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Summarize the provided section. | Paul Thomas Wills of Russell Place, Ardglass, admitted not keeping a proper lookout on his fishing boat the Silver Dee when it collided with another trawler, the Good Intent.
The Silver Dee sank in less than 10 minutes as a result of the collision.
Its crew transferred onto the Good Intent.
That vessel was damaged, but was able to return to Ardglass under its own power.
A district judge said that Wills' culpability was fairly significant as he had not kept a proper lookout for 10 minutes while sailing at full speed.
The judge said 10 people had been at risk on both vessels, although no lives were lost.
He gave Wills credit for admitting his guilt and fined him a total of £2,250 on the three charges.
The prosecution was brought by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. | An Ardglass trawler skipper has been fined more than £2,000 after his boat collided with another vessel off the County Down coast in July 2015. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | It emerged on Sunday that the Team Sky rider has been notified of a potential discrepancy in his biological passport.
He raced for Endura prior to joining Sky in October 2012.
Endura defended their anti-doping policy, one they stressed Tiernan-Locke has been fully compliant with.
They said in a statement: "Endura Racing's culture has always been entirely at odds with cheating in any form including the use of PEDs [Performance Enhancing Drugs] and nothing in Jonathan Tiernan-Locke's conduct during his 2012 season with the team gave rise to concerns that his approach was at odds with this in any way."
Tiernan-Locke enjoyed the best year of his career in 2012, winning the Tour Mediterraneen and Tour du Haut Var early in the season, before becoming the first British winner of the Tour of Britain in 19 years last September.
But a report in France raised doubts over his performances early in the season, prompting Endura and Tiernan-Locke to make a request to the International Cycling Union for the Devon rider to be put on a biological passport.
As a UCI Continental-level team, Endura were not part of the UCI's biological passport scheme.
"Endura, with the full support of Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, made a request to the UCI to be allowed to pay to have him put on a biological passport in order to counter the rumours of performance enhancing drugs that circulated after his wins in Tour Mediterraneen and Tour du Haut Var in 2012," the team added.
"However this request was refused by the UCI."
An individual, electronic record for each rider, in which results of all doping tests are collated. Passport for each rider contains:
Source: UCI
Endura also said that Tiernan-Locke was made available to both Team Garmin-Sharp and Team Sky in April and May last year - two teams who had shown interest in him - for physiological testing and no adverse results were reported.
They also added that irregularities in biological passport data can be caused by tiredness and ill health.
"At this early stage, without detailed information, it would be inappropriate to speculate on the reasons for inconsistencies in Jonathan Tiernan-Locke's biological passport data," Endura said.
"It is known that there are many possible legitimate causes including fatigue and ill-health, both of which we understand he has suffered from in the last year."
Portsmouth City Council previously refused to allow Elegance, in Granada Road, to move to Albert Road and open between 21:00 and 04:00.
But an appeal has now been granted by planning inspector Jo Dowling.
The council's licensing committee now needs to also give its approval.
Mr Dowling said after visiting the area her view was that the proposed venue "would not be out of character".
She said: "I acknowledge that the presence of a lap dancing venue may deter some people from visiting this part of Albert Road.
"However, as already highlighted due to its first floor location the proposed lap dancing venue would have a very limited physical presence on the street.
"Being a late-night venue the proposed use would not operate at the same time as the majority of the daytime businesses."
Before the original application was rejected more than 1,300 people signed petitions against the move and the city council received 63 objections.
But 468 supportive representations were also received, one of which said lap-dancing clubs "tend to have the least amount of crime associated with them".
Conservative city MP Flick Drummond and the Unison union's South East Regional Women's Committee both also opposed the plan.
Applicant Paul Ojla also runs the lap-dancing club Wiggle in Surrey Street. | British cyclist Jonathan Tiernan-Locke wanted to undergo extra testing to counter rumours of performance-enhancing drug use after wins in 2012, his former team has said.
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Permission to turn a former Conservative club in Southsea into a lap-dancing venue has been granted after a council's decision was overturned. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | The OSCE said that an increase in violence, particularly in the south-east, "restricted some contestants' ability to campaign freely".
It also criticised curbs on media freedom.
Earlier Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the world to respect the result of Sunday's election.
Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) went further and denounced the entire process as "unfair".
In a statement on Monday, Ignacio Sanchez Amor, head of the OSCE observer mission, said: "Physical attacks on party members, as well as the significant security concerns, particularly in the south-east" had affected campaigning.
He added that pressure on journalists - including a police raid on the Koza-Ipek media group in Istanbul last week - was a major concern.
"Unfortunately, the campaign for these elections was characterized by unfairness and, to a serious degree, fear," said Andreas Gross, Head of the PACE delegation.
Responding to reports of pressure on journalists, the White House spokesman John Earnest said the US had urged Turkey "to uphold universal democratic values."
With almost all ballots counted, state-run Anadolu news agency said the AKP had won 49.4% of the vote, with the main opposition CHP on 25.4%.
President Erdogan hailed the result early on Monday, saying: "The national will manifested itself on 1 November in favour of stability."
But he also attacked media criticism of him and called for global recognition of the election result.
Gavin Hewitt: President's triumph leaves Turkey polarised
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Lira strengthens after result
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will now begin the process of forming a new government.
Mr Erdogan called the second general election this year after the AKP lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 13 years in June, and attempts to form a coalition failed.
The pro-Kurdish HDP crossed the 10% threshold needed to claim seats in parliament, but it got 21 fewer seats than in June's election.
The nationalist MHP's share of the vote also declined, to 11.9%, and commentators suggested it had lost voters to the AKP.
Reported results also showed:
Clashes were reported in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, in the south-east of Turkey, as the results were being counted. Reuters said police had fired tear gas at protesters throwing stones.
Since elections in June, a ceasefire between the Turkish army and militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has collapsed.
Critics have accused Mr Erdogan of renewing violence to curb support for the HDP - something the government denies.
HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas said on Sunday that it had not been "a fair or equal election".
The party suspended campaigning after a bombing in Ankara last month killed more than 100 people. The government said the attackers were linked to the Islamic State (IS) group.
Violence has escalated in Turkey since a suicide bombing in July by suspected IS militants.
The attack near the border with Syria killed more than 30 Kurds.
Turkish newspaper front pages reflect the contrasting euphoria and gloom from government supporters and opponents at the election result.
"Ballot box revolution" declares Sabah, echoed by Aksam's "November revolution".
Pro-Islamist papers are equally jubilant, with Yeni Safak hailing a "magnificent victory", and Yeni Akit offering "congratulations to the Muslim world".
The independent mass-circulation Hurriyet and Milliyet focus on the scale of the ruling AKP's win.
Opposition papers accuse the authorities of scaring voters with the prospect of civil strife.
Cumhuriyet sees the "victory of fear", while the Sozcu tabloid thinks "terror has increased".
The left-wing daily Taraf accuses President Erdogan of using a "chaos plan" to whip up public insecurity, and the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem predicts a "new era of struggle".
By BBC Monitoring | European observers have said violence marred the run-up to polls in Turkey in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) regained its majority. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Local residents have complained about heroin being sold, leading Translink to cut back shrubs and bushes to make the station safer for travellers and staff.
The police said they have "increased patrols at key times" near the station.
They said officers are working with the council, Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) and local representatives to clamp down on criminal behaviour.
In March, the Police Service of Northern Ireland made three arrests for possession of Class A, B, and C drugs in the vicinity.
Local people have told BBC News NI that the drug dealers are not from their area, and expressed concerns that they could be dangerous.
One resident, who did not want to be named over fears the gang could then target him, said: "We believe as a community that a criminal gang is travelling throughout north Belfast and Yorkgate is just one area."
"They're peddling heroin. Residents have seen heroin being sold in and around Yorkgate train station.
"Police have confirmed that there is a criminal gang," he added.
The station is popular with commuters and schoolchildren but Hilton Parr, head of rail services at Translink, said passenger safety has prompted them to take action.
"In recent weeks and months we've had an ongoing increase in anti-social behaviour," he said.
"We've encountered people sleeping rough in the vegetation. We've had people using drugs and taking alcohol and also we've had staff and customers intimidated.
"It's rather barren looking while the grass grows but we've taken out a lot of vegetation round the area, we've opened up the area and brightened the pathways to make sure it's safer for our customers."
People who live nearby believe the foliage was allowing dealers to conceal criminal behaviour.
"We basically pushed for the bushes and trees to be cut back because they were being used to hide heroin and dealers were using it as cover," the resident said.
"We were in shock as a community when we found out. Obviously young children from our community would play in that area.
"People are shocked and angry that this is going on, on the fringes of their community.
"We do not want heroin or any other drug in our community. We know what heroin does to people and families. This needs to be dealt with and these people need to stop what they're doing.
"We don't know who they are. We know they're dangerous. They're not local to Tiger's Bay. There's a fear of the unknown and what these people are capable of."
Alderman Guy Spence lives in north Belfast and works with people from the close-knit streets.
He said residents do not want to see criminal behaviour near their homes, and are setting up a neighbourhood watch to try to keep their community safe.
"There's lot of reports of activity that have been passed to police, or have come to me and I've passed them on," Mr Spence said.
"It is an issue. It's a problem, and it's a considerable problem for that area.
"It appears to be organised - an organised crime operation that's taking place. It's easy for gangs to come in with drugs to areas that are deprived."
Mr Spence added: "What we're trying to do is regenerate that area through housing and playgrounds and what they're saying is they're concerned.
"They're trying to improve the reputation of the area and things like this maybe don't help that. But there's a vision for the area. And although there may be an issue, we're being prepared to overcome it.
"We're resilient. We've come through a lot as an area and we're prepared stand up, to roll up our sleeves and move our area forward." | Translink has said it has made changes at Belfast's Yorkgate train station after a rise in anti-social behaviour. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Dwight Gayle scored a hat-trick for the hosts, his third coming dramatically in the sixth minute of added time after Yoan Gouffran levelled on 95 minutes.
After Gayle's opener, goals from Graham Dorrans, Cameron Jerome and Jacob Murphy had put Norwich two goals clear.
But Gayle's second quickly made it 3-2 to set up a stunning Magpies fightback.
Relive Newcastle's stunning fightback to beat Norwich
The hosts applied intense pressure in the closing stages and were rewarded, first with Gouffran's close-range finish from DeAndre Yedlin's cross and then Gayle's even later winner.
Victory lifted Newcastle up to third in the table from ninth and denied Norwich top spot, which they were set to occupy as they took a 3-2 lead into stoppage time.
Gayle could have put the hosts in front at least twice before he opened the scoring from Matt Ritchie's first-half cross, but Norwich - who had rarely threatened - levelled through Dorrans' penalty moments before half-time after Gouffran had fouled Robbie Brady in the box to concede the spot kick.
The visitors then became increasingly dangerous on the counter-attack and Jerome curled them into the lead before Murphy's deflected strike looked sure to have sealed a Canaries victory.
Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez:
"I am the kind of manager who gets excited, but especially inside because I am really proud when I see the team reacting. I am really proud of them.
"Some people will jump or run or whatever, but I am happy inside because I think it's something that's difficult to achieve."
Norwich City manager Alex Neil:
"This seems to be a strange place for me because the twice I have been here, the games have been probably two of the most bizarre games I have ever been involved in as a player, a manager, anything.
"We got ourselves into a position where we were 3-1 up, comfortable and then we concede a goal, and then we have got 90 seconds to see the game out.
"It's 3-2 with 90 seconds left on the clock and we don't defend the box well enough. It really is as simple as that."
Match ends, Newcastle United 4, Norwich City 3.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 4, Norwich City 3.
Attempt saved. Jonny Howson (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Graham Dorrans.
Goal! Newcastle United 4, Norwich City 3. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Goal! Newcastle United 3, Norwich City 3. Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by DeAndre Yedlin with a cross.
Attempt blocked. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Christian Atsu replaces Paul Dummett.
Jonjo Shelvey (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Robbie Brady (Norwich City).
Foul by DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle United).
Robbie Brady (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nélson Oliveira (Norwich City).
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Ryan Bennett (Norwich City).
Substitution, Norwich City. Nélson Oliveira replaces Cameron Jerome.
Attempt missed. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Alexander Tettey (Norwich City).
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Isaac Hayden.
Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Jonny Howson (Norwich City).
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from very close range is too high. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Russell Martin.
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Michael McGovern.
Attempt saved. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey.
Substitution, Norwich City. Ryan Bennett replaces Jacob Murphy.
Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card.
Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Paul Dummett (Newcastle United).
Ivo Pinto (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Graham Dorrans (Norwich City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Martin Olsson (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card.
Aleksandar Mitrovic (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Ciaran Clark.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Isaac Hayden replaces Jack Colback.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Aleksandar Mitrovic replaces Mohamed Diamé.
Goal! Newcastle United 2, Norwich City 3. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jonjo Shelvey with a through ball.
Goal! Newcastle United 1, Norwich City 3. Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Robbie Brady. | Newcastle United fought back from 3-1 down to win a seven-goal thriller with two goals in stoppage time at home to Norwich City in the Championship. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | The region's military chief of staff, Abdelrazzak Al-Naduri, said the aim of the move was to prevent people from joining terrorist groups abroad.
Libya has rival administrations in the east and west, and much of the country is effectively controlled by militias.
The new order comes days after a controversial ban on women's travel was introduced, and quickly suspended.
That order, also issued by the authorities in eastern Libya, prevented women under 60 from travelling without a male companion.
Libyans in other parts of the country are unlikely to be affected by the new ban, because the two rival centres of power do not recognise each other's authority.
The new order means eastern Libya's military intelligence and ministry of interior will be responsible for issuing permits for those who wish to travel.
A source at the military chief of staff's office told the BBC the order was likely to be a temporary one, and that most travellers would be able to obtain a security clearance within a day.
But he did not specify what the criteria for a travel permit would be.
The short-lived ban on women's travel was also introduced for national security reasons, the military said.
It claimed that some women were communicating with foreign intelligence services.
However, that directive was widely condemned and ridiculed by Libyans, the BBC's North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad reports.
The country has been torn by strife since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
Eastern Libya is under the control of strongman commander Khalifa Hafter, who is leading the battle against Islamist militias. Its government is not recognised by the international community.
The rival government is based in the capital, Tripoli.
The power vacuum created after Gaddafi's fall allowed the Islamic State group to gain a foothold in the country, adding to an already volatile situation.
An estimated 400,000 Libyans have also been internally displaced during the conflict.
The situation has led to a flood of migrants attempting to travel to Italy by boat, often with fatal consequences.
After 31 wickets on the first two days at Canterbury, the visitors reached 232-2 to wrap things up before lunch.
Hughes fell for 94 when he was bowled by Matt Coles, ending a 186-run stand for the second wicket.
Captain Godleman was left unbeaten on 82 as Tillakaratne Dilshan (27 not out) finished the job with two fours.
The result was a big disappointment for Kent, who led by 119 after bowling Derbyshire out for just 86 in their first innings.
They were unable to engineer a similar collapse as the visitors began day three on 169-1 and the loss of Hughes, who hit a six and 13 fours in his 179-ball innings, was only a blip as they knocked off the 63 runs needed overnight in just 13.2 overs.
It was Derbyshire's first win at Canterbury since April 1999.
Kent captain Sam Northeast:
"I'm very disappointed. When you're almost 120 runs ahead, you expect to go on and build in a game.
"Even at lunch on day two I felt we were in a decent position, but then the big collapse came and we've already had a chat about that as a group.
"I felt the bowlers didn't get the luck they deserved or the support from our attack and the game just drifted away from us."
Derbyshire's acting captain Billy Godleman:
"It was an incredible game of cricket and really enjoyable to be a part of. I'm so pleased we were able to see it through this morning.
"I think Coles bowled very well for Kent in our first innings, but our new-ball bowlers (Mark) Footitt and (Tony) Palladino, together with (Wayne) White in their second innings, were all high-class for us.
"I'm fortunate to have Footitt and Palladino and they make my life as skipper much easier than it might be otherwise.
"You just never know what can happen in cricket if you keep on believing. The trend of the game was for wickets to fall in clusters, so that was our focus second time around, to be patient, and that paid dividends."
The three-year-old was hit by a Land Rover pulling a trailer on Hastings Road at about 10:00 GMT, police said.
He was taken to Bristol Children's Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Part of Parsons Street has been closed while investigations are carried out and police have appealed for witnesses. | Eastern Libya has banned men and women between the ages of 18 and 45 from travelling abroad without permission.
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Chesney Hughes and Billy Godleman steered Derbyshire to their second Championship victory of the season as they beat Kent by eight wickets.
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A young boy knocked down near a school in Bedminster, Bristol, has died. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | An official report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) found the jail in Walton to be "dirty, overcrowded and poorly equipped".
HMIP said the prison, where there have been 11 deaths, has "deteriorated dramatically" with drug use, staff assaults and self-harm.
The Howard League for Penal Reform said the report makes for "grim reading."
The HMIP report followed an unannounced 11-day visit in May and found a "worrying" three-fold increase in staff assaults,
Mark Fairhurst, a prison officer, told the BBC he believed at least one recent death was due to the legal high "Spice".
The Howard League, a charity that campaigns for prison reform, said 10 men had died in the preceding 14 months and another died shortly after the inspection. The HMIP report said three deaths were self-inflicted.
Frances Crook, chief executive of the charity, said a "lack of managerial oversight" meant prisoners spent hours "locked inside their cells" and "these are the symptoms of a prison system that has been in meltdown".
She said staff were "working under intolerable pressure as prison conditions have deteriorated".
The HMIP report found health provision has "deteriorated dramatically" during 2014 and was the subject of a number of interventions.
Sex offenders located in the first-night centre felt "unsafe" because of their proximity to mainstream prisoners.
Nick Hardwick, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, said: "Throughout this report we have noted a series of backward steps.
"The prison has many longstanding problems to deal with and we acknowledge that urgent issues concerning health and to an extent the number of deaths in custody were being addressed."
He said there were pockets of good work but managers and staff need to "get a better grip on issues".
The Ministry of Justice said: "Prisons should offer offenders the chance to get the skills and qualifications they need to turn away from a life of crime."
Michael Spurr, chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, said the governor and staff at Liverpool are determined to improve and action is being taken.
"The Victorian environment is challenging," he said.
"But as the chief inspector makes clear - Liverpool is 'not a fundamentally poor prison' and I'm confident the action being taken will deliver real progress over the coming months."
Chris Coleman's side are 12th after they reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016, but England are 13th after exiting in the last 16 to Iceland.
The Republic of Ireland are 23rd in the standings, Northern Ireland are 32nd and Scotland are 67th, meaning Gordon Strachan's side rank below the likes of Benin and Panama.
Argentina are ranked number one with Brazil second and Germany third.
Top 20: 1 Argentina, 2 Brazil, 3 Germany, 4 Chile, 5 Belgium, 6 Colombia, 7 France, 8 Portugal, 9 Uruguay, 10 Spain, 11 Switzerland, 12 Wales, 13 England, 14 Croatia, 15 Poland, 16 Italy, 17 Costa Rica, 18 Mexico, 19 Peru, 20 Ecuador | Deaths and violence at HMP Liverpool have been highlighted by campaigners in light of a damning inspection.
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Wales will end 2016 ahead of England in the Fifa world rankings. |
Please summarize the following text. | Oxford University scientists say though doctors are already advised to give the drug, the benefits of taking it early on have been "hugely underestimated" and treatment is sometimes delayed.
Writing in the Lancet, they call for clearer medical and public guidelines.
NHS England says it will carefully consider the findings of the study.
Minor strokes and TIAs (transient ischaemic attacks or mini-strokes) occur when there is an interruption of blood flow to the brain - they can cause weakness to the limbs or problems with speech or vision and symptoms usually disappear within days.
But the chance of going on to have a major stroke - with more permanent symptoms - is higher in the days after an attack.
Previous studies have suggested aspirin plays some part in reducing this, particularly in the long-term, by reducing the risk of blood clots forming, or thinning the blood.
But the team of scientists say their findings show most of the benefit lies in the first crucial hours and days after a minor stroke or TIA.
They estimate taking early aspirin treatment at this point could reduce the risk of having a major stroke from one in 20 people per day to one in 100.
Lead researcher Prof Peter Rothwell said the benefits of immediate aspirin therapy had been "hugely underestimated".
He added: "We need to encourage people, if they think they've had some neurological symptoms that might be a minor stroke or TIA, to take aspirin immediately, as well as ideally seeking medical attention."
Source: Stroke Association
Researchers now call for medical services - including paramedics and NHS helplines - to recommend the drug as soon as possible if a TIA is suspected.
Meanwhile they say it is essential that patients who have a minor stroke are not just sent home from the emergency department with advice to add aspirin on to their next prescription.
The team reviewed data from 15 trials, involving thousands of people who had taken aspirin immediately after a stroke or as long-term treatment to prevent a second one.
Dr Dale Webb, at the Stroke Association charity, described the trial as an exciting development.
He added: "However, it's important to note that taking aspirin is not an alternative to seeking medical attention. Anyone who thinks they are having a TIA should always call 999 immediately.
"And the findings suggest that anyone who has stroke symptoms, which are improving while they are awaiting urgent medical attention can, if they are able, take aspirin."
Transient ischaemic attacks (also known as mini-strokes) - symptoms resolve within 24 hours but the majority resolve within 10-60 minutes.
Minor stroke - symptoms last more than 24 hours but often resolve within a few days - and are usually relatively mild
Major stroke - usually taken to mean some permanent symptoms remain
Source: Peter Rothwell, University of Oxford
Meanwhile Tony Rudd, National Clinical Director for Stroke at NHS England, said:"This report contains important data that will need to be carefully considered and then, if needed, appropriate changes made to guidelines for the management of acute stroke and transient ischemic attack."
Health experts suggest in general aspirin should not be taken without medical advice if people have bleeding disorders or swallowing problems and should be considered with caution if someone has asthma, for example.
New stroke guidelines for doctors are due out in the autumn. | People should consider taking aspirin immediately after a minor stroke to prevent or limit the harm caused by further strokes, researchers say. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Cardiff council said it faced a budget shortfall of up to £56.4m next year.
Councillors have been advised to plan for council tax rises of at least 4.5% for the next three years.
One idea being discussed is setting up a company to run council services such as highways and waste, which could also bid for work from other authorities.
Tax rises will be decided when the council sets its budget next February.
Cardiff council leader Phil Bale came under pressure over a package of cuts and a 5% council tax rise to balance the 2015-16 budget, surviving a vote of no-confidence from the council and a leadership challenge from his own Labour group.
A strategy report says the council faces a shortfall of £47.4m in 2016-17, expected to add up to £117m three years later.
It is based on an expected 3% cut in funding from the Welsh government.
But the report says a worst-case scenario could see the budget gap rise to £56.4m next year and £145.7m by 2018-19.
Finance director Christine Salter said there was "real potential" for the council to fail to balance its budget "unless radical policies and strategies are adopted".
Graham Hinchey, the council's cabinet member for services, said work was already under way on "alternative delivery models" to cope with budget pressures.
"Cardiff is the fastest growing city in the UK and consequently demand for the services we provide is growing while funding is reducing," he said.
"We can't be under any illusions that we face some very tough choices."
The report recommended the council urgently considers how to reduce its assets as a way to bring in money and cut repair and maintenance costs.
One idea is to set up an "arm's length" company owned by the council to run services such as highways, parks, and waste collection, which it is claimed could save or raise £4m a year.
Welsh Local Government Association chief executive Steve Thomas said the "harsh reality" is that too many councils in Wales are being "forced to financial breaking point".
He added: "Cardiff council should be commended for proactively exploring all the options that are available, to ensure their communities will benefit from more sustainable and affordable services in the future." | Further tax rises and "radical" changes to public services will be needed to balance the books of Wales' biggest council, officials have warned. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech posted online that the US was proposing talks while "pointing a gun at Iran".
On Saturday, US Vice-President Joe Biden suggested direct talks, separate to the wider international discussions due to take place later this month.
But the US widened sanctions on Iran on Wednesday, aiming to tighten a squeeze on Tehran's ability to spend oil cash.
Iran, which is subject to an array of international sanctions, has long argued that its nuclear programme is for energy generation and research.
Tehran's critics believe the government is developing nuclear weapons.
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany have held a series of negotiations with Iran over the years.
But they have often ended with Iran demanding the West lifts sanctions as a condition to any nuclear move, and the Western powers refusing.
Iran is expected to attend another round of negotiations on 26 February in Kazakhstan.
Mr Biden made his offer of direct talks during a security conference in Germany last weekend.
By Bozorgmehr SharafedinBBC Persian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been trying hard to "reset" Iran-US relations, but each time he has tried to do so, he has been hindered by Ayatollah Khamenei.
Mr Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said he was ready to talk directly to US leaders, but his signals have not been taken seriously. The White House knows that in the end, the ayatollah has the final say in foreign policy.
US President Barack Obama started his second term by sending fresh positive signals to Iran, the latest being Mr Biden's offer of one-to-one talks. Ayatollah Khamenei has criticised Mr Ahmadinejad and his foreign minister for welcoming Washington's offer. The ayatollah had previously described Mr Obama's "extended hand" of friendship as being "covered with a velvet glove, but underneath, it is made of cast iron".
He said Washington was prepared to hold one-to-one talks with Iran "when the Iranian leadership, supreme leader, is serious".
"That offer stands, but it must be real and tangible and there has to be an agenda that they are prepared to speak to. We are not just prepared to do it for the exercise," he said.
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akhbar Salehi welcomed the offer, saying Iran had no "red lines".
"But we have to make sure... that the other side comes with authentic intentions with a fair and real intention to resolve the issue," he said.
The minister said Iran would take the offer into "serious consideration", but the US had to desist from the "threatening rhetoric that everything is on the table".
Iran's supreme leader, however, said negotiations with the US "would solve nothing".
"You are pointing a gun at Iran saying you want to talk. The Iranian nation will not be frightened by the threats," he said.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has several times announced he was ready for direct talks with the US.
But Ayatollah Khamenei's advisers have criticised the president for making such a "submissive" offer, says the BBC's Bozorgmehr Sharafedin.
The UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has repeatedly accused Iran of not co-operating fully.
In its last report in November 2012, the agency expressed particular concern about activities at a facility in Parchin, just 20km (13 miles) from Tehran.
The agency wanted to investigate claims that Iran had built an explosive-containment vessel to conduct experiments there, saying such experiments "would be strong indicators of possible nuclear weapon development".
But Iran refused to give inspectors permission to visit the site.
Iran's repeated failure to ease international concerns has led to a gradual tightening of economic and political sanctions.
