food, we will all be playing a vital part to safeguard the future of our precious countryside and everyone who works and lives in rural communities."
Transport Minister Derek Mackay officially opened the revamped route with help from pupils from Crown Primary School in Inverness.
It is the last leg of the Caledonia Way, which is part of the National Cycle Network.
Transport Scotland invested £3m in the upgrade work.
Margaret Evans, a 69-year old hairdresser who was known as Margo, was found dead in June 2014 at the house she shared with her son in Portstewart.
Alun Kinney Evans had previously denied a charge of murdering his mother.
At Antrim Crown Court, sitting in Belfast, on Tuesday, the 34-year-old admitted her manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Evans was remanded back into custody and is due to be sentenced on 9 June. | The Prince of Wales has urged people to buy British food to support family farms and help save the countryside.
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A man has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of his mother in their family home in County Londonderry. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | Watson, 24, triumphed 6-4 6-1 over the world number 45 to set up a quarter-final with top seed Angelique Kerber.
World number 125 Watson broke in the 10th game of the opening set then did so again twice in the second before converting her sixth match point.
Kerber progressed by beating Mandy Minella of Luxembourg 6-1 6-3.
British number three Watson began her defence of the title by beating Serbia's Nina Stojanovic 6-2 6-7 (7-9) 6-4 on Wednesday.
The Panthers needed to beat Cameroon on Sunday but could only draw 0-0.
Aubameyang said: "It is really annoying because we had chances. Sadly there are days when it doesn't go in, like my first chance from two metres out.
"We are all really disappointed. We didn't really have the time to prepare (for the tournament)."
Aubameyang reacted angrily after final whistle, storming off, kicking a ball off the pitch and not shaking hands with anyone.
Coach Jose Antonio Camacho told him to calm down but Aubameyang waved him away as he walked down the tunnel.
"Of course everyone is disappointed, it is usual in these situations," said Aubameyang. "The players feel it the most."
Aubameyang also appeared to be unhappy that the team did not begin their preparations for the tournament on 3 January as planned.
"We did not start on that date, we started a little bit late," he said. "But I am really proud of all the players, because everyone gave their all.
"I think we were stronger than every other team in the group, but it is about everything, the preparation, the change of coach, it wasn't easy."
Aubameyang, who scored in the opening two games, also admitted that his own contribution could have been better.
"I know there was a lot of expectation around me," he said. "I'm not entirely satisfied with my performances, I think I could have brought a little more. Sure I scored two goals but I wasn't at 100%."
Spaniard Camacho was appointed as Gabon coach only 43 days before the tournament started, replacing the sacked Jorge Costa.
It was always going to be a tough task for him to creative a cohesive unit with the players and Gabon misfired at the tournament, drawing all of their games and only managing to score two goals.
Camacho believes conceding a late equaliser to debutants Guinea-Bissau in their first game set them back and they failed to recover.
"I am very sorry for the fans. And the players, who did their best. I think today we did not qualify because we dropped two points in the first match against Guinea-Bissau," he said.
"The most important thing is to score goals. Against Burkina Faso we had lots of opportunities but did not score and the same was true against Cameroon.
"The reality in football is if you do not score goals you cannot qualify."
Burkina Faso qualified for the quarters-finals as Group A winners and Cameroon joined them as runners-up. | Britain's Heather Watson swept aside sixth seed Ekaterina Makarova as she continued the defence of her Monterrey Open title.
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Write a concise summary for the following article. | James McCrimmon, 32, was originally charged with attempting to murder 42-year-old Steven McCartney in Montraive Street, Rutherglen, on 6 March 2015.
But a jury at the High Court in Glasgow found him guilty of the lesser charge of assault to the danger of life after deciding he acted under provocation.
Sentence on McCrimmon was deferred and he was allowed bail.
The court heard that McCrimmon's downstairs neighbour, 58-year-old Robert Baird, had moved into the four-in-a-block house in Montraive Street in 2012.
The accused claimed he constantly complained about the noise his two young sons made and would constantly shout, swear and bang up to tell them to be quiet.
The row which sparked the stabbing allegedly started when Mr Baird banged upstairs to complain about noise.
McCrimmon, who had a pair of wallpaper scissors in his back pocket, lost his temper and went down to Mr Baird's home and kicked at his front door.
When Mr Baird refused to come to the door, McCrimmon knocked on the door of another neighbour, Mr McCartney, who is Mr Baird's nephew.
Mr McCartney returned home to find McCrimmon banging on his door and a scuffle broke out, during which McCrimmon stabbed Mr McCartney with the scissors.
McCrimmon claimed that McCartney took the scissors from his pocket and struck him on the head and neck.
He said that as he tried to grab them back from Mr McCartney he stabbed him in self-defence.
The court heard that Mr McCartney was stabbed close to the heart with the scissors and McCrimmon had two wounds on his head and neck.
Mr McCartney denied ever having the scissors at any point.
The court was told that when police arrested McCrimmon, he had just showered and taken the scissors into the shower with him to wash the blood off them.
Both McCrimmon and Mr Baird have moved house since the incident. | A man has been convicted of stabbing his neighbour's nephew in the chest with scissors during a row over noise. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | 13 February 2017 Last updated at 01:21 GMT
An undercover reporter spent two months inside HMP Northumberland for the BBC's Panorama programme.
He discovered widespread drug use, a lack of control, door alarms that did not go off on one house block and a hole in an internal security fence.
The Ministry of Justice has said it will investigate the "extremely serious allegations".
Watch Panorama Behind Bars: Prison Undercover on Monday 13 February at 20:30 GMT on BBC One. Or catch up on iPlayer. | Secret filming for the BBC has revealed chaos in one of the biggest prisons in England and Wales. |
Can you summarize the given article? | The 45-year-old had been in a vegetative state since 2011 when he was found at the bottom of a flight of stairs with a head injury.
His team paid tribute to him after he died on Thursday, claiming he "changed the art world forever".
Robbo's tit-for-tat feud with Bansky was the subject of a TV documentary.
On Robbo's website, his team wrote: "Peace and respect to Robbo's close family and friends... the Crew of Team Robbo and WRH and all his many fans and supporters around the world.
"Team Robbo - "All the way" - Robbo changed the art world…forever!"
King Robbo started tagging trains in London in the 1980s after the practice became popular in New York, though he became less active in the 90s.
A representative from Team Robbo said: "He was known by a lot of underground graffiti writers, old-school writers, the original pioneers."
He added: "He was infectious. Once you'd met him, you'd know that you would have met him."
His notorious feud with Banksy began in 2009 when the Bristol-based artist painted over one of his tags next to Regent's Canal in Camden, which dated from 1985.
London graffiti blogger Joe said it was one of the last authentic pieces from the hey-day of graffiti, which was why Robbo was so angry.
In retaliation, he painted his name over Banksy's artwork - an image of a painter and decorator hanging wallpaper over Robbo's original tag.
The street war continued and the pair painted over each other's work numerous times.
The feud reignited interest in Robbo's work, which he said gave him the impetus to return to the art scene, and an exhibition of his paintings was subsequently held in a London gallery.
Team Robbo said the artist was the self-appointed king of the London graffiti scene in its 1980s.
At 6ft 8in tall, he was an imposing figure on the graffiti scene, his team said.
"He was a bit of a scallywag. However, you do silly things when you're younger, but we're now talking about a 45-year-old man," his team said.
Banksy has paid tribute to Robbo on his website, listing the names of the graffiti crews he was a part of: "Robbo WRH WD PFB - RIP".
Graffiti Wars, a documentary examining the duo's rivalry, was broadcast on Channel 4 in September 2011. | Graffiti artist King Robbo, who rose to prominence in London in the 1980s and notoriously feuded with fellow artist Banksy, has died. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The US - which argues it is covered by diplomatic immunity - owes £9.4m, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said.
Councils are also owed £322,135 in unpaid parking fines, including £49,000 from the Nigerian High Commission.
The crisis-hit Greek government owes £1.3m in congestion zone fees and £1,880 in parking fines, the annual breakdown reveals.
In a written statement, Mr Hammond said the Foreign Office had held meetings with a number of embassies about their parking fine debt, and had also sent letters asking them to pay or appeal if they thought they were incorrect.
Payments totalling £214,154 were then made, he said, leaving the total bill for 2014 of £322,135.
The multimillion pound congestion charge bill dates from February 2003 until 31 December 2014.
Minsters also revealed that 14 "serious and significant offences" were allegedly committed by people entitled to diplomatic immunity in 2014.
These were defined as crimes that could carry at least a 12-month prison sentence. The two most common offences were driving without insurance and drink driving.
All were motor-related, except for two - possession of a firearm, and "development of malware for the purpose of fraud" - both allegedly committed by Saudi Arabian diplomats.
The government said the majority of the 22,000 people entitled to diplomatic immunity in the UK abided by the law.
The £3,000 prize has been awarded to Ruth Bidgood for her latest collection of poetry, Time Being.
Ms Bidgood, 88, who lives near Llanwrtyd Wells, has been publishing poetry more than five decades.
The Roland Mathias Prize has been awarded biennially in the fields of poetry, short stories, literary criticism and Welsh history.
In future years, it is to be incorporated into the Wales Book of the Year.
The chair of the judging panel, Glyn Mathias said: "We felt this was the crowning collection of her long career.
"It is so evocative of place and time, and she packs such an emotional punch. The quality of writing is sustained throughout, and yet she makes it look so easy."
Ms Bidgood was awarded the prize during a ceremony in Roland Mathias' home town of Brecon, supported by BBC Wales and hosted by Nicola Heywood Thomas, presenter of Radio Wales' Arts Show.
The Roland Mathias Prize was established in honour of the poet and author who died in 2007.
Labour said it was part of the party's plans to rejuvenate the High Street and protect local communities.
The Consumers' Association reports that 1,046 local bank branches closed in the UK between December 2015 and January 2017, Labour said.
The Conservatives claimed Labour's plans would see corporation tax at 28% and lead to £500bn of extra debt.
Labour said it would replace the government's Access to Banking Protocol with legislation to prevent closures.
The party said the big four banks made more than £11bn profit from their High Street banks in 2015, and "can afford to provide this vital customer service instead of prioritising cost-saving measures that damage communities and small businesses".
Labour points to research that suggests lending to small businesses drops by 63% in areas with recent branch closures, and the loss of a local bank branch significantly diminishes the abilities of deprived communities and households to access even basic financial services.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: "High Street bank closures have become an epidemic in the last few years, blighting our town centres, hurting particularly elderly and more vulnerable customers, and local small businesses whilst making healthy profits for themselves.
"It's time our banks recognise instead that they are a utility providing an essential public service.
"Only Labour will put in place the legal obligations needed to bring banks into line and stand up for our High Streets, communities and small businesses."
In response, Conservative vice-chairman Stuart Andrew said: "Labour's plan for our High Streets would see corporation tax going back up to 28% and £500bn of extra debt - all under a Labour leader who said that we should not be afraid of debt or borrowing.
"Our support for High Streets has seen town centre vacancy rates come back down since Labour were in government.
"Our support for small businesses has seen start-up loans to help people launch new businesses, which has already helped 40,000 smaller firms across the country." | The bill for unpaid congestion charges by foreign diplomats in London has reached £87.4m, MPs have been told.
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Summarize the provided information. | Stephen Ackerman then used the bank card details to spend thousands of pounds, a jury heard.
A group of 13 people, including the club's former manager Sam Allardyce and England striker Andy Carroll, allegedly paid out £7,310 in total.
Mr Ackerman pleaded not guilty to fraud at Snaresbrook Crown Court.
The plea, entered in March, related to 13 counts of fraud and on Monday he denied six further counts of fraud, totalling around £54,730.
Mr Ackerman, from Essex, is charged with possessing a chip and pin processing device "for use in the course of or in connection with a fraud".
The 48-year-old visited West Ham's training ground on 12 December 2014 "with all the trappings of a successful businessman", driving a black Range Rover and sporting a silver watch, the prosecuting lawyer said.
As he opened the trial, prosecutor Richard Milne said under the pseudonym "Mark Kingston", Mr Ackerman allegedly set up a stall with the hampers containing Belgian chocolates, Yorkshire crisps and champagne, heavily discounted at £60.
He then used the details of five people who paid for the hampers and cases of champagne by card to further defraud them, taking more than £50,000, the court heard.
Mr Milne said Mr Ackerman came up with a "ruse" and wanted the players' card details.
He added: "They were taken in by the trappings of success and were exploited and defrauded by putting in orders both by cash and by card.
"These players, management, employees paid up and they never got their goods, their champagne and their hampers."
Former West Ham players and Mr Allardyce are expected to give evidence on Tuesday, when the trial continues. | A man allegedly lured West Ham players and staff into buying luxury hampers at Christmas in 2014 which were never delivered, a court heard. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | The group were among more than 100 from a college in Pune who had gone for a picnic to Murud beach near Alibag, Maharashtra state.
The victims were aged between 19 and 23 and police said they were working to identify the bodies.
Murud beach is popular with locals who prefer the area to the more tourist-focused state of Goa.
Pictures showed the bodies of those who died being dragged from the water.
Police said they were continuing to search for other victims. It is believed those who drowned were surprised by a sudden low tide. | Thirteen students have drowned while swimming off a beach on India's west coast, police say. |
Summarize the following piece. | Maguire was tripped in the box by Jack Baldwin, who was sent off for a second yellow card, and Maguire converted the penalty into the right corner with the match in the third minute of added time.
Posh were bidding for a fourth win in five league and cup games this season, and had put five goals past Millwall in midweek.
But they needed a 62nd-minute equaliser from Tom Nichols, who fired Paul Taylor's cutback into the roof of the net, to get back on level terms.
Wes Thomas had struck straight after the restart to put Oxford in front.
Thomas worked the ball on to his right foot and saw his shot deflect past keeper Ben Alnwick just 12 seconds into the second half, before many fans were back in their seats.
Posh had the better of a scrappy first half. Simon Eastwood superbly tipped over a close-range shot from Gwion Edwards.
In the second half Eastwood made one outstanding save, spreading himself to block Jermaine Anderson's effort. He also showed great agility to prevent a miscued clearance from Josh Ruffels crossing the line for an own goal.
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Match ends, Oxford United 2, Peterborough United 1.
Second Half ends, Oxford United 2, Peterborough United 1.
Goal! Oxford United 2, Peterborough United 1. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Second yellow card to Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) for a bad foul.
Penalty Oxford United. Chris Maguire draws a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty conceded by Jack Baldwin (Peterborough United) after a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Tyler Roberts (Oxford United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Liam Sercombe (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United).
Philip Edwards (Oxford United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United).
Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adil Nabi (Peterborough United).
Hand ball by Chris Maguire (Oxford United).
Attempt missed. Liam Sercombe (Oxford United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Oxford United. Daniel Crowley replaces Wes Thomas.
Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Jack Baldwin.
Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Maguire (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Leonardo Da Silva Lopes (Peterborough United).
Substitution, Peterborough United. Shaquile Coulthirst replaces Paul Taylor.
Substitution, Oxford United. Ryan Taylor replaces Kane Hemmings.
Attempt missed. Kane Hemmings (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Adil Nabi replaces Marcus Maddison.
Attempt missed. Kane Hemmings (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Foul by Kane Hemmings (Oxford United).
(Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Leonardo Da Silva Lopes.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Michael Smith.
Substitution, Oxford United. Tyler Roberts replaces Alexander MacDonald.
Hand ball by Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United).
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Tom Nichols.
Attempt blocked. Josh Ruffels (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Andrew Hughes.
Chris Maguire (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Chris Maguire (Oxford United).
Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) wins a free kick on the right wing. | Chris Maguire's injury-time penalty gave Oxford United a 2-1 victory over in-form Peterborough at the Kassam Stadium, and their first win back in League One. |
Write a summary for this information. | 22 March 2017 Last updated at 06:49 GMT
It lives in New Zealand, and is known for being super-smart, playful and a bit crafty.
But scientists have recently made an interesting discovery about them.
They found that Keas have an infectious laugh, which when heard by other parrots makes them join in and feel happier.
This discovery is a world first, as previously scientists only thought mammals like humans and chimpanzees could make animals laugh in the same way.
Ayshah's been finding out more... | Meet the Kea, the parrot comedian of the bird world. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | People were invited to drop off weapons without fear of prosecution over a two-week period that ended on Sunday.
The 59 shotguns - including two sawn-offs - were among 293 items handed in. The others included 17 revolvers, 26 pistols and 65 air weapons. All the weapons will be destroyed.
Ch Insp Phil Fortun said the operation had been a "huge success".
"A sawn-off shotgun is usually the result of someone altering a weapon to use in criminality," he said.
"Having two sawn-off shotguns surrendered means they will never be used for such activity."
Changes in the law in July increased the maximum jail sentence for illegal possession of a firearm from 10 years to life.
Last week West Midlands Police revealed more than 100 guns had been handed in as part of its firearms surrender. | Fifty-nine shotguns have been handed in to police as part of a firearms surrender in Staffordshire. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Only Bournemouth, Swansea and Arsenal have been found to be 100% compliant with Uefa recommendations for wheelchair spaces at their grounds.
Tottenham are bottom of the list with 28%, behind Watford (35%) and Aston Villa (41%).
The survey was carried out by charity Revitalise before the start of the new Premier League season.
It follows a BBC Sport investigation in March 2014 which highlighted the issue.
In June, top-flight clubs were threatened with legal action after the Equality and Human Rights Commission (ECHR) said it had received a number of complaints about clubs, including Manchester United removing walking aids from away fans.
Other examples received by the ECHR include disabled fans being prevented from obtaining season tickets, and problems such as families with young disabled children being unable to sit together at matches.
Guidelines on how football clubs in the UK should cater for disabled spectators have been in place since 2004, while European football governing body Uefa's recommendations were published in 2003. The number of wheelchair spaces a stadium should provide is based on its capacity.
Last month in the House of Lords during the second reading of the Accessible Sports Grounds Bill, Lord Holmes of Richmond, Britain's most successful Paralympic swimmer, called on Premier League sponsors and broadcasters to pull out of football unless progress was made in providing facilities for disabled fans.
If enacted into law, the bill would give local authorities the power to refuse to issue a safety certificate to a sports ground which does not comply with accessible stadia guidelines. | A new survey has suggested that many Premier League clubs are continuing to fail disabled fans. |
Can you summarize this passage? | The vehicle was on its way from Nintendo's European warehouse to retailer Game, said Nintendo.
