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Summarize the following excerpt. | Palestinian families were in the school in Beit Hanoun, fleeing Israel's offensive against Hamas militants.
In the past 16 days of fighting, 797 Palestinians and 33 Israelis have been killed, officials say.
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal told the BBC he wants a ceasefire and end to Israel's blockade as soon as possible.
"We don't want to be controlled by a border crossing that makes Gaza the biggest prison in the world," Mr Meshaal, who lives in exile in Qatar, told the BBC.
"People cannot go for medical treatment or to work. Why are the people of Gaza being punished by a slow death in the world biggest prison? This is a crime."
Earlier Gaza's health ministry reported that 15 people were killed in the school attack, but later revised the figures.
Meanwhile, at least two Palestinians were killed during a protest at the Qalandia checkpoint near East Jerusalem.
Israel launched its military offensive on 8 July with the declared objective of stopping Hamas firing rockets from Gaza.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he regretted each Palestinian civilian death, but said they were "the responsibility of Hamas".
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he was "appalled" by the attack on the school in northern Gaza and said it underscored "the imperative for the killing to stop - and to stop now".
According to the UN, more than 118,000 people are now sheltering in UN schools and people are running out of food.
It is the fourth time in as many days that a UN facility has been hit.
Correspondents say pools of blood lay on the ground in the courtyard of the school in Beit Hanoun, and there was a large scorch mark where it appeared a shell had hit.
UN officials said that during the course of the day they had been trying to negotiate a window of time with the Israeli army for civilians to leave the area because of the heavy fighting.
Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (Unrwa), also said the Israeli army had been formally given the co-ordinates of the shelter in Beit Hanoun.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it was in the midst of combat "with Hamas terrorists in the area of Beit Hanoun, who are using civilian infrastructure and international symbols as human shields".
"In the course of the afternoon, several rockets launched by Hamas from within the Gaza Strip landed in the Beit Hanoun area. The IDF is reviewing the incident," it said.
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) says a 3km (1.9 mile) wide strip, encompassing 44% of Gaza, has been designated as a no-go zone by the Israeli military.
Israel imposed restrictions on the Gaza Strip in 2006, after Hamas abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
The measures were tightened by Israel and Egypt in 2007, after Hamas ousted rival Fatah and forcibly took control in Gaza after winning elections the year before.
Hamas and Fatah announced a reconciliation deal in April, but the move was condemned by Israel which regards Hamas as a terrorist group.
Israel's Science Minister Yaakov Peri told Israeli web portal Walla that he did not see a ceasefire being agreed in the coming days, as the IDF needed more time to dismantle Hamas' underground tunnel network.
But in his BBC interview, Mr Meshaal was critical of the way Israel targeted Palestinian homes in aerial bombardments, saying a three-minute signal to leave - one of Israel's warning measures - was not a "proper warning".
"A Palestinian has built this home with his money. Are Israelis expecting him to leave just like that?"
He said Israel was unable to reach the underground rocket launchers, belonging "to the resistance".
"This is why it pretends that they are in civilian areas so Israel is hitting hospitals mosques, towers and buildings," the militant leader said.
Palestinian medical sources said the death toll in Gaza had risen to 797 on Thursday. Of these, 191 were children and 67 were women, officials said.
Israel says 31 soldiers, two Israeli civilians and a Thai worker in the Israeli city of Ashkelon have been killed since 8 July.
Thousands of Palestinians also took part in a protest in the West Bank against Israel's military offensive.
At least two were killed after Israeli soldiers opened fire, and doctors said hundreds were also injured. | At least 13 people were killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter came under fire in Gaza, health officials say. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said emissions in Scotland fell by 9.9% in 2011.
The drop for the UK as a whole was 6.9%.
However, climate campaigners said the figures showed that the Scottish government still had more to do to meet future emission levels targets.
Much of the reduction was due to the weather and a switch from coal-fired electricity generation to nuclear and renewable sources.
The CCC said the reduction also reflected additional investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The committee is an independent statutory body set up under the Climate Change Act to advise the UK government on setting carbon budgets, and to report to parliament on the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
This is the latest Scottish breakdown of the UK emission figures for 2011.
There were drops of more than 20% in emissions from the the power and residential sectors, and a 15% reduction in emissions in the public sector.
Despite the fall in emissions, Scotland narrowly missed the legislated annual target of 53.4 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e).
The CCC said this was due to a change in the way estimated emissions were calculated.
The committee's latest report, which is done for the Scottish government, said meeting future targets remained "very challenging".
It has highlighted several areas that will required further action in order to meet future targets.
They included developing the electric vehicle market through more investment in the charging infrastructure, and focusing on pilot projects for new farming practices.
David Kennedy, chief executive of the CCC, said: "There has been good progress in Scotland on reducing emissions in key sectors of the economy, notably through investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency.
"This should not be obscured by the fact that emissions in 2011 were above the level targeted because of a change to the accounting methodology. But much remains to be done in terms of policy development and implementation to achieve very challenging future targets, and to unlock the benefits for Scotland of building a low-carbon economy."
Scottish Environment and Climate Change Minister Paul Wheelhouse said: "This report highlights how Scotland is doing much better in reducing climate change emissions than the UK as a whole - with almost a 10% reduction in Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions.
"In 2011, Scotland led western Europe in terms of reducing our climate change emissions and the committee's analysis of underlying trends in emissions indicates we remain on track to achieving our long-term climate change targets."
Climate change campaign group The Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) welcomed the drop in emissions but urged the Scottish government to go further with new green energy initiatives to make "a better Scotland".
Tom Ballantine, chairman of SCCS, said: "Taking action on climate change will create a better Scotland, where we have warmer homes, healthier transport options, and cleaner air.
"Scottish ministers can make changes right now to ensure that emissions from all sectors reduce year on year."
He added: "Scotland has rightly set out to be a world-leader on climate change. It is imperative that we now show that it is possible to make this happen, and, at the same time, that Scottish people can benefit from the changes made." | Scotland has continued to make "good progress" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the body which advises the UK government on the issue has said. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Ms Cooper gained 18,832 votes, increasing her majority from 3,244 to 6,373.
Conservative candidate Paul White came second with 12,479 votes.
Burnley's Liberal Democrat stalwart Gordon Birtwistle lost out for a second time, after being defeated by Ms Cooper in 2015. He gained 6,046 votes. The turnout was 62.3%.
Ms Cooper said: "I'm absolutely thrilled and hugely honoured. My majority has increased twofold. That is amazing.
"Hopefully I've proved to [the people of Burnley] I'm committed to standing up for them and being a strong voice for them in Westminster... I also know that people have liked the Labour manifesto, a strong and powerful manifesto, and people have wanted to back that."
The Conservatives failed to gain its target seats of Blackpool South, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Hyndburn or Chorley. They were all held by Labour.
Labour targeted seats in Blackpool North and Cleveleys, Pendle, South Ribble, Rossendale and Darwen and Morecambe and Lunesdale but the Conservatives held these seats.
In Lancashire, not a single seat has changed hands following the 2015 election result.
A hung parliament is going to make Brexit extremely difficult, the Conservative MP for Fylde said.
"If we've a coalition of chaos the ability to deliver Brexit will be nigh on impossible," Mark Menzies said.
Ribble Valley Conservative MP Nigel Evans, lamenting his party's overall performance in the general election, said: "A number of senior Tories lost their seats...it's a tragedy you can put down to our manifesto."
Graham Jones, who was elected MP for Hyndburn with an increased majority of 5,815, said: "I never get complacent but do appreciate the fact that I've won for a third term and I thank the people of Haslingden and Hyndburn for electing me.
"My promise is a simple promise, I'll work hard."
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Watson broke the former world number one in the penultimate game of the first set in Mexico and sealed victory when the Dane hit a forehand wide.
The 23-year-old plays France's Caroline Garcia in Saturday's semi-final.
Earlier, fellow Britain Johanna Konta lost 6-3 6-7 (2-7) 6-1 to world number 73 Kirsten Flipkens.
Watson has slipped down the rankings to number 84 this year and Saturday's encounter with Garcia will be her first semi-final since winning in Hobart in January 2015.
"I thought I played very well," said Watson. "I needed to against Caroline because she's a great player - and I had to fight to the end because I knew she would."
Konta, ranked 27th in the world, was a set and a break down but broke back to level the second set at 5-5 before winning it in the tie-break.
However, she won only one more game as Belgium's Flipkens reached the last four.
Elsewhere, British number three Naomi Broady lost 6-4 6-3 to sixth seed Eugenie Bouchard in the Malaysian Open semi-finals.
Kate and Gerry McCann joined villagers and well-wishers at Rothley Parish Church in Leicestershire to say prayers for their missing daughter.
The three-year-old vanished during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007.
Rev Rob Gladstone, who led the service, paid tribute to those still working to find Madeleine.
Prayers for other missing children were also read out during the service, which Kate McCann helped to organise.
It had originally been due to take place outside at the village's war memorial but was moved indoors to give the McCann family more privacy.
The service began with Cat Stevens' recording of 'Morning Has Broken' being played out.
Rev Gladstone then told the congregation: "Lord we thank you for sustaining Gerry and Kate through these painful years.
"We pray for the team of women and men who are still searching for Madeleine and other missing children.
"May the Holy Spirit help them as they work hard to find out the truth."
Messages tied with yellow ribbon - signifying hope - had been placed at the church by local schoolchildren.
Prayers were also due to be said for Madeleine at a church service in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, where she went missing.
A sunset balloon release at a nearby beach was also planned. | Labour's Julie Cooper has held her seat in Burnley, the Liberal Democrats' top target in the North West.
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British number two Heather Watson secured her best win of 2016 as she beat Caroline Wozniacki 7-5 6-4 in the Monterrey Open quarter-finals.
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The parents of Madeleine McCann have attended a church service in their home village to mark the tenth anniversary of her disappearance. |
Please summarize the passage below. | Blair Riley hit two of Belfast's goals with Chris Higgins, Mike Forney, Steve Saviano and Alex Foster also on target.
After Higgins' opener, Forney doubled the lead early in period two and while Mike D'Orazio replied, goals from Saviano and Riley left Belfast 4-1 up.
Michal Dobran and Ian Schultz replied for Edinburgh but late goals from Foster and Riley sealed Belfast's win.
After taking one point from Saturday's 3-2 over-time defeat by Fife Flyers, Belfast's weekend return keeps them in third place in the table although they are 12 points behind leaders Cardiff Devils.
The Giants, who do have two games in hand on the Devils, will be back in home action at the SSE Arena against Sheffield Steelers on Saturday night.
The 27-year-old joined the club on loan from Liverpool in January.
However, he has helped Palace win five games in those eight league games as the Eagles attempt to secure Premier League survival.
They are four points above the relegation zone with two games left and face third-bottom Hull on Sunday.
Sakho could miss the rest of the season though after suffering a knee injury in a defeat by Tottenham.
Palace have since also lost to Burnley and Manchester City.
Christian Benteke, Yohan Cabaye, Jason Puncheon, Andros Townsend and Wilfried Zaha are Palace's other player of the year contenders. | Belfast Giants ended a four-game losing run in the Elite League as they clinched a 6-3 away win over Edinburgh.
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Crystal Palace have shortlisted Mamadou Sakho for their player of the season award despite making only eight appearances for them. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | The premiere takes place in Hollywood in America tonight.
Fans have been camping outside the three cinemas, where the film will be shown, for a chance to get tickets since last week.
Fans have been told they must spend at least 24 hours in the queue to be able to buy two tickets, and have to wait another 24 hours to be able to buy an extra ticket.
The film is the seventh in the series and will have its UK premiere in London on Wednesday.
In October some cinema websites stopped working because they could not cope with the amount of people who were trying to buy tickets. | The premiere of the latest Star Wars film, The Force Awakens, has brought hundreds of fans out. |
Can you summarize this content? | Its large and strong economy has allowed it to bankroll the bailouts that have kept some of its neighbours - and the euro - afloat.
The graphics below help explain why it is so dominant, and powerful - and also some of the problems it faces.
Germany's large population (the biggest in Europe) and vibrant economy add up to a GDP that far outweighs other European powers.
It also has the strongest export sector and the lowest unemployment of any big European country.
The success of the economy and low unemployment - especially when compared to other EU countries - mean Germany has become a magnet for jobseekers. The number of immigrants has been rising and surpassed a million people in 2012 for the first time since 1995.
They come especially from former communist countries - as well as recession-hit Italy, Spain and Greece - and head for Berlin, the wealthy southern regions, and the industrial west.
Despite Germany's strong economy, not everyone is doing well. Under wage restraint agreements, many people's incomes have barely grown in years, and many people who have jobs still require benefit top-ups.
There is also still a clear divide, 22 years since reunification, between incomes in the old East Germany, and the old West. | Germany, which holds federal elections on 22 September, is Europe's dominant country. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce - the body responsible for enforcing business laws - said it was looking into "alleged monopoly actions" by the company.
The announcement came after officials from the regulator visited some of Microsoft's local offices.
The company said it "will address any concerns the government may have".
It has not yet been accused of any specific wrongdoing.
Any potential investigation in China would be a fresh setback for Microsoft in the country, a key growth market for global technology firms.
Earlier this year, China said it would ban government use of Windows 8, Microsoft's latest operating system.
The visits to Microsoft offices come just days after the China's anti-trust regulator said that Qualcomm, one of the world's biggest mobile chipmakers, had used monopoly power in setting its licensing fees.
The anti-trust case has already seen some local handset makers hold back on signing licences for Qualcomm products, hitting its revenues.
Another technology firm, Interdigital - which specialises in wireless technology - has also faced a similar investigation.
Chinese regulators suspended that investigation earlier this year after Interdigital agreed to change its pricing structure.
However, some have alleged that China is using anti-trust probes to protect domestic firms.
"It has become increasingly clear that the Chinese government has seized on using the [anti-monopoly] law to promote Chinese producer welfare, and to advance industrial policies that nurture domestic enterprises," the US Chamber of Commerce said earlier this year. | An anti-monopoly investigation into US technology giant Microsoft has been launched by Chinese authorities. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | The actor has been the focus of press attention since it was revealed that Angelina Jolie has applied for divorce.
He narrated director Terrence Malick's epic documentary Voyage of Time, about the birth of the Universe.
He said he did not want his presence at the California Science Centre Imax Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday to "distract attention" from the film.
In a statement, Pitt said: "Terrence's Voyage of Time is an incredibly beautiful and unique experiential Imax film for children and families chronicling the birth of time.
"I'm very grateful to be part of such a fascinating and educational project, but I'm currently focused on my family situation and don't want to distract attention away from this extraordinary film, which I encourage everyone to see."
Cate Blanchett has narrated a different feature-length version of the film. Pitt, 52, previously appeared in Malick's 2011 film Tree of Life.
Jolie, 41, has filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences and asked for physical custody of their six children.
The couple married in 2014 after 10 years together. Jolie's lawyer Robert Offer said the actress had filed for the dissolution of the marriage "for the health of the family".
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Brad Pitt is to miss a premiere of his latest film to focus on his "family situation", he has said. |
Write a summary for this information. | Ernie Crouch is thought to have been caught by a gust and blown off the pavement near Finchley Central station on Saturday.
Emergency services were called, but Mr Crouch died at the scene a short time later.
Fans said he had been on his way to Arsenal's match against Sunderland.
Arsenal tweeted: "Everyone at Arsenal Football Club is saddened to learn of the passing of lifelong fan Ernie Crouch. May he rest in peace."
According to fans on social media, he had supported Arsenal since 1934.
Pat Hale of Arsenal Supporters Club told BBC Radio 5 live: "He travelled to every away game with us and always had his regular front seat.
"It is going to be very upsetting next Sunday morning [Arsenal play Aston Villa away] to get on the bus and he won't be there.
"Football was just his life. He promised his son not to go to any more away games when he turned 90, but last week we saw him at Norwich.
The TV presenter Piers Morgan tweeted: "RIP Ernie Crouch. Followed Arsenal for 80yrs. Died yesterday when high winds blew him into a bus on way to game." | Arsenal supporters have paid tribute to a "legendary" 90-year-old fan of the club who died after he was blown by the wind against a bus in north London. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Instead of having to use a series of passwords and numbers, users will be able to log on to their accounts by placing one of their fingers into a scanner.
The technology is quite distinct from fingerprint recognition.
To begin with, Barclays will offer the service to business customers only.
However, "finger vein authentication", as it is known, is likely to be offered to all customers in the future.
A portable scanner, the size of a tennis ball, is plugged into the computer's USB port and uses near-infra-red light to check the unique pattern of veins inside the finger.
Only a living finger is accepted by the scanner, reducing the risk that fraudsters will use substitutes or copies to break into a bank account.
Banks are casting around for new ways to combat fraud, as users become increasingly fed up with multiple passwords and PINs, or having to use electronic number generators whenever they log on.
The new finger vein technique has been pioneered by the Japanese firm Hitachi. It is already installed in cash machines in Japan and Poland, allowing people to withdraw money without using a card or PIN.
Any business adopting the technology can register several fingers from different members of staff, so one person can make a payment and another can approve it.
The unit can be plugged into different computers.
When an attempt is made to log on to the account, the user is invited to "place a finger lightly on the scanner", and is then told "a finger is detected". If approved, access is allowed within seconds.
Barclays says the technology is relatively expensive at the moment. It will charge business customers for the convenience of having the machines, although it will not reveal the level of fees.
"For corporate clients who do a lot of large transactions, this makes a lot of sense," explained Ashok Vaswani, the bank's head of personal and corporate banking.
He cautions that the scanner is not yet ready for the popular market, where customers are averse to paying extra.
In any case, most ordinary customers prefer to use smartphones to manage their accounts.
"Obviously you can't use such a clunky tool along with mobile banking," said Mr Vaswani.
"I don't think this exact machine is going to be used for retail, but some version of this will definitely come for retail."
Vein recognition is thought to be a more secure technology than checking finger prints, partly because of the requirement for the finger to be "live".
That should also eliminate the grim possibility of a criminal hacking off someone's finger in an attempt to use it to remove funds from an account.
Light transmitted through the finger is partially absorbed by haemoglobin passing through the veins, enabling the unit to authenticate the user's vein pattern.
Hitachi, which has been researching the technology for 15 years, said vein patterns are established in the womb and remain stable for most of a person's life.
But there is some concern that people's biometric information, including vein patterns, might be used or exploited by fraudsters or even government agencies.
Barclays emphasises that the finger details of its customers will be safe. It will not store their details centrally and there will be no public record.
Once the system is up and running next year, the information will be held on a computer chip inside the scanner in encrypted form.
And if engineers can make the scanners smaller and more cheaply, people could start "finger banking" in homes across the UK. | A new way of accessing bank accounts is being launched which identifies individuals through the unique pattern of veins in their fingers. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Ball, 24, limped off towards the end of the Pro12 game at Parc y Scarlets, a week before Wales face England in the Six Nations at Twickenham.
"Jake took a knock to the knee at the stage when we scored the try," Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac said.
"It was sensible to get him off as well."
Pivac added: "I think he'll be all right - he's thrown a bit of ice so we'll see what the medical boys say."
Wales coach Warren Gatland released lock Ball and scrum-half Aled Davies to the region as the Welsh squad prepare for their Six Nations showdown with England on 12 March.
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Pivac also revealed Davies, 23, had been struggling with a virus while Scotland forward John Barclay also suffered an injury during the victory over bottom side Treviso.
"John just took a stinger and felt he was favouring one side so he was going to let the team down so it was the right decision and he came off but I'm pretty sure he'll be OK," Pivac added.
"Aled Davies was crook for the last couple of days with a virus and had to get through the warm-up. He did that and started so he was always going to run out of petrol.
"It was a matter of how long he'd last and he did well to get to where he did."
Kerr carded a one-over 73, but a birdie on the 17th hole took her to the top of the leaderboard on five under.
Overnight leader Karrie Webb fell to second after a round of 75, while South Korea's Sei Young Kim and Sun Young Yoo share third on three under.
Carly Booth is the highest-placed Scot on one over, while defending champion Isabelle Boineau missed the cut.
The Frenchwoman, seven over after a second-round 75, missed out on the weekend by two strokes. New Zealand's Lydia Ko finished nine over.
Booth said: "I played really solid golf today and I played really solid golf yesterday too.
"I just played positive, picked my line and played confident putts."
Georgia Hall is in a share of seventh on level par, while English compatriots Charley Hull, Inci Mehmet and Florentyna Parker and Scot Catriona Matthew are four over along with world number one So Yeon Ryu.
Two-time winner Matthew described the windy conditions as "worse than we've ever had", with only six players under par at the midway stage.
"It was a little harder out there," she told BBC Scotland.
"I played well again and got no birdies, which makes it tough. Certainly the windiest we've ever had it."
Wales' Amy Boulden is two over and Scot Sally Watson joined Northern Ireland's Stephanie Meadow and England's Annabel Dimmock and Bronte Law just inside the cut on five over.
Kerr, 39, has 26 professional wins, including the US Women's Open (2007) and the Women's PGA Championship (2010).
"I'm trying not to get ahead of myself in this weather," she said. "Just try to hit it pretty well and make some putts.
"I didn't hit it that great but I still managed. My caddie and I managed the golf course well and we made the recovery shots when we needed to." | Wales are waiting to discover the extent of the knee injury lock Jake Ball suffered in Scarlets' 24-15 win over Treviso on Friday.
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Summarize the content given in the passage. | Roedd llefarydd Llafur ar ddiwylliant ymhlith 47 o ASau a anwybyddodd y chwip.
Roedd arweinydd y blaid, Jeremy Corbyn wedi awgrymu y gallai aelodau'r fainc flaen golli eu swyddi petaen nhw'n gwneud hynny.
O fwyafrif mawr, fe bleidleisiodd aelodau seneddol dros y mesur yn Nhy'r Cyffredin nos Fercher.
Fe bleidleisiodd 498 o blaid ac 114 yn ei erbyn, ac mae'r cam yn galluogi'r Prif Weinidog Theresa May i ddechrau ar drafodaethau Brexit.
Dywedodd canghellor yr wrthblaid, John McDonnell wrth raglen Today ar BBC Radio 4 ei bod hi'n bosib na fydd penderfyniad yn cael ei wneud ar ddyfodol Mr Brennan nes ar ôl i fesur Erthygl 50 basio drwy Dŷ'r Cyffredin.
"Fe fydd confensiwn seneddol yn ei le, sef os ydych chi yn y cabinet neu cabinet yr wrthblaid, fe fyddwch chi'n camu o'r neilltu," meddai.
"Ar gyfer swyddi eraill fe fydd hynny'n dibynnu ar beth mae'r prif chwip yn ei adrodd ac fe fydd hynny'n digwydd yn ei bryd.
"Dydw i ddim am geisio dyfalu o flaen llaw beth fydd gan y chwip i'w argymell."
Mae'r mesur nawr yn wynebu craffu pellach yn Nhŷ'r Cyffredin a Thŷ'r Arglwyddi cyn dod yn ddeddf.
Mae'r Prif Weinidog wedi dweud ei bod eisiau i Erthygl 50 ddod i rym erbyn 31 Mawrth, drwy ddechrau'r trafodaethau ffurfiol gyda'r Undeb Ewropeaidd.
Roedd Mr Brennan yn un o saith aelod seneddol Llafur Cymreig a wrthwynebodd y cam, tra bo mwyafrif aelodau seneddol Cymru wedi gefnogi.
Pleidleisiodd Madeline Moon AS Penybont, Chris Bryant, AS Rhondda, Ann Clwyd, AS Cwm Cynon, Owen Smith, AS Pontypridd a Stephen Doughty, AS De Caerdydd a Phenarth hefyd yn erbyn y mesur.
Mr Brennan oedd yr ail aelod o'r fainc flaen o Gymru i gyhoeddi y byddai'n pleidleisio yn erbyn dymuniadau Jeremy Corbyn, wedi i Aelod Seneddol Canol Caerdydd, Jo Stevens ymddiswyddo o'i swydd yn llefarydd ar Gymru ddydd Gwener.
Mewn datganiad ar ei wefan cyn y bleidlais, dywedodd Mr Brennan fod ei etholwyr wedi rhoi "neges glir" iddo, ac mai ei ddyletswydd oedd gwrthwynebu'r mesur.
Roedd Caerdydd ymhlith pump ardal yng Nghymru a bleidleisiodd i aros o fewn yr Undeb Ewropeaidd yn y refferendwm fis Mehefin.
Dywedodd Mr Brennan fod araith ddiweddar y Prif Weinidog Theresa May ar y broses o adael yr UE wedi ei gwneud hi'n glir na fydd Prydain "fawr mwy nag ychwanegiad i Trumpland" o fynd â'r DU ar y llwybr hwn.
"Fedra i ddim â phleidleisio dros y dyfodol hwn. Mae e hefyd yn ddyfodol nad yw mwyafrif clir o fy etholwyr i'n ei gefnogi" meddai.
"Rwy'n credu ei bod hi'n eitha clir y bydd tanio Erthygl 50 yn arwain Prydain ar lwybr i'r math o economi a chymdeithas nad ydw i erioed wedi credu ynddo."
Ychwanegodd Aelod Seneddol Gorllewin Caerdydd ei fod yn parchu'r rhai hynny oedd wedi pleidleisio dros y mesur yn dilyn y refferendwm, ond ychwanegodd: "Rwyf wedi dod i'r casgliad fod y Llywodraeth yn benderfynol o deithio i gyfeiriad trychinebus, a fydd yn anochel drwy Erthygl 50, ac mae'n ddyletswydd arna i i'w wrthwynebu." | Fe allai Aelod Seneddol Gorllewin Caerdydd, Kevin Brennan, gael ei ddiswyddo o fainc flaen Llafur am iddo anwybyddu chwip y blaid a phleidleisio'n erbyn tanio Erthygl 50 i adael yr Undeb Ewropeaidd. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Sources told the AFP news agency that she is the same missionary who was held for more than a week by Islamist gunmen in 2012 when the north had been taken over by groups linked to al-Qaeda.
On that occasion the woman was freed with the help of mediators from neighbouring Burkina Faso.
A French-led operation in 2013 drove Islamist fighters from northern towns.
A 12,000-strong UN peacekeeping force has now been deployed there, but militant groups are still active in the vast desert region.
Souleymane Maiga, a spokesman for the Malian army, told Reuters new agency that the Swiss national was taken from her house in the historic city on Thursday night.
A Timbuktu government official told AFP she was "Beatrice, a Swiss citizen".
Beatrice Stockly was seized by Islamist group Ansar Dine group in 2012.
According to AFP, two foreign hostages seized in 2011 by members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a South African and a Swede, are still in captivity.
Militancy in Mali | A Swiss woman has been kidnapped from her home in the northern Malian town of Timbuktu, security officials say. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | The health and safety ban in Severn View, Garndiffaith, near Pontypool, came after a postman complained.
