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21 June 2013 Last updated at 12:31 BST
The Market Hall Cinema in Brynmawr used to be run by the local council but when it announced its funding would stop last month, work began to find a way to keep it going.
In February about 4,000 people signed a petition in support of saving the cinema which is believed to be the longest continuously run in Wales, dating back to 1894.
Here, Peter Watkins-Hughes explains more to BBC Wales Gwent Valleys reporter Paul Heaney.
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One of the oldest cinemas in Wales has been saved by a group of volunteers in Blaenau Gwent.
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Andrew Marshall, of Heiton near Kelso, died at the Bowmont Forest Sawmill in June 2015.
An inquiry into the accident is scheduled to take place at Jedburgh Sheriff Court on 14 March.
A preliminary hearing will be held at the same court on Monday.
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A date has been set for a fatal accident inquiry into the death of a 71-year-old man at a sawmill in the Borders.
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The collection includes a Military Cross and an Albert Medal for gallantry.
They were awarded to William Marychurch Morgan from Jeffreyston, near Tenby.
He led a series of night raids across trenches in Arras in France 1916, and also served as a lieutenant colonel in World War Two.
His medals were brought to an antiques valuation event in Tenby last week, and will now go up for sale in March.
He was first awarded the Albert Medal Second Class in May 1916 after flinging himself on an unexploded grenade during a training session.
The citation revealed how the temporary second lieutenant to the 15 Royal Welch Fusiliers had fumbled about in mud to find the grenade thrown by a colleague, before hurling it away from his troops just in time to avoid deaths and serious injuries.
Then in October 1916 on his second stint in the frontline trenches he led raids into enemy territory.
"On seven consecutive nights, he carried out valuable reconnaissance under intense fire. Later, he led a daring raid himself, accounting for one of the enemy. He has previously done fine work," read his citation for the Military Cross.
It saw him promoted to temporary captain.
Medal specialist for the auctioneers Halls said it was a privilege to be selling such an "exceptional" medal group and anticipates keen interest from collectors.
Just 290 Albert Medals were ever awarded during the hundred years when it ranked as the highest recognition for civilian acts of bravery.
The medal collection goes on sale in Shrewsbury in Shropshire on 22-23 March.
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Rare medals won by a Pembrokeshire soldier during World War One are expected to sell for at least £12,000 at auction.
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University of Aberdeen experts looked at the eating habits of more than 20,000 middle-aged and elderly people.
They concluded that compared to those who ate no chocolate, those who ate up to a small bar a day had an 11% lesser risk of cardiovascular disease and a 23% reduced risk of stroke.
But the researchers warned this did not prove chocolate makes you healthier.
The findings, published in the British Medical Journal's "Heart" magazine, were based on data from the EPIC-Norfolk study which is tracking the impact of diet on the long-term health of 25,000 men and women in Norfolk.
The Aberdeen researchers also carried out a review of previously published evidence on the links between chocolate and cardiovascular disease.
Prof Phyo Myint, of the School of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Aberdeen, told BBC Scotland: "This is the observational study therefore we can't imply the cause and effect relationship.
"We can't say for sure it could cause these benefits.
"What we observed is the association between the habitual consumption of chocolate, to a maximum of 100g a day, linked to a reduction in incidence of stroke and cardiovascular disease over longer-term follow-up, in this study 12 years."
About one in five (20%) participants said they did not eat any chocolate, but among the others, daily consumption averaged 7g, with some eating up to 100g.
Those who ate the most also tended to be younger, have a lower weight, waist to hip ratio, and blood pressure, and were less likely to have diabetes and more likely to carry out regular physical activity - all of which add up to a favourable cardiovascular disease risk profile, researchers said.
Eating more chocolate was also associated with higher energy intake and a diet containing more fat and carbohydrates and less protein and alcohol.
Calculations carried out by the researchers suggested that compared with those who ate no chocolate higher intake was linked to an 11% lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 25% lower risk of associated death.
It was also associated with a 9% lower risk of hospital admission or death as a result of coronary heart disease, after taking account of dietary factors.
The highest chocolate intake was similarly associated with a 23% lower risk of stroke, even after taking account of other potential risk factors.
The study authors also pointed out that dark chocolate is usually said to have more beneficial effects than milk chocolate, but milk chocolate was more frequently eaten by the Norfolk participants.
Prof Myint said chocolate was rich in fat and carbohydrate so it was important to burn off the calories from eating it.
He said: "The group that showed a benefit consumed 16g to 100g a day of chocolate. Most of them probably consumed around 100g a week rather than 100g a day and the results we see are group effects so we can't say eating 100g a day will do good."
Dr Tim Chico, reader in cardiovascular medicine and consultant cardiologist at the University of Sheffield, said: "This study adds to the evidence that people who consume chocolate tend to have lower rates of cardiovascular disease, although such studies cannot say whether the chocolate is the cause of this protective effect.
"There is evidence from other studies that have randomised people to be given chocolate that this can have effects that might reduce cardiovascular disease, such as a reduction in blood pressure.
"These studies taken together suggest that there might be some health benefits from eating chocolate. However, it is also clear that chocolate has the potential to increase weight, which is unequivocally bad for cardiovascular health.
He added: "The message I take from this study is that if you are a healthy weight, then eating chocolate (in moderation) does not detectibly increase risk of heart disease and may even have some benefit. I would not advise my patients to increase their chocolate intake based on this research, particularly if they are overweight."
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Eating a moderate amount of chocolate a day has been linked to a lowered risk of heart disease and stroke.
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Over the 17 days that followed, Great Britain's team enjoyed its most successful Winter Games since the very first edition in Chamonix in 1924.
GB athletes brought home four medals - skeleton gold for Lizzy Yarnold,silver and bronze in curling and a snowboard bronze for Jenny Jones - Britain's first Olympic medal on snow.
Twelve months on, how are winter sports faring in the United Kingdom?
Mike Hay, a former Great Britain curler, was in overall charge of the Team GB delegation in Russia.
He believes the performance in Sochi was a "step change" and stands Winter Sports in good stead in the lead up to the next Games in Pyeongchang in 2018.
"I think we're in pretty good shape. I think that's reflected in the funding. UK Sport have confidence we have podium potential in Pyeongchang," said Hay.
"We have a great age profile of athletes coming through, and we've got much more strength in depth than we've ever had before, so I'm very positive about our chances in Pyeongchang."
UK Sport funding in Winter Olympic Sports has more than doubled for the four-year cycle running up to Pyeongchang.
For the six funded sports the amount awarded has risen from pre-Sochi total of £13,444,638 to £27,374,333.
"I think we can safely say Sochi was a watershed moment for British winter sports," said Simon Timson, UK Sport director of performance.
"Many are still working with a relatively small cohort of athletes, but ones that have the potential to be even more successful in Pyeongchang in three years' time.
"However, no one in British winter sport can afford to rest on their laurels and sit still; we need to make the most of the opportunity that Sochi created.
"We don't expect to see all the fruits in performance terms on the world stage yet."
In skeleton, the extra funding has enabled Team GB to run a talent search programme in order to bring its number of athletes up from 15 to 24 by 2018.
More money is going to sled research and development, while the extra funds have helped send athletes to the Olympic Youth Games and led to the appointment of full-time coaches for the World Cup and Europa Cup.
However, three sports - bobsleigh, short-track speed skating and figure skating - have conditions to meet in year one or they could face cuts to their money.
National Ice Skating Association chief executive Nick Sellwood said the conditions imposed were "only right and proper".
"You've got to keep assessing whether people are on track to deliver medals," he added.
"Our figure skaters have very specific performance targets at the world championships. If they reach those targets, they remain on the programme. If they don't, they'll move off the programme.
"In short-track, UK Sport recognise that we are excelling - we're delivering world, European and world cup medals regularly. But what we haven't done is convert that to Olympic medals.
"We've reviewed all of our programmes and put new strategies and resources in place to address some of the weaknesses in our system so that we're more confident of delivering the medals we're being asked to do."
Many GB athletes who took part in Sochi have built on the team's success in the past year.
Lizzy Yarnold has added to her Olympic gold with three World Cup wins so far this season.
The GB women curlers followed up their bronze with European bronze representing Scotland, although the GB men who won silver in Russia failed to qualify for the event.
There have also been successes for athletes who did not manage to get on the podium in Sochi.
Katie Summerhayes became the first British woman to win a Freestyle World Championships medal when she took slopestyle silver in Kreischberg in January.
In short track, Elise Christie, for whom the Winter Olympics went so badly, refocused to take a world silver medal and was crowned European champion for the first time.
Andrew Musgrave, the cross-country skier who described his Olympic performance as like a 'tranquilised badger', has rediscovered his speed with the best ever finish by a Briton at a World Cup, coming 13th in Lillehammer in December. He also clocked the fastest time by a Brit in a World Cup race earlier this year.
And although they were unable to win another European Championships medal this year, ice dancing pair Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland scored a personal best and won their first prestigious Grand Prix medal with a bronze in Moscow in November.
Ed Leigh is a former professional snowboarder and now co-presents Ski Sunday. He feels snow sports in the UK are enjoying a post-Sochi boost.
"Snow sports in this country are in such rude health," he said. "Jenny Jones's medal has had such an affect on the domestic industry.
"That medal had a genuine trickle-down effect of bringing people into the sport.
"We are the only snowboard industry in the world that is growing at the moment."
Leigh added that Summerhayes's silver medal at the world championships is "an indication of the progress that we continue to make".
Another one of the key things that Sochi has provided is something called 'performance profiling', which looks at the times and performances of the world's best and measures UK athletes against that.
"Snowboard riders like Billy Morgan, Jamie Nicholls and Aimee Fuller are all benefiting from that and we're starting to see real results and a lot of progress being made using that system," Leigh added.
Participation can be tricky to gauge.
Some sports, such as bobsleigh or skeleton, are not readily accessible to a recreational athlete. Other sports have different ways of measuring their numbers - whether it is by website traffic or facility surveys.
However, the general trend is upwards.
Curling recorded over 5,000 people trying the sport in the aftermath of the Sochi Games through the Try Curling website. That number compares to roughly 1,000 people in each year after the 2010 Vancouver Games.
And at the only dedicated curling rink in England they are still witnessing 60% more visitors than they were at this time 12 months ago.
"Immediately after the Games we had so much interest we had to stay open longer than we normally would," said Tracey Brown, manager of Fenton's Rink in Tunbridge Wells.
"We shut between May and October and expected it to level out again but there were still more people coming. We don't know when or if interest will drop."
Ice skating sports have recorded 2,500 more people taking part each week, while in the three months after Sochi Snowsport England recorded a 12% increase in participation at several indoor centres around the country compared to the same period in 2013.
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Saturday marks one year since the 22nd Olympic Winter Games got under way in the Russian resort of Sochi.
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Sir Norman Bettison witnessed the 1989 disaster as a spectator.
He has denied being part of a "black propaganda unit" set up to blame Liverpool supporters and "concoct" a false version of events.
His book, Hillsborough Untold, is his attempt to "put the record straight", he said.
Ninety-six football fans died following crushing at Hillsborough stadium, in Sheffield, during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Earlier this year inquests into the deaths concluded the victims were unlawfully killed.
Sir Norman, who previously claimed he was made a "scapegoat", said he wrote the book after being "vilified".
He again denied being part any conspiracy to blame fans or change statements in the aftermath of the disaster.
"Most of what's been said about me is in the category of supposition, smear or just plain wrong facts," he said.
"I'm surely entitled, after all that's been written about me, to put my account there.
"People don't have to read it, they don't have to accept it. But it's there for anybody who's open minded enough and fair minded enough to look at it."
Asked why he had dedicated the book to his grandchildren, he said he was concerned about the permanence of material on the internet and that "Googling Grandpa" might "bring all sorts of stuff back".
"If they should ever be troubled by the unanswered concern that grandpa was a criminal, that he was involved in shameful stuff in the aftermath of a tragedy of immense proportions, then they've got something to turn to and make their own mind up," he said.
Dr Dorothy Griffiths, whose brother Vincent Fitzsimmons died at Hillsborough, labelled Sir Norman's comments "a disgusting and offensive attempt to make himself a victim".
She said: "It's all about him. I have to say that his arrogance and self-absorption [is] absolutely breathtaking.
"We've had the inquests and I'm just shocked that he's named his book Hillsborough Untold, because why didn't he tell all this at the inquests?
"Why has he now brought out this book about a so-called untold truth?"
Dr Griffiths said the retired officer had shown "a complete lack of empathy and understanding" for the families, victims and survivors of the disaster.
Barry Devonside, whose son Christopher Devonside died, accused Sir Norman of timing his book to maximise Christmas sales.
"That's Bettison," he said. "He's a man who looks after himself and there's nothing you can do about that.
"It's an insult. I hope very few people buy his book because as far as I'm concerned he has been a problem for the families."
In the wake of the disaster, Sir Norman was part of a police team that gathered evidence about what had happened for use at a public inquiry.
In 1998, he was controversially appointed Chief Constable of Merseyside Police.
He held the post of Chief Constable in Merseyside from 1998 to 2004 before becoming chief constable of the West Yorkshire force, before resigning in 2012.
The Hillsborough Independent Panel published its report in September 2012, revealing that 164 police statements by South Yorkshire Police officers were altered - 116 to remove or change negative comments about the policing of the 1989 FA Cup semi final.
The HIP report said the review and alteration of statements was part of an attempt by South Yorkshire Police to deflect criticism on to fans.
A day after the publication of the HIP report, Sir Norman said Liverpool fans had made the "police's job much harder than it needed to be" - a comment he told the inquests he "regretted" making.
He remains under investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission regarding his alleged involvement in a police cover-up.
In an interview with BBC Radio Merseyside, Sir Norman said he had "concealed nothing".
He also defended police officers on duty on the day of the disaster.
There were many who "still bear a sense of guilt that they were impotent, that they couldn't do anything, that they didn't do anything to avert a catastrophe," he said.
Sir Norman said that while he does not believe he will ever repair his reputation, he hoped the book would give anyone "curious enough" the opportunity "to check the facts".
Sir Norman also explained why he applied to be Merseyside Police's Chief Constable: "It was a perfect fit for my career. All my experience had been in city policing. Merseyside is a big force.
"Perhaps I didn't read the Merseyside temperature as well as I should've done, but there was nothing in my mind that connected a task I'd done 10 years ago with a job I applied for a decade later.
"There's a lot of misunderstanding that shows my appointment and application to Merseyside in a light different to what it was at the time.
"My honest response was I've done nothing wrong 10 years ago, I'm going to go there and prove it."
He added: "Part of the reason I've written the book is the people who are deserving of the most honest account of what went on are the 96 families that were bereaved and have lost as a result of the events at Hillsborough."
Margaret Aspinall, whose son James Aspinall died, said she felt Sir Norman had been "too late" with his comments.
"The families have gone through torture. He says all this 27 years later, but it doesn't make any difference. And not only the families, the survivors as well," she said.
"Nothing he says impresses me whatsoever. I think he's made a big mistake. He's not done himself any favours."
The book's publishers, Biteback Publishing, said proceeds would be donated to charity.
A spokesman for the IPCC said: "We have read and assessed the book.
"We do not think it has a significant adverse impact on the ongoing criminal investigation and we would need to be able to demonstrate this in order to bring any legal action to prevent publication."
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A former South Yorkshire Police chief inspector has defended his book about the Hillsborough disaster, insisting he is "entitled" to tell his story.
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Alexander Perepilichny, 44, died after collapsing while running near his Surrey home in November 2012.
His death was originally attributed to natural causes but traces of a chemical that can be found in a poisonous plant were later found in his stomach.
Mr Perepilichny had been helping an investigation into Russian tax fraud.
Lawyers for financial firm Hermitage Capital Management, which had been leading the investigation, told a pre-inquest hearing that Russia's FSB internal security service may have been involved in the death of the businessman at his Weybridge home.
The firm alleged that Mr Perepilichny could have been killed for helping it uncover a money-laundering operation involving Russian officials.
Geoffrey Robertson QC, representing the company, told the hearing in Woking: "A Russian dies in Britain, that is not relevant. If that Russian dies by an obscure poison known only by the FSB, that is relevant.
"The FSB is the core element of Russian government that was involved in the [Alexander] Litvinenko case and may well be involved in this case. It is a secret service that Hermitage has upset and (has) left itself open to reprisals.
"At this stage there is very strong circumstantial evidence that he [Mr Perepilichny] was murdered because of the assistance he was giving to Hermitage."
Mr Robertson suggested delaying the inquest until after the public inquiry into Mr Litvinenko's death by radioactive poisoning was completed. Mr Litvinenko was a former Russian spy who died after drinking tea laced with polonium in London in 2006.
Mr Perepilichny's family have said there is no evidence to suggest he was deliberately killed.
Ian Helme, representing his widow and children, said the inquest process was already "taking its toll" and a proposal to widen the scope to include UK deaths of other prominent Russians was "of real concern".
The hearing also heard that scientific tests to ascertain what was in Mr Perepilichny's stomach by a Kew Gardens specialist, ordered earlier this year, have yet to be completed.
The traces of a chemical found in his stomach can be found in the poisonous plant Gelsemium elegans.
A further pre-inquest hearing will take place in November, with the full inquest likely to start in February at the earliest.
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The Russian state security service may have been involved in the death of a whistleblower in the UK three years ago, an inquest has heard.
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He is one of many drivers worried about the state of local roads.
A new survey suggests potholes are an increasing a problem across the UK.
One in six roads across England and Wales is in such a bad state it must be repaired within the next five years, local authorities have said.
Mr Hopson told the BBC that while the local council does repair potholes, those repairs are not built to last.
"The potholes have got worse. After repair, it cracks up again, and we've got the pothole back," he said.
Some road users have had accidents caused by holes in the road.
Ellie in Chessington told the BBC that her car had been damaged by a pothole: "It had burst two of my tyres, and also dented the actual alloy wheel as well."
And Vanessa in Lowestoft said: "On Monday afternoon I had an accident on my bike where I hit a pothole and fell forward off my bike."
These experiences are backed up by the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey (ALARM), which is produced by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA).
It found that almost a fifth of roads were in "poor" condition.
Councils were almost £730m short of what was needed to keep the road network in "reasonable order", it said.
However, that is a smaller shortfall than the previous year.
The government is planning to pump £1.2bn into roads this year, including for repair and maintenance.
But authorities say it will take an average of 12 years and £12bn to bring the local network "up to scratch".
Councillor Judith Blake, from the Local Government Association, said: "It is becoming increasingly urgent to address the roads crisis we face as a nation.
"Our roads are deteriorating at a faster rate than can be repaired and it would take more than £12bn and be 2030 before we could bring them up to scratch and clear the current roads repair backlog."
The AIA says that roads need to be resurfaced every 10 to 20 years.
Only London comes close to this, with the capital's roads repaired every 23 years on average.
In England, roads are resurfaced every 55 years on average, while in Wales it is every 63 years.
Alan Mackenzie, chairman of the AIA, said the message from the survey was that "highway teams simply do not have enough money to arrest the terminal decline in the condition of our local roads and the network is not resilient enough to meet the challenges ahead".
He added that although the percentage of local roads in England and Wales classed as "good" rose from 48% to 53% last year, so did those in a poor condition, rising from 13% to 17%.
Mr Mackenzie said: "This is clearly not sustainable in the long-term and many highway engineers have warned of a tipping point ahead."
Last year, the government announced £1.1bn for road repairs for 2017 to 2018.
This was increased to £1.2bn in January to include money from the National Productivity Investment Fund and the Pothole Action Fund.
The Department for Transport said: "It is vital councils keep our roads in a good condition to deliver better journeys for drivers.
"We are providing councils more than £6bn over six years to maintain roads and repair potholes.
"On top of this, we announced last autumn an additional £1.1bn to upgrade and repair roads for communities across England."
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"We talk about it all the time in the canteen, amongst drivers, our concerns about the safety and comfort for our customers," said Stephen Hopson, a Bristol bus driver.
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The announcement came as the Edinburgh-based challenger bank saw underlying profit rise by nearly 5%, to £65m.
Total income was up more than 5% to £274m in the year to 12 March.
Sainsbury's said it performed strongly in the personal loans market, with 15% year-on-year growth in the number of advances to new customers.
The bank's portfolio of insurance products also continued to perform well, resulting in new business growth of more than 10% year-on-year.
Sales of new home insurance policies increased by more than 25%.
In an interim results statement, Sainsbury's said: "Given the bank's strong trading performance and the trust people have in the Sainsbury's brand, we have decided to launch new mortgage products in 2017.
"We believe these products will complement our existing financial services portfolio and we expect customers to respond well."
Sainsbury's also reported that it was "making good progress" in moving towards "a new, more flexible" banking IT platform.
It forecasts total transition costs to be "at the top of the £340m to £380m range".
Meanwhile, Edinburgh-based Virgin Money has reported a sharp rise in gross mortgage lending.
It said lending climbed by year-on-year by 30% in the first quarter to a record £2.1bn, giving the bank a market share of 3.4%.
The bank added that residential gross mortgage lending increased by 35%, while buy-to-let lending was up by 17%.
Credit card balances surpassed £1.8bn at the end of the quarter, up from £1.6bn as at 31 December.
Virgin Money said it was looking towards an "accelerated target" of £3bn of credit card "outstandings" by the end of 2017.
Chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia said: "I am delighted to report it has been another excellent quarter for Virgin Money.
"We had a record start to the year for mortgages and our savings franchise continues to flourish with a strong inflow of cash ISAs.
"I am particularly pleased with the performance of the credit card business which continues to exceed expectations one year on since launching to the public."
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Sainsbury's Bank is set to launch new mortgage products in 2017 after reporting a strong trading performance in the last financial year.
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The Law Commission's proposals come after it was asked by the Cabinet Office to examine how effective the acts are in the 21st century.
Proposals include replacing three of the acts, from 1911, 1920 and 1939, with a single Espionage Act.
It is the first time in 100 years the acts have been fully reviewed.
The acts aim to protect government information from unauthorised disclosure of classified information, which is protected because it could harm national security or damage international relations.
The Official Secrets Act 1911 is still the main source of legal protection in the UK against espionage, more than a century after it was first drawn up.
The review found it should now be expanded to include offences committed by people other than British subjects.
The Law Commission - an independent body set up to reform the law - also proposed an increase in maximum sentences.
Currently, most offenders prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act 1989 receive a maximum of two years' imprisonment.
The consultation points out that it is the same penalty for information disclosed which damages national security as for a data breach by a National Lottery worker.
It also argues that in the "digital age", the "ability to cause damage to the national interest" and the risk of doing so has increased.
Law Commissioner, Prof David Ormerod QC, said: ""We have made a number of provisional conclusions as to how the legislation could be improved that we believe will enhance the protection that is currently afforded to official information."
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Prof Ormerod said the review was a "once in a century opportunity".
The review is currently at consultation stage- with members of the public invited to respond until 3 April.
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Spies and others who leak classified information could face tougher sentences under a proposed overhaul of the four Official Secrets Acts.
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It has now dropped out of the top four universities in Wales and is ranked 93rd in the UK in one national guide.
The latest rankings means students in their third year have seen the university drop from the top 50 in their time there.
But the university said it aims to be ranked in the top 30 in the UK by 2017.
The Guardian university guide has seen Aberystwyth slump to 88th place, down from 49th place in 2011 while The Times now ranks it 93rd in its Good University Guide.
It has also dropped into the bottom quarter of universities worldwide.
Student Tom Wooldridge said the university had had a "decent reputation but, with it slipping, it's only a matter of time before employers realise it's is not as competitive as the top universities these days.... so it's a worry".
Fellow student Joe Mallinder said: "How has it gone down so quickly in two years, what has drastically changed... and will that have a massive effect on me getting a job?"
Established in 1872, Aberystwyth's history and name has been regarded as prestigious but some students fear it is becoming nothing more than a clearing university with some courses requiring just two E grades at A Level to get in.
The university says it has invested heavily in facilities in recent years.
Pro Vice-Chancellor Rebecca Davies believes the league tables are not a fair reflection on standards at Aberystwyth.
"By 2017 we want to be one of the top 30 universities in the UK," said.
Referring to the recent rankings, she said: "It is always disappointing when you hear news like that but it was not a surprise for us because in Aberystwyth, over the last couple of years, we have been investing so much.