The incident has left the UK store unable to honour the pre-orders it has taken for the Wii U game.
Game is offering standard versions of the title in its place, with a £10 discount, or says gamers can cancel their orders should they wish.
The special edition Splatoon Amiibo included a rare Squid Inking figurine that works with the game via near field communication (NFC).
Nintendo's Amiibo NFC toys have become sought after, with special edition versions from previous games fetching inflated prices on resale sites including eBay.
The title is already in short supply ahead of its launch date on 29 May.
Game says it will not be replenishing its stock.
It is not clear exactly where the lorry was stolen.
Both Nintendo UK and Game were unavailable for comment. | A lorry transporting copies of a special edition of Nintendo's Splatoon shooter video game has been stolen. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Just 1.8% of ballet exam candidates are boys, says the Royal Academy of Dance.
Now the RAD has enlisted help from Marylebone Cricket Club to challenge gender stereotypes in dance and sport.
Royal Ballet principal dancer and cricket enthusiast Alexander Campbell said he was delighted to be an ambassador for the project.
Under the plan, Marylebone Cricket Club and the Academy will run a pilot scheme in primary schools, with boys encouraged to take up ballet and girls to play cricket.
"Cricket and ballet were a huge part of my life growing up, and continue to be a huge part of my life today," said Mr Campbell.
"They are fun and engaging at all levels, and I am absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to introduce children to my favourite art form, as well as my favourite sport."
Overall, the initiative, called Project B, will put £30,000 into dance provision for boys over the next three years - and there are plans for further fundraising and investment.
It will include new choreography, available online for boys to download and practise, devised by Iain Mackay, principal dancer at Birmingham Royal Ballet.
"I've looked at ways of bringing what young boys interested in ballet can take from their passions outside the studio and use it to give them confidence and a common language," said Mr Mackay.
"Whether that be developing their favourite footballer's elaborate goal celebration, jumping and posing like super heroes, spinning across the room like Angry Birds, or creating patterns and shapes like building blocks in Minecraft.
"I hope the choreography I have created will motivate and excite aspiring male dancers to get involved and enjoy the athleticism and physicality that ballet holds."
There will also be more boys-only workshops and masterclasses throughout the UK and financial support for for male students on RAD teacher training programmes as part of a drive to recruit more male dance teachers and increase the numbers of male role models. | Moves from Angry Birds and Minecraft as well as footballers' goal celebrations are being used to encourage more boys to take up ballet. |
What is the summary of the given information? | York council said "the quality of care and welfare" of children at Little Joes in Fishergate and Heworth House in Melrosegate was being investigated.
The police, council and Ofsted are conducting an inquiry and said there was no suggestion of sexual abuse.
The nurseries' owner Lynn Drydal said she was "completely shocked".
Joe Cocker, manager of City of York Safeguarding Children Board, said several staff at both nurseries had been suspended, but would not confirm how many.
Ms Drydal said she had asked "several girls" who worked there to stay at home.
She said: "I felt best to comply with the welfare requirements regarding the safety and looking after children and also that of my staff, I have asked several girls if they would be strong, be resilient, that I am behind them 110%, but if they could just stay at home until I find out precisely what is happening."
Ms Drydal said she had not been told what the allegations were and that it had had a "horrendous" effect on her business.
She added: "I would like this investigation to be moved on so I can try and build back up the business which I have had ruined."
A joint statement from the board, North Yorkshire Police, City of York Council and Ofsted said parents had been told about the inquiry.
The statement said: "Where there is a specific concern, families have been contacted personally."
It continued: "The inquiries relate to the running of the nurseries, the quality of care and the welfare of children who attend the nurseries."
As part of the investigation, both nurseries have been visited by North Yorkshire Police, Ofsted and City of York Safeguarding Board, the statement added.
It said: "Following the visits, a number of staff members have been suspended by their employer pending further inquiries."
Parents can call City of York Council's Family Information Service, which is available between 08:30 and 17:00 on 01904 554444.
Little Joes takes children from birth to eight years old and has separate preschool, toddler and baby units. It was last inspected by Ofsted in September 2008, when it was rated "good" overall.
The nursery has a capacity for 51 children and employed nine staff at the time of the last inspection.
Heworth House was inspected by Ofsted in May this year, when it was rated "satisfactory".
It is registered to take children from birth to five years and has capacity for 30 children. It employs nine members of staff.
Edwards, 36, retired on Wednesday and is the only player - man or woman - to captain England in 200 internationals.
"Grassroots is an area we've not taken enough care of recently," said England women's cricket director Clare Connor.
"We must make sure we look after every player and make sure they are as valued as Charlotte Edwards."
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Connor, herself a former England captain, added that the grassroots game would be "an area of investment" for the England and Wales Cricket Board "over the next few years" as they try to capitalise on the 'Chance to Shine' initiative, which has attracted 1.3 million female players to the game in the past decade.
The Women's Super League is also scheduled to start in July and England will host the World Cup in 2017.
Speaking at the Women's Sport Trust Awards, Connor told BBC Sport: "It's no good just having an elite game.
"We have to think more broadly about how we make sure the inspiration of the England team connects with the next generation.
"We've seen huge growth in girls playing the game. The number of clubs is up by 600% over the past 10 years so the numbers are looking healthy.
"But we've got to become more strategic about how we convert those huge numbers into lifelong players. That doesn't mean they all go on to play county cricket, or for England, but stay with clubs for a long time." | A number of staff at two private nurseries in York have been suspended as part of an investigation into how children were looked after.
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There must be greater focus on the English grassroots game to build on the legacy of Charlotte Edwards, says the head of England women's cricket. |
What is the summary of the following article? | She was attacked outside a women's hostel in Lucknow while getting water from a hand pump, police said.
The woman, 35, had been receiving round-the-clock police protection because of the previous attacks, which were linked to a property dispute.
Anger is growing at the authorities' inability to protect her.
She was allegedly gang-raped and first attacked with acid by two men in 2008, over a property dispute, the details of which are not clear.
The same two men are then accused of throwing acid at her twice more - in 2012 and 2013 - to try and get her to drop the criminal charges against them.
In March, she was attacked again while travelling on a train with her daughter. This time she was forced to drink acid.
Two men are facing trial for all of the attacks but were released on bail in April, the AFP agency reports.
According to government figures, there are hundreds of such attacks involving acid each year in India, although campaigners say the real figures are much higher.
The victims, who have to live with terrible disfigurements, are mainly women and are often targeted by jealous partners, campaigners say.
Despite a Supreme Court ruling in 2013 to regulate the sale of acid, critics say it is still widely and easily available. | A woman in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who survived an alleged gang-rape and four separate acid attacks has been targeted again by an acid-thrower. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | He said ministers who disagreed with austerity measures could not stay in the coalition government, hours after four ministers resigned over the issue.
Greek leaders are trying to enact cuts demanded by the EU and IMF for a 130bn-euro ($170bn; £110bn) bailout.
Unions have begun a 48-hour strike, and protesters clashed with police earlier.
The prime minister said he would do "whatever it takes" to get the deal approved in a parliamentary vote set for Sunday.
"We cannot allow Greece to go bankrupt," he told his cabinet, saying it was an "hour of historic responsibility".
"A disorderly default would plunge our country in a disastrous adventure. It would create conditions of uncontrolled economic chaos and social explosion," he said.
Earlier, three ministers from the far-right Laos party, a junior partner in the three-party coalition, quit their jobs as deputy ministers.
The party's leader complained that Greeks were being humiliated by Germany, and announced its 15 deputies would not back the austerity measures.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, who quit on Friday afternoon, is the most senior defection so far.
By Mark LowenBBC News, Athens
It is becoming an all-too-familiar scene in Greece: mass protests in a nation squeezed by austerity, and now horrified by the prospect of yet more to come. Thousands arrived to vent their anger, clashing with police.
But still the Eurozone doubts Greece's commitment. Athens must now find another 325m euros of savings, provide a written pledge to honour the cuts and win parliamentary approval for them. Failure would mean bailout funds are withheld and Greece would go bankrupt next month.
The leader of a small far-right coalition party has withdrawn support for the package. Two Socialist deputy ministers have quit. It is a worrying sign that perhaps the country is reaching breaking point. Economically, politically and socially Greece is sacrificing much to stay in the euro - but at an immeasurable cost.
Her Pasok party, the largest in the coalition, also suffered the loss of a deputy labour minister on Thursday.
But analysts say the cuts package should still have enough support in parliament because Pasok and its other coalition ally New Democracy account for more than 230 deputies out of a total of 300.
Earlier, an estimated 17,000 union members and communists took to the streets in a march at the start of a two-day strike.
Protesters also gathered near the parliament building.
Some demonstrators threw stones and petrol bombs at police, who responded by firing tear gas. A small number of people from both sides suffered minor injuries.
Last night the Greeks presented their plans for austerity cuts to a meeting of eurozone ministers in Brussels.
Their proposals include:
But the ministers demanded a further 325m euros in savings for this year. It is thought that the shortfall came because the Greek coalition could not agree to restructuring pensions.
The eurozone and IMF are also insisting that Greek leaders give "strong political assurances" on the implementation of the packages.
The ministers said the conditions must be fulfilled by next Wednesday, in time for another eurozone meeting to consider releasing the bailout funds.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says Greek politicians are frustrated that their planned cuts did not meet the demands of the eurozone and IMF.
But the government is likely to plough on, he says, because the prospect of bankruptcy and a potential exit from the eurozone strikes fear into the hearts of its leaders.
Greece cannot service its huge debt, and there are fears that a default could endanger Europe's financial stability and even lead to a break-up of the eurozone.
The country is already reeling from the effects of an earlier round of austerity that followed a previous bailout. Those cuts triggered widespread unrest and violent protests.
The country is deep in recession, with unemployment rising above 20%. | Greece faces "uncontrolled economic chaos" if it fails to agree spending cuts and defaults on its debts, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has warned. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | A lion, or, more likely, a pride of lionesses - who are the real hunters - can ruin a small farmer's livelihood by killing even a single cow, especially one that is pregnant or producing milk.
Thanks to Botswana's excellent conservation policies, the country has one of Africa's largest wild lion populations - estimated at 3,000.
Recent dry weather in southern Africa however is shrinking wildlife protection areas, while farmers are forced to seek new grazing lands. As a result, lions are increasingly coming into contact with humans.
Richer commercial ranchers can erect fences to try to keep them at bay.
For poorer subsistence farmers, though, it is harder. At night they herd their livestock into stockades made of logs and thorn trees to deter the lions. They also rely on barking dogs and perhaps the bravest might have once attacked lions with a spear. Some resort to shooting them or putting out poison, although hunting is illegal in Botswana.
Short of eradicating big cats, which would be unconscionable, there are few ideas being formulated to reduce the impact of their increasing presence.
However, one conservationist who has been working with the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust thinks he might have found a solution.
On a field trip, Neil Jordan watched a lion stalk an impala for 30 minutes but suddenly abandon his prey when the antelope turned and looked at the predator. This made him think that perhaps it was the eye contact that had saved the impala.
What if, he reasoned, an eye was painted on the rump of the animal? Would that have the same effect?
"I was very reluctant to share the idea at first because it does seem a bit wacky," Mr Jordan admits. "But when we ran a short trial in 2015, we got promising, but as yet inconclusive results."
In the initial study, Mr Jordan and his team painted large eyes on a third of a herd of cows on a farm on the edge of a wildlife area near Maun, in the north of the country.
The results were encouraging. Lions killed three of the 39 unpainted cows but none of the 23 painted cows was taken.
"I cheekily called our work the i-Cow project," says Mr Jordan, who is based at the University of New South Wales in Australia. "It's the opposite approach to Apple in being a low-cost, non-technological solution."
Ron Crous, who took part in the initial study needed little persuasion to get involved.
"I've been trying to farm here for the past four years and I lost a sixth of my cattle," he says.
It was slow at first, Mr Crous says, but after a while the lions realised there was a permanent supply of food in the area. "In the past eight months I have lost half of the calves born.
"Some of the local guys have had to revert to killing lions in defence of their stock," Mr Crous says. "The sad fact is that the compensation promised by the government does not cover their losses. I have always been a conservationist, so getting to work with this initiative was easy."
This year Mr Jordan is expanding the study to two other nearby cattle farms, painting half the 60-strong herds in August. Mr Jordan has also raised funds to use radio collars and GPS logging for more accurate results on the encounters between lions and cows.
The eyes are made by cutting out shapes on foam which are stuck to a wooden board. These are painted and stamped as a pair of eyes either side of the cow's tail. The paint lasts three to four weeks before it must be reapplied.
Many experts wish Mr Jordan well, but remain sceptical. Gus Mills, a southern Africa specialist in carnivore biology, says that lions are opportunists and able to exploit many conditions.
"Why would they not soon learn that the marks on a cow's backside are innocuous?" he reasons.
Kevin Richardson, a South African animal behaviourist and so-called "Lion Whisperer" has worked closely with lions for more than two decades and told the BBC: "Honestly, I think this is wishful thinking, but I'll gladly eat my words if it works.
"I'm sceptical about whether lions are that stupid to be fooled into thinking that fake eyes are real. We've performed some cognitive experiments on lions and found that they learn quickly, so you may fool them once, but not twice."
Paul Funston, Senior Lion Program Director for the global wild cat conservation organisation Panthera, largely agrees: "Lions are often wary of new things. (They) assess risk and prefer sticking to options that they perceive are relatively safer.
"Could the eyes painted on the rumps of cattle disrupt the ever-cautious lion enough to seek out an alternative? We eagerly await the research results to evaluate its effectiveness."
Mr Jordan accepts that what conservations call habituation is an issue with almost all non-lethal deterrents.
But, he says, many of the affected livestock areas do not have resident lions who would be continually exposed to the same eye patterns and thus ignore them. Only time and trials will establish if lions are indeed cleverer than we think.
Scientists like Mr Funston are deeply worried about the future of the lion, as growing human populations make increasing demands on grazing land.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that the lion population has declined by more than 40% over the last two decades. Habitat loss and killing in defence of livestock are two of the most critical reasons for this decline.
'There is a fundamental shortage of non-lethal tools for farmers to use in dealing with this human-wildlife conflict," Mr Jordan says.
"I believe we need support for creative thinking to make a difference. It may prove to be wishful thinking, but I think we need to formally test it and other non-lethal tools if we want a future for wild lions. It might not work, we're still testing it."
More from Botswana Direct. | For more than 10,000 years, ever since man started herding cattle for food and enrichment in Africa, lions have been a huge problem. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Plans for a one-off tax of 6.75% on savings up to 100,000 euros (£86,000; $130,000) have outraged Cypriots.
Banks in Cyprus are to remain closed until Thursday, as efforts to revise an international bailout package continue.
A parliamentary vote on the package has been repeatedly postponed, but is now expected on Tuesday.
The 10bn-euro bailout agreed with the EU and IMF demands that all bank customers pay a one-off levy.
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The government's efforts to shift more of the burden onto wealthier depositors enraged Russians, who form the bulk of overseas investors and have deposits worth billions of dollars in Cypriot banks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the proposed levy "unfair, unprofessional and dangerous", and Moscow has expressed frustration Russia was not included in European decision-making on Cyprus.
Under the currently agreed terms of the levy, depositors with less than 100,000 euros in Cyprus accounts would pay a one-off tax of 6.75%, while those with sums over that threshold would pay 9.9%.
But the move has outraged Cypriots and sparked heavy cash withdrawals from banks.
Since the start of the financial crisis there has been a guarantee that deposits under 100,000 euros in banks in the EU would be protected.
Many observers believe the Cypriot levy breaks the spirit of that agreement, and there is concern that it could also damage the confidence of depositors in other eurozone countries, reports the BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels.
By Mark LowenBBC News, Nicosia
Cypriots will tell you they're a resilient nation. They bounced back from the war of 1974 and became a prosperous EU member three decades later.
But even they are feeling defeated by this shock tax. "Daylight robbery" is what many here call it.
"If Brussels insists on this, we should leave the EU altogether," one elderly gentleman told me in a Nicosia cafe.
And that is perhaps the lasting damage of this affair - a tiny yet proud EU member now feels bullied and blackmailed by the powerful, the old north-south division of Europe widening again.
Yet many argue Cyprus sleepwalked into this mess. For years it thrived as a tax haven, its banking sector eight times the size of its economy. The warning signs were there but few were willing to heed them.
Eurozone finance ministers - the Eurogroup - discussed the situation in a conference call on Monday evening.
Following the talks, its president Jeroen Dijsselbloem issued a statement saying the group "continues to be of the view that small depositors should be treated differently from large depositors and reaffirms the importance of fully guaranteeing deposits below 100,000 euros".
He said Cyprus would "introduce more progressivity in the one-off levy" - in other words, shift the burden away from small savers towards bigger depositors - provided that the same amount of funds, 5.8bn euros, was raised.
Mr Dijsselbloem urged "a swift decision by the Cypriot authorities and parliament to rapidly implement the agreed measures".
President Anastasiades has been holding talks with ministers and MPs at the parliament building in Nicosia, where hundreds of people noisily protested on Monday.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Nicosia says there are suggestions Mr Anastasiades may want to lower the former rate to 3%, while raising the levy on the larger depositors to 12.5%.
The debate and vote in Cyprus' parliament is now scheduled for 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday. It was to have been held on Sunday.
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The president's Democratic Rally has 20 seats in the 56-member assembly and needs other parties' support to ratify the deal.
The vote remains too close to call, correspondents say.
Speaker Yiannakis Omirou, of the EDEK party, said: "Parliament is called to legalise a decision to rob depositors blind, against every written and unwritten law. We refuse to subscribe to this."
Mr Anastasiades insists that without the bailout Cyprus could face bankruptcy and a possible exit from the eurozone - a fear echoed by European officials.
The US has called for a "responsible and fair" resolution.
Protesters in Cyprus have held up banners blaming Germany for the controversial bailout deal, but Germany says it always favoured protecting bank accounts with up to 100,000 euros, and insists it was the Cypriot government, European Commission and ECB that decided on the levy terms.
Earlier European Commission spokesman Simon O'Connor defended the group's actions, saying its original decision on the bailout was "taken by unanimity, all the member states of the eurozone, including Cyprus".