Analysts say Iran's economy is being hobbled. Its currency, the rial, has seen its value plunge, and vital medicines are said to be in short supply. | Iran's supreme leader has dismissed a US offer of one-to-one talks on Tehran's nuclear programme. |
Can you summarize the given article? | He said there was "a real appetite in Wales" for leaving the European Union, claiming the country was "even keener" on Brexit than other parts of the UK.
Geraint Talfan Davies, chairman of Wales Stronger in Europe, said the pro-EU group looked forward to "engaging with David to give the people of Wales the positive debate they deserve".
The referendum takes place on 23 June.
Mr Jones, Conservative MP for Clwyd West, said: "I have no doubt that there is a real appetite in Wales for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
"Recent polls, in fact, have shown that Wales is even keener for a 'leave' vote than many other parts of the country."
He added: "Wales, and the rest of the United Kingdom, can look forward to a more prosperous, more outward-looking future, outside the European Union." | Former Welsh Secretary David Jones will lead the Welsh arm of the Vote Leave campaign for the EU referendum. |
Summarize the content provided below. | The S&P 500 fell to its biggest decline in three weeks after upbeat economic data fuelled expectations that a rate rise could come sooner.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index was trading flat at 20,446.07.
The dollar was at 123.02 yen, rallying on the solid US economic data.
Minutes from the Bank of Japan's policy meeting on Wednesday also showed that some members said that consumer prices in the world's third largest economy would not meet the central's bank target in the 2017 fiscal year.
Chinese shares were trading mixed with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index down 0.5% to 28,109.17, while the Shanghai Composite was higher 0.9% to 4,955.51- bucking the region's trend.
Shares in China's top shoemaker Belle International rose more than 3% in Hong Kong, after it said its annual profit rose 8%.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 was down 0.8% to 5,725.5 points.
Meanwhile, South Korea's Kospi was lower by 1.5% to 2,110.46 - leading the region's losses. | Asian markets opened lower after losses for European and US shares as worries about Greece's debt default and potentially higher US interest rates weighed on investor sentiment. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Boys as young as 10 died at Oaks Colliery following two explosions between 12 and 13 December 1866.
Many of the bodies were never recovered in what is thought to be England's worst mining disaster.
The £125,000 statue was made by local sculptor Graham Ibbeson, who lost a relative in the blast.
"I'm the son of a Barnsley miner. My mining heritage goes back 200 years," he said.
"I'm 65 and I feel as if this was a sculpture I was born to make."
The explosion, thought to have been caused by flammable gases, buried the miners in the workings. A second explosion killed 27 rescuers the following day.
Barnsley Main colliery took over the workings of the Oaks Colliery and the surviving engine house and pithead structures were given Grade II listed status in 2013.
Emwazi was refused entry to Tanzania in 2009 for being drunk and abusive, custody records from the time show.
He has claimed he was on holiday with two friends when they were stopped and interrogated under orders from MI5.
Tanzania's home affairs minister Mathias Chikawe said there was no tip-off, but Emwazi "wanted to harm us".
Emwazi, who is in his mid-20s and from west London, has been identified as the masked jihadist in several Islamic State videos in which hostages have been beheaded.
He has said he was a student looking forward to a safari holiday when he flew to Tanzania's Dar es Salaam airport, from The Netherlands, six years ago.
He said that when he arrived, he was stopped, arrested and accused of wanting to joining the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terror network al-Shabaab.
But speaking to the BBC's East Africa correspondent Ed Thomas, Mr Chikawe said there was no contact from any intelligence agency relating to Emwazi, and the men were only stopped because of their behaviour.
"We had no information whatsoever from any organisation or anybody for that matter," he said.
"They were in a state of inebriation - highly drunk. And they were cursing and saying all the bad words you can think of.
"So the immigration officers detained them and asked them questions, saying, 'Why do you behave like this? Who are you? Why are you coming here?'."
In emails written to campaigners at advocacy group Cage, Emwazi said he had been threatened at gunpoint and was later told to ask the British government why he had been stopped.
But Mr Chikawe said his claims were untrue.
"He was actually detained by a lady, a young lady. She could not interrogate, she could not threaten the three of them," he said.
"It's not true, we just asked them questions.
"If he is saying anything other than what I'm telling you, then he is (lying)," he added.
He said there was a "very close" relationship between Britain and Tanzania because of historical ties. He has asked the Tanzanian authorities to investigate Emwazi's time in Tanzania.
"I've asked them to look for the CCTV footage if there is any, just to see exactly what happened," he said.
"Because for us at that time he was just like any other visitor trying to enter Tanzania, he wasn't special."
He said he believed their intent had been to cause harm.
"They must have wanted to do some terrorist acts. I think maybe they wanted to harm us, definitely," he said.
"We have been hit terrorists. The American embassy was blown up. We feel we are targets, and we don't want to be victims. We shall always defend ourselves."
A custody record dated 23 May 2009, and written in Kiswahili, requests that Emwazi and two friends "be detained after they refused to return back to Amsterdam using KLM 569 after being refused entry to the country".
The document names Emwazi, Ally Adorus and Marcel Schrodel.
Adorus, a British citizen, is now a convicted terrorist serving a prison sentence in Ethiopia.
Schrodel is said to have been known to German security services.
Mohammed Emwazi timeline:
Source: Cage, London-based campaign group
'Jihadi John' movement mapped | A sculpture has been unveiled to remember the 383 coal miners killed in a devastating explosion at a Barnsley pit.
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Mohammed Emwazi, the man otherwise known as "Jihadi John", wanted to carry out "acts of terrorism" in Tanzania, one of its top officials believes. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Figures from the RBS Group seen by BBC Radio 5 live show the extent to which victims are losing out to scammers.
From January to September this year almost 5,000 of the bank's customers fell victim to various scams - at a total cost of more than £25m.
The bank says the average cost of falling for a scam has gone up by 40% since 2014, to more than £13,000.
The rate at which people are suffering frauds like this is increasing according to the bank, with 900 cases reported in the third week of October alone - compared with 739 for the whole of September.
Conservative MP Mark Garnier, a member of the Commons Treasury Select Committee, said: "It is interesting that overall crime is going down, but we still clearly don't know what is happening with crime online."
Customers of Natwest, part of the RBS Group, who have been scammed are most frequently caught out by "vishing" - verbal phishing - where they are tricked into giving their account details during a telephone call.
"The problem with complaints where consumers have been conned in to making the transactions on the fraudster's behalf is the bank is not generally responsible for the fraud, unless their advice, delays or other errors have resulted in the money being stolen.
"Some banks may make a pragmatic decision to refund some of their customers where they have clearly been defrauded. However, when this happens, it is important to bear in mind that they are under no obligation to do so.
"Where consumers have not authorised transfers - for example where their card has been stolen or they have been tricked in to handing over passwords or codes allowing the fraudster to make the transactions themselves, the regulations say that the bank can only debit the consumers account if they have been 'grossly negligent'."
Some customers are also increasingly falling victim to so-called romance scams, where the victim is befriended online and then conned into handing over money.
Mr Garnier added: "There is obviously a huge crime wave that isn't being reported, either people aren't aware, or are embarrassed to report it."
Terry Lawson, head of fraud at RBS, told BBC Radio 5 live: "These figures show that the threat of scams is growing.
"The means by which fraudsters trick individuals into parting with their money is becoming more sophisticated, but it always ultimately depends on the individual transferring money out of their account.
"We would never contact a customer asking them to transfer money. If a customer of any bank is contacted by someone asking them to do this they should simply end the conversation and report the matter to the police."
Customers' bank account and sort code details were put at risk by the recent alleged cyber attack on TalkTalk.
The telecoms company said the attack was "smaller" than originally thought, but that bank details may have been accessed.
An inquiry into the hack will be launched by Jesse Norman, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. | One of the UK's biggest banks has said 70% of its customers who fall victim to a scam do not get a single penny back. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Yet this Renaissance scholar of politics, philosophy, mathematics and economics is better remembered on the other side of the Atlantic.
Now the Richard Price Society are hoping to reawaken a pride in the achievements of one of the Garw Valley's most influential - if not famous - sons.
They have launched an exhibition of some of his most seminary works and pictures and according to Swansea University's Professor of History Chris Williams it is a tribute which is well deserved.
"If Richard Price had been born a hundred years later then quite possibly we'd be hailing him as the father of the modern world."
"Though unfortunately he was ahead of his time. His ideas - such as one-person-one-vote and that the government only exists to serve the people - may seem obvious today, but in the 1750s and 1760s, he was the first person to seriously suggest them."
His upbringing was already radical, as he was born the son of a Unitarian preacher who flew in the face of established theological doctrine by believing that God was one entity, rather than the Holy Trinity.
Though for the first half of his life Price was comparatively low-profile and anonymous; working as a minister in the still-technically illegal Unitarian church of Newington Green.
However by the late 1760s his dissertations on economics had won him friends in high society, including Lord Shelburne and William Pitt The Younger.
According to Martyn Hooper, chairman of the Richard Price Society, his theories still provide the backbone to a great deal of today's financial orthodoxy.
"Does the need to reduce the national debt sound familiar? Well it was Richard Price who first warned of the dangers of over-indebting the economy in his 1772 pamphlet, 'Appeal to the Public on the Subject of the National Debt'," he said.
"He also developed a theory of statistical calculation which revealed a serious flaw in the way in which pensions and insurance of the time was calculated and prevented a major financial disaster."
Yet Prof Williams says that no sooner had Price's economic genius taken him to the very heart of London society than his hard line liberal views set him at odds with the establishment once again.
"Price was faithful to his beliefs in egalitarianism, regardless of if that put him at odds with his country," he said.
"His belief in the right of people to govern themselves influenced America's founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
"His work directly contributed to George Washington's assertion that George III's reign over the 13 colonies of America was 'tyrannical, and thus illegitimate'.
"In fact upon the Declaration of Independence Price was made an honorary US citizen and invited to take charge of the new nation's economic policy."
Price died in 1791 in the midst of a controversy surrounding his support for another popular revolution - this time in France.
While he was honoured by both the American Founding Fathers and Napoleon, in Britain he was largely written off as a dissident trouble-maker.
His exhibition in Llangeinor Community Centre officially opened on Saturday - on the 222nd anniversary of his death - by Mayor of Bridgend, Councillor Marlene Thomas.
Naoto Kan resigned after Fukushima was hit by a tsunami in 2011, causing radiation leaks.
He has since become an anti-nuclear campaigner and came to Wales on Thursday to oppose the new plant.
He told BBC Wales he had believed nuclear power to be safe but Fukushima had "changed all that."
Mr Kan met with campaigners from the People Against Wylfa B group.
Dr John Idris Jones, energy island programme director for Anglesey council, told BBC's Good Morning Wales programme the UK had an independent regulator with the power to shut plants down if they did not comply with safety regulations.
He said there was a push to bring new jobs to the island, but "not jobs at any cost".
It is hoped the nuclear project will boost the island's economy. | Dr Richard Price was born 290 years ago in the farmhouse of Tyn Ton in the village of Llangeinor, just to the north of Bridgend.
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Anti-nuclear campaigners have met the former Prime Minister of Japan to fight plans for the £8bn Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant on Anglesey. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, who took power after the strongman's death in 2006, gave the order to remove the monument in January.
The rotation of the statue, which always faced the sun, was stopped several weeks ago.
On Wednesday it was removed and workers are now tackling the huge tripod base.
The 15m (50ft) statue and its 75m marble-covered plinth - called the Arch of Neutrality - were seen as representative of the excesses of Mr Niyazov.
The self-styled "Turkmenbashi" - meaning the father of all Turkmen - established a comprehensive personality cult.
Streets, cities and months were named after him and his family, and portraits of him hung across the country.
Since his death his successor, Mr Berdymukhamedov, has overseen efforts to remove the most prominent reminders of the late leader.
He has promised to introduce reform in the Central Asian nation, which under Mr Niyazov experienced two decades of authoritarian rule and near-total isolation from the outside world.
But critics say reforms to date have been mostly cosmetic - media remains controlled by the state, which has only one political party.
The five-time world champion lost 5-2 in the last 16 to fellow Englishman Michael Holt, the world number 28.
World number four Judd Trump is also out, losing 5-3 to Michael White.
World champion Mark Selby progressed, as did 2016 Crucible runner-up Ding Junhui, while Ali Carter beat four-time world champion John Higgins.
Follow all results from the Shanghai Masters here.
The 26-year-old joined Fulham in the summer after spending four years at Rotherham, where he scored 22 goals in 168 appearances.
This term he has played 18 games, but none since Slavisa Jokanovic became Fulham head coach on 30 December.
Pringle comes in as cover after Town winger Ryan Fraser injured his hamstring in the 1-0 defeat by QPR. | The gold-plated statue of Turkmenistan's late leader, Saparmurat Niyazov, has been removed from its giant plinth in the capital, Ashgabat.
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Ronnie O'Sullivan has been knocked out of his first tournament since the World Championship in April with defeat in the Shanghai Masters.
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Ipswich have signed winger Ben Pringle from Championship rivals Fulham on an initial one-month loan. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Pirelli is the latest foreign company to suspend its operations in Venezuela amidst a severe economic crisis.
The firm said it would cease production at its Guacara plant in Carabobo state from 16 June after 26 years in business in Venezuela.
It comes a month after General Motors said it was leaving Venezuela.
In a statement, Pirelli of Venezuela said it would do everything possible to continue supplying the country with tyres.
The Venezuela division of the Italian-based tyre maker had halted production once before for two weeks last January, but this time it said the suspension was indefinite.
Earlier this week, Colgate-Palmolive announced it would no longer produce dishwashing liquid and detergent in Venezuela, also due to a lack of raw materials.
Also this week, United Airlines said it was suspending its Houston to Caracas route due to a lack of demand from 1 July.
The government blames the crisis on an "economic war" being waged against it by "US imperialists and the Venezuelan oligarchy".
But critics say the dire state of the economy is the fault of 18 years of mismanagement by the socialist governments of presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro.
Almost daily anti-government protests have further heightened tensions in the oil-rich country. | Tyre manufacturer Pirelli says it is suspending its production in Venezuela indefinitely as it can not get the necessary raw materials. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | It could see Spotify register shares on a stock exchange and become a publicly listed company without raising new cash, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Shares would be traded on the day of listing, with the price based on supply and demand, rather than new investors buying shares the day before trading.
Spotify declined to comment.
A direct listing would save the music service the underwriting fees needed to launch an initial public offering (IPO), and would avoid diluting the value of existing stakes in the company.
It could also sidestep a surge in first-day trading that often takes place after an IPO, which can signal that a company undervalued its newly issued shares.
The tactic, though rare, is usually used by smaller companies that do not expect high levels of trading in their stock.
A direct listing of a company is "basically just sticking it on eBay", says CMC Markets senior market analyst Michael Hewson.
Whereas with an IPO new investors can buy shares from existing investors the day before trading begins, with a direct listing investors buy shares on the open market on the day they are listed for the going rate.
Very rare. "No-one does it," says Mr Hewson. Normally firms use an IPO as an opportunity to make lots of cash.
In general, IPOs can also cost a fair chunk of money, and, crucially for Spotify, they can take a lot of time to set up.
An IPO needs an investment bank or banks to underwrite an issue of new stock. Underwriting often amounts to the bank buying new stock to resell after the company floats.
The bank also looks at the company as part of the process for setting a reasonable initial offer price for the shares. The underwriters "build a book" - that is, they go to institutional investors to gauge the appetite for the shares in the company that's going to be floated. Fund managers say how many shares they want and the price they would be willing to pay, and the level of this demand is one of the factors used to set the initial offer price.
All of this to-ing and fro-ing eats up cash and time - and for Spotify, the clock is ticking.
In March last year, the firm raised $1bn from investors at an interest rate of 5% a year, plus a discount of 20% on shares once they list.
But under the terms of the agreement, the interest rate goes up by one percentage point and the discount by 2.5 percentage points every six months until the shares are listed.
So as time ticks by, Spotify has to pay more to its creditors, and give them more of a discount on shares.
As well as being a faster process, direct listing also means fewer regulatory hurdles, and it helps keeps expectations about share prices in check.
Spotify, which last year issued a $1bn (£801m) convertible bond, was publicly valued at $8.5bn (£6.8bn) in 2015.
The Swedish firm was founded more than a decade ago and now has more than 50 million paying subscribers.
This week it also signed a new long-term licensing deal with Universal Music Group, the world's largest record label.
Spotify includes TPG and Goldman Sachs among its major investors. | Spotify is reportedly considering an unconventional direct listing on a stock market that stops short of a full-blown initial public offering. |
Can you summarize the following information? | Simon Parsons, who taught drama, pleaded guilty in November to five counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
His trial at Bristol Crown Court heard Parsons admitted exploiting the pupil and accepted the relationship was "amoral and inappropriate".
The court heard he fathered a child with her after she left the school.
Parsons, of Uley Road, Dursley, Gloucestershire, taught for more than 30 years at Castle School in Thornbury.
During the trial, a statement from his wife was read out which said: "He is not a monster, he is a gentle man who made a massive mistake."
Parsons had sex with the pupil over a period of five years but his wife "bore" the affair and he returned to his family after the girl ended the relationship in her early 20s, the court heard.
The girl's family urged her to tell the police in a bid to protect other pupils.
Prosecuting, James Ward said: "This relationship began in a way normal relationships do.
"The sex was consensual but illegal because teachers cannot have sex with schoolchildren.
"She acknowledges that she had a crush on the defendant and she thought that it maybe was her fault that it happened."
In a statement, the girl said: "I felt grossed out at one point and then I thought 'Oh well, he fancies me'."
Representing Parsons, David Scutt said his client was a "committed teacher".
Parsons was arrested in April 2014, years after the relationship ended.
"He accepts the relationship was amoral and inappropriate. He had her trust as a teacher, he breached it," said Mr Scutt.
"He is able to recognise that he was exploiting a young female pupil. He put his needs in front of those of his family."
He said Parsons' career had gone and he "had lost his self-esteem and feels constantly humiliated".
The girl's mother, who cannot be identified, said she was "angry" it was allowed to happen.
"The school hadn't been the safe haven it should have been," she said.
She said she went to tell the head teacher her daughter had had a child by the teacher, because she was "concerned for other students".
"The school did nothing. That man was allowed to continue teaching for another three years," she added.
Following the sentencing, the school sent a letter to parents saying it took the safety of its students "very seriously".
In it head teacher Peter Smart and chairman of governors Chris White-Horne said the school was "not aware that an inappropriate relationship existed" when the girl was a student at the school.
"Abuse of the position of trust between teacher and student is completely unacceptable and we unreservedly condemn Mr Parsons' actions," the statement said. | A 52-year-old teacher who admitted having sex with his 17-year-old drama student has been jailed for 12 months. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | 2 September 2016 Last updated at 10:26 BST
In her speech in Stirling, Ms Sturgeon also acknowledged that choosing independence would be a "big decision" in the wake of the Brexit vote.
But she said Scotland had to decide whether it wanted to control its own destiny. | Nicola Sturgeon says it is right to keep the "option on the table" of a second independence referendum following the UK's vote to leave the EU. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The winglet of one aircraft clipped the tail fin of the other as they were taxiing to the runway on Wednesday morning. Dublin Airport has said no one was injured and delays are expected to some departures.
Ryanair has apologised to customers for any inconvenience caused.
The planes were due to fly to Edinburgh and Zadar.
In a statement, the airline said: "Two of our aircraft were taxiing slowly to the runway at Dublin Airport this morning. The winglet of one aircraft appears to have scraped the tail fin of the other.
"Both aircraft were under the instruction of Dublin Airport Air Traffic Control at the time. Customers were bussed and boarded two replacement aircraft, which departed to Edinburgh and Zadar.
"Ryanair apologised sincerely to customers for any inconvenience caused," the statement added.
On Twitter, Dublin Airport said: "A ground incident is causing delays to some departures this morning. Arrivals are operating normally. Please check with your airline. It appears that two aircraft clipped each other on a taxiway.
"No injuries on the two aircraft which clipped each other on a taxiway this am. Passengers in process of being taken off the aircraft.
"The two flights that clipped on a taxiway this morning were the @Ryanair services to Edinburgh FR812 & Zadar FR7312". | Two Ryanair planes have scraped each other on the ground at Dublin airport, the airline has confirmed. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | 24 July 2016 Last updated at 00:02 BST
The talking clock was originally designed for people who did not have a watch or clock to hand.
Over its 80-year lifetime four people have voiced the talking clock; Ethel Jane Cain, Pat Simmons, Brian Cobby and most recently, Sara Mendes da Costa.
21 November 2016 Last updated at 18:27 GMT
Jamie Burns' sister, Gemma, told the BBC that he died after making one "stupid mistake".
An artistic marine engineer has made a piece of apparatus inside the £6bn warship look like a Minion.
Minions have their own language, saying "bello" for "hello" and "poopaye" for "goodbye".
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the paintwork followed a long navy tradition of personalising ships.
The Ministry of Defence contractor is putting HMS Queen Elizabeth through sea trials after leaving Rosyth dockyard in Fife where it was built.
The warship has been berthed at Invergordon in the Highlands since early July.
The tradition of sailors adding their own personal touch to warships has been flagged up by the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth.
After seeing a photograph of HMS Queen Elizabeth's new comedy artwork, the museum tweeted that sailors serving on the Mary Rose were believed to have personalised the Tudor warship.
The museum added: "Good to see some traditions survive."
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the Minion showed that the ship's company was settling into its new home.
A spokesman said: "HMS Queen Elizabeth will be home to her ship's company for months at a time and this is a real example of how they're really enjoying being on board and establishing their working and living routines whilst we undertake contractor sea trials."
Since arriving at Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth, members of the ship's company have also been meeting the local community.
Some of the crew attended the Inverness Highland Games at the weekend.
The Aircraft Carrier Alliance said the warship's sea trails were continuing.
The spokesman said: "HMS Queen Elizabeth is making progress through her sea trials programme, which is designed to test the full spectrum of her vast and complex systems.
"We fully anticipate this will identify areas for improvement that will be addressed at sea, during a number of routine port stops or as part of the planned engineering period."
HMS Queen Elizabeth - one of two new carriers being built at Rosyth - began sea trials last month.
The ship had to pass under the Forth Bridge on its way to open sea.
It is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy. The flight deck alone is the size of three football pitches.
Once in service with the Royal Navy, the ship can operate with a crew of 1,000 and 40 aircraft.
The 65,000 tonne warship is the Royal Navy's first aircraft carrier since HMS Illustrious was scrapped in 2014.
Donald Nicholson, 93, from Tyne and Wear, lost his medals whilst travelling to a memorial event in Lincoln on Friday.
The row of five medals may have been left at a service area near Blyth in Nottinghamshire.
A reward of £350 is being offered for their safe return.
On Friday, organisers of an event marking the unveiling of a memorial spire to Bomber Command crewmen, took to Facebook to appeal for help.
The post was shared more than 2,000 times, with the appeal featuring in national press.
One person on Facebook also offered to replace four of the five medals with a duplicate set belonging to their grandfather.
Mr Nicholson, from Houghton-le-Spring, realised his medals were missing when he arrived to take part in a private ceremony at the memorial site on Canwick Hill, in Lincoln.
The site, which is currently under construction, will eventually become the International Bomber Command Centre.
Nicky Barr, director of the project, said to lose them on such a special day was "heartbreaking".
She said Mr Nicolson was left very distressed and appealed for anyone with information to get in touch.
125,000
Aircrew served in Bomber Command in World War Two
364,514 operational sorties flown
55,573 aircrew killed in action
25,611 killed flying from Lincolnshire
70% of aircrew were killed, taken prisoner or injured | On 24 July 1936, the talking clock spoke for the first time.
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The family of a young man who died after a night out in Belfast say they believe his death was caused by taking ecstasy and have warned others about the dangers of drugs.
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A character from the children's movie franchise Despicable Me has appeared below the deck of the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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Officials have made a renewed appeal for help finding a set of missing medals belonging to a World War Two Bomber Command veteran. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) hopes its new mobile scanner will help to improve Scotland's sheep stocks.
Using low dose x-rays, the scanner produces images showing muscle shape, internal fat and pelvic shape of live animals.
SRUC's sheep geneticist Dr Nicola Lambe said the scans could help indentify "attributes" that produce the best lambs for meat.
Dr Lambe told BBC Alba: "The scanner is the same as you would get in a hospital and it is usually used for medical purposes.
"But we use it for CT scanning sheep.
"The interesting thing is that you can look at all the different body tissue and organs.
"We can use it to select the top animals for breeding with."
A number of pedigree sheep breeders have already made use of the mobile scanner to check for their best animals. | A medical CT scanner is being used to identify the best sheep for breeding. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Big air - where snowboarders and skiers perform a trick off a large jump - has been recommended to the International Olympic Committee.
The IOC will decide on 8 June and it could make its debut in 2018.
Snowboarder Lesley McKenna said it would "double" GB's medal chances.
Big air is one of a number of recommendations the International Ski Federation (FIS) has made to the IOC.
McKenna, who competed in halfpipe in three Winter Olympics and is now GB Park and Pipe programme manager, told BBC Sport: "If big air becomes an Olympic sport it would be a very exciting prospect.
"We have world-class big air athletes and there is strength and depth with lots of youngsters coming through too.
"It's in the IOC's hands but there's lots of goodwill from FIS to push for big air to be in the Winter Olympics."
GB snowboarder Billy Morgan said: "It would be epic if big air is included."
Morgan, seventh in big air at this year's World Championships, was part of Team GB which competed in slopestyle when it burst onto the Winter Olympic stage in Sochi a year ago.
Team-mate Jones claimed her bronze in the women's snowboard slopestyle to become Britain's first Winter Olympic athlete to win a medal in a snow event.
Britain boasts a number of world-class freestyle skiers and snowboarders who compete in both slopestyle and big air, including Morgan, Jamie Nicholls, his cousin Katie Ormerod and Aimee Fuller.
Skiers Katie Summerhayes and James Woods showed their credentials by finishing second in big air at the World Tour Finals in Whistler, Canada, at the weekend while Isabel Atkins is another name to look out for.
After the instant television success of adding snowboard/ski cross and then slopestyle to the Olympic programme, big air could become the latest freestyle addition in PyeongChang.
The IOC said it had received a number of proposals for new events from international federations and was currently carrying out on-site assessments before a decision was made by the executive board.
"It's a logistical question as to whether PyeongChang can handle another event, but we only had two years notice that slopestyle was going to be in Sochi," McKenna added.
"If it is too soon for PyeongChang then I'm confident it will be approved for 2022 and it will be full steam ahead from our point of view." | After waiting 90 years for a first Winter Olympic medal on snow with Jenny Jones' 2014 snowboard bronze, Great Britain's chances of adding to the tally could be boosted by a new event. |
Can you summarize this content? | Details emerged on The Nolan Show on BBC Radio Ulster.