But Royal Mail said it would reinstate deliveries to two of the 10 houses after a "further safety assessment".
It has also proposed installing external mailboxes to the rear of the other eight properties.
"If they are willing to do something to help residents, I can't complain," said local county councillor Gwyneira Clark.
"I wouldn't want to jeopardise health and safety.
"But would like to be there with the residents and a representative from the post office before they action any alternative post boxes."
Royal Mail initially said a short stretch of grass between car tracks and residents' front doors was unsafe so the 10 homes needed to collect mail from a local Post Office.
"We apologise to residents at Severn View for the continued disruption to their mail service," a Royal Mail spokesman said on Friday.
The country's prime minister has said the crime has made him consider reintroducing the death penalty.
So how will the country's legal system deal with the three men charged in connection with Mrs McAreavy's murder?
Although it gained independence in 1968, Mauritius has a legal system heavily influenced by its colonial past. Between 1715 and 1810 the island was a French possession and as such was ruled according to French Law.
The Napoleonic Code, also known as the French Civil Code, was introduced after 1804 and when the British won possession of the island from the French in 1810 that legal system was kept in place.
Over the years of British rule elements of English common law were adopted and the current legal system is a combination of French and English systems. Mauritius is still a member of the British Commonwealth and the country's supreme court of appeal is the Privy Council in London.
The Indian Ocean country is recognised by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as a "stable democracy with regular free elections, a free press, the rule of law and a positive human-rights record".
The suspects accused of murdering Mrs McAreavy could be held on remand for up to a year as the police and prosecutors build a case against them.
Ashveen Gopee, a barrister on the island, said once police believe they have enough evidence against an arrested person, they would lodge a provisional charge of murder at a district court.
The case is heard by a magistrate, who is a trained lawyer, not a lay person.
"Bail acts are also similar to British law so the person would probably be denied bail," said Mr Ashveen.
"A judicial inquiry will then be carried out by police officers and the case will be called back by the magistrate at different stages to see how the investigation is continuing."
A formal charge of murder, or a lesser charge, is lodged against the person in a follow-up hearing.
On occasion, a magistrate will strike out a case over a lack of evidence against a suspect.
According to Mr Gopee a suspect can be held in a police cell for 21 days, after which time he or she must be sent to a jail until the case goes to trial.
Murder cases are usually tried before a jury at the Assizes Court of Mauritius.
BBC Northern Ireland reporter, Mervyn Jess, who is in Mauritius, said that now the police have a confession there will be a pooling together of all the evidence which will then be put to the director of public prosecutions.
"The DPP will then decide whether or not the two men charged with murder will face those charges in court or whether they will face a lesser charge," he said.
"If they are found guilty of murder they face up to 45 years in jail. If they are instead found guilty of manslaughter they face up to 18 years in jail." | Post deliveries will be reinstated to a row of properties in Torfaen after Royal Mail said walking on a grass verge was "too dangerous".
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The murder of Michaela McAreavey on Mauritius has thrust the peaceful and relatively prosperous island nation into the media spotlight. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Guilfoil, who has been playing for 80 years, will attend the trials in Greensboro, North Carolina in February.
He also attempted to make the team for the 2012 Games, but missed out on a place in London.
"This year I'm going to practise more," Guilfoil told KMBC News. "It's exciting."
Guilfoil, who also plays tennis, has been teaching both sports at the Overland Park Racquet Club in Kansas City for nearly 40 years.
The oldest competitor at the London Games was 71-year-old Hiroshi Hoketsu, who took part in the dressage for Japan.
At the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn won a gold medal at the age of 64 years and 280 days. | There's nothing unusual about Bill Guilfoil entering the trials for the US Olympic table tennis team - other than the fact he is 93 years old. |
Please summarize the following text. | Sterling, 21, was booed by Reds fans as City won the League Cup on Sunday.
The England winger left Anfield in acrimonious circumstances last summer, after rejecting a £100,000-a-week deal.
"Players that cannot play in a difficult environment are not top players," said Pellegrini. "I have 100% trust in him."
Sterling, who became the most expensive English player ever when he joined City for £49m in July, will start Wednesday's Premier League game.
"He's a young man, a young player starting his career, but he knows how to deal with pressure," added Pellegrini.
"He'll receive the same treatment as he did at the weekend, but I'm sure he can play without a problem, and he'll be a very important player, as he was in the last game."
Liverpool fans jeered Sterling during Sunday's final at Wembley, which City won on penalties.
"I do not understand why the Liverpool fans boo him because I think James Milner [who joined Liverpool from Manchester City] was very well received here in a similar situation," said Pellegrini.
"It's not the best but I prefer to have those boos from the other team than from your own fans.
"He will maybe receive the same treatment when he arrives at Anfield but I'm absolutely sure he can play without any problem."
On Wednesday, league points are at stake as the Blues look to narrow the gap on leaders Leicester City.
Pellegrini's side are nine points behind the Foxes but with a game in hand.
Sterling was under contract at Liverpool until 2017 but turned down the offer of an improved deal to extend his five-year stay at Anfield.
In an interview with BBC Sport in April, he denied being a "money-grabber".
Liverpool were planning to discuss Sterling's future with him but cancelled a meeting after agent Aidy Ward said his client would "definitely" not sign.
Ward was quoted as saying: "He's not signing for £700,000, £800,000, £900,000 a week. He is not signing."
Sterling asked to be left out of the club's pre-season tour of the Far East and missed two days of training because of illness.
He was heavily criticised by some former Liverpool players for the way he handled his departure.
Officers are analysing the posts, sent after it was reported the Liverpool player was on the verge of a £49m transfer to Manchester City.
One user told Sterling to hug his daughter before appearing to make threats against her.
A Merseyside Police spokesman said the language used was "abhorrent".
"We are taking the incident extremely seriously and an investigation by detectives in Liverpool CID is on-going," he said.
Another user posted further references to Sterling's daughter along with racist comments.
Many of the tweets have since been deleted.
But several concerned Twitter users took screen-grabs of the posts and urged Merseyside Police to investigate.
The force spokesman added: "People who use the internet to target others and who commit criminal offences such as harassment or hate crime are not beyond the law and can expect to be brought to justice."
Williams, 35, said she will also miss the Miami Open later this month.
The American, who won an Open era record 23rd Grand Slam at the Australian Open earlier this year, said: "I have not been able to train due to my knees."
She added she would return "as soon as I can".
Indian Wells organisers said a revised draw would be issued later.
Williams only returned to the Californian tournament in 2015 after a 14-year boycott following claims she had suffered racist abuse at the venue.
Her withdrawal means Germany's Angelique Kerber is set to replace her as world number one.
Thousands had signed up on Facebook to attend Wednesday's event, but fewer than 1% arrived at the meeting point.
Organisers in Santiago claimed that Chileans were tired of watching one of their stars work alone.
Sanchez is yet to sign a new deal with the Gunners and is reportedly set for a move away from the Emirates.
The number of people who attended the protest is reported to have been between five and eight. | Raheem Sterling will handle the pressure when he returns to Liverpool for the first time as a Manchester City player, says boss Manuel Pellegrini.
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Twitter trolls who posted abusive messages directed at the daughter of England footballer Raheem Sterling are being investigated by police.
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World number one Serena Williams says a knee injury has forced her to pull out of this week's BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells.
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A protest in Chile to encourage forward Alexis Sanchez to leave Arsenal, which was supposed to attract 14,000 was only attended by a handful of people. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The chief executive of the Irish Football Association (IFA), Patrick Nelson, is giving evidence to the DCAL committee.
He said 93 more tickets will be allocated for the Germany game.
There will also be an extra 505 tickets for the Ukraine match.
This is on top of the extra 1,276 tickets announced last week for the Poland game. Some lifelong supporters missed out when UEFA allocated the tickets last week.
Mr Nelson said the IFA had been pressing for more tickets for Northern Ireland fans, and said the new tickets will be "a complete selection of categories", adding "some of them are going to be more expensive but some are going to be cheaper as well".
He also told the committee that the IFA had previously agreed a priority allocation system that meant "anyone with top priority - 17 points or more should have got a ticket," but there had been "quite a small, inadvertent error by UEFA" that meant people "well in excess of 17 points" did not get tickets.
He said once the problem had been noticed they contacted UEFA "at the highest level" and "within three hours agreed to supply enough tickets to address the immediate matter".
The IFA president Jim Shaw said the allocation process was by an automated computer system, adding: "In a different world, we would have been allocating tickets from top to bottom probably ourselves and would have had total control.
"We've made a good recovery, I think, but they (UEFA) will insist on all ticketing coming from that system."
Last Wednesday, the IFA announced a portal would be created for Northern Ireland supporters to apply for extra tickets.
The portal, for the match against Poland, is open to supporters on a priority list who were were informed they had missed out on Tuesday.
The Department of Culture, Leisure and Arts (DCAL) committee hearing is available to watch on Stormont Live here. | UEFA has agreed to give more Euro 2016 tickets to Northern Ireland fans after complaints about the original allocation process, a Stormont committee has heard. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The message forms part of the health board's internal Beware The Chair campaign.
It said ill health related to inactivity was the fourth biggest killer in Britain.
The campaign also suggests that staff stand up three times every hour and to go for walks in their lunch breaks.
Other recommendations include standing up when on the phone, having a coffee or eating lunch.
Occupational health physiotherapist Lesley Marshall said: "Many of the NHS Highland employees we treat have problems which can be directly attributed to the fact that their lives are too sedentary.
"We want them to be more active, and that includes while they are at work."
The Beware of The Chair campaign has been adopted by NHS Highland as a priority health and wellbeing strategy for staff. | NHS Highland has encouraged its employees to hold meetings standing up rather than sitting down to help improve their health. |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Expert speakers from around the world will take part in Firths and Fjords: A Coastal History Conference.
The topics to be discussed include Norse place names in Gaelic-speaking areas, the salt industry in Brora and witchcraft.
It has been organised by the University of the Highlands and Islands' Centre for History.
More than 70 delegates from across the UK and also from Finland, Canada and US will attend the conference from 31 March to 2 April.
The event will also feature visits to historic Royal Dornoch Golf Club and a guided tour of Pictish sites at Fearn. | An international conference focusing on the history of coastal areas will be held in Dornoch next month. |
Summarize the content provided below. | FA Cup
Arsenal 0-2 Watford
Man Utd 1-1 West Ham
Premier League
Aston Villa 0-2
Championship
Wolves 0-0 Birmingham
Charlton 2-0 Middlesbrough
Have you added the new Top Story alerts in the BBC Sport app? Simply head to the menu in the app - and don't forget you can also add score alerts for the Six Nations, your football team and more. | Results and reaction from Sunday's matches in the Premier League, FA Cup and Championship. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | The tennis star made the announcement in the form of a poem.
She said he took her to Rome, where they first met, to propose to her - and she said yes.
It caps off a year in which Ms Williams won her seventh Wimbledon singles title and 22nd Grand Slam singles title, but dropped to world number two ranking.
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Reddit is a social media community where users group around topics, news articles and discussion points, rather than around people they know in offline life.
Mr Ohanian founded it in 2005 alongside a college friend, Steve Huffman.
Ms Williams posted to r/isaidyes, a forum where users share their stories of wedding proposals, saying he had taken her to the table in Rome where they first met, where he got down on one knee and "said four words".
One Reddit user responded by joking that the score was love-love.
Mr Ohanian and Ms Williams had kept their relationship quiet on social media and in the world of celebrity gossip, but rumours began to circulate last year that they might be romantically linked.
Industrial action, the result of a dispute over the introduction of new high-speed trains, affected routes in south-west England and Wales during the bank holiday weekend.
The company said it "remained hopeful" of an agreement to avoid more strikes.
The dispute centres around staffing and on-board catering facilities on FGW's new fleet of Intercity trains.
Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) fears guards and buffet cars will be disposed of when they come in to service in 2017.
The rail company said it was able to run a "near normal" service in the Thames Valley and long-distance routes over the bank holiday weekend, however it admitted passengers had been "frustrated" by the stoppage.
A statement said: "We're aware there were significant issues with the revised timetable not appearing in our journey planning tool and National Rail Enquiries until very late in the day."
The company maintains it has told the RMT there will be no job losses, but the RMT said "basic assurances" had not been given.
Union members held a 48-hour strike over the same dispute in July as well as a 24-hour stoppage on 23 August.
The first Hitachi Inter City Express trains, to be built at a new £82m plant in Co Durham, will run on the Great Western main line from 2017 and the East Coast main line from 2018. | Serena Williams has used the social media platform Reddit to announce that she is engaged to its co-founder, Alexis Ohanian.
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Talks have resumed following a three-day strike by First Great Western staff. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, Labour's Kezia Dugdale, Conservative Ruth Davidson, Lib Dem Willie Rennie and Green Patrick Harvie took turns to quiz each other during the STV debate.
They also took questions from the audience on issues including tax, the budget, healthcare and education.
Further debates are to be held ahead of the Holyrood election on 5 May.
The five leaders clashed for the second time in a week, following a BBC debate alongside UKIP Scotland leader David Coburn.
Mr Coburn was not present at the STV debate, and his attempt to chip in his views through social media via a live streaming app was largely thwarted by technical difficulties.
Tax, an early point of contention in the election campaigns, was the first issue to be discussed, with Ms Sturgeon defending her plans as "fair", noting she was attacked as being both too timid and too radical.
Ms Dugdale, who wants to raise the top rate of income tax to 50p, said the SNP leader "won't ask rich people to pay a penny more", while Patrick Harvie, who backs a top rate of 60p, said there could not be a "status quo tax policy".
Meanwhile, Ms Davidson said it it was "not in the national interest" to have higher taxes in Scotland than in the rest of the UK, and argued that taxes should be about raising money for public services not "punishing people who earn money".
Mr Rennie, whose Liberal Democrats back adding 1p to all income tax bands, added: "Nicola Sturgeon has bellyached about austerity and when she finally gets the chance to do something about it she is frozen to the spot, she's not seizing the opportunity to do something radical, transformational."
The key exchanges came when each party leader was singled out to be questioned by a panel of their opponents.
Ms Davidson came under fire from Ms Sturgeon over Conservative proposals to end free prescriptions and university tuition fees in Scotland.
She said her party would charge students "just over £1,500 a year" for university tuition, to be paid after graduation, and said they wanted to "phase" in prescription charges to a level of "about £8". Ms Sturgeon claimed this made the Tories "the party of hidden taxes".
Ms Davidson hit back that the "cost of university education is 152,000 college places, the cost is the fact that poor people in Scotland are half as likely to be able to get into university as south of the border".
When it came to her turn, Ms Dugdale was questioned on Labour's decision to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with the Conservatives during the 2014 Scottish independence campaign, with Ms Sturgeon asking her to "apologise".
Ms Dugdale said she did not regret voting No and said she would do so again.
Ms Sturgeon's turn to be questioned also featured constitutional exchanges, with Ms Davidson asking her how her plans to build a new case for independence could possibly be seen as respecting the outcome of the referendum.
Ms Sturgeon said she believed that Scotland would become independent within her lifetime and said she needed to persuade more people of that "over the months and years to come".
During Mr Rennie's questioning, he said Ms Sturgeon should be "embarrassed" by her government's record on education, but was attacked by the other party leaders over the Liberal Democrats "propping up" the Conservatives at Westminster from 2010 to 2015.
Ms Davidson also attacked the Liberal Democrats for "flip flopping" on issues including tax and fracking, and quizzed Green party co-convenor Mr Harvie on how he planned to grow Scotland's economy while raising taxes.
Mr Harvie said he would not "shed a tear" at the rich having to pay more in taxes, and said more needed to be invested in sustainable renewable industries.
The closing stages of the debate were also concerned with Scottish independence, with audience members and host Bernard Ponsonby pressing Ms Sturgeon on what the SNP's manifesto will have to say on the topic.
She said she would not reveal the exact wording, but promised to put the issue "in the hands of the people", arguing it would not be fair for her to rule out another referendum.
Ms Dugdale, who said the case for independence had "fallen apart", said Labour's manifesto would rule out another vote on the matter during the next parliament.
Ms Davidson said the SNP leader would "keep Scotland on a knife-edge", which she said was "shameful", and called on her to apologise for not "respecting" the outcome of the 2014 vote. | Scotland's political leaders cross-examined each other in the latest Holyrood election debate. |
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He took charge of the Welsh National League Division One West match between Gowerton and Crymych.
In Twickenham the All Blacks were 34-17 winners over Australia.
At the Athletic Ground in Gowerton today, the home team emerged 28-18 victors over their west Wales opponents. | A week after officiating New Zealand's World Cup final win over Australia, Nigel Owens returned to action in Wales. |
Can you summarize the following information? | The Lionesses' third-place finish in Canada makes them the second most successful England team ever, only behind the men's victory in 1966.
Sampson replaced former boss Hope Powell in August 2013.
"It's been instilled in us over the last 18 months, that family atmosphere, the togetherness," said White.
"It's 23 players, we're all in it. You can't win it without 23 players or the backroom staff as well."
During Powell's 15-year reign as manager, the Lionesses never progressed beyond the World Cup quarter-finals - and former players have since criticised the negative feeling among the team during her time in charge.
However, speaking to BBC Radio Three Counties, 26-year-old White says it has been a different story under Sampson.
"He's changed a lot in the team, he's brought in new people," said White. "I always think it's good to have a change.
"He's definitely brought that togetherness, that fire, that passion. Everyone was on board with everything.
"We all stuck together and we're definitely like a little family."
Photos and video of Zoe Anastasi and Will Diggins' big day will be shared live on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Periscope.
They do not want to say how much they are paying but similar social media packages start from £6,500.
Miss Anastasi, from Derby, said it was worth the cost.
"It's worth spending thousands of pounds because you only get the chance to tell the amazing story of your wedding day once," said the bride, who works for a construction company.
"You spend so much money on flowers, venue, food, drink. Social media is such a big part of our lives today so it deserves an investment, too."
Mr Diggins, a wealth management consultant, said: "It's a day of pretending to be a celebrity; it's the closest you'll ever get to feeling famous, and who wouldn't like that?"
Coverage of the event, from a venue in Beeston, has been organised by a Derby-based social media agency called Status Social.
It said a hotel in New York did something similar, but it had not been able to find anyone else in the world who has had this type of professional social media coverage for their wedding.
Miss Anastasi said it would mean their relatives all over the world - in France, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, Australia and America - could "feel part of the wedding even though they can't make it to the actual wedding".
"It's no more intrusive that having your regular photographer and videographer, which we've got as well," she added.
Mr Diggins said: "It's just got people excited; it's got people talking about it on the wedding Facebook group and sharing old photos and things like that."
An impact assessment report to the Scottish Parliament said running the referendum itself would account for £8.6m of the total sum.
Another £4.7m will be spent on regulation and campaign mailshots.
Scotland's voters go to the polls on 18 September next year when they will be asked to say yes or no to independence.
The last time the costs of the referendum were looked at was in the Scottish government's consultation paper Your Scotland - Your Referendum, published at the beginning of last year.
On page eight of the report it said the total cost of the referendum "is likely to be around £10m, the bulk of which will be spent on running the poll and the count".
It added that those figures were broadly in line with the costs, per voter, of the Welsh Assembly and AV referendums in 2011.
The business and regulatory impact assessment report, signed off by Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and lodged at Holyrood on 21 March, said the costs associated with the referendum could be separated into four broad categories.
They are:
On implementation and delivery of the vote, the report said: "The Referendum Bill sets out the detailed rules relating to the arrangements for voting and the conduct of the poll and the count, which are all in line with the procedures for local government or Scottish Parliament elections.
"This will help ensure that there is confidence in the legitimacy of the process and of the result.
"The Scottish government has consulted extensively with electoral professionals to ensure this consistency and that the proposals are workable." | Notts County striker Ellen White says England's success at the Women's World Cup was down to the "family atmosphere" instilled by manager Mark Sampson.
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A couple are paying thousands of pounds to have their wedding broadcast online in what has been described as the UK's first "official" social media wedding.
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The latest estimated cost of holding the Scottish independence referendum stands at £13.3m, a rise of about £3m on previous figures. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Channel 4 have confirmed Andrew, Carolyne, Louis and Alex, from Brighton, will no longer appear on the show.
The family have been on the programme since it began in March 2013.
"Mr Michael has confirmed his proposed candidacy as a UKIP MP," Channel 4 told Newsbeat.
"Sadly any Gogglebox cast member who becomes a candidate for a political party will have to step down from their involvement in Gogglebox.
"It's with great regret that the Michaels are no longer in the show.
"They have been excellent contributors to Gogglebox, and we are very grateful for all they have given to the show."
Speaking to Newsbeat, Alex Michael said: "We sat down as a family and we discussed it at length, either we stay on Gogglebox and my Dad doesn't accept his position or he accepts the position and we can no longer be on the show."
Alex said she is gutted to be leaving the show and would have liked to have stayed on until the end of this series.
She said she fully supports her dad: "It was a hobby for him to begin with and it turns out that he was good at what he was doing and people really liked him.
"I'm proud of my dad to have got to where he is and we will be fully supporting him in his political endeavours from now on".
Mum Carolyne tweeted: "We've loved every min of our involvement. It's the best show on TV & I want to thank everyone for their wonderful support - we'll miss u."
Andrew will stand for the UKIP and contest the East Sussex seat of Hastings and Rye.
That seat is held by a Conservative MP.
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All of those who died were travelling in the minibus, which was from the Nottingham area.
A five-year-old girl, a woman and a man are being treated in hospital with life-threatening injuries, while another woman has serious injuries.
The two lorry drivers have been arrested, one of them on suspicion of driving while over the alcohol limit.
Both men are being questioned on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and are in police custody.
The crash happened on the southbound M1 at Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire just before 03:15 BST.
South Central Ambulance Service said those injured in the collision were taken to hospitals in Milton Keynes, Coventry and Birmingham.
Police said some of those involved in the collision were visiting the UK from India.
The vehicles were all travelling in the same direction between junctions 15 and 14, police said.
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Fire and Rescue Service said it had sent six crews as well as three search and rescue vehicles to the scene.
Firefighters used hydraulic equipment to release three people from a vehicle.
Thames Valley Police said the two lorry drivers, one aged 31 and from Worcestershire, the other aged 53 from Stoke-on-Trent, were being questioned.
The 31-year-old man was detained on suspicion of one count of causing death by dangerous driving and one count of driving a motor vehicle when above the legal alcohol limit.
Pictures appear to show extensive damage to the lorries involved - a FedEx vehicle and one belonging to AIM Logistics.
Ismail Elmagdoub, director of AIM Logistics, based in Evesham, Worcestershire, said: "One of our vehicles was involved in a serious incident on the M1 southbound, junction 14 this morning at approximately 3am.
"We would like to express our deepest sympathy to the families who have lost loved ones and also those whom have been injured at this very sad time.
"Road safety and compliance is of the utmost importance to AIM Logistics and we are continuing to assist the police as much as possible with their inquiries."
The road was closed for several hours while investigation work took place. | The Michael family have left Gogglebox because the dad is standing as a UKIP candidate in next year's general election.
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Six men and two women have died in a crash involving a minibus and two lorries on the M1 near Milton Keynes. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | It hasn't been so cheap to visit the 19 countries that make up the eurozone since 2007.
Europe's economy growing more slowly than the UK and fears over Greece leaving the single currency are behind the rise.
It comes at the most popular time of year for young adults to book holidays.
Daisy Parker from travel association Abta says: "For the under-30s, with the pound at a seven-year high and day-to-day prices coming down in the eurozone, it's a great time to travel to Europe."
The pound is also currently struggling at it's lowest point for a year against the dollar making trips to the America more expensive.
So let's do some maths.
Say you planned to spend £500 during a trip to Spain.
That could get you up to 700 euros at the moment. Compare that to last year you'd be lucky to get near 600 euros.
For people buying bigger items like a car from Germany or a holiday home in France the difference can now run into thousands of pounds.
Some currency analysts expect things to get even better by the summer holidays.
RBS economist Sebastian Burnside says things can change quickly.
"So has it reached its peak? No-one knows for sure what will happen to currencies, but there'll be many more bumps in the road before a long-term solution to the Greek bailout crisis is reached.
"Recent history shows that the pound has benefited from that uncertainty."
If you plan on heading further away from home the pound is also flying strong against both the South African Rand and the Australian Dollar.
Eighteen months ago I reported from Sydney for Newsbeat about the expense of following the British and Irish Lions.
Back then you couldn't get much more than Aus $1.50 to the pound but now it's closer to Aus $2.00 making an expensive trip a touch more affordable.
The question arises should we wait for the pound to get stronger? That's a tricky one.
With a general election around the corner that brings uncertainty to the money markets no matter what the result.
There are also the other advantages to booking now according to Daisy Parker from Abta.
"Booking this far in advance gives you time to save for your holiday as well as the advantage of widespread availability, with your choice of where to stay much less restricted than booking last minute."
Of course it's important to remember that the place you exchange your money to go on holiday often makes just as big a dent as variations in the currency.
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Eoghan Culligan and Eimear Walsh, both 21, will be laid to rest after ceremonies in Dublin, at which hundreds of mourners have gathered.
Olivia Burke and Niccolai Schuster, also both 21, are expected to be buried on Wednesday, while Lorcán Miller will be laid to rest on Thursday.
The sixth victim, Ashley Donohoe, 22, was buried in California on Saturday.
The incident happened during a 21st birthday party in the early hours of 16 June.
Five of the six people who died were Irish students based in the US as part of a work exchange programme.
Mr Culligan's funeral is taking place at the Church of the Annunciation in Rathfarnham.
A guard of honour was formed outside the church by students from his former school and members of the Ballyboden GAA club, where Eoghan played gaelic football.
Ms Walsh's funeral is taking place at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Foxrock.
Meanwhile, one of the other Irish students injured when the balcony collapsed has been released from hospital in California.
Sean Fahey, from Rathmines in Dublin, is now due to travel home to Ireland.
Another six students injured in the tragedy remain in hospital.
The Clwyd West MP has been appointed minister of state at the Department for Exiting the European Union.
He led the Welsh arm of the Vote Leave campaign for the EU referendum.
Following the appointment, Mr Jones tweeted saying he was "honoured".
Elsewhere, Guto Bebb and the former leader of the Welsh Conservatives Lord Bourne have retained their junior ministerial positions in the Wales Office.
Peter Nielsen, 32, from Tranent, East Lothian, fell in the Aladdin's Buttress area on Friday.
He was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, where he died as a result of his injuries.
Police Scotland said Mr Nielsen was an experienced climber who was in the Cairngorms with an organised climbing group. | An extra 16% free cash to go on holiday sounds pretty good because that's what you'll get if you're planning on heading to Europe this year.
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Funeral masses are taking place for two of the six students killed in a balcony collapse in Berkeley, California.
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Former Welsh Secretary David Jones has been handed a role in Britain's exit from the EU as new Prime Minister Theresa May continues to shape her administration.