Stock markets in the US, Asia and Europe fell in early trading, though some of their losses were recouped later in the day. The euro also fell.
Cyprus may only be a tiny fraction of the eurozone economy, our Brussels correspondent says. But the sense of uncertainty surrounding it is sending shivers through the financial markets. | Finance ministers from the eurozone have asked Cyprus to reduce the burden on small investors from a proposed levy on savings, linked to a bailout. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | He said they shared the day "with 120 of our closest friends and family, from Texarkana to Plymouth" at Bovey Castle Hotel on Dartmoor, Devon.
The diver's new husband also shared a picture of the nuptials, asking "So... what did you do this weekend?"
Daley, 22, married the scriptwriter and producer 30 miles from his home city of Plymouth.
In the social media post, Daley said: "Thank you to everyone who made this weekend the most special weekend of our lives!"
Fellow diver Brooke Graddon said the wedding was "full of love and happiness".
"He's been through so many hard times in his life it's so nice that he's had his happy ending," she said.
"The wedding was brilliant - it was so much fun. It's so nice seeing him happy."
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Graddon, who has been one of Daley's best friends since he started diving aged seven, said the Olympic star had been "so chilled" about the ceremony.
"He said he didn't start sorting out his wedding until January/February time, things like he just said he was going to make his own cake.
"I didn't have any, so who knows whether I'd have food poisoning right now!
"Obviously, the location was incredible but everything else was really relaxed, it was just so normal."
Daley, who won bronze medals at the Olympic Games in London and Rio de Janeiro, revealed in a YouTube video in 2013 he had a boyfriend.
He said his "whole world changed" when he fell in love with a man who had made him feel "so happy, so safe".
The pair announced their engagement in 2015.
Black, 42, won the best original screenplay Oscar for the 2008 film Milk, which was based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. | British Olympic diver Tom Daley has shared a picture of his wedding to US film director Dustin Lance Black. |
Summarize the provided section. | His much-lauded 1960 debut novel was based on his experiences as a professional rugby league player and was made into a film three years later.
Storey went on to win the 1976 Booker Prize for family drama Saville.
A spokesman for his four children said: "Dad died peacefully with his family around him. He gave and inspired great love, drew us out and showed us how the world really is."
Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts were both nominated for Oscars for starring in the big screen version of This Sporting Life.
Storey's other novels included Flight Into Camden and Passmore and the plays The Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The Contractor, Home and The Changing Room.
Storey's play Home was made into a film starring Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson, while In Celebration was filmed with Alan Bates and Brian Cox.
Storey, who grew up in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was also a talented artist who had an exhibition at the Hepworth Gallery last summer.
Storey's wife Barbara Hamilton died in 2015.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | This Sporting Life author David Storey has died at the age of 83. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The form of witchcraft was thrown into the spotlight at the trial of Lizzy Idahosa who was found guilty of human trafficking offences.
Cardiff Crown Court heard how Idahosa, 24, arranged for two Nigerian women to be put through a ritualistic "juju" ceremony in Nigeria to make them afraid of disobeying her before they were trafficked into the UK and forced to work in the sex trade.
The women said they had been forced to drink dirty water, eat a snake and a snail and have their hair shaved.
The jury heard they had genuine fear the juju magic would cause them illness, madness, infertility and death if they broke their oath.
And that was how Idahosa was able to continue controlling the two women.
Trafficking expert Siddharth Kara from Harvard University said: "[Juju] exerts a kind of control that's so much more potent than chains or locking someone up.
"It's control of the spirit which is far more powerful and insidious."
He said juju was a "substantial issue" in parts of Nigeria and he had traced women all over Europe who had been lured into the sex industry through fear of the magic.
Persuaded into leaving their homes for a "better life", young women and girls are often put through the juju ritual overseen by priests who are highly respected and important in their villages.
Using items like menstrual blood, hair, nail clippings, body parts and blood from babies during the "very, very intense" ritual, the priest "takes control of her spirit and womb", Mr Kara said.
The women live in "fear and terror" of the priests and are convinced that if they break the pledge, a curse will descend on them, their family or future offspring.
"You can't just tell her no, no, no, the priest can't really hurt you. That's not what she believes," said Mr Kara, who teaches human trafficking and modern slavery at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in the USA.
"For a young girl who may not even have an education and is not literate, undergoing this oath and being raised in this culture [she] will really put a lot of stock in its potency."
For this reason it is extremely difficult to persuade women to break their oaths and escape from their traffickers, he added.
And this ingrained fear of the repercussions of a juju curse is why so many victims refuse to co-operate with the authorities.
It is now hoped the Cardiff case could be a catalyst to help other women trafficked from Nigeria to Europe using juju to control them.
Nick Jupp, head of criminal investigations for the Home Office in Wales, said the scale of the problem in Wales and the rest of the UK was still unknown and it was "incredibly difficult" to get sex trafficking cases to court.
The case in south Wales was unusual because the victims overcame their fear of the juju curse and helped investigators.
"We want to send out a really powerful message to everybody that this isn't a country that will tolerate modern day slavery and it is slavery - it's slavery by coercion, through fear, through intimidation and through quite horrible means," he added. | Juju "magic" may seem strange, mythical and other-worldly but it is a problem that is all too real when it comes to the sex trafficking of women from Nigeria. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The recovery effort succeeded on Thursday after bad weather hampered earlier bids to reach the crash site.
It is about 3,900m (13,000ft) high and can only be reached on foot or by helicopter in good weather.
The black box of the aircraft operated by Tara Air has also been found, the Civil Aviation Authority says.
It will be handed over to a five-member investigation team formed by the government to look into the crash.
The Twin Otter flew into the mountainside shortly after taking off on a flight from Pokhara to Jomsom.
Most of those on board were Nepalis. The bodies are being returned to their families in Pokhara, Kathmandu and Jomsom.
Nepal's aviation industry has a poor safety record but it is not yet clear what caused Wednesday's crash.
The identities of those on board have yet to be released. Two of those on board the plane were children.
It was carrying three crew and 20 passengers, one of them Chinese and one Kuwaiti.
About 300 members of the security forces took part in the rescue operation, police told local media.
On Thursday afternoon they were able to take advantage of a significant improvement in the weather.
Police say the recovery effort was still tough however because some bodies were badly burned in the crash and were scattered across a wide area of the mountain.
The plane's wreckage was found near the village of Dana in Myagdi district, officials say.
It is about 100km (62 miles) from Pokhara.
The flight was meant to take just under 20 minutes but an official told the BBC Nepali Service that the aircraft had lost contact with the control tower at Pokhara 10 minutes after take-off.
Tara Air said on its website that "the weather at both origin and destination airports was favourable".
March 2015: Lucky escape for passengers after plane skids off runway in fog in Kathmandu
February 2014: Bodies of all 18 people recovered after small plane crashes in western Nepal
September 2012: Plane heading for Everest region crashes on the outskirts of Kathmandu, killing all 19 on board
May 2012: Fifteen people die when plane carrying Indian pilgrims crashes in northern Nepal
September 2010: Sight-seeing flight crashes into a hillside near Kathmandu
September 2006: All 24 people on board a WWF helicopter die when it crashes in eastern Nepal
Pokhara is a resort town some 200km (125 miles) west of the capital Kathmandu. Jomsom, a short distance further north, is the starting point for many people trekking in the Himalayas.
Nepal's limited road network means that many areas are accessible only on foot or by air.
Since 1949, the year the first aircraft landed in Nepal, there have been more than 70 crashes involving planes and helicopters, in which more than 700 people have been killed.
Most accidents have been attributed to bad weather, inexperienced pilots and inadequate maintenance.
In 2013, the European Union banned all Nepalese airlines from flying to its territory for safety reasons. | The bodies of 23 people killed in a plane crash in a remote area of Nepal have been found and are being returned to their families, the army says. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Instead with three minutes left England captain Chris Robshaw opted for a five-metre line-out that Wales repelled to help seal a famous 28-25 win.
Wales now have one foot in the quarter-finals, while England will have to beat Australia to keep their hopes alive.
"I thought they would have gone for goal and taken the draw," Gatland said.
"It's a big call to make and a brave call to make.
"They'd caught us out in the past... throwing to the front of the line-out and we expected that, and did a good job in stopping that driven maul and pushed them into touch.
"Those are decisions you make sometimes and you go there and you get a driven line-out and you win the game and you're a hero, you make the wrong call and you're zero.
"There were two good sides out there. I have a lot of respect for England - their players and their management - and that game could have gone either way."
Dan Biggar kicked all seven of his penalties in an all-round performance that saw the Osprey named man of the match, and Gatland admitted the fly-half "kept us in the game".
Biggar held his nerve to clinch victory with a kick from almost on the halfway line, which comfortably cleared the crossbar despite the distance.
However, the victory came at a cost to Wales, with centre Scott Williams and full-back Liam Williams both taken off on a stretcher, while wing Hallam Amos was also forced off.
Wales were already without Leigh Halfpenny, Rhys Webb and Cory Allen because of injury.
"We lost another couple of players. Hallam Amos has dislocated his shoulder. We're running out of players in Wales," Gatland added.
"We have such a small pool of players and they worked so hard. I'm absolutely so proud of them.
"The pleasing thing for me was that we looked the stronger team in that last 10 or 15 minutes and that's testament to the hard work that has gone into this group of guys.
"The celebrations in the changing room were amazing."
Captain Sam Warburton praised his team for producing a result that he felt was one of the finest of his career.
"Wow what an unbelievable result. I think it was two very evenly-matched sides and I always knew there was never going to be more than seven points in this match, it was going to go to the wire," said the open-side flanker.
"Credit to England, they threw absolutely everything at us, they played really well and we had to be at our best in defence and gave a few too many penalties away.
"But I'm just lost for words, it was an amazing win.
"We've been in this position a few times at half-time. We might not be leading but we back the fitness work we did in the summer, knowing that in the last 20 minutes we can come through strong."
Watch all the analysis on Scrum V Rugby World Cup Special, 19:00 Sunday, 27 September, BBC Two Wales. | Wales coach Warren Gatland said England made a mistake by not going for a late penalty kick that could have drawn their Group A match at Twickenham. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Ruth Munro's mother Margaret McPartlin died in September 1993, aged 73.
A sheriff told Munro that being prosecuted for the two-decade long fraud had been punishment enough.
Alloa Sheriff Court was told that the £18,577 received by Munro had been repaid in full to the pension companies involved.
The court heard that Mrs McPartlin was the beneficiary of two small widow's pensions.
Between 1993 and May 2015, Munro pretended to administrators of both pension schemes that her mother was still living.
Forms purportedly signed by her mother were returned, and Munro allowed the pensions company to believe Mrs McPartlin was still alive.
Ruairidh Ferguson, prosecuting, said: "The offence came to light when the pensions company itself made a check on the Register of Deaths and discovered that the intended beneficiary had been deceased for a number of years."
Munro, 67, of Tullibody, Clackmannanshire admitted defrauding the pension schemes by inducing them to continue to make payments in the belief that Mrs McPartlin was still alive.
Defence solicitor Harry Couchlin said that it had been "a bizarre and peculiar offence".
He said: "The unusual feature of the situation is that the money wasn't spent, it was retained and it was returned."
Sheriff David Mackie told Munro: "In this case there's little call for retribution.
"You're not somebody who needs to be punished for this and this case is so unusual there's no question of imposing any kind of sentence that would act as a deterrent to anybody else.
"It's enough that you've been put through the process of prosecution." | A grieving daughter received her mother's widow's pensions for 22 years after failing to tell administrators that she had died, a court heard. |
Summarize the information given below. | Kennedy, 20, has made 78 appearances for the League Two club since his debut in January 2015.
"Ben is a unique talent," Stevenage chairman Phil Wallace told his club's website.
"He is a big-game player and we have worked hard to develop him on and off the pitch since he came to us from Northern Ireland four years ago." | Northern Ireland Under-21 midfielder Ben Kennedy has extended his contract with Stevenage until 2019. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The 32-year-old Scotland international had trained with Kilmarnock after leaving Nottingham Forest.
Staggies boss Jim McIntyre told the club website: "We are delighted to announce the signing of Chris.
"He will provide much-needed competition on the flanks for us. He also brings a wealth of experience playing at the top level."
Burke came to prominence with Rangers, scoring on his debut in a 5-0 win over Kilmarnock in 2002.
A lack of first-team football at Ibrox brought about a move to Cardiff on a free transfer in January 2009. He made more than 100 league appearances for the Bluebirds before switching to Birmingham for three seasons where he scored 28 goals in 155 appearances.
Burke then played 50 league games for Nottingham Forest across the past two seasons, during which time he had a loan spell at Rotherham before becoming a free agent in the summer. | Ross County have signed the former Rangers, Cardiff and Birmingham winger Chris Burke until the season's end. |
Can you summarize this passage? | The dog slipped over the edge while she was off the lead at Ecclesbourne Glen, near Hastings on Wednesday afternoon.
Rescue teams from Hastings and Rye Bay finally managed to persuade her to come close enough to be rescued at 17:30 BST on Thursday.
Pepper was hoisted to the cliff top unhurt but thirsty and exhausted.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the maritime rescue co-ordination centre at Dover (MRCC) was alerted by Sussex Police when the dog fell off the cliff.
MRCC teams located her on a narrow ridge and spent four hours trying to persuade her to come to them but she refused.
They then approached from the other end of the ridge and tried to tempt her with dog treats and meat, but had to call off the rescue attempt in darkness at 23:00 BST.
It resumed on Thursday morning and it took all day before Pepper would move to a position where she could be rescued.
Her owner, from London, said: "I never thought that she would run through the gorse and no idea that there was a sheer cliff on the other side of it.
"I will never again walk Pepper off the lead near a cliff and would strongly advise other dog owners to learn from our experience." | A labradoodle called Pepper who fell over cliffs in East Sussex resisted rescue attempts by Coastguard teams for more than 26 hours. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | The Newport Gwent Dragons boss coached the 25-year-old as he made his way up through Ospreys' ranks.
Biggar's man-of-the-match display at Twickenham saw him kick 23 points, including a long-range winning penalty.
"If he carries on like this he's going to be the best ever number 10 Wales have ever had," said Jones.
To become accepted as the top fly-half in Welsh rugby history, fans would have to be persuaded Biggar will be able to overhaul legendary stand-offs Barry John, Phil Bennett, Jonathan Davies, Cliff Morgan and Dai Watkins.
John preceded Bennett in the position during a 1970s golden era in which Wales dominated the Five Nations Championship.
Both also starred as the British and Irish Lions won historic Test series - John with the 1971 Lions in New Zealand and Bennett as their pivot on their 'invincible' 1974 tour to South Africa.
John had himself succeeded dual-code legend Watkins while Morgan was similarly lauded during the 1950s.
Watkins and Morgan also played for the Lions, a feat Davies did not achieve as he moved to rugby league before their successful 1989 tour to Australia.
Biggar is likely to have Ireland's Johnny Sexton and England's Owen Farrell as rivals to tour New Zealand with the Lions in 2017.
Former Wales open-side flanker Jones said Biggar was "outstanding" throughout their dramatic win at Twickenham.
Biggar ended the game at full-back following a reshuffle forced by injuries that prompted Rhys Priestland's introduction at stand-off.
Jones added that Biggar provided "probably the best [Welsh] outside-half display we've seen for many a year".
And with regular goal-kicker Leigh Halfpenny absent after being ruled out by injury before the tournament, Jones says Biggar had the chance to underline his prowess.
"His goal-kicking for me is 10% better than Leigh Halfpenny's - that's only a statistic, they don't lie, unfortunately," said Jones.
"And there's been some discussion that 'we can't play without Leigh' because of his goal-kicking.
"Dan Biggar's a far better goal-kicker."
Wales face Fiji on Thursday hoping to take another step towards the World Cup quarter-finals after the wins over England and Uruguay.
Warren Gatland's side play their final Pool A match on Saturday, 10 October, against Australia at Twickenham. | Dan Biggar, the hero of Wales' stunning World Cup win over England, can become the nation's greatest fly-half, says Lyn Jones. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The 36-year-old woman was assaulted in a lane off Renfrew Street, near Charing Cross, between 04:00 and 04:30.
Police Scotland said there was no description of the attacker but officers were collecting CCTV footage.
Officers want to speak to a man who offered the victim water before police arrived, who may hold key information.
Forensic experts have been examining the scene of the attack for evidence that could identify the assailant.
Det Insp Graeme McLachlan said: "We are trying to establish the exact circumstances of what happened and piece together the information we currently have.
"I am appealing to anyone who was in the area who may have heard anything or who may have seen something.
"I am particularly keen to identify a man described as being in his 30s, with short brown hair, who went to the assistance of the woman providing her with water before police arrival. If this is you, or you know who it is, please make contact with police as soon as possible.
"I know the incident occurred in the early hours of this morning but there may have been passing motorists or people out and about in the area who may have seen something which seemed a little odd or suspicious to them.
"I would appeal to these people to please contact us and pass on any small piece of information. You may think it's not important but it could turn out to be that vital piece of information which leads us to the suspect."
In 1979, former Liberal party leader Thorpe was tried and acquitted of conspiring to murder his ex-lover Norman Scott.
Newspapers at the time described it as "the trial of the century".
A Very English Scandal is based on the bestselling book by author and former journalist John Preston.
Thorpe was the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy and incitement to murder.
In the mid-70s, stories circulated about Thorpe's relationship with a former male model, Norman Scott.
The relationship was alleged to have started in 1961, when male homosexual acts were illegal.
The story broke when Scott was appearing at a court in Barnstaple on a minor social security charge.
During the hearing, Scott shouted out, "I am being hounded because of my sexual relationship with Jeremy Thorpe."
Thorpe issued an immediate denial but when an affectionate letter between them appeared in the press, Thorpe resigned as leader.
But worse was to come when Thorpe was accused of plotting to kill Scott.
Thorpe was arrested, charged and later acquitted, but his career was in tatters.
Grant, star of films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill, recently collaborated with Frears in the critically-acclaimed Florence Foster Jenkins for which he earned Golden Globe, Bafta and Screen Actors Guild nominations.
Piers Wenger, controller of BBC Drama, said: "Hugh Grant is an extraordinary actor and a worldwide star. I'm delighted that he is joining the BBC One family and I can't wait to see how he applies his unique talent bringing to life this mercurial role."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Police are trying to trace a key witness who went to aid of a woman shortly after she was raped in Glasgow city centre early on Friday.