The show said it had a list of all the successful applicants to the RHI scheme.
The Renewable Heat Association NI had threatened to seek an injunction against the programme if they published names of all recipients.
There is a court injunction in place preventing the Department for the Economy from revealing the names of Renewable Heat Association (RHANI) of Northern Ireland members.
Last month it was announced that retired appeal court judge Sir Patrick Coghlin will chair a public inquiry into the RHI scheme.
The Renewable Heat Incentive scheme was an attempt by the Northern Ireland Executive to help to increase consumption of heat from renewable sources.
However, businesses were receiving more in subsidies than they were paying for renewable fuel and the scheme became majorly oversubscribed.
The fallout from the scandal, which is approximately £490m over budget resulted in the collapse of Stormont's institutions and the calling of snap elections on 2 March. | A small number of companies, registered as dormant, have been claiming tens of thousands of pounds from the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Latham's 104 from 111 balls provided the foundation for the Black Caps as they powered to 344-6 off 50 overs.
Despite William Porterfield's 48, Ireland could only manage 154 in reply off 39.3 overs as they ended their three-match campaign without a win.
New Zealand have beaten Ireland twice and Bangladesh once to win the series.
The Kiwis will meet Bangladesh again in the final game of the tournament at Clontarf on Wednesday.
Latham's innings eventually came to an end when he was stumped by Niall O'Brien off the bowling of George Dockrell.
However, it was a belligerent 44 from just 15 balls, including four sixes and three fours, from Colin Munro which helped push the total out of Ireland's reach as New Zealand blasted 72 runs from the last four overs.
Ireland's reply got off to a shaky start when they lost opener Paul Stirling in the third over with just a single run on the board, and although captain Porterfield steadied the ship, only he and Gary Wilson made it past 20.
Pace bowler Matt Henry, who was ably assisted by Corey Anderson and Scott Kuggeleijn with two wickets apiece, took 3-36.
This was another untimely Irish display with the game's bosses set to decide on their possible Test status next month.
Ireland had been competitive for much of last weekend's encounter with the New Zealanders, but this reverse will pile further pressure on coach John Bracewell and his struggling side, who subsequently went down by eight wickets to Bangladesh with 22.5 overs to spare.
Ireland are next in action in an Intercontinental Cup tie against the Netherlands at Malahide in August.
Posters showing images of both activities, crossed through in red, were put up by Northamptonshire Police.
"It came to our attention that bushes by a picnic area and a lorry park at the service station were regularly being used by people as a toilet," a spokesman said.
The signs were designed to be clear to "people from across the world".
About 20 posters have been put up at the northbound service area "to encourage people to use the facilities inside the service station building".
Ch Insp Tom Thompson, who is leading the crackdown, said it was "perverse" that people would use the hedgerows when the services were free to use.
He said there had been a growing problem with the smell around the hedgerows, saying there had been "more and more complaints from people trying to picnic over the summer months".
If the signs are successful they may be used in other locations.
"Clearly by printing these posters we'll get a good debate going and hopefully people will start using the toilets," he said.
A spokesman for Roadchef, the company which runs the Watford Gap services, said: "Following a very small number of incidents, the police have introduced a sign in the car park... requesting that motorists use our newly-upgraded toilets inside the building, rather than foliage in the car park.
"We do not condone people using our site inappropriately in any way, and monitor car parks at all of our sites to ensure every customer receives a good experience when using our facilities." | Skipper Tom Latham plundered a century as New Zealand crushed Ireland by 190 runs in Dublin to secure victory in the one-day international tri-series.
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Visitors to Watford Gap services on the M1 are being warned not to urinate against walls and defecate in bushes. |
Summarize the provided information. | The Welsh Government is due to propose new teaching standards for Wales on Thursday.
The standards set who can qualify to be a teacher and outline what is expected of them as they develop.
"These new standards are about making sure teachers develop the right skills throughout their career," Ms Williams said.
Teaching standards aim to set out the expectations of teachers.
Current standards include understanding the national education policy context in Wales, teaching clearly structured lessons or sequences of work, and managing teaching and learning time effectively.
Inspectors at Estyn recently raised concerns that the quality of teaching in Wales was weak.
Ms Williams said: "The standards that we have at the moment are outdated and no longer fit for purpose.
"They don't marry with my vision for our school workforce.
"These new standards don't set a minimum like the old ones did. They go beyond that expectation."
The new standards are expected to focus more on teachers' personal development and training than previously.
It is proposed that they apply to all serving teachers from September 2018 and initial teacher training programmes from September 2019. | Teaching standards are outdated and are no longer fit for purpose, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has said. |
What is the summary of the following document? | The UK-based household goods maker said it saw "no merit, either financial or strategic" in Kraft's offer, worth about $143bn (£115bn).
But Kraft, which makes Heinz ketchup, indicated it would continue working on a deal, sending shares in Unilever surging more than 13%.
The deal would be one of the biggest in corporate history.
It would combine Unilever's dozens of household names, including Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Dove soap, and Hellmann's mayonnaise, with Kraft's own wide range, such as Philadelphia cheese and Heinz baked beans.
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Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever, which has 7,500 employees in the UK, said the offer from Kraft "fundamentally undervalued" the company.
"Unilever does not see the basis for any further discussions," it added.
Kraft, which is part-owned by US billionaire Warren Buffett, said it had made "a comprehensive proposal" and looked "forward to working to reach agreement on the terms of a transaction".
The US food company attracted political scrutiny when it bought Cadbury in 2010, although it later spun the UK chocolate maker off into another company.
A takeover of Unilever could raise concerns about job cuts and would likely be examined by competition regulators, analysts said.
With so many brands, the firms would be in a stronger position to raise prices, said Neil Wilson, an analyst at London broker ETX Capital.
"The combined entity would have a huge brand footprint and be able to flex bargain muscles even more with supermarkets," Mr Wilson said.
Takeovers are like those strange mating rituals you see on Planet Earth narrated by David Attenborough.
Kraft Heinz has approached Unilever about getting together and making an even bigger business with a huge family of brands.
Unilever has spurned the offer and is looking aloof, saying not only the proposal was too cheap but also that it "sees no merit, either financial or strategic....Unilever does not see the basis for any further discussions".
Quite a slap in the face you might think but faint heart ne'er won fair hand. If Kraft Heinz offered a lot more money it might look a bit more attractive to Unilever.
Although whether the competition and takeover authorities would bless the union is another matter.
It would create a behemoth that could dominate many consumer sectors from food to soap and might stifle competition; many societies have rules against that kind of relationship.
"It could come up against a number of hurdles as it would create a giant in the sector. EU regulators in particular could be against it," Mr Wilson said.
Unilever clashed with UK supermarket Tesco in October over its attempts to raise prices to compensate for the steep drop in the value of the pound.
The consumer goods giant has over a dozen sites across the UK, including three major plants in Liverpool, Norwich and Gloucester.
A UK government spokesman said: "This is clearly an important potential deal for a major company in the UK and its workforce. We continue to monitor the situation closely."
If the deal went through, it would be the second biggest ever, behind Vodafone's $183bn takeover of Germany's Mannesmann in 2000, according to Dealogic.
Kraft's offer was at an 18% premium to Unilever's closing share price on Thursday, Unilever said.
The 13% rise in Unilever shares after the companies' announcements suggested investors were not fully convinced the deal would happen. Kraft shares rose 11% on Wall Street.
Still, analysts said Kraft was likely to return with another offer for Unilever, which reported net profit of 5.5bn euros (£4.7bn) last year.
"With Kraft Heinz saying it'll be coming back to the table, it looks like the initial offer was just to test the water," said Nicholas Hyett, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Mr Buffett's investment fund Berkshire Hathaway and Brazilian private equity firm 3G are major investors in Kraft.
Kraft merged with Heinz in 2015 to create one of America's biggest food companies.
In 2010, Kraft bought Cadbury for £11.5bn, but it no longer owns the UK chocolate maker after spinning it off in a company called Mondelez. | Unilever, whose brands include Marmite and PG Tips, has strongly rejected a takeover bid from US giant Kraft Heinz. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | The 20-year-old came through the academy system at the Premier League club and is a regular member of their Under-21 squad.
He is available to make his Football League debut for the Glovers in Saturday's game against MK Dons.
"We've got strikers but no-one has really hit that bit of form yet," boss Gary Johnson told BBC Somerset.
"I know they've got high hopes for him. He's got electric pace and a good goal-scoring record.
"This is his first loan, so we're taking a bit of a chance but I think he's ready." | Manchester City striker Jordy Hiwula has joined League One side Yeovil Town on loan until 5 January. |
Write a summary of this document. | They are responding to a call from the government's Business Champion for Older Workers, Andy Briggs.
In February, he asked firms to increase older worker numbers by 12% by 2022.
Mr Briggs warned that by then, there will be 14.5 million more jobs, but only seven million younger workers entering the workplace.
He said older workers were vital in filling the UK's "colossal skills gap".
Mr Briggs, who is also chief executive of Aviva UK Life, wants more companies to commit to his pledge and publish data about the age of their workforce to help ensure his target of one million more older workers by 2022.
"Businesses can show leadership here, through committing to real change and actively seeking to recruit more over-50s into their organisations," he said.
"By being open about the progress they are making, they can also lead the way in demonstrating the benefits of having a diverse team of employees that represents all sections of society."
The eight companies that have signed up are: Aviva, Atos, Barclays, the Co-operative Group, Home Instead Senior Care, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), Mercer and Walgreens Boots Alliance.
In the newly published data, the figures for Atos show 33% of its workforce are between 50 and 64. Aviva employ 18.3% in this age group, Barclays 17% and the Co-op Group 26%.
While it is still uncertain what sort of agreement the next government will strike with the EU over freedom of movement, many employers are concerned about filling skilled and non-skilled jobs after Brexit.
Mr Briggs said the average age in the UK is now 40, 10 years older than it was in 1974.
By 2030, it is estimated half of all adults in the UK will be over 50.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) called the attack at the cemetery in Rochdale Road, Blackley, "sickening and cruel".
GMP said the boys were arrested on Friday on suspicion of committing a racially-aggravated public order offence.
The boys were released on police bail until 25 July.
In addition to the slogans and graffiti, about 40 headstones were toppled. | Aviva, Barclays, Atos and five other firms have agreed to promote over-50s employment by publishing data about the age of their workforce.
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Two 13-year-old boys have been arrested after anti-Semitic graffiti and swastikas were daubed over gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Manchester. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Colin Smith was shot on Alderwood Road in Speke at about 20:00 GMT on 13 November 2007.
The father-of-five had been at Nels Gym and was on his way back to his black Ford Galaxy car when when he was targeted near The Millhouse pub.
Officers are appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time who may have seen anything to come forward.
Det Ch Supt Steve Naylor said: "There is no doubt in my mind there are people out there who know who shot Colin Smith and over time allegiances may have changed and I would appeal to anyone who has information which could help us find those responsible to come forward.
"This was a particularly callous and cold-blooded crime, which deprived five children - aged between six and 16-years at the time of the murder - of their father.
"We believe that Colin Smith had visited Nels Gym and was on his way back to his car when he was shot.
"He was well known locally and Speke is a very close-knit community - there may be someone in the area who could have information which could help us with our inquiries."
Mr Smith's widow, Caroline, said: "It's been four years since Colin was murdered and I can't rest until the people who carried out this cowardly attack on my husband are caught and put before the courts.
"I am convinced there are people out there who know who killed Colin and I can't understand how they can stand by and say nothing, they are as cowardly as the person who pulled the trigger."
Anyone with information is urged to contact police.
Dyfed-Powys Police was called to 3K Engineering in Llanelli at about 09:15 BST and a nearby supermarket and GP surgery were evacuated.
The man has been taken to Swansea's Morriston Hospital for treatment but his injuries are not thought to be serious.
The building has been declared safe and people have been allowed to return. | Police are making a fresh appeal for information four years after a 40-year-old Merseyside man was shot dead.
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A man received facial injuries after a gas bottle exploded at an engineering firm in Carmarthenshire. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | The Briton beat Iulia Coroli of Moldova via unanimous decision in Turkey.
She now faces France's Sarah Ourahmoune in the last eight on Wednesday and must reach the final to book her place in Brazil at the first attempt.
Adams, 33, is aiming to become the first British boxer to retain an Olympic title in 92 years.
Her Great Britain team-mate Savannah Marshall lost to Erika Guerrier of France at the same tournament and will now hope to qualify via the World Championships next month.
There are 36 qualification places for the 2016 Olympics available - 30 for men and six for women. | Reigning Olympic champion Nicola Adams started qualification for Rio 2016 with a comfortable victory at the European qualifying tournament. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Susan Jackson Associates wants to set up a university for the Channel Islands, based in Guernsey.
The island's government has said, while it would bring economic benefits, the impact of such a large influx of students could not be underestimated.
But Susan Jackson said the extra numbers would dovetail with tourists.
"It's actually scarcely more than the annual population variation through the normal annual economic cycle," she told BBC News.
She said the islands already cater for thousands of holidaymakers during the summer months, so were well equipped to deal with students during an academic year which would run from October to June.
"Our university would be contra-cyclical to the tourism industry as it will be mainly a nine month - non summer - industry."
The States of Guernsey will be asked to support the principle of a Channel Island university at its meeting next month.
The Gunners are still trying to land the 21-year-old France international but the French champions may not be keen to let another player leave.
Tiemoue Bakayoko's departure for Chelsea and the likely departure of Benjamin Mendy mean a deal for Lemar is looking increasingly difficult.
Meanwhile, Arsenal's intention remains to keep striker Alexis Sanchez.
The 28-year-old Chilean is going into the final year of his contract and is reportedly keen to leave, but the Gunners want to hold on to last season's top scorer.
Monaco sold midfielder Bakayoko to Chelsea in a reported £40m deal, while left-back Mendy has been heavily linked with Manchester City.
There is also speculation over the Ligue 1 club's 18-year-old striker Kylian Mbappe, who is an apparent target for Arsenal and Real Madrid.
Arsenal's summer recruits so far are France striker Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon for a club record £46.5m and the free transfer of left-back Sead Kolasinac from Schalke.
It made a profit of $3.53bn (£2.3bn) in the quarter, up from $3.03bn last year. Revenue was flat at $35bn.
The conglomerate has been trying to put its focus back on core industrial businesses, which include aviation and energy infrastructure.
It said orders for its aviation equipment jumped 47%.
Orders for oil and gas equipment and services, such as turbines and plant maintenance, rose 24%, said GE chairman and chief executive Jeff Immelt.
"In growth markets, equipment and service orders grew 17%. We ended the quarter with our biggest backlog in history," he said. Orders grew to $216bn in the first quarter from $210bn in the fourth quarter of 2012.
In the first three months of 2013 GE was awarded a $620m maintenance contract for QGC's Queensland Curtis liquified natural gas plant off the east coast of Australia.
It also won a contract to provide power equipment for the Emirates Aluminum smelter complex in Abu Dhabi, and another maintenance contract for a LNG project in Russia.
But the company said it had been affected by weaker-than-expected sales in Europe, especially in sales of power and water equipment.
"GE's markets were mixed. The US and growth markets were in line with expectations. We planned for a continued challenging environment in Europe, but conditions weakened further with Industrial segment revenues in the region down 17%," said Mr Immelt.
"We always anticipated that the first half of 2013 would be our toughest comparison," he added.
During the quarter, the company sold its 49% stake in NBC Universal to Comcast for $18.1bn. | Guernsey could cope with an influx of up to 2,000 students and staff, the organisation behind plans for a university has insisted.
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Can you summarize the following content in brief? | In December, four local teams boycotted games in protest over unpaid wages.
"The situation is a result of bad management, and a lack of control and accountability in the management of clubs and football institutions," said Gabon's footballers' union (ANFPG).
The ANFPG hopes the Nations Cup can improve local players' conditions.
The union says many first and second division players are still owed substantial salaries from last year.
In December, world governing body Fifa intervened to ensure that Mangasport - league champions in 2014 and 2015 - paid a former player, Ivorian Mariano Beugre, his outstanding wages.
"We can confirm that the Dispute Resolution Chamber judge dealt with a dispute opposing the player Mariano Beugre to the club Mangasport," a Fifa spokesperson told BBC Sport.
"According to the relevant decision, the club is ordered to pay to the player the amount of ($28,000)."
Gabon will stage the Nations Cup, which runs from 14 January until 5 February, for the second time in five years, having co-hosted with Equatorial Guinea in 2012.
"We believe this Nations Cup must allow us to have a collective awareness and take stock of our football since the last Nations Cup in 2012," Remy Ebanega, president of the ANFPG, told BBC Sport.
"[We need] to put in place general rules for the best practice.
"Our football is deteriorating every day of every year simply because its leaders have not yet understood that the main player is the footballer. Without a footballer, there is no club, no league, even less a federation.
"Everything is done in an anarchic way, with the sole interest of a handful of people, and no reflection on the short, medium and long term objectives of our football."
In a survey published by global players' union FIFPro in November, 96% of players in Gabon reported payment delays.
On 29 December, players from Stade Mandji - title-winners in 2009 - and Adouma FC refused to play matches in protest (with their opponents awarded technical 3-0 victories as a result).
Two teams in the second division also went on strike.
One of the Stade Mandji players, defender Franck Perrin Obambou, has been included in Gabon squad for the Nations Cup, which the hosts open on Saturday against Guinea-Bissau in Libreville.
Only two other domestic players have made the squad, with both Yves Bitseki Moto and Cedric Ondo Biyoghe on the books of league leaders Mounana.
Some of the continent's finest footballers are set to play on Gabon's pitches this month, including recently-crowned Confederation of African Football's African Footballer of the Year Riyad Mahrez of Algeria and Senegal's Sadio Mane, Africa's most expensive footballer.
All eyes will also be on Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the free-scoring striker with Germany's Borussia Dortmund and an ANFPG vice-president as well.
But Africa's flagship sporting event has been beset by problems, with opposition members of parliament calling for the public to boycott matches in protest at the country's political and economic problems.
Some fans have responded by posting images of ripped-up matchday tickets on social media.
While Gabon hosts some of the richest African footballers for the month-long tournament, local players will continue their fight to be paid.
The league, which is suspended for the duration of the Nations Cup, is set to return on 18 February.
No club from Gabon has ever won a major continental football title, while the national team has never surpassed the quarter-final stage of a Nations Cup.
The BBC contacted organisers of the Gabonese league who have yet to comment. | Just days before Gabon hosts the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, the state of league football in the country has been described as "anarchic". |
Please summarize the passage below. | However, data for the Markit/CIPS manufacturing purchasing managers' index was almost all collected before the 23 June referendum.
There is a "clear risk" uncertainty resulting from the vote will have a short-term impact on manufacturing, Markit said in its report.
Its index for June had the strongest reading since January, rising to 52.1.
"The latest PMI signalled that the manufacturing sector has started to move out of its early year sluggishness in the lead-up to the UK's EU referendum," said Rob Dobson, senior economist at Markit.
"Whether this growth recovery can be sustained will depend heavily on whether the current financial and political volatility spills over to the real economy," he added.
Some economists says that is a likely scenario.
Spending and investment in the UK is likely to "weaken sharply", says Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. He expects businesses to "stop investing" and consumers to "spend more cautiously".
However, the performance of the pound is going to have an important influence on how manufacturing performs.
"The recent plunge in the pound of just under 10% as a result of the referendum result should help to cushion the more external-facing manufacturing sector in time," said Ruth Miller, UK economist at Capital Economics.
The Markit/CIPS manufacturing index is based on a survey of 600 industrial companies and reflects data on orders, output, employment, suppliers' delivery times and companies' inventories. | UK manufacturers reported a pick-up in activity in June from May, according to a closely watched survey. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | In 2009 the world's largest toy maker, US firm Mattel, set its sights firmly on the Chinese market, opening a flagship store in Shanghai.
It was using a toy that in her 50 years had conquered all before her.
Created in 1959, Barbie is today sold in 150 countries and has won the hearts and minds of little girls as far afield as Mumbai and Buenos Aires.
She has thrived almost everywhere, despite regular criticism from feminist groups who have decried her influence on young girls' body image and ambitions. Even in markets where she is triumphant Barbie continues to court controversy.
But it is in China, arguably the most important consumer market in the world, where the all-conquering doll has stumbled on her kitten heels.
The Shanghai Barbie store closed in 2011, just two years after its grand opening.
Now, as Barbie attempts to crack China once again, has Mattel learnt from its earlier failure?
The 2009 opening of the Shanghai store was not done by half measures.
It was not so much a shop as a lifestyle concept.
A grand spiral staircase surrounded by more than 800 different Barbies climbed the building.
And it was not just aimed at children.
Mattel was marketing the Barbie lifestyle to women in their 20s.
Clothing lines for women as well as young girls were part of the key products.
Real life brides-to-be were invited to coo over a Vera Wang Barbie wedding dress.
"It was confusing," says Benjamin Cavender of China Market Research Group.
"No-one knew what the brand stood for and so instead of going for cute they went towards sexy."
As well as clothes and design-your-own dolls, shoppers could eat in the Barbie restaurant, relax in the Barbie Spa and drink in the Barbie cocktail lounge.
But the problem was not enough people knew who Barbie was.
"It wasn't like in other countries where generations of women had grown up with Barbie," Mr Cavendar says.
"They created this massive experience but not enough people came to find out about it as the concept of Barbie wasn't a pre-existing draw in China."
The massive store was located on Huaihai Road, one of the most prestigious shopping streets in Shanghai.
But on the ground floor it was not clear to anyone passing exactly what was inside - you had to enter the store and climb an escalator to feel the impact of the design.
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Plus a pink light shone outside. In China, a pink light district is associated with a much more adult style of trade than selling toys and clothes.
And despite the location being sought after, it wasn't easily accessible for shoppers.
"There was nowhere to park your car and it was not near a subway station," says Mr Cavender.
"If you can't get to it and you don't already know about Barbie, you're just not going to go."
"Joy and learning are like oil and water in China," a Mattel executive recently told the Wall Street Journal.
His point was that the first time round Barbie may have been too frivolous for the Chinese market.
The toy market in China, however, is big - and growing.
Between 2009 and 2013, it nearly doubled in size to be worth about £5.5bn (53.8bn yuan; $8.7bn), according to Euromonitor.
Video games are far and away the biggest category in the market.
But Mattel has done well - as a company it is the fifth biggest toy maker in China with 1.4% of the overall market.
Its most successful offering is the more learning-oriented Fisher Price brand, the 14th biggest toy brand in China, according to Euromonitor. And Barbie could be going the same way.
In 2013 Mattel brought Barbie back to the Chinese market. Only this time instead of clothes by Oscar De La Renta she had a violin and you could buy Barbie for the much more affordable price of $13 (£8.20).
This year there was another launch - a "specialty" Barbie doll in the likeness of Chinese actress Fan Bingbing.
Heralding the launch of the doll Mattel declared: "[Fan Bingbing's] collaboration with Barbie will give purpose and meaning to play and help ignite the spark inside girls across China to 'Shine Your Way'."
So it's clear that Barbie has learnt that to succeed in China today you have to have a sense of purpose, but then she didn't get the keys to the super-deluxe dreamhouse and the perfect boyfriend Ken by being just a pretty face. | At 36,000 sq ft it must have been the biggest Barbie house ever created. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Kenya has inaugurated its first major new railway for more than a century, running from the capital, Nairobi, to the port city of Mombasa.
The $3.2bn (£2.5bn) Chinese-funded railway is the country's biggest infrastructure project since independence. It was also built by a Chinese company and many of the drivers and engineers will be Chinese to start with, while Kenyans are being trained to take over.
For now, the line stretches for 472km (293 miles). But there is a 25-year masterplan for it to link land-locked South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and eastern DR Congo to the Indian Ocean. It took three-and-a-half years to build the railway line, using Chinese track-laying technology. The line is interposed by 79 bridges, two major stations, seven intermediate stations and 23 passing stations.
It takes four-and-a-half hours to get from Mombasa to Nairobi, compared to nine hours by bus or 12 hours on the previous railway. The railway passes through some of Kenya's famed national parks, where this woman photographed a zebra.
Each station on the railway, known as the Madaraka Express, has been designed to blend in with the local environment. Athi River station is intended to mirror the nearby hills, while the stripped Miasenyi station was inspired by zebras.
The spectacular Mombasa terminus was designed to resemble waves and ripples in the water radiating from the central tower.
The platforms and track lines represent the ocean shores.
Nairobi is the main station and passenger terminal. It will also be a locomotive maintenance depot for vehicles, wagons and coaches. It is designed to resemble two locomotives approaching each other. | Images courtesy of Michael Khateli, AFP and EPA |
Write a summary for this information. | The work and pensions secretary said the made-up stories on the DWP website were meant to help people understand the system and were based on "real life cases".
But Mr Duncan Smith stressed that he had not seen them before publication.
And he told BBC News that the officials "should never have done that".
The DWP faced widespread criticism last week when it emerged that two sickness benefit claimants, supposedly called Zac and Sarah and who featured on the department's website, were not real people.
Stephen Timms, Labour's acting shadow work and pensions secretary, said: "You couldn't make it up - but it seems Iain Duncan Smith can. The only way he can find backers for his sanctions regime is by inventing them."
In one case study, a welfare claimant, "Sarah", explains how having her benefits cut had helped teach her the importance of having a CV and that she was now "really pleased" with how it looked.
In the other, "Zac" said he let his work coach know when he was going to miss a meeting and because he did so, "my benefit payment hasn't changed".
The apparent deception was uncovered by a Freedom of Information request by website Welfare Weekly.
Mr Duncan Smith said "someone in the operations department" had posted the stories, which were "drawn as a summary from real-life cases but it wasn't a real-life case".
He added: "It was quite wrong, those individuals [responsible] ultimately will face some form of disciplinary procedure."
He told BBC News that "thousands of these things go out, week in week out, to help advise claimants and advisers, on how best to make the system work and how it can work for them".
And the erroneous case studies had now been taken down from the department's website, he added.
The work and pensions secretary dismissed calls from Labour MP Debbie Abrahams, a member of the work and pensions select committee, to quit over the issue.
"Debbie Abrahams just bangs on the whole time about that and the reality is every time she asks a question nine times out of 10 she is wrong. This is nothing to do with us. I at no stage saw this," he told Sky News.
Mr Duncan Smith's response came as he announced a planned shake-up of the rules on sickness benefit to encourage more people into work.
In a speech in London, he said the current system was too "binary" - with claimants deemed either fit or unfit for work.