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A climber who died after a fall in the Cairngorms has been named. |
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The Championship side led when Hal Robson-Kanu rolled his marker to fire a powerful shot into the roof of the net.
The lead was doubled within four minutes, Matej Vydra bundling in Stephen Quinn's cross from close range.
Romaine Sawyers and Oliver Norwood hit the bar for each side after the break before Danny Williams ran clear to finish and Vydra headed a fourth.
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Reading - beaten by winners Arsenal at the semi-final stage last season - survived an early scare when Tom Bradshaw had a shot deflected just wide for the visitors.
But their superior quality told against their League One opponents, with Williams impressively crafting space for Quinn to create the second four minutes before the break.
Brian McDermott's side - 15th in the Championship - have just two league wins from 11 matches and will take a welcome boost in confidence ahead of Tuesday's trip to Ipswich.
Walsall kept an unchanged side for the trip to the Madejski despite being third in their division and with a trip to Doncaster on Tuesday.
Sawyers' strike against the bar was a moment where they could have kept the tie alive, but while they had much of the possession, it was the home side who created the more telling openings and they deserved their place in Sunday's draw.
Meanwhile, Saddlers goalkeeper Neil Etheridge was stretchered off on 78 minutes, with what appeared at first to be a serious knee injury, to be replaced by his deputy Craig MacGillivray.
But Walsall head coach Sean O'Driscoll's initial post-match assessment was that the injury is not as bad as first feared.
"I don't think it's anything structural," he told BBC WM.
Walsall head coach Sean O'Driscoll told BBC WM 95.6:
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"We said before the game that this would be our most difficult game just because they're really functional.
"They put pressure on our back line and it was just a case of when to play and when not to play.
"We got caught a couple of times and as the game progressed we realised we couldn't overplay in the middle of the park, and when we got the ball forward we were a threat." | Reading are in the fifth round of the FA Cup for the fifth time in seven years after easily beating Walsall. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | It argues that school funding levels will feel quite different in the next five years from the previous five.
Schools are set to face real-terms reductions in spending per pupil for first time since the 1990s, it adds.
The report, however, says schools have been protected in recent years compared with other government departments.
Although there will be similar growth in nominal spending to that in the last Parliament, resources will shrink because of rising costs and increasing pupil numbers, it says.
Key cost increases include:
"Taking these together with pressures on other costs, we forecast that school spending per pupil is likely to fall by around 8% in real terms [based on a school-specific measure of inflation] between 2014-15 and 2019-20," the report says.
But a spokesman for the Department for Education said: ""We are protecting the schools budget, which will rise as pupil numbers increase and have made significant progress towards fairer funding for schools.
"This government is committed to making sure schools are funded fairly so all pupils have access to a good education - a key part of our core mission to raise standards across the country and make sure every child reaches their full potential."
The National Union of Teacher said many schools and colleges were already struggling.
Deputy general secretary Kevin Courtney said: "At a time when we face major problems with teacher supply, IFS notes that the government's pay cap of 1% could make recruitment and retention more difficult.
"With pupil numbers rocketing, we need to recruit more teachers just to stand still and we need to invest in capital funding to provide the new places needed." | Spending per pupil in schools in England is likely to fall by 8% in real terms over the next five years, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warns. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Alex Edwards is following the British Lions team's tour of New Zealand in a camper van.
One night, a woman at a local Auckland rugby club suggested he stay with them instead of camping in the car park.
Later the woman's two sons walked in - rugby icons Rieko and Akira Ioane.
"I didn't actually recognize them at first - I was sitting with a cup of tea with the dad when the lads came in and their mum introduced the boys," Mr Edwards told the BBC.
Sipping on his tea, he joked that they looked like they would make decent rugby players, to which the father replied that he would see them "run out the next night".
Mr Edwards assumed they would be playing for a local club, but was quickly corrected.
"They're playing for the Blues, mate," he was told - the Auckland team the British-Irish team was to face the next day.
The Ioane brothers also star for the New Zealand national team.
"I thought they'd looked familiar, but it didn't click until the dad told me," Mr Edwards said.
"People here worship the ground these guys walk on - and I didn't have a clue.
"They were great, really great. Everyone talks about Kiwi hospitality and that's really true in this case."
Despite their stardom, the brothers, who are in their early 20s, still share a room at their parents' place.
Their hospitality did not, however, extend to the visiting Lions team, who were beaten 22-16 the following day.
The Lions' misery has continued with a 30-15 defeat against the All Blacks last Saturday - with Rieko Ioane scoring two tries.
Mr Edwards - who is taking a year off after working in IT in London for the past decade - and his camper van are currently at Lake Taupo between Auckland and Wellington, where a crowd of fellow Lions fans are also staying.
There are two more Test matches to come.
"Of course, I want the Lions to win both games. But after last Saturday, we have to be a bit careful with our expectations," he added. | When a British rugby fan supporting his side in New Zealand was offered a place to stay over with some friendly locals, he had no clue he would end up in the home of two All Blacks stars. |
Can you summarize this content? | Alarmed residents have reported spotting the animals in their backyards, roads and railway tracks.
The deer were among a mob of 16 which ran out of Otago Venison's compound early on Monday morning.
Police said abattoir staff caught four immediately, while the rest split up and hoofed it.
Senior Sgt Craig Binnissen of the Southern District's police headquarters told the BBC that the dozen farm-bred deer have been "running around town and into people's backyards".
"Obviously they were not obeying road rules," he said.
No injuries or damage to property have been reported so far in the town, which has a population of about 12,000.
Police believe six deer have fled into a nearby forest, and suspect the others are heading towards a nearby deer farm. "They could be just following their instincts," said Snr Sgt Binnissen.
The public has been advised to keep an eye on the deer if they spot them, and ring the police immediately. | Police in the New Zealand town of Mosgiel are hunting for a dozen deer which are on the run after escaping from a local abattoir. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | The whale was first seen on Monday off the coast of Kaikoura on the north-east coast of South Island.
It was not clear how it came to lose its flukes, said local Department of Conservation ranger Mike Morrissey, but "it could have been the result of entanglement" in fishing nets.
But despite what looks like a severe injury, the whale seemed to be doing fine, he told the BBC.
"It appeared to be in good health and it's bending in the water and using its pectoral fins to spin around," Mr Morrissey said.
Whales are sometimes caught in fishing gear, which can injure or kill them.
The tears appear to have happened at least a year ago, Mr Morrissey added, as the images show little sign of open wounds.
"This is a young whale and it has healed up. It doesn't seem to have affected it much at all," he said.
It is the first time anyone in the area has seen a whale like it, he added, but he held out hope it might return.
"If it's migrating, then we'll see it again," he said.
Humpback whales have begun their annual migration from Antarctic feeding grounds to breeding grounds in the South Pacific.
Anyone who spots the whale is asked to report it to the Department of Conservation on +64 800 36 24 68, so it can can be tracked.
The 25-year-old is the latest player to leave the Bulls after the Championship side were closed down.
Clare began his career at Castleford before he joined Bradford in 2015.
"He's a guy with genuine pace and I know from speaking to many people that he will add to the culture we are looking to enhance again this year," said head coach Neil Jukes.
The Centurions are preparing for their first season in Super League since 2005.
On a surface that was prepared only an hour before play began, Somerset started well, with Chris Rogers' 57 helping them to 115-2.
But as the bowling improved, Somerset lost their last eight wickets for 121, Harry Podmore claiming 4-54 on his Middlesex Championship debut.
The visitors reached 51-1 by the close, with Nick Gubbins unbeaten on 31.
It left Division One leaders Middlesex in the stronger position at the end of a day punctuated by rain delays and dominated by the pitch on which the match is being played.
The contest was set to be played on a used, straw-coloured surface, but Somerset took the late decision to play on one so green it was barely distinguishable from the rest of the square, presumably backing their bowlers over a Middlesex attack without Steven Finn, Toby Roland-Jones and Tim Murtagh.
Though they were asked to bat without a toss, it was a plan that looked to be working as Rogers and Marcus Trescothick (35) punished some wayward pace bowling in the first hour.
But after Rogers was brilliantly caught down the leg side by wicketkeeper John Simpson off Podmore, Middlesex chipped away, with only James Allenby resisting for a patient 44.
Last-wicket pair Tim Groenewald and Jack Leach added 23 before the latter was wonderfully taken by Ollie Rayner at second slip off James Fuller.
Craig Overton pinned Sam Robson leg before with the second ball of Middlesex's reply, but the home attack were woefully inaccurate after that breakthrough.
Gubbins shared an unbroken stand of 51 with Steve Eskinazi. | A humpback whale missing most of its tail has been spotted off New Zealand.
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Leigh Centurions have signed winger James Clare from liquidated Bradford Bulls on a two-year deal.
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Middlesex capitalised on a green pitch at Taunton to bowl Somerset out for 236 on day one of their Division One match. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | London beat bids from Edinburgh, Manchester and several German regions to stage the Grand Depart.
But last week, a day before contracts were meant to be signed, Transport for London (TfL) said it was pulling out.
"To ensure value for money we must make difficult choices," Leon Daniels, managing director of surface transport at TfL, told BBC Sport.
"We have always said that the return of the Tour was subject to funding."
The timing of the decision has angered the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the French company which owns the race.
As the body responsible for all transport policy in London, TfL would have provided the funds for staging the Tour's opening stages.
London hosted a hugely successful Grand Depart in 2007 and the finish of the Tour's third stage in 2014.
The first two stages of last year's Tour were held in Yorkshire, attracting an estimated four million spectators and boosting the economy by £100m, according to local organisers.
TfL contributed £6m to the Grand Depart budget of £27m, which was almost as much as the total for two days of racing in 2007.
Given the upfront costs and the prospect of major cuts to transport spending across the UK later this year, it is understood bosses at TfL and the Greater London Authority, its parent body, decided the city could not afford a third visit from the world's biggest bike race.
It is believed the 2017 Grand Depart will now be held in Germany, which has not hosted a Tour stage since 2005.
The Manche region of Normandy will host next year's Grand Depart, when Britain's Chris Froome will start as defending champion. | London has turned down the chance to host the start of the 2017 Tour de France, angering the race owners. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | The Arkansas Parole Board has recommended mercy in the case of Jason McGehee, who was convicted of torturing and killing a teenager.
It will now be up to Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson to decide whether the 40-year-old escapes lethal injection.
The unprecedented series of executions within a 10-day period starting on 17 April is due to a drug expiring.
The state's supply of midazolam, a sedative used in its three-drug lethal injection cocktail, will be useless after this month.
Lawyers for the prisoners say the "assembly-line" of four double lethal injections is unconstitutional.
The lawyer for McGehee, John Williams, said his client was only 20 at the time of the offence and "his near-perfect record in prison has impressed many people".
Two of his co-defendants received lesser sentences despite being equally or more culpable, said Mr Williams, who asked the governor to commute the sentence to life without parole.
Johnny Melbourne, whose 15-year-old son of the same name was beaten to death by McGehee, had asked the board to reject clemency.
"John didn't have this. Even though he was begging for his life and was hurting. He didn't have this and he begged for his life too. He didn't have y'all."
The parole board has already turned down clemency requests from four of the other men scheduled to die in the 10-day period later this month.
No US state has put eight inmates to death in such an accelerated way since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Like many US states, Arkansas has struggled to find the drugs it needs to carry out executions. Its last was in 2005.
Bruce Ward - Strangled teenage shop clerk Rebecca Doss
Don Davis - Condemned for the execution-style killing of Jane Daniel as he burgled her home
Stacey Johnson - Murdered Carol Heath, who was beaten, strangled and had her throat slit
Ledell Lee - Bludgeoned Debra Reese to death with a tyre iron her husband had given her for protection
Jack Jones - Condemned for the rape and murder of accounts clerk Mary Phillips, and the nearly fatal beating of her 11-year-old daughter
Marcel Williams - Raped and murdered Stacey Erickson, after kidnapping her from a convenience store
Kenneth Williams - Murdered farmer Cecil Boren during an escape from prison where Williams had been incarcerated for murdering cheerleader Dominique Hurd
Jason McGehee - Jailed for the death of 15-year-old John Melbourne, who had been his friend | One of eight inmates due to be put to death by the US state of Arkansas this month could be given clemency. |
Can you summarize this content? | Matthew Miller and Jeffrey Fowle had been investigated and would be brought before a court, the state news agency KCNA reported.
It said that suspicions about the two men had been confirmed by evidence and the pair's own statements, but gave no further details.
A US-Korean missionary, Kenneth Bae, is currently serving a 15-year sentence.
He was arrested in November 2012 and later convicted of trying to overthrow the North Korean government.
US attempts to secure his release have so far proved unsuccessful, despite fears over his health.
Both of the US nationals to be put on trial entered North Korea on tourist visas.
Jeffrey Fowle entered North Korea on 29 April and was detained in early June as he was leaving the country, according to North Korean reports.
Japanese agency Kyodo said Mr Fowle was arrested because he left a Bible at a hotel.
Matthew Todd Miller was detained on 10 April, KCNA reported.
The agency said he had torn up his tourist visa, shouting that he had "come to the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] after choosing it as a shelter".
North Korea has in the past been accused of using arrested Americans as diplomatic bargaining chips.
The US wants Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions in return for economic and diplomatic incentives, but talks on a deal agreed in 2007 have been stalled for several years.
Last year, North Korea carried out its third nuclear test and launched a three-stage rocket that Washington called a banned test of long-range missile technology.
The US has no formal diplomatic ties with North Korea. But in the past, senior US figures including former President Bill Clinton have travelled to the country to ensure the release of American detainees.
Other US detainees in North Korea
US citizens held by N Korea
Religious activity is severely restricted in the North and missionaries have been arrested on many previous occasions.
Kenneth Bae, the highest-profile of the currently detained Americans, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour in May 2013.
North Korea says he used his tourism business to form groups to overthrow the government.
The US has tried on at least two occasions to arrange a visit by a senior human rights envoy, Robert King, to discuss his case, but Pyongyang has cancelled both these visits.
Detainees from other nations can be treated differently - earlier this year, Pyongyang deported Australian missionary John Short, who was detained after apparently leaving Christian pamphlets at a tourist site.
Also on Monday, North Korea proposed a suspension in hostilities and slander between the two Koreas.
The proposal comes after a volley of short-range missile launches by the North, and just days ahead of a visit to Seoul by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
China is North Korea's political and economic lifeline, but Mr Xi has pointedly chosen to prioritise a visit to the South, says the BBC's Lucy Williamson.
In January, North Korea published an open letter to South Korea calling for an end to all hostile military acts and slander.
But this reconciliation drive ended a few months later with sexual slurs and racist abuse directed at the presidents of South Korea and the US. | North Korea says it will put two detained US men on trial, accusing them of "committing hostile acts". |
Summarize the content provided below. | David Lord, from Westerham, denied causing Valerie Deakin's death by dangerous driving following the crash in Westerham, Kent, on Christmas Eve.
Ms Deakin, 74, of Udimore, East Sussex, died when Mr Lord's Audi crashed into the town centre branch of Costa.
Mr Lord was given unconditional bail at Maidstone Crown Court but no date has yet been set for his trial.
Two men and two women were taken to hospital after the crash. Another woman was treated for minor injuries.
King Salman has appointed his nephew, the powerful Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, as crown prince.
The king's son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been made deputy crown prince and the foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, has been replaced.
King Salman, 78, acceded to the throne in January after the death of his half-brother Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
Abdullah, who was thought to be aged about 90, had been on the throne since 2005 and Saudi Arabia's de facto leader for 10 years before that.
The BBC's Kim Ghattas, who was recently in Riyadh, says this latest reshuffle shows King Salman is firmly turning the page on the era of his predecessor.
He has pushed aside allies of the late monarch such as his half-brother Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz, who until Wednesday was crown prince.
The rise of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, 55, and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the defence minister believed to be in his early 30s, means that for the first time a grandson of the kingdom's founder, King Abdul Aziz, is in line to rule.
Both men will continue in their ministerial roles.
The appointment of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince and deputy premier is likely to be welcomed by the United States, with whom he has a close relationship, our correspondent says.
The kingdom's veteran security chief, he is known for his strong stance against jihadist militants and narrowly survived an assassination attempt by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula suicide bomber in 2009.
The new Deputy Crown Prince and Second Deputy Premier, Mohammed bin Salman, has enjoyed a meteoric rise within the Saudi leadership.
He was appointed defence minister in January, and in the last month has been overseeing a military operation by a Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
King Salman has employed a more assertive, muscular foreign policy to push back against Saudi Arabia's regional rival Iran, our correspondent says. These new appointments reinforce that trend, she notes.
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A royal decree announced the reshuffle, and said Prince Saud al-Faisal, who has been in post for almost four decades, had "asked to be relieved from his duties due to his health condition".
The 75 year old will be replaced by the Saudi ambassador to the US, Adel al-Jubeir, whose appointment is a rarity because such a position normally goes to a member of the royal family.
Meanwhile, the most senior woman in the Saudi government, Nora al-Fayez, has been removed as deputy education minister for girls, a post she had held since 2009.
She had sought to introduce sports programmes for girls in state-run schools, something opposed by religious conservatives. | An 87-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to killing a woman who died when his car ploughed into a coffee shop.
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Saudi Arabia's new king has announced a major cabinet reshuffle that puts in place a new generation to succeed him. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Roberts, 29, suffered a cut to his head in a collision with All Blacks centre Malakai Fekitoa in the opening minute against the world champions.
He played for 78 minutes after the clash and hopes to be available for Saturday's final Test match in Dunedin.
"I had a few stitches, it was quite a nasty knock," said the Lions back.
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"It's the nature of the beast, the head has taken quite a few knocks over the last decade.
"I'm feeling alright. Obviously there's a protocol to follow after a head knock so I'm doing that and fingers crossed I will be alright for selection on Saturday.
"I got to know Fekitoa quite well 30 seconds into the game. The rest of the game is a bit of a blur."
New Zealand have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and Warren Gatland's side are looking to avoid a tour whitewash.
They began the three-Test series with a 39-21 defeat at Eden Park, before a 40-7 thrashing by the Chiefs in a midweek game.
Wales have now lost 28 consecutive matches against the All Blacks, with their last win coming in 1953.
But Roberts says the Welsh football's team 3-0 win over Russia at Euro 2016 and their progress to the knockout stages has inspired the rugby side before this weekend's game in Dunedin.
"Most of the boys were watching it in the team room," he said.
"It's fantastic for the country and all the lads are pretty stoked, so all the best to those boys in the knockout stages.
"The football lads have inspired a nation, there's no doubt about that. It's pretty awesome stuff."
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Newsround first met him more than a year ago on the Greek island of Lesbos. His family had made a dangerous journey by boat to get there.
They continued travelling until they reached Sweden, where Kava and his family are now living.
Jenny went to catch up with him to see what life is like.
If you want to find out more about what life is like for Syrian child refugees, watch 'My Life: New Boys In Town' at 5.30pm on 13 March, CBBC.
Across three formats, he has played a staggering 36 matches for his country this year - with one Test still to come against South Africa.
Here, BBC Sport looks at Root's record-breaking year in numbers.
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Media playback is not supported on this device | Wales centre Jamie Roberts is undergoing return-to-play protocols after taking a blow to the head in Saturday's 36-22 defeat by New Zealand.
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Please provide a short summary of this passage. | The animal, also known as a thylacine, was declared extinct 80 years ago.
But over the decades various people have offered hazy eyewitness accounts and undocumented physical evidence as proof that some are still out there.
This week, images circulated by a group of amateur enthusiasts was met with both excitement and scepticism.
The grainy video footage, posted online by the Thylacine Awareness Group, purports to show an animal with a long tail moving through a backyard.
Amateur researcher Neil Waters claims it shows a small thylacine, alive and well in South Australia's Adelaide Hills.
He has a theory that the carnivorous marsupial may have survived undiscovered on mainland Australia because it is an migratory apex predator which may burrow dens.
"I first saw it in a book when I was a lad in primary school and it said 'presumed extinct' and it sparked something in my mind way back then that's never really gone away," he told the BBC.
Mr Waters also dismisses the suggestion that the search for the creature enters the realm of cryptozoology.
"There's plenty of specimens in museums around the world that proves this animal really did exist," he said.
"I guess that gives us one advantage over someone that's looking for Big Foot or a UFO."
Experts have roundly debunked the footage, arguing the blurry video does nothing to prove the continuing existence of the thylacine
They point out that evidence of dead prey should also have been found.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, a science commentator based at the University of Sydney, said the most surprising thing about the footage was its terrible quality.
"It's remarkable that it is out of focus in a time that we have autofocus cameras," he said.
His explanation for the perpetuation of the belief unexplained phenomenon is simple.
"For some people the world around them, they don't understand it, so they have to make stuff up."
The last known Tasmanian tiger died at Hobart zoo in 1936. The species was deliberately hunted to extinction by farmers incensed at the number of sheep killed by the carnivores.
However, thousands of sighting have been reported in Tasmania and mainland Australian in the decades since.
In 2005, The Bulletin magazine offered a A$1.25m (£700,000; $1m) reward for the capture of a live thylacine.
Scientists have even spoken about resurrecting the species through cloning schemes reminiscent of Jurassic Park.
Dr Cath Temper, a mammals expert from the South Australian museum, said the latest footage "could really be anything".
While there is a remote possibility there could be a few survivors in Tasmania, she says, this is unlikely to be the real thing, as "there's never been a thylacine specimen from the mainland".
"But you never know," she said. "It would be arrogant if I said there was no chance."
Ross Embleton's family was attacked after the club lost to local rivals Oxford on Sunday.
The club's head coach, Luke Williams, said the incident happened after an argument at full time.
It happened in front of Mr Embleton's children. The matter has not been reported to police.
Mr Embleton's parents were not seriously hurt, but both "struck" inside the County Ground.
The club said if anybody was identified as having been involved "banning orders will be issued".
Speaking to BBC Wiltshire Mr Williams said he expected criticism but said this was "too far".
He said he had "no problem" with people coming down to the dugout and swearing at him.
"But Ross' family were both struck by fans physically which is not acceptable.
"Hitting people and attacking people's family physically is criminal and that needs to stop.
"If you feel frustration and you want to vent your feelings please do it towards me, but please no more attacking people's families. | In the striped and hairy history of the Tasmanian tiger, those who believe the extinct animal has quietly survived have offered up all kinds of evidence.
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Summarize the provided information. | So says Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka, in the 1971 film of Roald Dahl's classic children's book, Charlie and the Chocolate factory.
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Unfortunately, few of us are lucky enough to have a chocolate factory full of non-union Oompa Loompas (Wonka seems to play fast and loose with anti-human trafficking laws) to help you get your idea to market.
But, what you do have that dubious employers like Mr Wonka don't, is the power of the internet. And fewer trips to the dentist.
Jake Zien is a 24-year-old designer from Milwaukee who now lives in New York, where he works for a tech start-up.
He is also a successful inventor. His product, the Pivot Power, is a strip plug that bends. He had help from over 700 other people - many of whom were strangers - who all get some share in the profits.
Mr Zien has made over $350,000 so far.
He is just one of a community of people who are part of Quirky - a platform where people collaborate to produce new products that the company manufactures and sells.
"I joined Quirky back in 2010 after a family friend told me he'd read about the company in an in-flight magazine," says Mr Zien.
"The friend, an intellectual property lawyer, had been consulting with me for some time about developing my idea for a flexible power strip.
"He mentioned that Quirky purported to do exactly what I needed - to be the missing piece that's needed to turn a nascent idea into a commercially available product. I joined the site and submitted my idea a week later."
He believes being able to work on his idea with others made it a commercial success.
"It was Quirky that did the overwhelming majority of the work, and I see the product's success as a "perfect storm" combination of factors, such as my timing in submitting the idea, rather than a complete testament to the quality of the submission."
The company has been operating for four years, and now has a community of around 400,000 people.
"We can get anything from bar napkin sketches to patented and prototyped ideas," says Quirky's Bret Kovacs.
The community gives feedback on the idea, then every Thursday the Quirky team have a meeting which is streamed live, where they decide on which ideas to take forward.
The community and the company then work together to make the products a reality.
The inventor and those who have influenced development get a share of 30% of sales from the Quirky website, or 10% from items sold elsewhere.
But the company has bigger ambitions.
They are in the process of launching a new partnership with US mega-corporation GE, which they hope will change the way patents are used.
GE is giving the Quirky community access to patents and technologies with the express purpose of letting people tinker with them and find innovative new uses.
"Just for too long, patents have been misused and really misunderstood, the only places you really hear about patents today are in the court of law," says Mr Kovacs.
"Our goal with partnering with GE on this front is really to bring patents back to their original intended use. Certainly they are meant to protect the inventor, but what's really important about patents is they are meant to inspire."
Quirky is not alone in wanting to bring patents full circle. They were originally intended not only to stop ideas being stolen, but also to foster innovation and help others improve on existing technology.
The patent process was a sort of a quid pro quo because to get protection for your idea you had to be transparent about the details.
Those following the latest Apple/Samsung court battle, or the infamous patent trolls that have sprung up in recent years, could be forgiven for thinking it was about stifling innovation instead.
Marblar is a new UK start-up founded by three PhD students busy dusting off unused patents held by universities and other institutions and finding new uses for them. In other words, it finds problems that fit solutions that already exist.
Rather than Quirky's consumer focus, this is about hard science.
"As scientists we saw that a huge amount of science never gets commercialised," says chief executive Daniel Perez.
"Often this is because the application might not be obvious. Imagine if you're in the Oxford physics department, and you develop a cool new laser. Your intention was to use it in satellites, but when you're done the gold standard happens to be much better.
"The technology's already patented, it's been published, but you know other people aren't incentivised to take a look at this laser and to think of new ways it could be used," he says.
Building a crowdsourcing platform seemed an obvious way to find new ideas, according to Mr Perez.
The team take an existing patent and break it down.
"We don't just post the patents because certainly a life science researcher couldn't understand laser physics [for example] anyway. We ask people from a variety of different backgrounds very simple questions - what would you do with this technology?"
Each project is run as a competition. About two-thirds of the way through, a short-list of finalists is drawn up. At the end there is a winner, chosen by the patent-holder, as well as a winner chosen by the crowd.
Prizes ranging from $1,000 up to $25,000 are awarded as well as community points, called marbles.
A recent project took a small laser - or spectrophotometer - designed to be used on a Mars rover - and found a new use for it as a breath analyser that could diagnose and track people with liver disease based on levels of ammonia found in their breath.
So is cash enough of an incentive?
"What we've found is that the prize money isn't the biggest motivator for people," says Mr Perez.
"They're in it because they want to chew on interesting technology and they want to see something get realised."
Nevertheless, although the company is less than a year old, they have plans to make participation worth potentially much more.
"We're actually going to be putting seed [funding] rounds around some of the concepts that are moving through Marblar," he says.