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Hugh Grant is to play disgraced MP Jeremy Thorpe in a three-part BBC TV drama written by Russell T Davies and directed by Stephen Frears. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | The 29-year-old joined the National League club as a free agent in September and signed a short-term deal in November, set to expire in January.
The ex-Plymouth and Crawley man, who previously made 38 appearances in all competitions for Leeds, has started 14 league games for Guiseley this term.
The Lions are 23rd in the table, four points below 20th-placed Maidstone.
Richard Alden, 53, from Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, was detained on Saturday when Grace Kinyanjui, 42, died after a gun she was holding apparently went off accidentally, according to his lawyer.
Mr Alden took Ms Kinyanjui to hospital but she was pronounced dead on arrival.
He is being held until Friday while police carry out a murder investigation.
His lawyer Evans Monari said: "From what I hear, she was taking pictures, 'selfies', with a gun and it went off."
He added the incident involved a pistol and that it went off while Ms Kinyanjui was at Mr Alden's house in the Karen district of Nairobi helping him move.
"Richard says he is not responsible," Mr Monari said. "The girl shot herself by accident."
Police launched a murder inquiry after doctors reportedly found Ms Kinyanjui had suffered stab wounds and a broken finger and thumb.
Police have alleged Mr Alden and Ms Kinyanjui, who ran a security firm, were in a relationship. Mr Alden lives in Nairobi with his wife Martine and has three adult children.
Mrs Alden, who was away at the weekend, flew in from London to attend the hearing.
In court, Mr Monari told the judge: "The respondent is very disturbed by what happened because the person who lost her life is a friend.
"She actually shot herself. There is no evidence to date that the accused played any part in what happened."
No charges have been filed in the case.
The results of a post-mortem examination and ballistic tests are expected to be announced in court on Friday.
There will be extra officers in the centre of Tenby at weekends, and on the trains coming into the town.
Arriva Trains Wales will also deploy extra security guards.
The idea of Operation Lion is to try to stop some anti-social behaviour before it even reaches Tenby.
It is in its fifth year, but has been getting bigger every time.
The town centre has been a "controlled drinking zone", where drinking on the streets is banned, since 2014.
Insp Aled Davies, of Dyfed-Powys Police, said: "The population of Tenby is normally around 5,000 to 6,000, but in the summer that can go to 60,000.
"Ninety-nine per cent of people who come to Tenby want to come down and enjoy the town as holidaymakers and as visitors, and all we ask is that people who come down here respect the town.
"In the past we have seen a minority of people come to Tenby to visit the pubs and clubs, who then cause trouble due to drinking too much alcohol.
"Behave yourselves, because we will take positive action."
Last year two British Transport Police officers were assaulted and Sgt Steve Dawkins, of the British Transport Police, said it had got out of hand.
"We want to get the message across to keep a clear head, and not let one moment of madness spoil the rest of your life," he said.
"People shouldn't be concerned to see additional police officers on patrol during July and August, which is traditionally an extremely busy time on the rail network.
"Our officers will be on hand to help make sure revellers not only reach the festivities, but also get home again safely." | Guiseley midfielder Simon Walton has signed a new contract until the end of the season.
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A businessman from south Wales has been arrested in Kenya after a woman died at his house from gunshot wounds.
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Police have launched their biggest operation to control anti-social behaviour in a Pembrokeshire town where the population can increase 10-fold over the summer. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Pets are living longer, thanks to better research and technology. That is good news if your furry friend is a member of the family but bad news if you have to end up paying thousands of pounds to keep your pet healthy.
For many owners, pet insurance is considered to be the answer and the industry is now worth around £700m.
But is pet insurance worth the premium, or does the cost outweigh the benefit?
Sylvia Brady's two dogs, Megan and Wilson, both needed eye operations last year. Ms Brady has a pet insurance policy and claimed with no real problem.
"Both dogs were insured from puppies," she says. "We've had them from when they were eight weeks old, they both needed eye surgery, something called cherry eye. The vet dealt with it very well and we were pleased with the outcome.
"However, at the end of the year when the renewal came up, the premiums had gone up by 40%.
"Because they are young dogs and obviously we want to keep them healthy we will keep insuring them."
Despite the higher premiums, she was happy with the treatment her dogs received and the way in which her claim was dealt with, but not everyone has had that kind of positive experience.
The latest figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service show there were 830 new complaints about pet insurers in 2012-13, an increase of 50% on the previous year.
However, only 32% of those complaints were upheld, a big change on the previous year when more than 50% were upheld.
Mark Effenberg, the chief executive of Healthy Pets Insurance, is not surprised by the figures.
"Pet insurance has been the fastest-growing sector for several years so the number of dogs and cats insured has definitely gone up," he says.
"About 18% of the UK pet population is now insured, therefore there will be complaints coming through."
There are two main types of pet insurance to choose from:
Rory Cusack is a vet and owner of Westside Veterinary Clinic in south-west London. He believes that pet owners need to get the right type of insurance from the start.
"Good quality means lifelong cover," he suggests. "Any of these policies that run year to year are hardly worth having, because you'll get an incident, there'll be an exclusion put on that for life and nobody else will touch it."
More and more of the pet owners he sees have pet insurance.
"I think it is on the increase," he says. "The awareness of vets' fees being potentially ruinous is encouraging people to take it up."
Of course, whatever policy pet owners decide to go for, it is always very important to read the small print and to be sure of what is in the policy.
"If your dog or cat has had a condition before they often won't pay out again or only up to a certain limit the first time," warns consumer journalist James Daley.
"They also won't pay if your dog gets sick from a condition which they could have been vaccinated against and then anything to do with pregnancy.
"So there are a lot of things in that small print and you really need to be careful when you are buying that policy to make sure you get one that's right for you."
He also warns that even when owners have made a successful claim, things can become more complicated.
An owner trying to switch their insurance to a new provider might find that they will not cover the condition that they have already claimed for, he says.
"So the only way that you can get cover for the old condition is staying with your insurer," he suggests.
The correct policy can depend on what type of animal is being insured and what particular breed it is. Price comparison websites are not always able to distinguish between the many different variables associated with pet insurance.
The advice from experts is that owners should talk to their vet about what policy is appropriate for their pet before shopping around. | Christmas is a popular time to buy children or loved ones a puppy or kitten, but with pets come trips to the vets - and their bills. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | In a regulatory filing, it said that the Securities and Exchange Commission had asked for documents in 2011.
Las Vegas Sands, controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, said it had now found there had been "likely violations" of the bribery law.
But it does not expect the revelations to hurt its bottom line.
The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act makes it a crime for US corporations and their subsidiaries to bribe foreign officials, and some other large US companies have found themselves on the wrong side of the law.
In April, Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, revealed it was investigating claims that its Mexican subsidiaries used bribes to secure permits to build new stores and said it was carrying out investigations in various other countries as well, including Brazil and China.
Las Vegas Sands said that the SEC requested documents in February 2011 relating to the anti-bribery law.
"The Audit Committee advised the company and its independent accountants that it had reached certain preliminary findings, including that there were likely violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA," it said.
But the casino operator added that these findings "do not have a material impact" and "do not warrant any restatement of the company's past financial statements".
Las Vegas Sands makes the bulk of its earnings in Macau, the world's biggest gambling market and the only Chinese territory where casinos are allowed, and Singapore.
Stephen Ward, 25, was found guilty of the 2014 manslaughter of his son Jordan by inflicting injuries at the family home in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Bristol Crown Court was told medical tests showed Jordan's injuries could not have been inflicted by accident.
Ward was said to have a history of losing his temper when Jordan cried.
The baby's mother, Paula Watts, told the court she once heard Ward slap Jordan when he was crying but he had told her he had just "tapped" their son.
Ms Watts said she confronted Ward about Jordan's injuries after the baby had been admitted to hospital.
She said: "I asked him to look me in the eyes and swear on my life that he hadn't done anything. He said he hadn't."
Det Ch Insp Steve Bean said Ward "denied any wrongdoing", claiming Jordan had "choked then lost consciousness whilst he was feeding him" and "even tried to suggest that his ex-partner Paula might have been responsible".
He said the tragedy of Jordan's death was "beyond description" and paid tribute to Ms Watts, adding Ward will "have to live with what he has done for the rest of his life".
Councillors backed a fresh consultation at an extraordinary meeting on Thursday.
The public will be able to have their say on the plans, which include changes to secondary schools in Fishguard and St Davids and the development of a new Welsh medium school, from 16 September.
The consultation will close on 28 October.
During that time, two public information sessions will take place - at Fishguard Town Hall on 24 September and Ysgol Dewi Sant, St Davids, on 29 September.
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Davoud Taghinejad, 58, who committed the crimes between 2011 and 2013, is being held in custody to await sentencing on Tuesday.
The assaults involved five girls who were aged between 13 and 17 at the time.
A jury of seven - three women and four men - delivered its verdict at Douglas Court House.
Deemster Alastair Montgomerie said Taghinejad was facing a "substantial" prison sentence.
He added: "It has taken a great deal of courage for the victims in this case to come forward and give evidence.
"They are all young girls and they should be proud of the dignity with which they have conducted themselves during these proceedings. I hope now they can move on with their lives."
During the two-week trial the jury heard evidence from the girls, some by a live video-link-up.
They told how Taghinejad introduced "games" into their maths lessons.
These games involved the children holding their breath while Taghinejad felt for their heartbeat - and indecently assaulted them.
One girl described how this "game" later progressed into rape.
Taghinejad taught at North Trafford College in Greater Manchester for 10 years before moving to the Isle of Man in 2009. | Casino operator Las Vegas Sands has said that it probably violated a US law that prohibits bribing foreign officials.
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A father who killed his nine-month-old son by violently shaking him and causing "catastrophic injuries" has been jailed for eight years.
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A maths teacher from the Isle of Man has been found guilty of rape and 10 counts of indecent assault. |
Summarize the information given below. | Gilroy has been out of action since fracturing an eye socket against Toulouse on 20 December but may be in contention for a return this weekend.
Cave has been missing for over a month after sustaining a shoulder injury against Edinburgh.
Stuart Olding and Jared Payne are likely to remain out for a few weeks.
Centre Olding has not played this season after sustaining a second cruciate ligament injury in three years back in March.
Payne has been out since fracturing a foot in Ireland's second World Cup pool match against Romania in late September.
Ulster assistant coach Neil Doak said on Tuesday that the Irish province had been hopeful Olding and Payne might be available for the European games against Oyonnax (twice) and Saracens over the next three weekends.
"But it has probably fallen on the wrong side for us as far as Stuart and Jared and concerned," Doak told BBC Sport Northern Ireland ahead of Sunday's game in France.
The game was originally scheduled to be played in November but was postponed following the Paris attacks, which left 130 people dead.
In Ireland World Cup centre Cave's absence, Luke Marshall has formed a highly effective midfield partnership with Stuart McCloskey and those two players may now be in Joe Schmidt's Six Nations thoughts.
Doak has been impressed with the recent displays of the two Ulster centres and they again looked dangerous last weekend even though the northern province were narrowly beaten in Belfast by their Irish rivals Munster.
"It's a physical, confrontational area and they are fronting up really well for us.
"Their displays have been a little bit of a catalyst for us."
Such is the attritional nature of the modern game, Doak acknowledges that either Marshall and McCloskey will probably need to be rested in the coming weeks.
"You can't keep rolling out guys every week and at some stage we are going to have to look at some rotation.
"We may have a few changes this weekend. This is a rearranged European game so it has put a little bit of a spanner in the works."
After a disappointing opening European defeat by Saracens, impressive back-to-back wins over Toulouse have put Ulster back in contention for a place in the knockout stages but they may need three closing victories to secure their last-eight berth. | Craig Gilroy and Darren Cave could bolster Ulster's options for Sunday's rearranged European Champions Cup game against Oyonnax in France. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | The ex-Liverpool and Manchester City forward, 26, posted on social media: "Is it normal that Bastia supporters make monkey noises for the whole game and nobody from the 'discipline commission' says anything?
"So is racism legal in France? Or only in Bastia? Football is an amazing sport, but people like Bastia supporters make it horrible. Truly a disgrace."
Balotelli played 90 minutes as he returned from suspension in the 1-1 draw in Corsica.
The Italian's Instagram message was shared by Nice on the club's Twitter account. The French league's disciplinary panel, which rules on such matters, is yet to comment.
Nice returned to the top of the French top-flight table with the draw, although Monaco can move above them with a point against 19th-placed Lorient on Sunday (14:00 GMT).
Balotelli has scored 10 goals in 15 games for Nice since joining on a free transfer from Liverpool in August, two years after a £16m move to Anfield.
The opposition Civic Platform (PO) has accused the Law and Justice Party (PiS) of trying to stack the constitutional tribunal with sympathetic judges.
It also says the PiS manipulates TV coverage.
The European Commission (EC) has asked the Polish government for changes.
Demonstrators, many from other parts of the country, waved Polish and European Union (EU) flags and sang the national anthem as they gathered in Warsaw's Bank Square.
"We are for a democratic Poland, for a European Poland, for a Poland that is proud, that seeks friends and partners, not enemies in Europe as it is today," PO leader Grzegorz Schetyna, told protesters waving Polish and European Union flags.
However PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski denied freedom was at risk in Poland.
"Today we do have freedom and by taking part in this march and claiming that today freedom is at stake, as a matter of fact, you are marching in the name of the opposite," he said during a visit to the city of Szczecin.
The EC is due to present its report on the situation in Poland later this month.
It wants the Polish government to reverse curbs on the constitutional tribunal, which it said endangered the rule of law.
It has also said new government powers to appoint the heads of public TV and radio may jeopardise EU values.
However, BBC correspondents say there is little support in the bloc for punitive measures against Poland.
PiS officials, meanwhile, have denied Civic Platform accusations that they want to take Poland out of the EU.
In March divisions between the Polish government and the EU deepened over the EU's re-election of former Polish prime minister and Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk as EC president.
Mr Kaczynski holds Mr Tusk "politically" responsible for the 2010 plane crash in Russia which killed his twin Lech Kaczynski, then Poland's president, and all other 95 people on board.
Many Poles believe Mr Tusk's government did not do enough to explain the causes of the crash, which took place in dense fog.
Poland is due to hold municipal elections next year. Recent polls showing the PO ahead of the PiS for the first time since 2015.
Two crews are attending the blaze at Glenloughan Road.
A spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said the fire was not threatening homes or property in the area. | Nice striker Mario Balotelli says he was the victim of racist abuse during Friday's Ligue 1 match at Bastia.
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Thousands of Polish opposition supporters have been marching in Warsaw to protest against what they see as curbs on democracy imposed by the governing party.
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Firefighters are dealing with a large gorse fire in hills near Kilkeel, County Down. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | Former Australia Test opener Rogers only retired as a player in September after bringing his 18-year first-class career to an end at Taunton.
The 39-year-old will join up with Somerset on 1 March and will be at the club until 30 June.
"Chris made a massive impact," director of cricket Matt Maynard said.
"He was a huge part of what we achieved in the summer and was by far the outstanding candidate for the position."
Rogers' final season saw Somerset's bid for a first County Championship title go down to the final game, although they were eventually pipped by Middlesex by four points.
With Sri Lanka resuming on day four at 130-4, chasing a theoretical 507 to win, paceman Rabada took 6-55 as the tourists were dismissed for 224.
Sri Lanka lost their final six wickets for 80 runs with Vernon Philander (3-48) claiming the match-winning wicket.
The win gives the hosts an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
After centuries from Dean Elgar (129) and Quinton de Kock (101) had helped the Proteas amass 392 in their first innings, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 110 on day two.
South Africa then declared at 224-7 before tea on day three at Newlands, leaving themselves more than seven sessions to bowl Sri Lanka out.
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The tourists had reached 144-4 in their second innings but when 21-year-old Rabada removed wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal (30) and captain Angelo Mathews (49), victory soon followed.
It is South Africa's third straight Test series win since losing their number one ranking at the start of 2016.
However, it was the final appearance for pace bowler Kyle Abbott, who is turning his back on international cricket to join English county side Hampshire on a long-term deal as a Kolpak player, as is batsman Rilee Rossouw who was in the Test squad but not the final XI.
They follow several other Proteas players who have signed for county sides under the Kolpak ruling, which allows players from countries with associate trade agreements with the European Union to feature as non-overseas players.
The third and final Test starts on 12 January in Johannesburg.
It means the 21-year-old will not play for the Cranes in Saturday's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Botswana.
"Decision time [for Lorenzen] will be after the match against Botswana," Uganda FA communications manager Ahmed Hussein said.
He impressed for Uganda in a friendly 2-0 loss to Zimbabwe on Tuesday.
Lorenzen was born in London and qualifies to play for Uganda through his father, he also has German citizenship thanks to his mother.
Uganda coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic praised the contribution Lorenzen had made during his time with the squad.
"We shall definitely miss the extra impetus he would have brought to the team as we saw in the friendly match against Zimbabwe," the coach said.
"So for now we shall concentrate on the able players we have in the team to accomplish our mission."
The coach will be worried about the fitness of striker Faruku Miya, who plays in Belgium for Standard Leige, after he missed the loss to Zimbabwe with concussion.
The Cranes will also be without US-based midfielder Mike Azira, who has chosen not to join the squad citing fatigue after a busy MLS season with Colorado Rapids.
Moses Oloya also misses out having stayed in Vietnam in order to recover from injury.
Uganda are level on seven points with Burkina Faso in Group D, but the Cranes are second on the table because the Stallions have the better head-to-head record between two. | Somerset have appointed former captain Chris Rogers in a batting coach and player mentoring role, on a four-month contract subject to a visa application.
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Kagiso Rabada claimed match figures of 10-92 as South Africa sealed a series victory over Sri Lanka with a 282-run win in the second Test in Cape Town.
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Werder Bremen striker Melvyn Lorenzen says he is still considering whether to commit his international future to Uganda. |
Summarize the provided section. | Katherine Latham, 63, of Downham Market, Norfolk had been told there was a significant threat of choking.
The 93-year-old resident at Amberley Hall Care Home in King's Lynn later died, Norwich Crown Court heard.
Latham, from Railway Road, was jailed for 10 months for the ill-treatment and neglect of the woman, in October, having earlier denied the charges.