"We have been listening to the student voice to make sure we have the best ever student experience," she said.
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Students at Aberystwyth University have expressed concern after the institution has seen a dramatic fall in its rank in UK league table guides.
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She has just passed all the tests to work under the banner of the Search And Rescue Dogs Association (SARDA), which sounds very serious, but for her it's all a game.
In fact, it's all about her soggy tennis ball.
Trainer David Carlile demonstrates the process.
"Heidi is trained to detect human scent in the air and then follow the scent, she then sees the person, comes back, indicates to me by barking and then leads me back to the person. And then she gets her toy," he said.
That might sound straight forward, but it has been two and half long years of hard work for David and Heidi.
He is a volunteer with the organisation and has had the dog since she was a puppy.
As a search and rescue dog, Heidi is trained to find the scent of living humans, unlike the cadaver dogs sometimes used in hunts for bodies.
Until now, the team have been working with a dog based in County Donegal, but Heidi is the first of those currently being trained to qualify in Northern Ireland.
It is obvious that Heidi will run pretty much anywhere when she knows she will get her soggy tennis ball toy at the end of it and David says that is the crucial ingredient.
"It's the high play drive that makes a good search dog and she definitely has that," he said.
For David, the reward is knowing that he can help people in dire straits.
For his day job, he works as a kitchen fitter, and says being self-employed makes it easier to respond if he is needed.
The SARDA handlers are all volunteers, and are used by the police, mountain rescue and fire brigade.
David says he is ready for their first official call.
"Heidi is with me pretty much 24 hours a day. She comes to work with me, I've a bag packed, and if the call comes through - we're good to go."
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Heidi is the first qualified search and rescue dog in Northern Ireland, and she is keen to show off her new skills.
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A Ford was destroyed at Ballymagowan Park at around 02:00 BST and a Vauxhall was also extensively damaged in Cromore Gardens.
The Northern Ireland Fire Service attended both incidents and police are treating them as linked.
Sean McMonagle from Ballymagowan Park said it was not the first time he had been targeted.
"Criminals and cowards have attacked and burnt our family car at the house. I woke up at about 2am to see my wife's car burning.
"We have four children and although they slept through it last night, it's quite a shock for them to be told this morning.
"My car was attacked before as well as graffiti on my home."
There are no reports of any injuries.
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Two cars have been set alight in suspected arson attacks in the Creggan area of Derry on Friday.
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The move comes two days after the European Central Bank warned that Banca Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca were failing or likely to fail.
The banks' "good" assets will be taken on by Intesa Sanpaolo banking group.
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said the rescue was needed to protect savers and ensure "the good health of our banking system".
The two banks' branches and employees will be part of Intesa by Monday morning in a move designed to avoid a potential run on deposits that could have spread to other Italian banks.
Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said Rome would also offer guarantees of up to 12bn euros for potential losses to Intesa from bad and risky loans.
"Those who criticise us should say what a better alternative would have been. I can't see it," he told a press conference on Sunday.
Rome's plan has been approved by the European Commission and avoids a bailout under potentially tougher European rules.
The EC's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, said allowing Italy to use state aid would "avoid an economic disturbance in the Veneto region".
She added: "These measures will also remove 18bn euros in non-performing loans from the Italian banking sector and contribute to its consolidation."
Intesa, Italy's biggest retail bank, has paid a symbolic one euro for the two banks' good assets.
"Without Intesa Sanpaolo's offer - the only significant one submitted at the auction held by the government - the crisis of the two banks would have had a serious impact on the whole Italian banking system," financial analysts at Messina said.
The failure of the two Venetian banks could result in as many as 4,000 job losses, La Repubblica newspaper reported.
Sunday's rescue is the latest twist in the drive to fix the Italian banking system, which is saddled with bad loans worth about 350bn euros - a third of the eurozone's total bad debt.
In early June the European Commission and the Italian government agreed a state bailout for Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) that included big cost cuts, losses for some investors and a pay cap for its top executives.
The agreement followed months of talks over the fate of the world's oldest bank and Italy's fourth-biggest lender - the worst performer in last year's European stress tests.
Monte dei Paschi was forced to ask for state aid in December 2016 to help cover a capital shortfall of 8.8bn euros after investors declined to put more funds into the troubled bank.
The same month Mr Gentiloni said his government had set up a 20bn euro fund - largely to bail out MPS.
Sunday's announcement comes less than a month after Spain's Banco Popular was rescued by Santander.
The European Central Bank said Banco Popular was "failing or likely to fail" due to its dwindling cash reserves.
The bank has struggled after billions in property investments turned sour.
The rescue will cost Santander about 7bn euros (£6.1bn).
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Italy's government is bailing out two banks in the Venice region at a cost of 5.2bn euros (£4.6bn; $5.8bn).
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They pressed for extra capacity at Tweedbank to cope with charter trains.
The Campaign for Borders Railway said that an original "downbeat verdict" could have seen "an embarrassingly sub-optimal offer" for tourists.
The Scottish government said it had included communities and campaigners in the process of reopening the line.
The route between Edinburgh and Tweedbank in the Borders is to reopen next month.
CBR's UK Parliamentary Officer Nick Bethune said that a feasibility study in 2000 had not recognised the tourist potential of the route.
He said that, alongside the Waverley Route Trust, his organisation had argued "long and hard" for a bigger role for the railway.
He said research and lobbying, along with the efforts of MSP Claudia Beamish had prompted the "eleventh-hour decision" to authorise the extension of Tweedbank to accommodate 12-coach tourist charter trains.
He added that the scenic qualities of the route between Edinburgh and the Borders had since been "enthusiastically endorsed" by the transport minister at the time Keith Brown and former First Minister Alex Salmond.
"Our view is that the combination of a half-hourly ScotRail service plus charter trains from across Britain will be enormously attractive to the tourist market," he said.
He said it could bring "substantial new spend" to the Borders economy and Midlothian.
Mr Bethune also highlighted other tourism-related enhancements to the original rail specification which have been secured by CBR's campaigning.
He said those included saving the original Stow station building from demolition, better window and seat positioning and enhanced luggage and bike space.
"The reality is that if it hadn't been for rail campaigners' efforts this new railway would have provided an embarrassingly sub-optimal offer to the tourist market," he added.
A Scottish government spokesman said that, with less than two weeks until reopening the line, the excitement was now "palpable" along the route.
He said that the feasibility study in 2000 had been delivered under a previous administration.
However, he said that a "groundswell of interest" had allowed this government to "broaden the scope of the original plans" and "maximise the potential" of the line.
"The Borders Blueprint committee formed by former First Minister Alex Salmond is already working to exploit the full potential of the new railway once it's operational," he added.
"It has been important to the Scottish government to include the communities and campaigners throughout the process.
"We look forward to celebrating the opening with them just two weeks from now."
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Borders Railway campaigners have said they helped to avoid embarrassment for the Scottish government by highlighting the route's tourist potential.
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The plucky Grimethorpe Colliery Band - whose story gave rise to 1996 film Brassed Off - was given the honour as part of BBC Music Day.
It was installed outside the band's rehearsal rooms in South Yorkshire.
The plaque was one of 47 commemorating people or places that have influenced musical culture.
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Brassed Off, which starred the late British acting legend Pete Postlethwaite, featured the fictional town of Grimley and was partly based on the closure of Grimethorpe's pit in 1993.
It used music from the village's band.
Stephen Tompkinson, who starred as Phil in the film, said: I'm incredibly proud the film has lasted and lasted it means so much to people.
"It really strikes a deep note in them, when it would have been far easier just to pack up and stop entirely this band kept playing on.
"They're still there loud and proud today."
Roy Bowater, a tuba player, said: "I think the sound of Grimethorpe is unique, it grabs you by the throat it is just something that gets you from within."
The band was founded in 1917 by workers from the local coal mine.
It survived the closure of the pit in 1993 and relied on sponsorship money from a coal mining company, until 2011. Despite occasional concerns for its future it still continues to make music.
Grimethorpe is about 7 miles (11km) from Barnsley.
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A brass band which inspired a box office hit has been honoured with a blue plaque in the group's centenary year.
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The Portaferry woman received an unexpected boost last week when the Rio 1500m qualifying standard was amended to four minutes and seven seconds.
Mageean twice ran under 4:07.00 last summer with her personal best 4:06.49.
"I was over the moon when I heard and while it takes a bit of pressure off, it doesn't change things," she said.
"My whole season next year is planned around training and racing to make myself as fit as I can be.
"I'm going to follow those plans just the same but it means I can enter races with the security of knowing that I have the IAAF A standard and hopefully Olympic qualification.
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"Next year, I'm going to be wanting to run faster and faster. I'll run (under) 4:06 next year. That's my aim."
The International Olympic Committee has still to officially ratify the new IAAF qualifying marks in several events but that is expected to be a formality, which will ensure Mageean's Rio spot.
Mageean, 23, was out of action for nearly two seasons from the summer of 2012 as she battled against an ankle injury which effectively ended her hopes of qualifying for the London Olympics.
"I was unlucky enough to have a few years burdened by injury and it's great to be able to pull through after all that.
"I narrowly missed qualifying for London after running the B standard. That was bitterly disappointing for me so Rio was my next big goal," adds Mageean, who is now coached in Dublin by 1984 Olympic Jerry Kiernan.
After spending six days at home over Christmas, the UCD student heads to the Algarve on 30 December for a 10-day warm-weather training stint.
Following that, Mageean is planning to have a brief indoor season as she continues her build-up towards next summer's games.
"My fitness is very good at the minute although it's early season yet and I'm getting through my winter training.
"I've a bit to go yet but I'm feeling good and healthy and injury-free."
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Ciara Mageean says her training and racing plans for 2016 haven't changed despite having almost certainty booked her spot at the Rio Olympics.
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The 21-year-old, who had a spell on loan at Hearts last year, was released by Liverpool at the end of last season.
Ngoo goes straight into the Killie squad for Saturday's match against Ross County and said: "It is good to be back in Scottish football.
"I am looking to bring goals and compete for the league. I don't see any reason why this bunch of players can't compete for the league."
And he added: "If we beat every other team, then it's down to Celtic, if that makes sense.
"I watched them [Kilmarnock] play against Aberdeen [who won 2-0] and there wasn't much in the game so I believe that if everyone gets their head down and works hard, I don't see any reason why we can't.
"You can't go into something thinking we will settle for less.
"We have to aim for the best and if the best doesn't come then second isn't a bad position. That's how I feel.
"I am looking forward to tomorrow and if I get some minutes I will show everyone what I can do."
Manager Allan Johnston is delighted to have signed Ngoo, who scored five goals during his previous spell in Scottish football.
"He is a big presence, he did well with Hearts and we are expecting him to play a big part in our team this year," explained Johnston
"So it is up to him to put in good performances on the pitch.
"He is desperate to start playing again.
"The boys have made him welcome and he feels he is part of the squad so he should be a good signing.
"We still have Lee Miller to come back [from a calf injury] so we have options up front."
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Kilmarnock have signed striker Michael Ngoo on a two-year contract.
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Woakes took the key wickets of Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews and was well supported by Steven Finn's 3-59 as the tourists slumped from 162-1 overnight, as only Kusal Perera (42) resisted.
Under-pressure England man Nick Compton was out for 19 as the hosts lost three wickets for five runs in reply.
But they closed day three on 109-4, leading by 237.
Jonny Bairstow was out for 32 before the close, one of three wickets for the impressive Nuwan Pradeep, but Alex Hales remains unbeaten on 41.
Victory in this match will give England the series 3-0 having won the previous Tests at Headingley and Chester-le-Street.
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For much of this series, and indeed recent series, England's main wicket-taking threat has come from the enduring class of James Anderson and Stuart Broad.
But instead it was Woakes and Finn who took centre-stage as Sri Lanka's habit of losing wickets in clusters once again bedevilled them.
Woakes should have had a wicket with his first ball on Friday - only to see Dimuth Karunaratne dropped by Bairstow - but this time he did strike with his first delivery of the day, pinning Mendis lbw for 25, before he had Mathews caught at slip for three.
Finn, bowling with by far his best rhythm of the series, then had Dinesh Chandimal lbw for 19 and enticed Lahiru Thirimanne to edge to slip for 17.
Their form will pose a dilemma for the England selectors, with one of the two likely to lose their place when all-rounder Ben Stokes returns from injury.
Having established a 128-run first-innings lead, England were forced to turn to an unfamiliar opening combination, with Alastair Cook unavailable having gone for a scan on a knee injury sustained at silly point.
However, Compton's promotion up the order to the position in which he played his first nine Tests for England did little to revitalise his fortunes, as he nicked Eranga behind.
Having mustered just 51 runs at an average of 12.75 in this series, and with number threes like Scott Borthwick and Tom Westley scoring heavily in county cricket, the likelihood must be that 32-year-old Compton's 16th Test will be his last.
He was swiftly followed back to the pavilion by Joe Root - bowled by a scuttler from Pradeep - and, one ball later, Vince, bowled shouldering arms to the same bowler.
With 54 runs at 13.5, Vince has scarcely fared any better than Compton in this series, and while he will surely be given the series against Pakistan, he still has much to do to prove himself in Test cricket.
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It has been a tumultuous 24 hours for England captain Cook, who was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list announced on Friday.
But he was hit on the knee by a lusty drive from Perera and went to hospital for a scan, meaning that - for the first time since 2006 - England opened the batting in a home Test without the Essex man.
However, the scan revealed nothing more sinister than bruising and Cook is expected to bat in the morning.
England bowler Steven Finn on Sky Sports: "We've had a very good day. Only taking one wicket yesterday, to come back and bowl them out for 288 was a very good effort. To be 237 runs ahead and the ball is spinning a little bit...
"If we can get far enough ahead and get an unassailable lead, we can put Sri Lanka under some pressure.
"I've felt good in this game, back to normal. It's good to contribute again. I was maybe feeling for it a bit. Once I got into the spell I thoroughly enjoyed it."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on BBC Test Match Special: "The England top order has failed. The middle-order batting and the bowlers get England their wins. It doesn't fill you with confidence.
"Keep Vince, they have to give a player a good chance. He's got a bit to do. Compton, sadly, they will have to pick somebody else. The selectors have to identify someone and say 'his chance is now'."
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Chris Woakes took 3-31 as England bowled Sri Lanka out for 288 to take a grip on the third Test at Lord's.
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The 35-year-old was reported overdue on Sunday night after leaving for a weekend trip from Portsoy in Aberdeenshire.
A kayak matching the description of his was found on Monday night near Lybster in Caithness, and safety equipment was found near Portknockie in Moray.
An air, sea and coastline search for the fit but inexperienced kayaker resumed on Wednesday.
His sister Ellie told BBC Scotland from Australia: "The longer this stays in the minds of the nation the better."
She remains hopeful he had made it ashore to cliffs and was injured and would be found.
A Find Dom page has been set up on Facebook by friends, and the local community has been providing food and offers of free accommodation.
Mr Jackson, who lives in Fettercairn in Aberdeenshire and is originally from Uckfield in East Sussex, is believed to have set off in his kayak from Portsoy harbour on Saturday.
The alarm was raised by his flatmate on Sunday night when he failed to return home as expected.
Mr Jackson's green VW Transporter - which he was camping in for the weekend - was found in the Portsoy area.
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The search for missing kayaker Dominic Jackson has continued for a third day.
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Mr Boehner, a fellow Republican, has also reportedly said he will not vote for Mr Cruz if he becomes the nominee.
Their rift dates back to when Mr Cruz led a group of hard-core conservatives to force a government shutdown in 2013, against his party's leadership.
Meanwhile, Mr Boehner has described Donald Trump as a "texting buddy".
He also said they have played golf together for years and that he would vote for the billionaire if he were the Republican nominee, the Stanford Daily reported.
The billionaire is the front-runner on the race for the Republican nomination, ahead of Mr Cruz.
The Texas senator is seen by many Republicans as the only option to prevent Mr Trump from being the party's candidate. Others, however, dispute this, saying he is a divisive figure.
Mr Boehner, who was the most powerful Republican in US politics for a time until he resigned last October, used strong language when he spoke about Mr Cruz during a talk at Stanford University.
"I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," he said.
John Boehner tells us how he really feels.
At a time when Ted Cruz is struggling to save his presidential campaign, having a former high-ranking member of the Republican Party compare him to Beelzebub is, shall we say, unhelpful. It further reinforces the perception - hammered time and time again by Donald Trump - that Mr Cruz is too divisive, too abrasive, too unliked to be a successful leader.
The Texas senator likely would counter that he has made the right kind of enemies and the ire of the party establishment is a badge he will proudly wear. Unfortunately for him, however, the party establishment is just about the only thing left keeping his candidacy afloat. He has become the vessel for the #NeverTrump efforts - the last realistic candidate between Mr Trump on the nomination - and that movement is populated by insiders who, in any other situation, would not hesitate to stick a knife in Mr Cruz's back.
It seems Mr Boehner, happy in his retirement from politics, had no such reservations.
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Mr Cruz is credited with having a large role in the federal government shutdown in 2013, when Mr Boehner was Speaker of the House.
The Texas senator is seen as having an aggressive posture and considers himself as an anti-establishment politician.
He reacted to Mr Boehner's remarks on Twitter, saying: "Tell me again who will stand up to Washington? Trump, who's Boehner's "texting and golfing buddy," or Carly & me?", he wrote, referring to Carly Fiorina, his pick for vice-president in an eventual candidacy."
When asked about the Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, Mr Boehner reportedly impersonated her saying "Oh I'm a woman, vote for me," which received a negative reaction from the crowd.
He later said they had known each other for 25 years and that he finds the former secretary of state to be very accomplished and smart.
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US presidential hopeful Ted Cruz has been called "Lucifer in the flesh" by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner.
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Romelu Lukaku put the visitors in front with a penalty after keeper Jack Butland had brought down Tom Cleverley.
Seamus Coleman headed in a Cleverley corner and Aaron Lennon intercepted a pass before slotting in as Everton went 3-0 up at the break.
Lukaku also had a header tipped on to the crossbar by Butland, while a poor Stoke struggled to create chances.
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A lot was made about Everton boss Roberto Martinez's dance moves at a Jason Derulo concert in the week, but it was his team impressing with their performance at the Britannia Stadium.
England manager Roy Hodgson was at the game and he will have liked what he saw from Toffees midfielders Cleverley and Ross Barkley.
The industrious Cleverley burst through before being brought down for Everton's penalty, while his delivery from corners was a constant threat and led to Coleman's goal.
Barkley's attacking instincts also played a part in the win and he could have had an assist when he crossed for Lukaku, whose header from close range was brilliantly saved by Butland.
"I thought we were very strong in every department," said Martinez. "Cleverley had a big influence in the game throughout."
Stoke have endured a month to forget since their last league win against Norwich on 13 January.
Mark Hughes' side have been knocked out the Capital One Cup after a semi-final defeat on penalties by Liverpool, while they were beaten by Crystal Palace in the FA Cup.
The Potters have gained just one point from 12 in the league, dropping from seventh to 11th, and scored just one goal in six games.
The home side gave a debut to record £18.3m signing Gianelli Imbula but, like the rest of his team-mates, the midfielder struggled to make any kind of impact.
"I thought Imbila did OK. I felt sorry for him because as a debut that was a hard one to come into," said Hughes.
Stoke boss Mark Hughes: "We huffed and puffed and didn't really create again and that is a concern for us.
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"A disappointing day. We made mistakes at key times in the game and couldn't recover.
"We have to pick ourselves up and start doing the fundamentals and basics."
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "We defended really well when we had to but the amount of opportunities we created is pleasing. If anything we should have scored three or four more in the second half.
"We have to make sure we don't drop our standards now."
Stoke's next game is at Bournemouth on 13 February, while Everton host West Brom on the same day with both games kicking off at 15:00 GMT.
Match ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.
Second Half ends, Stoke City 0, Everton 3.
Attempt saved. Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) header from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Joselu with a cross.
Foul by Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City).
Bryan Oviedo (Everton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Substitution, Everton. Leon Osman replaces James McCarthy.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Marc Muniesa.
Substitution, Everton. Kevin Mirallas replaces Ross Barkley.
Attempt missed. Stephen Ireland (Stoke City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Joselu.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Phil Jagielka.
Offside, Stoke City. Joselu tries a through ball, but Glen Johnson is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Ramiro Funes Mori (Everton) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Tom Cleverley with a cross.
Corner, Everton. Conceded by Jack Butland.
Attempt saved. Arouna Koné (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ross Barkley.
Substitution, Stoke City. Joselu replaces Marko Arnautovic.
Substitution, Everton. Arouna Koné replaces Romelu Lukaku.
Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gareth Barry (Everton).
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Ramiro Funes Mori.
Attempt blocked. Giannelli Imbula (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Ireland.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt saved. Glen Johnson (Stoke City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Marko Arnautovic.
Attempt missed. James McCarthy (Everton) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku.
Attempt blocked. Peter Odemwingie (Stoke City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Offside, Everton. Seamus Coleman tries a through ball, but Aaron Lennon is caught offside.
Attempt blocked. Ross Barkley (Everton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gareth Barry with a cross.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aaron Lennon.
Substitution, Stoke City. Peter Odemwingie replaces Xherdan Shaqiri.
Substitution, Stoke City. Stephen Ireland replaces Ibrahim Afellay.
Xherdan Shaqiri (Stoke City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Bryan Oviedo (Everton).
Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City).
Aaron Lennon (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Romelu Lukaku (Everton) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ross Barkley with a cross.
Foul by Erik Pieters (Stoke City).
Seamus Coleman (Everton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Corner, Stoke City. Conceded by Gareth Barry.
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Everton moved up to seventh after beating Stoke, who suffered a third successive Premier League defeat.
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"It's a welcome break, and the view isn't too bad either," he says as he looks across the sea towards the Sunnmoere Alps' snow-covered peaks.
"A bridge across the fjord would obviously make the crossing faster, but Storfjorden is two or three kilometres wide and 700 metres deep, which makes it very expensive to build one," says Mr Bonesmo, IT and operations manager for a consumer goods company.
Many Norwegian fjords present similar difficulties to bridge builders, so instead the country's coastal population relies on ferries that link their often remote communities.
Each year, some 20 million cars, vans and trucks cross the country's many fjords on roughly 130 ferry routes.
Most of Norway's ferries run on diesel, spewing out noxious fumes and CO2.
But this is about to change.
Following two years of trials of the world's first electric car ferry, named Ampere, ferry operators are busy making the transition from diesel to comply with new government requirements for all new ferry licensees to deliver zero- or low-emission alternatives.
"We continue the work with low-emission ferries because we believe it will benefit the climate, Norwegian industry and Norwegian jobs," Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in a speech in April 2016, in which she vowed to help fund required quayside infrastructure.
Ferry company Fjord1, which operates the MF Norangsfjord, has ordered three fully electric ferries that are scheduled to enter active service on some of its routes in January 2018.
Multi Maritime, which designed the ferries, welcomes the growth in demand.
"Several years of investment in sustainable technologies have resulted in us having more than 10 fully electric and plug-in hybrid ferries under construction by several yards," says Gjermund Johannessen, managing director.
In addition to new-builds, the marine division of Siemens, which developed the technology for Ampere, believes 84 ferries are ripe for conversion to electric power. And 43 ferries on longer routes would benefit from conversion to hybrids that use diesel engines to charge their batteries.
If this were done, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions would be cut by 8,000 tonnes per year and CO2 emissions by 300,000 tonnes per year, equivalent to the annual emissions from 150,000 cars, according to a report penned jointly by Siemens and the environmental campaign group, Bellona.
Long-distance ferries are not well suited to electrification, but about 70% of Norway's ferries cover relatively short crossings, so switching to electric power would pay for itself in a few years, according to the report.
Each ferry would save about a million litres of diesel per year, helping to reduce energy costs by 60% or more, says Odd Moen, head of sales at Siemens' marine division.
"The electricity to power Ampere, with its 360 passengers and 120 cars, across a six kilometre-wide fjord costs about 50 kroner (£4.65; $5.80)," he says.
"In Norway, that won't even pay for a cup of coffee and a waffle."
Ampere's electric powertrain, which was designed by Fjellstrand shipyard using Siemens technology, includes an 800kWh battery pack weighing in at a hefty 11 tonnes, which powers two electric motors, one either side of the vessel.