This would be good news for the competition winner as well as Marblar. They will both have an equity stake in the new company, says Mr Perez.
"Without having put any money in, from having an idea about how to use someone else's technology, it's a quick way to own a piece of the next big thing." | "Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple." |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | The Edinburgh-based publisher announced the move in a memo to staff on Friday.
The number of planned redundancies was not specified but the National Union of Journalists said 32 posts in Scotland were at risk.
The move comes as the company, whose titles include The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, continues to cut costs following a decline in revenue.
The memo, sent by editor-in-chief Jeremy Clifford, said: "We're reviewing the structures within every newsroom, considering if we are best placed to deliver the content to our audiences in the fastest, most efficient way, and if not, identifying how we need to organise ourselves better.
"We need to consider if we have we got the right mix of managers, writers and those who curate and collate content from our communities.
"Other considerations include looking at the print portfolio, and have we got the websites most appropriate for our markets."
He added: "We expect the review of our newsroom structures will lead to a reorganisation for some of our teams as well. In some cases that will mean a reduction in team sizes.
"We have identified a number of areas where job reductions will come from and how that may affect different teams directly.
"Later today a number of announcements will be made about some of those proposals.
"These will set out our intention but it will take some time to work out the detail of those changes and how we want our organisations to operate in future."
Johnston Press, which also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News, later said it would be making no further comment.
NUJ Scotland national organiser Paul Holleran said: "It would be an understatement to say that journalists across Johnston Press are shocked at this latest round of job cuts.
"The NUJ will work with local management to mitigate the redundancies and their impact on the quality of titles but we are seriously concerned at this announcement."
Earlier this week, Newsquest announced plans to cut editorial jobs at the Herald and Times newspaper group.
The group said the move was aimed at ensuring "the long-term sustainability of the business" in the face of "challenging" trading conditions. | Johnston Press has revealed plans to cut editorial jobs across its operations in the UK. |
Can you summarize the following paragraph? | Alberta Federal Court Justice Robin Camp's decision came after a scathing Canadian Judicial Council review called for his removal.
The review concluded he acted in a manner that seriously undermined public confidence in the judiciary.
The federal justice minister has accepted his resignation.
Mr Camp's comments made during a 2014 rape trial sparked outrage and drew sharp criticism from sexual assault victims and their advocates.
The judge had tried to hold on to his position and told the Council he had undergone education and had apologised for his comments.
The Council, which oversees the judiciary, found that Mr Camp's actions during the trial were "so manifestly and profoundly destructive of the concept of impartiality, integrity and independence of the judicial role that public confidence is sufficiently undermined to render the Judge incapable of executing the judicial office".
It also found he spoke to the complainant in a manner "that was at times condescending, humiliating and disrespectful".
Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said on Thursday she is confident Mr Camp received due process in his disciplinary review and accepts his decision to step down as of 10 March.
"Sexual assault and gender-based violence is in no form acceptable and we will continue to stand up for victims," she said.
In the 2014 case, he asked a 19-year-old woman: "Why couldn't you just keep your knees together?"
He also said, "pain and sex sometimes go together" and had referred to the complainant as "the accused," court records show.
The woman alleged she was raped over a bathroom sink at a house party in Calgary.
A new trial was ordered for the accused, who was acquitted a second time in January. | A Canadian judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she could not "keep your knees together" is resigning. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | Midfielder Williams headed Reading in front after just 15 seconds.
Hal Robson-Kanu found the USA international unmarked as he netted the club's third-fastest ever goal.
Nick Blackman made sure of the points with a late penalty with his eighth goal in as many games after he was fouled by Fernando Amorebieta.
Boro, five points clear in second before kick-off, were caught cold straight from the start at the Madejski Stadium.
Robson-Kanu lofted a ball across the area to the on-running Williams and Dimitrios Konstantopoulos was unable to tip it over the bar.
Reading, beaten just once in their last nine league games were full of confidence. Orlando Sa, returning from suspension, was denied a second goal as his shot was blocked on the line by Daniel Ayala.
Boro went close to an equaliser as Stewart Downing shot through a crowded penalty area only to be denied by Ali Al-Habsi.
Downing threatened again before the break, shooting just over from outside the box.
The visitors grew in confidence and continued to push for a leveller in the second half. Grant Leadbitter had the best chance as he watched a shot go just wide after the hour mark.
But just as nerves increased among the home crowd, Steve Clarke's side settled the game with two minutes left.
Blackman, among the nominees for Championship player of the month for September, was tripped by Amorebieta and referee Keith Stroud pointed to the spot.
Konstantopoulos went the wrong way and Reading had sealed their fifth win of the season.
Reading manager Steve Clarke told BBC Radio Berkshire:
"That was two good teams playing against each other today. We got the key moments in the afternoon and to get in front early changed the whole dynamic of the game.
"Middlesbrough would have come here thinking they could pick us off and contain us. In the first half, even though we didn't create as many chances, the best ones came to us.
"Defensively our shape was good and I sacrificed Nick Blackman a bit today, asking him to do a more defensive job.
"He did that really well and got his reward with the penalty at the end."
Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka:
"The main thing we had to do was not concede a goal in the first minute, but we did - within 20 seconds.
"Reading are a very organised team and we knew that if we conceded a goal, it would be difficult to equalise.
"We have still had a good run but we are disappointed because we wanted to win the eighth, ninth and 10th games in a row.
"I know it's impossible to win every match but it's still frustrating. I don't know why we started so badly."
Match ends, Reading 2, Middlesbrough 0.
Second Half ends, Reading 2, Middlesbrough 0.
Offside, Reading. Chris Gunter tries a through ball, but Orlando Sá is caught offside.
Goal! Reading 2, Middlesbrough 0. Nick Blackman (Reading) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty conceded by Fernando Amorebieta (Middlesbrough) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Reading. Nick Blackman draws a foul in the penalty area.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Ola John.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Albert Adomah replaces Grant Leadbitter because of an injury.
Substitution, Reading. Aaron Tshibola replaces Hal Robson-Kanu.
Attempt missed. Kike (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Grant Leadbitter.
Offside, Middlesbrough. Fernando Amorebieta tries a through ball, but Kike is caught offside.
Corner, Middlesbrough. Conceded by Jordan Obita.
Emilio Nsue Lopez (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Dangerous play by Orlando Sá (Reading).
Attempt missed. Carlos De Pena (Middlesbrough) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Emilio Nsue Lopez with a cross.
George Friend (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nick Blackman (Reading).
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Daniel Ayala.
Adam Clayton (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Orlando Sá (Reading).
Cristhian Stuani (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Oliver Norwood (Reading).
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Emilio Nsue Lopez replaces Tomas Kalas.
Substitution, Middlesbrough. Carlos De Pena replaces Diego Fabbrini.
Foul by Daniel Ayala (Middlesbrough).
Orlando Sá (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Adam Clayton.
Kike (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Hector (Reading).
Attempt missed. Oliver Norwood (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough).
Oliver Norwood (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Reading. Ola John replaces Lucas Piazon.
Attempt missed. Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Fernando Amorebieta.
Stewart Downing (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Lucas Piazon (Reading).
Grant Leadbitter (Middlesbrough) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danny Williams (Reading).
Attempt missed. Orlando Sá (Reading) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Hal Robson-Kanu with a cross. | Reading climbed to third in the Championship and ended Middlesbrough's five game winning streak with goals from Danny Williams and Nick Blackman. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | The promotion hopefuls, who are without captain Nathan Pond and strikers Devante Cole and Wes Burns, have drawn their last two League One matches 0-0.
Town, in third place, have slipped six points off the automatic promotion spots but Rosler thinks they will improve when his players recover.
"What makes me optimistic is the players coming back," he said.
Pond has not played since mid-January but was on the bench for Saturday's draw with Bury and will be available for Swindon's visit to Highbury on Saturday.
Burns, who joined the club from Bristol City in January, is back in training after damaging his ankle ligaments, while Cole should return from a groin injury before the end of the campaign.
Fleetwood have 69 points with seven games remaining and Rosler has given his players a target of 74 points to secure a top-six finish.
He is sure the bolstering of his squad from the physio room will help for the likely eventuality of the play-offs, telling BBC Radio Lancashire: "When your players have been out for two or three months and they're coming in at the final stages of the season, they have a lot of energy.
"They may not be 100% in terms of match sharpness, but what they do have is a willingness to show themselves. I think that can play in our favour.
"We will get our players back and then we will be a different proposition."
The new tournament will involve 20 teams, rather than 24, with six from the Aviva Premiership, six from the French Top 14 and seven from the Pro12.
The final place will be decided by a play-off.
Unrest over the future of the Heineken Cup began in June 2012, when the English and French clubs announced they would quit, unhappy with qualification, revenue distribution and governance.
Soon after, Premiership Rugby signed a TV deal with BT, while ERC extended its deal with Sky.
In October 2013, the English and French clubs announced they were setting up the Rugby Champions Cup, which had the support of the Welsh regions. When the French clubs pulled out, an Anglo-Welsh league was at one stage a distinct possibility.
For much of the last year prospects looked bleak, but this new agreement secures European club competition for at least eight years.
A new European Rugby Challenge Cup will replace the second-tier Amlin Cup and a new third-tier cup will be introduced, called the Qualifying Competition.
Bill Beaumont, chairman of English governing body the Rugby Football Union, said: "We are very pleased that the challenges off the pitch are concluded so we can enjoy the joys of the game on it, creating more unforgettable memories for players and fans alike."
His views were echoed by officials throughout the European game, with Welsh Rugby Union chief executive, Roger Lewis saying he is "delighted that we can all move forward with a clear and agreed structure in place for European competition from next season".
The heads of agreement - the principles behind the deal - were signed by the nine parties involved on Thursday, bringing an end to a two-year saga.
The signatories are the unions from the Six Nations countries, plus the club bodies for England, France and Wales.
Mark McCafferty, the chief executive of Premiership Rugby, described it as a "historic day for European club rugby", adding that the parties involved "had worked hard to get to this point and the uncertainty is now over".
International Rugby Board chairman Bernard Lapasset said the new competition meant both players and fans could "look forward to a strong competition structure that promotes and celebrates the best of the European game".
And Ian Ritchie, chief executive of the RFU, added: "This equitable, long-term agreement will provide the platform for rugby union to continue to expand across Europe, increasing interest and involvement in the game at all levels."
The tournaments will be headed by European Professional Club Rugby, a new Swiss-based association, which will replace current organisers European Rugby Cup (ERC).
English Premiership clubs withdrew from ERC in June 2012, and have long advocated changes to the present tournament, the Heineken Cup.
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Pro12 representation is cut from its current 10 teams, with one guaranteed representative from Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales and the other three places being decided on league position.
ERC chief executive Derek McGrath confirmed he will stand down from his role in October 2014 following the decision.
The issue of who will broadcast the new competitions has been a source of contention but BT Sport and Sky have reached an agreement to share coverage. | Fleetwood Town manager Uwe Rosler is confident his side will be a "different proposition" with returning players.
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The European Rugby Champions Cup which replaces the Heineken Cup has been given the go-ahead for next season. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | Dr Xerxes Mazda worked in museums elsewhere in the UK and Canada prior to his appointment, most recently at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
He began his career at the Science Museum in London before spending nearly a decade with the British Museum.
The appointment has been announced as the National Museum of Scotland under goes an ??80m restoration.
NMS has entered a "major phase" of development with projects under way at the National Museum of Flight, the National Museum of Scotland and the National Museums Collection Centre.
Dr Mazda said: "It is an extraordinary pleasure and privilege to be joining the senior team at such a vibrant time in its history."
NMS director, Dr Gordon Rintoul, said: "I am delighted to welcome Xerxes to National Museums Scotland.
"He joins at a particularly important time as we redevelop our sites and make our collections more accessible." | National Museums Scotland's (NMS) new director of collections has said it is a "privilege" to take on the role. |
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"I think Team GB's English super heavyweight Anthony Joshua has got a very good chance of winning a gold medal. The Cubans maybe aren't as strong as they used to be though, with the Russians now being very competitive."
Lucy Abel, BBC Sport
"Only ourselves and Russia have the full quota of three women boxers. Savannah Marshall is the first British woman to be crowned world champion and is the favourite for the gold medal at 75kg. Lightweight Katie Taylor from Ireland has been an inspiration to female boxers across the globe."
A number of great champions have made their name at the Games, including Hungarian Laszlo Papp, the great Cuban Felix Savon, and the USA's Oscar de la Hoya.
Probably the most famous of them all, though, was Cassius Marcellus Clay, who won gold in the light heavyweight contest in Rome in 1960.
He later went on to become perhaps the greatest professional heavyweight boxer of all time under the name Muhammad Ali.
London will host another momentous step in the history of the sport as women will compete in Olympic boxing for the first time.
As boxing provides intense cardiovascular exercise, it is an efficient way to improve the strength of your heart.
One hour on a punch bag would burn approximately 354 calories, an hour's sparring would burn approximately 531 calories and an actual hour-long fight would burn approximately 708 calories. Some clubs also offer sessions that are more fitness-based than actual boxing.
The US-based Centres for Disease Control Prevention reported that boxing provided the best mixture of exercise for people whose goal is to decrease their risk of obesity, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer.
Training sessions are an excellent way to develop communication skills and learn to work effectively with other people. Clubs also offer a variety of social events beyond simply taking part in the sport.
Boxing is a dynamic sport that teaches physical and mental discipline, and the best way to get started is to join a local club.
Men: Light fly (49kg), fly (52kg), bantam (56kg), light (60kg), light welter (64kg), welter (69kg), middle (75kg), light heavy (81kg), heavy (91kg), super heavy (+91kg)
Women: Fly (51kg), light (60kg), middle (75kg)
To ensure safety, it is vital all contact sessions are overseen by a qualified coach and you buy the correct equipment before you start.
Beginners will need gloves, gum shields, head gear, boots and shorts, with easy access to punching bags also essential.
The Amateur Boxing Association's club finder can help you locate your nearest centre in England, while in Wales you can contact the Welsh Amateur Boxing Association by calling 01446 794 444.
The Amateur Boxing Association of Scotland and Irish Amateur Boxing Association websites also contain further information as to how you can get involved.
As it involves high-energy exercise, leisure and sport centres, gyms and universities throughout the United Kingdom offer boxing-based sessions which allow people who want to avoid full contact to partake in the sport.
More on the GB Boxing website
'Join In Local Sport' aims to get as many people as possible to turn up and take part in activities at their local sports facilities on 18/19 August, 2012 - the first weekend between the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The aim of the initiative is for every sports club and community group in the UK to put on a special event in a bid to encourage more people to get involved as members, supporters or volunteers.
More than 4,000 local sports clubs will be opening their doors to host events and show people just how they can get involved.
As well as tips on playing sport there will be information on coaching, supporting and how to help out.
Find an event near you.
More on the London 2012 website
All boxers must be at least 17 years old, be no older than 34 and must be amateur athletes. Boxers score points for every punch they land successfully on their opponent's head or upper body.
Five judges score each bout, and a boxer scores a point when they deliver a blow that, without being blocked or guarded, lands directly with the knuckle part of the closed glove of either hand on any part of the front or sides of the head or body above the belt.
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The scores in each round are the average of a combination of the three judges' scores which are the closest (called 'Similar Score').
The boxer with the most points wins the bout, but if a boxer cannot get up after 10 seconds it is classed as a knockout and the bout is over.
Warnings can be applied in each round. When warnings are applied to a boxer, two points are awarded to his/her opponent.
A referee can also stop the fight for a disqualification or if they feel one athlete is not in a fit state to continue.
In case of a draw of the final scores, the lowest and highest total scores from the judges will be deleted. The winner will be determined by the total score from the three remaining judges.
If the scores are still tied, judges will be asked to press the button once for the boxer they think is the winner. The decision is made by taking the majority of the five judges.
If both boxers are disqualified there will be no winner. The bout could be declared 'no contest' due to a technical incident beyond the responsibility of the boxers.
In the men's, boxers compete in bouts of three rounds, each lasting three minutes, with a one-minute rest period between rounds.
In the women's, boxers compete in bouts of four rounds, each lasting two minutes, with a one-minute rest period between rounds.
More on the Team GB website
Team GB stand a good chance of medalling in both the men's and women's competition.
Four of the seven men selected medalled at the 2011 World Championship, with silvers for Andrew Selby,Anthony Joshua and Luke Campbell.
The women's trio are highly fancied following the World Championship in May, when middleweight Savannah Marshall won gold and Nicola Adams silver and Natasha Jonas bronze.
Ukraine's men's team won four golds at the 2011 World Championship. One of those was lightweight Vasyl Lomachenko, who is a hot favourite to retain his Olympic title.
Cuba, as ever, will be formidable foes - watch out for light heavyweight Julio César la Cruz. In the women's tournament, Ireland's Katie Taylor has won four successive world titles.
The history of competitive fist-fighting dates back thousands of years, with the earliest records of boxing in Egypt in 3000BC.
Cassius Clay - who later became Muhammad Ali - won the light heavyweight gold medal in 1960. The 18-year-old won a unanimous decision over Zbigniew Pietrzykowski of Poland.
Boxing was one of the cornerstones of the ancient Olympic Games in Greece from the 23rd Olympiad in 688BC. Pugilism, as the Greeks called it, prohibited clinching and had no weight classes, rounds or time limit.
Boxing wasn't on the itinerary of ancient Olympic sports that made up the first modern Games in 1896 as it was considered "ungentlemanly, dangerous and practised by the dregs of society".
Things have moved on considerably since boxing was introduced to the ancient Olympic Games in the 7th century BC, and even in the 108 years since the sport made its Olympic debut there have been major changes, such as headguards being made mandatory in 1984 and electronic scoring arriving in 1992.
However, none of those can match the significance of the three women's events - flyweight, lightweight and middleweight - scheduled for introduction in London.
More on the IOC website | One of the most prestigious events in Olympic history, boxing began at the Ancient Games with bouts that often ended with death, fought with long strips of leather wrapped around boxers' fists or gloves with spikes and weighted lead. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | 27 January 2015 Last updated at 07:00 GMT
Germany's leader at the time, Adolf Hitler, saw many groups as inferior and wanted them dead.
Among those killed were disabled and gay people and other races and religions - but the largest group of victims were Jewish people.
Nearly 7 out of every 10 Jews living in Europe were killed.
On 27 January every year, Holocaust Memorial Day is a chance for us to remember those who died and to make sure nothing like the Holocaust ever happens again.
Ricky reports on what happened during the Holocaust, and hears stories from two people who managed to survive through it.
The animations we have used come from a series of films called Children of the Holocaust on the BBC Learning website. | The Holocaust saw many millions of people killed in Europe, before and during the Second World War. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Four men from Dundee appeared in court earlier this week, and five from Aberdeen now face the same charges.
Anthony Steppie, Euan Stevenson, David Gowans, Kennedy Miskimmons and Scott Steppie all appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court to deny inciting public disorder on 13 December.
They will stand trial later this year.
The nine men all face charges under the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act, of engaging in behaviour likely to incite public disorder by forming part of a disorderly crowd and repeatedly attempting to engage in violence with rival fans.
Those offences are said to have taken place in Dundee's Main Street and Church Street.
Mr Stevenson, 20, faces a further charge of assaulting an unknown male by kicking him on the body in Church Street, while Scott Steppie, 21, is accused of assaulting an unknown male in Caldrum Street by punching him on the head.
They, along with Anthony Steppie, 49, Mr Miskimmons, 39, and Mr Gowans, 21, are banned from attending any matches involving Aberdeen FC as a condition of their bail.
Cameron Healy, Lemmy Milne, Alexander Middleton and Grant Fender appeared on identical charges earlier this week, and were released ahead of trial in July on the condition they do not attend any matches involving either Dundee club.
Aberdeen won the SPFL Premiership match 2-0. | Five more men are to stand trial accused of trying to fight rival football fans on the day of a match between Dundee United and Aberdeen. |
Write a summary of this document. | Prosecutors have charged 34-year-old Reda Kriket over an alleged plot to carry out an attack.
In his apartment, police found five assault rifles, seven handguns and the same type of explosive used in the attacks in Paris and Brussels.
Kriket has been linked to the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks.
The possible target of the alleged plan was not identified, but Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the attack was imminent.
In Kriket's flat in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil, officials also found chemicals, false passports, brand-new mobile phones and two computers with information about bomb-making and jihadist groups, Mr Molins added.
The arsenal also included the TATP explosive that was used in suicide bombs set off in Paris and Brussels by militants linked to so-called Islamic State (IS).
"Everything suggests that the discovery of this cache avoided an act of extreme violence by a terrorist network," Mr Molins told a news conference.
Links between Brussels and Paris attacks
Kriket has been charged with participating in a terrorist group, possessing and transporting arms and explosives, and holding fake documents, the prosecutor said.
Officials believe he spent time in Syria in 2014 and 2015 and made several trips between France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Last July, he was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison by a Belgian court for recruiting Islamist fighters for Syria. Investigations showed he played a key financing role with money from robberies and stolen goods.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, believed to have been the ringleader of last year's Paris attacks, was also absent for the trial.
In questioning by French investigators, Kriket said he was not a terrorist but gave up little information, Mr Molins said.
Three other men are being held in suspicion of involvement in the same alleged plan.
One is 32-year-old Frenchman Anis Bahri, who is believed to have travelled to Syria with Kriket. He is being held in the Dutch city of Rotterdam at the request of the French police and is resisting extradition to France, the prosecutor said.
The other two have been identified as Algerian nationals Abderahmane Ameroud, 38, and Rabah M., 34. They have been charged in Belgium and will face a hearing on 7 April. | A French national arrested in Paris last week had an "unprecedented" amount of weapons and was planning an act of "extreme violence", officials say. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Sand sculptors Remy and Paul Hoggard are using about 80 tonnes of sand to create the sculpture, which will depict King John at Runnymede in 1215.
The art work will stand 4m (13ft) tall and 9m (30ft) wide and is part of the anniversary event, Festival800.
Other events, celebrating democracy and freedom, are also taking place.
Mr Hoggard, who along with his Dutch wife has created sand sculptures all over the world, said this was one of his most adventurous projects in terms of size and scale.
The artist, who is originally from Beverley, East Yorkshire, but now lives on a farm in Bulgaria.
Magna Carta was a peace treaty between King John and the barons who were in revolt against him and it set out the principles of freedom under the law.
Only three of the 63 clauses in Magna Carta are still in law.
One defends the freedom and rights of the English Church, another relates to the privileges enjoyed by the City of London and the third is generally thought to have established the right to trial by jury.
One of the four surviving copies of Magna Carta is displayed at Lincoln Castle.
Festival 800 runs from 28 August to 6 September at venues across Lincoln and features performances from the likes of Billy Bragg and the Levellers.
There will also be comedy, poetry, street theatre, lectures and debate, organisers said. | Work is under way to create a giant sand sculpture in the grounds of Lincoln Castle to mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. |
What is the summary of the following article? | Along with diving partner Jack Laugher, 21, Mears won the men's synchronised 3m springboard final on Wednesday.
The 23-year-old from Burghfield Common in Berkshire was given just a 5% chance of survival after contracting the Epstein-Barr virus in 2009.
His family were in Rio to see the pair win GB's first ever diving gold medals.
At the age of 16, Mears collapsed with a ruptured spleen, losing five pints of blood.
Speaking to BBC Radio Berkshire before leaving for Rio, he said he had been "pretty close to death's door".
"It helped me adapt to this kind of lifestyle as an athlete," he said.
"That feeling that nothing could be worse than that is a good mindset to have. When you are training and feel you can't do another dive, it helps me work a bit harder.
"At school I was a bit of a joker, it kick-started me to think, 'this is what's life's about - better start doing something now'."
His father Paul, who watched his son take gold in Rio, said: "It was the turning point - up until then he was doing his sport because it was something he'd always done.
"He got sick, nearly died and came back from that and dedicated the rest of his youth to the sport. To see it pay off in the one that really matters is just a dream come true."
Jeff Pearce, a coach at Reading Central Pool, recalled how staff were "amazed at what his capabilities were" when Mears began diving lessons as a child.
"He stood out like a sore thumb - his attitude, his physical ability, the things he could try were way beyond his age," he said.
The pilot of flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, was alerted by the sound of banging "from beneath the aircraft", an Alaska Airlines statement said.
Once back on the ground, the baggage handler emerged from the pressurised hold, saying he had fallen asleep.
He "appeared OK" but went to hospital as a precaution, the airline said.
Alaska Airlines later said the worker had passed a drugs test and been released from hospital.
The Boeing 737 aircraft had taken off from Seattle with 170 passengers on board, and was airborne for 14 minutes.
According to Alaska Airlines, the worker's team leader had noticed that the man was missing before the plane took off.
The team leader had called into the cargo hold and rung the worker's mobile phone but did not get an answer.
"His co-workers believed he finished his shift and went home," the airline said.
The airline said the worker, employed by Menzies Aviation, started work at 05:00 local time and was due off at 14:30, but fell asleep in the cargo hold. The compartment was pressurised - so survivable at altitude - and was temperature-controlled.
One passenger, Marty Collins, told a local Seattle TV station that passengers had not heard the banging.
She said: "Nobody on the plane heard anything like that, nobody knew why we were turning around. They just said we were fine and we weren't in any danger."
Later, Ms Collins said passengers were told "there was someone in the cargo hold and he's been escorted off and taken away".
The flight later left for Los Angeles. | A life-threatening illness suffered by Olympic gold medal-winning diver Chris Mears was the "turning point" in his career, his father has said.
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Can you summarize the given article? | The tired animal was spotted by a man at 21:30 BST last Friday at Glanhafren, Cyfronydd, near Welshpool.
When it was still there three hours later, he took it home in a box and contacted the RSPCA.
RSPCA inspector Phil Lewis said the uninjured cub was doing well and had been taken to the charity's Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre in Cheshire for rehabilitation.
He advised anyone who sees a wild baby animal to check they are genuinely orphaned or abandoned before moving them, as the mother could be nearby. | An orphaned otter cub has been found on the side of the road in mid Wales. |
Provide a brief summary of this section. | Robert Buckland told the Telegraph that racism cut "all ways" and should be "front and centre" when it is part of grooming and sexual abuse cases.
On Wednesday, 17 men and one woman were convicted over abuse in Newcastle.
They were mainly British-born from Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Iraqi, Indian Iranian and Turkish communities.
In Newcastle, victims as young as 14 were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to have sex by a "cynical organisation".
Over the course of four trials, 20 young women gave evidence covering a period from 2011 to 2014.
However, some politicians have questioned why their offences were not seen as being racially aggravated in the courts.
Mr Buckland said tougher prison sentences should be given when it was established that sexual abuse was racially aggravated.
"The law does not discriminate," he said.
"When it talks about sentencing increases for racial aggravation it doesn't cut one way, it cuts all ways.
"Where there is a racial element in sexual abuse cases the law is clear that courts can apply a sentencing uplift."