Instead, claimants should be made to take up any work they could, even if it was just for a few hours, he added. | Iain Duncan Smith has said his officials who used fictional claimants to show the impact of benefit sanctions could face disciplinary action. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | Rangers finished third, 39 points behind as Celtic retained the title.
And they have already exited the Europa League, beaten in the opening round by Progres Niederkorn of Luxembourg.
"Our mindset won't change as Rangers players and that's to win every single game - and win every competition that we enter," said captain Wallace.
"Obviously we take last season into consideration. We are well aware of the task and we are well aware of how far off it we were."
Rangers begin their second season back in the top flight under Pedro Caixinha, the Portuguese manager who succeeded Mark Warburton in March and has made major changes to his squad.
And Scotland left-back Wallace believes that a better title challenge is a must for the Ibrox side.
"Irrespective of signings, irrespective of the cost, that has to be the aim for us," he said.
"We have to obviously recognise what happened last year and be realistic about things, but it's not going to change our focus as Rangers players.
"We can't settle for any less than that, it has to be the target.
"If we approach every game with that mentality, we will definitely finish off stronger than we did last season."
Wallace agrees that their early European exit has placed added pressure on Caixinha and his side as they prepare to start the league season away to Motherwell on Sunday.
"Absolutely, there is always going to be pressure watching Rangers, even if it's a friendly," he said.
"It just becomes the norm and it's about how to handle that and how to respond to situations like the European exit.
"We have managed to do that. We are feeling good.
"We recognise it's going to be a difficult game, they have some momentum from their League Cup campaign, but we are going to go there and try to win the game."
Wallace believes that friendly wins over Watford and Sheffield Wednesday, plus a draw against Marseille, have boosted confidence.
"We suffered a humiliation in the European campaign, but it was about how we responded to that and, more so in the last 10 days, there's definitely been a bit more positivity generated amongst the players and a bit more belief," he said.
"We are still learning about each other and gelling as a team, but there has certainly been a better end to the pre-season than we started and we are all raring to go next Sunday."
Police Scotland said a 28-year-old man was arrested in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow.
He has been reported to the procurator fiscal in relation to an alleged contravention of Schedule 7 of the Scottish Independence Referendum Act.
The Electoral Commission said the selling and buying of votes is illegal.
A spokeswoman said it could lead to a year in prison or a "substantial" fine.
She said the commission had made an agreement with eBay that any such "votes for sale" listings would be taken down and referred to police.
Police launched an investigation after a number of people apparently tried to sell their votes online.
Votes for the 18 September ballot were listed on the site, which has since removed the items.
One online listing offered buyers a "unique piece of British history".
Six young stoats have been taken into care by an animal welfare charity after being found next to their dead mother.
The animals, which are thought to be five to six weeks old, were discovered on a road in North Kessock, near Inverness, late last month.
They are being cared for at the Scottish SPCA's National Wildlife Rescue Centre at Fishcross in Clackmannanshire.
The stoats have been nicknamed after characters in the hit US sitcom Friends - Ross, Joey, Chandler, Rachel, Monica and Phoebe.
Centre manager Colin Seddon said: "They are all feeding themselves and we're going to move them to a large outdoor enclosure soon.
"We'll release them back into the wild as a group when they are fully independent.
"They look very cute and cuddly now, but when they're fully grown they will be a predator to other wildlife such as rabbits, mice and voles." | Lee Wallace says Rangers will again target winning the Scottish title while respecting the gulf between themselves and Celtic last season.
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Provide a summary of the section below. | Donnelly went down to a split decision against Morocco's current world champion Mohammed Rabii and in truth, the Irishman could have few complaints.
After a tight first round, Rabii took control and one judge's verdict in favour of Donnelly looked dubious.
Flyweight Irvine was outclassed by Uzbekistan's Shakhobidin Zoirov.
Donnelly, 27, appeared to make a decent start as he forced the Moroccan to miss with several attempted big lefts but Rabii began to find his range and was given the round 10-9 on all three cards.
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Rabii set the tone for the second round as he landed with a big overhand right and the Irishman was caught with a number of other decent shots as the Moroccan was given the round by two of three judges.
Another big left from the world champion led to a standing count for Donnelly early in the final round and while the second standing count appeared to be after the Irishman had tripped, the Moroccan had clearly done enough to win.
Rabii was warned by the referee for a clash of heads late in the contest and this appeared to be the reason for one judge giving Donnelly the final round on a 10-8 margin.
"It was a great effort from me against the world champion, I believed in myself and I gave it my all," said Donnelly, who won two previous bouts to put himself on the brink of a medal.
"I'm proud of my efforts here because he's the world number one and I thought I could win, but I'm disappointed not to win a medal."
Irvine, 20, suffered a disappointing Olympic debut as the classy Uzbek fighter clinched a deserved 30-26, 30-27, 30-27 win in the last-16 flyweight bout.
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Zoirov was in total control as he took the first round 10-8 on one card and 10-9 from the other two judges.
The Uzbek fighter continued to catch Irvine at will throughout the contest.
London Olympics medallists Michael Conlan and Katie Taylor are the only members of the eight-strong Irish boxing team still involved in the Games.
Medal hopes Paddy Barnes and Joe Ward were among four Irish fighters who bowed out on the opening week of the Games while their team-mate Michael O'Reilly was sent home from Rio after failing a drugs test.
Conlan and Taylor have still to fight their opening contests in Rio. | Ballymena boxer Steven Donnelly's Rio medal hopes were dashed as he lost his welterweight quarter-final while Belfast man Brendan Irvine also exited. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Chris Murphy spoke from Wednesday morning into Thursday. The tactic enables senators to block proceedings.
He said he had secured commitments from Republicans to hold a vote but his recommendations are not likely to pass.
Sunday's mass shooting in Orlando was the worst in recent US history, with 49 people dead.
Dozens of people remain in hospital, some in a critical condition.
President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden are due to visit Orlando later on Thursday.
In another development, it emerged that the gunman, Omar Mateen, made a series of Facebook posts before and during his attack in which he raged against the "filthy ways of the West".
Mateen also said on Facebook: "America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic state."
The Senate Homeland Security Committee has asked Facebook to provide information on Mateen's online activity.
Senator Murphy began the filibuster at 11:21 on Wednesday, vowing to stay on the Senate floor "until we get some signal... that we can come together".
Much of his speech focused on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in his home state of Connecticut in 2012, where 26 people died.
Senator Murphy said he wanted to force Republicans and Democrats to agree on legislation to deny suspected terrorists the right to buy guns and require universal background checks.
"For those of us that represent Connecticut, the failure of this body to do anything, anything at all in the face of that continued slaughter isn't just painful to us, it's unconscionable," he said.
He later tweeted: "I am proud to announce that after 14+ hours on the floor, we will have a vote on closing the terror gap & universal background checks."
Gun control is a divisive topic in the US, where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the constitution.
Earlier on Wednesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said anyone on a terror watch list should be prevented from buying guns.
He tweeted that he would meet powerful lobby group the National Rifle Association to discuss the gun control issue.
The NRA responded by saying it would meet him but it already opposes terrorists buying guns.
Until now, Mr Trump has been a strong supporter of protecting gun rights and his candidacy was endorsed by the NRA.
Just over half of Americans - 51% - disapproved of his initial response to the shooting, in which he repeated a call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the US, an NBC poll showed.
The same poll found 57% of US citizens think gun laws should be more strict.
Vice-President Biden, speaking at a gun-control fundraising event in Washington, said the idea that a suspect on a terror watch list could still legally buy guns was absurd.
He said it had taken seven years for Congress to approve a ban on assault weapons which expired in 2004.
"I refuse to give up. We refuse to give up. It took me seven years to get the first ban put in place. There is no reason why we should ever stop," he said.
Mateen was on an FBI terror watch list but investigators concluded there was no evidence he was a threat. | A US Democratic senator has led a 14-hour filibuster to demand a vote on gun control legislation following the massacre at a gay club in Florida. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | Yn 2013, cafodd y milwr Americanaidd, fu'n gwasanaethu yn Irac, ei dedfrydu i 35 mlynedd yn y carchar am ryddhau gwybodaeth gyfrinachol i wefan Wikileaks.
Mae gan Chelsea Manning gysylltiadau â Chymru. Aeth i Ysgol Tasker Millward yn Hwlffordd, Sir Benfro, am dair blynedd tan yr oedd yn 16 oed.
Dywedodd y Tŷ Gwyn y bydd yn cael ei rhyddhau fis Mai.
Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said if tensions were allowed to escalate, the entire region could be affected.
Iraq, which has a Shia majority, shares borders with the Shia and Sunni powers.
Meanwhile, Iran's diplomats have withdrawn from Saudi Arabia in response to Riyadh's decision to sever ties over an attack on its embassy in Tehran.
Djibouti also became the latest Saudi ally to cut relations in Iran, while Jordan summoned the Iranian ambassador to complain about "interference" in Arab affairs.
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Iraq's foreign minister flew to Tehran on Wednesday for talks with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
At a joint news conference, Mr Jaafari described the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr as a "crime", but said Iraq was nevertheless ready to help "alleviate tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia".
"We have been active from the early moments to lessen tensions, to prevent a disaster from happening that could affect the entire region," he added.
Iraq's Shia-led government has relied on Iran's help to counter the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), which controls large parts of the country's north and west. But it has also sought to repair relations with Saudi Arabia, which last week sent an ambassador to Baghdad for the first time in 25 years.
Nimr's execution has also raised the prospect of a fresh sectarian violence in Iraq, with powerful Iranian-backed Shia militias demanding that Baghdad cut ties with Riyadh, protests by thousands of Shia, and attacks on two Sunni mosques.
Bahrain meanwhile announced that it had broken up a Shia "terrorist" cell backed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Lebanon's Shia Hezbollah movement.
Iran has denied accusations by Bahrain's Sunni ruling family of fomenting unrest among the island's Shia majority, whose protests demanding greater political rights in 2011 sparked similar demonstrations in Saudi Arabia's Shia minority.
Nimr was executed along with three other Shia convicted of terrorism offences in connection with the protests in Eastern Province, and 43 Sunni al-Qaeda militants.
The cleric's brother told the Associated Press that he planned to hold a funeral for him on Thursday, even though the Saudi authorities have buried his body at an undisclosed cemetery.
In recent days, hundreds of people have reportedly been marching nightly in protest at Nimr's execution in his predominantly Shia home district of Qatif.
"People are angry. And they are surprised, because there were positive signals in the past months that the executions would not take place. People listen to his speeches and there's no direct proof he was being violent," a local community leader told the Reuters news agency.
Sunnis and Shia: Islam's ancient schism | Yn ei ddyddiau olaf yn Arlywydd yr Unol Daleithiau, mae Barack Obama wedi cyhoeddi y bydd Chelsea Manning (Bradley Manning gynt) yn cael ei rhyddhau o'r carchar yn gynnar.
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Iraq has offered to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the dispute sparked by the Gulf kingdom's execution of a dissident Shia Muslim cleric. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | Its roads have hosted the Tour of Britain on a number of occasions while its forest trails are recognised as some of the best in the country.
Events including TweedLove, the Tour o' the Borders and the Enduro World Series have also boosted its profile.
Now the local authority has endorsed a five-year strategy which it hopes will ensure it is recognised as one of the UK's premier cycling destinations.
But how do they hope to achieve that goal?
A look at existing infrastructure throughout the region will aim to identify key areas for improvement.
This could include better signage and upgrades to routes in the area.
Market research is also to be undertaken to identify target markets and economic value specific to the Scottish Borders.
At present there are no accurate figures on what share the region takes of the tens of millions of pounds coming to Scotland through cycling tourism.
A clear figure would allow targets to become "meaningful and measurable".
"Little or no data exists specifically for the Scottish Borders, and this has been identified as a key issue going forward," concluded the strategy.
"Small pockets of data exist from a range of stakeholders but not enough to provide a complete picture."
The Scottish Borders is already home to a number of major events but it hopes to bring in even more.
A budget of £50,000 has been set aside to help promote it as a host for new international and national competitions.
The possibility of working with the Borders Railway to help support any events is also being explored.
"The growth in the number of cycling events continues to help raise the profile and provide plenty of content for social media," reported the strategy.
"In short, the area has a wealth of cycle tourism assets, albeit there are superior trails, events, road surfaces and infrastructure to be found elsewhere."
A dedicated marketing campaign hopes to increase awareness of the Borders as a cycling tourism destination.
Work to regularly update a website for cycling in the region is also highlighted as being an important element alongside related social media promotion.
Updated photography to show the region in its best light is also planned.
"This strategy has identified that the region has very good cycling assets in the shape of routes, trails, services and of course events, but they are currently under-promoted in what is an increasingly competitive environment," the report found.
"There is a need for the development of a brand to cover all of the cycling assets in the region."
There are hundreds of miles of cycling routes on mainly quiet roads across the Borders, including a good range of long distance routes.
They include:
It also has a wide range of shorter trails as well as world-class mountain biking with the 7stanes at Glentress, Innerleithen and Newcastleton. | The Scottish Borders is already proud of what it has to offer to cyclists. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Clayton Donaldson's goal in first-half injury time gave City the lead as he slotted home after Michael Morrison had charged down a Tom Lees clearance.
But Hooper smashed home the equaliser off the crossbar following neat play between Atdhe Nuhiu and Barry Bannan.
The striker got the winner soon after as he finished from close range from Fernando Forestieri's pass.
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The win, which saw Wednesday move back into the Championship play-off places, came at a big cost to Carlos Carvalhal's side as they lost three players to injury.
Kieron Lee was hurt in the warm-up and replaced by Vincent Sasso before Keiren Westwood and Sam Hutchinson clashed with one another as the Wednesday defence blocked an eighth-minute City attack.
Westwood was stretchered off after receiving lengthy treatment on the pitch with a suspected concussion, while Hutchinson's knee injury meant he could not continue despite staying on for a few minutes after play was eventually restarted.
Birmingham manager Gary Rowett:
"To go in 1-0 up at half time I was really pleased but felt we should have done a little more to stop the game becoming too open at times.
"When you have the attacking players Sheffield possess you know they only need one chance.
"In the second half we had another great chance when Donaldson missed from close range."
Sheffield Wednesday coach Lee Bullen:
"Hooper's first goal was fantastic. Some of the one-touch play on a difficult pitch was sublime.
"To go and get the second goal a few minutes later made us ecstatic.
"We were hindered losing two players so early in the game but we have a very good squad." | Gary Hooper scored twice in two minutes as Sheffield Wednesday came from a goal down to win at Birmingham City. |
What is the summary of the given information? | The once-capped England centre-half, 27, had an operation at the start of August, having aggravated an injury that caused him to miss the final six weeks of last season.
"I went to see one of the best spinal experts in the world. And I'm pretty pleased with how it's gone," he said.
"I've started jogging and am swimming a lot. It's a step in the right way."
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However, Shawcross did not give an indication of exactly when he would be ready to play again.
He told BBC Radio Stoke: "You don't want to rush too much as you can end up putting yourself out for a long time. Especially with the spine, you have to be very careful.
"It's an injury I'd managed for a number of years. I had a slip against QPR, which the injury originated from, then I had a recurrence of it in the summer. I had a go in pre-season but I came to the decision with the manager (Mark Hughes) that it was time for the operation.
"I was struggling to walk, struggling to move. It was a case of making sure I got the right surgeon and got the correct treatment."
Stoke have suffered a disappointing start to their Premier League season so far, sitting in 18th with just two points from four games.
They have drawn both their away games, at Tottenham, coming from two down, and Norwich.
But Mark Hughes' side have been out of luck at home, losing twice, thanks to Philippe Coutinho's late winner for Liverpool and two contentious red cards against West Bromwich Albion, when they had to play more than half the game with nine men. | Stoke City captain Ryan Shawcross says he is on schedule to return to action following successful back surgery. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | The Scotland under-20 international signed his first professional contract with the Warriors in December, and has made nine appearances this season.
"The last few months have been great, as I've played regularly and feel I've made a positive impact," Price said.
"Being able to train and play with quality players at Scotstoun has also allowed me to improve my game."
Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend said: "Ali is continually developing as a scrum-half and it's great news that he's staying with us for the next couple of years.
"He's worked hard on his game over the past 12 months, and you can see the confidence he now has in his kicking game and taking on the defence with ball in hand.
"The most important attributes of a scrum-half are a fast and accurate pass, as well as a high fitness level and Ali has done well in these areas this season, seizing the opportunity to play for us in some important games." | Glasgow Warriors scrum-half Ali Price has signed a new two-year deal at the club, which will expire in May 2018. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | Data from more than 66,000 operations showed the odds of a stroke increased more than fourfold in the fortnight immediately after surgery.
The research in the journal Stroke showed that taking drugs such as aspirin could reduce the risk.
The Stroke Association said the results should be taken "very seriously".
Hip replacements are a very common operation, carried out on hundreds of thousands of people around the world each year.
Researchers in the UK and the Netherlands said the probability of having a stroke in the year after surgery was 2%, compared with 0.4% if they did not have the operation.
The risk peaked in the weeks after surgery before returning to normal over the course of a year.
One of the researchers, Prof Cyrus Cooper from the University of Southampton, said the risk was twice as high as would be expected from general surgery.
Taking medication which reduced the risk of a blood clot, such as aspirin, appeared to lower the risk in the study. The report's authors called for more studies to investigate if patients should be given pills before going under the knife.
Prof Cooper said: "This research has demonstrated that there is a high risk of stroke to patients soon after having a total hip replacement and suggests that the use of soluble aspirin might be beneficial in reducing this risk.
"Normally we would have reservations about people taking aspirin every day but our results suggest aspirin is a benefit and worthwhile to give to the patient before the surgery.
"The data is of huge clinical importance."
Dr Peter Coleman, from the Stroke Association charity, said: "Hip replacement surgery is a significant operation and can be very traumatic for the body. Like with any major surgery there is always a risk of incurring further health problems.
"This research suggests that hip replacement surgery could increase your risk of stroke and the results should be taken very seriously.
"If you are due to undergo a hip operation, it is important that you speak to your GP or hospital consultant beforehand in order to discuss the potential risks." | Having a total hip replacement increases the risk of a stroke in the year after the operation, according to records of patients in Denmark. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | Counsel for Secretary of State Theresa Villiers and the police gave the assurance on Friday.
They are resisting a legal challenge brought by a pensioner who lost three members of her family in the attack.
Elizabeth Morrison wants a judicial review into the controversial letters.
The secretary of state previously warned paramilitary suspects who received the letters not to rely on them as an amnesty from prosecution.
But the 81-year-old's barrister said Ms Villiers' statement was "not worth the Hansard paper it's printed on".
Mrs Morrison's son Michael, his partner Evelyn Baird and their seven-year-old daughter Michelle were among 10 people killed in the October 1993 attack on Belfast's Shankill Road.
Her legal challenge centres on a press report that one of the bomb suspects who fled across the Irish border was among nearly 200 republicans in receipt of a secret letter stating he was not wanted by police.
The On the Runs scheme provoked outrage after County Donegal man John Downey's trial on charges linked to the 1982 London Hyde Park bombing collapsed in February 2014.
He had been mistakenly sent a government letter saying he was not wanted for questioning by police.
The full scale of the administrative scheme involving other republican paramilitary suspects then emerged.
Police were said to believe 95 of those people who received letters could be linked to nearly 300 murders.
Reserving judgment on the application for leave to seek a judicial review, Mr Justice Maguire pledged to give his decision as soon as possible. | None of the six Shankill bomb suspects received so-called comfort letters issued in the On the Runs scheme, Belfast's High Court has heard. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Brian Conaghan's third novel, The Bombs That Brought Us Together, has been announced as the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award.
The former apprentice painter and decorator from Coatbridge is now in the running for the Costa Book of the Year.
But it took him 10 years of trying before his work was published.
Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland, 45-year-old Conaghan, who now lives in Dublin, said it was "fantastic" to scoop the children's book prize.
He added: "It's quite staggering to be even on the shortlist but to win it is amazing.
"It's beyond anything that you probably ever think about when you publish your books - me, certainly, because my goal was just to get something published."
He worked as an apprentice painter and decorator before he decided to take his Highers and go to university, where he started writing.
Asked what kept him going through the next decade, when he was rejected more than 200 times, he joked: "Stupidity, maybe?"
The novelist said: "When I started writing the first couple of novels, which remain unpublished, you learn that you're making a lot of mistakes.
"And I felt that I was probably getting better with each novel that I was writing."
He added: "I think I'm quite a tenacious person, quite a stubborn person so rejection is also part of what you do in life."
The Bombs That Brought Us Together centres around the friendship of two 14-year-old boys who come from different sides of a war.
His competition for the main Costa Book of the Year award includes Irish writer Sebastian Barry who won the novel prize for a second time.
Barry the prize with Days Without End, a historical novel set in 1850s America, after winning the same award in 2008 with The Secret Scripture.
Other winners announced in Tuesday's ceremony included Keggie Carew, who received the Costa biography award for Dadland, an exploration of her late father's past.
Alice Oswald won the poetry award for her collection Falling Awake and non-fiction writer Francis Spufford won the first novel award for his debut work of fiction Golden Hill.
The 49-year-old was airlifted to hospital from Surbiton Road, Newton Heath with 70% burns after the attack on Monday.
Officers are trying to trace Stephen Archer, 50, of Openshaw, who they say could still be a danger to the public.
Police say they are treating the incident as attempted murder and have warned people not to approach him.
Supt Arif Nawaz, of Greater Manchester Police, said: "This is a horrific incident and I cannot imagine what the victim is going through.
He added: "We have reason to believe Stephen could be carrying several bottles of petrol in his backpack and a man was seen fitting his description cycling away from the scene.
"Please do not approach Stephen, but contact police as a matter of urgency by calling 999."
The victim is in a critical condition in hospital.
A 19-year-old woman escaped uninjured from an upstairs window of the house, with help from neighbours during the attack at 09:45 GMT on Monday.
Supt Nawaz said that they were doing everything possible to find Stephen Archer who they believe may have links to Openshaw, where he lives, and the Marple and Romiley areas.
Three fire engines dealt with the blaze and several routes around Surbiton Road were closed off. | An award-winning author has described how he was rejected more than 200 times by publishers and agents before his first book was published.
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A manhunt has been launched in Manchester after a woman was doused with petrol and set on fire. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The 2003 World Cup winning coach congratulated Australia for announcing a partial reversal of their policy to omit Australians playing overseas.
"Stuart Lancaster must be free to pick his best players, no matter where they ply their trade," he said.
"It's wrong to say England are best served by players at English clubs."
Woodward pointed to Toulon's Steffon Armitage and Clermont Auvergne's Nick Abendanon as examples of foreign-based players who deserve to be considered for the English national team.
He added, in the Daily Mail: "Jonny Wilkinson moved to France and became even better than when he played for England, so that completes the argument for me. Would I have picked Jonny if he was playing in France? Of course I would."
Woodward also said if players such as Matt Giteau and Drew Mitchell of Toulon were to excel for Australia against World Cup hosts England later this year then everyone would "know exactly what the headlines will be".
He added: "When it comes to a home World Cup, you don't want to be left talking about 'what ifs'."
Lancaster's England side play Australia, Wales, Fiji and Uruguay in the World Cup group stages, with their opening game against Fiji to be played at Twickenham on 18 September. | England's "old-fashioned" policy of only selecting domestic-based players should be scrapped, says former national team coach Sir Clive Woodward. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | The black cockapoo called Sophie, belonging to a woman from Buckinghamshire, went missing from a pub in Bournemouth.
Police issued an image of a woman they want to speak to over the theft at the Moon in the Square pub in Exeter Road on 27 November.
Following the appeal officers tracked down Sophie in Poole.
"It's great to know that Sophie will be spending Christmas at home with her family," said PC Steve Lea, of Bournemouth police.
The dog was found outside Hamworthy Library on Blandford Road on Friday. She was identified by her micro-chip.
A Dorset Police spokesman said there had been many leads from the public.
PC Lea said: "I would like to pass on my thanks, along with those of the owner, to everyone who has contacted us about this case.
"The public's response to my appeal has been overwhelming and all the help we have received is very much appreciated.
"Without the public's help it would not have been possible to reunite the dog with its owner." | A dog that was stolen while its owner was being treated by paramedics has been found safe. |
Please summarize the passage below. | It left the 53-year-old a disappointing 17 over par for the tournament on his home course of Royal Troon.
Russell Knox (two over) was the highest placed Scot, with Paul Lawrie 10 over.
"I haven't really performed that well, but at the same time I've always enjoyed the whole theatre of the thing," said Montgomerie.
"I'd love to think this won't be my last Open but it might be."
Henrik Stenson hit an eight-under-par 63 to win The Open by three shots on 20 under after an enthralling final-round tussle with Phil Mickelson.
Montgomerie, who hit the very first shot of the 145th Open on Thursday morning, also started the ball rolling on Sunday at 07:40 BST due to him being bottom of the 81-man pile overnight with a total of 12 over.
Four bogeys and a birdie on the front nine meant the eight-time European Order of Merit winner's score continued to slide deeper into the blue.
Another two bogeys at the 11th and 12th holes did more damage before making par at every hole from the 13th to the 18th. Montgomerie eventually finished 78th of the 81 players who made the cut.
"This whole year I've struggled," said the Scot, whose best finish at The Open is runner-up to Tiger Woods at St Andrews in 2005.
"I've struggled pulling the ball and the ball is going left. When you are aiming left, expecting a fade, you know, it's doubly bad. So I've just got to sort it out."
Montgomerie now goes on to play in the Senior Open at Carnoustie which starts on Thursday, but has not ruled out trying to take part in another Open.
He joined the field for the first time in six years after finishing in the top three at a qualifying event at Gailes Links in Irvine.
"You've got to be realistic and think that it might well be the last time I'm here at an Open," he said.
"The Gailes Club, part of the Glasgow Golf Club, were very hospitable and I thank them for allowing me to try and qualify to get here in the first place.
"I'd love to try and do that again."
Knox finished joint 30th after a two-under final round of 69.
He said: "I had two goals today. One was to par the second and one was to hit the 11th fairway and I checked both boxes.
"I played excellent today and I was really happy to finish with a good score. I probably finished where I deserved to finish."
Despite a large amount of evidence, the retired American football star was acquitted in the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife and her friend in 1995.
Police never found the murder weapon in that high-profile case, which captivated the US for more than a year.
He was later found legally responsible for the deaths of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in a civil case.
Simpson, who is currently serving a 33-year sentence for armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas, cannot be prosecuted again under US law for the murders.
Los Angeles Police had been sceptical that the weapon was tied to the Simpson and Goldman murders.
Police said at the time that the knife was a utility-type knife and was not consistent with the one used in the crime, but still ordered forensic tests.
The case recently returned to prominence with the airing of the TV mini-series American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson.