The batteries are fully charged overnight, but as each of the 34 daily 20-minute crossings of the Sognefjorden requires 150kWh, the battery must be topped up during loading and unloading as well.
During initial trials, the fast charging placed excessive strain on the local grid, designed as it was to service a relatively small population.
To lighten the load, high-capacity batteries were put on constant charge on either side of the fjord, ready to transfer the electricity quickly to the ferry's batteries whilst docked.
The charging added an extra burden to the Ampere crew's busy schedules. But this challenge has been dealt with by the latest electric ferry designs, which incorporate fully automatic charging systems designed by Rolls-Royce, says the engineering firm's Oskar Levander, vice president of marine innovation, engineering and technology.
Emissions from diesel-powered ferries have always been a problem.
"When they're docked, their engines are idling - that's when you see those black fumes coming out of their chimneys - and then they're accelerating hard away from land, so their engines are never operating with maximum efficiency," explains Mr Moen.
Mr Moen says he has registered much interest in the technology from overseas, and urges other governments to require and support a switch from diesel to electric ferries where appropriate.
Indeed, emissions from ferries is a problem not just in Norway, but in coastal communities and cities all over the world.
In Hong Kong, the Environmental Protection Department has long been waging a war on emissions from ferries that are responsible for much of Victoria Harbour's poor air quality.
Similarly, in New Zealand a single ferry visit to Wellington used to pollute the air as much as all Wellington's cars did in a month, according to National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research figures.
Back in rural Sykkylven, where the air is relatively fresh, NOx emissions pose less of a problem than in a congested city.
But CO2 emissions from ferries should be curbed nevertheless to help combat climate change, Mr Bonesmo says, as he steers his electric car off the ferry.
By 2020, an all-electric solution will have replaced the current diesel-electric ferry on the Magerholm-Sykkylven crossing.
"And then my entire commute will be emissions free," Mr Bonesmo grins.
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It might be slow, but the romance of commuting by ferry is not lost on Trond Bonesmo as he boards MF Norangsfjord for the crossing from Magerholm to Sykkylven.
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Although Australia beat England by an innings and 46 runs in four days, the hosts ran out 3-2 series winners after regaining the urn at Trent Bridge.
"The last four days haven't quite gone to plan," Cook told Test Match Special.
"But going into the series no-one gave us a chance, so we can't let that take the gloss off a special summer."
Back-to-back victories at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge gave England an unassailable 3-1 lead going into the finale at The Oval.
However, they were outplayed by Australia, who completed their victory by taking England's last four second-innings wickets on a rain-hit final day.
"There has been a little bit missing in this match - it wasn't complacency - but emotionally to come from such a high at Trent Bridge and be 100% on it was hard and we couldn't quite manage it," said Cook.
Cook's team avenged their 5-0 whitewash down under to extend England's winning Ashes run on home soil to four series dating back to 2005.
But he insisted his young team have plenty of room for improvement after heavy defeats in two of the five Tests exposed flaws in the side.
"Are we near the peak? No, we're not. We're nowhere near the finished article, but we've got a very exciting team and I genuinely believe there will be some really good times," he said.
Australia's retiring captain Michael Clarke bemoaned the state of the pitches for the final three Tests, two of which were won by England inside three days.
Clarke claimed that calls in the English media for green, seaming pitches had influenced groundsmen at the venues.
"I'd like to see groundsmen around the world have the courage to go with what they think is a good cricket wicket," he said.
"In the first Two tests there was a lot of talk from the media and commentators about how flat the wickets were and yet those two matches were over in four days.
"One team won and one team lost. The next three were over in three days. I want to see good fair cricket for batters and bowlers and most importantly a winner and a loser."
Cook said: "The wickets were the same for both sides. In three of the five Test matches we played better than Australia and that's why we've won the Ashes.
"At certain moments we've had outstanding performances by a member of our side and the talent in our squad means we are going to win games quite quickly.
"We have some game-changers in that squad and in the Tests we've won we've really rammed home our advantage quickly."
There were only 18 days' play in the series - the joint lowest for a five-match series - after four-day finishes at Cardiff, Lord's and The Oval and three-day Tests at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge.
Australia coach Darren Lehmann said: "There aren't many matches that go five days, but three and a bit is a bit short.
"The people that miss out are the fans. That's the thing I worry about."
Amid England's celebrations, batsman Ian Bell admitted on Test Match Special that he would consider his future after a disappointing series in which he averaged 26.87.
Cook said he hopes 33-year-old Bell, who has played 115 Tests, decides to continue as England prepare to play Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates in October.
"Ian Bell is a class player and I hope he's around for a few more years," he said.
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England captain Alastair Cook said defeat in the final Test at The Oval will not detract from a "special summer" for his Ashes-winning team.
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The report, written by Sir Stephen Bubb, recommends introducing a charter of rights and more community facilities for people with learning disabilities.
It also says some "inappropriate" in-patient facilities should be closed.
The report comes after abuse was exposed at Winterbourne View care home in Bristol in 2011.
Sir Stephen, chief executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), was asked by NHS England how to address "serious shortcomings" in support for those with learning disabilities.
The report - Winterbourne View - Time for Change - offers 10 recommendations for the NHS, local government, regulators and the government.
Phill Wills, whose son Josh has a learning disability and severe autism, has to travel 300 miles from Cornwall to see him at a treatment hospital in Birmingham.
He told BBC News he has "fought tooth and nail" to have Josh's care provided nearer to his home.
"When we felt that we weren't being listened to, it felt like Josh wasn't being listened to," he said.
Leo Andrade, whose 19-year-old-son Steven also has severe autism and lives in a hospital in Northampton, welcomed the report.
Mrs Andrade lives in London and spends up to four hours travelling to see her son. She said she has "no trust whatsoever in the system".
"I do not want my son again in any other institution," she said. "I also find the idea that having my son away from us is robbing us of having a family."
Other recommendations include a framework to support people with learning disabilities and autism move out of hospitals and into the community.
Its other recommendations include:
Sir Stephen said the Winterbourne View "scandal" had "shocked the nation" and that had led to pressure to prevent such a case from happening again.
Neglect and abuse of patients by staff at the Winterbourne View private hospital, near Bristol, was uncovered by BBC Panorama. Six people were jailed in 2012 and five given suspended sentences.
Sir Stephen said: "We urge immediate action, to close all Winterbourne-style institutions and ramp up community provision.
"We need a new charter of rights to empower people with learning disabilities and their families, and give them the right to challenge the system. We need that system to have the courage to act on these recommendations, and not to promise another false dawn.
"The time for talk is over. It's time for people with learning disabilities or autism and their families to be put first."
Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We have got to do more to get people out of hospitals and into loving and caring homes in the community."
Labour leader Ed Miliband said there were still more people with learning disabilities moving into care than leaving.
Gary Bourlet from advocacy group People First England, who has a learning disability, said: "The report is full of good words. But there's not much here that hasn't been said before.
"We need someone to take charge of making change happen. And that person should be working alongside someone with a learning disability. We call that co-working. And we need a timetable as well."
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has called for "radical changes" in care for those with learning disabilities, saying it would mean "challenging legacy models of institutional care".
"NHS England's recent work with people with learning disabilities, and this new report, all now prove that radical changes are needed in NHS and social care," he said.
Jane Cummings, chief nursing officer for England, said: "This report asks every part of the system to respond. We are committed to playing a full and active role in the implementation of the recommendations and call on others to do the same."
She said work was already being done to introduce the recommendations and that the number of people being discharged from hospital was increasing. But she admitted more needed to be done to stop people being admitted.
NHS England said all local NHS leaders must now have a register of inpatients with learning disabilities and autism to create informed local care plans.
It is also carrying out care and treatment reviews, which looks at whether a patient is receiving the right care in the right place and takes into account the patient's requests.
NHS England expects about 1,000 reviews, which are supported by clinicians as well as NHS and local authority commissioners, to have taken place by the end of the year.
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People with learning disabilities in England are being kept in hospitals far from home for too long, a review says.
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The party will devote its opposition day debate in the Commons to the issue, having accused the prime minister of failing to show leadership.
David Cameron has said the UK will take thousands more refugees from Syrian camps.
He has also pledged an additional £100m in aid.
On Saturday, Scottish first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon confirmed £1m in Scottish government funding to co-ordinate Scotland's practical response to the humanitarian crisis
She has urged Mr Cameron to "do more" to help those in need.
A leading member of the Scottish Catholic Church also called for action, arguing that the UK needed to be "generous in providing a safe haven" for refugees seeking to enter Europe.
The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, criticised the "mean-spirited and unhelpful" approach Britain had adopted so far.
In an article in the Herald newspaper, he said the Conservative leader "appeared to offer no hope to those who have already reached Europe".
He wrote: "In my view the refugees crisis is a test, not of political shrewdness, but of common humanity. What is happening in the Mediterranean, Calais and other access points is an affront to human dignity."
The archbishop's comments came after Ms Sturgeon hosted an emergency summit in Edinburgh on Friday involving the Scottish Refugee Council, council leaders, religious groups and opposition politicians to discuss what could be done.
The Scottish government has agreed to set up a taskforce to co-ordinate the country's response to the crisis, with £1m of funding being provided to support its work.
The first minister said Scotland should accept 1,000 people as a "starting point" for further help, and council leaders across the country have signalled a willingness to shelter refugees.
SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson said the prime minister "has failed to show any leadership on the refugee crisis".
"He must attend this parliamentary debate and show that he is serious about taking action and moving beyond what, to date, has been a slow and wholly inadequate response from his government," Mr Robertson said.
"The prime minister must outline the full details of whether the UK Government will now offer asylum and protection to its fair share of refugees, and how he intends to work with other EU leaders to ensure multi-lateral action and a long-term solution to the crisis."
Labour's Shadow Scottish secretary Ian Murray had earlier written to Mr Robertson urging the SNP to use its Opposition Day debate to press the UK government on what he described as its "shameful" response to the crisis.
He said opposition parties at Westminster must speak out with "one voice" on the issue, and called for the UK to provide more support for refugees.
Earlier this week, Mr Cameron said accepting more people was not the simple answer to the situation.
But on Friday, he said the UK had a "moral responsibility" to help those displaced by the four-year conflict in Syria and more details would follow next week following discussions with organisations working in the region.
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The SNP has confirmed it will use an opportunity on Wednesday to hold the UK government to account over its stance on the refugee crisis.
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The prime minister's room for manoeuvre in the reshuffle was limited when her party was left with 318 MPs and Labour had 262.
Here's what we know so far. The list will be updated as new appointments are made.
Theresa May stays as prime minister despite not achieving the mandate for Brexit she had called the election for. The UK's second female PM took up the role after David Cameron resigned in the wake of the EU referendum result.
She had previously been home secretary for six years.
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Damian Green has been promoted to a new role the prime minister did not have in her first cabinet - that of first secretary of state. As the same time he also replaces Ben Gummer as minister for the Cabinet Office after Mr Gummer lost his seat in the election.
The move effectively makes the former work and pensions secretary, a friend and ally of Theresa May, her second in command. It could see Mr Green standing in for Mrs May at PMQs when she is not available.
The role - which was previously held by George Osborne and, under Labour, Peter Mandelson - gives Mr Green seniority over other cabinet ministers.
Philip Hammond remains as chancellor of the exchequer. He was foreign secretary under David Cameron from 2014 to 2016, having previously served as defence secretary and transport secretary.
Mr Hammond, 61, is seen at Westminster as the ultimate safe pair of hands steering Britain's economy through the post-Brexit period ahead.
Sometimes mocked as "box office Phil" for what some see as his dull delivery, he forged a reputation in the shadow Treasury team as the Tories' public spending "axeman".
No change at the Foreign Office as Boris Johnson keeps his job. Despite hints from some of the newspapers that Mr Johnson, 52, may turn his hand to trying to lead the party, he has categorically dismissed such claims.
Mr Johnson said that while the public would be wondering about the future of the current government, Mrs May had got the biggest Conservative mandate anyone had achieved for decades.
"I'm going to be backing her, and absolutely everybody I'm talking to is going to be backing her as well."
Amber Rudd remains as home secretary despite only narrowly holding her seat as MP for Hastings and Rye. During the election campaign, she stood in for the PM in the BBC's televised debate in May.
Ms Rudd was previously energy and climate change secretary, a position she held for just one year.
The former investment banker, venture capitalist and financial journalist, aged 53, decided to enter politics in her 40s in order to get "a grip on her life".
David Davis keeps his job of secretary of state for exiting the European Union - or "Brexit secretary". The role was created in July to take the lead in negotiating the UK's exit from the EU.
A veteran Eurosceptic, he has previously held the positions of Conservative party chairman and shadow deputy prime minister. Between 2003 and 2008, he was the shadow home secretary under both Michael Howard and David Cameron.
Mr Davis, 68, lost to David Cameron in the 2005 Tory leadership contest.
Michael Fallon has kept his job at the Ministry of Defence - a position the 65-year-old has held since 2014.
He was Conservative MP for Darlington from 1983 to 1992 - initially during Margaret Thatcher's time in Downing Street - and after leaving Parliament was later re-elected as MP for Sevenoaks in 1997.
A former Conservative Party deputy chairman, Mr Fallon has previously served as energy and business minister, and before that secretary of state for business and enterprise.
Liam Fox, 55, continues as the secretary of state for international trade. He was made secretary of state for defence in 2010 but resigned in 2011 over allegations he had given a close friend, lobbyist Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas.
Mr Fox stood in the leadership race against Theresa May but was eliminated in the first ballot after winning the support of just 16 MPs.
He told reporters he was "delighted" to keep the job he has held since July last year.
"It's now time for the whole of the Conservative party to rally behind the prime minister and get a government in the national interest."
Former Leader of the House of Commons David Lidington gets the job of justice secretary, replacing Liz Truss.
He had been Europe Minister since 2010 but moved across to aid the smooth running of the Commons in 2016.
The Cambridge history graduate and father-of-four has been MP for Aylesbury since 1992. He previously worked for BP and mining firm Rio Tinto.
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park keeps her job as the leader of the House of Lords. When appointed in 2016, it was her first ministerial role since being ennobled by David Cameron in 2014.
She attended London's Henrietta Barnett School and Cambridge University before becoming deputy director of the Conservative research department, deputy director of the Policy Exchange think-tank and chief operating officer of the New Schools Network - the organisation which ran Michael Gove's free schools programme.
Jeremy Hunt remains in his post despite the problems within the NHS.
He took over the health portfolio following a cabinet reshuffle in 2012, and at the time described the appointment as the "biggest privilege of my life". But in a tweet he admitted there were "challenges ahead, but also huge opportunities to make our NHS even better".
Last year, Mr Hunt was locked in a battle with the British Medical Association over a new contract for junior doctors, which led to a series of strikes.
Justine Greening has kept her roles as education secretary and minister for women and equalities. She is part of the most diverse Parliament yet as she openly defines herself as a lesbian.
At London Pride in 2016, the 48-year-old announced in a tweet she was in a same-sex relationship, saying "I campaigned for Stronger In but sometimes you're better off out!".
Ms Greening replaced Nicky Morgan at education in 2016, leaving her international development secretary post, which she was promoted to in 2011.
She has been MP for Putney since 2005.
Chris Grayling remains as transport secretary in Theresa May's cabinet.
The former Leader of the House has been dealing with Southern Rail's disrupted services, the question of Heathrow's third runway and the high speed rail link, HS2.
He also served as shadow transport secretary from December 2005 to 2007.
Karen Bradley has kept her role as Culture, Media and Sport Secretary. She had been working with Theresa May as a Home Office minister since 2014.
She was first elected MP for Staffordshire Moorlands in May 2010.
Michael Gove has made a comeback, with the prime minister bringing him back into cabinet and appointing him environment secretary.
In the 2016 reshuffle he was sacked as justice secretary and before that he served under David Cameron as education secretary and chief whip in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition.
Despite campaigning alongside Boris Johnson for Brexit, he withdrew his support for Mr Johnson to be Conservative leader and prime minister, choosing instead to stand himself. He was eliminated in the final round of voting by MPs, coming third.
Mr Gove's surprise move to stand for the leadership effectively dashed his colleague's hopes of winning and prompted Mr Johnson's withdrawal from the contest.
A sideways step for David Gauke, with the PM appointing him as the new work and pensions secretary. He was previously the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who attends cabinet but does not have a ministerial role.
Mr Gauke has been the MP for Hertfordshire South West since 2005. He is a qualified solicitor and worked for a leading City firm until he was elected.
Sajid Javid keeps his job as secretary of the department for communities and local government.
He held this position in 2014 before being appointed to business secretary a year later.
A former managing director of Deutsche Bank, Mr Javid has been MP for Bromsgrove in Worcestershire since 2010.
He stood on a "joint ticket" with Stephen Crabb for the leadership election, hoping to be chancellor if Mr Crabb had become PM.
James Brokenshire continues as the Northern Ireland Secretary. He previously worked with the PM at the Home Office, where he was immigration minister.
From 2011 to 2015, he served as security minister at the Home Office with responsibility for domestic national security and counter-terrorism. This included supporting the home secretary with oversight of the work of MI5 and the national police counter-terrorism network.
Mr Brokenshire's responsibilities also included the government's counter-terrorism strategy and he was part of the prime minister's "extremism taskforce". He also led negotiations with the Jordanian government to secure the deportation of the radical cleric Abu Qatada.
Alun Cairns, MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, remains in his cabinet role as secretary of state for Wales.
The 46-year-old, who was born in Swansea and is a graduate of the University of Wales, Newport, was elected in 2010.
He worked in banking for a decade before his election to the Welsh Assembly.
David Mundell will continue as secretary of state for Scotland. He is one of 13 Scottish Conservatives to be in Parliament after this snap election.
Former prime minister David Cameron first appointed Mr Mundell to the post when he held his Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale seat for the third consecutive election in 2015.
In January 2015, Mr Mundell became the first openly-gay Conservative cabinet secretary.
Patrick McLoughlin remains as the Conservative Party chairman and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
He left his role as transport secretary in 2016 but has been an MP since 1986.
The former miner also served as chief whip after being appointed to the role in David Cameron's first cabinet.
Andrea Leadsom has been given the job of the Leader of the House of Commons. She was the former environment secretary who dramatically pulled out of the Conservative leadership race.
Mrs Leadsom's public reason for withdrawing from the leadership race was to allow a rapid transition at the top, and give the economy certainty in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
Greg Clark keeps his job as secretary of state of business, energy and industrial strategy.
The role, when it was created by Labour's Gordon Brown, was originally called the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Last year, it was merged into the new department and lost the "climate change" part of its name.
Environmentalists immediately expressed concern that the reshaping of departments showed the government was downgrading climate change as a priority.
Priti Patel remains as International Development Secretary. She was promoted from her role as employment minister, which she held for a year, in 2016.
Ms Patel became MP for Witham in 2010 and joined the front bench as a Treasury minister in 2014.
She is no stranger to controversy, having previously advocated bringing back the death penalty and was accused of "divide and rule politics" during the referendum campaign for claiming that "biased" immigration policy prevents curry chefs from outside the EU from working in the UK.
On her appointment, she immediately faced calls to guarantee the UK's legal commitment to spending 0.7% of GDP on overseas aid.
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Theresa May has formed her new government after the Conservatives lost their majority in the general election.
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The seven-time champion, 27, saw off Djokovic 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-7 (3-7) 9-7 in four hours and 37 minutes.
Nadal will play David Ferrer in Sunday's final after his fellow Spaniard overcame France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.
It will be Nadal's first Grand Slam final since he beat Djokovic at Roland Garros last year, having missed seven months with a serious knee injury.
Friday's first semi-final had been the focus of attention ever since the draw paired the duo in the same half, and it did not disappoint.
While not quite matching the five hours and 53 minutes of their 2012 Australian Open final, there was drama every step of the way.
Nadal failed to serve out the match in the fourth set and Djokovic let a 4-2 lead slip in the fifth, before the Spaniard proved the stronger as the decider headed past one hour and 20 minutes.
"It's very, very special for me," said Nadal. "I want to congratulate Novak, he's a great champion and he will win here at Roland Garros one day, I'm sure.
"Serving for the match at 6-5 in the fourth, I was serving against the wind, so I knew it was going to be a difficult game. I was ready for the fight. In Australia 2012 it was a similar match - today it was me [that won]. That's the great thing about sport."
World number one Djokovic said: "It's been an unbelievable match to be part of, but all I can feel now is disappointment. That's it. I congratulate him, because that's why he's a champion.
Rafael Nadal has lost just once in his 59 matches at Roland Garros - a fourth-round defeat to Sweden's Robin Soderling in 2009
"That's why he's been ruling Roland Garros for many years, and for me it's another year."
With the temperature pushing 30C, Nadal's fearsome forehand had dominated the early stages, helping him to break at 3-3 and go ahead early in the second.
Djokovic would prove to be at his most dangerous when behind, however, stringing together a brilliant four games to level and letting out an almighty roar after one rasping forehand.
The two tournament favourites landed blow after blow on each other, with Nadal responding superbly to dropping the second set by breaking at the start of the third when a line call went against Djokovic.
Nadal closed it out after a brisk 37 minutes, interrupted only when Djokovic headed off court with the trainer, and the champion twice led by a break in the fourth against the apparently fading top seed.
Djokovic refused to yield, however, recovering to 4-4 before some magnificent returning denied Nadal as he served for a place in the final at 6-5.
With the wind in his sails once again, Djokovic raced through the tie-break, levelling the match with a fizzing forehand that caught out Nadal at the net, and got his first glimpse of a place in the final with another great return at the start of the fifth.
Djokovic, looking for the one Grand Slam title that has so far eluded him, made it to 4-2 before Nadal began to reel him in, levelling in a thrilling game that saw the Serb miss an easy put away by touching the net at deuce.
Both men produced brilliant tennis, and the occasional shocking miss, as the games ticked by and the tension rose, but several missed smashes and complaints to the umpire about the slippery court suggested Djokovic was the edgier.
When the end came, it was swift, as Nadal fired a forehand winner on his way to three match points and Djokovic sent a tired forehand over the baseline.
It might only have been a semi-final, but the Spaniard's reaction showed how thrilled he was to reach his first Slam final after 12 months so disrupted by injury.
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Rafael Nadal won a stunning heavyweight clash with world number one Novak Djokovic to reach his eighth French Open final.
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The finds, including a well-preserved skull, bolster the idea that the Homo naledi people deliberately deposited their dead in the cave.
Evidence of such complex behaviour is surprising for a human species with a brain that's a third the size of ours.
Despite showing some primitive traits it lived relatively recently, perhaps as little as 235,000 years ago.
That would mean the naledi people could have overlapped with the earliest of our kind - Homo sapiens.
In a slew of papers published in the journal eLife, Prof Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Prof John Hawks from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, and their collaborators have outlined details of the new specimens and, importantly, ages for the remains.
The H. naledi story starts in 2013, when the remains of almost 15 individuals of various ages were discovered inside the Dinaledi chamber - part of South Africa's Rising Star Cave system.
At the same time, the researchers were exploring a second chamber about 100m away, known as Lesedi ("light" in the Setswana language which is spoken in the region).
The finds from Dinaledi were published in 2015, but remains from the Lesedi chamber had not previously been presented, until now.
The latest specimens include the remains of at least three individuals - two adults and a child.
One of the adults has a "wonderfully complete skull", according to Prof Hawks. This tough-looking specimen is probably male, and has been named "Neo", which means "a gift" in the Sesotho language of southern Africa.
Examination of its limb bones shows that it was equally comfortable climbing and walking.
The fact that Homo naledi was alive at the same time and in the same region of Africa as early representatives of Homo sapiens gives us an insight into the huge diversity of different human forms in existence during the Pleistocene.
"Here in southern Africa, in this time range, you have the Florisbad skull, which may be an ancestor or close relative of modern humans; you've got the Kabwe skull, which is some kind of archaic human and possibly quite divergent; you've got evidence from modern people's genomes that archaic lineages have been contributing to modern populations and may have existed until quite recently," said Prof Hawks.
"You have this very primitive form of Homo [naledi] that has survived alongside these other species for a million years or more. It is amazing the diversity that we are now seeing that we had missed before."