The trials in Newcastle followed a number of similar cases - including in Rotherham and Oxford.
Mr Buckland expressed concern that fears of being accused of racism might have deterred the authorities from adopting a tougher approach.
"There has been an institutional reticence when it comes to Asian gangs that groom and abuse white girls," he said.
"Some people have been more concerned about being labelled racist than dealing with child safeguarding."
Speaking on Wednesday, Home Secretary Amber Rudd said sexual predators were "not restricted to any single ethnic group, religion or community".
She added: "I want to be absolutely clear that political and cultural sensitivities must never be allowed to get in the way of preventing and uncovering it."
Labour's Sarah Champion said the UK needed "to be upfront that the majority of the perpetrators have been British-Pakistani".
The Rotherham MP called for the government to research why this is happening.
"The government aren't researching what is going on," she said. "Are these cultural issues? Is there some sort of message going out within the community?"
Ms Champion said the "far right" would attack her comments for "not doing enough" and the "floppy left" would call her racist.
"This isn't racist, this is child protection," said the MP for Rotherham, where at least 1,400 children were found to have been exploited between 1997 and 2013.
Tim Chan claimed he had rented the four bedroom flat to students and was unaware it contained 700 cannabis plants with a street value of £320,000.
However a sheriff at Perth Sheriff Court concluded Chan, 58, "knew full well" the operation was ongoing.
A man who admitted growing the plants was earlier jailed for 27 months.
When Chan's daughter accidentally discovered the huge haul of plants, he warned her not to go to the police until the plants were ready to be harvested.
However officers were called in when a floor layer went to measure up the flat for laminate flooring and alerted its owner.
Police found every room in the house had been turned over to the production of cannabis, with the bathtub full of chemicals and nearly 2,000 pots and tubs recovered.
The smell from the plants was so strong it could be identified in the street.
The in-house gardener, Yan Ping He, escaped out of a window when police raided the property but was later traced and jailed for two years and three months.
Chan rented the property above the Athole Street restaurant, and admitted knowingly permitting it to be used for the cultivation of cannabis between 27 November and 16 December 2012.
Solicitor David Sinclair, defending, said his client was "naive" and had not suspected the "students" he rented the flat to were a professional drugs gang.
He said: "He made a deal with the devil here. We are dealing with a high-scale operation here - he cannot shy away from that."
Jailing Chan for four years, Sheriff Lindsay Foulis said: "This is serious stuff.
"You knew full well there was a cannabis cultivation operation ongoing. You would be aware the operation was a significant one. This was not an operation run on a shoestring.
"Once you became aware of it you actively encouraged others to avoid contacting the authorities to enable the harvesting to take place. The sentence is well merited." | Gangs who sexually abuse young girls should be given longer prison sentences where there is evidence of racism, the solicitor general has said.
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Please give a summary of the document below. | The man doused an ants' nest in petrol before setting it alight, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said.
Flames quickly spread along a garden hedge before the man's house caught fire, melting plastic guttering, a plastic window frame and a garden chair.
A fire service spokesman said: "Using petrol to eliminate an ants' nest has to be a first for us."
The fire started at about 20:00 BST on Thursday.
The spokesman added: "We always tell people never to use petrol or other accelerants to get a fire going.
"The incident is a classic example of how even a small fire can so quickly develop into a much more serious incident."
Citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania are currently denied visa-free access to the US.
The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution on Thursday.
However, member states would have to approve the move, a process that could take years.
Nevertheless, the resolution, passed by a show of hands, said the new visa rules should come into effect quickly and should remain in place until the US visa requirements were shelved.
A European Parliament statement said the EU Commission was legally obliged to temporarily reintroduce the new visa rules because of its reciprocity policy.
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Under these rules, "if a third country does not lift its visa requirements within 24 months of being notified of non-reciprocity, the EU Commission must adopt a delegated act... suspending the visa waiver for its nationals for 12 months", the statement said.
It said a notification of non-reciprocity was first received in April 2014 - meaning the Commission should have taken action in April 2016 - but so far it has yet to do so.
Canada also has visa requirements for Bulgarian and Romanian citizens, the statement said, but it has announced that these will be shelved in December.
In January, President Donald Trump attempted to introduce a travel ban on people from seven mainly Muslim nations but it was blocked in the courts. He is working on a new executive order. | A man set fire to his house trying to get rid of some ants in Rotherham.
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US citizens should be refused visa-free access to the EU in response to American visa rules affecting citizens from five EU countries, the European Parliament has said. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | It happened just after 16:00 GMT on the Toberdoney Road, in Liscolman, near Bushmills.
The boy was taken to the Causeway Hospital before being transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
A man in his 70s has been arrested. Police have appealed for witnesses to contact them. | A nine-year-old boy has been critically injured after he was knocked down in County Antrim on Tuesday afternoon. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | When a husband and wife team jointly run a business, you can't help wondering: who is really in charge?
With the Hothis it is hard to tell.
In conversation they tumble over each other with shared enthusiasm, interrupt and finish each other's sentences.
She's excited about what makes their company stand out in the already very crowded market for professional training.
"The future is about blending," she says. "Our online learning courses are traditional, computer-based courses, as you would expect, but we have what we call walk-in clinics. So if someone wants to chat through an issue, they can find a locally-based instructor, pop in, ask questions, get the human interaction."
Dilshad is expansive about the big vision.
Right from the start, he says, they saw what the internet was doing to the way people bought books, groceries and clothes, and thought: "Why won't it do the same for training?"
"I knew there was a phenomenal opportunity," he says.
"In the next 10 years we'll be a global household name, I firmly believe that - a bit like Google or Facebook - we will probably be as big, if not bigger."
That might sound like hubris, but the Knowledge Academy has grown rapidly in its first six years and is one the largest training companies in the world, measured by the number of courses it offers - over 5,000 - in the number of locations. By the end of this year they say they will be able to offer training in 3,000 cities in 210 countries, from the US to Australia, Bhutan to Chile.
It delivers courses in dozens of professional areas from project management and IT to social media, aviation and animation. And they've supplied training to companies including Rolls Royce, HSBC, PwC and Disney.
But while their operations are global, they themselves originate from a very specific cultural alchemy, a combination of Indian and English influences.
Barinder's parents, immigrants to Britain from the Punjab, ran a restaurant in Harrow, London.
"Neither of them spoke any English," she says, which meant she and her siblings were drawn into the business at an early age, helping their parents at the bank and with customers.
But as in many Asian immigrant families, the children's education was always a priority.
"I still can hear my mum now saying 'Study, because this is what is going to help you in life,'" says Barinder.
But if Barinder's life in Britain was suffused with Indian values, Dilshad's schooldays were a mirror image.
"I was born and brought up in India itself," he says. His father was in the Indian air force and his family chose for him the nearest they could find to a British public school experience.
"They put me in Lawrence School, Sanawar," he says. "It's the Eton equivalent of India."
He became house captain, played cricket and absorbed the very British atmosphere of the former colonial military school, at the foot of the Himalayas.
"I think my school background was very important, being a house captain. We were very competitive and sports-driven. We had a cricket competition and field hockey and athletics and I used to build tactics and think how many medals I'd go after."
When he arrived in the UK, at the age of 21, Dilshad met Barinder through his aunt. For several years he worked for a UK-based training company while she worked for Microsoft.
They chose to launch their own company at what to many would have seemed an inauspicious moment - in 2009 as the global economy crashed.
"It was actually the best decision ever. Any other time would have been more challenging," says Barinder.
The new business benefited from the big pool of people who had been made redundant and lacked formal qualifications to show to prospective employers.
"There were so few positions that you needed to have more badges on your CV to get a job," says Dilshad.
Now, he says, sites like LinkedIn have made formal qualifications even more important by making them constantly visible to everyone.
There is now one risk on the horizon, though. That for Dilshad and Barinder the business will consume their life together entirely.
Although they barely spend 10 minutes together during the working day from 8am to 6pm, once at home around the kitchen table or on walks at the weekend, they admit, the conversation almost always turns to work.
Their daughter, aged nine, has already spent so many hours at their office she is a proficient operator of the franking machine and can recite the names of almost every member of staff.
"Quite often we have to tell each other to turn the iPads off," says Barinder.
They've developed a pattern of working very hard for a few months then taking a luxury break, somewhere like Dubai, for a few days.
Neither seems to resent the time and dedication required, though they do approach things differently.
"I'm more conservative," says Barinder. "Typically British."
And if she weren't there to put Dilshad in check?
"I'd try to do 10 things at once," he says, grinning.
So who is in charge?
"Barinder's in charge of the people. I'm probably in charge of the strategy itself," he admits.
Do they argue?
"Barinder has been very supportive," he says.
If she's "supportive" then is he really in charge?
She laughs. But refuses to give any ground at all. | Married couple Dilshad and Barinder Hothi are joint founders of the international training company, the Knowledge Academy, which they aim to turn into the "Amazon of the education world". |
Give a concise summary of the passage below. | Merseyside Police said they had received reports that a person had been seen with a firearm in Beech Rise, Kirkby, at about 05:20 BST.
A 17-year-old boy was also arrested on suspicion of burglary offences and possessing a firearm.
Officers also held a man, 38, from Litherland on suspicion of conspiracy to import and supply controlled drugs after 15kg of cannabis resin was found.
A 24-year-old man from Kirkby was also arrested on suspicion of possessing cannabis.
The arrests were part of a police operation targeted at organised crime groups after about 80 shootings in Merseyside since April - 39 of which have led to people being injured.
Five men have also died following various gun attacks including 18-year-old Yusuf Sonko in Toxeth on 2 June.
Detectives are also appealing for witnesses following a shooting in Croxteth at about 14:30 BST on Friday near the junction of Armill Road and Sovereign Road. No one was injured.
Det Insp Nick Suffield said: "If someone has been brazen enough to fire a shotgun in the middle of the afternoon on a residential street we need to find them urgently."
Lancashire Police said a 49-year-old old man had "voluntarily" attended a station by prior appointment.
He was not arrested but interviewed under caution regarding a rape allegation made on 4 January, the force said.
Earlier this month the Labour MP called the rape allegation against him "malicious, untrue and upsetting".
He was suspended by the party last month after he admitted sending lewd texts to a 17-year-old girl.
"We're actually in the studio in the moment cutting new stuff," Keith Richards told BBC 6 Music.
Guitarist Ronnie Wood added that the band recently "cut 11 songs in two days. Just 'bang' - like that."
"It was a surprise to us. We didn't intend doing it," he told Matt Everitt. "I wish I could play them to you now. I'm so excited about them."
The Rolling Stones haven't released a studio album since 2005's A Bigger Bang, although they wrote two new songs for the 2012 compilation record Grrrr!
The sessions have included new material and a series of blues covers, including songs by Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf.
"They sound so authentic it's frightening," said Wood.
"We didn't spend any time rehearsing them or anything. We just picked a song that suited Mick's harmonica or a guitar riff... and they worked out pretty good.
"It was like, 'this is what the Stones do, we play blues.'"
"It's sounding really good," added Mick Jagger. "We did one session before Christmas. We'll probably do more."
"It's very easy and free," said drummer Charlie Watts. "Keith plays the same now as he ever did. He sits there and plays a song and if something comes to him, he'll put that into it."
Wood said the new music would be released "sometime this year", while Jagger said the band would be announcing more shows in the coming months.
"We'll come back to the UK, indeed," he said. "It doesn't feel very long since we played [here] but actually it's ages ago now."
"I think our main thing is playing live these days," Richards added. "Within the band, we always feel like the next show is going to be better.
"For a bunch of reprobates we have an incredible dedication to our job."
The band were speaking at the launch of Exhibitionism, a career retrospective at London's Saatchi Gallery.
Billed as the largest exhibition of Stones memorabilia ever mounted, it includes a recreation of the studio where they recorded Sympathy For The Devil, and the band's filthy first flat in Edith Grove, Chelsea.
It also includes key instruments, album art, diary entries, tour posters and the band's flamboyant outfits.
But, as Richards told 6 Music: "I don't remember wearing any of it." | Two boys, aged 13, have been arrested on suspicion of possessing a firearm.
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Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Monday's session was a rare reunion of Lotte's 94-year-old founder Shin Kyuk-ho and his three oldest children.
His two sons fought a public battle over control of the company, while his daughter is currently in prison.
The four were indicted in October 2016 on a range of charges including embezzlement, tax evasion and fraud.
The trial is significant because South Korea's family-controlled conglomerates, or "chaebols", used to be considered untouchable given they have powered much of the country's economic growth.
But in recent years, the chaebols and their family members have become the focus of public anger over inequality and corruption.
The corruption trial is separate from the investigation facing former South Korean President Park Geun-hye over her alleged dealings with other big conglomerates, including the Samsung Group.
The first day of the Lotte trial was a dramatic one. Here is the background.
In a packed courtroom on Monday, nonagenarian patriarch Shin Kyuk-ho showed his displeasure at being called to court.
"Lotte is a company that I made, I have 100% of the shares, who indicted me?" the 94-year-old reportedly shouted before throwing his cane on the floor.
The judge had to ask the Lotte Group founder to be quiet. Mr Shin is said to suffer from dementia, according to a local media report citing his eldest son.
News agencies said he appeared confused as he entered court in a wheelchair.
Mr Shin ceded control of the Lotte business empire, which spans hotels to department stores, after being ousted by his younger son in 2015.
Shin Kyuk-ho has been indicted for tax evasion, embezzlement and breach of trust, but his lawyer said he denied all charges.
The Shin family first came under investigation after a feud between Shin Dong-Joo, 63, and his younger brother erupted into public view.
Shin Dong-Joo, the eldest son of Lotte's founder, had been considered the heir apparent but was usurped by his younger brother who had successfully expanded the brand.
He subsequently attempted a failed boardroom coup last year.
The bitter battle between the two brothers triggered investigations into the Lotte Group, which led to 22 people - including the four family members - being indicted by prosecutors.
Younger son and Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin, 62, is accused of embezzlement and breach of fiduciary duty.
This includes alleged tax evasion, financial scams and irregular payments to family members.
His lawyer said the payments in question were organised by his father without Shin Dong-bin's involvement, according to Reuters.
The Lotte Group has said most of the allegations aren't directly linked to him as they involve events during the time his father was in charge.
Shin Young-ja has been sitting behind bars since last July.
She was sentenced to three years in jail in January for embezzlement and breach of trust.
Formerly the head of Lotte Shopping, Shin Young-ja has resigned from both the company and her other board posts.
Lotte, which is South Korea's fifth-biggest conglomerate, isn't just facing a tough time in court.
Around 80% of its stores have been shut in China as part of the backlash against a US missile defence system being deployed in South Korea.
The firm had provided land to host the Terminal High Altitude Defense (Thaad) system, which the US and South Korea say is aimed at protecting against threats from North Korea.
However the move has angered China, which says the system can be use to spy on it, and led to a series of economic reprisals.
Lotte Group has more than 90 firms in sectors as diverse as beer, hotels, theme parks and chemicals.
Since the financial scandal became public, it has already led to the firm pulling out of a share sale worth as much as $4.5bn for its hotel unit.
The scandal has also been linked to the apparent suicide of one of the company's top executives. In August, then Vice Chairman Lee In-won was found dead hours before he was to be questioned in the corruption probe. | Four members of the powerful family behind the $81bn (£66bn) Lotte Group business empire have gone on trial in Seoul this week. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | The unity government, led by prime minister-designate Youssef Chahed, was backed by 167 members of the 217-seat parliament.
The government includes Islamists, leftists, unionists and independents.
Youssef Chahed, 40, will become Tunisia's youngest prime minister since the country won its independence from France in 1956.
Mr Chahed warned in parliament that an austerity programme, with public-sector job cuts and tax rises, would be inevitable if Tunisia does not overcome its economic difficulties.
He was named as the next prime minister after his predecessor, the US-trained economist Habib Essid, was dismissed in a no-confidence vote last month.
Mr Essid, who has been in office for less than two years, has faced criticism for what his opponents say is his failure to push through economic reforms.
Unemployment has worsened since the 2011 revolution, when President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted. More than a third of young people in Tunisia are without work.
The north-African state is struggling with lower tourism revenues after two Islamist militant attacks on foreign tourists last year hit what is one of its key industries.
Strikes and protests over jobs have also hurt the country's important phosphate industry.
Tunisia's uprising was the first of the Arab Spring, and often hailed as the most successful with the country now functioning as a parliamentary democracy.
Edinburgh ended the season under interim coach Duncan Hodge after Alan Solomons' September exit, but Richard Cockerill will take over next season.
"We've got the makings of a very good squad," said Berghan. "And there's a lot of talent coming through the ranks.
"It's now about bringing it together and pushing on in the coming season."
New Zealand-born tight-head Berghan joined Edinburgh in 2014 from Crusaders Knights, the development squad of Super Rugby franchise the Crusaders.
"I've loved my time at Edinburgh Rugby so far," he said.
"Front-row is a highly-competitive position and that will only drive standards.
"The battle for a starting spot will be extremely tough but one in which I'll be looking to thrive."
Berghan, who qualifies for Scotland via a grandfather from Stirling, was named in the national squad for the first time for this year's Six Nations.
He made his debut off the bench against France and had further replacement outings against England and Italy.
Berghan also made 13 appearances, 10 of them starts, for Edinburgh this season.
"Simon is another great addition to our pack, especially taking into account his form of late," said Hodge, who will revert to his old role as attack coach under Cockerill.
"He seems to have relished his shot at international rugby and has been using that experience to further develop his game on returning to Edinburgh.
"He's still relatively young for a front-row, so we're looking forward to seeing him develop even further as part of our pack in the coming years."
Lock Anton Bresler is the only out-of-contract player whose future is as yet unconfirmed by Edinburgh. | The Tunisian parliament has voted to approve a new government, which will take office in the next few days.
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Write a summary of this document. | Its government doesn't like people from outside the country going there and finding out what's going on.
The people of North Korea live under a form of communist rule. They don't have a say in how their country is run.
The government strictly controls all aspects of daily life. Most people are forbidden from travelling outside the country.
All TVs and radios are tuned to state channels and looking at foreign television is against the law.
These controls mean that most North Koreans may have little or no idea of world events, or how their country is thought of by the outside world.
Most North Koreans are extremely poor with things like fridges, washing machines, and even bicycles, hard to come by.
Many people rely on donations from the United Nations for food.
Korea was formally split into two separate countries, North and South Korea, on 9 September, 1948.
The governments of both countries didn't agree on many things and don't get on to this day.
Since 1948, North Korea has been ruled by three men from the same family.
Kim Il-sung was in charge until his death in 1994, when he passed on the Presidency to his son Kim Jong-il.
Kim Jong-il died in 2011, and North Korea announced his son, Kim Jong-un as its new leader.
Around a million people gathered in the capital city, Pyongyang, to hear the announcement.
A report by the US Committee for Human Rights suggests that there are up to 200,000 people in prison and labour camps in the country, because they have disagreed with the government.
It's thought that North Korea has been developing big weapons for decades.
The country has more than 1,000 missiles, including long-range missiles which it is feared could one day be used to strike other countries like America and Japan.
Many think the country is also working on making nuclear weapons, powerful bombs that can cause a lot of damage.
North Korea is one of the most heavily militarised countries in the world. Its one million strong army is considered to be the fifth largest in the world. | For decades North Korea - also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - has been one of the world's most secretive countries. |
Summarize the passage below. | The 27-year-old left-back has had spells at Ebbsfleet United, Woking and Whitehawk this season.
He is eligible to make his debut for against Tranmere on Saturday.
Dover, who are sixth in the table, three points off the play-off places, have not disclosed the length of Braham-Barrett's deal at Crabble.
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He was riding home after hosting his show on 26 August when a driver tailgated him, beeping her horn.
Filmed on Vine's helmet camera as he rode in Kensington, west London, she can be seen swearing at him and threatening to knock him out.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed a 22-year-old woman was arrested on Friday on suspicion of common assault.
The altercation took place in a narrow street, with the woman's black Vauxhall being driven close behind the presenter.
Vine, who is about to become one of the new hosts of BBC One's Crimewatch, has declined to comment further, saying the matter is now in the hands of the police.
The woman, who was also arrested on suspicion of committing a public order offence, has been bailed to return to police later in September.
Jenny Pyper has said the cross-border link must be in place by 2019 "to keep the lights on and prices low".
The plan is to connect the grids using 138km of overhead lines between County Meath and a new substation near Moy in County Tyrone.
Ms Pyper said an alternative "plan b' of underground cables was "a myth."
Speaking at a conference in Belfast, she said that option would take too long and be "five times more expensive."
Environmental and health campaigners had wanted the cables placed underground.
The project, which will take three years to complete, was meant to have been ready by 2017.
In the Republic of Ireland, the state-owned commercial energy company, EirGrid, has submitted plans for the southern half of the project.
In Northern Ireland, the lead is being taken by System Operator for Northern Ireland (SONI).
A separate planning application is before the Planning Appeals Commission, with a hearing likely to take place early next year. | National League side Dover Athletic have signed former Macclesfield Town and Cheltenham Town defender Craig Braham-Barrett.
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Northern Ireland's Utility Regulator has warned against any further delay to the £200m north-south electricity interconnector project. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Lithuania arrive at Hampden Park having lost all four of their previous games in Scotland and failing to win any of their past 11 away matches.
"All the facts are against us," said Jankauskas, a former Hearts striker.
"We accept that we are not favourites, but all good and bad runs have to end at some point."
The 41-year-old added: "I am not too concerned a lot about the stats, the facts. What bothers me more is my team - the way we approach the game, the way we face such a strong, physical team as Scotland.
"The last few games gives us a good feeling, a good reason to build on that, to be positive [and] to have more confidence in ourselves. That's important before such a big game.
"I have no doubt that Scotland will have a go at us and the only result they would accept is victory."
Jankauskas, who had a brief spell in charge of Lithuanian side Trakai in 2014 before taking on the national job this year, has guided his team to successive draws against Poland and Slovenia.
And he says the first half of Scotland's game in Malta - where the score was 1-1 at half-time before Gordon Strachan's side ran out 5-1 winners as the hosts were reduced to nine men - "gives us a little hope".
"When Malta [had] all players on the pitch, they were defending quite well," added Jankauskas.
"We know how strong [Scotland] are. We know that we have to put in a very good performance to match the Scottish team.
"We have a very united squad and that is our main force - the unity." | Lithuania coach Edgaras Jankauskas says Scotland will accept nothing other than a victory against his team in Saturday's World Cup qualifier. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | He told LBC Radio he would announce which constituency he was contesting within the next 48 hours.
Mr Nuttall, who sits in the European Parliament, had previously suggested he might not stand in 8 June's contest, saying UKIP leaders had done well outside the Commons.
He failed to beat Labour at a by-election in Stoke-on-Trent last month.
At a UKIP campaign event on Monday, he repeatedly refused to say whether he would stand in the general election.
But on Thursday he told LBC: "As the leader of the party, I will be, obviously, leading the party into battle as I have done many times in the past".
He said he would stand in a seat where "we think we can give it a good go".
He defined success for UKIP as improving on the single seat the party had won in 2015 - Douglas Carswell's victory in Clacton.
Stressing the need to "get people over the line this time", he said: "The one thing that we learned from 2015 is that vote share, although it is nice to get four million votes and 13% was wonderful, there is no prize for second place in the first-past-the-post system.
"I would like us to get more MPs elected than we got in 2015. I think it's doable. I think what we have got to do is target our resources sensibly, that means both in resources and in terms of manpower."
Mr Nuttall had previously said he did not want to be tied to one constituency during the general election campaign, as happened to his predecessor, Nigel Farage, in 2015 in Thanet, where he failed to unseat the Conservatives. | UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has confirmed he will stand as a candidate at the general election. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | A trailer containing the treats was taken from Burton's Food Ltd on Ty Coch Way, Cwmbran, Torfaen, at about 03:10 BST on 17 June.
The trailer was later found empty in Warrington, Cheshire.
Gwent Police are investigating the theft. | Thieves have stolen £20,000 worth of biscuits from a south Wales factory. |
Give a concise summary of the following information. | Murders linked to domestic violence will carry sentences of between 12 and 30 years.
President Rousseff said the new law sends a clear message to women that the state would protect them.
She said 15 women were killed daily in Brazil.
In other cases - such as the killing of a pregnant woman, a woman who's just given birth, girls under 14, or women over 60 - the new law provides for even longer jail terms.
The new legislation alters the criminal code to describe femicide as any crime that involves domestic violence, contempt or discrimination against women.
Similar legislation has been introduced in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador, which has the highest murder rate for women in the world.
The Representative of UN Women in Brazil, Nadine Gasman, said "the law identifies femicide as a specific phenomena. This kind of law is preventive in nature."
The new legislation deepens legislation sanctioned in 2006 by President Rousseff's predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Known as the "Maria da Penha" law, it paid tribute to Maria da Penha Maia, a woman whose ex-husband beat her for 14 years and attempted to murder her twice, leaving her paraplegic.
She is a notable figure in the movement for women's rights in Brazil.
The "Maria da Penha" law stated that aggressors were no longer to be punished with alternative sentences.
It increased the maximum sentence from one to three years.
It also ordered the removal of abusers from the home and banned them from proximity to the woman or children attacked.
During her term in office, President Rousseff has enacted other laws aimed at women and girls.
In August 2013, she signed legislation requiring all public hospitals to provide treatment against sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/Aids for rape victims.
It requires that victims be given access to emergency contraception, and in the case of pregnancy they have the right to an abortion, illegal in Brazil in most cases.
The Jags had been accused of listing an ineligible player by naming Callum Murray as a substitute in last week's game against Formartine United.
But the league's management committee decided no action would be taken against the club.
However, it also decided that its rules would be reworded.
Murray, who did not play in the 0-0 draw with Formartine, had recently been recalled from a loan spell with Highland League rivals Deveronvale to cover for injuries.
In season 1992-1993, Elgin City won the Highland League but were later stripped of the title after having been found to have fielded ineligible players.
Buckie are likely to win the championship if they beat bottom side Strathspey Thistle on Saturday.
The Jags and Cove Rangers are two points behind Brora Rangers, but the present leaders have played all of their games.
Buckie have a superior goal difference over Cove, who face 12th-placed Lossiemouth, going into the final game of the season.
The title winners will have a chance to win promotion to League Two of the Scottish Professional Football League.
Victors of the Highland and Lowland Leagues will meet in a play-off to decide who should face League Two's bottom club in the play-off final. | Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has signed a new law which sets tough new penalties for the killing of women and girls.
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Highland League title challengers Buckie Thistle have avoided a points deduction that would have cost them the chance to win the title on Saturday. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | The Royal Bank of Scotland has identified barriers which starter farmers are struggling with, including the physical size of modern farms.
Bigger farms are often unaffordable when they come on the market and are being bought up by neighbours.
RBS wants more joined-up action to help unlock the potential it says young farmers can bring.