According to police, someone claiming to be a construction worker found the knife at Simpson's former home when it was razed in 1998.
He gave the knife to a police officer who was working on a film set near the property.
The police officer kept it, thinking the case was closed. But the officer, now retired, recently told a colleague about the weapon, as a result of which the current investigation was launched. | Scotland's Colin Montgomerie posted a final-round five-over-par 76 in what he hopes is not his last experience of The Open Championship.
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Test have shown that a knife reportedly found near the former home of OJ Simpson is not a murder weapon. |
Summarize the following piece. | The flight data recorder, retrieved along with the cockpit voice recorder earlier this month, showed Frenchman Remi Plesel was at the controls.
Officials said it was common practice for the co-pilot to take charge.
The plane was carrying 162 people from Surabaya to Singapore when it crashed. So far, 73 bodies have been recovered.
Mardjono Siswosuwarno, head investigator of Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSB), said the flight data recorder had provided a "pretty clear picture" of what happened in the flight's last moments.
Capt Plesel was in charge from take-off until the cockpit voice recording ends, he said, adding that this was common practice.
Investigators said the plane ascended sharply before dropping, rising from 32,000ft (9,750m) to 37,400ft within 30 seconds, then dipping back to 32,000ft. The process took about three minutes.
Mr Mardjono said the plane was "flying before the incident within the limits of its weight and balance envelope" and that the flight crew all had correct licences and medical certificates.
A preliminary report has been submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organization, but has not been made public. The full report is likely to take about seven months, said the committee's chief Tatang Kurniadi.
Earlier this week, the military announced it was stopping attempts to retrieve the fuselage from the seabed. Authorities had believed earlier that most of the missing bodies were still in the wreckage but now believe it is empty and too fragile to move.
The civilian National Search and Rescue Agency said on Wednesday that it would continue search operations but their efforts could also end by next week if no more bodies are found.
AirAsia announced on Thursday that a total of 73 bodies have been recovered from the sea. In the past two days, local fishermen found the remains of three bodies believed to be from the crashed airliner.
BBC Indonesian reported that the remains were found some 1,000km from where the plane was last in contact.
Durham County Council proposes to buy and then demolish part of Festival Walk in Spennymoor town centre to replace it with a car park and new retail unit.
Remaining shops would be refurbished.
Council cabinet member for economic regeneration, Neil Foster, said the revitalisation would be "another big step forward in the regeneration of Spennymoor".
"By taking direct action, not only do we unlock a development that will be of huge benefit to Festival Walk but in a way that increases the parking to support the businesses and residents of the whole town, as well as making it more attractive to visitors," he said.
The centre's pervious owners, Castlemore, went into administration in 2009 and nearly two thirds of its capacity is now vacant, the council said.
Councillors are recommended to approve the plans and £600,000 council investment on Wednesday. | The AirAsia plane that crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December was under the control of its co-pilot when it went down, Indonesian investigators say.
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Plans to spend thousands of pounds regenerating a run-down shopping area are to go before councillors. |
Can you summarize this content? | Sustrans has called for "active travel" to receive 4% of the transport budget to ensure the Active Travel Act, which became law last year, is successful.
It comes as Carmarthenshire Cycle Forum raised concerns about funding for cycle schemes on trunk roads.
The Welsh government said the act would consider how walking and cycling can be improved.
Sustrans said at least £10 per person needs to be spent on active travel projects, adding that if the act was to achieve its aims "there will need to be greater investment".
This would enable Wales to "achieve the levels of walking and cycling seen in many countries on the continent", it added.
Carmarthenshire Cycle Forum said the county was not getting its fair share of Welsh government money to develop cycle routes.
Phil Snaith, from the forum, said: "We have, in the last five years, only had 0.6% of the funding even though we are one of the largest counties with trunk roads and certainly the second largest in terms of mileage of trunk roads with big towns around those trunk roads."
In response, a Welsh government spokesman said: "The Active Travel Act will ensure that any future investment in highway infrastructure, by the Welsh government or local authorities, will need to consider how walking and cycling can be improved at the same time.
"We are funding a study on improving safety for cyclists on the A48 Cross Hands.
"Since 2008/9 Carmarthenshire council has received nearly £4m for safe walking and cycling schemes through our Safe Routes in Communities programme and earlier this year received £950,000 towards four walking and cycling schemes in the county." | Spending on cycle paths and footpaths in Wales should be doubled, according to a transport charity. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The 27-year-old, who previously played for Toulouse and Bristol, will make his first appearance on Thursday in the Premiership Rugby Sevens at Kingsholm.
"I'm really excited to be coming to Bath, and can't wait to get started," he told the club website.
"It's a great form of the game, and one I'm obviously quite familiar with, so it's a perfect way for me to get my Bath career underway."
The back-rower has also played for Samoa in seven-a-side rugby and was nominated for the IRB International Sevens Player of the Year in 2010.
Police said the estimated street value of the haul was about £40,000.
The drugs were seized at around 16:20 on Wednesday when officers stopped a car near junction 20.
Two men, aged 38 and 36, have been arrested and have been detained in police custody in connection with the find.
A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal. | Bath have signed Samoa international back-row Alafoti Fa'osiliva.
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Two men have been arrested following a seizure of drugs - believed to be herbal cannabis - on the A74(M) motorway near Eaglesfield. |
Summarize the information in the following document. | The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report on Friday that showed overdose deaths jumped 7% from just one year earlier.
The spike in deaths has coincided with a rapid rise in the abuse of opioid-based prescription painkillers such as oxycontin and hydrocodone.
The CDC said 61% of the deaths involved some type of opioid, including heroin.
Many abusers of painkillers shift to using heroin as it becomes harder to obtain the prescription medications.
"The United States is experiencing an epidemic of drug overdose (poisoning) deaths," the CDC's report reads.
The report found significant increases in overdoses in 14 states across the country. All regions of the US - including the Northeast and the South - were affected.
Overdose deaths are up in both men and women, in non-Hispanic whites and blacks, and in adults of nearly all ages, the report said.
Rural West Virginia had one of the worse overdose rates in the US. The state rate was 35.5 per 100,000 people; the national rate was about 15 per 100,000.
In addition to drug treatment, the CDC urged increased use of naloxone, an overdose antidote.
Many police departments across the country have begun equipping officers with the fast-acting remedy in an effort to save lives.
The health agency has also provided guidelines for general practitioners that urge them to be more cautious about the medications they prescribe for chronic pain. | More than 47,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2014 - the most ever recorded in one year, US officials say. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Osimhen, who only turned 18 on 29 December, joins on a three-and-a-half-year deal until June 2020 after rejecting English Premier League side Arsenal.
The teenage forward starred at the under-17 World Cup in October 2015, scoring 10 goals to help Nigeria win a record fifth title.
"I want to thank the coach and the club management for this opportunity and the faith in me," said Osimhen.
"Wolfsburg is the right place to start my career. Now it is up to me to give something back. I have to work hard and learn."
Wolfsburg's manager Valérien Ismaël told the club's website: "At the age of 18 Victor already has a large presence in our attack. He is good going forward and for his size very fast.
"However, he has to improve his physical strength and get used to playing in Germany. We want to help him take this step."
Osimhen was also part of the Nigeria side that won the Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations in Senegal in November 2015, which also qualified them for the Rio Olympics last year.
He was named the 2015 Confederation of African Football Youth Player of the Year at the award ceremony in Abuja last January.
The flag has been replaced with the union jack on boxes of strawberries and raspberries grown north of the border.
Tesco's official Twitter account told one customer that the move followed complaints from English customers.
But a spokesman for Tesco denied that, and insisted that it was intended to "provide consistency".
The decision emerged when one customer tweeted Tesco to ask why the Scottish flag no longer appeared on her raspberries.
When the supermarket's official Twitter account replied, they told her they had received "several customer complaints".
They said some customers were annoyed that an English flag was not shown on berries grown south of the border.
And when the packaging was re-designed, they decided to remove the saltire to avoid further complaints.
However the customer was told that each punnet of fruit clearly showed where the berries were grown.
The series of tweets have provoked a storm of criticism on social media, with many people urging Tesco to reverse their decision.
A Tesco source said the tweets had been sent in error.
And a spokesman for the firm said: "To provide consistency for customers, we mark all of our homegrown fresh berries with a union flag.
"The country of origin is also clearly displayed on pack." | German club Wolfsburg have completed the signing of Nigeria international teenage striker Victor Osimhen from Lagos-based side Ultimate Strikers Academy.
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Supermarket giant Tesco has been criticised after it admitted removing an image of the Scottish saltire from punnets of Scottish berries. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The research comes from a jobs website called Adzuna, which comes up with a monthly index that collects job vacancies advertised online in the UK from more than one thousand sources.
Its latest report suggested that there had actually been a moderate increase in the number of vacancies in February, but the number was well below the peak reached in November.
This is at odds with the official figures from the Office for National Statistics, which reports quarterly figures. It found that the number of vacancies between December and February was a bit higher than it had been in the previous three months.
But regardless, the Adzuna report does not appear to have done any research into whether the decline has had anything to do with the EU Referendum.
Doug Monro, co-founder of Adzuna, comments in his report that the debate about a potential Brexit "seems to have given employers pause for thought on hiring plans", but he also points out that there are other major challenges in the way, adding that "next month's national living wage is set to redefine the UK's job landscape".
Reality Check verdict: Vacancies may not be falling and there is no evidence that it's anything to do with the EU Referendum.
READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate | Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said on BBC Breakfast this morning: "We've got research showing that the number of vacancies is falling while companies just wait and see what's going to happen on 23 June." |
Summarize the provided information. | Cambridge Crown Court heard that Mitchell Bird assaulted Bradley Carter at a flat in Wisbech on 14 February.
The jury was told Mr Carter, 35, complained of pain before being taken to hospital by his mother on 19 February, where he collapsed and died.
Mr Bird, 29, of Cox Close, Wisbech, denies murder.
Opening for the prosecution, Richard Christie QC said Mr Carter had gone to Mr Bird's flat to stay after he had been "kicked out" of his mother's house for openly taking drugs.
The court was told both Mr Carter and Mr Bird were regular drug users.
Neighbours reported a disturbance and "commotion" on the night of 14 February, and Mr Bird had accused his friend of trying to steal from him, the court heard.
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The court was told that Mr Carter claimed Mitchell Bird had "beat him repeatedly with a hammer" causing "holes in his legs".
Jurors were shown pictures of Mr Carter's injuries taken by himself and his mother in the days between the attack and his death.
Mr Christie explained that Mr Carter had an enlarged spleen that lay outside his ribcage, and it was damaged "in the course of this attack from kicks to his body".
The attack "caused him to haemorrhage and bleed internally" when his spleen later ruptured, he added.
Mr Carter had complained to friends and family about the attack, as well as to a probation officer and housing officer, the court heard.
On 19 February, his mother Helen Barnes took him to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn for tests because his condition was not improving and he complained of "significant back pain".
When she returned from paying a parking meter, her son had collapsed and died, the jury was told.
"Although there was a delay in Bradley Carter dying, this defendant murdered him," Mr Christie said.
"We have clear evidence in this case that points to Mitchell Bird having perpetrated that assault."
Mitchell Bird denies one count of murder and one count of grievous bodily harm with intent.
The trial continues and is expected to last two weeks. | A man "soldiered on" after a "serious and brutal" hammer attack by a friend before dying five days later, a court was told. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Three fire engines were called just before 11:00 BST to a fire in a shed containing gas cylinders in Riverdale Court, Brundall.
Flames from a bonfire had spread to nearby wooden buildings which led to the properties being evacuated and trains on a nearby line being halted.
Residents have now been allowed back and trains are running again.
Fire officer David McLeod said the shed "caught fire from a rubbish bonfire but it contained cylinders that caused an explosion".
Resident Stuart Sayer, 51, said he heard a "huge explosion" which made his house shake.
"I heard the fire engines arriving and about 10 seconds later the explosion," he said.
"I ran out and checked neighbours and saw three fire engines and five or six police cars.
"It was near a primary school but luckily they are all on holiday.
"There were small fragments falling from sky after the explosion," he added.
Abellio Greater Anglia said its trains were running again but any delays should clear during the afternoon. | Homes were evacuated for two hours after a gas cylinder exploded in a Norfolk riverside village. |
Summarize the following piece. | The ex-London mayor faces a fresh inquiry for denouncing a party decision to extend his suspension for a year.
Mr Jones said he called for expulsion last year when Mr Livingstone first made "these deeply offensive remarks".
"There is no place for these views in the Labour Party and no place for anyone who espouses them," he said.
"We have a zero tolerance position on racism so there can be no debate as to what action the party must take.
"These repeated comments are totally and utterly unacceptable and Ken Livingstone must be expelled from the Labour Party."
Mr Livingstone has been suspended since April 2016 when he claimed Hitler had supported Zionism in the 1930s.
On Tuesday a Labour party disciplinary panel upheld three charges of breaching party rules and extended the suspension for another year.
Some Labour MPs and Jewish groups have criticised the decision not to expel Mr Livingstone, but he said he had been "suspended for stating the truth".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Livingstone would face a fresh investigation, saying it was "deeply disappointing that, despite his long record of standing up to racism, Ken has failed to acknowledge or apologise for the hurt he has caused".
Archaeologists say the skeletons are in good condition and they expect to find as many as 40 in the coming weeks.
The land was home to a friary between 1290 and 1538, making many of the remains 450 years old.
The discovery was made in the university's New Museums site, which is about to undergo a major redevelopment.
It is currently home to the many of the university's science departments and examination halls as well as the David Attenborough building and the Museum of Zoology.
The team from the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) will spend the next four weeks on the site before renovations get underway.
Site director Craig Cessford said building work through the centuries has left a number of skeletons "chopped through".
He said: "The bones are really perfectly preserved apart from where early 20th Century foundations have chopped through them so in places you'll only get half a body.
"Even when the friary was in use they sometimes chopped through the burials - so it's not just in the modern period that the skeletons have been disturbed."
The Augustinian friary was founded in 1290 but fell victim to the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538 under Henry VIII.
"They come in, they set up their friary and mark off an area as a cemetery and they start burying people in nice neat rows," Mr Cessford said.
"Eventually, after 100 or 150 years they fill up their area and they just start back at the beginning again and we know they did that at least three times.
"It still has the potential for surprises."
The skeletons will now be processed, washed and studied by specialist osteo-archaeologists.
The CAU is working closely with the university's Department of Archaeology on a project called After the Plague, based around the discovery of around 400 skeletons in a burial site at Cambridge's Hospital of St John in 2010.
It's hoped the friary remains will become a "comparative collection", Mr Cessford added. | First Minister Carwyn Jones has said Ken Livingstone should be expelled from the Labour party for repeating comments about Adolf Hitler and Zionism.
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More than 25 skeletons have been unearthed by archaeologists investigating the site of a medieval friary in the centre of Cambridge. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Mrs Clinton said in a tweet on Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping was "shameless" for hosting a United Nations conference on women's rights that day.
Mr Xi has come under fire for hosting the summit as several women's rights activists were held earlier this year for planning a demonstration against sexual harassment on public transport.
Rights groups say several female human rights activists remain in detention.
Mrs Clinton has made women's rights a signature part of her campaign.
Chinese state media have taken care to cultivate an affable and lovable image of President Xi Jinping. Calling someone "shameless" is also a particularly bad insult in Chinese culture, which abhors "losing face".
State media on Monday thus unsurprisingly reacted with fury, with a strongly-worded editorial by The Global Times put out in both English and Chinese and carried widely in other local media outlets.
It accused Mrs Clinton of aping Republican candidate Donald Trump - who has himself made provocative remarks about China - in an attempt to gain votes through China-bashing.
In its English editorial, Global Times called her "a rabble-rouser" engaged in "ignonimous shenanigans" - but in Chinese it was even blunter: "It looks like Hillary is in a panicked frenzy, her eyes have turned red... She has started to copy Trump's speaking style and allowed herself to become a fierce big mouth."
"She really has lowered herself. Chinese people aren't angry at her, but we now despise her a little."
News outlets also widely covered a response by the Chinese delegation in New York, that said the women's rights activists "were not arrested because they were advocating women's rights issues, but because their behaviour flouted Chinese laws".
Online, the reaction was more divided. Riled-up patriotic netizens on microblogging network Sina Weibo called her "an old witch" and made references to Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern who had an affair with Bill Clinton.
"Hillary you should quickly rush home, Lewinsky is already in your bed with Bill. Why don't you mind your own business instead of talking rubbish about China," said user Lewubianzhong.
But others took her side, decrying the detention of the activists and the state of women's rights in China.
Said user wbxxxhhh: "Hillary wasn't criticitising the arrests of the activists, but instead was criticising their arrests on cooked-up charges."
"Chinese women don't even have the right to reproduce, let alone women's rights," said Te_leinijiangtui, in a reference to China's one-child policy.
It is not certain whether Mrs Clinton has taken note of the Chinese brouhaha yet - if she has, she has yet to give a direct response.
Her campaign team meanwhile continues to press on. One of their latest tweets stressed the importance of women's rights. | From calling her a "big mouth" to making Monica Lewinsky jokes, China has reacted furiously at US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's recent comments about China's record on women's rights. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | This time it's a bit of a reunion for the four actors, who later on in the day are going to watch the first episode of series three.
Mandeep Dhillon, who plays Saz Kaur, has brought drinks to share later, in case there aren't any at the screening.
"There's no way to say this without sounding so cheesy," says Alice Feldgate, who plays Amber.
"So cheesy," chorus the other three, laughing.
"We're literally like best friends," says Alice. "We film all day and then on our break we're walking together, talking together, we're in each other's trailers, we eat lunch together, we eat off each other's plates, we wind each other up.
"We are closer than close can be."
Some Girls, which is airing on BBC Three, features four best friends, Saz, Amber, Viva, played by Adelayo Adedayo and Natasha Jonas in the role of Holli.
It has been described in numerous reviews as a female version of hit comedy series, The Inbetweeners.
The Some Girls cast believe they are making a positive difference in showing young women being humorous.
"It's really important going forward in the world that males and females are equal in all sorts of work, especially on TV and comedy," says Alice
"I think comedy is driving that forward, showing that girls are just as funny as boys. They can do just as much.
"One of the main things we're pleased about is that it's great being us girls that are part of this."
Natasha adds: "You also don't realise that girls are as crude as guys and I think Some Girls brings out the elements that females are not as innocent as everyone portrays."
Mandeep, who also appeared in 24: Live Another Day earlier this year, believes it reinforces their friendship, both off and on screen.
"It's so much fun to be able to say the stuff you would want to say in your head. I love the confidence they have," she says.
"But then friends are like that. I used to talk about naughty stuff like that, we all do."
Alice agrees, saying: "It's also about being young and not really having that fear or self-consciousness and just taking what you think is yours and going for it and making a bit of a fool of yourself.
"But it's ok because you'll get over it tomorrow."
The cast say they can feel like role-models for their young audience and that many of their fans like coming up to them to say which of their friends are like characters in the programme.
"It allows girls to feel like their irregular, that every girl goes through the same thing and they've got nothing to worry about and every little stress that we go through in Some Girls, it's the same stress they're going through right now," says Natasha, who previously featured in the 2011 film Attack the Block.
"It makes them feel more comfortable and like they're not the odd one out."
Some Girls is coming to an end after this series but it is clear that the stars would like to work together in the future - and that the success of the The Inbetweeners has inspired them.
"It's left very open. It doesn't end on a note that means it's gone," says Adelayo.
"I'd be happy to make another series," says Mandeep. "To be honest, I feel like a film would be amazing. I don't want it to be over just yet."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | The Some Girls characters spend a lot of time in cafes, so it is fitting that Newsbeat meets them in a cafe too. |
Can you summarize this passage? | The craft called Maritime Autonomy Surface Testbed (Mast) was displayed on the Thames in London earlier this week.
The Royal Navy said it is to play a part in the inaugural Unmanned Warrior.
The exercise in October is to be held in parts of the sea off north west Scotland, the Western Isles and west Wales, the Navy said.
The service has previously described Unmanned Warrior as its first "robot wars".
It will involve drones, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and machines that can operate underwater.
Companies that manufacture the weapons and Nato member countries have been invited by the Royal Navy to take part.
Since 2014, the Royal Navy has been promoting Unmanned Warrior 2016 to drone technology businesses. More than 40 organisations are expected to take part.
Various scenarios will be run to test the capability of the machines in areas such as anti-submarine warfare, surveillance and reconnaissance.
Unmanned Warrior will be held during the UK-led Exercise Joint Warrior.
Joint Warrior is one of Nato's largest training events and is held twice a year for thousands of army, navy and air force personnel.
The first of this year's Joint Warrior exercises was held in April.
Most of the training takes place in and around Scotland with warships operating out of Faslane on the Clyde and aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.
Live firing is also done at Cape Wrath in Sutherland, while large-scale military manoeuvres have taken place in the past at West Freugh near Stranraer. | An unmanned boat designed for military use has been unveiled as one of 50 vehicles and devices that will feature in "robot wars" exercises off Scotland. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | The ex-footballer and Unicef ambassador said people should think of their children and grandchildren before Thursday's vote.
He said his experience playing across Europe instilled in him the importance of a "vibrant and connected world".
Vote Leave said they had support from other footballers, like Sol Campbell.
Meanwhile, Victoria Beckham has accused Leave supporters of trying to "misuse" comments she made in the past about Europe.
The UK will vote on whether to remain in the EU or to leave on Thursday.
Mr Beckham - who represented England 115 times and won a host of trophies playing for Manchester United before spells at Real Madrid and LA Galaxy - wrote on Facebook that he respected those who supported Brexit but believed the UK's future was best served remaining in the EU.
Drawing on his experience on the pitch, he said the heart of Manchester United's title winning teams in the 1990s may have been English but they would not have achieved so much without the input of players from elsewhere in Europe.
"Now that team might have gone on to win trophies but we were a better and more successful team because of a Danish goalkeeper, Peter Schmeichel, the leadership of an Irishman Roy Keane and the skill of a Frenchman in Eric Cantona."
He added: "I was also privileged to play and live in Madrid, Milan and Paris with teammates from all around Europe and the world.
"Those great European cities and their passionate fans welcomed me and my family and gave us the opportunity to enjoy their unique and inspiring cultures and people.
"For our children and their children we should be facing the problems of the world together and not alone. For these reasons I am voting to Remain."
Victoria Beckham said she shared her husband's views and attacked the Leave.EU campaign after it posted a message on Twitter suggesting she believed EU bureaucrats were "destroying" the UK's "national identity and individuality".
It went on to suggest David Beckham "should have listened to the missus".
Writing on Instagram, the fashion designer said Leave campaigners were "trying to put a spin on quotes made 20 years ago about keeping or losing the pound" which she said had nothing to do with the current debate.
"I have to say strongly my comments should not be misused in this country," she said. "I believe in my country. I believe in a future for my children where we are stronger together and I support the Remain campaign".
Mr Cameron, who worked closely with the footballer in the unsuccessful bid to bring the 2018 World Cup to the UK, said people should heed what he was saying.
"There was a very moving statement today from David Beckham talking about his children and saying how effectively, what he said to me was, 'you can't win in Europe, unless you're on the pitch," he told ITV's Lorraine.
But Leave campaigner Michael Gove told the BBC it had the support of former England internationals Sol Campbell and John Barnes and joked that, being a QPR supporter, he relished being the underdog. | David Beckham has urged people to vote to stay in the European Union, saying the UK should be "facing the problems of the world together and not alone". |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Any tie-up would create the UK's leading insurance, savings and asset management firm by customer numbers.
Friends Life said it had "indicated to Aviva that it is willing to recommend the key financial terms of the possible offer to Friends Life shareholders".
Aviva would offer Friends Life shareholders 0.74 shares for each Friends Life share.
Friends Life was formed in 2011 after the amalgamation of Friends Provident, the majority of Axa UK Life and Bupa Health Assurance.
They were rebranded to form Friends Life Group.
Created during World War II, 617 Squadron carried out the "bouncing bomb" raid to destroy dams in Germany.
Now based at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray and flying Tornados, the reformed squadron will be stationed at RAF Marham in Norfolk.
The F-35B is also to be operated from aircraft carriers.
When it reforms in 2016, 617 Squadron will have both RAF and Royal Navy personnel.
There will also be another squadron flying Lightning II jets. It will carry a Royal Navy squadron number but have personnel from both services.
There are about 175 personnel in 617, who will transfer to other Tornado squadrons, retrain on the Typhoon aircraft, or move to another part of the organisation.
The disbandment forms part of the RAF's Tornado force drawdown and opens the way for the move of Typhoon squadrons from Leuchars in Fife to Lossiemouth.
Those squadrons will transfer from next year, with about 350 service personnel relocating to the Moray station.
Lightning IIs will be operated from the Royal Navy's two new Queen Elizabeth aircraft carriers, the first of which is nearing completion at Rosyth, in Fife.
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, made the announcement on the disbandment at a Royal United Services Institute conference on air power.
In a speech to senior representatives of air forces from around the world, Sir Stephen said 617 Squadron would disband on 1 April.
He said the move formed part of a planned drawdown of the RAF's Tornado GR4 force.
Sir Stephen said: "I am delighted to announce that 617 Squadron's outstanding contribution to the United Kingdom's air power - past and present - will unequivocally continue when it reforms as the UK's first operational F-35B Lightning II squadron."
He added: "Lightning shall be operated jointly by the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm pilots, from land or from the Queen Elizabeth Class carrier.
"Overall, a hugely flexible and futuristic joint capability."
Previously, 617 Squadron was disbanded when crews switched from Lancaster bombers to Vulcan jets - Britain's nuclear bomber - and then Tornado aircraft.
The 70th anniversary of the Dambusters raid was marked in May this year.
It was carried out by 133 airmen, flying 19 Lancaster bombers armed with the "bouncing bombs" designed by Sir Barnes Wallis.
Codenamed Operation Chastise, 56 of the men who took off on the mission did not return.
Out of 19 bombers, eight were shot down. Three men were captured and 53 were killed. | Aviva and Friends Life are in talks about a possible £5.6bn merger deal, the two insurance companies have said.
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The RAF's famous "Dambusters" squadron is to be disbanded next year and reformed in 2016 to fly the new F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | An exhibition is being held at the Lymm Hotel where the world's most glamorous football team was based for the tournament, 50 years ago.
It includes images of football greats Pele and Garrincha and their team-mates at ease in the hotel grounds.
Some of the shots were taken by then hotel manager Roger Allen and have been loaned by a private collector.
Current manager of the hotel in Lymm, Jamie McDonald, said: "My granddad never stopped talking about meeting Pele. I'm told the players were very approachable, some even borrowed bikes to go round the village."