As to how H. naledi held on to its distinctive characteristics while living cheek-by-jowl with other human species, Prof Hawks said: "It's hard to say it was geographic isolation because there's no boundary - no barrier. It's the same landscape from here to Tanzania; we're in one continuous savannah, woodland-type habitat.
He added that the human-sized teeth probably reflected a diet like that of modern humans. In addition, H. naledi had limb proportions just like ours and there is no apparent reason why it could not have used stone tools.
"It doesn't look like they're in a different ecological niche. That's weird; it's a problem. This is not a situation where we can point to them and say: 'They co-existed because they're using resources differently'," Prof Hawks told BBC News.
The researchers say that finding the remains of multiple individuals in a separate chamber bolsters the idea that Homo naledi was caching its dead. If correct, this surprising - and controversial claim - hints at an intelligent mind and, perhaps, the stirrings of culture.
By dating the site, researchers have sought to clear up some of the puzzles surrounding the remains.
In 2015, Prof Berger told BBC News that the remains could be up to three million years old based on their primitive characteristics. Yet the bones are only lightly mineralised, which raised the possibility that they might not be very ancient (although this is not always an accurate guide).
In order to arrive at an age, the team dated the bones themselves, sediments on the cave floor and flowstones - carbonate minerals formed when water runs down the wall or along the floor of a cave.
Several techniques were used: optically stimulated luminescence to date the cave sediments, uranium-thorium dating and palaeomagnetic analyses for the flowstones and combined U-series and electron spin resonance (US-ESR) for dating three naledi teeth.
By combining results together, they were able to constrain the age of the Homo naledi remains to between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago.
"We've got a geological bracket based on flowstones overlying the fossils and we've had direct dates on the teeth themselves," said John Hawks.
The team sent samples to two separate labs to perform their analyses "blind". This meant that neither lab knew what the other was doing, or what their analytical approaches were. Despite this, they returned the same results.
"This is now the best dated site in southern Africa - we threw everything at it," said John Hawks.
Commenting on the dates, Prof Chris Stringer, of London's Natural History Museum, said: "This is astonishingly young for a species that still displays primitive characteristics found in fossils about two million years old."
Apart from one well known exception (the Indonesian "Hobbit"), Prof Stringer explained, "the discovery and dating also question the usual assumption that... selection universally drove the evolution of a larger brain in humans during the last million years."
Many mysteries remain about this intriguing member of the human family tree. Not least of them is H. naledi's evolutionary history up until the point the remains show up in the Rising Star cave system.
Researchers currently envisage two possibilities. The first is that H. naledi represents one of these earliest branches of Homo - perhaps something like Homo habilis. It retains a rather primitive anatomy while evolving in parallel with the branch of the human family tree that eventually results in modern humans.
The other possibility is that it diverged more than a million years ago from a more advanced form of Homo - perhaps Homo erectus - and then reverted to a more primitive form in some aspects of its skull and teeth.
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A new haul of ancient human remains has been described from an important cave site in South Africa.
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As reported earlier this week on the BBC, the UK's biggest banks have lost some customers following a change to the switching system.
It now takes seven working days to change accounts, rather than up to 30 as was the case previously.
All regular payments are automatically moved over to the new account.
For 36 months after the switch, payments accidentally made to or requested from the old account are automatically redirected to the new one.
Banks including Barclays, NatWest, HSBC, Lloyds Bank and RBS were among those recording the biggest losers of customers using the switching service between July and September last year, figures show.
Meanwhile, Halifax, Santander, Nationwide Building Society and Tesco Bank made net gains in current account customers using the switching service.
The Payments Council, which oversees the switching system, said 1.14 million current account customers switched to another deal in the past 12 months, a 7% year-on-year increase.
Andrew Hagger, of MoneyComms, said: "The figures show that although more people are voting with their feet and looking for a more suitable banking relationship, the vast majority are refusing to budge from their existing provider despite the array of enticing upfront cash incentives on offer.
"The confusing array of different tariffs on offer for credit interest, cashback, rewards and overdraft charges means the current account market remains a minefield for customers looking to find the most appropriate deal."
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Major High Street banks are among the biggest losers of customers switching current accounts, figures have confirmed.
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And high-profile international league tables are a very public form of this pecking order.
While these might measure a whole range of factors - from reputation and staff ratios to research output - what they do not compare is the ability of students who have been taught in these universities.
But the OECD, in its annual Education at a Glance, has published test results comparing the ability of graduates in different countries.
And it shows a very different map of higher education than the ranking tables, which are dominated by US and UK universities, such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge and UCL.
The OECD tested literacy skills among graduates - and the high-flyers were not in the US or UK, but in Japan and Finland.
These figures, based on test results rather than reputation, show a very different set of nationalities from the usual suspects.
The OECD's top 10 highest performing graduates
None of the countries in the top places make much of an appearance in conventional university rankings.
But while the names of US Ivy League universities are familiar around the world, Norwegian and Australian universities seem to be turning out more capable graduates.
In the QS World University Rankings, there were 32 US universities in the top 100, but only one from New Zealand.
But graduates from New Zealand are higher achieving than their US counterparts.
There is also the question of cost - and the return on investment in higher education for both students and taxpayers.
The Dutch university system, with low fees, outperforms the United States and England, which charge much higher tuition fees.
Scotland and Wales are not included in this OECD measure, but Northern Ireland is in 14th place.
It casts a light too on how an efficient school system might not translate into success in higher education.
South Korea and Singapore, both high achievers at school level, are below average in the graduate rankings.
And what does it mean for the value of university degrees in countries such as Italy, Spain and Greece, who are languishing at the bottom of these graduate test results?
Andreas Schleicher, the OECD's education director, says the results show ability levels can "vary hugely among people with similar qualifications".
They might all have degrees, but "there are major differences in the quality of higher education".
"When it comes to advanced literacy skills, you might be better off getting a high school degree in Japan, Finland or the Netherlands than getting a tertiary degree in Italy, Spain or Greece," says Mr Schleicher.
These OECD test results may be completely different from conventional university rankings, but the two sets of findings are not incompatible, says Ben Sowter, director of the QS World University Rankings.
While the OECD has compared standards across national higher education systems, the university rankings are focused on an elite group of individual universities.
Mr Sowter says if every university in the US was measured in rankings, it would show "they have a share of the worst as well as the best".
The US has a highly polarised education system, but that is not apparent from a ranking system that focuses only on the top.
QS World University Rankings 2016-17
The success of a country such as Finland in the quality of its graduates could owe as much to its school system as its universities, Mr Sowter says.
And it is likely to be "harder to run a bad university in Finland than in the US".
But Mr Sowter says the OECD findings highlight a longstanding question about priorities for higher education.
Should countries invest in making sure there is a good overall standard - or should they focus on cultivating a few world-leading institutions?
There would be a good economic case for arguing for a consistently high standard across all universities rather than a landscape of peaks and valleys.
More stories from the BBC's Global education series looking at education from an international perspective, and how to get in touch
University rankings can highlight differences between individual institutions, but Mr Sowter says they cannot be used to evaluate how well a higher education system is performing.
The OECD runs the Pisa tests, which compare standards in secondary schools in more than 70 countries.
And there was an attempt by the think tank to set up a higher education version, so that comparisons could be made between individual universities.
But universities, particularly in the US, were not at all keen, and there seems little imminent sign of university league tables based on the quality of the students they produce.
Even though there might be scepticism about how international league tables are calculated, there is no avoiding their importance, when universities have to compete as much as brands as academic institutions.
When Oxford was named for the first time this year at the top of the Times Higher Education world rankings, it was headline news.
But according to the OECD tables, maybe the celebrations should be among graduates in Japan and Finland.
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Higher education has a strong sense of hierarchy.
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Here Sarah Scott describes the shock she experienced when details of her medical history, which were so personal her own mother did not know about them, were brought up in court by her rapist's QC.
My name is Sarah. I live in the north east of Scotland. I am a mother. I am a rape survivor.
In May 2011, my rapist, Adrian Ruddock, was convicted at the High Court in Aberdeen and sentenced to eight years imprisonment.
In the days that followed my rape, I struggled to cope mentally and emotionally. I didn't want to deal with it - I couldn't. The pain, the trauma, it consumed me.
This culminated in me attempting to end my life. I was admitted to A&E and given life-saving treatment.
It was here, in my fragile mental state - still dazed, confused, traumatised, still bleeding from the tears when he ripped me open - that I was given a piece of paper to sign by police officers.
It was a consent form for my medical records to be used as evidence. I wasn't given any legal advice, I wasn't even offered a choice. It was handed to me and I was to sign it.
I was never told what this information would be used for. I was certainly never told that my rapist's QC - Ronald Renucci - would broadcast personal information from my childhood in court.
I tried to prepare myself in the months that followed for giving evidence. I made detailed notes - I filled notebooks with everything that could be asked of me in court.
I was determined to be prepared for everything and anything. But I placated myself with the belief that legislation would prevent my rapist's QC from attacking my character. I was wrong. Very wrong.
Giving evidence can only be described as re-victimisation and secondary violation. In other words: being raped all over again.
I knew that I would have to tell the court in chilling detail precisely how this man violated me, I knew the defence were going to paint me as some scorned temptress, I knew it was going to be difficult.
Look, to the world I epitomise the old cliche of "asking for it". I am the perfect imperfect rape victim. I was drunk. I was wearing a short skirt. I knew the man who attacked me. I willingly, albeit under false pretences, went back to his home.
But nothing prepared me - or rather, no one prepared me - for the fact that my previous mental health records were going to be lambasted in a courtroom full of strangers.
While cross examining me, Renucci asked something that shocked me. He asked me if I had ever self-harmed in the past.
I was confused. I was angry. I didn't understand. When I was a young teenager - around 13-years-old - I was bullied at high school. I was depressed.
I resorted to self-harm to deal with my pain. I had only confided this detail to a school psychologist, maybe my doctor. I hadn't even told my own mother.
But here, at the trial of my rapist - some seven or more years later - this incredibly personal information was being broadcast to all - journalists, the jury, the judge, and worst of all, the man who only five months prior had repeatedly raped me.
I am sure he could see the colour drain from my face, I am sure everyone could. My heart felt like it had 1,000 anchors pulling it to the ground. I wasn't prepared for this.
All those hours of taking notes and I didn't see this coming. I was blindsided. Completely blindsided. I looked around, desperate for someone to save me, to help me, to see that this was not right. But it was in vain. I proclaimed something along the lines of: "Do I have to answer that?".
The judge, Lord Bracadale, told me that I did, in fact, have to answer. He told me that only the prosecution were allowed to object to a line of questioning. They didn't.
So there, alone, I had to tell the world that when I was a little bullied girl I cut myself to deal with the pain.
Normally in life when someone is verbally attacking you and your identity and character you can walk away. You can ignore them. You can leave the room. I couldn't do this. I had to answer his questions.
I was so traumatised that I didn't want to go back in that courtroom. I told staff that I was running away. I was told I had no choice - a warrant for my arrest would be issued otherwise.
It sounds cliche, but I truly did feel like I was on trial - I was on trial for being raped.
Why were my mental health records brought up in court that day?
My rapist was convicted after a majority verdict. I will never know how many of those jurors thought that I was lying. I will never know what their reasons were, but in my mind it's clear: it's at least in part because of those medical records. I may be wrong, but that's truly what I believe.
My experience is not unique: since my assault, I have spoken to countless survivors who have experienced the same thing I have. It's not right. It's not fair. It cannot continue. Something has to change.
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Campaigners have welcomed a ruling by a senior judge that abuse victims should be able to access legal aid to fight attempts by lawyers to obtain their medical records.
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A third (32%) of support staff in UK state schools polled by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) said they took classes for absent teachers.
Over a fifth (22%) said they took more classes in 2012-13 than in 2011-12.
A Department for Education (DfE) spokeswoman said: "The rules are clear - they should not be teaching."
The DfE said teaching assistants and other classroom support staff played a vital role in the classroom, short of teaching whole classes of children.
"The government's recent review of school efficiency showed that, when properly trained and deployed, teaching assistants play an important role in helping to improve learning," the spokeswoman said.
"It is for school leaders to use the expertise of all staff to ensure any disruption to pupils is minimal and that taxpayers get value for money."
The ATL polled more than 1,400 of its members working as support staff in state schools in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
A spokeswoman for the union said the rules allow classroom assistants to teach small groups of children under the supervision of a qualified teacher, but they should not teach whole classes or prepare teaching material.
Higher level teaching assistants may contribute to lesson planning and deliver lessons to whole classes to assist an assigned teacher, while cover supervisors are employed to supervise classes while pupils complete work set by a teacher.
A quarter (25.4%) of the teaching assistants and learning support workers surveyed and almost half (49.1%) of higher level teaching assistants said they were asked to cover lessons.
Of the 400 who said they stood in for the regular class teacher, 60% said they did the same work as fully qualified teachers, claims the union, while a third (31%) of these staff said they had been used to take classes for three or more consecutive days.
The union quotes a higher level teaching assistant at a secondary school in England: "I prepare, teach and mark at least four lessons for two year-7, bottom-set classes, and a year-8 set for at least three hours a week. It is teaching on the cheap."
A cover supervisor said: "I have even been asked to give copies of lessons I have prepared to members of teaching staff."
A primary school teaching assistant added: "It is unfair that many teaching assistants are teaching classes in the absence of a teacher, and doing the same job as a teacher for much less money."
ATL general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: "Schools are selling children short by using teaching assistants to teach classes when the regular teacher is unavailable.
"We are totally opposed to this exploitation of support staff who are being used as a cheap option to teachers.
"It is grossly unfair on them and on the children and their parents who rightly expect their children to be taught by qualified teachers."
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Classroom support staff say they are increasingly being asked to stand in for fully qualified teachers, a union is claiming.
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The former Celtic and Chelsea defender was asked if would rather attend the Old Firm clash (12:00 BST) or encounter between United and City (12:30 KO).
"Manchester's a great game, great city, great managers, great players," said Elliott, who had two years in Glasgow.
"But I'd love to be among the Celtic supporters in that intensity."
The Old Firm rivals have only met twice in cup competitions since financial problems led to Rangers playing four seasons in the lower divisions.
"Scotland suffered commercially, environmentally, socially because of that," Elliott told BBC Scotland's Sportsound ahead of Celtic and Rangers' first Scottish Premiership meeting of the season.
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"It is a huge game and especially with the circumstances.
"I think it is wonderful that this weekend the two biggest clubs in Scotland have reconnected and we've got a fantastic game in prospect, not just for Scotland but for Britain and maybe for the whole of Europe as well.
"Being in that environment, in that intensity, after a five-year absence, being part of an Old Firm game - that's where I would want to be."
Elliott, who also played for Charlton, Luton, Aston Villa, and Pisa in Italy, says he "never experienced such a rivalry, a day-to-day intensity" as his time with Celtic from 1989 to 1991.
"Two huge clubs, two global brands within a three-mile square radius," he noted.
"I was in Italy before, playing at a slow, far more moderate tempo and build-up.
"Coming from that tempo, at times in Glasgow I felt like I needed an extra lung to keep up with the play. It took me three or four months to just get used to the tempo."
Former Netherlands full-back Arthur Numan joined Rangers in 1998, nine years after Elliott arrived at Celtic, despite knowing little about Scottish football.
His Old Firm debut was a 5-1 drubbing at Celtic Park.
"The atmosphere was unbelievable," recalled the 46-year-old, who spent five years with Rangers after joining from PSV Eindhoven. "Sometimes I was looking around me and thinking 'what is happening?'.
"I had just come back from the World Cup, so I was playing at the highest level against the big teams and against the best players.
"But to be honest, playing in an Old Firm game was still the highlight of my career.
"Nothing can beat the Old Firm and all my friends who came over said it was absolutely fantastic and all wanted to come back, even now."
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Paul Elliott says he would rather be at Celtic Park than Old Trafford as the Glasgow and Manchester derbies compete for worldwide attention on Saturday.
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Ni Yulan had hoped to travel this week to accept the state department's International Women of Courage Award.
But she says she was refused a passport. She also alleges she and her husband were forcibly evicted from their home and he was beaten up.
Ms Ni, a lawyer, is known for defending property rights of citizens.
She had been due to attend the US award ceremony in Washington on Tuesday, and had applied for a new passport last month.
"When I went to get a passport I was told I was forbidden to travel abroad," she told the BBC. "They raised my involvement in a criminal case in which I had supported the defendants and written some articles on their behalf."
She said there was no legal reason for withholding her passport: "It was an excuse and a violation of my rights."
Earlier, she told overseas Chinese-language news sites that Beijing authorities refused her permission to travel because of her links with a group of human rights lawyers who were arrested in July last year.
She also said she was also told by her property agent to vacate her rented Beijing home. The agent said the police had put pressure on him to end her rental agreement prematurely.
On Saturday a large group of men - some of them wearing black uniforms - barged into their home and threw them out, she said, adding that they also confiscated money from her.
"Some of them started beating up my husband, another group rushed into the interior of our home and started flinging out items," she told Voice of America (in Chinese).
"After beating my husband they dragged him out to the courtyard entrance where they continued to beat him and stomped on him with their feet."
The couple have since moved in with a friend.
Ms Ni is known for helping a group of Beijing residents whose homes were demolished to make way for structures built for the 2008 Olympic Games.
She has been jailed repeatedly by Chinese authorities and uses a wheelchair - a consequence, she and her supporters say, of mistreatment by police over the years.
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A Chinese human rights activist says she has been barred from leaving the country just as she was planning to travel to the US to accept an award.
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The 19-year-old spent time in League Two on loan at Cheltenham this season, making six appearances.
Jones moved to Liverpool from Plymouth's academy and played for the Wales Under-19 team before switching his allegiance to England.
"His experience at this level with Cheltenham will help him," said Stanley boss John Coleman.
"Defence is probably the one area that we're a bit short in and Lloyd will be a great addition to our squad."
The centre-back is available for Accrington's game at Burton on Saturday.
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League Two side Accrington Stanley have signed Liverpool defender Lloyd Jones on loan for one month.
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Waverley Borough Council said preparatory work on the Brightwells area will begin in September.
The government has confirmed a compulsory purchase order for the Marlborough Head pub and the removal of two public footpaths.
The scheme includes a town square, cinema, shops and 239 homes.
It was originally approved in 2008 but was delayed after protesters objected to the loss of the theatre, increased traffic and the loss of trees and historic features.
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The redevelopment of Farnham town centre has moved closer after the government approved two compulsory purchase orders allowing work to begin.
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Barclays is "staying anchored in Great Britain" he told BBC business editor Simon Jack.
Some banks have warned that the Brexit vote may affect jobs.
But Mr Staley said: "Right now we are not making any plans to pick up and move people from one location to another."
That said, Barclays "wants to be involved in the capital markets globally" and wants to "stay connected to the European capital markets".
The bank will aim to take on new employees if access to Europe is restricted by Brexit, he said.
"You might have to increase your presence in another location - that doesn't necessarily mean you have to decrease [at] your location here," Mr Staley said.
"We saw the one of the biggest one day declines in global wealth in history and the financial system worked fine".
That was Barclays chief executive Jes Staley's stoic reflection on Friday's $2.5 trillion market reaction to the UK's vote to leave the EU, which he said caught him and the markets by surprise.
Barclay's own shares lost nearly a third of their value last Friday. A rout he put down to fears that a political upheaval could lead to an economic downturn.
Now the market storm has subsided, many shares, excluding the bank's, have regained lost ground, and the focus moves on to the real economy and the impact on investment and jobs.
Several of Barclays neighbours in Canary Wharf have said jobs may move to Europe.
HSBC ruled out moving its global HQ from the UK but has said 1,000 jobs may go to Paris.
American bank JP Morgan has said up to 4,000 of its 16,000 UK workforce may be relocated.
Mr Staley was keen to emphasise that Barclays was a British bank that will remain anchored in Britain and although he conceded Barclays might set up a subsidiary in Europe, it wouldn't necessarily be at the expense of UK jobs.
As an American in the UK he drew parallels between the Brexit vote and the political landscape in his home country.
"There is definitely something going on here and in the US… the establishment needs to hear the narrative that globalisation and free trade is not working for the man on the street".
Major banks such as Barclays, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs employ thousands of people in the UK.
One of the reasons these banks find the UK so attractive is so-called "passporting" - their being able to employ people in one EU country, and offer services in another.
But there is a fear that banks in the UK could lose this right following the vote to leave the EU.
After the vote to leave, shares in banks including Barclays and RBS plummeted by around 30%.
Barclays shares are still trading around 20% down.
Mr Staley said: "Bank stocks took a real hit."
He said one of underlying factors in the drop were "a sense that the political crisis will lead to an economic crisis".
"I'm not sure that's true, but I think underlying there's this view that there may be a UK recession, and as a British bank we would be vulnerable to that."
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Banking giant Barclays has no plans to move jobs out of the UK following the vote to leave the European Union, chief executive Jes Staley has said.
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Property prices increased by 10.1% in the year to March compared with a year earlier, the lender found, making the average home worth £214,811.
This annual growth accelerated from 9.7% seen in the previous two months.
But the housing market could "soften" over the coming months amid uncertainty over the EU vote, the lender said.
The UK will have a referendum on 23 June on whether or not to remain a member of the European Union.
Martin Ellis, housing economist at the Halifax, also said that "worsening sentiment" regarding the UK economy might also be a factor in slowing the market.
However, the number of homes on the market is still outstripped by demand. This, alongside low interest rates and low unemployment, leads Mr Ellis to conclude that there is still likely to be "robust" house price growth ahead.
Last week, the Nationwide Building Society reported that in the year to March, house price inflation across the UK stood at 5.7% - up from 4.8% in February and the fastest rate for more than a year.
Last month, the Office for National Statistics revealed that the regional gap in house prices was widening. Prices rose by 8.6% in England in the year to the end of January, it said, compared with a 0.1% rise in Scotland, a 0.8% rise in Northern Ireland, and a 0.3% fall in Wales over the same period.
Commentators agree that a lack of supply is likely to hold up prices.
"At the coalface there is still a general shortage of the sort of property that people want to buy," said north London estate agent, Jeremy Leaf.
"Although more property is coming onto the market, much of it is aimed at investors who understandably are more reluctant to proceed because of higher stamp duty charges."
Since 1 April, landlords and those buying a second home have faced a 3% stamp duty surcharge on new purchases.
The Halifax said house prices have risen by 2.9% in the first three months of the year compared with the previous quarter, and by 2.6% in March compared with February.
Various surveys record UK house prices on a monthly basis, but they all have slightly different methodology.
The house price index by the Nationwide Building Society is the quickest to be released. It uses an average value for properties after considering components such as location and size. The survey is based on its own mortgage lending which represents about 13% of the market.
A survey by the Halifax, now part of Lloyds Banking Group, is published a few days later. Lloyds is the biggest mortgage lender in the UK with 20% of the market and, like the Nationwide, uses its own home loan data.
Figures from the Land Registry are widely considered to be the most robust but are published much later than the lenders' data. It calculates the price change for properties that have sold multiple times since 1995. This survey only covers England and Wales.
A survey is of house prices in Scotland is published by the Registers of Scotland, using a simple average of house prices. The Land and Property Services assisted by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency produces a quarterly house price index in Northern Ireland.
The official UK statistical authority - the Office for National Statistics - is another well-regarded survey, used for reference by government. It offers a UK-wide regional breakdown. It draws on data from the regulated mortgage survey by the Council of Mortgage Lenders, so excludes cash buyers of property.
Housing market sentiment is reflected in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) survey of some of its members.
Various other surveys include a Hometrack review of house prices in UK cities, and a Rightmove survey of asking prices.
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UK house prices are rising but uncertainty ahead of the EU referendum could slow the market, according to the Halifax.
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The university said it would remove investment from extraction and production companies by 2025.
In 2015, students from 'Fossil Free QUB' occupied part of an administration building in protest against the policy.
A number of politicians attended a protest in support of the student group's campaign.
The move is part of a wider commitment to environmental sustainability, said Queen's President, Prof Patrick Johnson.
"We are currently implementing a comprehensive carbon management strategy which will significantly reduce our CO2 emissions by 2020," he said.
"Our new objective to disinvest from indirect investments in fossil fuels, subject to this not materially impacting on expected investment returns, further highlights our commitment to the green and environmental agenda in line with the University's Social Charter."