New farmer John Matheson has a hundred suckler cows in a twisting, steep sided glen on the River Deveron in Aberdeenshire.
He has been there for just eighteen months, despite wanting his own farm since the age of eight. He is now in his 50s.
John previously had livestock on rented grass but the locations were spread far and wide meaning a drive of almost 30 miles each day to tend them.
He said: "I can now get up in the morning at seven o'clock and I'm finished feeding and have seen everything by nine in the morning.
"It makes a tremendous difference. I can manage the cattle better because obviously they're here so if there's something ill or sick it can be treated on the spot there and then.
"The management's just so much easier."
The report from the Royal Bank of Scotland - Harvesting the Future for Young Farmers - surveyed 500 new entrants, about of half of them in Scotland.
It identified three key challenges:
Duncan Morrison, vice-chairman of the Scottish Association of Young Farmers, has held his tenancy near Torphins since November but has been building up his stock of beef cows for several years.
Without stock, he does not think he would have secured the tenancy and considers himself one of the lucky ones.
The report's findings come as no surprise and he wants to see solutions.
He said: "The more young people you've got in an industry, it's always a positive, because you've got young people bringing in new ideas and fresh enthusiasm.
"The average age of a farmer is 58 now, I think, and it's not really good. You need younger people coming in and taking the pressure off the older guys."
The report accepts that young farmers can improve innovation. They're also taking advantage of new opportunities like crowdfunding, it says.
The head of agriculture at the Royal Bank of Scotland, Ian Burrow, is calling for a summit involving industry, governments and the banking sector.
He said: "It's getting better, yes. We're actually undertaking lots of business planning workshops and we're identifying, through the network of agricultural specialists we've got, a willingness to learn and understand.
"The quality of business reports and business cases we're seeing is improving on a week-by-week basis."
But there are many potential farmers who are not getting the opportunity to farm.
RBS says a summit could bring governments, the industry and the banking sector together to try to address some of the issues its report has highlighted.
The Pope urged Christians to "embrace hospitality" and reject the "logic of selfishness".
The Paraguay visit was the culmination of the Pope's eight-day tour of some of South America's poorest countries.
During his previous stops in Bolivia and Ecuador, he spoke out against social injustices in the region.
He also apologised for the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the brutal colonisation of most of Latin America by the Spanish.
"Welcome the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the prisoner, the leper and the disabled," Pope Francis spoke at the Mass in Asuncion.
"Welcome those who don't think like us, those who don't have faith or have lost their faith."
Earlier the Pope visited the Banado Norte shantytown in Asuncion, home to some 100,000 people.
He urged residents to stand up for each other.
"No matter how many Masses on Sundays, if you don't have a heart in solidarity, if you don't know what is happening in our town, your faith is very weak, or it's sick or it's dead."
Pope Francis, who was born in Argentina, is the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to come from Latin America.
Thousands of people travelled from neighbouring Argentina for the Pope's last Mass in the tour, including President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. | A bank has called for a summit to address the problems faced by young people trying to get into farming.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have attended the final Mass celebrated by Pope Francis during his visit to Paraguay. |
Can you summarize the given article? | The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 88.69 points lower at 17,784.53, while the S&P 500 index fell 2.17 to 2,096.89
The tech-focused Nasdaq index rose 14.55 to 4,948.05.
On Tuesday, the Commerce Department reported US consumer spending rose by 1% in April, the largest one month rise in over six years.
The strong consumer spending data gave the latest sign of an improvement in economic growth and supported the Federal Reserve's hints about raising interest rates later this year.
Economic data released this week includes the Federal Reserve's Beige Book and factory orders, with May unemployment figures on Friday.
Investors will be looking for signs that the Fed is likely to raise rates at its mid-June policy meeting.
Microsoft was the Dow's biggest gainer for the day, raising 1.3%.
Shares of aircraft maker Boeing fell 2.4%.
On Friday, the aerospace giant said that delivery of the first KC-46 tanker aircraft to the US Air Force would be delayed by five months to August 2017.
US electricity utility Great Plains Energy fell 5.9% after announcing a takeover of Westar Energy for $8.6bn. Westar shares jumped 6.4%.
Oil prices fell 1.4% leaving US crude at $48.91 a barrel and Brent crude at $49.68. | (Closed): US markets closed mostly lower as investors weighed the prospect of a Federal Reserve interest rate rise. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The Greek left-back was dismissed before half-time for a foul on Ryan Dow just inside his own half.
"I've just seen it back and it isn't a red card," Canning told BBC Scotland.
"Giannis has gone for the ball along the ground and I think it looks worse than it is because of the speed they are both going at."
Canning felt there was "absolutely no intent" from his player to hurt Dow.
"It's just unfortunate for Skondras that Ryan is quick and he's just got a wee toe on it before Giannis can get there.
"Referees have got a hard job with things happening at that speed, but we seem to be on the wrong end of a few decisions.
"I spoke to the referee and he was quite convinced it was [a sending off]. I hate being critical of them because it is a difficult job, but what I can't keep on doing is standing here after we've had decisions go against us that costs us, and keep on defending them [referees], because we need to start getting them right for us.
"Ultimately, there's a lot at stake here. It's potentially cost us two points and it could have cost us more."
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre had sympathy with his Hamilton counterpart over the decision.
"It's not a sending off and they've been very unfortunate with that," he told BBC Scotland.
"I think in terms of our overall play, I'm disappointed we've not picked up three points but Accies deserve a lot of credit as well.
"We've been down to 10 men three or four times this season and we've won two of those games. It's really difficult against 10 men because they sit in. Sometimes you can get lured into committing too many players and then get hit on the counter-attack." | Manager Martin Canning says Hamilton Accies will appeal against the red card issued to Giannis Skondras in the 1-1 draw with Ross County. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | The court also warned that senior officials who failed to act against the offenders would be prosecuted.
In recent times, there have been many cases where people have been ostracised or killed for defying age-old notions of tradition and family honour.
Often these crimes are endorsed, or even encouraged, by village-based caste councils.
Many of the victims are young couples who marry outside of their caste or within their sub-caste.
The Supreme Court also criticised the village caste councils - known in north India as "khap panchayats" and as "katta panchayats" in the southern state of Tamil Nadu - as "kangaroo courts".
"There is nothing honourable in honour killing or other atrocities and, in fact, it is nothing but barbaric and shameful murder," judges Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra said.
"We have heard of khap panchayats which often decree or encourage honour killings or other atrocities in an institutionalised way on boys and girls of different castes and religion, who wish to get married or have been married, or interfere with the personal lives of people," they said.
"We are of the opinion that this is wholly illegal and has to be ruthlessly stamped out."
The court asked state governments to suspend district magistrates and senior police officers of an area if they failed to act against these council.
Correspondents say cases of "honour killings" are regularly reported from the states of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh which are deeply conservative and patriarchal regions.
In the last couple of years, many cases of brutal honour killings have been reported from the national capital, Delhi, too.
On Sunday, two widows were bludgeoned to death in a Haryana village by a man who accused them of being in a lesbian relationship.
The 23-year-old killer was the nephew of one of the women. He was on parole, having served a sentence for rape.
He said he had killed the women to protect his "family's honour". He has been arrested. | India's Supreme Court has told states to "ruthlessly stamp out" the so-called honour killings. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | From the summer, the site will guarantee the speedy delivery of 20 million products from certain sellers who currently meet delivery promises.
If items don't arrive on time, eBay will refund shipping or give shoppers a voucher if delivery was free.
One analyst questioned whether the move would appeal to eBay customers.
"It comes as something of a surprise," said Bryan Roberts, a retail analyst at TCC Global.
"Quite a lot of what is purchased through eBay is discretionary, it's not usually urgent health or food products, for example."
Another new feature will allow buyers to filter products that will arrive even more quickly - within one or two days' time - when browsing the site.
EBay currently relies on millions of sellers - from individuals to larger businesses - to organise deliveries.
"There are so many great sellers on eBay delivering an incredible shipping experience where they deliver in two days, and even next day, so the ability to highlight Guaranteed Delivery will further increase customer confidence and satisfaction," said Brett Thome, who runs VMInnovations, which sells products via eBay.
The new move depended on sellers being able to stick to the promised delivery times, said Mr Roberts.
"It does involve them putting a bit of faith in their vendors," he told the BBC, "but it could pay off for eBay and enhance their position."
The site has experimented with fast delivery promises before, with varying success.
In 2015, it ended a pilot programme in the US called eBay Now that offered one-hour local deliveries in certain cities. | Online retailer eBay has promised to get items to US shoppers in three days or less with a new programme called "Guaranteed Delivery". |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Around 50,000 people arrived in Greece in July alone, the organisation says.
Greece's leader said the country was unable to cope, and called for EU help.
Separately, Italian police arrested five suspected traffickers over the deaths of about 200 people after a migrant boat sank on Wednesday.
They included two Libyans, two Algerians and a Tunisian, held on suspicion of multiple murder and people trafficking.
Survivors have said that traffickers used knives to slash the heads of African migrants and belts to thrash Arabs to keep them in the hull.
In other developments:
The UNHCR says nearly all new arrivals in Greece are refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The organisation's European Director, Vincent Cochetel, said facilities for the refugees on the Greek islands were "totally inadequate", after more migrants arrived in Greece in July 2015 than in the whole of the previous year.
Greece's EU partners must do more to ease the burden, he said, but Greece must "lead and co-ordinate".
"On most of the islands there is no reception capacity, people are not sleeping under any form of roof. So it's total chaos on the islands.
"After a couple of days they are transferred to Athens, there is nothing waiting for them in Athens," he complained.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the problem "surpasses" Greece's abilities, and that his country's economic problems meant it was facing a humanitarian "crisis within a crisis".
Save the Children says refugee children are at risk of exploitation and disease in Greece because of the lack of facilities.
"The risk to a child forced to sleep on the street of being abused, or of a baby dying of heatstroke, is very real," said Kitty Arie from the charity.
"This is Europe in 2015. We can't leave these children in this desperate situation."
Separately, another UNHCR official described conditions at Austria's main reception camp, 20km (12 miles) south of Vienna, as "intolerable, dangerous and inhumane".
About 4,500 people are at the camp, which was built to house 1,800. Many are now sleeping in the open.
Most arrived in Austria via neighbouring Hungary - both EU member states and both in the border-free Schengen zone, where passports are generally not checked.
EU border agency Frontex says it has not received enough pledges of assets from EU states to help Greece and Hungary with the current influx of migrants.
Meanwhile, the EU is struggling to cope with the thousands of migrants heading for Italy aboard unseaworthy vessels from Libya, where people traffickers are charging huge sums to smuggle them into Europe.
On Thursday, Irish navy ship LÉ Niamh docked in Sicily with 367 migrants - mostly Syrians - who were rescued from Wednesday's sinking. | The refugee crisis on the Greek islands of Kos, Chios and Lesbos is "total chaos", the UN refugee agency UNHCR says, with inadequate accommodation, water and sanitation. |
Give a short summary of the provided document. | The attack happened on the top deck of the 57 bus as it left the Silverburn shopping centre in Pollok, Glasgow, at about 22:30 last Friday night.
The 14-year-old sat downstairs with a friend but then moved to the upper deck where she was assaulted and raped by two men.
Police have appealed for other passengers to come forward.
Bus operator First Glasgow said the driver was unaware of the assault but ejected the two men involved later in the journey due to separate unruly behaviour.
Detectives said the girl engaged in conversation with two men who had boarded the bus in the city centre.
Her friend, also 14, went up to see her and raised the alarm with passengers downstairs.
'Frightening experience'
A woman and two men came to the girls' aid. They all left the bus two stops along from Silverburn.
The passengers are said to have waited with the girls until they got another bus home, thought to be in the Darnley area of the city, where police were contacted.
No CCTV footage is available from the bus.
Both of the attackers are said to be aged around 18 to 20.
One is about 5ft 10in, with a shaved head and wearing a black jumper.
The other man has brown, spiky hair and was wearing a tracksuit which may have been grey, with a body warmer or jacket.
Det Con Jackie Carroll of Strathclyde Police said: "This was a very frightening experience for the young girl concerned, and thankfully she was assisted by her friend and the Good Samaritans on the bus who ensured she got home safely.
"She has been left traumatised by her ordeal.
"We're continuing extensive enquiries into the incident, and would like to trace two men and woman who came to her assistance, as they will have vital information which could help with our investigation."
Police said the two men were very loud and using crude and lewd comments to other passengers.
The bus driver ejected them at Pollokshaws Road, near to the park, at about around 00:30 hours.
A spokesman for bus operator First Glasgow said: "Our thoughts are very much with the victim of the assault."
"We are assisting the police with their investigation and would echo their appeal for anyone to come forward who may have information about the incident."
He added: "Our driver was not aware of the assault. Unfortunately, the incident took place on the top deck of the bus and therefore out of our driver's eyeline and no-one on board approached our driver to report a disturbance.
"The driver ejected the two males in question sometime later in the journey - this was due to separate unruly behaviour."
A pilot of The Bastard Executioner was filmed at Pinewood studios near Cardiff but the full production is set to be shot at Dragon studios near Pencoed.
This is because the remake of cult film The Crow starts at Pinewood in July.
The series stars Lee Jones as a 14th Century knight turned executioner during the reign of Edward III.
It is set against a background of Welsh rebellion.
The cast will include a guest appearance by Matthew Rhys.
Series creator Kurt Sutter - also behind the series Sons of Anarchy - said: "I love history. I love theology. I love blood. It's been very satisfying weaving fact and fiction to create a new mythology that combines all these elements."
Dragon at Llanilid in Rhondda Cynon Taff, which was once nicknamed Valleywood, was behind the 2011 medieval adventure film Ironclad. | Investigations are continuing after a teenage girl was raped by two men on a double decker bus in Glasgow.
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A 10-part medieval drama series is to be filmed in south Wales after being commissioned by US cable network FX. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The case has been raised by four of his constituents in Orkney and Shetland.
They argue he misled the electorate over a memo claiming SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon would rather have seen David Cameron become prime minister.
The case is due in court next month with more than £60,000 already raised but now more is being sought.
Mr Carmichael had initially denied leaking the confidential memo to the Daily Telegraph.
He said that the first he had heard of it was when he received a phone call from a journalist.
The MP later admitted full responsibility for sanctioning its release, and accepted that the "details of the account are not correct".
The official cabinet office inquiry into the leaking of the memo found that Mr Carmichael had given permission to his former special adviser Euan Roddin to hand details of the memo to the newspaper.
Campaigners raised £60,000 in crowd-funding to lodge the legal challenge to his election under the Representation of the People Act 1983.
Several women held a silent protest in red robes and white bonnets - like the characters in the dystopian novel and TV series where fertile women are captured and forced to have children.
The proposed state legislation would ban a method of abortion commonly carried out in the second trimester.
Critics call the bill unconstitutional.
Senate Bill 145 is sponsored by members of Ohio's Republican party who say they want to end what they describe as inhumane and brutal dismemberment abortions.
The bill makes an exception where the mother's life is in danger.
However, opponents say the ban against dilation and evacuation is an attempt to block access to a common and safe abortion method.
They also argue it would particularly affect women who already struggle to obtain access to an abortion.
The Handmaid's Tale has inspired several protests against anti-abortion bills this year, including in Texas and Missouri.
The novel, by Margaret Atwood, is set in a future, dystopian America, where a violent dictatorship has been imposed and women have been stripped of all their rights.
In the novel, much of the population has become sterile, so the few remaining fertile women are captured and given to society's highest-ranking men as "handmaids", to bear the children.
Speaking to the BBC in October, Atwood said the book still had resonance, and had become a meme, because "the religious right in the United States has not faded away".
Trump's order on abortion policy: What does it mean?
US abortion debate: Both sides speak
Anti-abortion activists have been energised by the Republicans gaining control over the White House and Senate in November's election.
President Trump has in the past expressed support for a woman's right to have an abortion, but during the campaign announced that his views on the subject "have evolved".
He told an interviewer that he favoured "some form of punishment" for women who have abortions, but changed his position only hours later to say only the person performing the abortion should be punished.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists study follows concerns about the safety of women and babies at units in Cumbria and North Lancashire.
The report urges the retention of four consultant-led units at Carlisle, Whitehaven, Barrow and Lancaster.
But it also acknowledges investment in staff and resources is required.
The report was commissioned by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in Cumbria and North Lancashire and comes in the wake of criticism of some maternity services
Dr David Rogers, medical director of NHS Cumbria CCG, said: "We know how important maternity services are for the local population and the preferred option is consistent with our intentions.
"However, these services need to be high quality, safe and sustainable and there is much work that needs to be done with both trusts to overcome the significant challenges that they face."
Dr Jeremy Rushmer, medical director at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, added: "We have been very clear about our concerns relating to the sustainability of maternity services and these concerns are clearly reflected within this report.
"This, alongside concerns raised by the chief inspector of hospitals last year, instigated this independent review process.
"We will now discuss the recommendations with our board and staff to understand their views." | The team behind the campaign to overturn the election of Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has launched a second appeal for funding.
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Activists in the US state of Ohio have been inspired by The Handmaid's Tale in their protest against a bill placing more restrictions on abortion.
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A new report into the future of maternity services in Cumbria has stressed the need for consultants, rather than midwives, to be in charge. |
Write a summary for this information. | Ward, 21, has played four games this season for Albion's under-21 side in the EFL Trophy.
The former Chelmsford City player will be eligible for Lincoln's FA Trophy tie at Gateshead on Saturday, but not the FA Cup replay against Ipswich Town.
He would also be ineligible should Lincoln progress to meet Albion in the fourth round.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | Lincoln City have signed Brighton & Hove Albion winger Joe Ward on a one-month loan deal. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | NHS Lothian said the campaign was part of a major work programme to ensure the sustainability of the paediatric ward at St John's Hospital in Livingston.
The health board is seeking to recruit eight consultants as well as advanced paediatric nurse practitioners.
They will work at St John's and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
A question mark had hung over the future of the paediatric ward at St John's after two temporary closures to new inpatients resulted in NHS Lothian commissioning an independent examination of services.
The expert review by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) concluded inpatient children's services should be retained at St John's and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.
It recommended St John's move to a system that would involve consultants being resident in the hospital overnight, with each consultant required to do occasional overnight shifts, backed up by on-call consultant staff at home.
The model has already been put in place at other hospitals across the UK and was expected to take an estimated two years to implement in full.
In the interim, RCPCH proposed St John's operate a 24-hour "low acuity" unit which does not admit children between 20:00 and 08:00 when consultants are not there.
However, NHS Lothian said a working group set up to take forward the report's recommendations had proposed the preferred resident consultant system be implemented using the existing workforce from next month.
Jim Crombie, acting chief executive, said: "This is clear evidence of NHS Lothian's commitment to sustaining safe paediatrics services at St John's Hospital.
"This has been achieved by a huge effort by the clinical teams across paediatrics, but especially at St John's Hospital." | A recruitment drive has been launched to boost the workforce at a children's ward in West Lothian previously closed as a result of staff shortages. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | The 26-year-old made 35 appearances in the top flight for Angers last term, having previously played for Le Havre, Clermont and Olympique de Valence.
"I hope to play many matches and help the club to the Premier League as soon as possible," he told the club website.
The Championship club have added 10 new first-team players this summer.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
The Typhoons and six Polish jets will take over from a US squadron to patrol the alliance's eastern flanks.
The long-standing rotation of Nato military jets in Lithuania has recently been stepped up in response to rising tensions with Russia over Ukraine.
The UK government said the move would provide reassurance to Nato allies.
The Typhoons will leave their base at RAF Coningsby on Monday morning and be joined by more than 100 RAF support staff in Lithuania.
Only last week Typhoons based at RAF Leuchars in Fife intercepted two Russian bombers flying in international airspace off Scotland.
The jets were sent to investigate the Russian planes which are understood to have turned away shortly afterwards.
The MoD said fighter planes were scrambled to similar incidents eight times last year.
The Typhoons' role over the Baltic states, which rely on Nato for fast jet support, will be similar.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the RAF fighters would provide reassurance to Nato allies at a time of heightened concern about Russia whose jets, the Pentagon has said, have already encroached into Ukraine's airspace.
Last month, Mr Hammond told the Commons that the status of Ukraine was "quite different" from that of Nato countries.
He said: "Nato countries enjoy the Article 5 guarantee which protects and assures their security, but we are doing everything we can to reassure our Nato allies about the protection we offer."
"I am able to advise the House we have taken the decision to offer to Nato UK Typhoon aircraft to augment the Polish contribution to the Nato Baltic air policing mission."
Later this week about 100 British troops will travel to Estonia to take part in a multi-national military exercise.
The Ministry of Defence said this had been planned for some time.
In Ukraine, pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country have released one of a team of eight European monitors seized in the flashpoint city of Sloviansk.
The officer, a Swede, was freed on medical grounds, it has been confirmed.
The monitors were shown to the media on Sunday - a move described as "revolting" by Germany, the native country of four of the team.
The remaining seven are still being held and diplomacy continues to try to secure their freedom. | Wolverhampton Wanderers have signed Morocco midfielder Romain Saiss on a four-year deal from French Ligue 1 club Angers for an undisclosed fee.
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Four RAF Typhoons will leave their base in Lincolnshire later for Lithuania to help carry out Nato's air policing role of the Baltic states. |
Summarize the provided section. | The man, named only as Jakub F, was told he would be spared having to pay hefty damages as long as a film denouncing piracy he was made to produce got 200,000 views.
He reached his target within days, and now has over 400,000 hits on YouTube.
He came to the out-of-court settlement with a host of firms whose software he pirated after being convicted by a Czech court.
In return, they agreed not to sue him.
The 30-year-old was also given a three-year suspended sentence.
The criminal court decided that any financial penalty would have to be decided either in civil proceedings or out of court.
The firms, which included Microsoft, HBO Europe, Sony Music and 20th Century Fox, estimated that the financial damage amounted to thousands of pounds, with Microsoft alone valuing its losses at 5.7m Czech Crowns (£148,000).
But the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represented Microsoft, acknowledged that Jakub could not pay that sum.
Instead, the companies said they would be happy to receive only a small payment and his co-operation in the production of the video.
In order for the firms' promise not to sue to be valid, they said, the video would have to be viewed at least 200,000 times within two months of its publication this week. A spokesman for the BSA told the BBC that the stipulation was to ensure that Jakub would help share it as widely as possible.
But, if the video had not reached the target, the spokesman said that - "in theory" - the firms would have grounds to bring a civil case for damages.
A Czech public relations firm, working for the BSA, set up a website in Jakub's name to host the video. A message from Jakub on the site, written in Czech, read: "I thought I was not doing anything wrong. I thought it did not hurt the big companies… I was convinced that I was too small a fish."
In the video, Jakub, who, the BSA accepted, did not pirate the software for financial gain, warned other small-time pirates they too could be caught. Jakub reportedly put copies of Microsoft Windows 7 and 8, as well as other content, on filesharing sites.
The film, in which Jakub plays himself, has so far been watched more than 400,000 times.
The video - The Story of my Piracy - is, the message reads, a faithful depiction of how Jakub initially enjoyed pirating the software, before being tracked down and receiving a visit from the police. | A convicted software pirate has been handed an unusual punishment. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | The 25-year-old injured her foot in March, ending her hopes of defending the ITU World Championships title she won in 2013.
But while her running has been affected Stanford has still been able to train normally on the bike and in the pool.
"I'm still coming back from that injury," Stanford said.
"We're really working towards being fit and ready for Glasgow and not much before that.
My mother has been involved in the Commonwealth Games in the past, so I'm really excited to go and finally represent Wales
"It's dragged on a bit longer than I'd hoped but... it's all part of the challenge and I've got the best medical team around me, the same team that got [London 2012 gold medal winner] Alistair Brownlee on his feet and ready for the Olympics.
"Hopefully we'll get it right and I'll be all guns blazing in Glasgow.
"It really limits the amount of running I can do; it's a foot injury so it does mean my running has to be very graded and we're really being cautious around it.
"But I've been able to ride and swim now for a while and I'm feeling really strong in both of them, so hopefully the running will come back quickly because I'm pretty fit anyway."
Stanford will form a strong Wales women's team with 2011 world champion Helen Jenkins and Holly Lawrence, who was preferred by the selectors to Ironman world champion Leanda Cave.
Morgan Davies, Liam Lloyd and Alex Matchett make up the men's team for Glasgow 2014.
Stanford revealed that her inclusion to compete at a Commonwealth Games will fulfil one of her childhood dreams.
"It's been a life-long ambition to represent Wales at the Commonwealth Games - it came on to my radar long before the Olympics and when I was a child it was my first memory of a major sporting event," Stanford said.
"My mother has been involved in the Commonwealth Games in the past, so I'm really excited to go and finally represent Wales.
"My mum was involved in gymnastics as I was growing up and she coached the Welsh gymnasts and was one of the judges that went along as part of Team Wales to Kuala Lumpur [1998 Games].
"I can remember her going and being really excited and it'll be great now to be part of that myself."
In the centre of Buenos Aires, there is a theme park named Tierra Santa (Holy Land) that claims to be the first religious theme park in the world.
Tierra Santa attempts to replicate the streets of Jerusalem during Jesus' time.
Visitors walk around the narrow streets that are full of plastic palm trees, statues and actors recreating crucial scenes from Jesus' life.
Long queues of families, tourists and young couples stand at the entrance.
Many of them are come from all over Argentina, but it is not uncommon to spot foreigners.
The park is almost a pilgrimage site for some visitors, with its unique mix of religious reverence and kitschy entertainment.
The main attraction of the amusement park is a 60ft (18m) high mechanical statue of Jesus that rises up once an hour from a plaster replica of the Golgotha mountaintop.
The event is accompanied by a loud chorus from Handel's Messiah.
When the giant Jesus has completed his ascent, he swivels, closes his eyes and rotates the palms of his hands, provoking great emotion in the visitors at the bottom of the mountain.
The staff of the park are all dressed in costume inspired by Jesus' era.
Visitors can take pictures next to security guards dressed as ancient Romans or buy a waffle from a Middle Eastern inspired cafe.
The only reminders of modern life come from above: the park is situated right next to Jorge Newbery Airport, and a plane flies over the plastic palm trees every few minutes. | Wales triathlete Non Stanford admits her build-up for the 2014 Commonwealth Games is still being hampered by a long-term injury.
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Summarize the information given below. | Instead, from 1st October, 6,500 former branch workers will become known as "community bankers".
Barclays said customers now do most basic transactions digitally, but need to go to a branch for more "in depth" conversations.
The staff will receive an average pay rise of 2.8%, to reflect their promotion.
"We know that really helping customers requires a lot of valuable people skills, and this change is about investing in our workforce," said Steven Cooper, the chief executive of Barclays Personal Banking.
Barclays closed 33 branches around the UK last year, and it is expected to further reduce its network of 1560 branches in the years ahead.