The arrival of the most famous footballer on the planet, Pele, attracted scores of autograph hunters.
Glenda Bowers, who was 15 at the time, recalled: "My friend and I hung round outside all the time. We got loads of autographs of the Brazilian team.
"I must have had Pele's a dozen times. I think when I got married my mum threw them out!"
Also on display are more personal items including Pele's training kit, which he gave to the hotel laundryman.
Exhibition organiser Alan Williams said: "A press photographer wanted to photograph Pele throwing something to the laundryman.
"So he threw his training kit, which he allowed him to keep. The man didn't have any interest in football but his family have kindly loaned it to us.
"Another item is a picture of one of the bar staff, Bessie Vale, with Pele. She has kept the photo in her purse for the last 50 years."
While the locals loved the arrival of the boys from Brazil, the tournament was disastrous for the team as they failed to get past the group stage.
Pele vowed never to play in a World Cup again - although he broke this pledge four years later - after suffering repeated kickings in all three group matches played at Everton's ground, Goodison Park.
The exhibition, BrazilLymm66, runs for four days from Sunday in aid of funds for a Lymm Heritage Centre.
Roger Hunt, who was one of the stars of the England team that won the 1966 tournament, will open the exhibition at 18:00 GMT. | Previously unseen photos of Brazil's 1966 World Cup squad relaxing in a rural Cheshire hotel are to go on show. |
Summarize the information given below. | Turnover at the club grew from £11.8m to £14.6m in the latest accounts.
That coincided with Bath reaching last season's Premiership final and the high-profile signing of Sam Burgess.
"Off the pitch, we are close to achieving our ambition of operating as a self-sustaining club," managing director Tarquin McDonald said.
"This means that we can continue to invest in the club's future and it also provides the club with greater flexibility in terms of financing a new stadium."
Bath, who are currently ninth in the Premiership, lost to Saracens in last year's Premiership final.
Burgess has since returned to rugby league with NRL side South Sydney Rabbitohs.
The director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), he was arrested in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in February 2012 with two colleagues.
They were accused of "promoting terrorist acts".
His colleagues were released last month as part of an amnesty.
Mr Mazen - who has been awarded a number of international prizes - is still facing trial and is due to attend a court hearing later this month.
He was jailed for reporting on the government's crackdown on protesters in the early days of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
The ceremony in Wrexham was raided after the registrar became suspicious during pre-ceremony interviews with the Lithuanian women and the Indian men.
Five men and two women admitted conspiracy to breach UK immigration rules and were given jail terms at the court, sitting at Chester.
The two "grooms" also face deportation.
The court heard the two couples and three other men were arrested as they arrived at Wrexham Register Office on 30 August 2011 ahead of the ceremonies they had planned.
The UK Border Agency's (UKBA) Criminal and Financial Investigation team found the couples had no common language and could only communicate to each other through interpreters.
Both women claimed to have been in sexual relationships with their intended, but the men said they had only kissed their "brides" on the cheek.
The seven, all from Wolverhampton, admitted arranging the sham marriages at hearings before Tuesday's sentencing.
They are:
Both Singhs face deportation after serving their terms.
The court heard Sahota had been a well-known businessman, trusted in his community, who carried out charity work both at home and in India.
Paul Abraham, defending, denied his client had been paid as much as £7,000 for helping organise the sham weddings.
He said was "not sophisticated but nonsensical" to have moved from Wolverhampton where mixed marriages were common place to an area like Wrexham where they "stuck out like a sore thumb".
He said: "It was a bit of a shambles. The risk of detection was almost inevitable."
Judge Niclas Parry said it was a serious conspiracy aimed at cheating the immigration laws to ensure that two men could remain in the UK when they should not.
He said: "Those who enter into sham marriages to frustrate the country's immigration controls must expect sentences that deter others."
After the sentencing, Dave Offside, of the UKBA's Criminal and Financial Investigation team, said: "The two grooms in this case saw sham marriage as a potential shortcut to a life in the UK, but they have ended up behind bars.
"The brides were prepared to marry people they barely know in exchange for cash and the others involved also stood to gain financially.
"The UK Border Agency is cracking down on sham marriages and those who seek to cheat immigration laws face jail." | Premiership club Bath Rugby have announced a reduction in net losses to £1.8m in the year to 30 June 2015, down from £3m in the previous period.
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One of the most prominent human rights activists in Syria, Mazen Darwish, has been freed after spending more than three years in prison.
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A bride at a sham double wedding pointed to the wrong "groom" when quizzed by Border Agency officials, Mold Crown Court has heard. |
Write a summary of this document. | The Palestinian Authority's Al-Hayat-al-Jadida also denied that the drawing - of a robed figure standing over the Earth - represented the Prophet.
Most Muslims view any depictions of the Prophet as forbidden - and offensive.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered an inquiry into the publication of the cartoon.
The official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said Mr Abbas had called for "deterrent action against those responsible for this terrible mistake".
Mr Abbas was among the world leaders who attended a rally in Paris last month to condemn a deadly gun attack on the offices of a satirical magazine that had caricatured Muhammad.
The gunmen - both of whom had links to jihadist militants - killed prominent journalists at the Charlie Hebdo magazine, in apparent retaliation for the caricatures.
The attack sparked a global debate over freedom of expression and its limits.
Al-Hayat-al-Jadida published a drawing in its 1 February edition that featured a robed figure standing over the Earth, scattering seeds from a heart-shaped bag. The caption to the drawing said, "Our Prophet Muhammad".
The cartoonist, Mohammed Sabanneh, later wrote on his Facebook page that he had not meant any harm by the drawing, Reuters news agency reported.
Mr Sabanneh said the robed figure did not represent the Prophet but was "a symbol of humanity enlightened by what the Prophet Muhammad brought".
Along with its apology, the West Bank-based newspaper announced that it had launched an inquiry into "the published drawing that led to the misunderstanding".
The paper emphasised that the "the intention behind the publication of the image was to defend religions and to spread love and peace".
England international Gibbs, 27, has agreed a four-year deal.
Poland international Krychowiak has started just 10 games for the French club since joining from Sevilla for £28m last year.
They are the Baggies' fifth and sixth major signings of the summer.
Krychowiak won two Europa League titles with Sevilla and won the Trophee des Champions, Coupe de la Ligue and Coupe de France last season at PSG.
The midfielder, who has 45 caps for Poland, said: "I had a lot of offers from Spain and Italy. But this is a very ambitious club. There's a good atmosphere here."
Gibbs had also been in talks with Watford and Turkish side Galatasaray this summer, while Krychowiak had reportedly been interesting clubs including Chelsea and Juventus.
"They've made some good signings and I feel this is a good move for me," said Gibbs, who has been at Arsenal since the age of 14.
Gibbs has 10 England caps, the last coming in a 2-0 win over France in a friendly at Wembley in November 2015.
"We have recruited another quality addition; an England player with bags of experience at Premier League and Champions League level," said Albion chairman John Williams.
Since the end of last season West Brom have signed Southampton striker Jay Rodriguez, 28, for about £12m, Egypt defender Ahmed Hegazi, 27, on a season-long loan deal, and former England midfielder Gareth Barry, 36, for an undisclosed fee.
Scotland winger Oliver Burke joined last week from German club RB Leipzig on a five-year contract for a reported fee of £15m.
The Baggies have also signed China striker Yuning Zhang, 20, who has started a two-year loan in Germany with Werder Bremen.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | An official Palestinian newspaper has apologised to its readers for publishing a drawing that is alleged to have depicted the Prophet Muhammad.
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Can you summarize this passage? | The pro-Remain organisation is also warning manufacturing jobs would go and employments right be put at risk.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said trade and investment would be affected by an EU exit.
But another union chief, the RMT's Mick Cash, said the EU had pursued a "race to the bottom" on workers' rights and could never be reformed.
Publication of the TUC's research comes amid a drive to recruit traditional Labour voters by the rival sides ahead of the 23 June referendum.
It said the manufacturing sector would be hit seven times harder than those in the services sector because it exports so much to the EU.
How working conditions and pay rates are affected by EU membership.
Ms O'Grady said: "Thirty eight pounds a week may not be much for politicians like Boris Johnson, but for millions of workers, it's the difference between heating or eating, between struggling or saving, and between getting by or getting on."
But Mr Cash - whose union represents people in the transport industry - said the EU was no "workers' paradise", pointing to industrial unrest in France and high unemployment rates in other countries.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We as a union have opposed being members of the EU since 1979, because we do not think workers have benefited from it."
His wife greeted him at their home in Toronto, Canada, and he was seen on the estate grounds by 14:00 (16:00 GMT).
Black, 67, who controlled an empire including the Daily Telegraph in the UK, and US papers including the Chicago Sun-Times, left prison early on Friday.
Earlier, Canada said he would be allowed to live there upon his release.
Black was born in Canada but renounced his citizenship in 2001 to accept a peerage in Britain's House of Lords. He is a British citizen.
The move to grant Black a one-year temporary residence permit stirred debate in Canada's House of Commons.
Tom Mulcair, leader of the New Democratic Party, said Black had received special treatment.
"No-one else has ever been in that situation, of being still in jail, having his dossier marched around all the offices of the minister and getting his approval before even getting out of the slammer," Mr Mulcair said, according to CBC News.
But Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney countered that approval of Black's application had been processed by "highly trained, independent members of our public service" and had not been subject to political interference.
In 2007 Black was convicted of defrauding Hollinger International shareholders of $6.1m (£3.8m), by paying himself a tax-free bonus from the sale of newspaper assets without the approval of the company's board.
He had been forced out of the company by shareholders in 2003.
After his conviction, Black was sentenced to 78 months in prison. He was released two years later while he pursued a partially successful appeal, in which a judge cut his sentence down to 42 months, including the 29 months he had already served.
Black reported to prison in September to complete the remainder of his sentence but was released after eight months on good behaviour.
Upon his release, Black was transferred to the custody of US immigration authorities before he travelled to Canada.
As a British citizen, he could have returned to Britain.
Black, who became Lord Black of Crossharbour, was known for his extravagant lifestyle.
It was reported that he had two apartments on Park Avenue in New York - one for himself and his wife, writer Barbara Amiel, and one for his domestic staff. | Average UK wages would be £38 a week lower by 2030 if the UK votes to leave the EU, the Trades Union Congress says.
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Former media mogul Conrad Black has been released from prison in Miami after serving just over three years for defrauding investors. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | A car was damaged by fire. Shops, banks and a police vehicle were also damaged.
The violence forced the authorities to cancel some of the festivities planned for the city's 460th anniversary.
Earlier, some 2,500 people took to the street to complain about the costs of staging the World Cup in Brazil.
They marched through central Sao Paulo waving flags, carrying banners and chanting: "There will be no Cup".
Other Brazilians protested on Twitter, saying "Fifa go home", in reference to football's world governing body. There were similar small protests in Rio de Janeiro and other cities.
"We are against the millions and millions of dollars being spent for the Cup," university student Leonardo Pelegrini dos Santos told the Associated Press news agency.
"It is money that should be invested in better health and education services and better transportation and housing."
Saturday's peaceful protest was marred by sporadic acts of vandalism which turned into clashes with the police.
Some demonstrators attacked an empty police car and tried to overturn it, while others torched a small car. They also burned tires and targeted banks and others businesses.
The Sao Paulo state Governor Geraldo Alckmin condemned the violence.
Fifteen people were also reported to have been detained at a protest near the World Cup stadium in Natal, a city in north-eastern Brazil.
Last year, more than a million people took to the street in dozens of Brazilian cities over poor public services, corruption and the high cost of the World Cup.
The wave of protests prompted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to propose a referendum on political reform.
She also pledged to invest 50 billion reais ($25bn, £16bn) in public transport, one of the protesters' main grievances. | Police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo say they have detained 128 people during clashes that followed a demonstration against this year's football World Cup. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | In the two-page typed draft with handwritten notes, Lennon criticises the couple for their treatment of him and his wife, Yoko Ono.
The attack is said to be in response to Linda's criticism of him not publicly announcing his departure from the band.
The letter was sold at a US auction to an anonymous collector in Dallas.
The opening paragraph makes reference to a letter Lennon received which he said made him wonder "what middle-aged cranky Beatle fan wrote it".
He said: "I resisted looking at the last page to find out—I kept thinking who is it—Queenie? Stuart's mother?—Clive Epstein's wife?—Alan Williams?—What the hell—it's Linda!"
Lennon went on to respond to accusations he was "self indulgent" by criticising the couple for their treatment of him and Yoko.
Using strong language, he said he hoped they realised the trouble "you and the rest of my 'kind and unselfish' friends laid on Yoko and me, since we've been together".
Making direct reference to his former bandmate McCartney, Lennon questions the notion that "today's art" came about because of the Beatles.
He wrote: "I don't believe you're that insane - Paul - do you believe that? When you stop believing it, you might wake up!"
He also responds to the criticism that he did not publicly announce he was leaving the band, saying he was asked by Paul and former manager Allen Klein to keep quiet as it would "hurt the Beatles".
In his last attack directed at Linda, he says he suffered because of her "insane family/in laws" before adding in capitals "God Help You Out, Paul".
US auctioneers RR Auction said it believed the letter was written around 1971 - a year after McCartney publicly announced he was leaving the band.
It said the letter, which sold for $29,843.45, "captures the intense rivalry between the two men in the months, and even years, surrounding the break-up of the Beatles". | A furious letter from John Lennon to Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, written after The Beatles' break-up has sold for nearly $30,000 (£24,200). |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | Eoin Bradley and Stephen O'Donnell's goals in the first half proved enough for the Bannsiders despite the dismissal of defender David Ogilby.
Coleraine are tied on the maximum nine points with Glenavon, who are top on goal difference, and holders Linfield.
Linfield ran out easy 4-0 winners at Dungannon while Glenavon hammered Ballymena 6-1 at the Showgrounds.
Newly-promoted Warrenpoint edged a 1-0 home win over Ards while Ballinamallard United drew 1-1 with Cliftonville.
Coleraine, third last season, will be delighted with their start having been faced with a tough-looking opening schedule against Dungannon, Cliftonville and Crusaders.
Bradley nodded Oran Kearney's side into a 22nd-minute lead and O'Donnell scored just before half-time with another close-range header.
Coleraine had to play the last 28 minutes without central defender David Ogilby as he was sent off when a hand ball offence meant a second yellow card.
They saw out the valuable win despite Crues substitute Jordan Forsythe pulling one back in stoppage-time.
Linfield rarely looked threatened in a routine win over Dungannon at Stangmore.
Paul Smyth, Niall Quinn and an own goal by former Blueman Seanan Clucas made it 3-0 at the break and Andy Mitchell netted the fourth with a late penalty.
Linfield have not lost a domestic fixture since 3 January and this was their third clean sheet in a row.
Glenavon were the top scorers of the day with a remarkable 6-1 success at Ballymena.
Incredibly, all the goals came in the second half and were scored by different players.
Adam Foley, James Singleton, Sammy Clingan (penalty), Andy Hall, Bobby Burns and Andrew Mitchell netted for Glenavon while United's solitary response was an 80th-minute penalty by Tony Kane.
Glentoran boss Gary Haveron will be disappointed with is side's draw at home to his former club Carrick.
The Glens looked on course to maintain their 100% start when Ross Redman shot them into the lead in the first half , but Lee Chapman headed Carrick's equaliser 40 seconds after the restart.
Former Portadown striker Darren Murray scored in Warrenpoint's 1-0 win over Ards.
Ballinamallard took the lead through a Ryan Curran penalty but Garry Breen equalised for Cliftonville who may feel they should have taken the chances they had to win the game. | Crusaders lost their 100% league record by falling to a rare home defeat against Coleraine. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The 21-year-old spent a season and a half with the Bannsiders, having previously played for Linfield.
"I have watched his progression now for several years and I think he is a superb left back," said Crusaders manager Stephen Baxter.
"He will bring another great attitude to the team and I hope that he will be here for many years to come," he added.
"I am grateful to Stephen and to Crusaders for giving me the chance to join," said Brown, who formerly played in a more forward role.
"They are champions for a reason and I look forward to furthering my career at Seaview. I am looking forward to getting stuck in and showing Crusaders supporters the reason why I have been brought to the club." | Rodney Brown has left Coleraine to join Irish Premiership champions Crusaders on a three and a half year contract. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | The US Senate passed the measures, part of a general aviation bill, on Tuesday in response to rising concerns about drone safety.
It follows a suspected collision between a drone and a British Airways plane near London's Heathrow Airport.
Start-ups are already lining up to offer solutions to the problem.
The FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) reauthorisation legislation, passed by the US Senate, could also pave the way for the commercial deployment of drones in national airspace - but comes with several safety caveats.
Senator Bill Nelson, a democrat from Florida, introduced these safety features and warned that a drone sucked into a jet engine could render it inoperable or start an explosion.
The bill also contains new rules that would force commercial airlines to keep flight-critical systems separate from in-flight entertainment systems in the wake of concerns that hackers could remotely take control of aircraft.
The bill will now go to the House of Representatives for consideration.
In the UK, the British Aviation Authority told the BBC in the wake of the suspected collision between a drone and a passenger jet: "Stronger regulation and enforcement action must be a priority for the government, to ensure that the airspace around British airports remains amongst the safest in the world.
"Anyone operating an unmanned aerial vehicle has an obligation to know the rules and ensure they are capable of operating it safely. Doing so in proximity to an airfield or aircraft is both illegal and clearly irresponsible."
It has not been confirmed that the plane was hit by a drone, with transport minister Robert Goodwill telling parliament that "there's some speculation it may have even been a plastic bag or something".
Current rules state that drones must
Drones will be banned from flying in large parts of London during the visit of the US President Barack Obama from 21 April until 24 April.
Tech start-up SkySafe has recently unveiled technology that allows law enforcement agencies to hijack a drone's controls and neutralise it.
"We fully take control of the drone from the operator, it sees us as the legitimate controller, and we can move it to a safe location and land it," co-founder Grant Jordan told The Verge tech news website.
Meanwhile tech firm Battelle has released a radio jammer dubbed Drone Defender which also allows users to steal control of a drone from its owner. The device can currently only be used by government agencies.
In Japan, in response to a drone that landed a tiny piece of radioactive sand on the roof of the home of the Japanese prime minister, unmanned vehicles with nets have been deployed to catch rogue devices.
And the UK's Metropolitan Police has said that it is considering using eagles to intercept drones, following trials in the Netherlands. | US politicians are considering new legislation that would allow authorities to intercept or shut down drones that get too close to airports. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Flats were raided in northern and western Germany and a mosque was searched near Hanover.
Among those arrested was an Iraqi who goes by the alias Abu Walaa, or "the preacher without a face".
Germany's NDR TV has identified him as Ahmad Abdelazziz A.
The raids came as a result of information from a 22-year-old jihadist who spent several months with IS in Syria before fleeing to Turkey, it said.
Before returning to Germany in late September, the man, named Anil O, gave an interview in which he referred to Abu Walaa as "IS's number one in Germany".
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the arrests were an "important success" and showed that security services were alert and active.
All five men held are suspected of recruiting jihadists for IS and providing help for their journey to the conflict zone. They deny any link to terrorism.
The mosque in Hildesheim at the centre of Tuesday's police raids has been highlighted by authorities before as heavily involved in radical Salafist Islam.
Abu Walaa, who was arrested just outside Hildesheim, became known as "the preacher without a face" because of a series of internet videos in which he appeared clothed in black with his back to the camera.
Prosecutors said it was his task to sanction and organise jihad, and his network was clearly behind the departure of one young man and his family to Syria.
The others arrested included a 50-year-old Turk, a man of 36 with German and Serb nationality and two men in their twenties from Germany and Cameroon.
Last week, police in Berlin arrested a Syrian man on suspicion of receiving instructions from IS to carry out an attack in Germany. | Five people linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group have been arrested in co-ordinated raids in Germany, including a senior Islamist figure, reports say. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | BT said slow speeds or a lack of service experienced by customers in parts of the north of Scotland had been traced to SHEFA-2.
The cable was laid to improve connections between North Atlantic communities and Europe.
Faroese Telecom, which owns the link, has been working on repairs.
BT said the damaged section of the fibre optic cable was where it passes through the Moray Firth.
SHEFA-2 runs from Torshavn in the Faroe Islands to Banff on the Aberdeenshire coast via Shetland and Orkney. | A problem with a subsea cable that runs between the Faroe Islands and Scotland has affected internet connections, it has emerged. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | 17 September 2013 Last updated at 02:42 BST
It is the busiest A&E centre in England, but recently missed out on a share of government winter aid to help hospitals cope with the coming months.
Health Correspondent Rob Sissons spent a day at the hospital.
One wears a T-shirt reading "vote yes," while another leads the group in a rousing song about "knowing your worth".
Welcome to the front lines of one of the nastiest labour fights in the US.
On one side, these aggrieved auto workers are demanding better pay and benefits via unionisation. On the other, French-owned carmaker Nissan, which claims organising could kill jobs.
The bitter, 14-year battle is set to climax on Thursday and Friday when the 3,700 workers vote whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) or not. This Nissan plant in Canton is one of three around the world that is not unionised.
"I want to have a voice in the plant," Nissan employee Robert Hathorn told the BBC.
Nissan's use of temporary staff has energised people here. These workers earn less than long-time employees and have worse benefits.
"To me it's not fair," said Nissan worker Eric Hearn.
"What we're doing is looking for fairness," he added.
Tensions have escalated ahead of the vote.
Workers say Nissan has fought them every step of the way, threatening them with loss of wages and plant closures.
"You know they're pulling workers in one-on-one conversations," said Travis Parks, a Nissan employee and union supporter.
He said he was told: "You might lose benefits if you form a union. You might lose this. You might lose that."
To get its message across, Nissan has posted anti-union messages inside the factory.
A spokesperson for Nissan told the BBC that voters have the right to know the company's perspective.
The Japanese carmaker warned that the presence of the UAW union could harm the plant's global competitiveness.
When Nissan opened the plant in 2003, the Mississippi state government gave the company $1.3bn in tax breaks, in the hope that it would provide well-paying, full-time jobs to the community.
"Nissan is the best thing to happen to the state of Mississippi," said Tony Hobson, a Nissan technician.
He's been with the company for 15 years and is firmly anti-union.
"We have something to lose. We are feeding families here," he explained while wearing a T-shirt with "vote no'" emblazoned across it.
The UAW has worked for years building support in Canton.
Past efforts to organise at Nissan, Volkswagen and Mercedes, to name a few, have been pushed back. In part this is because the message the South sent to foreign manufacturers was: "Come here, and we'll keep unions out."
Facing a political climate hostile to organised labour, supporters in Mississippi have linked unionisation to civil rights among the plant's majority African-American workforce.
"It's about inequality which is about civil rights," according to Mississippi minister Dr Isiac Jackson Jr, chair of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan.
He has memories of growing up in Mississippi during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
"When blacks would go to register to vote, somebody might come by their house burning a cross or wearing a hood," he said.
"Now they don't wear the hood or burn the cross but they come by saying we're going to close the union, we're going to close the plant."
Nissan worker Tony Hobson calls that the biggest falsehood of all.
"Slaves don't make what we make," he said. "Slave labour is like what they make at these fast food restaurants."
A win at Nissan could be a game changer.
The UAW has never won a union vote at any of the South's foreign-owned car assembly plants.
In Canton a victory could provide a model for organising across the rest of the South.
The boy, who is understood to have fallen from a yacht in Split, was from Moycullen in County Galway, and was a student at NUI Galway.
He was among a group of 40 young people who had been attending a music festival and the group was due home this week.
The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance and the Irish Embassy in Zagreb is liaising with the family of the boy. | A consultant at Queen's Medical Centre's accident and emergency department in Nottingham says the facility is facing mounting pressure.
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An teenager from the Republic of Ireland has drowned in Croatia. |
Please summarize the document below. | Second seed Murray came from a break down in the final set to win 7-6 (9-7) 3-6 6-3 in two hours and 38 minutes.
"It was a tough match," said the Scot, 28, who plays David Ferrer in his semi-final after the Spaniard beat American John Isner 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 6-2.
World number one Novak Djokovic saw off Tomas Berdych 7-6 (7-3) 7-6 (10-8).
Murray faces a challenging end to the season, with the ATP Finals in London only nine days away, followed by Britain's first Davis Cup final since 1978, which gets under way in Belgium in three weeks' time.
Murray had lost just four games in winning his opening two matches in Paris, but was given a far sterner test by Gasquet - and it took its toll.
"I got a little stiff in my lower back," the Briton said afterwards.
Murray had toyed with the idea of skipping the ATP Finals - and risking the wrath of the governing body - in order to arrive in Belgium fresh for the Davis Cup final, his primary focus for the rest of the season.
However, that scenario appears less likely now and, asked if his back was a concern, Murray told Sky Sports: "I don't think so. I was moving well, it was just on the serve it gave me a little bit of trouble. That can happen, it's a long season.
"After a couple of weeks it's maybe normal to feel a little bit stiff and sore and maybe it's a good thing, to get that out of my system.
"The crowd was behind him and it was perfect preparation for the Davis Cup, in an atmosphere like that."
Murray's immediate focus remains the Paris Masters, and a real chance to make an impact at a tournament which has yet to see the best of him.
Gasquet had inflicted one of five previous quarter-final defeats on Murray, back in 2007, and the 29-year-old played well enough to threaten a repeat on Friday.
In a high-quality match, Murray edged the first set in a tie-break but made little impact on the Gasquet serve in the second, the Frenchman taking it thanks to one break.
When he moved a break up early in the third it appeared that Gasquet was on course to claim his first win over Murray since 2012, but the Scot hit back immediately and made the decisive breakthrough with a drop shot at 4-3.
Defending champion Djokovic saved set points in both sets to claim his 20th consecutive win and remained on course for an unprecedented third Paris Masters title in a row.
The 28-year-old top-ranked Serb secured a hard-fought victory in two hours seven minutes and in the semi-finals will play Stanislas Wawrinka who defeated Rafael Nadal of Spain 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-5).
It was a third win in four matches for the Swiss after he lost the first 12 matches between the pair.
Find out the latest team news here.