Divestment campaigns have emerged in universities across the world, aiming to fight climate change by removing investment from companies that produce or burn fossil fuels.
Students' Union President Seán Fearon, who was involved in the original protests, welcomed the move.
"Queen's University has made a bold statement about its commitment to combating climate change," he said.
"The Students' Union has led a long campaign to raise awareness about the impact of climate change and bring the divestment agenda to the forefront of student politics.
"With this announcement, the university places itself on the right side of history, and adds to the hundreds of public bodies who have pledged to take a stand against the most significant challenge facing our world today and move towards a fossil free society."
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Queen's University Belfast is set to disinvest from fossil fuels after a two-year student campaign.
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Christopher Penman, 58, was found dead in his bed in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, on 22 February. He had been stabbed 23 times.
Police believe Awat Akram, 25, of Beaumanor Road, Leicester, killed Mr Penman in an act of jealousy over his ex-partner.
At Leicester Crown Court, Akram was told he would serve at least 28 years.
The court heard how on the evening Mr Penman's body was discovered, Akram, who is deaf, went up to police at the cordon around the house and gestured to officers he ought to be arrested.
Leicestershire Police believe Akram broke into the house, looking for his ex-partner, a deaf woman who was then in a relationship with Mr Penman.
Speaking after the trial, Det Insp Shaun Orton said: "This was a particularly challenging investigation, as not just Akram is deaf, but the majority of witnesses were also deaf or hard of hearing.
"Akram killed Christopher in a brutal manner. He then went on to deny his involvement in the murder and told police several lies designed to mislead and obstruct the investigation.
"I know it was particularly traumatic for Christopher's family listening to the details of how he was killed whilst Akram showed no remorse in court."
In a statement after sentencing, Mr Penman's family said: "Dad [Christopher] was a good person; he would not have hurt a soul.
"Everyone in the deaf community will also deeply miss him. He was taken away too young and in such a horrible way."
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A man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a man in a "brutal" stabbing attack.
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The Everton midfielder's thigh injury has prevented him from training fully since he linked up with the Republic squad on Monday.
McCarthy, 25, may not be risked in Friday's friendly against the Netherlands but O'Neill said he would "definitely" be in his Euro 2016 squad.
"The doctor tells me he's making good progress," said O'Neill on Wednesday.
"He's got a little bit of time. He's been an important part of the team over the last two years.
"It's one of those things you just want to be right rather than rushing back."
McCarthy, who has won 33 Irish caps, missed the Euro 2012 finals to be with his ill father.
O'Neill reported that Ciaran Clark's ankle injury is "improving" while Shane Long was able to train even though he still has stitches in his knee injury.
While McCarthy's squad spot is secure, the Republic boss has decisions to make over his midfield options.
Eunan O'Kane, Harry Arter, David Meyler, Stephen Quinn and Darron Gibson are all battling to impress O'Neill and the manager admitted that he has still to make up his mind on his central midfield permutations.
"That's an area we'd certainly be having a look at and we'll be looking until after the second game (against Belarus).
"There are one or two places at this minute that are still undecided.
"The players I am talking about may have not had much game time, so it is these training sessions and matches that will ultimately make my mind up."
O'Neill also has a decision to make on which three goalkeepers to bring to France and Shay Given may be handed an opportunity to prove his sharpness in Friday's game against the Dutch.
West Ham keeper Darren Randolph looks certain to be named in the squad with Given, Millwall's David Forde and Sheffield Wednesday's Keiren Westwood the contenders for the remaining two positions.
Given, 40, returned to Stoke duty last month after being out of action since sustaining a knee injury in the Republic's win over Germany last October.
The veteran hobbled off at half-time in Stoke's defeat by Manchester City four weeks ago but fears that he suffered a serious groin injury proved unfounded.
The Republic play the Dutch in Dublin on Friday night before facing Belarus in Cork on 31 May.
Their first match at the tournament is against Sweden in Paris on 13 June, with Belgium and Italy their other opponents in Group E.
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Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill has eased concerns over James McCarthy's fitness for Euro 2016.
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Many migrants want to get asylum in Germany or Sweden, but those countries want their EU partners to show "solidarity" and share the burden.
Many have fled the conflicts and abuses in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Eritrea.
But there are also many economic migrants fleeing poverty in the Balkans and countries like Nigeria and Pakistan.
Why is Europe so divided over migrants?
The Greek islands near Turkey are the main focus of EU attention, as thousands of migrants continue to come ashore there daily.
For months tensions have been escalating between Greece and some of its EU partners. They accuse Athens of deliberately waving through migrants who ought to be registered as soon as they enter the EU.
The row with Austria got so bad in February that Greece withdrew its ambassador to Vienna.
Greece insists that it cannot become Europe's holding centre for migrants - it demands fair burden-sharing.
In January-February this year more than 120,000 migrants arrived in Greece - out of more than 130,000 who crossed the Mediterranean to reach the EU, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said.
The total in just two months was nearly as many as in the first half of 2015.
So far this year more than 400 migrants have drowned in the Aegean Sea, highlighting how risky the journey is.
The EU has given Greece until 12 May to fix "serious deficiencies" in its control of the EU's external border in the Aegean.
Four extra reception centres - called "hotspots" - are nearly ready on the islands.
The EU plans to give Greece €700m (£544m; $769m) in emergency aid to tackle the crisis. It is the first use inside the EU of funds earmarked for humanitarian disasters outside the EU.
Improving co-operation with Turkey on the migrants issue is a top priority for the EU.
But progress has been very slow. Meanwhile, people-smugglers in Turkey remain very adept at shipping desperate migrants across the Aegean, for extortionate fees.
Turkey is reluctant to readmit large numbers of migrants - but it is under intense EU pressure now to do so.
Under the current rules, only migrants who have no right to international protection can be sent back to Turkey. That means economic migrants.
The reason is that only one EU country considers Turkey "safe" for returning migrants. EU data shows that 23% of asylum claims from migrants of Turkish origin were deemed well-founded in 2014.
Turkey is demanding a high price for its co-operation, arguing that it has already spent €8bn helping refugees from the Syrian war. It is struggling with the influx, already housing 2.5 million in camps.
As a candidate to join the EU, Turkey wants to see real progress in its accession negotiations. The EU has pledged that, and is offering visa-free travel for Turkish citizens in the Schengen passport-free zone.
Historic tension between Greece and Turkey makes the Aegean operation to stem the migrant flow difficult - as does Turkey's long, zig-zagging coastline.
Schengen: EU free movement deal explained
A migrant bottleneck has built up on the Greece-Macedonia border since Macedonia put up a razor-wire fence at the Gevgelija-Idomeni border crossing.
More than 10,000 migrants are camping in squalid conditions near the fence. Some - children among them - are sleeping rough in icy conditions, with little food or medical help.
Some of Macedonia's Balkan neighbours have sent border guards to help police the new flashpoint. Anger boiled over in early March, with migrants battering down a gate before police fired tear gas to chase them away.
Migrants continue flocking to the border because they want to get to northern Europe. Yet under the EU's controversial Dublin Regulation a migrant's asylum claim is supposed to be processed in the country where he/she first arrives.
Macedonia also hopes to join the EU, but this crisis is just adding to the obstacles in its bid.
Its migrant policy appears discriminatory: it has been letting in small numbers of Syrians and Iraqis, but not Afghans.
Desperate migrants plead to escape 'hellish' Greek camp
Last year Hungary became a gateway for migrants bound for Germany.
It became the focus of world attention when Hungarian riot police fired water cannon and tear gas at a big crowd of migrants at the border with Serbia in September.
There was widespread criticism of Hungary for its decision to build a razor-wire fence and prosecute migrants entering illegally. But many Hungarians supported their government's tough stance, according to reports.
After completing the Serbia section Hungary extended the fence to stop migrants entering from Croatia.
The conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said Europe's Christian heritage is under threat because most of the migrants are Muslims. He accused Germany of encouraging the influx by welcoming so many migrants.
Hungary and its northern neighbour Slovakia refuse to be part of an EU quota plan for distributing 160,000 migrants across the EU. They are currently in Greece and Italy - and so far fewer than 600 have been transferred.
The European Court of Justice is now considering a Hungarian-Slovak complaint against the EU.
Last year migrants poured into Austria from Hungary, en route to southern Germany. The authorities did not push them back.
But Austria re-imposed border checks - as did Germany on its border with Austria - as a temporary, emergency measure, allowed under Schengen rules. Slovakia - on Austria's eastern border - did so too.
The crisis caused major disruption to road and rail travel between Austria and its neighbours. Crowds of migrants gathered at Vienna's main stations, waiting for trains to take them north.
In the latest twist, Austria set new daily limits: a maximum of 80 asylum applications and 3,200 migrants in transit to other countries.
The European Commission has protested to Austria, saying those limits violate EU law.
Around 1.1 million asylum seekers arrived in Germany in 2015 - a record number. That put great strain on local authorities, who had to create emergency campsites.
Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will look after genuine refugees, fulfilling its international humanitarian duty.
That welcome does not extend to the many economic migrants. Those from Balkan countries like Kosovo, Albania and Serbia can now being sent back - Germany recently classified those countries as "safe".
Mrs Merkel has been much criticised for her "open door" policy on refugees. The critics include fellow conservatives, notably the Bavarian CSU party.
Last year there was an outpouring of sympathy and help for the new arrivals from many ordinary Germans.
But there were also many street protests by the right-wing Pegida movement, which claims to be defending Germany from "Islamisation".
There have been hundreds of attacks on migrant hostels - usually empty buildings allocated for new arrivals. In many cases they were gutted by fire.
Anxiety was fuelled by the Cologne attacks, when hundreds of women were assaulted at New Year, many of them sexually molested. Victims and witnesses mostly blamed gangs of migrant men from North Africa.
Germany wanted its EU partners to accept mandatory quotas, to spread the migrants EU-wide. France, Italy and Greece backed Germany on that - but EU leaders as a whole decided on a voluntary scheme.
French demolition squads have been tearing down migrant shacks at the "Jungle" - a squalid campsite in Calais, where about 4,000 migrants are hoping to get across the Channel to the UK.
Basic, clean shelters have been erected instead - but migrants yearning to reach the UK do not want to stay there, and are avoiding registration.
The UK has immigration checkpoints at Calais and Dunkirk, under an agreement with France.
There have been warnings that France could end that arrangement if British voters reject EU membership in the UK's June in-out referendum.
Most of the Calais migrants are from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea or Sudan.
France re-imposed police checks on its border with Belgium after the November Paris attacks, in which jihadists murdered 130 people.
News that two of the killers had passed through Greece fuelled alarm about freedom of movement under Schengen.
Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN) is a major force in French politics - it is anti-EU and deplores mass immigration.
Last summer Greece became the main Mediterranean gateway for migrants - previously it had been Italy.
Several factors have made it riskier for migrants to head for Italy by boat: hundreds have drowned in repeated disasters at sea; war-torn Libya is extremely dangerous; the voyage is longer - even to Lampedusa, a tiny island near Tunisia.
More EU resources have been put into Frontex, the border agency now monitoring migrant routes from Libya. But EU officials say a bigger effort is needed, as the sea area is vast.
Italy is angry that some EU partners are so unwilling to share the migrant burden. Its reception centres - especially in Lampedusa and Sicily - are overcrowded, like those in Greece.
The Danish stance on immigration is among the toughest in Europe. Controversially, Denmark has given police the power to seize valuables worth more than 10,000 kroner (€1,340; £1,000) from refugees to cover housing and food costs.
In January Sweden introduced identity checks for travellers from Denmark in an attempt to curb migrant numbers.
The clampdown has slowed transit across the Oresund bridge - a rail and bus link - as now all travellers have to present their ID at checkpoints. And rail commuters have to change trains at Copenhagen Airport.
More than 160,000 asylum seekers arrived in Sweden in 2015, more per capita than any other country in Europe.
Sweden introduces border controls
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
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Big fault lines have opened up across the European Union - both east-west and north-south - because of the migrant crisis.
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"This is Crusader-Arab treachery, a war on all Sunnis," read a placard at a recent protest in Syria against civilian casualties said to be the result of US air strikes.
If bombing is killing some civilians, it is no surprise. Islamic State is a relatively small, irregular force, dispersed among the population.
But more than that - in the conservative, rural Sunni Arab heartland, most of the IS fighters are local tribesmen. The jihadists are not some foreign blight. They grew out of the soil of Iraq and Syria.
At the start, the Arab Spring and the promise of democracy seemed to make al-Qaeda, or its variants, irrelevant. But two years into Syria's civil war, I remember bumping into a senior officer with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), one of those touted by Western diplomats as a secular moderate.
I learned later that he had just appeared on YouTube next to a notoriously bloodthirsty Chechen jihadist commander.
"We kiss the hand that holds the trigger against Assad," he had declared.
As the civil war ground on, the rebels began to change. Some I knew who had not seemed particularly religious started to pepper their conversation with quotes from the Koran.
The explanation was partly that fighters who risked their lives every day, and saw death all around them, had rediscovered and strengthened their faith.
They had also lost hope that serious Western help would ever come. Instead, they had turned to the jihadists, funded by rich patrons in the Gulf.
One of those jihadist groups was the al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's Syrian subsidiary, which is now being bombed along with Islamic State.
We encountered them back in January 2013, just as they were emerging from the shadows.
This feared and secretive group agreed to speak to us. I asked them whether the jihad would continue if a democratic Syria rejected their aim of establishing an Islamic state.
"That will never happen," said a commander. "Syria is an Islamic country and people love Islam. They're fed up of secular regimes. It's impossible that they would reject Sharia."
Well-funded, and well-organised, less inclined to the thievery and kidnapping practised by parts of the FSA, al-Nusra quickly became one of the strongest rebel groups. They began a bloody struggle over who would control Syria's revolution against the jihadists who now make up Islamic State.
Other rebel groups - mostly from the FSA - sided with al-Nusra in that struggle and - this time last year - joined them in issuing "Communique No 1". That also broke with Syria's Western-backed political opposition, the National Coalition.
Communique No 1 was a clear statement that the rebels were fighting for Sharia, not democracy. It was an evisceration of Western policy - increasingly, Western governments would find it difficult to identify rebel groups they could back in Syria's uprising.
Meanwhile, there was a civil war within the civil war - a struggle between different groups of Islamists. Al-Nusra and the other rebel groups pushed Islamic State out of Aleppo and back to their headquarters of Raqqa.
IS - ever flexible - turned to Iraq. There, Sunni grievances against the Shia-led government, had presented them with an opening. They seized it in June of this year when they took control of Iraq's second largest city, Mosul.
I suspect that even IS was surprised by the speed and scale of the victory in Mosul.
The immense corruption in the Iraqi security forces was partly to blame. And Shia soldiers did not want to fight for predominantly Sunni cities like Mosul or Tikrit, while many Sunnis viewed the Shia-led government in Baghdad as murderously sectarian.
In Mosul, IS captured tonnes of weapons and ammunition, and hundreds of armoured vehicles and tanks. They also captured the propaganda initiative - young Sunnis flocked to the cause. In Syria, therefore, IS was able to go on the offensive once again.
The jihadists are closing in, advancing along the main road to Kobane; the Kurds know they must stop them there or lose the town.
The Kurds say that air strikes have not stopped IS from moving forces up to confront them. They are pleading for a more decisive Western intervention. Islamic State fighters filmed themselves on the road to Kobane happy and relaxed. They believe victory is within their grasp.
Still, in Kobane, the US has a Kurdish infantry that can take advantage of air strikes. It may simply take more intensive strikes to tip the balance.
Elsewhere in Syria, there are hundreds of Sunni Arab armed groups, many of them Islamist.
Al-Nusra is talking about uniting with its old rival, Islamic State, and could take other rebel groups with them.
For bombing to work in Syria, the US and other Western powers must find a reliable partner among the rebels groups. That is something they have struggled to do in three years of civil war.
It is another reason why - as the politicians have warned - the struggle against Islamic State will be a long war.
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As Islamic State (IS) seeks to expand the territory under its control in Iraq and Syria, attacking the border town of Kobane, the BBC's Paul Wood charts the rise of jihadist groups in the region.
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"The fast-food factories: McJobs are bad for kids" a headline announced over a report about thousands of teenagers employed in McDonald's US kitchens.
The term took hold, to such an extent the Oxford English Dictionary still defines McJobs - 30 years later - as a catch-all for "unstimulating, low-paid jobs with few prospects, especially ones created by the expansion of the service sector".
Job insecurity is a common feature.
Fretting about "McJobs" has returned as the world of work changes rapidly.
And whoever wins the next general election will need to deal with this most fundamental of changes, away from the world of the nine-to-five, permanent job with a single employer, and towards a world of flexibility where people and technology become more entwined.
The very wealth of our economy depends on riding this wave - a global trend - successfully.
One of the first challenges the new prime minister will face is how to react to the most significant inquiry into the new world of work at present being finalised by Matthew Taylor, the head of the Royal Society of Arts.
He was commissioned to undertake the review by Theresa May last autumn, and has said he will deliver the report to Number 10 shortly after 8 June.
Much of this new world of work is said to be negative.
The number of zero-hours contracts - which offer no guaranteed work - has grown from 143,000 in 2008 to over 900,000 now.
Alongside that development comes the expansion of "self-employment" which has accounted for 45% of all employment growth over the same period (although it is worth remembering that more than 80% of working adults are still in more traditional, permanent employment).
Are zero hours contracts simply the return of "casualisation", where employees are at the beck and call of profit-hungry and often unscrupulous employers?
Or a nod to new, modern needs for flexibility, so that work can be balanced with the rest of life?
Is hiring from the new army of the "self-employed" simply a way of businesses avoiding tax and pension responsibilities and bypassing the rights - such as holiday and maternity leave - guaranteed to full time workers?
Or a nod to individual autonomy, where people work to their own rhythm and receive just reward for their entrepreneurial flair?
Of course, it depends which businesses you speak to.
Especially if it's the business that was the original butt of the McJobs attack - McDonald's.
"We have restaurant managers that look after 100 people, they are running businesses over £2m [in revenues] and they are responsible at a young age for their fortunes and their future," Paul Pomroy, the chief executive of McDonald's UK, told me.
Many of those managers started in the kitchens - not actually flipping burgers, it turns out, as machines fry the beef patties on both sides and there is no need to turn them over.
Indeed, when I put it to one manager, Liz Stephenson, that working in McDonald's is not all "flipping burgers", she replies archly: "I've never flipped a burger."
Snobbery is one word that comes to the mind of people like Liz when they consider how some view a career like hers, which started behind the counter on casual hours when she was at school and now involves being the company point person for restaurant managers who are running businesses with revenues counted in the tens of millions of pounds a year.
We have long had a rather romanticised vision of manufacturing jobs - even low-skilled ones - and have yet to fall in love with the service economy - such as retail - despite the fact it makes up the vast proportion of our economy.
"McDonald's offer training and a real career," Ms Stephenson (who is off to Chicago to receive a global company award for her achievements) tells me. "I've heard all the jokes."
Whatever the protestations of businesses which say they have worked hard improving their employment practices (McDonald's offers zero-hours workers rights to sick and holiday pay and has never demanded employees abide by "exclusivity clauses"), chief executives know controversies over companies such as Sports Direct and Uber can muddy all their reputations.
"Businesses take decisions that do damage," Mr Pomroy said, making clear he is not referring to any specific examples.
"Businesses in the modern world need to open up more, be transparent and be honest about how they treat their people and how they treat their customers.
"The internet has such a vast array of information, you can't sit back and hide anymore and not be front foot."
He added: "People up and down our workforce want to be treated with respect, they want a fair chance, they want progression, they want to have fun when they are working, they want to feel part of a team.
"I want to be able to walk into our staff rooms and look people in the eye and know we are treating them fairly - whether it is the 16-year-old school leaver or the 35-year-old mum who is using our flexible contacts to interweave with childcare."
Mr Pomroy dismisses claims that zero-hours contracts, for example, are simply a method for firms to keep people in insecure, low-paid work.
As I wrote last month, when offered the chance to move on to fixed-hours contracts, 80% of McDonald's staff affected said they preferred zero-hours.
The other big, robotic, beast in the room when it comes to the new world of work is technology.
The fear is that while we worry about zero-hours and self-employment, artificial intelligence and computers that can crunch "big data" in the blink of an eye are going to replace millions of us in the workplace.
For services industries like his, Mr Pomroy is not so sure.
"Since we have introduced technology - you can place your order on giant screens - it hasn't actually saved us labour in terms of reducing the number of people we need," he said.
"We've actually used that as a springboard to put more people out in the dining area, so giving hospitality.
"We've introduced table service. Using technology to enhance the customer experience is what is critical - not cutting the number of jobs we offer.
"So since we have been introducing technology, we've recruited a further 5,000 people - taking our total workforce to 115,000."
That jobs growth will continue, he insists, revealing plans to recruit 2,000 to 3,000 jobs a year.
"We have over half our restaurants open 24 hours a day, five days a week, and there is still opportunity to extend the number of restaurants that operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"We are also a growing business. We have had 11 years of consecutive sales growth. I've got no plans to slow that down."
In 2007 McDonald's launched a campaign to have "McJobs" removed from the dictionary.
They are still trying.
"I would love it to go," Mr Pomroy said.
"Not for me, I'm the CEO. It's more for the 115,000 people that work in our restaurants; they would love it to be removed."
McDonald's spawned the "McJobs" tag in the 1980s and insists it has moved on.
Mr Pomroy's problem is that other businesses could now be taking on the mantle as the new world of work throws up a very 21st century challenge.
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It was the Washington Post that first coined the term in 1986.
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The hosts, who beat Championship side Ipswich in the FA Cup on Tuesday, broke the deadlock after nine minutes when Dover defender Tyrone Sterling turned Sam Habergham's cross into the back of his own net.
Dover came close to levelling things up on the brink of half-time but Ricky Miller's hooked effort was kept out by Imps goalkeeper Paul Farman.
Both teams hit the woodwork in the second period, with Sean Long's cross-cum-shot clattering the bar in the 46th minute and Miller's free-kick clipping a post after 62 minutes.
Dover pushed for an equaliser as the second half wore on but it was Lincoln who found the back of the net seven minutes from time when Terry Hawkridge drilled in from the edge of the area.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Lincoln City 2, Dover Athletic 0.
Second Half ends, Lincoln City 2, Dover Athletic 0.
Sam Magri (Dover Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Tyrone Marsh replaces Moses Emmanuel.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Bradley Wood replaces Terry Hawkridge.
Goal! Lincoln City 2, Dover Athletic 0. Terry Hawkridge (Lincoln City).
Substitution, Lincoln City. Alan Power replaces Adam Marriott.
Substitution, Dover Athletic. Joe Healy replaces James Hurst.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Theo Robinson replaces Matt Rhead.
Second Half begins Lincoln City 1, Dover Athletic 0.
First Half ends, Lincoln City 1, Dover Athletic 0.
Own Goal by Tyrone Sterling, Dover Athletic. Lincoln City 1, Dover Athletic 0.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
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Lincoln extended their lead at the top of the National League after beating fellow promotion-hopefuls Dover.
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Ex-archbishop George Carey said Peter Ball was in "torment" as a result of a police investigation, letters released by the Crown Prosecution Service show.
Ball, 83, was jailed in October for a string of offences against young men.
The Church of England apologised "unreservedly" to Ball's victims.
He was sentenced to 32 months for misconduct in a public office and 15 months for indecent assaults, to run concurrently.
In one of Lord Carey's letters he told police it was "improbable" he was guilty.
He also wrote in a letter to Barbara Mills - then the director of public prosecutions - that Ball's health was fragile and the decision to prosecute should be made "as speedily as possible".
The letters have been released by the CPS in response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by the BBC and others, after it emerged that personal letters had been written which were supportive of Ball.
Ball was eventually told he would not be prosecuted but received a caution instead. He resigned as Bishop of Gloucester in 1993, a position that followed a previous period as Bishop of Lewes.
However in October 2015, following repeated claims of a church cover-up, Mr Ball pleaded guilty to abusing 18 young men in the 70s, 80s and 90s. He was jailed for two years and ten months.
One of his victims was Neil Todd, whose attempts to take his own life triggered the police investigation in 1993 which prompted hundreds of letters of support for the Bishop.