In May this year it announced 9,000 job cuts in its UK banking operations. | The age-old role of bank cashier is to be abolished by Barclays Bank. |
Summarize the provided section. | Whenever I travel abroad, I feel duty-bound to dispel a few myths and preconceptions about my homeland.
Over the years, one of the most common - especially among those from more tropical climes - is that of a snow-smothered Scotland.
"That's the Highlands," I will generally say. "Down in the south, it is mostly rain."
In a lifetime spent in Dumfries and Galloway, that has usually been the case.
But, on one day exactly 20 years ago, I was proved wrong in quite dramatic fashion.
The snows started steadily on the morning of Monday 5 February 1996.
"It'll no lie," we said confidently. "It'll all be melted by the morning."
History had shown us to be correct in those statements but this time the snow just kept coming and quickly settled across much of the region.
At my place of work at the time, on the local newspaper in Dumfries, it gradually dawned on us that things might be a little different this time around.
Those living furthest from the town were allowed to escape earliest but my own home was barely a mile from the office.
But even that short distance proved one of the trickiest journeys I can ever recall. I abandoned my car at the end of the road, unable to make progress through a wall of snow.
By afternoon, road travel was impossible in much of the region and even when snow ploughs could clear a route it quickly became blocked by abandoned vehicles.
There was a first report of a bus carrying 40 passengers getting stuck in the snow and emergency rest centres were opened.
At their peak, they accommodated about 2,500 people - many of them passing through the region on the A74(M).
The snowfalls were the first real test of the Dumfries and Galloway's Major Emergency Scheme.
A council report on the events of the time said the region was "effectively cut off from the outside world".
At the height of the problems 12,000 properties, including some of the emergency centres themselves, were without power.
The Met Office said the 50cm (20in) recorded at its Eskdalemuir observatory was the deepest level it had ever recorded in February.
It is small fry, of course, compared with some of the major falls seen elsewhere.
Nonetheless, it caused significant disruption and eventually, the army was called in to help get to the most vulnerable people and start with clean-up operations.
It gave the region an eerily quiet air for a couple of days as most people had to give up on cars and resort to travelling on foot.
Trudging through the snow - particularly on the first day after the falls - took particular effort with significant drifts in many places.
Yet there was a certain camaraderie among those who did venture out.
Complete strangers stopped you to talk about the weather conditions - so unusual for this sheltered corner of Scotland.
There were fears, in the immediate aftermath, of further blizzards but they were fortunately blown further north and the feared impact of the thaw was mitigated by it being much slower than anticipated.
As a council report put it: "Slowly the region got back to normal after five days of severe disruption."
And I had to revise my version of how little snow we saw in Dumfries and Galloway.
Were you in Dumfries and Galloway during the heavy snowfall of February 1996? What are your memories of the day? Do you have images from the time? Share them with us by [email protected]. | Twenty years ago Dumfries and Galloway experienced its deepest February snowfall on record. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | Warnock, 67, succeeded Paul Trollope as Bluebirds manager in October.
He held talks with Nottingham Forest and Blackburn but chose Cardiff after speaking to his wife Sharon, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year.
"She's had her chemotherapy and her hair's growing back, and she said: 'Look, another club will do me - you can have one more'," said Warnock.
"I did talk to Forest and Blackburn and one or two others and for whatever reason they never came to fruition.
"Cardiff has always been my kind of club. It just seemed right.
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"I just thought it's my cup of tea. The fans like blood and thunder and I thought what another great opportunity for me."
Before joining Cardiff, Warnock had been out of work since the end of the 2015-16 season after helping Rotherham avoid relegation from the Championship.
The former Sheffield United and QPR manager believes he can win promotion with Cardiff, even though they are second from bottom in the table.
Warnock has made former QPR winger Junior Hoilett his first signing at Cardiff, and he hopes to make further additions to the squad.
Striker Marouane Chamakh and centre-back Sol Bamba - both free agents - have had medicals with the Bluebirds.
Former Aston Villa and Manchester United winger-come-defender Kieran Richardson has also been linked with the club.
Warnock told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "I wouldn't write off two or three players [as well as Hoilett] joining us." | Neil Warnock has revealed how a conversation with his wife helped him decide to take charge of Cardiff City. |
What is the summary of the provided article? | A few days ago, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) sent out a press release stating: "Latest statistics for Government-sponsored museums show two million more visits were made than previous year."
Its statistics reveal that 49 million visits were made in 2013/14 to the 16 national galleries and museums the DCMS directly funds, which represents a 4% increase on the previous year, and a record high since the data was first published in 2002/03.
On the face of it, the figures appear to confirm a continuation of the upward trajectory in visitor numbers that its sponsored institutions have enjoyed for over a decade.
But look beneath the surface and a slightly different picture emerges. Much of the boom in attendance is actually being driven by overseas tourists, with domestic visitors generally growing at a much slower rate.
And, in the case of The National Gallery and The Tate Galleries, UK visits have actually dropped by a conspicuous 20% since 2008/09.
The Tate has lost around a million domestic visitors in the last six years, dropping from a high of 4.5 million in 2008/09 to 3.55 million last year.
The National Gallery has seen its domestic visits fall by more than half a million, from 2.9 million in 08/09 to 2.3 million last year.
Neither institution was able to identify the reason for the drop, nor appeared aware of the fact it had occurred when questioned by the BBC.
Having given the matter some thought, the Tate said its figures fluctuate and that it was unable to account for the high number of domestic visitors six years ago.
The gallery said its overall audience had fallen and along with it the number of domestic visitors it receives. However, the Tate accepts that UK visitors now account for only 50% of its total audience, whereas they represented 60% when the overall figure was higher.
Why, though, is it that only the fine art institutions are seeing this marked fall, while The British Museum, V&A and Natural History Museum are enjoying increases in both domestic and overseas visitors?
The National Gallery thought it could be to do with the UK's "event" culture, whereby the British public will only appear for major exhibitions, which they have to pay for, as opposed to visiting their permanent collections for free.
If that is indeed the case, perhaps one reason might be the amount of money the institutions' marketing departments spend promoting special exhibitions that come with a ticket price attached, compared with the budget to advertise the free-to-view collections.
I went to the British Museum to ask some of its UK-based visitors why they had chosen to go there instead of either the National Gallery or Tate.
I was told by nearly all of those to whom I spoke that the British Museum was a more accessible, child-friendly museum, which had a collection that told a rich historical story and related directly to the school curriculum.
What can the National Gallery and the Tate do to regain those hundreds of thousands of domestic visitors that they have lost?
No doubt they will come up with a plan - part of which could be a commitment to make it a priority to remind us all about the world-class art they hold on our behalf, and which is available for us to see for free seven days a week.
Update: 9 March, 2015: The DCMS says it has made "changes and improvements" to the way it counts visitors to UK art galleries. As a result, it says, the number of UK visitors may have been "over-estimated" in the 2008/09 figures. | Two of London's most prestigious fine art galleries have seen UK visitor numbers fall significantly over the last five years, official figures show. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | Vote Leave has removed the Carphone Warehouse co-founder, David Ross, and John Caudwell - who started Phones 4U - from the list published on Saturday.
A spokesman said Mr Ross's name was included in error and apologised.
He said Mr Caudwell had supported the campaign in the past, though he had not put himself forward for the list.
The Vote Leave spokesman added: "Mr Caudwell has been listed as a supporter of the campaign since he signed up in October last year.
"He has not told us that he no longer supports us but we have removed him from the list."
Other signatories include former HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan, JD Wetherspoon pub boss Tim Martin, hotelier Sir Rocco Forte and Luke Johnson - chairman of continental-style cafe chain Patisserie Valerie.
A referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU will be held on 23 June.
The announcement of business leaders supporting the UK's EU exit came after bosses of 36 of the largest listed companies in Britain signed a letter urging voters to remain in the EU last month.
Vote Leave also announced that its business council would be chaired by John Longworth, who resigned his role as director general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) earlier this month. | Campaigners have apologised after wrongly including the names of two business leaders among 250 signatories to a letter backing exit from the EU. |
Please summarize the following text. | 5 February 2016 Last updated at 13:44 GMT
Nicholas Churchill, 40, of Brandon, Suffolk, stole the truck near Norwich and led police on chase down the A11 to Brandon, lasting two hours in July 2015.
He caused damage totalling £50,000, with two police cars being written-off and a third damaged.
Churchill was jailed for 14 months at Norwich Crown Court after admitting aggravated vehicle-taking and dangerous driving, and driving while unfit through drugs.
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Mr Burley was sacked as a ministerial aide in 2011 after he bought a Nazi uniform for the groom to wear during a trip to a French ski resort.
The MP apologised, but the Tories said his actions had been "unacceptable" and he had caused "deep offence".
Mr Burley will not contest the marginal Cannock Chase seat he won in 2010.
In a statement, Mr Burley said he was "proud" of his record as an MP but had faced a "difficult time" in recent years and would not be standing again for Parliament.
An internal report by the Conservative Party criticised Mr Burley's actions during the stag party, which he helped to organise as best man.
The report said there had been a Nazi-themed toast during the event.
Some of those present also reportedly chanted the names of prominent Nazi figures.
While the inquiry accepted that Mr Burley had found the toast "deeply offensive", and had not been present during any Nazi-themed chanting, it said he had not made his objections "explicitly clear".
The report said the MP was not a racist or anti-Semite, but his actions had been "stupid" and it had been right to remove him from his junior government position.
Conservative chairman Grant Shapps said Mr Burley - who will continue as an MP until May 2015 - had served his constituents "with dedication and commitment", and he wished him luck in the future.
Labour said Mr Burley had done the right thing, claiming his actions had made his position "untenable".
"It shows huge weakness that David Cameron wasn't prepared to take action against his disgraced MP," shadow minister Jon Ashworth said.
Mr Burley was elected with a 3,195 majority. The seat is one of Labour's main targets at the general election next year, having held it between 1992 and 2010.
His decision to stand down comes just days after two other Conservative MPs - Anne McIntosh and Tim Yeo - were deselected by their constituency parties. | Police have released footage showing a man on a 30-mile (48km) dumper truck rampage through Norfolk and Suffolk.
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Conservative MP Aidan Burley, who was at the centre of a row over a Nazi-themed stag party, is to step down from Parliament next year. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | The boa constrictor - a species known for holding its prey in a lethal grip - went missing from a house in Kells, Whitehaven, on Friday evening.
Cumbria Police said the household pet made off after being left unattended while being cleaned.
A spokesman said the animal did not pose an immediate risk, but urged people not to approach it.
Boa constrictors are commonly found in tropical forests in South America.
They are from the family of constricting snakes, which kill their prey through asphyxiation and can grow to more than 9ft (2.7 metres) long.
Anyone who sees the snake has been urged to contact the police.
Home Office statistics show there were 22 arrests at Imps games between September 2014 and September 2015.
All were home fixtures, and 14 alone were made at a pre-season friendly against Doncaster Rovers.
Lincoln play in the National League - the fifth tier of English football.
Out of 12 banning orders issued in the same period, eight also came after the Doncaster game.
Andy Pearson, football liaison officer for Lincolnshire Police, blamed the fixture for making the figures look much worse.
He said: "Although the 22 arrests top the figures for the National League - disorder has actually been reduced by about 25% compared with the previous year.
"Most of the time it is a safe environment."
Alex Matthews, who has had a Lincoln City season ticket for 16 seasons, said: "In the past Lincoln have had a poor reputation but it's not as bad as it once was.
"There seem to be less examples of disorder caused by Lincoln fans, especially since relegation in 2011."
Police arrested 11 men on suspicion of violent disorder following a game against Boreham Wood in September.
"I think education is key in tackling the problem," said PC Pearson.
"There is a lot of peer pressure - young people getting influenced by friends."
He added that all involved with Lincoln City were working extremely hard to ensure fans from all clubs could enjoy trouble-free match days in the city.
Bristol Rovers, who were promoted from the Conference to League Two, topped the league for banning orders, with 30 issued during the 2014/15 season.
Chester FC were second for the number of arrests, with 19 during the season.
The 22-year-old joined Chelsea from Porto in September 2013 but was immediately loaned to Dutch side Vitesse Arnhem for the 2013-14 season.
Everton boss Roberto Martinez said: "He's a player who fits in with the culture and the way we want to play.
"He's a very gifted technical footballer and he's got the right personality and character to fit in."
Atsu, who started all three of Ghana's games during the World Cup finals in Brazil this summer, is Everton's fourth signing of the summer and is available to face Leicester on Saturday.
The Toffees spent a club record £28m on striker Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea, signed Gareth Barry on a free transfer from Manchester City and brought in Muhamed Besic from Ferencvaros. | An 8ft (2.4 metre) snake is on the loose in Cumbria after escaping from its owners' home .
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Everton have signed Chelsea's Ghana winger Christian Atsu on a season-long loan deal. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Midfielder Ben Thompson and forward Lee Gregory are both rated as 50-50.
Goal-shy Leicester have problems up front as record signing Islam Slimani, who has six goals in 18 games, misses the trip with a groin problem.
Leonardo Ulloa is also likely to be unavailable due to a thigh injury as manager Claudio Ranieri prepares to make wholesale changes.
Guy Mowbray: "The last time Millwall faced the previous season's Premier League champions was in the 2004 FA Cup final. By then, Manchester United had already lost their crown (to Arsenal's 'Invincibles') but they were never in any danger of losing to the Lions.
"Leicester could be - and manager Claudio Ranieri knows it to the extent of labelling his side 'underdogs' in the tie. Yes, really. The boss of the champions of England has hinted that they're second favourites against a team from the third tier - albeit one in flying form with a fireproof defence.
"Clever reverse psychology to get his much-changed team up for the test, or just muddled thinking that sums up the Foxes' current mess?"
Twitter: @Guymowbray
Millwall manager Neil Harris: "The team spirit is excellent and individually and collectively we are playing really well.
"This is a huge game for us, the players and the fans are really looking forward to it but I will admit that my mind has already turned to Chesterfield on Tuesday."
Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri: "Our target is the Premier League - that is it. Of course we play in the FA Cup and Champions League and we want to do our best, but our aim is to be safe at the end. The goal is the Premier League.
"I want to give another opportunity to the players who played against Derby for them to show how good they are.
"Believe me, I don't think about Sevilla (in the first leg of the Champions League last-16 tie on Wednesday), I think about Millwall."
Leicester are in a serious mess if they can't go away to Millwall and avoid defeat at the very least.
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Write a brief summary of the provided content. | "Urgent" action is needed to end the variations in the quality of help for vulnerable children in England, the Public Accounts Committee says.
The MPs called for the publication of detailed plans to transform child protection services.
The government says it has a relentless focus on keeping children safe.
The MPs said progress had been "too slow" in the five-and-a-half years since a government-commissioned review, the Munro Report, called for a major overhaul of the system.
Professor Eileen Munro was commissioned by then Education Secretary Michael Gove to conduct a review of child protection services.
Her 2011 report called for social workers to be freed from excessive bureaucracy, centrally imposed targets and regulations so that they could spend more time on face-to-face work with families and at-risk youngsters.
Ministers said at the time that they were adopting Prof Munro's principles for the service, but according to the PAC, the government still had "no credible plan to improve services and grow a quality social workforce".
Less than a quarter of services were rated "good" by Ofsted, it said, which the committee described as "by no standards" an improvement.
The PAC called on the DfE to "set out detailed plans, including a timetable and resources, for how it will work with local authorities to transform services".
Ministers needed to explain how they would ensure that all children have equal access to high-quality services, and how they will attract more "high-calibre people" to social work, said the report.
And it called for more resources for Ofsted to conduct quality checks, and greater readiness to intervene to nip local problems in the bud.
Committee chair Meg Hillier said it was "completely unacceptable" that so little progress in the past five years, adding improvements were "woefully overdue".
"Government complacency over improving children's services must end now," said Ms Hillier.
"There are nearly 800,000 children in need of help or protection every year - children who for far too long have been let down by the support available."
The government's target of 2020 to transform the system "better serves Whitehall than it does vulnerable young people in need of help", said Ms Hillier.
She called on the the Department for Education to provide the committee with clear plans to drive improvement.
A DfE spokesman said it had a relentless focus on keeping children safe, and it was wrong to suggest otherwise.
"This year we published plans to deliver excellent children's social care across the country, and through new legislation are further strengthening protection for the most vulnerable children and transforming the support available to them.
"We take tough action where councils are failing children, stepping in to make sure improvement plans are taken forward as a matter of urgency."
He added that councils had increased spending on children's social care by around £850m since 2010-11, to nearly £7bn last year.
It added that the Children and Social Work Bill, currently going through Parliament, would strengthen protections for vulnerable children and improve support for looked after and formerly looked after children in schools.
And local authorities would be enabled to develop new and better ways of delivering children's services through the innovation programme.
But the Local Government Association said children's services were handling 65% more initial contacts in recent years - up from 1.2m in 2007 to 2m in 2013-14.
Councillor Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said: "The number of children on child protection plans has increased by more than 60% during the same period.
"But local authorities have faced significant funding reductions over this same period, and with such a big rise in demand for services, it's vital that local authorities have the resources they need to keep children and young people safe."
"Child protection reform and improvement support have been largely removed from local government in recent years and increasingly centralised within Whitehall instead," he added. | Children are being left "at risk of harm" because of the government's failure to develop "credible" plans to improve child protection, MPs warn. |
Summarize the provided section. | The 26-year-old American made the sign before finishing third behind Britain's Mo Farah and Ethiopia's gold medallist Muktar Edris.
"I meant [by the gesture] Mo has to have a hard time. We have to make sure he goes down," Chelimo told BBC Sport.
"If we work really hard and try to beat Mo - it makes it fun."
Farah, who won 10,000m gold at the London event, missed out on a fifth global championships distance double in a row before he switches his focus to marathons.
Kenya-born Chelimo, who described himself as "the future of distance running", added: "I really wanted to beat Mo but I didn't have enough in me but just a medal is enough.
"Mo Farah is a great guy. All these years I have been working hard to beat Mo and if there is always someone like that then that makes you work really hard. It tells you that Mo is a really strong guy."
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Race winner Edris, 23, did the 'mobot' - a move made famous by Farah - after crossing the finishing line.
Farah, who will make his final track appearance at the 5,000m Diamond League final in Zurich on 24 August, played down suggestions Edris was directing a taunt his way.
"These guys all respect me and the reason why he did that is they respect me for what I've done for the sport," said the 34-year-old.
Edris, who had lost his five previous races against Farah, said: "Mo has many victories but now I have one. I am the new champion for Ethiopia. That's why I did the mobot. I am the next champion.
"I have won the gold in front of his home crowd. I didn't have much support but we did it. I did the mobot out of respect as well for him."
Media playback is not supported on this device | Bronze medallist Paul Chelimo has defended his cut-throat gesture at the start of the World Championships 5,000m in London. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) made the "urgent" request and described the number of salmon in Welsh rivers as "cause for serious concern".
Habitat damage, pollution and illegal exploitation have put additional pressures on fish stocks, it said.
Dave Mee, senior fisheries advisor for NRW, said the survival of salmon at sea was at an "historic low".
He added: "Most anglers are already voluntarily releasing the fish they catch but we feel the situation is now so serious for salmon that we must ask all anglers to release all of their salmon.
"Anglers releasing their fish is one of the most effective way to help safeguard our stocks by allowing more fish to survive and spawn."
An annual assessment of fish stocks in 2016 showed all but two - the Severn and Usk - of the 23 salmon rivers in Wales were "at risk" or "probably at risk". | Anglers in Wales have been asked to release all the salmon they catch in a bid to conserve fish stocks. |
Summarize the provided section. | The 39-year-old woman suffered head injuries in the fall in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, last April.
Swindon Magistrates' Court heard she stepped on to a wooden board placed over the well which gave way.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Strakers had been warned about the well and the board being unsafe.
The woman suffered concussion in the fall, and was submerged in water in the well for an hour before being rescued.
The court heard she also suffered post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the fall.
Insp Matthew Tyler said it could have "easily become a fatal tragedy".
He added: "If, when warned of the unsafe well, the company had properly checked to see if it was secure the trauma this individual has gone through could have been prevented."
Bosses at Strakers, which is based in Market Place, Devizes, pleaded guilty to breaching section 3 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and were fined £200,000 and ordered to pay costs of £2,474.
Antony Bulley, Strakers managing director, said directors and staff had been "deeply distressed" by the incident.
"We wish to make it known that Strakers have carried out extensive internal investigations and have fully cooperated with the Health and Safety Executive throughout culminating in a plea of guilty at the earliest opportunity presented."
He added that the company's aim is "to ensure that everything possible is done to avoid any similar incident occurring in the future to any member of the public or our staff". | An estate agent has been fined £200,000 after a prospective house buyer who was viewing a property fell into a 30ft (nine-metre) deep garden well. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Scientists at Queen Mary University of London found that the distribution of Banksy's famous graffiti supported a previously suggested real identity.
The study was due to appear in the Journal of Spatial Science a week ago.
The BBC understands that Banksy's legal team contacted QMUL staff with concerns about how the study was to be promoted.
Those concerns apparently centred on the wording of a press release, which has now been withdrawn.
Taylor and Francis, which publishes the journal, said that the research paper itself had not been questioned. It appeared online on Thursday unchanged, after being placed "on hold" while conversations between lawyers took place.
Geographic profiling is a statistical technique that originated in criminology but has recently proved its value in other fields, from tracing infectious disease outbreaks to locating the roosts of wild bats.
It takes a large set of locations - whether crime scenes, disease cases or bat feeding sites - and runs through various groupings of those locations to find "hot spots" that could be jumping-off points for whatever activity is being mapped.
The hot spots can be used to concentrate a subsequent search, or to whittle down a long list of suspects.
When the QMUL researchers put the method to work on a list of Banksy artwork locations in London and Bristol, they said that the resulting "geoprofile" was a good match for an obvious candidate: Robin Gunningham, whom the Mail on Sunday named in 2008 after an investigation into Banksy's identity.
Addresses connected to Mr Gunningham using publicly available information - places he has lived or frequented, for example - scored highly on the geoprofile in both cities.
The scientists conducted the study to demonstrate the wide applicability of geoprofiling - but also out of interest, said biologist Steve Le Comber, "to see whether it would work".
"What I thought I would do is pull out the 10 most likely suspects, evaluate all of them and not name any… But it rapidly became apparent that there is only one serious suspect, and everyone knows who it is.
"If you Google Banksy and Gunningham you get something like 43,500 hits."
He and his colleagues are fans of the artist, Dr Le Comber said, and did not believe their work had "unmasked" him.
"I'd be surprised if it's not [Gunningham], even without our analysis, but it's interesting that the analysis offers additional support for it.
"You sort of default to the terminology from criminology, where you're talking about suspects and crime sites, but that doesn't imply any moral judgment - that these are actually crimes, or to be deplored, or whatever.
"That's even more important in disease biology, of course."
The criminologist and former detective who pioneered geoprofiling, Canadian Dr Kim Rossmo - now at Texas State University in the US - is a co-author on the paper.
The researchers say their findings support the use of such profiling in counter-terrorism, based on the idea that minor "terrorism-related acts" - like graffiti - could help locate bases before more serious incidents unfold.
Commenting on the research, Spencer Chainey from University College London said it was an intriguing and "perfectly legitimate" application of the technique.
"I'd never thought of it being used that way," said Dr Chainey, who runs the only geographic profiling course held outside the US.
He added that the study is perhaps not as precise, in some respects, as the way working criminologists might use the method. Outliers in the location data were not excluded, for example, and the researchers did not use a timeline of which graffiti appeared when.
"They've looked at all the data without considering the temporal features of it. I don't necessarily think they haven't got the right man - I just think there's more they could have done to fine tune the analysis."
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | A study that tests the method of geographical profiling on Banksy has appeared, after a delay caused by an intervention from the artist's lawyers. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | The government says the action is needed to help tackle bovine TB, a disease of cattle that can be spread by badgers.
Campaigners against the cull say the policy will have no impact on bovine TB, and could lead to local populations of badgers being wiped out.
A: The trials took place in areas where there were a high number of TB infections in cattle to assess whether badgers could be culled humanely, safely and effectively.
The precise areas where badgers were shot by trained marksmen was not revealed.
One area was in West Somerset and the other in and around West Gloucestershire.
A third area, in Dorset, was prepared in reserve but there was no culling last year.
The cull aimed to kill at least 70% of badgers across areas about the size of the Isle of Wight in each zone.
A: The pilots do not look at scientific data. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will review:
On the basis of the report by an independent panel - expected in March - ministers will make a decision about whether or not to extend the pilots to other areas of England.
A: Scientific evidence suggests sustained culls of badgers under controlled conditions could reduce TB in local cattle by 12-16% after four years of annual culls, and five years of follow-up, although it could be lower and it could be higher.
The randomised badger culling trial in England found that killing badgers disrupted their social groups, with surviving animals moving out to establish new groups, taking TB with them.
This perturbation effect led to an increase in cases of bovine TB outside of the cull zone, although the impact diminished over time.
The pilot culls attempted to use borders such as rivers and motorways to reduce the risk of badgers spreading TB to neighbouring areas, but this approach has not been fully tested.
The randomised badger culling trial trapped badgers in cages for the cull, while the main method planned for Gloucestershire and Somerset was free shooting, although cage trapping and shooting was also used.
Any deviation from methods used in the original trial will decrease or increase the expected impact on bovine TB, according to scientists.
A: Bovine tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease of cattle. It presents a serious problem for the cattle industry, causing financial and personal hardship for farmers.
The disease is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), which can also infect and cause TB in badgers, deer and other mammals.
Cattle are regularly tested for TB and destroyed if they test positive.
Q: Why are badgers implicated in spreading TB?
A: Scientific evidence has shown that bovine TB can be transmitted from cattle to cattle; from badgers to cattle and cattle to badgers; and from badger to badger.
Badgers are thought to pass on the disease to cattle through their urine, faeces or through droplet infection, in the farmyard or in cattle pastures.
However, it is not clear how big a role badgers play in the spread of bovine TB since the cows can also pass the disease on to other members of the herd.
According to computer modelling studies, herd-to-herd transmission of bovine TB in cattle accounts for 94% of cases.
Scientific evidence from the randomised badger culling trials found around 6% of infected cattle catch TB directly from badgers.
The figure rises to about 50%, when cattle infected by badgers pass it on to other herds, say scientists.
A: TB has cost the taxpayer in England £500m to control the disease in the last 10 years.
According to Defra, each pilot cull will cost about £100,000 a year, with these costs met by farmers who want badgers killed on their land.
This figure does not include policing costs, which have been estimated at £500,000 per area per year, according to a written answer to parliament.
According to Mary Creagh, shadow secretary of state for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, other costs include:
A wildlife charity has estimated the costs of the pilot culls to be more than £4,000 per badger killed.