Saturday
Arsenal v Hull City (12:30 GMT)
Manchester United v Watford (15:00 GMT)
Middlesbrough v Everton (15:00 GMT)
Stoke v Crystal Palace (15:00 GMT)
Sunderland v Southampton (15:00 GMT)
West Ham v West Brom (15:00 GMT)
Liverpool v Tottenham (17:30 GMT)
Sunday
Burnley v Chelsea (13:30 GMT)
Swansea v Leicester (13:30 GMT)
Monday
Bournemouth v Manchester City (20:00 GMT)
Preview to come
Saturday
Aston Villa v Ipswich (15:00 GMT)
Brighton v Burton Albion (15:00 GMT)
Derby v Bristol City (15:00 GMT)
Fulham v Wigan (15:00 GMT)
Leeds v Cardiff (15:00 GMT)
Norwich v Nottingham Forest (15:00 GMT)
Preston v Brentford (15:00 GMT)
QPR v Huddersfield (15:00 GMT)
Reading v Barnsley (15:00 GMT)
Rotherham v Blackburn (15:00 GMT)
Wolves v Newcastle (17:30 GMT)
Find out how to get into football with our special guide. | Britain's Andy Murray reached the Paris Masters semi-finals for the first time with a three-set victory over French 10th seed Richard Gasquet.
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Summarize this article briefly. | Kenya's The Star and South Africa's The Citizen said they regretted any offence caused to Muslims.
Kenya's media regulator has summoned The Star's owner after accusing it of breaching decency. It did not single out the cartoon.
In Senegal, the government has banned Charlie Hebdo's distribution.
A second Kenyan newspaper, Business Daily, has also published the French satirical magazine's cover.
In its Thursday morning edition, the Star said many Muslim readers had complained over a "small reproduction" of Charlie Hebdo's cover on Wednesday.
Apologising, the paper, Kenya's third biggest, said it "sincerely regrets any offence and pain caused by the picture".
The government-appointed Media Council of Kenya said in a statement that it was "incensed by the persistent publishing of offensive stories and pictures by the Star newspaper".
It has summoned The Star's owners to a meeting to explain the "unprofessional" conduct of its journalists before it decides on action.
This could include the withdrawal of the accreditation of the newspaper's journalists. The Star has not commented on the council's statement.
Kenya has suffered multiple attacks from al-Shebaab militants, who called the Charlie Hebdo attacks "heroic".
South Africa's The Citizen said it apologised to all who were offended by it reprinting the cartoon.
"We deplore those killings, as we do any attempt to enforce censorship through violence," an editorial said.
In Senegal, which has a majority Muslim population, the government has banned Charlie Hebdo's distribution.
The country has close links with France, the former colonial power, and French newspapers are widely available.
The magazine's cover shows the prophet weeping while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie", and below the headline "All is forgiven".
Twelve people, including some of the magazine's best known cartoonists, were killed last week by militant Islamist gunmen who said they were avenging a 2005 depiction of Prophet Muhammad.
An interior ministry statement reported on the Senegalese news agency APS said it was banning the distribution of Charlie Hebdo by "all means".
The ban includes French newspaper Liberation, which also carried the front cover.
Analysis: Abdourahmane Dia, BBC Africa, Dakar
Senegal's bestselling newspaper, L'Observateur, described the ban on Charlie Hebdo as a "bluff" by President Macky Sall, who was widely condemned for taking part in the Paris march on Sunday. It questioned how he could have marched in Paris for press freedom, only for his government to then ban the magazine's edition depicting Prophet Muhammad.
The government has to walk a fine line between taking a stance against terrorism and not showing support for a publication seen by many Senegalese Muslims as anti-Islamic.
Although many people condemned Mr Sall for taking part in the march, prominent Muslim cleric Serigne Modou Kara defended him, saying his attendance was necessary because of the close ties between France and Senegal.
Meanwhile, a campaign group has called for a march in Dakar on 24 January under the slogan "I am African" in response to "I am Charlie", to highlight the plight of Africans who are are victims of violence, especially Nigerians under attack from militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
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Muslim media anger at new cartoon | Two African newspapers have apologised for publishing Charlie Hebdo's cover depicting the Prophet Muhammad, after an outcry from Muslim readers. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | The move follows a proposal to slash 10% from MPs' salaries and ministry spending, and to use billions of dollars from an emergency fund.
Russia's economy has been badly hit by low oil prices and Western sanctions over Moscow's role in Ukraine's crisis.
It was not clear when the cuts would come into effect, and whether they would cover Mr Putin's own pay.
The move is presumably meant to set an example, as Russia enters difficult economic times, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow reports.
It is all part of a broader austerity drive, she says, as Russia's income has shrunk along with the falling oil price. Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict are also biting.
In a brief statement on Friday, the Kremlin said permanent members of Russia's security council discussed "a number of social and economic issues".
It added that Mr Putin informed the council about his decision to lower salaries in the presidential administration "outside the context of the meeting's agenda".
Earlier this week Sergei Naryshkin, the speaker of the State Duma (lower chamber of parliament), said lawmakers should take a 10% pay cut to help the country through a financial crisis.
Mr Naryshkin appealed to their patriotism to back his proposal.
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has also pledged to reduce the spending by the federal ministries and government agencies by 10% in 2015.
In a separate development, Mr Siluanov's first deputy said on Friday the government would ask parliament to allow the spending of up to 3.2tn roubles ($52bn; £34bn) from the Reserve Fund, according to Reuters news agency.
This would include 500bn roubles already envisaged in the budget for 2015.
The Russian government is already revising the budget, which was based on oil prices at $100 a barrel. Prices are now hovering at about $60.
The drop in oil income - along with the impact of sanctions following the crisis in Ukraine - has left the country heading for recession, analysts say. Forecasts suggest Russia's economy will contract this year by up to 4%.
This week supermarkets announced a price freeze on essential items to help struggling customers. Pharmacies are set to follow.
It is all a long way from the boom times that have characterised much of Mr Putin's presidency, our correspondent says, but so far it seems his personal rating is unshaken. A key opinion poll just released showed his popularity actually increased in February to 86%.
Keith Buckler, 82, from Ulverston, has been appointed MBE for services to the New English Orchestra and to charity through Rotary in Grange-over-Sands.
He has supported overseas Christian charities for more than 50 years.
A British Empire Medal was conferred upon Patricia Burns, 75, of Appleby, for services to education.
Mr Buckler has been a member of the British Council for European Christian Mission since 1973 and its chairman since 1986.
He has fundraised for the New English Orchestra - an ensemble of Christian musicians - as well as being part of the Cumbria and Lancashire Rotary District International Committee.
In recent years he has also been a voluntary medical worker in Nicaragua with the Peace and Hope Trust.
Mrs Burns has worked in a number of roles at Appleby Grammar School for 35 years and has been a governor for the last 14.
She was described as "a lynchpin to the local community".
Currently a senior midday supervisor, she leads a team which looks after more than 600 pupils.
Also on the honours list are forensic pathologist Dr William Lawler, of Penrith, who is appointed OBE for services to the police and criminal justice system, and John Graham, of Ambleside, who is appointed MBE for services to the Langdale Ambleside Mountain Rescue Team. | Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the salaries of his staff are to be cut by 10%.
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Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Baker was riding Boomerang Bob on the frozen lake track when the horse was brought down and fatally injured.
Baker was taken to hospital and the remainder of the meeting was abandoned.
"George has woken up, and with the hospital releasing the news I can only imagine they are pleased with his progress," said his agent Guy Jewell.
"He's already had a CT scan and that has come back clear.
"They will obviously need to check that everything is working properly and his wife is on her way out there."
Racing has taken place for decades on the frozen lake at St Moritz, with horses fitted with special shoes to cope with the wintry conditions.
Race organiser White Turf said a crack was found in the ice when the track was checked after Baker's fall.
It added: "This meant that water had come up to undermine the racetrack."
Oxfordshire-based Baker, who is 6ft tall, won the world's oldest classic, the St Leger, last September on Harbour Law.
His fellow jockey Christophe Soumillon, who was also riding at St Moritz, told French news agency Equidia: "Turning into the straight, the snow was only up to the horses' shoes.
"You could see by the prints afterwards that there was water between the ice and the snow." | Jockey George Baker is awake in intensive care in a Swiss hospital after a fall during a race at St Moritz on Sunday. |
Summarize the provided section. | Kyle Bell, 25, from Scunthorpe, died of stab wounds. He was found in the Mary Street area early on Tuesday morning, Humberside Police said.
A 21-year-old man was also taken to hospital earlier on Tuesday. The force is appealing for witnesses.
Refuse collections in the area have been stopped by police request.
Collections will be completed on Monday if inquiries are completed, North Lincolnshire council said.
The deal, agreed at talks in Tunis, is intended to lead to a single government and elections within two years.
It needs to be endorsed by both the internationally recognised parliament in eastern Libya and the Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC).
The agreement is separate from UN efforts at mediation in Libya.
The United Nations special envoy to Libya, Martin Kobler, called it a very good basis for going forward.
In October, the UN submitted its own blueprint for a deal leading to a unified government, but neither side has endorsed it.
The UN is due to host peace talks between the two factions next week in Rome.
Libya has been unstable since long-serving strongman Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in October 2011, with militias ruling various parts of the country.
"This is a historic moment the Libyans were waiting for," Awad Mohammed Abdul-Sadiq, the first deputy head of the GNC, said after the deal was signed on Sunday.
"If this solution receives real Libyan support - from the people and institutions - we will surely arrive in no more than two weeks or a month to a solution to solve the political crisis," he told reporters.
Under the "declaration of principles" agreed in Tunis, the two sides would set up a committee to nominate a prime minister pending elections, while another panel would review the constitution.
The GNC is supported by a loose alliance of armed groups, including Islamists, that seized the capital in August 2014.
This forced the existing, internationally recognised government to flee to the eastern city of Tobruk.
The rare meeting, held in a state room, apparently lasted at least an hour, during which Mr Putin discussed world affairs with the 11 boys.
One of the boys present, David Wei, said on Facebook he had sent more than 1,000 emails to set up the meeting.
He said Mr Putin, renowned as a tough leader, had shown "his human face".
Photos of the event were posted on social media, showing the group shaking hands with Mr Putin and sitting around a table listening to the Russian leader, wearing translation headsets.
Later, they posed for an informal group photo, apparently in an ante room, celebrating their success in gaining access to the Kremlin's inner sanctum.
David Wei said in his Facebook post: "It took me a total of ten months, 1040 emails, 1000 text messages, countless sleepless nights, constant paranoia during A2 exam season, declining academic performance...but here we are. Guys, we truly gave Putin a deep impression of us and he responded by showing us his human face."
Another of those present, Trenton Bricken, said on Facebook: "Two hour meeting with President Putin. He was small in person but not in presence."
The boys are said to have arranged the visit on their own initiative but details remain unclear.
One suggestion was that the meeting had been facilitated by Father Tikhon Shevkunov, a Russian Orthodox abbot said to be close to Mr Putin, who reportedly spoke at Eton earlier this year.
The school, which was founded in 1440 and has educated 19 British prime ministers, said in a statement: "This was a private visit by a small group of boys organised entirely at their own initiative and independently of the college."
The Kremlin has not commented. | A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a man was found in Scunthorpe.
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Libya's two rival parliaments have reached an initial agreement aimed at resolving the political crisis that has plagued the country for years.
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A group of boys from Britain's prestigious Eton College have met Russia's President Vladimir Putin during a visit to the Kremlin. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The patrolling officers were targeted in Brixton at about 19:30 GMT on Saturday by a man driving a Citroen C4.
The Met said the officers had been approaching the car on Plato Road having identified the occupants as "behaving suspiciously".
As police approached, the car was driven at them. No-one was injured.
The car also collided with several parked cars before the 22-year-old driver got out and tried to run off.
He was arrested by the officers, as were the two other occupants of the car.
The Met said knives, a small quantity of cannabis and £1,000 in cash was confiscated from the group.
Frenchman Smail Ayad, 29, allegedly stabbed the 21-year-old in Home Hill, Queensland, on Tuesday.
He has been charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, one count of serious animal cruelty and twelve counts of serious assault.
Mr Ayad was remanded in custody and the case has been adjourned until October.
He was due to appear before Townsville Magistrates' Court on Friday by video link.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung, from Wirksworth, Derbyshire, died from multiple stab wounds after the attack at Shelley's Backpackers accommodation.
Queensland Police Service previously said that it was investigating whether Mr Ayad had an "obsession" with her.
Supt Ray Rohweder, regional crime co-ordinator in the Northern Region, said there was an indication that Mr Ayad had taken cannabis on Tuesday evening local time.
Police have confirmed that Mr Ayad shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack, but said there is no indication that radicalisation or political motives were involved.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung's mother Rosie paid tribute to her daughter in a statement, saying she was an "amazing young woman with an adventurous spirit".
Tom Jackson, 30, from Cheshire, who was injured while trying to save Miss Ayliffe-Chung, remains in hospital with critical head injuries, the police tweeted.
Police had described his actions as "selfless" and "absolutely fantastic".
British High Commissioner to Australia Menna Rawlings was in Home Hill, near Townsville, to provide support to Britons involved in the attack.
In a video she posted on Twitter she praised the police for their response to the incident and the follow-up support they were providing everyone involved.
"The family and friends of all the victims of the attack, and all those affected - I wanted to offer my deepest condolences as well," she said.
Mia Ayliffe-Chung went to Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth before going to Chesterfield College to study psychology and communication and culture.
She later went to Buxton and Leek College to study childcare.
It is understood she travelled to Bali before arriving in Australia.
Paul Lovatt, head of pastoral care at Anthony Gell, remembered her as "enriching the school environment".
"We knew Mia as a student with so much joy and energy who was well-liked by her friends and teachers," he said.
"She joined our school in Year 9 and flourished here, both in making strong friendships and in achieving high-level GCSEs."
Rachel McVeigh, curriculum leader for education and childcare at Buxton and Leek College, said: "Mia had a zest for life and was free-spirited, with a keen desire to travel.
"We are devastated and extremely sorry to hear such tragic news. Our thoughts are with her family and friends." | Three men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a car was driven "recklessly" at police officers in south London.
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A man accused of murdering British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung at a hostel in Australia did not appear in court as "he had caused a disturbance". |
Can you summarize the following information? | This "huge unmet need" is partly due to a focus on physical symptoms at the expense of good mental healthcare, researchers say.
They argue depression is often overlooked but could be treated at a fraction of the cost of cancer drugs.
Charities say the current situation is "heartbreaking".
People often wrongly assume that major depression is part of a natural reaction to cancer - but this is much more than transient sadness, the Edinburgh and Oxford university researchers say.
Their report suggests a new nurse-led treatment could help thousands of people.
In a series of studies they analysed data on 21,000 cancer patients living in Scotland.
They found 6% to 13% of people had clinical depression, compared with just 2% of the general population at any time.
Sufferers of major depression feel persistently low, may find it difficult to sleep and have poor appetites.
But researchers found 75% of people reporting these symptoms were not receiving treatment, partly because they did not consider seeking help and professionals did not pick up on their illness.
The reports also show that, even when given a diagnosis and standard NHS treatment, the majority did not feel better.
Scientists say a new nurse-led approach designed specifically for patients with cancer can substantially reduce depressive symptoms.
In their study of about 500 patients, the therapy halved the depression scores of more than 60%.
Patients reported they were less anxious, less fatigued and experienced less pain.
Only 17% of those who had standard NHS care had similar results.
In contrast the new intensive, tailored approach is delivered by a trained cancer nurse and involves the wider medical team.
It includes:
Researchers argue that if their programme were rolled out widely it could improve the quality of life for thousands of people.
Their final paper suggests the therapy improves quality of life, regardless of how good a patient's prognosis is.
Dr Stefan Symeonides, of the University of Edinburgh, said: "Day-to-day oncologists like myself see the profound impact depression can have on a patient with cancer."
He added: " [This is] a huge area of unmet need missed by current practice."
Researchers say the therapy costs around £600 per patient.
Jacqui Graves, of the Macmillan Cancer Support charity, said: "It is heart-breaking to think cancer patients who are already dealing with the toughest fight of their lives are also struggling with depression, without adequate support.
"Anyone experiencing depression should get in touch with their GP."
A spokesman for the airline said a concrete figure would only become clear in the coming weeks, but that the losses were "clearly in the double-digit millions of euros".
More than 11,000 passengers have been hit by the cabin crew action.
They are in dispute with management over early retirement benefits and pensions.
"The concrete damage will only be clear in the coming weeks when we know how many passengers claimed refunds, how many were rebooked, and how many passengers we accommodated at hotels," a spokesman told reporters at Frankfurt airport, before adding that the losses would "clearly be in the double-digit millions of euros".
Lufthansa's management has described the action has "unprecedented" and is meeting to discuss the consequences. A statement is expected later.
It is the third day of industrial action and stoppages could continue until Friday.
The company wants to bring down pension costs as part of a savings drive to allow it to compete more effectively with low-cost rivals and Gulf carriers.
But it has so far failed to reach an agreement with the union.
Lufthansa's reluctance to meet its demands is "not comprehensible", given that the company just raised its full year profit forecast to €1.95bn, the union has said.
The alarm was raised after the 23-year-old, from Cornwall, went missing for about 15 minutes while swimming at about 02:30 BST, the RNLI said.
He was discovered in a serious condition near Great Western beach and airlifted to a hospital in Truro by search helicopter where he later died, Devon and Cornwall Police said.
The death was not being treated as suspicious, police said.
The man's next of kin have been informed. | Three-quarters of cancer patients who are clinically depressed do not get the psychological therapy they need, according to research in the Lancet.
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Please summarize the document below. | The prime minister said a joint GCHQ and National Crime Agency unit would hunt online paedophiles with the same "effort" used to track terrorists.
Speaking at a London summit, he said online child exploitation existed on an "almost industrial scale" worldwide.
He also unveiled a law to stop adults sending children "sexual" messages.
Labour said it had suggested the same law six weeks ago and the government had said it was "not necessary".
Mr Cameron said the new unit was part of a drive to remove millions of "sickening and depraved" images from the internet.
The term "dark net" refers to parts of the internet that are hidden and can be hard to access without special software, and Downing Street said the new unit would be able to analyse huge volumes of images.
Mr Cameron said progress had been made on blocking online abuse images, but added: "The dark net is the next side of the problem, where paedophiles and perverts are sharing images, not using the normal parts of the internet that we all use.
"What we are doing there is setting GCHQ, our world class intelligence agency, together with the National Crime Agency and we are going to go after these people with every bit of effort that we go after terrorists and other international criminals."
Mr Cameron said children were being "abused to order" by some international gangs.
"One gang in the Philippines was arranging the sexual abuse of children, filming it and then live streaming it to paying customers across the world," he said.
He said this gang was stopped - and 29 people arrested - after an investigation which began when a British police officer examined a sex offender's computer. He said 15 children, some as young as six, were rescued from their "living nightmare".
Speaking at the We Protect Children Online summit in London, Mr Cameron said his proposed new law would make it "illegal for an adult to send a sexual communication to a child".
The law, which would apply in England and Wales, is expected to be included in the Serious Crime Bill currently going through Parliament.
Various laws exist in this area, but Mr Cameron said there should be no "grey areas".
It follows a campaign by the NSPCC charity to close what it dubbed the "flaw in the law".
Mr Cameron said it would also be made illegal to possess material offering guidance on abusing children - what he called "paedophile training manuals".
Representatives from more than 50 countries, 23 leading technology companies and nine non-governmental organisations are attending the summit.
Mr Cameron said they would sign a "landmark agreement" which "amounts to nothing less than a global war against online child abuse".
As part of the agreement, he said a "range of countries" had committed to create "dedicated law enforcement response" to tackle child abuse images.
He said a new "global child protection fund" would be set up, with the UK the first and "most major" donor - paying £50m over the next five years.
Mr Cameron said internet firms had gone "above and beyond" what they had been asked to do in terms of blocking access to child abuse images.
He also said:
Google said it "aggressively" removes child abuse images, adding: "Over the past 12 months our algorithm changes and deterrent campaign have already led to a five-fold reduction in a number of child sexual abuse image-related queries in search."
Responding to Mr Cameron's comments, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said there were "very serious gaps" in the government's plans because "thousands of cases of abuse are not being followed up by the police".
"We know the National Crime Agency has details of over 20,000 suspected of accessing images of child abuse under Operation Notarise, and yet they have only investigated a tiny proportion of these - and arrested fewer than 1,000," she said.
Ms Cooper also said the new law outlined by Mr Cameron was "in fact a Labour amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill" that the government had said was "not necessary" only six weeks ago.
"It's very welcome that they have changed their minds," she said. | Intelligence experts and organised crime specialists will join forces to tackle child abuse images on the "dark net", David Cameron has said. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | The £11m bridge links Arena Island to Cattle Market Road and will be a key route to the Bristol Arena.
Bristol Arena, a 12,000-seat venue set to open in 2017, will be built by contractor Populous which was chosen from a shortlist of five.
Communications and broadband cables plus "district heating" piping which provides green energy to businesses will be included beneath the bridge.
Work started on the 63-metre-long (207 ft) bridge in March and it is hoped it will help unlock new investment in the area to create more jobs.
It is open to cars, pedestrians and bikes, with 3.5 metres (11ft) of pedestrian and bike lanes on either side.
The bridge was funded by the Homes and Communities Agency | A new bridge has been built over the River Avon in Bristol. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Nicole Arbour uploaded a video called Dear Fat People in which she derided people for being overweight.
She claimed she had been censored after her channel was suspended, while others accused her of deleting her own channel to gain sympathy.
But the BBC understands the channel was automatically suspended because a lot of people reported it to YouTube.
Ms Arbour's YouTube channel has since been restored.
Nicole Arbour is a Canadian comedian who uploads video rants to Facebook and YouTube. She has a combined following of more than 500,000 people.
In a controversial video, which has been viewed more than 21 million times, Ms Arbour described times she encountered overweight people.
"Fat-shaming is not a thing. Fat people made that up. If we offend you so much that you lose weight, I'm OK with that. You are killing yourself," she said.
Ms Arbour has faced criticism from prominent social media stars.
Whitney Way Thore, star of US reality show My Big Fat Fabulous Life, said fat-shaming was the "spawn of a larger problem called body shaming" that she was sure "everyone on the planet" had experienced.
"You cannot tell a person's health, physical or otherwise, from looking at them," she said.
Singer Meghan Tonjes said the video was "harmful", adding: "I know what it's like to sit there as a teenage girl and see something like that."
Vlogger skagg3 defended Ms Arbour: "I don't go on some censorship parade trying to put tape over people's mouths, because I value the free exchange of ideas more than I value my own personal feelings."
When Ms Arbour's YouTube channel was suspended on Sunday, she tweeted that she had been "censored".
YouTube said it did not comment on specific channels but told the BBC: "In cases where a channel or video is incorrectly flagged by the community and subsequently removed, we work quickly to reinstate it."
Ms Arbour has since uploaded a new video, where she says she "does not care" if people are offended by her content.
Grace Helbig, one of YouTube's best-known stars, said the comedian's comments had been "mean".
"Comedy can be a really powerful tool," she said. "I wish that we could use it more respectfully. I wish we could just respect each other as human beings.
"The more you just say whatever you want with disregard to people's feelings, the less I as a viewer consider you as a comedian, I just consider you as kinda mean."
23 March 2015 Last updated at 06:50 GMT
The government recommends that everyone should have at least five portions of fruit and veg a day.
But the survey shows 52 in every 100 kids don't have any veg, and 44 in 100 have no fruit on a daily basis.
What we're eating is a big issue at the moment because one in three kids in the UK is obese or overweight.
Newsround asked food expert Dr Radha to explain why it's important to eat your greens. | A comedian who criticised overweight people has sparked a row over censorship on YouTube.
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Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Worcester's Thomas, 32, has retired after he was diagnosed with epilepsy, which is thought to have been triggered by multiple head traumas while playing.
Thomas said players are purposely playing down the seriousness of their injury to prolong their careers.
"It's probably the players that need the biggest wake up call," Thomas said.
"It's one thing the Unions driving things and the medical departments being really professional, but it's another thing getting it through to players who have a gladiatorial mind-set and want to get on the field and play.
"There are definitely players out there who try to tone down their symptoms in order to keep playing."
Thomas, capped 67 times by Wales and a Grand Slam winner in 2005 and 2008, is the latest player forced to quit on medical grounds.
Cardiff Blues flanker Rory Watts-Jones was advised to retire in February after a concussion-related injury that prompted behavioural changes.
England internationals Shontayne Hape and Andy Hazell have also been forced to end their careers prematurely because of concussion.
Wales head coach Warren Gatland has warned "one or two more serious knocks" could end wing George North's career.
North suffered four blows to the head in a five-month period last season, which Thomas says highlighted the issue to a wider audience.
"It's a very good thing it's highlighted more," Thomas told BBC Wales Sport.
"I think it will take a generation of players to really educate them on the dangers of playing with trauma and bangs to the head.
"I've learnt a lot myself over the last few months and a lot more educated about it and in the future I'd like to educate players and teams."
Thomas played 44 games for Worcester after joining from Ospreys in May 2013 and was part of the side that gained promotion back to the Premiership at the end of last season.
He was diagnosed with epilepsy last year but decided to continue playing after being told the condition could be managed. However, Thomas now feels he has to stop.
"I think you always think you're indestructible," Thomas told BBC Wales Sport.
"When I found out I thought I'm just going to roll my sleeves up and take it on as just another challenge.
"When I found out it was potentially manageable with medication that was all I needed to give me that incentive to carry on.
"I went on to play 19 games last season but living with the side effects, training and playing it was mentally tough.
"After games I would be a lot more fatigued than I used to be and I was getting little things like memory loss.
"Speaking to the consultant and him advising me to finish was the final nail in the coffin."
The bank has been conducting its own inquiry into the affair and six staff are already being disciplined.
RBS has been looking at more than 50 former and current RBS traders along with dozens of managers and executives.
The bank was recently fined £400m by the UK and US authorities for its role in the scandal which emerged in 2012.
RBS was one of six banks that were fined £2.6bn last month by the UK, US and Swiss authorities after being found guilty of trying to rig the forex market for several years.
A separate inquiry into the role of Barclays bank and its own forex traders is still underway.
Jon Pain, the head of conduct and regulatory affairs at RBS, said the aim of the bank's inquiry was to "rebuild trust" in the bank.
"We are undertaking a robust and thorough review into the actions of the traders that caused this wrongdoing and the management that oversaw it," he said.
"This is a complicated process but also an essential one in order to identify culpability and accountability for this unacceptable misconduct.
"To be clear, no further bonus payments will be made or unvested bonus awards released to those in scope of the review until it has concluded and its recommendations have been considered," he added.
Two RBS traders were first suspended in October last year.
In a report last month which accompanied the huge fines, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the attempts to rig the forex market, by colluding with each other to manipulate the daily setting of "spot" prices for individual currencies, had taken place between 1 January 2008 and 15 October 2013.
One man, thought to be a former RBS forex trader, was arrested by City of London police and Serious Fraud Office staff last Friday. | Former Wales back row Jonathan Thomas says players need to take more responsibility if they suffer head injuries.