In his two letters Lord Carey said he had no wish to influence the legal process. He makes no reference to the allegations of sexual abuse or Mr Todd, who finally took his own life at the end of 2012.
The letters also include one to the police from a senior judge at the time, Lord Justice Lloyd, who said that Ball was "the most gentle, upright and saintly man" he had ever met.
"He has obviously suffered far more already than any of us can imagine... He tells me if it goes on much longer, he feels he may well go off his head," he said.
While making it clear he did not want to influence the criminal process Lord Justice Lloyd wrote: "I find it difficult to accept that such an awful fate could have befallen so good a man."
The Old Bailey heard in October that while he was a bishop, Ball had used his position to groom and exploit his vulnerable victims.
Another of the 12 letters released by the CPS was from the former Conservative minister and Sussex MP, Tim Renton, who wrote to the director of public prosecutions in 1993 that "Peter has suffered terribly over the past six weeks," and urged that he should not be prosecuted.
The Conservative MP for Lewes, Tim Rathbone, wrote: "I find it literally inconceivable that he would ever become involved with anyone in the way the newspapers have described or insinuated."
James Woodhouse, the former headmaster of Lancing College in Sussex wrote that Ball was "acutely distressed" by some aspects of 20th-century culture, including "sexual permissiveness".
In his letter the warden of Radley College, Richard Morgan, said he had dismissed the allegations against Ball as "impossible" since the bishop had lived a life of "discipline".
However, the CPS said it not seen or received any correspondence from the royal family, despite Ball's claims to have been a friend of Prince Charles.
The CPS said it had taken the decision to release letters from "significant people" of influence at the time but not other "non-senior" individuals.
A spokesman for the Church of England said: "It is a matter of deep shame and regret that a bishop in the Church of England was sentenced earlier this year for a series of offences over 15 years against 18 young men known to him.
"There are no excuses whatsoever for what took place, nor for the systematic abuse of trust perpetrated by Peter Ball."
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A former Archbishop of Canterbury wrote to police in 1993 with letters of support for the then Bishop of Gloucester who was being investigated for sex offences, it can be revealed.
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The thief struck at about 18:10 on Monday after gaining access to a common close in Milovaig Street in Summerston, Glasgow.
Police said he escaped with a three-figure sum.
The elderly woman was checked over by medical staff but did not suffer any injuries, although she was extremely shaken.
The suspect was described as being about 16 years old, 5ft 1in tall with a slim build and acne on both of his cheeks.
He was wearing a black woolly hat and a black tracksuit.
Det Insp John Morrison said: "This is a despicable crime carried out by a young man who clearly has no conscience and no regard for others.
"I am appealing to people in the area to think about the description and consider if they recognise it or know who the person is.
"Perhaps you noticed him in the area prior to the incident occurring or did you see him run off along Milovaig Street?
"Please, if you have any information or knowledge, get in touch and pass your information on."
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A robber locked a 90-year-old woman in her bathroom before stealing money and bank cards from her home.
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People were evacuated from Prior Deram Park in Canley, Coventry, during the blaze on 17 July.
The boy, who is local to the area but cannot be named because of his age, is also charged with assault and two counts of burglary.
He is due before Coventry Youth Court on the 13 August.
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A 12-year-old boy has been charged with arson following a fire which caused £20,000 of damage at a park four days after it had opened.
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Google's Android rules the roost by powering nine out of 10 smartphones sold in India. But other major international players have struggled to expand their base.
India is the world's second fastest growing market for smartphones behind China. Smartphone sales are expected to exceed 100 million in 2016.
But, for a country where more than 80% of the population does not understand English, reaching out to new consumers in small towns and villages can be a challenge for smartphone manufacturers.
And Mumbai-based Indus OS has been quietly making rapid inroads by plugging that gap.
Its biggest selling point is that it is available in 12 Indian languages, which covers 90% of India's population.
Now, it's not exactly a new operating system built from scratch, but the developers have tweaked the Android platform to meet the unique demands and culture of India.
"We wanted to create a product specifically for the Indian consumer," Rakesh Deshmukh, co-founder and chief executive of Indus OS, tells the BBC.
According to Counterpoint Research, it had captured 7.1% of the market share during the July to September quarter, making it the second most used operating system for smartphones behind Android.
Mr Deshmukh says that, during the company's research, it found many people who wanted to migrate from a basic phone to a smartphone were reluctant to do so due to language inhibitions.
Apart from multiple languages, Indus OS also offers simplified predictive typing and translation between regional languages - a technology patented by the company.
It also has an in-house app store like Google Play, offering 35,000 apps in various regional languages that consumers can download on their devices.
Unlike with other operating systems, consumers don't need a credit card or an email address to download apps. They can pay via their phone bills.
More than half of India's population is without a debit or credit card, and a fraction of the population uses email.
"On an average our customers use 25 apps, which includes first-time smartphone users," says Mr Deshmukh.
The company has tied-up with leading Indian mobile phone manufacturers such as Micromax and Intex, which are selling some of their smartphones with Indus OS.
To expand its market share, firms are also in talks with Chinese mobile phone manufacturers that have a huge presence in the Indian market.
Indus OS is currently available on six million smartphones, with the aim of adding 100 million users by 2019.
The company is also looking to explore new markets such as Indonesia, Nepal and Myanmar during this period.
While it has done well in acquiring customers since its launch, the task going ahead could be challenging.
That is because other operating systems are trying to localise their products to meet the demands of consumers as they go deep into the Indian market.
For example, Google's Android benefits from the fact that the firm's search engine is now available in nine Indian languages.
It is also expected to come out with versions of other products such as Gmail and Google Maps in more Indian languages in the future.
And with Android already being the preferred choice for most consumers - players like Indus OS may feel the heat.
But Mr Deshmukh believes that Android's efforts to create more products in Indian languages will help Indus OS.
"If we can offer a Google Map on our phone in multiple languages that makes our operating system more attractive," he says.
The other hurdle that analysts point out is that becoming profitable in the long run will be a challenge for firms such as Indus OS - that are operating in a niche segment.
The process of translating content and apps into multiple languages requires a lot of resources and is an expensive affair.
"Operating systems need to keep evolving by launching new features continuously to stay relevant," says Anshul Gupta, research director at Gartner.
Mr Deshmukh accepts that mobile manufacturers are hungry for unique features and there's constant pressure to deliver. But he is confident of turning profitable as they scale up.
"Indus has an in-house app store - which is available in so many Indian languages. We will use that as a platform to attract advertisers," he adds.
It's estimated that over the next three years some 300 million people in India will migrate to smartphones, and an overwhelming majority of them will be users who don't understand English.
And companies like Indus are hoping that these consumers will buy smartphones not for their features or the price tag but rather for the languages they understand.
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Indus OS - a mobile phone operating system built in India - has become the country's second-most popular smartphone platform, surpassing Apple's iOS.
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First I heard shouting at the security entrance then I saw policemen bundling members of the public and then moving others like me back from the entrance.
Then through the glass doors, I saw dozens of members of the public rushing along the riverside. MPs and staff were rushed to one of the emergency exits but were then moved back to the main part of the building.
MPs tell me they heard three or four gunshots on the way to a normal vote and then they ran. It still seems unclear what exactly has happened but with eyewitnesses reporting bodies on Westminster Bridge this is clearly the most serious kind of situation.
The normal routine of a Westminster Wednesday afternoon shattered.
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In a closely guarded part of Westminster, several hundred people are now in lockdown.
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An opponent has yet to be announced for 30-year-old Barnes but the contest will be at the Waterfront Hall in his home city of Belfast.
Barnes made it two pro wins from two with a points victory in a six-rounder against Adrian Dimas Garzon in March.
Jamie Conlan will also feature on the bill at the Waterfront.
Unbeaten Conlan defeated Yader Cardoza on a split decision to take the vacant WBC International Silver super-flyweight crown on 10 March.
Conlan, also 30 and from Belfast, is aiming to secure a world title eliminator having won all 19 of his professional fights.
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Two-time Olympic bronze medallist Paddy Barnes is to fight for the WBO European flyweight belt in what will be his third professional bout on 17 June.
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Price, 31, joined the Owls on a one-year deal last summer but only played seven games, with just three starts.
The former Ipswich, Derby and Crystal Palace goalkeeper has made 130 career league appearances.
"It was important to get someone in with experience," Millers boss Alan Stubbs told the club website.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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Rotherham United have signed goalkeeper Lewis Price on a two-year contract following the end of his deal with rivals Sheffield Wednesday.
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The alleged victim said PCs David Scott and Greg Mead punched him "20 to 30 times" and smashed his head on his kitchen floor, in September 2013.
But the panel said the evidence was unreliable and the case was dismissed.
Observers at the hearing were told not to use social media while evidence was presented and to remain silent.
They had to pledge not to leave the room until a break in proceedings and were not allowed to enter the room until there was a break.
Northamptonshire Police said 12 conditions were set to ensure" as little disruption as possible.
The move followed a Home Office directive earlier this year that such cases should be held in public.
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The first public misconduct hearing held by Northamptonshire Police has seen the case of two officers accused of beating a man being dismissed.
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Hundreds of the amphibians laden with eggs cross the B869 Lochinver-Stoer road in Sutherland to reach lochs and lochans.
The toads are usually on the move for about three weeks from mid-March.
Highland Council countryside ranger Andy Summers has been helping Assynt Field Club put up the signs.
It is hoped the warnings will encourage motorists to safely avoid squashing the amphibians.
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New warning signs have been erected on a road in the Highlands in an effort to improve migrating female toads' chances of survival.
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The story, about a father who keeps his daughter captive in the wilderness, under the pretence they are the last people alive on Earth, was described by judges as "shocking and subtle".
The shortlist also featured Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey and A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray.
Fuller was awarded a cheque for £10,000 along with the prize.
Louise Doughty, who chaired the judging panel, said: "Our Endless Numbered Days is both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of Ian McEwan in the delicacy of its prose and the way that this is combined with some very dark undertones."
Presenting the award, she called for UK publishers to offer support for debut novelists, far beyond their first books.
She said: "Ian Rankin and Hilary Mantel both wrote for years before making the big time with sales.
"Ian Rankin famously succeeded with his seventh novel - and Hilary Mantel wrote brilliant, strange and wonderful books time and time again before Wolf Hall, her 10th.
"I call on the publishers of all the books on our wonderful shortlist to support these writers not only with their sparkling debuts but with their fourth, fifth, sixth novels.
"Short-termism in publishing is not only devastating for the authors who don't get the support they deserve, it's bad for business."
Fuller originally studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art before running her own marketing company for 23 years.
She began writing fiction in her 40s and belongs to a club of authors who have published their debut books in their 40s or later, called The Prime Writers.
The prize is presented in the name of the late publisher and literary agent Desmond Elliott.
Last year's winner was Eimear McBride for A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.
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Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller has won this year's Desmond Elliott Prize for first novels.
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Among those killed in the MSF-supported al-Quds hospital was one of the city's last paediatricians, MSF said.
Local sources have blamed the Syrian government or Russian war planes, but there has been no official comment.
Monitors say attacks by both sides left 34 dead and dozens wounded on Thursday.
Violence in Syria has intensified in recent days, despite a partial truce.
The upsurge in violence comes amid reports that the Syrian army, backed by Russian air power, is gearing up for a major offensive in Aleppo.
The escalation has threatened to derail the UN-brokered peace talks, which resumed last month.
On Wednesday, the UN envoy to Syria urged the US and Russia to intervene "at the highest level" to save the talks.
"MSF-supported hospital in Aleppo destroyed, at least 14 patients and staff killed, toll expected to rise," MSF tweeted on Thursday.
It said that the hospital was well known locally and had been hit by a direct air strike on Wednesday.
"We condemn the destruction of the al-Quds hospital, depriving people of essential healthcare," the charity added.
An activist at the scene, named as Zuhair, told the BBC that buildings around the hospital were also hit.
"It was an air strike by two rockets, heavy rockets from [a] Russian air strike," he said.
"Near the hospital one building on five floors just crumbled and just crashed down and we don't know how many dead will be under these ruins."
The civil defence agency, which is staffed by volunteers, said the hospital and surrounding buildings were hit by four consecutive air strikes.
Rami Abdurahman, head of the monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, named the paediatrician killed as Mohammed Wasim Moaz, 36.
He told the BBC that Mr Moaz was the last paediatrician in the rebel-held part of Aleppo and another was to be sent on Thursday to take his place.
The Observatory said rebel rocket fire on government-held areas on Thursday had killed 14 civilians while attacks by pro-government forces on rebel neighbourhoods had killed at least 20 people.
The two-month-old "cessation of hostilities", which brought at least a relative lull to some parts of Syria, is indeed "hanging by a thread" as the UN mediator Staffan de Mistura put it.
One of the reasons why it is now at death's door was reflected in the fact that from the outset it was not called a ceasefire or even a truce, because several factions were excluded, including not just the Islamic State militants but also the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
Nusra fighters are present in almost all combat zones, and are mixed up with other groups such as Ahrar al-Sham that Russia is now pressing to have added to the international terror list.
That has meant that hostilities have continued and intensified in many areas, with the government able to claim its attacks are legitimate.
Now state forces are reported to be building up in Aleppo as violence escalates there, raising fears that a long and costly all-out battle for the contested city may be looming.
That would put paid both to the lull and to the Geneva peace talks, prompting the UN envoy to urge the US, Russians and others to press their clients on the ground to ease off, so that stalled negotiations have a chance of resuming.
Syrian state news made no mention of the hospital attack but also said that rebel shelling had killed at least 14 civilians in government-held areas in the north of the city.
Over the past week, more than 100 civilians have been killed in renewed bombardment by both rebel and government forces in Syria's largest city, according to the UK-based Observatory.
Speaking on Wednesday after briefing the UN Security Council on the peace process, the envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, warned that the fragile cessation of hostilities agreed in February could collapse "at any time".
He said that over the past 48 hours an average of one Syrian had been killed every 25 minutes and one wounded every 13 minutes.
For the peace talks in Geneva to succeed, he added, hostilities would need to be reduced to the levels immediately following the February agreement.
Calling on the US and Russia to co-operate, Mr de Mistura said the legacies of both President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin were linked to the success of the peace process in Syria.
More than 270,000 people have been killed since Syria's bitter civil war conflict erupted in 2011 and millions have been forced to flee.
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At least 14 patients and three doctors have been killed in an air strike on a hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) says.
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Jordan Watson's body was found in the graveyard in Carlisle early on Tuesday morning; Cumbria Police initially said a man had been killed.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died from multiple wounds to the head and neck caused by a sharp implement.
Detectives said they were shocked by the murder and said for a child to die in such circumstances was "appalling".
The body was found in Upperby Cemetery, next to St John The Baptist Church in Manor Road, at about 07:45 BST on Tuesday.
Police patrols have been increased across the Carlisle area while the investigation continues into the death of Jordan, who lived in Ridley Road in the city.
Det Supt Andrew Slattery said: "Jordan has lost his life as a result of a savage and brutal attack which has shocked the officers working on the case.
"For a child to die in these circumstances in Carlisle is appalling.
"The offender or offenders must be apprehended and I appeal to any members of the public with information to come forward.
"If anybody heard or saw anything unusual in the area of the cemetery on Manor Road overnight, I would urge them to report it to our incident room."
The Reverend Jim Hyslop, vicar of St John The Baptist Church, said the first he knew of Jordan's death was when he saw police vehicles outside his house opposite the cemetery.
He said: "Nothing like this has ever happened in the 20 years I have been at the church.
"Jordan's body was found in the older part of the cemetery, which has been here since the church was founded in 1840.
"We haven't been told too much and I've not spoken to many people about what has happened. My thoughts are with his family at this time."
Carlisle's mayor, Steven Layden, said the entire city had been left "shocked and appalled" by the murder.
He said: "This is outside the normal life of people in Carlisle. It's absolutely shocking and the savagery and brutality of this murder makes it doubly appalling.
"It is utterly, utterly shocking that a 14-year-old can die in such a way."
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A 14-year-old boy found dead in a cemetery was the victim of a "savage and brutal attack", police have said.
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Goals by Switzerland striker Eren Derdiyok and winger Bruma gave Galatasaray a commanding lead.
Brazilian defender Marcelo started the comeback after half-time before forward Cenk Tosun sparked wild celebrations with a 78th-minute equaliser.
A five-year ban on away fans attending football derby matches in Istanbul was lifted for the game.
Both clubs have 11 points from five games but Besiktas are second in the Super Lig table, one place above their rivals, on goal difference.
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Turkish champions Besiktas fought back from 2-0 down to clinch a home draw with Galatasaray in the Istanbul derby.
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What particularly sticks in my mind, though, is a report on what happened in police stations: even people picked up for petty crimes were tortured.
Egypt's security state has always been ruthless, but in those days the brutality was more under the surface.
Which made the American alliance with Arab autocrats like Hosni Mubarak easier.
Egypt had, after all, stepped out on a limb to make peace with Israel.
It proved to be a reliable partner in guaranteeing that peace, for which it was paid $1.3bn (£1bn) a year in military aid. A pillar of regional stability.
It was not an easy balance to navigate, however, and under George W Bush the administration began to question the wisdom of seeking stability at the expense of democracy.
Barack Obama went further. He rolled with the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring, then shunned the strongman, Army General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who took power in the debris of its aftermath.
That was largely because there were legal questions about whether the US could continue supporting a regime that seized power in a coup.
The White House never called the military takeover a coup, but it did freeze military aid for two years.
It was also because the brutality had risen to the surface: Sisi oversaw a vicious security operation that killed hundreds of protesters in the streets. He has since jailed tens of thousands of his opponents.
But he has also cracked down on Islamist terrorism, and that is the language the Trump administration speaks.
So President Sisi has been rehabilitated, validated by a visit to the White House.
Is this Washington reverting to the comfort zone of supporting Arab autocrats, in a time of great instability?
Yes, but it's more than that.
After the demonstration of mutual admiration yesterday, I think it's fair to say that President Trump feels comfortable with Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, The Autocrat.
More so than with Angela Merkel, The Democrat, says Tom Malinowski, a veteran diplomat responsible for the human rights file in the Obama administration.
That is new.
Trump era heralds warming of US-Egypt ties
Paying the price for seeking freedom in Egypt
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When I was based in Egypt during the 1990s, we regularly got human rights reports about dreadful abuses in military prisons.
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The 20-year-old, who has already pulled out of Wimbledon, has completed just one match in 2014.
Robson has slipped from 46th in the world rankings to 80th.
"I went through a very, very depressed stage," said Robson, "I didn't go on any tennis websites because I was so jealous of everyone able to play."
Robson told BBC Sport that she is now "past that stage" and will be able to start playing mini tennis with sponge balls in August.
"At the moment it's kind of a day-to-day thing in terms of pain and how the inflammation is going, but rehab seems to be coming along nicely," she said.
27 - Highest WTA ranking - now 80
115 - Career singles matches won
91 - Career singles matches lost
£700,000 - Total career prize money
0 - Career titles
1 - Olympic medal (silver) in mixed doubles with Andy Murray, London 2012
Robson's left wrist first flared up in December 2013 when she was forced to withdraw from the ASB Classic in New Zealand. A week later she retired from the Hobart International with the same injury. She has since undergone minor wrist surgery.
In March, Robson added Colombian Mauricio Hadad, who helped Maria Sharapova win Wimbledon in 2004, to her coaching team.
The US Open - the final Grand Slam of the year - gets under way on 25 August in New York.
Robson's only full match to date this year was a swift defeat by Kirsten Flipkens at the Australian Open in January, and she is already targeting Melbourne next year on her route back up the rankings.
"I'd still like to be able to play some matches at the end of this year and get some competitive tennis in before Australia," she said.
"I'm basically going to be playing some very small tournaments to try and get my ranking up again."
The former Wimbledon junior champion admitted that such an extended absence from tennis has been hard to cope with.
"I didn't look at the live scores, and I didn't watch any tennis on TV.
"But now I'm kind of past that and I'm looking forward to being able to watch Wimbledon as a spectator for once."
Robson will be working as part of the BBC commentary team at Wimbledon, which begins on 23 June.
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British number two Laura Robson will miss the US Open in August as she continues to recover from a wrist injury.
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Tuesday's visit is Mr Putin's first to an EU leader since June 2014.
Hungary wants to negotiate a new agreement for Russian gas supplies.
Russia has been largely shunned by EU member states because of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, although it denies accusations of fomenting the violence.
Protesters rallied in Budapest on Monday night carrying banners saying "Putin No! Europe Yes!".
Much of the city centre was closed to traffic on Tuesday as security was stepped up ahead of the visit.
Mr Putin's trip comes less than a fortnight after German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Budapest before embarking on a week of intense diplomacy, which resulted in the announcement of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian president is keen to demonstrate that he has allies within the EU and Nato, observers say.
During his visit, he is due to visit the graves of Soviet soldiers.
Hungary has backed EU sanctions imposed on Russia over the situation in Ukraine, but has been vocal about their negative impact.
Last year, Mr Orban said the EU had "shot itself in the foot" by restricting trade with Moscow.
Hungary relies on Russia for more than half of its gas supplies and wants to negotiate a flexible long-term deal to succeed the current agreement which expires later this year.
Mr Orban, who rose to prominence with a strong anti-communist and anti-Russian stance as a student leader, told Hungarian radio on Friday that there were psychological tensions with Russia, but he wanted to overcome them.
He is considered to be among Mr Putin's closest allies in Europe.
Many of the demonstrators who marched through Budapest on the eve of Mr Putin's visit said they were wary of closer ties with Russia.
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Some 2,000 people have marched through the Hungarian capital, Budapest, ahead of talks between Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Mayor of London and Conservative MP said the UK should consider options for life outside the EU since the cost of exit was lower than it has ever been.
He has not yet said which way he will campaign in a future referendum.
David Cameron has said an EU exit would not be "a land of milk and honey".
The prime minister has said he wants a "better deal" for the UK within the European Union ahead of an in-out referendum by the end of 2017. He is expected to set out the changes he wants to see in more detail in a letter to EU officials next week ahead of a key summit next month.
Speaking on his monthly phone-in on LBC Radio, Mr Johnson signalled that as part of the UK's negotiations he would like to see "derogations" giving the country more control over its borders in a reformed EU.
Obtaining such special provisions was "perfectly possible", he said, and if they were not granted the case for leaving the EU would become stronger.
The wider economic penalties for leaving the EU were lower than ever before, Mr Johnson said: "There is an attractive alternative future - we should be thinking about it."
Pressed on whether he would be prepared to lead the 'Leave' campaign at the in-out referendum, he refused to answer but said he would wait to see the outcome of David Cameron's talks with other EU leaders.
But he added: "In an ideal world I would like to stay in a reformed EU."
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Boris Johnson has said there is an "attractive alternative future" for the UK outside the European Union while insisting he would prefer to remain a member of a reformed organisation.
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Guns both old and new fired a 21-gun salute during the display on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
The celebrations culminated with a "feu de joie" - a cascade of volleys - by six AS90 self-propelled guns.
The Gunners were formed by a royal warrant three centuries ago, on 26 May 1716.
The Queen, who is the regiment's Captain General, paid tribute to the troops: "In all the theatres of war and in peacekeeping and humanitarian missions throughout the world, you have served with great distinction, especially so in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"It has indeed been a demanding period for Gunners of all ranks and for your families who have so closely supported you. You should be rightly proud of your achievements."
The first two permanent companies of Royal Artillery were formed 300 years ago by a Royal Warrant in the reign of George I.
The companies were based at Woolwich, alongside the guns, powder and shot located in the Royal Arsenal.
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Soldiers have put on a huge display of military firepower as the Queen joined the Royal Regiment of Artillery to mark its 300th anniversary.
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Dina Mitchell told ABC News that the Flex 2 began to combust on her wrist while she was reading a book.
"It burned the heck out of my arm," she said.
Fitbit has said it is "extremely concerned" and is now looking into the issue, though it sees "no reason" for people to stop wearing the Flex 2.
Ms Mitchell said she quickly removed the tracker from her arm and threw it on the floor.
A doctor had to take small pieces of plastic and rubber out of the wound following the incident, she claimed.