As result of her treatment at the home the elderly woman, who was not named in court, had problems breathing and was admitted to hospital where she died.
Although the patient should have been fed with a spoon the cause of death was not due to Latham's actions, the court heard.
Latham was reported and convicted for the offences of ill-treatment and neglect under mental health laws.
A spokesperson for Amberley Hall said: "As a conscientious care provider, we took immediate and appropriate action once alerted to the situation which occurred, and fully cooperated with all investigations by the police and other parties." | A care worker has been jailed for abusing a dementia patient who she fed with a syringe causing her to choke. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The Category B listed Poosie Nansie's Inn in the East Ayrshire town of Mauchline was a favourite haunt of the ploughman-poet.
Scotland's national poet lived and worked in Mauchline between 1784 and 1788.
The house he shared with Jean Armour is now a museum in nearby Castle Street.
Twenty-five firefighters from Mauchline, Kilmarnock and Cumnock attended Poosie Nansie's shortly after noon on Sunday.
They were supported by a Heavy Rescue Vehicle from Easterhouse and a Major Incident Unit from Clydebank. No-one was injured.
Firefighters were "shoring" up the damaged end of the building to secure it, in order to prevent any further collapse. The area was cordoned off.
Mossgiel Farm in Mauchline was home to Burns when he was ploughman-poet and wrote many of his best loved works. | Firefighters have been working to secure a historic building with links to Robert Burns after a partial wall collapse. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Tomkins, 23, will remain at the Red Devils for the 2016 season, after loan spells in 2014 and 2015.
He made 15 appearances last term, having also played 38 career games for the Warriors following his 2012 debut.
"Delighted that Logan Tomkins is now a Salford Red Devil. Great addition to the team," owner Dr Marwan Koukash tweeted about the signing.
Bann coasted to a 6-0 win over bottom side Instonians on Saturday, while 'Garvey came from 4-2 behind to beat Pembroke Wanderers 5-4.
Cork C of I and Three Rock Rovers also recorded victories so only two points separate the top four teams.
In the women's IHL, UCD went top of the table by beating Railway Union 2-1.
UCD took advantage of the game between Pegasus and Hermes-Monkstown being postponed to move to the top of the standings.
At the bottom, Belfast Harlequins edged Ulster Elks 3-2 to gain three vital points in the battle to avoid relegation.
The international class in the Banbridge team proved the difference in the game at Shaw's Bridge as Instonians remain rooted to the foot of the table and still in search of their first win of the season.
Johnny McKee's fine solo dribble into the circle and reverse stick finish opened the scoring and he went on to complete a hat-trick with Bruce McCandless chipping in with two goals and in the closing stages Eugene Magee popped in a penalty corner.
Instonians will hope for better in their rearranged Irish Cup quarter-final against Monkstown on Sunday, also at Shaw's Bridge.
Lisnagarvey kept pace with Bann at the top of the table, albeit having played a game more, after a thrilling 5-4 home win over Pembroke Wanderers.
A hat-trick from Irish international Alan Sothern had Pembroke 4-2 up in the third quarter but Garvey came from behind with their goals coming from Matty Nelson, who got two, James Lorimer, Timmy Cockram and Paul Gleghorne who potted the winner inside the last minute.
Cork C of I remain a point behind the two Ulster clubs in third place after a 3-1 win at UCD while Three Rock Rovers beat Glenanne by the same scoreline to remain in fourth but just two points off the lead.
In the women's IHL leaders going into the afternoon Hermes-Monkstown had their game against Pegasus postponed giving the Belfast side a chance to rest up before they face Cork Harlequins at the Dub on Sunday in their Irish Cup semi-final.
UCD took full advantage to move into first place with a 2-1 home win over Railway Union and Cork Harlequins cemented their third place with a 3-0 success against Pembroke.
The big game at the bottom was at Deramore where Belfast Harlequins beat Ulster Elks 3-2 to move above Pembroke and into eighth place. Ruth Miller gave the home side the lead only for Emily O'Leary to equalise in the third quarter.
Amy Geddes then scored with eight minutes to go and the points were secured when Rachel Johnson deflected in a Gemma Frazer penalty corner. Annabel Hamilton's strike for the Elks, who remain bottom a point adrift of Pembroke, was merely a consolation.
In Saturday afternoon's other game Ards lost 2-1 at home to Loreto with Lucy McKee the scorer for the County Down side.
It will be the second pink-ball Test at the venue, following last November's game between Australia and New Zealand.
The South Africa players reportedly had concerns over the ball's visibility after hearing feedback from Australia players who featured in that match.
Australia will also play a day-night Test against Pakistan at the Gabba in Brisbane starting on 15 December.
New Zealand hope to play a day-night Test as part of England's tour in early 2018. | Salford Red Devils have signed hooker Logan Tomkins on a permanent basis from Wigan Warriors.
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Banbridge and Lisnagarvey continue to set the pace at the top of the men's Irish Hockey League after both sides won their games in contrasting fashion.
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South Africa have agreed to play Australia in a day-night Test at the Adelaide Oval in November. |
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The Rams were top of the Championship on Boxing Day, but are now seven points behind leaders Hull City and are without a league win in five matches.
Clement, whose side host Preston on Tuesday, told BBC East Midlands Today: "It's a massive month for us. We've got to have a really good, strong month.
"We are glad to see the back of January with performances and results."
Since their Boxing Day win over Fulham, Derby have lost to Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Burnley, while drawing with Leeds and Reading.
The Rams also bowed out of the FA Cup with a fourth-round defeat at Manchester United last Friday.
"We are going to try and be robust defensively," continued Clement.
"We have lost our way with our defending as a team recently. We've conceded a lot of goals.
"That wasn't a characteristic of our team in the early months and that's something we will have to get right."
The software is widely used to write programs that run in web browsers. But Oracle said modern browsers were increasingly incompatible with it.
Oracle said it would begin winding the plug-in down with the release of its latest development kit software but its demise would not be immediate.
Java has been criticised by many online security experts, who have said it is vulnerable to hackers.
"By late 2015, many browser vendors have either removed or announced timelines for the removal of standards based plug-in support, eliminating the ability to embed Flash, Silverlight, Java and other plug-in based technologies," Oracle said, announcing the decision on Wednesday.
"With modern browser vendors working to restrict and reduce plug-in support in their products, developers of applications that rely on the Java browser plug-in need to consider alternative options such as migrating from Java Applets (which rely on a browser plug-in) to the plug-in free Java Web Start technology."
"Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plug-in" in the next release of its Java Development Kit, JDK 9, it said. The technology would be removed from future software releases, it added.
"By 'deprecate', Oracle doesn't mean that the Java plug-in will be killed stone dead. Instead they will increasingly hide it, and not encourage users to install it. In due course, the software will be entirely removed," said the security consultant Graham Cluley.
In a blog post for online security company Tripwire, Mr Cluley said: "Of course, Oracle isn't dropping support for Java entirely - but with the demise of the unpopular web browser plug-in, it hopes users will be happy to switch over to its replacement."
He said that, while the number of reported problems had fallen in recent years, Java remained notorious for its vulnerabilities.
"Many users have found it hard to muster... love for the technology," he said.
"And yet, the Java browser plug-in has plodded on, shrugging off the brickbats and abuse, and doggedly providing support for the odd, ageing website and bespoke applications relied upon by corporations."
Mr Cluley said browser manufacturers were making the Java plug-in irrelevant.
He added: "Oracle isn't the only company having to recognise that the world is changing. Adobe, developers of the often-attacked Flash plug-in, recently made clear that it was moving away from the platform to an HTML5-based future."
The 21-year-old died in hospital after he was found in the road in Gilpin Close, Southampton in the early hours of Saturday.
Hampshire Constabulary said his death was being treated as suspicious and investigations into the circumstances are continuing.
The force said Mr Dauti, was better known as Genny, and was originally from Albania.
Detectives have urged anyone who knew or worked with him or knew his movements leading up the early hours of Saturday, to get in touch.
Det Chf Insp Ellie Hurd said: "It remains unclear at the current time as to how he came to be injured.
"We want to hear from anyone who can help us build a better understanding about Genny's life in Southampton."
No arrests have been made and a cordon remains in place in Gilpin Close, police said. | Derby County head coach Paul Clement says February is a crucial month for his promotion-chasing side.
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The technology company Oracle is retiring its Java browser plug-in.
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A man who died after suffering a chest wound has been named as Shkelzen Dauti. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | North Somerset is one of only six areas identified by one think tank recently as likely to benefit from selection.
But, in the letter, the heads of nine local comprehensives said selection would be a "retrograde step" which would "undermine" progress.
Downing Street said ministers would respond to the letter "in due course".
And a Department for Education spokeswoman said all children should have access to an education able to "unlock their talents".
Last month's report by the Education Policy Institute said there were six areas in England where parents would like new grammar schools and where creating them would benefit the wider school population.
The researchers modelled the impact of the government's plans and applied the conditions for allowing new schools as set out in the consultation document, Schools that Work for Everyone.
These included that new grammars should not be to the detriment of pupils who do not pass entrance tests, should not undermine existing high-performing schools and should be allowed only in areas where parents want them.
The six areas that met the criteria were Solihull, Essex, North Yorkshire, Dorset, Northamptonshire and North Somerset, according to EPI.
At the time, the government called the study "a crude attempt to second-guess" the results of its consultation on new schools.
Now the heads of nine secondary schools in North Somerset say they fear the introduction of selection would "undermine the rapid progress that we have been making for the young people in our communities".
They say they fear the effect of selective education "on thriving and popular community schools".
They add: "No-one could object to the concept of grammar schools in isolation but they do not exist in isolation.
"Where grammars are created other schools become secondary moderns.
""This is the very definition of a zero-sum game.
"A child can only receive his or her education in one school.
"In most cases, teachers only work in one institution."
The heads say they fear that new secondary moderns would be less attractive places to work.
And they say this, in the light of the current teacher recruitment "crisis", would "have a disproportionately negative effect on the most vulnerable who are being served increasingly well in the comprehensive system that exists currently."
The heads argue that the best way to drive social mobility is to ensure that all children have the opportunity to attend a good or outstanding local comprehensive.
"The transformation of thriving local comprehensives into secondary moderns will be unpopular with parents, with teachers, and will provide a poorer experience for the great majority of young people," the letter argues.
Gary Lewis, head teacher of Gordano School in Portishead and a signatory to the letter said North Somerset comprehensives were thriving.
He pointed out that of 11 comprehensives in the area, 10 were rated good or outstanding by Ofsted.
"Even with increasingly rigorous exams, their outcomes are increasing year on year," he argued.
Details of the letter emerged as the boss of England's biggest academy chain told the Times Educational Supplement that he would consider selection based on ability in his schools.
"I think that as we look at each of those schools in the particular markets and catchment areas in which they exist, there might be arguments for selection in certain places," Julian Drinkall, chief executive of the Academies Enterprise Trust, told the TES.
"I think there will be arguments where grammar schools in certain areas make sense and there will be a number of areas where it doesn't make sense."
The AET multi-academy trust currently runs 66 primary, special and secondary academies.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said: "The government consultation puts forward proposals to allow more grammar school places to be created, making them a realistic choice for more parents, but only on the basis that strict conditions are met to ensure this also contributes to the improvement of other parts of the school system." | Secondary head teachers in North Somerset have written to Prime Minister Theresa May, urging her to reconsider proposals for new grammar schools. |
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I went in to it with a do-or-die mentality
Roared on by a sell-out crowd of 17,500, the 18-year-old delivered six dives of consistent excellence.
China's Qiu Bo, the world champion and firm favourite coming into the final, had to settle for silver.
"The main aim here was to get a medal," said Daley. "Olympic bronze medal - I can't believe it!"
Bo settling for silver seemed unlikely on Friday evening when he dominated the qualifying session, with Daley down in 15th.
But Daley gave a glimpse of his fine form this season in Saturday morning's semi-final, only to save the very best until it really mattered.
"Boudia was a class act. A masterclass. But well done Tom Daley. Under all that pressure and expectation, he delivered six out of six dives. I do not have the words to express how proud I am. What an achievement."
The British star took a tiny lead into the last round of dives, but needed to be perfect as his closest rivals were both trying more technically difficult dives.
The Plymouth-born teenager nearly managed it, but his score of 90.75 left him vulnerable to Boudia and Bo diving after him.
Boudia rose to the challenge, nailing his effort to score 102.60, 1.80 points better than Qiu's effort, which proved to be the winning margin for the American.
Daley's total was 9.90 points lower than Qiu's, but there was no sense of disappointment from the Brit or his entourage.
Whilst Boudia celebrated with his coach and team-mate Nicholas McCrory, Daley's friends and family threw him into the pool and jumped in afterwards to celebrate a famous medal.
"To be honest, I was very nervous. I went in to it with a do-or-die mentality," said Daley.
"I put everything into it. I was in first place going into the last round, but didn't have the degree of difficulty I needed [to hold on for gold]."
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It could have all been so very different for Daley who, amid considerable confusion in the packed Aquatics Centre, told his coach Andy Banks that he had been put off by flashes from cameras in the crowd during his first dive.
After a brief discussion, the judges granted Daley a re-dive and he grabbed his second chance to score 91.80 points, 16.20 more than his first effort.
Daley finished over 29 points ahead of fourth-placed diver Victor Minibaev, meaning he would have won bronze regardless of the re-dive.
"The retaken dive is one downside to having a home crowd," he said.
A bronze medal - only the seventh medal Britain has ever won in Olympic diving - more than makes up for the disappointment of finishing fourth in the 10m synchronised event with Peter Waterfield last week.
It is also an indication of what Daley can still achieve in the sport and a fitting tribute to his beloved father, who died of cancer last year. | Tom Daley won diving bronze for Great Britain with a nerveless display in the men's 10m platform, as USA's David Boudia took gold. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | George Osborne is not just standing up to make a few tweaks to public spending here and there, not just to make a political statement, but to set out the size and shape of the state for the next five years, in a time when money is tight and he has little room for manoeuvre.
The government wants to show the country it has a clear mission, and a determination to balance the books in an effective and coherent way.
That means making choices and deciding priorities.
Ministers in the majority Conservative government believe their ability to set priorities ought to be both a strength and an opportunity.
This won't be a Spending Review, they say, that displays an attitude of cutting a little bit here and there, moving money around the balance sheet to try to smooth out the pain.
Instead they see it as a programme of strategic cuts that, while difficult, add up to something: a country where work is rewarded, where anyone who wants to get on is helped to do so, and where the state has a careful approach to spending taxpayers' money, using it judiciously where it helps and not being afraid to scrape it back where it does not.
But choosing priorities - not just protecting but substantially increasing spending on areas like health, significant new spending on house building including billions going directly to house builders to encourage them to get spades into the ground, and retaining what many see as generous welfare payments to the older generations - inevitably means others will lose out.
No minister would argue that doesn't cause political pain.
This spending review will mean, for example, some police officers disappearing from forces around the country, some families taking hits to their incomes through changes to welfare, or some grants to business being cut back.
Each cut will be analysed in public, just as it has in recent weeks been argued over in private.
And with each saving comes a political risk.
As the chancellor knows from bitter experience, the details in statements like these can blow up unpredictably into political problems.
Rebels to the government's planned cuts to tax credits are hopeful of pretty substantial changes. Speculation in Westminster suggests pulling back cuts of more than £1,000 a year to some families' incomes to £300 or £400.
The actual details are being kept tightly under wraps.
But be in no doubt, the decisions the chancellor has made in recent weeks will be felt around the country.
He faces an economic test of trying to stick to his own rules on spending - not just getting the books back into balance but into surplus by the end of the Parliament.
It is a political test too.
Ministers have consistently expressed their desire to make the Conservatives the party of the centre ground, standing up for the so-called "strivers", making their party the natural home for the mythical swing voters of Middle England.
But the pressure is on to make a programme of cuts meet that goal.
The Spending Review is a hefty challenge for the new Opposition too.
Labour has an opportunity to show they are capable not just of agreeing positions among themselves in order to make an articulate case, but also that they are up to the job of providing proper scrutiny of the government's biggest decisions.
After a very shaky few weeks for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour, it is not certain they'll be able to do that.
Labour, the SNP and the Lib Dems face a government fresh from an election victory that believes - especially on the economy - that it has a mandate to act. | It's a big day for the government, a big day for the chancellor and - while not every day in Westminster feels like it - it's a big day for the country. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Head coach Wayne Pivac had worried Williams might miss the rest of the regular Pro12 season.
They host Glasgow on 15 April and meet Newport Gwent Dragons on the 30 April Judgement Day at Principality Stadium when Cardiff Blues also face Ospreys.
"We'd like to think he'll be back for the Dragons, if not Glasgow," said Pivac.
Williams missed the 25-16 win over Ospreys after suffering a hamstring strain in Wales's Six Nations win over Italy.
Pivac has hardly seen Liam Williams in a regional jersey this season.
He played the first hour of January's Pro12 match in Connacht after returning from the ankle injury he aggravated during the 2015 World Cup, but then returned to Wales duties.
"Sixty minutes, that's all we've had, it's very disappointing but there's no-one more disappointed than Liam," admitted Pivac.
"We've got to get him right for the latter part of the round-robin and who knows, with any luck there could be more rugby to come."
The Scarlets are well placed to feature in the semi-finals of the Pro12 on the third weekend in May after beating the Ospreys.
Replacement fly-half Aled Thomas profited from their forward dominance by kicking four late penalties to seal the win.
Meanwhile centre Scott Williams, another World Cup casualty with a knee injury, is scheduled to return for the region at the Principality Stadium on "Judgement Day".
"He'll be available for the Dragons (match), and we're working out whether we play him the week before at a lower level," added Pivac.
The New Zealander praised his pack after the win over Ospreys, which saw the Scarlets cement their place in the top three of the Pro12.
"Our scrum got on top as the game wore on and won some penalties which gave us field position and kicking some points from those penalties as well - which was ultimately the difference between the two teams," he said.
"We'll celebrate this one but there's another big one in seven days time against Cardiff Blues." | Scarlets are hopeful Liam Williams' hamstring injury will not keep him out as long as feared. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | A man and woman died and five others were injured in the blaze at a house in Withington, Manchester, on 10 February.
More than 3,000 people have signed a petition to try to keep Robert Chilowa, who is from Zimbabwe, in the country.
The Home Office said Mr Chilowa does not need the UK's protection and can return to Zimbabwe safely.