Most of the shooting was thought to have been carried out at dusk or at night, since the animals are largely nocturnal. There are two main methods used to shoot badgers: searching over an area with a spotlight and rifle; or placing bait at a fixed point, then lying in wait for the badger.
This requires a team of two or three people: the shooter, a spotter and a potential third person to drive a vehicle or act as an additional safety lookout.
Shooting must be avoided if the teams are near rights of ways, or close to rural dwellings in order to prevent accidental injury to the public.
To comply with humane standards, the person using the firearm must try to kill the animal quickly with the first shot. This means being able to locate the heart-lung area of the badger's body and be confident of a "clean" kill up to a range of 50-70m.
But there are problems in shooting animals at distance in the dark. Coloured filters can be used with spotlights to reduce a badger's awareness of the spotlight, allowing teams to approach more closely, or take more time on a shot. But they also reduce visibility for the shooter. Night vision sights can be used if certain conditions are met.
Officials accept that second shots may sometimes be necessary. Though it is practical to select a site near a badger sett, the shooting must not take place so close to the entrance (at least 30m away) that a wounded badger can retreat inside before a follow-up shot can be taken.
Licensed operators must pass a Defra-approved marksmanship course and must have received training on humane shooting. There are restrictions on firearms and ammunition.
Q: What is happening in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland?
A: Scotland is classified as free of TB. The Welsh Assembly Government has chosen to vaccinate badgers, with trials underway in North Pembrokeshire.
Northern Ireland is conducting research into an eradication programme involving vaccination and selected culling of badgers with signs of TB infection.
The Republic of Ireland has been culling badgers since the 1980s.
Q: Can badgers or cows be vaccinated?
A: There is a vaccine for badgers - the BCG jab, which has been used by a number of wildlife and conservation bodies in England, including the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the National Trust.
Badger vaccination is underway in Wales and the Republic of Ireland, and there are plans to introduce it in Northern Ireland.
Cattle can also be vaccinated with the BCG vaccine. Vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, mainly because BCG vaccination of cattle can interfere with the tuberculin skin test, the main diagnostic test for TB.
Vaccination is not effective in badgers or cattle that are infected with TB.
In Wales, the cost of vaccinating each badger is put at £662. | In late 2013, more than 1,000 badgers were culled in two pilot zones - Somerset and Gloucestershire - in an attempt to control TB in cattle. |
Summarize the content given in the passage. | The dairy farmer from South Petherwin played 13 seasons at Polson Bridge and has been helping coach the club's colts section for the past few years.
Tucker's appointment comes a day after Mike Lewis stepped down from the job after being offered a different role.
Lewis, who took over in the summer after Neil Bayliss left due to budget cuts, led Launceston to eight defeats from eight games in National Two South.
"I'm kind of thinking what the heck have I let myself in for, but I shall be very proud when I lead the team out for the first time. I'm determined to 're-Launceston-ise' Launceston Rugby Club," Tucker told the club website.
"I want the boys to put some pride back into their shirts and do themselves justice and try to draw back some excitement from the town and the rugby community. I want to bring back some old spirit - but let's call it new spirit.
"As a player I was up for any challenge. My mind doesn't work around the word 'relegation'. As a coach I'm taking that challenge on. If we can avoid going down a league that would be a supreme achievement. That's not a challenge given to me by the club, that's a challenge I have set myself." | Launceston have appointed former player Jimmy Tucker as their new head coach. |
Write a concise summary for the following article. | On the face of it, it was a low-level embezzlement trial in a small city in a region of Russia best known for its forests and fairy tales.
The case of a former unpaid adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, who was accused of lining his own pockets with unofficial commissions for contracts with a state-owned timber company.
But the trial of Alexei Navalny was much more than that.
For several years he has been a thorn in the side of the Russian political establishment, campaigning against the endemic corruption, and coining a phrase to describe the ruling party United Russia that has stuck in everyone's minds - "the party of crooks and thieves".
In the election years of 2011/12 his significance increased even more, as he became the unofficial leader of the protest movement that brought tens of thousands of people onto the streets. They were the biggest anti-government demonstrations of the Vladimir Putin years.
That was when an old, abandoned investigation into Alexei Navalny's brief time in Kirov was suddenly reheated by the Moscow headquarters of the Russian equivalent of the FBI - the Investigative Committee, or Sledkom.
Sledkom has become a major player in the clampdown on the protest movement, and Alexei Navalny its biggest target to date.
He was arrested, bailed, questioned several times, and then told he would stand trial in Kirov some 500 miles (800km) from his home in Moscow. He had to make the 12-hour train journey for every phase of the trial.
The case was hard fought by both sides, and in his closing remarks to the judge Alexei Navalny was unrepentant.
"We will destroy this feudal society that is robbing all of us," he raged.
"If somebody thought that on hearing the threat of six years in prison I was going to run away abroad or hide somewhere, they were mistaken. I cannot run away from who I am.
"I have nothing else but this, and I don't want to do anything else but to help my country. To work for my fellow citizens."
"This can't go on forever," he added. "A situation in which 140 million people in one of the biggest and richest countries in the world are subjugated by a handful of worthless monsters.
"They are not even oligarchs, who built up their wealth through shrewdness or wisdom. They are a bunch of former Komsomol activists, turned democrats, turned patriots, who grabbed everything into their own hands."
Lilia Shevtsova, an analyst at the Carnegie Center in Moscow, said she had no doubt this was a political trial.
"The whole Navalny case is viewed by the Kremlin as a warning to society. Vladimir Putin would like society to accept the new rules of the game, and the new rules are 'You have to obey us on the principle of total and absolute loyalty. You don't have the right to have ambitions, you have no right to fight for power. Loyalty is the main principle of your behaviour.'"
Only last week Alexei Navalny lodged his papers for his first proper foray into mainstream Russian politics - an attempt to run in the September elections to choose the mayor of Moscow.
Even though he had no access to the government-owned television channels, he was reckoned to be in second place, behind the Kremlin-backed incumbent Sergei Sobanyin.
Before the verdict came through, his campaign team said they would fight on, no matter what.
The campaign chief, internet entrepreneur Leonid Volkov, said: "We will just have to bring more volunteers on to the streets. It's our only strategy. We have made a very clear decision that our campaign will not end.
"He may be in prison, but he won't be expelled from the ballot, because it will take some time for the appeal court hearing to take place."
The analyst Lilia Shevtsova warns that Alexei Navalny's young supporters will be greatly angered by his imprisonment.
"Navalny is becoming a martyr, a new Russian Mandela," she told me. "Of course they will be prepared to confront the authorities in the future."
But she said that his support is still too narrow for this to be a defining political moment.
"There is no danger for the time being of a massive tide. Overall the mood within the population at large is pretty quiet.
"Yes, there is frustration and annoyance, they don't like Putin any more. But few people see a clear alternative. Navalny is not a hero for all people who feel frustrated."
"In order to be a real political figure, not just a social activist and a rebellious figure of the internet, he has to have a political movement behind him - a clear agenda which is much broader and sophisticated than the struggle with corruption." | A Russian court has just delivered one of the most significant verdicts since Vladimir Putin came to power, jailing opposition leader Alexei Navalny for five years for corruption. |
Please summarize the following text. | Prosecutors said Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, 27, had hacked into hundreds of Facebook, Skype and email accounts to obtain naked or semi-naked pictures.
It is alleged he threatened to post the nude images of victims publicly unless they removed their clothing on camera.
If convicted, he could receive a maximum jail sentence of 105 years.
A press statement from the US Department of Justice detailed the charges against Mr Kazaryan, of Glendale, California.
Mr Kazaryan is said to have gained unauthorised access to hundreds of women's accounts, changing their passwords to prevent them from getting access.
"Once he controlled the accounts, Kazaryan searched emails or other files for naked or semi-naked pictures of the victims, as well as other information, such as passwords and the names of their friends," the statement said.
"Using that information, Kazaryan posed online as women, sent instant messages to their friends, and persuaded the friends to remove their clothing so that he could view and take pictures of them."
US authorities said they had found about 3,000 pictures of nude or semi-nude women on Mr Kazaryan's computer.
Some of the images had been taken from online accounts, while others had been captured by Mr Kazaryan himself on Skype, they alleged.
"When the victims discovered that they were not speaking with their friends, Kazaryan often extorted them again, using the photos he had fraudulently obtained to again coerce the victims to remove their clothing on camera," the statement said.
The FBI said on some occasions Mr Kazaryan had gone through with his threat to publish the sensitive images.
He now faces 30 charges - 15 counts of computer intrusion, and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft.
The FBI described the alleged blackmail as "sextortion".
In recent years, hackers have concocted ever more devious ways to coerce victims, or to spy on them unawares.
Writing in the Naked Security blog, Sophos researcher Graham Cluley recounted prior incidents.
In 2011, a Southern Californian man was sentenced to six years in prison for hacking into more than 100 computers - often posing as targets' boyfriends in order to obtain pictures.
Luis Mijangos, 32, said: "To all the victims I want to say that I'm sorry. I'm ready to do the right thing and stay out of trouble."
In July last year, Trevor Harwell, 21, was given a year-long jail sentence for setting up a ruse in which he convinced women that they needed to "steam" their webcams in order to fix a fault.
The easiest way to do this, Mr Harwell's "error" message explained, was by setting up the webcam near a shower. | A man who is said to have blackmailed more than 350 women after convincing them to strip off in front of their webcams has been arrested in the US. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Having been brought down in the penalty box, Cummings saw his spot-kick saved by Kevin Cuthbert, but did enough to force home the rebound.
Rovers enjoyed a strong first half, but faded as the hosts seized control after the interval through Cummings' strike.
Hibs move second in the Championship, three points behind Rangers.
Sarah McClay, 24, was mauled at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park near Dalton-in-Furness in May last year.
A jury found the tiger got through an open door to a corridor she was working in. A narrative verdict was recorded.
The inquest heard keepers and animals were supposed to be kept apart by lockable self-closing doors.
The male Sumatran tiger, Padang, walked through two internal sliding gates in its enclosure, before going through the door to where Miss McClay was standing.
It pounced on her and dragged her by the back of the neck into a den and then to an outside enclosure.
A post-mortem examination showed Miss McClay, from Barrow-in-Furness, suffered deep puncture wounds to her neck and body.
She was airlifted to Royal Preston Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The inquest heard earlier in the week one of the bolts in the door was found to be faulty following the attack, but it could not be determined when the damage was done.
The jury found one or more of the bolts on the door extended, preventing it from closing into the frame.
South Cumbria coroner Ian Smith told jurors their task was not to apportion blame for Miss McClay's death, but to determine the facts.
A criminal health and safety at work investigation is being held by Barrow Borough Council, which licenses the park, now known as South Lakes Safari Zoo.
Miss McClay's boyfriend, David Shaw, 25, read a joint statement with her mother Fiona McClay, 50, following the verdict.
He said: "The council in Barrow is still conducting their investigation and it would be wrong of us to say anything before they have concluded that investigation.
"There are always questions that we would like answered.
"Sarah's death has been difficult for us all and we hope that today's conclusion will help us move forward in some way."
The zoo's owner David Gill had told jurors he fired a rifle shot at Padang, causing it to run back into the tiger house, meaning emergency services could attend.
In a statement issued today, Mr Gill said: "Sarah McClay was a dedicated and valued member of the animal caring staff at the park.
"Her tragic and untimely death has affected all of us at the park and she is greatly missed."
The Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes last year responded to 39,000 requests for help from the NHS.
Volunteers work at night and at weekends delivering blood, samples, medical notes, donor breast milk or medical equipment between hospitals.
Northumbria branch chairman Peter Robertson said the service was "invaluable".
"We're making a difference to the lives of local people as well as saving the NHS money," he said.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said the service was "of great benefit", especially in serious cases when "time really is of the essence".
The organisation was "finding it harder than anything else" to fill positions for volunteers to take calls from hospitals and then dispatch riders, Mr Robertson added.
Few people know the charity exists, which limits donations and new recruits, the organisation said.
Prosecutors said Sindisiwe Manqele was jealous of seeing him talking to an ex-lover and stabbed him through the chest after a heated row.
He died at his home in a Johannesburg township on 9 March.
Mr Habedi was a member of Skwatta Kamp who are considered the pioneers of South African hip hop.
The BBC's Milton Nkosi reports that Manqele sobbed uncontrollably when the judge read out the verdict.
She was convicted of pre-meditated murder.
Judge Solly Sithole said Manqele admitted under cross-examination that she had intentionally killed her boyfriend, even though she had pleaded not guilty to murder.
She said she had killed him in self-defence.
Skwatta Kamp, founded in 1996, had hits such as uMoya and Clap Song. | A Jason Cummings goal early in the second half was sufficient to see Hibernian return to winning ways against Raith Rovers.
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The family of a zookeeper killed by a tiger in Cumbria, say there are still unanswered questions after the inquest into her death.
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A charity which helps deliver blood and urgent medical supplies to hospitals needs more volunteers, it says.
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The former girlfriend of South African rapper Nkululeko Habedi, known as Flabba, has been found guilty of his murder. |
Summarize the provided information. | The possible offer is pitched at £20.80 per share, which would value WS Atkins at £2bn.
The UK firm says the bid is sufficiently high that it may recommend it to its shareholders, assuming a firm offer is made by 1 May.
Meanwhile the FTSE 100 index fell 40 points to 7,283, down 0.4%.
The biggest fall of the day came from Imagination Technologies, whose shares plunged 62% to 103p after tech giant Apple said it would end a deal to use its products.
The move by Apple, Imagination's largest customer, means the loss of lucrative royalty payments.
Imagination relies on Apple for about half of its revenues, with the US giant using the UK firm's chip technology in its iPhones, iPads, and iPods under a licensing agreement.
ITV fell 2.6% as the broadcaster's shares relinquished gains recorded last week after bid speculation.
Shares in ITV had jumped in late trading on Friday after suggestions that the company could be a takeover target for Liberty Global.
BP shares fell slightly despite announcing it had sold its Forties Pipeline System in the North Sea for $250m.
Earlier, the Markit/CIPS manufacturing purchasing managers' index fell to 54.2 in March, down from 54.5 in February.
A figure above 50 suggests the economy is growing, but the reading was weaker than expected.
The pound ended the day 0.6% lower against the dollar at $1.247, and 0.6% lower against the euro at 1.171 euros.
Well, according to new research by consultancy Britain Thinks and job site Indeed, it's £134,170 a year.
The figure is nearly five times the national average wage of £28,000.
But that average conceals huge generational and regional differences, with younger people likely to believe wealth starts at lower pay levels.
Just under 60% of young people believe that richness kicks in at £80,000 a year, while only 35% of those aged 65 and over would agree.
Overall, 44% of UK workers consider that a person earning £80,000 is wealthy.
Regional variations are also notable. In Wales, the average person considers an annual salary of £91,681 to be the point at which wealth begins.
But in south east England, you'd have to be earning £162,844 to be seen as rich, 78% more than in Wales.
"The labour market is creating jobs at a steady rate and unemployment is at its lowest level for more than four decades," said Mariano Mamertino, an economist at Indeed.
"But wages have stagnated and British output per worker continues to languish below international trends and far behind that of many other European countries. The gap between earning the UK average wage of £28,000 and earning £80,000 will feel hard to bridge for many."
The crash happened outside Holborn Underground station in High Holborn at about 09:25 BST, the Metropolitan Police said.
The male cyclist, believed to be in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the tipper lorry, a 51-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and is in police custody.
High Holborn has been closed from Grays Inn Road to Kingsway while police investigate the crash. Several buses in the area have also been diverted.
Anyone who witnessed the incident is urged to contact the police. | Shares in the engineering consultancy WS Atkins jumped 27% to £19.50 after a takeover offer from the Canadian engineering group SNC-Lavalin.
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With taxation an issue in this general election campaign, just how much do you have to earn to be considered wealthy in the UK nowadays?
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A lorry driver has been arrested after a cyclist was killed during a collision in central London. |
Can you provide a brief summary for this document? | A 3-0 defeat in Trnava increased the pressure on manager Gordon Strachan following Saturday's 1-1 draw with the Lithuanians at Hampden.
Bannan says it is the players rather than the manager who should take the blame for the setbacks.
"It's our fault, we're the ones who are out there losing games," he said.
"We aren't thinking anything [about Strachan's future]. We're disappointed at the moment, we'll get ourselves back to our clubs and try to perform, then the next time we meet up we'll try to look at where we went wrong on this trip."
Bannan believes Scotland can still achieve their aim of at least a second-place finish in Group F despite taking only four points from their opening three games, and with their next match against England at Wembley on 11 November.
"Everybody's disappointed, as you can imagine, but there's only three points [between] us and England," Bannan said.
"We've made it tough for ourselves and we're going to have to get a result from somewhere and we're confident of doing that. We're disappointed with the last two results and the group's still wide open.
"We're still in there and it's going to be full of ups and downs. It's not over, all the teams are closely matched in this group. England dropped points in Slovenia and we dropped points in Slovakia."
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Bannan admitted the nature of the goals conceded to Slovakia were disappointing, because "they were avoidable. You don't mind losing to a wonder hit, but to lose goals that you know you don't have to lose hurts more".
Goalkeeper David Marshall described the concessions as "sloppy" but he was encouraged by Scotland's possession for spells in the opening half in Slovakia.
The Hull City keeper is adamant Strachan remains the right man to lead Scotland during the World Cup qualifying campaign, despite taking only one point from a crucial double-header.
"This early in the campaign it's silly to write us off," he said. "That's Slovakia's first win as well.
"I don't think there's anybody within the squad would want the manager to leave.
"It's a disappointing start, there's no doubt about that, but we just have to go and win our games.
"Slovakia have won one, we've taken four points so far, so we have to look at that as a positive and just keep going." | Scotland midfielder Barry Bannan says the players need to take responsibility for dropping World Cup qualification points against Lithuania and Slovakia. |
What is the summary of the document provided? | Murray, 30, can earn up to £350,000 in prize money by winning the tournament.
He starts his campaign for a sixth Queen's title on Tuesday when he faces fellow Briton Aljaz Bedene.
Seventy nine people died or are missing presumed dead after the blaze at Grenfell Tower in Kensington last week.
The government has pledged to give £5,500 to all of those who lost their homes, with more than £200,000 of a £5m emergency fund so far given to families affected.
In 2013, Murray donated his £73,000 winnings from Queen's to the Royal Marsden Centre, which had been treating his friend and Davis Cup doubles player Ross Hutchins for Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Brownlee was focusing on long-distance events this year and won on his debut in the Ironman 70.3 series at the North American Championships in May.
The 29-year-old also won the World Triathlon Series event in Leeds in June.
"It has been a tough decision, but suffering from an acute flare I am left with little option," said Brownlee.
In a post on social media, he added: "Unfortunately it will take me away from competing for the rest of the year but I hope it will enable me to continue doing what I love for many years to come."
Victory in Utah three months ago had earned Brownlee - a gold medallist at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics - a spot at September's Ironman 70.3 World Championship.
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The 20-year-old Dutchman has yet to make his first-team debut, but was an unused substitute for Saturday's League One game with Bolton.
"His game understanding is excellent and he is very good in possession, as a lot of players that come from Holland are," said boss Karl Robinson.
Meanwhile, the Addicks have released 23-year-old midfielder El-Hadji Ba. | Britain's world number one Andy Murray will donate any winnings from the Aegon Championships at Queen's to families of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.
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Summarize the following excerpt. | Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of GPs, says the government is promoting its NHS Health Check programme "against good evidence".
Her comments come after The Times newspaper published a letter from Danish researchers criticising the programme.
The Nordic Cochrane Centre group found health MoTs did not reduce deaths.
In England, people aged 40-74 are offered a free health check.
The initiative, launched in 2009, is designed to spot conditions such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes by looking for silent risk factors such as high blood pressure and cholesterol.
Ministers have said the scheme could save 650 lives a year.
But Danish researchers are questioning the policy and say health checks have no proven benefits.
Their review, published in October 2012, looked at health checks offered in a number of countries, including some pilot trials in the UK a decade or more ago, though not the post-2009 programme.
It concluded that general health checks failed to benefit patients and could instead cause them unnecessary worry and treatment.
Dr Gerada of the RCGP shares these concerns.
She said: "Governments seem to be promoting this against good evidence.
"They [health checks] are not based on good evidence. They are pulling in an awful lot of people who have nothing wrong with them. And the very people you would want to be dragging in do not attend."
The NHS estimates, each year, the programme could:
Source: Public Health England
She said the money involved would be better spent on targeted intervention.
"We should be focusing on the hard-to-reach groups instead and policies like plain packaging for cigarettes and minimum pricing for alcohol."
Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, defended the programme saying: "Far from being useless, there is good evidence that, if properly implemented, it could prevent thousands of cases of Type 2 diabetes a year, as well as having a positive impact for heart disease, kidney disease and stroke.
"And while the £300 million it costs to run might sound like a lot of money, diabetes and other chronic conditions are expensive to treat. This means that once you factor in the savings in healthcare costs, the NHS Health Check is actually expected to save the NHS about £132 million per year."
The Department of Health says the NHS Health Check programme is based on expert guidance that is continually reviewed.
A spokeswoman for Public Health England said the existing relevant evidence, together with operational experience accruing on the ground, was "compelling support for the programme".
She added: "We are establishing an Expert Clinical and Scientific Advisory Panel that will provide oversight of the NHS Health Check programme.
"This panel will be responsible for reviewing emerging evidence and research needs. It will also promote future research, development and evaluation of this programme."
When the Danish research was published in 2012, the NHS Health Check sent out an eBulletin warning that the Cochrane conclusions had little if any relevance to the NHS programme.
The Cochrane authors responded rebutting the criticism and asked to have their reply published alongside. They say this was denied.
They were taken off the Beatrice Alpha platform by Coastguard helicopters from Stornoway and Sumburgh after it suffered a loss of power shortly after 22:00 on Thursday.
Twenty personnel remained on board the installation, which is 15 miles off the Sutherland coast.
Beatrice Alpha is owned by Talisman, and operated by Wood Group. | Health checks offered to millions of people over 40 are a waste of time, says the UK's leading GP.
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Please provide a summary for the content below. | Greencore Ltd confirmed it is "proposing to discontinue production" at its Evercreech plant in Somerset where about 400 people are employed.
It said "there are no financially sustainable solutions" to repair the 126-year-old site and it was "in need of significant refurbishment".
Greencore said it could not comment further until after a 45-day consultation process.
Armitage, who previously lectured in creative writing at the university, was made an honorary doctor of letters.
He said: "This is a special day and it is an honour to join all the students graduating. I'm proud to be awarded this honorary degree."
He is one of 10 people to be honoured including boxer Nicola Adams and Leeds carnival organiser Arthur France.
In June Armitage was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University.
Sir Alan Langlands, Vice-Chancellor of the University, described the 10 recipients of honorary degrees as "truly inspirational people", saying: "They are excellent role models for the 5,700 students who are graduating from the university this year, all ready to take their place in the world and to make a difference."
Adams, from Leeds, claimed the first ever women's Olympic boxing gold medal at the London Olympic games in 2012 and last month won flyweight gold at the European Games in Baku.
Mr France founded the Leeds West Indian Carnival, now in its 48th year, in 1967 as a cure for homesickness after leaving St Kitts and Nevis, in the Caribbean.
Mark Mason, 48, from Rhyl, died after being stabbed at the town's Home Bargains car park on 27 October 2016.
Anthony Baines, 30, from Liverpool, denies murder and malicious wounding with intent.
James Davies, 20 and Mark Ennis, 30, also deny the charges.
A fourth Liverpool man, Jake Melia, 21, has admitted all charges.
On Tuesday, a jury at Mold Crown Court heard Mr Baines had been at the scene but was not part of any "premeditated plan".
The prosecution had previously argued Mr Baines was the leader of a group of men who attacked Mr Mason and two others.
They claimed it was a revenge attack for one Mr Mason was believed to have carried out on them earlier that day.
But John McDermott QC, representing Mr Baines, said his client did not know beforehand what they were going to do.
He told the court: "If Anthony Baines did plan an assassination it was particularly inept for a man of his experience."
He added that "everything could have been done so much more cleverly".
The jury also heard Mr Davies had only been working for Mr Baines for a week at the time - recruited because he had to pay off a drug debt.
Patrick Harrington QC, representing Mr Davies, said: "This wasn't his battle, was it? He was the street level drug dealer.
"He was doing it to pay off a debt. He wasn't the person behind this."
Nigel Power QC, representing Mr Ennis, told the jury it was an "unappealing truth" that his client had been dealing class A drugs since at least 2005.
But on the many occasions he had been arrested, he said Mr Ennis had never been found to be carrying a weapon.
He said the prosecution wanted the jury to "run with the idea" that drug dealing was dangerous.
Mr Power said if the men had planned to kill Mr Mason, they could have easily lured him away to a place where their actions would not be caught on CCTV.
Instead, he said the defendants "were going into territory they knew was dangerous as far a surveillance is concerned".
Speaking of the attack, Mr Power said there was "no sensible basis on which you could conclude that Mr Ennis was in possession of a knife".
He asked the jury to look carefully at the CCTV footage and said the first flash of a blade caught on camera happened before his client go to the van where Mr Mason was stabbed.
He also said the footage showed Mr Ennis moving back from the van just seconds after the attack began.
The trial continues. | Hundreds of jobs are at risk at a factory which makes chilled desserts.
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A drug boss accused of murdering a man in a Denbighshire car park could not have planned the killing because it was "inept for his experience", a court has heard. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Evans, 24, is ranked 18th in the world after reaching the quarter-finals of the £40,000 Cleveland Classic in March.
"I'm seeded 16th. I've sneaked in as a few people have pulled out," Evans told BBC Wales Sport.
She says there will be a high standard of competition at the World Championships.
"They'll be girls who are 16 or 17 who you've probably never hear of and they are very good," added Evans.
"You never have an easy game in Egypt. You go there and you get locals and qualifiers who are never easy.
"It would be good to end on a real high. Egypt is always a place I've played well in."
Six of the top 20 female squash players in the world rankings are Egyptian and Evans says it'll be a challenge playing in the North African nation.
"They love it. It's a big thing for them. It's their biggest sport and they are taking squash to a new level right now," she said.
"It's in their genes. From a young age they take it so seriously. When they go to school they play squash. It's amazing.
"We could learn a lot from them."
Evans competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but was knocked out at the final 16.
She hopes her experience in 2016-17 will help to secure a medal for Wales in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia.
"Glasgow is one of the best things I've ever done so I'm very excited there's a chance of me going to the Gold Coast," she said.
"I will be in a better position than I was four years ago and I'm hoping to do really well there. I would love to win a medal. It is definitely a goal for me.
"I think the doubles is a definite opportunity for a medal just because doubles is a different game.
"If we can get enough practice in there's no reason why any of us in the Welsh team cannot grab a medal." | Welsh squash player Tesni Evans hopes to end her season on a high at the women's World Championships from 5-14 April in El Gouna, Egypt. |
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