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Provide a concise overview of the following information. | Donna Nook, on the Lincolnshire coast, now accounts for 1.5% of the world's grey seal population, with 90 more pups born this year than last.
In 2011 and 2013, dozens of youngsters died when tidal surges hit the coast but the colony has otherwise enjoyed record growth every year.
About 70,000 people flocked to the area to see the seals this year.
1,889
grey seal pups born at Donna Nook Nature Reserve in 2015
1,798 pups born at the reserve in 2014
40% of the worlds population of grey seals are in the UK
1.5% of the worlds population of grey seals are in Lincolnshire
70,000 human visitors to Donna Nook in 2015
Rachel Shaw, from Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, said: "The birth-rate has gone up every year with the number of pups born. The rate of increase is not as high as in the past but it is still growing.
"The pups have quite a low mortality rate and a lot of the pups will come back to the place there they were born when they are ready to give birth."
The seals spend most of the year at sea or on distant sandbanks but in November and December they come ashore to give birth.
After suckling their pups for two to three weeks, the seals abandon the young, mate again ready for the following year and then head out to sea again.
Eventually, starvation drives the young seals into the water in the hunt for food.
Median pay - a figure representing the pay rate half way between the lowest and highest paid executive - dropped from £4.3m in 2016 to £3.5m this year.
Deloitte said policies introduced to limit bosses' pay appeared to be working.
This year's annual general meetings were "calmer than expected" it said.
"The fall in executive pay demonstrates that remuneration committees are making a real effort to address shareholder concerns," said Stephen Cahill, vice chairman at Deloitte.
"This is the first cycle where the legislation introduced in 2013 and primarily voted on during the 2014 AGMs will have taken effect.
"It seems the current legislation is working."
The accountancy firm's remuneration report also said there had been a reduction in bosses' bonuses and pension allowances for new appointees.
The report tallies with recently published research from the High Pay Centre which suggested the average pay of FTSE bosses had fallen 17% this year.
But the director of the High Pay Centre, Stefan Stern, suggested public pressure had led to what may turn out to be a "one off" fall in pay, and that this year average executive pay had been skewed by high-profile pay cuts for one or two individuals.
New rules in 2013 obliged firms to provide greater transparency over the pay of their top executives in relation to other employees and to hold a binding shareholder vote on pay every three years.
However, discontent over high executive pay has continued.
Prime Minister Theresa May has promised further reforms to policies governing remuneration, to tackle what she called an "irrational, unhealthy and growing gap" between what bosses and workers are paid.
This year the High Pay Centre said the average pay ratio between FTSE 100 bosses and the average pay package of their employees has fallen to 129:1 - meaning that for every £1 the average employee is paid, their chief executive gets £129.
In 2015 the ratio was 148:1.
Investor criticism at AGMs this spring was more muted than expected.
Deloitte's vice chairman said he did not believe further intervention was necessary.
"With many companies renewing their policies this year we are seeing further moves to incorporate the best practice provisions shareholders now expect," said Mr Cahill.
"The current framework is working well and we do not believe further regulation is needed to move things forward." | A record 1,889 seals were born at a nature reserve, continuing the colony's growth since the 1970s.
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The median pay for chief executives of FTSE 100 companies has fallen by almost 20% over the past year, according to accountancy firm Deloitte. |
Summarize this article briefly. | The sackings were expected as the president has repeatedly criticised the military's inability to defeat Islamist group Boko Haram.
The Islamists have recently launched a series of deadly guerrilla attacks, killing more than 250 people.
Boko Haram is thought to be responsible for more than 10,000 deaths since 2009.
Both the new head of the army, Maj Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, and the National Security Adviser, Maj Gen Babagana Monguno, are from Borno State which is at the heart of the conflict.
BBC Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says the hope is they have a good grasp of what is needed to end the violence.
The new military chiefs will be expected to work closely with neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger as they join forces to tackle Boko Haram.
The group has also stepped up attacks on these countries.
At least 12 civilians were killed in Cameroon in a suspected Boko Haram suicide attack on Sunday evening, a military source told the BBC.
Two soldiers also died, along with two bombers who blew themselves up in Fotokol, near the border with Nigeria.
Chad will be the headquarters of an expanded Nigeria-led regional force of around 7,500 troops.
Its formation has gained momentum since President Buhari took office in May.
Analysis: Will Ross; BBC News; Lagos
Some are asking why it took so long to make the changes.
So it was certainly not a surprise that President Muhammadu Buhari replaced all the military top brass.
Making progress in the fight against Boko Haram is his priority and he clearly wasn't happy with the status quo within the military.
Over the past three weeks Boko Haram has launched almost daily bomb attacks in cities in the north as well as blasts in Chad and Niger.
On Saturday morning, 15 people died in the main market in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, when a man dressed in a burka blew himself up.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack.
Our correspondent, Will Ross, says just hours before his sacking, army chief Lt Gen Kenneth Minima said the upsurge in violence was the result of military success against the jihadists.
Lt Gen Minima suggested Boko Haram no longer had the capacity to fight the army and so had resorted to attacking soft targets with bomb blasts.
Why Boko Haram remains a threat
Who are Boko Haram?
Comments can be heard in footage of the event, organised by human rights group JUST Yorkshire on Wednesday.
It is understood the word "Jew" was shouted at Labour candidate Naz Shah after she spoke of her support for "Israel's right to exist".
All confirmed candidates in the constituency took part in the event.
JUST Yorkshire reported the incident, which took place at the Carlisle Business Centre, to police who are investigating.
Full list of election candidates for Bradford West constituency
Ms Shah said: "I didn't hear it at the time because the heckling was so bad.
"But I have seen the video now, I've heard it with my own ears and I'm glad it has been reported as a hate incident."
All confirmed candidates in Bradford West took part in the event.
Nadeem Murtuja, chair of JUST Yorkshire, which organised the hustings, said in a statement: "JUST Yorkshire condemns every form of hate, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
"If I had heard the comment on the night of the hustings, we would have immediately brought an end to the proceedings."
A spokesman from West Yorkshire Police said: "On 2 June, police in Bradford received a report of a hate incident.
"Inquiries are ongoing to establish the circumstances." | Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed new defence chiefs after sacking the heads of the army, navy and air force.
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An alleged anti-Semitic incident at an election hustings in the Bradford West constituency is being investigated by police as a hate crime. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | The largest earthquake ever recorded in the UK happened on the Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, in 1984.
It measured a moderate 5.4 on the Richter scale and caused damage across north Wales and tremors could be felt across the UK.
Wednesday's minor earthquake measured 3.8.
What made the 1984 earthquake so unusual was the fact that it began at a depth of over 20km (12 miles) and created a shock wave that could easily have caused major structural damage.
The British Geological Survey (BGS) said smaller quakes are not unusual in Wales.
Seventy measuring more than 3.5 happened between 1727 and 1984.
Putting Wednesday's earthquake into perspective, Brian Baptie, seismologist for the BGS, told BBC Radio Wales: "We get an earthquake of this size somewhere in the UK maybe once of twice every couple of years.
Less than 2.0 - a micro earthquake and not felt
2.0 - 3.9 - minor earthquake, sometimes felt, no damage
4.0 -4.9 - light earthquake, noticeable shaking, no damage
5.0 - 5.9 - moderate, minor damage
6.0 - 6.9 - strong, can be destructive
7.0 - 7.9 - major, serious damage over large areas
8.0 - 8.9 - great, serious damage over hundreds of miles
9.0 - 9.9 - great, devastating areas over thousands of miles
10.0+ - epic, never recorded
Source: US Geological survey
"We also know that north Wales is one of the more seismically active parts of the UK, it's got a long history of small earthquakes in the past few hundred years," he said.
The earliest recording of an earthquake in Wales was in 1247 in Pembrokeshire.
The tremors were so severe the edifice of St Davids Cathedral was damaged.
In Caernarfon in 1690, the first recorded earthquake happened and tremors were felt in London. Two months earlier, Carmarthen was also hit.
In 1852 Caernarfon was hit again but a quake in Swansea in 1906 measured 5.2 and is still regarded as one of the most significant of all British earthquakes. Certainly it caused major damage to property.
The only death from a UK earthquake happened on 12 December 1940 in north Wales. An elderly woman lost her balance and fell down the stairs of her home.
The last earthquake to hit Wales happened around Caernarfon in February 2013 and measured a minor 2.3 on the Richter scale.
The tremor was also felt in Anglesey, Porthmadog and Bangor. Reports said it caused houses to shake and was "like a lorry crashing into the house". | Experts say north Wales is a "seismically active" part of the UK, which makes it prone to more earthquakes. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | The detail is contained in a speech by Andy Haldane which examined how different parts of the UK have experienced recovery.
It shows that on one key measure, GDP per head, Northern Ireland suffered a sharp fall between 2007 and 2009.
It has essentially flat-lined since then.
However on other measures, notably employment, Northern Ireland has had a recovery.
The employment rate in Northern Ireland hit an all time high of 69.6% earlier this year and all 41,000 jobs lost between 2008 - 2011 have been recovered.
Mr Haldane noted that experimental statistics also suggest that people in Northern Ireland experience greater wellbeing than in other parts of the UK.
He said "When it comes to measures of life satisfaction...London ranks at the bottom of the regional league table of happiness, while Northern Ireland occupies, by some distance, pole position."
Mr Haldane suggested that the economic recovery has largely been felt in London and the South East, among those who own their own homes and those who are aged over 50.
He added that in only two regions - London and the South-East - is GDP per head in 2015 estimated to be above its pre-crisis peak.
In other UK regions, GDP per head still lies below its pre-crisis peak, with Northern Ireland faring worst with a figure still an estimated 11% below peak.
Mr Haldane concluded that "so far at least, this has been a recovery for the too few rather than the too many, a recovery delivering a little too little rather than far too much."
Sharjeel Khan, Khalid Latif, Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Irfan and Shahzaib Hasan have been charged with breaking the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) anti-corruption code.
The charges relate to allegations of spot-fixing during the recent Pakistan Super League (PSL).
All five of the men have played international cricket for Pakistan
Jamshed, 27, is still in Britain, following his arrest by the National Crime Agency in February. The batsman was bailed until April pending further inquiries.
Batsmen Sharjeel, 27, and Latif, 31, are contesting the charges against them and have been instructed by the PCB to attend a preliminary hearing in front of a three-member tribunal in Lahore on Friday.
Latif and 34-year-old pace bowler Irfan gave statements to the Federal Investigation Authority in Lahore on Monday, while Sharjeel and 27-year-old batsman Shahzaib are due to give statements on Tuesday. | Northern Ireland's economy has seen little recovery since the 2007 economic crash, the Bank of England's chief economist has suggested.
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Five cricketers provisionally suspended as part of an anti-corruption inquiry have been barred from leaving Pakistan. |
Can you summarize the following information? | Mr Tusk said he was "deeply convinced that there is no better life outside the European Union, for any country".
Mr Cameron has pledged to negotiate a "better deal" for the UK and hold a referendum on membership.
Leaders from across the globe have been congratulating him after he defied predictions to win a majority.
"I count on the new British Government making the case for the United Kingdom's continued membership of the European Union. In that I stand ready to help," Mr Tusk said in a statement.
"A better EU is in the interest not only of Britain but of every member state."
The words "political earthquake" have been translated into numerous European languages today, making front page news across the continent.
In Europe the vote means one thing - a referendum on Britain's membership to the EU. And that has the potential to create an earthquake of its own.
Mr Cameron has promised a referendum in 2017, and Brussels is hardly known for speedy decision-making. Expect quite some flexibility - few countries want to see the UK's burgeoning economy leave the fold.
But there will be limits, possibly over people's freedom to live and work anywhere in the EU.
UK 'political earthquake' rocks EU
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was "looking forward to meeting Mr Cameron soon".
A statement from his office said he would examine any British proposals in "a very polite, friendly and objective way" but warned that key principles including the freedom of movement were "non-negotiable".
Offering his congratulations in a phone call, French President Francois Hollande invited Mr Cameron for talks in Paris on the EU and international issues.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of the Conservative People's Party, tweeting in Spanish, called the victory a "deserved recognition of his decisive reforms".
Manfred Weber, who chairs the European People's Party grouping that Mr Cameron withdrew his party from, tweeted that the "ball is in Mr Cameron's court. He has to put his demands on the table. But EU freedoms will not be negotiable".
"We Europeans must also start thinking about whether it is time for a larger Treaty reform," he added.
Aside from questions over Britain's future in the EU, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said her husband Stephen Kinnock, the son of a former leader of the opposition Labour party, had "done so well" to win a seat.
Asked by Danish newspaper Berlingske who would be doing the commuting, she said: "I've always had a husband who works outside Denmark, and now he will do so in politics. This just means we will have even more to talk about, since we are both interested in politics." | European Council President Donald Tusk has said he wants newly re-elected British Prime Minister David Cameron to make the case for EU membership. |
Provide a concise summary of this excerpt. | The 17 year old was in St Columb's Park on Friday at about midnight when she was approached by a man aged in his 30s.
Police have appealed to anyone who may have been in the area at the time to contact them.
There are no further details.
Just over a quarter of 35,000 children from 188 schools told the National Literacy Trust that they read outside of school.
About the same number said they did not think their parents cared if they read.
The trust says a similar survey in 2005 found one in three children read in their own time.
The survey for the trust involved children filling in online questionnaires last winter.
Half of those taking part said they enjoyed reading either "very much" or "quite a lot" and a high proportion (four out of five) agreed with the statement "the more I read, the better I become".
Nearly two in five agreed reading was "cool", but about one in three said they only read when they had to.
Report author Christina Clark, from the Literacy Trust, said young people who enjoyed reading very much were four times as likely to read above the level expected for their age compared with those who did not enjoy reading at all.
Those who read outside of class every day were five times as likely to read above the expected level compared with those who never did.
And children who do not think "reading is cool" were four times more likely to be below-average readers, the report says.
National Literacy Trust director Jonathan Douglas said: "Our research not only reveals that children are reading less and developing more negative attitudes towards reading, but also that there is a clear correlation between this and their performance in reading tests."
The study, of children aged from eight to 16, found that the proportion who read e-books outside of school had doubled since 2010 to 12%.
Reading is most popular among eight to 11-year-olds, the survey suggests, although teenagers are more likely to read for longer.
The charity released the research to coincide with a new campaign to find the UK's "literacy heroes".
It is asking the public to name people who might have inspired a love of books or helped to improve reading skills.
Anyone from a parent, teacher or young person who has overcome a personal literacy problem to a favourite author or celebrity can be nominated, the Literacy Trust said.
The campaign is being supported by the Duchess of Cornwall, who said: "I firmly believe in the importance of igniting a passion for reading in the next generation.
"In a world where the written word competes with so many other calls on our attention, we need more literacy heroes to keep inspiring young people to find the pleasure and power of reading for themselves."
Perth-based Seriously Good Venison will start selling the product via its website and at farmers' markets in the central belt from the beginning of May.
It follows successful consumer taste panels run by scientists at Queen Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh.
The firm claims it will be the first commercially produced black pudding made with deer blood in the UK.
QMU's Scottish Centre for Food Development and Innovation had been tasked with identifying if consumers were keen to deviate from the traditional black pudding recipe, which is usually made with pig blood.
Seriously Good Venison director Vikki Banks, who has been running the business since 2009, said: "We had identified a gap in the market for the UK's first black pudding made from deer.
"We developed several recipes - one original recipe and another which would be suitable for the gluten-free market.
"However, we needed specialists support to establish the facts about customer taste preferences and perceptions of the product concept."
Globally, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the third most commercially successful film in history, according to the Walt Disney studio.
Titanic, released in 1997, is number two and 2009's Avatar is top, with a total box office take of $2.8bn.
The film was released in China a month after its global release.
Star Wars: Will the Force awaken in China?
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Disney, owners of the intergalactic adventure franchise, have focussed considerable marketing effort on China, even going as far as putting 500 Stormtroopers on the Great Wall of China for an event.
It is the first episode many Chinese have seen, as the original Star Wars was not released in China at the time. | A teenage girl has been attacked and sexually assaulted in Londonderry.
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Fewer children across the UK are reading in their own time and one in five is embarrassed to be caught with a book, a survey suggests.
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A Scottish firm is to launch venison black pudding on the market, following taste trials by food scientists.
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The latest Star Wars film has taken $53m (£36.5m) in ticket sales on its first weekend in China - the country's highest ever opening weekend. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | The accident happened on the A71 at Stonehouse at 20:25 on Thursday.
It involved a black Audi A3 travelling west near Canderside Toll which appeared to lose control and cross to the eastbound lane of the carriageway and collide with a black Audi A4 car.
The 36-year-old driver of the Audi A3 was taken by air ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow, where he is being treated for multiple injuries.
Hospital staff described his condition as serious.
His 31-year-old passenger was taken to Hairmyres Hospital in East Kilbride, where he is being treated for his injuries.
The 42-year-old driver of the Audi A4 and two boys aged five and eight, who were also in the car, were taken to Wishaw General Hospital.
Inspector Graham Conner appealed for witnesses to the crash to contact officers via 101.
Prince Rogers Nelson left no known will and his assets are estimated to be worth about $100m (£68m).
The singer died at his Paisley Park compound outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 21 April.
His sister, Tyka Nelson, and half-siblings are the apparent heirs to his estate, authorities have said.
Ms Nelson and and Prince's half-sibling Alfred Jackson attended a hearing on Monday at the Carver County courthouse in Minnesota, where lawyers began surveying the singer's estate.
If no will is found, the state will determine how the money is divided up.
During the short hearing, Judge Kevin Eide formally appointed Bremer Trust National Association as the special administration to oversee Prince's probate case.
One attorney said there was an "ongoing search" for a will.
Investigators are still determining how the singer, songwriter and producer died.
Prescription painkillers were in the singer's possession when he died. But it is unclear what role, if any, those drugs may have played.
A law enforcement official confirmed to the Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether Prince died from a drug overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing him drugs in the weeks before his death.
They are also looking at whether a doctor was on a plane that made an emergency landing in Illinois less than a week before the singer died. He was taken to a hospital in Illinois, but was treated and released a few hours later.
A vault containing unreleased Prince songs was found at his estate and will be drilled open by the company with temporary authority over his estate, according to ABC News.
He told US TV programme The View about his unreleased music in 2012.
"One day, someone will release them. I don't know that I'll get to release them," he said. "There's just so many."
Enough music was apparently left behind to release an album a year for the next century.
His former recording engineer, Susan Rodgers, said: "We could put out more work in a month than most people could do in a year or more." | Five people have been injured in a head-on collision in South Lanarkshire.
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The family members of pop singer Prince have begun the process of dividing up the American singer's sizeable assets. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | The car was being pursued along Lennard Road, Penge, when it struck the group at about 14:05 BST, witnesses said.
The woman and boy died at the scene, while three girls were taken to hospital with "multiple injuries", London Ambulance Service (LAS) said.
A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
The 23 year-old remains in custody in a south London police station, the Metropolitan Police said.
A witness said the car was being chased by two police BMWs when the driver "lost control and ploughed into a family".
"People were trying to lift a car off a little girl," the man said.
Another witness, Venissa Vassell, said about 20 people lifted the car and the girls "crawled out".
One girl who was taken away by ambulance was screaming, "I can't feel my legs", Ms Vassell said.
Ilya Baxter, 23, saw the police chase from a window in his flat.
He described seeing a white man aged between 18 and 25 running across the road around the corner from the crashed car, before police caught him.
He said: "I heard the cars and saw someone pointing to the police where he went. I knocked on the window and pointed."
He said that the man was hiding in the bushes. Police then caught the man, handcuffed him, and then went to help the injured, he added.
The majority of police pursuits in London take place at relatively low-speed and end quickly when the driver pulls over.
But there's been concern about a recent rise in the number of people killed in car chases.
The police watchdog says there were 13 deaths in the UK in 2015/16 - during or after police chases - up from six the previous year.
In London in 2015/16 there were three deaths, up from one the previous year.
The Metropolitan Police philosophy is that no pursuit is worth risking the safety of the public; that travelling through built-up areas at more than 40 or 50 mph is simply not worth it.
With the amount of CCTV on the streets of the capital, tracing vehicles is easier than ever, although watching a suspect get away is clearly galling for officers, and a great worry if the suspect poses an immediate threat.
Sources say it's become increasingly common for a senior officer - monitoring events in real-time in the police control room - to call off a chase if they feel the risk to the public has become too great.
Often, the control room will try to scramble the most highly-trained pursuit officers to take over. They are in the minority, though, and the body that represents rank and file officers, the Police Federation, has said a reduction in specific road policing officers nationally has led criminals to think they can get away.
With fewer specialists on the roads, more chases will be allocated to officers who don't have the daily experience of high-speed pursuits.
The details of what happened in Penge are still not clear. But this crash shows once again how devastating the consequences of police chases can be.
Police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has sent investigators to the scene, and appealed for witnesses to contact them.
Over the last 10 years, 252 members of the public have died following road traffic incidents involving the police in England and Wales, according to the IPCC.
In London there were 498 crashes involving a pursuit by Met officers in 2015-16. | A woman and a boy have been killed after a car being chased by police mounted a pavement and crashed "into a family" in south-east London. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The Northern Ireland international signed a two-year deal with the English League One side.
''I know Kilmarnock fans will be gutted Josh has left," said Clark.
''It's a terrific move for Josh, financially he'll get a much bigger offer than we could ever offer him.''
Kilmarnock rejected three bids from Charlton for Magennis but finally accepted an offer reported to be around £250,000 on Thursday.
''The club didn't just take the first offer that came in for Josh, we did everything we could to keep him," Clark explained.
"But when it becomes apparent that the player's heart is set on the move then it's about getting the best possible deal.''
The Killie boss would like to use all the money from Magennis' sale to strengthen his playing squad, but accepts that is unlikely to happen.
''Of course I want every single penny. The club have already banked the cash so I want the interest as well.
"I'll always be greedy as a manager, but as a club we have to be run on a firm financial footing.
''I'll have to sit down with the board of directors and see what I can use, not just in terms of the transfer fee but also in terms of Josh's salary. He was one of the club's highest earners so we'll need to see what we can use.''
''Fans are entitled to want all the money used and that would be my ideal scenario but reality steps in and we have to act accordingly.
"There are some targets we believe we can get and from now until the end of the transfer window that's what we're looking to do." | Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark says the club were powerless to prevent striker Josh Magennis leaving to join Charlton Athletic. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | The unilateral truce, announced by Russia, will last until at least 19:00 (16:00 GMT). Eight exit corridors have been designated from the east.
Russian and Syrian air strikes have been halted since Tuesday.
Rebels have rejected the plan and there are reports of clashes at one of the corridors out of the east.
Only a few civilians have been evacuated so far, if any, and various parties to the conflict are blaming each other for this.
A correspondent in Aleppo for Orient News, a Dubai-based pro-opposition TV channel, said he and his crew had visited the two crossings intended for evacuation, but only a few civilians had left at the very start of the ceasefire, and none since then.
Ammar Jaber accused Syrian government forces of targeting the corridors with sniper and rocket fire. He said "fierce clashes" were continuing and 15 people had come under sniper fire.
Syria's state-run news agency has blamed "terrorist groups" for the attacks, and the Russian state-run broadcaster Rossiya 24 said members of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, a militant group once aligned with al-Qaeda, were preventing people from leaving.
And a teacher in Aleppo, Wissam Zarqa, told the BBC: "To my knowledge, none could leave."
He said he thought "no arrangements had been made" for medical evacuations.
Last month, Syrian government forces encircled the eastern section and launched an all-out assault backed by Russia.
Some 2,700 people have been killed or injured in the bombardment since then, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group. About 250,000 civilians who live in Aleppo have been trapped by the fighting.
Western leaders have said Russian and Syrian air strikes on Aleppo could amount to war crimes, an accusation rejected by Russia.
In other developments, the Turkish military says its jets have attacked the Kurdish YPG militia north of Aleppo, killing up to 200 fighters.
But a senior Kurdish commander, Mahmoud Barkhadan, told the Associated Press news agency that no more than 10 of his fighters had died.
The UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that at least 11 people had been killed, with 24 reported injuries. The group compiles information from a network of contacts on the ground.
The YPG is supported by the US in its fight against so-called Islamic State, but Turkey regards it as a terrorist organisation.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier this week the pause in the bombing would help "guarantee" the safety of six corridors through which civilians could leave.
Rebel fighters have been offered a chance to leave with their weapons via two corridors.
Jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, which was known as al-Nusra Front until it broke formal ties with al-Qaeda in July, has vowed to fight on.
"We choose not to give up our people," it said.
Mainstream rebel factions also dismissed Russia's proposal as a gimmick.
The UN, which regards Jabhat Fateh al-Sham as a terrorist organisation, says the group has 900 fighters inside Aleppo, out of a maximum of 8,000 rebels in total.
The new structure, called Evolution, will be unveiled at the 2016 event in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
Eisteddfod chief executive Elfed Roberts said it was "time to move on" after 10 years of the pink pavilion.
"The Pink Pavilion was a striking building and gave us a unique promotional opportunity... but it was also very frustrating," he said.
"The structural poles obscured the view from a large number of seats, and external noise was also a problem during competitions.
"The new building is a much sturdier structure and will suit our needs far better."
Meanwhile last year's Eisteddfod in Meifod, Powys, left a surplus of almost £55,000. | A "humanitarian pause" in attacks on rebel-held eastern Aleppo - part of a plan to allow civilians and fighters to leave - has come into effect.
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The National Eisteddfod's iconic pink pavilion is to be replaced from next year. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Three men and three women had been on trial at Bradford Crown Court along with two other defendants.
It was claimed Edward Hinnells, 79, was kept in "abject squalor" at Highdell Nursing Home, in Idle, Bradford.
However, Judge Colin Burn told the jury to return not guilty verdicts against the six people, saying there were "very good legal reasons".
Senior care worker Jennifer Cross, 60, from Idle, carer Nicki Kassama, 30, from Shipley, senior carer Valerie James, 58, from Eccleshill, nurses Desmond Crowley, 59, from Daisy Hill, Bradford, and Gerard McDermott, 58, from Ilkley, and 49-year-old cleaner Piotr Czajkowski, from Ravenscliffe, were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Judge Burn said he was unable to elaborate on his reasoning at this stage.
The trial continues against care home manager Stephen Pelkowski, 51, from Addingham, and senior nurse Phillippa Robinson, 57, from Shipley.
Prosecutors allege Mr Hinnells was left to live in a room "not fit for human habitation" without bedding, toilet paper or wipes after he became a resident at the home in February 2013.
Mr Pelkowski and Mrs Robinson deny the charge. | Six care home staff accused of wilfully neglecting an elderly resident have been cleared by a judge. |
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