"I came here for political asylum. [Life] was very difficult.
"I left my son and my daughter and my family," said Mr Chilowa, who has been in the UK since 2001.
"There isn't any change [in Zimbabwe] at all...There are still sanctions"
The 46-year-old received a letter from immigration officials on Wednesday telling him he must leave his home in 12 days and is not entitled to claim any benefits.
He has appealed against the decision. "It broke my heart," he said.
A date for deportation is yet to be set, he said.
Mr Chilowa said he helped the children escape from a window of the burning house because "human life matters".
"I was sleeping... and I heard this scream and it was so distressing. A cry for help. I just jumped off my bed and sprung to action.
"When I got there I saw this young girl lying on the floor and she pointed to the window and said 'please save my brother and my sister'.
"You can imagine the heat and it was so so bad, so all I did was I saved them."
Mr Chilowa was taken to hospital for smoke inhalation following the fire and said he has since been for counselling.
"The nightmares will always be there. That voice.
"I didn't know them, but when I heard that cry it touched my heart."
The petition asks Home Secretary Amber Rudd to "consider her decision" and encourages people to sign to "save this gentle giant".
Petitioner Ananias Chakwizira wrote: "This act of bravery is good character especially in today's world whereby he could have chosen to be a bystander and take pictures from afar.
"Robert did not commit any crime but saved lives and deserves recognition." | A man who was hailed a hero for helping save the lives of two children in a fatal house fire is facing deportation. |
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Australia's Robertson started with 74, but O'Sullivan made 63 and 51 as the pair shared the first six frames.
Neither player were at their best but Englishman O'Sullivan won the seventh, and a fluked red helped him take the next, before winning with a 68 break.
O'Sullivan will now play Marco Fu, who beat Mark Allen 6-2.
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Fu made the highest break of the tournament - a 140 in the eighth frame - and followed it up with a 65 to advance to Saturday's semi.
The 2010 runner-up had started with breaks of 83 and 74 as he took a 3-0 lead, before Allen's 70 and 54 closed the deficit, but Fu kept his cool by winning three-in-a-row.
Meanwhile, 'The Rocket' is bidding for a record seventh Masters title and aiming to retain the trophy after last year's 10-1 thrashing of Barry Hawkins.
Now 41, O'Sullivan last won an event at the 2016 Welsh Open in February and has lost in three finals of events since.
In a disjointed match against Robertson - which featured a highest break of 74 in the opening frame - he made uncharacteristic errors by missing straightforward pots, but still managed to battle through.
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"I can feel and sense that I am missing too many easy balls now. I need to cut them out," he told BBC Sport.
"I am going to keep dragging my career out as long as I can, that is all you can do.
"It is nice to know if your game is coming back or not. I don't want to be at the point where I am being delusional and carry on playing for 10 years thinking I am good but I am not.
"Hopefully I have three years left in my career but I am appreciative that I am still playing."
1997 world champion Ken Doherty on BBC TV:
"A fascinating and intriguing encounter. It was not the best standard but it was engrossing.
"Both players were missing and you saw how much it meant to them. It was enjoyable in a strange way."
Sign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app. | Defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Neil Robertson 6-3 to reach the semi-finals of the Masters at Alexandra Palace in London. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | The police were alerted to the house when neighbours complained of thick smoke coming out of one of its windows on the evening of 10 June. When they entered the place, they found the charred body of the man's 77-year-old father who had allegedly set himself on fire.
The grisly case has gripped public imagination.
Armed with mobile phone cameras, people have been flocking to take selfies and photographs of 31 Robinson Street in central Kolkata (Calcutta), which has been dubbed "horror house" and "Hitchcock house" by local media. | A house in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) has turned into a macabre local attraction after police found a man believed to have mental health problems living there with the corpses of his sister and two pet dogs. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | Strauss plays at number eight as Ryan Wilson moves to blind-side flanker.
Jones replaces Mark Bennett, having recovered from the foot injury that ruled him out of the final autumn Test against Georgia in November.
Brown's inclusion means a place on the bench for Edinburgh's Ross Ford.
Edinburgh prop Simon Berghan is the only uncapped player in the squad.
In front of Strauss and Wilson, Hamish Watson holds down the openside role he occupied throughout the autumn Tests, and brothers Jonny and Richie Gray are paired once again in the Scotland second row.
Props Allan Dell and Zander Fagerson, with only seven caps between them, are either side of Brown in the front row.
Jones became the first Scot to score two tries against Australia, when he made his first start for Scotland at Murrayfield in November, but he was injured against Argentina a week later.
He and Alex Dunbar combine again in midfield, and Cotter has opted for a familiar set of backs as Greig Laidlaw, Finn Russell play at nine and 10 respectively, and full-back Stuart Hogg and wingers Sean Maitland and Tommy Seymour form the back three.
Head coach Cotter welcomed having the enthusiasm of an uncapped player and "some reasonably new players" in the squad.
"We've been growing our depth and our versatility within that, so we have a number of different options that allow us to continually attack the opposition, which is our main focus," said the New Zealander ahead of his final Six Nations in charge of Scotland.
"Facing Ireland first up doesn't get much harder.
"They are at the top of their game and will come here with confidence after beating some of the best teams in the world, including the All Blacks and Wallabies and having won the tournament twice in the past three years."
BBC Scotland's Tom English
John Barclay's omission for Josh Strauss is the main talking point in this Scotland team. The Scarlets back-row has started nine of the last 10 Tests while Strauss has been a bit of a peripheral figure this past year. Strauss is in on the back of some powerful stuff for Glasgow in Europe. The need for ball carriers is massive in this match and Strauss, at his best, is better at that side of the game than Barclay, who can count himself unlucky.
Fraser Brown makes it ahead of Ross Ford. Brown has been superb of late. He's another ball-carrier - a stratospheric 14 carries in Glasgow's rout of Leicester - and offers more than the centurion Ford.
Huw Jones is in despite not having played since November. Cotter is hoping his game-breaking class will not be lessened by a lack of match sharpness.
Ireland's team is formidable, despite Johnny Sexton not being in it. It's an illustration of their depth that Donnacha Ryan, a standout in the second-row in the victory over New Zealand, can't now get into the 23. Jared Payne and Jordi Murphy, two more heroes from that historic victory, are long-term injuries, but Ireland are still loaded with class, power and experience.
Scotland team to face Ireland: Stuart Hogg, Sean Maitland, Huw Jones, Alex Dunbar, Tommy Seymour, Finn Russell, Greig Laidlaw (capt), Allan Dell, Fraser Brown, Zander Fagerson, Richie Gray, Jonny Gray, Ryan Wilson, Hamish Watson, Josh Strauss.
Replacements: Ross Ford, Gordon Reid, Simon Berghan, Tim Swinson, John Barclay, Ali Price, Duncan Weir, Mark Bennett. | Josh Strauss, Glasgow team-mate Fraser Brown and Stormers centre Huw Jones come in to Vern Cotter's Scotland starting XV for the Six Nations opener at home against Ireland on Saturday. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The accident happened in Waterside Street at about 11:30.
Police said they believed the unoccupied HGV rolled down the street and struck a car, which then hit the man and trapped him.
Fire service personnel managed to free him, but he died at the scene. Police Scotland appealed for witnesses.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been informed and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal. | A male pedestrian aged 86 has died following a crash in Largs, which police believe was caused by a runaway lorry. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The 27 governments - collectively called the Council - wanted to limit the pay rise to 1.85% because of tough economic conditions in Europe.
The European Court of Justice says the Council "exceeded its powers" when it decided on the 1.85% figure.
The court case, affecting about 45,000 EU staff, began in January.
"The articles of the [Council] regulation that fix new amounts for salaries are annulled," the court ruling said on Wednesday.
Under the rules, staff salary adjustments take effect on 1 July, so the pay increase will have to be backdated. The move will still require a new Council regulation in line with the court ruling.
The green light for the higher EU pay rise comes as national civil services are shedding jobs and freezing or cutting staff pay.
The pay settlement for 2009-2010 was based on 2008 figures, reflecting economic conditions that were much better at the time.
A complicated formula is used, based on civil service pay in eight of the EU's richer countries and on the cost of living in Brussels. The eight reference countries account for 76% of the EU's total GDP.
The judges, who are also on the EU payroll, said the Council's only legal option to adjust EU salaries because of an economic downturn was under an exceptional clause in the regulations - but the Council had not taken that route. The Commission would have had to agree to such a move anyway.
The Commission - the EU's executive arm - drafts laws and acts as guardian of the treaties.
The court, whose rulings are binding on member states, sits in Luxembourg.
Basic gross monthly salaries for Commission staff currently range from about 2,600 euros (£2,211) for a secretary to about 18,000 euros (£15,300) for a head of department, and about 20,000 euros for a commissioner.
The special Community tax paid by EU staff is generally lower than national rates of income tax for civil servants.
EU staff in Brussels and Luxembourg also get a wide range of allowances, including a residence allowance equivalent to 15% of their basic salary.
Family-related allowances include a household allowance, a dependant child allowance, an educational allowance and a pre-school allowance.
The Commission said it was satisfied with the court's decision, which was in line with the agreed method of salary adjustment.
A Commission spokesman, Michael Mann, told the BBC that for 2010-2011 the salary calculation indicated a 2% cut in purchasing power for EU staff in Brussels, to match an equivalent cut in civil servants' salaries in the eight EU reference countries.
So to keep pace with the 2.4% inflation rate in Brussels the EU pay increase for 2010-2011 would have to be 0.4%, he said.
Since 2004 EU salaries have lost 5.3% of their purchasing power, he said. | The EU's top court has backed the European Commission's bid to boost pay for EU staff by 3.7%, instead of the 1.85% that the member states wanted. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | It plans to make anyone earning more than £80,000 a year pay the top rate of tax, know as the additional rate, which is 45p.
It is estimated that would drag another 1.2 million people into the higher tax bracket.
Currently, you have to be earning £150,000 a year to attract that 45p tax rate.
The Labour manifesto also pledges to reintroduce the 50p income tax rate on earnings above £123,000.
Labour says these plans would raise an extra £6.4bn.
However, Paul Johnson, the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, is "genuinely uncertain" it would raise that amount.
Whatever the final figure, Labour's plan would leave the richest carrying even more of the tax burden.
The top 5% of earners already account for 47% of income tax, according to Revenue & Customs data.
And remember, the Scottish Parliament has some freedom to set its own tax rates and thresholds.
Only a tiny proportion of employees make more than £80,000 - according to the Office for National Statistics, it's just 4%.
So who are those big earners?
Well, the ONS collects that data in its annual survey of hours and earnings.
Not surprisingly, companies pay their chief executives and other senior executives extremely well.
According to the ONS, 40% of them will be earning more than £95,000 a year.
The finance industry is also well rewarded.
A quarter of managers and directors at financial institutions, such as banks, make more than £79,700 a year.
Many of the best paid jobs in the public sector are in medicine, including anaesthetists, consultants, GPs, radiologists and surgeons.
The top 40% in those professions can expect to make more than £79,000 a year.
Not as good but still very comfortable livings can be made elsewhere in the public sector.
About a third of senior police officers and a third of top officers in the armed services make more than £64,000 a year.
Finally, we should note the difference between wealth and income.
Wealth is a catch-all term for assets, such as property, shares and other investments.
It is possible to be wealthy without having a high income - imagine an elderly couple on a modest pension who live in a big house.
It is also possible to have a high income and not be very wealthy - imagine a young banker on a high salary who has not bought any property.
But generally the wealthiest people will also enjoy high incomes.
In some cases, they will take sophisticated advice on how to legally avoid tax, perhaps by holding their assets in offshore companies.
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Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Stephen Port, of Barking, told the man that Gabriel Kovari had been to a sex and drugs orgy before his death in August 2014 with a man called "Dan".
A month later Daniel Whitworth, another alleged victim, was found dead in the same Barking churchyard as Mr Kovari.
Mr Port denies 29 charges, including four murders, rape and sexual assault.
The Old Bailey jury was read five months of Mr Port's Facebook messages sent from a fake account in the name of Jon Luck.
Posing as a 21-year-old student from California who had come to London to study, Mr Port corresponded with Mr Kovari's boyfriend Thierry Amodio who was trying to find out what had happened to his partner.
The messages, between September 2014 and January 2015, started when Mr Amodio noticed "Jon Luck" was following his boyfriend on Facebook and wrote to ask whether they had met.
Posing as Jon Luck, Mr Port said he had spent two nights with Mr Kovari and was surprised to learn of his death, the court heard.
He wrote: "I hope he wasn't murdered or anything like that as that would be awful."
Mr Amodio said police had told him there had been no signs of violence, to which "Jon Luck" replied: "Thanks god for that I would hate anyone who could hurt him," the jury was told.
On 20 September 2014, the day Mr Whitworth's body was found, "Jon Luck" wrote to Mr Amodio to say he had been told Mr Kovari was in touch with "Dan" on social media and that they went together "to an party/orgy in barking".
The court heard the parties were described as places where young men were drugged and raped by older men.
The following day, when Mr Amodio said police had been in touch, "Jon Luck" replied: "I have been expecting them to come to my door any second cuss of my DNA and my messages on his phone."
When Mr Amodio said the police had been in touch as Mr Whitworth was found dead, "Jon Luck" replied: "OMG your joking," and added: "please don't let them arrest me".
The messages also revealed "Jon Luck" probing Mr Amodio for information about the police investigation into his boyfriend's death.
But when Mr Amodio encouraged "Jon Luck" to contact detectives, he always refused to do so, the court heard.
"Jon Luck" wrote that maybe Mr Kovari had accidentally been killed by "Dan" with a drugs overdose and because he "could not live with the guilt" he "did same to himself", the court heard.
Jurors had previously been told the defendant admitted writing a suicide note found on Mr Whitworth's body which said he had killed Mr Kovari accidentally three weeks earlier and had killed himself because of the guilt. The accused claims Mr Whitworth dictated the note to him.
Mr Port admits using the Jon Luck account on Facebook.
Prosecutors claim the internet history on the defendant's computer shows he was logged into the Jon Luck profile at relevant times, that "Jon Luck" contacted two of Mr Port's ex-boyfriends, and that an IP address associated with Mr Port was used to access the fake account.
The trial continues. | An alleged serial killer used a Facebook alias to befriend the boyfriend of a victim and tell him "I hope he wasn't murdered", a jury heard. |
Summarize the information given below. | The mammal gained its nickname due to a likeness to the Star Wars character, but a University of York biologist has named it the hamamas tube-nosed fruit bat after the Papuan word for 'happy'.
It has a rounder jaw than similar fruit bats, giving the impression of a grin.
The recognition follows a study of 3,000 specimens by a team of experts.
The bat's scientific name, Nyctimene wrightae, honours the conservationist Dr Deb Wright who worked in conservation in Papua New Guinea.
The University of York said the Nyctimene family of bat is characterised by its odd protruding tubular nostrils.
Dr Nancy Irwin, who named the bat and led a research group that visited 18 museums around the world, said: "Most of the morphological characteristics that separate this bat from other species are associated with a broader, rounder jaw which gives the appearance of a constant smile.
"Since most remote Papuans have never seen Star Wars, I thought it fitting to use a local name."
Dr Irwin, a biologist at the university, said the 'happy' bat belonged to a group that had been known since 1769, but was not officially recognised.
"Now after 250 years this cryptic species, very difficult to tell apart from its cousins, can be identified and its ecology can be studied in the field," she added. | A bat from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea affectionately known as 'Yoda' has been given official recognition as a new species. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | The grey granite block at St Alkmund's Church, Whitchurch, was consecrated by the Bishop of Shrewsbury earlier.
The rector, Rev Canon Judy Hunt, said the Baby Loss Memorial was in the newly extended Garden of Remembrance.
She said an inquiry in Shrewsbury recently highlighted the "difficulty for families if they do not have their babies' ashes".
The inquiry, which published its report earlier this month, found failures at Emstrey crematorium resulted in ashes being lost.
Ms Hunt said Shrewsbury had its own memorial but she expected the one in Whitchurch would be visited by bereaved families from north Shropshire and south Cheshire, some who may have "lost babies decades ago".
Sarah Elsley, who lost her unborn daughter 17 weeks into her pregnancy, had the idea of creating the memorial in the town and said fundraising for it over several months had helped bring people together.
"It affects so many people and I was thinking if it's going to help me how many other people is it going to help?" she said.
"People don't talk about baby loss and it has got the community talking and I think it has brought quite a lot of people together." | A new memorial for babies who have died before or soon after birth has been unveiled at a Shropshire church. |
Can you summarize this passage? | Mr Kenny and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin met for more than an hour on Wednesday night.
It was the first time discussions between their respective parties took place on cooperation in government.
However, a senior member of Fianna Fáil says he believes the coalition offer will be rejected by the party.
Willie O'Dea told RTÉ that people voted to "get rid of Enda Kenny as taoiseach" and not for Fianna Fáil to share "Mercs and perks" with Fine Gael.
Earlier, Fine Gael's Simon Coveney told RTÉ his party's offer of sharing power with Fianna Fáil is a "genuine, real offer".
He added that it was in the "best interests of the country for the two large parties to come together".
Irish politicians have been attempting to form a working government since the general election in February.
Following the February election to the Dáil, Fine Gael has 50 seats, Fianna Fáil 44, Sinn Féin 23 and the Labour Party got seven. | Fianna Fáil TDs are meeting to consider an offer of "full partnership government" from Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny. |
Can you summarize this passage? | Both medallists, who already hold MBEs, are appointed OBEs - Adams for services to boxing while Clancy is honoured for cycling.
Cyclist Brian Robinson, the first Briton to win a Tour de France stage, is awarded a British Empire Medal.
Paralympic medallist Kadeena Cox is to receive an MBE.
Cox, 25, from Leeds, said being made an MBE for services to athletics was "the cherry on top".
"It's amazing. I can barely put it into words.
"I couldn't have asked for anything else.
"People have said to me 'can't wait to see you on the honours list' or 'I'm waiting for you to get nominated for Spoty [BBC Sport's Personality of The Year]' and these things I just didn't imagine would ever happen so it's amazing.
"To be recognised by the Queen, it's just wow, thank you."
The Paralympic champion won four medals in Rio including a gold in the T38 400m sprint, a silver in the 4x100m relay and bronze in the 100m. She also set a new world record in the 500m cycling time trial in addition to winning a gold medal in the category.