"We are not aware of any other complaints of this nature and see no reason for people to stop wearing their Flex 2," Fitbit said in a statement.
"We will share additional information as we are able."
The batteries in many electronic devices are sometimes susceptible to overheating and have been known to catch fire or explode in other cases.
Last year, Samsung had to recall its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after the handsets were found to be prone to combusting.
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Fitbit has said it is investigating a report from a Wisconsin woman who said she suffered second-degree burns when her fitness tracker caught fire.
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Eight males were arrested during operations on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Three of the individuals from Liverpool and two from Conwy county appeared in court on Thursday in Aberystwyth charged with conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
Two other men from Llandudno Junction and one from Colwyn Bay were remanded in custody in Llanelli on Friday.
They also face charges of conspiracy to supply both Class A and B drugs.
They will appear at Swansea Crown Court on 10 July.
"This Dyfed Powys Police operation is part of an ongoing investigation, and we will provide further updates when appropriate," said a spokesperson for the force.
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Three more men have appeared in court following a series of raids in Conwy county earlier in the week.
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In March 2015, thousands flocked to Leicester as the king's remains were escorted to the city's cathedral.
The windows, which cost £75,000, are located near Richard III's tomb in the cathedral's St. Katharine's Chapel.
A reverend called the dedication of the windows the "final act" in the story of the king's reinterment.
The windows are approximately 2.5m (8ft 2ins) and 1m (3ft 2ins) high and were designed by stained glass artist Thomas Denny.
They were previously plain glass and had been for about 100 years, according to the Reverend Pete Hobson.
"It's not just telling Richard III's story," he said. "It's helping the person who sees them reflect on the questions of life and death that are raised by the life and death of Richard III."
One of the pictures shows a forlorn, blue figure, which represents personal loss, inspired by the loss felt by the king after the death of his son Edward and wife Anne Neville.
Another depicts women tending to people in the aftermath of battle.
"It's a big day," Mr Hobson said. "It'll be the final act of the story of the reinterment of Richard for us."
Richard was buried in a Leicester church, but the building was lost to later development. His skeleton was found in 2012 in an old friary beneath a car park.
His remains were the subject of a High Court battle in 2014. A group unsuccessfully argued the remains should have been reburied in York.
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Two windows inspired by the life of Richard III have been "hallowed" at the scene of the English king's reburial which took place over a year ago.
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The prime minister wants to keep up the political momentum, give his opponents less time to organise and get the issue out of the way as soon as possible.
But if the negotiations come unstuck in Brussels this week, can Mr Cameron still get his referendum by June?
The short answer is yes.
Here is the long answer why.
Once a deal is done, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 makes clear that three processes need to take place before the referendum can be held.
First, a swathe of secondary legislation needs to be passed through Parliament, minor bits of law that fill in the gaps left blank by the Act.
These would set things like the date of the referendum, the length of the statutory "referendum period", and various rules about the administration of the poll.
Now, getting these so-called statutory instruments through Parliament can be complicated and involve various committees sitting before a decision is made.
As a rule of thumb, they normally take six weeks to become law. But, as ever, there is flexibility and if MPs, peers and officials pull their fingers out, that timescale can be crunched down to a couple of weeks, according to the House of Commons library.
Second, there needs to be a period of time allowed for the Electoral Commission to choose which two organisations will officially campaign for Remain and Leave and receive public funding to do so.
According to existing electoral law, this so-called "designation period" must last six weeks.
But the Referendum Act actually allows the government to set the start date and the duration of the period. So that six weeks could be shortened, although the Electoral Commission might resist that.
And third, there must be a so-called referendum period - when the formal campaign takes place and various spending rules are in force - that must last a minimum of 10 weeks. That is one of the few timescales in the whole process that is fixed.
The government has pencilled in Thursday, 23 June for the referendum.
So if you wind back ten weeks, the formal referendum period must begin by Thursday, 14 April.
If you shorten the designation period down to, say, three weeks, that would have to begin by Thursday, 24 March.
And then if you assume MPs and peers take only three weeks to pass all the necessary secondary legislation, that process would have to begin by Thursday 3, March.
Now these are all assumptions but they are not implausible ones.
And I have been quite generous in the timescales: Parliamentary processes can always be fast tracked in extremis; and it is not impossible for the designation period to overlap with the referendum period.
The bottom line is that the prime minister has until the end of February or at least early March to get a deal on his EU reforms without losing his potential referendum date in late June.
There is still time, say, for a second emergency summit to be held at the end of next week, or even a few days beyond.
One thing is clear: Mr Cameron is in a hurry.
As he told MPs last month: "I am keen to get on and hold a referendum....Believe me, by the time we get to the end of the referendum campaign, everyone will have had enough of the subject."
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David Cameron wants to get a deal quickly on his EU reforms so he can hold a referendum by late June.
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Cathro's first match in charge ended in defeat at Ibrox, having been appointed on Monday.
The 30-year-old previously worked as an assistant at Rio Ave, Valencia and Newcastle United.
"It's important that the fans know that performance is not going to be what is on the grass for them," he explained. "We will be better."
Hearts' Don Cowie had a goal ruled out for offside before Rob Kiernan and Barrie McKay netted for the hosts.
The result increases the gap between second-placed Rangers and Hearts to five points.
Aberdeen, with a game in hand, are a point ahead of Hearts in the Scottish Premiership.
"It's not a dramatic day by any means," said Cathro. "It's a game which could have gone better and we could have been better.
"But there is no disaster associated to it. Just a game we need to learn from and improve from. We will be a different team than what you saw today.
"Of course the situation is different, but I'd like to think one of the reasons I did well as an assistant was being able to help the manager as I really, really cared about it.
"For me, it was a normal day at work. We need to take as much value as we can out of this game and make improvements.
"Was there too much focus on me this week? No. Everyone will go through a process of getting to know me. I think you'll realise that very little bothers me.
"Noise is noise. The reasons why I've been able to make progress in my career is because I focus on the work."
McKay's goal was his first in the league this season, having netted in the League Cup in July.
Rangers manager Mark Warburton said: "Barrie is a young player. Almost all of last season he was first choice and got a national call-up.
"For a young player, a lot came very early. Young players have dips.
"The old saying is that form is temporary and class is permanent and I have no doubt Barrie McKay can go to the very top level.
"He can be as good as he wants to be and it was great to see him back to his best today.
"I thought we were good today as a team. Physically, we were good, tempo wise we were good, quality on the ball was good."
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New head coach Ian Cathro insists Hearts will be "a different team" after watching them lose 2-0 against Rangers.
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Thousands of people began crossing into Colombia in the early hours of Saturday to buy much-needed supplies. Long queues had formed before dawn.
Venezuela is facing a severe economic crisis, with shortages of many goods. It had closed the frontier nearly a year ago on security grounds.
Five border crossings will remain open for 12 hours every day.
"I've had arthritis for seven years and I haven't been able to find the medications for the past six months," Marco Tulio Berdugo, a Colombian living in Venezuela, told El Universal newspaper.
"I came with my family to do some shopping because we can't find anything to eat," engineering student Wilmary Salcedo told Reuters news agency.
An agreement to reopen the border was announced on Thursday by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro.
The two presidents said that during the first stage only pedestrians would be allowed to cross.
"We are going to open the border gradually," said Mr Santos.
The five main crossings along the 2,200km-border (1,370 miles) will be open daily from 08:00 to 20:00 local time (13:00-01:00 GMT).
Venezuelans cross border
Growing discontent on the streets
Women push past border controls
The authorities expect the queues to disappear as people realise that the situation has been normalised.
"People can get here and cross every day of the week now," said Venezuelan border police chief Gustavo Moreno in Cucuta.
Mr Maduro ordered the border to be closed in August 2015 after former Colombian paramilitaries attacked a Venezuelan military patrol and wounded three soldiers.
Many Colombians were expelled, and bilateral trade has since fallen.
When border crossings were allowed briefly in July, nearly 200,000 Venezuelans poured across to stock up on items including cooking oil, sugar and rice.
Venezuela has suffered severe shortages for months as a result of the falling price of oil which is the country's prime source of income.
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The border between Venezuela and Colombia has been reopened after nearly a year.
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At least five people have been killed in the floods along Malaysia's east coast, with over 160,000 displaced.
Prime Minister Najib Razak made the announcement after visiting flood-stricken areas.
He has faced public anger after being photographed golfing with President Obama in Hawaii during the storms.
Mr Razak cut short his holiday, and defended his "golf diplomacy" with the US leader, saying that it was difficult to decline the invitation as it had been planned for a while.
"Every day when I was there, I received the latest report on the flood situation... as it became more serious, I decided to return to the country as soon as possible," he said in Kota Bharu, the capital of Kelantan province,
The extra funding will go to victims after the floods subsides, and is on top of an initial 50m ringgit ($14m; £9m) allocation.
Entire towns have been submerged by the flooding.
Rescue workers have been struggling to bring in enough food and supplies for families sleeping in relief centres.
Some victims have accused the government of being too slow in responding.
"I am angry with them. We don't care about their politics. We just want the government to do what they should do and help us," one woman told AFP.
Eastern states are often flooded during the monsoon season but heavy rain and winds have worsened the situation this year.
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Malaysia has announced an extra 500m ringgit ($142m; £92m) to help victims of the country's worst flooding in decades.
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It meanders through two of the most hotly contested battleground states, both prime targets for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Ohio, the classic bellwether, has picked the winner in every presidential election since 1960. Pennsylvania has voted Democrat in the past six contests, but Donald Trump has designs on turning this reliably blue state Republican red.
The town of Bellaire in Ohio provides precisely the sort of post-industrial landscape that's been a seedbed for his candidacy. Four steel mills have shut down in this area over the decade and derelict plants serve almost as echo chambers for the slogan Make America Great Again.
The small stretch of river that runs alongside the town used to bustle with 300 barges, which ploughed through the waters 24 hours a day.
Now it's a third of that number, and not such a round-the-clock operation. Captain Bob Harrison, who runs a local tug boat company, believes the billionaire will revive the local economy.
"He's a businessman," he says.
"That's what we need to get things going again because politicians are doing nothing for us and we've been overregulated. The trade deals have all failed. It seems like nothing's worked."
Bellaire, despite the shuttered shops and hardscrabble feel, still proudly refers to itself as the all-American town - a place that's representative, a bellwether within a bellwether.
Last time people here voted for the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.
In the election before. Bellaire went for Barack Obama.
If Trump can't win here, he will struggle to become president. And although there's no shortage of white working-class supporters ready and eager to vote for him, there are Republicans here who are refusing to back him.
Getting out the vote is called the ground game, a term borrowed from American football.
But one of the local football coaches, Bill Timko, is refusing to back Trump. He had planned to vote Republican at this election.
In the primaries, he liked the look of Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. But Trump, he reckons, does not have presidential qualities.
"He's doesn't have any tact," he says. "If you are going to deal with world leaders you have to have tact. You can't sit there and say it's my way or the highway. He's bombastic, he's obscene, and I don't like the guy."
His list of complaints does not end there.
"The country is more than running a business. There's all kinds of things to be taken care of and I don't think he has the ability to do that.
"Every time he hires good people, if they don't agree with him, he fires them. So, I mean you look at his campaign managers, they're all gone. He got rid of all of them. So I'm not buying that theory."
Amber Thompson is another Republican who is refusing to support Donald Trump. At the last election, she actively campaigned for Mitt Romney. Her husband is a Republican who has run for office. But she cannot stomach the thought of Donald Trump as the party's standard-bearer.
"I think he has a real problem with women who aren't supermodels," she says. "He doesn't like Muslims. He doesn't like immigrants. He has no respect for the military. I would never support somebody like that."
Are you going to sit this election out? I ask.
"No," she says. "I'll be voting for Hillary Clinton."
Compounding his problems, Trump has an uneasy relationship with Ohio's state Republican party. Governor John Kasich, his rival during the Republican primary campaign, is refusing to back him. And no Republican has ever reached the White House without winning Ohio.
As we travelled into Pennsylvania, we got a clearer sense of Hillary Clinton's vulnerabilities. Take the community of Clinton, Pennsylvania, where a giant sign reading "Vote Trump" greets drivers.
What makes the sign all the more meaningful is that it was erected by a long-time Democrat, Mike Leber. Eight years ago, in the Democratic primary fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, he voted for Clinton.
Now he drives around in a pick-up truck with another large sign reading "Crooked Hillary" in the back.
Two-thirds of voters have told pollsters they don't trust the former Secretary of State.
"She hasn't spoken a truthful word in thirty years," Mike tells me. "If the dogcatcher was running against Hillary Clinton, I'd vote for the dogcatcher."
As we were talking to Mike, Ron Zanski pulled up on his Harley Davidson. He lost his job at a fuel plant earlier in the year, and blames foreign competition and poorly negotiated trade deals. Donald Trump speaks his language.
"I think he's sincere," says Ron. "I think he means what he says and he speaks for a lot of people."
What about Hillary Clinton? I ask.
"She should be in prison."
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If Donald Trump wins this state, along with its 20 Electoral College votes, it opens up a path to the White House.
For the Democrats, Pennsylvania is one of the key bricks in the so-called blue wall, the 18 states that have voted for Democratic presidential candidates in the past six presidential elections, and which gives them an advantage in the Electoral College.
Further along the Ohio river, we came to Aliquippa, another faded steel town, where Hillary Clinton is vulnerable.
But she is helped by the fact that more a third of voters here are African-American.
It's a constituency that Donald Trump has recently tried to court, partly to boost his standing with sceptical minority voters and partly, it seems, to persuade white voters that he's not racist.
So would African-Americans like Jerome Raines support him?
"Absolutely no! No! No! No! If I've seen a black guy voting for Trump, I'll have to do like this and rub his skin and make sure," he says, playfully rubbing at my arm.
"We don't want an idiot in the White House and we definitely don't want a racist in the White House."
Not since the 1940s have the Democrats won three presidential elections in a row.
The country's modern-day demographics, and the fact that the US is even more a polyglot nation, seem to work in their favour.
But questions of trust and ethics bedevil Hillary Clinton, and that's partly why Donald Trump is still in the game.
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This election could be decided on the banks of the Ohio River.
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Professor John Underhill from Heriot-Watt University said the UK's potential shale deposits were likely to have been disrupted by shifts in the earth 55 million years ago.
He said the government would be wise to formulate a Plan B to fracking for future gas supplies.
But the fracking firm Cuadrilla said it would determine how much gas was present from its test drilling.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale, a sedimentary rock found worldwide.
The amount of shale gas available in the UK is acknowledged to be a great unknown.
Cuadrilla said estimates from the British Geological Survey (BGS) indicated a large potential gas reserve.
But Prof Underhill said his research on the influence of tectonic plates on the UK suggested that the shale formations have been lifted, warped and cooled by tectonic action.
These factors make shale gas production much less likely.
"The complexity of the shale gas basins hasn't been fully appreciated so the opportunity has been hyped," he told the BBC.
This is very different from the US, where big deposits of shale gas were created in the continental heart of America, far from the movement of tectonic plates.
Prof Underhill's comments are based on an unpublished paper on tectonics. He said he deduced the impact on shale formations by chance.
He said: "I'm neutral about fracking, so long as it doesn't cause environmental damage. But the debate is between those who think fracking is dangerous and those who think it will help the economy - and no-one's paying enough attention to the geology.
Prof Underhill said: "For fracking to work, the shale should be thick enough, sufficiently porous, and have the right mineralogy. The organic matter must have been buried to a sufficient depth and heated to the degree that it produces substantial amounts of gas or oil."
Professor Underhill said the UK had been tilted strongly by tectonic movement caused by an upward surge of magma under Iceland.
This subsequently led the shale gas basins to buckle and lift, so areas that were once buried deep with high temperatures which generated oil and gas, were then lifted to levels where they were no longer likely to generate either.
The basins were also broken into compartments by folds which created pathways that have allowed some of the oil and gas to escape, he said.
A spokesman for the BGS said it could not comment formally on Prof Underhill's comments as it had not done the research.
Cuadrilla's technical director Mark Lappin told the BBC: "We have noted the BGS estimates for gas-in-place and consider that volume to be indicative of a very large potential reserve.
"It's the purpose of our current drilling operations to better understand the reserve, reduce speculation from all sides and decide if and how to develop it.
"I expect Professor Underhill would be supportive of the effort to understand the resource including geological variation."
The government's opinion tracker showed public support for fracking has fallen to 16%, with opposition at 33%. But it also reported a lack of knowledge of the technology, with 48% of people neither supporting nor opposing it.
Professor Richard Davies, from Newcastle University, told BBC News: "It's correct to say geology could yet surprise the companies who are investing. But the bottle neck, I think, is how many wells one can drill economically in a small space in the UK.
"Shale gas wells in the USA produce very small volumes of gas (2-6 billion cubic feet of gas each), and therefore thousands would be needed to impact on our reliance on imports.
"The BGS estimated resources in Northern England of 1,327 trillion cubic feet (2012). I estimated it would require c. 52,000 wells to produce 10% of this."
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The gas reserves in shale rocks in the UK have been "hyped", an academic said.
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Jemma O'Sullivan, 22, died when she was involved in a four-vehicle collision on the northbound carriageway of the M18 in South Yorkshire in September 2010.
Christopher Kane, 67, of Oakbank Close, Swinton, admitted causing death by dangerous driving when he appeared at Doncaster Crown Court.
Jemma's father, Vincent, said words could not describe his grief.
In a statement, he said: "The trauma and grief that this individual has put us through cannot be put into words.
"Jemma's life was stolen from her and Jemma was stolen from us by this truck driver who had absolutely no regard for other road users.
"This man has caused devastation to our family by texting while driving a heavy goods vehicle at 55mph on the M18, as we heard in court one text alone had one 117 strikes of the keyboard."
Kane was also disqualified from driving for five years.
Police said Miss O'Sullivan had been a front-seat passenger in a Citroen Berlingo which was in collision with a Mercedes lorry.
This lorry collided with the back of a Scania lorry, which then overturned and slid into the back of a Vauxhall van.
Miss O'Sullivan was born in Limerick in the Republic of Ireland and was about to start her final year as a pharmacy student at Sunderland University when she died.
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A lorry driver has been jailed for five years for causing the death of a woman while he was texting on a motorway.
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The AN-602 hydrogen bomb casings will be the main draw at an exhibition devoted to Russia's atomic achievements since 1945, at the Manezh centre.
The Soviet Union exploded the 58-megaton H-bomb in 1961 in the Arctic. It was about 3,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atom bomb.
A specially designed bomber dropped it.
The Tupolev Tu-95B bomber released the 26.5-tonne bomb from a height of 10.5km (6.5 miles) over the Arctic test range at Novaya Zemlya.
Russian media report that the shockwave circled the Earth three times, the fireball was 4.6km wide and the mushroom cloud soared to 67km.
The bomber's altitude plunged almost one kilometre because of the blast.
The bomb casings will come to Moscow from Sarov, a closed nuclear research town 465km (288 miles) east of the Russian capital. Visitors to Sarov require special permits, as nuclear warheads are developed there.
The exhibition, organised by the state corporation Rosatom, will be called "70 years of the atomic industry - a chain reaction of success". It will run from 1 to 29 September.
The bomb also had the nickname "Kuzma's Mother" - from a Russian expression that translates as "we'll teach you a lesson".
The idiom was used by Soviet Communist leader Nikita Khrushchev with former US Vice-President Richard Nixon in 1959, during the Cold War nuclear arms race, Russian media report.
The Manezh exhibition will also feature personal effects of famous Soviet nuclear scientists, formerly secret documents from Soviet archives and models of nuclear reactors and a nuclear-powered icebreaker.
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Russia will display a replica of the most powerful nuclear device ever to be exploded - the Soviet "Tsar Bomba" - near the Kremlin in Moscow next month.
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A flaw in Android makes it possible to steal the personal information so it can be used elsewhere, said the experts from security firm FireEye.
Other Android-based phones that also use fingerprint ID systems could also be vulnerable, they said.
Samsung said it took security "very seriously" and was investigating the researchers' findings.
Fingerprint ID systems are being used more and more in smartphones to unlock the devices or as a way to check who is authorising a transaction. Paypal and Apple already accept fingerprints as an ID check and a growing roster of firms that are members of the Fido Alliance are keen to use them in the same way to remove the need for passwords.
Android phones typically store sensitive data such as fingerprint information in a walled-off area of memory known as the Trusted Zone.
However, Yulong Zhang and Tao Wei found it was possible to grab identification data before it is locked away in the secure area. This method of stealing data was available on all phones running version 5.0 or older versions of Android provided the attacker got high level access to a phone.
They also found that on Samsung Galaxy S5 phones, attackers did not need this deep access to a phone. Instead, they said, just getting access to the gadget's memory could reveal finger scan data.
Using this information an attacker could make a fake lock screen that makes victims believe they are swiping to unlock a phone when they are actually authorising a payment.
In addition, they found, it was possible for attackers to upload their own fingerprints as devices did not keep good records of how many prints were being used on each device.
Mr Zhang and Mr Wei are due to present their findings at the RSA security conference in San Francisco on 24 April.
In an interview with Forbes magazine, Mr Zhang said the flaws they uncovered were likely to be widespread throughout handsets running Android 5.0 and below. Updating to the latest version of Android, version 5.1.1, should remove the vulnerabilities, he said.
The flaw is the latest in a series of problems uncovered with fingerprint ID systems on phones.
In April last year, hackers discovered a way to fool the print sensor on the S5 by taking a photograph of a print left on a smartphone screen, making a mould from the image and using that to make a replica fake finger.
In 2013, a German hacker group used a similar method to bypass the fingerprint reader on Apple's iPhone 5. Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club used a picture of a person's fingerprint left on a glass surface to make a fake finger that unlocked the phone.
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Hackers can take copies of fingerprints used to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S5 phone, claim security researchers.
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The 21-year-old joined the Lilywhites for an undisclosed fee from Manchester United at the start of 2016.
Pearson had impressed in two loan spells at Barnsley before he moved to Deepdale.
"He's been very good this season especially," boss Simon Grayson told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"He's been one of our best players over the last few months since he got back into the team, but he knows he has to keep improving."
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Preston North End midfielder Ben Pearson has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with the Championship side.
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It will be the eighth Central Belt expansion of the Aberdeen-based partnership in only five years.
Three branches will be branded under the Aberdein Considine name from next month.
Ireland's legal office will become the partnership's main office in the city.
The combined business will employ 360 staff, with turnover of more than £21m. It offers a wide range of legal, property and financial services.
A&S Ireland was founded in 1985, specialising in private client legal work, and moving into estate agency.
It has two partners and 20 employees, all of whom will transfer to the expanded firm.
Gavin Crowe, one of the A&S Ireland partners, indicated that one of the attractions is the scale a larger firm can bring to providing services online.
"As estate agency continues to evolve in the digital age, this merger will give Glasgow clients a significant new player both online and 'on the ground'," he said.
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Law firm Aberdein Considine is expanding its Glasgow and East Renfrewshire presence by merging with legal estate agency A&S Ireland.
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"I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis," he wrote on his website.
His decision, he said, was not down to "dodgy reviews", "bad treatment in the press" or "because I don't feel loved".
Collins' announcement was in response to a series of "distorted" articles that had erroneously painted him as "a tormented weirdo", he added.
"There's no need for the straitjacket!" joked the 60-year-old, whose hits include In the Air Tonight and Another Day in Paradise.
A former member of rock band Genesis, Collins went on to achieve huge success as a solo performer, including hit albums as No Jacket Required and ...But Seriously.
The winner of seven Grammy awards was also the recipient of an Academy award for his soundtrack for the Disney animated film Tarzan.
Last year he topped the UK album chart with Going Back, a collection of Motown and soul covers.
The singer has two sons, Nicholas and Matthew, with his third wife Orianne Cevey, whom he divorced in 2008.
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British singer and drummer Phil Collins has confirmed reports he is to retire from the music business.
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The most polluted cities were in north-eastern Hebei, the province that surrounds the capital Beijing.
Beijing and Shanghai both failed the assessment, which was based on measurements of major pollutants.
China is attempting to cut pollution but the country still relies heavily on coal for its energy needs.
The government shut more than 8,000 coal-burning factories in Hebei last year.
But the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing says like many places in China, the authorities are struggling to balance factory closures with the demands of the country's slowing economy.