She is the first British Paralympian to top the podium in two different sports since 1988.
Ms Cox said she hoped her honour would inspire other youngsters in her community to "break the mould" and "not be one of the stereotypes that ends up being young and pregnant or involved in drugs".
Fellow Paralympians Stephen Bate and Adam Duggleby are honoured with an MBE for services to cycling, while Paul Bennett is to receive the same for rowing.
Olympic diver Christopher Mears is to get an MBE for diving.
Cycling legend Robinson receives his BEM for cycling and charity work.
Other notable figures who have been included in the New Year Honours list include: | Olympic champions Nicola Adams and Ed Clancy are among the sports stars in West Yorkshire recognised in the New Year Honours List. |
What is the summary of the following document? | UKIP leader Nigel Farage had said tax payers in England were "cheesed off" with the amount of public money that goes to Scotland.
But Nicola Sturgeon said Scots had paid more tax per head of population every year for the past 34 years.
The debate featured the leaders of seven parties from across the UK.
It was the only time Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband will appear together on TV ahead of the general election on 7 May.
Mr Cameron said the Conservatives' economic plan was working, adding: "Let's not go back to square one, Britain can do so much better than that."
Mr Miliband repeatedly described what he would do "if I am prime minister", in raising the minimum wage, banning exploitative zero-hours contracts and "rescuing our NHS"
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg also took part in Thursday evening's debate, along with Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and the Green Party's Natalie Bennett.
A YouGov poll of 1,100 people gave a clear victory to Ms Sturgeon, with 28%, followed by Mr Farage on 20%, Mr Cameron on 18%, Mr Miliband on 15%, Mr Clegg on 10%, Ms Bennett on 5% and Ms Wood on 4%.
But a ComRes poll for ITV made it a dead heat between Mr Cameron, Mr Miliband, Mr Farage and Ms Sturgeon, although Mr Cameron came out on top on the question of who was most capable of leading the country.
Mr Miliband was judged best performer in an ICM poll for the Guardian, taking 25% of support, just ahead of Mr Cameron on 24%. Nigel Farage was on 19%, Nicola Sturgeon on 17%, Nick Clegg on 9%.
A Survation poll for the Daily Mirror also put the Tory and Labour leaders neck and neck on 25%, with Mr Farage on 24%, Ms Sturgeon 15%, Mr Clegg 6%, Ms Bennett 3% and Ms Wood 2%.
Asked to give leaders marks out of 10 - by YouGov for the Times - the scores were: Ms Sturgeon 6.7, Mr Miliband and Mr Cameron 5.9, Mr Clegg and Mr Farage 5.5.
Ms Sturgeon began by stating the SNP - which polls have suggested is on course to return a record number of MPs to Westminster - would always "stand up for Scotland", but wanted to offer "friendship" to the peoples of England, Wales and Northern Ireland and would "help to bring about change for you too".
Mr Farage, however, claimed "canny Scots" had negotiated a better deal than other parts of the UK when the Barnett formula - which determines how public money is distributed - was created.
He said: "This all has to be rebalanced because frankly English taxpayers are a bit cheesed off with so much of their money going over Hadrian's wall, giving people no prescription charges and no university tuition."
Ms Sturgeon told him Scots had "paid more tax per head of population in every single year for the last 34 years".
In the television debate, Ms Sturgeon also hit out at the prime minister by arguing that the UK government could not cut its way out of a deficit, and insisted the NHS was the "most precious" public service the nation has".
In an apparent attempt to pitch the election as a straight choice between himself and Mr Miliband, the prime minister told the debate audience: "The choice at this election is sticking with a plan that is working or going back to the debt, taxes, borrowing and spending that got us in this mess in the first place. I say let's not go back to square one. Britain can do so much better than that."
Mr Cameron added: "The problem - and the real choice - is with Ed Miliband, who still thinks the last government didn't tax too much and borrow too much."
But Mr Miliband accused Mr Cameron of wanting to talk about the past rather than the future and said: "Some people will tell you that this is as good as it gets for Britain. I say Britain can do so much better than it has done over the last five years."
There could have been no better image of the changing political landscape of Britain.
While 50 years ago two parties took almost every vote between them, and just five years ago viewers of the TV debates might well have thought the era of three-party politics was permanent, this time there were seven politicians on stage. And three were women.
The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon dressed boldly in red - perhaps to underline her determination to supplant Labour as the main party in Scotland. And she derided the "old boys' network" in SW1.
The prime minister was introduced last and it looked as though he found it difficult to keep a smile on his face for the time it took to welcome his six opponents.
He seemed to grow in confidence but was perhaps wondering initially why he was so insistent on broadening the field from the 2010 threesome.
You could almost believe the women on the panel - Natalie Bennett from the Greens, and Leanne Wood from Plaid Cymru, as well as Ms Sturgeon - had consulted each other over launching an early attack on the austerity advocated by the main Westminster parties.
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Mr Miliband said Mr Cameron had marginalised Britain in Europe, and added: "I don't think our place lies outside the EU. I think that would be a disaster for jobs, a disaster for families and business."
The Labour leader also attacked his Liberal Democrat counterpart Mr Clegg for "betraying young people" over tuition fees.
In response, Mr Clegg attacked the Labour leader's "pious stance" and challenged Mr Miliband to apologise to the British public for "crashing the economy".
Mr Clegg directly challenged Mr Cameron over his decision not to ask the richest to pay more towards deficit reduction, but instead to impose "ideologically-driven cuts".
Responding to Mr Cameron's casting of the election as a choice between "competence and chaos", the Lib Dem leader urged him to "imagine the chaos in people's lives" caused by cuts in spending on health, schools and childcare.
The SNP later said it had gained 1,200 new members during the two-hour debate programme.
The party's deputy leader, Stewart Hosie MP, also said an average of the YouGov, ComRes and ICM polls which were released immediately after the debate suggested Ms Sturgeon had won, which Mr Hosie said showed how "strong and persuasive" she had been.
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy said the debate had "made crystal clear the choice facing Scots at the general election".
He said: "In the debate there were seven passionate speakers but only two potential prime ministers. There are lots of ways to protest against David Cameron but only one way to replace him."
UKIP's Scottish MEP David Coburn - in an interview with Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme - defended Mr Farage's comments from the television debate.
He said: "I think most reasonable Scots believe in the fair allocation of money. I think the SNP may make a big fuss about this but I think fair minded Scots like myself and everyone else believe we should give the English a reasonable deal too." | The SNP leader has hit back at claims that too much cash "comes over Hadrian's wall" during the ITV leaders' debate. |
Can you summarize the following information? | Mr Ilves's PR adviser Toomas Sildam told Estonia's ERR public broadcaster that they had taken the "personal decision" in the middle of November.
He stressed it "is in no way related to the presidential duties" of Mr Ilves.
Ms Kupce is the head of the National Cyber Security Policy Section at Latvia's defence ministry.
It was not immediately known whether she would continue to stay in her job until the wedding and whether she would later assume the duties of the first lady.
Mr Ilves, who is 61 and has been married twice before, will end his term in office in August 2016.
Speculation about the couple's relations first surfaced in local media in the two neighbouring Baltic states several months ago.
They reported that Mr Ilves and Ms Kupce, who is 38, have known each other since they worked at European parliament in the early 2000s. | Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves is engaged to Latvian cyber security chief Ieva Kupce, the presidential office in Tallinn has confirmed. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | A 32-year-old man remains in hospital after being injured at a property in Fabian Road, Eston, at about 23:00 BST on Thursday.
His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
Two 19-year-old men, a man aged 20 and a 17-year-old girl will appear at Teesside Magistrates' Court in Middlesbrough later.
A girl aged 17 and an 18-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of assault have been bailed.
A 31-year-old woman who suffered facial injuries was released from hospital after treatment.
The American, 38, was a serious doubt for the year's final major but he practised at Valhalla on Wednesday and said he was "pain free".
The 14-time major champion had surgery on a pinched nerve in his back in March and missed the Masters and US Open.
"I knew it was not the site of the surgery. This is different," he said.
Woods said the sacrum bone in his back was dislodged when he played his second shot on the second hole on Sunday, but that his physio had "popped the bone back in".
"My physio is here so if it goes out he is able to fix it," said Woods, who arrived at Valhalla on Wednesday and played the front nine alongside Steve Stricker, Davis Love and Harris English before speaking to reporters.
"I still need to build up strength and it's going to take more time. The treatment has been fantastic, once the bone was put back in the spasms went away and from there I started to get some range of motion."
Woods beat Bob May in a play-off to win the US PGA the last time it was held at Valhalla in 2000, but missed the Ryder Cup when it was held at the Kentucky venue in 2008.
The course has since undergone extensive renovation led by designer Jack Nicklaus, but Woods's caddie Joe LaCava has been scouting the layout.
"I had my (yardage) book from 2000 but it's useless. Joey has been here and got a pretty good handle on it," added Woods, who opted to just chip and putt on the back nine. "I feel pretty good about how I played. I need to get more of a feel how this course is playing.
"I'm going to try and go out and win this event - that's all I'm focusing on."
Woods has not won a major in six years and returned from surgery at the Quicken Loans National in June, but missed the cut before finishing 69th at the Open earlier this month.
His participation at Valhalla is good news for US Ryder Cup captain Tom Watson, who admitted Sunday's withdrawal "did not bode well" for his selection for the team to take on Europe at Gleneagles in September.
The former world number one cannot qualify automatically and Watson has previously said he would pick him if he was healthy and playing well.
"I am encouraged," said Watson. "Obviously he's not in great health and he hasn't played very well. So the question is, will I pick him? Well, I can't tell until things happen in the next three or four weeks.
"He said to me he really wants to make the team in the worst way. This Ryder Cup is a big thing and these players really want to make the team and bring that cup back to the United States."
Woods is due to play alongside fellow American Phil Mickelson and Ireland's Padraig Harrington for the first two rounds, starting from the 10th tee at 13:35 BST on Thursday. | Four people have been charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed on Teesside.
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Tiger Woods will start the US PGA on Thursday after recovering from the back injury that forced him to withdraw from Sunday's final round at Firestone. |
Please summarize the following text. | Alexander Perepilichnyy, 44, collapsed while running near his Surrey home in November 2012.
Traces of a chemical that can be found in a poisonous plant were later found in his stomach.
A pre-inquest hearing heard he moved to Britain from Moscow five years ago and had been warned his life was in danger.
Mr Perepilichnyy had been helping an investigation into a multimillion pound tax fraud involving Russian officials before his death.
The pre-inquest hearing at Woking Coroners' Court set his inquest for 29 February.
Mr Perepilichnyy's death was originally attributed to natural causes but traces of a chemical that can be found in the poisonous plant gelsemium elegans were discovered in his stomach.
Surrey Police has insisted there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding Mr Perepilichnyy's sudden death.
But the company which had led the fraud investigation, Hermitage Capital Management (HCM), has said he could have been deliberately killed for his role in helping it uncover the fraud.
Alexander Perepilichnyy worked as a currency trader in Moscow before moving to the UK in 2009. Friends say he faced problems after losing a substantial amount of his own and other people's money in the financial crash of 2008.
He moved with his wife and two children to a luxury home in the high-security St George's Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey. Several of his former business associates told the BBC he feared for his life, believing he was on a 'hit list'.
While in the UK he appears to have kept a low profile and was not well known among the Russian community living in the London area.
But those who did know him described an intelligent and calm man who looked healthy after going on a diet and taking much more exercise in the months before he died.
Grainy video footage from the night he collapsed shows his body lying in the road shortly after it was discovered by a neighbour.
Mr Peripilichnyy's widow, Nataliya, is still believed to be in the UK but she has not spoken publicly about her husband's death.
Geoffrey Robertson, a lawyer for HCM, said Mr Perepilichnyy had been in a vulnerable position because he was handing over highly sensitive documents to HCM, implicating a number of Moscow officials in money-laundering and fraud.
Mr Robertson said Mr Perepilichnyy may also have been talking to the British security services and had taken out life insurance worth £3.5m shortly before his death.
The hearing also heard that Surrey Police had 45 sensitive documents relating to Mr Perepilichnyy's death that it wanted to be kept secret under public interest immunity - something Mr Robertson described as a "cover-up".
Public interest immunity allows for sensitive documents not to be submitted as evidence when it is deemed to be against either the public interest or national security.
But Charlotte Ventham, representing Surrey Police, said: "I can not let it pass without comment that Surrey Police are guilty of some kind of cover-up of documents you require to conduct your inquest, or that Surrey Police are urging upon this court some sort of unlawful procedure with regard to public interest.
"Both of these serious allegations are very firmly rebutted and refuted."
Senior Surrey coroner Richard Travers said: "Let me make it plain, I do not see it like that." | A Russian whistleblower who died unexpectedly may have been in contact with the British security services before his death, a court has heard. |
What is the summary of the given information? | Media playback is not supported on this device
The 36-year-old led her team to a first Olympic gold medal as they beat defending champions the Netherlands in a penalty shootout.
"If you could write a movie script with a fairytale ending then this would be it," said the four-time Olympian.
The ceremony was held in wind and rain at the Maracana Stadium on Sunday.
Andy Murray, who won gold in the men's tennis, carried the British flag at the opening ceremony.
Britain finished second in the medal table ahead of China, with their best medal return at any Games since 1908.
It is also the first time since the modern Olympic era began in 1896 that a country has increased its medal tally at the summer Games immediately following one it hosted.
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A 15-year-old boy, from the Perth area, is seriously ill in Ninewells Hospital following an incident at about 22:00.
Three of his friends received treatment at Perth Royal Infirmary but were later discharged.
Police said one line of inquiry was that all four boys may have taken "a type of ecstasy tablet".
Ch Insp Gary Ogilvie said: "Officers are currently investigating the circumstances of this incident but in the meantime I would urge the public, especially those planning on going out socialising tonight, to be aware of this incident and think twice of taking any unknown substance.
"There is always a risk when taking substances and the only way of staying safe is to avoid drugs altogether."
Police have asked anyone who may have information about the incident to contact them.
Depending who you ask, the gnarly green fruit is the vitamin-laden hero of brunch - or the reason millennials can't buy houses.
Back in May, a surge in global demand sent avocado prices to a record high.
And police say this may have driven three California men to steal up to $300,000 (£234,770) worth of them from an Oxnard produce firm where they worked.
Ventura County Sheriff's Office said Carlos Chavez, Rahim Leblanc, and Joseph Valenzuela were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of grand theft of fruit.
$1.27
each in April 2017
$0.98 in April 2016
The trio had been employed at Mission Produce, one of the world's biggest avocado distributors, for several years.
Police believe they had been stealing and selling the fruit to unwitting customers for months.
The company's president, Steve Barnard, said a box of avocados typically sells for $50, but the men were allegedly selling them for half that.
"They are in demand. Everybody loves avocados," Sgt John Franchi of the sheriff's office told the LA Times.
"We take these kinds of thefts seriously," he added. "It's a big product here and in California."
BBC Radio Sheffield launched a Facebook campaign after learning Winnie Blagden had no surviving family.
It urged well-wishers to send cards to the centenarian, who reached the milestone age on Sunday.
Mrs Blagden told the BBC she would be having a shandy to celebrate her birthday.
A surprise party organised by the radio station earlier in the week saw Mrs Blagden lavished with gifts and cards.
She told the crowd at the city's town hall she was "overwhelmed" by the response to the appeal.
"It's been lovely. I don't know why everyone's making such a fuss, it's [normally] for people who have done marvellous things," she said.
Mrs Blagden, from Sheffield, never had children, and has no relatives following the death of her husband George 30 years ago.
She is looked after by Serenta Homecare.
Sue Pinder, who owns the company, said: "Winnie just can't understand everyone's kindness, in her eyes she's a normal lady who's done nothing.
"But she brings so much joy and pleasure to people, especially those carers, she can't see what she does to everybody."
Mrs Blagden received cards from all over the world, including Taiwan, Singapore and the US.
She will now add a birthday message from The Queen to her collection and a signed card from Dowtown Abbey actor Brendan Coyle, a show which Mrs Blagden is a fan of. | Women's hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh carried the flag for Great Britain at the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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Police have warned the public about the danger of taking "unknown substances" after four boys fell ill in Perth on Friday night.
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Few foodstuffs arouse passions like the humble avocado.
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A woman who received 16,000 birthday cards from around the globe after an internet appeal went viral has turned 100. |
Please summarize the document below. | More than half of those polled said they followed the news through an established brand, with just 16% using digital-only sites, such as Buzzfeed and Huffington Post.
However, new media companies were found to be very popular in the US and Japan.
The study also found that just over one in ten people paid for online news content in the past year.
The research, carried out by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, is based on a YouGov survey of more than 18,000 people across 10 countries.
Consumers in the US, UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Italy, Japan and urban Brazil were questioned about their news habits.
Just 7% of those polled in the UK said they paid for news in the past year - the lowest of all 10 countries - and only 7% said they would be prepared to pay in the future.
"There is a limited pool of people who are sufficiently interested in news to pay for it when there are free alternatives," said Nic Newman, one of the report's editors.
The top subscription sites in the UK were the Times, Telegraph and Sun newspapers.
The number of people using smartphones or tablets to access news grew significantly, while desktop use dropped, but computers still account for well over half of all browsing.
However, the report found the rise of smartphone use has led to people consuming fewer news sources, with 37% of those polled across all countries saying they accessed just one news brand on their handset.
In the UK, 55% said the same.
"People are short of time on a smartphone," said Mr Newman.
"They come back to the source they rely on most."
He added that there was "limited real estate" on mobile phones and not enough screen space for a variety of brands.
However, in general, consumers overwhelmingly preferred news outlets with a range of views over those with a particular political agenda.
WhatsApp, the messaging app recently acquired by Facebook for $19bn (£11.3bn), emerges as a key social network, with 26% of those polled in Spain saying they used the service for news, and 15% saying the same in Brazil.
Users can send links to news stories instantly on the app, which also allows group messaging.
Facebook itself remains the dominant force in the sector, with 35% of those polled across all countries saying they use the site to access news content.
Twitter is very popular in the UK and US, less so elsewhere, and is eclipsed in all the countries by YouTube.
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The new report makes it very clear that the era of a news agenda driven entirely by editors, TV bulletins and front pages is over.
There's a new class of press baron, Facebook Superfriends or Twitterati, who are increasingly playing a role in driving the news agenda. But there's so much more in this report. Here are my favourite nuggets:
The report also found that the reputation of individual journalists and columnists is almost as important as well-established brands in attracting people to a news source, especially in Spain, Italy and the US.
People said they would be more likely to pay for content that included work by journalists they knew.
The report's authors highlight the launch of recent news organisations in the US by household names, such as Ezra Klein's Vox Media, Felix Salmon's Fusion and Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish.
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who became famous for writing about the revelations by Edward Snowden on the extent of US government surveillance, also established his own company, First Look Media.
"Digital and social media seem to be encouraging journalism with a human face," said Mr Newman.
"There is likely to be an economic premium attached to the very best writers."
The report also highlighted the role of Twitter in the UK in bringing readers to news sources. Almost half of all Twitter users in the UK follow at least one journalist. The most influential UK journalists on Twitter were:
The Guardian was the most dominant news brand on Twitter, followed by BBC News and the Economist.
Perhaps surprisingly, video news was fairly unpopular among those surveyed, accounting for as little as 10% of all traffic in some countries.
Younger users said clips took too long to load, while some did not want to pay for viewing content over their mobile network.
Older users wanted to view video on larger screens, and were generally more keen on the written word.
The report is supported by BBC Global News, Google, Ofcom and others. | Traditional media organisations remain the dominant source of online news in the UK, according to a new report. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | The stop-gap bill announced late on Wednesday allows Congress an extra week to reach a final deal to fund the government through September.
Congress had until Friday to negotiate a bill to keep the government running.
Democrats declared a victory after the White House agreed to continue paying the so-called cost-sharing reductions.
They refused to support the bill unless it allowed for an Obamacare provision that paid health insurance companies to help keep medical costs down for low-income Americans.
The concession comes after President Donald Trump had earlier dropped a demand to include funding for his controversial border wall in the spending bill.
"The fundamental issue is keeping the government open, that's our focus," said North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry, a top member of the vote-counting team in the House.
A vote on the short-term bill, which funds the government until 5 May, could come as early as Thursday.
The Republican-controlled Congress wants to avoid an unpopular government shutdown, which would close national parks and monuments, lay off federal employees and delay tax refund payments.
Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but they aren't totally powerless.
They have enough votes to block any budget agreement, thereby causing a government shutdown on the eve of Donald Trump's 100th day in office.
That's an outcome the president and his fellow Republicans want to avoid if at all possible.
The prospect that, even with control of all the levers of power in Washington, they can't even keep government functioning normally would be too much of a political embarrassment to bear.
Consequently, on two key issues - providing funding for a US-Mexico border wall and cutting an Obamacare-provided insurance subsidy for low-income people - the White House has backed away from earlier demands in order to win some Democratic support and keep the budget ball rolling along.
Fights over Obamacare and border security will eventually erupt again, of course.
But every time Mr Trump takes what appears to be a firm stand, accompanied by a string of aggressive tweets, and then quietly backs down, it gives his opponents a bit more confidence that they can go toe-to-toe with the president and prevail.
The challenges to Mr Trump's negotiating skills will only get tougher from here.
Congressional Republicans said they were nearing a deal to fully fund the government for the 2017 fiscal year, but needed more time to "finalise" the package before the midnight deadline on Friday night to keep the lights on in government.
"I am optimistic that a final funding package will be completed soon," House Appropriations chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen said.
The resolution also extends healthcare benefits for retired union coal miners through 5 May. Those benefits would have expired on Friday as well.
The sweeping spending package would combine 11 unfinished spending bills into a single "omnibus" bill, becoming the first bipartisan legislation under Mr Trump's presidency.
Democrats, who are needed to pass the measure, have warned they would not support any bill that included funding for Mr Trump's wall along the US-Mexican border and eliminated cost-sharing reductions.
Meanwhile, Republicans have revived their health care bill after the key conservative group, the House Freedom Caucus, announced it would support a revised version of the measure.
Mr Trump and his party, which controls both chambers of Congress, suffered a huge blow last month when the Freedom Caucus helped derail the Republican health bill.
Republicans have vowed for several years to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act.
It is unclear if moderate Republicans will back the new revisions.
The 55-year-old former Wales international had been at the Gills for three seasons and was caretaker manager when Peter Taylor was sacked in 2014.
"His experience will be invaluable this season," said Bromley boss Neil Smith.
"I have known Steve for over 20 years as both player and a coach. I cannot wait to start working with him," Smith added to the club website.
Lovell began his playing career at Crystal Palace and also had lengthy spells with Millwall and Gillingham. | US lawmakers have reached a deal to avert a federal government shutdown after the White House backed off a threat to withhold Obamacare subsidies.
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Bromley have appointed former Gillingham coach Steve Lovell as assistant manager. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The second takeover offer has come from South African retailer Steinhoff, which offered 175p per share.
Sainsbury's has until 23 February to make a firm offer for Argos.
Home Retail Group said the board was reviewing the Steinhoff proposal and it would make a further announcement soon.
A spokesperson added: "Home Retail Group shareholders are advised to take no action at this time."
Sainsbury's second offer for Home Retail Group came after an offer of £1bn was rejected.
Steinhoff, which owns the furniture chain Harvey's in the UK, makes most of its products in developing countries, and sells its furniture across Europe.
The South African retailer said its offer would not disrupt the sale of Homebase, which Home Retail Group is in the process of selling to Australian retail company Wesfarmers. The firm plans to bring its Bunnings chain to the UK.
Sainsbury's, like other UK supermarkets, has faced intense competition from discount retailers such as Aldi and Lidl.
Chief executive Mike Coupe said if the takeover went ahead the combination of the two companies would create the UK's "food and non-food retailer of choice", with 2,000 stores.
The tie-up would create the UK's largest general merchandise retail business.
Mr Coupe said that the merger would bring savings in the region of £120m - half of which would come from putting Argos stores into Sainsbury's supermarkets.
Meanwhile Steinhoff has until the 18th March to make a firm offer. | Home Retail Group has received a £1.4bn rival bid for Argos after supermarket Sainsbury's offered £1.3bn for the company. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Councillors on the policy and resources committee approved a month-long consultation to begin in November.
The savings plans could see up to 1,095 full-time posts cut from a 12,043-strong full-time workforce.
The committee also accepted proposals for more than £22m of savings that had already been identified.
They were demonstrating against the government's closure of the Independent Living Fund, which provides support for some 18,000 severely disabled people.
About 100 protesters set up tents at 16:00 BST, the group said. The protest, which included about 40 people in wheelchairs, ended just before 21:00.
The government said local authorities will be given the ILF budget.
Ellen Clifford, a spokeswoman for Disabled People Against Cuts, said the scheme's closure signalled a "return to institutions" for severely disabled people who receive support through the fund.
"Disabled people would rather be dead than go back to nursing homes - that's why they took this action today."
She earlier said the group had asked the Dean of Westminster Dr John Hall for permission to camp on the land "for the next few weeks", but this had been refused.
The group said police had advised them to leave or face arrest for trespass. Scotland Yard said one man had been arrested after allegedly assaulting a police officer.
Some protesters from anti-tax avoidance group UK Uncut also joined the demonstration following their own protest outside Boots stores.
They accuse the High Street store of avoiding £1bn in tax, a claim it denies.
The Independent Living Fund is set to close next June after the government said analysis showed there had been significant developments in how it provides social care.
In 2012, the government decided to close the Independent Living Fund and devolve the funding, which would no longer be ring-fenced, to local authorities.
A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: "We are world leaders in support for disabled people, spending around a fifth more on disability benefits than the EU average.
"However changes to social care have called into question having a separate funding stream through the ILF, especially since the vast majority of disabled people with care needs are already looked after through the adult social care system.
"That is why we are transferring more than £260m of the ILF's budget to local authorities - and the devolved administrations - to ensure disabled people get the targeted support they need to lead independent lives." | North Lanarkshire Council is to carry out a public consultation on proposals to make £45m in savings that could see more than 1,000 posts closed.
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Campaigners from the group Disabled People Against Cuts have held a protest outside London's Westminster Abbey. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The judge at Carlisle Crown Court said "devious and selfish" Donald Scott, 62, from Wigton, abused his position of trust to take money from his customers to pay off his own debts.
He admitted 13 charges of fraud.
Scott forged signatures to sell off his clients' land entitlements and kept the profit for himself.
Judge Peter Davies told Scott a custodial sentence was inevitable because of the vulnerability of his elderly victims.
He said: "It's not a just a case of money, it goes beyond that. It was their businesses, their lives were affected, their health was affected.
"They entrusted you with large sums of money and you betrayed that trust."
The court heard Scott's victims trusted him with their retirement funds and paid him to help them claim EU subsidies.
But, as his business fell into debt, he started selling off their land entitlements which they had used to claim the money.
He also told clients he could get them good returns on investments but he took the money to pay off debts.
One victim, a retired farmer, lost all his savings of £200,000.
Scott committed the crimes between 2010 and 2015.
Speaking after Scott was jailed, Det Con Duncan Watson, from Cumbria Police, said: "It's a despicable crime." | An estate agent has been jailed for five years for taking more than £450,000 from elderly clients in Cumbria. |
Can you summarize this passage? | The double Olympic champion defended his World Championships 5,000m and 10,000m titles in Beijing in August.
His involvement next March in Wales would be a major coup for the event, which will be held over the same course as this Sunday's Cardiff Half-Marathon.
"We've got a really good dialogue with Mo Farah," said Matt Newman, the chief executive of organisers Run 4 Wales.
"I was speaking with his agent only yesterday in fact.
"We were talking about Mo's programme for 2016 which they're really just putting together."
It has been a difficult summer for Farah, with a series of allegations made against his coach Alberto Salazar - all denied by the American, and with no suggestion Farah has done anything wrong.
But the 32-year-old Briton remains one of the biggest - and most popular - stars of distance running and underlined his talent last month by defending the two World titles he won in 2013 in Moscow.
Farah remains favourite to also successfully defend his Olympic titles at the 2016 Games in Brazil next August.
"Of course, what Mo Farah has come out and said is it's all about the Olympics in Rio in the summer, but there are some options for him in March," Newman added.
"Just before the World Half-Marathon Championships in Cardiff is the World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Oregon.
"Obviously he lives in that part of the world so that will also be something of interest to him.
"But at the moment we've got a really healthy dialogue with Mo Farah so we'll be doing our best to persuade him that Cardiff's a better option than Portland in Oregon."
Ms Mone, brought up in Glasgow's East End, founded lingerie firm Ultimo in her 20s, after leaving school at 15.
She sold an 80% stake in the firm last year in a multi-million pound deal.
The review will look to identify obstacles to people in deprived areas starting new businesses.
"Entrepreneurship can play an important role in supporting economic growth and creating jobs in our most disadvantaged communities," said Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
"However, people living in those areas face a range of additional barriers they need to overcome in starting and growing businesses."
The government said these barriers included a lack of business and social networks, and a lack of inspiring role models.
It asked Ms Mone to draw on her own experiences, which included leaving school with no qualifications and having a child at 18.
"It's an honour to be appointed to lead this review because I know how tough it can be setting up successful businesses," she said.
"My philosophy is that it does not matter where you are from, what education you have, or if you are from an affluent background or not, you can make it if you work hard, set your goals and never give up."
Ms Mone co-founded the original Ultimo parent company MJM International with her ex-husband Michael in 1996, and created brands including Ultimo Miracle Shapewear and Miss Ultimo.
She was awarded an OBE in 2010. | Organisers of the 2016 World Half-Marathon Championships in Cardiff are in talks with Mo Farah to participate.
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Scottish entrepreneur Michelle Mone has been appointed by the government to carry out a review into how best to encourage start-ups in areas of high unemployment. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Mercer, the son of New Zealand rugby league player Gary, has been capped by England up to under-20 level.
The 19-year-old has made 10 Premiership appearances for Bath, having made his debut against Newcastle in September.
"Zach is one of the brightest prospects in English rugby," director of rugby Todd Blackadder said.
"We are thrilled to have secured his services and he will undoubtedly be a huge asset over the next few years.
"He has shown maturity beyond his years in the way he has stepped up to the first team and he has taken full advantage of his opportunities."
Meanwhile, Bath have signed Plymouth Albion prop Sam Nixon, 20, on a deal running until 2019.
Nixon has been named among the replacements for Bath's game at Newcastle in the Anglo-Welsh Cup on Saturday. | Bath flanker Zach Mercer has signed a contract extension to stay with the Premiership club until the end of the 2018-19 season. |
Summarize this article briefly. | The supermarket withdrew all batch codes of the 360ml Bausch + Lomb "EasySept Hydro + Peroxide Solution".
Trading Standards said the "potential fault" means peroxide could remain in the lens case, which could cause a number of health issues.
The BBC has approached Bausch + Lomb for a comment.
The Chartered Trading Standards Institute said customers who have bought the product should not use it.
It said: "Residual peroxide could potentially remain in the lens case after neutralization.
"If the residual hydrogen peroxide is above product specification, the user could experience burning/stinging, irritation, red eye and, in rare circumstances, other more serious health consequences."
A Tesco spokesman said the solution was recalled "as a precautionary measure" as requested by the manufacturer.
He added the product is also on sale "across a number of retailers".
No other Bausch + Lomb products are known to be affected. | Tesco has recalled a contact lens solution amid concerns it could burn people's eyes and cause other "serious health consequences". |
Can you summarize the given article? | But the former Wales wing feels the New Zealander, who joined Ospreys in 2008, may want to work nearer his homeland.
Reports have linked Hore with taking over at Sydney-based Super Rugby side Waratahs.
"I think it would take a really good job offer and good future potential job there for him to go," said Williams.
"However, Andrew Hore is from New Zealand. I assume his intention eventually is to go back home and perhaps Waratahs is that step closer."
Hore came to Wales as conditioning coach under then-national coach Steve Hansen in 2002.
He left in 2005 to join New Zealand Rugby Union as high performance manager and later became Ospreys elite performance boss in 2008.
The title of chief operations officer, in 2010, and Ospreys chief executive, in 2013, followed for Hore.
Waratahs' chief executive Greg Harris has left after a restructure involving them and the New South Wales Rugby Union.
Energy suppliers in the UK must already tell customers of their cheapest deal, under regulations set by regulator Ofgem to encourage competition.
From October, they must extend this service to include all brands under their umbrella.
Ofgem said the move was aimed at "regaining the trust" of consumers.
The move will affect licensed energy firms that provide gas and electricity to other retailers and brands, known as white labels, who then sell it to their customers.
Suppliers who operate such arrangements are British Gas with Sainsbury's Energy, and SSE with M&S Energy and Ebico.
"It is important that consumers are given the complete picture about all their supplier's tariffs," said Rachel Fletcher, senior partner at Ofgem.
"We are acting to reduce barriers to white labels entering the market and to ensure suppliers tell their customers what the cheapest deal is for them, whatever brand it is marketed under.
"Transparency about the cheapest tariff that a supplier offers is important in rebuilding consumer trust in the market." | Ospreys legend Shane Williams believes only "a really good job offer" could tempt chief executive Andrew Hore away from his "top job" at the Welsh region.
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Suppliers who sell their energy through various brands must tell domestic customers of their cheapest tariff across the lot from October. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | ParalympicsGB surpassed their London 2012 medal tally of 120 on day nine of the Games in Rio and finished with 147, second in the medal table behind China.
They also matched the highest number of gold medal sports at a Paralympics with 11, matching China at Beijing 2008.
Kadeena Cox, who won golds in athletics and cycling, will carry the British flag at Sunday's closing ceremony.
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The 25-year-old is the first Briton to triumph in two different sports at the same Games since 1988.
"It's a great feeling to know that I'll be standing at the front of such an exceptional group of athletes from GB, to represent what has been such a successful and high-achieving team," she said.
"I only originally expected just to get to Rio, let alone win medals, so to do this is the icing on the cake of an amazing Games. I couldn't have imagined this in my wildest dreams. To do something as special as carrying the flag is incredible."
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Penny Briscoe, chef de mission for the British team, said: "Kadeena's achievements in Rio have been absolutely remarkable, and she is the perfect choice to be our flagbearer."
"To strike gold in two sports is no mean feat, and it pays tribute to her talent, pride and determination and also the work of British Athletics and British Cycling, with the support of National Lottery funding, to help her achieve and surpass her goals.
"As the Games draw to a close we can begin to reflect on the exceptional performances of our athletes and this incredible medal haul. The Closing Ceremony is the perfect way to kick off the celebrations for this record breaking team. I am so proud of each and every member of the team."
Elizabeth Hudson, BBC Sport in Rio:
British Paralympic Association chief executive Tim Hollingsworth said the GB team's performance in Rio was no fluke, but the figures still make very impressive reading.
The team, often described as the strongest ever and the best prepared, won 12% of the total number of gold medals available - the best since way back in 1968, a completely different era in Paralympic sport.
Finishing second in the medal table behind China, they set 49 Paralympic and 27 world records. Both the oldest (Anne Dunham) and youngest (Abby Kane) competitors on the team claimed medals, and 11 sports won gold medals with a record-equalling 15 securing at least one medal.
Yes, the total may have been different if the Russian team had not been banned from competing, but you can only beat what is in front of you, and this was a truly spectacular performance from the 264-strong squad.
This GB team has set a new standard and as one Games closes, plans for the next summer Games in Tokyo are well under way. Now the challenge will be to maintain momentum and rise to the occasion once again in 2020.
Demi Wylie organised a small team to liaise with the couples and guests during industrial action that affected CalMac sailings in June last year.
Some travel plans for the more than 600 people involved were adjusted so they could reach the Western Isles weddings.
Ms Wylie, 23, has been put forward for a Scottish Transport Award.
She will find out if she has won the Frontline Employee of the Year category at a ceremony in Glasgow on 16 June.
Ms Wylie is based in CalMac's contact centre in Gourock which handles calls across the company's services.
Ferries had been key to getting brides, grooms and many of their guests to ceremonies and venues for the weddings across the Hebridean islands chain.
The industrial action came amid a row over tendering process for the Clyde and Hebrides Ferries Network. | Great Britain closed the Rio Paralympics with 64 gold medals, the most by a British team since 1988.
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An employee at ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne has been nominated for an award for her efforts to help seven island weddings go ahead. |
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