The environment ministry's statement published on its website (in Chinese) noted that the 2014 result was an improvement over the previous year, where only three cities met the standards.
But it added that "presently, the country's air pollution situation remains serious".
The assessment was based on readings of pollutants such as PM2.5, PM10, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and ozone.
The southern city of Haikou, in Hainan province, was found to have the cleanest air.
Most of the eight cities that made the grade were in the east of the country.
Meanwhile the northern industrial city of Baoding had the dirtiest air.
The statement did not give the rankings for Beijing and Shanghai, although it noted that Beijing's air quality had improved slightly over the previous year.
The Chinese authorities announced a "war on air pollution" last year, and recently began publishing figures for the air quality in China's cities. Officials have pledged to restrict consumption of coal, scrap millions of cars and rely more on clean energy sources.
At November's Apec summit, China made a historic pledge that its carbon emissions would peak by 2030, but did not set a specific target.
It also attempted to improve the air quality in Beijing during the Apec summit, imposing tight limits on car use and ordering factories to close in the weeks leading up to the meeting.
The temporary improvement in air quality was termed "Apec Blue", and the government has since promised to make it a permanent feature by improving air quality countrywide.
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Only eight out of China's 74 biggest cities passed the government's basic air quality standards in 2014, the environment ministry has said.
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The Brazil international was speaking after scoring twice on his home debut for PSG in a 6-2 win over Toulouse.
"I spent four beautiful years there and parted happy," said the 25-year-old. "But with them [the board], no.
"For me, they are not the people who should be there, for the direction of Barca. Barca deserve much better."
Neymar's two goals against Toulouse took his tally to three in his opening two games for PSG.
Since his departure, Barca have lost 5-1 on aggregate to rivals Real Madrid in the Spanish Super Cup.
As they seek Neymar's replacement, they have also had three offers for Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho rejected, and have been unable to sign Borussia Dortmund forward Ousmane Dembele.
However, the club have recruited former Tottenham midfielder Paulinho, and opened their league season with a 2-0 win at home to Real Betis on Sunday.
"I cannot speak now I am in another team," said Neymar.
"I don't know what's going on there, but I see my old team-mates sad, and it's that which makes me sad because I have a lot of friends there.
"I hope that things will improve for Barca and that they will become a team that can rival others."
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Neymar has criticised the directors of his former club Barcelona, who he left to join Paris St-Germain for a world record £200m earlier this month.
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Lesley Laird was elected last week to represent Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Ms Laird was born in Greenock and is a former deputy leader of Fife Council. She worked in human resources before being elected as a councillor in 2012.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said she would help the party present a "positive vision" for Scotland's future.
Mr Corbyn said: "I am delighted to appoint Lesley as Shadow Scottish Secretary.
"She brings a wealth of knowledge and practical real life experience to the Commons, and will play a major role going forward as we hold the Tory Government to account.
"She will work closely with me and Kez Dugdale as we present a positive Labour vision for Scotland's future."
Ms Laird added: "My priorities are the things that people told me are important to them in the General Election campaign: that's jobs, housing and public services.
"I look forward to working closely with Jeremy and Kez as Labour unites to take on the Tories, and I will be holding David Mundell to account for the actions of his government which is causing misery right across Scotland."
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Labour have appointed one of their newly-elected MPs to be the party's shadow Scottish Secretary.
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In April, volunteer Richard Symonds told the Guardian an account linked to Mr Shapps had been blocked.
But Wikipedia said there was no evidence connecting the account with "any specific individual".
Mr Shapps, who denied the claims, said the media had failed to "check even basic facts" in reporting the story.
Mr Symonds, whose username was "Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry", told the Guardian that Wikipedia had barred a user called "Contribsx" because the account had been used to make changes to Mr Shapps' profile.
The administrator told the paper he believed the account was "either run by Shapps directly" or by someone else "but under his clear direction".
However, a report from Wikipedia's arbitration and audit committees said "no evidence" had been presented "that definitively connects the Contribsx account with any specific individual".
On Mr Symonds, it concluded there "does not appear to be a major breach of policy" but the administrator gave the appearance that Wikipedia's monitoring tools were being used to "exert political or social control".
It was also found that the administrator was "unable to provide sufficient justification" for using the monitoring tools, and "did not take adequate steps" before making the information public to make sure that the release of the information was "seen as neutral and unbiased".
The committees said the user should have access to Wikipedia's CheckUser tool revoked and lose their "oversight" permissions.
Mr Shapps said: "Wikipedia's investigation has resulted in the strong disciplinary action now being taken.
"However, the failure of various media outlets to check even basic facts meant that this false and damaging story ran for an entire day during the general election campaign.
"My hope is that this case serves as a reminder that both the source, as well as the content of a story, should be carefully checked before it is broadcast in future."
Mr Symonds said that it would be "premature" to comment on the outcome of the investigation, but said a "flurry of experienced Wikipedians" had expressed support for him.
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Wikipedia has censured an administrator who accused Tory MP Grant Shapps of editing his own entry on the site as well as those of Cabinet ministers.
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The body of Jiri Ulman, 52, was discovered with "multiple serious injuries" near Ten Acres Lane in Newton Heath, Manchester, on 8 August.
Miroslav Kolman, 35, is due to appear at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court on Saturday.
Josef Janda, 57, of Kenyon Lane, Moston, was also charged earlier this week with Mr Ulman's murder.
A 60-year-old woman held on suspicion of assisting an offender was released while inquiries continue.
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A second man has been charged with murder after a man was found dead in woodland.
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Nicholas Salvador, 25, of Enfield, also pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to assault by ABH, by reason of insanity.
He is accused of killing Palmira Silva, found dead in a garden in Nightingale Road, Edmonton, north London, in September 2014.
Mr Salvador is also charged with assaulting a police officer.
Police found Ms Silva's body after being called to the area following reports an animal had been attacked.
Neighbours paid tribute to Ms Silva, an Italian widow who ran a cafe in Church Street, near Edmonton Green station.
Sylvia Lewis said: "She was a lovely lady, she didn't have a bad bone in her body."
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A man accused of beheading an 82-year-old woman has pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity.
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The event is celebrated on the first Saturday of May each year and encourages free-spirited gardeners to embrace nature in the nude.
The hashtag #nakedgardeningday was trending on Twitter.
Award-winning gardeners at RHS Malvern Spring Festival in Worcestershire marked the occasion.
Hardy souls sat amongst their cultivated creations and were photographed as nature intended.
Now in its third day, more 90,000 people are expected to attend the Malvern festival over the course of the four-day event.
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Nature-lovers are shedding their clothes and heading outside to mark World Naked Gardening Day.
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Resuming on 238-8, Kent were all out for 259, but Stevens (6-47) helped limit Derbyshire to 159 in reply.
Only five of the visitors' batsmen reached double figures, with Wayne Madsen top scoring with 56.
The hosts fell to 51-5 to start their second innings, but Stevens (53 not out) helped see them to 142-7 when bad light stopped play, a lead of 242 runs.
Stevens, only a week away from his 41st birthday, had taken only 12 five-wicket hauls in his career before this season, but he has taken one in each of Kent's opening three games.
He also maintained his impressive form with the bat, with his unbeaten half-century the fourth time he has gone past 50 this season.
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Darren Stevens took his third five-wicket haul of the season for Kent before Derbyshire's bowlers hit back.
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The country has been off-limits since March 2009, when Sri Lankan cricketers and officials were attacked by gunmen.
Lahore will host a one-day international on 29 April and a Twenty20 match 24 hours later.
"The public of Pakistan have been deprived of cricket and we felt that we needed to support them," said Bangladesh official Mustafa Kamal.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board president added: "The reception we received when we toured Lahore and Karachi on our security visit was overwhelming."
During the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka team six policemen and the team coach driver were killed, while seven cricketers and an assistant coach were injured.
In December, the Pakistan Cricket Board expressed confidence that international cricket would return to the country in 2012.
All of Pakistan's 27 Tests and 67 one-day internationals since the terror attacks have been played on foreign soil.
The UAE has served as Pakistan's temporary home, and played host to England earlier this year, while Lord's and Headingley were the venues for two Tests against Australia in 2010.
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Pakistan will host its first international matches since 2009 when Bangladesh tour at the end of April.
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The hooker is in line to feature for Northampton against Gloucester in the Premiership on Saturday.
"He's done a full week and has been going through the return-to-play protocols," said coach Alan Dickens.
"He's bouncing around the place and back to his usual self."
If 30-year-old Hartley does return from the replacements bench, it will be a significant boost for England before the summer tour to Australia.
England boss Eddie Jones says Hartley will lead the side down under if he proves his fitness for the three-Test series.
Meanwhile, Hartley has been seeking advice over his recovery from his club team-mate George North. The Wales wing took a period away from the game in 2015 because of his own concussion problems.
"Dylan has been around the house a few times for a few coffees and a few chats," North told BBC Radio 5 live. "Anyone who has had concussion, or a number of concussions back-to-back, can really sympathise.
"People don't see a cast on his head or strapping around his brain - it's not like an injury where you have a physical issue like a limp - so it's very difficult to come to terms with.
"You only have one head so make sure you take care of it. If it takes you two or three weeks longer [to recover] then take your time. There is no point rushing it."
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England captain Dylan Hartley is back in full training for the first time since being knocked unconscious during the Grand Slam decider against France in March.
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They received misconduct notices during an IPCC probe after John Lowe killed Christine Lee and her daughter Lucy.
The three were criticised over the arrest of Ms Lee's other daughter Stacy Banner after the deaths in 2014.
Surrey Police said a hearing found the sergeant should be given management advice, but he could still appeal.
IPCC associate commissioner Tom Milsom said: "The allegations against Stacy came at an extremely difficult time in her life, following the tragic deaths of her mother and sister.
"A panel found a charge of misconduct proven against a detective sergeant who authorised her initial arrest without ensuring relevant lines of enquiry were not completed before doing so.
"The allegations regarding the other officers were not proven."
Ch Supt Helen Collins, from Surrey Police, said the complaints had been thoroughly investigated and the evidence carefully considered, but she added: "We are still in a period where the detective sergeant can choose whether or not to appeal [against] the findings and therefore will not be commenting further."
The IPCC said a constable had faced claims he did not take actions that could have prevented the need to arrest Mrs Banner, but was cleared.
In the sergeant's case, it was claimed the officer did not have sufficient evidence to suspect Mrs Banner of the offence, and failed to ensure relevant witness statements were taken - the watchdog said the first claim was not proven, but two claims relating to witness statements were.
A gross misconduct claim against Det Insp Paul Burrill heard his authorisation of Mrs Banner's continued detention and a further arrest were not necessary - but those claims were not proven.
In a separate development, the IPCC said Mrs Banner also complained about a delay in informing her that her loved ones had been formally identified, and she also said her visit to see their bodies had been "inadequate and unprofessional".
The IPCC said its investigator had interviewed the senior officer and specialists and examined log books, but no-one was given misconduct notices.
Mr Milsom said: "Communications between Stacy and the family liaison specialists indicate that their relationship functioned relatively smoothly and that Stacy's concerns were not raised at the time and nor had Surrey Police picked up any intimations she was unhappy."
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Misconduct claims against a Surrey Police sergeant involved in the Farnham puppy farm murders have been proven but two other detectives have been cleared.
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Dzagoev, 25, broke a metatarsal during CSKA's 1-0 win over Rubin Kazan on Saturday, a result that clinched the Russian title for CSKA.
Russia are in Group B at the Euros with England, Wales and Slovakia and kick-off against England on 11 June.
"The medical examination confirmed the fracture of the second instep bone," the Russian Football Union said.
Dzagoev, the joint-top scorer at Euro 2012, will be replaced by FC Krasnodar's Dmitri Torbinski, 32.
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Russia midfielder Alan Dzagoev will miss out on Euro 2016 after suffering a broken foot playing for CSKA Moscow.
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Starc suffered a stress fracture during the third Test against New Zealand.
Wearing a protective boot, he told reporters: "I'll be in this boot for three or four weeks."
The West Indies series begins on 9 December in Hobart, and Starc could also miss the return series against the Black Caps in New Zealand in February.
"There's no point putting a time stamp on it yet until the bone heals," he said.
Starc was the joint-leading wicket-taker in the series against the Kiwis - won 2-0 by Australia - with 13.
But his injury further depletes their pace bowling resources following the retirement of fellow left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson midway through the New Zealand series.
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Australia left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc has been ruled out of the upcoming three-Test series against West Indies with a broken foot.
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According to a study in The Lancet, nearly a quarter of female prisoners cut, scratch or poison themselves.
Self-harm was also found to be a strong risk factor for suicide in prison, particularly among men.
Experts say more should be done to reduce self-harm rates in prisons.
The Oxford research team looked at self-harm incidents in all prisons in England and Wales between 2004 and 2009.
It found that 5% to 6% of male prisoners and 20% to 24% of female prisoners deliberately harmed themselves every year, resulting in 20,000 to 25,000 incidents per year.
This compared with a 0.6% rate among the UK's general population.
Repeated self-harming was common, the study said, and a small group of 102 women inmates self-harmed more than 100 times a year.
Cutting and scratching were the most frequent methods of self-harming in men and women, followed by poisoning and overdosing.
The study also examined those at greatest risk of self-harm. In female prisoners, being younger than 20 years old, white, in a mixed local prison, or serving a life sentence were major factors.
In male prisoners, those at risk tended to be young, white, in a high-security prison and with a life sentence or unsentenced.
Prisoners who self-harmed were found to be at "substantially greater" risk of suicide than other inmates, particularly among men.
Older male prisoners (aged 30 to 49) with a history of serious self-harm were most at risk.
Dr Seena Fazel, joint study author from the department of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, said all prisoners who are self-harming should be regarded as a risk.
"Now we know the extent to which the risk of subsequent suicide in prisoners who self-harm is greater than the general population, suicide prevention initiatives should be changed to include a focus on prisoners who are self-harming, especially repeatedly."
Writing in a Comment article in The Lancet, Dr Andrew Forrester from King's College London, and Dr Karen Slade from Nottingham Trent University call for more research to address how the self-harm rate in prisons in England and Wales can be reduced.
"The available evidence indicates a key role for multi-agency collaboration, in which suicide is everyone's concern, rather than being the sole preserve of healthcare staff.
"We need to invest in the wide inclusion of all people who, on the ground, can listen to prisoners who are experiencing distress, mobilise concern, and help to deliver joined up care."
Andy Bell, deputy chief executive at the Centre for Mental Health, said it was well known that women in prison were more likely to have depression, anxiety and borderline personality disorder which, in turn, can make them extremely vulnerable.
He added it was important to be aware of those at risk at an early stage.
"Women should have access to mental health support and advice at every police station. It should start when they are arrested, particularly if there are signs of self-harming or poor mental health. We have to intervene early to stop the journey."
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Self-harm is a serious issue for women in prison, who make up only 5% of the prison population but account for half of all self-harm incidents, say Oxford University researchers.
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Police found almost 850,000 images of children at Michael Kennedy's Peterborough home, alongside one image of sexual activity with a horse.
It was "the biggest investigation of its kind relating to indecent images seen in Cambridgeshire," officers said.
Kennedy, 52, admitted a number of offences at Cambridge Crown Court.
The GP, of St Pegus Road, who worked at Millfield Medical Centre in Peterborough, was suspended from practising by the General Medical Council after his arrest in March.
He later pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children, one count of possessing prohibited images of children and three counts of possessing extreme pornographic images.
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Most of the victims seen in the images, which were both still and moving, were between five and 10 years old.
Det Ch Insp Neil Sloan said: "Never in my time as a police officer have I seen such an extensive collection of such images; more than 800,000 individual images all stored, filed and categorised like a library."
He said while there was no evidence Kennedy had filmed any of the images himself, it was clear he had "an unhealthy interest in indecent images of children and extreme pornography".
Police also stressed there was no evidence to suggest Kennedy had abused his patients.
Kennedy's defence told the court her client was "appalled with himself".
He was jailed for two years and eight months, as well as being placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life and being made the subject of a lifelong Sexual Harm Prevention Order.
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A doctor found to have thousands of indecent images of children as well as animal pornography has been jailed for more than two years.
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There have also been calls for Rural Affairs Minister Elin Jones to resign following the ruling.
The appeal court halted the assembly government's planned cull of around 1,500 badgers to try to stop TB in cattle on Tuesday.
The Badger Trust appealed against the cull questioning its effectiveness.
Three judges announced the trust's appeal against a judicial review which had backed the cull was successful and quashed the order.
Lord Justice Pill said the assembly government was wrong to make an order for the whole of Wales when it consulted on the basis of a Intensive Action Pilot Area (IAPA) which only supported a cull on evidence within the IAPA
Dairy farmer Brian Walters, vice president of the Farmers' Union of Wales, said the decision would have a huge impact on farming.
"The fact it's not happening now in north Pembrokeshire I think is a major disaster for the industry in the whole of Wales," he said.
"In my area and to the west in the cull area, we were looking forward to having some sort of control of the disease and the wildlife... we have incidents of one in every seven badgers with TB on them and comparing that with cattle with one out of 140 cattle with TB."
Stephen James, NFU Cymru's deputy president, said increasing cattle controls while doing nothing to prevent TB in badgers would cause the disease to spread and "wreck the lives of a growing number of farming families".
But Tina Sacco, a farmer in Pembrokeshire, did not support the cull and believes a vaccination programme would be a better option.
"One thing we do know is that a cull has been proved over a 40-year period never to have worked - that's why we're back where we are now," she said.
"Vaccination programmes have been used throughout the world to conquer all sorts of diseases in both man and animals."
Meanwhile Liberal Democrat AM Peter Black, who was a leading campaigner against the proposed badger cull in the Welsh Assembly, said he believed Rural Minister Elin Jones had "mishandled" the cull "from the start".
"Not only did she get the order itself wrong, leading to this decision [in the appeal court], but she also embarked on a course of action in defiance of all the scientific evidence," he said.
But First Minister Carwyn Jones has supported his minister, saying that the defeat in the courts did not reflect poorly on her.
"It's important that we deal with TB in Wales because it's a problem that is growing," he said.
Under the cull, badgers were to be trapped in cages and shot.
Anti-cull protesters, led by the Badger Trust, argued it had not yet been scientifically proven that badgers are implicated in the transmission of TB within cattle and it doubts a cull would help eradicate the disease.
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Farmers' unions have described a decision to quash a proposed cull of badgers in north Pembrokeshire as a disaster for farming.
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They were taken offline for two months last May while extra sea defences were installed after a review into Japan's Fukushima disaster highlighted risks.
Barrie Botley, of Kent Against a Radioactive Environment, said not enough details were given at the time.
EDF said it had ensured that everyone knew about what was happening.
A massive earthquake and tsunami which led to the nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima reactor in 2011 prompted new research into the flood risk at Dungeness.
The review concluded that there was "a theoretical but plausible scenario in an extremely rare case where water could have got on to the site, potentially up to waist height", the BBC understands.
EDF issued a statement last May saying Unit 21 was offline for "planned refuelling" and Unit 22 for "improvements to flood defences for extreme events".
It said both units were expected to be returned to service that month.
Mr Botley said that did not make clear that both reactors were completely out of action,
"They betrayed us all and I think it's absolutely disgusting. They're supposed to be very open nowadays and they're not," he said.
But Martin Pearson, station director at Dungeness B, said: "The language we've used is language we've used for 30 years.
"If there's more of an interest from the public, and that is seen as a very positive move, then we'll need to review some of the language that we use."
EDF stressed the site was never unsafe and was now protected against the kind of extreme weather expected to happen "only once in 10,000 years".
A flood defence wall between 5ft 2in (1.6m) and 6ft 6in (2m) high has been constructed all the way around the plant at a cost of £2.3m.
It is part of a £5m investment in flood protection including work inside the station, such as sealing trenches, installing dam boards and raising equipment height.
Both Dungeness B reactors automatically shut down during the St Jude's Day storm on 28 October, when electricity to the site was cut off.
EDF said that during the recent floods and storms it had operated normally.
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EDF Energy "betrayed the public" after safety fears led to the closure of both reactors at Dungeness B nuclear power station in Kent, campaigners have said.
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The band - who count Dignity and Real Gone Kid among their hits - will follow in the footsteps of The Human League and Simple Minds at the Aberdeenshire town's Open Air In The Square (OAITS).
An OAITS spokesperson said: "This is a major boost to Stonehaven's growing reputation as one of the top Hogmanay venues in Scotland.
"We are delighted to feature one of the biggest names in the pop world."
Lead singer Ricky Ross said: "We are really looking forward to coming to Stonehaven.
"It's a place I know quite well. When I was young I grew up in Dundee and used to come to lots of places along the east coast.
"I haven't been in Stonehaven for a long time and I am looking forward to coming back. It's the first time we will have done a gig there.
"We're not doing a lot of gigs this year so it's one of a few special gigs."
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Scottish pop group Deacon Blue are to headline Stonehaven's Hogmanay event.
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Parents removed their children from the Kurunegela school last week, despite the six-year-old having a certificate proving he does not have the disease.
His mother said many other schools had rejected him because her husband's death had been wrongly blamed on Aids.
School officials told the BBC's Sinhala service they would try to hold a session to educate parents.
Chandani De Soysa said she had been trying for some time to find a school place, but "they didn't take my child because of this Aids fear".
"I protested and nothing happened, even I found it difficult to get any work."
After her case was reported by BBC Sinhala earlier this month, the educational and human rights authorities became involved, and last week one school was ordered to take in the child.
Despite both her and her son holding certificates showing they are not infected, parents immediately began putting pressure on her to remove him, but she refused.
"He went to the class and played with other kids, but then suddenly all the parents came and took their children away," she told the BBC.
His class teacher, who stayed with him at school, said she felt "very sad when the child asked me why all my friends are leaving because of me, and why the police and others are here".
She said even though other children had treated him normally, "I am not sure how the children will react even when they come back".
The regional education director, Saman Wijesekara, said parents of all 186 pupils had formally asked to stop attending the school.
"We are thinking of having an educational session to parents to solve this issue," he said.
The school head has closed the school for two days but BBC Sinhala reporters say angry parents have been standing at the school gate and protesting to officials and teachers who enter.
Meanwhile officials from the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission have been to the school and have also visited the boy's home.
Sri Lanka is considered to have a very low prevalence of HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
According to UN figures, in 2014 there were 3,200 adults and 100 children living with HIV, fewer than 0.1% of the population.
But there is also concern about poor awareness of the virus and how it spreads, which leads to stigma and discrimination.
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A school in western Sri Lanka has been emptied of all but one pupil amid false rumours that the boy has Aids.
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Raphael Kasambara was sentenced for his role in the attempted murder of ex-National Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo.
Mr Mphwiyo's shooting in 2013 is believed to have exposed Malawi's worst financial scandal, known as "cashgate".
Up to $250m (£150m) was estimated to have been lost in the fraud.
The money was lost through allegedly fraudulent payments to businessmen for services that never materialised.
The systematic plundering of public resources occurred between 2012 and 2014 during the administration of then-President Joyce Banda,
Malawi's donors then withheld $150m following the scandal's disclosure.
Kasambara suggested after his conviction last month that he would appeal the verdict.
Mr Mphwiyo, who was the budget director in the finance ministry, was flown to South Africa for medical treatment after he was shot.
He recovered and testified at Kasambara's trial.
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Malawi's ex-justice minister has been given a 13-year jail term for conspiracy to murder a civil servant, in a crime believed to be linked to a multi-million dollar corruption ring.
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Operation Respect will see more police patrols in evenings at licensed premises and taxi ranks.
During daytime, plain clothes police officers will target shoplifting.
Operation Respect will also involve Inverness Business Improvement District security workers, street pastors and British Red Cross volunteers.
The initiative will also highlight Police Scotland's national Campaign Against Violence on 19 Friday.
Insp Anne Urquhart, from Police Scotland's Inverness community beat unit, said: "Christmas is a time to celebrate and have fun but for some it can provide opportunity to take advantage of those who are vulnerable and susceptible to crime.
"Police Scotland is once again delighted to work with our key partners to ensure that people gain the maximum enjoyment from the city over the next few weeks and remain safe in doing so."
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Increased security and safety initiatives will be held in Inverness over the festive period as part of an annual multi-agency campaign.
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